Volume  XV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  24,  1898.

Number  779

Everything  in  the  Plumbing  Line 
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.

WEATHERLY  &  PULTE,  99  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Rapids

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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

F O R   S A L E   O N L Y   B Y

MUSSELMAN  GROCER  CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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P U R IT Y  AN D   STREN G TH !

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

ABSOLUTELY  PURE

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

FLEISCHMANN  &  CO.

Detroit  Agency,  118  Bates St.
Grand  Rapids Agency,  26  Fountain  S t.

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Proprietors of

Howard  City.  Mich.

J. H. Prout & Go.,

me Gitu Roller Mins

“MR. THOMAS”

Eat,  Drink,  Be  Merry and  Smoke

Whoesale  and  Retail  Dealers in

Flour. Ford and Grain

I  Four  Kinds  of  Coupon  Books

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

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids,  Hich

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The Most  Popular Nickel Cigar on  Earth

Ruhe  Bros.  Co.,  Makers. 
Factory  956,  ist  Dist.  Pa.

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F.  E.  Bushman,  Representative, 

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

Mail  Orders  Solicited.

Most Economical

Fire Underwriters’
Endorsement of Safety.

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

M.  B.  Wheeler  tleGtriG  Go..  Mirs.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Show  Room  at  No  99  Ottawa  St.

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THE  “OHIO” 
PONY CUTTER

Tlii<  Cutter  Is  for  band  use  only, 
and  is a  strong-,  li^ht-rimmng  tmi- 
chine. 
It is adapted to cutting hay, 
straw  and  corn  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  he 
knocked down and packed for ship­
ment,  thus  securing-  lower  freight 
rate;  has 11 l/l inch knife, and by very 
simple changes makes  four  lengths 
of cut.  T his is only one of the ohio 
familv  of Feed and E nsilage Cutters 
and shredders.  A  good agent wanted
in every locality in M ichigan where 
we  are  not  represented.  W rite  to-day  for  complete  Catalogue And  prices  to  dealers.
Cutters  and  Shredders, Grand  Rapids.

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a as  machine  purchased 
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point  of economy  and  service.  The  machine  is  a 
twenty-four  light  and  I  have  attached  thirtv-nine 
lights  to  it,  my  hotel  containing  nineteen  guest 
.  also  parlor,  office,  dining-room and  kitchen.
On  May  to,  I  charged  the  machine 
with  t 
three  pounds  of  carbide and  it  was
ot touched for
fifteen  days, except to ascertain if th  _  __  ___
in  the tank,  and it  furnished  all  the  light  needed 
during  that  time.  This light cost me 4*4  cents  per 
pound—  $1.0354.  This  1 consider a very  economical 
light,  as  it averaged  less than  one  tenth  of  a  cent 
per hour for each  light. 

JOHN'  P.  D A L E .

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Grand  Rapids 

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are  our  F R E IG H T   E L E V A T O R S   of  all  capacities, 
and  they  are  easy  In  price.  Our  8oo-lb.  S C A L E  
TR U C K   is  indispensable  as  a  regular  warehouse 
truck.  We  also  make  E n gin es,  B oilers,  S m o ke- 
sta c k s,  Iron  and  B ra ss  C a stin g s,  S teel  C u lv e rt 
Pipe and  General  Machine  Work.

R epairs  done  in  any  part  of  the  State.  Reach 
us  any  hour,  day  or  night,  by  long  distance  phone.

Lansing  Boiler &  Engine  Works

Lansing,  Hichigan.

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Our  Coffees  and  Teas

Must  excel  in  Flavor  and  Strength  and  be 
constant  Trade  Winners.  All  our  coffees 
roasted  on  day  of  shipment.

The J. M.  Bour Co., ‘,*129 Jefferson  Avenue,  Detroit,  Mich. 

115-117 Ontario S t„  Toledo, Ohio.

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X  If You  Hire Help— _  

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Perfect  Time  Book 

— and  Pay  Roll.

Made to hold  from 27 to  60  names  J  
£

and sell  for 75  cents  to  $2. 

Send for sample leaf.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

BARLOW  BROS.,
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PREFERRED  BANKERS 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY

OF  DETROIT«  MICHIGAN.

Commenced  Business September  i,  1893.

Insurance in  force..................................... $2,746,000.00
N et Increase during  1897........................ 
104,000.
32,73S.49
N et Assets
Losses Adjusted and  U npaid...............
None
Other  Liaoilities.....................................
None
Total  Death  Losses  Paid to  D ate........
40,061.00
Total  Guarantee Deposits  Paid to  Ben
eficiaries...................................................]
Death Losses  Paid  During  1S97...........  
Death  Rate for 1897.................................... 
Cost  per  1,000 at age 30 during  1897.... 
F R A N K  E . R O B S O N ,  P r e s.

812.00
17.000.00
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T R U M A N   B.  G O O D S P E E D . Sbc’y

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full line of  Fall and W inter Clothing.  Has 
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the  largest  line  of  Kersey  Overcoats  and 
C   U lsters on the  road;  best  $5.50  Kersey  all 
)o  wool overcoat  in  market,  all  manufactured 
£   by  K O L B   Sc  S O N « Ro chester«  n. y.

Jo 
I f you  w ish  to  look  over  my  Une,  write 
C   me,  Box  346,  M arshall,  Mich.,  or meet  me 
10  at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids,  Mich ,  on 
C   Sept.  1  to 6,  inclusive.  Expenses  allowed. 
Jo  N o harm done if you don’t buy.

T he  M ercantile  A gency

Established  1S41.

R.  G .  DUN  &   CO.

Widdicomb Bid’«, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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

L.  P. WITZLEBEN.  nanager.

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JfCùGAAôÆAP/os. Mich.

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 snch is always 
a “nightmare.”  The present is  an 
era of pleasure and profit.

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

GRAND  RAPID5 .

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  24,  1898.

Number  779

BANK  NOTES

Padding Clearing House Transactions— 

Minor  Matters.

those  returned.  This, 

The  New  York  Financier  is  agitating 
the  adoption  of  a  uniform  system  of 
bank  clearings  throughout  the  country. 
It  is  the  custom  in  some  clearing houses 
to  include  the  " in ”   and  "o u t"  checks; 
is,  checks  taken  to  the  clearing 
that 
house  and 
in 
effect,  doubles  the  clearings  and  makes 
an  artificial  and  deceiving  total  which 
gives  an  exaggerated 
idea  of  the  vol­
ume  of  business  transacted. 
In  other 
clearing  houses,  however,  the  custom  is 
to  give  the  total  of  the  checks  that  pass 
through  without  padding,  and  a  general 
adoption  of  this  plan  is  advocated  by 
the  Financier  as  the  only  means  of  se­
curing  an  accurate  estimate  of  the  busi­
ness  done. 
issue  of  the 
paper  was  given  a  symposium  of  all the 
clearing  house  managers  in  the  country 
as  to  the  method  followed  and  as  to  the 
advisability  of  a  uniform  system.  The 
consensus  of  opinion  was  decidedly  in 
favor  of  a  uniform  system  and  against 
padding. 
In  response  to  the  enquiries 
sent  out,  Harvey  J.  Hollister  responded 
from  Grand  Rapids,  as  follows:

In  a  recent 

Regarding  the  manner  in  which  we 
carry  forward  our  clearings  in  this  city, 
let  me  say  that  during  the  history  of  the 
clearing  bouse  the  word  "padded”   has 
not  been  known.  The  aggregate  of  our 
clearings  indicates  the  exact  amount  of 
checks  that  pass  through  the  clearing 
house. 
It  would  seem  absolutely  desir­
able  that  all  clearing  houses  throughout 
the  country  should  adopt  this  plan,  and 
it  is  a  surprise  that  any  clearing  bouse 
should  seek  to  manipulate  its  figures 
so  as  to  show  a  greater  business  than  is 
actually  done  by  it. 
It  is  to  be  hoped 
that  a  uniform  plan,  applying  to  every 
city,  will  be  speedily  adapted.

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fixed  rates 

The  Detroit  bankers  have,  by  agree­
ment, 
for  New  York  ex­
change,  and  hereafter  will  make  a  regu­
lar  charge  instead  of  furnishing  the  ex­
change  free. 
In  this  city  the  banks,  by 
clearing  house  agreement,  fixed rates for 
exchange  several  years  ago  and  have 
lived  up  to  the  agreement  with  a  fair 
degree  of  consistency.  The  rate  was 8 
cents  per  $100,  but  this  has  been  ad­
vanced  to  10  cents  to  cover  the  revenue 
stamp  which  drafts  must  bear.  Each 
bank,  of  course,  has  its  favored  list,  but 
the  favored  lists  are  not  long  and  in­
clude  only  customers  who  carry  heavy 
balances  or  who  deposit  Eastern  ex­
change  in  large  amounts.  The  free  list 
can  not  be  established  nor  suspended 
arbitrarily,  however,  and  in  extending 
exchange  favors  a  nice  discretion  must 
be  exercised.

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The  cold,  cynical  business  world  does 
not  take  much  stock 
in  sentiment  or 
morals,  but  moral  character,  after all,  is 
a  realizable  asset  in  most  banks  and  is 
recognized  as  such  in  banking  circles. 
A  local  bank  cashier  thus  expressed 
it 
the  other  day:  "Some  men  can  borrow 
money  on  their  simple  statement,  while 
others,  if  they  should bring  in  gold  coin 
to  deposit  as  collateral  for  a  loan,  would 
be  looked  upon  with  suspicion  until  the 
coin  had  been  weighed.”

for  each 

Three  of  the  State  banks  at  Lansing 
succumbed,  during  the  business  col­
lapse,  to  hard  times  and  bad  manage­
ment  and  since  then  three  receivers— 
one 
institution—have  been 
drawing  salaries  and  accumulating  ex­
pense  accounts. 
is  now  proposed  to 
bunch  the  three  wrecks  and  have  one 
receiver  attend  to  the  business.  No  for­
mal  action  has  yet  been  taken  to  bring 
this  about,  but  the  depositors  are  agi­
tating 
it  is  expected  will  soon 
make  a  proper  application  in  court.

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The  banks  at  Jackson  have  entered 
into  an  agreement  to  reduce  the  interest 
paid  on  savings  deposits and  certificates 
to  2^  per  cent.,  with  six  months  as  the 
minimum  period.
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The  Alcona  County  Bank  has  been 
opened  at  Harrisville  under  the  man­
agement  of  John  McGregor,  President 
of  the  village.

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A  decision  has  been  rendered  in  the 
United  States  Circuit  Court 
for  the 
Eastern  District  of  Missouri  that  is  im­
portant  to  independent  telephone  com­
panies.  The  Bell Telephone Co.  brought 
action  against  the  Kellogg  Multiple 
Switch  Board  Co.  to  restrain  the  latter 
from  using  the  multiple  system,  on 
which  the  Bell  company  have  several 
fundamental  patents  yet  in  force.  The 
patent  upon  which 
action  was 
brought  expires  next January.  The court 
ruled  that  the  patent  lacked  novelty and 
refused  to  grant  the  injunction.  The 
Kellogg  company  makes  switch  boards 
for  independent  telephone  companies.

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By  a  decision  rendered  by the Federal 
Circuit  Court  at  Pittsburg  the  Bell  Tel- 
phone  Co  has  secured  an  injunction 
against  an  independent  telephone  com­
pany 
in  Pennsylvania.  The  suit  was 
brought  by  the  Chicago  branch  of  the 
Bell  company  and 
involved  an  appa­
ratus  known  as  the  "Carty  bridging 
in  telephony  asserts 
bell.”   An  expert 
that  the  decision 
is  of  minor 
im­
portance. 
“ The  apparatus,”   he  said, 
“ has  been  discarded  by  all  modern  ex­
changing  systems,  modern 
telephony 
preferring  a  system  that  shuts  out  the 
generator  and  cuts  out  the  generator 
bells  while  talking.”
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John  C.  King,  of John  C.  King  &  Co., 
Chicago,  in  discussing  the  value  of  Na­
tional  Biscuit  Co.  securities,  says: 
“ Information  from  trustworthy  sources 
leads  me  to  believe  that  the  common 
stock  is  earning  4  per  cent.,  and  that  a 
regular  4  per  cent,  dividend  will  be 
maintained  when  commenced,  probably 
early  next  year.  This  makes  the  pre­
ferred  stock  a  sure  7 per cent,  dividend- 
payer  for  all  time,  and  therefore  worth 
much  more  than  par,  although  it  is  sell­
ing  under that  figure.  The  biscuit  busi­
ness  has  always  been  a  good  one.  The 
trade  marks  of  the  company  are 
inval­
uable,  and  as  the product  is  a  necessity, 
is  a  splendid  future  before  the 
there 
company,  especially  as 
it  has  been  in 
operation  since  the  consolidation,  long 
enough  to  prove  that  it  is  conservative­
ly  and  profitably  managed.”

THE  VOLUME  OF 

IMMIGRATION.
The  steady  growth  of  population  in 
this  country,  enabling  the  supply  of  la­
bor  to  catch  up  with  the  demand,  is  at 
last  beginning  to  have  a  decided  influ­
ence  in  reducing  the  annual  volume  of 
the  tide  of  immigration.  The  hard  con­
ditions  that  have  existed  in  many  por­
tions  of  the  United  States  for  several 
years  past  have  also  had  their  effect 
in 
checking  the  influx  of  foreigners.

The  past  fiscal  year  showed  a  slightly 
smaller  number  of  immigrants  coming 
into  this  country  than  in  the  preceding 
year,  but  both  years  counted  more  than 
a  hundred  thousand  less  per annum  than 
in  1896.  The  following  figures,  cover­
ing  the  past  six  fiscal  years,  indicate 
how  immigration  is  decreasing:
1898...........................................................................329,233
•897.........................................................................   230,832
'^9*5.......................................................843.3*7
'895........................................................................... 279,948
>894...................................................... 314-4*7
lS93......................   ..................................................503,917
improvement  of  our  regulations 
covering  the  admission of  immigrants  is 
also  improving  the  character  of  this  an­
nual  accession  to  our  population.  We 
are  getting  more  new  citizens  with  a  lit­
tle  capital  who  are  able  to  look  about 
them  before  going  at  once  to  work  or 
choosing  a  permanent  stopping  place.

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is  well  for  all  parties  concerned 
that  this  volume  of  immigration  is  thus 
growing  smaller. 
is  worse  for  the 
newcomer  really  than  for  us  that  he 
should  find  himself  in  a  strange  land 
with  the  labor  market  overstocked.  We 
have  barely  employment  for  our  own 
people,  and 
it  is  becoming  more  and 
more  a  risky  business  for  a  foreigner 
without  money  and  without  a knowledge 
of  our  language  to  come  among  us 
in 
hope  simply  of  finding  something  turn 
up  to  his  advantage.

Possibly  this  fact  is  now  better  under­
stood  abroad  than  ever  before  and  is 
nfluencing  would-be  homeseekers  or 
adventurers  to  let  well  enough  at  home 
alone.  Still  there  is  an  abundance  of 
room  in  America  for  Europeans who are 
able  to  bring  a  sufficient  capital  with 
them  to  start  a  new  home  in  the  agri­
cultural  sections  of  the  United  States 
and  know  something  of  farming.  The 
West  and  South  are  yet  inviting  fields 
to  such  immigrants.

“ Unless  the  tide  of  public  sentiment 
turns,”   recently  remarked  a  local  com­
mission  merchant,  “ crabapples  are  evi­
dently  destined  to  oblivion.  Each  suc­
ceeding  season  for  the  past  ten years the 
dwarfish  fruit  has  decreased  in  popular­
ity.  Housewives  and  professional  jellv- 
makers give crabapples the cold shoulder 
a  little  stronger  every  season,  and  it 
is 
pretty  difficult  to  attribute  a  reason  for 
it.  Old-timers  will  remember  when  a 
table  was  not  complete  without  crab- 
apple  jelly  on  it,  but  to-day  a  large  per 
centage  of  the  rising  generation  has 
never  tasted  the  stuff.  The  fruit  is  just 
as  worthy  to-day  of  public  favor  as  it 
ever  was  before,  and  if  somebody  will 
explain  why 
it  is  losing  its  popularity 
I’ll  be  ever  so  much  obliged.”

L.  G.  Clapp,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
drug  business  at  Mendon,  has  removed 
to  this  city  and  engaged  in  the  manu­
facture  of  his  Breath  Antiseptics.

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D ry  Goods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons— Heavy-weight  sheet­
ings  and  other  heavy  lines are somewhat 
slower  in  movement,'and  all  demands 
are easily  made;  but  at the  same  time,
the  market 
is  firm,  and  prices  are  un­
changed  at  latest quotations.  There  has 
been  some  slight  increase  in the demand 
for  four-yard  sheetings  in  light  weights 
during  the  week,  and  prices  remain 
steady  and  firm.

Prints  and  Ginghams  -The  liveliest 
spot 
in  the  market  is  among  printed 
fabrics  for  dress  goods,  and  while  con­
siderable  of  this  trade  is  by  mail,  there 
has  been  a  fairly  good  spot  business. 
Fancy  calicoes  of  all  descriptions,  but 
particularly  dark,  are  taken  with  con­
siderable  freedom,  and 
is  no 
doubt  that  the  end  of  the season will find 
that  branch  of  the  market  in  an  excel- 
ent  condition.

there 

Dress  Goods—The  announcement  of 
the  auction  sale  of  75.000  pieces  of 
dress  goods  by  the  Arlington  Mills  to­
day  has  been  followed  by  the  announce­
ment  of  several  special  sales  by  jobbers 
and  the  offering  of  special  prices  by 
commission  agents  upon  stock  goods. 
As  is  the  case  with  the  large  proportion 
of  the  goods  to  be  sold  at auction  by  the 
mill  named,  the  fabrics  that  are  sacri­
ficed  are  either  suited  particularly  for 
early  fall  wear  or  are  of a  slow-moving 
character.  The  goods  must  be  moved 
quickly  or  carried  until  next  spring. 
Mohair,  sicil ians, 
light-weight  serges 
and  crepons  are  not  suitable  for  mid­
winter  wear,  and  the  dumping  of  these 
goods  upon  the  market  at  this  date  does 
not  materially  affect  the  primary  mar­
ket. 
It  would  affect  it  still  less  if  there- 
were  not  considerable  stocks  of  similar 
goods 
in  other  manufacturers’  bands. 
Certain  lines  of  wool  fancies  that  are  to 
be  offered  at  auction  do  not  appear to be 
wanted  by  the  trade  at  any  price. 
It 
will  be  noticed  that  few  if  any  lines  of 
the  best  selling  goods  or  goods  adapted 
for  winter  wear  are  being  offered  at  cut 
prices.  These  sacrifice  sales  are  a  fea­
ture  of  every  season,  and would occasion 
little  comment  had  not  those  at  present 
under  way  been  instituted  earlier  than 
usual.  These  sales  do,  however,  injure 
the  jobbing  and  retail  trade  in  an 
irre­
trievable  manner.  Every  yard  of  goods 
upon  their  shelves  will  be  depreciated 
in  value  by  the  sale.  No  manufacturer 
can  accumulate  stocks  and  then  dump 
them  upon  the  market  at  a  price  after 
his  regular  business  has  been done with­
out  injuring  his  trade. 
If  jobbers  were 
allowed  a  reasonable  time  to  dispose  of 
initial  purchases  or  were  protected  in 
some  manner  the  result  might  be  differ­
ent.

Hosiery— The 

importers  of  hosiery 
have  their  fall lines  completed  and  have 
made  arrangements  for  an  exceptional­
ly 
large  business.  The  spring  season 
was  a  good  one  with  them,  and  they  ex­
pect  to  continue  through  the  fall  in  the 
same  way.  Many  of  the  merchants  and 
jobbers  who  have  in  former years  gone 
abroad  for  their  lines  are  expected  to 
place  orders  in  this  country  this  year. 
Retailers  will  probably  begin  their  fall 
purchases  rather  earlier  than  usual  this 
year,  and  it  is  wise  that  they  should  do 
so. 
In  fancies  they  have  been  disap­
pointed  frequently  in  the  past,  because 
they  were  too  late  to  secure  especially 
good  stock.  Many  buyers  are  in  New 
York  now 
looking  over  the  lines,  and 
they  say  that  much  of  the  uncertainty in 
regard  to  fancies  for  the  coming  season

is  due  to  the  fact  that  so  many  of  them 
were  obliged  to  take  more  or  less  un­
desirable  goods.  Had 
they  all  been 
able  to  secure  the  right  things,  their 
sales  would  undoubtedly  have  been  sat­
isfactory. 
If  they  have  the  right  things 
this  fall,  they  will  probably  do  a  large 
fancy  hosiery business. 
It  may not be,
they  say,  however,  in  the  bright  green 
and  red  plaids,  etc.,  as  they  did  the 
business 
It  will  be  for 
neater,  softer  effects,  such  as  embroid­
ered  stripes,  soft  Roman  stripes,  and  a 
great  many  blacks  and  whites.

in  a  year  ago. 

Men’s  Underwear—The  young  man 
finds  an  outlet  for  his  desire  for  color  in 
his  underclothes.  Black 
lisle  thread 
underclothes,  stripes  and  virginal  blues 
and  nile  greens  have entirely supplanted 
plain  white  and  buff.  A  great  many 
union  suits  are  worn  now  by  men  who, 
a  year  or  two  ago,  would  never  have 
dreamed  of  such  a  thing.  There  seemed 
at  first  to  be  something  repugnant  to 
the  masculine  mind  in  the  idea  of a suit 
of  underclothes  made  all  in  one  piece, 
and  in  fact,  it  is  hard  for  a  man  to  get 
comfortable 
in  his  first  few  suits,  but 
those  who  have  adopted  these  garments 
and  stuck  to  them,  swear  by  them.

Neckwear—This  summer's  neckwear 
interesting  to  one  who  watches  the 
is 
trend of fashionable development.  There 
are  many  excellent  and  tasteful  dressers 
who  cling  to  the  fashions  of  last  year, 
however,  and  it  can  not  be  said  for  that 
reason  that  any  one  thing  is  the  cut  and 
dried  fashion  for  this  summer  season. 
The  very 
latest  agony  in  string  ties  is 
as  wide  as  were  the  narrow  four-in- 
hands  of  last  year,  and  they  are  tied 
squarely  and  somewhat  loosely  to  avoid 
any  compression of  the  knot  in  the  mid­
dle.  A  great  many  men  will  not  appre­
ciate  this  very  much,  as  it  will  put  en­
tirely  out  of  the  question  the  correction 
of  a  collar  a  shade  too  large  by  tighten­
ing  the  cravat.  The  once-over  ascot  is 
not  as  furiously  popular  as  it  promised 
to  be.  Ascot  ties  are  very  little  worn 
this  summer  by  men  Four-in-hands  are 
of  the  graduated  type  and  are  as  simple 
as  possible.  China  silks 
in  blue  and 
white  patterns  are  popular  and  hand­
some.  Ties  of  any  pattern  made  of 
shirting  materials  or  any  wash  goods 
have  somewhat  disappointed  those  who 
expected  for  them  a  lively  vogue. 
In 
like  manner,  the  pique  flat  ascots  have 
become  obsolete. 
In  spite  of  the  exten­
sive  preparations  made  for  a  season  of 
brilliant  coloring  in  neckties,  the  great­
est  simplicity  characterizes  fashionable 
cravat ings.

The  Man  Who  Cooks  the  Grub.

We have read  in  song- and story 
O f  “ the man  behind the gun ,”

He is given all the glory 

O f the battles that are  won;
T h ey are filling up the papers 

With his apotheosis,

A nd they tell about his capers 

W hile the shells above him  hiss.

But behind the grim y gunner,

Steadfast through  the wild hubbub, 

Stands a greater god  of battles—

’Tis the  man who cooks the grub.

When  the sky  is rent with thunder 

And the shell screams through  the air, 

When some fort is rent asunder 
And  Destruction revels there,

When the men in line go rushing 

On  to glory or to woe 

W ith  the  maddened charges crushing 

Heroes  who are lying tow,

There is one but for  whose labors 
There could  be no wild hubbub,

A nd the greatest god  of battles 

Is the man  who cooks the grub.

What of ships with armor plating?

What of castles on the heights?
What of anxious captains w aiting 

W hile the careful gunner sights ?

What o f all the  long-ran^e rifles?

What of men  with  valiant  hearts?

These were but  impotent trifles.

But inconsequential parts 

O f  the whole,  without the fellow 

Who must scour, scrape and scrub—

For the greatest god of battles 

Is the man who cooks the grub.

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of  conscience  that  will  not  be  stilled 
and  that  cries  out:  “ Oh,  if  I  had  not 
missed  my  opportunities  I  might  at 
least  have  brightened  an  hour  of  the 
dreary  journey  for  them.”

together  the  broken 

It  would  be  well  for  us  all  if  we  could 
remember  that  we  are  travelers  that 
pass  this  way  but  once,  and  that  what 
we  miss  now  we  can  never  make  up.  If 
we  are  estranged  from  a  friend  and 
let 
the  hour  of  softening  and  yielding  go 
by  there  will  be  no  more  opportunities 
to  weld 
links  of 
affection.  The  kindly  word  we  might 
have  said,  the pleasure  our  praise  might 
have  given  another,  the  child  we  sent 
grieved  and  weeping  away  when  we 
might  just  as  well  have  made  it  happy, 
the  pleasures  we  might  have  had  for 
ourselves  and  the  sunny  memories  we 
might  have  laid  up  for  the  gray  days  of 
life,  these  are  some  of  the  lost  oppor­
tunities  that  haunt  us  with  unavailing 
regrets. 

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Mrs.  S.—Gimme  a  dozen.  Our  new 

French  cook  makes  elegant  souvenir.

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life  insurance;  after he  dies  it  will  help 
his  wife  to  marry  again.

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BILLY  THE  TRAMP.

How  He  Held  His  Customers  By 

• 

Hypnotic  Power.

Stroller in Grocery World.

Every  reader  of  this  column  has prob­
ably  beard  of  the  mysterious force called 
hypnotism—the 
influence  that  enables 
its  possessor  to  control  the  will  of  other 
people.

There  are  persons  who  scout  at  the 
idea  of  such  a  thing. 
I  don’t,  for  I  be­
lieve  that  every  good  salesman  has  it  in 
a  measure.  I  know  one  who  must  have 
it  in  a  very  large  measure,  for  that  is 
the  only  way  you  can  explain  his  suc­
cess.

In  every  trade  paper  you see lots about 
the  necessity  of  a  neat  appearance  in 
for  a  salesman, 
business,  especially 
whose  manner  and  address  are 
largely 
an  asset. 
It  is  said,  you  know,  that  a 
good  salesman  needs  to  make  a  good 
impression  at  the  very  start,  and  to  do 
this  must  present  a  good  appearance— 
not  be  a  dude,  but  be  clean  and  neat 
look  altogether  like  a  gentleman. 
and 
The  salesman  I  referred  to  a 
little 
while  back—and  in  some  respects  he’s 
the  most  successful  I  know— is  without 
exception  the  sloppiest  white  man  I 
ever  saw.  He  is  absolutely  careless  and 
neglectful about his  appearance;  doesn’t 
care  a  rap  whether  his  collar  is  clean  or 
not;  always  looks  like  a  tramp,  even 
with  a  fat  month's  commissions  in  his 
pocket,  and  yet  he  can  sell  goods  right 
over  the  heads  of  other  salesmen  whose 
clothes  are  brushed  and 
linen 
spotless.

their 

I  have  just  come  in  from  the  street, 
and  the  fact  that I saw this fellow started 
me  off  on  this  tack. 
I’ll  try  to  make 
you  understand 
just  bow  he  looked. 
Probably  some  of  you  will  recognize 
him.

He  had  on  a  straw  hat  that  bad  evi­
dently  been  worn  at 
least  two  years 
without  being  cleaned  once.  Wear  a 
straw  hat  on  the  railroad  trains  one 
week,  and  it’ll  look  dingy;  how  do  you 
think  this  one  looked  after  wearing  it 
two  years?

He  had  on  a  shirt  that  soup  and  other 
It  was  ac­
things  had  been  spilled  on. 
tually  nasty,  and 
instead  of  a  stud  was 
a  frayed-out  hole.  His  collar  was  yellow 
and  absolutely  black  where  his neck  bad 
rubbed  against 
for  at 
least  a  week.

it,  I  suppose 

His  clothes  were  dirty  and  wrinkled ; 
his  shoulders  dandruff strewn ;  his trou­
sers  baggy  and  fringed  around  the  bot­
tom ;  his  vest  half  undone,  and  with  two 
buttons  off,  and  bis  shoes  dirty  and  un­
polished.

least,  and 

This  picture  is  as  true  to  life as  I  can 
make  it.  Add  to 
it  the  presence  of  a 
set  of  frightfully  dirty  teeth,  the  result 
alike  of  neglect  and  excessive  tobacco 
chewing,  and  you  have a tout  ensemble 
which 
isn’t  prepossessing  to  say  the 
least.  The  fellow looks like  a  tramp,  to 
say  the 
is  the  sort  of  a  man 
you’d  expect  to  turn  you away from buy­
ing  something,  even  if you had expected 
to  buy  it  before  he  showed  up.
Now,  we'll  take  a  look  at  this  sales­
man's  other  side.  Last  week  1  was 
standing  down  on  Front  street  talking 
with  another  salesman  in  the  same  line 
with  the  hero  of  this  tale,  and  the  latter 
passed  as  we  stood  there,  unkempt  as 
usual.

“ Did  you  ever  see  a  sloppier  man 

in 

you  life?"  I  asked.

“ Never,”   was  the  reply;  “ and  yet 
that  fellow  is  a  better  salesman  than  I 
am,  and  roy  house  told  me  when  they 
renewed  my  contract  last  year  I  was  the 
best  they  ever  had. ’ ’

“ How  do  you  account 

for 

it?”   I 

asked.

“ I  don’t  know;  hypnotizes 

’em,  I 
guess,"  was  the  reply. 
“ Why,  one  day 
I  was  up  in  Lancaster,  taking  an  order 
from  a  retail  grocer  up there.  This  fel­
low  passed  the  door,  and  I spoke to him. 
The  grocer  asked  me 
‘ whether  I  had 
many  tramp  friends.’  The  ’ tramp’  had 
been  touching  Lancaster  only  a  little 
while  then.  When  I  got  there  next  trip 
I  found  that 
‘ Billy’  (the  tramp)  had 
been  there  and  sold  that  grocer,  who 
had  been  my  customer 
for  eighteen 
months.  And  the  worst  of  it  is  I haven’t

ever  been  able  to  get  him  back.  Sticks 
to  ‘ Billy’  like  a  brother.”

There  it  is.  This  salesman  made  such 
a  bad  impression  on  that  Lancaster  gro­
cer  that  he  called  him  a  tramp.  Yet 
he  afterward  gave  him  his  order,  taking 
it  away  from  the  salesman  who  had  had 
it  for  a  year and  a  half,  and  he’s  gen­
erally  known  everywhere  as  a  rattler 
who  can  send  in  orders when other sales­
men  can’t.

Now,  unless 

this  fellow,  when  he 
stands  face  to  face  with  a  customer, 
hypnotizes  him  into  forgetting  his  nasty 
teeth,  his  yellow  collar and  his  general 
sloppiness,  how  can  be  sell  him?
Lost  Opportunities  That  Haunt  Us.
When  one  sits  down  quietly  to  take 
account  of  one’s 
life—to  balance  its 
sunshine  and  shadows,  its  laughter  and 
its  tears,  its  good  and  its  evil,  there 
is 
nothing  that  brings  with 
it  a  keener 
pang  of  regret  than  the  vision  of our lost 
opportunities.  Not  alone  when  the  tide 
of  our  fortune  was  at  its  flood  and  we 
failed  to  take  advantage  of  the  oppor­
tunity 
it  offered,  but  the  many  little 
things  we  mourn—the  happiness  we 
might  have  had,  the  kindness  we  might 
have  done,  the joy  that  might  have  been 
ours  bad  we  only  been  wise  enough  to 
seize  it.

is  one  of  life’s  strange  paradoxes 
It 
that 
if  we  have  an  unpleasant  duty  to 
perform,  an  angry  or  unkind  thing  to 
say,  we  rush  upon  it,  but  if  it 
is  some 
happiness,  or  some  little  kindly  deed  or 
word,  not  even  the  Cubans  with  their 
perpetual  “ manana”   could  be  more  de­
liberate  about  it. 
It  is  as  if  we  were  so 
sure  of  happiness  that  we  felt  it  could 
be  put  off  to  be  enjoyed  at  any  future 
time. 
“ I  haven’t  the  time  to  enjoy  the 
sunshine  now,”   we  say  in  effect,  “ but 
to-morrow  I  will  invite  my  soul  to  rest 
and  bask  in  it. 
I  can't  stop  to  breathe 
the  perfume  of  the  flowers  now,  but  by 
and  by,  I  shall  revel  in  their  fragrance 
and  beauty. ”

Alas!  what  folly  is  this.  When  we 
are  ready  to  enjoy  it  it  is  too 
late,  and 
we  sadly  realize  that  the  winter  has 
come  for  us,  when  there 
is  never  a 
gleam  of  gold  in  the  skies,  and  the  rose 
is  withered  and  dead 
in  the  garden, 
and  for  all  our  prayers  and  all  our  tears 
we  can  never  more  bring  back  the  lost 
opportunities  of  our  vanished  summer.
The  pathos  of  putting  off  enjoyment 
is  never  so  forcibly  illustrated  as  it is in 
the  domestic  relations.  How  often  we 
see  a  man  so  immersed 
in  trying  to 
make  money,  and  a  woman  so  absorbed 
in  trying  to  keep  up  a  good  appear­
ance,  and  dress  her  children  as  well  as 
the  neighbors,  that  they  miss  all 
the 
sweetness  of  home  life.  Sometime  they 
intend  to  enjoy  the  babble  of  childish 
voices,  sometimes  they  are  going  to  sit, 
band 
in  band,  and tell,  each  the  other, 
how  they  have  understood  and  appreci­
ated  all  the  loyalty  and  love,  all  the 
fineness  and  the  delicacy—they  are  go­
ing  to  say  the  word  that  the  other  hun­
gers  and  thirsts  to  hear,  but  not  now. 
But  the  days  go  by,  and  the 
inevitable 
happens.  The  children  grow  up  and 
leave  the  home  nest,  or  death  comes, 
and  they  pour  into  deaf  ears  and 
lavish 
on  cold  lips  the  caresses  that  come  too 
late  to  win  one  answering  smile.

Who  has  not  bad  it  in  mind  to  say  a 
cheering  word  to  some  struggler,  or to 
write  a  letter  to  some  absent  friend,  or 
to  pay  a  visit  to  some  lonely  soul,  and 
then  suddenly  had  it  put  forever  out  of 
their  power?  The  struggler  had  ceased 
to  struggle  and  gone  down  in  the  flood, 
the  lonely  and  the  wretched  had  gone  to 
that  bourne  where  love  never  faileth  as 
it  so  often  does  on  earth,  and  mingled 
with  your  regrets  is  some accusing voice

To  Merchants:

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

Yours very truly,

W ork  Bros.  &  Co.,

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When in want of a new  roof  or  repairs  you  can  save  money  by  employing
skilled mechanics In this line.  We have representatives covering the State of
Michigan regularly,  °nd if you have a defective roof,  drop  us  a  card  and we
will call on you, examine your roof and  give  you  an  estimate  of  the  cost  of
necessary repairs or putting on new  roof.  Remember  that we  guarantee  all
our work and our guarantee is good.

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Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants. 

Oxford— B.  M.  Lenhoff  &  Co.,  cloth­

iers,  have  removed  to  Pontiac.

Montague—Joseph  Pino  has  opened  a 

bakery  and  confectionery  store.

Stockbridge— W.  Hicks  succeeds  G. 

W.  Nichols  in  the  meat  business.

Caro—J.  A.  White,  of  F.  E.  White  & 

Co.,  boot  and  shoe  dealers,  is  dead.

Quincy—Clare  Wise,  of  Kalamazoo, 

will  shortly  open  a  bazaar  store  here.

Port  Huron—Albert  Hume  has opened 

his  Pine  Grove  avenue  grocery  store.

Albion— A.  L.  Young  &  Co.  succeed 
Henry  Young  in  the  hardware  business.
Central  Lake— Dr.  G.  F.  Snyder  has 
sold  his  drug  stock  to  Henry  Ogletree.

Marine  City—Springborn &  Tart  have I 

opened  a  grocery  store  and  meat  mar­
ket.

Millington— Storms  &  Kelsev  suc­
ceed  J.  D.  Storms  &  Co.  in  general 
trade.

Smith’s  Creek— W.  H.  Sears  has  pur­
chased  the general  stock  of  Christian 
Nelson.

Imlay  City—Swan  &  Bohm  succeed 
in  the  grocery  and  notion 

Will  Swan 
business.

Thompsonvile—Wm.  Hogg,  of  Nessen 
City,  has  purchased  the  grocery  stock 
of  L.  B.  Putney.

Standish— H.  H.  Jacques  &  Co.  have 
tinware 

purchased  the  hardware  and 
stock  of  H.  J.  Randall.

Chesaning—A.  B.  Clough,  dealer  in 
implements,  has 

groceries,  drugs  and 
removed  his  stock  to  Oakley.

Paw  Paw— H.  W.  &  W.  E.  Shower- 
man  succeed  Thos.  C.  Tyner  in the boot 
and  shoe  and  clothing  business.

Port  Huron—E.  L.  Johns  has  retired 
from  his  copartnership  with  F.  E. 
Flewelling  in  the  clothing  business.

Port  Huron— Peter  Irvine,  whose  feed 
store  was  recently  destroyed  by  fire,  has 
again  engaged  in  the  same line of trade.
Manistique—Julius  Peterson  and Mar­
tin  Johnson  have  formed a copartnership 
and  engaged  in  the  tailoring  business.
Maple  Rapids— The  dry  goods  and 
grocery  firm  of  Redfern  &  Howe  has 
been  dissolved,  Mr.  Howe  succeeding.
Delray—Vandecar  &  Son,  formerly  of 
New  Baltimore,  have  opened  a  butter, 
egg  and  produce  commission  bouse 
here.

Owosso—Geo.  Graham  is  making  ar­
rangements  to  put  in  a  cigar  factory 
in 
connection  with  his  retail  cigar  busi­
ness.

Ithaca—Sam  Kirchheimer,  of  Cole­
man,  has  purchased  the  clothing,  men’s 
furnishing  goods  and  shoe  stock  of  Wile 
Bros.

Holland—A.  C.  Wells,  of  the  former 
shoe  firm  of  Peck  &  Wells,  of  Benton 
Harbor,  has  opened  a  shoe and  clothing 
store  here.

Yale—R.  M.  Lothian  has  retired  from 
the  general  merchandise  firm  of Lothian 
&  Fuller.  E.  B.  Fuller  will  continue 
the  business.

Port  Huron— The  wholesale  fish  firm 
of  Kaeseireyer  Bros.  &  Co.  has  been 
dissolved.  Kaeseineyer  Bros,  will  con­
tinue  the  business.

Belding—Mrs.  S.  Unger  has  leased  a 
store  building  and  early  in  September 
will  open  a  millinery  store  and  dress­
making  establishment.

Trufant— C.  E.  Van  Every  has  pur­
chased  the  Dr.  J.  Black  drug  stock  and 
will  continue  the  business at  the same 
location.  Mr.  Van  Every  was  formerly 
manager  of  H.  M.  Gibbs’  branch  drug 
store at Coral.

Ann  Arbor—G.  H.  Wild,  merchant 
tailor,  has  taken  his  brother,  David 
Wild,  into  partnership,  the  firm  name 
being  the  G.  W.  Wild  Co.

Onaway—J.  M.  Clark  has  purchased 
the  hardware  stock  of  Chris.  Miller  and 
will  also  handle  farming  implements, 
road  machinery  and  bicycles.

Oscoda— Herbert  J.  Markham has pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  of  W.  D.  Ham­
mond.  Mr.  Hammond will  take  a  course 
in  the  Rush Medical College of Chicago.
for 
twenty-six  years  with  the  Grand  Turnk 
Railroad,  has, 
in  company  with  Mr. 
Laird,  purchased  the  drug  stock  of  S. 
B.  Shaw.

Port  Huron—•—Fred  Demorest, 

Lansing— Frank  B.  Johnson  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  L.  A.  Briggs,  of 
the  firm  of  Johnson  &  Briggs,  grocers, 
and  will  conduct  the  business  alone 
hereafter.

Wayland—J.  M.  Burpee,  of  Orange­
ville,  has  purchased  the  stock  of  mer­
chandise  formerly  owned  by  the  defunct 
Temple  of  Economy,  of  A.  B.  Bosman, 
of  Holland.

Holland— The  bakery  and  confection­
ery  business  of  John  Pessink  has  been 
purchased  by  Gerrit  Steketee.  Mr. 
Pessink  retires  from  business on account 
of  ill  health.

Carson  City— Medler  Bros.,  of  Sum­
ner,  will  embark 
in  the  general  mer­
chandise  business  here  Sept.  I,  occupy- 
ing  the  store  building  vacated  by  M. 
Lightstone.

Lansing— Alfred  M.  Birney,  for  sev­
eral  years  with  the  grocery  firm  of  R.
B  Shank  &  Co.,  has  taken  the  position 
of  manager  of  the  grocery  business  of 
Roswell  Mott.

Cheboygan— D.  W.  Willets,  of  Macki­
naw  City,  has  purchased  the  James  Lee 
stock  of  dry  goods  and  ladies’  furnish­
ings  and  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  stand.

Traverse  City— H.  Kline,  of  St.  Ig- 
nace,  a  representative  of  Benda  &  Co., 
who  will  shortly  embark  in  the  clothing 
business  here,  is  making  arrangements 
for  the  opening  of  the  new  store.

Slights—John  Gillis,  of Traverse City, 
who  has  had  the  business  management 
of  the  J.  C.  Lewis  estate  at  this  place 
for  several  months  past,  has  resigned. 
Frank  Dean,  who  has  had  control of  the 
store  department  since  last  spring,  will 
succeed  to  the  management  of  the  log­
ging  and  lumbering  departments.

Shelby—Van  Wickle  &  Lewis  have 
established  a  branch  fruit  and  produce 
house  at  Boston  under  the  personal  su­
pervision  of  C.  D.  Lewis.  The  firm 
maintained  a  branch  distributing  depot 
at  Boston  during  the  peach  and  potato 
season 
last  year  and  has  concluded  to 
make  the  arrangement  a  permanent one.
Detroit— Chas.  H.  Werner  has  merged 
his  wholesale  and  retail  crockery,  glass­
ware  and  toy  business  into  a  corpora­
tion,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $25,000,  all 
paid  in.  The  stockholders  are  as  fol-' 
lows:  Charles  H.  Werner,  750  shares; 
Charles  Werner,  250;  Charles  H.  Wer­
ner,  Jr.,  500;  Herman  B.  Werner,  500; 
Gertrude  Werner,  500.

for 

Maple  Rapids—E.  G.  Bement,  who 
in  the  mercantile 
has  been  engaged 
forty-two  years, 
business  here 
twenty-seven  of  which  has  been 
in  his 
present  store  building,  expects  to  retire 
from  the  field  during  the  coming  fall, 
and  for  some  time  thereafter  his  atten­
tion  will  be  taken  up  by  visiting  points 
of  interest  throughout  the United States.
Morrice—M.  J.  Ryan,  clerk  in  a local 
drug  store,  was  cleaning  some  clothing 
with  gasoline  Sunday,  when  a  customer 
entered  and  called  for  some  ammonia, 
which 
is  kept  in  a  dark  place.  Ryan, 
without  thinking,  struck  a  match  to  find 
it,  and  the  fumes  of  the gasoline ignited 
and  burned  him  badly  before  he  could 
tear  off  his  blazing  garments.  He  will 
recover,  but  his  hands  may  be  perman­
ently  crippled.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Twining—John  McReady  has  erected 
a  sawmill  and  is  now  erecting  a  plan­
ing  mill.

Alma— Louis  N.  Baker,  of  Midland, 
has  purchased the  D.  W.  Adams stock  of 
groceries  which  Bert  Hayes  has  owned 
for  the  past  few  months.  He  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  the  same  location.
Mason—J.  G.  Snook,  C.  J.  McBride,
F.  J.  Lewis  and  F.  S.  Squiers,  all  of 
this  city,  have  purchased  the  plant  and 
stock  of  the  Mason  Carriage  Co.,  and 
will  continue  the  business  under  the 
same  style.

Lansing— Reynold  C.  Peez  has  sold 
his  stock  of  groceries  at  314  Washing­
ton  avenue,  south,  to  Leo  Ehrlich,  who 
will  give  the  business  his  personal  at­
tention.  Mr.  Peez  will  be  retained  as 
clerk  for  four  months.

Hillsdale— C.  H.  Sayles,  proprietor 
of  the  bazaar  store  on  College  street, 
has  retired,  and  John  Garlough,  son  of 
a  former  proprietor,  and  F.  M.  John­
son,  who  has  been  assistant  in  the  store 
for  some  time,  assume  the  management 
of  the  business.

Ypsilanti 

Lockwood  &  Edwards, 
in  flour  and  feed  and  agricul­
dealers 
tural  implements  and  sewing  machines, 
have  dissolved.  Mr.  Edwards  will con­
tinue  the  business  and  Mr.  Lockwood 
will  devote  his  entire  attention  to  bis 
Lockwood  fence.

Elk  Rapids— M.  B.  Lang  has  pur- 
chased  105  feet  frontage  on  the  north 
side  of  River  street,  at  the  corner  of 
River  and  Bridge,  and  will  at  once  be­
gin  the  erection  of  a  fine  brick  block 
30x82  feet 
in  size,  two  stories  and  a 
basement,  fronting  on  River  street.

Central  Lake—Liken,  Brown  &  Co. 
have  established  a  barrel  manufacturing 
business  at  this  place.

Wallace— G.  M.  Smith  &  Co.’s  saw­
mill  will  suspend  operations  in  about 
three  weeks.  Hemlock  has  been  manu­
factured  principally  this  season.

Bellevue—Arthur  Goodman  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner,  Mr. 
Batty,  in the  creamery  at  this  place  and 
will  continue  the  business  in  his  own 
name.

Cheboygan-----Pelton  &  Reid  have
started  camps  on  Carp  River,  where 
they  will  put  in  8,000,000  feet  of  logs, 
which  will  be  manufactured  at  their 
mill  next  season.

Bay  City— The  Green  &  Braman  saw­
mill  will  not  be  rebuilt,  in  all  probabil­
ity,  as  the  firm  has  sold  its  logs  to  Eddy 
Bros.  &  Co.  The  day  of  building  saw­
mills  on  this  river  is  past.

Fisher—George  Arnold  has  resigned 
his  position  as  manager for the Northern 
Supply  Co.,  and  has  gone  to  Munising 
to  assume  charge  of  the  mill  of  the 
Kirby-Dennis  Co.,  at  that  point.

Charlotte—J.  W.  Hallander  &  Sons, 
of  Webster,  N.  Y.,  have  purchased  the 
lot  and  evaporator  plant  of  C.  E.  Wil­
liams. 
The  purchasers  operate  four 
plants  in  NewYork  and  two in Missouri.
Cheboygan— The  Inverness  &  Benton 
cheese  factory  resumed  operations  last 
Monday,  after  many  months  of  idleness. 
Mr.  H.  E.  Taylor,  of  Flenwood, 
the 
new  cbeesemaker,  comes  highly  recom­
mended  by  Supt.  Gordon  H.  True,  of 
the  Agricultural  College  Dairy  Depart­
ment,  Lansing.

Mt.  Clemens—The  Mount  Clemens 
creamery  outfit  has  been  sold  to  Theo. 
Matthews  for  a  consideration  of  $1,200 
and  the  mortgage  debt  of  about  $800. 
The  concern  will  pay  about  70  per  cent, 
of  its  debts.

Traverse  City— L.  K.  Gibbs  has 
formed  a  copartnership  with  his  son, 
Harry,  and  purchased 
large 
tracts  of  hardwood  timber  near  Summit 
City,  and  will  erect  a  plant  a  few  miles 
from  that  place.

several 

Kalamazoo— James  Arnold, 

formerly 
connected  with  the  Empire  casket  fac­
tory,  at  Constantine,  in  partnership  with 
W.  J.  Wade,  of  Fergus  Falls,  Minn., 
will  establish  a  casket  factory  at  this 
place  early  in  September.

Gagetown -C .  H.  Weaver  &  Co., 
commission  merchants  of  Chicago,  have 
commenced  the  erection  of  an  evaporat­
ing  factory.  The  ground  was  purchased 
by  the  citizens.  The  plant  will  cost 
$3,000,  and  will  employ  thirty  girls.

Newberry— D.  N.  McLeod  will  start 
logging  operations 
in  the  vicinity  of 
Newberry  this  week.  He  will  run  two 
camps  of  fifty  men  fach.  Nearly  all  of 
the  camps  are 
likely  to  run  short- 
handed,  owing  to  the  scarcity  of  men.

Lamont— Danner  &  Hogue,  of  Alle 
pan,have  rented  the  Lamont  evaporator. 
They  will  double  the  capacity,  making 
it  capable  of  caring  for  500  bushels 
every  twenty  four  hours  and  will  em­
ploy  fifteen  men  and  twenty-five women.
Beaverton— Ross  Bros,  are  running 
two  shingle  mills  and  are  also  cutting 
four  carloads  of cedar  railway  ties  every 
day.  This  firm  controls  about  all  of  the 
cedar  and  other  timber  on  the  Tobacco 
River  and  branches  and  the  Cedar  and 
branches.

Munising— Cody &  Addis  have  loaded 
the  last  log  on  the  cars  for  Comstock 
Bros.  They  have  been  operating  in  this 
vicinity  for  twenty-six  months  and  in 
that  time  have  lumbered  32,000,000  feet 
of  pine.  They  will  move  their  entire 
camp  equipment  to  Duluth 
in  five  or 
six  weeks  and  will  lumber  in  the  vicin­
ity  of  that  city.

Bay  City—The box  factories  have  had 
splendid  work  thus  far  this  season,  this 
being  one  branch  of  the lumber business 
not  affected  by  the  war.  Handy  Bros, 
are  handling  several  carloads  of  box 
stuff  daily,  and  will  work  up  25,000,000 
feet  of  lumber  the  present  year.  They 
buy 
lumber  here  and  have  also  pur­
chased  several  million  feet  at  Lake  Su­
perior  points,  which  will  be  brought 
here  by  water,  two  or  three  cargoes  hav­
ing  arrived.

Saginaw—The fears of  Michigan  lum­
bermen  who  obtain  log  supplies  from 
Canada  that  the  supply  would  be  shut 
off  by  reason  of  the  act  passed  at  the 
last  session  of  the  Ontario  Legislature 
are  dissipated.  The  writer  has  it  from 
the  most  authentic  sources  that  the 
operation  of  the  act  in  question  will  be 
suspended  for  one  year  at  least,  and  in 
the  meantime  the  matter  will  be  pre­
sented  pro and  con  to  the  joint  commis­
sion  appointed  to  adjust  matters  be­
tween  the  Dominion  and  the  United 
States.  The  suspension  of  this  act  will 
enable  Michigan  lumbermen  to  operate 
as  usual  in  Canada  the  coming  winter, 
and  also  permit  Canadians  to  secure  a 
big  harvest  of 
logs  for  the  American 
market  next  season.  Canada  logs  have 
brought  $10  and  $12  all  this  season,  and 
there  are  lumber  manufacturers  here 
who  assert  that  at  these  prices  not  a 
dollar  can  be  made  in  buying  Canada 
1°8S>  paying  the  rafting  bill  across  the 
lake  and  manufacturing  them  into  lum­
ber.

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Grocery  Market.

during 

received 

Sugar— Prices  are  unchanged.  Some 
grades  are  still  oversold,  although on the 
average  shipments  are  delayed  less  than 
they  were  last  week.  It  is  said  that  two 
or  three  days  of  good  business  would 
again  put  the  market  on  an  oversold 
basis.  The  new  refinery  of  Arbuckle 
Brothers 
is  turning  out  a  little  sugar 
from  day  to  day  and  it  is  taken  up  as 
fast  as  offered.
Tea—Cables 

the 
week  from  Japan  tell  of  very  firm  mar­
kets  and  possible  advances.  All  grades 
of  teas  are  on  a  steady  basis  at  present, 
and  if  there  is  any  fluctuation it is much 
more  likely  to  be  an  advance  than  a  de­
cline.  The  second  crop  of  Japan  teas  is 
bringing  more  money  than  the  first  crop 
—an  almost  unprecedented  condition. 
The  second  pickings  have  not  yet  ar­
rived,  nor  will  this  market  get  many  of 
these  this  season,  for  the  reason  that  the 
price 
is  too  high  to  warrant  the  usual 
purchases  for  this  market.  The  fact 
that  we  shall  not  be  able  to  get  any  new 
teas  from  Japan  that  can  be  sold  at  less 
than  30  to  35  cents,  will  have  much  to 
do  with  depressing  the  business,  and 
cuttting  down  the  total  volume  of  the 
tea  trade.

Coffee—The  stocks  of  coffees are large 
the  world  over,  especially 
in  Brazils, 
which  are  the  bulk of the coffees handled 
in  this  country,  and  especially  in  Mich­
It  is  possible  that  there  are  to  be 
igan. 
some 
interesting  developments  in  the 
coffee  market  after  the  completion  of 
the  Sugar  Trust’s  coffee  roasting  plant, 
with  which  it  proposes  to  fight  the  Ar­
buckle  sugar-coffee  plant.  The  bulk  of 
the  coffee  to  be  roasted  by  the  Trust 
will  be  from  Brazil.

Canned  Goods— New  tomatoes  have 
advanced  2>^c,  but  old  stock  is  un­
changed.  The  old  stock  has the  prefer­
ence.  The  demand  for  tomatoes  gener­
ally  is  only  moderate.  Corn  is  very  dull 
and  the  market  is  unchanged.  The  de­
mand 
is  small.  Nothing  is  doing  in 
peas,  which  rule  at  unchanged  prices. 
Seconds  peaches  are  cleaning  up  very 
well  at  an  advance  over  a  month  ago  of 
io@i5c  per  dozen.  No prices  are  quoted 
on  Eastern  packed  peaches  as  yet,  but 
the  probability  is  that  they  will  open 
very  high.  All  the  Eastern  peaches  are 
at  present  being  shipped  green.

Dried  Fruits— Nothing  on  the  coast 
but  raisins  promise  to  be  plentiful  this 
season.  The  reports  of  the  pooling  of 
raisins  by  growers  are  conflicting,  but 
the  reports  that  the  scheme  has  failed 
seem  to  prevail,  and 
if  no  pool  is 
formed  there  will  be  a  low  market  in 
raisins.  This  much  is  sure.  New  evap­
orated  black  raspberries  and  new  evap­
orated  sliced  New  York  apples  are  on 
this  market.  Prunes  are  higher  on  the 
coast  by  y2c,  but  not  advanced  here,  al­
though  strong.  Small sizes are  out  of  the 
market.  Currants  are  lower  by 
to 
%c,  with  prospects  of  a  very  good  aver­
age  crop  this  season,  of  better  quality 
than  that  of  last  year.

Fish  -Mackerel  is  scarce,  the  domes­
tic  catch  being  still  far  from  satisfac­
tory.  Prices  show  no  advance  for  the 
week,  and  will  hardly  advance  soon. 
Cod 
is  dull  and  will  be  until  the  early 
fall,  when  the  demand  begins.  Prices 
are  unchanged.  Lake  fish  is  dead.  Do­
mestic  sardines are  very  weak,  and  the 
price  is  lower  than  for  sometime.  The 
demand  is  slow.  Salmon  has  advanced 
about  ioc  per  dozen,  on  account  of  the 
very  short  pack,  which  is  only  about  60

per  cent,  of  normal. 
Second-grade 
salmon  has  advanced  about  5c.  There 
is  a  good  consumptive demand and some 
speculative  demand.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Maiden  Blush,  Strawberry 
and  Wine  varieties  are  in  large  supply 
at  $i.75@2  per  bbl.  The  quality  is  fine 
and  the  yield  of  all  the  above  varieties 
is  reported  large.

Beets—25c  per  bu.
Butter— The  market  has  advanced  ic 
during  the  past  week,fancy  dairy  touch­
ing  17c  and  separator  creamery  going 
to  19c,  with  a  dearth  of  stock  in  both 
lines.  The  recent  rains  are  expected  to 
rejuvenate  the  pastures,  but  it  will  be 
several  weeks  before  this  will  have  an 
effect  on  the  butter  market.
grown.

Cabbage—$4  per  100  beads  for  home 
Carrots—25c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—$i@i.25  per  doz. 

for 

home  grown.

quality  continues  to  improve.

Cocoanuts— 4@5c.
Corn—Green,  ioc  per  doz.  ears.  The 
Cucumbers—50c  per  bu.
Eggs— Dealers  pay  io@ioj£c and bold 
candled  stock  at  i i @12c.  The  receipts 
are  coming  from  scattered  points,  and 
the  quality 
is  better  than  it  was  in  hot 
weather,  although  not  as  good  as  it  will 
be  in  two  weeks.  The  demand  is  good.
Grapes—Moore’s  Early  are  in  plenti­
ful  supply  on  the  basis  of  I2j^c per 6-lb. 
basket.  A  few  Wordens  are  coming  in, 
but  receipts  so  far  have  been 
inferior; 
in  fact,  choice  stock  of  the  Worden  va­
riety  will  not  be  ready  for  market  for 
ten  days  or  two weeks.  All  varieties  of 
grapes  are  in  good  bunch and good berry 
and  growers  and  dealers  look  forward  to 
a  season  of  large  supply  and  moderate 
margins.

Green  Onions—8c  per  doz.
Honey— Fine  new  comb  commands

I2@I3C.

Lemons—Values 

rule  firm  and  un­
changed  from 
last  week.  Demand  is 
active.  California  stock  is  much  in  fa­
vor  with  the  trade.

Muskmelons—Cantaloups  are  handled 
sparingly,  because  they  are  so  badly 
cracked.  Little  Gems  command  50c 
per  basket  of  about  20.  Osage  fetch  75c 
per  crate.

Onions— Home  grown  command  $1.75 

per  bbl.  for  yellow  or  red.

share 
bolds  steady.

Oranges—This  staple  fruit  still  has  a 
in  the  general  demand.  Market 
Peaches— Early  Michigan,  75@85c ; 
Crane’s  Early,  $i@i.25;  Early  Craw­
ford,  $1.25© 1.50.  Receipts  are  large 
and  the  quality  is  generally  fine.

Pears— Little sugar  fetch 50c ;  Clapp’s 
Favorite  command  about  75c;  Bartlett, 
Si.  The  latter  variety  is  beginning  to 
come 
freely  and  growers  assert  that 
in 
the  crop 
in  size  and  fine  in 
is  large 
quality.

Plums—Bradshaws,  $1;  Guyos,  60c ; 
Green  Gages,  75@8sc ;  Moore’s Arctics, 
60c;  Lombards,  7o@75c.  The  receipts 
were  never  so  liberal  or  the  quality  so 
fine  as  this  year.

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

ample  supply  at  4o@45c.

Radishes--5@6c  per  doz.  bunches.
Tomatoes---- Home  grown  command
40@5oc,  with  offerings  fully  equal  to 
the  demand.

Wax  Beans—75c  per  bu.  and scarce at 

is 

in 

Watermelons—12c  for  Missouri  and 

18c  for  Sweethearts.

Conference  of  Retail  Druggists.
The  Chicago  Retail  Druggists’  Asso­
ciation  has 
issued  a  call  to  retailers 
throughout  the  country  for  a  conference 
at  St.  Louis,  Oct.  17,  to  take  action 
against  the  manufacturers  who  have 
forced  the  retailers  to  pay  the  stamp 
taxes  on  proprietary  articles.

Cbas.  Nash  will  shortly  open  a  new 
grocery store at  Clarksville.  The  Olney 
&  Judson  Grocer Co.  has the order for 
the stock.

A  man  never  has  real  trouble  until  he 
has  a  son  big  enough to wear his clothes.

that.

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

UNDER  THE  HAMMER.

Martin  L.  Sweet  in  Reduced  Circum­

stances  and  III  Health.

One  of  the  largest  foreclosure  sales on 
record,  where  a  private  individual  is 
concerned,  will  be  made  September  3, 
and  it  will  be  a  sale  of  more  than  usual 
interest,  because  of  the  long  residence 
in  the  city  of  the  defendant  and  the 
prominent  part  he  has  played 
in  the 
growth  and  development  of  the  city  and 
its  early  history.  The  sale  will  be  the 
property  of  Martin  L.  Sweet,  which 
about  three  years  ago  was  placed  in  the 
bands  of  the  Michigan  Turst  Company 
as  trustee  for  creditors.  The  property 
to  be  sold 
includes  the  Sweet’s  Hotel 
property  at  the  corner  of  Pearl  and 
Canal  streets,  subject  to  mortgages  ag­
gregating  $83,000,  and  the  99  year  lease 
of  the  Old  National  Bank,  of  which 
lease  about  63  years  yet  remains;  also 
the  Sweet  farm  in  the  northern  part  of 
the  city,  comprising  about  180  acres, 
together  with  the  buildings  and  equip­
ments,  subject  to  various  mortgages; 
also  $11,000  Antrim 
Iron  Company 
stock,  subject  to  a  claim  of  $12,333; 
$15,000  Old  National  Bank  stock,  sub­
ject  to  a  $15,000  claim ;  a  third  interest 
in  632  shares  of  stock  and  $300,000 
bonds  of  the  Lowell  &  Hastings  Rail­
road,  subject  to  a  claim  of  $3,430.77; 
and  various  descriptions  of  real  estate 
situated  in  Kent  and  Newaygo counties. 
The  total  amount  of  the  claims  to  be 
satisfied  from  the  proceeds  of  the sale  is 
about  $150,000.  and 
if  anything  above 
this  amount  be  realized  it  will  be  fortu­
nate. 
It  is  understood  that  a  syndicate 
has  an  eye  on  the  hotel  property,  which 
as  a  piece  of  real  estate  is  one  of  the 
most  valuable 
in  the  city,  and  another 
syndicate 
is  said  to  be  figuring  on  the 
farm  property,  which,  in  time,  with  the 
electric  railroad  running  to  it  will  be 
valuable  for  platting  and  residence  pur­
poses.  Who  compose  the  syndicates  and 
how  much  money  they  have  back  of 
them  is  not  stated.

Mr.  Sweet  has  been  a  resident  of  this 
city  since  1846  and  has  always  been 
numbered  among  the  most  enterprising 
of  the  early  settlers.  He  engaged  in 
the  milling  business  and  embarked  ex­
tensively  in  the  grain  trade,  and  in  this 
he  accumulated  a  handsome  fortune.  In 
1861,  upon  the  suspension  of  the  Daniel 
Ball  banking  house,  he  purchased  the 
establishment  and  engaged  in  banking, 
with  Harvey  J.  Hollister  as  cashier. 
The  bank  was  afterward  organized  as 
the  First  National  Bank  and  in  it  he 
held  half  the  capital  and  was  its  Presi­
dent.  Mr.  Sweet  remained  as  President 
of  the  First  National  during  the  twenty 
years  of 
its  corporate  existence,  and 
continued  as  the  bead  of  the  institution 
when  it  became  the  Old  National  until 
his  failure  three  or 
four  years  ago, 
when  he  was  succeeded  by  James  M. 
Barnett.  At  one  time  be  held  stock  in 
the  bank  to  the  amount  of  something 
over  $100,000,  but  his  present  holdings 
are  reduced  to  $15,000,  and  even  this 
amount  is  deposited  as  collateral  to 
its 
full  face  value.  Mr.  Sweet  built  the 
Sweet’s  Hotel  block 
in  1868.  He  has 
been  mayor  of  the  city  and  in  the  ear­
lier  days  was  foremost  in  all  the  public 
enterprises,  and  the  farmers  of  Western 
Michigan  are  indebted  to  him  for  what 
he  did  for  the  improvement  of  stock  by 
the 
importation  of  Holstein  cattle  from 
Holland.  At  one  time  Mr.  Sweet  was 
credited  with  having  a  clear title to any­
where  from  $250,000  to  $500,000,  but  re­
cent  years  have  brought  many  financial 
disasters  to  him  ind  now,  at  the  age  of

5

in  health  He 

79  years,  the  mortgage  sale  will  leave 
him  in  reduced circumstances  and  brok­
en 
lost  some  in  grain, 
his  investments  in  furniture  manufac­
turing  were  disastrous,  his  railroad  ven­
ture  was  a  great  mistake,  some  of  his 
real  estate  investments  did  not  pan  out 
right,  and,  in  addition to all these drains 
upon  his  resources,  his  endorsements 
for  others  turned  out  ruinous. 
In  his 
old age  and  misfortunes  he  will  have the 
sympathy  of  a  wide  circle  of  friends; 
but  sympathy  does  not  repair  broken 
fortunes.

The 

The  Morning  Market.
increase  of  traffic  on  the  island 
this  season  has  been  so  rapid  that  the 
question  of  accommodation 
for  the 
height  of  the  season  is  becoming  a  per­
tinent  one.  Already 
it  has  been  found 
necessary  to  add  two  more  streets  at  the 
south,  and  yet  much  of the space beyond 
is  filled  with  wagons.  Several  days  the 
crowds  have  been  uncomfortably  dense, 
and 
it  may  be  anticipated  that  two  or 
three  weeks  hence  the  overflow  will  be 
considerable.

into  new  localities 

Grand  Rapids  as  a  fruit and vegetable 
market  center  is  yet  in  an  eariv  stage of 
development.  The  work  of  extending 
passable  roads 
is 
constantly  progressing,  thus  adding  rap­
idly  to  the  tributary  territory  not  only 
by  the  extension  of  its  radius,  but  by 
bringing  many  nearer  neighborhoods 
into  practicable  communication.  On 
is  a  still  more 
the  other  hand,  there 
the  distributing 
rapid  extension 
in 
market. 
increasing 
number  of  buyers,  with  their  force  of 
handlers  and  shippers,  makes  it  neces­
sary  to  reach  more,  and  more  distant, 
points  with  their  shipments.

constantly 

The 

A  significant  factor  in  the  situation 
is  the  increased  attention  given  to  the 
quick  transportation  service  by  the  rail­
way  companies.  With  the  best  of  or­
ganized  care  on  the  part  of  the  roads, 
shipment  of  perishable  products  by  reg­
ular  freight 
lines  has  always  been  a 
matter  of  anxiety  to  the shippers.  There 
was  no  assurance  as  to  time  of  reaching 
destination  and  risks  of  delay  in  chang­
ing  to  different  lines  were serious.  Thus 
it  is  frequently  necessary  to  keep  men 
in  charge of  such  shipments,  at  consid­
erable expense,  and  even then the freight 
time  schedules  are  too  slow  to  reach  the 
best  markets.  Finally  the  companies 
have  taken  hold  of  the  matter  in  a  way 
which  promises  to  greatly  extend  the 
possibilities  of  reaching  such  markets 
and 
transit  of 
perishable  products.  This  is  by  the  use 
of  special  trains.  Already  several  roads 
have  put  such  trains  at  work  and  whole 
train 
loads  of  fruit  are  taken  to  such 
distributing  points  as  Buffalo  and  Pitts­
burg  as  quickly  as  though  run  on  a  pas­
senger  schedule.  Of  course,  this  method 
is  only  possible  where  the  quantities  to 
be  transported  will  warrant  it,  but  the 
magnitude  of  shipments  of  potatoes,  as 
well  as  fruits,  promises  to  make  this 
feature  a  permanent  method  of distribu­
tion  in  such  lines.

the  quickest 

insure 

So  far  each  succeeding  Tuesday  has 
proved  to  be  the  big  day  on  the  market. 
Yesterday  the  business  was  far  in  ex­
cess  of  any  day  this  season,  the  market 
being  crowded  with  teams.  Offerings 
of  fruits  are  yet  in  early  varieties  only, 
but  with  all  their  abundance  everything 
was  sold  and  at  fair  prices.

Louis  Hildebrand  has  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  North  Dorr.  The  Worden 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

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

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

C lerks’  C orner.

How  Clerks  are  Made.

Written for the T radesman.

in 

It  is  often  said  of  poets,  painters  and 
other  artists  that  those  who  may  hope 
to  excel  must  depend  upon  natural  en 
dowments—that  “ poets  are  born,  not 
made.”   There  is  undoubtedly  much  of 
pertinence  in  this  observation,  for  there 
must  be  a  natural  inclination  toward  re 
finement  and  a  capacity  for  mental  de­
velopment 
the  desired  direction 
which  will  afford  a  foundation  for  the 
superstructure  to  be  erected  by  the effort 
individual,  or  any  amount  of 
of  the 
such  effort  proves  vain. 
In  the  com­
moner  walks  of  life  the  same  observa­
tions  hold  true  in  varying  degree  as  to 
those  who  content  themselves  with  the 
low  average  of  their  profeession,  and  in 
greater  degree  as  to  those  who  are  only 
content  with  excelling.

itself 

It  may  manifest 

There  are  those  who  are ambitious  for 
in  the  world  of  trade  who  are 
position 
lack  of  essential 
handicapped  by  the 
lack  may 
natural  endowments.  This 
manifest 
in  deficiency  of  moral 
character—the  successful  merchant must 
be  honest. 
itself  in 
deficiency  in  persistency  of  purpose— 
the  vacillating  man  cannot  hope  to  suc­
ceed  in  trade.  It  may  manifest  itself  in 
a  lack  of  sufficient  thrift  and  prudence 
to  assure  financial  stability,  or  there 
may  be  the  general 
inaptitude  of  a 
morose  disposition  and  a  natural  taste 
In  the 
for  other  and  coarser  pursuits. 
degree  in  which  these  are  dominant 
is 
the  candidate  for  mercantile  success 
hindered  or  arrested  in  his ambitions.

It 

These  general  observations  as  to  the 
profession  of  trade  have  their  applica­
tion  in  an  eminent  degree  in  the  career 
of  the  salesman.  Clerks  are  born  not 
made. 
is  unfortunate  both  for  the 
profession  and  for  the  candidate  for 
mercantile  success  when  circumstances 
place  those  without  the  essential  natural 
qualifications  in  this  part  of  the  com­
mercial  field. 
is  a  pity  to  spoil  a 
good  plowman  or  a  good  carpenter  to 
make  a  poor  clerk,  and 
if  there  is  a 
lack  of  capacity  for  success  in  those 
careers,  the deficiency will  be  even  more 
pronounced  in  this.

It 

But  it  should  not  he  assumed  that  ap­
parently  natural  déficiences  or  charac­
teristics,  presuming  a  sufficient  mental 
endowment,  are  to  be  taken  as  final  and 
the  candidate  rejected.  For  while  na­
ture  has  her  part,  education  and  sur­
roundings  may  do  so  much  as  to  com­
pletely  obscure  what  nature  bas  done. 
There  may  be  the  existence  of  the 
kindlier  qualities  and  of  ambition  and 
persistency,  and  by  proper  education 
these  may  be  brought  out  and  made  the 
dominant  factors.  But  a  failure  to  rec­
ognize  these,  both  in  the  candidate  and 
his 
instructors,  may  leave  him  with  a 
soured  disposition  and  blunted  moral 
development  which  will  prove  fatal  to 
anv  aspirations  for  success.

For  while  clerks  are  born  and  not 
made,  there  is  yet an  infinite  part of the 
production  of  the  ideal  clerk  which  lies 
in  the  making.  As  already  hinted,  the 
lack  of  proper  education  and  adverse 
surroundings  may  do  much  to  obscure, 
or  even  destroy,  what  nature  has  done. 
It  does  not  necessarily  follow that this is 
only  the  effect  of  poverty  and  its  conse­
quent  lack  of  educational  facilities;  in 
deed,  those  who  are  spoiled  by  educa­
tional  deficiencies  are  oftener  found 
among  the  pampered  sons  of 
indulgent 
wealth.  Poverty  is  often  the  best  edu­
cator  in  the  bringing  out  of  the  quali­

in  the  naturally  strong  character 

ties 
which  are  most  essential  to  success.

the  work 

The  wise  thing,  then,  for  the  aspiring 
clerk  to  do 
is  to  take  inventory  of  his 
endowments  and  to  consider  his  defici­
encies 
If  the  latter  are  too  great  for 
him  to  hope  for  success,  let  him  accept 
the  situation  and  seek 
to 
which  he  is  better  adapted. 
If,  on  the 
other  hand,  he  finds  enough  in  the  out­
look  to  warrant  continued  effort  in  his 
present  career,  he  should  systematically 
set  about  the  development  of  his  better 
faculties  and  the  correction  of  his  de­
ficiencies.  Unreserved,  honest  determi­
nation 
in  this  work  is  the  essential  to 
success.

It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  refer  to  the 
proposition  that  honest  integrity  of  pur­
pose 
is  the  invariable  pie-requisite  to 
final  success.  Dishonesty  may  some­
times  seem  to  aid  in  achieving  a  tem­
porary  purpose,  but  the  end  thereof  is 
failure.

The  cultivation  of  persistence and  de­
termination  with  a  well  defined  ambi­
tion  is  the  next  essential. 
It  has  been 
observed  that  to  achieve  wealth  one 
must  want  wealth.  The  moral  of  this 
observation 
is  that,  unless  there  is  the 
spur  of  some  worthy  ambition,  the  life 
becomes  a  lazy  drifting

is  not  his  hindrance. 

Then  comes  the  consideration  of  the 
personal  qualities  which  have  to do with 
the  ordinary  discharge  of  daily  duties. 
A  roost  common  deficiency  is  the  lack 
of  geniality  caused  by  the  disposition 
to  dissatisfaction— to  criticise  one’s  po­
sition  and  surroundings. 
It  is  the  com­
mon  observation  of  every  clerk  that 
there  is  much  grumbling  among  his  as­
sociates  as  to  the  manner  in  which  he 
has  been  treated  by  the  “ old  man”   and 
it  behooves  the  one  ambitious  for  ad­
vancement  to  enquire  whether  the  same 
fault 
It  is  im­
possible  for  the  clerk  or workman in any 
in­
field  to  do  his  best  work  under  the 
cubus  of  dissatisfaction.  And 
in  his 
special  work  there 
is  apt  to  result  the 
moroseness  which  is  especially  fatal  to 
the  efficient  performance  of  his  duties. 
To  acquire  the  geniality  of  manner 
which  is  so  essential,  there  must be  cul­
tivated  a  genuine  quality  of disposition. 
This 
is  of  a  quality  which  can  not  be 
affected  or  put  on.  for  sham  geniality  is 
sufficiently  manifest  to  most  customers.
Then  there  must  be  alacrity  and  a 
hearty  readiness  on  the  part of  the  clerk 
in  the  service  of  customers.  This  again 
is  a  quality  which  can  not  be  put  on. 
The  clerk  who  has  the habit  of  loitering 
and  waiting  is  never  in  fit  condition  to 
meet  a  customer.  The  habit  of  thorough 
activity  at  some  work  at  all  times  will 
keep  the  clerk  in  tune  and  in  readiness 
to  make  the  most  of  every  opportunity. 
Not  that  one  should  never  rest,  but 
don’t  loiter.  When  you  rest,  rest.

Study  your  work.  Watch  for  your 
mistakes  and  correct  them.  Study  hu­
man  nature  as  it  is  presented  by  those 
you  meet  in  business.  Learn  to  be  all 
things  to  all  men.  in  the  sense  of  study­
ing  the  tastes  and  peculiarities  of  your 
customers  and  meeting  them  wherever 
you  can  consistently  on common ground. 
If 
in  you  to  become  a  successful 
salesman  the  cultivation  of  the  disposi­
tion  described,  with  sincerity  of  pur­
pose,  and  the  improvement  of  every  op­
portunity  for  advancement  in  your  men­
tal  and  moral  equipment  will  command 
success. 

R o s e n s t e in .

is 

it 

It  is  not  consistent  for  a  man  to  tell 
a  girl before  marriage  that  he  is  willing 
to  die  for  her,  and  then  refuse  to  eat  the 
biscuits  she  makes  after  becoming  his 
wife.

—*£>—

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ —-^-—

Stim ulated  by the  success  which  has at­
tended  our efforts  in  past  years  to  sup­
ply  the  trade  with  the  best  grades  of 
Japan  teas  at  conservative  values  and 
believing that  the  experience  of  a  quar­
ter  of  a  century  enables  us  to  serve  our 
customers  to  excellent  advantage,  we 
take  pleasure  in  announcing  that  our 
lines  of

were  never  so  satisfactory  as  they  are 
this  season,  both  as  regards  quality and 
price.  W e   are  alw ays pleased to match 
our  grades  with  those  of  other  houses, 
because  the  result  is  that  we  usually 
capture  the  order.

CLARK=JEWELL=WELLS  CO

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
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Greater  America.

Advanced  on  the  deep  and  tremendous  seas,  our 

Over far-off lands,  where the stars look down  from 

flag, imperial,  flies

the antipodean skies;

race is aroused at  last;

Our colors are up, and  the  conquering  blood of the 

The nation aw akes  with  quick-answering  heart  to 

the sound of the trumpet’s blast.

W e have broken at last from  the fettering past, the 

sequestered and gold-rimmed  years,

From the slothful ease of  a  soulless  peace  and the 

net of our selfish fears;

W e  are  out  of  the  swaddling  clouts,  thank  God, 

and into the shining mail;

W e have taken  our place in the van of the race; we 

have found new seas to  sail!

It’s  Greater  America—greater  in  hope and greater 

in  heart and mind;

America,  fronting  the  threatening  world  in  the 

cause of oppressed mankind;

America, slow  in  wrath,  but firm in defense of the 

rights of men;

W ith  her  own  strong  hands  she  w ill  anchor  the 

lands  by the  plan of a larger  ken.

Let us not be  deceived,  w e  shall  not  be  reprieved, 

the long  batt e must be sustained;

It’s the  Eagle,  alone,  with the crag  for  throne,  it’s 

a fight till  the field  be gained.

W e must  arm  and  be  strong  for  the  righting  of 

wrong,  we must bring no woe,  but  weal;

And w e want  no drones w hile w e buckle the  zones  i 

of the earth  with our own good  steel.

On  the Eastern sea, on  the  ocean  W est,  the  shel-  !

tering w ings shall  spread,

And  the  bristling crest w ill defend  the nest, and the | 

grow ing brood  be fed;

The strong  beak fierce—the  eyes  that  pierce—they  !

were made for days l:ke these;

When the  talons  bold  let  go  their  hold  it  w ill  be  I 

when the Bird shall  please.

unfurled,

By sea and  crag,  wherever  our  flag  victorious  be 

It  shall  stay, if  we  say,  till  the  judgment  day,  in  | 

spite of the snarling world.

And  the wheel  w ill roll to the destined goal  of  the  j 

glorious years that wait;

W e w ill never turn  back from the  shining  track  of 

the heralding stars of fate.

Each  rich-wrecked age is  a  warning  page, let  our 

For  strewn  with  the  dust  of the thrones  unjust  is 

wisdom  ponder it well,

the easy slope of  hell.

W ith  the lesson w ell learned, w ith tyranny spurned, 

with  the world and the future to face,

Our measure o f might is the cause o f R igh t and  the 

blood of the Saxon  race.

W e  have broken  at  last  from  the  shackling  past, 

we  have done with  the dawdling years,

With the slothful ease of a  selfish  peace,  the  nurse 

of a w eakling’s fears;

W e are out  of  the  swaddling clouts, and  now  we 

are into the woven mail.

In  the  van  of  the  race  and,  by  God’s  grace,  we 

have got new seas to sail.

R obert Burns  W ilson.

Where  the  M.  C.  T.  A.  Has  Helped 

Salesmen.

The  history  cf  the  Michigan Commer­
cial  Travelers’  Association  from  its  in­
ception  to  the  present  time  has  been 
one  of  unbroken  success  and  prosperity. 
It  stands  nearly 
if  not  quite,  alone 
among  the  mutual  benefit  associations 
organized  in  the  early  days  of  such  en­
terprises,  in  that  it  has  never  had  to 
change  its  plan,  or  mode  of  assessment. 
That  it  accomplishes  its  first  object—a 
better  acquaintance  among  persons  en­
gaged  as  commercial  travelers—none  of 
its  members  will  deny.  The  advan­
tages  are  manifold,  such  as  good  fel­
lowship,  a  certain  fraternal  feeling  that 
will  exist  among  members  of  the  same 
organization  whether  there  be  obliga­
tions  taken  to  that  effect  or  not,  the  in­
terest  that  every  member  takes  in  the 
general  welfare  of  every  other  member, 
the  quiet  “ tips”   where  to  go  to  obtain 
a  good  order,  and  assistance  to  secure  a 
position  to  one  who  may  be  out  of  em­
ployment,  besides  other  features.

Much  effective  work  has  been  done by 
the  railroad  committee.  There  is  no 
doubt  that  the  commercial  traveler  and 
the  house  he  represents  are  getting  bet­
ter  rates  and  better  accommodations 
in 
a  hundred  ways  than  would  have  been 
had  but  for  the  effective  and  untiring 
efforts  of  this  committee,  backed  up  by 
the  support  of  our  entire membership.

Taken  as  a  class,  commercial  travel­
ers  are  conceded  on  every  hand  to  be  a 
lot  of  jolly  good  fellows,  great  enter­
tainers,  none  to  surpass  them  in  telling 
a  story,  of  which  commodity  they  are 
supposed  to  have  an  unlimited  stock, 
and  always  at  home  wherever  they  hang

up  their  hats.  But  the  qualifications  of 
a  commercial 
traveler  are  more  than 
these.  More  is  required  of  him  to-day 
than 
in  former  years.  Employers  are 
continually  becoming  more  particular 
and  exacting  as  to  the  character,  ability 
and  capacity  of  their  traveling  repre­
sentatives.  A  thorough  knowledge  of 
the  line,  prices,  terms,  etc.,  is  absolute­
ly  necessary.  Good  health  and  a  strong 
constitution  are  also 
indispensable  to 
success.

Then,  too,  he  must  be  able  to  read 
human  nature,  to  know 
just  how  to 
make  his  efforts  most  effective  with  his 
customers.  Different  lines of  goods  call 
for  different  qualifications  in  the  sales­
man. 
things  have  been 
brought  out  and  enlarged  upon  in  the 
several  publications  of  the  commercial 
travelers  which  are  devoted  exclusively 
to  their  interests  and  their  various  or­
ganizations.

these 

All 

Altogether I  feel  warranted  in  making 
the  claim  that  our  organization  has been 
the  means  of  bringing  about  a great  im­
provement  in  the  class  of  men  compos­
ing  the  great  commercial  army.

in 

It  is  a  generally  accepted  fact  that,  as 
a  class,  commercial  travelers  are  ever 
ready  to  dive  deep  into  their  pockets  to 
relieve  distress  wherever found,  but  par­
ticularly 
in  case  of  a  worthy  brother 
traveling  man,  or  the  family  of  one. 
Two  hundred  and  seventy-two  thousand 
dollars  paid  to  beneficiaries  of  deceased 
members 
twenty-four  years  in  our 
Association  alone  is  sufficient  proof that 
commercial 
travelers  will  discharge 
their  obligations to  their  brothers.

I  am  proud  to  be  President  of  the 
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Asso­
ciation,  and  to  be  associated  with  the 
class  of  men  who  make  up  its  member­
ship,  and  I  have  every  confidence  to be­
lieve  that  it  will  continue  in  the  future, 
as 
in  the  past,  to  discharge  its  every 
obligation  promptly  and  to  the  letter.
C.  C.  Sn e d e k e r .

An  Unequaled  Dining  Car  Service.
Have  vou  had dinner or supper  on  one 
of  the  Dining  Cars  running  on  the 
Grand  Trunk  Railway  through 
trains 
between  Chicago  and  Eastern  points? 
If  not,  it  would  be  worth  your  while  to 
make  a  note  of  this  service,  and  take 
the  first  opportunity  you  can  avail  your­
self  of  a  treat.  Mr.  J.  Lea,  who  for 
years  has  been  with  the  Windsor  Hotel, 
Montreal,  is  now  connected  with  this 
service,  and  travelers  can  rely  on  a  re­
fined  cuisine,  excellent  service,  and  a 
liberal  table.
Why  Dewey  Is  an  Appropriate  Name.
“ So  you  call  your  dog  Dewey,  do 
you? 
It  seems  to  me  that  he’s  a  very 
homely  looking  cur  to  be  honored  with 
such  a  name."

“ But  Dewey 

is  an  especially  appro­

priate  name  for this  dog. ”

“  How  so?”
“ It  doesn’t  matter  what  he  happens 
to  be  doing,  he’s  always  ready  to  sus­
pend  operations  for  breakfast.”
Never Know When  They Have Enough.
“ It’s  remarkable,”   commented  Mr. 
Meekton’s  wife,  “ bow  many  men  are 
anxious  to  leave  home  and  engage  in 
war. ’ ’

“ Yes,”   he  answered absently.  “ Some 
people  never  seem  to  know  when  they 
have  enough  of  anything.”
The  Old  Way.

The  Soldier’s  Mother— I  got  a  letter 
from  George  to-day,and  he is grumbling 
about  the  victuals  in  the  army.

The  Soldier’s  Wife— I  am  glad to hear 

that  he  is  making  himself  at  home.

Always  take  the  G.  T.  R.  when  you 
S.  S.  S.—scenery,  safety  and 

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WEDNESDAY,-----AUGUST 24, 1898.

THE  NEED  OF  THE  AGE.

In  this,  above all else,  the  age  of  com­
merce,  the  most  enlightened  nations are 
constantly  occupied  with  the  most stren­
uous  exertions  to 
increase  their  inter­
national  trade,  while  maintaining  and 
protecting  that  which  they already have.
To-day  all  statesmanship  is  directed 
to  the  end  of  securing  commercial  ben­
efits  and  advantage. 
The  wonderful 
progress  made  in  the  past  few  decades 
in  scientific  discovery  and  invention  as 
applied  to  practical  uses  has  vastly 
multiplied  the  power  and  facilities  for 
the  production  of  all  articles  of  neces­
sity  and  luxury,  and  the  result  is  that  a 
nation  like  Great  Britain,  France,  Ger­
many,  and,  of  course,  the United  States, 
is  able  to  make  greater  supplies  of  such 
articles  than 
its  own  people  can  con­
sume.

The  result 

is  that  such  nations  find 
an  urgent  need 
for  more  consumers, 
and,  therefore,  more  markets.  These 
are  to be  secured  by  pushing  their  prod­
ucts  into  every  country  where  there  is  a 
prospect  of  being  able  to  compete  with 
what  is  already  sold  there.  But,  more 
than  this,  the  great  European  nations 
mentioned  are  seeking,  by  conquest 
and  colonization,  to  increase  their  ter­
ritorial  possessions,  so  that  they  may 
control  the  markets  of  the  countries  so 
colonized.  As  there  are  still  vast  do­
mains 
in  Asia  and  Africa  which  have 
not  yet  been  brought  under  the  control 
of  modern  civilization,  it 
is  apparent 
that  the  process  of  creating  and  open­
ing  new  markets 
to  go  on 
pretty  actively  for  years  to  come,  even 
when  the  work 
is  being  conducted  by 
the  most  rapacious  and  land-hungry  of 
the  modern  peoples.

likely 

is 

Now  that,  by  the  fact  of  eventualities 
which  were  so  sudden  and  peculiar  that 
they  may  be  classed  either  as  accidents 
or  special  providences,  the  Great  Re­
public  of  the  West  has,  within  the  span 
of  a  very  few  weeks,  become  a  coloni­
zing  power  and  an  acquirer  of  territory 
far  outside  of  the  continental  limits  of 
the  Union,  the  American  people  are 
driven  into  active  competition  with  the 
other  great  commercial  nations.

It  now  becomes  necessary  for  Ameri­
cans  of  the  highest  order  of  talents  to 
devote  themselves  not  only  to  the  study 
of  statesmanship  and  diplomacy in  their 
relations  to  international commerce,  but 
it  is  requisite  that  such  men  shall them­
selves  become  merchants.  The  need  of 
the  period 
in  our  country  is  a  class  of 
young  men,
competent,  well-trained 

with  good  manners,  a  practical  com­
mand  of  French,  German  and  Spanish 
— one  or  all—combined  with  intimate 
practical  knowledge  of  a  certain  class 
of  manufactured  goods  and  the commer­
cial  methods, 
currencies,  weights, 
measures  and  customs  of  foreign  coun­
tries.  The  education  of  such  men  re­
quires  certain  specialized  courses  of 
study  which  the  commercial  schools  of 
Germany,  and,  to  some  extent,  of  Bel­
gium  and  England,  furnish,  but  which 
those  of  the  United  States,  with,  per­
haps,  some  exception,  do  not

for 

The  all-round  education  provided  by 
American colleges and high schools turns 
less  fairly 
out  young  men  more  or 
equipped 
successful 
careers  at 
home;  but  the  competition  for  export 
trade  has  now  become  so  sharp  as  to  re­
quire  the  work  of  experts,  which  only 
specialized  education,  supplemented  by 
practical  experience,  can  provide. 
It 
will  henceforth  be  necessary  that  a 
largely 
increased  class  of  young  men 
shall  prepare  themselves  for,  and  accept 
definitely,  as  so  many  thousands  do  in 
Great  Britain  and  Germany,  the  career 
of mercantile  employes  in  foreign lands, 
in  which  social  sacrifices  and  the  dis­
comforts,  and  even  dangers,  of  alien 
climates  are  balanced  by  the  material 
advantages  which  such  a career offers  to 
energy,  perseverance  and  trained  ca­
pacity.

Such  are  the  suggestions  put  forth  by 
United  States  Consul  General  Mason, 
at  Frankfort,  Germany. 
Says  Mr. 
Mason,  in  a  recent  report  to  the  State 
Department  at  Washington:

Salesmen  who 

frequently  come 

to 
Germany  with  no  knowledge  of  any 
language  but  English  are  seriously 
handicapped,  and  this  disadvantage 
is 
still  fuitber  increased  when  the  traveler 
puts  himself  into  the  attitude  of  a  ped­
dler  by  attempting  to  sell  goods  of 
wholly  different  classes  and  character, 
as,  for  instance,  shoes,  machinery,  belt­
ing,  lumber  and  bicycles.  No man will­
ing  to  accept  the  bard  life  of  a  com­
mercial  traveler  is  likely  to  understand 
fully  all  these  diverse  branches  of trade, 
and  bis  efforts  to sell something concern­
ing  which  he  is  ignorant  are  generally 
and  deservedly  abortive.

into  public  service. 

Consul  General  Mason’s 

ideas  are 
eminently  intelligent  and  practical.  At 
the  time  his  report  was  made,  the  mili­
tary  and  naval  triumphs  of  the  United 
States  in  the  West  and  East  Indies were 
only 
in  course  of  preparation ;  but  his 
suggestions  are  most  timely. 
Com­
merce  is,  above  all  things,  the  business 
of  this  age. 
It  occupies  the  attention 
of  the  ablest  statesmanship  and  diplom­
acy  that  the  nations  of  the  Old  World 
can  bring 
It  em­
ploys,  in  the  practical  operations  of 
competitive  commerce,  men  specially 
educated  for  the  purpose.  The  Ameri­
can  people  will  have  to  meet  that  com­
petition. 
In  oraef  to  do  so  success­
fully,  they  must  prepare  themselves  in 
every  way  requisite  to  insure  success  in 
the  conflict.  Commerce 
is  an  evolu­
tion,  in  which  only  the  fittest  or  the 
best  prepared  or  the  most  capable  sur­
vive  and  succeed.  The  American  peo­
ple  must  meet  the  commercial  competi­
tion  of  Europe  and  Asia. 
If  they  can 
not  do  this,  their  foreign  colonies  will 
be  a  burden  instead  of  a  benefit.

Cincinnati  people  will  present  Dewey 
with  a  loving  cup.  They  mean  w ell; 
but  Dewey  is  something  of  a  dude,  and 
may  not  care  to  drink  his  beer  from  the 
same  mug  with  Cincinnati’s  representa­
tive  men.

Soldiers  do  the  fighting  and  politi­

cians  do  the  shouting.

BISMARCK  THE  GREAT.

It 

The  world’s  work  never  waits  for  the 
is  a  provision  of 
needed  workman. 
Nature  which  has  never 
failed;  and 
nowhere  is  this  fact  more  apparent  than 
in  statecraft.  To  handle  men,  to  bring 
order  out  of  confusion,  to  harmonize 
conflicting  elements  so  that  peace  shall 
live  where  strife  before  prevailed- this 
is  what  the  world  has  needed  most ;  and 
when  the  work  has  been  done  and  the 
workman  has  gone  to  his  rewrard,  the 
humanity  so  blessed  have  always  pro­
nounced  the  benefactor  Great. 
The 
men  so  named  are  by  no  means  numer­
ous.  Like  mountain  peak  answering  to 
mountain  peak  they  rise  above  the  com­
monplace  level  of  political  life,  often 
centuries  apart,  never  of  the  same  alti­
tude,  always  with  characteristics  pecul­
iarly  their  own  and  always  with features 
strikingly  similar,  due,  this  last  con­
dition,  to  the  attempt  to  realize  from 
existing  circumstances  the  same  grand 
ideal—the  universal  betterment  of  man­
kind.

last 

The  first  great  workman  after  the 
downfall  of  the  Roman  Empire  was 
Charlemagne.  The 
is  Bismarck ; 
and  there  is  no  more  fitting  time  than 
now,  when  the  world  stands  uncovered 
in  the  presence  of  its  illustrious  dead, 
to  pay  tribute  to the  genius  which  has 
passed  away  and 
to  crown  him  The 
Great,  a  title  justly  his  and  one  that  the 
centuries  will  lovingly  bestow.

It  is  not  strange  that  Rome’s  behest 
to  the  world  should  attract  to  her hi story 
the  mightiest  minds  and  persuade  them 
to  realize,  or try to  realize,  in  later  times 
her  greatness. 
The  task  was—is—a 
tremendous  one;  but  Charlemagne  did 
not  know,  as  we  do,  that  a  single  reign 
is  not  long  enough  permanently  to  sub­
due  the  world  again  to  a  single  power. 
Never,  probably,  was  the  condition  of 
society  worse.  Never  were  needed  more 
the  active,  far-seeing  brain  and  the  vig­
orous  hand.  This  the  mighty  mind  of 
Charlemagne  saw.  From  existing  an­
archy  he  brought  order,  peace  followed 
in  his  footsteps  and  a  grateful  world 
has  crowned  him  The  Great.

What  Charlemagne  did  for  civil  soci­
ety  in  the  ninth  century  Hildebrand  did 
in  the  eleventh  for  the  church.  Never 
bad  the  clergy  been  more 
ignorant, 
more  sensual,  more  worldly  and  never 
had  society  become  more  corrupt.  Over 
this  putrid  sea 
son 
turned  his  eyes  and  determined upon  its 
purification.  Opposition  met  him every­
where;  but  fearless  as  the  power  he 
wielded,  he  stirred  to  the  lowest  depths 
those  stagnant  waters,  and  history  has 
written  Hildebrand,  as  Gregory  VII., 
among  the  great  men  of  all  time.

the  carpenter’s 

dissatisfied 

These  same  conditions,  greatly  modi­
fied  by  the  progress  of  the centuries, 
the  Germany  of  to-day  a  dis­
found 
united, 
confederation. 
“ Envy,  hatred  and  malice  and  all  un- 
charitableness’ ’  were  everywhere  prev­
alent  and  every  loyal  German  heart  was 
praying  for the man the times demanded. 
A  family  known  to  fame  for  five  hun­
dred  years  produced  him  and  Otto  von 
Bismarck  took  his  place  at  the  head  of 
German  statesmanship.  Like  the  great 
men  who  preceded  him,  he  dreamed  of 
reviving  in  modern  times  the  old  Ro­
man  Empire,  or  so  much  of  it  as  could 
be  made  available,  and  he  bent  every 
energy  of  his  mighty  will  to  the  accom­
plishment  of  his  purpose,  the  establish­
ment  of  the  German  Empire. 
In  th  s 
Austria  opposed  him  and  was overcome. 
Louis  Napoleon  objected  and  was  si­
lenced,  and  when,  in  January  of  1871, 
in  the  palace  of  the  French  kings  at

Versailles,  King  William  of  Prussia 
was  crowned  Emperor  of  Germany,  the 
world  stood  uncovered  in  the presence of 
the  “ Iron  Chancellor”   and, with a heart­
iness  equaled  only  by  the  reverence  of 
the  earlier hero worshippers,  hailed  him 
as  “ Bismarck  the  Great.”

Whether  the  work  of  Bismarck 

is  to 
meet  the  same  fate  as  that  of  the  great 
men  before  him  remains  to be seen.  Im­
perialism,  the  watchword  of  thrones,  is 
the  implacable  foe  of  a  republic,  and  so 
antagonistic  to  the  latest  development 
of  modern  civilization. 
It  always  has 
ended,  and 
it  always  will  end,  in  de­
struction  and  ruin,  because  it  produces 
in  itself  the  egotism,  the  materialism, 
the  sensuality  which  tend  to  its  own  de­
struction ;  and  the  German  Empire  to­
day 
is  by  no  means  proving  itself  an 
exception  to  the  inevitable  law.  Its  fate 
is  the  fate  of  monarchy.  The handwrit­
ing  has  already  appeared  upon  its walls 
Its  downfall 
is  as  sure  as  Spain’s;  but 
they  who  some  day  read  its stirring story 
will  turn  from  the  pages  which  Bis­
marck’s  deeds  have  brightened  and say, 
as  earnestly  and  as  heartily  as  tongue 
and  pen  can  say  it,  The  line  is  not  long 
and  the  names  are  not  many,  but  none 
among  them  has  a  brighter  halo  than 
that  which  centers  around  the  name  of 
“ Bismarck,  the  Great.”

All  have  heard  of  the  man  who  taught 
his  horse  to  eat  sawdust,  only  to  have 
the  animal  die  about  the  time  the  task 
was  completed. 
It  would  be  interesting 
to  learn  the  outcome  of  the  Wm  M. 
Hoyt  Co.’s  experiment  in  feeding  its 
customers  cream  of  tartar  and  mustard 
mixed  with  gypsum.  Perhaps  the  result 
will  be  quite  as  disappointing  as the ex­
periment  undertaken  by  the  man  on  his 
horse.

Remember  the  M aine!  Thousands  of 
American  soldiers  have  lost  their  lives 
by  sickness;  but 
is  stated  that  the 
it 
Americans  killed 
in  battle  in  the  war 
before  peace  was  declared  number  266, 
just  the  number  that  perished  with  the 
Maine.

A  meeting  of  German  woolen  and 
worsted  manufacturers  and  wool  mer­
chants 
is  to  be  held  about  the  end  of 
this  month  to  protest  against  the  pro­
posed  new  German  duties  on  imported 
wools.

The  art  of  war  that  is  taught  by  green 
boys  who  never  saw  a  battle,  and  who 
use  their  imagination  to  feed  newspa­
pers,  is  not  the  art  that, has  made  Napo­
leons,  Von  Moltkes,  Lees  and  Grants.

Spain  is  reserving  all 

its  disappoint­
ment,  bigotry,  blindness  and  dilatori­
ness  for  unloading  on  the  Peace  Com­
mission.  She  talks  as  if  she  were  still 
in  the fight.

Don  Carlos  is  only  pretending  that  he 
is  a  pretender.  He 
is  waiting  for  the 
throne  to  seek  the  man,  and  he  waits  in 
vain,  for  royal  furniture  is  not built that 
way.

The  man  who  keeps  on  giving  you 
“ A  word  to 
is  sufficient,”   makes  himself 

advice  after  he  has  said, 
the  wise 
liable.

The  flag  of  the  country  he  discovered 
floats  over  the  remains  of  Christopher 
Columbus,  providing  the  remains  are  in 
Cuba.

The  United  States 

is  expanding  so 
much  that  the  garments  it  has  worn  for­
merly  are  not  fits  now.

Children  cry  for  the  moon ;  when  they 

grow  up  they  want  the  earth.

M I C H I G A N  

THE  ELEMENTS  OF  COMMERCE.
Commerce  is  the  exchanging  of  prod­
ucts  between 
individuals,  or  between 
nations  that  are  made  up of individuals. 
One 
individual  or  nation  possesses 
something  that  the  other  wants  or needs. 
If  the  other  has  some  product  that  can 
be  exchanged  for  what  is  wanted,  well 
and  good ;  but  if  there  be  no  exchange­
able  merchandise  on  hand,  then 
the 
purchase  must  be  made  with  money.

The  greatest  wealth  in  commerce  is 
made  by  exchanging  the  products  of 
countries  in  different  latitudes.  Coun­
tries  in  the  same  zone  commonly  pro­
duce  the  same  sort  of  articles ;  that  is, 
countries  in  the  temperate  regions  pro­
duce  breadstuffs,  meats,  flax  and  wool. 
Countries  in  the  warmer  latitudes  grow 
cotton,  sugar,  rice,  spices,  tea,  coffee 
and  many  other  articles  which  are  in 
great  demand 
in  all  Northern  nations. 
The  richest  trade  has  always  been  be­
tween  the  countries  of  the  north  and 
those  of  the  south.

Mineral  products  are  not  confined  to 
any  latitude.  Coal  and 
iron  are  found 
in  many  countries,  from  the  equator  to 
the  poles.  Coal  of  good  quality  is  found 
in  Greenland,  and  so  also  iron.  Gold 
is  found  in  every  latitude,  from  Alaska 
and  Siberia  to  tropical  Africa.  Silver, 
copper,  lead,  zinc  and  other  metals  are 
not  confined  to  latitudinal  limits.  Pe­
troleum  abounds  in  Pennsylvania,  Ohio 
and  West  Virginia,  and  in  the  Caspian 
region  of  Russia.  Diamonds  and  other 
gems  are  widely  distributed  over  the 
earth.  Timber  forests  of  certain  sorts 
are  common  in  northern  regions,  while 
other  sort  are  found  only 
in  the  south. 
Thus 
is  that,  while  all  animal  and 
vegetable  products  are  governed  by 
climatic  conditions,  minerals  alone,  of 
all  that  comes  out  of  the  earth,  are  in­
dependent  of  climate.

it 

Manufacturing  depends  on  consider­
ations  independent  of  climatic  condi­
tions,  such  as  the  skill  and  knowledge 
of  the  workers  and  facilities  for  procur­
ing  material.  The  old  countries  of 
Europe,  possessing  skilled  and  experi­
enced  laborers,  for  a  long  period  did  all 
the  manufacturing  for  the new  countries 
of  America. 
In  a  very  recent  period 
the  Americans  have  acquired  skill  and 
developed  their  ingenuity and  inventive 
power,  so  that  they are  learning  to  man­
ufacture  for  themselves;  but  they  still 
buy  enormous  quantities  of  manufac­
tured  articles  abroad.  The  day  is  not 
far  distant  when,  by  the  increase of pop­
ulation  and  the  improvement  of  ma­
chinery, 
the  Americans  will  become 
the greatest  manufacturing  people in the 
world.

The  people  of  this  country  are  able 
to  sell  large  quantities  of  their  cotton, 
breadstuffs,  meat,  timber  and  petroleum 
to  foreign  countries;  but  all  these  prod­
ucts  are  in  a  raw  or crude  form,  and, 
therefore,  they bring  only  the  low  prices 
common  to  raw  material.  When  man­
ufactured,  the  value  of  the  raw  products 
is  increased  from  ten to  a  hundred  fold. 
A  pound  of  crude  cotton  is  worth  only  a 
few  cents;  a  pound  of  cotton  lace  may 
be  worth  many  dollars.

reached 

nations, 

England,  which 

England  buys  their 

is  at  the  head  of  the 
commercial 
that 
proud  position  by  working  for  other 
nations. 
crude 
products  of  all  sorts  and  manufactures 
them  into  articles  of necessity or luxury, 
and,  after vastly multiplying their value, 
sells  them  back  at  correspondingly  en­
hanced  prices  to  the  people  from  whom 
the  raw  material  was  procured. 
In  this 
way  England  has  nearly  monopolized 
the  trade  of  the  world.  Vast  numbers

of  ships  were  required 
to  carry  this 
trade  across  the  seas  and  oceans,  and 
England,  being  able  to  build  and  oper­
ate  such  ships  most  cheaply,  has  been 
able  to  monopolize  trade  to  so  great  an 
extent  that  the  United  States  has  prac­
tically  withdrawn 
its  commercial  ma­
rine  from  the  sea  and  has  surrendered 
pretty  nearly  the  whole  of 
its  foreign 
carrying 
trade  to  English  and  other 
foreign  shipowners.

It  is  estimated  that  the American peo­
ple  every  year  pay  to  English  shipown­
ers  not  less  than  $100,000,000  for  carry­
ing  American  freights  and  passengers. 
England,  in  pushing  her  commerce,  has 
done  an  immense  amount  of  exploration 
and  discovery,  and  by  taking  possession 
of  and  settling  and  developing  the  col­
onies  so  acquired,  a  vast  territory  has 
been  added  to  the  range  of  her  com­
merce.

Colonies  are  markets  for  the  products 
of  the  mother  country,  and  all  the  old 
nations  have  long  ago  realized  the  ne­
cessity  for  securing  new  and  more  ex­
tended  markets  for  their  manufactured 
products,  and  since  colonial  markets 
can  be  controlled  to  a  large  extent,  col­
onies  for  commercial  purposes,  as  well 
as  to  give  outlets  and  opportunities  for 
the  active  energies  of  the  people  of 
those  countries,  are  in  great  demand ; 
therefore  the  reason why every European 
is  striving  to  gain  colonies  or 
country 
otherwise  extend 
territorial  pos­
sessions  is  plain  enough.

its 

in 

These  necessarily  brief  observations 
on  the  elements  of  commerce  are  at 
least  sufficient  to  show  that  the  United 
States,  having  acquired  new  and  con­
siderable  possessions 
the  tropics, 
has  got  not  only  new  markets  for  its 
products,  but  this  country  is  put  in  a 
situation  which 
requires  a  radical 
change  in  commercial  methods.  The 
American  people  must  rescue their com­
merce  from  foreign  carriers.  They  must 
place  their own  fast  steamers  upon  the 
seas,  and  put  in  their  own  pockets  the 
vast  sum  heretofore  paid  to  European 
shipowners.  There  will  be  other great 
commercial  problems  growing  out of the 
changed  situation  that  will  require  the 
ablest  American  statesmanship  for  their 
solution.  _____________

The  wholesale  grocery  house  of  the 
Wm.  M.  Hoyt  Co.,  of  Chicago,  must  be 
on  good  terms  with  a  plaster  quarry. 
The  last  Bulletin  of  the  State  Food 
Commissioner  discloses  the 
fact  that 
Hoyt’s  mustard 
is  5  per  cent,  gypsum, 
while  his  “ Pure  Cream  Tartar”   con­
tains  52  per  cent,  of  gypsum !  The 
Tradesman 
is  frequently  reminded  of' 
the  fact  that  Hoyt's  quotations  in  his 
Criterion  are  lower  than  those  published 
in  this  paper,  to  which  the  Tradesman 
is  compelled 
to  plead  guilty.  Mere 
quotations,  however,  cut  verj^ittle  fig­
ure,  because  in  one  case  the  quotations 
represent  genuine  goods,  while  Hoyt’s 
quotations  represent  a  combination  of 
groceries  and  plaster—which is cheaper.

The  farmer  scatters  land  plaster  over 
his  clover  to  accelerate  its  growth.  The 
person who buys the Wm.  M.  Hoyt  Co. ’s 
mustard  or  cream  of  tartar  takes  into 
his  stomach  a  combination  of  mustard 
and  cream  of  tartar  with  land  plaster, 
producing a compound  which  is  certain­
ly  not  very  wholesome  and  far  from 
nutritious.

Plaster  is  sold  by  the  ton  and  cream 
of  tartar by  the  pound,  but  the  Wm.  M. 
Hoyt  Co.  sells  a  combination  of  the  two 
at  a  price  just  low  enough  to demoralize 
legitimate  trade.

I R A U t S M A N
OUR  IMMENSE  FOREIGN  TRADE.
The  figures  of  the  foreign  trade  of 
the  country  during  July,  recently  issued, 
show  that  while  the  exports  have  fallen 
off compared  with  previous  months,  ow­
ing  to  the  fact  that  July  is  the  period  of 
smallest  movement  of  the leading  Amer­
ican  crops,  they  are.  nevertheless,  larger 
than  during  July  of  the  preceding  year. 
Imports  continued  to  show  a  falling  off 
compared  with  the  previous  year,  thus 
indicating  that  there  has  been no revival 
of  the  import  trade.

The  phenomenal  increase  in  exports, 
coupled,  as  it  is,  with  a  steady  loss  in 
imports,  has  created  so  heavy  a  trade 
balance 
in  our  favor  that  it  is  sure  to 
have  a  beneficial  effect  on  the  prosper­
ity  of  the  country  for  a  considerable 
time  to  come.  The  figures  for  the  first 
seven  months  of  the  calendar  year  show 
an  excess  of  exports  over  imports  of 
$317,000,000,  as  compared  with  an  ex­
cess  of  only  $54,000,000  for  the  first 
seven  months  of  1897.

The  extent  of  the  trade  balance  in 
our  favor  is  made  very  clear  by  the 
large  importations  of  gold.  The  seven 
months  of  1898  show  a  net  gain  of 
$87,400,000,  as  compared  with  a  net  loss 
of  $23,391,000  for  the  same  time 
last 
year.  As  exports  are  again  likely  to  be 
very  heavy,compared  with  imports,  dur­
ing  the  coming  fall,  there  will  again  be 
a  heavy  balance  due  us  from  abroad 
which  will  be  settled  in  gold,  particu­
larly  as  liberal  purchases  of  our  securi­
ties  are  likely  to  prevent  any  offset  be­
ing  provided 
investment 
market.

through  the 

Speaking  on 

this  subject,  the  New 
York  Journal  of  Commerce,  a  leading 
business  authority,  says:

On  July  1  rve  estimated  that  the  bal­
ance  due  this  country  on  international 
trade  account  was  about  $150,000,000 
This  amount  has  not  been  materially 
reduced,  and  it  is  evident  that  we  have 
allowed  these  funds  to  remain  abroad 
in  preference  to  drawing  upon  them. 
How  far  the  account  will  be  affected  by 
foreign  purchases  of  our  securities  it  is 
impossible  to  estimate.but  recent  events 
make  it  probable  that  Europe  will  at  no 
distant  date  be  a  more  liberal  buyer  of 
our  investments. 
It  is  quite  likely,  un­
der  any  circumstances,  that  our  stocks 
of  gold  will  be  largely  increased by both 
importation  and  home  production.
Of  course,  our  imports  are  not 

likely 
to  always  maintain  the  same  proportion 
to  our  exports  as  at  present;  but  there 
is  no  early  indication  that  the  imports 
will  rapidly  catch  up  with  the  exports. 
The  territorial  expansion  which  is  sure 
to  follow  the  war  with  Spain  will  un­
doubtedly 
foreign  trade, 
and  will  eventually  add  largely  to  our 
imports;  but  at  first  the  effect  is  likely 
to  be  a  still  further  augmentation  of  the 
excess  in  exports,  as  all  these  new  pos­
sessions  are  likely  to  import  more large­
ly  of  our  products  at  the  start  than  we 
are  to  increase  our  imports  from  them.
The  country  is  bound  to  feel  the  good 
effects  of  these  large  shipments  of  our 
products,  and  now  that  the  war  is  over, 
there  is  certain  to  be  a  revival  of  busi­
ness  in  all  lines  of  industry  and  enter­
prise. 

_____________

increase  our 

9

advance  of  prices.  Capital,  always  su­
persensitive,  would  soon  find  bis  fears 
foundationless  and  the  wains  of  trade 
would  then  be  crowding  each  other  on 
the  commercial  highway.  The  predic­
tion,  however,  was  not  verified.  Mills 
were  shutting  down 
in  the  East,  and 
they  continued  to  do  so. 
Iron foundries 
stopped  work  and  discharged  the  men. 
Mining  was  suspended  and  strikes  were 
common.  Capital,  alarmed,  withdrew 
his  treasure  from  the channels  of  traffic, 
placed 
it  where  it  would  be  safe,  al­
though  idle,  and  waited  for  the  storm  to 
In  the  meantime,  those  who 
blow  over. 
were  sure  they  knew 
for  no 
change  until  the  world  of  finance  should 
fix  upon  a  common  standard  of  value. 
There  was  the  secret  of  distress  and  no 
sign  of  coming  prosperity  would  show 
itself  until  the  financial  question  should 
be  settled  once  and  forever.  The  war 
with  Spain  put  an  end  to  the  intensity 
of  the  discussion ;  and now,  if the Solons 
of  Trade  may  be  believed,  the  white 
dove  of  peace  having  appeared,  the  Ark 
of  Commerce  has  settled  upon  Mount 
Ararat,  the  doors  are  opened  and  the 
humanity  shut  up  there  for  months  are 
coming  out,  and  the  business  of  the 
world  is  going  on  with  such  golden  re­
turns as  this  country has  never  seen.

looked 

It  is  gratifying  to  note  that  these  airy 
and  high-sounding  nothings  have  at  last 
come  to  an  end.  The  earth,  “ the  com­
mon  mother  of  us  all,”   has  taken  the 
matter 
in  hand  and,  as  a  result,  the 
simplest  as  well  as  the  wisest  are  look­
ing  upon  an  unerring  sign  not  of  com­
ing  prosperity  but  of  one  already  here. 
The  report  of  a  single  crop  contains  the 
whole  delightful  story;  and  when  from 
the  ripening  wheatfields  it  was  found 
that  the  spring  wheat  harvest  would 
reach  300,000,000  bushels  and  it  was  re­
membered  that  400,000,000  bushels  of 
winter  wheat  had  been  reaped  already, 
the  700,000,000  bushels,  which makes the 
grand  total  of  one  of  the  largest  crops 
ever  grown  in  the  United  States,  settles 
not  only  the  question  of  prosperity  but 
those  other  questions  of  finance  which 
have  so  far  remained  unanswered.

With  this  for  a  foundation— 700,000,- 
000  bushels  of  wheat—it  is  not  difficult 
to  forecast  results.  The  farm  mortgages 
will  be  lessened, 
if  not  removed;  in 
every  line  of  trade  in  every  part  of  the 
country  business  is  throbbing  with  re­
newed  energy ;  the  markets  are  taking 
they  have  not 
on  a  buoyancy  which 
known  for  years,  and 
the  spirit  of 
prophecy,  which  has  been  so  long  en­
gaged  in  seeing  and  interpreting  signs, 
is  jubilant  with  its  exultant  “ I  told  you 
so !”
It 

is  always  so.  Men,  the  wisest  of 
them,  may  trace  causes  to  effects  and  so 
reach,  as  they  suppose,  unerring  con­
clusions,  and  then  Mother  Earth,  filling 
the  granaries  of  the  world  with  her 
bountiful  harvests,  refutes  their  argu­
ments  and  proves  with  invincible  logic 
that  the  wide  realm  of  trade,  as  well  as 
the  laws  that  govern  it,  depends  upon 
the  product  of  the  harvest  field  and  that 
there,  and  only  there,  can  be  seen  the 
unerring  signs  of  returning  prosperity.

AN  UNERRING  SIGN.

For  the  last  three  years  the  leading 
thought  in  business  circles  and  the lead­
ing  articles  of  the  daily  press  have been 
given  up  to  the  presentation  of  substan­
tial  reasons  for  the  early  return  of  com­
mercial  prosperity.  Depending upon the 
often-asserted  statement  that  the  finan­
cial  depression  was  due  to  a  groundless 
scare,  the  optimist  predicted  that  the 
coming  season  would  show  a  marked

Spain will probably go into bankruptcy 
to  avoid  paying  a  trifle  of  $600,000.000 
war  debt.  French  holders  of  Spanish 
bonds  will  ask  the  United  States  to  be­
come  responsible.  There  is  nothing  like 
war  to  develop  nerve.

Sagasta,  who  has  been  calling us pigs, 
now  says  the  United  States  is  too  hon­
orable  a  nation  to  keep  the  Philippine 
islands.  War  would  be  funny,  if  it  were 
not  so  sad.

IO
Shoes  and  Leather

Minor  Shoe  Notes.

It 

The  Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Co.  has,  it 
is  reported,  sold  out  to  the  United 
States  Rubber  Co.  for  a  consideration 
of  §10,000,000.  We  may  now  look  for 
another  advance  in  the  price  of  rubber 
footwear  in  the  near  future,  but  it  must 
not  be  overlooked  that  the  big  profits 
now  being  made  in  this  line  will  start 
new  factories  up  that  will  in  time  play 
an  important  part  in  the  industry.

War  talk 

is  all  right  in  its  way,  and 
has  its  own  place in  its preferied sphere, 
but  when  it  comes  to  selling  hoots  and 
shoes 
it  is  wise  in  the  end  for  a  mer­
chant  to  confine  his  remarks  to  the  sub­
ject  in  band.

Old  stock  on  your  shelves 

is  to  be 
idle  horse  standing  in 
compared  to  an 
his  stall  eating  up  his  value  day  by day. 
You  can  not  make  monev  in  the  shoe 
business  unless  you  keep  the  goods  on 
the  move.

It  has  been  discovered  that  rubber 

is 
not  really  waterproof,  but  absorbs  water 
and  moisture  like  a  sponge. 
It  is  thus 
that  the  illusions  of  our  childhood  days 
are  rudely  dispelled.

A  soft  tip  with  no  box  is  now  the  cor­
rect  thing  in  the  new  footwear  for  men. 
We  have  had  several  years  of  box  toes 
in  shoes  of  all  sizes,  and  the  change  to 
the  soft  toe  is  to  be  expected.

A  new  stock  on  the  market  for  shoe 
is  a  kangaroo  kid  with  a  vici 
It  is  claimed  for  this  stock 
it  is  very  durable,  and  will  not 
like  kid,  and  has  the  appearance 

uppers 
kid  finish. 
that 
chip 
of  the  regular  vici  kid.

Shoes  are  not  whisky,  and,  unlike 
whisky,  will  not  improve  in  value  with 
age.

The  worst  freak  that  has  appeared  in 
the  shoe  business  is  colored  shoe  laces, 
so  that  dudes  can  wear  a  new  color 
every  day. 
is  safe  to  assume  that 
the  man  who  changes  his  shoe 
laces 
every  day  on  color  lines  is  not  of  much 
general  use  in  the  community  at  large.
From  all  reports  at  hand,  it  looks  as 
though  green  hides  would  shortly  show 
a  still  further  decline.  Large  buyers  are 
reported  well  supplied,  and  accumulat­
ing  stocks  must  be  gotten  rid  of,  and 
the  only  thing  that  will  move  them  is 
price,  which  has  been  more  or  less  arti­
ficial  for  the  past  three  months.

We  never  saw  a  retail  hatter  who  was 
so  unwise  as  to  place  in  bis  window  a 
last  year’s  style  in  hats.  We  never  saw 
a  dry  goods  dealer  who  was  so  rash  as 
to  place 
in  his  window  last  year’s  pat­
terns  in  silks  and  dress  goods,  and  yet 
we  see  almost  every  day  retail  shoe 
dealers  who  claim  to  be  leaders  in  fash­
ions  of  men’s  shoes  filling  their  show 
windows  with  styles  of  footwear  that 
went  out  of  vogue  over  a  year  ago.  The 
shoe  dealer  who  is  rash  enough  to  do 
these  things  is  going  backward  in  his 
business  progress.

A  man  who  claims  to  be  an  expert  in 
the  fitting  of  footwear  has  been  visit­
ing  the  retailers  of  the  Pacific  coast  for 
some  time  past,  and  filling  an  engage­
ment  with  each  firm,  for  the  purpose  of 
fitting  shoes  correctly  to  their  custom­
ers,  and  judging  from  reports  he  has 
been  quite  successful 
in  his  special 
field.  The  fact  that  such  a  thing  exists 
would  lead  one  to  believe  that  the  aver­
age  shoe  dealer  does  not  realize that this 
special  feature  of  the  shoe  business 
should  be  a  part  of  every  retailer’s  edu­
cation,  and  the  fact  that  they  have  to 
import  an  outsider  to  look  after  this 
end  of  their  business  would  go  to  show 
that  the  retailer  has  still  much  to  learn 
about  the  business  he  professes  to  fol­
low.  Every  retailer  should  in  his  own 
interest  know  how  to  fit  a  shoe  proper­
ly,  and  should  never  rest  until  he  ac­
quires  this  knowledge.  ,

Chinese  Shoes.

The  thick-soled,  white-edged  shoes 
seen  upon  the  feet  of  the  Chinamen  are 
imported  from  China,  most  of  them 
from  Canton,  where  they  are  made  by 
hand.  The  white  edge  is  of  a  thick, 
rigid  sole,  made  of  a  material  resem­
bling  plaster,  and 
if  it  becomes  dirty 
can  be  cleaned  and  whitened  again.

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Some  shoes  have  the  wide  white  edge 
of  this  sole  finished  with  a  glazed  or 
polished  surface,  which  can  be  cleaned 
by  rubbing  it  with  a  damp  cloth,  says 
the  New  York  Sun.

The  bottom  soles  of  these  shoes  are 
made  of  a  number  of  layers  of  rather 
thin 
leather  placed  one  upon  another, 
making  a  built-up  sole.  This  sole  is 
stitched  through  and  through  in  many 
places  on  regular  lines,  giving  the  bot­
tom  of  the  sole  a  sort  of  quilted  effect 
This  work 
is  neatly  and  trimly  done, 
even  on  the  cheap  shoes.  There  are 
some  Chinese  shoes  without  the  charac­
teristic  thick  white-edged  soles,  and 
provided  with  soles  of  leather  only.

The  top  of  the  Chinese  shoe  is  of 
cloth  or  silk  or  satin,  and  the  lining  of 
the  same  material.  Velvet 
is  often 
used  on  the  tdp,  cut  in  patterns  that  are 
laid  over  the  body  of  the  shoe,  which 
may  be  of  silk  or  satin  in  some  bright 
color,  while  the  velvet  may  be  of  black, 
producing  picturesque  and  striking 
effects.  Costly  shoes  are  made  of  fine 
materials,  and  are  often  richly  em­
broidered.  Chinese  shoes  of  the  regular 
style,  with  the  thick,  white  edged  sole 
and  the  leather-bottom  sole  and  cloth 
top,  may  be  bought  for as  litde  as  $i  a 
pair.  Handsome  Chinese  shoes  may  he 
bought 
for  $2  and  upward  a  pair. 
Chinese  shoes  worn  by  persons  of  rank 
may  be  much  more  expensive,  costing 
tor  shoes  worn  with  court  dress  from 
$20  to  $50 and  more.

Tough  on  the  Teuton.

An  Englishman  who  is  visiting  this 
country  for  the  purpose  of  securing 
American-made shoes,and whom  I  beard 
talking  interestingly  the  other  day,  was 
rather  hard  on  the  Teuton  in  one  way 
and  quite  complimentary  in  another,  for 
the  fact  that  a  German’s  foot  is  rather 
large,  as  he  alleged,  only  indicates  to 
me  a  commendable  knowledge  of  physi­
ology  on  the  German’s  part,  and  that  he 
is  making  proper  use  of  his  knowledge 
in  this  connection  by  taking  plenty  of 
walking  exercise  proves  my  statement 
to  be  more  than  half  right.

“ I  have  measured  the  Princess  of 
Wales  and  her  daughters  for  shoes,”  
said  the  Englishman. 
“ I  was  a  mere 
lad  when  I  first  paid  a  visit  to  Marl­
borough  House,  the  town  residence  of 
the  Prince  of  Wales,  to  measure  the 
princess  and  her  daughters,  and  very 
kind  and  affable  they  were,  too.”

“ What  size  do  they  wear?”   I  queried 
of  the  gentleman. 
‘  Oh,  come  now, 
don’t  you  know;  for,  really,  that’s  ask­
ing  me  an  embarrassing question.  Well, 
let  us  say  that  her  feet  and  those  of  her 
daughters  are  about  the  same  size  as 
those  of  the  majority  of  English  ladies, 
which,  by  the  way,  will  average  from 
one  to  two  and  a  half  sizes  larger  than 
those  of  American 
I  have  al­
ways  supposed  that  the  great  amount  of 
walking  done  by  our 
ladies  is,  in  a 
measure,  responsible  for  this.  About 
what  you  would  call  a  five  is  the  aver­
age  thing  for  an  English  lady,  rather 
larger  than  that,  if  anything.”

ladies. 

“ And  the  width?”   was the next query.
“ Well,  there  you  go  again  at  m e;  a 
‘ C ’  I  should  call  it,  according  to  your 
measurement.  Bye  the  bye,  I  may  as 
well  say  that  in  beauty of feet  the Amer­
ladies  altogether  surpass  those  of 
ican 
any  other  nationality. 
Perhaps  the 
Spanish  ladies  take  as  short  a  boot,  but 
their  feet  are,  as  a  rule,  not  nearly  as 
slender,  but  more  chubby,  as  it  were. 
The  Russian 
ladies  are  also  the  pos­
sessors  of  pretty  feet,but hardly as  much 
so  as  the  Americans.  As  for  the  Ger­
mans— I’d  rather  not  talk  about  them. 
Their  feet  are—well,  beyond  compari­
son. * ’

Assets  and  Liabilities.

Creditor— How  long  will  it  take  you 

to  prepare  a  statement?

Mr.  De  Bust  (head  of  bankrupt  firm) 
— Our  liabilities  are  so  scattered  that  it 
will  take  us  about  three  months  to  col­
lect  them.

Creditor—Three  months? 

That’s  a 
long  time  to  wait,  and  besides,  you 
must  then  have  additional  time  to  pre­
pare  a  statement  of  assets.
five  minutes.

Mr.  De  Bust—O,  l  can  get  that  up  in 

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When  you  want  Rubbers,  buy  the  Bos­
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Note  the  Exception.

History  of a  Peculiar  Business  Enter­

prise.
Prom the Allegan Gazette.

1884, 

The  passing  of  the  store  of  the  Alle­
gan  County  Co-operative  Association, 
the  grange,  from 
the  management  of 
Albert  Stegeman  to  that  of  M.  B.  V. 
McAlpine  is  an  event  of  not  a  little  im­
portance  to  the  members  of  the Associa­
tion,  besides  being  of 
interest  to  the 
public  generally.  The  success  of  the 
business  has  been 
largely  due  to  the 
efforts  of  Mr.  Stegeman  and  his  wife, 
who  has  acted  as  cashier  in  the  store 
most  of  the  twenty-four  years  of  Mr. 
Stegeman’s  control.  They  were  given 
hearty  support  by  the  Association,  and 
allowed  to  conduct  the  affairs  of  its mer­
cantile  establishment  about  as  their 
judgment  dictated.

in  March, 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stegeman  came  to  Al­
legan  in  1865  from  Grand  Haven,  and 
the  former  engaged  at  once  in  the  mer­
cantile  business,  which  he  continued 
until  1874,  when  he  was  chosen  agent  of 
the  Co-operative  Association  and  placed 
in  charge  of  its  store  in  Allegan. 
In 
that  capacity  and  as  manager  he contin­
ued  until 
last  Wednesday,  when  Mr. 
McAlpine  succeeded  him.  The  Asso­
ciation  was  incorporated  in  1876.  Busi­
ness  was  not  extensive  at the beginning, 
the  privilege  of  trading  at  the  store  be­
ing 
limited  to  members  of  the  Patrons 
of  Husbandry,  to  whom  goods  were  sold 
at  4  per  cent,  above  cost.  This  limita­
tion  was  continued  a  number  of  years 
and  then  the  store  was  opened  to  any 
one  who  cared  to  trade  there,  although 
the  4  per  cent,  system  was  maintained 
until  a  year  or  so  ago.  During  the  big 
fire 
tbe  store  was 
burned,  but  business  was  not  checked, 
and  during  the  first  three  days  succeed­
ing  that  memorable  event  over  $1,000 
worth  of  goods  were  sold.  When  the 
burned  portion  of  tbe  town  was  rebuilt, 
the  grange  store  occupied  the  building 
where  Kohlenstein  Bros,  are  now 
lo­
cated.  At  the  completion  of  the  pres­
ent  handsome  store  building  on  Trow­
bridge  street,  which  was  erected  by  Mr. 
Stegeman 
in  1889  at  a  cost  of  $15,000, 
the  stock  was  moved  into  it,  with  large 
additions  made  thereto.  The  value  of 
the  stock  now  on  hand  is  estimated  at 
$50,000  to  $60,000,  but  it  is  not  so  large 
as  has  been  carried.  The  hard  times  of 
a  few  years  ago  affected  in  various ways 
the  volume of  business done by the store, 
which  at  its  most  prosperous  period  be­
fore  that  time  of  general  depression 
amounted  to  $200,000  annually.  Last 
year  it  was  between  $130,000 and  $140,- 
000,  and  was  as  low  as  $120,000  in  a 
year  during  tbe  bard  times,  people  who 
came  long  distances  to  trade  here  find­
ing  it  necessary  to  dispose of their prod­
ucts  and  buy  Jtbe  goods  they  needed 
nearer  home.

In  1895,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stegeman  went 
to  California  to  reside,  coming  to  Alle­
gan  to  remain  only  a  few  months  at  a 
time  since,  and  Martin  Stegeman,  the 
former’s  brother,  was  made  active  man­
ager  of  tbe  business,  holding  the  posi­
tion  until  Mr.  McAlpine  assumed  con­
trol.  Mr.  Stegeman,  who  is  now  here, 
informed  the  Gazette  that  he  and  his 
wife  would  remain  a  couple  of  weeks  to 
assist  the  new  manager  to  become  fa­
miliar  with  the  details  of  the  business, 
and  would  return  to  California,  although 
he  would  retain  his  interest  in  the store.

Wherein  the  Average  Country  Hotel 

Should  Improve  Its  Service.

From the Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin.

We  wish  to  talk  for a  few  minutes  on 
a  subject  of  which  traveling  men  scarce 
need  to  be  put  in  mind. 
In  fact  it  is  a 
matter  never  out  of  mind with those men 
whose  forced  absence  from  home  makes 
them  appreciate  all  the  agreeable  and 
disagreeable  features  of  a  method  of 
living,  compared  with  which  the  old 
schoolmaster  idea  of  "boarding  ’round" 
was  a  continual  pleasure.  We  expect 
tbe  reader  has  already  decided  what  we 
refer  to,  and  will  be  willing  to  give  a 
thought  to  our  suggestions  as  to  better 
hotel  accommodations  through  the coun­
try.  That  this  is  a  matter  of  great  im­
portance  to  country  merchants  is  easily 
proven,  while  we  are  ready  to  believe 
very  few  of  them  have  ever  so  consid-

ered  it.  The  situation  over a  great  part 
of  the  territory  traversed  by  railroads 
through  the  Northwestern  States  is  such 
as  to  demand  vigorous  attention,  espe­
cially  by  the  business  men  of  all  towns 
of  sufficient 
importance  to  claim  the 
constant  attention  of  tbe  ubiquitous 
traveling  man.

The  men  who  take  their  sample 

lines 
and  start  out  to  make  the  territory  trib­
utary 
to  their  houses  are  onto  their 
jobs  in  every  particular.  They  are  ac­
knowledged  to  be  among  tbe  brightest 
and  keenest  men  found  in  business  life. 
They  earn  good  salaries  and  like  good 
living.  Most  of  them  have  comfortable 
city  homes,  or  live,  when  not  on  tbe 
road,  where  the  good  things  of  life  are 
at  band.  They  are  used,  at  home,  to 
comfortable,  oftentimes  luxurious,  sur­
roundings,  and  expect  to  pay  enough  to 
get  good  living  and  service  while  away.
But  at  what  proportion  of  the  country 

stopping  places  can  they  get  it?

Every  merchant  is  glad  to  find  his 
town  filling  up  with  transient  visitors, 
for  various  reasons.  No  matter  how 
short  their  stay  or  how  well  supplied the 
visitors  may  be,  they  are always  buyers. 
Even  their  first  outlay,  the  money  paid 
to  the  landlord  for  board,  becomes,  in 
great  part,  a  direct  contribution  to  the 
retail  trade  of  the  town.  A  summer  re­
sort  is  but  an  extreme  illustration  of  the 
idea,  where  tbe  accumulated  spendings 
of  hundreds  are  so  much  better  than  a 
single  individual's  disbursements.  To 
increase  local  business,  it  is  wise  to  in­
crease  the  number  of  even  the  most 
transient  residents.

If  one  of  our  sharp traveling men finds 
a  good  table  and  inviting  sleeping  ac­
commodations  at  any  town,  he  knows  it. 
You  can’t  fool  him,  even  once. 
If  he 
must  stop  within  a  few  miles  of  the 
place,  he  will  make  that  town  if  possi­
ble.  He  tells  others,  and  they  come 
with  him.  The hotel  gets  a  correspond­
ing  name,  and  the  reputation  of  the 
town  goes  with  it.  But 
if  he  finds  a 
grossly  insufficient  meal,  with  bed  and 
furniture  actually  abominable,  he  will 
spot  that  place  and  go  miles  out  of  bis 
way  to  avoid  it.  Why  is  it  that  at  towns 
whence  tons  of  butter  are  shipped  to 
this  market,  only  grease 
is  served  at 
some  public  hostelry?  With  shipments 
of  fowls  made  daily,not a bit  of  chicken 
on  the  table?  With  farms  and  gardens 
all  around,  but  few  seasonable  vege­
table  productions  served  up?  Within 
long  distance  telephone call of  city  mar­
kets, 
fresh  fruits,  even  when  cheap, 
very  rarely  gracing  the  table?  Even  the 
beef  and  mutton  served  at  some  $2 
bouses  is  from  cuts  the poorest  traveling 
man  never  carries  to  his  own  home 
when  off  the  road.  And  yet,  he  can  get 
board  for  himself  and  wife,  in  modern 
city  fiats  or  at  a  good  family  hotel,  for 
what  be  pays  for  a  chance  to sustain life 
at  some  country  tables  and  stretch  his 
limbs  out at  night.  Why,  the  farmers, 
through  ail  this  territory,  live like kings 
compared  with  this.

Country  merchants  should  wake  up  in 
this  matter.  There  are  good  hotels  and 
they  are  always  well  patronized.  The 
towns  where  they  are  established  share 
in  the  benefit  of  good  stopping  places. 
Every  merchant 
is  better  off  for  it. 
Each  one  should look  into the hotel facil­
ities  of  his  own  vicinity,  talk  the  mat­
ter  over  with  bis  neighbor  merchants, 
and  see  that  the  man  who  wishes  to  stay 
there  over  night  goes  away  satisfied 
and  comes  again.

Faith  Brings  Success.

To  be  a  success  in  any  calling  one 
must  be  sincere,  must  have  faith  in  it. 
This  means  interest,  for  without  abun 
dant  faith  there  can  be  no  interest,  and 
without 
interest  there  can  be  no  real 
advancement.  The  salesman,  therefore, 
who  hopes  to  gain  and  hold  a  position 
well  up  towards  the  top  will  have  to  be 
of  the opinion  that his  is  one  of  the best 
of  callings  in  which  to  win  fame  and 
fortune,  for,  without  this  backing,  suc­
cess  in  any  line  is  not  to  be  found.  Go 
ahead,  then,  thinking  that  yours  is  one 
of  the  brightest  and  best  of  businesses 
a  person  need  desire  to  be  in,  and  you 
will  attain  not  only  success,  but  also 
prominence  and  respect.

it 

The  small  retailer’s  store  is  likely  to 
be  less  tidy  than  the  prosperous  retail­
er's,  because  whenever  a  business  is not 
successful,  when 
is  so  small  as  to 
compel 
its  owner  to  do  his  own  clean­
ing  and  routine  work,  the  retailer  is 
likely  to  become  more  careless  than  if 
his  store  were  always  crowded  and  pros 
perous.  A  prosperous  store  keeps  more 
interest  alive  and  makes  its  proprietor 
as  well  as  his  clerks  work  better. 
In­
deed,  it  seems  that  nowadays  the  most 
serious  problem  the  modern  retailer  has 
to  contend  with 
is  that  of  keeping  his 
store  looking  fresh  and  clean.  Modern 
is  mentioned  because  business  has  got­
ten  to  such  a  point  that  this  is  essential 
to  success.  Time  was  when  it  did  not 
make  much  difference  how  the  store 
looked.  Retailers  were  too  busy  waiting 
on  customers  and  endeavoring  to  clean 
up  the  shoes  so  that  they  could  start 
in 
on  Monday  morning  with  bare  shelves 
to  take  much  notice  of  the  appearance 
of  things.  But  during  the  past  several 
years  this  thing  has  stopped.  More  men 
are 
in  business  than  ever  before,  and 
the  competition  is  too great to  allow  any 
one  to  neglect  any  feature  of  his  busi­
ness,  no  matter  how  minute  it  may  be. 
So  that  a  well  kept  and  neat-appearing 
store 
is  now  the  rule,  where  it  used  to 
be  the  exception.

Controls the  Kangaroo  Skins. 

From the Philadelphia Record.

Few  people  are  aware  that  tbe  kan­
garoo  skins  secured  by  the  hunters  in 
New  Zealand  and  Australia  are  con­
trolled  by  an  American  firm  in  Newark, 
N.  J.,  but  this  is  the  fact. 
It  came 
about  only  by  the  fact  that  an  Ameri­
can  first  established  the  industry  of  tan­
ning  the  hides  for  leather,  and  he  has 
since  so  monopolized  the  market  that 
no  rival  concern  has  attempted  to  com­
pete  with  him.  The  hunters  bring  tbe 
skins  of  the  kangaroo  to  the  coast,  and 
the  agents  of  the  Newark  concern  buy 
them  at  once,  outbidding  all  others. 
The  hunters  receive  about  7  cents  a 
pound  for  the  skins,  and  some  of  them 
are  able  to  make  $5,000  a  year.  The 
skins  of  all 
the  twenty  varieties  of 
kangaroos  thus  come  first  to  America, 
and  are  tanned  for  the  market.  London 
and  Paris  shoe  manufacturers  have  to 
buy  their  stock  of  tanned  kangaroo 
hide  direct  from  Newark,  and  promi­
nent buyers  from  Germany,  Greece  and 
Austria  have  to  do  the  same.  About 
6,000  of  these  kangaroo  skins  reach 
Newark  every  week,  and  they are tanned 
and  made  up  into  shoes,  trunks,  bags, 
valises  and  pockttbooks.

When 
"Always

a  Man  Needs  Friends, 
do  right  and  your  friends

will  stand  by  you. ”

"Y es,  but  the  time  a  man  needs 
friends  to  stand  by  him  is  when  he  does 
wrong. ’ ’

It 

is  hard  enough  anyway  for  a  bach­
elor  to  hold  a  baby,  but  it  is  simply 
torture  when  the  baby’s  mother  hap­
pens  to  be  the  girl  who  jilted  him  two 
years  before.

II

K EVERY  DEALER 

^

can  piiease  customers and  gu arantee
them  i*erfect  Foot Cotnfort by selling
PEDA-CURA  (Flint’s1  Origin al  Foot
Powde r).  Shaken  in the  stocking  it
w ill  nelieve  burning,
stingit ig  and
perspiiring  feet,  cure soft  corns  and
keep the feet as sweet and  hendthy as
an infainfs.  PEDA-CURA has been
sold  for eight years and is sup erior to
all  oth.rr foot powders,.  l-arges>t pack-
Retails for 25 ciruts;  $11.75  per
age.
doz.  ol'jobbers.  IJealiL-rs  in M ichigan
•d  by  Hirth.  I<irause &  Co.,
supplii
Grand
Rapids,  Mich. Mfd.  Ionly  by

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■PEDA-CURA  CO.,  Chicago. 
We  have  ..

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A  line  of  Men’s  and  W o­
men’s  Medium  P r i c e d  
Shoes 
that  are  Money 
Winners.  The  most  of 
them  sold  at  Bill  Price. 
We  are  still  making  the 
Men’s  Heavy  Shoes  in 
Oil  Grain  and Satin;  also 
carry  Snedicor &  Hatha 
way’s  Shoes  at  Factory 
Price in  Men’s,  Boys’ and 
Youths’ .  Lycoming  and 
Keystone Rubbers are the 
best.  See  our  Salesmen 
or  send  mail  orders.

QEO.  H.  REEDER  &   CO.,

19 S. Ionia StM Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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We are manufacturing an  article that  w ill 
suggest  itself  to  you  as  most  desirable 
for its salable quality. 

It is the

Fuller Patented Eccentric 5 pring  Lever  Mop  Stick

It is adapted  to  your  trade;  in  Neatness 
and Convenience it has no equal;  the price 
is reasonable;  it  is  being extensively  ad ­
vertised;  it  has  proven  a phenomenal suc­
cess wherever introduced.

E.  F.  ROWE,  Ludington, Michigan.

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W H I T E   R O S E

The  finest  SOAP  in  the  market.  Good  for 
Toilet  as  well  as  Laundry.  Give  it  a  trial.

GAST &  PULTE,  Mfrs.,  Grand  Rapids.

We  pay  3  1-2 cents for Prime Tallow-

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Fruits and  Produce.
Loss  of  Fruit Trade Tnrough Careless 

Inspection.

From the New York Commercial:
Controversies  are  always 

likely  to 
have  more  far  reaching  and  injurious 
results  than  seem  possible  to  those  en­
gaged  in  them,and  the  present  difficulty 
in  the  fruit  trade  of  New  York  is no  ex­
ception.  Without  question  abuses  exist 
which  need  correction  and  those  who 
are  honestly  endeavoring  to  bring  about 
improvement  deserve  the  support  of  all 
engaged  here  in  this  trade.

The  most  serious  menace  to  New 
York’s  prestige  as 
the  center  of  the 
fruit  trade,  aside  from  its  internal  dis­
sensions,  is  the  activity  of  other ports  to 
divert  a  portion  of  the  fruit  importa­
tions  from  here. 
In  the  past  trials  have 
been  made  which  failed  because  condi­
tions  were  unfavorable. 
It  is  believed 
by  importers  elsewhere  that the time  has 
come  for  a  determined  effort  to  secure 
a  profitable  portion  of  the  trade  which 
has,  under  normal  conditions,  come  to 
New  York.  Dealers  from  other  ports 
have  been  here  and,  in  a  quiet  way, 
looked  over  the  ground  and  gauged 
their  chances.  Few  know  what  they 
are  doing,  but  action  after  returning 
home  proved  that  they  found  a  state  of 
affairs  which  satisfied  them  of  a  possi­
bility  of  success.

The  first  completed  arrangement,  so 
far  as  known,  is  at  Montreal.  Up  to 
now  a  few steamships have taken cargoes 
to  Montreal  at  the  opening  of  the  sea­
son,  about  May 
i.  Now  arrangements 
are  complete  for  continuing  four  steam­
ships 
in  service  all  the  season.  Here­
tofore  the  importations  of  fruit  for Mon­
treal have  come  through  New  York,  and 
much  of  the  export  business  has  passed 
through  this  port.  Montreal’s  trade  is 
large  and  increasing,  and  this  city’s  in­
terests  will  suffer  seriously.

Boston  fruit  men  are  at  work  to  make 
that  city  a  center  for  importations,  dis­
tributing  to  New  England,  with  the  ex­
ception  of  Connecticut,  the  western  por 
tion  of  which  will  be  easier  supplied 
from  here.

Philadelphia  has  inaugurated a  move­
ment  with  the  same  purpose  in  view, 
and  the  territory  which  is  reached  by 
Philadelphia’s  trade  can,  it is  believed, 
be  supplied  from  there.  This  might  cut 
off  much  of  New  York’s  western  trade, 
for  railroad  rates  could  be  easily  ad­
justed,  if  they  are  not  now  arranged,  to 
divert  our  traffic.

Baltimore,  which  has  become  a  great 
grain  port  in  recent  years,  also  wants 
some  of  New  York’s  fruit  trade,  and  its 
business  men  have  been  considering  the 
subject  recently,  with  apparently  satis­
factory  results.  A  combination  of  these 
four  ports  would  seriously  reduce  the 
imports  of  New  York  and  restrict  its 
trade  to  virtually  the  territory  immedi­
ately  surrounding  the  city.

At  bottom  the  cause  lies  in  what  ap­
pear  to  be  unreliable  inspections.  Chi­
cago  purchasers  have  sent  back 
line 
after  line  of  imported  fruit  all  this  sea­
son,  as  well  as  in  other  years.  Western 
buyers  favor  the  diversion  of  trade  to 
other  ports  in  the  hope  that  an 
inspec­
tion  system  may  be  established  which 
will  prevent  part  of  the  unreliability 
now  so  costly.

Apple  and  Potato  Crops 
Unfavorable.

Increasingly 

The  crop  report  of  the  Department  of 
Agriculture  for  August  contains  the  fol­
lowing  summary  on apples and potatoes :
The  reports  as  to  the  apple  crop  are 
increasingly  unfavorable.  In New  York, 
Ohio,  Indiana, 
Illinois,  Missouri  and 
Kansas the  indications  are  for  a crop not 
exceeding  one-third  of  the  normal;  in 
New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  Maryland, 
Virginia,  Kentucky,  Iowa,  and  Ne­
braska  the  probabilities  point  to  a  crop 
of  from  one-third  to  one-half  of  the  nor­
mal,  while  from  Maine,  Georgia,  Mich­
igan,  Tennessee  and  Arkansas  the  re­
ports 
indicate  from  one-half  to  two- 
thirds  of  a  crop.  From  this enumeration 
of  states 
in  which  the  indications  are 
exceedingly  unfavorable,  it  will  readily

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

it 

i,  1897, 

be  seen  that  the  apple-growing  states  in 
which  the  conditions  are  at  all  satisfac­
tory  are  few  in  number.
The  average  condition  of  Irish  pota­
toes  fell  during  the  month  of  Julv  from 
QS-5  to  83.9.  While  this  latter  condition 
is  6  points  higher  than  the  average  con­
dition  on  August 
is  10 g 
points  lower  than  the  condition  on  Au­
gust  1,  1896,  and  3.2  points  below  the 
August  average  of  the  last  ten  years. 
There  was  a  decline  during  the  month 
of  July  of  15  points  in  New  York,  18  in 
Pennsylvania,  17  in  Ohio,  19  in  Michi­
gan,  13  in  Indiana,  11  in  Illinois,  9 
in 
Wisconsin,  16  in  Minnesota,  19 in  Iowa, 
10  in  Nebraska  and  8  in  South  Dakota 
— every  State  that  produced  five  million 
bushels,  or  upward,  in  1897,  thus  show­
ing  a  decline  during  the  past thirty days 
of  from  8  to  19  points.

T h e  

fo llo w n g  

t a b le   s h o w s   t h e   a v e r -
a g e   c o n d it io n o f t h e s e   s t a p le s  on A u g .  i  :
Apples

Potatoes

.  .  88
...  87
............................ S6
............................  75
...  87
............................  So

............................ 09
..........................   81
............................ 9°
............................   70
..........................   75
............................69
............................ s§

...........................9S
............................ 100
............................   96
............................ 99
__   87
..  Si
............. 
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....... ...................  72

Maine.........  
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New   Hampshire.
Verm ont..............
M assachusetts ...
Rhode  Islan d .. ..
C on n ecticu t........
N ew   Y o rk ...........
N ew  Jersey..........
Pennsylvania . 
.
D elaw are..............
Maryland 
........
V irginia................
North  Carolina.
South C arolina...
G e o r g ia ...............
F lo rid a.................
A labam a...............
M ississippi............
Louisiana  ...
T e x a s ............... ..
Arkansas...............
I en n essee...........
W est  V irg in ia...
K entucky.............
O h io...................
M ichigan.............
Indiana..................
............................ 79
Illinois  . 
.............
W isconsin............
............................S8
Minnesota.............
............................ a .
Io w a ........................ ............................ S4
Missouri  ............... ............................S9
K a n sa s...................
S6
Nebraska............... ............................   92
South  Dakota....... ............................   92
North  D akota.......
...........................9*
Montana.............
.....................S4
W yom ing....... 
... ............................ 9S
L olorado................ ................. .......... 9 *
New  M exico........
............................97
U tah .......................
............................   97
N e v a d a .................
............................  86
Idaho.......................
W ashington.........
Oregon  .................
C alifornia.............

............................9S
............................ 7S

76

Si
75
71
51

33
39
45
30
37
43
73
58
61

70

61
54
46

61

33

94
45
32

50

98

60

8S
95
75

A  Lucious  New  Fruit.

It 

in 

than 

If  stories  told  by  travelers  are  to  be 
more  believed 
those  of  the 
angels,  the  most  luscious  of all  fruit  is 
to  be  found  in  Java.  It  is  called  by  the 
musical  name  of  mangosteen.  Those 
of  us  who  are  unfortunate  enough  to  be 
unable  to  take  a  trip  to  Java  can  never 
experience  the  pleasure  of  tasting  the 
mangosteen,  for  it  is  incapable  of  trans­
portation. 
is,  outwardly,  a  hard, 
round  fruit  the  size  of  a  peach,  with  a 
rind  the  same  color  and  thickness  of  a 
green  walnut,  and 
in  this  brown  husk 
ie  six  or  eight  segments  of  creamy 
white  pulp.  The 
little  segments  are 
easily  separated,  and,  transferred  to  the 
mouth,  melt  away,  the  pulp  being  as 
soft  and  fine  as  a  custard.  Themangos- 
teen’s  delicate  pulp 
its 
eulogists  say,  like  strawberries,peaches, 
bananas  and  oranges  all  at  once;  slight 
tartness 
these  delicious 
flavors,  and  it  is  never  cloyingly  sweet.

tastes,  as  all 

is  veiled 

in 

Worried  About  the  Bill.

“ The  fact  is,  doctor,’ ’  said  the  mis­
erly  man,  “ that I  do  not  recover  as  rap­
idly  as  I  should,  because  I  am  constant­
ly  worrying  about  your  b ill.’ ’

“ Oh,  that's  all  right,’ ’  returned  the 
doctor,  who  readily  saw  through  this 
plea  for  a  small  charge. 
“ You  can  get 
around  that  very  easily  by  paying me  in 
advance. ”

The  Modern  Method.

a  steak  for  dinner.”

“ Where  are  you  going?’ ’
“ New’s  Dry  Goods  Company  to  order 
“ And  you?”
“ To  the  butcher” s  to  get  my  bike 

repaired.”

The  young  man  who  would  take  life 
to  select  a 

easy 
wealthy  and  influential  father.

should  be  careful 

* PEACHES - PLUMS - PEARS

INDIANA  SWEETHEART  WATERMELONS,  the
Order  now  and 
“ cream”  of  all  Melons. 
get  the  Best  and  Freshest. 
Just  arrived.

ANY  FRUITS  and  VEGETABLES  are  furnished 
to the  best  advantage  by  the 

$
$

VlNKEMULOER  COMPANY.  GRAND RAPIDS. I
Large, Fancy, Yellow Crawford Peaches

MELONS-Yellow Musk, Osage,  Sweetheart Watermelons.
Lemons,  Oranges  and  Bananas.
P ears,  P lu m s,  A pp les. 
Home  Grown  New  Potatoes,  Cabbage,  Celery,  Tomatoes,
New  Dry  Onions,  Turnips,  Carrots,  Squash.

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

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.

A L L   K IN D S  FIE 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   VALIPE PEACHES

MOSELEY  BROS.

2 6 -2 8 -3 0 -3 2   OTTAWA ST. 

ebt. lore. 

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

Clean  Butter 

Can always be had  when  using our  ® 
brand  packed 
packages.  Try a small  order. 
MAYNARD  &  REED,  Grand  Rapids. 

in  1-2-3  and  5-lb. 

54 South Ionia Street. 

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HERHANN C.  NAUHANN  &  CO. 

Branch Store, 353 Russell Street 

Correspondence  solicited. 

P O U L T R Y   W A N T E D

Live  Poultry  wanted,  car lots 
or less.  Write  us  for  prices.

H. N. RANDALL PRODUCE CO.,Tekonsha, Mich.

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

13

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  Aug.  20—To-day  is  a  big 
holiday  here  and  the  city  is  given  over 
to  flags  and  bunting  and  business 
is 
positively  postponed  until  next  week. 
Everybody 
is  perfectly  willing  to  take 
this  day  off  and 
it  seems  as  if  every­
body  in  the  country  has  gathered  here.
During  the  five  business  days  of  the 
week  the  jobbing  grocers  were  very 
busy.  The  market  is  full  of  visitors  and 
everything 
indicates  a  rush  the  like  of 
which  we  have  not  seen  for  a 
long 
time.  May  the  good  work  go  on !

in 

The  coffee  market  has  been  somewhat 
filled  with  the  ups  and  downs  of  life 
but,  upon  the  whole,  no 
important 
changes  have  taken  place.  Jobbers  do 
not  seem  to  be  over  anxious  to  dispose 
of  stocks  on  hand  and  profess  a  good 
deal  of  confidence 
the  future,  al­
though 
there  certainly  seems  to  be  no 
likelihood  of  any  higher  rates.  Rio 
No  7  in  an  invoice  way  is  quotable  at 
6%c.  Total  stocks  here  and  afloat  ag­
gregate  933,353  bags,  against  744.059 
bags  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
In 
mild  coffees 
little  business  has  been 
done,  owing  partly  to  the  somewhat 
limited  stocks  on  hand  of  really  desir­
able  goods.  Most  of  the  business  has 
been  in  medium  grades.  Good  Cucuta,
9 ^ @ 9 ^ C .

Raw  sugars  have  been  rather quiet, 
but  held  at  firm  figures.  The  visible 
supply  is  1,490,000  tons,  against  1,503,- 
000  tons  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
Refined  grades  have  sold 
in  rather  a 
moderate  manner,  there  being  less  ac­
tivity  than 
last  week.  Dealers  keep 
moderate  stocks  and  hold  the  same  at 
firm  figures.  For  granulated  5^c is  the 
rate.

in  an 
is 

The  tea  market  is  about  as  dull  as 

it 
can  be  and  yet  have  anything  doing. 
invoice  and  retail  way  the 
Both 
situation 
in  much  need  of  improve­
ment.  Some  lines  of  Pingsueys  were 
rejected  by  the  appraisers  here 
that 
the  trade  generally  thought  would  sure 
go  through  all  right.
The  rice  market  is  firm  and  holders 
are  confident  of  the  future.  They  show 
no  anxiety  to  make  sales  and  would-be 
buyers  must  pay  full  rates.  Some grades 
show  a  slight  aavance  over  last  week. 
Prime  to  choice,  6%@6%c.

The  spice  market  has  not  been  spe­
cially  active,  but  a  good  everyday  busi­
ness  has  been  transacted  and  quotations 
are  firm.  Holders  are  not  at  all  in­
clined  to  make  concessions,  and  espe­
cially  is  this  true  in  the  pepper  market. 
The  outlook 
is  good  for  a  satisfactory 
fall  business  and  probably  the  present 
is  as  good  a  time  to  buy  as  we  shall 
have  this  year.

In  molasses,  there  is  no  improvement 
is 
in  the  general  situation  and  the  sale 
limited  to  the  smallest  amounts 
for 
everyday  uses.  The  supply  of  really 
good  grocery  grades  is  not  excessive, 
but  still 
is  equal  to  the  demand.  Ad­
vices  from  primary  points  are  not  espe­
cially  encouraging,  but  matters might be 
worse.  Syrups  have  been  in  a  little  bet­
ter  request  for  really  desirable  grades 
and 
the  market  closes  at  about  un­
changed  quotations.

In  canned  goods,  matters  have been 
moving 
in  about  the  usual  channels. 
The  chief  interest  has  centered  in  sal­
mon,  the  shortage of  which  seems  likely 
to  be 
fully  100,000  cases  of  Columbia 
River.  Tomatoes  are  very  firmly  held, 
as  are  peas  and  peaches.  New  York 
State  corn 
is  worth  67>¿@750,  as  to 
brand.

Lemons  and  oranges  have  been  very 
dull  and  the  demand  is  of  a perfunctory 
character.  There  is  so  large  a  supply 
of  domestic  fruit  that  it  still  keeps  a 
front  seat  and  foreign  sorts  play  second 
fiddle.

Dried  fruits  attract  little attention and 
yet  matters  might  be  worse.  Dealers 
seem  to  have  a  good  deal  of  confidence 
in  the  future  and  think  they  have  good 
reasons  for  the  faith  that is within them.
Beans  have  taken  a  firmer  position 
and  there  has  been  a fairly  good  trade 
during  the  week  at  full  rates.

Trading  in  butter has  been  of  moder­
ate  proportions  and,  while  strictly  fancy 
grades  have  been 
in  fair  request,  the 
range  of  prices  has  been  hardly  steady 
at  19c for extra Western creamery ;  firsts, 
i6@ 17c ;  thirds, 
i7K @ i8>^c ;  seconds, 
i4 ?4 @ i5K c;  extra  imitation  creamery, 
I5^@ i6c;  firsts, 
I4@i43^c;  seconds, 
I3@I3K c ; 
14c; 
firsts,  12}4 c,
There  is  but  a  moderate  enquiry  for 
cheese. 
full  cream  are 
pretty  closely  cleaned  up.  A  good 
share  of  the  arrivals  shows  the  effect  of 
heat  and  such 
is  not  wanted  and  sells 
for  a  song.  Fancy,  large  full  cream, 
7 lAc \  small  fancy,  full  cream,  8c.

extra  June  factory, 

Large  size, 

Fancy  Michigan  eggs  are  worth  W'A 
@i5J^c.  Dealers  have  tried  to  clean 
up  stocks  as  closely  as  possible  and 
have  pretty  well  succeeded.  Receipts 
promise  to  be  ample  for  next  week  and 
maybe  a  decline  will  come,  but  at  the 
moment  matters 
favorable 
shape.

are 

in 

Favor  the  Use  of Tarlatan.

Large  placards  signed  “ The  Fruit 
Commission  Merchants  of  Chicago”  
have  been  distributed  through the Mich­
igan  fruit  belt,  addressed  to  the  peach- 
growers  and  reading  as  follows:

Your  right  to  sell 

tarlatan-covered 
peaches  in  Chicago  has  been  conceded.
The  authorities  permit  the  use  of  it 
pending  the  test  case  now  in  the  Su­
preme  Court.  A  decision  is  expected  in 
October.
The  fruit  commission  men  feel  confi­
dent  the  Supreme  Court  will  declare  the 
ordinance  unconstitutional,  because 
it 
directly 
interferes  with  the  inter-state 
commerce  law.

It  has  been  demonstrated  to  the  satis­
faction  of  the  most  skeptical  that  the 
use  of  tarlatan 
is  a  great  advantage  to 
the  peach-growers.

It  is  neat. 

It  protects 

the  peaches 
from  flies  and  dirt,  and  for  these  rea­
sons  alone  the  retail  grocers  and  dealers 
everywhere  demand  it.

They  will  not  buy peaches without tar­
latan  covers  when  they  can  get  them  so 
covered.

Besides,  the  peaches  sell  for  5  cents 
per  basket  more  with  tarlatan  covers 
than  without  them.

Therefore,  it  is  to  the  interest  of  the 
growers  to  pack  their  peaches  in  the 
most  desirable  manner  possible,  and 
thereby  secure  quickest  sales  and  the 
highest  prices  obtainable.

Mustard  Shortage.

Although  the  importation  of  mustard 
this  year  has  been  large,  on  account  of 
the  non  production  of  the  seed  in  Cali­
fornia,  the  supply  has  fallen  consider­
ably  short  of  satisfying  the  large  de­
mand  for  the  article.  This  is  the  first 
time  that  California  has  failed  to  pro­
duce  -its  regular  crop  in  a  great  many 
years.  The  latest  figures  show  the  im­
ports  for  a  year  to  amount  to  approxi­
in  value,  of  which 
mately  $360,000 
ground  mustard 
is  valued  at  $140,000, 
and  preserved  mustard  at  $220,000.

Mustard  seed  is  now  produced  in  Cal­
ifornia,  England,  Holland,  Sicily,  Italy, 
India  and  Austria,  and  to  a  limited  ex­
tent 
in  the  northwest  portion  of  the 
United  States,  but  the  finest  and  largest 
production 
from  California. 
The  total  output  of  the  United States for 
a  year  amounts 
to  about  3,000,000 
pounds.

The  reason  given  for  the  lack  of  a 
California  crop 
is  deterioration  of  the 
seed.  A  new  supply  is  to  be  secured  in 
England,  and  dealers  expect  the  Cali­
fornia  article  to  again  be  on  the  market 
in  due  time.

comes 

$2  to  Detroit  and  Return.

On  Saturday,  Aug.  27,  the  Michigan 
Central  will  run  another  one  of  those 
popular  week  end  excursions  to  Detroit, 
going  on  a  special  train,  leaving  Union 
station  at  7 130  a.  m.,  returning on regu­
lar  trains  up  to  and  including  the morn­
ing  trains 
leaving  Detroit  Monday, 
Aug.  29.  Parlor  car  will  be  attached  at 
the  usual  seat  rates.  Bicycles  carried 
free. 
City  Ticket  Agent.

W.  C.  B la k e,

Sugar  Now  Made  From  Milk.

Illinois 

is  now  producing  sugar  from 
milk.  The  cieam  is  separated  from  the 
milk  upon  being  brought  to  the  factory, 
the  former  being  churned  into  butter. 
The  skimmed  product  is  curdled  and 
then  dried,  after  which  it  is  ground  as 
fine  as  corn  meal  and  shipped  away  to 
the  East,  where  it  is  converted 
into  a 
liquid  and  used  for  glazing  purposes. 
The  whey  left  from  the curd  is the sub­
stance  from  which  sugar  is produced.  It 
is  boiled  down  to  a  syrup  and  reboiled 
until  sugar  of  a  dark  brown  color  is 
It  is  then  trucked  to  the  re­
formed. 
finery,  where 
is  sent  through  the  se­
cret  process,  after  which 
is  as  fine 
and  light  as  any of the granulated grades 
in  the  stores.  Milk  sugar 
purchased 
not  destined  to  compete  with  the 
product  of  the  beet,  because  the  former 
is  intended  only  for medicinal purposes, 
and  sells  for  something  like  50  cents  a 
pound.  The  industry  is  in  its  infancy, 
and  it  is  not known  at  present  what 
its 
manufacture  will  lead  to.

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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

14

CREAM  OF  TARTAR.

Amount Produced in the  United  States 

Increasing.

is  the  grape,  and 

Cream  of  tartar  occurs  in  grape juice, 
and  in  a  few  species  of  the  baobab tree. 
The  baobab  or  “ Cream  of  tartar  tree”  
is  a  native  of  Africa  and  contains  as 
high  as  2  per  cent,  free  tartaric  acid 
and  12  per  cent,  of  cream  of  tartar. 
The  source  of  our  cream  of  tartar  of 
commerce 
in  some 
grape-producing  countries  this  industry 
has  reached  enormous  proportions. 
In 
1887,  Italy  exported  $5,000,000  worth  of 
cream  of  tartar. 
industry  has 
proved  to  be  such  a  source  of  wealth 
that  the  winemakers  no  longer  remain 
inert,  and  although  every  year  the  pro-- 
duction  of  cream  of  tartar  increases,  it 
does  not  suffice  to  satisfy  the  foreign 
demand.

This 

The  nineteen  wine-growing  depart­
ments  of  France  produce  yearly  from 
240  to  25c gallons  of  pomace,  which 
is 
into  cream  of  tartar  and 
transformed 
tartaric  acid.

In  1892  the  importation  of  crude  ar- 
gols 
into  the  United  States  amounted 
to  over  24,000,000 of  pounds  and  valued 
at  over  $2,000,000.

During  the  eight  months  ending  Aug­
ust,  1897,  the  importation  of  this  article 
into  the  United  States  amounted 
to 
16,424,583  pounds,  and  during  the  ten 
months  ending  April,  1898,  the  impor­
tation  into  the  United  States  amounted 
to  15,152,194  pounds.

Although  the  amount  of  crude  tartar 
produced  in  this  country  is  small  com­
pared  with  the  quantity  imported  from 
Europe,  yet  the  amount  from  American 
wines  is  rapidly  increasing.

During  the  fermentation  of  sour wines 
a  crystalline  cake  forms  on  the  inside 
of  the  casks,  and  this  is termed  argols. 
That  deposited  from  red  wine  is  of  a 
deep  reddish  color  and  called  red  argols 
or  red  tartar,  while  that  obtained  from 
white  wine 
is  called  white  argols  or 
white  tartar.

The  acid  tartarate  exists  naturally 

in 
the  juice  of  the  grape,  held 
in  solution 
by the saccharine matter.  When the juice 
is  submitted  to fermentation  in the proc­
ess  for converting  it into  wine,  the sugar 
disappears  and  is  replaced  by  alcohol, 
in  which  the  argol  is  insoluble. 
It  is 
from  this  substance  that  the  cream  of 
tartar  is  obtained  by  a  process  of  puri­
fication.  The  process  of  purification  is 
founded  upon  the  greater  solubility  of 
acid  potassium  tartrate  in  hot  than  in 
cold  water.

The  larger  part  of  the  cream  of  tartar 
is  found  dissolved  in  the  sweet  liquid 
of  the  pulp,  whilst  a  smaller  part  oc­
curs 
in  the  crystalline  state  of  the  in­
terior  of  the  cells;  the  latter  dissolves 
with  difficulty  and  remaining  in  the 
skins  is  precipitated  in  the  insoluble 
form.

This  precipitation  in  the  first  place  is 
hastened  by  the  presence  of  alcohol 
formed  in  the  fermentation,  which  pre­
vents  the  solution  of  the  salt,  and  finally 
by  the  lowering  of 
temperature 
which  follows  after  the  temperature  oc­
casioned  by  fermentation.

the 

A  large  part  of  the  precipitated  salt 
goes  to  form  the  “ lees,”   whilst  a small­
er  portion  is  taken  up  by  the  pomace. 
The  “ lees”   are  the  most 
important 
waste  product  of  winemaking,  and  are 
generally  utilized  in  the  maunfacture  of 
tartaric  acid ;  the  tartar  from  the  pom­
is  more  suitable  for  m aking  the 
ace 
best  cream  of  tartar.

The  California  product  contains  from 
4  to  8  per  cent,  of  cream  of  tartar,

while  the  “ lees”   contain  from  4.5  to 
5.8  per  cent.

As  these  figures  show,  the  quantity  of 
lees 
cream  of  tartar  mentioned  in  the 
this 
of  wine 
is  somewhat  variable; 
results  from  several  causes. 
It  should 
be  especially  noted  that  the  lees  from 
the  first  racking  are  less  rich  in  the  salt 
than  that  obtained 
in  the  subsequent 
rackings  off.  For  the  new  wine  not 
only  deposits  tartar,  but  also  abundant 
quantities  of nitrogenous matters,formed 
principally  from  dead  and  living  fer­
ments,  vegetable  debris, 
from  grape 
stems,  coloring  matter,  pectic,  gummy 
and  mucilaginou^ substances,  the  neces 
sity  of  the  elimination  of  which  renders 
the  purification  of  the  cream  of  tartar 
difficult.

The  mass  of  grape  pomace  which  re­
mains  after  pressing  out  the  wine  is  a 
mixture  of  stems,  skins  and  seeds  in 
the  proportion  of  about  23  per  cent,  of 
stems,  60  of  skins  and  the  balance  of 
seeds.

Pomace  which  has  undergone  a  com­
plete  fermentation  is  richer  in  alcohol 
in  cream  of  tartar  than  that  in 
and 
which  the  fermentation  has  been 
in­
complete.

it 

Pomace  which  has  been  pressed  for 
some  time  gives  a  larger  produce  of 
brandy  and  facilitates  the  separation  of 
cream  of  tartar  during  the  extraction, 
but  the  alcohol  which  it  contains  may 
easily  change 
into  vinegar,  especially 
if  in  contact  with  a  surplus  of  air,  also 
occasioning  the  growth  of  mold,  which 
also  spoils  the  cream  of  tartar;  to  pre­
vent  this 
into  vats  or 
trenches,  where  the  pomace is kept cool, 
spread  out  evenly  and  tamped  down. 
This  work  must  be  done  quickly;  when 
all  is  ready  it  should  be  covered  with  a 
layer  of  clay  and  well  beaten  down. 
Pomace  well  preserved  should  contain 
a  vinous  odor  and  be  without  mold  or 
taste  of  vinegar,  otherwise  it  will  pro­
duce  inferior  brandy  and  be  difficult  to 
operate  in  the  manufacture  of  cream  of 
tartar.

is  packed 

In  the  distillation  of  the  alcoholic 
matters  and  the  collecting  of  the  crude 
argols,  or  cream  of  tartar,  resort  is  bad 
to  the  following  steps:

After  completing  the  distillation  of 
the  volatile  substances  the  pomace  is 
placed  in  two  or  more  boilers,  with  the 
necessary  quantity  of  water  first,  after­
wards  “ Mother  liquor”   and  heated  for 
eight  hours,after  which  the liquid passes 
in  which  hang  rows  of 
into  two  vats 
the  liquid 
small  cords,  together  with 
pressed  from  the  pomace.  All 
is 
allowed  to  cool  for  four  days,  when  the 
“ Mother  liquor”   is run  into  a reservoir, 
from  which  it  is  again  pumped  into  the 
boiler  with  fresh  pomace.

this 

This  process  gives  three  qualities  of 
cream  of  tartar;  the  best  is  taken  from 
the  strings,  in  the  form  of  almost  white 
crystals;  the  second  quality  is  that  de­
posited  on  the  sides  and  is  formed  of 
large  and  small  crystals;  it  is  redder 
than  the  first  quality.  The  third  con­
sists  of  the  deposits  at  the  bottom  of the 
vat, 
from  which,  by  decanting  and 
washing  with  cold  water,  the  light  or­
ganic  matters  are  separated.  This kind 
is  seen 
in  the  market  under  the  name 
of  argol.

To  purify  the  crude  cream  of tartar  or 
argol,  it  is  redissolved  in  boiling  water, 
and  the  solution,  having  been  mixed 
with  4  or  5  per  cent,  of  pipe  clay,  is 
evaporated  to  a  pellicle.  The  clay  pre­
cipitates  with  the  coloring  matter  and 
the  clear  solution  as  it  cools  deposits 
white  crystals,  which  are  exposed  to  the 
for  several  days  to
sunlight  on 

linen 

P o o r
E c o n o m y

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 White” 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.

Association Matters

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President.  C.  G.  J e w e t t ,  Howell;  Secretary, 

Henry C. Minnie,  Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Joseph Knight;  Secretary, E.  Marks, 

221 Greenwood ave;  Treasurer, G. H.  F rink.
Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association
Klai>;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  Lehman.

President,  F rank  J.  Dy k ;  Secretary,  Homer 

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

President. P. F. T beanor;  Vice-President, John 

Jackson  Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Geo.  E.  Lew is;  Secretary,  W.  H.  Por­

t e r;  Treasurer,  L.  Pblton.

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Oakling;  Treasurer, L.  A. G ilkey.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  A. C. Cla r k;  Secretary, E.  F.  Cleve­

land;  Treasurer, Wm.  C.  Koebn.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association
Ho lly;  Treasurer, C.  A.  Hammond.

President,  T hos.  T.  Ba tes;  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 Hil be b; 

Treasurer, S. J.  Hufford.

St. Johns Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, T hos.  Bromley;  Secretary, F rank A. 

Per c y;  Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Perry Business Men's Association 

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

Huddle,
Grand  Haven  Retail Merchants’ Association
President,F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W, V erHoeks.

R.  Brice &  Co.
Produce
Commission
Merchants

Butter,  Eggs  and Poultry

23  South  Water St. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.

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 ichigan  T radesman from
choice  or for any  partiality  toward  the  editor,  but  it  is  our 
aim  to  reach  every  shipper of  Butter,  Eggs  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,  Eggs  and  Poultry. 

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Vinegar  Rates  to  Stand.

Prom the American Cider and Vinegar  Maker.
At  the  semi-annual  meeting  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  Cider  and 
Vinegar Makers’ Association,  a decision 
was  reached  as  to  the  price  of  vinegar 
for  the  remainder  of  this  season.  Last 
year’s  crop  of  apples  was  very  small 
and  only  a  small  quantity  of  cider  and 
vinegar  was  made. 
It  was  thought  at 
the  time  that  at  the  regular  summer 
meeting  the  price  would  have  to  be 
raised.  After  an  inventory of the amount 
on  hand  it  was  decided  to keep the price 
at  its  present  point.

An  Expert’s  Opinion.

Burgin— I  see  the  scientists claim that 

strawberries  are 91  per  cent,  water.

Raiston— The  scientists  are  away  off. 
Strawberries  are  91  per  cent,  box  bot­
tom.

15
JERSEY  CREAM

6 oz.

6 doz. in case 

85c

9 oz.

4 doz. in case 

$1.25

I  lb.

2 doz. in case 

$2.00

further  whiten  the  crystals.  These  when 
powdered  constitute  the  “ cream  of  tar­
tar”   of  commerce.

Cream  of  tartar  when  heated  in  a 
naked  flame  chars  and  emits  inflamable 
vapors  having  the  odor  of  burnt  sugar. 
At  a  higher  temperature,  with  free  ac­
cess  of  air,  the  carbon  of  the  black  resi­
due  is  oxidized  and  a  white  fused  mass 
of  potassium  carbonate  remains,  which 
has  an  alkaline  reaction  and  effervesces 
strongly  with  acids.

With  salifiable  bases,  which  form  sol­
uble  tartrates,  it  gives  rise  to  double 
salts  consisting  of  neutral  potassium 
tartrate,  and  the  tartrates  of  the  base 
added.  Cream  of  tartar,  although  spar­
ingly  soluble  in  water,  becomes  freely 
and  abundantly  so  by  the  addition  of 
borax.

The  cream  of  tartar  of  commerce  is 
not  pure  potassium  bi  tartarte;  it  usual­
ly  contains  from  2  to  7  per  cent,  of  cal­
cium  tartrate,  an  amount  admissible, 
but 
it  sometimes  contains  from  8  to  13 
per  cent  ,  especially  from  the  imported 
commercial  product. 
It  is  often  pur­
posely  mixed  with  various  substances, 
such  as  sand,  gypsum,  clay,  flour,  chalk, 
alum  and  potassium  sulphate.  Sand, 
clay  and  gypsum  may  be  detected  by 
their  insolubility  in  a  hot  solution  of 
potassa;  flour  by  its  characteristic  blue 
color  when  boiled  and  treated with a few 
drops  of  tincture  of  iodine;  chalk  by  its 
effervescing  with  dilute  acids;  alum  by 
“its  astringent  effect  in  the  mouth,  and 
any  soluble  sulphate  by  precipitation 
with  barrium  chloride  and  not  entirely 
soluble  in  nitric  acid.

Cream  of  tartar  is  a  very  mild  saline 
cathartic  and  an  active  soothing  hydra- 
gogue  diuretic.

In  the  so-called  cream  of  tartar  bak­
ing  powders,  it  forms  one  of  the  princi­
pal  ingredients  and  should,  in  order  to 
perform  the  best  results  in  a  mixture  of 
the  kind,  constitute  not  less  than  50  per 
cent,  of  the  entire  weight  of  the  baking 
powder,  and 
in  combination  with  The 
gas  bolding  salt  produce  not  less than  10 
per  cent,  of  carbonate  acid  gas.  Such 
a  powder  yields  as  a  residue  Rochelle 
salts;  by  the  ordinary  prescribed  use 
of  a  cream  of  tartar  baking powder com­
ing  up  to  the  above  standard,  we  would 
get  about  one  dose  of  Rochelle  salts  out 
of  three  large  loaves  of  bread.  There 
are  a  number  of  substitutes  on  the  mar­
ket 
in  place  of  pure 
cream  of  tartar;  they  are  poor  substi­
tutes,  unreliable,  and  in  some  cases  in­
jurious. 

F.  H.  Bo r r a d a il e,

recommended 

State  Analyst.

The  Original  “Diamond  Jo.”

Prom Fame.

“ Diamond  Jo”   Reynolds,  the  Western 
millioniare  who  died  a  few  years  ago, 
was  an  illustration  of the power of trade­
mark  advertising  persistently  followed. 
Joseph  Reynolds  started 
in  as  a  grain 
buyer 
in  Northern  Iowa  with  a  capital 
of  but  a  few  hundred  dollars.  That  was 
in  the  boom  days  of  the  wheat  market. 
A  buyer  could  pay  Chicago  prices  for 
wheat in Northern  Iowa,  and  by  the  time 
his  shipments  reached  Chicago the price 
would  have  jumped  to  a  point  that  gave 
him  a  liberal  margin  of  profit.

increased 

Consequently,  Joseph  Reynolds  pros­
the  number  of 
pered  and 
in  which  be  had  purchasing 
towns 
agents,  until  be  had  practically  covered 
Northern  Iowa  and 
Illinois,  Eastern 
Minnesota 
and  Western  Wisconsin. 
With  these  big  extensions  to  his  busi­
ness,  the  future  millionaire  became  the 
owner  of  tens  upon  tens  of  thousands  of 
wheat  sacks,  burlaps  for  oats  and  cental 
bags  for  corn.  Bags  cost  money,  and 
in  order  to  insure  their  return  to  the 
owner  and  prevent  stealing,  each  bag 
needed  to  be  branded,  and  he  bad  them 
marked  with  a  diamond,  in  the  center

of  which  were  the  letters,  “ Jo,"  and 
above  which  were  the  words,  “ Stolen 
from. ”

As  Reynolds’  wealth  and  business 
multiplied  so  did  the  number  of  his 
wheat  sacks,  until  “ Diamond  Jo”   be­
came 
the  best  known  trade  name  in 
the  Upper  Mississippi  Valley.

Then  Reynolds,  who  had  become  a 
millionaire,  found 
it  advisable  to  buy 
steamboats  to  cheaply transport his grain 
from  Minnesota  and  Wisconsin  to  a  di­
rect  line  of  railroad  to  Chicago.  The 
first  boat  of  size  and 
importance  that 
he  purchased  he  named  the  “ Diamond 
Jo.”   When  he  had  purchased  a  half 
dozen  boats  he  incorporated  the  “ Dia­
mond  Jo  Line  of  Steamers.”

He  had  become  a  multi-millionaire, 
a  power  on  the  Chicago  Board of Trade, 
the  owner of  Colorado  silver  mines  and 
the  sole  builder  and  owner  of  the  nar­
row-gauge 
railroad  between  Malvern 
and  Hot  Springs,  Ark.,  and  his  fame 
was  National.

But  to  the  multitude  his  name  was 
simply  “  Diamond  Jo. ”   Thousands  of 
farmers  and  village  folk  who  could  tell 
you  all  about  bis 
life  and  his  great 
wealth  actually  didn’t  know  his  last 
name.  ,  The  simple  symbol 
that  he 
stamped  on  the  first  hundred grain sacks 
that  he  purchased  stuck  to  him  through 
life  and  clings  to  him  and  his  property 
after  death.

In  the  villages  along  the  Upper  Miss­
issippi  River  all  sorts  of  tales  are  told 
about  the  origin  of  his  nickname.  V il­
lage  wiseacres  will  tell  you  that  he  was 
called  “ Diamond  Jo”   because  he  be­
decked his  person  with  flashy  gems.  As 
a  matter  of  fact,  he  probably  didn’t 
have  the  price  of  a  big,  true  fire  dia­
mond  when  he  first  stamped  his  trade­
mark  on  a  grain  bag.

The  simple  truth  is  probably  that  he 
selected  this  particular  design  by  acci­
dent. 
“ Diamond  this”   and  “ Circle 
that”   are  common  enough  devices  in 
grain  sack  brands.  Once  chosen,  bis 
particular  device  became  famous  be­
cause  of  the  great  growth  of  his  busi­
ness.

Anyway,  the  story  of  Diamond  Jo 
shows  how  a  man’s  own  personality  and 
individuality  may  actually  be  lost  sight 
of  in  a  trade-mark  of  bis  own  creation.

Defacing  the  Dollar.

impairs, 

Advertisers  who  are  defacing  silver 
dollars  by  pasting  on  them  circular  la­
bels  should  know  that  this  is  in  viola­
tion  of  Section  159  of  the  Revised  Stat­
utes,  which  reads:
“ Every  person  who  fraudulently,  by 
any  art,  way  or  means,  defaces,  muti­
lates, 
diminishes,  falsifies, 
scales or  lightens,  or  causes  or  procures 
to  be  fraudulently  defaced,  mutilated, 
impaired,  diminished,  falsified,  scaled 
or  lightened,  or  willingly  aids  or  assists 
in 
fraudulently  defacing,  mutilating, 
impairing,  diminishing,  falsifying,scal­
ing  or  lightening  the  gold or silver coins 
which  have  been  or  which  may  here­
after  be  coined  at  the  mints  of  the 
United  States,  or  any  foreign  gold  or 
silver  coins  which  are  by  law  made  cur­
rent  or  are  in  actual  use  or  circulation 
as  money  within  the  United  States,  or 
who  passes,  utters,  publishes  or  sells  or 
attempts  to  pass,  utter,  publish,  or  sell 
or  bring 
into  the  Untied  States  from 
any  foreign  place  knowing  the  same  to 
be  defaced,  multilated,  impaired,  di­
minished,  falsified,  scaled  or  lightened, 
with  intent  to  defraud  any  person  what­
soever,or  has  in  his  possession  any  such 
defaced,  mutilated, 
impaired,  dimin­
ished,  falsified,  scaled  or lightened  coin 
knowing  the  same  to  be  defaced,  muti­
impaired,  diminished,  falsified, 
lated, 
scaled  or 
lightened,  with  intent  to  de­
fraud  any  person  whatsoever,  shall  be 
imprisoned  not  more  than  five  years 
and  fined  not  more  than  two  thousand 
dollars.”   ____  

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Statistics  show  that  75  per  cent,  of 
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penitentiary  to  matrimony.

A  bad  boy  seldom  gets  his  badness 
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W o m a n ’s W o rld
Why  Woman  Is  the  Unguessable  Rid­

dle  of the  World.

I  often  think  that  the  greatest  disad­
vantage  under  which  women  labor  is 
their  almost  total  lack  of  the  sense  of 
humor.  The  most  casual  observer  can 
hardly  have  failed  to  notice  that  the 
funny  side  of  things  seldom  strikes  the 
feminine  mind.  We have an  affinity  for 
grief,  not  laughter,  and  in our  secret soul 
are  always  a 
little  suspicious  of  the 
women who  are given to mirth and  jokes. 
There  may  not  be  anything  actually 
wrong  about  them,  of  course,  but  we 
feel  they  don’t  take  as  serious  a  view  of 
life  as  they  ought.  The  books  that  ap­
peal  to  women  are  the  “ Janes  Eyres" 
and  “ East  Lynnes" that are simply  sod­
den  with  misery  and  tears,  and  a  wom­
an’s  idea  of  a  perfectly  delightful  play 
is  one  where  she  can  sit  and  weep  com­
fortably  for  an  hour  and  a  half  over  the 
woes  of  a  persecuted  heroine.

It  is  bad  enough  in  all  conscience  to 
miss  so  much  of  the  fun  of  life,  but 
there 
is  a  more  important  side  to  the 
subject  than that,  and  the  reason  we  run 
off  with  so  many  idiotic  fads  and  es­
pouse  so  many  senseless  causes  is  be­
cause  we  lack  a  saving  sense  of  humor 
to  see  when  we  are  making  ourselves 
ridiculous.  Just  take  the  case  of  that 
young woman,  for instance,  who  recently 
undertook  to 
stop  the  war  by  chasing 
down  to  Madrid  to  tell  a  queen  who bad 
a  war  on  her  hands  she  couldn’t  man­
age  what  a  dreadful  thing  it  is  to 
fight,  and  how  lovely 
it  would  be  for 
everybody  to  dwell  together  in  unity. 
Skilled  diplomats  had  exhausted  their 
arts 
the  powers  of  Europe 
dared  not  interfere,  but  that  didn't  stop 
this  female  Don  Quixote  from  rushing 
in  and  tackling  the  situation  single- 
handed.  One  would  have  thought  that 
only  the  vagaries  of  a  lunatic  could 
have  led  any  one  into  the  folly  of  mak­
ing  such  a  spectacle  of  themselves  for 
the  derision  of  the  world,  but  we  know 
better.  She  is  simply  one  of  those  good, 
dead-in-earnest  women,  without  a  parti­
cle  of  the  sense  of  humor,  who  “ queer" 
so  many  good  causes  by  making  them 
ridiculous.

in  vain, 

What  else,  except  a  lack  of  apprecia­
tion  of  the  absurd  and  grotesque,  makes 
women  so  often  run  to  extremes?  Just 
think  of  all  the  fads  we  have  had  in  the 
last  few  years  and  the  good  things  we 
have  done  to  death  by  overdoing  them. 
There  was  the  household  decoration 
mania,  an  excellent  thing  in  itself,  but 
we  never  rested  in  our  efforts to beautify 
until  we  tied  every  chair  leg  up  in  rib­

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

bon  bows  and  hand-painted  the  shovel 
and  the  tongs,  and  even  then  it  was  a 
couple  of  years  before  it  soaked through 
our  minds  that  a  house  so  cluttered  up 
was  nothing  but  a  burlesque  of  every 
artistic 
idea.  Then  we  were  smitten 
with  a  mad  desire  to  improve  ourselves 
by  means  of  lectures. 
I  remember  that 
I  spent  a  whole  winter  and  $io  on  a 
course  of  lectures  that  were  devoted  to 
fixing  “ Daniel  Deronda’s  Place in Evo­
lution, "a n d   that  I  used  to  sit  with 
some  twenty  other  women  at  the  feet  of 
a  prophetess  who  told  us  what  she 
thought  Browning  meant,  and  we  would 
look  unutterably  wise  and  murmur  to 
our  neighbor,  “ Isn’t 
it  wonderful!”  
and  she  would  say,  “ Just  wonderful,but 
I  don’t  know  what  it’s about.  Do you?”  
and  we  would  say,  “ No,  but  it's  won­
derful,”   and  that  didn’t  strike  us  as 
being  funny  either until  it  was  all  over.
In  the  same  way  two  of  the  best  ideas 
of  the  age  are  in  a  fair  way  of  being 
made  so  absurd  that they will be laughed 
away. 
I  believe  that  the  woman’s  club 
movement  is  one  of  incalculable  benefit 
in  every  way—that  it  broadens,  edu­
cates,  amalgamates  and  gives  to  many 
women  an  interest  that  adds  a  fresh  zest 
to  life;  but  what  could  be  more  absurd 
than  the  idea  of  a  club,  to  which  peo­
ple  belong  for  pleasure,  that  fines  its 
members  for  staying  away,  or  where 
people  go  and  sit  solemnly  around  lis­
tening  to  long-winded  essays  that  were 
original  with  the  encyclopedia?  So  it  is 
with  child  study  and  the  mother  club 
idea.  Nothing  could  be  of  more  real 
value  to  the  whole  human  race  than  that 
the  wisest,  the  most  scientific  and 
lov­
ing  thought  should  be  expended  on  the 
rearing  of  children,  but  when  you  go  to 
a  mother’s  convention  and  bear  women 
spend  a  half  a  day  gravely discussing 
whether  you  shall  ever  say  “ must"  to  a 
child  and  are  told  that  you  will  brutal­
ize  a  baby  by  making  it  behave and that 
there  is  a  deep  psychological  meaning 
in  making  mud  pies  and 
that  every 
child 
is  a  problem  only  a  board  of 
strategy  could  solve,  why,  it  makes  you 
feel  the  whole  thing  is  too  absurd  for 
any  sensible  person  to  bother  with  and 
you  wish  to  goodness  women  could  see 
the  joke  of  taking  things  too  seriously.
What  makes  us  follow  the  fashions  so 
slavishly  but  the  inability  to  see  when 
we  are  making  a  figure  or  fun  of  our­
selves?  Does  any  mother's  daughter  of 
us  ever  consider  whether  a  particular 
style 
If 
shirt  waists  are  worn,  doesn’t  the  fat, 
short  woman  dike  herself  out  in  one, 
oblivious  of  the  fact  that  she  looks  like 
a  meal  bag  tied 
in  the  middle,  and 
doesn’t  the  lean  and  lanky  sister  adorn

is  suited  to  her?  Not  a  bit. 

herself  in  another,  regardless  of  the  way 
it  emphasizes  her  bones?  Everyday  we 
see  women  wearing  clothes  that  make 
such  guys  of  them  it  looks  like  it would 
appeal  to  the  most  deficient  sense  of 
humor,  but  it  doesn’t!  Nothing  short  of 
an  absolute  inability  to  perceive  the 
grotesque  can  explain  why  a  fat,  stout 
woman  will  wear  plaids  or  a  thin  one 
stripes  or  the  emaciated  appear  in  a 
decollete  gown.

financiering 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  there  are  few 
things  more  amusing  in  life  than  wom­
an’s  lack  of  the  sense  of  humor.  To  it 
may  be  ascribed  most  of  those  contra­
dictions  of  character  and  quirks in men­
tal  reasoning  that  make  her  the  one  un­
guessable  riddle  of  the  world.  Every 
husband 
is  well  aware  that  his  wife 
wants  to  be  persuaded  to  do  the  thing 
she  has  fully  made  up  her  mind  about 
beforehand  and  that  a  settled  principle 
in  feminine 
is  that  you 
economize  when  you  do  without  one 
thing  and  spend  the  money for  another, 
as 
if,  for  instance,  you  saved  Non  car 
fare  to  put  money  in  chocolate  creams.
Morally  the  lack of  humor leads  us  in­
to  a  fib-telling  that is peculiar to the sex. 
Nobody  ever  heard  of  a  man  who  was 
in  the  grocery  business  for  his  health  or 
kept  a  saloon  because  he  was  of  a social 
liked  to  have  his 
turn  of  mind  and 
friends  about  him. 
If  a  man  should 
make  such  a  preposterous  statement  he 
would  be  guyed  off  the  earth  by  other 
men,  who  would  laugh  at  the  absurdity, 
but  we  know  hundreds  of  women  who 
seriously  tell  us  they  take  boarders  only 
for  company,  and  we  say  sympathetical­
ly,  “ Oh,  of  course.  A  house  is  so  much 
more  cheerful  with  people  in  it.”  
I 
know  women  who  make  preserves  (that 
they  sell  at  the  exchange)  for  a  delight­
ful  summer  pastime;  typewriters  who 
pound  away  seven  or  eight  hours  a  day 
for  the  hilarious  amusement  of  the 
thing;  women  who  clerk 
in  stores  for 
recreation  and  to  fill  up  time,  because, 
as  they  say,  they  were  bored  at  home, 
but  few,  very  few  who  work  for  money 
because  they  need 
it.  Could  anything 
be  more  ridiculous  than  such flimsy pre­
texts,  but  they  never  see  the  absurdity 
of  it.

Then  what  else  but  a  lack  of the sense 
of  humor  makes  us  brag  about  our  chil­
dren  like  we  do?  We  can  see  that  Mrs. 
Blank 
is  making  a  precious  idiot  of 
herself  when  she  goes  about  exploiting 
that  plain-featured,  dull  girl  of  hers  as 
a  belle. 
“ Mariette  has  twice  been  in­
vited  to  be  queen  of  the  carnival,  but  I 
just  wouldn’t  hear  to  it.  I  don’t  believe 
in  a  young  girl  being,  etc.,  you  know," 
and  we  smile  and  say  under  our  breath 
that  we  wonder  if  she  thinks  we  are  go­

r

ALL THINGS  COME  TO  HIM 
WHO  HUSTLES  WHILE  HE  WAITS

ing  to  swallow  that  story,  and  we  mar­
vel  at  her  nerve  in  bragging  about  her 
son  as  a  genius,  when  we  can  see  per­
fectly  well  he  is  only  a  commonplace, 
gawky  school  boy.  But  with  our  Sally 
and  our  Tommy  the  matter  is  entirely 
different.  They  are  the  real  thing,  and 
it  never  once  strikes  us  as  possible  that 
the  world  isn’t  hungering  and  thirsting 
to  hear  what  they  have  to  say. 
“ I  de­
clare,"  said  a  fond  mother  to  me,  one 
day,  “ I'll  never  go  near  Maria  Wheat 
again.  She  spent  the  whole  time  I  was 
at  her  house  telling  things  her  Charley 
had  said,  as  if  anybody  wanted  to  hear 
them,  and  she  didn't  give  me  a  chance 
to  say  a  word  about  Nelly,  although  I 
went  just  especially  to  talk  about  her.”
Undoubtedly,  our  lack  of  humor  runs 
us  into  many  follies  and  mistakes. 
If 
we  had  a  keener  sense  of  the  ridiculous 
we  should  not  be  so  easily  taken  in  by 
pretentious  imposters,humbugs wouldn’t 
humbug  us  so  often  or  solemn  airs  im­
pose  upon  us.  Many  of  the  things  that 
we  think  tragedies  in  life  we  would dis­
cover  to  be  merely  comedies.  We  miss 
many  funny  things,  but  the greatest joke 
of  all  is  in  not  being  able  to  see  our­
selves  as  others  see  us.

D o r o th y  D ix .

A  Sharp  Trick.

The  New  England  Grocer  relates  a 
sharp  trick  that  a  half-witted boy played 
on  a  storekeeper  that  showed  he  was 
smart  with  the  half-wit  left  him.  He 
came  to  the  store  one  day  with  a  pail 
in  a  basket.  He  ordered  a  number  of 
things,  chiefly  on  the  sweet  or  dainty or­
der,  saying  they  were  for  a  well-known 
man 
in  town,  who  would  call  for  the 
pail  later.  He  had  meantime  put  the 
things  in  the  pail  as  it  stood  in  the  bas­
ket,  and  when  he  left  he  took  the  bas­
ket  with  him,  leaving  the  pail  in  the 
corner.  As  Mr.  Blank  didn’t  come, 
after  a  while  the  storekeeper  looked  at 
the  pail  and  found 
it  had  no  bottom. 
Everything  had  gone  through  into  the 
basket,  and  the  half-witted  boy  had  de­
parted  to  enjoy  the  sweetmeats.

Caught  at  His  Own  Game.

A  certain  counter  merchant  recently 
visited  the  market  and  bought  a  cheap 
but  pretty  table  caster  for  which  be 
paid  a  dollar.  On  reaching  home  he 
put  on  it  a  tag  marked  $14  and  made  a 
present  of  it  to  a  Methodist  preacher, 
whose  church  his  family  attended.  The 
minister  took  the  package  home,  after 
thanking  the  donor;  but  next  day  he 
fetched  the  caster, with the  tag  attached, 
back  to  the  merchant,  and  said  to  him :
“ I  am  too  poor  in  this  world’s  goods 
to  afford  to  display  so  valuable  a  caster 
if  you  have  no  ob­
on  nay  table,  and 
jection  I  should 
like  to  return  it  and 
take  fourteen  dollars'  worth  of  groceries 
in  its  stead."

The  merchant  could  do  nothing  but 

assent  to  so  reasonable  a  proposition.

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MICHIGAN  CHEMICAL  CO.,  D e t r o i t ,  m i c h .

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the (trip. 

President, John  A.  Hoffman,  Kalam azoo ;  Secre- 
tary  J   C.  Saunders,  Lansing;  Treasurer, Chas. 
McNolty, Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
P resident,  C.  C.  Snedekbr,  D etroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C.  W.  Allen  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

Grand  Counselor, J. J.  Evans,  Hay C ity:  Grand 
Secretary,  G  S.  Valmore, D etroit;  G rand Treas 
urer,  W.  S.  West, Jackson.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

President,  J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  G rand  R apids - 
Secretary  and Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  O w e n ,  Grand 
Rapids.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
^ •  C.  Brown,  M arquette;  Secretary 

and T reasurer,  A.  F.  Wixson,  M arquette.

GONE  BEYOND.

De|ith  of  Capt.  J.  N.  Bradford,  the 

Veteran  Salesman.

James  N.  Bradford,  traveling  repre­
sentative  for  the  Olney  &  Judson  Gro­
cer  Co.,  died  Aug.  20,  as  the  result  of 
an  attack  of  pneumonia,  and  was  buried 
from  the  family  residence,  102  James 
street,  Aug.  23.  The 
illness  was  of  a 
week’s  duration,  the  premonitory  indi­
cations  having  appeared  while  the  de­
ceased  was  witnessing  the  hall  game,  in 
company  with  Edward  Frick,  Saturday, 
Aug.  13.  The symptoms  were  alarmirg 
from  the  start,  but everything  that  med 
ical  science  could  do  to  dissipate  the 
disease  was  undertaken.  On  the  Tues­
day  night  following  the  attack  it  was 
thought  that  the  deceased  could  not pos­
sibly  survive  the  successive  attacks  of 
heart  failure,  but  he  rallied,  and  con­
tinued  to  improve  until  Saturday  after­
noon,  when  be  dropped  off  quietly while 
partaking  of  nourishment.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

James  N.  Bradford  was  born  at  Stony 
Creek,  Oakland  county,  this  State,  Nov. 
23,  1844,  and  shortly  afterward  removed 
with  his  parents  to  Orion,  in  the  same 
county.  There be remained  until  7  years 
of  age,  when  his  parents  removed  to 
Grand  Rapids,  where  they  lived  six 
years,  removing  to  Ravenna  to  run  a 
hotel  and  work  a  new  farm  He  worked 
on  the  farm  summers  and  attended  the 
district  school  winters  until  August  11, 
1862,  when  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in 
the  twenty-sixth  Michigan  Volunteers, 
following  the  fortunes  of  his  regiment 
until  the  close  of  the  war.  He  then  re­
turned  to  Muskegon  and,  for  the  next 
three  years,  followed  the  lakes  summers 
and  worked 
in  the  lumber  woods  win­
In  1869,  be  entered  into  partner­
ters. 
ship  with  his  brother,  L.  C.  Bradford, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Bradford  Bros., 
and  carried  on  a  general  mercantile 
business  at  Ravenna,  buying  out  bis 
brother’s 
interest  in  1870 and  removing 
the  stock  to  Muskegon,  where  he  re­
engaged  in  business  on  Pine  street. 
In 
1872  he  formed  a  copartnership  with  D, 
G.  Carpenter,  which  continued  until 
1873,  when  they  launched  out  in  the 
lumber  business,  Mr.  Bradford  selling 
out  his 
to 
Thomas  and  Uriah  Culbert.  He  then 
entered  the  employ  of  Wm.  Martin,  at 
that  time  proprietor  of  the  Muskegon 
City  Mills,  where  he  remained  three 
years,  serving  as  clerk,  book-keeper 
and  general  band.  He  then  removed  to 
Fremont  Center,  where  he  managed  a 
general  store  for  Mr.  Martin  two  years, 
under  the  firm  name  of  J.  N.  Bradford 
&  Co.,  Agents,  at  the  expiration  of 
which  time  the  stock  was  removed  to 
Muskegon.  Mr.  Bradford  then  entered 
into  partnership  with  Peter  Neil,  en-j

interest  shortly  afterward 

gaging  in  the  grocery  business,  dispos­
ing  of  his  interest  the  following  spring 
and  heading  toward  the  silver  mines  of 
Colorado,  where  he  arrived 
in  June, 
1879,  spending  several  months  roaming 
around  among 
the  different  mining 
camps.  His  next  move  was to  engage  in 
the  tobacco  and  cigar  business  at  Den­
ver,  selling  our  shortly  afterward,  to 
travel  through  Kansas  and  Missouri.  He 
landed  at  Grand  Rapids  Oct.  4,  1879, 
and  immediately  entered  the  employ  of 
Arthur  Meigs  &  Co.,  then  doing  busi­
ness  on  Pearl  street.  At  that  time  the 
firm  was  buying  hay  and  grain  in  In­
diana  and  selling  them  to  the  Northern 
trade,  and  he  was  dispatched  to  the 
Hoosier  State  to  do  the  buying.  His 
first  move  involved  the  firm  in  a  law­
suit,  one  man  refusing  to  carry  out  his 
contract,  although  afterward  compelled 
to  pay  S517  and  costs  and  recognize  the 
fact  that  the  contract  was binding.  Jan. 
1,  1880,  he  returned  to  the  house  and 
occupied  successively  the  positions  of 
shipping  clerk,  billing  clerk  and  sales­
man,  taking  a  trip  every  two  weeks  to

Muskegon  and  the  other  towns  on  the 
Big  Rapids  branch.  The  next  spring 
be  was  given  the  trade  on  the  G.  R.  & 
I.  as  far  north  as  Tustin,  the  F.  &  P. 
M.,  and  east  on  the  D.,  G.  H.  &  M. 
His  route  was  afterward  changed  so  as 
to  include  all  towns  on  the  C.  &  W.  M. 
north,  but  retain  the  territory  on  the  D. 
G.  H.  &  M.  east.  March  1,  1886,  he 
transferred  his  allegiance  to  Olney, 
Shields  &  Co.,  his  territory  comprising 
the  G.  R.  &  I.  north,  the  C.  &  VV.  M. 
north,  the  F.  &  P.  M.  west  of  Reed 
City  and  the  Ann  Arbor  from  Cadillac 
to  Frankfort.  Ten  years  ago,  on  the  or­
ganization  of  the  Olney  &  Judson  Gro­
cer  Co.,  he  became  a  stockholder and 
three  years  ago  was  elected  a  director 
in  the  corporation.

On  the  twenty  third anniversary  of  his 
birth,  Mr.  Bradford  was  married  to 
Miss  Rosa  Sperry,  of  Ravenna,  who 
died  of  consumption  seven  weeks  after 
their  marriage.  May  7,  1870,  Mr.  Brad­
ford  married  Miss  Ella  A.  Routson,  of 
Ravenna,  who  has  borne  him  four  chil­
dren—three  boys  and  one  girl.  The 
oldest  son,  Ray,  was  accidentally  shot 
while  hunting,  nine  years  ago,  when  15 
years  of  age.  Another  son,  Frank,  died 
of  diphtheria  at  2.l/2  years  of  age.  The 
remaining  son,  James  R.,  now  18  years 
of  age,  went  to  the  front  with  the  32d 
Michigan  Volunteers  and  was 
sum­
moned  home  from  Fernandina  by  the 
illness  of  his  father,  reaching  the  bed­

side  the  evening  before  the  death  oc­
curred.  Ethel,  the  only  daughter,  has 
finished  her  studies  at  the  high  school 
and  has  also  taken  a  commercial  course 
at  the  Grand  Rapids  Business  College. 
The  family  reside  in  their  own  home  at 
102  James  street.

Mr.  Bradford  was  a  member  of  the 
Park  Congregational  church,  of  which 
his  family  are  also  communicants.  He 
was 
identified  with  three  branches  of 
Masonry—Valley  City  Lodge,  No.  86, 
Grand  Rapids  Chapter,  No.  7,  and Tyre 
Council,  No.  10.  He  was  a  member  of 
Imperial  Lodge.  Knights  of  Pythias; 
Custer  Post,  G.  A.  R.  ;  Knights  of 
Honor;  Michigan  Commercial  Travel­
ers’  Mutual  Accident  Association, 
in 
which  he  was  also  a  director; 
the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  in which 
organization  he  always  took  an  active 
interest,  having  served  the  local  Post  in 
the  capacity  of  Chairman  and  taken 
part 
in  nearly  every  convention  ever 
held  by  the  Association.

lay 

Mr.  Bradford’s  chief  strength  as  a 
in  his  ability  to  make 
salesman 
friends  and  hold 
them.  He  was  a 
thorough  groceryman,  understanding  his 
line  and  taking  pains  to  post himself  on 
the  changes  and  other  points  bearing  on 
the  business.  He  was,  moreover,  a 
careful  salesman,  being  a  good  judge  of 
character,  so  that  he  was  usually  able 
to  determine  the  responsibility  of  bis 
trade.  He  was  an  exceptionally  suc­
cessful  collector,  making  comparatively 
few  losses  and  seldom  involving himself 
or  his  house 
in  misunderstandings  of 
any  kind.  His  uniformly  kind  and  gen­
erous  disposition,  coupled  with  a  most 
courteous  and  affable  manner  under all 
circumstances,  made  him  a  prime  fa­
vorite  with  all  who  knew  him.

THE  INTERMENT.

The  funeral  was  largely  attended  by 
the  relatives  and 
friends  of  the  de­
ceased, 
including  traveling  men  and 
representatives  of  the  various  fraternal 
organizations  of  which  the  deceased was 
a  member.  The  floral  offerings  were 
numerous  and  beautiful, 
the  emblem 
sent  by  the  Grand  Rapids traveling men 
being  a  groceryman’s  grip,  with  the  in­
itials  of  the  deceased  inscribed  thereon. 
Rev.  Dan.  F.  Bradley  officiated  at  the 
funeral  and  burial,  conducting  both 
services  in  an  impressive  manner.

The  active  pallbearers  were  George 
F.  Owen,  L.  M.  Mills,  George  H.  Sey­
mour,  W.  F.  Blake,  Manley  Jones  and 
W.  H.  Jennings.  The  honorary  pall­
bearers  were:  Byron  S.  Davenport, 
John  Cummins,  George  McWilliams, 
Peter  Lankester,  J.  W.  Woltman  and  J. 
C.  Van  Heulen.
Call  for  Meeting  of  the  Traveling 

Men.

Grand  Rapids,  Aug.  23—The  Execu­
tive  Committee  which  has  charge  of  the 
management  for  the  Carnival  of  Fun, 
which  will  be  held  in  this  city  next  Oc­
tober,  has  issued  a  call  to  all  local  trav­
eling  men  to  meet  at  the  Carnival  head­
quarters,  29  and  31  Monroe  street,  at  2 
o’clock  Saturday,  Aug.  27.  The  Carni­
val  management  realizes  what  a  bene­
fit  to  the  “ hot  time”   last  year  were  the 
efforts  of  the  traveling  men  in  its  behalf 
and  has  opened  spacious  quarters  in  the 
Carnival  bureau  to  be  used  especially 
by  them.  The  meeting  Saturday  will  be 
for  the  purpose  of  arranging  for  a  dem­
onstration  on  the  part  of  the  traveling 
men  in  the  coming  carnival.

M.  A.  A ldrich, 
Director  General.

An  honest  traveling  man  can  not  pos­
sibly  travel  as  fast  as  the  lie  of  a  dis­
honest  competitor,  but 
it  is  a  satisfac­
tion  to  know  that  the  lie  will  get  tired 
first.

Frank  Tyler’s  First 

Impression  of 

New  England.

Boston,  Mass.,  Aug.  22— In  conform­
ity  with  my  promise,  I  take  this  oppor­
tunity  to  inform  you  that  I  have  been  in 
New  England  for  the  last  eighteen  days 
and  am  enjoying  the  best  of  health,  and 
have  been  ever  since  I  left  Grand  Rap­
ids.

I  have  seen  Bunker  Hill  monument, 
Boston  Commons  and  the  golden  dome 
of  the  State  House—the  first three things 
the  Boston  people  will 
tell  you  of. 
Surely  a  visitor  needs  a  map  and  com­
pass  to  find  his  way  in  Boston,  as  the 
streets  are  very  crooked  and  make  very 
sharp  angles,  but  of  this  I  presume  you 
already  know.  As  to  this  country  for 
traveling,  I  am  disgusted  with  it.  The 
hotels  charge  from  $2.50  up  and  I  have 
not  found  one  outside  of  Boston  that 
is 
as  good  as  Sweet’s  or  the  Livingston  of 
your  city.  The  service  is  the  poorest  I 
ever  saw.  They  do  as  they  did  100 
years  ago—give  you  the  key  to  your 
room  and  tell  you  that  you  will  find  it 
on  the  right,  third  floor  up.  You  may 
think  this  strange,  but  I  met  this  ex­
perience  several  times  last  week.

My  line  of  business  is  very poor  here, 
with  no  prospects  of 
its  being  much 
better  this  year,  as  it  is  too  late  to  build 
new  houses,  and  they  never  build  in  the 
winter.  All  other  lines  of  business  are 
impr  ving. 
The  cotton  and  woolen 
mills  that  have  only  run  three  days  in 
the  week  all  summer  are  now  running 
four and  five  days  a  week  and  expect  to 
run  full  time  after  September  1.

I  have  seen  more  granite  since  com­
ing  here  than  I  have  ever  seen  of  all 
other  kinds  of  stone  put  together.  Gran­
ite  and  spruce  saplings  are  the  princi­
pal  products  of  the soil of New England.

F ra nk  M.  T y l e r .

Gripsack  Brigade.

Neil  Cary,  who  has  been  shipping 
clerk  for  the  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer Co. 
since  the  establishment of  the  house,  ten 
years  ago,  will  cover  the  trade  hereto­
fore  visited  by  the  late  Jas.  N.  Brad­
ford.

Geo.  E.  Bardeen,  the  Poo  Bah  of  Ot­
sego,  flattered  by  the large attendance  of 
Grand  Rapils  traveling  men  at  Otsego 
on  the  occasion  of  the  Fourth  of  July 
celebration  there  this  year,  has  kindly 
consented  to  attend  the  annual  picnic  of 
the  Grand  Rapids  traveling  men  on 
Sept.  10  and  bring  his  caliphothiaphi- 
cahn  along  with  him.

There  will  be  a  special  meeting  of 
Post  E  at  Sweet’s  Hotel  Saturday  even­
ing  for  the  purpose  of  listening  to  the 
reports  of  the  picnic  committees  and 
electing  a  candidate  for  member  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip.  The  report  of  the 
Committee  on  Resolutions  on  the  death 
of  the  late  Mr.  Bradford  will  also  be  re­
ceived  at  this  time.

The  more 

intimate  we  become  with 
some  self-made  men.  the  more  sincere­
ly  we  wish  they  had  failed  in  the  un­
dertaking.

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Drugs-=Chemicals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BofgD  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.  1 and 2.

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

MICHIGAN  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President—J. J. Sourwine, Escanaba.
Secretary, Chas. F. Mann, Detroit,
Treasurer  J ohn D. Muir, Grand Rapids.

The  Druggist  Who  Made  a.  Million. 
M. Quad in American Druggist.

“ No,  I’m  not  worth  §3,000,000  in 
cash,  as 
is  popularly  reported,"  said 
the  retired  druggist,  as  he  stroked  his 
chin-whiskers  in  a  complacent  way.  " I  
expect  I ’d  have  hard  work  to  scrape  up 
over  half  that  sum,  but  I  shall  manage 
to  get  along  some  way.  Meanwhile,  I’m 
rich  in  the  thought  that  I  got  my  start 
in  life  in  Connecticut.”

“ But  why  particularize Connecticut?”  

was  asked.

“ Because  of  its  laws,  and  because  of 
its  queer  people. 
In  my  time  the  drug­
gist  who  started  in  business  in  a  Con­
necticut  town  found  about  forty  old laws 
on  the  statute  books  to  confront him  and 
render  his 
the 
stranger  who  opened  business  in  a small 
town 
found  all  other  business  men 
against  him. 
I  got  a  corner  store  in  a 
big  village  and  began  to  hustle.  The 
first thing  I  did  was  to  take  a  full-page 
advertisement  in  the  local  paper.  Can 
you believe  that  I  was  arrested  for  it?”

life  miserable,  and 

“ On  what  grounds?”
“ For  unduly  exciting  the  public! 
Yes,  sir,  the  warrant  read  that  I  was 
seeking  to  stir  up  anger  and  excitement 
against  public  welfare,  and  I  was  fined 
§10  and  cautioned  to  go  slow. 
I  paid 
the  newspaper $30 for that advertisement 
and  yet  the  editor  came  out  in  the  next 
issue  and  said  it  was  evident  that a dan­
gerous  agitator  had  settled  in  the  com­
munity  and  ought  to  be  carefully  looked 
after! 
It  was  the  proprietor  of  the 
other  drug  store  who  instituted  the  pro­
ceedings  against  me,  and  in  revenge  I 
marked  all  my  patent  dollar  remedies 
down  to  eighty cents  That left a thump­
ing  big  profit,  as  you  know,  but  in 
less 
than 
thirty-six  hours  I  was  arrested 
again.  The  charge  was  that  I  was  pre­
paring  to defraud my creditors.  I  proved 
that  I  hadn’t  any,  but  owned  my  stock 
and  had  §1,500  in  bank,  but  the  court 
held  that  there  must  be  some  sort  of 
fraud  in  my  knocking  down  prices  and 
I  paid  another fine. 
I  realized  by  this 
time  that  they  were  after  me,  but  I  was 
born  of  fighting  stock  and  I  made  up 
my  mind  to  bang  on.”

“ And  the  next  move?”
“ Well,  I  had a  grocer  next  to  me,  and 
a  shoe  store  on  the  opposite corner.  The 
grocer  got  four  dozen  bottles  of  cough 
medicine  to  peddle  out,  and  the  shoe 
man  put  a  lot  of  sponges  and 
tooth­
brushes  on  sale. 
I  at  once  bought  two 
barrels  of  sugar  and  sold  it  at  a  cent  a 
pound  less  than  the  grocer,  and  I  got  a 
case  of  boots  worth  §3  a  pair and  gave 
every  man  his  choice  for  §1.50 
I  made 
those  fellows  tired  in  about  three  days, 
and  they  had  me  arrested  for  false  pre­
tenses. 
I  turned  about  and  hauled  ’em 
up  for  selling  goods  not  covered by their 
licenses,  and  they  let  go  of  me  as  if 
they’d  picked  up  a  hot  potato.  Mean­
while,  the  other  druggist  was  laying  for 
me  again.  There  was  a  law  that  every 
prescription  should  be  filed  with  the 
town  clerk,  but  not  knowing  of  it  I  had 
I  pleaded guilty  when 
taken  no  steps. 
arrested  and  was  fined  §10  and  costs. 
I 
wanted  to  get  even,  of  course,  and  the 
chance  soon  occurred.  He  visited  his 
store  on  Sunday  to  see  that  all  was 
right,  and  I  swore  out  a  warrant  and  he

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

had  to  fork  over  §5.  The  law  at  that 
time  even  kept  a  man  out  of  his  own 
store  on  Sunday,  unless  in  case  of  fire 
or  serious  illness. ”

“ Then  they  must  have  decided  to 

let 
you  alone?”   observed  an  interested  lis­
tener.

“ On  the  contrary,  the  row  had  just 
begun,”   replied  the  retired  druggist. 
“ A  dry  goods man went into toilet soaps, 
and  I  bought  and  almost  gave  away 
calico  enough  to  last  that  county  ten 
years.  When  I  had  settled  him,  a  book­
store  man  took  up  Seidlitz  powders  and 
pills,  and  I  supplied  the  town  with  free 
paper  and  envelopes. 
I  bad  got  the 
better  of  him  when  I  was  fined  for  us­
ing  obnoxious  language. 
It wasn’t  any­
thing  I  said,  but  a  sign  in  the  window, 
‘ You’ve  all  got  ’em,  but  I’ve 
reading: 
It  was  a  cold-feet  rem­
got  the  cure.' 
edy,  but  the 
judge  decided 
that  the 
sign  might  refer  to  bugs  and  other 
things,  and  was  at  any  rate  calculated 
to  shock  sensitive  people. 
I  paid  the 
usuai  fine  and  shouldered  my  gun  to  get 
back  at  the  chap  who  swore  out  the war­
rant.  He  was  a  furniture  man  and  a 
church  deacon,  and  after a  bit I had him 
fined  §5  for  obstructing  the  sidewalk 
with  a  bedstead.  As  to  trade  and  profits 
I  hadn’t  any,  of  course,  but  as  my  ex­
penses  were  light  and  my  stock  all  paid 
for  I  could  afford  to  bang  on.  When 
they  had  made  a  general  boycott  on  me 
I  used  to  go  off  fishing  or  bunting,  and 
queerly  enough  I  was  arrested  for  that. 
Under  an  old 
law,  which  read  that  a 
drug  store  must  be  kept  open  during 
reasonable  hours  on  week  days,  I  was 
fined  §10  and  costs.  My  rival  was  the 
man  who  caused 
it,  and  the  very  next 
day  I  got  even  with  him.  A  chimney 
burned  out  and  he rang the fire bell.  The 
law  read  that  any  person  ringing  the 
bell  unless  there  was  a  fire  was  guilty  of 
a  misdemeanor,  and  as  there  was  no 
fire  it  cost  him  §8  to  square  matters.”

“ But  they 

asked  the 
wanted  to  lock  up  and  go  to  bed.

let  you  alone  at  last?’ ’ 
impatient  drug  clerk  who 

“ Yes,  after  a  year  or  two  more  of 
it,’ ’  replied  the  retired  druggist  with  a 
grim  smile,  “ but  I’m  thinking  that 
most  young  men  in  my  position  would 
have  got  discouraged  and  thrown  up  the 
sponge.  Perhaps  you  never  heard  that 
there  used  to  be  a  law  in  Connnecticut 
against  the  use  of  ambiguous  language? 
Well,  there  was,  and  I  was  arrested  and 
fined  §3  under  it.  A  man  came  in  with 
a  sore  finger  and  wanted  to  know  if  tar 
would  heal  it. 
I  told  him  I  doubted  it, 
and  that  was  defined  a s ‘ ambiguous. ’ 
It ^ was  the  furniture  man  who  put  up 
this  job,  and  next  day  I  had  him  up  for 
cruelty  to  animals  in  keeping  a  dog  in 
the  store  over  night.  In  the  last  attempt 
to  crush  me  the  furniture  man,  the shoe- 
store  man,  the  grocer  and 
the  rival 
druggist  were  combined.  A  hov  came 
into  the  store  with  a  sore  heel  and  I 
dressed  it  with  a  piece  of  court-plaster. 
They  brought  up  an  old  law  to  prove 
that  I  had  given  ‘ medical  aid  and  as­
sistance’  without  having  filed  my  di­
ploma  as  a  physician,  and  I  paid  some­
thing 
for  my  charity.  The 
laugh  was  on  me,  but  not  for  long. 
I 
caught the old  deacon out after 10 o’clock 
without  a  lantern  and  had  him  hauled 
up.  The  shoe-store  man  got  into  a  jaw 
with  a  drayman,  and  I  had  seven counts 
of  harsh  and  undue  language’  against 
him 
in  the  warrant.  The  grocer  left  a 
trap-door  open 
‘ against  public  safety’ 
and  had  to  pay  §4  and  costs,  and  the 
druggist  was  soaked  §25  under  an  an­
cient  law  which  held  that  all  salves  sold 
for  the  curing  of  sores  must  be  com­
pounded  by  ‘ ye  keeper of  the  drug  store 
himself!’  ”

like  §25 

“ And  then  you  shook  hands  over  the 
chasm  and  began  to  make  your  million 
and  a  half?”   was  asked  as  the  retired 
druggist  got  up  to go.

“ Why,  yes,  that  was  the  end  of  the 
attempted  freeze-out,  but  I  sold mv store 
after  a  bit.  There  was  no  money  to  be 
made  there. ’ ’

“ But  how—how?’ ’
“ Oh,  I  got  elected  to  the  Legislature 
and  stood 
in  with  the  ring  for  two  or 
three  terms.  It  may  not  be  quite  a  mil­
lion  and  a  half,  but  a  few  thousand  dol­
lars  makes  no  difference  one  way  or  the 
other. 
I  was  telling  you  of  my  adven­

tures  as  a  druggist  simply  to  point  a 
moral. ”

“ But  what  is  the  point?”
“ Go  into  some  other  business  if  you 

want  to  make  a  million  and  a  half!’ ’
Denounce  Manufacturers  Who  Have 

Advanced  Prices.

The  first  organized  move  in  retalia­
tion  against  manufacturers  who  have 
advanced  their prices beyond the amount 
of  the  war  tax  has  been  taken  by  the 
Iowa  Pharmaceutical Association,  which 
has  placed  itself  on  record  by  the  adop­
tion  of  the  following  resolutions:

Whereas,  Some  manufacturers  of  pat­
ent  and  proprietary  articles,  from  mer­
cenary  or  other  motives,  defiantly  stand 
conspicuous  in  the  evasion  of a patriotic 
duty,  and  not  only  decline,  but  refuse 
to  contribute  their 
just  and  equitable 
share  of  the  war  revenue  tax  by  pre­
stamping,  as  we  believe  the  law directs, 
without  cost  to  the  trade,  the  articles 
of  their  manufacture;  not  alone  this, 
but  they  have  gone  further  even,  to 
take  advantage  of  a  legal  requirement 
to  advance  the  cost  of  their  articles  be­
yond  the  regular  price,  including  the 
stamp,  in  their  prices,  to  the  jobbing 
and  retail  druggists,  thereby  making  a 
profit  out  of  a  public  necessity;  and

Whereas,  The  undersigned,  regarding 
this  action  outrageously arbitrary,  show­
ing  not  only  a  lack  of  patriotism  to  the 
National  Government,but unjustly trans­
ferring  the  burdens  of  taxation  to  the 
shoulders  of  the  druggists  and  their  pat­
rons,  which  the  manufacturers  as  Amer­
ican  citizens,  should  uncomplainingly 
bear;  and

Whereas,  Some  of  these  manufactur­
ers  did  not  reduce their  prices  when  the 
former  tax  was  removed 
in  1882,  al­
though  they  secured  the  repeal  of  the 
tax  law  by  the  co-operation  of  the  re­
tailers;  and
Whereas,  We  believe  that  the  asser­
tion  that  they,  as  manufacturers,  are 
compelled  to  advance  prices  because  of 
the  increased  cost  of  materials  used  to 
he  a  delusion,  and our belief  is  based  on 
the  fact  that 
improved  methods  and 
modern  machinery  have  materially  re­
duced  the  cost  of  production  since 1882; 
therefore,  be  it

Resolved,  That  when  the  provisions 
of  these  preamble  resolutions  shall  have 
been  signed  by  75  per  cent,  or  more  of 
the  druggists  ol  this  State,  these  resolu­
tions  shall  be  considered  effective  as 
follows:

Resolved,  That  we appeal  to  the  fair- 
mindedness  of  the  manufacturers  to  re­
consider  their  action  in  advancing  their 
prices,  as  a  matter  of  justice  to  the  re­
tail  dealers  of  the  United  States,  believ­
ing  the  manufacturer  does  not  fully 
realize  the  many  burdens  already  im­
posed  upon  the  fraternity;  yet  we  will­
ingly  assume  our  just  share  of  all  taxes, 
but  decline  to  assume  those  of  the  man­
ufacturer,  and  we  candidly  and  firmly 
agree that  to  such  manufacturers  as  will 
not  recognize  this  just  claim,  we  will 
decline  to  sell,  offer  for  sale  or  display 
any  article  of  their  manufacture  upon 
which  they  have  advanced  their  prices 
to  the  retailer  because  of  the  stamp 
tax,  and  to  carry  out  the  purpose  of  this 
resolution,  the  undersigned  individual­
ly  and  collectively  agree.

Resolved,  That  we  will  extend  our 
hearty  co-operation  to  all  those  manu­
facturers  who  have  not  advanced  the 
price  of  their  preparations.

Resolved,  That  as  we  now  recognize

importance  of  being 

the  full 
in  posi­
tion  to  raise  a  band  in  self-defense,  that 
we  fully  perfect  county  organizations  to 
State  associations, 
co-operate  with 
where  practical,  that  matters  of  mutual 
interest  may  be  promptly  and 
intelli­
gently acted  upon,  to  the end that justice 
to  all  parties  may  be  secured. 
It  is 
further

Resolved,  That  we  ask  the  co-opera­
tion  of  the  public  to  help  us  in  this 
stand  against  this  great  injustice.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Is  firm  at  unchanged  prices.
Morphine— Has  undergone  no  change 

during  the  week.

Quinine— Is 
changed  prices.

in  good  demand  at  un­

Cinchonidia— Is  again  in  demand  and 

prices  have  advanced.

Citric  Acid— Is  very  firm  at  the  ad­

vance  noted  last  week.

Antipyrine—Is  weak  at  the  decline. 
Bulk  goods  are  sold  very  much  under 
rate  for  ounce  packages.

Cod  Liver  Oil— The  market  is  firm 
and  higher  prices  are  looked  for  in  the 
near  future.

Glycerine—At  this  season  of  the  year 
of  small  demand  stocks  are  accumu­
lating  and  prices  are  lower.

Menthol— Has  advanced  abroad  and

is  higher  in  this  market.

Essential  Oils—There  are  no  changes 
in 

to  note  except  an  increased  firmness 
sassafras  and  cloves.

Flowers—Chamomile,  both  Belgium 
firmly  held  at  ad­

and  German,  are 
vanced  prices.

Buchu  Leaves-Are  advancing  stead­

ily  and  there  is  a  reported  scarcity.

Golden  Seal  Root— Has  advanced  and 

will  be  higher.

Seeds—The  crop  of  caraway  is  small 
and  poor.  Foreign  markets  have  ad­
vanced  and  higher  prices  are  asked 
here.  Flax,  both  whole  and  ground,  is 
lower.  Other  seeds  are  unchanged.

Spices—There  are  no  changes  to note.
Linseed  Oil— Is  very  difficult to quote. 
The  National  Co.  asks  35c 
in  carlots 
f.  o  b.  Chicago.  Outside  crushers  are 
selling  at  very  much  Jess.

Sulphur—Refiners  have  entered  into  a 

combination  and  reduced  prices.

Spurious  St.  Ignatius  Bean.

It  is  reported  from  Kew  that  a  spuri­
ous  kind  of  St.  Ignatius  bean  has  ap­
peared  on  the  market. 
It  has  been  im­
ported  as  the  “ Ignatia  Amara  Bean,”  
from  Matto  Grosso,  Central  Brazil,  but 
instead  of  being  the  product  of  Strycb- 
nos  Ignatii,  comes  from  some  pod-hear­
ing  plant,  and,  as  a  mattter  of  fact,  are 
portions  of  the  pod.  There  appears  not 
to  be  any  cheating  in  the  matter;  “ St. 
Ignatius  bean" 
is  a  name  applied  to 
several  things  in  South  America,  and 
this  happens  to  be  one  of  them.

H er father was a  drug-gist,

She was cashier in  his store; 
A nd the other  girls all envied 

The complexion that she wore.

It  is  folly  for  a  woman to put a special 
delivery  stamp  on  a  letter  and  then give 
it  to  her  husband  to  mail.

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

Best  Value  for the Money.

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

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

THE  AMERICAN  PLAYING  CARD  CO.,

KALAMAZOO,  MICH.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

C.  Co...............

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N
2 55® 2 80
2 45® 2 70
®  40
65®  80
@  10 
15®  18
®  1  00
@ 2 00 
@  1  00 
®  85
@  50
®  18 
®  30
7
@ 
12
10® 
1  10®  1  20
®  1  25 
25®  30
8®  
10 
29®  31
22®  32
29®  34
12®  14
18®  20
3 00® 3  10
40®  50
12®  14
10®  
12
20  @

Morphia, S.P.&W... 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
Moschus Canton__
Myristica, No. 1......
Nux Vomica... po.20
Os  Sepia.................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co....................
Picis Liq. N.N.54gal.
doz........................
Picis Liq., quarts__
Picis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80 
Piper Nigra.. .po.  22
Piper Alba__po.  35
Pi ix  Burgun  .........
Plumbi  Acet...........
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Pyrethrum, boxes H
& P. D. Co., doz..
Pyrethrum,  pv__
Quassi»...............
Qulnla, S. P. & W. 
Quinia, S. German
Quinia, N.Y.........
Rubia Tinctorum... 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin...............
Sanguis Draconls
Sapo,  W..............
Sapo, M...............
Sapo. G...............
Siedlitz  Mixture

® 
is
Sinapis.................... 
Sinapis, opt............  
©  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.....................   @  34
Snuff,Scotch.DeVo’s  @  34
Soda Boras..............  9  ®  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  ®  11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  154® 
2
Soda, Bi-Carb......... 
5
3© 
Soda,  Ash...............   354® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........  
® 
2
® 2 60
Spts. Cologne........... 
50®  55
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
Spt  Myrcia Dom... 
@ « 00
Spts. Vini Reet. bbl. 
@ 2 52
Spts. Vini Rect.54bbl  @ 2 57
Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal  @2 60 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @ 2 62
Strychnia, Crystal...  I  40® 1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   254®  3*4
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
g® 
Tamarinds.............. 
10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobrom»............  
46®  48
Vanilla..................   9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph............  
7® 
8

Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days. 

2&@  4

Oils

BBL.  SAL.
70
70 
Whale, winter......... 
Lard,  extra............   50 
60
Lard, No. 1.............. 
40 
45

I S

38
.  39
70
40

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
85 
Linseed, boiled......   36 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
34 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
Paints  BBL. 

LB
Red Venetian.........   1 \   2  ©8
Ochre, yellow Mars.  15i  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  1%  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2%  254@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2*4  2l£@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............. 
13®  15
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, Paris...........  1854®  22
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13®  16
Lead, Red...............   5»i@  6if
Lead, white............  5$£@  654
Whiting, white Span  @ 
'.0
Whiting,  gilders’...  @  10
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @  1  40
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

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

Advanced- 
Declined —

4® 6
6® 8
12® 14
12® 14

AUCUCUUl.................<
70® 75
Benzolcum, German
Boracic....................
@ 15
29® 41
Carbolicum............
Oitricum.................
4°@ 50
3® 5
Hydrochlor............
8® 10
Nitrocum...............
12® 14
Oxalicum...............
@ 15
Phosphorium.  dll...
60© 65
Salicylicum.............
1%@ 5
Sulphuricum.........
Tannicum.............. 1  25®  1 40
38® 40
Tartarlcnm..............
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg...........
Aqua, 20 deg...........
Carbonas.................
Chloridum..............
Aniline
Black....................... 2 00© 2 25
80®  1  00
Brown....................
45® 50
R ed.........................
Yellow.................... 2 50® 3 00
Baccse.
13® 15
Cube»e...........po. 18
6® 8
Juntperus...............
25® 30
Xantboxylum.........
Balsamum
52® 58
Copaiba...................
Peru.
45®
Terabin, Canada —
50®
Tolutan...................
Cortez 
Abies, Canadian —
Cassias......................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropo rp
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgin!.......
Quillaia,  gt’d .........
Sassafras___ .po. 18
Ulmus.. .po. 15,  gr’d 
Extraction 

24®
28®
11®13®
14®
16®

Glycyrrhlza Glabra.
Glycyrrhiza, po......
Hæmatox, 15 lb box.
Haematox, Is
Haematox, 54s ........
Haematox, a s........
Perm
Carbonate Precip.
Citrate and Qulnla
Citrate Soluble__
Ferrocyanidum So 
Solut.  Chloride 
Sulphate, com'l 
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt......
Sulphate,  pure  —
Flora

Arnica.................... 
12®
Anthemis..................  
18®
Matricaria..............  30®

Folia

8®

Barosma.................. 
33®
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18®
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25® 
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and  14s.................  
12®
Ura Ursi...................... 
Qumml
®
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
®
Acacia,  2d  picked.. 
®
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
®
Acacia, po...............  
60®
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20  12®
Aloe, Cape___po. 15  @
Aloe, Soeotri.. po. 40  @
Ammoniac.............. 
55®
Assafcstida___po. 30  25®
Benzoin u m ............  
50®  55
Catechu, Is..............  @  13
®  14
Catechu, 14s............  
®  16
Catechu, 14s............ 
Cam phor»............  
38®  42
Euphorblum. ,po.  35
® 
to 
Galbanum...............   @1
00 70 
Gamboge  po........... 
65®
30 
Guaiacum....... po. 25  @
Kino...........po. *3.u0 
® 3
00 60 
Mastic....................   @
40 
Myrrh..............po.  45  @
UO 
Opii..  po. I5.20@5.40 3  90® 4
35
Shellac....................   25®
Shellac, bleached... 
40®
Tragacanth............  
50®

Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Gupatorium .oz.  pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg
Rue...............oz. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
ThymuB,  V..oz. pkg 
flagnesia.
Calcined, Pat........... 
55®
Carbonate, Pat........ 
20®
20®
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings  35®

Oleum
Absinthium............
Amygdalae, Dulc__
Amygdalae, Amarae.
Anisf.......................
Auranti  Cortex......
Bergamii.................
Cajiputi...................
Carvophylli............
Cedar.......................
Chenopadii..............
cinnamonii.............
Cjtronella 
.............

3 50® 3 75 
30®  50
8 00®  8 25 
2  It ® 2 20
2 25® 2 40
3 00®  3 20
80®  85
8j®  8)
35®  65
© 2 75 
I  60®  1  70 
45®  50

50
1  25 
1  00 
1  10 
1  10 
1  60
75 
60 
1  10
2  00 
2  001  50
2  20 
1  60 
1  25 
4  50 
3 00
12 
35 
1  10 
1  00 
8 50 
45 
1  00 
7 00 
60 
65 
1  »1 
50 
1  60 
20

35®
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba...................   } 15®
Cubebae.................... 
go®
Gxechthttos...........  1  00®
Erlgeron..................  1 on®
Gaultherla...............  1 50®
Geranium,  ounce...  ® 
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50®
Hedeoma.................  1  Of®
Junipera.................   1  50®
Lavendula.............. 
go®
Limonis...................  1  30®
Mentha  Piper.........   1  60®
Mentha Verid.........   1  50®
Morrhuae,  gal.........   1  10®
Myrcia,...................   4 00®
Olive.......................  
75®
Picis  Liquida.........  
10®
Picls Liquida, gal...  @
R iclua....................  9,®
Rosmarini...............  
®
Rosa,  ounce...........  6  50®
Succlni...................  40®
Sabina................... 
go®
Santal......................  2 50®
Sassafras................. 
55®
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
®
Tlglfi.......................   1  70®
Thyme....................  40®
Thyme,  opt............   @
Theobromas........... 
15®
Potassium
Bl-Carb.................... 
is®
Bichromate............ 
13®
Bromide...................  50®
Carb.......................  
12®
15 
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®
18 
Cyanide...................  35@
40 
iodide......................  2 60®
2 65 
Potassa, Bitart, pure  2b®
30 
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @
15 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10®
12 
Potass Nitras........... 
ic®
1
Prussiate.................  2u@  25
Sulphate p o ........... 
15®  18

Radix

Aconitvm...............  
20®
Althse......................  22®
Anchusa................. 
io@
Arum po..................   @
Calamus.................  20®
Gentiana........po  15 
12®
Glychrrhiza.. .pv. 15  16®
Hydrastis Canaden .  @
Hydrastis Can., po..  @
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
18®
Inula, po................. 
15®
Ipecac, po...............   2 80®.
Iris plox —  po35®38  35®
Jalapa, pr................  25®
Maranta,  14s 
Podophyllum, po....  22®
R hel....................... 
75®
@
Rhei, cut.............. 
Rhel, pv................... 
75®
35®
Spigelia................... 
Sanguinaria.  . po.  15  @
Serpentaria............  
30®
Senega.................... 
40®
®
Similax,officinalis H 
Smilax, M................  @
Scili»..............po.35 
10®
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po................. 
eh
Valeriana, Eng. po.30 
Valeriana,  German.
15®
Zingiber a ............ . 
ia@
Zingiber j ...............  
25®
Semen
Anisum.........po.  15  @
Apium  (graveleons) 
13®
Bird, Is....................  
4®
Carni............ po. 18  10®
Cardamon...............   1  25®
Cori an drum............  
8®
Cannabis  Sativa__ 
4®
Cydonium...............  
75®
Chenopodium  ........ 
io@
Dipterix  Odorate.  .  1  80®
Fosnieulúm............   @
7®
Foenugreek, po........ 
L ini.........................  314®
Lini,  grd —  bbl. 3m 
4®
Lobelia..................  
35®
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4®
Rapa.....................    454©
Sinapis Albu........... 
g@
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
it®
Spiri tus

Frumenti, W.  D. Co.  2 00® 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00®
Frum enti..................1  25©
Jnniperis Co. O. T..  1  65®
Junjperis Co...........  1  75®
Saacharum N.  E__  1  90®
Spt. Vini Galli........  1  75®
Vini Oporto............   l  25®
Vini  Alba...............   1  25®

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage............... 2 !
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac 
..........
Ferri Iod.................
Rbei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis..
Senega...................
Snill»..........

50®

.. 

n iscellan eo u s 

60 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
50 
75 
50 
75 
75 
I  00 
50 
50 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50 
50 
50 
50 
15

Scili» Co  ..
Tolutan__
Prunus vlrg
Tinctures 
Aconitum Na pel 1 is R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafcstida............
Atrope  Belladonna
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin..................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon.........
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor......................
Catechu...................
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co...........
Columba 
............
Cubeba....................
Cassia  J butifol......
C’ssr  »cutifolCo  .
lu.gl  ml 18 
.
Ergot.......................
Ferri Chloridu  '
Gentian...................
Gentian Co............
Guiaca..................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus...........
Iodine.....................
Iodine, colorless. . .
Kino......................
Lobelia..................
Myrrh......................
Nux Vomica.........
Opii.........................
Opii, camphorated.
Opii,  deodorized__
Quassia...................
Rhatany.  ..............
Rhei.........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria.  .........
Stromonium...........
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride ...
Zingiber..................
Æther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
-¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F 
?4@
Alumen..................   2H®
Alumeu, gro’d..po. 7
A nnatto.................
Antimoni,  po......
Antimoni et PotassT
Antipyrin..............
Antifebrin 
...........
Argenti Nitras, oz ..
Arsenicum..............
Balm Gilead  Bud  .
Bismutb  8. N......... 1  •
Calcium Chlor.,  is!.
Calcium Chlor.,  54s.
Calcium Chlor.,  j^s. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici  Fructus. af.
Capsici Fructus, po.
Capsici FructusB.po 
Caryophyllus.po.  15
Carmine, No. 40......  
Cera Alba................ 
Cera Flava..............
Coccus....................
Cassia Fructus__
Centrarla.................
Cetaceum................
Chloroform.............  60
Chloroform, squibbs
Chloral Hyd Crst__  165®
Chondrus................  
20®
Cinchonidine, P. & W  25® 
Cinchonidine, Germ  22®
Cocaine..................   3 30®
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum........
Creta............. bbl. 75
Creta, p re p __   __
Creta, precip.........
Creta, Rubra...........
Crocus.................... 
Cudbear.................
Cupri Sulph............
Dextrine..................
Ether Sulph............
Emery, all  numbers
Emery, po...............
Ergota...........po. 40
Flake  White........... 
Galla........................
Gambler.  ...............
Gelatin, Cooper..... 
Gelatin, French...... 
Glassware, flint, box
Less than  box__
Glue,  brown...........
Glue, white............
Glycerina...............   >5*4
Grana  Paradisl  __
Humulus................. 
25
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
Hydraag Chlor Qor.
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
Hydraag Ammoniati 
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
Icnthyobolla, Am... 
Indigo...................... 
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.......   ....
Lupulin...................
Lycopodium...........
Macis....................
Liquor  Arsen et Hy­
dra rg Iod.............
LiquorPotassArsinlt
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
Mannia, S. F ...........
Menthol. 
......

_
50®

_
35®

18

1

_

25 
25 
12 
25 
40 
15 
18 
50 
60 
20 
20 
3 00 
40 
30 
35 
25 
1  00 1  25 
1  35 
38 
13 
35 
45 
40 
25

25
25
20
16
27

12 
15 
6 
12 
1  75 
10 
4* 
1  00 
12 
1  90 
10 
9 
454 
454 40
454
5
10
12

2 50
2 25
1  50
2 00
3 50 
2  10 
6 50 
2  00 
2 00

2 75
2  00
1  25
1  00
1  00 
75

20

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

G R O C E R Y   P R I C E   C U R R E N T .

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

AXLE  OREASE.doz.- gross
6 00
7 00
4  00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00

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

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.
*  ’b cans doz........
34 Id ¿ans doz........
lb can  doz........
Acme.

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

El Purity.

Arctic.

Home.

Our Leader.

Jersey Cream.

34 lb cans, 4 doz case......  
34 lb cans. 4 doz case........ 

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

BATH  BRICK.

Queen Flake.

Peerless.

BLUING.
DL.UIÜU.

CQNSENSCT)
Ö LuiflC

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...................... 1  15
Parlor Gem....................... 2  00
Common Whisk.................
70
Fancy WUlsk.....................
30
Warehouse......................... 2  25
8s....................................... -.7
16s  ............................................. ..8
Paraffine............................. -.8

CANDLES.

BROOnS.

CANNED  GOODS.
flanitowoc  Peas.

CATSUP.

Lakeside Marrowfat......... %
Lakeside E.  J .................... 1  15
Lakeside. Cham, of Eng.... 1  20
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted. 1  45
Extra Sifted Early June... .1  75
Columbia, 
pints............ .2  00
Columbia, 34 pintB............
.1  25
CHEESE
Acme......................
© 10
Amboy....................
© 10
Butternut...............
© 10
Carson City.............
© 10
Emblem...................
@ 9K
Gem...................  ...
© 1034
Ideal....................... @ 9?i
Jersey  ....................
© 10
Lenawee................. @ 8
Riverside................. @ 10
S parta....................
©
Springdale..............
©
Brick.......................
@ 11
Edam.......................
© 70
Leiden....................
© 17
Llmburger..............
© 12
Pineapple................ 50 © 85
Sap  Sago.................
© 17
Chicory.
Bulk 
.....................
5
Red
7
CHOCOLATE.
Walter Baker & Co
German Sweet..............
Premium......................
Breakfast  Coeoa...........

..23
..84
..45

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz..........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz..........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz..........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  do*..........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  do*..........1  SO
Jute, 60 ft,  per  do*.............  80
Jute. 72 ft.  per do*..............  95
COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags.......................
Less quantity.................  
Pound  packages............  
CREAtl  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes..30-35

3
4

COFFEE.

Green.
RIo.

Santos.

Mexican  and  Guatamala.

F air.......................................... 9
Good........................................10
Prim e......................................11
Golden  ...................................12
Peaberry  ................................13
Fair  ........................................12
Good  ......................................13
Prim e......................................14
Peaberry  ................................15
Fair  ....................... 
15
Good  ......................................16
Fancy 
...................................17
Maracaibo.
Prim e......................................19
Milled......................................20
Interior...................................19
Private  Growth...................... 20
Mandehllng............................ 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.......1834
Ideal  Blend........................14
Leader  Blend.....................12

Roasted.

Mocha.

Java.

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 5£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
ilcL sugh lln ’s  XXXV.
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  &
Co., Chicago.
75
Valley City 34 gross......
Felix 34 gross.................
!  25
Hummel’s foil 34 gross  ..
85
;  4?
Hummel’s tin 34  gross
CLOTHES  PINS.
5 gross boxes.  . 
.........
.  40
CONDENSED  MIL
4 doz in case.
6 75
Gail Borden  Eagle.........
.6 25
Crown..............................
.5  75
Daisy...........•....................
.4  50
Champion  .......................
4  25
Magnolia 
......................
.3 35
Challenge..........................
..3 35
COUPON  BOOKS
Tradesman Grade.

Extract.

Superior Grade.

Economic  Grade.

50 books, any denom... 1  50
100 books, any denom... 2 50
500 books, any denom... 11  50
1,000 books, any denom... 20 00
50 books, any denom... 1  50
100 books, any denom... 2 50
500 books  any denom... 11  50
1,000 books, any denom... 20 00
50 books, any denom... 1  50
100 books, any denom... 2 50
500 books, any denom... 11  50
1.000 books, any denom... 20 00
Can be made to represent any
20 books......................... 1  00
50 books......................... 2 00
100 books  .......................
3 00
250 books.................. C 25
500 books.................. 10 00
1000 books..................... 17 50

denomination from 110 down.

Coupon Pass Books,

Universal Grade.

Apples.

Credit Checks.

California  Fruits.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1,000 books, any denom__20 00
500, any one denom'n...... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n ......  5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.......................   75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOHESTIC 
Sundried.......................   © 5
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @  8 
Apricots.....................  ©834
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................   © 734
Peaches.......................  634©  734
Pears......   .................   8  ©  734
Pitted Cherries...........
Prannelles..................
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.........  @  63£
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  © 9
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  ©
34 cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Prunes.

Raisins.

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

1  45 
I K
334 
434 
534 

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

Raisins.

Patras bbls.......................@ 734
Vostizzas 50 lb cases....... @  734
Cleaned, bulk  ................. @ 834
Cleaned, packages...........© 834
Citron American 101b bx  ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx  ©12 
Orange American 10 lb bx  @12 
Ondura 28 lb boxes......8  @834
Sultana  1 Crown.........   @
Sultana 2 Crow n........  @
Sultana 3 Crown.........   @734
Sultana  4 Crown.........   ©
Sultana  5 Crown.........   @
Sultana 6 Crown.........   ©12
Sultana package.........   @14
FARINACEOUS  QOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages..............V50
Bulk, per 100 lbs..............3 50
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Farina.

Grits.

Peas.

Beans.

Hominy.

..2 00
.3 00

24 2 lb. packages...........
100 lb. kegs...................
200 lb. barrels................
Barrels  ......................... .  2 50
Flake, 50 lb.  drums...... . 1   00
Dried Lima  .................. .. 
3*
Medium Hand  Picked.
Macearon! and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  101b. box__ ..  60
Imported, 25 lb. box..
..2  50
Pearl Barley.
Common...............  — ..  1  90
Chester......................... ..  2 25
Em pire......................... ..  3 00
Green,  bu...................... ..  95
Split,  per lb................... ■ ■ 
Rolled  Oats.
Rolled Avena,  bbl__ ...4 25
Monarch,  bbl................
.3 80
Monarch.  34  bbl........... ..2 05
Monarch, 90 lb sacks__ ..1  85
Quaker, cases................ ..3 20
Huron, cases.................
German.........................
East  India....................
Flake ............................
Pearl..............................
Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkges..
Cracked, bulk............... .. 
24 2 lb packages................2  50

4
334
334
3%
5
3H

Tapioca.

Wheat.

Sago.

234

Salt  Fish.

Cod.

Georges cured............  ©  4
Georges genuine........  ©  5
Georges selected........  ©  534
Strips or  bricks.........   6  © 9

Herring.

Holland white hoops, bbl. 
Holland white hoop 34bbl  2 75
Holland,  34  bbl................  1  30
Holland white hoop, keg. 
75 
Holland white hoop mchs
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  2 75
Round  40 lbs...................  1  30
13
Scaled............................... 

flackerel.

Mess 100 lbs......................  15 00
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...................   148
No. 1  8 lbs  ....................   1 20
No. 2 100 lbs......................  8 50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3 70
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  On
No. 2 
83

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

Trout.

No. 1100 lbs.  . 
5 25
No. 1  40 lbs....................   2 40
No. 1 
68
No. 1 
57

10 lbs.................. 
8 lbs...................  
WhltefUh.

No. 1  No. 2 Fam
2  25
100 lbs....
1  20
40 lbs 
.
33
10 lbs — .... 
33
8 lbs__ .... 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

...  6 65
....  3 00
81
88

Jennings’.

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

D. C. Lemon
2 oz.......   75
3 oz........ 1  00
4 oz....... 1  40
60Z........ 2  00
No.  8...2 40 
No. 10...4  00 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3 T.l  25 
No.  4 T.l  50

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

Lem.  Van.
1 20
1 *0
2 00
2 25

Souders’.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

in  the  world 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon, 

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

Regular 
Vanilla.

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

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

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

HERBS.

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

INDIGO.

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

Scotch, in bladders......
55  Maccaboy, In jars.........
50  Frencb Rappee, in  Jars

3
8i
43

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

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

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

SBBDS.
A nise.......................
Canary, Smyrna.......
Caraway.................
Cardamon,  Malabar
Celery......................
Hemp,  Russian.......
Mixed  Bird..............
Mustard,  white.......
Poppy  ......................
Rape........................
Cuttle Bone..............
SALT.

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

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

JELLY.

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

Diamond  Crystal.

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

Common Grades.

9
334
8
60
11
334
43»5
10
434
20

.1  90 
.1  75 
.1  60

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

LYB.

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

LICORICE.

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

MINCB MEAT.

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

flATCHBS.

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

nOLASSES.
New Orleans.

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

Half-barrels 2c extra.
MU5TARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216...........................  1 70
Clay. T.  D. full count........ 
Cob, No. 8..........................  

65
85

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s.................................  4 00
PennaSalt  Co.’s...................... 8 00

PICKLES.
fledlum.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........  4  75
Half bbls, 600 connt...........  2 90

Small.

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

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................  634
Carolina  No. 1  ............... .'  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................  3%

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1......................
Japan.  No. 2.....................  6
Java, fancy  bead..............  6
Java, No. 1.........................  534
T ab le................................

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

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

SODIO 60 lb.

case
Í 3 I 5

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls..............  75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  90
Lump, bbls.......................   75
Lump, 1451b kegs..............  85

SNUPP.

100 3 lb sacks............
00 5-lb sacks............
28 10-lb sacks......... ,
Worcester
50  4  lb.  cartons...
115  2341b. sacks......
60  5  lb. sacks........
22 14  lb. sacks......
3010  lb. sacks........
28 lb. linen sacks......
56 lb. linen sacks......
Bulk In barrels.........
Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60

Higgins.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks 

...  60

Solar  Rock.

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

Common.

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

...  24

...  70 
...  70

SOAP.

Gast A Pulte’s Brands, 

White Rose, 100 bars, 7' lbs.2 75
White Rose,  5 box lot........2 60
W’hite Rose, 10 b ix lot........2 50
G. A P.’s Leader, 100 bars.. .2 F0 
G. & P.’s Leader,  5 box lot.2 40 
G. A P.’s Leader, 10 box lot.2 30
JAXO N
Single box...........................2 vs
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 z5
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
Klrkoline..............................3 50
Eos.......................................2 50

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

100 cakes, 75 lbs.

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

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  . .2  75
Good Cheer, 60 l-lb. bars__3 75
Uno, 100 X-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 05

Scouring.

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

SODA.

Boxes  .................................534
Kegs, English 
..............  4|g

 

 

SPICES.
Whole Silted.
Allspice  .................  
13
Cassia, China In mats  ........iz
Cassia, Batavia in  bund__ 25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........32
Cloves, Amboyna................ 14
Cloves, Zanzibar..................12
Mace,  Batavia....................55
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2................... 45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 11 
Pepper, Singapore, white... 12
Pepper,  shot........................12
Allspice 
........................... 15
Cassia, Batavia  ................ ,3j
Cassia,  Saigon...................40
Cloves, Zanzibar..................14
(linger,  African..................lo
Ginger,  Cochin  ..................18
Ginger,  Jamaica  ................2?
Mace,  Batavia.....................P6
Mustard  ........................12@18
Nutmegs,......................40©. 0
Pepper, Sing , black............12
Pepper, Sing., white........... 20
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage. 
15

Pure Ground In Bulk.

 

SYRUPS
Corn.

Puro Cano.

Barrels...............................  15
Half  bbls....................   17
Pair 
ie
Good................................   20
Choice 
..........................   25
STARCH.

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

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

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

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

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. 

bbls.  pails
Standard.................  6M@  7
Standard H.  H.......  
6M@ 7
Standard Twist......  6  ©  8
Cut Loaf................. 
© 8J4
_ 
cases
Jumbo, 321b  .......... 
© 6M
J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.
Extra H .H.............. 
@ «¡4
Boston  Cream........ 
©

G. 

. 

Mixed Candy.

Grocers................... 
Competition............ 
Standard................. 
Conserve.............. 

Broken  ................... 
Cut  L o a f............ 
English Rock.........  
Kindergarten.........  
French  Cream........ 
Dandy Pan.............  
Valley Cream.........  

Fancy—In Bulk.

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

Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands.

Double Eagles. 6 sizes.$55'@70 00 
Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes....  55@7u 00
Mr. Thomas...............  
35 00
35 00
Cuban Hand  Made.... 
Crown  Five...............  
35 00
35 00
Club Five................... 
35 00
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 
Little Peggy.............. 
35  00
Signal  Five.............. 
35 to
Knights of Pythias.... 
35 00
Key West Perfects,2sz  55®60 00

........................... 35 00

© e
@ 6*4
© 7
© 7%

© 8M
©
©  g
© 8*4
© g%
@10
©12

© giz
©  9
©14
©li
© g
© g
q
© 9

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

VINEGAR.

J£a}t White Wine, 40 grain....  6 
Malt v\ iiite Wine, 80 grain 
9
Pure  Cider.......................   . ."."lu
Pure Cider,  Leroux................n
Pure Cider, Genesee........... [ ’ 11
Pure Cider, Robinson.............u

WICKINO.

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

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Butter.

Seymour XXX...................  5^
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  cartou  6m
Family XXX  ......
Salted XXX  ... 
New  York XXX..'
' /
Wolverine.............. 
Boston............ 

t £
«S
.............   «7*

......
 

........

Soda.

Soda  XXX  .......................   6u
6 !;
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton 
Soda,  City.......... 
" 
8
Long Island  W a f e r s ]  11
L. I. Wafers,  1 lb carton  ..  12
Zephyrette.......................  jo

Oyster.

Saltiiie Wafer....................  5y
Salcine Wafer, 1 lb  carton  6M
Farina Oy.-ter....................  5«
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6M

" 

SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  jqu
Bent’s Water..................      15
Cocoanut Taffy........ 
jq
Coffee Cake, Java............  lu
Coffee Cake, Iced........ 
10
'  15%
Oracknells................... 
Cubans  ................................n g
Frosted  Cream..................   9
Ginger Gems...................’'  g
Ginger Snaps, X X X . 7%
Graham Crackers  ............   g
Graham Wafers...............   10
Grand Ma Cakes...............  9
Imperials..........................   8
Jumoles,  Honey................ ’ 11 u
Marshmallow  ..................]  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow  Walnuts...  16
Mich.  Frosted Honey___  12M
Molasses  Cakes.................  g
Newton............  
12
Nic Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  6%
Pretzels,  hand  made  ......  8
Sears’Lunch......................  7%
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sugar  Squares.................  9
Vanilla  Wafers..............  14
Sultanas............................  12M

 

 

____ Oils._____

Barrels.

Eocene  ......................  @11V4
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt 
©  954
W W Michigan...........  @  8m
Diamond White.........  ©  7%
D., S. Gas....................  © 9
Deo. N aptha..............  © 7
Cylinder....................25  ©34
Engine  ..................... 11  ©21
B’OCV 
© g

Kingaford’s  Corn.

40 1-lb packages...................  8
20 1 lb packages.....................6M

Kingsford’s Silver  Gloss.

40 1-lb packages.....................6M
6-lb boxes  .........................7

Diamond.

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

Common  Corn.

20"lib. packages..................5
401 lb. packages.................   4M

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages......................  4M
3-lb  packages......................  4 %
6-lb  packages......................  4%
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3%
B a r r e ls ....................................  3

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your
shipping  point,  giving  you
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to hisshipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino..............................5  88
Cut  Loaf............................ 5  88
Crushed...  .........................5  88
Cubes.................................5  63
Powdered  .......................... 5  63
XXXX  Powdered.............. 5  69
Granulated in bbls.............5  38
Granulated In  bags........... 5  38
Fine Granulated................5  38
Extra Fine Granulated.....5  50
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 50
Mould  A............................ 5  63
Diamond  Confec.  A..........5  38
Confec. Standard A........... 5  25
No.  1................................. 5 06
No  2................................. 5 06
No.  3................................. 5 06
No.  4................................. 5 00
No.  5................................. 4  94
No.  6................................. 4  88
No.  7................................. 4 81
No.  8................................. 4  75
No.  9................................. 4  69
No.  10................................. 4 63
No.  11................................. 4 63
No.  12................................   4 50
No.  13..................................4 44
No.  14..................................4 38
No.  15.................................4  31
NO.  16..................................4 26

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops.........  
@50
Sour  Drops............  
©50
©go
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops__ 
©go
©re
H.M. Choc. Drops.: 
Gum  Drops............  
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
Lozenges,  plain__ 
©50
Lozenges,  printed.. 
©50
imperials...............  
@50
Mottoes  ................. 
©55
Cream Bar.............. 
dhbQ
Molasses Bar  ....... 
@50
Hand Made Creams.  80  @1  00
Plain  Creams.........   60  @90
Decorated Creams. 
©go
zg60
String Rock............  
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  .........

©35
©50

Fruits.
Oranges.

Medt Sweets...
Late Valencias__   3 35@3 50

Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 360s or 300s...
Ex.Faney  300s........
Ex. Fancy 360s........
Bananas.

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Figs.

Choice, 10 lb boxes..
Extra  choice.  14  lb
Fancy,  121b  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__

©5 00
©5 00 
@5 50
@6 0
@6 00

ía

©  15

@7

@ 8
©  6
© 5
@  6
@ 4M

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @13
Almonds, Ivaca.........   ©
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @13
B razils new...............   ©  7
Filberts  ....................  © n
Walnuts, Grenobles..  ©13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  ©
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................  ©
Table Nuts,  fancy__  @10
Table Nuts,  choice...  © 9
Pecans, Med.........  ...  @8
Pecans, Ex. Large__   @10
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............  @1  60
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  ©3 50

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  © 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................  @ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  @ 4%
Choice. H. P.,  Extras,
5^4

Rnasted  ... 

11 00
10 50

* I 

Barreled Pork.
.....................  

Mess  .............................   9 75
B a c k ... 
Clear back..............10 7o@ll  25
Short cut..
Pig................................
14 50
Bean  .... .......................
9 50
Family 
10 50

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

Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies..........................
Briskets  ................
Extra shorts...............
Smoked  Heats.
Hams, 121b  average  ...
Hams, 14 lb  average 
..
Hams, 16 lb  average....
Hams, 20 lb  average....
Ham dried b e e f......
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).
Bacon,  clear................. 7M@8M
California hams........ 
5a-
Boneless hams...............  
9
Cooked  ham..................10@I2M
Compound
Kettle...........
55 lb Tubs......
801b Tubs....
50 lb T ins......
201b Pails......
10 lb Pails......
51b Pails......
3 lb Pails......

. .advance 
. .advance 
..advance 
.. advance 
.. advance 
..advance 
.. advance

Lards.  In Tierces. 

M
%
%
%
%

1

5M

Beef.

6
Q
6M

Pigs’ Feet.

Sausages.
Bologna.....................
Liver...............
Frankfort......
P ork............
Blood  ......
Tongue .........
Head  cheese..
Extra  Mess............  
in  00
Boneless  .................1; ¡3 ¿6
Kamp.............................. 14 50
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs..................  1 35
M  bbls, 80 lbs..................  2 50
__ 
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs...... 
1  «a
&
m  bbis, so lbs.......| 
P ork......... Ca8lT . \
14
Beef  rounds............
3M10
Beef  middles......... .
Sheep....................
60
Rolls,  dairy..................
10
Solid, d a iry ............ "]
9M14
Rolls,  creamery 
.....
Solid,  creamery......... ”
13M
Canned  Meats.
Corned  beef,  2 l b __   2
50
Corned  beef, 14  lb.... 
50
18
Roast  beef,  2 lb.........   2
35
Potted  ham,  Ms.........
50
Potted  ham,  Ms__
90
Deviled ham,  Ms...... !!
50
Deviled ham,  M s...:” ! 
90
Potted  tongue Ms...." .' 
Potted  tongue Ms.........

Butterlne.

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass 
.................   gH@  7y
Forequarters............   5  @  6
Hind  quarters...........  8  ©  9
Loins  No.  3...............   9  @12
Rib s-......................8  @12
Rounds......................  7M@
^b“cks.......................  6  © 6M

Pork.

Pressed........................4*@  5
p o m s.........................  ©  7M
Shoulders...................  @ g
Leaf Lard.....................gM@

Mutton.

Carcass......................  6M@  7M
Spring Lambs.............8M@10

Veal.
Carcass 
............... 7  @9
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon & Bertscb Leather 
Co., 100 canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:

Hides.

Green No.  1.
@ 8M
Green No. 2 ...:...........  @ 7M
Cured No. 1.
@  9M 
Cured No. 2................
@ 8M
Calfskins,  green No. 1 
Calfskins,  green No. 2 
©  7M 
Calfskins, cured No. 1
@10«
Calfskinsl cured No. 2  © 9'

Pelts.

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

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

Wool.

Washed, fine  ...........
Washed, medium.....
Unwashed, fine........
Unwashed, medium.

@  3
© 2

@18 
©23 
.11  @13 
.16  @18

Crockery  and

Glassware.
II. Leonard  &  Sons  quote  as 

follows:

AKRON STONEWARE. 

Butters.

534

Jugs.

Churns.

Milk pans.

Stewpans.

Fruit Jars.

top,
top,
top,

Sealing Wax.

Tomato Jugs.

First  Quality.

LAMP  BURNERS.

to 6 gal., per gal.......  

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

to 6 gal., per gal......... 

to 5 gal., per gal.........  

M gal., per doz.................  40
1 
5
8 gal., each.....................   38
10 gal., each........  ............  48
12gal..each.....................   57
15 gal. meat-tubs, each....  90 
80 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 1  20
25 gal. meat-tubs, each 
2 25
30 gal. meat-tubs, each__2 70
2 
5
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 
Pint...... .............................   5  75
Quart.................................   6 00
H  sal  ...............................   s 00
Covers................................  2 15
Rubbers..................   .... ”   25
M gal. flat or rd.  bot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  434 
M gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot, ehch  5M 
M gal. fireproof, ball, dox.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 
M gal., per doz.................   40
M gal., per doz..................  42
1 
M gal., per doz.................  42
1 gal., each...................... 
55*
Corks for M gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
M gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 
5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
No. 0 Sun..........................   35
No.  1  Sun..........................   40
No.  2 Sun...........................:  58
No. 3 Sun............................  j  00
Tubular.............................  
50
Security, No.  1................. ..  60
Security, No. 2................... 
80
Nutmeg  ............................   50
LAMP  CH1MNBYS—Common. 
_  
-Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun...........................  1 32
No.  1  Sun...........................j 1 43
No.  2 Sun...........................  2  18
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

wrapped and  labeled__ 2  10
wrapped and  labeled....  2  15 
wrapped and  labeled....  3  15 

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 LamDs............  
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   90
No. 2  Sun, plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. 
...  160 
Rochester.
No. 1,  Lime (65c doz)........ 3  50
No. 2,  Lime (70c doz)........ 4  00
No. 2,  Flint (80c  doz)........4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ......   4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)........  4 40
Doz. 
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1  50
2 gal galv Iron with spout.  2 58
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3 45 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  4  re 
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 50
No.  0 Tubular....................  4 20
No.  1 B  Tubular................6  25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 50
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__  7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 0€
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........  3 75
LANTERN  OLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents...........  45
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 doz.
each, box 15  cents.........  
45
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls 5 doz.
each, bbl 35:....................  
35
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
1 25
cases 1 doz. each...... . 
LAMP  WICKS.
No. 0 per gross................... 
15
No. 1 per gross...................  21
No. 2 per gross  .................   30
No. 3 per gross...................  48
  78
Mammoth..................  

Pump  Cans.

LANTERNS.

OIL CANS. 

La  Bastle.

Electric.

 

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Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

Swift  &  Company  quote  as 

follows:

g|

Wheat.

Wheat........................ 

 
Winter  Wheat  Flour. 

Local Brands.

Patents............................  4 35
Second  Patent......... 375
Straight  ...........................  355
Ulear..................................  3  ,0
Graham  ..............................3 50
Buckwheat......... ..... 
4 oo
Rye 
...............................’  3 50
Subject 
to usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond, Ms............................4 00
Diamond, Ms............... . 
00
Diamond, Ms.................[ 4   00
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  Ms........................  3  65
Quaker, Ms........................  3 65
Quaker, Ms......  ...............   3  65

Spring  Wheat  Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 80
Pillsbury’s  Best Ms...........  4 70
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4  go
Pillsbury’s Best M* paper .  4 60 
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4  60
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.

Duluth Imperial. Ms.......... 5  00
Duluth Imperial, Ms.  ____4  90
Duluth Imperial, 54s..........  4 8J
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Gold Medal Ms..................  4 75
Gold Medal Ms................... 4  65
Gold Medal Ms................... 4  55
Parisian, Ms......................   4 75
Parisian, Ms........................4  65
Parisian. Ms.......................  4 55

Olney <ft Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, Ms......................  5  00
Ceresota, Ms......................  4  90
Ceresota, Ms........................ 4  so
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ms..........................  5 00
Laurel, Ms..........................  4 90
Laurel, Ms..........................  4 8j

Meal.

Bolted...............................   j  9q
Granulated......................... 2  10

Feed and Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened__ 16 CO
No. 1 Corn and  Oats......  .15  50
Unbolted Corn Meal..........14 50
Winter Wheat  Bran...  .  .13 50
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 15  50
Screenings..........................15 00
Car  lots............................. 34^4
Less than  car lots............  38

Corn.

Car  lots............................... 25M
Carlots, clipped.........." ..  27
Less than  car  lots............  30

Oats.

Hay.

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

Fresh Fish.

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

Oysters In Cans.

F. H. Counts...........  ©  40

Shell Goods.

Oysters, per  100......... 1  2S@l  50
@1 25
Clams,  per  100 

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Hardware

Clerks  in  the  Hardware  Business. 

Alabama In Hardware Dealers’ Magazine.

I  started  when  quite  young,  the  start 
being  out  of  the  ordinary. 
I  was  at 
work  plowing on  a  farm  when I received 
a  note  from  a  staunch  hardware  house, 
asking  me  to  come  to  their  establish­
ment ;  this  was  without  a  single  word  of 
solicitation  upon  my  part. 
I  congratu­
lated  myself  upon  the  good  luck  which 
came  my  way,  and  since  that  time  I 
have  been  enabled 
to  assist  many  a 
country 
lad  to  a  place  in  our  house  or 
with  some  other  concern.  Although  I 
am  not  a  partner,  I  have  gained  the 
confidence  of  my  employers  by  close 
application to  business.  When  I say  “ a 
close  application,”   I  mean  everyday. 
I  can  claim  the  record  of  being  in  the 
good  calling  for  close  on  to  a  tenth  of  a 
century  and  have  only  missed  four  days 
from  the.store  in  all  that time. 
1  would 
urge  the  young  starters  to  study  their 
business.

I  daily  see  evidences  of  the  lack  of 
study, not  only  among  clerks,  but  among 
traveling  men  as  well.  There  is  no need 
of  any  one  being  utterly  ignorant  of  his 
chosen  occupation when we have chances 
to  cultivate  our  minds.  Some  day,  when 
competition  becomes  even  closer  than 
at  present,  it  will  require  “ up-to-date” 
salesmen  to  transact  the  business,  and  it 
behooves  the  younger  generation  of  the 
present  day  to  be  up  and  doing.  The 
memory  can  be  cultivated,  and  one  pos­
sessed  of  a  good  memory  has  a  rare 
gift. 
If  your  memory  is  not  as  good  as 
it  should  be,  why  not  assiduously  culti 
vate  it?
Nearly  every  mail  brings  to  my  ad­
dress  some  weekly  or  monthly  journal, 
of  which  I  am  glad  to  read  nearly  every 
line. 
to  keep  myself 
thoroughly  posted  on the hardware trade. 
The  up-to-date  hardware  dealer  knows 
the  discount,  price  per  dozen,  etc  ,  on 
every  item  that  comes  under  his  eye; 
the  same  class  also  keeps  pace  with  ff’e 
list  changes,  and  they  are  not  likely  to 
be  “ picked  up.”   Learn  to  see  and 
know,  by  study, 
the  sizes,  numbers, 
grades,  etc.,  at  first  sight,  the  difference 
between  an  8d  common  nail  and  an  8d 
fence  nail  without  having  to  consult 
“ that 
last  rule;”   know  the  difference 
between  a  3-8  iron  bar  from a 4-8,  a  5  16 
augur  bit  from  a 6-16,  a  16-inch  stave 
from  a  17-inch,  a  10-inch 
four-ply  belt 
from  a  10-inch  three-ply,  together  with 
the  list  and  discount  on  same.  This 
is 
all  essential.  Don’t  forget  that  such 
things  are  allowed  as  a  walking  dic­
tionary  in  a  good  salesman,  v-

endeavor 

I 

The  importance  of  being  able  to  read 
human  nature  is  a  very  desirable  quali­
The  good  salesman  knows 
fication. 
whereof  he  speaks  and 
is  able  to  dis­
cern,  after  a  few  moments’  conversation 
with  a  customer,  what  is  best  suited  to 
his  requirements.  He  will  also  be  able 
to  readily  determine  whether  he  or  the 
customer  should  do  the  most  talking—a 
vital  point.  Should  the  customer  be  a 
first-class  carpenter  wanting  such a com­
mon  article  as  a  hand  saw,  a  high-grade 
article  and  of  good  make  should  be 
brought  out  for  bis 
inspection;  other 
grades  and  sizes  can  then  be  shown,  if 
desired,  and  the  matter  left  to  the  cus­
tomer’s  decision.

It  happened  to  be  the  writer’s  good 
fortune  to  be  in  close  touch  with  an  old 
“ know  it  all”   machinist,  under  whom 
he  served  an  apprenticeship 
in  his 
younger  years.  Well,  this  machinist  did 
know  a  great  deal  about  machinery, 
tools,  etc.,  of  nearly  every  description, 
and  would  on  occasions  relate  many  an 
interesting  story  bearing  on  the  subject 
in  hand.  Occasionally  he  would  come 
in  and  spy  me,  when  I  was  at  ieisure, 
pouring  over  catalogues,  trade  journals, 
etc.  He  would  exclaim,  “ Pull,  young 
man,  that's  the  way  to  know  it. ’ ’  I  can 
now  add  that  that  method 
is  to  be 
coupled  with  the  new-fashioned  bustle. 
Always  remember that  you  can  not get  a 
profit  unless  you  ask  it.  Prices  should, 
as  my  observation  teaches,  be  uniform 
yet  at  the  same  time  be  as  low  as  prac­
ticable.  Do  not  make  yourself  a  “ cut 
throat,”  see  how  cheap  you  can  sell,  but 
instead  find  out  how  much  to  ask  and

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

receive 
“ Live  and  let  live.”

it. 

It 

is  well  to  remember 

successful 

Can  we  afford  to  be  otherwise  than 
earnest  and  courteous  in  our  treatment 
of  customers?  No  clerk  should  be  kept 
in  an  establishment  that  is  snappy,  in­
sulting,  sleepy  or  indolent.  You  may 
in  vain,  for  his  kind  in  the 
hunt,  but 
first-class 
and 
hardware 
stores.  He  will  do  you  harm ;  will  keep 
more  customers  away  from  the  store 
than  a  bull  dog  chained  to  the  front 
door. 
It  is  a good  sign  that  you  are  not 
behind  the  times  if  your  customers stick 
to  your  store;  that  they  do  not  fly  away 
to  another  competing  establishment  for 
various  reasons.  Avoid  letting  the  old 
customers  slip  away  for  the  new;  get 
I  am  a  firm 
the  new  but  keep  the  old. 
believer  that  it  is  one’s  duty  to  be as 
polite  to  the  commercial 
traveler  or 
salesman  when  buying  as  when  selling.

How  To  Prevent  Rust  Accumulating 

on  Wheels.

Rust  has  accumulated  on  bicycles 

in 
an  unprecedented  manner  this  vear. 
Both  riders  and  tradesmen  have been 
troubled  with  it  to  an unusual  extent.  It 
appears  that  dealers  have  had  great 
difficulty 
in  keeping  the  nickel  parts 
bright.  One  man  declares  that  a  chain 
which  bad  been  well  graphited  grew 
rusty  standing 
in  the  store  over  night. 
This  prevalence  of  rust  is  caused  by  the 
great  quantity  of  moisture  in  the  air  ac­
cumulating  from  frequent  rains.  The 
parts  which  are  first  attacked  by  rust 
are  the  spokes,  although  all  the  joints 
suffer  from 
it,  as  the  moisture  finds 
crevices 
in  which  to  collect.  Trouble 
of  this  kind  may  be  avoided  to a certain 
extent,  if  riders  take  proper  care  of  the 
wheel  after  each  ride  and  use  judgment 
in  stowing  it  away.  One  of  the  chief 
drawbacks  to  bicycle  storage  is that con­
ditions  which  are  good  for  the  tires may 
be  injurious  to  the  rest  of  the  machine 
and  vice  versa.  Tires  ought  to  be  kept 
in  a  cool  dark  cellar;  but  this  is  just 
the  place  where  moisture  abounds.  A 
room  that  is  cool  and  dark  and perfectly 
dry  would  be  the  best  of  all. 
It  is  not 
always  possible  to  secure  a  combination 
of  these  favorable  conditions  and  riders 
are  sometimes  forced  to  make the best of 
their  circumstances,  and  take  proper 
precaution  in  protecting  the  wheel. 
In 
taking  care  of  a  wheel  it  is  best  first  to 
clean  off the  wet  and  dry  mud,  and  then 
remove  all  dampness  with  a  dry  rag  or 
wool  waste.  After  that  a  going  over  of 
the  nickel  parts  with  an  oily  rag  will 
protect  them 
fairly  well.  There  are 
some  oils  considered  rust  preventives, 
and  the  best  of  these  is  preferred  to  anv 
of the  ordinary  sort.  The  best  cure  for 
rusty  spokes  is  to  have  them  enameled 
black,  the  same  as the frame.  Enameled 
spokes  are  used  almost  universally  in 
England.  Some  of  the  American  man­
ufacturers  formerly  enameled  the spokes 
of  their  wheels,  but  this  practice  has 
been  abandoned.  A  dealer  in  the  East 
said  he  hoped  to  see  enameled  spokes 
again  on  all  wheels.  Riders  who  de­
sire  it  can  have their  spokes,  rims  and 
hubs  all  enameled  at  one time by remov­
ing  the  tires  and  taking  the  wheels to an 
enameler.

Novelty  in  Glass.

It 

is  cast  and  rolled 

A  French  plate  glass 

factory  has 
placed  upon  the  market  a  new  article 
of  considerable  interest,  called  opaline. 
It 
is  a  vitreous  mass,  absolutely  free 
from  metals,  acid  proof,  of  a  grayish 
blue  opal  color  and  resembling  artificial 
ice. 
into  large 
plates  of  from  eighty-five  to  one  hun­
dred  square  feet  surface  area,  and  from 
one-half  to  one  and  a  half  inches  thick. 
Large  surfaces  can  be  lined  with  a  sin­
gle  plate  without  a  joint.  Besides  its 
incomparable  hardness  it  possesses  the 
immense  advantage  over  marble  of  be­
ing  acid  proof  and  remaining  perfectly 
spotless.  Like  faience  and  porcelain  it 
can  be  decorated  with  indestructible, 
burned-in  colors. 
It  is  produced  usual­
from  seven-sixteenths  to  nine-six­
ly 
teenths  of  an 
inch  in  thickness.  The 
plates  have  a  smooth  and  rough  sur­
face,  the 
latter  to  render  adhesion  to 
mortar  sure.  For  partition  walls  it  is 
made  smooth  on  both  sides.

Olhbk-Bdtkh-Jewell  Co.

38  &  40  South  Ionia St.

Opposite  Union  Depot.

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

S T R IC T L Y   W H O L E S A L E  

All orders filled promptly at bottom 
ruling prices.  Mail orders solicited.

CLARK-RUTKA-JEWELL  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Cast  lion  Tire  SHiinKei

No.  1, for Tire 3  1-3 inches wide, 75 cents.
$1.35.
No  3, for Tire 4 1-2 inches wide, 

You  will  never  have loose  tires  if you  will boil 
your felloes  in  Linseed  Oil.  Buy  one!  Fill 
it  with  Linseed  Oil!  Build  a  fire  under  it!
Put  your  wagon  wheel  on  a  spindle  and  turn 
it  slowly through  the  hot  oil  in  this  cast  iron 
trough.  Your  felloes  will  become  impervious 
to  water  and  consequently your  Tires  will  not 
loosen.  Cost  of one  saved  many times  in one 
season.  For  sale by

FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids.

Buckeye  Paint  &   Varnish  Co.

PAINT,  COLOR  AND  VARNISH  M AKERS

Mixed

Paints

White

Lead

Varnishes 

Shingle

Stains

Wood

Fillers

Japans

Manufacturera  CRYSTAL-ROCK  FINISH 

For Interior and

Exterior Use

TOLEDO,  OHIO.

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23

Things  to  Avoid  in  Seeking  Success.
Thousands  of  men  who  have  been 
in 
life  have  done  drudgery 
failures 
enough 
in  half  a  dozen  different  occu­
pations  to  have  enabled  them  to  reach 
great  success 
if  their  efforts  had  all 
been  expended  in  one  direction.  That 
mechanic 
is  a  failure  who  starts  out  to 
build  an  engine,  but  does  not  quite  ac­
complish 
it  and  shifts  into  some  other 
occupation  where,  perhaps,  he  will  al­
most  succeed  again,  but  stops  just  short 
of  the  point  of  proficiency  in  his  acqui­
sition  and  so  fails  again.  The  world  is 
full  of  people  who  are  “ almost  a  suc­
cess.”   They  stop  just  this  side  of  suc­
cess.  Their  courage  oozes  out  just  be­
fore  they  become  expert.  How many  of 
us  have  acquisitions  which  remain  per­
manently  unavailable  because  not  car­
ried  quite  to  the  point  cf  skill?  How 
many  people  “ almost  know  a  language 
or  two,”   which  they  can  neither  write 
nor  speak ;  a  science  or  two  whose  ele­
ments  they  have  not  quite  acquired;  an 
art  or  two  partially  mastered,  but  which 
they  cannot  practice  with  satisfaction 
or  profit?  The  habit  of  desultoriness, 
which  has  been  acquired  by  allowing 
yourself 
to  abandon  a  half  finished 
work,  more than  balances  any  little  skill 
gained 
in  one  vocation  which  might 
possibly  be  of  use  later.

Doctor  Mathews  says  that  “ to  no 
other  cause,  perhaps,  is  failure  in  life 
so  frequently  to  be  traced  as  to  a  mis­
taken  calling.”   We  can  often  find  out 
what  we  cannot  do,  by  hard  knocks  and 
repeated  failures,  before  we  find  out 
what  we  can  do.  This  negative  process 
of  eliminating  the  doubtful  chances 
is 
often  the  only  way  of  attaining  to  the 
positive  conclusion.

“ The 

Beware  of  that  fatal  gift,  versatility. 
Many  a  person  misses  being  a  great 
into  middling  ones. 
man  by  splitting 
Universality 
is  the  ignis fatuus  which 
has  deluded  to  ruin  man  a  promising 
mind. 
In  attempting  to  gain  a  knowl­
edge  of  half  a  hundred  subjects  it  has 
mastered  none. 
jack-at-all­
trades, ”   one  of  the  foremost  manufac­
turers  of  this  country  says,  “ had  a 
chance 
In  this  he 
has  none.

in  my  generation. 

“ The  measure  of  a  man’s  learning 
will  be  the  amount  of  his  voluntary 
ig­
norance,”   said  Thoreau. 
If  we  go  into 
a  factory  where  the  mariner's  compass 
is  made  we  can  see  the  needles  before 
they  are  magnetized,  and they will point 
in  any  direction.  But  when  they  have 
been  applied  to the magnet and received 
its  peculiar  power,  from  that  moment 
they  point  to  the  north,  and  are  true  to 
the  pole  ever  after.  So man never  points 
steadily 
in  any  direction  until  be  has 
been  polarized  by  a  choice  of  his  ideal 
career.

Many  a  man  has  dwarfed  his  man­
hood,  cramped  his  intellect,  crushed  bis 
aspiiation,  blunted  his  finer  sensibili­
ties 
in  some  mean,  narrow  occupation 
just  because  there  was  money  in  it  The 
man  with  a  vocation  he 
the 
practical  man,  the  energetic  and  indus­
trious  man,  builds  a  castle  in  the  air, 
and  he  lays  up  a  few  thousands  in  the 
bank  while  the  other  revels  in  imagi­
nary  millions.  The  dreamer's  pockets 
are  full  while  he  is  asleep,  but  he awak­
ens  only  to  find  an  empty  purse. 
It 
takes  a  good  many  dreams  of  fortune  to 
make an  actual  dollar

Give  your  life,  your  energy,  your  en­
thusiasm  all 
to  the  highest  work  of 
which  you  are  capable.  Canon  Farrar 
said,  “ There  is  only  one  real  failure  in 
life  possible,  and  that  is  not  to  be  true 
to  the  best  one  knows. ”   Emerson says, 
“ There  is  at  this  moment  for  you  an ut­
terance  brave  and  grand  as  that  of  the 
colossal  chisel  of  Phidias  or  trowel  of 
the  Egyptians  or  the  pen  of  Moses  or 
Dante,  but  different  from  all  these.”

likes, 

Why  Small  Burners  Are  Necessary 

With  Acetylene  Gas.
From the  New York  Commercial.

Acetylene  gas,  unless  carefully  gener­
ated,  gives  off  a  pungent  smell,  an  ob­
jection  that  probably  may  hereafter  be 
largely  removed  by  chemical  purifica­
tion 
the  same  way  that  the  more 
pungent  impurities  of  coal  gas—as  sul­
phuretted  hydrogen  and  ammonia—are

in 

it 

now  removed  at  gas  works  by  means  of 
lime  and  coke, 
is  doubtful  whether 
in  the  interests  of  the  public  safety  it 
might  be  desirable  to  entirely  remove 
all  smell  from  gases  used  for  illumina­
ting  purposes,  as  in  event  of  leakage of 
an  odorless  gas  a  large  volume  of  gas 
might  be  allowed 
to  enter  inhabited 
rooms  before  its  presence  might  be  evi­
dent. 
It  does  not  appear  that  the  burn­
ing  of  acetylene  in  closed  rooms  is  in­
imical  to  health,  but 
it  is  necessary  to 
use  proper  burners.  For  domestic  pur­
poses  a  burner  consuming  more  than 
one  cubic  foot  of  the gas  per  hour would 
give  too  intense  a  light;  probably  small 
burners  with  ten  to  twelve  small  flames, 
so  that  each  flame  has  a  separate  at­
mosphere,  might  be  used,  as  if  burnt 
in  a  large  flame-there  is  not  only  some 
comparative  loss  of  light,  but  after  long 
burning  carbon  is  deposited  in  the  nar­
row  orifice  of  the  burner  and  the  flame 
begins  to  smoke.

As  to  the  storage  of  acetylene  gas,  at 
present  it  would appear that in churches, 
institutions  and  country  houses 
public 
it  may  be  desirable  to  store  the  gas  in  a 
holder,  as  it  is  produced  by  the  immer­
sion  of  the  carbide  in  water;  that  is, 
to  store  so  much  as  may  be  necessary  to 
meet  the  day’s  supply. 
There  are, 
however,  many  forms  of  generators  by 
which  the  storage  of  the  gas  is  regu­
lated  automatically  when  a  very  large 
quantity  of  gas  is  continuously  needed ; 
and  here  the  gas  is  not  placed  under 
ordinary  pressure  at  ordinary  tempera­
ture.  but  may  be  placed  under  a  high 
pressure  with  a  high temperature.  As  a 
means  for  the  enriching  of  coal  gas  of 
a  poor  quality  it  would  not  appear  that 
acetylene  is  likely  to  replace  oil.
How  Tacks  Are  Made.

inch 

One  of  the  first  processes  is  that  of 
pickling  the  Bessemer  steel or best qual­
ity  iron  sheets.  These  sheets  are  about 
16x36  inches  or  20x36  inches  in  size  and 
quite  thin.  The  pickling  solution 
is 
of  blue  vitriol,  which  removes  all  for­
eign  substances  and  renders  the  metal 
more  pliable  to  work.  A  bath  of  hot 
lime  thoroughly  dries  the  sheets.  The 
sheets  are  next  taken  to  the cutter, where 
carefully  arranged  steel  knives  cut  the 
sheets  into  any  width  desired,  ranging 
from  one-fourth 
to  two  inches; 
each  strip  retains 
its  original  length. 
The  strips  now  have  jagged  edges,  but 
after  going  through  a powerful machine, 
the  rough  edges  are  removed,  leaving  a 
very  smooth  surface.  The  strips  are 
now  ready  for  the  tack  machine,  the 
knives  of  which  cut  the  strips  into  the 
thickness  required.  Each 
little  piece 
of  metal  as  it  leaves  the  knives is forced 
into  a  two-sided  groove 
that  closes 
tightly  and  gives  to  the  tack  the  point 
and  corrugations  which 
its 
holding  qualities.  At  the  same  time  a 
hammer  strikes  the  broad  end  of  the 
tack,  putting  a  head  on  it,  and  then 
dropping  it  into  a  receptacle  beneath. 
The  tack 
is  now  complete,  saving  the 
placing  in a  revolving barrel or  tumbler, 
which  gives  a  bright finish.  Blued  tacks 
are  colored  by  heat  and  tinned  tacks, 
after  being  dipped  in  the  metal,  having 
been  previously  pickled,  are  riddled 
and  sieved 
in  a  circular  drum  to  pre­
vent  their  “ sticking”   together.

lend 

to 

O f  Interest  to  the  Traveler.

The  most 

fastidious  epicure  could 
not  find  fault  with  the  excellent  service 
now  furnished  the  patrons  of  the  Grand 
Trunk  Railway  System  on  the  Dining 
Cars  running  on  the  through  trains,  be­
tween  Chicago  and  Eastern  points. 
Nothing  but  words  of  praise  is  heard 
from  those  who  have  had  the  good  for­
tune  to  sit  down  to  a  dinner  or  supper 
on  one  of  these  comfortable  and  hand­
some  cars.  Mr.  J.  Lea,  late of the Wind­
sor  Hotel,  Montreal,  is  now  in  charge 
of  one  of  the  diners  and  the  passengers 
are  assured  of  a  most  liberal  table,  a 
good  service,  and  an  excellent  cuisine.

He  Was  Considerate.

Anna—Jack,  dear,  were  you  ever  in 

love  before?

Jack—Sure.  You  don’t  think  for  a 
minute  I’d  practice  on  a  nice  little  girl 
like  you,  I  hope.

H ardw are  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

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

First Quality, S. B. Bronze..........................   5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze..........................   9 50
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel...........................  5 50
First Quality, D. B. Steel.............................  10 50

AXES

BARROWS

BOLTS

Railroad.............................................212 00  14 00
Garden.................................................  net  30 00

Stove......................................................  
60*10
Carriage new list..  ...............................  70 to 75
so
Plow........................................................ 

Well,  plain...................................................$ 3 25

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

BUCKETS

BUTTS.  CAST

BLOCKS

CROW  BARS

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

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

.. 

..per lb 

CAPS
Ely’s  1-10......................................  
per m 
per m 
Hick’s C. F ......   ..................  
 
G. D...................................................... per m 
Husket................................................. per m 

CARTRIDGES

Rim Fire........................................................50* 5
Central  Fire...............   ...............................25* 5

CHISELS

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

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

DRILLS

ELBOWS

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

EXPANSIVE  BITS

Clark’s small, #18; large, #26......................... 30*10
Ives’, 1, #18; 2, #24;  3, #30...........................  
25

FILES—New  List

New American.........................................     70&10
Nicholson’s................................................... 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................6C*iO

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’s......................................... (18 50, dis 20*10

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.
 

Steel nails, base................................................  1 55
Wire nails, base..............................  
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
05
8 ad vance.................................................... 
10
6 advance.................................................... 
20
30
4 
advance................................................ 
3 advance...............................................  
45
70
2 advance...................................................  
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
50
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
25
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance  ..................................... 
25
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance..........................................  85

 

MILLS

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

 

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  OATES

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

PLANES

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

RIVETS

PANS

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages 

per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole *  Co.’s, new  list...................... dis
Kip’s  ...................................................... di& 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s.....................................di« lO&lO
Mason's Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 8Qç 11» .40*19

70

4

65
55
35
60

so
go
so
so

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Stamped Tin Ware............ ............
Japanned Tin Ware......................
Granite Iron Ware........................
HOLLOW  WARE
Pots................................................
K ettles.........................................
Spiders.........................................

HINGES

new list 75*10
...............20*10
new list 40*10

60*1
C0&10
60*10

 

 

ROPES

LEVELS

SQUARES

WIRE  GOODS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,3...............................  dis 60*10
State......................................... perdoz.net  2 50
so
Bright.................. 
go
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s......................................................" ’. 
go
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes..........................      
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dts 
70
Sisal, % inch and  larger.......................... 
loti
Manilla.........................................................
Steel and Iron.............................................  70*10
Try and Bevels...................................  
go
M itre.........................................  
 
50
SHEET  IRON
com. smooth,  com.
#2 40
2  40
2  45
2  55
2  65
2 75
All sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14...................................#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  10 
No.  27.........................................   3 20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dis 
50
Solid Eyes........................................per ton  20  00
Steel, Game......................................... 
60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley * Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
I  25
Bright Market.....................................  
75
Annealed  Market..................................[... 
75
Coppered Market..........................................70*10
Tinned Market...........................................   62K
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.........................  2 CO
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................  1  70
An Sable................................................ dis40*lC
Putnam..................................................dis 
5
Northwestern.........................................dis 10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.........
30
Coe's Genuine...................................
50
Coe's Patent Agricultural, wrought
80
Coe’s Patent, malleable....................
80
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages  ..................................... .
50
Pumps, Cistern..................................
80
Screws, New List..............................
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate.....................
50*10*10
Dampers, American........  ...............
50
600 pound casks.............................   ,
6*  
Per pound........................................
6M

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

TRAPS

WIRE

.... 
. . .  

 

SOLDER

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

12«
The prices of themanv other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................I 5 75
14x20 IC, Charcoal......................................   5  75
20x14 IX, Charcoal......................................   7  00

TIN—Melyn Grade

Each additional X on this grade, 11.25.

TIN—Aliaway Grade

1 60

10x14 IC, Charcoal......................................   4  50
14x20 IC, Charcoal......................................   4  50
10x14 IX, Charcoal.... ..................................  5  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal......................................   5  5 )

Each additional X on this grade, #1.50. 

ROOFING  PLATES
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  4  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean.............  
5  50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  9  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   4  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5  00
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   8 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   10  00

 

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATE

14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, f per p0un6-  • 

s

Picture Cards for 
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 
pamphlets  are  largely  de­
stroyed and  wasted.  We 
have  a  fine line of  Picture 
Cards,  varying 
in  price 
from $3 to §6 per  1,000,  in­
cluding  printing  on  back. 
Samples  mailed  on  appli­
cation.

TRADESMAN COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

24
GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
The  distinction 

is  still  well  main­
tained  between  the  present  state  of  uni­
versal  activity  and  the  boom  conditions 
which  are  to  be  dreaded  as  leading  to 
inevitable  reaction.  The  most  reassur­
ing  difference  is  found  in  the  continued 
low  plane  of  general  prices,  in  which 
recoveries,  where  they  occur,  continue 
slow  and  gradual. 
In the  iron  and  steel 
trades  increases  in  quotations  are  more 
pronounced,  but 
in  textiles  and  other 
wearing  apparel  trades  the  movement 
has  been  downward.  But  the  general 
tide  of  activity  continues  to  rise,  with 
no  signs  of  abatement anywhere.  Trans­
portation  earnings  for  the  month  of  July 
are  found  to  exceed  those  of  any  corres­
ponding  month. 
Industries  generally 
are  increasing  their  output,  with  orders 
booked  far  ahead.  Clearing  house  re­
ports  show  larger  business  for  the  week, 
and  for  the  month  so  far,  than  in  any 
corresponding  periods.

The  main  assurance  of  the  situation 
is  found  in  the  condition  of the  crops  of 
the  country.  These  are  not  only  above 
the  average  in  abundance,  but  there  is 
a  certainty  of  good  markets  for  most 
products 
in  the  increased  capacity  for 
buying  of  our  own  people.  While  the 
white  cereal 
is  not  likely  to  be  in  so 
great  demand  on  account  of famine con­
ditions  in  foreign  countries,  it  is  to  be 
remembered  that  the  world’s  supply was 
greatly  reduced  and 
its  restoration  to 
the  normal  will  take  a  considerable  of 
the  coming  crop.  So,  while  prices  will 
rule 
doubtless 
in  past 
months,  it 
is  scarcely  to  be  expected 
that  they  will  fall  to  the  unprofitable 
level  of  recent  years.  A  factor  which 
operates  to  secure  good  returns  for  farm 
products,  even  when  they  are  so  abun­
increased  development  of 
dant,  is  the 
rapid  transportation. 
Such  products 
are  hurried  to  meet  local  needs  and  for- 
eign  demand  at  a  rate  never  known  in 
the  history  of  the  railway  industry.

lower 

than 

The  great  event  of  the  week  in  the 
steel 
industry  was  the  consolidation  of 
the  Minnesota  Iron  Company,  the  Illi­
nois  Steel  Company  and 
the  Lorain 
Steel  Company  with  other  works  at 
Cleveland  and  Jamestown.  This  combi­
nation,  involving  vast  mining  proper­
ties  in  the  Northwest,  several  railway 
lines  and 
the  great  number  of  steel 
works,  makes  the  largest  concern  of  the 
kind  in  the  world.  The  closing  of  some 
Eastern  furnaces  by  agreement,  with 
the  continued  heavy  demand,  has  ad­
vanced  prices  of  Bessemer  products 
from  one  to  two  dollars  per  ton.  The 
works  in  general  continue  to  report 
in­
creasing  activity,  with  work  assured  for 
months  to  come.

Wholesale  demand  for  general  mer­
chandise  continues  beyond precedent for 
the  season  of  the  year.  As  an  indication 
the  factories  at  Gloversville  have  not 
been  so  active  for  years.  Another  illus­
tration 
in  the  conditions  ob­
taining  in  the  furniture  factories  of  our 
own  city.  All  are  busy  and  many  are 
working  over  time  on  orders  which  will 
keep  the  works  employed  for  the  rest  of 
the  year or  longer.

is  found 

The  Grain  Market.

Wheat  seems  to  have  lost  all  friends 
and  is  like  a  bankrupt  stock  being  sold 
out,  and  any  way  to  dispose  of  the  pres­
ent  crop  seems  to  be  the  aim  of  the 
bears.  The  visible  of  only  5,800,000 
bushels 
is  unusually  small,  and  never 
since  statistics  have  been  kept  has  the 
visible  been  at  so  low  an  ebb,  with 
wheat  at  only  61c  in  this  market,  and 
in  Detroit  but  65c ;  also.
white  wheat 

Chicago  September  wheat  only  63&C 
and  less.  Who  ever  saw  the  like!  To 
be  sure,  there  seems  to  be  wheat  in 
farmers’  hands,  and  we  read  about  an 
estimate  of  625,000,000  bushels  of  win­
ter  and  spring  wheat  being  harvested, 
but  we  must  also  remember  that  grana­
ries  have  been  swept  clean,  so  there  is 
virtually  nothing  back  in  what is termed 
the  invisible  of  old  crop.  We  will  need 
for  home  consumption  350,000.000,  to 
say  nothing  for  seeding.  Export  will 
probably  be  around  150,000,000,  making 
500,000,000,  leaving  only  125,000,000  as 
reserve,  which  certainly  does  not  war­
rant  the  present  low  prices 
Should  the 
spring  wheat  farmers  pursue  the  same 
course  that  the  winter  wheat  farmers  do 
in  holding  on  and  not  selling  we  will 
certainly  see  an  advance  from  present 
low  prices.  There  seems  to  be  a  bear 
clique 
in  Chicago  who  want  the  wheat 
low  to  buy  and  fill  the Chicago elevators 
and  then  boost  the  price  so  that  they 
can  get  carrying  charges  and  make  the 
elevators 
something,  which  at 
present  they  are  not  doing.  Exports 
have  been  fair  and  foreigners  seem  to 
be  taking  wheat,  but  in  the  face  of  all 
this  wheat  at  present  is  too  low.

earn 

Many  predicted  40c  for  September 
is  it?  Only  30c  to-day. 
corn.  Where 
It  is  like  wheat.  While  conditions  fa­
vor  higher  prices,  owing  to  present crop 
not  coming  up  to  usual  amount  raised, 
the  bears  have  been  in  the  saddle  and 
pounded  prices  down.

While 
it 

in  almost  all  oat-raising  dis­
tricts 
is  a  poor  crop,  with  not  much 
on  hand,  the  prices  are  still  low,  and 
will  probably remain  so  until  it  is found 
there  is  no  more  to  be  had.  Then,  of 
course,  prices  will  advance.

Receipts  of  grain  were:  48  cars  of 
wheat,  28  cars  of  corn,  23  cars  of  oats. 
Rather an unusually large amount of corn 
and  oats,  which  goes  to  show  that  the 
oat  crop  in  this  State  at  least  is very de­
ficient  or  there  would  be  no  need  of 
shipping  in  from  other  territories.

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.
Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.

The  hide  market 

is  strong  at  the 
packers’  at  the  decline,  while  country 
hides  are  weaker.  The  supply  is  a  lit­
tle  larger,  but  leather  does  not  respond 
to  the  high  cost  of  hides.  The  Govern­
ment  contracts  are  about  completed  and 
no  new  ones  are  offering.  Lower  prices 
are  looked  for.

Pelts  are  in  good  demand  from  scar­
city,  while  the  wool  market  encourages 
the  puller  to  keep  running.

Tallow  remains  dormant,  with  good 

demand  for  fresh  stock  at  low  value.

firm,  with 

Wool  remains 

increased 
sales,  but  no  advance.  The  goods  mar­
ket  does  not  respond,  while  free  trade 
wool 
is  gradually  disappearing.  For­
eign  wool  costs  too  much  to  import  and 
large  lots  remain 
in  bond,  as  prices 
on this  side  will  not  move  it  except  at  a 
loss.  Home  wools  are 
looked  for  as 
they  are  cheaper,  but many spindles stop 
rather  than  pay  the  prices  asked  for 
wool  on  what  goods  they  are  likely  to 
bring.  Large  sales  of  wool  goods  at 
auction  this  week  in  New York will tend 
to  determine  the  future  on  wools.

______ 
Flour  and  Feed.

^ W m.  T .  H ess.

The  flour  trade  in  general  shows  very 
little  change  for  the  past  week.  Carlot 
buyers  and  the  local  trade  have taken on 
the  usual  amount,  but  larger  trade  have 
been  very  cautious  and  bought  sparing­
ly,  evidently  anticipating  still  further 
declines.

Flour  prices  have  now  settled  down  to

a  new  wheat  basis.  The  change  has 
been  more  noticeable 
in  spring  wheat 
flour,  however,  as  during  the  past  week 
old  spring  wheat  has  lost  the  20  cent 
per  bushel  premium  which  it  had  been 
commanding  over  the  new  grain.  For­
eign  buyers  are  beginning  to  send  out 
enquiries  more  freely  again,  and the call 
just  at  present  seems  to  be  more  for 
first  patents  and  fancy  straights,  while 
clear and  low  grades  go  begging  at  any­
thing  like  comparative  prices

Mill  stuff  continues  in  good  demand, 
although  prices  have  declined  about  $1 
per  ton.  Ground  feed,  meal,  etc.,  also 
show  a 
like  decline  for  the  week,  in 
sympathy  with  the  corn  and  oat  market.

Wm.  N.  Rowe.

Eddy  &  McCauley  will  shortly engage 
in  the  grocery  business  at  Otsego.  The 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.  has  the  or­
der  for  the  stock.

WANTS  COLUMN.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

69 i

689

Ij'OR  SALE—NECKWEAR  MANUFACTUR- 
ing establishment, five years old:  stock and 
fixtures, $2,(00;  terms  reasonable.  Address  or 
call room 17. 74 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.  688
I ¡'OR SALE-ABOUT $500  WILL  BUY  STOCK 
of drugs and fixtures  worth  much  more;  a 
bargain.  Address  Hazelline  &  Perkins  Drug 
Co., Grand Rapids. 
ego
I ¡'OR SALE—CLEAN GENERAL  J-TOCK AND 
si ore bu  ldiug in small town surrounded  by 
excellent farming  and  fruit  country  less  than 
fifty miles  from  Grand  Rapid-.  Good  reasons 
for selling.  Inspection solicited.  Terms reason­
able.  Address  for  particulars  No.  691.  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
C O M P L E T E   JU N K   BU SIN ESS KSTAB- 
lished for a term of years.  Splendid oppor­
tunity for right  party:  will  be  sold  cheao  for 
c.sh or  part  cash  and  good  security.  DuBois 
Hardware Co., Batt e Creek, Mich. 
T   HAVE A FINE  YOUNG~PEACH  ORCHARD 
X  on the famous Grand Traverse peninsula and 
cash  to  exchange  for  desirable  stock  general 
merchandise.  Address  No.  693,  care  M chigan 
Tradesman. 
¿93
I ¡'OR  SALE  $1 200  GENERAL  STOCK  MER 
chaudi-e;  good business  in  good  farming 
country town:  terms  favorable.  Address  No. 
692,  care  Michigan  Tradesman,  or  enquire  9» 
692
Broadway. Grand Rapids. 
HAVE ABOUT MOuFsTOCK  OF  GENERAL 
merchandise  and  a  new  brick  store  2 x60, 
two stone«,  which  I  will  sell  or exchange  for 
good  real  estate.  Store  building  is  worth 
-$2,?oo.  A  good  chance  for some one.  Address 
F. Salisbury. Middleton. Mich. 
686
I ¡'OR  SALE—NEW  GEaERAL  »TOOK.  A 
splendid fanning country.  No trades.  Ad­
dress No. 6*0, care Michigan Tradesman 
680
Ij'OR SFlE CHEAP—AN OLD  ESi ABLISBED 
-F  confectioner»  bu-ine-s  in  Jackson.  Mi  h. 
Wr te or call on L  C  Townsend. Room 18, Brink 
Bio  k. Jackson. Mich. 
Ij'OR 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 
672
address The Michigan Trust Company. 
WANTEli— BANK  LOCATION,  OR  WILL 
as  ist local parties in organizing.  Address 
682
No. 682  care Michigan Tradr sman, 
I CENTRALLY  LOCATED  DRUG  STORE,  DO- 
J  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. 
667
Ij'O R  S A L E — P A T E N T S   C O V E R IN G   T R A V IS  

A d ju stab le  B lackboard  Eraser.  A lso  m a­
ch in es and a ll  stock  on  hand.  A   rare  opportu 
n ity fo r righ t party.  A n  a rticle  upon  w h ich   t( 0 
per cent,  profit m ay be realized .  M ust be sold at 
once.  A d d ress  B ox 222.  C lin ton ,  M ich. 

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675

FOR SALE  A GOOD BUSINESS THAT WILL 
average $8,0J0 to $10,000 a year.  Terms, cash. 
Address Lock Box  No,  1,  Thompsonville,  Mich. 
_________________________________677
WANTED—A  CHEE-E  FACTORY.  STATE 
capacity and lowest Cash price.  Cliff Bros., 
¿78
68 E. Randolph St., Chicago. 
Ij'OR  SALE—DRUG,  BOOK  AND  STATION- 
ery  stock,  invoicing  $4.500,  and  fixtures 
invoicing $300,  which  include show cases, shelv­
ing  and  bottles.  Daily  cash  sales  in  1891,  #2';
: 892. $30;  1893. $31;  1894, $34.65:  1895,  $25;  1896, 
$21.20, and 1897. $24 13  Located in manufactur­
ing town.  No cut prices.  Rent reasonable, $29 
per month.  Living rooms in connection.  Ad- 
dress Ne. 668, care Michigan Tradesman.  668
Ij'OR SALE—FURNITURE AND UNDERTAK- 
ing business  in the  most enter prising  town 
in Southwestern Michigan,  Best location In the 
city.  Address No. 673.  care  Michigan  Trades­
673
man, for particulars. 
Ij'OR SALE  DRUG  STORE IN  BEST CITY IN 
Michigan.  Average  dally  sales,  $2';  per 
cent,  profits.  50  per  cent.  Monthly  ex­
penses, $60.  These are facts. 
Investigate.  Ad­
dress No. 659, care Michigan Tradesman.  659

grocery  stock, 

Fo r  sa l e—a  $10,000  stock  o f  d ry
goods;  doing  a  good  business.  Will  take 
I some  unincumb  red  real  estate.  Address  G., 
661
Lansing, Mich. 
i jlOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS  AND 
groceries.  Will  sell  cheap  for  cash.  Ad- 
dress  Box I.  Montgomery. Mich. 
656
Ij'OR RENT OR  SALE—A  STORE SUITABLE 
■F  for general merchandise, located  in  a  pros­
perous village in Berrien  county,  Mich.  Splen­
did  opportunity  for  a  live  man  to  establi-h  a 
paying business.  For particulars address  I.  W. 
Allen, St. Joseph. Mich. 
649
Bes t  LOCATION  IN  MICHIGAN  FOR  A 
cold  storage  and  general  produce  dealer. 
Write to tne  Secretary  of  tne  Otsego  Improve- 
631
meut Association. Otsego, Mich. 
Mer c h a n t s—do you w ish cash  q u ic k
for your stock of merchandise,  or any  part 
of It?  Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mich. 
_________________________________   628
tpOR SALE—A  PROSPEROUS  DRUG  AND 
invoicing  from  $4 000  to 
$5,000,  consisting  of  drugs,  groceries,  school 
books, wall paper, ciockery, paints  and oils and 
notions, in live town Carson City:  best  town  of 
its size  in  Slate;  brick  store  building  in  best 
location  in  town.  Outside  business  averages 
Inside ruuning  expenses.  Reasons  for  selling, 
loss of partner and poor health.  Kelley  &  Cad- 
well invite inspec ion. 
O  EXCHANGE—FOR  CLOTHING,  DRY 
goods or shoes, very nice  well rented Grand 
Rapids property.  Address No.  552, care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
rT'0  EXCHANGE — FARMS  AND  OTHER 
A  property for dry  goods, clothing  and shoes. 
Address P.  Medaiie,  Manceiona. Mich. 
553
Ij'OR SALE-MODERN, WELL-ESTABLISHED 
and equipped broom factory and good trade. 
Other  business  commands  our  attention.  Ad­
dress No. 584, care Michigan Tradesman.  584
WANTED —FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with
Caulkett & Co.. Trave-se City, Mich._____ 381
V y  ANTED—1.000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
TV  daily.  Write  for  prices.  H.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mich. 

COUNTRY~PRODUCE

BROOMS

552

625

555

FIREPROOF  SA FE S

Gl EU. M. SMITH,  NEW  AND  SECONDHAND 
W  safes,  wood  and  brick  building mover, 157 
Ottawa street. Grand Rapids.________  
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SHIRTS.

H a v e  y o u r s   m a" e to your m e a su r e.
Send  for  measurement  blanks.  Frank  T. 
Collver, 103 Washtenaw St. E ■ Lansing, Mich. 635

MISCELLANEOUS.

W  ANT ED  8 ITUATION~ASTiAN AGER  OF 
TV  a general store by a competent and  exper 
ienced man.  Best  of  references.  Address  J., 
care VI-higan Tradesman. 
694
I ¡'X P E R T   BOOK-KEEPER—S.  H.  SHERMAN 
J  will  make  examinations  and  adjustments 
of accounts  or  do  other  expert  work  in  or  nut 
683
of the city.  Address  382 Lyon st. 
'117ANTED—SITUATION  IN  A  CLOTHING 
TV  or general  store  by  an  A  No.  1  salesman. 
Address No. 685, care  Michigan Trade-man.  685 
OS1TION  WANTED—BY  DRUG,  DRY 
goods  and  groceiy  clerk,  Address  No. 
OSITION  WANTED  BY  A  SINGLE  MAN. 
Large  experience  in  general  merchandise. 
Can give good references.  Address No. 664, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

684. care  Mi' hieran Tr^rte^maii. 

684

664

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SAVES  THE  WASH. 
SAVES  THE  WASHER.

Travelers’ Time  Tables.

M A M IQ T F F   & Northea8tern Ry-
*  *  » Lm 1 ^ 1  k J   1  L d  Lw  Best route to Manistee.

V ia  C.  &  W   M.  Railway.

Lv  Grand  Rapids................................... 7:00am .............
A r   M anistee..........................................12:05pm .............
L v   M anistee.........................................  8:30am 4:10pm
A r  Grand  Rapids  ............................  1:00pm  9:55pm

T R A V E L

V I A

F.  &   P  M.  R.  R,

AND  S T E A M S H I P   LINES 

TO   ALL  P O IN T S   IN  MICHIGAN

H.  F .  M O E L L E R ,  a   g .  p .  a .
HOLLAND  &  GHI6A60  LINE,

CHICAGO“-*“ " ™ ’

Chicago.

L y .  G. Rapids............... 7:30am  3:40pm  * 2:15a-r
A.r.  Chicago..................2:10pm  9:C5pm  7:39ar
Lv. Chicago................ 7:20am  4:15pm  * 8:45?c
Ar. G’d Rapids............  1:25pm  10:30pm  * 2  15ir
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Ly. G’d  Rapids............2:15am  8:05am  2:10pm
Parlor  and  Sleeping  Cars  on  afternoon  and 
night trains to and from Chicago.

•Every  day. 

Others week days only.

n P T D H IT   ®ran<* Rapids & Western.

I   l \ V f i   1  V 

Jun e  19 ,18 98 . 

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids....... 7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pu
Ar. Detroit.................  11:40am  5:45pm  10:05pn
Lv. Detroit  .................. 8:00am  1:10pm  fi :10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids......12:55pm  5:20pm  10:55pm

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Lv. G R 7:09am 4:20pm  Ar. G R 12:20pm  9:30pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Guo.  DsHavbn.  General Pass. Agent

GRAND Trank  Railway System

Detroit and Milwaukee D)

(In effect May 15,1898 )

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t  6:45am. Sag.,  Detroit, Buffalo 4 N Y , t  9:55pm
tl0:10am.........Detroit  and  East......... t 5:27pm
t  3:20pm..Sag.,  Det., X .  Y.  &  Boston..tl2:45pm
• 8:00pm.. .Detroit, East and Canada.. .* 6:35am
flO:45am........  Mixed to Durand..........13:15pm
• 8:35am__ Gd. Haven  and  Int. Pts....* 7:05pm
tl2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:12pm 
t 5:32pm..Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+10:05am
• 7:40pm... Gd. Haven and Chicago.....   8:15am
110:00pm........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.

•Daily. 

WEST

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E. H. Hushes, A. G. P. & T. A.
B e n .  F l e t c h e r ,  Trav. Pass. Agt.. 
C.  A.  Justin,  City  Pass.  Agent.
97 Monroe St.  Morton House.

GRAND Rapids  &  Indiana Railway

Operating  the  elegant  and  fast  steamers  “ Soo 
Citv*  and  “ City  of Holland’ ’  between  Holland and 
v-.iicago,  connecting  at  Holland  with  the C.  &  W . 
M.  Railw ay  for  Grand  Rapids  and  all  points  east 
and  north. 

SU M M ER  SCHEDULE.

in effect June  25th.

Lv.  Holland,  daily  (except  Sunday)............ 8:00 p.m.
L v.  Holland,  Sunclav.....................................3:00 p.m.
Lv.  Holland,  Saturday  (special)................... 6:30 a.m.
Lv.  Chicago, daily (except  Fri.  and  Sat.)..7:00  p.m.
Lv.  Chicago,  F rid ay...........7..........................4:00 p.m.
..9:00a.m.  and 4:00 p.m.
L v.  Chicago,  Saturday 
FARE. 
Single  Round
$3.50
Between Holland and Chicago 
$2.25 
Between  Grand  Rapids and Chicago  3.15 
5.00

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  way.  A bove 
special rates  for transportation only.

Saturday  morning, 

trip,  $2.50. 

Office,  No.  1  State St., 

Chicago. 

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

Fall  Weddings^

Are now on tap.  We  make 
a specialty of wedding invita­
tions,  both  printed  and  en­
graved on copper, and cheer­
fully  submit  samples  and 
quote prices  on  application.
TRADESMAN  COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS.

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¡Cylinder  Press  For  Sale

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On account  of changing to direct connected  motors  on
our  presses,  we wish to sell our No. 4  B a b c o c k   S t a n d -
a r d   C y l i n d e r ,  size,  26 x  31,  with  steam fixtures com-
plete.  Press  has  new  and  improved  feed  board  at-
tachments for securing  accurate  register. 
Is  in  good
condition  and  is  now  doing  the  larger  part  of  our
medium  sized  work.  Press  will  be  sold  at  a  bargain
and  on terms to suit purchaser.

Tradesman Company,

Grand  Rapids.

Ï.  A .  M U R P H Y ,  General  Manager.

Tie piicMp píenme flpey

F L O W E R S ,  M A Y   &  M O L O N E Y , Counsel.

Special  Reports.

Law  and  Collections.

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

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

Personal servite given all  claims.  Judgments obtained  without expense to subscribers

When  in need of goods
for Advertising purposes, write

HENRY  M.  GILLETT

M A N U F A C T U R E R S ’  A G E N T

9a  HONROE STREET. 

OPPOSITE  MORTON  HOUSE 

GRAND RAPIDS, niCH.

STATE  AGENT  REGENT  MANUFACTURING  CO.,  CHICAGO.

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School  Supplies

New  stock.  Special  attention 
to  mail  orders.

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FRANKE  BROS.,  Muskegon,  Michigan.

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

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Use Tradesman Goupon Books

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack.. .*  7:45am  t 5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey <Sc Mack...+ 2:15pm  t 6:35am
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack..................i 10:50pm
Cadillac................................... t  5:25pm tll:15am
Train leaving at 7:46 a. m. has  parlor car, and 
train  leaving  at  2:15  p.  in.  has  sleeping  car  to 
Mackinaw.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati..............................+  7:10am  + 8:25ps-
Ft. Wayne.............................. t  2:10pm  ♦ 2:00pa
Cincinnati.............................. •  7:00pm  •  7:25an
7:10 a.m.  train  has parlor  car to  Cincinnati 
2  10 p.m .  train  has parlor  car  to Fort  Wayne. 
7:00 p. m  train  has  sleeping  car  to Cincinnati. 

Chicago T rains.

T O   C H IC A G O .

F R O M   C H IC A G O .

Lv. Grand Rapids...t7  10am  +2  l*ipm  *11  35pm 
Ar. Chicago  ...........  2 0 pm  9  10pm 
6 30am
Lv. Chicago............................+3 02pm  *11  45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...................  9 30pm 
7 26am
Train  leaving  Grand  Iiapids  7.10  a.  in.  has 
buffet  parlor  car  to  Chicago.  Train  leaving 
Grand Rapids 1135 p. m. has coach and Pullman 
sleeping car to Chicago.
Train leaving  Chicago  3.02  p.  m.  has  buffet 
parlor  car  to  Grand  Rapids.  Train  leaving 
Chicago  11.45  p.  m.  has  coach  and  Pullman 
sleeping car to Grand Rapids.

Muskegon Trains.

G O IN G   W E S T .

GOING  EA ST.

LvG’d  Rapids............+7:35am tl :00pm  t5:40n
Ar Muskegon...............   9:00am  2:10pm  7:05.'m
Lv Muskegon..............t8:10am  til :45am  t4:0Mp
Ar G’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:55pm  5 2''
Sunday trains leave  Grand  Rapids  9.09  a  m. 
and 7.00 p. m.  Leave  Muskegon  8.35  a.  m.  and 
6.35 p: m.

tExcept SnT'daT.  ‘Daily  ^Saturday only.
C.  L.  LOCKWOOD,
W.  C.  BLAKE, 

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

DULUTH, Soath  Shore and Atlantic

W EST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)til :10pm  +7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City..................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace..........................  9:00am  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.  Duluth..................................................... 

BAST  BOUND.

Lv. Duluth....................................................   +6:30pm
Ar. N esto ria ............................  tU:15am 
2:45am
1:30pm 
Ar.  Marquette...........................  
4:30am
Lv.  Sault Ste. Marie................. 
3:30pm 
...........
Ar. Mackinaw City..................  
8:40pm  11:00am
G.  W.  Htbbabd, Gen. Pass. Agt.  Marquette. 
S. C.  Oviatt, Trav.  Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

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

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very presence creates a  demand for other  articles.

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The Modem STOVE POLISH

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.

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ILLUMINATING  AND LUBRICATING

OILS

NAPHTHA  AND  GASOLINES

Office and  Works,  BUTTERWORTH  AVE.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

■ Highest Price  Paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels. 

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

A s   T fe a c h e j- o u s   a s   a   S p a p ia r d   |

Those  old  scales  of yours  can’t  be  trusted  any  more  than  we
Americans  can  trust 
a sneaking “Greaser.” 
Don’t  take  your  eyes 
off  of  them.  Keep 
your  mind  on  them, 
Now  isn’t  that  a  nice 
feeling to have?  Who 
wants  to  run  a  busi- 
ness  and  feel  that  he 
is 
constantly  being 
robbed  of  his  profits? 
The  Money  Weight 
System 
the  only
honest  method  of get-
ting  every  penny  of profit  from  your  merchandise.

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