Volume  XV. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  3,1898. 

Picture  and Chen

I  was  once  a  prosperous  merchant, 
but,  like  hundreds  of  other  merchants, 
I  was  a  poor  collector. 
I  was  afraid 
that  I  would  offend  my  customers  if  I 
insisted  on  the  prompt  settlement  of  ac­
counts.  My  present  condition  is  the 
result.  To  b e   sure,  I  have  had  the  e x ­

p e rie n c e ,  b u t  I  c a n n o t  b u y   n e w   g o o d s 
with  that,  neither  can  I  pay  the  jobbers 
I  owe with  that  commodity.  Merchants, 
profit  by  my  sad  experience  and  collect 
your  past  due  accounts  promptly. 
If 
them  yourselves, 
you  cannot  collect 
hand  them  over  to  an  agency  which  has 
the  necessary  machinery  and  requisite 
experience  to  undertake  the  work  suc­
cessfully.

Our  friend  on  the  right  says:  I  am, 

and  always  have  been,  prosperous.  My 

credit  is  good. 

I  always  discount  my 

bills.  My  profits  are  not represented  by 

a  lot  of  worthless  book  accounts. 

I  in­

sist  on  prompt  settlements. 

I  make 

friends  and  increase  my  business  by  so 

doing. 

If  a  customer  fails  to  pay  his 

account  when  due,  I  hand  it  to  the 

Michigan  Mercantile  Agency  for  collec­

tion;  they  do  the  rest.  Merchants,  take 

my  advice  and  employ  the  Michigan 

Mercantile  Agency  to  collect  your  past 

due  accounts.

Number  776

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H a r d w a r e   a n d   S to v e s .

P.  M.  S te m s, 

P la im re ll,  M ioh.,

S tu iK is,  Mi oh*,  May  27,  1898.

SrSn °Uin+1 ? nS ’  aS  We  had  put 

S ir—P 1  FeJZ~y  

y 0UTS  o f  26th  ~ould  say  th at  we  gave  the

Age™5?  about  $600  worth  o f  old  aocounts,  m ostly  outlawed,  some  of 
years  o ld ,  thinking  we  would  newer  hear  from  the  company  or 
$400  and  i s   in   a  fa ir   way 
Surpri£ e *  i t   to 8  c o lle c te d   abc 

“   the  hands  o f  other  agencies  without
th e- baJa2 ? e *  _,We  are  ciore  than  pleased   with   i t s   methods,  as  we 

considered  as  lo s t   What  i t   has  c o lle c te d . 

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enquire  i f   we  do  not  think  we  are  in ju rin g  our  firm   by  p laoin r  our
jhe  iiaJ?ds  °-  su°h  an  agency. 
In  reply  we  would  say  that  we  do  not 
accounts  we  consider  goo<i.  They  are  the  ones  we  had  counted  as
lo s t   th e ir   trade  when  we 
oref r i ;  *"2  ****  oxperienoe  i s   th at  th ese  same  p eop le,  who  have  not 
°*  ? 3J OT  y 0ars*  00ra6  and  buy  now,  as  they  have  paid  th e ir  
*  ”2^  haTe  ‘bo  dodge  us  now.  We  a lso   fin d   i t   to   be  an  incen -

i s   the  sfcie  oase  w ith  y°u * 

Wl9ir  aocount's  nor9  freq u en tly  in   order  to

+i2!Ib*'!!d‘'3SS 
a r iid   ? e c e i n i s 9 "no?ioM*J» 

___aeeFF2r  ,has  done  a l l   i t   agreed  to  do  fo r   us  and  more,  to o . 

wo  ^ in k   you  would  be  as  w e ll  pleased   as  we  are. 

I f   you  have 
S®F6S *on  y0nr  b°oks  i t   w ill  be  a  r e lie f   to   g et  even  w ith  th ese  old 

Should

sharpers,  who  do  not  care  how  much  th ey  may  worry  you.

Yours, WRIGHT BROS.

We have dozens  of  letters  from  bank­
ers,  insurance  agents  and  merchants  in 
all  lines  of  trade  which  are  equally  as 
favorable as the letter from Wright Bros., 
any or  all  of which we can  exhibit  to any 
prospective subscriber on application.

We candidly believe we  have  the  best 
and  most efficient collection  system  ever 
devised,  and  gladly  court  investigation 
and solicit an  opportunity  to  explain  our 
methods  to  any  one  who  has  accounts 
which he has been  unable to collect.

Our  system  draws  like  a  plaster  and 
brings  out  the  cash  in  the  most  unex­
pected manner  and  under  the  most  dis­
couraging  circumstances.  The  skillful 
physician always acts  on  the  theory  that 
so long as there is life there is hope.  We 
act on the same  theory  and  can  present 
tangible  evidence  of  surprising  results 
anywhere this side of the graveyard.

If you are  anxious  to  realize  on  your 
uncollectible accounts, and wish to fortify 
yourself against  further  losses  from  that 
cause, call on or address

MICHIGAN  MERCANTILE  AGENCY,  1102 Majestic Bldg,  Detroit,  Mich.

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J. H.  Prout & 60.,

Proprietors of

Ttie Gitu Roller Mills

Howard  Gitu.  Mich.

Whoesale and Retail Dealers  in

Flour,  Feed and Grain

Our Prout’s Best  is  a  trade  winner.  Try  it.

PURITY AND STRENGTH!

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COMPRESSED 
,  YEAST

As placed on the market  in  tin  foil  and  under 
our yellow label and  signature is

ABSOLUTELY  PURE

Of greater  strength  than  any  other  yeast,  and 
convenient for handling.  Neatly  wrapped  in 
tin foil.  Give  our  silverware  premium  list  to 
your patrons and  increase your trade.  Particu­
lar attention  paid  to  shipping  trade.  Address,

Detroit  Agency,  n8 Bates St.
Grand  Rapids Agency, 26  Fountain  St.

FLEISCHMANN  &   CO.

ACETYLENE  CBS  GENERATOR

B en zon ia , June  15,  189S.

Geo.  F.  Owen &  Co.,

Gentlemen—The Acetylene Gas Gen­
erator lately  put  into our store by vou is 
A LX  RIGHT.  We never before  have 
bad  our  store  lighted,  except  by  “ Old 
Sol,’" and we think  we now  have,  with­
out doubt,  the best-illuminated  store  in 
Benzie county, and  would not  part with 
our  30-light  machine  for  six  times  ils 
cost  if we could not replace it.  The in­
surance  company  cheerfully  granted 
permission to use it.  Hoping you  may 
make a financial success of it, we remain,

CA SE  M ERCAN TILE  CO.

at. f. own 101. " s s r

Most  Economical

Fire  Underwriters’
Endorsement of Safety.

Advantages  of  Double  Generator 
and  many other  interesting  fea­
tures  of  the  Kopf  Acetylene  Gas 
Machine,  wherein  it  excels  freely 
given  you  if  you  will  drop  us 
a  postal.

M.  B.  Wheeler  Electric  60..  Mtrs.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Show  Room  at  No  99  Ottawa  St.

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NAPHTHA AND  GASOLINES

Office and  Works,  BUTTERWORTH AVE., 

QRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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

Highest Price Paid for  Empty  Carbon and Gasoline Barrels.

It  pays  any  dealer  to  have  the  reputa­

tion  of  keeping  pure  goods.

It  pays  any  dealer  to keep the Seymour 

Cracker.

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

For  this  class  of  people  the  Seymour 

Cracker is  made.

Discriminating  housewives  recognize 

its  superior

FLAVOR,  PURITY, 
DELICIOUSNESS

and  will have  it.

If you,  Mr.  Dealer,  want  the  trade  01 
the  Seymour 

particular  people,  keep 
Cracker. 

Made  by

National  Biscuit  Company,

G rand  R apids,  Mich.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST 3,  1898.

Number 776

Volume  XV.
T h e  M er c a n tile  A gency

Established  1S41.

R.  Q.  DUN  &  CO.

Widdicomb Bld’g,  Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Books arranged with trade classification of names 
Collections made everywhere.  Write for particulars 

L. P. WITZLEBEN.  Manager.

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PREFERRED  BANKERS 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY

OF  DE TR O IT.  M IC HIG A N.

Commenced  Business September  1,  1S93.

Insurance In  force...................................$2,746,000.00
Net Increase during  iSq7 ....................  
104,000.00
32,738.49
Net Assets.............................................. 
Losses Adjusted and  Unpaid...............  
None
Other  Liabilities.................................... 
None
Total  Death Losses Paid  to Date..............................  40.061.00
Total  Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
eficiaries...............................................  
Death Losses Paid  During  1S97...........  
Death Rate for 1897................................  
Cost  per  1,000 at age 30 during  1S97__ 
F R A N K  E.  ROBSON,  P r e s .

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17,000.00
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TRU M AN   B.  GOODSPEED. Sec’y.

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WILLIAM  CO N N OR  now  shows  a  of 

full line of Fall and Winter Clothing.  Has 
the  largest  line  of  Kersey  Overcoats  and  oj 
Ulsters on the  road;  best  $5.50  Kersey  all 
wool overcoat  in  market,  all  manufactured 
by KOLB  &  SO N ,  Ro c h e s t e r ,  n.  y.
If you  wish  to  look  over  my  line,  write 
me,  Box  346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  or meet me 
at Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand Rapids,  Mich  , 
Thursday and Friday,  Aug.  n   and  12.  E x­
penses allowed.  No harm done if you don’t
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THE  FORGOTTEN  PAST

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

GRAND  RAPIDS.

WESTERN  BUYERS.

Why  They  Reappeared  in  Full  Force 

This  Season.

in 

from 

from 

those 

the  market 

The  “ fall  opening”   in  the  furniture 
market  is a  thing  of  the  past,  although 
buyers  will  continue  to  drop  in  for  an 
other  month  yet  and  even  into  Septem 
her  and  October.  The  opening  has  been 
a  gratifying  success,  with  a  larger num 
her  of  buyers  in  attendance  than  for 
any  previous  opening  in  the  history  of 
the  city  as  a  market.  They  came  from 
all  directions  and  all  distances, 
the 
representatives  of  the  trade  in  the  Far 
West  being  side  by  side  with  those 
from  the  Atlantic  Coast  and  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico. 
Iu  addition  to  the  American 
trade,  London,  Mexico  and  Canadian 
cities  were  represented.  The  buying 
was  on  a  scale  and  with  a  freedom  that 
recalled  old  times  before  the  boom  o 
’92  broke.  Especially  was  this  true  of 
th 
the  Western  visitors, 
great  corn  and  wheat  States. 
It  was 
the  sudden  disappearance  of  the  West 
ern  buyers 
in  the 
spring  of  ’93  that  warned  the  manufac­
turers  of  trouble  ahead.  They  had  been 
among  the  city's  best  customers and had 
been  as  regular  in  their visits as the sea­
sons,  but 
the  spring  of  ’93  they 
failed  to  appear.  The  hard  times  had 
struck  the  West,  and,instead  of  coming 
to  market  to  place  carload  orders, 
they  remained  at  home  to  buy  samples 
by  mail.  The  western  buyers  were 
missed  until  a  year  ago,  when  they  be­
gan  coming  again.  More  came 
last 
January  than  for  the  previous  July open­
ing,  and  this  year  they  are  back  in  full 
force  and  some  of  the  best  orders  that 
have  been  booked  are  from  that quarter. 
The  substantial  crops  and  high  crop 
prices  gave  the  farmers  a  surplus  last 
year  and  the  crops  this  year  will  make 
the  Western  people  rich.  They  have 
bought  very  little  furniture 
in  recent 
years  and  what  has  been  bought  has 
been  mostly  cheap  stuff,  but  this  year 
the  indications  point  to  a  great  revival 
n  the  furniture  trade.
The  South  has  never  been represented 
to  any  extent  in  this  market.  This  is 
due  largely  to  the  fact  that  tbe'.Soutbern 
trade  has  been  calling  for  a  style  of fur­
niture  which  went  out  of  fashion  in 
these  parts  about  ten  years  ago.  The 
South  has  been  calling  for  walnut,  but 
the  Southern  taste  has  begun  to  swing 
into  the  Northern  line. 
It  is  beginning 
to  take  oak  and  maple  and  birch,  and 
an  unusually 
large  number  of  buyers 
from  beyond  the  Mason  and  Dixon Line 
have  been  here  this  season.

for  the 

the  market 

The  opening  brought  several  side 
lines  '  into 
in­
spection  of  the  buyers,  and  if  the  side 
lines  develop 
in  number  and  variety 
as  have  the  foreign  exhibits  of  furni­
ture,  this  city  will  not  have  merely  a 
furniture  exposition,  but 
it  will  be  a 
house  furnishing  affair.  Among  the 
side  lines  were  shown  statuary,  china, 
vases,  onyx  goods and draperies.  Coffins 
were  not  exhibited,  although  many  fur­
niture  dealers 
in  the  country  are  also 
undertakerse  neither  were  carpets  dis­
played.  At  the  January  opening  sev­
eral  lines of carpets were shown, but for

some  reason  they  did  not  return  this 
season.

The  success  of  the  opening,  followed, 
as  it  doubtless  will  be,  by  duplicate and 
mail  orders  as  the  fall  retail  trade  de- 
velopes,  insures  busy  factories  in  this 
city  until  midwinter  at  least. 
This 
means  that  mechanics  and  artisans  will 
be  given  employment  in  larger  numbers 
than 
in  recent  years.  The  wages  are 
still  low,  but,  as  some  of  the  manufac­
turers  have  found  it  necessary  to  adver­
tise  for  help,  the  labor  market  does  not 
seem  over  supplied  and  better  wages 
will  naturally  follow.  The  busy  facto­
ries  will  supplement  the  good  crops  en­
joyed  by  the  farmers  to  give  business  a 
boom  this  fall.

Eight  Michigan  Banks  on  the  Roll  of 

Honor.

The  New  York  Financier  has  pub 
lished  its  eighth  annual  “ roll  of  honor”  
of  National  banks  tbat  have  surplus and 
undivided  profits  to  an  amount  equal  to 
or  exceeding  thè  capital  stock  of  the 
3,617  National  banks 
in  the  country. 
Only  346"  are  on  the  roll  of  honor  list, 
and  of  these  eight are in Michigan.  The 
Michigan  roll,  with  percentage  of  sur­
plus  and  capital  stock,  is  as  follows:
Saginaw—Second  National,  149.02.
Lapeer— First  National,  125.78.
Kalamazoo— Michigan National,  118.- 

62.

Kalamazoo—First  National,  116  27. 
Marshall— First  National,  113.71. 
Ishpeming— National,  109.48.
Charlotte— Merchants’  National,  103.- 

79-

Ypsilanti— First  National,  100.81.
None  of  the  Grand  Rapids  National 
banks  are  on  this  list,  nor  are  the  De­
troit  banks  represented.  The  Old  Na­
tional,  according  to  the  July  statement, 
has  about  24. per  cent.  ;  the  National 
City,  21A ;  Grand  Rapids  Nati anal, 
27'A ;  Fourth  National,  17%,  and  the 
Fifth  National,  5  per  cent.  The  Grand 
Rapids  National  banks  are  all  near  the 
end  of  their  charter 
limit,  and  it  is 
probable  there  will  not  be  any  very 
elaborate  sugaring  off  when  the  time 
comes  for  their  reorganization.  One  of 
the  reasons  that  the  banks  do  not  make 
a  better showing  is  due,  undoubtedly,  to 
over  capitalization  and  undue  competi- 
ion,  and the  hard  times  of  the  past  four 
years  has  also  bad  something  to  do  with 
t.  A  comparison  with  the  reports  of 
1894  will  show  that  the  banks  have  re­
mained  at  just  about  a  standstill.  The 
reports  of  July  18,  1894,  showed  surplus 
and  undivided  earnings  of  $499,842.10, 
while  the  aggregate  in  the  reports  of 
July  14,  1898,  was  $501,749.53. 
Per­
haps,  when  everything  is  considered, 
the  comparison  may  be  looked  upon  as 
fairly  satisfactory.  The  ensuing  years 
will  doubtless  produce  better  results.

John  A.  Tinholt,  the  Muskegon  drug­
gist,  was 
in  town  Wednesday  on  his 
way  home  from  Colon,  whither  he  went 
with  the  remains  of  Wm.  Elliott,  of 
Muskegon.  He  was  very  enthusiastic 
over  the  manner  in  which  the  funeral 
arrangements  were  conducted  by  Frank 
S.  Cummings,  the  Centerville  under­
taker,  whom  he  regards as an  artist  in 
his profession.

Some  Problems  Which  Confront  the 

Dry  Goods  Trade.

Written for the T radesm an.

is 

It  is  an  old-time  saying  that  there 

is 
no  friendship  in  trade,  and  it  is  true  in 
many  respects.  Real  downright selfish­
ness  sways  men,  irrespective  of  clique 
or  clan 
in  the  business  world,  and  no 
law  is  really  violated  except  the  moral. 
There 
in  all  this  procedure  a  reflex 
action  very  hurtful  to  all  concerned. 
Nothing  will  cause  the  uprising  of  our 
merchants  so  quickly  and  so  uniformly 
as  the  traveling  merchant’s fire and flood 
and  blood  and  thunder  style  of  adver­
tising  his  shopworn  wares,  as he period­
ically  appears  in  all  towns  where  he can 
find  a  footing.  Yet  these  are  not  the 
only  disorderly  elements  in  the  midst of 
our  daily  commerce.  Watch  the  daily 
ads.  of  some  stores  in  every  town  or 
city  and  you  will  find  the  same  charac­
ter  of  advertising—not  by  the  Arabic 
merchantman,  but  over  the  signatures 
of  some  of  your  own  townsmen.  They 
read 
like  a  fairy  tale.  The  Monday 
washing 
is  no  sooner  on  the  line  than 
the  mother  or  daughter  is  off  to  find 
the  “ pot  of  gold  at  the  end  of  the  rain­
bow,”   only  to  have  their  hope  of  glit­
tering  bargains  change  to  disappoint­
ment. 
The  penny-a-card  hooks  and 
eyes,  the  2  cent  cotton  or  calico,  the  15 
cent  an  ounce  perfume,  the  $2  shoe  for 
75  cents—all  are  delusions.  The  result 
of  bankrupt and  assignees,  sales  is  that 
the  people  become  dissatisfied,  which 
soon  grows  into  distrust  and  from  dis­
trust  to  unsettled  confidence.  Hence  we 
have  the  stigma  resting  upon  merchants 
in  general. 
“ Who  can  tell  where  to 
place  confidence?”

The  underlying  principle  and  object 
of  any  merchant  is  not  glory,  but  to 
make  money—honest,  legitimate  money 
—and  every  sensible  mind  knows  this; 
and  until  all  merchants  realize  the  force 
of  Lincoln’s trite saying,  “ You  can  fool 
all  of  the  people  some  of  the time  and 
some  of  the  people  all  the  time,  but  not 
all  the  people  all  the  time,”   and  set­
tle  down  upon  the  basis  of  truthful  ad­
vertising,  so  long  you  will  serve  to  en­
gender  discords  and  discontent  among 
the  trading  fraternity.  The  system  is 
injurious  because 
is  educating  the 
people  falsely  to  expect  worth  for  a 
worthless  price,  hence  the merchant who 
is  aiming  to  get  a  uniformly  honest 
margin  on  his  goods  is  confronted  with 
the  evils  arising  from  the  other  and 
must  spend  much  time and  care  to  ex­
plain  away  the  erroneous  impressions 
made  by  such  advertising.

it 

My  advice 

to  merchants 

is:  Get 
upon  the  true  principle  of  doing  busi­
ness;  cease  to  see  white  black  and 
black  white;  inspire  everybody  with 
real  confidence  by  your  business  meth­
ods ;  let  the  people  understand  that  real 
worth  is  worth  a  price;  get  from  under 
the  delusion  that  the  wisdom  or cunning 
you  are  employing  is not comprehended 
by  the  masses,  for it  is.  Once  the  pub­
lic  know  beyond  a  peradventure  that 
chicanery 
the 
business  of  the  world  will  be  easier 
done.  Let  the  great  underlying  prin­
ciple  of  right  prevail  and all  these diffi­
culties  will pass away 1 

is  dead  to  the  world, 

Retailer.

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D r y   G o o d s ___
What  of  the  Future of the  Shirt  Waist? 
W ritten  fo r the T r a d esm a n.

Some  few  years  ago  when  plush  was 
the  favorite  and  fashionable material for 
covering  photograph  albums  and  parlor 
furniture,  when  there  were  plush  cloaks 
and  plush  clocks,  plush  dresses  and 
plush  picture  frames,  as  well  as  plush 
toilet  cases  and  table  scarfs,  when  those 
who  could  not  procure  entire  garments 
of  the  coveted  material  appeased  the 
aesthetic  hunger  of  their  souls with cuffs 
and  vest  fronts  and  folds  and  points and 
panels  of  plush,  a  famous  writer  spoke 
of  that  happy  time  as  the  Plush  Age.

We  have  seen  the  passing  of  plush. 
It  has  not  gone  entirely  out  of  use,  but 
the  high  tide  of  its  favor  is  long  since 
over. 
It  has  lapsed  into  almost  the  po­
sition  it  held  before  its  period  of  short 
but  glorious  popularity. 
It  is  now  like 
a  hundred  other  fabrics—used only  for  a 
few  purposes  for  which 
its  peculiar 
qualities  make  it  fitting.

These  fin  de  siecle  years  through 
which  we  are  now  passing  might  well 
be  called  the  Age  of  the  Shirt  Waist. 
Less  than  a  decade  ago,  when  shirt 
waists  first  made  their  appearance,  who 
could 
foiesee  that  their  manufacture 
would  become  a  regular  industry,  that 
they  would  be  offered  for  sale  almost  as 
commonly  as  coffee  and  sugar  and  that 
during  a  considerable  portion  of  the 
year  this  waist,  with  its  accompanying 
skirt,  would  be  the  form  of  feminine 
costume  most  generally  worn?  Who 
could  know  that  the  shirt waist would  be 
of  snowiest  white  and  of  duskiest  sable 
and  of  all  shades  and  combinations  of 
shades?  And  the  variety  in  fabrics  has 
been  as  great  as  in  colors.  Cotton  and 
linen  and  wool  and  silk,  in  their  many 
varied  forms,  have  all  been brought into 
service.  And 
it  has  been  worn  by  the 
old  and  the  young,  the  high  and  the 
low. 
is  not  too  good  for  the  pauper 
nor  too  poor  for  the  princess.  Some  one 
has  summed  up  its  wide range  of  utility 
by  saying  that  the  shirt  waist  has  been 
worn  on  all  occasions  except  by  the 
bride  at  her  wedding  and  by  the  corpse 
at  a  funeral.  And  even  this  range  of 
exception 
is  perhaps  too  wide.  Who 
knows  but  some  bonny  bride  has  lisped 
her  long-enduring  vows  clad 
in  a  de­
lightfully  fresh  white  or  pink  or  blue 
shirt  waist,  and  who  can  say  that  the 
same  garb  has  not  been  worn  by  some 
poor  mortal  being  laid  in  her  final  rest­
ing  place?

It 

Has 

it  come  to  stay?  We  doubt 
whether  the  supreme  oracle  Fashion 
herself  can  reply.  There  are  certain 
fixed  stars  in  the  firmament  of  apparel. 
The skirt and  the piain waist,  the  jacket 
and  the  wrapper  are,  like  trousers  and 
overcoats  on  the  masculine  side,  per­
manent  and  abiding. 
Is  the  shirt  waist 
destined  to become one  of  these?  Then 
there  are certain  comets,  like the  polo­
naise  and  the  pelisse,  the  long  basque, 
the bustle and the overskirt,  the chignon, 
which  make  their  sudden  appearance  at 
irregular 
intervals,  are  seen  for  a  time 
and  then  disappear  in  some  remote  cor­
ner  of  fashionable  space,  the  time  of 
whose  reappearance  baffles  all  calcula­
tion. 

Is  the  shirt  waist  one  of  these?

is an  intensifier. 

From  an  aesthetic  point  of  view  the 
shirt  waist 
It  makes 
the dainty woman  more dainty still.  The 
slovenly  woman 
looks  more “ sloppy”  
in  it. 
It  makes the thin  woman  seems 
thinner  and  the  fat  woman  more  volu­
minous.

A  modern  writer  has  discoursed  de­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

the 

lacking 

lightfully  on  the  philosophy  of  clothes, 
maintaining  that  there  not  only  is  such 
a  philosophy,  but  that  it  is  a  vital  and 
a  most  important  one.  Such  being  the 
case,  there  is  doubtless  some  profound 
reason  for  this  so  remarkable  phenom­
enon  of  the  shirt  waist. 
Its  chief  merit 
is  its  availability.  But  when  has  avail­
ability  ever  been  the  shibboleth  of  per­
manent  favor  in  any  style  of  feminine 
apparel!  The  inconvenient,  the  uncom­
fortable,  the 
in  availability, 
even  the  ugly,  have  endured,  while  the 
comfortable,  the  sensible, 
fitting 
and  the  beautiful  have  passed  away. 
Availability  never  has been the standard 
in  the  woman’s  world,  but  is  it  becom­
ing  the  criterion  of  popularity  and  does 
that  account  for  the  shirt  waist?  Sure­
ly,  it  has  no  beauty 
itself  to  com­
mend  it;  nor  does  it  confer  this greatly- 
its  wearers. 
to-be-desired  quality  upon 
The  pretty  woman  is  still  pretty 
it, 
but  the  effect  on  the  great  body  of  piain 
women  is  to  enhance  plainness into pos­
itive  ugliness.  The  shirt  waist costume 
at 
its  best  estate  lacks  the  elegance  of 
an  entire  gown  of  one  material.  As  to 
expounding  the  why  of  the  shirt  waist, 
we  must  conclude  that nearness of vision 
destroys  correctness  of  perspective,  and 
makes  present  opinion  valueless.  Some 
Sartorial  philosopher  of  the  future  will 
explain  it.  He  will  be  able  to  say  just 
why  it made  its  appearance when  it  did, 
it  had  not  come  before,  the  cause 
why 
of 
its  widespread  and  long-continued 
adoption.  If  it  has  come  to  stay,  he  will 
tell  why  it  remains. 
it  must  needs 
vanish 
from  our  sight,  be  will  explain 
why  it  vanishes,  and  if  particularly  as­
tute,  he  may  be  able  to  predict  when 
it 
will  appear  again. 
Q u i l l o .

in 

in 

If 

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons—There  is  said  to  be  a 
lines  of 
better  business  in  almost  all 
staple  cottons.  Some  very 
fair  sized 
purchases  are  now  being  made,  and  all 
well-known  tickets  are  steady and strong 
in  price.

Prints  and  Ginghams— Fancy  calicoes 
are  steady  and  prices  are  without 
change.  This  report  will  also  cover  in­
digo  blue  prints,  blacks,  whites  and 
grays.  Dress  styles  are  in  fairly  good 
request  for  re-orders;  dometts  and other 
woven  patterned  napped  goods  are 
steady  and  without  change.  There  is 
no  change  to  report  in  the  Fall  River 
market  for  print  cloths,  though  the  mar­
ket  is  very  firm  in  the  face  of  the  pro­
posed  plans  for  curtailment  of  produc­
tion.  The  demand 
for  regulars  con­
tinues  quiet,  and  business  in  odd  goods 
is  moderate.

that  all 

Dress  Goods— There  is  a  much  more 
cheerful  tone  to  the  dress  goods  market 
this  week,  and  jobbers  generally  ex­
press  the  opinion  that  within,  probably, 
the  next  ten  days,  a  great  change  will 
come  over  the  conditions  of  the  dress 
goods  market,  and 
lines  of 
trade  will  feel  the  impulse  of  new  life 
in  their  business.  Why  the  trade  has 
been  so  stagnant  for  the  past  few  weeks 
is  more  or  less  of  a  mystery;  for,  theo­
retically,  the  conditions  are  all  that 
could  be  wished  for  excellent  business, 
yet  nearly  every  branch  of  the  textile 
trade  has  been  exceptionally  quiet. 
There  seems  to  be  a  change  taking 
place,  however,  and  while  the  present 
business  is  confined  largely  to  the  job­
bing  trade  and  importers,  agents  for  the 
domestic  mills  feel  quite  positive  that 
their  part  of  the  trade  is  on  the  eve  of 
a  considerably  increased  activity.

Woolens—The  woolen  goods  trade 
continues  to  improve  slowly  as  the  time 
at  which  new  lightweight  lines  are  to 
be  opened  approaches. 
Improvement 
used 
in  this  sense  is  a  purely  relative 
term,  and  the  present  business  is  only 
slightly  more  active  than  the  extreme 
dullness  existing  heretofore.  The  out­
look  for  the  new  season  is  discouraging 
to  buyer and  seller alike,  and  especially 
so to  the  latter,  because  of  the  big  ad­
vance  he  is  obliged  to  pay  upon  the raw 
material.

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WOMEN  BUYERS.

Some  of  the  Requisites  to  Success  in 

That  Field.

Women  who  buy  for  the  great  retail 
in 
shops  are  at  the  top  of  the  ladder 
their  business.  The 
little  cash  girls 
look  upon  them  with  awe,  the  sales­
women  admire  or  envy  them,  the  mem­
bers  of  the  firm  take  counsel  with  them 
and  the  drummers  and wholesale dealers 
bow  down  before  them.  There  is  not 
a  dry  goods  house  in  New  York  City 
that  does  not  intrust  a  large  share  of  its 
buying  to  women. 
In  some  as  many  as 
ten  or  twelve  are  employed  for  that pur­
pose,  buying  all  manner  of  things  from 
tooth  brushes  to  imported  gowns.
The  woman  buyer  is not  a new wom­
an, ”   remarked  the  manager  of  a  large 
New  York  store. 
“ There  were  always 
women  who  bought  millinery  and  no­
tions  and  things  of  that  sort  for  their 
little  shops,  and  when  the  stores 
own 
grew 
into  such  enormous  businesses  as 
they  have  come  to  be  the  women  grew 
with  them.  They bought at first  the  kind 
of  thing  which  it  had  been  their  prov­
ince  to  handle  under  certain  limitations 
and  conditions.  When  a  woman  showed 
her  ability  to  do  more  the  chance  was 
given  to  her  to  do  it.

“ In  our  business  we  employ  more 
women  than  men  as  buyers.  No,  not 
for  the  sake  of  economy,  but because we 
think  them  better  suited  to  the  work.  A 
woman  buyer  gets  almost  as  much  pay 
as  a  man  who  does  the  same  kind  of 
work.  Some  of  them  make  as  much  as 
$8,000  and  $10,000 a  year. ”

“ I  like  my  work  better  than  anything 
else  I  can  think  o f!"   exclaimed  the 
woman  who  is  probably  the  largest  buy­
er  in  the  country  and  the  only one in the 
store  in  which  she  is  employed.  She 
has  the  exclusive  control  of  seven  de­
partments,  which  is  more  than  any  one 
man  has,  and  her  purchases  include 
such  various  articles  as  jewelry,  toilet 
articles,  silverware, 
leather  bags,  cut­
lery,  optical  goods,  fans,  picture  frames 
and  parasols.

In  addition  to  her  duties  as  buyer  she 
has  personal  oversight  of  about  100  em­
ployes  and  sees  that  her  goods  are  ar­
ranged  in  the  most attractive  manner  on 
the  counters  and  in  the  windows.
“ I  began  my  work  as  a  window 
dresser,”   she  explained,  “ and  I  always 
take  great  pride  in  having  a  neat  and 
attractive  display.

“ I  have  never  regretted  going  into 
business. 
I  was  well  educated  and 
could  have  taught  school,  but  I  chose 
It  is  far  more  interesting. 
this  instead. 
Oh,  yes,  there  is  no  end  of  variety 
in 
it,  and  no  limit  to  the  work  either,  but 
you  can  work  hard  without  feeling  it 
I  like  to  see, 
when  you  enjoy  a  thing. 
to  handle  and  to  buy  pretty  things. 
I 
go  abroad  with  carte  blanche  to  buy  for 
my  departments,  and  I  have  been  for­
tunate  in  never  getting  loaded  up  with 
stock  that  wouldn’t  sell.  I  go  to France, 
Germany, Switzerland,  Austria  and  Eng­
land  for  my  goods.  You  see,  that  gives 
me  a 
I  could  get  almost  every­
thing  in  Paris  or  London,  but  we 
like 
to  go  to  the  source  of  manufacture—one 
gets  better  prices  and  greater  variety.

“ Now,  I  don’t  want  to  boast,  but  I 
think  there  are 
few  buyers,  men  or 
women,  who  have  bought  as  extensively 
as  I  have,  who  have  been  able  to  get 
their  goods  worked  off  so  well. 
I  don’t 
think  I  am  given  to  taking  many  risks, 
and  yet  am  not  afraid  to  go  in  pretty 
steep  on  anything  that  I  am  assured 
in 
my  own  opinion  is  going  to  be  a  good 
seller. 
I  am  not  a  timid  buyer,  neither 
am  I  a  plunger.

‘ tour.’ 

“ The  plungers  have  had  a  bad  time 
this  year.  They  are  usually  on  a  tidal 
wave  of  success  or  in  the  ebb of  failure. 
The  ‘ golden  mean’ occurs rarely  in  their 
lexicon  or  experience.  Some  bouses 
take  pride  in  the  fact  that  their  buyers 
are  not  afraid  of  a  good  thing—that  is, 
as 
it  all  ends  well ;  but  when 
losses  result,  the  plunger is  admonished, 
and  if  they  continue,  she  loses  her  pres­
tige  and  her job. ’’

long  as 

“ 1  have  been  a  bold  buyer,” confided 
a  troubled-looking  woman  to  the  writer. 
“ I  have  been  called  a  plunger,  but  I 
almost  always  come  out  well  until  this 
season. 
It  promised  to  be  a  great  year

for  trimmings,  and  I  determined  to  go 
beyond  anyone  in the  city  in  that line  of 
goods. 
I  bought  the  best  of  everything 
I  could  find  here  and  abroad  and— well, 
the  season  didn’t  pan  out  as  I  and  most 
folks  thought  it  would. 
I  got  stuck— I 
have  to  own  up  to 
it.  The  firm  has 
been 
‘ decent’  about  it,  but  I  wouldn’t 
like  to  risk  such  luck  again  in  spite  of 
the  fact  that  since  I  have  been  with 
them  I  have  made  some  bold  ventures 
that  turned  out  beyond  anyone’s  expec­
I  would rather buy  in  that  way 
tations. 
and 
lose  something  now  and  then  than 
to  peg  away  in  a  rut  all  the  time— only 
one  must  not  go  too  far. 
I believe  a  lot 
in  luck,  and  mine  is  pretty  good  on  the 
whole. ’ ’

to  an  extremely  conservative  buyer.

From  the  plunger  the  reporter  turned 
“ I  have  been  highly  commended  by 
my  firm  for  my  careful  buying,”   she 
said.

“ Of  course,  I  have  to  keep  a  good 
stock  of  staple  goods  on  band,  but  I  get 
only  a  few  novelties  at  a  time. 
I  don’t 
like  to  have  them  about  so  long  that 
they  get  to  looking  shop-worn,  and  if 
they  sell  readily  one  can  easily  get  a 
new  supply.
first  took  up  this  work  I 
“ When  I 
thought  about  it  all  the  time,  day  and 
night. 
I  had  been  a  saleswoman  and  I 
didn't  want  to  undertake  this,  but  the 
firm  insisted,  and  when  I had consented,
I  lost  sleep  for  fear  of  getting  bad  bar­
gains. 
I  still  worry  a  |;ood  deal,  but 
nothing  like  that  any  more. 
I  have  in­
troduced  several  features  into  my  work 
which  have  proved  quite  helpful.  One 
of  these  is  a  ‘ callbook. ’

“ I  have  one  of  these  books  placed  in 
each  of  my  departments,  and  whenever 
a  customer  calls  for  anything that  we  do 
in  stock  the  saleswoman  puts 
not  have 
it  down  in  the  book. 
In  the  evening  I 
collect  the  books,  look  them  over  and 
order  accordingly.

“ Notions  are  the  hardest  things  to 
It  does  not  matter  if  one  is 
manage. 
out  of  dress  goods,  but  it  gives  you  a 
bad  name  to  be  out  of  any  sort  of  no­
tions  that  may be called for.  Now,  about 
trimmings: 
I  look  ahead  in  regard  to 
them 
just  as  far  as  I  can  and  try  to 
make  up  my  mind  what  line  to  follow. 
I  think  satin  folds  will  be  the  thing 
this  coming  season.  Why?  Because 
braids  have  been  worn  to  death,  and 
satin folds are  so  different  that  I  believe 
they  will  meet  with  great  favor. 
I  am 
going  to  buy  them.

“ No,  I  do  not  go  abroad  for  any  of 
I  think  one  can  do  just  as 
my  buying. 
well  here. 
I  give  up  my  mornings  to 
the  drummers,  having  certain  ones  set 
apart  for  certain  lines  of  goods.  Then 
in  the  afternoon  I  go  to  the  different 
houses  and  factories  where  we  buy, 
I 
some  in  the  city  and  some  outside. 
usually 
in  the 
different  places  first  to get  a  good 
idea 
of  the  market.  Then  I  go  over  it  more 
carefully  and  make  my  selection.

look  over  everything 

* ‘ I  set  my  own  profits  on  my  goods, 
but  I  have  to  look  out  not  to  get  the 
price  above  my  neighbor’s. 
I  often 
send  out  half  a  dozen  times  a  day to  see 
what  things  are  selling  for 
in  other 
stores,  and 
if  one  of  my  rivals  has  a 
mark-down  sale,  down  my  prices  have 
to  come. ”

A  bright  young  woman  who  sailed  for 
France  last  week  went  to  buy  under 
clothing, 
and 
lingerie.

children’s 

garments 

“ You  are  not  afraid  of  your  French 
goods  being  boycotted?”   she  was  asked 
just  before  she  started.

“ No,”   she  replied  with  a  smile,  “ I 
don’t  think  there  will  be  any  prejudice 
against  French  underwear.  The  reason 
we  buy  that  is  on  account  of  the  band 
work.  As  far  as  designs  go,  the  Amer­
ican  manufacture  is  just  as  desirable, 
but  you  can’t  get  hand  work 
this 
country  without paying exorbitant prices 
for  it.

“ My  friend  who  is  going  with  me  is 
going  to  buy  French  millinery  and  she 
doesn’t  expect  to  buy  any  less  because 
of the scare there  has  been  about  its be­
ing boycotted.  The  war  will  have  to 
last  longer and  the  French  become more 
obnoxious  before  we  can  get  along with­
out  Parisian  models  in  headgear.  We 
shall  have  about  a  month  in  Paris and  a

in 

run  over  to  London  and  combine  a good 
time  with  business.”

But  even  with  a  salary  of  several 
thousand  dollars  a  year,  trips  to  Europe 
and  an  annual  vacation  of  from  four  to 
six  weeks, 
life  is  not  all  “ beer  and 
skittles”   for  the  woman  buyer.  No  one 
among  the  thousands  of  employes  of  the 
store  works  harder. 
In  almost  all  cases 
the  buyer  has  graduated  from  humbler 
service.  She  dares  never  to  relax  her 
vigilance,  her  judgment  must  be  always 
keen  and  accurate,  and  all  her  faculties 
alert.  Mentally  and  physically  she  must 
have  great endurance.  Her responsibil­
ities  are  enormous.  A  false  step  may 
cost  her  firm  thousands  of  dollars  and 
ruin  her  reputation 
in  the  business 
world. 
If  a  woman  maintains  her  suc­
cess  as  a  buyer  you  may  be  sure that she 
deserves  it.

Probable  Curtailment 

in  Output  of 

Print  Cloth.

Fall  River,  Aug.  2—The  committee 
in  charge  of the contemplated shut-down 
of  cotton  mills  announces  that  more 
names  have  recently  been  added  to  the 
list  of  mills  that  will  agree  to  curtail, 
and  the  committee  will  definitely  know 
by  the  end  of  this  week  just  what  to  ex­
pect.  There  seems  to  be  no  difference 
of  opinion  that  the  depression  in  the 
print  cloth  business  is  due  to  overpro­
duction.
There 

is  held  here  a  stock  of  nearly 
2,000,000  pieces  of  goods.  Even  if  the 
present  demand  for  goods  would  use  up 
the  production  of  the  mills,  there  is that 
quantity  to  prevent  any  marked advance 
to  the  selling  price  of  goods.

The  talk  of  pooling  goods  has  disap­
peared.  The  promoters  of  the  proposi­
tion  find  that  they  are  met  by  manufac­
turers  who  have  few  or  no  goods  on 
hand,  and  who  do  not  take  kindly  to 
the  curtailment  plan,  preferring  to  keep 
machinery  in  operation  so  as  to  be  in  a 
position  to  supply  customers  and  to 
profit  by  any  improvement  in  price.

The 

last  word  is  said  to  be  the  most 

dangerous.  Show  this  to  your  wife.

j Poor 
j 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 W hite’’ Flour
■  
■  

We authorize  y «u 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.

S  Valley  City  Milling  Co.
l! 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

THE  CHOPPER 
HAKES CHIPS

but none  of  them  find  their way  into  our 
GROUND  SPICES,  which are  guaranteed  to 
be  pure,  under a cash forfeit of $1,000.

The Purity of our Spices is on a par with 
the  Strength of our BAKING POWDER, which 
is  recognized as standard  wherever  used.
If  you  are not handling these lines, you 
invited  to  communicate  with  the 

are 
manufacturers,

NORTHROP, 
ROBINSON 
&  CARRIER,

LANSING,  niCHIGAN.

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and  Box  Labels and  Cigar Box  Labels our specialties.  Ask or write us for  prices

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W hen  in need of goods 
for A d v ertisin g  purposes, write

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9a rtONROE STREET. 

OPPOSITE MORTON HOUSE 

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A round  the  S ta te
Movements  o f  Merchants. 

Lansing— L.  S.  Hudson  has  engaged 
in  the  drug  business  at  235  Washington 
avenue,  south.

Detroit—Clarence  Chrysler  succeeds 
Christopher  Chrysler  &  Son  in  the  gro­
cery  business.

Detroit— Miss  Alice  Davis  has  pur­
the  millinery  stock  of  Mrs. 

chased 
Frances  Russell.

Laurium—The  John  Strand  &  Sundin 
John 

grocers,  has  dissolved, 

Co., 
Strand  succeeding.

Hartford— Helen  Codman  has  sold her 
furnishing  goods 

boot  and  shoe  and 
stock  to  V.  E.  Manley.

St.  Ignace— M.  D.  Murray’s  new 
building 
is  now  completed  and  is  oc­
cupied  by  his  meat  market  and  grocery 
stock.

Negaunee—John  Mitchell,  whose  gro­
cery  stock  was  recently  destroyed  by 
fire,  will  shortly  re-engage  in  the  same 
line  of  trade.

Onaway—Chris.  Miller  has  purchased 
the  stock  of  hardware  belonging  to  J.
M.  Clark  and  removed  the  same  to  his 
store  building.

Fremont—Chas.  E.  Fellows,  of Lyons,
N.  Y .,  has  leased  the  fruit  evaporator 
of  Jos.  Gerber  and  will  utilize  500bush­
els  of  apples  per  day.

Mt.  Clemens— Gerlach  &  Houghton 
succeed  Ameis,  Gerlach  &  Houghton 
in  the  agricultural 
implement,  wagon 
and  harness  business.

Belleville— P.  W.  Felt  has  purchased 
a  store  building  and  will  remove  his 
drug  stock  into  same  as  soon  as  it  can 
be  refitted  for  his  use.

Benton  Harbor— A.  L.  Smith  has  sold 
his  furniture  stock  to  Gus.  Schaub,  of 
St.  Joseph,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  same  location.

St.  Johns—James  Oliver  McQuistion, 
who  for  several  years  has  been  book­
keeper  for  John  Hicks,  dealer  in  dry 
goods,  and  who  operates  a  grain  eleva­
tor,  has  resigned  his  position  to  accept 
the  cashiership  of  the  South Lyon  Bank­
ing  Co.  at  South  Lyons.

Petoskey— Frank  Baldwin and Charles 
Edwards,  of  Hillsdale,  have  decided  to 
put 
in  a  cold  storage  and  a  wood  and 
coal  yard  at  this  place.  Mr.  Baldwin 
is  cashier  of  the  freight  department  of 
the  Lake  Shore  Railroad,  at  Hillsdale, 
while  Mr.  Edwards  is  a  farmer  resid­
ing  near  the  same  place.

ago 

Detroit—Several  months 

the 
Tradesman  stated  that  Lyon  Bros.  & 
Co.  had  retired  from  the  wholesale  ho­
siery  business,  which  was correct.  The 
business  was  continued,  however,  un­
der  another  name,  that  of  the  Lyon 
Bros.  Hosiery  Co!,  which  is  located  at 
96  Jefferson  avenue.  The  Tradesman 
makes  this  statement  in  justice  to  the 
new  house,  which 
to  have 
suffered  the  loss  of  some  trade  through 
the  publication  above  referred  to.

claims 

Allegan—C.  P.  O’ Brien  and  G.  L. 
Shipman,  representing Ware  &  O ’ Brien 
of  Kalamazoo,  have  opened  a  line  of 
boots  and  shoes  at  this  place.

Dexter— L.  L.  James  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partner,  Edward  H. 
Croarkin,  in  the  clothing  business  and 
will  continue  the  business  in  his  own 
name.

Carson  City—C.  Ligbtstone  has  leased 
a  store  building  at  Otsego  and will close 
out  his  dry  goods  stock  and  remove  bis 
clothing  and  shoe  stock  to  that  place 
about  Sept.  1.

Shelby— H.  W.  Ried  has  moved  his 
grocery  stock  from  New  Era  to  Shelby 
and  will  occupy  the  store  in  the  Hedges 
building 
formerly  occupied  by  the 
Griffin  grocery.

Port  Huron—Wilbur  Sylvester,  who 
for  several  years  has  been  prescription 
clerk  in  the  drug  store  of  Ed.  J.  Rodg­
ers,  has  engaged 
in  the  drug  business 
on  his  own  account.

Ovid—C.  E.  Jillson  has  purchased the 
corner  building  of  Jas.  Woodworth,  oc­
cupied  by  the  E.  E.  Cowan  Clothing 
Co.,  and  will  occupy  same  with  his  dry 
goods  stock  about  Sept.  1.

Otsego—Albert  Knoblock  has  pur­
chased  Frank  Fairfield’s  interest  in  the 
meat  business  of  the  firm  of  Knoblock 
&  Fairfield,  and  the  firm  will  hereafter 
be  known  as  Knoblock  &  Son.

Adrian— R.  A.  Garrison,  of  Marine 
City,  and  H.  W.  Glover,  of  Detroit, 
have  purchased  Harry  E.  Cook’s  stock 
of  dry  goods  and  notions.  They  will 
add  a  line  of  carpets  and  curtains.  Mr. 
Cook  will  remove  to  Coldwater  to  as­
sume  a  responsible  position  with  the 
Coldwater  Cement  Co.,  in  which  he  is 
largely  interested

Manufacturing  Matters. 

Breckenridge—The  new  elevator  of 
in 

C.  Hopkins  &  Co.  is  completed  and 
operation.

Drenthe—The  Drenthe  Creamery  Co. 
paid  a  semi-annual  dividend  last  week 
of  25  per  cent.

Corunna—Jarvis  &  Harrington,  flour­
ing  mill  operators  at  this  place,  have 
erected  a  branch  mill  at  Durand.

Holland— The  Holland  Furniture  Co. 
has  completed  an  addition  to  its  factory 
building,  goxioo  feet  in  dimensions  and 
four  stories  high.

Lewiston—The  Michelson  &  Hanson 
Lumber  Co.  has  voluntarily  increased 
the  wages  of 
in  mills 
and  camps  10  per  cent.

its  employes 

Caro—C.  E.  Mudge  has  purchased 
the  brick  and  tile  machinery  formerly 
owned  by  J.  B.  Thompson  and  engaged 
in  the  brick manufacturing  business.

Flint— The  Wm.  A.  Paterson  Co.  is 
erecting  a  large  two-story  brick  block 
to  be  used  as  a  factory  building  in  the 
manufacture  of  carriages  and road carts.
Petoskey— C.  A.  Sams  and  H.  A. 
Piester  have  formed  a  copartnership 
and  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  fla­
voring  extracts,  proprietary  medicines 
and  pharmaceuticals.

Shaftsburg— W.  H.  Payne,  of  Ban­
croft.  has  bought  J.  G.  March’s  wheat 
bouse  and  elevator.  He  will  put  in  a 
gasoline  engine  and  a  bean cleaner,  and 
make  other  improvements.

Richmond— McCrea  '&  Swadling,  of 
Walworth,  N.  Y.,  have  purchased  the 
fruit  evaporator  here  and  will  enlarge 
its  capacity  to  400 or  500  bushels  of  ap­
ples  per  day,  employing  from  twenty- 
five  to  thirty  hands.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Bronson-  Coward  &  Monroe  are  in­
creasing  their  facilities  for  conducting 
the  produce  business  by  the  erection  of 
a  building  to  be  used  for  cleaning  and 
elevating  grain  to  the  bins,  which  they 
have  leased  of  the  railroad  company.

Cassopolis—J.  L.  Thomas  and  Peter 
Nycewander,  both  of  whom  have  been 
employed 
in  the  grocery  store  of  G.  C. 
Underhill  &  Co.,  have  formed  a  copart­
nership  and  engaged  in  the  grocery  and 
crockery  business  on  their  own  account.
Belleville—A  bank  will  shortly  be  es­
tablished  at  this  place. 
Temporary 
quarters  will  be  secured  for  the  present, 
and,  if  the  business  proves  a  success,  a 
bank  building  will  be  erected 
in  the 
fall.  Harry  S.  German  is  interested  in 
the  enterprise.

Flint—George  C.  Wilson,  of this city, 
and  W.  F.  Pape,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  are 
organizing  a  stock  company  in  this  city 
for  the  manufacture  of  buggy  stops  and 
buggy  gearings.  The  organization  will 
have  a  capital  stock  of  $100,000.

Stronach—The  Union  Salt  &  Lumber 
Co.’s  mill  has  been  shut  down  for  the 
past  week  or  so,owing  to  a  lack  of  logs, 
and  probably  will  not  be  in  operation 
again  until  about  the  middle  of  August, 
as  the  logs  are  coming  very  slowly.

Lansing—The  plant  of  the  Michigan 
Wheel  Co.  was  bid  in  at foreclosure sale 
last  week  by  the  Capitol  Investment, 
Building  &  Loan  Association,  the mort­
gagees,  whose 
to 
$16,300. 
It  was  struck  off  on  a  bid  of 
$10,000.

amounted 

claim 

The  Grain  Market.

As 

is  usual  at  this  time  of  the  year, 
the  wheat  market  was  neglected,  espe­
cially  as  the  bear  news was very prolific. 
The  fine  weather,  good  yields  and  light 
demand  all  tended  to  depress  the  mar­
ket.  Even  the  small  decrease  in  the 
visible  did  not  stem  the  weak  feeling 
and  prices  sagged 
slightly,  although 
with  the  present  low  prices  it  is  much 
harder  to  depress  the  market  than it was 
when  wheat  was  15c  per  bushel  higher. 
The  exports  were  fair,  but  the  receipts 
were  also  large  and  had  not  the  millers 
and  the  country  elevators  been  well 
stocked  up  the  visible  would  have  been 
much 
larger.  However,  from  now  on 
we  think  the  visible  will  increase  in­
stead  of  decrease,  and  it  will  be  some 
time  ere  the  burden  will  be heavy,  espe­
cially  when  we  find  that  we  have  only 
9,000,000  bushels,  or 
1 Xbushels  per 
capita  in  sight.

Corn,  owing  to  the  dry  weather,  is 
firmer.  The 
local  rains  came  rather 
late  and  were  too  light  and,  as  stated, 
prices  advance  steadily.  Oats  are  very 
short  and  prices  are  likely  to  advance.
The receipts of  grain  during the month 
of  July  were  of  a  diminutive  character, 
being  197  cars  of  wheat,  66  cars  of  corn 
and  37  cars  of  oats,  while  the  receipts 
during  the  week  were 66  cars  of  wheat, 
12  cars  of  corn  and  6  cars  of  oats.  Ow­
ing  to  one  mill  being  shut  down,  the  re­
ceipts  for  the  month are  lower than  they 
would  have  otherwise  been.  The  re­
ceipts  for  the  season  were  very  fair. 
Millers  are  paying  61c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Butter  Accumulating  in  Montreal. 

From the Montreal Trade Bulletin.

There  is  more  butter  in  this  city  than 
in  the  trade  have 
many  people  even 
idea  of,  the  total  quantity  in  cold 
any 
storage  and 
in  warehouses  being  be­
tween  30,000  and  35,000  packages,  a 
smaller  proportion  of  same  being Amer­
ican  than  at  this  time  last  year.  Of 
course,  a 
large  portion  of  this  butter  is 
held  on  English  account  to  be  shipped 
out 
later,  some  of  which  will  probably 
not  go  out  before  September,  parties  on 
the  other  side  not  having  as  good  re­
frigerator  facilities  as  we  have.  At  this 
time 
last  year  there  was  about  40,000 
packages  in  store  here.

More  Peaches  To  Be  Marketed  Here 

Than  Ever  Before.

Grand  Rapids,  Aug.  2— I  have  made 
quite  a  careful  estimate  of  the  peach 
crop  of  Kent  County  for  1898,  and  am 
of  the  opinion  that  it  will  not  be  a  full 
crop,  estimating  all  the  trees  of  bearing 
age,  but  I 
there  will  be  more 
peaches  marketed  here  than ever before, 
as  the  number  of  trees  has  increased 
enormously. 
The  quality  should  be 
good,  but will be  subject  to  weather  con­
ditions.  We  are  very  much  in  need  of 
rain  now,  and should  this  condition  con­
tinue,  the  crop  must  suffer.

think 

R o b e r t  D.  G r a h a m .

Evidently  an  Impostor.

1  don  t  believe that he  was  ever  at 

Klondike. ”

‘ ‘ Why?  He  told  a  straight  story.”

Yes.  But be tried  to  borrow  a  dollar 
from  me  and  did  not  offer  any  mining 
stock  as  security.”

Wifely  Ways.

Is  your  wife  getting  you  ready  for 

You  bet  she  is— even all  of my pock­

the  front?”

ets  are  rifled. ”

The  bible  does  not  promise  it,  but 
there  is  no  doubt  but  that  the  Lord  will 
forgive all  the  lies  a  man  tells  when  he 
is  in  love.

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

Holland—The  Walsh  De  Roo  Milling 
Co.  has  established  a  business  branch 
at  Allegan  and  will  build  an  elevator on 
land  between  the  Lake  Shore  house  and 
the  C.  &  W.  M.  round  bouse.  Wheat, 
corn,oats  and  other  grains  and potatoes, 
apples  and  other produce will be bought.
Grand  Ledge— Louis  Lonier,  one  of 
the  proprietors  of  the  Grand  Ledge 
flouring  mills,  has  invented  a  machine 
for  the  manufacture  of  pretzels.  The 
inventor  claims  that  the  output  of  five 
of  his  machines  would  be  sufficient  to 
supply  the  pretzel  trade  of  the  United 
States.

Saginaw— Isaac  Bearinger has sold the 
timber  on  16,000 acres of land in Presque 
Isle  county  to  a  gentleman  named 
Mitchell,  who  has  been  operating  a  mill 
in  Huron  county,  and  he  will  move  his 
mill  to  some  point  on  the  tract  and  cut 
up  the  timber,  which  consists  of  cedar, 
hemlock  and  hardwood.

Manistee— The  bark  trade  has  been 
more  than  ordinarily  active  this  season. 
For  the  past  two  or  three  years  the  tan­
neries  have  been  running  light and have 
not  been  buying  nearly  as  much  bark 
as  usual. 
their 
stocks  to  get  low  so  that  now  they  are 
beginning  to  stock  up  again  when 
there  is  good  trade  in  view.

They  have  allowed 

Grand  Marias— Morse  &  Schneider, 
lumbering  firm  in 
the  mercantile  and 
Alger  county,  have 
filed 
two  chattel 
mortgages  in  favor  of  their  creditors  to 
Enos  Petitfren  as  trustee.  The  liabili­
ties  are  $26,000,  principally  to  Detroit 
firms  and  National  Bank  of  Marquette 
and  Preston  of  Detroit.  The  firm  also 
owned  the  Grand  Marais  Exchange 
Bank,  but  all  depositors  were  paid  off 
before  the  firm  went  into  liquidation.

Manistee—The  first  installment  of  the 
Buckley  &  Douglas  logs,  which  are  be­
ing  brought  from  Ford  River,  was  de­
livered  at  Portage  Lake  last  Saturday. 
There  was  about  1,000,000  feet  on  the 
raft  in  tow  of  the  tug  Temple  Emery, 
which  was  about  eight  days  on  the  way, 
delivering  the  raft  without  losing  a  log. 
There  is  about  15,000,000  feet  in  all  to 
come,  about  1,000,000  feet  being  cedar, 
the  balance  good  white  pine.

Escanaba— It 

is  stated  that  work  on 
the  erection  of  the  large  wood-working 
factory  at  this  place  will  soon  begin. 
The  principal  men  of  the  company  are 
M.  H.  and  C.  D.  Ritzweller  and  Jacob 
Kahn.  These  were  all  recently  at  Es­
canaba  and  with  them  was  G.  K.  Al- 
bey,  architect  at  Neenah,  who  will  draw 
up  plans  for  the  buildings.  The  plant 
will  consist  of  the  factory  proper,  a 
large  frame  building  three  stories  high, 
twelve  large  dry  kilns,  two  large  ware­
houses,  a  sawmill,  and engine and boiler 
buildings, 
last  of  brick.  All  the 
machinery  has  been  ordered.  The  fac­
tory  will  turn  out  tubs,  pails  and  other 
wooden  goods,  using  10,000,000  feet  of 
lumber  yearly.  Between  300  and  400 
hands  will  be  employed.

the 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

G rand  R apids  Oossip

The  Grocery  Mar«et.

Sugar— There 

is  a  steady  demand  for 
refined  grades  and  the  oversold  list  of 
the  refiners  has  been  increased.  Prices 
are  unchanged.  Mail  advices 
from 
Louisiana 
indicate  favorable  growing 
weather  recently,  with  the  cane  crop  al­
most  laid  by,  mostly  in  good  condition. 
The  season 
is  said  to  have  been  espe­
cially  favorable  for  cane,  with  moisture 
and  warmth  enough  to  make 
it  grow 
rapidly.  Conditions  abroad  were  gen­
erally  favorable  as  to  the  weather.

Teas—Japanese holders have advanced 
their quotations  on  the  second pickings, 
but  whether  the  advance  will  meet  with 
a  reciprocity  movement  in  this  country 
remains  to  be  seen.  The  market  is 
quiet,  with  little  stock  moving.

Coffee—There 

is  no  change  in  the 
market,  the  crop  in  sight  being  almost, 
if  not  quite,  as  large  as  a  year  ago, 
while  the  coming  crop  is  estimated  by 
many  as  being  as  large  as  the  crop  just 
harvested. 
If  these  reports  prove  true, 
this  means  a  comparatively  low  market 
all  the  coming  year.

Rice—The  sales  movement  for  July 
was 
in  excess  of  the  movement  during 
July  last  year,  although  it  was  less  than 
the  movement 
for  June  and  May. 
Stocks,  as  compared  with the supply  for 
corresponding  period  last year,are about 
equal.  The  supply  in  first  hands  is  es­
timated  at  15,000  bags. 
It  looks  as  if 
the  season  would  go  out  with  only  nor­
mal  supplies  on  band. 
It  is  said  that 
from  6,000  to  8,000  bags  of  rice  have 
been  shipped  recently  to Cuba and  Porto 
Rico,  and  that  there  will  be  a  further 
considerable  call  from  those  markets  in 
the  future.

Canned  Goods— Spot tomatoes are 2j¿c 
lower,  due  to  the  nearness  to  the  com­
ing  of  the  new  pack  and  the  prospects 
of  a  large  crop  and  pack.  No  futures 
are  selling.  Spot  corn  is  selling  fairly 
well 
in  a  small  way,  at  unchanged 
prices.  No  futures  are  offered.  Peas 
are  not  selling,  and  prices  are  un­
changed.  The  packers  of  string  beans, 
by  reason  of  the  short  first  crop,  were 
unable  to  deliver  all  their  future  orders, 
and  for  that  reason  are  carrying  some 
orders  over  to  the  second  crop.  Prices 
are 
last  year. 
Peaches  are  selling  only  in  small  lots, 
lots  being  on  band.  Prices 
no  large 
seem 
to  be  getting  gradually  higher. 
Advices  from  the  Coast  say  there is sure 
to  be  an  advance  soon. 
California 
canned  peaches  are  probably  very  good 
property  at  ruling  prices.

5@ioc  higher 

than 

Dried  Fruits—Apricots  will  be  un­
usually  scarce  and  are  bound  to  rule 
high.  Future  prunes  will  rule  high, 
with  large  sizes  scarce.  There  will  be 
practically  no  30’s,  very  few  40’s,  and 
50’s  will  have  to  be  considered  the 
large  size.  Spot  peaches  are  moving 
out  in  a  small  way  and  stocks  are  light. 
All  business  done  is  in  small  lots,  at un­
changed  prices.  Nothing  is  doing  in 
currants  and  the  market  is  easy.  Rai­
sins  are selling  very  well  and  the cheap­
er  grades  are  getting  cleaned  up.  Bet­
ter  grades  bring  full  prices.  Holders 
decline  to  shade.  Apples  are  bound  to 
be  scarce  and  high,  on  account  of  a 
short  crop  in  New  York  and  the  South­
west.

Syrup—Compound 

syrup  shows  no 
change  over  the  advance  noted 
last 
week,  but  the  market  is  firm  and  the 
demand  good.  No  further  advance  is 
likely,  however,  unless glucose advances 
further.  Stocks  are  ample.  There  is

not  much  demand 
stocks  of  which  seem  more  ample.

for 

sugar  syrup, 

Cheese—Cheese 

is  not  unduly  high, 
even  at  the  recent  advance,  although 
a  little  higher  than  last  year.  The  de 
mand  for  cheese  is  very  good,  as  it  al­
ways  is  at  this  season.  No  change  is 
expected 
in  the  near  future,  although 
the  market  is  firm.

large  demand 

Provisions— Provisions  are  strong  and 
some  lines  are  yic  higher  than  a  week 
ago.  The  generally 
is 
the  cause  of  the  advance.  All  smoked 
meats  are  selling  very  well.  Lard  stays 
down  because  the  make  is  very  large. 
No  decline  is  likely,  however,  a  slight 
advance  in  sympathy  with  other  provi­
sions  being  more 
likely  than  a  de­
cline. 
The  market  will  hold  its  own 
in  all  probability.

in  salmon,  but  the  feeling 

Fish—There  has  been  no  actual  ad­
vance 
is 
strong  and  a  higher  range  of  values  is 
looked  for,  based on the fact  that  August 
and  September are  the  months  of  heav­
iest  consumption.  The  new  pack of low- 
grade  salmon  will  not  be  available  until 
November  or  December.  Spot  stocks 
of  low-grade  salmon  are 
light.  The 
mackerel  market  is  in  very  good  shape, 
there  being  a  good demand and steadily- 
advancing  prices.  Cod  is  selling  very 
well,  and  the  quality  is  good.  Prices 
are  unchanged.  Lake  fish  are  moving 
nicely  at  unchanged  prices.  Sardines 
are  practically  unchanged.  Three-quar­
ter  mustards  are  getting  very  scarce and 
the  price  has  advanced  about  10c  per 
case.

Hides,  Tallow  and  Wool.

There  is  a  small  take  off of  hides 

in 
Michigan.  Light stock  is  more plentiful 
and  the  demand  is  fully  up  to  the  sup­
ply.  The  general  hide  market  does  not 
change,  asking  prices  being  #@j£c 
above  the  selling  price.

Tallow 

is  slow  and  sluggish,  with 
some  call  from  soapers  who  wish  to pur­
chase  at  a  still  lower  price  than  seems 
to  be  ruling.  There 
is  a  good  supply 
of  old  stock,  which  low  prices  do  not 
move.

Wool  is  again  a  selling  commodity  in 
the  East.  Sales 
last  week  were  up  to 
last  January  sales.  Manufacturers  are 
looking  for  some  wool,  but  find  no  soft 
spots;  in  fact,  our  market 
is  really 
higher 
in  the  selling  price,  especially 
so  on  fine.  London  sales  closed  5  per 
cent,  higher all  around,  while  fine  was 
advanced  2j^c  from  previous  sales,  with 
no  demand  from 
this  side  and  little 
salable  offering  for  our  needs.  On  the 
other  hand,  manufacturers  seem  to  have 
a  good  supply  from  what  they  carried 
over,  so  that  they  are  running  full  time 
and  no  spindles 
is 
bright  for  wool. 

idle.  The  future 
W m.  T.  H ess.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  at  the  Tradesman  office  Tuesday 
evening,  the  final  report  of  the  Picnic 
Committee  was  received  and  accepted. 
No  business  of  importance  was  trans­
acted,  aside  from  perfecting  the  final 
arrangements  of  the  annual  event  which 
takes  plae  Thursday.

John  F.  Hartmann  has  erected  a  store 
building,  22x38  feet 
in  dimensions,  at 
the  corner  of  Third  and  Fremont  streets 
and  will  shortly  open  a  new  grocery 
store  at  that  location,  having  purchased 
his  stock  of  the  Worden  Grocer Co.  Mr. 
Hartmann  proposes  to  adopt  the  cash 
plan  altogether.

H.  E.  Beasley  has  engaged 

in  the 
grocery  business  at  Ithaca.  The  Lemon 
& Wheeler Company furnished the stock.

The  Morning  Market.

While  in  general  the  management  of 
the  market  seems  to  operate  with 
little 
friction,  there  are  some  evidences  of  a 
lack  of  thoroughness  which  are  made 
manifest  by  a  copious  rain.  It  had  been 
observable  for  some  time  that  the  sur­

Sumner  M.  Wells  (Clark-Jewell-Wells 
Co.)  has  returned  from  a  month’s  out­
ing  on  the  banks  of  Crystal  Lake.

A.  D.  Beardsley  has  opened  a grocery 
store  at  Owosso.  The  Worden  Grocer 
Co.  furnished  the  stock.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Eating  varieties,  such  as 
Astrachans and Duchess,  command $1.75 
per  bbl.,  and  cooking  varieties  fetch 
$1.25.

Beets—  ioc  per  doz.  bunches.
Blackberries-80c  per  crate  of  16  qts. 
for  home  grown.  The  late  rains  will 
have  a  marked  effect 
the  size  of 
berry,  both  home  grown  and  wild.

in 

Butter—The  market  is  in  very  good 
shape,  there  being  a  good,  steady  de­
mand.  The  dry  weather  which  has pre­
vailed  all  over  the  country  has  greatly 
curtailed  the  make  by  injuring  the  pas­
turage.  The  demand  for  milk  for  ice 
cream,  etc.,  is  also  having  its  effect, 
and  these  causes  have  made  the  market 
advance  ic  per  pound.  The  butter  ar­
riving  now  is  of  fair  quality  for  the 
season,  which  always  shows  effects  of 
heat.  Factory  creamery  is  held  at  18c 
and  fancy  dairy  at  I5@i6c.
Cabbage— Home  grown 

is  in  ample 
supply  at  45@5oc per doz.  Chicago stock 
fetches  $1.25  per  crate  of  30  to 50 heads.

Celery— 15c  per bunch.
Carrots— ioc  per  doz.  bunches.
Cauliflower—$1.25  per  doz.  heads  for 

Illinois  stock.

Cocoanuts—4@5c.
Corn—Green,  15c  per  doz.  ears.  The 
stock  is  still  so  poor  that  dealers  do  not 
undertake  to  ship  it  to  outside  points, 
although  the  demand 
is  active,  espe­
cially  from  the  resort  towns.

Cucumbers— The  price  has  declined 
to  20c  per  doz.,  due  to  the  increased  re­
ceipts.

Eggs—The  hot  wave  has played havoc 
with  eggs,  so  far  as  quality  is  con­
cerned,  and  not  much 
improvement  in 
this  respect  is  expected  before  the  end 
of  the  month.  Handlers  are  taking  in 
stock  on  the  basis  of  value,  holding 
carefully  candled  stock  at  11c  and 
choice  candled  at  12c.

Green  Onions— ioc  per  doz.,  accord­

ing  to  size.

Green  Peas—75c  per  bu.  for  home 
are  very 

grown  Marrowfats,  which 
scarce,  on  account  of  the  drought.

Honey— Fine  new  comb  commands 

I2@I3C.

Lemons— Fancy  Messinas  are  ad­
vanced  to  $5.5o@6  per  box  and  prices 
on  the  entire  line  are  very  firm.  The 
demand  is  excellent,  the  weather  favor­
ing  a  large  movement.

Lettuce—5o @ 6 o c  per  bu.  for  head.
Muskmelons---- Indiana  Cantaloups
fetch  75c  per  doz.  Little  Gems  com­
mand  60c  per basket  of  about  20.  Osage 
fetch  Si  per  crate  of  a  dozen.
per  bu.

Onions— Home  grown  command  90c 

Oranges—There  are  still  good  sup­
plies  of  fruit  on  hand  and  prices  are 
firm,  with  fair movement.

Peaches— Alexanders  are  coming  in 
like  a  deluge,  but  as  they  literally  “ rot 
on  sight,”   growers  are  realizing  only 
25@4oc  for  the  crop.  Early  Rivers, 
which  are  a  trifle  better  in  quality  and 
can  be  shipped  short  distances,  com­
mand  4o@5oc.  Each  succeeding  variety 
will  be  better  from  now  on.

Pears—Small Michigan command 50® 
75c  per  bu.  Marys  fetch  75c®$i,  but 
do  not  stand  up  well  enough  for  ship­
ping  purposes.

Plums—Wild  Goose 

from  Indiana 
command  $1  per  crate.  Michigan  va­
rieties  will  begin  to  come  in about Aug. 
10.  The  crop  is  the  largest  ever  known 
in  this  vicinity.

Pop  Corn— 50c  per  bu.
Potatoes— Home  grown  stock 

ample  supply  at  45@5oc.

Radishes— ioc  per doz.  bunches.
Tomatoes— Home  grown 

command 
£1.50  per  bu.,  but  the  price  will  grad­
ually  drop  to  a  lower  level.

Wax  Beans—75c  per  bu.  and  scare» 

is 

in 

Watermelons— 14@2oc  for choice  Mis­
souri  stock,  which  is  in  ample  supply.

at  that.

5

face  of  the  roadways  were  being  con­
verted  into  fine  powder  to  an  undue  de­
gree,  but  this  fact  excited  little  atten­
tion  until  the  powder  was  transformed 
into  mud,  producing  a  quantity  which 
is  a  great  disappointment  to  those  who 
fondly  hoped  that  the  hard  rolled  drive­
ways  would  be  permanent.  With  the 
exercise  of  proper  care  on  the  part  of 
the  management  this  hope  would  have 
been  justified,  although  the  work  would 
have  been  attended  with  a  little  ex­
pense,  but  only  such  as  the  conditions 
fully  justified. 
It  was  only  necessary  to 
keep  the  driveways  properly  sprinkled 
during  the  dry  weather  to  prevent  the 
pulverization  of  the  dust.  It  is  singular 
that  this  matter  seems  to  have  failed  to 
engage  the  attention  of  the  market 
authorities  until  a  rain  should  develop 
an  unqualified  mudhole,  and  it  remains 
to  be  seen  whether  steps  will  be  taken 
to  prevent  a  recurrence  and  intensifica­
tion  of  the  annoyance,  to  be  alternated 
with  the  scarcely 
less  disagreeable 
affliction  of  dust  during  the dry seasons. 
While  the  rain  shows  pretty  accurate 
grading  and  fair  surface  drainage,  a 
few  places  seem  to  have  settled  so  that 
considerable  ponds  are  retained,  which 
should  have  the  attention  of  the  repair 
department  if  there  is  such  an 
institu­
tion.

It  is  surprising  to  see  how  little  effect 
a  rain  seems  to  have  upon  the  market 
attendance.  Of  course,  decrease  in  the 
number  of  grocers  and  gardeners,  but 
not  to  an  extent  to  prevent  a lively busi­
ness  after  a  night  of  heavy  rain.  This 
is  on  account  of  the  necessity  of  mar­
keting  what  is  prepared  to  prevent 
its 
loss,  and  then  as  there  is  likely  to  be 
nearly  as  much  buying  as  ever,  those 
who  do  venture  have  the  better  chance.
The  feature  of  the  week  has  been  the 
heavy  offerings  of  early  peaches.  These 
have  been 
in  unusual  profusion  for  so 
early  in  the  season.  Prices  have  been 
moderate,  but  sales  have  been  suffi­
ciently  easy  to  show  that  there  is money 
in  the  bands  of  consumers to warrant the 
use  of  an  unusual  quantity  of  the  more 
delicate  fruits.  Apples  are  making  a 
fair show,although  greatly overshadowed 
by  the  peaches.  Small  fruits  are  be­
coming  scarce,  indicating  that  the  sea­
son 
is  going  to  end  rather  early  for 
them.  Tomatoes  are  beginning  to  be 
offered 
in  small  quantities  and  com­
mand,  as  yet,  rather  fancy  prices.  Veg­
etables  are  in  great  variety  and  seem  to 
find  a  steady,  healthy  sale  at  prices 
which,  on  the  average,  seem  low  to  the 
sellers  yet  yield  reasonably profitable re­
turns.

J.  Geo.  Lehman  arid  a party of friends 
made  a  fishing  excursion  to  Pine  Island 
Lake  Monday.  Mr.  Lehman  succeeded 
in  landing  several  fish,  but  the  feature 
which 
interested  him  the  most  was  a 
bite—on  one  arm— inflicted  by  the  busi­
ness  end  of  a  bumble  bee.  The  arm 
has  swelled  to  twice  its  usual  size  and 
its  owner  is  receiving  the  condolences 
of  his  friends,  all  of  whom  insist  on  bis 
trying  a  favorite  recipe  or  formula  for 
the  relief  of  the  injured  member.

Heman  G.  Barlow  (Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.)  has  returned  to  his  desk— 
a  monster  new  one,  by  the  way—after 
a  fortnight’s  trip  around  Lake  Huron 
and  Lake  Superior.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W om an’s World

Wherein  We  Are  Martyrs 

Neighbors.

to  Our 

Time  and  time  again  I  have  been 
tempted  to  exclaim, 
lucky  Eve,  who 
had  no  neighbors!  What  a  happy,  care­
free,  comfortable sort of  a  time  she  must 
have  had!  Nobody  to  notice  whether 
her  clothes  were  in  the  fashion,  nobody 
to  watch  what she  bought  in  the  market, 
no  observant  eye  taking 
in  her  wash 
line,  no 
listening  ear  to  overhear  every 
time  she  bad  a  spat  with  her  husband 
and  spanked  the  baby !

Why,  do  you  know,  we  are  simply 
slaves  to  our  neighbors?  They  regulate 
our  going  outs  and  coming  ins  and  run 
us  into  extravagance  and  debt,  and  we 
spend  time  and  money  and  health  and 
temper  and  bring  on  nervous prostration 
Joing  what  we  think  they  expect  of  us 
and  not  what  we  want  to  do  ourselves. 
It  is  they  who  are  responsible  for  half 
our  miseries  and  mistakes.  We  may 
be  as  brave  as  Julius  Caesar  or  Mr. 
Hobson  about  everything  else,  but  we 
are  abject  cowards  before  the  opinions 
of  our  neighbors.  We  may  think  thus 
and  so,  and  every  dictate  of  common 
sense  and  reason  mav  point  to  our  fol­
lowing  a  certain course,but  it is weighed 
in  the  balance  and  found  wanting  if 
Mrs.  Smith  across  the  way,  and  Mrs. 
Jones  around 
the  corner,  and  Mrs. 
Brown  next  door  hold  contrary  views. 
And  the  queerest  part  of  it  is  that  in­
dividually  we  may  think  those 
ladies 
chumps who don’t  know  enough  to  come 
in  out  of  the  rain,  but  that  has  nothing 
to  do  with  the  case,  and  doesn’t  give 
us  the  nerve  to  go  along  and  do  as  we 
please,  independent  of  their  approba 
tion.

the  girl’s  people  are  put  on  half  rations 
for  the  next  six  months  to  pay  for  a 
silly  white  satin  gown.  They  go  to 
housekeeping  in  a house that is  gorgeous 
with  empire  furniture,  bought  on  the 
installment  plan,  and  life  resolves  itself 
into  one  prolonged  struggle  to  head  off 
the  bill  collector.  They  didn’t  want  to 
do  it.  They  knew  better.  They  were 
simply  victims  to  our  common  dread  of 
what  people  will  say  about  us.

It 

If  you  advertise 

is  this  same  feeling  that  is  at  the 
bottom  of  the  domestic  problem.  There 
are  so  many  women  wanting  work,  and 
they  are  so  awfully  particular  what kind 
of  work  it  is. 
I  think  I  know  personal­
ly  a  couple  of  millions  of  girls  who  are 
preparing  themselves  to  be  artists  and 
illustrators  and  prima  donna«,  and  not 
a  single  one  who 
is  qualifying  for  a 
good  cook. 
in  the 
paper  for  typewriter  or  stenographer  or 
clerk  you  wiil  have  to  hire  a  policeman 
to  protect  you  from  the  horde  of  girls 
who  will  apply  for  the  position,  and 
they  will  take  almost  anything  you 
offer.  But 
if  you  want  a  good  cook  or 
housemaid  or  a  trusty  nurse  you  will 
have  to  get  out  and  hustle  around  to 
find  one  who  will  languidly  condescend 
to  come  and  try  you  and  see  if  she likes 
you. 
If  you  take  the  lot  of  the  average 
maid  in  a  good  family,  where  she  gets 
good  wages,  a  nice  room  and  the  best 
of  food,  it  is  infinitely more comfortable 
and  lucrative  than  that  of  the  illy  paid 
girl  who  clerks  in  a  store,  who  must  be 
on  her  feet  all  day,  and  whose  scant 
wages  will  pay  for  only  the  poorest  sub­
sistence. 
is  nothing  but  the  absurd 
idea  that  clerking  is  more  respectable 
than  cooking  that  keeps  many  a girl  be­
hind  the  counter  instead  of  before  the 
cooking  stove.

It 

§9?

&
B

What  makes  everyone  of  us  who  can 
rake  and  scrape  the  money  go  away 
from  our  comfortable  homes  in  summer 
to  some  deadly  dull  resort,  where  we 
eat  stale  fruit  and  canned  vegetables 
and  hang  up  for  six  or  eight  weeks 
in 
a  room  no  bigger  than  a  cupboard?  Do 
we  expect  to  enjoy  it?  Not  on  our  life. 
Nobody  who  has  ever  tried  it  once  ex­
pects  to  enjoy  it.  The  summer  exodus 
is  half  the  time  an  excursion  solely  for 
the  benefit  of  our  neighbors.  They  ex­
pect  us  to  go,  and 
if  we  don’t  they 
speculate  about  it  and  wonder  over  why 
we  didn  t,  and  we  lack  the  moral  cour­
age  to  stand 

it.

In  the  same  way  they  are  responsible 
for  the  way  we  build  our  houses.  The 
money  that  would  have  bought  a  roomy 
lot  on  an  unpretentious 
thoroughfare 
goes  for  a  strip  on  the  avenue,  where 
we  wedge  in  between  people  whom  we 
fondly  believe  to  be  fashionable,  and 
we  plaster  the  front  of  the  house  over 
with 
jim-cracks  that  we  have  to  go 
across  the  street  to  see,  even  if  we  have 
to  scrimp  on  the  conveniences  in  the 
back  to  pay  for  them.  Even  the  furni­
ture 
is  bought  on  the  same  unselfish 
plan,  and  we  load  the  parlor  down  with 
onrnaments,  no  matter  how  many  com­
forts  we 
It  is  all 
done  for  our  neighbors.

lack  in  the  kitchen. 

There  s  no  telling  the  trouble  that 
this  awe  of  our  neighbors’  opinions 
causes. 
If  they  would  go  off  where  no­
body  knew  them,  half  of  the  poor  voung 
couples  you  know  who  get  married 
could  start  out  in  a  sensible and reason­
able  wav,  with  a  little  cottage  and  plain 
furniture  and  the  girl  doing  her  own 
cooking,  and  they  would  be  happy  and 
comfortable,  and  get  along.  But  they 
haven’t  the  courage  to  do  that  at  home, 
and  so  they  have  a  fine  wedding,  and

it 

it 

loved  ones, 

Another  way  in  which  we  are  martyrs 
to  our  neighbors’  opinions  is  in wearing 
mourning.  Every  doctor  will  tell  you 
that  the  custom 
is  almost  suicidal  and 
that  just  as  soon  as  a  woman  puts  it  on 
he  begins  to  get  ready  to  treat  her  for 
some  nervous  malady.  When  death 
into  our  homes  and  robs  us  of 
comes 
our 
is  hard  enough  to 
bear,  God  knows,  without  adding  any­
thing  else  to 
in  the  way  of  gloom. 
How  worse  than  useless  it  seems,  when 
the  heart  is  bowed  down  and  the  world 
saddened,  to  shut  out  every  ray  of  sun­
shine  with  heavy  veils  and  makg  one’s 
frock  a  perpetual  reminder  of  loss  from 
which  one  can  not  escape.  How  gloomy 
the  house  looks  when  only  black  robed 
figures  flit  about,  seeming  to  keep  the 
grief  always  before  one,  the  wound  al­
ways  open.  Men  bate  mourning  gowns 
on  their  womankind ;  the  women  them­
selves  tell  you  that  they  shrink  in horror 
from  i t ;  that  it  makes  them  depressed, 
nervous,  ill,  but  because  other  people 
will  think 
it  queer  if  they  don’t  they 
shroud  themselves  in  funereal  crape,  no 
matter  if  it  is  at  the  risk  of  health  and 
life.
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it  goes,  and 

in  neither  life  nor 
death  do  we  dare  to  consult  our own 
tastes  or  convenience.  We  must  do 
what  our  neighbors  think,  not  what  we 
think. 
If  our  particular  set  have  a 
Paderewski 
fad,  we  must  pretend  that 
we  adore  classical  music,  whether  we 
can  tell  “ Yankee  Doodle”  from “ Tann­
häuser  ’  or  not. 
If  a  popular  subscrip­
tion 
is  being  gotten  up,  we  must  put 
our  names  down,  no  matter  if  we  are  in 
debt  to  the  butcher  and  behind  with 
the  rent.  We  couldn’t  run  the  risk  of 
having  our  neighbors  think  us  stingy, 
you  know. 
If  we  entertain  we  must 
have  things  far  beyond  our  usual  sim­
ple  style  of  living.  We  wouldn't  dare

to  have  the  neighbors  go  away  and  say 
that  Mrs.  Smith  had  only  three  potted 
palms  and  two  punch  bowls,  while  Mrs. 
Jones  had  six.  We  must  do  what  the 
neighbors  expect  of  us,  even  although 
we  go  in  debt  for  six  months  and  break 
a  blood  vessel  in  the  attempt.

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In  no  sense  could  the  “ Black  Street 
Pharmacy’ ’  be  regarded  as  a  beautiful, 
or  even  pretty,  drug  store.  Poverty 
and  lack  of  means  were  written  in every 
line  of  the  cheap  white  fixtures;  in  the 
scanty  assortment  of  labeled  shelf-bot­
tles  “ all  thinly  scattered  to  make  up  a 
show,”   and  in  the  meagre  stock  shown 
in  the  three 
lonesome-looking  show­
cases  that  dotted  the  long  bare  counter. 
Yet 
in  the  eyes  of  one  person  it  was 
beautiful.  James  Brown,  Ph.  G.,  loved 
his  store  with  the  same  unselfish  affec­
tion  that  a  fond  father  gives  an  erring 
son  who  has  caused  him  pain  and 
trouble.

To  his  store  and  business  James 
Brown  had  given  the  best  years  of  his 
treasures  of 
life  and  the  priceless 
youth,  hope  and  ambition. 
In  return, 
the  store  had  given  him  thinning  locks, 
wrinkled  brows,  anxiety,  and,  at  last, 
poverty.

Perhaps  these  things  came  into  his 
mind  to-night;  but 
if  they  did  they 
were  again  quickly  banished.  He  had 
loved  his  store  always;  beloved  it  more 
than  ever  to-night.  True  it  had  brought 
him  care  and  worry,  but  had  it  not  also 
brought  him  happiness?  And  like  the 
exiled  patriot  yearning  toward  his  na­
tive  land,  he  loved  the  poor  little  store, 
not  for  what 
it 
should  have  been,  for  what  he  dreamed 
it  might  have  become.

it  was,  but  for  what 

What  ruins  speak  more  eloquently  of 
pitiable  misery  than  the  shattered  re 
mains  of  the  castles  we  rear  in  the  land 
of  imagination?  To-night  James  Brown 
stood  amidst  the  ruins  of  the  bright- 
hued  hopes  he  had  builded,  and  mock­
ing  reality  only  served  to  show him  how 
beautiful  were  his  cherished  ambitions. 
He  saw  himself  at  the  head  of  his  class 
on  graduation  day;  he  listened  to  the 
applause  that  greeted  him  when  he  was 
awarded  his  prizes,  and  he  heard  again 
the  voices  of  his  friends  telling  him 
that  he  was  a  lucky  fellow  and  that  he 
would  succeed.  And  then  there  came 
before  him  the  sweet 
face  that  had 
stirred  him  to  exert  himself,  the  one 
who  had  come  with  him  to  the  little 
store  when  he  first  took  possession  of  it, 
the  one  who  had  cheered  him 
in  his 
successes  and  consoled  him 
his 
in 
losses.

“ God  bless  her!”   he  involuntarily 

said.

It  was  her  presence  that  had  made 
the  store  so  dear  to  him.  When  he  first 
commenced  business  he  got  along  very 
well.  He  had  hopes  of  buying  the  place 
and  enlarging 
it.  He  began  to  put 
money 
in  his  interest  account  at  the 
bank  and  his  hopes  were  coming  to 
pass.  But  then  a  change  came.  The 
big  department  stores  and  the  cutters 
made  inroads  on  his  trade  and  some  of 
the  physicians  commenced  to  use  tab­
lets  and  to  dispense  their  own  medi­
cines.  His  customers  dropped  away 
gradually  and  he  was  no  longer  able  to 
keep  up  his  stock. 
¡Matters  went  from 
bad  to  worse.  He  worked  with  all  his 
energy  to  revive  his  failing  business, 
but  to  no  purpose.  Care  and  worry  be­
gan  to  tell  on  him,  and  now  no  one 
would  recognize  in  this  man with bowed 
shoulders  and 
the 
James  Brown  of  a  few  years  ago.

haggard 

cheeks 

He  had  struggled  against  misfortune 
as  long  as  he  could.  To-morrow  would 
see  the  end  of  it,  for  Morgan  &  Co., 
the  wholesale  druggists,  intended to levy 
on  his  stock  for  debt.  This  night  would 
be  his  last  night  upon  earth ;  he  looked 
upon  his  store 
for  the  last  time.  At 
supper  be  yearned  to  kiss  his  wife  and 
children  good-bye,  but  he  feared  to  do 
so  lest  they  should  suspect  his  purpose 
He 
to  deceive  them  as  he 
would  deceive  the  world.  They  would 
be  happy ;  they  would  not  want  for  food 
after  his  death,  and  no  one  would  know 
that  he  was  a  suicide.  Long  ago  he  had 
carefully  laid  his  plans  for  this  crisis 
His  insurance  of  $10,000  would  support 
his  family,  his  stock  would  satisfy  the 
claim  of  Morgan  &  Co.  Aconite  was 
sure  and 
“ Heart  dis­
ease, ’ ’  the  coroner  would  say.

left  no  trace. 

intended 

looked  at  his  watch. 

laughed  softly  to  himself  and 
It  was  10 o’clock ;

He 

He  looked  out  upon  the  street  before 
locking  the  door  again.  A  misty  rain 
was  falling,  and  the  eastern  sky  was 
reddened  with  the  murky  glare  of  the 
burning  dwelling.  He  gazed  on  the 
dismal  scene 
for  a  moment  and  then 
walked  behind  the  prescription case and 
emptied  the  graduate  of  poison  with 
one  draught.  After  rinsing  his  mouth 
with  water,  he  carefully  washed  the 
graduate  and  replaced 
the  bottle  of 
poison  in  its  usual  position  on  the shelf. 
Then  be  seated  himself  at  his  desk 
and  awaited  the  action  of  the  narcotic.
After  a while  a  peculiar  feeling of  be­
atitude  and  exhilaration  seized  him. 
The  familiar  outlines  of  the  store  dis­
appeared  and  he  was  surrounded  by  un­
dulating,  irradiant  shapes  of  countless 
beautiful  tints  and  colors  that  changed 
with  kaleidoscopic 
Their 
motion,  slow  at  first,  gradually  quick­
ened  and  produced  a  preternaturally 
sweet  music  that  increased  in 
loudness 
with  the  rapidity  of  the  changes  of 
color.  Quicker and  quicker  flashed  the 
colors  and  louder  and  louder  waxed  the 
harmony,  until  at  last,  with  a  flash  of 
color  and  a  crash  of  music,  he  felt  bis 
soul  separate  from  his  body  and  soar 
away  into  space.

rapidity. 

Everything  now  was  dark  and  a  ter­
rible  silence  prevailed. 
In the  distance 
there  was  a  vast  light  and  he  felt  him­
self  borne  on  toward  it  with  an  irresist­
ible 
impulse.  For  hours  he  sped  on 
with  frightful  velocity  and  at  last  he 
stood  in  the  glare  of  a  vast  pillar  of  fire 
that  reached  from  the  earth  to  far  above 
the  skies.  At  the  base  of  the  pillar 
there  were  thousands  of  men,  who 
screamed  and  shouted  and  dashed  to­
ward  the  flames  and  then  retreated when 
the  destroying  element  touched  them. 
They  were  trying  to  reach  a  figure  that 
stood 
in  the  centre  of  the  fiery  pillar, 
and  none  had  the  courage  to  brave  the 
flames.  As  he  looked  he  knew  that  the
figure  they  would  gain  was  Success,  the 
thing  that  he  himself  had  tried  to  claim 
when  he  was  mortal.  But  now  he  was
a  spirit  and  the  flames  could  not  harm
him  and  he  could  grasp  Success  with 
scarce  an  effort.  He 
laughed  at  the 
puny  efforts  of  the  crowd  and  dashed
into  the  midst  of  the  pillar  of  fire.
Clasping  the  fair-haired  goddess  to  his

and tell yon  why  it  leaks  and  how 
much  it  will  cost  “to  stop  that 
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locked 

the  hour  had  arrived.  Carefully  he 
pulled  down  the  blinds  and  counted  the 
money 
It  was  a  very 
small  sum.  He 
the  door  and 
then  worked  for  a  while  on  his  books. 
Having  finished  bis  entries,  he  calmly 
and  deliberate ly  took  a  bottle  labeled 
Tr.  Aconit.  Rad.  from the shelf and pro­
cured  a  graduate.  A  look  of  disap­
pointment  crossed  his  face.  The  bottle 
was  empty  He  searched  for  the  fluid 
extract,  but  found  that  container  empty 
also. 
In  his  search  he  found  some fluid 
extract  of  cannabis  indica. 
“ This  will 
answer  the  purpose,"  he  said,  and  he 
poured  a  quantity  in  the  graduate  and 
regarded  the  green  fluid  with  a  critical 
eye.  He  raised  it  to  his  lips  and  sud­
denly  set  it  down  again.  There  was  a 
sharp  peal  of  the  night  bell.

He  unlocked  the  door and  let  his  cus­
tomer  in. 
It  was  a  man  who  wanted  a 
bottle  of  colic  cure.  “ Big fire  uptown,”  
said  the  customer  as  he  was  leaving.

“ Where  is  it?”   asked  the  druggist.
“ Up  to  old  Morgan's,  the  wholesale 
druggist.  His  bouse  is  afire.  Well,  he 
can  afford  to  build  a  new  one,  I  guess. 
Good  night!”

“ Yes,  he  can  afford  it,”   said  Brown 

bitterly.

could  not  understand  what  was  said ; 
the  voice  seemed  to  be  getting  farther 
and  farther  away  until  it  was lost entire­
ly-
It  was  many  days  before  he  could 
realize  what  had  occurred.  When  his 
wife  and  bis  nurses  spoke  of his bravery 
he  could  not  understand  what 
they 
meant ;  but  gradually  he  gleaned  from 
their  remarks  the  story  of  the  night’s 
happenings,  and  also  learned  that  they 
had  no  knowledge  of  his  attempted 
suicide.

idiosyncrasy 

Either  on  account  of  some  deteriora­
tion  of  the  drug  he  had  taken  or  some 
physical 
in  himself,  the 
poison  only  served  to  stimulate him  into 
a  half-frenzied  state  of  “ hasheesh”   in­
toxication. 
In  this  condition  he  had 
gone  to  the  fire,  dashed  into the burning 
building  and  reached  the  young  daugh­
ter  of  Mr.  Morgan,  who  stood  at  a  win­
dow  screaming 
for  aid.  What  they 
could  not  understand  was  that,  after 
seizing  her  in  his  arms,  he  had  jumped 
from  the  window  instead  of  descending 
on  the  ladder  that  had  been  reared  for 
him.  He  was  badly  burned  and  his  arm 
was  broken  from  his  daring  leap.  The 
newspapers  spoke  in  extravagant  praise 
f  his  bravery,  “ which  was  all  the more

7

to  be  commended,”   they  said,  “ from 
the  circumstance  that  the  father  of  the 
child  whom  Mr.  Brown  rescued  had  a 
mortgage  on  Mr.  Brown’s  stock  which 
was  to  have  been  foreclosed  on  the  day 
succeeding  the  fire.”   But  the  mortgage 
was  never  foreclosed.  Mr.  Morgan  not 
only  declared  the  obligation  cancelled, 
but  be  also  bought  the  stock  at  a  figure 
far  in  excess  of  its  value.and afterwards 
installed  James  Brown  in  a  responsible 
position  in  the  wholesale  bouse  of  Mor­
gan  &  Co.

Capricious  fortune,  that  had  so  long 
deserted  him,  seemed  to  have  come  to 
him  in  the  fiery  ordeal  of the night when 
he  plotted  his  own  destruction,  and  to­
day  one  of  the  largest  drug  corporations 
in  the  Western  States  is  the  Morgan  & 
Brown  Co.

Trust  the  Landlord  for  That.

“ I  suppose  you  get  a  lot  of  honey­
moon  couples  billing  and  cooing  around 
here?”   asked the inquisitive  stranger  of 
the  landlord  of  our  favorite  week-end 
seclusion.
“ Well,  ye-es, ”  replied  the  man  of  ex­
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remedies. 

THE  CO TTON   GOODS  TRADE.
In  a  recent  issue  the  Chicago Tribune 
reviews  editorially  the  depression 
in 
the  cotton  goods  trade  of  the  New  Eng­
land  States  and  seeks  to  explain  the 
causes  and  suggest 
The 
Tribune  admits  that  the  depression does 
not  extend  to  the  South ; but,  on the con­
trary,  the  relative  cheapness  of  manu­
facturing  cost  in  the  South  is  one  of  the 
powerful  contributing 
the 
trouble  affecting the New England mills.
While  giving  due  weight  to  success­
ful  Southern  competition,  our  Chicago 
contemporary  points  out  that  New  Eng 
land  depression 
is  not  entirely  due  to 
that  cause.  Lack  of  enterprise  on  the 
part  of  manufacturers  in  pushing  trade 
with  foreign  countries  is  said  to  be  one 
of  the  causes,  as  through  this  lack  of 
enterprise  American  manufacturers  lose 
much  trade  that  they  should  properly 
control.

factors 

in 

This  country  does  not  export  cotton 
goods  to  the  extent  that  it  should.  Our 
production  has outstripped  the country's 
ability  to  consume;  hence,  unless  we 
look  abroad  for  a  market,  we must suffer 
the  evils  of  over-production.  As  we 
produce  the  raw  material,  there  is  no 
reason  why  we  should  not  compete  suc­
cessfully  with  all  comers  and  secure  the 
lion’s  share  of  the  foreign  demand  for 
cotton  goods.  That we  have  not  secured 
the  share  of  the  foreign  demand  for cot­
ton  goods  to  which  we  are  entitled  is 
unfortunately  well  known.  Take,  for 
instance,  the  Latin-American  countries 
to  the  south  of  us.  Although  nearer  to 
us.  and  maintaining  the  most  friendly 
these  countries, 
relations  with  us, 
nevertheless,  persist 
in  purchasing  by 
far  the  greater  share  of  the  goods  they 
consume,  whether  cotton  goods  or  other 
commodities,  from  European  countries. 
Take  the  republic  of  Colombia  as  an 
example. 
In  1893  the  exports  of  the 
four  principal  countries  trading  with 
Colombia  were  as 
France, 
S7.394.ooo;  Germany,  $1,315,000;  Great 
Britian,  $4,908,000;  the  United  States,
S3.156,000.  Of  the  British  trade,  more 
than  one-half  ($2,700,000)  was  in  cotton 
goods,  while  that  of  the  United  States 
was  only  $301,690—and  this,  in  spite  of 
the  fact  that  it  requires  only  nine  days 
for  our  steamers  to  reach  the  principal 
Colombian  port  from New  York,  against 
fifteen from  Liverpool and eighteen from 
Germany.

follows: 

The  reason  for  this  anomalous  condi 
tion  of  things  is  not  due  to  prejudice 
against  us  or  our  goods,  but  to  the  fact

that  American  merchants  and  manufac­
turers  do  not  take  the  proper  steps  to 
cater  to  the  Latin-American  trade.  Our 
New  England  manufacturers  take  no 
steps  to  manufacture  especially  for  the 
South  American 
trade.  They  do  not 
turn  out  such  patterns  as  are  desired  by 
the  trade 
there,  nor  are  the  goods 
packed  in  the  way  that  meets  the  spe- 
cial  needs  of  the  markets  whose  trade 
we  desire.  European  merchants  are 
careful  to 
look  after  all  these  points, 
and,  as  a  result,  they  secure  the  trade 
even  in  cotton  goods,  for  the  manufac­
ture  of  which  they  must  buy  the  raw 
material  of  us.

Our  victory  over  Spain  will  open  up 
to  us  new  markets  and,  consequently, 
will  afford  our  cotton  manufacturers  an 
opportunity  to  make  money;  but  there 
is  no  reason  why  they  should  not  cap­
ture  the  lion’s  share  of  the  Latin-Amer­
ican  trade  if  they  only  take  the  proper 
steps  to  secure 
it  by  producing  such 
goods  as  the  trade  demands  and  putting 
the  goods  up  iu  suitable  packages.  The 
attempt  to  educate  foreign  countries  to 
admire  our  tastes 
in  goods  and  pack- 
ages  is  sure  to  prove  a  dismal  failure. 
Our  European  competitors  are  wise 
enough  not  to  make  such  an  experi­
ment,  and,  consequently,  they  capture 
the  trade.

MEXICO’S  PROSPERITY. 

While  we  have  been  enjoying  a  phe­
nomenal  export  trade  during  the  past 
year,  owing  to  our  unprecedented  ship­
ment  of  foodstuffs  to  all  parts  of  the 
world,  we  have  not  been  alone  among 
American  countries 
this  kind  of 
prosperity.  Our  next  door  neighbor  to 
the  south,  Mexico,  according  to  official 
figures  just  published,  has  also  been 
reaping  a  rich  export  harvest.

in 

its  past 

The  total  sales  by  Mexico  to outsiders 
during 
fiscal  year  reached 
$112,000,000,  in  round  numbers,  while 
the  imports  were  about  $80,000,000  in 
value.  This  leaves  the  balance  of trade 
in  Mexico’s  favor  at $32,000,000,  or over 
16  per  cent,  of  her  total  foreign  trade. 
The  notable  point  about this  balance  is 
that  it  is  $22,000,000  larger  than  the  ex­
cess  of  the  preceding  year.  This  indi­
cates  a  growth  of  foreign  trade almost 
as  great  in  proportion  to  the  whole  vol­
ume  as  that  observed 
in  the  United 
States.  It  means  certainly  a  developing 
importance  of  Mexican  trade and points 
to  agricultural  and  industrial  activity.
It  is  unfortunate  that  our  people,  and 
especially  our  Congress,  do  not  seem  to 
appreciate  how  Mexico  is  steadily  de­
veloping  in  a  commercial  way.  We  are 
not  making  that  effort  through  reciproc­
ity  or  otherwise  that  might  give us large 
increase  of  trade  south  of  the  Rio 
Grande. 
It  will  be  matter  for  astonish­
ment  that  last  year our  exports  to  Mex­
ico  actually  decreased 
in  value  com­
pared  with  the  preceding  year.  Of  the 
$80,000,000  worth  of  imports  into  Mex­
ico  last  year,  our  share  was  only  about 
$20,000,000,  when  it  ought  to  have  been 
three  times that  amount.

Blanco  may  blow  as  long  as  there  is 
breath  in  his  body,  but  a  town  in  which 
dog’s  meat  is  becoming  a  rarity  as  well 
as  a  luxury  is  in  a  bad  way  and  could 
not  muster  much  strength  to  repel a vig­
orous  assault.

There  are  some  surprises 

for  our 
troops  in  Porto Rico,notably good roads. 
The  majority  of  our  forces  are  not  used 
to  such  luxuries  at  home.

A  man  with  trust  on  the  brain  is  dis­

trusted  by  everybody.

OUR  RECEPTION  IN  PORTO  RICO.
The  experiences  of  our  army  and 
navy  at  Guanica  and  Ponce,  if  the  ac­
tion  of  the  inhabitants  of  those  places 
is  a  criterion  for  judging  the  island 
indicate  that  Porto 
sentiment,  would 
Rico  is  a  ripe  apple  waiting  to  fall 
in­
to  the  American  lap.  The  scenes  at 
Ponce  were  almost  as 
inspiriting  as 
those  at  Santiago  when  the  Spanish  flag 
came  down,  notwithstanding the  dissim­
ilarity.

importance  and 

The  city  of  Ponce  is  nearly  as  large 
It  is  a  place  of  commer­
as  Santiago. 
cial 
its  population  is 
possibly  representative  of  the  best  ele­
ments  to  be  found  on  the  island.  To 
have  captured  such  a  place  with  its  in­
habitants  hostile  toward  us  and  aided 
by  a  strong  and  determined  gairison 
would  have  given  General  Miles  all  be 
could  do  with  the  force  at  his  command 
at  the  time  of  the  surrender.  To  have 
captured 
losing  a  man  or 
firing  a  shot  is  remarkarble  as  showing 
that  the  sentiment  there  is strongly anti- 
Spanish,  and 
indeed  pro-American,  in 
spite  of  the  fact  that  no  rebellion  has 
been  in  progress  in  the  island.

it  without 

It 

is  easy  to  believe,  as  the  reports 
say,  that  there  is  a  much  higher  order 
of  citizenship  and  intelligence  in  Porto 
Rio  than  in  Cuba.  People  who  have 
been  always  under  the  flag  of  Spain 
who  can  yet  meet  American  invaders 
with  a  brass  band  and  cheer  the  Stars 
and  Stripes  testify  to  an  intelligent ap­
preciation  of  the  difference  between 
Spanish  and  American  sovereignty  and 
what  the  latter  will  mean  for  them  in 
the  way  of  peace  and  prosperity.  The 
mayor  of  the  city  appears to have voiced 
this  recognition  of  the  meaning  of  the 
coming  of  the  Americans.  And  yet 
Porto  Rico  has  been  about  the  best  gov­
erned  of  any  of  the  Spanish  colonies. 
Still  the  burdens  have  been  heavy  and 
revolution  has  only  been  avoided  be­
cause  the  island  failed  to  offer  the phys­
ical  opportunities  and  advantages  for 
conducting  a  desultory  or guerilla war to 
be  found  in  Cuba. 
It  was  always  pos­
sible  for  Spain  easily  to  put  down  a  re­
bellion.

There  may  yet  be  a  stubborn  resist­
ance  at  different  points  by  the  Spanish 
troops 
in  the  island,  but  it  is  almost 
certain  that  no  assistance  will  be  given 
them  by  the  native  inhabitants  and  that 
conquest  will  be  comparatively  easy. 
We  cannot  but  the  more  think  that  we 
are  obtaining  a  valuable  possession  in 
Porto  Rico,  not  only  by  reason  of  its 
strategic  value,  but  on  account  of  the 
character  of 
its 
splendid  commercial  promise.  People 
who  can  appreciate  the  coming  of  the 
flag  of  freedom  are  largely  prepared  to 
meet  the  responsibilities  of  self-govern­
ment.

its  population 

and 

factor  of  much  of  its  potency  in  the  fu­
ture.

General  trade  continues  to  manifest 
unexpected  activity for the season.  Clos­
ing  for  repairs  has  been  made  as  short 
as  possible  and  work,  in  anticipation  of 
a  heavy  fall  demand,  is  being  pushed 
energetically.  While  there  has  been 
some  talk  of  a  probable  lessening  of 
railway  traffic,  based  on  the  assumption 
that  so  long  as  a  period  of  unusual  ac­
tivity  must  be  followed  by  a  reaction, 
as  a  matter  of  fact  indications  seem  to 
favor  a  continuance  of 
the  present 
movement.  There is  an  unusually  heavy 
crop  of  wheat  to  be  moved,  with  pros­
pects  favorable  for  corn  and  an  unsup- 
plied  demand,  which  gives  assurance 
of  a  market  on  the  other  side.  This 
would  seem  to  be  sufficient,  with  the 
other  favoring  conditions,  to warrant the 
expectation  of  a  heavy  traffic  for  a  con­
siderable  time  to  come.

Foreign  demand 

The  downward  movement  of  wheat 
and  other  grains,  which  has  character­
ized  the  past  few  weeks  since  the Leiter 
collapse,  appears  to  have  reached  its 
level  and  the  last  day  or  two  has  scored 
an  advance. 
con­
tinues  to  keep  up  a  heavy  export,  and 
a 
in  selling  on  the 
part  of  farmers,  who  seem  to  be  able  to 
wait,  is  enough  to  turn  the  scale  when 
the  proper  level  is  reached.  Export  of 
wheat  for the  month  exceeds  that  of  the 
corresponding  time  last  year  by  about 
25  per  cent.,  and  corn  in  somewhat  less 
proportion.

little  conservatism 

The  characteristic  feature  of  the  iron 
and  steel  manufacture  is  the  unexpect­
edly  larger booking  of orders.  Summer 
repairs  have  been  cut  as  short  as  pos­
sible  and  most  works  are  again  in  oper­
ation.

The near  ending  of  the  war,  with  the 
consequent  political 
changes,  brings 
prospect  of  the  arrival  of  Cuban  and 
other  West  Indian  trade  on  a  scale  not 
known  under  the  old  conditions.  A l­
ready  steamship  lines  are  projected  for 
Cuba  and  the  new  colony  of Porto Rico, 
and  manufacturers  of  sugarmaking  ma­
chinery,  etc., 
in  Pittsburg  and  else­
where  are  turning  their  attention  in that 
direction.  It  is  certain  that  the  new  or­
der  will  bring  a  material  trade  impetus 
in  that  direction,  while  the  restoration 
of  Eastern  trade  following  the  interrup­
tions  of  the  war  will  exert  a  still greater 
general  influence.

throughout 

in  progress 

For  the  month  of  July  the  volume  of 
business 
the 
country  is  considerably  in  excess  of  any 
corresponding  month  on  record.  A c­
counts  of  retail  trade,  especially  in  the 
West,  are  almost  universally  encoura- 
ging,  and  urgency  of  dealers  to  obtain 
stocks  earlier  than  were  expected  is  a 
common  feature.

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
As  the  beginning  of  the  war  with 
Spain  seemed  to  have  little  effect on  the 
stock  market  conditions,  probably  by 
reason  of  its  effects  being  discounted 
beforehand,  so  its  probable  ending  is  as 
devoid  of  material  effect. 
Indeed,  at 
no  recent  time  has  the  market  shown  as 
little  variation  for a  period  of six  weeks 
as  in  the  last  week,  and  that  while  the 
most  sensational  conditions  were  immi 
nent.  There  has  been  a  steady  though 
slight  strengthening  of  values,  the  vari­
ation  being  less  than  a  dollar  per  share 
on  the  average.  One of  the  most  potent 
factors  in  the  past  in  stock  speculation 
has  been  rumors  of  political  complica­
tions  and “ war  clouds,”   but  the  present 
experience seems likely  to  deprive  that

The  Chicago  dailies  have had  to  raise 
the  price  of  their  papers.  Cut-throat 
business  was  tried  long  enough  to  dem­
onstrate  that 
it  doesn’t  pay.  Every 
now  and  then  some  fellow  has  to  cut 
that  kind  of  a  wisdom  tooth.

Spaniards  think  Miles  ought  to  have 
landed  where  he  promised  to  land,  after 
they  had  taken  the  trouble  to  defend the 
place.

Most  of  the  “  Remember-the-Maine”  
poetry  is  of  such  nature  as  to  make peo­
ple  wish to  forget the Maine.

For  subduing  hungry  Spaniards,  the 
American  army  ration  is  mightier  than 
the  sword.

Spain  wants  the  earth,  but  does  no 

know  how  to  fight  for  it.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

QUESTIONS  AS  TO  ALLIANCE.
The  sudden  and  notable  drawing  to­
gether 
in  a  sort  of  mutual  sympathy, 
since  the  outbreak  of  the  wor  between 
the  United  States  and  Spain,  of  Great 
Britain  and  the  United  States 
is  the 
most  remarkable  circumstance  that  has 
been  brought  into  existence  by  the  war.
This  curious  expression  of  interna­
tional  sympathy  was  primarily  the  re­
sult  of  a  sort  of  foreboding  that  the  war 
with  a  European  nation,  and  the  con­
quest  and  occupation  of  that  nation’s 
East  and West Indian  possessions,  would 
project  the  United  States 
the 
world’s  arena  as  one  of  the  great powers 
to  be  reckoned  with,  and  necessitate  a 
readjustment  of 
the  European  balance 
of  national  power.

into 

In  such  a  case,  new combinations  and 
new  alliances  would  be  formed,  and 
these  would  be  accomplished  on  the 
basis  of  mutual  and  common  interest 
among  the  nations  so combining.  It  was 
some  such  idea  that  seemed  to  draw  the 
two  great  English-speaking  powers  to­
gether  and  may,  in  the  course  of  time, 
effect  some  such  alliance,  but 
it  will 
only  be  under  the  stress of extreme pres­
sure  of  peril.

Alliances  between  nations  are  not 
made  from  considerations  of  generous 
sentiment,  but  of  selfish  advantage. 
In 
this  connection,  a  story 
is  told  about 
the  purchase  of  Alaska  from  Russia im­
mediately  after  the  close  of  the  Civil 
War. 
It  was  then  that  Russia,  unsolic­
ited,  and,  to  the  general  public  at  least, 
unexpected,  offered  to  sell  to  this  coun­
try  all  her possessions in North America.
Alaska  was  then  a  territory  as  little 
known  and  less  esteemed  than  were  the 
Philippines  by  the  general  public a year 
ago.  The  negotiations  were  conducted 
by  Secretary  Seward,  and  the  transfer 
was  made  after  some  opposition by Con­
gress. 
It  was  thought  that  the  country 
was  sterile;  that 
it  would  never  have 
any  value,  and  that  to  pay  $7,500,000 
for  it  was  pure  extravagance.  Most  of 
the  country  is  in  the  Arctic  zone,  and, 
prior  to  the  rich  discoveries  of  gold 
there,  the  country  was  considered  well 
nigh  worthless,  although 
it  has  some' 
strategic  value  from  a  military  point  of 
view.

The  story  in  connection  with  the  pur­
chase  of  Alaska  is  that  it  was  to  reim­
burse  the  Czar's  government  for  fitting 
out  a  fleet  at  the  opening  of  the  Civil 
War  to  be  used  in  behalf  of  the  United 
States 
in  case  they  got  into  a  war  with 
France  or  Great  Britain  or  with  both. 
There 
is  said  to  be  this  basis  for  the 
story.  At  the  opening  of  the  Civil  War, 
a  Russian  fleet  did  cruise  in  American 
waters  and  there  was  left  no doubt what­

ever  as  to  the  sympathies  of  the  Czar 
with  the  Northern  government.  There 
was  a  large  sympathy  in  England  with 
the  Southern  people,  the  English  polit­
ical  economists  holding  the  idea  that, 
if  the  Southern  States  should  secure 
their  divorcement  from  the Union,  Eng­
land  would  enjoy  special  advantages 
in  getting  cotton  and  striking  a  deadly 
blow  at  the  cotton 
the 
Northern  States.

industry 

in 

is  much 

convention 

Whether  there  was  any  secret  treaty 
between  the  United  States  and  Russia 
cannot  be  stated,  but  the  existence  of 
such  a 
to  be 
doubted.  Russian  statesmanship  is  ex­
tremely  sagacious  and  farseeing.  For 
many  reasons  there  has  long been antag­
onism  between  Russia  and  Great  Brit­
ain,  and  the  possibility  of 
interference 
by  England 
in  favor  of  the  Southern 
States 
in  1861  might  well  have  aroused 
Russia  to  show  a  preference  for  the 
other  side.  This expression  on  the  part 
of  Russia  for  the  Northern  States  was 
made  much  of 
and 
throughout  the  part  of  the Union  repre­
sented  at  the  capital.

in  Washington 

It  looks  as  if,  in  the  course  of  time, 
Russia  and  Great  Britain  may  come  to 
blows  for  supremacy  in  the  Far  East. 
Should  the  United  States  become  estab­
lished  as  a  military  power  in  Asia,  by 
reason  of  holding  possessions 
in  the 
Philippine,  Ladrone  and  Caroline  ar­
chipelagoes,  there  will  have  to  be  some 
readjustment  of  international  relations. 
The  United  States  and  Japan  will  be 
new  and  powerful  factors  in  the  settling 
of  the  problem.

Spaniards  can  own  their  stores  and 
plantations 
in  Cuba  the  same  as  other 
men,  provided  they  keep  within  the 
law.  They  may  do  this  iu  the  United 
States  and  hold  office,  too,  if  they  adopt 
its  citizenship.  The  same  applies  to 
Cubans.  What  are  Americans  in  Cuba 
for  if  not  for  business?

the 

Senators  who  think 

indemnity 
Spain  must  give  the  United  States 
should  be  fixed  according  to  her  ability 
to  pay  are  lawyers,  of  course.  A  good 
lawyer  will  not  make  his  fee  bigger 
than  the  property  possessions  of  bis 
client.

It  does  not  appear  that  Germany  has 
been  asked  to  say  how  much  or  how  lit­
tle  the  United  States  shall  receive  from 
Spain  in  the  way  of  cash  indemnity,and 
little  things  like  islands  and  ports  that 
may  be  useful  some  day.

It  costs  over  four  thousand  dollars  per 
day  to  feed  Spanish  prisoners  that  have 
been  invited  to  dine  with  us.

WE  WiLL  RETALIATE.

The  German  government  forbids  the 
importation  into  the  empire  of  Ameri­
can  food  products  for  the  alleged  rea­
son  that  they  threaten  the  health  of  the 
people.  For  instance,  our  bog  products 
are  excluded  on  the  ground  that  they 
contain  trichinae.  Careful 
investiga­
tions  by  our  consuls  have  failed  to  find 
any  case  of  Germans  contracting  dis­
ease  through  the  use  of  American  meat. 
On  the  contrary  they  have  traced  every 
case  of  that  character  to  diseased  home 
products.  Notwithstanding  that 
inves­
tigation  even  by 
its  own  experts  has 
failed  to  substantiate  the  charge  that 
there  is  danger of contracting trichinosis 
from  the  use  of  American  hog  products, 
Germany  persists  in  excluding  them.  It 
has  also  sought  to  place  an  embargo  on 
our  fruit,  on  the  ground  that  is  is  in 
fected  with  scale,  although  an  examina­
tion  of  this  disease  in  German  orchards 
has  thus  far  shown 
it  to  be  of  native 
origin. 
The  exclusion  of  American 
products  on  sanitary  and  precautionary 
grounds 
is  simply  for  the  purpose  of 
shutting  out  American  competition  in 
answer  to  the  demands  of  the  German 
agriculturists, 
large 
landed  proprietors,  who  are  a  power 
in 
politics.

especially 

the 

In  Germany  the 

This  sanitary  pretense  game  is  one 
others  can  play  at,  and  the  Washington 
Government  proposes  to  take  a  hand 
in 
it. 
livelihood  of  a 
large  number  of  people  depends  on  toy 
making.  The  United  States  is  a  large 
customer  for  German  toys;  in  fact,  it 
absorbs about  all  the surplus production. 
The  chemists  of  the  Agricultural  De­
partment  are  now  engaged  in  analyzing 
the  paints  and  colorings  on  all  toys  im- 
poted  to  this  country  from  Germany, 
with  a  view  to  ascertaining  whether  or 
not  they  contain  poisonous  matter, 
which 
If  the 
analysis  shows  that  the  toys  are  danger­
ous  for  children  to  handle,  their  further 
importation  will  be  prohibited.

is  believed  they  do 

it 

Indeed  it 

The  climate  of  Porto  Rico  is  much 
superior  to  that  of  Cuba. 
is, 
at  its  worst,  very  similar  to  that  of  New 
York  in  July,  seldom  exceeding  97  de­
grees,  and  sinking  to  68  at  night.  Even 
at  the  hottest  it  is  not  vexed  with  much 
humidity,  the  air  being  kept  generally 
free  of  moisture  by  the prevailing north­
east  wind.  Porto  Ricans  are  more  sen­
sible  about  accepting  weather  condi­
tions  than  we  are  in  our  hot  days.  They 
act  on  the  belief  that  they  will  do  more 
work 
in  the  course  of  the  year  if  they 
do  none  at  all  when  the  sun  is  fiercest, 
so  for  three  hours  in  the  middle  of  the 
days  when  the  thermometer  is  highest 
they  cease  all  work.  Even  at  other

9

favorable  for  labor, 
hours,  those  most 
they  go  about  the  struggle  for  life  in  a 
leisurely  manner.  As 
little  energy  as 
the  Cubans  have,  by  our  standards,  the 
Porto  Ricans  have  less.  This  is  shown 
in  the 
lack  of  energy  they  display  in 
their  periodic  attempts  to  free  them­
selves  from  Spanish  rule.  They  have 
attempted  this  often,  but  always  have 
given  up  after  a  struggle  which  would 
the  Cubans. 
only  have 
Among  the  white  natives  there 
is  the 
large  number  of  25,000  who  are  not  of 
Spanish  descent,  and  among  these  it  is 
interesting  to  note  that  the  rebellious 
feelings  against  Spain  are  aroused  more 
by  social  than  political  wrongs.

encouraged 

Those  glowing  Klondike  stories  that 
reach  us  by  way  of the upper coast cities 
are  strongly  suggestive  of  an  effort  to 
create  a  fresh  outfitting  boom.  Seattle, 
particularly, 
is  straining  suspiciously 
hard 
in  the  effort  to  spread  the  Klon­
dike  fever  anew.  The  victims  of  the 
original  boom,  many  of  whom  are  said 
to  be  returning  in  poverty,  may  have 
some  outstanding  personal  accounts  to 
settle  with  the  persons  who  got  their 
cash  and  lured  them  to  destruction.  On 
the  other  hand,  we  have  an  encouraging 
sign  of  the  times  in  the  report  that  the 
famous  Comstock  mine  is  likely  to  be 
pumped  out  and  that  comprehensive 
work  will  begin  in  the  old  wealth-pro­
ducer. 
It  will  be  an  expensive  under­
taking,  but  many  experts  believe  the 
mine 
is  wonderfully  rich  in  the  low 
levels.  One  good  feature  about  the  un­
dertaking  will  be  an  awakening  of 
in­
terest 
in  many  other good  mines  that 
have  been  inoperative  for  several  years.
The  war  with  Spain  has  done  the 
monocle  glass  dudes  of  New  York  an 
abundance  of  good. 
It  has  lodged  in 
their  weak  brains  an  idea  that  “ Amer- 
icwa 
is  the  right  sort  of  nation,  don’t 
yer  know!”

soup  kitchens  will  be 
American 
in  Cuba  to  feed  the  hungry 
opened  up 
natives  who 
love  liberty. 
If  it  should 
happen  that  they  do  not  love  bean  soup, 
there  will  be  another  rebellion.

There 

is  a  vast  difference  between 
the  liberty  of  the  press  and  the  black­
guard  impudence  of  yellow  journalism.

The  hungry  people  of  Cuba  were hun­
gry  before  their  Spanish  masters  blew 
up  the  Maine.  They  are  still  hungry.

When  Cervera  was  bottled  up,  Schley 
regarded  him  as  a  dose  that  should  be 
well  shaken  before  taken.

The  war  is  knocking  the  bull fight  out 

of  Spain. 

It  gives  the  bull  a  rest.

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Shoes  and  Leather

How the  Department Stores  Sell  Shoes 

Cheap.

A  retail  shoe  dealer  has  asked  us  the 
question,  “ How  do 
the  department 
stores  sell  well-known  $3  and  $4  shoes 
for  Si-97?“

Here  is  the  way  one  department bouse 

conducted  its  sale:

Siegel,  Cooper  &  Co.,  of  New  York, 
recently  advertised  the  W.  L.  Douglas 
$3  Brockton  shoes  at  $1.95.  The  public 
know  that  these  shoes  retail  at  $3,  and 
accordingly  believed  that  they would get 
good  values.  People  don’t  understand 
shoe  materials  very  well,  but  they  know 
prices,  and  Si  95  was  a  taking  price.

snatching  and 

The  salesmen  started  in  on  a  Thurs­
day  with  2,100  pairs.  One  aisle  was 
reserved  for  their  bargain  sale,  and  two 
tables  at  one  end  were  filled  with  the 
shoes.  The  customers  began  to  swoop 
down  on  them  early  in  the  day,  and 
in 
the  middle  of  the  afternoon  some  of  the 
sizes  were  broken. 
The  aisle  was 
crowded  with  men,  women  and  boys, 
ordering, 
trying  on 
shoes,  and  evincing  every  sign  of  the 
genuine  dry  goods  bargain  distemper. 
They  had 
to  wait  their  turn  a  good 
while  to  secure  a salesman’s attendance, 
and  those  who  preferred 
to  wait  on 
themselves  fought  for places at the tables 
where  scores  of  pairs  of  shoes  were 
piled,  and  customers  hauling  them  out.
It 
bad  been,  of  course,  extensively  adver­
tised  in  the  newspapers.  The  Doulgas 
shoes  were  in  the  windows  with  Siegel, 
Cooper  &  Co's  regular  stock.  The  lat­
ter  bore  price  tags;  the  Douglas  shoes 
did  not.

The  sale  was  a  decided  success. 

in 

The  bargain  stock  included  ox  blood 
shades 
large  quantity,  and  coin, 
London,  Yale  and  opera  toes.  As  far 
as  could  be  learned  there  were  no  bull­
dog  toes.  The  shoes  were  shapely,  al 
though the  styles  were  mostly  passe,  and 
once  in  a  while  some  slight  abrasion  or 
other  defect  could  be  discovered  on 
close  examination. 
It  was  evidently  a 
case  of  sacrifice  of  old  and  somewhat 
shopworn  shoes  by  the  Douglas  Co.  in 
order  to  keep  their  stocks  fresh  and 
It  was  the  opinion  of  the  sales­
clean. 
men 
low 
price,  the  dry  goods  firm  made  a  fair 
profit  per  pair  cn  the  shoes.  Most  of 
them,  it 
is  said,  are  over  three  years 
old,  having  weathered  seven  seasons.

that,  notwithstanding 

the 

The  Douglas  Company  are 

raising 
their  grade  and  price.  Henceforth  they 
will  sell  S3.50  shoes.  There 
is  a  pro­
nounced  difference  between  these  and 
their  $3 
shoes— better  material  and 
workmanship,  and  more  attention  paid 
to  details.  The  old  styles  in  S3  shoes 
were  collected  from  all  their  stores  and 
sent  to  the  factory  at  Brockton,  whence 
they  were  sent  to  Siegel,  Cooper  &  Co. 
The  Douglas  people  retained  the  up-to- 
date  S3  styles,  but  will  close  them  out 
promptly,  and  next  season  only  S3.50 
shoes  will  be  sold  at  Douglas  stores.

Another 

instance  of  this  kind  oc­
curred  at  the  dry  goods  store  of  R.  H. 
White  &  Co.,  Boston.  Their  customers 
and  the  public  in  general  were  pretty 
familiar  with  their  standard  S3  shoes. 
One  day  the  firm  surprised  their  friends 
by  offering  their  ordinary  S3  shoes  for 
$2.  The  public  took  hold  and  cleared 
out  the  stock  in  short  order. 
It  seems 
that  a  dealer  had  countermanded  an  or­
der  given  to  a  prominent  Lynn  manu­
facturer,  and  the  latter  had  the  shoes  on 
his  bands,  offered  them  at 'a   very  low 
price,  and  White  &  Co.  promptly  took

advantage  of  it,  particularly as they were 
counterparts  of  their  own  styles.

for  propositions  on  odd 

Those dealers  whose  trade is  such  that 
price  is  the  main  consideration  should 
have  an  occasional  bargain  to  win  new 
trade  and  convince  their  old  customers 
that  they  are  not  falling  behind  in  the 
race.  They  will  let  it  be  known  among 
the  manufacturers  that  they  are  always 
open 
lots  of 
shoes.  They  will  not  be  afraid  of  large 
quantities,  if  the  prices  are  below  com­
petition,  for  it  should  be  an  easy  matter 
for  dealers  in  non-competing  territory 
to  co-operate  in  disposing  of  a  lot  that 
has  been  bought  to  advantage.  The  de­
partment  houses  in  large  cities  hear  of 
a 
‘ good thing’ ’ quicker,  generally,  than 
the  regular  trade,  because  they  have  the 
capital,  sales 
force  and  advertising 
space  to  warrant  them  in  taking  hold  of 
it.  The  dealers  who  are  understood  to 
be  open  to  these  offers  will  naturally  be 
approached.  Then  there  are  many 
lots 
that  make  good  trade  winners  that  can 
be  picked  up  at  the  auction  houses.

Of  course,  the  first  thing  to  be  con­
sidered  will  be  the  desirability  of  offer­
ing  bargains.  Will  it  not  hurt  the  reg­
ular  business?  We  think  not,  unless the 
business 
is  established  upon  such  a 
is  known  as  a 
plane  that  the  dealer 
leader  of  shoe  styles  and 
in  his  shop 
quality  is  first  and  foremost  while  price 
modestly  sits  in  the  back  seat.  A  name 
for  and  trade  in  high  grades  is  the  shoe 
dealer's  paradise,  but  the  majority  of 
retailers  who  sell  shoes  exclusively have 
many  a  worry  over  their  lack  of custom­
ers  and  the  tendency  to  follow  the  trail 
of the bargain.  Consequently,  if  without 
indiscriminate  and  purposeless  price- 
cutting  they  can  offer  some  line  so 
low 
as  to  focus  the  public  eye  upon  them,  it 
holds  their  old  friends  and  wins  new 
ones.

Compete,  but  Do  Not  Oppose.

“ Competition  is  the  life  of  trade.”  
The  merchant  who  promotes  a  healthy 
rivalry  and  honorable  competition  will 
find  it  so.

Opposition 

is  rank  poison  to  legiti­
mate  business. 
The  merchant  who 
wastes  his  time  clubbing  his  neighbors 
and  digging  pitfalls  for  them  will  find 
t  so;  he  will  eventually 
fall  into  his 
own  trap.

Competition and  opposition  are  easily 

confounded.

Competition 

means.

is 

an  honest  man's 

Opposition  is  a  two-edged  sword like­
ly  to  draw  blood  on the reckless handler.
Competition,  be  it  ever  so  sharp,  is 

tempered  with  fair  play.

Opposition  arouses  passion,  puts  a 
trickery,  and  degrades 

premium  on 
business.

Competition  brings  improvement  and 

activity.

Opposition  suggests  any  old  scheme 

to  injure  an  opponent.

Competition  makes  friends.
Opposition  destroys 

friendship  and 

makes  enemies.

Competition  nourishes  profits.
Opposition  kills  them.
Competition  means  friendly  rivalry, 

with  honor  and  mutual  success.

Opposition  means  unfriendly  strife 
and  hostility,  without  success  to  either 
party.

The  benefits  of  competition  are  world 

The  evils  of  opposition  are  just  as 

widely  distributed.

You  pay  your  money  and  take  your 

wide.

choice.

Opinion  Based  on  Experience.

Bookkeeper---- This  man  has  always
paid  cash  and  now  wants  to  open an  ac­
count.  -Shall  I  accommodate  him?

Manager— Certainly  not.
Bookkeeper—And  this  man  has  had 
Manager—Never trust him again.

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Are  the  Feet  Growing  Larger? 

From the  Syracuse  Standard.

There 

is  one 

line  of  goods  that  a 
woman  clerk  can  not  sell  as  well  as  a 
man.  There 
is  no  use  to  dispute  the 
fact,  one  woman  can  not  sell  footwear 
to  another.  Although  some  shoe  stores 
do  employ  a woman,  it  is  often  because 
her services are  slightly  cheaper and she 
can  attend  well  enough  to the  children’s 
trade.  But  as  for  waiting  on  the  women 
patrons,  that  is  in  the  majority  of  cases 
out of  the  question.

The  reason  is  just  this.  There  is  no 
part  of  her  wardrobe  over  which  the  av­
erage  woman 
is  more  fastidious  than 
over  her  shoes.  A  man  will  cater  to  hei 
fancies  and  her  whims;  another  woman 
won’t;  not  even 
if  she’s  paid  a  salary 
for  so  doing.  Nor  is  there  any  point 
upon  which  a  woman  is  more  suscept­
ible  to  flattery  than 
in  regard  to  her 
feet.  The  man  who  sells  her  shoes 
knows  at  just  what  juncture  to  inter­
polate  a  well  turned  compliment  upon 
her  trim  ankle  or  her  high  arched 
in­
step,  or  if  perchance  there  is  not  the 
slightest  foundation  for  any such remark 
and  her  shoe happens  to  be anything but 
fairylike  in  size,  he  comforts  her  with 
the  assurance  that  there  are  many larger 
feet  than  hers  and  really  the  boot  which 
he  is  showing  her  makes  her  foot 
look 
only  half  its  size.  At  any  rate  the  suc­
cessful  clerk  is  always  blind  to  any  nat­
ural  defects  in  the  feet  of  his  customers 
and  is  quite  sure  to  discover  some  good 
points  or  in  a  final  extremity 
imagine 
them  if  they  do  not  exist.

‘ ‘ There  is  a  clever  trick  of  the  shoe 
trade”   remarked  a  shoe  clerk  the  other 
day. 
It  consists  in  marking  the  shoes 
in  ciphers,  so  that  a  customer  can  not 
tell  the  size  she  is  buying.  You  see  a 
woman  with  a  4-E  foot  will  come 
in 
here  and  ask  for a  3-B  shoe,  and  if  we 
should  offer  her  a  shoe  marked  the  larg­
er  size  she  wouldn’t  have 
it  even  as  a 
gift.  So  we  simply  pay  no  attention  to 
the  size  a  customer asks  for.  We  look 
at  her  foot,  gauge  it  at  a  glance  and  get 
her  a  shoe  that  fits  it.  Then  we  call 
that  shoe  any  size  that  we  see  she  has 
set  her  heart  on  having.  Generally 
it 
is  a  size  or  two less than what she  wears. 
Oh,  yes,  to  be  sure  we  have  to  do  some 
fibbing,  in  fact,  we  do  a  lot  of  it.  But 
I  don’t  think  the  recording  angel  lays 
it  up  against  a  shoe  clerk,  for  by  pro­
tecting  humanity  against  their  own van­
ity  he  saves  them  a  lot  of  suffering.”

is  an  interesting  fact  observed  by 
shoe  dealers  and  manufacturers, 
that 
the  feet  of  American  women have grown 
several  sizes  larger  within  the  past  two 
or  three  years.  Ones  and  twos  are  no 
longer  kept  in  stock,  for  no  Cinderella 
can  be  found  whom  they  will  fit.  A 
number  five 
is  the  size  most  generally 
worn  and  there  are  many  of  the  eight, 
eight  and  one-half  and  even  nine  sold. 
What  would  our  dainty  grandmothers 
have  said 
to  such  pedal  extremities! 
Seven  used  to  be  the  horrifying  limit 
which  the  largest  woman was ever guilty 
of 
But  the  times  have 
changed.  With  plenty  of  outdoor  exer­
cise  and  improved  physical health wom­
en are  on  their feet  more  than  they  were 
once  able  to  be.  As  a  result,  their  feet 
have  grown 
larger.  Wheeling,  too,  is 
responsible  for  some  of  the  inrease  in 
size,  the  constant  exercise  of  pedaling 
tending  to  broaden  the  ball  of  the  foot.

requiring. 

It 

Cannot  Stop  Work  to  Receipt  for  a 

Legacy.

A 

lawyer  had  come  all  the  way  from 
California  to  pay  a  $10,000  legacy  over 
to  Uncle  Jerry  Hopefield,  who  had  lived 
all  his  life  in  a  little town  in  Ohio,  and 
after  breakfast  two  or  three  of  us  were 
invited 
to  go  along  and  witness  the 
transfer.  When  we  reached  the  house, 
Uncle  Jerry  was  tightening  up the hoops 
on  the  rain  barrel,  while  his  wife  had 
gone  to  see  a  sick  neighbor.  They  had 
been  fully  identified  the  day  before  as 
the  proper  parties,  and  now  the  lawyer 
said:

“ Well,  Uncle  Jerry,  I  want  to  hand 
you  that  money  and  get a  receipt and  be 
off  this  morning.”

“ I’m  kinder busy  just  now,”   said  the 
for 

old  man,  as  be  stopped  hammering 
a  moment.

“ Yes,but  I  have  $10,000  here  for  you. 
I  don’t  believe  there’s  a  man  in  the 
world  who  wouldn’t  stop  work 
long 
enough  to  sign  a  receipt  for  such  a  for­
tune. ”

“ Mebbe  not,but  it  looks  like rain,and 
I  want  to  git  this  bar’l  fixed  right away. 
Can’t  you  come  over  in  about an hour?”  
“ L o o k   here,man,but  did  you  ever  see 
$10,000  in  all  your  life?”   asked  the law­
yer,  as  he  opened  the  satchel  and  dis­
played  a  package  of  new  greenbacks.

“ No, 

I  never  did,”   replied  Uncle 

Jerry,  as  he  pounded  away.

Did  you  ever  have a thousand dollars 

of  your  own?”

“ Lands,  no!”
“ Never  had  a  hundred  all  at once,did 

you?”

“ Never.  Durn  that  hoop,  but  it  don’t 

want  to  go  on!"

“ I  must  ask  you  to  get  this  business 
over as  soon  as  possible,”  continued the 
lawyer,  as  the old  man  kept  athiswerk. 

“ But  it’s  going  to  rain.”
“ Yes,  but  here’s  your  money.”
“ And  I’ve  go  to  get  this  bar'l fixed. ”  
It  won't  take  over  ten  minutes  to  fix 
up  our  business.  Run  along  and  fetch 
your  wife. ”
“ See  here,”   said  Uncle  Jerry,  as  he 
laid  down  his  hammer  and  wiped  the 
back  of  his  neck,  Mariar  has  gone  over 
to  Blodgett’s  to  be  gone  an  hour.  Be­
fore  she  went  she  said  I  must  tinker  up 
this  rain  bar’l. ”

“ But  can’t  you  stop  your tinkering  to 
accept  $10,000  in  cold cash!”  exclaimed 
the  lawyer  in  indignant  tones.
what  about  Mariar?”

“ Yes,  yes.  I  kin  stop  work;  but 
“ Well,  what  about  her?”
“ Why,  she’d  come  home  expectin’ 
if 
this  bar'l  to  be  all  tinkered  up,  and 
she  found 
them  $10,000 
wouldn’t  hold  her  no  more’n  a  tow 
string  would  hold  a  boss.  She’d  jest 
shove  me  clean  down  among  the  cab­
bages  and  jump  on  the  bar’l  with  both 
feet  and  squash  it  all  to  squash,  and  fur 
the  next  week  I ’d  hev  to  walk  around 
on  tiptoe  and  eat  my  meals  in the wood­
shed. ”

it  wasn’t, 

No  Need  For  the  Minister.

Here  is  a  queer  story  from  the  wilds 
of  Oklahoma  about  a  Methodist  preach­
er.  While  the  latter  was  returning  home 
one  evening  he  had  the  misfortune  to 
fall  into  an  abandoned  well.

For  some  time  his  cries  for  assistance 
brought  no  response,but at length  Alkali 
Ike  chanced  to  pass  by  on  his  home­
ward  way  after  an  evening  of  pleasure 
at  the  Blue  Ruin  fortune  parlors.

“ Help!  Help !”   cried  the  clergyman 

in  a  hollow  voice.

turn.

“ Who's  that?”   demanded  Ike  in  re­
“ It  is  I,  Rev.  Jenks. ”
“ That’s  so?  Wal,  whur  are  you,  any­

how,  an’  what’s  the  trouble?”

“ I  am  down  in  Bill  Gaw’s  old  well, 

“ Any  danger  of  drownin'?”
“ No  the  well  is  almost dry.  But  I— ”
“ Huh!”   broke  in  Ike, who entertained 
a  grudge  against  the  minister. 
“ Stay 
thar,  then !  We  don’t  particularly  need 
you  till  next  Sunday.”

and— ”

It  Looked  Suspicious.

They  were  now  driving  in  the  mellow 
twilight  and  tbeir  engagement  was  yet 
in  its  infancy.

“ Darling,”   he  said,  “ you  are  sure 
that  I  am  the  first  and  only  ^man  whose 
lips  have  ever  come  in  contact  with 
yours?”

“ Of  course  I  am,  dearest,”   she  re­
‘  You  do  not  doubt  my  word,  do 

plied. 
you?”

“ No,  no  sweetheart,”   he  answered; 
“ I  love  you  too  devotedly  for that.  But 
when  I  put  my  arm  around  you  a  mo­
ment  ago  and  you  made  a  grab  for  the 
lines,  I  couldn’t  help  thinking  you  pos­
sessed  wonderful  intuition.”

Quite  a  Drop.

Molly— Mary  is  engaged  to  Lord  Ded- 

broke.
on  his  part?

Dolly—Was  it  a  case  of  falling  in love 
Molly— Yes,  indeed!  He wanted  half 
a  million  at  first,  but  finally  fell  to  one 
hundred  thousand.

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Oil  Grain  and Satin;  also 
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F.  CUTLER  &  SONS

BUTTER,  EGGS 
AND  POULTRY.

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our house,  874  Washington  Street, 
NEW  YORK.  Our  Eastern  Connec­
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full  market  value  for  any  stock  re­
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and  these  we  can  always 
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Man-on-the-Street In  N.  Y.  Produce Review.
A  Warren  street  butter  merchant  re­
cently  took  me  down  cellar  to  see  some 
moldy  butter  that  had  come 
in  this 
week,  and  which  in  some  respects  dif­
fered  from  anything  that  I  had  ever  ex­
amined.  The  first  tub  brought  out  of 
the  box  was  stripped  and  showed  a  very 
strongly  developed  case  of  mold. 
It 
began  close  to  the  top,  and  a  strip  some 
six  or  eight  inches  wide  ran  all  around 
the  tub.  To  all  appearances  the  tub  had 
been  well  soaked,  as  it  was  very  wet 
when  the  butter  was  dumped  out,  and  a 
good  quality  of  parchment  paper  had 
been  used,  but  the  mold,  which  was 
plainly  seen  on  the  outside  of  the  tub, 
fairly  covered  the  inside,  and 
it  had 
gone  through  the  paper  and  about  one 
quarter  inch  into  the  butter.  The  butter 
was  spoiled  for  best  trade,and  the  seller 
remarked  that  he  would  probably  have 
it  to  either  the  packing  or  bak­
to  sell 
ers’  trade.  On 
inquiry,  I  found  that 
the  shipment  contained  some  packages 
that  were  in  even  a  worse condition,  but 
that  part  of  the  butter  was  as  clean  and 
then  ex­
handsome  as  a  picture. 
amined  the  tub  carefully,  and  found 
it 
to  be  a  poor  factory  made  tub,  in  the 
manufacture  of  which  very  unsuitable 
wood  had  undoubtedly  been  used.  The 
rims  to  the  cover  were  broken  in several 
cases,  side  hoops  were  gone  and  parts 
of  the  bottom  had  slipped  out. 
It  was 
apparent  to  all  who  saw  the  butter  that 
the  fault  was  mainly,  if  not  entirely, 
with  the  tub.

I 

The  next  tub  turned  out  was  from  an­
other  shipment.  There  was  absolutely 
nothing  on  the  outside  to  indicate  the 
presence  of  mold— it  was  clean  and 
bright.  On  the 
inside  a  considerable 
growth  of  mold  had  already  developed, 
and  it  was  quite  thick  upon  the  butter. 
It  was  more  difficult  to  trace  the  exact 
cause  of  the  trouble  here,  as  the  tub 
seemed  to  be  well  made.  However,  th 
presence  of  the  mold 
indicated  that 
something  was  wrong  either  with  the 
tub  or  the  place  in  which  it  was  stored 
previous  to  shipment.

Then  I  was  shown  another  tub  of  but 
ter,  which,  on  stripping  and  boringL 
showed  a  development  of  mold  in  the 
butter 
itself.  This  seemed  so  strange 
to  me  that  I  made  rather a  critical  ex 
animation.  The appearance  at  first  was 
that  of  white  spots  or  patches,  which 
soon  became  darker  in  color,  and  finally 
became  a  dark  blue.  The  surface  of  the 
butter  bad 
lost  its  life  and  glossy  ap 
pearance  and  looked  dead,  and  it  had 
a  sort  of  musty  smell. 
ceiver  to  account  for  that  condition,and 
his  explanation  was  that  the  cream  in 
the  vat  had  undoubtedly  become  old 
and  covered  with  white  mold.  This 
was  not  noticed  by  the  buttermaker  and 
be  had  stirred  it  up  and  churned,  pro­
ducing  an  article  that  had 
it  the 
seeds  of  death.  The  receiver  said  that 
it  was  not  the  first  lot  that  had  come  t< 
his  store  in  that  way,  and  he  was  quite 
positive  as  to  the  cause  of the trouble.

I  asked  the 

in 

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“ 1  want  to  show  you  something  that  I 
cannot  explain,  but  which 
is  a  very 
curious  thing,”   said  a  receiver  the 
other  day. 
is  a  shipment  of 
fourteen  tubs  of  creamery  butter. 
It  is 
one  of  the  fine  makes  and  has  some­
thing  of  a  reputation.  When  it  came  in 
a  few  days  ago  I  examined  three  tubs. 
The  first  two  were  fancy,  but  the  next 
was  almost  grease. 
I  looked  the  butter 
over  carefully  to  see  whether  some  mis­
take  had  been  made,  but  no,  there  were 
no  distinguishing  marks  on  the  tubs; 
it  was  put  up  in  creamery  style  and  the 
the  butter  was 
whole  appearance  of 
handsome.  Well,  I  sent  for  Mr.  Healy, 
the  inspector,  and  be  found  six  tubs 
in 
the  lot  that  scored  96  points;  the  other 
eight  tubs  he  graded  creamery  fourths.
I  cannot  imagine  what  happened  to  the 
butter  unless  the  maker  was  trying  an 
experiment.”   We  bored  the  butter,  and 
I  took  a  small  bite,  sufficient  at  least  to 
show  the  rankest  flavor  that  ever  went 
into  my  mouth.  The  taste  lasted  for

hours  and  was  not  removed  until  I  ate  a 
juicy  peach. 
I  can’t  describe  the  fla­
vor. 
It  was  oily  and  nasty,  and  I  know 
of  no  placé  to  put  such  stuff  except  the 
rendering  kettle. 
If  experiments  are 
tried  or  accidents  happen,  the  butter- 
maker  should  mark  every  package  that 
is  not  right. 
If  the  receiver  had  hap­
pened  to  get  three  of  the  good  tubs  on 
the  first  showing,  he  would  have  classed 
the  butter  as 
fancy,  and  sold  it  and 
made  returns  to  the  shipper  as  such. 
The  trouble  that  would  follow  might  be 
very  serious.

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It  is  most  gratifying  to  butter  dealers 
to  see  with  what  eagerness  the  majority 
of  creamery  butiermakers  seek  knowl­
edge  pertaining  to  their  profession. 
This  eagerness  or  willingness  on  the 
improve  the 
part  of  buttermakers  to 
quality  of  their  product 
is  certainly 
bound  to  prove  beneficial  to  them  as 
time  goes  on.  While  speaking  of  but­
termakers  and  their  work  a  dealer  said 
last  Friday :  "Come  in  here  and  I  will 
show  you  a  mark  of  butter  that  four 
weeks  ago  graded  as  thirds;  this  lot  I 
think  will  score  under  Mr.  Healy’s  in­
spection  a  good  first.  As  soon  as  we 
began  to  receive  these  goods,  I  saw  at 
once  that  the  buttermaker  needed  con­
siderable  coaching  before  he  would  be 
able  to  turn  out  fancy  butter,  and  being 
anxious  to  retain  the  creamery,  I  have, 
since  then,  been  endeavoring  to  help 
the  buttermaker  to  improve  his  work.  I 
began  by  having  Mr.  Healy  scoietbej 
butter ;  then  I  would  write  to  the  but- 
tetmaker  explaining  wherein  his  goods 
were  faulty  and  suggesting  such  reme 
dies  as  1  deemed  were  necessary  for im­
provement.  He  took  kindly  to  my  sug­
gestions  and  is  now  doing  nicely  and  I 
believe  he  will  be  making  extras  be­
fore  a  great  while.  As  you  can  see,  he 
still  packs  his  butter  poorly,  but  I  have 
arranged  with  a  creamery  located  a  few 
miles  from  him,  and  which  is  also  ship­
ping  to  us,  to  allow  their  buttermaker, 
who  is  an  artist  in  his  work,  to  go  over 
and  give  this  man  a  few  lessons 
in 
packing.”

This 

is  an  excellent  way  to  educate 
buttermakers  who  are  not  well  up  in 
their  work,  but  it  is  difficult  to  always 
find  a  fancy  buttermaker  close  enough 
by  to  give  these  lessons.  But  if  butter­
makers  are  anxious  to  learn,  they  can 
get  many  valuable  pointers  from  their 
dealers  if  they  will  only  ask  for them.

Another  case  that  came  to  my  notice 
last  week,  but 
just  the  opposite  from 
the  one  cited,  was  where  a  commission 
merchant  had  written 
to  a  creamery 
whose  product  he  was  handling,  stating 
that  goods  were  not  put  up  to  standard 
and  therefore  impossible  to  sell  at  top 
prices.  He  also  offered  some  sugges­
tions  for  the  buttermaker’s  guidance. 
The  creamery  replied  that  if  their  but­
ter  couldn’t  be  sold 
to  wire  them  at 
once,  as  they  knew  parties  that  could 
sell  it.

The  merchant  replied  to  this  letter, 
and,after  stating  that  there  was  no  diffi­
culty  in  disposing  of  the  goods  at  a 
price,  said  that  be had  always  believed 
it  was  the  province  of  a  commis­
that 
sion  merchant  to  point out  to  his  ship­
pers  wherein  their  goods  were faulty,  in 
order  to  improve  the  quality  of  them, 
and  thereby  realize  a  greater  profit.
The  butter  from  this  creamery contin­
ues  to  come  to  him,  so  he  thinks  his 
efforts  for  advancement  have  not  been 
in  vain. 
It  is  surprising,  in  these  en­
lightened  days  of  keen  competition  and 
small  profits,  that  there  should  be  any 
creamery  managers  or  secretaries  who 
cannot  see  the  folly  of  totally  ignoring 
the  advice  of  their  dealers  in  preparing 
their  butter  for  the  market.  Such  a 
course 
is  sure  to  result  disastrously  to 
all  those  who  follow  it,  sooner  or  later.

Never  despise  a  suggestion. 

The 
most  ignorant  person  in  the  world  may 
have  an 
idea  that  will  benefit  you  in 
your  business, if  you  will  keep  your  ears 
open  and  listen.

There  are  some  people  so  peaceable 
they  would  permit  the  devil  to  inherit 
the  earth  for fear he  would  raise hell  if 
they  resisted  him.

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Remarkable  Growth  of  the  Orange  In­

dustry.

1882, 

orange 

inclusive, 

From the New York Commercial.
Auction  sales  of  oranges 

from  the 
Mediterranean  were  of  frequent,  occur­
rence 
in  New  York  City  early  in  the 
present  century,  but  no  separate  men­
tion  of  oranges  in  the  schedules  of  im­
ports  appeared  until  1855,  when  their 
value  is  given  as  $476,694.  During  the 
four  years  that  the  fruit  was  separately 
scheduled  the  imports  varied  from  that 
amount  to  $753,695,  in  i860.  From  1862 
to 
imports 
amounted  to $3,010,662.  That  “was  the 
maximum,  and  was  followed  by  a  de­
cline,  which  reached  its  lowest  point  in 
1894.  The  great  freezes  of  1894  and  1895 
were  promptly  followed  by  largely  in­
creased 
importations,  which  probably 
reached  their  maximum  in  1897,  when  a 
value  of  $3,341,646  was  reached.  The 
following  table  shows  the  average  an­
nual 
imports  of  oranges  by  decades, 
from  i860  to  1890:
D ecad e ending1 

V a lu e s
i860.................................................$  625,024
...................................  481,641
1S90........................................... ......  2,29s,447
1891-1897............................................2,054,40s
The  annual  imports  from  1891 to 1897, 

inclusive,  were  as  follows:

1891 
............................................... $2,530,127
1892 
..............................................   1,210,080
1S93.................................................   1,696,277
1894..............................................  
  1,111,059
•895........................................................  1,997.5 "5
•896...................................................  2,694,155
1897...................................................  3,341,646
The  sour  orange  is  supposed  to  have 
been 
introduced  to  Florida  soon  after 
the  settlement  of  St.  Augustine,  in  1565. 
The  species  found  a  congenial  home, 
and  was  soon  widely  scattered  through­
out  the  peninsula.  The  sweet  orange 
was  undoubtedly 
introduced  at  a  later 
date,  and  being  easily  propagated,  both 
by  seed  and  buds,  was generally  distrib­
uted  throughout  the  settled  portions  be­
fore  the  beginning  of  the  present  cen­
tury.  Commercial  orange  culture,  as 
now  practiced,  did  not  begin  until  after 
the  acquisition  of  Florida  by the United 
States,  and  was  at  first  confined  to  such 
eligible  sites  as  existed  along  navigable 
water,  which  afforded  transportation  for 
the  fruit.

favorable 

Since  1894-95  ship­

After  the  close  of  the  late  war the  in­
dustry  grew  with  wonderful  rapidity,  as 
railroads  and  steamboats  made  possible 
the  shipment  of the  fruit  for  longer dis­
tances. 
In  the  season  of  1886-87  over
1.000.  000 boxes  were  marketed,  and  by 
1894-5  the  annual  crop  amounted  to over
5.000.  000  boxes. 
ments  have  been  comparatively  insig­
nificant,  but  with 
seasons 
may be expected to reach  1,000,000 boxes 
by  the  year  1900.  A  considerable  pro­
duction  of  oranges  was  developed  in  a 
limited  district  in  Southern  Louisiana 
previous  to  1886,  but  since  the  freeze  of 
that  year  the  crop  of  that  district has 
been  of  little  commercial  importance. 
In  California  the  orange  was  planted  in 
the  mission  gardens  at  an  early  date, 
the  first  orchard  being  planted  at  San 
Gabriel  in  1804.  An  orchard  was  plant­
ed  at  Los  Angeles  by  Don  Louis Vignes 
in  1834,  and  General  Bid well  reported 
that 
the  three  largest  orange 
orchards  there  were  those  of  Wolfskill, 
Carpenter  and  Vignes.

in  1845 

The  present  era  of  commercial orange 
growing 
in  California  dates  from  the 
foundation  of  the  Riverside  colony  in 
1872.  After  the  adaptability  of  the 
Bah is,  two  trees  of  which  were  sent  to 
Riverside  by  William  Saunders,  of  the 
Department  of  Agriculture, 
in  1873, 
was  demonstrated,  it  soon  became,  as  it 
continues  to  be,  the  leading  fruit  dis­
trict.  Oranges  are  grown  commercially 
in  several  portions  of  the  State,  but 
chiefly  in  Southern  California.  It  is  es­
timated  that  the  crop  now  being  mar­
keted  from  that  State  will exceed 3,500,- 
000  boxes.  Oranges  are  also  commer­
cially  grown  in  Arizona,  shipments  ag­
gregating 
149  carloads  having  been 
made  from  Phoenix  in  a  single  week  of 
December,  1897.

Erie  County  Apple  Orchards  Rapidly 

Correspondence Country Gentleman.

Degenerating.

The apples  are going. 

In  fact,  so far 
as  I  have been  able to examine  the  or­

There are two things  in  this  life  for 
which  a  man  is  never^prepared—twins.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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in  this  vicinity,  they  are  about 
chards 
It  is  too  bad,  for  most 
gone  already. 
trees  set a  fair  crop,  and  with  proper 
effort  to  rid  them of well-known enemies 
they  would  have  made  a  good  return.  It 
is  too  early  to  say  what  the  apple  crop 
will  bring  this  fall  and  winter,  but  it 
is  plainly  time  to  make  effort  to  save 
the  fruit  or  to  cut  the  trees  down  and 
have  the  use  of  the  ground  for  field 
crops;  for  old-fashioned  methods  “ go”  
there  yet  for the  most  part,  and  it  is  go­
ing  to  be  a  very  exceptional  year,  like 
1896,  one  of  half  a  lifetime,  when  the 
apple  orchards  produce  paying  crops 
again.

The  nurserymen  who  depend  at  all  on 
apple  trees  are  in  despair,  for  the  de­
mand  for  them 
is  now  very  small,  in 
spite  of  the  fact  that  orchards  are  get­
ting  old  and  feeble,  often  beyond  recov­
ery,  and  there  are  no  new  ones  of  ac­
count.  One  of  the  best  nurserymen  in 
this  vicinity  reports  that  he  was obliged 
to  burn  all  the  second-grade  trees  that 
were  offered  for  sale  last fall and spring, 
and 
firsts  did  not  all  sell. 
Fruit-tree  nurseries  are  being driven  in­
to  the  culture  of  ornamental  trees  and 
plants  in  order  to  exist.

that  the 

I  stopped  the  other  day  under  an  ap­
ple  tree,  a  Greening  I  think 
it  was, 
and  joined  the  owner  in  a  sad  survey  of 
the  condition  it  was  in.  On  the  ground, 
almost  as 
if  piled  up  by  hand,  lay  a 
bushel  of apples,  from  the  size of  a  pi­
geon’s  egg  down.  They  would  have 
made  half  a  dozen  bushels  if  they  had 
grown  to  full  size.  The  tree  was  young, 
thrifty,  low-topped,  and  spreading,  and 
it  stood  in  a  fence  row  in  the  open,  just 
the  handiest  spot  possible  for an  easy 
experiment  in  spraying.

From  the  fallen  crop  of  another  tree 
near  by  I took  a dozen apples  at  random 
and  cut  them  open  for  private  dissec­
tion.  Every  one  of  them  showed  evi­
dence  of  the  work  of  the  codlin  moth, 
and  some  contained  one  or  more  small 
worms.  There  was  in  a  few  of  them 
some  appearance  of  decay  that  I  could 
not  trace  to  worms,  though  there  was  no 
general  appearance  outwardly of fungus. 
The  semicircular  wound  characteristic 
of  the  curculio  was  found  more  than 
once,  but  there  was  no  track  of  worm 
under  it.

I  was  surprised  to  note  that  none  of 
the  routes  of  the  worm  of  the  codlin 
moth  had  begun  at  the  blossom  end  of 
the  apples  examined. 
The  middle 
point  from  blossom  to  stem  seemed  to 
be  the  favorite  starting  place.  Often 
it  was  difficult  to  find  the  wound  from 
the  outside,  but  on  cutting  the  apple 
open 
it  was  easy  to  trace  the  minute 
line  at  the  surface.  Two things  became 
apparent  from  this  examination:  The 
apples  might  have  been 
saved  by 
spraying ;  but  if  the  attack  is  not  gen­
erally  at  the  blossom  end  of  the  apple, 
which  always  stands  upward  on 
the 
young  apple,  ready  to  receive  falling 
liquids,  there  is  need  of  a very thorough 
and  somewhat  copious  use  of  spray  to 
reach  the  egg  of  the  moth.
The  farming  public  is  not  a  convert 
to  spraying.  Talk  to  almost  any  man 
whose  orchards  are  now  strewn  with 
fallen  apples,  and  he  will  listen  to  noth­
ing  of  the  sort.  He  is  bound  not  to be 
convinced  that  it  amounts  to  anything, 
and 
is  usually  ready  with  a  report  of 
some  experiment  of  the  sort  that  failed 
to  save  the  apples.  The  State  and  gen­
eral  government  are “aiming  at  the  old 
farmer  too 
still 
“ book  larnin”   to  him.  Let  them  se­
lect  or  plant  in  conspicuous  places  or­
chards  or  single  trees—best  of  all,  trees 
of  kinds  that  have  refused  to  bear  of 
late—and  then,  by  proper  care  of  them, 
raise  good  crops  alongside  the  unfruit­
ful  orchards  that  have  been  left to them­
selves.  This  would 
force  conviction 
where  tons  of  literature  would  make  no 
impression.

Litetature 

low. 

is 

The  Government  Apple  Report.
The  Government  apple  report  says 
is  very  discouraging ;  that 
the  outlook 
of  the 
fourteen  apple-growing  states 
eleven  report  a  lower  average  of  condi­
tion  than  at  a  corresponding  date  last 
year.

Is  like  running  a  commission  house.
Your  patrons  have  to  have  confidence 
in  your  ability  to  make  Fancy  Butter, 
so  that  your  goods  will  sell  at  top  and 
by  so  doing  the  creamerymen  can  pay 
good  prices  for  cream. 
The  same  is 
true  in  the  commission  business.  The 
creameryman  has  to  have  confidence 
in  the  ability  of  the  commission  mer­
chant  to  handle  his  goods  promptly 
to  advantage.

Our  experience  as  Commission 
Merchants  covers  a  period  of  forty- 
eight  years.  Our  facilities  and  ability 
to  handle  Butter,  Eggs  and  Poultry 
are  second  to  none  in  the  trade,  and 
we  solicit  your  shipments  on  these 
conditions  and  feel sure the results will 
prove  to  our  mutual  advantage.

Yours very  truly,

W.  R.  BRICE  &  CO,  Philadelphia.

REFERENCES

Corn  Exchange  National  Bank,  Philadelphia.
W.  D.  Hayes, Cashier  Hastings  National  Bank,  Hastings,  Mich.
Fourth  National  Bank, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
D.  C.  Oakes,  Banker, Coopersville, Mich.

* 

Peaches  Plums 

Watermelons

Cucumbers 

Egg  Plant  Tomatoes 

Celery 

Squash 

New  Potatoes

New Cabbage

New  Onions
PEACHES  and  PLUMS  are 
here.  Your best  interests  will  be 
served  if  you  write  us  at  once 
about  your  needs.  Send  us  your 
address and  we will  put you on our 
mailing list.

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You  can  not  place 
your orders for any­
thing  in  the  above 
list  to  better advan- 
tage
than  with  the
Vinkemulder
Company,

Grand  Rapids.

Ship  us your,^^ r^^

B E R R IE S

etc.,  and  get  highest  prices  and  quick  returns. 

W e still  want your

B U T T E R   A N D   E G G S

for  c a s h   at  your  station.  Write  us  before  ship­

ping elsewhere.

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

Main Office, 33 Woodbridge St., W. 

Branch Store, 353 Russell Street

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Reports  from  the  Michigan  Fruit  Belt.
It  affords  the  Tradesman  much  pleas­
ure  to  be  able  to  present  to  its  readers 
detailed  reports  from  five  of  the  coun­
ties  in  the  fruit  belt  of  Western  Michi­
gan,  setting  forth  the  present  condition 
of  the  peach  crop  as  follows:
BERRIEN  COUNTY.

Roland  Morrill,  Benton  Harbor:  Re­
plying  to  your  favor,  would  say  that  I 
think  the  peach  crop  of  Berrien  county 
will  equal 
in  quantity  and  quality  the 
crop  of  1896,  which  was  thought  to  be 
very  large.  Conditions  are  very  favor­
long  continued 
able  now,  and  unless 
rains  should  set 
is  hardly 
probable,  we  can  expect  good  size  and 
color  and  good  shipping  quality.

in,  which 

ALLEGAN COUNTY.

In  quantity 

E.  C.  Reid,  Allegan: 

I  have  your 
letter  asking  what  conclusion  I  have 
come  as  to  the  peach  crop  of  Allegan 
I  Jbeg 
county,  its  quality and  quantity. 
to  say  to  you  that  present 
indications 
are  that  the  quality  of  the  crop  will 
never  have  been  surpassed.  Nothing 
but  continued  drouth  is  likely to prevent 
this  consummation. 
the 
crop  will  be  very  nearly  or  quite  an  av­
erage,  for  it  is  necessary  in  very  many 
cases  for  the  growers  to  thin  the  fruit 
on  the  trees. 
is  a  little  difficult  to 
convey  a  proper  impression  as  to  what 
an  “ average”   peach  crop  is,  for  the 
yield  is  so  variable  year  by  year. 
It  is 
sufficient,  though,  to  have  it  understood 
that  there  will  be  thousands  of  bushels 
of  peaches  in  Allegan  county—an ample 
supply  for  the  market,  as  marketing 
is 
done  these  days.

It 

KENT COUNTY.

H.  J.  Vinkemulder,  Grand  Rapids: 
Replying  to  your  favor  of  recent  date, 
enquiring  what  conclusion 
I  have 
reached  as  to  the  peach  crop  of  Kent 
county,  would  say :  From  personal  in­
vestigation  and  what  information  I have 
been  able  to  get  by  talking  with  fruit 
growers,  I  should  judge  that  we  shall 
have  a  very  good  crop  of  peaches  and 
that  the  quality  of  the  fruit  will  be  fine. 
The  trees  are  not  as  heavily  loaded  as 
they  were  in  1896,  but  the  large  number 
of  young  trees  in  beaiing this year  leads 
me  to  believe  that  we  shall  see  more 
and  better  fruit  than  we  had  two  years 
ago,  which  was  the  year  of  the big crop. 
We  shall  also  have  a 
large  crop  of 
plums,  pears  and  grapes.  All  fiuits  are 
suffering  more  or  less  from  drouth  at 
the  present  time,  but 
if  we  get  rain 
now  within  a  reasonable  time,  I  can 
see  no  reason  why  we  shall  not  have  the 
largest  fruit  season  on  record.
VAN  BUREN  COUNTY.

Hon.  C.  J.  Monroe,  South  Haven: 
Apples  are  about  half  a  crop,  the  larger 
portion  being  summer  and  fall  fruit. 
Summer  and  fall 
is  about  two-thirds, 
and  winter  about  one-third.  Peaches 
are  a good  half  crop,being  estimated  by 
many  at  two-thirds  of  a  crop.  Many 
young  orchards  just  coming  into  bear­
ing  will  probably  crowd  the  latter  esti­
mate.  Cultivation  and 
thinning  are 
quite  thorough,  so  that  the  quality  will 
average  better  than 
in  former  years. 
Pears  and  grapes  are about  an  average. 
Old  orchards  are  not  so  full,  but  many 
new  ones more  than  make  up.
OCEANA  COUNTY.

Hon.  Fred  J.  Russell,  Hart:  On  the 
trees  I  think  Oceana  county  has  about 
one-third  of a  crop  of  peaches,  as  com­
pared  with  the  crop  of  1896. 
I  should 
say  that,  owing  to  the  increased number 
of  trees  old  enough  to  bear,  we  may 
have  half  as  many as  that  year.  The 
is  very  good.  The  early  ones
quality 

Some  months  ago  we  looked  into  the 
question  of  the  use  of  boracic  acid  pre­
servatives  in  butter,  and  became  fully 
convinced  that  it  would  be  very  unwise 
for  the  buttermakers  of  this  country  to 
introduce  any  foreign  matter  into  their 
product  in  order  to  give the butter keep­
ing  properties  which  it  did  not  possess 
in  itself.  Later  developments  have  not 
lessened  the  deepness  of this conviction, 
nor  furnished  the  slightest  ground  upon 
which  we  might  modify  our  position.

it  is  more  than 

For  home  use  there  is  certainly  no 
need  of  preservatives.  The  adoption  of 
the  freezer  method  of  holding  butter  by 
all  the 
large  cold  storage  warehouses 
of  the  country  gives  sufficient  guarantee 
that  the  right  kind  of  butter  put away  in 
June  and  July  will  come  out  in  good 
useful  condition  any  time  before  the 
first  of  January.  That  is  certainly  long 
enough  to  carry  any  article  of  the  deli­
cate  character  of  butter.  And  with  the 
gradual  change  to  winter  dairying  in  so 
many  sections 
likely 
that  fresh  butter  will  hereafter  be  plen­
tiful  enough  to  make  a  longer  holding 
of  the  summer  goods  unprofitable. 
If 
preservatives  were  used  in  the  stock  in­
tended  for  home  consumption  that  fact 
would  soon  become  known,  and  the  cry 
of  adulteration  would  menace  the  trade 
at  once.  Just  what  effect  it  would  have 
on  the  demand  cannot  be  anticipated, 
but  it  is  far  too  serious  a  matter  to  ex­
periment  with.  So  long  as  nineteen- 
twentieths,  or  more,  of  the  butter  made 
in  this  country  is  consumed  at  home 
it 
is  essential  to  study  the  means  of  con­
stant  enlargement  of  our  outlets  rather 
than  to  close  a  single  channel.

from  any 

investigation 

The  necessity  for  a  preservative 

in 
the  butter  intended  for  export  does  not 
appear 
that 
either  private  shippers  or  the  United 
States  Government  have  made.  On  the 
contrary  there 
is  an  almost  universal 
demand  from  abroad  for a  pure  article. 
At  the  present  time  the  Dairy  Depart­
ment  at  Washington  is  making  weekly 
shipments  of  butter  from  several  of  thé 
Western  creameries  and  we  understand 
that  these  goods  are  kept  free  from  the 
slightest  suspicion  of  boracic acid.  The 
regular  exporters  at  New  York  are  do- 
ing  practically  nothing  just  now.  owing 
to  the  poor  condition  of  the  English 
markets ;  but 
if  there  was  a  margin  so 
that they  could  do  business  they  would 
demand  from  the  receivers  here  a  guar­
antee  of purity,  which would  accompany 
the  invoices  of goods  to  the  other  side. 
We  have  kept  aware  of  the  discussions 
and  prosecutions  in  parts  of  England, 
and  note  the  fact  that  there  is  such  a 
wide  diversity  of  views  regarding  the 
boracic  acid  treatment  of  butter  that  no 
definite  understanding  has  been  reached 
as  yet.  At  the  same  time  the  drift  of 
the  arguments  as  brought  out  in  the 
magistrates  courts  is  toward  a  more  re- 
stricted  use  of  the  preservatives,  if  not 
an  entire  abandonment  of  their  use. 
The  firm  stand  that  Denmark  has  taken 
against  preservatives  is  an  object  les­
son  to  the  buttermakers  of  this  country, 
and  one  which  we  will  do well to follow.

Peach  Crop  Short  in  Delaware  and 

Maryland.

N.  P.  Husted, 

the  nurseryman  of 
Lowell,  has just  returned  from  an  exten­
sive  tour  of  Delaware  and  Maryland, 
and  says  that  he  knows  from  personal 
observation  that  the  peach  crop  there  is 
nearly  a  complete  failure,  and  that  the 
crop  in  New  Jersey  will  be  very  light. 
The  same  may  be  said  of  other  local­
ities  be  visited.  He  was  greatly  sur­
prised  to  learn  that  the  growers  in  this 
vicinity  were  thinning  their  trees.  Mr. 
Husted  is  of  the opinion that,on  account 
of  the  small  crop  throughout  the  coun­
try,  our  people  should  receive  a  good 
price  for  their  fruit.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

have  already  begun  to  move.  Oceana 
county  has  a  good  crop  of  plums,  with 
apples  running  about  one-third  of  the 
1896 crop.  They  do  not  run  so  largely 
to  winter  fruit  as  that  year.

Let  Preservatives  Alone.

From the New York Produce Trade Review.

Give  me  a  chance to  bid  for your  butter.

I  pay cash  on  track  your station. 

Yours  for butter,

E.  M.  SMITH,  Cedar  Springs,  Mich.

St.  Joe 
Fruit
P a c k a g e s  

I  Our  Fancy  Creamery  Butter

all kinds and sizes.  Prices right  in  quan- 
tities to suit.  Our Grape  Basket, as in  past 
seasons, is unexcelled. 

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in our A ir Tight Packages
is  always  clean  and  sale-
able;  a great trade winner.

X I  A Y N A R I 3  8c  R E E D ,  

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G.  N.  Rapp  &  GO. 

General Commission Merchants 

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Buttaio, N. y. %

Do  not  be  deceived  by  unreliable  concerns  and 
promises;  we  will  advance you  liberally  on  your 
shipments.  Write  for  our  daily  price  list  and 
instructions  for  shipping  all  perishable  fruits  to 
insure  good  condition  on  arrival. 

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P E A C H E S   A N D   M E L O N S

BETTER  AND  CHEAPER.

Lemons,  Oranges  and  Bananas.
Home  Grown  New  Potatoes,  Cabbage,  Celery,  Green 
Onions,  Radishes,  Cucumbers,  Pie  Plant,  New  Dry 
Onions,  Turnips, Carrot,  Squash, Wax Beans, Tomatoes.

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

BUTTER ON SHINGLES—

Some grocers sell,  and  the quick  spoiling  of 
the butter is blamed to the grocer.  Our new 
packages,  P a r c h m en t-L in e d ,  O d o r l e s s, 
P e r f e c t ,  A l l  Siz e s,  delight  dealers  and 
customers and cost less than shingles.  Lead- 
'nS grocers will  send stamp  for free sample.

OEM  FIBRE  PACKAGE CO., Detroit.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GOTHAM  GOSiaiP.

Nt-ws  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  July  30.—As  summer  ad­
vances  it  becomes  more  and  more  evi­
dent  that  the  fall  trade  will  be  of  ex­
tremely  large  proportions among jobbers 
in  this  city.  The  Merchants’  Associa­
tion  is  to  be  credited  with  a  good  deal 
of  this  trade,  yet  there  is  not  the  sup­
port  there  which  should  be  given  to  the 
organization. 
It  has  run  behind several 
thousand  dollars  and  the  directors  have 
made  good  the  deficiency. 
It  would 
seem  that  every  merchant  in  the  city 
would  be  glad  to  spend  the  §25  per 
year 
it  costs  to  belong  to  this  Associa­
tion;  but,  of  course,  the  directors  can’t 
stand  everything  and 
if  more  cordial 
support  is  not  given  it,  the  Association 
will  wind  up  its  affairs  at  the  close  of 
the  year  and  thus  make  New  York  once 
more  the  butt  of  ridicule  for  Kalama­
zoo  and  Kokomo  and  Kankakee.

The  coffee  market  during  the  week 
intents  and  pur­
has  remained,  to  all 
Interior 
poses,  practically  unchanged. 
dealers  show  a  little  more 
interest,  but 
so  far  their  demands  have  been  of  a 
character  that  shows  they  want  only 
enough  for  sorting-up  purposes.  Rio 
No.  7  is  quotable  as  last  week  at  6c. 
The  stock  here  and  afloat  aggregates 
894,841  bags,  against  700,848  at  the 
same  time 
last  year.  The  supply  at 
present,  as  compared  with  last  year, 
shows  less  difference  almost every werk. 
Mild  coffees  are  held  at  full  values, 
and  the  general  feeling  is  one  of  confi­
dence.  Good  Cucuta  is  firm  at 9c.

Raw  sugars  are  dull.  Refined  show 
little  animation  and  jobbers  say 
very 
there 
is  plenty  of  room  for  improve­
ment.  Refiners  also  say  matters  are 
slow.  No  changes  have  occurred,  and 
the  30 day  guarantee  is  again  extended.
Tea  stocks  generally  were  so  largely 
augmented 
just  before  the  tariff  went 
into  operation  that  there  has  been  very 
little  doing  since.  Orders  have  come 
simply  for  the  wants  of  every  day,  but 
quietude  generally  prevails.

Holders  of  rice  show  no  great anxiety 
to  part  with  their  stocks,  and  seem  to 
think  they  will  see  better  times  within 
a  month.  Buyers,  on  the  other  hand, 
are  equally  unconcerned,  and  seem  to 
give  no  heed  to  the  morrow.  Prices 
are  practically  unchanged.  Prime  to 
choice  Southern,  6%@6%c.

Continued  firmness  characterizes  the 
spice  market  and  buyers  are  paying 
full  rates  all  around.  Nutmegs  and 
pepper  have  been  extremely 
firm,  a 
shipment  of  the  former  having  been 
made  for  the  Continent. 
Singapore 
pepper,  9H @ 9% c'•  Zanzibar  cloves,  8X 
@8^c.
Absolutely  lifeless  is  the  only  adjec­
tive  that  will  describe  the  molasses 
market.  Supplies  are  not 
large,  and 
holders  seem  to think  they  will  soon  see 
If 
a  change  in  the  condition  of  things. 
not,  they  might as  well  bang  up 
their 
fiddle.  Trade  is  always  dull,  of  course, 
at  this  time.

In  syrups,  the  volume  of  business  is 
not  large,  but  prices are quite firm,  and, 
as  supplies  are  not  excessive,  holders 
are  quite  well  satisfied  with  the outlook. 
Good  to  prime  sugar  syrups,  I4@i7c.

In  canned  goods,  everything  points  to 
one  of  the  best  markets  we  have  had 
for  a  decade.  One  large  dealer  says  he 
believes  we  shall  see  higher  prices  than 
we  have  had  for  twenty  years.  This 
may  not  take  place,  but  the  indications 
are  that  purchases  of  canned  goods  at 
present  prices  will  be  all  right  and  the 
buyer  will  make  no  mistake  in 
laying 
in  liberal  supplies.  Everything  seems 
to  be  short,  and  this,  in connection  with 
good  business  conditions,  makes 
for 
higher  rates  all  around.

So  much  fresh  fruits  of  other varieties 
has  been  received  that  the  demand  for 
lemons  and  oranges  has  been  rather 
light.  Lemons,  however,  are  steady  and 
the  weather  has  been  favorable  for  good 
sales.

The  dried  fruit  market  is  slow.  The 
yield  of  apricots  promises  to  be  so  light 
that  prices  must  inevitably  appreciate.
The  butter  market  is  firm,  and  for  a 
long  time  has  not  shown  as  much

strength  as  at  this  writing.  Extra  West­
ern  creamery  fetches  i8 ^ c ;  firsts,  17 
@1 7 A c ;  seconds,  i6@ 17c;  Western  im­
itation  creamery  extras,  I5@i6c ;  firsts, 
¡ 3A@  14c ;  Western factory,  June  extras, 
14c;  firsts, 
iyA c.  For  current  make 
I the  range  is  I2@i3>fcc.
The  hot  weather  has  demoralized 
large  lots  of cheese,  and  the  general  sit 
uation 
is  not  altogether  encouraging, 
Large  fancy  colored  full  cream  is  worth 
7@7# c.
Fancy  Northern  Ohio  and  Michigan 
eggs  which  are  really  up  to  standard re 
quirements  fetch 
I4@i5c.  The  mar 
ket 
is  rather  slow,  except  for  strictly 
fresh  eggs,  which  become  scarcer  every 
loss  on  nearly  all  arrivals 
day.  The 
this  weather 
About 
4.800  cases  were  received  on  Friday.

is  very  heavy. 

Choice  Marrow  beans are worth $1.60 
choice  pea,  S1.32^@1.35.  California 
Lima  beans  are  strong  and  it  is  said 
that $2.20  has  been  refused.

In  a  recent  letter,  I  noted  the  opinion 
of  Deputy  Collector  Chas.  H.  Treat 
that  commission  merchants  were  not 
amenable  to  the  new  revenue  law taxing 
“ commercial  brokers. ’ ’  Since  then 
however,  Washington  officials  have  ren 
dered  a  decision 
in  the  matter  to  the 
effect  that  commission  merchants  are 
held  as  “ commercial  brokers’ ’  and 
must  therefore  pay  the  $20  tax.  Presi­
dent  James  Rowland  announced  to  the 
members  of  the  Mercantile  Exchange 
the  final  decision  of  the  Government, 
and  explained  how  the  tax  could  be 
paid  with  the  least  amount  of  trouble. 
Most  of  the  merchants  are 
taking  a 
philosophical  view  of  the  matter,  and 
are  sending  their  checks over  to  Deputy 
Collector  Treat.  The  commission  mer­
chants  of  New  York  have  never  pro 
tested  against  paying  a  tax  to  meet  war 
expenses—they  are  too  patriotic  for that 
—but they  have  looked  upon  the  deci­
sion  as  very  strange  that  would  class 
them  as  brokers.

Rice  as  a  Money  Crop.

From  the Plaquemines  Protector.

Statistics  show 

There  is  one  crop  which  bids  fair  to 
be  the  most  profitable  under  existing 
conditions,  and  that  is  the  rice  crop—a 
good  many  years—for  reasons  easily 
explained. 
that  the 
United  States  has  only  grown about one- 
fourth  of  the  rice  she  consumes,  and  of 
late  years,  barely  one-eighth.  One  rea­
son  is  that  this  crop  can  only  be  grown 
in  a  small  portion  of  about  four  States, 
to-wit:  North  and  South  Carolina,
Georgia  and  Louisiana. 
In  the  second 
piace,  the  low 
import  duty  on  rice  for 
many  years  past  made  it  easy for China, 
Japan  and  other  rice- growing  countries 
to  invade  our  markets  and  sell  the  arti­
cle  at  such  low  prices  as  to  make  it  un­
profitable  for  our  planters  to  compete 
with  them.  Now  the  conditions  are 
changed.  Our  last  Congress  put  a  duty 
equal  to  34  cents  per  bushel  on  rough 
rice.  This,  with  the  freight  charges 
from  foreign  countries,  will  give  our 
planters  a  protection  equal  to  50  cents 
per  bushel,  and  just  as  long  as  this  duty 
remains  in  force  our  rice  planters  may 
gather  a  rich  harvest.

■ ‘ pure 

Fruit  Flavors  From  Rancid  Butter.
Chemists  who  make 

fruit 
syrups”   for  flavoring  ice  cream  soda 
water  have  discovered  a  use  for  deviled 
butter..  Rancid  butter  is  distilled  with 
alcohol  and  sulphuric  acid,  and  the  re­
sult  is  ethy  butrate.  This substance  has 
a  very  strong  pineapple  odor,  and  when 
dyed  an  attractive  yellow  with  aniline 
coloring,  it  is  ready 
for  the  glass  of 
soda.  Rancid  butter,  sulphuric  acid, 
and  gas-tar  waste,  rendered  effervescent 
by  marble  dust,  do  not  suggest  a  highly 
refreshing  combination,  from a hygienic 
point  of  view.  There  are  plenty  of  gen­
uine  fruit  syrups  made  in  this  country, 
but the  facility  of  adulteration  and  imi­
tation  should  make  every  one  careful  in 
selecting  them.

Love  needs  no  definition.  Men  and 
long  before  dictionaries 

women 
were  discovered.

loved 

The  trouble  with  love’s  young  dream 
turns  out  to  be a 
>  that 

it  too  often 

nightmare.

WISDOM IN FOOD SELECTION

Scarcely  a  day  passes  that  the  editorial  depart­
ment  of  this  journal  is  not  confronted  with  fresh 
proof  that  those  responsible  for  the  catering  for  the 
family  table  rely  largely  upon  the  guidance  of  the 
hygienic  writer.  The  grave  importance of the proper 
selection  of  food  products  is  becoming  deeply  im­
pressed  upon 
the  housekeeper.  The  labor,  time, 
and  space  in  its  columns  which  the  American  Journal 
of  Health  constantly  devotes  to  the  subject  of  food 
selection  receive,  we  find,  the  fullest  appreciation 
from  its  readers;  and  it  is  our  own  thorough  con­
sciousness  of  this  fact,  joined  to  our  own  keen  appre­
ciation  of  the  responsibility  devolving  upon  the  hy­
gienic  press,  that  urges  us  to  unrelaxeed  effort  to 
afford  the  most  thorough  information.  Good  health 
and  pure  food  are  almost  synonymous terms;  no  man, 
woman  or  child  ever  was  or  ever  will  be  healthy  if 
they  are careless  about  the food they eat.  They need, 
too,  a constant  reminder of  this  truth.

And  as the public perpetually needs this reminder, 
we  perpetually investigate  on  its  behalf,  and  have just 
concluded our  examination  into  the  claims  of  Robin­
son’s Cider Vinegar,  offered  by  Robinson’s  Cider  & 
Vinegar  Company,  of  Benton  Harbor,  Mich.  As  in 
every  similar  instance,  our  mode  of  ascertaining  the 
facts  about  this  product  has  included  the  tests  which 
we  have  repeatedly  referred  to  in  previous  articles. 
We  have  thus  secured  a  result  which  leaves  no uncer­
tainty,  and  are  able  to  report  that  this  product  is  dis­
tinguished  by  the  highest  percentage  of  nutritive 
quality,  that  it  is  notably  pure,  and  can  be  used  with 
entire  satisfaction.

Such  is  the  verdict  we  pronounce  for  the  benefit 
of  the  readers  of  the  American  Journal  of  Health, 
whom  we  are  so  frequently  obliged  to  warn  against 
inferior food  products  of all  kinds.  Robinson’s Cider 
Vinegar is  an  article  eminently desirable  for  the  most 
careful  and  conscientious housekeeper’s  use;  we  have 
demonstrated  this  fact  so  unmistakably  in  the  course 
of  our  examination  that  we  desire  to  impress  it  on  alj 
who  read  this  article.  The  separation  of  the  food 
products  which,  by  reason  of  their  excellence,  should 
be  kept  permanently upon  the  housekeeper’s list from 
those  which  should  be  avoided 
is  the  hygienist’s 
task. 
In  performing it,  he  is aided by skillful analysts 
and  the  scientific  knowledge  which  comes  from  train­
ing  and  long,  practical  experience.  When  this  task 
is  performed  he  publishes  the  facts  he  has  discovered 
— he  instantly  and  impartially  either  condemns  or  en­
dorses,  according  to  the  facts.  Purity which has been 
proved,  wholesomeness  that  cannot  be  doubted,  the 
nutrition  that  can  be  derived  from  its  use  are  alj 
qualities  found  in  a.t  marked  degree  in  Robinson’s 
Cider Vinegar.

When  we  can  say so  much  after  a  food  product 
has  undergone  analysis  in  our  test  kitchens  at  the 
hands  of scientific  experts,  and  everything  has  been 
done  to  render its  examination  thorough,  Robinson’s 
Cider Vinegar has received the strongest endorsement it 
is  in the hygienist’s or the physician’s power to bestow. 
— A.  W.  Gray,  M.  D.,  in  American Journal of Health.

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AS  OTHERS  SEE  US.

How  the  Continental  Nations  Regard 

Written fo r  the T r ad esm an.

Americans.

There  are  no  pleasanter  experiences, 
when  traveling  abroad,  than  to  meet  the 
different  nationalities,  and 
their 
learn 
impressions  of  everything 
in  general, 
and  America  in  particular.

learned 

I  afterwards 

The  other  day,  when  I was in Lucerne, 
I  met  a  Russian  lady  from  St.  Peters­
burg. 
that  she 
belonged  to  a  noted  family  of  that  gay 
capital,  but  she  certainly  was nothing to 
look  at.  She  was  short,  she  was  stout, 
she  was  plain  in  features  and  blunt 
in 
manners,  yet  she  spoke  five  languages 
fluently  and  could  keep  a  host  of  peo­
ple  spellbound  with  her  rendering  of 
classical  music,  especially  her  own  na­
tion’s.  She  had  traveled  extensively and 
held  distinct  notions  of  people,  books 
and  things  which  she  was  not  loath  to 
express.

To  my  eager  enquiry  about  the  Czar 

and  Czarina  she  quickly  replied :

“ So  you  are  very  much  interested 

in 
our  Emperor  and  Empress. 
It  is  very 
strange.  All  Americans  are.  Now,  we 
do  not  care  one  thing  about  them,  and 
do  not  pay  any  attention  to  what  they 
do. 
I  have  not  seen  the  Emperor  in 
several  years,  and  never  the  Empress.”
‘ ‘ But  you  would  not  dare  to  say  such 
things  in  your  own  country,  would you”  
I  added.

“ No,  not  on  the  street,  but  we  do 

much  talking  in  our  own  rooms.”

“ Well  you  must  come  to  America,”  
I  volunteered. 
“ You  could  say  what 
you  pleased  there.  Would  you  not  like 
to  make  a  visit  in  the  United  States? 
You  have  visited  so  many strange lands,
I  should  think  you  would  enjoy  some­
thing  as  radically  different  as  my  coun­
try.  Do  you  not  think  you  will  make  a 
visit  there  some  day?”

“ No. ”
“ Truly,  but  why  not?”
“ Because  there  is  no  poetry  in  Amer­

ica. ”

“ I  do  not  see  it  in  that  light.”
“ Well,  it  is  just  this  way.  A  man  in 
America  makes  very  much  money.  He 
comes  to  Europe  and  buys  a  picture,  a 
very  good  picture.  He  takes 
it  home 
and  builds  a  room  in  bis  house  for  it. 
Then  he  invites  his  friends  to  a  grand 
banquet  at  his  house  and 
takes  his 
friends  into  the  room  to  see  his  picture. 
He  himself  exclaims  at  once,  ‘ Is  that 
not  magnificent!  By  golly,  I  paid  a 
million  dollars  for  that  bit  of  canvass 
and  color.’  Now  we  think  we  can  have 
a  little  poetry  in  our  lives  and  still  live 
in  cottages.”

This  reminds  me  of  a  story  which  the 
Germans 
love  to  tell  to  the  American 
visitor.  An  American  can  get  through 
a  gallery  or  museum  a  little  sooner  than 
the  swiftest.  He  simply  hires  a  guide 
by  the  day  who  shows  him  the  sights. 
In  a  gallery  he  walks  as  rapidly  as  pos­
sible  and  simply  glances  this  way  or 
that  way  as  he  passes  through  the  vari­
ous  rooms  and  halls. 
If  the  guide  at­
tempts  to  turn  aside  and  point  out  to 
him  a  something  in  particular—a  gem 
in  painting,  or  a  masterpiece  in  sculp­
ture— he  enquires,  “ What 
is  the  mat­
ter?”

“ But,  Monsieur,  this  is  the  Venus  de 

M ilo!”

“ So,  seems  to  me  I  have  heard  that 
name,  but  I  am  not  sure.  Good,  isn't 
it.  We  must  be  getting  along.  How 
much  of  this  kind  of  stuff  must  we 
wade  through,  anyway?  You  know  I 
must  get  to  my  hotel  at  12  o’clock

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

promptly,  so  as  to  be  sure  of  a  good 
lunch.”

in 

The  Dresdeners  say  that  an  American 
went  to  the  Zwinger  one  day.  Of 
course,  he  was  conducted  at  once  to 
immortal  Sistine  Madonna. 
Raphael’s 
The  picture 
is  eight  feet  long  and  six 
feet  wide  and  with  its  deep  gilt  frame 
nearly  covers  one  side  of  the  room. 
There  is  no  other  picture  in  this  room, 
simply  Haenel’s  excellent  bust  of  the 
artist  on  the  opposite  side  facing  it. 
About  the  sides  of  the  room  are  ar­
ranged  benches,  upholstered 
red 
plush.  Here  the  visitors  sit,  sometimes 
by  the  hour,  trying  to  absorb  some  of 
the  transcendent  beauties  of the picture. 
No  word  is  said  except  in  a  silent whis­
per.  Men,  women  and  children  enter 
the  room  on  tiptoes  and  with  bated 
breath,  as  if  in  the  presence  of  death. 
Without  hesitancy  the  aforesaid  Ameri­
can  entered,  erect,  unabashed,  with 
firm  step  as  though  the  world  was his 
and  who  could  question  his  possession. 
Did  he  not  get  his  suit  of  clothes  made 
at  the  best  tailors  in  London?  Was  not 
his  linen  immaculate  and  bis  shoes  the 
latest  style?  The  guide  simply  waved 
his  hand  toward  the  picture  and  stood 
aside,  for  he  had  already  announced the 
name  before  entering  the  door.  The 
visitor  looked  a  moment  and then  spoke 
up  in  clear  accents :

“ So  that’s  the  picture  I  heerd  them 
speak  so  much  about. 
’Taint  a  bad  job, 
is  it?  Wouldn’t  mind  having  a  picture 
like  that  myself. ”

The  guide  button-holed  him  at  once 

and  led  him  to  the  next  room.

“ I  have  a  friend  who  can  make  a 
magnificent  copy  of  the  picture  for you. 
Here  he  is  now. ”

So  be  was  led  up  to  an  old  stoop­
shouldered, 
paint-besmeared  man, 
whose  easel  is  in  front  of  Correggios’ 
Holy  Night.

“ Well,  my  good  man,  ken  you  make 
me  a  picture  of  the  Madonna  like  in 
the  other  room. ”

“ I  think  I  can  get  permission  to copy 

What  size  would  you  wish?”
“ Ob,  natural  size  is  all  right.”
“ But  we  are  not  allowed  to  make 
copies  the  same  dimensions  as  the 
originals. ”

“ Oh,  I  guess  you  can  manage  that  all 
right,  old  man,"  as  he  pressed  several 
gold  pieces  into  the  hand  of  the  hungry 
artisan.

The  Germans  have  queer  notions  of 
America  and  the  Americans,  which  is 
generally  gleaned  from  the  newspapers 
of  the  Vaterland.  Nothing 
less  than 
an  earthquake,  blizzard,  murder,  rail­
road  accident  or  war  is  of  enough 
im­
portance  to  publish.  What  can  the  Ger­
mans  say  to  be  affable  to  their  visitors 
except  to  carry  on  some  such  conversa­
tion  as  this:

“ So  you  are  an  American—then  you 

must  live  in  New  York?”

“ No. ”
“ Chicago,  nicht  wabr?”
“ No,  but  near  there.”
“ Is  that  so?  Well, 

I  have 

some 
friends  living 
in  Chicago.  You  must 
know  them—Herr  Schmidt  and  his fam­
ily. 
I  have  forgotten  the  name  of  the 
street  and  the  number.  They  say  they 
do  not  like  it  there,  but they  make  more 
money.  You  had  the  World's  Fair  in 
Chicago.  Did  you  go  to  it?  Did  you 
think  it  is  as  good  as  our  Berliner  Aus- 
stellung?  Some  of  my  friends  went  to 
it,  but  they  did  not  like  it  much.  They 
say  everything  costs  very  much 
in 
America,  and  that  they  were  cheated 
all  the  time.

“ Your  steam  cars  go  very  fast. 

I

would  be afraid  to  ride  on  them.  Are 
not  you  afraid  you  will  be  killed  by  one 
of  your  big  storms  sometime?”

that 

Two  years  ago  several  delegates  from 
a  Berlin  church  were  sent  to  the  Meth­
odist  Conference  held  in  Cleveland.  On 
their  return  they  described  their experi­
ences  to  an  enthusiastic  audience.  One 
of  the  gentlemen  had  had the misfortune 
to  be  caught 
in  three  fires  during  the 
two  weeks  he  sojourned  in  America. 
He  declared 
the  buildings  were 
carelessly  erected—many  of  them  of 
wood— which  made  them  the  best  kind 
of  firetraps.  Nevertheless.be  spent  more 
time 
in  describing  the  food.  No  nice 
coffee  and  rolls  in  bed,  no  luncheon  of 
beer  and  sandwiches,  no  coffee  in  the 
afternoon.  There  was  meat  three  times 
a  day,  but  what  kind  of  meat!  A quar­
ter  of  a  pound  of  German  meat  was 
worth  more  than  four  pounds  of  Amer­
ican  meat.  Their  steaks  were  at  least 
two  or  three  centimeters thick  and  only 
cooked  a  little  on  each  side,  and  raw 
inside.  And  they  have  Pfabnkuchem, 
eier-kuchen  and  all  kinds  of  meat  and 
even  potatoes  for  breakfast. 
In  most  of 
the  towns  they  have  wooden  sidewalks, 
which  are  getting  out  of  order  all  the 
time.  Now,  if  a  person  comes  along 
in  the  dark  and  steps  into  a  hole  and 
breaks  his  leg,  the  police  says  to  him, 
‘ Haven’t  you  eyes,’  and  he  must  go 
home  and  lose  much  time  and  much 
money. ”

The  Norwegians  say:  “ We  think  we 
like  America  very  much.  We  have 
many  friends  there  and  they  wish  not 
to  live  in  Norway  any  more.-  Some  of 
the  daughters  of  our  best  professors 
in 
the  University  go  to  America  and  work 
in  families.  They  say  that  the  work  is 
easier  and  they  get  more  money  than

they can  earn  in  Norway.  We wish  free­
dom  in  Norway,  too,  but  our  country  is 
small.  We  are  like  a  family.  We  are 
trying  to  wait  to  grow  larger and strong­
er,  and  then  Sweden  shall  rule  us  no 
longer.  We  have  a  hard  time,  first  to 
belong  to  Denmark  and  now  to  Swed­
en. ”

The  French  are  frankness 

itself: 
“ No,  we  do  not  care  for the Americans. 
They  are  too  stiff  and  cold  and  we  can 
not  get  aquainted  with  them.  We 
like 
their  money,  but  they  do  not  like  us. 
They  do  not  like  our goods  any  more. 
We  like  the  American  women  better. 
They  read,  they  travel,  they  know  very 
much,  but  the  men  can  not  talk  of  any­
thing  except  business.  We  call  them 
blufflers,  because  they  do  not  want  to 
pay  their  bills.  When  we  wish  to  col­
lect  they  tell  us  to  wait  until next month 
and  sometimes  we  have  to  wait  two  or 
three years  before  we are  paid. 
I do not 
like the Germans,  but  they are  the  most 
honest  people  we  deal  with.  When  a 
man  fails  in  business 
in  Germany,  he 
gives  up  all  his  property  and  his  wife 
gives  up  hers,  too,  and  they  begin  over 
again.  An  American  fails  and he  knows 
how  to  keep  much  money.  He  builds  a 
fine  house  and  when  he  knows  he  must 
tail  he  deeds  it  over  to  his  wife.  She 
keeps  her  diamonds,  her  handsome 
dresses  and  her  fine  furniture  and keeps 
on  having  a  good  time.  Yes,  the  Amer­
icans  will  beat  the  Spaniards.  Spain 
has  no  money  and  is  already  worn  out 
with  her  wars.  America  has  much 
money  and  many  men  and  Spain  has 
no  chance  at  all,  but  all  the  same  I  feel 
sorry  for  Spain.”   Z a i d a   E.  U d e l l .

All  the  world  loves  a  lover—with  the 
in  favor  of  the  owner  of  an  ice­

odds 
cream  saloon.

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Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President,  W.  C.  B rown,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F. W ixson,  Marquette.

dent Association.

AGIN’  THE  GATES.

Local  Travelers  Oppose  Them  As 

Strongly  As  Ever.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  Post  E. 
Michigan  Knigthts  of  the  Grip,  held  at 
Sweet’s  Hotel 
last  Saturday  evening, 
Chairman  Wetzell  presided.
I   The  first  subject  introduced  was  the 
annual  picnic  of  the  organization  and, 
after  a  full  discussion  of  the  situation, 
L.  M.  Mills  moved  that  the  picnic  be 
held  on  Saturday,  Aug.  27,  which  was 
adopted.

B.  S.  Davenport  moved  that  the  pic­
nic  be  held  at  Reed’s  Lake,  which  was 
adopted.

Geo.  F.  Owen  stated  that  he  had  just 
returned  from  the  Lake,  where  he  bad 
eaten  a  picnic  supper  on  one  of  the 
boats,  temporary  tables  having  been 
placed  on  the  upper  deck  for  that  pur­
pose.  This  arrangement  proved  to  be 
such  an  enjoyable  one  that  he  suggested 
that  the  same  feature  be  included  in  the 
programme  for  the  traveling  men’s  pic­
nic.

Mr.  Davenport  moved  that  the  Chair­
man  appoint  committees  on  athletics, 
commissary,  entertainment  and  trans­
portation,  which  was  adopted,  and  the 
Chairman  subsequently  announced  the 
committees  as  follows;

Athletics— Fred  Ephlin,  B.  S.  Daven­
port,  Will  Richmond,  Harry Winchester, 
A.  D.  Baker.

Commissary—J.  N.  Bradford,  Edward 
Frick,  E.  D.  Wright,  Manley  Jones, 
W.  R.  Foster.

Entertainment—Geo.  F.  Owen,  F.  E. 
Walther,  W.  S.  Burns,  Wm.  VanLeuven, 
C.  C.  Crawford.

Transportation—W.  F.  Blake,  W.  P. 
Townsend,  David  S.  Haugh,  J.  H. 
Millar,  L.  M.  Mills.

in 

Capt.  Bradford  called  attention  to  the 
is 
fact  that  the  State  Fish  Commission 
seriously  hampered 
its  work  this 
year  on  account  of  the  cutting  down  of 
the  appropriation  allowed  by  the  Legis­
lature  for  the  prosecution  of  the  work 
of  the  commission  and  moved that every 
member  of  Post  E  use  his  influence  to 
secure  the  restoration  of  the  appropria­
tion  to  the  former  amount.  The  matter 
was  carefully  discussed  and  the  motion 
adopted.

Then  came  the  feature  of  the  evening 
— the  discussion  of  the  gate  system  in 
use  on  some  of  the  trains  of  the  C.  & 
W.  M.  and  D .,  G.  R.  &  W.  Railways. 
The  chairman  announced  that  Mr.  De- 
Haven  had  kindly  volunteered  to  attend 
the  meeting  and  present  the  railroad 
side  of  the  question,  and  that  gentle­
man  thereupon  read  an  exhaustive  de­
fense  of  the  gate  system,  setting  forth 
the  several  reasons  why  the  gates  were 
placed  on  the  trains  and  why  their  re­
tention  is  deemed  desirable.  The  paper

was  moderate 
in  tone  and  careful  in 
statement  and  appeared 
to  cover  the 
ground,  from  the  railway  standpoint, 
fully  and  completely.  The  Tradesman 
solicited  an  opportunity  to  print  the 
paper  entire,  but  as  it  subsequently  ap­
peared  verbatim 
in  the  Grand  Rapids 
Herald  of  July  31,  and  as  the  Trades­
man  makes  it  an  invariable  rule  never 
to  print  anything 
secondbanded,  the 
publication  is necessarily omitted.  Mr. 
DeHaven  was  accorded  a  respectful 
hearing,  and,  at  the  conclusion  of  his 
paper,  offered  to  answer  any  questions 
which  might  be  suggested  by  those 
present.  Then  the  fun  began.  Valda 
Johnston  started  the  ball  rolling  by  en­
quiring  why  the  gates  were  not  placed 
on  all  the  trains,  if  they  were  such  a 
grand  success,  whereupon  Mr.  DeHaven 
goodnaturedly  admitted  that  the  ques­
tioner  had 
‘ ‘got  him  the  first  time. ”  
E.  P.  Dana  fired  some  hot  shot,  the 
effect  of  which  was  impaired  by  the 
stress  of  feeling  on  the  subject  under 
which  the  enquirer  apparently  labored. 
P.  F.  Delahunt  related 
the  circum­
stances  surrounding  the  recent  death  of 
an  infant  on  a  C.  &  W.  M.  train,  which 
be  attributed  solely  to  the  train  gates, 
because 
the 
mother  to  stand 
in  the  hot  sun  several 
minutes,  during  which  time  the  infant 
received  a  shock  which  approximated  a 
sunstroke.  Capt.  Bradford,  with  subtle 
irony,  insisted  that  he  liked  the  train 
gates,  his  remarks  being  substantially 
as  follows:

the  gateman  compelled 

I  don  t  know  what  you  fellows  are 
kicking  about. 
I  like  the  gate  system 
and  I  know  others  who  like  it,  also. 
The  trains  on  the  northern  division  of 
the  C.  &  W.  M.  appear  to  be  run  in 
utter  disregard  to  the  convenience  of 
Michigan  traveling  men,  and  when  I 
succeed  in  catching  one  of  the  trains— 
when  it  happens  to  stop  for  water—and 
manage  to  get  past  the  gatekeeper,  I 
frequently  find  I  am  the  only  passenger 
the  coach.  What  more  do  you  fel­
lows  want,  when  you  have  a  private  car 
all  to  yourself?”

Mr.  DeHaven  appeared 

to  be  sur­
prised  to  learn  that  the  train  service 
not  satisfactory,  and  asked  why  the 
matter  had  not  been  brought  to  his  at­
tention  before,  whereupon  Mr.  Bradford 
made  the  most  telling  remark  of  the 
evening:

“ The  experience  of  those  who  visit 
your  office  to  register  a  complaint  or 
ask  a  question  is  such  that  they  never 
go  a  second  time. ”

Max  Mills  candidly  referred  to  the 
former  popularity  of  the  Heald  system 
and  deplored  the  fact  that  the gate  in­
novation  has  soured  the  traveling  men 
against  the  road  and  made  it  one  of  the 
most  unpopular  lines 
in  the  country, 
thus  depriving  it  of  much  of  the  freight 
which  it  would  otherwise  receive.

Geo.  F.  Owen,  W.  R.  Foster  and 
others  got  in  some  telling  blows,  which 
were  appreciated  by  all  present,  unless 
it  might  be  the  honored  guest  of  the 
evening.

Mr.  DeHaven  answered  such  ques­
tions  as  he  was  able  to  answer,  parried 
those  which  he  could  not  answer,  and 
really  appeared  to enjoy the controversy, 
although  he  was  alone  against  the  field. 
splendidly  and 
He  handled  himself 
plainly  showed  that  he 
is  a  consum­
mate genius  in  debate  and  repartee.

But  for  the  fact  that  Mr.  DeHaven 
had  a  prior  engagement,  the  inquisition 
would  probably  have  been  continued 
until  midnight.  No  resolutions  were 
adopted  expressive  of  the  sense  of  the 
meeting,  because 
it  was  plainly  noted 
that  such  a  proceeding  was  entirely  un­
necessary,  there  being  no^division  of

sentiment  on 
the  subject  among  the 
members  of  the  fraternity.  At  the  con­
clusion  of  the  meeting,  one  of  the  boys, 
who  sells  goods  in  carload  lots  almost 
exclusively,  asserted: 
‘ ‘ The  train  gates 
are  all  right.  They  don’t  keep  passen­
gers  off  the  trains—people  must  travel, 
you  know—but  they  are  exceedingly 
effective 
in  diverting  freight  from  the 
Heald  system.  ‘

Kalamazoo  Opinion  of the  Train Gates
Kalamazoo,  July  27— If  the Chicago  „  
West  Michigan  Railway  had  chosen  as 
its  deliberate  purpose  to  annoy  and 
offend  the  traveling  men  of  Michigan 
it  could  scarcely  have  done  so more sue 
cessfully  than  by  attaching  the  odious 
prison  gates  to  its  trains. 
It  is  an  in­
novation  so  foreign  to  the  liberty  and 
independence  of  American  manhood 
that  the  traveling  public  is  sure  to 
sent  what  ought  to  be  considered  not 
much  less  than  an  insult  to  the  patrons 
of  this  road.  One  would  think  that,  if 
dishonesty  had  been  practiced  by  any 
of  the  officials  of  this  road  (arid  this  we 
are  told  is  the  reason,  or  one  of  the  rea 
sons,  tor  the  prison  gates),  common 
sense  as  well  as  justice  would  have  sug 
gested  that  those  who  are  the guilty par 
ties  be  the  ones  subjected  to  the  suspi 
cion,  inconvenience  and  confinement  of 
prison  life,  but  the  C.  &.  W.  M.  Rail 
way  takes  a  new  departure  in  seeking 
to 
inflict  the  penalty  on  the  traveling 
public  instead. 
It  is  now  only  neces­
sary  that  it  should  require  its  patrons  to 
wear  the  stripes  and  straight-jacket 
when  the  suggestion  that  it  regards 
its 
trains  as  so  many prisons and  its patrons 
as  so  many  thieves  and  rogues  will  be 
It  is  not  so  much  the  ap 
complete. 
pearance  and 
suggestiveness  of  the 
prison  gates  of  which  I  wish  to  make 
mention,  although  that  is  bad  enough, 
but 
is  the  actual  inconvenience  and 
annoyance  at  which  we  traveling  men 
are  indignant.  There 
is,  first,  the  un­
kindness  which  this  innovation works  to 
the  traveling  public  in  general  in board- 
ng  the  train.  Men  frequently  desire 
to  help  their  wives  and  children  or 
friends  on  the  car  and  find  a  seat  for 
them,  but  he  who  expects  any  such 
kindness  or  politeness 
from  a  prison 
gate  train  has  forgotten  that  good  man­
ners  are  generally  left  behind  at  the 
entrance  of  a  prison  cage.  There  is, 
again,  the  fact  that  traveling  men  are 
obliged  to  board  the  train  in  all  kinds 
of  weather,  in  rain  and  storm  and  sleet 
as  well  as  sunshine.  Carrying  grips  in 
both  hands,  we  are  unable  to  find  shel­
ter  under  some  friendly  umbrella. 
If 
the  C.  &  W.  M.  would build  train  sheds 
at  every  depot  this  difficulty  would  be 
avoided,  but,  as  it  is,  we  are  compelled 
to  stand 
in  pouring  torrent  or  driving
sleet,  able to  gain  entrance  only  through 
the  one  ingress,  the  prison  gate,  and 
even  then  at  that  uninviting  portal com­
pelled  to  soak  or  freeze  until  our  turn 
shall  come  for  the  herdsman  gateman 
to  put  his  brand  on  us.

it 

It  is  a  fact  that  traveling  men  fre­
quently  have  only  just  time  to  catch  a 
train,  and  these  prison  gate  trains  make 
that  not  only  difficult  hut  even  impos­
sible. 
In  order  to  verify  this,  I  have 
but  to  relate  an  experience  of  my  own, 
which  could  be  duplicated 
in  the  ex­
perience  of  other  traveling  men : 
I  left 
Kalamazoo  on  Monday,  July  11,  over 
the  G.  R.  &  I.  on  the  5 140  a.  m.  train. 
When  we  left  Kalamazoo  the  train  was 
on  time.  We  were  sidetracked,  how­
ever,  south  of  Grand  Rapids  to  allow 
another  train  to  pass,  and  this  made  us 
eight  or  nine  minutes  late.  The  prison 
gate  train  on  the  C.  &  W.  M.  was  just 
pulling  out  on  our  arrival. 
I  asked  the 
conductor  of  our  train  whether  he would 
not  be  kind  enough  to  hail  the  engineer 
of  the  prison  gate  train,  as  I  was  hound 
for  Grand  Haven  and  desired  to  reach 
there  as  soon  as  possible.  The  engineer 
of  the  prison  gate  train  heeded  the  call 
and  stopped  his  train.  Had  it  not  been 
for  the  prison  gate  I  could  easily  have 
boarded  the  train;  but  there  I  stood  be­
fore  the  closed  iron  gate,  the  Cerberus 
whom  the  road  places  there  to  watch 
the  passage  having  locked  the  gate  and 
gone  inside,  I  was  obliged  to go  across

take  the  next  D.  &  M. 
the  city  and 
train,  which,  by  the  way,  was  not  a 
prison  gate  train.

insists  on 

And  here  lies  the  redress  which  we 
If  the  C.  &  W. 
traveling  men  have: 
M. 
insulting  and  inconven­
iencing  us  by  making  its  trains  into 
prisons  and 
its  conductors  into  turn­
keys,  there  are  other  roads  which  will 
not  do  so.  And  it  is  for  this  reason  we 
traveling  men  are  not  working  in  favor 
°l - 
C.  &  W.  M.  Railway  and  are 
shipping  our  goods,  wherever  possible, 
over  roads  which  are  fairer and  more 
considerate  to  us.

The  C.  &  W.  M.  has  always  been  a 
good  road,  and  we  appreciate  that ;  but 
we  can  be  friendly  only  to  those who are 
fair  to  us,  and  we  shall  discriminate  as 
much  as  we  have  power  against  any 
road  which  works  against  us  by  inter­
posing  the  injustice  of  the  prison  gate.
The  public  ought  to  catch  the  hint 
from  the  very  appearance  of  the  struc­
ture  that  no  such  favors  are  to  be  given 
or  expected  there.
Yours against the  prison  gate  trains,

Representing  Hanselman  Candy  Co.

W a l t e r   Ba k e r ,

Gripsack  Brigade.

Joseph  Triel  succeeds  O.  D.  Price 
i  city  salesman 
for  the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company.

It  is  reported  that  John  Martin  (Welt 
&  Redelsbeimer)  has  about  concluded 
to  engage  in  the  dairy  and  stock  busi- 
ness  in  connection  with  his  work  on  the 
road.  The  report  probably  originated 
from  the  fact  that  John  was  negotiating 
for  a  fine  blooded  calf  at  Lakeview  last 
week.

M.  M.  Read  (E.  B.  Millar  &  Co.) 
leaves  the  middle  of  the  month for Hen­
derson  Harbor,  on  Lake  Ontario,  where 
hisfamily have been spending the heated 
term  in  their  summer home.  Mr.  Read 
11  remain  at  the  resort  about  two 
weeks,accompanying his family  on  their 
return  to  Yysilanti.

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who  was  called  to  Hornellsville,  N.  Y., 
on  account  of  the  serious  illness  of  her 
husband,  stating  that  she  expects  to 
bring  him  home  the  last  of  this  week. 
Mr.  Bush  is  suffering  from  a  sunstroke 
received  while  driving 
twenty-seven 
miles  across  the  country.  His  horse 
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Drugs—Chemicals

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

P. W. R.  Perry.  Detroit 
A. C. Schu m ach er,  Ann  Arbor 
Geo. Gundrum,  Ionia 
■ 
L. E.  Reynolds, St.  Joseph 
Henry Heim,  Saginaw  - 
- 

-------  

- 

President, G eo.  G u nd rum ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A . C. Sch u m ach er, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, He n r y  Heim , 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. Webber, Cadillac.
Secretary—C h a s.  Mann, Detroit.
Treasurer—J ohn  D.  M u ir ,  Grand Rapids.

Pertinent  Kick 

from  a  Registered 

Kicker.
Written for the T radesman.

Away  back 

in  1885,  the  Michigan 
Legislature  passed  a  law  relating  to  and 
governing  pbaramcy,  as  practiced  by 
the  retail  druggist,  and  created 
the 
Michigan  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  of 
five  members,  whose  duties  were  to  ex­
amine  applicants  for  pharmaceutical 
honors  and  attend  to  ways  and  means  of 
enforcing  the  existing  law  and  suggest 
new  ones  from  their  experience  and  ob­
servation.

It  was  clearly  a  good  and  wise  act. 
This  was  admitted  alike  by  those  who, 
by  virtue  of  their  experience,  were  en­
titled  to  enrollment  as  registered  phar­
macists,  and  those  who  were  not.

Since  that  time  the  Board  has  held 
regular  meetings  and  examined  candi­
dates  five  times  each  year,  and  scores 
of  pharmacists  have  been  added  to  the 
even  then  crowded  list.  The  examina­
tions  have  been  made  more  rigid  each 
year,  so  that  where  it  was  few  who  for­
merly  failed,  it is  now  a  very  small  per­
centage  of  the  applicants who pass.  And 
this  is  as  it  should  be.

line  after 

The  drug  journals  have been  faithful 
and  persistent  in  urging  the  higher  ed­
ucation  of  the  pharmacist,  and  have 
been  the  means  of  inciting  many  strug­
gling  novices  to  greater  efforts  in  the 
pursuit  of  knowledge.  The  Board  has 
appointed  a  very  capable  and  energetic 
attorney,  who  has  made  many  arrests 
and  prosecuted  dozens  of  cases  to  con­
viction  and  fine;  but  for  all  this,  while 
the  struggling  and  conscientious  phar­
macist  has  been  beset  on  the  one  hand 
by  the  cutter  and  on  the  other  band  by 
the  department  stores  who  have  appro­
priated 
line  that  used  to  be 
handled  exclusively  by  druggists,  there 
has  crept  into  the  ranks  of  the  pharma­
cist  a  new  evil—the  unregistered  drug 
dealer,  who,  when  the  law  was  new  and 
sternly  enforced,  was  unknown.  Now 
as 
if  to  emphasize  the  old  saying  that 
“ Familiarity  breeds contempt,”   anyone 
who  cares  to  investigate  the  matter  will 
find  them  not  only  working  for  regis­
tered  pharmacists who hire them because 
they  will  work  for  less  wages,  but  they 
will  also  be  found  the  sole  proprietors 
and  only  managers of  drug  stores.  To 
be  sure,  this  latter  class  is  at  present 
mostly  confined  to  the  smaller  towns, 
but 
is  none  the  less  in  competition 
with  the  registered  men  for  all  that; 
and,  instead  of  growing  less,  the  evil 
is  steadily  increasing  and,  to  a  certain 
extent,  with  the  aid  of  the  wholesale 
houses  who  find  this  class  of  trade  as 
profitable,  and  often  more  so,  than  that 
of  the  regular  pharmacist,  who  is  often 
a  close  buyer.

it 

It  would  seem,  of  course,  that  the

remedy  is  easy  to  find ;  that  a complaint 
lodged  against  the  offenders  with  the 
proper  authorities  would  soon bear fruit, 
but  you  know  it  is  an  old  saying,  and  a 
true  one,  that  what  is  everybody’s  busi­
ness  is  attended  to  by  no  one.  So  it 
is 
that  the  pharmacists  who  are  not  in  di­
rect  competition  with  this  class  do  not 
care  enough  about  it  to  interfere,  while 
those  who  are,  often  have  business  rea­
sons  for  not  making  a  complaint.  The 
man  who  dares  to  run  a  drug  store 
without  conforming  to  the  law,  is  usual­
ly  popular  in  a  local  way  and  has  noth­
ing  to  fear  from  his  customers,  so  that 
the  registered  man  who  wishes  to  do 
business  with  the  same  people  prefers 
unlawful  competition  to  the  wrath  of  a 
community  who  are  apt  to  think all laws 
are  an 
infringement  on  their  natural 
rights  and  would  probably  refuse  to deal 
with  a  man  who  tried  to  enforce  them.
Under  these  circumstances,  it  would 
not  be  strange  if  the  young  pharmacist 
who  had,  by  dint  of  much  study  and 
in 
many  cases  positive  hardship,  success­
fully  passed  the  now  very  rigid  exami­
nation,  and  after  much  search  and  ex­
tensive  use  of  the  “ Want  Columns”  
had  at  last  found  a  position  at  a  salary 
of  six  to  eight  dollars  per  week  of 
seven  days;  with  no  future  but  hard 
work,and long  hours ; without much hope 
of  advancement,  and  none  of  a  bank  ac­
count,  should  conclude  that  bis  choice 
of  a  vocation  bad  been  unwise.

K i c k e r .

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Is  steady,  although  the  ad­

vanced  prices  are  well  maintained.

Morphine— Is  firm  at  the  late  advance 
and  higher  prices  would  not  surprise 
any  one.

Quinine—Very  firm  under  large  de­
mand.  Outside  holders  with  large 
lots 
are  not  shading  the  prices  of  the  manu­
facturers.

Antipyrine—The  price  has  been  re­
duced  to  35c  per  oz.,  on  account  of  the 
patent  having  expired.

Lanolin— Has  declined  to  75c  per  lb.
Bismuth— Preparations have  advanced 
10c  per  lb.  This 
is  not  on  account  of 
the  advance  in  metal,  but  the  result  of 
an  agreement  among  manufacturers  to 
get  a  profit.  They  have  been  selling  it 
at  about  cost.

Chloral  Hydrate—The  Government 
has  decided  that  this  article  should  pay 
a  higher  duty,  with  the  result  that  the 
price  has  advanced  40c  per  lb.

Balsam  Copaiba—Is  lower,  on account 

of accumulated  stock.

Essential  Oils—Bergamot  has  ad­
vanced  rapidly  during  the  week,  on  ac 
count  of  small  stocks.  Anise  is  very 
firm.  Cassia  has  advanced.

Linseed  Oil— Has  again  declined,  on 

account  of  lower  prices  for  seed.
Fortunes  from  Bananas

--------♦ -------------

Immense  fortunes  have  been  made 
out  of  the  banana  business.  Revenues 
do  not  accrue  alone  from  the  sale  of  the 
fruit,  for  the  leaves  are  used  for  pack­
ing;  the  juice,  being  strong  in  tannin, 
makes  an  indelible  ink  and  shoe black­
ing;  the  wax  found  on  the  underside  of 
the  leaves  is  a  valuable  article  of  com­
merce;  manila  hemp  is  made  from  the 
stems,  and  of  this  hemp  are  made mats, 
plaited  work  and  lace  handkerchiefs  of 
the  finest  texture;  moreover,  the  banana 
is  ground  into  banana  flour.  The  fruit 
to  be  sold  for  dessert  is  ripened  by  the 
dry  warmth  of  flaring  gasjets in the stor­
age  places  in  which  it  is  kept,  and  im­
mense  care  has  to  be  taken  to  prevent 
softening  or  overripening.  The  Island 
of  Jamaica  yields  great  crops  of  this 
Useful  and  money-making  fruit.

Married  men  do  not  live  longer  than 

single  ones— it  only  seems  longer.

The  Clerk  That  Failed.

Some  pharmacists  are  in  business  for 
the  glory  of  the  thing,  but  I  am  in  the 
drug  trade  merely  for  the  accumulation 
of  Uncle  Sam’s  dollars  and  leave  all the 
glory  to  those  who  prefer  it  to  filthy 
lucre.

Knowledge  is  a  very  good  thing,  but 
the  faculty  of  turning  it  into  currency is 
better.  I  know  a  man  who  has  collected 
recipes  and  formulas  for  ten  years  or 
more,  and  he  would  be  better  off  selling 
shoe  laces,  because he  is  not  gifted  with 
the  commercial  sense  of  using  the  in­
formation  acquired.

My  late  junior  clerk  had  the peculiar­
ity  not  uncommon  of  thinking  he  knew 
all  about  the  business  after  being  in 
it 
a  year  or  so  in  a  store  where  a prescrip­
tion  was  a  curiosity.  His  materia 
medica  was  probably  near  enough,  as 
he  had  an  idèa  that  Turkey  rhubarb  oft 
came  from  Scbieffelin  &  Co.’s;  he  was 
not  so  well  up  in  chemistry,  as  the  se­
quel  will  show.

Two  months  ago  a  lady  came  into  my 
emporium  and  handed  him  a  simple 
prescription  calling  for  bicarbonate  of 
potash,  citric  acid ;  2  drams  of  each 
in 
6  ounces  of  camphor  water.  I  happened 
to  be  eating  my  lunch,  and  he  started 
in  and  filled  it  his  way  in  short  order, 
and  I  have  no  doubt  gave  it  to  the  ladv 
with  all  the  confidence  of  a  world  worn 
experienced  dispenser. 
lady,  a 
Mrs.  W.,  had  a  Maltese 
terrier  dog 
under  one  arm,  and,  as  ladies  will  do, 
tucked  the  bottle  of  medicine  up  with 
the  dog.

The 

I  was  startled to  hear a terrific scream- 
ing,  accompanied  by  the  yelping  of  a 
dog,  and  before  I  could  rise  from  my 
chair,  a  most  unearthly  yell  came  from 
outside  the  store.  Rushing  out  behind 
the  counter,  I  beheld  a  lady  fainting  in 
a  chair  and  a  crowd  gathering  outside 
on  the  sidewalk,  and  a  policeman  short­
ly  after  pushed  his  way  through  the 
throng  carrying  a  dead  dog  by 
its 
tail,  which  he  brought  in  and  laid  upon 
the  floor,  explaining  that 
it  had  been 
run  over  by  a  brewer’s  wagon.  It looked 
to  me  like  a  fancy  breed  of  dachshund.
I  know  different  now;  it  was  only  a 
Maltese  terrier  flattened  out.

My  junior  simply  evaporated,  and left 
me  busy  with  smelling  salts,sal volatile, 
etc.,  which  at  last  revived  the  poor lady 
sufficiently  to  notice  the  remains  of  the 
dog  at  her  feet,  also  that  her  jacket  and 
dress  were  dripping  with  the  mixture, 
which  had  burst  the  bottle  and  caused 
the  mischief;  then—well—the  tongue- 
lashing  I  received  will  keep  me  a bach­
elor  all  my  life.

After  explaining  to the policeman that 
I  bad  not  used  dynamite  nor  any  other 
deadly  explosive  with  malice  afore­
thought,  and  that  it  was  merely  an  ac­
cident,  he  fetched  a  cab  for  the  lady, 
who  insisted  on  taking  all  that  was  left 
of  the dog,  wrapped  up  in  paper,  and  at 
last  departed  vowing  vengeance,  amidst 
the  sympathetic  cheers  and  comments 
of  the  crowd,  who  seemed  sadly  disap-

pointed  that  I  was  not  arrested.  I  found 
the  junior  clerk  had  left  through  the 
side  door,  and  the  next  day  I  received 
the  following  letter:

Dear  Sir—Am  very  sorry  to  have 

left 
yoq  so  abruptly,  but  the  event  of  yester­
day  convinces  me  that  I  am  not  cut  out 
for  a  business  that  requires  superhuman 
abilities  and  cast-iron  nerves. 
I  have 
obtained  a  position  as  hook-canvasser, 
which  I  think  will  be  more  suitable  to 
my  mental 
capacity.  Wishing  you 
every  success,  Respectfully  yours,

Jam es  H.

Mrs.  W.  has  brought  an action against 
me  for  $500  damages  as  compensation 
for  the  loss  of  her  dog,  a  new  dress  and 
tailor-made 
jacket,  also,  last  and  not 
least,  shock  to  her  feelings  and  system 
generally,  and  I  am  now taking bromide 
regularly  and  seeking 
for  points  on 
dressmaking, 
imported 
Maltese  terrier dogs,  and what  the  prob­
able  cost  should  be  of  the  entire  upset 
of  a 
lady's  complex  susceptibilities 
when  she  loses  her  favorite  dog  and  has 
her  outer  wearing  apparel  ruined.— Ed­
ward  Swallow  in  American  Druggist.

the  price  of 

Gave  Her  a  Check  for  a  Receipt.
A  Monroe  street  physician  thinks  he 
is  entitled  to  the  prize  for  the champion 
absent-minded  man.  Some  weeks  ago 
a  woman  who  lives  some  miles  out  of 
the  city  called  at  his  office  and  paid  a 
bill  of  $10  for  professional 
services. 
Monday  she  came  into  his  office  again 
and  asked  him  if  he  was  always  willing 
to  rectify  mistakes.  Of  course  he  re­
plied  that  he  was,  and  she  thereupon 
produced  the  doctor’s  check  for  $10 
drawn  to  her  order,  all 
in  due  form. 
After  thinking  hard  for  a  moment,  it 
dawned  on  the  physician  that  when  the 
woman  had  paid  him  on  her  previous 
visit  he  had  seized  his  check  book  in­
stead  of  his  receipt  hook.  The  filing 
out  of  the  check  embraced  about  the 
same  process  as  the  making  out  of  a  re­
ceipt,  and neither  noted  the  mistake  un­
til  the  woman  chanced  to  examine  the 
paper  at  her  home.

Why  Cider  Was  Not  Taxed.

Dealers in  cider  are  rejoicing  because' 
that  beverage  is omitted  from  the  list  of 
taxable  articles  under  the  new  war  tax 
Other  drinks, 
such  as  beer,  wine, 
whisky,  gin  and  rum  are  subject  to  the 
war  tax  and  must  bear 
the  revenue 
stamps.  The  taxed  beverages  are  all 
warehoused,  whereas  cider  is  not  ware­
housed  to  any  great  extent,  but  the trade 
is  largely  direct  from  producer  to  con­
sumer.  There  is  no  other  drink  in  this 
country  of  which  the  producer  is  also 
the  consumer  to  so  great  an  extent.

Novelty  in  Canned  Goods.

The  London  Grocers’  Gazette  has  had 
submitted  to 
it  samples  of  a  brand  of 
roast  spring  chickens,  in tins,  and  says: 
Each  tin  contains  one  whole  chicken, 
guaranteed  not  to  be  more  than  four 
months  old.  The  chickens  turn  out  un­
broken  from  the  shell,  and  are  of  dis­
tinctly  good  flavor,  and  as  they  can  be 
retailed  at  is.  6d.  per  tin  with  a  good 
margin  of  profit,  they  should  have  a 
ready  sale.

A m e r i c a n   P l a y i n g   C a r d s

Best  Value for the Money.

Quality and  price put together are sure to win, and 
we have got them.  No other line  of playing cards 
offers  the  inducements that the American does.

Rover Playing Cards are the cheapest enameled 
card  on  the  market,  and at  the  price are without 
a competitor.  Send for samples and  prices.

THE  AMERICAN  PLAYING  CARD  CO.,

KALAMAZOO,  MICH.

J  

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced — 
Declined—

4© 
6
6© 
8
12©  14
12©  14

Acidum
Acetlcum.................
6©$
Benzoicnm, German
70©
Boraclc....................
©
Carbollcum............
29©
Cltrlcum.................
45©
__
Hydrochlor............  
Nitrocum...............  
8©
Oxalicum...............  
12©
Phosphorlum,  dil...  @
Salicylicum............. 
60©
Sulphuricum.........  1%@ 
5
Tannicum...............  1  25©  1 40
Tartaricum.............. 
38©  40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16  deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Carbonas................. 
Chloridum.............. 
Aniline
Black.......................  2  00© 2 25
Brown  ....................  
80©  1  00
Red......................... 
45©  50
Yellow....................  2  50© 3 00
Baccs.
Cubesee...........po. 18 
Juniperus...............  
Xantboxylum.........  
Balsamum
Copaiba...................  
Peru.
Terabin, Canada__
Tolutan...................
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
Cassi®  ....................
Cinch ana Plava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerlfera, po.
Prunus Virgini.......
Quillaia,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
Clmus...po.  15,  gr'd 
Extractum
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza, po......  
Hsematox, 15 lb box. 
Hcematox.ls........... 
Heematox, Ms........
Hcematox, Ms.........
Ferru

52©  53
@ 2 75 
45©  50
50©  55

13©  15
6© 
8
25©  30

24®
28©
11® 
13©
14©
16©

12©
18©
30©

15 
2 25 
75 
40 
15 
2

Carbonate  Precip... 
Citrate and Quinia..
Citrate Soluble.......
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride......
Sulphate, com’l ......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate,  p u re ......
Flora
Arnica....................
Anthemis...............
Matricaria..............
Folia
23©
Barosma.................. 
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18©
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25® 
Salvia officinalis, M8
and Ms........  ......  
12©
Ura Ursi.  ................
8©
Gummi 
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
65 
©
45 
Acacia, 2d  picked.. 
©
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
35 
©
Acacia, sifted sorts.
28 
©
Acacia, po...............
60©
80 
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20
14 
12©
Aloe, Cape__po. 15
12 
©
_
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40 
30 
©
Ammoniac.............. 
55©
60 
25©
Assafoetida__po. 30 
28 
Benzolnum............  
50©
55
®
Catechu, Is.............. 
13
Catechu, Ms............  
©
14 
®
Catechu, M8............  
16 
38©
Camphorte............ 
42 
©
Euphorblum.. po.  35 
10
Galbanum...............  
©
1  00 
65©
Gamboge  po........... 
7030
©
Gualacum......po. 25 
Kino...........po.’ 63.u0 
© 3 00
Mastic.................... 
©  60
Myrrh............ po.  45  @ 4 0
Opii.. .po. *5.20@5.40 3  90© 4  00
Shellac.................... 
25©  35
Shellac, bleached...  40©  45
Tragacanth ............ 
50©  80
Herba

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Abslnthium..oz.  pkg 
Eupatori urn .oz.  pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum__oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 
Rue...............oz. pkg 
TanaeetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz.  pkg 
riagnesia.
55©  60
Calcined, Pat........... 
Carbonate, Pat____ 
20©  22
20©  25
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings -  35©  36

Oleum
Absinthium............   3 50©  3 75
Amygdalae, Dule.... 
30©  50
Amygdalae, Amara .  8 00©  8 25
A n isl......................2  1  ©  2 20
Aurantl  Cortex......  2 25©  2 40
Bergami!.................  3 00©  3 20
Cajlputi..................  
80©  85
Caryophylli............  
75©  80
.............. 
35©  65
£2dar-
©  2 75
Chenopadii.............. 
Cinnamomi........... 
1  60©  1 70
Cnronella.  ............. 
45©  50

@ 35

35©  50
Conium  Mae........... 
Copaiba...................  i 
\  25
Cubebae.................... 
90©  1  00
Exechthitos...........  1  00©  1  10
Erlgeron.................  1  00©  1  10
Gaultheria..............  1  50©  1  60
Geranium,  ounce... 
© 75
Gossippii,Sem. gal.. 
50© 60
Hedeoma.................  1  on©  1  10
Junípera..................  l  50© 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90© 2 00
Limonis..................   1  30®  1  50
Mentha Piper.........  1  60©  2  20
Mentha Verid.........   1  50©  1  60
Morrhu»,  gal.........   1  io@  1  25
Myrcia,....................  4 00© 4 50
Olive...................... 
75© 3 00
10©  12
Piets  Liquida......... 
Piéis Liquida, gal... 
R icina.................... 
9S>@  1  10
Rosmarini...............  
©  1  00
Rosae,  ounce...........  G 50© 8 50
Succini  ...................  40©  45
90©  1  00
Sabina................... 
Santal......................  2 50© 7 00
Sassafras................. 
55©  60
Sinapls, ess.,  ounce. 
TIglü.......................  1  70@  1  80
40©  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............  
©  1  60
Theobromas........... 
1.5©
Potassium
glÇarb.................... 
is© 
ig
i3@ 
Bichromate........... 
15
Bromide..................  
50©  55
12©  15
Garb....................  
Chlorate..po. 17@19c 
16©  18
35©  40
Cyanide................... 
Iodide......................  2 60©  2 65
Potassa,  Bitart, pure 
28©  30
Potassa,  Bitart,  com 
©10©
Potass Nitras, opt...
Potass Nitras...........
10©
Prussiate.................
20©
Sulphate  po  ...........
15©
Radix

© 65

Aconitvm................ 
20©
Althae
22©
Anchusa..............”
10©
Arum po..................
©
Calamus.................
20©
Gentiana........po.  15
12©
Glychrrhiza.. .pv. 15 
16©
Hydrastis Canaden.
©
Hydrastis Can., po..
©
Hellebore, Alba, po..  _
18©
Inula, po................. 
15©  _
Ipecac, po................2  80© 3 00
I ris plox.... po35@38  35©  40
Jalapa, pr......... . 
25©  30
Maranta,  Ms........... 
©  35
Podophyllum, po__  22©  25
Rhei
75©  1  00
Rhei, cut. 
©  1  25 
Rhei.pv.
75©  1  35
Spigelia...................  
35©
Sanguinaria. ..po.  15  @
Serpentaria........... 
30©
Senega.................... 
40©
Similax,officinalis H
©
Smilax, M.........
©
Scillae..............po.35
10©
Symploearpus, Foeti-
©  25
dus,  po................. 
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  25
Valeriana,  German. 
15©  20
Zingiber a...............  
12©  16
Zingiber j ...............   25©  27
Semen
Anisum.........po.  15 
@ 
12
13@ 
Apium  (graveleons) 
15
4© 
“ ird- ls.................... 
6
10© 
Garui.............po. 18 
12
Cardamon...............   1  25©  1  75
g© 
Corlandrum............ 
|q
Cannabis  Sativa__ 
4©  4%
Cydonium...............  
75®  1 00
Chenopodium  ........ 
io@ 
12
Dipterix  Odorate...  2 00©  2 20 
Foenlculum 
©
10 
“  
Poenugreek, po....
9 
7®
L tul......... . 
.
4M 
3M@
Lini,  grd —  bbl. 3u
4©
4M 40 
Lobelia  ..................
35©
Pharlaris  Canarian.
4®
4M
Rapa.......................
4M®9©
Sinapls Albu........
Slnapis  Nigra.........  
ii@
Spiritus

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00© 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00© 2 25
Frum enti...... 
....  1  25©  1  50
Jumperis Co. O. T..  1  65© 2 00
Juniperis Co...........  1  75© 3 50
Saacharum  N.  E ....  1  go© 2  10
Spt,Vinl Galll........  1  75© 6 50
V n  Oporto............   1  25© 2 00
Vini  Alba...............   1  25© 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................  2 50© 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............
© 2 00 
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
©  1  25
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__
@  1  00 
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................
©  1  00
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............
Syrups
Acacia....................
A u ranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac. 
.........
Ferri Iod.................
Rhei Arorn..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega ....................
Scillsa......................

©  1  40

©
50©
©
©

fliscellaneous 

ScUlee Co.................
Tolntan...................
Prunus vlrg............
Tinctures 
Aconltum N apellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafoetida............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co............
Barosma.................
Cantharides
Capsicum__
Cardamon__
Cardamon  Co 
Castor
Catechu...............
Cinchona..............
Cinchona Co__
Columba 
.........
Cubeba.................
Cassia  y-jutifoi...
C’SSl-  «cutifol Co 
1- gi  «.Ls 
.. .  .
Ergoc............
Ferri Chloridu  ’
Gentian...........
Gentian Co.........
Guiaca  ...............
Guiaca ammon 
Hyoscyamus..
Iodine 
___
Iodine, colorless
Kino..................
Lobelia.............
Myrrh................
Nux  Vomica
Opii.........................
Opii, camphorated.
Opii,  deodorized__
Quassia..................
Rhatany.......
Rhei
Sanguinaria
Serpentaria............
Stromonium.........
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride. ."
Zingiber..................
-Ether, Spts. Nit.3F  30© 
-«Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34©
Alumen..................   2 M@
Alumen, gro’d
A nnatto......... .
Antimoni,  vo..
Antimoni etPotassT
Antipyrin..............
Antifebrin 
........
Argent! Nitras, oz ”
Arsenicum..........
Balm Gilead  Bud  ”
Bismuth  S. N.........
Calcium Chlor.,  is”
Calcium Chlor., Ms.
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici  Fructus, af.
Capsici Fructus, po 
Capsici FructusB.po 
Caryophyll us.. po.  15 
Carmine, No. 40...
Cera Alba........................_
Cera Flava........... 
40©
Coccus.................  
@
Cassia Fructus.. ” ”  @
Centrarla.
Cetaceum................  
©
Chloroform.........."  
60©
Chloroform, squibbs 
®  1  15
Chloral HydCrst....  1  65©  1  90
Choudrus................ 
20©  25
Cinchonidine.P.A W  25©  35 
Clncbonidine, Germ  22©  30
Cocaine..................   3 30©  3 50
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum........
Creta............
. bbl. 75
Creta, prep..
Creta, precip
Creta, Rubra..........  
Crocus.................... 
Cudbear...........@
Cupri Sulph......... ” 
Dextrine.................. 
Ether Sulph........... 
Emery, all  numbers
Emery, po...........
Ergota............ po. 40
Flake  White........
Galla.
Gambler.
Gelatin, Cooper..
Gelatin, French...” 
Glassware, flint, box
Less  than  box__
Glue,  brown...........
Glue,  white............
Glycerina...............   15M
Grana  Paradis!
Ilumulus...............  
25©
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
llydraag Chlor Cor.
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
Hydraag Ammoniati 
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
Ichthyobolla, Am...
Indigo...................... 
75©  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60© 3 70
Iodoform................. 
© 4  20
Lupulin...................  @225
Lycopodium........... 
40©  45
Macis 
............  
65©  75
Liquor  Arse- et Hy-
drarg Iod.............
LiquorPotassArsinit
Maguesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
Mannla, S. F ...........
Menthol................... 

_
is©
5©
10®
.....

© 2 76

35©

Morphia, S.P.& W ...  2 55© 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C-  Co...................   2 45© 2 70
Moschus Canton__ 
w
40 
Myristica, No. 1...... 
65©
80 
Nux Vomica..  po.20 
©
10 
Os  Sepia................. 
15©
18
Pepsin Saac, H. «ft P.
D. Co..................
@  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.Mgai.
doz........................
© 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
Piix  Burgun........... 
w
© 
7
PI limbi  Acet........... 
io@
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10©  1 
Pyrethrum, boxes II.
& P.  D. Co., doz...
©  1 
Pyrethrum,  pv........
35© 
Quassise.........
8© 
Quinia, S. P. & W..
29© 
Quinia, S.German..
22© 
Quinia, N.Y...  . . . .
29© 
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12© 
__
SaccharumLactis pv 
18©
Salacin.................... 3 00© 3  10
40©  50
Sanguis Draconis... 
Sapo,  W......... ......... 
12©  14
Sapo, M.................... 
io@  12
Sapo.  a .................. 
is

© 

9  © 
9  © 
26© 
1M@ 
3© 
3M@

Sinapls....................
Slnapis, opt............
Snuff, Maceaboy, De
Voes.....................
Snu ff, Scotch ,DeVo’s
Soda Boras..............
Soda Boras, po........
Soda et Potass Tart.
Soda,  Carb.......
Soda, Bi-Carb.
Soda,  Ash......
Soda. Sulphas.
Spts. Cologne..
@ 2 60 
Spts. Ether  Co 
«O©  55
Spt  Myrcia Dom 
©  0 00 
Spts. Vini Reet. bbl.
©  2  48 
Spts. Vini Reet. Mbbl 
@  2 53 
Spts.  Vini Reet. lOgal 
@ 2 56 
_
Spts. Vini Reet.  5gal 
2 58
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40©  1  45
Sulphur,  SubI.........   3M@  4M
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
3M@  4
Tamarinds.............. 
8©  10
28©  30
Terehenth Venice... 
Theobromae............  
40©  42
Vanilla............
9  00@18 00 
Zinci  Sulph.  ...
7© 
8

Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 

Oils
Whale, winter__
Lard,  e x tra .........
Lard, No.  1............

BBL.  UAL. 
70 
70 
40 
45 
35 
40

iy

38
40
70
40

35 
Linseed, pure  raw.. 
37 
Linseed,  boiled 
Neatsfoot, winter sir  65 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
34 

. 

Paints  BBL. 

LB
IX  2  @2
Red Venetian.........  
IX  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow Mars. 
IX  2  ©3 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
Putty, commercial..  2M  2M®3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2X@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13© 
15
70©  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, Paris...........  18M©  22
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13©  16
Lead, Red...............   5^@  6M
Lead, white............  5X@  0M
Whiting, white Span  @ 
70
Whiting,  gilders’... 
90
© 
White, Paris Amer..  @100 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
©  1  40
cliff...................... 
Universal Prepared.  1  00©  1  15

Varnishes
No.  1 Turp Coach... 
Extra  Turp............
Coach Body............
No.  1 Turp Furn__
Extra Turk Damar.. 
Jap. Dryer,No.lTnrp

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

POCKET BOOKS

ANDPURSES

We  shall  sample  in  a  few  days  a  large 

and  well  assorted  line  of

Ladies’  Pocket  Books 

Ladies’  Purses 

Gentlemen’s  Pocket  Books

emen s Purses

And  invite your inspection  and order.

H azeltin e  &   P e rk in s 

D ru g  Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

20

QROCBRY PRIG© CURRENT.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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

AXLB  GREASE

doz.  gross
Aurora......................... 55  6  00
Castor O il....................00  7  00
Diamond..................... 50  4  00
Frazer’s ...................... 75  9  00
IX.Ii Golden, tin boxes 75  9  00
rtlca, tin boxes............75  9  00
Paragon.......................55  600

BAKING  PO W D E R .

Home.

Arctic.
El Purity.

lb can  doz... 
Acme.

Absolute.
*  'b cans doz........ 
. 
¡4 lb Jans doz................. 

45
35
>50
14 lb cans 3 doz................. 
45
<4 lb cans 3 doz................. 
75
lb cans 1 doz.................  100
1 
10
Bulk.................................... 
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........... 
85
44 lb cans per doz............  
75
44 lb cans per doz  ...........  1  30
lb cans per doz............   3  00
1 
14 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
44 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
55
lb cans 2 doz case  ......  
90
j a x o n t
1__________________
44 1 b cans, 4 doz case...... 
45
14 lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
85
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
54 lb cane......................... 
75
I 
lb cans..........................  1  50
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. ease.................4 00
5 lb., 1 doz. case.................  9 00
American................................70
English....................................so

BATH  BRICK.

Jersey Cream.

Queen Flake.

Our Leader.

Peerless.

BLUING.

40
75
1  90 
1  75 
1  50
1  15
2 00 70 
80

... 

CQNSIMsn)
^TEARlS ;
B l u i IsIG

spoons.

......  . 
CANDLES.

Small, 3 doz.......................  
Large, 2 doz.......................  
;<o. 1 Carpet.......................
” 0. 2 Carpet.........
No. 3 Carpet.......................
No. 4 Carpet. 
................
Parlor Gem.......................
Common Whisk.................
Fancy Whisk......................
Warehouse 
.
8s.......................................
19s.......................................
Paraffine.........................
CANNED  GOODS, 
ilanltowoc  Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat.........
Lakeside E.  J ...........  ......
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng.... 
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted. 
Extra Sifted Early June....
CATSUP.
Columbia, 
pints.
a, 44 pints...
Columbia, 44 pints
CHEESE
Acm e.........
Amboy........
Butternut... 
Carson City. 
Emblem...*..
Gem............
Ideal...........
Jersey  ........
Lenawee__
Riverside....
S p arta........
Springdale..
Brick..........
Edam..........
Leiden........
Limburger..
Sap  Sago.................
Chicory.
Bulk 
Red

@ 9
© 9
© 8
© 844
© 8*f
© 944
©
© 9*
© 8
© 9
© 8
©
© 11
© 70
© 17
© 12
50 © 85
© 17
6
7

...........
CHOCOLATB. 

.2 00 
.1  25

Walter Baker &  Co.’s.
German Sweet....................
Premium..............................
Breakfast Cocoa..............

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz.........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz.........i  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz........ 1  40
Cotton", 70 ft. per  doi.........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  do*.........1  80
Jnte, 60 ft.  per  doz............   80
Jute. W ft.  w   lo * ...........   95
COCOA SHELLS.
201b  bags.......................  
244
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound  packages............  
4
GREAT  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes..30-35

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

Santos.

F air........................................ 9
Good.......................................10
Prim e..................................... 11
Golden  .................................. 12
Peaberry  ...............................13
Fair  .......................................12
Good  ..................................... 13
Prim e......................................14
Peaberry  ................................15
Fair  .......................................13
Good  .....................................16
Fancy 
..................................17
Mararalbo.
Prim e..................................... 19
Milled.....................................20

Mexican  and  Guetamata.

Java.

Mocha.

Roasted.

Interior..................................19
Private  Growth......................30
Mandehling..........................   21
Im itation....................   ........20
Arabiau  ................................ 22
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue.....................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha— 29
Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24
Wells’  Perfection  Java......24
Sancalbo.............................21
Breakfast Blend...............   18
Valley City Maracaibo.......1854
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 
a 
pound.  In  601 b.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbuckle.......................  10 50
Jersey.............................  
9 50
r?cs snghtln's  XXXX.
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 44 g :oss__ 
Felix"44 gross.................  
Hummel’s foil 41 gross  .. 
Hummel’s tin 4i  gross 
CLOTHES  PINS.
 
5 gross boxes .  . 

75
i  is
35
’  4?
40
4 doz in case.
Gall Borden  Etgle.............8 75
Crown................................. 6 25
Daisy...................................5 75
Champion  ...........................4  50
Magnolia 
4  25
Challenge..................................3 35
Dime 
.................................3  35
Tradesman Grade.

CONDENSED  MILK,

COUPON  BOOKS.

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

extract.

 

Superior Grade.

Economic  Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books  any denom__ 11  50
1.000 books, any denom...  20 on
50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
Can be made to represent any 
20 books.........................  1  00
50 books...............................  2 00
100 books  .........................  3 00
250 books...............................  C 25
500 books................................10 00
1000 books...........................17 50

denomination from 610 down.

Coupon Pass Books,

i l H M
. JIppB ppg
Universal Grade.

Apples.

Credit Checks.

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
DRIBD  FRUITS—DOHESTIC 
Suadrled.......................   @5
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©  8 
Apricots.....................  @844
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................  ©  744
Peaches.......................  644© 744
Pears..........................   8  © 744
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunneliea............
Raspberries................
100-120 25 lb boxes......
90-100 25 lb boxes. 
.
80 - 90 25 lb boxes..
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.
60 - 70 25 lb boxes. 
.
..  © 5M
50 - 60 25 lb boxes...... @  6M
40 - 50 25 lb boxes__
@ 9
30 - 40 25 lb boxes__
©
V cent less in 50 lb cases
Raisins.

California  Prunes.

© 4M
@
©

London Layers 3 Crown. 
London Lavers 4 Crown. 
Dehesias...................
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose M uscatels 4 Crown 

1  45
1  55
32£
444
5%

Peel.

FOREIGN.
Currants.
Patras bbls............... ■  ■@744
Vostizzas 50 lb cases.
.. 
744
Cleaned, bulk  .........
....@844
Cleaned, packages__ ■ ■■•©  8M
CltrcD American. 101b bx  @13
Lemon American 10 lb bx  @12
Orange American 101b bx  @12
Raisins
Oitillira ’¿ft lb b'vxpsi...
Sultana  < Crown...
©
Sr* Ita na* 2 Crown
©
Sull sma  'Crown........
<f*
«rTtqr*!»  ^ r*T*04j-v,
Sultan» fi Crown
©12
Sultana package........ @14
FA RIN A CEO U S  GOODS.
Farina.
24 1 lb.  packages......
.  ..1  50
Bulk. Der 100  lbs......
....3  50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

iPTcwn.  .

.8  @  844

Grits.

X====:t^ = = = ^

3J£

Peas.

Beans.

Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packages...............2 00
100 lb. kegs..........................3 00
200 lb. barrels..................... 5 75
Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 501b.  drums..........1  00
Dried Lima  .......................  
Medium Hand  Picked__
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box___  60
Imported,  25 lb. box........2 50
Common...........................  1  75
Chester............................  2 00
Empire  ............................  3 00
Green,  bu...........................  95
Split,  perlb........................  
Rolled Avena,  bbl.  ......3 80
Monarch,  bbl......................3 60
Monarch,  44  bbl.................2 00
Monarch, 90 lb sacks.........1  60
Quaker, cases.  ................ 3 20
Huron, cases........................1 75
4
German............................... 
East  India.......................... 
344
Flake.................................. 
344
Pearl...................................  
3%
Anchor, 40  1 lb. pkges_ 
Cracked, bulk.....................  
24 2 lb packages...................2 50

Rolled  Oats.

Tapioca.

Wheat.

Sago.

244

344

5

Salt  Fish.

Cod.

Georges cured............  @4
Georges  genuine........  © 5
Georges selected........  © 544
Strips or  bricks.........   6  © 9

Herring.

Holland white hoops, bbl. 
Holland white hoop 44 bbl  2 75
Holland,  44  bbl................  1  30
Holland white hoop, keg. 
SO
Holland white hoop mens 
85
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  2 75
Round  40 lbs..................   1  30
Scaled............................... 
13

rtackerel.

Mess 100 lbs......................  15  00
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  65
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  35
No. 1 100 lbs......................  13  25
No. 1  40 lbs......................  5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  148
No. 1  8 lbs......................  120
No. 2 100 lbs......................  8 50
3 70
No. 2  40 lbs.................. . 
No. 2  10 lbs......................  100
No. 2  8 lbs...................... 
83

Trout.
No. 1 100 lbs. 
No. 1  40 lbs.........  
No. 1  iOlos... 
No. 1  3 lbs....................  

5 25
2 40
68
57

Whltafish.

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs...........  6 25  5 75  1  75
40 lbs 
........  2 80  2 60  1  00
10 lbs........... 
33
8 lbs........... 
29
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

73 
61 

78 
85 

Jennings’ 

!  D.C, 
; 2 oz. 
¡ 3 oz. 
I 4 oz. 
6 oz. 
No.
I No. 
No. 
No.
!  No

. Vanilla 
1  20
1  50
2 00
3 00
4 00 
10.
6  00
2 T.l  25
3 T.2 00
4 T.2 40

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

Northrop Brand.
Lem Van.
2 oz. Taper Panel.
1  20
75
2 oz. Oval............
75
1  90
3 oz. Taper Panel. 1  35
2 00
4 oz. Taper Panel. 1  60
2 25

Souders’.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

in  the  world 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon, 

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

HERBS.

Sage.
Hops

INDiaO.

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

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

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

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs.................................... 8 00
Half Kegs............................ 4 25
Quarter Kegs......................2 25
1 lb. cans.............................   45

JBLLY.

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

LYE.

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

LICORICE.

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

MINCE MEAT.

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

nATCHBS.

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

IT0LA5SBS.
New Orleans.
. 

Black................................  
11
........................ 
Fair 
14
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,.........T  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 Salt  Co.’s..............  3 00

Barrels, 1,200 count............  5 30
Half bbls. 600 count............  3 00

Barrels, 2,400 count.........   6 00
Half bbls  1.200 count.........  3 50

PICKLBS.
.Tedium.

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................  644
Carolina  No. 1  .................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................  354

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1......................  634
Japan,  No. 2.................... 
s
Java, fancy  head..............  6
Java, No. 1.........................  544
T ab le...............................

SALBRATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in  box.

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

SODIO

SAL SODA.

60  lb.
case
Í 3 I 5

Granulated, bbls................  75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  90
Lump, bbls.........................  75
Lump, 1491b kegs................  85

SNUFF.

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

SEEDS.

344

A nise...............................   9
Canary, Smyrna................ 
Caraway...........................  3
Cardamon,  Malabar  ......   60
Celery...............................   n
Hemp,  Russian.............. 
344
Mixed  Bird...................... 
444
Mustard,  white................ 
5
Poppy  .............................  
io
Rape.................................  444
Cuttle Bone......................  20

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. bnlk.2 25 
Butter, barrels,2014 lbbags.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.

lb. cartons.............. 3 25
50  4 
115  2441b.  sacks................. 4 09
lb. sacks................. 3 75
60  5 
22 14 
lb. sacks................. 3 50
3010 
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 

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks-  .  60 

56-lb  sacks...........................  24

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

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

Solar Rock.

Common.

SOAP.

Gast & Pulte’s Brands. 

White Rose, 100 bars, 75 lbs.2 75
White Rose,  5 box lot.........2 60
White Rose, 10 box lot......... 2 50
G. & P.’s Leader, 100 bars.. .2 50 
G. ft P.’s Leader,  5 box lot.2 40 
G. & P.’s Leader, 10 box lot.2 30

J A X O  N

Single box............................ 2 75
5 box lots, delivered.......... 2 70
10 box lots, delivered..........2 65
JAS.  S.  KIRK  g 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 % lb.............3  00
Kirkollne..............................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 J£-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 05

Scouring.

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

SODA.

Boxes 
......................................   544
Kegs. E n g lish .........................   4%

SPiCBS.
Whole Sifted.

Aiusplce............................  13
u.-itwia, China in mats..........hi
c.issia, Batavia iu  band__ 25
Cassia, Saigon In rolls  ......Si
Cloves, Ainooyna................14
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 12
Mace,  Batavia......... ..” 55
N utmegs, fancy  ................. 80
Nutmegs, No.  1................... 50
Nutmegs, No.  2................... 45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 11 
Pepper, Singapore, white... 12
Pepper,  shot........................12
.  ..  ................... 15
Allspice 
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon 
................ 40
Cloves, Zanzibar..................14
Ginger,  A frican................ 15
Ginger,  Cochin  ..................is
Ginger,  Jamaica  ................¿3
Mace,  Batavia.................... 65
Mustard  ........................12©18
Nutmegs,...................... 40@50
Pepper, Sing , black............12
Pepper, Sing., white........... 20
Pepper, Cayenne................. 20
Sage......................................15

Pure Orouad in Bulk.

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................. 15
Half  bbls.............................17
Pair  ................................   18
Good.................................  20
Choice.........................  
  25

Pure Cano.

STARCH.

Kingsford’s  Corn.

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

Klngsfcrd’s  Silver aloe*.

40 1 -lb packages...................834
8-lb boxes...........................7

Diamond.

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

Common  Corn.

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

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages......................  434
3-lb  packages......................  434
6-lb  packages......................  4%
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   334
Barrels  ...............................  3

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUOAR.

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
Grannlated in bbls............. 5 38
Granulated in  bags............5 38
Pine Granulated.................5 38
Extra Fine 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.  11..................................4 63
No.  12................. ...............  4 50
No.  13..................................4 44
No.  14..................................4 38
No.  15.................................. 4  31
No.  16.................................. 4 25

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

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

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

s. c. w.

...3 3   00

Ruhe Bros. Co.'s Brands.

Double Eagles, 6 sizes. $55070 00
Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes__  55@70 00
Mr. Thomas................ 
35  00
35 00
Cuban Hand  Made.... 
Crown  Five...............  
35 00
35 00
Sir  William................ 
35 uo
Cluo  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 55060 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..............................jo
Pure Cider,  Leroux................11
Pure Cider, Genesee............... 11
Pure Cider, Robinson.............11

WICKINQ.

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

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Butter.

Seymour XXX...................  g
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6M
Family XXX  ....................   g
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  6M
Salted XXX.......................  6
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  6M

Soda.

Soda  XXX  .......................   6lz
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton 
7
g
Soda,  City...................... 
Zephyrette...........................jo
Long Island Wafers........*  11
L. 1. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12

Oyster.

Square Oyster, XXX.  ......   6
Sq. Oys. XXX.  1  lb carton.  7 
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   g
SWEET  QOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  iow
Bent’s Cold Water............   14
Belle Rose.......................'  g
Cocoanut Taffy......... . . .  .  12
Coffee Cakes...........  ........  |U
Frosted Honey...................  12^4
Graham Crackers  .......... .  g
Ginge r Snaps, XXX round.  7*4 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  754 
Gin. Saps,XXX home made  7M 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  7%
Ginger Gems......................  8
Imperials..........................   g
JumDles,  Honey......... 11^4
Molasses Cakes.................  g
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams.....  16
Pretzels,  hand  m ade......  9
Pretzelettes, Little German  7
Sugar  Cake.......................  s
Sultanas............................  12^4
Sears’ Lunch.................... 
7u
Sugar  Squares.................  9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Pecan Wafers....................  15^4
Mixed Picnic....................   1194
Cream Jum bles.................  12
Boston Ginger Nuts...........  9y,
Pineapple Glace.................  16
Penny Cakes......................  894
Marshmallow  Walnuts__  16
Belle Isle Picnic..............  iom

____ Oils._____

Barrels.

Eocene......................  @12
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @  9M
WW Michigan...........  @  8v
Diamond White......... 
0   7«
D., S. Gas....................  @9
Deo. N aptha..............  @ 7
Cylinder....................25  @34
Engine.......................11  @ai
@  »
B’aok. winter........... 

bbls.  pails

Standard................. 
614@  7
Standard H.  H.......  
6M©  7
Standard Twist.....   6  © 8
Cut Loaf................. 
@  gj4
_ 
cases
Jumbo, 32 lb  .......... 
@ 6M
Extra H. H___
© 8M
Boston  Cream.
©

_ 

, 

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.........  
SourDrops.............. 
Imperials...............  

@ ev4
© 7
© 7*4 
© 7*  © 89i 
© 8M 
© 8* 
© 8 
© 8* 
© 8M 
@10 
@12

@  8!4
@ 9
@14
@11
@ g
ia s
|
  9
@9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

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

Fruits.
Oranges.
Medt Sweets...........
Late Valencias........
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 360sor 300s...
Ex.Fancy 300s........
Ex. Fancy 360s........
Bananas.

©50
©50
©60
@60
@75
©30
@75
©50
©50
©50
@50
@55
@50
©50
80  @1  0C
60  @90 
@90 
@60
25  @ 
©60

©35
@50

@3 00 
@3 50

@3 CO 
@5 00 
@5 50 
@6 0 
@6  00

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Figs.

Choice, 10lb boxes.. 
Extra  choice,  14  lb
boxes.................... 
Fancy, 12 lb boxes.. 
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............  
Pulled, 61b boxes... 
Naturals,  in  bags... 
Dates.

Fards in 10 lb  boxes 
Fards  in 60 lb cases 
Persians, G. M’s ...... 
lb cases, new........ 
Sairs,  601b cases__ 

@
@
@  15
@
@
@  0M

@  8
@  g
@ 5
@  g
@ 494

Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona.. 
013
Almonds, Ivaca.........  @
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @13
Brazils new...............   @  7J4
Filberts  ....................  @11
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...............   @1  60
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @3 50

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................  @ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  @ 4%
Choice. H. P.,  Extras,
Roasted  ................. 
544

Wheat.

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

gj

Local Brands.

4 50 
4  00 
3  80 
3 30
3 75
4 00 
3 50 
dis-
. ad-

Subject  to  usual  cash 
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl 

Patents............................
Second  Patent........
Straight............................
Clear........................
Graham  ........................ ’'
Buckwheat............
R ye............................
count.
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond, %s........................4 go
Diamond, Ms............ . 
4 00
Diamond, ¡4s............ .'.. '.'.'.'.4 00
Wordeu Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  Ms......................   4  00
Quaker,  Ms.......................   4  00
Quaker, ¡4s........................   4  00

Spring Wheat  Flour. 

Clark-Jewell Wells Co.’s Brand.
Piilsbury’s Best Ms.........   4 95
Pillsbury’s Best Ms........!!  4 85
Pillsbury’s Best ‘4s...........  4  75
Pillsbury's Best M* paper..  4  75 
Pillsbury’s Best ¡4s paper..  4  75
Ball Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

( f -
f :  ■

1 4

ígEMáLlJ) 1 1 .
j:  'U
-l/TH.f'-TjjS}  '  »,

ÖSÄ

Duluth Imperial, Ms............4 75
Duluth Imperial, 94 s............4 65
Duluth Imperial,  ¡4s.........   4  55
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Ms..................  4  95
Gold Medal %s.....................4 gs
Gold Medal 54s.....................4 75
Parisian, Ms......................   4  95
Parisian, Ms......................   4  85
Parisian.  !4s.......................  4  75

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, Ms......................  5  00
Ceresota, Ms......................  4 90
Ceresota, J4s......................  4 80
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel,  Ms.........................  5  00
Laurel, Ms.........................  4  90
Laurel, Ms.........................  4  gj

Meal.

Bolted.............................
Granulated....................
Feed and Millstuffs 
St. Car Feed, screened  ...
No. 1 Corn and  Oats__
Unbolted Corn Meal.......
Winter Wheat  Bran...  .
Winter Wheat Middlings. 
Screenings.......................

Car  lots....................
Less than  car  lots......

1  90
2  10

. 17 CO 
.16 50 
.15 50 
.14 00 
.15 50 
.16 00
374
40

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

Car  lots............................
Carlots, clipped.......   . . .
Less than  car lots...........

.  29 
.  31 
.  34

No. 1 Timothy carlots..  ..
9 00 
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots...
.10 00
Fish  and  Oysters

Fresh Fish.

_  
Per lb.
Whitelish...............   @  g
T rout.....................   @  8
Black Bass..............  8  @  10
Halibut...................  @  15
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........  @1  25

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
Stick Candy.

Provisions.

12 01 
h  75
a  75
is
g

6M

Swift  &  Company  quote 

Barreled Pork.

follows:
Mess  ...............
Back  ...............
Clear  back__
Shortcut.......
Pig.............................! 
Bean  ....................... 
Family  ..............lj

Smoked  neats.

Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies.........................
Briskets  .  ........
Extra shorts__
Hams,  12 lb  average 
Hams, 14 i b  average
Hams, 16 lb  average__
Hams, 20 lb  average__
Ham dried beef  ..
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut)
Bacon,  clear..............
California hams..
Boneless hams.........  
Cooked ham..............io@13

13%
6%
7%@?%6
„

1

Pigs’ Feet.

5 M 
6M 7
6M
6 
9
6M
25
00

Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound.............. 
41/
Kettle.............................
® j j  Tubs.......... advance 
u
I^JkTubs.......... advance  %
......... advance 
94
£ai}s.......... advance  %
¡b Pails...........advance 
*
j* i? £alls.........advance
3^Ib Palls.........advance
Sausages.
Bologna...............
Liver...................’ ’'.
Frankfort..........
P ork...................
Blood  ............... . . . . . .
Tongue............... .  ’ [
Head  cheese........  .!....
Beef.
Extra  Mess.............. 
u
Boneless  .............. 
13
Rump............................ 14
... 
Kits, 15 lbs__
M  bbls,40lbs.
1
M  bbls, 80 lbs...............   2
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs..
M  bbls, 40 lbs.... 
1
¡4  bbls, 80 lbs................ " 2
P ork......... ....
Beef  rounds..................
Beef  middles.........
Sheep.....................’ * ‘
Butterine.
Rolls,  dairy................
Solid, dairy........
Rolls,  creamery......
Solid,  creamery......
Corned  beef,  2  lb  .. 
3
z2
Corned  beef, 14  lb.. 
Roast  beef,  2  lb.........   2
Potted  ham,  Ms.......
Potted  ham.  Ms__
Deviled ham,  Ms__
Deviled ham,  Ms ■ ■"  !
Potted  tongue Ms.......
Potted  tongue Ms.........

Canned  Meats.

15
3%
10

 

 

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass......................6m@  7M
Forequarters............   5  @  6
Hind  quarters...........  8  @  tf
Loins  No.  3...............   9  @12
5 lbs",..............  ........8  @12
......................  7M@  8
.....................  
-ri&tes  .......................  3  (^4

©  3%

Pork.

Pressed......................  4«©   5
Loins.........................  @  7M
Shoulders...................  @  g
Leaf Lard..................  6M@

Mutton.

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

Veal.

...  7  @ g
Carcass  ......... 
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon & Bertscb Leather | 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:

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

Pelts.

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

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

Wool.

@_3
@ 2

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

21

Crockery  and 
__Glassware.

AKRON  STONEW ARE. 

Butter«,

M gal., per doz...............  
40
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5
8 gal., each....................  3g
10 gal., each...............  
  4g
12 gal.,  each......................  ¡7
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.. . .  90 
20gal. meat-tubs,each.... 1  20 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 2 25
30 gal. meat-tubs, each__ 2 7
2 to 6 gal., per gal......  ... 
5
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

Churns.

Milkpans.

Vi gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  4%.

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

M gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5M 

Stewpans.

M gal- fireproof, ball, doz.  86 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, doz. 1  10 
M gal., per doz.................   49
M gal., per doz..................  42
1 to 5 gal., per gal............  
5 ^

Jugs.

Tomato Jugs.

M gal., per doz.................  42
1 gal., each...................... 
5^.
Corks for M gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
M gal., stone cover, doz...  7a 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 

Sealing Wax.

First  Quality.

LAMP  BURNERS.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
No.  0 Sun..........................  
35
No.  1  Sun..........................  
40
No.  2 Sun................................58
No. 3 Sun...........................  1  00
Tubular............................ 
50
Security, No.  1......... 60
Security, No. 2  ........... 
go
Nutmeg  ............................ 
50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common. 
„  
Per box of 6 dcz.
No.  0 Sun..........................  1  32
No.  1  Sun..........................  j  48
No.  2 Sun............................ 2  18
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  San,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

top,
wrapped and  labeled....  2 55 
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled. 
375 
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 Lames............  
go

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

top,
top,
top,

La  Has tie.

Blectrlc.

OIL  CANS. 

Pump  Cana.

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ........  ......................  90
No. 2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
..............................  1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..  1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. 
.  .  1  60
Rochester.
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)____  1  40
Doz. 
l 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 spout.  3  50 
5 gal galv Iron with  spout.  4  75 
3 gal galv iron with faucet  4  75 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 5 25
5 gal Tilting cans..............  g  00
5 gal galv Iron Nacefas__  9 90
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..............6 25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6  50
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__  7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
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,  ball’s  eye, 
cases 1 doz. each .........  1  25
No. 0 per gross.................  
15
No. 1 per gross................... 
21
No. 2 per gross  .................   30
48
No. 3 per gross................... 
Mammoth......................... 
  79

LAMP  WICKS.

LANTBRNS.

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H a r d w a r e

Importance  of  Displaying  Goods.
Too  much  stress  cannot  be  laid  upon 
the  effectiveness  of  clever  show  cards 
and  carefully  arranged  interior and win­
dow  displays  in  the  selling  of  goods. 
While  we  do  not  believe  that  they  sell 
more  goods  than  competent  clerks,  yet 
there  is  reason  to  believe  that  there  are 
great  possibilities 
in  them  which  are 
not  always  fully  realized.  One  often 
observes  and  experiences  the  truth  of 
this  statement  when'going  into  stores 
which  make  it  a  point  to  display  effect­
ive  show  cards,  exhibit  the  goods  to 
the  best  advantage  and  dress  the  win­
dows  properly,  each of  which  is  the  nat­
ural  complement  of  the  other  and  fin­
ishes  off  its  general  appearance.  A c­
cording  to  and  varying  with  their  intel­
ligence,  most  people  are  quick  to  dis­
cern  and  appreciate  the  exercise  of 
in­
genuity  in  the  arrangement  of  the  store. 
They  often  show  their  appreciation  in  a 
tangible  way  which 
is  gratifying  both 
to  the  merchant’s  personal  pride  and  to 
his  bank  account.-

To  excite  admiration  by  a  mere  pret- 
tiness  in  some  little  decorative  effect  is 
not  exactly  what the ambitious merchant 
is  striving  for;  he  does  not  want  people 
to  walk  into  his  store  and 
look  about 
them  in  wonder  and  surprise  as at a free 
tight  rope  performance;  and  yet  that  is 
just  what  they  will  undoubtedly do  if  he 
does  not  carry  out  his  artistic  ideas  so 
completely  that  in  a  subtle  but  decided 
way  the  merits  and  individuality  of  the 
goods  are  brought  to  people’s  notice. 
By  all  means,  then,  the  love  of  the  pic­
turesque  ought  not to  preclude  the  op­
portunity  for  an  adroit  reference  to 
prices,  utility  and  attractiveness—as 
the  case  may  be—of  his  wares.  What 
will  be  the  best  plan  is  to  combine  the 
charm  of  ornamentality  in  interior  and 
window  displays  with  a  serious  effort  to 
show  the  goods 
in  the  most  attractive 
manner  possible.

This  may  -seem  an  easy  thing  to  do, 
yet  we  do  not  observe  that  it  is  put  into 
execution  as  often  as  it  might  be.  Win­
dow  dressers  either  think  of and dispose 
the  goods  and  decorations  in  the  win­
dow  with  a  view  wholly  to  ornamental
effect  and  allow  their  ideas  of  the  artis­
tic  to  bring  that  characteristic  to  the 
fore  too  prominently  for  the  benefit  of 
the  goods,  or  else  they  go  to  another  ex­
treme  in  which  the  goods  are  displayed 
alone  without  any  effort  at  adornment, 
is  detrimental  to  the 
either  of  which 
sale  of  the  goods. 
In  the  former  case 
people  admire  the  embellishments  and 
lose  sight  of  the  main  feature,  which  is 
the goods themselves, and  in the latter in­
stance  the  goods  alone  appear  uninter­
esting  without  sufficient individuality  to 
attract  any  great  amount  of  attention 
and  thus  with  no  distinguishing  charac­
teristics  they  are  passed  unnoticed.

Judgment,  then,  should  be  exercised 
in  preventing  either  unfortunate  contin­
gency  which  we  have  just  described. 
This  particularly  applies  to  hardware, 
which  does  not  readily  lend  itself  to  ar­
tistic,  ornamental  effects  and  which  re­
quires  some  embellishment  to  relieve 
its  rather  sombre  dullness  and  bring  out 
its  best  points.  Beyond  a  doubt  bril­
liant  colors  in  draperies  will  do  this 
most  effectively.  They  should  be  re­
newed  as soon as they grow dingy,  either 
by  washing  or  purchase  of  others.  To 
sum  it  all  up  in  a  few  words,  the  chief 
object  of  window  and  interior  displays 
is  to  sell  all  goods  possible by attracting 
Individuality  must
attention  to  them. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

be  obtained  over  other  displays  in  order 
to  do  this.  A  man  must  not  be  afraid 
of  a  little  outlay  to  secure  an originality 
which  will  accrue  to  the  benefit  of  the 
store.  This  desire  to  draw  customers 
by  an  honest  and  ingenious  method  is 
both  laudable  and  admirable  if  carried 
out  honestly  and  conscientiously. 
I 
most  cases  it  is  better to mention prices, 
but  we  do  not  believe  that  any  extrav­
agant  and exaggerated statements  should 
be  made  under  any  circumstances.— 
Hardware  Reporter.

Some  Hardships  Which  Must  be  En­

dured  at  Home.

“ Are  there  any  greater hardships than 
those  endured  by  our  brave  boys  at  the 
front?”   asked  the  speaker.

“ Well,  I  don’t  know,”   replied  the 
demure  little  woman  in  the  back  of  the 
hall,  rising.  “ Were  you  ever  in  a  house 
where  four  boys  between 
to  and  16 
caught  the  martial  spirit,mounted guard 
eight  times  a  day,  and  made  it  a  point 
to  charge  on  the  cook  at  least  twice? 
Did  you  ever  note  the  enthusiasm  with 
which  four  boys  can  enter  into the spirit 
of  military  operations  and  patrol  the 
front  of  the  bouse,  insisting  upon  the 
countersign  when  callers  arrive?”  
assure  you,  I— ”

“ Madam,”   broke  in  the  speaker,  “ I 

“ Did  you  ever  come  home  from  a 
shopping  tour,”   she  persisted, 
“ and 
find  the  baby  in  the  guard  house,  yell­
ing  itself  hoarse,  while  four  boys  held  a 
council  of  war  to  decide  whether  it 
should  be  shot  or  hung?”

“ As  I  was  about  to  say,  madam— ”  
“ Did  you  ever  return  from  a  short 
call  at  a  neighbor's  to find the front door 
barricaded  and  gimlet  holes  bored  in 
the  hardwood  panels 
in  order  that  the 
approach  of  the  enemy  might  be  easily 
detected?”

“ Madam,  I  concede— ”
‘ ‘ Did  you  ever  have  your  front  porch 
mined  and  the  mine  exploded  just  as 
you  were  welcoming  a  maiden  aunt  who 
is  expected  to  leave  you  quite  a  little 
money,  even  although  it  is  well  known 
that  she  has  an  antipathy  to  children 
and  never  has  quite  forgiven  you  for 
having  so  many?”

“ There  can  be  no  question— ”
“ Did  you  ever  have  a  new  sheet  torn 
up  to  make  hospital  bandages  and  three 
yards  of  colored  silk  cut  up  into  signal 
flags?  Did  you  ever  have  a  flower  gar­
den  ruined  because  it  was  deemed  nec­
essary  to  throw  up  fortifications  where 
the  flowers  happened  to  be?  Did  you 
ever  have  a  whole new clothesline cut 
up  into short  pieces that  could  be  used 
to  securely  bind  prisoners  of  war?  Did 
you  ever  have  your  barn  carried  by  as­
sault,  one  of  your  horses  so  frightened 
that  it  was  four  days  before  it  was  safe 
to  drive  him,  and 
coachman 
tripped  up  and  thrown  down  a  flight  of 
stairs  because  he  foolishly  attempted  to 
check  the 
force?  Did  you 
ever— ”
“ Madam,”   broke  in  the  speaker  at 
last,  “ I  never  did.  If  I  had,  I  w ou ld n ’ t 
have  spoken  as  I  did. 
I  now  publicly 
concede  that  the  sufferings  in  the  field 
really  amount  to  nothing  compared with 
what  this  war  has  brought  upon  some  of 
those  who  have  to  remain  at  home.”

invading 

your 

An  Aristocratic  Term.

‘ ‘ I  understand  she  has had an attack of 

nervous  prostration.”

“ Ob,  dear,  no;  not  at  a ll.”
“ But  the  doctor  said— ”
“ 1  know he did at first,  but just as soon 
as  he  learned  the  size  of  her  husband’s 
income  he  changed  his  mind  and  said 
that  she  was  merely  overcome  by  that 
tired  feeling.”

Sure  Evidence  of Infallibility.

“ Is your  partner  a  man  of  good  judg­
ment?”   asked  an  old  friend  who  is  in 
the  city  on  a  visit.

“ There,”   was  the  unctuous  answer, 
“  is  a  man  of  infallible  judgment.  He 
never  makes  a  move  without  taking  my 
advice. ”

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Hardware  Price  Current.

Why  Commercial  Travelers  Would 

Make  Good  Soldiers.

John  A.  Lee,  of  St.  Louis,  undertook 
to  organize  a  regiment  of  commercial 
travelers, but met  with so  many  obstacles 
in  getting  the  regiment  mustered  in that 
he  wrote  his  local  Congressman  as  fol­
lows :

I  have  a  letter  to-day  from  the  Secre­
tary  of  War  wherein  he  says,  “ The  only 
possible  means  for  you  to  have mustered 
into  service  the  organization  you  refer 
to  would  be  through  a  special  act  of 
Congress. ”

I  desire  to  advise  you  that  I  have  now 
ready  a  regiment  of  splendidly  compe­
tent  and  capable  men,  most  of  whom 
have  had  military  training  and  have 
been  well  drilled  and  schooled,  consist­
ing  largely  of  commercial  travelers  and 
the  sons  of  commercial  travelers  and 
city  salesmen.  The  men  will  come  from 
the  following  States:  Missouri,  Arkan­
sas,  Kansas,  New  York,  Massachusetts, 
Texas,  Louisiana,  Iowa, 
Illinois,  In­
diana,  Kentucky,  Tennessee,  Wiscon­
sin,  Ohio,  Pennsylvania  and  Michigan. 
Most  of  these  States  have  from  one  to 
three  companies  ready;  some,  however, 
have  not  full  companies.

Those  who  have  organized  them  are 
commercial  men  of  all  politics,  but  are 
not  push  politicians  and  have  no  potent 
political  pull.  They  are,  therefore,  un­
able  to  influence  the  governors  of  their 
States  to  accept  their  organizations. 
The  militia  has  now  about  all  gone  and 
I  think  that  we,  fighting  commercial 
travelers,  should  have  a  chance;  but  we 
want  a  regiment  of  our  own,  under  the 
authority  of  the  National  Government 
and  essentially  organized  from  many 
States.  We  think  we  are  about  as  good 
as  rough  riders,  cowboys  or  colored  cit­
izens—so  called  “ immunes” —and  we 
want  Congress  to  so  declare.  We  want 
either  a  cavalry  or  infantry  organization 
(cavalry  preferred)  and  we  are  just  as 
immune  as  any  lot  of  fellows  you  can 
ever  get  together.  You  can  not  kill  a 
commercial  traveler.  He  has  been in the 
midst  of  ail  great  National  calamities, 
floods,  forest  fires  and  woman’s  rights 
conventions,  for  years,  and  still trium­
phantly  lives.  Cyclones  have  tossed  and 
dallied  with  him,railroads have wrecked 
him,  steamboats  have  blown  up  with 
him,  all  kinds  of  diseases 
from  the 
mumps  to  yellow  fever  have  assailed 
him,  cheap  hotels  have  tried  to  ruin  his 
digestion,  bartenders  and  patent  medi­
cine  manufacturers  have  endeavored  to 
concoct  potions  that  would  down  him, 
but  he  has  lived  on  and  on,  smiling  at 
his  enemies.

and 

partially 

Train  robbers, 

foot  pads,  train  con­
ductors,  general  passenger  agents  and 
Pullman  porters  have  all  tried 
ineffec­
tually  to  hold  him  up.  He has been sore­
ly  afflicted  with  suits  for  alimony  and 
breach  of  promise;  his  irresistibly  opti­
mistic  soul  has  been  ground  between the 
upper  millstone—his  employer—and  the 
nether  millstone— his customer—for,  lo, 
these  many  years,  all  uncomplainingly.
He  has  carried  the  banner  in  parades, 
made  stump  speeches,  put  up  his  stuff, 
acted  as  challenger  at  the polls,  and  ser­
geant-at-arms at conventions,  and  fought 
for  his  political  convictions  at  every 
election  from  time  of  antiquity until  the 
present,  without ever  getting  an office.
He  has  been  snake-bitten,  dog-bitten, 
poisoned, 
suffocated, 
through  rooming  with  customers  who 
insisted  on  blowing  out  the  gas.  He  has 
been scalped by ticket-scalpers,licensed- 
taxed  by  Populist  legislators ;  has  rid­
den  unbroken  mules  and  unbridlewise 
bronchos  and  burros  over  alleged  im­
passable  roads;  has  navigated  unford- 
able  streams  with  double  livery  teams, 
while  sitting  astride  of  his 
sample 
trunk  to  keep  his  feet  dry;  has  chased 
cannon  ball  trains  and  overtaken  them, 
has  pumped  hand  cars  many  weary 
miles,  has  helped  “ jack  up”   derailed 
cabooses,  has  pried  stage-coaches  out  of 
mud  boles,and  still  joyously  survives.
“  He  has  been  shot  at and  clubbed  by 
bad  men  from  Bitter  Creek,”  and they 
have  not  lived  to  gloat  over his remains, 
but  have  frequently  died  as  tributes  to 
his  inextinguishable  vitality  and  readi­
ness  for  emergencies.  He  has  crossed 
the  Great  American  Desert  before  the

lightning  on 

in 
era  of  irrigation,  has  been  sunstruck 
in  Canada,  struck 
Mexico,  frost  bitten 
by 
the  summit  of  the 
Sierras,  chased  by  Indians  in  Arizona, 
has  been  bitten  by  tarantulas  and  Gila 
monsters 
in  New  Mexico,  rattlers  in 
Oklahoma,  has  made  gold  bug  speeches 
in  Nebraska  and  16  to  I  speeches  in 
Massachusetts,  and  still  lives  to  tell  the 
tale,  and  he  tells  it  well.

is  a  veteran  in  hardships  and  an 
immune  of 
immunes,  and  be  now  as­
pires  to  help  hustle  the  Hidalgoes  heav­
enward  or 
in  any  more  appropriate 
direction.

He 

He  has  been  the  skirmisher  of  civili­
zation,  the  picket  of  commerce,  the  ad­
vance guard  of  progress,  prosperity  and 
development,  carrying 
the  glory'  and 
fame  of  his  country’s  industries  into  all 
lands.  He  has,  through  his  courage  and 
activity,  been  the  pioneer  of  peace, 
blazing  the  way  for  education,  comfort, 
religion  and  happiness.  He  has  ma­
terially  helped  to  make  the  world  better 
and  brighter,  the  people  more  homoge­
neous,  existence  here  more 
joyful  and 
faith 
in  eternity  stronger  and  m. re 
hopeful.

While  forging  to  the  front  in  advan­
cing  prosperity,  he  has  always  been  the 
rear  guard  in retreating adversity,  when 
the  hosts  of  financial  misfortune  have 
threatened  our  beloved  country,standing 
like  a  great  rock  of  strength  opposing 
the  armies  of  discouragement  and  op­
pression 
in  times  of  financial  disaster 
and  commercial  demoralization.

He  may  not  be  able  to  waltz  like  a 
West  Pointer  or  to  “ toes  out  and  eyes 
right’ ’  like  a  National  guardsman,  but 
he  can  ride  and  shoot  and  fight  and 
suffer  and  die  for  his  country,  and  after 
all 
it  is  the  soul,  the  heart,  that  makes 
a  good  soldier,  the  inspiration  imbibed 
with  his  mother’s  milk.

Give  us,  if  you  can  get  Congress  to 
do  so,a  place  for  our  regiment.  We  can 
not  come  under  the  State  calls ;  we  are 
nomadic  and  must  assemble  as  did  the 
patriots  of  old,  “ from  all  the  country 
far  and  wide, 
the 
plain;’ ’  but  we  will  come  quickly  when 
the  authority  is  given,  and  stay  as  long 
as  our  services  are  required,  and  then 
return,  if  spared,  to  be  again  foremost 
in  promoting  peace,  prosperity and  hap­
piness.

the  hillside  and 

Opening  a  New  Store.

When  a  man  is  making  his  debut  into 
the  business  world  as  the  full-fledged 
storekeeper,  he  should  be  as  careful  as 
the  social  debutante  of  the  first  impres­
sion  which  he  makes  upon  the  public. 
From  hearsay  we  infer  that  the  debu­
tante  in  society  makes  strenuous  efforts 
to  conceal  all  defects,  brings  out  good 
points  more  tellingly  by  proper and  be­
coming  adornment,  and 
in  so  many 
words  “ puts  her  best  foot  foremost,’ ’ 
in  the  most  engaging  manner.  By  thus 
impressing  people  favorably  at  the  be­
ginning  of  her  career,  she  is  able  to 
capture  some  prize  in  the market,  called 
the  noble  ambition  of  matrimony.  The 
young  merchant,  then,  should  model  his 
mercantile  venture  on  somewhat  similar 
lines.  He  should  regard  the  world as  it 
is,  know  that  it  is  apt  to  judge  of  him 
entirely  by  appearances,  for  no  one  has 
a  magic  wand  or  sorcerer’s  art  which 
will  enable  him 
to  divine  intentions 
which  are  not  put  into  execution.  Cus­
tomers  will  expect  to  see  the  new  store 
spick and span,  and  will  doubtless  exact 
more  perfections 
it  than  they  have 
always  obtained  in  the  older,  better  es­
tablished  firms.  They  will  also  be  more 
inclined  to  look  for flaws,  magnify  mis­
takes,  exaggerate  the  importance  of  un­
fortunate  errors  and  in  general  assume 
a  more  critical  attitude 
toward  the 
young  or  new  aspirant  to  mercantile 
honors.  The  public,  en  masse,  is  not 
given  to  great  leniency,  consideration 
or  unselfishness,  as  a  rule,  hence  it  will 
be  disposed  to  doubt  the  merchant’s 
ability  as  a  business  man  till it has tried 
his  mettle. 
is  young 
people  will  say that he is inexperienced ; 
if  he  is  old  they  will  think  he  has  made 
a  failure  somewhere  else  and 
is  trying 
to  recoup  his  fortunes  at  the  expense  of 
a 
long-suffering  public.  Above  all, 
then,  be  circumspect  and  careful 
in 
every  way  at  all  times,  and  particularly 
when  opening  a  new  store.

If  the  merchant 

in 

AUaURS  AND  BITS
Snell’s .......................................
Jennings’, genuine  ..  .... . 
. ......
Jennings’, imitation ...  .................
Axes

First quality, S. B. Bronze.........
First quality, D. B. Bronze......
First quality. S. B. S. Steel........
First quality, D. B. Steel...............

Railroad..........................................
Garden..............................I.""".."

BARROWS

BOLTS

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

BUCKETS 
Well,  plain...............................
BUTTS,  CAST

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

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

BLOCKS

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

CROW  BARS

CAPS

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

CARTRIDGES 

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

CHISELS

Socket Firmer.........
Socket  Framing........
Socket Corner............
Socket  Slicks.................. 

DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks..............
Taper and Straight Shank.. 
Morse’s Taper Shank............
ELBOWS

112 00  14 00 
net  30 00

bOdilO 
70 to 75 
50

I 3 25

......... 70*10
.70# 10

. 

70

4

65

60

per lb 

per m 

per m 

......... 25& 5

80cm
on

60
f>(Mr  5

Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
Corrugated...................... 

50
j  .>5

EXPANSIVE  BITS

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

FILES—New  List

New American...............
Nicholson’s................. 
Heller’s Horse Rasps.........

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

14 

13 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
GAUGES

......... 30*10

7IL&IA
-m

...... 

28
17

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s......................eo&io

KNOBS—New List

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

70
80

MATTOCKS

Adze Bye.....................................*16 00, dis 60&1U
Hunt Bye.....................................*15 00, dis  60&10
“ un* 8......................................... 118 50, dis 20&10

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base..........................................  
j  55
W ire nails, base................................. . . . . . .  1  cO
20 to 60 advance..................................   . . . "   Base
10 to 16 advance................................  
05
b advance.......................................................... 10
6 advance....................................... ] ....! !  
20
4 advance.......................................................... 30
3 advance.................................... 
45
2 advance.......................................! ! . . . ” 
70
Fine 3 advance.....................................!".!! 
50
Casing 10 advance....................................  ’ 
15
Casing  8advance.............................................. 25
Casing  6 advance........................................ 
35
Finish 10 advance...................................  
gg
Finish  8advance...............................................35
Finish  6 advance................................... ."  
45
Barrel % advance................................        
85

MILLS

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

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  OATES

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

PLANES

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

60&10&10
70& 5
60
60

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  35^*
Kip’s  ...................................................... di& 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s.................................... dis 1O&IO
ts ason’b Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
70
B*t»ck.mH¡i’í  Solid Ctst bieti Hand  ¡Oc.'.a  o*ia

23

HOUSB  FURNISHING  GOODS

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

70
25&10
60<iil0

5  00 
9 50 
5 50 
10 50

HOLLOW  WARB

Kettles............... : : : : : : : :SS3u«
sp,der8............................................

Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3. 
State...........

HINGES

............... dis 6O&10
.. per  dos. net  2 50

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

 

 

 

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

LBVELS

■
jn
on
^

7,1
10*

70*10
60
50

Sisal, % inch and  larger. 
Manilla.....................

ROPES

SQUARES

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

SHEET  IRON

., 

. . .  

com. smooth.

co a. 
*2 40 
2 40 
2 45 
2 55 
2 85 2
a m
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

„  
Nos. 10 to 14...............................  *2 70
Nos. 15 to 17............................ 
g 70
Nos. 18 to 21.........................2 80
Nos. 22 to 24.............................\\\  3 00
Nos. 25 to 26............................ 
’  3  10
No.  27..........................................  3 20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.

List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... <ji6 

go

SAND  PAPER

SASH  WEIGHTS

TRAPS

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

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

60&1U
50
15
1  ■—

WIRE

Bright Market......................... 
75
Annealed  Market................... 
Coppered Market.................. 
■mAin
Tinned Market.....................'...................... ' ¡SfV
Coppered Spring  Steel....................................... 50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  .........  
->05
Barbed  Fence,  painted.......................... j  75

...........

”  

HORSE NAILS

Sable............................................................dis 40*!C
Putnam.............  
Northwestern....................................................dis 10*10

dis 

5

 

WRENCHES

30

Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled............  
Coe's Genuine
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought 
Coe’s Patent, malleable....................
Bird  Cages................................ 
5«
Pumps, Cistern........................... ...........
Screws, New List................................................ *5
Casters, Bed and  Plate..................  
50&ioaio
Dampers, American............................... 
¡,0

MISCELLANEOUS

600 pound casks.................................. 
Perpound........................................!” !!! 

METALS—Zinc

Su
6?

SOLDER

*@*............................................ 
1244
The prices of the many otherquallties of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  varv 
according to  composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal...........................  
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................... ..................
20x14 IX, Charcoal....................  
...........

Each additional X on this grade, *1.25!

TIN—Allaway  Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal......................
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................
10x14 IX, Charcoal...................'
14x20 IX, Charcoal....................... " ’. ' .........

Each additional X on this grade, *1.50.

ROOFING  PLATES
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean....................
14x20 IX,Charcoal, D ean............
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean...............
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Alla way Grade.
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...
BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE 

14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, (
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, f *** P°ui»d.

«

5  75 
5  75 
7  00

4  50
4 505  50 
5 50

4  50
5  50 
9  00
4  U0 
ft  00 
8  00 
'0   00

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:

IO» .....................................  >5 cents.
300....................................   40 cents.
5°°-..........................  75 cents.
>ooo.....................$1 00.

Labels  sent  postage  prepaid  where  cash 

accompanies order.

Tradesman Company,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

24

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

and 

‘ These 

self-importance. 

from  another  dish.) 

Human  Nature  in  a  Candy  Store.
“ Say,”   remarked  the  sweet  young 
saleslady 
in  the  candy  store,  “ did  you 
ever  notice  the  different  ways  people 
buy  things?  Talk  about  studying  hu­
man  nature!  The  place  to  take  a  post­
graduate  course  is  behind  the counter in 
a  candy  store.  Now  you  might  think 
there  could  be  but  one  way  to  buy 
candy,  but  there 
is.  Here  comes  a 
woman  rustling  in,  all  flounces  and  fur­
belows 
She's 
probably  made  up  her  mind  just exactly 
what  she  is  going  to  buy,  hut  she  just 
look  at  all  the  dishes  that  are 
takes  a 
set  out  on  the  counter. 
look 
nice,’  she  says, 
taking  the  biggest 
marshmallow  off  of  a  plate,  ‘ how  much 
are  they?  No,  I  don't  believe  I  care 
for  them  after  all.  They  are  so  insipid. 
(Takes  another 
How  much  are  these?’ 
sample 
‘ Forty 
cents  a  pound?  How  much  are  these 
(Tries  a  few  buttercups.) 
buttercups?’ 
‘ Are 
those 
caramels 
flavored  with 
(Samples  a  couple  of  cara 
vanilla?’ 
‘ Gracious,  I  do  believe  they 
mels.) 
have  got  wintergreen 
in  them,  and  1 
never  could  bear  that.  Give  me  some­
thing  to  take  the  taste  out of my mouth. ’ 
(Annexes  a  chocolate  cream uninvited.) 
‘ Here,  let  me  see  some  of  those  crystal­
lized  nuts  in  the  case.’ 
(Tries  a  few.) 
'Um-um-um,  no,  I  don’t  believe  they 
are  quite  fresh. ’ 
(Returns  to  her  first 
love,  and  tries  the  chocolate  creams 
over  again.) 
‘ Well,  I  believe  I’ll  take 
some  chocolates,  after  all.  They  are 
wholesome,and  I know of a woman whose 
cousin’s  grandchild  was  poisoned eating 
some  green  candy  be  got  off  a  Christ­
mas  tree.  You  may  give  me  io  cents’ 
worth,  and  don’t  keep  me  waiting  for 
my  change,’  and  she  sails  out  with  the 
air  of  having  conferred  a  lasting  benefit 
on  the  establishment.  Now,  a  man 
is 
different.  He  makes  up  his  mind  a 
block  off  what  he  wants,  and  his  only 
idea  is  to  get  it  and  get  out  before  any­
body  he  knows  catches  him  buying 
candy;  and  he  stands  and  looks  at  the 
ceiling  while  you  are  waiting  on  him 
in  an  abstracted  sort  of  way,  that  seems 
to  indicate  that  he  is  sacrificing himself 
for  somebody,  and  that  he  only  hopes 
they  are  going  to  realize  what  he  has 
done  for  them.  Of  course  that  doesn’t 
mean  the  young  men  who  are  in  love 
and  who  send  expensive  boxes  and  bas­
kets  of  bonbons  to  their  sweethearts. 
My,  but  when  one  starts  on  that  we  can 
see  his  finish,  and  sometimes  when  we 
girls  behind  the  counter are  putting  up 
such  a  box  for  some  poor  young  fellow 
on  a  little  salary,  and  know  that  he 
is 
going  in  debt,  or  worse,  for  it,  because 
some  rich  girl  has  hinted  for  it  or  other 
men  send  sweets  to  her,  we  wonder  if 
she  knows—or  cares—that  he  may  be 
wrecking  his  life  about  as  silly  a  thing 
as  a  box  of  candy.  Then  sometimes 
there  is  a  little  bit  of  pathos  in  a  sale.
A  hungry 
in, 
hugging  a  penny  in  its  grimy  paw,  or 
a  poor  old  woman  with  work-hardened 
bands  will  stop  and  untie  her  handker­
chief  and  take  out  a  nickel,  and  buy  a 
little  pink-striped  candy  to  take  to  a 
sick  baby,  and  we  will  know  that  she 
has  spent  her  car  fare  for  it,  and  will 
have  to  toil  home  all  the  long,  dreary 
way,  that  will  not  be  long  or tiresome 
for  her,  thinking  of“  the  flash  of  joy 
there  will  be  in  the  childish  lace  when 
she  opens  her  bundle.  Oh,  it  all  goes 
by,  and  you  see  the  sad  and  the  gay 
and  the  fun  and  the  folly  of  life,  as  you 
stand  behind  the  counter. “

little  child  will  come 

The  Era  of  Men’s  Rights.
is  one  of  the  hopeful  signs  of  the 
times  that a  popular journal has recently

It 

There 

is  nothing 

started  a  •correspondents’  column  de­
signed  for  the  exclusive  benefit  of  men. 
Here  they  may  take  their  perplexities 
and  troubles  and  doubts,  and  find  balm 
and  comfort. 
It  almost  amounts  to  a 
moral  awakening,  and  one  can  look  for­
ward  to  a  time  when  men  will  no longer 
be  deprived  of  that  source  of  advice 
which  women  have  found  so  helpful. 
Every  reader  recalls  how  women  are 
counseled  to  do  thus  and  so  to  make 
home  happy  and  retain  their  husband’s 
affection,  and  it  is  about  time  that  men 
were  getting  some  advice  on  the  same 
lines.  Perhaps  the  day  is  not  far  dis­
tant  when  the  men’s  column  of  the 
paper  will  say  something 
like  this: 
Husbands  should  always  meet 
their 
wives  with  a  smile  when  they  return 
from  work.  Remember  that  she  may 
have  had  a  hard  time  with  a  smoking 
stove  and  a  crying  baby  and  a  cross 
servant,  and  needs  to  be  cheered  and 
comforted. 
that 
brightens  a  home  like  a  sweet  smile  on 
a  man’s  face.  Don't  get  cross  if  a wor­
ried  look  rests  on  your  wife’s  face. 
If 
your  back  ached 
like  hers  does,  and 
you  had  as  many  nerves,  you  would  be 
in  bed  with  the  doctor  and  a  trained 
nurse.  Remember  that  marriage doesn’t 
necessitate  the  cessation  of  all  the  little 
attentions  you  showed  her  before  the 
wedding.  Then  you  would  have danced 
all  night  with  her,  and  were  ready  to 
murder  the  man  who  wanted  a  turn  in  a 
waltz.  Don’t 
like  a  martyr  now 
because  she  wants  you  to  go  with  her  to 
call on a  neighbor.  Don’t forget to  make 
her  little  gifts  now  and  then.  Fewer 
presents  before  marriage  and  more 
afterwards  would  raise  the  average  of 
-domestic  felicity.  Don’t  go  down  to 
the  club  every  night  and 
leave  her 
alone.  If  she  had  been  seeking  solitude 
she  would  have  entered  a  convent.  Do 
not  expect  your  wife  to  take 
for 
granted  that  you 
love  her.  You  were 
never  weary  of  telling  her  so  in  your 
courting  days.  Mention  the  matter  to 
her  again  sometimes. 
It  might  still  in­
terest  her  to  hear  it.  Don’t  scorn  her 
opinions  and  tell  her  she  doesn’t  know 
what  she  is  talking  about.  She  hasn’t 
forgotten  the  time  when  you  listened  to 
every  word  she  said  as  if  it  were  incar­
nate  wisdom.  Don’t  raise  a  row  every 
time  you  find  a  button  off  or  anything 
out  of  place  in  the  house.  Think  of 
how  you  used  to  say  that  your  only  care 
in  life  would  be  to  shield  that  lily white 
hand from  any  labor.  Don’t  forget  that 
cleanliness  and  neatness  are  next  to 
godliness  and  an  absolute  necessity  if 
you  would  keep  love.  Little  affection 
is  robust  enough  to  survive  slovenliness 
in  man  or  woman.  Above  all,  don’t 
forget  your  wife  is  a  woman,  and  make 
allowance  for  human  faults  and  short­
comings. 
If  she  had  been  an  angel  or 
a  goddess  she  would  never  in  the  world 
have  married  you.

look 

it 

Yonie  Yonson  Tackles the  Train  Gates 

Again.

Travarca  Caity,  Yuly  15— Yo  tank  aie 
bane  com  bae  war  yust  caus  aieskal not 
wraiting  yo  lattar.  Aie  skal  tal  yo  gude 
lot:  Fallar  bae  das  town  com  bae  war. 
Aie  tank  bae  maisalf  battar aie  vorkang 
far  tan  Dollar  mont  dan  gattang  kill 
bae  Spanash  or  das  onder fallar bae  nam 
Yallo  Yack.  Aie  bane  rading  bae  nuse- 
papar  gude  lot  fallar  kackang  yust  caus 
grub  bane  not  so gude  lake  Park  Place 
gavang.  Aie  tank  battar  aie  skal  stae 
hare  an  hare  drummar  fallar  swar  bae 
das  Wast  Mich  R.  R.  Co.  Aie  tank  at 
bane  mor  fun.  Bae g o l!  dam  fallar  as 
skal  managang  das  R.  R.  Co.  look  liak 
dae  don’t  got som  sanse laft.  Corse  dae 
mus  bane  smart bae dar own astamataon. 
Aie  skal  tal  yo  at  bane lookang to Sweed 
mans  up  trea  liak  das  falars  bane  ovar 
astamatad  dam  salves.  Yo  bane  van- 
tang  to  com  bae  Gran  Rapad,  yo  mus 
lave  Travarca  Caity  bae  naight  cars 
an  com  hom  naxt  wake;  avary  tang, 
yust  acept  Rasortars  don’t  got  som show 
bae  das’  strake  rust  das  taine  yar. 
Avary  fallar  bane  travalang  bae  ,das 
contry  bane  shipang  gudes  bae  das  G. 
R.  &  I.  R.  R.  Co.  Dam  fallar got 
gude  Horse Sance;  tha  skal not tank  one 
mans  bane  whol  tang.  Drummar  fallar 
sae  of  hae  skal  bane  askang  favar  bae 
das G.  R.  &  L  or F.  & P.  M.  R.  R.  Co.,

lake  fast  cars  stoppang  som  place  hal- 
pang  out  travalang  mans,  hae  gattang 
gude  treatmant,  but  C.  &  W.  M.  can 
com  to  H—la;  das  fallar  tallang  mae 
yong  womans  ba  Thompsonvile  skal 
bane  waniang  ta  com  bai  Chicago  an 
skal 
lake  to  com  on  fast  cars  Agant 
bae  Thompsonvile,  hae  talagrapb  to 
gattang  ordar  bae  supirtandant  hae  skal 
stop  cars.  Nit,  takang  too  much  taime 
to  opan  gates;  das  yong  lady  mus  wate 
tal  elaven  two  naxt  day.  Aie  skal  tank 
sombody  bane  takang  tumbal  bae  dam 
salves sometaime;  Aie skal tank das  fal 
lars  got  yust  bout  much_sanse  as  Span 
ard :

Aie  skal  close  das  lattar  hopang  das 
Spanards  an  C.  &  W.  M.  R.  R.  Co. 
skal  bane  gattang  gude  Hors 
sanse 
sometaime. 

Yo n ie  Yonson.

Gustave  Metzger  has  purchased  the 
interest  of  John  F.  Hartmann  in  the 
firm  of  Hartmann  &  Metzger,  grocers 
at  346  Fourth  street,  and  will  continue 
the  business 
in  his  own  name  at  the 
same  location.

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 
35 cents.  Advance  payment.

BUSINESS  ChANCEA.

671

667

riENTRALLY  LOCATED  DRUG  STORE,  DO- 
ing a  good  business  in  the  city,  for  sale. 
Good  reasons  for  selling.  Address  I.  Frank- 
ford,  Fire  Insurance  and  Real  Estate  Agent, 
Phone  1236,  53  West  Bridge  Street,  Grand 
Rapids. 
'T'O  EXCHANGE  FOR  A  STOCK  OF  GEN- 
X  eral  merchandise  or  shoe  stock—good  80- 
acre farm, all  improved,  thiee  miles  north  of 
Coopersville, Mich  Also  a  sawmill  and  edger 
with  20,000  capacity  per  day.  Address  R.  D. 
McNaughton. Coopersville,  Mich. 

f poR  SALE—SMALL  DRUG  STOCK.  ADD 
from $100 to $200 and  you  have  a  complete 
stock.  Good chance to rigut party.  Address H. 
G. M., care Michigan Tradesman. 
670
iP'OR EXCIIANGE-TWO GOOD LOTS IN CHI- 
cago, valued  at  $1,000  each,  free  and  clear, 
for a stock of goods, groceries preferred.  Mercer 
669
& Mather. Grand Rapids, Mich. 
iTOR  SALE—DRUG,  BOOK  AND  STATION- 

ery  stork,  invoicing  $4,500,  and  fixtures 
invoic ng $309,  which  include show cases, shelv­
ing  and  bottles.  Daily  cash  sales  in  1891,  $2«- 
>92. $30;  1893, $31;  1894, $34.65;  1895,  $25;  1896, 
$21.20, and 1897, $24.13.  Located in manufactur­
ing town.  No cut prices.  Rent reasonable, $29 
per month.  Living rooms in connection.  Ad­
dress Ne. 668, care Michigan Tradesman.  668
T?OR RENT OR SALE—FACTORY AND  TWO 
X1  warehouses,  belonging  to  Michigan  Fire 
Ladder and  Engine Company, on D., G. R. & W. 
R.R.,  near  East  street  crossing.  Call upon or 
address The Michigan Trust Company. 
< 72
17'OR SALE—FURNITURE AND UNDERTAK-
X   ing business  in the  most enterprising  town
in Southwestern Michigan,  Best location in the 
city.  Address No. 673,  care  Michigan  Trades- 
man, for particulars._____ 
673
17'OR Ra le—pa t e n t s  c o v ek in g  t r a v is
XI  Adjustable  Blackboard  Eraser.  Also  ma­
chines and all stock on hand.  A  rare  opportu­
nity for right party.  An  article  upon  which  100 
per cent, profit may be realized.  Must be sold at 
once.  Address Box 222, Clinton, Mich. 
17'OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  CLOTHING  AND 
X   furnishings in a city  of  12,000 and  growing 
fast.  Stock  will  invoice  from  $5,000  to  $6,000; 
nearly all new within a year;  doing a good busi­
ness  and  trade  increasing.  Stock,  lease  and 
good  will  will  be  sold  at  a  bargain  if  done 
quickly.  This is a rare opportunity to step into a
i  fine business, with  a  nice,  clean,  well-selected 
stock  in  the  be-t  town  of its size in Michigan. 
Address No. 676, care Michigan Tradesman.  676 
17'OR  SALE  CHEAP  FOR  CASH—WELL IM- 
X  proved farm, good buildings, 80acres choice 
land, located in Ionia  county. 
J.  H.  Putnam 
Custer, Mich. 
663  ’
$10,000  STOCK  OF  DRY
goods;  doing  a  good business.  Will  take
some  unincumbered  real  estate.  Address  G., 
661
Lansing, Mich. 

17'OR  SALE—A 
IP'OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 

chandise.  Must be sold.  Cost about $4 000. 
Bids received until Aug. 9,  1898.  Stock may  be 
inspected  at  Mancelona,  Mich.  N.  C.  Weter 
Assignee. 
IP'OR  SALE—HARDWARE  STOCK  INVOIC- 
ing about $2,206 and budding and lot valued 
X 
at about $800 in a good live town of 1,500.  Coun­
try  is  being  rapidly  settled  with  farms.  One 
good factory  employing 100 men.  Good reasons 
for selling.  The only  hardware  store  in town. 
Must  be  cash.  Address  No. 655, care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

I  TOR  SALE—STOCK  OF DRY  GOODS  AND
groceries.  WiU  sell  cheap  for  cash.  Ad- 
dress  Box I,  Montgomery,  Mich. 
656
Br ic k sto re f o r  r e n t- b e st lo c a tio n
in the city.  Finished  with  latest  modern 
fixtures.  A grand  opportunity  for an  opening 
for a general stock. 
Is  located  In  the  richest 
agricultural  country  In  the  State,  thirty-five 
miles away from  any  large  town.  Reasonable 
rent.  For further particulars  address C.  Light- 
stone, Carson City, Mich. 

675 

658

660

655

654

17'OR SALE -DRUG  STORE IN BEST CITY IN 
Michigan.  Average  daily  sales,  $20;  per 
cent,  profits.  50  per  cent.  Monthly  ex­
penses, $60.  These are facts. 
Investigate.  Ad­
M a k e  us  an  o f f e r ,  w e l l-s it u a t e d ,
dress No. 659, care Michigan Tradesman.  659

good-paying  wall  paper, paint  and  picture 
framing business must be sold at once,  for cash 
only.  Schwind  &  Alten,  32  West  Bridge  St., 
Grand Rapids,  Mich. 
Li  OR KENT OR  SALE—A  STORE  SUITABLE 
X  for general merchandise, located  in  a  pros­
perous village in Berrien  county,  Mich.  Splen­
did  opportunity  for  a  live  man  to  establish  a 
paying business.  For particulars address  I.  W. 
Alien, St. Joseph, Mich.___________ 
649
Best  location  in  Mic h ig a n  fo r  a 
cold  storage  and  general  produce  dealer. 
Write to the  Secretary  of  the  Otsego  Improve­
631
ment Association, Otsego, Mich. 
Mer c h a n t s—do you w ish cash  q u ic k
for your stock of merchandise,  or  any  part 
of it?  Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mich.
__________ _________ 628_
ti'OR  SALE—A  PROSPEROUS  DRUG  AND 
invoicing  from  $4,000  to 
$5,000,  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  expenses.  Reasons  for  selling, 
loss of partner and poor health.  Kelley  &  Cad- 
well invite inspection. 
'T'O   EXCHANGE—FOR  CLOTHING,  DRY
X  goods or shoes, very nice  well rented Grand 
Rapids property.  Address No.  552, care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
'T'O  EXCHANGE — FARMS  AND  OTHER 
X  property for dry  goods, clothing  and  shoes. 
Address P.  Medalie, Mancelona, Mich. 

grocery  stock, 

553

625

552

BROOMS

i P'OR SALE-MODERN, WELL-ESTABLISHED 

and equipped broom factory and good trade. 
Other  business  commands  our  attention.  Ad- 
dress No. 584, care Michigan Tradesman.  584

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

V«7'I» NTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
t* 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co., Travelse City, Mich. 
WANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mich. 

381

556

FIREPROOF  SA FES

et EO. M. SMITH,  NEW  AND  SECONDHAND 

X  safes,  wood  and  brick  building mover, 157 

Ottawa street, Grand Rapids. 
SHIRTS.

613

Ha v e  yours  m ahe to your m e a su r e.
Send  for  measurement  blanks.  Frank  T. 
Collver. 103 Washtenaw St. E.. Lansing, Mich. 635

MISCELLANEOUS.

\ \ T ANTED—DRUG CLERK.  SOME EXPERI- 
vv  ence required.  Apply  J. A.  Tinholt,  Mus­
kegon, Mich. 
OS1TION  WANTED  BY  A  SINGLE  MAN. 
Large  experience  in  general  merchandise. 
Can give good references.  Address No. 664, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

674

664

FOLDING  TABLE

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Sterling FurnitudeGo»

GRAND HAVEN.MICn.

A.  VAN  PUTTEN  8  CO.

M F R S.  O F

B u t t e r  T u b s
Lard Packages  and 
Handmade  Creamery 
Butter Tubs a specialty.

HOLLAND,  MICH.

Travelers’  Time  Tables.

M  A I V  K

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 F   &  Northea8tern Ry*

Lw  Best route to Manistee.

HOLLAND  &  CHICAGO  LINE,

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Via  C. &  W.  M.  Railway.

Lv Grand Rapids.............................  7:00am
A r  Manistee............................  
Lv  Manistee.  .......................... 
A r Grand  Rapids  .........................   1 .oopm  0:55pm

12:05pm 
8:30am 

 

......................
4:10pm

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T R A V E L

VIA

F.  &  P   M.  R.  R.

AND  ST E A M S H IP   LINES 

TO  ALL  PO IN TS  IN  M ICHIGAN

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in 

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

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In effect June 25th.

Operating  the  elegant  and  fast  steamers  “ Soo 
City” and  “ City of Holland”  between  Holland and 
^..licago,  connecting  at  Holland with  the C.  &  W. 
M.  Railway  for  Grand  Rapids  and  all  points  east 
and north.  SUMMER  SCHEDULE.
Lv.  Holland,  daily (except  Sunday)...........$:oo p.m.
Lv.  Holland,  Sunday........... ...................... j ;qo p.m.
Lv.  Holland,  Saturday (special)..................6:30 a.m.
Lv. Chicago,  dally (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.
Single  Round
FARE. 
*3-5°
Between  Holland and Chicago 
$2.25
Between Grand Rapids and Chicago  3.15 

Berth included.

SPECIAL  RATES.

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

and  Sat­
yr  $‘-75 =
leaving
Above
Charles  B. Hopper, 
Gen’l  F. &  P.  Agt

Office,  No.  1  State St., 

Chicago. 

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Co.

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of
PURE,HIGH GRADE

COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

j 
r  No  Chemicals  are  used  in 
their manufactures.
Trade-Marl
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  Is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious', nutritious,  and costs less  than one 
cent a cup.
Their Premium  No.  I  Chocolate, put up In 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best 
plain chocolate in the market for family use.
Their  derman  Sweet  Chocolate id  good  to 
eat and good to drink.  It is palatable, nutrì, 
tions, and  healthful ;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.
Buyers should ask for and be sure that they 
get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
is on every package.
Walter  Baker &  Co.  Ltd. 

Dorchester,  Mass.

CHICAGO "d“
Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids................7:30am  3:40pm  * 2:15am
Ar.  Chicago...................2:10pm  9:05pm  7:30am
Lv. Chicago................ 7:20am  4:15pm *  8:45pm
A.r.G’dRapids............  1:25pm  10:30pm  * 2:15am
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
by. G’d  Rapids............. 2:15am  8:C5am  2:10pm
Parlor  and  Sleeping  Cars  on  afternoon  and 
night trains to and from Chicago.

♦Every  day. 

Others week days only.

nPTDOIT Qrand Rapids & Western.

*  * \ v l  1 , 

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Detroit.

Ly. Grand  Rapids........7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pm
Ar. Detroit....................11:40am  5:45pm  to:05pm
by. Detroit....................8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......12:55pm  5:20pm 10:56pm

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville, 

by. GR 7:00am 4:20pm  Ar. G R 12:20pm  9:30pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Gao.  DeHaten,  General Pass. Agent.

/ I D A   lV in   Tnu,k Railway System

y l r   Detroit and Milwaukee Dly

(In effect May 15,1896)

WEST

EAST. 

♦Daily. 

beave. 
Arrive,
t 6:45am  8ag.,  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...........13:15pm
* 8:35am— Gd. Haven  and  lut. Pts....* 7:05pm 
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.

E. H. Hu gh es, A. G. P. AT. A.
Bek.  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.
GRAND Rapids  ft  Indiana Railway
Northern  Dlv.  beave  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..................{10:50pm
Cadillac................................... t 5:25pm tll:15am
Train leaving at 7:46 a. m. has  parlor car, and 
train  leaving  at 2:15  p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
Mackinaw.
Southern  Dlv.  beave  Arrive
Cincinnati.............................. t 7:10am  t  8:25pm
Ft. Wayne...............................+ 2:10pm  t 2:00pir
Cincinnati.............................. * 7:00pm  ♦ 7:25>tr>
7:10 a.m.  train  has parlor  car to  Clncinusti 
2  10 p. m.  train  has parlor  car  to Fort  Wayne. 
7:00 p. m  train  has  sleeping  car  to Cincinnati. 

Chicago Trains.

TO CHICAGO.

FROH   CHICAGO.

Lv. Grand Rapids...t7  10am  t2  10pm 
♦11  35pm 
Ar. Chicago............   2 Of pm  9  10pm
6 30am
Lv. Chicago............................ +3 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 
Bleeping car to Chicago.
Train leaving  Chicago  3.02  p.  m.  has  buffet
hicago  11.45  p.  m.  has  coach  and  Pullman 
sleeping car to Grand Rapids.

garlor  car  to  Grand  Rapids.  Train  leaving 

Muskegon Trains.

GOING W EST.

GOING HAST.

Lv G’d  Rapids...*....... t7:35am  tl:00pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon...............   9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
LvMnskegon..............t8:10am  tll:45am t4:00pm
Ar G’d Rapids.............9:30am  12:56pm  5:20pm
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.

tExcept Sunday.  »Dally.  {Saturday only.
C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 
W. C. BLAKE, 

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

DULUTH, s“*> SR0.nJ‘.“ *“*°'“

W EST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)til:10pm  t7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City..................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace..........................   9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.................  19:90pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette..........................  2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria.............................  5:20pm  12:45am
8:30am
Ar. Duluth.............................................  

HAST  BOUND.

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

I m i t a i

Jûf  lije  U n t a   S ta te s   o f   E n te r ic o ,

ÌREETING :

To

H U N H Y   K O C H ,   your  c l e r i c s ,   attorneys,  ager.j, 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of
New  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant 
that 
i  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District

iS L f T J S  stjssiid  henry koch'

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ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

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

llouij  (Lljcrcfure, we  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  vou 
under  the  pains  and  penalties  which  may  fall  upon  you  and  each  of  you  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,"  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scourina 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

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

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

that  which  is  not  Complainants  said  manufacture,  and  from  n  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO’*  in  any 
false  or  misleading  manner. 
r

Witness,

[se a l]

ROWLAND  COX,

Comt>kdnants  Solicitor

The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  Stares  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
in  said  District  of  New 
Jersey,  this  16th  day  of  December,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two,

[sig n e d]

S.  D.  OLIPHANT,

Clerk

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rings Gladness to the Home

Brings  prosperity  to  the  Merchants.
It  saves  the  pennies  and  dimes  by 
checking overweights  and  giving cor­
rect  values. 
It  is  a  safe,  paying  in­
vestment,  because  it  actually  saves 
many dollars annually.

Until  the  Money  Weight  System  was 
invented,  no  merchant  ever  dreamed 
how  much  he  was  losing  by  the  use 
of the  old  pound  and  ounce scales.

The  Money  Weight System  has  been 
a  blessing and  merchants  do  not  hes­
itate to endorse  it.

Yours  for success,

The  Computing  Scale  Co.,

D ayton,  Ohio.

Abe  Cheap  Coffees  Profitable?

Better  profits  and  more  constant  profits 
come  from  selling  Teas  and  Coffees  as 
good  as  Bour’s.  All  ourcoffes are roasted 
and  packed  on  day  of shipment.

T H P   I  M   ROI ID   TV*  H3-II5-II7 Ontario Street; TOLEDO, 0. 
129  Jefferson  Ave.,  DETROIT,  Mich.
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MAKE  BUSINESS

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