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Votame  XV. 

QKAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  10.  1898. 

Number 777

PURITY AND  STRENGTH!

Î   GO ’S  GOdPBESSED  YEHST

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

A B SO L U T E L Y   P U R E

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

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Is  the  Biggest  and  Best  plug of Tobacco 
on  the  market  to-day. 
Your  competi­
tor  has  it  for  sale.

JESS  TOBACCO

FOR  SALE  ONLY  BY

M U SS E L M A N   GROCER  CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Everything  in  the  Heating  Line

Be  it  Steam,  Hot Water  or Hot  Air.  Mantels, Grates and 
•  Tiling.  Galvanized  Work  of  Every  Description.  Largest 

Concern  in the State.

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Mail  O rd ers  S olicited.

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Are  our  FREIGHT  ELEVATORS  of  any  capacity.
Our SCALE TRUCK  is an  8oo-lb scale  combined  with 
the  regular warehouse truck.  We also  make  Engines,
Boilers,  Smokestacks,  Iron  and  Brass  Castings,  Steel 
Culvert  Pipe and  General  Machine Work.

Repairs  done  in  any  part  of  the  state.  Reach  us 

any hour, day or night, by long distance phone.

Lansing  Boiler &  Engine  Works,

L a n sin g ,  M ich .

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.

j M.  B.  Wheeler  Electric Go..  Mtrs.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Show  Room  at  No.  99  Ottawa  St.

I THE  “ OHIO”
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This  Cutter  is  for  hand  use  only, 
and  is a  strong-,  light-running  ma­
chine.  It  is adapted to cutting hay, 
straw and com  fodder, and  is  suit - 
able for parties keeping from one to 
four or five animals.  There is  only 
one size,  and  is  made  so  it  can  be 
knocked down and packed for ship­
ment,  thus  securing  lower  freight 
rate; has n ji inch knife, and by very 
simple changes makes  four  lengths 
of cut.  This is only one of the OHIO 
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family of Feed and Ensilage Cutters 
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and Shredders.  A  good agent wanted
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That  to  keep  our coffees  upon  your  shelves 
in  spite  of  competition  more  or  less  strongo

Our  Coffees  and  Teas

Must  excel  in  Flavor  and  Strength  and  be
constant  Trade  Winners.

The J.  M.  Bour Co..

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  10,  1898.

Number  777

T he  M ercantile  A gency

Established  1S41.

R. G.  DUN  &  CO.

Widdicomb Bid’s, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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

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full line of Fall and  Winter Clothing.  Has 
the  largest  line  of  Kersey  Overcoats  and  o) 
Ulsters on the  road;  best  $5.50  Kersey  all 
wool overcoat  in  market,  all  manufactured  of
by KOLB  &  SO N, R o c h e s t e r ,  n .  r.  3  
If you  wish to look  over  my  line,  write  ®j
me,  Box  346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  or meet me  o< 
at Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand Rapids,  Mich ,  on 
 
Thursday and Friday, Aug.  11 and  12.  Ex-  <3 
penses allowed.  No harm done If you don’t  3  
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PREFERRED  BANKERS 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY

O P   D E T R O I T .  M IC H IG A N .

Commenced  Business September  1,  1893.

Insurance in  force...................................$2,746,000.00
Net Increase during  1897......................  
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..............................................  
812.00
17,000.00
Death  Losses Paid During  1897............ 
6.31
Death  Rate for 1897................................  
Cost  per  1,000 at age 30 during  1897.... 
8.25
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TRU M AN   B.  GOODSPEED. Sec’y.

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Made to hold  from 27 to  60  names 

and  sell  for 75 cents  to  $2.

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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  RAPID5.

CARLO T  SHIPM ENTS.

Rapid  Improvement 

in  the  Handling 

of  Peaches.

The  fruit  season  will  open  next  week 
and  all  the  indications  point  to  one  of 
the  liveliest  seasons  on  record.  The 
peach  crop 
is  not  large—that  is,  the 
amount  produced  on  individual  trees  is 
not  up  to  the  average—but  a  great 
many  new  orchards,  and  many  old  or­
chards  replanted,  will  come 
into  bear­
ing »this  season  and 
the  quantity  of 
peaches  to  be  marketed  is  enormous.  If 
Michigan  had  to  consume  the  entire 
output,  the  whole  State  would  have  to 
work  overtime  until  well  along into next 
winter  to  accomplish  the  task ;  but,  for 
tunately,  the  burden  of  eating  the  fruit 
will  be  widely  distributed,  more  wide­
ly,  probably,  than  ever  before.  The 
wider  distribution  will  have  a  tendency 
to  keep  down  a  glut  in  the  market  and 
will  keep  prices  up,  but 
it  is  highly 
probable  that  peaches  will  be  pretty 
cheap  before  the  season  closes.

Three  and  four  years  ago  the  peach 
growers  all  made  money  and  the success 
of  those  seasons  led  to  the  planting  of 
many  new  orchards.  The  same  success 
did  not  attend  the  industry  two  years 
ago  or  last  year,  but  the  young  orchards 
were  allowed 
to  keep  oh  growing  and
this  year  they  will  come  into  bearing 
and  will  more  than  make  good  what 
otherwise  would  be  a  deficiency.  The 
effect  is  about  three years after the cause 
in  this  case,  but  the  prospects  are  good 
that  the  former  successes  will  be  re­
peated  and  on  a 
larger  scale.  The 
Maryland  crop  is  an  almost  total  failure 
and  the  Delaware  and  New  Jersey  crops 
are  short.  This  will  open  the  Eastern 
markets,  clear  up  into  New  England,  to 
Michigan  peaches  and  hundreds  of  car­
loads  will  be  taken  from our abundance. 
Three  years  ago many Michigan peaches 
were  sent  East  and  found  high  favor 
and  the  good 
impression  created  then 
will  make  it  easy  to  find  a  market  this 
year.  Large  shipments  will  also  be 
made  to  the  West,  as  far  as  Minne­
apolis  and  Omaha,but  the  Western  mar­
ket  never  has  bad  much  of  a  mouth  for 
peaches.  Whether  this  is  due  to  a pref­
erence  for other  fruit,  a  failure  to  cu lti­
vate  the  Western  trade  or  a  difficulty  in 
shipping  the  fruit  in  that direction  does 
not  appear;  but this  season  the  business 
is  to  be  pushed  into  that  quarter.

interest 

Rapid  freight  trains  and  the  express 
make  possible  the  shipment  of  peaches 
to  the  distant  markets.  The  fruit  is  un­
like  apples. 
It  cannot  be  shipped  far, 
nor be  kept  long,  without  deterioration, 
and  much  depends  how  near  the  mar 
ket  can  be  brought  to  the  orchard  as  to 
how  wide  a  market  can  be  reached. 
When  peach  growing  became  a  recog 
nized 
in  these  parts—that  was 
about  twenty  years  ago—Chicago  was 
about  as  far  as  the  fruit  grower  could 
look  for  a  market.  The  fruit  was  not 
sent  by  fast  freight  in  those  days,  but 
went  by  express,  and  the  American Ex­
press  Co.  practically  monopolized  the 
business.  The  shipments  were  modest 
affairs 
in  those  days  and  W.  George 
Wormley  recalls  that  one  Sunday  night 
about  eighteen  years  ago  he  called  his

father  out  of  church  to  make  arrange­
ments,  to  give  the  Fennville  growers  a 
special  car  for  what  was  considered  an 
extraordinary  large  consignment.  The 
interest 
rapidly  developed,  however, 
and  each  Succeeding  year  saw  it  attain­
ing 
larger  proportions,  and  ten  years 
ago  the  company  was  running a fruit ex­
press  train  of  their  own,  beside  having 
four  or  five  extra  express  cars  on 
the  regular  trains  over  the  Chicago  & 
West  Michigan  to  Chicago.  About  that 
time  the  railroads  came  to  the  con­
clusion  that  there  was  enough  money  in 
the  fruit  traffic  to  look  after  it.  The 
Chicago  &  West  Michigan  put  on  a 
special  fast  freight  train  for  the  accom­
modation  of  the  fruit  shippers  and  then 
the  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  did  the 
same,  and  soon  all  the  roads  running 
out  from  this  city  or  penetrating  the 
fruit  belt  were in  the  field  for  business 
and  offering  special 
inducements  and 
facilities.

in 

When  the  railroads  put  the  first  spe­
cial  train  in  service ordinary box freight 
cars  were  used  and  on  a  hot  night  what 
fruit  was  not  crushed  by  awkward pack­
ing  was  pretty  soft  before  reaching  the 
Chicago  market.  Each  season  bas  seen 
improvements  in  the  method  and  man­
ner  of  handling  the  fruit,  and  to-day 
peaches  travel 
luxury.  For  short 
hauls  to  Chicago  and  Detroit,  for  in­
stance,  ordinary  box  cars  so  arranged 
that  they  will  be  thoroughly  ventilated 
and  then  kept  cool  are  still  used,  but 
for  the  market  East  of  Buffalo  and 
Pittsburg  refrigerator  cars  thoroughly 
iced  will  be  used  this  season.  So 
im­
portant  is  it  expected  the  long  distance 
shipping  will  be  this  season  that  the 
Fruitgrowers  Express  Co.  has  opened 
an  office  here  for  the  summer  and  wili 
have  several  hundred  cars  available. 
Peach  buyers  will be here from the East­
ern  markets  and  some  are  already  on 
the  ground.  The  early  peaches,  such 
ás  are  now  in  market,  are  not  desired 
by  the  buyers  from  a  distance,  although 
a  few  carloads  have  been  sent  out,  but 
about  next  week  the  shipping  peaches 
will  begin  coming  in.

Plums  are  very  plentiful  this  season 
and  these will  also  seek  the  distant mar­
kets,  although  not  in  any  such  quanti­
ties  as  the  peaches.  Apples  are  a  fair 
crop 
in  the  territory  north  of  this  city 
and  pears  will  be  abundant.

for  the 

GENERAL  TRADE  S IT U A T IO N .
While  the  war  just  closing  has  been 
remarkable 
little  deleterious 
effect  observable  in  finance and business 
there  is  yet  a  feeling  of  increased  satis­
faction  and  confidence  in  the  return  of 
peace  which  promises  added 
impetus 
to  the  wheels  of 
improvement.  The 
political  changes  growing  out  of  the 
war  seem 
likely  to  produce  economic 
changes  which  will  continue  to  engage 
attention  to  a  degree  to  more  than  over 
balance  the  effects  of  the  return  cf  the 
soldiery to  the  fields  of  business  activity 
they  had  abandoned  to  others.  While 
there  will  be  many  who  will  leave  the 
ranks  for  civil 
life  again,  the  need  of 
maintaining  a  considerable  army  will 
call  for  other  enlistments  so  that  the  de­
mands  for  employment  will  be  kept in a

healthy  condition. 
In  the  promised  de­
velopment  of  the  new  territories  and  in 
the  renewal  of  trade  operations  along 
the  old  lines,  as  well  as  new  ones  in  the 
improved  relations,  there 
is  the  assur­
ance ot a demand of  attention  which  will 
more  than  balance the activities  of  war, 
and  that  under  the  healthier  conditions 
of  normal  trade.

The  increase  of  orders  following  the 
assurance  of  peace  is  still  further  urg­
ing  the  lessening  of  the  summer  vaca­
tion  and  repair  season,  so  that  the  pres­
ent  is  reported  as  the  briefest  used  for 
such  purposes 
in  many  years.  Works 
are  again  hurrying  to  catch  up  with  or­
ders  and  a  stiffening  of  prices  appears 
lines  of  iron  manufacture,  as 
in  many 
well  as 
in  the  raw  pig.  A  significant 
feature  of  the  situation  is  the  offering 
of  contracts  for  long  future  delivery— 
next  winter  or  next  year—not  all  of 
which  were  accepted  by  the  manufac­
turers.  Many  good  contracts  of  this 
kind  are  being  made,  however,  both  for 
foreign  and  domestic  use,  and  the  de­
mand  for  structural  and  plate  forms  and 
bars  is  remarkably  heavy.

The  Eastern 

textile  manufacturers 
were  still  endeavoring  vainly  to  secure 
better  prices  by  the  curtailment  of  pro­
duction.  There 
is  some  improvem ent 
for  staple  goods  and  the 
in  demand 
feeling 
is  generally  more  hopeful,  but 
actual  transactions  are  scarcely  up  to 
expectation  as  yet.  Much  attention 
seems  to  be  given  to  the  modification of 
the  character  and  varieties  of 
light­
weight  woolens,  evidently 
in  the  hope 
that  with  the  new  styles  may  come  bet­
ter  prices.

The  boot  and  shoe  industry  again  re­
ports  actual  shipments  from  the  East 
for  the  year  thus  far  exceeding  those  of 
any  previous  year  to date,  and  while  the 
excess  over  1895 
is  small,  the  quanti­
ties  being  2,586,669  cases  this  year, 
against  2,583,602,  the  excess  over  1896 
is  about  300,000  and  over  1897  about 
232,000  cases,  and  the 
increase  since 
1892  is  about  19  per  cent.  While nearly 
all  the  works  are  said  to  be  busy,  some 
have  scarcely  any  orders  ahead  and  are 
kept  running  by current demands,  while 
others  have  orders  in  advance  for  weeks 
and 
for  one  or  two 
months  But 
jobbers  are  still  bolding 
back  orders  as  far  as  their  trade  per­
mits,  and  although  prices  have  been  but 
slightly  advanced  at  any  time  this  year, 
they  average  about  2  per  cent,  higher 
than  in  May,  though  slightly  lower  than 
in  January.

in  many  cases 

turn 

The  promised 

for  the  better 
last  week  materialized  in  a  con­
noted 
tinued 
improvement  extending  to  the 
last  day  or  two,  which  we  characterized 
by  a  weakening  in  price,  though  with 
little  change.  On  the  whole  the  varia­
tions are  so  small  that  the present quota­
tions  would  seem  to  be  based  on  about 
the  normal  level.

Among  the  favorable  indications  may 
be  enumerated  the  resumption  of  gold 
imports 
to  an  unexpected  extent— 
$2,075,000  from  London  and  $1,650,000 
lesser  ship­
from  Sydney— and  other 
ments.  This 
indicates  the  continual 
balance  in  our  favor  which  gives  assur­
ance  of  the  continued  favorable  condi­
tions  during  the  next  fiscal  year.

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

lYi  cents  per  yard on many orders taken, 
as  compared  with  what  the  manufac­
turers  expected  at  the  oprening  of 
last 
season.

Cleverness  and  Judgment.

There  is  an  old  lady  in this city  whose 
utterances  would  make  a  book  of  pro­
verbial  philosophy  far  and  away  wiser 
than  any  Martin  Tupper  ever  thought 
of.  The  old  lady’s  occupation  is taking 
care  of  a  remarkably  bright  and  pre­
cocious  little  girl,  of  whose  perfections 
she  is  never  weary  of  discoursing,  but 
she  invariably  winds  up  her  panegyric 
on  her  charge  by  saying,  “ I  tell  you, 
that  child  is  smart,  and  she’s  got  sense 
with  it. ”

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D ry   G oods

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

. 
Staple  Cottons—There  has  been  but 
little  interest  shown  in  any  of  the  staple 
cotton  departments  since  our  last report, 
and  the  entire  demand  has  been  very 
moderate.  There  has  been  some  easing 
of  conditions  in  brown  goods and buye 
are  able  to  do  their  business  on  an  easy 
basis.  These  are  almost  entirely  out 
side  makes,  however,  and  standard 
tickets  are  generally  tirm.  There  is  no 
change  to  report  for  bleached  cotton 
and  business  is  quiet  and  dull,  although 
remain 
prices 
quoted. 
In  regard  to  coarse  colored 
cottons,  there  has  been  but  a  r ery  ligf 
request  either  for  domestic  use  or  ex 
port,  and  no  changes  have  been  mad 
in  prices

firm,  as  previous 

lines, 

including 

Prints  and  Ginghams—The  market  i 
in  regard  to  business  an 
fancy  prints 

fairly  steady 
strong  as  to  prices.  Dark 
are  well  enough  sold  ahead  to  maintai 
prices  at  present  basis.  On  miscellane 
ous 
Indigo  blues 
mournings,  etc.,  as  well  as  woven  pat 
terned  goods 
in  ginghams,  staples 
napped  fabrics  and  other  dress  goods 
the  demand  has  been  rather 
irregular 
but  at  the  same  time  there  has  been  no 
pressure  on  the  part  of  the  holders  to 
force  their  goods.

Dress  Goods—Salesmen  on  the  road 
in  search  of  advance  orders  for  fall, 
from  dress  goods  departments  of  the 
jobbing  houses  are  meeting  with  quite 
fair  success,  although  they  report  as  yet 
considerable 
lack  of  vigor  in  business 
with  them.  Deliveries  for  fall  are  re 
ported  to  be  coming  forward  in  a  satis 
factory  manner  and  are  being  forwarded 
immediately  to  the  buyers.

Hosiery—The  general 

line  of  fancy 
hosiery  for  fall 
is  smaller  than  it  was 
last  season,  and  while  there  is  quite  a 
large  number  of  styles  shown, 
there 
has  been  considerable  curtailment 
this  direction  this  season.  The  higher 
grade  of  goods  rather  predominates  and 
it 
is  expected  that  these  higher  grades 
will  find  increased  business  for  this sea­
son.

Blankets— It  has  been  several  years 
since  the  blanket  trade  was in as healthy 
a  condition  as  it  is  now  and,  as  a  con 
sequence, the manufacturers are  jubilant. 
Naturally,  prices 
are  exceptionally 
strong,  and  the  buyer  in  the  market  to­
day  has  little  chance  of  getting  his 
goods  at  any  price 
for  sometime  to 
come.

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Carpets—The  decline  in  ingrains  this 
largely  due  to  the  condition 
season 
of  the  tapestry  market. 
It  will  be  re­
membered  by  many  in  the  trade  that 
manufacturers,  last November,  sent their 
salesmen  out  with  instructions  to  hold 
all  wool  extra  super  ingrain  carpets  at 
52K   cents.  The  result  was  no  orders 
on  the  first  trip  at  this  price.  Later,  the 
travelers  covered  the  same  field  offering 
to  sell  at  50  cents,  and  obtained  a  very 
fair  complement  of  orders,  as  the  trade 
realized  that  manufacturers  who  were 
obliged  to  pay  higher  prices  for  yarn 
and  raw  material,  owing  to  a  duty  on 
wool,  could not  afford  to  sell  at  the  same 
prices  and  produce  standard  goods. 
From  the  effects  of  the  auctions  on  tap­
estries,  and  other  causes,  we  find  the 
manufacturers  this  season  forced  to  sell 
extra  super  all-wool  ingrain  at  45@47 
cents.  The  buyers,  from  this,  might 
infer  that  if  manufacturers  can  afford  to 
sell  at  these  prices,  they asked  too  much 
last  season,  as  there 
is  a  difference  of

Could  any  criticism  be  more  delicate­
ly  and  subtly  discriminating?  Could 
any  other  description  be  more  photo­
graphic 
in  its  accuracy?  A  thousand 
instances  rush  to  the  memory  to  confirm 
the  superlative  quality  of  the  old  worn 
an’s  compliment.  We  have  all  known 
so  many  people  who  were  one  or  th 
other,  so  few,  alas! who were both.  How 
many  women  we  count  among  our  ac 
quaintances  who  tare  smart,  bright,  ca 
pable,  clever,  but  with  whom all  social 
intercourse 
fraught  with  peril  and 
tribulations  simply  because  they  have 
no  sense  with  it.  They  lack  reasonable 
ness, 
They 
take  offense  when  none  is  intended,  you 
can  never  tell  from  one  day  to  another 
what  opinions  they  will  bold and friend 
ship  with  them 
is  one  long  series  of 
disastrous  experiments,  for  which  thei 
brightness,  or  wit,  and  charm  does  not 
compensate.

judgment,  practicality. 

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These  women  are  the  Mrs.  Jellabys  of 
fe.who  discredit  all  the  efforts  of  thei 
sex  towards  advancement. 
“ They  run 
off  with  crazes  and  neglect  their  homes 
and  families,  and  the  world  shrugs  its 
boulders  and  says,  "Just  what  we  ex 
pected  to  happen  when  women  took  up 
with  the  higher education scheme.  They 
espouse  hysterical  charities  and  send 
flowers  and  dainties  to  wife  murderers, 
and  money  to  the  Armenians,  when  the 
people  around  the  corner  from  them  are 
eglected  and  starving,and  it  "queers 
very  scheme  of  feminine  philanthropy 

and  subjects  it  to  ridicule.

Then  there  are  all  the women  we  have 
tried  to  help.  There  was  the  clever  lit­
tle  dressmaker  with  the  fingers  of  an 
artist,  there  was  the  poor  but  talented 
young  girl  of  good  family;  there  was 
the  elderly 
lady  who  had  seen  better 
days. 
They  might  have  all  gotten 
along  so  well  if  they  had  had  any  sense 
ith  their  smartness,  but  they  hadn't, 
be  dressmaker  needlessly disappointed 
the  woman  we  induced  to  try  her;  the 
young  aristocrat  snubbed  generous  Mrs. 
Newrich,  who  would  have  helped  her; 
the  iady  who  had  seen  better  days  went 
about  with  a  perpetual  snuffle that drove 
everybody  to  distraction,  and  they  are 
ill  on  our  charity  list.  On  the  other 
band,  what  shall  we  say  of  those  who 
have  sense  and  no  smartness  with  it? 
Better  that  than  to  be  bright  and  lack 
stability  and  good  judgment,  of  course, 
but  how  deadly  dull,  how  tiresome,  how 
we  long  to  get  away  from  them.  Happy 
ndeed  are  they  who  combine  both 
sprightliness  and  charm  with  a  sweet 
reasonableness  and  common  sense,  who, 
as  the  old  lady says  of  her  little  charge, 
are  smart  and  have  sense  with  it.

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Did  you  read  about  the Iowa preach­
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Yes,  I  presume  the  poor  man  was 
trying  to  keep  bis choir together through 
the  hot  weather. ’ ’

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To  Merchants:

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

Yours very  truly,

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News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  \ ork,  Aug.  6— We  are  having  a 
little  breathing  spell  this  week  and 
general  trade  is,  perhaps,  not  quite  as 
active  as  last  week ;  but  there  are  many 
buyers  here  and 
they  come  from  the 
South  and  Southwest  and  West.  They 
have  money  and  are  going  to  work  very 
soon  to  paint  the  town.  Profits  are  not 
large  and  a  big  trade  has  to  be  done 
in 
order  to  make  satisfactory  returns.

Coffee  has  been  about  as  uninterest­
ing  as  anything  and  yet  the  general 
tone  of  the  market  is  steady. 
It  is  as­
tonishing  how  quickly  the  conquest  of 
Porto  Rico  has  given  an  impetus  to  en­
quiries  as  to  the  coffee  districts  of  that 
island.  Your  correspondent  has  seen  a 
number  of  letters  asking  for  some  pub­
lication  relating  to  coffee  in  Porto Rico. 
The  best  summary  of  the  matter  is  that 
issued  by  the  Agricultural  Department. 
Invoice  rate  for  Rio  No.  7 
is  still 
6@6>£c,  with  little  doing.  The  amount 
in  store  and  afloat  aggregates  874,908 
bags,  against  697,329  bags  at  the  same 
time  last  year.  Mild  coffees  have  been 
in  rather  unsteady  demand.  Stocks  of 
desirable  sorts  are  not  excessive.  East 
India  sorts  are  quiet.

There  has  been  a  steadily  increasing 
demand  for  refined  sugar,  owing,  prob­
ably,  to  the  canning  season  being  in 
full  blast,  but  there  seems  as  yet  to  be 
no  delay  in  filling  orders promptly.  The 
guarantee  as  to  prices  was  continued, 
but  the  tone  of  the  market  is  strong.

large  to 

Teas  are  flat.  There is  very  little  do­
ing  by  anybody.  Stocks  held  by  interior 
dealers  are  generally  regarded  as  suffi­
ciently 
for  some  time 
There  has  been  some  discussion  as  to 
the  likelihood  of  the. revenue  tax  being 
continued  and  the  consensus  of  opinion 
is  that 
it  will  not  be  discontinued  for 
some  time,  as  extraordinary  expenses 
will  have  to  be  met.

last 

Rice  has  been  very  quiet,  except  for 
Governmental  orders  and  some  supplies 
for  Cuba.  Buyers  are  looking  around 
for  job  lots  and  sellers  are  willing  to  let 
them  look,  but  will  make  no  conces­
sions.  Prices  are  practically  the  same 
as  heretofore.

Sellers  of  spices  are  holding  for an 
it  seems 
advance 
in  many  lines  and 
probable  that  they  will  secure 
it.  The 
demand  has  been  rather  light during the 
week  as  would-be  buyers  are  reluctant 
to  lay  in  very  large  stocks,  even  though 
it  would  seem  profitable  to  carrv  a  fair 
supply.

Molasses  is  dull.  The  market  is  not 
crowded  with  supplies  and,  while  the 
demand 
to  be 
steady.  Good  to  prime  centrifugal,
i6@25c ;  good  to  prime  open-kettle, 
29@32C.

light,  prices  seem 

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The  syrup  market  is  steady,  but  with 
little  actual  business  going  forward. 
Good  to  prime  sugar  syrups,  141^170.

Canned  tomatoes  are  rather  demoral­
ized,  but  the general  run  of  the  market 
otherwise 
is  firm,  although  not  a  very 
large  amount  of  business  seems  to  be 
going  forward.  Fair quality  new  packed 
Baltimore  tomatoes  sold  at  80c  f.  o.  b. 
The  pack  of  peas  in  New  York  State  is 
said  to  be  from  50  to  75  per  cent,  short. 
New  pack  gallon  apples,  New  York 
State,  are  offered  at  $2  here.  New  York 
State  spot  corn,  70c;  spot  peas,  6s@8oc.
In  lemons  and  oranges,  about  an aver­
age  business  is  going  forward.  Stocks 
are  not  excessive  and  the  tone  therefore 
is  generally  firm.  California  oranges 
continue  to  be  shoved  to  the  rear  by  the 
abundant  supply  of  other  fruit.  We  can 
have  oranges  at  any 
time,  but  not 
Georgia  peaches.

Dried  apricots  are  firm,  but,  aside 
from  this  article,  there  is  little  anima­
tion  shown  for  anything 
in  the  dried 
fruit  line. 
In  domestic  fruits  evapo­
rated  apples  are  worth  g%c  and  evapo­
rated  raspberries  command  9^@ioc.
Receipts  of  butter  have  not  been  ex­
cessive,  and,  as  the  demand  is  good,  the 
market  is  fairly  firm  with  extra  Western 
is  very  closely 
creamery  at  19c. 
It 
graded,  however,  and 
if 
it  does  not 
stand  the  test  is  put  into  the  next  grade

M IC H IG AN   TRADESMAN

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below  as  firsts  and  then  brings  17 
18c;  seconds, 
i6@i7c;  thirds,  I4J^@ 
15'Ac;  western 
imitation  creamery,  ex 
tras,  isK @ i6c ;  firsts,  I4@i4^ ;  West 
ern  factory,  June  extras,  14c;  firsts,  13^ 
@i4c ;  seconds,  I3@i3^c ;  finest  make 
of  current  date  factory,  13^0.

Cheese  is  rather  quiet.  The  demand 
for  large  size  has  been  especially  flat 
and  7c  seems  to  be  about  the  top  figure. 
The  supply,  however,  is  not  large  and 
stocks  seem  pretty  well  sold  up 
nearly  every  instance,  so  far  as  jobbers 
are  concerned.  Cold  warehouses,  how 
ever,  contain,  it  is  thought,  fairly  lib 
eral 
Small  size  full  cream 
cheese  is  worth  7%c.

stocks. 

Prime  to 

fancy  Pennsylvania  and 
Michigan  eggs  command  14'^@15^0 
Western  fresh  gathered, 
I4^c.  The 
weather  has  been  so  universally  hot  that 
receipts  in  large  proportion  show a good 
deal  of  loss.

The  bean  week  has  been  rather  quiet 
and  the  demand  seems  to  have  fallen 
off  although  prices  are  steady.  Choice 
marrow 
jsi.50;  choice  medium,  $1.30; 
choice  pea,  $1.25.

New  Business  for  Women  in  England.
A  new  and  profitable  employment  for 
women  in  vogue  in  England  is introduc­
ing  flour.  Several  firms  who  advertise 
their  flour  the  world  over  are now hiring 
women  on  salary,  and  paying  their 
traveling  expenses,  to  introduce  a  par­
ticular  brand  of  flour 
into  towns  and 
cities  where  it  is  not  well  known.  The 
duties  are  to go  to  all  the  grocers  in  the 
town  and  find  out  how  many  dealers  are 
handling  the  flour  and  secure  as  many 
new  firms  who  will  agree  to  handle  it  as 
possible.  This  done  the  two  women  get 
a  map  of  the  city  and  divide  the  work 
for  the  entire  month,  if  they  are  to  re­
main  there  a  month.  Then  each  takes 
street  and  makes  a  house-to-house 
visit,  taking  the  name  of  each  woman 
of  the  house,  and  noting  whether  she 
uses  their  flour  or  not,  and  also  if  she 
will  agree  to  buy  the  flour  of  her grocer, 
who,  perhaps,  has  never  kept 
it  in 
stock.  At  the  end  of  the  week  a  report 
of  all  visits,  names  and  orders  is sent  in 
to  the  State  agent.  A  curious  feature 
of  this  business  is  that  no  men  are  em­
ployed  in  it.

No  Record  Broken.

Magwire— They  say  yesterday  was  the 
hottest  day  this  town  has  had  for  fifteen 
years.

Obrion — That’s  nothing;  last  summer 
there  was  a  day  that  was  the  hottest 
we’d  had  for  twenty  years.

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Process  butter  should  be  sold  for  what 
it  is.  Then  there  is  no  deception.  We 
are  reliably 
informed  that  there  is  a 
concern  operating  in  the  Elgin  district 
that 
incorporating  a  considerable 
amount  of  foreign  fats  in  its  process 
butter.  We  hope  the  authorities  will 
hunt  down  these  manufactureres,  and  if 
their  goods  are  adulterated,  prosecute 
If  they  keep  on  in  their  high­
them. 
handed  style, 
law 
against  process  goods  will  doubtless  be 
enacted  in  many  western  states the com- 
ng  winter.

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We supply these outfits to general stores and clothing dealers, FREE OF EXPENSE. 
It enables you to sell clothing without carrying a  stock.  If  you  want  the  agency 
in your town  write to us at once.

L.  Loewenstein  & Sons,  Chicago,

Clothing  Manufacturers.

Our clothing' outfit represents 
men, youths, boys and children, 
together with tape measures, ord
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V’e  send  these  out  to  merchants  free  of  all  expense, 
blanks,  envelopes, fashion plates, signs and advertising
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MI CHI GAN  T R AD E S MA N

Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Akron— B.  D.  Maxwell  succeeds  Al­

drich  &  Maxwell  in  general  trade.

D etroit—A ddie  A.  K ing 

succeeds 
Chas.  W.  M aynard  in  the drug business.
G rand  Junction—B.  S la in ’s  general 
stock  has  been  seized  on  an  execution.
Bangor— Frank  Brown  succeeds  Mar­
tin  D.  Kingston  in  the grocery business.
Saginaw— A.  L.  Klemm  has  pur 
chased  the  drug  stock  of  Harry  Dolson.
White  Cloud— Geo.  Stores  succeeds 
Mrs.  Ella  Lyon  in  the  grocery business.
North Lansing—M  H.  Sherman  & Co. 
are  succeeded  by  the  West  Side  Drug 
Co.

Charlevoix— Lewis  E.  Smith  succeeds 
Smith  &  Lamphear  in  the  laundry busi­
ness.

Gagetown— H.  G.  Graves  &  Bro.  suc­
in  general 

(Mrs.  A.)  Klein 

ceed  R. 
trade.

Battle  Creek—S.  A.  Howes 

is  suc­
ceeded  by  Howes  &  Allen  in the grocery 
business.

Breckenridge—Geo.  N  Aldrich  has 
purchased  the  general  stock  of  L.  Wag­
goner  &  Co.

Marine  City—The  Marine  City  Dry 
Goods  Co.  will  remove  its  stock  to  Ad­
rian  Sept.  i.

Battle  Creek— Henry  Rupert  has  sold 
his  flour,  feed  and  wood  business  to  C. 
Calvert  &  Son.

Caledonia—Jackson  &  Tape  have sold 
their  grocery  stock  and  meat  market  to 
Wenger  or  Co.

Alma— Mrs.  M.  Scallon  has  sold  her 
millinery  stock  to  Mrs.  C.  E.  Wixson, 
late  from  Ed more.

Bay  City— Markham  &  Bailey  have 
engaged  in  the  crockery  business  at  808 
Washington  avenue.

Akron— L.  &  E.  Rotherniel  have  in­
in  needed  improvements 

vested  $2,000 
to  their  roller  mills.

Hillsdale— The Hillsdale Coal  &  Lum­
ber  Co.  will  hereafter  be  known as  Cun­
ningham  &  Aldrich.

Jonesville—Smith  &  Patton  continue 
the  furniture  and  undertaking  business 
formerly  conducted  by  Barber  &  Smith.
Ishpeming— The  Scandinavian  Co­
operative  Co.  has  opened  a  new  general 
store  under  the  management  of  John 
¿man.

Ludington—Mrs.  H.  Gustafson  has 
in  the  Cleveland 
purchased  the  stock 
bazaar  and  consolidated  her  millinery 
stock  therewith.

White  Cloud— Mrs.  Ella  Lyons  has 
sold  her  stock  of  groceries  to  George 
Storrs,  who  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same  location.

Mount  Morris— Frank  Hughes  has 
leased  the  new  store  building  recently 
erected  by  Isaac  Vermett  and  will  oc­
cupy  same  with  his  grocery  stock.

Vicksburg—Dr.  Geo.  Newton,  who 
had  been  engaged  in  the  drug  business 
here  for  about  a  half  dozen  years,  died 
July  31  after  only  three  days'  illness.

Oscoda— Herbert  J.  Markham has pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  of  W.  D.  Ham­
mond,  who  has  gone  to  Chicago  to  take 
a  course  in  the  Rush  Medical  college.

Stanton—H.  D.  Selden,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  has  rented  the  store  recently 
occupied  b  Briggs  &  Holland  and  will 
put 
in  a  stock  of  stoves,  furniture  and 
house  furnishing  goods.

Davison— The  John  F.  Cartwright Co. 
has  been  organized,  with  a capital stock 
of  $10,000,  to  handle  farm  produce  and 
building  materials.  The  stockholders 
are  John  F.  Cartwright,  Chas.  Ira  Cart­
wright  and  Ira  W.  Cole.

Trufant—C.  E.  Van  Averv,  formerly 
manager  of  H  M.  Gibbs'  branch  drug 
store  at  Coral,  has  bought  the  drug stock 
of  Dr.  J.  Black,  at  this  place,  and  will 
continue  the  business  here.

Jackson—C.  A.  Maynard  has removed 
to  this  city  from  Ann  Arbor  and 
leased 
the  building  on  the  corner  of  Mechanic 
and  Cortland  streets,  where he  will  open 
a  grocery  store  about  August  20.

Carson  City—J.  H.  Kennedy  has  gone 
to  Reading  to  engage  in  general  trade 
on  his  own  account  Mr.  Kennedy  has 
been  connected  with  business  interests 
of  Carson  City  since  bis  boyhood.

Jackson—Alex  D.  Edwards,  the  past 
ten  years  a  traveling  salesman  for Rich­
ardson  &  Knight,  will  shortly  open  a 
men’s  furnishing  go^ds  store  at  the 
corner  of  Main  and  Mechanic  streets.

Benzonia— T h e  Case  M ercantile  Co. 
has  purchased  the  grocery and  hardware 
stock  of  Phillips  &  Son,at  Crystal  City, 
and  removed 
it  to  this  place,  consoli­
dating  it  with  their  general  stock  here.
Detroit— The  Acme  Mercantile  Co., 
formed  to  do  a  general  business  in  dia­
monds,  jewelry,  bicycles,  etc.,  has  filed 
articles  of  association  with  the  county 
clerk.  The  capital  stock 
is  $10,000, 
and  to  per  cent,  has  been  paid  in.

Lake  Linden— Coplan  &  Rosenthal, 
of  the  Boston  clothing  store,  have  dis­
solved  partnership.  Mr.  Coplan  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same 
loca­
tion.  Mr.  Rosenthal  has  gone  to  De­
troit,  where  he  will  permanently  locate.
Owosso—The  Owosso  Coal  Co.  has 
filed  articles  of  association.  The  direct­
ors  are  R.  E.  Travis  and  C.  F.  Travis, 
of  Owosso,  and  C.  N.  Oatmer,  Corunna. 
The  company 
is  doing  a  prosperous 
business  and  will  at  once  increase  its 
facilities  and  output.

Olivet—The  merchants  here  are  still 
working  all  kinds  of  schemes  to  keep 
the  people  of  the  surrounding  country 
from  going  to  larger  towns  to  do  their 
trading.  Some  kind  of  entertainment 
is  furnished 
town  every  Saturday 
free,  including  band  concerts,  all  kinds 
of  races,  ball  games,  etc.  Although 
against  the  strongest  kind  of  competi­
tion  from  Charlotte,  the  Olivet  mer­
chants  holds  a  good  share  of  the  trade 
in  this  way.

in 

Manufacturing  Matters.

Leslie— G.  S.  Mitchell  has  engaged  in 

the  manufacture  of  brick.

Lapeer—Tuttle  &  Palms  succeed  the 
estate  of  C.  Tuttle  in  the  planing  mill 
business.

Negaunee— The Johnson  Lumber Co. 's 
its  stock  of  logs  and 

mill  has  cut  out 
shut  down  for  the  season.

Saginaw—C.  S.  Bliss  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the  lumber 
firm  of  C.  S.  Bliss  &  Co.

Fairgrove— Hinkley  &  Richardson 
have  erected  a  grain  elevator  with  a 
capacity  of  18,000  bushels.

Rapid  City— The  St.  Louis  Hoop  & 
Stave  Co.  has  purchased  a  site  at  this 
place  and  will  remove  its  works  from 
St.  Louis  at  an  early  day.
Baraga—The  Funke 

sawmill  has 
started  up  under  the  management  of  M. 
N.  De  Haas  and  will  be  kept  busy  un­
til  the  close  of  the  season.

Skanee— Powell  &  Mitchell’s  sawmill 
is  cutting 
largely  on  square  timber, 
both  hemlock  and  pine,  for  use  in  the 
concern's  breakwater  contracts  with  the 
Government.

Hart—W.  C.  Bennett  has  purchased 
the 
interest  by  R.  W.  Ridell  in  the 
planing  mill  firm  of  Ridell  &  Ben­
nett  and  will  continue  the  business  in 
his  own  name.

sawmill 

Pigeon—The 

of  Reuben 
Mitchell  is  being  moved  from this place 
to  Presque  Isle  county,  where  Mr. 
Mitchell 
is  to  operate  on  16,000  acres 
of  hardwood  and  stump  land  purchased 
of  Isaac  Bearinger.

Bellaire— The  Bellaire  Woodenware 
Co.  has  been  organized  by  local  busi 
ness  men  for  the  purpose  of  manufac­
turing  woodenware  and 
clothespins. 
About  fifty  men  and  fifteen  girls  will  be 
regularly  employed.  The  factory  will 
be  72  x  132 
in  dimensions  and 
two  stories  high.

feet 

Middleville—A.  Medley  &  Co.,  of 
Flora,  111.,  have  secured  a  lease  of  Mc- 
Kevitt’s  evaporator  for  one  year  with 
the  privilege  of  three.  They  will  double 
the  capacity,  making  it  capable  of  car­
ing  for  500  bushels  every  twenty-four 
hours  and  will  employ  about  fifteen 
men  and  twenty  women.

Cheboygan—With  a  single  exception, 
all  of  the  Cheboygan  sawmills  are  run­
ning  day  and  night,  and  it  is  expected 
they  will  continue  to  do  so  until  the 
close  of  navigation.  A 
large  quantity 
of  lumber  has  been  sold  for future deliv­
ery.  W.  &  A.  McArthur  have  received 
a  raft  of  4,000,000  feet  from  Georgian 
Bay  and  another  of  the  same  size  is  on 
the  way  over.

Portland— The  directors  of  the  Port­
land  Manufacturing  Co.  declared  a  50 
per  cent,  cash  dividend  Aug.  6,  making 
100  per  cent,  which  has been distributed 
among  the  stockholders  of  the  corpora­
tion  since  Jan. 
1.  This  remarkable 
showing  is  due  wholly to the exceptional 
executive  ability  of  W.  W.  Terriff,  who 
has  come  to  be  regarded  as  one  of  the 
shrewdest  business  men  in  the  State.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— The  American  Sugar  Refining 
Co.  posted  a  notice  Monday  withdraw­
ing  the  guaranty  against  lower  prices 
for  refined  goods.  The  guaranty,  how­
ever,  against 
lower  prices  bolds  good 
for  thirty  days  from  date  of  notice. 
This  withdrawal  notice  came  as  a  sur­
prise  to  the  trade,  who  expected  that 
the  guaranty  would  continue,  as  they 
could  see  no  reason  why  it  should  be 
withdrawn.  Another  matter of 
interest 
was  an  advance  of  i - i6c  in  the  price  of 
No.  1,  No.  2  and  No.  3  refined.  This 
was  the  first  change 
in  the  price  list 
made  since  some  time  before  June  5, 
which  was  the  date  on  which  the  price 
guaranty  was  first  made  by  the  Ameri­
can  Sugar  Refining  Co.  The  market  is 
strong  and  higher  prices  are  looked  for.
Coffee—Various  reports  continue  to 
reach  us  from  Brazil  of  unfavorable 
weather  conditions  and  this,  in  connec­
tion  with  the  lower  receipts,  accounts  in 
a  measure  for  the  improved  demand. 
Naturally,  with 
low 
prices  the  trade  becomes  nervous simul­
taneously  with  prospects  of  decreased 
supplies.

the  prevailing 

Canned  Goods— The  new  pack  of  to­
matoes,  which  is  being  offered  several 
weeks  earlier  than  usual,  has  demoral­
for  old  stock.  The 
ized 
the  market 
general  demand 
for  spot 
tomatoes 
is  small.  Spot  corn 
is  selling  fairly 
well  at  unchanged  prices,  mostly,  how­
ever,  in  small  lots.  Nothing  is  doing  in 
peas,  which  rule  at  unchanged  prices. 
A  few  peaches  are  selling,  and the  price 
of  the  California  goods,  though  firm, 
show  no  change.  Eastern  packers  have 
not  named  prices  on  the  new  pack  as 
yet.

further  advances  are 

Dried  Fruits— Prunes  are  very  strong 
expected. 
and 
in  a  small  way  at 
Peaches  are  selling 
unchanged  prices.  Apricots  are  well

the 

cleaned  up  and  have  advanced  J^c 
further,  speaking  now  of 
lower 
grades.  Fancy  apricots  are  practically 
out  of  the  market.  Very  little  is  doing 
in  currants,  which  rule  at  unchanged 
prices.  Raisins  are  selling  fairly  well, 
and  low  grades  are  getting  cleaned  up. 
Higher  grades  of  raisins  are  selling  at 
full  prices.

Provisions— The  market  is  generally 
quiet,  without  special  feature  of  anv 
kind.  Lard  is  dull  and  the  tendency  is 
downward,  especially  on  Western  lard, 
which 
in  large  supply,  aud  packers 
are  anxious  to  unload.

is 

Salt  Fish— Practically  no  mackerel 
are  being  caught  down  East  and  prices 
are  gradually  stiffening.  Stocks  every­
where  seem  to  be  getting  low,  and  from 
all  appearances  spot  stocks  will  be  al­
most  used  up 
in  the  next  two  or  three 
weeks.  The  spot  stock  of  old  Irish 
is  about  what  the  trade  is 
mackerel 
working  on  now  and  there 
is  hardly 
enough  to 
the  new  catch 
comes.  Cod  is  very  dull  at  unchanged 
prices.  Lake  fish  is  moving  in  a  small 
way  at  unchanged  prices.  Sardines  re­
main  steady  with  a  fair  demand.  Sal­
mon  are  unchanged,  with  a  good  de 
mand.

last  until 

False  Standards  of  Success.

Some  days  ago  a  gentleman  said  to 
me  of  anftther  man  that  he  does  not 
seem  to  be  any  better  off  than  when  we 
first  knew  him.  He  is  a  kind-hearted 
man  and  helpful  to  humanity.  He  has 
been  successful  in  that  way,  but  he  has 
not  gathered  any  money  together. 
In 
conversation  with  another  man  concern­
ing  a  friend  he  said  that  everything  he 
touches  seems  to  turn  to money.  I  could 
not  help  but  think,  in  connection  with 
instances,  of  the  measure  of 
these  two 
success  that  most  of  us  use. 
It  seems 
to  me  that  we  should  think  of  other 
things  aside  from  money  or  bank  ac­
count  or  landed  estate  as  a  measure  of 
a  man’s  success.  As  I  have  often  heard 
it  said  of  fruit-growers  that  their  occu­
pation  is  a  pleasant  one,  but  they  can­
not  succeed 
it  as  in  other  occupa­
tions,  I  cannot  help  but  think  that  there 
ought  to  be  a  different  standard  of  suc­
cess  than  is  common  to  most  of  us.

in 

I  was  down  and  visited  Mr.  Lyon  the 
other  day..  He  has  lived  to  be  80  years 
old. 
I  believe  his  acquirements  of  this 
world’s  goods  have  been  modest,  still  I 
do  not  know  of  any  more successful man 
in  any 
line  than  Mr.  Lyon;  I  do  not 
know  of  a  millionaire  in  Michigan  to­
day  that  I  would  rather  be  than  to  be 
life  has  been  one  of 
Mr.  Lyon.  His 
benevolence—a 
life  that  we  can  learn 
something  from.

A  man  who  establishes  a  good  home 
in  the  community  is  a  successful  man. 
A  man  who  exercises  an  influence  in 
the  community  wherever  it  is  possible, 
intelligence, 
an  influence  for  good,  for 
for  morality,  for  progressiveness, 
is  a 
successful  man.

In  seeking  after  success  there  are,  I 
think,  other  things  that  are  worth  con­
sidering,  as  for  instance,  taste.  There 
are 
lots  of  people  who  cannot  see  the 
difference  between  a  Baldwin  apple and 
a  Red  June.  Aromatic  flavor  does  not 
appeal  to  them. 
I  know  a  man,  the 
president  of  a  college, who  could  not  see 
any  difference  between  a  Concord  grape 
and  a  cabbage.  The  matter  of  educa­
tion  of  the  intellect  did  not  help  him  at 
all.  So  in  the  matter  of  the  taste. 
It  is 
from  the  development  of  the  taste  that 
we  enjoy  a  wider  range  of  products.  In 
fruits  you  can  get  this  developed a  good 
deal  wider  than 
in  grains.  And  so  it 
seems  to  me  that  we  have  a  good  deal 
to  do  in  the  development  of  the  senses. 
Some  of  these  things  mean  more  for 
success 
life  than  the  acquisition  of 
money. 

C h a s .  W .  G a r f i e l d .

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M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

C.  A.  Ferris  has opened a grocery store 
at  Luther.  The  stock  was  sold  by  the 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.

G.  C.  Stanton  &  Co.  have  embarked 
in  the  grocery  business  at  Ovid.  The 
Worden  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.
Win.  Hoskins  has  opened  a  general 
store at  Boon.  The  grocery  stock  was 
furnished  by  the  Worden  Grocer  Co.

streets. 

Kloote  &  Mulder  have  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  the  corner  of  East  and 
Sherman 
The  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company  furnished  the  stock.
John  Svnder  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock  at  the  corner  of  West Bridge street 
and  Lane  avenue  to  C.  E.  Johnson  & 
Co.,  who  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  location.

John  Caulfield  states  that  he  will  soon 
begin  operations  on  his  new  cold  stor­
age  warehouse  on  South  Ottawa  street. 
Plans  for  the  structure  are  now  in  the 
hands  of  the  architects.

The  Grand  Rapids  Stave  Co.  has  be­
gun  the  erection  of  a  two-story  frame 
factory  building,  30x70  feet 
in  dimen­
sions,  on  the  site  of  the  building burned 
a  couple  of  months  ago.

J.  W.  Crater  is  closing  out his grocery 
stock  and  bakery  business  at  149  West 
Bridge  street  and  will  shortly  engage  in 
the  restaurant  business 
in  the  Moran 
building  on  North  Ionia  street.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Eating  varieties,  such  as  As- 
trachans,  command  $1.50  per  bbl. 
Duchess 
fetch  $2@2.25  and  Sweet 
Boughs  about  $2.  Pippins  and  other 
cooking  varieties 
command  $i@ i.25 
per  bbl.

Beets—25c  per  bu.
Blackberries—80c  per  crate  of  16  qts. 
for  home  grown.  The  recent  rains  did 
not  come  soon  enough  to  help  the  crop, 
either  in  size  or  quality.  The  latter 
is 
especially  poor.

Butter— Factory  creamery  is  strong  at 
18c  and  fancy  dairy  at  I5@i6c.  The 
percentage  of  really  fine creamery butter 
in  the  receipts  is  very  small,  the  bulk 
being  of  defective  quality  and very hard 
to  sell,  owing  to  the  limited  demand  at 
this  season  tor  this  class  of  butter.  All 
extras  are  promptly  cleaned  up  on  ar­
rival,  and  there 
is  quite  a  shortage  in 
this  particular  grade.  There 
is  also 
quite  a  demand  for  lower  grades  of 
butter,  which  are  well 
cleaned  up. 
From  all  appearances  the  demand  for 
fine  butter  will  be  in  excess  of  the  sup­
ply  from  now  on  until  cooler  weather.

Cabbage—$3@4  per 

too  heads 

for 

home  grown.

Carrots—40c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—$1  per  doz. 

for  home 

grown.

Cocoanuts— 4@5c.
Corn—Green,  io@i2c  per  doz.  ears. 
The  quality  of  the  receipts  is improving 
daily.

Cucumbers—75c  per  bu.
Eggs— Handlers  are  taking 

in  stock 
on  the  basis  of  value,  holding  carefully 
candled  stock  at  11c  and  choice candled 
at  12c.  The  receipts  of  good  eggs  are 
not  plenty,  the  greater  part  of  the  re­
ceipts  being  heated  and  unsuitable  for 
the  best  trade.  The  demand  for  fine 
eggs  is  more  than  sufficient  to  clean  up 
the  receipts,  and  the  present  outlook 
is 
for  higher  prices.  The  receipts  of  eggs 
from  near-by  points  continue  fairly  lib­
eral,  but  not  so  much  so  as-  during  the 
past  week  or  two.  The  trade  look  for 
advance  during  the  latter  part  of  Au­
gust  to  be  especially  rapid,  as the  pack­
ers  will  commence  about  that  time  to 
store  eggs,  as  soon  as  the  quality  war­
rants.  This  will  make  shorter  receipts 
and  higher  prices.

Green  Onions— 10c per doz.,  according 

to  size.

Green  Peas.—$1  per  bu. 

for  home 
grown  Marrowfats, which are very  scarce 
and  bard  to  get.

Honey—Fine  new  comb  commands 

I2 @ 13C.

Lettuce— 5°@6oc  Per bu.  for  head.
Muskmelons—Cantaloups fetch goc per 
doz.  Little  Gems  command  60c  per 
basket  of  about  20.  Osage  fetch  $1.25 
ber  crate.  Benton  Harbor,  $1.25  per 
crate.

Onions— Hom e  grown  command  75c 

per  bu.

Peaches—Early  P ivers are very plenty 
on  the  basis  of  25@5oc  per  bu.  While 
they  stand  shipment  a  little  better  than 
Alexanders, they do  not  present  as  hand­
some  an  appearance.  Hale’s  Early  are 
in  freely  and  are  billed  out  at 
coming 
50@75c. 
freestone. 
Next  week  the  first  freestone  peaches 
in  market—Early  Michigans. 
will  be 
The  growing  crop 
is  doing  well  and 
everything  points  to  a 
large  yield  of 
nearly  all  varieties.

They  are  nearly 

Pears—Small 

eating  fetch  5o@7Sc. 

Clapp’s  Favorite  command  Si.

Plums— Gueis  are  in  plentiful  supply 
at  goc@$i.  Abundance  are 
large 
supply  at  $1.  Wild  Goose are  held  at 
6o@75c.  The  crop  is  exceedingly  large, 
reports 
indicating 
that  the  trees  are  breaking  down  under 
the  strain.

the  country 

from 

in 

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

ample  supply  at  4o@50c.

is 

in 

Radishes—5@8c  per  doz.  bunches.
Tomatoes---- Home  grown  command
S i.50  per  bu.,  but  the  price  will  grad­
ually  drop  to  a  lower  level.

Wax  Beans—Si  per  bu.  and  scarce  at 

that.

Watermelons— 12c  for  Missouri  and 

18c  for  Sweethearts.

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.

The  hide  market  has  been  somewhat 
depressed  during  the  past  week,  but  the 
supply  was  some  diminished  as  well, 
which  revised  prices.  The  market  re­
mains  firm  on  light  offerings.

Pelts  are  not  plenty  enough  to  be 
light  skins  are  scarce 

quotable.  All 
and  in  small  supply.

Tallow  remains  normal  and  in  light 

demand  at  low  prices.

Wool  is  firmer  and  some  higher,  with 
good  demand.  Holders  are 
firm  and 
show  no  weak  spots.  The  peace  prob­
lem  affects  it  very  directly.  Manufac­
turers  claim  fair  sales  of  goods  at  some 
higher  prices,  or,  as  one  says,  “ It  is 
easier  to  get  our  price,  but  prices  have 
not  advanced  sufficiently  to  pay  the  ad­
vance  on  wool.’ ’  Sales  are  larger  and 
the  movement  is  strong.

W m.  T .  H ess.

The  clerks  in  the  wholesale  depart­
ments  of  P.  Steketee  &  Sons  and Voigt, 
Herpolsheimer  &  Co.  played  a  matched 
game  of  base  hall  last  Saturday  after­
noon,  resulting  in  a  score  of  15  to  10  in 
favor  of  the latter.  The  last  two  innings 
were  pitched  by  Henry  Herpolsheimer 
and  Daniel  Stek°tee.

Geo.  F.  Owen  (Geo.  F.  Owen  &  Co.) 
and  M.  B.  Wheeler  (M.  B.  Wheeler 
Electirc  Co.)  went  to  Chicago  Tuesday 
evening  to  attend  a  meeting  of  the man­
ufacturers  of  acetylene  gas  generators 
which  has  been  called  for  to-day.

Geo.  Hartom,  formerly on  the  road  for 
Mulkley,  Button  &  Co.,  of  Detroit,  and 
for  the  past  year  traveling  representa­
tive  for  the  Jackson  Grocery  Co.,  has 
taken  the  position  of  house  salesman 
for the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.

Arthur  A.  Scott,  book-keeper  for  the 
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.,  is  spending  his 
fortnight’s  vacation  with  friends  at  Du­
luth.

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

The  Hardware  Market.

it 

General  trade  for  July  is  equal  to  ex­
pectations  and 
is  believed  that  for 
the  month  of  August  dealers  in  all  parts 
of  the  country  will  be  well  satisfied with 
the  volume  of  business  that  will  be 
offered  them. 
conditions 
seem  to  prevail  in  most  localities  and  if 
nothing  happens  to prevent it is believed 
that  trade  for  the  coming  fall  will  be 
satisfactory  to  nearly  all.  Changes  in 
prices  are  few  and 
it  is  not  believed 
that  there  will  be  many  advances  or  de­
clines  made  for  the  present.

Favorable 

Wire  Nails— Notwithstanding  the  fact 
is  a  strike  on  hand,  which 
that  there 
has  closed  down  nearly  all  the  mills 
in 
the  country,  there  does  not  at  present 
seem  to  be  any  indication  of  an  ad­
vance  being  made. 
It  is  quite  difficult 
to  account  for  this  condition  and  the 
only  explanation  we  can  offer is the very 
large  stock  of  nails  held  by manufactur­
ers  when  the  close-down  took  place. 
Should  the  strike  be  of  long  duration, 
nails  undoubtedly  would  advance,  but 
at  the  present  time  the  market  seems  to 
be  weak,  rather  than  strong.

Barbed  and  Plain  Wire— Is  moving 
in  comparatively  small  amounts  and  or­
ders  for  future  deivery  are  light.  Gen­
eral  quotations,  however,  remain  un­
changed.

Window  Glass— There  is  no  change  to 
note in  the  price  of window glass,  stocks 
being  fairly  well  assorted  in  the  hands 
of  jobbers,  but  as  it  will  be  something 
like  two  months  before  there  is  a  gen­
eral  resumption  of  factories,  it  is  not 
believed  that  prices  will  be  materially 
lower  for  the  coming  month.

Sheet  Iron—The  market  in  black  and 
galvanized  sheets  remains  quite  firm* 
and  orders  have  been  placed  very  large­
ly  for  early  fall  shipments.  It  is  not  be­
lieved  that  there  will  be  any  lower  quo­
tations  made,  and  if  any  change  should 
take  place  it  would  be  for  higher  price, 
rather  than  lower.

Rope—The  top  price  in  rope  seems 
to  have  been  reached  and  the  market  is 
weak  rather  than  strong. 
It  is  not  be­
lieved  by  those  who  are  in  close  touch 
with  the  market  that  there  will  be  any 
further  advances  made  and  we  may 
rather 
In 
some  cases  jute  fodder  yarn,  as  well  as 
some  sizes  in  jute  rope,  is  being  sub­
stituted 
in  place  of  sisal,  as  there  is 
considerable  difference 
in  price,  these 
commodities  being  sold  on  a  basis  of 
6@6j4 c  per  pound,  according  to  quan­
tity  purchased.

look  for  a  decline  instead. 

Reports  from  other  markets  are  as 

follows:

it  altogether, 

St.  Paul— Taking 

the 
conditions  are  very  favorable  for  trade 
and 
in  all  lines  expect  a  large 
fall  trade.

jobbers 

New  Orleans— Business  in  this section 
has  been  very  quiet  for  the  past  few 
weeks.

Boston—Orders  are  light  and  custom­
ers  are  not  anxious  to  buy  in  advance 
of  their  legitimate  requirements.

Portland,  Oregon—Trade  holds  up 
well,  considering  we  are  in  midsum­
mer.  Prices  are  fairly  well  maintained.
Cleveland—The-  volume  of business, 
present  and  prospective,  will  warrant, 
we  think,  much  better  prices  on  many 
lines  of  goods  and,  no  doubt,  all  deal­
ers  and  jobbers  are  looking  forward  to 
increased  profits.

Chicago— The movement of shelf hard­
ware  is  very  good  for  the  season.  Busi­
ness  done  in  July  has  never  hefore  been 
exceeded  in  that  month.

Baltimore—July  has been  a  very  quiet 

month.

5

Omaha— The  month  of  July  was  char­
acterized  by a  very  satisfactory  business 
throughout,  and  we  doubt  if  it  has  ever 
been  equalled  in  the  net amount of busi­
ness  transacted.

T he  M orning  M arket.

The  feature  of  the  week  has  been  the 
increasing  abundance  of  the  offerings 
of  peaches  and  apples  and  other  early 
fruits.  Prices  have  been  well  sustained 
considering  the  qualities,  especially  as 
to  apples.  The  prices  of  peaches  have 
varied  greatly  as  affected  by  quality, 
some  smaller  ones  selling  for  as  low  as 
ten  cents  while  the  better  grades  com­
mand  fairly  good  returns.  Prices of  ap­
ples  are  better  sustained  than  for  sev­
eral  years  past  at  this  season,  although 
the  quantities  offered  were  not  even  ex­
ceeded  by  the  notable  yield  of  1896,  as 
the  low  prices  of  that  year  left  a  great­
er  proportion  to rot in  the orchards.  The 
difference  is  no  doubt  on  account  of  the 
greater  buying  capacity  of  consumers 
consequent  upon 
improved  business 
conditions.

The  qualities  of  fruits  offered  vary 
greatly  in.all  varieties  and  often  sam­
ples  are  found  requiring  the  attention 
of  the  inspectors  Yesterday  morning 
for  instance,  one  of  the  poorer  class  of 
retail  buyers  was 
leaving  the  market 
with  her  purchase  of  a basket of peaches 
which  attracted  the  notice  of  the  in­
spector.  Closer  examination  showed  a 
most  pronounced  case  of yellows with all 
its  characteristic  features.  As  near  as 
could  be  determined  the  fruit was  of  the 
early  Crawford  variety  but  it  appeared 
to  be  already  fully  ripe.  The  disease 
had  given 
the  peaches  a  decided, 
though  mottled  red  coloring  and  when 
cut  the  red  streaks  from  surface  to  pit 
were  clearly  defined  and  abundant.  The 
seller  manifested  no  hesitation  as  to  re­
funding  the  money  paid  and  it  is  prob­
able  that  he  was  entirely ignorant  of  the 
condition  of  his  wares,  although  it  is 
difficult  to  conceive  how  a  fruit  grower 
would  be  deceived  by  such  a  variety  as 
Crawfords  shrivelling  up  and  ripening 
so  far  out  of  season.
in  this 

incident  much  of 
suggestion  as  to  the  need  of  the  protec­
tion  of  careful  inspection  between  the 
sellers  and  buyer.  Many  of  the  grocers 
are  so  careless  and  ignorant  that  they 
give  the  matter  little  heed  and  there are 
so  many  poor  buyers  who  are  principal­
ly  concerned  to  make  their  pittances 
cover  the  greatest  quantity,  and  who 
have  no  thought  of  the  existence  of such 
diseases  that  there  is  reason  to  believe 
that  with  the  little  inspection  we  have 
much  of  this  unhealthy  stuff  finds  its 
way  to  consumption  But  better  than 
depending  upon  inspection  in  the  mar­
ket  would  be  the  discouragement  of  re­
tail  buying  there,  by  educating  the  peo­
ple  to  the  real  economy  of  buying at  the 
regular  stores.  In these  if  diseased  fruit 
of  any  kind  is  offered  there  is  quick de­
tection  and  the  punishment  is  generally 
swift  and  sure.

There 

is 

In  eastern  markets  there  is  much  of 
criticism  that  inspection  is  unduly  se­
vere  and  arbitrary. 
In  manv  localities 
there  seems  to  be  a  reaction  from  the 
laxity  of  indifference  which  has  charac­
terized  the  past,  and  any  infraction  of 
the  sanitary  or  economic  rules  as  to 
quality  or  quantity,  is  visited  with  con­
dign  punishment.  To  prevent  the  need 
of  such  supervision  here  it  is  only  nec­
essary  for  dealers  to bring  an  intelligent 
and  united  effort  in  building  up  a  sys­
tem  of  retail  distribution  which  will 
make  the  morning  market what it should 
be—a  place  for  wholesale  trade.

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

6

SENATO R  VS.  DRUM M ER.

Wherein  the  Latter  is  Superior  to  His 

Old  Schoolmate.

Black  Haw,  Ind.,  Aug.  8— At  one  of 
the  towns  I  made  this  week  I  had  the 
pleasure  of  meeting  my  old  friend  and 
schoolmate.  Bill  Grayson,  christened 
William  Henry  Harrison  Grayson,  and 
now  called  Senator  Grayson  from  the 
fact  that  he  was  elected  to the State Sen 
ate  at  the  last  election.

Although  I  am  not  very  conceited,  I 
believe  that  I  know  a  great  deal  more 
than  Senator  Grayson  ever  did  or  ever 
will  know.  When  we  went  to  school  to­
gether  I  was  acknowledged  to  be  much 
the  brighter  of  the  two,  and  I  am  con­
vinced  that  my  busy  life  since  then  has 
brought  me 
into  contact  with  so  many 
kinds  of  people  and  given  me  such  a 
variety  of  experiences  that  I have  main­
tained  my  natural  superiority.

in  the  street. 

Yet  I  am  not  permitted  to  wear  the 
term  “ honorable”   and  I  have  never  no­
ticed  that  people  turned  around  to point 
me  out 
If  you  were  to 
lock  Bill  and  me  together  in  a  room 
and  give  each  of  us  a  set  of  questions 
relating  to  American  history,  National 
issues,  current  happenings  and  the  use­
ful  sciences  most  commonly  applied  to 
everyday 
life,  I  am  confident  that  I 
could  show  myself  to  be  much the better 
informed  of  the  two.  When  we  were 
hoys  together  Bill  was  a  resounding 
bluff,  and  I  am  told  that  he  has  accum­
ulated  nothing  in  the  meantime  except 
dignity ;  but  he  always  did  have  plenty 
of  that.

Why,  then,  is  Bill  a  great  man,  while 
I  am  a  plain  and  despised  commercial 
traveler,  compelled  to  bear  the  taunts 
and  flings  of  trainmen  and  dining  room 
girls?
Is  it  because  he  has  been  more  in­
dustrious  than  I?  No;  for  I  do  more 
hustling  in  a  month  than  Bill  ever  did 
in  his  whole  life. 
I  have  kicked  up  a 
dust 
in  the  world,  while  Bill  has  done 
heavy  sitting  around  and  waited  for 
things  to  come  to  him.

If  you  could  see  the  senator,  gentle 
reader,  you  would  understand  why  he  is 
regarded  as  a  pillar.  Imagine  a  solemn 
hulk  of  a  man  6  feet  and  2  inches  tall, 
built  of  sound,  raw  material,  with  hair 
combed  upward,  to  indicate  spirituality 
or  something  of  the  kind.  The  coat  is 
a  Prince  Albert,  with  a  special  affinity 
for  dust,  and  the hat is a broad-brimmed 
slouch  which  must  be  worn  slightly  to 
one  side  as  a  mark  of  that  indifference 
which  is  a  trait  of  the  simon  pure  rural 
genius.  The  coat  must  be  unbuttoned 
and  flaring  at  the  top,  and  the  shirt 
bosom  should billow outward.  Then  the 
back  bow,  which 
is  the  badge  of  the 
professional  man,  and  a 
few  amber 
stains  on  the  white  shirt,  just  to  show 
that  the  great  man  chews  tobacco and  is 
in  real  sympathy  with  bis  beloved coun­
trymen.

lofty  eloquence 

And  yet,  having  this  picture  of  Bill, 
even  in  the  cavalry  moustache,  you  can 
not  begin  to  appreciate  his  greatness 
until  you  have  heard  him  speak.  He 
has  a  deep,  St.  Bernard  voice,  and  he 
uses  it  with 'such  solemnity  that onlv the 
totally 
irreverent  fail  to  be  impressed. 
You  have  heard  one  man  say  to  an­
other,  “ This  is  a  fine  day,  sir  ”   Well, 
youjve  never  heard 
it  at  all  unless 
you  ve  heard  Bill  say  it.  He  can  put 
more emphasis,  more unanswerable logic 
and  more 
into  one  of 
these  commonplace  remarks than  I could 
inject  into  a  reading  of  Marc  Antony's 
I  don't  suppose  Bill 
tuueral  oration. 
ever  said  anything 
in  his  life  except 
something  that  he  had  heard  said  by 
somebody  else  or  read 
in  the  Indian- 
apoils  paper,  and  yet  every  time  Bill 
speaks  the  others  present  stop  talking 
and  listen  in  awe.  Then  they  go  away 
shaking  their  heads  and  remarking  that 
Bill  is  an  unusually  “ d e e p "   man.
the  career  of  Senator 
Bill  Grayson 
that  any 
large  and  whiskery  m an  with  half  an 
intellect  can  become  a  great  statesman 
if  he  will  preserve  a  solemn  and  dig­
nified  demeanor  at  all  times  and confine 
his  remarks  to  self-evident  truths.
For  one  thing,  Bill  has  learned  the 
value  of  discreet  silence.  He  has  stood 
around  with  bis  band  in  the  bosom  of

A fter  studying 

I  am   satisfied 

fellow 

citizens,  observing 

his  coat  and  has  assumed  the attitude  of 
a  vast  and  godlike  contemplation,  and 
his 
this 
gloomy  solitude  and  noting  the  corruga­
tions  of  his  brow,  have  decided  that  be 
is  pondering  on  the  future  destiny  of 
institutions.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
our 
Bill 
is  probably  trying  to  make  up  his 
mind  as  to  whether  he  prefers  fine-cut 
or  plug.

Bill  makes  money  as  a  lawyer,  al­
though  some  of  his  colleagues  inform 
me  that  he  is  as  ignorant  of  the  law  as 
if  he  were  a  justice  of  the  peace.  He 
has  a  partner—a small,  lean,  overworked 
man,  who  studies  day  and  night  and 
provides  the  actual  brain  work  of  the 
combination,  while  Bill  frowns  at  the 
jury  and  gets  all  of  the  credit  for  win­
ning  the  suits.

It  is  the  same  in  county politics.  Two 
or  three  cheap,  common,  every-day  pol­
iticians  do  the  real  work  of  the  cam­
paign- 
They  organize  the  townships 
and  get  up  the  poll  lists  and marshal the 
workers  and  arrange  for  meetings,  hir­
ing  brass  bands  and  raising  the  money 
for  flags  and  drums,  and  after  they  have 
done  the  real  work  Bill  goes  and  sits  on 
the  rostrum  and  glares  ponderously  at 
his  deluded  countrymen.  Then  all  the 
women 
in  from  the  country  say  to  the 
crying  children,  “ Now,  be  good,  or 
that  big  man  will  get  you!“

But  to  appreciate  the  lofty  tone  of 
B ill’s  statesmanship  you  should  hear 
him  make  a  political  address.

“ bellow  citizens,  we  are  upon the eve 
of  another  great  contest,  and  the  Amer­
ican^ people,  the  grandest  sovereigns  of 
God’s  footstool,  are  about  to  decide 
whether  this  glorious  land  is  to continue 
in  the  proud  pathway  of  National  prog­
ress  or  wander  into  the  pitfalls of politi­
cal  disgrace.  Ob,  my  countrymen,  let 
us  unite  beneath  the  sun-kissed  folds  of 
the  Stars  and  Stripes,  and  with renewed 
courage  take  up  the  glorious  battle  for 
•liberty,  union  and  freedom.  On  next 
Tuesday  evening  the  eagles  will  perch 
on  our  banners  and  the  honor 
intrusted 
to  us  by  those  patriotic  sires  who  fell  at 
Bunker  Hill  will  be  safe  in  the  hands 
of  the  umptararum  party.”

The  farmers  listen  to  this highly orig­
inal  style  of  discourse  for  an  hour  or 
more  and  then  go  home  talking  in whis­
pers.

Is  it  any  wonder  that  when  the  voters 
wanted  a  large  and  learned  man  to  rep­
resent  them 
in  the  State  senate  they 
turned  to  Bill?

It  seems  to  me  that  I  can  hear  some 
one  say  that  the  drummer  is  jealous  of 
Senator  Grayson. 
I  will  admit  it,  al­
though  I  believe  that  I  am  more  regret­
ful  than  jealous. 
I  am  sorry  that  I  was 
large  and  solemn  instead  of 
not  born 
lean  and  good-natured. 
I  can  never  be 
a  real  statesman.  Bill,  however,  has 
marvelous  possibilities  before  him. 
If 
he  will  continue  to  wear  his  Prince  A l­
bert  coat  and  make  feeling references  to 
Old  Glory  he  may  be  a  governor  or 
something  worse  some  day.

Bill 

institute 

is  such  a  soulful  patriot  I  rather 
expected  to  find  that  he  had  gone  to 
war.  But  be  is  still  at  home.  He  had 
to  remain  in  order to  deliver  an  address 
of  welcome  to  a  farmers’ 
In  , 
the  course  of  his  remarks  he  said  that 
the  farmers,  the  horny-handed  sons  of 
toil,  the  honest  husbandmen,  are  the 
bone  and  brawn  of  our  proud  nation."
So  you  will  see  that  Bill  continues  to 
express  himself  with  utter  fearlessness.
B ill’s  proud  career  will  be  unchecked 
unless  some  one  accidentally  turns  an 
X-ray  machine  on  him  some  day,  and 
then  it  will  be  discovered  that  he  con­
tains  nothing  except  boiled  dinner  and 
platitudes.

What  We  Are  Like.

‘ I  think,”   said  the  Governor  of  the 
Ladrones,  disdainfully,  “ that you Amer­
icans  are  a  race  of  shopkeepers.”
the  captain  of  the 
Charleston,  as  he  proceeded  to  raise 
Old  Glory,  “ we  are  more  like  a  nation 
of  real  estate  operators. ’ ’

No.”   replied 

Womanly  Sympathy.

Didn’t  you  feel  sorry  for  poor  Mrs. 
Yes ;  I  sent  her a  lot  of lovely poetry
in  b attle.”

Badger—her  husband  is  in  Cuba?”
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M IC H IG AN   TRADESMAN

7

Evolution  o f F ruits  and  V egetables.

W ritten for the T radesman.

It  is  an  exceedingly  interesting  study 
to  note  the  gradual  evolution  of  fruits 
and  vegetables  from  their  formerly  wild 
growth,  without  care  or  culture. 
It 
would  seem  to  the  observing  naturalist 
that,  even  unassisted  by  human  hands 
or  brain,  the  entire  inanimate  world 
is 
constantly  struggling  for  improvement. 
it  is  a  trite  and  true  saying  that 
Thus 
“ the  world 
is  growing  better. ”   Few, 
perhaps,  are  quite  as  competent  judges 
or  may  speak  as  intelligently  upon  this 
subject  as  those  whose  age  will  permit 
the  gradual  comparison of many decades 
of  this  evolution.

It 

from 

We  are  led  to  speak  at  this  time  by 
being  in  a  position  for  daily  observa­
tions,  and,  enabled  to  compare our pres­
ent  fruits  and  vegetables  of  the  same 
kinds  with  those  of  the  past  and  note 
the  tendency  of  still  continued  improve­
ment. 
is  yet  within  the  memorv  of 
many  persons  that  they  beheld  the  first 
entirely  smooth  gooseberries;  the  first 
really  delicious  freestone  peaches,  and 
also  the  mammoth  cultivated  strawber­
ries  of  the  present. 
In  a  walk  through 
the  Northern  Michigan  forests  to-day, 
along  the  borders  of  rivers  and  lakes 
and  in  most  lowlands,,  the  wild  goose­
berries  may  be  found  in  different  stages 
of  evolution, 
those  partially  or 
completely  covered  with  spines  to  those 
almost  entirely  smooth  on  the  surface, 
and  these  last  much  larger  in  size  and 
of  superior  flavor.  We  may  assist  na­
ture  in  her  work,  but  if  we  do  not,  she 
takes  the  work 
in  her  own  hand  and 
carries  it  forward—possibly  more  slowly 
—to  perfection. 
It  is  well  to  bear  in 
mind  that  all  our  fruits  and  vegetables 
were  once  natural  wild  products,  and 
as  food  for  mankind  could  bear  no  com­
parison  with  those  of  the  present.  The 
peach  cultivated  and  grown 
seventy 
years  ago  was  generally  a  clingstone  or 
very  diminutive 
in  size,  and  either 
without  perceivable  flavor  or  small  and 
sour.  It  was  hardly  mentioned  as  sweet, 
unless  made  so  with  sugar.  Almost  the 
only  grapes  in  our  country  grew  wild  in 
the  forests,  generally  on  the  borders  of 
streams,  and  were  no  larger  than  our 
best  red  currants  of to-day ;  but after the 
first  frosts  of  autumn  they  developed  a 
juiciness  and  sweetness  very  grateful  to 
the  palate  and  they  were  much  sought 
after  for  table  use,  for  invalids  and  for 
making  wine.  The  writer  was  a  boy  of 
7  years  before  he  could  truly  believe 
that  raisins  purchased  at  the stores  were 
simply  dried  grapes;  for  what  Ameri­
can  boy  at  that  day  ever  heard of grapes 
the  size  of  raisins!

Pears  were  a fruit,  perhaps the nearest 
perfection  of  almost  any  in  the  country, 
yet  from  some  cause  they  found  little 
favor  with  farmers  generally,  as  they 
contributed 
little  as  an  article  of  food, 
but  as  a  luxury  and  for  the  beauty  and 
stateliness  of  the  tall  trees  themselves, 
they  were  seen  about  the  suburban  resi­
dences  of  villages  and  cities.  People 
migrating  from  the  New  England  states 
westward  often  brought  young  pear trees 
with  them.

Grafted  or  budded  fruit  was  a  rare 
curiosity  in  America  and,  although  ap­
ples  (seedlings  or  natural  fruit)  were 
com paratively  plenty 
in  the  older  sec­
tions  of  our  country,  they  were  small 
and 
little  valued  as  food  except  when 
dried  for  winter  use.  The  larger  por­
tion  of  the  apple  crop  in  that  early  day 
went  to  the  ciderpress  and  thence  into 
vinegar  or  was  consumed  as  a beverage. 
Hard  cider  was  a  standard  drink  at 
most 
farm  houses  the  year  round  and

in  New  York—a 

was  generally  partaken  of  by  all  classes 
of  people.  The  first  grafting  I  ever  saw 
done  was  the  work  of  my  honored  fath­
er,  who  was  skilful  in  the  work.  He 
had  obtained  the  scions  from  his  old 
home 
long  distance 
away  then—and  the  really  beautiful  and 
delicious  fruit 
in  his  orchard  in  after 
years  attested  the  value  and  perfection 
of  his  labor. 
I  have  been  asked  why  it 
is  that  with  so  many  improvements  in 
our  small 
fruits  we  do  not  yet  find  a 
blackberry  in  the  market  equal  to  the 
wild  Michigan  fruit  of  that name, which 
is  found  at  its  best  in  our  pine  forests. 
Certain 
is  that,  so  far  as  sweetness, 
delicious  flavor  and  pulpiness  may  at­
test,  we  have  yet  to  find  its  equal  culti­
vated.  There  is  an  exceptionally,  trans­
parent  straw-colored  variety found grow­
ing  among  the  wild  blackberries  in  Me­
costa  county  which  should  be among  our 
cultivated  berries. 
It  is  the  most  beau­
tiful  and  delicate  berry  of any  kind  I 
have  ever  seen.  They  are  hardly  as 
hardy  as  the  black  fruit  and,  without 
doubt,  would  thrive  best  in  a  warmer 
climate.

it 

The  improvement  in  vegetables  have 
been  quite  as 
important,  notably  in 
beans,  squashes,  potatoes,  corn  and  to­
matoes.  Neither  the  quantity  nor  the 
quality  of  these  vegetables  could  have 
been  produced  seventy  years  ago.  They 
represent  the  progressive  ideas  of  men 
of  the  age  and  are here for all  time,  with 
future  improvement.  A  few  other  veg­
etables,  then  hardly  known  on  this  con­
tinent,  have  since  been  introduced  for 
food,  among  them  celery,  tomtaoes  and 
rhubarb  or  pie  plant.  These  are  all  fa­
vorites  and  have  come  to  stay. 
Im­
provement 
is  an  improvement 
of  the  physical  and  mental  health  of  the 
people. 

F r a n k  A.  H o w ig .

in  food 

She  Was  in  Great  Distress.

“ What’s  the  matter?”   enquired  her 

brother.

Everything  seems to be against me, ’ ’ 
she  sobbed.  “ I  freckle  so easily  mother 
says  there’s  no  need  of  my  staying  at 
the  seashore  more  than  a  day  or  two.”

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The cheapest Sanitarium  in the world; a place for 
the poor and middle class.  Are you sick and dis­
couraged?  We give one  month's treatment FREE  by 
mail.  Send for question list, prices and  journals.

8 UBEROID 

EADY 
OOFING

All  ready  to  lay.  Needs 
no painting for tw o years.

resist fire and  the action of acids.

Is odorless, absolutely  waterproof,  will 
Can  be  used  over  shingles  of  steep 

roofs, or is suitable for flat roofs.

Will  outlast  tin  or  iron  and  is  very 

much cheaper.

T ry our pure

ASPHALT  PAINT

For coating tin, iron or ready 
roofs.  W rite for prices.

H .  M .  R E Y N O L D S & SO N ,
Grand Rapids Office, Louis and Campau Sts.
Detroit Office, Foot of Third St.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

Snell’s ................................................... 
(u
.  .................... ,.25&iu
Jennings’, genuine 
Jennings’, imitation................................... 60&10
AXES

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

5 50 
10 50

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

BARROWS

BOLTS

Stove........... 
60&10
Carriage new list....................................  70 to 75
PJow................................................. 
so

 

 

Well,  plain....................................................»325

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

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

Ordinary Tackle.

Cast Steel.

CROW  BARS

CAPS

..........................................pen

HlPlr'B P  li1
Hick’s C. F
G. D.........
Musket__

..per lb

.perm 
.per m 
.per m

CARTRIDGES

Rim Fire........................................;. 
Central  Fire............... ............. ’.!.25& 5

50&

Morse’s Bit Stocks......................... 
eo
Taper and Straigh t Shank........................... 50& 5
Morse’s Taper Shank...............................’. . 50&  5

Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
50
a  25
Corrugated....................  ......... 
Adjustable.............................................. dis 40& lu

EXPANSIVE  BITS

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

30A10
25

FILES—New  List

New American............................................. 70&10
Nicholsons................................................... 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps.............................. . . . 6C<SiiO

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

16.  ... 

13 

14 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

28
17

15 
GAUGES

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

KNOBS—New List

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

70
go

MATTOCKS

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

Socket Firmer... 
Socket Framing. 
Socket Corner... 
Socket  Slicks__

CHISELS

DRILLS

ELBOWS

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Stamped Tin Ware......  ............... new list 75&10
Japanned Tin Ware............................ 
20A10
Granite Iron  Ware........................ new list 40&10

HOLLOW  WARE

..................................................eo&i
Spiders  .......................................................eo&v

Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3............ ..................  disoO&i
State......................................... per doz. net 
i 50

HINGES

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

LEVELS
ROPES

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...........  .
Sisal, «  inch and  larger.........
Manilla.................... 
SQUARES
Steel and Iron. 
Try and Bevels 
M itre..............

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

80

10*4
11«
70&10
60

, 

_ 

70&10

t r a p s

50
15 
1  3f.

com. smooth

COI):. 
*2  10 2  40 
2  45 
2  55 
2 65 
2 75 
luche-

All sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30 

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

SHEET  IRON
Nos. 10 to M 
......................... *2  70
Nos. 15 to 17 
...........................2 70
Nos. 18 to 21
............... .........2 80
Nos. 22 to 24...................................  3 00
Nos. 25 to 26.......................... . 
.  3  in
No.  27..........................................  3 20
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
,  
List  acct. 19, ’86......................................(jjg
„ 
Solid Eyes........................................per ton  20
„ 
Steel, Game.
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s . 
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s
Mouse, choker.................... 
per doz
Mouse, delusion..................  
per doz
WIRE
Bright Market............
Annealed  Market.........
Coppered  Market...........
Tinned Market......................................
Coppered Spring  Steel...........
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ..,
Barbed  Fence,  painted.......................
An Sable....................
Putnam.....................
Northwestern.............
WRENCHES 
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.. 
Coe’s Genuine.
Coe's Patent  Agricultural, wrought........ 
go
Coe’s Patent, malleable.  ...................................go
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages  .......................................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................... 
80
Screws, New List.........................                         gs
Casters, Bed and  Plate......................."' 50&10&10
Dampers, American............................... 
50
800 pound casks.................................... 
¡¡.
Per pound..............................................

Î5
7O&Ì0
62«
...  2 OO 
1  70
... 

HORSE  NAILS 

METALS—Zinc

dis  1 O&i Ó

 

SOLDER

«@V4..........................................................  
12«
The prices of themany other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  van 
according to composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade
10x14 1C, Charcoal.....................................  *  5  75
14x20 1C, Charcoal...................... 
’ ’  ’  "   5  75
20x14 IX. Charcoal......................................   7 00

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  W
Steel nails, base..........................................
Wire nails, base...................................!.!.!.
20 to 60 advance......................................... " ’
10 to 16advance.........................................""
8 advance..........................................
6 advance...................................................
1 advance................................................  ’
3 advance........................................... .
2 advance.................................................. 
Fine 3 advance..................................................."" 50
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
Finish 10 advance  ................................  .. 
Finish  8 advance..................................."  . 
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
Barrel % advance......................................  

ire.
1  55 
1  U) 
Base 
05 
10 
20 
3U
70
15
25
35
25
35
45
  85

TIN—Allaway  Grade

Each additional X on this grade, *1.25.
10x14 IC, Charcoal...................................
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................
10x14 IX, Charcoal.......................
14x20 IX, Charcoal............................

ROOFING  PLATES

Each additional X on this grade. Hi.Hit 
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean..........................
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean........................
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.........................
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.........
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.........
20x28 1C, Charcoal, All away Grade.........
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade  ........

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATe 

14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, t 
14x56 IX. for  No.  9  Boilers. ( per found.

4  50 
4  50 
*>  50

4  50
5  50
9  00
4  uo
5  00 
8  00
10 00

MILLS

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

MOLASSES  OATES

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

PLANES

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

PANS

R I V E T S

 

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 V,c per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole <S Co.’s, new  list........... 
...... dis  #Sn
25
Kip’s  ......................................................dlt 
Yerkes & Plumb’s ..................................die  a)&10
M ason's Solid Cast Steel..................30c list 
70
Blacksmith's Solid Cast Steel Hand 3Cc  i*.40A)9

Country  Fairs^

Nothing takes so well  with 
the visitors at fairs  as  pic­
ture cards, which are care­
fully preserved,  while ordi­
nary  cards,  circulars  and 
pam phlets  are  largely  d e ­
stroyed and  wasted.  W e 
have  a   fine line of  Picture 
Cards,  varying 
in  price 
from £3  to So per  1,000,  in­
cluding  printing  on  back. 
Sam ples  m ailed  on  ap p li­
cation.

TRADESMAN COMPANY

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

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M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

to 

capture 

galleons 

Elizabeth  sent  out  Hawkins  and  Drake, 
her  great  admirals,  who  were  really  no 
better  than  pirates, 
the 
Spanish 
sailing  homeward 
from  Mexico  and  Peru,  laden  with  gold 
and  silver.  England  established  some 
colonies  on  the  coast  of  North  America, 
but  it  was  far  more  for  the  purposes  of 
freebooting  than  for  commerce.  A cen­
tury  of  settlement  and  development  in 
America  was  necessary  before  the  trade 
of the  North  American  colonies  became 
considerable  enough  to  be  worth  atten­
tion.  England  never  grew  to  be  a great 
commercial  power  until  the  rich  trade 
with  India  and  China  was  opened.

England's  rise  to  supremacy  in  com­
merce  has  naturally  aroused  against  her 
the  envy  and  enmity  of  the  continental 
nations  of  Europe;  but  up  to  the  pres­
ent  time  they  have  feared  to  assault 
her. 
In  all  probability,  if  they  could 
sink  their  jealousies  and  prejudices and 
reconcile  the  conflicting  interests  that 
have  long  prevented  them  from  forming 
a  coalition, 
the  continenetal  powers 
would  combine  to  break  down  the  com­
mercial,  which  means  the  political,  su­
premacy  of  Great  Britain ;  hut  so  far 
she  has  been  protected  by  the  cross pur­
poses  at  which  the  powers  have  long 
been  playing.

The 

impending  dismemberment  of 
China  threatens  to  precipitate  the  out­
break  which  has  apparently  long  been 
dreaded.  The  power  of  England  shows 
no  signs  of  internal  weakness  or  decay. 
Commercially,  she 
is  at  the  head  of 
the  world,  and  her  navy  is  so  formid­
able  that  only  the  combined  fleets  of 
many  nations  would  dare  to  attack  it. 
How  to  secure  such  a  combination  is 
the  question.

Russia,  whose  statesmen  are  wise 
and  far-seeing,  has  long  been  working 
for  commercial  power.  Possessing  few 
seaports  available  for  commerce,  Rus­
sia’s  development  has  been  on  land, 
and  if  it  has  not  attracted  attention  be­
cause 
it  was  hid  away  in  a  vast  conti­
nental  interior,  it  has  all  the  same  been 
enormous.  Germany  and  France  have 
but 
just  awakened  to  tbe  necessity  for 
colonial  expansion,  and  while  they  have 
been  seizing  on  territory  in Africa,  they 
it  will  take  time  to  render 
realize  that 
possessions 
in  the  heart  of  the  Dark 
Continent  productive;  therefore  some­
thing  decisive  must  be  done,  and  that 
something  seems  to  be  the  dismember 
ment  of  China.

The  trade  of  China  is  enormous,  and 
to-day  England  controls  70  per  cent,  of 
it,  while  the  United  States  enjoys  9  per 
cent.,  which  is  as  much  as  all tbe Euro­
pean  nations,  outside  of  England  and 
Russia,  are  able  to  secure.  Japan 
is 
credited  with  three-quarters  of  1  per 
cent.,  while  Russia  gets  one-half  of  1 
per  cent.  From  these  figures  it  is  seen 
that  the  United  States  stand  second  to 
England  and  far  ahead  of  all  other  na- 
I tions  in  sharing  the  vast  and  rich  trade 
of  China.

Russia  is  operating  upon  the  northern 
frontier  of  tbe  vast  Chinese  domain. 
France 
is  eating  like  an  ulcer  into  its 
southern  limits,  while  Germany  has  fas­
tened  a  small  but  active  cancer  on  the 
I eastern  coast  and  threatens  to  infect  an 
extensive  region.  Probably  those  three 
great  powers  might  stand  together  to 
down  England,  which  enjoys  the  lion’s 
share  of  the  Chinese  trade.  All  these 
possiblities  are  not  only  recognized,  but 
they  form  the  most  absorbing  problems 
of  European  statesmanship.

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WEDNESDAY,  -  •  •  AUGUST  10,  1898.

TH E   CO M ING   CRISIS.

Nations  that  would  rule  in  the world’s 
affairs  must  acquire  wealth. 
Power, 
which  means  the  maintenance  of  fleets 
and  armies,  requires  an  abundance  of 
material  resources.  This  fact  has  been 
emphasized 
in  the  rise  and  fall  of  na­
tions 
in  every  age  of  the  world,  and 
every  nation  has  recognized  it.

Nations  have  made  use  of  but  two 
means  of  securing  the  necessary  mate­
rial  of  power.  One  was  to  conquer  and 
plunder  all  in  their  reach  and  the  other 
was  to  gain  wealth  by 
commerce. 
Rome,  in  ancient  times,  was  the  most 
pronounced  type  of  the  robber  nation 
the  world  ever  knew.  The  little  king­
dom  of  Tyre  and 
the  Republic  of 
Carthage  were  the  earliest  great  exam­
ples  of  distinguished  national  power 
gained  in  commerce.

The  city  of  Rome  was  first  a  den  of 
bandits  among  the  thickets  and  ravines 
on  tbe  banks  of  the  Tiber. 
It  became 
the  capital  of  a  nation  that  conquered 
and  plundered 
the  entire  civilized 
world.  Tyre,  in  the  time  of  the  Greeks, 
and  Carthage,  contemporary  with  the 
Romans,  were  both  notable  illustrations 
of  the  greatness  and  grandeur  to  which 
a  commercial  people  can  raise  them­
selves  by  being  able  to  control  a  vast 
international  traffic.

In  modern  history,  Spain  is  the  most 
conspicuous  example  of  national  wealth 
acquired  on  the  Roman  plan  of  plun­
der;  while  Venice  and  England  illus­
trate  the  power  gained  through  com­
the 
merce.  Spain,  having  discovered 
in  the  pre­
Western  Hemisphere,  rich 
cious  metals,  plundered 
the  peoples 
who  possessed  them,  and,  through  the 
wealth  thus  secured,  became  the  most 
powerful  nation  on  tbe  earth. 
The 
Spanish  Emperor,  Charles  V,  dreamed 
of  universal  dominion  and  attempted 
even  to  acquire 
it;  but  his  military 
genius  and  statesmanship  fell  far  short 
of  his  material 
resources.  Having 
stripped  her  colonies  and  dependencies 
until  the  people  were  reduced  almost  to 
serfdom,  Spain,  with  no  more  nations 
to  plunder,  has  finally  lost  the  greater 
part  of  her  foreign  possessions  and must 
now  settle  down  to  be  one  of  the  pov­
erty-stricken  countries  of  the  earth.

Spain  started  out  on  her  career  of dis­
covery  and  conquest  in  the  end  of  the 
fiftenth  century.  England's  first  steps 
towards  greatness  were  not  taken  until 
the  end  of  the  sixteenth.  The  English 
imitate  Spain  and 
idea  was  first  to 
adopt 
robber  methods.  Queen

the 

world’s  political  center  of gravity.  De­
prive  England  of  her  commerce and  her 
colonies  and  confine  her  to  the  little  is­
land  which  holds  the  cradle  of  the  An­
glo-Saxon  race,  and  it  would  produce  a 
tremendous  cataclysm 
in  the  world’s 
politics.

With  England  reduced  to  helpless­
ness,  what  would  be  the  fate  of  the 
United  States?  Does  anyone  think  that 
the  people  of  the  continent  of  Europe 
love  the  Americans?  The  war  with 
Spain  has  settled  that question.  Every­
where  on 
the  continent  of  Europe, 
Americans  are  met  with  a  coldness  that 
is  only  prevented  from  reaching  a  de­
gree  of  hostility  by  tbe  money  which 
Americans  spend  there so liberally.  The 
whole  of  continental  Europe  dislikes 
the  Great  Republic.  Could  a  powerful 
coalition  put  England  where  the  United 
States  has  placed  Spain  it  would  not 
be 
long  before  the  Great  Republic 
would  really  become  a  subject  for  the 
attentions  of  tbe  Holy  Alliance,  as  was 
the  days  of  President 
threatened 
Monroe,  when  the  Union  was  in  its 
in­
fancy.  Continental  Europe  early  feared 
and  hated  the  young  nation  of  the West. 
To-day  that  envy  and  jealousy  are  di­
vided  between 
the  United  States  and 
England.

in 

A  crisis  threatens  the  equilibrium  of 
Europe  and  although  it  is  rising  out  of 
conditions  that  have  long  existed,  it  ap­
pears  to  have  been  precipitated  by  the 
war  with  Spain.

Philadelphia  papers  are  exposing  a 
great  confidence  game  worked  in  that 
city  under  the  cover  of  so-called  em­
ployment  agencies 
intelligence 
offices.  There  would  be  more  patience 
with  the  confidence  men  if  they  would 
go  for  the  big  game  only  and  leave  tbe 
poor  and  needy  alone.  But  these  human 
beasts  of  prev  spare  no  one.

and 

The  suggestion  is  being  made  that  all 
our  new  warships  should  be  fitted  for 
tbe  use  of  anthracite  coal.  While 
it 
would  be  more  expensive,  it  would  be 
far  safer  for  the  ship.  Anthracite  coal 
and  smokeless  powder  are  both  in  tbe 
line  of  wise  progress  and  such  progress 
is  always  cheaper  in  the  end.

A  man  died  in  Chicago  the  other  day 
who  was  distinguished  as  having helped 
to  round  up  a  pack  of  wolves  many 
years  ago  on  the  present  site  of the  Chi­
cago  Board  of  Trade.  How time  makes 
changes!  Any  one  can  round  up  a  pack 
of  wolves 
in  that  vicinity  now  without 
exciting  comment.

It  is  natural  for a  rich  man  to become 
familiar  with  a  professional  man  he 
hires  and  to  address  his  physician  as 
“ My  dear  doctor.”   But to  his  solicitor 
he  would  not  sav,  “  My  dear  lawyer!”  
although  the  legal  man's  fee  would  be 
quite  as  large.

When  a  thought  suddenly  comes  to  a 
man  who  is  naturally  short  on  ideas, 
he 
is  excited,  and  will  fill  columns  of 
newspaper  space  and  shout  himself 
hoarse  telling  people  what  the  most  of 
them  knew  long  ago.

Kentucky  claims  to  have  more  water 
power than  any  other  state  in  the union. 
It  may  be.  The  water  there 
is  not 
wasted  for  drinking  purposes.

People  who  are  over  anxious  to  enter 
good  society  are  naturally  the  people 
good  society  is  not  running  after.

SHALL  M EDIEVALISM   RULE?
The  refusal  of  the  government  of 
Hayti  and  of  the  governors  of  tbe 
French  islands  of  Guadaloupe  and  Mar­
tinique  to  permit  the  United  States  to 
estabish  signal  stations  on  the  territory 
mentioned  is  an  illustration  of  the  nar­
rowness  of  view  and 
indifference  to 
progress  that  have  so  long  kept the West 
Indies  from  that  development  of  which 
they  are  capable.

Spanish  authority  in  Cuba  and  Porto 
important  of  the  West 
Rico,  the  most 
Indies,  has  to  an  extent  exerted  a  bad 
influence  on  the  government,  the  poli­
cies  and  customs  of  all  tbe  islands with­
in  or  surrounding  the  Caribbean  sea. 
Medieval  methods,  both  in  government 
and  commerce  and  social  organization, 
have  prevailed  everywhere  in  the  West 
Indies  except 
in  the  British  islands. 
For  this  backwardness  Spain  has  been 
chiefly  responsible.

The  West  Indies  have  always  suffered 
from  the  hurricanes  which  have  des­
troyed  shipping  and  ravaged  the  coasts 
and  interior  of  the  islands.  Arising  off 
the  South  American  coast  or 
in  the 
Caribbean,  and  gathering  force  as  they 
traveled  northward,  these  destructive 
storms  have,  without  warning,  struck 
prosperous  ports  and  caused  immense 
losses,  both  of  life  and  property.  One 
of  the  first  thoughts  of  the  Americans 
since  operating  down  there  has  been  to 
extend  our admirable  signal  service  to 
that  region  in  order  to  give  warning  of 
the  approach  or  probability  of  hurri­
canes  and  thus  enable  shipping  and  tbe 
people  generally  to  prepare  for  tbe  visi­
tation  and  minimize  its  ravages.  Such 
a  service  is  in  no  sense  political  and  is 
interest  of  commerce 
directly 
and  the  preservation  of  human 
It 
has  been  of 
inestimable  value  to  our 
own  shores.

in  the 

life. 

in  going 

To  refuse  us  permission  to  establish 
stations  throughout  the  West  Indies  and 
within  the  Caribbean 
is  a  piece  of 
mossbackism,  or  significant  prejudice, 
on  the  part  of  the  people  or  governing 
authorities  in  the  region  to be benefited. 
The  fact  only  emphasizes  that  other fact 
that 
into  the  West  Indies  we 
are  clashing  with  another  civilization 
and  with  political  authority that  may  be 
expected  to  give  us  some  trouble  in  the 
future. 
In  a  very  few  years  all  the  pro­
gressive  features  of  our  own  civilization 
and  Government  and  commercial  and 
social 
life  will  follow  our  flag  to  the 
South.  An  impetus  to  development  will 
be  given  that  must  inevitably  woik  a 
great  revolution  down  there

The 

question 

interesting 

arises, 
Whether  we  will  allow  medievalism, 
ignorance  or  prejudice 
in  Hayti,  San 
the  French,  Danish  and 
Domingo, 
Dutch 
islands  to  embarrass  our  trade 
and  extension  of  our  influence?  Will 
we  permit  the  continuance  of  a  menace 
to  our  full  authority  in  that  region  to 
remain?  We  have  seen  how  St.  Thomas, 
Martinique  or  Curacoa  might  become 
bases  of  dangerous  naval  operations 
against  us.  They  will  also  to  an  extent 
threaten  our  complete  control  of  the  ap­
proaches  to  the  Nicaraguan canal.  What 
will  we  do  under  these  circumstances? 
Does 
if  our  entry  as  a 
proprietor  and  a  power  in  the  West  In­
dies  will  embark  us  upon  further  con­
quests  to  the  South,  rendered  necessary 
to  protect  our  growing  interests  in  that 
direction?  The  question  is  a  pertinent 
and  an  interesting  one.

look  as 

it  cot 

To  overthrow  the  commercial suprem- 
j acy  of  England  would  destroy  tbe  great 
power  of  that  nation  and  disturb  the [

That  free  passage  home  is  catching 
’em  wherever  the  Spanish  flag  floats 
away  from  Spain.

The  war  tax  will  stick  for  a  long 
time,  so  much  of  it,  in  stamp  form,  is 
made  adhesive.

THE  BUSINESS  REACTION.

At  the  commencement  of  a  war  there 
is  always  a  slowing-up  of  business  ac­
tivity  and  enterprise  and  a  decisive 
contraction 
in  the  output  of  money. 
Such  caution  and  timidity  are  wise,  be­
cause  nobody  knows  what  is  going  to 
happen,  and  it  is  right  to  make  ready 
for  any  financial  troubles  that  may  oc­
cur.

After  the  war  there  is  necessarily  a 
rebound  and  expansion  equal  to  the 
check  and  compression  that  had  been 
inflicted  by  the  outbreak  of  hostilities. 
Even  if  there  were  no  greater expansion 
than  there  had  been  previously  a  con­
traction  of  business,  it  would  be  worth 
noting;  but,  in  the  present  case,  there 
is  going  to  be  a  grand  development,  an 
expansion  vastly  greater  than  the  reac­
tion  from  the  contraction  and  compres­
sion  of  business  caused  by  the  war.

The  United  States  will  emerge  from 
the  war  with  Spain  with 
largely  added 
territory  and  many  and  new  opportuni­
ties  for  enterprise.  Porto  Rico  will  be 
a  territory  of  the  Union  and  Cuba  will 
be  under  its  protection.  There  will  be 
possessions  also  in  the  archipelagoes  of 
the  Philippines,  the  Carolines  and  the 
Ladrones.  Hawaii  will  also  be  a  part 
of  the  country.  One  of  the  first  things 
to  be  done  will  be  the  enactment  by 
Congress  of  a  law  requiring  that  all  the 
carrying  trade between the United States 
and  the  over-seas  colonies  and  territory, 
whether  held  in  terms  of  eminent  do­
main  or  of  protectorate,  shall be  carried 
on  in  vessels owned  in the United States. 
This  will  be  the  same  sort  of  regulation 
which  requires  that  all  the  carrying  of 
commerce  between  the  coast  ports  of 
the  United  States  must  be  done 
in 
American  ships.

This  law  will  be  absolutely  necessary 
to  prevent  foreigners  from monopolizing 
the  freighting  of  our  domestic  com­
merce,  and the result  will  be  that  all  the 
trade  between  the  United  States  and 
Porto  Rico,  Cuba,  Hawaii  and  the  Mi- 
cronesian possession  of  this  country  will 
be  transported 
in  American  steamers. 
These  ships  will  be  very  numerous, 
since  they  will  have  to  cover  the  busi­
ness  of  more  than  a  score,  perhaps  two 
score,  of  ports.  All  these  vessels  will 
of  necessity,  under  the  law,  be  built 
in 
the  United  States,  and  they  will  have  to 
be  operated  with  more  or  less  regularity 
by  companies  formed  for  the purpose.

The  building  and  operating  of 

large 
numbers  of  steamships  will  be  no  small 
factor 
in  the  business  activity  and  ex­
pansion  of  this  country  after  the  war; 
but  the  commerce  they  will  carry  will 
be  something  immense.  For  instance, 
the  exports  of  manufactured articles and 
provisions  from  Spain  to  Cuba  annually 
have  heretofore  amounted  to  135,000,000 
to  140,000,000  pesetas  or  Spanish  pieces 
equal  to  20  cents. 
In  the  future,  Amer­
ican  merchants and manufacturers ought 
to  control  that  trade,  and the laws should 
be  such  as  to  enable  them  to  do 
In 
the  same  way,  the  45,000,000  pesetas  of 
merchandise  annually  sent  from  Spain 
to  Porto  Rico  should  be  controlled  by 
the  United  States.  There  are  about 
1,000  miles  of  railway  in  Cuba,  and  less 
than  150  in  Porto  Rico.  There  will  be 
railroads  to  be  built  and  iron  mines, 
which  are  very  rich,  to  be  worked,  and 
many  other  fields  of  enterprise  to  be 
opened.

it. 

Should 

the  United  States  retain 
Manila,  which 
is  the  metropolis  of  the 
Philippines,  there  will  be  a  very  con­
siderable  trade  to  be  opened  there.  The 
islands  of  the  various  groups 
in  the 
East  Indies  are  almost  entirely  unde-

M IC H IG AN   TRADESMAN 

9

veloped  and  they  offer  rich  opportuni­
ties  to  enterprise  and  capital.

Here,  stated  briefly,  are  the  elements 
of  a  commercial  and  industrious  ex­
pansion  which  the  American  people 
must  feel  very  shortly,  and  it  is  all  in 
addition  to  what  has  before  existed  for 
this  country. 
It  must  give  a  positive 
and  decided 
impulse  to  business  and 
create  an  active  demand  for  money,  be­
sides  opening  new  markets  to  American 
products.  If  a  sudden speculative spasm 
should  be  developed,  the  reaction  will 
be  felt  all  the  more  strongly  if  for  a 
shorter  time.  A  steady  and  healthful 
expansion  will  be  all  the  better,  al­
though  a  period  of  wild speculation  will 
be  most  welcome  while  it  lasts.

It  seems  plain  that,  with  the  return  of 
confidence  through  the  establishing  of 
peace,  there 
is  going  to  be  a  business 
reaction  which  will  be  greatly  stimula­
ted  by  the  addition  of  new  territory  and 
the  conditions  created  by the substantial 
results  of  the  war.  Even  the  least  san­
guine  and  most  clear-sighted  observers 
are  bound  to  recognize  that  times  are 
going  to  be better,  much better,  with the 
restoration  of  peace.

The  markets  which  are  likely  to  be 
opened 
in  Cuba  and  Porto  Rico  to 
American  producers  and  manufacturers 
are  the  subject  of  much  attention  and 
enquiry  just now.  Large  numbers  of let­
ters reach  the Treasury  Department  and 
Bureau  of  Statistics  asking  for  informa­
tion  regarding  the  class  of  articles  im­
ported  into  those  islands,  and  the  coun­
tries  which  have  been  supplying  these 
articles.  This  information  will  be given 
in  elaborate  form  in  the  next  monthly 
publication  of  the  Bureau  of  Statistics, 
the  Summary  of  Finance  and  Com­
merce,  and  will  show  that  Cuba  has 
been,  under  normal  conditions,  buying 
annually  about  $25,000,000  worth 
of 
goods  from  Spain,  about  $4,000,000 
worth  from  Great  Britain,  less  than  a 
million  dollars’  worth  from  France,  and 
less  than  a  million  dollars'  worth  from 
Germany,  while  from  the  United  States 
her  purchases  have  ranged  from $8,000,- 
coo  to  $24,000,000  in  value.  The  im­
ports 
into  Cuba  have  been,  of  course, 
light  during  the  past  year  or  more,  and 
a  fair  estimate  of  her  purchases  can 
only  be  obtained  by  examination  of  the 
figures  of  1896 or  earlier  years.

It  is  said  Blanco— who  wants  to  keep 
up  the  hopeless  fight—has  been  drawing 
about a  million  dollars  a  week  for  “ ad­
ministrative  purposes”   in  Havana.  The 
question  with  Blanco  in  Cuba  is  how  to 
get  out  of  it  with  his  boodle. 
It  might 
do  to  send  General  Lee  to  receive  his 
surrender;  but  he  was  too  busy  to  see 
Lee  when  he  left  Havana,  and  might 
prefer  being  licked  by  some  one  else.

Spaniards  now  say  they  have  a  sky­
rocket  which  can  destroy  a  ship  and  be 
operated  from  a  rowboat.  There  may 
be  something 
in  this,  but  none  of  the 
Spaniards  want  to  be  in  the  rowboats, 
which  now  form  the  only  navy  Spain 
has. 

_____________

The  stamp  tax  on  the marriage certifi­
cates  has  in  no  way  lessened the number 
of  marriages.  The  chap  who  does  not 
care  two  cents’  worth  for  a  girl  ought 
not  to  have  one.

Spain  weakened  as  soon  as  the  cables 
were  cut  enough  to  prevent  Blanco  from 
sending  accounts  of  his  victories,  which 
he  never  had.

It  will  be  difficult  to  hold  back  the 
soldiers  who  now  want  to go to the front.

W ILL  BE  BETTER  FOR  SPAIN.
Deprived  of  her  colonial  possessions, 
Spain  will  now  sink  into  national  ob­
scurity,  but  perhaps  will  be  better  off 
than  with  colonies  that  are  always  in re­
bellion,  and  which,  through  lack  of  en­
terprise,  have  never  been  a  source  of 
true  strength  and  power.  Spain’s  pplicy 
has  always  been  to  rob  her colonies,  and 
so  they  have  been,  in  the  end,  a  source 
of  weakness,  until,  one  by  one,  she  has 
lost  them.

in  view 

Of  course,  the  proud  Spaniards  will 
feel  the  humiliation  resulting  from  this 
war,  but  they  have  experienced  other 
such  humiliation  when  they  lost Mexico 
and  all  their  Central  American  and 
South  American  possessions.  They  can 
never  suffer  any  greater  humiliation 
than  they  have  long  ago  passed through.
The  London  Spectator,  remarking  on 
the  prospect 
for  Spain,  ex­
presses  the  belief  that  that  nation  will 
be  greatly  benefited  when  relieved  of 
most  serious  cares.  For  instance,  Spain 
has  lost  her  fleet,  which  was  a  source  of 
great  expense,  and  proved  to  be  of  no 
value  when  she  got  into  serious  trouble. 
She  will  lose  her  colonies,  but they  have 
always  been  a  most  destructive  drain 
upon  her  military  and 
financial  re­
sources.  Those  colonies  have  caused 
her  to  go  heavily  in  debt,  and  they  were 
mortgaged  as  security  for 
loans  that 
were  needed 
to  keep  up  government 
and  military  establishments  there.  But 
for  these  colonies  there  would  have been 
no  need  of  going  so  heavily  in  debt. 
Spain  has  17,000,000  or  18,000,000  of 
population,  exclusive  of  the  colonies. 
The  people  are  chiefly  engaged  in  agri­
culture  and  mining.  They  can  raise  all 
that  they  need  for  their  subsistence. 
Their 
in  wines, 
olives,  oil  and  other  such  articles,  and 
minerals,  largely  iron  ore,  which  is  ex­
ported  to  England,  the  United  States 
and  to  other  countries.  If  the  Spaniards 
can  get  rid  of  their  colonies  they  can 
settle  down  in  a  reasonable  and  peace­
ful  comfort.

largest  exports  are 

Such  a  condition  will  put  an  end  to 
the  wild  dreams  of  power  indulged  in 
by  the  Spaniards  since  the time  of  their 
discovery  of  the  New  World  and  their 
vast  expansion  upon  its  territory. 
In 
four  centuries  the  Spaniards  have  seen 
the  beginning,  the  culmination  and  the 
final  extinguishment  of  their  power  and 
dominion  in  the  Western  Hemisphere. 
Spain  should  have  been  the  richest  and 
most  powerful  nation  on  the  globe;  but 
she  did  not  know  how  to  gain  riches 
and  power  by  commerce.  Her  policy 
was  to  follow  the  example  set  by  the 
Romans  and  to  plunder  and  strip  her 
colonies.  Such  a  course  has  wrought 
Spain’s  ruin,  and  she  now  returns  to 
the  same  condition  she  occupied  when 
the  conquest  of  the  New  World  began. 
Probably  she  will  be  all  the  better  off 
for  it.

FASTER  BATTLE-SHIPS.

One  of  the  lessons  taught  by  the  re­
cent  naval  engagements  of  the  Spanish 
war  has  been  the  necessity  for  greater 
speed  in  battle-ships.  The  slowness  of 
some  of  our  powerful  ships  seriously 
handicapped  them 
in  the  fight  with 
Admiral  Cervera’s  ships,  and  had  it  not 
been  for  the  advantage  of  position, 
overwhelming  force  and  the  speed  of 
the  cruiser  Brooklyn, 
the 
enemy’s  cruisers  would  have  escaped.

some  of 

The  Brooklyn,  as  an  armored  cruiser, 
was  expected  to  develop,  and  did  de­
velop,  good  speed,  although  she  made 
nothing 
like  the  speed  she  is  credited 
with.  Of  the  battle-ships,  only  the

Oregon  showed  fair  speed,  her  perform­
ance  being  all  that  could  have  been 
wished  for a  vessel  of  her class.

Our  present  battle-ships  are  expected 
to  develop,  at  the  very  outside,  17  knots 
speed,  while,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  they 
do  not  secure  anything  like  that  speed. 
Their  bottoms  soon  become  foul in trop­
ical  waters,  the  marine  growths  mate­
lessening  their  power  of  getting 
rially 
through  the  water  rapidly. 
Foreign 
battle-ships  of  recent  construction  have 
been  built  to  develop  18  knots  speed, 
and  in  order  to  secure  such  speed  they 
have  been  given  greater  displacement 
to  afford  room  for  more  engine  power 
and  greater  coal  capacity.  All  the  more 
recent  British  battle-ships  have  a  con­
tract  speed  of  18  knots.

It 

In  preparing  plans  for  the  three  new 
battle-ships  authorized  by  the  last  ses­
sion  of  Congress  a  speed  of  only  16 
knots  was  provided  for  on  a  displace­
ment  of  11,000  tons. 
It  was  held  that 
the  ships  should  be  of  comparatively 
light  draft,  and  coal  capacity  and speed 
were  to  be  sacrificed  to  great  battery 
power. 
is  now  proposed  to  revise 
this  plan,  and  to  give  the  new  ships  at 
least  18  knots  speed.  To  accomplish 
this  the  displacement  is  to  be  increased 
to  13,000 tons; the  coal  capacity  is  to  be 
increased,  as  well  as  the  engine  power. 
This  improvement  will  not  necessitate 
any  sacrifice  of  battery,  as it is proposed 
to  arm  the  ships  with  12  and  8-inch 
breech-loading  rifles,  besides  a 
large 
number  of  6-inch  rapid-fire  guns.

Greater  speed  and  less  combustible 
material 
in  the  fittings  of  ships  are  to 
be  the  direct  results  of the lessons taught 
during  the  present  struggle.  The  naval 
authorities  are  earnestly  desirous  that 
the  fleet  should  fully  profit  by  the  ex­
perience  the  ships  have  recently  been 
through,  and  steps  will  be  taken  to  em­
body  the  improvements  decided  upon  in 
the  plans  for  all  new  vessels,  and  to  in­
clude  them,  also,  as  far  as  possible,  in 
the  ships  already building wherever it  is 
possible  to  alter  the  working plans with­
out 
injury  to  the  efficiency  of  the  ship 
or  delay  to  her  final  completion.

the 

sending 

After  a  trial  of  six  months,  the  pure 
food  law  in  Minnesota  is  reported  to  be 
working  well. 
Its  most  effective  re­
quirement  is  that  adulterated  articles  be 
so  labelled.  One  effect  of  this  is  that 
some  manufacturers  have  withdrawn 
their  mixtures  from  the  Minnesota  mar­
ket  rather  than  discredit  their  honest 
products, 
adulterated 
goods  to  other  states  where  the  laws  are 
not  so  strict.  Some  houses  sell  straight 
goods  and  mixed  side  by  side  under 
different  brands.  But  the  pure  brands 
are  kept  religiously  apart 
the 
mixed  where  six  months  ago  it  was  the 
scheme  to  make  them  as  much  alike  as 
possible.  The  operation  of  the  law  in 
some  exceptional  cases  is  said  to be bet­
ter for  the  pockets  of  the  people  than for 
their  stomachs.  For 
instance,  the  St. 
Paul  Pioneer  Press  reports  that  in  bak­
ing  powers  there  is  about  as  much  alum 
powder  sold  as  ever.  But  the  result  has 
been  to  cheapen  the  price  of  the  cheap­
It  is  figured  that  the  peo­
er  powders. 
ple  of  Minnesota  have  saved  $20,000 
in 
baking  powders  this  year  by  not  paying 
cream  of  tartar  prices  for  alum.

from 

Louisville  proposes  to  exempt  new 
manufacturing  plants  from  taxation  for 
five  years.  This  is  in  keeping  with  the 
general  movement 
in  all  wide-awake 
cities  just  now  to  add  to  their industrial 
and  commercial  activities.  Slow  towns 
will  get 
left  badly  in  the  next  two  or 
three  years.

IO
Shoes  and  Leather
Why  the  Retailer  Should  Repudiate 

Shoddy  Shoes.

E.  A.  Boyden In  Boots  and Shoes  Weekly.

The  time  has  passed  for  thetoo-cheap 
shoe  to  have  any  longer a  valid  excuse 
for  its  existence.

This  deceptive  thing,  masquerading 
as  a  genteel  product  of  the  shoemakers’
art,  has  done more  to  bring  odium  upon 
our  craft  than  any  other  cause.

It  has  shaken  the  confidence  of  thou­
sands  of  shoe  wearers  in  the  good  faith 
of  producers,  and  it  has  been a standing 
menace  to  the  peace  of  mind  of  the 
conscientious  dealer  who  has  been 
tempted  into  admitting  it  into  his  stock 
by  its  specious  appearance  of  worth;  or 
who  has  been  goaded 
into  consent  to 
allow  the  disreputable  article  to  asso­
ciate  with  his  respectable 
family  of 
worthy  shoes,  by  the  insatiate  demands 
of  ill-advised  customers.

His  kindness  to  his  patrons  and  his 
desire  to  conciliate  them  in  all  reason­
able  or  unreasonable  ways  have  their 
limits,  and  the  honest  dealer soon learns 
that  the 
line  should  be  drawn  at  the 
point  where  the  uninform ed  customers
ask,  like  the  child,  for  a  wasp  as  a 
plaything,  and  which  he  doesn’t  want 
at  all  after  he  has  gotten  it.

The  conscientious  dealer  who  has 
made  this  conciliatory  experiment  has 
learned  his  lesson.

He  has  reaped  the  whirlwind  of  un­
deserved  complaint  from  bis  patrons, 
who  are  never  slow  to  visit  upon  his 
head  the  wrath  that  is  the  result  of their 
own  shortsighted and thriftless demands.
The  wise  dealer  is  now  a  wiser  man 

than  ever  before.

He  has  been  "hoist  with  his  own 

petard. ”

Of  the  producers  of  worthless  shoddy 
wares,  made  only  to  sell,  "and  no  ques­
tions  asked, ”   and of  the  minority  of  re­
tailers  who  handle  them  habitually  and 
without  compunction,  it  is  only  neces­
sary  to  say  that  the  honor  of  the  craft  is 
to  them  of secondary  importance  to  that 
of  money-getting.

With  this  class  of  retailers  a  constant­
ly  shifting  and  transient  trade  is,  of 
course,  the  basis  upon  which  business 
is  conducted;  hence,  the  aftermath  of 
well-merited  complaints  is comparative­
ly  feeble,  as  they  have  but  few  regular 
patrons  to  face  the  year  round  and  to 
hear  reports  upon  the  behavior  of  the 
cheap,  too cheap,  shoe  in  active service.
In  these  times  of  base,  unchecked 
deception,  made  possible  by  modern 
methods  and  cultivated  by 
imitative 
talent,  buyers  are  more  at  the  mercy  of 
unscrupulous  dealers than ever.
This  is  notably  true  in  the  matter  of 
footwear.  The  worthless  shoe  often  so 
its  honest  better  as  to 
closely 
imitates 
almost  deceive 
the  dealer  himself; 
is  quite  easy  to  deceive  the 
hence,  it 
ignorant  purchaser 
if  it  is  thought  de­
sirable  or  profitable.

It 

It 

is  a  wise  son  that  knows  its  own 
father  nowadays,  when  a  convenient 
substitution  or  concealment  of  this male 
progenitor  renders  a  mask  desirable; 
and  if  any  man  thinks  he  knows  which 
side  his  bread 
is  buttered  on,  let  him 
beware  lest  his  mouth  is  lubricated with 
oleomargarine.

is  a  wiser  man  than  the  above 
among  the  masses  of  modern  shoe  wear­
ers  who  knows  the  quality  and  durabil­
ity  of  his  footwear,  bought at haphazard 
at  a  bargain  store,  except  after  the  ex­
perience  of  a  crucial  test  of  the  shoes 
on  bis  own  feet.

The  sensible  patron  of  an  honest  re­
in 

tailer  needs  not  to  learn  his  lessons 
this  expensive  manner.

"Costly  thy  habit  as  thy  purse  can 
buy,  but  not  expressed 
in  fancy ;  rich, 
not  gaudy,"  is  a  good  rule  for  the  shoe 
wearer;  and  he  should  know  that an  ab­
surdly 
low  price  for  a  seemingly  high- 
grade  shoe  proves  that  there  is  a barbed 
hook  beneath  the  tempting  bait.

This  rule  is  even  more  applicable  to 
persons  with  slender  means  than  to  the 
wealthy,  because  the  former  can 
ill 
afford  the  loss  that  a  pair  of  worthless 
shoes  entails.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  shoddy  shoe,  at  the  best,  is  a 

snare  and  a  delusion.

It  is  an  incongruous  combination  of 
high-toned  appearance  and  quite  con­
temptible  material  and  workmanship— 
elements  so  completely  at  variance  with 
each  other  that  their  association  should 
always  be  unhesitatingly 
condemned 
by  the  scrupulous  dealer,  in  the  interest 
of  bre  patrons,  and  from  a  spirit  of  loy­
alty  to  his  craft.

Such  shoes  may  well  come  under  the 
same  scathing  condemnation  as  was 
conveyed  in  Carlyle’s  blunt  criticism  of 
the  best  attainments  in  Northern  sculp­
ture,  “ Three  whale-cubs  combined  by 
boiling. ’ ’

is, 

It  may  be  urged  that  there  is  some­
thing  dim  and  murkily  indefinite  about 
this  criticism ;  but  so  there 
too, 
about  the  too-cheap  shoe.

It  has  the  look  of  leather  and  the  pre­
tense  of  sboemaking  to  hold  it  up  when 
new  and  untried.

It  has  a  frail  air  of  grace  and  sincer­
ity  outwardly;  but  its  ignominious  col­
lapse  is  in  every  seam  and  fiber,  so  that 
its  downfall  is  assured  as  soon  as 
is 
set 
in  motion  upon  the  strong,  active 
and  unsuspecting  foot  of  its  wearer.

it 

The 

injurious  effects  of  the  shoddy 
shoe  upon  the  minds  of  those  who  have 
been  victimized  are  often  quite  pro­
nounced,  and  productive  of  moral  de­
generacy  in  persons  of  average  equa­
nimity under other trving circumstances.
The  physical  effects,  are,  also,  usual­
ly  pernicious,  because  in  a  provokingly 
short  period  the  feet  thus  clad  are  left 
without  appreciable  aid  or  comfort from 
their  coverings.

These  false  pretenders,  which  prom­
ised  to  be  faithful  allies  to  the  feet, 
have  soon  withdrawn  their  support,  and 
have  fallen  away  from  their  professed 
design.

It  would  be  better  for  the  feet,  even 
in  the  matter  of  originally  good  foot­
wear,  if  people  did  not  cling  to  their 
shoes  for  street  wear  alter  they  have 
become  no  better  support  for  the  feet 
and  ankles  than  a  pair  of  stockings.

It  may  be  regarded  as  economy  in 
footwear  to  prolong  its  siege,  but  it  is 
certainly  injurious  to  the  lower extremi­
ties.

When  shoes  have  become  pretty  well 
used  up,  they  can  be  safely  used  only 
as  house  shifts  in  lieu  of  slippers;  and 
if  a  succession  of  two  or  more  pairs  of 
new  shoes  are  being  broken  in,  the feet, 
when  walking,  will  be  always  properly 
supported,  and  less  liable  to  mishaps.

With  shoes  that  are  worthless  at  the 
outset,  there  is  naturally  a  desire  to  get 
little  wear  out  of  them  in  return  for 
a 
the  money 
injudiciously  expended  for 
them;  therefore  the  feet  are  made  to 
suffer  injury,  in  order  to attain this end.
its  pretty 
The  too-cheap  shoe,  with 
imitative  gentility,  starts  on 
its  trav­
els  with  as  much  assurance  and  pride 
as  does  its  better  competitor.

To  the  unfortunate  wearer,  who  has 
flattered  himself  upon  his  good  luck 
in 
‘ ‘ getting  something  for  nothing, ”   his
footwear  seems  just  about 
as  high-toned  as  its  three-dollar  neigh­
bors.

bargain 

But,  alas!  for  his  ignorance  or  cupid­
ity,  his  possession  soon  asserts  its  ut­
ter  worthlessness.

its  voyage,  it 

In  a  little  while  after  the  shoddy  shoe 
is  put  into  commission  and  is  launched 
upon 
is  disabled  and  is 
obliged  to  go  into  dry  dock  for  repairs.
It  is  at  this  point  that  the  "bargain" 
purchaser  begins  to  see  bis  error,  and 
the  scales  drop  from  his  eyes.

A  three-cornered  conference  between 
the  shoes  and  the 
the  shoe  wearer, 
stolid,  plain-speaking  cobbler  touches 
the  pride  of  the  owner  of  the  shoes,  and 
he  stands  humiliated  in  the  presence  of 
superior  knowledge 
in  this  branch  of 
mechanics.

One  of  the  most  undesirable  and  un­
satisfactory  tasks  that  a  cobbler  under­
takes  is  that  of  trying  to  mend  a  pair of 
worthless,  cheap  shoes.

There 

is  nothing  about  the  material 
that  is  sufficiently  solid  and  reliable  for 
him  to  work  on.

In  good  footwear,  on  the  contrary,  re­
pairs  can  be  made  so  neatly  and  strong­
the  mender  and  the  owner
ly  that 

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supported  by  transient  trade,  whereas 
the  exclusive  retailer  who  caters  to  fine 
trade  only 
is  supported  by  a  regular 
trade  who feel  that  their  styles  are  more 
a  la  mode.

The  question  of  whether  it  would  be 
feasible  for  the  dealers  to  come  to  an 
understanding  by  which  profits  should 
not  be  sacrificed  to  obtain  trade  can 
positively  be  answered  in  the  negative. 
The  word  “ combine”   creates  a  feeling 
of  disgust  and  conveys  an  idea  of injus­
tice  to  all  consumers,  and  if  the  public 
is  actually  benefited  they  naturally  feel 
that  they  are  being  taken  advantage  of, 
and  the  merchants  will  soon  find  that 
they  have  sacrificed  both 
trade  and 
profit.

Many  merchants  are  continually  com­
plaining  that  their  customers  demand 
too  much  and  that  they  expect  too much 
for  their  money,  when,  if  they  would 
carefully  analzye  the  subject  they  would 
find  that  sixty  per  cent,  of  their  com­
plaints  would  be  reduced  if  they  would 
pay the  price  and  have  com petent  sales­
people,  salespeople  that  would,  in  every 
case,  take  enough  interest  in  the  busi­
ness  to  properly  fit  and  satisfy  the  cus­
If  a  customer  secures  a  shoe 
tomer. 
that  gives  comfort  he 
is  not  so  par­
ticular  about  the  length  of  time  it  will 
wear,  and  you  will  find  your  repair  bill 
to  be  very  small,  and  every  customer 
will  be  a  “ walking”   advertisement  for 
you.

In  late  years  merchants  with  energy 
and  ambition  have  learned  the  effect 
and  necessity  of  frequent  and  artistic 
displays;  a  shoe  properly  prepared 
and  displayed  to  advantage  is  itself  a 
profitable  “ silent  salesman.”   Many  an 
unusual  profit 
is  obtained  only  by  the 
impression  it  has  made  on the purchaser 
by  being  displayed  to  advantage in your 
window.— Boots  and  Shoes  Weekly.

I

of  the  shoes  are  mutually  pleased  at  the 
result.

This  fact  alone  ought  to  be  a  strong 
incentive  for  purchasers  to  buy  only 
shoes  of good,  honest material and  work­
manship.

The  moral 

influence  of  shoes,  there­
fore,  affects  three  classes  of  persons  to 
a  greater  or  less  degree—the  retailer, 
the  buyer  and  the  cobbler.

A  fourth  class,  in  the matter of shoddy 
products,  ought  to  be  equally  affected, 
and  that  is  the  producer,  but  he  cannot 
here  be  included,  because  the  fact  that 
he  makes  such  wares,  knowing  their 
worthlessness  and  the  unpleasant  results 
that  must  follow  the  production,  pre­
cludes  the  charitable  thought  that  he 
regrets  the  output.

If  the  retailer  would  repudiate  too- 
cheap  shoes  and  keep  only  such  as  were 
of  fair  quality,  at  least,  the  cobbler’s 
peace  of  mind  would  be  increased 
im­
mensely,  and  with  it the customer would 
be  spared  the  humiliation  of  the  for­
mer’s  criticisms  upon  the  disreputable 
things  that  have  gone  to  speedy  wreck 
and  are  not  worth  mending.

The  too-cheap  shoe 

is  never  worth 
half-soling,  and  the  uppers  are  hardly 
ever  worth  new  grafts 
the  way  of 
patches.

in 

When  they  begin  to  go  to  pieces,  and 
that 
is  always  after  a  few  trial  trips, 
they  do  not  gradually  decay  like  the 
better  shoe,  but  they  collapse  all  at 
once.

The  experience  of  a  large  dealer,  who 
keeps  in  stock  almost  every kind of shoe 
made  and  every  quality  above 
the 
shoddy  sort,  shows  him  that  the  latter 
are  responsible  for  the  lack  of  perma­
nent  trade  complained  of  by  those  who 
deal  in  such  trash.
“ The  masses,’ ’  he  says,  “ are  now 
flung  about  from  store  to  store,  follow­
ing  the  ignis  fatuus of ‘ Great Bargains, ’ 
‘ Big  Drives,’  and  the  like,  wearing  out 
ten  cents’  worth  of  shoe  leather and  ten 
per  cent,  of  their  vital  energy  in  trying 
to  secure  a  saving  of  live  cents  on  a 
pair of  cheap  shoes  which  are  not  worth 
the  buying.”

The  deluded  woman  who  persistently 
chases  the  too-cheap  shoe  will  overtake 
it,  of  course,  but  it  will  require  a  great 
many  pairs  of  them  each  year  to  keep 
her  from  going  barefoot;  and  a  little 
figuring  would  show  her  that  her  sup­
posed  economy  is  really  wasteful extrav­
agance.

An  unpleasant  fact  about  the  shoddy 
shoe  is  that  one  can  never  tell  what part 
will  give  out  first,  the  upper  or  the  sole. 
In  uniformly  worthless  shoes  there 
is 
a  sort  of  sudden  general  breaking  up.
On  first-class  shoes,  both  in  material 
and  workmanship, 
there  are  certain 
vulnerable  points  which  the  shoe  wearer 
comes  to  recognize  as 
eariest 
doomed.  These  points  are,  with  the 
person  of  average  tread  and  feet,  at  the 
inside  ball  of  the  sole  and  across  the 
ball  of  the  upper,  where  the  best-fitting 
shoes  are  bound  to  wrinkle  in  time.

Heels,  of  course,  are  always  in  the 
grinding  mill,  and are  being  worn  down 
into  a  variety  of  odd  shapes,  according 
to  the  tread  of  the  wearer  and  the  qual­
ity  of  the  material.

In  the  strictly  shoddy  shoe  the  whole 
thing  is  a  vulnerable  point,  and  it  is  as 
likely  to  go  to  pieces  at  one place as an­
other,  or  to  meet  total  wreckage  all  at 
once.
In 

fact,  the  shoddy  shoe 

is  a  good 

the 

shoe  not  to  buy  on  any  pretext.

And  yet  there 

is,  and  will  probably 
always  be,  a  class  of  purchasers  who 
will  buy  these cheap,  shoddy  impostors.

Proper  Profits  and  How  to  Maintain 

Them.

One  of  the  most  essential  things  to­
ward  maintaining  a  proper  profit  is 
judicious  buying,  so  as  to  prevent  the 
accumulation  of  a  surplus  stock  that 
would  have  to  be  disposed  of  at  a  loss, 
thus greatly reducing your former profits.
Another  very  essential  thing  is to gain 
the  confidence  of  the  public.  Establish 
yourself  as  a  reliable  bouse;  do  not  al­
low  any  goods  to  be  misrepresented  in 
your  establishment;  satisfy  all  reason­

able  complaints  and  do  not  make  a 
promise  you  cannot  fulfill  at  the  time 
specified,  as  promptness  has  a  great  in­
fluence.

It  is  also  very  important  to  properly 
establish  your  name;  for  employer  to 
pay  attention  to  employes,  pay  them 
well,  treat  them  kindly,  and 
let  them 
feel  you  have  confidence  in  them,  and 
encourage  them  in  every  way,  and  you 
will  find  it  to  be  a  big advertisement for 
you.  These  rules  strictly  enforced  will 
surely  make  you  known  as  a  reliable 
house,  and  greatly  assist  in  obtaining  a 
good  profit  and  a  regular  trade.

All  people,  whether  honest  or  dishon­
est  themselves,  admire  honest  methods 
in  business,  and  are  willing  to  pay  you 
a  better  price  when  they  know  nothing 
will  be  misrepresented  to  them.

The  majority  of  merchants  will  agree 
that  these  methods will bring the desired 
results,  but  few  follow  them.

As  to  the  amount  of  profit,  it  is  im­
possible  to  state  what  would  be  a proper 
gross  profit  on  account  of  the  difference 
in  expenses  in  running  your  business, 
but  you  should  arrange  your  prices  so 
as  to  give  you  a  net  profit  of  not  less 
than  twenty-five  per  cent.

The  cause  of  the  prevalence  of  close 
margins 
in  general  can  practically  be 
traced  to  each  individual  merchant.  At 
the  present  day  are  all  so  very  hungry 
for  trade  that  the  shoe  merchants  sim­
ply  do  a  “ cut-throat  business,”   all  the 
year  round  cutting  under  one  another  in 
prices,  and  trying  to  force  the  sale  of 
goods  at  any  price 
in  order  to  make 
amount  of  sales  show  up  well,  while 
profit  is  not  a  consideration.  This  has 
even  been  carried  to  such  extremes  in 
some  cities  that  the  public  never  have 
to  pay  full  price  for a  shoe.  They  sim­
ply  have  to  watch  advertisements,  and 
they  can  always  find  some  of  the  lead­
ing  merchants  forcing  a  sale  at  a  sacri­
fice;  and  so  long  as  they  follow  this 
method  of  doing  business  it 
impos­
sible  for  them  to  estabish  a  regular 
trade  that  can  be  depended  on  and from 
which  they  can  obtain  a  reasonable 
profit.

is 

So  far as the manufacturer’s  aid  to  the 
dealer  in  securing the proper  profit,  it  is 
very  limited.  You  cannot  expect  a man­
ufacturer  to  confine  himself  to  a  few 
styles  when  by  showing  something  new 
to  the  retailer  he  can  do  a  large  and 
profitable  business  with  merchants  that 
otherwise  he  could  not  sell  at  all.  He 
does  not  manufacture  these  goods  until 
the  retailer  orders  them,  where  the  re­
tailer 
and 
forces  the  many  styles  on  the  public.

is  merely  experimenting 

But  the  manufacturers  can  greatly  as­
sist  the  retailer  by  putting  the  same 
quality  of  stock  in  their  samples  as they 
use 
in  their  goods.  Often  merchants, 
after  waiting  several  months,  are  com­
pelled  to  keep  goods  that  are  not  up  to 
the  standard  of  samples from which they 
gave  their  orders,  because  it  is  too  late 
to  place  their  orders  elsewhere  when 
they  are  greatly  in  need  of  the  goods.

For  the  last  year  or  two  it  has  been  a 
great  problem  to  the  exclusive  retailer 
to  learn  the  future  extent  of competition 
of  the  department  stores;  I do  not  think 
the  department  stores  affect  all  classes 
of  the  shoe  business,  though  the  retailer 
who  caters  to  the  cheap  and  medium 
class  of  trade,  and  where  the  country 
trade  comes  in  question  the  deparment 
store  wages  great  war,  will  event­
ually  have  almost  a  monopoly.  The 
finer  and  higher  priced  trade  they  will 
never  be  able  to  control  so  as  to  be  a 
detriment  to  the  exclusive 
retailer. 
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Lack  of  Originality.

“ Women  have  so  little  originality.”  
“ I  presume  you  are  talking  about 

some  one  woman.”

“ Yep. 
I  proposed  to  her  four  times 
and  each  time  she  has  told  me  it  was  so 
sudden.”

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19 S. Ionia  St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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the Ladies

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on  a  hot  summer  day  than 
a substantial  Fan.  Especially 
is this true of country custom­
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providing themselves with  this necessary 
adjunct  to  comfort.  We  have  a  large 
line of  these  goods  in  fancy  shapes  and 
unique designs, which we furnish, printed 
and handled, as follows:

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100-
4  50
200-
300-
5  75
400-
7  00
500-
8  00
Ì000.....................  15  00

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12
Fruits  and  Produce.

Are  Short  of  Butter.

Harrisburg,  Pa.,  inhabitants  are  com­
plaining  of  a  butter  famine  and  at  the 
price  charged  for  the  delicate  article  of 
food.  The  Independent  says  that  25c 
per  lb.  for  butter  at  this  season  of  year 
is  considered  a  high  price  by  Harris­
burg  consumers.

During  the  past  few  market  days  peo­
ple  of  the  city  were  fortunate  in  getting 
any  at  that  price.,  owing  to  the  scarcity 
of  butter.  The  scarcity  was  thought  by 
some  to  be  due  entirely  to  a  shortage 
of  pasture  brought  on  by  the  drought  of 
the  past  several  weeks.  This  is  denied 
as  the  cause  and the trouble is attributed 
to  parties  from  Steelton  and  Middle- 
town  coming  to  the  markets  at  an  early 
hour  and  purchasing  all  the  butter  in 
sight.  These  parties,  it 
is  said,  take 
the  butter  to  their  respective  towns  and 
dispose  of  it.  The  scarcity  in  the  city 
markets  compels  Harrisburg  people  to 
pay  more  for  the  article  greatly relished 
by  so  many.  Officials  consider  the 
practice  of  buying  up  the butter in large 
quantities  an  act  of 
forestalling  the 
market, which they  believe  is  prohibited 
by  a  city  ordinance.  The ordinance  re­
ferred  to  was  passed  by  Harrisburg 
councils  in  October,  1874,  and  is  as  fol­
lows :

No  huckster,  merchant,  dealer or other 
person whomsoever, shall  buy  or  cause  to 
be  bought  within  the  limits  of  this city, 
any  article  of  provisions,  fruit,  vege­
tables  or  other  commodities  for  any  of 
the  markets  of  this  city  for  the  purpose 
of  retailing  or  reselling  the  same,  be­
tween  the  hours  established 
for  the 
opening  and  closing  of  the  several  mar­
kets.

This  ordinance,  it  is  said,  covers  the 
opinions  entertained  by  officials  and  the 
provisions  of  the  same  will  be  enforced 
if  the  practice  of  the  past  few  weeks 
is  kept  up.  The  ordinance  provides 
for  the  offence  of  forestalling  a  fine  of 
not  less  than  $3  nor  more  than  $10,  one- 
half  of  which  shall  be  paid  to  the prose­
cutor.

Making  Butterine  Again.

it 

Rumors  are  current  in  Chicago,  ac­
cording  to  the  Times-Herald,  to  the 
effect  that  the  packers  of  that  city  will 
shortly  resume  the  manufacture  of  but­
terine,  or,  as 
is  more  commonly 
known,oleomargarine.  About  a  year  ago 
a  law  was  enacted  prohibiting  the  man­
ufacture  of  oleomargarine  in  the  State 
of  Illinois.  At that  time  Armour  &  Co., 
Swift  &  Co.  and  other  large  packers 
disposed  of  their  machinery  used  in  its 
manufacture  and  quit  the  business.  Ac­
cording  to  the  reports  now  circulated, 
both  of  these  firms  have  purchased  new 
machinery,  and  expect  to  resume  man­
ufacturing  the 
imitation  of  butter  at 
once.
is  not  stated  in  these  rumors  just 
It 
how  the  packers  will  evade  the  law 
which  was  enacted  by  the  Illinois  As­
sembly.  But 
it  has  never  been  a  very 
difficult  matter  for  retailers  to  sell  oleo­
margarine  in  the  States  where  the  laws 
prohibiting  its  sale  were  the  most  strin­
gent. 
for  instance, 
the  Pure  Food  Commissioner  of  the 
State  had,  until  a  few  months  ago,  been 
fighting  the  retailers  for  years.  The 
law 
its  sale, 
not  only  as  butter,but  as  oleomargarine, 
butterine,  or  under  any  other  name. 
Grocers  and  restaurant  keepers  were  ar­
rested  by  the  wholesale  in  Philadelphia 
and  Pittsburg,  and,  for  each  offense  un­
der  which  they  were 
indicted,  were 
fined  $100  and  costs.  The  law  imposed 
not  onlv  fines,  but  imprisonment  for 
one  year  for  the  third  offense.  Several 
of  those  who  were  constantly  fighting 
the  law  were  threatened  with 
imprison­
ment,  but  always  escaped.
“4Finally  a  test  was  made  of  one  of  the 
cases,  and  the  Supreme  Court  decided

in  that  State  prohibited 

In  Pennsylvania, 

it 

that  the  law  was  unconstitutional.  This 
decision  was  reached  only  recently  and 
may  be  responsible  for  the  proposed  re­
sumption  by the  Chicago manufacturers. 
Representatives  of  the  concerns  deny 
that  they  are  about  to  enter  the  busi­
ness  again,  but 
is  authoritatively 
stated  that  the  machinery  has  been  pur­
chased  with  the  intention  of  resuming 
the  business  this  month.

So  great  was  the  demand  in  Pennsyl­
vania  for  oleomargarine  that  the  courts 
decided  that  it  was  interfering  with  the 
taxpayers’  rights  to  deprive  them  of  it. 
It  was  not  alone  the  poorer  classes  of 
people  who  purchased  oleo.  The  mid­
dle,  and  even  the  upper,  classes  pre­
ferred  it  to  poor  country  butter,  and  to 
deprive  them  of  oleo  meant  that  they 
should  eat  dry  bread.  It has been proven 
long  ago  that  oleomargarine,  butterine 
and  similar  preparations  are  equally  as 
pure  as  the best  country butter,  contain­
ing  no  injurious  matter  whatever.  The 
imitation  of  the  taste  of  butter  is so per­
fect  that  not  one  person  out  of  a  hun­
dred  can  detect  the difference,  while  the 
price  places  the  product  within  the 
reach  of  the  poorest  people  the  year 
around. 
It  will  be  welcome  news  to 
many  to  hear  that  the  manufacture  of 
oleomargarine  is  to  be  resumed.

Better  Market  at  Home.

Prom the St. Paul Globe.

Men  in  the  butter  trade  with  a  prac­
tical  turn  are  just  a  little  perplexed  as 
to  why  the  Government  is  making  such 
strenuous  efforts  to  introduce  our  butter 
foreign  markets,  where  butter 
into 
brings 
less  than  at  home.  Exporters 
have  long  dropped  Western  separator 
extras,  for  the  simple  reason  that  for­
eign  markets  will  warrant  paying  only 
fifteen  and  one-half  to  sixteen  cents  for 
them.  However,  there  will  be  no  harm 
in  giving  some  of  the  best  English mar- 
kets  a  taste  of  some  Western  butter,  so 
they  may  understand  that  the  kind  that 
has  been  exported  heretofore 
is  not 
Western  creamery  goods.  The  only  but­
ter  that  the  West  can  afford  to  export  is 
‘ ‘ store  butter,”   which  is  taken  in  trade 
by  the  country  and 
stores, 
shipped  to  commercial  centers  where  it 
is  sorted,  reworked  and  goes  into  the 
market  under  the  name  of  “ ladles,”  
and  is  not  calculated  to  give  our  butter 
a  very  high  standing 
in  foreign  mar­
kets.  Denmark  sells  her  best  butter 
and  keeps  the  poor grades  at  home  for 
domestic  consumption,  while  the  peo­
ple  in  the  states  as  a  rule  eat  the  good 
butter  and 
leave  the  poorer grades  for 
export. 
It  may  be  a  good  plan  to  give 
foreigners  a  taste  of  good  butter,  so they 
will  know  where  to  get  it  when  they 
will  feel  able  to  pay  as  much  or  more 
for  it  than  our  people.
Butter  Merchants  Up  in Arms Against 

village 

Oleo  Dealers.

Baltimore,  Md.,  Aug.  8—A  deter­
mined  effort  is  being  made  by  the  but­
ter  dealers  of  the  city  to  make  the  sale 
of  oleomargarine and similar products of 
other  than  pure  milk  or  cream,  sold  as 
butter,  a  dangerous  and  costly  business. 
A  number  of  persons  have  been arrested 
and  held  for  court  on  the  charge  of  sell­
ing  the  substitute  as  butter,  and  in  a 
test  case,  after  a  demurrer  to  the  indict­
ment  had  been  overruled,  the  defendant 
pleaded  guilty  and  was  fined  gioo. 
In 
this  case  the  defendant  sold  oleomar­
garine  as  such,  with  no  attempt  to palm 
it  off  as  butter,  but  its sale  was  declared 
illegal.

The  making  of  “ process  butter”   has 
undeniably  increased  the  price  of  pack­
ing  stock  and  poor  dairy  stock,  and  at 
the  same  time  lowered  the  price  of 
creamery  butter.  The  renovated  butter 
is  placed  in  competition  with  creamery 
butter  and  palmed  off  as  the  genuine 
article.  As  a  result  it  is  eaten,  instead 
of  that  much  creamery  butter,  making 
an  outlet  for  dairy  butter  by  the  renova­
tion,  and  diminishing the  consumption 
of  creamery  butter  by  the  same  means.
Boring  a  hole  halfway  through  the 
sole  of  a  shoe  is  said  to  prevent  its 
squeaking.  The reason  assigned  is  that 
the  air  between  the  layers  of  leathers  is 
released  by  the  boring.

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promises;  we  will  advance  you  liberally  on  your 
shipments.  W rite  for  our  daily  price  list  and 
instructions  for  shipping  all  perishable  fruits  to 
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Butter,  Eggs  and Poultry

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REFERENCES

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

W e  do  not  advertise  in  the  M i c h i g a n   T r a d e s m a n   from 
choice  or  for  any  partiality  toward  the  editor,  but  it  is  our 
aim  to  reach  every  shipper  of  Butter,  E ggs  and  Poultry  in 
the  State;  and,  as  we  find  from  experience  that  it  is  “ the 
paper  of  the  people,  we  shall  continue  to  keep  our  name 
before  you  through  its  valuable  and  interesting  columns, 
and  we  respectfully  solicit  your  Eastern  shipments  of 
Butter,  E ggs  and  Poultry. 

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13

MODERN  M ETHO DS.

How  the  Creamery  Must  Utilize 

By-Products.

Its 

competitive 

There  are  five  essentials  to  success 
in  each 
industry—abun­
dance  of  raw  material,  economy  of man­
ufacture,  excellence  of  product,  finding 
a  market  and  utilizing  the  by-products.
Starting  a  creamery  where  there  are 
not  cows  and  dairymen  to  care  for  them 
and  milk  them  is  like  starting a sawmill 
where  there  are  no  trees.  Buttermaking 
without  the  best  of  modern  appliances 
is  like  reaping  with  cradles  and  thresh­
ing  with  flails.  Making  mushy,  ill-fla­
vored  butter  which  all  civilized  people 
will  spew  out  of  the  mouth  cannot  be  a 
financial  success,  although  done  with 
fasting  and  prayer.  Making  gilt-edged 
butter  and  failing  to  find  a  market  such 
as  it  deserves  results  in  certain  stagna­
tion  to  the  business,  and  failing  to  uti­
lize  the  by-products  is  throwing away all 
the  profits,  no  matter 
if  all  the  other 
conditions  are  right.

An 

industry  are 

in  abundance 

intelligent  dairy  community  can 
be  depended  upon  to  furnish  the  raw 
if  the  other 
material 
phases  of  the 
in  good 
shape.  The  dairyman  always  has  rich 
land  as  a  result  of  dairying  and  be  can 
raise  feed  cheaper  than  the grain farmer 
possibly  can.  Economy  of  manufacture 
is  crowding  close  to  perfection  after  the 
material  is  in  the  buttermaker's  hands, 
thanks  to  the  excellence  of  modem 
creamery  machinery  and  appliances. 
Excellence  of  product  is  assured  with  a 
suitable  buttermaker  and  the  conditions 
previously  named  as  they  should  be  and 
can  be.  Finding  a  market  for  butter 
is  now,  owing  to  the  brisk  competition 
of  solicitors,  changed 
to  the  market 
seeking  the  butter  and  bidding  for  it 
with  all  imaginary  inducements.

We  find  creameries  well  managed 

in 
the  first  three  particulars,  and  yet  some 
of  them  are  in  trouble. 
It  is  because 
the  by-products  are  not  given  due  con­
sideration.  No  flour  mill  can  exist  now 
unless  the  by-products  are  marketed 
well.  There  was  a  time  when  creeks 
and  rivers  received  the  bran  from  the 
flour  mills  as  waste  product.  Now  such 
a  practice  would  bring  swift  failure. 
Glucose  meal  from  glucose  factories, 
cotton  seed  meal  from  the  cotton  indus­
try,  the  by-products  of  the  slaughter 
houses,  the  by-products  of  the  kerosene 
refineries—all  these  are  examples  of 
modern  tendencies  and  present  neces­
sities,  to  be  successful 
in  any  modern 
industry.  The  farmer  can  no  longer 
burn  his  straw,  waste  his  corn  fodder  or 
follow  any  of  the  former  wasteful  prac­
tices.

These  are  the  underlying  facts,  the 
basic  principles  to  success.  We  have 
been  needlessly  slow  to  realize  the  im­
portance  of  making  the  most  of  dairy 
and  creamery  by-products.  Let  us  look 
the  matter  fairly  in  the  face.  It  is  high 
time  to  repent  of  our  shortcomings—not 
in  sack  cloth  and  ashes  and  with  tears 
in  our  eyes,  but  in  our  business  suits, 
with  eyes  undimmed  and  free  from  the 
mists  of  prejudice.

Here  are  the  facts:  Iowa  alone  is  now 
making  a  million  pounds  of  creamery 
butter  a  day.  This  means,  in  round 
numbers,  twenty  million  pounds  of 
skim-milk.  The  waste  of  this  milk  at 
the  low  value  of  ten  cents  per  hundred 
is  a  waste  of  $20,000  for  each  and  every 
passing  day.

How  can  this  waste  be  saved? 

It  can 
be  made  into  artificial  ivory,  bone  and 
is  a  factory  in  the 
celluloid,  and  there 
United  States  converting 
it  into  these

substitutes,  and  we  have  billiard  balls, 
combs,  checks,  buttons,  etc.,  made from 
the  casein  of  skim-milk.

But  this  one  factory  is  about  enough 
of  its kind.  Skim-milk  can  be  made 
into  sizing  for  paper,  and  in  the  eastern 
part  of  the  country  there  are  several 
factories  taking  the  entire  skim-milk  of 
the  adjacent  creameries  and  making 
this  sizing  or  artificial  glue.  But skim- 
milk  is  too  bulky  to  permit.of  shipping 
any  considerable  distance  for  this  or  for 
any  other  purpose. 
It  can  be  made  in­
to  cheese  by  fortifying 
it  with  cheap 
grease.  But  this  cheese  is  an  abomina­
tion,  even  if  the  “ Elgin  district”   did 
for  a  time  coin  money  by  the  manufac­
ture  of  the  spurious  article  and  at  the 
same  time  ruin  the  name  of  United 
States  cheese,  placing  on  it  a  stigma  so 
enduring  that  the  agricultural  head  of 
the  Government  dare  not  recommend 
that  cheese  be  included  in  the  rations 
for  our  soldiers,  owing to the  probability 
that  the  cheese  furnished  would  be  of 
this  kind.

it 

its  value. 

It  can  be  made  into  meat  by  feeding 
it  to  young  animals,  and  this  is  the  only 
practical  way  to  save 
in  the  great 
dairy  localities  of  the  Mississippi  Val­
ley.  But  to  save  it  for  this  purpose  it 
must  be  saved,  not  spoiled.  The  skim- 
milk,  as  returned  this  time  of  year from 
the  average  creamery,  is rotten stuff,  not 
fit  for  food  for  any  animal.  By  a  unani­
mous  verdict  it  is  agreed  that  it  has lost 
at  least  half 
If  half  the 
creameries  of  Iowa  return  this  kind  of 
milk  it  follows  that  the  loss  is  ten  thou­
sand  dollars  a  day for  Iowa  alone  and 
from  this  one  cause.  There  are.  cream­
eries  that  do  not  spoil  the  skim-milk. 
Some  of  them  pasteurize  the  skim-milk 
and  return 
little 
to  do  this,  but  the  looks  of  young calves 
are  testimony  to 
In  other 
localities  the  farmers  find  that  they  can 
save  the  calves  only  in  winter,  as  the 
summer  milk 
is  worthless  for  young 
calves.  This  has  reduced  our  stock  of 
cattle  and  the  whole  land  is  suffering 
from  the  shortage.

It  costs  a 

its  merits. 

it  sweet. 

There  are  evidences  that  the  farmers 
themselves  are  getting  their  heads level. 
They  are  leading  the  creamerymen  in 
some  localities,  instead  of  being  led  by 
them.  The  creamerymen  should  take 
the  initiative,  however,  in  all  reforms, 
because  there  should  be  a  definite  head. 
The  farmers  see  the  ruinous  effects  of 
losing  the  feeding  value  of  the  by-prod­
ucts,  and they see that the farm  separator 
is  a  perfect  solution  of  this  trouble. 
This  shows  why  the  farm  separator  is 
gaining  ground  in  spite of all opposition 
from  such  creamerymen  as  wish  to  do 
the  separating  in  the  factory.  It doubles 
the  value  of  the  by-product  and  cuts  the 
expense  of  securing  it  in  two. 
It  is  at 
least  worth  half  what  the  skim-milk  is 
worth  to  haul  the  milk  to the factory and 
back  again,  and  it  is  worth  but  half  as 
much  under  existing  general  conditions 
after  it  is  done.  We  must  save  the  by­
products  or  lose  our profits and eventual­
ly  lose  our  creameries,  for  no  factory 
of  any  kind  can  thrive  permanently 
which  fails  to  make  wise  provisions 
in 
regard  to 
its  by-products.  Separating 
at  home  and  pasteurizing  the  factory 
milk  are  receiving  more  attention  than 
ever  before,  and  it  is  because  necessity 
holds  the  object  lesson  straight  before 
the  eyes  of  the  dairy  public.—Creamery 
Journal.

Correct  Definition.

Teacher— “ Tommy,  what  is  a  knight 

errant?”

Tommy—“ Puttin’  out  the  cat?”

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Home  Grown  New  Potatoes,  Cabbage,  Celery,  Green 
Onions,  Radishes,  Cucumbers,  Pie  Plant,  New  Dry 
Onions, Turnips,  Carrot,  Squash, W ax Beans,  Tomatoes.

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Our  Fancy  Creamery  Butter  *

in our Air  Tight  Packages  is 
always 
clean  and  [salable; 
a great trade  winner.

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ESTABLISHED 1886.

F. CUTLER &  SONS

B U T T E R ,  E G G S 
A N D   PO U LTR Y .

Consignments  solicited  directly  to 
our house,  874  Washington  Street, 
NEW  YORK.  Our  Eastern  Connec­
tion enables us to realize our shipper’s 
full  market  value  for  any  stock  re­
ceived at either place.

REFERENCES:

For cash prices F.  O.  B.  your station. 
Write us at IONIA,  fllC H .

State Savings  Bank,  Ionia,  and  the 

Commercial  Agencies.

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 ss, 
P e r f e c t ,  A l l  Siz e s,  delight  dealers  and 
customers and cost less than shingles.  Lead­
ing grocers will send stamp for free sample.

GEM  FIBRE  PACKAGE CO., Detroit.

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN
Not  Up-to-Date.

would  permit  the  absolute  control  of  the 
curing  room  and  allow  you  to make your 
cheese  just  as  you 
like,  and  not  be 
compelled  to  make  a  long  curing cheese 
during  the  summer.

The ice machine,  when  once  installed, 
can  be  operated  as  required  and  the 
cost  is  only  in  proportion  to  results. 
It 
will  run  with  40  lbs.  of  steam,  which  is 
a  necessity 
in  the  creamery  or  cheese 
factory  for  other  purposes.  There  is  but 
little  waste 
in  the  operation  of  an  ice 
machine  beyond  the  fuel,  for  the  oil 
expense 
is  trifling  and  the  ammonia, 
with  proper  care,  will 
last  for  a  year 
without  renewal,  being  used  over  and 
over. 
It  is  contained  in  a  drum  and  is 
forced  by  pressure  into  the  condenser, 
after  it  has  run  through  the coil and car­
ried  off  the  heat  of  the  atmosphere,  be­
ing  utilized  repeatedly  in  this  way. 
In 
the  best  makes  of  ice  machines  there  is 
but 
little  loss  from  leakage,  therefore 
it  is  of  the  greatest  importance  to  know 
that  such  a  machine  is  well  made  and 
that  the  joints  are  all  thoroughly  tight. 
A  cheaply  made  ice  machine  will  cost 
much  during  its  lifetime  in  the  waste of 
ammonia  and  in  the  repairs  of 
inferior 
joints  and  other  parts. 
In  buying,  the 
efficiency  of  an  ice  machine  should  be 
considered  before  its  apparent  cheap­
ness. 

Ju l i u s   Jo r g e n s .

14

EVEN  TEM PERATURE.

Ice  Machine  a  Boon  to  the  Creamery 

Industry.

It  is  generally  ad m itted   by  cream ery 
m en  th at  fa c ilitie s  for  controlling  tem ­
peratu res  should  be  a  part  of  every 
plant,  b u t  it  seem s  to  tak e  a  long 
tim e 
for  m any  of  them   to  p ut  in  these  neces­
sary  fa cilitie s.  I  have  known  of  cream ­
the  stockholders  have  d e ­
eries  w here 
the  m atter  of  adding 
bated  for  years 
an 
it  was  im pos­
sib le  to  brin g   the  product  up  to the high 
class  in  the  w arm   m onths  w ithout  one, 
b u t  nevertheless  they  could  not  come  to 
a   decision  on  th is  im portant  point.

ice  m achine,  w here 

In  the  summer,  for  instance,  the  milk 
is  usually  delivered  at  a  temperature 
above  75  degrees  and 
the  previous 
night’s  milk  is  in  an  advanced  state  of 
bacterial  action,  which  makes  it  unsafe 
to  temper  the  milk  up  to  the  proper  de­
gree  for  separation,  unless  the  proper 
facilities  for 
immediately  cooling  the 
cream  down  to  a  low  temperature  to 
prevent  undue  ripening  are  afforded. 
In  such  a  case  the  usual  method  of cool­
ing  with  water  is  inadequate,  especial­
ly  when  the  buttermaker  desires  to  use 
a  starter  for  ripening  his  cream  or  to 
hold  the  cream  at  his  convenience.  The 
keeping  quality  of  butter  is  largely  de­
pendent  on 
the  ability  of  the  butter- 
maker  to  prevent  over-development  of 
the  acid  in  the  early  stages  of  ripening, 
"and  with  the  evening’s  milk  the  cream 
must  be  quickly  cooled.

There  may  be  places  where  the nights 
are quite  cool,  but  it  is  not  often  that 
the  water  is at  a temperatrue low enough 
to  wash  the  butter,  which  may  be 
in  a 
good  granular  form  by  taking  advan­
tage  of  such  cool  nights  in  churning.  A 
range  of  52  degrees  to  56 degrees  must 
be  secured  for  churning  and  washing  in 
order  to  get  a  good-keeping  butter  and 
to  prevent  the  breaking  of  grain  in 
working. 
I  have  had  much  trouble  of 
this  kind 
in  warm  climates  where  it 
was  impossible  to  secure  a  low  temper­
ature.

it 

investment  in  an 

The advantage  of  a  cold  storage  room 
for  holding  the  butter  temporarily  and 
in  shipping 
in  a  solid  condition  is 
very  great.  Especially  is this  true  with 
butter  which  is  packed  into tubs for sea­
son’s  storage,  and  where  this  is  done  to 
any  extent  the 
ice 
machine  will  be  amply  repaid  in  the 
quality  and  appearance  of  the  butter, 
which  has  been  kept  solid  under  all 
conditions  of  the  outside  temperature, 
until  a  favorable  moment  for  shipment.
Some  creamery  owners  will  say that  if 
it 
is  too  warm  to  make  butter  we  can 
turn  our  milk  into  cheese.  This  may 
be  well  to  say,  but  in  my  experience, 
especially  in  the  State  of  Washington, 
our  curing  room  has  become  so  warm 
that  the  butter  fat  would  melt  right  out 
of  the  cheese  and  run  all  over  the  shelf, 
and  as  a  visitor  once  said  to  me,  “ You 
have  an  advantage  over  me  for  your 
cheese  will  grease  itself,  while  I  have 
to  put  a  boy  to  doing  this  work. ’ ’

A  remedy  for  warm  curing  rooms, 
lately  adopted  by  many,  is  the  under­
ground  ventilation,  where  the  air  is 
supposed  to  be  cooled  by  running  down 
10  or  12  feet  under  the  surface,  for 
a  distance  of  150  or  200  feet  before  en­
tering  the  curing  room.  Now, 
just 
consider  at  what  temperature  the  wind 
is  in  the  warm  interior,or that there may 
be  none,  when  required,  and  the  length 
of  time  it  will  take  until the ground gets 
warm  from  this  hot  current,  and  the  in­
terior  becomes  as  warm  as  outside.

An 

ice  machine 

in  such  a  factory

“ Did  you  read  that  interview  with 
Capt.  Evans  about  the  destruction  of 
Admiral  Cervera’s  fleet?”

“ Yes, 

it  was  an 

interesting  story, 

wasn’t  it?”

“ Interesting  enough,  but  I  have  my 
doubts  about  it  having been authentic. ”

“ Why?”
“ The  interviewer  didn’t put a solitary 

cuss  word  into  the  Captain's  mouth.”

Ostrich 

leather  is  a  new  thing  in  the 
It  is  said  to  be  similar  to  cat 

market. 
skin  in  durability.

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

HOLLAND,  MICH.

EBfiS  WANTED

SÖ2A75

Am  in  the  market  for 
any  quantity  of  Fresh 
Eggs.  Would be pleased 
at  any  time  to  quote 
prices  F.  O.  B.  your 
station to merchants hav­
ing Eggs to offer.
Established at Alma 1885.

O.  W.  R O G E R S

A LM A .  M IC H .

A L L   K IN D S   F IE L D   S E E D S

O R D E R S   S O L IC IT E D  

A T   M A R K E T   V A L U E

M O S E L E Y   BROS.

2 6 - 2 8 - 3 0 - 3 2   OTTAW A  ST. 

e s t . isre. 

G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H .

The  best  are  the  cheapest 
and  these  we  can  always 
supply.

ALFRED  J.  BROWN  SEED  CO.

24  and  26  North  Division  Street,

_________________________________ 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

L ive  Poultry  wanted,  car  lots 
or  less.  W rite  us  for  prices.

H. N .  R A N D A L L  PR O D U C E  C O .,T ek o n sh a , M ich.

B E   U P  TO  D A T E .

and have in stock

CONGDON’S CIDER  SAVER 
and FRUIT PRESERVATIVE 

Of inestimable V alue to Farmers and I 
ithvrs Manufacturing  or Handling  I 
Cloer  Cannnd  F ru lli  and Vegei- 
J

COMPOUND

Contains no Salicylic A cid.  Affords dealer 
good profit selling at 25 cents.

J .  L. C ongdon  &  C o.,

Pentwater,  Mich.

P ea c h e s  P lu m s 

W a te r m e lo n s

C u cu m b ers 

E g g   P la n t  T o m a to e s 

C elery 

S q u a sh  

N e w  P o ta to e s 

N e w   C ab b age

N e w  O n ion s
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 lisL

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

Grand  Rapids. I

Commission  Merchants  Not  Subject 

to  the  Revenue  Tax.

Last  week  the  Tradesman  announced 
that,  according  to  the  ruling  of  the  In­
ternal  Revenue Department,commission 
merchants  were  held  as  commercial 
brokers  and  therefore  subject  to  the  §20 
war  tax.  Since  then,  however,  a  de­
cision  has  been  received  from  Commis­
sioner  Scott  revoking  the  previous  rul­
ing.  The  decision  declares:

It  is  held  by  this  office  that merchants 
who  receive  goods  into  their  possession 
for  sale  on  commission  are  not  commer­
cial  brokers  within  the  meaning  of  the 
fourth  paragraph  of  section  2  of  the act, 
and  are  therefore  not  required  to  pay 
the  special  tax  under  that  paragraph.  It 
is  further  held  that  warehousemen  who 
receive  tobacco,  cotton,  or  other  pro­
duce  or  goods  on  consignment  are  not 
liable  as  commercial  brokers  under  this 
section.  Auctioneers  who  sell  goods  at 
their auction  rooms  or  on  the  premises 
of  their  owners,  on  consignment,  are 
not  subject  to  special  tax  as  commer­
cial  brokers  under  this  act,  nor  cattle 
brokers  who  receive  and  sell  cattle  on 
commission.  An  earlier  and  contrary 
ruling  on  this  point  has  been  reconsid­
ered  and  reversed.

The  question  has  been  a  mooted  one 
for  three  or  four  weeks  and  commission 
merchants  are  much  pleased  to  have  a 
final  decision  made.

Few  Apples in  New  York.

Regarding  the  apple  crop a prominent 
fruit-producer  of  New  York  writes: 
Everything  points  to  an  extremely  short 
yield,  not  over  an  eighth  to  a  quarter of 
an  average  crop,  and 
in  many  places 
not  more  than  a  year  ago.  There  is  a 
sprinkling  of  apples  in  all  of  the  lead­
ing  orchards,  but  the  quality  is  very 
poor,  and  young  fruits  are  dropping 
in 
large  quantities,  and 
just  how  many 
will  stay  on  the  trees  is  a  conundrum 
which  we  are  unable  to  guess  at  this 
writing.  At  any  rate,  we  are  unwilling 
to  speculate  for  future  delivery,  unless 
we  can  see  our  way  clear  to  cover,  and 
one  of  our  customers  who  was  in  yester­
day,  said  that  he  would  not  sell  a  box 
of  evaporated  apples  for delivery during 
September,  October  or  November  below 
9  to 
ioc  per  pound,  and  that  we  would 
be  very  much  surprised  by  scanty  yield 
when  we  came  to  harvest  the  crop  in 
the  autumn.

Some  women  kiss  their  pug  dogs 

in 
preference  to  their  husbands;  some men 
are  born  lucky.

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15

Desirability  of  Experience  in  Trade.
Written for the T r a d esm a n.

is  the 

All  the  accumulation  of human knowl­
inheritance  of  the 
edge  which 
ages 
is  the  result  of  experience.  The 
degree  to  which  this  experience  has 
been  preserved  and  recorded  constitutes 
all  that  can  be  used  in  preparation  for 
any  work  in  life.  But  it  is  a character­
istic  of  human  nature,  or  a  limitation 
of  the  human  mind,  that  comparative­
ly  little  of  the  vast  aggregate  can  be 
made  available  for  the  needs  of  any  one 
individual  case. 
It  is  thus  recognized 
that  any  amount  of  theoretical  study,  as 
the  drawing  upon  the  stores  of  the  past 
is  termed,  will  not  qualify  to  any  prac­
tical  extent  for  the  prosecution  of  any 
specific  work.  On  this  account  it  has 
been  found  necessary  to  supplement  all 
precept  teaching 
in  the  schools  with 
practical  demonstration— to  have  the 
pupil  perform  the  operations,  and  so 
making  them  a  part  of  his  experience. 
In  this 
is  found  the  radical  difference 
between  the  teaching  of  the  West  and 
that  of  the  old  nations  of  the  East,  and 
this  difference  goes  far  to  account  for 
the  fact  that  in  the  Eastern schools there 
is  no  progress.

It  is  a  common  saying that experience 
is  a  dear  school;  and  in  the  same  say­
ing  there 
is  a  reflection  upon  the  wis­
dom  of  those  who  can  learn  in  no  other. 
There  may  be  a  pertinence 
in  this 
stricture  if  it  is  based  upon  the assump­
tion  that  nothing  can  be  learned  except 
by  adverse  experience, 
that  we  can 
learn  wisdom  only  by  the  things  we 
suffer;  but this  is  putting an undeserved 
limitation  upon  the  true  use  and  value 
of  experience. 
It  may  be  that  fools  can 
learn  only  by  the  untoward  accidents 
of  life,  but  the  intelligent  mind 
is  ac­
cumulating  valuable  stores  and  quali­
ties,  through  all  with  which  it  comes  in 
contact,  although  the  lessons  of  adver­
sity  may  be  the  more  firmly  fixed.

All  this  is  the  abstract  statement  of  a 
general  proposition  which  has  a  more 
in  the  exploiting 
concrete  significance 
of  any  industrial  undertaking,  for  it 
is 
a  most  common  mistake,  in  the  prose­
cution  of  business  enterprises,  to  over­
look  the  value  of  individual  experience 
in  the  particular  line  in 
and  training 
It  is  on  this  account  that  we 
question. 
often  see  those  of  the  finest 
intellectual 
ability,  but  who  presume  upon  theoreti­
cal  knowledge,  making  failures,  while 
their  duller  and  more  plodding  compet­
itors,  who  have  been  obliged  to  feel 
their  way  step  by  step  by  experience, 
are  scoring  successes.

into 

In  no  field  of  activity  is  there a great­
er  tendency  and  temptation  to  slight the 
value  of  experience  than  in  trade,  or  in 
such  manufacture  as  is  most  dependent 
upon  the  selling  department.  With 
undue  confidence  in  personal smartness, 
and  a 
lack  of  appreciation  of  what  is 
involved  in  such  work,  many  are  ready 
to  rush 
inevitable  disaster.  To 
the  casual  observer  any  one  can  run  a 
store.  The  one  who  is  making  a  suc­
cess  in  such  work  knows  of  the  long and 
varied  experience  which  has  made  suc­
cess  possible.

The  man  who  would  essay  to  make  a 
shoe  by  his  theoretical  knowledge  and 
smartness,  without  previous  training, 
shows  no  poorer  judgment  than  the  man 
who  ventures  into  trade  without suitable 
preparation.  The  former  may  sooner 
learn  that  this  work  is  a  failure—that 
he  can  only  make  shoes  after  long  ex­
perience  at  the  trade— but  the  same 
lesson  is  sure  to  come  eventually  in  the 
latter  case.  To  be  sure,  there  are  many 
who  have  achieved  a  position  in  trade

after  venturing  without  suitable  prepa­
ration,  but  such  can  tell  of  the  long 
struggle  and  many  mistakes  and  fail­
ures  which  gave  the  experience  that 
finally  made  success  possible.

The  most  successful  merchants  to-day 
are  those  who  are  longest  trained  in  the 
work.  The  young  man  who  contents 
himself  to  learn  all  that  can  be 
learned 
in  his  father’s  store  has  acquired  an 
enviable  ability,  which  places  any  am­
bition  in  business  at  his  disposal.  But 
such  are  too  apt  to  despise  this  oppor­
tunity  and  so  study  for  a  profession, 
eventually  swelling  the  ranks  of  medi­
ocrity  and  spending  their  life  in  the 
struggle  for  existence.

In  the  degree 

in  which  success  is 
achieved  in  trade  do  men  come  to value 
experience.  Such  will  answer  the  in­
quirer  that  his  most  valuable  asset  and 
business  safeguard 
is  the  knowledge 
that  has  come  to  him  through  the  sad 
incidents  of  his  career.  Were  he  to 
lose  all  else  save  his  integrity  he  would 
have  no  fear  as  to  regaining  his  place 
in  the  business  world.

As  illustrating  the  value  of  this  factor 
in  trade  I  recall  the  remark  of  one  who 
had  achieved  a  high  degree  of  success
in  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  a  spe­
cialty.  Replying  to  the  question  as  to 
what  value  be  placed  upon  patents,  be 
remarked  that  all  the  protection  he 
needed  was  his  ten  years’  experience 
at  the business.  With  this  start  his  po­
sition  was  invulnerable. 
It  is  the  same 
in  all  lines,  the  man  who  is  content  to 
learn  his  trade  as  it  is  only  taught  in 
the  universal  school,  and  who  pursues 
and  practices  his  study  most  diligently, 
is  the  one  most  abundantly  assured  of 
success. 

R o s e n s t e in .
Enormous  Peach  Crop  in  Georgia. 

From  tlie  Cordele  (Ga.)  Sentinel.

The  Elberta  peach  crop  around  Cor­
dele  this  year  is  far  larger  than  the  de­
mand.  Thousands  of  as  fine  fruit  as 
ever  grew  in  Georgia  are  rotting  in  the 
orchards.  Two-horse-wagon 
loads  are 
hauled  out  and  fed  to  hogs.  The  very 
choicest  fruit  can  be  bought  here  for  20 
cents  per bushel.

At  the  farm  of  Mr.  Charles  Green, 
about  three  miles  from  Cordele,  he  has 
a  twenty-acre  field  with  not  a  single 
missing 
loaded  with  peaches, 
which  are  now  too  ripe  to  bear  ship­
ping.  Wagon 
loads  are  brought  to  the 
city  and  carried  back  and  fed  to  hogs, 
there  being  no  sale  for  them.  On  ac­
count  of  being  unable  to  secure  crates, 
Mr.  Green  could  not  ship  his peaches  to 
a  Northern  market.  Never  before  has 
this  county  had  such  a large peach crop. 

tree, 

------------------------

She  Proposed  to  Be  Exact.

“ And  what,”   the  visitor  asked,  “ did 
It’s  such  a 

your  new  gas  stove  cost? 
lovely  one.

“ Twenty  dollars,”   Mr.  Wattles  an­

swered.

“ Why,  John!”   exclaimed  Mrs.  Wat­
it 

“ It  didn’t  either.  You  know 

tles. 
was  only  $19 98. ”

Some  of  the  manufacturers  of  glucose 
in  Chicago  have  turned  their attention 
to  the  production  of  corn  oil—an  article 
extracted  by  pressure  from  the  germ  of 
the  grain  by  a  method  similar  to  that 
used  in  the  manufacture  of  linseed  oil, 
leaving  a  residuum  not  unlike  in  its 
character  the  oil  cake of  commerce. 
It 
seems  that  in  the  production  of  glucose, 
it  was  a  matter  of  necessity  first  to  ex­
tract  the  germ,  this,  for  a  long time,  in­
volving  a  waste.  As  against  this,  a 
company  now  turns  out  some  350 barrels 
of  corn  oil  per  day.  Most  of  the  oil 
goes  to  England  for  soapmaking. 
It  is 
shipped 
in  second-hand  oil  barrels, 
each  of  a  weight,  when  filled,  of  400 
pounds,  rated  at  the  factory  at  3  cents 
per  pound.  Some  of  the  oil  is  used 
in 
this  country  principally in mixing cheap 
paint  and  for  adulterating  linseed  oil. 
It  is  regarded  as  a  rapid  “ drying”   oil.

One  Man’s  Start  in  Business. 

From the Philadelphia  Record.

Of  all  the  curious  starts 

in  life  of 
which  self-made  men  are  apt  to  boast, 
the  most  extraordinary  one  is that which 
furnished  the  basis  for  a  business  from 
which  a  stationer  in  this  city  derives  a 
comfortable  income.  He  does  not  tell 
the  story  himself,  but  it  comes  from  an 
old  acquaintance,  whose  veracity  is be­
yond  question.  The  successful  busi­
ness  man  of  to-day  was  once  a  collector 
for  a  mercantile  house  and made as high 
as  thirty  to  forty  calls  per  day  on  delin­
quent  customers.  He  always  borrowed 
a  lead  pencil  from  each  one,  and  never 
returned 
it  unless  asked  to  do  so.  Of 
course,  no  suspicion  attached  to  him, 
for  forgetfulness  in  regard  to  lead  pen­
is  recognized  as  a  human  failing. 
cils 
One  of  every  three  he  secured  was 
long 
enough  to  pass  muster as  a  new  pencil, 
and  after  he  collected  1,000  in  this  way 
he  secured  a  contract  for  furnishing 
lead  pencils  to  a  country  school.  One 
of  the  advantages  of  his  bid  was that  he 
offered  to  supply  pencils  already  sharp­
ened.  He  now  maintains  a  commodi­
ous  stationery  store,and  his  contract  de­
partment  flourishes.

Any  man  can  make  at  least  one  wom­
an  happy  for  life.  Alihehas  to  do  is to 
remain  a  bachelor.

FOLDING  TABLE

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16
Woman’s World

How  Summer  Visitors  May  Make 

Themselves  Useful.

To  many  women  the  summer  outing 
will  take  the  form  of  a  visit  to  some 
friend  or  relative  living  in  the  country. 
If  they  are  to  be  one  of  a  house  party, 
where  the  entertaining 
is  done  on  a 
large  scale  and  the  guests  have  many 
interests 
in  common,  the  matter  is,  of 
course,  simple  enough,  but  if,  as  gen­
erally  happens,  the  visit  is  to  be  made 
to  people  who  live  simply  and  quietly 
it  takes  the  greatest  tact  to  prevent 
what  should  be  a  pleasure  to  both  host­
ess  and  guest  from  degenerating  into  a 
dismal  failure  and  bore.

As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  ability  to  be 
a  delightful  guest  is  a quality  almost  as 
rare  as  genius. 
It  embraces  the  whole 
scope  of  personal  charm  and  requires 
sympathy,  intuition  and  unselfishness. 
Few  of  us  are  so  fortunate  as  to  possess 
all  of  these  desirable  qualities  by  na­
ture,  but  unless  one  can  assume  a  vir­
tue,  though  she  has  it  not,  she  should 
at  least  go  to  a  hotel,  where  she  can 
pay  for  what  she  gets  and  not  foist  her 
unpleasantness  and  her  peculiarities  on 
her  defenseless  friends.

it 

That 

is  the  first  duty  of  a  guest  to 
be  pleased  with  what 
is  done  for  her 
entertainment,  and fall  into  the  arrange­
ments  made  for  her,  seems  so  much  a 
matter  of  course  it  is  hardly  necessary 
to  call  attention  to  it.  Unfortunately, 
this  is  far  from  being  the  case,  and  we 
have  all  had  experience  with  the  well- 
meaning  but  tactless  woman  who  would 
sit  at  our  table  and,  while  eating  the 
dainties  which  we  had  made  a  burnt 
offering  of  ourselves  on  the  kitchen 
stove  preparing  for  her,  would  say,  “ I 
really  must  send  you  my  recipe  for 
making  this. 
it  so  and 
so,”   or,  while  visiting  in  the  country, 
forty  miles  from  a  hydrant  or  a  gas 
meter,  would  discourse  by  the  hour 
about  the  delights  of  porcelain-lined 
tubs  and  the  horrors  of  having  to  smell 
the  odor  from  kerosene 
A 
woman  like  that  ought  to  be  bound  over 
by  the  courts  never  to  wander  from  her 
own  fireside.  She  ought  not  to  be  left 
loose  to  go  about afflicting innocent peo­
ple.

I  always  do 

lamps. 

remember 

Another  thing 

the  woman  who  goes
is  that 
a  visiting  should 
punctuality  is  the  star  virtue  in  a guest, 
and  that  unless  she  can  conform  to  the 
family  way  of  living  she  should  stay  at 
home.  No  amount  of  brilliant  conver­
sation  or  fascination  of  manner  can 
compensate  a  hostess  for  having  to  get 
extra  breakfast  or  keep  dinner  wait­
ing  or  upsetting  the  servants  in  their 
regular  routine.  All  of  these  Bohemian 
stories  about  places  where  meals  are 
movable  feasts  and  people  drop  in  to 
breakfast  any time  from  sunrise  to mid­
is  a  happy  accident 
night  and  dinner 
that  occurs  at 
irregular  intervals  just 
when  you  happen  to  feel  like  it  are  all 
nonsense.  It  is  a  lot  of  work and trouble 
to  get  up  a  good  meal  and  it  is  one  of 
the  things  that  has  got  to  come  off  at  a 
stated  time  and  doesn’t  bear  postpone­
ment.  Every  woman  who  has  ever kept 
house  has  regretful  memories  of  guests 
who  kept  everything  waiting  and  knows 
how  glad  she  was  when  they  left.

is 

That  a  guest  should  be  blind  and  see 
only  what  she 
intended  to  see  and 
dumb  concerning  anything  she  may find 
out about family affairs is,of course,  sim­
ply  a  matter of  common  honor that  even 
a  savage  who  eats  of  another’s  salt  ob­
serves.  It  is  also  well  to  remember  that

nothing  is  so  tiresome  as  a  person  who 
has  to  be  entertained  all  the  time,  so 
give  your  hostess  your  society  in  mod­
eration  and 
leave  her  free  to  attend  to 
her  own  affairs.  And,  above  all,  don’t 
forget  that  the  crowning  glory  of any 
visit  is  brevity.  Don’t  wear  your  wel­
come  out,  as  the  homely  old  phrase 
goes.  Come  away  before  you  tell  all 
your  good  stories  and  before  your  com­
pany  begins  to  pall  upon  your  hosts.

I  started  out  to  tell  the  story  of a sum­
mer  visit,  as  my  friend  Mrs.  Horton 
once  told  it  to  me.  Mrs.  Horton  is  not 
under  the  illusion  that  she  has  a  call  to 
reform  the  world  and  it  never  entered 
into  her  wildest  dreams  that  she  was 
destined  to  be  a  missionary  to  carry 
sweetness  and  light into a country neigh­
borhood,  and,  perhaps,  that  is  the  rea­
son  that  she  did  it.

“ You  see,”   she  said,  “ I  hadn’t  quite 
made  up  my  mind  where  to  go  for  the 
summer,  and so  when  I  got  a  letter  from 
my  old  schoolmate,  Fanny  Brown,  ask­
ing  me  to  come  up  and  make  her a 
visit,  I  packed  my  trunk  and  went. 
Fanny  and  I  had  both  been  married  a 
dozen  years  and  I  was  a  little  curious 
to  see  how  things  had  gone  with  her. 
At  first  it  was  a little embarrassing.  She 
had  lived  in  the  country  and  I had lived 
in  the  city,  and  we  had  to  adjust  our­
selves  all  over again  to  each  other,  you 
know.  When  we  went  to  school  Fanny 
was  a  hundred  times  cleverer  and 
brighter  than  I  was,  but, 
living  as  I 
had,  where  I  was 
in  the  rush  of  the 
world,  with  new  ideas  tingling  every­
where,  and  new  thoughts  and  new  plays 
and  books  and  music,  my education  had 
gone  steadily  on,  while  hers  had 
stopped.  The  house  was  big  and  com­
fortable  and  ugly,  with  no attempt made 
to  beautify 
it.  Fanny’s  clothes  were 
good  material  and  made  so  as  to  em­
phasize  every  defect  in  her  looks,  and 
the  whole  thing  struck  me  as  being  so 
pathetic,  because  it  was  so  unnecessary. 
She  was  getting  the  very  worst  out  of 
her  life  she  possibly  could,  and  when 
she  complained  to  me  one  day  about the 
dreariness  of  it  all,  I  told  her  so.

‘ What  would  you  do?’  ”   she  asked.
‘ W ell,’  I  said,  ‘ in  the  first  place,  I 
would  cut  up  about  two  of  those  unnec­
essary  feather  beds  and  turn  them 
into 
sofa  cushions  and  I ’d  convert  some  of 
those 
lovely  old  hand-woven  counter­
panes  into  portieres  and  I’d  get  a  lot  of 
that  exquisite antique  china  out  of  the 
back  of  the  presses  and  put  it  up  on  the 
walls  and  mantels,  where  I  could  gloat 
over  its  loveliness. ’

“ Well,  we  went  to  work  and  positive­
ly  transformed  the  inside  of  that  house, 
and  you  should  have  seen  how  her 
starved  eyes  gloated  over  the  beauty. 
By  and  by  her  friends  began  coming  to 
see  me.  Educated,  intelligent  women, 
like  Fanny,  but,  like  her,  living  a  nar­
row,  monotonous  life,  with  never  an 
amusement  nor  a  bit  of  recreation,  ex­
cept  an  occasional  visit,  when  they 
talked  about  their  neighbors. 
I  declare 
I  never  realized  how  pitiful such a thing 
could  be  until  I  found  they  were  still 
harping  on  scandals  that  happened  be­
fore  the  war  and  tearing  to  pieces  the 
characters  of  people  who  had  been  in 
the  graveyard  for  twenty  years.  For the 
most  part,  though,  it  was  just  that  lit­
tle  backbiting  that  goes  on  among  peo­
ple  who  know  every  detail  about  their 
is  running 
neighbors:  how  Sally Jones 
her  husband  in  debt  and  Mrs.  Smith 
is 
so  stingy  she  doesn’t  use  but  half  a 
pound  of  sugar  to  the  gallon 
in  her 
preserves  and  the  Perkins’  stepmother 
is  said  to be  mean  to  the  children,  and

so on.  They  don’t  mean  a  thing  by  it, 
you  know. 
If  any  one  of  those  women 
were  sick  or  in  trouble,  every  one  of the 
rest  would  go  and  nurse  and  comfort 
her  like  a  mother. 
It's  just  because 
they  haven’t  got  anything  else  to  talk 
about,  but 
it’s  one  of  the  times  and 
places  where  you  want  to be  the  last  to 
go,  for  if  you  leave  you  leave  your  rep­
utation  behind  you.

it  out.  Fanny 

“ Well,  one  day  I  asked  Fanny  why 
they  didn’t  get  up  a  club,  and  the  idea 
positively  staggered  her.  She  had  had 
a  notion  that  a  club  was  the sole monop­
oly  of  city  women,  but  I  explained  a 
plan  I  had  to  her,  and  in  the  end  we 
carried 
invited  fifteen 
women  and  we  organized  it  without  a 
constitution  or  a  bylaw  or  any  red  tape. 
I  told  them  they  could  acquire  those 
miseries  later  on  at  any  time  they 
wanted  them.  Each  woman  put  in  $1.25 
and  with  the  fund  we  bought  fifteen new 
books,  novels  mostly,  with  a 
little 
biography,  a  couple  of  volumes  of  new 
poetry  and  a  volume  or  two  of  interest­
ing  travels.  The  club  was  to  meet  every 
other  week  at  the  house  of  one  of  the 
members,  where  they  were  to  have  a 
ten-minute  paper  on  some  American 
author,  and  some  short  selections  from 
his  writings,  and  each  woman  was  to 
answer to the  roll  call  with  a  quotation 
from  the  author  under  discussion.  The 
to  form  the 
books,  were,  of  course, 
nucleus  of  a  circulating 
library  and 
were  to  be  exchanged  in rotation at each 
meeting.

“ After  the 

literary  part  of  the  pro­
gramme  they  were  to  have  simple  re­
freshments,  which was  to  give  the  affair 
something  of  the  effect  of  an  afternoon 
reception.  You  may  think  that  part 
unimportant  in  such  a  club,  but it isn’t. 
Many  of  these  women  hardly  ever  eat 
out  of  their  own  homes,  and  city  peo­
ple  accustomed  to  restaurants  and  un­
expected  meals  can’t  imagine  how tired 
one  can  grow  of  her  own table.  Besides, 
every  woman  who 
is  a  real  woman  is 
proud  of  her  ability  to  make  certain 
dishes,  and  this  gave  them  a  chance  to 
show  off.  And  I  didn’t  suggest  to  them 
all  sorts  of  silly  things,  ‘ encasserole’ 
and 
I  suggested 
sandwiches  and  home-made  pickles  and 
fried  chicken  and  whipped  creams, 
which  they  could  all  make  themselves 
without  any  trouble.

la’  this  or  that. 

‘ a 

is  still 

“ Well,  that  was  five  years  ago,  and 
flourishing.  Fanny 
the  club 
writes  me  that 
it  revolutionized  the 
neighborhood  and  that they have studied 
all  sorts  of  things  since  then  and  that 
they  all  look  forward  from  one  week  to 
another  to  the  meeting  as  one  of  the 
bright  spots  in  their  lives.  Other  clubs

have  been  formed  in  the  same  neigh­
borhood  and  personal  gossip  has  almost 
died  a  natural  death  since  they  have 
gotten  other  things  to  think  about  and 
talk  about.

about 

talking 

“ She’s  always 

that 
visit,”   added  Mrs.  Horton with a blush, 
“ and  she  says  she  entertained  an  angel 
unaware— meaning  me.  Did  you  ever 
hear  anything  so  absurd?”

D o r o th y  D ix .

The  Invention  of  a  Woman.

Not  a  few  men  in  the  last  month  or 
two  had  occasion  to  bless  an  inventor 
unknown  to  them.  The  benedictions 
called  down  would  doubtless  have  been 
still  more  fervent  had  the  men  known 
that  the  person  to  whom  they  were  in­
debted  was  a  woman.  For  many  years 
man  has  been  a  victim  of  the  trickeries 
of  that  imp  of  ivory  and  the  Old  Nick, 
the  collar  button.  For  years  he  has  fol­
lowed  it  on  festive  excursions  down  his 
back  or  under  the  dressing  table,  suffer­
ing  not  in  silence  and  not  patiently,  but 
never  letting  the  wild 
idea  enter  his 
head  that  their  might  be a remedy.  Men 
have 
invented  bicycle  brakes,  patent 
churns,  necktie  fasteners  and  other  la­
bor  and  temper-saving  devices  unlimit­
ed,  but  a  way  out  of  the  collar  button 
difficulty  has  never  been  suggested  by  a 
masculine  mind.  Not  until  the  advent 
of  the  New  Woman  was  there  any  relief 
from  the  infernal  cantrips  of  the  collar 
button.  Linen  collars  are  to  the  new 
woman  a  necessity,  almost,  with  every 
waist  she  wears,  be  it  of  silk  or  cotton. 
Her  trials  with  the  collar  button  began 
some  time  ago  and  after  a  series  of 
games  of  hide  and  seek  and  many  en­
forced  hours  of  bodily  contortions  not 
down 
in  the  catalogues  of  the  latest 
physical  culture  faddist,  the  woman  of 
to-day  set  herself  to  work  with true fem­
inine  instinct  when  in  a  difficulty,  and 
the  result  is  her  troubles  along  this  par­
ticular  line  are  over.

The  woman  in  question  is Mrs.  Henry 
Boardman,  of  St.  Paul,  who  last  fall 
evolved  a  blessing  to  man  and  woman­
kind.  She  took  to  a  small  jewelry  shop 
in  St.  Paul  a  collar  button  and  a  tiny 
gold  pin,  and  requested  that  the  bottom 
of  the  button  be  removed,  and  the  top, 
with  the  stem  still  attached,  be  fastened 
to  the  top  of  the  pin.  Her  experiment 
was  so  successful  that  she  sent  a  model 
to  Washington  some  time  afterward  and 
bad  it  patented.  While  in  the  East  last 
winter  Mrs.  Boardman  made  arrange­
ments  with  a 
for  having  the 
pins  made  on  a  royalty,  and  the  result 
has  been  so  successful  that  houses  in 
this  and  other  large  cities  have  placed 
the  little  articles  on  sale.  The  pins  may 
be  used  by  men  as  well  as  women,  and 
for  cuffs  as  well  as  collars.  For  the 
men  in  the  army  who  must  wear  linen 
collars  and  do  not  wish  to  don  white 
shirts  this  little  device  will  be  wel-

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MI CHI GAN  TRADESMAN

Commercial T ravelers

Michigan  Knights of the Grip. 

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

and Treasurer. C. W. Allen  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 

Grand  Counselor, J. J.  Evans,  Bay City;  Grand 
Secretary, G  S. Valmore, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, W. S. West, Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci* 
President,  J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owen,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent  Association.

Lake  Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President,  W.  C.  Brown,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F. Wixson,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

John  A.  Hoffman  (Bucher  &  Gibbs 
Plow  Co.)  met  with  a  serious  accident 
one  day  last  week.  While  passing  mail 
into  the  car  at  the  Kalamazoo depot,  the 
mail  wagon  backed  up  to  the  door  and 
caught  his  hand,  bruising  it  severely.
Jas.  A.  Massie  (Finzer  Bros.)  finds 
he  has  a  double  in  the person of Wallace 
A.  Drury,  who  has  recently  engaged  to 
travel  for  Geo.  F.  Owen  &  Co.  So 
nearly  do  they  resemble  each  other  that 
several  men  have  put  in applications for 
Mr.  Massie’s  job,  on  the  supposition 
that  be  is  now  selling  acetylene gas gen­
erators.

Chas.  L.  Stevens  (Weed,  Colburn  & 
Co.)  is  chairman  of  the  Building  Com­
mittee  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Ypsilanti,  which  has  undertaken  the 
work  of  rebuilding  the  edifice  at  an  ex­
pense  of  $22,000. 
is  not  often  that 
a  traveling  man  can  find  time  to  as­
sume  an  obligation  of  this  kind,  in  con­
nection  with  his  regular  work  on  the 
road.

It 

Marquette  Mining  Journal:  After  a 
brief  rest  from  active  work,  T.  J.  Greg­
ory,  the  well  known  salesman,  takes  to 
the  road  again,  this  time  as  the  repre­
sentative 
in  this  section  of  the  Steele- 
Wedeles  Co.,  of  Chicago.  Mr.  Greg­
ory’s  territory  comprises  all  of  the  pen­
insula  between  Sault  Ste.  Marie  and  its 
south 
line  along  the  "S o o "  road  and 
from  Marquette  to  the  copper  country.
Owosso  Argus:  Some  freak  on a Chi­
cago  newspaper  wrote  the follow ing dur 
ing  a 
in  copy:  A  traveler  for an 
Owosso  shoe  firm  was  in  town  over  Sun­
day  and  for  an  intelligent  looking  man 
was  about  as  far  behind  the  times  as 
anyone  we  ever  ran  across.  He  didn’t 
know  the  name  of  the  lake  or  river  at 
this  port.  He  was  about  as  bad  as  the 
man  who  resides  at  Mt.  Clemens.  A 
neighbor  was  telling  him  about  a  late 
dispatch  from  the  seat  of  war,  and  was 
knocked  completely  off  his  pegs  to  find 
out  the  fellow  was  in  utter  ignorance  of 
the  war;  he  had  heard  nothing  of  it.

lull 

No  city  has  yet  favored  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip  with  an 
invitation 
to  hold  the  next  annual  convention  in 
its  midst  and  from  present  indications 
no  invitation  will  be  forthcoming.  The 
fact  of  the  matter  is,the  Association  has 
made  the  rounds  of  the  larger  cities  of 
the  State,  having  met  once  at  Grand 
Rapids,  Saginaw,  Jackson  and  Detroit 
and  twice  at  Kalamazoo  and  Lansing. 
These  cities  have,  unfortunately,  set the 
pace 
in  the  matter  of  entertainment 
features,  so  that  none  of  the  smaller 
cities  of  the  State  feel  able  to undertake 
the  effort  and  expense  incident  to  the 
entertainment features  which  have  come 
to  be  regarded  as  a  necessary  accom­
paniment  of 
The 
is  on  record  on  this ques­
Tradesman 

conventions. 

the 

the  Association 
tion,  having  warned 
several  years  ago  that  the  time  would 
surely  come  when  it  would  be  exceed­
ingly  difficult  to  induce  cities of smaller 
size  to  assume  the  burden  and  raise 
from  one  to  two  thousand  dollars  for  the 
sake  of  one  day’s  fun.

Friends  of  Charles  L.  Stevens,  the 
Ypsilanti  hat  salesman,  are  urging  his 
name  for  presentation  at  the  next  con­
vention  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip  for  the  position  of  President of  the 
organization. 
It  is  understood  that  Mr. 
Stevens  will  make  no  effort  in  his  own 
behalf,  but  will  not  object  to  any  work 
his  friends  may  do  in  that  direction. 
Mr.  Stevens  is  very  generally  regarded 
as one  of  the  most  successful  men on the 
road.  He  is  energetic,  honest,  capable, 
responsible  and  —quite  as  important—a 
good  parliamentarian. 
the 
members  of  the  organization  should  see 
fit  to  place  him 
in  the  highest  office 
within  their  gift,  they  would  never  have 
occasion  to  regret  it,  because  he  would 
give  them  an  administration  which 
would  be  creditable  alike  to  them  and 
himself.

case 

In 

Money in  Growing  Bananas and  Coffee 

in  Cuba.

From the New Y ork Commercial.

According  to  reports  from  Santiago, 
the  great  boom  in  business  that  was  ex­
pected  and  confidently  hoped  for  still 
hangs  fire.  The  situation  was  summed 
up  yesterday  by  Charles  Ferrer  a  prom­
inent  exporter,  who  claims  Santiago  as 
his  birthplace.

“ Americans  seem 

to  forget,”   said 
‘ that  Santiago  is  not  a  new 
Mr.  Ferrer, 
It 
is  over  400  years  old,  and  its 
city. 
trade 
is  thoroughly  established.  The 
traders  who  were  there  before  the  war 
are  there  still,  trading possibilities  have 
not  been  multiplied  by  the  war,  and 
these  established  merchants  have  been 
doing  business  with  all  parts  of  the 
world,  as  well  as  America. .They  there­
fore  have  a  stronger  hold  on  the  com­
merce  of  the  place  than  would  have new 
arrivals  from  this  country.  What  I  in­
tend  to  show  by  this  is  that  there  are  no 
new  grooves 
in  which  the  Americans, 
who  expect  to  find  Santiago  a  city  of 
wonderful  possibilities  for  quick  money 
making,  can  find  an  opening.

“ Then  again,  it  is  well  to  remember 
that  tillers  of  the  soil,  rather  than  busi­
ness  men,  are  the  ones  wanted  in  the 
It  is  an  agricultural 
Santiago  district. 
section,  as 
is  most  of  the  island 
I 
should  recommend  the  enterprising 
in­
dividual  who  goes  to  Cuba  from  this 
country  to  make 
for  Baracoa,  where 
there  are  great  chances  for  acquiring 
wealth  at  the  banana  raising  industry. 
The  conditions  of  soil  and  climate  for 
this  purpose  are  simply  perfect, 
it  lies 
directly  north  of  Santiago,  and  about  80 
miles  away.  There  used  to  be  railroads 
running  to the  coast,  but  they  are  prob­
ably  things  of  the  past. 
It  would  not 
be  a  difficult  matter 
to 
reconstruct 
them.
‘ With  the  bananas  could  be  grown 
coffee,  as  the  coffee  plants  require  the 
shade  of  the  banana  trees,  and  the  two 
grow  side  by  side in  the  rich  soil  on  the 
north  coast  of  Cuba,  and  ought to amply 
repay  the  efforts  of  the  planter. 
If  any 
Americans  are  desirous  of  seeking  their 
fortune 
in  this  country  after  the  war, 
my  advice  is  to  leave  the  cities  alone; 
they  are  already  overstocked  with  seek­
ers  for  a  living.  Take  to  the  fields  in 
the  section  I  have  named  and  it  will  be 
found  that  the  soil  of  Cuba  is  a  wonder­
ful  friend  to  the  planter  who  has  any 
energy  and 
is  not  afraid  of  hard  work.
“ It  must  be  borne  in  mind  that  the 
is  not  calculated  to 
climate  of  Cuba 
promote  energy.  Americans  will  find 
it  enervating,  and  those  inclined  to  be 
indolent  will  discover  that  hard  work 
and  comfort  do  not  go  together  in  the 
Cuban  climate. 
If  they  go  there  with 
the 
intention  of  finding  an  easy  time 
they  will  soon  come  back,  but those  who 
stay  long  enough  to  become  acclimated 
will  have  no  reason  to quarrel  with  the 
country. ”

ST O C K S  AND  BONDS.

News  and  Gossip  Pertaining  to  Local 

Investments.

The  National  banks  have  not  yet  de­
cided  what  they  will  do  with  the  new  3 
per  cent  Government  bond  they  have 
recently  acquired.  There  is  some  talk 
of  using  them  as  the  basis  for  taking 
out  additional  circulation  and  another 
plan  is  to  use  them  as  the  basis  for  the 
criculation  now  carried,  disposing  of 
the  present  bonds.  The  bonds  held  by 
most  of  the  banks  now  are  the  4  per 
cents,  of  1905,  which  are  worth  in  the 
market  about  111  or  112.  The  new  3 
per  cents,  have  been  purchased  at  par, 
and  are  just  as  good  for  circulation 
purposes  as  the  others,  and  it  would  not 
be  necessary  to  write  off  a  certain 
amount  every  year  on  account  of  their 
premiums.  The  circulation  based  on 
the  4  per  cents,  at  present  quotations 
yield  a  profit  of  only  about  1  per  cent., 
while  on  a  3  per  cent  par  basis  the 
profit  is  figured  at  something  over  2  per 
cent.

*  *  *

The  new  bonds  are  at  a  premium  of 
per  cent.,  and  the  patriot  who  in­
vested  $500  is  in  a  position  to  clear  up 
something  like  $27.50  in less  than  thirty 
days,  which 
is  a  pretty  fair  return  on 
the  venture,  especially  as  the  venture 
was  a  sure  thing,  as  against  any  loss  of 
the  principal.

*  *  *

Another  case  of  gross  violation  of  the 
State  banking  law  has  come  to  light 
over 
in  Bay  City.  Spencer  O.  Fisher 
was  a  borrower  from  the  Lumberman’s 
State  Bank,  of  which  he  was  president, 
to  the  amount  of  $120,000.  This  was 
nearly  two  and  a  half  times  more  than 
the  total  capital  of  the  bank and twenty- 
five  times  more  than  he  could  have 
borrowed  had  the  plain  provisions of the 
law  been  observed.  The  bank 
is  se­
cured  by  mortgages  given  two  years  ago 
and 
just  filed,  but  Detroit,  Saginaw 
and  other  banks  are  on  the  anxious  seat 
They  did 
or  are  walking  the  floor. 
not  know  the  mortgage  existed  'and 
in­
loaned  Mr.  Fisher  a  pile  of 
nocently 
money  on  their  faith  in  his  honesty  and 
in  his  word  that  he  was  honest.

0  0  0

W alker  M illard,  ex-Casbier  of  the  ex- 
State  Bank  at  Fenton,  is  under  arrest 
for  embezzling  to  the  amount of $22,000, 
with  the  possibilities  of  still  further 
shortages  when  the  full  returns  are  in. 
This 
is  the  fifth  criminal  prosecution 
that  has  been  undertaken  under  the 
State 
if  Mr.  Millard’s  fate  is 
the  same  as  that  of  the  others,  he  need 
have  no particular apprehensions.  When 
the  cashier  of  a  bank  that  will  yield 
only  about  10 per  cent,  to depositors gets 
off,  Mr.  Millard,  unless  it  shall  appear 
he  is  a  common  thief,  will  never  be 
touched.

law  and 

*  *  *

The  annual  meeting  of  the  American 
Bankers’  Association  will  be  held  in 
Denver  August  24  and  a  substantial del­
egation  will  attend  from  this  city.  An­
ton  G.  Hodenpyl,  of 
the  Michigan 
Trust  Company,  is Secretary  of  the  trust 
company  section  and  is  booked  for  an 
address  on  “ Trust  Companies  as  Trus­
tees  for Minors and  Incompetents. ”   Mr. 
Hodenpyl  should  relate  the  experience 
of  the  Michigan  Trust  Company  as 
guardian  of  Mrs.  Averill.  It  will  be  re­
called  that  Mrs.  Averill, 
though  a 
widow,  was  a  minor  and  the  Company 
was  her  guardian.  A  Monroe  street 
young  man,  already  married  and  the 
father  of  children,  began  paying  her  at­
tentions  and  planned  an  elopement.

I  /

The  guardian  learned  of  the  plan,  hired 
a  good  strong  man and gave the Lothario 
a  horse  whipping  on  Monroe  street. 
It 
was  one  of  the  most  unique  cases  of 
corporation  guardianship  on  record  and 
attracted  wide  attention  at  the  time; 
but 
it  effectually  broke  up  the  elope­
ment.

*  *  *

The  stock  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Gas 
Light  Co.,  which  had  a  market  value  of 
40  when  the  present  corporation  was 
created,  has  gradually  moved  up  the 
ascending  scale  to  80,  at  which  figure  a 
sale  was  made  on  Monday. 
It  is  ex­
pected  that  the  next  semi-annual  divi­
dend,  which  will  be  paid  in  November, 
will  be  3  per  cent.,  instead  of  2^  per 
cent.,  as  heretofore,  which  will  place 
the  stock  on  a  6  per  cent,  basis  and 
probably  result  in  a  farther  advance  to 
85  or  90.  Some 
local  holders  are  san­
guine  that  85  will  be  reached  in  the 
course  of  a  month  or  six  weeks,  in  an­
ticipation  of  the  change  in  the dividend 
rate.

0  # 

♦

The  affairs  of  the  Jackson  County 
Bank,  after  an  existence of twenty-seven 
years,  were  wound  up  last  Saturday. 
The  deposits  and  business  have  been 
turned  over  to  the  Union  Bank.  H.  V. 
Perrin,  who  has  conducted  the  Jackson 
County  Bank  since  its  organization  in 
1871,  will  retire  from  the  banking  busi­
ness.

0  0  *

Owing  to  continued  poor  health,  W. 
D.  Garrison,  of  Vernon,  has  tendered 
his  resignation  as  President  of  the  Cor­
unna  National  Bank.  Patrick  Gallagher 
has  been  chosen  to  succeed  him.

The  congress  of  Russian  millers,  in 
session  at  Moscow,  has  been  officially 
informed  that  the  minister  of  finance  is 
disposed  to  aid 
in  the  exportation  of 
flour,  especially in Great Britain,  where, 
it  is  understood,  capitalists  are  ready  to 
start  a 
line  of  steamers  between  the 
Baltic  and  Great  Britain  under  the Rus- 
s  an  flag.  The  congress  has  decided  to 
support  the  movement  and  has  recom­
mended  that  the  railroad  rates  on  flour 
intended  for  export  be  reduced  40  per 
cent.

The  eighteenth  volume  of  the  Com­
mercial  Credit  Co.’s  book,  containing 
several  new  features  of  special  value  to 
dealers,  will  be  delivered  to  subscribers 
August  15.

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

------- 
F.  W. R. Perry, Detroit 
- 
A. C. Schumacher.  Ann  Arbor 
Geo. Gundrum,  Ionia  • 
L. E. Reynolds, St.  Joseph 
Henry Heim,  Saginaw  - 

President, Geo.  Gundrum,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, Henry  Heim, Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.
Marquette—Aug. 30 and 31.
Lansing—Nov.  la n d 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-AA.LH. Webber, Cadillac.
Secretary, Chas. Mann, Detroit.
Treasurer  John D.  Muir, Grand Rapids.

Is  It  Professional  and  Profitable  to 

Patronize  the  Peddler?

it 

is 

“ Goods  well  bought  are  half  sold”   is 
one  of  those  old  saws  which  has  been 
and  still 
largely  misapprehended. 
The  reason  for  this  is  not  in  the  maxim 
itself  but  in  the  manner  in  which 
is 
applied.  Some  think  that  well  bought 
means  cheaply  bought;  others,  again, 
apply  the 
idea  to  quantity,  and  still 
others  to  quality.  While  I  must  say  that 
the  latter  class  comes  nearest  to  grasp­
ing  the  real  truth  of  the  above  saying, 
there  is  still  one  more  point  to  be  con­
sidered 
in  buying,  namely,  the  source 
of  supply.

Quite  a  number  of  articles  which  the 
druggist  of  to-day  handles  are practical­
ly  beyond  his  judging  power  so  far  as 
quality  is  concerned.  We  may  be  able 
to  judge  a  cigar,  a  sponge,  a  fountain 
syringe,  etc.,  and  yet  there  are  some 
points  about  these  goods  which  only  an 
expert  can  understand,  and  where  the 
reputation  of  the  house  from  which  the 
article  in  question  is bought has  to stand 
as  a  guarantee  of  quality  to  the  buyer.
A  peddler  sells  us  a  quantity  of  foun­
tain  syringes;  they  are  cheaper  than  we 
can  buy  from 
jobber.  The  first 
syringe  comes  back  within  a  day  as  un­
satisfactory.  We  have  nobody  to  fall 
back  on. 
In  a  similar  case  the  jobber 
would  either  repair  or  replace  it;  but 
what  can  the  peddler  do?  Ten  chances 
to  one,  he  does  not  show  up  in  that 
store  any  more.

the 

is 

Again,  another 

instance.  We  buy  a 
lot  of  sponges.  Can  we  examine  every 
one  of  them?  No, 
impossible. 
Where,  then, 
is  the  saving  when  we 
have  to  throw  away  25  per  cent,  of  the 
sponges  thus  bought? 
such 
goods  with  the  intention  of  selling them 
off  cheap  on  a  special  sales-day  looks 
all  right  at  the  first  glance,  but  how 
does  it  compare  with  results?

Buying 

it 

From  close  observation  I  have  found 
that  people,  as  a  rule,  do  not  look  for 
and  do  not  expect  bargain  sales  in  a 
drug  store;  the  goods,  therefore,  stay 
for  some  time  in  the  store,  and  are  sold 
and  bought  as  regular  stock.  The  lower 
price  charged  for  these goods remains in 
the  memory  of  the  customer,  and  when 
that  quantity  of  job  goods  is  gone  and 
an  attempt  made  at  selling 
regular 
goods  at  regular  prices  the  people  will 
resent  the  “ increase 
in  price,“ and, 
perhaps,  withdraw  their  patronage.

And  there  is  another  point,  which,  al­
though  purely sentimental at first glance, 
still  is  so  much  interwoven  with  busi­
ness  that  I  think  it  worth  mentioning, 
namely:  What  protection  does  the
peddler  give  us  against  himself?  A 
legitimate jobbing  house  will,  as  a  rule, 
not  sell  direct  to  the  people  but  help  us 
keep  the  profits.  Will  the  peddler  do

as  much? 
Indeed  not!  He  will  sell  to 
anybody  one-twelfth  of  a  dozen  at  the 
dozen  price,  and  thus  deprive  us  of 
is  justly  ours.  So  that  the  point 
what 
is,  Is 
it  professional  to  patronize  the 
peddler  and  is  it  profitable?

I  believe  that  careful  consideration 
and  the  perusal  of  my  few  remarks  on 
that  point  will  convince  the  reader  that 
well  bought  applies  not only to price and 
quality  but  also 
in  no  small  degree  to 
source  of  supply.  With a  good  house  to 
stand  with 
its  reputation  behind  the 
goods,  offering  quantity  and  cash  dis­
counts,  the  old  maxim  still  stands  that 
“ Well  bought  is  half  sold.”

J.  D i n e r .

The  Most  Popular  Suicide  Route.
Paris  green  appears  to  be  a  decided­
ly  popular  summer  route  out  of  the  per­
plexities  and  trials  of  this  present  evil 
world.  Seven  cases  of  suicide  by  this 
article  during  the  month  of  June  in  two 
states  have  been  noted,  with  doubtless 
several  more  which  have  escaped  our 
observation.

in  which 

remedy.”  

those  resorting 

The  accessibility  to  this  poison  at 
this  season  of  the  year  in  all probability 
contributes  to  this  result.  The majority 
of  suicides  are 
impulsive  rather  than 
deliberative,  and 
to 
poison  might  be  restrained  if  the article 
were  difficult  to  procure.  During  bug 
season,  throughout  the  country  and  in 
the  smaller  towns  where  every  family 
has 
its  garden  patch,  Paris  green  is  a 
The  reckless 
“ household 
manner 
it  is  sold  cannot  be 
too  strongly  condemned.  The  grocer, 
the  hardware  merchant,  the  dealer  in 
general  merchandise,  all  sell 
is 
sold  labeled  and  not  labeled ;  it  is  sold 
in  packages 
in  cartons,  and  it  is  sold 
The 
simply  wrapped 
in  newspaper. 
poison  laws  and  the  poison-label 
laws, 
in  the  states  where  it  may  be  lawfully 
sold  when  properly  put  up  and  labeled, 
are  not  enforced  for  the  reason  that 
where  there  are  so  many  violaters 
is 
impossible  to  secure  their  conviction. 
The  pharmacy 
in  some  of  the 
states  permit  it  to  be  sold  by  any  deal­
er,  and  in  those  States  wherein  the  laws 
restrict  its  sale to registered pharmacists 
the  boards  of  pharmacy  hesitate  to  en­
force  this  requirement  through  fear  of 
the  effect  upon  these  laws  in  general.

laws 

it. 

It 

it 

Paris  green  in  summer,  and  “ Rough 
on  Rats”   in  winter  will,  no  doubt,  con­
tinue  to  hold  sway  as  the  most  popular 
instruments for suicidal purposes,  chiefly 
because  they  are  at  hand  or  are  as 
readily  procured  as  either  sugar  or bak­
ing  powder,  until  some  further  legal  re­
strictions  to  the  sale  of  such  poisons are 
found  to  be  necessary.

The  money  order  system  of  the  Post 
Office  Department  was  established  in 
1865. 
In  the  first  year  the  Government 
lost  on  it  $7,000;  in  the  second  year  the 
Government  cleared  $7,000.  Then  for 
twenty  years  there  were  profits,  grad­
ually  reaching  an  average  of  $200,000  a 
year.  Then  they  rose  to  $500,000,  $600,- 
000  and  $700,000,  and  last  year  the  Gov­
ernment’s  net  profit  on  money  orders 
was  $800,000. 
The  total  amount  of 
money  orders 
in  the  year  was 
issued 
$180,000,000.  The  fees  paid  and  stamps 
bought  amounted 
to  $1,500,000,  and 
the  expenses  were  $700,000,  leaving  the 
profit  stated  of  $800,000.

The  best  way  to  succeed 

in  business 
is  to  make  it  to  the  personal  interest  of 
the  public  to  do business with you.  Sell 
them  such  goods  that  they  will  not  for­
get  where  they  got  them.

When  marriage  brings  a  woman to  the 
washtub.ghe has a  right  to  call  it  a  labor 
union.

Opium— Is  firm  at  unchanged  prices.
Morphine— Is  steady.
Quinine—Is  in  good  demand.  Large 
sales  are  being  made  to  the Government 
and  an  advance  is  looked  for.

Cocoa  Butter— Has  advanced  abroad 
and  in  this  country,  on  account  of  scar­
city.

Chloral  Hydrate—Is  firm  at  advanced 

Cocaine—There  are  indications  of  an 

advance  on  this  article.

Coca  Leaves  and  Crude  Cocaine  are 

prices.

higher.

Beans—Tonka  the  stocks  are  large 

and  price  has  declined.

Essential  Oils— Bergamot  is  steady  at 
the  late  advance.  Clove  is  firm,  owing 
to  advanced  price  for  spices.  Pepper­
mint  is  slow  of sale.  Higher  prices  are 
looked  for  on  coming  crop.  Sassafras 
is  firm  and  advancing.

Flowers—German chamomile price has 

advanced,  on  account  of  short  crop.

Linseed  Oil—The  National  Co.  ad­
vanced  the  price  on  Friday,  on  account 
of  an  advance  in  seed.
Inexplicable  Longing  to  Eat  Poison. 
From the Boston  Drug Market.

In  another  room  were  tons  upon  tons 
of  the  finished  cyanide  of  potassium, 
looking  for  all  the  world 
like  white 
crystallized  sugar.

‘ ‘ It  looks  good  enough  to  eat, ”   I  re­

marked  jocularly.

in 

‘ A h,”   replied  my  guide  gravely, 
“ that  is  just  one  of  the  dangers we have 
to  guard  against.  For some inexplicable 
reason,  cyanide  of  potassium  exercises 
remarkable  fascination  over  the men en­
gaged 
its  manufacture.  They  are 
haunted  by  a  constant  and  ever-recur- 
ing  desire  to  eat  it.  They  are  perfectly 
alive  to  the  fact,  however,  that  to  give 
way  to  the  craving  would  mean  instant 
death,  and  are  consequently  usually able 
to  resist.  But  not  always.  During  the 
time  I  have  been  here,  three  of  our  best 
and  steadiest  workmen  have  committed 
suicide  in  this strange manner,  impelled 
thereto  apparently  by  no  cause  save this 
mysterious,  horrible  longing. 
I  myself 
have  felt  the  same  strange  lust  when  I 
have  been  exposed  to the cyanide fumes, 
and  have  had  to  leave  the  works  for  a 
time 
in  consequence.  So  well  is  this 
curious  fact  recognized  that  there are al­
ways  two  men  at  work  together  in  this 
branch  of  our  business,  and  a  jar  of 
ammonia,  which,  as  you  may  know,  is 
the  antidote  to  the  poison,  is  kept  con­
stantly  near  at  hand.”

Avoiding  Deterioration  of  Rubber 

Goods.

The  keeping  qualities  of  soft-rubber 
goods  depends  to  a  great  extent,  it  is 
said,  on  the  method  employed  in  their 
preparation.  Some  articles  retain  their 
elasticity  for  years  without  any  special 
care having  been taken  to  preserve  them 
and  others  become  worthless  under  or­
dinary  exposure.  Such goods  may  have 
been  overheated  in  manufacture.  The 
in  the  keeping  of  rubber 
great  point 
goods  is  to  protect  them 
from  heat,  so 
far  as  possible. 
It  has  been  observed 
that  if  kept  near  a  hot-air  pipe,  for  in­
stance,  they  will  rapidly  deteriorate.

It  has  also  been  said that rubber goods 
which  have  become  hardened  by  age

It  is  claimed  this  does  not 

may  be  restored  to  almost  their  original 
softness  by  simply  soaking  in  water  of 
ammonia  diluted  with  twice  its  bulk  of 
in­
water. 
jure  the  rubber  in  any  way  and  restores 
from 
the  elasticity.  Usually  soaking 
ten  minutes  to  half  an  hour 
is  quite 
sufficient.  After  drying,  the  whiteness 
may  be  restored  by  dusting  well  with 
chalk  or  kaolin.  We have  a  doubt  as  to 
the  value  of  this  method,  but  it  can,  of 
course,  be  very  easily  tried.

Acetylene  Not  a  Blood  Poison.

Whether  ethylene  or  acetylene gas will 
be  the  coming  illuminant now that cheap 
methods  of  manufacturing  both  are  an­
nounced,  it 
is  of  interest  to  know  that 
the  latter  at  least  is  less  poisonous  on 
inhalation  than  the  coal  gas  at  present 
employed.

Dr.  T.  Oliver,  in  the  British  Medical 
Journal,  concludes  from  experiments  on 
rabbits  that  risk  of  death  from asphyxia 
after 
inhaling  a  mixture  of  air  and 
acetylene  is  not  so  great  as  from  a simi­
lar  mixture  of  air  and  coal  gas.  The 
time  taken  to  produce  toxic  effects  is 
longer  in  the  case  of  acetylene,  and  the 
symptoms  are  free  from  the  nervous  or 
respiratory  excitement  noticed  with 
other 
Provided 
asphyxia  has  not  lasted  too  long,  recov­
ery  is  rapid  after  exposure  to  fresh  air. 
This  would  imply  that  acetylene  is  not 
destructively injurious to the hemoglobin 
of  the  red  blood-corpuscle.

narcotic 

vapors. 

Formula Must  Be  Printed  on the  Label.
It  is  forbidden  to  sell  “ secret  reme­
dies”   in  Germany,  and  the  Ministry  of 
Commerce  and 
Industry  has  just  an­
nounced  for  the  guidance  of  the  courts 
what  is  meant  by  a  secret  remedy.  All 
remedies  not  sold  under  a  prescription 
from  a  doctor  must  have  the  formula  of 
its  contents  printed  on  the  label.  This 
formula  must  be  written  not  in  Latin, 
but,  when  possible,  in  the  vernacular. 
It  must  be  intelligible  not  only  for  a 
doctor  or  pharmacist,  but  for  any  one 
who  wishes  to  buy,  and  it  must  be  suffi­
cient  to  enable a buyer to decide whether 
the 
ingredients  contained  therein  are 
such  as  may  be  reasonably  expected  to 
give  relief,  and  whether  he  is  paying  a 
not  unreasonable  price  for  the  amounts 
of  the  different  drugs  which  are  being 
bought.

Human  Hyenas.

From the Medical  Monthly.

The  religious  press  will  be  damned 
forever,  and  should  be  by  the  medical, 
for  their  undignified  advertising  to  dis­
eased  minds  and  bodies  of  “ sure  cures 
free”   by  returned  missionaries.  These 
human  hyenas  sometimes  have  offices 
in  the  Bible-bouses,  and  prey  upon  hu­
man  misfortune.  Their  prescription, 
given  free,  calls  for  an  ingredient  no 
one  has  but  themselves,  and  they  take 
what  they  can  get  for  it,  according  to 
the  need  and  pocketbook  of  the  unfor­
tunate;  and  they  go  on  robbing  from 
year  to  year.

Phenacetin  Killed  Him.

Athony  Gosiezski,  an  Ohio  traveling 
salesman,  died  in  Buffalo  recently  from 
an  overdose  of  phenacetin  taken  to  al­
leviate  neuralgic  pains.

This  is  the  time  of  the  year  when 

it 
is  profitable  to  put  a  big  watermelon  in 
your  show  window  and  ask  the  public 
to  guess  at  the  number  of  seeds  it  con­
tains.

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.

T H E   A M ER IC A N   PLA Y IN G   C A R D   CO.,

K ALAM AZOO, - MICH.

W H O L E SA L E   PR IC E   C U R R E N T .

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

©  2 00 @  1  00 85 

Morphia,S.P.AW...  2 55® 2 80 
[  Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
..............  2 45® 2 70
C-  Co. 
Moschus Canton__ 
©
Myristica, No. 1......  
65®
Nux Vomica...po.20  @
Os  Sepia................. 
15®
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co....................
®  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.Vigal.
doz........................
Picis Liq., quarts....
Picis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80 
@
Piper Nigra... po.  22 
©
Piper Alba....po.  35
©
Pi ix  Burgun...........
©
Plumbi  Acet...........
10©
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
10®
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
w
A P. D. Co., doz... 
@  1  25
25®
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
30 
Quassi®..................  
a®
10
29®
Quinia, S. P. A W . . 
31
Quinia, S. German..  22©
32 
Quinia, N.Y............  
29®
34 
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12®
14 
SaccharumLactis pv  18®  _
20
Salacin....................   3 00®  3  10
40®  50
Sanguis Draconis... 
12®  14
Sapo,  W................... 
Sapo. G....................   @ 
15
Siedlitz  Mixture  ...  20  ®  22

50 
18 
30

Sinapis....................
©
Sinapis, opt............
Snuff, Maccaboy.De
©
Voes.....................  
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s  @
Soda  Boras...............  9  @
Soda Boras, po.......   9  ®
26®
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb........  ... 
fu©
Soda, Bi-Garb......... 
3®
Soda, Ash...............
3V4@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........
© 
2 
Spts. Cologne...........
@ 2 60 
Spts.  Ether  Co........
50®  55@ -  00 
Spt  Myrcia Dom...
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.
@2 52 
Spts.  Vini Rect. Vibbl 
@ 2 57 
Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal 
@ 2 60 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal
© 2 62
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   3V4@  4%
Sulphur,  Koll........ 
3w@  4
Tamarinds.............. 
10
Terebenth Venice...  28@  30
Theobrom*...............  44®  45
Vanilla....................  9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph.

Less 5c gal. cash 10 da; „. 

8® 

7®

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

BBL.70
40
35

UAL.70
45
40

19

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

Paints  BBL.  LB
Red Venetian.........   1 ^ 2   @8
Ochre, yellow Mars.  1%  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
ljj  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2V  2 Vi @3 
Putty, strictly  pure  2V4  2=£@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
is® 
15
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, Paris...........  18V4®  22
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13® 
16
Lead, Red...............   5%®  6u
Lead, white........... 
5^@  6M
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders’... 
to 
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
„ c liff.....................   @  1  40
universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

© 

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp Coach.
Extra  Turp...........
Coach Body...........
No. 1 Turp F um ... 
Extra Turk Damar 
Jap. Dryer,No. lTurp

1  10®  1  29
1  60®  1  70
2 75® 3 00 
1  00®  1  10 
1  55®  1  60
70®  75

Advanced— 
Declined—

A c id u m

Aceticum.................*

Nitrocum .
Phosphor!um,  dii.
Sulphuricum.

Ammonia
Aqua, 16  deg...........
Aqua, 20 deg...........
Carbonas.................
Aniline

Red

Baccse.
Cubeæe...........po. 18
Juníperos...............
Xantnoxylum.........
Balsamum
Copaiba...................
Peru.........................
Terabln, Canada__
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
Cassias....................
Cinch ona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunu8 Virgin!........
Quillala,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
Ulmus...po.  15,  gr’d 
Extr actum 

Glycyrrhlza Glabra.
Haematox, 15 lb box
Hæmatox, I s ........... 
Haematox, Vis ...

Perm

Carbonate Precip... 
Citrate and Quinia..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride......
Sulphate, com’l ......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate, pure  ......
Plora

6@l 8
70® 75
© 15
29® 41
45® 48
3® 5
8® 10
12® 14
© 15
60® 65
5
IX©
25® 40
38® 40

4® 6
6® 8
12® 14
12® 14

00® 2 25
80®  1  00
45® 50
50® 3 00

13® 15
6®
8
25® 30
52® 58
@ 2 75
45® 50
50® 55

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
15

24® 25
28® 30
11® 12
13®
13® 14
14® 15
16® 17

15
2 25
75
40
15

50
7

Arnica....................... 
Anthemis..................  
Matricaria..............  30®

12®
18®

Polla

23®
Barosma.................. 
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18®
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25® 
Salvia officinalis, 14s
and Vis................. 
12®
Ura Ursi...................... 
8®
Gummi 
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
65 
Acacia, 2d  picked.. 
45 
®
Acacia, 3d  picked.. 
35 
@
Acacia, sifted sorts.
28 
@60®
Acacia, po...............
80 
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20
14 
12®
Aloe, Cape__po. 15
©
12 
_
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40 
30 
Ammoniac.............. 
55®
60 
Assafetida__po. 30 
25®
28 
Benzoinum............  
50®
55
®
Catechu, Is.............. 
13
Catechu, Vis.
14 
Catechu, !4s.
16 
©
Camphor»  .
42 
®
Euphorblum. .po. 35 
10
Galbanum...............  
®
1  00 70
65®
Gamboge  po........... 
Guaiacum......po. 25 
<a
30
Kino...........po. Ì3.U0
@ 3 00 
Mastic....................
@  60 
Myrrh............ po.  45
@  40
Opii.. .po. I5.20®5.40 3  90® 4  00
Shellac....................  25®  35
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tragacanth............  
50®  80

Herba

25
Absinthium.oz. pkg 
20
Eupatori urn .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
25
28
Majorum__oz. pkg 
23
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
25
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 
Rue.............. oz. pkg 
39
22
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
25
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
flagnesla.
Calcined, Pat........... 
55®  60
Carbonate, Pat____ 
20®  22
Carbonate, K. A M..  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum
Absinthium............ 3 50® 3 75
Amygdal®, Dulc.... 
30®  50
Amygdal®, Amara .  8 00® 8 25
Anisi.......................   2 10®  2 20
Aurantl  Cortex......   2 25®  2 40
Bergami!.................  3 00®  3 20
Cajiputi................... 
80®  85
Caryophylli............  
so®  85
°edar.......................  35®  65
Chenopadii.............. 
® 275
Clnnamonii.............  1 60®  1  70
Cum nella............... 
45©  50

 

 

Conium  Mac...........  35®  50
Copaiba...................  1  15®  \  25
Cubeb®.......................  90® 
Exeehthitos...........  1  00®  1  10
Erigeron.................   1  00®  1  10
Gaultheria..............  1  50®  1  60
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50@  60
Hedeoma.................  1  00®  1  10
Junipera..................  1  50® 2 00
Lavendula.................  90® 
Limonis...................  1  30®  1  50
Mentha Piper.........   l  60® 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1  50®  1  60
Morrhu®,  gal.........   1  10®  1  25
Myrcia,.......................... 4 00® 4 50
Olive 
75® 3 00
Pieis  Liquida.........  
10® 
12
Picis Liquida, gal...  @  35
g icin a....................  9?@ 1  10
Rosmarini...............   @  1  00
Ros»,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Suecini...................  40®  45
Sabina................... 
go®  1  00
Santal......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras.................  55®  60
Sinapis, ess., ounce.  @  65
TlgM.......................  1  70®  1  80
Thyme....................  40® 50
Thyme,  opt............  
®  1 60
Theobromas........... 
15® 20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.................... 
15®
13®
Bichromate........... 
Bromide..................  50@
Garb.......................  
12©
Chlorate..po. 17@19c 
16®
Cyanide...................  35®
Iodide......................  2 60®
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
28®
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
@
Potass Nitras, opt...
10®
Potass Nitras...........
10®
Pressiate............... _
20®
15®
Sulphate po  ........... 
Radix
Aconitvm..............
A lth»....................
Anchusa............   ]
Arum po............... .
Calamus................
Glychrrhiza.. .pv. 15 
Hydrastis Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po..

22@
10®
20©
12®
16®
@
®18©

T  ,  - 
po35@38 
Jalapa, pr...............  

35®  40
25®  30
®  35
22®  25
75®  1  00
? h,eI,,?v............   •••  75@ 1  35
fPigel a...................  
35®  38
Sanguinaria...po. 15  @
Serpentaria............  
30®
Senega....................  40®
Similax,officinalis H 
©
Smilax, M............
®10@
Scill»...............po.35
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po.................
©
Valeriana,Eng. po !&)
®15®
Valeriana,  German.
12®
Zingiber a...............  
Zingiber j ...............  
25®
Semen
Anisum........ po.  15
Apium  (gravefeons)
Bird, Is............ .
Carol............ po. is
Cardamon..,
Coriandrum 
Cannabis  Sativa
Cvdonium............... 
Chenopodium........ 
Dipterix  Odorate
Foenlculum............
Fcenugreek, po...!
L ini.........................
Lini,  grd —  bbl. 3v
Lobelia..................
Pharlaris  Canarian.
Rapa.......................
Sinapis Albu........
Sinapis Nigra...... .’. 
Splritus

@
13®
4®
10®
1  25®  1  75 
8®  
10 
4®  4 Vi
75®  1  00
10®  12
1  80®  1  90 
10 

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7®
3Vi@
35®
4®
4Vi@
9®
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Frumenti, W.  D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R ..  2 00® 2 25
Frum enti...............   1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T . .  1  65® 2 00
Juniperis Co...........  1 75® 3 50.
Saacharum N. E ....  1  go® 2  10
&pt. Vini Galli........  1  75® 6 50
Vini 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..
75
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............
1  40
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac. 
.........
Ferri Iod...... ..........
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega....................
80111»...................

50®

®  50
®  50
®  50

1  00

2 00

niscellaneous 

Scill® Co.................
Tolutan...................
Prunus virg............
Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellls R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh...
Arnica....................
Assafcetida............
Atrope  Belladonna
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin.................
Benzoin Co...........
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon..........
Cardamon  C o...’"".
Castor......................
Catechu................. ’
Cinchona..............
Cinchona Co__
Columba 
.............
Cubeba................
Cassia Acutifol....'!
C’-ssf  »eutifol Co  .
*~gi  ~1i8 
........
Ergot.......................
Ferri Chloridu  '
Gentian..................
Gentian Co.........
Guiaca.................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus........!
Iodine.................. !'.
Iodine, colorless...
Kino......................
Lobelia.......... !!!!.
Myrrh
Nux  Vomica  ..
o p ii...................
Opii, camphorated.
Opii,  deodorized....
Quassia...................
Rhatany..............!"
Rhei............
Sanguinaria
Serpentaria............
Stromonium.........
Tolutan................ !’
Valerian..............’
Veratrum Veride.
Zingiber..................
either, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
ASther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
A lumen...................  2Q@
3®
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
Annatto................. 
40®
Antimoni,  po...... 
4®
Antimoni et PotassT  40®
Antipyrin.............. 
@
@
Antifebrin .  ......   ’ 
Argent! Nitras, oz !! 
®
Arsenicum.......... 
io@
„
Balm Gilead  Bud  ..  38® 
Bismuth  S. N......... 1  40®  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  Is 
@ 9
Calcium Chlor., Vis.  © 
10
Calcium Chlor.,  J4s.  @ 
12
©  75
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsid  Fructus, af.  @ 
15
® 
Capstci Froctus, po. 
15
Capsici FructusB.po  @  15
Caryophyllus..po. 15 
12®  14
Carmine, No. 40......   @ 3 00
Cera Alba...............  
50®  55
Cera Flava..............  40®  42
Coccus.................... 
©
®
Cassia Fructus..!!!! 
®
Centrarla................. 
Cetaceum.............!! 
@
60®
Chloroform.........  ” 
Chloroform, squibbs  @
Chloral HydCrst....  1  65®  1  90
Chondrus................  20®  25
Cinchonidine.P. & W  25®  35 
Cinchonidine, 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, ail  numbers
Emery, po......
Ergota........... po. 40  30
Flake  White...
Galla................
Gambier.  ........
Gelatin, Cooper___ 
Gelatin, French...!! 
Glassware, flint, box
Less  than  box__
_
Glue,  brown........... 
13®
Glue,  white.........  
Glycerina................  '5Vi@
Grana  Paradisi  ....  @
Humulus...............  
25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
Hydraag Chlor Cor.
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
Hydraag Ammoniati 
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
Ichthyobolla, Am...
Indigo...................... 
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform................. 
Lnpnlln...................
Lycopodium...........
Macis....................
Liquor  Arsen et ¿y-
drarg Iod.............
LiquorPotassArsinit
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
Mannia, S. F ...........
Menthol................. . 

18®
@
5®
io@
75®

© 2 75

„
35®

-

20

M IC H IG AN   TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The  prices  quoted  in  this  list  are  for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail 
dealers.  They are prepared just before 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.

AXLE  OREASE.
Aurora......................... 55 
Castor Oil....................60 
Diamond..................... 50 
Frazer’s .......................75 
IX.ii Golden, tin boxes 75 
rtica, tin boxes............15 
Paragon....................... 55 

doz.  gross
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
600

Acme.

Absolute.

B A K lN d   P O W D E R .
^   ’b  cans d o z....................  
$4 Id jans doz................... 

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

Arctic.
El Purity.

Home.

Our Leader.

Jersey Cream.

M s w a a

14 lb 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
14 lb cans.......................... 
75
lb cans..........................   150
1 
1 lb. cans  ......................... 
85
3 oz., 6 doz. case................   2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. c a se...... .........3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case.................4 80
1 lb., 2 doz. case.................4 00
5 lb., 1 doz. case.................9 00
American............................... 70
English....................................80

BATH  BRICK.

Queen Flake.

Peerless.

BLUINQ.

C O ìS fD
g a i s

CATMjP.

BR00115.

CANDLES.

Small, 3 doz.......................  
40
Large, 2 doz....................... 
75
So. 1 Carpet.......................   1  90
No. 2 Carpet.......................   1  75
No. 3 Carpet.......................  1  50
No. 4 Carpet.......................  l  15
Parlor G em .........................   2  00
Common Whisk.................  
70
Fancy Whisk.. 
80
................ 
Warehouse 
........................2 25
88.............................................. 7
168.............................................. 8
Paraffine................................8

CANNED OOODS. 
ITanltowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat.........  
95
Lakeside E.  J ....................   1  15
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  1  20 
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted.  1  45
Extra Sifted Early June__1  75
Colombia, 
pints.......
.2 on
Columbia, 14 pints......
.1  25
CHEESE
Acme......................
© 914
Amboy..............—
© 914
Butternut...............
© 8
Carson Citv.............
© 8H
Emblem...................
© »14
Gem.........................
© 10
Ideal.......................
© 914
Jersey  ....................
© 914
Lenawee.................
© 8
Riverside.................
© 914
Sparta  ....................
© 8
Springdale..............
©
Brick.......................
© 11
Edam.......................
© 70
Leiden....................
© 17
Limburger..............
© 12
Pineapple.................50 © 85
Sap  Sago.................
© 17
Chicory.
Bnlk
5
Red
7

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

..23
. ..84
...45

S a lt   F ish .

Georges cured............
Georges  genuine........
Georges selected........
Strips or  bricks.........   6

© 4 
©  5 
© b% 
@ 9

H erring.

Holland white hoops, bbl. 
Holland white hoop ijbbl  2  75
Holland,  14  bbl................  1  30
Holland white hoop, keg. 
30
Holland white hoop mchs 
85
Norwegian.......................
Round 100  lbs....................   2  75
Round  40 lbs...................  1  30
Scaled...............................  
13

ftackerel.

Mess 100 lbs......................  15 01
Mess  40 lbs......................  6  30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  65
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  35
No. 1100 lbs......................  13  25
No. 1  40 lbs......................  5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1  48
No. 1  8  lbs......................  120
No. 2 100 lbs......................  8 50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3 70
No. 2  10 lbs.....................   10O
No. 2  8 lbs....................... 
83

Trout.
No. 1 100 lbs. 
. 
No. 1  40 lbs.........  
No. 1  10 lbs.................... 
No. 1  8  lbs...  ................ 

5 25
2 40
68
57

Whttaflsh.

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs...........  6 65 
2 25
40 lbs 
1 8"
........  3 00 
3«
81 
10 lbs........... 
8 lbs........... 
33
88 
FLAVORINO  EXTRACTS.

GUNPOWDER. 
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs  ■ • ■ -__
Half Kegs.... 
Quarter Kegs 
lib. cabs...  . 
% lb. cans__

Choke Bore—Dupont’;

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

 

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs..........................................8 00
Half Kegs................................. 4 25
Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
lib . c a n s..................................   45

JBLLY.

15 lb  palls............................  35
301b  pails..........................  
65

LYB.
Condensed, 2 doz  ...............1  2P
Condensed. 4  doz 
. . . . . .   2 25

LICORICE.

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

 

MINCB 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

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

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

 
Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

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

PIPES.

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

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

Universal Grade.

Applet.

Credit Checks.

50 books, any denom....  150
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1,000 books, any denom__20 00
500, any one denom’n ......   3 00
1000, any one denom’n ......   5 00
2000, any one denom’n ......   8 00
Steel punch.......................   75
DRIED FRUITS—DOHESTIC 
Sundrled.........................   @5
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©  8 
California Fruits.
Apricots........................  
«$814
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................  © 7q
Peaches.......................6V4© 7V4
Pears.......................... 8  ©  7*
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnel'.es..................
Raspberries................
100-120 25 lb boxes...... ■  ©
90-100 25 lb boxes...... ..  © 5
80 - 90 25 lb boxes...... ..  ®
70 - 80 25 lb boxes...... ..  ©
60 - 70 25 lb boxes..  .. ..  ©  5*
50 - 60 25 lb boxes...... ..  @  6*
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  ©  9
30 - 40 25 lb boxes...... ..  ©
14 cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Prunaa.

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

1  45 
1  55
3&
414
5M

Raisins.

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

.8  ©  814

Patras bbls.........................@ 7J4
Vostizzas 50 lb cases......... © 714
Cleaned, bulk  ..................@  RM
Cleaned, packages............@ 854
Citron American 10 lb bx  ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx  ©12 
Orange American 101b bx  ©12
Rateine.
Ondura 28 lb boxes...
Sultana  l Crown...... •  ©
Sultana  2 Crown  .  .. ..  ©
Sultana 3Crown...  ...  ©  Î4
Sultana  4 Crown...... ..  ©
«Initan© 
n
Sultan© 6 Crown___
<ai2
<a>4
Sultana package......
FARINACEOUS OOODS.
241 lb.  packages...........1  R0
Bulk, per 100 lbs..............3  50
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

r*wwn

Farina.

Or its.

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz...... ..1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz...... ..1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz...... ..1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz...... ..1  60
Cotton, SO ft, per  doz...... ..1  80
Jute. 60 ft.  per  doz......... ..  80
Jute. Ti *t  dp*  'In«... 
... ..  96
COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags.... ..................
214
3
Less  quantity.................
4
Pound  packages............
CREAI!  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes..30-35

COFFEE.

Oreen.

Santos.

Prim e......................................11
Golden  ................................... 12
Peaberry  ................................13
Fair  ........................................12
Good  ......................................13
Prim e......................................1*
Peaberry  ................................15
Fair  ..........  
13
Good  ......................................... W
Fancy 
...................................17
Maracaibo.
Prime......................................19
Milled......................................20

Mexican  and  Quatamala.

Java.

Mocha.

Roasted.

Interior...................................19
Private  Growth...................... 20
MandehUng............................ 21
Im itation................................20
Arabian  ................................. 22
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue.....................29
Jewell's Arabian Mocha— 29
Wells’ Mocha and Java---- 24
Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24
Sancaibo.............................21
Breakfast  Blend...............   18
Valley City Maracaibo.......1814
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 4£c  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   10 50
Jersey............   ..............  
9 50
n c l^ u g h lln ’ s  X * y y  
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  &
Co., Chicago.
Extract.
Valley City 14 gro^s 
Felix *4 gross................. 
Hummel ’s foil H gross... 
Hummel’s tin H  gross 
CLOTHES  PINS.
5 gross boxes 
 

7t
I  I*
A
1  4?
40
4 doz in case.

CONDENSED  MILK.

 

SBBDS.

4 00 
2 25 
1  25 
30
.  18

A nise............................
9
Canary, Smyrna............ .. 
3H
Caraway.......................
8
.. ..  61
Cardamon,  Malabar 
Celery............................ ..  11
Hemp,  Russian............
314
Mixed  Bird...................
^7*
5
Mustard,  white............
Poppy  ..........................
to
Rape.............................
. .  20
Cattle Bone..................

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 lb bags. 2 50
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   55

Common Grades.

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

Worcester.

50  4  lb. cartons...........  3 25
115  2141b. sacks..................4  00
60  5  lb. sacks..................3  75
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

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

Solar Rock.

Common.

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

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

SOAP.

Gast & Pulte’s Brands. 

White Rose, 100 bars, V lbs.2 75
W b'te Rose,  5 box lo t........2  60
White Rose, 10 b  x lot...... 2 50
G. A P.’s Leader. 100 bars.. .2 f0 
G. & P.’s Leader,  5 box iot.2 40 
G. & P.’s Leader, 10 box lot.2 30

J A j j p N
Single box.................................2 75
5 box lots, delivered..____2 70
10 box lots, delivered.........2 65

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
Kirkoline............................. 3  50
Eos.......................................2 50

CLYDESDALE

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, 801-lb. bars  ..2 
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3
Uno, 100 X-lb. bars...............2
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars.............9

i
a
l
S a
I
* 
S

Sapollo, kitchen, 3 do z.......2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz............2 40

Scouring.

SODA.

Boxes  .................................5)4
Kegs. English......................  4M

Jennings’.

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

D. C. Lemon
75
2 oz.
...1 00
3 oz.
...1 40
4 oz.
9 00
6 oz.
No. 8..it 40
No. 110. ..4 00
No. 2 T. 80
No. 3 T.l 25
No. 4 T.1 50

Lem  Van. 

.  Souder«’.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the

in  the  world 

for 

Best 
money.

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

Barrels, 1.200 count...........  5 ?0
Half bbls, 600 count...........  3  00

Barrels, 2.400 count.........   6 00
Half bbls  1.200 count......  3  10

1 20
1 *0
2 00
2 25

PICKLES.
nedlum.

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

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

4 25
................................8 35

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

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, anv denom__20 00
50 books, any denom....  1  50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom....11  50
1.000 bookB, any denom__20 00
Can be made to represent any 
20 books............. ...........   1 00
50 books............ ............   2 00
100 books  ........... .............  3 00
250 books............ ............   C25
500 books............ .............10 00
1000 books............ .............17 50

denomination from 110 down.

Coupon Pass Books,

3M

Peas.

Beans.

Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packages.............. 2  f0
1001b. 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,  perib......................  214
Rolled Avena,  bbl........4 00
Monarch,  bbl.................. 3  75
Monarch,  14  bbl..............2  00
Monarch, 90 lb sacks....... 1  80
Quaker, cases.................. 3  20
Huron, cases....................1  75
German............................   4
East  India.......................  
Flake..............................  
Pearl................................ 
Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkges.... 
Cracked, balk................... 
24 2 lb packages................2 50

314
354
3X
5
3)4

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Tapioca.

Sago.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

Regular
Vanilla.

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

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

2oz........1 75
4 oz........ 8 50

Carolina head............... 
Carolina  No. 1  .................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................  3)£

  614

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1......................  65£
Japan.  No. 2......................  6
Java, fancy  bead..............  6
Java. No. 1.........................  514
T ab le................................

SALERATU5. 

Packed 60  lbs. in  box.

Church’s ...............................3 3C
Deland’s .............................. 3 16
Dwight’s :.............................3 30
Taylor’s................................ 3 00

SODIO 6 0   lb .

SAL SODA.

* 3   15

Granulated, bbls..............   75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  9J
Lump, bbls.......................   75
Lamp, 1451b kegs..............  86

SNUFF.

Scotch, In bladders......
Maccaboy, In jars.........
French Rappee, in jars

3
3:
43

HBRBS.

iNDiao.

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

Madras, 5  lb  boxes............   56
8. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes  ...  50

M IC H IG AN   TRADLSMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

C an d ies.
Stick  Candy.

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pure around In Bulk.

A llspice..............................13
Cassia, China In mats.........
Cassia, Batavia In bund__25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........ 32
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 12
Mace,  B atavia...................5o
Nutmegs, fancy...................8u
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2...................45
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .11 
Pepper, Singapore, white... 12
Pepper,  shot........................12
Allspice 
........................... 15
Cassia, Batavia  ................. 3j
Cassia,  Saigon  ...................40
Cloves, Zanzibar..................:4
Ginger,  African..................m
Ginger,  Cochin............' 
18
Ginger,  Jamaica  ...............
Mace,  Batavia.....................>5
Mustard  ........................12©18
Nutmegs,.....................40® 0
Pepper, Sing , black............12
Pepper, Sing., white........... 20
Pepper, Cayenne.................zu
Sage......................................15

SYRUPS
Corn.

Barrels...............................  15
Half  bbls.........................  17
Pair  ................................   1#
Good................................   20
Choice.............................   26

Pure Cane.

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Corn.

401-lb packages..................  6
201 lb packages...................  6M

Klngsford’s Silver  Gloss.

401-lb packages.....................6*4
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
401 lb. packages..................  4M

Common Qloes.

1-lb  packages......................  4%
3-lb  packages......................  414
6-lb  packages......................  4%
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   314
Barrels  .............................   3

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUQAR.

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 bis 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  Powdejed............   .5 69
Granulated 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
Confee. Standard A.............5  25
1............ .
..............  5 06
No.
2................
... .5 06
No
No. 3__
............... 5 06
............ 5  00
No. 4  .............
No. 5...............
............... 4  91
............... 4  88
No. 6...............
No. 7...............
................4 81
............... 4  75
No. 8...............
No. 9..............
............... 4  6)
No. 10..............
................4  63
No. 11...............
................4 63
............   4 50
No. 12................
No. 13...............
..............4  44
No. 14...............
............... 4  38
No. 15.  .............. ............... 4  31
No. 6................
............... 4 25

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. 

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

G. 

J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

S. C. W......

...  33 00

Ruhe Bros.Co.’s Brands.

Double Eagles, 6 sizes.$55@70  00
Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes__   55@70  00
Mr. Thomas................ 
35 00
35 00
Cuban Hand  Made.... 
35  00
Crown  F ive................. 
35  00
Sir  William................. 
Cluo  F ive..................... 
35  UO
Gens. Grant and L ee.. 
35  00
Little P e g g y ...............  
Signal  Five...............  
35 16
Knights of Pythias.... 
35 00
Key West Perfects, 2 sz 55360 00

35 00

TABLE  5AUCE5.

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

VINEQAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain....  6 
Malt White Wine,80grain....  9
Pure Cider..............................iu
Pure Cider,  Leroux...............11
Pure Cider, Genesee.............  11
Pure Cider, Robinson.............H

WICKINCL

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

C rackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Butter.

Seymour XXX.........  
53^
Seymour XXX. 3 lb.  carton  6w
Family X X X .........  
53?
Salted  XXX  .................5S
New  York XXX.................
Wolverine.............. 
Boston..........................^

«5

Soda.

Soda  XXX  .......................   6w
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton...  6¥
Soda,  City 
......................  y
Long Island  Wafers..!.!!!  u  
L.  I.  Wafers.  I lb carton  ..  12 
Zephyrette....................... 10

Oyster.

Saltjne Wafer....................  5%
Salome Wafer, 1 lb  carton,  6$f
Farina Oy-ter....................   5%
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6J4

SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.

Animals...... .....................  loyj
Bent’s Water............... 
15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java..............  iu
Coffee Cake,  Iced..............  10
< -racknells.........................  1514
Cubans  .............................   jjjj
Frosted  Cream..................   9
Ginger Gems  ..  ...............   8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  7%
Graham Crackers  ...........  8
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................   8
Jumoles,  Houey................  11*4
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......  16
Marshmallow  Walnuts  . 
16
Mich. Frosted Honey 
  12*4
Molasses  Cakes.................  8
Newton.............................   12
Nic  Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8%
Pretzels,  hand  m ade......  8
Sears’ Lunch......................  7%
Sugar  Cake.......................  8
Sugar  Squares................. 
9
Vanilla  Wafers...............   14
Sultanas............................  12%

O ils.
Barrels.

Eocene  ......................  @1154
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @ 9*
W W Michigan...........  @ 8ii
Diamond White.........  @ 7%,
D., S. Gas....................  @ 9
Deo. N aptha..............  @7
Cylinder................... 25  @34
Engine.....................11  @21
B  =>r*  w ’ t-rpT 
p   «

bbls.  pails
Standard.................  654®  7
Standard H.  H........ 
6*4@ 7
Standard Twist......   6  @ 8
Cut Loaf................. 
©  8J4
Jumbo, 321b  ..........  
@*6*4
Extra H. H.............. 
@ 8*4
@
Boston  Cream........ 

Mixed Candy.

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

@
@  7
@ 7*4
@ 7V4
@  8*4
@ 8*4
@ 8*4
@ 8
@ 8*4
@  8*4
@10
@12

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......  
@ 8*4
Lozenges,  printed..  @9
Choc.  Drops........... 
©14
Choc.  Monumentals 
@11
Gum  Drops............  
© 6
Moss  Drops............  
@ 8
Sour Drops.............. 
@ 9
Imperials...............  
@9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxea.

Lemon  Drops.........  
@50
Sour  Drops............  
@50
Peppermint Drops..  @60
Chocolate Drops__ 
@60
H.  M. Choc. Drops..  @75
Gum  Drops............  
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
Lozenges,  plain....  @50
@50
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Imperials...............  
@50
Mottoes................... 
©55
Cream Bar.............. 
@50
Molasses Bar  .........  
@50
Hand Made Creams.  80  @1  00
Plain  Creams.........   60  @90
Decorated Creams.. 
@90
String Rock............  
@60
Burnt Almonds......125  @
Wintergreen Berries  @60

Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 1  wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  ..................
F r u its.
Oranges.
Medt Sweets...........
Late Valencias  ......
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy  3bUs or 30Us...
Ex. Fancy  300s__
Ex.Fancy 360s........
Bananas.

Choice, 101b boxes..
Extra  choice,  14  lb
boxes....................
Fancy, 12 lb  boxes..
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............
Pulled, 6 lb 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__

@35
@50

@3 00
@3 50

@5 00
@5 00
@5 50
&6 0
@6 00

@
@
@  15
@
@
@ 6*4

@ 8
@  6
© 5
@  6
@ 4V%

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Figs.

N u ts.

Almonds, Tarragona.. @13
Almonds, Ivaca.........
©
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............
@13
Brazils new...............
@  7*4
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
Koasted................... @ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.
© 4*4
Choice, H. P..  Extras.
..............
5*4

Rn«sted 

P rovision s.

Swift  &  Company  quote  as 

follows:
Barreled Pork.
Mess  ............................ 
9 75
Back  ..............................  u   00
Clear back.....................   n   oj
Shortcut.........................  10 75
P*e..................................   14 50
Bean  ...  .......................   9  50
Family  ..........................  10 50

Sausages.

Smoked  neats.

Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies......................... 
«*4
g
Briskets  ....................... 
g
Extra shorts............... . . 
Hams, 12 lb  average  __ 
8J£
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
8*4
Hams, 161b  average......  
8
Hams, 20 lb  average...... 
7%
Ham dried beef  ............  
13
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
6
Bacon,  clear................. 7M@8*4
California hams............  
6
Boneless hams...............  
9
Cooked  ham.....................10@13
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound...................... 
4
Kettle.......................... ’ 
6*4
55 lb Tubs.......... advance 
u
80 lb Tubs.......... advance  %
50 lb T ins.......... advance  %
20 lb Pails.......... advance  %
10 lb Pails.......... advance  %
5 lb Palis...........advance 
1
1 *4
31b Pails...........advance 
Bologna.......................  
5U
Diver............................... 
6*4
Frankfort........... 
7
P ork....................... " " "   8*4
B lo o d .........................;;; 
g
Tongue................. 9
Head  cheese........6*4
Extra  Mess.........................  9 25
Boneless  ................ 
13  00
Rump......... .................‘. '.14 00
Kits, 15 lbs......................  70
M  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 35
*4  bbls, 80 lbs..................  2 50
_ 
Kits, 15 lbs............... 
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs................”  l  25
*4  bbls, 80 lbs..................  2 25
D  u 
j|
P ork............................... 
Beef  rounds.........  . . 
. 
344
Beef  middles........... 
10
Sheep  ....................... 
60
Butterine.
Rolls, dairy..................  
Solid,  d a iry ................  
  944
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery.............  4344
Corned  beef,  2 l b ......  2 50
Corned  beef, 14  lb..........la 50
Roast  beef,  2 lb.........   2 35
Potted  ham,  Ms.........  
50
Potted  ham,  44s__  
90
Deviled ham,  Ms........ 
50
Deviled ham,  44s.........   90
Potted  tongue M&__. '.  50
Potted  tongue *4s.........   90

Canned  Meats.

Pigs’ Feet.

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

jo
14

 

 

F resh   M ea ts.

Beef.

Carcass......................  6M@ 7*4
Forequarters..............  5 @6
Hind  quarters............   8 @  9
Loins  No.  3.................  9 @12
Ribs  -..........................   8 @12
Rounds......................  7*4® 8
Chucks.................. 
6  @ 6*4
Piates  .......................   3  ©4

Pork.

Dressed....................  4M@ 5
L oins.........................  @ 7*4
Shoulders...................  ©  g
Leaf Lard...................  6*4@

Mutton.

Carcass.......................7  @ g
Spring Lambs..............9  @11

Veal.
Camas» 
............... 7  @ 8
H id es  an d   P e lts.
The Cappon & Bertscb Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:

Hides.

Green No.  1................
Green No. 2................
Cured No. 1................
Cured No. 2................
Calfskins,  green No. 1 
Calfskins, green No. 2 
Calfskins, cured No. 1
Calfskins, cured No. a  @9

@ 8*4 
@ 7*4 
@  9*4 
@ 8*4 
@ 9 
@ 7*4 
@10*4

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

C rockery  an d

G la ssw a re.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters.

*4 gal., per doz.................  40
to 6 gal., per gal........  5
1 
8 gal., each.....................   38
10 gal., each........ 
..........  48
12 gal.,  each.....................   57
15 gal. meat-tubs, each....  90 
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 1  20 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each....2 25 
30 gal. meat-tubs, each... .2 70 

Churns.

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

Milkpans.

*4 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  434 
*4 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5*4 

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

Stewpans.

*4 gal. fireproof, ball, do*.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 
M gal., per doz...... ...........  40
*4 gal., per doz..................  42
1 
to 5 gal., per gal.........   544

Jugs.

Tomato Jugs.

*4 gal., per doz.................   42
1 gal., each......................  5*4
Corks for *4 gal., per do*..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
*4 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 

Sealing Wax.

top,
top,
top,

LAMP  BURNERS.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
No.  0 Sun......................  ..  35
No.  1  Sun..........................   41)
No.  2  Sun..........................   £8
No. 3 Sun...........................  1  00
Tubuiar.............................  
go
Security, No.  1................... 
60
Security, No. 2................... 
go
Nutmeg  ............................   50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................   j  32
No.  1  Sun..........................   1  43
No.  2 Sun.........................’  2  18
No. 
No. 
No. 

wrapped and  labeled__  2  10
wrapped and  labeled_  2 25
wrapped and  labeled__  3  25

First  Quality.
0 Sun,  crimp 
1 Sun,  crimp 
2 Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
0 Sun,  crimp 
1 Sun,  crimp 
2 Sun,  crimp 

No. 
No. 
No. 

top,
wrapped and  labeled_  2 55
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2  75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled__  3 75
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
No.  1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................  3 70
No  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled.  .........................  4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled..............................4 88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lames............  
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   90
No. 2 Snn,  plain  bulb,  per
„doz  .................................  1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz......... 1  60

La  Bastle.

Rochester.

Electric.

OIL CANS. 

Pump  Cans.

No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)____  4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)........4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ......   4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c do*)........  4 40
Dot. 
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv Iron with spout.  1  55
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  2  .5
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3  5u 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  4  75 
3 gal galv Iron with faucet  4  75 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 5 25
5 gal Tilting cans..............  8 00
5 gal galv Iron Nacefas  ...  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9 00 
5 gal Eureka non overflow 10 50
3  gal Home Rule.............10  50
5 gal Home Rule................12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9 go
No.  OTubular...................  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...........  8 75
LANTERN  GLOBES.
No.  OTubular,  cases 1 doz.
No. OTubular,  cases2dos.
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls 6 do*.
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 

each, box 10 cents...........  45
each, box 15  cents..........  45
each, bbl 35....................   35
cases 1 doz. eachv........  1 25
No. 0 per gross.................  
lg
21
No. 1 per gross................... 
No. 2 per gross  .................   30
No. 3 per gross...................  48
Mammoth..........................  79

LAMP  WICKS.

LANTBRNS.

Wheat.

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

eg

Local Brands.

Patents............................. 4 50
Second  Patent...................  4  00
Straight............................  3 80
Clear..................................  3 30
Graham  ............................  3 75
Buckwheat.......................  4 00
R ye.....................  .........   3 50
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond, *43...................... 4 00
Diamond, *|s...................... 4 00
Diamond, *4s.......................4 00
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, *£s........................  3 90
Quaker, 54s........................  3 90
Quaker, *4s......   ...............   3 90

Spring Wheat Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best *4s...........  5  15
Pillsbury’s  Best Ms...........  5 05
Pillsbury's Best *4b...........  4  9",
Pillsbury’s Best *4s paper.  4  95
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4 95
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.

Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal *4s.......................  4 75
Gold Medal Ms.........................4 65
Gold Medal *4s.........................4 55
Parisian,  *4s...........................  4 75
Parisian, Ms...........................   4 g-,
Parisian. *4s...........................   4 55

Olney & Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, *4s...........................  5 00
Ceresota, ms...........................  4 90
Ceresota, *4s...........................  4 80
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ms.........................  5  1
Laurel, Ms.........................  5 00
Laurel, *4s.........................  4  90

Meal.

Bolted....................................  j  93
Granulated...........................  3 jg

Feed and Mlllstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened___17 CO
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........16 50
Unbolted Com Meal..........15 50
Winter Wheat  Bran..........14 00
Winter Wheat Middlings. .15 50
Screenings.............................. 16 00
Car  lots............................. 37
Less than  car lots...... ....  40

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

Car  lots............................. 28
Carlots, clipped..............  30
Less than  car lotB............ 33

No. 1 Timothy carlots......  9 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  ... 10 00
F ish   a n d   O y sters

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
Whitefish................  @  8
T rout......................  @  8
Black Bass..............  8  @  10
Halibnt..................   @  15
Ciscoes or Herring..  @ 4
Bluefish..................   @  10
Live Lobster.........   @  16
Boiled Lobster........  @  18
Cod 
......................  @  10
Haddock.................  @  §
No.  1  Pickerel........  @  8
Pike.........................  @  7
Perch.......................  @  4
Smoked White........  @ 8
Red Snapper...........  @  10
Col  River Salmon..  @  J2
Mackerel 
..............  @  18

Oysters In Cans.

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

Shell Ooods.

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

M IC H IG AN   TRADESMAN

22

SENSIBLE  SUG G ESTIO NS.

Annual  Address  of  President  Webber 

to  the  M.  S.  P.  A.

lines 

found 

I  presume  that  the 

There  is  a  large  class  of  druggists  in 
this  State  who  never  meet  with  us  and 
have  the  best  of  reasons  to  offer for their 
absence. 
I  mention  them  with  a  deep 
feeling  of  sympathy  for  their  condition, 
knowing  as  I  do,  that  in  their  efforts  to 
make  a  living  at  their  chosen  profes­
sion,  they  are  obliged  to  run  their  store 
without  assistance  of  any  kind  for  six­
teen  hours  a  day,  making  it  impossible 
for  them  to  leave  even  tor  a  short  time. 
is  responsible  for 
Naturally,  someone 
a  trade  condition  that  obliges  a  man 
in 
any  business  to  confine  himself  two- 
thirds of  the  time  to  his  store  in order  to 
eke  out  an  existence  for  himself  and 
family.  Perhaps  this  Association  is  at 
faultjor  not  having  accomplished  more 
in  the  way  of  needed  reforms during  the 
past.  I  cannot  help  but  feel  that  we  are 
not  beyond  criticism,  but  this  is  no 
time  or  place  to  mourn  over  what  might 
have  been.  It  is  our  duty  as  individuals 
and  as  an  Association  to  better  our  con­
dition.  To  accomplish  very  much  as  an 
Association  we  must  have  a  large  mem­
bership.  This is  imperative,  and  let  me 
urge  upon  you  to  suggest  some  means 
for  bringing  about  this  result.  It  would 
seem  as  though 
it  would  not  be  much 
of  a  task  to  get  more than a membership 
of  200  out  of  a  total  of  3,000  registered 
pharmacists. 
large 
falling  off 
in  members  during  the  past 
few  years  is  mainly  due  to  the changing 
conditions  of  pharmacy.  We  are  now 
passing  through  wbat  might  be  called  a 
transitory  stage  and  the  purely  mercan­
tile  and  business  side  of  our  profession 
wholly  absorbs  the  average  retail  drug 
gist. 
In  his  efforts  to  make  an  honest 
living  he  is  forced  to  carry  in  stock  the 
numerous  side 
in  nearly 
every  drug  store,  especially  the  country 
ones.  Necessarily,  the  professional  and 
scientific  part  is  neglected  and  this lack 
of  work  and  study  in  matters  pertaining 
to  the  purely  professional  side  of  his 
business  tends  to  lessen  his  interest  in 
an  Association  that  appears  to  him  to 
be  wholly  absorbed  in  the  scientific. 
I 
am  a  firm  believer  in  the fact that  out of 
the  present  transition  stage  through 
which  retail  druggists  of  the  United 
States are  now passing, the purely profes­
sional  part  or  higher  pharmacy  will  be 
separated  (as it should be)  from the com­
mercial,  and  rise  to  a  higher  and  loftier 
plain,  without  hinderance  or 
incum­
brance  cf  any  kind,  but  until  this  ideal 
condition  is  reached  we  must  take  con­
ditions  as  they  exist,  and  if  we  find  that 
the  larger  percentage  of  the  retail  drug­
gists  are  more 
interested  in  the  com­
mercial  than  the  scientific,  then  it is  the 
bounden  duty  of  this  Associaiton  to 
busy  itself  with  that  which  interests  the 
greater  number. 
It  seems  to  me  that  a 
large  percentage  of  the  retailers  mis­
apprehend  our  motives,  and  if  in  some 
way  we  could 
impress  them  with  the 
fact  that,  as  an  Association,  we  are  do­
ing  our  level  best  to  help  them  in  a 
commercial  way, it  would  place  this  As­
sociation  in  a  different  light  and,  per­
haps,  make  many  new  members. 
I  be­
lieve  that  you  will  all  agree  with  me 
that  the  common  lot  of  the  average  re­
tail  druggist  of  the  present  time  is  a 
hard  one.  We  are  ridiculed  and  criti­
cised  on  all  sides.  Our  more  scientific 
brethern  complain  because  we  do  not 
manifest  that  degree  of  interest  and  en­
in  purely  scientific  matters 
thusiasm 
that  they  do. 
I  confess  that  the  en­
thusiasm  is  lacking,  but  the  druggist  is 
not  at  fault. 
I  think  that  it  is  general­
ly  conceded  that  no  one  mind  can  suc­
cessfully  carry  on  two  lines  of  business 
at  one  and  the  same  time,  and  a  twenty 
year  experience  in  the  retail  drug  busi­
ness,  with  a  more  or  less  intimate  asso­
ciation  with  a  great  many  of  my profes­
sional  brethren,  has  proven  to  me  con­
clusively  that  the  average  retailer  is 
kept  so  everlastingly  busy  in  the  scram­
ble  .'or  daily  bread  that  be  deos not have 
much  time  left  for  the  scientific  part  of 
his  profession.  Bacteriology,  physico- 
logical  chem istry  and  m icroscopy  are 
pleasurable 
for  him  to  explore, 
and  fortunate,  indeed,  is  he  who  has 
leisure  to  pursue  them ;  but  paramount

fields 

to  this 
is  bread  and  butter,  and  many 
are  they  who  are  not  so  particular  as  to 
the  quality  and  kind.  This 
is  a  minor 
criticism  as  compared  to  others.  Our 
very  appearances  and  dispositions  are 
called  into  question,  but  is  it  any  won­
raw- 
der  that  we  are  slim,  slender, 
boned,  hungry  looking,  cranky 
in  our 
dispositions  when  once  the  details  of 
our  business  life  is considered,  when the 
labor  we  are  obliged  to  perform  in  our 
efforts  to  eke  out  a  bare  existence  is 
taken  into  consideration? 
I  would  like 
to  know  if  there  is  anything  about  the 
selling  and  licking  of  postage  stamps  to 
make  one  fat?  Will  running  to  the  tele­
phone  and  directory  help  to  put  flesh 
Is  there  anything  about 
on  our  bones? 
is  elevating? 
scrubbing  a 
floor  that 
Does  the  answering  of 
innumerable 
questions  tend  to  improve  our  disposi­
tions?  Do  you  think  that  the  selling  of 
pate- ts  at  actual  cost  helps  to  make  us 
agreeable? 
it  not  a  difficult  thing 
to  smile  and  look  pleasant  when  we  are 
constantly  being  called  by  individuals 
and  newspapers  robbers  and  extoition- 
ers,  because  we  sell  a  package  of  salts 
or  senna  at  5  cents  that  perhaps  cost  us 
one  and  one-half  cents,  or  a  pound  of 
sulphur  at  10  that  cost  us  3,  when,  as  a 
matter  of  fact,  if what  we  received  from 
the  sale  of  small  articles  was  all  profit, 
the  entire  day’s  sales  would  not  much 
more  than  pay  us  day  wages. 
Is  it  any 
wonder  that  we  are  what  we  are,  when 
the  trials  and  tribulations  of  our  busi­
ness  life  are  considered?

Is 

These  grievances  of  ours  and  our  de­
plorable  condition  naturally 
leads  me 
up  to  the  time-worn  subject  of  price 
cutting  and,  gentlemen,  I  shall  not  crit­
icise  or  feel  that  you  are  showing  any 
disrespect  to  me  if  you  should  desire  to 
leave  the  room  while  I  am  treating  this 
subject.  The  mere  mention  of  it  brings 
a  blush  to  my  cheek,  to  think  that  our 
efforts  through  all  the  years  of  the  past 
have  been  so  unsuccessful.  The  sub­
ject  has  been  treated  by  every President 
of  this  Association  since 
its  organiza­
tion,  and  I  will  venture  to  say  by  the 
Presidents  of  all  other  state  associa­
tions  as  well.  We  have  passed  resolu­
tions,  appointed  special  committees  to 
meet  with  the  wholesalers  and  the  man­
ufacturers,  but  the  cut-rate  war  goes 
merrily  on.  When  the  matter  has  been 
presented  to  some  of  the  larger  manu­
facturers  we  have  been  politely  advised 
to  go  home  and  attend  to  our  own 
little 
business.  They  said  they  understood 
perfectly  how  to  manage  theirs,  and 
judging  them  by  their  large  accumula­
tions,  I  guess  they  did.

is 

in  the 

For  sixteen  years  we  have been  trying 
to  adjust  the  matter,  but  it  has  grown 
worse  steadily.  On  every  occasion  we 
are 
informed  of  the  undying  love  the 
patent  medicine  man  has  for  the  re­
tailer,  but  this  love  ends  in  platitudes 
and  soft-spoken  words.  They  have  done 
nothing  but  raise  the  price  on  some  of 
their  preparations  and  added  insult  to 
injury  by  trying  to  make  us  believe that 
it  was 
interest  of  the  retailer. 
They  have  opposed  all  legislation  that 
was  designed  for  the better protection  of 
the  public  against  unhealthful  and  dis­
honest  compounds.  They  have  indorsed 
the  methods  established  under  the  title 
of  a  “ National  Advertiser,"  whose  ob­
in  denouncing  the  retailer  who 
ject 
sells  his  own  product 
in  competition 
with  patents  with  unknown  formulas. 
They  publicly  boast  of  their  success 
in 
controlling  legislation  in  their  own 
in­
terests.  They  tell  us  that  they  would 
gladly  restore  prices  if  they  could.  You 
don’t  believe  them,  nor  do  I.  Their 
seeming  interest  in  our  welfare  is  a  de­
lusion  and  a  snare.  What  they  are  after 
is  the  Almighty  Dollar,  and  if  the  de­
partment  store  and  junk  shop  could dis­
pose  of  more  of  their  preparations  than 
we  could,  they  would  drop  us  too  quick. 
Since  a  St.  Louis  druggist  paid  a  fine 
of  $200  for  selling  a  certain  patent  after 
an  injunction  had  been  served upon him 
restraining  him,  the  argument  that  they 
cannot  restrain  the  cutter  has  fallen 
through.  All  this  is  said  in  no  spirit 
of  criticism.  My  desire  is  to  state  facts 
Perhaps  we  would  do 
as  they  exist. 
much 
if  we  were  placed  in 
their  position,  but  we  all  agree  that 
something  ought  to  be  done.  Theques-

the  sam e 

Association M atters

Michigan  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J. Wisler,  Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 

A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President.  C.  G.  Jewett,  Howell;  Secretary, 

Henry C. Minnie, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit  Retail  Grocers’ Association 

President, Joseph Knioht;  Secretary, E. Marks, 

221 Greenwood ave;  Treasurer, C. H. Frink.
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ Association 
Klap;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  Lehman.

President,  Frank  J.  D y k ;  Secretary,  Homed 

Saginaw Mercantile  Association 
McBratnie;  Secretary,  W.  H.  Lewis.

President, P. F. Treanor;  Vice-President. John 

Jackson  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, Geo. E.  Lewis; Secretary, W. H. Por 

ter;  Treasurer,  L. Pelton.

Lansing Retail  Grocers’ Association 

President,  F.  B.  Johnson;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

D a r l i n g ;  Treasurer, L. A. Gilkey.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  A.  G. Clark;  Secretary, E.  F.  Cleve 

land;  Treasurer, Wsi. C. Koehn.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association
Holly;  Treasurer, C. A. Hammond.

President,  Thos.  T.  Bates ;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, A. D.  Whipple ; Secretary, G. T. Camp 

bell;  Treasurer, W. E. Collins.

Alpena  Business Men’s  Association

President,  F.  W.  Gilchrist;  Secretary,  C  L. 

Partridge.

Grand  Rapids Retail Meat  Dealers’  Association 
President, L. J. Katz;  Secretary, Philip Hilber: 

Treasurer. S. J.  Huppord.

St. Johns  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, T h o s .  Bromley;  Secretary,  Frank A. 
Percy;  Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Perry  Business Men’s Association 

President,  H.  W.  Wallace;  Secretary,  T,  E. 

Heddle.
Grand  Haven  Retail  Merchants’ Association 
President,F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VerHoeks

Poor
Economy

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

“Lily W hite” Flour

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

NOW.

Valley  City  Milling  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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They  never  become  stale,  for  even  the  very  old­
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crisp  as  at  first.  This  isn’ t  possible  in  ordinary 
crackers,  and  it’s  by  using  none  but  the choicest 
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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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tion  is,  What  shall  it  bt?  I  realize  with 
you  that  the  tree  is  deeply  rooted  and 
that  we  have  eaten  of  its  fruit  so  long 
and  been  protected  by  its  branches that, 
naturally,  we  have  hesitated  to  destroy 
)!  ul,bl  practically  it  has  destroyed  us. 
lhe  patent  medicine  business  has 
grown  enormously  during  the  past  few 
yeais  and  is  thoroughly  identified  with 
the  drug  trade,  and  the  public 
is  edu­
cated  to  purchase  these  supplies  from 
I he  manufacturer  recognizes 
them. 
this,  knowing 
lull  well  that  his  sales 
would  diminish  one  half  if  sold  only  by 
the  department  store  and 
junk 
shops,  and  still  he  does  nothing  to  alle­
viate  price  cutting,  fully  believing,  as 
he  has  a  right  to,  that  we  will  always 
be  the  same  meek,  subservient  tools 
that  we  have  always  been.  Gentlemen 
of  the  Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  we  have  only  ourselves  to 
blame  if  we  do  not  take  such  action  at 
this  time  as  will  remedy  the  cut-rate 
evil.  Now  is  the  time  to  act  and  1  im­
plore  you  not  to  wait  another  year  be­
fore  beginning  an  aggressive  movement 
against  price  cutting.  During  the  past 
year  1  have  given  the  subject  of  mutual 
manufacturing  some  thought  and  I  am 
convinced  that  it  is  a  movement  in  the 
right  direction.  Possibly  a  stockholder 
in  a  company  of  this  kind  would  not 
realize as  much  profit  as  he  might  rea­
sonably  expect,  but  every  such  com­
pany  organized  takes  from  the  patent 
medicine  man  some  of  his  trade  and  in 
due  time  he  will  be  forced  to  give  us 
such  protection  as  will  be  necessary  to 
alleviate  the  price  cutting  e v il;  or, 
perhaps  the  sales  of  our  own  prepara­
tions  will  have  reached  such  a  magni­
tude  that  we  will  be  indifferent  as  to 
what  the  patent  medicine  man  does. 
The  mutual  manufacturing  plan  has 
been  more  or  less  successful  in  other 
states,  and  why  not  try  it  in  Michigan?
I  earnestly  recommend  it  for  your  con­
sideration,  believing 
it  can  be 
made  successful  financially  as  well  as 
raising  the  drug  business  to  a  higher 
professional  plane  and  give  us  living 
profits  that  would  be  very  acceptable 
to  the  long-suffering  druggists  of  this 
State.

that 

As  another  means  for  bettering  our 
condition,  1  would suggest  that  a  greater 
in  cultivating  the 
effort  be  put  forth 
physician. 
I  am  well  aware,  that  this, 
like  price  cutting,  is  an  old  subject, 
but  personal  experience  has  taught  me 
it  pays  to  have  the  good  will  and 
that 
patronage  (no  matter  how  small  it  may 
be)  of  the  physician. 
If  he  will  not 
write  prescriptions  and  insists upon dis­
pensing  his  own  medicine,  I  would  try 
and  procure  his  trade,  just  the  same. 
Every  druggist  can,  if  he  deals  with 
reputable  houses,  purchase  goods  at  a 
less  price  than  a  physician’s  supply 
house  will  furnish  them  to  the  physi­
cian.  enabling  him  to  meet  the  prices 
of  the  physicians'  supply  house  and 
still  make  a  small  margin  for  himself. 
He  must  not  expect  to  double his money 
but  io  per  cent,  is  better  than  none  at 
all. 
I  am  confident  that  with  a  proper 
understanding  of  their  mutual  relations 
it  would  not  be  long  before  the  physi­
cian  would  realize  that  prescription 
writing  was,  after  all.  the  best  method 
for  him  to  pursue,  both  from  a  financial 
and  professional  standpoint. 
It  would 
also  seem  to  me  a  move  in  the  right  di­
rection 
if  arrangements  could  be  made 
for  the  holding  of  meetings  at  the  same 
time  and  place  as  the  State  Medical As­
sociation  hold  theirs,  having  the  social 
part  of  the  programme  in  common. 
It 
would  seem  to  me  that  an  arrangement 
of  this  kind  would  bring  us  into  closer 
relation,  socially, 
and  would  bring 
about  a  better  understanding  of  our 
mutual 
interests  as  well  as  create  a 
kinder and  more cordial  feeling between 
us. 
I  am  not  sure  that  this  would  be 
practical  or  feasible,  but  simply  offer  it 
as  a  suggestion  for  your  consideration 
later.

As  for  shorter  hours  for  drug clerks,  I 
have  only  a  word  to  say. 
I  have  read 
arguments  for  and  against  shorter  hours 
in  New  York  City,  but  1  do not consider 
that any of these hardships are applicable 
to  drug  clerks  in  Michigan. 
I  do  not 
look  upon  them  as  an  overworked  class 
and  the  danger  to  the  public,  in  my I

opinion,  is  not  one-half  so  great  by 
mistakes  made  by  overworked  help  as 
in  a  trade  condition that forces the drug­
gist  and  his  help  to  sell  all  kinds  of 
merchandise  from  a  hairpin  to  a  bi­
cycle,  obliging  them 
to  put  up  wall 
paper,  dishpans,  candy  and  peanuts— 
all  within  the  same  hour,  in  order  to 
make  his  business  pay  him  enough  to 
live  decently.  No  one  appreciates  the 
ability  of  the  average  druggist  more 
than  I  do,  but  I  do  not  believe  that  the 
man  exists  who  is  qualified  to look  after 
the  details  of  a  regular  department store 
and  put  up  difficult  prescriptions  at  the 
same  time  and  do  it  just  as  thoroughly 
and  successfully  as  the  one  who  has 
nothing  else  but  the  drug  business  to 
look  after.  I  claim  that  the  public  is  in 
more  danger  from  mistakes  made  by 
such  druggists  and  their  help  than  from 
overworked  drug  clerks  proper.  What 
would  like  to  see  is  a  law  that  obliges 
pharmacist  to  handle  pbarmaceutica. 
products  and  nothing  else,  and  places 
him 
in  a  position  where  he  can  mak 
an  honest  living  without  resorting  to  a 
kinds  of  trade  under  the  heavens. 
In 
my  opinion,  the  matter  of  early  closing 
is  one  to  which  you  can  apply  no  gen 
eral  law  as  the  same  conditions  do  not 
exist 
in  any  two  towns.  A  law  that 
would  apply  and  be  a 
farming  town  would  not  and  could  not 
in  a  manufacturing 
be  made  to  work 
is  a  local  question  and  the 
town. 
It 
joi 
druggists 
in  every  town  should 
hands  and  regulate  their  own hours. 
I 
my  own  town  we  close  every  night  at  „ 
o'clock,  Saturdays  excepted,  and  have 
for  two  years,  with  perfect  harmony  and 
good  will  on  the  part  of  all.

just  one  for 

I  think,  however,  that  it 

The  question  of  the  organization  of  _ 
National  Retail  Druggists’  Association 
has  been  brought  to  my  attention during 
the  past  year.  Personally,  I  am  not  pre 
pared  to  pass  upon  the  wisdom  of  such 
a  course. 
conceded  by  all  that  the  regulation  of  a 
patent  medicine  business 
is  purely  a 
commercial  one,  and  as  such,  natural 
ly,  out  of  harmony  with  the  prime  ob 
ject  and  the  higher  aspirations  of  the 
A.  P.  A.  and  with  the  scientific  sensi­
large  percentage  of  its 
bilities  of  a 
members. 
It  would  seem  impossible  to 
accomplish  much  in  a  commercial  way 
through  them,  so  that 
it  is  quite  pos 
sible  that  a  national  organization  of 
just  retail  druggists,  meeting,  perhaps 
at  the  same  place  as  the  A.  P.  A.,  with 
the  one  chief  object  in  view  of  better 
ing  our  condition  in  a  commercial  way, 
could  accomplish  much  more  than  any 
organization  with  a  multiplicity  of  sub­
jects ;  at  any  rate,  it 
is  worthy  of  our 
thought  and  consideration.

You  will,  no  doubt,  receive  a  com­
plete  and  comprehensive  report  from 
the  special  committee  on  Revision  of 
the  Pharmacy  Law  and  I  trust  that  the 
recommendations  will  be  thoroughly 
discussed  by  this  Association  and  such 
changes  and  additions  made  as  may 
seem  w ise;  and  if  the  recommendations 
are  finally  adopted—as  I  believe  they 
should  be—we  must  use  all  possible  re­
sources  to  secure  their  passage  through 
the  next  Legislature. 
I  want to  supple­
ment  a  part  of  their  report  by  recom­
mending  for  your  consideration  the  fol­
lowing  changes  that,  in  my  opinion, 
ought  to  be  made  in  our  present  phar­
macy  law:  First,  that  this  Association 
nominate  and  elect  five  qualified  phar­
macists  each  vear,  from  which  number 
the  Governor  shall  appoint  one  to fill the 
vacancy  annually  occuring  on  the  Board 
of  Pharmacy. 
I  am  well  aware  that 
there  is  a  strong  sentiment  against  such 
a  change,  even  among  our  own  mem­
bers,  on  account  of  its  reported  uncon- 
stitutionality,  but  inasmuch  as  a 
large 
percentage  of  other  states  have  success­
fully  adopted  this  method  and  from  the 
fact  that  state  associations  are  univer­
sally  recognized  as  the  proper  bodies 
from  which 
recommendations 
should  eminale,  knowing,  naturally, 
more  about  the  qualification  of  candi­
dates  than  any  Governor  could  possibly 
know.  These  and  many  other  reasons 
lead  me  to  believe  that  it  would  be 
for 
the  best 
interest  of  pharmacy  and  for 
the  better  protection  of  the  people  to 
ask  the  Legislature  for  this  change. 
I 
further  recommend  that  the  en­
would 

such 

forcement  of  that  section  of  the  liquor 
law  relating  to  druggists  be  placed  in 
hands  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy, 
with  full  power  to  investigate  and  pros­
ecute  the  same  as  all  other  violations  of 
the  pharmacy  law. 
In  my  opinion  it  is 
about  time  that  those  who  prostitute  the 
honorable  profession  of  pharmacy  by 
running  a  grog  shop  under  the  guise  of 
a drug  store  be  weeded  out  and  the  hon­
est  druggists  be  protected  in  their  right 
to  use  and  sell  liquors  in  their  business 
in  a  legitimate  manner  and  not  be  sub­
jected  to  the  reproach  that  is  brought 
upon  them  and  their  business  by  the 
disgraceful  and  dishonorable  acts  of  a 
few  of  their  number. 
I  would  further 
recommend  that  the  Secretary  of  the 
Board  of  Pharmacy  be  elected  annually 
by  the  members  of  the  Board  of  Phar­
macy  from  some  person  outside  the 
Board  and 
that  he  possess  the  same 
qualifications  as  members  of  the  Board 
and  I  would  suggest  that  this  Associa­
tion,  when  possible  so  to  do,  make  the 
Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy 
Secretary  of  this  Association  also.  My 
reason  for  this  change  is,  that  if  that 
part  of  the  liquor  law  applying  to  drug­
gists  be  placed 
the  bands  of  the 
Board  of  Pharmacy  it  would add to their 
duties  and  would  require  extra services, 
and  this  would  be  done  by a  paid Secre­
tary  outside  of  the  Board,  and  if  this 
same  Secretary  could  receive  the  salary 
we  pay  our  own,  in  addition  to  what  the 
Board  pays,  it  would  enable  him  to  de­
vote  his  entire  time  to  the  work  of  the 
Board  and  would  make  him  a  valuable 
Secretary  of  this  Association,  for  the 
reason  that  his  travels  through  the  State 
would  bring  him  into  personal  contact 
with  a  large  percentage  of  the  druggists 
and 
to  better  under­
stand  the  plan  of  work  necessary  to 
make  new  members  for this Association.
I  would  also  recommend  that  Sec.  6  of 
the  pharmacy  law  of  Wisconsin be made 
a  part  of  our  law.  This  section  reads 
as  follows:

enable  him 

“ No  person  by  himself,  his  servant  or 
agent  or  any  other  person,  shall  sell, 
exchange,  deliver  or  have  in  his posses-

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6 oz.

6 doz. in case

85c

9 oz.

4  doz. in case 

$ 12 5

1  lb.

2 doz. in case

$ 2.00

0.  A. TURNEY, Mlgr.,  DETRO"5MICH.
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M IC H IG AN   TRADESMAN

the 

sioD  with  the  intent  to  sell  or  exchange, 
or  expose  or  offer  for  sale  or  exchange 
any  medicine  known  as  patent  or  pro­
prietary,  or  of  which 
formula  is 
kept  secret  by  the  manufacturer,  which 
contains  morphine,  strychnine,  cocaine 
or  any  poisons  or  narcotic  alkaloid  or 
drug  in  any  quantities  which  the  State 
Board  of  Pharmacy  shall  deem  harmful 
to  the  life  or  health  of  the  public,  un­
less  the  presence  of  the  same  be  dis­
tinctly  shown  by  a  label  upon  the  bottle 
or  package  and  upon  the  outer  wrapper 
thereof. ’ ’

for  the  public 

The  public  exacts  that  a  pharmacist 
and  doctor  should  have  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  the  science  of  medicine 
before  they  are  allowed  to practice  upon 
individual,  and  yet,  for  the  man 
the 
who  prescribes 
in  a 
is  demanded, 
wholesale  way,  nothing 
and  he 
the 
market  the  most  dangerous  compounds 
without  fear  of  the  law. 
I  trust  that 
these  recommendations  and  those  that 
will  be  presented  by  the  Committee  or 
suggested  by  any  member  may  merit 
your  careful  consideration.

to  place  on 

is  allowed 

It  will  not  be  necessary  for  me  to  re­
fer  to  the  proceedings  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  as  Prof. 
Prescott  was  himself  present  and  will, 
no  doubt,  favor  us  with  a  full  report.

it 

Nothing  startling  in  the  way  of  legis­
lation  affecting  the  druggists  has  oc­
curred  during  the  past  year,  with  the 
exception  of  the  revenue  bill,  and  this 
you  are,  no  doubt,  all  more  or  less  ex­
perimentally  familiar  with  by this time. 
As  usual,  the  burden  falls  heaviest  on 
the  druggist,  but  while  it  is  not  as  sat­
isfactory  as  we  could  wish,  and  reali­
zing,  as  we  do,  the  injustice  of  many  of 
its  features,  yet  it  is  a  cause  for  con­
gratulation  that 
is  no  worse,  as  it 
surely  would  have  been  had  it  not  been 
for  the  persistent  efforts  of  the druggists 
throughout  the  United  States,  but  the 
placing  of  this  burden  of  war  revenue 
entirely  upon  the  retailer  by  the  manu­
facturer  of  patents  is  the  grossest  kind 
of  an  injustice  and  merits  our  severest 
condemnation  and  I  favor  a  resolution 
condemning  such  action  on  the  part  of 
so  many  of  the  manufacturers.  Person­
ally,  1  am  not  an  advocate  of  the  boy­
cott,  but  I  do  feel  that  we  are  justified 
in  pushing  the  sale  of  the  preparations 
of  those  manufacturers  who  have  been 
just  enough  to  stand  all  or  a  part  of  the 
burden  of  the  tax,  as  against  those  who 
have  not. 
It  also  affords  us  another 
reason  for  pushing  our  own  compounds, 
as  we  can  better  afford  to  stand  the  tax 
upon  them  than  pay  it  upon  those  made 
by  selfish  and  unjust  manufacturers. 
The  work  done  by  the  officers and mem­
bers  of  this  Association  will,  no  doubt, 
be  reported  upon  later by  the  Legisla­
tive  Committee  who  bad  the  work  in 
charge.

Through  the  rare  foresight  of  the 
framers  of  the  constitution  and  laws  of 
this  State  that  calls  the  Legislature  to­
gether  once  in  two  years,  we  have  had  a 
rest  from  the  turmoils  incident  to  the 
usual  batch  of  obnoxious  bills  presented 
at  every  session  of  the  Legislature  The 
meeting  of  the  National  Pure  Food  and 
Drug  Congress,  which  was  held 
in 
Washington,  March  2,  allowed  us  two 
delegates,  but  the  delegates  were  not 
forthcoming. 
I  was  unable  to  find  any 
one  willing  to  go  at  his  own  expense, 
and  so  at  a  late  hour  Prof.  A.  B.  Pres­
cott  consented  to  represent  this Associa­
tion  by  letter  and  we,  no  doubt,  will 
have  a  report  from  him  later.

Before  closing  this  paper  I  wish  to 
thank  the  wholesale  druggists  and  man­
ufacturing  chemists  for  the  ever  kind 
and  considerate  treatment  that,  as  an 
Association,  we  have  received  at  their 
hands  from  the  day  we  were  organized 
to  the  present  time.  Reciprocity  of  in­
terests  naturally  exist,  and  it  is  a  great 
pleasure  to  know  that  we  can,  at  all 
times,  depend  on  their  aid  and  hearty 
co-operation 
in  our  efforts  to  elevate 
pharmacy  to  a higher standard and place 
it  on  a  profit  paying  basis. 
I  have  felt 
at  times  that  perhaps  we  retailers  have 
not  done  our part in this mutual  arrange­
ment.  We  have  at  various  times  re­
quested  the  wholesalers .not  to  sell  some 
particular  cutter,  and*I  believe  that, 
without  exception,  the  request  has  been

granted  and  lived  up  to,  and  yet  some 
of  these  same  druggists  who  asked these 
favors  purchased  their  drugs  from  drug 
houses  who  were  selling  to  this  same 
cutter.  I  believe  in  all  fair dealings and 
honesty  we  should,  so  far  as  possible, 
help  those  who  help  us,  and  the  whole­
salers  and  the  pharmaceutical  chemists 
are  the  very  ones  who  have  done  this

In  speaking  of  the  ones who have been 
steadfast  friends  of  this  Association, 
the  traveling  men  stand 
in  the  fore 
front.  They  have  ever  been  the  life  of 
this  Association  and,  as  a  matter  of 
fact,  have  made  several  of  our  meetings 
possible,  for  without  them  we  would  not 
have  had  a  quorum. 
In  behalf  of  the 
Association,  I  thank  them  for  their  un­
tiring  efforts  to  make  our  meetings  a 
success.  We  fully  appreciate  what  they 
have  done  and  I  hope  that  these  same 
cordial  relations  will  ever  continue.

It 

I  also  desire  to  compliment  the  State 
Board  of  Pharmacy  on  the  excellent 
work 
it  is  doing  in  behalf  of  the  best 
interests  of  pharmacy  and  the  better 
protection  of  the  people  against 
in­
competent  and  unqualified  druggists. 
This  State  has  been  exceedingly  fortu­
nate 
in  its  selection  of  members  of  the 
Board. 
It  is  a  cause  for  congratulation 
that  only  pharmacists  of  the  highest 
standing,  both  from  an  educational  and 
moral  standpoint,  have  been  members 
of  this  Board.  Their  untiring  efforts  in 
enforcing  our  pharmacy  laws  are worthy 
of  our  praise  and  merit  our  unanimous 
support  as  an  Association.

is  deeply 

is  cause,  also,  for  congratulation 
that  we  have  in  the  State  of  Michigan 
one  of  the  foremost  schools  of pharmacy 
in  the  United  States.  The  thoroughness 
of  its  work  is  unexcelled  by  any  and  we 
have  just  cause  to  be  proud  of  it.  This 
Association 
indebted  to  the 
professors  of  this  school  for  the  great 
interest  they  have  ever  manifested  in 
this  Association.  Our  meetings  have 
always  been  honored  by  their  presence 
and  their  untiring  efforts  in  behalf  of 
the  best  interests  of  pharmacy  and  this 
Association  are  well  known  to  us  all. 
and  we  have  every  reason  to  be  thank­
ful  to  them  for  the  faithful  work  they 
have  performed  for  this  Association.

I  feel  very  grateful  to  the  officers  of 
this  Association  for  the  kind  treatment 
I  have  received  at  their  bands  and  I  es­
pecially  want  to  thank  the  Secretary  for 
the  very  careful,  painstaking  way 
in 
which  be  has  conducted  the  work  in  bis 
department  and  for  the  very  efficient 
help  and  advice  he  has  given  at  all 
times. 

*

It  is  my  earnest  wish  that  we  may  ac­
complish  something  of  practical  value 
and  go  home  feeling  that  our  time  has 
not  been  wasted. 
I  trust  this  meeting 
will  be  the  means  of  doing  us  all  good, 
giving  us  new 
ideas  and  inspirations 
that  will  better  fit  us  for  the  duties  of 
life.  Let  us  not  be  selfish  or  jealous  of 
the  success  of  others,  but  let  us  mingle 
together,  exchange  thoughts, 
let  our 
minds  ever  be  receptive  to  all  that  is 
best,  and  when  we  have  finished  our 
work,  may 
it  be  with  a  feeling  that  it 
was  well  done

I  thank  you  gentlemen,  for  the  honor 
you  conferred  upon  me  when  you  made 
me  your  President  and  for  the  continu­
ous  kind  treatment  I  have  received  at 
your  hands,  and  I  beg  of  you  to  be  fore­
bearing  with  the  errors  I  may  make 
in 
my  efforts  to  discharge  the  duties  I 
have  yet  to  perform.

The  State  Crop  Report.

The  Secretary  of  State  promulgated 
the  following  summarized  report  of  the 
condition  of  potatoes,  beans,  apples and 
peaches:

Potatoes  promise  about  three-fourths 
and  beans  eight-tenths  of  an  average 
crop.

Apples  now  promise 

the  State 
about  two  thirds,  and 
in  the  southern 
counties  57  per  cent,  of an average crop. 
One  year  ago  the  promise  was  for  one- 
third  of  a  crop 
in  the  State  and  one- 
fourth  in  the  southern  counties.

Peaches  are  estimated  at  about  seven- 

in 

tenths  of  an  average  crop.

The  men  that  marry  most  frequently 

for  money  are  the  ministers.

August 

II  Declared  a  Civic  Holiday 

at  Port  Huron.

Port  Huron,  Aug.  5—At  a  meeting  of 
the  Common  Council  of  the  city  of  Port 
Huron,  held  Aug  4,  a  resolution  was 
unanimously  adopted  declaring  the  1 ith 
day  of  August  a  civic  holiday  and  re­
questing  that  all  places  of  business  and 
also  all  municipal  offices  within  the city 
should  be  closed  on  that  day,  and  that 
as  many  of  the  citizens  as  possible 
should attend the Grocers’ and  Butchers’ 
annual  celebration  to  be  held  in  the city 
of  Saginaw.
In  pursuance  of  such  resolution  said 
nth  day  of  August  is hereby proclaimed 
to  be  a  civic  holiday  and  all  of  the 
offices  of  the  municipality  are  directed 
to  be  closed  upon  that  day,  and  all  citi­
zens  are  requested  to  close  their  places 
of  business  and  to  accompany  the  gro­
cers  and  butchers  upon  their  excursion 
to  Saginaw.

H.  VV.  St e v e n s,  Mayor.
Apples  and  Potatoes  in  Missouri.
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Aug.  8—Our  apple 
crop  is  almost  if  not  a complete  failure, 
and  what  apples  are  on  the  trees  are 
badly  stung,  which  will make what there 
are  of  them  of  poor quality.

As  regards  potatoes,  our crop this year 
was  not  of  as  good  quality  as  expected, 
but  there  were  a  good  many  of the kind. 
Digging  is  now  almost  over.  Our  mar­
ket  is  now  in  need  of  good  fancy  pota­
toes  such  as  we  generally  get 
from 
Michigan.

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

To  Make  Rubber  from  Corn.

Circulars  are  being  sent  out  by  the 
Glucose  Sugar  Refining  Co.,  announc­
ing  that  rubber  made  from  corn  will  be 
sold  at 

cents  per  pound.

The  dropping  off  of  the  world’s grand 
leaving  still  more  room  at 

old  men 
the  top  this  year.

is 

Doctors  say  kissing  babies 

is  un­
healthy  for  the  babies.  Perhaps  all 
kinds  of  kissing  is  unhealthy;  but  there 
are  lots  of  big  girls  who  think  they  are 
immune.

The  collection  business  of the  Com­
mercial  Credit  Co.,  Lt’d.,  is  increasing 
so  that  the  company  has  recently  been 
obliged  to  add  two  men  to  the  force  of 
city  collectors  and  an  extra  clerk on for­
eign  collections.

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BUSINESS  CHANCES.
If'OR  SALE—A  FIRST-CLASS  STOCK  OF 
hardware, tinwa  e. stoves, cutlery and build 
er’s  hardware;  also  tin  shop  ai d  full  set  of 
tools, in a town of 100,000, situated in a desirab e 
locality.  Low  rent  for  buildii g.  Business 
averages  about $25x00 per annum  .  Reason for 
selling,  I  have  other  business  which  demands 
all  my  attention.  Stock  will  invoice  between 
$5.000 and $0,000.  Suitable terms can he made if 
it's   not  convenient  to  pay  all  cash.  Address 
Other Business care Michigan Tr  desman.  679
IpOR SALE  A GOOD BUSINESS THAT  WILL 
average #8,000 to $10,000 a year.  Terms, cash. 
Address Lock Box  No,  1,  Thompsouville,  Mich.
TX7ANTED—A  CHEE'E  FACTORY.  STATE 
TV  capacity and lowest cash price.  Cliff Bros., 
68 E. Randolph St., Chicago. 
678
I ¡MIR  SALE—ELEGANT  GROCERY  STORE.
Payi  g  business.  Finest  locality  Bu-y
town.  Snap.  Address  No.  631,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
681
If'OR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK  A 
’  splendid farming country.  No trad. s.  Ad­
dress No. 6-0, care Michigan Tradesman  680
T X 7 ANTEIJ—BANK  LOCATION.  OR  WILL 
tt  as  ist local parties in organizing.  Address 
No. 682  care Michigan Trad  sma.11, 

___________________________ 677

682

ENTKALLY  LOCATED  DRUt.  STORE,  BO- 
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,  three  miles  north  of 
Coopersville, Mich  Also a  sawmi 1  and  edger 
with  20,1.00  capacity  per  day.  Address  R.  D. 
McNaughton  Coopersville,  Mich. 
671
If'OR  SALE—SMALL  DRUG  STOCK.  ADD 
from $100 to $260 and  you  have  a  complete 
stock.  Good chance to right party.  Address H. 
670
G. M., care Michigan Tradesman. 

667

661

ery  stock 

Fo r  sa l e—d r u g,  book  a n d  st a tio n-
invoicing  $4 501,  and  fixtures 
invoic ng$300,  whi^h  include show cases, shelv­
ing  and  bottles.  Dailv  cash  sales  in  1891,  $2  ; 
892. $30;  1893. $31;  1894, $34.65:  1895,825;  1896, 
$21.20. and  1897.124 13  Located in manufactur­
ing town.  No cut prices.  Rem reasonable, $29 
per mouth.  Living rooms in connection.  Ad­
dress Ns. 668, care Michigan Tradesman.  668
If'OR SALE—FURNITURE AND UNDERTAK- 
ing business  in the  most enterprising  >own 
in Southwestern Michigan.  Best location in the 
city.  Add-ess No. 673,  care  Michigan  Trades­
673
man, for particulars. 
i iK)R RENT OR SALE—FACTORY  AND  TWO 
warehouses,  belonging  to  Michigan  Fire 
Ladder and Engine Company, on D„ G. R. &  W. 
R.R.,  near  East  street  crossing.  Call upon or 
*72
address The M ichigan Trust Company. 
FOR SALE—PATENTS  COVERING  TRAVIS 
Adjustable  Blackboard  Eraser.  Also  ma­
chines and all stock on hand.  A  rare  opportu 
nity for right party.  An  article  upon  which  160 
per cent, profit may be realized.  Must be sold at 
once.  Address Box 222. Clinton, Mich. 
675
If'OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  CLOTHING  AND 
furnishings in a city  of  12,(W  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 
fine business, with  a  nice,  clean,  well-selected 
stock  in  the  best  town  of its Size in Michigan. 
Address No. 676. care Michigan Tradesman.  676
IpOR  SALE  CHEAP  FOR  CASH—WELL  IM- 
pruved farm, good buildings, 80 acres choice 
land, located in Ionia  county. 
J.  H.  Putnam, 
¿63
Custer, Mich. 
IpOR  SALE—A  $lu,000  STO  K  OF  DRY 
goods;  doing  a  good  business.  Will  take 
some  unincumb  red  real  estate.  Address  G., 
Lansing, Mich. 
IpOR  SALE—HARD" ARE  STOCK  INVOIC- 
ing about $2,20j  and bu lding and lot valued 
at about $8P0 in a good live town of i,500.  Coun­
try  is  being  rapidly  settled  with  farms,  one 
good factory employing 100 men.  Good reasons 
for telling.  The only  hardware  store  in town. 
Must  be  cash.  Address  No. 655, ca.e  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

655
OR  SALE—STOCK  OF DRY  GOODS  AND
groceries.  Will sell  cheap  for  cash.  Ad­
dress  Box I, Montgomery, Mich. 
656
B ric k sto re f o r  r e n t -bEST lo ca tion
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. 
661
IpOR SALE  DRI G  STORE IN  BEST CITY IN 
Michigan.  Average  daily  sales,  $2>;  per 
cent,  profits.  50  per 
cent.  Monthly  ex­
penses, $60.  These are facts. 
Investigate.  Ad­
659 
dress No. 659, care Michigan Tradesman. 
AKE  US  AN  OFFER  WElL-MTUATED, 
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. 
k,  OR nENT L»R  SALK—A  STORE  SUITABLE 
A 
for general merchandise, located  in  a  pros­
perous village in  Berrien  county,  Mich,  splen­
did  opportunity  for  a  live  man  to  esiabli-h  a 
paying business.  For particulars address  I.  W. 
Allen, St. Joseph, Mich. 
649
B e v i  location  in  Mich ig a n  fo r  a
cold  storage  ai d  general  produce  dealer. 
Write to the  Secretary  of  tue  Otsego  Improve­
631
ment Association, Otsego, Mich. 
Mer c h a n ts—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
FV)R  SALE—A  PROSPEROUS  DRUG  AND 
invoicing  from  $4 0j0  to 
$5,0(19,  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- 
v ell invite inspec ion. 
r p o   EXCHANGE—FOR  CLOTHING,  DRY 
A   goods or shoes, very nice  well rented Grand 
Rapids property.  Address No.  552, care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
552
rpO   EXCHANGE — FARMS  AND  OTHER 
A  property for dry  goods, clothing  and  shot s. 
Address P  Medarie.  Mancelona. Mich. 

grocery  stock, 

553

625

654

BROOMS

If'OR SALE-MODERN, WELL-ESTABLISHED 
and equipped nroom factory and good trade. 
Other  business  commands  our  attention.  Ad- 
dress No. 584, care Michigan Tradesman.  584

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

W ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co.. Traverse City, Mich. 
381
\ \ T  ANTED—1.000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
tv  daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mich. 

556

FIREPROOF  SAFES

EO. M. SMITH,  NEW  AND  ¡SECONDHAND 
a  safes,  wood  and  brick  building mover, 157 

Ottawa street. Grand Rapids. 
SHIRTS.

613

Ha v e  yours  m a'*e t o yo u r m e a su r e.
Send  for  measurement  blanks.  Frank  T. 
Collver, 103 Washtenaw St. E , Lansing, Mich. 635
POSITION  WANTED  BY  A  SINGLE  MAN.
Large  experience  in  general  merchandise. 
Can give good references.  Address No. 664, care 
664
Michigan Tradesman. 

M ISCELLANEOUS.

T ravelers*  T im e  T a b les.

CHICAGO

' 

„   „  

Chicago.

r 
.  Sl,Raplds............... 7:30am 3:40pm  * 2:15am
r 
ca*°.................. 2:10pm  9:05pm  7:30an
................ 7:20am  4:15pm * 8:45pir
vr.G’d Rapids........... 1:25pm  10:30pm  * 2:15am
Tt*verso  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
G a  Rapids.............2:15am  8:05am  2:10pm
Parlor  and  Sleeping  Cars  on  afternoon  and 

night trains to and from Chicago.

♦Every  day. 

Others week days only,

DETROITarand Rapids & WcsterB

Detroit.

•v. Grand  Rapids..........7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pn
vr. Detroit.....................11:40am  5:45pm  |0:05pp
-v. Detroit..................... 8:00am  1:10pm  8:10pm
...12:55pm  5:20pm  10:55pn
Kr.  Grand  Rapids 

Saginaw, Aina and  Greenville.

■.V  OR 7:03am 4:20pm  Ar. G R 12:20pm  9:30ptr 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Gxo.  D e H a v b n ,  General Pass. Agent.

GRAND  Trank  Railway  System

Detroit and Milwaukee D) i

(In effect May 15,1898)

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t 6:45am  Sag.,  Detroit, Buffalo & N T  ,t 9:55pm
tl0:10am.........Detroit  aud  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.......... t3:15pm
* 8:35am— Gd. Haven  and  Iut. Pts . ...* 7:05pm 
tl2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.-! 3:12pm 
t 5:32pm..Gd. Haven and Intermediate. +10:05am
* 7:40pm. ..Gd. Haven and Chicago.....   8:15am
tl0:00pm........Gd. Haven  and Mil..........  6:40am
Eastward—No. 16 has Wagner parlor car.  No 
22  parlor  car.  Westward—No  11  parlor  car. 
No. 17 Wagner parlor car.
tExcept Sunday.

♦Dally. 

WEST

E. H. Hushes, A. G. P. AT. A.
Bin . Fletcher, 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  Div.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y,Petoskey A Mack...* 7:45am t  5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A Mack., .t 2:15pm  t  6:35am
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A Mack..................¿10:50pm
Cadillac................................... 7 5:25pm tll:15am
Train leaving at 7:46 a. m. has  parlor car, and 
train  leaving at 2:15  p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
Mackinaw.
Southern  Div.  Leave  Arm
Cincinnati......................... 
+  7:10am  t 8:25pl
Ft. Wayne................................♦ -MOpm  t 2-OOpt
Cincinnati................................• 7 (1pm  * 7:25ar
7:10 a. m.  train  has parlor  car to  Clnelnna*'
2  10 p.m .  train  has parlor  car  to  Port  Wayne. 
7:00 p. m  train  has  sleeping  car  to Cincinnati. 

Chicago Trains.

FROM CHICAOO.

TO CHICAOO.
t2  1 ipm  *11 35pm
Lv. Grand Rapids...77 10am 
Ar. Chicago...........  2  0 pm 
9  10pm 
6 30am
Lv. Chicago............................. 73  02pm  *11 45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids....................  9  30pm 
7 25am
Train  leaving  Grand  Rapids  7.10  a.  m.  has 
buffet  parlor  car  to  Chicago.  Train  leaving 
Grand Rapids 11 35 p. m. has coach and Pullman 
sleeping car to Chicago.
Train leaving  Chicago  3.02  p.  m.  has  buffet 
parlor  car  to  Grand  Rapids.  Train  leaviug 
Chicago  11.45  p.  m.  has  coach  and  Pullman 
sleeping car to Grand Rapids.
SOINS WEST.

Muskegon Trains.

LvG’d  Rapids............77:35am  tl:00pm t5:40p,
Ar Muskegon...............  9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon.............78:10am  711:45am 74:OOpc
ArG’dRapids............9:30am  12:55pm  5:2Qpir
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.

some bast.

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

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

DULUTH, So“b"

A,to°“t

W EST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)711:10pm  77:45am
Lv.  Mackinaw City...................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St  Ignace..........................   9:03am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie................  12:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette..........................   2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria.............................  5:20pm  12:45am
8:30am
Ar. Dulnth............................................. 

B A S T   BOUND.

Lv. Dulnth............................................   76:30pm
Ar. Nestoria...........................711:15am  2:45am
Ar.  Marquette.................;... 
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............  
......
3:30pm 
Ar.  Mackinaw City................ 
8:40pm •  11:00am
G.  W. H ibbard. Gen. Pans. Agt.  Marquette. 
K. C. Ovlatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

In effect June 25th.

Operating  the  elegant  and  fast  steamers  “ Soo 
City’  and “ City  of Holland”  between  Holland and 
C-iicago,  connecting  at  Holland  with  the C.  &  W. 
M.  Railway  for  Grand  Kapids  and  all  points  east 
and north.  SUMMER  SCHEDULE.
Lv.  Holland,  daily (except  Sunday)..................S:oo p.m
Lv.  Holland,  Sundav......................................... 3.00 p.m
Lv.  Holland,  Saturday  (special).................6:40 a.m
Lv. Chicago,  daily (except  Fri. and Sat.)..7:00 p.m
Lv.  Chicago,  Friday.......................................... 4:00 p.m
Lv. Chicago,  Saturday........ 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m
FARE. 
Single  Round  I
$3.50
Between Holland and Chicago 
$2.25 
5.00
Between Grand  Rapids and  Chicago  3.15 

Berth included.

SPECIAL  RATES.

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

trip,  $2.30.  Saturday  morning, 

Office,  No.  1  State St.,  Charles  B. Hopper, 
Gen’l F. &  P.  Agt.

Chicagò. 

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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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School  Supplies

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New  stock.  Special  attention 
to  mail  orders.

FR A N K E  B R O S.,  M u sk eg o n ,  M ich ig a n .

Jobbers In Druggists’  and  Grocers’Sundries,  Fishing 
Tackle,  Sporting Goods, Notions, Toys, Etc.

I.  A.  MURPHY, General Manager.

THe  IHigan  gímanle Agency

FLO W ERS,  M A Y   &  M O LO N EY, Counsel

S p ecial  R ep orts.

L a w   an d   C o llectio n s.

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

Main  Office:  Room  u o a   Majestic  Building,  Detroit,  Mich.

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

M  A M K T F P   *   Northeastern  Ry.
* * 
^ 1 0  A  L-rf L*  Best route to Manistee.

Via  C. &  W .  M.  Railway.

Lv  Grand Rapids.............................. 7:00am  ............
A r  Manistee.....................................12:05pm  ............
Lv  Manistee..^.................................  8:30am  4:10pm
A t Grand  Rapids  .........................   1 ;oopm  Q:55pm

T R A V E L

VIA

F.  A  P  M.  R.  R.

A N D   8 T E A M 8 H I P   L I N E 8  

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

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

HOLLAND  &  GAI6A60 LINE,

1 1  ^  

PORT  HI IRON  at the foot °f Lake Ha.
1 7  ron,  55  miles  northeast
V V; 
or  Detroit,  is  one  of  the  most  prosperous  cities  in 
Michigan.  Population 20,000.

The  elegant  building  shown  in  this  cut  has  been 
fitted  up  for  a  Department  Store,  sections  of  which 
will be  rented  separately, or  the  first  floor  and  base­
ment, with such space on  upper floors  as  may  be  de­
sired, will  be rented  as a whole.  Fixed rental or com­
mission  to  those  occupying  departments 
to  suit. 
Splendid  opening  for  Dry  Goods  in  all  branches, 
Clothing,  Hats  and  Caps,  Boots  and  Shoes,  Carpets 
and  House  Furnishings,  Millinery,  Groceries,  etc. 
Departments  can  be  operated  and  locked  up  sepa­
rately.  Best opening for parties  seeking  location  for 
any line of mfercantile business.  Address or call upon 

L  A. SHERMAN,  Port Huron, Mich.

When  in  need of goods 
for  A d v e rtis in g  purposes, write

H E N R Y   M.  G IL L E T T

M A N U F A C T U R E R S ’ A G E N T

OPPOSITE MORTON HOUSE 

92 rtONROE STREET.

GRAND RAPIDS, fllCH.

STATE  AQENT  REGENT  MANUFACTURING  CO.,  CHICAGO.

FOLDING  PAPER  BOXES Printed  and  plain  for  Patent 

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

G R A N D   R A P ID S   P A P E R   B O X  C O .

P H O N E   8 5 0 .

81.  8 3   a n d  8 5   C A M P A U   S T .„  G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H .

|  They all say f 

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“It’s  as good  as  Sapolio,” when  they  try  to sell  you 
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell 
you  that  they are  only  trying  to get you  to  aid  their  3  
new  article.

Who  urges  you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

Is  it  not  the 
public?  The  manufacturers,  by  constant and judi- 
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose  —3  
very  presence  creates  a  demand  for other articles.

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DEALERS IN

ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING

OILS

NAPHTHA  AND  GASOLINES

Office and  Works,  BUTTERWORTH AVE., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Bulk works at Grand  Rapids,  Muskegon,  Manistee, Cadillac,  Big  Rat- 
ids,  Grand  Haven,  Traverse  City,  Ludington, Allegan 
Howard  City,  Petoskey,  Reed  City,  Fremont,  Har’,
W hitehall,-Holland and  Fennvlll«-

Highest  Price  Paid  for  Em pty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels.

è

F o u r   R e a s o n s

APPLY  W IT H   D A M P   CLOTH  OR^ 

BR U SH .  POLISH  WITH  DRY^ 

CLOTH OR  BRUSH

why  grocers  should  sell  a  brand  of  Stove  Polish  which,  above 
all  others,  consumers  want,  and  for  which  grocers  can  offer 
no substitute  without  injury  to  their  trade.

Enameline

The Modem STOVE POLISH

First:  It  is  Superior  to  all  others  in  Quality. 

Second:  It 
gives  Perfect  Satisfaction  to  consumers.  Third:  It  is  Thor­
oughly  Advertised  and  sells  itself. 
Fourth:  No  other  Stove 
Polish  on  earth  Has  so  Large  a  Sale.

Y T r r r r n r T T r r o i n r r r T T y T r r r o i r r r r n r T x r o T T T T

Brings 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  1 >een 
a blessing and  merchants do not  hes­
itate to endorse  it.

Yours for success,

The  Computing  Scale  Co.,

Dayton,  Ohio.

JL O ..O JL O JU L O JU L O JL O JU L 8JU L

