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Volume  XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  12,  1898.

Number  786

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:  TOBACCO  ,

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

J E S S   TO B A C C O

FOR  SALE  ONLY  BY

MUSSELMAN GROCER CO.

OR AND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

PURITY AND  STRENGTH!

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As placed on the market  in  tin  foil  and  under 
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Of greater  strength  than  any  other  yeast,  and 
convenient for handling.  Neatly  wrapped  in 
tin foil.  Give  our  silverware  premium  list  to 
your patrons and  increase your trade.  Particu­
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Grand  Rapids Agency, 26  Fountain  St.

Change Vour Business methods

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Business  methods  progress.  Business 
firms  that  sell  and  distribute  make  a 
smaller  margin  of  profit  nowadays  than 
years ago.  With a  decreased  margin  of 
profit,  old  and  wasteful  methods  cannot 
be  retained.  With  thoroughly  modern 
methods, two employes in a  store  should 
be able to  do what  used  to  require  four. 
Are you sure that your methods are mod­
ern?  Are  you  sure  that  they  are  eco­
nomical?  Are  you  sure  that  they  are 
exact?  Are  you  sure  that  they  enable 
employes  to  do  the  most  possible work 
in  the  least  possible  time? 
If  you  are 
not sure on these points write for samples 
of our several styles of  coupon  books, by 
means  of  which  the  credit  transactions 
of any store can be placed on  practically 
a cash basis.  Free for the asking.

tradesman Company, Grand Rapids, lllicb.

We  Make Them! 

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W e  manufacture a full line. 

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prices.

Wm.  Brummeler  &  Sons

260 S. Ionia Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

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“MR.  THOMAS”

The  Most  Popular  Nickel  Cigar on  Earth

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

F.  E.  Bushman,  Representative, 

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

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The  Economy  Farmer’s 
Boiler  and  Feed  Cooker

The  Kettle  is  of  smooth,  heavy cast- 
iron.  The furnace or jacket is of heavy, 
cold rolled steel, and very durable.  We 
guarantee this  Feed  Cooker  never  to 
buckle  or  warp  from  the  heat. 
It  is 
designed  to set on the ground, or  stone 
foundation,  and  is  especially  adapted 
for cooking  feed, trying out lard,  mak­
ing soap,  scalding  hogs  and  poultry, 
and all work  of  this  nature.  Made  in 
four sizes—40,  60,  70 and  too gallon.
ADAMS  &  HART,  Jobbers,  Grand  Rapids.

Display  C ases  Specially  Designed  for  Any  Kind  of  M erchandise.

Manufacturers of

Catalogue and  Prices very Attractive.

BRYAN,  OHIO

This  Show case only  $4  00  per  foot.

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We have lately placed on the  market  a  line 
of portrait calendars which we  think  supe­
rior in many respects  to  the  colored  calen­
dars so long in use, in that the customer who 
hangs  up  a  calendar  with  the  merchant’s 
portrait  thereon  will  think  of him and his 
establishment  every time  he glances  at the 
calendar.  This  line  of  calendars  is  7x11 
inches in size, printed on heavy 8-ply coated 
litho. cardboard, with portrait of merchant, 
or his  clerks, or his  family  at  top  of  card 
and  large  monthly  calendar  pads  wire 
stitched to  lower  portion  of  card,  samples 
of which will cheerfully be sent on applica­
tion.  We  can  make  calendars  in any  size 
desired, printed either from engraved plates 
or from type,  with  monthly  pad, in  one  or 
two colors of ink.
We also have on  hand  a large line of  fancy 
colored  calendars,  which  we  can  furnish 
on exceptionally  favorable  terms.  In  case 
you  conclude to  favor  us  with  your  order, 
for anything  in the  calendar  line, you  can 
rest  assured  that  your  order  w ill  receive 
painstaking attention by experienced work­
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THE  FORGOTTEN  PAST

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

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

GRAND  RAPID5 .

SOLDIERS  AND  INDIANS.

The  trouble  with  the  Pillager  band  of 
Chippewa  Indians  on  the  Leech  Lake 
reservation 
in  Northern  Minnesota  ap­
pears  to  have  ended  with  the  battle  on 
Bear  Island.

Never before  have  American  soldiers 
had  the  opportunity to distinguish them­
selves,  in  the  space  of  a 
little  more 
than  three  months,  in  climates  so  differ­
ent  and  widely  separated,  as  have  the 
men  of  the  3d  Infantry. 
In  July,  u 'der 
a  tropic  sun,  they  were  bravely  fighting 
the  Spaniards  at  Santiago;  in  October, 
amid  falling  snow,  they  met  the  sudden 
attack  of  a  superior  number  of  well- 
armed  American  Indians  with  a  cour­
age  and  a  discipline  that  slowly  but 
surely  beat back  and  completely  routed 
the  foe.  All  honor again  to  the  regular 
army  soldiers.

investigation 

When  these  Pillager  Indians  are  sub­
dued,  the  Government  should  make  a 
thorough 
into  the  causes 
of  the  trouble.  Although  they began the 
fighting,  the Red Men  may  not have been 
wholly  at  fault.  They  certainly  have 
some  well  grounded  grievances.  For  in 
stance,  during  the  administration  of 
Hoke  Smith,  the  last  democratic  secre­
tary 
f  the  interior,  an  incompetent  and 
dishonest  lot  of  so-called  "examiners”  
was  turned 
loose  on  various  Chippewa 
reservations  in  Minnesota.  These  men 
were appointed  on  the  recommendation 
of  politicians,  as  the  civil  service  rules 
had  not  been  extended  to  cover  their 
positions.  Many  of  these  examiners 
knew  nothing  whatever  about  their 
duties.  When they  were  supposed  to  be 
out  ascertaining  the  amounts and  kinds 
of  timber growing  on  the  several  tracts, 
as  a  basis  for  the  sale  of  it  to  white 
lumbermen  outside,  many  of  them 
in  their  camps  or  backwoods 
stayed 
it  became  necessary  to 
hotels.  When 
make  a  report  to  headquarters, 
they 
framed  their  estimates  by  comparing 
guesses.  On  the  strength  of  such  esti­
mates  the  timber  on  a  number  of  tracts 
was  sold,  the  result  being  that  the  In­
dians  got  considerably  the  worse  of  the 
transactions.

A  while  ago  it  was  proposed  to  move 
the  Pillagers  from  Leech  Lake  to  the 
White  Earth  reservation. 
In  the  last 
Indian  appropriation  bill  an 
item  of 
$35,000  was 
inserted  to  pay  them  for 
improvements  on  their  property,  but  it 
was  stricken  out  before  the  bill  became 
a 
law.  The  Pillagers  may  have  been 
led  to  believe  that  they  would  be  moved 
and  would  receive  no  pay  for  their  im­
provements,  although  as  a  fact  the  In­
dian  bureau  had  no  intention  of  trans­
ferring  them.

To  the  above  grievances  was  added 
that  which  was  mainly  instrumental  in 
precipitating  the  present  conflict.  A l­
though  the  deputy  marshals  deny  that 
they  ever  withheld  any  court  money 
from  Indians  as  witnesses 
in  United 
States  cases,  the  facts  are  against  them. 
It  is  certain  that  when  Bush  Ear,  the 
chief  of  the  Pillagers,  appeared  at  the 
court 
in  Duluth  some  time  ago  as  a 
witness  in  a  liquor  selling  case,  he  had 
to  pay  his  own  expenses  there  and  walk 
back  home.  When  summoned  to appear 
again  as  a  witness,  he  refused  to  do  so,

and  when  he  was  arrested  he  was  taken 
from  the  officers  by  members  of  bis 
band.  Warrants  were  secured  for  the 
arrest  of  these  Indians,  and  the  attempt 
to  execute  these  warrants  led  to  a  con­
flict  with  the  soldiers.

It 

HONORS  FOR  THE  BRAVE.
is  reported  from  Washington  that 
Secretary  of  the  Navy  Long  proposes  to 
recommend  to  Congress  that  the  rank  of 
Admiral  of  the  Navy  be  revived,  for 
the  express  purpose  of  conferring  the 
honor  on  Admiral  Dewey,  the  hero  of 
Manila.  This  rank  was  first  created  for 
Admiral  Farragut,  the  naval  hero  of  the 
Civil  War,  and  after  him  was  held  by 
Admiral  Porter.

There  can  be  no  doubt  whatever  that 
Admiral  Dewey  has  richly  merited  this 
contemplated  distinction.  His  victory 
at  Manila  was  one  of  the  most  daring 
and  masterly  maneuvers 
in  naval  his­
tory  and  to  bis  success  was,  in  a  very 
large  measure,  due  the  short  duration 
of  the  war.  Spain  never  recovered  from 
the  crushing  blow  dealt  her  fleet  at 
Manila.  The  complete  annihilation  of 
Admiral  Montejo’s  squadron  completely 
shook  the  faith  of  the  Spaniards in their 
navy;  whereas,  on  the  other hand,  it  in­
fused  renewed  confidence  into  the  offi­
cers  and  men  of  the  American  fleet. 
Admiral  Dewey’s  victory was,  therefore, 
the  great  triumph  of  the  war,  and,  as 
the  principal  actor  in  that  event,  he  has 
undoubtedly  a  right  to  be  considered 
the  hero  par  excellence  of  the  conflict 
and  should  be  honored  accordingly.

There 

Admiral  Dewey’s  overwhelming  vic­
tory  at  Manila  was  not  the  only  service 
he  rendered.  During  the  several  months 
which  followed  the  destruction  of  the 
Spanish  fleet  be  maintained  his position 
in  Manila  Bay  and  managed affairs with 
consummate  tact  and  skill.  While  pa­
tiently  waiting  for  re-enforcements,  in 
order  to  enable  him  to  capture  and  hold 
the  city  of  Manila,  he  steadily  prepared 
for  tbfe final  onslaught  by  closely  invest­
ing  the  city  and  shutting 
it  off  from 
communication  with  the  outside  world.
is  little  doubt  that  Congress 
will  revive  the  rank  of  Admiral  of  the 
in  order  to  honor  Dewey,  and 
Navy 
there 
is  still 
less  doubt  that  such  a 
course  would  meet  with  the  universal 
approval  of  the  people  of  the  country. 
Dewey  will  for  the  future  always  be rev­
erenced  side  by  side  with  Farragut  as 
one  of  the  Nation’s  great  naval  heroes, 
and,  like  Farragut,  he  should  enjoy  a 
rank  higher  than  that  conferred  upon 
any  other  contemporaneous naval officer.
While  the  American  people  are  pre­
paring  to  honor  their  naval  hero,  Spain 
is  not  unmindful  of  hers.  The  gallant 
but  unfortunate  Admiral  Cervera  is  to 
be  made  a  life  Senator,  one of  the  high­
est  honors  Spain  confers.  Every  Ameri­
can  will  rejoice  at  this,  as  the  quiet 
dignity  and  calm  fortitude  of  the  fine 
old  sailor  under  misfortune,  his-gal­
lantry  in  battle  and  his  unfailing  cour­
tesy  won  him  golden  opinions  from  ail 
who  came 
in  contact  with  him.  He 
brought  his  squadron  out  of  Santiago 
against  his  better  judgment  at  the" com­
mand  of  his  superiors  and  he  made  a 
gallant 
fight  against  overwhelming

odds,  until  his ships  were  set  on fire and 
riddled.  There  was  a  fear  that  the  A d­
miral  might  receive  but  cold  treatment 
at  the  bands  of  his  government  and 
countrymen ;  but,  to  their  credit,  the 
Spaniards  recognized  the  fact  that,  al­
though  defeated,Cervera  reflected  credit 
on  his  country  by  his  personal  bravery 
and  his  obedience  to  orders  in  the  face 
of  certain  destruction.

in 

long 

There  has  been  a  great  change  in 
German  public  opinion  on  the  subject 
of  the  retention  of  the  Philippine  Is­
lands  by  the  United  States.  The  feeling 
toward  America,  generally, 
is  much 
more  favorable  than  it  was  a  couple  of 
months  ago.  The  papers  have  been 
letters  from  German 
publishing 
merchants  settled 
in 
which  American  annexation  is  strongly 
advocated. 
In  Berlin,  last  week,  a  del­
egation  representing  German  and  Ger- 
man-Swiss 
the  Philippines 
called  at  the  United  States  embassy  to 
express  hopes  that  America  will  not  re­
linquish  the  islands,  and  above  all  not 
return  them  to  Spain,  which,  the  dele- 
jgation  claimed,  would  mean  a  recur­
rence  of  the  revolution  and  the  perpe­
tration  of  commercial  troubles.

islands, 

firms 

the 

in 

Russian  merchants  do  not 

let  the 
grass  grow  under  their  feet  where  they 
are  at  a  disadvantage  in  trading  with  a 
foreign  country.  Sir  Michael  Hicks- 
Beach  stated  some  time  ago  that  Great 
Britain  had  a  great  pull  over  Russia  so 
far  as  the  Chinese  trade  was  concerned 
in  the  difference  between  the  cost  of 
carriage  by  sea  and  the  freight  charges 
on  the  Trans-Siberian  Railway.  Rus­
sian  traders  have  made  representations 
to  Prince  Khilkoy,  the  Russian  minis­
ter  of  ways  and  communications,  with 
the  result  that  he  has  undertaken  to pre­
pare  a  tariff  for  through  charges  for 
Russian  goods,  which will  be as low as or 
lower  than  steam  sea  transport  by  either 
England  or  Germany.

It  has  been  shown  that  the  railway 
in  the  United  States  employs 
system 
36,000 
locomotives,  26,000  passenger 
cars  and  9,000  mail  and  baggage  cars. 
These  figures  seem  large  until  the  num­
ber  of  freight  cars  is  stated,  which  is
1,250,000.  The  system,  with  its  gigan­
tic  equipment,  is  practically  the  growth 
of  a  single  generation.  With  the  addi­
tion  of  another  quarter  or  half  a  cen­
tury,  posterity  ought  to  stand  and  gaze 
at 
its  stupendous  proportions.  But  it 
will  probably  be  gradually  educated  out 
of  all 
its  capacities  of  wonder,  as  we 
have  been  out  of  many  of  our  own.

Aus-tiia-Hungary  is  making  an 

inter­
esting  experiment  to  open  up  new chan­
nels  for  its  trade.  A  steamer,  the Posei­
don,  fitttd  up  as  a  floating  exhibition 
of  the  products  of  the  monarchy,  will 
soon  leave  Trieste  for  the  chief  ports  of 
the  Levant,  the  Red  Sea,  Hindostán, 
the  East  Indies,  China  and  Japan. 
Its 
arrival  will  be  extensively  advertised 
beforehand  at  each  port,  and  commer­
cial  travelers  on  board  will  try  to  secure 
orders  for  the  exhibitors  and  to  find 
capable  agents  at  the  points  touched.

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Dry  Goods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

There 

is  more 

Staple  Cottons— Brown  cottons  are 
irregular,  but  prices  are  no 
somewhat 
lower. 
improvemeit 
noted  in  ducks,  particularly  in  the  col­
ored  lines.  Bleached  cottons  are  with­
for  the  shirting 
out 
trade,  and  this 
industry  has  ordered 
quite  a  fair  amount.  Wide  sheeting, 
cotton  flannels,  blankets  and 
coarse 
colored  cottons  are  tirm  and  unchanged 
in  price.

interest,  except 

Prints—Cheap 

fancy  calicoes  have 
in  nearly 
been  the  feature  of  the  week 
all  houses. 
Indigo  prints  have  been 
somewhat  quitt  for  some  time  past 
Mourning  prints  are  steady.  Turkey 
reds  are  represented  as  quite 
irregular. 
is  also  some  unsteadiness  rep­
There 
in  napped  dress  goods.  Per­
resented 
in  good  request  by  both  job­
cales  are 
bing  and  manufacturing  places 
for 
spring  business.

Dress  Goods—While  it  is 

impossible 
to  make  any  prediction  in  regard  to  the 
turn  that  matters  will  tike  in  the  dress 
goods  market  for  spring,  it  seems  prac­
tically  safe  to  say  that  plain  goods  will 
be  decidedly  favored  and that those with 
small  effects  will  constitute  the  bulk  of 
the  trading.  On  account  of  the  increase 
in  the  purchases  of  wool  dress  goods  for 
fall,  jobbers  are  inclined  to  think  that 
the  better  grades  for  dress  goods  for 
spring  will  be  called  for,  the  soft,  all- 
wool  lines  and  those  composed  of  wool, 
principally.  This,  however,  is  a  rather 
rash  prediction,  and  it  will  not  be  well 
to  bank  too  heavily  on  it.  The season  is 
young  and  as  the  jobebrs  have 
learned 
from  bitter  experience 
the  past, 
many  changes  may  take  place  in  a  very 
short  time.

in 

Woolen  Goods—The  amount  of  cheap 
wool  still  held  by  manufacturers,  and 
the  manner 
in  which  it  is  distributed, 
are  matters  of  vital  import  to  the  trade, 
but  they  will  not  be  fully  disclosed  un­
til  the  heavyweight  season  opens.  Many 
shrewd  observers  believe  that  ante-tariff 
wool  will  prove  more  of  a  demoralizing 
factor  at  the  opening  of  next  season 
than  it  has  been  in  the lightweight busi 
ness  to  date.  The  opening  of  the  pres­
ent  season  found  the  majority  of  mills 
with  more  or  less  cheap  wool  on  hand 
Those  that  secured  the  bulk  of the light­
weight  business  have  materially reduced 
their  stock  of  cheap  raw  material,  and 
the  fact  that  the  large  mills  secured  the 
larger  part  of  this  business  and  have 
since  been 
large  buyers  of  wool  forces 
the 
inference  that  the  small  mills  are 
the  principal  owners  of  cheap  wool  to 
day  and  are 
likely  to  be  the  strongest 
competitors  for  business  next  season 
There  is  hardly  a  manufacturer  who 
is 
not  going  to  show something remarkable 
in  the  way  of  a  cheap  fabric  next  sea­
son.  The 
large  manufacturers  are  the 
ones  who  are  loudest  in  their  statements 
that  material  advances  must  be  had  up­
on  heavyweights.  Advances  will  un­
doubtedly  be  obtained  some  time during 
the  season,  but  there  is  good  reason  to 
believe  that  the  opening  will  find  just 
as  cheap  fabrics  as  have  ever  been 
shown  in  the  market.

Carpets—The  carpet  industry,  in  gen­
eral,  continues  very  quiet,  as  most  of 
the  manufacturers  have  about completed 
their  initial  orders  and  duplicates  have 
not  materialized  to  any  extent.  Some 
have  also  completed  their  samples  for 
the  coming  season,  which  opens  about 
i.  Unless  new  business  is 
November 
received  very  soon, 
there  will  be  a

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

larger  number  of  looms  idle.  A  few  in­
grain  manufacturers  are  at  work  on 
granite 
ingrains,  which  continue  to 
have  a  very  fair call,  as  they  are  cheap. 
Pro-Brussels  has  also  been  more  active 
tbis  season  than  for  any  previous  time. 
Cheap  tapestries  have  had  a  very  fair 
run,  but  it  is  a  well-understood  fact that 
manufacturers  who  have  continued  to 
make  goods  at  current  market  prices 
have  not  made  any  money  this  season. 
They  are  hopeful  that  next  season  will 
see  a  change  for  the  better,  not  only 
in 
this  line  but  also  in  all  lines  of  carpet. 
One  prominent  carpet  firm  is  willing 
to  prophesy  that  within  two  years  we 
shall  have  seen  the  height  of  the  straw 
matting  business,  which  will  then  com­
mence  to  decline  as  the  purchaser  be­
gins  to  get  back  to  his  normal  purchas­
ing  power  and  buys  more  all  wool  car­
pets.

He  Wanted  Mustard.

It  was  in  the  army.  The  boys  had  a 
meal  of  beef  that  had  been  corned  by  a 
bath 
in  a  salt-horse  barrel.  They  all 
thought  it  a  treat  until  one  of  the  party 
remarked:  “ A  little  mustard  wouldn’t 
go  bad.”  
‘ ‘ That  reminds  m e,”   said 
another;  “ you just wait  a few minutes. ”  
A  quarter  of  an  hour  later  he  returned, 
and,  producing  a  screw  of  paper,  he 
said: 
‘ ‘ Oh,  yes;  here’s  that  mustard.”  
“ Where  did  you  get  it?”   said the others 
in  chorus. 
“ Up  at  the  surgeon’s.  The 
sick-call,  you  remember,  sounded  as  we 
were  talking  about  the  mustard. 
It  oc­
curred  to  me  that  a  little  mustard  for 
my  lame  back  would  be  just the thing. ”  
“ But  you  haven’t got  any  lame  back  ”  
’ ‘ But  I  have  got  the  mustard. ’ ’

Prefer  short  credit  to 

long,  cash  to 
credit,  either  in  buying  or  selling,  and 
small  profits  with 
little  risks  to  the 
chance  of  better  gains  with  more  haz­
ards.

I.  W.  LAMB,  original  inventor 
of the Lam b Knitting Machine, 
President and Superintendent.

The Lamb Glove & Mitten Go.,

ot  PERRY.  MICH.,

controls  a  lartre  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 
wiU be promoted by handling these goods.

We  have  ..
T  
jk 
$  

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

• 

dEO.  H.  REEDER  &  CO.,

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

THE 6EM UNION SUIT

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.

Sewing,  Knitting 
and  Embroidery  Silks

A full line  of  “ Corticelli”  in  Filo,  Wash  and  Per­
sian  Floss  Skein  Silks. 
Penny-spool  Embroid­
ery;  5  and  i o c   Sewing;  5,  10,  15 and 25c  Knitting. 
Also  a  line  of  Brainard  &  Armstrong’s  Filo  Skein 
Silks.

P  STEKETEE &  SONS, Grand  Rapids.

I F leecy  L in e d  H osiery \

Is by far the most popular for cool weather.  You will 
make no mistake to  purchase  liberally.  We  have  a 
good article  for  Boys’  and  Misses’  wear,  in  one  and 
one ribbed, sizes  6  to  9%;  retail  at  10  cents.  Better 
goods to sell  at  15  and  20  cents. 
In  Ladies'  we  are 
showing good values to sell at  10,  15, 20  and  25  cents. 
Send for sample lot.

Voigt,  Herpolsheim er  &   Co.,

Wholesale  D ry  Goods,  G rand Rapids,  M ich.

Best  Quality. 

Northrop Spices.

One  and  Inseparable.

To  think  of  the  one  is  to  suggest  the  other.

It  takes  the  best  to  make  the  best.

NORTHROP, ROBERTSON & CARRIER

LANSING, MICHIGAN.

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3

America 

to  Compete  With  English 
Needle  Makers.

Prom the Pittsburg Dispatch.

Pittsburg  proposes  to  enter  into  com­
petition  with  Worcestershire,  England, 
and  bring  forth  the  Nation’s  supply  of 
needles.  Options  have  already  been 
secured  on  a  tract  of  land  lying  along 
the  Monongahela,  near  here,  and 
indi­
cations  are  favorable  for  the  establish­
ment  of  a  plant  within  a  few  months 
is  to  be  introduced  into 
The 
industry 
into  other  parts  of  the 
this  city,  and 
United  States,  on  a  much 
larger  and 
more  modern  scale  than  that  of  English 
plants,  enabling  the  Iron  City  to  com­
pete  easily  with  European  factories  that 
have  thus  far  maintained  a  monopoly 
of  the  world’s  output.  The  company  is 
to  be  known  as  the  American  Needle 
Company,  and  it  is  the intention to have 
at 
in  the  United 
States,  with  an  aggregate  capacity  al­
most  double  that  of  the  Old  World  fac­
tories.

least  three  plants 

All  grades,  from  the  delicate  cambric 
needle  to  the  huge  darning  and  sailors’ 
needles,  will  be  turned  out.  The  steel 
needle  was  first  shown  to  the  world  at 
Nuremberg,at the close of the Fourteenth 
Century. 
An  old-time  Spaniard  im­
proved  slightly  on  the  pattern  then  in 
use,  after  which  an  Englishman  con­
idea  of  grooving  the  thin 
ceived  the 
steel  wire  and  polishing 
it.  Then  the 
industry  became  established  at  Red 
ditch,  in  Worcestershire,  England.  This 
was  over  two  hundred  years  ago,  since 
which  time  the  English  manufactory 
has  been  supplying  the  inhabitants  of 
the  globe.

Before  Emperor  William  was  ever 
thought  of,  even  before  Bismarck  had 
received  his  first  slash  at  a fencing tour­
ney 1n  Heidelberg,  the  Germans  were 
concerned  in  the manufacture of needles. 
In  the  celebrated  Westphalian  district, 
near  the  present  locality  of  Krupp’s 
great  gun  works,  they  set  up  a  plant  for 
the  manufacture  of  the  sharp-pointed 
steels.  But  a  clever  Englishman  came 
along,  bought  the  outfit  and  removed 
the  entire  works  to his own  land.  This, 
to  an  extent,  is  the  history  of the needle 
industry.  To-day  England  is  turning 
out  thousands  of  boxes  of  the  shining 
steels  and  shipping  them  all  over  the 
world.

Needles  are  made  of  crucible  steel  of 
the  finest  quality.  Their  manufacture 
requires  great  skill  on  the  part  of  the 
operatives,  and  all  machinery  used 
must  be  of  special  construction.  From 
the  melters  the  steel  comes  in  small 
pots,  the  molten  metal  being  immedi 
ately  transferred  to  gauges,  which  bring 
it  forth  as  wire  from  one-fiftieth  to  one 
seventieth  of  an 
inch  in  thickness 
This  wire  is  delivered  to  the  next  proc 
ess,  and  by  the  aid  of  gauges  the  coils 
are  cut  with  precision 
into  proper 
lengths,  each  sufficient  for  two  needles. 
These  lengths;  having  the  curvature  of 
the  coil  and  other  inequalities,  are 
next  straightened.  The  bundle  thus  to 
from  4,000  to 
be  equalized  contains 
5,000  lengths,  packed 
in  strong 
iron 
It  is  then  heated  and  pressed  on 
rings. 
an 
two  parallel 
grooves 
in  which  the  rings  fit  Over 
this  plate  the  bundle  works  backward 
and  forward  by  the  pressure  of  an  ob­
long.  slightly  curved 
iron  tool  having 
two  longitudinal  slits  through  which  the 
edges  of  the  rings  project.  By  com­
bined  pressure  and  rolling  the  lengths 
become  straight.

iron  plate  having 

The  pointing  of  the  needles  is  done 
on  a  dry  grindstone,  and 
is  attended 
with  great  danger  to  the  operative,  aris­
ing  from  the  sparks  and  dust  created. 
One  operative 
in  ten  hours  is  able  to 
point  100,000  needles.  The  pointing 
machines  consist  of  wheels,  to  the  per­
iphery  of  which  the  wires  to  be  pointed 
are  held  by  a  rubber  band. 
In  eyeing 
the  needles  they  are again  heated.  Each 
is  separately  stamped  by  means  of  a 
die,  with  the  grooved  and  round  im­
pressions  of  two  needle-heads  set  end  to 
end.  Through  these  stamped  heads  the 
eyeholes  are  perforated  by  a  screw 
press  working  a  pair  of 
fine  steel 
punches  or  prongs.  The  polishing 
process  is  done  on  an  emery  wheel 
Acid  is  also  used  in  this  process.

The  projectors  of  the  plant  have  not 
completed  their  plans,  but  it  is  stated 
that the  New  Yorkers 
interested  favor 
one  of  the  Pittsburg  sites.
How  a  Young  Woman  Can  Collect 

Bills.

It  seemed 

in  the  Windy  City.  Here, 

‘ Speaking  of  collecting  bills,”   re­
marked  a  Chicago  man  the  other  day, 
‘ we  have  devised  a  most  effective  sys­
tem 
in­
stead  of  young  men,  they  employ  young 
women.  I  tried  it  myself,  and  it  worked 
ike  magic.  A  fellow  by  the  name  of 
Green  owed  me  a  small  bill,  a matter,  1 
think,  of  $17  or  so. 
impos­
sible  to  make  him  pay  it,  so  I  engaged 
the  services  of  a  pretty  and  stylish  girl.
I  sent  her  around  to  his  office  He  was 
She  called  again.  He  was  still 
out,  but,  nothing  daunted,  she  made 
the  third  and  the 
fourth  call.  The 
fourth  time  he  was  in,  but  he  firmly  re­
fused  to  pay  the  bill.
‘ Look  here,  Mr.  Green,’  said  the 
girl,  ‘ I  will  make  a  proposition to you : 
If  you  will  pay  five  cents  a  day  on  this 
bill  I  will  call  each  day  and  colltct  that 
amount  until  you  have  paid  it  in  fu>l. ’ 
But  Green  was  a  hard  party.  He 
again  refused,  and  the  girl lelttbe  office 
apparently  crestfallen.  The  next  day 
she  did  not  call  at  his  office,  but  she 
did  call  at  his  house.  The  door  was 
opened  by  the  servant.

“   ‘ Is  Mr.  Green  in?’  asked  the  young 

woman.

**  ‘ No,  ma’am. ’
“ The  girl 

left,  but  it  seems  that  the 
servant  duly  reported  the  call  of  the 
pretty  and  stylish  young woman who was 
so  anxious  to  see  Mr.  Green  to his  wife. 
The  next  day  when  the  young  woman 
again  called,  the  wife  hung  over  the 
banisters,  taking  a  peep  at  the  caller on 
her  own  account.  The  young  woman 
asked  if  Mr.  Green  was  in.
**  ‘ No,  ma’am,' answered  the  servant, 
‘ but  his  wife  is. ’  The  wife  had  told 
her  to  say  this,  of  course.
‘ Why,  has  Mr.  Green  a  wife!'

**  ‘ His  wife!’  stammered  the  girl. 

‘ The  wife,  hanging  over  the  banis­
ters,  heard  this.  She  turned  pale  and 
gasped  for  air,  while  the  girl,  seem­
ingly  very  much  confused and distressed 
at  her  discovery,  went  on down  the steps 
and  into  the  street. 
It  is  impossible  to 
say  just  what  happened  at that  house 
that  night,  whether  pokers  and  curling 
tongs  were  hurled,  the  furniture was torn 
from 
its  foundations  and  flung  madly 
about  or  the  roof  raised  skyward;  but 
one  thing  I  do  know,  the  next  day 
Green  promptly  paid  the $17.  And  the 
girl  didn’t  call  at  his  office  for  it either. 
He  came  around  and  handed  me  the 
money  himself,  and  he  seemed  to  think 
he  was  getting  off  pretty  easy  at  that  ”
No  one  can rise  who  slights  his  work

their manufactures.

No  Chemicals  are  used  in 
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure 
delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one 
cent a cup.
Their Premium  No.  1  Chocolate, put up in 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best 
plain chocolate in the market for family use.
Their  German  Sweet  Chocolate i* good  tc 
eat and good to drink.  It is palatable, nutrt 
tions, and  healthful;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.
Buyers should ask for and be sure that  they 
get the genuine goods • The above trade-mark 
is on every package.

Walter Baker &  Co. Ltd.

Dorchester,  Mass.

Premiums  are  a  splendid,  legitimate  advertisement. 
They bring  increased trade.  They induce customers 
who have been buying on credit to buy  for  cash 
No plan has ever been devised  to  bring  such  results 
at a small expense.

Ju st  Issued a  Special  Catalogue 
of  Holiday  Goods 

oe

Buy a line of these goods now  and  show your custom­
ers  what  a  beautiful  present  they  can  get  by  the 
time the holidays come around.
Our  line  of  silverware  is  more  complete  than  ever. 
Scales,  hatracks  in  new  styles,  clocks  at  special 
prices—in short, a  larger,  more desirable and cheaper 
line than can be found elsewhere.
Write for catalogue and  prices.

The  Regent  Manufacturing  Co.

174  W abash  Ave.,  Chicago,  III.

PIAN05

A .  B.  Chase,  Hazelton,  Fischer,  Franklin, 
Ludw ig,  K ingsbury  and  other  pianos.

A.  B.  Chase and 
Ann  Arbor 
Organs

A   full  assortment  of  Sheet 
Music  and  Musical  Mer­
chandise.  Everything 
in 
the  Music  line  at  lowest 
prices.  Catalogues sent free 
on application.

JULIUS  A.  J.  FRIEDRICH

30  and  32  Canal  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

TH E  LE AD IN G   MUSIC  HOUSE  OF  W ESTERN  MICHIGAN.

Everything  in  the  Plumbing  Line 
Everything  in  the  Heating  Line

Be it Steam,  Hot Water  or Hot Air.  Mantels, Grates and 
Tiling.  Galvanized  Work  of  Every  Description.  Largest 
Concern  in the State.

WEATHERLY  &  PULTE,  99  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Rapids

Established r m

Walter Baker & Go. L™

Largest Manufacturers of

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

PURE,HI6H grade

COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

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Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Ramsey— N.  Norman,  Jr.,  grocer,  has 

removed  to  Plumer,  Wis.

Wexford—Ella  Guernsey  has  engaged 

in  the  millinery  business.

Athens—Wm.  Rider  has  opened  a 

harness  shop  at  this  place.

Bay  City— Mrs.  C.  C.  Brooks  has 

opened  a  new  millinery  store.

Hadley—John  Neely  has  sold his flour­

ing  mill  to  Marshall  E.  Smith.

Lansing— Leo.  Ehrlich  has  purchased 

the  grocery  stock  of  R.  C.  Peez.

Pinckney— Albert  Reason  has  sold  his 

grocery  stock  to  Richard  Clinton.

Charlesworth-Chas.  Barnes,  general 

dealer,  has  removed  to  Devereaux.

Marshall— Ray  E.  Hart  has purchased 
the  general  stock  of  Edgar  G.  Brewer.
Carson  City—M.  V.  Moore  has  pur­
chased  the  jewelry  stock  of  Geo.  Ber­
gen.

Brown  City—J.  H.  Linck  has  em­
barked  in  the  grocery  and  notion  busi­
ness.

Hancock— Louis  Burns  has  engaged 
in  the  wholesale  fruit  and  produce  busi­
ness.

Edenville— I.  B.  Weinberg  succeeds 
in  general 

Weinberg  &  Himelhoch 
trade.

Saginaw—Geo.  W.  Mowbray  succeeds 
in  the  grocery 

Mowbray  &  Edwards 
business.

Mt.  Morris— Mr.  Strassburg  has  sold 
his  meat  market  to  J.  D.  Burr,  of 
Thetford.

Benton  Harbor—W.  D.  Burkbam  has 
opened  a  retail  oyster  house  in  the Stev­
ens  block.

Port  Austin—Robert  E.  Hawks,  gro­
cery  and  hardware  dealer,  has  removed 
to  Midland.

Marquette— Peter  Molitor,  dealer 

in 
ladies’  furnishing  goods,  has  removed 
to  Calumet.

Adrian—Jas.  R.  Haight  has  estab­
io  cent  store  on  South 

lished  a  5  and 
Main  street.

Traverse  City— R.  N.  Faulkner,  of 
Charlevoix,  has  opened  a  restaurant  on 
Front  street.

Owosso— Frank  Moseley  has  opened  a 
branch  meat  market  at  m   South  Wash­
ington  street.

Ithaca— W.  L.  Moyer, 

late  of  St 
Johns,  has  embarked  in  the  confection­
ery  business.

Marine  City—Lena  (Mrs.  Chas.)  En- 
glehart  has  retired  from  the  boot  and 
shoe  business.

Laurium—The  F.  J.  Hargrave  Co., 
lately  of  Ewen,  has  just  opened  a  gen 
eral  store  here.

Kingston—W.  L.  Baker  succeeds  J. 
K.  Thomas  in  the  furniture  and  under­
taking  business.

Menominee— E.  C. 

(Mrs.  Jos.  H  ) 
Somerville  has  sold  her grocery  stock  to 
A.  M.  Ruprecht  &  Co.

Ann  Arbor— H.  R.  Lovell  has  pur­
chased  the  fancy  goods  and  notion stock 
of  Elizabeth  G.  Walton.

Richmond—Gus  Beier  has  opened  a 
in  the  store  building  re­

meat  market 
cently  purchased  by  him.

Owosso— Hookaway  &  Son,  grocers 
and  produce  dealers,  will  shortly  add  a 
line of  crockery  and  glassware.

Fremont— Jacob  Weiss,  general  dealer 
at  New  London,  Wis.,  will  put  in  a 
complete  general  stock  at  this  place.

Ludington— Alex.  Poirer  has  begun 
the  erection  of  a  brick  structure  adjoin­
ing  his  grocery  store,  which  he  will  use 
as  a  feed  store,  in  place  of  the  building 
recently  torn  down.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Hancock—The Hancock  Finnish Trad­
ing  Co.  is  the  name  of  a  new  general 
merchandise 
just  opened 
here.

institution 

Germfask—J.  H.  Stone,  of  East  Jor 
dan,  has  again  assumed  the  manage­
ment  of  the  lumber  mill  of J.  L.  New­
berry.

Jackson—Will  J.  Campbell,  of  Boise 
City,  Idaho,  has  opened  a  grocery  store 
at  the  corner  of  Main  and  Jackson 
streets.

Sault  Ste.  M arie-L.  H.  Hill,  of 
Lock port,  N.  Y .,  has  engaged  in  the 
dry  goods  and  men’s  furnishing  goods 
business.

Baraga— Hugh  Nesbitt,  the  hardware 
dealer,  is  traveling  in  the  West.  He  has 
visited  thus  far  Oregon,  Washington 
and  Idaho.

Cheboygan—Chas.  W.  Ives  has  sold 
his  interest  in  the  drug  firm  of  Ives  & 
Small  to  his  partner,  who  will  continue 
the  business.

Portland— M.  J.  Dehn  has  purchased 
the  clothing  and  furnishing  goods  stock 
of  Wm.  Love  and  consolidated 
it  with 
his  own  stock.

Negaunee—John  Shea  has  opened  a 
branch  store 
in  the  Tracey  building, 
carrying  a  line  of  dry  goods  and  men’s 
furnishing  goods.

Central  Lake— H.  Sissons  &  Co.  have 
sold  their  dry  goods and  grocery  stock 
to  Boyce  &  Barber,  who  will  continue 
the  business  at  the  same  location.

Eaton  Rapids— It is reported that Mrs. 
T.  W.  Daniels  will  put  in  a  new  stock 
of  dry  goods 
in  her  store  building  as 
soon  as  it  is  vacated  by  Jas.  Parks.

Barryton— Leonard Schrock,  of Clarks­
ville,  announces  his  intention  of  erect­
ing  an  elevator  and  warehouse  adapted 
to  the  handling  of  grain  and  produce.

Coldwater— C.  F.  Zapf,  grocer  at  this 
place,  will  remove  to  Bronson  Decem­
ber 
i,  having  purchased  the  grocery 
stock  of  Coward  &  Monroe at that place.
Battle  Creek—W.  I.  Fell,  late  of  the 
clothing  firm  of  Densmore  &  Fell,  of 
Ypsilanti,  has  purchased  an  interest 
in 
the  clothing  house  of  the  Riley-Fisher 
Co.

Owosso— A-.  L.  Keiff  &  Son  and  Jack 
Pbeifle,  merchant  tailors,  have  consol­
idated  and  will  hereafter  conduct  but 
one  shop,  occupying  the 
location  of 
KeiS  &  Son.

Thompsouville—Mayber  Bros.  &  Co., 
of  North  Manchester,  Ind.,  have  estab­
lished  a  buying  depot  here  for  the  fall 
and  winter.  They  are  represented  by 
Chas.  Naber.

the 

Owosso—Freeman Arnold,of this place, 
has  purchased 
interest  of  Mr. 
Tompkins  in  the grocery firm  of  Tomp­
kins  &  Coons.  The  business  will  be 
continued  under  the  style  of  Coons  & 
Arnold.

Benton  Harbor— Seeley  McCord  and 
J.  S.  Miller  have  formed  a  copartner­
ship  under  the  style  of  McCord  &  Mil­
ler and  engaged  in  the  wholesale  meat 
business.  They  will  purchase  stock  and 
do  their  own  killing.

Jackson— Richardson &  Knight,  whose 
wholesale  and  retail  millinery  stock  was 
recently  destroyed  by  fire,  have  opened 
a  retail  store 
in  the  Durand  block, 
pending  the  repairs  to  the  building  in 
which  they  were  located  prior  to  the 
fire.

Tallman— C.  W.  McPhail,  President 
of  the  State  Savings  Bank  of  Scottville, 
has  purchased  the  store  buildings  of  the 
Tallman  Building  Association  and  will 
occupy  them  with  a  general stock, which 
will  be  conducted  under  the  manage­
ment  of  Robert  McIntyre,  of  Detroit

Lansing— Daniel  W.  Buck,  Lansing’s 
pioneer  merchant,  celebrated  the fiftieth 
anniversary  of  his  establishment 
in 
business  here  Oct.  8  On  Oct.  8,  1848, 
he  opened  a  small  furniture  store  here, 
and  in  1865  moved  to  the  corner  he  still 
occupies.

Petoskey—Guy  M.  Harwood  and  Wal­
ter  Kephart  have  purchased  the  drug 
stock  of  E.  J.  Burrel  and  will 
ontinue 
the  business  at  the  same  location.  Mr. 
Kephart  will  give  the  business  his  per­
sonal  attention,  removing  to this  place 
from  Lansing.

Menominee— E.  B.  Norris,  of  Sagi­
naw,  who  has  had  charge of the Menom­
inee  Hardware  Co. ’s  business  here  for 
the past four months, has returned to Sagi­
naw,  where  he  will  continue  in  the  em­
ploy  of  Morley  Bros.,  who are  interested 
in  the  Menominee  establishment.

Lansing—Geo.  M.  Hodge  and  G. 
Spaniolo  have  consolidated  their  fruit 
and  produce  business  and  formed  a  co­
partnership  under  the  style  of  G.  M. 
Hodge  &  Co.  The  combination 
is a 
good  one  for  both  parties  to  the deal,  as 
it  will  enable  the  bouse  to  carry  a larger 
stock  than  either  could  afford  to  carry 
alone.

Hart—J.  H.  Colby  has  returned  to 
Hart  and  purchased  the  hardware  stock 
of  E.  A.  Noret,which  be  formerly  man- 
•aged  while  engaged  in  the  business here 
under the  style  of  Noret  &  Colby.  Mr. 
Colby  is  a  hardware  man  of  experience 
and  judgment  and  his  return  to  Hart  is 
a  matter  of  .congratulation  among  the 
other  merchants  of  the  place.

Allegan —M.  B.  Moore  and  F.  P.  Pot­
ter  have  purchased  the  drug  stock  of 
E.  T.  VanOstrand  and  will  continue 
the business  at  the  same  location.  Mr. 
Potter 
is  a  registered  pharmacist  and 
has  been  in  the  employ  of  W.  J.  Garrod 
the  past  twelve  years  or  more,  and  is 
fully  competent  to  take  charge of  the 
store  and  business,  which  be  will  do. 
Mr.  VanOstrand  proposes  to  engage  in 
other  business,  although  the  kind  is  not 
stated.

Belding— Local  dry  goods  merchants 
had  a 
little  fun  among  themselves  last 
Saturday  that  made  business  in  the  cal­
ico  line  very  lively.  They got  up  a  run 
on  this  line  of  goods  that  finally  put  the 
price  down  as 
low  as  ten  yards  for  8 
cents,  and  the  public  took  the  benefit. 
It  is  said  that  H.  J.  Leonard  sold  2,000 
yards  during  the  afternoon,  W.  F. 
Bricker  sold  every  last  yard  he  had, 
while  the  Booths  did  a  bustling  busi­
ness  all  day.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Alden— Amidon  Bros,  have  removed 
their  shingle  mill  from  Lake Ann to this 
place.

Sparta—The  Welch  Folding  Bed  Co. 
is  running  twelve  hours  a  day  in  all  de­
partments.

Petersburg—Eesley  &  Sons,  who  op­
erated  a  grist  mill  at  this  place,  have 
removed  to  Midland.

Sturgis—Arthur  Hibbard  has  pur­
chased  the  grist  mill  and  implement 
stock  of  C.  O.  Gardner.

Saginaw— The  Saginaw  Manufactur­
is  running  its  washboard  de­

ing  Co. 
partment  twelve  hours  a  day.

Carsonville—Chas.  J.  Walker 

con­
tinues  the  lumber  and  grain  business 
formerly  conducted  by  Walker  &  Eller- 
thorpe.

Eaton  Rapids— Horner  Bros,  are  con­
templating  the  erection of a woolen mill, 
to  be  operated  in  connection  with  their 
present  plant.

Flint— Wm.  F.  Stewart  has  merged 
his  carriage body  manufacturing  busi­
ness 
into a  corporation,  under  the  style 
of  the  W.  F.  Stewart  Co.

Rockford— H.  H.  Childs  has  begun 
the  work  of  reconstructing  the  paper 
mill  recently  burned  at  Child’s  Mills. 
The building  will  be  of  brick.

Quincy—Frank  Globensky  has  pur­
chased  his  brother  John’s 
interest  in 
their  business  and  is now  sole proprietor 
of  the  stavemill  and  cooperage  works.

Summit  City— L.  K.  Gibbs  &  Son 
have  purchased  the  Stroub  sawmill,  at 
Horton’s  Bay,  and  will  remove  it  to  the 
tract  of  timber  they  own  near this place.
Lansing— L.  T.  Wilcox  has  resigned 
as  manager  of  the  oil  stove  department 
of  E.  Bement’s  Sons.  W.  J.  Isaac,  the 
factory  superintendent,  has also tendered 
his  resignation.

Coopersville— F.  J.  Young,  formerly 
of  Ravenna,  but  more  recently  located 
at  Aumsville,  Oregon,  has  returned  to 
Michigan  and  purchased  the  grist  mill 
of  Peck  Bros.,  at  this  place.

Detroit—The  Van  Buren  Creamery 
Co.  has  filed  articles  of  incorporation  in 
the  County  Clerk’s  office.  The  capital 
stock  is $2,500,  of  which  $1,250  is  paid 
in,  and  the  incorporators  are  thirty  two 
in  number.

Benton  Harbor—The  Peters  Lumber 
Company’s  mill  has  been  unable  to 
keep  even  with  demands,  and  the  com­
pany  has  been  obliged  to  buy  about
6.000.  000  feet  of  pine  and  hemlock  from 
its  neighbors  to  make  up  the  shortage.
Albion— A.  J.  Gale  and  A.  A.  Gale 
have  purchased  a  half 
interest  in  the 
Albion  Gas  &  Coke  Co.  The  company 
has  been  reorganized  with  A.  J.  Gale  as 
President,  W.  A.  Foote  (Jackson),  as 
Secretary  and  E.  P.  Robertson as Treas­
urer.

Metropolitan—The Metropolitan Lum­
ber  Co.  has  sold  6,000,000  feet  of 
lum­
ber  to  C.  P.  Easton  &  Co.,  of  Albany, 
N.  Y.  The  stock  will  be  shipped  from 
the  mills  here  to  Escanaba,  thence  by 
water  to  Buffalo.  Shipment  is  to  begin 
at  once.

Menominee— The  old  sawmill  of  the 
Ludington,  Wells  &  Van  Scbaick  Co. 
will  be  operated  during  the coming win­
ter. 
It  will  be  started  soon  after  Janu­
ary  1.  Hardwood  and  pine  will  be 
sawed  and  the  output  will  amount  to
7.000.  000  to  8,000,000  feet.

Detroit— Thorpe,  Conely  &  Co.,  man­
ufacturers  of  drug products, have  uttered 
a  chattel  mortgage  for  $3,022,  running 
to  Fred  J.  McMurtrie  as  trustee  for  nu­
merous  creditors.  The  largest  item  is 
a  note  to  the  State  Savings  Bank  of 
$1,650.  The  same  firm  also  uttered  a 
bill  of  sale  covering  a  part  of  the  man­
ufactured  stock  in  hand  and the plant.

Saginaw—John  S.  Porter  has  estab­
lished a novel  industry  here  in  the shape 
of a  factory  for  the  production  of  cedar 
plugs  which  are  driven  into railroad ties 
where  it  has  been  necessary  to  draw  the 
spike.  These  plugs  are  four  and  a  half 
inches  long,  and  Mr.  Porter  the  other 
day  sold  1,000,000 of  these  plugs  to  the 
Great  Northern  Railway,and he had  pre­
viously  sold  1,000,000 to the  Minneapo­
lis  &  St.  Paul.

East  Jordan—The  East  Jordan  Lum­
ber  Co.  is  erecting  a  large brick  build­
ing  on  Main  street,  into  which  it  will 
move 
its  stock  of general  merchandise 
in  the  near  future.  The  company  is 
erecting  a  new  and  larger sawmill  on 
the  site of the  old  mill A and  has  started 
to  build  a  railroad  leading  fom the mills 
to the  timber lands  of  the  corporation, 
which 
it  expects  to  have  ready  for the 
winter’s  lumbering.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Henry  Eaton  succeeds  Jewett  Bros,  in 
the  drug  business  at  37  Monroe  street.
Herman  Young  bas  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Byron  Center.  The  Ball-Barn- 
bart-Putman  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

R.  D.  McNaughton  bas  placed  with 
the  Ball-Barnbait-Putman  Co.  an  order 
for  a  stock  of  groceries,  to  be  shipped 
to  Honor,  where  he  has  arranged  to 
engage  in  trade.

E.  A.  Abbott  &  Co.,  who  recently  re­
moved  their  dry  goods stock from Lima, 
Ind.,  to  Middleville,  have added  a  line 
of  groceries.  The  Worden  Grocer  Co. 
furnished  the  stock.

The  Putnam  Candy  Co.  having  de­
cided  to  discontinue 
its  fruit  depart­
ment,  Frank  T.  Lawrence  has  decided 
to  sever  his  connection  with  that  house 
at  the  end  of  the  present  week  and  he 
has  accordingly  formed  a  copartnership 
with  Dell  Lockwood,  under  the  style  of 
Lawrence  &  Lockwood,  for  the  purpose 
of  continuing  the  fruit  and  oyster  busi­
ness  at  127  Louis  street.

The  power  of  organization  was  never 
better  exemplified  than  it  is  at  present 
in  the  attitude  of  the  business  men  of 
Grand  Rapids  toward  the  express  com-, 
panies  and  the  Beil  Telephone  Co.  The 
Tradesman  is  informed,  on  good author­
ity  which  can  not  be  questioned,  that 
60  more.  Bell  phones  were  ordered  out 
last  week  and  that  the  local  shipments 
picked  up  by  the  express  companies 
last  week  showed  a  falling  off  of  40  per 
cent.,  as  compared  with  the  pick-ups 
of the  previous  week.

Hon.  Jerry  H.  Anderson  writes  the 
Tradesman,  in  response  to  enquiry,  that 
in  the  event  of  his  being  re-elected  to 
the  House  of  Representatives,  he  will 
re-introduce  the  so-called Anderson bill, 
which  passed  both  branches  of  the  Leg­
islature  at  the  last  session,  but  was 
vetoed  by  Governor  Pingree.  The meas­
ure  repeals  the  iniquitous 
law  exempt­
ing  municipal  employes  from  the  gar­
nishee  process  and  its  enactment  by  the 
Legislature  would  afford  much  relief  to 
the  mercantile 
interests  of  the  State. 
Governor  Pingree  promised  to  approve 
the  measure,  but  broke  his  promise, 
although 
it  was  made  to  some of  his 
most  steadfast  supporters. 
It  is  under­
stood  that  he  regrets  the  circumstance 
and  will  make  amends  to  his  friends  in 
trade  by  approving  the  measure 
in  the 
event  of  its  again  passing  the  Legisla­
ture. 

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The  Grain  Market.

Wheat  has  gained  strength  since  our 
last  report.  The  receipts  were  of  large 
size  in  the  Northwest,  but  exports  were 
again  very  large—so  much  so  that  the 
visible  showed  only  947,000 bushels 
in­
crease,  which 
is  500.000  bushels  less 
than  was  expected.  The  foreigners seem 
to  be  taking  our  wheat  right  along. 
This  does  not  show  that  there  is  such 
plenty  in  other  wheat-exporting sections 
as  they  try  to  make  this country believe. 
When  our  exports  run  up  to  nearly
1,000,000  bushels  a  day  and  large ac­
ceptances  daily,  it  goes  to  show  that 
our  wheat 
is  wanted.  There  seems to 
be  trouble  brewing  between  England 
and  France,  on  account  of  the Egyptian 
question,  and  it  looks  a  little  like  war. 
but  we  presume  that  is  ail  that  it  will 
amount to,  as  they  probably  will  not  get 
the  war  fever to  boil  so  as  to  commence 
hostilities.  However,  the  war  talk  has

made  strong  markets  in  wheat.  Should 
this  demand  continue  we  must  look  for 
firmer  markets,  especially  as  our  visible 
is  not  increasing  as  fast  as  the  bear  ele­
ment  would  like  to  see  it  increase.  Less 
than  1,000,000  bushels,  with  the  small 
amount  in  sight,  makes  the  bears  run  to 
cover.  Wheat  will  have  to  come  out 
freer.  The  trade  should  know  that  one 
bumper  crop,  when  the  granaries  were 
empty,  would  not  result  in  exceptional­
ly  low  prices.

Corn  gained  strength from wheat  E x­
ports  were  likewise  very  large.  Where 
busking  has  begun  the  result  is  below 
expectations,  so  prices  remain  very 
firm  for  cash  and  futures.

The  same  can  be  said  of oats;  in fact, 
all  cereals  are  strong,  with  an  upward 
tendency.

Receipts  during  the  past  week  have 
been  84  cars  of  wheat,  10 cars  of  corn 
and  9  cars of  oats.

The  mills  here  are  paying  60c  for 
wheat,  or  2c  per  bushel  over  last  week.

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Buyers  are  paying  $i@ i.5o 
for  fruit  alone,  which  brings  the  selling 
price  up  to  $i.75@2.25  per  bbl.

Beets—25c  per  bu.
Butter— Dairy  is  about the same,  com­
manding  17c  for  choice.  Factory cream­
ery  is  in  active  demand  at  20c.

Cabbage—$4  per  100  heads  for  home 

grown.

scarce.

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

Celery—White  Plume,  12@ 150   per 

bunch.
$2  50  per bu.  or $2.25  per  box.

Cranberries-----Cape  Cods  command

Cucumbers— Pickling  stock  is  in  ac­

tive  demand  at  25@30C  per  100.

Eggs—Fresh  are  scarce  and  firm  at 
14c.  Cold  storage  are  in  ample  supply 
and  weak  at  12c.

Egg  Plant— 75c  per  doz.
Grapes—Pony  (4-lb.)  baskets  of Dela­
wares  command  8@ioc.  Eight  pound 
baskets  of  Concords,  Brightons  or  Ni­
agaras  command  8@9C.

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

I2@I3C.
per  bu.  for  yellow  or  red.

Onions— Home  grown  command  40c 

fetching 

limited  number, 

Peaches—Smocks  are  practically  all 
marketed.  Salways  continue  to  arrive 
in 
per bu.  The  fruit  is  large  in  size  and 
fine  in appearance,  considering  the  late­
ness  of  the  season.
Pears  ~5o@75C  per  bu.  for  Keefers, 
which  are  good  size  and  fine  in  appear­
ance.

Pop  Corn—50c  per  bu.
Potatoes—25@35C  per  bu.  Southern 
markets  have  been  flooded  by shipments 
from  Minnesota and  Wisconsin  growers, 
so  that  the  conditions  are  not quite  as 
favorable  as  they  were  a  few  days  ago.
Quinces—6o@75c  per  bu.,  according 

to  size  and  quality.
Sweet  Potatoes—Virginias  fetch  $1.50 
@1.75  per  bbl.  Jerseys  have  declined 
to  82.25.

Tomatoes— 50c  per  bu.

Grand  Rapids  business  men  were 
never  more  in  earnest  than  they  are now 
in  their  opposition  to  the  tyrannical 
methods  of  the  express  companies  and 
the  Bell  Telephone  Co.  The former al­
ready  feel  the  effects  of  the  discrimina­
tion  which 
is  being  exercised  against 
them,  while  the  concerted  action  taken 
against  the  co-conspirator 
is  likely  to 
leave the  Bell  exchange  without  enough 
connections  to  enable  it  to  invoke  the 
assistance  of  an  undertaker.

Frank  Palmer,  of  Battle  Creek,  has 
engaged  as  traveling  salesman  for the 
Royal  Cycle  Works,  of  Marshall.

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

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— In  the  face  of  a  stronger  mar­
ket  for  raw  sugars  in  Europe,  the  New 
York  refiners  showed  their  teeth  last 
week  by  making  several  declines  in  the 
price  of  refined.  This  week  raw  sugars 
are  still  firm  and  higher  and  the refiners 
announced  a  couple  of  unimportant  ad­
vances 
in  softs  to-day,  which  leads  to 
the  belief  that  the  expectation  of  a cam 
paign  of  warfare 
is  not  likely  to  be 
realized.

Tea—The 

importations 

are  much 
lighter  than  they  were  a  year  ago,  be 
cause  the  American  people  have  not  yet 
come  to  feel  at  home  with  the  higher 
prices  of  tea.  The  demand  is  light  and 
trade  has  been  dull 
for  some  time. 
There  has  been  some  expectation  that 
as  the  war  was  over  the  Government 
would  raise  the  tax  from  tea  during  the 
coming  session  of  Congress,  but  well- 
posted  men  believe  that  this  will not be.
It  will  take  considerable  tea  to  float  our 
increased  navy,  and  governments  are 
not  inclined  to  let  revenues  slip  easily 
from  their  hands.

Coffee—Advices  from  Rio  and  Santos 
are  somewhat  above  the  parity  of  the 
American  market,  and 
considerable 
business  at  a  slight  shading  could  be 
consummated.  Large  holders  are  very 
firm  in  their views  and  not  disposed  to 
make-  concessions,  believing  in  a  much 
better  future market.  There is no change 
in  mild  grades.

in  a 

Canned  Goods—The  market is without 
material  change.  Some  few  tomatoes 
are  selling,  although  no 
large  orders, 
and  prices  are  unchanged.  There  is  no 
indication  of  any  fluctuation  soon.  Corn 
is 
little  better  enquiry,  although 
trade  in  it  is  still  small.  Prices  are  un­
changed.  Peas  are  very  dull,  as  buyers 
still  have  stock  bought  earlier  in  the 
season.  Prices  are  unchanged.  Dur­
ing  the  week  there  has  been  some  en­
quiry 
for  peaches,  both  gallon  and 
three-pounds.  The  market  is very strong 
on  peaches  and  may  advance.

Dried  Fruits— Nectarines  are  attract­
ing  attention  because  of  the  high  prices 
of  apricots.  Prunes  are  ranging  much 
above  last  year’s  prices.  Raisins  are 
strong  at  fair  prices,  that  are  reason­
able,  yet  above  the  prices  of  a  year  ago. 
Some  report 
is  heard  of  rain-damaged 
raisins,  but  the  Growers’  Association 
promise  to  keep  these  out  of  the  mar­
ket.  West  coast  new  fruits  are  short  in 
everything  but  raisins.

Provisions— Considering  the  season, 
the  demand 
is  exceedingly  good,  and 
all  markets  are  well  maintained.  The 
expected  advance  of  %c 
in  lard  duly 
occurred,  but  a  day  or  two 
later  the 
price  returned  to  its  former  basis,  and 
no  further  change 
is  looked  for  in  the 
near  future.  Hams  are  in  g~od  demand 
at  unchanged  prices.  The  whole 
list, 
in  fact,  has  been  in  excellent  demand, 
and  no 
indication  of 
changes  in  the  near  future.

line  gives  any 

The  Morning  Market.

Taking 

While  the  volume  of  business  on  the 
market  has  been  greatly  reduced  during 
the  week,  there is  yet  enough  to  warrant 
attention. 
into  consideration 
the 
increased  values  of  the  products 
handled,  the  amount  of  the  transactions 
will  compare  favorably  with  the  height 
of  the  season  during  some  recent  years, 
although  the  number  of  teams  has  aver­
aged  only  about  300.

Offerings  of  perishable  fruits  have be­
come  small.  Peaches have  held  up  well 
in  price  toward  the  close  and  all  offer­
ings  worth  attention  have  found  buyers. 
Pears  appear 
in  small  quantities  and

5

may  be  considered  about  out  of  season. 
As  these  fruits  retire  apples  come  to 
the  front  with  relatively  increasing  im­
portance.  Offerings  are  large  for  the 
season  between  fall  and  winter  varieties 
and  the quality  is  good,  giving  promise 
of  redeeming  the 
reputation  of  the 
Michigan  apple,  which  has  suffered 
during  recent  years.  The  demand  is 
good  and  prices  are  kept  at  a  healthy 
basis.  The  demand  for  grapes  con­
tinues  so  small  that  offerings  are  few 
considering  the  enormous  crop. 
It  is 
discouraging  to  bring  the  purple  fruit 
and  beg  for  buyers  at  twenty  to  thirty 
cents  per  bushel,  and  the  paucity  of  the 
price  is  made  more  pronounced  by  con­
trast  with  the  more  generous  dealings 
in  other  commodities;  so,  if  other  dis­
position  can  not  be found for them,  they 
are  left  to  their  fate  on  the  vines.

Relatively,  the  lessening  of  the  mar­
ket  business 
is  more  manifest  on  the 
fruit  than  the  vegetable  side,  although 
the  unfavorable  weather  and  the  advan­
cing season have had their influence here. 
Potatoes  are  offered  in  moderate  quan­
tities  and  find  buyers  at  good  prices. 
Reports  of  less  than  a  full crop  in  West­
ern  Michigan  assure  good  prices  to  the 
growers,  and  better  returns  to  the  ship­
pers  as  well.

The  market  season  now  drawing  to  a 
close  has  been  different  in  many  essen­
tial  regards  from  any  in  recent  years. 
The  difference 
in  magnitude  of  busi­
ness  and  in  prices  has  been  often noted, 
but  less  attention  has  been  given  to  the 
healthier  business  tone  of  the  market. 
Retail  buying  has  been  a  comparative­
ly  small  factor,  and  most  of  that  has 
been  confined  to  providing  for  boarding 
houses,  small  hotels,  hospitals  and  sim­
ilar 
institutions.  A  noticeable  feature 
in  the  situation  has  been  the  decrease 
in  the house-to-house peddling nuisance. 
Just  why  there  has  been  such  a  mortal­
ity  in  this  class  of  gentry  is  bard  to  de­
is  manifest  that 
termine,  but  the  fact 
there  have  been  very  few  of  these 
itin­
erants 
It  is 
in  evidence  this  season. 
likely  that  more  profitable  and  steady 
employment  elsewhere  has  taken  many 
out  of  the  field ;  that  many  are  em­
ployed  in  the  increased  work  attending 
the  wholesale  and shipping trade.  What­
ever  the  explanation,  the  fact  remains 
that  there  has  been  much  less  of 
inter­
ference  with 
legitimate  trade  by  this 
disturbing  element  than  for  many  years 
past. 

____ _ 

____

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.
Hides  remain 

firm,  with  demand 
good.  The  lighter  grades  show  a  little 
advance 
in  price,  with  the  demand  be­
yond  supply.  The  packer  hides  are 
easier  and  sole  tanners  do  not  wax  rich.
Pelts  are  nil  in  Michigan,  there  not 
being  enough  on  which  to  quote  prices, 
which  would  be  low  at  the  best.

Tallow  shows  more demand,  without 

improvement  in  price.

Wool  remains  dormant.  There  is  an 
occasional  sale,  as  some holder gets tired 
and  lets  go,  but  there  is  not  enough  de­
mand  to  change  the  market  quotations. 
The  trend  of  the  trade  is  toward  lower 
values,  which  would  be  below  cost  to 
holder  and  would  thereby  stop  trade. 
The  manufacturer 
is  getting  no  more 
for his  yarns  than  in  1894.

W m.  T.  He ss.

Death  of  a  Pioneer,  Ohio,  Dealer.
Pioneer,  Ohio,  Oct. 

10—John  T. 
in  buggies,  harnesses 
Reader,  dealer 
implements  at  this  place,  is 
and  farm 
dead. 
is  well 
known  throughout  Southern  Michigan.

Funeral  to-day.  He 

G raham  R o ys.

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DRUG  STO RE  BORES.

How  They  Make  the  Druggist’s  Life 

M.  Quad in American Druggist.

a  Burden.

“ My  dear  boy,”   said  the  druggist, 
as  be  laid  bis  band  on  my  shoulder  in  a 
fatherly  way,  “ this  running  a drug  store 
is  one  of  the  pleasantest  things  ot 
life. 
is  nothing  to  annoy  or  put  you 
There 
out.  Everything  flows  on  as  placidly  as 
a  river  to  the  sea.  You sometimes  fair­
ly  long  for  something  to  irritate  or  an­
noy  you.  You  have  a 
lame  foot  and 
can’t  get  about,  and  suppose  you  come 
in  and  make  yourself  comfortable  and 
spend  the  day  with  me. 
I  want  you  to 
see  a  particular  phase  of  this  profession 
— the  callers  who  drop 
in  to  give  me 
greeting  and  help  to  make  life  worth 
the  living."

Next  morning  at  8  o’clock  found  me 
at  the  drug  store.  Two  men  had  called 
before  I  got  there.  One had  dropped  in 
to  ask  the  druggist  why  he  didn't  open 
an  ice  cream  parlor  in  connection  with 
the  store,  and  the  other  had  bad  a  dis 
pute  with  bis  wife  as  to whether skunk’s 
oil  or  goose-grease  was  the  best  for  a 
case  of  croup  and  wanted  it  decided. 
I 
had  hardly  got  seated  when  the  third 
“ dropper-in’ ’  showed  up. 
It  would 
have  been  easy  to  tell  that  he  was  no 
customer,  but  for  fear  of  mistake  he 
said :

“ I  don’t  want  anything  this  morning 
in  the  drug  line,  but  I  thought  I’d  ask 
you  what  you  thought  of  the  last  mur­
der  case.  Say,  it  seems  to  me  that  if  I 
were  going  to  commit  a  murder  I’d  ex­
ercise  as  much  caution  as  in  stealing  a 
hoe  or  a  wheelbarrow. 
It  seems  that 
this  m an---- ”

“ I  seldom  read  murder  cases,”   in­

terrupted  the  druggist.

“ You  don't!  Why,  I  read  every  line 
of  every  one  mentioned. 
I  think  it  is  a 
sort  of  duty.  Then  you  have  no  opinion 
on  the  case?”
“ No,  sir.”
“ Well,  well!  Say,  read  up  on  it  and 
I’ll  drop  in  to-morrow  and  hear  what 
you  have  to  say.”

The  druggist  had  hardly  got  back  to 
bis  prescription  department  when  a 
solid-looking  old  man,  walking  with  a 
cane  and  talking  to  himself,  entered 
the  store  to  say :

“ Hello,  Taylor—you  back there?  Say, 
now,  but  of  all  the  biggoted  jackasses 
in  the  neighborhood  that  man  William­
son  takes  the  cake!  We  were  speaking 
about  your  store  last  night,  and  he  said 
you  had  been  here  eight  years. 
I  knew 
it  was  only  six,  but  it  didn’t  do  no  good 
to  argue.  He  was  as  sot  as  a  mule. 
Jest gimme  a little memorandum that it's 
only  six  years,  will  you?”

it’s  eight  and  over,”   protested 

“ But 

the  druggist.

“ You  don’t  say! 

bet  my  life  it’s  only  six !”

It  can’t  be. 

I’ll 

He  talked  and  argued  for  ten  minutes 
before  the  druggist  could  get rid of him, 
and  then  he  went  away  mad. 
I  could 
still  hear  the  rap !  rap !  rap !  of  his cane 
on  the  flagstones  when  a  woman  entered 
and  asked :

“ Do  you  remember  who  had  this drug 

store  about  twelve  years  ago?”

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“ Druggist  named  Harper,  I believe. ”  
“ And  where  is  he  now?”
“ Couldn’t  say,  ma'am.”
“ You  couldn’t!  Why,  I  thought  you 
druggists  always  kept  track  of  each 
other.  Can’t  tell  whether  he  is  living 
or dead,  eh?”

“ No.  ma’am .”
“ Um !  That’s  a  nice  state  of  affairs ! 
He  had  my  receipt  for  tooth  powr e  , 
and  he  ought  to  have  sent  it  to  me  ot 
left  it  here.  Have  you  looked around  to 
see  if  it  was  here?"

“ I  know  it  isn’t .”
“ Well,  somebody  will  have  to 

find 
it!”   she  said  with  a  gleam  in  her  eyes 
as  she  went  slowly  out 

The  next  caller  was  a  customer,  but 
the  next  after  him  was  an  oldish  man 
who  looked  all  around  for  a  chair,  and 
not  finding  one,  braced  his back against 
the  counter and  said :

“ Say,  Taylor,  didn’t  I  tell  you  that 
the  coal  monopoly  would  find  a  way  to 
dodge  the  State  law?”

“ I  don't  remember,”   replied 

the 

druggist.

“ Why,  certainly  I  told  you,  and  you 
ought  to  remember  such  things.  What 
sort  of  an  excuse  do  you  think  they  are 
putting  forward  now  to 
increase  the 
price  of  coal?”
“ Can’t  say. 
now.' ’

I  am  rather  busy  just 

“ But  this  coal  question  is  one  which 
should  interest  every  man  in  America. 
I’d  like  to  talk  it  out  with  you. 
In  the 
course  of  half  an  hour  1— ”

“ But  I  must  put  up  a  prescription, 
If  you  can  come  around 

Mr.  Davison. 
some  evening  we'll  have  a  talk.”

“ Oh,  well,  I’m  not  dying  to  talk !”  
muttered  Mr.  Davison,  as  he  headed 
for  the  door. 
“ If  you  want  to  submit 
to  the  meanest  and  most  contemptible 
extortion  of  the  age  that's  not  my  look­
out!”

It  was  half  an  hour  before  the  next 
bore  appeared  No  doubt  he  meant  to 
get  around  sooner,  but  had  been  de­
tained  somewhere.  He  came 
in  at a 
pace  which  was  luxuriously  lazy,  and 
bis  whole  demeanor  proved  that  he  ex­
pected  a  warm  welcome.

“ Well,  Taylor,  what  d’ye  think  hap­
pened  down  on  Second  Place 
last 
night?”   he  asked  as  he  lifted  the  cover 
of  a 
jar  and  helped  himself  to  half  a 
dozen  slippery  elm  troches.

“ Have  no  idea.”
“ Come  out  here  until  I  tell  you.”  
“ I’m  bottling  cough-syrup  and  must 

rush  it  along. ”

“ Cough-syrup,  eh?  That  reminds  me 
that  I  haven 't  had  a  cold for three years. 
Say,  you  know  Fatty Brown,  of course?”  

“ Well?”
“ He  threw  a  stone  at  a  cat  last  even­
ing  and  bit  one  of  the  White  boys  in 
the  eye.  Ever  hear  of  such  a  thing 
in 
all  your  life !? 
If  he  gets  out  of  it  for  a 
thousand  dollars  he’ll  be  lucky.  Whv 
don’t  you  come  out  and  talk  a  while? 
The  grocer  wanted  me  to  stop  and  tell 
him  all  about  that  accident  down  to 
Coney  Island,  but  I 
felt  you  would 
rather  be  expecting  me.”

“ I ’m— I’m  very busy,”   said  thedrug- 
in  his 

gist,  but  putting  lots  of  excuses 
tones.

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Answering  Business  Letters 

In  no  country  in  the  world  is the busi­
ness  correspondence  of  a  firm  carried on 
in  such  a  perfunctory  and  careless  man­
ner  as  in  our own.  A  German  or  Eng­
lish  firm  regards  the  position  of  corres­
ponding  clerk  as  one  of  prime  impor­
tance,  and  never fails to  fill it with a man 
of education,ability and business experi­
ence  His remuneration,too, is as high as 
any  other  position  in  the  bouse,  and  he 
‘s  expected  to  devote  his  energies solely 
to  a  proper,  complete  and  efficient  per­
formance  of  his  duties as correspondent. 
In  contrast  with that condition of affairs, 
witness  the  indifferent  way  in which  the 
correspondence  of  an  American  firm 
is 
attended  to.  Often  a  raw  and  inexpe­
rienced  youth  who  has  miscellaneous 
duties to  perform  about  the  office  is  del­
egated  to  answer  letters  when  he  is  not 
otherwise  occupied,  and  even  men  of 
more  mature  years  go  about  the  busi­
ness  as  if 
it  were  of  little  consequence 
and  to be  got  out  of  the  way  as  quickly 
as  possible.  Any  man  who  examines  a 
foreign  letter  will  at  once  notice  the 
careful  composition  and  the  faithful  ob­
servance  of  all  the  niceties  of  form  and 
expression  which  are  customary  among 
business  houses  of  repute.  Perhaps  to 
the  American  these  things  appear  like 
affectation ;  but  they  show  the  thorough­
ness  with  which  such  matters  are  at­
tended 
importance  with 
which  they  are  regarded  by  the  great 
commercial  nations  of  the  world,  and 
there  are  many  things  we  may  learn 
from  them  to  our  profit.

to  and  the 

Another  defect  connected  with  the 
correspondence  of  many  of  our  firms 
is 
the  complete  shelving  of  the  subject  as 
soon  as  the  letter  is  answered.  Any  of 
the  office boys  or  typewriters  may  dis­
pose  of  the  letter  in  a  file  or  elsewhere 
at  their  discretion  and  leisure  and  the 
matter  is  left  to  the  chapter of accidents 
for any  further  action. 
In  few  offices 
is  any  regular  method  followed by which 
the  subject  of  the  correspondence  may 
be  taken  up  again  and  pursued  to  a 
satisfactory,  profitable  end.  The  result 
which  could  be  obtained  by  following 
up  enquiries  and  suggestions— if  this 
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of  business  who  has  not  yet  tried  it. 
The  superficial  and 
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which  the  correspondence  of  our  busi 
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place  to  a  more  thorough,  methodical 
and  practical  habit.  The  large  houses 
in  New  York  who  are  in  the  foreign 
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‘ ‘ Oh,  you  are!  Well,  so  am  I!  I’ve 
got  a  dozen  places  to  go  to  this  fore­
noon,  and  don't  know  which  to  take 
first. ”

There  were  three  or  four  customers  in 
succession,  and  then  a  woman  entered 
accompanied  by  her  nurse-girl  and 
baby.  Sbe  looked  anxious  and  nervous, 
and  as  the  druggist  came  forward  sbe 
said :

“ Doctor,  I  was  thinking  of going  to 
Coney  Island,  but  I  have  been  told  that 
babies  get  sand 
in  their  eats  down 
there.  Could  you  tell— ”

“ I  am  not  a  doctor,”   modestly  re 

plied  the  druggist.

“ O h!  But  you  keep  a  drug  store?”  
“ Yes’m. ”
“ Well,  it  seems  as  if  you  ought  to  be 
able  to  tell  me  whether  my  baby  would 
get  sand  m  his  ears  or  not. 
If  he 
should  —— ?”

“ Then  you  hold  him  over  your  arm 

thus  and  let  it  run  out  again.”

She 

looked  at  him  a  long  minute  to 
see  whether  he  was  in  earnest  or  not, 
and  then  her  face  flushed  and 
sbe 
walked  stiffly  out  of  the  store.  The 
druggist  was  telling  me  that  the  woman 
had  cotne  in  almost  every  day  for  eight 
months  to  talk  about  that  baby,  but 
never  to  make  a  purchase,  when  an  old 
man  entered  and  said :

*  Say,  Doc,  I  heard  a  mighty  good 
joke  down  at  Frisbie's  just  bow ,  and  I 
stopped 
it  to  you.  A  New 
Yorker  who  visited  Denver  for the  first 
time  was  going  along— ”

in  to  tell 

“ I’m  very  busy,  Mr.  Wanless,”   in­

terrupted  the  druggist.

‘ ‘ But  you 

like  a  joke,  and  this  is  a 
ripper.  The  New  Yorker  was  going 
along— ”

“ Yes,  but  excuse  me,  please.”
“ You  don’t  want  to  hear  it?”
‘ ‘ I  haven't  time  to-day.  Come 

in 

some  other day. ”

“ Not  b y 'a   blamed  sight! 

I  haven’t 
got  to  make  a  date  with  a  man  to  tell 
him  a  joke!”
Mr.  Wanless  went  out  feeling  mad 
and  hurt,  but  another  and  another bore 
took  bis  place.  During  the  day  they 
dropped  in  to  the  number  of  fifty.  They 
wanted  to  tell  the  news,  to ask  the  news, 
and  to  be  friendly.  Each  and  every  one 
expected  the  druggist  to  drop  every 
thing  and  give  them  at  least  a  quarter 
of  an  hour  of  his  time.  They wanted  to 
discuss  the  war,  politics,  crime,  the 
weather  and  what  not,  and  they  were 
astonished,  put  out  and  hurt  when  he 
refused  to  gossip  and  argue.  After  ten 
hours  of 
it  I  got  up  to  hobble  home, 
and  the  druggist  kindly  got  my  crutch 
and  gave  me  a  start  and  said:

"T hey  talk  about  the  human  nature 
to  be  studied  on  the  street  cars  and  in 
the  crowds,  my  boy,  but  when  you  want 
straight  goods  and  a  yard  wide  this  is 
the  place  to  find  it. 
I  have  about  500 
bores  who  call  during  the  week.  You 
haven’t  seen  over  fifty  of  ’em  to-day, 
but  maybe  you  have  a  dim  idea  of  how 
the  old  thing  works— just a glimmering 
you  know!'

Life  Insurance  a  Science.

From the Richmond Times.

Life  insurance  is  now  almost  an exact 
science.  The brainest  men  in  the  land 
have  made 
it  a  careful  study,  so  that 
they  may  now  calculate  to  a  nicety  the 
average  “ expectation”   of life in a given 
number  of  risks.  They  have  laid  down 
certain  fundamental  principles  upon 
which  the  business  of  the  standard com 
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and  earn  a  fair dividend  on  its  stock. 
The  great  life  insurance  companies  of 
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and  there 
is  lrom  a  certain  source a 
great  outcry  against  this  “ organized 
wealth.”   But,  whatever  may  be  said 
against  them,  in  one  sense  the  life  in­
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WEDNESDAY.----- OCTOBER 12,1898.

ROAD  IMPROVEMENT.

Matters  of  great  public  interest  dur­
ing  the  summer  months  left  little  atten­
tion  for  many  of  the  economic questions 
which  are  always  pressing  for  consider­
ation.  Thus,  comparatively  little  was 
heard  on  the  subject  of  road 
improve­
ment;  but 
it  does  not  follow  that  there 
was  a  corresponding  suspension  of  the 
prosecution  of  the  work,  for  tbe  ad­
vance  of  general  education  in  this  line 
has  gone  too  far  to  permit  any  material 
reaction.  While 
is  a  matter of  con­
cern  that  the  farmers,  especially,  are  so 
slow 
in  coming  to  a  realization  of  the 
importance  of  good  roads,  tbe  work  of 
enlightenment  has  been  so  long  in prog­
ress  that  a  decided  movement  has  re­
sulted ;  and,  as  tbe  advantages  are  dem­
onstrated  by  actual  experiment,  tbe  les­
sons are the more strongly enforced.  Con­
sequently  the 
is  so  much  tbe 
greater  that  the  movement  assures  a 
steady  progress.

inertia 

it 

improvement. 

There  are  many  factors 

in  tbe  road 
problem  which  promise  a  more rapid 
progress  at  no  distant  day.  For 
in­
stance,  a  most  serious  hindrance  has 
been  the  great  cost  of  any  system  of 
permanent 
In  spite  of 
this  great  cost  it  was  demonstrated  that 
tbe  building  of  such  roads  was  a  profit­
able  undertaking;  but 
it  necessarily 
made  progress  slow.  But 
it  has  been 
found  in  road  building,  as  in  the  prose­
cution  of  any  great  industry,  that  tbe 
meeting  of  any  great  demand  cheapens 
the  product.  Experiment  has  shown 
what  materials  that  were  most  suitable 
could  be  most  easily  obtained ;  methods 
of  building  durable  roads  with  tbe  least 
possible  moving  of  materials  have  been 
perfected,  and  progress  in  the invention 
and  improvement  of  apparatus  has  been 
very  great. 
is  reported  that  through 
these  causes  the  cost  of  building  per­
manent  roads  has  been  reduced  more 
than  three  to  one  in  some  of the Eastern 
States.  With  such  a  reduction  of  cost 
following  the  recognition  of  their  great 
value  there  can  be  no question  but  that 
there  must  soon  be  a  great  impetus  to 
road  building.

It 

The  experience  of  tbe  past  months  in 
the  fruit  trade  of  Western  Michigan  has 
been  a  forcible  object  lesson  as  to  tbe 
value  of  good  roads,  especially 
in  car­
ing  for  perishable  products.  Coming 
from 
localiites  reached  by  roads  fairly 
good,  distance  was  a matter of  little  im ­
portance. 
Loads  of  peaches  were 
in  some  cases,  over  twenty- 
brought, 
five  miles,  passing  minor  shipping

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

points  on  the  railways  to  reach  the  cen­
tral  market,  from  which  profitable  dis­
tribution  was  assured.

The  progress  of  road  building  is  des­
tined  to  assume  a  geometrical  propor­
tion.  The  rapid  perfection  of  methods, 
materials  and  apparatus,  with  tbe  slow­
er,  but  sure,  education  of  the  farmers 
and  others  interested,  and  with  the  im­
perative  demand  of  profitable  farming, 
must  give  a  tremendous  acceleration 
in  the  near  future.  And  this assurance 
is  rendered  tbe  more  certain 
in  that 
farmers  are  coming  to  enjoy  such  re­
turns  from  their  harvests  that  they  can 
afford  to  use  more  of  time  and  money 
in  tbe  pushing  of  public  enterprises 
than  ever  in  the  history  of  the  country.

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
Were  is  not  for  the  fact  that  prices  in 
most  staples  continue  at  a  level  which 
causes  complaint  on  account  of  small 
margins  of  profit,  tbe  present activity 
would  be  fairly  classed  as  a  business 
boom.  Records  of  production  and  traffic 
are  being  broken  everywhere,  but  at 
tbe  same  time  some  records  for  low 
prices  are  also  being 
lowered  and  in 
most  lines  the  levels  are  kept  so  low 
that  there  is  no  likelihood  of  conditions 
assuming  the  dangerous  phases  of  the 
true  boom.  Among  the  records  being 
broken  are  those  for  clearing  house 
transactions,  iron  and  steel -production, 
exports  of  corn and wheat,  railway traffic 
and  general  trade  distribution.

AMERICA’S   OPPORTUNITY.

Unless  we 

intend  to  surrender  the 
trade  of  all  our  newly  acquired  territory 
to  European  nations,  the  American  peo­
ple  will  have  to  put  American  ships  on 
tbe  seas  between  their  own  ports and 
the  newly  acquired  countries.  Besides 
this,  it  will  be  necessary  for  Americans 
to  go  out  as  commercial  agents  in  those 
countries,  not  only  to  travel,  but  to  es­
tablish  commercial  houses  and  banking 
institutions.

The  language  current  in  the  East  In­
dian  and  West  Indian  countries,  ac­
quired  from  the  Spaniards,  is  Spanish; 
therefore,  the  demand  will  be  urgent for 
Spanish-speaking men  to  go  out on  such 
service.  This  fact  places  an  obligation 
on  the  American  colleges  and  universi­
ties  to teach  Spanish,  not  merely  from 
a  literary  point  of  view,  but  from  one 
essentially  practical.  A  man  who  can 
make  out  an  invoice  of  hardware,  gro­
ceries,  dry  goods,  drugs  and  other  mer­
chandise  with  equal  correctness  in  both 
Spanish  and  English  will  be  worth  a 
thousand  who  are  posted 
in  Spanish 
literature,from Cervantes to  Juan Valera.
for  a  knowledge  of 
modern  foreign  languages  for  the  pur­
poses  of  trade  is  recognized  by  almost 
every  people  more  than  by  those  of  the 
United  States.  United  States  Consul 
Warner,  writing  from  Leipsic  to  the 
State  Department  at  Washington,  under 
date  of  Aug.  16,  said :

The  necessity 

Our  commercial  class,  contrasted  with 
that  of  Germany  or  Belgium,  may  be 
perhaps  a  trifle  below  tbe  average. 
Commercial travelers  from  the  countries 
named  can  read  and  speak  the  language 
of  the  people  with  whom  they  have  re­
lations,  while  many  of  ours  are  unable 
to  make  known  their  wants,  much  less 
carry  oq  a  business  conversation.  It  can 
not  be  too  strongly  impressed  upon  tbe 
minds  of  those  interested  in  commerce 
that  the  first  thing  to  be  learned  is  to 
be  able  to  communicate  in  an  intelli­
gent  way  with  prospective  customers.

Continuing,  be  said:
Germany  furnishes  us,  undoubtedly, 
with  one  of  tbe  best  examples  of  real 
wide-awake  and  up  to-date  methods 
in 
the  struggle  for  commercial  supremacy. 
Her  efforts  in  China,  Africa  and  South 
America 
in  this  direction,  within  the 
past  few  years,  have  demonstrated  most 
conclusively  the  great  benefits  to  be  de­
rived  from  the  possession  of  a  thorough 
commercial  knowledge  of  the  language 
of  these  countries.  Tbe  first  move  a 
man  makes 
in  this  country,  who  has 
an  idea  of  entering  the  export or import 
business,  is  to  acquaint  himself with the 
language  as  well  as  tbe  habits and wants 
of  the  people  with  whom  he  expects  to 
have  dealings.

The  present  is a  commercial  age,  and 
every  young  man  who  is able  to  obtain 
a  liberal  education,  and  is  not  studying 
for  some  special  profession,  should  de­
vote  himself  to 
learning  as  much  as 
possible  about  commerce and that states­
manship  that  is  engaged  in  the  promo­
tion  of  trade  and  the arts of  peace.

Domestic  and  foreign  political  uncer­
tainties,  tbe Spanish situation,  elections, 
etc.,  following  tbe  speculative  decline 
in  the  stock  market,  are  enough  to  con­
tinue  tbe  feeling  of  reaction  which  has 
obtained  for  two  weeks  past.  The tend­
ency to  decline  is  led  by  the  sugar trust, 
on  account  of  the  threatened  war  in  that 
product.  While  the  weakening  has 
been  slight 
is 
enough  to  show  that  the  policy is to wait 
for  tbe  clearing  of  the  political  atmos­
phere,  when  the  effect  of  the  steady  im­
provement  of  railway  earnings  and  of 
general 
industries  must  again  become 
apparent.

in  most 

lines, 

there 

increase 

Tbe  curious  anomaly  of  stagnation  in 
the  textile trades  on  account  of  too  high 
a  price  of  wool  on  one  hand  and  too  low 
a  price  for  cotton  on  the  other  is  still 
manifest,  although  there 
is  reported  a 
slight advance  in  the  price  of  the  latter, 
with  an 
in  demand  for  the 
manufactured  goods.  There  seems to be 
a  tendency  on  the  part  of  the  trade  to 
accept  the 
inevitable  as  to  margins  of 
profit  and  to  give  up  the  struggle  where 
high  prices  of  labor  and  costly  trans­
portation  are  material 
The 
woolen  situation  shows  but little change. 
Tbe  steady  maintenance  of a  price  ex­
ceeding  i8c  per  pound  reduces  the mar­
gin  of  profit  to  so  small  a  quantity  that 
it  would  require  the  most  liberal  de 
maud  to  make  the manufacture  profit­
able.

factors. 

The  grain  situation  justifies  the  pre­
diction  of  strength  made  last  week. 
The  price  of  wheat  has  advanced  in 
both  future  and  spot  demand.  While 
there  is  much  talk  of  the  holding  of  the 
crop  by  farmers,  it  is  notable  that  the 
export  movement 
in  both  cereals  ex­
ceeds  tbe  corresponding  time  last  year, 
or  indeed  of  any  year on  record.

The  iron  and  steel  manufacture  con­
tinues  to  meet  such  heavy  demands  for 
finished  products  that  prices  of  pig  and 
billets  are  closely  maintained,  notwith­
standing  the  enormous  output  of tbe fur­
It  is  noticed  that  a  little  Bes­
naces. 
semer  pig 
is  still  offered  at  Pittsburg 
slightly  below  the  price  named  by  the 
Bessemer  Association,  and  a  selling 
agency  there  is  now  proposed ;  but  at 
the  East  prices  are  steady  without 
change,  and  at  Chicago a better demand 
is  noted  for  local  and  for  Southern  pig, 
especially  for  soft  iron.  The  plate  and 
structural  work  offered  to  tbe  mills  is  so 
large  that,  as  in  the  production  of  rails, 
the  mills  are  much  behind  with  their 
deliveries;  and  the  bar  mills  also have 
about  all  they  can  do,  purchases  of 
2,500 cars by  the  Pennsylvania and  1,000 
by  tbe  Chicago  and  Northwestern  help­
ing  somewhat.  The  tinplate  manufac­
turers  are  expecting  to  complete  a  con­
solidation  before  long  to  which 
it  is 
said  that  owners  of  three  hundred  mills 
have  already  agreed,  but unexpected  de­
lays  occur,  and  meanwhile sales against

the November and December  outputs  are 
being  made  without  a  change  in  prices. 
A  complete  statement  of  the  tinplate 
production  shows  that 
it  now  exceeds
700,000,000  pounds  yearly,  fairly  equal­
ing  tbe  full  consumption  of  the  country 
before  tbe  panic.

While  the  corresponding  week  of 

last 
year  showed  a  phenomenally large  busi­
ness  in  all  lines,  a  comparison  with  the 
current  week  shows  a  still  greater  vol­
in  all  except  exports 
ume  of  business 
and  smallness  of  imports. 
Indeed,  tbe 
week  breaks  all  records  in  most  lines 
for  the  corresponding  week  of  any  year 
since  reports began.

Its  use 

The  private  mailing  card  is  a  good 
thing  for  both  tbe  Government  and 
the  citizen. 
in  preference  to 
tbe  ordinary  postal  card  saves  money  to 
the  federal  treasury,  because  the  post 
office  department  gets  a  cent  for  each 
such  card  without  any  deduction  for  the 
cost  of  manufacture.  On tbe  other  hand, 
the  individual  enjoys  a  freedom  never 
before  granted,  which  will prove  a  great 
convenience  in  many  ways.  One  of  the 
most  agreeable  features  of  travel 
in 
Europe  nowadays  to  tbe  home  friends 
of  tbe  tourist 
is  the  growth  in  recent 
years  of  the  custom  by  which  he  can 
send  them  mailing  cards  that  bear  pic­
tures  of  the  finest  scenery  and  the  most 
notable  buildings  in  the  regions through 
which  he  passes,  week  by  week.  A 
series  of  such  cards  mailed  during  a 
tour  up  tbe  Rhine  or  across  Switzeiland 
makes  a  collection  well  worth  having. 
Doubtless  we  shail  soon  see in this coun­
try  cards  with  views  of  the  Catskills, 
the  Adirondacks,  the  White  and  Green 
Mountains,and other picturesque regiors 
throughout  the  United  States.  These 
cards  ought  to  become popular with peo­
ple 
in  tbe  country  who  have  attractive 
sites  which  they  would  recommend  to 
the  summer boarder,  and  in  other  ways 
their  utilitarian  advantages  will  prove 
many  and  great.

It  is  said  that  since  1895  the  war  with 
Cuba, 
including  the  consequent  war 
with  tbe  United  States,  has cost Spain 
the  sum  of  $375,000.000,  without  refer­
ence  to  the  loss  of  her  rich  colonies  and 
of her  splendid  naval  vessels.  Placing 
the value of  the  colonies  at  a  moderate 
estimate,  the  total  loss  to  Spain  must  be 
not  far  from  $1,000,000,000— an  amount 
equal  to  tbe 
indemnity  which  Frauce 
had  to  pay  to  Germany  at  the  close  of 
the  great  Franco-Prussian  struggle. 
It 
is  no  wonder  that  Senor  Sagasta  public­
ly  speaks  of  Spain  as  "an  anaemic 
country  ” _____________

Switzerland  has  more  inns  in  propor­
tion  to  its  size  than  any  other country  in 
the  world.  Tbe  entertainment  of  tour­
ists  has become  the  chief industry of  the 
land.  No  less  than  1,700  hostelries, 
stationed  for  tbe  most  part  on  mountain 
tops  or  near  glaciers,  are  on  the  list, 
and 
innkeepers 
amount  to  $25.000,000  per  vear.

the  receipts  of  tbe 

traveling 

is  also  the  case. 

Husbands  and  wives 

to­
gether  in  Norway  pay  only  a  fare  and  a 
half  on  the  railways,  and  in  Austria  and 
Hungary  this 
In  the 
latter  countries  a  child  under  6  years  of 
age  traveling  with  an  adult 
is  not 
charged  for,  while  considerable  reduc­
tion  in  the  fare  is  made  for  children  of 
a  family,  according  to  their  ages  and 
to  the  number  traveling.

A  man  who  is  always  wanting  to  give 
three  cheers  for  somebody  is  a  generous 
thing.  His  mouth 
is  at  the  service  of 
his  friends.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

FEEDING  THE  WORLD.

About  a  century  ago,  Thomas  Mal- 
thus,  an  English  writer  on  political 
economy,  created  somewhat  of  a  sensa­
tion  by  a  theory  which  be  put  forth  to 
the  effect  that  the  human  race  was  in­
creasing  at  a  rate  so  much  more  rapid 
than  the  rate  of the  production  of  food 
articles,  and  that  the  fertility  and  fruit­
fulness  of  the  earth  were  being  so  exor­
bitantly drawn  upon,  that  the  soil  would 
one  day  become  exhausted  and  refuse 
to  respond  to  the  labors  of  the  farmer, 
so that  the  population  of  the earth  would 
become  extinct  from lack of subsistence
A  century  ago the science of chemistry 
was  in  a  very  rudimentary  state and was 
far  from  being  the  modern  magic  that 
it  is.  Chemistry  tells  us  that  nothing 
is  lost and that the elementary substances 
which  enter  into  the  composition of food 
are  just  as  abundant  as  ever  they  were, 
and  they  can  be  seized  upon,  recom­
pounded  and  made  to  perform  all  the 
duties  of  nourishing  the  human  race, 
just  as  they  did  from  the  beginning.

It  is  true  that  the  chemist  has  not  yet 
learned  how  to  take  definite  quantities 
of  oxygen,  hydrogen,  nitrogen,  phos­
phorus,  potash  and  other  matters  and 
compound  them  into a  beefsteak  and  a 
loaf  of  bread;  but  if  it  can  not  be  done 
with  absolute  directness,  it  can  be 
in­
directly  and  with  a  good  deal  of  cer­
tainty. 
In  the  face  of  these  facts,  it 
seems  strange  that  a  chemist  of  the 
eminence of  Sir  William  Crookes should 
have attempted,  in  a  short  time  past,  to 
frighten  the  British  people  with  a grisly 
specter  of  universal  starvation.
Sir  William  Crookes,  who 

is  a  dis­
tinguished  English  chemist  and  Presi­
dent  of  the  British  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science,  read  at  a  re­
cent  meeting  of  that  Association  a 
paper  in  which  he  set  forth  the  declara­
tion  that  “ England  and  all  civilized na­
tions  stand  in  deadly  peril  of  not  hav­
ing  enough  to  eat.”   President  Crookes, 
remarking 
the  consumption  of 
wheat 
in  the  United  Kingdom  is  over 
six  bushels  to  the  head  of  population, 
said :

that 

Tbe population may be taken in round 
numbers  at  40,000,000;  therefore  240,- 
000,000  bushels  of  wheat  are  required 
annually,  increasing  annually  by  2,000,- 
000  bushels  to  supply  the  increase  of 
population.  Now,  in  order  to  be  safe, 
we  ought  to  grow  this  quantity  of  wheat 
in  our own  country,  but  we  do  nothing 
of  the  kind.  On  the  contrary,  we  grow 
about  a  quarter  of  tbe  wheat  we  want 
for  our  ordinary  consumption,  and  we 
import  the  other  three-quarters. 
So 
much  does  the  country  live  from  hand 
to  mouth  in  regard  to  this  matter  that 
our  fullest supply is  never  equal  to  more 
than  fourteen  weeks'  consumption,  and, 
even  if  the  scheme  of  national granaries 
were  adopted,  we  could  not  store  an 
additional  amount  of  more  than  another 
fourteen  weeks'  supply. 
If  war  broke 
out,  wheat  would  be  treated  as  contra­
band,  and  our only  chance  of  protecting 
it  would  be  to  increase  the  navy,  so  as 
to  provide  sufficient  escort  to  guard  the 
ships  bringing  wheat  from foreign coun­
tries.

England,  in  order  to  grow  wheat  for 
her  own  people,  would  require  the  cul­
tivation  of  8,250,000  acres  of  land,  or 
13,000 square  miles  of  good wheat-grow- 
ng 
land.  That  would  be  "equal  to  a 
plot  n o   miles  square  of  quality  and 
climate  sufficient  to  grow  wheat  to  the 
extent  of  29 bushels  per  acre. ’ '  This, 
Sir  William  Crookes  shows,  is  a  hope­
less  demand  for  England,  so  that  75  per 
cent,  of  the  British  wheat  supply  must 
be  obtained 
foreign  countries. 
England  is  rich  enough  to  buy  wheat 
and  to  protect 
in  process  of 
transit across  the  ocean ;  but  the  British

it  while 

from 

theorist  meets  this  statement  by  an­
other,  that  other  nations  will  not  have 
it  to  sell.  The  wheat  eating  races  are 
tbe  most  powerful  and  vigorous;  they 
are  the  most  intelligent,  and  have  made 
the  greatest  advances  in  all  the  arts  of 
peace,  and  particularly  in  sanitation. 
They  have  lowered  their  death  rate,  and 
their  populations  are rapidly increasing. 
The  British  scientist  holds  that 
the 
available  area  of  wheat-growing land  all 
over  the world  is being rapidly absorbed ; 
and,  secondly,  that,  owing  to  tbe  growth 
of  wheat-eating  populations,  the  chief 
present  exporting  countries  will  not 
in 
about  a generation—s ly,  five-and  twenty 
or  thirty  years—-be  able  to  do  more  than 
provide  for  their  own  wants,  leaving 
nothing  to  export  to  countries like Great 
Britain.

So  gloomv  a  picture  might  have 
served  to  frighten  people  in  the  time  of 
Maltbus,  but  to  day 
it  can  have  little 
effect. 
If  chemistry  has  not  yet  taught 
us  how  to  compound  beefsteaks  and 
wheat  bread,  it  knows  how  to  return  to 
tbe  soil  all  the  nitrogen  and  phosphates 
that  long-continued  cultivation  have 
taken  from  it,  so  that  there  need  be  no 
such  thing  as  worn-out  or  exhausted 
land.  There 
is  no  lack  of  nitrogen  or 
of  phosphates.  They  are  precisely  as 
abundant  as  they  were  in  the  beginning 
of  the  cultivation  of  the  earth,  and there 
is  no  difficulty 
in  compounding  them 
cheaply 
into  manures  for  the  fertiliza­
tion  of  the  soil.  Not  only  can  the  lands 
that  were  once  cultivated,  but have  been 
worn  out,  be  restored  to  their  original 
fertility,  hut  lands  that  were  originally 
too  poor  for  agriculture  can  be  made 
fruitful.  Chemistry is the  modern  magic 
and  where  it  is  properly  invoked  there 
can  be  no  universal  or  general  failure 
of  the  fruits  of  the  earth.

Of  course,  a  country  that  is  forced  to 
import  a 
large  part  of  its  food  supply 
could  be  put  to  serious  embarrassment 
in  time  of  war;  but  the  idea  that  the 
earth  will  not  and  can  not  be  made  to 
furnish  sufficient  subsistence  for  its  hu­
man  population  is  not  to  be  considered, 
and  Sir  William  Crookes not only under­
stands  the  fact,  but an  examination  of 
his  paper  seems  to  show  that  he  only 
meant  to  conjure  up  a  goblin  to  show 
how  completely  chemistry  can  demol­
ish  it.

Fertilization  of  the 

land  means  tbe 
restoration  by  natural  processes  of  the 
surface  of  the  earth  to  its  fruitfulness 
and  productiveness;  but  there  is  little 
reason  to  doubt  that  chemistry  will  be 
able  to  compound  food  articles  directly 
from  the  natural  substances  which  they 
contain,  so  that  it  will  be  just  as  easy 
to  recompose  as  to  decompose.  Tbe 
chemist  and  the  electrician  have  en­
abled  the  people  of  this  generation  to 
realize  as  potential  daily  facts  much 
that,  a  few  generations  ago,  was  merely 
the  stuff that  dreams  are  made of.  Mod­
ern  science  has  but  just  begun  its  reve­
lations,  and  so  much  has  already  been 
attained  that  even  the  most  daring 
flights  of  the  imagination  give  a  prom­
ise  of  realization.

Observations  made  at  tbe  Massachu­
setts  Agricultural  Experiment  Station 
show  that  80  per  cent,  of  the  food  of  the 
ungainly  and  repulsive  looking  toad 
is 
made  up  of  insects  injurious  to  agricul­
ture.  The  toad  is  an  especial enemy  of 
the  army  worm,  the  cutworm  and green­
house  pests  generally,  and  does  a  lot  of 
good  in  its  modest  way.

Wilhelmina  jackets  and  all  sorts  of 
Wilbelmina  things  for  women to buy  are 
appearing  in  Fashion's  windows.

THE  FUTURE  MILITARY  FORCES.
The  great  hue  and  cry  which  has been 
raised  in  nearly  every  state to secure  the 
mustering  out  of  volunteer  troops should 
prove  to  tbe  authorities  that,  however 
useful  and  reliable  volunteers may  be  in 
time  of  war,  they  are  not  suited  to  do 
mere  garrison  duty  or  occupy conquered 
territory  as  a  protective  force.  The  av­
erage  voluneer  enlists  to  fight,  tbe  ex 
citement  attending  the  active  opera­
tions  on  the  field  being  tbe  attraction 
which  allures  him  from  his  customary 
peaceable  pursuits.  When  the  fighting 
is  over,  bis  ardor  for  military 
life 
promptly  cools.  All  this  proves  that 
volunteers  can  be  counted  on  with  cer­
tainty  in  time  of  war;  but  for  the  ordi­
nary  purposes  of  police and enforcement 
of  tbe  laws  in  time  of  peace  a  regular 
force only  will  serve.

The  proper  size  of  our  standing  army 
must  be  regulated  by  tbe  needs  we  have 
for  the  employment  of  troops. 
It  is 
clear  that,  with  territories  acquired  in 
tbe  West  Indies  and  in  the  Far  East, 
tbe  force  employed  previous  to  the  war 
with  Spain  will  no  longer  suffice.  One 
of  the  first  duties  of  Congress,  when  it 
meets  in  December,  will  be  to authorize 
an  increase  in  the  strength  of  the  regu­
lar army  to  100,000  men,  that  force  be­
ing  considered  as  about  tbe  number  of 
troops  the  country  will  need  for  the  fu­
ture  to  properly  garrison  tbe  forts  and 
posts  at  home  and  police  the  new acqui­
sitions.

The  people  must  realize,  however, 
that,  with  all  the  good  will  in the world, 
tbe  National  administration  will  not  be 
able 
to  dispense  with  the  volunteer 
army  for  some  time  to come.  The  Pres­
ident  has  announced  that  no  more  of 
the  volunteers  will  be  mustered  out  un­
til  tbe  permanent  peace  with  Spain  is 
secured,  and  sufficient  will  have  to  be 
retained  in  the  service  until  the  regular 
army 
increased  sufficiently  to  make 
it  safe  to  dispense  with  the  services  of 
the  volunteers. 
It  is  useless  to  attempt 
for  the  present  to  secure  the  mustering 
out  of  all  the  volunteers,  for  the  simple 
reason  that  tbe  safety  of  the country 
will  not permit  it.

is 

While  Congress  will,  without  doubt, 
authorize  a  considerable  increase  in  the 
regular  army,  the  increase  will  be  only 
sufficient  to  meet  tbe  peace  needs  of 
the  country  and  properly  garrison  the 
new  territory  acquired  as  the  result  of 
victory  over  Spain. 
Some  provision 
ought  to  be  made  for  the  proper defense 
of  the  country 
in  time  of  war.  The 
volunteer  system  has  not  been  entirely 
satisfactory 
its  workings,  although 
all  right  in  principle.  Some  way  must 
be  devised  of  keeping  the  organized 
portion  of  the  militia  of  tbe  country  in 
condition  for  prompt  service 
in  the 
event  of  war.  The  militia  should  be 
better armed  and  better  equipped,  and 
the  War  Department  should  keep  on 
hand  at  all  times  a  sufficient  supply  of 
arms,  accoutrements  and  clothing  for a 
force  of  at  least  half  a  million  men.

in 

The  expansion  of  the  naval  force  pre­
sents  none  of  the  problems  which  con­
front  the  army.  Men  are  enlisted  into 
the  navy  as  individuals,  and  are  trans­
ferred  from  ship  to  ship  as  their  serv­
ices  may  be  needed.  While  a  large  na­
val  reserve  would  be  of  great  value  and 
advantage,  the  experience  of  the  recent 
war  has  proven  that  the  personnel  of the 
fleet  can  be  expanded  with  little  serious 
difficulty  and  entirely  without  friction 
or  jar.  The  Navy  Department  was  bet­
ter  prepared  with  material  and  methods 
to  meet  the  demands of  sudden  expan­
sion  than  was  the  army ;  and  it  is  nat­

9

ural  that  this  should  have  been  so,  ow­
ing  to  the  great  partiality  Congress  has 
shown  during  many  years  for  the  naval 
service.  _____________

OUR  TROPICAL  PO SSESSIO N S.
A sa  result  of  tbe  war  with Spain,  this 
country  will  be  saddled  with  a  number 
of  new  possessions,  all  of  which  are  sit­
uated  within  tbe  tropics.  All  these  pos­
sessions  are  capable  of  extensive  devel­
opment 
in  the  way  of  tropical  crops, 
and  those  portions  of  the  United  States 
gifted  with  a  semi-tropical  climate  will 
And  themselves  confronted  with  a  new 
competition,  with  which 
it  will  be  ex­
tremely  difficult  successfully to  contend, 
if  it  is  possible  to  contend  at  all.

first,  Cuba;  second, 

Tbe  annexed  or  acquired 

territory 
comprises, 
the 
Philippine  Islands;  third,  Porto  Rico. 
To  these  must  be  added  the  Hawaiian 
Islands,  annexed  during  tbe  excitement 
attending  tbe  war.  Tbe  productions  of 
all  these  countries,  widely  separated  as 
they  are,  are  about  the  same.  Sugar  is 
the  staple  crop  of  all  of  them,  while  to­
bacco 
in  all  but 
Hawaii.  Hawaii  has  already  been 
integral  part  of  tbe  United 
made  an 
States,  and  Porto  Rico 
is  also  soon  to 
become  American  territory.  There  are 
few  who  do  not  feel  certain  that  we  will 
in 
retain  control  of 
some  form  or  another,  while  our  mili­
tary  occupation  of  Cuba 
likely  to 
prove  interminable

is  also  produced 

the  Philippines 

is 

The sugar possibilities of tbe Hawai ian 
Islands  are  well  known  and,  although 
the  production  there  can  be  increased, 
it  is  not  probable  that  the  increase  will 
assume  proportions  sufficient  to  mate­
rially  affect  other  than  tbe  new  beet- 
sugar 
industry  of  the  Far  West,  with 
which  Hawaiian  sugar  comes  into  ac­
tive  competition. 
In  Porto  Rico  the 
case  is  different.  Sugar  has  been  cul­
tivated  and  manufactured  after  rather 
primitive  methods  and,  although  the  is­
land 
is  not  large  in  comparison  with 
Cuba,  its  sugar  output  is,  nevertheless, 
susceptible  of  very  considerable  expan­
It  is  in  Cuba,  however,  that  tbe 
sion. 
is  likely  to 
American  sugar 
find 
formidable  competitor. 
Cuba  has  already  produced  as  much  as 
a  million  tons  of  sugar,  and  it 
is  con­
ceded  that  not  half  its  available  sugar 
land  has  even  been  put 
in  cultivation. 
With  tbe  development  likely  to be given 
to  the  Cuban  industry  by  American  en­
terprise  and  capital,  the  possibilities  of 
sugar  production  can  hardly  be  esti­
mated.  Very  much  tbe  same  thing may 
be  expected  ultimately  of  the  Philip­
pine  Islands,  where  sugar  production  is 
now  carried  on  in  a  very  primitive  and 
crude  way.

its  most 

industry 

How,  then,  to  protect  the  American 
sugar 
industry  from  the  effects  of  the 
expected  competition  from  the  new  ter­
ritorial  acquisitions,  is  a  question. 
It 
is  assumed  that  sugar  from  Porto  Rico 
will  be  allowed  to  come  in  free,  like 
the  product  of  the  Hawaiian  Islands; 
but  the  interesting  problem  is  what  will 
be  done  in  the  case  of  Cuban  and  Phil­
ippine  sugars.  Neither  of  these  islands 
will  be  regularly  annexed,  as  will  Porto 
Rico;  but  they  will  be  held  as  mere  de­
pendencies,  colonies  or  protectorates. 
Being  held  as  such,  the  question  is: 
Should  their  products  be  entitled 
to 
the  freedom  of  our  markets,  or  should 
we  discriminate  against  them 
in  favor 
of  American  cane  growers,  by  placing 
sufficient  duty  on  tbe  island  products  to 
equalize  the  difference  in  wages?  The 
problem  is  a  serious  one  and  its solution 
will  require  tbe  ablest  consideration  of 
our  wisest  statesmen.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Shoes  and  Leather
Interesting  Character  in  a  St.  Louis 

Repair  Shop.

Trade Topics in Shoe and Leather Gazette.

It 

into  very 

Sometimes  I  get 

funny 
places  and  see  peculiar  things.  Often 
in  my  rounds  I  go  into  a  queer  little  re­
pair  shop  that  is  to  me  a  veritable  gold 
is  a  peculiar 
mine  for  information. 
little  shop  kept  by  a  funny 
little  old 
man.  The  man  and  the  shop  go so  well 
together  that  were  I  to  see  one  without 
the  other  I  would  wonder  what  had  hap­
pened  and  where  the  other  half  was. 
The  man  seems  as  if  he  were  built  for 
the  shop,  and  I  know  that  the  shop  was 
built  for  the  man.

I  am  never  quite  sure  of  finding  them 
in  the  same  place  twice,  for  the  shop  is 
built  on  wheels  and  the  man  travels 
about  from  place  to  place  with his shop, 
so  that  frequently  I  have  to  follow  bis 
trail  many  blocks  before  I  find  him.

The  proprietor  of  this  moving  repair 
shop 
is  a  short  little  German  about  60 
years  of  age.  He  is  full  of  all  kinds  of 
information.  He  can  give  you  a  perfect 
history  of  the  German  Empire  or  °f  any 
other  European  nation,  as  well  as  of  our 
own  country.  He  will  sit  and  peg away 
at  a  pair  of  old  shoes and advance opin­
ions  that  would  do  credit  to  statesmen 
and  diplomats.  He 
is  well  versed  in 
classic  literature,  can  repeat  you  page 
after  page  of  Shakespeare,  Bacon  and 
Goethe.  And yet  he  is  a  shoemaker—an 
expert  repairer,  as  he  says  it—but  still 
a  shoemaker.
His  shop 

is  always  full  of  children. 
All  the  youngsters  around the  section  he 
travels  over  know  him  and  love  him. 
He  will  tell  them  stories,  make  them 
toys,  play  with  the  girls  and  tussle  with 
the  boys.  He  is  one  of  them  himself, 
and  to  the  one  who  watches  seems to en­
joy  the  fun  quite  as  much  as  the  chil­
dren.  And  1  have  seen  him  stop  in  the 
middle  of  a  scramble  on  the  floor  with 
two  or  three  small  boys  to  get  up  and 
welcome  a  customer  in  his  own  cordial 
and  dignitied  fashion.

Once  in  a  while  he  gets  angry,  and 
often  at  those  for  whom  he would do the 
most.  His  heart  is  very  tender  and  I 
have  seen  him  so  angry  that  be  could 
hardly  talk  because  a  pair  of  his young 
friends  had  tied  a  bunch  of  tin  cans  to 
a  stray  cur’s  tail  and  sent  it  away howl­
ing.  He  is  soon  over  it,  however,  and 
comes  back  to  his  own  sunny  nature, 
but  not  before  he  has  delivered  a 
lec­
ture  to the  misdoers.

Honest  and  kind,  he 

is  one  of  the 
quaintest  characters  I  ever  met  with. 
I 
could  tell  you  stories  galore  about  him, 
but  will  wait until some other time.  Be­
sides,  you  may  find  out  for  yourself. 
Joseph  Braun  is  well-known  and  a  trip 
through  a  certain  part  of  the  city cannot 
fail  to  make  you  acquainted  with  him 
and  his  home.

Old  Shoes  for  New.

Prom the Bridgeton,  (Pa.),  News.

A  man  walked 

into  an  avenue  shoe 
store  a  few  days  ago  and  said  he’d  like 
to  have  his  shoes  shined.

‘  I  seen  your  card,”   he  said, 

'out  by 
’ All  shoes  purchased  here 

the  door, 
shined  free.’  ”

He  was  a  plainly  dressed  mail,  with  a 
decidedly  rural  air,  and the  clerk  looked 
him  over  in  some  surprise.  When  his 
gaze  finished  up  on  the stranger’s  shoes, 
he  hastily  turned  and  led  the  stranger 
back  to  the  dusky  shiner.

“ George,”   he  said,  “ shine  the  gen­

tleman’s  shoes.”

The  dusky  one  looked  at  the  shoes, 
and  his  eyes  peeped  out.  They  cer­
tainly  were  a  little  the  most  dilapidated 
foot  covering  be  bad  ever  seen.  Burst 
out  at  toe  and  heel,  with  soles 
loosely 
flapping,  they  seemed  far  and  away  be­
yond  hope  of  renovation.  Both  were  the 
color  of  faded  tan-bark,  and  each  was 
tied  with  a  cotton  string.

“ Fob de lawd,”  stammered the shiner, 

“ you  didn’t  git  dem  shoes  heah.”

“ Yes,  I  did,  too,”   said  the  stranger, 
jes’  seven  year 

’em  here 

“ I  bought 
ago.”

"Seben  year  ago?”   echoed  the  dusky 

one.

“ Thet’s  right. 

“ Seven  year  ago,”   calmly  repeated 
the  stranger. 
I  bought 
’em  here  July  3,  1891.  And  they  done 
me  fust  rate. 
I  ain’t  got  no  fault  to 
find  with  ’em.  Best  pair  of  shoes  I  ever 
owned. ”

The  great  eyes  of  the  shiner  rolled 

from  one  shoe  to  the  other.

“ Seben  year,”   he  muttered.  Then  he 
broke  out  in  a hoarse chuckle.  “   ’ Deed, 
boss,”   be 
gasped,  “ Ise  afraid  dem 
shoeses  won’t  hold  de  biackin. *  ”

And  he  laughed  until  the  tears  came 

in  his  eyes.
“ I  guess 

likely  they  ain’t  bad  no 
blackin’  on  ’em  for the  las’  five  year,”  
said the s t r a n g e r I  mostly uses tallow. ”

Again  the  shiner chuckled.
“ Say,  boss,”   be  said,  “ you  jes’  set 

here  a  minute. 

I’ll  be  right  back.”

He  slipped  away  and  in  a  few  mo­

ments  returned  with  the  manager.

The  latter  gravely  inspected  the  tat­

tered  footwear.

“ My  friend,”   he  said,  “ we  look  up­
on  those  shoes  as  a  remarkable  indorse­
ment  of  the  value  of  our  goods.  We 
would  like  to  retain  them  as  examples 
of  the  excellence  of  our  stock.  Will 
you  permit  us  to  offer  you  a  new  pair in 
exchange  for  these  aged  ones?”

The  stranger  promptly  accepted  the 
proposition,  and 
in  a  few  moments 
proudly  stalked  from  the  store  in  his 
handsome  new  shoe  leather.

And  the  dusky 

shiner  humorously 
patted  the  ancient  shoes  with  bis  brush, 
rolling  his  eyes  and  fairly  chuckling, 
‘ Come  seben,  good  lordy!”

Mail  Order  Trade  in  Shoes.

From the Washington Star.

“ It 

is  wonderful  what  an  enormous 
number  of  shoes  are  sold  and  delivered 
through  the  mails,’ ’  observed  a  repre­
sentative  of  a 
shoe  manufacturing 
house,  “ there  being  a  half  dozen  big 
concerns 
in  this  country  which  do  not 
seek  any  other  trade.  People  who  are 
in  the  habit  of  going  to  stores  and  try­
ing  on  a  dozen  different  pairs  of  shoes, 
if  they  desire,  have  many  advantages 
over  the  purchaser  by  mail,  but  the 
mail  trade  keeps  on  growing.  A  great 
deal  of  it,  of  course,  comes  from  small 
towns,  villages  and 
country  places, 
where  dealers  keep  only  a  limited  sup­
ply  and  some  of  the  coarser  grades. 
The  need  of 
it  conies  from  those  who 
have  got  accustomed  to  buying by  mail, 
and  who  think  they  get  better goods 
with  a  big  manufactory  behind  them 
as  indorser,  and  who  think  they  can  do 
better  buying  direct  from  the  manufac­
turer,  rather  than  from  middlemen  or 
dealers.  While  the men’s  shoe  business 
is  certainly  constantly  on  the  increase, 
several  of  the  concerns  which  tried  to 
make  a  similar  success  of  the  women’s 
shoe  trade  have  hard  work  to  keep  it 
going,  and  are  about  giving  it  up  as  a 
failure.  The  difficulty  with  the  trade 
is  that  the  ladies—God  bless  them,  and 
forgive  me  for  telling  the  truth  about 
them—are  too  particular,  and  they  want 
to  see  what  they  are  buying  before  they 
give  up  their  money.  They  return  pair 
after  pair  of  shoes  they  order  by  mail, 
and  when  a  pair  does stick they imagine 
they  might  have  done  better  had  they 
made  further  changes,  and  drop  the 
mail  order  business  in  subsequent  pur 
chases.  The  trouble  with women— young 
women,  I  mean— is  that  they  think  peo­
ple  look  at  their  shoes,  and  they  regard 
looks  as  more  important  than  wear. 
I 
think  the  shoe  trade  journals  all  agree 
that  there  is a  limit  to  the  mail  trade  in 
women's  shoes,  that  the  limit  has  been 
is  likely  to  grow 
reached,  and  that 
less,  except 
in  a  few  lines  of  special­
ties,  generally  high-grade  goods.”

it 

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A  bright  little  fellow  of  five  who  had 
been  engaged  in  a  combat  with  another 
bov  was  1 eproved  by  his  moher,  who 
told  him  he  ought  to  have  waited  until 
the  other  boy  commenced  it.

“ W ell,”   replied the youthful  hero,  “ if 
I’d  waited  for  him  to  begin  it  there 
wouldn’t  have  been  no  fight.”

When you  get  the  best  of  a  bargain,  it 
is  cunning— when  the  other  fellow  gets 
the  best  of  it,  it  is  cheating.

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ON  A  BRIDGE.

Queer  Locations  of Venetian and Flor­

entine  Shopkeepers.

In  Northern  Italy  there  are  two quaint 
old  bridges  dating  back  to  the  Middle 
Ages  which  are  used  not only  for traffic, 
but  also  for  merchandise.

The  one  at  Venice  is  called  the  Ponte 
di  Rialto,  or  simply  the  Rialto,  a  name 
familiar  through  Shakespeare’s  use  in 
such  passages  as  this:

*’ I  will  buy  with  you,  sell  with  you, 
talk  with  you,  walk  with  you,  and  so 
following,  but  I  will  not  eat  with  you, 
drink  with  you,  nor  pray  with  you. 
What  news  on  the  Rialto?"

And this:

‘‘Signor  Antonio, many a time and oft 
In  the Rialto you have rated me 
About my monies, and  my usances.**

is 

Shylock  here  does  not  refer  to  the 
bridge,  but  to  the  oldest  quarter  of Ven­
ice,  which 
in  the  vicinity  of  the 
bridge. 
In  this  quarter,  which  bears 
the  same  relation  to  Venice  as  the  city 
to  London,  has  centered  the  principal 
trade.  Here  have  been  the  warehouses, 
the  custom  bouse  and  many  of the hand­
some  buildings.  Here 
is  still  located 
the  market,  one  of  the  most  interesting 
places 
in  Venice  to  give  one  a  concep­
tion  of  common  life  among  the Italians.
A  bridge  was  built  as  early  as  1180 
where  the  present  one  stands,  but  was 
displaced 
in  1588  by  the  Rialto  as  it 
now  stands.  This  consists  of  a  single 
marble  arch  74  feet  span,  and  was  the 
only  connecting  link  between  East  and 
West  Venice  down  to  1854.

The  bridge  is  flanked  on  either  side 
lace 
by  shops.  Here  are  sold  glass, 
and 
jewelry.  The  finest  examples  of 
the  Venetian  glass  are  sold  at  the  great 
shops  in  St.  Mark’s  Square.  But  in  the 
shops  on  the  Rialto  are  sold  the  smaller 
and  less  perfect  pieces,  as  well  as  com­
mon  crockery,  glass  and  other  useful 
articles  to  the  hurrying  crowd  to and 
from  market.  At  the  steps  of  the  bridge 
at  either  end  are  the  beggars,  the  un­
employed,  "w aitin g," 
like  Micawber, 
"for  something  to  turn  up ,"  and  the 
poor 
lacemakers  working  away,  with 
their finished  pieces  of  lace  in  baskets 
at  their  side.

The  street  leading  from  the  east  end 
of  the  Rialto 
in  a  zigzag  course,  but 
mostly  direct  to  the  Clock  Tower on  one 
side  of  St.  Mark’s  Square,  is  the  Mer- 
ceria,  the  principal  business  street  in 
Venice.  To  an  American  the  Merceria 
seems  more  like  an  alley.  There  are 
no  horses,  no  mules,  no  donkeys,  no 
oxen  in  Venice  and  merchandise  is car­
ried  as  far  as  possible  by  water,  thence 
by  hand.  Streets  are,  therefore,  a  su­
perfluity.  There 
is  so  much  water  and

so  little  land  that  every  available  bit  of 
ground  must  be  utilized  for  buildings. 
The distance between buildings vis-a-vis 
is  not  greater,  except  in  open  squares, 
than  the  width  of  a  sidewalk  to  the 
curbing 
In  some 
places  the  buildings  almost  meet  and 
three  people  could  not  possibly  walk 
abreast—even  two  would  not  have  much 
room.

in  Grand  Rapids. 

The  shops  on  the  Merceria  are  small, 
dark,  dirty  affairs;  but  here  are  to  be 
found  all  the  necessary  articles of  cloth­
ing.  To any  one  except  an  Italian  these 
shops  offer  few  charms,  and 
it  is  the 
next  thing  to  impossible  to  supply one’s 
needs  at  any  price,  besides  requiring  so 
much  bargaining  to  obtain  articles  at 
legitimate  prices  as  to  test  the  patience 
of  an  archangel.  In  St.  Mark's  Square, 
where  there  are  a  few  really  fine  shops 
for  the  sale  of  glass,  mirrors,  carved 
furniture  and  jewelry,  fixed  prices  have 
been  established  and  all  dealings  are 
carried  on 
in  metropolitan  manner. 
But  most  Italians  prefer  to  bargain with 
their  unsuspecting  customer  and  to  try 
to  make him  believe that a great favor is 
being  granted  him  in  allowing  him  to 
buy  what  he  wants.  A  person  who  will 
go 
into  a  shop  and  pay  the  first-asked 
price  is  looked  upon  half  with  pity,half 
with  contempt.  A  stranger  must  learn 
to be  very  cold-blooded  indeed  and  be 
willing  to  offer  half  the  original  price 
and  remain  patience on  a  monument 
if 
he  desire  to  command  respect  among 
the  Italian  small  shopkeepers.

is  made  aware  of 

West  of  the  Rialto  is  the  Erberia,  or 
its 
market.  One 
presence 
in  the  neighborhood  by  the 
odors  issuing  from  the  cheap cook-shops 
round  about,  where are fed  the  peasants, 
the  gondoliers and the laborers.  Through 
the  windows  and  doors  one  can  see  the 
cook  stir  the  contents  of the great steam­
ing  kettles  and  watch  her flirt  and  play 
the  coquette  with  her hungry  but  amor­
ous  customers.
Each  nation 

in  the  world  has  tastes 
peculiarly 
its  own,  and  certain  dishes 
which  gradually  become  universal  still 
are  given  credit  to  the  nation  originat­
ing  them.  Certainly,  the  Italians  are 
not  behind  other  nations  in  inventing 
In  the  first-class 
peculiar  concoctions. 
restaurants  there 
is  high-class  cooking 
much  resembing  that  of  the  French.  No 
nationality  need  starve at  one  of  them. 
But  the  genuine  Italian  taste  can  be 
most  easily  discovered  in  a  cook-shop. 
They  revel  in  minnows  or  eels  fried 
in 
olive  oil;  in  stewed  snails  or  raw  ones 
—they  pick  them  up  by  the  bushel 
in 
the  marshy  land  about  the  Lido.  Then 
there  is  polento,  a  sort  of  thick,  coarse, 
yellow  cornmeal  mush  highly  seasoned

with  cheese.  An  Italian  can  eat scarce­
ly  any  article  of  diet  without  having 
it 
thickly  strewn  with strong grated cheese. 
They  eat  it  in  their  soups  and  on  their 
meats,  vegetables,  salad,  bread,  cake, 
etc.

The  climate 

is  hot  and  ice  is  a  lux­
ury,so  that  food  is  not always fresh when 
it  is  bought  and  strong  cheese 
is  an 
easy  means  of  disguising  certain  flavors 
which  result  from  exposure  and  age. 
Then,  too,  meat 
is  such  a  luxury  with 
the  very  poor  that they  make  use  of  bits 
which  any  American  dog  who  has  any 
respect  for  himself  would  refuse.  One 
of  the  much  appreciated  .  dishes 
is 
squassetto,  a  sort  of  loud-flavored  broth 
made  of  scraps  of  meat  which  even 
the  sausagemakers  find 
impossible  to 
use.  Another  of  their  delicacies  is  the 
clotted  blood  of  poultry  fried  in  slices 
with  onion.  Out  of  such  food  the  poor 
people  can  often  make  what  they  con­
sider a  good  meal  for  3  cents  apiece.

But  the  market! 

It  occupies  an  open 
square  facing  a  canal.  On  one  side  of 
the  square  is a  short  granite  column.  A 
flight  of  stairs  leads  to the  top,  where 
rests  a  kneeling  figure  which  has  always 
borne  the  title  of  II  Gobbo  di  Rialto. 
During  the  Middle  Ages  the  laws  of  the 
Republic  were  read  aloud  to  the  people 
from  the  stone  tribune  on  his  shoulders. 
After  this  experience  one  wonders  how 
he  must  feel  to  simply  keep silent watch 
over the  noisy  hucksters.

into  baskets. 

All  the  vegetables  and  meat  must 
come  long  distances  by  boat.  The  meat 
is  arranged  as  best  it  may  be  about  the 
stalls,  but  wears  a  tired,  worn,  over­
worked  appearance.  Many  of  the  fish 
are  really  beautiful,  and  some  present 
the  gorgeous  coloring  of  Michigan  foli­
age  in  the autumn.  They  are  generally 
alive and  are  kept  in  tanks  of  running 
water.  Cabbages  are  made  into  pyra­
mids.  Other  vegetables  are  in  piles  or 
put 
Across  the  upper 
parts  of  the  stalls  are  strong  cords  to 
which  are  attached  bunches  of  bright- 
colored  vegetables  or  flowers.  There  is 
generally  plenty  of fruit,  but  it  is  either 
half  ripe or  in  the  last  stages  of  decay. 
From  morn  till  eve  the  market  people 
and  the would-be-purchasers baggie over 
prices,  and  as  the  setting  sun  glints  on 
the  picturesque  Rialto  the  market  peo­
ple disappear  calmly  in  their  gondolas 
and  are  not  seen  again  until  another 
market  day.

The  other bridge  to  which  I alluded  is 
the  Ponte  Vecchio,  which  crosses  the 
River  Arno  at  Florence. 
It  is  said  to 
have  existed  ever  since  the  Roman 
Period,  but  was  repeatedly  demolished. 
The  last  rebuilding  was  in  1362.  Over 
this  is  a  covered  passageway  which con­

nects  the  two  greatest  art  galleries  in 
the  world, 
the  Pitti  and  the  Uffizi. 
When  one  realizes  that  it  takes  ten min­
utes  to  walk  directly  through  this  pass­
age  from  one  end  to  the  other  he  is  able 
to  form  a  slight 
idea  of  the  skill  re­
quired  to  build  such  a  structure.

gold-work, 

Below  on  either  side  of  the  bridge 
are  the  shops  of  the  goldsmiths.  This 
quarter  has  belonged  exclusively to their 
guild  ever  since  the  Fouiteenth  Cen­
tury.  The  displays 
in  their  windows 
are  past  description.  Window  after 
window  succeed  each  other  and  each 
seems  more brilliant than the last.  There 
are  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  jewels: 
Tuscan 
the  wonderful 
mosaics,  the  original  designs  in  silver. 
Woe  unto  you 
if  you  have  not  a  fat 
pocketbook,  for  there  is  no  place  in  the 
world  so  fascinating  to a  woman.  There 
is  a  clerk  stationed  at  each  door.  He 
has  seen  your  eyes  sparkle,  your  face 
flush  with  the  enjoyment  of  the  beauti­
ful  and  be 
is  as  ready  to  ensnare  you 
as  the  spider  the  fly.  After  all,  the 
shops  are  small  and  dark,  and  although 
they  contain  such  treasures—well,  pos­
session  is  not  everything  in  the  world.

Zaida  E.  U d e l l.

How  to  Advertise in a  Country News­

paper.

Make  one  article  the  subject  of  each 

advertisement.

Don’t  use  more  than  three  sizes  of 

type— the  fewer  the  better.

Have  several 

small  advertisements 

rather  than  one  big  one.

Tell  the  truth.
Don't  claim  the  earth.
Talk 

in  your  advertisements  as  you 

talk  to  customers  in  the  store.

Tell  them  something  about  the  goods 

and  always  put  in  a  price.
Stick  strictly  to  business.
Don’t  get  tired;  put  new  life  and 

vigor  into  each  advertisement.

Don’t  leave  the  writing  of  the  adver­

tisement  until  the  last  moment.

Don’t  say:  "T h is  space  is  reserved 

for  Sm ith;"  say  something.

Have  your  name  in  the  advertisement 

but  once;  also  the  address.

Don’t  get  gay,  nor  funny,  not  poeti­

cal,  nor  sarcastic.

nor  indirectly.

Never  mention  a  competitor,  directly 

Have  your  advertisements  look  differ­
impress  them 

ent  from  every  other; 
with  your own  personality.

Don’t  use 

technical  terms  as  the 
drummer  uses  when  describing  bis 
wares.

Use  plain,  everyday,  correct  English, 
Small  words 

or  as  you  can  make  it 
are  best.

Quite  Ridiculous.

Shopwalker—We  are 

selling  these 

goods,  madam,  at  ridiculous  prices.

Customer—I  should  say  so!  I  can  buy 

them  cheaper  at  half  a  dozen  places.

To introduce new brands of cigars the quality of which 
will  insure your continued orders we give

This  Handsome  5 how  Case 
With  500  Good  Cigars for

500  “ N avy  Pride”  or  500  “ New  Cuba” 
or 250 of  each  brand  if desired.

$ 15.00

The cigars alone retailed  at five cents  will make $25.00.  This gives you a  handsome  profit  of  $1000  on  a 
small investment and you  have the show case entirely free.  Order at once, as this offer is limited to 3o days.
In waiting on a customer let down back and the boxes are right before you.  Every label and each cigar in 
the case are in  plain sight.  The case takes up less room than any other  case  that  holds  the  same  number  of 
boxes.  Cases are made of Oak or Ash and the back is hung  on  hinges,  and  lifts  up  and  down,  with  spring 
beneath, to prevent shelves from dropping and to lift them back in place.

H.  H.  DRIQGS  CIGAR CO.,  Palm yra,  Mich.

Case is thirty-six  inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, twenty inches 

high and will hold any 50 box.

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Fruits  and  Produce.
Exporters  Lose  Through  Misjudging 

Conditions  in  Cuba.
From the New  Yerk Commercial.

The  failure  to  judge  accurately  the 
state  of  things  that  would  follow  the 
close  of  the  war  in  Cuba  has  caused  se­
vere  monetary  losses  to  many  members 
of  the  New  York  Produce  Exchange. 
There  were  a  few  exporters  who  coun­
seled  prudence  and  patience  when  the 
American  flag  fluttered  over  Cuba,  but 
for  the  most  part  provision  dealers  who 
had  done  business  with  the  island  prior 
to  the  war  vied  with  each  other  to  be 
first  to  reach  the  market  that,  it  was  be­
lieved,  would  be  an  almost  limitless 
one.  The  steamship  agents  were  just 
as  sanguine  and  equally  anxious  to  be 
in  the  lead  of  the  race  to  get  to  Cuba 
first.  There  were  so  many  demands  for 
freight  room,  however,  that 
it  was  all 
the  first  boats  could  do  to  provide  space 
for  the  great  quantity  of  provisions  that 
came  looking  for  transportation.  The 
arguments  of  the  provision  exporters 
were founded on sound business theories: 
Cuba  had  been 
left  almost  destitute  of 
provisions,  the people  had  to  be  fed  and 
the  merchants  who  were  beginning  to 
open  their  stores  at  Havana  and  else­
where  on  the  island  would  be  bound  to 
buy  at  the  exporters’  price.

Two  features  of  the  situation  bad 
been  overlooked,  however:  First,  the 
Red  Cross  Society  bad  sent  boatloads  of 
provisions  to  Cuba  lor  free distribution, 
thereby  shutting  out  the  sales  of  food­
stuffs,  and  secondly,  the Custom  Depart­
ment  was  still  in  the  hands  of  Spanish 
officers,  which  meant  that  the  amount 
charged  was  only 
limited  by  the  will­
ingness  of  the  American  exporter  to  be 
fleeced.

With  these  two  important  features  of 
the  situation overlooked,  large quantities 
of  flour  were  shipped  to  Havana  and 
Santiago,  much of  which was  never  even 
landed,  for  the  reason  that  the  shrewd 
Cuban  or  Spanish  merchant  failed  to 
see  the  wisdom  of  buying  goods  when 
the  old  high  rate of duty was chargeable, 
and  there  was  a  prospect  of  this  duty 
being  changed  when  the  Americans  as 
sumed  official  control.  Consequently  the 
flour  came  back  to  New  York  almost 
by  the  shipload,  and  has  been  sold  to 
the  highest  bidder  on  the  docks,  at  a 
heavy  loss  to  the  shipper.

Thousands  of  dollars  have been  lost 
by  the  lard  refiners,  owing  to  the  same 
failure  to  judge  accurately  of  the  con­
ditions  of  trade  with  Cuba. 
In  antici­
pation  of  a  great  rush  of  orders  as  soon 
as  peace  came,  the  lard  men  purchased 
quantities  of  stearine  to  make  com­
pound  lard,  the variety of  lard  for  which 
there  is  the  most  demand  in  Cuba.  The 
expected  rush  of  orders  did  not  come, 
and  what  was  sent  to  Cuba  on  specula­
tion  either had  to  be  sold  at  any  price  it 
would  fetch  to  save  the  expense  of 
bringing  it  back,or knowing  what  a  loss 
it  would  entail  to  return  the  cargoes  to 
New  York,  some  speculators  had  it  sent 
on  to  the  other  West  Indian  ports  and 
sold  at  the  best  market  figure.  Much  of 
it,  however,  came  back  here  to  be 
knocked  down  to  the  highest  bidder  on 
the  dock.

Potato  Situation  in Minnesota. 

From the Minneapolis Commercial  Bulletin.

The  market  this  week  is  weaker,  ow­
ing  to  large  receipts  from 
local  and 
other  sources,  and  owing  also to  the  fact 
that  the  demand  for  winter  supplies  has 
not  yet  opened  in  any  considerable  vol­
ume.  From  23  to  25  cents  is  the  range 
of  values  for  straight  varieties  in carlots 
on  this  market.  Mixed  varieties  range 
from  17  to  20  cents.  There  is  not  a 
in  carlots  to  outside 
very  large  call 
points,  although  the  movement  is  of 
reasonable  volume,  and 
is  fully  up  to 
that  of  a  week  ago.  The  local  dealers 
are  not  now  laying  in 
large  quantities 
for  winter,  buying 
lots  and 
often.  The 
indications  are  that  the 
crop 
in  this  State  will  be  too  large  to 
permit  of  any  very  generous  prices  be­
ing  paid 
If  the  market  holds  up  to  25 
cents  for  the greater  part  of the fall,  this 
will  be  as  good  as  can  be  expected. 
It

in  small 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

is  the  general  impression  among  potato 
men  that  better  prices  will  rule  m  the 
spring.  It  is  the  general  practice  of  the 
farmers  this  season  to  hold  their  low- 
priced  produce  for  better  figures,  but  if 
this  shall  prevail  with  potatoes,  it  may 
be  that  the  spring  price  will  be  no  bet­
ter  than  that  now  prevailing.
To  Introduce  Canned  Rabbit  Meat.
A  new  industry  to  be  stirted  in  Chi­
cago  will  bring  a  new  food  into  our 
markets  in  the  shape  of  canned  rabbit. 
A  representative  of  the  great  rabbit­
raising industry  in  Great Britain is  look­
ing  for  a  large  tract  of  land  near  Chi­
cago  that  can  be  turned  into  a  tame- 
rabbit  farm.  Here  rabbits  will  be raised 
by  the  million.  Their  flesh  will  be 
canned  and  shipped  all  over  the  coun­
try.  The  meat  of  the  tamed  rabbit  is 
consumed  in  great  quantities  in  France, 
Great  Britain,  Germany,  Belgium  and 
Holland— in  fact 
in  all  the  civilized 
countries  in  Europe—and  it  is  said  to 
be  especially 
relished  by  epicures. 
Paris  alone 
is  reported  to  consume 
weekly  over  iqo. ooo  pounds  ot tame rab­
bits,  or  10,000,000  pounds  annually.
State  Crop  Report for  October.
Potatoes  are  estimated  to  yield  68  per 
cent,  and  beans  66  per cent,  of  average 
crops.  The  estimate  for  potatoes  indi­
cates  a  very  general  belief  that  the  crop 
has  been  badly  damaged  by  drouth.

The  percentages  for winter apples are: 
Southern  counties  47,  central  77,  north­
ern  72,  and  State  56.  One  year  ago 
winter  apples  were  estimated  at  11  per 
cent,  in  the  southern  counties  and  18 
per  cent 

in  the  State.

The  percentages  for  late  peaches  are: 
Southern  counties  82,  central  73,  north­
ern  92,  and  State  81  One  year ago  the 
figures  for  the  southern  counties  were  8, 
and  State  12.

Autumn  in  the  Country.

Pumpkin pie and apple cider!
Cut ’er loose and open wider!
Ain’t no time like fruitful autumn; 
Hick’ry nuts in river  bottom!
Who said fall was melancholy ?
Just the time to be real jolly!
Stir that steaming apple butter;
Fry them doughnuts—hear ’em sputter* 
See them trees with apples laden;
See the buxom country maiden!
Scenes of plenty, bliss Arcad’n!
Sparkling eyes and rosy features,
Joyous,  blessed, happy  creatures.
Apple snits and pumpkin slices;
Eggs and butter bring good  prices! 
Gran’ries full and  runnin’ over,
Bulging  haymows sweet with clover. 
Country sausage!  Goodness, land sakes! 
Hurry up them buckwheat  pancakes! 
My, oh, my!  But  don’t we pity 
Poor folks livin’ in the city!
Effect  of the  War.

Mrs.  Hayricks— It  says  here 

in  the 
paper,  Silas,  that  this  war  has  served 
to  bring  the  people  of  our  country closer 
together.  Do  you  think  there’s any truth 
in  it?

Mr.  Hayricks— Yes.  When  I  looked 
into  the  parlor  last  night  Lieutenant 
Striplings  and  our  Annie  was  settin'  a 
good  deal  closer  together  than  I  ever 
seen  ’em  afore  he  went  away.

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HARRIS  &  FRUTCHEY

Only  Exclusive  Wholesale  BUTTER  and  EGG 
House in  Detroit.  Have  every  facility  for  han­
dling large or small quantities.  Will buy on track 
at your  station  Butter  in  sugar  barrels,  crocks  or 
tubs.  Also fresh gathered Eggs.

MAYNARD  &  REED

WHOLESALE

Peaches  Apples  Potatoes

54  South  Ionia  Street, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Telephone  1348.

BURGE D. CATLIN.

J. WILLARD LANSING,

44 W. MARKET STREET 
103 MICHIGAN STREET

LANSING & GATLIN
E G G S

BUFFALO, N. Y.

W H O L E S A L E  
D E A L E R S   IN

There is a good demand  in our market for fresh Eggs, those that are  free  from 
heat and that can be guaranteed strictly fresh selling at  17c.  There is a distinction 
now between storage and  fresh and  the  trade  is  calling  for  both,  but  for  the  past 
six weeks they have been using storage principally.

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C. N. R A PP & CO.

G EN ER A L  COMMISSION  M ERCH AN TS

Do  nothing  carelessly  or  in  a  hurry.

Ship Uf  Vnnr

BUTTER,  EaOS, POULTRY, 
VEAL, GAME, FUR, HIDES, 
BEANS,  POTATOES,
GREEN AND DRIED  FRUIT

Or anything you may have.  We have a No.  i  lo­
cation and  a large trade and are  fully  prepared  to 
place all shipments  promptly  at  full  market  price 
and make  prompt  returns.  If you  have  any  ap­
ples do not dispose  of  them  before  corresponding 
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.
COYNE BROS , Commission Merchants

161 South Water St., Chicago.

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. 
Bankers:  Merchants'  National Bank,  Chicago.

5 6   W.  M A R K E T   S T . .   B U F F A L O ,  N.  Y .

The fruit season is nearly over and we are looking forward to the  fall  trade 
for Eggs  and  Poultry.  The  weather  will  be  colder  and  the  loss  usual  in 
warm  weather  will  be  obviated.  Our  location  and  trade  enable  us  to 
promise  the  best  sales  obtainable  upon  this  market  We  have  the  best 
facilities  for  handling,  also  cold  storage  free  to  our  customers,  and  we 
promise careful attention  to  your  shipments,  prompt  sales  and  quick  re­
turns.  Should you require references shall take pleasure in  giving you  the 
names  of  Michigan  shippers  who  have  done  business  with  us  the  past 
season.  We are well known  in  Michigan,  being  a  branch  of  C.  N.  Rapp 
&  Co., of Grand  Rapids.  Should  be  pleased  to  answer  at  all  times  any 
enquiries  relative to shipments for this  market.  W e  will  advance  you  lib­
erally or honor sight draft for any reasonable amount

Special  Blanks  for  Produce  Dealers

We make a specialty of this class of work and solicit  correspondence 
with those who need anything in this line.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

-  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  Oct.  8—The  coffee  market 
has  been  in  rather a  bad  way  during the 
past  few  days.  While  jobbers  are,  ap­
parently,  endeavoring  to maintain rates, 
there 
is  a  feeling  of  weakness,  and 
probably  some  concession  would  be 
made,  if  necessary,  to  effect  sales.  Rio 
No.  7  is quoted  at 6%c.  There  is  said 
to  be  some  urgency  from  Brazil  to  push 
the  sale  of  coffee  here  and  it  may 
lead 
to  a  lower  basis.  The  amount  of coffee 
here  and  afloat aggregates 930.574  bags, 
against  834,489  bags  at  the  same  time 
last  year.  Mild  sorts  continue  steady, 
but the  volume  of  trade 
is  limited  and 
jobbers  repoit  sales  of  only  sufficient  to 
meet 
everyday  requirements.  Good 
Cucuta  is  quotable  at  8%c.
There  has  been  so  much  interest  over 
sugar  stock  that  the  real  article  is  for 
the  moment  rather  cast  into  the  shade; 
but 
is  in  an  interesting  position 
nevertheless.  Cuts  have  been  made and 
everything  seems  to  indicate  a  begin­
ning  of  the  long-expected  merry  war 
between  the  refiners.  For  granulated 
5c 
is  the  official  quotation.  There  is 
said  to  be  a  saving  profit  on  it  at  this, 
but  to  take  off  any  more  will  reach  the 
Sales  were  neither  numerous 
quick. 
large  even  at  lower  rates and  the 
nor 
trade 
is  evidently  waiting  for “ further 
developments. ”
Tea  buyers  are “ backward about com­
ing  forward”   and  the  whole outlook  is 
for  continued  dulness.  The  demand 
from  both  city  and  out  of-town  dealers 
is  for  the  smallest  assortments and  quo­
tations  are  almost  nominal.

it 

Storms  have  exerted  a  very  decided 
influence  in  the  rice  market  and the  full 
effect  is  not  yet  felt,  although  there  has 
been  an  advance  of  almost  %c.  Cable 
advices  all  tend  to  harden  the  market 
here  and  it  seems  probable  that  rice  at 
present  is  as  cheap  as  it  will  be  for  a 
long  time.  The  actual  condition  of  the 
market  shows  a  good  demand  and  sell 
ers  are  not  anxious  to  part  with  their 
holdings.  Good  to  prime  Louisiana 
and  Carolina,  $X@5Hc;  Japan.  5#c.
Holders  of  spices  demand  full  prices 
and  buyers  are  doing  very  little.  The 
firmest  articles  are  pepper and  cloves. 
Singapore  black,  qX c ;  Zanzibar cloves, 
8l(c.
The molasses market is closely cleaned 
up  in  the  better  grades  of  grocery  sorts, 
and  desirable  open-kettle  molasses 
brings  full  quotations.  The demand  for 
mixed  goods  and  good  centrifugals  is 
quite  brisk  and  full  rates  are  paid. 
Quotations  for  good  to  prime  open  ket­
tle,  2q@32c;  good  to  prime  centrifugal, 
i6@25c. 
In  syrups,  home  trade  is  lack­
ing  animation.  Exporters  have  been 
operating  to  a  limited  extent  all  the 
week,  so  that  the  market  is  not  quite 
dead.  Good  to  prime  sugar  syrup,  14® 
17c.
In  canned  goods,  offerings of  corn  and 
tomatoes  are  light,  but  there  seems  to 
be  no  anxiety  about the ultimate supply, 
It  will  not  be  known  for  some  time  just 
how  the  pack  will  turn  out;  but  frost 
has  held  off  well  and  every  day  adds 
something  to  the  amount  already  put 
up.  No.  3  peaches  are  worth  from  $1  35 
@1.55  for  yellows.  New  Jersey  tomatoes 
are  worth  85c  for  No.  3  standard.

Lemons  have  taken  a  tumble  and  at 
present  quotations  are 
in  pretty  good 
demand.  California  oranges  are  not 
plenty  and  sell  at  full  prices,  although 
the  rush  for  them  is  not  great.  Bananas 
are  quiet,  selling  from  90C@$i. 10  per 
bunch  for firsts.

In  dried  fruits  the  demand  is  slow, 
but  there  is  a  firm  feeling  and  the  mar 
ket  can  be  called  steady.  Domestic 
dried  are  dull.  Evaporated  apples,  7J4 
@8%c.
Marrow  beans are  weaker  under  light 
demand.  Choice  new,  $1.65;  old,  Si. 55 
@1.60.  Medium  and  pea  are  quiet  and 
with  no  especial  change  in  quotations. 
Red  kidney,  $1.85  for  new;  California
limas,  $2.32^@2.35.
The  demand  for  butter  is  only  of  an 
everyday  character  and  the  market  has 
been  practically  without  change  for 
some time.  There  is a  little  firmer  feel­

indeed. 

Small  size, 

ing  at  the  moment  for the  best grades  of 
creamery,  which 
is  quotable  at  20j^@ 
21c;  firsts, 
ig@2oc;  seconds,  I7@ i8c ; 
thirds,  I5@i6c;  June  extras,  19^0;  fin­
imitation  creamery.  i6@i7c;  firsts, 
est 
I4@i5c;  seconds, 
I3@I3K c ;  factory, 
June  extras,  I4j^c.
The  recent  hot  wave  made  its  “ sign”  
on  a  good  part  of  the  arrivals  of  cheese. 
While  fancy  full  cream  might  bring  a 
trifle  more  than 8>£c,  it would need to be 
full 
very  nice, 
cream,  fancy  stock,  9C- 
, 
.
The  egg  market  is firm.  Western fresh 
gathered, i6J^@I7J^c.  The  supply seems 
quite  sufficient,  even  of  the  very  best 
stock,  and  of  that  which  will  not  come 
up  to  the  standard  there  is  some  sur­
plus.  Friday  4,458  cases  were  received.
Apples  are  in  unusually  liberal  sup­
ply,  principally  low  grade,  and  going 
out  at  prices  that  scarcely  pay  trans­
portation  charges,  much 
less  give  a  re­
turn  for  labor  of  handling.  Such  fancy 
stock  as 
is  procurable  moves  at  good 
is  so  short  that 
prices,  but  the  supply 
the  market  can  scarcely  be  said  to  be 
nfluenced.  A 
larger  proportion  of  the 
fancy  table  fruit  comes  from  Vermont, 
and  the  contribution  from  that  State 
decreases  daily.  Full prices are obtained 
for  the  best  quality  of  all  varieties,  but 
there  are  too  few  to  supply  the  demand. 
The  quantity  of  low  grade  fruit  on  the 
market  is  discouraging  and causes  trade 
to  drag  heavily.

in 

Some  better  quality  winter  pears  are 
arriving,  but  a  majority  of  the  supplies 
now  coming  forward  are  below  grade 
and  sell  slowly.  There  are  a  few  fancy 
Bartletts  coming,  but  most  of  them  are 
below  grade  or  out  of  condition,  and 
prices  rule  low.  Other  fall  varieties  go 
at  about  what  is bid 

Cranberries  are  arriving 

large 
quantities and  supplies  are acccumulat- 
ng.  The  quality  of  later  arrivals  is  an 
improvement,  but  the 
large  quantities 
of  poor  berries  received  before  weak­
ened  the  market,  and 
it appears  diffi­
cult  for  it  to  recover.  There  has  been 
some  call  for berries  for  Southern  ship­
ment  the  past  day  or  two,  and  the  very 
best  could  be  bought  for $1  40  per crate.
Grapes  have  come  in  liberally  during 
the  week,  more  so  than  before  this  sea 
son.  Prices  rule  low,  even  for  the  best 
quality  of  choice  varieties.  Demand  is 
small  toward  the  end  of  the  week,  and 
Saturday’s  trade  was  so  quiet  that 
it 
virtually  amounted  to  almost  nothing.

Other  varieties  shared  in  the  general 
dullness,  and  business  was  practically 
nil  in  several  departments

said.

How  They  Sound  When  Read.

“ Let  me  read  you  a  few  lines,”   he 

“ Certainly,”   she  replied.
He  then  proceeded  to  read them,  after 
which  she  exclaimed:  “ Well,  of  all  the 
silly  trash  I  ever  heard  that  is  the 
worst!”

“ Those 
are  the  words  of  that  beautiful  song  you 
sang  a  moment  ago.”

it,”   he  assented. 

“ I  know 

Politeness  is  an 

investment  that  is 
often  overlooked,  but  it  yields  big  divi­
dends.

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WHOLESALE BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION.

FRUITS,  NUTS,  PRODUCE

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And all other Seasonable Fruits  and  Vege­
tables,  wholesaled  in  all  quantities  at  the 
Only  Best  Place.

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CRANBERRIES,  JERSEY  and

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Grapes,  Pears,  Plums,  Apples,  Celery,
Tomatoes,  Spanish  Onions,  Lemons,
Oranges  and  Bananas.

Bunting &  Co., Jobbers,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

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24  and  26  North  Division  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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GRAPES  FOR  GOTHAM.

How  They  Are  Raised  and  Sent  to 

Market.

New  York,  Oct.  io — A  familiar  sight 
to the  passer  by  on bis wiy  to  any  nf  the 
ferries  along  the  North River.from Cort- 
landt  to  Franklin  streets, 
the  region 
where  the  greater  part  of  all  the  fruit 
sent  to  the  New  York  market is received 
and  sold, 
is  the  numerous  piles  of 
small,  stout,  wooden  baskets  heaped  on 
the  sidewalks,  and  usually  surmounted 
by  a  hand-made  placard  announcing 
“ Sweet  Grapes”   for  sale  These  bas­
kets  vary  from  five  to  ten  pounds  in 
weight,  and  the  grapes  come  to  mar­
ket  from  early  August  until  the  heavy 
frosts  kill  the  vines.

it 

is  long  lived 

A  good  sunny  exposure,  plenty  of 
rich  fertilizing  and  almost  constant  at­
tention  are  the  requisites  of  a  success­
ful  grape  croD,  as the  vines  are  beset  by 
many  injurious  insects,  and  suffer  much 
damage  from  climatic  changes.  The 
grapevine  grows  rapidly  after  getting 
started,  and 
if  properly 
cared  for.  The  usual  means  employed 
to  propagate  the  various  kinds  is  by 
cuttings  and 
layers;  a  “ runner,”   or 
sprig  of  vine  near  the  root,  is  fastened 
into  the  ground,  where  it  readily  takes 
root,  after  which 
is  cut  from  the 
parent  stem  and  transplanted  to grow  on 
its  own  account.  Fancy  varieties  are, 
however,  often  obtained  by  grafting 
and  budding.  The  vines  are  trained 
on  trellis  work,  or  wires  strung  from 
post  to  post  along  the  entire  length  of 
the  field,  and  so  placed  that  the  whole 
vine  will  be  exposed  to  the  sun;  extra 
shoots  are  constantly  pruned  away,  and 
every  precaution  is  taken  to  force  the 
strength  of  the  vine  for  fruit-bearing 
No  great  accumulation  of  leaves  is  per 
mitted,  and  as  the  grape,  like  all  other 
fruits,  bears  from  the  shoots  of  the  cur­
rent  year,  all  other  branches  are  kept 
well  cut;  also  all  the  small  and 
irregu­
lar-shaped  bunches  are  cut  away  in  or­
der  that  the  large,  full  clusters  may  re­
ceive  all  the  benefit  of  the  sun and  light 
and  the  full  strength  of  the  vine.

The  beginnings  of  the  cultivation  of 
in 
the  grape  for  food  and  wine  are  lost 
obscurity,  but 
it  was  a  well-established 
in  the  time  of  Moses,  and  the 
industry 
pagan  “ Marches  of  Bacchus”   related  to 
the  cultivation  of  the  grape  by  these 
early  nations.  Later  it  was  introduced 
into  Europe,  the  Romans  taking  it  to 
Marseilles,  France,  about  600  B.  C. 
Throughout  many  European  countries 
the  grapevines  have  attained 
luxuriant 
growth,  often  climbing  to  the  top  nf 
tall  trees,  and 
in  many  sections  the 
grape  has  been  cultivated  to  the  exclu­
sion  of  corn  and  other  grains,  so  that 
the  people  are  dependent  upon  outside 
sources  for  their  food  supplies.

The  wild  grape 

is  common  in  all 
parts  of  America,  the  sweet,  heavy  odor 
of  both  the  blossom  and  the  fruit  being 
one  of  the  pleasing  features  of  thecoun 
try  roadsides,  as  the  vines  climb  cling- 
ingly  over  the  stone  walls  and  up  the 
wayside  trees  Historians  tell  us  that 
it  was  the  perfume  of  the  wild  grape 
which 
so  agreeably  greeted  Hendrik 
Hudson  and  his  crew  on  the  Half  Moon 
as  they  sailed  up  New  York  Bay  and 
the  Hudson  River,  and  which  the  dis­
coverer  chronicled 
in  his  record  as  a 
“ pleasant  and  verv  sweet  smell  ”   The 
most  common  of  all  the  wild  grapes 
is 
the  fox  grape,  and  a  small  supply  of 
them  is  sent  each  year  to  the  Philadel­
phia  market,  but  the  grape  has  been  so 
nighy  cultivated  these  late  years  and 
is 
produced  so  cheaply  that  the  many  new 
kinds  grown,  each  having  the  sweet 
taste  of  the  wild  fruit  without  the  acid 
skin,  supply  the  demand,  so  that 
little 
of  the  natural  fruit  is  now  sent  to  the 
large  centers  of  commerce

The  first  known  attempt  to  cultivate 
the  grape  in  America  was  in  Florida,in 
1564.  and  later  the colonists in Virginia, 
in  1620,  gave  attention  to  its  culture  as 
a  wine-producer.  Some  of  the  most  fa­
vored  varieties  are  descendants from the 
early  wild  kinds,  as  the  Catawba,  one 
of  the  sweetest  grapes  to  come  to  mar 
ket,  a  native  of North Carolina ;  also the 
popular  Isabella,  as  well  as the  Scup- 
pernong.

In  California  the grape was first raised

So  rapidly  and 

by  the  Franciscan  monks,  who  found 
the  soil  particularly  adapted  to  its  cul- 
tivation. 
luxuriantly 
does  the  vine  grow  in  that  part  of  the 
country  that 
in  a  recent  report  it  was 
stated  that a  vine  planted  in  1823  had  in 
1890  reached  dimensions  sufficient  to 
cover  over  12,000  feet  of  space,  and  to 
produce  each  year  from  10,000  to  12,000 
pounds  of  grapes.  The  largest  vine­
yards  in  the  world are  in  this  State,  one 
being  over  four thousand acres and many 
others  comprising  from  1,000 to  2,000 
acres.  The  greater  quantity  of  these 
grapes  are  used  for  wine,  raisins  and 
currants,  and  but  a  small  part  of  each 
year’s  crop  finds  its  way  to  the  market 
for  table  use.  Only  the  finest  are  used 
for  this  purpose,  the  white  ones  being 
called  Muscatels,  the  red  ones  Tokays. 
Although  each  year  sees  a  marked  in­
crease  in  the  demand  for  good  Califor­
nia  grapes  for  table  use,  it 
is  in  the 
Eastern  States,  and  more  especially 
throughout  Pennsylvania,  New York  and 
one  or  two  of  the  Southern  States,  that 
the  great  bulk  of  the grapes  consumed 
in  the  New  York  market  are grown.

The  development  of  the  grape 

indus­
try  has  been  somewhat  peculiar  except 
for  the  comparatively  few  early  kinds 
which  come  from  North  Carolina  and 
Maryland.  The  Hudson  River  Valley 
and  lake  region  of  New  York  State  fur­
nish  grapes  for all  New  York.  Twenty 
years  ago  the  country 
in  and  near 
Fishkill,  N.  Y  ,  was  the  center  for  the 
market,  one  or  two  men  having  estab­
lished  reputations as fine grape  growers; 
but  immense  vineyards  suddenly sprang 
into  existence  along  the  shores  of  the 
lakes 
in  the  central  part  of  the  State, 
and  as  the  soil  seemed  better adapted 
for  their  growth  there,  and  the  fierce 
competition  thus  started  made  growing 
in  the  older  localities  often  un­
them 
profitable, 
the  trade  has  gradually 
shifted  to  the  western  part  of  the  State, 
so  that  this  year  about  all  of  the  grapes 
will  be  received  from the country around 
Lake  Keuka.  Here  hundreds  and  hun­
dreds  of  acres  are  planted  with  the 
vines,  and  the  harvesting  of  the  grape 
crop  is  the  occupation  of  the  people  for 
miles  around  the  two principal shipping 
places,  Penn  Yan  at  one  end  of the  lake 
and  Hammondsport  at  the  other.

Just  as 

in  the  wool  section  expert 
shearers  can  be  found,  so  here  are  men 
and  women  who  make  a  business  of 
cutting,  sorting  and  packing  the  grapes 
for  market.  The  usual  way  for  the  crop 
to  be  sent  to  New  York 
is  for  some 
large  wholesale  house  to  send  a  buyer 
out  in  the  section,  who goes  from  vine­
yard  to  vineyard,  selecting  and  pur­
chasing.  The pickers  and  packers  then 
b-gin  the  work of gathering the bunches, 
and  they  are  carried  to  the  large  pack­
ing  houses  of  the  New  York  firm  out  in 
the  country;  here  the  women  sort  them, 
and  arrange  the  better  quality  in  the 
small  baskets  and  the  others  in the trays 
or  boxes  for  shipping  to  New  York 
Fast  freight  by  railroad  is  the  method 
employed  to  get  them  here,  as  the  profit 
is  seldom  sufficient  to  warrant  paying 
express  charges;  the  fruit will keep well 
enough  to  stand  the  slower  way  of trans­
portation. 
The  cars  containing  the 
grapes  are  brought  by  the  railroad  com­
pany  to  one  of  the  many  piers  along  the 
North  River  front,  and  sometimes  when 
is  great  enough  they  are 
the  demand 
disposed  of 
in  carlots  by  auction,  or 
else  they  will  be  unpacked  and  the  bas­
kets  taken  to  the  stores  and  sold  from 
there.

in 

larger  and  closer  clusters, 

Among  the  first  grapes  to  come  to  the 
market 
is  the  Moore's  Early,  which 
somewhat  resembles  the  time-honored 
Concord,  but  as  it  grows  abundantly  in 
the  Southern  States  and  ripens  earlier 
and 
it 
often  commands  a  much  better  price 
than  that  other  dark-blue  grape,  the 
Concord,  which  soon  follows  it,  while 
that  popular  little deep  red grape,  which 
grows  in  small,  tight  clusters  and  has  a 
sweetness  all 
its  own,  the  Delaware, 
comes  a  week  or so  later.  Besides  these 
three  are  the  Salem  and  the  Isabella, 
which  have  been  in  the  market  many 
years,  and  of  the  newer  varieties,  those 
with  the  greenish,  yellow  skin,  such  as 
the  Niagara, 
the 
Martha,  are  cultivated  in  great  quanti-

the  Rebecca  and 

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largely advertised.  When ordering oysters through your jobber, be sure 

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Merchants

Butter, Eggs and Poultry

23  South  Water St. 

Philadelphia,  Pa.

REFERENCES

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

“ I  GO  A-F1SHING.”

This is the time of the year when houses and stores and workshops 
become distasteful, and when the great w. >rld 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  your consignments, and  we offer  these  three  guar­
antees to you:  Highest  Market  Prices,  Full  Weights,  Prompt  Pay­
ments.  Let  us add  you  to our list on this understanding. 
Is it not 
sufficient?  We think so. 

W.  R.  BRICE  &  CO.

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Italian  Fruit  Exporters  Adopt  Fancy 

Labels.

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Buffalo,  N.  Y

D.  E  Knowlton,  Pres,  and  Gen’l  Mgr.

Warehouse “A” | Warehouse “B

Capacity 600,000 cubic feet.

Exclusively 

Butter and  Eggs

Capacity 500,000 cubic feet.

Poultry,  Cheese,  Fruit 
and  Miscellaneous 

Rates  Reasonable.

Low  Insurance.

Storage.
Don’t  try  experiments.  Store 
where  you  know  your  goods  will 
Liberal  Advances
be properly cared for.
CO RRESPO N D EN CE  SO LICITED .

W e  G u a r a n t e e

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

ONE HUNDRED D O LLA R S

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

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

J. ROBINSON, Manager.

This is the guarantee we give with every barrel of our  vinegar.  Do  you  know  of  any  other 
manufacturer  who  has  sufficient  confidence  in his output  to stand back of his product with ,

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

Every Qrocer should sell it.

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The  grapes  which  come  from 

ties,  the  Niagara  being  the  best  selling 
of  them  all.  The  Catawba 
is  one  of 
the  last  to  ripen  and  be  sent  to  market.
the 
South  early  in  the  season,  generally  the 
last  of  July  and  the  first  of  August,  are 
packed 
in  small,  rectangular  baskets, 
holding  either  six  or  eight  pounds,eight 
of  them  being  placed 
in  a  case,  or 
“ carrier,”   as 
is  technically  known. 
Those  from  New  York  State  are  sent  in 
two  ways,  the  ones  designed  for table 
use  being  packed 
in  the  small  band- 
baskets,  which  are  disposed  of  by  the 
package  in  large quantities,  and  after­
ward  retailed  by  the  single  basket. 
They  are  in  convenient  size  for  family 
use,  and  of  a  shape  which  packs  ad­
vantageously  for  transportation,  so  that 
handling  the  fruit  is  avoided  from  the 
time  it  is  cut  from  the  vine  and  care­
fully  placed  in  the basket  until  it  is  put 
on  the  table of the  consumer.

However,  large  quantities  of  grapes 
are  each  year  shipped  to  market in  bulk 
on 
large  trays,  this  being  the  way  the 
poorer qualities  are  sent  and  some  years 
when  the  crop  is  large  the  surplus  stock 
are  also  sent  in  this  way.  Such  grapes 
is  sold  bv  the  pound  to the  wine and 
vinegar  merchants,  and  to  the  Italians, 
Bohemians  and  Hebrews  who live on the 
East  Side  of  New  York  and  in  the  ad­
joining  cities,  for  wine.  Sometimes  as 
much  as  a  whole  ton  of  these  grapes 
will  be  purchased  for  this  purpose  by  a 
single  family.  When  the  price  is  low, 
as  it  is  in  the  years  the  crop 
is  heavy, 
these  foreign  buyers  will  take  them  as 
long  as  the  supply  lasts,  so  much  do 
they  prize  this home-made wine.  Grapes 
in  this  way  sell  from  $15  to $30 a  ton, 
according  to quality  and  supply.

later 

The  yield  this  year along  the  lake 

is 
fine  and  there  is  more  than  an  average 
crop,  but  up  the  Hudson  River  the 
grapes  are  almost  a  complete  failure. 
The  late  frosts  last  spring,  followed  by 
the  cold,  damp  weather,  damaged  the 
grapes,  as  it  did  all  the  other  fruits,  so 
that  the  farmers  have  not  only  been  de­
prived  of  their  berries  and  peaches,  but 
the 
crops,  apples,  pears  and 
grapes,  have  also  failed.  The  vines  are 
only  partially  filled,  and  the  bunches 
are  small  and  irregular  in  shape,  so that 
the  greater  part  of  them  will  go  to  the 
wine  merchants  at  almost  their  own 
prices.
If  the  fruit  is  not  allowed  to  become 
it  will  keep  in 
overripe  on  the  vines 
good  condition  for  a 
long  time,  and 
each  year large  quantities  of  the  hardier 
kinds,  such  as  the  Catawba,  the  Con­
cord  and  the  Rebecca,  are  during  Sep­
tember  and  October  packed away,  either 
in  the  frost-proof  packing-houses  in  the 
country  or  the  cold-storage  bouses  in 
the  city,  to  await  the holiday trade;  and 
the  grapes  which  are  displayed  on  the 
fruit  stands  at  Christmas  have  been 
picked  from  the  vines  for  fully  three 
months,  yet  are  still  as  fresh  and  moist 
as  when  first  packed.

There  are  few  fields  in  the  world  of 
merchandise  where  the  art  of  the  lith­
ographer  is  not  employed  for  the  pur­
pose  of  making  the  goods  appear  better 
and  to  attract  attention  to  them,  and 
the  purchaser  has  become  used  to  the 
fancy  label  and  the  cbromo  lithograph, 
but  it  is  not  generally  known  that  Italy 
has  followed  the  example  of  this  coun­
its  fruit  exporters  are 
try,  and  that 
spending  much  money 
in  decorating 
the  lemons  which  are  sent  to  this  coun­
try.

There  are  about  two  hundred  export­
in  Palermo  and  Mes­
ers  of  the  fruit 
sina,  and  each  concern  has 
its  private 
mark  or  brand  by  which  its  goods  are 
known.  This  brand appears  on  the  out­
side of  the  boxes,  and purchasers  buy  by 
the  brands  as  buyers  of  calicoes  and 
muslins  do  in  their  line  of  business. 
The  difference 
is  that  a  brand  in  dry 
goods  is  usually  a  voucher  for  the  qual­
ity,  while  the  manner  of  packing,  the 
weather,  the  place  of  storage  on  the 
vessel  and  the  length  of  time  in port de­
termine  the  quality  of  fruit,  and  while 
the  wholesale  dealer  may  be  guided  by 
the  marks,  the  retailer  usually  examines 
the  fruit  and  buys  regardless  of  brand.
The  exporters  now  go  a  step  further 
in 
and  wrap  the  top  layer of  every  box 
in 
tissue  paper.  Each  lemon  is  rolled 
a  piece  of 
issue  paper,  on  which  the 
trademark  of  the  exporter  is  printed, 
and 
in  addition  to  this  each  box  con­
tains  a  large  colored  lithograph  of  the 
mark. 
in 
America  and  look  like  the  ordinary  gift 
chromo,  but  the  Italian  product  is  re­
markable  because  of  its peanut-pushcart 
English.

Some  of  these  are  made 

Some  of  the  marks  are  slurs  and jokes 
on  competitors,  and  are  unintelligible 
to  those  people  who  are  not  members  of 
the  orange  and  lemon  vending  frater­
nity,  and  some  of  the  marks  are  hits 
on  the  American  importers,  who  are  ac­
cused  by  the  growers  of promising much 
in  the  way  of  returns  and  delivering 
little.  The  catalogues  which  are  pre­
pared  for  the auction  sales  usually  con­
tain  the  various  marks;  and  these  em­
brace,  in  addition  to  the  personal  and 
humorous  devices, religious and patriotic 
pictures.  Operatic  and  dramatic heroes, 
generals,  admirals,  mythological,  his­
torical  and  poetic  subjects  are made  use 
of,  and  every  field  of  sport  appears  on 
these  brands,  wrappers  and  chromos.

One  Secret  of Business  Success.
The 

late  A.  T.  Stewart  was  a  king 
among  tradesmen,  and,  although  doing 
a  business  of  forty  millions  a  year,  he 
was  never  overworked.  He  was  master 
of  bis  vast  business  because  be  placed 
the  details  in  charge  of  competent  men, 
paid  them 
liberal  salaries,  and  gave 
them  unbounded  confidence,  forcing  up­
on  them  the  full  responsibility  for  the 
conduct  of  their  department.  He  con­
sulted  with  the  heads  of  departments, 
and  directed  affairs,  leaving  the  details 
to  them.  And  Stewart  rose  from  small 
beginnings to be the greatest merchant of 
his  times. 
If  one  will  visit  the  great 
department  stores  he  will  find  power 
centralized  in  the  owners,  who,  instead 
of  being  chained  to  a  desk,  surrounded 
by  a  crowd  of  importunate  employes, 
each  bringing  some  detail  for  consider­
ation,  are  walking  about  their  estab­
lishments  consulting  with  the managers, 
discussing  the  policy  of  the  firm,  plan­
ning  or  receiving  suggestions.

One  of the  rocks  on  which young busi­
ness men fall  is  lack  of  capital.  A young 
man  should  hesitate  to  embark  in  busi­
ness,  no  matter how thoroughly equipped 
in  education  and  training,  until  he  has 
sufficient  capital.

A  Priceless  Possession.

Credit  is  the  most  precious  possession 
a  business  man  can have.  It is acquired, 
maintained,  and  preserved  by  certain 
qn lities  that  I  believe  are  inherent  in 
the  man.  Credit  is  like  a  delicate  piece 
of  porcelain.  You  may  break 
it  and 
put  it  together  again,  and  for  purposes 
of  utility  it  may  possibly  be just as good 
as  it  ever  was,  but  the  cracks  are  there, 
and  you  can  see  where  it  was  broken. 
And  so  it  is  with  the  man  whose  credit 
is  once  impaired.  He  may  be  able  to 
buy  goods  again,  bis  standing  among 
mercantile  houses  may  be  very  fair,  but 
it  can  never  be  restored  to  the  superb 
condition 
in  which  it  once  was.  And 
so  I  would  warn  all  merchants,  young 
and  old,  to  regard  credit  as  a  priceless 
possession.  Do  not  let 
it  be  trifled 
with,  and  allow  nothing  to  impair  it  or 
injure  it.— Dean.

Learn  to  treat  a  shabbily-dressed  cus­
tomer  with  as  much  civility  as  you 
manifest  toward  the  richest  of  your 
patrons;  the  dollar you  get  from  each  is 
of  the  same  value.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

institution  were 

in  so 
the  chances  of  further  promotion 
large  an 
somewhat 
remote,  Mr.  Hutchins  availed  himself 
of  the  opportunity  to  make a change last 
June  and,  although  strenuous  objec­
tions  were  made  to  bis leaving the  house 
on  the  part  of  Mr.  Davis  and  other 
members  of  the  corporation,  Mr.  Hutch­
ins  finally  succeeded 
in  breaking  the 
old  ties  and  taking  the  position  of  Sec­
retary  and  Treasurer of  the  Hazeltine  & 
Perkins  Drug  Co.,  at  the  same  time  ac­
quiring  a  material  stockholding  in  the 
corporation.

Mr.  Hutchins  was  married  Nov.  26, 
1879,  to  Miss  Alice  W.  Wilson,  of Ionia, 
who  with  one  child comprises the family 
circle. J  They  reside  in  their own  home 
at  103  Henry  street,  which  will  be  re­
membered  as  the  former  residence  of 
Thomas  Hill,  for  many  years  local  rep­
resentative  of  the  Merchants’  Despatch.

him  in  his  new  position  and  realize  the 
excellent  opportunity  it  affords  for utili­
zing  the  experience  be  has  acquired 
in 
the  past  twenty  years  rejoice  with  him 
that  his  lines  have  fallen  in  pleasant 
places  and  that  he  has  finally  landed  in 
a  position  where  he  is  practically  su­
preme 
in  his  department.  Under the 
present  organization  no  establishment 
moves  more  smoothly  or  with  less  fric­
tion  than  the  executive  and  office  forces 
of  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co., 
and  this  condition 
is  due  in  no  small 
degree  to  the  suavity  and  good  judg­
ment  of  the  latest  acquisition  to  the 
force.  V
Pertinent  Hints  For the  Boys  Behind 

the  Counter.

There  has  been  a  good  deal  said  at 
different  times  about  a  cleik  taking  an 
intelligent  interest  in  his  employer's

est  a  man  must  have a personal interest; 
he  must  feel  that  he 
is  responsible  for 
something.

*  *  *

it 

“ Say,  I  have  a  question  to  ask  of 
vou, ”   said  an  acquaintance  of  mine, 
“ Can  you  explain  to  me 
yesterday. 
why 
is  that  a  clerk  in  an  office  on  a 
salary  of  perhaps  $50  a  month  is  so 
much  better,  socially,  than  the  clerk  in 
a  retail  store?  Why  should  a  clerk, 
simply  because  he  is  a  clerk,  be  barred 
any  more  than  an  office  man?*’

This  was  the  question  he asked. 

I 
did  not  answer,  because  I  did  not  know 
how.  What 
is  or  should  be  the  social 
standing  of  a  clerk  outside  of  the  store? 
In  small  places  be  is  on  a  plane  with 
every  one  else,  provided  he  is  educated 
and  a  gentleman. 
In  a  large  town  or  a 
city  he  can  mix  with  none  outside of 
his  own  class,  while  his  friend  in  the 
office  who 
is  no  better  educated  or  no 
better  gentleman  and  no  better  off  in 
this  world's  goods  goes  in  the  best  so­
ciety.  Ture,  isn't  it? 
It  is  one  of  the 
queer  things  of  this  world  that  nobody 
seems  to  know  the  reason  for. 
I  don’t. 
Do  you? 
If  you  do  will  you  please  tell 
me  why  it  is?

*  *  *

Don’t brag.
Don’t  bulldoze.
Don’t  bluff.
Don't  give  your goods  away.
Don’t  hound  a  buyer.
Don’t  know  more  than  your customer.
Don’t  insist.
Don’t  lose  your temper.
Don’t  think  you  can  sell  everybody.
Don’t  repeat  rumors.
Don’t  misrepresent.
Don’t  run  down  your  competitors.
Don’t  underestimate  the  intelligence 

of a  buyer.

Don’t  think  you  have  the only store.
Don’t question  a  buyer's  judgment.
Don’t  think  that  because  ten  buyers 
select a  style the  eleventh  should  do  so 
as a  matter of  course

Don’t  turn up your nose at cheap goods 

customers.

down. ”

discount

come  in.

Don’t  be  afraid  of  being  “ turned 

Don’t  get  tired  waiting  for  your  turn.
Don’t  be  too  modest  to  refuse  a  trade 

Don’t  sit  down  and  wait  for  buyers  to 

16

MEN  OF  MARK.

L.  M.  Hutchins,  Secretary  Hazeltine
J

&  Perkins  Drug  Co.

Many  a  life runs along without babble, 
like  a  brook  through  a green valley, giv­
ing  verdure  to  the  meadow,  life  to  the 
tree  and  shrub  and  drink  to  the  bird un 
til  it  loses  itself  in  the  great  river. 
It 
is  not  talked  of  like  the  thundering  Ni­
agara  and  men  do  not  stop  to  gaze  at 
it 
in  wonder,  but 
it  has  its  own  work  to 
in  the  world  and  it  does  it  and  the 
do 
world 
is  better  because  of  its  having 
lived  in  it.

Lee  M.  Hutchins  was  born  at  Sharon, 
Wis.,  Oct.  14,  1856,  his  antecedents  on 
both  sides  being  English.  There  is  a 
family  tradition  to  the  effect  that  the 
name  was  originally  Huggins,  but  when 
the  orthography  was  changed  to its pres­
ent  form,  no  member  of  the  family  ap­
pears  to  be  able  to  say.  Mr.  Hutchins 
lived  on  the  farm  on  which  he  was  born 
until  i860,  when  the  family  removed  to 
Ionia,  where  the  father  engaged 
in  the 
drug  business.  Mr.  Hutchins  attended 
the  public  schools  of  the  place,  making 
marked  progress.  He  graduated  from 
the  classical  course  of  the  high school at 
the  age  of  16  and  began  preparing  him­
self  for  a  continuation  of  classical  work 
at  the  University,  in  order that he might 
fit  himself  for  the profession selected  for 
him  by  his  family,  that  of  the  clergy. 
Business  reverses  necessitated  a  change 
in  the  programme  and  two  occupations 
presented  themselves—that  of  preceptor 
in 
languages  and  mathematics  in  the 
Ionia  high  school  at  a  salary  of  $60  per 
month,  or  that  of  bottle  washer  in  the 
drug  store  of  Taylor  &  Cutler at a salary 
of  $4  per  week.  Greatly  to  the  surprise 
of  his  friends,  and  somewhat  to  the an­
noyance  of  his  family,  be  accepted  the 
latter  offer,  believing  that  a  business 
career  offered  more  inducements  to  him 
than  a  professional  one.  He  remained 
a  year  with  Taylor  &  Cutler,  during 
which  time  he  received  one  or  two  pro­
motions,  when  his  father  engaged  in  the 
grocery  and  provision  business,  and  he 
joined  his  fortunes  with  bis  father  for 
about  a  year  and  a  half,  when  be  re­
turned  to  Taylor  &  Cutler,  with  whom 
he  remained  until  1887,  occupying,  step 
by  step,  every  position 
in  the  store, 
until  he  reached  that  of  book-keeper, 
credit  man  and  buyer  for  the  jobbing 
department. 
In  this  capacity  he  came 
to  know  nearly  every  traveling  man 
who  visited  Ionia  carrying  kindred 
in  high 
lines,  by  whom  be  was  held 
esteem  by  reason  of  bis  excellent 
judg­
ment  and  the  courteous manner in which 
he  received  his  callers.  On  the  with­
drawal  of  the  Standard  Oil  Co. 's  line 
from Taylor  &  Cutler,  that  bouse  retired 
from  the  jobbing  business,  and  as  the 
retail  trade  hardly  afforded  scope  for  a 
roan  of  his  ability  and  experience,  he 
sought  and  obtained  employment  in  the 
wholesale  drug  house  of  Jas.  E.  Davis 
&  Co.,  of  Detroit.  After  working  seven 
months  in  the  city  department,  he  was 
promoted  to  the  position  of  clerk  to  Mr. 
Davis,  which  position  he  retained  on 
the  consolidation  of  Jas.  E.  Davis  & 
Co.  and  Williams,  Sheley  &  Brooks  un­
der  the  style  of  Williams,  Davis,  Brooks 
&  Co., 
institution  he  was 
given  charge  of  the  country  correspond­
ence  and  the  general  adjustment  of 
unsettled 
and  questionable  matters. 
During  the  latter  years  of  his  connec­
tion  with  that  house,  be  also  bad  charge 
of  the  detail  of  the  specialty  depart­
ment,  including  the  exploitation  of  new 
goods  and  the  pushing  of  preparations 
already  on  the  market.  Realizing  that

in  which 

Mr.  Hutchins 

is  a  member  of  the 
Westminster  Presbyterian  Church,  the 
A.  O.  U.  W.  and  the  Knights  of  the 
Maccabees,  but 
is  essentially  a  home 
man,  having  few  outside  ties  and  per­
mitting  no  ordinary  attraction  to  lure 
him  from  the  place he  loves  best.
'  Mr.  Hutchins  attributes  bis  success to 
the  fact  that  he  has always  made  bis 
employer’s  business  his  business;  has 
made  it  a  point  to  study  the  details 
of  the  position  be occupied  until  be had 
mastered  them;  to  so  conduct  himself 
that  there  shall  be  no  clashing  of 
inter­
ests  and  no  sore  spots  among  his  asso­
ciates ;  to  carefully  study  the  needs  and 
necessities  of  bis  customers,  so  that  he 
can  place  himself  in  the  position  of  the 
purchaser as  well  as  the  seller.  These 
attributes,  coupled  with  absolute  dili­
gence  and  strict  attention  to  business, 
have  placed  him 
in  the front  rank  of 
business  men,  and  those  who  have  met

business,  but  I  have  about  come  to  the 
conclusion  that  in  nine  cases  out  of ten, 
if  the  clerk  does  not  take  the  proper  in­
terest  it  is  not  his  fault.  Clerks  nowa­
days  are  sharp,  well-educated  individ­
uals  as  a  rule  and  they  will  take  just  as 
much  interest  as  they  are  permitted  to 
take.  How 
is  a  man—a  man,  mind 
you,  not  a  machine—to  take  an  active 
interest  in  anything  when  he  is  not  al­
lowed  to  make  suggestions  or  to  ad­
vance  his  opinion  on  this  matter  or 
that  point 
in  connection  with  his  de­
partment?  Judging  from  what  I  have 
beard  some  clerks  say,  some  employers 
would feel  insulted  if  it  were  insinuated 
that 
it  would  be  well  for them  to  con­
sult  their  clerks  about  their  buying,  or 
about  the  everyday  matters  around their 
store.  And  yet  it  is  this  same  class  of 
employers  who  expect their  help  to  take 
the  most  active 
interest  and  to  work 
the  hardest.  To  have  an  active  inter­

Don’t  sulk  when  you  get  “ skunked.”
Don’t  miss  an  opportunity  to  show 

your goods.

Don’t  push  your  cheapest  grades.
Don’t  let  a  buyer  put  you  out  of  con­

ceit  with  your  line.

Don’t  run  down  a  buyer  because  he 

prefers  another  line.

Don't  dictate  to  a  buyer.
Don’t  depend  on  luck  alone.
Don’t  tell  hard-luck  stories.
Don’t  forget  you’re  there  to  talk  busi­

ness.

Don’t  worry.
Don’t  trip  up  over  ycur  dignity.
Don’t  lose  your  self-respect.
Don’t  be  bluffed.
Don’t  cut  prices.— Cloak  Journal.

Family  Economy.

Uncle  (to  the  children,  who  have  just 
had  a  dose  of  cod-liver  oil  all  around): 
Well,  do  you  like  cod-liver  oil?

Children :  Ob,  no; but  mama  gives 

us  five  cents  for  every  spoonful.

Uncle:  And  then  do  you  buy  some­

thing  nice?

Children:  No,  mama  puts 

it  into 

the  savings  bank.

Uncle:  And  then  you  buy  something 

by and  by?

Children :  No,  mama  buys  more cod- 

liver  oil  with  it!

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17

FLEECED  WRAPPERS

A Group of Ladies

All  dressed  in  our  celebrated

Triton  Wrappers

They  may  not  like it,  but  the 
Jobbing  Price  that  the  retail­
ers  are  paying  for 
these  is 
mentioned  below  each  cut.

_ Lot  16a.  Made  from  fleeeed  material. 
tight  fitting  back,  ruffled  collar,  trimmed  with 
braid. 

Shirred  front, 
imported 
$9.00  per  Doz.

Lot 165.  Made from heavy fleeced chinchilla cloth, trimmed 
vith good velvet,  pipe edged revers, tight fitting  back.
$19.50 per Doz.

Lot  166.  K ruin  glendale  red  flannelette.  Loose  front, 
tight  fitting back, rolling collar, and  trimmed with  black  satin 
$10.50  per  Doz.
ruffles. 

There  must  be  a  good  deal  of 
satisfaction  to  every  retailer 
in  having  ladies  calling  over 
and  over  again  for  an  article 
that  they  are  selling,  simply 
because  it’s  the  best.  This 
is  the  case  with  the  retailer 
who  carries

Triton Wrappers

We  can  cite  you  many  a 
dealer  who  has  volunteered 
this  information  in  regard  to 
our  wrappers.

Why  not  (in  case you  have 

not)  try our line?

Lot  163.  Extra  heavy  quality  fleeced  material.  Ruffled 
Shirred front, revei s  on  shoulders,  trimmed 
standing collar. 
military  style,  back  and  front  with  imported  braid.  Full 
$11 per Doz.
range pyttern. 

Lot 167,  Made  from  heavy  twilled  cashmere.  Ruffled 
standing’  collar,  revers,  gathered  at  belt,  yoke  trimmed  with 
$9.00 per Doz.
imported  braid. 

S T R O N G ,   L E E  

M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O F   TRITON  W R A P P E R S

C O .. D E T R O I T ,   M I C H I G A N .

DEPARTMENT  M

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W om an’s World
The  Right  to  Interfere  in  a  Child’s 

Career.

There 

shall  be  a 

is  one  theory  to  which  most 
parents  cling  with  a  tenacity  no  amount 
of  experience  ever  seems  to  shake,  and 
that  is  that  they  have  a  divine  right  to 
decide 
their  children’s  careers  and 
generally  shape  their  lives  for  them. 
The  mother,  crooning  her  baby  to  sleep 
on  her  breast,  makes  up  her  mind  that 
he 
lawyer  or  doctor  or 
preacher, wholly  oblivious of the fact that 
nature  has  already  been  before  her and 
made  a  merchant  or  mechanic  or  bank­
er  and  that  any  effort  to  reverse  the  de­
cision  must  inevitably  result in disaster.
One  of  the  common  observations  of 
life  is  that  success  and  happiness means 
merely  getting 
into  the  right  groove 
and  doing  the  thing  destiny  intended 
us  to  do.  This  being  true,  it  is  passing 
strange  that  those  who  have  a  child’s 
welfare  at  heart  so  seldom  really  take 
the  trouble  to  find  out  what  he  can  do 
and  wants  to  do  and  what  his  bent  is. 
On  every  band  we  are  confronted  by  the 
unhappy  spectacle  of  round  pegs  vainly 
trying  to  fit  themselves 
into  square 
holes.  Every  day  we  see  poor doctors 
going  on  their  death-dealing  careers 
who  might  have  made  successful  and 
humane  business  men.  Every  Sunday 
we  are  bored  by  tiresome  preachers  who 
might  have  really  done  some  good  in 
the  world  pounding  iron  instead  of  the 
pulpit.  The  woods  are  full  of  bankrupt 
merchants  who  might  have  made  fame 
and  fortune  in  a  profession.

Nine  times  out  of  ten  these  dismal 
failures  are  the  direct  result  of  some 
loving  parents’  determination  to  decide 
a  son’s  destiny  for  him.  Because  John's 
grandfather  was  a  distinguished  lawyer, 
or  John’s  mother  considers  the  law  a 
genteel  profession  for  John,  who has  no 
more  gift  at  speaking 
than  a  stone 
dummy  and  no  more  love  of  study  than 
a  parrot  that  repeats  without  under­
standing  what  it  is  told,  he  is  prodded 
through  college  and  a  law  course  and  at 
last  hangs  out  his  shingle  and  waits  for 
clients.  He has no interest nor enthusiasm 
in  his  work ;  he  never  does  it  well  and 
consequently never succeeds.  Sometimes, 
after  wasted  years,  he  breaks  away from 
bondage  and  finds  his  appointed  place 
for  himself.  Oftenest  he  loses  heart  al­
together.  His  first  venture  has  been 
such  a  disaster  that  he  has  not  courage 
to  hoist  fresh  sail  and  put  about  for  an­
other  port,  so  he  drifts,  a  helpless  and 
pathetic  derelict  upon  the  sea  of  life. 
It  is  the  same  story,  with  the  same  end­
ing,  when  the  man  who  loves  books bet­
ter  than  dollars,  who  would  rather  spec 
ulate  in  philosophies  than  grain  or  real 
estate,  is  forced 
into  business  because 
his  father  has  happened  to  build  up  a 
is  not 
big  financial  enterprise.  He 
fitted  for  the  part,  and 
if  he  does  not 
actually  fail  outright,  as is  generally  the 
case,  he  misses  the  best  of  life  in  miss 
ing  a  congenial  occupation.

Of  course,  to  the  parents  it  seems  an 
unnatural  and  unnecessary  condition  of 
affairs  if  they  are  not  to  make  what 
they  please  of  their child.  It  is  said that 
when  Mr.  McKinley’s  mother  was  con­
gratulated  upon  her 
son’s  having 
achieved  the  greatest  honor  in  the  gift 
of  his  country,  she  heaved  a  sigh  of  dis­
appointment  and  said:  “ Well,  my  de 
sire  for  William  has  always  been  for 
him  to  be  a  Methodist  bishop!’ ’  That 
was  what  she  had  dreamed  for  him  over 
his  cradle,  and  not  even  the  presidency 
of  the  United  States  could  make  up  to

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

her  for  it.  How  often  we  hear  a  father 
say  bitterly,  “ I  have  spent  years  of  toil 
building  up  this  business  for  my  son, 
and  now  nothing  will  satisfy  him  but  a 
p ro fe s s io n o r  another  cries  out  that 
he  has  spent  thousands  of  dollars  in  ed­
ucating  a  boy  for a  profession  that  he 
refuses  to  follow.  In  both  cases  there  is 
the  charge,  or  implication  at  least,  of 
ingratitude,  and  the  assertion  of  the 
parental  right  to  decide  a  child’s  life.
After all,  there  is  no  other  love  so  un 
selfish  as  the  love  of  father  and  mother. 
When  it  errs  it  is  through  ignorance  of- 
tener  than  willfulness  and  through  sheer 
impossibility  of  understanding  that  the 
child  that  was  yesterday  a  helpless  baby 
has  become  a  creature  with  thoughts 
and  feelings  and  desires  that  are  not 
yours,  possibly  even  with  needs  you  can 
not  comprehend.  The  situation 
is  not 
without  its pathos  for  both  sides,  but  at 
the  beginning  of  every  school year, when 
the  fate  of  so  many  children  is  being 
decided,  I  am  always  struck  a-fresh 
with  the  fully  and  hardship  of  forcing 
girls  and  boys  to  tread  paths  they  were 
never 
intended  to  tread  and  that  they 
never  will  tread  with  profit  or  pleasure.
Perhaps  there  is a  kind  of  egotism  at 
the  bottom  of  it  all,  a  feeling  that  my 
child  is  an  all-around  universal  genius 
who  has  only  to  select  among  glorious 
careers  and  try  on  halos  of  fame  until 
he  finds  one  that  fits  him,  as  one  picks 
and  chooses  among  the  hats  in  a  shop. 
Unfortunately,  this  cheerful  confidence 
is  only 
justified  in  about  one  case  in  a 
million,  and  the  odds  against  this  para­
gon being your son are so tremendous they 
are  hardly  worth  considering.  The aver­
age  boy  is  good  for  one  thing,  and  one 
thing  only.  Moreover,  he 
is  not  so 
good  for  that  but  what  he  needs  all  the 
training  and  help  be  can  get.  And  he 
needs  a  good  start.  There 
is  no  time 
nowadays  for  experimenting.  The  man 
who  must  retrieve  the  mistakes  of  his 
parents  and  who  goes  in  middle  life  at 
the  occupation  be  should  have  started at 
as  a  boy  rarely  achieves  anything  worth 
having.

Few  parents  are  tyrannical  and  the 
number  of  boys  forced  into  uncongenial 
work  is  comparatively  small,  but  there 
are  sins  of  omission  as  well  as  commis­
sion,  and  one  can  but  wonder  that  the 
mother  and  father,  thrown  for  years  in 
daily  close  companionship  with  a child, 
never  think 
it  worth  their  while  to  try 
to  find  out  in  what  line  he  is  most  like­
ly  to  succeed.  Traits  of  character,  a 
deftness  in  this,  a  lack  in  that,  strength 
here,  weakness  there,  should  surely  be 
sufficient  guides  to  those  who  know  life 
to  indicate  the  direction  of  his  talents, 
but  those  to  whom  he  has  a  right  to look 
for  guidance  take  no  heed,  and  the  boy, 
God  help  him,  so  often  flounders,  if  he 
is  not  pushed,  into  the  wrong  thing. 
It  is  pitiful  to  think  how 
intelli­
gence  is  brought  to bear  on so important 
a  subject.

little 

Girls,  too,  have  their grievances along 
this  line. 
In  spite  of  all  the  progress 
we  have  made  we  have  never  gotten 
over  the 
idea  that  all  women  ought  to 
be  as  much  alike  as  peas  in  a  pod,  and 
to  that  end,  no  matter  how  much  their 
talents  may  really  vary,  we  give  them 
the  same  education. 
I  am  persuaded 
that  when  the  roll  of  the  noble  army  of 
martyrs  is  called  it  will  be  led  by 
little 
girls  in  pinafores,  with  pig-tails  of  hair 
hanging  down  their  backs,  who  were 
forced  to  spend  hours  of  torture  learn­
ing  scales  and  exercises,  when  they  had 
no  better  voice  nor  ear  for  music  than 
the  cat  that  caterwauls  on  the  back 
fence.  The  question  of  the  girl’s  ability

in  the  matter. 

cuts  no  figure 
It  is  a 
tradition  that  she  must  have  “ accom­
plishments,*’  and  so  we have her  taught 
music  and  painting  and  drawing,  and 
she  murders  sonatas  and  daubs  up  can­
vases  and  executes  monstrosities  on 
good  china,  and  we  complacently  reflect 
that  we  have  done  our  full  duty by Mary 
or  Sallie,  when  the  truth 
is  we  have 
never  taken  the  trouble  to  find  out  her 
real  talent  at  all. 
It  may  have  been 
that  the  girl  who  could  never  learn  to 
draw  could  fashion  divine  harmonies 
with  a  needle,  and  the one  who  was  as 
tone  deaf  as  Trilby  might  have  found 
in  the  arranging  and 
herself  an  artist 
furnishing  of  a  home. 
If  all  the  money 
that is  foolishly  wasted in trying to make 
musicians  and  artists  out  of  girls  who 
have  no  talent  were  put  into  a  fund  it 
would  give  them,  everyone,  a  respect­
able  dowry,and  furnish  their homes with 
hand-organs  and  old  masters  besides.

It  is  a  bard  thing  for parents to realize 
—and  harder  still  to  gracefully  accept— 
the  fact  that  the  time  must  come  when 
their child,  like  all  the  other children  of 
men,  has  to  live  his  own  life  and  work 
out  his  own  destiny.  Counsel  has  its 
limitations.  Love  can  go  no  further. 
We  have  no  right  even  to  interfere, 
since  every  soul  must  be  a  profound 
mystery,  even  to  those  nearest and  dear­
est  to  it,  and  we  can  not  know  all  its 
needs  and  possibilities.  But  as  we  love 
the  child  committed  to  our care  it  is  a 
solemn  duty  to  study  him,  to  try  to  find 
out  his  bent  and  develop  that,  instead 
of  forcing  him 
into  something  else  of 
our  fancy  and  choosing.  So  shall  we 
train,  and  not  handicap,  him  for  the 
race  he  must  run. 
Will  the  Street  Fair  Replace  the  Ag­

D oroth y  D ix .

ricultural  Exhibition.

Every  town  and  city  that  has a  repu­
tation  for  enterprise  to  sustain  must 
have  some  sort  of  an  out-door  festivity 
at  least  once  a  year.  It  may  be a  Fourth 
of  July  celebration,  a  soldiers’  reunion, 
an  old  settlers’  picnic,  a  county  fair,  or 
a  free  street  fair,  the  requirement  being 
it  draw  crowds,  entertain  them, 
that 
and 
incidentally  advertise  the  town. 
Some  cities  can  swing  two  or  three  such 
enterprises 
in  a  single  year,  but  most 
are  content  to  have  one,  which  is  held 
preferably  late  in  the  summer  or  in  the 
fall,  and 
is  supported  and  managed  by 
the  business  men. 
In  deciding  upon 
what  the  nature  of  the  festal  occasion 
shall  be  circumstances  govern  some­
what,  but  wherever  possible  something 
novel,  and  with  possibilities  of  direct 
profit  to  the  town  and  its  merchants,  is 
favored.  These,  apparently,  are  the 
prime  reasons  for  the  growing  popular­
ity  of  free  street  fairs.

The  “ Street  Fair,”   “ Street  Carni­
val,”   or  “ Carnival  of  Fun”   (the  sev­
eral  names  apply  to  one  and  the  same 
thing),  is  a  comparatively  new 
institu­
tion. 
It  may  be  a  short-lived  fad,  but 
it  seems  to  have  characteristics peculiar 
to  itself  which  will  give  it  a  firm  foot­
ing.  The  oldest  and  most  famous  of 
street  fairs  is  the one  held  annually  at 
Nijni  Novgorod,  in  Russia,  and  perhaps 
it  furnished  the  inspiration  for  the  first 
one  to be held  in  this  country.  So  far 
learned,  the  idea  was  first 
as  can  be 
Americanized 
in  Pennsylvania  about 
ten  years  ago,  but  not  until  within  the 
last  two  or  three  years  has  it  been  gen­
erally  adopted.  Last  year  several  of 
the  leading  cities  in  the Central Western 
States  held  street  carnivals  or  fairs,  and 
the  success they made of them has caused 
scores  of  rival  cities  and  smaller  towns 
to  follow  their  example.  This  year,

it 

therefore,  the  fall  street  fair  is  so  com­
mon  as  to  give  its  novelty  a  severe  test, 
and  it  will  probably  be  decided  whether 
or  no  the  idea  will  longer  flourish.

The  advantages  of  the  street  fair  over 
the  county  fair,  to  which 
is  similar 
and  which  in  many  cases  it  has  super­
seded,  are  numerous  and 
important. 
One  that  has  great  weight  with  mer­
chants  is  that  the  county  fair  is  held  on 
grounds  remote  from  the  business  cen­
ter of  the  town,  and  during  the  day  the 
streets  are deserted  and  business  is  at  a 
standstill.  The opportunities  for  adver­
tising  on  the  fair  grounds  are  not  the 
best,  and  necessitate  considerable  ex­
pense,  while  the  sale  of  goods  is  never 
attempted.  On  the  other  hand,  when  the 
fair  is  held  on  the  business streets goods 
can  be  advertised  by  means  of  exhibits 
with  only  a  slight  extra  expense,  and 
when  the  streets  are  thronged  with  peo­
ple sales  are  sure  to  be  quickened.  For 
these  and  other  reasons  the  fair  behind 
a  high  board  fence  has  given  way  to 
the  free and  open  street  carnival.

The  attractions  that  the  street  fair 
offers  to  the  public  at  large  are  a  com­
bination  of  those  seen  at  a  county  fair, 
a  Fourth  of  July  celebration  and  a  cir­
cus. 
In  fact  the  scope  of  the  street  fair 
is  very  wide,  and  very  flexible,  accom­
modating  anything  that  instructs,  inter­
ests  or amuses.  Judging  from  the  re­
ported  plans  for  the  numerous  fairs  to 
be  held  this  fall,  the  greatest  effort 
is 
In  all  but  a  few  cases 
made  to  amuse. 
the  agricultural  exhibits  are  overlooked 
or  made  of  minor  importance,  manufac­
turing  and  commercial  displays  rank 
about  the  same,  while  the  amusement 
features  are  secured  at  considerable  ex­
pense and  are  widely  heralded  as  the 
chief  attractions.  The  policy 
is  not 
sanctioned  by  some,  but  it  is  undoubt­
edly  best  for  the  success  of  the 
fair. 
The  farmer  and  the  general  populace, 
after  a  long  summer  of  work  and  mo­
notony,  want to be amused.  It is  pardon­
able  in  them  that  they  enjoy  most  the 
antics  of  the  comedians,  the  tricks  of 
the  magician  and  the  feats  of  the  acro­
bat  and  aerial  performers.  These  at­
tractions,  mingled  with  parades and  pa­
geants,  profuse  decorations  and  an 
abundance  of  music,  produce  a  “ carni­
val  of  fun"  that  is  a  fitting  annual jubi­
lee  and  that  spreads  afar the  reputation 
of a  city  for  hospitality  and  enterprise. 
—Chicago  Dry  Goods  Reporter.

Plenty  of Time.

“ Gertrude,”   said  the  old  gentleman 

in  an  earnest,  thoughtful  tone.

“ Yes,  father,”   replied  the  beautiful 
girl.
“ That  young  man  of  yours  who  has 
just  returned  from  the  war  is  going  to 
stay  here  some  time  now.”

“ Why,  of  course,  he 

swered  the  beautiful  girl. 
know  that. ’ ’

is,  father,”   an­
“ I  guess  I 

“ I  thought  you  didn't. 

“ Do  you?”   asked  the  old  gentleman 
in  surprise. 
I 
gathered  from  your  actions  that  you 
thought  he  was  going  back  again  in  the 
course  of  fifteen  or  twenty  minutes  and 
that 
it  was  consequentlv  necessary  to 
unload  your  entire  stock  of kisses within 
that  time. ”

Then  the  old  gentleman  looked  at  the 
beautiful  girl,  and  the  beautiful  girl 
blushed  and  said  he  was  a  mean  thing 
and  she  didn’t  care  anyway.

Doubtful  Statement.

She—Where  were  you  so  late  that  you 
couldn’t  get  home  until  after  midnight?
“ I  was  down  at  Jack  Barney's  office 
helping  him  to  make  out  some  state­
ments. ’ ’

“ Oh,  you  were,  eh?  Well,  let  me  tell 
you  this:  If  Mr.  Barney's  statements 
aren’t  any  more  reliable  than  the  one 
you  have  just  made  there  will  be  some 
tall  kicking  among  his  customers.”

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Revolutionary  Plan  of  Co-operative 

Buying.
Stroller in Grocery World.

listener. 

It  would  be  a  source  of  great  satisfac­
tion to  me  if  I  could  escape grocers with 
schemes.  There  are  lots  of  ’em,  and 
they  all  seem  to  find  in  me  a  sympa­
I’ ve  listened  to  more 
thetic 
schemes,  good,  bad  and 
indifferent, 
than  you  could  get  in  a  year's  issues  of 
the  “ Grocery  World.”

One  reason  why  I  don’t  like  to  get  up 
against  the  grocer  who  has  a  scheme 
with  millions  in  it  is  because  it  always 
irritates  me.  He's  nearly  always  a 
shiftless  fellow  who  would  much  better 
be  hustling  than  scheming. 
I’m  such 
a  hard  worker  myself  that  I  don’t  like 
to  see  anybody  else  loafing. 
I’m  hardly 
willing  to  go  to  sleep  at  nights,  I’m  so 
industrious.

Well,  to  come  to  the  point,  I  had  an­
other  scheme  unloaded  on  me 
last 
week,  and  while  it’s  hairbrained,  I  still 
consider 
it  decidedly  worth  printing. 
The  author  of  it  is p  clever fool;  clever, 
because  well  educated  and  brainy—fool, 
because  he  wastes  at  scheming  time 
that  ought  to  be  employed  pushing  bis 
business.

“ I  see  by  the  ‘ Grocery  World,’  ”   he 
said 
last  week,  “ that  you’re  going  to 
have  another  chain  of  stores  up  there— 
Peerless  Tea  Co.,  or  something 
like 
that.  They’re  going  to  start  twenty- 
five  stores. ’ ’

I  hadn't  seen  the  paper,  and  I  ex­

pressed  curiosity

“ Yes,”   he  said. 

“ How  many  stores 

has  Hunter  now—forty,  hasn’t  he?”

I  thought  he  had.
“ And  Butler  has  nearly  fifty?”   he 

asked.

“  Somewhere  thereabouts, ”   I  replied.
“ That  makes  about  115,  with 
the 
twenty-five  new  stores,”   he  said,  “ and 
there  are  a 
lot  more  of  these  chain 
stores,  too,  aren’t  there?”

“ Yes.”
“ Well,  we’ll  say  there  are  200 cheap, 
in  Philadel­
cash-cutting  chain  stores 
phia,”   this  grocer  went  on. 
“ Your 
everyday  grocer  with  one  store  can’t 
compete  with  any  of 
’em.  Now  I’ve 
got  a  scheme  by  which  the  Philadelphia 
grocers  and  others  who  have  to  meet  the 
competition  of  the  cutter  can  simply 
leave  these  cut  stores  away  behind.”  
“ Indeed?”   I  said,  politely,  but 

in­
“ There’s  money  in  your 

credulously. 
scheme  if  it  will  work.”

into  an 

“ If  it  will work?”  he repeated.  “ Cer­
tainly  it  will  work.  The  scheme  is  this: 
I’ll  take  the  retail  grocers  in  Pennsyl­
vania,  say. 
1  suppose  there  are  prob­
ably  10,000  all  tola.  Well,  I’ll  organize 
them 
incorporated  company, 
with  headquarters  at  Philadelphia,  and 
maybe  Pittsburg.  At  those  headquarters 
I’ll  have  buyers  who  will  buy  for  every 
one  of  the  members.  Say  we  get  8,000 
in  the  thing;  these  buyers  will  buy  for 
every  one.  They  will  buy  in  enormous 
quantities,  necessarily,  and  consequent­
ly  will  get  goods  very  cheap,  and  the 
members  will  get  their  goods  at  cost, 
plus  the  actual  cost  of  conducting  the 
business,  which  will  be  low,  because 
everything  will  be  done  for  cash.
«  “ Now,  don’t  you  see,”   went  on  the 
Schemer,  enthusiastically,  “ what  an  ad- 
fcntage  the  members  of  my  company 
fibuld  have?  They  would  buy  cheaper 
&an  even  the  large  jobber,  and  they 
t e ld   sell  cheaper,  too.  Hunter  and 
Uni er  are  big  buyers, but what  they  buy 
wjuld  be  a  drop  in  the  bucket compared 
what  this  incorporated  company 
^told  buy.  They’d  all  pay  cash  for 
y c h   a  chance.  The  biggest  expense 
wSuld  be  the  salaries  of  the  buyers.”
C-‘ Admit  that  you  think  you’d  about 
C la s  manager, ’ ’  I  observed.
SH e 
sheepishly. 
rather 
W e - e l , ”   he  sa.id,  “ I  think  I’d  be 
Cpable.  for  that matter. ”
^ D o   {^siAaBfcJbjections  at  all  to 
w lr   scheme? 
^ .N one  that  can't*he  overcome.”
^ W e ll,  s e e h ^ g  1 ^ 4 .   “ While 
your
SEeme  is 
in
in  s o m e ______  _
is 
respects  a
good
C h g ,  you  couldn’t  get  eight-tenths  of 
total  number  in  it,  because too many 
tied  up  with  the  jobber.
’ 
‘  '  ?r.  Why,

laughed 

I  asked.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

lots  and  lots  of  small  grocers  never have 
their accounts  squared  up  to  date.  They 
always  owe  something.  They  pay  some­
thing  along  on  account,  and  the  jobbers 
carry  them.  These  fellows  would  be 
glad  enough  to  go  in  your  scheme,  but 
how  would  they  do  it?  They  couldn’t 
unless  they  paid  up,  which they couldn’t 
do.

“ Put  it  to  yourself.”   I said. 

“ If this 
scheme  were  to  begin  next  week,  could 
you  join  it  yourself?”

He  reddened  eloquently,  so  much  so, 
in  fact,  that  I  didn’t  have  to  wait  for 
an  answer.

Just  then  the  store  boy,  carrying  a  jug 
of  molasses,  tripped  over  a  rotten  board 
in  the  floor  which  ought  to  have  been 
mended 
and 
sprawled  fiat.  The  jug  was  gathered  to 
its  fathers  with  a 
loud  squash.  You 
want  to  walk  very  gingerly  in  the  store 
of  a  schemer.

three  months  before, 

jobber, 

“ And  then  what  would  the  jobbers  be 
doing  all  this  time?”   I  went  on.  “ You 
would  have  to  get  your  supplies  from 
the  manufacturer, 
just  as  the  jobber 
It’s  a  question  whether he  could 
does. 
afford  to  sell  you. 
If  he  did  he  would 
lose  the  trade of  the  jobbers,  which  to­
gether  would  amount  to  far  more  than 
yours.  One  Philadelphia 
for 
instance,  carries  1,500  names  on  his 
books  Ten 
jobbers  would  sell  more 
than  what  your  8,000  would  buy,  and  all 
the  other  jobbers  would  be  against  you, 
too.  The  manufacturer  would  have  to 
choose  between  you,  and 
it  wouldn’t 
take  him 
long  to  see  where  his bread 
was  buttered.

“ Another  thing 

is:  who’s  going  to 
finance  this  scheme?  Are  you  going  to 
guarantee  the  responsibility  of  all  of 
your 8,000  members  who  couldn’t  pay 
cash 
they  wanted  to,  and  who 
wouldn’t  if  they  could?”
“ But—”   he  started, 

feebly,  but  I 

if 

waived  him  aside.

“ And  then  what  complications  you’d 
into  through  buying  by  m ail,”   I 
get 
said. 
“ You  couldn’t  use  salesmen,  be­
cause that  would  bring your  expenses up 
too  high,  so  that  ail  your  customers’ 
buying  would  have to be  done by  mail. 
I  can  imagine  the kicking  letters  you’d 
get  from 
little  fellows  who  hadn’t  got 
what  they  ordered.

“ I’ll  tell  you  the  sort  of  scheme  you 
want,”   I  said,  “ a  scheme  to  make  your 
business  better;  a  scheme  to  increase 
your  trade— to  give  better  satisfaction. 
If  you'll  do  that  you  won't  need  such 
schemes  as  this. ”

“ Well,  all  the  same,”   he  said,  dog­
gedly,  " I   believe  that  scheme  a  good 
thing.  Why,  every  state  could  have  an 
incorporated  company  to  take  care  of 
its  own  trade,”   he  said,  with  a  faint 
returning  flare  of  enthusiasm. 
“ Some­
thing’s  got  to  b°  done,  anyhow.  Busi­
ness 
I'm  doing 
nothing— barelv  making  a living.  What 
am  I  going  to  do—starve?”

is  going  to  the  dogs. 

I  looked  back  to  where  the  store  boy 
was 
still  sopping  up  the  molasses, 
kneeling  on  the  floor  bv  the  hole  where 
the  rotten  board  was.  I  could  have  said 
much,  but 
it's  never  a  pleasant  thing 
to  tell  an  unsuccessful  man  it’s  his  own 
fault.  So  I  left.  You  mark  my  words, 
that  grocer  will  scheme  himself  into 
bankruptcy.

Getting  Even  with  the  Landlord.
Down  at  Atlantic  City,  so  a  girl  fresh 
from  there  tells  me,  there  is  a Washing­
ton  family  the  maternal  head  of  which 
is  locally  famed  for  her  thrift.  Her 
young  son  one  day  at  dinner  declined 
the  waiter’s  offer  of  a  second dish  of  ice 
cream.

“ Take  it,”   said  the  mother.
“ I  don’t  want  it,”   said  the  boy.
“ Take 

say,”   persisted  the 

it, 

I 

mother.

“ I  don’t  want  it,”   yelled  the  boy 

in 
a  tone  that  suggested  the  prompting  of 
a  maternal  pinch.

“ You  take  that 

ice  cream,”   com­
manded  the  mother  in  a  stage  whisper. 
“ Your  father’s  paying  $15  a  week  for 
your  board,  and  I  won’t  have you taking 
only  one  dish  of  cream.  Take 
it,  I 
say.' ’

Just  when  a  man  needs bis  nerve  the 

most,  he  can’t  find  it.

Making  Money  in  Frame  and  Picture 

Business.

There  is  no  need  of  disguising  the 
purpose  for  which  we  are  doing  busi­
ness.  It  is  only  the hope of making some 
money  which  induces any  of  us  to  put 
time  and  capital  and  brains  (if  we 
have  any)  into  a  stock  of  goods.

The  hope  often  proves  elusive,  and 
the  riches  do  not  accumulate  very  fast 
in  a  great  many  cases,  but  the hope still 
encourages  us.

And,  frankly  acknowledging  our  pur­
pose,  how  are  we  to  plan  our business so 
that  we  may  tempt the  coy  dollars  out 
of  our  neighbors’  pockets  and  into  our 
own?

It  may  be  set  down  as  one  of  the 
premises  that  no  attempt  will  succeed 
which  does  not  include  the  giving of the 
full  equivalent  in  return  for  the  afore­
said  dollars.

Still,  even  if  you  have  ever  so  good  a 
dollar’s  worth  of  value, you  can not force 
the  owner of the  dollar to exchange with 
you;  and  so again  we  lay  down  the  rule 
that  you  must  offer  what  the  people 
want,  or  rather  what  they  think  they 
want.

I  have  known  dealers  who  threw  away 
the  opportunity  of  making  money  by 
refusing  to keep  what  the people wanted 
and  persistently  offering  them  some­
thing  they  didn’t  want;  and  I’ve  known 
others  who  accomplished  the  same  re­
sult  by  pretending  to  give  a  dollar’s 
worth,and  making  it  up  out  of  50 cents' 
worth  of  value and  the  balance  of  brag, 
bluster  and  big  type.

Giving  full  value  for  the  money  does 
not  mean  that  goods  should  be  sold  at 
cost  price,  but  that  the  profit  should  be 
reasonable,  the  goods  as  represented, 
and  the  price the  same  to  all.

if  your  store 

The  dealer  is  often  deterred 

from 
making  the  profit  which  be  feels  he 
should  make  by  the  fear  that  bis  com­
petitors  will  undersell  him,  and  he  will 
lose  patronage. 
It  is  well  to  remember 
that  there  are  other things besides the 
price  of  goods  which  attract  customers, 
and 
is  attractive,  stock 
full  and  well  assorted,  orders  are turned 
out  promptly,and  attention  is paid to the 
individual  characteristics  of  your  cus­
tomers  you  can  ask  a  little  more than 
competitors  do,  and  still  give  value  re­
ceived  for  your  customers’  money,  for 
these  things  are  a  part  of  your  stock, 
and  the  better  class  of  customers  are 
them. 
willing  to  pay  for 
It  takes 
some  nerve  to  put 
in  stock  the  high- 
priced  goods,  like  the  finer  pictures  or 
the  best  quality  mouldings,  but  if  judi­
ciously  done  it  will  pay. 
It  also  takes 
nerve  to  mark  your  goods  where  you 
know  they  ought  to  be  marked,  and 
in 
the  face  of  the  fierce  competition  of  the 
auction,  department,  dry  goods  and 
other  stores  to  attempt  to  get  prices 
which  will  make business  pay.

Right  here  I  want to  say  a  word  about 
studying  the  tastes  and  the  whims  of 
your  customers.  Much  has  been  said 
about  studying  the  picture  to be framed, 
with  a  view  to  suggesting  an  artistic 
combination  which  will  harmonize  with 
the  color  scheme,  and  carry  out  the  ar­
idea.  With  all  of  this  I  fully 
tist’s 
agree,  but 
important  to 
study  the  tastes  of  your  customer.  The 
frame  which  may  appeal  to  your  sense 
of  the artistic  may  not  please  your  cus­
tomer,  because  be  is  not  educated  to  it. 
In  that  case  you  had  better  strive  to 
please  his  taste,  even  at  the  sacrifice of 
the  best  effect  in  the  framing,  for  be  is 
paying  his  money  for  it and  has  a  right 
to  have  what  be  wants.

is  no  less 

it 

If  a  lady  brings  a  water  color  sketch 
to  you  which  seems  to  you  to  require  a 
wide  mat  and  narrow  frame,  do  not 
make  her  feel  that  she  is  violating  all 
the  rules  of  good  taste 
if  she  sel  cts 
something  else.  You  gain  nothing  by 
it,  and  you  run  the  risk  of  losing  her 
patronage.
We  all  like  to  feel  that  our  judgment 
is  about  right,  and  it flatters  us  to  have 
our  opinions  confirmed  by  others.
“ Tosh  Billings”   said:  “ When a  man 
comes  to  me  for advice,  I  find  out  what 
kind  of  advice  he  wants  and  then  I 
give  him  that  kind  of  advice.  This 
convinces  him  that  he  and  I  are  two  of 
the  smartest  men  living.”

I  do not mean  that a  salesman  should

go  as  far as  that,  but  I  should  not  open­
ly  oppose  my  customers’  wishes  even  if 
I  did  not approve  of  them.

As  a  rule  the  salesman's  opinion  is 
asked,  and  his  judgment  accepted,  but 
I  am  speaking  now  of  those  who  form 
the  exceptions  to  the  rule. 
I  think  this 
matter  is  one  in  which  salesmen  often 
err,  but 
it  is  a  serious  error,  because  a 
pleased  customer  is  the  best  kind  of  an 
advertisement.  Some  of  the  best  and 
most  profitable  customers  have  strong 
and  peculiar notions  and  to  please  such 
people  you  must  humor 
them.  The 
selling  of  a  stock  of  goods  of  this  kind 
at  a  profit  is  not  the  only  problem ;  the 
buying  constitutes  quite  as  difficult  a 
question  and  one  which  can  only  be 
solved  by  considering  the  ability,  tastes 
and  resources  of  the  community,  and 
even  then  must be  held  subject  to  con­
tinual  correction  as experience suggests.
Above  all,  don’t  be  afraid  to  have  the 
impression  get  out  that  you  are  making 
money,  for  “ Nothing  succeeds  like  suc­
cess.”  
Profits  Stolen  by Pilfering Customers. 
Correspondence Spectator.

____ _ 

____

I  happened  to  be  passing  through 
Washington,  Pa.,  and,  standing 
in  a 
Main  street  grocery  store  chatting  with 
the  proprietor,  noticed  a  customer  who 
had  been  purchasing  a  pound  of  sugar 
walk  out  of  the  store. 
In  the  short  dis­
tance  from  the  counter  to  the  door  she 
managed  to  abstract  a  small  cake  from 
a  box  and  an  apple  from  a  barrel,  not 
slyly,  but  openly,  pausing  to  eat  the 
cake  and  then  picking  up  the  apple, 
which  she  carried  away  with  her,  to 
feast  upon  at  her  leisure.
“ There  goes  my  profit  on  the  sugar, 
remarked  the  grocer. 
“ The  cake  and 
the  apple  cost  me  more  than  I  make  on 
a  pound  of  sugar.  Oh,  this  is  a  profit­
able  business!”

We  have  all  been 

in  grocery  stores 
often  enough  to  know  that  this  style  of 
.shoplifting  is  not  rare.  Purchasers  seem 
to think  they  have  a  proprietary  right 
to  any  merchandise  in  the  store  in  sam­
ple  lots.  Suppose  this  practice  were 
carried  on 
in  all  lines  of  trade.  The 
profit  on  the  pound  of  sugar  referred  to 
above  was  one  cent,  or  one  sixth  of 
what  it  cost  the  customer.  On  the  same 
principle  she had  just  as  much  right  to 
purchase  a  $30  silk  dress  at  a  dry  goods 
store  and  carry  off  a  $5  umbrella;  or 
a  $60  watch  at  a  jeweler’s  and  purloin  a 
$10  ring.
This  persistent  petty  thieving  has  so 
long  been  one  of  the  annoyances  to 
which  grocers are  subjected  that  it  has 
ceased  to  be,  if  it  ever  was,  regarded  as 
wrong-doing. 
I  have  never  heard  a 
merchant  attempt  to  estimate  the  per­
centage  of  loss  of  this  kind.  It  may  not 
be  much— it  certainly  is  something.

The  practice  is  no  doubt  aggravated 
and  encouraged  by  the  habit  of  many 
tradesmen  and  their  clerks  of  treating 
themselves  to  a  bite  of  this  or  that  ar­
ticle  which  they  happen  to  be  selling. 
They  pick  up  a  cracker,  or  a  prune,  or 
a  piece  of  candy,  and  enjoy  a  lunch 
themselves  while  waiting  on  you. 
In 
this  way  an  example  is  placed  before 
the  customer  to  do  likewise.  To  those 
honest  buyers,  who  do  not steal,  I might 
add,  it  is  not  pleasant  to  transact  busi­
ness  with  a  salesman  whose  mouth  is 
filled  with  food.

How  He  Sold  His  Story.

An  author  who  had  been  unsuccess­
ful  in getting  a  story  accepted,  although 
he  had  kept  it  going  for  three years,  no­
ticing  that  the  manuscript  was  badly 
worn  by  constant  transmission 
in  the 
mails,  forwarded 
it  by  express  to  the 
last  available  publication  on  his  list, 
valuing  it  at $75.

He  was  in  luck  this  time.  The  story 
was  lost  en  route,  and  no  trace"of  it 
could  be  found.
Some  time  afterward  a  friend,  who 
¡knew 
the  unfortunate  history  of  the 
story,  asked:

“ Did  you  ever  get  that  article  of 

yours  off?”

“ Just  sold 

author.

it!”   replied  the 

joyful 

“ And  how  much  did  you  get  for  it?”
It  was  bought 
“ Seventy  five  dollars. 

by  the  express  company 1”

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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I These  Be the  Leaders!

Pillsbury  Spring Wheat  Flour 
Emblem  Winter Wheat  Flour

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pastry  than  any  other  Winter Wheat  Flour  on  the  market.
Pillsbury’s  Flour  is  celebrated  the  world  over  as  the 

Leader  of  its  class.

Emblem  Flour  has  been  on  the  market  but  a  short 
time,  but the  duplicate orders  received  indicate  that  it  has 
come  to  stay.

If  you  are  not  already  handling  one  or  both  of  these 
famous  brands,  we  should  be  pleased  to  communicate  with 
you.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Clerks’  Corner.
Be  Master  of Your  Position. 

Written for tbe T r a d e s m a n .

in. 

This  lacking 

How  often  we  see  men  who  are  busi­
ness  failures  from  not  having  concen­
tration  of  purpose  sufficient  to  give 
them  proficiency  in  any  one  thing;  who 
complain  of  Fate,  when  their own  aims 
are  to  blame  for  the  condition  they  find 
themselves 
is  the 
cause  of  so  much  “ room  at  the  top”   in 
mercantile  pursuits,  where  really  good, 
efficient  help  commands  good  pay,  al­
ways  has  and  always  will.  Then  why- 
will  those  who  enter  this  field  merely 
seek  to  become  passable,  but  never  pro­
ficient  in  their  chosen  calling  of  clerk­
ship?  The  lower  rounds  in  the  ladder 
of  store  service  are  already  full  to  over- j 
flowing,  tbe  middle  rounds  pretty  well 
filled,  while  plenty  of  room  exists  “ at 
the  top, ”   to  fill  which  should  be  tbe 
aim  of  every  young  person  who  enters 
life  through  the  portals  of  clerkship, 
while  the  greatest 
“ boost"  one  can 
have  is  to  be a  master  of  his  position ; 
and,  be  that  what  it  may,  tbe  complete 
mastery  of  it  means  success  in  life.

This  sense  of  mastery  has  a  world  of 
admonishing  command  to  those  thus 
starting 
life  when  we  make  emphatic 
the  first  word  of  “ Be  master  of  youi 
position."  One  can  be  if  be  will.  Be 
a  thorough  and  complete master of what­
ever  you  select  as  your  life  work.

No  one  can  rise  to  the  sublimest 
if  he allow  set­
heights  of  attainment 
backs  or  discouragements  to  turn  him 
away  from  the  mastery  of  his  position 
into  something  that  promises  to  be more 
profitable  or  congenial, 
for  one  must 
follow  some  stated 
line  of  labor  until 
that  be  mastered,  before  he  can  com­
mand  for  his  services  the  highest  mar­
ket  price.  And  here  we  may  be  allowed 
to  cast  in  an  interjection,  that,  if  there 
are  some  positions  more  easily mastered 
than  others,  it 
is  because  tbe  persons 
mastering  them  are  better  adapted  to 
those  positions,  rather  than  that  tbe 
mastery  of  them  is  more easily attained. 
Again,  one  might  spend  years  in  com­
prehending  the  first  rudiments  of  a 
specific  position  which  another  with 
talents  adapted  to  that  end  had  readily 
mastered  in  a  short  time.

“ Be  master  of  your  position, ”   ac­
centing  the  third  word;  not  a  slave  to 
it,  allowing  it  to  have  control  over  your 
actions;  nor  yet  following exactly in  the 
groove  others  have  worn  by  following, 
but  be  original  and  master  it  in  your 
own  way,  forcing  the  world  to  recognize 
in  yours  the  right  way.

There 

is  now  before  us  the  central 
idea,  when 
thought,  tbe  predominating 
we  read  this  same  sentence  with  em­
phasis  on  the  fourth  word,  “ Be  master 
of  your  position."  Know  your  own 
business  or  calling.  Let  it  rivet  your 
entire  attention.  It  is  easy  to  be  master 
of  some  other  position  than  yours,  in 
your  mind,  while 
its  actual  mastery 
would  present  greater  difficulties  than 
your  own  had  to  overcome,  for  if  duty 
to  self  were  done  in  selecting  a  calling, 
you  chose  that  for  which  you  bad  the 
greatest  inherent  liking,  that  for  which 
your  strength  and  ability  were  best 
adapted,  and  your  environments  fitted 
you  best  to  fill.  Your  choice  having 
been  made,  go  at  it  with  a  stick-to-it- 
iveness  earnest  enough  to  convince  the 
public  you  have  gone  to  the  limit  of 
human  endurance  in  completely  master­
ing  one,  and  that  your  own  chosen  po­
sition,  when  tbe  world  must  and  will 
set 
its  seal  of  fullest  approval  on  you 
and  your  efforts.  When  this  time  comes

to any  man  be  can  look  on  himself  with 
satisfaction  and  say  with  the  approval 
of  his 
inner conscience,  “ I  am  master 
of  my  position!"
Let  us  follow 

investigation  a  step 
further  and  read  this  sentence 
in  an 
advisory  sense,  giving  the  last  word  tbe 
most  strength :  “ Be  master  of  your  po­
sition. "   Here  is  a  new  reading,  which, 
though  last,  is  greatest of  them  all ;  for, 
when  one  has  made  choice  of  that  po­
sition 
in  the  business  world  be  is  best 
adapted  to  fill,  be  should  be  so fully im­
bued  with  tbe  very  essence  of  that  call­
ing  that  every  obstacle  to  tbe  complete 
mastery  of 
it  will  be  swept  aside  like 
down  before  the  wind.  This  means 
that  one  would  have  bis  position  so 
completely 
that  no  thought 
would  be  given  it  as  a  possession.  He 
would  consider  it as  the  master does  the 
service  only  when 
man—good 
thoroughly 
in  the  master’s 
welfare.  The master keeps tbe man.  Tbe 
man  serves  the  master.  He  cares  net 
if  the  man  break  from  him,  his  money 
can  obtain  another.  Similarly,  the  mas­
ter  of  a  position  keeps  it,  giving  no 
thought  to  when  it  may  leave  him,  for 
such  a  one  knows  his  business  tilent 
will  secure  him  another,  and  that  at 
once 
if  he  can  truly  say,  “ I  am  com­
plete  master  of  this  one  thing.”

for 
interested 

in  hand 

In  first  finding  one's  true  calling  and 
then  thoroughly  mastering 
it.  rather 
than  trying  several,  will  tbe results show 
the  public  that  you  are  master  of  your 
position ;  and  only  by  this  showing  are 
tbe  best 
individual 
achieved.

to  the 

results 

One  may  know  of  many  a 

little,  and 
gain  thereby  the  notoriety  of  being  a 
“ jack  at  all  trades."  That  will  last  for 
a  day,  but  he  who  would  have  his  name 
go  down  to  futurity  as  a  matter  of  his­
tory  must  find  his  calling,  then  stick  to 
it  until  mastery  be  complete ;  nor yet 
desist,  but  still  pursue  the  fleeting,  fan­
tastic  form  called  Fortune,  on  this  sin­
gle  line,  until  the  business  world  shall 
ring  with  the  full  measure  of  yoür  in 
dividual  success.

Thomas  Edison  is  probably  tbe  great­
the  world  has  ever 
est  electrician 
known,  which  world-wide 
fame  was 
reached  by  studious  and  unremitting 
work  in  one  direction ;  and  yet, great  as 
he  is  in  his  calling,  he  is  not  master  of 
it,  simply  a  great  master  in  his  profes­
sion.  Yet his  name  will  go  down  to  the 
remotest  day  to  which  profane  history 
reaches  as  one  who  most  nearly  won  thé 
distinction  of  being  a  master of  his call­
ing ;  for,  although  not  having  won  a 
complete mastery over electrical science, 
he  stands  with  tbe  foremost  of  the great 
among  that  profession,  a perfect mastery 
of  which  could  not  be  baa because of  its 
limitations—its  dimensions  are  beyond 
comprehension  by  the  finite  mind.  His 
aims  were  high,  but  although  beyond 
bis  reach,  shall  we  say  they  were  too 
high,  or  sbali  we  attempt  to  set  them 
lower  for  him  or  ourselves?  No,  a  thou­
sand  times  No.  Let  our  aims  be  to  tbe 
very  heights  of  human  attainment,  and 
if  we  fail  in  gaining  our  ends  there  re­
mains  for  us  this  satisfying  reflection : 
We  aimed  at  an  end  we  saw,  but  could 
not  reach,  simply  because  our  humanity 
bad  not  the  resources  of  tbe  Infinite 
Mind.

Let  the  young  beginner  in  a  mercan­
tile  life  say  to  himself,  "T h e  foremost 
aim  of  my  life  shall  be  to  thoroughly 
master  whatever  special  calling  I  turn 
roy  band  to  ’ ’

Finally,  we  would  say,  enter 

into  a 
complete  co-partnership  and  fellowship 
with  your  position  the  same  as  would 
two  trusty  friends,  each  working  for  the 
other’s  welfare  and  their  mutual  good, 
knowing  that  from  such  a  union  each 
extends  to,  as  well  as  receives  from,  the 
other  benefits  that  are  permanent,  that 
will  last  forever. 

L.  A.  E l y.

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association

President.  C.  L.  W h i t n e y ,  Traverse  City;  Sec­

retary, È  A.  Stowe, Grand Rapids.

MicHgun Retail 0 racers' Association 

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

A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardwure  Association 

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

Henry C. Minnie, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, Joseph Knight;  Secretary, E.  Mares, 

221 Greenwood ave;  Treasurer, O. H.  F rink.
Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association 
Kl a p;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  Lehman.

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

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

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

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

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

t e r;  Treasurer,  L.  Pelton.

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Dablin s;  Treasurer, L. A. Gilkky.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

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

President,  T hos.  T.  Ba tes;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

Owosso  Basiaess  Men’s  Associntion 

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

bell;  Treasurer, W. E.  Collins.

Alpena Business Men’s Associntion 

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

Partridge.

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. J. Kate;  Secretary, Philip Hil be r: 

Treasurer. S. J.  Hupford.

S t Johns Business  Men’s Association. 

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

Pe r c y;  Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Perry Basiness Men’s Association 

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

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

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ZACH’S  EXPERIENCE.

How  He  Vanquished  an  Unruly  Cus­

tomer.
Written for the T r a d e s m a n .

As  time  went  by  and  Mrs.  Von  Blat- 
ter’s  health  made an overloaded stomach 
an  impossibility,  the  proprietors  of  the 
Santa  Fe  avenue  grocery  wondered  how 
long  it  was  going  to  take  Zach  to  hook 
onto  Col.  Bickerstoff.  They  were  wast­
ing  a  great  deal  of  anxiety. 
The 
Colonel  never  was  long  in  making  bis 
presence  felt,  and  the  young  clerk’s 
blue  eyes  soon  took  the  pompous  little 
soldier  all  in,  labelled  him  and  he  went 
around  for  several  days  with  his  hat  on 
one  side  of  his  head.

"Bickerstoff  another  one  of  yonr  old 

customers?"

"N ever  bad  a  better.”
"Pretty  well  off?"
"G ot  it  to  burn.”
"Always  been  that  way?”
"E ver  since  we’ve  been  here,  and 

that's  something  like  ten  years.”  

"C an ’t  help 

it.  He’s  got  to  stop  it. 
Just  as  sure  as  he  comes  in  here  again 
and  tries  that  onto  me,  he’s  going  to 
find  that  there’s  a  God  in  Israel.  After 
that,  if  you  think  best,  you  can  get  an­
other  clerk. ”

For  several  days  afterwards,  it  began 
to  look  as 
if  Zach  was  keeping  out  of 
the  way.  With  military  exactness  the 
Colonel  stepped over the threshold  of  the 
store  at  9  30  a.  m.  sharp,  when  chance 
or  calculation  found  Zach  somewhere 
else.  The  other  clerk  simply  declared 
up  and  down  that  he  "wouldn’t  wait  on 
that  man  for  double  the  wages  he  was 
getting,"  and  that  left  the  proprietors  a 
job  they  always  shirked  if  they  could. 
The  new  clerk  had given them a respite; 
but  he  was  evidently  getting  tired  of  it, 
and 
it  began  to  be  pretty  well  under­
stood  that  one  or  the  other  would  have 
to  call  the  fellow  to  account  for  it,  if 
he  didn’t  soon  come  to  time.

The  boy,  however,  kept  on 

in  the 
even  tenor  of  his  way.  He  wasn't  so 
sure  in  this  case  that  bis  method  could 
be  carried  out  with  such  promising  re­
sults  as  those  which  had  crowned  his 
efforts  with  Mrs.  Von  Blatter.  She  was 
his  best  friend.  That  was  because  she 
was  a  woman.  The  Colonel  was  a man, 
with  a  testy  temper,  and  those  who 
knew  him—the  Weigbsons,  for  instance 
— were  simply  afraid  of  him,  a  condi­
tion  of  things  which awakened  in Zach’s 
heart,  who  didn't  know  fear,  something 
strongly  akin  to  contempt.

At  last  one  Saturday  morning  when 
patience  on  the  part  of  the  proprietors 
ceased  to  be  a  virtue  and  when  every 
man  in  the  establishment  was  up  to  his 
eyebrows 
in  work,  the  Colonel  at  bis

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

in. 

left  shoulder,  bis 

worst,  or  best,  came 
In  times  of 
excitement  his  short  step  became  short­
er,  his pugnacious chin was  bent  sharply 
towards  his 
cane 
tapped  viciously  on the  floor,  the  center 
of which  he  took for his battlefield, where 
with  quick,  nervous  steps  be  described 
circle  after  circle,  making  the  atmos­
phere  dense  with  lurid  and  sulphurous 
oaths.  The  other  clerk  saw  him  and 
ran;  and  the  proprietors  happened  to 
think 
just  then  of  an  important  job  in 
the back  store.  The  Colonel  didn't  care 
for  that.  He  was  used  to  routing  the 
enemy. 
It  was  a  part  of  bis  profession 
and  when  they  disappeared  he  turned 
his  artillery  to  the  only  foe  in  sight. 
That  foe  was  Zach.

iu  the 

"What 

infernal  regions  does 
this  supernally  condemned  corner  gro­
cery  mean  by  charging  me  a  half  a  cent 
more  on  yesterday’s  bill  than  I  agreed 
to  pay?  Don’t  I  pay  my  bills  to  a  dot, 
on  time,  you  blankety  blank  blank 
clumsy-fisted  gawk?  What  do  you  mean 
by  it?"

Zach,  the  person  addressed,  at  that 
particular  moment  bad  finished  tying 
the  package  of  sugar  be  had  put  up, 
and,  in  the  interum  while  be  broke  the 
string,  looked  down  on  the  four  foot 
and  a  half  Colonel,  "hopping  about  the 
floor,  like  a  pea  on  a  hot griddle, ”   very 
much  as  one  looks  down  on  the  antics 
of  an  excited  poodle.

"You  seem  to  be  excited  this  morn­
ing.  What’s  the  matter?  A  man  of 
even  your  size  shouldn't  let  half  a  cent 
upset  him  in  that  way;  and,  besides,  if 
you  are  charged  a  whole  cent  on  your 
bill,  you  don’t.want  to  call  me  down  for 
it. 
I've  nothing  to  do  with  bills  and 
prices.  The  man  you  are  after  is  in  the 
office  there,  or  will  be.  Go  in  and  give 
it  to  him.  I  don't  want  to  listen  to  your 
nonsense. ”

"W hat’s  that,  sir?  You  don’t  want 
to  listen  to  my  nonsense,  sir? 
I’ll  have 
you  to  understand,  you  blanked  whip- 
snapper  that  I  say  what  I  please  to 
whom  I  please  and  when  I  please,  by 
dash!  You  don’t  seem  to  understand 
the  situation.  You  don’t  seem  to  know 
whom  you  are  talking  to. 
I  am  Col. 
Bickerstoff. 
I  am  a  man  with  author­
ity. 
I  say  to  this  man ‘ Go  and  he  goeth 
and  to  another come  and  he cometh, ’  by 
dash,and  the  sooner you  get that through 
your  thick  skull  the  better.”

The  Colonel  stopped  to  take  breath 
and  scowled into Zach’s face  to  see  what 
impression  he  was  making.  What  he 
saw  was  far  from  encouraging.  The 
eyes  were  mild  as  a  summer  morning 
and  the  mouth  corners  exhibited  a 
strong  tendency  to  turn  upward,  while 
the  monotonous  filling  of  paper  bags

went  industriously  on.  Couldn't  he  in­
timidate  the  chump?  Lifting  bis  cane, 
be  was  preparing  to  attack,  when  the 
same 
imperturbable  look  and  voice  re­
marked,  "Can  you swim,  Colonel?  Be­
cause 
if  you  can’t,  I  want  to  tell  you 
right  here,  if  you  come  an  inch  nearer 
with  your cane up  in that fash ion, there’ll 
be  a  drowned  Colonel  to  mourn  for  over 
to  your house.  Do  you  hear?”

The  Colonel  heard  but  he  did  n  t 
heed.  Never 
in  the  whole  fifty-five 
years  of  his  existence  had  he  known  the 
like  of  this;  and  without  a  thought  of 
fear,  he  passed  what  Zach  had  fixed  up­
on  for  the  death  line  with  shut teeth and 
determined  frown.  The  terrific  blow 
which  he  aimed  at  Zacb’s  unprotected 
bead  did  not reach its destination.  Even 
before  it  had  begun  its  downward  path 
of  destruction,  the  Colonel’s cane flashed 
through  the  doorway,  zigzaged 
its  way 
across  the  street  and  landed  in  the  gut­
ter,  and  the  Colonel,  with  each  arm 
pinioned  to  bis  body  by  the  giant  hands 
of  the  clerk,  was  lifted  into  the air  and 
held  there  suspended,  like  a baby  in  the 
hands  of  a  playful  nurse—only  the 
Colonel’s  swearing  took  the  place  of  the 
accustomed  cooing  and  his  belligerent 
legs  in  their  intense  activity  were  not 
at  all  suggestive  of  infantile  delight.

I  thought  I  could 

"T h is  is  the  way  my  teacher  took  me 
once,  when  I  was  a  kid ,”   remarked  the 
young  man,  with  unruffled  tone,  "just 
like  this. 
lick  ’er 
and  kicked  a  good  deal  livelier  than 
you  do.  She  took  me  just  as  I  have  got 
you,  and  before  I  could  guess  what  was 
coming  she  lifted  me  up  like  this  and 
brought  me  down  like so much lightning 
on  the  top  of  one  of  the  desks,like this” 
— here  the  Colonel  came  down  upon  the 
counter  with  the  force  and  speed  of  a 
pile-driver—"and  she  kept  that  thing 
a-going  until  the  hammer  of  that  driver 
was  about  used  up.  Jarred?  Well,  I 
should  say!  My  teeth  haven’t  got  over 
rattling  yet. 
I  kept  up  my  kicking, 
though,  livelier  than  you  do,  and  when 
she  saw  that  I  couldn't  be  made  to  give 
in,  she  brought  me  down  the  last  time 
into  the  water  pail—‘ to  cool  me 
plump 
off’  she  said,  confound  her! 
I’ve  won­
dered  a  good  many  times  whether  she 
planned  all  that” — the  Colonel  all  this 
time  was  vigorously  pounding  the  coun­
ter. 
" I   haven’t  any  bucket  of  water to 
cool  you  off  with,  but  here’s  this  pickle 
barrel.  There  you  are!”

Suiting  the  action  to  the  word,  the 
Colonel  came  down  the  last  time  not 
upon  the  counter,  which  began  to  show 
signs  of  giving  way  under 
its  unusual 
treatment,  but  into  the  pickle  barrel,  at 
that  time  something  over  half  full  of 
pickles  and  brine. 
It  doubled  him  up.

It  brought  his  head  and  his  shins  to­
gether,  all  three  looking  skyward;  and 
the  force  with  which  his  legs  struck  the 
chime  of the  barrel  hurt  as  well as deep­
ly  abraided  the  skin. 
It  stopped  the 
kicking,  however,  and  the  pain  and  the 
crowding  together  of  head  and  heels 
brought  every  effort  of  speech  and  ac­
tion  to  a  sudden  standstill.  The  strong 
brine  seemed  to  understand  what  was 
required  of  it  and  went  actively  to  work 
upon  the  Colonel’s  bruised and abraided 
flesh,  while  every  attempt  of  the  man  to 
free  himself  from  his  uncomfortable 
position  was  thwarted  by  the  unyielding 
grip  of  Zach,  who  held  his  victim  im­
movable.
When 

the  squirming  stopped, 

the 

master  of  the  situation  began :

"G ot  enough?”
"L et  me  out  of this or I'll brain you. ”
" Hain’t  got  enough. 
The  explosion  which  followed  was  too 
dreadful  to  record.  The  position  and 
the  brine  were  both  as  relentless  as  the 
strong-handed 
clerk  and  the  Colonel 
came  to  terms.

I’ll  wait."

" I ’ve  had  enough,  sir.  Let  me  up."
"D o  you  understand  that  we  are  to 
have  no  more  such  business  and  that 
hereafter  you  are  to  behave  like the gen­
tleman  heaven  intended you should be?’ ’

"Yes,  sir.”
Then  and  not  until  then  was  Colonel 
Bickerstoff  pulled  dripping  from 
the 
brine.  He  draw  a  deep  breath  of  relief 
as  he  gained  his  perpendicular,  rubbed 
with  a  smothered  oath bis smarting legs, 
as  the  power  of  rubbing  returned,  and 
then  without  a  word  left  the  grocery.  It 
took  him  two  days  to  regain  bis  wonted 
activity  of  mind  and  body,  and  then 
promptly  at  the  appointed  hour  he  went 
on  with  his  daily  visit  and  order.  He 
never  in  any  way  referred  to  his  misun­
derstanding,  he  never  entertained  any 
ill-will  towards  Zach,  and  once,  when 
an  offended  customer  expressed an opin­
ion  not  at  all  complimentary  to  the 
clerk,  the  Colonel  not  only  stood  up  for 
the  young  man,  but  confidentially  ad­
vised  that 
if  he  knew  what  was  good 
for  himself,  he  wouldn't  get  into a quar­
rel  with  that  fellow.

The  pickles? 

the  Weighson 
brothers concluded  they  wouldn’t  charge 
them  up  to  Zach.

No, 

R ic h a r d   M a lco lm  Str o n g.

Safety  Pins.

A  Washington 

girl  wrote  to  her 
brother,  in  camp  at  Cbickamauga,  ask­
ing  him  what  he  and  bis comrades stood 
most  in  need  of.  His  answer  was  brief 
but  full  of  meaning  to  every  volunteer 
who  has  suffered  from  the  modern  girl’s 
"D ear  sister,”   it 
brass-button  craze. 
ran,  "send  me  safety  pins. 
I ’ve  just 
met  fifteen  new  girls.”

ALL THINGS  COME TO  HIM 
WHO  HUSTLES WHILE  HE  WAITS

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It  will do 
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trade with one who is up to date.  Have you heard of

in  your  business. 

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24

A CETYLEN E  LAMPS.

Impossible  Conditions 

Imposed  by 

Fire  Underwriters.

It  is  to  be  greatly  deplored  that,  at 
the  present  stage  of  investigation  of  the 
manufacture  and  use  of  acetylene,  the 
insurance  companies  should  be so  stren­
uous  and  at  the  same time  impose  such 
impossible  conditions  as  are set forth  in 
the  set  of  rules approved  by the National 
Board  of  Fire  Underwriters,  at  its  re 
cent  annual  meeting.

It  has  been  conclusively  proved  that 
in  no  single  instance  have  any  of  these 
explosions  taken  place  at  the  bands  of 
other than  so  called  experts;  and,  more­
over,  these  explosions  have  all  been  the 
results  of  work  conducted  on  experi­
mental  bases ;  and,  in  all  but  one  in­
stance  (explosion  at  Wilmington,  Del  ), 
these  disasters  have  taken  place  as  the 
result  of  attempts  to  liquefy  the  gas  and 
to  control  it  under pressure ;  and  in each 
and  every  case  said  disasters have taken 
place  solely  through  either  carelessness 
or  gross 
ignorance  on  the  part  of  the 
operators.  Of  course,  as  is  well  known, 
acetylene  will  combine  with  air  in  cer­
tain  proportions  to  form  mixtures  which 
are  extremely  explosive  under  certain 
conditions,  but  even  these  mixtures, 
when 
intelligently  handled,  are  not 
dangerous,  and  in  properly  constructed 
apparatus  explosions  can  not  occur.

it 

in 

its  liquid  state,  when 

The  most  dangerous  form  of acetylene 
is 
it  requires  a 
pressure  of  600  pounds  per  square  inch 
to  keep 
its  normal  condition. 
These  points  were  very  strongly  brought 
out  at  the 
investigation  following  the 
explosion 
in  Jersey  City,  December  4, 
1897,  as  published  in  The  Progressive 
Age  of  May  2,  1898.

As  per  Dr.  Henry  Morton's  testimony 
at  the  above  mentioned  enquiry,  acety­
lene  in  its  native and  quiescent  stite  is 
no  more  dangerous  than  our  ordinary  il­
luminating  gas,  which,  indeed,  contains 
a  certain  amount  of  acetylene.

Some  of  the  most  distinguished  and 
expert  chemists  of  all  time  have  exper­
imented  with  this  gas,  and  such  men  as 
Berthelot,  Le  Chatelier,  Moissan,  and 
Pictet  have  all  arrived  at  the  same  con­
clusion,  and  this 
independent  of  each 
other,  that  gaseous  acetylene  at  atmos­
pheric  pressure 
is  absolutely  harmless 
as  regards  spontaneous  decomposition 
and  subsequent  explosion.

The  dangerous  qualities  are  not  de­
veloped  in  the  slightest  particular  until 
the  gas 
is  compressed  or  liquefied,  in 
which  condition,  when  subjected  to  a 
rise 
in  temperature,  it  becomes  an  ex­
ceedingly  dangerous  compound,  owing 
to  its great  liability  to  decompose.

As  regards  the  wholesale generation 
and 
liquefaction  of  acetylene,  strong 
measures  should  be  taken  to  bring  these 
operations  within  the  safety  limit,  and 
the  proposed 
legislation  on  this  point 
should  by  all  means  be adopted.

In  such  small  amounts  of  acetylene  as 
are  generated  in  a  bicycle  lamp,  or,  in 
fact, in  any  lamp  having  a  portable gen 
erator  and  operating  at  atmospheric 
pressure,  no  dangerous  conditions  can, 
under  any  circumstances,  occur.

Regarding  the  paragraph  in  the  pro­
posed 
insurance  regulations  which  re­
lates  to  the  construction  of  a  lamp,  it  is 
sufficient  to  state  that  it  is  an  utter  im­
possibility  to  so  construct  a  portable 
generator that  it  will  not  disengage  gas 
for  some  little  time after  the  water  has 
been  turned  off.  Any  lamp  that  has 
been  constructed  with  this  principle  in 
view  would  be  absolutely  worthless  as  a 
continual  light  giver,  and  at  the  same

time  would  become  a  dangerous  instru­
ment.

The  proviso  is,  in  my  opinion,  ridic­
ulous  in  its  entirety,  and, 
if  enforced, 
would  practically  mean  the  complete 
prohibition  of  the  manufacture  of  all 
kinds  of  portable  generator  lamps.

Regarding  the  regulation  restricting 
the  material  of  which  the  lamps  should 
be  constructed,  there  seems  to  be a  mis 
understanding  among  scientists  on  this 
point.

It  is  asserted  by  many  experimenters 
that  acetylene,  upon  coming  in  contact 
with  metallic  copper,  will  form  a  com­
pound  which 
is  highly  explosive  when 
heated  or  struck;  while,  on  the  other 
hand,  there  are  an  equal  number  who 
claim  the  contrary.

The  result  of  my  experiments  in  this 
direction  are  as  follows:  A  copper  tube 
4  feet 
in  length,  4  inches  in  diameter, 
was  thoroughly  pickled  and  cleaned. 
This  tube  was  filled  with  the  gas  taken 
direct  from  a  generator  without  being 
cleaned  or  purified  in  any  manner,  and 
the  tube  was  then  hermetically  sealed 
and  allowed  to 
lie  on  its  side  for  two 
months. 
It  was  then  opened,  and  the 
compound  formed  was  scraped  off  and 
dried  and  then  tested  for  explosibility, 
with  the  result  that  it  was  found  to  be 
perfectly  harmless.

My  second  experiment  was to pass  the 
gas  through,  first,  water,  then  through 
a  lead  salt  solution,  thence  through  a 
quantity  of  calcic  chloride,  in  order to 
dry  it,  and  then  through a saturated  am­
monia  solution  of  cuprous  chloride. 
When  free  acetylene  was  observed  to  be 
issuing  from  the  escape  tube of  the  last 
bottle,  the  experiment  was  taken  to  be 
concluded ;  the  precipitate  formed  was 
then  filtered  and  dried  at  100  deg.  Fah­
renheit.  This  compound  was  found  to 
be  extremely  explosive when confined.

From  these  experiments  I  draw  the 

following  conclusions:

1.  Acetylene  in  contact  with  a  me­
tallic  surface  of  either  pure  copper  or 
of any  alloy  containing copper does form 
a  compound  which  is  not  explosive  or 
at  all  dangerous.

2.  When  acetylene  gas, 

in  a  free 
state,  is brought  in  contact  with  copper 
held 
in  solution  in  an  alkaline  form,  a 
chemical  reaction  takes  place,  whereby 
the  true  acetylide  of copper  is  formed, 
which  is  explosive  in  a  dry  form  when 
confined ;  or,  in  other  words,  there  must 
be  opportunity  for cuprous oxide to form 
before  we  can  have  the  acetylide.

3  That  the  compound  formed  in  ex­
periment  No.  1  is different  in  its phys­
ical  deportment  from  that  formed  in  ex­
periment  No.  2, and although  it  appears 
to  have  the  same  chemical  construction, 
it  really  is  not  the acetylide  of  copper.
Regarding  the  last  paragraph  of  the 
recommendations,  “ It 
is  also  recom­
mended  that  the  generator  be  so  de­
signed  that  it  can  be  supplied  with  cal­
cium  carbide,  and  the  residuum  with­
drawn  without  the  escape  of gas  or  the 
admission  of  air,  in  order  to  insure  the 
prevention  of  dangerous  explosive  ad­
mixtures  of  air  with  the  gas  in  the  gen­
erator,*’  it 
in  my 
mind  bow  such  an  arrangement  can  be 
designed  without  making  a  complicated 
and  expensive  form  of  generator.

is  not  at  all  clear 

L.  J.  K r o m .

Waterbury,  Conn.

Getting  Ready

When  you  go  to  heaven,  Grandma, 

will  you  play  a  harp?’ ’
“ I  suppose  so,  dear.”
“ Then  why  don't  you  take  lessons?”

Be  sure  you  are  right,  then  go  ahead.

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WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO OET IT

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HE BWEH
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Fife Lake,  Mich., April 29,1898.
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SU CC ESSFU L  SALESMEN.

O.  C.  Gould,  Secretary  of  Post  F, 

M.  K.  of G.

O.  C.  Gould  was  horn  on  a  farm  near 
Coldwater,  Mich  ,  Sept.  17,  1858.  When 
8  years  old  the  family  removed  to  the 
village  of  Ionia,  where  they  lived  seven 
years.  They  then  moved  on  a  farm  two 
miles  north  of  town,  where  Mr.  Gould 
lived  until  he  was  21  years  old,  attend­
ing  school  part  of  the  time  at  Ionia  and 
part  of  the  time  at  the  district  school 
located  on  the  farm  of  his  father.  At 
the  age  of  19  he  engaged  in  teaching 
district  school  at  Shiloh  and  taught  five 
terms  in  the  same  district.  At  the  age 
of  21  he  began  bis  business  career  as 
salesman  for  the  local  implement  firm 
of  Hubbell  &  Cheney,  of  Ionia, 
for 
whom  he  worked  one  season.  The  next 
year be  engaged  with  the  Warder,  Bush- 
nell  &  Glessntr  Co  as  traveling  sales­
man  for  the  Champion  harvesting  ma­
chines  through  the  southern  and  west-

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights o! the Qrip.

President, John A. Hoffman, Kalamazoo; Secre­
tary, J  C.  Saunders,  Lansing;  Treasurer, C has. 
McNoutt, Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  C.  C.  Snedekkr.  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer. C, W.  A llen  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

dent Association.

Grand Counselor, J. J. Evans. Ann Arbor; Grand 
Secretary, G  S. V almork, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, W. S. W est, J ackfcon.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, G eo.  F.  Owen,  Grand 
Rapids.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President, P. G. T ruscott, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. P.  Wixson,  Marquette.
Committees  Appointed  and  Prelimi­

nary  Arrangements  Effected.

Saginaw,  E.  S.,  Oct.  io—At  a  well- 
atiended  meeting  of  Post  F,  M.  K.  of
G .  ,  held  last  Saturday  evening  at  the 
Vincent  Hot^l,  arrangements  were made 
for  the  coming  annual  meeting  by  the 
selection  of  the  following  committees:
Executive—S.  E.  Simons,Theodore S. 
Hill,  Herman  Vassold,  A.  W.  Webster, 
J.  C.  Sonnenberg,  C.  H.  Smith,  O.  C. 
Gould,  Graham  Moorehouse,  A.  E. 
Smith,  M.  S.  Brown.

Finance— S.  E.  Simons,  Fred  Fox, 
Theodore  S.  Hill,  Cbarles  Smith,  M.  V. 
Foley,  A.  R  Thaver.

Hall — Herman  Vassold,  Rudolph Otto, 
Michael  Guider,  C  M.  Edelman,  Wil­
liam  Scaroeder.

Banquet  and  Ball— Theodore  S.  Hill, 
Seth  Davis,  A.  R  Thayer,  C.  E  Corn- 
well,  Jerry  Ryan,  A  W.  Webster,  O.  D. 
Fisher,  M.  V.  Foley.

Music—A.  W.  Webster,  George  Dice, 
Graham  Moorebouse,  J,  C  Soni.ennerg, 
Frank  Holman,  Thomas  Watson

Hotel,  Carriage  and Transport  tion— 
Charles  Smith,  O.  P.  Biles,  Thomas 
Denton,  Alix  Wallace,  E.  D.  Roberts.
Decoration—J  C.  Sonnenferg,  Thos. 
Watson,  A.  W.  Webster,  W.  B.  Wiley,
H.  P.  Goppelt,  Fred  Leonard,  E.  J. 
Fitzharris,  W.  G.  Wilsterman.

Entertainment-  O.  C.  Gould,  A.  J. 
McIntyre,  John  Maitin,  Fred  Mot ley, 
Fred  Fox,  H  P.  Goppelt,  M.  V.  Foley.
Printing—Graham  Moorehouse,  Chas. 
Cornwell,  E.  H.  McPherson,  Thomas 
Downs,  George  Perry,  J  B.  Sheridan, 
P.  R.  Proctor.

Badges—A.  E.  Smith,  S  E  Simons, 
Otto  Schoop,  A.  R  Williams,  John 
Martin.

Reception—M.  S.  Brow,  Fred  Fox, 
Walter  Lewis,  M.  V.  Foley,  Rudolph 
Otto,  B  N.  Mercer,  O.  F.  Reeves,  R. 
N.  Bivley,  E  M.  Dennis,  J  P.  Sneri- 
dan,  Seth  Davis,  H  F.  Moeler.

Conference—Thomas  Downs,  C.  E. 
Cornwell,  Cbarles  Smith.  S  E  Simons, 
John  Martin,  E.  H.  McPherson.

These  committees  comprise  the  best 
material  of  the  Post,  each  member  be­
ing  chosen  on  account  of  his  particular 
fitness  for  the  duties  imposed.

The  Conference  Committee  was  in­
structed  to  confer  w.th  the  various  or­
ganizations  of  the  city,  such  as  the 
Board  of  Trade,  Jobbers  and  Manufac­
turers’,  Retail  Merchants',  ttc.,  all  of 
whom  have  a  friendly  teeling  for  the 
boys,  to  unite  in  some  kind  of a demon­
stration  to  show  their  appreciation  of 
Saginaw  being  selected  as  the  city  in 
which  to  hold  their  annual  meeting.

O.  C.  Gould,  Sec’y.

At  the  next  meeting  we  hope  to  fur­
nish  you  with  data 
concerniig  the 
progress  made  by  some  of  these  com­
mittees. 
Movements of Lake Superior Travelers.
io-  A.  T.  Van  All- 
styn,  who  has  represented Carson,  Pirie, 
Scott  &  Co.  (Chicago)  in  this  territory 
for  years,  is  about  to  open  an  up-to-date 
dry  goods  bouse  at  this  place.

Marquette,  Oct. 

Charles  Doty  has  transferred  his  serv­
ices  from  Edson,  Moore  &  Co.  (De­
troit)  to  Carson,  Pirie,  Scott  &  Co. 
Mr.  Dotv  will  cover  his  old  territory.

J.  C.  Buckland  (Cudahy Packing Co.) 
leave  this  territory  and  take  one

will 

near  Milwaukee. 
ceeds  him.

is 

A.  A.  Muldrew  is  succeeded  by  Mr. 
in  this  territory  for  Strong, 

Courtney 
Lee  &  Co.  (Detroit.)

H.  E  Gilmore  (Western  Express 
Co.)  has  gone  to  Cleveland,  associating 
himself  with  the  Ohio  Merchant.

Will  C.  Brown  (Lake  Superior  Knit­
ting  Works)  has  iust  returned  from  a 
trip  to  the  Coast,  with  a  side  trip  to  the 
gold  mining  districts  of  Idaho,  where 
he 
interested.  He  rode  so  much 
horseback  that  he  purchased  a  new  pair 
of  trousers  upon  his  return  home  and 
eats  bis  meals  standing.

L.  W.  Hoffman  offers  a  novelty  in  the 
way  of  suits  made  to  order,  lined  with 
feathers.  Lew  says  they  are  a  great 
thing  for  travelers  who  get  broke.  They 
can  fly  home.

Wm  Shea  (I.  E.  Swift  Co.)  and  a 
party  of  friends  spent  a  week  in  the 
woods.  Although  partridges were scarce, 
it  was  necessary  to  send  a  rig  to  Isb- 
peming  a  couple  of  times for the various 
kinds  of  ammunition  used.

E.  B.  Baldwin  (Marshall-Wells Hard­
ware Co.) lost a large letter full of change 
sheets  on  a  Soo  Line  train. 
It  was 
found  near  Minneapolis.  The  finder 
knew  of  the  Lake  Superior  Commercial 
Travelers’  Club,  so  mailed  the  package 
to  the  Secretary,  with 
instructions  to 
forward  to  the  proper  party.  Note  the 
benefits  of  organization !
He  Will  Do.

A  certain  wealthy  man  of  this  city 
has  set  his  nephew  up  in  business  three 
times,  but  the  young  man  lacks  some­
thing  essential  to  success  in the mercan­
tile  line,  and  failed  with  each  effort. 
When  he  came  with  the  fourth  request 
for  financial  backing, 
the  uncle  de­
murred.

“ You  must  learn  to  lean on yourself, ’ ’ 
“ I  can’t  carry  you  all  your 
he  said. 
life. 
It  would  be  an  unkindness  in  me 
to  keep  supplying  you  with  money  to 
carry  on  enterprises  that  invariably  end 
in  assignment 
I’ll  tell  you  what  I’ll 
do.  You  owe  a  good  deal  as  the  result 
of  that  last  failure.  Pitch  in  on  your 
own  book,  and  go  it  alone  until you  pay 
those  debts  off  When  you've  done  that I 
I’ll  give  you  a  check  for all they amount 
to.  Such  an  experience  would  do  you 
more  good  than  all  the  money  I  could 
give  you  now. ”

Three  months  later the nephew walked 
in  with  every  claim  receipted  in  full, 
and  the  uncle  was  delighted  as  be  gave 
the  promised  check.

“ That’s  something  like  it  now,  and  I 
warrant  you  feel  all  the  better  for  the 
bard  training.  How  did  you  manage, 
Tom?"

“ Borrowed  the  money,  uncle.’ ’
Now  the  old  gentleman 

telling 
about  that  there  is  the  making of a great 
financier  in  his  nephew.

is 

Albion  Leader:  A  jewelry  salesman 
who  traveled  from  Chicago  was  here  re­
cently  and  to  a  reporter  made  the  state­
ment  that  in  his  sixteen  years'  experi­
ence  on  the  road  he  never  saw  business 
so  stood,  or  nearly  so,  as  it  is  this  fall, 
and  his  order  book  bears  him  out 
in 
the  statement  As  he  travels  through 
Michigan,  Indiana,  Illinois,  Iowa,  Ne­
braska  and  South Dakota he gets a pretty 
good  idea  of  things  in  the Middle  West. 
When  it  is  taken  into  consideration  that 
his  line  is  luxuries  and  not  necessities, 
it  goes  to  show  that  the  people  of  these 
States  feel  as  though  they  have  money 
they  can  afford  to  spend,  and  indicates 
a  prosperous  condition  of  affairs.

is 

informed 

The  Tradesman 

that 
Paddy  Walsh  has  voluntarily  relin­
quished  his  determination  to  stand  as  a 
candidate  for  the  presidency  of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  which 
leaves  but  one  candidate  in  the  field— 
Charles  L.  Stevens,  of  Ypsilanti.  The 
action  of  Mr.  Walsh  is  creditable  alike 
to  his  head  and his heart and the Trades­
man  congratulates  him  on  his  rare  dis­
cernment.

25

his  fraters  of  the  Saginaw  Valley  and 
was  the  unanimous  choice  of  the  mem­
bers  of  Post  F  for  Secretary  at  their  last 
annual  meeting.  So  faithfully  has  he 
discharged  the  duties  of  this  office  that 
his  friends  in  the  fraternity have formed 
a  coalition  to  boom  him  for  the  position 
of  Treasurer  of  the  Michigan  Knights 
of  the  Grip  at  the  comiDg  annual  con­
vention.  His  Post  has  given  him  the 
unanimous  endorsement  of  its members, 
and  all  that  hearty  good  fellowship  can 
do 
in  an  honorable  way  to  enable  him 
to  reach  the  coveted  goal  will  be  done. 
It  is  needless  to  remark  that  Mr.  Gould 
is 
in  every  way  qualified  to  discharge 
the  duties  devolving  upon  the  office 
with  credit  to  himself  and  with  satis­
faction  to  the  organization.

China  is  a  great  big  laundry  shop,  at 
which  the  bad  boys  of  all  nations  are 
throwing  bricks,  with  the  knowledge 
that  there  is  no  one  inside  who  can  beat 
off  the  gang.
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ern  part  of  the  State.  He  held  this  po­
sition  for three  years,  when  he  was  pro­
moted  to  the  position  of  general  agent 
and  given  a  territory  in  Northern  Min­
nesota,  with  headquarters  at  St  Cloud, 
where  he 
lived  three  years.  He  was 
then  induced,  by  an  increase  of  salary, 
to  take  a  territory  in  Southern  Minne­
sota,  with  Winona  for  headquarters.  He 
lived  there  three  years,  when  he  ac­
cepted  a  position  with  Aultman,  Miller 
&  Co.  to  handle  South  Dakota  and 
manage  their  branch  bouse  at  Sioux 
Falls.  This  position  he  held  three  years 
and  then  returned  to  bis  old  house  and 
native  State  and 
located  at  Saginaw, 
handling  one-fifth  of  this  State,  of 
which  Saginaw  was  the  cet.ter.  He  has 
never  suffered  a  cut  in  his  salary  and 
always  received  his  share  of  orders from 
the trade.  He  is  a  member  of  the  fol­
lowing  societies,  in  most  of  which  be 
has  held  offices :  Royal  Arch  Chapter, 
No  31,  F.  &  A.  M.  ;  Modern Woodmen 
of  America;  United  Commercial  Trav­
elers’  Association;  Michigan  Knights of 
the  Grip.  He 
is  not  a  member  of  any 
church,  but 
is  a  regular  attendant  at 
the  Methodist  Episcopal.  He  is  not  an 
orator,  but  has  often  spoken  in  public 
as  an  entertainer.

Mr.  Gould  was  married 

in  1879  to 
Miss  Sarah  E.  Francis,  a  farmer’s 
daughter 
living  near  Ionia,  who  was 
also a  teacher  and  an  estimable  young 
lady,  and  who  has  tried  to  keep her hus­
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in  the  straight  and  narrow  path, 
having  presented  him  with  three  of  the 
finest  boys  in  the  State.

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Glycerine— Is  much  firmer,  under  the 
increased  demand  at  this  season  of  the 
year  and  on  account  of  higher  prices 
for  crude.  We  consider  glycerine  a 
good  purchase  at  the  present  low prices.
in  the  East 
and  West,  has  advanced  prices  and 
growers  are  very  firm  in  their  views.

Hops—Short  crop,  both 

Sugar  Milk— Has  been  reduced  by the 
manufacturers,  on  account  of  competi­
tion.

Balsam  Copaiba— Is  lower,  on  account 
of  large  arrivals  in  the  primary  market.
Gum  Camphor—Crude  has  been  ad­
vanced  abroad  and  refined  gum  is  very 
firm  here  and  an  advance  is  looked  for.
Linseed  O il—Has  been  advanced  ic 

per  gallon.

Turpentine— Is higher.

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Drugs—Chemicals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
Dec. 31,1898
•  Dec. 31,1899 
Dec. 31,1900
-  Dec. 31,1901
  Dec. 31,1903 

F. W. R. P n iT , Detroit 
A. C. Schumxchbb, Ann  Arbor 
Gbo. Gundbum,  Ionia  - 
L.  E.  Reynolds, St.  Joseph  - 
Hin b t  H in t, Saginaw  .
.

.— 

.

President, Gko.  G u n d r u m ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, Henry  Heim, Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.

Lansing—Not.  1 and 2.

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

in 

infusion 

is  made 

it  suspended 

Manufacture  of Ginger  Beer.
In  the  first  place,  the  ginger 

in  a 
bruised  state  and  lemon  peel  are  put  in 
a  vat  of  from  ioo to  i.ooo gallons’  ca­
pacity,  and boiling  water  is  poured upon 
it,  means  being  taken  to  agitate  it  or 
otherwise  keep 
the 
liquid.  After  a  period  of 
infusion, 
ranging  from  two  to  six  hours,  the  liq­
uid  is  drained  off  and  filtered  through 
twill  bags,  or  other  suitable  filter  (some 
makers  use  flannel,  others  felt,  and  so 
on),  through  percolators  or  hoppers con­
taining  the  sugar  and  cream  of  tartar. 
When  the 
in  large 
quantities,  it  remains  sufficiently  hot  to 
dissolve  the  sugar  and  the  cream  of 
tartar  quickly,  so  that  the  liquor  has  to 
stand  some  time  before  it is cold enough 
(70  to  80  deg.  F .)  for  the  yeast.  The 
ferment  may  then  be  added,  one  ounce 
of  German  yeast  sufficing  for  from  five 
to  ten  gallons,  according  to  the time you 
ferment  the  beer.  Six  hours  at  the  most 
should  suffice,  but 
is al­
lowed  to  act  on  a  few  gallons  of  the 
brew  for  three  hours  before  adding  to 
the  bulk,  three  hours’  fermentation  is 
sufficient. 
be 
skimmed  off  and  used  for  another  brew 
if  the  factory 
is  in  continuous  opera­
tion,  as  the  second  and  third  brewiugs 
are  better  than  the first.  The beer should 
again  be  filtered  through  twill,  and  that 
quickly,  and bottled  or  racked  in  barrels 
at  once.  Barrel  beer  is  not  usually  fer­
mented  with  yeast,  and  some  of  the 
largest  makers  do  not  use  yeast  at  all. 
The  fermenting  vats  are generally  made 
of  wood,  and  may  be  either  circular  or 
bin-shape.  The  foregoing  method 
is 
in  some  factories— for  example, 
varied 
the  ginger 
infusion  may  be  allowed  to 
stand  until  quite  cold,  and  the  almost 
clear  liquor is then mixed  with the acidi­
fied  sugar  solution,  and the lemon  added 
as  tincture.

if  the  yeast 

should 

yeast 

The 

The  Drug  Market.

Trade  continues  very  large 

in  this 
line,  showing  a  very  handsome  increase 
over  the  same  month  of  1897.  Collec­
tions  are  also  good.  There  are  few 
changes  to  note  in  prices.

Opium— Is  unchanged,  although  high­

er  in  the  primary  market.

Morphine— Is  steady  at  the  late  de­

cline.

firm.

Quinine— Is 

in  active  demand  and 

Citric  Acid— Manufacturers  reduced 
ic  per  pound  last  week,  on  ac­

price 
count  of  lack  of  demand.

Balm  Gilead  Buds— Are  scarce  and 

the  price  has  been  advanced.

Cocaine—Crude  is  scarce  and  higher 
and  an  advance  is looked for in muriate.
Cocao  Butter— Has  advanced,  on  ac­

count  of scarcity.

Beech-wood  Creosote— Has  been  ad­
vanced  ioc  per  pound  by  the  manufac­
turers.

In  a  brochure  entitled,  “ The  Calling 
of  the  Pharmacist,”   by  Prof.  Oscar 
Oldberg,  occurs  a  paragraph  with  the 
above  heading.  We  extract  the  follow­
ing  with  the  hope  that  “ the  shoe  does 
not  fit”   the  reader:

“ Let  us  see  what  kind  of  a  place  the 
average  drug  store  is,  and  what  are  the 
daily  scenes  witnessed  in  it.

“ At  the  ‘ ice-cream  soda’  counter  we 
find  a  mirthful,  noisy  company  clamor­
ing  to  be  served  by  the  waiters,  who, 
when  not  busy  serving  ice  cream,  are 
the  dispensers  of  medicines

“ Another  drug  clerk  is  handing  out 
cigars  and  cigarettes  to  some  young 
men  who  discuss  such  topics  as  usually 
interest  the 
idle  while  they  watch  the 
members  of  the  party  at  the  soda  foun­
tain.

“ One  customer  wants  to  use  the  tele­
phone;  another has  an  order  for  the  ex­
press  company,  or  an  advertisement  for 
the  daily  paper.

“ One  wants  a  postage-stamp,  and  an­

other  calls  for  the  city  directory.

“ One  clerk  is  selling  chewing-gum, 
and  another  a  pocket-knife,  a  comb,  a 
lead  pencil,  a  nickel’s  worth  of  candy, 
a  box  of  shoe-blacking,  a  brttle  of  some 
quack  nostrum,  a  baseball  club,  or  a 
bicycle.

“ Can  this  bedlam  be  a  fit  place  for 
such  responsible  and  important  work  as 
the  careful  and  accurate  dispensing  of 
medicines?

“ Signs  are  placed  everywhere  about 
the  place  announcing  a  ‘ slaughter’  in 
prices  of  various  articles,  and  pro­
claiming  the  virtues  of patent medicines 
known  to  the  druggist  to  be  shameless 
impositions.

“ Is  the  picture  overdrawn?
“ And  how 

it  possible that  phar­
macy  can  survive  amid  such  surround­
ings?

“ Stop  and  reflect  upon  it.
“ Is  not  this  condition  of  things  sure 
to  destroy  all  respect  for  both  pharmacy 
and  the  pharmacist?"

is 

Think  Before  You  Leap.

From the Pharmaceutical  Era.

There  seems to be  at  present  quite  a 
fad  among  retail  druggists  in  the  way 
of  window  displays  of patent medicines. 
There  are  several  manufacturers  of 
some  of  the  most  popularly  known  pro­
prietaries  who  offer  quite  large  money 
prizes  for  the  best  window  exhibits  of 
their  particular  products.  The  druggists 
tumble  all  over  themselves 
in  their 
eagerness  to  win  these  prizes,  and  many 
go  to an  expense  entirely  disproportion­
ate  to  the  largest  prize  they  could  hope 
possibly  to  win,  in  making  a  show  of 
Blank’s  Liver  Rejuvenator.  Of  course, 
all  this  is  a  good  thing  for  the  proprie­
tor,  but 
it  good  for  the  druggist? 
This 
is  a  question  which  will  stand  a 
vast  deal  of  argument.  The  drugigst 
helps  the  other  man  s  business  by  this 
sort  of  advertising,  and  probably  makes 
a  few  dollars  himself,  but  the  demand 
thus  created  for  this particular medicine 
is  but  temporary  and  largely  artificial. 
The  same  amount  of  time,  labor  and 
expenditure  to  advertise  his  own  busi­
ness  and  bis  own  preparations  might 
bring  the  druggist  far  more  satisfactory 
returns. 
It  is a  matter  worth  thinking 
over,  at any  rate.

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advan ced- 
Declined—

Add um
At etieum................. *  6®«
Benzoicum, German
Boraclc....................
@
29®
Carbollcum............
45®
Cltricum.................
Hvdrochlor............
m
Nitrocum...............
m
Oxallcum...............
12®
Phosphorium,  dll...
@
Salicylicum.............
6"® 65
Sulphurieum...........
1%®
Tannlcum.............. 1  25®  1 4Í
Tartar! cum..............
38® 40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
( arbonas................... 
Chloridum............  
Aniline
Black.......................  2 00® 2 25
Brown.................... 
90®  1  00
B ed......................... 
46®  50
Yellow....................  2 50® 3 00
Baccm.
Cúbeme...........po. 18
Juniperus...............
Xantnoxylum.........

4®
6®
19®
12®

Bslsamum

13® 15
6®
25® 30
50® 55
@ 2 75
15® 50
50® 55

18
12

24®
28®
11®
14®
16®

Copaiba...................
Peru........................
Terabin, Canada__
Tolutan...................
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
Cassis  ....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrlca Cerifera. po.
Prunus Virgin!.......
Quill ala,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
Ulmus.. .po. 15,  gr’d 
Bztractnm
Qlycyrrhiza Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza, po...... 
Hsmatox, 15 lb box. 
Hsmatox, I s . 
13®
Hsmatox, Vis.........  
Hsematoz, Vis.......... 

Ferru
Carbonate Preclp...
Citrate and Quinta..
Citrate Soluble.......
Ferrocy anidum Sol.
Solnt.  Chloride...... •
Sulphate, com’l ......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate,  p u re ......
Flore

12®
22®
30®

Arnica  ................... 
Anthemis...............  
........... 
Matricaria 
Folia
Barosma.................. 
23®
Cassia Acutif ol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18®
Cassia Acutifol.Alz.  25® 
Salvia officinalis, Vis
and  Vis................. 
12®
Ura Ursi................... 
3®
Qumml
® 
Acacia,  1st picked. 
Acacia,  2d  picked.. 
®
®
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
Acacia, sifted sorts.  @
Aoacia, po...............  
60®
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12®
Aloe, Cape__po. 15 
®
Aloe. Socotri.. po. 40  @
Ammoniac.............. 
55®
Assafoetida__po. 30 
25®
Benzol n u m ............  
50®
®
Catechu, Is.............. 
Catechu, Vis............  
®
Catechu, Vis............  
®
C am phors............  
38®
Bupnorblum..po.  35 
®
ual banum...............   @  l
Gamboge  po........... 
65®
Guaiacum..... po. 25
~  ®
Kino...........po. 63.u0
Mastic....................
I
Myrrh............po.  45
Opil.. .po. 65.20@5.40 3 75
Shellac....................  US
Shellac, bleached. 
_
40®
50®
Tragacanth............  
Her bo
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz.  pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg
Rue...............oz. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
riagnesia.
Calcined, Pat..........  
Carbonate, Pat........ 
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings 

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55®
20®
20®  25
35®  36

Olenin
Absinthium............   3  50® 
Amygdala, Dnlc.... 
30®  50
Amygdala, Amara .  8 00®  8 25
Anisi........................  2  00® 
Aurantl  Cortex......   2  25® 2 40
Bergamli.................   3  00® 
Ca]fputl................... 
80®  85
Caryophylli............   8.®  8>
nedar.......................  35®  66
Chenopadll.............. 
® 275
cinnamonli.............  1  60® 1  70
C iruu-lla 
...........   45®  60

3 75

2 1«
3 20

35®  50
Coninm  Mac........... 
Copaiba...................  1  15®  1  25
Cubeba...................... 
90® 
Exechthitos 
.........  1  00®  1  10
Erlgeron.................   1  0(®  1  10
Gaultherla..............   l  50®  1  60
Geranium,  ounce  ..  @ 
75
Gosslppil.Sem. gal.. 
50®  ¿0
Hedeoma..................  1  O'®  1  10
Junípera...................1  50® 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90® 2 00
Limonis...................  1  8(®  1  50
Mentha Piper. .■__   1  60® 2 20
Mentha Verid  ........  1  50®  1  60
Morrhua,  gal.........   1  ic@  1  25
Myrcia,.....................  4 00® 4 50
Olive 
75® 3 00
Plcis  Liquida.........  
io@ 
12
Plcis Liquida, gal...  @  35
5 ‘c ib » .................... 
9 @ 1  10
Rosmarini...............  @  1  oo
Rosa,  ounce..........   6 50® 8 50
Succini  ..................   40®  45
Sabina...............  
90®  1  00
Santal.......................2 50® 7 00
Sassafras................. 
55®  60
Slnapis, ess., ounce. 
®  «5
EJK1» .......................  1  70®  1  ».
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas......... 
15^   20

 

 

Potassium

“)-Carb...............  
15® 
18
laßh 
Bichromate  __ 
15
Bromide................'. 
50@  55
Carb....................... 
i2@ 
15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®  18
Cyanide..................  
35®  40
........ 2 60® 2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
Potass Nitras, opt.
Potass Nitras........... 
Prussiate 
Sulphate po

10®
ic@ 
2i®
15®

1

Radix

18®
15®

10® 
'a

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

Acouitvm...
Alths .................
Ancbusa..............
Arum po..............
Calamus............
Genti ana....... po  is
Glychrrhtza..  pv. 15 
Hydrastis Canaden 
Hydrastis Can., po 
Hellebore,Alba. po..
Inula, po.. 
m
Ipecac, po............ "   2 80® 3 (?
Iris plox —  po35®38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
a5@  30
Maranta, 
®  35
........... 
22®  25
Podophyllum, po__ 
...................   75@  1  00
£EeJ 
Rhei, cut................. 
®  1  25
Rhei. pv.
75®  1  35
35®
Spigelia.................. 
Sanguinaria,  po. 15 
Serpentaria  ...
30®40®
Senega....................
Slmilax,officinalis H
&
Smllax,  M.........
&10®
Sdllae............ .po.35
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po...........
®
7aleriana, E1 ig. po  3Ó 
Valeriana,  German.
15®
Zingiber a...............
12®
Zingiber j ............
æ@
Semen
Antsum........ po.  15
Apium  (graveleons)
13®
Bird, Is..............
4®
Carni............ po. 18
10®
Cardamon...............   I  25®  1  75
fifth 
Cor land rum............ 
jo
annabls  Sativa__ 
4®  4*
Tdonlum.............. 
75®  ,
i2
10® 
nenopodium  .......  
1  40® 1  50
Dipteri*  Odorate. 
Fcenlculum............  
® 
i0
7® 
Fcenugreek, po........ 
9
4®  4Vi
r 1u1,,.grd ....hW-SM 
........................ 05® 40
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4®  4V4
K»Pa.......................  4V4® 
5
Sinapis Albu_____ 
9® 
jq
Slnapis  Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Spiritus 

Frumenti.  W.  U. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D.  F.  R..  2 00® 2 25
Frumenti..................1  25®  1  50
Jun  peris Co . O . T ..  1  65® 2 00
Juninens Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum  N.  E ...  1  90® 2  10
Spt  V ini Gaili........  1  75® 6 50
V ni Oporto............   1  25® 2 00
Vim  Alba...............   j  25® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................. 2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............
@ 2 00 
Velvet extra  sheeps'
wool, carriage......
@  1  25
Extra yellow sheeps'
woof,  carriage__
1  00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............
®  1 00 
Hard, for slate use..
®  75
~’ellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............
1  40
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac 
.........
Ferrl Iod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smllax Officinalis...
Senega ....................
sc llla .....................

50®

.................................... 3V4® 4V4

. 

.. 

(1
4

1  00

niscellaneous 

Sclllffi Co  ................ 
Tolutan..................
Prunus vlrg........... 
Tinctures 
Aconltnm N a pel 11s R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloesand Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafoetida............
Atrope  Belladonna
Anranti  Cortex___
Benzoin......................
Benzoin Co............
Barosma.................
Cantharides  .........
Capsicum...........
Cardamon.........
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor..............
Catechu............
Cinchona...............
Cinchona Co
Cclumba 
.........
Cubeba................
Cassia  1  mtifol. 
r' “ s'  «cutifol Co
*~gl  id 18 
.. 
.
Ergot......................
Ferrl Chloridu
Gentian...........
Gentian Co.........
Guiaca..................
Guiaca amnion........
Hyoscyamus........
Iodine.... .............
Iodine, colorless....
Kino.......................
Lobelia................ * ’
Myrrh.....................
Nux Vomica......
Opil.........................
Opli, camphorated.
Opil,  deodorized....
Quassia...................
Khatany.........
Rhei.................
Sanguinarla  . 
...
Serpentarla............
Stramonium  ..
Tolu tau...............
Valerian............
Veratrum Veiide'!
Zingiber..................
^Ether, Spts. Nlt.3F  30® 
iEther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  n@
Alumen..................   2W©
Alumen.gro'd  .po. 7 
3®
A nnatto...............  
40®
Antimonl,  po..  .. 
4®
Antimon! et Potassf  40®
Antipyrln.............. 
®
@
Antlfebrin 
Argenti Nitras, oz 
®
Arsenicum...........  
10®
Balm Gilead  Bud  . 
38®  40
Bismuth  8. N.........   1  40®  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  ls 
Calcium Chlor., V4s!
Calcium Chlor.,  Ws 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici  Fructus. af.
Capslci Fructus, po.
Capsici FructusB.po 
Caryophyllus..po.  15 
Carmine, No. 40  ..
Cera Alba...........
Cera  Flava........
Coccus............
Cassia Fructus
Centrarla...............
Cetaceum........... ]
&60®
|  
Chloroform... 
_
. ”  
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  15 
Chloral Hyd C rst...  1  65®  1  90
20®
Chondrus............... 
Cincnonidine.P.A W  25® 
Cinchonldine, Germ  22®
Cocaine.................. 3 30®  3 60
Corks, list, dis.pr.et. 
70
®  35
Creosotum. .  . 
Creta............. bbl. 75 
®  2
g
® 
Creta, p re p ........ 
9®  u
Creta, precip...... 
Creta, Rubra.........  
® 
g
Crocus.................... 
18®  20
Cudbear.............. 
@  24
CupriSulph......... 5® 
6
10® 
Dextrine............... 
12
Ether Sulph............ 
75®  90
Emery, all  numbers 
® 
8
Emery, po...............   @ 
6
Ergota...........po. 40  30®  35
12®  15
Flake  White........... 
Galla........................*  @  23
Gambier.  ...............  
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper.. . .   @ 6 0
35®  60
Gelatin, French...... 
Glassware, flint, box 
70
Less than  box  ... 
60
Glue,  browu........... 
9®  12
13®  25
Glue, white........... 
Glycerina.....................15®  20
Grana  Paradis!  .... 
©  15
Humulus................. 
25®  55
®  85 
Ilydraag Chlor  Mite 
©  75
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
®  95 
®  1  10 
Hydraag Ammoniatl 
Hydraag Unguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........  
©  70
Ichthyobolla, Am...  65®  75
Indigo...................... 
75©  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................  @420
Lupulin...................  @225
Lycopodium...........  40®  45
.........  
Macis 
65®  75
Liquor A reel, et Ry-
drarglod.............   @  25
10®  12 
LiquorPotassArslnlt 
8
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
50g
Mannia. S. F ...........
M artllfli

12®
@ 3 00 
50®  55
40®

Morphia,S.P.A W...  2 40® 2 65 
Morphia,  8.N.Y.Q.&
C. Co....................  2 30® 2 55
Moschus Canton__  @  40
Myrlstica, No. 1...... 
65®  80
Nux Vomica...po.20  @ 
10
Os  Sepia................. 
15® 
ig
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D- Co....................  @  1  00
Plcis Llq. N.N. V4 gal.
doz........................ 
@200
Plcis Llq., quarts__  @  1  00
Plcis Liq., pints.  ...  @ 8 5
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80  @  50
Piper Nigra... po.  22  @ 1 8
Piper Alba  ...po.  35  @  30
Pilx  Burgun  .........   @ 
7
Plumbi  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opil  1  10®  1  20 
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
@  1  25
& P. D. Co., doz.. 
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
25®  30
Quassi®..................  
8®  10
Quinta, S. P. & W .. 
29®  31
22®  32
Quinta, S.German.. 
QuJnia, N.Y............   29®  34
Rubia Tlnctorum... 
12® 
14
SaccharumLactis pv  18®  20
Salacin.................... 3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconls... 
40®  50
Sapo.  W..................  
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10® 
12
Sapo, G....................  @ 
15
Sledlltz  Mixture__  20  @  22

ig
@ 
Slnapis.................... 
Slnapis, opt............ 
so
@ 
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.....................  
@ 3 4
Snuff,Scotch.DeVo’s  @  34
Soda Boras.............   9  @ 
11
Soda Boras, po.......   9  @ 
11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart 
2
Soda,  Carb........ 
lVi® 
. 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
5
3® 
Soda, Ash...............   3V4® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2  60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  56
Spt  Myrcia Dom...  @ ® 00
Spts. Vinl Rect. bbl.  @ 2 55
Spts. Vinl Rent. Vi bbl  @2 60
Spts. Vinl Rect.lOgal  © 2  63
Spts. Vinl Rect.  5gal  @ 2  65
Strychnia, Crystal... 
1  40®  1 45
Sulphur,  subl.........   2V£@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2j2@3V4
Tamarinds.............. 
s® 
10
Terer«nth Venice... 
28®  30
Theobroms............   <6®  48
Vanilla..................   9 00® 16 00
Zind  Sulph............  
8

Less 5c gal. cash  10 days. 

7® 

Oils
Whale, winter__
Lard,  extra......
Lard, No.  1.........

.. 
.. 

BBL. OAL.
70
70
50
60
40
45

27

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
35 
Linseed,  Dolled......   36 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
38 
Spirits Turpentine.. 

38
39
70
45

Paints  BBL.  LB
Red Venetian.........  
lfc  2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars, 
ly   2  @4 
l-g  2  @3 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
Putty, commercial..  2Vt  2V4@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2V? 2if@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
15
Vermilion, English.  70®  75
Green, Paris...........  18Vi®  22
13®  16
Green,  Peninsular.. 
Lead, Red...............   5%@ 
t u
Lead, white......... . 
5M@  flvi
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders'...  @ 3 0
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @  1  40
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

13® 

Varnishes

No.  I Turp Coach. 
1  10®  1  29
Extra  Turp............  1  60®  1  70
Coach Body............   2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Fum __  1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No. lTurp  70®  75

O ur 
New 
C igars
Imperiales

Clear Havana 

- 

-  $60

Lord  Cardigan

Best  Domestic  Cigar  on  the  Market

Regiments 
Brigades 

-

- 

- 

-

$60
$70

Order a  Sample  Box.

Hazeltine 
&  Perkins 
Drug Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

28

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

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

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

A c u a .

Absolute.

BAKINd  POWDER.
45
s  'b cans  doz..............  
85
ID  Jans  doz............... 
lb can  doz................ 150
45
75
lb cans 1 dos..............   1  00
10
85
75
lb cans per dos............2 00
35
55
90

w lb cans 8 doz..............  
H lb cans 8 dos..............  
1 
Bulk.............................. 
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers......... 
ii lb cans  per doz.........  
H lb cans per doz..........   1 
1 
ii lb cans 4 dos case......  
H lb cans 4 dos case......  
lb cans 2 dos case  .....  

Arctic.
El Parity.

Homs.

Oar Leader.

Jersey Cream.

M lb cans, 4 doz case..... - 
54 lb cans, 4 doz case......  

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

Queen Flake.

Peerless.

BATH  BRICK.

American.......................... 70
English.............................. 80

BLlUNd.

CQNSlHsn)

BROOITS.

Ö L u i i l d
40
Small, 3 doz...... ................. 
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
So. 1 Carpet........................   1  90
No. 2 Carpet........................   1  75
No. 3 Carpet.................... 
1  50
No. 4 Carpet.........................  1  15
Parlor Gem.........................  2 00
Common Whisk.................   70
Fancy Whisk.. -  ................ 
80
Warehouse...........................2 25
8s .......................................... 7
16s  .........................................8
Paraffine................... 
8
Wicklng...............................20

CANDLBS.

 
CANNED  GOODS, 
rianltowoc Peas.

  @  1054

Lakeside Marrowfat.........  
95
Lakeside E.  J ....................  1  15
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  1 20 
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted.  1  45 
Extra Sifted Early Jnne....l 75 
CATSUP.
pints  .............2 00
Columbia, 
...........1  25
Colombia, 54 Pints 
CHEESE
Acme......................  ©  10
Amboy................  
Butternut...............   ©  10
Carson City.............  @  10
Emblem.............  
  ©  10
Gem.........................  ©  11
Ideal.......................   ©  io
Jersey  ....................   ©  10H
Lenawee.................  ©  io
Riverside.................  ©  1054
Brick.......................  ©  12
Edam.......................  ©  70
Leiden....................   ©  17
Limburger..............  ©  13
Pineapple.................50  ©  75
Sap  Sago.................  ©  17
Bulk 
6
Red 
7

.............................  
CHOCOLATE.

Chicory.

Walter Baker 4k Co.’s.

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

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dos........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  dos........1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  dos........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos........1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  dos.............  80
Jute. 7* n.  oe*  dn«„. 
.......  96
COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags.......................  
Less quantity................. 
Pound  packages............  
CRBAn  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk in sacks..........................29

254
3
4

C O FFEE .

Green.
Rio.

20

Santos.

Mexican  and Guatemala.

F air.......................................... »
Good....................................... 10
Prime......................................11
Golden  ...................................12
Peaberry  .................. 
13
Fair  ....................................... 12
Good  ......................................13
Prim e......................................14
Peaberry  ................................15
Fair  ....................................... 15
Good  ......................................16
Fancy 
...................................17
Maracaibo.
Prim e......... ............................ 19
Milled......................................20
Interior...................................19
Private  Growth...................... 20
Mandehllng............................ 21
Im itation................................20
Arabian  ................................. 22
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue.....................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha— 29
Wells’ Mocha and Java---- 24
Wells’ Perfection  Java..... 24
Sancaibo................  ...........21
Breakfast B lend.............   18
Valley City Maracaibo.......1854
Ideal  Blend........................14
Leader Blend.....................12

Roasted.

Mocha.

Java.

00
25

Package.

for 

Extract.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  vour  shipping 
point, givtng you credit  on  the 
invoice 
the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also 5ic  a 
pound.  Jn  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   10 50
Jersey.............................   10 50
nrl^ugblln’z  XXYX.
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail  all orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 54 grosB...... 
76
Felix 54 gross  ...............  
1  if
Hummel's foil 54 gross  .. 
85
Hummel’s tin V4  gross  . 
14?
CLOTHES PINS.
6 gross boxes.......................   40
4 dos in case.
Gail Borden  Eagle.............6 75
Crown......................................6 25
Daisy....................................... 5 75
Champion  ..................  
Magnolia 
 
............  
Challenge............... 
Dime 

4  50
  4 25
8 35
................................ 8 35
Tradesman Grade.

CONDENSED  M ILK.

COUPON  BOOKS.

Superior Grade.

Economic Grade.

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

denomination from 810 down.

Coupon Pass Books,

 

Universal Grade.

Apples.

Credit Checks.

California Pratts.

50 books, any denom....  150 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom.... 11 50
1,000  books, any denom_20 00
500, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.......................  
75
DRIED FRUITS—DOriBSTIC 
Sundried.......................   ©
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  © 
Apricots.....................   ©8t4
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................  @  7H
Peaches........................ 614©  ?V4
Pears..........................   8  ©  ?K
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunneiles..................
Raspberries................
100-120 25 lb boxes.........   ©
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   ©  5
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  ©
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........   ©
60-70 25 lb boxes.........   © 5R
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........   © 6*
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  © 9
30-40 25 lb boxes.........  ©
M cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Pranas.

Raisins.

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

1  40

314 
414 

FOREIGN.
Currants.

pM|a

Raisins.

Patras bbls..............................© 614
Vostlzzas 50 lb cases........ ©  6f4
Cleaned, bulk  ................. ©  714
Cleaned, packages........... © 744
Citron American 1Ò lb bx  ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©12 
Orange American 101b bx  ©12 
Ondnra 28 lb boxes......  ©
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crow n........  ©
Sultana  3 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 4 Crown..........  ©
R C ro w n ...........   ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........  ©
Sultana package.........   ©
FARINACEOUS  OOODS.
241 lb.  packages..............1  50
Bulk, per 100 lbs..............3 60
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Palina.

Grits.

Peas.

Beans.

3R
I  10

Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packages..................1 80
100 lb. kegs.......................... 2 70
200 lb. barrels......................5 10
Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 501b.  drums..........1  00
Dried Lima  .......................  
Medium Hand Picked__ 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb.  box___  60
Imported,  25 lb. box........ 2 50
Common...........................  1 90
Chester............................  2 25
Em pire............................  3 00
Green,  bu...........................  90
Split,  per lb........................  
Rolled Avena,  bbl.........4 00
Monarch,  bbl......................3 50
Monarch,  14  bbl.................1 88
Monarch, 90 lb sacks.........1  75
Quaker, cases......................3 20
Huron, cases........................1 75
German...............................  4
East  India..........................  314
Flake.................................. 
3*
Pearl..................................  
  3%
Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkges —  
5
Cracked, balk.....................  
24 2 lb packages.................. 2 50

Rolled  Oats.

Tapioca.

Sago.

W h e a t.

244

314

Salt  Fish.

Cod.

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

Herring.

Holland white hoops, bbl.  S 00 
Holland white hoop 44bbl  4 50
Holland,  14  bbl................  2 60
Holland white hoop, keg. 
60
Holland white hoop mens 
70
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  2 75
Round  40 lbs...................  1  30
Scaled...............................  
14

nackerel.

Mess 100 lbs......................  15  00
Mess  40 lbs.  ...................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  66
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  35
No. 1100 lbs......................  13 25
No. 1  40 lbs......................  5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1  48
No. 1 
8 lbs.....................  120
No. 2 100 lbs......................  8 50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3 70
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  00
No. 2 
83

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

Trout.

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

Whlteflsh.

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs...........  6 65 
2 00
40 lbs  .........   3 00 
1  10
10 lbs........... 
81 
35
8 lbs........... 
68 
31
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Jennings*.

D.O., Vanilla
2 07,.......1  20
3oz. ......1  50
4 oz..  ...2  00
60Z.......3 00
No. 8  4 00
No. 10.  .6 00
No. 2T.1 25
No. 3T.2 00
No 4 T.2 40

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

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

Lem Van.
1 20
1 »0
2 00
2 25

Sonders*.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

Best  In  the  world  for 
money.

HBRB8.

INDIGO.

Hops....................................  15

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

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

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

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Engle Duck—Dupont’s.

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

JBLLY.

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

LYB.

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

LICORICE.

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

MINCE MBAT.

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

nATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur...................... 1 85
Anchor Parlor.....................1 70
No. 2  Home......................... 1  10
Export  Parlor.....................4 00

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

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

Half-barrels 2c extra.
MU5TARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay. No.  216.................. ...  1 70
6R
Clay, T. D. full connt—
Cob, No. 8.......................... 
85

P O T A SH .

RICE.

Small.

Domestic.

Babbitt’s..............................4 00
Penna Salt  Co.’s ............  
8 00

Barrels, 1,200 connt...........  4  50
Half bbls, 600 count...........  2 75

Barrels, 2,400 count.........   5 60
Half bbls  1,200 count........  3 25

Carolina head....................   644
Carolina  No. 1  .................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................  344

48 cans In case.

PICKLES.
riedlnm.

50DI0 “

Packed 60 lbs. in  box.

SALERATUS.

Imported.
Japan,  No. 1 ......... 
644© 6
Japan,  No. 2 
4v. @ 5
Java, fancy  bead........5  © 5%
Java, No. 1 ..............  6  ©
T ab le..........................  @

Chnrch’s .............................8 SC
Deland’s .............................3  15
Dwight’s .............................3 30
Taylor’s .............................. 8 00

* 3-15

SAL SODA.

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

Scotch, in bladders.............  a?
Maccaboy, in jars................  35
French Rappee, in  jars......   18

SNUPP.

SEEDS.

A nise.............................. 
9
Canary, Smyrna..................  
Caraway..........................  
8
Cardamon,  Malabar  ........  60
Celery.................................  11
Hemp,  Russian.................  
Mixed  Bird........................ 
Mustard,  white................ 
5
Poppy  ..............................  10
Rape...................................  
Cattle Bone........................  20

344

314
4»

444

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

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

Common Grades.

100 3-lb sacks............................. 1 90
60 5-lb sacks............................. 1 75
2810-lb sacks........................... 1 60

Worcester.

lb. cartons...................8 25
50  4 
115  2141b. sacks........................4 00
lb. sacks...................... 3 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks...................... 3 50
30 10 
lb. sacks.......................8 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk In barrels.........................2 50

Warsaw.

56-lb dairy In drill bags......   30
28-lb dairy in drill b ag s__   15

Ashton.

56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 

Higgins.

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks...  nr- 

Solar Rock.

56-lb  sacks................................0

Common.

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

SOAP.  .

c z s 3 sm

Single box............................ 2 75
5 box lots, delivered.......... 2 70
10 box lots, delivered..........2 65
JUS.  8.  KIRK  S CO.'S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.................................... 2 75
Cabinet.................................2 80
Savon....................................2 50
White Russian.....................2 35
White Cloud,  laundry........6  25
White Cloud,  toilet.............3 50
Dusky Diamond. 50 6 oz__2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00
Blue India, 100 14 lb.............3 00
Kirkollne............................. 3 50
Eos.......................................2 50
SCHULfESOAPCO/S
Clydesdale, 100 cakes, 75 lbs........2  75
Ro-Tai, 100 cakes, 021-2 lbs___ 2  00
family,  75 cakes,  75 lbs............2  50
German Mottled, (0 cakee, 00 lbs..  1  75 
Cocoa Castilo, 18 lbs., ent 1-4 & 1-2..1  80 

Chipped  Soap  for Lasndriei. 

Allen B. Wrtsley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  . .2 75 
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars....3 75
Uno, 100 44-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 10010-oz.  bare............ 2 06

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

Scouring.

SODA.

Boxes  .................................5 >4
Kegs, English....................  4k

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

. 

SPICES.
Who!« SUM.
Allspice  ................. 
13
Cassia, China In mats  ........la
Cassia, Batavia in bond__ 25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........ 32
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zanzibar..................12
Mace,  Batavia  ...................55
Nutmegs, fancy...................0u
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2...................45
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .11 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .12
Pepper,  shot........................12
Allspice 
........................... i5
................3j
Cassia, Batavia 
Cassia,  Saigon 
................40
Cloves, Zanzibar..................i4
Ginger,  A frican................ to
Ginger,  Cocnin  ..................IS
Ginger,  Jamaica  ................23
Mace,  Batavia.....................t'5
Mustard  ........................12@18
Nutmegs,...................... 40t®r0
Pepper, Sing , black............12
Pepper, Sing., white........... 20
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage. 
15

Pure Ground In Balk.

 

SYRUPS
Corn.

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

Pure Cano.
 

Klngsford’a  Corn.

40 1-lb packages...................  6
20 1 lb packages.....................814

Klngsford’s Silver  Gloss.

401-lb packages.....................6M
8-lb boxes.......................... 7

Diamond.

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

Common  Corn.

201 lb. packages..................5
40 1 lb. packages..................  454

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages......................  4M
3-lb  packages......................  4M
6-lb  packages.....................   454
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3M
Barrels  ...........................  

3

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUOAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  yon 
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 or the barrel.
Domino............................. .5 25
Cut  Loaf............................ 5  50
Crushed..............................5  50
Powdered  .......................... 5 13
XXXX  Powdered.............. 5  ¿5
Cubes.................................5  13
Granulated in bbls.............5  00
Granulated in  bags........... 5  0 >
Fine Granulated................5  00
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5  13
Extra Coarse Granulated... 5 13
Mould  A.............................5  25
Diamond  Confec.  A__
.5 10 
Confec. Standard A___
4 88 
No.  1............................
.4  63 
No  2............................
.4  f3 
No.
.4  63 
No.
.4 56 
No.
.4 50 
No.
.4 44 
No.
.4 38 
No.
.4  n
No.
4 25
No.  10...................................4 19
No.  11............................  ...4 06
No.  12................. 
4 00
No.  13.................................   3 94
No.  14...................................3 88
No.  15 
..............................3b8
No.  16.................................   3 88

______  

 

 

 

 

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.

S. C.  W.

.33 00

Rube Bros. Co. *s Brands.

Double Eag'es. 6 •=izes.855'??70 00 
Gen. Maceo,5sizes....  55@7U 00
Mr. Thomas...............  
35 uo
Cuban Hand Made.... 
35 00
Crown  Five...............  
35 00
35 00
Sir  William................ 
35 uo
Club Five................... 
35 00
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 
Little Peggy.............. 
35  00
Signal  Five...............  
35 to
Knights of Pythias 
 
35 00
Key West Perfects, 2 sz 55 @60 00

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

VINEGAR.

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

WICKING.

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

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co 

quotes as follows:
Batter.

Seymour XXX...................  5^
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6M
Family XXX  ................. 
55?
Salted XXX  ..............
New  York XX X...... ..............„2
Vl’nl varino 
. i*
Wolverine 
Boston___
......................  TM
3mda.
Soda  XXX.........................  6w
Soda XXX, 3 lb carton__  6M
Soda,  City 
......................  8
Long Island  Wafers.........   ii
L.  I. Wafers,  1 lb carton  ..  12 
Zephyrette...........................jo

Oyster.

Saltine Wafer....................  5^
SaltineWafer, 1 lb  carton,
Farina Oy-ter....................  53?
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6m

SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.

Animals............................  jou
Bent’s Water.................. . .  15
Cocoanut Taffy  ............   ’  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   lu
Coffee Cake, Iced..............  10
Cracknells.........................  15^4
Cubans  .......................
Frosted  Cream..................   9
Ginger Gem s....................  8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  7%
Graham Crackers  ...........  g
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials.............. 
........  8
Jumoles,  Honey...m.......   1154
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......  16
Marshmallow  Walnuts...  16
Mich. Frosted Honey__  X2M
Molasses  Cakes.................  8
Newton.............................   12
Nlc Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8M
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......   8
Sears’ Lunch......................  7)4
Sugar  Cake.......................  8
Sugar  Squares................. 
9
Vanilla  Wafers...............   14
Sultanas................... 

  12%

 

____ Oils._____

Barrels.

Eocene  ..  .................  @11*4
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @ 9*4
W W Michigan...........  @9
Diamond White.........  @ 8
D., S. Gas....................  @ 9
Deo. N aptha..............  @ 7
Cylinder....................25  @34
Engine........ 
...........11  @21
Ii**rV, wlfitA1* 
^   «

Candies.
Stick Candy.

bbls. palls
Standard.................  6M@ 7
Standard H.  H........ 
6*4® 7
Standard Twist......   6  ® 8
@ 8J4
Cut Loaf................. 
cases
Jumbo, 32 lb  ..........  
@ 6*4
® 8*4
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.........  

Fancy—in Bulk.

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

@ 6
@ 6*4
@ 7
® 7*4
® 7*4
@ 8*4
® 8*4
@  8*4
@  8
@  8*4
@ 8*4
@10
©12

@ 8*4
@ 9
@14
@11
@ 6
@8
9
@9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops.........  
@50
§ 5 i
Sour  Drops............  
@60
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
Chocolate Drops  ... 
@75
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
Gum  Drops............  
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
@50
Lozenges,  plain.... 
@50
Lozenges, printed.. 
Imperials...............  
jp o
@5g
Mottoes................... 
Cream Bar............  
@50
Molasses B a r.........  
@an
Hand Made Creams.  80  @1  00
Plain  Creams.........   60  @90
Decorated Creams.. 
@90
String Rock............  
@eo
Burnt Almonds......125
Wlntergreen Berries 
@60
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes............ . 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb’.
•w« e8......   -........ 
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  ............

**35
@50

Fruits.

Medium  bunches...l  00 
Large bunches........1  50

@1  25 
@1  75

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Oranges.

Late Valencias  ...

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

Figs.

Californias.............  
Choice, 10lb boxes.. 
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............  
Fancy, 121b  boxes.. 
Imperial Mikados, 18
Id Doxes...............  
Pulled, 6 lb boxes... 
Naturals,  in  bags... 
Dates.
Fards in 10 lb  boxes 
Fards  In 60 ib cases
Persians, G. M’s......
lb cases, new........
Sairs,  601b cases....

@3 75

@6 00 
©@7 00 
©
©

@x4
@ 
@  i6
@  10 
@
@ 
@ 7

© 8 
©  6 
© 5 
@ 6 
© 4M

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @15
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled..........   @13
Brazils new................  @  8*4
Filberts  ....................  @11
Walnuts, Grenobles ..  @14
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @i2
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................  @
Table Nuts,  fancy__  @11
Table Nuts,  choice...  @10
Pecans, Med.........  ...  @8
Pecans, Ex. Large__  @10
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bn.,
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks 

Ohio, new...............   @1  60
------
@3 50

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted......... .........
Choice, H. P.t Extras. 
Choice. H. P„  Extras, 
KnwtHi  ...............

@ 7
@ 7 
© 4*4
614

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

Wheat.

61

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

Local Brands.

Patents............................. 4 00
Second  Patent..................   3 50
Straight..........................   3 30
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, *4s.......................3 50
Diamond, Ms.......................3 so
Diamond, Ms.......................3 50
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  *4s........................  3 50
Quaker, Ms........................  3 50
Quaker, *4s........................   3 50

Spring  Wheat  Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Plllsbury’s  Best *4s...........  4  10
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 00
Plllsbury’s Best *4s...........  3 90
Plllsbnry’s Best *4s paper .  3  80 
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  3 90 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barreled Pork.
Mess  ............................ 
10 00
Back  .................. n  oo@
Clear back............. 11  ou@ll  25
Shortcut...................... 
10 75
g'K..................................   14 50
Family  .......................... 
lu 50
Dry Salt  Meats.
gw
Bellies...................... 
Briskets  ....................... 6
Extra  shorts..................  
6
Smoked  Cleats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  __ 
8V
8y,
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
Hams, 161b  average......  
8
7¥
Hams, 20 lb  average
-  —_—o—..... 
iju
Ham dried b e e f.........  
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
6m
^ a j ................ 7M@»M
California bams......  
51c
Boneless hams..........HI 
9
Cooked ham..................io@12*4

Lards.  In Tierces.

Compound.............. 
tv
Kettle................................... ;; 6
55 lb Tubs..........advance
80 lb Tubs..........advance
§9 lh T ins..........advance
® }b Rails..........advance
10 lb Pails..........advance
i!8!!8..........advance
o 
a lb Pails..........advance

Tripe.

Pigs’ Feet.

5M 
6*4 
7*4 
6*4 
6 
9
6*4

Sausages.
Bologna.................
Liver.................I... .II"
Frankfort........
P ork................. 
........
Blood  ..............I.’II.'IIT
Tongue...............IIII III
Head  cheese....... II
_ 
Beef.
Extra  Mess.............. 
10 25
Boneless  .....................Ills 50
RumP .................................. 14 50
Kits. 15 lbs.................... 
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs.................I  1 35
*4  bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 50
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
M  bbls, 40 lbs.............. 
*4  bbls. 80 lbs......................  2 25
P ork............................... 
Beef  rounds......... . . . . . . 
Beef  middles........ 
S teep .........................HI. 
Butterine.
Rolls,  dairy...............  
Solid, dairy  ................ I. 
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery............  
Canned Meats.
Corned  beef,  2 1b... 
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,  Ms__ 
90
Potted  tongue Ms...... II  50
Potted  tongue Ms.........  
go

10
9^
14
13^4
2 ?5

13
3%
j(j
60

Casings.

70
1  25

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass......................  6M@ 8
Fore quarters............   5  © 6M
Hind  quarters...........  7  @9
Loins  No.  3...............   9  @12
gibs--.......................  7 @12
g?ung 8 ......................  7M@
Piates  .......................  3M® 4*

Pork.

Dressed......................  ®
L oins.........................  @ 7»
Shoulders...................  @  e
Leaf Lard..................   6  @

Carcass..................... 6  @ 7
Spring Lambs............ 8  @ 9

Mutton

Veal.

7  ©  8M
Carcass 
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:

Hides.

Green No.  1................  ® 8M
Green No. 2................   © 7M
Cured No. 1................   © 9M
Cured No. 2................  © 8M
Calfskins,  green No. 1  @9
Calfskins, green No. 2  @  7M
Calfskins, cured No. 1  @10*4
Calfskins, cured No. 2  @9

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

Pelts.

Tallow.

Wool.

No. 1., 
No. 2.

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

©18
©23
@13

Meal.

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Dnluth Imperial.  Ms...........4  10
Duluth Imperial. Ms...........4 00
Duluth Imperial. Ms.........   3 90
Lemon *  Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Ms.......................  4 *o
Gold Medal M».........................4 00
Gold Medal Ms.........................3 90
Parisian, Ms......................   4 10
Parisian, Ms...........................  4 0"
Parisian. Ms...........................   3 90
Ceresota, Ms.....................  4  10
Ceresota, Ms.................. 
4 00
Ceresota, Ms......................  3 90
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Laurel, Ms.........................  4  10
Laurel, Ms  .......................  4 Oo
Laurel, *4s.........................  39-
Bolted...............................  
j 90
Granulated......... I!  ... 111  2  10
St. Car Feed, screened  ...  16  CO
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........15 50
Unbolted Com Meal  ... 
1450
Winter Wheat  Bran...  .  Il  00 
Winter Wheat Middlings. .13 00
Screenings......................... 54  qq
Car  lots.......................... 
33
Less than  car lots 11...  11  35
Car  lots.......................... 
Carlots, clipped_1*1 .III1.  28
Less than  car lots.  . .. .. ..  30
No. 1 Timothy carlots......  8 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  ...  9 00
Fish and  Oysters

Feed and Mlllstuffs.

Oats.

Corn.

Hay.

26

Fresh Pish.
Per lb. 
Whitefish................
©  8 
T rout...................I.'  @
® 
8 
Black Bass..............  8  @
&  10 
Halibut...................  @
©  15 
Ciscoes or Herring..  @
©  4
Bluefish..................   @
©  10 @  16 
Live Lobster.........   @
a
Boiled Lobster........ 
®  18 
Cod 
......................  @
10 8 
Haddock.................  @
8 
No.  1  Pickerel........
Pike............................   @
7 
Perch..........................  @
4
Smoked White........  @
Red Snapper...........  @
10
12
Col  River  Salmon..  @
Mackerel 
@
18
F. H. Counts...........  @
35
28
F. J  D. Selects........  @
25
Selects....................... 
a
F. J. D.  Standards.  .
22
Anchors....................   @
20
@
Standards.................. 
18
gal.
„_
Counts...................................   1 75
X  Selects........................ 
1  ¿5
Selects.....................................  1 35
Anchor Standards..................  1 10
Standards..............................   1 ¿0
Clams.................................  x  25
Oysters, per  ICO......... 1  25@i  50
Clams,  per  100.........   @1  25

Oysters in Cans.

Shell Goods.

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

Bulk. 

29

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON 8T0NBWARB. 

Batters.

Jugs.

Churns.

Milk pans.

Stewpena.

Fruit Jars.

Tomato Jugs.

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

M gal., per doz...................  40
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5
8 gal., each.......................   40
10 gal., each.......................   50
12 gal.,  each.......................  60
15 gal. meat-tnbs, each.... 1  10 
20gal. meat-tubs,each.... 1  50 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 2 25 
30 gal. meat-tnbs, each... .2 70 
2 to 6 gal., per gal............  
5
Churn Dashers, per doz...  86 
Pint....................................  4  50
Quart.................................   4 75
54  gal  .................................  e 50
Covers.................................   2 00
Rubbers.............................  25
M gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5 
M gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5M 
M gal. fireproof, ball, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, doz.l  10 
M gal., per doz.................   40
M gal., per doz..................  42
1 to 5 gal., per gal.............  &m
M gal., per doz.................  42
1 gal., each......................  5m
Corks for M gal., per do«..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covert.
M gal., stone cover, dos...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 
5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
  35
No. 0 Sun............................ 
No.  1  Sun.............................  40
No.  2 Son..........................  
58
No. 3 Sun............................   1 00
Tubular................................ 
50
Security, No. 1.................1 
60
Security, No. 2.....................  
go
Nutmeg  ............................... 
50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds. 
„  
Par box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun...........................   1 32
No.  1  Sun.........................I  x  43
No.  2 Sun.........................I  2 18
No. 0 Sun............................   x 50
No. 1 Sun............................   x 60
No. 2 Sun............................   2 45
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  Snn,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

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

LAMP  BURNBRS.

First  Quality.

Sealing Wax.

top,
top,
top,

Common

80

Blectrlc.

La  Bastle.

top,
wrapped and  labeled__  2 55
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled  ...  8 75 
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
No.  1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................3 70
No.  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled.........................  4
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lames............  
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ........  ...................... 
9
No. 2 Snn,  plain  bnlb,  per
doz  ................................   i  15
No. 1 Crimp, per doz........  1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. 
.  .  1  60 
Rochester.
No. 1, Lime  (65c doz).  ...  3 50 
No. 2, Lime  (70c do*).. 
..  4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  do*)........  4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  ........ 4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80o dos)......  4 40
Dot.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv Iron with spont.  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  fancet 4  67
5 gal Tilting cans..............  7 25
5 gal galv Iron Naoef as....  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7  80 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rule................X0  50
5 gal Home Rule............... 12 00
5 gal  Pirate  King..............  o so
No.  0Tubular side lift....  4 00
No.  1 B  Tubular...... .  ...  6 2b
No. 13 Tubular Dash. 
....  6 60 
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 0C
No.  3 Street  Lam p.........  8 75
LANTERN GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 dos.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 dos.
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5 dos.
No. 0 Tubular,  ball’s  eye, 

each,box 10cents..  .....  45
each, box 15 cents.........   45
each, bbl 35....................   33
cases 1 dos. each ...» « ..  1 26

Pump  Cons.

LANTERNS.

OIL CANS. 

‘ 3 0

Hardware

A d 

The  Problem  of  Heating  the  Store.
important  subject  which  every 
merchant  must  soon  take  up  for  consid­
eration  is  the  best  means  by  which  the 
store  may  be  heated  Everything  de­
pends, of  course, on  the  amount  of  space 
which  is  to  be  kept  warm—for  warm 
it 
if  customers  are  expected  to 
must  be 
frequent  the  place;  otherwise 
it  better 
be  shut  up. 
If  the  store  is  small  a 
good  heating  stove  will  answer  the  pur­
pose quite  well.  But  as  it  frequently 
happens  a  large  floor  space  is  required, 
in  buildings  having  two  or  more 
and 
stories 
it  has  been  found  by  experi­
menting  that  furnaces  are  most  satisfac­
tory  in  heating  the different departments 
equally  well,  while  at  the  same  time 
they  are  more  economical  and  require 
less  care. 
It  has  not  been  many  years 
since  furnaces  were  regarded  as  great 
luxuries,  but their  price  has  gradually 
been  reduced,  owing  to  competition  and 
improved  facilities  for making them.  In 
the  store,  too,  a  great  deal  of  dust  and 
is  raised  when  the  fire  is  attended 
soot 
to,  unless 
is  carefully  done  or  hard 
coal 
is  used  in  the  stoves.  On  cold  or 
rainy  days  customers  can  warm  them­
selves  or  dry  their  garments  more  sat­
isfactorily  over  registers 
in  the  floor 
than  they  could  by  a  stove.  For  small 
is  preferred  to  live 
buildings  hot  air 
less 
steam  or  hot  water,  as 
attention,  and  no  skill 
is  necessary  to 
manipulate  it  as  in  the  steam  heating. 
Whatever  method  of  heating  is  used, 
however,  should  be  sufficiently  large, for 
a  small  furnace  or  heater  running  up  to 
its  full  capacity  consumes  more  fuel 
than  a 
larger  one  giving  out  the  same 
amount  of  heat.  Makers  of  furnaces  re’ 
spectively  contend  that  the  steel  fur­
nace  is  preferable  to  the  iron  and  vice 
versa. 
It  is  not  purposed  to  go  deeply 
into  the  subject  here,  as  the  merchant 
can  tell which  is  more desirable by mak­
ing  comparisons  between  them.

it  requires 

it 

Who  Invented  the  Bicycle?

it 

The Pope, a  few  years  ago,  in granting 
permission  to  priests  to  use  bicycles, 
took  occasion 
to  announce  that  the 
wheel  was  invented  by  Abbe  Painton, 
who  used 
in  1845.  About  the  same 
time  Leo  XIII.  made  this  statement  E. 
R.  Shipton,  Secretary  of  the  Cyclists’ 
Touring  Club  of  England,  asserted  that 
the  first  machine  was 
invented  by  a 
in  1846.  Another  corres­
Scotchman 
pondent  asserts  that,  strictly  speaking, 
no  one 
invented  the  bicycle—“ it  just 
growed. ”   The  bicycle  is  the developed 
long  series  of  mechanical 
result  of  a 
contrivances  for  the  acceleration  of 
in­
dividual  motion,  and  its  beginnings  are 
probably  of  older  date  than  many  peo­
ple  have  imagined

In  August,  1655,  Mr.  John  Evelyn,  on 
his  way  back  to  London  from  bis  home 
at  Wotton,  called  at  Durdano,  near  Ep­
som,  and  afterward  noted  in  his  diary 
that  he  bad  found  Dr.  Wilkins,  Sir 
William  Petty  and  Mr.  Hook  “ contriv­
ing  chariots,  new  rigging  for  ships,  a 
wheel  for  one  to  run  races  in,  and  other 
mechanical  inventions.  Perhaps  three 
such  persons  together  were  not  to  be 
found  elsewhere 
in  Europe  for  parts 
and  ingenuity.”   What  was  this  wheel 
in  which  one  could  run  races? 
It  is 
impossible  now  to  say,  but  the  descrip­
tion 
is  curiously  suggestive  of  some 
contrivance of  the  cycling  kind.

Another  one  hundred  years  was  to 
pass  before  anything 
resembling  the 
modern  cycle  was  to  be  invented.  The 
first  velocipedes,  as  they  were  so  long 
called,  appear  to  have  been  made  in 
France. 
In  the  Journal  de  Paris  of July 
27,  1779.  there  is  an  account  of a  veloc­
ipede  invented  by  MM.  Blanchard  and 
Magurier,  which  seems  to  have  been  a 
clumsy  affair  of  four  wheels,  carrying 
two  people  and  heavy  to  work.  This

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

is  quite  uncertain. 

invention  was  a  false  start.  No  one  fol­
lowed 
it  up  or  improved  upon  it,  and 
no  further  attempt  in  this  direction  was 
made 
for  some  thirty  or  forty  years. 
Then  appeared 
the  “ dandy  horse,”  
upon  which  our  fathers  and great-grand­
fathers  disported  themselves  gaylv,  al­
beit  at  times  a  trifle  laboriously,  for  a 
brief  season.  When  the  crank  was  first 
invented 
The 
date  must  have  been  early  in  the  pres­
ent  century,  but  who  first  hit  upon  it 
is 
quite  unknown. 
It  was  possibly first at­
tached  to  a  three-wheel  machine.
Queer  Place  to  Hide  a  Bag  of  Gold.
W.  R.  Johnson,  hardware  dealer at 
Havelock,  Neb.,  recently received a call 
from  a  customer  who  paid  him  $200 
in 
gold.  His  plans  were  already  made  to 
go  to  the  Omaha  Exposition  the  next 
morning,and  being  a  Wiseman,  he knew 
better than  to  tempt  fate  by  taking  that 
sum  along  with  him  to  the  river  town. 
It  was  too  late  to  deposit  the  sum  in  the 
bank,  and  for  a  while  it  was  a  puzzler 
to  know  just  what  to  do  with  it.  Final­
ly  a  neat  thought  struck  him. 
In  his 
store  were  a  number of stoves ;  what bet­
ter  than  to  bide  it  in  one  of  the cooking 
variety?  Accordingly  be  thrust  it  down 
the  flue  underneath  the  oven,  having 
previously  tied  all  the  pieces  up  in  one 
bag.  He  left  the  next  morning  with  the 
just  consciousness  that  he  bad  the  funds 
in  about  the  last  place  an  evil-minded 
person  would 
look  for  them.  He  left 
on  the  Tuesday  morning  train  and came 
home  on  the  late  train  the  same  even­
ing,  but  thought  nothing  of  the  matter 
until  the  next  day.  Then  he  went  to 
look  for  the  cook  stove  containing  the 
sum.  Making  enquiries  at  once,  be 
learned  that  his  workman,  Stitzer,  had 
sold  that  identical  stove  the  day  be  was 
gone  to  James  McNurlin.  Going  further 
in bis investigations,  he  learned  that  the 
family  had  the  stove  up  and  a  tire  in 
it   He  secured  permission  to  explore 
the  range  and  found  the  money  just 
where he had  left  it,  and  none  the  worse 
for  the  wear,  although  the  bag  was  con­
siderably  charred.  One  gold  piece 
showed  the  effects of the  heat and  smoke 
in  its  close  quarters,  but  its  commercial 
value  was  by  no  means  deteriorated.

incident,  not  the 

There  were  several  remarkable  things 
least  of 
about  the 
which  was  that  one  particular  stove  out 
of  all  the  number  on  hand  should  be  se­
lected  by  a  customer.

Dining  Room  Lamps.

Although  there  are  many  people  who 
use  banquet  lamps  in  the  dining-room, 
there  are  still  more  who  prefer  the  kind 
which  hang  from  the  ceiling.  They  do 
not  obstruct  the  view  across  the  table 
and  thus  they  enable the  master  of  the 
bouse  to  coir mend  or  criticise  the  steak 
or  roast,  as  the  case  may  be,  to  his  wife 
without  hindrance  of  any  kind.  Many 
attractive  styles  are  seen  this year which 
are artistic  and  varied  enough  to  suit 
the  most  fastidious  or  the  most  dis­
criminating  customers.  Many  of  these 
lamps  are  especially  adapted  to  houses 
with  low  ceilings  and  are  made  so  that 
they  will  run  up  high  and  close to them. 
Some  have  blue,  pink  or  white  dome 
shades,  and  are  finished 
in  rich  gold 
with  crystal  founts.  This  style  is  rea­
sonable  in  price  and  artistic  in  appear­
ance.  Where  desired,  such  lamps  may 
be  also  used  for  reading  purposes,  al­
is  evident  that  they  do  not 
though 
light  as  those  which 
give  so  good  a 
stand  on 
later  are 
brought  nearer  and  thus  light  the  page 
more  brightly.  Those 
in  the 
higher  priced  goods  which  can  be 
lighted  without  removing  the  flue  are 
especially  convenient  and  desirable. 
Many  of  these  are  quite  elaborate  in 
design  and,  in  their special  way,  quite 
artistic.  A  good  assortment  of  all  these 
lamps  from  medium-price  up  should 
be  in  stock  in  readiness  to  meet  the  re­
quirements  in  this  line  of  trade.

the  table,  as  the 

lamps 

it 

Her  Diagnosis  Was  Correct.

“ I  told  my  wife  I  had  to  stay  down 

town  late  to  get  a  balance. ”

“ What  did  she  say?”
“ She  said  I  seemed  to  have  lost  it be­

fore  I  got home. ’ ’

$30.00 Per Dozen

To  me  Trane

& 

pounds. 

This  Heater  is  rightly  named. 

It  is  the  greatest  bar­
gain  ever offered  in  this line. 
It  is  made  entirely of  polished 
steel,  polished  brass  and  polished  aluminum;  nicely  jap­
anned  and  nickel-plated.  There  are  no  castings  to  break, 
consequently it  is  practically indestructible.

Burns  a  clear  white  flame  without  smoke  or  odor.
Every  Stove  guaranteed.
D im en sion s:  Height,  26  inches;  size  base,  13^  inches;

I  size  drum,  7  inches;  circular  wick,  8  inches;  weight,  10  À  

FOSTER, STEfEiS SCO., sons ispiis.  |
1 ____ _____ __  -  
■   I
W e   M o p   , T h b   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 5 pring Lever  Mop  Stick

■

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

E.  F.  ROWE,  Ludington, Michigan.

When  at  the  Carnival  of  Fun,  October  25,  26 

27  and  28,  call  on

HENRY M. GILLETT

Manufacturers’  Agent for Advertising Specialties. 

State Agent Regent Manufacturing Co.

90 Monroe St.,  Opp. Morton House,  Qrand Rapids.

Hardware  Price  Current.

„ 

„  

m 

,  , 

........

BOLTS

not  on rm

BUCKETS 

_   BUTTS,  CAST

AUGURS AND  BITS

g/lirin
..  70 to 75 
SO
9 3 %
..........70410

m
...........26410
...........60410
.........   5 00
.........   9 50
.........   5 50
.........   10 50

0 
Snell’s....................... 
Jennings’, genuine 
Jennings’, imitation
AXES
First Quality. S. B. Bronze........
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel...........
First Quality. D. B. Steel....
BARROWS 
_ 
Railroad........
Garden........................................ 
StOYe............................... 
Carriage new list......................
Plow.........................
Well, plain............
n 
Cast Loose  Pin, figured.........
Wrought Narrow..............
^ 
Ordinary Tackle__
’ 
Cast Steel............
„   , 
Ely’s  1-10........................
Hick’sC. F ................................  
Musket............................ ; ; ; ..................eo
Rim Fire.  ...................... 
Central  Fire............
Q 
Socket Firmer..........
Socket Framing.......
Socket Comer................
Socket Slicks................  
„  
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks.............. 
Taper and Straight Shank. 
Morse’s Taper Shauk..
Com. 4 piece, 6 in ........  ..............  doz  nej 
¿g
l  25
Corrugated................................  
Adjustable...................................." '. '“ .'dis 40410

en
......... 504  5

M   -
.......... 254 5

CROW  BARS 

CARTRIDGES

.......Seim 

CHISELS 

ELBOWS

BLOCKS 

■ per lb 

...........

CA**5 

.  _  

.  _ 

56

OA

4

, 

30410
25

70410
70
6C410

28
17

70
80

EXPANSIVE  BITS
Clark's small, its ;  large, (as........
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24;  3, $30.........

PILES—New  List
New American...... ..........................
Nicholson’s.................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps............... .... "   "
GALVANIZED  IRON 
Nos.  16 to 20; 22 and 24;  25 and 26;  27 
is
List  12 

13 

15 

14 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

.  GAUGES

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

KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap.  trimmings...................
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings__

MATTOCKS

Adze Bye...................................... $16 
Hunt Eye...................................... $15 
Hunt’s...........................................$18 

00, dis
00, dis
50, dis

60410
60410
20410

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.
........  1  55
\  ft)

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

Steel nails, base...... .................
Wire nails, base..................
20 to 60 advance......................
10 to 16 advance.......................
8 ad vanee............................
6 ad vanee................................. 
4 advance................................... 
3 advance.........................
2 advance............................ 
Fine 3 advance........................
Casing 10 advance...................
Casing  8 advance...............
Casing  6 advance...........
Finish 10 advance........
Finish  8 advance............
Finish  6 advance...............
Barrel \  advance............

MILLS

9p
an
«
§0

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

%
.............  
35
.............. 
25
.........  
35
.................. 
45
..................   85

81'

go
80
go
80

WIRB  GOODS

Bright.................. 
Screw Byes................................................... 
Hook’s..........................................................  
Gate Hooks and Byes..............1.................. 

 

LBVBLS
ROPBS

 

WIRB

TRAPS

SQUARES

SHEET  IRON

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

Stanley Buie and Level Co.’s.................dis 
70
Inch and  larger.............................   914
Sisal, 
Manilla............................................. 
1014
Steel and Iron...............................................70*10
Try and Bevels.................. 
60
M itre...........................................................  
60
com. smootb.  com.
„  
$2 40
Nos. 10 to 14...................................$2  70 
2 40
Nos. 15 to 17...................................  2  70 
2 45
Nos. 18 to 21...................................  2  80 
Nos. 22 to 24.....................................3  00 
2 55
Nos. 25 to 26...................................  3  10 
2 65
No.  27............ ............................  3 20 
2 75
All Bheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................   dis 
60
Solid Eyes........................................per ton  20 00
Steel, Game............................. ............... 
60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley 4  Norton’s 70410
Mouse, choker...........................per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
1  2C
Bright Market............................... 
 
 
75
Annealed  Market........; .............................. 
75
Coppered Market..........................................70410
Tinned Market...........................................   62)4
Coppered Spring  Steel......................................  *. so
Barbed Pence, galvanized.........................  2 05
Barbed  Fence,  painted.............................  
1 75
An Sable..................................................dis 4041C
Putnam............................................................. dis 5
Northwestern....................................................dis 10410
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought  .........  
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages  ..........  
 
Pumps, Cistern............................... 
80
85
Screws, New L ist........................... 
Casters, Bed and  Plate................... 50410410
Dampers, American........................ 
50
600 pound casks....................................fu
Per pound....................................................  
(v
K@V4...........................................................   12J4
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
1 the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................$ 5 75
14x20 IC, Charcoal.......................................  5  75
20x14 IX, Charcoal......................................  7 00

TIN—Melyn Grade

METALS—Zinc

HORSB NAILS

WRENCHES

SOLDER

30
go
80
so
50

Bach additional X on this grade, $1.25.

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal.......................................  4  50
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................. 
4  50
10x14 IX, Charcoal.......................................  6  60
14x20 IX, Charcoal......................................   5 50

Bach 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
20x281C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   8 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allawav Grade............   10 00
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, 1 
14x56 IX, for No.  9  Boilers, f *** P°unä- - • 

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATB 

9

m e“Concave” HfasHM

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Home  Trade  Controlled  by  Domestic 

Glass  Manufacturers.

in 

American  plate  glass  has  during  re­
cent  years  'won  a  new  field—annexed 
new  territory,  as  it  were.  Blown 
look­
ing  glass  plates,  silvered,  were  formerly 
imported 
large  numbers  for  use  in 
the  manufacture  of  furniture.  Ameri­
can  polished  plate  is  now  used  almost 
exclusively 
this  department,  and 
w.th  the  advent  of  “ thin  plates,’ ’ which 
the  Pittsburg  Plate  Glass  Co.  will  soon 
be  prepared  to  turn  out 
in  abundance, 
the  entire  home  trade  will  be  controlled 
by  the  domestic  producers.

in 

This  vast  revolution  in  the  silvering 
industry  has  not  been  wrought  without 
injury  to  the  French  and  German  glass 
industry,  which  regarded  the  American 
market  as 
its  mainstay  and  chief  sup­
port  It  is  now  admitted  that the French 
and  German  factories  are  being  oper­
ated  without  profit  and the problem how 
live  under  the  new  conditions  im­
to 
posed  upon  them  by  recent  changes 
in 
trade  is  one  that  is  eliciting  their  most 
profound  thought  and  painstaking  con­
sideration.  Manufacturers  of  silvered 
looking  glass  plates  in  the  Fuerth  dis 
trict,  it 
is authoritatively  stated,  have 
been 
losing  money  for  six  consecutive 
years,  and  exports  to  the  United  States 
have  been 
largely  abandoned  because 
wholly  unprofitable.

itself 

to  German 

The  production  of  plate  glass  and 
mirrors  in  Bohemia  is  also  rapidly  de 
dining.  A  German  paper  endeavoring 
to  reconcile 
loses 
recounts  the  critical  position  in which  it 
finds  the  Bohemia  industry. 
It  states 
that  Bohemia  manufactures  mirror glass 
in  such  quantities  that  Austria-Hungary 
only  consumes  about  one-half  of  it,  and 
hence  that  country  is  compelled  to  de­
pend  for  exportation  upon  foreign  mar­
kets,  especially  the  American market.

In  recent  years  the  production of plate 
in  the  United  States  has  largely 
glass 
in 
increased,  and  since  the  factories 
that  country  manufacture  cheaper,  ow­
ing  to  their  more  favored  location,  they 
not  only  make  our  export  trade  more 
difficult,  but 
in  spite  of  the  Austro- 
Hungarian  tariff  of  twelve  gulden  they 
are  able  to  compete  with  us  in  the home 
market,  thereby  bringing  about  a  large 
reduction  in  the  prices  of  raw  materials 
and  finished  product.  The  prospects  for 
the  future 
in  this  special  industry  are 
therefore  dec-idedly  unfavorable,  neces­
sitating  a  reduction  of  the  output  and  a 
partial  discharge  of  the  working  force.

Status  of  Fruit  and  Produce  at  St.

Louis.

St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Oct.  11— During  the 
past  week  the  accumulation  of  potatoes 
on  track  cleaned  up  quite  rapidly.  A 
better  demand  developed  with  the  ad 
vent  of  cool  weather.  The  dealers  along 
the  Produce  street  here  manifested more 
interest  and  while  poor  stock,  of  which 
there  was  quite  an  accumulation,  was 
slow  sale,  anything 
in  bright,  clean 
white  potatoes  was 
in  good  demand, 
and  before  the  end  of the week was quite 
scarce.  The  market  opened  this  morn­
ing  with  but  very  few  carloads  of  any­
thing  nice  on  track  There  was  a  good 
enquiry  tor  the  best  grades  of  white 
potatoes,  especially  for  Rurals  and  Bur­
banks,  which  two  varieties  of  a  good 
quality  seem  hard  to  find,  and  we  want 
to  assure  all  shippers  having  any  pota­
toes  of  this  description  that  we  can 
market  them  at  good  prices  and  find 
them  a  buyer  readily.

It  seems  to  be  the  impression  of  ship­
pers  of  potatoes  that  anything  will  sell 
in  a  big  market. 
It  will,  except  when 
stock  is  plentiful,  as  it  has  been  so  far 
this  season,  and  if  loaders  and  shippers 
persist 
in  shipping  poorly  culled  and 
inferior  potatoes  they  will  keep  the 
market  down  and  find  it  very  bard  to

dispose  of  what  they  ship.  A  shipper 
who  will  sort  bis  potatoes  thoroughly, 
load  each  variety  to  itself,  and  keep 
them  separate,  will  get  top  prices, 
whereas  a  shipper  who  loads  anything 
that  farmers  may  bring  in  will  find  that 
the  party  who  is  selling  his  potatoes  for 
him  can  never  make  good  returns.

We  sold  two  carloads  of  Michigan 
Rurals  for  shipment  from  the  central 
part  of  the  State  to-day  at  38c  per 
bushel,  delivered  at  East  St.  Louis. 
We  can  sell  more  fine,  bright,  clean 
Rurals  of  uniform  size  if 
they  are 
offered  us.  We  have  received  quite  a 
number  of  communications  from Michi­
gan  to  day  offering  potatoes,  and  from 
the  prices  they  are  naming,  and  the 
tenor  of  their  letters,  we  judge  that 
Michigan  can  this  year  compete  fa­
vorably  with  any  of  the  potato  districts 
in  the  Northwest,  and  we  believe,  gen­
erally  speaking, 
that  Michigan  raises 
better  potatoes  than  are  raised  in  the 
Northwest.

The  summer  varieties  of  apples  are 
now  almost  out  of  the  way,  and  packers 
are  offering  winter  stock.  The  trade 
here  are  anxious  to  secure  some  well- 
packed  choice  winter apples  and we can 
sell  such  stock  to  advantage.  There 
is 
a  good  demand  here for all red varieties.
New  handpicked  pea  beans are offered 
and  a  number  of  cars  have  been  sold 
during  the  last  few  days  at $1.10  per 
bushel,  delivered  at  East  St.  Louis.  We 
can  sell  a  few  more  cars  on  this  basis 
if  the  market  remains  steady.

There  is a  good  demand  here  also  for 
Red  Globe  and  Red  Weathersfield 
onions,  and  we  can  sell  choice,  bright, 
clean,  well-matured  stock,  that  has been 
bandied  careiully  and  is  not bruised,and 
not  under  size,  at  4o@45c  per  bushel  on 
track.

Now  that  the  weather  is  settled  and 
the  fall 
festivities  are  over,  there  will 
be  a  better  demand  for  all  heavy  fruits 
and  produce  suitable  for  shipping,  and 
we  are  anxious  to  be  in  touch with load­
ers  and  shippers,  as  it  is  our  business 
to  sell  these  commodities.

M i l l e r   &  T e a s d a l e   C o.

Art  of  Making  Friends.

Dullerton :  Prigster is  always  picking 

me  up  on  my  grammar.

Smarte:  And  you  and  he  don’t get 

on  together  at  all?

Dullerton :  Of course  not.  How  could 

Smarte:  By  doing  as  I  do.  When  I 
speak  to  him  I  use  bad  grammar  pur­
posely  to  give  him  an  opportunity  to 
correct  me.  Then  I  thank  him  and  say 
bow  much  obliged  to  him  I  am.  We 
get  along  together  beautifully.

we?

Character  is  the  poor  man’s capital.

FOLDING  TABLE

CASH  WITH  ORDER.

SïïRUNO fUSNITUrt.

GRAND HAVEN.MICI1.

MOLASSES  OATES 

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s....................
Coffee, P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleabies
Coffee, Landers. Ferry 4  Clark’s..............
Coffee, Enterprise..................
Stebbin’s Pattern......................
Stebbin’s Genuine..................
Enterprise, self-measuring...............
PLANES
Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy..................
Sciota Bench........................................
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy...............
Bench, first quality............................
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood.........
Fry, Acme......  
Common, polished............................_ . 
Iron and T inned................................
Copper Rivets and Burs............................
PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

40
40
40
30
tìfì&in
30
.  @50
.  @50 
.  @50 
60
................................... 60410410
704 6
60
60
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

RIVETS

PANS

Broken packages He per pound  extra.

HAMMERS

Maydole & Co.’s, new  list............................... dis 35*
Kip’s  ...................................................... dH 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s ............................................. dl» 10410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
P’vV«"**4' ’»• «-’«<* 

25
70

04-0'

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Stamped Tin Ware........................ new list 75410
Japanned Tin Ware..................................  20410
Granite Iron  Ware  ...... 
. . . .  new list 40410

HOLLOW  WARB

Pots..............................................................  60 A1
Kettles 
........................................................60410
Spiders  ........................................  
60410

 

Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3...............................  dis 60410
State 
perdoz.net  2 50

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

 

HINGES

32

How  Steel  Ranges  Are  Sold  to  Gul­

lible  Farmers.

for 

in  pairs, 

St.  Louis,  Oct.  i i — T his  part  of  the 
State  is  being  scoured  by  a  new  kind 
of  peddler  in  the  shape  of  wily  chaps 
selling  steel  ranges  from  wagons.  These 
men  travel 
the  better 
handling  of  their  staple,  carrying  one  of 
the  ranges  with  them,  such  as  can  be 
obtained  of  the  legitimate  dealer  at 
about $35,and selling it  to  the  farmer  for 
$65. 
In  payment,  of  course,  a  note  is 
taken,  but  to  make  the  matter  easier  for 
the  farmer,  these  agents (properly called 
in  the  Western  sense) 
“ road  agents”  
take  $10  to  $20  out 
in  board  and  as 
much  more  is  allowed  for  the  farmer’s 
stove.  Of  course,  these  two  items  are 
properly  endorsed  on  the  back  of  note. 
The  agents  secure  board  for  such  time 
as  suits  their  convenience,  leaving  the 
old  stove  where  it  was.  Finally,  they 
sell  the  old  stove  back  to  the original 
owner  at  from  one-fourth  to  half  its 
value,  getting  $5  to  $8  therefor  in  cash 
and  possibly  $2  to  $5  more  for  unex 
pired  board  bill. 
they 
usually  manage  to  get  three  days'  to  a 
week’s  board,  five  to ten  dollars  in  cash 
and  the  farmer’s  note,  which  turns  up 
in  due  course  of  time  at  full  face  value, 
but  with  no  endorsement  on  the  back, 
the  latter  change  being  probably  ac­
complished  by  there  being  two  notes 
with  the  edges  securely  pasted  together, 
the  front  one  duly  signed  while  the  rear 
one  carries  the  endorsements. 
If  this 
in  time  becomes  separated  from  its  for­
mer associate,  who  could  be  blamed  for 
not  putting  together again  the  divorced 
halves?  These  notes  are  discounted  at 
what  they  will  bring,  while  the  agents 
seek  green  pastures  for  new  exploits.
The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.
Otsego— W.  S.  Dowe, 

of  White
Pigeon,  has  taken  a  position  in  the  dry 
goods  store  of  A.  W.  Hartman.

In  this  way, 

Bay  Shore—C.  E.  Dell  is  now  ste­

nographer  for  the  Petoskey  Lime  Co.

Owosso—Miss  Frankie  Allen,  who  re­
cently  started  in  the  millinery  business 
at  St.  Charles,  has  closed  out  her  stock 
to  accept  a  position  offered  her  by  Os- 
burn  &  Sons.

Stanton—Harry  McGowan,  prescrip­
tion  clerk  for  E.  D.  Hawley,  has  re­
signed  to  take  a  similar  position  with 
H.  Van  Allen,  the  Ionia  druggist.

St.  Ignace—Thos.  Green  has  relin­
quished  his  clerkship  in  the  First  Na­
tional  Bank,  on  account  of  ill  health. 
His  successor  is  Eugene  Therrien.

Owosso—One  day  last  week  a  tall, 
aged  gentleman  slowly  entered  the  dry 
goods  store  of  Geo.  R.  Black  &  Son 
and  approaching  the  senior  member  of 
the  firm,  solemnly  asked  the  question: 
“ Is  the  Lord  in?”   “ Yes,”   said  Mr. 
Black  quickly,  “ right  back 
there,”  
pointing  to  his  new  clerk,  Rol'a  Lord. 
The  solemn  stranger  smiled  and  en­
joyed  several  minutes’ 
conversation 
with  the  dry  goods  merchant and walked 
on  to  see  the  object  of  his  search.

Coral—W.  D.  Day.  manager of the H. 
M.  Gibbs  drug  stock,  went  to  Belding 
one  day 
last  week  and  returned  home 
two-Day. 
In  other  words,  he  married 
Miss  Alta  Baney,  an  estimable  young 
lady  of  Belding,  who  will  hereafter 
share  bis  joys  and  sorrows.
Flour and Feed.

The  flour  market  for  the  past  two 
weeks  has  been  very  active,  buyers 
having  come  to  the  conclusion  that  it  is 
time  to  purchase  fall  stocks.  The  city 
mills  have  all  been  running  full  time 
and  have  booked  orders  freely  for  Oc­
tober and  November  shipment.  Prices 
are  low,  considering  all  the  conditions 
which  are  likely  to  affect both wheat and 
flour 
in  the  near  future.  The  export 
demand  has  been  steady  and  strong  and 
seems 
likely  to  continue  so  throughout

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

the  crop  year.  Other exporting countries 
— especially  Russia,  our  chief  competi­
tor—have  but  little  surplus  this  year  for 
export.  The  great  shortage  of  rye crops 
abroad  will  also  be  likely  to  greatly  in­
crease  the  consumption  of wheat.  Every 
indication  now  points  to  the  main­
tenance  of  good  fair  prices  for  bread- 
stuffs  in  this  country  for  the  remainder 
of  the  crop  year.
Millstuffs  are 

in  good  demand  at  an 
advance  of  about  $1  per  ton.  Feed  and 
meal  are  nominally  unchanged,  with  a 
fair  volume  of  business  passing.

W m .  N .  R o w e .

Bay  City—Jonathan  Boyce,  who  has 
operated  a  large  saw  mill  plant  at  Es 
sexville  for  several  years,  is  evidently 
closing  out  his  business  in  that  line, 
having  sold  the  timber  on  four  sections 
in  Roscommon  county  to  Eddy  Bros.  & 
Co.,  of  this  city,  the  consideration  be­
ing  $8  stumpage.  Mr.  Boyce  also  sold 
the  timber  on  two  sections  to  the  Mich­
igan  Pipe  Co.  at  the  same  price,  and 
this  company  bad  previously  purchased 
20,000,000  feet  of  the  Boyce  timber.  H. 
W.  Savage  has  an  option  on  the  re­
mainder  of  the  timber  owned  by  Mr. 
in  Roscommon  county—all  of 
Boyce 
which 
indicates  that  he  intends  going 
out  of  business  in  this  locality.

Cheboygan—Thompson  Smith's  Sons’ 
sawmill,  which  was  recently  destroyed 
by  fire,  was  one  of  the  largest  in  Mich­
igan,  being  180x250 feet  in  size. 
It  was 
equipped with all modern  machinery,the 
plant  representing  an 
investment  of 
$200,000. 
It  was  erected  on  the  site  of 
the  mill  burned  June  10,  1879,  and  be­
gan  operations 
in  the  spring  of  1880. 
The  origin  of  the  fire  is  a  mystery.  The 
rebuilding  of  the  mill  will  binge  upon 
the  result  of  the  log  question,  as  the 
stock  mostly  comes  from  Canada.  When 
the  tiie  occurred  the  mill  was  cutting 
logs  for  Alger,  Smith  &  Co.

Saginaw— Mitchell  &  Co.,  who  pur­
chased  several  thousand  acres  of  timber 
land 
in  Presque  Isle  county  of  Isaac 
Bearinger,  of  this  city,  are  erecting  an 
extensive  sawmill  plant  on  the  east  side 
of  the  Ocqueoc  River.  The  plant  will 
be  connected  with  the  Detroit  &  Mack­
inac  Railroad  by  a  spur  track,  and  a 
village  is  to  be  laid  out  at  this  point.

Detroit—The  Davey  &  Wool  Manu­
facturing  Co.  has  filed  articles  of  in 
corporation  with  the  County  Clerk  and 
will  manufacture  cornucopias,  bottle 
covers,  paper  bags  and  boxes,  etc.,  in 
this  city  on  a  cash  capital  of  $10,000. 
The 
incorporators  are  Charles  Davey, 
George  W.  Wool  and  Frederick  Canny.

The  demand  for  sxrdires  has  run  so 
far  sho  t  of  the  supply  that  the  French 
factories  are  closing  their  doors  and  the 
government  has  been  asktd  to  come  to 
the  relief  of  this  important  national 
in­
dustry  by  making  a  ration  of  five  or  ten 
sardines  daily  part  of  the  regular  fare 
of  the  French  soldier.

The  men  behind  the  guns  fight  the 
battles  of  the  navy ;  but  there  must  be 
a  wealthy  and  powerful  nation  behind 
the  men  who  are  behind  the guns.

The  soldiers  have  quit 

licking  the 
Spaniards,  and  the  country  is  now  lick­
ing  revenue  stamps  to  square  things.

October  appears  to  be 

in  love  with 

Summer,  which  lingers  in  Fall’s  lap.

It 

is  better  for a  man  to  brag  of  his 
prosperity  than  to  tell  of  his  troubles.

WANTS  COLUMN

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under  this 
head  for  two cents  a  word  the  first  insertion 
and  one cent  a  word  for  each  subsequent  in* 
sertion.  No advertisements taken for less than 
a5 cents.  Advance payment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

781

I7IOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  HARDWARE  IN 
"  one  of the  best towns  of 800  peop'e  in  the 
State.  Good  farming  conn  ry.  No  competi­
tion nearer than twelve miles. 
'I his is  a  forced 
sale  For  particulars  address  Hardware,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
AX7OULD  LIKE  TO  EXCHANGE  STOCK 
"V  farm of '00 acres, located in  Ionia  couuty, 
for  general  merchandise.  Address  Box  2  , 
Maiherton. Ionia county. Mich. 
730
IpOK  SALE—A  GENERAL  STOCK  OF  MER- 
'  chandise  valued  at  $5,000.  Have  cleared 
$1,000 annu- liy for the past two years:  easy pay­
ments.  Address 729, care Michigan  Tradesman.
729
Dr u g  s t o c k  f o r   s a l e o r e x c h a n g e —
Located in  best city  in  Michigan;  no  cut­
ting;  invoices |2 750.  Will take good real estate 
as part payment.  The more ca»h  the  more  lib 
eral discount from invoice.  Busin« ss  is  now  a 
good paying investment.  Address  B.  B.,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
727
I7»OR  SALE  CHEAP—DE>IR \BLE  4'  ACRE 
farm, new barn.  1,00 • fruit trees;  good loca 
tion;  owner must  sell,  cannot  look  after  prop- 
ir'y.  Address Box 206, Trufant, M ch. 
712
B ig  b a r g a in—a  h ouse  a n d  lo t  on
Pleasant a v cu e  which  has  come  into  my 
possession by foreclosure.  Good barn on  prem 
ises.  Place  is  well  worth  $2,500.  but I will sell 
for $2,( 00, on payment of $50U down and balance 
on  time  to  suit  p  rchaser.  Such  a  bargain 
com« s only once  in  a  lifetime.  Address  Zeno, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
735
I'HAVE  A  DWELLING  HOUSE  AND  TWO 
lots on Arthur avenue.  Grand Rapids, which 
I wish to exchange  for  dry  goods,  groceries  or 
shoes  As I am in  business  in  Northern  Mich­
igan  and  cann< t  look  after the property. I am 
disposed to make a  favorable  oea  for  a  clean 
stock.  Nemo, care  Michigan Trade-man  73,
I7IOR  SALE OR EXCHANGE—$5.UU0 TO $.0,000 
U   in  notes  and  judgments  Address  H.  G. 
Cobbs. Rome City,  Ind 
725
IpOK  SALE  FoR  CA'H  ON  ACCOUNT  OF 
111 Heal'h—$4,?00 stock of general merchan­
dise;  new  stock;  cash  trade  last  year  $18,?00; 
will bear  inspection.  Address  Box  231,  Swaz- 
zee, Ind. 
A  SPLENDID  F «KM  OF 240 ACRES  TO EX- 
f  \   change  for  stcck  of goods.  Address  Box 
13 -, Custer. M’Ch. 
rp O  RENT IN  MENDON,  ST.  JOSEPH  COUN- 
ty, Mich —One  or  two  large  brick  stores in 
X  
Opera  Hou-e B'oi'-k.  Write to Levi Cole. 
OTKI,  FOR  SALE  OR  RENT —THREE- 
For  particulars  address 
story  building 
John Lenhard  Clarksville. Mich. 
17*011 SALE—Cl EAN STOCK OF DRY GOODS, 
1  clothing,  boo s  and  "hoes,  hats  and  caps 
and men’s furnishing goods andgr. ceries. well- 
ad - pled  frame  store  building  and  convenient 
residence, well located  in  a  thriving  Northern 
Michigan  town.  Sales  aggregate  $10,003  per 
year, pract caliy all cash  transactions.  No  old 
stock.  No book  accounts.  Reason  for  «el ing, 
ill  health. 
Investigation  so'icited.  Address 
No 709, rare Michigan Tradesman 
ANTED —SHOES,  CLOTHI NG.   DRY 
goods.  Address R. B„ Box 351, Montague, 
Mich. 
699
Fo r  s a l e —c l e a n  g e n e r a l   s t o c k   a n d
siore bu lding in small town surrounded  by 
excellent farming  and  fruit  c-vuntry  less  than 
fifiy miles  from  Grand  Rapid*.  Good  reasons 
for selling.  Inspection soli  ited.  Term*reason­
able.  Address  for  particulars  No.  691  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

722 

709

717

723

721

69

For  sa l e—n ew   g e n e r a l  stock 
a
splendid farming country.  No trad. s.  Ad­
680
dress No. 6 0, care Michigan Tradesman 
( XENl’RALLY  LOCATED  DRUo  STORE,  Do- 
J   ing a  good  business  in  the  city,  for  sale. 
Good  reasons  for  selling.  Address  I.  Frank- 
ford.  Fire  Insurance  and  Real  Estate  Agent, 
Phone  1236,  53  W’est  Bridge  Street,  Grand
Rapids.________ 2____________________ 676
r p o   HOTEL  MEN—BUY  TH E  FU RN ITU RE 
and secure the lease of a good h«itel in North­
ern  Michigan,  A  splendid  chauce;  will  bear 
investigation.  Address Baxter,  c«re  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
726
i NOR  SALE—DRUG,  BOOK  AND  STATION- 
ery  stock,  invoicing  $4 500,  and  fixtures 
Invoicing $300,  which  include show cases, shelv­
ing  and  bottles.  Daiiv  cash  sales  in  1891,  $2  ; 
892. $30;  1893. $21;  1894, $34.65:  1895,  $25;  1896, 
$21.20, and 1897, $2413  Located in manufactur­
ing town.  No cut prices. 
Ilj m reasonable, $29 
per mouth.  Living rooms in connection.  Ad­
dress Ne. 668, care Michigan Tradesman.  668
I^ORTSALE—FURNITURE AND UNDERTAK- 
1  ing business  in the  most enteiprising  <own 
in Southwestern Michigan.  Best location in the 
city.  Add-ess No. 673,  care  Mchigan  Trades­
man, for particulars. 
673
B~  EHT  LOCATION  IN  MICHIGAN  FOR  A 
cold  storage  ai d  general  produce  dealer. 
Write to the  Secretary  of  tne  Otsego  Improve­
MEROHANTS—DO YOU WISH CASH  QUICK 
631
ment Association. Otsego. Mich. 
for your stock of merchandise,  or  any  part 
of it?  Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mich.628
I7IOR SALE-HALF INTEREST IN A WIIOLE- 
1  sale  butter  m d  egg  business.  Enquire  or 
write  to  E  N.  Pettet,  98  South  Division  St., 
Grand Rapids. 
721
rpo  EX«  HANGE—FOR CLOTHING,  DRY
X  goods or shoes, very nice  well rented Grand 
Rapids property.  Address No.  553, care  Mi, hi 
g- n Tradesman. 
552
rp O   EXCHANGE — FARMS  AND  OTHER 
x   property for dry goods, clothing  and  shoes. 
Address P  Meda ie.  Mancet«>na. Mich 
COUNTRY  PRODUCE

1 * 7 ANTED—BUTTER.  EGGS  AND  POUL- 
try;  any  quantities.  Write  me.  Orrin  J. 
1 1 
Stone. Kalamazoo.  Mich. 
ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Canlkett & Co.  Trave’se City, Mich. 
ANTED—1.000  CASES  FRESH 
EGGS,
dally.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mich.________________________ 556

553

706

381

FIREPROOF  SAFES

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

HAY  AND OATS

FOR SALE—WE WISH YOUR ORDERS  AND 
are in  a  position  to  make  you  satisfactory 
prices  Please write us.  Michigan Produce Co., 
shipper- and wholesale dealers,  Lansing.  Mich.
716

MISCELLANEOUS.

■pHYSICIAN.  HONOR  GRADUATE  AND 
X   gold  medalist  Canadian  Univer-ity, wants 
practice, partner-hip or information concerning 
suitable  location.  Alex. Wilson, 49 Spruce St., 
Toronto.  Ont. 
*\7\ANTKD — REGISTERED  PH \RMACIST, 
1 1  single man.  Address 150 So.  Jefferson St., 
Ba*tle Creek.  Mich. 
XXT.yNTED—SITUATION  IN  A  CLOTHING 
Tv  or general  store  by  an  A No.  1  salesman. 
Add-ess No. 685, care Michigan Tradesman.  685 
ANTED  -ITUATION  AS  MANAGER  OF 
a general store by a competent and  exper 
ienced roan.  Best of  references  Address  J., 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

733

728

694

W O R L D ’ S   B E S T

S O .   C I G A R .   A L L   J O B B E R S   A N D

G. J. JOH N SON  CIG A R  CO.

G R A N D   R A P I D S .   «DICH.

* F i i r a W F A S P f i A i r ^

PAINT  AND  VARNISH

can reach. 

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

®

titles to suit purchasers. 

®
|   H.  M.  REYNOLDS &  SON,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  1
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a  

Detroit Office foot of First Street. 

Travelers’ Time  Tables.

CHICAGO'riW^ * r r 8Bj

Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids............   7:30am  13:00am *ll:45pm
Ar.  Chicago...............   3:10pm  9:15pm  7:20am
Lv.Chicago..  11:45am  6:50am  4:15pm *ll:50pm 
A t. G’dRapids 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

*Rvery  day. 

Others week days only.
DETROIT, Graad Rapids & Western

M A N K T F F   &  Northeastern Ry.
* " lT m .1 ^ 1 0  1  JLw Lrf  Best route to Manistee.

Via  C. &  W . M.  Railway.

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

T R A V E L

F.  &  P.  M.  R.  R.

VIA

AND  STEA M SH IP   LIN ES 

TO   A LL  PO IN TS  IN  MICHIGAN

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

Detroit.

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

5:45pm 10:05pm
1:10pm 6:10pm

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Lv. GR7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. GRll:45am  9:30pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Gao. DkHavbn,  General Pass. Agent.

GRANDTnwk R*,,w*y Syrtem

Detroit and Milwaukee Div

r LABELS 

FOR
GASOLINE
DEALERS

(In effect Oct. 3,  1898.)

EAST. 

Arrive,
Leave. 
t  6:45am.Sag., Detroit, Buffalo 4 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
* 7:00am....Gd. Haven  and  Int. Pts....* 7:20pm 
tl2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:12pm
t   5  32pm. ..Gd. Haven and Chicago...............
tlO :00pm........Gd. Haven and Mil..........  6:40am
Eastward—No. 16 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
22  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 17 Wagner parlor car.
tExcept Sunday.

♦Dally. 

WEST

E. H.  H u o h x s, A. G. P. & T. A.
B e n .  F l e t c h e r , Trav. Pass. AgL, 
C. A.  J u s t in ,  City  Pass.  Agent.
97 Monroe St.  Morton House.

n n   i   v j n   Rapids  &  Indiana Railway
U K A l i  1/  

Sept, as, 1898.

Northern Div.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...» 7:45am t  5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A Har. S ..t 2:15pm *10:00pm
Cadillac accommodation........t  5:25pm tl0:55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City....til :00pm  t 6:25pm 
7:45am  and 2:15pm  trains  have  parlor  cars; 
11:0.pm train has sleeping car.
Southern  Div,  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati................................t  7:10am t 9:45pm
Richmond 
............................t 2:10pm +  2:00pm
Cincinnati................................♦10:15pm ♦ 7:10atr
For Vicksburg and Chicago..*11:00pm ♦ 9:10am
7:10  am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Clncinnat 
and  parlor  car  to  Chicago;  2:10pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Richmond;  10:15pm  train  has 
sleeptng cars to Cincinnati,  and  on  Sept.  27-29, 
Oct. 2, 5, 9,12 and 16 to Indianapolis, Lonisville, 
and St.  Louis.  11:00pm train has sleeping car to 
Chicago.

Chicago Trains.

TO CHICAGO.
Lv. Grand Rapids... 7 10am 
2  10pm  *11 00pm
At, Chicago............   2 01 pm 
9 10pm 
6 25am
Lv. Chicago............................   3 02pm  *11 45pm
A t .  Grand Rapids...................   9 45pm 
7 10am
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.

FROM CHICAGO.

Muskegon Trains. 

going wxst.

Lv G’d  Rapids............ *7:35am *1:00pm *5:40pm
ArMuskegon...............   9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon............. *8:10am  *ll:45am *4 00pm
ArG’dRapids............9:30am  12:56pm  5:20pm
Sunday trains leave  Grand  Rapids  9.00  a.  m. 
and 7.00 p. m.  Leave  Muskegon  8.35  a.  m.  and 
7.15 p. m.

going bast.

tExcept Sunday.  »Dally.

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

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

r v f  tt  V I T U   South Shore and Atlantic

DULUTH, 

Railway.

WBST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)til :10pm  t7:45am
Lv, Mackinaw City..................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace......... ...............  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sanlt Ste. Marie................   12:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette..........................  2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestorfa...... .....................   5:20pm  12:45am
8:30am
Ar. D uluth............. ......................... . 

BAST  BOUND.

t6:30pm
Lv. Dnluth............................................. 
Ar. N estoria,......................... tll:15am  2:45am
Ar. Marqnette.......................  
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sanlt Ste. Marie.................  3:30pm 
Ar. Mackinaw City..................  8:40pm 11:00am
G. W. Hesbabd, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Ovlatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

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

A DESK FOR YOUR OFFICE

We don’t claim to sell ‘‘direct  from  the  factory” 

but do claim  that we can sell you at

Less than the Manufacturer’s Cost

and can substantiate our claim.  We  sell  you  sam­
ples at about  the  cost  of  material  and  guarantee 
our goods to be better made and better finished than 
the stock that goes to the furniture  dealers.

Our  No.  61  Antique  Oak  Sample  Desk  has  a 
combination  lock  and  center  drawer.  Raised 
panels  all  around,  heavy  pilasters,  round  corners 
and made of  thoroughly  kiln  dried  oak.  Writing 
bed made of 3-ply built-up stock.  Desk is castered 
with ball-bearing casters  and  has  a strictly  dust- 
proof curtain.  Our special price to  readers  of  the 
Tradesman  S 2 0 .  Write for  our  illustrated  cat­
alogue and mention this paper when you  do so.

SA M PLE  FURN ITURE  CO.

JOBBERS  OF  SAMPLE  FURNITURE.

PEARL  AND  OTTAWA  STS. 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

NO W  OPEN *

In   the  Wholesale 
Showrooms  o f

BROWH  4  ¡¡EHLER,  W.  Bridge  St.,  Urani  Rapids.

Prices  right.

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

THE ONLY WAY...

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

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

We  are  willing  to  abide  by  their  decision.

The  Law  o f  1889.

Every  druggist,  grocer  or  other 
person  who  shall  sell  and  deliver 
at  retail  any  gasoline,  benzine  or 
naphtha  without  having  the  true 
name thereof and the words “explo­
sive when  mixed  with  air”  plainly 
printed  upon  a  label  securely  at­
tached  to  the  can,  bottle  or  other 
vessel  containing  the  same  shall 
be punished by a fine not exceeding 
one hundred dollars.

to 

We  are  prepared 

furnish 
labels which enable dealers to com" 
ply  with  this  law,  on  the  follow­
ing  basis:

1  M .......................75C
5  M .................... 50c per 
10 M ....................40c per 
2 0 M .....................35c per 
50 M ..................... 30c per 

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

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

:
W ho  urges  you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

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

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THE  “HOME RULE”  OIL 
AND  GASOLINE  CAN ^

ft Business Proposition

Has  a  Strong  Hinged  Cover 
over  Entire  Top,  and  may  be 
carried  in  the  rain  without 
getting  water  into  the  can. 
No  Dirt  in  the  Top  to  be 
washed  into can  with  the  oil, 
and  No  Screw  Top  to  get  lost 
or  damaged.

Absolutely  Rain,  Dirt  and 
Evaporation  Tight.  Has  a 
Steady  Stream  Pump,  which 
is  Removable  from  the  Can 
in  case  of  Obstruction  or  for 
Repairs,  and  is  in  every  way 
Strong,  Durable  and  Prac­
tical.  Needed  in every family 
where  Oil  is  used.

Sold by jobbers everywhere 

Manufactured  by

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You have  something  to  sell  to  the  merchants. 
You are not at all  particular where you sell  it—  
where  the orders come from so long as  you  get 
the  money  and  freight  rates  do  not  interfere 
with the delivery of the goods.  You only  want 
to get  before  a  prosperous  people—those  who 
have money with which to buy— in a direct and 
forcible way,  with  an  argument  that  will  turn 
their dollars into your pocket. 
Isn’t  that true ? 
Well, just here is where the

Michigan
tradesman

can  help you  W e are in the prosperous territory 
with a strong, well-conducted paper that reaches 
the majority of  all  those  to  whom  you  wish  to 
sell within  that territory.  You make your busi­
ness argument— we will  lay  it  before  our  peo­
ple. 
It  pays  others  to  do  this—wouldn’t  it be 
strange if it didn’t pay you also ?

Grand Rapids, micb.

THE  WINFIELD  MANUFACTURING  CO.,  W arren,  Ohio.

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*£Not for  Anything on  Earths|

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

S S S 8 8

There  Must  be  Some  Good  Reasons  for 

S S I

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r.m «

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

2nd.  Our Money W eight 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  Co.,

B?Shr-

Dayton,  Ohio.

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