Volume  XV. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST 31,  1898. 

Number 780

W O R L D ’ S   B E S T

S C .   C I G A R .  

A L L   J O B B E R S   A N D

G. J. J O H N S O N  C IG A R  C O

G R A N D   R A P I D S .   CD I O H .

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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How do we know they are the best?  Because we grind them  1 2  
ourselves  from  choice  stock  which  has  been  carefully  se-  ^  
lected by our personal representative at the importing market.

tf you are not satisfied with  your Spice  line, permit  us to  ^ 5  

send you a sample shipment  of  our  best  grade. 
superior in  Purity,  Strength  and  Attractiveness  to  any  line
you have ever seen,  we  will  take  it  back  and  pay  freight  ^
both ways.  No house which has not entire confidence in  its 
output would  stand back of its product with such a guaranty.

“MR. THOMAS”

Work  when  You  Work,  Play when  You  Play,  and  Smoke

Four  Kinds of Coupon  Books

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids,  flich.

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The Most  Popular  Nickel  Cigar on  Earth

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Mail  Orders  Solicited.

ALL  THINGS  COME  TO  HIM 
WHO  HUSTLES  WHILE  HE  WAITS

\our Fall  Business will  be  JUST  W H AT  YOU  MAKE  IT.  Put  a  little  ginger  in  your  business. 
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things.  They  pay  a  better  profit.  Besides  people  will  know  you  as  a  wide-awake  merchant  and  will  choose  to 
trade with one who  is up to date.  Have you heard of

SODIO t h e   c h e m ic a l l y   p u r e  SALERATUS

Its  NEW,  but  its  good  and  is a winner.  We  offer  beautiful  premiums  to  dealers  and  consumers  and  a  liberal 
supply of samples;  in fact, we almost sell  it for you.
Sodio  is Michigan  Made  for  Michigan  Trade.  Write us and  we will  make  it an  inducement to handle  Sodio.  Address

MICHIGAN  CHEMICAL  CO.,  D ETR O IT,  m i c h .

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our presses, we wish to sell our No. 4  Babcock  St a n d-
a r d  C y l in 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.

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Tradesman  Company,

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truck.  W e  also  m ake  Engines,  Boilers,  Smoke­
stacks,  Iron  and  Brass  Castings,  Steel  Culvert 
Pipe and  G eneral  M achine  W ork.

are  our  FREIGHT  ELEVATORS  of  all  capacities, 
and  they  are  easy  in  price.  O ur  800-lb.  SCALE

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

Lansing  Boiler &  Engine  Works

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Office and  Works,  BUTTERWORTH AVE., 

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

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

F L E IS C H M A N N   &  C O .

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on  the  m arket  to-day. 
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JESS  TO BACCO

FOR  SALE  ONLY  BY

M U 5 S E L M A N   G R O C E R   CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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If You  Hire Help-

You should use our

Perfect  Time  Book 

— and  Pay  Roll.

Made to hold from 27 to  60  names 

and sell for 75 cents  to  $2.

Send for sample leaf.

BARLOW  BROS.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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PREFERRED  BANKERS 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY

O F   D E T R O IT ,  M ICHIGAN.

Commenced  Business September  i,
Insurance in  force..................................$2,
Net Increase during  1S97......................
Net Assets..............................................
Losses Adjusted and  Unpaid...............
Other  Liabilities...................................
Total  Death  Losses Paid to Date........
Total Guarantee Deposits  Paid to  Ben­
eficiaries..................................... .........
Death Losses Paid During  18c#...........
Death Rate for 1897................................
Cost  per  1,000 at age 30 during  1S97__
F R A N K  E.  ROBSON,  Pres.

TRU M A N   B.  GOODSPEE

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746.000. 
104.000. 00 
32.73S.49N 
None 
40,061.00

812.00
17,000.00
6-38.25

D, Sec’y

jo  W IL L IA M   C O N N O R  now  shows  a 
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full line of Fall and Winter Clothing.  Has 
»   the  largest  line  of  Kersey  Overcoats  and 
C   Ulsters on  the  road;  best  $5.50  Kersey  all 
)o  wool overcoat  in  market,  all  manufactured 
U  by  K O L B   &  S O N ,  ROCHESTER, N. V.

BOGUS  GOODS.

Vile  Mixture  Sold  by  Hoyt  as  Pure 

Cream  of  Tartar.

Tbe  Tradesman  bas  quoted  cream  of 
tartar  for  several  months  at 3o@35c  per 
pound.  This  quotation 
for  pure 
goods,  which  is  the  only  kind  of  cream 
of  tartar  which  it  is  permissible  to  sell 
in  this  State  .under  provisions  of  the 
present  law.

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its 
The  Wm.  M.  Hoyt  Co.  quotes 
"Pure”   brand  cream  of  tartar  at 
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cents,  acccompanying  tbe  quotations 
with  the  statement  that  the  articles  in 
eluded  under  the  heading  of  "P u re’ 
brand  are  "good,  honest  goods”   and 
"warranted  to  give  entire satisfaction. '
Yet  tbe  State  Chemist  asserts  that  the 
"Pure”   brand  cream  of  tartar  pro­
duced  by  the  Fort  Dearborn  Mills, 
which  is  only  another  name for  the  Wm. 
00
M.  Hoyt  Co.,  is  not  cream  of  tartar  at 
all,  but  a  vile  compound  of  acids  and 
gypsum,  mixed 
in  the  following  pro 
portions :
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Cream of  tartar................................................. None
W ater.................................................................
Acid phosphate of  lime....................................  18.00
Phosphate of  lime............................. !..*!!!!..!.  iX i
Gypsum..................................................**’ *’ ***’ -'2[
Corn  starch............................................. !!!!!!!*  7*81
Unless  tbe  Tradesman  is  wrongly  in­
formed—and  it  has  sought 
information 
from  some  of  the  best  chemists  of  the 
city— 100  pounds  of  the  mixture  de 
scribed  in  tbe  above  analysis would  cost 
exactly  $1.98—3  little  less  than  2  cents 
a  pound.

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If you  wish  to  look  over  my  line,  write 
L   me,  Box  346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  or meet me 
jo  at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids,  Mich.,  on 
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Established  1S41.

R.  G.  DUN & CO.

Widdicomb Bld’g,  Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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Collections made everywhere.  Write for particulars, 

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R.  J .  CLELA N D .  A t t o r n e y.

THE  FORGOTTEN  PAST

Which  we read  about can never  be 
forgotten  by the merchant who  be 
comes  fam iliar  with  onr  coupon 
system.  The past to such is always 
a  “ nightmare.”   The present  is  an 
era o f pleasure and profit.
TRADESM AN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Is 

low-priced  establishment  and 

Is  it  any  wonder  that  Hoyt’s Criterion 
can  quote  what  purports  to  be  cream  of 
tartar  at  14  cents,  while  the  Tradesman 
quotes  the  genuine  article  at  3o@35 
cents? 
it  any  wonder  that  dealers 
should  enquire  why  Hoyt’s Criterion can 
quote  goods  generally  lower  than  the 
Tradesman  can  quote  them? 
Is it  at  all 
surprising  that  merchants  who  are  not 
thoroughly  posted  should  be  led  astray 
by  the  apparent  discrepancy  in  the  quo­
tations  of  the  two  publications and  sum­
is 
marily  conclude  that  the  Hoyt  house 
that 
a 
Hoyt’s  Criterion  is  a  good 
thing  to 
have  around  to  hammer  down  the  quo­
tations  of  the  salesman  whose  house 
handles  genuine  goods  and  does  not 
palm  off  as  cream  of  tartar a  mixture  of 
cheap  acids  and 
land  plaster?  These 
things  are  not  surprising;  in  fact,  the 
only  strange  thing  about  it  is  that  a 
legitimate  house  and  a  legitimate  publ­
ication  can  live  and  thrive  in  the  face 
of  competition  so  disreputable  as  that 
presented  by  the  cream  of  tartar depart­
ment  of  the  Wm.  M.  Hoyt  Co.  and  the 
quotation  department  of  Hoyt’s  Crite- 
ion.
Serious  as  this  matter  is  from  the 
standpoint  of  the  legitimate  jobber  and 
trade  journal,  it  is  more  serious  in  the 
case  of  the  retail  dealer  who  is  led 
into 
handling  bogus  goods  sent  out  by  the 
Hoyt  house.  Where 
illegal  goods  are 
sold 
in  the  store  of  the  dealer,  it  has 
been  the  custom  of  the  Food  Commis- 
ioner  to  prosecute  tbe  traveling  sales­
man  or  jobbing  house,  but  no  such  cus­
tom  can  be  pursued  in  the  case  of goods 
purchased  of* the  Hoyt  house,  for  the 
reason  that  tbe  dealer  sends  in  his  or­

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  31,  1898.

Number  780

ders  by  mail  and  the  goods  are  sold 
in 
Chicago,  which  is  beyond  the  jurisdic 
tion  of  a  Michigan  official.  There  i: 
only  one  course  open  to  the  Food  Com 
missioner,  and  that  is  to  prosecute  the 
retail  dealer  who  is  found  with  the  im 
pure  and  adulterated  goods  in  his  pos 
session. 
The  present  Food  Commis 
sioner  has  always  been  loath  to  prose 
cute  retail  dealers,  if  he  could  avoid  it, 
but 
in  the  present  emergency  be  will 
probably  feel  impelled  to  cause  the  ar 
rest  of  those  dealers  who  persist 
in 
handling  the  Hoyt  goods,  now  that  they 
have  been  duly  warned  as  to  their  true 
character.

GENERAL  TRADE  SITU A TIO N .
Tbe  story  of  steadily  improving  con 
ditions  almost  everywhere  is  still  con­
tinued.  The  few  exceptions  to satisfac­
tory  prices  and  an  apparently  less  fa­
vorable  export  and  import  situation  are 
owing  to  causes  which  have  little  effect 
in the general outlook.  The textile trade, 
in  cotton  goods  especially,has  long  been 
struggling  with  the  problem  of  over­
production  at  a  cost  which  eliminates 
profits,  and  tbe  unsatisfactory  showing 
of  the  recent  auctions  in  such  goods 
only  emphasizes  the fact  that  there  must 
be  an  adjustment  to  new  conditions  of 
production  and  demand.  That  this  ad­
justment  seems 
likely  to  work  havoc 
with  the  Eastern  manufacturers  only  in­
dicates  that  greater  enterprise  in  meth­
ods  cheapens  labor  and  less transporta­
tion 
is  removing  tbe  production  else­
where.  That  there  should  be  a  less  fa­
vorable  showing  in  exports  and  imports 
s  owing  to  the  unprecedentedly  favor­
able  showing  of  the  past  year  which 
could  not  always  be  maintained.  There 
s  no  real  reaction  but  the  lessening 
in 
wheat  transactions  and  the improvement 
n  American  demand  for  foreign  prod­
ucts  owing  to  the  increasing  consuming 
capacity have made a manifest difference 
n  the  proportion.
The  most  noticeable  improvement  in 
ndustrial  activity  continues  in  the West 
ind  Middle  West. 
It  would  seem  that 
the  work  of  development  arrested  by  the 
panic  was  being  resumed  in  full  force 
everywhere.  This  is  the  natural  result 
of  tbe  unprecedented  agricultural  pros 
peritv  in  those  regions.  A  most  pro­
nounced 
is  tbe  increase  in 
railway  passenger traffic,  indicating  that 
the  people  have  an  abundance  of  money 
to  spend.  Instead  of  the  few  half  empty 
cars  of  a  year  or  two  ago  trains  are  long 
laden.  The  number  of 
nd  heavily 
trains  is  being 
increased  in  every  di­
rection.  That  there  is  not  so  great  an 
amount  of  new  mileage  being  built  is 
owing  to  the  fact  that  the  building  had 
been  so  greatly  overdone  when  the panic 
came  upon  us.

indication 

Continual 

Perhaps the most favorable indications 
in  the  iron  and  steel  situa­
are  found 
tion. 
improving  demand 
seems  to  have  strengthened  prices  al­
most  all  along  the  line.  The  Mahoning 
and  Sbenango  furnace  men,  with  but  a 
few  days  of  stoppage  in  a  few  works, 
have  brought  prices  up  to  their  mark 
and  all  are  resuming  again.  Minor 
metals  are  also  reported  more  favorable 
than  for  a  long  time  past;  copper  is

strong  at  $12.15  and  tinplate  has  shown 
an  advance  decidedly  encouraging  to 
the  producers.

Variations  in  wheat  and  other  grain 
prices  have  been  less  than  during  pre­
ceding  weeks,  but  tbe  general  tendency 
is  toward  a  lower  level.  That  the  de­
cline  is  not  likely  to  continue  very  far 
is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  the  world's 
visible  supply  is  reported  the  smallest 
since  modern  reports  began.  Export 
movement 
is  large  for  the  season,  but 
seems  small  by  contrast with the tremen­
dous  outgo  of  the  past  season.

A  favorable  feature  of  reports  from 
many  of  the  boom  sections  of  the  West 
is  that  there  seems  to  be  a  revival  of 
the  old activity.  For  instance,  the north­
western  Pacific  coast  cities  are  showing 
a  most  encouraging  activity,  owing,  no 
doubt,  to the prospects  of  increasing  for­
eign  trade  from  those  localities.

The  volume  of  business  as  indicated 
by  clearing  house  reports  for  last  week 
exceeded  that  of  the  reviving  business 
of  last  year  by  over  20  per  cent,  and was 
37  per  cent,  above  the  business  of  the 
corresponding  week  of  1892.

The  United  States  Attorney  General 
having  decided  that  a  stamp  must  be 
affixed  to  express  receipts  for  money, 
bonds,  securities  and  other  commercial 
papers,  tbe  same  as  to  receipts  for  or­
dinary  merchandise,  one  of  the  com­
panies  has  instructed  its  agents  to  com­
ply  with  this  interpretation  of  the  law, 
but  at  the  same  time  to  quote  rates 
‘ plus  the  Government 
This 
means  that  the  shippers  must  settle  for 
the  stamps.  Tbe  framers  of  the  law  in­
tended  that  the  companies  should  pay 
the  tax,  but  they  might  have  foreseen 
that  eventually  the  dear  public  would 
have  to  stand  it.

tax.”  

The 

large  Italian 

largest  proportion  of  the  immi­
gration  to  the  United  States  last  year 
was  Italian.  No  country  is  getting  such 
immigration,  however, 
as  Argentina. 
is  said  that  Italians 
It 
are  now  in  a  majority down  there,  mak- 
ng  the  Argentine  republic  a  new  Italy. 
Heavy  burdens  and 
industrial  depres­
ión  at  home  are  driving  tbe  sons  of 
Sunny  Italy  westward 
increasing 
umbers.
The  ordinary  expenses  of  the  Govern­
ment  upon  a  peace  footing  appear  to 
be  practically  covered  by  the  old  in­
ternal  revenue  law  and  the  Dingley law. 
Assistant  Secretary  Howell  of the Treas­
ury  Department  calculates  the  surplus 
for  the  five 
under  the  Dingley 
months  ending  with 
June 
last  at 
$9,652,719,  and  at  the  rate  of  about 
$22,000,000  per  year.

law 

in 

A  man  who  wants  to  be  Governor  of 
Nebraska  makes  the  statement  that  he 
is  a  friend  of  labor.  He  would  be  a 
very  poor  politician 
if  he  did  net  say 
that.  Every  office  seeker  is  a  friend  of 
la­
labor;  but  he  wants  others  to  do  the 
boring.  The  standing  candidate 
is  a 
friend  of  labor,  but  his  friendship  is 
confined  solely  to  working  his  mouth.

Blanco’s  reports  are  not  so  eloquent 
as  they  were  when  he  could  not  be  con­
tradicted.

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Dry Goods

Effects  of  Unwise  Competition  on  the 

W ritten for the Tradesman.

Retail  Trade.

Competition  is  endeavoring  to  gain  what  an­
other is endeavoring to gain;  mutual  strife  for  the 
same object.— W e b s t e r .

leading 

‘ do  up* 

traffic.  A 

trickery).”  

If  Mr.  Webster  were  on  earth  to-day 
and  could  note  the  mistaken 
idea  of 
competition,  as  we  have  it  in  vogue  at 
this  present  time,  he  would,  doubtless, 
open  his  unabridged  and  add:  “ Com­
petition  is  legitimate  strife  for  the same 
object  (not 
The  writer 
knows  no  more  threatening  aspect  con­
fronting  the  present-day  retailer  than 
the  mode  of  competition  now  employed 
is  steadily  undermining 
and  which 
healthy 
furniture 
manufacturer  hit  the  nail  on  the  head 
when  he  recently  remarked:  “ Dealers 
seem  to  be  afraid  of  each  other.  Each 
is  endeavoring  to 
the  other 
man  at  the  expense  of  himself,  instead 
of  waging  a  mutual  strife  for  the  same 
object.”   Thus  trade  is  being  demoral­
ized,  confidence—the  basis  of  all  busi­
ness-destroyed,  consumers  educated  to 
depreciate  real  values,  regular  lines  ig­
nored  and 
lots  made  the  coveted 
prize.  Well  may  we  raise  the  question, 
Whence  are  we  drifting?  Shall our  fac­
tories  be  expected  to  maintain  their 
well-earned  reputation  for  honest  pro­
ducts  and  pay  honest  wages  for  labor, 
only  to  be  confronted  by  the  abnormal 
demand  for  an  article  of  no  merit  for 
the  sake  of  meeting  unscrupulous  com­
petition?  Will  not  business  men  soon 
take  an  honest  stand  for  honest  goods 
and  cease  to  indulge  the  caprices  of  a 
deluded  class  of  consumers,  that  cheap­
ness  is  the  panacea  for  all  evils?  Why 
not  strive  to  raise the standard of values? 
Strive  for  an  honest  profit  that  pays  for 
honest  labor  and  rewards  an  honest  con­
sumer  in  the  purchase?  There  can  be 
no  other  good  reason  given  for  the  pres­
ent  “ cut  rate"  system  than  the  one
above  named —that  business  men  are 
afraid  of  each  other.

job 

for  himself 

Why  encourage  a  poor  man  to  buy 
cheap  shoes  for  his  children  or  a shoddy 
coat  for  his  own  back  or  a  worthless 
piece  of  furniture  for  bis  bouse?  He  is 
not  the  gainer  in  the  end,  neither  is  the 
merchant  making 
an 
enviable  reputation.  Rather  have  him 
understand  the  real  meaning  of  Solo­
mon’s  wisdom :  “ The  destruction  of  the 
poor  is  their poverty. ”   Have him know, 
also,  that  every  so-called  “ cheap  arti­
cle”   means  cheaper 
labor  for  his  fel- 
lowman ;  and  just  in  proportion  as  this 
character  of  manufacture  is  encouraged 
so 
labor  be  sold  in  a  cheap 
market.  The  purchaser  of  a  33^  cent 
shirt  made  of  “ good  cotton  with 
linen 
bosom”  or a shirt  waist  of  washable  ma­
terial  for  37^  cents  is  giving  his  or  her 
consent  to  a  system  of  cheap  labor  that 
is  holding  men  and  women  in  a  condi­
tion  akin  to  abject  slavery  and  sending 
their  children  to  the  almshouse,  if  not 
to  moral  ruin. 
is  not  only  the  poor 
man  and  his  wife  who  are  seeking  out 
these  so-called  bargains,  but  those  who 
are  abundantly  able  to  pay  a  better 
price  for  better  goods.

long  will 

It 

Who  is  responsible  for  this  condition 
of  things?  Not  the  manufacturer,  for 
so  long  as  the  demands  are  made  upon 
him  for  a  certain  class  of  goods  he  will 
produce  them.  Not wholly  the  purchas­
er,  for  he  will  buy  the  “ big  drives”  
just  as  long  as  they  are  offered—hence 
the  middleman 
is  largely  responsible 
and  should  consciously  aim  to  change 
the  current  into  another direction.  Hap­

pily,  some branches of business  are  com­
ing  to  a better  understanding,  no  longer 
hedging  themselves 
in  by  a  bigoted 
selfishness,  but  have  stepped  out  on 
the  broad  platform  of  real  protection  to 
interest.  When  all  dealers 
their  own 
and  manufacturers 
lay  down  the  sharp- 
edged  machete  of  selfish  rivalry  and 
come  to  one  common  understanding  of 
values  and  prices,  there  will  a  new  era 
dawn  upon  us  which  will  have  a  bene­
ficial  effect  upon  business,  as  “ oil  upon 
troubled  waters.”   Then  there  will  be
no  incentive  to  produce  commodities  at 
starvation  prices.  Then  the  middleman 
will  make  a  uniformly  legitimate  profit. 
Then  the  consumer  will get honest goods 
at  honest  prices.  Let  us  join  hands  over 
the  chasm  of  distrust,  get  a  better  un­
derstanding  of  each  other,  stop  the  war­
fare,  harmonize  the  discord  and  “ saw 
wood”   the  old-fashioned  way.

R e t a il e r .

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons— Business  can  not  be
described  as  active  by  any means.  The 
aggregate  results  of  spot  and  mail  order 
business  are  very  fair,  particularly  the 
former.  Pressure  to  sell  is  pretty  well 
eliminated  from  the  situation,  sellers  in 
some 
instances  having  assumed  a  more 
reserved attitude,and  showing less readi­
ness  to  supply  demands  at  previous 
prices.  The  heavier 
lines  of  brown 
sheetings  of  well-known  brands  are  no­
ticeably  firm,  as  are  also  4-yard  goods 
and  heavier for early delivery.  Bleached 
cottons  are  unchanged  in price,  with  de­
mand  moderate.

Prints  and  Ginghams—Taking  things 
as  a  whole,the  situation  is  encouraging. 
Stocks 
in  second  hands  are  reputed 
small  and  a  good  steady  trade  is  antici­
pated. 
Indigo  blues,  percales,  shirting 
prints,  printed  napped  goods,  etc.,  are 
moving  fairly  well.  Staple  ginghams 
are  in  good  request  at  previous  prices, 
no  accumulations  being  reported.  Dress 
ginghams are also moving  steadily.

Knit  Goods—Some  houses  that  have 
had  their  men  on  the  road  for  a  couple 
of  weeks  or  so  have  expressed  them­
selves  as  wishing  they  had  delayed their 
departure  for a  time,  owing  to  the  fact 
that  buyers  are  not  ready  to  take  hold 
yet  with  freedom.  This  state  of  affairs, 
it  is  anticipated,  will  be  only  of  tem­
porary  duration,  as  indications,  as  read 
by  the  knit  goods  trade  without  excep­
tion,  point  to  a  good  brisk  season. 
It 
will  not  be  long  now  before  all the sales­
men  are  on  the  road  putting  their  best 
foot  forward  in  an  endeavor  to  get  their 
lines  into  buyers’  hands,  and  then  the 
market  will  present  a  much  more  active
ana  interesting  exterior.

Carpets  The 

carpet  manufacturer 
are  only  moderately  employed  on  am 
line  of  goods.  The  cheap  grades  of  in" 
gram  have  received  the  most  attention. 
It  will  take  the  remainder  of  this  sea 
son,  if  not  a  part  of  the  next,  to  recovei 
from  the  effects  of  the  unnatural  condi­
tion 
in  which  the  auction  sales  have 
placed  the  manufacturers.  To  be  sure 
some  have  made  the  effort  recently  tt 
advance  the  price  on  new  orders  taken, 
but  this 
is  only  a  portion  of  what  li 
should  be,  as  the  last  sale  forced  prices 
down  over  10c  per  yard  on  some  grades 
of  tapestry  and  velvets.  The  advance 
sked  is  from  2]4 @$c  per  yard. 
It  is  a 
much  more  difficult  matter  to  advance 
prices  than  to  lower  them,  especially 
when  a  very  large  share  of  the retail and 
large  cut-orders  stores  have  placed  or- 
ders  for  all  they  will  need  this  season. 
It  will  mean  that  it  is  a  step  in  the  di­
rection  of  recovery  of  natural  prices, 
and  place  the  trade  in  better  shape  for 
the  commencement  of  next  season,  pro­
vided  the  manufacturers  are  net  again 
confronted  by  another  auction  just  be­
fore  opening.

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How  Zach  Cured  a  Sampling  Cus­

tomer.
Written for the Tradesman.

The  Weighson  Brothers  have  a  gro­
cery  store  down  on  Santa  Fe  avenue. 
For  scyne  reason  or other  they  couldn’t 
get  a  clerk  to  stay  with  them.  This  had 
been  going  on  for  something  like  a  year 
and  a  half  until 
life  had  come  to  be 
almost  a  burden  to  them.  Zach  McIn­
tyre,  a  stout  young  fellow  of  some  nine­
teen  winters,  heard  of  the  vacancy  and 
applied 
looked 
him  over,  asked  him  some  questions 
and  concluded  he’d  do.  He  might  go 
right  to  work  if  he  wanted  to.

it.  The  brothers 

for 

It 

“ All  right,  I  want  to,  but  before  I 
begin,  I’d  just  like  to  have  an 
inkling 
of  what  the  trouble  has  been  all  along 
with  the  other  fellows  who  have  been 
working  here.  They  all  seemed  to  like 
both  of  you,  but  somehow  they  didn’t 
stay.  Now  that’s  what  I  don’t  want  to 
do. 
isn’t  going  to  be  any  credit  to 
me  to  come  here,  work  for  a  week  and 
then  quit,  whether  you  fire  me  or  I  do 
it  myself.  So  just  tell  me  what I’ve  got 
if  I  think  I  can 
to  buck  against,  and 
If  I  can’t,  that’s  all 
stand  it,  all  right. 
right;  but  I  don’t  want  to  go 
into  a 
thing  just  for  the  sake  of  backing  out. 
Now  what’s  the  matter?’ ’

“ Suppose  we  arrange  the  thing  this 
way:  You  go  to  work.  Try  it  a  week. 
We’ll  give  you  $1.25  a  day.  When  the 
week  is  over,  if  you  want  to  stay,  you 
can. 
In  the  meantime,  go  ahead.  You 
don’t  look  like  a  fellow  that  gives  up  at 
nothing  and  we  honestly  don’t  believe 
you  are  going  to  find  anything  which 
will  be  too  much  for  you.  Just  hang  up 
your  coat  and  hat  and  go  to  work. 
There  is  your  list  of  orders.  Fill  ’em, 
and  take  care  of  what  customers  you 
can.’ ’

W itba“  What in thunder !’ ’ in his mind 
Zach  went  to  work.  The  store  was  as 
neat  as  a  pin.  There  was  everything 
handy  to  work  with.  The  proprietors 
were good  nature  itself.  The  wages  were 
all  right;  and,  so  far  as  he  could  guess, 
it  didn’t  look  like  a  place  where  there 
was  any  systematic  overwork.  “ Well,”  
he  thought,  “ there  is  no  use  in  worry­
ing  over  what  may  never  happen ;  so 
I’ll  keep  my  own  counsel  and 
‘ saw 
wood. ’  ’ ’

He  had  filled  about  half  of  his  orders 
when  a  big  woman  with  a  big  market 
basket  sidled  through  the door.  “ Lordy, 
suz !  ef  we  hain't  got  another  new clerk 
this  morning!  When  did  you  come, 
sonny?”

“ An  hour  ago.  Been  on  the  jump 
ever  since.  Here!  let’s  have  your  bas­
ket.  What's  first  on  the  list?”

“ Say,  young  feller,  don’t  hurry  me.  I 
hain’t  built  that  way.  Alluz  hev  ter 
look  erround  and  see  what  I  want. 
In 
the  fust  place,  hev ter fill  up;  and  pick­
les  are good  ter  begin  on.  This  old 
pickle  bar’l  has  stood  it  off  and  on 
fur 
nigh  onto  a  couple  o’  years now.  Here’s 
a  good  fat  one.— My  gracious!  but  that 
vinegar's  strong  enough  ter— um—stran­
gle  anybody— ’specially  when 
it  goes 
down  the  wrong  way—thanks. 
I  might 
uv  ben  a  dead  corpse  before  any the rest 
of  'em  would  known  enough  ter  hand 
me  some  water.— Them  are  likely  look­
in’  apples.  Guess  I  shall  hev  ter  sink 
my  teeth  inter  that  there top one.  How’s 
that  fer  a  bite !  These  fellers  gits  their 
stuff all  paraded  out  with  the best on top 
and  I  comes  along  and  samples  ’em  fer 
’em ! 
I’d  like  ter  bet with  ye  that  them 
peaches  ain't  freestone.— It’s  good  and 
meller,  I’ll  say  that  for  it.  Gracious 
Peter!  'twas  a  freestone,  sure  enough! 
Glad  I  didn't  wait  fer  you  ter take  up

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

my  bet  —Well,  say!  ain’t  ye  got 
’bout 
ready  ter  wait  on  me?  I  can’t  stand 
around  here  all  day  long  doing  nothing. 
Bartletts?  Well,  I  don’t  care  if  Ido.  1 
believe,  my  soul,  ef I  was  full  as  a  tick, 
and  anybody  should  put  a  tray  of  pears 
up  under  my  nose,  I’d  eat  ope  ef I knew 
I  was  going 
ter  split  the  minute  I’d 
swallowed  my  last  swaller!— Waal,  now, 
let’s  see. 
I’ve  got  ter  hev  a  pound  0’ 
tea;  a  couple  pounds  o'  coffee— I’ll  tell 
you  right  here  and  now,  you  gimme any 
such  stuff  as  I  got  here  the  last  time 
and  I’ll  bring  it  back  and  throw  it  on 
yer  old  floor! —a  dozen  eggs,  and  I’ll 
break  a  bone  fur  every  rotten  one  I 
find,  and  don’t  you  fergit  it!”

The  list  was  a  long  one,  and  the  com­
ments  varied  as  each  item  of  the  order 
was  -filled  and  placed  in  the  basket. 
Then,  to  everybody’s  astonishment,  the 
new  clerk  “ hefted”   the  basket,  got  bis 
bat  and,  with  a  “ You  can’t  carry  it. 
I’m  not  going  to  let  you,  anyway—you 
don’t 
this  morning!”   he 
started  for  the  door. 
“ How  far  is  it, 
ma'am?”   he  asked,  pausing  on the side­
walk.

look  well 

“ It  ain't  so  very  fur;  but  land  sake! 
you  needn’t  take  all  that  trouble.— 1 
guess  I’ll  let  you,  though,  fur  ter  tell the 
plain  truth,  I  don’t  feel  out  and  out 
scrumptious  this morning.  Nobody else 
ever  seemed  to  notice  it. 
It’s  my stom­
ach.  Hain’t  et  nothing  fer months  ’ ith- 
out  its  ’most  killing  m e!”

All  the  wav  back  to  the  store  Zach 
McIntyre  walked  with  his  head  down. 
“ I  guess  that’s  what  it  is ;  and  I  don’t 
know  anything  that  would  wear  a  fellow 
out  quicker  than  that,  day  in  and  day 
out.  I  rather  hit  ’er  on  the health dodge. 
That  kind  is  always complaining.  What 
bothers  me,  though,  is  the  way  she  sails 
into  the  best  of  things  from  the  time 
she  comes  in  until  she  gets  filled  up  to 
her  neck!”

especially 

“ To  teil  you  the  plain  truth,  Mrs.  Von 
Blatter,”   Zach  lowered  his  voice  as  he 
came  nearer,  “ I’ve  been  thinking  that 
pickles,  and 
such  strong 
pickles  as  these  are,  are  the  worst  thing 
in  the  world  you  can take into a stomach 
so  weak  as  yours,  and  I  just  put  the 
screen  over  so  that  I  could  have  a 
chance  to  tell  vou  before  you  got  hold 
of  one. 
If  you  say  so,  though,  I’ll  trke 
it  right  off;  but  I  tried  one  of  those 
pickles  myself 
it 
made  me  sick.  Don’t  you  think  you’d 
better  let  ’em  alone?”

this  morning  and 

“ You  take  that  screen  off  ez  quick's 
the  Lord’ll  let  ye!  There!  I’ve  et  them 
there  pickles  fur  over  a  year,  and  it’s 
the  only  thing  that  I  can  find  to  brace 
me  up  and  take  away  that  goneness  that 
- good  Lord !”   and without finishing the 
sentence  she  rushed  to  the  door,  closely 
followed  by  Zach,  whose  face  was  the 
picture  of  solicitude

“ I  was  afraid  there’d  be trouble,  Mrs. 
Von  Blatter,”   he  said,  as  they  turned 
back  to  the  store. 
“ A  person  with  a 
stomach  as  weak  as  yours  can’t eat  such 
things  forever.  There  always  has  to  be 
a  first  time,  and  I  guess  yours  has 
come. ”

“ Let  me  have  somehing  ter  take  this 
awful  taste  out  o’  m’  mouth! 
It’s 
dreadful!  Gimme  that  there  big  Bart­
lett  pear!”

“ I  will— if  you  say  so;  but  I  don’t 
believe  you'd  better  try  it.  Let  me  put 
one  into  your  basket  for  you  to  eat  by 
and  by  when  you  feel  better.”

“ What  do  you  take  me  for?”
Seizing  the  pear  as  she  spoke,  she 
took  what  was a  big bite even  for  Mrs. 
Von  Blatter,  and  was  just  about  to  give 
an  exultant,  “ There!”  when  both  bands 
again  frantically  flew  to  the  head  and

the  woman,  now  thoroughly  alarmed, 
again  rushed  to  the  door.

She  did  not  immediately  return.  Zach 
again  followed  and  relieved her  as much 
as  he  could.  He  saw  her  safely  home, 
returned  with  her  order,  which  be  filled 
and  promptly  delivered ;  and  for  days 
after  that,  he  went  over^for  the  order, 
filled 
it.  Afterwards 
Mrs.  Von  Blatter  did  her  own  market­
ing ;  but  she  never  eats  pickles  now. 
Time  was  when  she  “ tt  everything ;”  
but  now  even  a  Bartlett  pear  or  a  peach 
will  just  set  her  “ into  a  conniption !”

it  and  returned 

When  Zach  was  paid  at  the  end  of the 
week  they  gave  him  $8  00,  with  the 
promise  of  a  raise  when  the  times  grow 
better.

R i c h a r d   M a l c o l m   S t r o n g .

When  a  husband  runs  across  an  old 
love-letter  he  wrote  to  his  wife,  he  al­
ways  laughs,  but  his  wife  cries

I.  W.  LAMB,  original  inventor 
o f the Lamb  Knitting  Machine, 
President and Superintendent.

The  Laml)  Glove  &  Mitten  Go.,

of  PERRY,  MICH.,

controls  a  large  number  of  the  latest 
and  best 
inventions  of  Mr.  Lamb.  It 
is  making  a  very  desirable  line  of 

KNIT  HAND  WEAR 

The  trade  is  assured  that  its  interests
will  be promoted by handling these goods.

“ Is  that  the  daily program?’ ’ he asked 
“ Does  she  al­

on  reaching  the  store. 
ways  begin  with  the  pickles?”

“ Always. ”
“  Is  she  good  pay?”
“ First  class.”
“ The  other  fellows  couldn’t  stop  it?”  
“ Not  one  of  them  has  dared  to  try!” 
“  I’ll  be  kicked !”
All  that  day  Zach  went  around  with 
his  hat  tipped  up  on  one  side.  He  was 
watched  with  considerable  interest  by 
both  his  employers,  for,  take  him  all  in 
all,  they  had  found  no  one,  so  far,  who 
came  so  near  to  what  they  wanted;  and 
they  watched  him  with  some misgivings 
as  he  left  the  store  for  the  night  with 
his  hat  still  tilted  and  his  eyes  resting 
on  the  ground.

fasten 

He  was  there  the 

first  one  in  the 
morning,  with  his  head  up  and  his  hat 
on  straight—be  even  whistled  as he went 
about  his  work.  The  first  thing  he  did 
was  to  hunt  up  one  of  these  wire screens 
and 
it  on  the  pickle  barrel,  so 
that  it  could  not  be  easily  taken  off,  an 
act  that  would  have  called  forth  a  re­
buke  from  the  younger  Weighson  if  the 
elder  had  not  shaken  bis  head  behind 
Zach’s  back ;  the  clerk  was  to  have  a 
fair  field.  If  the  pickle  barrel  was  to  be 
the  point  of  attack,  well  and  good— 
matters  couldn’t  begin  too  soon.

A  few  minutes  later  the  dreaded  cus­

tomer  came  in  and  the  fun  began.

“ Good  morning!”  

cheerily  called 

Zach  from  behind  the  counter.

“ Good  morning,  youngster,’ ’  was  the 
stout  customer’s  response,  as she  steered 
straight  for  the  pickle  barrel. 
“ Waal! 
what’s  here!  Gitting  stingy  with  your 
pickles,  Weighson?”

“ No,  that’s  my  work,”   put  in  Zach.

should  com m end  them  to  the  up-to-date  grocer. 
T h e y   never  becom e  stale,  for  even  the  very  old­
est  of  them ,  by  a  little  w arm ing  up,  becom e  as 
crisp  as  at  first.  T h is  isn’ t  possible  in  ordinary 
crackers,  and  it’ s  by  using  none  but  the choicest 
selected  ingredients,  and  being  m ixed  and  baked 
in  the 
the  S E Y M O U R  
Cracker  retains  its  hold  upon  the  buyers  of  pure 
food  products. 
A lw ays  FRESH,  WHOLESOME, 
NUTRITIVE.  H as absorbing qualities far in excess 
of  all  other  crackers. 
Is  asked  for  m ost  by  p ar­
ticular  people,  and hence brings  the  most accep t­
able  class  of  custom ers  to  w hoever  sells  it.

im proved  way, 

that 

Can  you  afford  to  be  without  it?

M ade  only  by

National  Biscuit Company

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

4

Around  the State

Movements*  of  Merchants. 

Athens— L.  B.  Thompson  has  opened 

a  new  jewelry  store.

Saranac—C.  A.  Brown  has  opened  a 

harness  shop  at  this  place.

Augusta— Fred  Black  succeeds Ridley 

&  Black  in  the  meat  business.

Beiding— Mrs.  S.  Unger  will  shortly 

embark  in  the  millinery  business

Kalkaska— Wm.  Knowles 

succeeds 
Knowles  &  Hurley  in  the meat business.
Port  Huron—Jenkinson  &  Samberg, 
coal  and  wood  dealers,  have  dissolved.
Croswell—Allen  &  Dafoe,  hay  deal­
ers,  are  erecting  a  warehouse  190  feet 
long.

Concord—N.  McKenzie  &  Son  suc­
ceed  Nathan  McKenzie  in  the  grocery 
business.

Jonesville— Scott  Lane  has  opened  a 
bicycle  repair  shop  and  salesroom  at 
this  place.

Gagetown—O.  V.  Rogers  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  H.  G. 
Graves  &  Bro.

Harbor  Springs—Mrs.  A.  D.  Rice 
succeeds  Mrs.  Dr.  Runyan  in  the  mil­
linery  business.

Otsego—W.  S.  Eddy  and  J.  A.  Mc­
Cauley,  of  Eagle,  have  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business.

Lake  Odessa— Frank  C.  Stevens,  no­
tion  dealer  and  confectioner,  has  re­
moved  to  Pine  Lake.

Saranac— Mrs.  J.  E.  Brown  has  sold 
her  millinery  stock  to  her  daughter, 
Mrs.  A.  E.  Wilkinson.

Owosso— S.  F.  Henderson  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  W.  E.  I 
Miller  in  West  Owosso.

Beiding— Mrs.  Susan  Mabbett  has 
leased  the  Gooding store and  will occupy 
it  with  a  millinery  stock.

Holland— Ender  &  Young,  of  Benton 
Harbor,  have  opened  a  clothing  and 
shoe  stock  in  the  Beach  block.

Beiding—W.  D.  &  I.  J.  Booth,  of Ne­
in  the  general 

waygo,  have  embarked 
merchandise business at this  place.

Charlotte— A.  M.  Lockard  has  re-en­
in  the  harness  and  men’s  shoe 
in  his  new  building  on  Main 

gaged 
business 
street.

Portland— M.  J.  Dehn,'merchant  tai­
lor and  dealer  in  dry  goods  and  boots 
and  shoes,  has  leased  a  building  ad­
joining  his  store  on  the  south  and  an 
archway  will  be  put  in  connecting  the 
two.

Lansing—A.  M.  McNeal  has  sold  his 
stock  of  groceries  on  Franklin  street  to 
Norris  &  Co  ,  of  North  Lansing  He 
has  purchased  a  bakery  in  Albion  and 
will  go  there  with  his  family  in  a  few 
weeks  to  reside.

Portland— H.  F.  Caswell  will  close 
out  his  general  stock  here  and  remove 
to  Detroit  for  the  purpose  of  forming  a 
copartnership  with  J.  B.  Roe,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Roe  &  Caswell,  to  engage 
in  the  produce  and  commission  busi­
ness.

Ionia—Alfred  Broad,  who  has  been 
engaged  in  business  at  this place almost 
continuously  for  the  past  thirty  years, 
has  sold  bis  meat  market  to  H.  G. 
Coney,  and  will  take  a  well-earned  rest. 
He  has  made  no  definite  plans  for  the 
future.

Flint— Chas.  Crawford  and  Geo.  M. 
Bieck  have  formed  a  copartnership  and 
will  conduct  a  merchant  tailoring  es­
tablishment  on  South  Saginaw  street, 
where  Mr.  Crawford  has  been  engaged 
in  the  same  line  of  business  for  the past 
eighteen  years.

Kalkaska—Wheeler  Wooden  has  pur­
chased  the  lunch  counter  and  bath  room 
business  of  B.  O.  Brown  and  removed 
it  to  his own  building.  He  will  enlarge 
the  business  by  the  addition  of a  line of 
groceries,  fruits  and  produce  and tobac­
cos  and  cigars.

Petoskey—G.  J.  Robinson  has  retired 
from  the  cashiership  of  the  First  State j 
Bank,  and  sold  his  stock  to his  sister, 
Miss  Mary  A.  Robinson,  Geo.  S.  Rice 
and  B.  H.  Cook.  Vice-President  Leon 
Chichester  has  been  elected  Cashier  to 
succeed  Mr.  Robinson.

Manton— Mrs.  Wm.  Northrup  has sold 
her  millinery  stock  to  Mrs.  Monroe  and 
will  remove  with  her  husband  to  Grand 
Rapids,  where  she  will  engage  in  the 
millinery  trade  and  Mr.  Northrup  in  the 
boot  and  shoe  business.  Mrs  Monroe 
will  continue  the  millinery  business»  at 
its  present  location.

Lapeer— Bella ire  &  Marsh  have  sold 
their  grocery  stock  to  S.  A.  Lockwood, 
who  will  add  same  to  his  stock  of  gen­
eral  merchandise.

Portland—Allen  &  Gamble  have  se­
cured 
larger  quarters  and  will  add  a 
line  of  dry  goods  to  their clothing  and 
furnishing  goods  stock.

Saginaw—S.  H.  Knox  &  Co.,  owners 
of  fourteen  retail  stores 
in  different 
parts  of  the  country,  have  opened  a 
bazaar  store at  this  place.

Homer— The  Saxton  Sisters  have  sold 
their  bakery  business  to  Sam  Hannah, 
who  will  continue  same  in  connection 
with  his  grocery  business.

Onaway— Wm.  McMullen  has  begun 
the  erection  of  a  store  building,  20x32 
feet,  two  stories  high,  which  he  will  oc­
cupy  with  his 
furniture  and  grocery 
stock.

Lansing— Leo  Ehrlich,  formerly  pro­
prietor  of  the  Boston  clothing  store,  has 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  R.  C. 
Peez  and  will  hereafter  conduct  the 
business.

Carson  City— Geo.  W.  Cadwell  has 
sold  the  drug  and  grocery  stock  con­
ducted  under  the  style  of  Kelley  & Cad­
well  to  W.  A.  Crabb,  who  will  continue 
the  business  at  the  same  location.  Mr. 
Cadwell  has  earned  a  rest  and  will  re­
cuperate  his  health  before  resuming  ac­
tive  business.

South  Lyon— The  patrons  of  the  late 
J.  E.  Just  &  Co.'s  bank  were  recipients 
last  week  of  one-fifth  of  their deposit, 
the aggregate amount  being  about  $15,- 
000  distributed.  A  sort  of commingled 
joy  and  disgust  illuminated  the  counte­
nances  of  the  patrons  when  the  result 
was  made  known  to  them.  There  is yet 
considerable  property  to  dispose  of,  and 
a  great  majority  think  a  more rapid dis­
position  of  the  assets  was  reasonable  to 
expect.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Benton  Harbor— C.  H.  Godfrey  has 
decided  to  reopen  his  canning  factory 
here,  placing  Wm.  Bush  in  charge.

Bronson—Ed.  Morris  has  purchased 
the  cigar  manufacturing  stock  of  M. 
Dorn  and  will  continue  the  business 
in 
the  same  building.

Traverse  City—The  directors  of  the 
Hannah  &  Lay  Mercantile  Co.  have de­
clared  a  dividend  of  5  per  cent,  from 
the  profits  of  the  past  year.

Eaton  Rapids—H.  P.  Webster is  mak­
ing  extensive  improvements  in  the  Is­
land  City  flouring  mill,  including  the 
introduction  of new  machinery.

Cheboygan— D.  Quay  &  Sons  have 
closed  a  contract  to  manufacture  7,000,- 
000  shingles  for  the  John  Spry  Lumber 
Co.,  of  Chicago.  The  mill  will  be  run 
day  and  night  two  months to  fill the con­
tract

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

Ionia— The 

Tawas  City—C.  H.  Prescott  &  Sons 
have  begun  building  a  railroad  to  their 
timber  at  Styles  Lake,  in  that  district, 
and  will  take  the  logs  to  Tawas  for saw­
ing.  The  firm  has  about three years’ cut.
Ionia  Evaporating  Co. 
has  refitted  the  old  Globe  bouse  for  the 
purpose  of  doing  an  extensive  business 
in  evaporating  fruit. 
It  will  be  able  to 
consume  1,000  bushels  per  day  and  ex­
pects  to  employ  from  twenty  to  thirty 
hands.

Bay  City—Green  &  Braman,  of  this 
city,  are  negotiating  for  the  purchase  of 
the  John  Welch  sawmill  plant  in  West 
Bay  City.  They  have  decided  not  to  re­
build  on  the  site  of  their  Stone 
island 
mill,  recently  burned,  but  if  they  can 
secure  the  Welch  mill  they will continue 
business.

Big  Rapids— The  headquarters  of  the 
Gale-Bundy  Lumber  Co.  have  been  re­
moved  from  Big  Rapids  to  Saginaw, 
Mr.  Gale  removing  also  to  Saginaw. 
He  has  resided 
in  Big  Rapids  twenty 
years.  This  company  operates  a  saw­
mill  at  West  Branch,  on  the  Mackinaw 
division  of  the  Michigan  Central.

Saginaw—Parties  from  this  city  have 
taken  the  contract  to  manufacture  the 
soft  and  hardwood  timber  on  several 
thousand  acres  of  land  owned  by  Mrs. 
James  Hay,  of  this  city,  located 
in 
Midland  and  Gladwin  counties,  have 
purchased  a  site  and  will  erect  a  saw 
and  shingle  mill.  There 
is  timber  on 
the  land  sufficient  to  keep  the  plant em­
ployed  several  years.

Manistee— The  East  Shore  Manufac­
turing  Co.,  which  has  been  idle  for 
some  time,  is  getting  some  stock  on 
dock  again  and  will  make  a  start  next 
week  on  some  unfinished  box  contracts 
which  have  been  hanging  fire  for  some 
time.  It  is  rumored  that  when  these are 
finished  some  new  machinery  will  be 
added  and  a 
line  of  paying  novelties 
will  be  manufactured.

Gladstone— Arrangements  have  been 
completed  for  the  construction  of  a  rail­
way  north  of  this  place,  running  up  the 
Whitefish  River  valley.  The  necessary 
funds  have  been raised and the engineers 
are  already  selecting  a  route. 
It  is  ex­
pected  that  the  road  will  be  finished 
early  next  spring. 
It  will  traverse  a 
large  body  of  hardwood  and  pine  tim­
ber,  which  will  be  converted  by  the 
Cleveland  Cliffs  Iron  Co.  and  the  mills 
at  Little  Bay  de  Noque.

Jackson-The  Michigan  Bag  &  Paper 
Co.  has  been  organized  for  the  purpose 
of  engaging  in  the  manufacture of paper 
and  paper  bags  and  other  secondary 
products  of  paper  and  for  dealing  in 
paper  and  paper  supplies  and  products. 
The  capital  stock  is  placed  at  $10,000, 
$8,000  of  which  is  actually  paid  in.  The 
stockholders  are  Nathan  S.  Potter,  200 
shares;  Wiley  R.  Reynolds,  200;  Lester 
H.  Cheeseman,  Detroit,  200;  Jacob  K. 
Smalley,  180;  Jacob  D.  Smalley,  20.

Saginaw---- Representatives  of 

the
Opaque  Shade  Roller  Cloth  Co.,  of  Chi­
cago,  have  purchased  the  stock  of  the 
Keystone  Shade  Roller  Co.  held  by  the 
gentlemen  who  commenced  suit  against 
the  Chicago  company  July  23.  The 
stock,  which  was  sold  at  par,  amounted 
to  $25,000.  This  practically  discontin­
ues  the  lawsuit  now  pending 
in  the 
is  of  vital  interest 
Circuit  Court,  and 
to  Saginawians,  as  the  Keystone  Shade 
Roller  Co.  will  now  continue  operations 
in  this  city.

If  a  man  doesn’t  expect  anything  else 
for  Christmas,  he  can  always  depend 
on  his  wife’s  relatives.

UNDER  A  NEW  NAME.

Suiter  Resumes  Business  Under  a 

Corporate  Style.

I  understand 

Cleveland,  Ohio,  Aug.  30—A new cor­
poration  has  been  formed  here  under 
the  name  of  the  American  Butter  Co. 
The  place  of  business is at  68  Woodland 
avenue,  which  was  Suiter’s  old  stand. 
R.  D.  Suiter  is  President  and  Geo.  Sui­
ter  is  Secretary  and  Treasurer;  capital 
stock  $50,000. 
I  enclose  you  their  first 
card  issued  to  the  grocerymen  of  this 
city. 
they  have  bought 
from  the  assignee  all  the  butter  and 
eggs  that  were  in  storage  in  Cleveland.
I  presume  those  are  the  goods  they  are 
offering  to  the  trade  as  fresh  stock. 
We  are  getting  13c  for  fresh  eggs,  I2@ 
16c  for  dairy  and 
ig@igj£c  for  fresh 
I  do  not  know  how  much  capi­
Elgin. 
tal 
in,  but  understand  that 
about  $35,000  worth  of  goods  was  in 
storage  here. 
In  order  to  buy  of  the 
assignee 
it  would  be  necessary  to  pay 
cash.  Of  course,  you  can  see  through 
this  business  better  than  I  can use words 
to  express  it. 

is  paid 

C o r .

The  Tradesman  is  also  in  receipt  of  a 
card 
issued  by  the  American  Butter 
Co.,  quoting  fresh  eggs  at  i i ^ c,  fancy 
dairy  at  14c  and  fresh  Elgin  creamery 
at  18c.  These  quotations  are  so  mani­
festly  below  the  market  that  they  natur­
ally  suggest  the  enquiry,  Is  Suiter  up 
to  his  old  tricks?

The  Tradesman  has  been  unable  to 
secure  a  detailed  schedule  of  Suiter’s 
assets  and 
liabilities,  but  some  of  the 
Michigan  creditors  have  received  a  re­
port  from  the  assignee,  showing  the  as­
sets  to  be $98,000  and  the  liabilities  to 
be  $110,000.  Considering  that  liabilities 
do  not  shrink  and  that  assets  invariably 
suffer  shrinkage,  the  Tradesman  will  be 
very  much  surprised  if  the  creditors  re­
ceive  over  50  cents  on  the  dollar;  in 
fact,  several  Michigan  creditors  who 
are  interested  in  the  failure  would  jump 
at  a  chance  to  realize  50  per  cent,  of  the 
face  of  their  claims.

If  it  is  a  fact  that  the  American  But­
ter  Co.  paid  $35,000 
in  cash  for  the 
goods  of  the  Suiter  house  in  cold  stor­
age  at  Cleveland,  it  would  be 
interest­
ing  to  learn  where  the  cash  came  from. 
The  columns  of  the  Tradesman are open 
to  Mr.  Suiter 
in  case  he  cares  to  use 
them  for  this  purpose.

Grape  Growers  Form  an  Association.
Lawton,  Aug.  30—An  association 
known  as  the  Southern  Michigan  Grape 
Association  has  been  organized  here, 
officered  as  follows:  N.  H.  Bangs,  F.
S.  Kipp,  George  Tuttle,  C.  Dunham,
C.  L.  Balcb,  D.  T.  Root,  directors;  H.  “ 
E.  Durkee,  F.  E.  Bitely,  C.  D.  Town­
send,  auditing  committee. 
Following 
the  meeting  the  directors  organized  by 
electing  C.  L.  Balcb,  President,  D.  T. 
Root,  Secretary,  and  Juan  MeKeyes, 
Treasurer.  The  object  of  the  Associa­
tion  is  to  secure  a  better  price  for  fruit 
than  has  been  paid 
in  the  past.  All 
grapes  will  be  weighed  and  inspected 
before  being  placed  on  the  market.  A.
D.  Benway,  of  Chicago,  has been  chosen 
manager  and  salesman  for  the  Associa­
tion. 
is  estimated  that  the  output 
of  grapes  from  that  section  will  reach 
six  hundred  carloads  this  year.

It 

The  Grocery  World describes a shrewd 
bunco game  by  means  of  which  numer­
ous  Philadelphia  grocers  were  duped  by 
loaded  soap.  Boxes  of  soap  were  bought 
by  a  number  of  grocers  because  of  the 
great  bargain  they  were  reported  to  be. 
The  boxes  were  branded  “ Excelsior 
Soap  Company,  New  York  and  Phila­
delphia.”  
In  endeavoring  to  sell  this 
soap  at  5  cents  per  cake,  the  retailers 
found  that  a  second  sale  was futile.  The 
soap  appeared  to be  composed  to a great 
extent  of  marble  dust  and  the  bars  soon 
shrunk  from  14  ounces  to  less  than  6 
ounces  per  cake.

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Grocery  Mancet.

Sugar—The  advancing  tendency  inci­
dent  to  this  season  of  the  year  has  put 
in  an  appearance,  several minor changes 
having  been  made  during  the  past  three 
days.  Raw  sugars  are  stronger,  both  at 
home  and  abroad,  and  the  wholesale 
trade  generally  look  forward  to  a  higher 
range  of  values  during  the  season  of 
heaviest  consumption.  It  is  not  thought 
that  the  Arhuckle  or  Doscber  refineries 
will  give  the  Trust  much  trouble  for  a 
few  weeks  yet,  but  along  about  Christ­
mas  their  influence  may  be  felt.

Canned  Goods— It 

is  said  that  the 
Ohio  and  Indiana  tomato  pack  will  be 
shortened  by  blight,  but  in  the  East  the 
pack  will  be 
large.  Corn  is  strong. 
The  Eastern  pack  will  be  light  unless 
the  late  prop  shows  up  better  than  the 
first  pickings. 
In  the  West  the  pack 
will  be  about  an  average.  New Califor­
nia  fruit  is  on  the  market  here.  The 
quotations  are  not  changed  this  week. 
Sardines  are  firm.  Although  the  short­
age  is  being  made  up  on  late  packing, 
the  total  shortage  of  the  season  will  be 
about  ioo.ooo cases  less  than  last  year. 
The  shortage  io  the salmon  pack  is con­
firmed 
the  Columbia  and  Fraser 
Rivers,  but  the  pack  of  Alaska  is  still 
uncertain.

for 

is  firm  and  may  go  a 

Dried  Fruits—There  has  been  no 
change 
in  prunes,  the  new  pack  of 
which  wiil  shortly  come  forward.  The 
market 
little 
higher.  The  demand  is  small.  Some 
grades  of  raisins  have  advanced  Xc, 
• and  the  demand  is  good.  Higher  prices 
are  possible.  Currants  are  dull  at  un­
changed  prices. 
Peaches  are  dull, 
mainly  because  there  are  none  to  sell. 
Prices  are  unchanged,  but  if  any  good- 
sized  block  was  wanted  an  advance 
would  have  to  be  paid.  The  few  people 
who  have  stocks  of  peaches  are  holding 
onto  them,  as  the  new  pack  will  be 
small  and  high.  Apricots  are  firm  at 
unchanged  prices  They  are  moving  in 
a  small  way.  Small  stocks  of  new apri­
cots  are  already  offered.
is  but 

Tea—There 

little  tea  in  the 
country  on  which  to  do  business,  while 
the  coming  crop  is  shortened  by the fact 
that  the  duty  is  high,  the  leaf  in  Japan 
is  short,  and  the  standard  of  excellence 
for  inspection  in  this  country  is  so  high 
that  low  price  teas  are  an  impossibility. 
The  lowest  priced  new  teas  that  can  be 
brought  into  this  country  this  year  can 
not  be  sold  at  less  than  30c  to  the  deal­
er.  There  are  some  offerings  of  low 
price  teas  now  that  are  lower  than  that, 
but  they  are  the  sweepings  up  of  old 
stocks  in  this  country  and Canada,  some 
of  them  three  or  four  years  old,  and  un­
fit  for  consumption.  Almost  the  same 
condition 
is  noted  of  dusts  as  of  low 
price  leaf.  About  21  cents  in  bulk  or 
22@23C 
is  the 
lowest  that  can  be  sold  from  the  new 
crop  teas.  This  high  price  of  teas  will 
tend  to  drive  the  trade  toward  coffee,  as 
it  has  the  past  year,  for  coffee  can  not 
average  high  this  year.

in  one-pound  packages 

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Maiden  Blush,  Strawberry 
and  Wine  varieties  are  in  large  supply 
at  Si.25@i.75  per  bbl.

Beets—2?c  per  bu.
Butter—The  market  is  strong,  the  re­
ceipts  not  being  equal  to  the  demand 
Fancy  dairy  is  firm  at  17c  and  factory 
creamery  is  in  eager  demand  at 
ig@ 
i9 'Ac.

Cabbage—$4  per  100  heads  for  home 

grown.

Carrots—25c  per  bu.

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Cauliflower—$1 @1.25  per  doz. 

for 

The  Morning  Market.

Each  recurring  Tuesday  during  the 
season  has  exceeded  the  preceding  until 
all  records  of  attendance  and  business 
are  broken  by  the  last.  Yesterday  the 
number  of  teams  exceeded  those  of  any 
former  market  day  in  the  history  of  the 
city.  Monday  morning  the  heavy  offer­
ings  of  Early  Crawfords  sold  freely  at 
good  prices.  This  fact  led  to  an  in­
creased  effort  on  the  part  of  the  growers 
to  rush  in  all  that  was  possible  yester­
day.  Naturally,  such  an  unprecedented 
rush  caused  more  or  less  demoraliza­
tion, so that  the  range  of  prices  was  con­
siderable,  yet the average  was  sufficient­
ly  sustained  to  make  the  business  easily 
exceed  that  of  any  preceding  day  in  the 
history  of  the  city.

The  feature  of  the  situation  which 

is 
most  apparent  is  the  inadequacy  of  the 
grounds  for  the  business  offered.  The 
congestion  of  teams  yesterday  caused 
almost  entire  suspension  of  trading  for 
a  considerable  time.  Steps  are  being 
taken  to 
increase  the  stall  space  by 
grading  and  adding  streets  on  the south, 
but  this  work  now  only  serves  to  render 
the  space  useless  for  standing  room.

It 

is  noticeable  and  significant  that 
many  of  the  newcomers  on  the  market 
are  from  increased  distances.  This,  as 
noted  in  preceding  comments,  is  owing 
to  the  constantly  spreading  road 
im­
provement.  Year  by  year  the  radius 
has  been  constantly  extending,  by  al­
most  imperceptible  degrees,  to  be  sure, 
but  a  slight  increase  in  every  direction 
exerts  a  wonderful  influence  in  the  to­
It  may  be  noted  that  local  ship­
tal. 
ping  points  are  comparatively 
ignored, 
but  this  is  accounted  for  in  the  fact that 
the  first  essential  in  the  distribution  of 
delicate  fruits  is  the  quickest and  surest 
market.

The  wonderful  increase  in  the  morn­
ing  market  business  is  dependent  upon 
conditions  which  have  never  obtained 
in  anything  like  the  same  degree  in 
ether  parts  of  the  country,  for  the  era  of 
road  building  is  new  in  the  older  parts 
of  the  country  as  well  as  the  new.  The 
development  of  distributive  facilities  is 
also  new  everywhere.  Thus  the  increase 
is  dependent  on  new  and  unprecedented 
conditions  which  make  it  an  interesting 
question  as  to  where  it  will  end.
Decisive  Victory  in the Vinegar Cases.
The  July  Bulletin  of  the  Dairy  and 
Food  Commissioner  contained  eight 
analyses  of  cider  vinegar  produced  by 
the  Dahinden  &  Gallascb  Manufactur­
ing  Co.,  of  Milwaukee, 
from  samples 
taken  at  Bay  City,  West  Bay  City,  Es- 
sexville,  Petoskey  and  Detroit. 
In  all 
cases  the  samples  were  below  the  legal 
in  ash  or  deficient  in  acid 
standard 
strength. 
Three  arrests  were  subse­
quently  made  as  the  result  of  the  dis­
closures,  and  last  Tuesday  Mr.  Dabin- 
den  stood  trial  on  the  first  case  at  Bay 
City.  He  plead  his  own  case  and  suc­
ceeded  in  securing  a disagreement.  The 
case  was  tried  again  on  Wednesday, 
when  Mr.  Dahinden  retained  the  ablest 
lawyer 
in  Bay  City  and  succeeded  in 
getting  himself  convicted.  The  fine 
and  costs 
incident  to  the  conviction 
amounted  to  over  $100,  and  he  took  an 
appeal  to  the  higher  court. 
Instead  of 
trying  the  second  case  on  Thursday,  he 
sought  a  settlement  of  the  matter  out  of 
court,  which  was  granted  on  the  basis 
of  his  paying  the  fine and  costs imposed 
the  previous  day,  withdrawing  his  no­
tice  of  appeal,  pleading  guilty  in  the 
second  case,  paying  the  costs,  pleading 
guilty  in  the  third  case  at Grand  Rapids 
the  next  day,  paying  his  costs  in  this

5

that 

case,  and  also  in  the  case  of  Geo.  Leh­
man,  whose  case  was  nolle prossed when 
service  was  secured  on  Dahinden,  he 
agreeing  to  take  his  goods  out  of  the 
State,  in  consideration  of  which  the 
Commissioner  agreed 
sentence 
should  be  suspended  in  the  second  Bay 
City  case  and  in  the  Grand Rapids case. 
The'  week’s  experience  with  the  Food 
Commissioner  cost  Mr.  Dahinden 
in 
the  neighborhood  of  $500,  but  he took 
his  loss  good  naturedly,  because  he 
realized  that  he  was  in  the  wrong  and 
that  the  Food  Commissioner  was  in  the 
right.  He  insists  that  whatever  goods 
he  sends  into  the  State  hereafter  will  be 
up  to  the  legal  standard.  The  outcome 
of  the  cases  is  a  decided  victory  for  the 
Food  Commissioner and  for  the  cause 
of  better  food  products  generally.

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.

Hides  are  of  uncertain  value  at  pres­
ent.  Tanners  have  no  surplus  and work 
only  from  hand  to  mouth.  Heavies  are 
firm,  with  large  sales.  Light  hides  are 
weaker  and  quotable  at  10c,  while  sales 
have  been  made  at ioj^c,  dealers  asking 
ioj£c.  Tanners  are  anxious,  as  stock 
is at  its  best  in  quality  at  this  time  of 
the  year.  Leather  prices,  however,  do 
not  warrant  the  high  price  of  hides. 
There  is  no  surplus.

Pelts  are  so  few  in  number that  the 
market 
is  not  quotable.  Values  are 
made  on  values  of  wool,  although  the 
demand,  from  short  supply,  makes  the 
price.

Tallow 

is  slow  of  sale  at  low  value 
is  in  demand, 
Soap- 
is  in  large  supply,  with  de­

and  only  prime  stock 
which  shows  a  slight  advance 
er’s  stock 
mand  but  fair.

Wool  feels  a  depression  from  sales  of 
cloth  at  New  York  auctions,  which  show 
a  decline  of  20  per  cent,  on  wool goods. 
It  does  not  break  prices  on  wool,  but 
stops  sales  to  some  extent,  which  had 
shown  some  improvement in quantity for 
the  past  few  weeks. 
It  is  a  waiting 
game  between  clothiers  and  manufac­
turers,  with  wool  dealers  not  inclined  to 
lessen  prices.  Wools  of  the  1898  clip 
have  cost  fully  up  to  the  market  and, 
with  cheap  money,  buyers  are 
inclined 
to  hold  for  future development,  knowing 
that  stocks  can  not  be  replaced  from 
abroad  except  at  a  loss.  The  small  im­
ports  for  the  last  few  months  remain 
in 
bond  and  will  bring  more  money  by 
sending  back  to  England,  but  a  loss  to 
importers  to  sell  on  this  side.  Old 
stock  on  hand  at  the  mills  is  disappear­
ing,  while  many  are  in  the  market  to 
know  what  they  must  pay  for  a new sup­
ply.  on  which  they  base  their  prices  for 
their  goods.  The  slow  dragging  wool 
market  is  a  surprise  to  the  oldest,  while 
free  wool  seems  to  hang  on  as  the  solu­
tion. 

W m.  T.  H ess.

is  paid 

follows: 

The  G.  R.  Mayhew  Shoe  Co.  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
Szo.ooo,  of  which  $5,530 
in. 
There  are  four stockholders,  all  of whom 
are  officers,  as 
President, 
Lucy  A.  Mayhew;  Vice-President,  T. 
A.  McGee;  Secretary,  C.  N.  Hudson ; 
Treasurer  and  Manager,  Geo.  R.  May­
hew.  The  store  will  probably  be  lo­
cated  at  51  or  53  Monroe  street,  and 
it 
is  expected  that  the  fixtures  and  stock 
can  be  gotten  in  place  by  Oct.  1.  Mr. 
Mayhew  enjoyed  the  confidence  and  re­
spect  of  the  trade  to  an  unusual  degree 
during  the  time  he  was  actively 
iden­
tified  with  his  former  business  and  it  is 
believed  that  bis  friends  will  rally to his 
support  and  assist  him  in  getting  on  his 
feet  again.

home  grown.

Cocoanuts— 4@5c.
Corn—Green,  10c  per  doz.  ears.
Cucumbers—50c  per  bu.
Eggs— Dealers  pay  10c  for  case  count 
and  lie   for  fresh,  holding  at  12c.  The 
receips  of  fresh  eggs  have  not  been 
heavy,  and  the  demand,  on  account  of 
the  exceedingly  hot  weather,  has  been 
very  small.  During  the  past  week  the 
receipts  have  been  just  about  sufficient 
for the  demand.  With  cooler  weather 
the  egg  market  is  apt  to  show  a  decid­
edly  firmer 
this 
means  a  much  larger  demand,  the  trade 
do  not  look  for  much  higher  prices,  as 
the  storage  stock  will  prevent  this.

Although 

feeling. 

Grapes— Moore’s  Early  are  in  plenti­
ful  supply  on  the  basis  of  10c  for  5  lb. 
baskets  and  15c  for  8 lb.  baskets.  Wor­
dens  are  beginning  to  come  in  freely.

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

I2@ I3C.

Muskmelons— Musk,’  Cantaloups  and 
Osage are in ample supply  and strong de­
mand  at  75c  per  doz.

Onions— Home  grown  command  $1.50 

per  bbl.  for  yellow  or  red.

Oranges— The  movement 

with  no  change  in  values.

is  steady, 

Peaches—Receipts are  in  excess  of  all 
precedent,  there  having  been  upward  of 
a  thousand  wagons  on  the  market  Tues­
day  morning,  Barnards  command  5o@ 
75c  and  Early  Crawfords  fetch  75c@$i, 
with  extra  fancy  stock  ranging  as  high 
as  $1.25.

Pears—Little  sugar  fetch 40c;  Clapp’s 
Favorite  command  about  50c ;  Bartlett, 
80c.  The  supply  is  in excess of anything 
ever  known  at  this  market.

Plums— Bradshaws  and  Guvos are over 
for this  season.  Lombards are in  ample 
supply  at  60c  and  Moore’s  Arctics  are 
plentiful  at  50c.

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

ple  supply  at  4o@45c.

Tomatoes— Home grown command 40c, 
with  offerings  fully  equal to the demand.
Watermelons— 10c  for  Missouri  and 

15c  for  Sweethearts.

The  Grain  Market.

While  wheat  remains  about  the  same, 
it  seems  to  have  gained  a  few  friends, 
and  the  bear  element  has  been  kept  in 
check  by  the  small  receipts 
in  the 
Northwest.  While  the  visible  was  ex­
pected  to  show  a  decrease  of  ioo.ooo 
bushels,  there  was  an  increase  of  77,000 
bushels,  which  still  left  the  visible  be­
low  6,000,000  bushels,  against  15,473,- 
000  in  1897  and  45,600,000  in  1896  and 
67,000,000  in  1894.

Exports  are  rather  small,  but  the  re­
ports  from  Russia  are  not  so  rosy  as 
they  were  some  time  ago.  We are  of  the 
opinion  that  prices  have  about  touched 
bottom,  that  is  unless  the  farmers should 
take’ a  notion  to  sell  all  at  once,  when  a 
slump  would  occur.

Corn  and oats remain about stationary. 
They  vary  in  price  some days  from  one- 
eighth  of  a  cent  to  one-half  of a  cent, 
but  that  goes  for naught.

Receipts  were:  wheat,  48  cars;  corn, 

19  cars;  oats,  16  cars.

M illers  are payin g  60c  at  the  m ills  for 

wheat  to-day. 

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t .

S.  M.  Lemon,  President  of the Lemon 
&  Wheeler  Company, 
surprised  his 
friends  by  taking  a  two  davs’  respite 
at a  lake  shore  resort  this  week.

Tyroler’s  Emporium,  general  dealers 
at  St.  Louis,  has  added  a  line  of gro­
ceries.  The  Musselman  Grocer  Co.  fur­
nished  the  stock.

C.  De  Witt  Valentine  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  at  the  corner  c f  Hall  and 
South  Ionia  street  to  Cornelius  J.  Brou­
wer.

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

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W om an’s World

The  Case  of  Miss  Amanda.

If  there  is  one  thing  I  like  above  all 
others  in  Fairmount,  and  that  makes re­
turning  to  it  an  ever-recurring  delight, 
it 
is  the  deep  sense  of  neighborliness 
that  pervades  the  community.  There 
no  one  lives  or  dies  to  himself,  no  one 
rejoices  or  grieves  alone.  A  birth  or 
wedding  thrills  the  community  with  a 
pleasant  excitement  scarcely  less  per­
sonal  than  that  felt  by  the  principals 
themselves.  To  hire  a  trained  nurse  in 
sickness  would  be  thought  to  put  an 
affront  upon the  loving kindness of  one’s 
neighbors, 
finally,  when  death 
comes,  the  tender  hands  of  those  who 
have  known  you  all  your  life  robe  you 
for  your  burial  and  bear  you  out  to  the 
graveyard  on  the  hill,  where  one  is  not 
lonely  or  forgotten,so close  about  lie  the 
graves  of  friends  and  kindred.

and 

course, 

So  it  seemed  to  them,  and  to  me,  the 
most  natural  thing  in  all  the  world that, 
when  I  went  back  to  Fairmount  for  my 
vacation  a  year  or  two  ago  almost 
the  first  thing  I  should  be  told was about 
Miss  Amanda.  Of 
for  one 
thing,  she  had  always  been  a  subject  of 
great 
interest  to  all  of  us,  and  of  no 
small  pride  When  strangers  came  to 
see  us  we  always  took  them  to  call  on 
her  in  her  picturesque,  vine-embowered 
old  bouse,  where  the  rooms  always 
smelled  of  mignonette  and  rose  gera 
nium,  and where the solid  old  mahogany 
furniture  made  strangers’  eyes  glisten 
with  covetous  yearnings  that  filled  us 
frith  secret  pride  and  joy.

in  the 

Afterwards  it  amused us to watch their 
tentative  advances  towards  the  subject: 
“ You  — er — do  you  suppose  Miss 
Amanda  would  be  willing  to  sell  that 
library?’ ’ 
old  mahogany  table 
they  would  ask  in  a  voice  they  tried 
in 
vain  to  make  sound 
indifferent  and 
casual,  “ or  that  buffet  with  the  claw 
feet  or  that  old  rosewood writing desk?’ ’ 
Then  came  our  hour  of  triumph. 
“ Miss  Amanda  sell  her  furniture?”   we 
would  cry. 
“ Goodness,  no!  Why,  they 
are  the  things  her  father  had  in  Wash­
ington,  or  brought  home  with  him  from 
Europe. ”

You  see.  Miss  Amanda  had  once  be­
longed  to  the  great  world  and  we  were 
proud  of  it.  Her  father  had  represented 
our  State 
in  the  Senate,  and  bad  then 
been  sent  abroad  as  Minister  to  some 
minor foreign court,  where Miss Amanda 
and  her  sisters  were  celebrated  as  the 
beautiful  Americans.

Of  course,  that  is  ancient history now. 
The  Senator  has  been  in bis  grave  these 
ipany  years  and  the  other  girls  are  mar 
ried  and  live  in  distant  cities  and  only 
Miss  Amanda 
is  left  to  us.  Not  that 
we  ever  cared  for  the  other  girls,  and 
we  all  bitterly  resented  the  way  they 
in 
treated  her 
the  settlement  of  her 
father  s  estate. 
They,  or  their  hus­
bands— it  is  quite  the  same  thing  when 
you  come  to  money  matters—took  all 
the  best  of  everything.  Miss  Amanda 
never  knew  how  to  stand  up  for  her own 
rikhts,  and  she  let  them  have  what  they 
would,  and  in  particular  when  they  di 
vided  up  the  fine  farm  that  had been the 
Senator’s  choicest  possession  they  took 
all  the  rich,  broad  acres  of  pasture  land 
and  the  fertile  wheat  fields,  and  left  her 
only  the  poor  land  about  the  house.

The  senator  had  planted  some  walnut 
trees  on  the  knoll  upon  which  the  house 
was  built  and  christened  the place “ The 
Walnuts, 
and  had  been  very  fond  of 
the  place,  but  as  we  pointed  out  to  Miss 
Amanda  she couldn’t sell reminiscences,

and  one  acre  of  good  pasture 
land 
was  worth  a  hundred  acres  of sentiment.
Oh,  well,”   she  said  excusingly, 
“ the  other  girls  needed  the  money  more 
than  I  did.  They  have  families,  and 
their  husbands  don’t  get  along well and, 
anyway,  I  have  enough  to  live  on. ”

Now  all  of  that  was  changed.  An  un­
lucky  business  venture  had  swept  away 
all  her  income;  even  the  house she lived 
in  was  hopelessly  mortgaged,  and  at 
middle age the  frail,delicately-nurtured, 
unworldly  little  gentlewoman  was  about 
to  be  forced 
into  the  army  of  bread­
winners.

“ She  has  just  been  robbed !”   cried 
Maria  Wheat,  vindictively,  because  of 
the  sympathy  that  was  tearing  her  gen­
tle  heart.  Don  t  tell  me  that  precious 
nephew  of  hers  ever  intended to  pay  her 
back. 
I  know  better !  Coming  here 
with  all  his  smooth  ways  and  his  graces 
and  airs  and  palavering.  Goodness 
knows,  it  does 
like  a  woman  as 
old  as  Miss  Amanda  might  have  had 
enough  sense  to  see  through 
it  all,  and 
after  the  way  her  family  treated  her, 
too !”

look 

“ Is  it  so  bad  as that,”   I asked ;  “ will 

she  lose  everything?”

‘ “ Everything  but  that  old  farm,  that 
is  all  grown  up  with  walnut  sprouts  un­
til  it’s  a  perfect  thicket.  N o w ,  the ques­
tion  is,  what  is  she  to  do?”
Well,  it  was  a  question 

that  might 
have  puzzled  wiser  philanthropists  than 
we,  for  there  is  nothing  else  on  earth  so 
pathetically  helpless  as  the  old  gentle­
woman,  untrained 
in  any  business  or 
profession,  too  proud  to  accept  charity, 
who  must  offer  her  poor  little  accom­
plishments  in  the great  market  of  labor. 
We  can  laugh  at  our  effort  now—with 
the  tears  very  near  brimming  over 
in 
the  eyes  that  smile— but  it  was a  serious 
matter  then  that  we  discussed  over  in­
numerable  cups  of  tea.  Of  course,  our 
first  idea—it 
is  always  the  inevitable 
idea  of  women  who  cling  to  home  as  to 
the  one  ark  of  refuge— was  that  Miss 
Amanda  should  take  boarders.

You  remember  her  angel 

food!”  

cried  one  excitedly.

‘ Think  of  her  rolls,”   chimed  in  an­
other,  and  we  agreed  that  in  that  way 
ease  and-fortune  lay  for  Miss  Amanda, 
and  we  felt  it  nothing  less  than  a  spe­
cial  Providence  that  just  at  that  partic­
ular 
time  some  strangers,  who  were 
members  of  the  church  and  distinctly 
presentable,  should  move  to  town.  As 
a  matter  of  fact,  we  resolved  ourselves 
into  hotel  runners  for  her and  sounded 
the  praises  of  her  housekeeping  as  as­
siduously  as  if  we  had  been  drawing  a 
salary  for  doing  it.

training. 

technical 

In  our  inexperience  it  never  occurred 
to  us,  and  assuredly  it  never  occurred  to 
her,  that  keeping  boarders  is  a  pro­
fession  that  requires  definite  and  accu­
rate 
To  Miss 
Amanda,  used  to  dispensing  a  gracious 
it  was  nothing  short  of 
hospitality, 
martyrdom  to  take  money from those she 
persisted  in  considering  her  guests. 
If 
they  paid,  she  made 
it  up  to  them  as 
far  as  possible  by  inviting  their  friends 
and  relatives  on  indefinite  visits.  More­
over  she  helped  various  impecunious 
boys  and  girls  by  giving  them  their 
board. 
“ When  you  have  a  big  table, 
one  or  two  more  don’t  count,  you  know! 
my  dear,”   she  would  say  in  excuse  to 
the  rest  of  us,  and  anyway,  you  can’t 
give  $50  meals  for $20  and make money, 
and  so  at  last  the  butcher  bill  and  thé 
grocery  bill  added  another  lien  on  the 
house,  where  already  the  newest  thing 
was  the  third  mortgage.

Then,  seeing  that  the  boarders  were  a

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failure,  we  bethought  ourselves  of  get­
ting  her  a  place  to  teach  in  the  public 
school,  and  there  wasn’t  a  married  roan 
in  Fairmount  who  didn't  go  to  bed, 
and  get  up  to  a  running accompaniment 
of  Miss  Amanda's  needs,  until he prom­
ised  to  see  the  school  board  and  use 
force,  if  necessary,  to  get  her  a  posi­
tion.  Maria Wheat  herself  undertook  to 
see  the  principal.

“ You  know  him,’ ’  she  said,  in detail­
ing  the  result  of  her  interview  to  us, 
“ the  miserable 
little  prunes-and- 
prism,  dry  as-dust  creature,  with  a  soul 
no  bigger  than  the  point  of  a  cambric 
I  told  him  what  we  wanted, 
needle. 
and  be  smiled 
in  his  supercilious  way 
and  said :

'Really,  Mrs  Wheat,  I  would 

like 
to  oblige  you,  but,  you 
very  much 
know,  it 
is  quite  out  of  the  question. 
Miss  Amanda  is  altogether  behind  the 
times.  She  wouldn’t  know  how  to  teach 
by  diagrams  or  any  of  the  modern 
methods  we  use  nowadays.  Now, ’  he 
said  patronizingly,  ‘ what  do  you  sup­
pose  Miss  Amanda  understands  well 
enough  to  teach?'

“ Well,  it  happened  just  at  that  min­
ute  my  Katie  came  scorching  by  on  her 
bicycle,  chewing  gum,  with  her  skirts 
flying  about  her  knees  and  her  cap  on 
one  side  of  her  head,  and  she  saw  us 
and  screamed  out  at  the  top  of  her 
voice:

“   ‘ Hello,  mamma;  hello,  professor!’ 

and  I  turned  on  him.

“   ‘ What  could  Miss  Amanda  teach?’
1  cried;  ‘ she  could 
teach  girls  to  be 
ladies,  and  I'd  give  a  thousand  dollars 
right  now  to  anybody  who  could  make 
one  out  of  my  daughter!’  ’ ’

Of  course,  the  teaching  project  finally 
fell  through.  We  were  sadly  convinced, 
and  much  against  our  wills,  that  some 
more  definite  knowledge  was  required 
in  a  school  teacher  than  a  casual  ac­
quaintance  with  Scott  and  Dickens  and 
the  ability  to  quote  Byron  in  appropri­
ate  places.  Maria  Wheat  again 
inter­
viewed  the  public  school  principal  and 
brought  back  word  that  Miss  Amanda 
would  have  to  stand  an  examination 
before  she  could  hope  to  get  a  place.

“ And  that  settles  it,”   she  said. 

“ Of 
course,  we  know  Miss  Amanda  is  the 
most  cultivated  person  in  this  commu­
nity,but she couldn’t  begin  to answer the 
tomfool  questions  they  ask  in  those  ex­
aminations,  with  all  their  fads  and new­
fangled 
It’s  my  opinion,”   she 
added  gloomily,  “ that  if  Emerson  were 
to  come  back  to  earth  now,  he  couldn’t 
stand  an  examination  to  teach  kinder­
garten  babies  how  to  build  a  block­
house. ”

ideas. 

mortgage  and  Miss  Amanda’s  house and 
furniture  must  be  sold  to  pay  the  debt, 
and  for a  week  she  shut  her  eyes,  that 
she  might  not  see  the  bill  of  sale  as  she 
walked  down to  the  gate,  for,  indeed,  to 
her  the  end  of  all  things  bad  come.

It  was  growing  late  in  the  fall,  and  as 
she  made  her  round  of  the  little garden, 
where  only  a  belated  chrysanthemum 
bloomed  in  faded  splendor,  it  seemed  to 
her  it  was  like  the  prototype  of  her  own 
life,  where  all  the  flowers had faded  and 
gone,  leaving  only  a  desolate  and  for­
lorn  waste  behind.  Then  she  turned 
and  went  into  the  house,  going  slowly 
over  it  and  touching  every  piece  of  fur­
niture  with  tender  and 
loving  hands. 
What  memories,  what  hopes,  what 
dreams  clustered  about  them!  They 
were  a  part  of  her  life  and  she  felt  the 
numb,  helpless  pain  as  she  imagined 
one  might  feel  who  had  a  limb  sudden­
ly  lopped  off.  At  last  her  aimless  wan­
dering  brought  her  to  the  library  and 
she  sank  down  into  a  chair  and  laid  her 
arm  across  the  old  mahogany  table.

“ Dear  God,”   she sobbed brokenly,  “ I 
am  not  strong  like  many  women— I  am 
not  fitted  to  struggle  with  the  world— I 
am  old  and  broken  and  the  way  is  dark 
and 
lonely  before  me.  Thy  promise— 
remember,  Lord— ‘ the  broken  reed  thou 
wilt  not  break— ’  ”
How  long  she  sat  there  she  never 
knew.  Perhaps,  worn  out  with  misery, 
she  fell  asleep,  but  the  first  thing  she 
knew  was  that  Maria  Wheat  was  stand­
ing over her, with  the  tears running down 
her  face  and  the  advertisement  of  the 
auction  sale  crumpled  up  in  her hands, 
while  Mr.  Wheat  filled  up  the  doorway.
“ It’s  all  right,  Miss Amanda, ”   Maria 
was  saying. 
“ I  didn’t  tell  you  because 
John  didn’t  tell  me, but he's  been  work­
ing  on 
it  ali  the  time  for  the  last  few 
months,  and  he’s  got  some  furniture 
manufacturers  from  Grand  Rapids  to 
come here,and  they  are  going  to  buy the 
timber,  and,  oh !  Miss  Amanda,  it seems 
that  that  old  walnut  thicket  of  yours 
is 
worth  a  fortune,  and  that  you  are  rich, 
and  there  won’t  have  to  be  any  more 
boarders,  or  preserves,  or  anything,and, 
oh!  I’m  the  happiest  woman  in  Fair- 
mount. ”
Amanda  was  settled.

it  was  that  the  case  of  Miss 

And  so 

“ After  all,”   I  said  to  Maria  Wheat 
once,  in  reviewing  it,  "  it  didn't  seem 
to  prove  anything.”

“ Except,”   said  that  practical  wom­
an,  “ that  the  only  way  for  an  elderly 
gentlewoman  who  needs  money  is  to  in­
herit  it  some  way. ”

And  I  agreed. 

D o r o th y  D tx .

FOLDING  TABLE

After  that,  in  different  bursts  of  in­
spiration,  Miss  Amanda  tried  making 
preserves  and  pickles  for  rich  city  peo­
ple  whom  we  had  been  led  to  believe 
were  hankering  and  pining  for  home­
made  goodies,  and  were  willing  to  pay 
fabulous  prices  for  them. 
If  there  are 
any  such  customers,  we  failed  to  reach 
them,  and  her  jars  came  back  from  the 
various  exchanges  fly-speckled  and  un­
sold.

In  the  meantime  Miss  Amanda  grew 
paler  and  thinner  and  more  worn  as 
time  went  by.  Care  and  anxiety  laid 
their  heavy  hands  upon  her  and  bowed 
the  shoulders  and  whitened  the  brown 
hair  as  age  had  never  done,  and  one 
had  only  to  notice  the  tremulous  smile 
about  the  brave  old  lips  that  uttered  no 
complaint and the  dimness  of  the  faded 
old  blue  eyes  to  guess  bow  long  and  bit­
ter  were  the  silent  night  vigils she kept.
At  last  there  came  a  day  when  the  in­
terest  could  be  no  longer  met  on  the

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commerce  with  Canada  is  to  a  large  ex­
tent  true,  also,  of  commerce  with  Mex­
ico.  We  are  not  selling  to  our  neighbors 
immediately  to  the  south  one-fourth  the 
goods  annually  that  we  ought  to  sell 
them,  or  that  we  would  sell  them  were 
more  attention,  governmental  and  other­
wise,  paid  by  the  Americans  to  com­
mercial  expansion 
that  direction. 
With  proper  reciprocity  treaties  and  the 
right  effort  by  our  business  organiza­
tions  and  commercial  bodies,  we  ought 
to  sell  to  Canada  and  Mexico  easily 
$200,000,000  worth  of  goods  a  y e a r- 
more  than  we  can  hope  to  sell  to  the 
Philippines  and  Porto  Rico  for  a  long 
time  to  come.

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Is  it  not  singular,  therefore,  that  our 
people  should  be  so  aroused,  apparently 
so  excited,  at  prospects  across  the  seas 
and  yet  seemingly  indifferent  to the pos­
sibilities  right  at  our  doors? 
It  is  to  be 
hoped  that  the  business  interests  of  this 
country  will  not  overlook  the  great  op­
portunity  they  now  have, 
through  a 
proper  pressure  upon  our  Commission­
ers  at  Quebec,  to  secure  a  larger  trade 
with  Canada  than  we  have  ever  hereto­
fore  enjoyed.

TH E   TRADE  TO   CU LTIV A TE .
While  a  great  many  people  and  a 
large  number  of  newspapers  are  mani­
festing  extraordinary  interest  with  ref­
erence  to  the  retention  of  the  Philip­
pines  as  a  field  for  commercial  expan­
sion,  more  profitable  fields  nearer  home 
are  attracting  comparatively  little  pop­
ular  attention. 
It  seems  to  be  another 
case  of  overlooking  opportunities within 
reach  and  straining  after  something 
in 
the  dim  distance.

From  a  commercial  point  of  view  the 
Commission  which  is  sitting  at  Quebec 
can  be  made  of  more  value  to  us  than 
the  Peace  Commission  which  is  to  con­
vene  in  Paris  next  month;  but  while  we 
bestow  a  National  concern  upon  the  lat­
ter,  the  business  world  appears  to  be 
looking  with  indifference  upon  the  for­
mer.  According  to  a  trade  summary 
recently  issued  from  the  Treasury  De­
partment,  the  exports  from  the  United 
States  to  Canada  during  the  fiscal  year 
immediately  preceding  the  enactment 
of  the  Dingley  bill  amounted  to  over 
$80,000,000,  or  $16  per  capita  of  the  en­
tire  population  of  Canada.  Compared 
with  this  volume  of  exports  the  total 
purchases  of  the  people  of  Porto  Rico 
and  the  Philippines  in  a  year  do  not 
amount  to  as  much  as  one-half. 
If, 
therefore,  we  would  exclude  from  the 
Porto  Rican  and  Philippine  markets 
every  dollar’s  worth  of  goods  for  sale 
by  others  and  monopolize  and  double 
the  purchases  of those islands,  we  should 
only  then  send  to  them  the  amount  of 
goods  that  we  were  selling  to  the  Cana­
dians  a  year  or  so ago.  The importance 
of  intelligently  and  industriously  culti­
vating  this  foreign  trade  directly  across 
our  border  can  at  once  be  appreciated.
Among  the  points  to  be  considered 
by  the  Joint  High  Commission  at  Que­
bec 
is  this one:  “ Such  readjustments 
and  concessions  as  may  be  deemed  mu­
tually  advantageous,  of  customs  duties, 
applicable  in  each  country  to  the  prod­
ucts  of the  soil  or  industry  of  the  other 
upon 
the  basis  of  reciprocal  equiva­
lents.” 
In  other  words,  it  is  within  the 
power  of  this  Commission  to  frame  a 
reciprocity  treaty  that  will  insure  us  a 
trade  equal  to  that  to  be  obtained  from 
all  the  territory  we  are  likely  to  take 
from  Spain.  And  there is this additional 
in  this  American-Canadian 
advantage 
trade,  that 
it  can  be  transacted  quickly 
bv  rail  and  w ithout  the  cost  to  us  of 
military 
naval 
squadrons  for  its  protection.

establishments 

and 

What  is  true  in  this  connection  of

the  employment  of 

The  London  Statist  predicts  a  great 
for  this  country, 
wave  of  prosperity 
based  upon 
large 
amounts  of  American  capital  in  Cuba, 
Porto  Rico  and  the  Philippines,  and 
Wall  Street  is encouraged ;  but  it forgets 
that  if  capital  seeks  advantageous  op­
portunities  abroad  all  this  money  will 
be  taken  from  our financial  centers. 
If 
it  finds  a  better  outlet  elsewhere  the 
tendency  will  be  to  sell  our  securities 
and  put  the  money  in  more  profitable 
investments  How  will  this  help  Wall 
Street?  The  most 
important  result  of 
the  war,  as  far  as  the  maintenance  of 
prices  on  Wall  Street  is  concerned,  is 
the  establishment  of  our  finances  on  a 
sounder  basis,  because  of  the  fact  that 
the  new  revenue  law  puts  an  end  to  the 
dread  of  a  deficit.  The  revenue  law 
and  the  tariff  law  conjointly  will  bring 
in  more  money  than  is  required  to  pay 
the  expenses  of  the  Government,  and 
there  is  no  reason  why  we  should  not 
proceed  at  once  to  wipe  out  our  public 
debt  with  the  surplus.

In  a  comparatively  short  time,  it  is 
said,  one  of  the  oldest  of  the  European 
coins  will  cease  to  become  legal  tender, 
and  its  only  use  will.be  as  a  specimen 
of  obsolete  coinage  for  the  numismatist. 
A  few  weeks  ago  the  Austrian  kreutzer 
was  withdrawn  from  commercial  circu­
lation  on  account  of  the  convention 
making  the  copper  currency  over  all 
parts  of  the  country  of  an  equal  value. 
About  eighteen  months  has  been  al­
lowed  for  the  entire  circulation  to  be 
called 
in,  and  with  the  advent  of  the 
twentieth  century  the  coin  will  no  long­
er  be  accepted  as  legal  tender.  The 
kreutzer  has,  however,  had  a  very 
long 
life,  having  been  in  existence  since  the 
Middle  Ages,  and  took 
its  name  from 
the  cross  which  it  bore.

There  is  no  protocol  with  the  insur­
gents  at  Manila.  The  only  way  to  treat 
is  to  lick  them,  as  should 
with  them 
have  been  done  with  the  Spaniards  in 
Spain.  Protocols  are  pretty  things  to 
frame  and  bang  up  in a  diplomat's  par 
lor;  but  something  like  the  Oregon  is 
best  for  stopping  a  fight.

Blanco  will  allow  anybody  but a news­
in  H avana 
paper  reporter  t > 
Spam’s  hostility  to  a  free  press  is large­
ly  responsible  for  her  present  humilia­
tion  and  decay.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

OUR GOOD OFFICES RECOGNIZED
The  new  Chilean  minister  to  this 
country,  who  has  just  presented  his cre­
dentials  to  Mr.  McKinley,  speaks  with 
such  warmth  of  the  desire  of his govern­
ment  to  enjoy  closer  commercial  rela­
tions  with  the  United  States  and  to  fos­
ter  a  better  feeling  that  there  must  be 
more 
in  his  utterances  than  the  mere 
formalities  of  diplomatic  intercourse.

There  is  one  remark attributed  to  him 
that  is  significant,  if  he  is  correctly  re­
ported.  He  is  quoted  as  saying  that  the 
people  of  South  America  rec  gnize  the 
importance  of  America's  protecting 
wing  to  the  maintenance  of  their  free­
dom  from  foreign  aggressions. 
It  has 
often  been  a  question  whether  the  Cen­
tral  and  South  American  Republics  ap­
preciated  the  danger  they  would  be 
in  were  it  not  for  the  Monroe 
placed 
doctrine. 
it  has  been  a 
question,  indeed,  if  these  weak  repub­
lics  were  not  rather  disposed  to  suspect 
our  good  intentions  and  resent  our  self- 
constituted  guardianship.

Frequently 

If  Senor  Vicuna,  Chile’s  new  repre­
sentative,  voices  South  American  feel- 
ing,  the  people  to  the  south  of  us  not 
only  do  not  fear  nor  distrust  us,but  look 
to  us  for  the  continuance  of  their  in­
dependent  political existence.  Whether 
the 
late  war  is  the  cause  of  this  now 
open  confession  of  dependence,  or 
whether  the  conviction  has  been  long 
held,  it  is  gratifying  to  note  the  intelli­
gence  back  of  the  opinion,  and 
the 
probable  consequences  of  its  free  and 
general  expression.

Undoubtedly 

it  is  true  that  but  for 
the  Monroe  doctrine  South  and  Central 
America  would  to  day  be  largely  par­
celled  out  between  the  European  na­
tions.  Without  our  presence  on  this 
continent,and  with  sufficient  wealth  and 
power  to  make  good  our  decrees,  Eng­
land,  France,  Germany  and  Italy  would 
not  hesitate  to  partition  Venezuela,  Ar­
gentine,  Chile,  Peru,  Brazil,  Colombia 
and  Central  America.  Let  this  truth  but 
be  fully  appreciated  to  the  south  and 
necessarily  a  kindlier  feeling  toward tbe 
Great  Republic  must  prevail.  Friend­
ship  means  closer  relations,  commercial 
and  otherwise. 
It  will  be  recognized  as 
far  as  the  Horn  that  it  is  to  the  interest 
of  all  to  promote  the  prosperity  and 
power  of  the  United  States.

THE  FEAR  OF  LIA BILITY.

The  world  was  startled, if not shocked, 
few  weeks  ago,  at  the  facts  which 
came  out  in  a  bankruptcy  trial  in  Lon­
don,  wherein  it  was  shown  that  promi­
nent  members  of  the  English  nobility 
and  known  capitalists  had  accepted 
large  sums  of  money  to  allow  their 
names  to  appear  as  directors  of  certain 
questionable  commercial  concerns.

such 

apparently 

The  corporations  which were bolstered 
respectable 
up  by 
names  were  really  unsubstantial  in  their 
character  and  fraudulent  in  the 
inten­
tion  with  which  they  were  set  afloat. 
There  was  little  or  no  capital  to  start 
with  and  there  was  nothing  in  the  or­
ganizations  that  would  commend  them 
to  experienced  financiers  and  men  of 
business.  On  the  contrary,  tbe  opera­
tions  they  proposed  to  engage  in  and 
the  extraordinary  profits  which 
they 
offered 
stockholders  should  have 
warned  all  but  the  wholly  inexperienced 
to  beware  of  them.  But  they  were  Dot 
designed  to  attract  experienced  busi­
ness  people.  They  were  only 
intended 
to  “ take  in"  plain  people  who  would 
believe  the  promises  of  vast  profits  on 
small 
investments,  while  tbe  names  of 
noble  lords  and  wealthy  gentlemen  on

to 

the  boards  of  direction  were  sufficient 
to  gain  the  confidence  of  thousands  and 
tens  of  thousands  of  people  who  put 
their  money  in,  but  never  took  it  out.

It  is  said  that  a  fool  is  born 

into  the 
world  every  second  of  time.  Certainly 
there  is  no  lack  of  people  who  present 
themselves  every  day  to  be  robbed  by 
some  smooth  swindler.  People  who  are 
otherwise  intelligent  persist 
in  believ­
ing  that  it  is  easy  to  get  something  for 
nothing,  and  they  are  ever  ready  to  be­
lieve  that  there  are  men  who  will  for  a 
trifle  assist  others  to  make 
fortunes.. 
These  are  the  sort  of  people  who  are 
ready  to  be  persuaded  that  to  flood  the 
country  with  worthless  or  depreciated 
money  will  enable  everybody  to  become 
immediately  rich. 
It  is  simply  another 
form  of  the  old  game  of  geiting  some­
thing  for  nothing.

It  is  not  at  all  strange  that  in  London, 
where  social  rank  and  title  count  for 
vastly  more  than  they  do  here,  .the 
names  of  noted  and  notable  persons 
should  prove  a  powerful  bait  to  draw 
people  and  their  money  into  vast  swin­
dling  concerns  until  tbe  rascally  opera­
tions  absorbed  vast  amounts  of  money, 
tbe  noble  lords  and  gentlemen  who  act 
in 
for 
swindlers  demanding  and  receiving  as 
much  as $10,000  to  $50,000  for  the use of 
their  names.

tbe  capacity  of  stool-pigeons 

All  this  shameful business was brought 
to  light  in  a  bankruptcy  court and  never 
got 
in  a  criminal  court  at  all,  so  that 
the  parties  to  a  vast  swindling operation 
escaped  all  responsibility  save  the  pay­
ment  of  some  costs  of  court  There  are 
in  the  United  States  no  such  gigantic 
swindles  as  those  conducted by Barnaby, 
the  South  African  “ mining  king,’ ’  and 
Hooley,  the  London  confidence operator. 
This  is  probably  because  we  have  here 
no  noble 
lords  whose  names  attract 
money  on  every  side  and  draw  it  from 
everybody.

The  American  capitalist  is  deterred 
from 
indorsing  swindling  schemes  by 
the  fact  that  he  may  be  made  liable  for 
losses.  That  fear 
is  more  potential 
than  is  conscience  or  any  moral  scruple 
in  many  cases.  Conscience  is  sorely  in 
the  way  of  all  great  financial  operations 
in  which  tbe  rule  of  action  is:  “ Every 
one  for  himself,  and  the  devil  take  the 
hindmost. ”

M U S T  CHANGE  TH E  NAME.

For  the  sake  of  securing  concessions 
from  the  railroads  for  future  conven­
tions,  tbe  Detroit  gentlemen  who  were 
interested  in  the  meeting  of  retail  mer­
chants  at  Detroit  last  week  effected  an 
organization  under  the  name  of  the 
Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association.
The  Michigan  Business  Men’s  Asso­
ciation  was  organized  at  Grand  Rapids, 
Sept.  21,  1886,  and  was 
incorporated 
Sept.  15,  1887,  under  Act  No.  190,  Pub­
lic  Acts  of  1887.  As  the  law  piovides 
that  no  two  corporations  shall  bear  the 
same  name,  it  will  be  necessary  for  the 
Detroit  gentlemen  to  change  the  name 
of  their  organization  to  some  other  des­
ignation  than  that  under  which 
is 
now  masquerading.

it 

Tbe  Klondike  pilgrim  is  glad  to  re­
turn  alive.  The  gold  he  did  not  get 
could  never  pay  for  what  he  has  suf­
fered.

The  piping  times  of  war  have  passed 
and  the  times  when  tbe  pipe  of peace  is 
being  smoked  have  come.

Don  Carlos 

is  a  ricd  man,  and  may 
prefer  that  to  being  a  poor  king  of  a 
crazy  people.

OUR  CO M M ERCIAL  CUSTO M ERS.
The  Tradesman  recently  quoted  cus­
tom-house  statistics  to  show  that  John 
Bull  is  the  best  customer  for  American 
exports.  Of  the  $9731699,289  of  prod­
ucts  sold  in  Europe,  the  United  King­
dom  took  $54°i860,152 ;  Germany  taking 
but  8155,039,972 ;  France,  $95,452,692; 
Holland,  $64,274,622,  and  Belgium, 
$47,606,311.

If  we  add  to  what  Great Britain  takes 
the  products  which  are  taken  also  by 
the  British  colonies,  the  figures  are  very 
considerably  enlarged.  British  North 
America  bought  from  us  to  the  value  of 
$84,911,260;  British  West 
Indies, 
88,383,740;  British  Guiana,  $1,792,912; 
Australia,  $15,603,763;  British  Africa, 
$12,027,142.  The  British  nation  is  not 
only  the  largest  consumer  of  the  prod­
ucts  of  the  United  States,  but  it  is  so 
vastly  larger  than  all  other  nations  put 
together  that  if,  for any  reason,  it  were 
cut  off  as  a  customer,  the  United  States 
would  be  swamped  by  an  enormous 
overproduction  of  our  cotton,  grain, 
meats,  petroleum  and  other  articles,  the 
growing  and  preparation  of  which  en­
gross  the  labor  of  a  large  part  of  the 
population  of  the  Union.

Under  these  conditions  we  can  better 
afford  to  quarrel  with  any  and  all  other 
nations  than  with  Great  Britain.  For 
like  reasons, 
the  English  can  better 
afford  to  be  at  enmity  with  any  other 
nation  than  with  the  United  States.  For 
reasons  growing  out  of  this  strong  com­
munity  of  interests,  the  leading  British 
statesmen  have  not  failed  to  see  the  im­
portance  of  the  maintenance  of  ami­
cable,  if  not of  most  intimate,  relations 
between  the  two  countries,  and  their 
expressions  on  the  subject  have  led  to 
the  much-discussed  possibilities  of  a 
close  alliance  between  the  two  countries 
whose  solid  commercial  interests  are  so 
intimately  and  mutually 
connected. 
Such  an  arrangement  would  not  be 
wholly  one-sided,  particularly  in  view 
of  the  policy  of  territorial expansion up­
on  which 
the  Great  Republic  has 
started.

Returning  to  the  trade  statistics  of 
the  United  States,  some  instructive  in­
formation  is  to  be  gained.  The  under­
idea  of  the  celebrated  Monroe 
lying 
is  that  the  United  States, 
doctrine 
while  desisting  from  all 
interference 
with  European  nations,  should  not  only 
resist 
interference  by  them  with  affairs 
on  this  hemisphere,  but  should  bend 
every  energy  towards  gaining  control  of 
the  Western  continental  domain.  To 
this  end  the  most  intimate  commercial 
relations  should  have  been  cultivated 
with  all  our  Central  and  South  Ameri­
can  neighbors.  This,  however,  has  not 
been  done.

is 

bought 

countries 

Our  export  trade  to  those  countries  is 
little  more  than  a  bare  pittance.  They 
buy  from  the  United  States  only  such 
things  as  are  not  to  be  had  elsewhere. 
Everything  else  in  the  way  of  imported 
in  Central  and  South 
goods  consumed 
American 
in 
Europe  The  official  statistics  of  prod­
ucts  purchased  from  the  United  States 
for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1898,  are 
as follows:  Brazil,  $13,317,056;  Cuba, 
$9,561,656;  Argentina,  $6,429,070; Costa 
Rica,  $1,5787343;  Peru,  $1,302,695; 
Uruguay,  $1,214,248;  Ecuador,  $1,151,- 
258;  Mexico,  $21,205,234;  Colombia, 
$3,277.5o7 ; Venezuela,  $2,746,261  ; Chili, 
$2,35 *• 727; 
Porto  Rico,  $1,505,946; 
Guatemala,  $1,205,280; 
Nicaragua, 
$1,086,680.

The  fact  is  demonstrated  by  the  sta­
tistics  of  American  commerce  that  the 
American  people  are  greatly  wanting

in  commercial  enterprise.  They  enact 
no  laws  and  they  take  no  private  meas­
ures that  are  calculated  to  increase  their 
trade.  The  Americans,  by  reason  of 
the  extraordinary  natural  resources  of 
their country,  are  able  to  produce  in ex­
cess  of  their  own  needs  nearly  every  ar­
ticle  of  daily  consumption.  The  people 
of  other  nations  want  these  things,  and 
come  here  to  get  them  where  they  are 
to  be  had  to  the  greatest  advantage. 
They  come  unsolicited.  We  do  not  fill 
Manchester  and  the  other great  cotton­
spinning  cities  of  Europe  with  agents 
displaying  and  vaunting  the quality  and 
superiority  of  our  Southern  cotton.  We 
do  not  send  abroad  armies  of  commer­
cial  travelers  with  samples  of American 
pork,  bacon,  flour,  grain  and  the  like. 
We  make  no  effort  to  sell  our  products 
abroad ;  but,  on  the  contrary,  sit  down 
and  wait  for  buyers  to  come  to  us.

When  foreigners  buy  anything  grown 
or  made  in  America,  we  have  ready  no 
ships  to  freight  it  away  for  them ;  but 
we  simply  wait  for  them  to  send  their 
own  ships. 
In  the  same  way,  when  we 
buy  any  merchandise  in European coun­
tries,  we  have  no  ships  of  our  own  to 
send  for  the  property;  but  we  simply 
pay  strangers  to  do  the  transportation 
for  us.  These  facts  demonstrate  that 
the  Americans  are  destitute  of real com­
mercial  enterprise.  They  are  a  produ 
cing  people;  they  dig  the  ground  and 
they  manufacture;  but  when 
it  comes 
to  selling  and  transporting  their  prod­
ucts  abroad, 
they  sit  down,  like  the 
Turks,  and  wait  for  customers.  Fortu­
nately,  they  have  done  very  well  at  this 
sort  of  thing ;  but  an  enterprising  peo­
ple  like  the  English  would  have  done 
vastly  better  with  the  same  advantages.
If  the  United  States  is  going  to  be­
come  the  possessor of  colonies  in  far-off 
countries,  a  most  radically  different 
policy  must  be  pursued  if  any  commer­
cial  benefit  is  to  come  of  it.  Unless  the 
American  people  shall  take  measures  to 
occupy  and  seize  on  all  the  commercial 
advantages  and  opportunities  offered  in 
the  newly  acquired  tropical  countries  of 
the  East  and  West  Indies,  they  will 
soon  be  monopolized  by  quick-witted 
and  enterprising  foreigners. 
It  will  be 
necessary  also  to  lay  telegraph  cables 
and  to  maintain  lines  of  ships  to  ply  to 
all  the  colonial  ports.  Unless  this  be 
done,  the  American  people  will  get  lit­
tle  benefit  from  the  countries  it  has  cost 
them  so  much  to  conquer.

It 

is  just  as  well  for  people  at  home 
to  remember  that  Porto  Rico  and  most 
of  Cuba  are  settled,  owned  and  cultiva­
ted  by  people whose  rights  of  property 
this  Government  is  going  to  respect  and 
protect,  and  that,  while  there  will  be 
fine  openings  for  American  enterprise 
there,  the  land  is  not  open  for  coloniza­
tion. 
It  may  be  timely  also  to  remind 
ambitious  office  seekers  that  there  are 
no  places  to  be  given  out  in  Porto  Rico 
at  present,  nor  will  be  until  some  per 
manent  form  of  administrative  service 
has  been  established  by  Congress.  Even 
then  it  is  probable  that  the  openings  for 
carpet-baggers  will  not  be  numerous.  If 
we  are  going  to  give  Cuba 
to  the 
Cubans,  we  must  allow  at  least  a  show 
for  the  Porto  Ricans  in  Porto  Rico.

Denmark  makes  a  clear  distinction 
between  the  thriftless  and  the  respect­
able  poor.  The  former  are  treated  like 
English  paupers.  The  latter  never  cross 
a  workhouse  threshold. 
If  destitute, 
they  receive  a  pension  ranging from  $14 
to $84  a  year;  or,  if  too  feeble  to  look 
after  themselves,  they  are  placed  in  an 
old-age  home.

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

influence  over 

MORAL  EFFECT OF  THE  WAR.
The  moral  effect  of  the  victory  of  the 
United  States  over  Spain  may,  in  the 
course  of  a  few  years,  be  found  to  have 
exerted  as  potent  an 
its 
internal  development,  and  the  determi­
nation  of  its  relations  with  the  other 
great  powers  of  the  world,  as  any  or  all 
immediate  material  concessions 
of  the 
it  by  the  defeated  country. 
made  to 
It 
is  evident  that  the  triumph  of  the 
American  fleets  and  armies  in  the  two 
hemispheres  has  produced  a  profound 
impression,  both  at  home  and  abroad. 
Certainly  the  people  of  this  country 
have  never  been  fairly  chargeable  with 
a  disposition  to  depreciate  their  own 
strength  and  prowess;  but  the  fact  that 
they  have  been  able  with  a  few  well- 
directed  blows  to  bring  an  ancient  dis­
pute  to  a  sudden  conclusion,  and  at  the 
same  time  to  change  the  map  of  the 
world,  has  given  to  what was before only 
a  vague  consciousness  of  power  a  defi 
nite  and  palpable  demonstration.  The 
significance  of 
its  complete  and  easy 
victory  has  probably  impressed  the  in­
telligent  statesmen  and  scientific  mil­
itary  men  of  the  Old  World  more  sen 
sibly  than 
it  has  the  Americans  them­
selves. 
It 
is  true  that  well-informed 
Europeans  have  now  for  a  long  time 
understood  that  this 
is  a  country  of 
prodigious  strength,  and  of  all  but  in­
exhaustible  resources;  but  they  have  re­
garded  its  strength  as  for  the  most  part 
latent,  and 
its  resources  as  only  very 
partially  developed.  Moreover,  they 
have  been  inclined  to  place  a  low  esti­
mate  upon  the  American  system  of 
army»  organization,  upon  the  training 
and  discipline  of  the  line  and  upon  the 
science  of  the  general  staff.  Americans 
go  to  Europe  to  complete  their  educa­
tion.  They  study  art 
in  Paris  and 
Rome;  they  spend  years  in German uni­
versities  to  prepare  themselves  for  pro­
fessorships  in  their  home  colleges.  All 
that  seems  very  proper,  and  even  nec­
essary  to  European  artists  and  scholars. 
They  do  not  understand how  real  matur­
ity  of  mind  and  thoroughness  in  learn­
ing  can  be  acquired  anywhere  outside 
of  their  ancient  seats  of  culture.  Euro­
pean  military  critics  share  this  general 
view  of  American  crudity  and  of  the 
superiority  of  European  systems  of 
training  and 
look 
upon  the  recent  war  between  the  North 
and  South  as  a  kind  of  terrific  rough- 
and-tumble  encounter  between  two  big, 
burly,  awkward  giants,  brave  enough, 
but  hopelessly  unscientific.

instruction.  They 

the 

their 

commanders—has  been 

Now,  notwithstanding  some  serious 
mistakes,  or,  perhaps,  it  would  be  bet­
ter  to  say  some  displays  of 
inexcusable 
negligence  on  the  part of the responsible 
authorities, 
fighting  capacity  of 
American  soldiers  and sailors— the cour­
age  and  staying  power  of  the  men,  the 
perfect  coolness  and  magnificent science 
of 
so 
signally  demonstrated  that  no intelligent 
student  of  the  war  would  think  of  ques­
tioning 
it.  The  defeat  of  Spain  was, 
of  course,  very  generally  anticipated; 
but  what  was  not so commonly expected, 
perhaps,  was  the  ease  and  rapidity  with 
which  the  United  States  accomplished 
that  defeat  without  exerting  a  tithe  of 
its  strength.  The  call  for  volunteers 
was  so  moderate  that  the  men  who  were 
sent  to  the  front,  or  were  held  in  camps 
of  instruction,  were  scarcely  missed  on 
the  streets,  even  of  the  smaller  towns 
and  villages;  and  of  the  total  number 
of  the  enlisted  men  only  a  comparative­
ly  small  part  was  actually engaged.  The 
same  thing  may  be  said  of  the  navy. 
Some  new  ships  were  bought  and  put  in

commission,  but  they  were  not  needed. 
As  it  turned  out,  one-half  of  the  Amer­
ican  navy  was  more  than  ample  to  an­
nihilate  two  Spanish  fleets  and  to  com­
pel  a  third  to  remain  in  distant  waters, 
innocuous  and  inactive.

It  is  not  at  all  the  purpose  of  this  ar­
ticle  to  indulge  in  vainglorious  boast- 
The  moral  effect  of  the  American 
triumph  will  be  great  in  any  event,  but 
whether  it  will  ultimately  redound  to 
the  benefit  or  to  the  injury  of  this  coun­
try  is  still  an open question.  Everything 
depends  upon  the  use  that  is  made  of 
that  victory  and  upon  its  reaction  upon 
American  character  and  aspiration. 
If, 
in  the  first  place,  there  is  to  be  a  heated 
and  prolonged  controversy  between  this, 
that  and  the  other  section  of  the  Union 
as  to  the  part  which  they  severally  took 
in  the  war,  and  between  high  officers  in 
the  army  and  navy  as  to  the  relative  de­
gree  of  honor  to  rvbich  each  is  entitled, 
the  result  has  been  so  far  disastrous.  If, 
again,  the result  is  not  to be  treated  as a 
patriotic  victory and  is made  further  oc­
casion  for  partisan  greed  and bitterness, 
it  may  well  be  asked  whether  any  vic­
tory  over  a  foreign  foe  can  compensate 
the  country  as  a  whole  for  the  conse­
quences  of  a  renewed  and  intensified 
internal  dissension  and 
the  loss  of  a 
kindly  sentiment  of  fellow-citizenship. 
Finally,  if  the  pride  of  victory  and  the 
consciousness  of  superior  strength  in­
cline  the  people  of  the  United  States  to 
adopt  an  aggressive  or  offensive  policy 
and  convert  the  Union  into  a  truculent 
bully  among  the  nations  of  the  world, 
every  true  and  wise  patriot  must  feel 
that  his  country  has  forgotten  its  mis­
sion  and  departed  from  the  way  at  once 
of  dignity  and  of  safety.

The  negotiation .of a  treaty  of  peace 
is  a  task  which  the  constitution  imposes 
upon  the  executive  branch  of  the  Gen­
eral  Government.  The  question  of  ter­
ritorial  expansion,  or  of 
the  proper 
limit  of  territorial  expansion  under 
existing  circumstances,  must,  therefore, 
be  broached,  first  of  all,  by  the  Presi­
dent,  or  by  his  immediate  representa­
tives,  who  will,  no  doubt,  be  guided  by 
his  advice  and  instruction;  but  before 
the  treaty  can  go  into  effect,  it  must  be 
ratified  by  the  Senate.  There  the  whole 
matter  will  be thoroughly discussed from 
every  point  of  view,  and 
it  is  to  be 
hoped  that  the  final  decision  will  be  de­
termined  by  considerations  of  interna­
tional  justice  and  liberality.  If it should 
be  the  judgment  of  the  Senate  that  an 
obligation  rests  upon  the  United  States 
to  undertake  the  pacification  o*  the 
Philippines  and 
the  establishment  of 
order  in  those  islands,  it  will  be  their 
duty  to  see  that  the  work  is  intrusted  to 
men  who  will  labor  solely  for  the  ac­
complishment  of  those  ends  and  who 
will  not  prostitute  their  office  to the pur­
suit  of  personal  emolument.  This  coun­
try  can  not afford  to  set  up  in  that  dis­
tant  quarter  of  the  globe  a  school  for the 
training  of  political  adventurers  and 
sharpers  such  as  existed  in  the  South  in 
the  days  of  reconstruction.  The  tempta­
tions  of  political  life  are  already  suffi­
ciently  great,  and  no  further  means  are 
needed  for the  corruption  of  public men 
and  the  degradation  of  parties.

Havana  cigars  that  have  not  been 
made  at  Key  West  will  be  coming  in 
soon,  and  Cubans,  instead  of  the  Span­
ish  middlemen,  will  receive  money  for 
making  them.

The  volunteer  soldiers  are  not  exactly 
tired  of  war;  but  some  of  those  who 
have  never  reached 
it  want  to  come 
home.

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

IO
Shoes  and  Leather

Proper  Profits  and  How  to  Maintain 

Them.

Dixie in Boots  and  Shoes  Weekly.

In  the  discussion  of  this  subject  I 
consider  the  question  of  buying  of  para­
mount 
importance,  as  “ goods  bought 
right  are  half  sold.”

A  man  who  is  not  thoroughly  posted 
as  to  values  and  styles,  as  well  as  the 
smaller  details,  should  never  undertake 
to  do  the  buying.

He  should  confer  with  his  salesmen, 
and  get  their  ideas  as  to  what  styles  sell 
best.

The  salesmen  have  the  goods  to  sell 
and  being  indirect  touch  with  the  trade 
are 
in  a  position  to  know  what  shoes 
are  the  most  profitable.

Where  the  salesman  is  taken  into  this 
close  relation  it  makes  him  feel  his  re­
sponsibility  more,  and  he  will  devote 
more  of  his  energies  to  selling  some­
thing  that  he  has  had  a  word  in  buying.
instances,  if  this  had  been 
done  a  lot  of “ stickers"  might  not  have 
been  bought.

In  many 

After  the  goods  are  bought  right  they 
should  be  marked  in  plain  figures  at  a 
fair and  reasonable  profit,  and  I  consid­
er  that  twenty-five  per  cent.

I  do  not  mean  to  say  that  all  goods 
should  be  sold  strictly  on  a  25  per  cent, 
basis,  for  some  goods should bring much 
more.

Keep  it  constantly  before  the  people 
that  you  have  only  one  price,  and  that a 
child  can  buy  just  as  cheap  as  the  clos­
est  trader  in  the  community.

Build  up  a  reputation for truthfulness, 

and  when  you  set  a  price  stick  to  it.

I  know  of  one  firm  who  started  out 
several  years  ago  with  the “ one  price  to 
all”   rule,  and  they  have  made  that 
prominent  in  all  of  their advertisements 
and  in  their  talk,  and now  they  have  the 
largest  business  in  the  country,  and  are 
known  as  a  one-price  store,  with  the re­
sult  that  people  are  not  deceived.

They  believe  in  the  rule  of “ one price 

and  that  the  lowest.”

The  question  of  help  bears  a  very 
close  relation  to  this  subject,  as  all  of 
it,  I  might  say,  depends  on  them  after 
the  goods  are  in  the  house.

Get  the  very  best  salesmen  to  be  had, 
and  pay  them  as  much  as  you  can 
afford.

Keep  them  interested  in  the  business 

by  taking  them  into  your  confidence.

See  that  they  keep  posted  as  to  the 

new  styles,  etc.

paper.

They  should  read  some  good  trade 

They  should  be  able  to  explain  to  an 
inquisitive  customer  the  difference  be 
tween  a  McKay,  a  Goodyear  shoe,  or  a 
turn.

A  customer  likes  to  trade  with  an 

in­

telligent  clerk.

Keep  enough  help  to  serve  customers 
You  had  better  have  too 

promptly. 
many»than  too  few  salesmen.

I  do  not  consider  it  a  good  plan  to 

carry  so  many  styles.

Better  carry  a  few  good ones  and keep 
well  sized  up  than  to  carry  a  number  of 
styles  and  not  be  able  to  keep  all  sizes.
If  you  can  get  a  good  line  carry  it 
from  year  to  year and  the  manufacturer 
can  help  you  do  this  by  keeping 
it  up 
to  its  standard.

Partake  very  sparingly  of  extreme 

novelties  in  small  towns.

They  are  usually  hard  stock  and  have 

to  be  sold  at  a  discount.

I  do  not  consider  it  possible  to  run  a 
specialty  shoe  store  in  a  small  town,  as 
the  volume  of  trade  is  not large enough.
is  all  right  to  carry  one  or  two 
specialties,  however,  say  a  $2.50  shoe 
for  men  and  $1.50  or $2  for  women.

It 

Smartly  Dressed  Feet.

Prom the New  Orleans  Picayune.

Have  you  noticed  how  many  smartly 
dressed  feet  there  are  nowadays? 
I 
think  I  have  seen  fewer  indifferently 
shod  feet  this  summer  than  ever  before. 
A  great  deal  has  been  said,  you  know, 
about  the  indifference  of  women  to  the 
appearance  of their feet and these “ heart 
to  heart”   talks  are  perhaps  doing  good ; 
or  may  be  it  is  the  shoe  manufacturer

who  is  to  be  thanked,  for  it  *is  certain 
that  all  the  shoes  put  forth  for  woman's 
wearing  are  of  goodly  shape  and  finish.
The  merits  and  demerits  of  the  low 
shoe  have  been  discussed 
from  all 
points,  and  the  woman  who  is careful  to 
preserve  a  pretty,  slim  ankle,  says  that 
she  wears  high  shoes  summer  and  win­
ter,  for  the  low  shoes  tend  to  make  the 
ankle  grow  larger.  But  pretty,  dressy 
little  low  shoes,  with  fancy  tops,  abound 
in  spite  of  this.

The  latest  news  I  bear 

from  shoe 
realms 
is  that  colored  strings  are  the 
proper  caper.  My  lady’s  low  shoes  of 
black  are  strung  with  silk  laces  in  gay 
plaid  or  of  a  color  to  match  her  frock. 
Outing  shoes  are  laced  with  the  same. 
The  fashion  was  first  introduced  to  the 
lords  of  creation,  but 
if  woman  may 
wear  his  neckties,  why  not  bis  shoeties, 
which  are  so  much  more fetching?  Thus 
she  argued,and,  finding  no  opposition, 
has  adopted  the  colored  shoestring.

year. 

Black  and  the  dark  chocolate  tans  are 
liked  much  better  for  outing  than  the 
leathers,  that  were  shown  and 
lighter 
considerably  worn 
The 
plaided 
laces  show  up  nicely  in  these, 
and  when  at  tennis,  golf  or  croquet 
(which,  by  the  by,  is enjoying a revival) 
the  maid  of  the  period  wears  smart 
shoes  made  very  attractive  by  this  new 
way  of  wearing  color.  A  shapely  and 
prettily  dressed 
is  displayed  to 
charming  advantage  when  its  owner  is 
playing  croquet.  When  croquet  is  in 
vogue,  footgear  of  an  attractive  kind 
usually  bolds  sway.  Do  you  remember 
the  dainty 
little  satin  shoe,  with  big 
rosettes,  of  our  mother’s  day?

foot 

last 

Pretty  Feet  From  Ugly  Ones.

From the Philadelphia  Press.

Some  of  the  latest  designs  in  the  line 
of  boots  and  shoes  are  built  expressly 
for the  feminine  who  is  unfortunate 
in 
the  shape  or  size  of  her  feet.

Some  of  our cleverest bootmakers have 
been  at  work  on  this  problem.  They 
now  offer  to  make  a  pretty  foot  out  of 
a  homely  one.

“ It’s  merely  a  matter  of  the  shoe,”  
said  a  clever  bootmaker  yesterday.  “ Of 
course,  there  are  naturally  pretty  feet 
which  look  pretty  in  any  shoe  put  on ; 
but  even  the  naturally  homely  foot  can 
be  rendered  symmetrical  and  stylish  by 
a  wise  choice  of  boot.  Leather,  color, 
sole,  vamp  and  fastening—all  of  these 
should  be  most carefully  considered  be­
fore  purchasing.
“ For  example:
“ The  prettiest  brown  shoes  offered to­
day  have  darker  vamps  than  uppers. 
The  vamps  of  these  shoes  are  made  of 
varnished  or  enameled  brown  leather, 
and  the  uppers  of 
lustreless 
skin.  This  helps  to  trim  down  the  size 
of  a  foot  greatly,  while  the  opening 
over  the  instep 
is  cut  very  wide,  and 
underneath  the  varnished  leather  tongue 
a  little  strip  of  padding  is  laid.
This  insures  height  to  a  low 

thinner, 

especially  when  the  heel  is  cut  out 
what  is  known  as  the  military  form.”

instep, 
in 

The  New  Rubber  Products.

Samples  of  the  new  rubber  substitute 
made  from  corn  are  being  shown  on  the 
market.  It  is  made  from  the  oil  derived 
from  corn,  and by  vulcanizing  it  in  con­
nection  with  an  equal  quantity  of  crude 
India  rubber,  a  substitute  is  produced 
which,  for  certain  purposes,  is  equal  to 
the best  gum  rubber, at a greatly lessened 
cost.  The  new  corn  rubber  is  claimed 
to  possess  ail  the  essential  qualities  of 
Para  rubber,  including  resiliency.  The 
manufacturers  claim  that  the  fact  that 
corn  oil  does  not  oxidize  readily  makes 
this  product  of  great  value;  since  it  is 
not  affected  by  oxidization,  the  prod­
ucts  manufactured  from 
it  will  always 
remain  pliable  and  not  crack  as  those 
made  from  other  substitutes.  This  sub­
stitute  for  rubber  is  very  dark  brown  or 
black  and 
it  easily  rubs  off  in  light 
brown  rolls.

Why  She  Could  Smile.
such  a 
“ Your  wife  always  wears 
happy  expression,  Mr.  Willikins.  She 
always  seems  to  be  sm iling.”

“ Yes,  she  didn’t  have  to  earn  the  $47 
worth  of  gold  that  she  wears  in her front 
teeth. ”

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sale  of  boots  and shoes”   should  be  at  an 
end  and  your  windows  should  show  the 
latest  styles  in  footwear  for  the  fall.

is  said 

Barcelona,  Spain, 

to  have 
twenty  shoe  factories  fitted  with  modern 
machinery,  a  large  portion  of  the  out­
put  going  to  the  islands  we  have  just 
won  from  her.

It 

is  claimed  by  those  who  say  they 
know  that  there  is  no  truth  in  the  rumor 
of  the  selling  out  of  the  Boston  Rubber 
Shoe  Co.  to  the  Trust,  and  it  is  still  an 
open  question,  with  facts  impossible  to 
get  at,  it  seems.
Nothing  will 

illustrate  the  value  of 
asking  a  reasonable  price  in  return  of 
your  commodities  more  than  the  abol­
ishing  of  the  free  shine  habit  among 
retail  shoe  dealers  all  over  the  country. 
Now  here  was  a  case  where  the cleaning 
and  polishing  of  shoes  was  offered  free 
to  the  public,  and  if  there  was  anything 
in  it,  it  would  have  continued  in vogue. 
Yet  after  the  experience  of  a  couple  of 
years,  retailers  have 
the 
American  people  do  not  take  kindly  to 
the  idea  of  something  for  nothing,  and 
hereafter  when  a  man  wants  his  shoes 
polished  he  can  pay  for  them  in  the 
good,  old  fashioned  way.

found  that 

If  you  have  capital  when  starting  into 
business,  don’t  start  in  to  buy  for  cash. 
This  is  not  establishing  a  credit,  unless 
you  mean  to  buy  everything  thereafter 
for  cash;  put  your  capital 
in  a  good 
bank  and  this  will  give  you  the  credit. 
Arrange  for  thirty  to  sixty days’ time  on 
your goods  and  make  up  your  mind  that 
you  are  not  going  to  touch  that  capital 
in  the  bank  only  under  pressure  to  meet 
your  bills.  Start  with  the  determination 
to  make  your  stock  pay  vour  bills  as 
much  as  possible  and  consider that  cash 
in  bank  as  something  in  the  way  of  a 
life  preserver,  something  to  fall  back 
upon  when  all  other  methods  fail.  This 
is  advice  for  the  young  merchant  who 
is 
This 
method  will  give  him  time  to  get  ex­
perience  and  he  can  then,  after  he  is 
fully  started  and  in  running  order,  work 
slowly  but  surely  towards  a  cash  basis, 
but  he  should  establish  a  credit  first.

in  business. 

just  starting 

She  Wanted  Comfort.

From  the  New  York  Commercial  Advertiser.
A  woman  who  always  wears  dainty 
little  slippers  and  who  always  kicks 
them  off  when  she  is  not  actively  en­
gaged,  was  seated  in  the  hammock  on  a 
cottage  piazza  the  other  day.  Her  slip­
pers,  as  usual,  were  several  yards  away 
from  their  owner’s 
feet,  and  stood 
daintily  poised,  toes  out  and  high  heels 
near  together,  as  if  they  had  been  sud­
denly  arrested  in  the  act  of  a  pirouette. 
“ Why  do  you  do  it?”   asked  the  precise 
woman. 
“ It  is  such  an  untidy  habit. 
Are  they  too  small?  Do  they  hurt?  Why 
don’t  you  have  comfortable  shoes?”

‘  They’re  perfectly comfortable, ”  said 
Cinderalla,  with  smiling  mendacity. 
“ But  they  are  too  warm 
I  like  thin, 
cool  Chinese  shoes,  made  of  woven 
straw,  or  Turkish  slippers,  without  any 
heels  and  scarcely  any  soles,  or  gay  lit­
tle  moccasins,  laced  with  colored  leath­
er  and  embroidered  with  beads.”

“ Well,  why  don’t  you  wear  them?”
“ What  would  the  world  say?  Fancy 
me  dancing  in  a  ball  room  with  the 
footgear  of  a  Pocahontas,  or  emulating 
John  Chinaman  when  I  go  to  the  golf 
links?  No,  my  dear,  I  can  trot  about 
the  house  cool  and  comfortable,  but 
when  I  come  out  among  you  all  I  have 
to  be  conventional.and  consequently  un­
comfortable. 
That’s  why— dear  me, 
there  come  the  boys  back  from  the  sta­
tion ;  give me  those slippers  quick !”

How  the  Drummer  “Called” the Som­

nambulist.

It  was  during;  the  fall  of  1891. 

I  had 
had  a  hard  day  on  the  road— worked 
three 
towns  by  doubling  back—and 
wound  up  by  waiting  six  hours  for  a 
midnight  train.  A  slight  accident  on 
the  way  delayed  my  arrival  at  my  next 
stop,  where  I  hoped  to  get  a  few  hours’ 
sleep  until  2  a.  m.  There  was  but  one 
hotel  in  the  place,  and  when  I  came  to 
register,  the  drowsy  individual  who per­
formed  the  dual  duties  of  clerk  and  por­
ter  gave  me  the  cheerful  information 
that  there  was  not  a  vacant  room  in  the 
house,  but  that  in  one  room  there  were 
two  beds,  only  one  of  which  was  occu­
pied. 
In  response  to  earnest  solicita­
tion,  I  was  shown  up  at  once

The  gentleman  in  bed  appearing  not 
to  be  aroused  by  my  entrance,  I  un­
dressed  as  quietly  as  possible,  blew  out 
the 
light  and  slipped  into  the  vacant 
bed  with  every  feeling  of  thankfulness.
I  was  hardly  comfortably  bestowed when 
a  voice  from  the  opposite  corner  of  the 
room  fixed  my  attention :

in 

“ My  friend,  since  you  are  so  unfor­
tunate  as  to  occupy  a  room  with  mv  un­
happy  self,  it 
is  due  you  that  I  should 
acquaint  you  with  a  miserable  infirmity 
that  assails  me. 
I  am  the  victim  of 
somnambulism,  and  am  often  violent 
when  walking 
in  my  sleep,  to  such  an 
extent  that  it  is  extremely  dangerous  to 
encounter  me  in  that  condition.  Per­
haps  you  may  have  seen  an  account  in 
the  papers  how,  at  Detroit,  recently, 
the  room  with  a 
while  sleeping 
friend,  I  arose  and 
in  the  fury  of  my 
slumber  nearly  murdered  him  before 
assistance  could  arrive.  The  strange 
part  of  it  all 
is  that  his  cries,  while 
arousing  everv  one  in  the  hotel,  failed 
to  awaken  me.  Now,  I  have  given  you 
this  warning  to  relieve  my  conscience 
in  case  any  accident  should  happen  to 
you  to  night;  and  if  I  should  be  so  un­
fortunate  as  to  walk  in  my  sleep,  and 
evil  should  befall  you,  I  hope  you  will 
hold  me  guiltless,  and  only  blame  your 
own  rashness  should  you  fail  to  take  ad­
vantage  of  the  knowledge  you  now  pos­
sess  and  withdraw  at  once.”

Here  was  a  pickle,  indeed. 

I  bad  to 
think,  and  think  fast,  or  lose  the  few 
hours’  rest  I  needed  so  much  before  an­
other  day  should  call  me  to  action.  So 
soon  as  he  had 
finished  I  arose  and 
lighted  the  lamp.  This  took  but  a  mo­
ment,  but  sufficient  time  had  elapsed  to 
enable  me  to  formulate  a  plan  for  ac­
tion.  Going  to  my  grip,  I  took  out  a 
Colt’s  revolver  and  delivered  the  result 
of  my  deliberations  to  my  neighbor, who 
had  pulled  the bedclothes over  his head:
“ Sir,  I thank  you  for  your  timely  con­
sideration  for  my  welfare,  and  most 
deeply  commiserate  your  misfortune; 
but  I  am  constrained  to  say  that  I  am 
tired  and  that  I  am  determined  to  sleep 
I  have  as 
undisturbed  until  morning. 
good  a  pistol  here  as 
is  made  in  the 
world,  and  if you  get  out  of  that bed  be­
fore  7  o’clock  I  give you a solemn  prom­
ise  that  your  somnolent  peregrinations 
will  hereafter  be  confined  to  the  stars.”
If  so  much  as  a  mouse  stirred  in  the 
room  that  night  I  never  knew  it.  When 
I  awoke  next  morning  my  neighbor still 
had  the  bedclothes pulled over  his head.

R a d ix ,

Minor  Shoe  Notes.
let  your  business  bag  at  the 

Don’t 

knees.

It 

is  said  by  an  observer  that  the 
Vici  kid  shoe  or  chrome  tanned  kid 
shoe  for  men’s  wear  is  more  popular  in 
smaller  towns  than  in  the  larger  cities.
By  this  time  your  “ Summer  clearing

industrial  training 

Training  School  for  Shoemakers.
There  is  a  prospect  of  the  introduc­
tion  of 
in  a  new 
quarter.  The  shoe  manufacturers  of 
Lynn  declare  that  they  can  not  secure 
enough  competent  hands.  The  unions 
keep  the  trade  in  the  families  of  the 
members;  and 
if  the  young  men  go 
elsewhere  to  learn  the  trade  they  gener­
ally  remain  away.  The  manufacturers 
say  that  they  lose  large  sums  every  year 
through  the 
inefficiency  of  hands  who 
profess  to  understand  the  trade,  but  do 
not. 
It  is  said  that  the  state  of  affairs 
will  be  brought  to  the  attention  of  the 
city  council,  which  will  be  asked  to  es­
tablish  a  school.  Whether  the  unions 
will  oppose  the  scheme  is  uncertain; 
but  it  is  presumable  that  they  will  not, 
as  unions  have  seldom  tried  to  prevent 
the  establishment  of  such  institutions.

An  Enduring  Polish.

The  tardy  arrival  in  this  country from 
England  of  prepared  bones  from  the 
legs  of  deer  is  one  of  the  new  additions 
to  the  equipment  of  experienced  valets. 
It  is  a  polish  to put the finishing touches 
on  the  sheen  which  muscle  and  various 
dressings  impart  to  light-colored leather 
shoes.  This 
implement  consists  of  a 
bone  taken  from  the  lower  leg  of  a deer. 
It  is  rubbed  and  polished  until  it  is  as 
smooth  as  glass.  The  bone  is  rubbed 
over  the  leather  after  it  has  been  made 
to  shine  by  means  of  polish.  The  Lon­
don  manufacturers  of  this  curiously 
elaborate  device  for  polishing  shoes 
claim  that  it  not  only  adds  extra  lustre, 
but  also  makes  the  polish  more  endur­
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sold for eight years and is superior to 
all other foot powders.  Largest pack­
age.  Retails for 25 cents;  $1.75  per 
doz. of jobbers.  Dealers in Michigan 
supplied  by  Hlrth.  Krause  &  Co., 
Orand Rapids,  Mich.  Mfd.  only  by

in 
SESaSH SH SESH SaSESBH H Sa^

■Ul  PEDA-CURA  CO.,  Chicago. 

HENRY  M.  GILLETT

M A N U F A C T U R E R S *  A G E N T

9a nONROESTREET.

OPPOSITE MORTON HOUSE 

ORANO RAPIDS, niCH.

STATE  AOENT  REGENT  MANUFACTURING  CO.,  CHICAGO. 

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9  SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

FIRE  PROOF  ASPHALT 
PAINT  AND  VARNISH

can reach.

We are offering to the trade the genuine  article,  and  at  a  price  that  all 
Our paints are suitable for any use where a nice raven black is required. 
Contains no Coal Tar, and will not crack, blister or peel.  Sold in  quan­

tities to suit purchasers.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS &  SON,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Detroit Office foot of First Street.

Grand  Trunk  Dining  Cars 

Everybody  who  has  had  the  good  for­
tune  to  enjoy  a  meal  on  the  Grand 
Trunk  Dining  Cars 
is  profuse  in  bis 
praise  of  the  good  service,  excellent 
cuisine  and  liberal  table  supplied.  Mr. 
J.  Lea,  late  of Windsor Hotel,  Montreal, 
has  been  appointed  to  this  part  of  the 
service  and  the  public  are  appreciating 
the  endeavors  of  the  company  to  have 
an  unequaled  service  in  this department 
of  a  great  system.

Kissing  a  fashionable  young  lady  on 

the  cheek  is  one  way  to  remove paint.

THE ONLY  WAY...

To learn the real value of a trade  or class paper 
is to find out how  the  men  in whose interest it is 
published value it.  Ask the merchants of Mich­
igan what they think of the .  .  .

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

We  are  willing  to  abide  by  their  decision.

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12

fruits and  Produce.

Experience  of  One  Creamery  with  a 

Cheap  Buttermaker.

From the New York Produce Review.

Hiring  cheap  buttermakers  does  not 
pay.  Since  many  dealers  have  been  re­
turning  top  price  or  more  for  firsts  and 
seconds  there  has  been  a  disposition  on 
the  part  of  creameries  in  certain  sec­
tions  of  the  country  to  employ  cheap 
help,  claiming  that  a  high  salaried  but 
termaker  was  not  necessary,  as a  S40  per 
month  man  could  make  butter  that 
would  bring  top  price  or  more,  although 
the  quality  of  his  goods  would  not  be 
such  as  to  allow  them  in  a  grade  above 
a  first  at  best. 
This  shortsightedness 
or  delusion  has  cost  a  few  creameries 
that  1  know  several  hundred  dollars 
in 
one  month.  Last  week  a  dealer  told me 
the  following  story,  which  will  illustrate 
the  fallacy  of  hiring  cheap  and  incom­
petent  buttermakers:

“ For  over  eight years we have handled 
the  product  of  an  Iowa  creamery  which 
up  to  about  a  year  ago  was  noted  for  its 
excellent quality.  Last spring the cream­
ery  company  got  the 
impression  that 
they  must  reduce  expenses  and  believ­
ing that  a  cheaper  buttermaker  could  do 
the  work  at  the  creamery  as  well  as  the 
one  they  had,  they  decided  to  begin  re 
trenching  at  that  end  of  the  business. 
Well,  the  goods  began  to 
fall  off  in 
quality  and  we  kicked.  One  week  they 
would  show 
improvement and  the  next 
run  poor  again.  This  summer,  while  I 
was  in  the  West  I  called  at  this  cream­
ery  one  morning. 
I  had  been  receiving 
letters  from  my  partner  that  the  butter 
manufactured  there  was  running  very 
poor  and  that  he was  having  difficulty in 
disposing  of  it.

“ I  arrived  at  the  creamery  about  11 
a.  m.  and,  not  finding  anyone 
in,  I 
whistled  and  soon  the  buttermaker,  who 
lived  up  over  the  creamery,  came down. 
I  talked  with  him  a  while  about  bis 
work,  but  noticed  he  kept  pretty close  to 
his  churn,  which  was  a  combined  one.
I  thought  I  smelt  a  mouse,  so  I  asked 
if  his  churn  was  sweet.  He  said 
him 
he  guessed  so. 
‘ let  me 
look  in  and  smell  it.’  With  that I jerked 
the  cover  off  and  do  vou  believe  it  the 
day’s  make  of  butter  was  in  there.  Just 
think  of  it!  11  a.  m.  and  butter  not  out 
of  churn  nor  packed,  when  it  should  all 
have  been  done  by  7  or  8  o’clock.

‘ W ell,’  said  I, 

“ I  then  saw  the  secretary  and  mana­
ger  and  told  them  that  I  didn’t  believe 
the  buttermaker  knew  how  to  make  but­
ter  or  else  was  too  lazy  to  do  the  work 
properly  and  I  thought  the  best  thing 
for  the creamery  would  be  to let  him  go. 
The  secretary  rather  agreed with me and 
said  he  would  see  what  could  be  done. 
After  I  returned  home  we  continued  to 
receive  the  butter  from  the  creamery, 
but  it  showed  no  improvement. 
I  wrote 
the  secretary  again  about  the  matter 
and  told  him  be  had  better  ship  the 
goods  to  someone  else  as  we  could  not 
dispose  of  them  to  advantage. 
I  also 
wrote  to  the  buttermaker  and  told  him  I 
was  afraid  he  was  not  the  right  man  for 
the  place  and  that  he  had  better  get  out 
before  he  was  discharged.  His  reply 
was  very  nasty.  He  said  that  there  was 
a  conspiracy  between  the  secretary  and 
myself  to  get  him  out  of  the  creamery. 
The  week  following  this,  we  received 
only  a  part  of  the  make,  the balance go­
ing  to  another  house  here.  As  luck 
would  have  it  the  butter  was  very  good 
that  week,  and  we  were  able  to  return 
top  price.  The  other  house,  so  the  sec­
retary  wrote  me,  returned 
j£c  above. 
Well,  the  next  week  the  make was  split, 
our  share  graded  seconds  We,  how­
ever,  were  able  that  week  to  place  the 
goods  at  the  price  of  firsts  and  returned 
that  price  for  them.  The  other  house 
returned  the  price  of  seconds.  The sec­
retary  wrote  me  then  that  the  butter­
maker  was  accusing  the  other  bouse  of 
trying  to  get  him  out  of  the  creamery. 
They  then  shipped  to  Philadelphia  and 
fared  no  better;  the  house  they  shipped 
to  there  wrote  them  that  the  goods  were 
too  poor  for  them  to  handle.  This  made 
the  buttermaker  furious  and  he  said that 
all  three  houses,  together  with  the secre­
tary,  were  working  to  get  him  out  of the

creamery.  This  week  I  received  a  let­
ter  from  the  secretary  stating  that  the 
manager  had  been  endeavoring  to  get 
the  buttermaker  out,  but  as  he  lived  up 
over  the  creamery  he  declined  to  get 
out.  The  secretary  told  the  manager 
that  if  be  was  running  things  be  would 
d—d  soon  get  him  out.  He  said  the 
manager  went  away  from  his  house with 
blood 
in  his  eyes  and  he  believed  that 
there  will  soon  be  a  new  buttermaker  at 
the  creamery. 
I am  now anxious to hear 
whether or  not  that  will  be  the  result  of 
the  conference.”

Restoration  of  Butter  Call.
From  the  New  York  Produce  Review.

At  a  meeting  of  members  of  the  New 
York  Mercantile  Exchange  last  Thurs­
day  it  was  decided  by  a  large  majority 
to  re-establish  the  public  call  for  butter 
on  August  22.  On two previous occasions 
since  the  butter call was abolished efforts 
by  a  few  of  the  Exchange  members  to 
bring  about  a  vote  to  restore  ithave sig- 
nally  failed  and  it  is  not  easy  to  assign 
a  valid  reason  for  the  change  of  heart 
which  was  so  clearly  manifested  last 
Thursday.

If,  in  the  resolution  of  the  problems 
which  have  for  some  time  past  per­
plexed  the  trade,  it  shall  be  decided  to 
retain  some  method  of  establishing  a 
trading  basis  for  transactions  in  butter, 
there 
is  no  question  that  an  open  call 
will  tend  to  aid  in  the  settlement  and 
determination  of  such  a  basis  from  day 
to  day.  But  it  must  be  remembered  that 
most  of  the  objections  to  the  present 
system  of  butter  business  are  directed 
against  the  establishment  of  any  such 
trading  basis,  the  argument  being  that 
without  it  the  foundation  of a pernicious 
contract  system  would  be  destroyed  and 
a  settlement  of  price  terms  compelled 
on  all  sales  by  direct  negotiation  be­
tween  buyer  and  seller. 
It  is  claimed 
by  some  that  under  this  system  of  nat­
ural  and  uninfluenced  trading  irregular­
ities  of  price resulting  would  tend  to  se­
cure  to  the  producer  of  butter  a  greater 
certainty  of value  for quality,  and  to  the 
receiver  a  greater  opportunity  to  enjoy 
the  benefits  appropriate  to  the  degree 
of  bis  individual  capability.

If  this 

is  to  be  the 

final  system 
adopted  by  our  merchants  it  is  difficult 
to  see  how  it  is  to  be  furthered  by  the 
re-establishment  of  the  public  call.  The 
two systems would seem to be conflicting. 
The  call 
is  in  line  with  uniformity  of 
information,  uniformity  of  values  and 
the  consequent  ability  to  create  a  trad­
ing  basis. 
It  may  be  introduced  with­
out  alone  producing all  of  these  effects, 
but  if  it  is desired  to bring  about  con­
ditions  which  shall  entirely  prevent  the 
establishment  of  a  trading  basis  the  call 
can  hardly  be  of  any  assistance  to  that 
end.

Keeping  in  Style.

Brisket—What  can  I  send  you  up  to­

day,  Mrs.  Style?

be  sure  it  is  from  a  black  sheep.

Mrs.  S — Send me a  leg of mutton,  and 
Brisket—A  black  sheep !
Mrs.  S.— Yes,  we  are  in  mourning, 

you  know.

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BUNTING  &   CO. 

-  Jobbers  -  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

T h e  best  are  the  cheapest 
and  these  we  can  always 
supply.

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24  and  26  North  Division  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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HARVEY  P.  MILLER. 

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ESTABLISHED 1886.

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BUTTER,  EGGS 
AND  POULTRY.

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

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

State Savings  Bank,  Ionia,  and  the 

Commercial  Agencies.

REFERENCES:

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M ICHIGAN  APPLES.

Bulletin  From  the  State  Horticultural 

Society.

Allegan,  Aug.  27—Although  the  crop 
of  Michigan  winter  apples  is  not  to  be 
a  large  one,  nor  in  best  of  condition,  it 
will  be  in  excess  of  that  of  any  state 
east  of  the  Rocky  mountains,  and  is  al­
ready  in  exceedingly  brisk  demand 
in 
the  market.  Everything  of  the  apple 
kind 
in  Michigan  this  year  will  com­
mand  a  good  price.  Buyers  are  already 
in  the  field  for  cider  apples  and  drying 
stock,  many  evaporators  having  been 
erected  within  the  State  bv  men  who 
have  been  engaged 
industry 
elsewhere.  The  early  fall  fruit  is  sell­
ing  at  what  would  be  very  high  prices 
in  ordinary  years,  commanding  thirty  to 
fifty  cents  per  bushel.

that 

in 

Enquiries  are  made  of  the  State  Hor­
ticultural  Society  from  every  section  of 
the  United  States  as  to  the  prospect  of 
the  Michigan  apple  crop,  and  to  answer 
all  enquiries  and  give  needed 
informa­
tion  to  others  concerned  this  bulletin 
is 
issued.

Extensive  correspondence  throughout 
the  southern  one  third  of  the  Lower 
Peninsula,  and  the  region  embracing 
Oceana,  Grand  Traverse,  and  neigh­
boring  counties,  shows that  the  crop  will 
vary  from  10  per  cent,  of  winter  fruit  in 
some  counties  to  as  high  as  75 in others. 
This  percentage  holds  nearly  the  same 
as  to  autumn  fruit.

is  noticeable 

The  repoits  state  that comparatively 
little  damage 
from  the 
codlin  moth,  but  there  is  an  abundance 
of  scab.  This  is  particularly  the  case 
with  orchards  that  were  not  sprayed  last 
year.  Orchards  that  have  been  attended 
to  properly  in  respect  t >  both  these par­
ticulars  are  showing  excellent  results  of 
the  care  given  them.

The  State  affords  few  large  commer­
cial  apple  orchards.  Although  the  total 
product  is  great,  it  is  gathered  in  com 
paratively  small  amounts,  nearly  every 
farmer  having  an  orchard  of  more  or 
less  extent. 
It  is  therefore  not  possible 
to  make  replies  to  many  of  the  letters 
received,  and  refer  men  to  parties  hav­
ing  thousands  of  barrels.  Any  person 
seeing  this  bulletin  and  having  a  large 
quantity  of  winter  fruit  would  do  well 
to  communicate  with  the  Secretary

The  crop  of  pears  will  be  full  and  of 

most  excellent  quality.

Plums  will  be  in  abundance,  and  so 
will  peaches,  although  the  percentage 
of  the  crop  of  the  latter  fruit  will  on  the 
whole 
in  this  State  scarcely  exceed  50 
per cent.

Grapes  will  be  a  very  full  crop.
Detailed  reports 

from 

have  been  summarized  as  follows:

the  counties 

Allegan  county  (west)  :  50  per  cent, 
of  a  crop ;  a few  orchards  near  the  shore 
will  average  75  per  cent.
Allegan  county  (east):  60  per  cent.
Barry:  One-fourth  of  a  crop.
Van  Buren:  Half  crop  of  fall  ap­
Genesee:  One  th ird of a normal  crop.
Lenawee:  One-third  to  one-half  a 

ples ;  25  per  cent  of  winter  apples.

crop  of  winter  app'es.

Muskegon:  Two-thirds  of  a crop,  ex­
cept  Spy  and  King,  which  are  about 
one-fourth  to  one-third.

Clinton :  50  per  cent,  of  an  average 

crop.

St.  Joseph :  10  per  cent,  of  a  crop.
Hillsdale  (west):  Not  enough  apples 

for  home  consumption.

Ionia:  Winter  apples  between  80 
and  90  per  cent,  except  Spies;  not  over 
10  per  cent  of  Spies.

Berrien :  Early  apples,  except  Astra- 
chan  (which are a total  failure),  less  than 
one-fourth  of  a  crop;  winter  crop  no 
higher.

Monroe:  Not  over  one-half  of  an

Oceana :  About  one  half  of  an  aver­

average  crop.

age  crop

Washtenaw :  50  per  cent,  of  summer 
apples,  25  per  cent,  of  autumn  apples, 
winter  15  to  20  per  cent.
crop.

Gratiot:  75  to  85  per  cent,  of  a  full 

St.  Clair:  Some  report  winter  apples 

25,  some  50  per  cent.

Ottawa  (east):  Not  more  than  50  per 

cent,  of  a  full  crop.

Kent :  25  to  60  per  cent,  of  a  full 

Eaton :  Less  than  one-half  the  usual 

Ingham :  Not  more  than  25  per  cent.
Oakland :  About  50  per  cent,  of  full 

crop.

crop.

crop.

Branch:  Very  light;  only  an  occa­
sional  orchard  bears  any  fruit worth har­
vesting.

Traverse:  Good  apples,  40  per  cent, 

of  crop.

Lapeer:  Only  12  per  cent  of  full 
crop;  not  more  than  25  per  cent,  of  av­
erage  crop.

Calhoun :  Not  more  than  25  per  cent, 

of  a  crop  of  winter  apples.

Cass:  Not  above  50  per  cent.

E d w ard  C.  R e id ,  Sec’v.

The  European  Apple  Crop  Far  Below 

Prom the  New  York  Commercial.

the  Average.

Charles  Forster,  agent 

for  Simons, 
Jacobs  &  Co.,  Glasgow;  for  Simons, 
Shuttleworth  &  Co.,.Liverpool,  and  for 
Garcia,  Jacobs  &  Co.,  London,  receiv­
ers  of  American  apples, 
is  well  in­
formed  on  the  apple  situation.  He says 
that  the  European  crop,  as  a  whole, 
will  be  below  the  average.  Many  im­
mature  apples  have  dropped  and  blight 
and  insects  have  seriously  injured  what 
are  left.  Mr.  Simons  writes  from  Glas­
gow  that  the  prospect  for  American  ap­
ples 
is  good.  There  are  very  few  in 
Great  Britain. 
Ireland  has  a  lot,  but 
they  interfere  little with American fruit. 
France,  Belgium  and  Holland  have 
about  half  crops,  but  the  quality  does 
not  compare  with  Americans,  as  a  rule, 
and  the  latter  outsell  everything  else.

G.  H.  Shuttleworth,  of  Liverpool, 
and  other  representatives  of  the  firms 
have  completed  their  annual  inspection 
trips.  Summing  up  the  results  of  their 
observations,  it 
is  found  that  there  are 
probably  twice  as  many  apples  as  has 
been  supposed,  but  the  quality,  except 
in  a  few  localities,  is  inferior to  very 
poor.  There 
is  a  full  crop  in  but  few 
localities,  but  nearly  everywhere  there 
are  a  few  apples,  varying  from  one- 
fourth  to  one-half,  and  in  some  cases 
three-fouiths  of  a  crop.  The  great  area 
now  devoted  to  apple  growing  in  Amer­
ica  makes  a  correct  crop  estimate  im­
possible.  The  danger  this  season  lies 
in  probable  underestimation  of supplies 
and 
in  the  lack  of  care  on  the  pa it  of 
packers  to  properly  select  fruit  for  bar­
reling  purposes.  Canners  and  evapo­
rators  are  preparing  to  utilize  large 
quantities  of  the  low  grade  fruit,  which 
should  simplify matters for packers and 
enable  them  to  barrel  better quality than 
thev  might  otherwise.

Mr.  Forster  says  he  considers  the  out­
look  for  American  apples 
in  Great 
Britain  favorable,  provided  price 
is 
moderate  and  care  is  exercised  in  mat­
ters  of  detail.  He  says  he  thinks  there 
are  ample  supplies  for  the  demand  at 
moderate  cost.
Canada’s  Great  Exposition  and 

In­

dustrial  Fair  at  Toronto.

The  Grand  Trunk  Railway  System 
will  sell  tickets  for  the  Exposition  and 
Industrial  Fair  to  be  held  at  Toronto  on 
August  29th  to  September  xotb,  from  all 
stations  on  their  lines  west  of  the  De­
troit  and  St.  Clair  Rivers,  at  greatly  re­
duced  rates.  Tickets  will  be  sold  from 
Michigan  points  from  August  29th  to 
September  4th  inclusive,  valid  to  return 
from  Toronto  on  all  trains  up  to and  in­
cluding  September  12th 

This  will  be  the  greatest fair ever held 
at  Toronto,  with  new  and  wonderful  at­
tractions  from  all  parts  of  the  world. 
For  particulars  call  at  D.  &  M.  city 
office,  Morton  House,  or at  Depot.

C.  A.  Ju st in,  C.  P.  A.

Was  Not  Named  After  Dewey.

“ Well,  Cawker,  did  you  name  your 

new  baby  George  Dewey?”

“ No.”
“ You  told  me  that  was  your  inten­

tion.”

“ Yes. ”
“ Then  why  didn’t  you?”
“ We  decided  upon  second  thought  to 

name  it  Elizabeth.”

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shipm ents.  W rite  for  our  daily  price  list  and 
instructions  for  shipping  all  perishable  fruits  to
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14

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  M etropolis-Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  Aug.  27— With  the  com­
ing  of  fall  all  indications  continue  very 
favorable  for  a  large  volume  of  busi­
ness. 
In  fact,  some  jobbers  have  about 
all  they  can  take  care  of  now.  Prices 
are  generally  firm  and,  altogether,  the 
outlook  is  very  encouraging.

The  coffee  trade  generally,  both 

local 
and  from  out-of-town,  seem  to  be  freer 
purchasers  and  during  the  past  few days 
the  market  has  shown  quite  an  improve­
ment.  Sellers  and  buyers  are,  as  yet, 
not  quite  agreed,  however,  and 
if  the 
latter  could  have  had  fractionally  lower 
rates  they  would  have  “ made  things 
lively.’ ’  Of  course,  something  always 
happens,  and  this  time  it  happened  that 
those  who  had  the  coffee  to  sell  would 
make  no  concessions. 
Invoice  trading 
was  not  extensive,  but  rates  paid  were 
well  established,  being  6  7 - i 6@6>£c.  In 
store  and  afloat  there  are  1,011,678 bags, 
against  790,165  bags  at  the  same  time 
last  year.  Mild  grades  of  coffee  are 
firmer,  in  sympathy  with  Brazil  sorts, 
and  Good  Cucuta  is  worth  gj£c.

Arbuckle’s  wagons  are  now  seen  very 
frequently  with  their big  loads of  stand­
ard  granulated  sugar  and  the  competi­
tion  has  begun.  Prices  show  no  varia­
tion,  as  yet,  from  those  of  the  Trust, 
and  it  is  unlikely  that  there  will  be  any 
difference  immediately,  if  at  all.  The 
package  sugar,  it 
is  said,  will  not  be 
ready  for  a  week  or  so.  Orders  have 
come  in  in prodigious number for carlots 
of  packages  and  the  refiners  will  be  be­
hind  in  filling  the  same. 
It  seems  cer­
tain  that  the  package  is  to  be  the  thing 
in  the  trade.  The  market  is  active  and 
encouraging.

The  tea  market  is  absolutely  without 
new  feature.  The auction  takes  place  on 
Wednesday,  and until  then  matters  seem 
to  be  at  a  standstill.  Quotations  as 
given  on  the  street  are  nominal  and  the 
whole  situation  is  unsettled.  Since Jan. 
1,  the  appraisers  have  rejected  1,149,934 
pounds  of  tea  and  passed  about  22,000,- 
000  pounds.

Rice  is  steady.  The  volume  of trade 
was  not  as  large  as  at  some  other  times, 
but  holders  seem  to  be  well  satisfied 
with  the  run  of  the  market  and  prices 
remain  unchanged.  Prime  to  choice 
Southern,  5^@6^c.

there 

further 

for  still 

Molasses  stocks  are  not 

The  spice  market  is  in  a  fairly  satis­
factory  condjtion,  although 
is 
room 
improvement. 
There  has  been  more enquiry  for  pepper 
than  anything.  Offers  of  q%c  for  Sin­
gapore  were  not  accepted,  holders  in­
sisting  on  an  eighth  more,  at  least. 
Cloves  are  steady  at  8f£c  for  Zanzibar.
large,  but 
seem  sufficient  to  meet  all  demands. 
Most  of  the  enquiries  received  during 
the  week  have  been  for  low grades.  The 
supply  of  this  sort  being  rather  limited, 
the  quotations  have  been  quite  firm  at 
8K@i2c  for  common.  Syrups  are  firm 
and  some  fair  sales  have  been  made. 
Good,  I4@i5c.  Prime to  fancy,  i6@20c.
The  offerings  of  canned  goods  are 
scant.  There  has  been  a  growing  en­
quiry  for  salmon  and 
tomatoes,  and 
these  two  things  are  going  to  be  very 
interesting  as  time  goes  on.  Every  one 
interested,  from  grower  to  seller,  looks 
for  substantial  advance  in  the  near  fu­
ture.  And  yet,  and  yet— tomatoes  are 
the  most  deceptive  article  ever  was. 
Maryland  brands  are  quoted at67K@7oc 
there.  New Jersey  goods  are  worth  900® 
$1,  as  to  quality.  Salmon,  Red Alaska, 
$i.o7K @ i. 10.  No  Columbia  River  is 
being  offered  for  future  sale.
In  a  jobbing  way  evaporated  apples 
are  firm  and  the  range  is  from  gU@ioc, 
as  to  quality.  Small  fruits  are  quiet. 
Little  is  doing  at  the  moment  in  Pacific 
Coast  products.

Beans  are  hardly  steady,  as  supplies 
have  been  larger  with  no  increase in de­
mand ;  choice  marrow,  $1.75;  choice 
kidney,  red,  $1.90©!.95.

Butter  receipts  are  somewhat  larger 
and  while  19c  remains  the  general  quo­
tation  for  best  Western  creamery,  it  is 
certainly  top,  and  the  tendency  is  to  a 
lower  basis.  Firsts,  i7K @ i8c ;  seconds,

i6@ 17c ;  Western 
extras, 
Western 
firsts,  I3@i3^c.

imitation  creamery, 
i5J^@i6c ; 
i3Jiz@i4c; 
factory,  extra  June,  14  cts; 

firsts, 

New  York  State,  large size,  full  cream 
cheese,  7^©7J^c ;  small size,  fancy,  8c. 
The  enquiry  has  not  been  especially  ac­
tive,  but  has  shown  some 
improvement 
over  the  past  two  or  three  weeks  and 
that  is  something.

The  egg  market  is 

firm.  Receipts 
are  light  and  the  stock  from  Northern 
Ohio  and  Michigan  that  will  stand  the 
test 
is  being  quickly  disposed  of  at 
I5J4@i6c.  Near-by  stock,  17c.  With 
cooler  weather  the  loss  will  be much less 
than  during  the  past  ten  days,  which 
have  been 
especially  destructive  to 
eggs.  On  Friday  the  receipts  were only 
about  half  the  average—5,661  cases.

The  Chicago  Tarlatan  Ordinance 

Clearly  Unconstitutional.

Chicago,  Aug.  27— An  attempt  is  be­
ing  made  by  the  authorities  of  Chicago 
to  prohibit  the  covering  of  fruit  baskets 
with  red  tarlatan.  A  case  is  now  pend­
ing 
in  the  Supreme  Court  testing  the 
constitutionality  of  the law. 
It  was  also 
understood  by  both  parties  that  no 
further  prosecutions  would  be  attempted 
until  the  Supreme  Court  had  decided 
the  case.  All  this  bluff  and  bluster  at 
this  time  is  mere  nonsense,  as  there 
is 
nothing  in  it  whatever.  The 
idea  that 
the  Chicago  Common  Council  can  make 
laws  for the  Michigan  growers  is  ridic­
ulous.  No  State  can make  a  law  that  in­
terferes  with  commerce  between  states. 
That  has  been  decided  time  and  again. 
Armour  &  Co.  versus  State of Minnesota 
is  the  latest  decision.  The  State  of 
Minnesota  passed  a 
law  that  no  beef 
could  be  shipped  into  the  State  except 
on  the  hoof. 
It  was  to  prohibit  dressed 
beef  from  coming  into  the  State  from 
the  big  packers  of  Chicago.  The  but 
terine  case  is  another.  State  of  Texas 
prohibiting  drummers 
from  outside 
states  soliciting  orders 
is  one  more. 
The  Chicago  Common  Council  can  pro­
hibit  fruit  from  coming  to  Chicago  pro­
viding  it  is  injurious  to  health  and pub­
lic  morals,  but  for no other reasons.  The 
law  also  reads  that  you  can  not  put  on 
red  tarlatan  to  deceive  the  public.  The 
commission  merchant  does  not  put  it 
on. 
It  is  on  when  he  receives the  fruit, 
and  is  put  on  not  to  deceive,  but  to  pro­
tect  the  peaches  from  flies  and  dust, 
and  to  hold  them 
in  place;  also  from 
pilfering  while  in  transit.  As  a  matter 
of  fact  the  general  trade  demands  them 
to  be  covered ;  they  will  pay  from  5  to 
10  cents  per  basket  more  with  the  tar­
latan  cover  than  without.  Consequently 
it 
is  for  your  interest  to  cover,  as  the 
customer  demands  it.*  If  this  law  is  in­
tended  for  the  repacker,  the  fellow  that 
rents  a  basement  two  months  in  a  year 
and  buys  two  kinds  of  fruit,  rotten  and 
good,  and  places  the  rotten  fruit  down 
in  the  bottom  and  a  row  of  good  on top, 
we have  no  defense  to  offer  for  him,  and 
the  quicker  he  is  prohibited  the  better 
for  the  peach  trade  of  Chicago.  This 
same  fakir  sells  that  fruit  for  choice 
Michigan  peaches.  When  the buyer  gets 
it  home  and  finds  it  spoiled  down 
in, 
be  rushes  to  our  health  department  with 
his  complaint. 
tarlatan 
from  being  put  on  fruit  is  not  going  to 
make  those  fakirs  honest.  They  will 
find  a  way  of  fastening  the  covers  so 
they  can  not  be  opened  very  easily.

Prohibiting 

E.  C.  R eic h w a l d   &  B r o.

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 
Windsor  Hotel,  Montreal, 
in 
charge  of  one  of  the  diners  and  the  pas­
sengers  are  assured  of  a  most  liberal 
table,  a  good  service,  and  an  excellent 
cuisine.

is  now 

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W e  G u a r a n t e e

Our brand of Vinegar to be an  ABSOLUTELY  PURE  APPLE- 
JUICE  VINEGAR.  To any person who will analyze  it and  find 
any  deleterious  acids  or  anything  that  is  not  produced  from 
the  apple,  we  will  forfeit

O N E H U N D R E D  D O LL A R S

We also guarantee it to be  of  not  less  than  4o  grains  strength. 
We will  prosecute any  person found  using our packages for cider 
or vinegar without first removing all traces of our brands therefrom.

Robinson  Cider and  Vinegar Co.,  Benton  Harbor,  Mich.

J. ROBINSON, Manager.

T his is the guarantee w e give w ith every barrel of our  vinegar.  Do  you  know  o f  any  other 
manufacturer  who  has  sufficient  confidence  in  his output  to stand  back o f his  product  w ith a 

to  similar guarantee? 
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Full Strength,

Full  Flavored, 
Standard,

Every  Barrel

Uniform.

Made from

Apples Only.

The

Silver  Brand 
Cider Vinegar
Genesee  Fruit C o ,

Made by

Lansing, Mich.

Every Grocer should sell It.

i   The finest sweet cider, prepared to  keep  sweet. 
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  Furnished  October  to  narch,  inclusive.

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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.

“1  GO  A-F1SHING.”

This is the time of the year when houses and stores and workshops 
become distasteful, and  when the great world of Nature— of  field  and 
wood and sea and sky—beckons with  its compelling power. 
Indoors 
repels,  while  outdoors  allures;  and  few  there be who fail to yield to 
the charm, at least for a  brief  period  While  a  fish  diet  is  highly 
agreeable  for  a  change,  no  doubt, yet there is a very large and con­
stantly  increasing  sale  for  high-grade  Butter,  Eggs and  Poultry. 
Thus it is that we are compelled,  in  order  to  supply  the  demand  of 
our customers, to  steadily  seek  for  new  consignments  of  the  latter 
articles of food from those  who  have  not  hitherto  shipped  us.  We 
very much desire  y o u r   consignments, and  we offer  these  three  guar­
antees to you:  Highest  Market  Prices,  Full  Weights,  Prompt  Pay­
ments.  Let  us add  you  to our list on this understanding. 
Is it not 
sufficient?  We think  so. 

W.  R.  BRICE  &  CO.

PoorEconomy

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  will  be 
displeased and avoid you 
afterwards. 
You  can 
guarantee .  .  .

“Lily White” Flour

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

NOW.

Valley  City  Milling  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Association Matters

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J.W isler, Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 

A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  C.  G.  J ewett,  Howell;  Secretary, 

Henry C. Minnie, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J oseph Knioht;  Secretary, E. Marks, 

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

President,  F rank  J.  Dyk;  Secretary,  Homer 

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

President, P. F. Treanob;  Vice-President, J ohn 

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

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

ter;  Treasurer,  L. Pelton.

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  F.  B.  J ohnson;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

Dablins;  Treasurer, L. A. Gilkey.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

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

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

Owobso  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 RetaH Meat Dealers’ Association 
President, L. J. Katz;  Secretary, Philip Hilber; 

Treasurer, S. J. Hdppord.

St. Johns Business  Men’s Association. 

President, Thos  Bromley;  Secretary, Frank A. 

Percy;  Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Perry Business Men's Association

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

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

Muskegon  Milling  Co.,  muskegqn,  mich.

Manufacturers  of

Mills and Office:

Water Street,  Foot of Pine.

FLOUR, 
FEED  AND 
HILL 
STUFFS

Write or wire us for anything needed 
in our line in any quantity.

GRAIN

Receivers and 
Shippers  of

me Citu Rouer Mills

J. H. Prout & Go.,

MIXED  CARLOADS 
A  SPECIALTY.

Proprietors of

t o o u n j g

Howard City. Mich.

Whoesale and  Retail  Dealers in

Flour, Feed and Grain

M IC H IG AN   TRADESMAN

Remember  the  Results  of  Last  Year’s 

August  Advance.

Prom  the  New  York  Produce  Review.

interesting  and, 

Some  of  the  egg  trade  have been quite 
surprised  that,  while  prices  for  fresh 
Western  eggs  ruled  higher  this year than 
last  up  to  the  early  part  of  August,  they 
have  since  been  somewhat  lower  than 
for  even  dates  in  1897.  The  reasons  for 
this  are 
if  generally 
considered,  may  result  in  giving  us  a 
safer  and  more  profitable  later  market. 
“ A  burnt  child  dreads  the  fire”   and 
likewise  an  unprofitable  speculation 
leads  to  waryness  the  next  time.  Last 
year 
in  August  there  was  a  general 
hopefulness  as  to  future  business  condi­
tions  which  induced  pretty  strong  spec­
ulation 
in  late  August  and  early  Sep­
tember  fresh  eggs.  Under  its  influence 
Western  markets  advanced  steadily  and 
were  able  to  drag  Eastern  markets  up 
with  them  until  New  York  was  quoted 
at  17c  by  the  close  of  August.  Thou­
sands  of  cases  were  withdrawn from cur­
rent  sale  only  to  be  sold  later  in  the sea­
son  at  heavy  and  serious  losses.  These 
losses  were  partly occasioned  by  the  rel­
atively  poor  quality  of  the  goods,  but 
even  the  finest  of  them  were  not  there­
after  salable  at  a  profit  excepting  pos­
sibly  a  very  few which  were carried very 
late  and  which  were  helped  to  a  profit­
able  sale  by  the fortuitous circumstances 
of  an  unusually  light  December  produc­
tion.  On  the  whole  the  early  fall  spec­
ulations  of  ’97  were  disastrous,  and  it is 
most 
important  that  the  causes  which 
made  them  so  should  now  be  avoided.

It  is  generally  believed  that  the  situa­
tion  of  the  egg  trade  as to reserve spring 
and  summer  holdings  is  now  fully  as 
good  as  last  year  if  not  slightly  better. 
Accumulations  which,  in  Eastern  mar­
kets  at  least,  were  greater  than  last  year 
up  to  July  1  are  believed  to  have  been 
since  reduced  to  about  even  figures  at 
most  of  the  storage  centers,  although 
where  definite  figures  are  obtainable  an 
increase 
last 
year’s  operations  were  saved  from  gen­
eral  misfortune  only  by  rather  unusual 
conditions  of  supply  late  in  the  season, 
and  it  would  be  most  unfortunate  to  the 
trade  at  large  should  a  rampant  early 
fall  speculation  again  drive  prices  so 
high  as  to  result  in  the  disasters  which 
were  partially  incurred  in  the  fall  of 
'97,  and  which were averted  in  part  only 
by  weather  conditions  which  are  not 
often  realized.

is  still  reported. 

But 

The  only  safety  would  seem  to  lie 

in 
keeping  every  consumptive  channel 
filled  as  full  as  possible  at  prices  which 
will  afford  a  very  moderate  profit  on  the 
early  accumulations,  and  by  this  means 
to  keep  the  price  of  current  collections 
at  a  safe  figure.  So  far  the  offerings  in 
this  market  have been  on  a  conservative 
basis  and  so  free  as  to  cause  a  slow  re­
sponse  to  the 
indications  of  unsafe 
stimulation  of  values  noticeable  in some 
parts  of  the  West.  But  the  benefits  of 
conservatism  at  this  time  can only be se­
cured  by  a  general  appreciation  of 
its 
necessity,  and  operators  in  all  sections, 
especially  those  who  are  interested  in 
the  outcome  of  earlier  speculations, 
should  think  twice  before  lending  their 
influence  to  a  premature bull movement.

Your  Business  Will  Not  Run  Itself. 

From the Dry Goods Economist.

Business 

is  business,  be  the  month 

April  or  September.
Your  store  and  business  will  not  run 
itself  now  any  better  than 
it  would  at 
the  holiday  season  or  any  other  time.  If 
you  think  it  capable  of  doing  so,  don't 
be  surprised  if  it  runs  down  and  comes 
to  a  full  stop.

Don’t  get  “ shiftless;”   keep  a  steady 
hold  on  things.  It  costs  no  more  to keep 
the  clerks  well  employed  than  it  does 
to  let  them  weary  themselves  in  doing 
nothing.

Every  energetic,  business-bringing 
effort  made  now  will  not  only 
increase 
your  daily  sales,  but  will  bring  days  of 
satisfaction  later.

Every  dollar’s worth  of  summer  goods 
closed  out  means  a  dollar  to  reinvest  in 
profitable  merchandise.

Every  dollar’s  worth  carried  over  is 
so  much  capital  tied  up  indefinitely,and

the  longer  it 
likely  to  depreciate.

is  tied  up  the  more  it  is 

turnover  and  a  clean  close  out.

The  “ secret  of  success”   is  a  quick 
The  store  that  has  the  newest,  bright­
est  and  freshest  goods  is  the  one  that 
has  the  most  satisfied  customers.

New  Butter  Substitute.
From the  New  York Produce  Review.

Not  altogether  new  perhaps,  for  we 
have  before  alluded  to  it,  but  few  peo­
ple  know  to  what an  extent  peanut  but­
ter  is being  used for certain purposes  for 
which  the  product  of  the  cow  was  for­
merly 
indispensable.  We  have  been 
reliably 
informed  that  a  company  in 
Michigan  is  manufacturing  no  less  than 
a  dozen  different  food  products  from 
peanuts,  among  which  are  the  peanut 
butter,  made  from  the  pressed  oil. 
It 
is  stated  that  the  sale  of  these  peanut 
products  is  extending  quite  rapidly  and 
that  the  so-called  butter  is  being  used 
extensively 
in  place  of  butter  made 
from  milk  in  the  manufacture  of  crack­
ers  No  less  than  twelve  carloads  of 
shelled  peanuts  have  been  used  by  this 
one  company  during  the  past  season.

Don’t  Wash  Eggs.

From the New York Produce Review.

We  have  lately  seen  some  lots  of  eggs 
which  have  evidently  been  dirty  when 
collected,  but  which  the  packers  have 
washed  as  clean  as  possible  with  the 
hope  of  increasing  their  value. 
For 
the  most  part  they  arrive  in  bad  order 
and  largely  rotten.  When  a  dirty  egg  is 
soaked 
in  water  sufficiently  to  enable 
one  to  remove  the  dirt  on  it  the  gelati­
nous  substance which  ordinarily  fills  the 
pores  in  the  lime  of  which  the  shell  is 
mostly  composed  becomes  dissolved, 
subjecting  the  inside  of  the  egg  to  the 
destructive  effect  of  the  air. 
In  warm 
weather  wet  eggs  soon  decay  and  some 
of  these  washed  eggs  lately  received 
here  have  been  almost  worthless,  while 
sound  candled  dirties  are  worth  a  good 
price.

One  Way  to  Get  Rich.

The  way  to  get  rich  is to trust nobody, 
befriend  none,  get  all  you  can,  take  all 
you  can  get,  stint  yourself  and  every­
thing  that  belongs  to  you,  be  a  friend 
of  no  man,  let  no  man  be  a  friend  of 
yours,  heap  up  interest,  be  mean,  mi­
serly  and  despised  for  some  twenty  or 
thirty  years  and  riches  will  come  to  you 
as  sure  as  disease,  disappointment  and 
death,  and  when  pretty  nearly  enough 
wealth  has  been  accumulated  by  a  dis­
regard  of  the  charities  of  the  human 
heart,  and  at  the  expense  of  every  en­
joyment,  death  will  finish  the  work,  and 
the  body  is  buried,  the  heirs  dance  and 
fight  over  what  you  have  left,  and  the 
spirit  goes—where?  By  all  means  get 
rich. 

It  will  pay—the  devil  says  so.

Knows  His  Business.

A  party  who  has  been  continuously 
advertising  more  than  thirty  years  said 
to  me  recently:  “ I  advertise  to  be 
known—to  keep  known.  I  employ  sales­
men  to  sell  my  goods. 
I  do  not  want 
my  representatives  to  enter  a  factory  in 
California  or  Illinois,  and on  presenting 
their card be met with  the query :  I never 
heard  of  your  bouse;  how  long  have  you 
been 
in  business?  We  recognize  that 
publicity 
spend 
thousands  of  dollars  to  keep  our  house 
before  the  public,  and  our  salesmen 
have  a  great  advantage  over  rivals  who 
do  not  see  the  value  in  publicity.”

is  capital,  and  we 

Two  on  the  Conductor.

An  Irishman  riding  on  a  train  one 
day  paid  his  cash  fare  from  station  to 
station  as  they came  along.  Finally  the 
conductor  in  desperation  asked him  why 
it  was  that  he  did not purchase a through 
ticket  in  the  start.  “ Not  on  your  life,”  
said  the  Irishman;  “ this  company  bate 
me  once,  and  I  swore  they  would not get 
another  cint  of  my  money.”

Before  marriage  every  man  has  a 
theory  about  managing  a  wife;  but 
after  marriage  it's  a  condition  and  not 
a  theory  that  confronts  him.

1 6

The  Value  of  First-Class  Store  Fix­

tures.
W ritten for the tradesman.

From  the  frequent  enquiries  made, 
one  is  led  to  think  the  question  of  mod­
ern  appliances  in  store  service  an  un­
settled  question,  as  many  merchants 
propound  the  query,  “ Are  up-to-date 
store  fixtures  a  paying  investment  or  a 
useless  expense?”   Men  who  have  tried 
both  extremes,  as  well  as 
the  happy 
medium,  say  that  it  does pay  to  use  all 
the  best  appliances  which  the  business 
you  are  engaged  in  will  justify.

It  pays  to be  up  to  date  in  five things: 
Your  manners,  your  help,  your  business 
stationery, 
your  advertisements  and 
your  store  fixtures.

It  is  well  known  that,  as  a  class,  trav­
eling  salesmen  know,  and  put  into prac­
tice,  good  table  etiquette,  getting  more 
enjoyment  from 
their  hours  at  table 
than  any  other  set  of  business  men ;  and 
for  what  else  than  because  they  observe 
the  little  niceties  of table manners?  One 
day,  at  a  table  adjoining  that  at  which 
were  seated  half  a  dozen  salesmen,  sat 
an  honestly  hungry  farmer,  to  whom  the 
finger  bowl  was  unknown,  the  contents 
whereof  was  very  unsatisfactory  to  him 
as 
lemonade,  and  yet  the  same  fur­
nished  real  enjoyment  to  others.  While 
his  lack  of  good  judgment  in  the  use  ol 
things  pre-eminently  his  by  right  of 
purchase  was  to be  regretted,  one  had  to 
admit  his  privilege  to  use  what  his 
money  paid  for  in  manner  best  pleasing 
to  himself;  and  yet,  when  be  began 
to  shovel  his  food  into  his  mouth  with 
fingers,  knife  and  spoon,  the  traveling 
men  congratulated  themselves  that  they 
“ were  not  as  he  was, ”   and  yet  be  ate 
according  to  his  understanding.  But 
when  at  last  he  grasped  his  wedge  of 
huckleberry  pie  in  both  hands  and  bit 
off  a  liberal  allowance  from  the  sharp 
angle,  while  the  exuding  juices  thereof 
rolled  down  his  sunburned  cheeks  and 
onto  bis  raiment,  the  feeling  of  those  at 
the  neighboring  table  were  not  “ akin 
to  pity;”   and  yet  his  money  paid  for 
that  juice  and  he  could  honestly  use 
it 
as  best  pleased  him  without reference  to 
others.

So 

in  relation  to  store  fittings.  The 
unplaned  plank  laid  on  barrels  will bold 
and  display  the  finest  fabrics  that  hand 
or  brain  of  Genius  can  devise  for  the 
demand  of  American  women  and  still 
be  entirely  out  of  keeping with time and 
place,  while the  almost  numberless  vari­
ations  of  this  plank-setting  will  uni­
formly  tend  to  drive  away  good  trade.

To be  sure,  it  is  your  money that pays 
for  store,  goods,  fixtures  and  displays, 
nor  can  others  deny  your  justification  in 
making  such  use  thereof  as  may  be 
most  pleasing  to  yourself;  yet  business 
men  will  see  the 
judgment, 
profitable  trade  will  depart  and  ruin 
eventually  overtake  the  merchant  who 
adheres  strictly  to  the  traditions  of  past 
ages  as  a  guide  to  selecting  bis  store 
fixtures,  instead  of  being  influenced  by 
what  the  present  day  and  age  demand 
of  him.

lack  of 

While  eating  with  a  knife  never  yet 
made  a  man  less  a  man,  still  it  does 
make  him 
less  desirable  for  society, 
which  in  its  varying  degrees  is  all  there 
is  in  life  worth  living  for.  Neither  will 
the  use  of  old  out-of-date  fixtures  make 
a  store  other  than  a  store,  but  it  makes 
it  less  desirable  as  a  place  wherein  to 
exchange  the  circulating  for  the  cover­
ing  or  filling  medium,  and  this  ex­
change 
is  of  trade  worth 
striving  for,  and  to  stop  this  circulation 
is  as  fatal  in  a  business  sense  as  in  a 
case  of  Nature.  Trade  and  the  trading

is  all  there 

Stimulated  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  always pleased to match 
our grades with  those  of  other  houses, 
because  the  result  is  that  we  usually 
capture the order.

CLARK=JEWELL=WELLS  CO.

SOLE  OWNERS,
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

public  will  go  to  the  up-to-date  store  in 
preference  to  the  reverse.

The  farmer  had the  indisputable  right 
of  purchase  to  eat  with  fingers,  knife  or 
spoon,  and  in  his  own  way,  yet  he  did 
not  seem  to  have  as  full  an  enjoyment 
of  that  meal  as  he  was  clearly  entitled 
to,  while  the  amusement  at  the  other 
table  occasioned  by  the  spectacle  dem­
onstrated  that  it  is  not  all  of  life  to  eat.
The  merchant  who  owns  store  fittings 
that  were  good  enough  for  last  century, 
and  uses  them  against  the  approbation 
of  finely-discriminating customers,  him­
self  thereby  sets  the  seal  of  doom  on 
what  might  have  been  a  profitable  busi­
ness. 
It  is  better  to  have  no  trade  than 
an  unprofitable  one,  even  as  it  is  better 
to eat  no food  than  to  eat  that  which  our 
systems  can  not  assimilate;  either  has­
tens  an  untimely  end,  while things about 
a  store  that  do  not  indicate  hustling, 
up-to-date  activity  are  unquestioned 
detriments  to  success.  That  merchant 
but  flaunts  the  red  flag  in  the  face  of 
Fate  who  persists  in  using  store  fixtures 
condemned  by  his  patrons,  the  public 
as  much  as  be  who  persists  in  eating 
pie  with  his  fingers  locks  against  him 
self  the  doors  of  social  preferment. 
Time  was  when  no questions were raised 
as  to  how  pie  should  be  eaten,  the  only 
question  being  how  to  get  the  pie.  So 
was  it  in  time  past  regarding  store find 
ngs.  Nothing  was  thought  as  to  the 
manner  of  keeping  or  displaying  mer­
chandise,  the  only  question  being  how 
to get  the  merchandise.  Then  the  steel­
yard  was  good  enough  for  all  weights, 
the  sandglass  or  sun  dial  for  measure­
ment  of  time.  Planks  laid  across  bar­
rels  answered  for  counters.  Old  boxes 
turned  broadside  up  made  satisfactory 
tables  then.  But  not  so  now.  The  finest 
computing  moneyweight  scales  are none 
too  good  for  patrons  of  to-day.  Time 
pieces  must  be  accurate,  even  to  the 
fraction  of  a  second,  while  only  one 
table  or  counter  is  recognized  to-day  as 
being  suitable  for  display purposes,  and 
is  that  which 
that  table  or  counter 
makes  possible,  with  the 
least  amount 
of  annoyance,  such  practical  displays  of 
the  particular  things 
intended  as  not 
only  may  but  do  lead  to  the  sale  of  the 
goods  so  displayed.  What  the  shape, 
name;  color  or  style  of  this  is  matters 
not  so  long  as  the  end  aimed  at  is  hit— 
the  ready  sale  of  displayed  goods  And 
herein  rests  a  bit  of  advice:  There 
is 
always  more  value  in  the  manner  of dis­
in  the  display  fixture  itself, 
play  than 
more  virtue 
in  the  selection  of  time 
and  place  of  display  than  in  any  partic­
ular  thing  to  act  as  base  of  the  display, 
more  money-earning  power  in  the  brain 
that  plans  a  sales-effecting  display  than 
n  the  purse  that 
indiscriminately  fur 
nishes  means  to  buy  any  of  the  valuable 
inventions  of  the  day  planned  by  prac- 
ical  men for  a  particular  purpose,  more 
sense  (or  cents)  in  the  hand  that  shapes 
than 
in  the  fixture  that  holds  any  dis­
play ;  yet,  all  things  considered,  best 
results  are  reached  from  use  of  the  best 
available  accessories.

The  conclusion  readily reached  is  that 
the  term  “ up-to-date  store  fixtures  and 
furniture”  
is  applicable  only  to  the 
modernized  use  of  such  articles  as make 
practical,  sales-making displays,  where­
in  the  combination  of  fixture  and  dis­
play  is  such  as  to  meet  the public favor, 
proven  by  the  purchase  thereof  by  this 
same  critic.  The  best 
is  usually  the 
cheapest,  returns  considered,  while  the 
most  successful  retailers  are  those  who 
carefully  select  and  use  the  accessories 
that  stamp  them  up-to-date  merchants, 
even  as  he  who  pays  strictest  attention 
to  the  matter  of  table  manners gets  most 
enjoyment  from  living  in  public.

L.  A.  E l y.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the Grip. 

President, J ohn A. Hoffman, Kalamazoo; Sec re 
tarv, J  C. Saunders, Lansing;  Treasurer, Chas 
McNolty, Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association 
President,  C.  C.  Snedeker,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer. C. W. Allen  Detroit.

United  Commercial  Travelers of Michigan. 
Grand  Counselor, J. J.  Evans,  Bay City:  Grand 
Secretary  a s .  Valmore, Detroit;  Grand Treas 
urer, W. S. West, Jackson.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Accl 
President,  J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids, 
Secretary and Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owen,  Grand 
Rapids.
Lake  Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President,  W.  C.  Brown,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  W e s s o n ,  Marquette.

dent Association.

Gripsack  Brigade.

A  Boston  boy  is  doing a  good business 
for  canary 

selling  painted  sparrows 
birds.

If  the  deadbeat  can  write  fiction  as 
it,  the  publishers 

well^  as  be  can  talk 
will  make  him  rich.

In  steering  the  ship  of  trade  into  the 
harbor  of  success  don’t  get  scared  at 
every  passing  cloud.

We  can’t  see  anything  out  of  joint 

in 
look  through  th 

the  world  when  we 
spectacles  of  success.

Keep  talking  about  what  you  think 
you  know  and  people  will  soon  l»arn 
how  much  you  don’t  know.

Who  wants  the  mill  to  run  with  the 
there’ 

water  that  has  passed,  when 
plenty  more water  coming !

The  merchant  who  maintains  that 
is  a  crime  usually  has  all  hi 

failure 
property  in  his  wife’s  name.

When  it  comes  to  building  a  bank  ac 
count  an  ounce  of  hustling  is  worth  a 
pound  of  political  theorizing.

Did  you  ever  notice  that  it  gives  the 
merchant  who  keeps  a  dirty  store  the 
rheumatism  to  wash  his  windows?

The  salesman  who  does  better  work 
because  his  salary  was  advanced  proves 
that  he  wasn’t  doing  his  best  before

By  doing  good  you  may  lay  up  treas­
ures  in  heaven,  but  it  is  only  by  doing 
business  that  you  can  increase your bank 
account.

the 

In  addition  to  the  organizations  men 
tioned 
late  James  N 
Bradford  was  a  member  of the Michigan 
Commercial  Travelers’  Association.

last  week, 

Geo.  Morris  will  hereafter  represent 
Buhl  Sons  &  Co.  (Detroit) 
in  the  Up­
per  Peninsula,  succeeding  Alex.  Stev­
enson,  who  has  taken  the  management 
of  the  branch  store  of  the  house  at  Me­
nominee.

The  regular  quarterly  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of 
the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip  will  be  held  at 
Ypsilanti  Saturday,  preceded  by  a  din­
ner  at  the  residence  of  Chas  L.  Stevens 
Friday  evening. 
It  is  probable  that  at 
this  meeting  the  location  of  the  next 
convention  will  be  decided  upon.  De­
troit  and  Owosso  are  both  under  con­
sideration,  although  neither  has  yet  ex­
tended  a  formal  invitation  to  the  organ­
ization.

A  young  lady  traveling  on  a  scalper's 
mileage  book  found,  when  she  had  pre­
sented  the  same  to  the  conductor,  that 
she  could  not  remember  the  name  she 
was  supposed  to  assume  for  the occasion 
to  correspond  with  the  name  written  on 
the  mileage  book,  and  sat  before  the 
conductor 
in  speechless  agony.  Fin­
ally  the  conductor  looked  at  her,  and 
said:  “ Young  ladv,  your  name  is  Jen­
nings,  and  for  Heaven’s  sake  don’t  for­
get  it  when  you  meet  the  next conductor 
on  this  road."

The  unanimous  selection  of  L.  M. 
Mills  to  succeed  Frank  M.  Tyler  as  a 
Director  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip  was  a  worthy  honor  worthily  be­
stowed.  The  first  Secretary  and  the 
second  President  of  the  organization, 
and  subsequently  the  Secretary  of the 
organization  for  nearly  two  years—tak­
ing  up  the  work  of  the  office  after  the 
demoralization  and  defalcation  of  J.  L. 
McCauley— Mr.  Mills  has  been  in  close 
touch  with  the  aims  and  objects  of  the 
organization  ever  since  he  assisted  in 
the  formation  of  the  Association,  and  a 
recognition  of  his ability and experience 
speaks  well  for  the  discrimination  of 
his  fraters.as well as betokens the  esteem 
in  which  he  is  held  by  his  associates 
generally.

A  Ft.  Wayne  traveling  man  took  his 
best  girl  to  a  picnic.  There  she  ac­
cepted  so  many  attentions  from  another 
young  man  that  the  first  young  man  be­
came  enraged  and  went  home,  leaving 
the  girl  to  get  back  to  her  own  house  as 
best  she  might 
She  hired  a  hack,  for 
which  her  father  paid  75  cents,  and then 
the  old  man  sent  the  bill  to  the  sulky 
young  suitor.  He  refused  to  pay,  and 
the old  man  sued  him  in  a  justice court, 
alleging  that,  having  taken  the  girl  to 
the  picnic,  it  became  his  duty  to  see 
her  safely  home  at  his  own  expense. 
Both  sides  have  hired  lawyers,  and  the 
case  will  be  fought  to  a  finish.  Travel­
ing  men  who  cover  Ft  Wayne  will  bear 
in  mind  that  they  can  not  “ shell  road”  
the daughter  of  a  Hosier  and  escape  the 
vengeance  of  the  old  man.

Meeting  of  Post  E.

At  a  special  meeting  of  Post  E, 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  held  at 
Sweet’s  Hotel 
last  Saturday  evening, 
Chairman  Wetzel  presided.

Under  the  head  of  picnic  arrange­
ments  Will  Pipp  was  made  chairman  of 
the  Committee  on  Athletics,  in  place  of 
Bvron  Davenport,  who  asked  to  be  ex­
cused,  and  Manley  Jones  was  made 
chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Com­
missary,  in  place  of  the 
late  Jas.  N. 
Bradford.

Will  Richmond  moved  that  the  pic- 
nicers  rendezvous  at  the  boat  dock 
in 
front  of  the  pavilion  at  2130  o’clock 
sharp,  which  was  adopted.

W.  F.  Blake,  chairman  of  the  com­
mittee  appointed  at  a  previous  meeting 
to  draft  resolutions  of  respect  to  the 
memory of the late Jas.  N.  Bradford, pre­
sented  the  following  report,  which  was 
unanimously  adopted :

Whereas,  The  band  of  death  has  re­
moved  from  our  midst  our esteemed  and 
worthy  fellow  member,  las.  N.  Brad­
ford ;  and

Whereas,  The 

intimate  relation  al­
ways  existing  between  him  and 
the 
Grand  Rapids  traveling  men,collective­
ly  and 
it  fitting 
that  we  record  our  appreciation  of  his 
worth  and  friendship;  therefore 

individually,  makes 

Resolved,  That 

in  his  removal  from 
our  midst  there  has  passed  away  one 
who  acted  well  his  part  in every relation 
of  life;  one  who,  as  a  patriot,  honorably 
served  his  country  in  the  dark  days  of 
the  Rebell ion  as  a  soldier;  one who  was 
useful  as  a  citizen ;  upright  in  all  his 
dealings;  honest  and  capable  in  his  du- 
ies  of  life;  sincere  as  a  friend;  loyal 
is  a  husband  and  devoted  as  a  father.

Resolved,  That  we  tender  our  deep 
sympathy  to  the  afflicted  family  of  our 
departed  friend  and  co-worker  in  the 
loss  they  have  sustained.

The  nomination  of  candidate  for  the 
position  of  Director  of  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip,  in  place  of  Frank 
M.  Tyler,  who  has  removed  to  Boston, 
resulted  in  the  selection  of  L.  M.  Mills 
by  an  unanimous  vote.  Mr.  Mills  was 
taken  completely  by  surprise,  but  suc­
ceeded  in  expressing  his  thanks  for  the 
honor  in  a  very  feeling  manner.

There  being  no  further  business  the 
meeting  adjouri ed,  wiih 
the  under­
standing  that  a  business  meeting  of  the 
Post  would  be  held  on  the  boat  at  the 
icnic.

Meekest  Man  Aboard 

Boat.

Albert  Antrim  delights  to  tell  a  story 
relative  to  his  friend,  Jack  Boyd,  who 
covers  the  river  towns  in  Tennessee  and 
Arkansas  for  a  St.  Louis  house.  On  one 
of  his  recent  trips  the  tedium  of  the 
river  ride  was  relieved  by  all  sorts  of 
practical  jokes  that  a  big  crowd  of  good 
fellows  worked  on  each  other.  One  of 
the  passengers  was particularly resource 
ful  in  this  sort  of  fun  and  Boyd  was  one 
of  his  particular  marks.  He  played 
good  and  even  though  before  the  boat 
landed.  A  dago,  an  organ  and  a  regula­
tion  monkey  were  giving  light  vaude­
ville  on  the  boat  for  the  amusement  of 
passengers  After  one  of  the  perform­
ances,  the  monkey  was  passing  the  bat 
and  Boyd  remarked 
to  the  practical 
joker  that  the  monk  was  the  brightest 
he  had  ever  seen. 
“ Why,”   he  contin­
ued,  “ that  monkey  will  hand  back 
change  like  a  bargain  counter saleslady. 
If  you  toss  him  a  half  and  tell  him  to 
take  five  out,  he’ll  give  you  back  45 
cents  every  time. ”

Is  that  possible!”   exclaimed 
joker  with  interested  astonishment.

the 

“ Fact,”   replied  Jack;  “ I gave  him  a 
quarter  a  while  ago  and  he  gave  me 
back  20. ’ ’

The  joker  didn’t  hesitate  any  longer, 
but  went  down  and  dug  up  a  bright new 
half  dollar,  which  he  tossed  over  to  the 
monk,  at  the  same  time  holding  his 
band  out  for  the  change.  But  the  monk 
forgot  his  arithmetic  suddenly  and,  ad­
monished  by  a  jerk  from  the  dago,  who 
feared  the  joker  might  regret  his  sud­
den  burst  of  generosity,  he bopped  away 
even  forgetting  to  raise  his  cap.  The 
howl  that  followed  shook  the  boat  from 
stem  to  stern  and  for  the  rest  of the voy 
age  that  practical  joker  was  the  meek­
est  man  aboard.

Explosion  of a  Beucus  Generator.
A  Beucus  acetylene  gas  generator  in 
the  basement  of  the  Hastings  House,  at 
Hastings,  exploded  last  week,  seriously 
injuring  Fred  Parker.  The  accident  is 
thus  described  by  the  Hastings  Banner;
It  appears  that  Fred  went  into  the 
basement  of the  hotel  where the machine 
is  located  for  the purpose of “ charging”  
it, 
just  as  is  ordinarily  done,  being 
careful  not  to  take  anything  in the shape 
of  fire  with  him.  The  machine  is  so 
constructed  that  it  is  impossible  to  take 
the  cover  from  the  generator  until  the 
valves  leading  to  the  gas  jets  have  been 
closed.  When  Fred  bad  everything  ar­
ranged  be  proceeded  to  lift  the  cover  to 
the  generator  by  means  of  a  rope  and 
pulley  which  is  used  on  account  of  the 
weight  of  the  cover.  When  he  had  the 
cover  partially  raised  the  gas  was  ig­
in  some  way  and  the  explosion 
nited 
followed,  knocking  Fred  several 
fett 
away  from  the  machine.  When  he  re­
covered  from  the  shock  he  noticed  that 
the  rope  by  which  the  cover  was  lifted 
was  afire  and  he  quickly  put  it  out  and 
looked  around  for  other  evidences  of 
fire.  Finding  none  he  then  turned  his 
attention  to  his  own  injuries  and  found 
them  to  be  quite  severe.  His  hands  and 
face  were  blistered  and  badly  swollen 
up,  his  eyebrows  and  hair  singed  and 
his  whole appearance rather dilapidated. 
He  was  taken  to  Dr.  Lowry’s  office, 
where  the  burns  were  dressed  and made 
as  comfortable  as  such  injuries  can  be.

Window  Glass  Workers  to  Resume 

Operations.

The  manufacturers  and  blowers  of 
window  glass  have  agreed  on  a  5  per 
cent,  advance  in  wages  for  the  coming 
year,  and  the factories will open Oct.  15. 
Th's  is  six  weeks  later  than  the  normal 
time,  but  earlier  than  the  lactories  have 
opened  for  several  years,  because  of  the 
regularly  recurring  war  about  wages.

The  stocks  in  the  hands  of  the  jobbers 
and  manufacturers  are  but 
fair,  and 
prices  are  unchanged,  but  the  move­
ment 
in  this  market  is  very  good,  and 
the  same  report  is  heard  from  other 
markets.  The  trade  in  plate  glass  is 
also  very  good,  and  stocks  are  but  fair. 
No  changes  in  prices  are  reported.

According  to  Previous  Arrangement.
Grand  Rapids,  Aug.  30—Amos  S. 
Musselman  has  resigned  the  Presidency 
of  the  Michigan  Wholesale  Grocers’  As­
sociation  and  Wm.  Judson,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  has  been  elected  to  fill  the  va­
cancy. 

H.  P .  S a n g e r ,  Sec’y.

Any  nation  wishing  to  rent  a  machine 
that  will  throw  earthquakes  can  have 
the  Vesuvius  on  reasonable  terms.

Chicago  is  to  have  a  peace  jubilee. 
There  ought  to  be  money  in  it  at  excur­
sion  rates.

Ananias  died  too  soon.  The  fates  in­

tended  him  for a  war  correspondent.

A LW A Y S   A  W IN N E R !

M fisS H

$35  00  per  M.

H. VAN TONGEREN,  Holland, Mich.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
F IR S T -C L A S S   IN  EVERY  R E SP E C T . 
THE  ONLY  HOTEL  IN  THE  CITY  WITH 
SU ITA BLE  ARRANGEM ENTS  and  C O N ­
VENIEN CES  FOR  LADIES.

R A T E S :  $ 2 .   W IT H   B A T H   $ 2 . 5 0 .  

MEALS  5 0   C E N T S .

$ 2   PER  DAY. 

TH E  C H A R LE S TO N

FREE  B U S.

Only first-class house in  MASON,  M i c h .  Every­
thing new.  Every room  heated.  Large and  well- 
lighted sample rooms.  Send your mail care  of  the 
Charleston, where the boys stop.  CH AR LES  A . 
CA LD W E L L, formerly of Donnelly  House,  Prop.
REMODELED  H O T E L   B U T L E R
I.  M.  BROW N,  P r o p .
Rates, $1. 

Washington Ave. and Kalamazoo St.,  L A  N> 'NG.
HOTEL  WHITCOMB

ST. JOSEPH,  MICH. 

A. VINCENT. Prop.

about Whitehall,  Mich.
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Delightful  Pastime.  Special  attention and rates for 
such parties.  Write to  M ears  Hotel.

Wm  Cherry man, Prop.

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Drugs—Chemicals

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

- 
P. W. R. Pbbby, 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.

Lansing—Nov.  1 and 2.

STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.
President—J. J. Soubwtne, Escanaba. 
Secretary, Chas. F. Mann, Detroit.
Treasurer  J ohn D. Muir, Grand Rapids.

Some  Ways  of  Advertising  a  Retail 

Drug  Store.

In  Michigan  we  have  1,563 retail  drug 
stores,  3,115 
registered  pharmacists, 
and  323 assistant registered pharamcists. 
Deducting  from  this  the  number  of  reg­
istered  pharmacists  who  are  employed 
in  the  various  laboratories and wholesale 
drug  stores  in  our  State,  and  from  the 
remainder  trying  to  strike  an  average,  I 
would  presume  to  say  that  the  number 
of  registered  pharmacists  to  each  drug 
store  would  be  less  than  one  and  six- 
tenths  per  cent.  From  these  notes  I be­
lieve  that  most  proprietors  are  the  men 
who  “ run  the  store”   themselves  and 
naturally  attend  to  the  advertising  of 
their  respective  stores.  The  only  reason 
any  pharmacist  advertises  his  store  m 
any  way  is  to  increase  his  trade,  not  to 
increase  the  business  of bis competitors, 
nor  to  increase  his  own  trade  and  clerk 
hire  without  making  enough  money  out 
of  the  system  to  cover  the  additional 
expense.  Advertising  is  always  an  ex­
pense.  The  word  “ advertising”   can  be 
fitted  to  your  method  of  doing  business 
just  as  well,  and 
in  some  cases  more 
properly,  than  by  spending  money  on 
dodgers,  sending  almanacs  and  samples 
of  pilis  and  headache  powders  from 
house  to  house.

The  old  sign  you  sometimes  see  in 
stores  where  they  do  not  spend  a  cent 
advertising  any  other  way  which  reads

; 

A   PL E A SE D   CUSTOMER  IS  OUR 

BEST  A D V E R TISE R .

I 

means  very  much,  but  often  enough  the 
man  who  runs  the  store  wherein  this 
sign  hangs  doesn't  half  realize  this  im­
portant  fact.  He  is  the  same  person 
who  sometimes  loses  the  sale  and  often­
times  the  customer  by  neglecting  to 
offer  to  get  the  desired  article,  which 
he happens  to be  out  of,  and  promptly 
send  it  to  the  customer’s  house:  or,  if 
the  prospective  customer  should  happen 
to  remark— unconsciously,  of  course— 
“ you  are  dearer  here  than  they  are  at 
Jones’  drug  store,”   he  will  at  once  pro­
ceed  to  get  huffy  and  say,  “ Well,  you 
had  better  go  to  Tones’  and  get  it. ’ ’

That,  I  think,  is  bad  business.  He 
loses  his  sale  and  hurts  his  customer’s 
feelings  and  usually 
finds  that  the 
would-be  buyer  takes  his  advice  at  what 
it 
is  worth  and  purchases  the  desired 
article  at  Jones’.  Later,  although  at 
heart  repenting  his  hasty  words,  the 
disappointed  salesman  endeavors  to rec­
oncile  himself  by  repeating  the  history 
of  the  incident  to  his  fellow  friends  or 
competitors,  who  smile  with  him  but 
don't  say  much.

Then,  if  we  take  a  look  at  the display 
windows  of  the  leading  stores  of  our 
largest  cities,  you  will  notice  that  they 
are  very  inviting— windows  clean  and 
well 
lighted—signs  plain  and  not  too 
many  of  them—the  vestibules  of  the 
I  have  known
front  doors  dustless. 

M IC H IG AN   TRADESMAN

druggists  to  have  their  sidewalks  and 
woodwork  in  the  entrance  to  their  stores 
swept  and  dusted  morning,  noon  and 
night.  The  druggist  in  the  small  town 
or  the  neighborhood  druggist  in  a  city 
does  not  need  to  have  a  large  stock  or 
is not too poor  to  have  the  index  (front) 
look  inviting.  Sticky  fly  paper  half  full 
of  dead  flies  is  no  good  as  an  advertise­
ment,  neither  does  a  tin  plate filled with 
poison  fly-paper  look  inviting. 
I  have 
found  that  I  had  just  as  much  trouble 
with  flies  in  my  windows  with  the  fly­
paper  in  them  as  I  do now without.  One 
thing 
is  certain,  it  will  take  a  long 
while  to  kill  off  all  the  flies,  perhaps 
they  will  never  all  die,  so  is  it  not  just 
as  well  to  keep  the  window  floors  cov­
ered  with  dark  cloth  and  dress  them 
with  such  goods  as  are  not  affected  by 
fly  spots,  or  doesn’t it  pay  to  change  the 
trim  often  enough  and  make  more  deli 
cate  displays?  A  dollar  a  week  judi­
ciously  spent  in  window  dressing  is  not 
extravagance— for  even the smallest drug 
store— if  the  proprietor  does  really  care 
to  keep  his  store  front  tidy  and  invit­
ing.  New  and  valuable  trade  is  lurking 
in  every  locality  and  there 
is  transient 
trade  in  every  town  or  neighborhood. 
Don’t  let  yourself  think  that  it  is  only 
on  the  main  streets  in  the  large  places 
where  transient  business  is  found.  My 
store  is  a  neighborhood  store. 
I  sell 
stationery  and 
drugs,  soda,  cigars, 
school  supplies. 
I  would  also  handle 
bicycles  and  hay  rakes  and  still  insist 
that  my  store  was  a  drug  store  and  ad­
vertise  it  as  such,  if  I  bad  the  room and 
necessary  capital. 
I  have  been  in  the 
business  for  myself  but  a  few  years  and 
have  not  by  any  means  an  ideal  drug 
store,  nor  even  an  ideal  store,  but  as  it 
is  now  I  often  shake  hands  with  myself 
when  I  visit  the  store  of  a  grunter. 
When  I  visit  a  strange  store  I  can  tell 
before  I  talk  with  the  proprietor  that  he 
is  a  grunter  (if  he  is  one).  His  clerks 
are  not  quick 
in  getting  to  the  front. 
He  himself  is  apt  to  remain  in  the  rear 
of  the  store  at  his  desk.  His  cigar case 
has  empty  boxes  in  it. 
I  never  allow 
my  customers  to  see  the  bottom  of  a 
cigar  box  in  my  showcase;  when  down 
to  the 
last  layer  is  taken  out  I  replace 
by  a  full  box.  The  shelf  bottles  in  the 
store  of  a  grunter  are  like  his storefront 
isn’t  half 
—dusty;  his  soda 
dressed.  This  kind  of  druggist 
is  not 
uncommon.  They do not  observe  enough 
of  the  world  of  business  to  keep  them 
out  of  the  rut.  They  don’t  attend  a 
druggists’  convention  often 
enough. 
They don’t  visit  other more  prosperous 
stores  often enough.  Any  retail  druggist 
who  will  take  the  time  to  take  just  a 
couple  of  weeks’  vacation  every  year, 
recreate  himself,  meet  other  druggists 
from  his  town  and  other  towns  and  take 
in  a  ball  game  occasionally  will  find  he 
is  much  better  pleased  with himself  and 
the  condition  of  his  trade.  He  will  be 
able  to  return  to  his  store  and  see  it  as 
other  people  see  it,  and  then  he  will 
make  up  his  mind  he  is  going  to  do 
business.

fountain 

My  most  successful  method  of  adver­
tising  has  been  through  the  newspapers, 
large  advertisements,  but  in 
not  very 
first-class  positions. 
I  don’t  write  ad­
vertisements  about  my  store  that  I  don’t 
believe,  and  usually  my  advertisements 
are  so  simple—yet  pertinent—that  peo 
pie  who  read  them  know  what I am talk­
ing  about,  and  if  the  goods  advertised 
investigate  further 
interest  them,  they 
by  coming  into  the  store. 
I  do  not  be­
in  having  advertisements  show 
lieve 
an  attempt  to  be 
funny  or  quote 
poetry.  The  advertisement  should  be

made  to  “ stick  out,"  which  can  be 
done  usually  by  the  proper  use  of  bor­
ders  and  bold  headlines.  I don’t  believe 
it  is  always  wise  to  push  only  the  goods 
on  which  you make  the  most  money. 
It 
is  best  to  be  firmly  convinced  that  your 
substitute  is  really  as  good  or  better 
than  the  article  the  customer asks  for. 
If  you  are  not  positive  about  it,  do  not 
mention  it.  Sell  the  goods  with  a  nar­
row  profit  and  the  customer  won’t  be 
liable  to  give  you  the  “ go  by”   next 
time.

Although  as  advertising  mediums 
church  and  concert  programs  and  pam­
phlets  issued  by  locai  societies are prac­
tically  worthless,  I  often  allow  myself 
to  be  “ held  up, ”  for the  sake  of  demon­
strating  my  good  will  and  sociability. 
If  the  enterprise  is  conducted  by  fakirs 
who  make  a  business  of 
it,  I  promptly 
tell  them  that  their  scheme  doesn't  in­
terest  me  and  turn  them  down.  Every 
man 
in  business  has  to  use  his  own 
judgment  in  selecting  places where  it  is 
worth  while  to  be  “ a  good  fellow,”   but 
there  is  no  need  of  any  pharmacist  be­
ing  an  “ easy  mark.”

House  to  house  distribution  of attract­
ive  advertising  matter  is  splendid  ad­
vertising,  even  although  many  mer­
chants  in  the  same  city  do  it.  Adver­
tising  of  this  kind  is  invariably  given 
some  attention  by  members of the house­
hold,  but  don’t  hire  boys  to  attend to  it; 
pay  a  fair  price  and  have  it  done  well. 
Don't  allow  your  pamphlets  or  samples 
to  be  laid  on  the  doorstep,  the  bell  rung 
and  then  left.  If you  must  ring  the  bell, 
wait  there  until  some  one  comes  and 
hand  that  someone  the  advertising  mat­
ter;  then  your  advertising  is  given  what 
if 
you  expected—attention—and 
it  is 
well  printed  and  written  in  an 
instruc­
tive  manner,  it  will  make  the  desired 
impression.

Cigars  in  the  showcase  should  be 
properly  marked.  Every  box  should 
have  its  price  card  on 
it,  for  even  the 
most  popular  and  staple  brands  are  not 
known  by  some  smokers.  My  cards  are 
all  white  ones,  about  the  size  of  a  visit­
ing  card  and  plainly  printed  with  a  pen 
—it's  the  black  and  white  system  and 
pays.  The  candy  case  is  fixed  the  same 
way,  and  no  goods  go  into  my  show 
windows  without  the  price  plainly  ex­
posed. 
It  shows no fear  of  competition, 
even  if  the  price  of competitors happens 
to  range  a  little  lower.

B e n j  S c h r o u d e r .

Medicinal  Toilet  Soap  Taxable.
In  answer to a query  as to  whether tar 
soap,  if  manufactured  and  put  on  the 
market  and  sold  as  an  ordinary  toilet 
soap,  it  not  being  recommended  as  hav­
ing  any  medicinal  properties,  but  being 
simply  in  the  category  of  ordinary toilet 
soap,  and  sold  as  such,  is  taxable  or 
not,  Internal  Revenue  Commissioner 
Scott  says: 
“ This  office  bolds  tar. 
carbolic  and  sulphur  soaps  to  be  tax 
able,  if  recommended  on  the  label,  cir­
cular  or  in  any  other  manner as  a  spe­
cific  for  any  skin  affection,  but  if  they 
are  simply  marked 
‘ carbolic,’  ‘ tar’  or 
‘sulphur’  soap  they  are  not  held  as  tax­
able  under  Schedule  B  unless  otherwise 
advertised. ”

An  Original  Druggist.

A  New  York  drug  store  bears  the  fol­

lowing  sign :

t 
: 

AUL  KINDS 
OF  ACIDS

FOR  SALE  HERE 

CARBOLIC 

ACID 

DEAD  CHEAP 

•

:
:
:
:

The  Drug  Market.

There  are  few  changes  to  note  this 
week.  The  volume  of  trade  in  this  line 
is  very  large,  showing  a  very  handsome 
increase  over  previous  years.  Collec­
tions  are  also  improved.

Opium—The  market  is  dull,  although 

prices  have  not  changed.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine—The  demand  is  light  at  this 
season  and  stocks  are  large,  but  prices 
are  well  maintained.

Citric  Acid—Is  firm  at  the  late  ad­

vance  with  good  demand.

Antipyrine— Dr.  Knoor’s is unchanged 
at  the  last  decline,  but  there  are  other 
antipyrines 
in  market  that  are  being 
sold  at  much  lower  prices.

Cocaine—The  expected  advance  has 
not  yet  taken  place,  but  the  market  is 
very  firm,  on  account of advanced prices 
for  raw  material.

Glycerine—Competition  has 

lowered 
prices  to  about  cost,  although  the  man 
ufacturers  are  firm  in  their  views.
Menthol— Higher  prices  are 

looked 
for,  as  our  market  is  below  importers' 
cost.

Nitrate  Silver— Has  been advanced by 

manufacturers  ic  per  oz.

Sulphur— Five  refiners  have  formed  a 
combination  and  the  schedule  has  been 
revised,  prices  being  reduced. 
is 
understood  that  the  present  prices  will 
be  held  for  at  least  a  month.  An  ad­
vance  at  that  time  would  not  surprise 
any  one.

It 

Essential  Oils—Anise  is  a  fraction 
lower.  Cassia  is  firm  at  the  recent  ad­
vance.  Cloves  is  firm  in  sympathy  with 
spice.  Growers  of  peppermint  are  ask­
ing  more  than  jobbers  are  willing to pay 
and  this  oil  may  be  said  to  be  very 
firm.

Roots—Golden  seal  is  scarce  and  the 

market  is  very  firm.

Seeds—Caraway  is  steadily advancing 
in  primary  markets  and  is  higher  here. 
The  stock  of  poppy  has  been  concen­
trated  and  prices  advanced.  Mustard 
is  in  good  demand  at  this  season  at  un­
changed  prices.

Linseed  Oil— Is  in  the  same condition 
last  week,  no  two  crushers 

as  noted 
quoting  the  same  price.

From  a  Minnesota  Standpoint.

For 

Minneapolis,  Aug.  20—I  do  not  be­
lieve  that  many  of  the  State associations 
will  go  to  the 
length  of  refusing  to 
handle  the  goods  as  the  Iowa  druggists 
propose.  The  druggists  will  simply  dis­
courage  the  sale  of  the  patent medicines 
and  keep  them  out  of  sight  unless  there 
is  a  positive  call  for  them.

instance,  there  is  sarsaparilla, 
one  of  the  big  items  in  the  drug  trade. 
The  tax  on  that  is  35  cents  a  dozen.  Of 
the  two  best  known  houses  putting  out 
sarsaparilla,  one  has  raised  the  price  75 
cents  and  the  other  $1  a  dozen  to  the 
druggist.  We  wouldn't  mind  it  so  much 
if  it  were  simply  covering  the  tax.
Now  there  is  nothing  mysterious  or 
sacred  in  the  manufacture of  sarsapar­
illa.  Any  druggist  can  make  it  just  as 
pure  and  well  mixed  as  the  big  facto­
ries,  and  nearly  every  druggist  who  has 
a  considerable  trade  does  have  his  own 
preparation  of  sarsaparilla.  When  the 
big  manufacutrers  clap  on  the  war  tax 
and  twice  as  much  more  for  good  meas­
ure  and  leave  the  druggist  to  meet  the 
competition  of  the  department  stores 
besides,  the  retailer  is  not  going  much 
out  of  his  way  to  push  those  brands.

Ch a s.  T .  H e l l e r ,

President  Minnesota  Pharmaceutical 

Association.

REED GUY SANITAlIi

REED  CITY,  MICHIGAN.

A. B. Spinney, M.  D.,  Prop’r.  E.  W.  Spinney, 
M. D., Resident Physician, with  consulting  phy­
sicians  and  surgeons,  and  professional  nurses. 
The cheapest Sanitarium in the world; a place for 
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M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced 
Declined —

Aceticum.................
Benzoicum, German
Boracic....................
Carbolicum............
Cltricum.................
Hydrochlor............
Nltrocum...............
Oxalicum...............
Phosphorium,  dii...
Salicylicum.............
Sulph uricum...........
Tannicum..............
Tartaricum..............
Ammonia
Aqua, 16  deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Carbonas................. 
Chloridum................. 
Aniline

t  6@l 

70® J
@ 15
29® 41
4°@ 5(
3®
8® If
12® 14
@ 15
60® 65
1%@1  25®  1 40
38® 40

4®
6®
13®
12®

Black.......................  2 00® 2 25
Brown....................... 
80® 
B ed...........................  
45®  50
Yellow....................  2 50® 3 00

Baccse.
Cube see...........po. 18
Ju ill penis...............
Xantboxylum.........
Balsamum
Copaiba...................
Peru......... ...............
Terabin, Canada__
Tolutan...................
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
Casslæ....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgin!.......
Qulllaia,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
Ulmus...po.  15.  gr'd
Extractum
Glycvrrhiza  Glabra.
Glycyrrhiza, po......
Hæmatox, 15 lb box.
Hæmatox, I s ...........
Hæmatox, 54s.........
Hæmatox,  54s.........
Ferra
Carbonate Precip...
Citrate and Quinia..
Citrate Soluble.......
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solnt.  Chloride......
Sulphate, com’l...... 
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate,  p u re ......

13®
6®
25®
52® 58
@ 2 75
45® 50
50® 5"

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
15

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

15
2 25
75
40
15
2
50
7

12® 14
18® 25
30® 35

23® 28
18® 25
25® 30
12® 20
8® 10

Arnica....................
Anthemis...............
Matricaria..............
Folia
Barosma..................
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly.................
Cassia Acutifol.Alx.
Salvia officinalis, Qs
and  54s.................
Ura Ursi..................
Oumml
Acacia,  1st picked..
@ 65
Acacia,  2d  picked..
@ 45
Acacia,  3d  picked.
@ 35
@ 28
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Acacia, po...............
60@ 80
12® 14
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20
Aloe, Cape__po. 15
@ 12
Aloe. Socotrl. .po. 40 @ 30
Ammoniac..............
55® 60
Assafcetida__po. 30
25® 28
Benzoinum............
50® 55
Catechu, Is..............
® 13
Catechu, fts............
14
Catechu, 14s............
@ 16
C am phors............
38® 42
Euphorbium.. po.  35 @ lu
Galbanum...............
@ 00
Gamboge  po...........
65® 70
Guaiacum......po. 25
@ 30
Kino...........po. $3.u0
@ 3 00
Mastic 
Myrrh............ po.  45
Opli.. .po. S5.20®5.40 3 90® 4  00
Shellac.
Shellac, bleached. 
Tragacanth............  
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip. .oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg
Rue...............oz. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
flagnesia.
Calcined, Pat...........
Carbonate, Pat........
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum
Absinthium............   3 50® 3 75
Amygdalæ, Dulc__ 
30®  50
Amygdalae, Amar» .  8 00®  8 25
Anisi.......................   2 1  ® 2 20
Aurantl  Cortex...... 2  25® 2 40
Bergami!.................  3 00® 3 20
Cajiputi...................  8<j®  85
Caryophylll............   8 ®  85
Oedar....................... 
35®  65
® 275
Chenopadii.............. 
Clnnamonli.............  1 60® 1  70
Citrouella 
............  
45®  50

55®
20®
35®

40®
_
so®

 

 

Conium  Mac........... 
35®  50
Copaiba...................  l  is®  l  25
Cubebae....................  go®  j  00
Exechthitos...........  1  00®  1  10
Erigeron.................  1  0(®  1  10
Gaultheria..............  1  50®  1  60
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippil, Sem. gal..  50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1  on®  1  10
Junipera..................  1  50® 2 00
Lavendula..............  90® 2 00
Limonis..................   j  30®  1  50
Mentha  Piper.........  1  60® 2 20
Mentha Yerid.........   1  50®  1  60
Morrhuae, gal.........   1  10®  1  25
Myrcia.....................  4 00® 4 50
Olive 
75® 3 00
Picis  Liquids.........  
10® 
12
Picis Liquids, gal...  @ 3 5
R icina....................  9,®  1  10
Rosmarini...............   @  1  00
Rosae,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succini  ..................  
40®  45
go®  1  00
Sabina..................  
Santal......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras................. 
55®  go
®  65
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
Tlglli.......................  1  70®  1  »<
Thyme.  .................  
40®  50
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
ts@  ,  20
Potassium
Bl-Carb....................
Bichromate............
Bromide..................
Carb.......................
Chlorate..po. 17@19c
Cyanide................... 
Iodide......................2 60® 2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28@  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10® 
12
Potass Nitras........... 
ic® 
1
Prussiate.................  2u@  25
Sulphate p o ........... 
t5@ 
18

15®
13®
50®
12®
16®
35®

1  Of

Radix
Aconitvm.............. 
20®
Al111® ....................!  22®
Ancnusa................. 
10^
Arum po..................   @
Calamus............ . 
20®
Gentians........po  15 
la®
Glychrrhiza... pv. 15  16®
Hydrastis Canaden.  @
Hydrastis Can., po..  @
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
18®
Inula, po................. 
is®  „
Ipecac, po............... 2 80® 3 Of»
Iris plox.... po35@38 
35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
¿5®  30
Maranta,  J^s...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po.... 
22®  25
75®  ,  00
g b e i....................... 
Rhei, c u t................  @  1  25
75®  1  35
Rbei.pv................... 
Spigelia................... 
35®  38
Sanguinaria.  po. 15 
@  11
Serpentaria............  30®  35
i? n?fa ' ‘ » .............. 
40®  45
Slmilax,officinalis H  @ 4 0
Smilax, M...............
Scillse............ .po.35
Symplocarpus, Foeti- 
dus,  po.................
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 
Valeriana,  German.
Zingiber a ...............  
Zingiber j ...............  
Semen
@  13
Anlsum......... po.  15 
13®  15
Apium  (graveleons) 
®Ird-.,s.................... 
4® 
6
10®  12
Carui..............po. 18 
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
8® 
10
Cannabis  Sativa__ 
4@  414
Cydonium...............  
75®  1  00
Coenopodium  ........ 
io@ 
12
Diptenx  Odorate. ..  I  80®  1  90
Fceniculum............  
® 
10
Fcenugreek, po........ 
7® 
9
Bini...... ...........  3H@  iU
Linl,  grd  ...bbl. 3« 
4® 454
.............................. 35® 40
4® 454
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
R.aPa ........................  454® 
5
Sinapis Albu-------- 
9® 
10
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
n@ 
12
Spirltus 

15®
¡3®
25®

@
10®

Frumenti, W.  D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F.  R..  2 00© 2 25
Frumenti..................1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T ..  1  65@ 2 00
Juniperis Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum N.  E  ...  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli........  1  75®  6 50
Vini Oporto............   1  25® 2 00
Vini  Alba...............   1  25® 2 00

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

50®
@
n

j

I

.. 

niscellaneous 

Scillse Co  ................  @
Tolutan...................  @
Prunus virg............   @
Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafcetida............
Atrope  Belladonna
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin................. .
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon...............
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor...................... 
Catechu...................
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co...........
Cc'umba 
.............
Cubeba....................
Cassia  1 lutifol......
'"•«s'  «cutifolCo  .
l^.gl  n.LS 
.
Ergot......................
Ferri Chloridu  ’
Gentian..................
Gentian Co.........
Guiaca...................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus...........
Iodine.....................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino........................
Lobelia................ ] ’
Myrrh.....................
Nux  Vomica..........
Opii.........................
Opli, camphorated.
Opii,  deodorized.... 
Quassia..................
Rhatany...........
Rhei....................... ;
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stramonium...........
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride.!
Zingiber..................
.¡Ether, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
¡Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen...................  2}<@
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
3®
A nnatto.................  
40®
4®
Antimonl,  po........ 
Antimoni et PotassT  40®
Antipyrin............  
@
Antifebrin 
...........  @
Argenti Nitras, oz ..  @
Arsenicum........  
10®
„
Balm Gilead  Bud  .. 
38® 
Bismuth  S. N.........   1  40®  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  Is.
Calcium Chlor., 54s.
Calcium Chlor.,  }<s 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsicl  Fructus. af.
Capsici Fructus,  po 
Capsici FructusB.po 
Caryophyll us.. po.  15
Carmine, No. 40__
Cera Alba...........’ 
I
Cera Flava...........40® 
„
@  40
Coccus..................  
Cassia Fructus....!.  @  33
Centraria.................  @ 
10
Cetaceum................   @  45
Chloroform...  ........ 
60®  63
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  15 
ChloralHydCrst  ...  I  65®  I  90
Chondrus................  20®  25
Cinchonidine, P. & W  25®  35
Cinchonidine, Germ  22®  30
Cocaine..................   3 30® 3 50
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum....... 
@
Creta............. bbl. 75  @
Creta, prep.............. 
A
Creta, precip......  
'  9®
Creta, Rubra.........  
@
18®
Crocus.................... 
@
Cudbear................ 
CupriSulph............ 
5®
Dextrine.................. 
10®
Ether Sulph............  
75®
Emery, ail  numbers  @
Emery, po................  @
Ergota........... po. 40  30®
Flake  White........... 
12®
Galla........................  @
Gambler.  ..............’. 
8®
Gelatin, Cooper.. . .   @
Gelatin, French...... 
35®
Glassware, flint, box
Less than  box__
9®
Glue,  brown..........  
13®
Glue,  white............  
15®
Glycerina................ 
Grana  Paradisi  ....  @
Humulus................. 
25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @ 
Hydraag Chlor Cor.  @ 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.  @  95 
®  1  10 
Hydraag Ammoniati 
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........  
®  70
Ichthyobolla, Am... 
65®  75
Indigo...................... 
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................
Lupulin.  ................
Lycopodium...........
Macis 
Liquor  Arse:, et ¿y-
drarg Iod.............
LiquorPotassArsinlt
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannia, S. F ...........

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

50®

O 2 75'

5 0 ------- ...
50 I Menthol

IS

3-5 
36 
65 
34 

38
39
70
40

Morphia, S.P.&W...  2 55® 2 80 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co...................   2 45® 2 70
Moschus Canton__  @  40
65®  80
Myristica, No. 1...... 
Nux Vomica...po.20  @ 
10
Os  Sepia...  ........... 
is©  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
Ö- Co....................  @  1  00
Picis LIq.N.N.54 gal.
doz........................  @200
Picis Llq., quarts__  @  1  00
Picis Liq., pints......  @  85
Pil Hydrarg.. .po.  80  @  50
Piper Nigra...po.  22  @ 
18
Piper Alba  ...po.  35  @  30
Pilx  Burgun  .........   @ 
7
Plumbi  Acet........... 
10@  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1  20 
Py rethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...  @125
Pyre thrum,  pv........ 
25®  30
8® 
Quassias..................  
10
29®  31
Quinta, S. P. & W .. 
22®  32
Quinia, S.German.. 
Quinia, N.Y............  
29®  34
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12®  14
SaccharumLactis pv  18®  20
Salacin....................  3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconis... 
40®  50
12®  14
Sapo,  W................... 
Sapo, M.................... 
10® 
12
Sapo. G....................  @ 
15
Siedlitz  Mixture  ...  20  @  22

Sinapis....................  @ 
18
Sinapis, opt............   @  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.....................   @  34
@ 34
Snuff, Scotch.DeVo’s 
Soda Boras..............  9  @  11
Soda Boras, po.......   9  @ 
11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  154® 
2
Soda, Bi-Carb......... * 
3® 
5
Soda, Ash...............   314® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
Spt  Myrcia Dom...  @  • 00
Spts. Vini Beet, bbl.  @ 2 52
Spts. Vini Beet. Hbbl  @2  57
Spts. Vini Beet. lOgal  @2 60 
Spts. Vini Beet.  5gal  @ 2 62
Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Sub!.........   2?^@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........  2>|@3‘A
a® 
Tamarinds.............. 
10
Terebenth Venice... 
28®  30
Theobromse............  
46@  48
Vanilla...................  9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph............  
7® 
8

Oils

B B L .  G A L .
Whale, winter......... 
70
70 
Lard,  extra...... ......  50 
60
Lard, No. 1.............. 
40 
45

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

Paints 
B B L . 
L B
Bed Venetian........
1*  2  m
Ochre, yellow Mars 
Hi  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.
\ \   2  @3 
Putty, commercial.
2 Í  254@3 
Putty, strictly  pure 
254  2X@3
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............
15 
Vermilion, English
70®
75 
Green, P aris.........
1854®
22
Green,  Peninsular.
16
.....
Lead, Red.............. 
654 
5J£@
Lead, white........... 
Whiting, white Span  @ 
<u 
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 F ura....  1  00®  1  10 
Extra Turk  Damar.  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No. lTurp  70®  75

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AND

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Ladies’  Purses 

Gentlemen’s  Pocket  Books 

Gentlemen’s  Purses 

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20

M IC H IG AN   TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The  prices  quoted  in  this  list  are  for the trade only,  in  such  quantities  as  are usually purchased  by  retail 
It  is im­
dealers.  They 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  make this  feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz......... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz......... 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz......... 1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz......... 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz.............  80
Jnte. 72 ft.  pe'  dna..............  95
COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags.......................  
214
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound packages............. 
4
CRBAfl TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes..30-35

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

Santos.

P a ir.......................................... 9
Good........................................10
Prim e......................................11
Golden  ...................................12
Peaberry  ................................13
Pair  ........................................12
Good  ......................................13
Prim e......................................14
Peaberry  ................................15
Pair  ....................................... 15
Good  ......................................16
............................ *...17
Pancy 
Maracaibo.
Prim e...................................... 19
Milled...................................... 20

Mexican  and  Guatamala.

Java.

Mocha.

Roasted.

Interior...................................19
Private  Growth...................... 20
Mandehling.............................21
Im itation............................... 20
Arabian  ................................. 22
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Pifth  Avenue.....................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha— 29 
Wells’ Mocha and Java.— 24
Wells’ Perfection  Java..... 24
Sancalbo.............................21
Breakfast Blend...............   18
Valley City Maracaibo.......1854
Ideal  Blend........................14
Leader Blend.............. .......12

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
.prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also 54c  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbnckle.......................   10 50
Jersey.............  ..............   9 50
rtcLaughlln’s  XXXX.
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City % gross...... 
75
Felix 54 gross................. 
i  15
8
Hummel’s foil 54 gross... 
85
Hummel’s tin 54  gross  . 
I  4? 
CLOTHE5 PINS.
5 gross boxes......................   40
4 doz in case.

CONDENSED  MILK.

Extract.

Universal Grade.

Apples.

Credit Checks.

California Fruits.

50 books, any denom....  150
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom....11  50
1,000  books, any denom_20 00
500, any one denom’n ...... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n ......  5 00
2000, any one denom’n ......   8 00
Steel punch.......................   75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOnBSTIC 
Snndried.......................   @  5
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @  8 
Apricots.....................   @8V4
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................   @  TH
Peaches.......................6Vf@
Pears..........................   8  @
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles..................
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.........  @514
50-6025 lb boxes.........   @614
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  @9
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........   @
14 cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Pranas.

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

1  45 
1 55
314 
414 
554 

Raisins.

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

Ralslna.

Patras bbls.......................@ 7J4
Vostlzzas 50 lb cases........@  714
Cleaned, bulk  ................. @ 814
Cleaned, packages...........@ 814
Citron American 10 lb bx  @13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx @12 
Orange American 101b bx  @12 
Ondnra 28 ib boxes......8  @814
Sultana  I Crown.........   @
Sultana 2 Crown  ........  @
Sultana 8 Crown.........   @714
Snltana  4 Crown.........   @
Snltann  K Crown.........   @
Snltana 6 Crown.........   @12
Snltana package.........   @’4
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages.........   ..T50
Bulk, per 100 lbs..............3 50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Farina.

Grita.

Salt  Fish.

Cod.

Georges cured............  @4
Georges genuine........  @5
Georges selected........  @514
Strips or bricks.........   6  @9

Herring.

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

rinckerel.

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
10 lbs...................   100
No. 2 
No. 2 
8 lbs...................  
83

Trout.

No. HOOlbl.................... 
No. 1  4011m.................... 
No. 1 
101b«...................  
811m...................  
No. 1 
Whtteflfh.

5 25
2 40
68
57

No. 1  No. 2  Pam
100 lbs...........  6 65 
2 25
1  20
40 lbs  .........   3 00 
10 lbs........... 
38
81 
8 lbs...........  68 
33
FLAVORINQ  EXTRACTS.

Jennings’.

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

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

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

Lem. Van.
1  20
1  »0
2 00
2 25

Soudert’.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew.
the

in  the  world 

for

»
....1 80
.  2 70
...5 10 money.

Best 

AXLE  GREASB.
Aurora................. ......55
Castor O il........... ...... 60
Diamond............. ...... 50
Frazer’s .............. ...... 75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
ntca, tin boxes... ...... 75
Paragon.............. .  ...55

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

Acme.

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
> ’b cans doz................... 
H Id Jans doz................... 

45
85
lb can  doz...................1  50
W lb cans 3 doz.................  
45
75
H lb cans 3 doz................. 
lb cans 1 doz.................  I  00
1 
10
Bulk.................................... 
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........... 
85
lb cans per doz............. 
75
14 lb cans per doz  ...........   1  20
1 
lb cans per doz............   2  00
M lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
% lb cans 4 doz case. 
lb cans 2 doz case

Arctic.
Bl Purity.

home.

85

Our Leader.

Jersey Cream.

14 lb cans, 4 doz case
14 lb cans, 4 doz case........ 

85
lb cans. 2 doz case........  1  60
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.............  1  25
85
6 oz. cans, per doz................ 
14 lb cans............................. 
45
14 lb cans............................. 
75
lb cans..........................   1  50
1 
1 lb. cans  ............................  
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.

comm
E ^ L u i M G

CANDLES.

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

40
Small, 3 doz.......................... 
Large, 2 doz.......................... 
75
BROOnS.
So. 1 Carpet........................   1 90
No. 2 Carpet........... 
.........   1 75
No. 3 Carpet........................   1 50
No. 4 Carpet........................   l 15
Parlor Gem........................   2 00
Common Whisk....................  70
Fancv Whisk.. 
80
Warehouse.........................2 25
8s.......................................... 7
16s.......................................... 8
Paraffine........ 
 
Wicking.............................. 20

.............  
CANNED  GOODS, 
rianltowoc  Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat.........  
95
Lakeside B.  J ....................   1  15
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  1 20 
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted.  1  45
Extra Sifted Early June__1  75
CATSUP.
pints...
Colombia, 
.2   00 
Columbia, 14 pints...
.1  25
CHEESE
Acme......................
10
Amboy....................
10
Butternut...............
10
Carson City.............
10954
Emblem...................
Gem.........................
10149%
Ideal.......................
Jersey  ....................
10
Lenawee.................
8
Riverside.................
10
Sparta......................
Springdale..............
Brick.......................
Edam.......................
Leiden.....................  @
Limburger..............  @
Pineapple.................50  @
Sap  Sago.................  @
Bulk 
Red

Cblcory.

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.'s 
Germau Sweet
Premium.. 
...........
Breakfast  Cocoa................

 

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

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

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
50books, 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  .......................   100
50 books...............................  2 00
100 books  .........................  3 00
250 books...............................  G 25
500 books................................10 00
1000 books................. 

denomination from tlOdown.

Coupon Pass Books,

.. 17 50

344

Peas.

Beans.

Pearl Barley.

100 lb. kegs..............
200 lb. barrels.........
Hominy.
Barrels  ...........................2 50
Flake, 501b.  drams........ 1 00
Dried Lima  ..................... 
Medium Hand Picked__
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box........2 50
Common...........................  1  90
Chester............................  2 25
Em pire............................  3 00
Green,  bu...........................  95
Split,  per lb........................  
Rolled Avena,  bbl..........4 25
Monarch,  bbl....................3 80
Monarch,  14  bbl............... 2 05
Monarch, 90 lb sacks..........1 85
Quaker, cases....................3 20
Huron, cases....................... 1 75
German...............................  4
East  India..........................  314
Flake.................................. 
314
Pearl...................................  
3%
Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkges___ 
Cracked, bulk.....................  
24 2 lb packages.................. 2 50

Rolled  Oats.

Tapioca.

Wheat.

Sago.

214

314

5

HERBS.

Sage.................................
Hops...............................

INDIGO.

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

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

Kegs 
Half Kegs.................................2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 25
1 lb. cahs..............................  30
V4 lb. cans............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Eagle Dnck—Dupont’s.

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

JELLY.

LYB.

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

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

LICORICE.

SBBDS.

3l4

A nise...............................  
9
Canary, Smyrna..................  
Caraway..........................   8
Cardamon, M alabar........   6)
Celery.................................  11
Hemp,  Russian.............. 
3V,
Mixed  Bird...........................4m
Mustard,  white................ 
5
Poppy  ................................  10
Rape................................
Cuttle Bone......................  20

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

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

Common Grades.

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

Worcester.

Pure.....................................   80
Calabria.............................   25
Sicily....................................  14
Root.....................................   10

MINCE MEAT.

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

lb. cartons................3 25
50  4 
115  2Hlb. sacks....................4 00
60  5 
lb. sacks................... 3 75
22 14 
lb. sacks...................3  50
3010 
lb. sacks....................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks..................   32
56 lb. linen sacks...................  60
Bulk In barrels................... 2  50

HATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

No. 9 sulphur...........................1 65
Anchor Parlor..........................1 70
No. 2  Home..............................1 10
Export  Parlor......................... 4 00

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

56-lb dairy In linen  sacks...  60 

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

Solar Rock.

Common.

SOAP.

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks...  60 

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

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

Gast & Pulte’s Brands. 

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

JAXON

Single box.................................2 75
5 box lots, delivered...........2 70
10 box lots, delivered...........2 65

JAS. S. KIRK S G0. 3 BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....2  66
Dome.........................................2 75
Cabinet..................................... 2 20
Savon........................................ 2 50
White Russian......................... 2 35
White Cloud,  laundry...  ..6 25
White Cloud,  toilet................. 3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz__ 2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__ 3 00
Blue India, 100 % lb..................3 00
Kirkoline.................................. 3 50
Eos.....................................250

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black................................  
11
14
P a ir..................................  
20
Good................................. 
Fancy  ............................ 
24
Open Kettle...................... 25@35

Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

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

P1PBS.

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

65
85

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

PICKLES, 
riedinm. 

a

Barrels, 1,200 count...............   4 76
Half bbls, 600 count...............   2 90

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

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   6M>
Carolina  No. 1  .................   5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................   3J£

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1......................  6%
Japan.  No. 2......................  6
Java, fancy  head..............  6
Java, No. 1.........................  5J4
Table..................................

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church’s .............................. 3 SC
Deland’s ..............................3  16
Dwight’s ..............................3 30
Taylor’s ................................3 00
6o  lb .
case
15

SODIO

SAL SODA.

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

SNl’PP.

Scotch, In bladders............  
I
Maccaboy, in Jars................  3
French Rappee, In  Jars......   4

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 1-lb. bars....3 75
TJno, 100 14-lb. bars..............2 50
DoU, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 3 05

Sconring.

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

Boxes 
..........
Kegs. English

4k

sp ices.
Whole Slftod.

Allspice  ............................  13
Cassia, China in mats..........12
Cassia, Batavia in  bund__ 25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........ 82
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  ................. 3u
Cassia,  Saigon................... 40
Cloves, Zanzibar..................14
Ginger,  A frican................ lb
Ginger,  Cochin  ..................is
Ginger,  Jamaica  ................23
Mace,  Batavia.................... f5
Mustard  ........................12@18
Nutmegs,...................... 40@a0
Pepper, Sing , black............12
Pepper, Sing., white........... 20
Pepper, Cayenne................. 20
Sage......................................15

Pore  Qround In Ballc.

SYRUPS
Corn.

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

Pure Cone.

 

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Corn.
Klngsford’s  Corn.

40 1-lb packages...................  6
40 1-lb packages...................  6
20 1 lb packages...................614
20 1 lb packages.....................614

Klngsford’s  Silver  Qloss.

401-lb packages...................  6*
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.

01 lb. packages..................
0 1 lb. packages..................

Common GIom.

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

54M
4M4M4M
3M3

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUQAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino............................... 5 88
Cut  Loaf..............................5 88
Crushed...............................5 88
Cubes...................................5 69
Powdered  ...........................5 75
XXXX  Powdered.................... 5 69
Granulated in bbls...................5 44
Granulated in  bags................. 5 44
Fine Granulated......................5 4*
Extra Fine Granulated...... 5 56
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 56
Mould  A...................................5 69
Diamond  Confec.  A........... 5 44
Confec. Standard A................. 5 31
No.  1.............  
5  13
No  2....................................... 5 13
No.  3....................................... 5 13
No.  4....................................... 5 13
No.  5....................................... 5 06
No.  6....................................... 5 00
No.  7.......................................4 94
No.  8....................................... 4 75
No.  9....................................... 4 69
No.  10........ 
¡4  69
No.  11............................   ...4  63
No.  12....................................... 4 56
No.  13....................................... 4 50
No.  14....................................... 4 44
No.  15....................................... 4 38
No.  16....................................... 4 31

 

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. 

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

G. J. JohnsonCigarCo.’sbrand.

8. C. W.............................   33 00

Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands.

Double Eag'es, 6 <=izes.S)5fl70 00
Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes__  55@7U 00
Mr. Thomas................ 
35 00
35 00
Cuban Hand Made.... 
Crown  Five...............  
35 00
Sir  William...............  
35 00
35 uo
Club Five................... 
&5 00
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 
Little Peggy  .............. 
35 00
Signal  Five...............  
35  to
Knights of Pythias.... 
35 00
Key West Perfects. 2 sz 55360 00

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40grain....  6 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain....  9
Pure Cider, Genesee.............. 11
Pure Cider, Kobinson............H

WICK1NQ.

No. 0, per gross....................   20
No. 1, per gross....................  25
No. 2, per gross....................  35
No. 3, per gross....................   55

C ra ck ers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows :
Butter.
Seymour XXX.........
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton
Family X X X .................
Salted XXX  .............
New  York XXX...... . .. . . .
Wolverine.........................
Boston....................."

Soda.

Soda  XXX  .......................   gu
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton_  6a
Soda,  City................. 
g
Long Island  Wafers...’.’.!;  11 
L. I.  Wafers,  1 lbcarton  ..  12 
Zephyrette.........................49

Oyster.

Saltine Wafer....................  5.1
Saltine Wafer, 1 lb  carton.  6?
Farina Oy.-ter....................  53
Extra Farina Oyster....!!.  6j!

SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.

Animals.......................
Bent’s Water............... .
Cocoanut Taffy........
Coffee Cake, Java___
Coffee Cake,  Iced........
< Iracknelis....................
Cubans  ...............
Frosted  Cream............ .
Ginger G em s................
Ginger Snaps, XXX.
Graham Crackers........
Graham Wafers............
Grand Ma Cakes...........
Imperials......................
JumDles,  Honey...........
Marshmallow  ..............
Marshmallow  Creams.. 
Marshmallow  Walnuts. 
Mich.  Frosted Honey...
Molasses  Cakes............
Newton............ ............
Nie  Nacs.................  ...
Orange Gems.................
Penny Assorted Cakes.. 
Pretzels,  hand  made  ..
Sears’ Lunch.................
Sugar  Cake...................
Sugar  Squares..............
Vanilla  Wafers...........
Sultanas.......................

O ils.
Barrels.
Eocene  ....................
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt
W W Michigan.........
Diamond White.......
D., S. Gas...................
Deo. N aptha............
CyUnder....................25
Engine...  .................11
B’«rk  winter

..  10M 
..  15 
..  10 
..  lu 
..  10 
..  15* 
• •  11* 
..  9 
..  8 
-■
..  8 
..  10 
...  9 
..  8
• •  UM 
..  15
. .   16 
.  16 
12*
..  8 
..  12 
..  8 
..  8
• ■  8* 
..  8
■ ■  7* 
..  8 
9
..  14 
• ■  12*

@11*  
@  9* 
@ 8M
@ m
@ 9 
@7 
@34 
@21 
O 8

C a n d ie s.
Stick  Candy.

bbls.  pails
Standard.................  6*@  7
6*@  7
Standard H.  H........ 
Standard Twist......   6  @ 8
@ 8*
Cut Loaf................. 
cases
Jumbo, 321b  ..........  
@ 6*
Extra H. H.............. 
@ 8*
Boston  Cream........ 
@

Mixed Candy.

Grocers...................  
Competition............ 
Standard................. 
Conserve...............  
Royal...................... 
Rlbb°n....................  
Broken................... 
Cut Loaf.................  
English  Bock.........  
Kindergarten.........  
French  Cream........ 
Dandy Pan.............. 
Valley Cream.........  

@ g
@ e%
@ 7
@ 74
@  tm
@ 8*
@ 8*
@  8*
@ 8
@ g*
ft  8Vi
@10
@¡2

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......  
@ 8*
Lozenges,  printed.. 
ft  9
Choc.  Drops........... 
@14
Choc.  Monumentals  _  a n
Gum  Drops........... 
@g
@ g
Moss  Drops............  
Sour Drops.............. 
ft  9
Imperials............... 
@9

Fancy-In  5  lb.  Boxea.

ago
Lemon Drops.........  
Sour  Drops............  
@go
ago
Peppermint Drops.. 
@go
Chocolate Drops.... 
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
@75
Gum  Drops............ 
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
^75
A. B. Licorice Drops 
(§¿0
Lozenges,  plain__ 
@50
@50
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Mottoes................... 
@55
Cream Bar.............. 
@59
Molasses B a r.........  
@50
Hand Made Creams.  80  @1  00
Plain  Creams.........   60  @90
Decorated Creams.. 
@90
String Bock............  
@59
Burnt Almonds...... 125  @
Wintergreen Berries 
@60
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes ........... . 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
bo*e s ......   .......... 
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  ...........

@35
@50

F r u its .
Oranges.
Medt Sweets........... 
Late Valencias......  3 25@3 50

@

Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. 
@5  00
@5  00
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 360s or 300s...  @5 50
Ex.Fancy  300s........ 
@6  0
Ex. Fancy 360s........ 
@g 00
Bananas.

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Figs.

Choice, 10lb boxes..  @
Extra  choice,  14  lb
boxes.................... 
@
Fancy, 12lb  boxes..  @  15
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes................. 
@
Pulled, 6 lb boxes...  @
Naturals,  in  bags...  @ 7

Dates.

Fards in 10 lb  boxes  @ 8
Fards  in  60 lb  cases  @  g
Persians, G. M’s......  
@ 5
@ 6
lb cases, new........ 
Sairs,  601b cases__ 
@ 414

N u ts .

Almonds, Tarragona..  @13
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @13
Brazils new...............   @ 7
Filberts  ....................  @44
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 buM*
Ohio, new...............   @1  60
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @3 50

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P„  Flags
Boasted......... .........  @ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  @ 4*
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
gut

Boasted 

21

C ro ck ery   a n d

G la s s w a r e .

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters,

Jugs.

Churns.

Milkpans.

Stewpans.

Fruit Jars.

Tomato Jugs.

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

*  gal., per doz.................  40
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5
8 gal., each......................  40
10 gal., each........ 
..........  go
12 gal.,  each......................  go
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 1  10
20 gal. meat-tubs, each__ 1  =0
25 gal. meat-tubs, each__ 2 25
30 gal. meat-tubs, each__2 70
2 to 6 gal., per gal....... . 
5
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 
P int..................................  5 75
Quart.................................  6 00
*   gal  ................................  8 00
Covers................................  2 15
Rubbers.......................25
*  gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5
*  gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5* 
*  gal. fireproof, ball, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, doz.l  10
H gal., per doz.................   40
*  gal., per doz..................  42
1 to 5 gal., per gal............. 
54
*  gal., per doz.................  42
1 gal., each...................... 
54
Corks for *  gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
*  gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00
2
5 lbs. In package, per lb... 
LAMP  BURNERS.
No.  0 Sun....................... 
  35
No.  1  Sun.............................  40
No. 2 Sun............................. 
58
No. 3 Sun..........................  4  09
Tubular................................ 
59
Security, No.  1................"  
go
Security, No. 2.................... 
go
Nutmeg  ............................... 
50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—.Second*. 
„  
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0  Sun..........................  4  32
No.  1  Sun....................;;;;  4  4^
No.  2 Sun....................... !!  2  18
No. 0 Sun...........................   4  45
No. 1 Sun..................... . 
4  55
No. 2 Sun...........................   2 35
First  Quality.
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 

Sealing Wax.

top,
top,
top,

Common

 

 

Electric.

La  Bastle.

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 79
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled..........................   4 gg
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamns............  
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ........ 
99
No. 2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  .................................   4 15
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. 
.  .  1  go 
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 75 
3 gal galv Iron with faucet  4 75 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 5 25
5 gal Tilting cans.............. 8 00
5 gal galv Iron Nacefas__  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9 00 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rule............... 10 50
5 gal Home Rule............... 12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9 gn
No.  0 Tubular....................  4 20
No.  1 B  Tubular................6  25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 9 50
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__  7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........  3 75
LANTERN  OLOBBS.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents...........  45
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 cents.........  
45
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls 5 doz.
each, bbl 35'....................   35
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
cases 1 doz. each...... . 
1  25

Pump  Cans.

LANTBRNS.

OIL CANS. 

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

Sausages.

Smoked neats.

4
6u
u
%
%
%
%
I
1 *

Barreled Pork.
•......................... 

Mess  .............................   9  75
11  00
Clear back..............10 75@11  25
io 50
Shortcut........................... 
P'g....................................  14 50
gean  .............................   9  50
Family  ............................  10 50
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies..........................  
eu
Briskets  ........................  
  6*
Extra shorts................... 
6
Hams, 12 lb  average  __ 
8*
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
8 u
Hams, 16 lb  average.. 
8
Hams, 20 lb  average......  
7554
Ham dried b e e f............  
i2vi
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
6
Bacon,  clear........  .......7*@8*
California hams............  
55^
Boneless hams............   .' 
9
Cooked ham...............!!io@12*
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound.............. 
Kettle............................ ;; 
55 lb Tubs...........advance 
80 lb Tubs...........advance 
sS lt??1??...........advance 
20 lb Pails...........advance 
I?  b Pails...........advance 
o lb Pails...........advance 
31b Pails...........advance 
Bologna......................... 
5y
Liver............................ 
6u
Frankfort........ 
i
P o rk ....................
jj
Blood  ....................  
Tongue.................................9
Head  cheese................!" 
e%
„  
Beef.
Extra  Mess.....................10 00
Boneless  ............  
13  to
5o
R«mp................ ::.:::i4 
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs.........  
79
*   bbis,40lbs.......135
*   bbls, 80 lbs......  .......   2  50
Kits, 15 lbs...  ., 
70
h   bbis, 40ibs...... 105
*   bbls, 80 lbs..................  2 25
_ 
Casings.
p o rk ...................* 
... 
,4
Beef  rounds.............. 
*14
Beef  middles......... ’ 
49**
Sheep..................................... gg
Butterlne.
Rolls, dairy........... 
Solid, dairy  ............. !!!. 
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery.........  
„ 
Canned  Meats.
2 50
Corned beef,  2 
lb .... 
lb.........is 50
Corned  beef, 14 
Boast  beef,  2 
lb.......... 2 35
Potted  ham,  Qg.........  
59
Potted  ham,  %g.........   99
Deviled ham,  ug__ 
go
Deviled ham,  * s ........ 
90
Pc ,ted  tongue * s ...... .'! 
50
Potted  tongue * s .........   90

m
914
44
43^4

Tripe.

F r e s h   M e a ts .

Beef.

Carcass......................  6*@ 7*
Fwe quarters.............  5  @  g
Hind  quarters............  8  @  9
Loins No.  3................  9  @12
Rlbs  -...................   .8  @12
Rounds......................  7ys@
Plates  .......................  3  ¡g

Pork.

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

5
........  @ 7*

6*@

Loins 
Shoulders 
Leaf Lard

Mutton

Carcass.....................   6*@ 74
Spring Lambs............ 8*@10

Veal.
Carcass 
............... 7  @ 9
H id e s  a n d   P e lt s .
The Cappon A Bertscb Leather 
Co., 100 canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows :

Hides.

Green No. 1................
Green No. 2................
Cured No. 1...............
Cured No. 2................
Calfskins,  green No. 1 
Calfskins, green No. 2 
Calfskins, cured No. 1 
Calfskins, cured No. 2

Pelts.

Pelts,  each.................

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

Wool.

Washed, fine  ............
Washed, medium.......
Unwashed, fine..........11
Unwashed, medium ..16

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

50@1  00

@ 3 
@ 2

@18
@23
@13
@18

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grains and Feedstuffs

P r o v is io n s .

follows:

go

Wheat.

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

Local Brands.

Patents.................... ........  4  25
Second  Patent......... ........  3 75
Straight..................
......   3 55
Clear......................
........3  10
Graham  .................. ........3 50
Buckwheat.............. ........4 00
B ye......................
......   3 50
Subject  to  usual cash  dis-
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
ditional.
Ball -B arnhart-Pu tman’s Brand
Diamond, 4 s ............ ......... 4 00
Diamond, * s ...........
......... 4 00
Diamond, *s.  .
......... 4  00
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  * s ............... ........3  45
Quaker, * s .............
Quaker, * s........................   3 45

Spring  Wheat  Flour. 

Clark-Jewell Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s  Best * s...........  4 70
Pillsbury’s  Best * s ...........  4 60
Pillsbury’s Best Vfs...........  4 50
Pillsbury’s Best *s paper..  4  50 
Pillsbury’s Best * s paper..  4 50
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.

Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal * s ..................  4  73
Gold Medal 4  s...................4  go
Gold Medal * s ...................4  go
Parisian, * s ................... . .  4 70
Parisian, j^s.......................  4 ¿0
Parisian. * s.....................!  4 50

Oiney A Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, * s ......................   4 80
Ceresota, vfs..................     4  70
Ceresota, -*s................ .".’.’!  4 60
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel,  * s .......................   4  8’
Laurel, Qs........................   4 70
Laurel, * s .........................  4  eu

Meal.
Bolted................  
1  90
Granulated............ .. .. .. .  2  10

 

 

Feed and Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened___16 CO
No. 1 Com and  Oats...........15 50
Uubolted Corn Meal......  14 50
Winter Wheat  Bran...........12 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 14  00
Screenings.......................... 15 00
Car  lots............................. 34 jz
Less than  car lots............   39^

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

Car  lots.............................   gi*
Carlots, clipped..........! !..  27
Less than  car lots.  ......... *8

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
......................  @  10
Cod 
Haddock.................  @  8
No.  1  Pickerel........  @  8
Pike.........................  @  7
Perch.......................  @  4
Smoked White........  @ 8
Bed Snapper...........  @  10
Col  Biver Salmon..  @  J2
Mackerel 
..............  @  18

Oysters in Cans.

F. H. Counts...........  @  35
Selects....................  @  28

Shell Goods.

Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  50
@1  26
Clams,  per  100 

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M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

I  Buckeye  Paint  &   Varnish  Co

PAIN T,  COLOR  AND  VARN ISH   M A K E R S

Mixed

Paints

Varnishes

White

Lead

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Hardware

Evolution  of  the  Axe.

He  who  has  martyrized  himself 

in 
early  youth  at  that  most  unattractive 
spot,  the  woodpile,  knows  well  what  an 
axe  may  or  may  not  be. 
It  must  be  ad 
mi tied,  however,  that  in  early  youth  the 
superior  or  inferior  qualities  or  charac­
teristics  of  an  axe  are  not  fully  appre­
ciated ;  it 
is  at  the  best  but  a  token  of 
martyrdom,  an  emblem  of  long-suffering 
and  endurance  in  keeping  the insatiable 
woodbox  filled  up.  The  axe  may  be 
said  to  participate  almost  as  much  as 
the  hickory  in  the  discipline  of  youth. 
It  teaches  and 
inculcates  in  a  highly 
commendatory  manner  a  conscientious 
diligence and  an  habituation to unpleas­
ant  tasks  which  no  one is above learning 
and  which  may  prove  of 
invaluable 
service 
It  instructs  in  a 
principle  which  all  are  ultimately  com­
pelled  to  learn—that  is,  to  do  what  we 
do  not  like  with  as  good  grace  as  pos­
sible.

in  after  life. 

Therefore,  it 

is  safe  to  say  that  the 
usefulness  of  the  axe  applies  to  a  theory 
of  life  as  well  as  to  its  primary and gen­
erally  accepted  purpose.  A  career  may 
be  carved  out  by  this  most  prosaic  tool 
as  assuredly  and  certainly  as  the  pure 
figure  is  chiseled  from  marble.  C ivili­
zation  owes  its  vast  extent  and  wide  in­
fluence 
in  no  small  degree  to  the  axe. 
Who  would  ever  have  heard  of  Daniel 
Boone 
if  he  and  his  associates  bad  not 
had  axes  to  cleave  their way through  the 
trackless  forests,  to  hew  down  trees  for 
their  homely  dwellings  and  use  them 
mayhap  for  weapons  of  offense  or de 
fense,  as  the  case  might  be? 
In  some 
form  or  other axes  existed  from  the  be­
ginning  of  time.  They  made  their  ap­
pearance  as  almost  the  first  of  all  tools. 
People  could  cook  over  open  fires,  out 
of  doors  or  inside,  but  axes  were  indis­
pensable 
in  procuring  fuel  for  them. 
They  have  figured  prominently  in  both 
domestic  life  and  in  warfare.  Primarily 
they  were  used  for  the  latter  purpose 
more  than  the  former. 
In  the  Middle 
Ages  they  were  made  of  bard  stone  and 
after  that  of  bronze  and  iron  and  finally 
of  steel,  as  we  see  them  now  in  their 
highly-perfected  state.

It  has  been  learned  from  a  reliable 
authority  that  axes  were  first  manufac­
tured  in  the  United  States  in  the  begin­
ning  of  the  present  century.  The  begin­
ning  was  upon  a  small scale, which final­
ly  increased  to  the  present  annual  out­
put  of  300.000  dozen.  More  than  three- 
fourths  of  these  are  consumed  in  this 
country,the rest being  exported  to  South 
America,  Australia,  Europe  and  other 
parts  of  the  world.  The  superior  qual­
ities  of  American  axes  are  gradually be­
coming  known  and  there is  every  reason 
to  believe  that  their  exportation  will  in­
crease  continually.  This  is  accounted 
for  by  their  admirable  points,  which 
combine  excellence  in  finish  and  un­
usual  utility  and  durability.

steel 

Considerably 

less  than  half  a  century 
ago  American  manufacturers  of  axes 
used 
imported  from  England, 
which  was  considered  preferable  for 
the  purpose.  Gradually,  it  seems,  the 
Americans  showed  that  they  were  capa­
ble  of  making  a  steel  which  competed 
favorably  with  the  English, in their mar­
kets  as  well  as  our  own,  and  thus  for 
some  time  past  American  steel has  been 
used  for  the  manufacture  of  axes  All 
the  good  or bad  qualities  which  an  axe 
may  possess  depend  upon  the  steel  put 
in  it.  When  good  steel  is  united  to  su­
perior  workmanship,  which  comprises

an 
intimate  knowledge  of  the  nature 
and  treatment  of  the  metal,  a  good  axe 
will  be  evolved.

When  ordering  axes 

the  standard 
grades  should  always  be  included  in  the 
list.  People  should  be  willing  to  pay 
more  for  superior  makes,  which  finally 
are  cheaper  than  inferior  grades  which 
fail  to  keep  an  edge  and  must  soon  be 
cast  aside  for  another.  A  brand  of  axes 
which  has  been  tested  and  enjoys  an en­
viable  reputation  after  years  of  constant 
use  by  intelligent  workmen  ought  to  re­
ceive  the  largest  share  of  patronage. 
It 
is  said  that  there  is  a  growing  demand 
for  double  bit  axes,  which  may  be  ob­
in  the  popular  grades.  Their 
tained 
usefulness 
if  properly 
used  the  double bit  will  last as  long  as 
two  single  bit  axes.—Hardware  Re­
porter.

is  doubled  and 

Hardware  Notions.

lines  of  goods 

last  of  certain 

in  a  conspicuous  position. 

It  would  be  well  for  hardware  dealers 
to  take  a  walk  sometimes  through  dry 
goods  stores  and  observe  some  of  their 
methods 
in  arranging  and  displaying 
goods.  Much  profit  might  be  obtained 
from  such  visits,  particularly  when  the 
management  of  their  notion  department 
is  considered.  There  are  odd  lots  and 
the 
in 
hardware  which  could  be  very  appro­
priately  termed  notions  and  disposed  of 
in  a  more  advantageous  manner 
if 
effectively  displayed  on  a  counter  lo­
cated 
It 
often  happens  that  these  articles  are 
left  bidden 
in  boxes  or compartments 
where  no  one  sees  them  and  their  exist­
ence  is  almost  forgotten.  Such  articles 
may  be  very  useful,  but  people  may  not 
always  remember  what they need or want 
until  they  catch  sight  of  the  things  in 
the  store  where  they  are  arranged  on  a 
counter  with  price  ticket  attached. 
It 
would  also  be  a  good  plan  to  dispose  of 
certain  classes  of  merchandise  system­
atically  in  this  manner  without  waiting 
until  the  stock  is  low. 
In  the  center  of 
the  principal  aisle  is  a  good  place  to lo 
cate  a  counter  displaying  small  tools. 
People’s  attention  will  then  be  attracted 
toward 
it  upon  first  entering  and  upon 
taking  leave.

The  Bowie  Knife.  ,

in  Louisiana 

The  bowie  knife,  which  became  so 
famous,  was  of  peaceful  origin,  having 
been  made  in  the  blacksmith's shop of  a 
plantation 
from  an  old 
scythe  blade  and  presented  by  Rezen 
Bowie  to  his  brother  for  use  in  bunting. 
It  was  nine  and  a  quarter  inches  long 
by  one  and  a  half  wide,  with  a  single 
edge  and  a  straight  blade.  James  Bowie 
carried 
it  when  engaged  in  one  of  the 
bloodiest  duels  on  record  and  it  saved 
his 
life.  Nearly  three-quarters  of  a 
century  have  elapsed  since  that  encoun­
ter  was  fought  to  a  finish  on  the  historic 
sandbar  in  the  Mississippi  River,  near 
Natchez.

An  Unequaled  Dining  Car  Service.
Have  you  bad 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.

Young- men and  women  admitted  any  week  in 
the  year.  E very graduate secures employment. 
Living expenses low. *  Write for catalogue.
E. C.  BISSON,  Muskegon,  Mich.

Shingle

Stains

Wood

Fillers

Japans

Manufacturers  CRYSTAL-ROCK  FINISH 

For Interior and

Exterior Use

TOLEDO, OHIO.
.*.x.x«xs 

I  lion  Tire  Slniioi

No.  1, for Tire 2  1-2 inches wide, 75 cents.
No  2, for Tire 4 1-2 inches wide, 
$1.25.

Y ou  w ill  never  have  loose  tires  if  you  w ill boil 
your  felloes  in  L inseed  Oil.  B u y  one!  F ill 
it  with  L in seed   O il!  B uild  a  fire  under  it!
P u t  your  wagon  w heel  on  a  spindle  and  turn 
it  slow ly  through  the  hot  oil  in  this  cast  iron 
trough.  Y ou r  felloes  w ill  becom e  im pervious 
to  water  and  consequently  your  T ires  w ill  not 
loosen.  C ost  of  one  saved  m any  tim es  in one 
season.  F or  sale  by

FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids.

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Cu i -Rothi-Jewell  f i o . ,
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.

STRICTLY  WHOLESALE 

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

CLARK-RUTKAJEWELL  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

Could  Be  Remedied  by  a  National 

Law.
From the Grocery  World.

There  are  many  strong  reasons  for the 
passage  of  a  National  pure  food  law, 
but  in  our  opinion  one  of  the.  strongest 
is  emphasized  by  a  communication  pre­
sented  at  the  last  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association  by 
B.  S.  Harris.  The  writer  thereof  dwells 
on  the  rapidly-growing  method  of  sell­
ing  groceries  directly  to  consumers, 
through  children  offered  trumpery  pre­
the  scheme  being  carried  on 
miums, 
through  magazine  advertising. 
The 
is  directly  in  line 
present  discussion 
with  a  description  of  these  advertising 
firms  and  their  methods,  published  sev­
eral  months  ago.

There  are  two  phases  to  the  nuisance 
which  these  children  represent  to the re­
tail  grocer:  One  is  that  by  virtue of 
circumstances  they  divert considerable 
trade  from  the  legitimate  grocer.  Every 
child  thus  engaged  has  sisters  and  cous­
ins  and  aunts,  not  to  speak  of  friends, 
who  can  all  be  counted  on  as  victims, 
and  the  aggregate  is  considerable.
The  other  phase  is  the  fact  that  most 
of  these  firms  handle  adulterated  goods, 
and  so 
long  as  they  are  shipped  to 
points  outside  of  their  own  State  no  lo­
cal  pure  food  law  can  reach  them,  espe­
cially  since  they  are  selling  direct  to 
consumers.  This  places  the  grocer  at  a 
grave  disadvantage.  Prevented  by  his 
State  pure  food  law  from  selling  adul­
terated  goods,  and  thus  meeting  com­
petition  from  that  source,  he  sees  out­
side  concerns  sending  the  most  griev­
ously  adulterated  articles to his very cus­
tomers,  for  the  most  pait  at  gilt  edged 
prices.

With  a  National  pure  food  law  the 
hold  of these  advertising  concerns would 
be  gone.  The 
law  j p   one  state  would 
be  the  law  in  another.  Mail-order  con­
cerns  could  not  then  sell  adulterated 
goods,  no  matter  where  they  were  to  be 
shipped.
Can  Peddle  Goods  of  His  Own  Man­

ufacture.

Petoskey,  Aug.  20—I  wish  to get some 
information 
in  regard  to  peddlers  and 
canvassers  and  their  rights,  and  know­
ing  you  have  had  much  to  do  along  that 
line 
in  the  past  in  helping  frame  laws 
governing  the  same,  I  thought  it  best  to 
write  you,  as  I  am  one  of  those unfortu­
nates  who  have  been  driven  to  doing 
that  kind  of  work.

I  am  selling  two  articles  of  my  own 
manufacture  and  I  claim  I have  a  right, 
under  the  laws  of  this  State,  and  nearly 
all  of  the  states,  to  sell  from  house  to 
bouse  without  first  taking  the  orders. 
Do  you  know 
in  that 
point?

if  I  am  right 

I  don’t  wish  to  defy  the  officers  and 
take  chances  on  arrest  unless  I  am  sure. 
What  1  sell 
is  hardly  ever  found  in  a 
store. 
is  a  pie  and  basin  lifter and 
a  lamp  cleaner. 

It 

L.

Nothing  contained 

The  annulment  of  the  law  of  1897  by 
the  Supreme  Court  places 
in  force  the 
law  of  1865,  as  amended  in  1887.  Sec­
tion  22  of  the  amendment  is  as  follows :
in  this  chapter 
shall  be  construed  to  prevent  any  man­
ufacturer,  farmer,  mechanic  or  nursery­
man  from  selling  bis  work  or  produc­
tion,  by  sample  or  otherwise,  without 
license,  nor  shall  any  wholesale  mer­
chant  be  prevented  by  anything  herein 
contained  from  selling  to  dealers,  by 
sample,  without 
license,  but  no  mer­
chant  shall  be  allowed  to  peddle,  or  to 
employ  others  to  peddle,  goods  not  his 
own  manufacture,without  the  license  in 
this  chapter  provided.

There can  be  no  doubt  that  the excep­
tion  noted  expressly  covers  the  feature 
enquired  about  and  that  you  have  the 
right  to  peddle  your  goods  from  house 
to  house  in  all  places  where  the  State 
law 
local  ordi­
is  not  superseded  by 
nances  governing  peddling.
English Foreign  Trade Killed by Trades 

From the London Times.

Unionism.

Trade  unionism  has  dealt  a  death­
blow  to  the  foreign  trade  of  Great  Brit­

in 

therefore, 

ain.  British  control  of  foreign  markets 
has  been  diminishing  for  several  years, 
but 
it  was  not  until  last  winter  that 
American  and  German  manufacturers 
discovered  _  the  golden  opportunities 
which  British 
inertia  and  labor  union 
dictation  had  placed  at  their  command. 
It  bad  long  been  a  notorious  fact  that 
the  British  mechanic  received  a  wage 
amounting  to  only  50  or 60  per  cent  of 
the  pay  of  the  American  skilled  work­
man  in  the  same  line  of employment.  It 
seemed  hopeless, 
for  the 
American  manufacturer  to  compete  suc­
in  the  general* market  with 
cessfully 
British  goods, 
the  production  of 
which  labor  was  the  chief  item  of  ex­
pense.  But  it  was  revealed  last  winter 
during  the  strike  agitation  that  British 
manufacturers  had  been  the  slaves  of 
their  employes,  or,  rather,  of  the  trades 
unions.  Workmen  were  permitted  by 
their unions to render only a  very  lim­
ited  service  in  return  for  their  limited 
wages.  This 
limitation  was  so  severe 
that  the  proportion  of  work  done  to 
wages  paid  was  very  much  smaller  than 
in  American  workshops.  In other words, 
it  was  the  fact  in  many  cases  that  the 
actual  product  of  one  American  me­
chanic  was  equal  to  that  of  four  or  five 
of  his  English  brethren.  The  cost  of 
production  figured  by  results  was  there­
fore  much  greater  in  England  than  in 
the  United  States.
Missouri  To  Look  to  Michigan  for 

Apples  and  Potatoes.

St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Aug.  29—No  doubt 
your readers  have been  informed through 
the  columns of  your  paper,  that  the  crop 
of  apples  and  potatoes  is  very  short 
in 
our  State  this  season.  We  will 
look  to 
your  State  this  year  for  both  apples  and 
potatoes,  and  on  account  of  the  good 
crops  in  the  East  no  doubt  your growers 
will  find  this  the  best  market  for  their 
products.

St.  Louis  uses  several  thousand  bar­
rels  of  apples  and  fifteen  to  twenty  cars 
of  potatoes  per  day,  besides  supplying 
a great portion of the Southern and South­
western  States  with  produce  from  Aug.
1  to  the  latter  part  of  April.  Under the 
existing  conditions 
is  only  fair  to 
it 
say  that  the  shippers 
in  the  Northern 
States should  expect  a  prosperous  trade 
on  these  commodities  in  our  district.
M il l e r   &  T e a s d a l e  Co.

Under  Salary.

Hewitt— I  sat  at  the  table  next  to 
yours  at  the  restaurant  yesterday,  and  I 
don't  see  how  you  could  laugh  at  the 
stale  stories  Cruet  was  telling.

Jewitt— He  was  paying  for  the dinner.

T r  concave” wasioam

S A V E S   T H E   W A S H . 

S A V E S   T H E   W A S H E R .

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

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

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

AXES

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

 

BARROWS

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

BOLTS

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

.......................  
60*10
.......................   70 to 75
.......................................  50

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

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

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

Ordinary Tackle.

Cast Steel.

BLOCKS

CROW  BARS

.per lb

Ely’s  1-10.............................................per m 
Hick s C. F ......................................... per m 
“ • " •••.................................... 
perm 
Musket.......................................  ...... per m 
CARTRIDGES

 

Kim Fire.  .................................................... 50* 5
Central  Fire................................................. 25& 5

65
55
35
60

CHISELS

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

DRILLS

ELBOWS

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

Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
50
Corrugated..............................................  
j 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............................... 
ro&io
70
Nicholson’s..............................................  .". 
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................6C&i0

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

14 

13 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

28
17

15 
GAUQES

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...................... 60*10
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............... " 

KNOBS—New List

70
go

MATTOCKS

Adze Bye.....................................#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...........................................   155
Wire nails, base...........................................   1  (¡o
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
05
8 advance..................  
10
6 advance.................................................... 
20
4 advance.................................................... 
30
3 advance.......................... 
45
2 advance...................................................  
70
go
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance  ..................................... 
gg
Finish  8 advance......................................!. 
35
Finish  ¿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  QATES

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 aud Level Co.’s wood............  
60
PANS
Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
70* 5
Common, polished............................«... 
Iron and  Tinned  ........................................  
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
60

RIVETS

 

 

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

‘A” Wood’s patent plauished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
‘B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 
Broken packages y%c per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Mavdole & Co.’s, new  list...................... dis
Kip’s  ...................................................... dis 
25
Verkes & Plumb’s....................................di-  to* 10
Mason's Solid Cast Steel:.................30c Ust 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Wand S0c  Is .-0*19

HOUSB  FURNISHING  GOODS

Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20*10
Granite Iron Ware........................ new list 40*10
Pots...............................................................60*1
K ettles......................................................... 60*10
Spiders..........................................  
60*10

HOLLOW  WARE

HINGES

WIRB  GOODS

Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,  3............................... dis60&10
State......................................... per doz. net  2 50
5 50
80
Bright..................................:....................... 
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s......................................................... '. 
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes............................... ” 
80
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................. dis 
70
Sisal, % inch and larger...........................  
loti
Manilla.........................................................
Steel and Iron............................................   70*10
Try and Bevels......... ............................  
 
kq
M itre............................................................; 
50

LEVELS
ROPES

SQUARES

SHEET IRON

WIRB

TRAPS

com. smooth,  com.

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

*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........_............................. dig 
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 
1  21
Bright Market............................................. 
75
Annealed  Market...............................................75
Coppered  Market.................................     ..70*10
Tinned Market........................................... ’  62J4
Coppered Spring Steel............................ 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.........................  2 00
Barbed  Fence,  painted............................... 
i  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
Bird  Cages  ...........................................  
50
Pumps, Cistern...................................... 
so
Screws, New List...................................  
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50*10*10
go
Dampers, American............................... 
600 pound casks...........................................  
654
6£
Per pound....................................................  

MISCELLANEOUS

MBTALS—Zinc

HORSE NAILS

WRENCHES

SOLDER

............................................................  1214
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................# 5 75
14x20 IC, Charcoal......................................  g  75
20x14 IX, Charcoal...................... 
...........   7 00

TIN—Melyn Grade

Each additional X on this grade, *1.25.

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal......................................   4  go
14x20 IC, Charcoal......................................   4  go
10x14 IX, Charcoal......................................   g  go
14x20 IX, Charcoal......................................   g  go

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, Alla way Grade............   10  00

BOILER SIZE TIN  PLATE 

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

.

9

Picture  earns  for 
Country  Fatrs^

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 IC H IG AN   TRADESMAN

24

OLD  AND  NEW.

Primitive  and  Modern  Methods  of 

Producing  Cider.

The  cider  mills  are  starting  up  for 
the  fall campaign,  and  to  whom,  raised 
on  the  farm  or  in  the  country town,  does 
this  not  bring  back  fond  recollections 
of  youthful  days?  The  old  cider  mill 
has  been  embalmed  in  song,  sung  by 
poets  and  deait  with  by  great  writers, 
and  it  bolds  a  place  all  its  own 
in  the 
memory  of  those  who  were  once  young 
and  who  then  tasted  the  delights  which 
the  old  cider  mill  afforded.

The  old  cider  mill  was  not  a  scrump­
tious  affair. 
It  was  set  up  in  a  barn  or 
wood  shed  and  sometimes  a  simple 
rough  cover  was  built  in  the  orchard  to 
protect 
it  from  the  storm  and  shine. 
The  old  cider  mill,  such  as  our  pioneer 
fathers  used,  was  often  a  homemade 
affair.  The  grinding  apparatus  was 
primitive  but  effective.  A  round  hard­
wood  stick  was  carefully  smoothed  off 
and  nails  were  driven 
into  it  just  far 
enough  to  leave  a  good  sized  bead  pro­
jecting.  Then  the  stick  was  set  into  a 
sort  of  hopper  and 
it  was  so  arranged 
with  belting  and  shafts  that motor power 
generated  by  a  horse  in  a 
treadmill 
would  be  applied  as  it  ought.  The  ap­
ples  would  be  shoveled  in  by  band,  the 
horse  would  be  kept  on  a  trot  in  the 
treadmill  and  in  the  course  of  time  the 
box  under  the  grinding  machine  would 
be  filled  with  pomace.

Thus  far  the  only  delight  in  cider­
making  was  in  anticipation,  but 
the 
next  stage  brought  better  results.  Near 
the  grinding  machine  was a platform  of 
plank,  usually  raised  a 
foot  or  more 
from  the  ground.  Around  the  edge  of 
the  platform  was  a  shallow  gutter  cm 
into  the  wood,and  the  platform  tipped  a 
little  toward  one  corner.  With .the  small 
boy  the  lower  corner  had  the  strongest 
attractions.

Upon  this  platform  were  laid  four 
sticks  in  log  cabin  shape,  with  notches 
cut  near  the  ends  of  the  sticks  to  hold 
them  together.  Then  a  layer  of  clean 
straw  was  strewn  on  the  bottom,  with 
the  ends  of  the  long  straws  projecting 
over  the  edges.  The  pomace  was  shov­
eled  into  this  “ nest”   until  it  was  full, 
and  then  the  projecting  straws  were 
bent 
inward,  another  row  of  log  cabin 
sticks  were  adjusted,  more  straw  was 
thrown  in,  and a  second layer  of  pomace 
was  in  order.  Thus  the  press  was  built 
up  with  alternate  layers  of  straw  and 
pomace  until  it  could  be  built  no  high­
er,  and  then  the  top  pieces  were  ad­
The 
justed  and  the  screws  applied. 
screws  were 
jackscrews 
working  upside  down  at  each  corner, 
and  slowly  the  pressure  was  put  on  by 
force  of  muscle,  first  at  one  corner  and 
then  at  another,  a  half  hitch  at  a  time, 
and  at  each  turn  of  the  screws  the  cider 
gushed  forth,  through  the  straw,  down 
the  sides,  into  the  gutter  and  with  a 
gurgle  into  the  tub  placed  to  catch  it. 
As  the  cider  was  pressed  out  slower  the 
more  laborious  became  the  work  at the 
screws,  and  at  last  the  last  drop  was 
extracted.  Then  the  carefully  built  up 
“ log  cabin”   was  taken  down,  the  dry 
pomace  and  straw  were  thrown  out  and 
the  process  was  repeated.

like  modern 

The  mechanical  operations  of  cider­
making  were,  of  course,  always interest­
ing  to  the  small  boy,  but  the  most  in­
teresting, 
inspiring,  exhilarating  part 
of  the  whole  cidermaking  process  was 
to  sit  near  enough  to  the  tub  to  reach 
the  rich  amber  contents  with  a 
long 
straw,  and  with  eyes  half  closed  and 
scarce  breathing,  draw  upon  that  straw.

The  way  the  cider  came  up  through that 
straw  may  have  afforded  a  philosopher 
a  lesson  in  hydrostatics,  but  that  was  a 
science  that  did  not  concern  the  small 
boy.  What  he  wanted  was  not  science 
but  cider,  and 
it  was  cider  that  be  got. 
Sometimes  for  variety  the  straw  would 
be  poked  down  the  open  bung of  a  filled 
barrel,  but  the  tub  was  liked  best,  be­
cause  you  could  see  the  cider  and  knew 
it  was  fresh. 
In  every  well-regulated 
cider  mill  a  tin  cup  hung  near  the  tub, 
but  that  was  for  grown folks  to  use.  The 
boy  preferred  the  straw  and  one  reason 
for  his  preference  was  because  then  no­
body  knew  exactly  how  much  of  the  ap­
ple  juice  he  absorbed.

The  modern  cider  mill  is  not  built  on 
the  same  specifications  as  the  old  mill 
of  blessed  memory,  although  its  results 
and  accomplishments  are  the same.  The 
modern  mill  shows  the  progress  of  in­
improvement  and  how 
vention  and 
genius  has  come  to  the  aid  of  labor. 
In 
the  modern  mill,  the  grinding apparatus 
is  designed  on  something  the  same  plan 
as  a  coffee  mill,  only  larger. 
It  is  set 
into  the  floor  of  the  second  story and  the 
apples  to  be  ground  are  dropped  into  it 
from  little  buckets  attached  to  an  end­
less  belt  which  runs  through  the  apple 
bin  below.  As  the  machine  grinds,  the 
pomace  drops  upon  the  press  beneath, 
and  when  a  modern  mill  is  running 
in 
full  blast  a  press  can  be  filled  and  the 
squeeze  started  in  a  very  short  time. 
The  modern  mill  has  its  platform  and 
gutter,  but  instead  of  straw  large  cloths 
are  used  and  the  layers  are  separated 
by  wooden  racks.  The  pressure to force 
out  the  apple  juice  is  not  muscular  but 
mechanical,  some  mills  being  operated 
by  steam  and  others  by  water power.  As 
soon  as  the  press  is  filled  and  readv  for 
the  application  of  the  power,  the  power 
is  put  on,  and  it  is  put  on  bard.  The 
juice  does  not  gush  out— it  spurts—and 
it  pours  in  a  little  torrent,  not into a  tub 
but  into  a  cistern  built  in  the basement. 
From  the  cistern  the  cider  is  pumped 
out  by  means  of  an  ordinary  well  pump 
into  the  barrel.

inserted 

The  modern  cider  mill  is  a  great  im­
provement  over  the  old-fashioned  home­
made  horse  and  man-power  mill,  but  it 
lacks  the  romance  which  makes  the  old 
mill  so  dear  to  memory.  The  long  clean 
straw  seems  to  be  missing,  the  tub  into 
which  the  straw  was 
is  not 
there  and  the  work  is  done  with  a  busi­
nesslike  rush  and  hurry  that  makes  the 
average  small  boy 
feel  not  quite  at 
home.  The  new  mill  will  extract _more 
cider  from  a  given  quantity  of  apples, 
and  the  cider,  perhaps,  is  of  better 
quality,  but  the  old  mill  bad  attractions 
which  the  new  mill  never  can  have.
.The  apple  crop  this  year,  while  not 
full,  is  sufficiently  large  to  warrant  the 
making  of  a  good  deal  of  cider,  and  al­
though  the  real  cider  apples  are  not  yet 
available,  a  great  deal  of  cider  is  al­
ready  being  made  for  immediate  con­
sumption  or  for  vinegar  purposes.  The 
cider  for  winter  consumption  will  not 
be  made  for  two  or  three  months  yet, 
not  until  the  autumn  winds  have  begun 
blowing  sharp  and  strong  and  evenings 
by  the  fireside  are  preferred.  Then  the 
barrel  will  be  rolled  into  the  cellar  and, 
as  the  winter  advances,  the  cider,  once 
as  sweet  as  any  dream,  will  gradually 
grow  stronger  and  stronger  until  in  a 
few  months  it  will  raise  a  riot  in  almost 
any  well-ordered  neighborhood  and  be 
more  prolific  of  headache  than any other 
beverage  ever  invented.

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

can. 
speed.

WANTS  COLUMN

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

_  BUSINESS  CHANCES.

69

680

If'OR SALE-A  BAZAAR STOCK WHICH WILL 
inventory  between  $1,500  and $2,000  in  one 
of  the  best  towns  in  Michigan with population 
of  from  3,000  to  4,00 .  Address  No.  696,  care 
Michigan Trad  sman. 
696
Me a t m a r k et f u r   sa l e—on  account
of  poor  health.  Doing  a  good  business; 
have big resort trade. 
Investigate,  as  you  can 
buy cheap.  Joh  G.  Furman, Coloma, Mijh
_________________________________697
\ \ f ANTED—CASH  PAID  FOR  STOCKS  OF 
TT  shot s, clothing or dry goods.  Correspond­
ence  confidential.  Address  R.  B.,  Box  351, 
Montague, Mich. 
99
If'OR  SALE—NECKWEAR  MANUFACTUR- 
'  ing establishment, five jears old;  stock and 
fixtures, $2,i 00;  terms  reasonable.  Address  or 
call room 17. 74 Monroe St.. Grand Rapids.  688
If'OR SALE—CLEAN GENERAL  STOCK AND 
'  s’ore bu  lding in small town surrounded  by 
excellent farming  and  fruit  country  less  than 
fifly miles  from  Grand  Rapid-.  Good  reasons 
for selling.  Inspection solicited.  Term-reason­
able.  Address  for  particulars  No.  691.  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

COMP L ET E   J UNK  BUSI NESS ESTAB- 

lished for a term of years.  Sn'endid oppor­
tunity for right  party:  will  be  sold  cheap  for 
c-tsh or  part cash  and  good  seeur'ty.  DuBois 
Hardware Co., batt e Creek, Mich. 
689
If'OR SALE  $1.200  GENERAL  STOCK  MER- 
1  ehandi.-e;  good business  in  good  farming 
country town: 
terms  favorable.  Address  No. 
6'*2,  care  Michigan  Tradesman,  or  enquire  9> 
692
Broadway, Grand R  pids. 

Iress NO. 6-0, care Michigan Tradesman 

splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad- 

tpOR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK  A 
tiMJR S i-LE CHE AP—AN OLD  ES i ABL1SHEÜ 

confectionery  hu-ine-s  in  Jackson.  Mi  h. 
Wr te or call on L  C  Townsend  Room 18, Brink 
Bio  k. Jackson. Mich. 
TXTANTEu-BANK  LOCATION,  OR  WILL 
Tv  as  ist local parties in organizing.  Address 
No. 682  care Michigan Tradesman, 

(NENTRALLY  LOC ATED  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
W ANTED— A  C  H EE-E  FACTORY.  STATE 
If'OR  SALE—DRUG,  BOOK  AND  STATION- 
invoicing  $4509,  and  fixtures 
invoicing $300,  which  include show cases, shelv­
ing  and  bottles.  Daily cash  sales  in  1891,  $2  ; 
>92. $30;  1893. $31;  1894, $34.65:  1895,  $25;  1896. 
$21.20, and 1897. $24 13  Located in manufactur­
ing town.  No cut prices.  Rent reasonable, $29 
per month.  Living rooms in connection.  Ad­
dress No. 668, care Michigan Tradesman.  668

rapacity and lowest cash price.  Cliff Bros., 
68 E.  Randolph St.. Chicago. 
ery  stock 

If'OR SALE—FURNITURE ANDUNDERTAK- 

ing business  in the  most enterprising  i o w u  
in Southwestern Michigan.  Best location in the 
city.  Add-ess No. 673,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man, for particulars. 
673
If'OR SALE  DRUG  STORE IN  BEST CITY IN 
’  Michigan.  Average  daily  sales.  $2!;  per 
cent,  profits.  59  per  cent.  Monthly  ex­
penses, $60.  These a-e fact«. 
Investigate.  Ad­
659
dress No. 659, Ca-e Michigan Tradesman 

BEST  LOCATION  IN  MICHIGAN  FOR  A 
cold  storage  ar d  general  produce  dealer. 
Write to the  Secretary  of  tne  Otsego  Improve 
merit Association. Otsego. Mich 
631
Mer c h a n t s—do you w ish cash  q u ick
for your stock of merchandise,  or any  part 
of it?  Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mich.
______________________________ 
628
r p o   EXCHANGE—FOR CLOTHING,  DRY
A  goods or shoes, very nice  well rented Grand 
Rapids property.  Address No.  552, care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
552
If'OR  SALE—A  $lu,000  STO  K  OF  DRY 
goods;  doing  a  good  business.  Will  take 
some  UDincumb  red  real  estate.  Address  G., 
661
Lansing, Mich. 

< 87

682

FOR RENT OR  SALE—A  STORE  SUITABLE 
for general merchandise, located  in  a  pros 
perous village in Berrien  county,  Mich.  Splen­
did  opportunity  for  a  live  man  to  esiabli-h  a 
paving business  For particulars address  I.  W. 
Alien, St. Joseph. Mich. 
649
TO  EXCHANGE — F 5RMS  AND  OTHER 
property for dry  goods, clothing  and  sho> s. 
553
Address P.  Meda>ie.  Mancelona. Mich. 

BROOMS

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

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

W ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co.. Trave-se City, Mich. 
■  ANTED—1.000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 

daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 

381

Ithaca,  Mich. 

556

FIREPROOF  SA FE S

Gl EO. M. SMITH,  NEW  AND  SECONDHAND 
f   safes,  wood  and  brick  building mover, 157 
Ottawa street. Grand Rapids. 
613
SHIRTS.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

If'XPERIENCED  GROCERY  CLERK  WILL 
J   be  open  for  eugagem  nt  about  Sept.  15. 
Good references.  Will ng to  take  other  work. 
Address Grocer, care Michigan Trade-man.  700
POSITION WANTED  BY  YOUNG  MARRIED 
man with hardware  and  implement  house. 
Ten years' exper enc-, three as manager.  Good 
references.  Address Hardware,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
695
PHARMAC  ST  WISHES  A  SITUATION  IN 
drug or genera1 store.  Address No. 698, care 
698
Michigan Tradesman. 
■  ANTED  SITUATION  AS  MANAGER  OF 
a general store by a competent and  exper 
ienced man.  Best  of  references.  Address  J., 
care Michigau Tradesman. 
TXT ANTED—SITUATION  IN  A  uLOTHING 
t v   or general  store  by an  A  No.  1  salesman. 
Address No. 685, cara_Michigan Trade-man.  685
POSITION  WANTED—BY  DRUG,  DRY 
goods  and  groceiy  clerk,  Address  No. 
684
684. care Michigan Tradesman. 
POSITION  WANTED  BY  A  SINGLE  MAN.
Large  experience  in  general  merchandise. 
678
Can gi re good references.  Address No. 664. care 
664
Michigan Tradesman. 

694

. 

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You should always buy 

PE R M ’S 
FLAVORING 
FXTRARTS
5  L.  Perrigo  Company

Manufactured by

because they are 
the best.

3 

Allegan,  Mich. 

p

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BROWS  &  SEHLEB,  W.  Bridge  St.,  Brand  Rapids.

Prices  right. 

We  manufacture  only  “ H A N D   M A D E ”   Harness.

T r a v e le r s ’  T im e   T a b le s .

MANISTEE 

H O LLAN D   &  GHI6HG0  LIN E

CHICAGO’- “

r s'y

Chicago.

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

»Every  day. 

Others week days only.

DETROIT, Grand Rapids & Western.

Detroit.

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

Saginaw, Alma and  Oreenvllle.

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

Gao.  D b Ha v b n ,  General Pass. Agent.

f i n  A  \ i n   Traak Railway System

1 1 /   Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

Via  C. &  W . M.  Railway.

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

T R A V E L

VIA

F.  A  P-  M.  R.  R.

AND  8 T E A M 8 H I P   L IN E 8  

T O   ALL  P O I N T 8   IN  MIOHIQAN

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

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.
8   TRADESMAN  COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS.

In effect June 25th.

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

Berth included.

SPECIAL  RATES.

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

Office, No.  1  State SL, 

Chicago. 

Charles  B. Hopper, 
Gen’l F. <Sr P. Agt.

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Go. tEO..

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

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

Dorchester,  Mass.

(In effect May 15,1898 )

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t  6:45am  Sag.,  Detroit, Buffalo 4 N Y , f  9:55pm
tl0:10am......... Detroit  and  East......... t  5:27pm
t  3:20pm  .Sag.,  Det., N.  Y.  &  Boston.. +12:45pm
* 8:00pm.. .Detroit. East and Canada.. .* 6:35am
tl0:45am........  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.tlO:05am
* 7:40pm.. .Gd. Haven and Chicago.....   8:15am
tl0:00pm........Gd. Haven  and Mil..........  6:40am
Eastward—No. 16 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
23  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 17 Wagner parlor car.
&*Daily.  (Except Sunday.

WEST

E. H. Hcshbs, A. G. P. & T. A. 
Bair. F le tc h e r, Trav. Pass. Agt., 
C.  A.  J u stin,  City  Pass.  Agent.
97 Monroe St.  Morton House.

GRAND Rapids  k  Indiana Railway

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...* 7:45am t  5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack.. ,t 2:15pm t   6:35am
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack..................il0:50pm
Cadillac................................... t  5:25pm til:15am
Train leaving at 7:46 a. m. has  parlor car, and 
train  leaving  at 2:15  p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
Mackinaw.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati................................t  7:10am t  8:25pm
PL Wayne.................................t  2:10pm t  2:00pm
Cincinnati................................ * 7:00pm * 7:25am
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 Trains.

F R O M   C H IC A G O .

TO CHICAGO.
t2  10pm  *11  35pm
Lv. Grand Rapids...t7  10am 
Ar. Chicago........  2 O pm 
9  10pm 
6 30am
Lv. Chicago............................. t3 02pm  *11  45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...................   9 30pm 
7 2Sam
Train  leaving  Grand  Rapids  7.10  a.  m.  has 
buffet  parlor  car  to  Chicago.  Train  leaving 
Grand Rapids 11 35 p. m. has coach and Pullman 
sleeping car to Chicago.
Train leaving  Chicago  3.02  p.  m.  has  buffet 
parlor  car  to  Grand  Rapids.  Train  leaving 
Chicago  11.45  p.  m.  has  coach  and  Pullman 
sleeping car to Grand Rapids.
GOING WEST.

Muskegon Trains.

LvG’d  Rapids.............t7:35am  tl :00pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon...............   9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon.............................t8:10am  tll:45am :00pm
ArG’dRapids.............................9:30am  12:55pm 5:20pm
Sunday trains leave  Grand  Rapids  9.00  a.  m. 
and 7.00 p. m.  Leave  Muskegon  8.35  a.  m.  and 
6.35 p. m.

GOING BAST.

tBxcept Snnday.  *Daily. 

iSaturday only.
C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 
W. C. BLAKE, 

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

DULUTH, S0"“S^ A,1""'C

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L )tll :10pm  +7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City.................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace.........................  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie................  13:30pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette..........................  2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria............................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth.............................................  
8:30am

■ AST  BOUND.

Lv. Dnluth............................................. 
Ar. Nestoria...........................til :15am 
Ar. Marquette.......................... 
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie................. 
Ar. Mackinaw City.................  

t6:30pm
2:45am
1:30pm  4:30am
..
3:30pm 
8:40pm 11:00am
G. W.  Hib b a r d ,  Gen. Pass. Agt.  Marquette. 
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

ÏÏjÏxz  I m i t a t

^ o f   ttjí  Xtuiteì»  States  of America,

Greeting :

To

H B N R Y   K O C H ,   your  O l e r k s ,   attorneys,  ager.s, 
S a l e s m e t i   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  ot 
holding  through  or  under  you.

f o r m a s , It  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of

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

ENOCH  MORGAN'S  SONS  COMPANY,

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

tto n ),  (iljc r c fo r e , we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you 
under  the  pains  and  penalties  which  may  fall  upon  you  and  each  of  you  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

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

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

The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
Jersey,  this  16th  day  of  December, 
in  the  year  of 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

[signed]

[seal]

ROWLAND  COX,

Complainants  Solicitor

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

S.  D.  OLIPHANT,

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a sneaking  “ Greaser.” 
Americans  can  trust 
D on’t  take  your  eves 
off  of  them. 
Keep 
Now  isn’t  that  a  nice 
your  mind  on  them, 
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feeling to  have?  W ho 
is 
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ness  and  feel  that  he 
robbed  of  his  profits? 
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System 
the  only
honest  method  of get-
ting  every  penny  of profit  from  your  merchandise.

is 

The  Oojnputipg  Scale  Co.,  Daytop,  Ohio.

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We  Realize------
Our  Coffees and  Teas

That  in  competition  more  or  less  strong

M u s t  excel  in  Flavor and  Strength  and  be 
constant  Trade  Winners.  All  our  coffees 
roasted on  day of shipment.

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right prices.  Every piece guaranteed  to be perfect. 

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