Volume XVI.  -  

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  30,1898. 

Number  793

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.

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WEATHERLY  &  PULTE,  99  Pearl  S t , Grand  Rapids

A MAN

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B E S T   5  C E N T   C IG A R S  

E V E R   M A D E

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and  the

G.  J.  J o h n s o n   CIGAR  CO.,  Grand  Rapids.

FLOWERS,  M A Y   &  M O I.ONEY,  Counse’ .

Law  and  Collections.

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

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

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

Holiday Goods

afford  BIG   PR O FITS
if you  buy  from  us. 

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FRANKE  BROS.,  Muskegon,  Michigan.

Jobbers in Druggists’  and  arocers’Sundries,  Fishing 

Tackle,  Sporting Qoods, Notions, Toys, Etc. J

When  Sick  Use

“MR.  THOMAS”

The  Most  Popular  Nickel  Cigar on  Earth

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

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F.  E.  Bushman,  Representative, 

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

Mail  Orders  Solicited.

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you  are  not  doing  as  well  as  you  might  for 
yourself  and  your  customers.  No  other 
Lime  is  as  satisfactory  to  dealer  or  user.

PETOSKEY  LlflE CO.,

Bayshore,  iTich.

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SHOW  CASES  OF  ALL  STYLES

Until  Nov.  1  we  will  furnish  these  highly  finished  show  cases  with  inlaid  wood 

3 teet........$4.50 
4 feet....... 6.25 

corners at the  following low prices f o b   Bryan:
9 feet 
...  $12.25
iufeet.........   >3*5

7 feet.........$9.25 
8 feet........ 
10.50 

s fi-et 
...17.2 5 
6 feet..........  S.15 

Cases are  15  inches high, well  finished, all  double thick  glass,  mirror  lined  panel 
doors in  rear.  Guaranteed satisfactory  in every  respect.  Cases  17  inches  high  10 
cents extra per foot.  Write us tor circulars and catalogue of our Combination Cases

THE  BRYAN  SHOW  CASE  WORKS,  Bryan,  Ohio.

T h is  S h o w ca se o n ly   $4.00  p er foot.

W ith   B eveled   E d ge  P la te  G la ss to p  $5.00 p er foot.

PURITY AND  STRENGTH!

&  60/8

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

ABSOLUTELY  PURE

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

v   without V  Ó.fli 
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D etroit  Agency,  118 Bates S t.
Grand Rapids Agency,  26 Fountain  S t.

FLEISCHMANN  A  CO.

A  GOOD  SELLER

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  m 
four sizes—40,  60,  70 and  100 gallon.
ADAMS  &  HART,  Jobbers,  Grand  Rapids.
A  D E S K   F O R

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 slock 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 20.  Write for  our  illustrated  cat­
alogue and mention this paper when you  do so.

SAMPLE  FURNITURE  CO.

JOBBERS  OP  SAMPLE  FURNITURE.

P E A R L   A N D   O T T A W A   S T S . 

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G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICH .

The  Regent  Manufacturing  Co.

174  W abash  Avenue,

Chicago,

Offer as  a  special

Holiday  laducemeat:

The Champion assortment,  consisting  of  40 
pieces of “Regent” Quadruple-plated Silver­
ware,  our  regular  S1.2S  goods,  for  S 50.00, 
terms  2%  10  days  or  30  days,  net,  f.  o.  b. 
Chicago, including this $1000  Qraphophoae as  our  premium  to  you.  Our Silver­
ware  is  the  recognized  brand  for premium purposes —  it  is honestly made, 
showy, attractive, newest  designs  and 
brings  you  trade.  The  present  is  a 
particularly favorable time to inaugu­
rate the  premium  plan,  everybody  is 
spending money and there is no 
reason  why  you  should  not  get 
it  instead  of  your  competitor.
The  Graphophone  which 
we
present to you with 
the  Champion  as­
sortment, absolute­
ly  free,  will  draw 
the crowds  to  your 
the  hand­
store, 
some 
silverware, 
which you  are  giv­
ing away will make 
them buy, and  this 
happy combination 
is  bound  to  bring 
profitable business.
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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER 30,1898.

Number  793

1   CLOSING OUT BALANCE WINTER CLOTHING

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Special bargains in elegant Blue and
Black  Serge,  Cheviot,  Unfinished
Worsted  and  Clay  Worsted  Suits,
and greatest line of Kersey, Covert,
Boucle  Worsted,  Worambo,  Chin-
chilla  Overcoats  and  Ulsters,  all
manufactured  by  Kolb &   Son,  of
Rochester, N. Y  , only house  sell-
ing  reaily  All-Wool  Kersey Over-
coats  at  85 50  and  Boucle  Worsted
Overcoats at  $6.<;o.  Write  to  our
Michigan  Representative

WILLIAM CONNOR

P. O. Box 346, 

Marshall, Mich.  ^

PREFERRED  BANKERS 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY

OP  DETROIT,  MICHIGAN.

Commenced Business September  I,  1893.

 

Insurance in  force...................................$2,746,000.00
Net Increase during  1897......................  
104,000.00
NetAssets.................................  
32,738.49
 
None
Losses Adjusted and  Unpaid...............  
Other  Liabilities.................................... 
None
40.061.00
Total  Death Losses Paid to Date........  
Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
eficiaries...............................................  
812.00
Death Losses Paid During  1897............ 
17,000.00
Death  Rate for 1897................................  
6.31
Cost per  1,000 at age 30 during 1897.... 
8.25
F R A N K  E. ROBSON,  P r e s.

TR U M A N   B. GOODSPEED, Sec’y .

FIGURE  NOW  on  improving your office 
system for next  year.  Write  for  sample 
leaf of our Tlfte BOOK and PAY ROLL.

BARLOW  BROS.,  Grand  Rapids.

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Established  1841.

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Widdicomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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

L. P. WITZLEBEN  manager.

.  L. J. STEVENSON. Man*«., . no Notant, 

R. «I. CLELAND. ATTOMMY. '*

THE  FORGOTTEN  PAST 

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GRAND  RAPIDS. 

Letters  and  Answers  Thereto.

There 

is  scarcely  a  business  man 
from  Maine  to  California  who has not  at 
one  time  or another  raised  the  question 
of  the  necessity  of  preserving  every­
thing 
in  the  voluminous  mail  which 
reaches  him.  When  business  was  small 
it  was  a  comparatively  simple  matter  to 
keep  a  copy  of  everything  that  was  sent 
out  and  also  to  file  away  everything  that 
was  received,  but  with  the  increase  of 
business,  conditions  have  materially 
changed,  and  at  present  to  keep  copies 
and  files  complete 
in  many  establish­
ments  would  be  a  very  large  under­
taking,  indeed.  Now  and  then  in  the 
great  army  of  business  men  one 
is  en­
countered  who,  with  the  courage  of  his 
convictions  regarding  utility  and  econ­
omy,  does  not  pretend  to  keep  all  his 
letters,  and  who  unhesitatingly  consigns 
to  the  waste  basket  many  of  the  com­
munications  that  he  receives.  Men  of 
this  kind  are  increasing  in  number at 
the  present  time.

The  difficulty  of  the  matter  is  to  de­
termine  what  is  worth  saving  and  what 
may  be  unconditionally  destroyed. 
If 
some  things  are  to  be  preserved  and 
other  things are  not  to  be  kept,  then  a 
decision  must  be  reached  at  the  time 
each  letter  is  received  or  written,  as the 
case  may  be,  as  to  what  shall  be  done 
with  it.  The  necessity  of  so  deciding 
has  deterred  many  a  man  from resorting 
to  this  method  of  diminishing  expenses 
and  reducing  the  storage space  required 
for  his numerous  and ever-accumulating 
store  of  documents.

Occasionally,  an  original  suggestion 
is  encountered  still  further  looking  to 
labor  in  copying  and 
the  reduction  of 
filing.  For  example,  a 
letter  has  re­
cently  come  to  our attention  which  bad 
printed  conspicuously  upon  it  the  fol 
lowing :  “ If  this  letter  needs  a  reply  it 
will  greatly  facilitate  our  office  records 
if  you  will  answer  on  the  back  of  this 
sheet. ’ ’

letter  answered 

Various  utilities  are  served  upon  this 
plan :  First  there  is  the  saving  of  sta­
tionery,  and  next  there  is  the  saving  of 
at  least  a  part  of  what  is ordinarily writ­
ten  in  the  date  line.  The  dating  is like­
ly  to be abbreviated  to  the  utmost limit. 
Again  there  is  the  saving  of  the  polite 
salutation  with  which  letters  are  usually 
commenced,  and  perhaps  also  the  clos­
ing  salutation.  A 
in 
this  manner  permits  of  various  abbre­
viations,  not  only  in  the  specific  items 
above  mentioned,  but  also 
in  words 
and  in  style and  character  of  composi­
tion. 
It  more  nearly  corresponds  to 
what  would  pass  in  conversation  were 
the  same  message  to be conveyed orally. 
The 
is  certainly  a  good  one  and 
the  suggestion  or  request  will  undoubt­
edly  be  acted  upon  by  the  recipient  in 
a  majority  of  cases.  The  old  theory  that 
every  scrap  of  paper  must  be  preserved 
and  every  letter  answered 
is  gradually 
becoming  obsolete.  This  result  has 
been  hastened  by  the  presence  of  type­
written  and  lithographed  imitation 
let­
ters,  the  genuineness  of  which  it  is  as­
sumed  none  but  an  expert  can  question. 
Whenever the  business  man  feels  sure 
imitation  letter  he destroys
he  has  an 

idea 

it. 
The  habit  of  destroying  useless 
papers  thus  commenced  soon  extends  to 
various  other  documents.

Business  Requires  Experience.

During  the  last  twenty-five  years there 
has  been  a  very  material  change  in  al­
most  everything  connected  with  our  ex­
istence.  War,  for  example,  is  at  pres­
ent  conducted  on  very  different  lines 
from  what  formerly  prevailed  and  the 
change 
in  business  is  no  less  conspic­
uous.  Any  nation  that  engages  in  war 
or  any  man  who  enters  upon  business 
to-day  without such  an  experience  and 
preparation  as 
insure  the  use  of  the 
best  up-to-date  methods  is  almost  sure 
to  meet  disaster.  Experience  in  war 
and experience  in  business  are  alike  es­
sential  to  success.

It  may  be  possible  occasionally  to 
point  out  a  business  in  which a man  has 
succeeded  without  previous  experience, 
but  it 
is  far  easier to  point  out  a  very 
large  number  of  cases  wherein  lack  of 
experience  has  brought  on  disaster. 
That  experience  was  lacking  on the part 
of  the  one  who  failed  may  have  escaped 
notice 
in  some  cases  when  the  failure 
occurred,  from  the  fact  that  some  years 
had 
intervened  between  the  time  the 
business  was  begun  and  when  the  fail­
ure  occurred.  Nevertheless,  it  was 
in­
experience  that  caused  the  disaster, 
and  the  disaster  was  delayed  only  dur­
ing  the  period  necessary  to  exhaust  or 
consume  the assets  of  the  business.
Business  can  not  be  learned 

from 
books  nor  acquired  at  school.  A  theo 
retical  course  in  business  is  only  an  in 
traduction  to  its  practice. 
It  requires 
thorough  training  to  make  a  successful 
business  man.  Employment  in  a  pros­
perous  and  progressive  establishment, 
affording  as  it  does  the  opportunity  for 
watching  causes  and  effects,  and  stimu­
lating  a  desire  to  excel  in  the  duties 
imposed,  is the  only  practical  training 
school.

To  enumerate  causes  of  business  fail­
ures  would  be  an  almost  endless  task. 
The  causes  are  extremely  numerous, 
but  for the  most  part  they  are  mixed  up 
with  one  kind  or  another  of  inexperi­
ence.  Buying  cheaply  and  selling  at 
high  prices  is  not  the  only  condition 
to 
insure  success.  Good  buying  is  an 
art,  the  practice  of  which  requires  one 
to  know  many  things  and  to  understand 
many  conditions.  Speaking  in  general 
terms,  goods  can  be  bought  cheapest 
when  bought  in  a manner that causes the 
seller  the  least  expense  to  make  the 
sale.  Therefore,  the  buyer’s  condition 
of  solvency,  his  ability  to  pay  prompt­
ly,  his  management  of  the  details  of  his 
business  and  other  conditions  peculiar 
to  himself  all  affect the  prices  that  be 
pays  for  his  goods.  But  all  these  are 
things  which  require  forethought;  that 
demand  for  their  proper  employment  an 
intelligent  study  of  conditions  and  a 
thorough  acquaintance  with  surround­
ings,  which  are  only  other  names  for 
experience. 

G.  W .  W e r l in .

Cash  Discount  Limit.

Now  that  we  are  entering  upon  a  new 
era  of  prosperity,  we  should  not  forget 
the 
lessons  of  the  depression  through 
which  we  have  recently  passed. 
In 
perpetuating  our  enforced  economies 
lie  the  possibilities  of  future  success. 
To  sell  closely  and  quickly,  to  credit 
carefully,  to  discount  purchases  and  to 
collect  promptly,  are  going  to  be  the 
rules  from  this  time  forward  of  the  ma­
jority  of  those  who  have  weathered  the 
storm. 
In  some  lines  of  trade  the  dis­
counts  for  cash  will  amount to enough  to 
pay  the  expenses  of  the  business. 
In 
such  lines,  therefore,  one  should  never 
fail  to  take  advantage  of  the  discounts 
offered.

Some  retailers  appear  to think  that  a 
few  days  later  than  the  terms stated  will 
make  no  difference. 
In  such  conclu­
sions  they are greatly mistaken.  “ Three 
per  cent,  io  days”   means  just  what  it 
says,  and  the  purchaser  ratifies  the  con­
tract  of  sale  of  which  this  is  an 
impor­
tant  part  whenever  he accepts the goods. 
He  should,  therefore,  be  as  scrupulous 
to  observe  that  part  of  the  agreement  as 
any  other.

it 

is: 

The  clause  above  quoted  does  not 
mean:  “ Send  the  money  when  you  get 
ready  and  take  off  your  discount, ”   but 
instead, 
“ If  your  remittance 
reaches  us  within  ten  days  from  date  of 
invoice,  we  will  give  you  3  per  cent, 
discount. ”

Does  the  retail  merchant  ever  realize 
that  anything less  than this  is  not  a  pay­
ment  in  full?  The  amount  of  the  dis­
count  or  the  delay  beyond  the  date  may 
be  trifling,  but  the  times  through  which 
we have  been  passing  have  been  of  the 
kind  to  demonstrate  that 
is  trifles 
which  make  or  mar  business.  As  a 
fact,  the  aggregate  of  such  trifles  is  a 
considerable  amount.

it 

Certainly,  no  fair-minded  and  honor­
able  business  man  would  continue  the 
practice  of  varying  from the letter  of the 
contract  after  once  giving  the  matter 
careful  thought.

The  practice  of  exceeding  the  dis­
count  limit  on  invoices  is  an  indication 
of  a  desire  to  get  the better of the jobber 
in  little  things  that  often  proves  a  fore­
runner  of  worse  to  come.  Hence,  in 
part,  the  attention  that  the  jobber  is 
likely  to  pay  to  such  matters,  and 
hence,  in  part,  also,  the  reason  why  the 
merchant 
from  such 
things 
in  the  sense  of  avoiding  the 
appearance  of  evil. 

G.  S.  M ann.

refrain 

should 

No  Agreement  Reached.

Attempts  to  reach  a  trade  agreement 
between  the  various  cordage  manufac­
turers  of  New  York  have  failed  for  the 
present. 
The  Standard  Rope  and 
Twine  Co.  has  withdrawn  from 
the 
Manufacturers’  Association,  which  for 
more  than  a  year has  been  endeavoring 
to  maintain  prices.  The  company,  be­
cause  of  its  obligations  as  a  member  of 
the  association,  is  stated  to  have  been 
maintaining  prices,  while  others  were 
taking  advantage  of  the  situation  to  get 
business  at  lower  rates.

When  one  woman  says  that  another  is 
queer,  it  means  that  she is too charitable 
to  express  her  real  opinion.

Eve  is  the  only  woman  on  record  who 
never  turned  around  to  see  what  the 
other  woman  had  on.

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People  Who  Pay  and  People  Who  Do 

Not  Pay.
Written for the Tkadhxah.

In  the  granting  of  credit,  even  for a 
small amount,  the  probability  of  getting 
one’s  pay  for  that  particular  bill  of 
goods  is  not  the  only  thing  to  be  taken 
into  consideration.  The  real  question 
is,  Will  the  person  asking  the 
favor 
If 
make  a  desirable  credit  customer? 
he  will,  and  a  credit  business 
is  being 
done,  then  the  accommodation  should 
be  granted  quickly  and  cheerfully.  But 
if  there  is  the  somehow  feeling  that  the 
applicant 
little  “ shaky,”   that  he 
can  not  be  classed  with  reliable,  sure- 
paying  patrons,  that  he  could  not  be 
considered  perfectly  good  for  four  or 
five  times  the  amount  asked  for,  then  it 
is  best  to  refuse— politely,  of  course, 
but  firmly.

is  a 

For  instance,  a  man comes into a store 
wanting  to  get  a  pair  of  shoes  or a  few 
groceries,  or  some  little 
items  of  dry 
goods,  as  the  case  may  be.  It  is  a  mat­
ter  of  only  two  or  three  dollars.  He 
hasn’t  the  money  but  promises to pay  in 
a  few  days.  He  probably  will  pay  that 
bill  just  as  be agrees  to.  But  it  is  well 
to  remember that  many  a  ledger is  filled 
with  the  worthless  accounts  of  people 
who  have  paid  up  once.

Having  met  this  bill  promptly,  the 
customer  feels  at  liberty  to ask  for more 
It  is  harder  to  refuse 
extended  credit. 
now  than 
it  would  have  been  before, 
and  is  sure  to  wound  the  customer  more 
deeply;  so,  although 
it  is  contrary  to 
the  merchant’s  better  judgment, 
the 
credit 
is  again  granted.  Perhaps  the 
settlements  are  promptly  made  for  sev­
eral  successive  times.  Then  comes  a 
day  when  the  customer  pays  only  part 
of  the  account,  alleging  sickness  or 
other  misfortune as  a  reason  for  not  be 
ing  able  to  discharge  the  whole.  To 
this  unpaid  balance  a  new  account 
is 
added.  The  dealer  carries  the  delin­
quent  a  month  or  so,  fearing  to  cut  mat­
ters  short  lest  he  lose  the  account,  yet 
feeling  also  that  it  is  very  risky  to  let 
more  goods  go  when  the  pay  is  so  un­
certain.  Finally,  a  halt  has  to be  called 
and  the  merchant  is  left  with  a 
large 
and  worthless account  on  bis  books,  re­
gretting  sorely  that  this  customer  did 
not  “ skip  out’ ’  months  before  with  only 
that  first  little  bili  unpaid.

It  is  not  always,  perhaps  not  usual­
ly,  that  such  losses  result  from  premed­
itated  dishonesty  on  the  part  of  the buy­
er.  The  real  double-dyed  villain  is  apt 
to  convey  an  unmistakable 
impression 
of  what  he  is  and  one  does  not  have  to 
be  particularly  shrewd  to  read  his  char­
acter.  More  to  be  dreaded  are the  peo­
ple  of  good  intentions  who  fail  to  make 
their  calculations  come out.  Many such 
live  up  to  the  full  limit  of  their  in­
comes 
then 
when  a  rainy  day  comes,  the  dealers 
who  carry  them  must  bear  the  financial 
brunt  of  their  misfortunes.

in  times  of  prosperity; 

It  sometimes  seems  that  there  are 
gradations  of  honesty  and  dishonesty 
and  that  they  shade 
into  each  other, 
there  being  no  sharp  line  marking  the 
one  from  the  other. 
It  is  a  little  para­
doxical  to  say  that  the  same  person  is 
partly  honest  and  partly  dishonest. 
In 
theory  one  must  either  be “ honest  as 
the  day  is  long’ ’  or else a regular rascal; 
but  in  reality  there  are  plenty  of  people 
who  would  pay  all  their  debts  the  first 
thing 
left  to 
them,  but  who  lack  the  rigid  self-re­
straint  necessary  to  make  the  sacrifices 
that  would  keep  them  “ even  with  the 
world’ ’  on  a 
limited  or  uncertain  in-
come.

large  fortunes  were 

if 

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

There  are  other  people  who  are  sure 
pay  but  so  slow  as  to  make  them  unde­
sirable  debtors.  Enough  such  creditors 
would  swamp  a  merchant  as  surely  as 
those  who  do  not  pay  at  all.

As  said,  there are  people  of  thorough­
ly  honest  intentions  whom  it  is  not  de­
sirable  nor  safe  to  trust.  Conversely, 
one  occasionally  finds  perfect  knaves, 
gamblers,  thieves  and  whatnot  that  are 
reliable 
in  the  matter  of  paying  their 
bills.  This  is  particularly  true of  a class 
of men  who  resort  to  all  manner  of  what 
are  termed  “ sharp  practices’ ’  in  their 
dealings.  They  may  be  so  unscrupulous 
that  they  will  take  the  last  dollar  of  a 
widow  or orphan  by  a  process  not  short 
of  actual  stealing  and  suffer  never  a 
qualm  of  conscience,  but  from  motives 
of  pride  or  policy  they  do  not  wish  to 
be  annoyed  by  the  importunities  of  col­
lecting  butchers  and  grocers  and  so  pay 
up.

Always  to  know  when  and  where  not 
to  extend  credit  would  make  the  mer­
chant’s  pillow  soft  and  keep  the  silver 
from  his  raven  locks. 

Quillo.

Banana  Flour  the  Next  Cereal.

in 

The  next  dietetic  fad  is  going  to  be 
banana  flour.  Manufacturers  are  ex­
perimenting 
this  direction,  and 
promise  soon  a  meal  that  will  keep  as 
long  as  wheat  flour  and  make  a  much 
more  nutritious  bread.  As  already  the 
demand  for  whole-wheat  flour  is  giving 
place  to  some  newer  fad,  this  new  al­
bumen  will  undoubtedly  meet  a  quick 
welcome  when 
it  comes.  The  use  of 
the  banana has  developed  its  great  value 
as  an  article  of  food,  and  the  great 
army  of  banana  consumers  are  prepared 
to  accept  eagerly 
its  further develop­
ment.

The  average  woman  is  as  proud  of the 
trouble  she  has  with  the  hired  girl  as 
she  is  of  her new  bonnet.

i *BUCKWHEAT

r?

That is PURE  is  the  kind 
we  offer you at prices that 
are reasonable.

We  sell  buckwheat  that 
has the good old-fashioned 
buckwheat  taste.  We  do 
not  adulterate  it 
in  any 
way, shape or manner.  We 
believe  that  when  people 
ask  for  buckwheat  they 
want buckwheat,  and  it  is 
for the class of people who 
know what they  want  that 
we make this buckwheat.

We  believe  that  it  will 
please  any  lover  of  the 
genuine article.

We  would  like  to  have 
your order  and  shall  take 
pleasure  in  quoting  you a 
close price on any quantity.

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VALLEY  CITY 
MILLING  CO.

GRAND RAPIDS. 
9

Sole manufacturers of “ LILY WHITE. 

The flour the best cooks  use

W e   h a v e . .

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£  

A line of  Men’ s  and  Wo- 
men’s  Medium  P r ic e d
Shoes  that  are  Money
Winners.  The  most  of 
them  sold  at  Bill  Price. 
W e  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.

GEO.  H.  REEDER  &  CO.,

19 S. l u l l  St, Graad Rapids, Mich.

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

The  Lamb Glove  &  Mitten Go..

of PERRY, MICH.,

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

KNIT  HAND  WEAR 

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

Twenty=Five  Days

more and the Holiday season of ’98 will be a matter  of history.  That  it will 
be a “ record breaker”  is a foregone  conclusion.  The  signs  of  the  times 
point that way.

Are  You  Prepared  for  It?

Umbrellas.  Always popular as a Christmas gift.  We have a fine line both in men’s  and 
ladies’ goods, siik with steel rods,  paragon  frames  and  nobby  handles,  at  a 
good range of prices.

Gloves and Mittens.  Our assortment is good  for  either  men’s  or  ladies*  wear.  An  espe­
cially appropriate article for professional men is our Alaska  Beaver glove, at 
92.50 per pair, each pair packed in a neat pasteboard box.

Suspenders.  N ot the  everyday  seller, but  fine  goods  to  retail  at  50,  75  cents  and  $1 00 

per pair.  A  very popular article and a popular price.

Give us an idea as to what you are out of.
A ll mail orders receive prompt attention.

VOIGT,  HERPOLSHEIMER & CO.,  Grand  Rapids.

Wholesale  Dry  Goods.

for the holiday Crade

We have an elegant line of perfumes, put up 2 and 3 doz. on artistic dis­
play cards,  which can be profitably retailed st 5 and  10 cents  per  bottle. 

Sampson's Guns, filled with perfume, to retail at 5 cents.
Half oz.  triple  extract, a showcase free  with  each  2  doz.,  to  retail  at 
10 cents.  A beautiful and artistic medallion, brass mountings, with each 
doz. half oz. triple extract, to retail  at  10  cents.  Better  goods  to  sell  at 
15, 20, 25 and  50 cents per bottle.

Dolls to retail  from  1  to 75 cents.

Children's  fancy  handkerchiefs 

to sell from 2 cents up. 

Ladies' 

fancy  handkerchiefs 

to sell from 5 cents up.* 

Ladies’ Japanese  Silk  handker­
chiefs to sell from  10 cents up. 
Men’s fancy and plain handker- 
,  chiefs to sell from 5  cents  up. 
Men’s  imitation  Japanese  Silk 
(initial)  handkerchiefs  to  sell 
at  I2>£  and  15 cents.

Men’s silk handkerchiefs to sell 

at 25 and 50 cents.

A complete line of Mufflers, Ties, Gloves,  etc., and many other  useful 

Christmas gifts too numerous to mention.

JEW ELRY, all the newest styles at all prices.

P. Steftetee $ Sons,  Grand Rapids, IDich.

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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OLDING  PIPER  BOXES

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

G R A N D   R A P ID S   P A P E R   BOX  CO.

P H O N E   8 5 0 .  

8 1 . 8 3   AND 8 5  C A M P A U   S T ..  G R A N D  R A P ID S . M IC H .

Y / e   M o p   T h e   W o r l d

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

Fuller Patented Eccentric Spring Lever  Mop  Stick

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

E.  F.  ROWE,  Ludington. Michigan.

Ruberoid  Ready  Rooting

Will  last longer than any other roofing  now on the market. 
We have full  faith  in  its  merits.  But  if  you  want  other 
kinds  we  always  have them at reasonable prices.  Let us 
quote you prices,  if you need roofing of any sort.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON,

Detroit Office, foot of 1st Street.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

NUTS 

and 

RAISINS

ALMONDS

BRAZILS

FILBERTS

PECANS

W ALNUTS
MIXED

FANCY  CLUSTERS 
LONDON  LAYERS 

IM PORTED  SULTANAS 

ONDARA  LAYERS 

LOOSE  MUSCATELS 

SEED ED  IN  PACKAGES

AND  ALL  GRADES  OF  FANCY  CANDIES

Our line of above goods is in and we are offering at very 

low  figures.

MUSSELMAN  GROCER  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

FOR  CHRISTMAS

must  begin  with  fish—say  a  bit  of  sole 
that  originally  reposed  in  via  blanc  and 
still  retains  the  flavor  of  good  society. 
Then  comes  a  slice  of  roast,  garnished 
with  tiny  potatoes  and  Brussels  sprouts 
and  carrots.  Next 
is  a  spoonful  of 
beet  salad,  and  following  it  a  sweet  and 
a  morsel  of  cheese.  A  few  coals,  a 
stew-pan  and  no  prejudices  against  the 
method  by  which the  menu has been pre­
pared,  and  one  has  a  dinner  fit  for  a 
nabob.

The  sweets  or  desserts  and  the  green 
salads  are  the things  that  most  sturdily 
refuse  to  assume  their  pristine  charm 
under  the  skillful  manipulation  of  the 
vendors  of  second-hand  food.  Pastry 
will  crumble  aDd 
lettuce  and  chicory 
will  wilt,  but  even with them  much  may 
be  accomplished,  and  they  are  not  so 
much 
in  demand  as  meats and  vege­
tables,  so  the  supply  of  them  need  not 
be  so  large.  Fastidious  persons  may 
object  to  the  hit  and  miss  character  of 
these  food  supplies,  and  mankind 
in 
general  has  an  aversion  to  “ leavings,”  
but  evidently  the  prejudice  isn’t  uni­
versal 
in  Paris,  for  the  stalls  have  a 
thriving  trade.

The  business  has  reached  great  pro­
is  a  recognized  factor  in 
portions,  and 
Parisian 
life.  The  hotels  reduce  their 
losses  in  waste,  the  merchants  make  a 
small  profit,  and  the  customers  get  bet­
ter  food  than  they could  afford  to  buy  in 
any  other  way.  The  only  objection  to 
the  system 
is  a  matter  of  sentiment, 
and  that  objection 
is  weakened  by  the 
fact  that  the  food  sold  to  the  merchants 
is  not  taken  from  plates,  but  only  from 
side  dishes  in which  it  has  been  served. 
Food 
left  upon  plates  would  be  too 
mussy  to  be  of  any  use,  but  whenever  a 
man 
is  served  with  one  order  of  any­
thing  at  a  good  restaurant  he  almost 
invariably  gets  more  than  he  can  eat 
He  takes  a  part  of  the  food  upon  hii 
plate.  The  rest  is  left  upon  the  dish  in 
which  it  was  served,  and 
in  Paris  that 
part  of  the  order  goes  to the  stall  in  the 
market.  The  idea  isn’t  so  disagreeable 
after  all,  when  one  gets  used  to  it 
Many  a  diner orders  a  $i. 50 steak  at  l 
restaurant,  and 
it,  for 
which  he  would  gladly  pay  a  quarter 
the  next  morning,  if the  thing  were  pos 
sible.

leaves  half  of 

The  customers  of  the  second  hand 
food  stalls  are  not  of  the poorest classes 
Filet  with  mushrooms,  even  second 
hand,  is  too  rich  for many poor wretches 
of  the  Paris  faubourgs,  but  there  is  a 
fairly  respectable  laboring  class  whose 
wages  are  small,  whose  sous  are  few, 
who  are  good patrons  of  the second-hand 
stalls,  and  many  a  thrifty  house-wife 
who  could  afford  to  market  more  am­
bitiously  carries  home  a  plate  of  salad 
or  a  cut  of  meat  whose  origin  she  wi” 
keep  secret  from  the  family.

SECOND  HAND  FOOD.

Leavings  of  Restaurants Used in Paris 

Market  Stalls.

From the New York Sun.

Nothing  is  wasted  in  Paris,  and  even 
at  the  hotels  and  restaurants  all  of  the 
food  that  is  left  on  the  table  after  a  pa­
tron  has  finished  bis  meal  is  saved care­
fully.  This  is  true  not  only  in  the  third- 
class  places  where  the  leavings  will  be 
utilized  in  ragouts  and  other  mysteries, 
but  even  in  the  most  famous  of Parisian 
restaurants,  and  dessert,  salad,  fish,  are 
preserved,  as  well  as  the  meat  and  veg­
etables,  which  have  greater possibilities 
in  the  line  of  reincarnation.  A  visit  to 
one  of  the  great  Paris  markets  will  ex­
plain  the  destination  of  the  collections 
of  food  scraps,  and  although  occasional 
weak-stomached  tourists  object  to  this 
particular  variety  of  French  thrift  the 
scheme  has  much  to  commend  it.

Paris  markets  are  not  profitable  fields 
for  strangers  of  enquiring  dispositions 
and  weak  stomachs.  The  snails  squirm­
ing  frantically  about  in  big  pails,  the 
live  eels  writhing  in  water tanks  or  on 
the chopping  boards,the many  unattract­
ive  but  delectable  delicacies  that  are 
usually  encountered  only 
in  a  state  of 
apotheosis  on  a  French  table,  are  dis­
concerting  in  their  primitive  state  and 
take  awav  a  man’s  appetite.  But  the 
stalls  where  the  hotel and restaurant food 
scraps  are  sold  are  really  rather  ap­
petizing.  The  merchant  who  owns  the 
stalls  has  an  arrangement  with  certain 
hotels  and  restaurants,  and  each  day 
calls  for  their  refuse  food.  He  pays  lit 
tie  for  it,  and  naturally  the management 
can  not  afford  to  have  the food  of  differ­
ent  kinds  collected  separately.  All  of 
the  fragments  are  put  together,  but  they 
are  saved  in  a  careful  and  clean  way.

The  merchant  separates  the  food,  put­
ting  all  the  pieces  of  fish  in  one  dish, 
the  meat  in  another,  the  potatoes  in  an­
other. 
Then  comes  the  test  of  his 
genius. 
It  isn’t  easy  to  make  a  plate 
ful  of  those  leavings  look  savory and ap­
petizing,  but  the  thing  may  be  done 
more  often  than  one  would  think  pos­
sible,  and  the  amount  of  art  lavished 
upon  the  arrangement  of  those  viands 
would  make  a  man  famous  in  America. 
The  proprietor  of  the  stall and madame, 
his  wife,  work  culinary  miracles  with 
those  despised  leavings,  which  over 
here  would  probably  go  to  the  garbage 
carts  and  be  of  use  to  no  one.  Madame 
selects  all  of  the  potatoes,  arranges  a 
pile  of  them  on  a paper  or wooden plate, 
or  sometimes  upon  porcelain.  Beside 
them  she  lays  a  small  piece  of  beef, 
adds  a  spoonful  of  peas,  garnishes  the 
dish  with  parsley,  lays  a  slice  of  lemon 
on  the  meat,  and,  la  voila! 
in­
finitely  more  appetizing  than the  food  at 
the  American  cheap  restaurant.

It  is 

its  comrade 

Rows  and  rows  of  plates  are  arranged 
along  the  stall.  Some  hold  two  or  three 
kinds  of 
food  that  go  well  together 
Some  contain  only  one  kind.  A  plate 
ful  of  rich  salad  has  been  rescued  from 
mussiness,  picked  out,  scrap  by  scrap, 
from  the  general  melange,  regarnished, 
topped  by  fresh  slices  of  the  egg  that 
was 
in  earlier  and  better 
days,  and  here  the  gourmet  of the Place 
Maubert  has  a  Bignon  salad  for  four 
sous.  Perhaps  some  gamin’s  taste  is 
for  filet  with  mushrooms. 
It  comes 
high  at  the  Cafe  Anglais,  but  at  the 
market  one  can  have  it  for  a  very  mod­
est  sum.  To  be  sure 
it  needs  warm­
ing,  and  the  mushrooms  have  come  to­
gether  from  many  sources  and  have 
never  before  met  the  filet.  Perhaps  the 
filet  itself  is  oddly  cut,  but  a  slight  dose 
of  melted  butter  and  artistic  taste  can 
make  the  dish  exceedingly presentable.
There  are  customers  who  are not satis­
fied  to  make  a  meal  of  one  or two things 
— who  demand  a  course  dinner.  M.  le 
Proprietaire 
is  ready  for  them.  On  a 
large  plate  he  has  put  a  small  supply  of 
each  thing  that  goes  to  make  up  a  din­
ner  comme  il  faut. 
It  grieves  him  that 
he  must  omit  soup.  The  sociable  char­
acter  of  that 
item  of  a  menu  bars  it 
from  a  society  where  each  member must 
preserve  its  individuality  while  deign 
ing  to  come  to  close  quarters  with 
its  set.  The  menu
strangers  not 

in 

Satan  As  a  Landlord.

There  is  only  one  spot  on  the  earth 
surface  that  has  actually  been  willed 
deeded  and  bequeathed  to  his  satan i 
majesty.  This  spot  lies  four  and  a  half 
miles  south  of  Helsingfors,  Finland.

A  few  years  ago  Lara  Huilariene died 
in  the  little  town  of  Pielisjarvi,  in  the 
above  named  country,  leaving  consider­
able  property 
in  the  shape  of  landed 
estate.  How  he  had  come  into  posses­
sion  of  so  much  land  no  one  seemed  to 
know,  but  as  he  was  a  very  bad  citizen 
it  was  generally  admitted  that he  was  in 
league  with  wintahausu  (satan)  and 
that  they  had  many  business  deals  with 
each  other.
This  somewhat  startling  opinion  was 
verified when old  Huilariene’s  son  found 
a  certified  warranty  deed  which  deeded 
to satan  all  his  earthly  possessions.

The  will  was  to  the  same  effect.  The 
family  have  repeatedly  tried  to  break 
the  will,  but  so  far,  has  been  unsuc­
cessful.  Thus  the  records  plainly  show 
that  his  sulphuric  majesty  has  a  right 
and  title  to  some  excellent  grounds  in 
the  near  vicinity  of  Helsingfors.
The  simple  people  of  the  neighbor­
hood  have  changed  the  course  of  the 
road  which  formerly  skirted  the  Huil­
ariene  homestead  and  declare  that  they 
would  not  enter the  possessions  of  Satan 
&  Co.  for  all  the  money  that  the  three 
estates  would  bring.

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Wm.  Brummeler  &  Sons

aóo S.  Ionia Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

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Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants. 

Marion—Wm.  G.  Kinney  has  opened 

a  feed  store here.

Glen  Arbor—Carl  F.  Walker has  sold 

his  general  stock  to  Henry  Nessen.

Mason—Oscar  C.  Hoyt  has  purchased 

the  grocery  stock  of  Pratt  &  Owen.

Layton  Corners—Wenz  Yaklin  suc­
ceeds  James  &  Yaklin  in  general  trade.
Battle  Creek—W.  C.  Sanford  has  sold 
bis  shoe  and  notion  stock  to  A.  N. 
Buckner.

Manchester—Gallop  &  Lewis,  of Jack- 
son,  have  opened  a  branch  furniture 
store here.

Stockbridge—Hall,  May  &  Co.  suc­
the  Stockbridge  Hardware  & 

ceed 
Furniture  Co.

Berrien  Center— Rutter  &  Miller,  gro­
cers,  have  added  a  line of  men’s  fur­
nishing  goods.

Lakeville—Wilson  B.  Homer  has  sold 
bis  dry  goods  and  boot  and  shoe  stock 
to  B.  C.  Layton.

Laingsburg—E.  Heisey  has  purchased 
the  grocery  stock  and  meat  market  of 
Dodge  &  Bixby.

Alpena— Geo.  Stovel  has  purchased 
the  meat  market  and  grocery  stock  of 
James  C.  Hayes.

Cass  City—J.  W.  Heller  &  Son  have 
purchased  the  grocery  and  bazaar  stock 
of  James  Tennant.

Lake  Odessa—John  Beadle,  of  Sara­
nac,  has  embarked  in  the  harness  busi­
ness  at  this  place.

Alpena—Geo.  W.  Stovell  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  and  meat  mar­
ket  of  Hayes  &  Brown.

Onondaga— L.  H.  Sanders  has  sold 
his  stock  of general  merchandise  to  F. 
£.  Mosher,  of  Banfield.

Lansing—Arthur A.  Cramer will short­
ly  open  a  jewelry  and  silverware  store 
at  218  Washington  avenue.

Dexter— L.  D.  James has  discontinued 
business at  this  place  and  removed  his 
clothing  stock  to  Ann  Arbor.

Belding— L.  E.  Sprague  has  sold  his 
bakery  business  to  G.  E.  Shaw,  of  Long 
Lake,  who  has  taken  possession.

Ingolsdorf—J.  E.  Blomgren  has  put 
line  of  dry  goods and  clothing  in 

in  a 
connection  with  his grocery  stock.

Hart— Henry  J.  Palmeter  has  pur­
chased  the  clothing  and  men’s  furnish­
ing  goods  stock  of  John  F.  Widoe.

Homer—C.  J.  Hensbaw,  news  dealer 
and  stationer,  has  taken  a  partner.  The 
new  firm  will  be  known  as  C.  J.  Hen- 
shaw  &  Co.

Port  Huron— Doe  &  Hastings  have 
sold  their  stock  of  groceries  to  John 
Wakeham,  a  former  engineer  on  the  F.
&  P.  M.  Railroad.

Cedar  Run— Ira  H.  Newman  has  pur­
chased  the  hardware  stocks  of  Daniel
G.  Shorter  and  A.  C.  Wynkoop  and  will 
conduct  an  exclusive hardware business.
Grass  Lake—D.  L.  Livingston,  of De­
troit,  has  purchased  the  drug  stock  of 
Walker  &  Son.  He  will  make  extensive 
improvements, 
including  a  new glass 
front.

Owosso—John  T.  Walsh,  who  recently 
sold  his  grocery  stock  to  the  Johnson 
Grocery  Co.,  has  erected  a  new  store 
building  and  engaged  in  the  men’s  fur­
nishing  goods  business.

Owosso—A  woman  from  Clare  recent­
ly  did  a  land  office  business  in  Owosso. 
She  took  orders  for tailor  made  suits  for 
ladies,  also $2.50  from  each  lady.  The 
suits  have  not  yet arrived,  although  they 
were  ordered  some  weeks  ago.  Letters 
have  been  sent  to  the  house  in  Chicago 
which  the  woman  claimed  she  repre­

Alpena— The  Huron  Handle  &  Lum­
ber  Co.  expects  to  resume  operations  at 
its  plant  next  week.  The  plant  will 
work  sixty  men  and  will  doubtless  be 
run  during  the  winter.  Many  improve­
ments  have  been  made  at  the  plant  and 
new  machinery  put  in  to  materially 
in­
crease  its  capacity.

Ludington—The  Flint  &  Pere  Mar­
quette  Railroad  has  recently  put  in  a 
spur  of  about  three  miles 
for  J.  S. 
Stearns,  near  Tallman,  and  he  will  get 
out  logs  there  this  winter.  The  com­
pany  has  also  put  in  a  spur  at  Fountain 
for Manigold & Stephens.of Freesoil, who 
will  draw  the  greater  part  of  their  sup­
ply  of  hardwoods  from  that  source  the 
coming  winter.

Durand-The  Durand  Harrow  and 
Manufacturing  Co.  has  been  organized 
with  a  capital  stock  of  *20,000,  of which 
*4,500 
is  paid  in,  for  the  manufacture 
of  Brown's  patent  common-sense  har­
row and agricultural  implement novelties 
and  specialties.  The  stockholders  and 
the  number  of  shares  held  by  each  are 
as  follows:  F.  E.  Leonard,  225;  R.  C. 
Fair,  150;  C.  H.  and  D.  B.  Sayre,  each 
150,  and  J.  H.  Brown,  135.  The  re­
maining  1,190  shares  are  to  be  held  by 
the  company  as  treasury  stock,  to  be 
hereafter  sold  as  shall  be  provided  for 
by  the  by-laws  of  the  company.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Greenville—John  N.  Nichols,  for  a 
time  a  grocery  clerk  in  Greenville,  has 
enlisted 
in  the  regular  army  and  be­
come  a  member  of  Co.  G  of  the  Fourth 
U.  S.  infantry.

Central  Lake— L.  E.  Bockes  succeeds 
Mr.  McKee  as pharmacist in  Ogletree’s 
drug  store.

Traverse  City—Joseph  Klugman  suc­
ceeds  Cbas.  Holliday  as  trimmer  and 
cloak  salesman  at  the  Boston  store.  Mr. 
Holliday  resigned  to  take  a  similar  po­
sition 
in  Flint.  Mr.  Klugman  hails 
from  Detroit.

Grand  Ledge—Carl  Tinkham,  who 
has  been  behind  the  counter  nine  years 
for  Geo.  W.  Campbell  &  Son,  has  re­
signed  to  engage  in  business  on  his own 
account.

Mason— Geo.  M.  Webb  has  taken  a 
in  the  shoe  store  of  F.  W. 

clerkship 
Webb.

Flint— F.  A.  Gillis,  employed  at  Cole 
&  Cole’s,  and  Miss  Margaret  Callahan, 
also  of  this  city,  were  recently  married 
at  Windsor,  Ont.,  by  the  Rev.  Fr.  Jos­
eph  Bayard.  Miss  Callahan  has  clerked 
for  years  in  the  store  of  Pierce  Bros.

Traverse  City— Miss  Mae  Collins, 
clerk 
in  the  Boston  store,  was  married 
recently  to  Wm.  Kress,  the  Elk  Rapids 
jeweler.

According  to  the  opinion  of  United 
States  Consul  Blom,  at  Copenhagen, 
Denmark  offers  a good  market for Amer­
ican  machinery  and  tools.  Until  now 
Germans  have  controlled  the  market. 
Their  prices  are  a  trifle 
lower,  but  the 
American  goods  are acknowledged to  be 
superior.  The  demand 
is  for  engine 
lathes,  drilling  and  boring  machines, 
milling,  planing  and  shaping  machines, 
slotting  machines,  boring  and  turning 
mills,  machines 
for  making  screws, 
grinding  and  polishing  machines,  and 
American  tools  of  all  kinds.

Don  Carlos  is  a  bluff.  He  has  a  little 
money  and  can  not  afford  to  waste  it 
trying  to  be  King  of  Spain.

People  who  take  old-fashioned  medi­
cine  are  led  to  believe  a  remedy  is  not 
good  unless  it  tastes  bad.

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

sented,  but  they  know  nothing  of  her. 
The  ladies  who  did  business  with  her 
have  given  up  hopes  of  getting  either 
their  goods  or  the  money  back.  The 
same  swindler  has  been  heard  of ¡in 
ether cities,  where  she  worked  the  same 
game.

Otsego— W.  H.  Bechtel,  formerly  en­
in  the grocery  business  at  Way- 
gaged 
land  under  the  style  of  Bechtel  &  But­
terfield,  has  engaged  in  the  confection­
ery  business  at  this  place.

Maple  Rapids— Merchants  here  have 
purchased  a  bell  which  tolls  at 8  o’clock 
every  night,  when  all  the  business  men 
close  their  stores,according  to an  agree­
ment,  Saturday  nights  excepted.

Empire— L.  E.  Collin  and  John  Fry 
have  formed  a  copartnership  and  will 
erect  a  building,  36x60  feet 
in  dimen­
sions,  two  stories  high,  in  which  they 
will  put  a  line  of  farm  implements.

Bay  City— The  proposition  of  S.  O. 
Fisher  to  compromise  with  his  creditors 
at  20  cents  on  the  dollar,  not 
including 
the  liabilities  of  Turner  &  Fisher,  has 
been  declined  by  the  creditors  inter­
ested.

Harbor  Springs— W.  J.  Clarke 

is 
putting 
in  the  foundation  walls  pre­
paratory  to  the  erection  of a  single story 
building,  30x55  feet  in  dimensions,  ad­
joining  his  brick  block,  which  will  be 
equipped  for a  meat  market.
Ishpeming---- The  drug 

stock  of
Meloche  Bros.,  which  was  seized  on 
execution  by  Lord,  Owen  &  Co.,  of 
Chicago,  has  been  purchased  by  that 
firm.  The  business  will  be  continued 
under  its  former  management.

Alpena—The  Alpena  Business  Men’s 
Association  has  experts  at  work  making 
tests  at  different  points  in  the county for 
coal,  oil  or  gas.  There  are  plenty  of 
indications  that  all 
these  exist,  and 
ii.000  will  be  spent  in  testing  with  a 
diamond  drill.

Lansing—Cahill  &  Wood,  attorneys 
for  thirty  creditors  of  Mrs.  E.  Glic- 
man,  to  whom  she 
is  indebted  in  the 
sum  of *10,000,  have filed an  involuntary 
petition  for  her  adjudication  as  a  bank­
rupt,  in  the  U.  S.  District  Court  for the 
eastern  district  of  Michigan,  at  De­
troit,  and  obtained  an  order  from  the 
court  to  take  possession  of  her  belong­
ings  and  hold  them  until  further  orders 
of  the  court.

Cheboygan  (Democrat)— The  young 
ladies  of  the  city  have  taken  measures 
toward  a  general  early  closing  move 
ment 
Inspired  by  the  knowledge  that 
many  of  their  own  sex  have  to  work 
from  early  morning  until  very  late  in 
the  evening,  and  believing  that  there  is 
no  necessity  for keeping  the  stores  open 
so  late,  they  have  held  meetings  to  con­
sider  what  could  be  done.  A  meeting 
was  held  at  the  New  Cheboygan  Tues­
day  afternoon  and  another one  Friday 
afternoon  at  the  same  place.  Clerks; and 
proprietors,  also  will  have  the  ladies  to 
thank  for  making  their  lives much  more 
than  a  simple  monotonous  grind  of 
work,  eat  and  sleep,  giving  them  time 
in 
from 
business  cares,  making  them  better  na- 
tured  next  day  and  consequently  in  a 
better  position  to  please  customers  and 
thus  increase  business.  Nearly  every 
business  house  in  the  city  has  signed 
the  agreement  to close  five  evenings  a 
week  during  the  winter  months.

the  evening  for  relaxation 

Manufacturing  Matters.

Berville— Wm.  Bailey  has  sold  his 

saw  and  grist  mill  to  S.  B.  Allen.

Roscommon—J.  B.  Redhead  has 
started  his  shingle  mill  and  expects  to 
run  it  all  winter.

East  Tawas— Ambrose  Schill 

suc­
ceeds  C.  Carpenter  Schill  in  the  cigai 
manufacturing  business.

Schoolcraft— The  Harris  Milling  Co., 
of  Three  Rivers,  has  established  a  dis­
tributing  depot  for  flour  and  feed  at 
this  place.

Caseville— Frances  E.  Conley  suc­
ceeds  Flacb  &  Conley  in  the  mercantile 
and  lumber  business  and  as  proprietor 
of  the  Caseville  Salt  Co.

Ludington—The  Cartier  sawmill  shut 
down,  as  it  is  out  of  logs,  but  the  shin­
gle  mill 
is  still  running  and  is  manu­
facturing  for J.  S.  Stearns,

Saginaw—Charles  Silsby  will  start  a 
camp  in  Roscommon  county  next  week, 
where  he  will  cut  300,000  feet  of logs for 
the  Palmerton  Woodenware  Co.

St.  Louis—Gale  C.  Brooks  and  Ben 
D.  Weaver  have  engaged  in  the  manu­
facture  of  confectionery  under the  style 
of  the  St.  Louis  Confectionery  Co.

Ludington— Danaher  &  Melendy  have 
all  their  shipments  completed  and  their 
boats  laid  up,  but  as  they  have  plenty 
of  logs  will  continue  sawing  as  long  as 
the  weather  will  permit.

Munising— The  H.  M.  Loud  Sons’ 
Co.  has  purchased  the  mill  and  cedar 
interests  of  the  Munising  Cedar  and 
Shingle  Co.  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  on  a  larger  scale  than  before.

Ravenna—Smith  &  Starks,  who  have 
been  operating  the  grist  mill  at  this 
place,  announce  the  dissolution  of  the 
firm  on  Feb.  1.  Mr.  Starks 
is  con­
sidering  the  plan  of  erecting  a  grist 
mill  at  Belding.

Petoskey—D.  R.  Jones  has  retired 
from  the  firm  of  Bull,  Bauerle  &  Jones, 
wood  turners.  The  remaining  partners, 
Henry  Bull  and  Fred  Bauerle,  will  con­
tinue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
Bull  &  Bauerle.

St.  James— N.  Stebbins  and  Charles 
C.  Tilley  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under  the  style  of  Stebbins  &  Tilley 
and  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of 
shingles.  Both  members  of  the  firm 
hail  from  Northport.

Jackson— E.  S.  Bowman,  manager  of 
the  Faultless  Shirt  Waist  Co.,  has leased 
the  third  floor  and  half  of  the  second 
floor of  the  block  on  Cortland street  now 
in  process  of  remodeling,  and  will  re­
move the  factory  to that place  some  time 
in  December.

Oscoda—The  H.  M.  Loud  &  Sons 
Lumber  Co.  at  this  place  and  also  at 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  and  Edward  F.  Loud, 
who  was  connected  with  the  firm  and 
conducted  general  stores  at  Au  Sable 
and  McKinley,  are  succeeded  by  the
H.  M.  Loud’s  Sons  Co.

Lansing  State  Senator  A.  D.  Hughes 
has  sold  his  interest  in  the  Hart  Mill­
ing  Co.  to  Edward  W.  Webber,  who  re­
cently  came  here  from  Philadelphia  and 
acquired  a  half  interest.  A  stock  com­
pany  will  be  organized  with  *20,000  ad­
ditional  capital,  and  the  business  mate­
rially  extended.

Detroit— Articles  of association  have 
been  filed  by  the  Riverside  Chemical 
Mfg.  Co.  The  capital  stock  is  *5,000. 
The  stockholders  are  Henry  L.  Page, 
Fort  Scott,  Kas.,  175  shares;  James  A. 
Cole,  Detroit,  1  share;  Harry  B.  Page, 
Detroit,  87  shares,  and  Louis J.  Bureau] 
Delray,  87  shares.
_ Saginaw—The  mills  at  points  on  the 
lines  of  railroad  reaching out from Sagi­
naw  have  all  had  the  best  season’s  run, 
financially, 
There 
will  be  a  lot  of  logs  of all  kinds  put  in 
during  the  coming  winter  in  the  north­
ern  part  of  the  State,  the  good  demand 
for  lumber and  shingles  being  an  extra 
inducement  to  owners  of  timber.

in  several  years. 

Grand  Rapids  Oossip

The Grain  Market.

The  past  week  has  been  a  dragging 
market.  Export  shipments  have  been 
very 
large,  but  receipts  in  the  North­
west  more  than  kept  pace  with  ship­
ments,  as  the  visible  showed  up  1,997,- 
000  bushels  increase,  which  makes  our 
visible  24,500,000 bushels.  Speculation 
is  only  moderate  in  the  wheat  centers, 
owing  to  the  unsatisfactory  reports  from 
Russia,  which  are  very  conflicting,  and 
investment  buyers  seem  to  hold  ofl, 
waiting 
for  more  definite  statistics. 
Cables are  of  the  same  tenure,  not  much 
change. 
The  continental  granaries  are 
low  ebb,  while  wheat  in  passage 
at  a 
does  not  show  an 
increase  to  amount 
to  much  and  arrivals  at foreign ports are 
not  more  than  requirements.  The  scar­
city  of  good  No.  2  red  winter 
is  still 
felt by  local  millers,  which  may  change 
should  our  roads 
improve,  and  as  tax 
time  draws  near,  farmers  may  be  freer 
sellers  than  they  have  been.  As  we  near 
December  the  longs  seem  to  let  go  their 
holdings  and  transfer  their  trades  to 
May.  While  many  thought  the  short 
interest  would  enhance  prices,  it  seems 
as  if  the  market  was  nearly  evened  up.
The  demand  for  flour  holds  up  well, 
which  keeps  the  mills  busy.  Mill  feed 
likewise  is  very  steady.  The  home  de­
mand  for  the  dairy  farms  takes  more 
than  usual. 
It  now  looks  as  if  the  de­
mand  will  keep  up,  owing  to  corn  and 
oats  keeping  up  in  price.

Corn  held 

its  own,  especially  as  the 
weather  has  been  against  new  corn  be­
ing  marketed.  The  corn  crop  in  this 
State  is  much  below  the  amount  raised 
last  year  as  the  amount  received  here  is 
very  large.

slow  and  the  visible 

Oats  are  up  and  very  steady.  The 
is 
offerings  are  small,  as  the  movement 
is  only 
very 
5,500,000  bushels 
against  15,000,000 
bushels  at  the  same  time  last  year;  so 
oats  will  be  oats.

Receipts  during  the  week  have  been 
35  cars  of  wheat,  37  cars  of  corn  and 
only  2  cars  of oats.

The  mills  are  paying  62c  for  wheat.
C.  G.  A.  V o ig t- 

*  *  *

Not  many  years  ago  wheat  bran  for 
feeding  purposes  was  considered  hardly 
worth  drawing  home.  The  farmer  took 
it  along  with  the  rest  of  the  grist  be 
cause 
it  belonged  to  him,  and  as  the 
cattle  devoured  it  eagerly  he  concluded 
that  small  quantities  would  not  hurt  his 
live  stock.  But  to-day  the  bran  and 
middlings  produced  at  our flouring mills 
are  in  great  request,  in  fact  in  constant 
demand  by  growers  of  stock  of  all  kinds 
and  by  dairymen.

The  offal from  nearly  five  million bar­
rels  of  flour  ground  in Michigan mills  is 
largely  consumed 
in  the  State.  The 
authorities  of  the  experiment  station  at 
the  Agricultural^College  have  shown  in 
recent  bulletins  that  bran and middlings 
not  only  have  a  great  fertilizing  value 
but  are  also  among  the  most  economical 
cattle  foods  that  the  market  affords. 
By  repeated  and  thorough  experiments 
they  have  shown  that  these  products 
are  practically  as  well  as  theoretically 
among  the  very  best  of  cow  feeds.  They 
have  the  right  consistency,  being  well 
ground,  and  the  proper  proportion  of 
the  ash  elements,  the  potash  and  phos­
phoric  elements, 
to  supplement  corn 
meal. 
It  was  shown  also  that  in  no 
other  product  was  a  pound  of  actual 
digestible  nutritive  matter  offered  so 
cheaply,  with  the  sole  exception  of  corn 
meal.  At  current  prices  a  pound  of 
nutritive  matter 
in  mill  feed  and  corn 
meal  costs  about  the  same,  but  in  addi­
tion  to  the  nutritious 
substance  the 
former  furnishes  a  good  supply  of  the 
desired  ash  elements.  Mill  fed  is  easily 
obtainable,  and 
in  dry  storage  will

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5

keep  perfectly  for  an  indefinite  period. 
That  it  is  cheap  is  shown  by  the  fact 
that  at  this  time  of  year  many  farmers 
and  stock  raisers  put  in  a  supply  lim­
ited  only  by  their  future  needs  and 
their  storage  capacity.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Most  of  the  receipts  are  now 
culls,  which  were 
left  by  the  packers, 
but  which  the  growers  are  bringing  in 
and realizing 25@4oc per bu.  on.  Dealers 
hold  No.  1  fruit  at  $2.5o@3  and  No.  2 at 
$2@2.50.

Beets—25c  per  bu.
Butter— Dairy 

is  about  the  same, 
choice  grades  commanding 
I7 @ i 8 c. 
Factory  creamery  is  in  ample  supply  at 
20C.

Cabbage—$3  per  100 heads  for  home 

Carrots—20c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—$!  per  doz.
Celery— I2@i5c  per  doz.  bunches  for 

White  Plume.

Cranberries—Cape  Cods,  $7.50  per 
bbl.  ;  Wisconsin  Bell  and  Cherry,  $7; 
Jerseys,  $6.50.

Cucumbers—75c@$i 

for  hot  house 

grown.

stock.

in 

fresh  fetch 

Eggs— Strictly 

i 8@ 20c. 
Cold  storage  and  pickled  command  16 
@17C.
"  Evaporated  Apples—The  market 
is 
in  a  very  peculiar  condition,  due  to  the 
amount  of  stock  held  by  isolated  evapo­
rators.  Manufacturers  hold  their  sup­
plies  at  8@9C,  while  jobbers  insist  that 
choice  stock 
It  will 
take  several  weeks  yet  to  concentrate 
stocks 
jobbers’  hands,  when  the 
price  will  probably  settle  down  around 
io@iic.

is  worth  9@ioc. 

Game— The  market  holds  firm  to quo­
tations,  with  receipts  light  on  all  lines. 
Heavier  shipments  of  rabbits  are  now 
anticipated.

Grapes— Home  grown  stock  is  prac­
tically  exhausted  and  New  York  stock 
is  too  high  to  meet  the  requirements  of 
this  market.  Almería  stock  in  ¡kegs  is 
moving  well  and  is  keeping  good.

Honey—9c  for  buckwheat  and  11c  for 

white  clover  stock.

Lemons—The stock  in  sight  is  of  very 
good  quality  and  should  bring  the  quo­
tations  without  a  question.  The  de­
mand  shows  a  slight  increase.

Lettuce— 15 @ 16c  per  lb.
Nuts— Hickory,  $1  50^2.50,  accord­
ing  to  size.  Walnuts  and  butternuts, 
60c  per  bu.

Onions— Spanish  are  in  only  fair  de­
mand  at  $1.25  per  crate.  Dealers  pay 
25c  f< r  White  and  Red  Globe  stock‘and 
2o@22c  for  yellow  Danvers  and  Red 
Weatherfields.

Oranges— The  high  value  on  apples 
and  other  fruits  has  had  a  tendency  to 
increase  the  call  for  oranges  over  and 
above  that  usually  the  rule  at  this  sea­
son  of  the  year.  The  stocks  of  Mexi­
cans  and  Jamaicas  seem  to  be  ample.

Parsley—25@3oc  per  doz.
Parsnips—80c  per  bu.
Pears—Dealers  hold  Keefers  at  $3 

per  bbl.

Pop  Corn— 50c  per bu.
Potatoes— The  market  is  slow,  on  ac­
count  of  the  sluggish  condition  of  out­
side  markets,  which  do  not  rebound  as 
much  as  was  expected  with  the  advent 
of  cold  weather.  Dealers  pay  2o@25c 
per  bu.  and  hold  at  251^300.

Squash— y c  per  lb.  for  Hubbard.
Sweet  Potatoes—Virginias  are  steady 
at  $1.50  per  bbl.  Jerseys are  firm  at  $3. 
Illinois  Jerseys  are 
in  good  demand 
at  82.

Turnips— 25c  per  bu.

C.  E.  Morgan  has  re-engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  East  Grand  Rapids. 
The  Ball-Barnbart-Putman  Co. 
fur­
nished  the  stock.

Peter  Cool  will  shortly  open  a  grocery 
store  at  Mendon. 
The  Musselman 
Grocer  Co.  has  the  order for  the  stock.
The  man who  can  pay  his  grocery  bill 
is  looked  upon  as  one  in  affluent  cir­
cumstances.

Visner 

is  home  with  a  lot  of  Gillies' 

New  York  tea  bargains.  Phone,  800.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars— Raws  are  strong  and  un­
changed,  with  96  deg.  centrifugal firmly 
held  at  \y2c  and  very  little  offering. 
It 
is  reported  that  large  sales  of  foreign 
beet  have  been  made  at a laid-down cost 
of  about  4|^c.  Notwithstanding  this, 
refiners  seem  willing  to  buy  cane  at  the 
4j£c  basis.  The  New  Orleans  crop  is 
now  coming  forward  and  is  turning  out 
short  from  previous  estimates.  Early 
estimates  placed  the  crop  at  from  300, 
000 to  320,000 tons,  but  the  latest  figures 
give  the  production  at  not  over  270.000 
tons,  which  is  slightly  under that  of  last 
season.  The  Cuban  crop  is  now  practic­
ally  cleaned  out  and  nothing  will  come 
forward  from  there  until  the  new  crop 
in  January.  Notwithstanding  the  strong 
position  of  raws,  the  refined  market,  as 
in 
intimated 
last  week’s  Tradesman, 
i - i6c  on  Friday  and  further 
declined 
declines  will  probably  be  listed  before 
the  end  of  this  week.  Refiners  seem 
anxious 
favorable 
terms  are  offered  buyers  of  large blocks. 
Doscher  is  turning  nut  a  few  softs,  hav­
ing  placed  one  grade  on  the  market  on 
Saturday  and  another  on  Monday.

for  business  and 

Tea— Primary  markets  are  steady  at 
the  high  prices  which  have  been  ruling 
for  several  months.  A  fair  demand 
is 
expected  in  December,  and  if  these  ex­
pectations  piaterialize,  prices  will  like­
ly  advance. 
If  the  demand  fails  to  de­
velop  until  after  the  first  of  the  year, 
there  will  be  other  receipts  of  tea,  and 
prices  may  be  maintained  on  the  pres­
ent  basis.

remain 

Coffee— Prices 

stationary. 
There  have  been  some  slight  fluctua­
in  the  Eastern  markets,  but  they 
tions 
were  purely  speculative  and  had  no 
in­
fluence  on  Western  conditions.

Canned  Goods—Apples  are  strong  and 
meet  with  a  good  sale  at  full  prices. 
Packers  of  cove  oysters  report  difficulty 
in  getting  sufficient  stock  to  pack,  on 
account  of  the  strict  enforcement  of  the 
Cull  law.  There  is,  however,  no  change 
in  prices.  Salmon  is  moving  very  well 
and,  although  there 
is  no  spring  pack 
Chinook  in  packers’  hands  and,  conse­
quently, no  market  prices  for this grade, 
it  is  a  fact  that  the  best  known  brands 
would  bring  an  advance  of  I5@25c  per 
dozen  over  early  prices 
if  the  goods 
were  obtainable  The  sardine  packing 
season  ends  by  law  on  Dec.  15,  but  is 
practically  over  now  and  the  pack  is 
estimated  at  about  600,000  cases,  which 
is  an  average  pack.  Prices  on  all  kinds 
are  unchanged.  The  market  on  all  va­
rieties  of  vegetables 
is  strong,  with 
some  kinds,  notably  corn,  tending  high­
er.  As 
is  usual  at  this  season  of  the 
year,  there  are  occasional  lots  of  goods 
offered  at  a  shade  under  the  market. 
This  is  not  on  account  of  any  weakness, 
but  is  caused  by  the  desire  of somecan- 
ners  to  close  out  their  odds  and  ends 
and  be  in  shape  to  meet  their  growers’ 
contracts  which 
fall  due  January  1. 
After  the  first  of  the  year  we  predict  a 
higher  market  on  almost  every  article 
in  the  vegetable  line and recommend es­
pecially  purchases  of  corn,  tomatoes, 
peas  and  pumpkin.  A  great  deal  has 
been  said  by  Eastern  trade 
journals 
about  the  enormous  pack  of  tomatoes  in 
Indiana  and  the  large  stocks  that  are 
being  carried  by  the  packers.  These 
papers  have  published  estimates  show­
ing  that  the  pack  was  nearly  half  a 
million  cases.  From  a  perfectly  reliable 
and  trustworthy  source  we  have  the  fol­
lowing  figures,  which  can  be  relied  up­
on  as  approximately  correct:  The  esti­
mated  pack  early 
in  the  season  was 
900,000 cases.  Owing  to  late  frosts  and

wet weather, which necessitated re-plant­
ing,  the  pack  fell  short  of  this  estimate 
about  25  per  cent,  and  was  slightly 
in 
excess  of  700,000  cases.  Of  this  pack, 
less  than  50,000  cases  remains  in  the 
packers'  bands  unsold.  With  only  7 
per  cent,  of  the  pack  unsold  and  fully 
nine  months  before  the  new  pack,  there 
can  be  but  one 
result—higher 
prices.

final 

it  has  been 

Dried  Fruits—The  raisin  crop  is  now 
entirely  out  of  the  growers’  bands  and 
is  under  control  of  the  Association. 
While 
intimated  that  the 
Association  will  advance  prices  again, 
it 
is  hardly  probable  that  they  will  do 
so  at present.  Raisins  are  now  at a price 
that  will  net  the  grower  a  good  profit 
and  at  a  price  that  the  consumer  will 
take  them.  The  first  grade  are  practi­
cally  unobtainable  from  first  'hands,  as 
seeders  have  taken  everything  offered. 
The  Pacific  grade,  however,  are  in  good 
supply  and  are  giving  excellent  satis­
faction.  Fancy  clusters  are  about  out 
of the  market.  Prunes  are  very  strong 
and  have advanced  about  a  %c  in  some 
sections.  We  have  repeatedly  urged 
the  purchase  of  prunes  at  present  prices 
and  still  maintain  that  they  are  the  best 
purchase  in  the dried fruit line.  Peaches 
are  very  strong  and  will,  undoubtedly, 
be  higher.  Currants  are  unchanged  for 
the  regular  stock,  but  cleaned  have  ad­
vanced  %c,  on  account  of  the  advance 
in  bulk  noted  last  week.  The  first  cargo 
of  new  dates  has  arrived  and  was mostly 
sold  to  arrive.  The  unsold  portion  is 
moving  rapidly 
into  consumption  at 
unchanged  prices.  Evaporated  apples 
continue  to  advance  and 
stocks  are 
light 
in  both  evaporators’  and  dealers’ 
hands.

Cereals— There  is  no  change  to  note 
in  this  line,  although  the  grain  market 
is  very  strong,  with  some  advances.

Rice—There 

is  a  good  demand  for 
both  foreign  and  domestic  grades  at  un­
changed  prices.

Molasses  and  Syrups— The  demand 
for  molasses  is  reported  fair  at  primary 
markets,  with  prices about  the  same  as 
last  week.  Corn  syrups  are  having  a 
good  sale  at  unchanged  prices.
!  Nuts— Almonds  are  about  %c  higher. 
Filberts  are  %c  lower.  The  large  pur 
chase  of  pecans,  noted 
last  week,  ad­
vanced  the  market  %c  and  further  ad­
vances  are  probable.  There  is  some talk 
of  a  combination  among  the  peanut 
dealers.  Whether  this  goes  through  or 
not,  the  fact  remains  that  peanuts  are 
cheap  and  a  good  purchase.

Tobacco—The  changes  in  the  price  of 
the  large butts  of  Liggett  &  Myer’s plug 
brands  have  been  followed  by  a  similar 
announcement  this  week 
in  connection 
with  the  P.  J.  Sorg  &  Co.  brands.  The 
price  of  the  Sorg  tobaccos  will  hereafter 
be  uniform,  whether  purchased  in  small 
or  large  boxes,  and  to  bring  about  this 
large  butts, 
uniformity  of  price  the 
which  were  formerly  sold  a  cent 
lower, 
will  be  advanced.

Provisions—The  provision  market 

is 
dull  on  account  of  the  demand  for  holi­
day  poultry.  Hams  are  especially  dull, 
and  the  whole  list  has  weakened  slight­
ly,  with  the  exception  of  lard.  Lard 
holds  its  own  because the  demand  is 
in 
excess  of  the  supply.

Salt  Fish— Mackerel 

is  selling  in  a 
small  way  and  the  market  shows  some 
signs  of  weakness,  which 
is  usual  at 
this  season.  The  mackerel  trade  will 
be  dull  until  the  middle  of  January  at 
least.  Codfish  is  dull  at  ruling  prices. 
Salmon  is  unchanged  and  very  dull. 
If 
a  good  demand  develops,  prices  will 
likely  advance  Domestic  sardines  are 
dull.

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

for  what  she  is  or  leave  her  alone.  The 
divorce 
courts  are  strewn  with  the 
wrecks  of  men  who  thought  they  could 
manage  some  baby-faced,  fluffy-haired 
thing  that  looked  like  she  couldn't  say 
boo  to  a  goose.

I 

also  humbly  trust,  in  the  interest  of 

6

W oman’s World
Educating  Men  to  Become Good  Hus­

bands.

An  announcement  which  is of peculiar 
interest  and 
importance  to  women  has 
just  been  made  that  one  of  our  leading 
universities  is  about  to  establish  a  mat­
rimonial  course.  Very  few  details  have 
as  yet  been  made  public,  but  it  is  safe 
to  say,  judging by the reputation enjoyed 
by  the  college 
that  the 
course  of  study  will  be  thorough  and 
complete,  and  it  is  more  than ordinarily 
gratifying,  in  these  days  of  educational 
fads,  to  hear  of  at  least  one  school  that 
is  getting  right  down  to  business  and 
teaching  people  something  they  really 
need  to  know.

in  question, 

From  whatever  point of view one looks 
at  this  new  experiment 
in  domestic 
science,  it  seems full  of  the  promise  of 
a  better  era.  For  one  thing,  it  is  the 
first  rational  effort  to  solve  the  super­
fluous  woman  problem.  Think  of  those 
doleful  tables  of  statistics  that  social 
economists  prepare  year  after  year, 
showing  the  constantly  decreasing  ratio 
of  marriage  and  the  consequent  increas­
ing  ratio  of  old  maids.  No  woman, 
not  even 
if  she  is  married—for  nobody 
knows  when  she  may  become  a  widow 
and  need  to 
look  out  for  another  bus- 
band—can  read  them  without  a  shud­
der.  The  case  seemed  utterly  hopeless 
until  this  campaign  of  education  was 
suggested,  and  then  the  answer  to  the 
riddle  was  so  easy  that  it  seemed a won­
der  we  hadn’t  all  guessed 
it  before. 
Train  up  a  boy  in  the  way  he  should  go 
and  when  he 
is  old  he  will  not  depart 
from  it,  is  a  piece  of  inspired  wisdom. 
The  corollary  is  obvious.  Educate  him 
to  marry.  Put  him  through  a  thorough 
matrimonial  course,  and  the  selfishness 
of  being  a  bachelor  and  spending  his 
instead  of  bonnets 
money  for  cigars 
will  no  more  occur  to  him 
if 
would  to  use  bad  grammar.

than 

Then 

it  may  be  possible  that  many 
men  are  kept  out  of  the  holy  estate  of 
matrimony  through  bashfulness.  They 
would  like  to  marry  as  they  might 
like 
to  dance  the  german  or  play  golf,  but 
their  early  education  was  neglected  in 
these  lines  and  they  haven’t  the  courage 
to  make  a  beginning  after  they  are 
feeling  them­
grown.  They  hesitate, 
selves  unequal  and 
in 
the  delicate  finesse  of lovemaking.  How 
simply  and  happily  all 
this  will  be 
remedied  by  the  course  in  matrimony 
that  will  turn  out  only  men  who  are 
skilled 
in  the  use  of  flattery,  adepts 
at  paying  compliments,  and  artists  who 
will  even  know  what  to  say  and  how  to 
say  it  whea  they  propose.

inexperienced 

Men  may  not  realize  just  all 

this 
means  to  a  woman,  but  we  know  our­
selves.  Deep down  in  our  hearts,  every 
one  of  us  feels  that  she  has  an 
inalien­
able  right  to  be made  love  to  in  a grace­
ful  and  poetic  way,  and,  no  matter  how 
much  we  adore  our own  particular  Tom 
or  John  or  how  glad  we  were  to  say 
"yes, ”   if  he  bungled  the  situation  of 
situations 
in  a  woman's  life,  we  know 
we  have  been  robbed  of  our  birthright 
of  romance.  Just  think  how  delightful 
it  will  be  to  have  no  more  halting  and 
ambiguous  speeches  at  such  a  time, 
that  leave  a  woman  guessing  where  she 
is  at,  and  uncertain  whether  she  is  en­
gaged  or  not;  no  more  having  a  man 
throw  himself  at  your  head  like  he  was 
slugging  the  umpire  at  a baseball game; 
no  more  self-conceited  proposals,  where 
the  man  acts  as  if  he  was  offering  you 
a  good  thing  and  expected  you  to  jump

at  it.  Instead,  a  lovely,  poetic,  graceful 
speech,  that  would  excuse  any  kind  of 
folly  in  case  you  made  a  bad  match  and 
that  would  be  a  comfort  and  a  pleasure 
to  repeat  to  your  friends as  long  as  you 
lived.

Inasmuch  as  the  professional 

is  al­
ways  superior  to  the  amateur,  it  seems 
unnecessary  to  speak  of  the  advantage 
of  marrying  a  man  who  has  been 
thoroughly  trained  for  the  business.  Of 
course,  there  are  already  many  good 
husbands,  just  as  there  are  successful 
self -made  men  in  other  lines,  but  as  a 
general  thing  it  takes  a  woman  the  best 
part  of  her  life  to  educate  one  in  the 
part. 
It  is  a  common  observation  that 
second  wives  have  the  best  of  things 
and  are  generally  treated  with  a  consid­
eration  and  tenderness  not  always shown 
their  predecessors.  Unthinking  people 
say  this  is  because  the  man  is  more 
in 
love  with  the  new  wife  than  he  was 
with  the  old.  Not  at all.  She  is simply 
reaping  the  benefit  of  the  education  in 
women’s  ways  and  peculiarities  that  he 
got  from  bis  first  wife,  and  it  is  this 
that  makes  a  well  trained widower about 
the  most  desirable  husband  on  earth.

it 

in 

Having  graduated  in  the  matrimonial 
course 
is  easy  to  see  that  men  will 
not  approach  matrimony  with  the  light 
and  frivolous  spirit  they  now  show.  As 
a  general  thing  they  seem  to  think  that 
it  is  to  be  a  kind  of  picnic,  where  the 
woman  will  always  have  on  a  pretty 
gown  and  be  well  and  beautiful  and 
smiling  and  ready  to  entertain  them. 
They  sign  for  a  fair  weather  voyage, 
with  no  provision 
it  for  rains  and 
storms. 
It  is  an  impossible  scheme  of 
life,  and  it  would save  a  1 Jt  of  misery if 
it  could  be  ground  into  men  that  they 
are  not  going  to be  any  exception  to  the 
rule,  but  that  when  they  marry  a woman 
they  marry  her  nerves  and  temper  and 
unreason  and  silliness,  just  as  much  as 
they  marry  her  beauty  and  grace  and 
sweetness  and  goodness. 
It  is  all  there 
in  every  woman  that  ever  lived.  You 
can’t  pay  your  money  and  take  your 
choice.  You  will  have  to  take  them  all 
together,  and  no  man  has  any  right 
to  slam  the  front  door  behind  him  and 
consider  himself  a  successor  to 
the 
martyrs  every  time  he  discovers  a  fault 
in  bis  wife.

It 

is  to  be  hoped  that  the  very  first 
thing  they  will  teach  in  a  matrimonial 
course  will  be  to  impress  on  a  man  the 
importance  of  finding  out  what  kind  of 
a  wife  he  wants  before  be  gets  married, 
instead  of  waiting  until  afterwards. 
Half  the  time  be  doesn’t  waste  as  much 
time  on  a  dispassionate  consideration 
of  the  question  of  whether  she  would 
suit  him  as  he  does  in  picking  out  a 
necktie.  She  pleases  him  in  some  way 
and  he  marries  her,  and  then  discovers 
that  they  haven’t  a  single  taste  in  com­
mon.  Why,  in  heaven’s  name,  should 
any  rational  man  expect  the woman  who 
was  silly  before  marriage  to  be  intel­
lectual  afterwards,  or her  who  was  reck­
lessly  extravagant  to  suddenly  become 
a  model  of  economy,  or  the  one  whose 
sweet  timidity  won  him 
to  become 
self-reliant  and  capable  the  minute  she 
was  married?  One  would  say  that  to 
even  dream  of  such  a  transformation 
was  nothing  short  of  the  vagary  of  a 
lunatic,  except  that  we  see  sensible  men 
If  I 
committing  the  folly  every  day. 
had  the  decorating  of  a  classroom 
in 
which  young  men  were  to  study  matri­
mony,  I  would  cover the  walls  with 
il­
luminated  mottoes  warning them against 
marrying  any  girl  under  the  mistaken 
impression  that  they  could  mold  her 
character  or  make  her  over.  Take  her

Sapient  Ducks,  and  How an  Express- 
From  the  Boston Evening  Transcript.

man  Quieted  Them.

In the  ineffable  old  town  of  Wrentbam 
a  great  business 
is  made  of  raising 
ducks,  and  the  exuberant  fancy  of  the 
native 
inhabitants  consequently  turns 
itself  loose  nowadays  on  duck  stories. 
Perhaps  the  most  remarkable  ducks  in 
the  town  are  those  that  belong  to  Mr. 
Greening,  the  storekeeper.  Mr.  Green­
ing  keeps  his  fine  white  Pekins  in  a 
small  pasture  or enclosure through which 
trickles— or  did  trickle—a  rivulet  of 
water.  Mr.  Greening,  of course,  ere'cted 
about  this  enclosure  a  high chicken wire 
fence  so  that  his  ducks  coud  not  get 
out.  On  the  lower  side  of  the  pasture, 
where  the  streamlet  went  through,  there 
was  space  enough  between  the  wire 
screen  and  the  water  for  the  ducks  to 
get  through  and  escape,  and  so  Mr. 
Greening  drove  down  some  stakes,  side 
by  side,  into  the  bottom  of  the  stream 
to  prevent  the  ducks  from  getting  out. 
Then  the  ducks  arose  magnificently  to 
their  opportunity.  They  discovered 
in 
these  stakes,  put  there merely to restrain 
their  liberty,  the  foundation  of  great 
happiness.  They  assembled  in  the  riv­
ulet  close  up  against  the  stakes;  they 
paddled  the  bottom  of  the  stream  with 
their  webbed  feet;  they  stirred  up  the 
mud  and  forced 
it  against  the  stakes, 
and 
little  they  made  a  dam 
which  caused  the  water  to  back  up  and 
create  for  them  a  beautiful  pond.  And 
now  every  day  these  happy  and  astute 
ducks  may  be  seen  gayly  swimming  on 
a  fine,  smooth  expanse  of  water  which 
is  the  result  of  their  own  engineering 
talent.

little  by 

There 

instance  of  the 

And  yet  this  is  not  the  most  remark­
intelligence  of 
able 
Wrentbam  ducks. 
is  another 
breeder  out  there  ¡whose  ducks  possess 
a  nice  natural  swimming  pond,  of which 
they  are  very  proud.  Last  fall,  when 
the  cold  weather  came  on,  the  pond 
began  to  skim  over  with  a  thin  crusting 
of  ice.  Now  these  wise  ducks  had  dis­
covered  that  if  the  water  were  disturbed 
it  would  not  freeze  over  so  readily;  and 
in  order  that  their  pond  should  not 
freeze,  they  spent  one  entire  night 
in 
going  in  and  coming  out  of  the  water, 
and  so  incessantly  troubling  its  surface 
that 
it  could  not  freeze!  The  proud 
owner  of  the  ducks,  having  been  out  at 
a  lodge  meeting,  discovered  them  thus 
engaged  at  about  midnight,  and  stayed 
up  a  while  to  watch  them.  After  be 
went  to  bed  he  could  not  sleep,  and  got 
up  and 
looked  out  of  the  window;  the 
ducks  were  still  industriously  waddling 
in  and  climbing  out  of  the  water.  The 
result  was  that  next  day,  when  all  the 
other ducks'  ponds  were  frozen  up,  and 
their  possessors wandering and quacking 
disconsolately  on  the  banks,  these  wise 
ducks  were  complacently  floating  and 
paddling  on  the  free  and  silvery  bosom 
of  their  charming  lakelet.

The  third  duck  story  is  not  of  the  in­
telligence  of  ducks,  but  of  that  of  man 
as  related  to  ducks.  There  was  an  ex­
pressman  who  started  for  Boston  early 
in  the  morning  and  reached  home  late 
at  night  and  who consequently had to get 
a  good  deal  of  his  sleep  on  the  road  on 
the  way  to  town  in  the  morning.  He 
would  bang  up  his  reins  and  his  horses 
would  jog  placidly  and  safely  on  while 
he  curled  up 
in  the  corner of  the  seat 
and  slept.  After  the  duck  business 
was  started  this  unfortunate  express- 
man generally  had  to  bring  into  town on 
his  wagon  a  crate  of  live  ducks,  and 
they  made  such  a  racket  with  their 
quacking  that  he  could  not  sleep.  He 
reckoned  that  he  would  get  used  to  the 
noise  after awhile,  but  he  didn’t.  The 
ducks  always  spoiled  his  sleep.  As  be 
rode  along  he  pondered  upon  means  of 
keeping  the  ducks  still,  and  one.day 
when  he  was  in  town  he  bought  a  lot  of 
stout  and  very  short  little  elastic  rubber 
bands.  Next  morning  he  stretched  one 
of  these  rubber  bands  over the  bill  of 
every  duck—and  not  a  quack  could  one 
of  them  utter.  The  expressman  slept 
the  sleep  of the  just  all  the  way  to  the 
city  after  that,  but  the  clatter  which 
those  poor  ducks  made  when,  at  their 
journey’s  end,  the  bands  were  taken  off 
is  said  to  have  been  almost 
their  bills 
enough  to  wake  the  dead 
in  the  city 
cemeteries.

domestic  happiness,  that  a  good,  strong 
financial  plank  will  be  introduced 
into 
the  matrimonial  curriculum.  When  we 
consider  people  being  in  love  we  slop 
over  with  so  much  sentiment  we  don’t 
give  the  practical  side  of  the  question 
much  consideration.  The  general  sen­
timent  seems  to  be  that 
if  a  young 
couple  are 
in  love  enough,  they  won't 
need  anything  to  eat,  or  else  it  will  be 
mysteriously  provided,  which,  being  in­
terpreted,  means  that  they  go  to  live  on 
their  parents.  There  is  neither 
justice 
independence  nor  happiness  in  it. 
nor 
The  man  who  is  thoroughly  educated  in 
such  matters  at  the  university  will  not, 
of  course,  blunder 
into  this  fatal  error 
as  so  many  of  his  brothers  have.  He 
will  have  been 
instructed  that  he  is 
handicapping  his  own  future  by  marry­
ing  until  he  is  able  to  support  a  family 
and,  above  all,  he  will  have  been  put 
through  a  course  of  monthly  bills  from 
the  grocer  and  butcher and  baker and 
water  works  and  gas,  and  so  will  not  be 
under  the  blissful  hallucination  that  a 
woman  can  work  miracles  and  run  a 
house  without  money.

It  is  within  the  bounds  of probability, 
also,  that  he  will  be  taught  not  only  to 
divide  the  pocketbook,  but  to  play  fair. 
He  will  send  fewer  flowers and chocolate 
creams  before  marriage  and  more  after­
wards.  He  will  have  it  impressed  on 
his  mind  that  the  woman  who  loves  him 
who  used  to  dimple  under  his  compli­
ments  would  still  care  for  a  word  of  ap­
proval  and  go  hungering  without  it  if 
be  withheld  it.  He  will  remember  that 
even  the  most  devoted  of  wives  and  the 
best  of  mothers  occasionally  want  to  see 
other  people  and  want other amusements 
outside  of  their  own  houses.  Perhaps 
he  may  even  think 
it  worth  while  to 
keep  up  after  marriage  some  of  the 
charming 
little  attentions,  the  delicate 
considerations  and  the accomplishments 
that  he  used  when  he  won  her  heart. 
Who  knows?  The  general  man 
is  not 
often  consciously  unkind  or  a  bad  hus­
band.  His  mistakes  are  the  mistakes 
of  obtuseness,  and 
is  precisely  this 
that  makes  the  experiment  of  educating 
him so  hopeful. 
How  the  Carnival  Is  Regarded in Col­

D o r o th y  Dix.

it 

From the Denver Commercial Bulletin.

We  recognize  the  fact  that  the  carni­
val  is  a  great  advertisement  for Denver, 
but  it  is  at  the  expense  of  every  small 
town  in  the  State  and  the  Denver  mer­
chants  should  discourage  it 
in  the  fu­
ture.  People  from  the  mountain  towns 
save  up  their  money,  come  to  Denver 
and  spend  every  cent  with  the  large 
department  stores  and  business  in  the 
town  they  came from  is  practically  dead 
for  some  months  after the  carnival.  The 
merchants  in  the  outside  towns  are 
lib­
eral  buyers  in  this  city  and  should  not 
be  forced  into  competition  with the very 
houses  who  sell  them  goods.  The  ho­
tels,  the  railroads,  the  saloons  and  the 
department  stores  are  benefited  by  the 
carnival  and  that 
is  about  all.  The 
wholesale  houses and  other  business  are 
at  a  standstill  during  the  entire carnival 
week.  We,  for  one,  would  like  to  see 
the  carnival  abolished,  and  would  be 
pleased  to  have the  views  of some  of  the 
merchants  in  the  outside  towns.

Never  Talked  Shop  at  Home.
“ No;  I  never  carry  my  business 

into 

my  home. ”

orado.

"What  is  your  business?’ ’
" I   am  the  proprietor  of  an  intelli­

gence office. ’ ’

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It 

ANNEXATION  AND  COMPETITION
is  not  strange  that  the  unexpected 
outcome  of  the  Spanish  contest,  throw­
ing  upon  our  bands a  large  number  of 
widely-separated  and  diverse territories, 
with  something 
like  a  dozen  millions 
of  inhabitants,  embracing  some  of  the 
lowest  types  of  the  human  family  with 
varying  grades  of  intelligence  above 
these,  should  cause  concern  to  many 
students  of  the  problems of  our  National 
economic  and 
industrial  development. 
The thought  most  prominent  in  produc­
ing  the  alarm  is  that  the  admission  of 
such  an  untoward  portion  of  the  earth’s 
inhabitants  into  a  share  in  our  National 
life  will  menace  many  of  our  most  val­
uable 
industries  and  may  operate  to 
bring  demoralization  and  ruin  to  our 
economic  and  political  system.  Thus 
the  great  agricultural  and  grange  lead­
er,  Herbert  Myrick,  editor of the Orange 
Judd  publications,  sounds  a  note  of 
warning 
in  his  address  to  the  annual 
session  of  the  National  Grange  against 
the  ruinous  consequences  likely  to  fol­
low 
in  agricultural  competition,  and 
calls  for  a  general  protest  on  the  part 
of  the  Grange  membership  to' 
the 
members  of  Congress  against  the  ad­
mission  of  these  countries.  Then  the 
great  philanthropic  capitalist,  Andrew 
Carnegie,  in  bis  excitement  proposes  to 
spend  his  energy  and  millions  to  defeat 
the  consummation  of  the  terms  of settle­
ment,  and  publishes  an  elaborate  pro­
test,  in  which  he  assails  the principle of 
territorial  expansion  as  not  only  inim 
ical  to  our  economic 
interest,  but  as 
unconstitutional  and  contrary  to  the 
principles  governing  our  National 
life. 
And  so  on  every  band  this  anxiety  is 
being  manifested  until  it  would  appear 
that  swift  ruin  is  likely  to  ensue  unless 
we  refuse  the  responsibilities  thrown 
upon  us  by  the  fortune  of  war and  turn 
these  half  barbarous  peoples  back  to 
their  night  of  degradation  and  oppres­
sion.

It  is  amusing,  in  view  of  the  history 
of  our  terriorial  expansion,  to  note  the 
legality  of  such 
arguments  against  the 
action.  There 
is  certainly  a  difference 
in  the  present  extent  of  our  domain  and 
that  of the  original  thirteen slates  which 
inaugurated  our  National 
life.  This 
expansion  has  resulted  largely from pur­
chase  from  the  various  European  na­
tions,  unattended  by  other  than  pacific 
incidents.  The  only  expansion  result­
ing  from  war  was  that  of  Texas  and  the 
Western  and  Southwestern  territories.

Surely  there  has  been  enough  of  this 
policy  to  raise  and  settle  effectually  the 
question  of  legality.  The  only  plausible 
argument  which  would  seem  to  present 
is  that  the  meddling  in  territory  in  the 
Orient  would  be  a  violation  of  the  con­
verse  of  the  Monroe  doctrine.  But  cir­
cumstances  may  sometimes  make  mod­
ifications  of  such  doctrines  necessary 
and  right.

It  is  a  natural  result  of  the prospect of 
improvement 
in  the  various  annexed 
countries on  account  of  their relations  to 
us  that  property  owners  and  producers 
should 
look  to  our  better  markets  and 
prices  for  amelioration  of their  condi­
tion. 
It  may  even  prove  that  in  the 
generosity  of  our  greatness  or  the  heed­
less  or  selfish  carelessness  of  our  law­
makers  some  interests  may  suffer  slight 
temporary 
in  the 
is 
opinion  of  the  Tradesman  there 
enough  of  good  sense  and  patriotism 
in 
the  Government  to  prevent any  serious 
menace.

inconvenience;  but 

of 

Some  or  the  uneasiness  on  account  of 
the  new  relations seems  to  be  occasioned 
by the idea that the  basic principle of  the 
Declaration 
Independence  com­
pels  us  to  admit  the  new  peoples  to  all 
competition  on  an  equal  basis. 
It  is 
gradually  coming  to  be  recognized  by 
students  of  sociology that  it  is  necessary 
to  consider  existing  conditions  in  the 
relations  of  the  various  races  with  each 
other.  The  lessons  of the  premature  en­
franchisement  of  the  negro  which  fol­
lowed  the  civil  war  have  not  been  with­
out  effect and  there  is  now  as  little  dan­
ger  of  the  admission  of  inferior  races 
to  citizenship  while  remaining  in  their 
degraded  condition  as  there 
is  of  ad- j 
mitting  the  insane  or  idiotic  of  our own 
country.

insular  position;  and 

There  is  no  question  but  that  the  new 
relations  will  bring  with  them  much  of 
complication  and  perplexity. 
It  may 
prove  to  be  necessary  to  modify  maBy 
of our accepted  ideas  of  National  and 
Governmental  policy. 
It  may  be  neces­
sary  for  us  to  devise  an  entirely  new 
colonial  policy,  involving  more of pater­
nalism  than  has  been  approved  in  our 
more 
it  may  be 
necessary  to  exercise  control  over  the 
influx  of  products  and  labor,  as  we  now 
do  with  outside  nations.  It is not  a  fore­
gone  conclusion  that  because  we  may 
exercise  control  over  inferior  races  we 
should  do  other  than  work  for  their  im­
provement,  subject  to  their  limitations 
and  our  welfare;  and  while the  problem 
will  present  many  new  elements,  there 
is  enough  of  intelligence  and  common 
sense  in  our  legislators  to  meet  the  new 
conditions  with  as  little  danger  to  our 
industries  as  England  finds  in  dealing 
with  colonies  which  are  even  worse  in 
racial  condition  and  outnumber  her 
several  times  in  population.

A 

lecturer  on  the  wastefulness  of 
American  housekeepers  estimates  that 
100,000  families  could  be  fed  with  the 
food  daily  thrown  away  by  hotels,  res­
taurants  and 
large  private  establish­
ments 
in  New  York  alone.  The  cause 
is  said  to  be  the  abundance  of  food 
and  the  bad  cookery  in  America. 
If 
the  figures  be  correct  New  York  is  a 
big  field  for  domestic  science  mission­
aries. 

_____________

A  wealthy  New  Yorker,  to  get  even 
with  his  neighbor,  has  advertised  bis 
house  to  let.  The  house  is  in  one  of  the 
swell  districts  of  the  city— Trinity  Ter­
race—and  the  advertisement  reads  that 
the  bouse  will  only  be  let to a  coiored 
tenant,  one  with  a  plentiful  crop  of 
pickaninnies  being  preferred.

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
While  the  severe  storms  on  the  Atlan­
tic  Coast  have  served  to  materially 
diminish  the  aggregate of  transactions 
in  the  principal  Eastern  cities, 
the 
general  situation  is  decidedly  improved 
by  the  outcome  of the peace negotiations 
and  by  continued  favorable  reports  of 
railway  earnings  and  improving  textile 
indication  of  the 
conditions.  As  an 
improvement 
in  railways  and  of  the 
magnitude  of  general  business  as  com­
pared  with  the  past,  the  eastbound  ton­
nage  from  Chicago  for  three  weeks  was 
283,098,  as  against  145,038  for the  same 
time  last  year,  and  185,254  for  the  cor­
responding  period  of  1892.  There  was 
a  steady  but  slow 
improvement  for 
sometime,  which  has  finally  developed 
into  more  rapid  advance,  carrying  quo­
tations  to  a  higher  average  than  has 
been  known  since  before  the  panic. 
Sales  of  both  stocks  and  bonds  have 
been  heavy,  much  of  the  buying  being 
of  an  investment  character,  which 
in­
dicates  confidence  as  to  future improve­
ment  and  steadiness.  The  speculative 
industrials  showed  but  a  few  cents  im­
provement  on 
the  average,  although 
many  of  the  more  substantial  stocks are 
advancing  rapidly  and  steadily.

With  but  little  price  variation,up  and 
down,  wheat  and  other  grain  activity 
continues  beyond  all  expectation.  West­
ern  receipts  of  wheat  were  over  8,000,- 
000 bushels,  being  2,000,000  more  than 
for  the  same  week  last  year,  which  was 
unprecedented 
for  the  corresponding 
time  in  previous  years.  Export  move­
ment  is  relatively  heavy.

Considering  the  continued  enormous 
iron  production  it  is  a  matter  for  aston­
ishment  that  prices  have  not  only  been 
maintained,  but  that  some  lines  have 
shown  a  positive advance.  Bessemer pig 
has  risen  to $10.15  at Pittsburg  and  grey 
forge  to  $9.25.  Car  builders  are  greatly 
crowded  with  orders,  making  heavy  de­
mand  for forms  for  their  use,  and  plate 
and  bar  mills  are  behind  in  orders.

The  textile  situation  as  a  whole shows 
long 
more  encouragement  than  for  a 
is  having  a  heavy 
time  past.  Wool 
sale 
in  the  Eastern  markets,  although 
the  tendency  of  prices  is  a  little  easier. 
There  has  been  a  slow  but  steady  im­
provement 
in  wool  fabrics  for  several 
weeks  and  the  feeling  among  manufac­
turers 
is  more  hopeful  than  for  some 
months.  Cotton  shows  a  tendency  to 
healthy  advance,  the  price  reaching  5^ 
cents.  Curtailment  of  production  with 
improved  demand  has  brought  an  ad­
vance  in  prints  to  2.06 cents.

THE  NEW  POSSESSIONS.

It  is  reported  from  Washington  that 
President  McKinley,  in  bis  forthcoming 
message,  will  recommend  that  the  new 
possessions  be  given  a  colonial  form  of 
government,  under  civil  governors,  and 
that  they  be  not  accorded  statehood. 
It 
is  further  reported  that  he  will  recom­
mend  that  Cuba  be  governed  under  a 
protectorate  for  the  present,  and  that, 
after  a  certain  time,  the 
island  be al­
lowed  an  independent  government.

If  it  be  taken  for  granted  that  the  ab­
sorption  of  all  the  Spanish  possessions 
is  inevitable,  then  it  certainly  would  be 
infinitely  better  for  this  country  that 
these  distant  possessions  be  governed  as 
colonies,  and  not  admitted  to  the  rights 
of  statehood,  or  even  considered  as  ter­
ritories.  They  should  have  all  the ad­
vantages  of  local  government;  but  they 
should  have  no  voice  in  administrative 
affairs 
in  this  country,  nor  form  a  part 
of  our  tariff  system.  The  colonial  policy 
should  be  extended  to  all  of our external

possessions, 
Alaska.

including  Hawaii 

and 

To  give  to  such  countries  as  Porto 
Rico,  Cuba  and  the  Philippines  the 
right  of  representation 
in  our  Senate 
and  House  of  Representatives  would  be 
a  very  dangerous  thing,  particularly  as 
it  is  always  possible  under  our  political 
system  that  a  few  votes  may  hold  the 
balance  of  power.  The  people  of  these 
conquered  territories are 
largely  differ­
ent  from  our  people  in  race,  language 
and  customs.  Our  laws  might  be  found 
inapplicable 
in  their  case,  whereas  a 
system  of  local  government,  in  which 
they  would  have  full  liberty  where  not 
inconsistent  with  our institutions,  would 
give  them  infinitely  more  freedom  and 
prosperity  than  they  ever  enjoyed  under 
Spanish  rule.

The  absorption  of  all  this  territory, 
with  the  many  millions  of  people  con­
cerned,  is  a  most  serious responsibility 
to  assume;  yet  there  does  not  appear  to 
be  any  clear  way  out  of  the  difficulty. 
The  formation  of  a  system  of govern­
ment  for  these  possessions  will  absorb 
much  of  Congress’  attention  for  some 
years  to  come.  We  are  also  likely  to 
have  trouble  with  the  natives  of  the 
different  islands  who  may  be  expected 
to  rebel  against  the  restraints  which  an 
impartial  administration  of  the 
laws 
will  place  upon  the  more  turbulent  ele­
ments. 

_____________

The  English  meteorologists  are  talk­
ing  of  making  weather  predictions 
three  or  four  days  ahead  instead  of,  as 
at  present,  only  a  few  hours.  They  be­
lieve  that  such  predictions  can  be  made 
with  a  fair degree  of  accuracy.  There 
are  certain  areas 
in  or  near  Europe 
where  the  conditions  must  be  carefully 
watched  in  order  to  deermine  the  char­
in 
acter  of  coming  weather.  These  are 
Central  Europe,  over 
and 
Greenland  and  over  the  Azores.  Mete­
orologists  believe  that  if  they can obtain 
accurate  data  from  these  regions  they 
will  be  able  to  predict  davs  ahead.

Iceland 

The  will  of  the  late  Prof.  Baron,  of 
the  University  of  Berlin,  who  died 
last 
week,  stipulates  that  bis  entire  fortune 
shall  be  given  to  the  city  for  the  pur­
pose  of  founding  a  home  for  children, 
who  shall  be  raised  on  a  vegetarian 
diet.  The  Berlin  municipality,  how­
ever,  has  consulted  the  medical  author­
ities  on  the  subject  of  vegetarianism, 
and  has  decided  to  refuse  the  legacy 
The  advocates  of  vegetarianism  are  en­
raged  over  the  action  of  the  municipal 
council,  and  they  now  propose  to  found 
an 
institution  themselves  to  prove  the 
truth  of  their theories.

Lake  Superior  is  in  danger  of  losing 
its  distinction  of being  the  largest  fresh 
water  lake 
in  the  world.  African  ex­
plorers  begin  to  think  that  Lake  V ic­
toria  Nyanza  is  larger.  Superior  covers 
31,200  square  miles  and  Nyanza  has 
been  credited  with  about  30,000;  but re­
cent  explorations  have  discovered  a 
hitherto  unknown  bay  on  its  southern 
side,  which  so 
its  known 
area as  to  make  it  a  question  whether  it 
is  not  larger  than  Superior.  Fuller  ex­
planations  and  more  careful  surveys 
must  be  made,  however,  before  a  de­
cision  can  be  reached.

increases 

It  does  not  pay  to  brag.  An  umbrella- 
maker  who  boasted  that  he  had  been 
chosen  to  assassinate  Emperor  William 
goes  to  jail  for three  years.  He  has  dis­
tinguished  himself  with  his  mouth.

Strength  of  muscle  is  dangerous  in  a 

man  who  has  not  strength  of  mind.

COMMERCE  AND  PROSPERITY.
Those persons whose  idea  of  prosper­
is  that  every  individual  should  be 
ity 
wealthy,  and  that  this  is  to  be  accom­
plished  by  confiscating  and  dividing  all 
the  accumulated  riches  in  the  country, 
are  wild  and  foolish  dreamers 
looking 
for  something  impossible without  an  ab­
solutely  radical  change 
in  human  na­
ture.  The  only  prosperity  practicable 
is  found  under  conditions 
that  give 
every  individual  an  opportunity  to  do 
his  best  with  the  faculties  he  possesses, 
and  ensures  to  all  employment  at  rea­
sonable  rates  of  compensation.

The  greatest  problems  of  statesman­
ship  are  concerned  with  securing  the 
welfare  of the  people.  To  keep  the peo­
ple  engaged  in  fairly  remunerative  in­
dustries  is  the  grand  object.  When  the 
people  are  earning  good  wages,  and  all 
who  will  work  are  fairly  employed,  then 
what 
is  the  rule 
in  the  land.

is  called  prosperity 

In  the  emergenecy  which  now  con­
fronts  us  our  lawmakers  must  so  shape 
our  policy  as  to  enable  us  to  find  new 
and  great  markets  for  the  products  of 
the  American  people.  The  solution  of 
this  problem  is  found  in  the  one  word 
“ commerce." 
Increase  the  commerce 
of  the  United  States;  find  more consum­
ers  for  its  products;  then  its  people will 
enjoy  a  fair  measure  of  prosperity.

All  the  wealth  of  modern  commerce 
has  been  gained 
in  trade  between  na­
tions  dwelling  in  the  temperate  zones  of 
the  earth  with  those, 
inhabiting  the 
tropics.

The  reason  of  this  is  simple  enough, 
in  the  same  zones 
since  the  nations 
produce 
like  articles  which  do  not  de­
mand  an  exchange,  while  the  products 
of  the  torrid  regions  are  in  great  de­
mand 
in  the  temperate  latitudes,  and, 
vice  versa,  those  of  the  colder  zones  are 
needed  in  the  tropics.

The  only  exception  to  this  rule  is 
found 
in  those  cases  where  mineral 
products  do  not,  like  those  of  the  veg­
etable  world  and  of  the  people’s 
indus­
try,  conform  to  climatic conditions.  As 
a  general  fact,  the  products  of  the  for­
est,  the  field  and  of  the  sea  are  much 
the  same 
in  all  countries  lying  in  the 
same  latitudes,  and  where  manufactur­
ers  are  confined  to  working  up  the  raw 
material  that  originates  in  such  coun­
tries  there 
is  generally  no  reason  for 
an  exchange  of  products,  because  every 
nation 
in  the  same  zone  possesses  the 
same  products.

England,  France  and  Germany  would 
have  nothing  to  sell to  the  United  States 
but  for  the  fact  that  they  manufacture 
the  products  of  more  Southern  countries 
and  sell  them  to  us and  others.  The 
tropics  alone  offer scope  and  opportu 
nity  for  the  extension  of  commerce  so 
needful  to  the  prosperity  of  the  United 
States.  Mr.  Joseph  Chamberlain,  Brit­
ish  Colonial  Secretary,  in  an  article 
in 
the  December  number  of  Scribner’s 
Magazine,  touching  on  this  subject, 
shows  that  at  the  present  time  the  total 
trade  of  Great  Britain  with  the  tropics 
is  38  per  cent,  of  its  whole  trade  with 
the  remainder  of  the  world,  excluding 
the  English-speaking  peoples;  and  the 
tropical  commerce  of  the  United  States 
is  44  per  cent,  of  its  trade  with  the  re­
mainder  of  the  world,  with  the  same 
exception. 
Yet  the  larger  portion  of 
tropical  territory  has  not  been  touched 
at  all,  or  only  superficially,  and  there  is 
practically  no  limit  to  the  potential  re­
sults  of  the  effective  opening  up  of 
these  countries  to  the  white  man’s  en­
ergy  and  enterprise.

It  is  evident  from  this  that  the  inter­

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

est  of  all  countries  in  this  prospective 
commerce  is  very  great,  and  competi­
tion  for 
its  possession  and  control  is 
actually 
the  peace  of 
threatening 
Europe.  The  statesmen  of  the  Euro­
pean  countries  realize that  the  most  ur­
gent  duty  resting  upon  them  is  to  find 
new  markets  for the  products  of  their 
poeple’s  industry.

This  is  the  policy  that  has  made Eng­
land  so  rich  and  powerful.  The  little 
island,  possessed  of  abundant  iron  and 
coal,  and  having  a  population  full  of 
activity  and  energy,  imports  the  raw 
products  of  all  other  nations  and  man­
ufactures  them.  The  products  of  this 
manufacturing  are  vastly  greater  than 
England  can  consume,  and  so  markets 
are sought  for them  in foreign countries. 
The  need 
for  opening  such  markets 
has  developed  the  remarkable  policy  of 
territorial 
expansion  and  colonizing 
which  has  put  England  at  the  head  of 
the  commercial  world.

found 

The  United  States  has 

it­
self  to-day  very  much 
in  the  condi­
tion  of  England  at  the  beginning  of  the 
present  century.  With  a  population  of 
seventy  millions,  whose  labor 
is  sup­
in  every  department  of  in­
plemented 
dustry  with  the  most 
ingenious  and 
powerful  machinery  capable  of  multi­
plying  that  labor  in  an  enormous  ratio, 
the  productive  power  of  the  American 
people 
is  so  vastly  greater than  their 
consuming  ability  that  great  numbers 
of  the  people  are  subject  to  be  thrown 
out  of  employment  and  forced  to  suffer 
from  their  involuntary  and  unwilling 
cessation  of  work.

The  remedy—and  the  only  remedy— 
is  to  find  new  markets  for  the  constant­
ly  increasing  excess  of  American  prod­
ucts,  and  this  remedy  can  be secured 
only  by  territorial  expansion,  by  modi­
fications  of  our tariff  laws  and  by  build­
ing  up  a  large  and  powerful  merchant 
marine.  Wise  men  will  find  a  way  to 
accomplish  the  all-important  result,  or 
else  the  American  people  must  consent 
to  submit  to  incalculable  evils  growing 
out  of  the  enforced  idleness of  millions 
of  people,  and  the  social  and  political 
agitations  which  such  a  state  of  affairs 
will  entail.

The  “  Keely  motor* ’  incident  demon­
strates  how  eager  capitalists  are  for  the 
possession  of  scientific  discoveries  that 
will  enable  them  to  multiply  power or 
cheapen  production  at  a  small  outlay. 
In  order  to  satisfy  these  demands,  hun­
dreds  of  men  are  constantly  searching 
the  arcana  of  mechanical,  chemical 
and  electrical  science  for  the  secrets 
that  will  enable  their  possessors  to  mul­
tiply  wealth. 
Instead  of  appealing  to 
magicians  and  enchanters,  as  in  fairy 
stories,  it  is  now  only  necessary  to  se­
cure  the  services  of the chemist,  the me­
chanician  and  the  electrician,  and  men 
to-day  are  eager  for  their  revelations  of 
the  secrets  of  nature  to  aid  them  in  pil­
ing  up  wealth;  but  if  a  mechanic  can 
make  a  fortune  by  pretending  to  in­
vent,  instead  of 
inventing,  then  there 
is  no 
incentive  for  him. to  accomplish 
more,  unless  be  be  a  devotee  of science. 
Then  be  will  actually  discover  some­
thing  if  it  be  in  his  power.

Ex-President  Benjamin  Harrison  has 
been  retained  by  Venezuela  to  represent 
that  government  before  the  arbitration 
commission  that  sits  in  Paris  within  a 
short time  to  settle  the  dispute  between 
and  Venezuela  over 
Great  Britain 
boundary  lines.  General  Harrison 
is 
said  to  have  received  a  retainer  fee  of 
$ 100, 000.

DOCTRINE OF THE  DREAMER.
Grand  Rapids  was  recently  visited  by 
a  Chicago  gentleman  who  delivered 
several  homilies  on  the  thingness  of  the 
which,  the universal  brotherhood  of  man 
and  other  socialistic  topics  which  are 
made  much  of  by  theorists  and  dream­
ers.  During  his  visit  here,  an  open 
meeting  was  held  at  one  of  the  opera 
houses  under  the  auspices  of  organized 
labor,  affording  the  preposterous  spec­
tacle  of  a  monopoly—and 
the  most 
tyrannical  and 
infamous  monopoly  the 
world  ever  saw—fathering  a  scheme  of 
socialistic  equality !  While  the  ulterior 
object  of  such  a  propaganda  is  the  pro­
motion  of  selfish  interests,  the  avowed 
object  of  the  crusade  is  the  amelioria- 
tion  of  the  poor  by  the  adoption  of  an 
idealistic  condition  of  society  which 
shall  destroy  all  property,  class and  edu 
cational  distinctions  and  relegate  all 
competition  to  the  background.  Such  a 
condition  would,  necessarily,  dissipate 
all  ambition  and  reduce  the  people  to 
the  dead  level  of  ignorance  and  super­
stition,  thus 
ignoring  all  the  advance­
ment  which  has  been  made  since  the 
days  of  Adam  and  Eve.

As  to  the  poor,  we  are  indebted  to  the 
highest  authority  for  knowing  that  they 
will  always  be  with  us. 
Inequality  of 
fortune 
is  a  necessary  and  inevitable 
result  of  the  differences  in  human  be­
If  all  men  were  from  birth  equal 
ings. 
in  health,  strength, 
intelligence  and 
moral  qualities,  then  the  conditions  of 
universal  peace,  prosperity  and  brother­
hood  dreamed  of  by  the 
socialistic 
theorists  could  be  realized.  All  men 
would  work  alike,  would be  able  physi­
cally and  intellectually  to earn alike,  and 
all  would  be honest  and  faithful.  There 
would  be  no  dissensions,  no  crime,  no 
ignorance  nor  indolence,  and  probably 
no  vices— in  short,  a  Utopian  condition.
Under  the  conditions  which  exist, 
and  have  probably  always  existed,  such 
an  admirable  social  state  is  impossible. 
Men  differ  physically,  intellectually  and 
in  infinite  variety,  and  the  re­
morally 
sult 
is  just  as  great  a  variety  in  their 
social  and  pecuniary  status.  Some  are 
industrious;  others  are  idle  by  prefer­
ence.  Some  are  honest  and  true;  others 
are dishonest  and  false  in  every  relation 
of  life.  Some  are  intelligent;  others  are 
dull  and  stupid.  All  have  made  use  of 
their  faculties  either  for  good  or  evil, 
or  have  utterly  neglected  to 
improve 
them  in  any  way.

How  much  of  the  good  and  evil  in 
mankind 
is  due  to  causes  inherent  in 
individuals  and beyond  their  control  isa 
problem  that  may  be  left to  the  phi los 
ophers  who  have  tried  to  connect  in 
one  system  biology  and  ethics.  What 
the  statesman  and  the  philanthropist are 
called  to  consider  are  the  differences  of 
human  condition  consequent  upon  the 
differences  in  the millions of individuals 
who  go  to  make  up a social  state.  These 
differences  have  to  be  reckoned  with  as 
they  exist,  and  any careful consideration 
of the  situation  must  convince  the  can­
did  observer  that  any  human  arrange­
ment  by  which  the  entire  population  of 
a  country  is to  be brought  to  an  equality 
in  the  conditions  of  life  is  absolutely 
impossible.

Therefore,  under  those 

limitations, 
universal  prosperity  in  any  community, 
however small, is entirely  impracticable ; 
and  vastly  more  impossible,  if  such  an 
expression  can  be  used,  is  prosperity 
for  all  the  people  of  a  great  city  or 
state.  Thus  it  is  that  when  the  Savior 
of  men  declared  that  the  poor  would 
always  remain  as  a  charge  upon society,

9

it  was  a  divine  maxim  which  was  based 
upon  an  absolute  knowledge  of  human 
nature. 

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TROPHIES  OF  THE  WAR.

The  report  from  Admiral  Dewey  to 
the  effect  that  he  bad  contracted  with  a 
responsible  Hong  Kong  wrecking  firm 
for  the  raising  of  three  of  the  Spanish 
cruisers  sunk  by  bis  fleet  on  May  Day, 
and  the  further  information  that  the 
ships  can  be  raised  without  difficulty, 
will  be  gratifying 
information  to  the 
American  people.  The  loss  of  the Maria 
Teresa,  after  having  been 
recovered 
from  the  rocks  on  which  she  bad  been 
driven  by  Admiral  Cervera,  was  a  se­
vere  disappointment,  as 
it  bad  been 
hoped  that  at 
least  one  of  Cervera's 
ships  might  be  recovered  and  retained 
in  the  American  naval  service  as  a  last­
ing  memorial  of  the  great  victory  off 
Santiago.  It  will  be  gratifying  to  reflect 
that  better  fortune  promises  to  follow 
attempts  to  secure  a  trophy  of  the  battle 
in  Manila  Bay,  the  most  memorable 
event  of  the  war.

The  three  vessels  that  are  likely  to  be 
recovered  are  the  sister  ships  Isla  de 
Cuba  and  Isla  de  Luzon  and  the  cruiser 
Don  Juan  de  Austria  The  former  two 
ships  are  of  a 
little  more  than  1,000 
tons  displacement  and  are  modern  ves­
sels 
in  every  way.  The  latter  ship  is 
slightly  larger  than  the  others,  but  is 
somewhat  older.  All,  when  renovated, 
will  be  extremely  useful  vessels  for 
service 
in  the  Far  East,  as  they  are  of 
light  draft  and  can  be  maintained  in 
commission  at  small  expense.  These 
three  ships,  which  are  capable  of  doing 
good  service  for  years  to  come,  will 
serve  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  the 
valor  of  our  sailors  at  Manila,  and  will 
always  be 
interesting  relics  of  a  naval 
fight  which  deserves  to  rank  among  the 
most  memorable  in  history.

SAFE  STAIRWAYS.

The  tragical  burning  of  the  Baldwin 
Hotel 
in  San  Francisco,  and  other 
great  caravansaries,  in  the  destruction 
of  which  many  human  lives  have  been 
lost,  should  emphasize  the  intense  prac­
tical  wisdom  and  shrewdness  of  “ Aunt 
Betsey  Trotwood, ”   who  made 
it  the 
rule  of  her  life  never  to take  quarters  in 
a  hotel  which  did  not  have  a  stone 
stairway  from  the  various  uppers  floors 
to  the  ground.

If  all  travelers  would  make  such a  de­
mand,  there  would  be  better  provision 
of  protected  stairways  and  fire  escapes 
in  case  of  conflagration. 
It  is  as  aston­
ishing  as  it  is  shameful  that  in  spite  of 
all  modern  appliances  for  fire-proofing 
bouses,  or  at  least  to  retard  and  delay 
the  burning  of  houses,  it  is  seldom  that 
the  destruction  by  fire of  a hotel  or  other 
building 
in  which  many  people  are 
employed  or  reside  fails  to  cost  manv 
human  lives.

The  danger  could  be  entirely obviated 
if  proper  attention  were  given  to  the 
stairways.  They  should  be  made  of 
incombustible  material  and 
enclosed 
within  brick  walls,  so  that  no  fire  could 
communicate  to  them.  This  would  not 
be  difficult,  and  it  would  go  a  great  way 
to  make  hotels  and  other  such  buildings 
safe  for  their  human  occupants.  There 
will  have  to  be  special 
legislation 
in 
all cities  to  require  such  provisions.

Man  was  made  to  mourn,  but  he  has 
fixed  things  so  that  woman  has  taken 
most of  the  job  off  bis  hands.

The  man  who  lives  in  a  glass  bouse 
should  go  away  from  home  to  throw 
stones.

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M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

Fruits  and  Produce.
Refutes  Current  Statements  Regard­

ing  California  Fruit  Industry.

From the Los Angeles Fruit World.

From  time  to  time  tbere  appear in the 
press  statistics  of acreage of  orchards  in 
into  trees  in  bear­
California,  divided 
ing  and  those  not  in  bearing,  and 
it  is 
customary,  even  here 
in  California 
where  every  one  should  know  better,  to 
estimate  the  future  production  of  fruit 
by  these  statistics.  As a  matter  of  fact, 
however,  there 
is  no  source  of  infor­
mation  touching  acreage ¡of  California 
orchards  possessing  any  value.  Each 
year  the assessors  of the various counties 
compile  statements  purporting  to  show 
the  number  of  trees  in  bearing and those 
not  yet 
in  bearing,  the  law  putting  in 
the  latter  category  all  trees  under  five 
years  of  age  and  exempting  them  from 
taxation.  These  statements  are  then 
sent  to  the  State  Board  of  Horticulture, 
from  which source the statistics emanate.
It  may  seem  strange  that  the  honest 
farmer  would  attempt  to  evade  the  pay-1 
ment  of  taxes,  such  offense  usually  be­
ing  charged  exclusively  against  corpo­
rations.  But 
is  nevertheless  a  fact 
that  the  statistics  are  ridiculously  false. 
These  show  that  something  like  50  per 
cent,  of  all  trees  in  the  State  are  below 
the  bearing  age,  whereas  any  person 
with  any  acquaintance  with  California 
horticulture  must  know  that  the  great 
planting  period  was  from  1887  to  1893 
and  that  probably  not  5  per  cent,  of  the 
acreage  has  been  planted  since the  lat­
ter  date.

it 

in  time 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  California  is  not 
very  far  from  the  maximum  of  produc­
tion  of  fruit  from  the  present  acreage 
The  15,000 carloads  of oranges  shipped 
last  year  might 
increase  to 
40,000  were 
it  not  for  the  fact  that  in 
certain  sections  not  adapted  to  the  fruit 
the  trees  are  being  uprooted  to  make 
way  for other  crops  and  tbere  seems  no 
reason  to  believe  that  the  orange  output 
will  more  than  double  in  the  next  dec­
ade.  Lemons  are a  later  product  of  the 
State,  and,  while  almost,  if  not  quite, 
all  the acreage  is  in  bearing,  the  trees 
are of ages  which  will  make  very  rapid 
increase  in  production  certain,  and  the 
output  may  run  up  from  the  production 
of  1,200 carloads  last  year  to  10,000 car­
loads  a  decade  from  now.  Olives  were 
planted  heavily  from  four  to  six  years 
ago,  but  the  unsatisfactory  results  have 
led  to  the  destruction  of  a  considerable 
acreage of  quite  old  trees,  and  the  yield 
will  vary  greatly  from  year  to  year. 
Prune  trees  are  the  shortest  lived  of  all 
fruit  trees  grown 
in  Southern  Califor­
nia,  and  the  tendency  is  away  from  that 
fruit.  Apples  are  a  coming  fruit,  with 
a  certainty  of  vast  increase  of  produc­
tion.  The  apricot  and  peach  acreage 
has  about  reached  a  permanent  stage, 
old  orchards  passing  their  prime  or giv­
ing  way  to  other  crops  about as  rapidly 
as  young  acreage  increases 
in  produc­
tion.  Figs have  shown  a  great  decrease 
in  acreage,  while  pears  are  not  looked 
upon  with  special  favor  except  in  small 
sections.

is 

Taken  as  a  whole,  the  fruit  industry 
of  California 
in  a  satisfactory  con­
dition,  and  tbere is  reason to  believe the 
total  output  will  show  an  increase  each 
year  for  many  years  to  come;  but  the 
condition  is  a  long  ways  from  that  por­
trayed  by  statisics  representing  a  half 
of  the  acreage  of all  fruits  as  below  the 
bearing  age.
Suiter  and  Hagar  Methods 

in  the 

Cheese  Trade.

From the  Montreal  Trade  Bulletin.

The  failure  of  the  cheese  exporting 
firm  of  J.  C.  &  G.  D.  Warrington 
is 
turning  out  much  worse  than  at  first  ex­
pected,  as  there  appears  to  be  no  pros­
pect  of  the  factorymen,  who  sold  their 
cheese  to  the  firm  shortly  before 
it  sus­
pended  payment,  getting  anything  at 
all,  as  it  is  feared  tbere  will  be scarcely 
sufficient  assets  to  pay  the  curator  for 
winding  up  the  estate,  to  say  nothing  of 
the  salaries  due  the  employes.  J.  C. 
Warrington 
informed  a  party  here  just 
before  leaving  for  England  that  he  bad 
lost $70,000 on the cheese  he had shipped

to  England  this  season,  but  that  he  was 
going  over  to  the  other  side,  where  he 
expected  to  get  a  settlement.  Mr.  War­
rington  made  considerable  money  last 
year  on  his  short  cheese  contracts,  but 
selling  short 
in  1898  proved  a  losing 
to  which  he  had  to  succumb. 
game, 
Last  year  he  was  very  successful 
in 
Chicago  wheat  and  made  a  considerable 
sum  of  money 
in  the  Leiter  deal;  in 
fact,  he  was  called  the  Leiter of  Mon­
treal  and  proved  a  much  cleverer  oper­
ator  than  the  Chicago  millionaire,  as  be 
knew  when  to  get  out  of the  deal.  Mr. 
Warrington  was  a  thorn  in  the  side  of 
the  whole  cheese  trade  this  season,  as 
he  managed  to  keep  up  prices  above 
an  export  basis  from  the  word  go,  so 
that  there  was  no  money  in  the  business 
for  himself  or  any  one  else.  He  was 
short  a  large  amount  of  cheese  in  Eng­
land,  when  he  failed,  which  would 
have  increased  bis 
losses  considerably 
had  he  filled  his  contracts.
Illinois  the  Only  State  Now Producing 

Filled  Cheese.

Washington,  Nov.  27—The annual  re­
port  of  the  Collector of Internal Revenue 
shows  that  there  was  1,663,067  pounds 
of  filled  cheese  produced  at  manufacto­
ries  during  the  ten  months  ended  June 
30,  1897,  and' the  tax  of  1  cent  per 
pound  was  paid  upon  the  entire  quan­
tity,  and  the  same  withdrawn  from  the 
factory.  For  the  fiscal  year  ended  June 
30,  1898,  1,402,861  pounds  was  pro­
duced  and  tax  paid,  showing  a  falling 
off  in  production  as  compared  with  the 
previous  fiscal  year of  260,206 pounds.

The  average  monthly  production  for 
the  ten  months  ended  June  30,  1897, 
was  166,306  pounds,  and  for  the  nine 
production  months  of  the  fiscal  year 
ended  June  30,  1898,  the  average month­
ly  production  was  155,873  pounds. 
There  was  no  production  in  the  months 
of  July,  August  and  May  of  the  fiscal 
year  ended  June  30,  1898. 
Illinois  is 
the  only  State  producing  filled  cheese, 
with  seven  manufactories. 
Illinois, 
Louisiana,  Maryland  and  New  Jersey 
are  the  only  States  having  retail  estab­
lishments,  there  being  in the  four a  total 
of  nineteen.  The  internal  revenue  re­
ceipts  on 
filled  cheese  for  the  year 
ended  June  30 amounted  to  $14,129.23; 
special 
from  manufacturers, 
$2,233.32,  and  from  retailers,  $156.
Mexican  Oranges  Moving  Into  Con­

tax 

sumption.

From the New York Commercial.

It 

From  St.  Louis  comes  the  announce­
ment  that  Mexican  oranges  are  coming 
forward  and  moving  rapidly 
into  con­
sumption.  Prices,  it  is  said,  range  up 
to $4.25  per  box  for  recent  arrivals,  and 
a  ready  market  is  found  at  that  figure.
is  reported  that  dealers  who  have 
been  over  the  ground  this  year  say  the 
prospect  for  orange  culture  in  Mexico 
is  unlimited.  For  some  time,  they  say, 
demand  will  exceed  supply and business 
will  be  very  profitable.  Friends  of  the 
Mexican  orange  claim  for it a  more  sat­
isfactory 
flavor  than  other  varieties 
possess,  and  they  say  that  it  can  hold 
the  market,  after  it 
is  once  known, 
against  either  Floridas  or  Californias, 
while  they  assert  that  the  West  India 
product 
is  not  to  be  compared  with 
Mexican  fruit.

Mexican  oranges  have  met  with  an 
unsatisfactory  reception  in  this  market. 
Few  have ever been  shipped  here,  and 
money  was  lost  on  them.  Dealers  here 
do  not  care  for  them  and  will  not  take 
them,  except  at  very  low  rates,  because 
consumers  do  not  take  kindly  to  them, 
and  will  not  have  them  when  anything 
else  is  procurable.
Olives  the  Coming  Crop  of  Arizona.
The  past  five  years  has  proven  by 
actual  product  that  the  olive  is  to be  the 
great  future  crop  of  the  Salt  River Val­
ley  of  Arizona.  The  product  is  grow­
ing 
larger  every  year  as  the  orchards 
grow  older,  and  the  indications  are that 
this  season’s  crop  will  establish  beyond 
experiment  the  olive as  one of  the great 
products  of  the  Salt  River Valley.

CRANBERRIES,  JERSEY  and

VIRQINIA  SW EET  POTATOES,

Apples,  Celery,  Spanish  Onions,
Lemons,  Oranges  and  Bananas.

Bunting &  Co.,  Jobbers,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Potatoes,  Buns, All Kinds Fed Seeds

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SEE D S,  A P P L E S,  ONIONS,  if  in  the  market  to 
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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

ALFRED  J.  BROWN  SEED  CO.

24  and  26  North  Division  Street,

HARVEY  P.  MILLER.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

EVERETT P.  TBASDALE.

M ILLER  &   TEASDALE  CO.

WHOLESALE BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION.

APPLES AND  POTATOES WANTED

FRUITS,  NUTS,  PRODUCE
ST.  LOUIS,  n o .
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835 NORTH THIRD ST., 
830 NORTH FOURTH ST.,

WRITE US.

Our new Parchment-Lined,  Odorless 
Batter Packages.  Light as  paper.
The  only way  to  deliver  Butter 
to your  customers.

Q e m   F ib r e   P a c k a g e C o .,  De t r o it .

: 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.

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

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

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

To buy or sell  Beans,  Apples,  Potatoes, Onions,
Honey,  Old  Pop  Corn,  Fresh Eggs,  Wood. 
If 
you have any of the above to offer, write

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makes  her  so  mad  as  the  discovery  that 
no  one  wants  to  know  it.

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  Nov.  26—There  is  almost 
always  a  light  trade  during  Thanksgiv­
ing  week.  Buyers  are  conspicuous  by 
their absence  and  for the  last  half  of  the 
week  very  little  is  to  be  recorded.  Job­
bing  grocers  generally  are,  apparently, 
satisfied  with  the  November  business 
and  the  year  will  go  out  with  a  blaze  of 
glory  in  more  ways  than  one.

Coffee  is  steady,  with  demand  some­
what 
limited.  Orders  received  from 
out  of  town  dealers  indicate  rather  light 
stocks  on  hand  and  there  is  very 
little 
haggling  over  rates.  Jobbers  are  not 
anxious  to  press sales,  as they might  find 
some  trouble  to  replace  the goods  now 
on  hand  without  a  decided  advance. 
One  sale  of  2,000  bags  at  6yic  was  re­
ported  of  Rio  No.  7,  and  probably  as 
much  more  would  have  been  taken,  but 
the  rate  could  not  be  duplicated.  Reg­
ular  quotation,  6%@6%c.  Mild  coffees 
have  a  steady  tone  and  sell  well  at  re­
cent  rates.  There  will  be  a  cargo  of 
12,000  bags  here  in  a  few  days  of  Mar­
acaibo  and  it  is  thought  this  will  find  a 
ready  sale.  Good  Cucuta  is  worth  8j£c. 
East  India  sorts  are  without  special  in­
terest.  Quotations  are  unchanged.

The  tea  market 

in  the  condition 
that  the  least  said  the  better.  Still,  it 
is  fairly  firm  and  Pingsueys  and  Con­
gous  are  especially  well  held.  The 
in­
voice  market  is  steady.
The  rice  movement  is  slow,  although 
the  indications  are  that  it will soon show 
improvement.  Advices  from  the  South 
are  of  such  a  character  as  to  show  a 
good  deal  of  damage  to  crops  by  wet 
weather,  and  certainly  we  shall  feel  the 
effects  of  this  before long.  Foreign  sorts 
have  sold  pretty  freely,  although,  as  a 
rule,  the  demand  has  been  for  rather 
small  lots.  Prime  to  choice  Southern, 
5>6@6}fic. 
Patna,  5^@ 5&c;  Japan, 
$'/2c ; Java,  4>6©25>(c.  European advices 
are  strong  and  confident.

is 

Pepper  has  been  the  one article  of  in­
in  the  spice  market  during  the 
terest 
week.  The  situation 
in  every  way  is 
strong  and  prices  are  steadily  advan­
cing.  Singapore  black  pepper.  January 
or  March  shipment,  has  sold  at  io^c, 
and  on  the  spot  the  close  was  firm  at 
q^@ q^sC.  Cloves  are  firm,  owing  to 
light  supplies,  but  the  rest  of  the  list  is 
practically  unchanged  in  any  way.

The  molasses  market  closes  firm,  or 
at 
least  the  outlook  is  for  such  condi­
tion.  Competition  led  to  some  demor­
alization  during  the  first  few  days,  but 
New  Orleans  reports  were  so  decidedly 
firm  that  an  influence  was  shown  here. 
Syrups  have  been  quiet.  The  supply  is 
not  large,  although sufficient  to  meet  ex­
isting  wants.

The  demand  for  lemons  is rather quiet 
and  yet  there  seems  to  be  a  fair  jobbing 
trade. 
Arrivals  of  Jamaica  oranges 
have  been  liberal  and  the  quality  poor, 
so  that  for  the  moment  the  market  is 
depressed,  and  even  for  repacked  bar­
rels  the  outside  seemed  to  be  not  over 
$6.50.  California  oranges  are  in  light 
supply,  although the  demand  is  not  very 
active.  There  seems  to  be  more  enquiry 
is  coming  in 
for  Florida  fruit,  which 
rather  moderately  and  sells 
readily. 
Quotations:  Sicily  lemons,  300s,  $2.75 
@4  50,  as  to  quality;  360s,  $2.75@4.50; 
oranges,  Jamaicas,  original  barrels,  $5 
@6;  Florida  russets,  $3.75@4 !  brigbts, 
$3-75@5- 
Bananas  are  quiet  within 
the  range  of  qoc@$i. 10  per  bunch  for 
firsts.  Almeria  grapes  fetch  full prices, 
$6.5o@to  for  full-weight  bbls  Apples 
continue  very  firm  and  in  light  receipt. 
Greenings  are  worth  from  $4@5 ;  Bald­
wins,  $3@4.5o.  Cranberries  are  worth 
from  $6@8  for  Cape  Cods,  as  to  qual­
ity,  and  Jerseys $5@5-50.

Dried  fruits  are  in  about  the usual de­
mand,  although  for  fancy  raisins  and 
kindred 
is  a  good  holiday 
trade  going  forward.  Evaporated  ap­
ples  are  firm  at  g)^@ioc.

lines  there 

The  canned  goods  market  is  firm  and 
the  demand  is  active for leading staples. 
Prices  are  about  unchanged,  with  more 
firmness  for  peas,  corn  and  tomatoes. 
Tomatoes  are "in freer receipt.  The pack 
this  year  exceeds that of 1897 very much.

There 

is  a  comparative  scarcity  of 
fancy  creamery  butter,  which  is  held  at 
full  quotations.  The  quality  that  will 
bear  close  inspection  sells  for 23^0,  but 
if  the  stock  is  not  up  to  requirements  it 
goes  off  for  what  it  will  fetch  and  con­
siderable  shading 
is  done.  Western 
June  creamery,  finest  grades,  I7@i7>^c; 
Extra  Western 
factory,  June  make, 
I4@ i4^c.
The  cheese  market  is  in  better condi­
tion  than  a  week  ago  and  can  be  called 
comparatively  firm.  Fancy  full  cream, 
large  size,  State  cheese 
; 
small  size,  full cream,  10c.

is  worth 

Arrivals  of  eggs  are  light  and  the 
market  is  extremely  strong.  Best  West­
ern are  worth  24c;  fair  to  good,  2i@23c. 
refrigerator stock,  i5K@i6j£c.
Experience  of a  Canadian  Farmer  in 

the  Grain  Trade.

From the Montreal  Trade  Bulletin.

A  dealer  from  west  of  Toronto,  who 
was  in  the  city  a  few  days  ago,  related 
an  instance  of  a  farmer 
in  bis  district 
who  envied  the  supposed  profits  of grain 
dealers  and  determined  to  go  into  the 
business  himself.  Not  being  acquainted 
with  the  routine  of  running  a  country 
grain  business,  he  engaged  the  services 
of  a  clerk  in  a  neighboring  grain  firm, 
hired  a store,  and  commenced  receiving 
grain  from  the  farmers  in  the  neighbor­
hood.  This  was  last  spring,  when  the 
belief  and  cry  was that  oats  were  going 
to  45c  in  the  country  and  wheat  to  $2 
sure,  as  Leiter then  bad  control  of  the 
deal 
in  Chicago.  The  farmer,  being 
well-to-do,  bad  a  good  sum  to  begin 
with  on  deposit  at  the  local  bank  and 
quite  an  extended  credit  besides,  and 
commenced  operations  under apparently 
the  most auspicious  circumstances.  The 
farmers  from  the  section  of  country 
around,  wishing  to  encourage  one  of 
their  own  fraternity,  carted  their  grain 
to  the  new  concern,  but  not before  they 
had  ascertained  the  prices  which  the 
opposition  dealers - were  prepared 
to 
give.  The  result  was  that  the  agricul­
tural  grain  merchant  had  to  pay  about 
J^c  per  bushel  more  than  the  market 
value,  as  bis  confreres  in  agriculture 
managed  to  impress  upon  him  that  they 
had  been  offered  such  and  such  a  price 
for  their  wheat  and  oats  by  the  other 
dealers 
in  the  place,  and  thus  they 
squeezed  the  extra  price  out  of  him  as 
soon  as  they  pretended  to  start  with 
their  loads  to  the  other  dealers.  For all 
this,  however,  prices  commenced  to  ad­
vance,  and  as  the  new  dealer  kept  on 
accumulating  his  wheat  and  oats,  his 
fortune  appeared  to be growing  bigger 
and  bigger,  while  the  farmers  were hav­
ing  a  good  time  in  giving  him  all  the 
grain  they  could  spare,  and  he  seemed 
perfectly  satisfied,  as  he  had  made  up 
his  mind  that  Leiter  was  the  only  man 
who  knew  what  he  was  about,  and  that 
a * wheat  was  bound  to  advance to $2,  and 
oats  to  45c  right  here.”  
In  fact,  if  any 
buyer  ventured  to ask  what  he  would 
take  for  bis  grain,  he  would  simply 
scowl  and  reply:  “ Wheat  ain't  up  to 
$2,  and  oats  ain’t  up  to  45c. ”   The 
country  banker  was  of  the  same  opinion 
as  the  aspiring  farmer,  and  encouraged 
the  latter to  keep  on buying,  until prices 
had  advanced  to  top rates,  and,  although 
he  could  have  got  out  at  a  splendid 
profit,  he  stubbornly  refused  to  realize. 
Prices  soon  commenced  to  tumble  rap­
idly  and,  although  he  then  tried  to  un­
load,  it  so happened  that  every  time  he 
reduced  his  offers  to  sell  they  were  sev 
eral  cents  above  market  values,  until  he 
stood  to  lose  considerable  money. 
It 
is  said  that  wheat  which  cost him  $1.08 
to  $1.10  was  sold  at  73c  and  74c,  and 
oats  that  cost  him  35c  and  36c  realized 
27c  and  28c.  He  stood  his  losses,  how­
ever,  manfully,  paid-off  his  bank’s  ad­
vances,  and  the  only  real  inconvenience 
he  was  put  to  was  the  mortgaging  of 
about ninety  acres  of  land.  He  had  had 
in  the 
enough  of  business,  however, 
short  space  of  a  few  months,  to quit 
it, 
and  now  the  farmers  all  around  express 
their  regrets,  as  they  swear  that  be  was 
the  best fellow  they  ever  dealt  with.  Of 
course,  he  did  not  do a  very  extensive 
business,  but 
it  was  ample  enough  to 
check  his  aspirations  in  the grain trade, 
as  it  is  estimated  that  be  lost  about 
$ 12, 000.

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BUROE D. CATLIN.

LANSING S   GATLIN

44 W. MARKET STREET 
103 MICHIGAN STREET

BUFFALO, N.  Y.

Reference:  TRADESMAN. 

W H O L E S A L E  
D E A L E R S   I N

It is now at the season of the year when several commission  houses  who  make  a  specialty  of  other 
goods-and the season is over with them—are tiyinp  to  work  Butter  and  Eggs  for  a  few  months;  not 
having  the  trade,  they  cannot  do  you the justice that a house can that handles Butter and  Evers exclu- 
sively twelve months m the year.  Fresh  Eggs are scarce;  we want  them at 20c.

Who Gets the Oyster Trade?

The man whose oysters  are  the 
freshest and best flavored.

Who Loses Other Trade?

The man who sells fishy oysters 
diluted  with  ice  to  disgust  his 
customers.
Avoid  such  a  calamity  and  in­
crease your  trvde  by  using  our 
O YSTER  CABINETS,  made 
of  Ash,  insulated  with  mineral 
wool.  (See cut.)  They are lined 
with copper.  All parts easily re­
moved for cleaning without dis­
turbing the ice.  Porcelain-lined 
cans.  Send  for circular.

Aik for rar prices so Boll Top Bitter Befrigerston.
Grand  Rapids  Refrigerator  Co.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Ship your  B U TT E R   A N D   E G G S  to

R ;   H I R T ,   J R ..  D E T R O I T .   M I C H .

34 AND 36  MARKET STREET.
435-437-439 WINDER STREET.

Cold Storage and Freezing House in connection.  Capacity 75 carloads. 

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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.v Chicago. 

RE FE R EN CES:

Wm. M.  Hoyt Co.,  Wholesale  Grocers, Chicago. 
W . J. Quan & Co., Wholesale Grocers, Chicago. 
“ Chicago Produce,”  Chicago.
Bradstreet's and  Dun's Agencies.
Hibernian Banking Association,  Chicago. 
B a n k e r s:  Merchants1  National  Bank, Chicago.

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FLOWER  TRADE

How  the  Industry  Has  Expanded 

in 

Grand  Rapids.

To  Louis  Campau  is  due  the  honor  of 
being  the  first  horticulturist 
in  Grand 
Rapids.  His  gardens  extended  along 
the  river  bank 
just  below  the  foot  of 
Monroe  street.  He  made  them  attract­
ive  as  early  as  1834,  by  cultivating 
flowers,  shrubbery  and 
Two 
years 
later  Abel  Page  and  John  Almy 
started  gardens  by  the  river  bank,  near 
Huron  street.  Mr.  Page  raised  the  first 
tomatoes  here,  at  a  time  when  they  were 
considered  poisonous  and  grown  simply 
as  ornamental  plants  under  the  name  of 
love-apples.

fruits. 

Thomas  R.  Ren wick  first  made  flow 
er-growing  a  business.  He,  how­
ever,  did not  start  out  with  any  such  in­
tention.  The  American  Florist,  in  no­
ticing  bis  death  April  4,  1896,  said:

Mr.  Renwick  first  began  the  culture 
of  fruits  and  flowers  in  Grand  Rapids, 
for  the  pleasure  of  himself  and  wife, 
and,  indeed,  at  that  time,  there  could 
have  been  found  no  customers  for  the 
latter.  Among  the  notable  achievements 
of  his  horticultural  life  was the dwarfing 
of  peach  trees,  producing  trees  no  more 
than  two  feet  in  height  but  bearing  ten 
or  a  dozen  peaches,  and  the  fruiting  of 
strawberries 
in  very  early  spring.  He 
saw  the  sale  of  cut  flowers 
in  this  city 
start  from  a  very  small  beginning  and 
progress  to  its  present  proportions,  and 
although  be  bad  other  large  business in­
terests,  the  growing  of  plants  and  flow­
ers  was  the  profession  he  loved.

His  greenhouses  have  been  in  exist­
ence  between  thirty  and  forty  years,  al­
though  his  store  on  Monroe  street  was 
not  opened  until  two  or three  months 
after  J.  A.  Hovey’s,  during  the  summer 
of  1882.  The  business  continues  under 
the  management  of  Mr.  Renwick’s  son, 
L.  N.  Renwick.  Mr.  Hovey  sold  out 
his  store  to  Henry  Smith.  From  time 
to  time  new  florists  have  started  busi­
ness,  until  now  there are at least thirteen 
companies  in  Grand Rapids,besides  the 
minor  concerns  which  raise  flowers 
in 
a  small  way  and  peddle  them  on  the 
street.

To-day  there  is  not  only  an  extensive 
demand  for  Grand  Rapids  flowers  all 
over  Michigan,  but  great  quantities  go 
to  Chicago.  They  also  go  as  far east 
as  Boston,  New  York and  Baltimore and 
west  to  Denver and  Salt  Lake  City ;  in 
fact,  flowers  can  be  kept  in  good  con­
dition  for  any  distance  less  than  a  three 
days’ 
journey  and  have  been  known  to 
survive  even  longer  trips.

From  one-half  to  two-thirds  of  the 
trade  is  wholesale,  and  the  flowers  find 
a  ready  market  in  Chicago,  which  city 
controls  the  prices. 
In  the  Valley  City 
they  are  40  to 60  per  cent,  cheaper  and 
is  even  a  greater 
sometimes 
difference; 
instance,  chrysanthe­
mums  which  here  retail  at  $2  sell  in  the 
Windy  City  for  $4  a  dozen.

there 
for 

One  is  apt  to  think  that  the  principal 
cost  of  flowers  lies  in  the  great  quanti­
ties  of  fuel  necessary  for  heating  the 
greenhouses;  for  are  not  flowers  most 
plentiful  and  cheap  in  midsummer  and 
most  scarce  and expensive at Christmas? 
This  is  not  altogether  true.  Like  any 
other  kind  of  business  the  cost  of 
labor 
must  be  taken  into  account  and,  what  is 
not  so  well  known,  the  greenhouses  have 
to  be  rebuilt  every  five  years,  for  they 
do  not  last  any  longer.

The 

styles  of  using 

flowers  have 
changed  much  within  recent  years.  The 
time 
is  not  long  past  when  people  used 
whatever  kinds  they  could  get,  and 
mixed  all  sorts  together.  Now  they  are 
used  much  more  profusely  but  are  not 
mixed.  Stiff  floral  pieces  designed  for

funerals  have  been  almost  entirely 
superseded  by  sprays  and  loose  flowers, 
and  the  color 
is  no  longer  confined  to 
white;  even  the  ribbons  used 
in  the 
tying  may  be  of  some delicate  shade. 
At  receptions,  parties,  weddings,  etc., 
either  the  hostess'  favorite flower is used 
for  all  the  decorations  or one  kind  of 
flower  furnishes  the  keynote  to  the  dec­
orations  of  each  room.  Palms,  ferns 
and  other  foliage  plants  grow  in  favor, 
and  are  rented  in  numbers  from the  flo­
rist  for  the  occasion.

It  is  within  the  memory  of the present 
generation  when  every  home  boasted  of 
its  stand  of  plants  kept  through the win­
ter.  But  the  hot-air  furnaces  and  gas 
played  such  havoc  with  them  that  now 
the  ladies  who  can  not  indulge  in  con­
servatories  confine  their 
interests  to a 
palm  or  two  and  a  blossoming  plant 
which  is  replaced  by  another  when  the 
flowers  are gone.

As  great  a  change  has  taken  place 

in 
the lawns.  The  ladies  have  neither  time 
nor  strength  (?)  to  plant  seeds and  wait 
for  them  to  grow.  Possibly  the club 
craze  to  which  so  many  Grand  Rapids 
ladies  have  succumbed  has  to  answer 
for  this.  At  any  rate  the  decorating  of 
the  lawns  is  left  to  the  florist,  who  is  as 
sure  of  his  regular  customers  as  the 
milliner  and 
the 
butcher  and  the  baker.

the  dressmaker, 

in  developing 

Four  years  ago  the  Grand Rapids  flo­
rists  formed  themselves  into  a  club  for 
mutual  help 
the  best 
methods  of  raising  flowers  and  to  make 
the  prices  uniform.  The  meetings  are 
held  the  first  and  third  Tuesdays of each 
month,  at  the  Eagle  Hotel.  The  offi­
cers  consist  of  president,  secretary, 
treasurer and  custodian.

in 

the 

exhibit 

For  several  years  the  florists  here 
united  for  the  purpose  of  an  annual 
chrysanthemum 
fall. 
These  exhibitions did  not  gain sufficient 
patronage  from  the  people  to  pay  for 
the  trouble  and  expense and  the  project 
was  finally  abandoned  last  year.  The 
fine  plants  are  now  sent  to  larger  cities 
where 
important  exhibitions  are held. 
One  of  our  firms,  Crabb  &  Hunter,  re­
ceived  this  year  four  first  prizes  from 
the  Florist  Club  of  Indianapolis.  This 
exhibition 
is  considered  so  important 
by  that  State  that  it appropriates  a  cer­
tain  amount  of  money  for  its  mainte­
nance.

of 

and 

patrons 

But  the  greatest  honors  have  come 
through  the  Horticultural  Society  of 
Chicago.  This  club  belies 
its  name. 
Although  some  florists  figure  conspicu­
ously, it  is largely composed of Chicago's 
Four  Hundred.  Such  names  as  P.  D. 
Armour,  Marshall  Field,  Andrew  Mc­
Nally,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Higinbotbam, 
Mrs.  Charles  Henrotin,  Mrs.  Potter 
Palmer,  and  many  other  names  that 
in  the 
are  equally  well  known,  figure 
list 
patronesses. 
An  exhibition 
is  held  during  the  first 
week  of  November  each  year and  is  a 
society  event  similar to  the  Horse  Fair 
in  New  York.  Although  chrysanthe­
mums  reign supreme,  prizes are awarded 
for  the  best  mantel  and  table  decora­
tions,  foliage  plants,  and,  in  the  way 
of  cut  flowers,  roses  and  carnations 
Two  of  our  florists  received  first  prizes 
this  year:  Henry  Smith  for  the  best 
display  of  yellow  single-stemmed  chry­
santhemums and  Crabb  &  Hunter  for  a 
similar  display  of  white  chrysanthe­
mums.  Crabb  &  Hunter  also  received 
second  prizes  for  their  collection  of  yel­
low  and  pink  chrysanthemums.  Wm. 
N.  Rudd,  President  of  Greenwood  Cem­
etery 
in  Chicago,  and  until  recently 
editor  of  the  American  Florist,  speak­
ing  of  Crabb  &  Hunter’s  exhibit,  said: 
" I t   was  the  most  wonderful  collection 
of  single-stemmed  chrysanthemums  I 
have  ever seen. *’  Truly,  “ A  prophet  is 
not  without  honor,  save 
in  his  own 
¡country. ”

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

ONE 
¡CENT

Is all  it will cost you  to drop  a  postal  to

MAYNARD  &  REED

QRAND RAPID5, itlCH.,

and  learn  from  them  the  many  advan­
tages  and  profit  of  handling  Butter  in  a 
new  way.

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reading  Brand for fifteen fears. 

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If you  wish  to  secure  the  sale  of a brand  which  will  always  give  •§• 
•J*  satisfaction, arrange to handle  Anchors,  which  are  widely  known  and  i l l  
«A*  largely advertised.  When ordering oysters through your jobber, be sure  jQ» 
^   and specify “Anchors.” 

♦ t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t
Elgin  System of Creameries

T

It  will  pay  you  to  investigate  our  plans  and  visit  our  factories, if you are con­
templating building a  Creamery  or  Cheese  Factory.  A ll  supplies  furnished  at 
lowest prices.  Correspondence solicited.

A  Model  Creamery of the  Elgin  System.

R.  E.  STURGIS  &  CO.,

Contractors  and  Builders of the

Elgin  System   of  Butter  and  Cheese  Factories,  also  Canning Factories, and 

Manufacturers and Dealers In Creamery and Dairy Supplies.

Address all correspondence to R. E. STUROIS & Co., Allegan, Mich.

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

13

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

L.  M.  Patterson,  Representing  Nor­

throp,  Robertson  &  Carrier.

literary  course 

Lewis  M.  Patterson  was  born  on  a 
farm 
in  Lawrence  county,  Pa.,  March 
i i ,  1858,  his  antecedents  being  Scotch 
on  his  father's  side  and  Irish  on  his 
mother’s  side.  When  he  was  10  years 
old  bis  parents  moved  to  another  farm, 
in  Mercer  county,  Pa.,  where  he  re­
mained  until  26 years  of  age,  with  the 
exception  of  three  years,  during  which 
he  pursued  a 
in  the 
Grove  City  (Pa.)  College.  Believing 
that  Michigan  held  out  inducements  su­
perior  to  those  of  any  other  state,  be 
came  among  the  Wolverines,  and  for 
three  months  taught  the  public  school 
at  Bandola.  He  then  engaged  as  prin­
cipal  of  the  school  at  Sherman,  which 
position  be  acceptably  filled  two  years. 
His  next  move  was  to  Cadillac,  where 
he  acted  as  principal  of  the  first  ward 
school  for  a  year,  when  be  was  given 
the  position of instructor in the scientific 
department  of  the  high  school,  where 
he  remained  two  years.  He  then  dipped 
into  politics,  being  nominated  on  the 
Democratic  ticket  for  county  clerk  and 
register  of  deeds  for  Wexford  county. 
While  he  ran  considerably  ahead  of  his 
ticket,  he  lacked  a  few  votes  of  elec­
tion,  but  the  run  he  made  was  so  ex­
ceptional  that  he  was  given  a  position 
in  the  office  of  Auditor  General  Stone, 
at  Lansing,  which  position  he  held  two 
years.  He  then  taught  the  commercial 
branches  in  the  Interiake  Business  Col­
lege,  at  Lansing,  which  position  he  re­
linquished  to  take  that  of  book-keeper 
for  the  Lansing  Confectionery  Co.,  with 
which 
three 
years.  Three  years  ago  be  was  offered  a 
position  on  the  road  for J.  R.  &  W.  S. 
Esselstyn,  wholesale  confectioners  of 
Lansing,  which  position  he relinquished 
a  few  days ago  to  accept  a  better  offer 
from  Northrop,  Robertson  &  Carrier,  of 
the  Capital  City.

institution  he 

remained 

Mr.  Patterson  was  married  March  16, 
1885,  to  Miss  Eva  L.  Bagnall,  of  Mer­
cer,  Pa.  Three children  grace  the  fam­
ily  circle,  a  boy  and  two  girls.  The 
family  reside  in  their  own  home  at  814 
Pine  street,  north.

Mr.  Patterson 

is  a  communicant  of 
the  First  Methodist  Church  of  Lansing, 
being  a  member  of  the  official  board 
and  a  teacher 
in  the  Sunday  school, 
which  he  served  in  the  capacity  of  su­
perintendent  for  several  years.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  I.  O  O  F.  fraternity, 
belongs  to  the  Forresters  and  holds  a 
membership  certificate  in  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip.

Mr.  Patterson  attributes  his success  to 
persistent  effort,  bard  work  and  sturdy 
honesty,  having  received  no  assistance 
from  any  source,  being  compelled  to 
fight  his  way  single  handed,  both  as 
regards  bis  securing  an  education  and 
his  commercial  advancement.  He  nat­
urally  places  a  high  estimate  on  the 
value  of  education,  and  his  ambition  is 
to  so  fit  his  children  for  their  life  work 
that  they  will  be  able  to  fill  any position 
to  which  they  may  be  called

What  Constitutes  the  Good-will  of a 

Business.

The  good  will  of  a  business  has  been 
defined  as  “ the  possibility  that  the  old 
customers  will  resort  to  the  old  place.”  
intangible  and 
Although  good  will 
merely  an 
it 
possesses,  however,  many  of  the  quali­
ties  of  property. 
It  may  be  sold,  in­
herited  and  bequeathed,  and  it  is  often 
the  most  valuable  asset  of  a  business.

incident  of  property, 

is 

At  first good  will  was  confined  to  the 
premises  where  the  business  was carried 
on,  but  in  the  evolution  of  business 
it 
has  outgrown  this  limited  application 
and  has  come  to  mean  the  advantage 
acquired  by  the  established  business, 
whether  connected  with  the  premises  or 
with  the  firm  name,  or  with  any  other 
inducement  to  customers  to  deal with  it.
The  sale  of  a  business  including  its 
good  will  does  not  prevent  the  vendor 
from  engaging 
in  a  similar  business. 
He  may,  in  the  absence  of  an  express 
stipulation  to  the  contrary,  establish 
such  a  business  at  the  next  door  to  the 
one  sold,  and  by  every  fair  means  and 
even  personal  solicitation 
invite  bis 
old  customers  to  come  there  and  buy  of 
him. 
In  order  therefore  that  the  vendee 
may  reap  the  full  benefit  of  his  pur­
chase,  it 
is  essential  that  be  require 
the  vendor  by express  contract to abstain 
from  carrying  on  the  same  kind of  busi­
ness.  These  contracts  are  defined  in 
the  legal  nomenclature  as  contracts 
in 
restraint  of  trade.

The  courts  at  first  declared  that  these 
contracts  were  opposed  to public  policy, 
in  that  they  restained  trade,  enhanced 
prices,  prevented  the  vendor  from  earn­
ing  his  livelihood,  and  deprived  the 
public  of  a  useful  member;  they  there­
fore  refused  to  sustain  them.  The  ar­
guments  advanced  by  the  courts  against 
these  contracts  became less forcible each 
year  by  reason  of  the  uses  of  steam  as 
a  motive  power,  which  opened  new 
fields  for  emigration,  trade  and  manu­
facture,  and  provided  better  means  for 
distribution.

The  rule  was  soon  modified  so as  to 
permit  a  contract  in  partial  restraint  as 
opposed  to  a  contract 
in  general  re­
straint  of  trade.  The  distinction  made 
by  the  ancient  courts  between  general 
and  partial  restraint  was  an  incorrect 
criterion.  They  were  saying  in  effect, 
what  the  courts  of  to-day  say,  that  the 
question  whether  a  contract  was  invalid 
because 
restraint  of  trade  was 
whether,  in  considering  all  the  circum­
stances,  the  contract  was  reasonable  or 
unreasonable.  Finally  the  courts  have 
laid  down  the  rule  that  contracts  in  re­
straint  of  trade,  limited  as  to  time  or 
space,  or  both,  if  reasonable  under  the 
circumstances  and  supported  by  a  good 
consideration,  are  valid.

in 

If  a  retail  trader  in  some  small  town, 
whose  customers  consisted  only  of  its 
inhabitants,  were to  enter  into  an  agree­
ment  upon  the  sale  of  bis  business  to 
abstain  from  entering  into  similar  busi­
ness  anywhere  in  the  United  States  east 
of  the  Mississippi  River,  obviously  the 
restraint  in  this  case  would  be  greater 
than  necessary  for  the  legitimate  pro­
tection  of  the  purchaser and  unreason 
able,  and  therefore  invalid;  while  this 
same  contract  might  be  valid 
if  made 
by  an  old-established  wholesale  firm  sit­
in  the  city  of  New  York  having 
uated 
branch  houses 
in  different  states  and 
in  all  of  the  states 
salesmen  traveling 
east  of  the  Mississippi  River. 
The 
validity,  then,  of  each  of  these  contracts 
must  depend  upon  the  character  and 
extent  of  the  business  sold,  for the  rule 
of  reasonableness  is  so general  and  the 
facts  of  each  case  will  so  differ  from 
others  that  it  is  impossible  to  say  with 
certainty  that  a  particular  contract  has 
been  upheld  by  the'  courts,  and  that 
therefore  the  contract 
in  question  is 
valid.

In  Birmingham,  England,  37,000,000 
pins are  produced  daily,  while  the  other 
manufacturing  places  of  England  are 
responsible  for about  iq,000,000  a  day. 
France 
the  market  with 
20,000,000 each  day,  and  Germany  and 
other countries  yield  10,000,000.

furnishes 

Is  Not  There  a  Nemesis,  After  All? 

From the Ionia Standard.

A.  C.  Hager,  of  Lake  Odessa,  was 
evidently  born  under  an  unlucky  star. 
Early 
in  the  spring  the  colossal  egg 
business  which  he  had  buiit  up  col­
lapsed,  owing  to  the  unexpected  drop 
in  the  price  of  hen  fruit.  Later  in  the 
summer  bis  packing  plant  and  building 
caught  fire  and  were  totally  consumed, 
upon  which  be  didn’t  have  enough 
in­
surance  to  pay  for one  of  the  egg  crates 
in  the  building.  As  a  climax  the  big 
ice  house  which he  purchased  about  two 
months  ago  went  down  the  other  day  in 
a  tangled  mass  of  boards,  sawdust  and 
snow,  caused  by  the  great  load  of  snow 
on  the  roof.  This  about  cleans  him  out 
of  everything,  but  be  isn’t  the  least  bit 
discouraged.

It  isn’t  worth  while  to  reason  with  a 
woman.  She  can  only  be  logical  with 
those  she  hates.

Manufacturers of

and Jobbers of

Pearl Brand Oysters

In Cans or Bulk.

Consignments of Poultry and Game 

Solicited.

43 E. Bridge St.

Grand  Rapids.

6MOST  POPULAR 

ON  THE 
MARKET

ROASTED  COFFEES 

5

Medals

Awarded these goods 
at World’s Colombian 
Exposition.
Purity  is  ancient  his­
tory  with  us. 
It  is 
Purity  and  quality  to 
which we call attention
Testing is proving
First-class grocers will 

tell you so.

ILLAR’S
ANDHELIN6  JAVA 

EDAL cHARM  JAVA 

ROWN  MIXED 
REOLE  JAVA  AND

Diplomas

Awarded these goods 
at World’s Columbian 
Exposition.

)  g'; 

A Trade  M ark 

is

a   Badge 

of  Honor

Try  MILLAR’S  PEARLED  PEPPER, Granulated.

E.  B.  Millar  &  Co.,

P u r e

We  are  so  positive  that  our 
1  Spices  and  Queen  Flake  Baking  Powder  are 
i   pure  that  we  offer  One  Hundred  Dollars  for  every 
I  ounce  of  adulteration  found  in  a  package  of  our 
*  goods.  Manufactured  and  sold  only by

Northrop, Robertson & Carrier, Lansing, Mich.

Four  Kinds 01 coupon  books

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

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14

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

Shoes  and  Leather

How  the  Two  Thompsons  Hustled for 

Trade.  ~

Possibly  our  readers  who  are  theater 
goers  may  have  see» the  old  and  now 
somewhat  of  a  back-number  play  en­
titled  “ Toodles.”   Toodles  is  a  gentle­
man  of  rather  convivial  proclivities, 
and  his  wife  is  fond  of  picking  up  odds 
and  ends  if  she  can  get  them  cheap,  in 
other  words,  an  ancient  prototype  of 
the  modern  bargain  hunter.  At  one 
time  she  bought  a  second-hand  door­
plate,  marked  “ Thompson,"  and  ex­
plained  her  purchase  to  her  lord  and 
master  as  a  wonderful  bargain,  and  one 
which  would  come  in  so  handy  if  any 
one  of  their  daughters  should  happen  to 
marry  a  man  named  Thompson,  with 
the  letter  “ p .”   Mr.  Toodles’  remark 
on  this  occasion  was  short  and  to  the 
point. 
It  was,  "Damn  Thompson  with 
a  ‘ p !’  ”

The  competitors  of  these  two  Thomp­
sons  with  the  “ p "   may  be  saying  the 
same  thing  to-day.  We  are  not  apprised 
whether  they  are  or  not,  but  as  both 
these  gentlemen  have  been  endeavoring 
to  further  their  own  trade  at  the expense 
of  their  competitors,  it 
is  more  than 
likely  that  some  of  them  may  feel 
like 
saying  so  down  deep  in  their hearts  if 
they  do not  give  voice  to  the expression.
W.  A.  Thompson  keeps  a  shoe  store 
in  Concord,  N.  H.  He  is  a  shrewd  ad­
vertiser,  knows  how  to  dress  a  store 
window,  and 
is  a  first-class  business 
man.  Someone  advertised  a  special 
line  of  shoes  in  Concord,  ladies’  shoes 
of  a  well-advertised  make,  and  Mr. 
Thompson,  of  course,  could  not  sell 
them  because  another  shoe  dealer  bad 
the  exclusive  agency.  The  retail  price 
of  the  shoes  was  $3.50 a  pair,  and  what 
was  the  astonishment  of  all  Concord one 
day  to  read  in  the  papers  that  W.  A. 
Thompson  offered  that  special  make  of 
shoes  at  $2.98  a  pair.  There  was  a  row, 
of  course,  and  more  or  less  talk  was 
created. 
It  was stated  that  Mr.  Thomp­
son  could  not  have  the  real,  bona  fide 
shoes  of  that  make  and  that  the  com­
petitor  was  the  only  one 
in  town  who 
handled  them.  Mr.  Thompson  avowed 
that  he  had  the  genuine goods  and  was 
selling  them  52  cents  cheaper  than  the 
accredited  agent.  Of  course,  there  was 
some  pretty  sharp  correspondence.  The 
exclusive  agent  and  the  manufacturers 
of  the  shoes  claimed  that  the  shoes 
could  not  be  genuine.  Mr.  Thompson, 
however,  offered  to  give  $1,000  to  any 
local  charity  provided  the  manufac­
turers  could  prove  his  shoes  were  not 
the  simon-pure,  genuine  and  original 
shoes  made  by  them,  and  they  have  not 
yet  taken  up  the  challenge.  The  fact 
was  Mr.  Thompson  was  able  in  some 
manner  (how  he  does  not  say)  to  pro­
cure  some  of  these  widely-advertised 
shoes,  and,  by  cutting  the  price,  has 
made  himself  the  most  talked  of  shoe 
dealer  in  the  city,  and  he  has  benefited 
considerably  by  his  bold  stroke  of  busi­
ness.

Now  for  the  other  Thompson.  His 
name  is  F.  M.  Thompson,  likewise with 
a  "p , ”   and  he  keeps  a  store  in  Dan­
bury,  Conn.  Now 
it  seems  that  Dan­
bury  had  a  bad  case of coupon mania  on 
hand.  The  coupon  scheme  of  $3  shoes 
for  15  cents  had  invaded  the  town  and 
was  running 
If  it  has  not 
already  died  out 
it  is  not  through  any 
fault  of  F.  M.  Thompson.  Shoe  dealers 
are  sufficiently  familiar  with  the coupon 
scheme,  where  a  man  pays  15  cents  for 
the  privilege  of  buying a 75-cent book of

its  course. 

five  coupons,  which  he  must  sell  to  five 
of  his  friends,  each  of  whom  must  do 
likewise,  buying  a 75-cent book,and then 
he  gets  bis  shoes.  The  one  peculiarity 
of  the  coupon  system  is  that,  if  any  one 
of  these  five  coupons  is  not  returned 
and  a  75-cent  book  purchased, 
the 
scheme  fails  flat,  and  the  holder  of  the 
book  does  not  get  his  shoes.  This  was 
the  vulnerable  point,  and  Mr.  Thomp­
son  hit  upon 
it  by  advertising  in  this 
way.  He  headed  his advertisement,  “ A 
new  scheme: $3 shoes  for 15 cents, ”   and 
then  printed  the  following card :

It  is  not  often  considered  good  busi­
ness  to  advertise  some  one  else,  but 
there  are  exceptions.  There  is  a  new 
scheme  in  town. 
It  is  claimed  that  you 
can  get  a  pair  of $3  shoes  for  15  cents, 
but  you  must  first  sell  the tickets in your 
book.  Now  I  am  going to  help  you out, 
and will  buy  one  ticket  out  of  each book 
under  No.  50;  or  if  you  have  bought  a 
ticket  of  a  friend  and  don’t  care  for  it 
I  will  buy  it,  provided  I  have none from 
the  same  book.

Mr.  Thompson’s  scheme  was  perhaps 
not  apparent  to  the  people  who  read  it. 
But  it  was  a  chance  to  sell  one  of  their 
five  coupons  or  it  was  a  chance  to  get 
out  of  buying  a  75-cent book,  and  quite 
a  number  availed  themselves  of  the  op­
portunity.  After  Mr.  Thompson  got 
those  coupons  he  held  onto  them.  He 
did  not  go  to  buying  75-cent  books,  and 
every  series  of  which  be  had  one  was 
therefore 
imperfect,  and  as  far  as  that 
book  was  concerned  the  scheme  prac­
tically  came  to  naught.  The  next  day 
be  published  another  card,  which  read 
like  this:

THE  NEW  SCHEME 

looks  different  to-day. 
Instead  of  buy­
ing  your  $3  shoes  for  15  cents,  your 
friends  are  paying  $4.50  for  them,  and 
vour  15  cents  makes  a  total  of  $4.65. 
You  are  fortunate  to  have this  kind  of  a 
friend.

NOW  TH E  OTH ER  SIDE.

There are  several  in  town  buying  one 
ticket  from  a  book.  This  ticket  they 
will  hold. 
If  you  ever get  your  shoes 
you  must  buy  this  ticket and  pay  what 
the  holder  asks. 

It  may  be  $2.

The  chain  is  broken  and  the  game 

is 

blocked.

This  second  advertisement  gave the 
whole  scheme  away  and  showed  how 
futile  would  be  the  attempt  of  people 
who  had  sold  him  one ticket  to  continue 
their  labors  in  selling the other  coupons. 
It  practically  killed  the  whole  scheme 
in  two  days.

It  seems,  as  soon  as  Mr.  Thompson 
bad  a  caller  who  wanted  to  sell  him  a 
coupon,  he  would  buy  a  coupon  ‘ first 
and  put  it  carefully  away  and  then  be 
would  explain  to  the  seller  that  he  had 
blocked  tbe  sale  of a  pair  of  shoes,  and 
then  when  one  wanted  to  buy 
it  back 
for  their  book  even  at a  premium,  he 
refused  to  sell  it.

This  plan 

led  others  to  do  tbe  same 
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Careful  Classification  of  the  Various 

Acetylene  Generators.

All  acetylene  generators  operate  by 
placing  carbide  and  water  in  contact, 
and  up  to  the  present time  tbere  are five 
general  classes. 
It  is  difficult  to  desig­
nate  these  types  by  single  words,  but 
the  following  classification  will  answer 
the  purpose:

1.  Sprinklers.
2.  Absorbers.
Immersers.
3. 
4. 
Inundaters.
5.  Plungers.
Sprinklers  are  arranged  to  sprinkle, 
drip  or  to  pour,  in  fixed  quantities, 
water  upon  the  carbide.

Absorbers 

are  so  constructed  that 
water  enters  from  the  side  or  bottom, 
and  is  supplied  to  the  carbide  by means 
of  the  capillary  attraction  of  the  resid­
uum  of  the  carbide  itself.  This  form 
is  most  common  in  the  bicycle  lamp.

Immersers  are  those 

in  which  the 

level of  the  carbide  support  is  varied.

Inundaters  change  the  level  of  the 
water,  the  carbide  support  being  fixed.
Plungers  plunge  tbe  carbide  directly 

into  the  water.

is 

The  capacity  of an  acetylene  gas gen­
erator 
its  heat-absorbing  capacity. 
It  is  the  ignorance  of  or  determination 
to  ignore  this  law  that  has  caused  such 
widespread  failure  in  generators. 
It  is 
through  no  fault  of  scientists  and  ex­
perts  that  incorrect  methods  have  been 
followed,  for  they  have  invariably  and 
with  great  care  called  attention  to  the 
necessity  of  avoiding  high  temperatures 
in  the generation  of  acetylene gas  from 
the  very  first.

It 

inventors 

is  cheaper  to 

The  sprinkler generator  has  been  the 
great  favorite  with 
in  tbe 
United  States,and  the  number  manufac­
tured  and  sold  is  unquestionably  many 
times  that  of  all  the  other types  com­
bined. 
construct, 
affords  easier  mechanical  arrangement, 
and  apparently  has  a  greater  capacity 
for  the  space  occupied,  and  therefore 
has  been  far  in  the  lead  up  to  the  pres­
ent  time.  Notwithstanding  these  con­
ditions  this  type  of  generator  operates 
in  direct  opposition  to  the  principles 
tbe  recognized 
laid  down  by  all  of 
acetylene  authorities.  Not  only 
is  it 
wrong  according  to  the  authorities,  but 
continued  use 
it  radically 
defective. 
Instead  of  having  large  ca­
pacity  it  has  practically  no capacity  for 
the  proper  generation  of  acetylene,  be­
cause  it  has  but  very  slight  heat-absorb­
ing  capacity.

is  proving 

in 

The  operation  of  tbe  ordinary  sprink­
is  as  follows:  A  charge  of  fresh 
ler 
is  placed 
the  generator. 
carbide 
Water 
is  automatically  dropped  or 
sprayed  upon  it  until  the gas  generated 
creates  a  pressure that  cuts  off  the  sup­
ply.  The  heat  of  generation  and  the 
great  affinity  which  the  carbide  has  tor 
water  rapidly  absorb  all  the  moisture 
that  remains.  The  residuum  rests  on 
tbe  carbide  in  tbe  form  of  dry  dust. 
When  the  water  is  again  applied  this 
dust  must  first  be  thoroughly  saturated 
before  the  carbide  is  reached,  forming 
a  beat-retaining  sludge  which  becomes 
thicker  and  thicker  with  each  applica­
tion  of  water  until  tbe  carbide  is  ex­
hausted.  Thus the  localized  heat  con­
fined  within  this  sludge  becomes  so  in­
tense  as  to  be  very  destructive  to the 
gas generated.

Some  manufacturers  have  obviated 
the  difficulty  somewhat  by arranging  the 
carbide on  a grate to  be shaken occasion­
ally,  thus  removing  tbe  dust,  but  the 
is  insufficient,  as  is  proven  by
remedy 

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

the  heated  condition  of  the  generating 
chamber when  the  apparatus is  operated 
to anything  like  its  rated  capacity. 
In 
short,  it 
is  impossible to  apply  a  small 
quantity  of  water  to  a  comparatively 
large  body  of  carbide without generating 
injurious  heat.  Any person  can  demon­
strate this  by  placing  the  bulb  of  a ther­
mometer  between  pieces  of  fresh  car­
bide  in  the  open  air and  slowly  drip­
ping  water  upon  it   The  sprinkler gen­
erator has  decided  advantages over other 
types,  because  the  residuum  can  be  re­
moved  in  a  dry  state,  like  ashes.  Un­
fortunately,  the  residuum  in  this  condi­
tion, 
if  not  removed  frequently,  has 
great  capacity  for  producing  ammonia, 
is  one  of  tbe  worst  impurities 
which 
acetylene  has  to  contend  with. 
If  tbere 
is  a  sprinkler  yet  on  the  market  which 
does  not become  heated  when  operated 
for  any  length  of time  to  its  rated  ca­
pacity,  its  light  must  still  “ be  hid  un­
der a  bushel. ”

bide,  rapidly  absorbing  the  heat  and 
carrying  away  with  each  recession  the 
residuum  formed  with  each  water  con­
tact,  so  that  the  gas  is  produced  at  the 
desirable  low  temperature.  This  type 
of generator offers  facilities  for recharg­
ing  and  for  removing  the  residuum, 
which gives  it  decided  advantages.

The  plunger  is  the type most approved 
by  acetylene  experts. 
It  is  said  that 
in  plunging  the  carbide  into  the  water 
the  rising  gas 
is  cooled  and  purified. 
However,  the  mechanical  difficulties  in 
constructing  small  generators,  such  as 
are  suitable  for  ordinary  store  or  house 
lighting,  have  been  so  great  that  none 
of  this  class  has  yet  appeared  on  the 
general  market.  To  obtain  a  feeding 
mechanism  for  the  rough  material  so 
delicate  as  to  be  operated  by  the  move­
ment  of  the  bell  of  the  small  gas  holder 
without  interfering  with  tbe  pressure  on

tbe  service  pipes  is  a  most  formidable 
undertaking.  The  difficulty 
is  further 
increased  by  the  necessity  for absolutely 
gas  tight  joints  for  the  working  parts, 
and  disposal  of  the  residuum  adds  seri­
ously  to  the  complication  of  the  combi­
nation  in  this  type.  Cost  of  construction 
is  an  important  factor  which  must  al­
ways  remain  in  consideration.

The 

inventor  who  can  produce  a 
plunger  generator  meeting  all  the  re­
quirements at  a  cost  not  in  excess  of  the 
best  apparatus  of  other  types  will  at 
least  have  the  unanimous  indorsement 
of  the  recognized  authorities  on  acety­
lene  gas,  and  ought  to  acquire  final 
leadership. 

A u g u s t in e   D a v i s .

Cook  Owned  It.

“ Do  you  own 

your  own  house, 

“ No;  we’ve  had  the  same  cook  seven 

Tweedles?”

years. ”

is  cut  off 

Tbe  claim  that  generation  of gas  in 
this  class  of  generators  ceases  imme­
diately  when  the  water 
is 
fallacious,  as  observation  will  readily 
prove.  The  reason  for  this  is  that  the 
highly-heated  residuum  has  a  great 
capacity  for  absorbing  water,  forming 
what  is  known  as  calcic  hydrate,  which 
when  cooled  gives  off  the  water  and 
continues  tbe  gas  generation,  accom­
panied  by  intense  beat.  To  such  a  de­
gree does this condition prevail that some 
experts  claim  that  a  piece  of  carbide 
once  wetted  will  continue to disintegrate 
until  it  is  entirely  exhausted,  but  this 
is  undoubtedly  an  extreme  view. 
It 
may  be a  bold  act  to  condemn  the  gen­
erators  which  have  up  to  this  time  en­
tirely  outdistanced  all  rivals  in  tbe mat­
ter  of  sales,  but 
it  requires  emphatic 
action  to  correct  an evil which  is  widely 
established. 
that 
even  the  most  positive assertions  will 
be  accepted  at  once  as  true,  but  they 
will  cause  investigation,  which 
is  all 
that  is  needed  to  demonstrate  the  truth.
Absorbers  have  all  the  deficiencies  of 
the  sprinkler,  and  are  liable  to  be  even 
worse because of  the greater  mass of wet 
residuum.  The  writer  has  personally 
seen  live,  red  hot  coals  in  the  residuum 
taken  from  a  generator of  this  class.

is  not  expected 

It 

Immersers are generators  in which the 
is  carried  on  a  wire  netting 
carbide 
placed 
in  the  floating  bell  of  the  gas 
bolder.  When  the  bell  sinks  into  the 
water the  carbide  is  wet,  and  this  gen­
erates  gas  which  forces  the  bell upward, 
lifting  the  netting  out  of  the  water, 
where  it  remains  until  gas  is consumed, 
allowing  the  bell  to  again  drop until  the 
netting  reaches  tbe  water, wh€n more gas 
is generated,  and  this  is  repeated  until 
the carbide  is  consumed.  This  type  of 
generator operates  well  so  far  as  the  gas 
generation 
is  concerned,  but  the diffi­
culty  of  placing  the  carbide  inside  of 
the bell  without allowing  gas  to  escape, 
and the  admission  of  large  quantities  of 
air and  inconvenience  of  removing  the 
it  to  be  almost 
residuum,  have  caused 
entirely  abandoned,  although 
it  had  a 
decided  lead  in  tbe  beginning.

The  inundaters  have  a  fixed  carbide 
support,  and  the  water  level  is  changed 
by  the  pressure  of  tbe gas.  When  water 
is  admitted  to tbe generating  chamber 
it  rises  under tbe  carbide  support  until 
it  reaches  the  carbide,  when  gas  is  gen­
erated.  Tbe  volume  of  gas  increases 
until  the 
increased  pressure drives  the 
water below  the  support  away  from  the 
carbide,  where  it  remains  until  tbe  gas 
is  consumed,  when  the operation  is  re­
peated.  As with  the  immersers,  a  large 
body  of  water  is  presented  to  tbe  car­

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generator and the light produced by it I  have 
every  reason  to  believe  that  I  will  be  more 
than pleased with it, and that it is the modern 
light. 

Yours very truly,

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SUCCESS  ASSURED.

Practical  Plan  to  Arrest  Present  De­

generation  in  Boys.

Dr.  Allen  Me Lane  Hamilton,  the  fa­
mous brain  specialist,  says  the  boys  of 
to-day  are  far  from  being  up  to the 
standard  of  the  youth  of  this  nation  a 
century  ago.  He  has  a  unique  and  very 
interesting  suggestion  for  arresting  this 
degeneration  and  making  the  genera­
tions  to  come  not  only  equal  to  the  boys 
of  the  Eighteenth  Centary,  but  their 
superior.  He  believes  that  children 
should  not only  be  trained  in  the  ways 
they  should  go,  in  accordance  with  the 
biblical  injunction,  but  that their fitness 
for  the  practical  things  of  life  which 
nature  intended them for should be  early 
demonstrated. 
In  a  word,  he  would 
have  a  boy  analyzed  from  the  time he 
is 6  until  he  is  16.

Nordau  has  dwelt  on  the  degeneration 
of  man.  By  his  suggestion  Dr.  Hamil­
ton  at  once  places  himself  in  the  front 
rank  of  those  who  would  not  combat 
degeneration  by argumentative methods, 
but  instead  aim  at  the  core  of  the  evil 
in  a  thoroughly  practical  way.  He  is  a 
warm  advocate  of  the  theory  that  the 
mediocre  ranks  of  the  professions  are 
filled  with  good  farmers,  good  plumbers 
and  good  machinists—that  is,  persons 
the  bent  of  whose  minds  would  have 
gained  them  profitable  success  in  the 
trades  where  the  professions  can  only 
count  them  failures.

Dr.  Hamilton  declares  that  our  boys 
are  not  as  good  as  the  English  boys. 
Not  because  nature  has  not  endowed 
them  as  well,  not  because their  minds 
are  not  as  keen  and  their  bodies  as 
strong 
in  the  beginning,  but  because 
the  tutelage  of  mind  and  body  in Amer­
ica  is not  as  well  calculated to bring  out 
in  a  boy  as  the  system  in 
all  there 
England.  Dr.  Hamilton  in  no  way 
in­
tends  to  reflect  upon  our  educational 
system,  but  refers  to  the  combination 
of  home  and  scholastic  training.

is 

This 

idea  of  Dr.  Hamilton’s  is  not 
one  either  quickly  conceived  or  hastily 
told. 
It  is  the  fruit of  ripe  judgment, 
based  upon  long  and  very  valuable  ex­
perience. 
It  is the  belief of a  man  who 
has  looked  upon  humanity  from  the  top 
and  yet  who  knows  the  human  mind 
with  a  knowledge  that  is  given  to  few 
men.  The  closest  of  observers  of  hu­
man  nature,  he  has  gained  an  insight 
which  makes  him  in  every  way  a  critic 
whose  opinions gain  respect  the  world 
over.

The  doctor 

is  very  firm  in  his  belief 
in  the  fallacy  of  the  old  maxim  that  the 
road  from  the  ploughshare  to  the  presi­
dency  lies  open  to  every  boy. 
It  is 
purely  a question  of  environment  and  of

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

circumstances.  These  make  the  boy 
great  or  they  leave  him,  like  the  fruit, 
weazened  and  shrunken  by  the  frost  or 
imperfect  growth.  By  continuing  to 
pursue  present  methods  Dr.  Hamilton 
believes  that  degeneracy  is  bound  to  go 
on  and  on,  not  so  swiftly,  perhaps,  but 
much 
in  the  same  way  that  marks  the 
succeeding  generations  of  children  who 
spring  from  the  marriage  of  those  of 
northern  blood,  who  go 
tropical 
lands,  with  the  natives  of  the latter.  He 
believes  all  this  unless  some  remedy 
is 
found  that  will  uplift,  stay  the  decay  of 
brain  and  body,  and  make  the  rising 
generation  one  that  will  go  onward  and 
upward  toward the  perfect  man.

to 

it 

It  was  my  question  as  to  the  worth  of 
the  boys  of  to-day  and  a  century  ago 
which  caused  Dr.  Hamilton  to  say: 
“ Certainly,  the  modern  boy  is  not  the 
equal  of  the  boys  of  the  last  century. 
The  difference  lies  in  the  bringing  up. 
Our  democracy,  as  it  is  impressed  upon 
the  boy  of  to-day,  is  an  injury  to  him, 
and 
is  simply  so  because  it  is  over­
done.  The  father  of  every  boy  is  in­
clined  to  believe  him  the  smartest  there 
is,  fitted  to  adopt  that  vocation 
life 
nearest  to  the  father’s  heart.  The  nat­
ural  desires  of  the  boy,  and  I  mean  by 
that  the  unperverted  desires  that  nature 
implanted  in  him,  are,  in  the  majority 
of  instances,  not  considered  at  all.  We 
will  say  that  the  boy’s  father is a doctor, 
and  perhaps  his  father has  been  a  doc­
tor  before  him.  Therefore  it  is  consid­
ered  a  settled  fact  that  the  boy  must  be 
a  doctor,  too.  He 
is  pushed  forward 
and  forced  through  college  in  some  way 
and  gets  an  M.  D.  tacked  onto  his 
name.

in 

“ Then,  what  happens  to  this  boy,  or 
is  launched  to 
this  young  man?  He 
in­
make  a  name  for  himself,  in  many 
stances,  in  a  profession  for  which  he 
is 
altogether  unfitted,  and  the  result  is that 
he  becomes  not  simply  mediocre,  often, 
but  a  lamentable  failure.  The  chances 
are  that  if  this  boy  bad  been tested  as to 
bis  fitness  for  various things  it  would 
have  been  demonstrated  that  there was  a 
line  of  practical  life  for  which  he  had  a 
natural  aptitude. 
Perhaps  be  might 
have  made  a  good  farmer  and  risen  to 
prominence 
it 
stands,  he  has  no  chance,  and  he  be­
comes  a  doctor because his father wanted 
him  to  be  one.

line,  but,  as 

in  that 

" I t   is  not  always  the  case that a young 
man  gets  into  the  wrong  place  early  in 
life,  but  it  is  always  the  case  that  when 
he  gets  into  the  wrong  place 
it  is  be­
cause  no  real  substantial effort was made 
in  the  beginning  to  find  out  what  he 
was  best  fitted  for. 
I  once  knew  of  a 
man  who  became  a  very  good  house 
painter.  He  accumulated  quite  a  little

bit  of  money,  enough  so  that  when  he 
determined  that  he  would  like  to  be  a 
doctor  he could  go ahead  and get a smat­
tering  of a  medical  education.  Well,  he 
managed  to  ^get  a  degree,  and  he  be­
came  as  great  a  failure as  a  doctor as 
be  was  a  success 
in  painting  bouses. 
There 
is  a  fact  with  a  moral  to  it,  and 
the  moral  is  plain  to anyone  who  wishes 
to  look  for  it. ’ ’

“ Just  bow  would  you  try  to  make  thé 
boys  of  to-day  and  those  of  the  next 
generation  better  fitted  to  cope  with  the 
world?”   I  asked.

It 

"F in d   out  what  they  are  fitted  for  be­
fore  they  really  begin  practical  life ," 
“ I  have  a  plan  and 
said  the  doctor. 
believe  it  to  be a  very  good  one. 
is 
to  have 
in  every  place  a  board  com­
posed  of  experts  qualified  to  judge  of 
the  physical  conditions  and mental qual­
ifications  of  a  boy. 
I  would  have  every 
boy  appear  once  a  year  at  least  before 
this  board  from  the  time  be  was  6  years 
of  age  until  he  was  16. 
It  would  be  the 
duty  of  the  various  members  of  such  à 
board  to  test  the  boy’s  hearing,  his  eye­
sight,  to  see  if  be  had  any  physical  dis­
in  any  way  be  de­
ability  that  could 
if  he  had  a  criminal 
tected ;  to  see 
tendency ;  to  see 
if  his  fingers  were 
those  capable  of  deft  manipulation  or 
delicate  operation;  to  see  if  his  brain 
were  well  ordered,  and  if  there  were  in­
dications  of  unusual  development in any 
direction.

* ‘ I  would  have  on  that  board  men 
who  could 
learn  by  questioning  what 
was  the  boy’s  natural  inclination  for  a 
profession  or  trade. 
I  would  have  the 
members  of  that  board  men  who  were in 
no  way  situated  so  that  they  would  be 
influenced  by  any  business 
relations 
with  the  fathers  of  the  boys,  and  in  that 
way  their  judgment  must  be  unbiased. 
Then,  after a  boy  had  passed  through 
the  hands  of  the  different  board  mem­
bers,  I  would  have  a  report  prepared 
for 
telling  exactly 
what  the  result  of  the  examination  was. 
and 
in  that  way  there  would  be  from 
the  beginning—that  is,  from  the  age  of 
6  years—a  series  of  definitions  of  the 
boy,  of  practical  analyses  which  would 
show  the  actual  facts  concerning  bis 
body,  mind  and  natural  aptitude.

the  boy’s  father 

“ In  the  matter of  the  support  of  such 
a  board  as  this,  I  would  say  make  it  lo­
cal,  state  or  national  or by subscription, 
but  I  would  so  arrange  it that the fathers 
of  boys  who  could  should  pay  so  much 
a  year,  but  that  this  should  by  no  means 
act  as  a  bar  to the  sons  of  persons  un­
able  to  afford  such  a  thing  as  enjoying 
all  the  advantages  that  would  ceitainly 
accrue.  The  plan  would  lose  its  value 
instantly  were  it  made  to  depend  upon 
the  financial  backing  ground  from  the 
poor. ’ ’

“ And  this  you  believe,  doctor,  would 
stay  the  degeneracy  you  have  spoken  of 
in  every  way?”

“ There 

is  no  doubt  of  it. 

It  would 
raise  the  standard  of  the  human  race  in 
every  country  where 
it  was  adopted. 
There  are  some  boys  who are  naturally 
inclined  to  crime,  but  I  believe  the  ma­
jority  become  criminal  through  circum­
stances.  You  take  a  high-spirited  boyl 
for  instance.  We  will say  he  has  natura.

ambitions  and  gifts 
in  a  direction  to 
which  his  father  is  opposed.  He  lets 
that. be  known,  and 
is  laughed  at  and 
scorned  for  it.  His  pride  is  hurt.  The 
natural  growth  of  that  for  which  nature 
has  fitted  him  is  checked.  He  is  forced 
into  something  he  really  loathes,  and  he 
becomes  careless  and  disgusted.  He 
does  not  realize all  these  things,  but  the 
result  is  the  same,  and  he grows  up with 
his  natural  tendencies  perverted,  with 
his  better  instincts  checked,  and  lapses 
into  a  mental  condition  that  makes  him 
dull  to  the  evil  of  crime  and  prone  to 
yield  to  temptation  when  it  comes,  as  it 
comes  to  most  young  men.

It  almost  seems  as 

“ You  must  remember  that,in  the  case 
of  very  many  boys  who  are  called  good 
boys,  they  are  not  good  because  they  try 
to  he,  but because  nature  has  eliminated 
from  their  brains  anything  that  would 
give  them  the  slightest  desire  to  be 
other  than  what  the  world  calls  good. 
Good  boys  are  rarely  brilliant.  There 
has  never  been  a  great  man  without  de­
cided  failings. 
if 
nature  deliberately  endowed  a  man  with 
weaknesses 
in  proportion  as  she 
endowed  him  with  great  capabilities. 
You  can 
look  through  the great  names 
in  history  and  you  will  hardly  find  one 
whose  owner  was  not  notable  for  some 
failing,  some  passion  that  is  character­
ized  as  weakness.  Most  great  men  are 
strongly  attracted  by  women.  Napoleon, 
for  example.  With  others, 
there  are 
mental  eccentricities.  Dante  was 
in­
sane,  and  so  it  goes.”

just 

“ How  about  the  influence  of the home 
on  boys,  doctor,  and  the  opinions  their 
fathers  express  to  them?”

“ It  is  the  influence  of  the  home  that 
is  the  unmaking  of  many boys.  I  do  not 
mean  that  home 
influences  are  to  be 
sneered  at  or  belittled  in  any  way. 
It 
is  because  they  are  not  made  what  they 
should  be  that  the  boy  suffers. 
If  a  bey 
hears  vainglorious  boasting  at  bis  home 
regarding  his  own  country,  it gives  him 
idea  of  the  facts.  He 
an  exaggerated 
naturally  accepts 
it  as  true,  and  never 
thinks  of 
investigating,  because  the 
stage  of  development  of  his  mind  does 
not  suggest  it.  Thus  his  ideas  regard­
ing  his  own  country  are  perverted  and 
he  becomes  not  patriotic,  but  vain­
glorious.

“ The  American  boy  is  given  an  ex­
aggerated  idea  of  democracy  as  it exists 
in  this  country.  The  doctrine  of 
‘ we 
are  the  people’ 
is  perfectly  correct  as 
far as  it  goes,  but  nothing  gains  by  ex­
aggeration  or  departure  from  the  facts, 
and every boy in whom are not inculcated 
the  real  facts  of democracy  as  it  exists 
with  us  is  injured  mentally—he  is given 
a  push  towards  degeneration.

“ It  is  in  this respect,  that  the  English 
boy 
is  treated  according  to  his  actual 
worth,  that  he  has  a  distinct  advantage 
over  the  boy  of  America.  Naturally,  our 
boys  are  the  equals  of  any  who  live, 
but 
is  entirely  a  wrong  principle  to 
bring  up  a  boy  with  the  idea  that  be­
cause  he  is  born  in  this  country  there  is 
in  any  other  country  who  can 
nobody 
possibly  equal  him. 
I  am  aware  that 
my  belief  is  unpopular,  but  I  feel  that  I 
speak  the  simple  truth.”

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Michigan Knights of the drip. 

President, J ohn  a .  Hoffm an,  Kalamazoo ;  Secre­
tary, j .  c.  Sa u n d e r s,  Lansing;  Treasurer, C hab. 
McN o l ty,  Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  C.  C.  Sneijeker,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C.  W.  A lle n  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 

Grand Counselor, J. J.  E v a n s. Ann Arbor;  Grand 
Secretary, G  S. V almore, Detroit ;  Grand Treas­
urer,  W.  S.  W hst, Jackson.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

President,  J.  B o yd  P a n tlin d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer,  G eo.  F.  Ow en,  Grand 
Rapids.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President,  F.  G. T b u sc o tt, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  VVixson,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Bert  Ege,  of  Owosso,  is  traveling 

in 

Kansas  for  the  Woolson  Spice  Co.

Abram  Fisher  has  engaged  as  travel­
ing  representative  for  Cbas.  Seligman, 
the  Grand  Haven  cigar  manufacturer.

W.  E.  Fletcher,  of  Schoolcraft,  has 
engaged  to  travel  for  the  D.  M.  Osborn 
Co.,  the engagement dating from  Dec.  I.
Gustin,  Cook  &  Buckley,  wholesale 
grocers  at  Bay  City,  will employ another 
salesman  for  their  Northern  trade  about 
Jan.  i.

Stephen  T.  Bowen  (John  T.  Miller  & 
Co.)  is  already  out  with  his  spring  line 
—and  his  somewhat  celebrated  specific 
for  the  annihilation  of  Old  Rheum.

traveled  for  the  Jackson  Grocery  Co.  for 
the  past  four  years,  has  engaged  to  rep­
resent  Berdan  & Co.  (Toledo) next year.
James  Salmond,  a  well-known  Michi­
gan  traveling  man,  has  removed  his 
family  from  Altoona,  Pa  ,  to  Lansing, 
and  will  reside  at  207  Pine  street  south.
Sturgis  Democrat:  A.  B.  Tennent 
will  start  out  to  travel  next  Monday  for 
the  wholesale  clothing  bouse  of  Wood- 
hull,  Goodale  &  Bull,  of  Syracuse, 
N.  Y.  He  will  travel  in  Indiana.

Sturgis  Journal:  Ed.  Huff,  who  for 
many  years has  been with  F.  L.  Burdick 
&  Co.  in  the  clothing  department,  has 
decided  to  see  what  virtue  there  is  in 
being  a  traveling  man  and  will  go  on 
the  road  in  the  interest  of  an  Eastern 
wholesale  clothing  house  in  a  week  or 
two.

Menominee  Herald:  The  wholesale 
grocery  house of  Penberthy,  &  Cook  Co. 
now  has  six  men  on  the  road. 
Early 
next  summer  work  will  be  started  on  a 
big  elevator  and  cold  storage.  The 
company  handles  an 
immense  line  of 
produce.  It has  been  buying  all  the  oats 
that  could  be  secured 
in  this  region. 
Potatoes,  hay,  etc.,  are  also  shipped  to 
all  parts  of  the  United  States.  Even 
with  their  present  large  facilities  they 
are  crowded  for  room.

Muskegon News:  The oldest salesman, 
in  point  of  contiuous  service,  who  calls 
on  Muskegon  merchants, 
is  probably 
H.  A.  Mansfield,  of  Waltham,  Mass. 
He  is  engaged  in  the  shoe  manufactur­
ing  business,  being  interested  in  facto­
ries  at  North  Adams,  Pittsfield  and 
Lynn,  Mass.,  but  for  the  past  thirty- 
three  years  has  made 
it  a  part  of  bis 
work  to  spend  about  two  months  in  the 
fall  and  spring  of  each  year  calling  on 
the  retail  shoe  dealers  of  Michigan.  He 
began  bis  visits  to  Muskegon over thirty 
years  ago  and  has  come  here  regularly 
since  then  twice  each  year.

“ Old  Billy,”  
familiar  object 

for 
Owosso  Press: 
thirteen  years  a 
in 
whatever  grocery  store  C.  C.  Duff has 
been  doing  business,  has  taken  up  his 
abode  in  the  country.  Billy  is  a  cat,

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

the  pet  of  every  one  familiar  wih  Duff 
&  Dettwiler’s  store.  He  had  made  the 
acquaintance  of  many  commercial  trav­
elers  at  the  store  and  with  each  one  he 
was  a  favorite.

Saginaw  Courier-Herald :  Willard  F. 
King,  traveling  representative  of  D.  E. 
Prall  &  Co.,  who  recently returned  from 
a  successful  business  trip  in  the  North­
west,  has 
left  on  a  three  months’  trip 
which  will  take  him  along  the  Northern 
States,  down  the  Pacific  Coast,and back 
by  way  of  Angora  and  New  Mexico. 
Mrs.  King  and  child  will  remain  with 
her  parents  at  Cheboygan.

Chairman  Wetzell  (Post  E)  has  been 
selected  by  the  Committee  on  Arrange­
ments  to  deliver  a  ten-minute  speech  at 
the  Saginaw  banquet.  The  invitation 
is  entirely  appropriate  in  case  the  Com­
mittee  proposes  to  permit  Mr.  Wetzell 
to  take  his  sardonic  smile  along  with 
him.  He  has  bad  it  on  ice  ever  since 
the  annual  picnic  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
traveling  men  and  it  is  in excellent con­
dition.

Frequent  complaints  come  to  the 
Tradesman  of  the  arbitary  manner  in 
which  users  of  the  Central  Traffic  Asso­
ciation  mileage  book  are  treated  by  the 
gentleman  who 
is  entrusted  with  the 
work  of  redeeming  the  covers.  Many 
cases  have  been  reported  where  he  has 
trumped  up  some  foolish  excuse  for  re­
fusing  to  redeem  the  covers,  but 
in 
every  case  he  has  receded  from  his  po­
sition  on  being  threatened  with  suit;  in 
fact,  threats  of  this  kind  appear  to  be 
about  the  only  way  the  boys  have  of 
bringing  the  obstreperous  individual  to 
time.  All  reports  are  to  the  effect  that 
he 
invariably  abusive  and  ungentle- 
manly ;  in  fact,  it  is  an  open  question 
which 
is  the  more  unpopular—the  red- 
tape  book  of  the  C.  T.  A.  or  the boorish 
individual  who  stands  guard  over  the 
misuse  of  the  monstrosity.

is 

Grand  Rapids  traveling  men  should 
not  forget  that  the  annual  meeting  of 
Post  E  will  be  held  at  Sweet’s  Hotel  on 
Saturday  evening,  Dec.  3,  at  which 
time  officers  will  be  elected  for  the  en­
suing  year  and  preliminary  arrange­
ments  made  for  attending  the  annual 
convention  of the  Michigan  Knights  of 
the  Grip  at  Saginaw  in  December. 
It 
will  also  be  in  order to  nominate  a  can­
didate  for  Director 
in  place  of  Frank 
M.  Tyler,  whose  two-year  term  expires 
with  the  present  fiscal  year.  L.  M. 
Mills  was  elected  to  fill  the  vacancy 
caused  by  the  removal  of  Mr.  Tyler 
from  the  State  and  there  will  probably 
be  no  objection  raised  to  his  remaining 
It  is  hoped  that  the  at­
on  the  Board. 
tendance  at  the  meeting  will  be 
large, 
as  several  matters  of  importance  are  to 
come  up for  consideration  and  action.

Traveling  men  who  are  compelled  to 
use  both  the  Northern  and  Central 
Traffic  Association  mileage  books  as­
sert  that there  is  no  comparison between 
the  two  books  and  that  they  show  their 
approval  of  the  Northern  book  by  using 
it  as  much  as  possible  in  traveling from 
the  East,  instead  of  going  over  roads 
which  insist  on  using  the  Central  book. 
The  only  suggestion  the  Tradesman 
hears 
in  relation  to  the  book  is  that  it 
would  be  a  convenience  to  be able  to 
buy  a  5,000  mile  book  for $110,  with  the 
same  conditions  as  are  observed  with 
the $30  book.  This  suggestion  comes 
from  traveling  men  who  use  a  1,000 
mile  book  every  two  or three  weeks  and 
who  find  it  inconvenient to  purchase  the 
books  at  some  stations. 
it 
would  be  well  for  the  members  of  the 
Bureau  to  consider  the  suggestion  at 
some  of  their  meetings.

Perhaps 

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

P.  T.  Walsh,  Candidate  for  President 

of the  M.  K.  of  G.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  Post  C 
(Detroit),  held  on  the 
last  Saturday 
evening  of  October,  P.  T.  Walsh  re­
ceived  the  unanimous  endorsement  of 
the  Post  as  its  candidate  for  the  Presi­
dency  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip.  After  due  deliberation,  Mr. 
Walsh,  at  the  Post  meeting  held  No­
vember  26,  announced  his  acceptance. 
His  many  friends  will  be  pleased  to 
have  a  chance  to  vote  for  him  at  the 
annual  meeting,  to  be  held  in  Saginaw 
next  month.  Mr.  Walsh  will  be  an  ex­
ceptionally  strong  candidate,  as  be 
is 
admirably  adapted  to  fill  the  position, 
both  from  his  forensic  talent  and  his 
high  executive  ability,  which  will  not 
come  amiss  when  he  presides  at the 
Board  of  Directors’  meetings,  and  the

further  fact  that  his  interests  are 
iden­
tified  with  the  traveling  fraternity  only.
Mr.  Walsh  is  a  commercial traveler in 
the  truest  and  fullest  sense  of  the  word, 
having  been 
in  the  employ  of  the  P. 
Lori Hard  Company,  Jersey  City,  N.  J., 
for  the  past  fourteen  years.  Starting  as 
an  advertising  boy,  he  has  by  sheer 
merit  worked  his  way  through  the  va­
rious  stages  of  advancement on the road, 
and 
is  now,  and  has  been  for  the  past 
three  years,  general  agent  for  the  com­
pany 
in  the  States  of  Michigan,  In­
diana  and  Kentucky.  Mr.  Walsh  is  36 
years  old,  lives 
in  the  city  of  Detroit 
and  has  a  most  attractive  personality, 
is  strong  in  his  friendships  and  equally 
strong  in  bis dislikes,  and  be has a large 
circle  of  loyal  friends  who,  unquestion­
ably,  will  be  pleased  to  see  him  preside 
over  the  largest  and  most  influencial 
commercial  travelers’  association  in  the 
State  of  Michigan.  The  members  of 
Post  C  will  use  every  honorable  means 
in  their  power  to  secure  Mr.  Walsh’s 
election,  for the reason  that  they  believe 
him  eminently  fitted  for  the  place,  that 
it  will  confer  a  deserved  honor  upon  the 
city  of  Detroit  and  that  his  election 
will  mean  that  the  membership  of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip 
in  De­
troit  will  be  vastly  increased  as  a  result 
of  his  election. 

J o h n  M c L ea n.

Another  in  Her  Mind.

“ That  widow  scared  me  away.”
“ How?”
“ She  has  been  married  only  once,  but 
she  always  refers  to  the  dear  departed 
as  her  first  husband.”

John  W.  Cal iff  and  Frank  A.  Cal iff, 
father  and  son,  will  spend  the  next 
three  months  in  the  city  in  the 
interest 
of  the  Dayton  Computing  Scale  Co. 
The  Califfs  reside  in  Bay  City.

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ever  sold.  Kindly  hold  off  buying  till 
you see my  line.  I  will  see all  my friends 
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Just  Opened  and  Ready  for  Business. 
Located  on  corner  of  Front  and  Park Sts., 
one*half block from G.  R. & I.  R. R.  depot. 
This house is newly  furnished  throughout.
A ll the sleeping rooms  have  iron  ana  brass 
beds,  steam  heat,  electric  lights,  call  bells 
and  good  ventilation.  No  inside  rooms.
Hot and cold water in  all parts of the house. 
Rates $1.50 per day.  Free bus to and from 
all boats and trains.
A   First-class  Lunch  Room  in  connection.

W.  H.  FLETCHER,  Prop.

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Drugs—Chemicals
MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expire»
Dec. 81,1898
-  Dec. 31,1899 
Dec. 81,1900
-  Dec. 81,1901
Dec. 81,1902

P. W. R. 
Detroit 
A. C.  Schu m ach er,  Ann  Arbor 
Qeo. G u nd rum ,  Ionia  - 
L. S. K m ouM , St.  Joseph 
- 
H i m  Him, Saginaw  - 

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President, G*o.  G und rum,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Sch u m ach er, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, Hxkrt  Heim, Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.

Detroit—Jan. 10 and 11.
Grand Rapids—March 7 and 8.
Star Island—June 2b and 27. 
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

STATE PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.
President—J. J. Soubwiot, Escanaba. 
Secretary, Chas.  F. Mass, Detroit.
Treasurer  J ohn D.  Mu ir, Grand Rapids.

Sound  Policies  in  Buying  Goods.
The  old-fashioned  apothecary  would 
say, 
* * Buy  cheap  and  sell  dear. ’ ’ 
Whether  or  not  selling  dear  is  a  good 
business  principle  does  not  concern  us 
at  this  time,  but  there  is  no  doubt  that 
buying  cheap 
is  an  absolute  necessity 
to  the  retail  druggist.  This  at  first 
seems  like  a  simple  question.  Most  all 
patented  and  proprietary  goods  are  sold 
under  contract,  so  he  may  think  all  he 
has  to  do  is  to  send  in  bis  daily  order, 
as  there 
is  but  one  price  to  all  under 
this  contract  system.  While  this  is true 
as  far  as  contract  goods  are  concerned, 
that 
is  at  present  a  small  part  of  the 
retail  druggist's  business.

if 

in 

It  is  generally  conceded  that  one  can 
buy  cheaper  in  his  own  store  of  trav­
eling  men  than  he  could 
the 
seller’s  store  dealing  direct  with  the 
principals.  Men  are  out  to  sell,  and 
they  will  sell 
if  they  possibly  can ;  so 
keep 
in  their  good  graces.  They  can 
serve  you  well  if  treated  with  the  cour­
tesy  that  their  position  entitles  them  to.
A  good  buyer  must  of  necessity  be  a 
man  possessed  of  a  good  memory;  he 
must  be  thoroughly  posted ;  he  must  be 
a  man  of  pleasing  address  and  genial 
temperament.  You  can  not  scowl  a 
man's  price  down;  but  you  can  often 
coax 
it  down.  What  you  want  is  to  be 
on  the  same  business  footing  that  will 
allow  you  to  compete  with  any  class  of 
merchants.  To  do  this  you  must  dis­
count  your  bills  or  meet  them  promptly 
at  maturity.  Never  make  any  unjust 
claim  or  attempt  to  deduct  discounts 
you  are  not  entitled  to.  Buy  your  goods 
in  the  open  market  from the  house  who 
gives  you  the  lowest  prices,  but  do  not 
get  one  man's  prices  simply  for  the 
purpose  of  making  someone  else  come 
down  in  price;  this  is  poor  policy.

We  all  have  our  preferences  in  regard 
to  buying  from  our  friends and  would 
be  glad  to  indulge  them,  providing  we 
do  not  have  to  pay  for  it,  but  the  man 
who  pays  a  little  more  for  an  article  be­
cause  the  seller  is  bis  friend  is  unfit  to 
be  in  business.  Do  not  allow  the  bland­
ishments  of  any traveling  salesman,  or 
an  offer of  extreme  dating,  to  encourage 
you  to  purchase  one  dollar’s  worth 
more  than  you  may  require;  buy  as 
your  trade  warrants,  and  never  buy  a 
supposed  season’s  supply  of any  article 
at  once.  Do  all  your  trading  upon sound 
business  principles.  Let  honor  be  your 
watchword,  and  by  every  means  in  your 
power  make  your  account  so  desirable 
that  any  wholesale  merchant  will  be 
glad  to  sell  you  as  cheaply  as  he  will 
any  one.  You  can't  have  too  high  an 
appreciation  of  the  importance  of  tak­
ing cash  discounts  upon  your purchases.
On  net  thirty-day  bills  you  are en­
titled  to  a cash  discount of  I  per cent, 
in  ten  days  ;  in  other  words,  18  per

cent,  per  annum.  Can  you  expect  to 
make  money  any  faster  than 
that? 
Some  wholesalers  make  it a  point to try 
and  sell  goods on  a  basis of  net  ninety 
days;  they  carry  a  discount  of  4  per 
cent,  in  sixty days,  or  in  other  words,
4  per  cent,  for  thirty  days  extra  time, 
48  per  cent,  per  annum.  Don’t  be 
caught  on  such  a  bait;  you  can’t  afford 
to  do  business  if  you  have  to  pay 48  per 
cent,  per  annum  for  the  privilege  of 
thirty  day’s  extra  time.  A  smaller  vol­
ume  of  business  would  be  profitable  if 
kept  in  such  limits  as  to  make 
it  pos­
sible  to  take  advantage  of  the  discounts 
offered.  The  credit  and  business  stand­
ing  of  every  dealer are  in  proportion  to 
the  full  advantage  he  takes  of  the  dis­
count  privileges.  Thus  you  see  you 
can  buy  your  merchandise  as  advan­
tageously  as  any  department  store 
if 
you  will  buy  on  the  same  terms,  j3ut 
you  can’t  go  to  your  wholesaler  on  the 
1st  of  July  and  ask  for  a  dating  for  the 
1st  of  November  or  December.  Pay 
your  bills  on  the  iotb  of  the  following 
month.  Your  jobber  is  governed  largely 
by  the  manner  in  which  your  account  is 
cared  for.  The  jobbers  try  to  be  as 
nearly  one  price  as  they  can,  but  they 
cut  their  garment  according  to  their 
cloth.  Discount  your b ills;  be  prompt 
and  fa ir;  guard your  credit as you would 
guard  your  money,  and  you  will  be  able 
to  buy  just  as  cheaply  as  the  largest  de­
partment  store  on  earth.

Rules  for  buying  goods  might  be 
boiled  down  into  two  maxims:  Goods 
are  never  cheap  enough,  provided  they 
can  be  bought  cheaper  without  sacrifice 
of  the  important  question  of  quality.  A 
good  buyer  hears  and  sees  a  great  deal 
more  than  he  tells.  H.  A.  R ie t z k e r .

Stilwell’s  Copaiba  Test.

Arthur  A.  Stilwell  has  issued  the  fol­
lowing  self-explanatory  circular:  “ It 
has  come  to  my  knowledge  that  the  test 
published  by  mvself,  which  I  give  be­
low.  has  been  privately  attacked,  the 
claim  being  made  that  25  per  cent,  of 
ordinary  window-glass  rosin  added  to 
balsam  copaiba,  delivered  by  others, 
will  make  it  answer  that  test. 
It  is  al­
most  unnecessary  to  call  attention to  the 
fact  that  this  would  make  the  balsam 
so  thick  that 
it  would  not  require  an 
expert  to detect  at  once  it  was  not pure. 
Also  the  smell  would  be  quite  different 
from  that  of  pure  balsam  copaiba.  My 
long  experience 
in  handling  the  arti­
cle,  of  all  grades  and  in  large  quanti­
ties,  fits  me  to  state  positively  that  all 
balsam  copaiba,  except  Para  balsam,  or 
in 
limpid,  thin  balsam  corresponding 
quality  to  Para,  will  answer  this test. 
I 
am  prepared  to  admit  it  is  possible  to 
defeat  this  test,  but  the  sophistication 
will  show  some  other  way.  The fact  re­
mains,  however,  if  balsam  copaiba,  ex­
cept 
limpid  balsam,  does  not 
answer  this  test,  positively 
is  not 
pure. 
In  a  test-tube  put  two  and  one- 
half  parts  of  balsam  copaiba  to one  part 
aqua  ammonia  20  degrees  U.  S.  P. 
Cork and  shake  so  as  to  mix thoroughly. 
If  pure,  the  balsam  will  at  first  become 
cloudy, 
become 
transparent  and  remain  so. 
If  impure 
it  will  remain  cloudy  and  opaque.’ ’

immediately 

thin, 

then 

it 

The  Drug  Market.

Opium—Cable  advices  from  primary 
market  report  a  continuation  of  dry 
weather  and  unfavorable  crops.  Spec­
ulators are  buying  heavily.  This  market 
has  not  responded  as  yet,  but  there  is 
no question  about  higher  prices later on.
Morphine— Is  steady  at  unchanged 

prices.

Quinine—Is  in  good  demand  for  this 
season  of  the  year  and  prices  are  well 
maintained.

Alcohol—The  combination  have  ad­

vanced  prices  2c  per  gallon.

Linseed  Oil— Has  declined,  on  ac­

count  of  lower  price  for  seed.

The  Care  and  Control  of  Prescrip­

tions.

Should  the  druggist  be  required  by 
law  to  retain  the  original  of every  pre­
scription  compounded  by  him,  and'to 
furnish  a  copy  only  on  request  of  the 
patient  or  of  the  physician?

The  following  is  a  section  of the  Mis­
souri  Pharmacy  Law:  “ Every  druggist, 
proprietor  of  a  drug  store  or  pharma­
cist  shall  carefully  preserve  all  pre­
scriptions compounded  by  him  or  those 
in  his  employ,  numbering,  dating  and 
filing  them  in  the  order 
in  which  they 
are  compounded,  and  shall  produce  the 
same  in  court  or before  any  grand 
jury 
whenever thereto  lawfully  required,  and 
on  failing,  neglecting  or  refusing  to  do 
so,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  mis­
demeanor,  and  on  conviction  shall  be 
punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  fifty 
nor more  than  one  hundred  dollars.’ ’

By  the  enactment  of this  section  the 
lawmakers  were 
inspired  not  so  much 
with  a  desire to  protect  the  physician 
and  the  druggist  as  to  provide  a  means 
of  detecting  the  unlawful  selling  of 
intoxicating  liquors  by  collusion  among 
the  three  parties  primarily  interested, 
the  consumer  completing  the  triangular 
arrangement;  but while  the disreputable 
doctor  and  druggist  may  be  punished 
by  this  provision  of  the  law,  others  may 
utilize 
it  as  a  shield  and  a  defense. 
That  all  prescriptions  should  be  care 
fully  filed,  and  in  such  manner  as  will 
insure  them  from  damage  while  render­
ing  them  readily  accessible,  druggists 
generally  are agreed ;  but the  thoughtful 
care  exercised  in  this  important  branch 
of  the  business  is  not  uniform.  But 
it 
is  not  the  purpose of  this  paper  to  dis­
cuss  methods.

By  the  wording  of  the  section  of  the 
Missouri  Pharmacy  Law  quoted,  the 
druggist  is  directed  to  file  the  prescrip­
tion  handed  him  to  be  compounded. 
This  means  the  original,  not  a  copy; 
yet  the  primary  object  of  this  section 
was  not  to  decide  who,  in  the  State  of 
Missouri,  shall  be  considered  the  legal 
owner  of 
interesting  scrap  of 
paper.  The  command  to  the  druggist, 
in  the  words  of  the  law,  leaves  no  doubt 
as  to  the  proper custodian  of  the  pre­
scription,  and  as  a 
logical  deduction 
decides  the  ownership.  The  model  law 
which  this  association  hopes  ultimately 
to  frame  might  appropriately  contain 
such  a  section.

this 

Druggists  may  be  made  defendants  in 
damage  suits.  For a  successfnl  defense, 
if  the  fact  to  be  established  is  the  cor­
rect  compounding  of  a  prescription, 
the  presentation 
in  evidence  of  the 
original  is  quite  essential.  The  ques­
tion  as  to  the  ownership  of  the prescrip­
tion 
is  an  old  one,  but  so  long  as  it  is 
an  open  and  vital  one the  discussion  is 
in  order.

A  decision  by  one  of 

the  higher 
courts  would  be  welcome.  The  inferior 
courts  in  passing  upon  it  have  contra­
dicted  one  another.  But  no  final  de­
cision  is  possible  until  there  shall  be  a 
law  for  interpretation.  Each  state  is  at 
the  mercy  of  its  lawmakers.  For a  set 
of  men  in  convention assembled to agree 
that  certain  matters  should  be controlled 
by  law  is  simple  enough.  To  secure  the 
enactment  of  such  a 
law  by  a  state 
legislature 
is  usually  a  very  different 
matter.  Legislation  asked  for by  drug­
gists  is  often  regarded  with  suspicion. 
It  is  thought  to  be  for  the  benefit  of  a 
class, the  general-welfare  character  of  it 
not  being  usually  recognized.  After  all 
of  our gratuitous  service  to  the  public, 
our altruism  may  still  be  doubted.

It is a mistake to suppose that  all  of

the 
ills  of  which  we  complain  can  be 
remedied  by  legislation,  but this thought 
need  not  deter  us  from  effort in  what  we 
conceive to be  the  direction  of  improve­
ment. 
It  ought  not  to  be  difficult  to 
convince  physicians  and  patients  that 
druggists  are  the  proper  custodians  of 
prescriptions;  but  what  stand  shall  the 
druggist take  if there be  no  law  behind 
It  is  not  unusual 
which  he  can  retreat? 
for  a  customer  to  say: 
‘ ‘ Please  return 
that  prescription  with  the  medicine. 
You  may  make  and  keep  a  copy  of  it 
if  you  wish  to  do  so."

it 

The  druggist  complies  and  takes  his 
chances  on  any  future  complications. 
To  do  otherwise  would  be  to  invite a 
contention,which  a  politic  businessman 
studies  to  avoid.  The  practice  of  re­
questing  copies  of  prescriptions, 
the 
originals  remaining  in  the  possession  of 
the  druggist,isa  growing one.  From  his 
standpoint  the  practice  of  refilling  pre­
scriptions,  unless  so  authorized  by  the 
physician,  must  be  considered  in  this 
connection. 
If  we  concede  it  to be  the 
patient’s  privilege  to  demand  and  re­
ceive a  copy  of  a  prescription  prepared 
for him,  then 
is  not  possible  for  the 
physician  to  control  the  matter  of  its 
repetition,  unless  there  be  an  under­
standing  on  this  point  at  the  time  it 
is 
written.  The  druggist,  if  requested  by 
the  doctor  not  to  give  a  copy  of  a  pre­
scription,  will  certainly  see  that  bis 
wishes  are  respected. 
is  the  duty 
of  the  druggist,  furthermore,  to  firmly 
decline  to give  a  copy  of  a  prescription 
except  upon  the  request  of  the  physi­
cian, 
it  , should  contain  morphine, 
cocaine,  or  any  other  potent  and  dan­
gerous  drug.  By  the  exercise  of  tact 
and  politeness,  he  can  prevent  the 
precipitation  of  an  unpleasant  scene. 
With  these  exceptions  the  patient 
is 
likely  to  receive  a  copy  of  his  prescrip­
tion  when  he  asks  for  it,  and  he 
is  at 
liberty  to  carry  it  from store  to store and 
get  “ bids”   on  the  cost  of  compounding 
it.  Physicians  very  properly  object  to 
the  frequent  repetition  of their prescrip­
tions  without  consultation  with  them, 
but  yet  an  illiberal  policy  on  their  part 
is  apt  to  estrange  patients  and  result 
in  damage  to  their  practice  in  the  end. 
The doctor,  above  all  others,  must  be  a 
man  of  good  judgment.  He  usually 
is 
politic,  discreet,  and  tactful.

It 

if 

Evil 

consequences  do  undoubtedly 
often  follow  indiscriminate self-medica­
tion.  By  a  mutual  understanding  be­
tween  the  two  professions,  either  with 
or  without  legal  enactments,  physician, 
pharmacist  and  patient  would  all  be 
benefited. 

J.  M.  Good.

A  woman  always  wishes  to  be  sure  of 
the  last  word.  That  is  why  she  looks  at 
the  end  of  a  novel  first.
A L W A Y S   A  W IN N E R !

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Morphia, S.P.* W ... 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C. Co....................
Moschus Canton__
Myristica, No. 1......
Nux Vomica.. .po.20
Os  Sepia.................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co....................
Picls Llq. N.N. 4  gal.
doz........................
Plcis Llq., quarts__
Plcis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80 
Piper Nigra... po. 22
Piper Alba__po. 35
Piix  Burgun...........
Plumbi  Acet...........
Pul vis Ipecac et Opii 
Py rethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum, pv........
Quassise...................
Quinia, S. P. & W .. 
"Juinia, S. German..
¿ujnia, N.Y............
tubla Tinctorum... 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin....................
Sanguis Draconis...
Sapo,  W...................
Sapo, M....................
Sapo, G....................
Siedli tz  Mixture__

2 40® 2 65
2 30® 2 55 
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65®  80
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15®  18
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1  10®   1  20
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25®  30
8®  
10 
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29®  34
12®  14
18®  20 
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40®  50
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10®  
12 
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20  ©  22

Slnapls....................
Sinapis, opt............
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes......................
Snuff ¿Scotch,DeVo’s
Soda Boras..............  9
Soda Boras, po........  9
Soda et Potass Tart
Soda,  Carb..............  14®
3®
Soda, Bl-Carb.........  
Soda, Ash................  84®
Soda, Sulphas.........  
©
© 2 60
Spts. Cotogne........... 
Spts. Ether Co........ 
50©  56
© « 00 
Spt.  Myrcia Dom...
® 2 54 
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.
@ 2 69 
Spts. Vini Rect 4bbl 
® 2 62 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
@ 2 64
_
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
Lesa 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia. Crostai...  1  40®  1
45
Sulph ur,  Subì.........   2K@  •
Sulphnr,  Roll........  24®3V
30
Terebenth Venice..
46® 48
Theobromse.........
Vanilla................... 9 00®16 00
7® 8
Zincl  Sulph...........
Oils
Whale, winter........
Lard,  extra...........
Lard, No. 1............

BBL. GAL.
70
70
60
50
40
45

19

38
39
70
50

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
35 
Linseed,  boiled......   36 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
42 
Paints  BBL. 

LB
Red Venetian.........  
IK 2  ©8
Ochre, yellow Mars. 
IK  2  ©4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
IK  2  ®3 
Putty, commercial..  24 24©3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  24  2K®3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
Vermilion, English. 
70©  75
Green, Paris...........  184®  22
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13©  16
Lead, Red...............   5K®  *4
Lead, white............   5K@  6ii
®  70
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’... 
® 
JO 
White, Paris Amer.. 
©  1  00
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @140
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  10©  1  29
Extra  Turp............  1  60©  1  70
Coach Body............   2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn__  1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  56®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer, No.lTurp  70®  75

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Conlum Mac........... 
Copaiba.....................1  II
Cubebse....................
Exechthitos...........  1
Erlgeron.................  1
Gaultheria..............  1
Geranium,  ounce...
Gossippii, Sem. gal..
Hedeoma.................  1
Junipera..................  1
Lavendula..............
Limonls...................  1
Mentha Piper.........   1
Mentha Verid.........   1
Morrhute,  gal.........   1  _
Myrcia,....................  4 00® 
Olive....................... 
75® 3 00
10®  12
Plcls  Liquida.........  
®  35
PlcisLiqulda, gal... 
Ricina.................... 
96® 1 05
Roamarini...............  
® 100
Ross,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Snccini................... 
40®  45
Sabina..................  
90®  1  00
Santal......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras................. 
55®  60
Slnapls, ess., ounce. 
©  65
Tiglfi.......................   1 —
Thyme....................
Thyme,  opt............
Theobromas........... 
Potassium
Bl-Carb.................... 
15®  18
Bichromate............  
13®  15
Bromide..................   50®  55
12®  15
Carb.......................  
Chlorate..po. 17®19c  16®  18
Cyanide..................  
36®  40
Iodide......................  2 40® 2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
|5
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Potassa, Bitart,  com 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10®  12
Potass Nitras........... 
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10® 
Prnssiate.................  2u@  25
15®  18
Sulphate p o ........... 

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Aconitvm...............  
20®  25
A lth»...................... 
22®  25
Anchusa................. 
10®  12
Arum po..................  @  25
Calamus................. 
20®  40
Gentiana....... po  15 
12®  15
Glychr7hiza...pv. 15 
16® 
18
Hydrastis Canaden .  @  60
®  65
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore,Alba, po.. 
18®  20
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po...............   2 80® 3 0°
Iris plox —  po35®38  36®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
26®  30
Maranta,  4 s........... 
®  35
Podophyllum, po__ 
22®  25
75®  1  00
R h ei....................... 
®  1  25
Rhei, cut................. 
Rhei,pv..................  
75®  1  35
Spigelta................... 
35®  38
©  13
Sangulnaria...po. 15 
so®  35
Serpentaria............  
Senega.................  
40®  45
Slmllax,officinalis H 
©  40
Smilax, M...............   @  25
Scillae.............po.35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................  @  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  25
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a............. 
  12®  16
Zingiber j ...............  
25®  27
Semen
Anisum.........po.  15 
®  12
13®  15
Apium  (graveleons) 
Bird, Is.................... 
4® 
6
10®  12
Carui.............po. 18 
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
8® 
Coriandrum............ 
10
Cannabis  Sativa....  44®  5
Cydonium...............  
75©  1  00
Cnenopodium........ 
10®  12
Dipterix  Odorate...  1  40®  1  50
Fceniculum............  
io
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Fcenugreek, po........ 
7© 
9
U n i.........................  34®  44
4®  44
Llni,  grd —  bbl. 3w 
Lobelia..................  
36®  40
4®  44
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
Rapa.......................   44® 
5
Sinapis Albu........... 
9®  10
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
11©  12
Spiritua 

 

.. 

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
2 25
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2
Frum enti......  
  1
.  1  50 
Juniperls Co. O. T..  1
2 00 
Juniperis Co...........  1
, 3 50 
Saacharum N.  E__  1
. 2  10 
Spt. Vlni Galli........  1  ■
6 50
2 00
Vini Oporto............   1  25® 
Vini  Alba...............   1  25® 
2 00

2 75
2 25
©  1  25 
©  1 00
®  1 00 
®  75
1  40

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

©
©
®

niscellaneous 

Scillae Co................. 
Tolu ta n ................... 
Promts virg............  
Tinctures 
Aconi turn N a pell i s R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafoetlda............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon...............
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor......................
Catechu...................
Cinchona................
Cinchona Co...........
Columba 
.............
Cu beba....................
Cassia  Acutlfol......
Cassia Amtifol Co  .
Digitalis 
.
........ 
E rgot...........
Ferri Chloride m
Gentian...................
Gentian Co..............
Guiaca....................
Guiacaammon........
Hyoscyamus...........
Iodine......................
Iodine, colorless....
Kino.........................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh......................
Nux Vomica...........
Opii.........................
Opii, camphorated.
Opii,  deodorized....
Quassia...................
Rhatany..................
Rhei.........................
Sanguinaria .  ........
Serpentaria............
Stromonlum...........
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum Verlde...
Zingiber..................
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen..................   2*
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7
A nnatto.................
Antimoni,  po.........
Antimoni etPotasBT
Anti pyrin..............
Antifebrln 
...........
Argentl Nitras, oz ..
Arsenicum..............
Balm Gilead  Bud  ..
Bismuth  S. N......... 1  40®
CalciumChlor.,  is..  @
Calcium Chlor., 4s.  @
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms. 
©
Cantharides, Rus.po  @
Capsici  Fructus, af.  @
Capslci Fructus, po. 
®
Capsici FructusB.po  @
Caryophyllus..po. 15  13®
Carmine, No. 40......   @
Cera Alim............ 
50©
Cera Flava.............. 
40®
Coccus....................  @
Cassia Fructus........  @
Centrarla.................  @
®
Cetaceum................  
Chloroform............. 
50®
Chloroform, squibbs 
®
Chloral Hyd Crat__  1
Chondrus................
Cinchonidine,P.& W 
Cinchonldine, Germ
Cocaine..................   3 55® 3  75
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum..............  
®
©
Creta............. bbl. 75 
Creta, prep.............. 
©
9®
Creta, precip........... 
Creta, Rubra........... 
©
18®
Crocus.................... 
Cudbear................. 
®
Cupri Sulph............  
5®
10®
Dextrine.................. 
Ether Sulph............  
75®
Emery, all  numbers 
®
Emery, po....... ........ 
©
Ergota.......... po. 40  30®
Flake  White........... 
12©
Galla........................ 
©
Gambler.  ................ 
8®
Gelatin, Cooper......   @
Gelatin, French......  
35®
75 <! 
Glassware, flint, box 
Less  than  box....
Glue,  brown........... 
9®
13®
Glue, white............  
Glycerina................ 
14®
©
Grana  Paradis!  __  
Hum ulus................. 
25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
® 
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
® 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
© 
Hydraag Ammonlati 
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
Ichthyobolla, Am ...
Indigo......................
Iodine, Resubl..........i
Iodoform.................
Lupulln.  ................
Lycopodium...........
Macis 
Liquor Arsen et Hy
LiquorPotassArsinlt 
Magnesia, Sulph....
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannia, S. F ....
Menthol.

............
drarg Iod....... .

Ü
22®

Freezable 

Goods

Now  is the Time  to  Stock

t   t

Mineral  Waters,
Liquid  Foods,
Malt  Extracts,
Butter  Colors,
Toilet  Waters,
Hair  Preparations, 
Inks, Etc.

♦  

t

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

2 0

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

AXLB GREASE.
Aurora................. ......55
Castor Oil........... ...... 60
Diamond............ ...... 50
Frazer’s .............. .....75
XXL Golden, tin boxes 75
nica, tin boxes... ......75
Paragon.............. .  ...66

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

Acbm.

Abzalata.

lb can  doz............ . 

BAKINQ  POWDER.
W ’ b cans doz................... 
% lb Jans doz................... 

46
85
1 50
M lb cans 3 doz.................  45
lb cans 3 doz.................  75
1 
lb cans 1 doz...............   I 00
Balk...................................  
10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........... 
85
M lb cans per doz.............  75
lb cans per d o z ........... 1  80
lb cans per doz............8  00
1 
m lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
15 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
55
lb cans 8 doz case  ......  
90

Arctic.
El Parity.

Hon«.

Oar Leader.

Jersey Cream.

u  lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
45
it lb cans, 4 doz case........  85
lb cans, 8 doz case........1 60
1 lb. cans, per doz..............8 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.............   1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz.............  
85
u  lb cans..........................   45
)t lb cans..........................  75
lb cans..........................   1 50
1 
I lb. cans  ......................... 
85
oz., 6 doz. case............   2 70
3 
6 oz., 4 doz. c a s e ............... 3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case.................4 80
1 lb., 8 doz. case.................4 00
5 lb., 1 doz. case.................9 00
American............................... 70
English....................................80

BATH  BRICK.

Queen Flake.

Peerless.

BLUINO.

a p iN s n )

Small, 3 doz.......................  
40
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
BRooru.
So. 1 Carpet......................  1 90
No. 2 Carpet........... 
........   1 75
No. 3 Carpet......................  1 50
No. 4 Carpet.......................  1 15
Parlor Gem.......................   8 00
Common Whisk.................   70
Fancy Whisk......................  80
Warehouse............... 
8 85
CANDLES.
8s.......................................... 7
16s.........................................8
Paraffine................................ 8
Wicking...............................80

CANNED OOODS. 
rianltowoc Peas.

CATSUP.

a, Vipints  ...
CHEESE

Lakeside Marrowfat.........  
95
Lakeside E.  J ...................... 1  15
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng.... 1 80 
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted.  I  45 
Extra Sifted Early Jnne....l 75 
Columbia, 
pints.............. 2 00
Colombia, It Pints  .............1  85
©  10% 
Acme................
©  18 
Amboy..............
©  10V4 
Butternut..........
Carson City.......
©  10VÍ 
©  11 
Emblem..............
Gem...................
©  11
Gold Medal.............   ©  11
Ideal.......................   ©  11
Jersey  ....................   ©  llVt
Lenawee.................   ©  10%
Riverside...................  ©  11%
Brick.......................  ©  12
Edam.......................  ©  70
Leiden.....................  ©  17
Limburger..............  ©  13
Pineapple.................50  ©  75
Sap  Sago.................  ©  17
5
Bulk 
Bed 
7

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

Chicary.

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker A Co.’s.

German Sweet.......................83
Premium............................... 35
Breakfast Cocoa................... 46

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz......... 1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz......... 1 80
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz.........1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz..........1 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos......... 1 80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  dos.............  80
Jnte. 78 ft.  ner  do*..............  95
COCOA 5HBLLS.
801b  bags.......................  
2%
Less quantity.................  
3
Pound packages............. 
4
CRBAfl TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Balk in sacks..........................89

c o f p b C.

Green.
Rle.

Santos.

Maracaibo.

Mexican  and  Gnatamala.

F a ir.......................................... »
Good........................................1J
Golden  ................................... 1*
Peaberry  ................................13
Fair  ........•..............................1*
Good  ......................................13
Prim e......................................14
Peaberry  ................................1®
Fair  ........................................13
Good  ............................... — 16
Fancy 
...................................1"
Prim e...................................... 1®
Milled......................................20
Interior.............................••••JO
Private  Growth...................... 20
Mandehling............................ 21
Im itation................................20
Arabian  ................................. 28
Roasted.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......  
...........29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha— 29
Wells’ Mocha and Java---- 84
Wells’ Perfection Java......84
Sancaibo.............................21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo.......18Vi
Ideal  Blend........................14
Leader Blend.....................12

Mocha.

Java.

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
Invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market In  which  ne  purchases 
to his shipping point, Including 
weight  of  package,  also 
a 
pound.  In  601b.  cases the list 
Is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbnckle.......................   10 50
Jersey..............................  10 50
ncLaughlhi’s  XXXX. 
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City Vi gross...... 
75
I  15
Felix Vi gross................. 
Hummel’s foil Vi gross... 
85
Hnmmel’s tin Vt  gross... 
!  48
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxes.......................   40

Bxtract.

CONDENSED  MILK.

.

Gall Borden  Eagle..............6 75
Crown.................................. 6 85
Daisy....................................6 75
Champion  ...........................4  50
Magnolia 
...........................4 85
Challenge.............. - ........... 3 35
.................................8 85
Dime 
Tradesman Grade.

COUPON  BOOKS.

Superior Grade.

Economic Grade.

50 books, any denom—   1  50
100 books, any denom__   2 50
500 books, any denom___11 50
1.000 books, any denom— 80 00
50 books, any denom___  1 50
100 books, any denom....  8 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___80 00
Can be made to represent any 
80 books  ........................  100
50 books...........................  2 00
100 books..........................  3 00
850 books...........................  C 85
500 books........................... 10 00
1000 books........................... 17 60

denomination from 610 down.

Coupon Paso Books,

4  doz In case.

Universal Grade.

Apples.

California Fruits.

50 books, any denom....  150
100 books, any denom__ 8 50
500 books, any denom....11 50
1,000 
books, any denom_80 00
Credit Checks.
500, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 6 00
8000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.......................   75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOnBSTlC 
Snndrled......................  ©4
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©9 
Apricots.....................   ©
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................   ©
Peaches.......................9  ©10
Pears..........................   ©
Pitted Cherries..........
Prnnnelles..................
Raspberries.................
100-120 25 lb boxes.........   © 4
90-100 85 lb boxes.........   © 5
80 - 90 85 lb boxes.........   © 9Vi
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........  © 6  %
60-7085 lb boxes.........   ©  6*
50-60 25 lb boxes.........   © 8
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........   ©10
30-40 25 lb boxes-------  ©
u  cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Pranas.

Raisins.

London Layers 3 Ci own. 
Cluster 4 Crown............  
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, choice......  
L. M , Seeded, fancy........  9Vi

1  <*0
2 00
5
6
7
8

PUR LION.
Citron.

Peel-

Raisins.

Currants.

Leghorn..........................©12
Corsican..........................©13
Patras bbls.......................@
Vostizzas 50 lb cases.......@6
Cleaned, bulk  ................. © 7
Cleaned, packages.......... © 7Vi
Citron American lb lb bx ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©12 
Orange American 10 lb bx ©12 
Ondnra 28 lb boxes......  ©
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown  ........   ©
Sultana 3 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sultan* s Cmwii.......  ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........  ©
Sultana package.........   ©
FARINACEOUS OOODS.
84 1 lb.  packages.............1  50
Bulk, per 100 lbs.............3 50
Walsh-TVWnn  On.'t Brand.

Parlna.

Grits.

Peas.

Beans.

Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

24 21b. pac&asco................ 1 80
100 lb. kegs........................2 70
2001b. barrels....................5 10
Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 501b.  drams...........1 00
Dried Lima  .............- —
Medium Hand Picked....  1  10
Msccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box.........2 50
Common...........................   2 25
Chester............................   2 50
E m pire............................  3 00
Green, Wisconsin, bn........1 00
Green, Scotch, bu..............1 10
Split, bu..................    ...2  50
Rolled Avena,  bbl......... 4 25
Monarch,  bbl....................3 65
Monarch.  Vi  bbl............... 1 95
Monarch, 90 lb sacks......... 1 75
Quaker, cases................... 8 20
Huron, cases......................1 75
German .................   ........  4
East  India.......................  
Flake..............................  
Pearl................................ 
Anchor, 401 lb. pkges.... 
Cracked, bulk................... 
24 2 lb packages................2 50

Rolled  Oats.

3 Vi
314
3Ji
5
3J4

Tapioca.

Wheat.

Sago-

Salt  Pish.

Cod.

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

Herring.

Holland white hoops, bbl.  6 00 
Holland white hoop Vibbl  4 50
Holland,  U  bbl................  2 60
Holland white hoop, keg. 
65
Holland white hoop mens 
75
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................   2 75
Round  40 lbs.....................  1 80
Scaled...............................  
14

flnckerel.

Mess 100 lbs........................15 00
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 30
Mees  10 lbs......................  1  65
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  35
No. 1100 lbs......................  13 85
No. 1  40 lbs........................  5 60
NO. 1  10 lbs......................   148
No. 1  8 lbs......................   180
No. 2 100 lbs......................  8 60
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3 70
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1 00
No. 8  8 lbs...................... 
83

Trout.

No. 1100 lbs........................  6 85
No. 1  40 lbs........................  8 40
No. 1  10 lbs...................... 
68
No. 1  8 lbs......................  
87

WhltefUh.

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs...........  6 75 
2 75
1 40
40 lbs...........  8 00 
10 lbs...........  83 
43
37
8 lbs........... 
69 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Jennings’.

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

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

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

Lem.  Van.
120
120
2 00
2 25

Souders’.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

Best  In  the  world  for 
money.

HERBS.

INDIGO.

Sage.....................................   J®
Hops....................................   18

Madras, 6 lb  boxes.............  66
S. F., 2,3 and6 lb boxes....  80

GUNPOWDER.
RUIe—Dupont’s.

K egs........................................ 4 00
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 25
..................  30
1 lb. cahs........ 
Vi lb. cans............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs..........................................8 00
Half Kegs................................. 4 25
Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
lib. cans..............................  45

JBLLY.

16 lb  palls............................   35
30 lb palls............................  66

LYE.

Condensed, 2 d o s ................... 1 80
Condensed. 4  do«.................... 8 26

UCORICB.

Pare.................................  “
Calabria........................  *
Molly....................................  “
Boot...............................  
  »
MINCB MB AT.

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

flATCHBB.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.......................J *
Anchor Parlor..................... J 70
No. 2  Home..........................1 JO
Export  Parlor..................... 4 oo

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.
B lack..........................
Fair.............................
Good.............................
Fancy  ..........................
Open Kettle..................
Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, No. 216......................1 70
Clay, T. D. full count........  66
Cob, No. 3..........................  
85

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s...............................* W
Penna Salt  Co.’s .................. 3 00

PICKLBS.
(Tedium.

Barrels. 1,200 count...........3 75
Half bbls, 600 count...........  2 38

Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count.........   4 76
Half bbls  1,200 count........  2 "

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina bead....................   6Vi
Carolina  No. 1  .................   5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................   Hi

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1..............  5Vi© 6
Japan,  No. 2................4*@ 5
Java, fancy  head........5  ©  b%
Java, No. 1.................   5  ©
Table............................   @

SALBRATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in  box.

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

80DI0 HSAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls..............   75
Granulated,  100 lb eases..  90
Lamp, bbls.......................   75
Lamp, 1461b kegs..............  86

Scotah, In bladders.............  87
Maccaboy, In Jars................  35
48
French Rappee, In Jars__  

SNUFF.

SBBDS.

A nise...............................  
9
Canary, Smyrna................ 
3 Vi
8
Caraway..........................  
Cardamon,  M alabar......   60
Celery.................................  11
4
Hemp,  Russian.............. 
Mixed  Bird...................... 
4Vi
5
Mustard,  white................ 
Poppy  ..............................  10
Rape................................. 
4 Vi
Cattle Bone........................  20

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Table, cases. 24 3-lb  boxes. .1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.8 75 
Table, barrels,  407 lb bags.2 40 
Batter, barrels, 280lb. bmk.2 25 
Batter, barrels,2014 lbbags.3 50
Batter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Batter, sacks, 56 lbs............   55

Common Grades.

100 3-lb sacks............................. 1 95
60 5-lb sacks.............................1 80
2810-lb sacks...........................1 65

Worcester.

lb. cartons................... 8 25
50  4 
115  2Vilb. sacks........................4 00
lb. sacks.......................3 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks.......................3 50
3010 
lb. sacks....................... 3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk In barrels.................... 2 5

Warsaw.

56-lb dairy In drill bags......   80
28-lb dairy In drill bags......  15

Ashton.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Higgins.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Solar Reck.

56-lb  sacks...........................  11

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

Common.

SOAP.

JAXON

Single box.................................2 0
5  box lots, delivered.......2 45
10 box lots, delivered...........2 40
JA8.  S.  KIRK  8 GO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.........................................2 75
Cabinet..................................... 2 20
Savon........................................ 2 50
White Russian.........................2 35
White Cloud,  laundry........ 6 25
White Cloud,  toilet................. 3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz__ 2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__ 3 00
Bine India, 100 X lb..................3 00
Klrkollne............................. 3 50
Eos.....................................2 50
SCHULfE  SOAP CO.’S  BRANDS
Clydesdale, 100 cakes, 75 lb s----- 2  75
Ho-Tu, 100 cake«, $2 1-2 lbs----- 2  00
Family, 75 cakes, 75 lbs.............2  50
German Mottled, (0 cakes, 00 lbs.. 1  75 
Cocoa Castile, 18 lbs., cat 1-4 &1-2..1  80 

Chipped Soap for Laudries. 

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bare  ..2 75 
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars....3 75
Uno, 100 V-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 10010-oz.  bars............ 2 05

Scouring.

Sapollo, kitchen, 3 d o s...... 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz...........2 40

SODA.

Boxes  .................................  5 Vi
Kegs, English......................  4h

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pare Cround la Balk.

Allspice  ............................. is
Cassia, China in mats........ IS
Cassia, Batavia in bond__25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls.......82
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 14
Cloves, Zanslbar................12
Mace,  Batavia...................55
Nutmegs, fancy................. 00
Nntmegs, No.  1................. 50
Nutmegs. No.  2................. 45
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .11 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .12
Pepper,  shot......................12
Allspice  .............................. 15
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon.................... 40
Cloves, Zanslbar..................14
Olnger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 23
Mace,  Batavia...................65
M ustard.......................12@18
Nutmegs,.....................40@d0
Pepper, Sing , black............13
Pepper, Sing., white........... 20
Pepper, Cayenne................. 20
Sage.................................... 16

SYRUPS
Cera.

 

Barrels.......................  
 
H»'6  bbl»...........................  19
K doz. 1 gallon cans.........1  50
1  doz. K gallon cans....... 1  75
2  doz. 14 gallon  c a n s......1 75
Sire Cone.
Pair  .......................... 
 
Good.........   ......................   90
Choice.............................   25

STARCH.

Klagsford'a  Cora.

411-lb packages...................0
211 lb packages...................6 m
Klngslord’s Silver Gloss.

401-lb packages...................OK
0-lb boxes.......................... 7

Diamond.

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

Common Cora.

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

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages......................414
3-lb  packages......................  4J4
6-lb  packages......................  5
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3
B arrels.............................   3

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUGAR.

imrchases to his shipping point, 

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he
ndudlng  20  pounds  tor  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino................................ 5 50
Cut  Loaf...............................5 7-
Crushed........ .......................5 75
Powdered  ...........................5 3e
XXXX Powdered.................5 50
Cubes................................... 5 38
Granulated in hbls............... 6 25
Granulated in  bags............. 5 25
Pine Granulated.................. 5 25
Extra Pine Granulated........5 38
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 38
Mould  A...............................5 50
Diamond  Confec.  A............5 25
Confec. Standard A...........  5  13
No.  1....................................... 4 88
No  2....................................... 4 88
No.  8....................................... 4 88
No.  4.......................................4 81
No.  5....................................... 4 75
No.  6....................................... 4 69
No.  7....... 
No.  8....................................... 4 56
No.  9....................................... 4 50
No.  10.......................................4 44
No.  11....................................... 4 88
No.  12....................................... 4 81
No.  18.......................................4 81
No.  14....................................... 4 26
No.  15....................................... 4 25
No.  16....................................... 4 26

4 63

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. A P. Drag Co.’s brand. 

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

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

8. C. W.

.35 00

Rnhe Bros. Co.’s Brands.

Double Eagles. 6 sizes.$55??.70 00
Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes__  55@70 00
Mr. Thomas...............  
35 00
Cuban Hand Made.... 
35 00
Crown  Five................ 
35 00
17
35 00
8ir  William................ 
Club Five................... 
35 00
35 00
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 
Little Peggy.............. 
35 00
Signal  Pive................ 
35 00
Knights of Pythias__  
35 00
10
Key West Perfects. 2 ss 55@60 00

TABLB  SAUCES.

Lea A Perrin’s, large...  4 75 
Lea A Perrin’s, small...  2 75
Halford,  lame................. 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,80grain....10
Pure Cider, Red Star.............12
Pure Cider, Robinson............u

WICKING.

No. 0, per gross....................  80
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...................  514
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family XXX  ....................   514
Salted XXX  .................  
«
New York XXX...... ..........  6
Wolverine.........................  g
Boston...............................|  7J4

Sod».

Oyster.

Soda  x x x   .......................   g
Soda XXX, 3 lb carton__  6K
Soda,  City........................   8
Long Island Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Zephyrette...........................10
Saltlne Wafer....................  5*4
SaltineWafer, 1 lb  carton.  6K
Farina Oyster....................   5*
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  mjk
Bent's Water........................16
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   iu
Coffee Cake, Iced................ 10
Cracknells...........................15^4
Cubans  .............................   11*4
Frosted  Cream...................  8
Ginger Gem s....................   8
Ginger Snaps. XXX...........  7K
Graham Crackers..............  8
Graham Wafers.................   10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................   8
JumDles,  Honey................  UK
Marshmallow  .....................15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow  Walnuts__   16
Mich. Frosted Honey__   12K
Molasses  Cakes.................  8
Newton..............................  12
Nic Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................   8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8K
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......   8
Sears’Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sugar  Squares.................   9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas............................  12K

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene......................  @11K
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @  9H
WWMichigan........... 
0 9
Diamond White.........  @ 8
D., S. Gas....................   © »
Deio. N aptha.............. 
0  7
Cylinder....................25  034
Engine.......................11  021
Black, winter.............  Q 9

Candies.
Stick Candy.

bbis. pails
Standard.................   6KO  7
Standard H. H........  6KO 7
Standard Twist......   6  © 8
Cut Loaf.................  
a  8
cases
_ 
Jumbo, 32 lb  ..........  
© 6K
Extra H.H.............. 
© 8K
Boston  Cream........ 
@10

Mixed Candy.

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

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

Fancy—In Bulk.

a  6
a  6K
@ 7
© 7K
© 7K
a   9
a  814
a  8
a  8
© 8K
a  0
aiO
ai3

a  8K
a  8K
©1054
©12
a  5
a  8
a   9
a  9

Fancy—In  g  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops.........  
aso
Sour  Drops............  
©50
a60
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops__ 
a 60
a75
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
Gum  Drops............  
©30
©75
Licorice Drops........ 
©50
A. B. Licorice Drops 
©50
Lozenges,  plain.... 
©50
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Imperials.............. 
aso
a »
Mottoes................... 
Cream Bar.............. 
©50
Molasses B a r ..........  
©50
Hand Made Creams.  80  ©  90
Plain  Creams.........   60  ©90
Decorated Creams.. 
©90
String Rock............. 
©go
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25  ©
Wintergreen Berries 
©60
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
„boxes................... 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
„ ^ x e s ................... 
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 

a ®
©50

boxes  ................

Fruits.
Oranges.
Louisianas..............
Mexicans F lo rid a  
style box..............
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 360s  ............ 
Ex.Fancy 300s........ 
Ex. Fancy 360s........ 
Bananas.

©4 25 
© i  5j

©4  00
©4  35
©4 50
©4  50
©4 50

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Figs.

©16
@15
boxes new...............   ©18
©22
©
©
© 7
© 9
© 6
© 514
© 6
© 5

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

Almonds, Tarragona..  ©16
Almonds, Ivaca.........   ©14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   ©15
Brazils new................  © 8K
Filberts  ....................  ©11
Walnuts, Naples........  ©18
WalnutB,  Calif No.  1.  ©12
Walnuts,  soft shelled
Calif.......................   ©12
Table Nuts,  fancy__  ©11
Table Nuts,  choice...  ©10
Pecans, Med...............  © 7K
Pecans, Ex. Large....  ©10
Pecans, Jumbos........   ©12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new................  ©1  60
Cocoanuts.  full  sacks  ©4 • 0
Chestnuts per bu.......   ©4 00

Peanuts.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  © 7
Fancy,  H.  p,,  Flags
Roasted...................  © 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  © 4K
Choice, H. p.,  Extras,
Boasted............... 
5K

Wheat.

Wheat................................
Winter Wheat Floor. 

Local Brands.

P atents.............................. 4 25
Second  Patent....................  3 75
Straight............................  3 50
Clear...................................   3 25
Graham  ............................3 30
Buckwheat............... 
...  4 00
Rye  ..................................   3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbis., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond, 14s.......................3  75
Diamond, Ms.......................3 7a
Diamond, Ks.......................3 75
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  Ks........................  3 45
Quaker, Ks........................  3 45
Quaker, Ks........................   3 45
Clark-Jewell-WellB Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best Ks...........  4 30
Pillsbury’s Best Ks...........  4 20
Pillsbury’s Best Ks...........  4  10
Pillsbury’s Best Ks paper..  4  10 
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4  10 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

Bpring Wheat Flour. 

P r o v i s i o n s .

9 50

Swift  A  Company  quote  as

Barreled Pork.

Smoked  neats.

follows:
Mess  ...................... ......  
Back  ...................... 10 50©
Clear back.............. 10 25©
Shortcut................. ......   10 00
P1g.......................... ......   13 50
Bean  ..................... ......  
9 75
Family  .................. ......  10 50
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies.................... ......  
6
Briskets  ................. ......  
53SÍ
Extra shorts........... ....... 
5K
Hams, 12 lb  average .... 
8K
Hams, 14 lb average ... 
8M
Hams, 16 lb  average
7K
Hams, 20 lb  average ......  
7H
Ham dried b e e f__
11
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
5X
Bacon,  clear........
...7M@7K
California  hams__ ......  
5
Boneless hams........
9
Cooked ham...........
...10©12K
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound..............
.....  
3*
Kettle...................... __  
6\d
55 lb Tubs......... advance 
«
80 lb Tubs......... advance 
id
50 lb T ins......... advance 
5
4i
20 lb Palls......... advance 
X
10 lb Pails......... advance 
5 lb Palls......... advance 
1
3 lb Pails......... advance 
IK
Sausages
Bologna.................
5K
Liver....................... ......  
6K
Frankfort............... __  
7K
P o rk.......................
Blood  ....................
6"
Tongue  ..................
9
Head  cheese...........
.... 
6K
Beef.
Extra  Mess............
.... 10 25
Boneless  ............... ......13 1O
Rump..................... ...... 13 75
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs..............
.... 
70
K  bbis, 40 lbs.........
....  1  35
K  bbis, 80 lbs.........
....  2 50
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs..............
.... 
70
K  bbis, 40 lbs.........
....  1  25
K  bbis, 80 lbs.........
....  2 25
Casings.
P ork.......................
.... 
20
Beef  rounds.........
3
Beef  middles.........
.... 
10
Sheep...................... ......  
60
Butterlne
Rolls,  dairy............
9K
Solid,  dairy  ...........
9
Rolls,  creamery__ .... 
14
Solid,  creamery__ .... 
13K
Corned  beef,  2 lb  . ....  2 35
Corned  beef, 14  lb..
....15 00
Roast  beef,  2  lb..
....  2  15
Potted  ham,  14s..
Potted  ham,  Ks..
....  90
Deviled ham,  Ks..
....  50
Deviled ham,  Ks..
....  90
Potted  tongue Ks..
....  50
Potted  tongue Ks  . .... 
90
Fresh  Meats.

Canned Meats.

Meal.

Olney A Judson ’s Brand.

Duluiu  imperial. Ks__ ...  4  30
Dulutb Imperial, Ks-  .. .  .  4  -c0
Duluth Imperial,  Ks. - ■ ■...  4  10
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Gold Medal Ks............. ...  4 25
Gold Medal Ks.............. ...  4  15
Gold Medal Ks............
...  4 05
Parisian, Ks.................. ...  4 25
Parisian, Ks................
...  4  5
Parisian. Ks.................. ...  4 05
Ceresota, Ks.................. ...  4 25
Ceresota, Qs.................. ...  4  15
Ceresota  Ks.................. ...  4 05
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ks.................... ...  4  25
Laurel, Ms....................
Laurel, Ks....................
..  4 15
Bolted..........................
..  1 90
Granulated........................  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__1B  00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats...........14 50
Unbolted Corn Meal...........14 00
Winter Wheat  Bran...........13 00
Winter Wheat Middlings. .14  00
Screenings......................... 13  00
Old corn, car lots..............  37
New corn, car lots............   31
Less than  car lots............   36
Car  lots............................. 31K
Cariots, clipped........•........  33
Less than  car lots............  35
No. 1 Timothy carlots......   8 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  ..  10 00
Fish and  Oysters

Feed and Millstuffs.

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

Per lb.

@  7K
©  6

Fresh Fish.

.  4  ©
.  4  ©

Beef.
Carcass.................. ■  6K® 8
Fore quarters.........
.  5  ©  6K
Hind  quarters........ ■  6K© 9K
Loins  No.  3............
.  9  ©12
Ribs.........................
.  7  @12
Rounds  ..................
Chucks.................  .
6  © 6
Plates  ....................
Pork.
Dressed...................
L oins......................
Shoulders...............
Leaf Lard...............
.  6  @
Mutton
Carcass..................
.  6  @ 7
Spring Lambs......... ■  7H@ 8K
Veol.
Carcass
7  ® 7K
Whiteflsh................  ©
Hides  and Pelts.
T rout......................  ©
Black Bass..............  8  ©
Halibut...................  ©  18
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Ciscoes or Herring..  ©  4
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes as 
Blueiish..................   ©  10
follows:
Live Lobster.........  
©  17
Boiled Lobster........  ©  18
Green No. I................
© 8
......................  ©  10
Cod 
© 7
Haddock.................  ©  8
Green No. 2................
No.  1  Pickerel........  ©  9
Cured No. 1................
©  H i
Pike.........................  ©  8K
Cured No. 2................
©  7%
Perch.......................  ©  5
Calfskins,  green No. 1 @10
Calfskins, green Mo. 2 &  SK
Smoked White........  ©  8
Calfskins, cured No. 1 @11
Red Snapper...........  ©  10
Col  River Salmon..  ©  12
Calfskins, cured No. 2 ©  9K
Mackerel 
..............  ©  18
Pelts.
Pelts,  each................. 50© 1  00
F. H. Counts...........  ©  35
Tallow.
F. J  D. Selects.......   ©  27
No. 1...........................
© 3
Selects................... 
©  2s
No. 2........................... @ 2
F .J.D   Standards... 
20
Anchors.................  ©  18
Washed, fine  ............ @18
Standards...............   ©  16
Washed, medium.......
©23
Favorites...... . ........  ©  14
Unwashed, fine..........11  ©13
gal.
Unwashed, medium ..16  ©18
Counts...............................  I 75
ru n .
selects.......................
Cat, W ild...............
......   1 20
< uchor Standards....
......   1  10 Cat, H ouse............
Standards................
........  1  DU Deer Skins, per lb... 
Clams........................
F&ll Muskrat...........
......   1  25
Shell Goods
Mink  .....................
Oysters, per  100........ 1  25@1  50 Racoon....................
Clams,  per 100........
©  75 Skunk......................

20© 50
5© 20
12K
3© n
1  <® 25
10© 75
15©  1 00

Oysters in Cans.

Hides.

Wool.

Bulk. 

2 1

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON STONBWARB.

Batters.

33

Jags.

Churns.

Milkpans.

Stewpans.

Fruit Jars.

Tomato Jugs.

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

K gal., per dos..............
.  40
1 to 6 gal., per gal  ......
5
8 gal., each..................
.  40
10 gal., each..................
.  50
12 gal.,  each...................
.  60
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.. .1  10
20 gal. meat-tubs, each..
.1  50
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  . .2 25
30 gal. meat-tubs, each.. .2 70
2 to 0 gal., per gal.........
.  5
Churn Dashers, per doz.
.  85
Pint................................. ..  4  50
Quart.............................. ..  4 75
K  gal  ...........................
.  6 50
Covers............................
..  2 00
Rubbers........................
.. 
25
K gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5 
K gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot, each  5K 
K gal. fireproof, ball, dos.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, dos.l  10 
K gal., per dos..................  40
K gal., per doz..................  42
1 to 5 gal., per gal............   5H
K gal., per dos.................   42
5K
1 gal., each...................... 
Corks for K gal., per dos..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
K gal., stone cover, dos...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00 
5 
lbs. in package, per lb... 2
No. 0 Sun............................. 
No.  1  Sun..........................   31
No.  2  Sun..........................   46
No. 3 Sun...........................   1 00
Tubular................................ 
50
Security, No. 1.....................   60
Security, No. 2.....................   80
Nutmeg  ............................... 
50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 dos.
No.  0 Sun..........................   1 32
No.  1  Sun..........................   1 48
No.  2 Sun.......................... 2  18
No. 0 Sun....................;__   1  50
No. 1 Sun...........................   1 60
No. 2 Sun........................... 2  45
No. 
No. 
No. 

wrapped and  labeled....  2  10 
wrapped and  labeled_2  15
wrapped and  labeled_  3 15

LAMP  BURNERS.

Sealing Wax.

top,
top,
top,

Common

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

Electric.

La  Bastia.

No. 
No. 
No. 

top,
wrapped and  labeled....  2 55 
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled_8  75
CHIMNEYS—Pearl Tea.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................j   70
No  2  Snn,  wrapped  and
labeled............................4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled............................4  88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,” 
for Globe Lauras............  
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb, per
doz  ........  ................ ....  9
No. 2 Sun,  plalu  bulb, per
doz  .......................... ....  1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per dos... ....  1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per dos...
...  1  60
Rochester.
No. 1, Lime  (66c doz). ....  8 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)..
...  4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  dos).. ....  4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  .....  4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c dos).. ....  4 40
Dos.
1 gal tin caus with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv Iron with spout.  1  48
2 gal galv Iron with spout.  2 48
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3 32 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  4 28 
3 gal galv Iron with faucet 4  17 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 4 67
5  gal Tilting cans...........7  25
5 gal galv iron Naoefas....  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7 80 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rule............... 10 50
5 gal Home Rule............... 12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9 50
No.  0Tubnlar side lift....  4 00
No.  IB   Tubular......... .  6  25
No. 13 Tubnlar Dash......... 6  50
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp.14 0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........8 75
LANTERN QLOBBS.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 dos.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 2 dos.
each, box 15  cents..........  45
No.  0 Tubular,  bbis 5 dos.
each, bbl 351....................  
38
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
oases 1 dos. each.........  1 26

Pump  Cana.

LANTERNS.

OIL CANS.

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22

Hardware
The  Hardware  Market.

General  trade  at  the  present  time  is 
very  good  and,  if  the  present  weather 
continues  cold,  it 
is  believed  that  the 
volume  of  business  will  go  far ahead  of 
that of  a  year ago.  Prices,  however,  do 
not  advance  and  in  many  lines  there 
is 
a  general  weakness.

Wire  Nails— Notwithstanding  the  fact 
that  an  agreement  was  brought  about  by 
all  manufacturers  to  advance  the  price 
some  thirty  days  ago,  it 
is quite  evi­
dent  at  the  present  time  that  they  were 
unable  to  hold  the  price,  as  quotations 
low  as  before  the 
are  being  made  as 
agreement  was  reached. 
It  is believed, 
however,  by  those  conversant  with  the 
conditions  prevailing  at  the  mills  that 
bottom  prices  have  been  reached  and 
that  dealers  who  are  able  to place  orders 
at  the  present  time  for  shipments  dur­
ing  February  and  March  are  taking  no 
chances,  as  they  have  every  reason  to 
think  that  prices  ruling  at  that  time 
will  be  higher.

Barbed  Wire—The  condition  existing 
in  the  wire  nail  market  governs both 
barbed  and  plain  wire,  and  yet  the 
price  ruling  in  galvanized  wire and  the 
high  price  ruling  on  spelter  prevents 
any  material  reduction  in  price. 
It  i 
very  generally  believed  that  an  advance 
must  be  made,  as  all  manufacturers 
claim  that  they  are  losing  money  at  the 
present  figure.

Sheet  Iron—The  demand  continues 
good  and  the  price  remains  firm.  There 
is  every 
indication  that  higher  prices 
will  rule  on  galvanized  iron.

to 

Rope—Owing 

the  withdrawal 
from  the  combination  of  the  Standard 
Rope  and  Twine  Co.,  the  price  on  rope 
has  been  going  slightly  lower  and,  un 
less  some  arrangements  are  made  to  get 
dealers  together,  we  look  for  still 
lower 
prices.

Window  Glass—As  there 

every 
prospect  of  an  early  resumption  by  all 
factories,  there 
is  a  tendency  among 
jobbers  who  have  fairly  well-assorted 
stocks  to  cut  prices,  but 
it  is  not  be 
lieved  that  this  condition  will  last  long 
as  the  manufacturers  claim  that  the 
price  to  dealers  will  be  higher  before 
is  lower.

is 

Sisal  and  Process  of  Preparation.
Sisal,  or  sisal  hemp,  is  the  product 
of  one  of  the  numerous  fibrous  plants 
known  as  agaves.  Nearly  all  the  agave 
family  bear  a  close  resemblance,  so  that 
anyone  having  seen  a  specimen  of  the 
“ century  plant”   can  form  a  good  idea 
of  the  general  appearance  of  all  other 
varieties  of  the  genus.  All  the  agaves 
are 
indigenous  to  the  American  con 
tinent,  and  nearly  all  can  be  found  ii 
the  Republic  of  Mexico.  Only  a  few 
species  flourish  within  the  boundaries 
of  the  United  States.  While  fiber  can 
be  derived  from  all  these  plants,  only 
the  quantity  and  quality  obtained  from 
a  limited  number  of  the  species  is  such 
as  to  make  them  worthy  of  commercial 
attention.  The  agave  rigida,  variety 
sisalona,  is  one  of  the  most  valuable 
and  yields 
abundance.  No  other  plant  has attracted 
so  much  attention  among  the  manufac 
turers of  cordage.

fibrous  raw  material 

The  leaves  of  this  variety  are  of 
dark  green,  from  four  to  six  feet 
length,  with  a  width  of  from  three 
six  inches,  and  are  covered  with  spines. 
The  full-grown  plant  presents  a  striking 
if  not  beautiful  appearance,  bristling 
all  over  with 
long  spine-tipped 
leaves,  thickly  radiating  from  its  short 
cylindrical  trunk,  which  terminates 
a  short  cone-like  bud.  On  arriving 
maturity  the  plant  sends  up  its  flower 
stalk,  called  the  “ mast,”   to a  height 
nearly  thirty  feet.  The  circumference

its 

It  takes 

_  this  mast  is  from  eighteen  to  twenty 
.nches  at  the  base,  but 
it  gradually 
grows  smaller  between  that  point  and 
termination.  One  of  the  peculiarities 
J   the  plant  is that  it  seldom  or  never 
sets  a  seed.  The  flowers  fall,  carrying 
the  ovary  with  them,  then  the  young 
plants  develop  on  the  ends  of  the 
branches,  which,  when  they  have  at­
tained  a  height  of  from  three  to  four 
inches,  fall  to  the  ground  and  take  root 
The old  plants reproduce  themselves  by 
means  of  scions.
Sisal  hemp  is  a  distinct  production  of 
Yucatan. 
its  name  from  the 
town  of  Sisal,  the  second  port  in  the 
province,  located  on  the  northwest  side 
of  the  peninsula  of  Yucatan.  Before 
the  Spanish  planted  colonies  on  the 
American  continent  the  natives had dis­
covered 
its  value,  for  when  De  Solis 
and  Pizon,  the  Spanish  navigators, 
landed  there  in  1506,  they  found  the  In­
dians  using  crude  cordage  made  from 
the  agave  fiber.  Some  years ago  this 
particular  variety  of  the  agave  family 
was 
the  Bahamas, 
Cuba,  Porto  Rico,  Jamaica,  and  even 
Southern  Florida,but in no place has the 
experiment  proven  a  success. 
in 
Yucatan  only  that  the  plant  found  a 
congenial 
Sisal 
grows  best  on  barren,  rocky  land  that 
useless  for  other  agricultural  pur­
poses.  Drought  affects 
it  but  little,  if 
at  all.  The  yield  is  continual.  An  acre 
of  plants  yields  a 
little  over  a  ton  of 
fiber. 

introduced 

soil  and 

climate. 

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It  is 

into 

It 

Glass  Which  Stops  Heat.
is  stated  that  a  German  inventor 
has  discovered  a  method  of  producing 
glass  which  will  transmit  light  freely, 
but  no  heat.  A  plate  of the  material 
4.10 inches thick,containing 28  per  cent, 
of  iron  in  the  form  described  as  ferous 
chloride,  allowed  only  4.06  per  cent,  of 
radiant  heat  to  pass  through 
it,  while 
another  plate  of  equal  thickness,  and 
containing  quite  as  much 
iron  in  the 
shape  of  ferric  chloride,  permitted  n .r  
per  cent,  to  pass.  The  chemical  dis 
tinction  is  very  small,  but  the  effect 
is 
said  to  be  marked.  A  thinner  slab  of 
this  glass  allowed  less than  1  per  cent, 
of  the  heat  from  sunlight.  Ordinary 
window  glass,  on  the  other hand,  lets 
some  86 per  cent,  of  the  heat through.

Future  Blacksmith  Shop.

From the Los Angeles Times.

A  blacksmith  shop  without  a  forge 
insti­
may  really  come to  be  a  popular 
idea 
tution 
in  the  near  future.  The 
in  Belgium.  The  metal  to 
originated 
be  heated 
is  plunged  into  a  metal  tub 
of  water,  and,  apparently with little rea 
son,  becomes  instantly  white  hot.  As  i 
matter  of  fact,  the  metal  tub 
is  con 
nected  by  wire  to  the  pole  of  a  dynamo^ 
The  water  is acidulated,  and  when  the 
metal 
is  plunged .into  the  water  an  arc 
seems  to  be  established  all  around  the 
submerged  portion,  which  may  then  be 
removed  and  hammered  on  an  anvi' 
the  same  as  any  ordinary  heated  metal

A  Sure  Sign.

Smith:  Brown  is evidently financially 

embarrassed.

Jones:  Why  do  you  think  so?
Smith:  He 

is  beginning  to  live  ex 
travagantly  and  dresses  better  than  for 
merly.

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STOCK  OR  FIXTURES.

Which  More  Important  to  Business 

Written for the Tbasksmah.

Su ccess?

“ It  is  not  all  of  life  to  eat,  any  more 
than  living  is  always  Death’s  defeat, ”  
was  the  somewhat  forceful remark  made 
by  a  stranger at  our table  during  a  re­
cent  gathering  of  specialists,  presum­
ably  to  discuss  matters  of  physical 
im­
portance  to  man.

The  remark  was  made 

in  connection 
with  a  rather  light,  even  flippant,  dis 
cussion  of  overeating  among  the  Amer­
ican  people,  and  struck  me  as  being 
peculiarly  adapted  to  the  business  life 
of  ordinary lines  of  retailing,  inasmuch 
as  many  among  this  calling  seem  to 
consider  it  to  be  all  there  is  in  running 
a  store  when  the  matter of “ feeding”   is 
carefully  looked  after,  said  feeding  be­
ing  the  purchase  of  goods  that go  to 
make  the  stock  a  salable  one.  But, 
while  buying  is  a  matter of  prime  im­
portance,  it  is  not  all,  because  nothing 
is  or  can  be  of  worth  until  the  sale of  it 
places 
in  the  till  its  money  value,  by 
and  through  which  the  value  is  proven 
to  have  been  good  by  its  excess  of  sale 
price  over  cost  original,  added  to  the 
expense  of  handling  until  its  final  sale; 
or  bad,  if  the  balance  shows  on  the 
wrong  side  the  account,  in  which  proof 
rests  the  decision  not  only,  but  the  ar­
gument  that  it  is  of  more  importance  to 
retailers  to  sell  than  it  is  or  ever  can  be 
to  buy.

Nor  can 

it  be  safely  premised  that 
“ Goods  bought  right  are  already  half 
sold,”   because  there  is  nothing  to  dem 
towards  > 
onstrate  a  halfway  place 
specific  sale.  This  must  take  place be­
fore  anything  whatever  has  been  proven 
of  the  actual  worth  of  any  purchase, 
In  this  connection  it  is  a  safe  assertion 
to  make  that  the  overeating  of  Ameri 
cans  and  the  overbuying  proclivities 
of  American  retailers  are  fully  on  a 
par,  because a  large  majority  “ take  no 
heed  to the  morrow”   (pay  day)  in  pur 
chasing  goods  to  sell  again,  merely 
loading  up  with  no  special regard  to the 
demand  actually  or  reasonably  appar 
eut;  and  many  others  seem  to  think 
their  heavy  efforts 
in  buying  excuse 
them  from  any  special  exertion  in  dis 
posing  of  the  goods,  thus  falling  into 
the  habit  of  thinking  that  things  will 
sell  themselves  if  only  given  the  right 
start  and  pushed  on  slightly,  perhaps  by 
a  chore  boy  or  small  girl  whose  only 
recommendation  as  a  pusher  lies  in  the 
low  dollar  mark placed on their services, 
in  a  charge 
against  Americans 
they  are 
thoughtless  of  what  they  eat.  Even  so 
the  retailer takes  too  little  heed  of  the 
matter  of  feed  for  his  store,  or  rather 
be  is  too  often  given  over  to  the  convic 
tion  that  his  stock, bought with  so  much 
care,  will  sell 
itself  without  those  cus 
tomary  accessories  always  to be  found 
where  Prosperity  lingers  in  the  arms  of 
Retailing,  and  altogether  too  often  we 
find 
into  the  actual 
goods  to  sell  and  nothing  left  for  the 
things  that  are  needful  in  hoping  for 
prosperous  trade;  but the opening  adage 
looms  up  as  a  signal  of  warning,  “ It 
is  not  all  of  life  to  eat,"  because on 
careful  supervision  of  what  goods  enter 
our  daily  bill  of  fare,  that  they  be  well 
balanced,  depend  our  pleasure  and 
profit  from  eating.  So  only  by  most 
careful  division  of  the  store  funds  be 
tween  the  things  to  sell  and  the  means 
of  selling  them  can  the most pleasurable 
profit be  secured.  The  majority  of  re 
tailers  invest their means  in  such  a  way

everything  put 

Again, 

comes 

there 

that 

that  their stock  is  out  of  all  proportion 
to  the  means  of  its  handling  and  dis­
posal  when  they  consider goods to be the 
all-important  item  of  purchase,  always 
to be considered  before  any  fixtures  are 
thought  of.

One  very  prosperous  merchant  of  my 
acquaintance  recently  made  this  remark 
tom e: 
' I f   I  had  $3,000 to  invest  in 
groceries  I  should  put  two-thirds  of  this 
amount  into fixtures and interior fittings, 
secure  the  best  of help  attainable,  and 
so  reach  a  success  five-fold  greater than 
would  be  possible  were  I  to  put  $2,800 
into  stock,  $200 
into  fixtures and  then 
try  to  run  a  business  with  help  in  the 
selection  of  which  the  only  ruling  mo­
tive  was  cheapness.”

His  opinion 

is  of  worth,  because he 
has  achieved  an  almost  phenomenal 
success along  these  lines,  and  while  his 
average  ability 
is  not  above  the  ordi­
nary,  he  seems  to have  found  the  key­
note  to  success  by  selling  quickly  all 
into  his  place  of  busi­
things  brought 
ness,  and  sel.ing  them 
in  such  a  way 
that  to  sell  a  customer once  is  to  sell 
him  again  and  again,  added  to  which 
is  means adapted  to guard  the  leaks,  by 
accounting  for  every  dollar  or  dime that 
comes  in;  and,  besides,  be  has  an  hon­
estly  efficient  sales  force,  obtained  by 
fair  wages,  retained  by  system 
and 
chained  to  his  business  by  a  mutual 
success.  Finally,  he  gives  a  personal 
attention  to  the  details  of  selling,  as 
well  as  of  auditing  and  buying,  giving 
the  force of  confirmation  to my premise, 
that  selling  comes  before buying,  even 
f  it  places  the  cart  before  the horse.
Many  stores  there  be  that  are  alive 
living, 
'in  name  only.*’  Although 
they  are  not  alive.  Although 
they 
seemingly  breathe  and  have  a  being, 
their  demise 
is  a  matter  of  nothing 
more than  burial.  They  carry  a  visible 
death,  in  the  very  act  of  living,  into  all 
the  details  of  a  business  that  merely 
exists  without  that  aggressive 
spirit 
that  may  be  said  to  denote  life,  that 
spirit  always  inseparable  from  push, 
progress and  profit.

There are stores  that  do not  defeat the 
dead  end  of  failure  through  sticking  to 
life,  against  which  defeat 
is  already 
written  in  large bold  type:  Dead but  not 
buried.  These  are  they  which  stick  to 
the  plea  that  “ Any  old  thing  in  the 
matter  of  fixtures  or  fittings 
is  good 
enough  for  me  and  my  trade.”   And  it 
probably 
is ;  but  this  only  verifies  the 
placard,  Dead  but  not  buried.

Personal  observation  confirms  my  be 
lief  that  the  store  most  nearly  up  to 
date  in  fittings and  appliances  adapted 
to  the  running of the modern  store  is  the 
one that  secures  the  cream of  the  trade, 
and  may  be  classified  as  lively  and 
alive,  because  the  “ feeding"  was  care 
fully  devised  to  meet  the end  of  life and 
profit  by  being  well  balanced  between 
things  to  sell  and  means  of  selling, 
also  believe,  with  the  friend  quoted 
that  in  case of doubt  the  benefit  should 
be  given  to  the  usually  down-trodden 
side  of  selling  means.  Get  too  many 
good  accessories  rather than  put  your all 
into  goods  to  sell  again  and  endeavor 
to  run  a  fin  de  siecle  store  with  fixtures 
that  might  have  been  good  a  decade 
ago.  Times  improve,  and  only  he  who 
keeps  pace  with  them  may  claim  to  be 
an  up-to-date  retailer,  to  be  which  up 
to-date  fixtures,  systems  and  means 
must  be  used.  What  things  are  best 
adapted  to your  particular  case  must  be 
decided  by  your  particular  self;  yet the 
general  rule  may  safely  be  laid  down 
that  the  best  of  everything  is  none  too 
good  for  a  Nineteenth  Century  store, 
Therefore,  let  what  you  buy  be  of  the 
best  quality,  so  far as  your  means  wi" 
allow,  and  of  that  particular kind  that 
meets  the  approval  of  the  successful 
men  in  a  similar line. 

L.  A.  E ly

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS AND BITS

AXES

BOLTS

BUCKETS

BARROWS

BUTTS,  CAST

Snell’s........................................................... 
70
Jennings’, genuine.......................................25*10
Jennings’, Imitation....................................00*10
First Quality. S. B. Bronze.............................   5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze.............................   9 50
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel..............................  5 50
First Quality, D. B. Steel.................................  10 50
Railroad.............................................$12 00  14 00
Garden.................................................  net  30 00
60*10
Stove....................................................... 
Carriage new list....................................  70 to 75
Plow........................................................ 
50
Well, plain...................................................S3 25
Cast Loose Pin, figured................................70*10
Wrought Narrow.......................................... 70*10
Ordinary Tackle..............................  
70
Cast Steel..............................................per lb 
4
Ely’s 1-10.............................................. perm 
65
Hick’s C. F ........................................... per m 
55
Q .D ...................................................... per m 
35
Musket................................................. perm 
60
Rim Fire........................................................50* 5
Central  Fire..................................................25* 5
CHISELS
Socket Firmer........................ 
so
Socket Framing...........................................  
80
Socket Corner............................................... 
80
80
Socket Slicks..............t................................ 
Morse’s Bit Stocks....................................... 
60
Taper and Straight Shank............................ 50*  5
Morse’s Taper Shank.................................... 50&  5

CARTRIDGES

CROW  BARS

BLOCKS

DRILLS

CAPS

 

 

ELBOWS

EXPANSIVE BITS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
50
1  25
Corrugated..............................................  
Adjustable................................................dis 40*10
Clark’s small, >18;  large, «26........................30*10
Ives’, 1, «18; 2, «24; 3, *30  ............................ 
25
New American........................................     70*10
Nicholson’s................................................... 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................6C*10
28
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27.........  
List  12 
16.........  
17

GALVANIZED  IRON

FILES—New  List

13 

14 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
OAUaBS

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...................... 60*10
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings..................  
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
80

KNOBS—New List

MATTOCKS

NAILS

Adze Eye............................. .......«16 00, dis  60*10
Hunt Eye.....................................«15 00, dis 60*10
Hunt’s........................................ »18 50, dis 20*10
Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...........................................   155
Wire nails, base...........................................   1  60
90 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
06
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
10
8 advance.................................................... 
20
6 advance.................................................... 
4 advance..............  ................- ................  
30
3 
advance............................................... 
45
2 advance................................................... 
70
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
50
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
25
Finish 10 advance......................................  
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  ¿advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance..........................................  85
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
40
40
Coffee, P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables... 
Coffee, Landers. Ferry *  Clark’s................ 
  40
Coffee, Enterprise....................  
 
30
Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30
Ohio Tool Co.’8,  fancy................................   @50
Sciota Bench................................................ 
«0
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy........................   @50
Bench, first quality.......................................  @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme.............................................. 60*10*10
Common, polished....................... 
Iron and T inned........................................  
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
60
"A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B’’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATBNT PLANISHED IRON 

MOLASSES  GATBS

Broken packages *4c per pound  extra. 

PLANES

RIVETS

MILLS

PANS

70*

 

HAMMBRS

Mavdole *  Co.’s, new  list..................... dis  3S*t
2«
Kip’s  ......................................................dis 
Yerkes *  Plumb’s...................................dlz 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 80c list 
70
urv* Ha .¿OAi*

oaYM r*oof Bfofli 

HOUSE  FURNISHING OOODB

HOLLOW  WARE

Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 20*10
Granite Iron Ware.........................new list 40*10
Pots................................................................60*1
K ettles..........................................................80*}0
Spiders......................................................... 60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,8.......................... 
.dis 60*10
S tate........................................per doz. net  « 50

HINGBS

WIRB  GOODS

 

 

TRAPS

SQUARBS

SHBBT IRON

LBVBLS
ROPES

SAND  PAPER
SASH WEIGHTS

Bright..........................................................  
80
Screw Byes................................................... 
80
Hook’s..........................................................  
80
Gate Hooks and Byes.................................. 
80
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
70
Sisal. K Inch and  larger.............................  
9%
Manilla.........................................................  11
Steel and Iron...............................................70*10
Try and Bevels...........................................  
60
M itre....................   
60
com. smooth,  com-.
«2 40
2 40
2 45
2 56
2 65
2 75
All Bheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14..................................... «2 70 
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................   2 70 
Nos. 18 to 21......................................  2 80 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................  3 00 
Nos. 25 to 26.....................................   3 10 
No.  27 ..........................................  8 20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dis 
50
Solid Eyes........................................per ton 20 00
Steel, Game............................................. 
75*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .........  
60
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton’s 70*10
15
Mouse, choker............................per doz 
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
1  25
Bright Market......................................  ... 
75
Annealed  Market........................................  
75
Coppered  Market..........................................70*10
Tinned Market...........................................   62M
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence,galvanized.........................  205
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................  1  75
Au Sable..................................................dis 40A1C
Putnam................................................... dis 
5
Northwestern..........................................dis 10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
50
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought...................  80
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
80
50
Bird  Cages............................................. 
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
80
85
Screws, New List................................... 
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50*10*10
Dampers, American............................... 
50
600 pound casks...........................................   7q
Per pound....................................................  
1%
K@tt....................................................
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by  private  brandB  vary 
according to  composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.........................................«675
14x20 IC, Charcoal.........................  
5  76
20x14 IX, Charcoal.......................................  7 00

 
Each additional X on this grade, «1.25.

MISCELLANEOUS

TIN—Melyn Orade

METALS—Zinc

HORSB NAILS

WRBNCHBS

SOLDBR

WIRB

 

TIN—Allaway Orade

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

Each additional X on this grade, «1.50. 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  6 60
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, Allaway Grade............   10 00
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, 1 
14x56 ix! for  No  9  Boilers, i 

BOILER  SIZB TIN PLATB 
„„„„h 
pouna  - * 

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Be “Concave” iMoaril

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

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

by  low  cost  of  money,  they  are  inclined 
to  bang.  Trade  is  good  in  cloths,  which 
causes  wool  holders  to  believe  that  the 
future  is better  for  them.

W m .  T .  H e s s .

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN
A  Queer  Old  World.
If virtue would allure like sin 
How easily might goodness win.
If right went laughing by like wrong 
't he devil would lose half his throng.
If day sought pleasure like the night 
Dawn need not blush to face the light.
But virtue seems so cold and proud 
That merry  sin attracts the crowd.
And right has such a solemn air 
Men follow wrong, the debonair.
And care so eats the daytime up 
A t night they seize mad folly’s cup,
And drink forgetfulness ’till dawn.
And so the queer old world goes on.

rectors.

24

The  Fruit  and  Produce  Market  at  St.

Louis.

impression 

St.  Louis.  Mo.,  Nov.  28—During 
most  of  the  week  just  past  the  weather 
was  severely  cold,  which  materially  in­
terfered  with  the  fruit  and  produce 
business.  Quite  a  considerable  accu­
mulation  of  potatoes  and  other  produce 
on  track  suffered  from  freezing ;  how­
ever,  many  of  the  potatoes  were  in  box 
cars,  lined,  with  stoves  in  them,  and  a 
portion  of  the  balance  in  tight  refriger­
ators. 
The  weather  was  milder  on 
Friday,  but  turned  severely  cold  again 
on  Saturday,  and  no  business  was 
done.
The  movement  of  potatoes  is  good. 
Since  the  advent  of  cold  weather,  the 
shipments  have  fallen  off,  and  the  gen­
eral 
is  that  they  will  con­
tinue  light  until  the  weather  moderates 
in  the  North.  This  will  make  a  better 
market.  More  buyers  have  shown  up 
on  this  account  and  more 
interest  is 
in  general.  Not  so 
taken 
in  potatoes 
is  arriving  and  the 
much  poor  stock 
quality  of  receipts 
is  improving,  and 
while  there  is  an  abundance  of  common 
to  fair  quality—even  more  than  the  de­
mand  will  take—yet  choice  to  fancy 
stock  continues  in  light  offering  and 
is 
in  demand  at  full  quotations  Really 
fancy,  bright,  clean,  well-sorted  white 
stock,  either  long  or  round,  will  com­
mand  a  premium  over  quotations. 
Choice 
fancy  Burbanks,  Rurals, 
Green  Mountains,  Carmens,  California 
Russets  and  such  varieties,  if  bright 
and  of  uniform  size,  sell  readily  at  38® 
40c;  Hebrons  and  Peerless,  33@35c; 
Red-cut  Rose,  smooth  and  clean,  36@ 
37c;  Early  Ohios,  40@47c;  Bliss’  T ri­
umphs,  75@8oc ;  above  varieties,  good 
to  fair  quality,  3@4C  less.  Mixed,  3p@ 
32c.  More  Michigan  stock  is  arriving 
and  generally  of  good quality and bring 
ing  top  prices.
Apples  meet  a  good strong market and 
active  demand.  Quality  of  receipts  is 
improving 
receipts  are  bardiv 
enough  to  supply  the  demand.  We  ad­
vise  shipping,  as  the  approaching  holi­
day  demand  will  be  exceptionally  good. 
Any  shippers  with  well-packed  apples, 
good  varieties,  will  find  St.  Louis  a 
good  market  from  now  to  Christmas. 
Michigan  mixed  cars  fetch  $2.25  per 
bbl.  for  No.  2,  to  $2.75@3  for  good  to 
choice.  Straight  lots  of  red  are  worth 
more.
White  beans  are  slow  sale,  and  the 
demand  is  very  limited.  Few  dealers 
are  buying  straight  carlots.  We  are 
choice  new  handpicked  pea, 
selling 
also  1897  crop,  at  $i @ i. i i ; 
choice 
screened,  $i. o3@ i.o4.

and 

to 

Onions  are  slow  sale and  the  demand 
is  limited.  Choice  to  fancy  red  globes, 
34@37C;  Red  Weathersfield,  3o@32c; 
Yellow  Danvers,  27@2gc.  Anything  off 
in  quality  is  almost  unsalable.

Cabbage  meets  a  strong  market  and 
good  demand.  All  fresh  green  stock 
sells  readily.  Choice  to  fancy  hard 
green  medium-size  Holland  Wisconsin 
and  Michigan,  $8@8  50;  New  York 
State,  $9  5o@io. 50;  Domestic  and  Flat 
Dutch, 
it  green  and  good  shipping 
stock,  $6  5o@7.50;  kraut  stock,  big,  flat 
and  ripe,  $5@5- 50.  Tracks  are  cleaned 
up. 

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

Hides,  Pelts,  Furs,  Tallow  and  Wool.
Hides  remain  firm  at  }£c  advance, 
with  demand  for  all  that  come.  The 
demand 
is  greater  than  the  supply,  but 
prices  are  too  high  for  tanners  to  wax 
rich,  as  in  former  years.

Pelts  are  very  quiet  and  at 

low 
prices.  Few  are  to  be  had  in  Michi­
gan.

Furs  are  in  demand  for  holiday  trade 
at  higher  prices  than  export  demand. 
They  are  very  unsettled,  with some  buy­
ers  inclined  to  boom  them.

Tallow 

is  weak  and  lower.  Cotton­
seed  oil  is  in  large  supply  and  soapers 
are  well  stocked.

Wool 

is  a  shade  better 

in  price  in 
some grades,  with  little  moving  at  de­
clined  price.  Michigan  wool  is  below 
cost  to  the  holder and,  as  it  holds  easy

Special  Meeting  of  the  Board  of  Di­

Saginaw,  Nov.  26—The  adjourned 
meeting  of the  Board  of  Directors  of the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip  was  held 
at  the  Hotel  Vincent  Saturday,  Nov. 
26.  Present,  President  Hoffman,  Sec­
retary Saunders,  Treasurer McNolty,  D i­
rectors  Mills,  Palmer,  Stevens,  Con­
verse,  Schram  and  Smith.

The  chair  appointed  Directors  Con­
verse,  Schram  and  Mills  a committee  to 
consider  the  amendments  to  the  consti­
tution  submitted  by members.  The  fol­
lowing  accounts  were  presented  and
allowed:

Expense Board Meeting...................... $56.50
Saginaw  Post.......................................   50.00
Secretary Saunders...............................  64.30
Treasurer  M cNolty.............................  3.68
Proofs  of  death  of  Jas.  N.  Bradford, 
of  Grand  Rapids,  W.  W.  McEwan,  De­
troit,  John  McHugh,  Marshall,  and 
Louis  Immegart,  Keokuk, 
la.,  were 
presented  and  audited  and  warrants  or­
dered  drawn  for  same.

Treasurer  McNolty  reported  the finan­
cial  condition  of  the  organization  as 
follows:

The  general  fund  had  a  balance  of 
$385.21  at  the  last  meeting,  since  which 
time  $38  has  been  received,  making  a 
total  ot  $423  21.

The  disbursements  have  been  as  fol­
lows :  Bills  allowed  at  the  last  meeting 
$306.71; 
expenses  Board  meeting, 
$41  63,  a  total  of  $348.34,  leaving  a  bal­
ance  of  $74.87.

The  death  fund  shows  a  balance  of 
$683  59,  after  the  payment  of  two  death 
claims—J.  B.  Cushman  and  A.  I.  Col- 
grove.

Secretary  Saunders  reported  receipts 

since  last  meeting  as  follows:

General fund....... .................................. $38.00
Death fund.............................................. 96.00
Deposit fund.........................................  58.00
Maynard fund.......................................  5.00
Total............................$197.00

Death  assessment  No.  3  and  notice  of 
is­

annual  dues  for  1899  were  ordered 
sued  Dec.  1,  to  expire  Jan.  1,  1899.

The  committee  on  proposed  amend­
ments  to  the  constitution  reported  that, 
having  considered  the  proposed  amend­
ments,  they  would  recommend the print­
ing  and  mailing  to  each  member  of  all 
the  said  proposed  amendments,  as  pro­
vided  by  Sec.  i,  of  Art.  14  of  the  con­
stitution.

The  proposed  amendments  to  the con­
stitution  may  be summarized  as  follows :
1.  To  extend  membership  limits  to 
all  Northern  States  and  white  males 
only.

2.  That  an  assessment  of  25  cents 
annually  be  made,  to  be  placed  at  the 
disposal  of  the  Relief  Committee.

3.  No  member  to  be  eligible  to  an 
elective  office  unless  actually  engaged 
in  selling  goods  to  the  trade.

4.  No  officer  to  be  eligible  to  re- 

election.

5.  That  the  retiring  President  shall 
be  ex-officio  member  of  the  Board  of 
Directors.

6.  That  the  annual  convention  be 
held  on  the  first  Tuesday  and  Wednes­
day  of  July.

7.  That  any  delinquent  member  not 
over  55  years  of  age,  and 
in  good 
health,  can  be  reinstated  upon  payment 
of  present  annual  dues  and  last  death 
assessment.

8.  That all  bonds  of  officers  be  from 

responsible  indemnity  companies.

The  Secretary  was  instructed  to  mail 
a  notice  to  each  delinquent  member, 
with  an  invitation to  attend  the  next an­
nual  convention,  that  he  will  be  rein­
stated  upon  the  payment  of  the  annual 
dues  for  1899  and  one  death  assessment.
The  Board  adjourned  to  meet  at  the 
Hotel  Vincent  Tuesday,  Dec.  27,  at  8 
o’clock  a.  m.

J. C.  S a u n d e r s ,  Sec’y.

There  are  two  sides  to a  story  when 
men  quarrel;  when  women  quarrel  there 
are a  dozen.

E l l a  W h ee le r  W ilcox.

Peddling  Ordinance  Again  Victorious.
Clare,  Nov.  26—This  week  the  city 
officials  were  again  called  upon  to  en­
force  the  new  Dunlap  ordinance,  which 
recently  became  a  law  in the city.  From 
all  appearances  this ordinance  has  come 
to  stay.

A  traveling  doctor,  who  has  been  in 
the  habit  of  making  this  city  occasion­
ally,  opened  an  office  Monday  to  do 
business  for  a  day  or  two,  as  usual,  but 
was  promptly  called  upon  by the author 
¡ties  and  informed  that  he  must contrib­
ute  to  the  city  treasury  $10  for  the  first 
day  and  $5  for  each  day  thereafter.  The 
doctor  refused,  whereupon  he  was  ar­
rested  and  taken  before  the  city  justice. 
He  sent  to  Alma  for  an  attorney,  who 
came  over,  carefully  examined  the  or­
dinance  and  went  home  again.  The 
doctor  then  appeared  before  Justice 
Carpenter  and  contributed  $10 and  costs 
toward  the  maintenance  of  the  Dunlap 
ord inance.
Independent  Telephone  Exchange  at 

Evart.

Evart,  Nov.  29—The  Evart  telephone 
exchange  was  started  in  1896,  with  nine 
instruments  on  a  grounded  system  and a 
twenty-five  drop  board. 
It  was  soon 
found 
larger  board  would  be 
needed  and,  during  the  past  summer,  a 
100  drop  metallic  circuit  board  was 
in­
stalled,  and  the  present  number of  in­
struments  connecttd 
is  forty-two,  with 
more  in  prospect.

that  a 

The  Citizens  Mutual  Telephone  Co., 
of  Grand  Rapids,  connected  its  lines  to 
the  Evart  exchange  in  March,  1897,  and 
the  subscribers  to  the  Evart exchange 
consequently  connect  with  300  different 
towns  in  Michigan  over  the  Grand Rap­
ids  system.

The  Evart  City  Council  recently 
passed  an  ordinance  granting  the  Evart 
exchange  a  franchise  for  thirty  years.

A  line  has  just  been  completed  con­
necting  Sears  with  the  Evart  exchange.

Avoid  the  Rush.

She  was  a  smart  and  pretty  girl.  She 
wrote  the  advertising  for  a  large  dry 
goods  concern  in  town.  Her  mind  used 
to  run  so  much  upon  her  business  that 
one  day,  when  she  wrote  to  her  lover  to 
meet  her that  night  at  home,  she  uncon­
sciously  added  as  a  postscript:  “ Come 
early  and  avoid  the  rush !’ ’

WANTS  COLUMN.

BUSINESS  CHANCES. 

Advertisements  will  be  Inserted  under this 
head for two cents a word  the  first  insertion 
and one cent a word  for  each  subsequent  in­
sertion.  No advertisements taken for less than 
ag cents.  Advance payment._______________
7T
■ ACANT  CITY  LOT8  AND  80  ACRES  OP 
good  fanning  land,  all  free and  clear, to 
exchange for hardware or general merchandise. 
Address No  77a, care Michigan Tradesmen.  778
■  CHANCE OP A LIFETIME FOR SALE FOR 
Cash Only—A department store; stock about 
$i2,000: sales last year, $42.000; this year will run 
about $50,000,all cash,nocredit business is done; 
very little competition.  Last year cleared $5.000 
over all expenses.  Must go  west on account of 
health of family or money could not buy it  Ad 
dress No  777, care Michigan Tradesman.  777 
OR »ALE—OLD AND WELL-ESTABLISHED 
bakery business in a  city  of  16,000  popula­
tion.  For particulars  write to Wm. Malmborg, 
215 Cleveland Ave.. Ishp  mine,  Mich. 
776
WANTED-GOOD  LOCATION  FOR F1KST- 
class  dry  goods  or  dry  goods  and  shoe 
store, in town of 2,500 to 5,000 inhabitants.  Will 
also buy stock if for  sale.  Address  A. Z.,  care 
775
Michigan Tradesman. 
Bes t  location  in   Mic h ig a n  f o r  a
cold  storage  and  general  produce  dealer. 
Write to the Secretary  of tne  Otsego  Improve­
631
ment Association, Otsego, Mich. 

FOR SALE—SMALL STOCK OF  DRY  GOODS 
—staple  and  desirable  goods.  Will  sell 
cheap for cash  or trade for men’s furnishing«, 
men’s  shoes  er clothing.  For  particulars  ad­
773
dress C. I.ightstone, Ot-ego. Mich 

■ GENTS  « ANTED  FOR  OUR  “DEWEY” 

slot machine, just out;  retail for $ 1.00 each; 
double the trade for caudy and cigar stores;  no 
gambling device;  agents can  maze b g money. 
Address Jonas N. Bell & Co., Manufacturers  HI 
So.  Clinton St., Chicago. 
772
TO  EXCHANGE—FARM  FOR  CITY  PKOP- 
eity; 80 acres, part Improved.  Adapted  to 
general farming and peach raising.  J. H. McKee 
770 
& Son, Houseman Block, Grand Rapids. 
W.  ELLARS,  SALESMAN  AND  AUC- 
•  tioneer, now closing out stock at I vesdale, 
111.  If you  with to close  out,  address  him  for 
terms and particulars. 
763
TO  EXCHANGE—FOUR HOU8ES  IN  CITY, 
a’l rented, for general merchandise in  good 
town.  Address Lester & Co., 216 Ottawa Street, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.__________________765
FOR- SÄLE  OR  EXCHANGE —HOT  SODA 
apparatus,  silver,  mammoth,  up-to-date, 
Tufts’  pattern,  $225,  $5  per  month,  6  per  cent, 
interest.  Also Soda Fountain, modern, eighteen 
syrups, two sodas,  four mineral  tubes, magnifi­
cent  cherry  top,  Tufts’  pattern,  $1,1U0,  $10  per 
month,  6  per cent.  Also  Fixtures,  drug  and 
jewelry:  three 8 ft.,  one 12-ft.  wall cases, plate 
glass;  24 ft. diug shelving, half glass;  four 8-ft. 
silent  salesman  ca-es,  beveled  plate,  grand; 
$1,000, $10 per month,  «  per cent.  Address  7t6, 
care Michigan Trade man 

766

759

IriOR  SALE  A  MILLINERY  AND  FANCY 
goods stock, city of 3,500 inhabitants.  Will 
sell  at a great  bargain.  Address  Box  212,  St. 
Johns, Mich. 
767
For sa le—stock drugs and f ix t u r e s,
Invoicing  $i,200,  at 50  per  cent,  discount. 
Address No. 768, care Michigan T ra d e sm a n .  768
TO  RENT  IN  MENDON,  ST.  JOSEPH  CO., 
Mich.—One  or  two  large  brick  stores  in 
Opera  House  block,  suitable  for  groceries, 
boots  and  shoes  or  clothing.  Write  to  Levi 
760
Cole. 
WANTED—A COMPETENT BUSINESS MAN 
to act as financial agent for an established 
concern.  Party must have  three  thousand dol­
lars ($3,000) for conditional investment.  Remu­
neration,  twelve  hundred  dollars  ($1,200)  per 
year,  expenses  and  a  commission.  Address 
Lock Box 753, Kalamazoo. Mich. 
AVE  SMALL GENERAL  STOCK,  ALSO  A 
Mock of musical  goods,  sewing  machines, 
bicycles, notions, etc., with wagons and teams— 
an established business.  Stock inventories from 
$2.000 to $3.500,  as  may be  desired.  Will  take 
free  and  clear  farm  In  good  location  of  equal 
value.  Address Lock Box 531, Howell, Mich.
739
W ANTED — SHOES,  CLO TH IN G ,  DRY 
goods.  Address R. B., Box 351, Montague, 
699
Mich. 
IjMJR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 

1  splendid  fanning country.  No trades.  Ad­
dress No. 68), care Michigan Tradesman  680
|7K)R  SALK—DRUG,  BO<>K  AND  STATIUN- 
JT  ery  sto  k.  invoicing  $4.500,  and  fixtures 
invoicing $i? d,  which include show cases, shelv­
ing  and  bodes.  Daily  cash  sales  in  1891,  $2  ; 
892. $30;  It’.3. $31;  1894, $34.65;  1895,  $25;  1896, 
$21.20, and 1  97,$24 13  Located in manufactur­
ing town.  No cut prices.  Rent reasonable, $29 
per month.  Living rooms in connection.  Ad­
dress Na. 66-, care Michigan Tradesman.  668 
ANTED—16 TO 20 HORSE POWER  PORT- 
able e urine and  boiler,  with  engineer,  to 
furnish  power  during 
ice  cutting  season. 
Write, «tatiiig terms, Consumers’ Ice Co., Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 

for your stock of merchandise,  or any  part 

MERi  HANTS—DO YOU WISH CASH  QUICK 
of It?  Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mich.
628
TO  EXCHANGE—FOR CLOTHING, 
DRY
goods or shoes, very nice well rented Graud 
Rapids property.  Addiess No.  552, care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
O  EXCHANGE —FARMS  AND  OTHER 
property for dry goods, clothing and shoes. 

552

743

Address P. Medaiie, Mancelona.  Mich. 
COUNTRY  PRODUCE

553

ter and eggs. 

W E PAY SPOT CASH ON TRACK FOR BUT- 
It will  pay you  to get  our 
prices and  particulars.  Stroup & Canner,  Per- 
771
rinton, Mich. 
WANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 
try;  any  quantities.  Write me.  Orrin J. 
706
Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 
WANTED —FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
381
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 
W ANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
dally.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mtch.________________________ 556

FIREPROOF  SA FES

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

Ottawa street. Grand Rapids.___________ 613

MISCELLANEOUS.

SPECIALTY  SALESMAN  NOW  ON  THE 
road wishes to make a change for other good 
selling specialty.  Address  No. 779,  care  Mich­
779
igan Tradesman. 
ANTED—j RAVELING  SALESMAN 
IN 
hardware or  other  lines  to  handle  hard­
ware  specialty  as  a  Bide  line.  Sells  at  sight. 
References  required.  State  territory  covered. 
Address F. W. Clark, Manistee, Mich. 
774 
ANTED—A  POSITION  AS  TRAVELING 
salesman  by  energetic  man of long  busi­
ness experince.  Address No. 764, care Michigan 
Tradesman 
764
W ANTED—A YOUNG  MAN  OF  GOOD  AD- 
dress  to  represent  unique  Insurance  in 
State.  Good money for right man.  Address at 
once, Knights of America, Kalamazoo, Mich.
742

Travelers’  Time  Tables. MANISTEE &  Northeastern Ry. 

Best route to Manistee.

Via  C.  &  W.  M.  Railway.

Lv Grand Rapids.
A r  Manistee.......
Lv  Manistee.......
A r Grand  Rapids

,  7:00am 
..,.......
12:05pm 
..........
8:30am  4:10pm 
1:00pm  0:55pm

T R A V E L

V IA

F.  &   P.  M.  R.  R.

AM D   S T E A M S H IP   L IN E S  

T O   A LL  P O IN T 8   IN   M IC H IG A N

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

Dwight’s
Cleaned
Currants

If you want nice, fresh, new 
stock,  buy  Dwight’s. 
If 
you want cheap trash, don’t 
look  for  it  in  our  pack­
ages.  All  Grand  Rapids 
jobbers sell them.

W o lv e r in e   S p ic e   C o .,

Grand Rapids.

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MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association 

President,  C.  L.  W h it n e y,  Traverse  City:  Sec­

retary, È  A.  Sto w e, Grand Rapids.

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J. W is l e r .  Manceloua;  Secretary,  E. 

A .  Sto w e, Grand  Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President.  C.  G.  J bw ett,  Howell;  Secretary, 

Hen r y C.  Min n ie,  Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J oseph K n ig h t;  Secretary, E.  Ma r k s. 

221  Greenwood av e :  Treasurer, (J. H.  F r in k .

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  Frank  J.  Dtk;  Secretary,  Hombr 

K la p ;  Treasurer, J.  G eo.  L ehm an.

Saginaw Mercantile Association 
Mc Br a t n ie ;  Secretary,  W.  H.  L e w is.

President. P. F. T b b a n o r ;  Vice-President, J ohn 

*11 32pm
6 30am

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

P resident, Geo.  E.  L e w is ;  Secretary,  W .  H. P or­

t e s ;  Treasurer,  L.  Felto n.

CHICAGO ■-wC T ' " “y

Chicago.

Ly.  G. Rapids............   7 30am  12:00am *U’45pm
Ar.  Chicago............... 2:10pm  9:15pm 
7 2 a s
Ly.Chicago..  11:15 am  6 50am  4:15pm *1I'50dd 
Ar.G’dRapids 5:00pm  1:25pm  10:30pm  * 6:20ur 
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Ly. G’d  Rapids.............7:30am  8:05am  5:39pm
Parlor cars on day tra’ns and sleeping cars on 
night trains to and from Chicago

•Every  day. 

Others week days only.

H C T D A I T   drawl Rapids & Western.
I / E  1  K U l   1  i  

Sept, as, 1898.

Detroit.

Ly. Grand  Rapids___ ..7:00am  1:35pm  5:35ps
Ar. Detroit.....................11:40am  5:45pm 10:05pn
L y .  Detroit......................8‘OOam  1:10pm  8:10pn
Ar.  Grand  Rapids........ 12 55pm  5:20pm  10:55pir

Saginaw. Ahaa and  Greenville.

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

Gao.  D eHa v e n ,  General Pass. Agent.

/ i n   I   i v n   ^rank Railway System
v l  l \ / a i 1 Lv  Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

(In effect Nov.  13,  1898 )

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t 6:45am  Sag.,  Detroit, Buffalo 4 N  Y  .t 9:55pm
tl0:10am......... Detroit  and  East........ t 5:27pm
t 3'2»pm..  .Saginaw, Detroit  East  .  .tl2:45pm
* 7:20pm..  .Buffalo, N  Y. & Boston__*10:15am
*10:i0am__Gd. Haven  and  lnt. Pts— *  7:  5 >m
t!2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:12pm 
t  5:30pm...Gd. Haven and Milwaukee.  5:27pm 
Eastward—No. 10 has Wagner parlor car.  Ho. 
22  parlor  car.  Westward—No  11  parlor  car. 
No.  17 Wagner parlor car.
tExcept Sunday.

•Dally. 

WEST

E. H  Hughes, A. G. P. & T. A.
Ben.  F le tc h e r. Trav. Pass. Agt.
C. A.  J u stin,  City  Pass.  Agent.

97 Monroe St.  Morton House.

N ov.  13 ,18 9 8 .

GRAND Rapids  k   Indiana Railway
Northern Dlv.  Leave  Arrivi 
Trav.C’y ,Petoskey & Mack...f 7:45am  t  5:15pm
Trav  City A Petii»sev............t 210pm  tl0:45pm
Cadillac ar commodation........* 5:25pm tlO 55am
Petoskey A Mackinaw City....tt' :00pm  +  6:35ym 
7:45am  and 2:10pm  trains  have  parlor  cars; 
11:0 pm train has sleeping car.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arriv-
Cincinnati 
..................... ♦ 7:10am t  9:45pm
F t Wayne 
............................t  2-iOpm  t   1:55,,*.
C in cin n ati.................................... 
6-30*»*
For Vicksburg and Chicago..*11:3 /pm  9:1  am 
i '.IO  am  train  has  parior  car  to  Clncinn» 
and  parlor  car  '0   Chicago;  2:10pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Way  e:  7:<0pm  train  has 
sleeping cars  to Cincinnati;  11:30pm  train  has 
coach and sleeping car to Cnicago.

7  00nm 

Chicago Trains.

TO CHICAGO.
2 10pm  *11 30pm
Lv. Grand Rapids... 7 10am 
Ar. Chicago............   2 0 pm 
9 10pm 
6 Sam
Lv. Chicago............................   3  02pm 
Ar  Grand Rapids...................  9  45pm 
Tral  leaviug Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor 
car;  11:30pm. coach and sleeping car.
Train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has  parlor car; 
11:32pm, sleeping car.

FROM  CHICAGO.

M uskegon Trains. 

g o i n g   w e s t .

LvG’d Rapids...........t~:35am  +1:00pm  ti:40pir
Ar Muskegon__  
9:00am  2:10wn  7:05pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:35am.
Lv Muskegon............ t8:10am  til:45am  ti  OOpn
ArG'd Rapids  .. 
.  9:30am  12:55nn>  S:80jw
Sunday  train  leaves  Mnskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm. 
tKxcept Sunday.  »Dally

GOING  SAST.

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

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

DULUTH, s““s™.“

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WEST  b o u n d.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. A L)tU:10pm  +7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City.................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St  Ignace...... . 
9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie..............   12:90pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette.........................  2:50pm  10:40pu
Ar. Nestorla............................   5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. D u l u t h . . . .  
8:30am

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

BAST  BOUND.

Lv. Duluth”...........................................  
t6:30pm
Ar. Neslorta...........................til :15am 
2:45am
Ar. Marquette.......................  
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. M arie..........  3:30pm
Ar. Mackinaw C ity.............  8:40pm  11:00am
G. W. Hibbabd, Gob. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Ovlatt Trav. Pass. Agt, Grand Rapids

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

land:  Treasurer, Wm. C. Kokhn.

Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  M.  L.  D b Ba t s ;  Sec’y, S. W .  W a t b b s.

Traverse City Bnsiaess Men’s Association 
Holly;  Treasurer, C. A. Hammond.

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

Owoaso  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

bbll;  Treasurer, W. E. Collins.

Alpena Badness Men’s Association

President,  F.  W.  G il c h r ist;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

P a r t r id g e.

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

Treasurer, S. J. Huppokd.

St. Johns Business  Men’s Association.

President, Thos. Bbomley;  Secretary,  Frank A. 

Percy ;  Treasurer, Clark a .  Putt.

Perry Business Men’s Association

P re sid e n t  H. W. W a l l a c e :  Sec’y, T . E . H e d d lk.
Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos ; Secretary, J. W. VebHobks.

Yale Basiaess Men’s Association

President, Chas. Rounds;  Sec’y, F rank Putney.

A Word 
to  the  Wise 
Is  Sufficient

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The  question  of  how  and  when  to 
advertise  in  order  to  obtain  the  max­
imum  result  at  the  minimum  outlay  is 
one  that  confronts  every  business  man. 
To claim  that  because  business  is  dull 
you cannot  afford  to  advertise,  is  to  ad­
vance  as  a  reason  for  not  advertising  a 
condition  that  should  cause  you 
to 
redouble  your  efforts  in  reaching  out 
for  trade.  A   general  improvement  in 
all  lines  may  be  confidently  looked  for 
during  the  Winter,  and  the  judicious 
advertiser  will  reap  the  benefit. 
An 
advertisement  which  is  seen  and  read 
and  commented  upon  is  productive  of 
the  best  results.  Such  results can best 
be  obtained  through  the  use  of

A  Pine Calendar

which  attracts  attention  to  your  name 
and  business  in  a  manner  not  soon  for­
gotten,  not  once,  but  throughout  the 
entire  year,  and  is  seen  not  only  by  a 
few,  but  by  many.  A  calendar  issued 
during  the  Holiday  Season  serves  the 
threefold  purpose  of  most  effectively 
advertising  your  business,  of  compli­
menting  your  friends  and  customers, 
and  those  whom  you  hope  will  become 
customers,  and  of  presenting them with 
a  useful  article  which  will  be  preserved 
not  only  for  its  beauty but  for its  utility 
as well. 
A  choice  calendar  is  always 
given  the  most  prominent  position  and 
is  thus  seen  by  everyone. 
It  is  for 
these  reasons  not  only  the  most  pro­
ductive  but  the  cheapest  method  of 
advertising.
Tradesman  Company

G ran d   R apids,  M ich.

To Give Unconsciously Is not. Generosity 
But Wasteful and  Ridiculous Excess

Your  customers  do  not  thank 
you  for  the  little  extras  you 
'give  them;  they  are  as uncon­
scious  of  your  wasteful  gener­
osity as you yourself.
We  can  cure  you  and  your 
clerks of this  habit.  We  have 
a system that will stop it.

The Money Weight System

Write to us for  full  particulars 
of  the  system  which  checks 
overweight  and  losses.  We 
can  let  you  into  some  of  the 
secrets  of  merchandising  that 
may surprise you. 

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THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,  Dayton,  Ohio  §

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of stove polish that your customers 
know  nothing  about,  brands  they 
do not call for, the quality of which 
is  inferior,  gives  them  dissatisfac- 
tion,  and  the  consequent  sale  of 
which  brings  discredit 
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If you are doing business for  profit 
it  will  pay  you  to  handle  our 
whole line. 

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should commend  them  to  the  up-to-date. grocer. 
They  never  become  stale,  for even  the  very old1 
est  of  them,  by  a  little  warming up,  become  as 
crisp as  at  first.  This  isn’t  possible  in ordinary 
crackers,  and  it’s  by using  none  but the choicest 
selected  ingredients,  and being  mixed  and baked 
in  the  improved  way, 
that  the  SEYM OUR 
Cracker retains  its  hold  upon  the  buyers of pure 
food  products.  Always  FRESH,  WHOLESOME, - 
NUTRITIVE.  Has absorbing qualities far in excess 
of all other crackers. 
Is  asked for  most  by  par­
ticular people,  and hence brings the most accept­
able  class of customers  to whoever sells-it.

Can you afford to be  without it?

Made only  by

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