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employes  to  do  the  most  possible work 
in  the  least  possible  time? 
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Volume XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,1898.

Number 784

PREFERRED  BANKERS 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY

O F  DETROIT«  M IC H IG A N .

Commenced  Business September i,  1893.

Insurance in  force...................................$2,746,000.00
104,000.00
Net Increase during1  1897 ....  .............  
32,738.49
Net Assets.............................................. 
Losses Adjusted and  Unpaid...............  
None
Other  Liabilities.................................... 
None
Total  Death  Losses Paid to Date........  
40,061.00
Total  Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
eficiaries...............................................  
812.00
17,000.00
Death Losses Paid During  1897............ 
Death  Ratefor (897................................  
6.31
Cost  per  1,000 at age 30 during  1897• • • • 
S.25
F R A N K  E .  ROBSON,  P r es.

TRU M AN   B. GOODSPEED, S bc’y.

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full line of  Fall and Winter Clothing.  Has 
»   the  largest  line  of  Kersey  Overcoats  and 
Ulsters on the  road;  best  $5.50  Kersey  all 
)o  wool overcoat  in  market,  all  manufactured 
u   by KOLB &  SON« Ro c h e s t e r ,  n .  y. 
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If you  wish  to  look  over  my  line,  write 
)o  me,  Box  346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  or meet me 
at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich , 
Fair week, Tuesday  morning to Friday eve­
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Books arranged with trade classification of names. 
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R .  J .   CL E L A N D .  a t t o r n s *.

THE  FORGOTTEN  PAST 

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Which we read about can never  be  5  
forgotten by the merchant who  be  S 
comes  familiar  with  our  coupon  ^  
system.  The past to such is always  Z  
a “nightmare.”  The present is  an  J  
era of pleasure and profit. 
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TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  •
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GRAND  RAPIDS. 

Wherein  Women  Are Adapted to  Drug 

Store  Work.

Appreciating  highly  die  honor  of  rep­
resenting  my  sex  in  a  profession  here­
tofore  restricted  to,  or  usurped  by,  the 
sterner  sex,  I  wish  to  state  for  the  ben­
efit  of  those  who  have  asked  my opinion 
on  the  subject  that  I  see  no  reason  why 
a  woman  is  not  thoroughly  competent  to 
become  a  pharmacist.

The  success  which  women  have  at­
in  the  study  of  medicine  is  an 
tained 
in  favor  of  their  ability  to 
argument 
succeed 
in  pharmacy  as  in  other  pro­
fessions.  There  are  certain  qualifica­
tions  and  attainments  that  are  positive­
ly  essential,  and  observation  has  taught 
me  that  youthful  experience 
is,  per­
haps,  of  highest  importance.  I  attribute 
much  of  whatever  success  I  mav  have 
attained  to  early  experience.  My  own 
business  career  began  at  the  age  of  six­
teen.

The  pharmacist  who 

is  called  upon 
to  fill  a  prescription  should  be  equally 
as  qualified  as  the  physician  who  writes 
it,  since 
it  frequently  happens  a  wide 
and  comprehensive  knowledge  is  called 
into  requisition  to  prevent  mistakes 
that  might  prove  fatal  in  effect.  The 
necessity,  therefore, 
is  obvious  for  a 
thorough  course  of  training,  and  a  peri­
od  of  four  years  at  least,  in  my  judg­
ment,  should  be  devoted  to  study,  to  be 
followed  by  years  of  experience,  if  one 
wishes  to  become  an  expert  pharmacist. 
One  should  be  able,  upon  glancing  at  a 
prescription,  to  perceive  at  once  the 
medicinal  properties  and  effects  of  each 
ingredient,  also  their  combined 
influ­
ences  when  chemically  united,  and  also 
a  knowledge  of  the  human  system  and 
the 
functions  of  the  different  organs, 
both  in  healthy  and  diseased conditions. 
In  order  to  attain  even  a  moderate  de­
gree  of  proficiency  in  a  profession  com­
bining  so  many  branches,  there  must, 
of  course,  be  some  natural  ability.

Experience  has  taught  me that a keen, 
practical  ability  for  business  and  an  in­
domitable  perseverance,  as  well  as  an 
inexhaustible 
stock  of  patience,  are 
fundamental  characteristics  of  a  suc­
cessful  pharmacist. 
is  necessary, 
also,  that  the  woman  who  aspires  to be 
a  pharmacist  should  be  endowed  with 
physical  strength  and  power  of  endur­
ance,  for  she  will  be  expected  to  serve 
day  and  night  and  Sunday,  too,  some­
times,  with  but  poor  remuneration  for 
the  number  of  hours  served.

It 

Strictly  temperate  habits,  in order that 
the  brain  may  he  active  and  alert  at  all 
times,  and  a  cheerful  disposition  are 
the  qualities  in  which  women  have  the 
advantage,  and  these,  perhaps,  over­
balance 
in  the  end  the  business  tact 
and  superior  physical  strength  which 
are  the  boasted  pride  and  glory  of  the 
other  sex.

That  the  field  has  been 

left  to  the 
other  sex  is  due  to  several  causes:  The 
drudgery  connected  with the early stages 
of  clerking,  perhaps,  has  some  weight 
in  the  matter.  Whole  days  devoted  to 
washing  bottles,  bottling  medicine  and 
opening  heavy  boxes  of  goods  is  not 
an  occupation  to  be  contemplated  with 
zest  by  the  average  maiden,  although 
exhaust  more  physical
she  might 

strength  daily  on  a  piece  of  wood  carv­
ing  with  zest  and  satisfaction.  There 
are  but  few  men  who  are  willing  to  em­
ploy  girls  and  send  them  out  at all hours 
and  to  all  kinds  of  places,  and  that  is 
expected  usually  of  beginners.

Location,  too,  has  some  bearing  on 
the  subject,  as  there  are  neighborhoods 
in  which 
it  would  be  impossible  for  a 
woman  to  conduct  business  of  this  kind 
successfully.  The  study  of  pharmacy 
affords a  broad  and  interesting  field  for 
research,  and  certainly  tends  to  broaden 
the  view  of 
life,  as  scarcely  a  day 
passes  that  does  not  reveal  some  new 
and  unexpected  phase  of  human  nature.
That  women  should  prefer  to  pur­
chase  drugs  and  consult  with  one  of 
their  own  sex  on  matters  which  have 
interest  for  them  alone  is  the  most  nat­
ural  thing 
in  the  world.  A  number  of 
well-informed  and  capable  women  are 
now  traveling  for  Eastern drug  and  sun­
dry  bouses,  and  have  been  very  success­
ful. 
I  am  sure  of  not  wishing  to give 
offense  to  any  of  my  worthy  sisters  by 
my next  remark  when  I  tell  them  that  1 
am  speaking  from  personal  experience, 
it  occasionally  happens  that  physical 
strength  is  fearfully  tantalizing  when  it 
seeks  to  exert  itself  overbearingly,  but 
our  verbal  capacity  ¡ d  such emergencies 
rarely  fails  to  defeat  the  enemy.

A  word  of  warning  may  be  in  place 
to  that  fortunate  class  known  as  good- 
looking  girls,  which  I  hope  will  not 
dampen  the  ardor  of  any  young  women 
who  wish  to  sacrifice  themselves  to  the 
cause.  A  woman 
is  generally  sympa­
thetic,  and  is  made  to  suffer  according­
ly.  We  are  told  that  there  is nothing  so 
destructive  to  beauty  as  the  constant 
facial  expression  of  emotion,  and  there 
is  no  discharge  in  this  war.  A  young 
mother  rushes  in  and  tells  you  excited­
ly  that  the  medicine  you  have  sold  her 
has  saved  the  baby's  life.  You  beam 
with  sympathetic  smiles,  seaming  your 
face  with  upward 
lines,  to  be  known 
later  on  as  wrinkles.

lines 

Your  next  customer  is  a*po°r  old  man 
who  tells  you 
in  agonizing  tones  that 
his  gout  is  unbearable;  your  face  is  im­
mediately  distorted  with 
in  the 
if  you  were  the 
opposite  direction,  as 
real  sufferer.  Not  so  with 
the  male 
is  polite  and  obliging,  but 
clerk;  be 
philosophically 
the 
mother  and  the old  man  the same stereo­
typed  smile  and  suggests  the  most  ex­
pensive  remedy  known.

casts  upon  both 

The  cbivalric  poet  who  wrote,

The  world  was sad,
And man, the hermit,  sighed 

The garden was a wild,
’Till woman smi.ed,

I  am  sure  would  not  have  advised  the 
busy  lady  pharmacist  to  "sm ile”   in 
sympathy  or  from  amusement,  beaming 
on  every  caller at  the  store—nor  yet  to 
destroy  her  capacity  for  "sm iling”   by 
spoiling  her beauty  with  a  constant  ex­
pression  of  sympathetic  pain  on  her 
face  So,  I  contend  that  beautiful  wom­
en  can  be  pharmacists  without  "spoil­
ing  their  beauty,”   either  of  person, 
disposition  or  character.

[Miss]  M.  C.  Dow.

The  Morning  Market.

While  the  week  has  been  somewhat 
disappointing  to  such  purchasers  as 
gauged  their 
ideas  of  prices  by  those 
paid  for  choice  varieties  of  peaches  two 
weeks  ago,  with  those  of  more  reason­
able  expectations  there  has  been  no  se­
rious  cause  for  complaint.  Buying  has 
been 
liberal  and  the  prices  realized, 
even  for  the  poorer  varieties,  have  been 
such  as  to  give  good  returns.  Many 
orchards  have  yielded  a  profit  several 
times  the  accepted  value  of  the  land de­
voted  to  the  purpose,  and  even  if  the 
profit  is  brought  below  100  per  cent,  per 
acre,  there  is  yet  enough  to  meet  rea­
sonable  expectations.
• There  seems  to  some  disappointment 
that  the  large  number  of  buyers  whose 
bidding  gave  the  market  such  a  stimu­
lus  last  week  did  not  remain  longer, 
but  a  sufficient  reason  is  to  be  found 
in 
the  fact  that  the  season  for  the  choicest 
varieties  was  over.  This  was  a  fact 
more  easily  ascertained  by  the  buyers 
than  by  the  growers.  The  unusual  num­
ber  of  outside  visitors  is significant,  and 
can  scarcely  fail  to  materialize 
into 
interest  another 
even  more  extended 
season.  A  favorable  feature  of  the 
in­
terest  this  year  was  the  recognition 
given  to  the  local  buyers  and  commis­
sion  men  by  the  visitors.  Many  pleas­
ant  acquaintances  were  formed  which 
will 
lead  to  arrangements  for  meeting 
the  needs  of  another  year  by  corres­
pondence. 
It  is  certainly  most  promis­
ing  for  the  fruit  industry  that  the  in­
creased  acreage  which  is  reported  in  all 
localities 
should  be  accompanied  by 
such  an  increase  in  outside  market  rec­
ognition,  as  well  as  by  arrangements  on 
the  part  of  the  transportation companies 
to  furnish  the  quickest  possible  service 
required  by  the  perishable  property  of 
this  delicate  fruit.

While  the  offerings  of  peaches  con­
tinue  large,  the  varieties  and  qualities 
iudicate  that  the  season  is nearly ended. 
Pears  are  still 
in  considerable  quan­
tity,but  the  plum  season  is  about ended. 
As  the  interest  in  these  fruits  subsides, 
more  attention  is  being  given  to  apples, 
which  are  offered  in  considerable  quan­
tities  and  still  continue  to  bring  good 
prices.  The  greater 
interest  and  ex­
citement  attending  the  peach  season 
casts  the  more  rugged  and  stable  apple 
into  the  shade;  but  the  steady  demand 
at  good  prices  is  a  factor  of  more 
im­
portance 
in  the  prosperity  of  many 
growers,  and  of  the  dealers  and  gen­
eral  trade,  than  is  usually  recognized.

The  most  serious  problem 

just  now 
to  the  extensive  growers  is  the  utiliza­
tion  of  the  grape  crop.  While  other 
products  are  faring  so  well  it  seems  a 
decided  hardship  to  offer  the  choicest 
varieties  at  thirty  cents  per  bushel,  and 
then  find  slow  sale.  The  only  remedy 
that  can  be  suggested  is  the  establish­
ment  of  an  institution  for the utilization 
and  preservation  of  this  product,  as 
well  as  the  lower  grades  of  other perish­
able  fruits;  and 
its  value  in  the  apple 
market  as  well  as  in  the  utilization  of 
vegetables  would  also  he  great.

A  man’s  domestic  relations  seldom 
trouble  him  as  much  as  the  relation  of 
his  domestics.

It  is  the  little  things  that  count—es­
pecially  when  they  come  as  twins  and 
triplets.

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

Dry  Goods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons—The  market  for  light 
weights  is  quiet,  although  quite  steady. 
Sales  on  bleached  cottons  are  rather 
small  and  the  market  continues  easy, 
except  for  leading  tickets  in low grades, 
which  are  firm.  Wide  sheetings  show 
no  change  from 
last  report.  Denims 
and  other  coarse  colored  cottons are dull 
and  irregular,  except  for  fancy  denims 
for  drapery  purposes,  which  are  in  fair 
request.

in  goods 

Dress  Goods— There  is  a  growing  be­
lief  that  lustre  fabrics  of  which  mohair 
is  a  component  part  are  to  play  an  im­
portant  role  during  the  season.  The 
advance  in  the  price  of  mohair  makes 
an  advance 
imperative,  but 
the  market  is  in  an  unsettled  condition 
at  present,  as  a  result  of  clearing  up 
sales  of  stocks  at  low  prices.  The  un­
settled  condition  of  the  greater  part  of 
the  market  upon  fall  goods,  as  a  result 
of  the  small  current  demand,  is exerting 
a  similar  effect  upon  spring 
lines,  and 
domestic  manufacturers  are,  as  a  rule, 
averse  to  opening  new  lines  until  con­
ditions  become  more  favorable.  They 
recognize  that  the  importer  has  an  ex­
tremely  limited  field  in  which  to  oper­
ate,  being  restricted,  as  he  is,  to  busi­
ness  upon  goods  that  retail  at  75c  and 
above,  and  they  are  allowing  him  to 
show  his  band  without  making  any  par­
ticular  effort  to  secure  business  them 
selves.  The  buyer  understands  the  po­
sition  of  the  importer,  and  much  of  the 
latter’s  poor  success  so  far  is  due  to  the 
fact  that  buyers  are  waiting  to  see  do­
mestic  lines.

largely 

Trimmings—The 

increased 
use  of  plain  dress  fabrics  this  season  is 
resulting  in  a  considerable  expansion  in 
the  demand  for  a  wide  variety  of  trim­
mings.  Waists,  skirts,  cloaks  and  capes 
of  plain  cloths  are  elaborately  trimmed 
with  silk  applique,  jet  passementerie, 
mohair  and  silk  gimps,  spangle  effects, 
etc.  The  trimmings  in  largest  demand 
at  present  are  jet  and  silk  passemen­
teries,  black  mohair  and  silk  gimps and 
spangle  effects.  The 
latter  are  passe 
abroad,  but  seem  to  suit  a  large  part  of 
the  trade 
in  this  country.  The  most 
beautiful  trimming  upon  the  market, 
and  the  one  picked  by 
importers  as  a 
leader  for  next  spring  is  colored  silk 
applique  in  floral  effects.  This  work  is 
an  exact 
imitation  of  the  richest  em­
broidery  and  sells  at  25c  to $2  per  yard. 
The  lower  priced  goods  are  made  with 
mercerized  cotton,  and  they  are  almost 
as  rich 
in  color  and  luster as  the  silk 
goods.  The  demand  for  trimmings  is 
hardly  as  active  as  the  trade anticipated 
earlier  in  the  season,  owing  to  the  large 
amount  of  machine  braiding  and  cord­
ing  done  by  the  suit  and  cloak  trade, 
and  the  large  use  of  applique  work 
in 
the  same  material  as  the  costume.  The 
best  trade  will  not  use  this  shop  work, 
but  the  trimmings  mentioned  are  sure 
to  meet  an 
increased  demand  as  the 
season  progresses.

Cloaks—The  cloak  trade  is  increasing 
its  purchases  slightly,  although  the  vol­
ume  still  is  nothing  like  what  it  should 
be  at  this  time  of  the  year.  They  are 
sticking  fairly  close to kerseys,  although 
we  know  of  a  very  large  purcbace  of 
boucles  from  stock  made  by  a  promi­
nent  Western  cloak  manufacturer  this 
week.  Boucles  are  not considered “ good 
things’ ’  by  some  manufacturers,  but  the 
fact  that  this  large  cloak  house  bought 
outright  several  hundred  pieces  of  this 
fabric  proves  that  there  is  a  demand  for

it  in  some  sections  of  the  country  still.
Underwear— In  the  market  for  under 
wear,  there  is  little  to  be  recorded  out­
side  of  the  jobbing  trade,  but  with  the 
jobbers  trade  has  been  really  lively. 
Retail  buyers  have  been  numerous  in 
town  and  purchases  on  fall  weights have 
been 
in  many  cases  excellent.  There 
are,  however,  many 
low  grades  being 
sold,  but  especially  better  grades  that 
are quoted  at  bargains.  The  mills them­
selves  have  been  in  many  cases  disap 
pointed  over  this  business,  having  ex­
pected  to  keep  their  mills  running over­
time.  Some  of  them  will  run  to  the 
middle  of  November,  but  beyond  that 
business  is  doubtful.

Hosiery— Both  here  and  abroad  the 
markets  appear  to  be  very  firm,  and  re­
cent  advices  from  Chemnitz  state  that 
heavy  buyers  have  made  offers  for  large 
quantities  of  staples,  at  a  comparatively 
small  reduction  in  price,  and  have  been 
instantly  refused.  The  mills  are  run­
ning  full  time,  and  there  appears  to  be 
no  need  of  looking  for  business  in  that 
way.  The  sale  of  fancy  hosiery  is  most 
marked,  and  while  the  fancies  are  not 
up  to  the  mark  of  last  year  in  regard  to 
sales,  they  are  still  beyond  what  many 
expected  a  few  months  ago. 
It  is  true, 
however,  that  cheap  lines  are unsalable. 
Almost  every  order  secured  so  far 
in­
cludes  a  fair  lot  of 
fancies,  which 
amount  to  about  one-third  of  the  order, 
to  two  thirds  staple  blacks.  From  nu­
merous 
interviews  which  we  have  bad 
with  the  retail  trade,  it  does  not  seem 
likely  that  any 
large  or  brilliant  pat­
terns  will  be  favored  by  the  consumer. 
Fine  stripes,  polka  dots  and  similar 
lines  are  practically  all  that  sell.
Uniform  Prices  for  Rubber  Boots and 

Shoes.

The  Western  Association  of  Shoe  Job­
bers,  which  was  organized  at  Chicago 
in  working  order,  the 
Sept.  8,  is  now 
following  general  letter  of 
instructions 
having  been  sent  to  each  salesman  em­
ployed  by  members  of  the  organization :
We  have  agreed  that  on  and  after 
September  20  the  price  of  our  first 
quality  brands  of  rubber  boots  and shoes 
shall  be  25  and  5  per  cent,  from  list 
prices  and  25,  5  and  10  per  cent,  from 
list  prices  on  second  quality  brands, 
with  the  exception  of  the  first  grade 
Woonsocket  brand  and  the  second  grade 
Rhode  Island  brand,  on  which  an  extra 
5  per  cent,  may  be  allowed.

This  price  is  absolute  and  can  not  be 
changed  under  any  circumstances.  We 
will  not  recognize  any  order  which  is 
sent  us  containing  any  variation  of  the 
above,  and  we  have  furthermore  agreed 
that  we  will  not  employ  any  salesman or 
commission  salesman  who  will,  direct­
ly or  indirectly,  violate  the  above.
This  price  is  binding  until  Novem­
ber  1,  when,  as  you  are  already  aware, 
the  price  will  be  advanced  5  per  cent.  ; 
in  other  words,  our  selling  price  after 
October  31  will  be  25  per  cent,  from list 
price  for  first  quality  brands  and  25  and 
10  per  cent,  from  list  price  for  second 
quality  brands,  with  the  exception  of 
Woonsocket  and  Rhode  Island  brands, 
on  which  an  extra  5  per  cent,  may  be 
allowed.  The above  prices  are  subject 
to  the  following  terms:  Bills  payable 
Dec.  1,  net,  1  per cent  discount  being 
allowed  if  paid  Nov  10.  Interest  at  the 
rate  of  7  per  cent,  per  annum allowed  if 
bill 
is  paid  previous  to  November  10, 
from  the  date  of  payment  to  Nov.  10. 
All  bills  after  Nov.  1  will  be  net  30 
days,  or  1  per  cent,  discount  allowed  if 
paid  in  10  days.

It  is  believed  that  the  organization  of 
an  Association  of  this  kind  will  enable 
the  members  to  prevent  the  clandestine 
cutting  which  has  been  the  curse  of  the 
trade  for  some  time  and  enable  the  job­
bing  trade  to  maintain  the  narrow  mar­
gin  of  profit  prescribed  by  the manufac­
turers. . 

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Knit  $ k im

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

The Lamb 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.

Promise  to  be  very  popular  this  season.  We  are 
showing  some  that  are  very  pretty  in  Cardinal, 
Drab and  White,  with  assorted  colored  stripes, at 
$4.50  per  dozen;  also  a  very  good  article  at  $2.25 
per  dozen.  In  the  Flannel  patterns  we  have  two 
excellent  values at $4.50 and $9.00.

O J ® g r J 3 ©<
Wholesale Dry Goods, 
Grand Rapids, ilich.

Dwight’s  Liquid  Bluing 

n ev er  will.

Manufactured  by

The Wolverine  Spice  Go.,

Graad Rapids, Mich.

CIk   Cheapest  Rouse
in the tuest

MR.  M E R C H A N T :

Our  Fall  and  Winter  Catalogue 
for  1898  is  now  ready  to  mail. 
If 
you  have  not  received  a  copy  you 
are  not  on  our  mailing  list.  You 
may  have  it  for  the  asking  if  you 
will  drop  us  a  penny  postal  card. 
It 
is  the  book  that  quotes  the 
lowest  prices  on  reliable  lines  of 
fancy  dry  goods,  notions,  furnish­
ing  goods,  hosiery  and  underwear 
adapted 
to  general  stores  and 
country  merchants.

Gsinger, Kramer $ Co

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Chicago, HI.

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to  the  wants  of  our  custom ers.

P.  Steketee  &  Sons,  Grand  Rapids.

THE GE|H UNION SHIT

Only  combination  suit  that  gives 
perfect  satisfaction. 
Is  double- 
breasted;  elastic in  every  portion; 
affords comfort and convenience to 
wearer that are not obtained in any 
other make.  We,  the  sole  manu­
facturers  and  patentees,  are  pre­
pared  to  supply  the  trade  with 
a great variety of qualities and sizes. 
Special  attention given mail orders.

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Rich  Men’s  Sons  Poorly  Equipped for 

Business.
Written for the T r ad esm an.

asking 

It  was  Thomas  Edison  who  said  to 
his  fifteen-year-old  son,  Thomas  Edi­
son,  Jr.,  who  asked  him  one  day  for 
some  money,  “ Always 
for 
money ! 
I  suppose  you  will  be  like  all 
other  sons  of rich fathers—always falling 
back  on  me  for  everything. ”   We  do 
not  know  whether  the  great  inventor 
said  this  jokingly  or  not,  but  his  words 
completely  changed  his  son’s  life.  The 
proud-spirited 
lad,  stung  by  such  a 
reflection,  replied  as  was  worthy  the  son 
of  such  a  father:  “ Father,  you  shall 
not  give  me  another  cent.”   And  he 
hasn't.  The  boy  ever  since  has  worked 
for  his 
living  during  the  daytime  and 
studied  evenings  and  to-day  bids  fair 
to  be  a  fit  successor  to  his  father  in  the 
mechanical  world,  as  well  as  displays 
such  rare  natural  artistic  ability  as  to 
ensure  bis  success  as  an  artist should  he 
at  any  time  decide  to  develop  those 
latent  talents.

The  story  sets  one  to  thinking.  There 
is  more  truth  than  fiction  in  what  one of 
America’s  greatest  geniuses  said. 
It  is 
proverbial  that  great  men  never have 
great  sons  What  are  the  reasons?  Pos­
sibly  the  father  exhausts  his  strength  in 
work  and  so  the  child  does  not  receive 
enough  vitality  to  enable  it  to climb  be­
yond  the  most  commonplace  life.  Pos­
sibly  it  may  be  the  training  The father 
is  so  absorbed  in  his  own  concerns  and 
his  time  is  so  fully  occupied  with  out­
side  matters  that  he  has  neither  time 
nor  strength  to  consider  his  son’s  wel­
fare,  but  provides  him  amply with food, 
clothes  and  spending  money  and  lets 
him  grow  up  as  best  he  may.  On  the 
other  hand,  he  may  be  too  solicitous. 
He  himself  was  forced  to  go  through  all 
sorts  of  hardships  and  thinks  bis  son 
can  get  the  experiences  secondhand,  so 
he  shields  the  boy  from  all  hardships 
which  would  make  a  man of him.  There 
is  still  another  ground  for  this  state  of 
affairs:  The  boy  may  grow  up  with  his 
full  share  of  ability  and  be  prepared  in 
every  way  to  make  his  mark 
in  the 
world,  but  he  must  always  remain  over­
shadowed  by  his  distinguished father.

We  may  apply  the  same  analogy  to 
the  sons  of  city  men. 
If  we  go  through 
the  list  of  successful  men  either in busi­
ness or in the professions—in Grand  Rap­
ids  or  any  other  city— it  is  the  excep­
tion  rather  than  the  rule  to  find  any  of 
them  were  city  boys.  The  boys  we know 
here  are  bright and  quick,  so  much  so 
we  are  often  afraid  they  are  too  preco­
cious.  Then,  too,  they  are  given  every 
advantage  in  the  way  of  education  and 
social  contact;  yet  what  becomes  of  all 
these  precocious  boys,  the  idols  of  their 
mothers’  hearts?  The  secret  of  the 
whole  matter  is  that  they  do  not  begin 
to  work  until  they  reach  manhood  and 
their  characters  are  not  formed  by  the 
discipline  which  comes  through  work. 
They  have  few  tasks  outside  of  school, 
have  much  unused 
their 
hands,  their  tastes  are  pampered  and 
they  are  protected  tenderly  from  the 
slightest  hardship.  Suddenly  they  are 
confronted  with  manhood,  and  realize 
for  the  first  time  they  are  citizens  of 
this  Great  Republic,  with  an  endless 
number  of  duties  and  obligations.  But 
where  are  they  to  begin?  They  were 
never  given  an  opportunity  to  apply 
what  they  know,  so  that  too  late  they 
learn  the 
importance  of  an  education. 
Or,they have been conscientious students 
and  have  amassed  a  world  of  book- 
knowledge, but  what  to  do  with  it  is  the 
question. 
sometimes,  as 
in  the
though  the  American  children 

leisure  on 

seems, 

It 

Is 

the  blizzards  of  winter? 

great  cities  are  over-educated,  simply 
because  they  are  crammed  with  book- 
knowledge.  As they have  had  no  practi­
cal experience they think  that  all  knowl­
edge  must  come  through  books,  and 
they  look  with  pity  and  oftentimes  con­
tempt  on  the  self-made  people.  Perhaps 
their  parents  had  not  the  same  oppor­
tunities  in  youth,  so  that  they  look  upon 
their  children  as  paragons  of  learning, 
and  allow  themselves  to  take  back  seats 
and  waive  their  own  opinions  and  judg­
ment. 
it  any  wonder  that  children 
under  such  influences  are  as  fit  to  face 
the  storm  and  stress  of  life-battles  as 
the  delicate  hot-house  plants  are  to  be 
subjected  to  the  scorching  sun  of  sum­
mer  or 
It 
sometimes  takes  years  for  young  men  of 
such  a  stamp  to  become  hardened  to  the 
realities  of  life,  to  face  things  and  con­
ditions  as  they  are.  For  years  they  are 
doomed  to  make  sad  mistakes  and suffer 
bitter disappointments  before  they  can 
be  initiated  into  the  actualities.  Many 
of  them  will  become  willing  to  get 
money  without  earning 
it,  to  secure 
position  without  qualifications.  As  a 
result,  our  Nation  can  boast  of  a mighty 
army  of  pessimists— men  who  never 
reach  a  high  goal,  who  are  discontented 
with  themselves  and 
jealous  of  other 
people,  who  think  nothing  pays  for  the 
effort,  who  are  ready 
to  believe  that 
everything  goes  wrong  and  every  affair 
is  mismanaged,  yet  have  not  the  ability 
nor  the  stamina  to  mend  matters.

is 

How 

it  with  the  country  cousin? 
From  almost  babyhood  be  begins  to  feel 
the  responsibilities  of 
life.  Before  he 
can  speak  distinctly  he  begins  to  carry 
water  to  the  men  in  the  field  or  picks 
up  chips  for  the  fire.  His  tasks  increase 
each  year  and  by  the  time  he  graduates 
from  the  High  School  be  understands 
farm  work 
thoroughly.  He  probably 
has  not  bad  as  many  advantages  in  the 
way  of  education,  and 
is  sure  not  to 
have  the  polish ;  but  he has  learned  val­
uable  lessons  in patience,  endurance,  or­
der,  thoroughness,  promptness  and thrift 
which  be  will  need  all  his  life.  His 
book-knowledge  has  gone  band  in  hand 
with  bis  practical  training,  and  he  has 
learned  to  use  what  he  knows  until  it 
has  become  second-nature.  A  country 
boy  who  goes  to  the  city  to 
learn  busi­
ness,  if  he  have  these  lessons  learned,  is 
not  afraid  to  tackle  any  kind  of  work 
and  to  begin  at  the  bottom  and  work 
up.  His  steadiness,  his  application, 
his  willingness  to  do  whatever  is  neces­
sary  to  be  done  are  the  open  sesame  to 
promotion  and  wider  fields.  He  has 
learned  self-control  in  his  youth  and  so 
is  fit  to  control  others. 
In  time  he  will 
be  given  places  of  trust  and  responsi- 
biiitv,  and  finally  he  will  take  the  reins 
in  bis  own  hands  and  become  manager 
of  some  great  business  of  his  own.  Or, 
perhaps  be  may  prefer  to  learn  a  pro­
fession  instead  of  business.  How  many 
boys  have  left  their  country  homes  with 
only  a  few  dollars  in  their  pockets  well 
knowing  that,  if  their  ambition  for  a 
college  education  is  to  be  gratified,  they 
must  depend  upon  themstlves  for  even 
the  barest  necessities  of 
life.  They 
have  worked  for  their  board,  they  have 
done  odd  jobs  out  of  school  hours,  and 
have  not  questioned  whether  the  work 
would  soil  their  bands  or  the  job  was 
worthy  of  a  gentleman.  Even  every  day 
of  the  vacations  was  consumed  in  hard 
work  getting  ready  for  the  next  year. 
At  the  end  of  the  course  they came forth 
from  the  college  as  well  equipped  men­
tally  as  the  richest  man’s  son  and  pre­
pared  a  hundred  times  better  to  prac­
tically  cope  with  the  world.  They  were 
not  filled  with  sickly  sentiments  of what 
might  have  been,  but  took  the  world  as 
they  found  it  and  went  to  work  in  earn­
est.  Without  hurrying,  without  stop­
ping,  they  have  done  each  day’s  tasks, 
fulfilled  each  day’s  duties  to  the  best  of 
their  ability,  and  many  of  them  have 
awakened  suddenly  to  find  themselves 
famous. 

Zaida  E.  U d e l l. 

Display
Stands

for  Ladies  or  Gen­
tlemen’s  Hats.
A ny  height  £2.50 
per  dozen.  B ronze 
base  nickle-plated 
support.

Peninsular  Brass  Co.,

Erie Street, 

Grand  Rapids.

M ’ f’ g ’ rs  of  Brass  Castings.  Platers  in  Gold,  Silver,  Nickle,  Copper  and  Brass. 

Correspondence  solicited.

Muskegon  Milling Co.,  muskegon,  mich.

Manufacturers  of

FLO U R , 
F E E D   A N D  
H IL L  
S T U F F S

Receivers and 
Shippers  of

GRAIN

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

MIXED  CARLOADS 
A SPECIALTY.

Mills and Office:

Water Street,  Foot of Pine.

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MICHIGAN  T R A D E S M A N

Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Dexter—L.  L.  James  has  engaged 

in 

the  clothing  business.

Palo—C.  H.  Mandeville  has  removed 

his  general  stock  to  Saranac.

Elsie—Frank  Weinburg  will  shortly 

open  a  furniture  store  at this  place.

Charlotte—Victor  Roblin  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  shoe  stock of  E.  J.  Abell.
Port  Huron—Michael  Bogan  has  pur­
chased  the  Frank  Tuttle  grocery  stock

Rothbury— Farnham  &  Robbins  have 
engaged  in  the  fruit  and  produce  busi­
ness.

Jonesville—Smith  &  Wagar  succeed 
incorpo­

the  Hix  Hardware  Co.,  not 
rated.

Silverwood— Mr.  Waterhouse,  of  Mil­
lington,  has  opened  a  meat  market  at 
this  place.

Oxford— H.  H.  Howe  is  succeeded  by 
Elbert  O.  Bailey  in  the  flour,  feed  and 
meat  business.

Dexter—A.  S.  Yost  is  closing  out  his 
stock  of  crockery  and  replacing  it  with 
a  line  of  dry  goods.

Berrien  Center— Ford  &  Patterson 
succeed  Ford  &  Bay  in the agricultural 
implement  business.

Alma—L.  Hirschkowitz  is  closing  out 
his  stock  of  dry  goods  and  will  engage 
in  business  in  the  West.

Alma—A.  J.  Dingman  has  removed 
his  dry  goods  stock  to  Hillsdale,  where 
he  will  engage  in  business.

Battle  Creek—C.  F.  Russell  and  L.
E.  Srackangast,  of  Kalamazoo,  have 
opened  a  dry  goods  store  here.

Manton—W.  H.  Campbell  has  leased 
a  store  building  and  will  open  a  furni­
ture  and  undertaking  establishment.

Maple  Rapids— Frank  Redfern  and 
Robert  Lane  have  purchased the harness 
and  implement  stock  of  Bliss  &  Hewitt.
Mulliken— H.  P.  French  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  Chas.  McConger,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same  loca­
tion.

Escanaba— Melvin  R.  Young  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of A.  H.  Rolph 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Maple  Rapids—J.  M.  Roberts 

is 
erecting  a  brick  block,  24x60  feet  in 
dimensions,  which  he  will  occupy  with 
a  general  merchandise  stock.

Carson  City—B.  C.  Fasbender  has 
sold  bis  harness  stock  to  L.  C.  Wilkin­
son  &  Son,  of  Ithaca,  who  will  continue 
the  business  at  the  old  stand.

Lansing—John  H.  Rose  has  sold  bis 
grocery  stock  to  Roswell  Mott,  who  will 
combine  the  stock  with  bis  stock  at  the 
corner of  Washington  avenue  and  Kal­
amazoo  street.

Sturgis—Arthur  Hibbard,  for  many 
in  the  employ  of  C.  O.  Gardner, 
years 
dealer 
in  feed  and  hay,  has  purchased 
the  later's  interest  and  will  continue the 
business  in  his  own  name.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—The  Ferguson 
Hardware  Co 
is  remodeling  its  store  to 
a  considerable  extent.  Under  the  man­
agement  of  Mr.  Van  Liew  the  business 
is  making  a  favorable  showing.

Mason—Chas  H.  Hall  has  sold his dry 
goods  stock  to  the  Mills  Dry  Goods  Co. 
Both  stores  will  be  continued for  a  short 
time  until  the  stocks  are  sufficiently  re­
duced  to  occupy  the  building  in  which 
Mr.  Hall  was  formerly  located.

Coopersville— R.  D.  McNaughton, 
who  has  been  engaged  in  general  trade 
here  for about  twenty  years,  will  shortly 
engage  in  the  same  line  of  business  at 
Honor.  Mr.  McNaughton's  stock  of 
goods  was  completely  destroyed  in  the 
recent conflagration  at  this  place.

Belding—J.  V.  Cahill  will  open  a 
store  in  the  Huelster  block  on  Pleasant 
street.  Mr.  Cahill  is  the  gentleman  with 
whom  Z.  W.  Gooding  exchanged  his 
block  and  warehouse  for  a  farm  near 
Hart  some  time  ago.  On  arrival  here 
with  his  goods  he  found  bis  store  occu­
pied  and  immediately  leased  one of Mr. 
Huelster.  The  new  firm  will  be  Cahill 
&  Hudson,  Wm.  Hudson  being 
the 
other  member,  and  they  will  carry  a 
general 
including  clothing,  farm 
implements,  harnesses,  vehicles,  hard­
ware,  etc.

line 

Manufacturing  Matters.

St.  Johns—Chas.  Reid,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  has  established  a  shiit  factory 
here.

Kaiamazoo—The  Star  Brass  Works 
has  merged  its  business  into  a  corpora­
tion  under  the  same  style.

Ypsilanti—The  Ypsilanti  Dairy  As­
is  considering  the  project  of 

sociation 
leasing  the  Dixboro  creamery.

Cadillac—Wm.  A.  Clay  and  A.  F. 
Clay  have  formed  a  copartnership  un­
der  the  style  of  Clay  Bros,  and  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  furniture  spe­
cialties.

Tustin—J.  H.  Dudley,  of  Fremont, 
has  purchased  the  sawmill  and  480acres 
of  timber  near  this  place  of  Truman  E. 
Stevens.  The  land  will  yield  several 
million  feet  of  saw  logs,  a  large  quan­
tity  of  hemlock  bark  and  from  eight  to 
ten  million  shingles.

Black  River—Alger,  Smith  & Co.  will 
finish  cutting  and  hauling 
long  timber 
at  this  place  in  a  few  days.  This  ends 
the  long  timber  business  that  has  been 
actively  pushed  since  1874.  There  will 
be  two  winters’  cutting  of  short  logs  to 
fall  back  upon  and  these  will  he  manu­
factured  at  this  place.

interest 

Cold water— John  C.  Moore  has  sold 
his 
in  the  meat  and  grocery 
business  of  Miller,  Moore  &  Bidelman 
to  A.  A.  Howard,  who  has  resigned  his 
position  as  traveling  salesman  for  the 
Merrick  Thread  Co.  and  retired  from 
the  road,  in  order  to  take  an  active 
part  in  the  management  of  the business.
Manistique—The Manistique & North­
its  road 
western  Railway  has  extended 
to  connect  with  the  Munising  Railway, 
making  a  short  cut  to  Marquette and the 
West.  Manistique  being  the  winter 
port  of  the  Ann  Arbor  Railway  at  the 
North,  the  probability  of  an  increased 
Northwestern  freight  business  via  the 
Manistique  &  Northwestern  Railway 
and  Duluth,  South  Shore  &  Atlantic 
is 
favorable.
Commendation  of 

the  Anniversary 

Issue.

Michigan  Bulletin:  The  Michigan 
Tradesman  has  completed  its  fifteenth 
year 
in  a  most  prosperous  condition. 
The  Tradesman  has  been  a  conspicuous 
financial  success  from  the  start  and  un­
der  the  capable  management  of  E.  A. 
Stowe  has  made  itself  a  necessity  to  the 
trade  in  its  chosen  field.  The  anniver­
sary  number  of  the  Tradesman  was  one 
of  the  best  ever  put out  by  a  Michigan 
publication.

Coopersville  Observer:  The  Michi­
gan  Tradesman  of  this  week  consists  of 
sixty-four  pages and  cover.  Last  week's 
issue  completed 
its  fifteenth  year  of 
publication,  and  th  s  large  number  was 
issued  to  commemorate  the  event. 
It is 
neatly  printed  and 
is  full  of  valuable 
information  for  the  business  man,  in 
whose 
it  is  published.  Long 
may  it  live!

interests 

Blessings  are 

like  children;  to  be 
appreciated  they  should  be  few  and  far 
between.

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

Calling  a  Spade  a  Spade.

From the Minneapolis Commercial  Bulletin.

The  Bulletin 

in  the  United  States. 

is  pleased  to  commend 
E.  A.  Stowe,  of  the  Michigan  Trades­
for  his  successful  exposure  of 
man, 
bogus  commission  houses. 
It  speaks 
well  for a  trade  paper  when  it  shows  a 
willingness  to  stand 
in  the breach  be­
tween  a  shipper of  produce  and  a  dis­
honest  commission  bouse.  This  paper 
has  had  experience along  this  line. 
It 
has  probably  successfully  attacked  more 
fraudulent  commission  bouses  than  any 
paper 
In  every 
instance  where  fraud  has  been  alleged 
the  charge  has  been  sustained.  And 
it 
has  made  the  fight  single-handed,  and 
with  scarcely  a  word  of  commendation 
from  the  rank  and  file  of  the  commis­
sion  house  trade.  A  few  bouses  whose 
names  stand  out  clear on  lines  of  honest 
dealing  have  expressed  their  gratifica 
tion  to  the  Bulletin  in  appreciation  of 
the  fact  that  there 
is  a  paper  in  the 
Northwest  field  that,  no  matter  what  the 
line,  is  not  afraid  to  call  a  spade  a 
spade.

And  so  we  are  pleased  to  see  the 
Michigan  Tradesman  fall  into  the  line 
of  unraveling  some of  the  hard  knots  of 
business.  These  are  not  pleasant duties, 
but  they  are  duties  just  the  same,  and 
they  should  be  performed without flinch­
ing.  There  are  a  few trade papers which 
have  sufficient  courage  to  do  this.

And  why  shouldn't  it  be  done?  Why 
should  the  country  shipper  be  left  in 
complete 
ignorance  of  the  trap  some 
dishonest  commission  merchant  sets  for 
him?  The  Bulletin 
is  pleased  to  feel 
that  it  has  done  a  good  deal  to  purge 
the  Northwest  field  of  several  of  these 
Brazen  practices  have  been 
houses. 
curtailed. 
It  is  not  necessary  to  trans­
act  business  with  a  fraudulent  commis­
sion  bouse.

There  should  be  more  trade  papers 
willing  to  take  up  the  cudgel  for  honest 
commission  business  There  are  sev 
eral  cities  that  need  attention  along 
this  line.  The  Bulletin  ventures  the 
assertion  that  no  cities 
in  the  country 
have 
commission 
records  of  late  years  than  Minneapolis 
and  St.  Paul.

produce 

cleaner 

The  Square  Butter  Box.
From the New York Produce Review.

For  some  time  past  the  square  box 
question  as  a  butter  package  has  been 
kept  rather 
in  the  shade.  During  the 
summer  months,  under  the  belief  that 
some  export  business  would  be  done,  a 
number  of  the  Western  creameries  used 
the  box.  Perhaps  the  most  of  these 
were  on contract with  shippers,  and  part 
of  the  stock  was  sent  abroad  from  week 
to  week,  but  several  thousand  of  the 
boxes  were  put 
in  the  freezers  hoping 
that  a  better  demand  for them  would 
develop  later.  But  our  market  has  kept 
just  enough  above  the  English  market 
all  the  season  to  prevent  much  export 
business,  and  these  goods  were  carried 
along  until  some  holders  became  tired 
and  sought  to  find  an  outlet,  even  al­
though  the  stock  had  to  be  sold  at  a 
price  that  showed  very  little if any profit 
for  carrying.  Recently  about  2,500

boxes  of  the  summer-packed  creamery 
have  been  sold  here at  I7j£@i8j£c,  most 
of  which  is  now  being  shipped.

The  results  of  this  season's  experi­
ence  show  conclusively  that  without  an 
export  demand  the  square  box 
is  an 
It  certainly  has 
unprofitable  package. 
some  points  which  commend  it  to  home 
trade  buyers,  but  thus  far  they  do  not 
take  kindly  to  it,  the 60  pound  Welsh 
tub  being  recognized  as  the  standard  of 
our  market  and  claiming  most  of  the 
demand.  These  conditions  mav  change 
as  time  passes,  but  we  are  fully  con­
vinced  that  for the  next  few  years  boxes 
should  be  used  only  under  the 
instruc­
tion  of  the  selling  agent  here,  or on con­
tracts  with  exporters.

Risking  Your  Tea  Trade.
From the Philadelphia  Grocery  World.

The  grocers  who  answered  the  ques­
tion  as  to  their  method  of getting square 
with  the  tea  duty  seemed  to  agree  in 
the  conclusion  that  they  would  advance 
their  price  to  consumers  as  soon as their 
spot stock  was exhausted,  provided  their 
competitors  did.  Probably  all  the  gro­
in  the  given  town  feel  the  same 
cers 
way— “ We  will  go  up 
if  you  w ill;  if 
you  don’t  we  can’t .’ ’

That 

it  would  be  the  worst  sort  of  a 
mistake  to  risk  your  tea  trade  by  sell­
ing  a  poorer  grade  for  the  same  money 
is  not  a  matter  of  opinion.  After  you 
have  a  customer  suited  it  is  suicidal  to 
your  relations  with  him  to  tamper  with 
the  tea  he 
is  getting  to  the  slightest 
degree.

If  we  were  a  grocer  in  a  town  where 
there  are  several,  every  one  of  whom 
will  have  eventually  to  face  this  prob­
lem,  we  should  go  to  each,  if  the  town 
weren’t  too  large,  and  we  should  talk  to 
them  like  this:  “ See  here,  you  value 
your  tea  trade;  so  do  I.  Neither  of  us 
wants  to  lower  the  grade  of  tea  he  is 
giving  for  50 or 60 or  75  cents;  certain­
ly  neither  of  us  wants  to  take  the  extra 
10  cents  out  of  bis  own  pocket.  The 
logical  way 
is  to  advance the  price  to 
the  consumer, but unless  everybody  does 
it,  nobody  can.  Will  you  do  it?”   The 
grocer  who  would  refuse  to  enter  an 
agreement  like  this,  if  properly  pre­
sented,  would  be  a  strange  creature. 
Probably  not  one  would  refuse.  But 
somebody  has  to  start  such  things.

The  Licorice  Root  of  Commerce.
We  are  still  told  in  books  and  phar­
maceutical  journals  that  the  licorice  of 
commerce  is  the  product  of  a  plant 
“ grown  in  the  north  of  Spain,”   but  we 
won’t  be  obliged  to  use  “ Spanish  lic­
orice”   very  shortly.  A 
lawsuit  in  the 
English  courts  recently  reported  has  re­
vealed  the  fact  that 
is  now 
very  extensivelv  cultivated  on  both 
banks  of  the  River  Jagus,  in  Mesopo­
tamia,  in  the  neighborhood  of  Coete 
and  Bagdad.  We  learn  that  during  the 
licorice digging  season  there,  beginning 
in  November  and 
lasting  about  three 
months,  no  less  than  about  4,000  Arabs 
are  employed  at  the  work.  The  larger 
part  of  the  product 
in 
the  United  States.

is  disposed  of 

licorice 

BRYAN  SHOW  CASE  WORKS

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Posser  &  Carey  have  opened a grocery 
store  at  Charlevoix, 
the  stock  being 
furnished  by  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co. 

_____________

S.  A.  Catlin  will  shortly  engage  in the 
hardware  business  at  Montague.  Fos­
ter,  Stevens  &  Co.  will 
furnish  the 
stock. 
_____________

David  Gillespie  has  opened  a  grocery 
The 
furnished  the 

store  at  62  Ellsworth  avenue. 
Musselman  Grocer  Co. 
stock.

M.  Ludlow,  of  Greenville,  dealer  in 
flour  and  feed,  has  added  a  line  of  gro 
ceries.  The  Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.  has 
the  order  for  the  stock.

A.  C.  Muzzall,  of  Coopersville,  and 
E.  L.  Marvin,  of  Grand  Rapids,  have 
formed  a  copartnership  and  engaged 
in 
the  grocery  business  at the former place. 
The  Worden  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

Geo.  Stander  and  Wm.  Allgier,  who 
conducted  a  retail  grocery  store  at  220 
Plainfield  avenue  under  the  style  of 
Stander  &  Allgier,  have  dissolved.  Mr. 
Allgier  has  formed  a  copartnership with 
Samuel  C.  Mead,  and  the  business  will 
be  continued  at  the  same  location  un­
der  the  style  of  Allgier  &  Mead.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— Raws  have  declined,  due  to 
the 
increased  arrivals  from  Java  and 
Cuba,  and  a  corresponding  decline  was 
made  in  all  refined  grades  Wednesday, 
when  Nos.  4  and  5  were  marked  down 
3-16C  and  the  remainder  of  the  list  }ic. 
After October  opens  and  the  preserving 
demand  falls  off, 
the  refined  market 
may  further  decline.  This  year’s  con­
sumptive  demand  for  granulated  sugar 
has  been  exceedingly  disappointing. 
All  told,  it  has  probably  not  been  over 
half  what  was  expected,  and  already 
shows  a  sharp  decline  from  week  to 
week.

Tea— The  Japan  market  is advancing, 
but  domestic  markets 
are  without 
change.  The  looked-for  second  picking 
of  this  year’s  Japan  crop  is  arriving  in 
small  quantities,  nothing  as  much  in 
volume  as  that  of  a  year  ago.  Nor  is 
it  expected  that  the  receipts  this  year 
will  be  as 
large  as  those  of  last  year. 
The  high  war  tax  on  tea  has  greatly  de- 
creased 
import  of  tea. 
Everything  in  this  country  will  have  to 
be  cleaned  up  before  the  new  teas  will 
come 
it  looks  as  though  there 
is  a  great  deal  more  of  this  stock  in 
the  country  than  was  supposed.

the  probable 

in,  and 

Coffee—Crop  advices  from  Brazil  are 
unfavorable  for  the  flowering,  and  the 
crop  movement  has  been  more  or  less 
retarded.  The  market  for  mild  coffee 
has  been  firm.

Canned  Goods-The  tomato  market  is 
not  as  firm  as  that  of  corn,  for  the  rea­
son  that  the  length  of  the  season  is more 
indefinite,  and.  therefore,  the  total  pack 
may  or  may  not  be  large. 
If  frost  shall 
come  early  there  may  not  be  enough 
stock  to  supply  the  demand,  but  if  it 
shall  hold  off  until  late,  the  pack  will 
doubtless  be  abundant. 
Packers  are 
now  taking  few  orders  for  any  consid­
erable  time  ahead,  fearing  that  a  frost 
may  leave  them  short.  The  pack  of 
Southern  peaches 
is  reported  consider­
ably  short,  and  the  packers  of  the  South 
have  had  to  go  North  for  fruit to  fill 
their  contracts.

Dried  Fruits—All  lines  are firm  and 
tending  higher,  especially  West  coast 
goods.  The  Raisin  Growers’  Associa­

tion  has  quoted  prices  on  new  raisins, 
which 
are  considerably  higher  than 
the  prices  of  a  year  ago,  although  not 
high,  as  raisins  have  been  selling  at 
too  low  figures.  The  Association  is  in­
clined  to  deal  with  the  situation  as  if 
there  was  no  doubt  of  its  ability  to  con­
trol  the  price,  even  in  the  face  of  what 
now  promises  to  be  the  largest  raisin 
crop  the  coast  has  ever  produced.

for 

Provisions-----The  provision  market
continues  about  steady,  but  the  trade 
look 
lower  prices  on  account  of 
smaller  demand  and  the  opening  of  the 
winter  packing  season.  As  yet,  how­
ever,  the  supply  has  not  been  sufficient 
to  change prices.  The demand continues 
good,  due,  probably,  to  the  low  prices. 
Lard  is  selling  the  best  of  the  list.

Syrup  and  Molasses—There  has  been 
a  fair  trade  in  mixed  syrup,  at  un­
changed  prices,  but  outside  of  this  no 
activity  at  all.  Sugar  syrup 
is  un­
changed  and  dull.  The  demand  for  mo­
lasses  is  very  small,  although  it  should 
be better  at  this  season.  Prices are  un­
changed.

and 

Cheese— Receipts  are  now  in  very fine 
condition 
superior  quality. 
There  is  quite  an  active  demand,  on ac­
count  of  the  higher  price  asked  for 
earlier-made  cheese,  which  is  selling  at 
prices  very  close  to  the  best..  Prospects 
point  to  still  higher  prices.

of 

in  Texas,  there 

Nuts—Reports  from  the  South  state 
that,  in  addition  to  the  failure  of  the 
crop 
is  almost  a  total 
failure 
in  Louisiana,  Mississippi  and 
the  Indian  Territory,  and  as  nearly  the 
entire  crop  of  fine  nuts comes from these 
States,  there  will  undoubtedly  be a great 
scarcity  of  pecans  for  the  holiday  trade. 
There  are  a  few  grown  in  Western  Mis­
souri  and  Arkansas,  but  Texas  pecans 
always  bring  the  best  prices 
in  this 
market.  The  crop 
last  year  was  the 
largest  on  record,  and  prices  went  lower 
than  ever  before. 
It  is  claimed  that St. 
Louis  houses  own  almost  the  total  sup­
ply  of  pecans 
in  the  country.  As  the 
present  crop 
is  a  failure,  they  will  be 
in  a  position  to  control  the  market,  and 
can  put  prices  almost  anywhere  they 
please.  They  are  not  offering  any  stock 
for  sale  and  quotations  at  present  prices 
are  merely  nominal.

If  the  party  in  power  is  wise  if  will 
promptly  advocate,  and  take  measures 
to  secure,  the  repeal  of  that  part  of  the 
war  revenue  act  which  imposes  stamp 
taxes of  1  and  2  cents  on  trifling 
items 
of  business  and  in  the  direction  where 
the  people  feel  them  as  most  odious,  if 
not  unnecessary.  For  instance,  the  tax 
of  1  cent  for  every  ticket  sold  for  a  seat 
in  a  parlor 
c a r ;  1  cent  for  every  tele­
gram  or telephone  message;  1  cent  for a 
sale  of,  or  agreement  to  sell,  any  prod­
ucts  of  merchandise  at  any  exchange 
board  of  trade;  2  cents  on  bank  checks, 
drafts,  etc.  These  are  trifling  taxes, 
yielding  little,  if  anything,  in  revenue, 
but  obtruding  themselves  on  the  public 
at  every  turn.  Nothing  but  a  serious 
emergency 
imposition, 
and  with  the  passage  of  this  emergency 
their  repeal 
ik  demanded  by  the  peo­
ple.  That political  party which  first  in­
dorses  the  demand 
for  a  repeal  will 
grow  greatly  in  public  favor.

justified  their 

Two  Dollars to  Detroit and  Return. 
On  Saturday,  Oct.  1,  the  Michigan 
Central  will  run  one  more  of  those  pop­
ular  week-end  excursions  to  Detroit. 
Special  train  will  leave  Union  station 
at  7:30  a.  m.,  arriving  at  Detroit  at 
1 :20  p.  m.  Good  returning  on  regular 
trains  up  to  and 
including  morning 
train  leaving  Detroit  Monday,  Oct.  3.
W.  C.  B la ke, 
City  Ticket  Agent.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Buyers  are  paying  $ i @ i  5° 
for  fruit  alone,  which  brings  the  selling 
price  up  to  $i.75@2  25  per  bushel.

Beets—25c  per  bu.
Butter— Dealers  have  no  difficulty  in 
getting  17c  for  fancy  dairy  and  19@20C 
for  separator  creamery,  but  how  to  ob­
tain  adequate  supplies  to  meet  their  re­
quirements  is  another  matter.

Cabbage—$3@4  per  100  heads 

for 

home  grown 

Carrots—25c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—$1  per  doz.  and  very 

forgotten. 
If  there  were  the  usual  trad­
ing  in  that  cereal  prices  would  be  con­
siderably  higher.

Corn  gained  strength  from  wheat,  but 
prices  remained  practically  about  the 
is  very  sluggish. 
same.  Trade  also 
The  visible  made  a  small 
increase,  but 
it  did  not  change  the  price  any.

The  oat  market  is  flat,  nothing doing. 
Receipts  were  large  and  it  looks  like 
old  times,  as  follows:  wheat,  71  cars; 
corn,  10  cars;  oats,  6 cars.

Local  millers  pay  62c  per  bu.  for 

Celery—White  Plume, 

io@I3C  per 

wheat. 

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

scarce.

bunch.

berian.

Cocoanuts—4@5c.
Crab  Apples—30@4oc  per  bu.  for  Si 

Cranberries---- Cape  Cods  command

$2.50  per  bu.  or $2  25  per  box.

Cucumbers— Pickling  stock  is  in  ac 

tive  demand  at  25@4oc  per  100.

Eggs— Dealers  pay  13c  for  strictly 

fresh,  bolding  at  14c.

Egg  Plant— 75c@$i  per  doz.
Grapes— Pony  (4-ib.)  baskets  of  Del­
awares  command  10c. 
Eight  pound 
baskets  of  Wordens  and  Concords  com 
mand  8@ioc.  Brightons  and  Niagaras 
fetch  ic  per basket  more  than  Wordens 
and  Concords.  Dealers  and  growers  are 
experiencing  great  difficulty  in  finding 
an  outlet,  owing  to  the  unusual  yield  all 
over  the  country.

Green  Peppers-  50c  per  bu.
Honey— Fine  new  comb  commands 

I2@I3C.

Muskmelons—40c  per  bu.
Onions—Home  grown  command  40@ 

50c  per  bu.  for  yellow  or  red.

Peaches—Golden  Drop  command  6o@ 
75c  and  Smocks  fetch  5o@6oc.  The 
crop  is  about  all  marketed,  the  season 
being  the  most  satisfactory  ever  en 
joyed  by  local  dealers  and  growers. 

Pears— 5o@75c  per bu.
Plums—German  Prune  are  still 

in 
market, 
finding  ready  sale  at  $1.25. 
Blue  Damsons  are  in  fair  request  at  $1. 

Pop  Corn—50c  per  bu.
Potatoes—35@4oc  per  bu.  Indications 
lead  to  the belief  that  there  will  be  an 
active  shipping  demand  the 
coming 
season,  due  to  the  fact  that  Southern 
markets  will  be  open  to  Michigan grow­
ers.

Quinces—75c  per  bu 
Sweet  Potatoes—Virginias 

fetch  $2 
per  bbl.  Jerseys  have  declined  to  $3. 

Tomatoes—50c  per  bu.

The  Grain  Market.

Nothing  special  disturbed  the  wheat 
price  during  the  week  Prices remained 
steady.  Receipts  were  a  trifle  less  than 
the  corresponding  week  of  last  year,  but 
exports  were  large,  owing  to  this  fact. 
The  visible  showed  a decrease of 880.000 
bushels,  where  an  increase  of  500,000  or 
better  was  expected,  so  the  visible  is 
down  again to9,208.000  bushels,  against 
19,548,000  bushels  at  the  corresponding 
time  last  year,  and  48,727.000 bushels 
for  1896 
In  the  usual  course  of  events 
prices  would  have  advanced  sharply, 
but  we  find  that  cash  wheat  really  lost 
ic,  while  futures  climbed  only 
ic.  We 
have  known  the  time  when  such  a  de­
crease  as  this  one  at  this  time  of  the 
year  would  have  raised  prices at  least 
3@5c  per  bushel.  As  stated  last  week, 
if  farmers  will  persist  in  holding  their 
wheat,  better  prices  must  for  the  pres­
ent  prevail.  We  see  that  in  Kansas 
many  mills  have  to  close  down,  owing 
to  the  fact  that  they  can  not  get  wheat 
to  grind.  The  question  arises,  What 
are  the  farmers  going  to  gain  by  hold­
ing,  as.  in  all  probability  our  exports 
will  be  falling  off?  Argentine  is  not 
shipping  any  wheat,  while  she  is  at 
present  going  near  a new harvest,  and  at 
present  writing  the  outlook 
is 
fair.  The  fact  is,  speculation  in  wheat 
is  very  tame  and  lifeless.  The  bullish 
element  know  that  there  is  a  large  crop 
which  will  be  put  on  the  market  sooner 
I or  later,  and  the  Leiter  episode 
is  not

there 

Flour and  Feed.

During  the  past  fortnight  the  demand 
for  flour has  been active,  for  several  rea­
sons ;  first,  because  stocks  are  abnor­
mally  low,  on  account  of  buyers  waiting 
for  the  market  to  reach  a  lower  level; 
second,  because  this  is  the  usual  time 
for  making  purchases  for  fall  and  win­
ter  and  most  buyers  think  that  the  bot­
tom  has  already  been  reached  and  are 
taking  hold  now  quite  freely.  The  city 
mills  have  been  booking  some  very 
good  orders  for  future  shipment  and  are 
all  running  steadily;  in  fact,  the  mer­
chant  mills  of  the  country  are,  for  the 
most  part,  running  steadily,  and  will  be 
likely  to  for  some  weeks  to  come.  With 
the  recent  advance  and  strength  of  the 
wheat  market,  prices  are  pretty 
likely 
to be  maintained,  because  millers,  as  a 
rule,  have  very 
light  stocks,  and  the 
price  has  been  so  low  since  harvest  that 
farmers  have  sold  reluctantly,  and  dur­
ing  the  present  month  they  have  been so 
busy  seeding  that  the  movement  in  the 
winter  wheat  belt  has  been  very  light— 
so  much  so  that  the  visible  supply  of 
wheat  decreased  heavily 
last  week, 
when  ordinarily  at  this  s  ason  of  the 
year  a  good  increase  can  be  expected. 
The  present crop has gone into consump­
tion  very  rapidly,  something  over  40,- 
000,000  bushels  having  already  disap­
peared  since  harvest.  We  are  inclined 
to  believe  that  the  conditions  are  such 
surrounding  the  flour  and  grain  trade 
that  prices  are  more  likely  to  advance 
somewhat  above  their  present 
level 
rather  than  to  decline.

Mill  stuffs  are 

in  good  demand  and 

prices  are  a  shade  higher.

Feed  and  meal  are  moving  rather 
slowly,  with  prices  nominally  un­
changed for the week.  W m.  N.  R o w e.

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.
Hides  are  weak  at  prices  quoted. 
They  yield  so  small  a  margin  to  tanners 
that  the  latter  hesitate  about  purchas­
ing.  The  supply 
is  limited,  however, 
and  stocks  are  required to keep running, 
which  consumes  all  offerings 
The 
leather  market  can  not  be  forced  up 
while  markets  are  selling  shoes  at  old 
prices  or  lower,  if  anything.

Pelts  are  few  and  lower  in  price,  as 
the  wool  demand  is light and  it only sells 
at  cut  prices.

Tallow  has  no  life  and  no  apparent 
it  out  of  the  rut.  Soap 

future  to  pull 
stocks  are  plenty  of  all  kinds.

little  sold 

Wool  does  not  change  in  price  to  be 
quotable.  There  is  no  trading  except 
at  a  weakened  price. 
There  has  been 
in  Michigan  at  l/2c  lower 
a 
than  formerly  asked.  Many  holders  of 
1898  purchases  would  like  to-see  their 
cost  of  purchases  returned,  which  is  not 
probable  at  the  present  condition  of  the 
market.  While  there  was  a  5@7 ^  Per 
cent,  advance 
is  the 
lowest  market  in  the  world  to-day,  with 
sales  of  $83,000,000 
in  1898,  against 
$298,00,0000  at  the  same  time  in  1897.
W m.  T.  Hess.

in  London,  ou^s 

; 

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W o m a n ’s  W o rld
Fads  and  Fancies  Peculiar  to Chicago 

Women.

On  the  occasion  of  my  annual  visits 
to  Chicago  there  is  a  certain  bright  and 
breezy  little  woman,  whom  we  will  call 
Mrs  X .,  because  that  isn’t  her  name, 
who  always  devotes  a  day  to  piloting 
me  about.  Mrs.  X.  is  that most  delight­
ful  of  beings,  a  faddish  woman,  who  is 
always  riding  a  new  hobby,  and  who 
always  makes  me  think  of  Richard  Le 
Gallienne’s  saying  that  for  a  woman  to 
be  clever 
is  simply  to  be  a  woman 
of  talent,  but  to  be  just  a  woman  is  to 
be  a  genius.  Mrs.  X.  is  all  of  that— 
and  more.

its 

As  for  myself,  I  confess  to  being  a 
thorough-going  cockney. 
I don’t  care  a 
button  for  any  nature  but  human nature, 
and  I  am  perfectly  certain  no  sports­
man  gets  any  more  thrills  out  of  track­
ing  big  game  than  I  do  in  bunting  a 
bargain  to 
lair  and  capturing  its 
scalp;  so,  of  course,  when  Mrs.  X.  and 
I  devoted  a  day  to  having  a  good time, 
naturally  we  went  shopping.  We 
in­
vaded  the  big  department  stores,  and  at 
last,  when  we  had  spent  the  last  of  our 
money,  and  worn  ourselves  to  a  frazzle, 
we  went  to  lunch 
in  the  new  Dutch 
room  at  Mandel’s.

It 

is  an  apartment  charming  enough 
to  convince  you  that  Frankfurter  sau­
sage  and  potato  salad  are  the  ambrosia 
of  Mount  Olympus  and  to  raise a  bcttle 
into  the  realm  of  epic 
and  a  bird 
poetry.  Above  all,  it 
is  a  room  that 
makes  every  woman  wonder  why  on 
earth  she  never  thought  of  having  a 
Dutch  dining-room  herself,  fbr  it  is  a 
little,  cozy,  homey  room,  opening  off 
the  big  tearoom,  and  very  little  larger 
in 
than  many  private  dining  rooms 
Grand  Rapids.  All  one  end  almost 
is 
taken  up  with  a  big  red  brick  fire­
place,  with  wrought 
iron  andirons  and 
crane,  and  with  some  splendid  old  delft 
ornamenting 
The 
walls  have  a  deep  wainscoting  of  oak, 
topped  by  a  broad shelf,  on which stands 
a  goodly  array  of  beer  steins  and  quaint 
delft  plaques  with  spreading  sails  of 
queer,  square-rigged  boats  and  wide­
armed  windmills.  Above the  wainscot­
ing  the  walls  are  covered  with  tapestry, 
against  which  hang  bits  of 
armor, 
groups  of  battered  swords  and  knives 
and  pictures  of  picturesque  meinherrs 
with  smug 
long-stemmed 
pipes.  Tables  and  chairs  are  heavy 
Dutch  affairs 
in  black  oak,  the  table­
ware  is  delicious  blue  and  white  delft, 
and  the  waitresses  wear  quaint  peasant 
costumes,  and  are picturesque enough as 
they  flit  about 
in  their  black  velvet 
bodices  laced  over  white  blouses.

the  mantelpiece. 

faces  and 

trailed 

While  we  waited  for  our  orders  I  was 
leaning  back 
in  my  chair,  luxuriating 
in  the  beauty  of  the  surroundings,  when 
all  of  a  sudden  I  became  aware  that  my 
companion  was  apparently  dying.  A 
minute  before  she  had  been  the  picture 
of  health  and  strength,  and  from  the top 
of  her  brand  new  tailor-made  frock, 
that 
in  front  and  hadn’t  a 
wrinkle  or  a  blouse  or  a  bit  of  fullness 
in 
it.  to  the  toe  of  her  patent  leather 
boots,  she  had  been  thoroughly  alive. 
Now  I  beheld  her  a  collapsed  wreck. 
Her 
jaw  dropped,  her  arms  depended 
limp  and  lifeless,  her  mouth  hung  half 
open  and  her  bead  swayed  back  and 
forth  as 
I 
never  was  so  scared  in  my  life. 
If  I 
bad  been  a  man  I  should  have  dashed 
a  glass  of  water  in  her  face  and  yelled 
for a doctor.  Being a)woman,  I  reflected

if  her  neck  was  broken. 

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

on  the  new  tailor-made  frock  and  con­
tented  myself  with  giving  her  a  pinch, 
which,  however,  was  entirely  effica­
cious,  as  it  brought  her  to  in  what  they 
call  “ great  shape”   up there.

“ What’s  the  matter?”   I  asked  anx­

iously.

“ Why,”   she  replied,  “ it’s  nothing. 
I’m  only  practicing  the  new  cure  of 
‘ letting  go.’ 
It’s  the  latest  fad.  Don’t 
you  know  it?”

“ No,”   I  said,  “ I  don't,  and  if  I’ve 
into  fits  I  don't 

got  to  scare  people 
know  that  I  want  to.”

she 

“ Pooh!”  

responded 

airily. 
“ That  is  nothing  when  you  get  used  to 
it.  The  idea 
is  this:  You  know,  we 
all 
live  nowadays  up  to  the  very  limit 
of  our  strength.  We  work  ourselves  to 
death  trying  to  make  money  if  we  are 
poor  and  slave  ourselves 
into  nervous 
prostration  trying  to  spend  it  if  we  are 
rich,  and  our  nerves  and  muscles  are 
kept  as  tightlv  strung  as  the  cord  to  a 
bow  all  the  time  Even  at  night  we 
can’t 
let  go  and  we  grab  the  pillows 
and  cling  to  the  mattress 
it  was 
liable  to  get  away  from  us.  What  is 
the  result?  Wrinkles  and  crow’s-feet 
and  lines  all  over  our  faces.  Now,  the 
’ letting  go’  theory 
is  designed  to  do 
away  with  all  this.  Whenever  you  have 
a  minute  to  spare,  while  you  wait  for  a 
meal,  in  the  three  minutes  before  your 
hostess  comes  down,  in  the  half-hour on 
a  car,  just  let  yourself  go,  relax  every 
muscle,  don’t  think,  just  drop  to  pieces 
as  nearly  as  you  can,  and  you  haven't 
any  idea  how  much  rested  and refreshed 
you  will  be  ”

like 

“ Is—is 

it  generally  practiced?”   I 

asked  anxiously.

“ Oh,  yes,”   she  replied  cheerfully. 
“ Everybody  is  trying  it,  and  it  isn't  a 
bit  unusual  to  see  a  shop  girl  stir  up  an 
apparently  lifeless  figure  to  give her  her 
change  or  a  street  car  conductor  rouse 
up  what  seems  a  paralytic  with  'H ere’s 
your  street.’  Of  course,  if  we’d  seen  a 
woman  go  off 
into  that  kind  of  trance 
once  we would have thought she had a fit; 
now  we  know  she  is  merely  practicing 
the  'letting  go’  fad.”

The  story  of  Hull  House  and 

its 
founder,  Miss  Jane  Addams,  has  been 
told  so  often  that  it need net be repeated 
here.  Everyone  knows  how,  through 
it,  sweetness  and  light  have  been  taken 
into  one  of  the  poor districts  of  the  city 
and  the  lives  of  the  men  and  women 
and  children  around  about  bettered  and 
brightened.  The  influence  from  such  a 
is  bound  to  spread  in  many  di­
center 
rections,  and  one  of 
its  most  notable 
offshoots  has  been  a  working  girls’ 
club,  in  which  I  was  much 
interested.
from  Hull 
Just  around  the  corner 
House  is  a  big  plain  red  brick  bouse, 
over  whose  door  is  painted  “ The  Jane 
Club,”   and  when  I  rang  the  bell  a 
pretty  young  girl  who  was  just  putting 
her hat  on  to go  back  to  work  opened 
the  door  to  me  and  bade  me  welcome 
There  were a  couple  of  pretty  parlors, 
simply  and  tastefully  furnished.  A  good 
carpet  covered  the  floor,  copies  of  fa­
mous  pictures  were  on  the  walls,  there 
were  low  book  cases  full  of  standard 
works,  with  a  piano  in  one  corner  and 
an  open  writing  desk  in  another.  On  a 
table  a  bunch  of  goldenrod  made  a  bit 
of  yellow  glory  and  a  big  bowl  of  Rus 
sian 
lacquer  added  a  touch  of  color 
Lunch  was  just  over,  and  through  an 
open  door  I  could  see  a  table  spread 
with  a  snowy  cloth,  with  another bowl 
of  goldenrod 
it 
seemed  the  pleasantest  and  most  home­
like sort  of  a  place.

the  center,  and 

in 

The  inmates  of  the  Jane  Club  are  all

in 

working  girls,  and  they  could  give  me 
but  a  moment  out  of  their  busy  day  to 
tell  of  their  club.

“ In  the  first  place,”   said  one,  “ the 
Jane  Club  isn’t  a  charity.  We  pay  rent 
and  our  way  as  we  go. 
It  is  simply  a 
very  successful  experiment  in  co-oper­
ative  housekeeping.  Perhaps  the  rea­
son  of  our  success  and  the  reason  why 
so  many  hotels  for  women  have  failed 
is  all  summed  up 
the  matron  or 
chaperon  question.  We  have  none.  We 
go  on  the  principle  that  any  girl  who 
goes  out  into  the  world  and  makes  her 
living  is  capable  of  regulating  her  own 
conduct.  We  each  have  a  latch key  and 
we  come  and  go  unquestioned.

“ It 

isn't  easy  to  get 

into  the  Jane 
Club.  An  applicant  files  her  name,  and 
when  there  is  a  vacancy  she  is  balloted 
on,  and,  if  elected,  pays  $i  initiation 
fee.  From  among  the  members,  who 
usually  average  twenty-five,  a  Presi­
dent,  Treasurer  and  Stewardess  are 
elected.  We  hire  a  cook  and  house­
maid,  and  the  Stewardess  orders  all  the 
meals  Every  two  weeks  a  business 
meeting  is  held,  at  which  any  member 
may  prefer  a  charge  against  another— 
for  unbecoming  conduct,  selfish 
tres­
passing  on  others’  rights,  and  so  on. 
The  offending  member  has  a  chance  to 
defend  herself,  but  if,  in  the  opinion  of 
the  majority,  she  is  wrong,  she  may  be 
voted  out  and  must  leave.  Such  cases 
are  rare,  and  the  harmony  of  the  club  is 
wonderful.

“ The  bedrooms  are  comfortably  fur 
nished,  the  table  and  service  good,  and 
for 
it  all  we  pay  $3  a  week—a  sum  far 
less  than  what  we  would  have  to  pay 
for  the  same  board 
in  any  boarding­
house. 
In  addition,  we  have  the  priv­
ilege  of  entertaining  our  friends  at  the 
rate  of  15  cents  a  meal,  or  for  lodgings, 
besides,  of  course,  being  able  to  receive 
our  callers-m en  and  women—at  any 
time  in  the  parlors.

“ Of  course,  there’s  a  pleasant  social 
side,  too.  We  meet  of  evenings  for  mu­
sic,  games  and  talk  in  the  parlors,  and 
you  can  imagine  that  when  a  lonelv  lit­
tle  country  girl  who  comes  to  town  to 
make  her  living  and  who  has  been  ex­
isting  in  a  dreary  boarding-house  hall 
bedroom,  where  she was  snubbed  by  the 
landlady  and  bullied  by  the  servants, 
gets 
into  the  Jane  Club,  she  feels  like 
its  motto  ought  to  be  ‘ I  was  a  stranger 
and  ye  took  me  in. ’

“ But,  after  all,  the  proof  of  the  pud 
ding 
in  the  eating,  and  the  best 
proof  of  the  success  of  the  Jane  Club  is 
the  fact  that  it  has  outgrown  its  present 
quarters,  and  a  new  and  commodious 
house  is  being  built  for  us.”

is 

The bright  and  wideawake  young  girl 

looked  at  me  reflectively  a  moment.

“ I  don’t  know,”   she  added,  “ but 
what  the  Jane  Club  comes  as  near  meet­
ing  a  long-felt  want  as  anything that has 
ever  been  started. 
I  guess  not  many  of 
us  working  girls  are  drawing  bank- 
president  salaries.  Co-operative  house 
keeping  seems  to  solve  the  problem  of 
the  greatest  comfort  for the least money, 
and  I  don’t  see  why  there  shouldn’t  be 
a  Jane  Club  in  every  city  ”

And  neither  did  I.  Dorothy  Dix.

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THE  "BOSS"  BRAND

RUBBER  INTERLINED 
DUCK  COA T................

The phenomenal demand of last year 
on  this  garment  forced  us  to  cancel 
orders for hundreds  of  dozens,  so  we 
would  advise  our  patrons  to  order 
early.  We are having it manufactured 
expressly for our  trade.

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THE  "BOSS"  BRAND

RUBBER  INTERLINED 
DUCK  CO A T ...............

Made of an  8-oz.  staple  duck, style, 
4-button  single-breasted  sack, 
lined 
with  a  heavy,  warm  blanketing,  3 
outside  pockets  with 
laps,  3^ -inch 
corduroy  storm  collar, black japanned 
rivet  buttons, strong  worked  button­
holes,  lined  with  a  standard  water 
proof rubber, that is guaranteed against 
water or dampness.

The “Boss” Duck Coat  is exactly the 
same as the well-known  Nos.  D8-  ana 
D84 “Pride” Duck Coat of 1897.
4 1 2 3 6 -  Brown  Duck  .. ........ $ 1 1 .0 0
4 1 2 3 7 — Black D uck............... 
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41240  SPECIAL.  The only high  Dos. 
grade full rubber interlined duck coat 
ever  offered  a t  th e  price.  4  button 
single-breasted square cut sack, made 
of an 8 oz. dead grass color duck, warm 
blanket lining,  4 inch  collar,  riveted 
buttons, strong  worked  buttonholes,
2 plain pockets, all body seams double 
stitched.  The interlining used on th is
warranted 
g a r m e n t   is  absolutely 
..............$ 9 - 5 0
.water and damp proof.
4 1 2 4 1   SAME AS 41240, IN BLACK.......  9 - 5 0

4 .1 2 8 2   Style 4 button single-breasted  Doz 

straig h t  cut. coat made of a  standard 
7 oz. brown duck, 1 plain and 2 outside 
pockets w ith laps.  3H  inch  corduroy 
collar, japanned rivet buttons, strong 
worked  buttonholes,  lined  w i t h   a.
fancy pattern blanketing.................. $ 8 .2 5
4 1 2 8 3   M U  AS 41282, IS BLACK....  8 .2 5

4 1 2 3 8   Made  of  a  dead  grass  color  Doz. 

7 oz. standard duck,  a   durable  made 
garm ent for the money.  4 inch collar,
2  outside  pockets,  double  stitched 
body seams, lined with fancy  pattern 
blanketing,  strong  worked  button- 
holes.......................................................$ 7 - 2 5
4 1 2 3 9   SAME AS 41288,  IN BLACK....  7 .2 5

4 9 2   4  button  single  breasted  cut 
Mackinaw  Coat,  made  of  a  30  oz. 
brushed  Mackinaw  blanketing  in  a 
handsome variety of high color Indian 
check  patterns.  Special  feature  of 
m anufacture is represented by double 
stitched felled  seams,  which  guaran­
tees the  durability  of  the  garm ent. 
Other features  include  a   regulation 
pointed end, rolling collar. 2 inch belt 
with  2  belt  tabs,  japanned  harness 
buckle, 2 deep pockets w ith laps; gar­
m ent trimm ed with  fancy  horn  but­
tons................... 
$ 1 2 .5 0
4 Q 3   M 4« kin aw  P a n ts 
82»......................................$12.00
5 8 1   C oil 
Arm)  Blue  Mackinaw  B lanketing.....$13.50

Same  .a   492,  made  of  Plain 

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WEDNESDAY,-----SEPTEMBER 28, 1898.

WHAT  EXPANSION  INVOLVES.
When  war  was declared against Spain, 
it  was  announced  that  there  was  no  in­
tention  on  our  part  to  acquire  territory. 
The  motive  for  taking  up  arms  was  one 
of  pure  philanthropy,  namely,  to  put  an 
end  to  Spanish  oppression  in  Cuba,  and 
island  a  free  and  in­
to  give  to  that 
dependent  government. 
It  may  be 
doubted 
if,  even  at  the  time  war  was 
declared,  thinking  men  were  misled  by 
the  disavowal  of  all  idea  of  conquest, 
and  certainly  no  foreign  nation  was  for 
a  moment  deceived  thereby.

Scarcely  a  week  after  the  outbreak  of 
hostilities,  Admiral  Dewey  destroyed 
the  Spanish  fleet  in  the  Bay  of  Manila. 
This  signal  victory  made  it  at  once  ap­
parent  that  net  only  the  city  of  Manila, 
but  the  whole  Philippine group  was  at 
our  mercy.  This  was  the  signal  for  the 
people  who  bad  advocated  war  with  an 
ulterior  motive  to  show  their  hand. 
There  was  at  once  a  hue  and  cry  raised 
for  the  conquest  and  retention  of  the 
Philippines,  and  the  pressure  was  so 
great that  the  Government promptly took 
steps  to  dispatch  a  force  of  25,000  'men 
to  Manila.

In 

justice  to  the  administration 

it 
should  be  said  that  the  conquest  of  the 
Philippines  was clearly an  afterthought. 
It  is  true  that  Commodore  Dewey,  as 
he  then  was,  was  ordered  to  attack  the 
Spanish  fleet;  but no  thought  of  sending 
troops  was  entertained  until  after  the 
overwhelming  victory  made  the  possi­
bilities  of  the  situation  entirely  clear. 
The  acquisition  of  Porto  Rico  was  un­
doubtedly  not  thought  of  until  after  the 
blockade  of  the  Cuban  coast  was  estab­
lished ;  but  that  there  always  existed  a 
disposition  to  compel  the  annexation  of 
Cuba  there  can  be  no  doubt.  The  pre 
text  of  securing  the  liberation  of  Cuba 
from  Spanish  misrule,  while  it  sounded 
well,  deceived  nobody.

irresistible. 

Once  the  greed  for  conquest  was  ex­
cited  by  the  victory  of  Dewey,  it  was 
not  easily  satiated  until  the  demand  to 
hold  whatever  territory  could  be secured 
became  practically 
The 
warnings  of  conservative  people  calling 
attention  to  the  fact  that  we  were  pre­
paring  future  trouble  and  difficulties 
were  unheeded,  and  the  protocol  which 
Spain  was  compelled  to  accept  before  a 
cessation  of  hostilities  was  decreed  in­
dicated  clearly  that  the  administration 
had  been  fully  won  over  to  the  side  of 
the  expansionists.

Although 

it  can  not  be  claimed  that

the  appetite  of  the  people  for  expansion 
of  territory  has  diminished,  many  are 
beginning  to  realize that  the  holding  of 
the  new  possessions  will  be  attended 
with  many  embarrassments  and  that im­
perial  expansion  will  bring  with  it  new 
and  unwelcome  responsibilities,  as  well 
as  benefits  in  a  trade  sense.  As  nearly 
all  the  new  territory 
is  situated  in  a 
tropical  climate,  in  which  it  is  difficult 
for  people  used  to  the  temperate  zone 
to  live  with  safety,  there  will be obvious 
difficulties  experienced 
in  colonizing. 
The  populations of  our  new  possessions 
will,  therefore,  remain  for  a  very  long 
time  essentially  foreign,  with  a  differ­
ent  language  and  different  customs. 
In 
order  to  maintain  proper  order,  large 
garrisons  will  be  needed.  Here another 
difficulty  presents 
itself:  The  experi­
ence  of  our  troops 
in  Santiago  shows 
that  American  soldiers can not  be  main­
tained 
in  the  tropical  climate  of  Cuba 
and  Porto  Rico  without  much  sickness 
and  death.  The  maintenance  of  order 
in  our  new  possessions  will,  therefore, 
present  problems  of  great  difficulty,  all 
of  which 
is  calculated  to  temper  the 
ardor  of  the  extreme  expansionists.

TO  BE  ARBITRATED.

if  another 

A  day  or two  ago  it  looked  very  much 
as 
important  war  was  to  be 
fought  before  the  close  of  the  present 
year.  Chili  was  reported  to  have  sent 
an  ultimatum  to  Argentina,  demanding 
that  the 
latter  country  must  agree  to 
submit  the  boundary  dispute  which  has 
existed  for  so  long  between  the  two  for 
arbitration  within  the  five  days  follow­
ing.  This  action  was  promptly  followed 
by  the  mobilization  of  the  army  of  Ar­
gentina,  so  that  for  the  time  matters 
looked  very  bellicose.

Fortunately,  wiser  counsels  prevailed, 
and  Argentina  finally  agreed  to  submit 
the  matter  to  the  arbitration  of  a friend­
ly  power.  This  decision  has  greaty  re­
lieved  the  situation,  and  has  prevented 
a  war  which  would  have  been  disastrous 
to  both  countries,  as  both  possess  re­
sources  sufficient  to  make  a  very  spirit­
ed  fight,  and  both  have been  preparing 
for  the  conflict  for  some  time. 
It  is 
this  knowledge  of  mutual  preparation 
that  probably  preserved  the  peace.

It  is  a  matter  for  congratulation  that 
this  expected  conflict  has  been  averted, 
as  such  a  war  would  have  done  much 
damage  to 
international  traffic.  Both 
countries  enjoy  considerable  foreign 
trade  which  would  have  greatly  suffered 
from  a  conflict.

Marshal  Halstead,  United  States  Con­
sul  at  Birmingham,  England,  says  that 
American  shoe  manufacturers  need  not 
try  to  invade  the  English  market  unless 
they  take  the  trouble  to  find  out  what 
styles are wanted over there.  He refers to 
one  maker  who  has sent  a  large consign 
ment  of  shoes  to  Birmingham,  going  to 
much  expense  in  doing  so.  He  has  sent 
three  styles—patent  leather 
laced,  calf­
skin  buttoned  and  tan  laced.  To  suit 
the  English  taste,  the  patent  leathers 
should  have  been  buttoned  and  the  calf­
skin  laced.  American  uppers,  particu­
larly  the  patent  leather  uppers,  are  far 
in  advance  of  anything  to  be obtained 
for a  similar  price  in  England,  but  all 
of  the  shoes  sent  over  are too  lightly 
soled  to  suit  the  climatic  conditions  of 
the  island. 

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It  has been ascertained that plate-glass 
will  make  a  more  durable  monument 
than  the  hardest  granite.  This  will  not 
interest  politicians  who  expect  to  make 
enduring  fame  by  making  blatherskite 
speeches  on  the  duty  of  fbe  hour.

is 

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
The  only  exception  to  conditions  in 
industries  of  the  country  which 
the 
would  seem  to  guarantee  healthy  activ­
ity  and 
improving  values  is  found  in 
the  cotton  trade  The  chronic  condition 
of  unprofitable  prices 
in  the  product 
which  has  so  long  affected  the  Eastern 
manufacturers 
further  complicated 
by  such  an  abundance  in  the  crop  that 
the  price  for  raw  cotton  has  fallen  be­
low 
its  record  for  fifty  years.  This 
makes  the  cost  of  transportation  and 
handlers’  profits  relatively  so  great  that 
it  gives  the  Southern  mills  such  an  ad­
vantage  that  the  prospect  looks  dubious 
enough  for  the  old  manufacturers.  But 
while  conditions  seem  so  universally  fa­
vorable,  there  are  most  unaccountable 
reaction  and  dulness  in  the  New  York 
stock  markets.  The hardening  of  money 
rates  which  caused  quite  a  flurry  last 
week  only  served  to  show  the  strength 
of  the  situation,  as  the  demands  on  the 
foreign  debtors  quickly  showed  how 
practically  unlimited 
is  the  suppoit  of 
the  trade  balance  in  our  favor.  But  the 
speculative  reaction 
in  many  of  the 
leading  stocks  keeps  up  with  a  persist­
ency  decidedly  unexpected.  The  first 
in  sugar  stock  would  seem  to 
reaction 
be  sufficiently  accounted 
for  by  the 
later  rumors  of  an  opposing  combina­
tion,  but  the  only  observable  cause  of 
decline  in  the  other  trust  stocks  and  of 
dulness  in  railway  shares  is  the  manip­
ulation  of  operators.  General  market 
conditions  continue  uniformly  favorable 
and  railway  earnings  are  meeting  all 
reasonable  expectations.

The  general  tendency  of  the  wheat 
and  other  grain  markets  has  been  to­
ward  greater  steadiness,  with  improving 
values. 
Export  demand,  while  not 
equal  to  the  phenomenal  outgo  of  last 
year,  is  fully  meeting  reasonable  expec­
tations  and  altogether  the  outlook  would 
indicate  a  continued  demand  at  near 
the  present  level.

in  prices 

The  most  encouraging  features  still 
continue  in  the  metal  industries.  Noth­
ing  like  an  unhealthy  or  flighty  move­
ment 
is  seen,  but  they  are 
slowly  advancing,  last  week  recording 
slight  gains  of  $1  a  ton  or  less  in  East­
ern  plate  and  bars,  wire  nails  and  cen­
tral  bars.  No  further  rise  occurred  in 
pig,  but  it  is  supposed  that  the  combi­
nation  of  Valley  producers  can  now 
maintain  the  price  of  Bessemer,  and 
the  orders  for  finished  products  have 
become  so  large  that  few  think  it  will 
be  possible  to  avoid  a  general  improve­
ment  in  prices.  The  coke  output  has 
again 
in 
price,  and  a’so  the  production  of  minor 
metals,  with 
the  markets  generally 
strong.

increased  without  change 

The  unfavorable  feature  of  the cotton 
manufacture  and  trade  seems  to  have  a 
sympathetic 
influence  upon  the  woolen 
goods  market,  which  is  reported  as  dull 
in  many 
lines.  The  boot  and  shoe 
manufacture  at  the  East  is  still  ship­
ping  more  cases  than  ever  before  in  the 
corresponding  month.

On  account  of  the  speculative  dulness 
in  Wall  Street  the  record  of  bank  clear­
ings  falls  slightly  below  that  of  the  cor­
responding  time 
last  year;  but  it  must 
be  considered  that  the  volume  at  that 
time  was  unprecedented,  and  so,  while 
there  is  a  little  less  according to present 
reports,  it 
is  still  unusually  heavy  for 
the  season.

IS  THE  TREATY  IN  THE  WAY? 
Many  of  the  papers  in  this  country 
are  just  now  discussing  the  possible  ob­
stacle  that  exists  in  the  Clayton-Bulwer

treaty  to  the  construction  and 
inde­
pendent  control  by  the  United  States  of 
the  Nicaragua  canal.

is  still 

its  terms 

That  treaty  was  made  between  the 
United  States  and  Great Britain  in  1850, 
and  by 
it  was  agreed  that 
neither  nation  should  attempt  to  main­
tain  exclusive  control  over  the  Nicara­
gua  canal,  that  neither  should  build 
any  fortifications  near 
it,  nor  occupy 
nor  exercise  dominion  over  any  part  of 
If  England  holds 
Central  America. 
that  this  treaty 
in  force,  she 
could  give  us  much  trouble  if  we  un­
dertook  to  construct  the  canal  on  our 
own  account  and  control  and  fortify  it.
Such  an  eminent  authority  as  Mr. 
Blaine  contended  that  England  has  ren­
dered  the  agreement  null  and  void  by 
her  action  since  it  was  framed. 
It  has 
been  taken  for  granted  for  a  number  of 
years  that  there  is  no  vital  force  left 
in 
the  treaty  and  the  discussions  in  Con­
gress  have  proceeded  on  the  theory  that 
the  way  was  open  for  us  to  build  the 
canal  for  ourselves  whenever  we  were 
ready.

It 

its  control. 

is  not  at  all  likely  that  England 
would  offer  the 
least  objection  to  our 
construction  of  this  waterway  or  claim 
any  voice  in 
If,  however, 
there  is  the  least  question  in  that  direc­
tion  there 
is  no  better  time  than  the 
present  to  ask  for  an  abrogation  of  this 
Clayton-Bulwer  treaty.  The  good  feel 
ing  existing  between  the  two  nations 
and  England's  need  of  our  friendship 
would  doubtless  quickly  secure  the  end 
sought.  We  must  sweep  away  every  ob­
stacle  to  the  speedy  construction  of  the 
canal  and  insist upon Congress promptly 
authorizing  the  beginning  of  the  work.

The  ordnance  depaitment  of the  navy 
disposes  effectually  of  the  stories  of  the 
enormous  cost  of  projectiles  fired  by  the 
fleets,  at  Santiago  and  elsewhere  in  the 
late  war.  These  stories  put  the  cost%  of 
ammunition  and  shells  used  at  Santiago 
alone  at  $2,000,000!  The  department 
reports  the  cost  of  ammunition  used  by 
Dewey,  at  Manila,  May  1,  as  $47,000 
and  the  cost  of  ammunition  used  at 
Santiago, 
in 
destroying  Cervera’s  squadron,  “ not  to 
exceed  $100  000!”

in  bombardments  and 

The  run  of  the  Oregon 

from  San 
Francisco  to  Jupiter  Inlet  was  a  great 
achievement,  and  the  subsequent  work 
of  the  battleship  put  its  name  high  in 
the  glorious  history  of  the  American 
navy.  But  jackies  are  human  and  have 
ideas  of  their  own  about  what  is  enough 
of  a  good  thing.  The  prospect  of  a  re­
turn  voyage  around  South  America 
doesn’t  rejoice  them,  and 
said 
nearly  a  third  of  the  old  crew  have  de­
serted  since  the  return  program  was 
made  known!

'tis 

One  sign  of  returning  prosperity  is 
the  offer,  made  last  week,  of  $26,000  for 
a  seat  in  the New York Stock Exchange, 
with  no  seller. 
In  fact,  no  seats  are  be­
ing  offered  at  any  price.  After  tfe 
panic  year  of  1893,  seats  were  sold  for 
as  low  as  $13.000.

This  is  the  season  for  horse  races held 
in  pious  counties  under  the  name  of  ag­
ricultural  fairs.

Vesuvius  is  ready  to  throw  up  every­
thing  for  the  sake  of  keeping  before the 
public. 

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The  professional  politician  always 
wants  an  office;  and  most  always  wants 
a  drink.

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9

LARGER  ARMY  AND  NAVY.

Now  that  sufficient  time  has  elapsed 
for  the  heads  of  the  army  and  navy  to 
fully  consider  the  new  conditions  which 
the  result  of  the  war  with  Spain  has 
brought  about,  plans  are  taking  shape 
for  such  reorganization  of  our  military 
strength  as  will  properly  meet  the  new 
necessities  which  have  arisen.  Noth­
ing  is  now  clearer  than  that  we  will  no 
longer  be  able  to  get  along  with  the 
small  army  and  the  moderate  naval  es­
tablishment  which  were  found  sufficient 
previous  to  the  w ar;  hence it is evident­
ly  wise  to  begin  preparing  plans  for  re­
organization  well 
in  advance  of  the 
meeting  of  Congress.

The addition  to  our  domain  of  Porto 
Rico,  Cuba.  Hawaii,  the  Ladrone  Is­
lands  and  the  Philippines,  and  no  one 
seriously  doubts  that  all  of  these islands 
will  become  American  possessions  be­
fore  the  year  is  out,  makes  it  necessary 
that  sufficient  garrisons  be  maintained 
in  each,  not  only  to  command  respect 
for  law,  but  to  hold  in  check  the  tur- 
buler t  elements 
in  the  populations  of 
the  new  territories.  As  conditions  are 
anything  but  favorable  to  peace  and 
in  most  of  these  islands,  strong 
quiet 
forces  of  military  will  be  needed. 
In 
Cuba  an  army  of  occupation,  rather 
than  a  garrison,  will  be  required.

Of  course,  for  the  present  the  country 
will  have  to  depend  on  the  volunteers 
for  the  troops  necessary  to  furnish  gar­
risons  for  the  conquered  territory ;  but 
it  was  never 
intended  that  volunteers 
should  do  garrison  duty 
in  time  of 
peace;  hence,  as soon as Congress meets, 
steps  will  have  to  be taken to so increase 
the  regular  army  as  to  meet  the  new  re­
quirements.  Of  course,  until  Congress 
passes  the  necessary  legislation,  the  vol­
unteers  will  have  to  remain  in  service.
A  bill  has  already  been  prepared  for 
prompt  introduction  as  soon as Congress 
assembles  providing  for  an  increase  of 
the  regular  army  to  100,000  men. 
is 
estimated  that  this  number  of  men  will 
be  required  to  properly garrison the  new 
possessions  and  at  the  same  time  fur­
nish  a  sufficient  military  guard forborne 
protection. 
It  is  estimated  that  at  least 
this  number  of  troops  will  be  required 
for  several  years  to  come,  and  probably 
is  estimated  that  at 
permanently. 
in 
least  25,000  men  will  be  required 
the  Philippines,  about  8,000 
in  Porto 
Rico,  fully  40,000 
in  Cuba,  and  1,000 
in  Hawaii,  leaving  the  balance  for  duty 
at  home.

It 

It 

The  opposition  to  a 

large  standing 
army  which  has  existed 
in  Congress 
heretofore  was  based  upon  conditions 
which  no  longer  exist.  The  acquisition 
of  distant  possessions  inhabited  by  peo­
ple  unlike  our  own  in  language  and  in­
stitutions  makes  necessary  a  reorgani 
zation  of  our  military  forces.

It 

is  probable  that  Congress  will  be 
readily  induced  to  grant  the  increase  in 
the  regular  army  asked  for,  at  least  for 
some  years,  because  the  pressure  to 
have  volunteers  released  from  service 
will overcome all scruples and prejudices 
based  upon  fears  of  the  power  of  a large 
standing  army  as  a  menace  to  popular 
rights.  An  army  of  100,000  men  is, 
moreover,  far  from 
large  for  a  country 
such  as  ours.  Many  of  the  unimportant 
countries  of  Europe  maintain  a  larger 
force  than  that.

Plans  are  also  progressing  for  the  re­
organization  of  the  navy.  Previous  to 
the  war  the  enlisted  strength  of  the  per­
sonnel  of  the  fleet  was  11,000  This 
force  will  no  longer  suffice  to  man  the 
number  of  ships  now  required  to  meet 
the  new  demands  upon our naval  estab­

A  curious  question  has  arisen  in  New 
Jersey  concerning  a  gravestone. 
It 
seems  that the  relatives  of  a  person  who 
is  buried  in  a  cemetery  at  Elizabeth de­
sire  to  perpetuate  his  memory,  in  ac­
cordance  with  his  express  wish,  by 
placing  at  the  grave  a 
large  boulder 
which  has  been  brought  from  bis  farm 
and  adorned  with  a  suitable inscription. 
The  appearance  of  the  huge stone  is  not 
satisfactory,  however,  to  some  of  the 
neighboring  lot  owners,  and  at  their  in­
stance  the  authorities  of  the  cemetery 
it  to  be  placed 
have  refused  to  allow 
therein.  The  rights  of 
lot  owners  in 
respect  to  the  monuments  which  they 
may  erect  must  depend  upon  the  par­
ticular  contract  with  the  cemetery  as­
sociation,  or  upon  the  statutes  of  the 
state  in  which  the  cemetery  is  situated. 
It  is  usual  for  the  proprietary  corpora 
tion  to  reserve  for  itself  the  power of 
final  control  in  such  matters,  and  where 
that  power  is  exercised  with  discretion 
there  is  rarely  any  difficulty.  There  are 
in  which  natural 
many 
boulders  have  been  erected 
into  very- 
suitable  and  handsome  monuments.

cemeteries 

An  Arkansan  named  Dawson  writes 
to  the  postmaster at  Fort  Smith,  inclos­
ing  a  circular  which  he  wishes  placed 
in  a  conspicuous  place  in  the postoffice. 
Mr.  Dawson  has  a  theory  for  regener­
ating  mankind  by  doing  away  with  and 
suppressing  crime.  His  belief 
is  that 
mixed  and  careless  marriages  are  re­
sponsible  for  crime  and  criminals,  and 
that 
if  only  well-mated  people  marry 
there  will  be  no  crime,  for  their  off 
spring  will  be  incapable  of  committing 
crime.  He  asks  all  who  read  his  cir 
culars  to  urge  Congress  to  frame  a 
law 
regulating  marriages.  He  thinks  if  peo 
pie  of base morals,  drunkards,  gamblers 
thieves  and  robbers  be  restrained  from 
marrying  there  will  be  no  crime.  He 
the  marriage  of  weak- 
would 
minded  or  sickly  persons.  His 
law 
would  also  make  marriage  impossible 
for  people  unable  to  read  or  write,  and 
he  would  require  that  every  male  have 
at  least  $500  as  a  prerequisite  to  a 
license  to  marry._________

forbid 

The  Emperor  of  China  wishes  to  fur­
nish  his  kingdom  with  all  the  modern 
improvements.  He 
is  preparing  a 
double-action  bear  trap  for  Russia.

lishment.  New  ships  are  nearing  com­
pletion  and  others  have  been  added  to 
the  fleet  during  the  war.  All  these  ves 
sels  will  be  needed  to  properly  safe­
guard our  interests  and  police the waters 
of  our  new  possessions.  The  Navy  De­
is  reported,  proposed  to 
partment,  it 
ask  an 
in  the  authorized  en­
listed  strength  to  20,000  men.  Some  in­
crease  will  also  have  to  be  made  in  the 
complement  of  officers;  but  this  subject 
is  difficult  to  handle,  and  will  be  ap­
proached  with  delicacy.

increase 

Congress  will  probably  make  less  op­
position  to  the  increase  demanded  for 
the  navy  than  it  will  in  the  case  of  the 
increase  for  the  army.  The  navy  has 
popularized  itself  during  the  recent  war 
by  its  brilliant  achievements  and  there 
is  a  strong  sentiment 
in  favor  of  in­
creasing 
it.  The  Navy  Department 
would,  therefore,  do  well  to  take fuli ad­
vantage  of  existing  popular  sentiment 
and  put  the  fleet  upon  a  proper  footing. 
If  the  present  opportunity  be  allowed  to 
pass,  popular  enthusiasm  may  grow 
cold,  and  the  representatives  of  the 
people  prove  less  disposed  to  be  liberal 
when,  later  on,  the  cost,  and  not  the 
glory,  of the  war  will  command  their  at­
tention. 

.

ACCESS TO WORLD’S INDUSTRIES 
There  is  naturally  much  enquiry as  to 
what  effect  the  acquisition  of  new  ter 
ritory  as  a  result  of  the  war  will  have 
in  the  direction  of  new  openings  for 
American  enterprise  The 
islands  in 
question  are  possessed  of  great  capa­
bilities  of 
industrial  development  and 
the  operations  of  the  campaigns  have 
advertised  these  so  that  the  attention 
of  many  thousands,  especially  of  those 
who  are  crowding  the  ranks  of  the 
in­
dustrial  professions—graduates  of  tech­
nical  schools,  etc.— is  directed  toward 
them  as  possible  openings  for  profitable 
employment.  But,  while  the  eventual 
results  in  this  direction  will  undoubted­
ly  be  considerable,  it  must  be  taken  in 
to  the  account  that  in  all  this  territory 
the  social  and  industrial  elements are  in 
a  state  of  chaotic  disorganization,  and 
not  only  so,  but  the  difficulties  to  be 
overcome 
in  dealing  with  the  racial 
incapacity  of  the  various  peoples  are 
very  great.  Thus  those  who  acted  upon 
the 
impulse  to  be  among  the  first  on 
the  field  are  already  returning,  some 
with  such  discouragement  that  their 
ambition  will  seek  other  channels  and 
others  to  wait  until  conditions  shall  be 
more  propitious.

concern  to  British  employers  and  work­
men  that  Americans  were  steadily  and 
surely  gaining 
in  the  ability  to  send 
manufactures  of  iron  and  steel and other 
metals  into  Sheffield,  Birmingham  and 
London.  While  the  markets  had  been 
disputed  successfully  in  completed  ma­
chinery,  and  especially  electrical  ap­
paratus,  less  attention  had  been  given 
to  the 
increase  of  orders  for  tools  and 
materials  which  was  quietly  but  alarm- 
ingly  gaining. 
American  enterprise 
had  outrun  English  conservatism  until 
automatic  machinery  and  its  products 
commanded  the  field  in  the  British cen­
ters.  That  the  English  workmen  were 
slow  to  yield  to  the  inevitable  is  shown 
by  the  long  and  bitter  struggle  against 
machinery  which  they  have  just  fought 
to  a  disastrous  conclusion  as  far as  such 
conservative  unionism  is  concerned.

compelled 

The  particular  point  in  which  Eng­
lish  mechanical  arts  have  proved  most 
vulnerable  is  that  of  exactness.  When 
mechanical  progress 
the 
adoption  of 
improved  and  automatic 
machinery  it  was  made  with  the  utmost 
reluctance  and  little  care  was  given  to 
the  securing  of  exactness  in  forms  in all 
stages  of  manufacture.  On  the  other 
hand,  America  has  been  the  home  of 
practical  mechanical  accuracy,  not  only 
in  the  finished  product,  but 
in  every 
stage  of  manufacture.  Thus  the  making 
of  malleable  castings  has  attained  a  de­
gree  of  perfection  which  reduces  the 
finishing  operations  to a  minimum.  The 
same  accuracy 
rolled, 
dropped  and  stamped  forms,  so  that 
these  are  prepared  for the  best efficiency 
of  the  automatic  machines  which  are  to 
convert  them  into  finished  products. 
In 
various  ways  the  American  manufac­
turers  have  found  oppottunity  to  have 
these  forms  tried  by  the  English  work­
men  and  there  is  little  trouble 
in  sup­
planting  the  cruder  forms  which  had 
handicapped  the  performance  of  their 
machinery,  especially  when  it  is  found 
that  the  American  product  can  actually 
compete  in  price.

obtains 

in 

The  opportunities  of  the  Spanisb- 
American  war  found  conditions  ripe  for 
the  assertion  of  American  superiority 
in  all  the  leading  industrial  arts;  so, 
while  the  effects  in  increased  territorial 
opportunity  are  comparatively  insignifi­
cant,  the  opportunities  made possible  in 
the  world’s  industries  are  unlimited.  It 
is  significant,  in  this  connection,  to note 
that  the  Russian  Emperor  has 
just 
awarded  a  $1,000,000  contract  to  the 
Westinghouse  air  brake  manufacturers. 
The  condition  that  the  brakes  shall  be 
in  Russia  compels  the  building 
made 
of  a  branch 
factory  in  that  country. 
This  will  be  built  and  operated  by 
American 
engineers  and  mechanics 
and  will  no  doubt  become  a  permanent 
enterprise  on  account  of  the  continued 
development  of  the  Russian railway sys­
tems.

Ail  the  n  tions  of  the  earth  are  ready 
to  acknowledge  the  supremacy  of Amer­
ican  mechanical  practice.  The  oppor­
tunities  thus  opened  to  our  engineers 
and  artisans  are 
It  only  re­
mains  for  us  to  avail  ourselves  of  these 
opportunities  and  to  lead  the  world  on 
to  higher  planes of development  in every 
region.

infinite. 

Apropos of the damaging disclosures of 
the  State  Chemist  relative  to  the  goods 
sold  by  the  W.  M.  Hoyt  Company,  the 
Saginaw  Storekeeper  pertinently  sug­
gests  that  it  would  be  well  for  retail 
dealers  who  handle  the  Hoyt  goods  to 
provide  their  customers  with  zinc-lined 
stomachs.

in  our 

There  is  no  question  but  that  this  ex­
tension  of  territory  with 
its  peculiar 
productions  is  a  matter  of  great  impor­
tance 
industrial  future.  Even 
the  restoration  of  the  commerce  which 
existed  before  the  insurrection  is  a mat­
ter  of  great  importance,  but  the  expec­
tation  of  any  great  consequences  in  the 
way  of  new  development  will  be  slow 
of  realization,  and  years  must  pass  be­
fore  the  natural  conservatism  of  the 
Spanish  character  and  the  consequences 
of  Spanish  misrule  can  be  overcome  to 
the  extent  of  producing  material  re­
sults.

But,  while  there  may  be  disappoint­
ment  as  to  the  narrower  effects  of  the 
contest,  there  will  be  ample  compensa­
tion  in  the  broader  and  less  direct  con­
sequences.  Much  has  already  been 
written  upon  the  effects 
in  increased 
scientific  and  mechanical  prestige,upon 
the  demand  for  American  ships,  arms 
and  apparatus;  but  not  all  realize  the 
extent  to  which  American  mechanical 
science 
in  every 
field  of  industry—the  most  peaceful  as 
well  as  the  more  warlike. 
In  the  con­
sideration  of  this  subject,  however,  the 
conditions  which  made  the  war  of  such 
significance 
industrially  are  apt  to  be 
overlooked.  More  is  credited  to  Amer­
ican  prowess  than  to  the  high  develop­
ment  of  mechanical  science  which  had 
preceded  and  made  possible  such  as­
tounding  results.

is  being  recognized 

in 

In  many 

As a  matter  of  fact,  the  degree  of  ac­
curacy  and  perfection  attained  in  prac­
tical  mechanical  production 
this 
country 
is  much  higher  as  compared 
with  all  others  than  is  realized  even  by 
many  who  have  given  the  subject  con­
industries,  as  in 
sideration. 
in  many 
the  bicycle  manufacture  and 
mechanical  and  electrical 
inventions, 
we  had  begun  to  compel  attention  be­
fore  the  opportunity  of  the  Spanish con 
test.  Already  we  were  sending  more 
accurately-prepared  tools  and  materials 
into  the  very  centers  of  British  manu­
facture  than  English  workmen  had  ever 
seen,  and  that  at  prices  to  command 
their  use.  Thus  the  conditions  were 
already  ripe  for  the  demand  for  indus­
trial  recognition  and  only  the  oppor­
tunity  for  such  a  demonstration  as  was 
afforded  by  the  war  was  wanting  to 
bring  the  needed  crisis.

It  has 

long  been  a  matter  of  serious

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Shoes  and  Leather
Popular  Things  in  Footwear—Four­

teen “Nevers.”

A  great  deal  of  attention 

is  being 
paid  to  footwear  this  season,  and  every 
device  possible  for comfort and elegance 
can  be  found  in  the  infinite  variety  of 
shoes  on  exhibition.  Of  course,  com 
fort 
is  the  first  essential  to  be  consid­
ered  in  buying  shoes.  A  great  many  of 
the  popular 
the 
“ smart”   toe,  which  is  extremely sharp ; 
is  so  shaped  that  it  can 
but 
not  accommodate 
itself  to  such  narrow 
quarters,  the  medium  or  square  toe  is 
considered  as  fashionable.  A  dressy 
tie  for  street  wear,  which  has  the  wide 
toe, 
in  three  varieties—the 
blacking  ca’f,  tan  Russia  or  the  smart 
glace  kid  with  the  Louis  XV.  heel.

come  with 

if  a  foot 

is  found 

styles 

Women  have  entered  into  out-of-door 
sports  with  so  much  earnestness  that 
outing  shoes  have  been  brought  to  a 
high  state  of  beauty  and  perfection.  A 
pretty  cycling  tie,  and  one  which  will 
be  found  particularly  comfortable 
in 
warm  weather,  is  of  soft  leather,  made 
with  ventilated  tops.  When  these  are 
worn  with  stockings  of  a  contrasting 
color  the  effect  is  striking.  These  ties 
have  also  ribbed  soles,  to  prevent  the 
feet  slipping  on  the  pedals.

Among  the  daintiest  slippers for even 
ing  wear  are  those  with  the  mock  jewel 
buckles,  and  the  young  woman  who  is 
fortunate  enough  to  possess  those  beau­
tiful  buckles  of  real  jewels  which  were 
worn  by  her  great-grandmother  will 
find  herself  the  envy  of  all  beholders 
she  but  utilizes  them  in  this  way.

The  white  oxford  tie,  which  looks  so 
well  when worn  with white gowns,  comes 
in  canvas,  either  plain  or  ornamental 
with  white  kid  toe  caps  and  facings.

Patent  leather 

slippers  have  been 
more  popular this  season  than  for  some 
time  past.  They  are  worn  with  every 
kind  of  gown,  from  a  white  duck  to  a 
tulle  ball  dress  The  style  most  fre 
quently  seen 
is  a  sort  of  adaptation  of 
the  pumps  worn  a  hundred  years  ago 
The  toe  is  rather broad  and  round,  and 
the  tongue  is  almost  disproportionately 
long.  Large  set  or  jet  buckles  are  the 
finish  sometimes,  sewn  over  a 
large 
bow.  The  heels  are  light  and  some 
times  red,  in which  case  the  bows are  of 
the  same  color.  These  attractive  foot 
coverings  are,  however,  perilous  for  the 
health  of  the  feet  and  for  the  temper  of 
the  wearer. 
Patent  leather  "draws’ 
the  flesh  invariably,  and  has been called 
the  friend  of  the  chiropodist.

In  speaking  of  shoes  the  following 
“ nevers”   by  Dr.  Samuel  Appleton  may 
be  of  interest:

1.  Never  wear  a  shoe  that  will  not 
allow  the  great  toe  to  lie  in  a  straight 
line.

2.  Never  wear  a  shoe  with  a  sole 
narrower  than  the  outline  of  the  foot 
traced  with  a  pencil  close  under  the 
rounding  edge.

3.  Never  wear  a  shoe  that  pinches 

the heel.

4.  Never  wear  a  shoe  or  boot so large 
in 

in  the  heel  that  the  foot  is  not  kept 
place.

5.  Never  wear  a  shoe  or  boot  tight 

anywhere

6.  Never  wear  a  shoe  or boot  that 
has  depressions  in  any  part  of  the  sole 
to  drop  any  joint  or bearing  below  the 
level  plane.

7.  Never  wear  a  shoe  with  a  sole 
turning  up  very  much  at  the  toes,  as 
this  causes  the  cords  on  the  upper  part 
of  the  foot  to  contract.

8.  Never  wear  a  shoe  that  presses 

up  into  the  hollow  of  the  foot.

9.  Never  have  the  top  of  the  boots 
ght,  as  it  interferes  with  the  action  of
the  calf  muscles,  makes  one  walk  badly 
and  spoils  the  shape  of  the  ankle.

0.  N ever  come  from  high  heels  to 

low  heels  at  one  jump.

t.  Never  wear  one  pair  of  shoes  all 
the  time,  unless  obliged  to  do  so.  Two 
pairs  of  boots  worn  a  day  at  a  time  al­
ternately  give  more  service  and  are 
much  more  healthful.

12  Never  wear 

leather  sole  linings 
to  stand  upon ;  white  cotton  drilling  or 
inen 
is  much  better  and  more  health­
ful.

in  mind  that 

13.  Never  wear  a  short  stocking,  or 
one  which,  after  being  washed,  is  not 
at  least  one-half 
inch  longer  than  the 
foot. 
stockings 
shrink;  be  sure  that  they  will  allow 
your  toes  to  spread  out  at  the  extreme 
end,  as  this  keeps  the  joints  in  place 
and  makes  a  strong  and  attractive  foot. 
As  to  shape  of  stockings,  the  single 
digital  or  “ one-toe  stocking”  
is  the 
best.

Bear 

14.  Never  think  that  the  feet  will 
grow  large  from  wearing  proper  shoes; 
pinching  and  distorting  makes  them 
grow  not  only  large,  but  unsightly.  A 
proper  natural  use  of  all  the  muscles 
makes  them  compact  and  attractive.— 
New  York  Tribune.

Grandmother’s  Hands.

Crippled and bent and  marked with toil. 
Grandmother’s hands are busy all  day;
They sew on the buttons and  patch  up  the holes. 
They  take up the toys and put them away.
They smooth the pillow for Johnnie’s head;
They find a cure for his every pain;
Thev cover his kite and mend his sled.
And they  tie the string to his railroad train.

They find the sweets that make him glad;
They spank him, too, when Johnnie is bad,

They sprinkle with sunshine all of his cares; 
Then dry again his bitter tears.

In years to come, when Johnnie’s feet 
Tread cheerless paths of other lands,
Deep in his  manly heart he’ll bless 
Both spanks and gifts of  those dear old hands

Some  female  member  of  the  Pullman 
family  gets  or  used  to  get  $10,000 a year 
for  doing  nothing  but 
thinking  up 
names  for  sleeping  cars.  To  one  not 
accustomed  to  mental  labor  this  may 
seem  an  easy 
job;  but  young  parents 
with  twins  and  a shoe manufacturer with 
a  batch  of  new  and  unchristened  shoes 
on  hand  know  better. 
It  is  a  mighty 
bard  thing  to  find  a  name  that  just 
seems  to  fit  any  new  thing  whether it  be 
a  baby  or  a  shoe  and  no  one  knows  it 
better  than  the  man  who  is  in  the  busi­
ness.

When  a  man  ¡s’ ashamed  to  look  in  a 
mirror  it  is  a  safe  bet  that  his  wife buys 
his  neckties.

We  have

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II

Proper  Profits  and  How  to  Maintain 

Them

Undoubtedly  a  great  many  merchants 
of  the  old  school  will  disagree  with  this 
article.

Just  as  sure  as  “ grass  is  green  and 
violets  blue”   you  are  in  a dangerous  rut 
if  you  do.

In  country  towns  the  majority  of  foot­
wear  for  ladies’  and  gents’  wear  retails 
at  $1.25  to  $2

Watch  the  evolution  of  the  following 

illustration:

You  purchase  a  pair of  shoes  for $1 
Apparent 

for  $1.25. 

and  sell  them 
profit,  25  cents.

Profit  less  laces,  button  hooks  and 

button  fasteners,  20 to  23  cents.

Loss  by  freight,  rent, 

taxes,  clerk 
hire,  bad  debts,  insurance,  etc.,  3  to  5 
per  cent.

Net  profit,  17  to  20  per  cent.
To  make  $170 to $200,  1,000 pairs must- 

be  sold.

You  are  a  long  time  doing  it.
Remedy,  for  city  or  country :
Buy the  best  $1  shoe  you  can  find.
Sell  same  for  $1.50 and  you  will 

in­
crease  your  surplus  of  profits 
in  the 
bank,  and  people  will  commence  to 
look  up  to  you.

Instead  of  eating  two  meals  a  day 
you  can  commence  to  eat  three  and  en­
joy  the  bard  earned  fruits  of  your labor.
To  repeat,  you  are  in  a  dangerous  rut 
if  you  think  the  25  per  cent,  profit  of 
ten  years  ago  will  keep  yourself  and 
family  living  as  good  American citizens 
should  live  at  the  present  time.

Twelve  to  fifteen  years  ago  we  had  in 
stock,  practically,  two  styles  of 
ladies’ 
dress  shoes,  a  plain  opera  and  a  com­
mon  sense  toe.
At  present 

it  would  make  our  eyes

ache  and  our  heads  swim  to  count  the 
styles.

What  has  become  of  the  25  per  cent, 

profit  made  on  razor  and  needle  toes?

“ Gone  where  the  woodchuck  whin- 

eth, ”   etc.

If  you  have  a  pair  in  stock,  try  to sell 
them  at  cost,  work  hard  and  see  how 
you  feel  when  through  with  your  cus­
tomer.

You  can’t  give  them  away.
You  think  the  same  thing  won’t  hap­

pen  again.

Within  twelve  months  your  Bulldogs 
will  be  a  dog  in  the  manger—won’t  eat 
nor  let  you  eat.

Your  Coins  will  be  as  dead  stock  as 

the  tariff  issue.

Back  to  the  original  thought—
What  will  become  of  your  profit  of  25 

per  cent. ?

When  the  present  styles  are  all  dis­
posed  of  what  will  be  left  for  a  rainy 
.  day?  Echo  answers,  What!

What  applies  to  footwear  sold  at $1.25 

applies  to  all  qualities.

Ask  a  profit  of  from  50  per  cent,  up 

until  you  fell  a  twinge  of  conscience.

Sell  while  new,  fresh  and  in  style  for 

as  much  as  you  can.

When  they  begin  to  lag  put  the  knife 

in  way  up  to  the  hilt.

Remember  that  if  the  style  of  toe 

is 
two  weeks behind  “ the  push”   then  vig­
orous  measures  must be  used  to  dispose 
of  them.

Take  the  cartons  off  the  shelves,  pile 
them  up  on  a  table,  stand  off  and  ad­
dress  them  in  the  words  of  the 
im­
mortal  poet,  “ Be  thou  a  goblin damned, 
avaunt  and  quit  my  sight!  Vamoose  the 
ranch!  Skeddaddle!  G it!”

After  venting  your  feelings  put  a 
price  upon  them  that  will  make  them 
move.

Keep  account  of  what  you  lose.
When  the  last  pair  is  sold  take  a  day 
off,  figure  up  and  see  if  you  have  any 
more  than  the  old-time  25  per  cent.

If  so,  you  are  a  fortunate  individual. 
What  will  protect  you  and  make  you a 

success  but  your  profits?

Does  the  manufacturer  protect  you 
when  he  forces  you  to  place  upon  your 
shelves  a  “ multiplicity  of  styles?”

Does  your  landlord  protect  you  when 

he  raises  your  rent  every  year  or  two?

Do  the 

insurance  companies  protect 
you  when  they  raise  every  time  a  wood­
shed  burns  down?

Are  churches,  Volunteer  and  Salva­
tion  Armies,  societies,  ball  clubs,  hose 
companies  and  a  hundred  and  one  local 
organizations  protecting  you  when  they 
are  demanding  contributions  from  one 
end  of  the  year  to  the  other?

Don’t  be  small;  if  you  belong  to  a 
church  or  a  society,  keep  your  end  up.
But  you  can  not  contribute  to  all  the 
organizations  within  a  radius  of  ten 
miles  out of  that  old-time  25  per  cent, 
profit.

The  substance  of  the  whole  matter  is 
that 
if  you  want  to  stay  in  the  proces­
sion  you  must  make  a  profit—and  a  big 
one,  too.

Whatever  your  profit,  advertise,  and 
it.— Boots  and 

keep  everlastingly  at 
Shoes  Weekly.

Minor  Shoe  Notes.

There  is  a  time  for  all  things,  but  the 
present  is  not  the  time  for  a  display  of 
summer  footwear  in  your  window.

The  merchant  who  is  now  sticking  to 
Coin  toes  for  a  regular  every  day  diet 
will  soon  have  an  acute  attack  of  com­
mercial  dyspepsia.
Systematize  your business  so  that  you 
can  see  where  you  are  at  a  glance.  You 
will  then  have  more  time  to  devote  to 
the  increasing  of  your  trade.

There  are  a  whole  lot  of  shoe  manu­
facturers  around  the  country to-day who, 
in  two  and 
if  they  cut  their  output 
aimed  more  for  quality  and 
less  for 
quantity  in  their  goods,  might  yet  find 
the  shoe  business  fairly  profitable,  who. 
as  they  are  now  figuring,  can  only  see 
ruin  ahead  of  them  What’s  the  use  of 
doing  business  in  this  way?

in  the  new  advance  styles 

There  are  profit,  reputation  and  pros­
perity 
in 
footwear  for  the  retailer.  There  are loss 
of  profit,  loss  of  reputation,  loss  of busi­
ness  in  the  departing  styles.  This  is  a 
great  living  truth  that  will  not  die.

It  has  been  figured  out  that  if the Bos­
ton  Rubber  Shoe  Co.  sells  their  plant 
for  $10,coo,oco, 
they  will  be  getting 
some  $6,000,000  for  good  will,  trade­
marks,  etc.  Good  will  seems  to  be  get­
ting  more  valuable  than  goods  or  ma­
chinery  in  this  age.
Retailers  are  again  warned  to look out 
for  strangers  who  come  into  their  store, 
buy  a  pair  of  shoes  and  tender  a  bogus 
check  for  sums  from  $10  to  $20  in  pay­
ment  of  the  purchase.  Retailers  should 
never  cash  a  check  for  a  stranger,  and 
many  retailers  in  the  East are still being 
worked  on  this  stale  old  dodge.  Keep 
your  eyes  open  for  these  rascals.

It 

increase,  and 

The  demand  for  American  shoe  ma­
is  said  to  be  showing  a 
chines  abroad 
marked 
it  is  very  likely 
that  our  friends  over  the  water  hope 
through  the  use  of  our  machinery  to 
meet  us  on  styles  and  general  get-up  of 
our  footwear  and  thus  save  their  home 
market  from  the  flood  of  American foot­
wear  now  entering  at 
the  different 
ports. 
is  only  in  the  last  couple  of 
years  that  the  American  shoe  manu­
facturers  have  fully  grasped  the  possi­
in  this  export  trade  in  shoes, 
bilities 
but  now  that 
it  has  been  learned  how 
much 
is  to  be  done  in  this  line,  it  is 
not  to  be  supposed  that  the  Yankee shoe 
manufacturer  will  let  any  one  run  away 
with  his  bacon
The  latest  thing  in  inner  soles for foot 
wear  is  said  to  be  made  from  soda  pulp 
and 
is  manufactured  by  a  firm  at  Alt- 
damm,  Germany.

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as  instances  are  cited  where  Mrs.  So- 
and-So  got  trusted  when  she  was  a  few 
cents  short,  and  she'll  “ have  you  to 
understand  that  she’s  just  as  honest  as 
Mrs.  So-and-So.”   Then  she’ll  flounce 
out  the  door,  leaving  the  meat  behind 
her,  and  banging  the  door  after her,  and 
then—well,  you’ll  wonder  why  you  ever 
went  into the butcher business, that's all.
in  even  exceptional  cases 
will  not  do. 
If  one  wishes  to  conduct 
bis  business  on  strictly  cash  principles, 
he  must  do  so  invariably,  and  make  no 
discrimination  whatsoever,  and 
then 
perhaps  he  will  have  an  opportunity  of 
paying  as  he  goes,  and  laying  by  a  few 
dollars  besides.

Yielding 

There  are  several  obvious  advantages 
connected  with  the  butcher  business 
that  are  worth  considering:  One 
is 
the  fact  that  a  good  butcher  will  always 
be  in  demand,  for as  long  as  people  live 
they  will  naturally  eat,  and  the  butcher 
is  the  main  caterer  to  the  nearest way of 
reaching  a  man's  heart —through  bis 
stomach.

is  also  undoubtedly  one  of  the 
healthiest  businesses  one  could  seek, 
and  I  have  noticed  that  butchers  as  a 
class  are  an  almost  unanimously  sound 
and  healthy  body  of  men,  and,  after 
all,  what  more  essential  requirement 
than  that  does  any  man  look  for  in  bis 
generation  of  shortlivedness?

It 

The  Old,  Old  Story. 
Correspondence  Rural  New Yorker.

I  was  just  shown  a  letter  by  a  com­
mission  merchant,  who  bad  received 
it 
from  one  of  his  former  shippers  in  the 
South.  This  shipper  had  formerly  sent 
him 
large  quantities  of  different  fruits 
and  vegetables  in  common  with other  of 
his neighbors.  At about the beginning  of 
the  present  shipping  season,  be  re 
ceived  stencil  plates  and  circular  let­
ters  from  another  commission merchant, 
of  whom  he  knew  nothing.  This  man 
made  big  promises  and  told  of  the  high 
prices  he  could  get  for  just  the  products 
this  shipper  had  to  dispose  of.  Being 
a  stranger,  he  suggested  a  small  trial 
shipment  This  was  made.  Returns 
came  promptly,  at  prices  almost  double 
commission 
those  returned  by  other 
men.  This  was  enough. 
The  other 
commission  men  had  been  swindling 
him  by  not  returning  him  enough  for 
his  goods.  He  and  bis  neighbors  im- 
mediatelv  made 
shipments  of 
their  products.  When  the  letter  I  saw 
was  written,  they  were  still  waiting  for 
returns  for  these  shipments,  amounting, 
probably, 
to  hundreds  of  dollars. 
Furthermore,  they  could  get  no  replies 
to  their  communications,  and  the  ship­
per 
is  now  ready  again  to  ship  to  bis 
old  comm’ssion  merchant.  He  writes 
him  a  plaintive  letter  and  asks  him  if 
be  can  not  help  him  out  and  secure  jus­
tice  upon  this  other  man,  who  has  been 
robbing  him.
is  the  same  old  story  over  again, 
which  has  been  told  and  retold  in  these 
columns  dozens  of  times,  and  which 
is 
perfectly  familiar  to  every  commission 
merchant  in  the  trade.  It  is  a  trick  that 
almost  invariably  secures  shipments  to 
presons  without  standing,  and  who  are 
unknown,  often  even  by  name,  to  rep­
utable  marketmen.

large 

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Fruits  and  Produce.
Some  Essentials  to  Success as a  Meat 

Dealer.

Joseph A. Anderson in Butchers’ Advocate.

The  retail  meat  business  is  one  which 
it,  if 
requires  hard  work  and  plenty  of 
Like  every 
one  wishes  to  succeed. 
other  business,  one  must  begin  at  the 
bottom  rung  of  the  ladder,  and  by  hard 
work  form  a  nucleus  of  practical 
infor­
mation  which,  in  after  years  he  may 
t irn  to  account  by  conducting  an  estab­
lishment  of  his  own,  based  upon  his 
practical  experience.

It  is  an  old  axiom  that  a  man  should 
never  be  above  his  business,  and  this 
bolds  true  for  a  boy  as  well,  and  when 
he  goes  to  work 
in  a  butcher  shop  he 
must  make  up  his  mind  to  be  willing  to 
do  any  work  asked  of  him,  although 
sometimes  his 
intelligence  will  be  at 
fault,  to  connect  scrubbing  of  benches 
and  delivering  of  orders  with  the  prac­
tical  learning  of  the  retail  butcher  busi­
ness.
As  one  gradually  begins  to  learn more 
about  the  work  he  is  at,  he  begins  to 
understand  the  necessity  of  knowing 
how  to  perform  these  apparently  simple 
things  that  at 
beneath 
him;  and  perhaps  his  eyes  will  be 
opened  a  trifle,  as  mine  were,  when  he 
finds  out  that  the  proprietor of the estab­
lishment  is  just  as  willing  as  any  of  bis 
employes  to  lend  a  hand  at any  work 
which  may  need  doing,  and  does  not 
consider  it  beneath  his  dignity  to  scrub 
benches  and  separate  the  fat  from  the 
bones,  or  do  any  other  work  which 
would  naturally  fall  to  the 
lot  of  the 
boy.

first  seemed 

I  have  found  out  during  my  stay  at 
the  butcher  business  that  a  neat,  clean 
shop,  with  the  meat  neatly  and  attract­
ively  displayed,  goes  a 
long  way  to­
ward  holding  a  trade  which  has  been 
gained  bv  honest  dealing  and  reputable 
transactions

The  hours 

in  the  butcher  business 
seemed  very  long  to  me,  being  from  6 
o’clock 
in  the  morning  unt  I  7  o’clock 
at  night,  and  in  most  shops  much  long­
er,  but  it  is  on  Saturday  night  that  one 
feels  the  strain  of  long  hours most,  when 
the  store 
is  open  until  past  midnight 
sometimes,  and  when  one  has  the  con­
templation  of  a hard  morning’s work be­
fore  him  on  the  morrow.

It  will  be  a  red-letter  day 

in  the 
butcher  business  when  unanimous  Sun­
day  closing 
is  an  ac< omplished  fact, 
as  I  think  it  one  day  will  he  There  is 
no  doubt  that  people  would  find  it 
just 
as  convenient  to  purchase  their  meat  on 
the  p»evious  evening.
It  is  next  to  impossible  for  a  proprie­
tor  of  a  ret ill  butcher  shop  to  close  on 
Sunday  morning  while  his  competito  s 
in  the  neighborhood  are  wide  open,  for 
unless  one  has  ample  capital  to  back 
him,  and  a  class  of  customers  who  are 
willing  t >  patronize  and  stand  by  a  man 
who  considers  it  a  matter  of  principle 
to  remain  closed  on  Sunday,  he  would 
soon  go  to  the  wall.

The  frequency  of  loss  by  bad  debts 
was  another  thing  which  I  particularly 
noticed  while  working  at  the  business. 
There  are  but  few  butchers in New York 
to-day  who  do  not  give  credit  to  some 
extent;  who,  buying  their  meat  on 
credit,  are  willing  to  allow  their  cus­
tomers  to  run  weekly  accounts,  and 
sometimes  longer  ones,  and 
there’s 
where  the  rub  comes  in,  for  it  is  in  this 
continuance  of  a  weekly  account  from 
which  emanate the  most  of  bad  debts.

To  do  a  strictly  cash  business  one 
must  pay  cash  for  his  purchases,  which, 
too,  presents  many  potent  factors, 
for 
when  one’s  name  is  synonymous  with 
cash,  it  means  many  a  one-quarter  or 
one-half  cent  off  on  a  purchase;  and 
also  to  sell  invariably  for  cash,  and  not 
let  Mrs.  Brown,  whom  we'll  suppose 
is 
a  regular  customer,  purchase  meat  to 
an  excess  of  twenty  cents  more  than  she 
has  with  her,  and  then  apologetically 
remark,  “ Please  put  that  on  the  book 
until  I  come  in  again.’ ’  For if  you  do, 
good-by  to  your  conducting  business  on 
a  cash  basis,  for  then  every  one  in  the 
neighborhood  will  want  credit,  too,  and 
will  probably  leave  you  if  it’s  refused.

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KEEPING  APPLES.

Excellent  System  of Underground  Re­

frigeration.

I  must  confess  that  I  have  experi­
mented  on  trying  to  improve  the  keep­
ing  of  fruit  in  cold  storage  (I  mean  by 
the  brine  and  ammonia  processes),  and 
it  has  cost  me  time  and money  I  would 
state  that  cold  storage  is  in  its  infancy. 
it  has  been 
The  mechanical  part  of 
brought  down  to  a  fine  degree. 
I  have 
no  complaint  to  make  in  that  respect; 
but  I  have  noticed 
in  cold  storages 
many  things  to  be  improved  upon.

Let  a  perfectly  healthy  person  be  con­
fined  in  a  close,  poorly  ventilated  room 
in  company  with  a  person  who  is  ill 
with  some  contagious  disease;  the  im­
pure  air  breathed  by  the  well  person 
will  not  only  hasten  the  disease  upon 
him,  but  the  foul  air of  the  room  will 
also  delay  the  recovery  of  the  sick  per­
son.  Do  not  the  doctors  say,  “ Give  the 
patient  pure  air?“

Applying  the  same  principle  to  fruit, 
let  us  take  a  barrel  of  apples  just  com­
mencing  to  decay;  the  germs  of  rot  are 
floating  around  the  room  and  will  be 
absorbed  by  other  fruit,  unless  the  air 
in  that  room  is  purified  by  some  means, 
and  kept  pure.  Pure  air  properly  cir­
culated,  and  a  regular  temperature  low 
enough,  will  keep  fruit  from  decaying. 
Natural  air  (pure  ozone)  is  my  hobby. 
Some  consider  me  a  crank  on  the  sub­
ject  of  cold  storage.  Don’t  think  I  am 
egotistical. 
If  I  am,  my  egotism  has 
cost  me  a  good  deil  of  time  and money.
Some  eighteen  years  ago,  I  had  the 
second  story  of  the  building  we  are  still 
in  properly  insulated. 
I  had  to  use  ice 
and  salt.  After  experimenting  a  year 
or  two,  I  came  to  the  conclusion  that 
something  was  wanted  for  the  better 
preservation  of  fruit.  I  found  the  air  in 
the  room  was  foul;  it  needed  purifying 
and  a  proper  circulation  of  the  air  kept 
up  after  purification.  I  continued  work­
ing  on 
it  and  at  last,  I  think,  have 
found  the  remedy.

Until  the  temperature  is  as 

low  out­
side,  so  that  windows  can  be  opened, 
artificial  means  must  he  had  to  purify 
said  air.

The 

The  next  time  you  are  in  a  refriger­
ating  house  ask  the  engineer  to  chip  off 
a  little  piece  of  ice  from  the  main brine 
pipe  in  the  engine  room 
See  that  no 
oil  has  been  over  it;  put the  ice  in  your 
mouth  and  let  it  dissolve;  then  go 
into 
one  of  the  storage  rooms,  get  a  piece 
off  one  of  the  pipes  overhead,  if  there 
are  any;  if  not,  take  it  from  the  pipe 
on  wall,  dissolve that  in your mouth  and 
note  the  difference 
last  piece 
leaves  a  pungent,  bitter  taste  similar  to 
quinine.  What  causes 
it?  Why,  it  is 
caused  by  settlement  on  said  pipes  of 
only  a  portion  of  the  germs  and  other 
impurities  floating  in the air of the room.
I  think  1  have  after  a  number of  years 
succeeded  in  getting  up  good  machin­
ery  whereby  I  purify  the  air  continu­
ously. 
It  is  simple  and  the  apparatus 
costs  but  little  to  run.  The  prescrip­
tion  is  composed  of  a  low  temperature, 
electricity  and  one  chemical.  Remem­
ber,  electricity 
is  one  of  the  coming 
factors  in  cold  storage.

How  often 

in  cold  storage  you  have 
noticed  blue  mold,  especially  on  fruit 
that  has  the  “ black  scab  "   When  re­
packing,  did you ever  think  of  the  cause 
of  it?  That mold  is  caused  by  the  want 
of  proper  air  circulation  and  by  damp­
ness.  If  you  have  pure  air  in  the  room, 
and  dry  and  proper  circulation  of  the 
air,  this  will  never occur 
If  you  want 
perfection,  you  will  have  to  pack  your

fruit  in  perfectly  air-tight  packages. 
The  present  style  of  packing  won't  do, 
if  you  will  still  use  the  present  system 
of  cold  storage,  and  want  no  loss  by  de­
cay.

WORMY  FRUIT.

Some  years  apples  are  more  wormy 
than  others.  Now,  none  of  us  like  to 
buy  wormy 
fruit,  but  in  the  best  or­
chards  some  will  be  found.  When  the 
crop  is  a  short  one  some  of  it is packed.  - 
1  have  experimented  on  such  fruit,  try­
ing  to  keep  it  from  rotting,  and  I  think 
I  have  succeeded  to  a  certain  extent. 
We  well  know 
if  the  wormholes  were 
hermetically  sealed,  the  enemy  would 
still  be  at  work.  How  do  you feel  when 
trying  to  sell  a 
lot  of  apples  to  find 
worms  crawling  on  the  under  side  of the 
barrel-head  when 
is  opened?  You 
all  have  been  there,  still  none  of  us 
pack  wormy  fruit.  Oh,  no!

it 

Now,  with  a 

little  labor  and  a  very 
slight  cost,  that  can  be  stopped. 
I 
would  advise  every  packer  to  have  a 
room  for  that  kind  of  apple. 
If  pos­
sible,  before  packing  such  fruit,  have  a 
two-inch  hole  bored  in  the  center  of  the 
head;  use  a  bung  that  will  close  it  air­
tight;  use  nothing  but  tight  cooperage, 
and  do  not  use  paper head-lining.  Have 
the  barrels  piled 
in  a  room  so  a  man 
can  walk  along  and  take  out  the  bungs; 
have  a  charcoal  furnace  and  pan;  use 
stick  sulphur,  start  your  fire  and  fumi­
gate  your  room.  The 
length  of  time 
must  be  governed  by  the  kind  of  fruit 
you  have.  Remember  one  thing,  that 
sulphur  will  bleach,  and  will,  if  used 
too  long  on  red  fruit,  injure  the  color 
With  green  fruit 
is  the  reverse;  it 
will  help  the  looks  by  giving  it  a  bright 
golden  tinge  that  helps  to  sell  it.  This 
fumigating  must  be  done  when 
the 
fruit  is  first  stored,  as  you  have  to  open 
the  doors  and  windows to get the sulphur 
fumes  out  before  a  man  can  get  in  and 
put  the  bungs  in  the  beads  of  the  bar 
rels,  which  must  be  done  as  soon  as 
possible.  As  soon  as  the  barrels  are 
tight,  put  on  your  power.  Remember 
one  thing: 
l  find  as  a  general  thing 
that  the  temperature  is  reduced  too  sud­
denly.  Some  put  the  temperature  down 
to  33  degrees  at  the  start.  That 
is  too 
Reduce  temperature  gradually, 
low. 
and  your  fruit  will  keep  better.

it 

Now,  what  benefit  to  the  fruit  is  the 
result  of  this  fumigation? 
It  has  killed 
the  worm,  the  larva  or  egg  deposited  in 
the  apple,  which  has  not  matured,  has 
been destroyed,  and  the  damage  done  to 
the  apple  cleansed  and  healed. 
I  do 
not  claim  that  this  kind  of  fruit  will 
keep  as  long  as  fruit  not  so  affected, 
but  it  will  help  materially  in 
its  keep­
ing.

NATURAL  AIR  STORAGE.

Some  years  ago,  I  came  to  the  con­
clusion  that  storing  apples  in  refrigera­
tors  was  pretty  expensive  and,  owning 
three  underground  cellars  some  twenty 
feet  below  the  sirface  of  the  ground 
(the  cellars  formerly  used  by  my  father, 
who  built  a  brewery,  some  forty  odd 
years  ago,  over  them),  I  commenced 
experimenting  and  altered  them  so  I 
could  use  them  for  the  storage  of  fruit.
I  had  them,  as  I  thought,  perfect,  but 
after  one  season’s  use,  found  one  thing 
lacking—a  proper  circulation  of  pure 
air.  How  did  I  get 
it?  Being  under­
ground  some  twenty  feet,  I  first  tried 
forcing  air 
into  them.  That  did  not 
work. 
I  changed  directly  and  did  the 
opposite—pumped  the  air  out,  the  inlet 
to  the  suction  flues  being  directly in  the 
center  of  the  arches  or  ceiling, 
the 
ceiling  of  said  cellars being arched with 
brick.  Now,  after  I  got  the  foul  air

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The man whose oysters  are  the 
freshest and best flavored.

Who Loses Other Trade?

The man who sells fishy oysters 
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out,  the  next  thing  was  to  get  the  pure 
air  in.  This  was  done  by  building  flues 
reaching  to  the  bottom  of  the  cellars, 
consequently  when  the  pump  was  run­
ning,  it  caused  the  pure  air  to  pass 
down  through  the  flues  formerly  spoken 
of  into  the  cellars  on  level  of  floors.

This  system 

is  directly  opposite  to 
refrigeration 
in  cold  storage.  There 
the  pipes  for  cooling  are  attached to  the 
ceiling. 
In  my  plan,  the  cold  air  is  on 
the  floor.  The  warm  air  rises  and  is 
pumped  out  continuously  if  the  temper­
ature  is  right  outside.

It 

I  have  a  pump  to  these  cellars  that  is 
quite  a  novelty. 
is  a  revolving  cap 
to  which  is  attached  a  spiral  coil  sim­
ilar  to  those  used  in elevators for raising 
grain.  The  supply  pipe  is  18  inches  in 
diameter,  cap  24  inches,  and  it  is  very 
idle.  The  lower  part  of  shaft, 
seldom 
which 
is  upright, 
is  pointed,  conse­
quently  the  friction  amounts  to  nothing. 
As  some  who  have  seen  it  work  say,  I 
“ screw  the  foul  air  out.”   By  having 
the  inlets  at  different  points  in  the  cel­
lar  I  keep  up  a  complete  circulation  of 
the  air.  A  cellar,  or  a  building  above 
ground  used  for  this  purpose,  should 
stand  alone,  so  that  it  makes  no  differ­
ence  from  which  way  the  wind  comes. 
Now  the  air  can  be  controlled  by  traps 
over  each  inlet,  just  above  the  ground, 
and  in  a  short  time  you  can  regulate the 
temperature  in  the  cellars  of  the  house 
by  taking  the  temperature  in  the  stor­
age-room  and  finding  the  temperature 
outside. 
It  is  regulated  by  opening  or 
closing  the  traps  to  the  inlet  flues.

This  kind  of  storage  can  only  be  used 
in  sections  of  the  country  where  they 
have  cool  nights,  and  I  would  not  ad­
vise  the  storage  of  winter  fruit  before 
October. 
In  some  states  they  have  cool 
nights  in  September.  There  this  plan 
can  be  adopted.  When  using  natural 
air,  try  to  keep  rooms  at  40  degrees. 
Fruit  kept  at  that  temperature  that  has 
been 
in  natural  air  storage  stands  up 
longer,  in  a  Southern  climate,  which 
is  very  trying  to  apples  on  account  of 
the  warm  and  humid  atmosphere.

I  have  seen  throughout  the  Eastern 
large  number  of  fruit  houses 
States  a 
that  have  been  built  many  years  which, 
With  a  little  expense,  can  be  readily  al­
tered  so  the  fruit  will  keep  much  better 
in  them.  Do  not  trust  to  windows  for 
ventilation.  Windows  are  too  high 
above  ground.  Have 
inlets  on  a  level 
with  the  ground  and  have  enough  of 
them.  Be  sure  to  have  a  large  ventila­
tor  through  the  roof  to  carry  off foul  air. 
The  question  may  be  asked:  “ How 
shall  we  get  the  warm,  foul  air  out?”  
As  we  all  know,  cold  air  settles,  while 
warm  air  rises.  The  only  way  I  know 
of 
is  to  pump  it  out.  Now  those  that 
store  in  cellars  think  opening  the  win­
dows  is  enough.  Yes,  it  is,  if  properly 
fixed.  To  each  window  opening  in  the 
cellar  there  should  be  a  wooden  flue  the 
size  of  the  window,  with  the  outlet  on 
the  cellar floor. 
In  case  you  need  day­
light  in  the  cellar  it  is  easily  obtained. 
These  flues  can 
lean  against  the  win­
dow frame,  and can  be  moved readily.

for  warm  air 

I  have  noticed  in  a  good  many  cellars 
that  the  only  exit 
is 
through  the  flues  that  are  used for stoves 
in  extreme  cold  weather.  Well,  this  is 
all  right,  if  there  are  enough  of  them, 
and  if  the  inlet  to  the  flue  is  close to the 
ceiling.

I  have  been  asked  several  times  how 
the  temperature  can  be  lowered 
in  a 
bouse  where  ice  is used,  especially when 
they  commence  to  fill  the  house  with 
fruit. 
I  have  tried  this  plan:  Have, 
say  5  per  cent,  of  your  floor  space  made

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

so  you  can  use 
it  independent  of  the 
balance  of  your  floor;  have  the  sides 
about  two  feet  high,  use crushed  ice and 
salt. 
Ice  must  be  pretty  cheap,  as  its 
consumption  is  rapid.

To  give  an 

idea  of  the  number  of 
flues  necessary  in  a  natural  air  storage, 
after  experimenting,  I  found  the  follow­
ing  about  right:  The 
last  warehouse 
we  built  has  a  stone  foundation  and 
Every  window 
brick  superstructure. 
and  door  is  double.  The  first  floor 
is 
on  a 
level  with  the  ground,  the  cellar 
ten  feet  deep ;  the  building  is  one  hun­
dred  and  twenty  by  one  hundred  feet, 
with  cellar  and  two  upper  floors.  This 
building  stands  alone  and  can  get  air 
from  any  direction.  On  each  of  the 
four  fronts  we  have  four  inlets,  making 
sixteen  in  all,  and  one  very  large  door 
facing  north.  The  inlets  to  the  cellar 
are  two  feet  high  and  four  feet  long, 
inlets  without  the  door.  The 
sixteen 
exit  flue 
in  the  center  of  the  build­
ing,  eight  by  eight  feet,  with  a  cupola 
above  the  roof.  We  use  this  shaft  for 
the  elevator. 
is  enclosed  on  each 
floor,  with  two  sets  of  double  doors  so 
we  can  load  and  unload  elevator.  Above 
these  doors  we  have  another  set  that 
reaches  the  ceiling. 
These  are  for 
passing  the  warm  air to  the shaft,  which 
rises  and  passes  out  of  the  cupola. 
Leaning  against  each  window 
in  the 
cellar  are  the  flues  I  previously  men- 
tioned,carrying the cHd  air  direct  to  the 
cellar floor.

It 

is 

I  would  call  your  attention  to  the 
handling  of  apples  when  packed.  They 
can  not  be  handled  roughly ;  if they are, 
they  will  soon  let  down.  How  often  you 
see  them  rolled  out  instead  of  being  run 
on  their  chines  or  on  a  four-wheeled 
truck.  How  often  do  you  see  parties 
in  warehouses  knock  the  chock  out from 
under  the  lower  barrel,  and  “ let  them 
come.”   That  must  improve  the  keep­
ing  quality  of  apples!  Don’t  you  think 
so?
Another  thing  that  will  more than  pay 
for  itself  in  one  season  is a self-register­
ing  thermometer  in  each  room. 
If  you 
use  them,  seal  them  when  placed  in  po­
sition. 

W.  J.  Shaw.

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place all shipments  promptly  at  full  market  price 
and make  prompt returns.  If you  have  any  ap­
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with  us.  The crop  is  very  short  this  season  and 
there  will  be  no  low  prices.  Please  let  us  hear 
from you on whatever you may have to ship or sell.
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R E FE R E N C E S:

Wm. M.  Hoyt Co.»  Wholesale  Grocers,  Chicago. 
W . J. Quan & Co., Wholesale Grocers,  Chicago. 
“ Chicago Produce,”  Chicago.
Rradstreet’s and Dun’s Agencies.
Hibernian Banking Association,  Chicago. 
B a n k e r s:  Merchants’  National Bank,  Chicago.

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REFERENCES

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

“ I  GO  A-FISHING.”

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
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We will prosecute any  person found  using our packages for cider 
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THE  NEW  LIGHT.

Some  of  the  Properties  of  Acetylene 

Gas.

For  the  sake  of  the  brilliant  white 
light  given  by  this  gas  we  are  willing 
to  overlook  many  dangers  and 
incon 
veniences,  and  yet  this  is  no  reason  why 
such  disadvantages  should  not  be  re­
duced  to  a  minimum.  The  makers  of 
carbide  have  endeavored  to  make a pure 
carbide,  and  have  succeeded  quite  well 
in  keeping  the  sulphur  and  pnosphorus 
down  to  a  perfectly  satisfactory percent­
age.  Makers  of  generators  have  tried 
to  turn  out  an  apparatus  that  will  not 
leak  or  explode  on  its  own  account,  and 
they  have  succeeded  reasonably  well. 
The  users  of  carbide  and  generators 
have  gone  ahead  as  best  they  knew how, 
and  have  been  gaining  abundant  ex­
perience,  some  of  which  has  been  cost 
iy,  and  from  which  the  makers  have 
profited,  so  that  the  last  year  has  seen 
many  changes  in  generator  design.  Fol 
lowing  the  history  of  all  new  things,  the 
difficulty  in  introducing  this 
light  has 
been  great,  and  acetylene  was,  and  is 
now,  considered  dangerous  until  proved 
innocent— just  the  reverse  of  legal  cus­
tom.  The  trouble  does  not  lie  with  the 
gas  entirely;  the  first  companies  organ­
ized  did  not  conduct  their  affairs  in  a 
businesslike  manner,  and  all  the  origi­
nal  companies 
this  country  have 
failed.  In  the  same  way  imperfect  gen 
erators  were  hurriedly  put  upon 
the 
market  and  were  thrown  back  on  the 
'hands  of  the  manufacturers,  the  latter 
in  turn  being  thrown  out of the business. 
It  can  not  be  said  that  the  present 
forms  are  perfect,  either 
in  design  or 
operation,  but  they  certainly  are  more 
practicable  than  the  earlier  forms.

in 

it 

is  always 

Upon  this  subject  any  new  informa­
tion 
interesting,  and  it  was 
with  considerable  pleasure  that  we  re­
ceived  a  paper  read  at  Paris  by  the 
French  engineer  Bouvier,  in  which  he 
discusses  some  acetylene  accidents  and 
incidentally  gives  considerable  data, 
which  may  be  summarized  as  follows. 
To  those  of  our  readers  who  are 
in 
terested  in  acetylene  this  will  no  doubt 
be  instructive,  so  that  we  have  trans­
lated  parts  of 
in  the  following  ab 
stract.  He  first  touches  briefly  upon  the 
properties  of  carbide  and  acetylene.

One  pound  of  carbide  of  calcium 
gives  off,  under  the  action  of  0.56 
pound  of  water,  5.45  cubic 
feet  of 
acetylene,  at  freezing  point  and  sea 
level  pressure.  Good  commercial  car­
bides  produce,  in  France,  from  4.5  to 
4.8  cubic  feet  of  acetylene  per  pound  of 
carbide,  and  the  gas  contains  less  than 
2  per  cent,  of  impurities.  The  specific 
gravity  of  carbide  is  2  22.  The  gas  is 
o. qi  of  the  weight  of  an  equal volume of 
air;  one  pound  occupies  a space of  13.75 
cubic  feet,  or  one  cubic  foot  weighs 
o 0727  pound ;  it  is  the  richest  of  the 
gaseous  carbides,  containing  about  92.3 
per  cent,  of  carbon  and  7.7  per  cent,  of 
hydrogen. 
is  equal 
to  fourteen  or  fifteen  times  that  of  gas 
in  French  towns,  where  a  5-foot  burner 
gives  but  about  16  candles  of  illumina­
tion ;  its  calorific  power  is  397  calories 
per  cubic  foot,  or  more  than  double  that 
of  French  coal  gas.  The  best  luminous 
effects  are  attained  in  burners  using  a 
gas  pressure  of  1  18  to  1.57  inches  of 
water.  Three 
in 
America.

Its  lighting  power 

is  preferred 

inches 

According  to  recent  tests  made  by 
Weber, 
in  Switzerland,  a  Bray  0000 
burner  when  new  gave  43.3  candles, 
with  a  consumption  of  0.95  cubic  foot 
per  hour  with  a  pressure  of  1.26  inches, 
but  it  choked  up  after  twenty  hours 
in 
service.  The  same  author  states  that 
Dr.  Bilwiller's  burner,  having  two 
jets 
striking  each  other at 90 deg.  and  draw­
ing  along  air  by  a  special  arrangement, 
was  burned  manv  times,  by  reason  of 
the  great  excess  of  air,  and  with  a  pres­
sure  of  1.9  inches  of  water  gave  29  7 
candles  while  consuming  0.78  cubic 
foot  of  gas  per  hour. 
Atmospheric 
burners  give  best  results.

Acetylene  ignites  at  896  deg.  Fahren­
heit  and  is  decomposed  at  1,436  deg. 
Fahrenheit. 
is  a  succession 
of  explosions  taking  place  so  rapidly 
among  the  molecules  as  to  appear  con­
tinuous.  Calculation  gives  a  flame

Its  flame 

it 

temperature  of  over  4,500  deg.  Fahren­
heit.  Actually 
is  not  as  hot  as  the 
Bunsen  flame  of  a  Welsbach  burner,  be­
ing  but  about  1,652  deg.  Fahrenheit, 
as  against  that  of  the 
latter  of  2,550 
deg.  Fahrenheit.  Complete  combustion 
requires  five  volumes  of  oxygen 
for 
every  two  volumes  of  acetylene.

At  Monnaie,  in  Germany,  during  the 
summer  of  1897,  an  acetylene  Bunsen 
burner  was  tested  whereby  a  tempera- 
tu>e  was  rapidlv  obtained  of  over  2,700 
deg  Fahrenheit,  enabling  them  to  melt 
a  quantity  of  nickel  in  thirty  minutes 
which  previously  required  eighty 
to 
eighty  five  minutes.

The  flame 

is  white,  of  magnificent 
brilliance,  comparable spectroscopically 
to  sunlight,  and  very  well  adapted to the 
comparison  of  colors  and 
for  photo­
graphic  use,  as  it  is  strongly  actinic.

The  mixture  of  acetylene  with  air  is 
explosive  between  wide 
limits:  From 
5  to 65 per  cent,  of  gas,  according  to  Le 
Cbatelier;  from  3  to  72  percent.,  ac­
cording  to  Bunte,  also  up  to  80  per 
cent.  ;  compare  this  with  the  range  of  8 
to  30  per  cent,  with  city  gas.  Accord­
ing  to  Grehant,  a  mixture  of  one  vol­
ume  of  acetylene  with  nine  volumes  of 
air 
is  the  mixture  giving  a  maximum 
explosion.

While  acetylene  alone  at  atmospheric 
pressure  decomposes  at  1,380  deg.  Fah­
renheit,  a  mixture  containing  35  per 
cent,  of  air,  or 65  per  cent,  of  acetylene 
at  most,  decomposes  at  896  deg.  Fah­
renheit.  according  to  Le  Cbatelier.  The 
velocity  with  which  the  ingition  travels 
is  very  great.

two  atmospheres,’ ’ 

The  energy  of  acetylene  is 

increased 
by  compression  (probably  due  to  an  in­
crease  of 
latent  heat)  which  increases 
the  velocity  of  propagation  of  combus­
tion  and 
lowers  the  ignition  tempera­
ture.  Berthelot observed that compressed 
acetylene  was  explosive  in  a  tube 0.78 
“ At 
inch  diameter  and  13  feet  long. 
over 
lje 
says, 
“ acetylene  manifests  the  ordinary prop­
erties  of  explosives.”  
In  some  exper­
iments  made  by  the  Pintsch  Gas  Com­
pany,  of  Berlin,  a  reservoir  containing 
acetylene  under  six  atmospheres’  pres­
sure  was  connected  to  an  iron  tube  o. 19 
inch  diameter  and  7.8  feet 
long;  at 
about  5  feet  from  the  receiver  the  pipe 
was heated  by  burning  gas  and  the  re­
ceiver  exploded.

After  describing  twenty  eight  acci­
dents,  with  not  sufficient  detail,  how­
ever,  to  be  interesting,  except  that  they 
occurred  within  the  past  two  years  and 
resulted  in  nineteen  deaths,  the  author 
proceeds  to  discuss  the  reason  why 
acetylene  is  dangerous,  citing  a  case  re­
ported  by  Pictet,  and  described  by  Ber­
thelot  as  follows:  “ There  take  place, 
without  doubt,  in  the  reaction  of  water 
upon  carbide,  local  elevations  of  tem­
perature  which  are  sufficient  to  carry 
points  of  the mass to incandescence;  the 
ignition  of  these  points  is  sufficient  to 
cause  an  explosion  to  propagate through 
the  mass  of  the  gas  when  compressed.”  
This  refers  to  generators  which  com­
press  the  gas  by  confining 
it  during 
generation.  An  accident  of  this  kind 
occurred  at  Baviere,  where  a  workman 
suddenly  let  a  quantity  of  water  upon  a 
large  charge  of  carbide,  then  raised  the 
gas  holder,  letting  in  some  air;  genera­
tion  was  taking  place and  the  tempera­
ture  had  evidently  reached  896  deg. 
Fahrenheit,  for  the  gas  exploded  from 
no  outside  cause,  and  amputated  both 
arms  of  the  workman.  A  number  of 
similar  instances  have  occurred.  After­
generation,  when  confined  by  closing 
valves,  may  also  explode  the  generating 
chamber,  by  the  excess  of  pressure 
created  when  there  is  sufficient  gas  and 
water  present,  pressure  having  no  effect 
upon  the  ability  of  carbide  to  give  off 
gas.  We  may  mention  here  an  experi­
ment  which  is  of  some  interest: 
It  was 
endeavored  to  make  a  table  lamp  on  the 
principle  of  dipping  carbide  into water; 
the  carbide  was  packed 
into  a  cylin­
drical  recipient  quite  solidly,  and  was 
lowered  gradually  into  the  water;  after 
a  short  time  the  gas  was  observed  to 
have  an  ether  odor,  and  on  examina­
tion  the  carbide  was  found  red  hot,  but 
as  there  was  no  air  present  there  was 
no  ignition  nor  explosion.  High  tem­
its
peratures 

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Non-compressed  acetylene 

polymers,  such  as  benzine,  ethers,  etc.
indicates 
a  pressure  below  two  atmospheres  in 
France  or  1.5  atmospheres  in  England. 
Above  these  limits  it  is  dangerous,  for 
it  ignites  at  8q6  deg.  Fahrenheit,  while 
other  inflammable  gases  require  1,112 
limit  lowers  as 
deg.  Fahrenheit.  This 
the  pressure 
it  is 
that  acetylene  has  been  ignited  by  the 
heat  of  a  soldering  iron.  Wurzler and 
Beauregard  found  that  the  heat  pro­
duced  by  an  alcohol  lamp  was  sufficient 
to  provoke  decomposition  of  this  gas.

increases,  and  thus 

build 

According  to  Berthelot  and  Vieille, 
the  velocity  of  explosion  is  from  13  to 
26  feet  per  second  with  mixtures  of  air 
containing  5  to  15  percent,  of gas.  This 
velocity  increases  with  the  pressure  un­
der  constant  volume;  the  effect  of  this 
velocity  is  to  make  the  explosions  very 
destructive 
than 
throwing  about.

in  breaking  rather 

in  Dresden, 

The  distinguished  specialist,  Roussy 
de  Sales,  describes  an  experience  with 
the  use  of  acetylene 
in  a  four  horse 
power  gas  motor  where  the  head  of  the 
motor  was  blown  out.  The  firm  of 
Hille, 
acetylene 
motors.  Should  the  exit  orifice  of  a 
liquefied  or  compressed  gas  cylinder 
ignite  after  mixing  the  gas  with  air, 
two  explosions,  differing  in their nature, 
may  follow,  the  one  of  the  air  and  gas 
mixture  outside,  which  may  generate 
297  calories  per  cubic  foot  of  acetylene 
burned,  the  other  the  decomposition  of 
the  confined  pure  gas,  which  gives  up 
its  heat  of  formation,  818  calories  per 
pound,  or  452  calories  per  cubic  foot; 
in  other  words,  two  explosions  may  re­
sult,  the  one  caused  by  a  leak  forming 
an  air-gas  explosive  mixture  outside, 
which  ignites  the  leak,  raises  the  tem­
perature  of  the  receiver  to  the  decom­
posing  point  of  the  contained acetylene. 
Berthelot 
insists  upon  the  importance 
of  avoiding  the  frictional  heat  caused 
by  gas  under  pressure  issuing  from  the 
orifices  and by static  electric  sparks,and 
the  spark  caused  by  a substance striking 
steel.

The  Women  Who  Wait.
He went to the war in the morning—
But  he paused at the gate with his mother 
I le was  full of the dreams and ambitions 
And  pioud of the clang of his saber 

The roll of the drums could be heard—
For a kiss and a comforting  word.
That youth is so ready to weave,
Ana the chevrons of gold on his sleeve.

He came from the war in the evening—
The meadows were sprinkled with snow,
The drums and the bugles were silent,
And the steps of the soldiers were slow.
He was wrapped in the flag of his country 
When they laid him away in  the mold,
With the glittering stars of a captain 
Replacing the chevrons of gold.

With the heroes who sleep on the hillside 
He lies with a flag at his  head.
But, blind with the years of her weeping,
His mother yet mourns for her dead.
The soldiers  who fall in the battle 
Mav feel  but a moment of pain,
But the women who wait in the homesteads 
Must  dwell  with the ghosts of the slain.

Helpless.

Friend:  You'll  never sell  those  goods. 

What  in  the  world  made  you buy  ’em?

Country  Storekeeper  (with  a  sigh):  A 

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the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  Sept.  24 —The  coffee  mar­
ket  may  be  characterized  as  steady. 
The  volume  of  business  might  be  larger 
were  sellers  disposed  to  make  a  frac­
tional  decline.  They  are  holding  hard 
for 6^ic  for Rio No.  7,  with buyers ready 
to take  hold  at  6c.  Advices  from  pri 
mary  markets  indicate a stronger feeling 
there,  but  it  remains  to  be  seen  whether 
it  will  be  reflected  here.  The  crop 
movement  is  smaller  than  last  week,  be­
ing  42,000  bags  at  Rio  and  Santos on 
Wednesday.  Two steamers  have  brought 
'21,000  bags  of Rio and  31,000  of Santos. 
On  the Street  not  much  has  been done in 
the  way  of  speculation  and  condition  of 
things  remains  pretty  much  unchanged. 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are  1,003,541 
bags,  against  80,138  bags  at  the  same 
time  last  year.  Mild  coffees  are  steady 
importers  generally  show  a  goodly 
and 
amount  of  confidence  in  the  future.
In  sugar,  the  stock  market  attracts 
more  attention  than  does  the  real  ar­
ticle  itself.  The  air  is  full  of  rumors 
of  this,  that  and  the  other  thing.  A 
little  reduction  has  been  made  by  Ar- 
buckle  on  certain  grades  of  softs,  but 
it  is  said  to  be  only  temporary  and  that 
there  are  no 
indications  of  “ war.”  
Meantime,  the  independents  are  said  to 
be  hiring  all  the  Trust’s  valuable  men 
and  may  eventually  gain  Mr.  Have- 
mever  himself.  Mr.  Doscher  says  he 
will  never  sell  out  to  the  Trust,  but  says 
he  can  make  a  profit  on  refined  sugar  at 
a  price  the  Trust  would  be  unable  to 
sell  at.  Granulated  closes  at  5^c.

The  Street 

Tea  orders  from  the country have been 
few  and  far  between  and  for  the  small­
est  quantities. 
is  doing 
practically  nothing  and  the  trade  seem 
to  be  unwilling  to  make  a  single  move. 
The  auction  sale  will  take  place  Oct  5, 
and  until  then  buyeis  and  sellers  seem 
to  have  agreed  to  remain  passive.  Quo­
tations  are  altogether  nominal.

Reports  of  considerable  damage  by 
the  storm  gave  a 
little  zest  to  the  en­
quiry  and  the  market  for  domestic  rice 
is  fairly  firm.  Buyers  are  not  taking 
large  supplies,  but,  altogether,  the  con­
ditions  are  encouraging.  Foreign  sotts 
are  well  held  and  at  rates  that seem well 
established.

Pepper,  cloves  and  cassia  maintain 
considerable  strength,  but,  taking  the 
market  as  a  whole,  there 
is  room  for 
improvement.  Speculative  buyers  are 
not 
inclined  to  take  bold  and  orders 
have  been  for  rather  small  quantities.

There 

is  limited  offering  m  certain 
lines  of  canned  goods,  notably  Califor­
nia  fruits,  lobster,  salmon  and  gallon 
apples.  The  very  hot  weather  of  a fort­
night  ago  ripened  the  corn  so  rapidly 
that 
it  could  not  be  taken  care  of  and 
there  will  be  a  great  quantity  of  sec­
onds  as  a  consequence  Reports  from 
the  tomato  districts  are  more  encoura­
ging  and  there  may  be  a  good  round­
up  after  all,  for the tomato always comes 
in  smiling.  Maryland  brands  are  be­
ing  offered  at  65c  net  cash ;  New  Jer­
seys,  87 y2c.

The  demand  for  California  prunes 
and  raisins  shows  some 
improvement 
and  the  only  difficulty  seems  to be  at 
the  coast. 
It  is  said  that  the  syndicate 
proposes  to  advance  prices  Oct.  8,  and 
dealers here  are  wondering  whether they 
will  have  to  pay  advanced  quotations, 
even  if  goods  are  ordered  now,  if  ship­
ment  takes  place  after  Oct  8.  There 
seems  to  be  quite  a  widespread 
feeling 
that  the  combine  is  working  the  situa­
tion  not  only  for  all  it 
is  woitb,  but  a 
good  deal  more.  Old  raisins  are  pretty 
closely  sold  up  and  the  stock  of  old 
prunes 
in  few  hands.  Evaporated 
apples are quiet,and the demand is light.
Lemons  and  oranges  are  both  firm 
and  bring  full  prices.  Choice  Sicily 
lemons  are  worth  $6.50  per  box  for 300s, 
with  other  sizes  down  to  $5.25.  Sorren- 
tos  $7.5o@g,  as  to  size.  California  or­
anges,  $4@5  per  box.

is 

Little 

is  doing 

in  beans,  although 
matters  might  be  worse.  Choice  mar­
rows,  $1  62,^@1.65;  medium,  $1  25; 
pea,  Si. i7K@i-2o.

* The  condition  of  the  butter  market  is 
fairly  satisfactory.  The  demand  has 
been  sufficient  to  keep  the  market  well 
cleaned  up,  especially  as  arrivals  have 
not  been  very 
large.  Sales  of  fancy 
Western  creamery  were  made  on  the 
basis  of  21c;  firsts, 
i9@2oc;  seconds. 
17^ @ i8J£c ;  thirds,  I5@i6j£c.  West­
ern  imitation  creamery,  finest,  i6@ 17c; 
firsts, 
13® 13)^0; 
Western  factory,  June  extras,  I4@i4>£c; 
firsts,  I3@i3j^c.

!4@i4j£c;  seconds, 

A  very  quiet  market  prevails 

in 
cheese.  Prices,  however,  are  strong, 
especially  at  primary  points. 
Large 
size  full  cream  State  cheese  is  worth 
8}£@8}4c.  Nothing  doing  for  export.
Fresh  eggs  are  in  good  demand  and 
best  Western  fresh  gathered  command 
large  supply  of 
i6@I7C.  There 
stock  here  just  now  that 
is  a  little 
“ off.”  
It  answers  for  bakers’  use  and 
many  ordinary  wants,  but  does  not  help 
matters  in  general.  With  cooler  weather 
matters  will  certainly  improve

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Grand Counselor, J. J. E va n s  Ann Arbor; Grand 
Secretary, G.  S. V a lm o re, Detroit ;  Grand Treas­
urer, W. S. W e st, Jackson.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  B oyd  Pa n t lin d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, G eo.  F.  O w en,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

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

Gripsack  Brigade.

For  Sale—Choice  assortment  of  train 
pates,  just  the  thing  to  protect  the  en­
trances  of 
insane 
asylums.  Address  the  operating  depart­
ment  of  the  Heald  system.

jails,  prisons  or 

President  Heald’s  announcement  that 
the  train-gate  feature  of  the  Heald  sys­
tem  would  be  abandoned  Sept.  26  met 
with  the  hearty  approval  of  the  travel­
ing  men  and  shippers  generally.

Two  candidates  for  Treasurer of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip  are  al­
ready  in  the  field— O.  C.  Gould,  Secre­
tary  of  Po«t  F  (Saginaw)  and  L.  J.  Ros­
ter,  the  Grand  Haven  dry  goods  sales­
man,

L.  Max  Mills  and  W.  Fred.  Blake 
have  been  elected  directors  of  the Mich­
igan  Commercial  Travelers’  Mutual 
Accident  Association 
in  place  of  Jas. 
N.  Bradford,  deceased,  and  Frank  M. 
Tyler,  who  has  removed  to  Boston.

A.  B.  Hirth  (Hirtb,  Krause  &  Co.) 
has  relinquished  his  position  for  a  time 
in  order  to  renew  his  health  and  restore 
his  strength  by  a  trip  through  Colorado 
and  New  Mexico.  He  expects  to  re­
main away  from  home  about six months.
A.  E.  Brownell,  general  salesman  for 
the  American  Cigar  Co  ,  of  Coldwaer, 
was 
in  the  week 
Mr.  Brownell  will  hereafter  cover  a por­
tion  of  the  Michigan  trade,  consequent 
upon  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Williams, 
who  has  represented  the American Cigar 
Co.  in  this  St.ite  for  many  years  Mr. 
Brownell  will  continue  to 
reside  at 
- Goshen,  Ind.

in  town  very  early 

It 

is  stated  that  no  misuse  of  the 
Northern  mileage  book  has  occurred 
since  it  was  inaugurated,  eight  months 
ago.  This  is  little  short  of  remarkable, 
considering  the 
large  number  of  books 
which  have  been  issued  and  the  mis­
cellaneous  manner 
in  which  they  are 
disposed  of  by  the  railway  companies. 
The  absence  of  any  crookedness  speaks 
well  for  the  aggregate  honesty  and  ac­
curacy  of  the  traveling  public,  of  which 
the  traveling  men  are  so  large  a  com­
ponent.

of 

convention 

Reports  from  Saginaw  are to the effect 
that  the  members  of  Post  F  have  al­
ready  taken  steps  to  effect  the  prelim 
inary  arrangements  for  the  coming  an­
nual 
the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip.  When  it  was  an­
nounced  that  Saginaw  had  extended  an 
invitation  to  the  organization  and  that 
it  bad  been  accepted, 
there  was  no 
doubt  in  the  minds  of  any  members  as 
to  the  kind  of  reception  which  would  be 
accorded  the  city’s  guests  on  the  oc­
casion  of  the  convention,  because  Sagi­
naw  has  long  been  noted  for  the  warmth 
and  prodigality  of  her  hospitality.  The 
only, fear  which  now  appears  to  prevail 
throughout  the  State 
is  that  Saginaw 
will  undertake  to  do  too  much,  raise  too

much  money  and  go  to  too  much  ex­
pense 
in  carryirg  out  the  contract  she 
has  entered  into.  The  Tradesman  sin­
cerely  trusts  that  this  fear  will prove un­
grounded  and  that  Saginaw  will  so  cur­
tail  the  expense  of  the  entertainment 
that  smaller  cities  will  feel 
like  ex­
tending  an  invitation  to  future  conven­
tions  without  being  hampered  by  the 
precedent  of 
lavish  expenditure  of 
money.

investments. 

Henry  Tons,  who  was  formerly 

lo­
cated 
in  Grand  Rapids  as  a  specialty 
salesman,  is  under  arrest  at  Detroit, 
charged  with  the  larceny  of  $500  from 
Mrs.  Sarah  Powell.  Early 
in  August, 
Mrs.  Powell  reported  to  the  police  de­
partment  that  Tons,  whom  she  had 
trusted  implicitly,  had  represented him­
self  to  her  as  an  agent  who  had  excel­
lent  opportunities  to  make  safe  and 
profitable 
She  claimed 
that  she  turned  over  to  him about  $1,500 
worth  of  stock  of  the  Canada  Southern 
Railroad  to  negotiate  for other  invest­
ments  which  would  draw  at  least  7  per 
cent, 
interest  Mrs.  Powell  said  that 
Tons  paid  her  about  $30  as 
interest 
money  coming  from  one  of  the  high  in­
terest  mortgages.  It  seems  that  the  first 
mortgage  suddenly  came  due  and  the 
money  was  again 
loaned  out.  About 
this  time  someone  suggested  to  her  that 
she  look  more  closely  after  her  money. 
When  she  asked  for  a  settlement  she 
was  given  notes  ar.d  papers covering the 
amount  of  the  money  that  bad  been 
in­
vested  for  her  Shortly  after  receiving 
the  notes  she  learned,  it  is  alleged,  that 
they  were  all  forgeries  and  absolutely 
worthless.  One  of  the  notes  is  for $500, 
and  it  is  on  this  one  that  the  complaint 
is  based.  When  a  search  was  made  for 
Tons  he  was  not  to  be  found. 
It  was 
suspected  that  he  would  go  to  Ohio,  be­
cause  his  home  was  formerly  at  Canton. 
He  was  finally  located  at  Columbus, 
where  the  arrest  was  made.

Hon.  Frank  Moore,  Mayor  of  Omaha, 
in  the  course  of  an  address  to  commer­
cial  travelers,  recently  said :  You  trav­
eling  men  are  the  sharpest  set  of fellows 
in  the  United  States—all  the  world,  I 
might  say.  You  are 
in  touch  all  the 
time  with  commercial  interests;  you  are 
the  middlemen  between  the manufactur­
er  and  the  retail  dealer,  and  in  these 
dajs  of  competition,  when  department 
stores  rule  and  burnt  fire-sale  goods  are 
offered  for  less  than  nothing,  with  the 
remnant  sales  the  different  stores  have, 
you  have  got  to  be,  as  “ Ole  Olson”  
says,  ‘  onto  your  job,  or  you  ain't  in 
it.”   But  to  show  the  extent  our  bar­
gain  sales  are  carried  on  all  over  the 
country,  I  am  reminded  of  a  young lady 
of  a  certain  city  adjoining  ours  here. 
She  was  a  great  crank  on  bargain  sales, 
and  although  she  was  a  little “ lengthy”  
in  years,  she  was  well  preserved  for  all 
that 
She  had  a  little  fund  to  draw'on, 
and  whenever  there  was  a  bargain 
counter  sale  she  was  always  on  hand, 
and  if  it  was  cheap  she  took  it  in  Go­
ing  down  the  street  one  day  she  saw  on 
the  sidewalk  a  man  who  had  evidently 
been  blown  up  on  the  Maine.  One  of 
his  arms  was  gone,  two  fingers  of  bis 
right  hand  were  gone,  and  a  big  scar 
was  to  be  seen  over  his forehead,  and  be 
sat 
lady 
noticed  him ;  she  talked  to  him,  and 
finally  took  him  home  with  her  and 
married  him.  Her  folks  held  up  their 
hands  in  holy  amazement  and  astonish­
ment  as they beheld the mutilated wreck, 
and  said:  “ Matilda!  Matilda!  What 
for  did  you  marry  such  a  piece  of  hu­
manity?”   Her  answer  was:  “ Well,  I 
couldn’t  help  it;  it was  such  a  beautiful 
remnant,  and  1  got  it  so  cheap  I  had 
to  take  it.”   (Laughter.)

in  a  chair,  and  the  young 

Why 

the  Chronic  Growler  Cannot 

Succeed.

When  visiting  a  store  it  is  not  very 
difficult  to  tell  whether  the  proprietor  is 
is  popularly  termed  a  grunter  or 
what 
not. 
If  be  happens  to  possess  this  un­
fortunate  disposition  there  are  many 
evidences  of 
it  around  his  store.  His 
clerks  are  apt  to  share  in  the  feelings 
cherished  by  the  employer  and  show 
in  coming  to  the  front  to 
no  alacrity 
wait  on  customers,  while  he  himself 
is 
so  apathetic  as  to  disregard  his  own  in­
terests  and  remain  at  his  desk  when 
there 
is  opportunity  for  him  to  make 
himseM  useful  at  the  front  of  the  store 
His  stock  shows  evidences  of  neglect, 
things  look  dingy  and unkempt,  because 
the  man  who  habitually  growls and com 
plains  would  rather  leave  a  thing  un­
done  than  to  do  it  himself,  for  in  this 
way  he  creates  himself  something  to 
grumble  about.  Such  a fault-finder takes 
a  secret  delight  in  detecting  mistakes 
and  discrepancies,  as  they  afford  oppor­
tunity  for  him  to  exercise  his  talent  as 
a  grunter.  He 
is  usually  too  contrary 
and  perverse  to  further  his  own  inter­
ests,  as  he  feels  that  be  is  lowering  his 
dignity  by  conciliating  and propitiating 
customers.  He  prefers  to  be  high  and 
mighty  in  his  deportment  and  assumes 
a  magisterial  air  which  is  quite  impos­
ing  but  certainly  not  very  ingratiating. 
The  growler  is  too  unsociable  to  attend 
conventions;  be  prefers  his  own  way, 
however  antediluvian,  to  that  of  others 
who  are  more  progressive  and  modern. 
He  would  not  visit  any  other  store  for 
worlds,  lest  be  might  be  accused  of  be­
ing  in  search  of  something  new.

Unfortunately  the  habit  of  grumbling 
is  one  which  is  of  such  slow  growth that 
just 
the  victim  is  not  always  aware  of 
how  far 
it  has  developed  until 
it  is 
deep-rooted  and  then 
it  becomes  diffi 
cult  to  outgrow.  The  best  way  is  to  do 
all  in  your  power to  make  up  for others' 
mistakes  and  do  your  own  duty  and 
there  will  be  less  reason  to  complain.
Hotel Changes  of Interest to the Boys
Fred  W.  Powers  and  Fred  M.  Burn­
ham  have  formed  a  copartnership  un­
der  the  style  of  Burnham  &  Powers  and 
leased  the  Coburn  Exchange,  at Howard 
City.  They  will  take  possession  Oct.  1 
and  will  be  in  a  position  to  extend  the 
“ glad  hand”   to  the  traveling  fraternity 
as  soon  as  the  premises  are  treated  to  a 
complete  reuovation.

Col.  T.  S.  Watson,  who  will  be  re­
membered  as  the  former  landlord  of  the 
Mears  Hotel,  at  Whitehall,  has  leased 
the  Franklin  House,  at  Montague,  and 
will  take  possession  as  soon  as  a general 
overhauling  of  the  premises  can  be  ac­
complished. 
The  Colonel  has  many 
friends among  the  boys  who  will be glad 
to  see  him  behind  the  register  again.

The  one-price  policy  recently  inaugu­
rated  at  the  Livingston  Hotel  (Grand 
Rapids)  by  Manager  Partlow  has  re­
sulted  in  making that hostelry so popular 
that  it  is  now  in  order  for  the guests  to 
write or  wire  ahead  for  rooms,  which  is 
a  new  experience  with  the  Livingston. 
The  register  shows  the  effect  of  the 
change  and  the  owner  of  the  property 
has  reason  to  rejoice  over  the  fact  that 
the  hotel  has  finally  struck  its  gait.

Movements of Lake Superior T ravelers.
Marquette,  Sept.  26— Frank  G.  Hor­
ton,  Second  Vice-President  of  the  Lake 
Superior  Commercial  Travelers’  Club, 
writes  that  he  is  traveling 
in  Eastern 
Tennessee  and  Northern  Georgia  at 
present.  Frank’s  home  is  in  Westfield, 
Pa.
E.  B.  Baldwin  (Marshall-Wells  Hard­
ware  Co.)  did  the  eastern  end  of  the 
Peninsula  last  week.
P.  A.  Jacobson  (Armour Packing Co. ) 
is  now  working  the  St.  Paul  city  trade, 
leaving  his  regular  run  out  of  Sault  Ste 
Marie  to  Mr.  Whitney.

J.  P.  Carling  (I.  T.  &  G.  H.  Bow­
man  &  Co. )  is on  one  of  his  periodical 
trips  to  the  Upper  Peninsula  just  now.

S.  H.  Richardson  (Steele,  Wedeles  & 
Co.)  is  the  Republican  candidate  for 
County  Clerk  for  Houghton  county.  Mr. 
Richardson  has  resided  at  Hancock 
for 
years.  It  makes  no  difference  where you 
put  him—he  is  O.  K.

Fred  A.  Tower  (American  Steel  & 
Wire  Co.)  has a  new  house  about  com­
pleted  at  Ionia.  Fred  has  been  a  Ben­
edict  ten  years.  His  first  heir  made  its 
appearance  last  winter,  and  Fred  is  so 
well  satsified  with  his  present  neighbor­
hood  that  he  intends  to  reside  there per­
manently. 

Ouix.

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shorter  and  much  curter  than  they  were 
in  the  days  gone  by.  People  are  in  too 
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after  all,  the  subscription  of  a 
is 
not  an  important  matter,  excepting  the 
case  of  very  young  people  hovering  on 
the  brink  of 
love,  when  every  indica­
tion  is  carefully  watched  for.

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18
Drugs—Chemicals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.

------- 
F.  W. R. Fibbt, Detroit 
- 
A. C. Sch um ach er,  Ann  Arbor 
Gao. Gukdrum,  Ionia  - 
L. E. HmroiDt, St.  Joseph 
- 
Hknby Heim, Saginaw  - 

Dec. 31,1898
-  Dec. 31,1899 
Dec. 31,1900
-  Dec. 31,1901
Dec. 31,1908

President, G*o.  Gundrum,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, Hbnry  Heim, Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.

Lansing—N o t .  1 and 2 .

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

Term expires

Some  Hints  as  to  the  Manufacture  of 

Written for the Tradesman.

Perfumery.

its 

The  writer  once  asserted,  in  an  arti­
cle  referring  to  the  “ lost  arts,”   that 
nothing  had  ever  been  lost  which  was 
worth  preserving;”   and  the  develop­
ment,  compounding  and  use  of  perfum­
ery  deserve  a  chapter  under  this  head.
Eighteen  hundred  years  ago  all  life 
suddenly  ceased  in  the  city  of  Pompeii. 
Many  of 
inhabitants  escaped  from 
that  shower  of  fire,  ashes  and  stones; 
but  they  left  hundreds  of  things  behind 
them,  since  brought  to  the  light  of  this 
Nineteenth  Century,  which  only  con­
firms  that  trite  maxim,  “ There  is  noth­
ing  new  under  the  sun.”   Among  these 
discoveries  was  the  fact  that perfumery, 
in  various  forms,  was  made  use  of  by 
the  people  of  that  day ;  and 
its  manu­
facture  and  use  have  continued  to  in­
crease  with  advancing  civilization down 
to  the  present  time.

At  first,  the  methods  of  preparing 

it 
were  exceedingly  crude  and  consisted 
of  crushed  or  powdered  barks,  berries, 
leaves  and  flowers  stitched 
into  little 
bags  of  cloth,  which  emitted  constantly 
and  naturally  their  grateful  fragrance. 
We  remember  that  sixty  years  ago the 
ancient  dames 
in  the  higher  walks  of 
life  carried  their  little  perfume  sachets, 
when  visiting  or  shopping.  But  with 
the  evolution  of  perfumery the discovery 
was  made  that  “ the  soul  of  its  sweet­
ness”   resided  in  a  volatile  oil,  which 
later  was  obtained  by  expression  or 
distillation  from  various  flowers,  seeds 
and  woods.  Then  followed  the  delicate 
art  of  compounding  these  substances, 
which  is  a  discovery  of  our  higher  civ­
ilization.  A  still 
later  discovery,  un­
known  to  many  dealers,  is  the  fact  that, 
after  any  of  our  compound  odors  are 
prepared  and  tightly  sealed 
in  glass, 
they  increase  in  strength,  sweetness  and 
delicacy,  while  the  air is  excluded,  in  a 
direct  ratio  from  one  to  five  years.  This 
cue  was  first  obtained 
in  France,  by 
noticing  the  peculiarly  fragrant  boquet 
emitted  from  wines  which  had been bot­
tled  and  sealed 
It 
would  well  repay  any  perfumer or  drug­
gist  to  be able  to  certify  that  bis bottled 
perfumes  contain  upon  the label the true 
date  of  their  sealing,as  with  the  wealth­
ier  classes  price  bears  no  comparison 
with  quality,  and  one  sale  of  such  per­
fume  secures  a  customer  for  all time.

for  many  years. 

It 

is  not  the  object  of  this  article to 
instruct  the  druggist  to  manufacture,  in 
its  broadest  sense,  his  perfumery,  but  to 
furnish  a  few  pointers  which  may  prove 
valuable 
in  his  chosen  vocation:  As 
the  source  or  nucleus  of  all  perfumes  is 
the  volatile  oil  mentioned,  it  is  well  to 
note  that  not  all  are  equally  diffusible, 
and  therefore  only  a  portion  of them can 
be  obtained  without  serious  loss  by  dis­
tillation. 
It  is  evident  that,  when  pos­
sible,  to  obtain  the  oils  by  expression,

release 

or through  the aid  of  some  heated  men­
struum  which  will  quickly  release  and 
then  hold 
it  by  rapid  refrigeration,  is 
the  best  and  most  economic  method. 
The  oil  of  flowers  or blossoms,  buds  or 
delicate  leaves  recently  gathered  is  best 
extracted  by  the  enfleurage 
system. 
Half  beef  fat  and  half  purified  lard  is 
best  for  the  pomade.  This  mixture
should  be heated  nearly  to  the  scalding 
point and  poured  over  each  kind  sep­
arately ;  then  set  aside  to  cool.  At  any 
period  after  four  to  six  months  it  is 
ready  for  the  cologne  spirits—generally 
employed—to 
the  perfume,
which  then  only  requires  to  be  filtered 
and  bottled  tightly.  The  pomade  which 
then  remains 
is  not  entirely  divested 
of  its  precious  contents  and  may  be  re­
melted  at  a  low  temperature,  strained 
from  the  now 
inert  substances  from 
which  the  perfume  was  extracted,  and 
placed  in  salt-mouth  vials.  Under  the 
generic  name  of  pomade  this is  used  for 
various  purposes,  with  which  every 
druggist  is  familiar.  Alum  water,  lime 
and  a  few  cloves  are  used  to  purify  the 
beef  fat  and  lard  before  using.  For  the 
mint  oils  (distilled)  much depends upon 
gathering  the  crop  at  the  right  moment. 
It  should  be cut  when  in  full  flower. 
If 
left  until  the  bloom  is  past  a  rank  oil 
will  be  the  result.

it 

Perfumes  obtained 

from  woods  of 
many  kinds  must  necessarily  be  dis­
tilled.  With  the  exception of  the  chem­
ist  and  druggist, 
is  not  generally 
known  that  many  of  our  essential  and 
fixed  oils  are  almost  identicallv  alike 
in  taste  and  smell;  notably  oils  of  birch 
bark  and  wintergreen 
leaves;  oils  of 
mace  and  nutmeg;  oils  of  thyme  and 
sweet  marjoram ;  oil  of  bitter  almonds 
and  an  artificial  product  obtained  by 
the  reaction  of  nitric  acid  on  benzole, 
also  the  oil  from  peach  pits.

The  earliest  recorded  use  of  perfumes 
was  in  the  form  of  incense  in  religious 
worship,  in  which 
it  was  used  as  an 
offering  to  the  gods;  but  in  this  age  its 
almost  daily  use  in  some  form  is  con 
fined  to  the  most  refined,  educated  and 
enlightened  nations  of  the  earth  and 
is  synonymous  with  the  highest civiliza­
tion. 
lower  types  of  mankind 
seem  to have  no  use  for  it.  The  French 
nation  was  among  the  first  to  supply  the 
New  World,  as  well  as  the  Old,  with 
fine  perfumery,  yet  to-day  England, 
Germany  and  the  United  States  are  her 
strong  competitors  for  supremacy 
in 
the  quality,  beauty  and  artistic  taste  of 
this  class  of goods.

The 

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

Time  Limits in the Pharmacopoeia.
All  drugs  are  essentially  chemicals, 
and  as  chemicals  are  all  prone  to  de­
compose  under  a  vast  variety  of  condi­
tions,  it  is  natural  to  expect  that  galen­
icals,  always  containing 
several  sub­
stances 
intimate  contact  and  fre­
quently  a  large  number,  should  decom­
pose  to  a  greater or  less  extent  from  the 
moment  that  their  preparation  has  been 
completed.

in 

In  a  large  percentage of the  pharma­
ceutical  preparations  used  to-day,  dete­
rioration  or  detrimental  changes  are  so 
guarded  against  that they  remain  in  al­
most  perfect  condition  for a  long  time, 
but in another class containing important 
medicaments  it  has  been  found 
impos­
sible  to  preserve against destruction  and 
serious  regression,  that  not  only  render 
them  worthless  but  even  dangerous  sub­
stances  when  used  as  drugs.

In  the  case  of  this  class  of  galenicals 
the  pharmacopoeias  should  establish 
not  only  clear  methods  which  tend  to

is 

Cocaine—The  demand 

fair  and 
the  market  firm.  The  tendency  is  still 
upward.

Quicksilver— Has again declined.  All 
mercurials  are  tending  to  lower  prices.
Insect  Flowers—Are  excited  abroad 
and  have  advanced  about  40 per  cent. 
Higher  prices  for 
insect  powder  will, 
no doubt,  rule  next  vear.

Balsams— Peru  has  declined,  on  ac­
count  of  large  stocks.  Fir,  copaiba  and 
tolu  are  unchanged.

Essential  Oils— Anise  and  cassia  are 
quiet.  Cubeb  is  lower.  Peppermint  is 
doing  better  and  may  be  called  firm. 
Competition  has  reduced  prices.  Worm 
seed  is  lower.  Lemon,  bergamot  and 
orange  are  ail 
firm.  Lemon  has  ad­
vanced  5  cents.

higher  abroad,  but  unchanged 
market.  Arabic  and  tragicar.th  are 
fair demand  at  unchanged  prices.

very  firm  and 
in  this 
in 

Gums—Camphor 

is 

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You should always buy

PERMS 
FLAVORING 
FXTRARTS

because they are 
the best.

Manufactured by

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Allegan, Mich.

K rim m n n n n r^ ^
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prevent  decomposition,  but  also  state  a 
time  limit beyond which their use should 
be  prohibited.

is  that 

My  experience 

tincture  of 
iodine  will  remain  about  U.  S.  P. 
strength  for a  month  if  kept  in  an  ordi­
nary  shelf  bottle  exposed  to  light,  but 
two  months  when  kept  in  a  dark  closet; 
hence  such  a  time  limit ought  to  be  ap­
pended  to  the  description  of  this  prep­
aration,  and  instructions  added  to  pre­
pare  a  quantity  not  larger than sufficient 
to  supply  the  ordinary  demand  for  this 
period.

Spirit  of  nitrous  ether  remains  of  fair 
strength  for  about  three  months  after 
preparation,  yet  I  have  known  a  sample 
of  this  preparation  manufactured  by one 
of  our best  manufacturing  pharmacists 
to  assay  only  one-eighth  strength,  and 
on  investigation  discovered  that the job­
bing  house  from  whom  this  article  was 
purchased  bad  had 
it  in  stock  for two 
years,  selling  it  only  when  the  particu­
lar  make  was  specified;  with  a  date  on 
the  package  all  interested  would  have 
used  proper  caution.

Diluted  hydrocyanic  acid  deteriorates 
to  one-half  strength  in  six  months,  and 
it 
is  so  easily  prepared  by  the  second 
process of  the  U.  S.  P.  1890 that  no  ex­
cuse  can  serve  the  dispensing  of  this 
important  substance  having  practically 
no  value,  and  a  time  limit  would  serve 
to  prevent  such  action.

I  have  frequently  noticed  sulphurous 
acid  in  pharmacies  with  no  odor.  How 
long  this  preparation  remains  usable  I 
do  not  know.

Among  other  galenicals  that  could 
profitably  be  marked  with  time  limits 
in  addition  to  all  other  precautions,  to 
preserve  quality,  may  be  enumerated 
syrup  of  wild  cherry,  syrup  of  althaea, 
solution  of  lead  subacetate,  camphor 
water,  fennel  water,  anise water,  diluted 
nitrohydrochloric  acid,  solution  of  hy­
drogen  dioxide,  certain  cerates  and 
ointments,  and  others.

It  would  seem  quite desirable likew'se 
to  order  the  yearly  replenishing  of  the 
stock  of  such  crude  drugs,  oils  and 
chemicals  that  can  not  be made by  ordi­
nary  methods  to  retain  their  virtues. 
This  is  practically  accomplished 
in 
some  European  countries  at  present.

Jo se ph   F e il ,  P h .  G.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium—Is  about  steady at  unchanged 

prices.

Morphine---- Manufacturers 

reduced
their  price  15c  per  oz.  on  Monday. 
In 
view  of  the  steady  market  for  opium, 
this  has  come as  a  surprise  to  the trade.
is  firm, 
there  is  little  doing  and  prices  are  the 
same as  quoted  last  week.

Quinine— While  the  market 

$35*00 per M.

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S A L E   PR IC E   C U R R E N T .

Coniam  Mac........... 
35®  50
Copaiba...................  1  15®  1  25
Cubebse....................  90®  1  00
Exechthitos...........  1  00®  1 10
Erigeron.................  1 00®  1 10
Gaultheria..............  1  50®  1 60
Geranium,  ounce...  ® 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal..  50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1  Of®  1 10
Junlpera..................  1  50®  2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90® 2 00
Limonis...................  1  30®  1 50
Mentha Piper.........  1  60®  2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1 50®  1 60
Morrhus,  gal.........   1  10®  l 25
Myrcia,....................  4 00®  4 50
Olive....................... 
75® 3 00
10®  12
Picis  Liquida.........  
®  35
Plcis Liquida, gal... 
R lcina.................... 
9.® l  io
Rosmarini...............  
®  1 00
Rob*,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succinl...................  40®  45
Sabina................. 
90®  1  00
Santal......................  2 50®  7 00
Sassafras.................  55®  60
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce.  @  65
Tiglfi.......................  l  70®  1 80
40®  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............   @  i  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb................. 
ig
15® 
13® 
Bichromate  ........... 
15
Bromide..................  
50®  55
Carb....................... 
i2@ 
is
Chlorate., po. 17@19c  16®  18
Cyanide................... 
35©  40
Iodide........................2 60®  2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10® 
12
Potass Nitras........... 
ic@ 
1
Prussiate...............  
*¿1®  25
Sulphate p o ........... 
is® 
is
Radix
Aconitvm............... 
20®  25
Althse.....................  
22®  25
11;® 
Anchusa................. 
12
Arum po..................   @  25
Calamus................. 
20®  40
Gentiana........po  15 
15
12® 
Glychrrhiza.  pv. 15  16® 
18
Hydrastis Canaden .  @  60
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  65
Hellebore,Alba, po.. 
18®  20
Inula, po................. 
is®  20
Ipecac, po................. 2 80®  3 <X>
Iris plox.... po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   25®  30
Maranta,  * s ...........  @  35
22®  25
Podophyllum, po.... 
gjiej  ....................... 
75®  1  00
Rhel, cut.. 
...........  @  1  25
Rhel, pv..................  
75®  1  35
Spigelia................... 
35®  38
Sanguinaria.  po. 15  @  13
Serpentaria............ 
so®  35
Senega.................... 
40®  45
Slmllax,officinalis H 
®  40
Smilax, M...............   @  25
Scillae............. .po.35  10®  12
Symplocarpus, Fmti-
®  25
............  
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  25
Valeriana,  German. 
15®  20
Zingiber a...............  
12®  16
Zingiber j ...............   25®  27
Semen
Amsum......... do.  15 
@ 
12
13®  15
Apium  (graveleons) 
gird,  Is.................... 
4® 
g
Cam!..............po. 18 
10®  12
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1 75
g@ 
Corlandrum............ 
10
Cannabis  Sativa__ 
4®  4K
Cydonium...............  
75®  1  00
io@  12
Chenopodium  ........ 
1  80®  1  90
Dipterix  Odorate. 
Foenlculum............  
® 
10
7® 
Fuenugreek, po........ 
9
fln l-----.................   3H@  4H
4®  4*
Uni.  grd....bbl. 3* 
Lobelia..................  
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4®
Rapa.......................  4H@ 
5
Sinapis Albu........... 
9®  10
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Spirltus 

dus,  po. 

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 Galll........  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 sheep6  wool
carriage...............   @  2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage...... 
®  1 25
Extra yellow sheeps'
wool,  carriage__  @  1 00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............   @  1 00
®  75
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use.............. 
®  1 40
Syrups

Acacia....................  @ 
so
Auranti Cortes........  @  50
Zingiber..................   @  50
Ipecac. 
.........  
@  60
Ferri Iod................. 
©  50
Rhei Arom..............  @  50
Smilax Officinalis... 
50®  60
Senega.................... 
©  50
Sell)».....................  
©  50

a
75
15
41
50
5
IO
14
15
65
5
40
40

6
8
14
14
25
00
50
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15
8
30
5«
50
55

18

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12
12
12
15

25
30
1214
15
17

15
25
75
40
15
2
50

14
25
35

28
25
30
20
10

65
45
35
28
80
14
12
30
60
28
55
13
14
16
42
IO
0070
30
0060
40
00
35
45
80

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
22
25
36

75
50
25
20
40
2085
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65
75
7050

50

50
50

niscellaneous

Scillffi Co  ................ 
®  50
Tolutan................... 
©  50
Prunus vlrg............   @  50
Tinctures
Aconltum N apellis R 
60
Aconitum Napellis F 
50
Aloes....................... 
60
60
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
50
Arnica.................... 
Assafcetlda............  
50
60
Atrope  Belladonna 
50
Auranti  Cortex...... 
60
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma................. 
50
Cantharides...........  
75
Capsicum............... 
50
Cardamon......... 
75
Cardamon  Co.........  
75
Castor...................... 
1  00
Catechu................... 
50
Cinchona................. 
so
Cinchona Co........... 
60
so
Columba 
............. 
Cubeba....................  
50
Cassia l  cutlfol...... 
50
50
C*«sr  »eutifolCo 
50
i^.gl  «.Ls 
. . .  
50
Erg Oí....................... 
Ferri Chloridu 
35
Gentian..................  
50
Gentian Co......   . 
60
Guiaca.........  
Guiaca ammon........ 
00
Hyoscyamus........... 
50
Iodine...................... 
75
Iodine, colorless.... 
75
Kino......................... 
50
Lobelia.-.......  
Myrrh............ 
Nux Vomica........... 
50
Opii......................... 
75
50
Opii, camphorated. 
1  50
Opii,  deodorized.... 
Quassia................... 
50
Rhatany................... 
50
so
Rhei......................... 
....... 
Sanguinaria  . 
50
Serpentaria............ 
-0
Stramonium... 
.. 
60
Tolutan...................  
00
Valerian................. 
50
50
Veratrum Veride 
.. 
Zingiber..................  
20
Æther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30©  35
‘^@  38
Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F 
Alumen..................   2Q© 
3
4
3© 
Alumen.gro’d  po.7 
A nnatto...............  
40©  50
Antimonl,  po.........  
4© 
5
Antimoni et PotassT  40©  50
Antipyrin.............. 
@  35
@ 
Antlrebrin 
.........  
15
Argent! Nitras, oz ..  @  50
Arsenicum..............  
10® 
12
38®  40
Balm Gilead  Bud  .. 
Bismuth  S. N.........   1  40®  1  50
© 
Calcium Chlor.,  Is.. 
9
@ 
Calcium Chlor., Ks 
10
@ 
Calcium Chlor.,  Qs. 
12
Cantharides, Rus.po  @ 
75
Capsid  Fructus. af. 
@  15
a  
Capsici Fructus, po 
is
Capsid FructusB.po 
Caryophy 11 us.. po.  15
12®
Carmine, No. 40___
&
Cera Alba...............
Cera  Flava...........
4 0 ®
_
Coccus.................... 
Cassia Fructus__  
®
Centrarla...............  
®
Ce tace um.............  
®
Chloroform........... 
60®
Chloroform, squibbs 
® 
Chloral HydCrst....  165®
Chondrns................   20®
Cinchonidine,P.<ft W  25® 
Clnchonidine, Germ  22®
Cocaine..................   3 30®  ,
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct.
Creo so turn........ 
©
Creta............ bbl. 75 
©
©
Creta, p re p ............  
Creta, precip.........  
9©
Creta, Rubra........... 
@
Crocus....................  
18©
Cudbear................. 
©
CupriSulph............  
5®
10®
Dextrine.................. 
Ether Sulph............  
75®
Emery, all  numbers 
©
©
Emery, po................ 
Ergota.......... po. 40  30®
12®
Flake  White........... 
Galla........................ 
©
Gambier.  ................ 
8©
Gelatin, Cooper___ 
®
Gelatin, French...... 
35®
Glassware, flint, box
Less  than  box__
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue, white............  
Glycerine................ 
Grana  Paradisi  __  
Humulus................. 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
Hydraag Ammonlati 
45®
HydraagUngnentum
Hydrargyrnm.........
©65®
_
Ichthyobolla, Am... 
Indigo......................  75®
lodine, Resubi........  3 60®
Iodoform................. 
©
®
Lupulin................... 
Lycopodium........... 
40®
65®
Macis 
............  
Liquor  Arsen et Hy­
dra rg Iod.............  
©
10©
LiquorPotassArslnit
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannla, S. F ............
,,ftM
Ifftnthni. 

9®
13©
15©
®
25®
©

Morphia, S.P.& W ...  2 40© 2 65 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.4
C. Co....................  2 30© 2 55
Moschus Canton__ 
®  40
Myristica, No. 1...... 
65®  80
Nux Vomica...po.20 
©  10
Os  Sepia...  ........... 
15©  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co.................... 
©  1  00
Plcis Liq.N.N.H gal.
doz........................ 
© 200
PlCi8Liq., quarts__ 
©  1  00
Plcis Llq., pints......  @  85
PilHydrarg...po.  80 
©  50
© 1 8
Piper Nigra... po.  22 
Piper Alba__po. 35 
© 3 0
Piix  Burgun..........   @ 
7
Plumbi  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1  20 
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
© 125
& P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
25®  30
Quassi*..................  
8®  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
Saladn.................... 3 00© 3  10
Sanguis Draconls... 
40®  50
Sapo,  W................... 
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
©  15
Sapo. G....................  
Siedlltz  Mixture 
  20  ©  22

Sinapis....................
©  18 
Sinapis, opt............
©  30
Snuff, Maccaboy,De
Voes.....................
©  34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s 
_
©  34
Soda Boras..............  9  ©  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  ©  11
26©  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb.............. 
2
IK© 
5
3© 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
Soda, Ash...............   3K© 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........  
© 
2
Spts. Cologne........... 
© 2 60
Spts. Ether Co........ 
50©  55
©  9 00
Spt  Myrcia Dom... 
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.  @ 2 55 
© 2  60 
Spts. Vini Rect-Kbbl 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @ 2  63 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
® 2 65 
Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2%@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2K®3K
8®  10
Tamarinds.................  
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobroms............... 
46©  48
Vanilla...................  9 00®16 00
Zlnci  Sulph................ 
7®  8

31 
Linseed, pure  raw 
Linseed,  Dolled......  36 
Neatsfoot, winter str 
65 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
34 

38
39
70
40
Paints  BBL.  LB
1*  2  ©8 
lit  2  ©4 
1%  2  ©3 
2*  2K@3 
2V4  2*@3
13®  15
70®  75
18K®  22
13®  16
53t@  «K
sit®  evt
©  70

Red Venetian.........
Ochre, yellow Mars. 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
Pntty, commercial.. 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............
Vermilion, English.
Green, P a n s...........
Green,  Peninsular..
Lead, Red...............
Lead, white............
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’... 
White, Paris Amer.. 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................
Universal Prepared.  1

®  1  40 
00®  1  15

Oils

Whale, winter.........
Lard,  extra.........
Lard, No.  1..............

Varnishes
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Extra  Turp............
Coach Body............

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2 75® 3 00
70 No. 1 Turp Fum __ 1  00®  1 10
60 Extra Turk Damar.. 1  55®  1 60
45 Jap. Dryer,No.lTurp
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Castor Oil...................00
Diamond.....................80
Frazer’s ......................75
IX L Golden, tin boxes 75
rtlca, tin boxes...........75
Paragon...................... 55

gross 
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7 00 
4 00 
9 00 
9 00 
9 00 
0 00

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„  ’b cans doz...................  45
A Id Jans doz................... 
85
lb can  doz...................'  60
w lb cans S dot................  
«
>4 lb cans 3 do».................
1 
lb cans 1 do».................  1 00
Balk...................................   10
0 oz. Eng. Tumblers........... 
85
u  lb cans per doz............   75
3  lb cans per doz  ...........  1  20
lb cans per doz............ 2  00
1 
u  lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
*  lb cans 4 do» case........ 
55
AA
lb cans 2 doz case 
E Z S 3 3 Z
u  lb cans, 4 doz case......  
45
& 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 dos............. 
w lb cans..........................  
46

Jersey Cream.

Our Leader.

Home.

Peerless.

85

Queen Flake.

1 lb. cans  ......................... 
5 oz., 0 doz. case................   2
6 oz., 4 doz. case  ................3 20
9 o*., 4 doz. case.................4 80
1 lb., 2 do*, case.................4 00
5 lb., 1 doz. case.................  9 00
American............................. 52
English..................................80
BLUING.  ______
Co n d e n s e d

BATH  BRICK.

BROOriS.

blS 5

Small, 3 doz....................... 
40
Large, 2 doz....................... 
75
So. 1 Carpet.......................  1  90
No. 2 Carpet.......................   1  75
No. 8 Carpet...................  ..  1  50
No. 4 Carpet.......................  1  15
Parlor Gem.......................   2 00
Common Whisk................. 
70
Fancy Whisk..................... 
80
Warehouse.........................2 25
8s..........................................7
10s..........................................8
Paraffine..........  -..................8
Wicklng.............................. 20

CANDLES.

CANNED OOODS. 
rianltowoc  Peas.

CATSUP.

Lakeside Marrowfat.........  
95
Lakeside B.  J ....................  1  15
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  1 20 
Lakeside. Gem, Ex. Sifted.  I  45 
Extra Sifted Early June... .1  75 
pints............
Columbia, 
.2 00
.1  25
Columbia^* 
........
10
Acme......................  @
10
Amboy..............  •. 
©
10
Butternut...............   ©
10
Carson City.............  @
10*
Emblem...................  @
10
Gem.........................  @
Ideal.......................   ©
10
Jersey  ....................   ©
10
8
Lenawee.................  @
Riverside.................  ©
10
S parta.....................  @
Springdale..............  ©
Brick.......................  @
Edam.......................  ©
Leiden....................   @
Limburger..............  @
Pineapple.................50  ©
Sap  Sago.................  ©
B ulk........
Bed 

Chicory.

...

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker ft Co.’s.

German Sweet......................23
Premium................................35
Breakfast Cocoa.................  46

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  do».........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  do».........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  do«.........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  dos.........1  00
Cotton, 80 ft, per  do».........1  80
Jnte, 00 ft,  per  do».............  80
Jute. «  ft.  t»-  do«-...........   96
COCOA SHELLS.
201b  bags.......................  
|*
Less quantity.................  
8
Pound  packages............  
4
CUBAN TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk in sacks..........................*•

COFFEE.

Ore—.
Rie.

Prim e......................................JJ
Golden  ...................................J*
Peaberry  ................................13

Good  .....................................
Prim e..................................... ”
Peaberry
Mexican —d Ouatamala.
Pair  .....................................   1(,
Good  ............................... — “
Fancy
Maracaibo.
Prime........................ 
_
Milled......................................30
Java
Interior...............
Private  Growth-------
Mandehllng............................ zl
Mocha.
Im itation............................... *®
Arabian  ..........•••••
Roasted.
Clark-Jewell-W ells Co. sBrands 
.29
Fifth  Avenue.
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha.... 29
Wells’ Mocha and Java-----24
Wells’ Perfection Java......24
Sancalbo......... . 
...........*1
Breakfast B lend.............  J*
Valley City Maracaibo.......18*
Ideal  Blend........................J4
Leader Blend.....................“

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 l£c  a 
pound.  In  601b.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   J® jj®
Jersey............   ..............  10 50
ncLaugblln'a  XXX*. 
,
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail  all  ordere 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City *  gross......  
Felix *  gross 
. ............. 
Hummel’» foil *  gross... 
Hummel’s tin *   gross. 
CLOTHES PINS.
6 gross boxes..  •  ■ 

76
l  L
#
1  4i 
• •  40
4 dos in case.
Gail Borden  Eagle  .........   0 75
Crown...............................   6 ®
Daisy............................... *  ®
Champion................................4 50
Magnolia 
Challenge..................................3 35
Dime.........................  

......................  4 26
* ®

CONDENSED  MILK.

Extract.

 
COUPON  BOOKS
Tradesman Grade.

Superior Grade.

Economic Grade.

50 books, any denom....  1  60 
100 books, any denom —   2 50 
500books, any denom.... 11  50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00
50 books, any denom—   1  50 
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books  any denom.... 11  50
1.000 books, any denom —  20  00
50 books, any denom....  150 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom....11 50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00 
Can be made to represent any 
20 books.........................   1  00
50 books.................................2 00
100 books  .........................  3 00
250 books...............................  0 25
500 books................................10 00
1000 books........  ................ 17 50

denomination from »10 down.

Coupon Past Books,

Universal Grada.

Apples.

Credit Checks.

California Pratts.

50 books, any denom....  1  50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11 50 
,000 books, any denom— 20 00 
500, any one denom’n ...... 6 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.................... . 
75
DRIED FRUITS—DOriBSTIC 
Sundried.......................   O
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  O 
Apricots.....................   ©8*
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................
Peaches.......................**© 7*
Pears.................... . 
8  © 7 *
Pitted Cherries...........
Prnnnelles..................
Raspberries....... . . —
100-12025 lb boxes.........  © _
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   @5
80 -90 25 lb boxes.........   ©
70-80 25 lb boxes.........   ©
60-70 25 lb boxes.........  ©
50-60 25 lb boxes.........   ©
40-50 25 lb boxes.........   © 9
SO-40 25 lb boxes.........   ©
u  cent less In 50 lb cases 

California Pranas.

Raisin».

1  40

London Layers 8 Crown,
London Layers 4 Crown.
Dehesia8........
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown  3*
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown  4*
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 

FOREIGN.
Currant».

RaUtns.

Patras bbls....................... ©
Vostlzzas 50 lb cases........@ 0*
Cleaned, bulk  ................. © 7*
Cleaned, packages........... © 73£
Citron American 101b bx  ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©12 
Orange American 101b bx ©12 
Ondura 28 lb boxes......  ©
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crow n........  ©
Sultana 8 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sultan* K Crown.........  
ft
Sultana 6 Crown.........  
ft
Sultana package.........   ©
FARINACEOUS  OOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages..............1  50
Bulk, per 100 lbs..............3 50
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Pari—.

Grit».

Peas.

Beans.

Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packages...............1
1001b. kegs.......................*70
200 lb. barrels...................5  10
Barrels  ............................*50
Flake, 501b.  drums.........1  00
Dried L im a..........—  
3lf
Medium Hand Picked—  
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  101b. box------  00
Imported.  25 lb. box.......2 80
Common...........................  J **
Chester............................  3 25
Em pire............................   3 00
Green,  bn.........................  95
Split,  per lb........................   2*4
Rolled Avena,  bbl........ 4 00
Monarch,  bbl.................. § 50
Monarch,  *   bbl..............1 88
Monarch, 90 lb sacks....... 1  7a
Quaker, cases.................. 8 20
Huron, cases....................1  75
German............................   *
East  India.......................... 
F lake....«......................
Pearl................................
Anchor, 4011b. pkges .  .. 
Cracked, bulk.....................  JM
24 2 lb packages...............2 50

Rolled  Oats.

Tapioca.

Wheat.

5ago.

8*

5

S a lt   F ish .

Cod.

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

Herring.

Holland white hoops, bbl.  7 75 
Holland white hoop *  bbl  4 25
Holland,  M  bbl................  2 25
Holland white hoop, keg. 
00 
Holland white hoop mchs 
70
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  2 75
Round  40 lbs...................  1  30
Scaled...............................  
14

nackerel.

Mess 100 lbs......................  15 00
Mess  40 lb s .........................   6  *¡0
Mess  10 lbs......................  J  ®
Mess  8 lbs......................  J  *
No. 1100 lbs......................  I®  95
No. 1  40 lbs............... 
5 00
No. 1  8 lbs......................  J 3®
No. 2  40 lbs......................   3 70
No. 2  10 lbs......................  I®®
No. 2  8 lbs...................... 
83

 

Trout.

No. 1100 lbs......................
No. 1  40 lbs................
No. 1  10 lbs......................
No. 1  8 lbs......................

Whttsflsh.

5 25 
2 40

No. 1  No. 2

Fam 
2  00 
100 lbs...........  6 05
1  10 
40 lbs  .........   8 00
35 
10 lbs........... 
81
31
8 lbs........... 
88
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Jen nings*.

D. C. Vanilla 
20*.......1 20 
3 oz...........1 50 
4o*.......... 2 00 
0 0».......... 3 00 
No  8 
4 00 
No! 10. 
.6 00 
No.  2 T.1 25 
No.  3 T.2 00 
No  4 T.2 40

D. C. Lemon
20*.......   TO
So*.........1 00
4 0»....... .1 «
0 0*........ 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.
Lem
2 o*. Taper Panel..  75
2 oz. Oval..............  75
3 oz. Taper Panel.. 1  35
4 oz. Taper Panel.. 1 60

Sonders’.

Van 
1  20 
1 »0 
2  00 
2 25

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

Best  In  the  world 
money.

for 

Sage.
Hops

HBRBS.

INDIGO.

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

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

Kegs 
Half Kegs.................................2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ i J®
1 lb. cahs..............................  30
*  lb. cans............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Half Kegs.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. . ' . ' . ' . ' 2 40
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 35
1 lb. cans..............................  34

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs..............
Half Kegs......
Quarter Kegs, 
lib. cans........

.8 00 
.4 25 
.2 25 
.  45

JELLY.

16 lb  palls............................   8j>
30 lb palls..........................  
65

LYB.

Condensed, 2 dos  ..............J®
Condensed. 4 dos  ............. * »

LICORICE.

Pure........................................._
Calabria.............................   ®
Sicily..........................   •••••  J*
Root.

MINCE MBAT

Ideal, 8 do*, in case..............2 25

ilATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur....................... J *
Anchor Parlor.....................J
No. 2  Home.......................... ] J®
Export  Parlor......................4 uu

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans,

JJ

Black................................  
Fair 
Good 
Fancy 
Ojien Kettie.
sn 1____
alf-barrel* 2e extra.
MU5TARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, No. 216. ...................1 3
Clay, T. D. full count........ 
Cob, No. 8..........................  

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s ........................   *00
Penna Salt  Co. s ...........  8 00

PICKLES.
riedlam.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........  4
H a l f  bbls, 600 count...........  2

Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count.........   5
Half bbls  1,200 count......   3

RICH.

Domestic.

Carolina head---------------   6*
Carolina  No. 1  .................   3
Carolina  No. 2................... 
;
Broken...............................

Imported.

■. 

Japan,  No. 1 
5*4©  •
4>,@  5
Japan,  No. 2 
Java, fancy  head...... 5  ©  o*
Java, No. 1 
5  ©
T able..........................   @

SALERATUS.

Packed 00 lbs. In  box.

Church’s ............................. *
Deland’s ............................. 3
Dwight’s ............................. |
Taylor’s...............................3

6o lb

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls...........  •  75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  90
Lamp, bbls.......................   75
Lamp, 1461b kegs..............

Scotch, in bladders..............   S'<
Maccaboy, in jars..................  3a
French Rappee, In ]ars......   43

SNUFF.

SBBDS.

3*

0
Anlaa 
Canary, Smyrna.................  
8
Caraway........................ • 
Cardamon,  Malabar  ......   00
Celery...............................   H
Hemp,  Russian.............. 
3*
Mix—  Bird......................  4*
Mustard,  white................ 
5
Poppy  ................................  10
R ape................................... 
Cuttle Bone........................  20

4*

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Table, cases, 213-lb  boxes. .1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Bntter, barrels, 2801b. bnlk.2 25 
Batter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 50
Bntter, sacks, 28 lbs..............   25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs..............  56

Common Grade*.

100 3 lb sacks.......................... 1 90
00 5-lb sacks..........................1 75
10-lb sacks...... ...............1  60

Worcester.

lb. cartons...............3 25
50  4 
115  2*lb. sacks................... 4 00
lb. sacks...................3 75
00  5 
lb. sacks...................3 50
2214 
3010 
lb. sacks...................3 50
lb. linen sacks..................   32
_ lb. linen sacks...................  60
Bulk In barrels......................2 50

Warsaw.

56-lb dairy In drill bags 
28-lb dairy In drill bags

Ashton.

lb dairy In linen sacks.  .  eu 

Higgins.

66-lb dairy In linen sacks...  CO 

Solar Rock.

50-lb  sacks..........................   %4

Common.

Granulated Fine.................   70
Medium  Fine.....................  <0

65
“

JA X O N

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

JUS.  S.  KIRK  8 CO.'S BRANDS.

A m erican F am ily, w rp’d— 2  66
D om e.......................................... 2 75
C abinet...................................... 2  20
Savon..........................................2  50
W hite R u ssian ........................2  35
W hite C loud,  la u n d ry ...  ..6   ¡¡5
W hite Cloud,  to ile t...............3  50
D usky D iam ond, 50 6  oz— 2  10 
D usky D iam ond, 50 8  oz— 3  00
Blue In d ia , 100 X lb ...............3  00
K irkoline.................................. 3  50
B o s ............................................. 2  60

8CHI1LIE  SOAP CO.’S  BRAIDS

Clydesdale,  100cakes, 75 lbs 
. . . . 2   75
Ho-Tai, 100 cakes, 62 1-2 lbs------2  00
lilj, 75caket,  75 lbs...............2  50
German Mottled, 60 eakei, 60 lbs..  1  75 
Cocoa Castile, 18 lbs., cat 1-4 & 1-2—1  80 

Chipped  Soap  for Laondrie*. 

A llen B. W risley’s Brands.

Old C ountry, 801-lb. bars  . .2 75 
Good Cheer, 601-lb. b ars— 3  75
Uno, 100 X-lb. b a rs ................ 2 50
D oll, 10010-oz.  b are...............3  05

Semiring.

Sapolio, k itchen, 3 d o z ....... 2  40
Sapollo, h and, 3 d o z .............2 40

SODA.

BOX68  .......................................6 *
Kegs. E n g lish ........................  44f

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

 

 

Pare Ground la Bulk.

Auspice  ..... 
13
Cassia, China In mats..........12
Cassia, Batavia In bund__25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........ 82
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 12
Mace,  Batavia  .........  
  5a
N utmegs, fancy...................flo
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2...................45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 11 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .12
Pepper,  shot........................12
....................— 15
Allspice 
Cassia, Batavia 
................3j
Cassia,  Saigon 
................ 40
Cloves, Zanzibar  ..................4
Ginger,  A frican................ la
Ginger,  Cochin................... IS
Ginger,  Jamaica  ................23
Mace,  Batavia.....................i'5
Mustard  ........................12@18
Nutmegs,...................... 40®^0
Pepper, Sing , black............12
Pepper, Sing., white........... 20
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage. 
15

 

SYRUPS
Cora.

Pare Cane.

Barrels............................ 
15
17
Half  bbls.......................  
...............................  1«
Pair 
Good................................   80
Choice 
..........................   85
STARCH.

Klngsford’s Corn.

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

Klngeford’e Silver Glees.

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

Diamond.

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

Common Corn.

201 lb. packages..................5
401 lb. packages..................  4M

Common Gloss.

i-lb  packages......................  4M
3-lb  packages......................  4 >4
6-lb  packages......................  *%
40 and 50 lb boxes............... 3%
Barrels 
3

......................... 
STOVE POLISH.

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

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino....................................5 81
Cut  Loaf.................................. 5 81
Crushed....................................6 81
Cubes....................................... 5 63
Powdered  ...........................5  63
XXXX  Powdered.................... 5 60
Granulated in bbls................... 5 38
Granulated in bags................. 5 38
Fine Granulated...................... 5 38
Extra Fine Granulated...... 5 50
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 50
Mould  A...................................5 63
Diamond  Confec.  A........... 5 38
Confec. Standard A.............5 ■ 5
No.  1....................................... 5 06
No  8....................................... 5 06
No.  3....................................... 5 16
No.  4....................................... 5 00
No.  5....................................... 4 94
No.  6....................................... 4 87
No.  7......................................4 81
No.  8....................................... 4 69
No.  9....................................... 4 63
No.  10....................................... 4 56
No.  11............................   ...4 50
No.  12.......................................4 44
No.  13....................................... 4 38
No.  14.......................................4 n
No.  15....................................... 4 25
No.  16....................................... 4 85

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

G r a i n s  a n d  F e e d s t u f f s

P rovision s.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 
allows:

Barreled Pork.

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brand. 

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

G. 

J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

8. C. W...

........33 00

Ruhe Bros. Co. *s Brands.

Double Eag'es. 6 <izes.$n5W70 00 
Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes....  55@70 00
35 00
Mr. Thomas................ 
Cuban Hand Made.... 
35 00
Crown  Five...............  
35 00
Sir  William................ 
35 00
35 00
Club Five................... 
35 00
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 
Little Peggy.............. 
35  00
Signal  Five...............  
35 00
Knights of Pythias 
 
35 00
Key West Perfects. 2 sz 55¡$60 00

TABLE  SAUCBS.

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

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40grain....  7 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. ..10
Pure Cider, Genesee............... 11
Pure Cider, Red Star..............12
Pure Cider, Robinson.............11

WICKINa.

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

C rackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Batter.

Seymour XXX...................  5*
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6li
Family XXX  ....................   53J
Salted XXX  ......................  53J
New  York XXX.................
Wolverine.........................  6J4

Soda.

Soda  XXX  ....................
^M
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton...
6%
Soda,  City  .....................
8
Long Island  Wafers........
11
L.  1. Wafers.  1 lb carton  . 12
Zephy rette.......................
10
Saltine Wafer..................
5 \
Saltine Wafer, 1 lb  carton
Farina Oyi-ter...................
5*
Extra Farina Oyster........
6M

Oyster.

SWEET  GOODS—Boxe».
Animals..........................
10)4
Bent’s Water.................... .  15
Cocoauut Taffy  ..............
10
Coffee Cake, Java............ .  lu
Coffee Cake, Iced............ .  10
< 'rackuells....................... .  15)4
Cubans  ............................ .  11)4
Frosted  Cream................. .  9
Ginger Gems 
................. .  8
Ginger Snaps, XXX......... •  7)4
Graham Crackers  ...........
8
Graham Wafers............... .  10
Grand Ma Cakes.............. ..  9
Imperials......................... .  8
J um Dies,  Honey.............. .  UH
Marshmallow  .................
Marshmallow  Creams__ .  16
Marshmallow  Walnuts..
16
Mich.  Frosted Honey__ 12)4
Molasses  Cakes............... .  8
Newton............................ .  12
Nie Nacs.........................
.  8
Orange Gems..................
.  8
Penny Assorted Cakes...
.  8)4
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e__ .  8
Sears’ Lunch.................... •  7)4
Sugar  Cake....................
.  8
Sugar  Squares................
9
Vanilla  Wafers  ............ .  14
Sultanas.........................
12)4

O ils.
Barrels.

Eocene......................  @1154
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @ 9M
WW Michigan...........  @ 8 \
Diamond White.........  @ 7*
D.,S. Gas........  ..........  @9
Doo. N aptha..............  @7
Cylinder................... 85  @34
Engine...............  
11  @21
B’-rv  -**?*'•- 
F   *

C an d ies.
Stick Candy.

bbls.  nails
Standard.................  6M@  7
6M@ 7
Standard H.  H........ 
Standard Twist......  
6  @ 8
@  8)(
Cut Loaf................. 
cases
Jumbo, 32 lb  .......... 
@6M
@  8M
Extra H. H.............. 
Boston  Cream........ 
@10

Mixed Candy.

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

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

Fancy—In Balk.

@ 6 
@ 6* 
@ 7 
@ 7* 
@ 7* 
& 8tt
<a  sh 
@  «m 
@ 8 
@ 8* 
@  8* 
@10 
@12

@ 8M @  9 
@14 
@11 
@ 6 
@ 8 
@ 9 
@ 9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

@50
@50
@60
@60
@75
@30
@75
@50
@50
@50
@56
@50
@50
80  @1  00 
60  @90 
@90 
@60
@60

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

@35
@50

F r u its.
Oranges.
Late Valencias...... 
Lemons.
@6  00
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s..  @
@7 00
Fancy 360s or 300s... 
Ex.Fancy 300s........ 
@
Ex. Fancy  360s........ 
@
Bananas.

@3 5

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Figs.

@14
@
@

Callfornlas.............  
Choice, 10lb ooxes.. 
Extra  choice,  14  lb
boxes.................... 
Fancy,  121b  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  @ 6
Persians, G. M’s......  
@ 5
lb cases, new........ 
@ 6
Sairs,  601b cases....  @ 414

@14

@13 
@ 8 
@11 
@14 
@12
@ 
@11 
@10 
@ 8 
@10 
@12

N u ts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
Almonds, Ivaca.........
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............
Brazils new................
Filberts  ....................
Walnuts, Grenobles.. 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
Table Nuts,  fancy.... 
Table Nuts,  choice...
Pecans, Med..........
Pecans, Ex. Large__
Pecans, Jumbos........
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new................
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks

Peanata.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................
Choice, H. P., E x tras. 
Choice, H. P.,  E xtras,

Wheat.

62

.... 
Winter Wheat Flour.

Wheat.........................
Local Brands.
Patents......................
....  4  00
....  3 50
Second  Patent...........
...  3 30
Straight  ....................
Clear..........................
....  3 00
Graham 
............... .. ....  3 30
Buckwheat...............
...  4 00
R ye............................
...  3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis-
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond, Ms.............. ....... 3 50
Diamond, Ms.............. ........3 50
Diamond, Ms.............. ........3 50
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
....  3  40
Quaker, Ms................
Quaker, Ms................ ......  3 40
Quaker, Ms................
....  3  40

Spring Wheat Flour.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best Ms... ...... 4 25
Pillsburÿ’8  Best Ms... ......   4  15
Pillsbury’s Best Ms... ......   4 05
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4 05
Pillsbury’s Best ms paper..  4 05
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.

/a  li  «

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j

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w

a

m

i

S

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Olney A Judson's Brand.

......4 00
Duluth Imperial, Ms.
...  .  3 90
Dulutb Imperial, Ms.
Duluth Imperial, Ms. ......  3 80
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Ms.........
......4 31
Gold Medal Ms......... ........4 20
Gold Medal Ms......... ........4  10
Parisian, Ms.............
......  4 30
Parisian, Ms.............
.  ...  4 20
Parisian. Ms.............
......   4  10
Ceresoia, Ms............. ........  4 35
Ceresota, Ms............. .......   4 25
Ceresota, Ms............. .......   4  15
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ms................
...... 4  2'
Laurel, Ms...............
...... 4 10
Laurei, Ms...............
...... 4 06
Meal.
Bolted....................
........1 90
Granulated.............. ........  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__16 CO
No. 1 Corn and  Oats.
...  .15 50
Uubolted Corn Meal ........14 50
Winter Wheat  Bran. ..  .  .12 no
Winter Wheat Middlings. .14  00
Screenings...............
Corn.
Car  lots....................
....  33M
Less than  car lots...
......   35
Car  lots....................
......  25M
Cariots, clipped.......
......   27
Less than  car lots.  .........  29
No. 1 Timothy carlots ......  8  50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  .  .  0 00
F ish   a n d   O y sters

Feed and Mlllstuffs.

Oats.

Hay.

Fresh Fish
Per lb. 
Whiteflsh...............
@  8
Trout ...................... @  8
Black Bass.............. 8  @  10
Halibut................... @  15
Ciscoes or Herring.
@  4
Bluefish..................
@  10
Live Lobster.........
@  16
Boiled Lobster........ @  18
Cod 
...................... @  10
Haddock................. @  8
No.  1  Pickerel........ @  8
Pike......................... @  7
Perch......................
@  4
Smoked White........ @  8
Red Snapper........... @  10
Col  River Salmon.. @  J2
Mackerel 
@  18
F. H. Counts........... @  35
F. J. D.  Selects.......
@  28
Selects...................
@  25
F. J. D. Standards.  .
25
A nchors................. @  22
Standards...............
@  20
Bulk.
gal.
Counts....................
........  1  75
X Selects................
........  1  65
Selects......................
........  1  35
Aucbor Standards... ........  1  15
........  1  10
Standards...............
Clams.......................
........  1  25
Oysters, per  100........ .1  25@1  50
Clams,  per 100......
@1  25

Oysters in Cons.

Shell Goods.

...........

2 1

C rockery  an d

G la ssw a re.

AKRON STONBWARB.

Batters.

8M

Jugz.

Churns.

Common

Mllkpans.

Stewpons.

Fruit Jars.

Sealing Wax.

First  Quality.

Fine Glazed Milkpsns.

to 5 gal., per gal... . 
Tomato Jugs.

M gal., per dos............... .  40
1 to 6 gal., per gal.........
5
8 gal., each.................... .  40
10 gal., each....................
50
12 gal.,  each...................
.  60
15 gal. meat-tubs, each..
.1  10
20 gal. meat-tubs, each..
.1  50
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
Pint...  ........................... ..  4 75
Quart.............................
..  5  00
M  gal  ............................
.  6 75
Covers............................
..  2 00
Rubbers........................
)4 gal. fiat or rd. hot., doz.  45 
1 gal. fiat or rd. hot., each  5 
M gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5)4 
54 gal. fireproof, ball, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, doz.l  10 
M gal., per doz.................   40
M gal., per doz..................  42
1 
5)4
)4 gal., per dos.................  42
1 gal., each...................... 
544
Corks for )4 gal., per dos..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars end Coven.
)4 gal., stone cover, dos...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 
5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
LAMP  BURNERS.
  35
No.  0 Sun....................... 
No.  1  Sun..........................   4<)
58
No.  2  Sun..1.......................  
No. 8 Sun.............................  1  00
Tnbular.............................  
50
Security, No. 1...................  60
Security, No. 2................... 
80
Nutmeg  ........................ 
  50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun...........................   1  32
No.  1  Sun...........................   1  48
No.  2 Sun........................... 2  IS
No. 0 Sun...........................  1  50
No. 1 Sun............................   1  60
No. 2 Sun............................ 2 45
No.  0 Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  Son,  crimp 
No.  2 Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0 Sun,  crimp 
No. 
I Sun,  crimp 
No.  2 Sun,  crimp 

wrapped and  labeled....  2  10 
wrapped and  labeled__  2 15
wrapped and  labeled....  8  15 

top,
wrapped and  labeled__  2 55
top,
wrapped and  labeled. . .   2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled__  8 76
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled...........................3  70
No. 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled.  ......................... 4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled...........................4  88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamos............  
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ........  ...................... 
9
No. 2  Sun,  plain  bnlb,  per
doz  ................................   1 15
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.......   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. 
Rochester.
No. 1, Lime  (66c 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  48
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  2  48
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3  32 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  4  28 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4  17 
5 gal galv Iron with  faucet 4  67
5 gal Tilting cans..............  7  25
5 gal galv Iron Naeefas....  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7  80 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 56
3 gal Home Rule............... 10 50
5 gal Home Rule............... 12 00
5 gal  Pirate  King..............  9 50
No.  0 Tubular...................  4  00
No.  1 B  Tubular..............6  25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 60
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No.  2 Street  Lamp...........8 75
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No. 0 Tubular,  cases2 dos.
each, box 15  cents.........  
45
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls 6 doz.
each, bbl 35....................   >3
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
cases 1 doz. each.........  l  25

Pump  Cans.

LANTBRNS.

top,
top,
top,

OIL CANS. 

La  Bootle.

Electric.

.  . 

Dry Salt Meats.

6

Smoked Heats.

Bellies.
Extra shorts..................  
Hams, 12 lb average 
_ 
Hams, 14 lb average 
... 8>*
Hams, 16 lb average......  
844
Hams, 20 lb  average...... 
8
Ham dried beef  ............  
12
6
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
Bacon,  clear................. 7M@8M
California hams............  
5)4
Boneless hams...............  
9
Cooked  ham..................10@12M

Beef.

Sausages.

Pigs’ Feet.

33s
6
v
%
%
%
\
1
1)4

Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound......................  
Kettle.............................  
55 lb Tubs......... advance 
80 lb Tubs......... advance 
50 lb T ins......... advance 
20 lb Pails.........advance 
10 lb Pails......... advance 
5 lb Palls......... advance 
3 lb Pails.........advance 
Bologna......................... 
544
Liver............................... 
6)4
Frankfort.......................  
744
P o rk ............................... 
644
Blood  ...............................  
6
Tongue.............................. 
9
Head  cheese................... 
6)4
Extra  Mess......................... 10 25
Boneless  ........................13  50
Rump...................................14 50
Kits. 15 lbs........................  
70
)4  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 33
M  bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 50
Kits, 15 lbs........................  
70
)4  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 25
54  bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 25
P ork............................... 
Beef  rounds................... 
Beef  middles...............  
Sheep.............................  
Rolls, dairy..................  
Solid, d a iry ................... 
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery............  
Corned  beef,  2 l b ........2 25
Corned beef,  14 lb......... 14 50
Roast  beef,  2 lb........... 2  15
Potted  ham,  Ms.........  
50
Potted  ham,  Ms.........  
90
Deviled ham,  Ms.........   50
Deviled ham,  %a.........   90
Potted  tongue Ms.........  
50
Potted  tongue Ms.........  
90
F resh   M ea ts.

Canned Meats.

Buttertne.

Casings.

10
9)4
14
1354

Tripe.

13
3)4
10
50

Beef.

Carcass......................6M@  8
Forequarters............   5  @  6)4
Hind  quarters...........  7  @  u
Loins  No.  3...............   9  @12
Ribs.........................  .  8  @12
Rounds......................  7)4@
Chucks.................  ..  6  @  6)4
Plates  .......................  3  @3)4

Pork.

Dressed......................  @ 5
Loins.........................  @8
Shoulders...................  @6
Leaf Lard...................  6  @

Mutton

Veal.

Carcass..................... 6  @7
Spring Lambs.............7)4@ 8)4

CtntSOT 
7  ft  8)4
H id es  a n d   P e lts.
The Cappon A Bertsch 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.

@ 8M 
@ 7M 
@ 9M 
@ 8M @  9 
@ 7M 
@10M 
@  9

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

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

Wool.

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

@ 3 
@ 2

@18
@23
@13
@18

1 

22

Hardware
The  Hardware  Market.

There 

is  a  marked  activity  in  some 
heavy  lines,  and  the  capacity  of  manu­
facturers  is  being  taxed  to  such  an  ex­
tent  as  to  give,  in  conjunction  with  the 
state  of  the  market  in  raw  material,  a 
decidedly  firm  tone.  Business  seems  to 
be  improved  in  all  lines  and  especially 
is  this  noticeable  in  seasonable  goods, 
which  in  many  instances  are  quite  diffi­
cult'to  secure.

it 

In 

Wire  Nails—At  a  recent  meeting  of 
the  manufacturers,  prices  were 
ad­
vanced  5c  per  keg,  which  now  brings 
them  so  the  jobbers  are  asking  $1.45  at 
this 
mill  and  $1.60  from  stock. 
agreement  all  manufacturers  are 
inter­
ested  and 
is  believed  by  those  who 
are  familiar  with  the  facts  that  these 
prices  will  be  maintained  and,  if  there 
is  any  further  advance  in  raw  material, 
another  advance  will  be  made  in  nails.
Barbed  and  Plain  Wire— The  manu­
facturers  of  these  articles,  who  also  are 
large  producers  of  wire  nails,  have  ad­
vanced  their  prices  on  the  same  basis, 
and  the  future  of  the  market  depends 
upon  the  same  conditions  as  those  gov­
erning  the  further  advance  of  wire 
nails.  Jobbers  are  now  quoting  $1.50 
for  painted  and  $1  80  for  galvanized, 
f.  o.  b.  factory.

Wrought 

Iron  Pipe—At  a  recent 
meeting  of  all  manufacturers,  there  was 
an  advance  made  of  about  10  per  cent, 
on  gas  pipe,  on  all  sizes,  and  while  up 
to  the  present  time  no  further  change 
has  been  made,  it  would  not  be  surpris­
ing  for  an  advance  to  soon  take  place, 
owing  to  the  large  volume  of  business 
with  which  all  mills  are  supplied.

Shovels  and  Spades—At  a  recent 
meeting  of  the  manufacturers  of  this 
line  of  goods,  an  advance  of  25  cents 
per  dozen  was  made  on  the  entire  line, 
which  advance  we  believe  is  quite  gen­
erally  being  executed  by  the  jobber, 
who  sees  no  prospects  of  an  early  de­
cline,  as  the  Association  is  strong  and 
the  members  are  able  to  do  as  they 
please  as  to  future  prices.

Stove  Boards—Owing  to  the  great  de­
mand  in  all  parts  of  the  country  and 
the  inability  of  manufacturers  to  secure 
sheets  for  making  stove  boards,  an  ad­
vance  has  been  made  by  all  manufac­
turers,  which  averages  not  less  than  $1 
per  dozen.  It  is  believed  that  if  the  de­
mand  continues,  further  advances  will 
be  made.  On  some  sizes 
it  is  almost 
impossible  to  get  orders  filled  inside  of 
two  to  four  weeks.

Window  Glass—Prices  are  very  firm 
and  stocks  of  well-assorted  sizes  are 
very  scarce,  as  none  of  the  glass  facto­
ries  have  yet  resumed  operations. 
It  is 
believed,  however,  that  by  Oct.  15,  new 
glass  will  be  in  the  market,  but  it  will 
make  no  difference  in  the  price,  as  the 
demand  will  take care  of  all  that  can 
be  made  up  to  the  first  of  the  coming 
year.

Cordage—Owing  to  large  stocks  held 
bv  some  rope  jobbers  in  the  country 
who  were  constantly  cutting  the  prices 
of  the  manufacturers,  a  decline  of  1 
cent  per  pound  has  taken  place  on  both 
sisal  and  Manila  rope.

Sensational  Advertisement  Which  Pre­

cipitated  Success.

‘ ' When  I  was  very  young, ’ ’  remarked 
a  veteran  newspaper  man, 
the  other 
day,  “ I  was  the  editor  of  a  country 
paper  in  a  town  of  about  five  thousand 
people,  and,  having  lived  for a  year  in 
idea  that  I  was
New  York,  I  had  an 

really  the  only  person  in  town who knew 
anything. 
I  had  a  pretty  hard  time 
making  things  come  my  way,  but  youth 
and  enterprise  are  hard  to  down,  and  I 
kept  at  it.  There  was  one  firm  in  town, 
Smith  Brothers,  which  was  the  strongest 
and  most  conservative  there,  and I knew 
an  advertisement  from  them  would  be 
the  making  of  me,  hut  they  were  very 
slow  in  letting  me  have  it.  However,  I 
persisted  until  at  last  I  bad  it  in  my 
clutches,  and  I  grasped  it  as a drowning 
man  grasps  at  a 
life  preserver.  The 
senior  partner,  who  was  a  most  austere 
and  particular  old  chap,  and  a  deacon 
in  the  bargain,  was  anxious  to 
impress 
me  with  the  fact that  they were  doing  a 
great  deal  for  me,  and  I  must  return 
value  received.  All  of  which  I  agreed 
to  do,  and  then  the  old  gentleman  sur­
prised  me  by  telling  me  he  would  leave 
me  the  copy  and 
leave  it  to  my  new­
fangled  notions,  as  he  called  them,  to 
make  up  an  advertisement  that  would 
show  the  Smith  Brothers  to  be  as  pro­
gressive  as  any  other  merchants  in  town 
and  quite  as  ready  to  meet  the  modern 
ideas.  Well,  this  was  more  than  I  could 
have  asked  for  if  they  had  begged  me 
to  do  so,  and  I  went  out  of  the  place 
almost  shouting.  When  I  reached  my 
office  I  read  the  copy, over  again  to  find 
It  was  as 
its  strong  points  of  display. 
follows,  for  I  never  could 
forget  i t : 
‘ Smith  Brothers,  the  well  known  hard­
ware  jobbers,  are  pleased  to  make  the 
announcement  that  they  are 
in  receipt 
of  the  biggest  stock  of  hardware  spe 
cialities  ever  seen  here,  and  they  w ill 
be  sold  at  prices  hitherto  unknown. 
Some  advertisers  may  be 
liars,  but 
Smith  Brothers  are  happy  in  knowing 
that  they  have  a  reputation  for  veracity 
which  is  worth  more  to  them than gold. ’ 
"T hat  was  good,  plain  stuff,  with  not 
much  of  a  margin  visible  for  the  play 
of  my  versatile  fancy,  but  I  was  ex­
pected  to  do  something  that  would  at­
tract  attention,  for  the  old  gentleman 
had  been  especially  strong on that point. 
He  was  tired  of  the  plainly  severe,  he 
said,  and  wanted  something  that  would 
not  fail  to  stir  things  up.  I  sat  up  more 
than  half  the  night  with  that  copy,  and 
when  morning  came  I  bad 
it  all  in 
shape  to  fill  a  column,  the  amount  of 
space  be  wanted  it  to occupy.  He  told 
me,  when  he  gave  me  the  copy,  that  if 
he  didn’t  get  around  to  see  the  proof 
just  to  let 
it  go  and  take  the  chances, 
which  I  did  when  he  didn’t appear,  and 
when  the  paper  came  out,  there,  in  the 
biggest  and  blackest  letters  I  could  set 
up,  was  the  advertisement  of  a  full 
column  on  the  first  page:

sniTH   BROTHERS, 

the  well-known  hardware  joobers, 

announcement  that  they  are  in  receipt 

pleased  to  make 

ARE

THE

of  the 

BIGQEST

stock  of  hardware  specialties  ever  seen 

here,  and  at  prices  hitherto  un­

known.  Some adver­

tisers  may  be 

but  Smith  Brothers  are  happy 

knowing  that  they  have  a  reputation  in 

LIARS

IN

this 
TOWN

for  veracity  which  is  worth  more  to 

them  than  gold.

"W ell,  when  the  Smith  Brothers  saw 
that  advertisement  fairly  shouting  to 
them  and  at  them  and  about  them,  they 
were  the  maddest  men  you  ever  saw, 
and  they  were  only  restrained  by  their 
religion  from  shooting  me  on  the  spot. 
However,  they  sued  me  in  spite  of  all 
my  defense  of  the  attractive  qualities 
of  the  display,  and  I  would  have  gone 
to  the  wall for my genius and Napoleonic 
brilliancy  bad 
it  not  been  for  the  fact 
that  before  the time  of  hearing  the  suit 
the  advertisement  had  actually  given 
Smith  Brothers  a  boom  that  almost 
frightened  them  by  its  tremendous  pop­
ularity,  and  although  they  never  re­
peated  the  advertisement,  and  always 
made  me  submit  matter  before  it  was 
printed,  we  became  great  friends,  and 
each  of  us  did  much  for  the  other  in 
financial  and  other  ways."

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

WILLIAM  REID

Importer and Jobber of

POLISHED  PLATE 
WINDOW 
ORNAMENTAL

PA IN T

OIL.  WHITE LEAD. 

VARNISHES 
BRUSHES

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  MICH.

W e  have  the  largest  and  most  complete stock of Glass and Paint Goods 
in  Western  Michigan.  Estimates  furnished.  All orders filled promptly. 
Distributing  agents  for  Michigan of  Harrison  Bros.  &. Co.’s Oil Colors, 
Dry Colors,  Mixed  Paints,  Etc.

(JlM-ROTM-jEWEli  (¡0.,

38  &  40  South  Ionia St.

m

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

THE  UNIVERSAL

FOOD
CHOPPER

Agents  for 

Western

Michigan

CHOPS  ALL  KINDS  OF 
FOOD  into  Clean  Cut  Uni­
form  Pieces  as  FINE  or 
COARSE  as wanted.

Other  m achines chop m eat 
only.  THIS  DOES  AWAY 
WITH  TH E  CH O PPING  
BOWL  ALTOGETHER.

CHOPS  P otatoes,  Meat, 
Apples,  Cabbage,  Bread.— 
EVERYTHING.

0   0
Write  for

Discounts

» .  
a
» ?   V

Foster, 
Stevens 
& Co.,

A  machine  you  will  use 

I   every day.  Call and see it- 

G rand  R ap id s.  ■
5

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

23

How  to  Keep Store, Temper and Cus­

tomers.
Written for the T r a d esm a n.

We  often  hear  about  “ store  manage­
ment, ”   locally  as  well  as  through  trade 
journals—how  to  manage  help,  agents, 
etc.—but  seldom  is  anything  said  about 
management  of  customers;  and  when 
we  consider  this  division  of  commerce 
as  the  only  thing  in  trade  worth  work­
ing  for,  we  must  admit  that  suggestions 
pertinent to  this  question  are  among  the 
topics  of  interest  to  business  men,  and 
especially  desirable  as matter in the  col­
umns  of  a  trade  paper  which  we  all 
trust  in  matters  of  advisory  counsel.

We  may  make  the  statement  without 
fear  of  contradiction  that,  until  the  pur­
chaser  (or  customer)  has been found and 
the  actual  transfer  of  property  has taken 
place,  nothing  can  be  called  a  bargain 
for  the  store-keeper,  as  there  is  no  evi­
dence  of  an  article’s  worth  until  the 
cash  therefor  lies  in  the  money  box,  be­
cause,  until  this  transfer of merchandise 
for  money  actually  does  take  place,  no 
benefit  has  accrued  to  the  merchant.

From  this  standpoint  we conclude that 
is  of 
the  management  of  customers 
paramount 
importance  in  the  business 
man’s  manual  of  self-serving;  therefore 
we  must  aim  at  satisfying  our  custom­
ers  at  all  hazards,  as  on  this  depend  our 
hopes  of  business  success.

The  old  axiom,  “ A  soft  answer  turn- 
eth  away  wrath,’ ’  was  once  exemplified 
in  our  presence  by  one  well  worthy  of 
being  called  a  store-keeper  in  the  sense 
triplicate— he  kept  the  store,  his  temper 
and  his  customers:  That  particular 
morning  an 
irate  lady  patron  came  to 
him  (whom  we  will  call  for convenience 
Mr.  M .)  with  the  complaint  that  his 
clerk  had 
insulted  her by  asking  pay­
ment  for an  article  which  she  had  paid 
for  in  her  last  week’s  settlement.  Now, 
Mr.  M.  is  liable  to  angry  passions  the 
same  as  his  hundreds  of  compeers  when 
business  methods  are  denounced  as  be­
ing  somewhat  on  the  shady  order,  al­
though  only  belonging  to  that  classified 
branch  known  as  “ lapses  of  memory,”  
and  had  he  said  what  he  was  justified 
in  saying,  bard  words  and  harder  feel­
ings  would  undoubtedly  have  led  to  a 
change  in  that  lady’s  trading  place  det­
rimental  to  Mr.  M .’s  business  interests. 
But,  if  he  felt  anything,  nothing  was 
visible  to  those  about  him,  for  he  mere­
ly  smiled  pleasantly  and  said,  when  the 
angry  patron  had  had  her  say,  “ Mrs. 
E.,  I  am  sorry  my  young  man  should 
have  given  you  cause  for  taking offense, 
but  I  am  sure  it  was  honestly  done  on 
his  part,  as  his  position  depends  on  his 
taking  care  of  my  interests,  although 
at  times  he  becomes  slightly overzealous 
in  my  behalf;  but,  as  you  are  larger 
than  he— he’s  a 
little  fellow— I  grant 
you  my  full  permission,  in  the  future, 
to  take  him  over  your  knee and  give 
him  a  good  sound  motherly  spanking 
if  anything  like  this  comes  up  again.”
As  the  lady  was  a  youngish  woman 
and  the  clerk  an  oldish  boy,  the  ludi­
crousness  of  the  possible  contingency 
forcibly  struck  her  and  she  was  obliged 
laughter  forgot  her 
to 
in 
grievance,  or  at 
least  laid 
it  away  as 
good  as  forgotten,  then  began  at  once 
to  prove  her  penitence  by  placing  an 
extensive  order  for  needed  goods  with 
the  self-same  clerk  whose  employer’s 
consent  she  had  to  spank  if  he  became 
obstreperous.  Thus  by  a  well-timed 
answer  was  a  customer  retained  and 
made  a  permanent  patron  where she had 
been 
lost  through  a  care­
less  or  hot-tempered  answer,  to  which 
she  was,  perhaps,  justly  entitled.

irretrievably 

laugh,  and 

We  admit  that  at  times  it  seems  as 
though  it  were  scarcely  worth  the  while 
to  be good  natured  simply  to retain  the

patronage  of  an  irritable  customer;  but 
the  prosperity  of  a  store  depends  on 
the  good-will  of  the  purchasing  public 
and  there 
is  no  customer  of  so  little 
worth  we  can  afford  to  lose  him  or  her 
through  any  appearance  of  temper,  lack 
of  courtesy  or  failure  to  employ  diplo­
macy  in  matters of the mind.  It has been 
said  (with,  I  think,  no  shadow  of  truth 
in  it)  it  is  sometimes  worth  a  dollar  to 
a  merchant  to  be  able  to  tell  a  customer 
what  be  thinks  of  him,  for,  like  the 
darky's  opinion  of  the  dollar  the  skin 
of  a  fox 
is  worth,  “  It am  de  hahdest 
way  in  de  w o rl't’  earn  de  dollar  gittin’ 
de  fox  whah  you  can  skin  'im. ”  
It 
may  be  satisfying  to  the  mind  to  have 
your  say  with  a  customer,  but  it  is  any­
thing  but  filling  to  the  purse,  and  in 
matters  of  business  this 
latter  is  the 
only  question  before  the  managing  own­
er—how  to  gain  and  retain  every  pos­
sible  patron ;  and  it  is  a  safe  rule  to  go 
by  in  matters  human  as  well  as 
in  fly­
time,  “ Molasses  will  catch  more  flies 
than  vinegar.’ ’  Therefore,  our  plan  of 
action 
is  to  show  the  appearance  of 
yielding  every  point  to  the  customer, 
where  it  can  honorably  be  yielded,  and 
study  to  have  a  smooth  answer  ready 
tor  all  outbursts  of  tempestuous  custom­
ers,  bearing 
is  half  the 
battle  to  be  able  to  carry  a  smiling  face 
through 
life, “ and  half  the  remainder 
to  supplement  this  facial  smile  with 
pleasant  words  suited  to  the  occasion.

in  mind,  “ It 

The  man  who  can  manage  his  cus­
tomers  so  as  to  make  each  one  a  living, 
talking,  moving  advertisement  of  his 
business 
is  already  assured  of  success, 
and  happy  the  possessor of  this  faculty 
if  he  use  it  to  further  his  financial 
in­
terests,  knowing  that  on  prosperity  usu­
ally  hinge  one's  popularity  and  pleas­
ure.

I  would  have  customers  given  every 
possible  liberty  to 
look  at  stock  and 
store  fittings,  and  the  chance  to  free 
the  mind  from  thoughts  burdensome  to 
the  soul;  but,  when  this  is  done,  a  soft 
answer  smooths  the  way  for  an  easy 
back  down  and  will  find  its  recompense 
in  a  customer  retained  where  even  mild 
criticism  of  his  bobby  would  have 
driven  him 
to  other  stores,  a 
thing  to  be  avoided  by  any  and  all 
means,  for  verily  it  is  easier  to  keep  a 
customer  with  the  gossamer  chains  of 
bright  smiles  and  smooth  words  than  to 
hedge  him  in  with  a  seven-foot  barbed 
wire  fence.

forth 

Finally,  there  should  be  no  manner  of 
shrinking  from  this  duty  on  the  part  of 
the  store  proprietor,  for  no  one  else  can 
do  this  so  effectively  as  he  whose  in­
terests  are  most  seriously  at  stake;  the 
the  one  to  adjust  all 
proprietor 
grievances  between 
salespeople  and 
customers,  and  to  do  this to  the  best  ad­
vantage  requires  tact  of  a  high  order.

is 

Another  apt 

illustration  qomes  to 
mind  wherein  a  difference  of  accounts 
occurred  between  a  merchant  and  credit 
customer,  the  sum  in  question  being  50 
cents,  the  customer  more  than 
insinu­
ating,  as  only  an  angry  credit  customer 
can, 
that  the  half  dollar  was  “ blood 
money;“   to  which  that  diplomatic  man 
said  naught,  but  securing  a  large water­
melon  and  two  knives,  said,  “ Come 
along  with  me  and 
let's  dig  a  hole  to 
bury  our  differences 
in.” '  The  melon 
was  cut  in  half  and  each  proceeded  to 
dig  his  side  of  the  “ hole,”   which  work 
in  due  course  of  time  was  finished, 
when  the  merchant  proposed  that  each 
put  in  50 cents  (the  difference).  This 
done,  the  “ difference”   was  “ buried,”  
and,  completely  reconciled,  they  pre­
sented  the  strange  combination  to a poor 
boy,  who  was  glad  to  accept  the  proffer, 
thus  becoming  the  scapegoat  to  these 
two,  neither  of  whom  could  now  afford 
to  carry  off  hard  feelings  towards  the 
other;  and  to  my  personal  knowledge 
there  was  never  after a  “ day  of  resur­
rection”   of  that  subject.
Many a  difference  between  merchant 
and  customer  might  be  as  easily  gotten 
out  of  the  way  by  diplomacy,  if we were 
less  apt  to  allow  the  “ bitter”  to gain the 
mastery  of  the  “ better”   part  of  our  na­
tures,  burying our differences  in  a  man­
ner  thoroughly  effective,  yet 
in  that 
amicable  way  which  retains  the  dig­
nity  of  both  parties  in  dispute.

L.  A.  E ly.

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUQURS AND BITS

BOLTS

BLOCKS

BARROWS

BUTTS.  CAST

Snell’b........................................................... 
70
Jennings’, genuine 
................................... 25A10
Jennings’, imitation...................................60A10
AXBS
First Quality. S. B. Bronze..........................   5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze..........................   9 50
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel......................... 
  5 SO
First Quality. D. B. Steel.............................  10 SO
Railroad.............................................112 00  14 00
Garden.................................................  net  30 00
Stove......................................................  
60&10
Carriage new list....................................  70 to 75
Plow.......................................  
 
SO
BUCKETS
Well, plain.................................................. I 3 25
Cast Loose  Pin, figured............... 
70&10
Wrought Narrow.......................................... 70A10
Ordinary Tackle...........................................  
TO
CROW  BARS
Cast Steel................................ 
..per lb 
4
Ely’s  1-10.............................................. per m 
65
55
Hick’s C. F ...........................................per m 
G. D......................................................per m 
35
Musket.................................................per m 
60
Rim Fire........................................................50A 5
Central  Fire..................................................26A 5
Socket Firmer............................................. 
80
Socket Framing........................................... 
80
80
Socket Comer..............................................  
80
Socket Slicks...............................................  
Morse’s Bit Stocks....................................... 
60
Taper and Straight Shank............................ 50A 5
Morse’s Taper Shank....................................50A  5
Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
50
Corrugated..............................................  
1  25
Adjustable..............................................die 40A10

CARTRIDGES

ELBOWS

CHISELS

DRILLS

CAPS

.. 

EXPANSIVE BITS

PILES—New  List

Clark’s small, US;  large, «26........................30A10
Ives’, 1, *18; 2, «24; 3, *30  ............................ 
25
New American.......................................  ...70A10
Nicholson’s.............................................  ... 
TO
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................................   .6CA10
28
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27.........  
16......... 
17
List  12 

GALVANIZED  IRON

13 

14 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
GAUGES

NAILS

MATTOCKS

KNOBS—New List

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s......................60A10
Door, mineral, Jap, trimmings.................... 
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
80
Adze Eye.....................................>16 00, dis 60A10
Hunt Eye.................................... US 00, dis 60A10
Hunt's......................................... >18 50, dis 20A10
Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...........................................   155
Wire nails, base...........................................   1  80
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
05
8 advance...................................................  
10
20
6 advance.................................................... 
4 advance.................................................... 
30
3 advance................................................... 
45
2 advance......... -........................................ 
TO
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
50
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
25
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
35
Casing  6 advance........................................ 
25
Finish 10 advance..................................... 
35
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance.......................................... 
85

MILLS

PLANES

MOLASSES  GATBS

40
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
40
Coffee, P. S. A W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.. 
40
Coffee, Landers. Ferry A Clark’s................ 
Coffee, Enterprise........................................ 
30
Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60A10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60A10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30
Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy................................   @50
Sciota Bench................................................ 
>0
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, firstquality......................................   @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Pry, Acme..................    ................60A10A10
Common, polished............................— • • 
70A
Iron and Tinned  ........................................  
¡j®
Copper Rivets and Burs...............................  
60
“A” Wood’B patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED  IRON 

Broken packages V4c per pound  extra. 

RIVETS

PANS

HAMMBRS

...........    

Mavdole A Co.’s, new  list......................dis  «A
25
g j p 'g  
Yerkes A Plumb’s......  .................... _..di« tOAlO
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............  ■-30c lisi 
TO
n iv V iF » ” - O '" *  
<*  •> '*'*

TT*-'* 

HOUSB  FURNISHING  GOODS

Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list TOA10
Japanned Tin Ware................................    20A}o
Granite Iron Ware 
...............new list 40A10
............................60A1
 

HOLLOW  WARE
........... 
60A10
;;;;;;;;...................................ooaio

Pots......
Kettles
Spiders
Gate, Clark’s, 1,8,8.......................... 
Stftto 

  disflOAlO
..................................... p6i dot. net  8 80

HINGES

WIRE  GOODS

SQUARES

SHEET  IRON

LBVELS
ROPES

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

Bright..........................................................  
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s..........................................................  
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
Sisal. H inch and  larger.............................
Manilla.........................................................
Steel and Iron.............................................
Try and Bevels..........................................
M itre.............................. ............................
com. smooth.

80
80
80
80
70
9*
10H
70A10
60
50
com.
>2 40 
2 40 
2 45 
2 55 
2 65 
2 75
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14..................................>2 70
Nos. 15 to 17..................................  2 70
Nos. 18 to 21.................................. 2 80
Nos. 22 to 24..................................   3 00
Nos. 25 to 26..................................   3 10
No.  27 ..........................................  3 20
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dis
50
Solid EyeB.................... *.................. per ton 20 00
Steel, Game............................................. 
60A1U
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley A Norton's 70A10
15
Mouse, choker............................per doz 
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
1  25
Bright Market............................................. 
75
Annealed  Market........................................  
TO
Coppered  Market..........................................70A10
Tinned Market...........................................   62K
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed Fence, galvanized.........................  2 05
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................  1  75
Au Sable............................................................dis 40A1C
Putnam................................................... dis 
Northwestern....................................................dis 10A10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
50
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
80
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought  .........  
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
80
50
Bird  Cages  ...........................................  
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
80
Screws, New List...................................  
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50A10A10
Dampers, American............................... 
50
600 pound caskB...........................................   6Q
Per pound....................................................  
6K

MISCELLANEOUS

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

TRAPS

WIRB

5

SOLDER

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......................................   5  TO
20x14 IX. Charcoal......................................   7 00

TIN—Melyn Grade

Each additional X on this grade, >1.25.

TIN—Allaway Grade
 

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

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 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   8 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allawav Grade............10 00
9
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, 1 
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, (*** P°unQ- - • 
*

BOILER  SIZE TIN PLATB 

me“Concave” miasmoam

n0und 

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

24

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

How  Providence  Watches  Over 

Its 

Favorites.

M.  Quad  in  American Druggist.

“ Yes,  I  think  Providence  keeps  an 
eye  on  the  drug-store  man,”   said  the 
proprietor  of  the  corner  pharmacy  as  he 
locked  the  door  after  the 
last  customer 
and  sat  down  for  a  smoke  before  going 
home. 
“ There  is  such  a  thing  as  luck, 
of  course,  but  some  of  the  escapes  I 
have  had  must  be  attributed  to  a  power 
higher  than  luck.  The  queerest  thing  in 
all  my  career  happened  with  my  very 
first  prescription.  I  had  secured  a  place 
as  prescription  clerk,  and  within  half 
an  hour  after  taking  off  my  hat  I substi­
tuted  morphine  for quinine.  It’s  no  use 
to  ask  how  I  made  such  a  blunder,  and 
it’s  no  use  for  me  to  try  to  explain. 
I 
did  it  with  my  eyes  wide  open,  and 
it 
was  an  hour  before  I  made  the  discov­
ery.  That  prescription  had  gone  to  a 
woman  about  half  a  mile  from the store. 
There  was 
just  one  chance  in  a  thou­
sand  that  I  would  be 
in  time,  and  I 
made  a  run  for 
it.  You  can’t  guess 
what  saved  me.  The  husband  had  come 
for the  medicine,  and  on  his  way  home 
a  bug  flew 
into  his  eye  and  he  spent 
half  an  hour  in  a  drug  store  getting  the 
insect  out.  I  overhauled  him  at  his  own 
gate. 
In  that  town  were  400,000  pairs 
of  human  eyes.  There  was  one  bug  fly­
ing  around  That  the  bug  should  have 
steered  clear  of  all  the  other  eyes  and 
plumped  into  that  husband’s  left  optic 
at  precisely  the  right  time  to  delay  him 
to  the  precise  minute  was  surely  more 
than  luck,  as  you  must  admit.”

I  admitted  it,  and  after  a  breathing 

spell  the  druggist  continued :

“ Take  that  case  where  I  sold  strych 
nine  for  Epsom  salts.  A  farmer  comes 
in  and  asks  for  salts. 
It  was  with 
in  three  feet  of  where  I  was  standing,, 
and  vet  I  go  to  a  drawer,  get  the  key  of 
the  poison  case,  and  calmly  put  him  up 
ten  grains  of  strychnine! 
I  remem­
bered  later  on  that  he  seemed  surprised 
at  not  getting  more  bulk  for  his  money, 
but  he  made  no  kick.  He had been  gone 
for  hours  when  it suddenly flashed across 
my  brain  that  I  had  made  a  mistake 
For  a  minute  I  was  like  one  frozen stiff 
Then  I  flew  to  a  livery  stable,  hired  i 
horse  and  buggy,  and for  five  miles  kept 
the  poor  animal  under  the  whip. 
It was 
10  o'clock  at  night  when  I  reached  the 
farmhouse  and  pounded  on  the  door 
The  farmer  opened 
it  himself,  and  i" 
one  hand  he  held  that  dose  mixed  up  i 
a  teacup.  He  was  about  to  swallow 
when  my  arrival  prevented. 
I  knocked 
the  cup  from  his  hand  and  then  sank 
down  in  a  swoon,  and  I  dimly  remem 
ber  of  hearing  him  call  out  to  his  wife 
*  ‘ Say,  Martha,  come  here  and  see 
what  in thunder  ails  this  fellow !  I  guess 
them  drug-store  smells have  got  into  h~ 
head  and  set  him  crazy!’
“  But  farmers  generally  go  to  bed  at  9 
o’clock,”   I  protested,  “and  you  were  a 
full  hour  behindtime. ”

‘ Yes,  I  know.”   replied  the  druggist, 
“ but  you  haven’t  heard  all.  He’d  have 
been  in  bed  at  9,  after  taking  the  dose, 
but  a  barrel  of  new  cider  he  had  in  the 
cellar  exploded  and  wrecked 
things, 
and  he  baa  just  got  through  looking  for 
the  bunghole  to  preserve  as  a  curiosity. 
Should  you  ever  see  fit  to  write  this  in­
cident  up  for  the  paper  I  would  suggest 
that  you  head 
‘ Saved  by  a  Bung- 
Hole,  or  The  Careless  Druggist  and  the 
Busted  Cider  Bar’l. ’

it: 

I  looked  at  the  druggist  for  five  min­
utes,  but  he  did  not  flinch  under  my 
gaze.  When  he  had  given  me  time  to 
digest  the  story  he  went  on :
“ And  take  that  case  of  the  million­
aire’s  daughter-there  was  surely  Provi­
dence 
in  that.  She  had  fallen  in  love 
w  th  a  poor  but  worthy  young  man,  but 
the  purse  proud  father  would  not  listen 
to  a  marriage.  He  said  that  he  would 
slay  her  with  his  own  hand  before  any 
son-of-a-cooper  should  call  him  father- 
in-law,  and  he  went  and  bought  a  new 
crowbar  that  she  might  know  he  meant 
In  this  emergency  the  girl 
business. 
determined  to  take  her  own 
life.  She 
entered  the  store  and  asked  for  laud 
anum,  and  she  was  so  perturbed  and 
upset  that  I  suspected  the  truth. 
It  was 
not  my  business  to  dissuade  her,  how 
ever,  as  I  was  getting  10  per  cent,  from 
the  corner  for  all
the  undertaker  on 

business  I  could  throw  in  his  way. 
I 
intended,  however,  to  put  her  up  a  bot­
tle  of  paregoric,  and  she  had  been  gone 
an  hour  when  the  horrible  thought  came 
to  me  that  I  had  given  her carbolic  acid 
instead.  A  moment’s  investigation  set­
tled  all  doubt  and  I  clapped  on  my  hat 
and  started  for  her  father’s  house. 
I 
expected  to  hear  her  agonized  screams 
a  block  away,  but  all  was  quiet.  As  I 
reached  the  gate  I  looked  for  doctors, 
but  none  were  around.  With  my  heart 
in  my  mouth  I  dashed  up  the  steps  and 
was  about  to  pull  the  bell  when  a  serv 
ant  opened  the  door.  She  had  the  bot­
tle  in  her  hand.  As  I  panted  for  breath, 
unable  to  utter a  word,  she  recognized 
me  and  said:
“   ‘ Oh,  it's  you,  Mr.  Parker?  Well, 
Miss  Clyde  is  all  ready  to  die,  but  she 
don’t  like  the  smell  of  this  stuff. 
I  was 
going  down  to  the  store  to  ask  if  you 
wouldn’t  give  her  skunk’s  oil  in  ex­
change?'
“ Not  one  suicide  in  a  thousand  stops 
to  smell  the  contents  of the bottle, ”  said 
the  druggist,  as  I turned  away  from  him 
n  despair.
“ She  was  the  exception.  Her  good 
taste  in  not  wanting  to  leave a bad smell 
behind  her  was  what  saved  me.  Had 
she  rushed  to  her  death,  her  rich  and 
powerful  father  would  never  have  let  up 
until  he  had  ruined  me.  You  must  ac­
knowledge  that  the  hand  of  Providence 
was  in  it  bigger  than  a  windmill.”

if 

I  neither  admitted  nor  denied,  and 
there  was  an  air  of  injured  innocence 
in  the  demeanor  of  the  druggist  as  he 
presently  observed :

“ Oh,  well,  I  hardly  expected  you  to 
grasp  the  full  sentiment  of  it,  and  am 
only  a  trifle  disappointed.  Let  me  re­
late  one  more  case.  A  newspaper  man 
comes 
into  the  store  one  evening  and 
asks  for  a  Dover’s  powder.  How 
managed  to  put  up  a  dose  of  arsenic  in 
stead 
is  one  of  those  things  we  puzzle 
over  for  a  lifetime  and  never  solve, 
rushed  for  his  house  as  soon  as  I  d is 
covered  my  awful  error,  and 
it  i 
possible  for  the  human  hair to  stand  on 
end  mine  was  in  that  condition  as  I 
sped  along  the  street.  There  was  not 
one  chance  in  a  million  that  1  would  be 
in  time,but  it  was  another case  of  Prov­
idence.  He  had  gone  straight  home  to 
take  the  powder  and  go to bed,  but  as 
be  mixed  it  his  eye  fell  on  an  article  in 
an  opposition  paper  wherein  he  was 
spoken  of  as  an  ass  and  an  idiot.  He 
was  mad,  of  course,  and  he  sat  down  to 
write  a  reply.  He  was  just  finishing  if 
as  my  ring  alarmed  the  house.  That  is, 
he  had  characterized  his  esteemed  con 
temporary  as  a  thief,  robber,  liar,  in 
cendiary  and  born  fool,  and  was  about 
to  add  that  he  could  lick  him  with  one 
hand  tied  behind  him  and  add three  ex­
clamation  points— !!!  He  had  two  of 
those  points  made  when  I  rang.  An 
other 
instant  and  he  would  have  added 
the  third  and  tossed  off  the  fatal  dose. 
Would  you  call  that  luck,  sir,  or  would 
you  lay  it  to  a  higher  power?”

‘ I’d  call  it  lying!”   I  said  as  I  rose 

to  go.
“ Well,  I  dunno—I  dunno!”   sighed 
the  druggist  as  he  turned  the  key  and 
let  me  out

Was  Sure  He  Could  Sell  Him.
The  dry  goods  merchant  was  explain­
ing  the  situation  to  the  new  drummer 
he  had  just  employed.

“ Your  predecessor,”   he  said,  “ has 
gotten  his  business  all  tangled  up,  and 
if  you  take  his  place  you  will  have  a 
difficult  task getting order out of chaos. ”  
“ I  don’t  know  who  Chaos  is,”   en­
thusiastically 
the  drummer, 
“ but  I  bet  I’ll  sell  him  a  bill  of  goods 
if  I  have  to  hang  onto  him  a  week.”

replied 

How  He  Got  a  Check.

Penman—“ I’ve  been  sending  funny 
articles  to  the  paper  for  three  weeks.”
Popham—  ‘ And  have  you  received  a 

check  yet?”
editor  to  day  telling  me  to  quit.”

Penman—“ Yes;  I got  a  note  from  the 

When  a  bride has  been  married  about 
three  weeks  she  begins  to  write  home 
for  the  old  clothes  she  refused  to  take 
with  her.

Bicycle  Trade  Should  Expand

In 

in  the  sport  there 

To  the  tradesmen  and  to  those  en­
is_  rich 
thusiastic 
future  popularity  of 
promise  for  the 
cycling 
in  the  rising  generation.  The 
extent  to  which  the  young  idea  is  being 
taught  to  wheel  is  amazing  and  deeply 
interesting. 
the  country  and  the 
town,  on  the  good  roads  everywhere  one 
can  not  escape  the  sight  of juvenile  and 
nfant  cyclists.  The  habit  is  being  bred 
,n  the  bone  of  thousands  of  children  of 
both  sexes  who  are  too  yo''ng  to  talk 
plainly.  Toddlers  between  the  ages  of 
four  and  eight  abroad  on  tiny  wheels 
of  special  construction  are  becoming 
so  numerous  that  they  almost  cease  to 
attract  attention.  The  trick  of  carrying 
babies,  too  young  to  pedal,  on  the  front 
of  a  wheel  seems  to  be  growing  rather 
than  diminishing,  and 
it  will  be  sur­
prising 
if  coming  generations  do  not 
take  to  bicycles  like  ducks  to  water.

The  Canned  Horse  Meat  Industry.
The  only  packing  house  engaged  in 
the  canning  of  horse  meat  is  located  a 
few  miles  outside  Portland,  Ore.,  at  a 
small  hamlet  named  Linnton. 
The 
name  of  the  company 
is  the  Western 
Canning  Co.  The  industry  of  canning 
horse  meat  has  been 
in  operation  at 
Linnton  the  past  three  seasons,  and  has 
caused  $100,000  to  be  expended  in  Ore­
gon.  Common  range  horses  whose value 
had  gone  down  to  nothing  were  given 
a  small  value,  and  taken  off  the  ranges, 
to  the  great  benefit  of  the  more  valuable 
stock.  Horse  meat  is  considered  a  lux­
ury 
in  Europe,  and  the  people  there 
who  want  it  should  be  provided  with  it, 
and  will  be. 
It  is  hardly  possible  that 
here 
in  the  United  States,  where  other 
meats  are  produced  so  plentifully,  peo­
ple  will  ever  acquire  a  taste  for  horse 
meat. 

_____

Carved  His  Way  to  Fame. 

‘ There  goes  a  man  who  has 

literally 

carved  his  way  to  fame.”

“ Who  is  he?”
“ The  man  that  won  first  prize  in  the 
ox-dressing  contest  at  the  butchers’ 
picnic.”  

_____

Very  Popular.

"Those  Perkins  girls  seem  to  be pop­

ular  ”
“ Popular?  Their  father  has  adver­
tised  for  bids  to  build  a  barbed  wire 
trocha  around  the  house.”

W A N T S   CO LUM N

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.

I  HAVE  SMALL  STOCK  OF  DRUGS  AND 
fixtures in  Ionia,  taken  on  mortgage.  Will 
sell chean for cash or trade  for  productive  real 
estate.  Answer  immediately.  Will  sell  soon. 
W. W. Hunt, Under  National City  Bank, Grand 
707
Rapid-. 
OR  SALE-COMPLETE  STOCK  OF  GEN 
eral  meichandise,  invoicing  about  $«,0<10. 
Hustling  Michigan  town  of  2,500  inhabitants. 
Seven go~d factories.  Cleanest  and most up-to- 
da'e stock in  county.  Will rent the store  build 
ing for term  of  years.  Other  urgent  interests 
cause for telling.  Herbert F. Caswell, Portland,
Mich._______________________________ 704
OTET,  FOR  SALE  OR  RENT —THREE- 
story  building.  For  pmiculars  address 
John Lenhard. Clarksville. Mich. 
717
Fo r sa le o r r e n t- st o r e a n d d w e l l-
ing combined, at McCord Station, ou  D ,  G. 
R. & W. Ralroad;  good well  in  bouse,  ci  tern, 
new horse bam,  etc.  Store  finished  ready  for 
goods.  An excellent point for business.  Price, 
$500—a  bargain.  Audr°ts  Dr.  L.  E.  II- skin, 
McCord. Mich 
_____________ 714
IpOR SALE OR RENT -COMFORTABLE NINE 
’  room house aud barn at 44 Pleasant avenue, 
oppos te beautiful grove.  Good  cellar.  Filter 
cistern.  Will sell cheap on  easy  terms or  rent 
for $10 per month until spriDg.  N. G. Ri' hards, 
24 Kellogg S t. Grand Rapids. 
718
ITVJR  SALE  CHEAP-SET  OF FIRST-CLASS 
’  modern drug fixtures.  Address No. 711, care 
711
Michigan Tradesman. 
FOR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF DRY GOODS, 
clothing,  boo s  and  shoes,  hats  and  caps 
and men’s furnishing goods and gn ceries, well- 
ads pted  frame  store  building  and  convenient 
residence, well located  in  a  thriving  Northern 
Michigan  town.  Sales  aggregate  $10,000  per 
year, practically all cash  transactions.  No  old 
stock.  No book  accounts.  Reason  for  sel.ing, 
ill  health. 
Investigation  solicited.  Address 
No 709, care Michigan Tradesman. 

709

_____________ 69

X11TANTED — SHOES,  CLO TH IN G .  DRY 
VV  goods.  Address H. B., Box &51, Montague,
M u h . ___________ _____________ m
TT'OR SALE—CLEAN GENERAL >TOCK  AND 
X*  store bu Idiug in small town surrout.deU  by 
excellent farming  and  fruit  country  less  than 
fifty miles  from  Grand  Rapid-.  Go°d  reasons 
fcr selling.  Inspection soli-ited.  Term-reason­
able.  Address  for  particulars  No.  691  care 
Michigan Trade-man. 
I~pOR  SALE—NEW  GE.NERAL  STOCK  A 
'  splendid farming country.  No trad. s.  Ad­
dress No. 6  0, care Michigan Tradesman 
680 
rpOR SALK —A  FINE  SELECTED  STOCK OP 
JP  shoes, rubbers, etc.;  best tiwn in the  Stale; 
stock Al;  lew rent;  sp endid opetii-g.  Reason 
for  selling,  other  business.  Address  Box  96, 
Fenton  Mich. 
710
C ENTRALLY  LOCATED  DRUG  STORE,  UO- 
ing a  good  business  in  the  city,  for  saie. 
Good  reasons  for  selling.  Address  I.  Frank- 
ford.  Fire  Insurance  and  Real  Estate  Agent, 
Phone  1236,  53  West  Bridge  Street,  Grand
Rapids. 
_______ 667
rr»OR  SALE—DRUG,  BOOK  AND  STATION- 
X  ery  stock 
invoicing  $4.500,  and  fixtures 
invoicing $300,  which include show cases, shelv­
ing  and  bottles.  Dailv cash  sales  in  1891,  $2‘; 
892. $30;  1893. $31;  1894. $34.65:  1895,  $45;  1896, 
$21.20, and 1897,$24 13  Located in manufactur­
ing town.  No cut prices.  Rent reasonable, $29 
per month.  Liviug rooms in connection.  Ad­
dress N-. 668, care Michigan Tradesman.  668
I~NOR SALE—FURNITURE AND UNDERTAK- 
1  ing business  in the  most enteiprising  lown 
n Southwestern Michigan.  Best location in the 
city.  Add-ess No. 673,  care  Michigan  Trades- 
673
man, for particulars. 
B est  location  in  Mic h ig a n  fo r  a
cold  storage  ai.d  general  produce  dealer. 
Write to the  Secretary  of  tue  Otsego  Improve­
ment Association. Otsego. Mich._________ 631
Mer c h a n t s—do you w ish cash  q u ic k
for your stock of merchandise,  or any  part 
of it?  Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mich.
628
TO-  EXCHANGE—FOR  CLOTHING,  DRY 
goods or shoes, very nice  well rented Grand 
Rapids property.  Address No.  552, care  Michi­
gan Tradesman.
TO  EXCHANGE — FARMS  AND  OTHER 
property for dry  goods, clothing  and  shoes. 
553
Address P  Medaiie,  Mancelona. Mich. 

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

W ANTED—BUTTER.onEGGS  AND  POUL- 
try;  any  quantities.  Write  me.  Orrin  J. 
Stone. Kalamazoo.  Mich. 
706
ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
VV  retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co.. Trave-se City, Mich.______38l
W ANTED—1.000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
dally.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mich.________________________556

FIREPROOF  SA FE S

G eo. m. sm it h ,  n ew   a n d  seco n d h a n d
s-tfes,  wood  and  brick  building mover, 157 
Ottawa street. Grand Rapids.____________613

HAY AND OATS

I7«»R SALE—WE WISH YOUR ORDERS  AND 
1  ate in a posit on  to  make  you  satisfactory 
prices  Please write us  Michigan  Produce Go., 
shippers and wholesale  dealers,  Lansing.  Mich.
716

MISCELLANEOUS.

WANTED—A  FEW COUNTERS AND  SHOW 
ca-es  used,  hut  in  good  ouditiou.  Ad­
dress No  719. care M chigan Tradesman. 
719 
ANTED—SITUATION  IN  A  CLOTHING 
or general  store  by  an  A No.  I  salesman. 
Add  ess No. 685, care Michigan Tradesman.  685
SITUATION  WANTED  Y  A  FIRS i  CLASS 
registered pharmacist, graduate;  desires  po­
sition  as  c1e-k  or  m"nager.  References  fur­
nished.  Address No  7 5, care Michigan Trades- 
man.  _____________________________ 715
W ANTED—A  REGISTERED  ASSISTANT 
pbarmaci  t.  Give  references.  Address 
713
Saiol. care Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED  -ITUATION  AS  MANAGER  OF 
a general store by a competent and  exper 
ienced man.  Best  of  references  Address  J., 
694
care Michigan Tradesman. 

Picture Cards for 
Country  Fairs^

Nothing takes so well  with 
the visitors at fairs  as  pic­
ture cards, which are care­
fully preserved, while ordi­
nary  cards,  circulars  and 
pamphlets  are  largely  de­
stroyed and  wasted.  We 
have  a  fine line of Picture 
Cards,  varying 
in  price 
from $3 to $0 per  1,000,  in­
cluding  printing  on  back. 
Samples  mailed  on  appli­
cation.

TRADESMAN COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

T r a v ele rs’  T im e  T a b le s.

CHICAGO

Chicago.

Lv.  6. Rapids............   7:80am  12:00am *ll:45pa
At .  Chicago...............2:10pm  9:15pm 
7:20as
Lv.Chicago... 11:45am 6:50am  4:15pm *11:50pm 
Ar. G’d Rapids 5:00pm  1:25pm  10:30pm • 6:20am 
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Lv. G’d  Rapids.............7:30am  8:05am  5:30pm
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on 
night trains to and from Chicago

•Every  day. 

Others week days only.

n C T D A I T   Graad Rapids & Western. 
U d K v l

Sept. a5, 1898.

l y  

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids..........7:00am 1:35pm  5:35pa
Ax. Detroit.....................11:40am 5:45pm  10:05ps
Lv. Detroit......................8:00am 1:10pm  fl:10pir
Ar.  Grand  Rapids........ 12:55pm 5:20pm  10:56pm

Saginaw, Ahna and  Graonville.

Lv. G R 7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G R 11:45am  9:30pr 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains ran week days only.

Gao.  Di Haven.  General Pass. Agent

GRAND Trunk Railway System

Detroit and Milwaukee Dh

(In effect May 15,1898.)

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t  6:45am.Sag., Detroit, Buffalo A N T . t  9:55pm
tl0:10am........ Detroit  and  East...........t  5:27pm
t  3:20pm..Sag.,  Det, N.  Y.  &  Boston..tl2:45pm
* 8:00pm.. .Detroit. East and Canada.. .* 6:35am
tl0:45am........  Mixed to Durand...........t3:15pm
* 8:35am__ Gd. Haven  ana*lut Pts....* 7:05pm
tl2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:12pm 
t 6:32pm..Gd. Haven and Intermediate.tlO:06am
* 7:40pm...Gd. Haven and Chicago......  8:15am
tl0:00pm........Gd. Haven and Mil..........  6:40am
Eastward—Ho. 16 has Wagner parlor car.  Ho. 
22  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
Ho. 17 Wagner parlor car.
»♦Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

WEST.

E. H. Hushes, A. G. P. & T. A. 
Bmr. Fletchbb, Trav. Pass. Agt, 
C.  A.  Justin,  City  Pass.  Agent.
97 Monroe S t  Morton House.

Sept. 25,1898.

GRAND Rapids  k  Indiana Railway
Northern Dlv.  Leave  Arrivi 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...* 7:45am  t  5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A Har. S. .t 2:15pm *10:00pm
Qntiiiac accommodation........t 5:25pm +10:55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City....tU :00pm  t 6:25pm 
7:45am and 2:15pm  trains  have  parlor  cars; 
ll:0jpm train has sleeping car.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrivi
Cincinnati...............................t  7:10am t  9 45pm
Richmond 
....................  . ■.  t  2:10pm t  2:00pn
Cincinnati............................... *10:15pm * 7:10ar.
For Vicksburg and Chicago.. *11:00pm *  9:lCam 
7:10  am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnar 
and  parlor  car  to  Chicago;  2:10pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Richmond;  10:15pm  train  has 
sleeping cars to Cincinnati,  and  on  Sept  27-29 
Oct. 2, 5, 9,12 and 16 to Indianapolis, Louisville, 
and St.  Louis.  11:00pm train has sleeping car to 
Chicago.

Chicago Trains.

TO CHICAGO.

FBOX CHICAGO.

Lv. Grand Rapids...  7  10am  2  10pm  *11 00pm 
6 25am
Ar. Chicago............   2 0( pm  9 10pm
*11 45pm 
Lv. Chicago............................   3 02pm
7  10am
Ar. Grand Rapids...................  9 45pm
Trai” leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor 
car;  11:00pm, coach and sleeping car.
Train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has  parlor car 
11:45pm, sleeping car.

Mushagon Traina, 

som e wxst.

Lv G’d  Bapids............ *7:35am  *l:00pm  *5:40p:
Ar Muskegon......   ...... 9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon.............*8:I0am *ll:45am  *4:00pc.
Ar G’d Rapids............9:30am  12:56pm  5:20pr
Sunday trains leave  Grand  Rapids  9.00  a.  m. 
and 7.00 p. m.  Leave  Muskegon  8.35  a.  m.  and 
7.15 p. m.

sorse hast.

tExcept Sunday.  »Daily.

C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 
W. C. BLAKE, 

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent. 
Ticket Agent Union Station
DULUTH, Sooth Shore sod Atlantic 

Railway.

MANISTEE &  Northeastern Ry.

Best route to Manistee.

Via  C.  &  W .  M.  Railway.

Lv Grand Rapids............................7 *ooam
A r  Manistee.....................................12:05pm
Lv  Manistee...................................   8:30am
A r Grand  Rapids  .........................   1:00pm

4:10pm
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Simplest and 
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Method of  Keeping  2 
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Petit  Accounts 
File and  1,000 printed blank 
#
bill heads........................   $2  75 ♦

File and  1,000  specially

printed bill heads.........   3  25

Printed blank bill  heads,

per thousand................  
2  Specially printed bill heads,
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per thousand..................... 
2  Tradesman  Company,

1  25

1 75

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Grand  Rapids. 

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WXST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Bapids (G. R. & I.)til :10pm  t7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City..................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace........................  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sanlt Ste. Marie..............   12:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. M arquette.........................  2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Hestoria.............................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth.............................................  
8:30am

NAS*  BOUND.

Lv. Duluth............................................  
tfl :30pm
Ar. Hestoria............................. tll:15am  2:45am
Ar. Marquette.......................  
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sanlt Ste. Marie..............  
3:30pm
Ar. Mackinaw City,  .............  8:40pm  11:00am
G. W. Hib b ab d, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marqnette. 
E. C. Ovlatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

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Grand  Rapid',,  ilici) 

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NOW  OPEN *

Carnival 
0! Horse

In  the  Wholesale 
Showrooms  o f

BROWN  &  SEHLEB,  W.  Bridge  St.,  Brand  Bapids.

Prices  right.

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

This Showcase only $4 00 per foot.

With  Beveled  Edge Plate Glass top $5.00 per foot.

FOLDING  PAPER  BOXES Printed  and  plain  for  Patent 

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

GRAND  RAPIDS  PAPER  BOX  CO.

PHONE 8 5 0 .  

81. S 3   AND 8 5  CAMPAU S T ..  GRAND R A PID 8. MICH.

M o p  T h e  W o r l d

We are manufacturing an article that will 
suggest  itself  to  you  as  most  desirable 
for its salable quality.  It is the

Fuller Patented Eccentric Spring Lever  Mop Stick

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

E.  P.  ROWE,  Ludington, Michigan.
FLO W ERS,  M A Y   &  M O LO N EY, Counsel.

L a w   an d   C o llectio n s.

I.  A .  M URPH Y, General Manager.

Hie  ( U i p

S p ecia l  R ep orts.

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

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

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

ITlolid^Goods

afford  BIG  PR O FITS 
if you  buy from  us.

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

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

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DEALERS IN

ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING

OILS

NAPHTHA  AND  GASOLINES

Office and Works,  BUTTERWORTH AVE., 

ORAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. ~

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

Highest Price Paid for  Empty  Carhon and  Gasoline  Barrels.

THE “HOME RULE” OIL 
AND GASOLINE CAN ^

§   getting  water  into  the  can.

Steady^ Stream^ Pump,  which

THE  WINFIELD  MANUFACTURING  C0M  Warren,  Ohio.

Would  our  customers  abandon  the 
Money  Weight  System  and  go  back  to 
old  pound  and  ounce  methods.

There  Must  be  Some  Good  R easons  for 

This.  W hat  Are  They?
i st.  Our  Government’s  standard 
of  weights  and  standard  of  money 
conflict.

2nd.  Our Money Weight System has 

united  the  two  systems.

3rd.  They avoid  mistakes  in  cal­

culation.

4th.  They  prevent  overweight.
5th.  They  insure  you  a profit  on 
every  ounce  of  goods  retailed  from 
your store.

6th.  They  are  pronounced a suc­
cess  by  nearly  50,000  merchants  in 
the  United  States  and  Canada.
For  full  information  address

The  Computing  Scale

Dayton,  Ohio.

