Volume  XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  2! 1898.

Number  796

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DEALERS IN

ILLUMINATING  AND  LUBRICATING

OILS

NAPHTHA  AND  GASOLINES

Office  and  W orks.  BUTTERW ORTH   A V E ., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Bulk work» at Grand  Rapids,  Mnakegon, Manistee, Cadillac, Big Kap- 
ids,  Grand  Haven,  Traverse City,  Lndlngton, Allegan, 
Howard  City,  Petoskey,  Reed  City,  Fremont,  Hart, 
Whitehall, Holland and Fennville

Highest  Price  Paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels.

Everything  in  the  Plumbing  Line 
Everything  in  the  Heating  Line

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

WEATHERLY  &  PULTE, 99 Pearl  St., Grand  Rapids

QOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOtXKHXKX

WHEN  YOU  SEE  A MAN

_  A   A  you  know  that  he  wants  one

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B E S T  5  CEN T  CIG AR S 

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IWJ  Sold  by  all  wholesale  dealers 
G.  J.  JOHNSON  CIGAR  CO.,  Grand  Rapids.

E V E R   M AD E

and  the

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mmmmmmmmmm

Seymour Sracieis^

should  commend  them  to  the  up-to-date  grocer. 
They  never  become  stale,  for  even  the  very  old­
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 
that  the  SEYM OUR  m 
in  the  improved  way, 
Cracker  retains  its  hold  upon  the  buyers  of pure  S g  
food  products. 
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.

Always  FRESH,  WHOLESOME» 

Can  you  afford  to  be  without  it?

Made  only  by

National  Biscuit Company

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A  DESK  FOR  YOUR  OFFICE

We don't claim to sell ‘‘direct  from  the  factory** 

but do claim that we can sell you at

Less than the Manufacturer’s Cost

and can substantiate our claim.  We  sell  you  sain* 
pies at about  the  cost  of  material  and  guarantee 
our goods to be better made and better finished than 
the stock that goes to the furniture  dealers.

Our  No.  6i  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  $ 2 0 -   Write for  our  illustrated  cat­
alogue and mention this paper when you  do so.

S A M P L E   F U R N IT U R E   CO.

JOBBERS  OP  SAMPLE  FURNITURE.

P E A R L   AN D  O T TA W A   ST S. 

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GR AN D   R APID S,  MICH.

Calendar  Season  Is  Now  Here

Improve the  opportunity  to  present  your  customers  with  a  s 
will  cause  them  to  think  of  you  every  day  during  1899. 
quotations free for the asking.

>uvenir  which 
Samples  and

TRADESMAN  COMPANY, Grand  Rapids.

Car  Stoves
Potato  Shipments

Our  new  potato  stove,  which 
has  detachable  legs,  is  ahead 
of  any  other  stove  on  the 
market,  because 
it  can  be 
shipped  without  being  dam­
aged.

Write  for  prices.

WM.  BRUMMELER &  SONS,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

SHOW  CASES  OF  ALL  STYLES

Until  Nov- 

i  we  will  furnish  these  b'gulv  mushed  show  cases  with  inlaid  wood 

corners at the  following  low  prices f o b   Bryan:

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

5 f e e t ........ $7.25 
6 feet.........  S.15 

7 feet.........* 9*5 
8 feet.........  10.50 

9 feet..........$12.25
lufeet.........   1325

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.

Absolutely  Free—

A  Ten  Dollar Graphophone 
A  Bronze-mounted  Hand  decorated  Lamp 
A  Large  Bronzed  Parlor Clock

Be

Premiums  are  given  with  an  ob­
ject in view.  We recommend  to  mer­
chants to give away premiums to their 
customers  to  increase  th eir  cash 
and  general  trade.  We  offer 
the  above  premiums  to  intro­
duce  our  line  of  premium  sil­
verware.  We  claim  for  our 
quadruple p la te d  
silverware  that  it
is of  better  quality 
than  other  makes 
offered  at  similar! 
prices,  every piece, 
being accompanied < 
by a ten year guar­
anty certificate.

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As  an 

induce­
ment  to  test  the 
merit of  our  quad­
ruple plated  silverware and  to  interest  you  in  the  premium  plan  we  offer 
the above premiums absolutely free,  as follows:

The Champion  Assortment, 40 pieces  silverware, for.............$50  00

Including a ten dollar graphophone.

Assortment No.  115, 20 pieces silverware, for..........................  25  00

Including the decorated  lamp.

Assortment No.  no, 20 pieces silverware, for..........................   25  00

Including  the parlor clock.

Our regular price of silverware is invariably $1.25 each.  We are making this  special  offer 
for the purpose of interesting you in our line.  Drop us a postal for descriptive illustrated  cir­
culars and full particulars.

THE  REGENT MANUFACTURING CO.,

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174 WABASH AVE* CHICAGO, ILL  *

NUTS 

and 

RAISINS

ALMONDS

BRAZILS

FILBERTS

PECANS

W ALNUTS
M IXED

FANCY  CLUSTERS 
LONDON  LAYER S 

IM PORTED  SULTANAS 

ONDARA  LAYER S 

LOOSE  MUSCATELS 

s i r n i r n   in   PArTfAfiFS

AND  ALL  GRADES  OF  FANCY  CANDIES

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

low  figures.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

FOR  CHRISTMAS

This  Showcase  only  $4  00  per foot.

W ith  Beveled  Edge  Plate  Glass top  $5.00  per foot.

The maxim "Best work is always  the  cheapest”   applies  especially  to 
engraving.  In placing his goods before  the  public,  the  producer  can 
afford  to  use  only  the  best  illustrations,  and  this  cannot  be  accom­
plished unless the  printing plate, whether made by  zinc-etching,  half­
tone, wood-engraving or any other  process, is  perfect  in  every  detail. 
Many manufacturers pay too little attention to this important feature of 
their  business  and,  when  the  illustration  does  not  do  justice  to  the 
original article, blame the printer when  the  fault  is  their  own.  They 
may  have  been  influenced  by  false  motives  of  economy  to  give  their 
order for the printing plates to the  lowest bidder at so much a “ square 
inch ”   They did not  take  into  consideration  that  printing  from  poor 
plates costs as much as from good ones (and sometimes more);  that the 
postage bill for mailing the  printed  matter  is  the  same,  and  that  by 
showing their products to a disadvantage, owing to cheap  engravings, 
they lose in profits many times over what they  thought  they  saved  by 
patronizing the lowest bidder.  Our house was  one  of  the  first  in  the 
West to engage in the production of printing plates, and during an ex­
perience covering fifteen years we  have  kept  pace with  the  times,  in­
creased our facilities annually, and ar ■ to-day equipped to  make  plates 
by every process  known  to  modern  art.  Our  services  are  at  the  dis­
posal of all who appreciate that best work is always cheapest in the end.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand  Rapids.

Volume XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER 21,1898.

Number  796

Serious  Defect  in  the  State  Banking 

Law.

indefinitely. 

their  places 

The  Peoples  Savings  Bdnk  episode 
calls  attention  to  wbat  is  certainly  a  de­
fect  in  the  State  banking  law.  The  law 
should  not  be  such  that  a  board  of  di­
rectors  of  a  bank,  once  elected,  can  re­
tain 
The 
provision  for an  annual  election,  and,  in 
the  event  of  its  failure,  for  a  subsequent 
election,  should  be  mandatory instead  of 
permissive.  As  the  law  is  now,  tbe  di­
rectors  can  calmly  refuse  to  issue  tbe 
call  for  a  meeting  of  any  kind,  and  if 
the  stockholders  do  not  like  it,  the  only 
remedy  they  have 
is  an  appeal  to  the 
Banking  Commissioner,  whose  authority 
is  above  that  of  tbe  board.  Tbe  an­
nual  elections  are  farcial  in  many  re­
spects,  under  any  circumstances,  the 
old  board  having  it  practically  within 
its  power  to  perpetuate  itself  in  office 
by  having  the  framing  of  the  slate  in 
its  hands.

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Another  obvious  defect  in  the  law 

is 
the absence  of  any  provision  requiring 
an  annual  statement  to  the  stockholders 
showing  the  earnings,  expenses,  profits 
and 
losses  and  general  conditions,  to­
gether  with  the  nature  and  character  of 
the  securities  held. 
It  is  apprehended 
that, 
if  such  statements  were  made, 
changes  upon  bank  directorates  would 
be  more  frequent  than  they  are  and  the 
directors  would  certainly  feel  a  greater 
responsibility  resting  upon  them.  As 
things  are  now,  the  stockholders  have 
very  little  knowledge  of  tbe  true  condi­
tion  of  tbe 
in  which  they 
have  their  money  invested  and  have  no 
way  of  ascertaining 
if  they  are  being 
faithfully  represented  or  not.

institution 

*  *  *

it 

institutions. 

The annual  meeting  of  the  Peninsular 
Trust  Company 
is  conducted  on  lines 
that could,  advantageously,  be  imitated 
It  is  not  a  per­
by  other 
functory  affair,  but 
is  a  meeting 
is  actually  held,  and,  when  the 
that 
stockholders  are  all  assembled, 
the 
affairs  of  the  Company  are  laid  before 
them  in  detail  and  a  free  discussion  of 
tbe  past  and  future  follows.  This  sys­
tem  puts  tbe  stockholders 
closer 
institution  and  renews 
touch  with  the 
their 
its  prosperity.  The 
Michigan  Trust  Company does  not  have 
the  “ town  hall  meeting,”  but  it  annual­
ly submits to the stockholders a statement 
of  the  operations  of  the  previous year.

interest 

in 

in 

FIGURE  NOW  on  improving your office 
system for next  year.  Write  for  sample 
leaf of our T1HB BOOK and PAY ROLL.

BARLOW  BROS.,  Grand  Rapids.

PREFERRED  BANKERS 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY

O F   D E T R O IT ,  M IC H IG A N .

Commenced Business September i,  1893.

Insurance in  force...................................$2,746,000.00
Net Increase during  1807......................  
104,000.00
32,738.49
Net Assets.............................................. 
Losses Adjusted and  Unpaid...............  
None
Other  Liabilities.................................... 
None
40,061.00
Total  Death Losses Paid to Date........  
Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
812.00
eficiaries................................................ 
Death Losses Paid During  1897............  
17,000.00
Death Ratefor 1897................................  
6.31
Cost  per  1,000 at age 30 during 1897• ••* 
8.25
F R A N K  E. ROBSON,  P r es.

TR U M A N   B.  GOODSPEED, S b c’y .

S P R IN G   LIN E  1 8 9 9   ? 

NOW   R E A D Y

Herringbones  and  every  style  pattern  in 
market 
Largest  line  of  Clay  and  Fancy 
Worsted  Spring  Overcoats  and Suits, $3.50 

KOLB & SON

Rochester. N. Y.

WHOLESALE-CLOTHIERS

A   up, all manufactured by 
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+   Sweet's  Hotel,  Grand  Rapids,  Jan.  4-5.

BWinter Overcoats and Ulsters still on hand. 

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Prompt, Conservative, .Safe. 

T he  M e r c a n t il e  A g e n c y

Established 1841.

R.  G.  DUN  &   CO.

Widdicomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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

L. P: WITZLEBEN  manager.

What  a  Chicago  Traveler  Struck  in

the  U.  P.

A  Chicago  traveling  man  who  makes 
some  of  the  sparsely-settled  and  lone­
some  districts  of  the  Upper  Peninsula 
has  just  returned  from  a  trip  of  that 
kind,  and,  as  usual,  has  many  experi­
ences  to  relate.  To  a  group  of  listeners 
at  the  Livingston  Hotel  the  other  night 
he  told  this  story :

is  but 

“ On  my  last  trip  to  Duluth,”  said he, 
“ I  bad  a  long  drive  through  a section of 
country 
little  traveled. 
Houses  were  scarce,  but  occasionally  I 
would  come  across  a  pioneer  who  had 
drifted  away  from  civilization  and  was 
spending  the  decline  of  life  far  away 
from  the madding  crowd.  On the  after­

that 

L. J. STEVENSON. RUM.««. «NO NOT««Vt 
R. V. CLELAND. ATTOMMKV.

THE  FORGOTTEN  PAST 

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Which we read about can never  be  5  
forgotten by the merchant who  be  Z 
comes  familiar  with  our  coupon  A 
system.  The past to such is always  Z 
a “nightmare.”  The present Is  an  Z 
era of pleasure and profit. 
S
T R A D E S M A N   C O M P A N Y ,  •
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M N M M M M M M M M N M I

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

noon  of  tbe  particular  day  I  approached 
a  strip  of  wood  through  which  ran  a 
small  stream. 
I  stopped  to  allow  the 
horses  to  drink,  and  as  I  emerged  on 
the  other  side  there  was  a  small  clear­
ing  not  far  off,  in  tbe  midst  of  which 
stood  a  log  hut.  As  I  drew  near  I  no­
ticed  a  man  sitting  in  front  of  tbe  door 
—a  native  of  this  God-forsaken  coun­
try.  He  appeared  to  be  about  45  years 
of  age,  and  was  lean  and  cadaverous. 
He  had  a  goatlike  beard  that  beat  time 
with  his  jaws  as  he  destroyed  some 
heavy  brand  of  tobacco.  With  a  huge 
jack  knife  he  was  engaged  in  carving 
off 
large  pine 
stick. 
I  stopped  and  started  up  a  con­
versation,  but  he  was  reticent  and 
answered  all  my  questions 
in  mono­
syllables.  He  appeared  to  be  hollow 
from  skull  to  boots,  and  looked  like  a 
man  who  needed  a  drink  if  ever  a  mor­
tal  did.  It  is  my  custom  to  carry  a  good 
brand  of  liquor  with  me  when  out  on 
such  trips,  and  so  in  an  evil  moment  I 
said:

long  splinters  from  a 

“   ‘ My  friend,  I  have  a 

“ The  effect  of  the  words  was 

little  good 
liquor;  would  you  like  to  have  a  drop?’
instan­
taneous.  He  arose,  shut  his  jack  knife 
to  with  a  snap,  spat  out  his  tobacco, 
wiped  his  bands  on  the  seat  of  his 
trousers.and  with  tears in his voice said :

“   ‘ Mister,  say  that  again.’
“ I  repeated  what  I  had  said.  Without 
another  word  he  turned  and  went  into 
the  bouse  and  presently  emerged  with  a 
large  cup,  a  spoon  and  some  sugar  and 
water.  Taking  my  flask  he  proceeded 
to  mix  the 
ingredients  until  he  had 
an  amount  that  would  have  satisfied  the 
Brobdignagians 
tells 
about. 
I  was  about  to  remonstrate  on 
the  reckless  use  of  the  liquor,  when  he 
stopped,  placed  one  band  on  his  stom­
ach,  raised  his  eyes  in  silent,  thankful 
prayer,  and  said:

that  Gulliver 

“   ‘ Well,here’s  to  you.  The  man  wat 
drinks  this—the 
lightning  may  strike 
and  kill  him  or a  tree  may  fall on him— 
but  if  it  don't  he’ll  never die.’  ”

The  Grocer  W as  Sleepy.

From the Kalamazoo Gazette.

Monday  afternoon  a  woman  called  at 
H.  W.  Moerdyke’s  grocery  store  in  the 
north  part  of  the  city  and  purchased  a 
pound  of  lard  and  a  loaf  of  bread.  She 
was  particular  about  the  bread.  She 
wanted  Witwer’s,  because  she  said  that 
she  used  to  work  there.  She  gave  tbe 
grocer  a  $10 confederate  bill  in  payment 
for  the  goods  and  received  Sg.85 
in 
good  money  in  return.  She  took  tbe  car 
and  that  was  the  last  seen  of  her.  About 
the  only  description  which  Mr.  Moer- 
dyke  can  give  of  her  is  that  she  wore  a 
cape.  He  did  not  discover  the  fact that 
he  had  taken  a  worthless  bill  and  given 
out  good  money  for  the  same  until  some 
time  after  the  fair  visitor  bad  made  her 
departure. 

____

_ 

Greater  New  York  has  fallen  into  the 
helpless  country  village  condition,  be­
ing  obliged  to  wait  for  warm  rain  to 
carry  off  the  snows  that  blockade  her 
streets. 

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Clean  people  make  a  clean  city,  and 
honest  citizens,  when they  are  not  in  the 
minority,  are  able  to  make  honest  gov­
ernments  by  choice  of  honest  rulers.

Honest  Values  and  Reasonable  Ex­

penses.
Very  often  a  mistaken 

idea  prevails 
among  retailers  with  respect  to  the  rea­
son  why  their  business  has  retrograded, 
and  why,  instead  of  continuing  to  be  a 
source  of  profit,  it  shows  a  tendency  to 
make  a 
loss.  Retailers  often  beguile 
themselves  with  the  idea  that  crop  fail­
ures,  low  wages,  lack  of  employment, 
fierce  competition  and  other  facts  of 
tbe  same  general  class  are  tbe  causes  of 
the  change  in  their  affairs. 
isolated 
cases  these  reasons  have  some  bearing, 
but  more  careful  observation  will  show 
that  the  real  cause  is  wrong  or mistaken 
business  methods,  mismanagement  or 
unfair  practices  which 
lose  the  good­
will  of  tbe  community.  The  good-will 
of  one’s  customers,  like  a  reputation  for 
honesty,  when  once gone,  is  seldom  re­
gained.

In 

Proper business  methods,  stated  very 
briefly,  are  hone&t  values  and  reasonable 
‘ Honest values”  means honest 
expenses. 
merchandise  and  honest  prices. 
“ Rea­
sonable  expenses”   means  outlay  at  all 
times  within  the  bounds  of  the  busi­
ness.  The  old  fashioned  profit,  which 
partook  more  of  the  character  of  re­
spectable  highway  robbery  than  of  any 
other,  is  an  institution  of  tbe  past. 
It 
may  even  now  occasionally  thrive  for  a 
short  time  under  favorable  conditions, 
but  in  such  cases  tbe  day  of  retribution 
is  bound  to  overtake  those  who  prac­
tice  it.

The  business  which  has  been  built  up 
upoD  wbat  I  have  described  as  proper 
business  methods  is  invariably  success­
ful  and  always  prosperous.  The  foun­
dation 
is  one  of  solidity  and  strength 
and  one  that  can  easily  sustain  its  bur­
den  through  times  of  depression.

“ What  shall  I  do?”   cries  the  mer­
chant 
in  despair,  as  be  finds  bis  busi­
ness  gradually  but  surely  slipping  from 
is  a  diffi­
bis  grasp.  Frequently  this 
cult  question  to  answer.  Sometimes 
it 
If,  by  unfair  practices, 
is  very  easy. 
wrong business methods  and  illegitimate 
profits he  has  forfeited  the  confidence  of 
tbe  community 
in  which  he  is  doing 
business, 
the  sooner  he  pulls  up  his 
stakes  and  departs  for  a  new  field  of 
action,  the  better  he  will  be  off.  Let 
him  go  where  his  identity  is  entirely 
unknown  and  where  he  can  at  least  try 
to  reform  himself  and  build  up  a  new 
business  upon  the  basis  of  honest  values 
and  reasonable  expenses,  thus  profiting 
by  the  errors  of  the  past.

A  man  does  not  require  a  lifetime,  as 
of  old,  to  establish  a  business.  Modern 
facilities  enable  one  to  build  up  a  busi­
ness  quickly.  But  how  to  retain  it  when 
once  built  up  is  another question.  This 
result  can  not  be  accomplished  by 
ink  alone,  but  honest  values 
printer's 
reliability  are 
and  a  reputation  for 
potent  factors.  Moderate  expense 
is 
also  essential  to  a  satisfactory  balance 
sheet. 

M arcus  M ic h a e l s.

Christmas 

is  not  much  in  hot  coun­
tries,  where  there  are  no  fireplaces  to 
hang  up  stock iners  by  the  mantel.

Christmas  time  is  a  jolly  time,  when 
a  friend  forgets  tbe  past  and  remembers 
the  Christmas  present.

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

2

Pry Goods

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

is  a 

little  better. 

Staple CottoDS— In heavy sheetings and 
is  very  firm  on  all 
drills  the  market 
leading  tickets;  the  home  demand 
is 
said  to  be  only  fair,  while  the  export 
demand 
In  light­
weight  fine  goods  the  tendency  is  still 
upward,  and  another  advance  of  i - i6c 
is  reported.  Bleached  cottons  are  sell­
ing  steadily  in  medium  and  fine grades, 
and  although  low  grades  are  quiet,  the 
conditions  of  the  gray  cloth  market 
have  kept  them  stiff  in  price.

Prints—A  very 

large  business  has 
been  done  upon  fancy  and  the  more 
staple  lines  of  prints  under  the stimula­
tion  of  an  advancing  market  fur  both 
cloths  and  finished  goods.  Some  lines 
of  fancies  and  shirting  prints  have  now 
recovered  all  of  the  recent  decline,  and 
an  average  advance  of  5  per  cent,  has 
been  registered  all  along  the  line.  A 
few  lines  are  still  obtainable  at  old  fig­
ures,  but  the  advance  is  likely  to  come 
at  any  time.  Last  season’s  price  forful1 
standard  fancies  has  been  assured  all 
along,  and 
is  now  practically  secured. 
The  tendency  of  the  market  on  all  lines 
is  upward,  and  buyers  are  inclined  to 
purchase  more  freely  when  their  goods 
are  constantly  appreciating 
in  value. 
Percales  have  now  worked  into  a  strong 
position,  and  a  renewed 
impetus  has 
been  given  to  the  demand  for  printed 
specialties.

Dress  Goods— The  dress  goods  mar­
ket  shows  several 
interesting  features 
this  week,  that  have  in  some  cases  been 
reported  before,  but  which  are  more 
emphatic  than  ever.  Business  is  mov­
ing  along  in  a  quiet  way  and  has  shown 
no  great  change  in  actual conditions  be­
yond  a  slightly  better  trade  and  a  de­
cided 
to  the 
feelings  of  all  concerned.

improvement 

in  regard 

Hosiery—The  hosiery  market  is  still 
weak  and  uncertain  as  to  the  outlook. 
This  is  especially  the  case with fancies, 
for  which  there  are  various  opinions  as 
to  their  probable  demand.  The consen­
sus,  however,  favors  the  opinion  that 
only  the  finer grades  of  fancies  will  be 
at  all  forward  for  the  coming  season, 
with  very  neat  and  tasty  patterns  most 
in  favor. 
It  is  not  likely  that  the  mar­
ket  will  again  be  overloaded  with  a 
quantity  of  poor  grades,  as  dealers  have 
learned  by  experience  that these will not 
sell.  This  is  especially  true  of  golf  hose 
and  many  predict  that  the  exceptional 
demand  for  these  goods  has  passed.

Underwear— Agents  are now preparing 
their  samples  for  the  coming  fall under­
wear  season,  and  are  waiting  for  prices 
to  put  on  them  before  opening  up. 
It 
is  not  expected  that  these  will  be  ma­
terially  different  from  the  past  season, 
as  most  agents  have  firm  prices  on  cer­
tain  lines  of  their  goods  which  they  ad­
here  to  and  which  their  customers  can 
rely  on  to  find  every  season.  There is no 
promise  of  any  change  in  grades  for  the 
coming  season,  although  in  view  of  the 
fact  that  last  season  developed  a  slight­
ly  greater  demand  for  the  better  grades, 
it  is  thought  probable  that  there  will  be 
a  smaller  quantity  of  the  cheaper grades 
manufactured.

Blankets—When  the  blanket  manu­
facturer  sees  the  first  of  December  ap­
proaching,  he  feels  very  uneasy  if  be 
has  any  large  stocks  on  band.  He  has 
but  one  season 
in  his  business,  and 
whatever  stocks  of  blankets  are  carried 
over  the  first  of  December are apt  to  be 
carried  to another  year.  A  year ago  at 
this  time  there  was  a  decidedly  blue

tinge  to  the  atmosphere  in  the  vicinity 
of the  blanket  department  of  the  vari­
ous  commission  bouses,  on  account  of 
the  big  stocks  which  most  of  the  mills 
carried,  but  this  year  there 
is  a  very 
different  aspect  to  affairs,  and  almost 
without  exception  stocks  are  so  small 
that  they  are  considered  unworthy  of 
important  consideration.  Of  course,  as 
we  have  pointed  out  before,  this 
is 
largely  due  to  the  large  quantities  taken 
by  the  Government,  and  the  fact  that  if 
the  right  goods  were  not  to  be  found 
they  took  what  they  could  get,  and  in 
this  way  many  stocks,  which  were  real­
ly  undesirable,  were  quickly  moved. 
The  blanket  manufacturer  will begin the 
season  of  1899  with  almost  a  clear  field, 
with  money 
in  his  pocket,  and  a  good 
business  outlook  ahead  of him.  A num­
ber of  new  lines  are  being  prepared  for 
the  next  season,  but  as  yet  it  is 
impos­
sible  to  say  when  they  will  be  opened 
or  what  prices  will  be  made.

Woolen  Goods—The situation in men’s 
light-weight  wear  woolens  and  worsteds 
is  not  materially  changed 
from  that 
chronicled  a  week  ago.  Manufacturers 
are  receiving  duplicate  orders,  but  the 
requests  of  individual  clothing  concerns 
are  in  no  case  large;  they  are  evidently 
buying  as  they  sell,  purchasing  about 
what  they  have  sold,  and  in  no  case  an­
ticipating  any  demand.  This  is  the 
rational  way,  and  so  long  as  it  is  pur­
sued  the  manufacturing  situation  and 
the  condition  of  the  cloth  market will be 
oealthy 
if  not  as  strong  as  could  be 
wished.  There  are  several  other  phases 
of  the  situation  which  are rather encour­
aging  than  otherwise:  the  tone  of  the 
wool  market 
is  stronger;  the  character 
of  the  closing  London  sales  was  such  as 
to  render  the  domestic  market  for  for 
eign  wools  appreciably  firmer.  Domes­
tic  cloth  manufacturers  are  in  the  wool 
market  to  some— to  a  considerable— ex 
tent  as  compared  with  a  few  weeks  ago. 
The  clothiers  are  fairly  well  employed 
making  up  such  goods  as  they  have 
sold,  and  are  still  receiving orders;  they 
are  buying  materials—supplies,  linings, 
trimmings,  etc.—for  use  in  the  manq- 
facture  of  cheap  and medium-price suits 
for spring;  this  they  were  not  doing  ten 
days  ago,  at  least  to  anything 
like  the 
extent  which  they  have  been  doing  dur­
ing  the  past  week.  There  is  yet a  long 
period,  comparatively  speaking,  during 
which 
it  will  be  practicable  for  mills 
making  lightweight  goods to  take  orders 
I for  the  season ;  these  are  the  months  of 
January  and  February,  and the moderate 
in  which  the  clothing  sales  are 
way 
proceeding 
it  looks  as  though  orders 
would  come  in  pretty  freely  after  New 
Year,  for  that  there  is  more  demand  for 
spring  clothing than has yet materialized 
there  is  little  doubt.  This  is  generally 
the  feeling  of  the  trade,  who.  for  the 
most  part,  regard  the  outlook cheerfully, 
the  exceptions  to  the  contrary  being 
very  few.

Typical  Christm as  Dinners  o f the Dif­

ferent  Nations.

Christmas,  the  day  for  home gather­
ings,  gift  giving  and  feasting,  is  once 
more  so  near  that  people are  making 
their  plans  for  observing  it. 
It  is  the 
day  above  all  others  that  brings  back 
old  memories  and  associations  of  child­
hood. 
is,  therefore,  a  good  rule to 
make  the  decorations  and  the  fare  con­
form  as  nearly  as  possible  to  the  cus­
toms  of  our  grandparents  and  to  keep 
to  the  simple  home  manners  for at  least 
this  one  day  in  the  year.

It 

Nearly  every  country  has  observances 
peculiar  to  itself  for  Christmas.  Great

010:0:0:0:0:0 0®@®®®®@®®®®®®®®®«

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.

Wolverine Spice Co.,

Grand Rapids.

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n n m n n n n m ^

FOR  SALE«#

Britain  has  its  renowned  sirloin  of  beef 
and  the  plum  pudding  which  is  known 
the  world  over  as  the  Englishman’s 
Christmas  dinner  dessert. 
In  Queen 
Wilhelmina’s  domain  Christmas  with­
out  the goose  stuffed  with  chestnuts,  the 
raised  rolls  with  fruit  in  them,  and  the 
traditional  St.  Nicholas  cakes  would 
surely  not  seem  to  the  Hollander  like 
Christmas.  Every  Russian  who  can  do 
so  raises  a  pig  for  his  Christmas  din­
ner,  for  the  Russian  would  not  think 
it 
was  Christmas  if  a  small  roasted  pig 
was  not  served  upon  his  dinner  table. 
This  pig 
is  required  to  be  of  a  certain 
weight  when  dressed  for cooking,  and  is 
served  with  a  dressing  made  from  the 
liver and  boiled  buckwheat. 
heart  and 
Spain  has 
its  national  festal  dish  of 
almond  soup  and  also  gold-fish  cooked 
with  chopped  garlic  and  oil. 
Italy  has 
the dainty  relish  of  eels  and  macaroni 
at  her  holiday  feasts,  the  eels  being 
served  rolled 
in 
The 
principal  viand 
the  Austrian’s 
Christmas dinner  is  turkey  with  an  ap­
ple  dressing,  served  with  vermicelli 
combined  with  poppy  seeds and  honey. 
For  the  New  England  Christmas  din­
ner  there  should  be  the  royal  American 
bird  served 
in  the  good  old  manner, 
with  cranberry 
jelly  thick  and  rich. 
There  should  also  be  mince  pies  such 
as  were  made  in  the  time  of  our  grand­
mothers,  with  plenty  of  good  cheer, 
holly  and  evergreens,  bright  lights  and 
brighter  faces.  Such  fare  should  make 
the  Christmas  dinner  one  to  be  remem­
bered.

laurel 
for 

leaves. 

An  Able  Defense.

The Village of Shelby, Mich., 
offers  for  sale  its  Fire  En­
gine, as good as  new  and  in 
perfect working order.  Cost 
twenty-eight hundred dollars 
and  will be sold cheap. 
Reason 
for  selling:  The 
village has  a  perfect system 
of  water  works  and  has  no 
use  for  it.  For  particulars 
address

Oil 1EI DIE k r\

JOHN  R.  WYLIE,

VJUULftJUUUUUUL

VILLAae PRES’T. 

‘ ‘ Why  did  Josephine  dismiss  her  suit 

for  damages?"

"T h e  man  proved  that  he  ran  into 
her  bicycle  because  he  was  looking  at 
her. ’ ’

of  Wash  Goods,  including 
Madras  Cloth,  Ginghams, 
Prints,  etc.,  will  be  ready  to 
show  by  Jan.  1,  1899.

P . S t e k e t e e  &  S o n s ,  Grand Rapids.

' 

YOU  Wouldn’t

Wear  a  Bag^e

as a shirt,  would you?  O f course  not;  yet  that’s  about  all  you  can  call 
the shirts some makers  sell.  Last  season we  did  a  splendid  shirt  busi­
ness.  The  garment  we  sold  was  good,  but  not  all  that  we  desired. 
This  season our hopes have  been  realized.  We  offer  goods  to  retail  at 
a half dollar that are properly shaped,  have  graduated  bodies,  are  extra 
length  and  fast  colors.  Then  there  is  the  “ new  thing” —the  double 
front  with  stripes  crosswise.  Some  will  tell  you  they  are  “ the  only 
ones”  that  have it,  but  you’ll  find  it  in  our  line.  W e  also  show  a  fine 
assortment of Madras and  Percale Negliges  with and  without  collars  at 
a good range of  prices.  Line  will  be  shown  by  our  salesmen  on  their 
first trip.

VOIOT,  HERPOLSHEIMER  & CO.,

WHOLESALE DRV GOODS, 

GRAND RtPIDS, MICH.

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

3

How  the Gang Downed the  New  D rug­

M.  Quad In American Druggist.

gist.

I 

never  could  understand  why  the  new 

man  made  the  mistake  be  did.  Drug­
gists  are  looked  upon,  I  believe,  as 
pretty  shrewd  men  and  close  observers, 
and  they  escape  disaster  where  other 
men  fall  easy  victims.  Roseburg  was  a 
town  of  8,000  people,  and  it  had  three 
drug  stores.  The  new  man  came  out 
from  Chicago  and  bought  out  one  of  the 
three  stores,  and  therein  lies  my  story.
In  a  town  of  8,000  people  everybody 
knows  everybody,  you  know.  There  are 
legends,  traditions  and 
idioms  which 
no  stranger  can  catch  onto. 
People 
run  in  cliques  and  ruts.  The  meetings 
of  the  Masonic  Lodge  take  place  every 
Thursday  evening :  of  the  Odd  Fellows 
every  Friday  evening;  of  the  three 
church  choirs  every  Saturday  evening. 
Certain  men  drop  into  the  hotel  on  cer­
tain  evenings;  certain  other  men  drop 
into  groceries  or drug  stores.  There  is  a 
routine  about  these  things,  and  nothing 
but  an  earthquake  or  a  blizzard  can 
break  it  up,  even  for an evening.  Lang- 
ham's  drug  store  was  old-fashioned ;  so 
was  Langham. 
The  windows  were 
cleaned  about  three  times  a  year.  Once 
a  year  the  stove  was  blacked  and  the 
metal  of  the  two  show-cases  rubbed  up, 
and  perhaps  a  few  of  the bottles  were 
moved  about.  There  was  no  radical 
change,  however.  Mr.  Langham  didn’t 
go  in  for  radical  changes,  and  bis  cus­
tomers  wouldn't  have  put  up  with them. 
On  one  occasion  he  bad  the  floor soaked 
and  mopped  and  on  another  he  bad  the 
ceiling  whitewashed,  but  the  protests 
were  so  vigorous  that  he  never  experi­
mented  in  that  direction  again.

Langham  bad  run  a  drug  store  for 
fifteen  years,  and  for  fifteen  years  bis 
store  had  been  the  headquarters  for  a 
certain  clique.  We  gathered  there  six 
evenings  a  week,  and  felt  mighty  lonely 
on  the  seventh  because  his  store  was 
shut  up.  We  could  always  count  on  a 
congregation  of  ten  or  twelve,  but  the 
usual  number  was  twenty.  Now  and 
then  one  of  the  crowd  bought  a  bottle  of 
hair  oil  or  a  box  of  pills  and  told Lang- 
bam  to  chalk  down  the  amount,  but  we 
didn't  assemble  to  buy  and  he  didn’t 
count  on  our  custom.  The  object  was 
purely  social.  He  had  four  chairs,  two 
boxes  and  counter  room  for  fourteen  sit­
ters,  and  we  took  possession  by  consti­
tutional  right.  We  smoked  clay  pipes 
and  corn-cob  pipes;  we  played checkers 
and  fox-and-geese;  we  gossiped  and 
slandered  and  lied. 
If  a  would-be  cus­
tomer  came 
in  we  regarded  him  as  an 
intruder;  if  Langham  showed  a  dispo­
sition  to  work  us out  before  11  o’clock 
we  rebelled  and  cowed  him. 
I  must  do 
him 
justice,  however,  to  say  that  he 
was  thoroughly  in  accord  with  the  ob­
ject  of  the  meetings  and  always  ap­
peared  to  enjoy  himself.

This  thing  bad  been  going  on  for 
years  and  years  when  the  new  man  ar­
rived.  He  came 
into  the  store  of  an 
evening  when  our  crowd  numbered 
twenty-three  people.  Every  man  was 
smoking  and  at  least  half  of  them  were 
telling  stories,  slandering  absent  ones 
or  lying  about  their  war  records.  He 
had  every  chance  to  see  and  to  hear and 
to  post  himself  on  legends and  tradi­
tions. 
I  have  always  contended  that  he 
was  a  brave  man  to  offer  Langham  a 
price  for  that  drug  store—brave  but 
reckless.  He  ought  to  have  realized 
what  the  breaking  up  of  the  club  and 
the  routine  would  mean  to  that  store. 
Langham  was  amazed  and  indignant  at 
the  offer  to  purchase,  and  when  we 
heard  of  it and  demanded  to  know  bis 
policy  he  solemnly  assured  us  that  he 
intended  to  live  and  die  in  the midst  of 
his  friends.  Money 
is  a  powerful  fac­
tor,  however.  When  he  realized  that  be 
had  been  offered  a  good  thing,  and  that 
such  an  opportunity  might  never come 
It  was  a 
again,  he  threw  us  down. 
base,  unworthy  action,  but  such 
is  hu­
man  nature.  He  sold  out  slyly  and 
left  town  at  once  to  avoid 
secretly,  and 
our  vengeance. 
Indeed,  not  a  man  of 
us  knew  that  a  sale had  been  effected 
until  we  gathered  at  the  usual  hour of  a 
Monday  evening.  To  our  amazement 
and  indignation  we  found that  the  stove 
floor
had  been  freshly  polished,  the 

cleaned, 
the  show-cases  and  bottles 
changed  about,  and  the  new  man was  at 
the  counter.  It  was  not  the  old  famili  r 
place  any  more. 
It  was  a  new  drug 
store,  with  new  aims  and  ambitions. 
There  was  only  one  chair  left  for  the 
sitters,  and  the  counters  were  so  con­
structed  that  no  one  could  use  them  for 
roosts.  A  box  of  copperas  which  bad 
occupied  one  steady  place  for  twelve 
long  years  had  been  rudely  bustled  out 
of  sight,  and  a  basket  of  sponges  which 
bad  stood 
in  the  front  window  still 
longer had  disappeared  forever.

As  if  all  this  were  not  enough,  the 
new  man  was  ready  to add  insult  to 
in­
jury.  He  had  a  bland  smile,  and  be 
rubbed  his  bands,  and  as  each  man  en­
tered  the  store  he  was  briskly  ap­
proached  and  softly  saluted  with:

“ Well,  sir,  what  can  I  do  for  you  this 

evening?”

The  most  of  us  were  paralyzed  and 
turned  away,  but  now  and  then  a  man 
rebelled.  Old  Goodman,  for 
instance, 
who  had  played  four games  of  checkers 
every  week-day  night  for almost  twelve 
years,  could  not  be  thrown down without 
protest.

“ Do  you  mean,”   he  demanded,  “ that 

you  have  bought  out  this  store?”

"Y es,  sir,”   was  the  brusque  reply.
“ And  you  are going  to  run  it?”
“ Of course. ”
“ And  about  our  club?”
“ I  know  nothing  about  your  club. 

I 
am  offering  a  great  bargain in that toilet 
soap  there. ’ ’

Well,  that  was  the  finis  of  our  club. 
It  was  the  breaking  up  of  our  routine. 
We  might  have  hired  the  cooper  shop 
for  our  nightly  meetings,  and  a  butcher 
threw  out  strong  hints  that  we  would  be 
welcome,  but  men  can’t  make  such  sud­
den  changes.  Some  of  us  had  to  stay 
borne,  to  the  great  wonderment of  our 
families,  and  some  bad  to  sneak 
into 
shoe  shops  and  grocery  stores  and  be 
looked  upon  as  intruders.  Very  natur­
ally,  revenge  was  the  only  thing  thought 
of.  The  new  man  put  plate  glass 
in 
his  windows,  oiled  up  the  woodwork and 
got 
in  fancy  show-cases  and  a  new 
stock,  but  we  had  camped  on  bis  trail. 
We  gave  out  that  he  was  stingy  and 
mean;  we  inveiged  against  his 
im­
provements  and  his  prices;  we  found 
fault  with  him  generally  and personally, 
and  the  man  who  made  a  purchase  of 
him  was  listed  as  a  bold-faced enemy  to 
American  freedom.  The  new  man  bad 
some  spare  capital  and  lots  of  grit,  and 
he 
to  be 
downed.  We  bad  the  advantage,  how­
ever.  He  had  put  his  iron  heel  on  one 
of  the  customs  of  a  small  town  and  had 
hit  a  thousand  men  in  hitting  twenty. 
He  held  on  for  a  few  months  over  a 
year,  but  the  crash  was  inevitable.  The 
sheriff  at  last  took  possession  and  sold 
him  out,  and  no  one  heaved  a  sigh 
when  he  folded  his  tent  and  stole  silent­
ly  away.  He  was  a  smart  druggist,  but 
he  did  not  understand  human  nature  as 
in  every  small  town. 
it  may  be  read 
in  his 
He  was  a  good  business  man 
way,  but  he  bad  the  wrong  way. 
It 
would  have  been  the  same  had  he 
bought  out  the  cobbler,  the  grocer  or 
the  hotel  man  and  abolished 
their 
gangs.  Cities  lose  their  traditions  in 
the  lapse  of  time,  but  a  small  town 
clings  the  tighter  to  them  as  time  goes 
on,  and  the  checker-board  at  the  corner 
grocery  descends from  father to  son  with 
a 
legitimacy  that  no  one  must  dispute.

fought  back  and  refused 

Betrayed  by  H is  Manners.

A  Western  man,  prominent  as  an  ed­
ucator,  tells  of  a  trip  on  a  far  Western 
stagecoach.  He  sat  beside  the  driver 
and  tried  to engage him  in conversation, 
but  the  driver  was  silent,  and  almost 
surly.  The  stage  stopped  for  dinner  at 
a  little  eating  house,  and  when  it  rolled 
away  again  the  driver  talked  and  told 
like  another  man. 
stories  and  acted 
Later  he  explained  the  matter. 
“ I 
didn’t  take  a  shine  to  you  this  morn­
ing,”   he said,  “ because  I  thought  you 
was  a  gospel  fellow,  but  when  I  seen 
you  eating  pie  with  a  fork,  I  knowed 
right  away  you  was  a  gambler.”

If  you  lend  a  man  grass  seed,  the next 
thing  he  will  strike  you  for  is a  lawn 
mower.

A s  Sure  As  Dimes  Make  Dollars.
As  sure  as  dimes  makes  dollars,  so 
innu­

great  successes  are  made  up  of 
merable  small ones.

One  lucky  purchase  and  its  resultant 
good  sale  will  not  establish  a  merchant 
in  business  or  draw  all  the  trade  to  his 
store.

In  fact,  if  it  is  not  followed  up  with 
others,  the  good  impression  soon  fades 
away  and 
is  forgotten;  but  if  tf e  mer­
chant  is  clever  enough  to  follow  up  the 
advantage  gained,  he will  soon  establish 
a  reputation  for  wide-awake  dealing 
that  will  bring  him  the  success  he  is 
working  for.

The  new  clerk  may hypnotize a cranky 
shopper  that  all  the  others  dread  and 
avoid  and  sell  her  a  bill  of  goods. 
It  will  most  likely  be  put  down  to  his 
“ newness, ” 'and  be  confidently  pre­
dicted  that  it  will  wear  off  in  time;  but 
if,  by  some  power  undiscovered  by  his 
fellows,  he  changes  most  of  the  cranks 
and  shoppers  to  buyers,  it  will  soon 
lead  to  his  promotion  over  the  heads  of 
the  other  salesmen.

It  is  only  by  close  attention  to  little 
things  that  any  one  can  reach  the  sum­
mit  of  success.

Spoiled  By  the Advertisement.

“ What  do  you  think  of  Jack’s  patent 

hat-pin?”

“ It’s  good,  but  it  won’t  sell.”
“ Why  not?”
“ He  advertises 

it  as  a  new  wrinkle 

for  ladies. ”

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Rosin, Asphalt Paints, Elastic Cement,
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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Around  the State

Movements  of  Merchants.

Niles—J  Johnson  &  Son,  undertakers, 

have  sold  out  to  H.  E.  Price.

Coldwater—Wm.  Knapp  has  sold  bis 

grocery  stock  to  Marvin  Porter.

Detroit—Louis  J.  Germann,  milliner, 

is  removing  to  Van  Wert,  Ohio.

Albion— E.  A.  Davis  has  sold  his 
grocery  business  to  Wocholz  &  Deyoe.
Port  Huron—Howe  &  Davis,  of 
Lenox, have  opened  a  meat market here.
Ann  Arbor— Fred  C.  Miller  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  Charles  F.  Pardon.
Petoskey—J.  T.  Hirscbman  has  pur­
chased  the  meat  market  of Henry Gates.
Jackson— C.  H.  Foote  has  closed  out 
his  grocery  stock  at  206  West  Trail 
street.

Fosters—Guy  Foster  continues  the 
mercantile  business  of  Qaackenbush  & 
Foster.

Munising—Herman  &  Co.  are  suc­
ceeded  by Fred  Loos in the confectionery 
business.

Springport— H.  G.  Dean  has  pur­
chased  the  general  and  implement  stock 
of  J.  S.  Geiger.

Lansing— Fred  Roller  has  purchased 
the  meat  market  at  126 Michigan avenue 
of  Bugbee  &  Spanier.

Corunna— Mr.  McDonald,  proprietor 
of  the  hay  and  feed  store  here,  has  sold 
out  to  H.  W.  Sanford.

Coldwater— The  National  Burial  De­
vice  Co.  has  increased  its  capital  stock 
from  $10,000  to  $20,000.

East  Jordan—A.  T.  Johnson  has  re­
moved  his  stock  of  boots  and  shoes from 
Traverse  City  to  this  place.

Ann  Arbor—The  Joseph  T.  Jacobs 
shoe  stock  has  passed  into the capacious 
maw  of  the  J.  L.  Hudson  Co.

Kalamazoo— J.  F.  Muffley will succeed 
Muffley  &  McDonald  Jan.  1  as  proprie­
tor  of  the  People’s  shoe  store.

Chesaning— F.  A.  Greenfelder  & 
in 

Co.  succeed  Frank  A.  Greenfelder 
the  agricultural  implement  business.

Union  City—Will  Kalmbach,  the  dry 
goods  merchant, was  recently  married  to 
Miss  Minnie  Eisenbieser,  of  Francisco.
Adrian—The  style  of  the  house  fur­
nishing  goods  firm  of  W.  E.  Kimball  & 
Son  has  been  changed  to  C.  W.  Kim­
ball.

Alto—Oscar  J.  Ryberg  has  purchased 
the  C.  W.  Williams  drug  stock  and  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same 
loca­
tion.

Freeport— H.  S.  Mullen  has  opened 
a  meat  market  here,  engaging  Chas. 
Vanderlip  to  assist  in  waiting  on  cus 
tomers

Kalkaska— Harry  Hurley,  formerly  of 
the  meat  firm  of  Knowles  &  Hurley,  has 
purchased  the  meat  market  of  Skarritt 
&  Sack.

Sethton— Norman  H.  Wells  has  sold 
his  general  stock  to  R.  W.  Griffin,  who 
has  removed  his  general  stock from For­
est  Hill  to  this  place.

Ludington— Lilliberg  &  Jacobson 

is 
the  name  of  the  new  flour  and  feed  firm 
located  at  the  corner  of  Washington 
avenue  and  Dowland  street.

White  Cloud—G.  F.  Stoors  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  the  Barnbard  Mer­
cantile  Co.  and  will  engage  in  business 
elsewhere  in  the  near  future.

Hart—Many  Hart  business  men  are 
opposing  the  use  of  cigarettes 
in  a 
practical  way  by  placing  signs  in  their 
places  of  business  reading,  “ No  cig 
arette  smoking  here.”   The  rule  is  ap­
plied  not  only  to  their  clerks  but  people 
who  enter to do  business.

Westwood—Chas.  A.  Rickerd  has 
taken  the  management  of  the  grocery 
stock  of  Mrs.  W.  H.  Potter,  successor  to 
the  estate  of  the  late  W.  H.  Potter.

Elkton— Fred  Elder has purchased the 
drug  stock  of  D.  G.  Neuber.  Neuber 
has  made  a  proposition  to  settle with his 
creditors  on  a  basis  of  50  cents  on  the 
dollar.

Muskegon—John  A.  Tinbolt,  who  for 
years  has  owned  and  conducted  a  drug 
store  on  Pine  street,  has  disposed  of  bis 
stock  to  C.  D.  Poel,  who took possession 
Monday.

Ovid— Marshall  &  Woodworth  will 
dissolve  copartnership  Jan.  1,  Frank 
A.  Marshall  taking  the  hardware  stock 
and  Wm.  W.  Woodworth  continuing  the 
implement  business.

Ovid— E.  D.  Beebe  will take  full pos­
session  of  bis  drug  business  after  Jan. 
1,  Fred  Palmer,  who  has  occupied  the 
position  of  clerk  for  some  .time,  return­
ing  to  his  home  at  Lawton.

Sturgis— F.  L.  Burdick,  of  the  dry 
goods  firm  of  F.  L.  Burdick  &  Co.,  has 
purchased  the  shoe  stock  of  the  Hub 
shoe  store,  which,  for  the  past  year,  has 
been  under  the  management  of  Will 
Smith.

Battle  Creek—Wm.  Noble,  on account 
of  poor  health,  has  been  obliged  to  re­
tire  from  the  harness  business  and  has 
sold  his  stock  to  F.  H.  Latta,  who  has 
not  yet  decided  as  to  whether he  will 
continue  the  business.

Coldwater— Nichols  &  Collins  have 
rented  a  store  building  and  will  put 
in 
a  line  of  groceries  and general merchan­
dise  about  the  first  of  March.  Mr. 
Nichols  resides  at  Clayton  and  Mr. 
Collins  is  from  Jonesville.

Big  Rapids—Arthur  and  S.  G.  Web­
ster  will  soon  return  to  Big  Rapids  and 
succeed  the  Big  Rapids  Produce  Co., 
having  purchased  the  warehouse  of  E 
together  with  the 
P.  Clark, 
land  oc­
cupied  in  connection  therewith.

Banfield— F.  E.  Mosher  has  retired 
from  the  firm  of  L.  N.  Mosher  &  Son, 
general  dealers  at  this  place,  in  order to 
engage 
in  general  trade at  Onondaga. 
The  business  here  will  be  continued  by 
the  senior  partner  under  the  style  of  L. 
N.  Mosher.

Emmett— Dr.  Michael  Sweeney  says 
that  he  bought  the  horse,  buggy  and 
good-will  of  Dr.  W.  C.  Martin,  with 
the  understanding  that  Dr.  Martin  stop 
practicing  medicine  at  this  place.  Dr. 
Martin  bought  a  drug  store,  and  Dr. 
Sweeney  claims  that  he  is  practicing 
still.  He  has  brought  suit  to  recover 
damages  of  $100 a  month.

Detroit— Alvin  E.  Holt,  who  failed 
in  the  drug  business  here several months 
ago,  has  filed  a  voluntary  petition  to  be 
adjudged  a  bankrupt.  The  liabilities 
are $10,000;  assets,  nothing.  Mr.  Holt 
is  considered  one  of  the  most  capable 
druggists 
in  Detroit,  and  is at  present 
running  a  store  at  the  corner  of  Wood­
ward  and  Adams avenues, formerly  kept 
by  Stevens  &  Todd.

Owosso— The  grocers  of  this  city  de­
cided  to  do  a  strictly  cash  business 
after the  first  of  the  new  year,  and  made 
such  an  announcement to  the public.  A 
big  kick  was  made,  when  they  decided 
to  set  aside  the  plan  adopted.  There 
are  so  many  in  the  city  who are paid  off 
only  once  a  month  that  it  was  thought 
best  by  the  grocers  not  to  attempt  to 
force  a  cash  system  upon  them.

Charlotte— Chapin  &  Rue  are  prepar­
ing  to  open  a 
jobbing  department  in 
connection  with  their  retail  store,  to  in­
clude  hardware  specialties,  such  as  re­
frigerators,  stoves,  gasoline  stoves,  etc. 
Mr.  Rue  will  spend  a  portion  of  each

year  on  the  road.  He  has  a  large  ac­
quaintance  with  the  hardware  trade 
throughout  the  State,  having  visited 
the  trade  for the  last  seventeen  years.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Gobleville— Frank  S.  Post,  who  oper 
ated  a  planing  mill  at  this place,  has re­
moved  to  Watervliet.

Colon— The  Lamb  Knit  Goods  Co. 
will  shortly  erect a  new  large  brick  dye 
bouse  and  engine  room.

Saginaw— The  Erd  Piano  &  Harp 
Co.  has  merged  its  business  into  a stock 
company  under the  same  style.

Indian  River— William  Haskins  has 
taken  a  contract  to  get  out  8,000 ties, 
10,000  posts,  1,000  telegraph  poles,  500 
cords  of  pulpwood  and  75,000  fett  ol 
pine.

Cheboygan— Frank Mitchell is to  erect 
a  shingle  mill  at  this  place.  He  is  a 
man  of  experience,  having  been  fore­
man  of  the  Swift  &  Clark  mill  for  sev­
eral  years.

Metropolitan—The Metropolitan Lum­
ber  Co.,  which  has  been  operating  at 
this  place  for several  years,  has  closed 
operations  at  this  point,  having  cut  all 
its  standing  timber.

Mt.  Pleasant-----The  Co-operative
Creamery  Co.  has  declared  a  cash  divi­
dend  of  10  per  cent,  from  the  profits  ol 
1898,  besides  passing  a  small  amount  to 
the  surplus  account.

Manistee—Seymour  Bros,  probably 
will  put  in  a  iot  of  hardwood  and  hem­
lock  this  winter,  which  they  will  have 
manufactured  at  some  of  the  countr> 
mills to  the  north  of  this  place.

Detroit—The  Franklin  Manufacturing 
Co.  has  been  incorporated,  with  a  capi­
tal  stock  of  $5,000,  of  which  $2,000  is 
paid  in.  The  incorporators  are  Richard 
G.  Reuther,  H.  Leonard  Wilton  and 
Alfred  W.  Beck,  of  Detroit.

Marshall— The  Marshall  Manufactur­
ing  Co.  has  been  organized  with  a capi­
tal  stock  of  $5,000 to  engage  in the man­
ufacture  of  hardware  specialties.  The 
incorporators  are  W.  E.  Bosley,  D.  W. 
Bosley  and  E.  S.  Hornden.

Saginaw—The recently organized  Sag­
inaw  Specialty  Co.  has  secured  the  con 
tract of  supplying  two  concerns  which 
use  grease  boxes,  and  it  is  thought  that 
these orders  alone  will  keep  the  factory 
running  full  time  for a  year.

Harrietts—John  Dalton  has  purchased 
the  timber  and  mill  property  of the Cor­
bin,  Harris  &  Hoak  Lumber  Co.,  at 
Derries  Siding,  three  miles  west  of  this 
place.  Two  thousand  acres  of  land,  a 
camp  outfit  and  other  lumber  property 
are 
It  will  take 
five  years  to  clear  up  the  timber.

in  the  deal. 

included 

Menominee— Lumber 

shipments  by 
rail  from  this  point  are  playing  an 
im­
portant  part  in  the  moving  of  the  lum­
ber  product  from  the  mills.  The  past 
year  nearly  one  third  of  the  lumber  cut 
here  has  been  shipped  out by rail.  Sev­
eral  Eastern 
lumbermen  have  agents 
located  here,  and  buy  their  lumber  di­
rect  from 
This 
point  has  the advantage over  most  ship­
ping  points  in  rail  business,  on  account 
of the  lake car  ferries.

the  manufacturers. 

Detroit—The  United  States  Supreme 
Court  has  affirmed  a  decision  of  the 
New  York  Supreme  Court  that  Parke, 
Davis  &  Co.  must  pay  State taxes 
in 
that  State 
if  they  do  business  there 
This  company  brought  suit  some  time 
ago  to  test  the  validity  of  the  law  that 
required  them to pay  such  taxes,  and  the 
court  decided  against  them.  The  case 
was  carried  to  the  State  Supreme  Court, 
where  the  lower  court  was  sustained, 
and  now  the  matter  has  been  finally 
settled.

Saginaw—The 

lumber  output  at  this 
point  is  the  smallest  this  season  in  forty 
years  Only  six  sawmills  have  been 
operatei  and  only  four of  these have run 
steadily.  Next  season  the  Eddy  mill 
will  be  operated. 
It  is  the  intention  to 
start  this  mill  early  in  A p ril;  the  stock 
for  it  is  now  being  cut  and  skidded  on 
the  line  of  the  Hauptman  branch  of  the 
Mackinaw  division. 
It  is  not  known  if 
the  Green,  Ring  &  Co.  mill  will  be  op­
erated  next  season. 
The  Gebhart  & 
Estabrook,  Lee,  Wright  Lumber  Co. 
and  Briggs  &  Cooper  mills  have  all 
been  idle  the  last  season,  and  the  only 
one  likely  to  be  started  again  is  the  Lee 
mill.  The  Wright  Lumber  Co.,  which 
has  been  operating  a  saw,  shingle  and 
planing  mill  over  thirty  years,  will wind 
up  its  business  here  as  soon  as  the  lum­
ber  in  the  yard  is  exhausted.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Maple  Rapids—Verne  Hubbard  has 
taken  a  position  in  the  general  store  of 
Otto  Bullis.  Mr.  Hubbard  hails  from 
Ann  Arbor.

Hillsdale— Claude  Drake  has  removed 
to  Ann  Arbor,  having  secured  a  lucra­
tive  position  in  a  drug  store  there.

Decatur— M.  S.  Carney  has  engaged 
Chas.  Beeton,  of  Sault  Ste.  Marie,  as 
pharmacist.

Traverse  City—  H.  Edwin  Rogers,  of 
Chicago,  has  taken  the  position  of  head 
salesman  and  window  dresser  at  the 
Boston  store.

Grand  Blanc—W.  C.  Grier,  of  Mil­
ford,  has  entered  the  employment  of 
Banker  &  Maxwell.

Three  Rivers—Donald  O ’ Keefe  has 
taken  a  clerkship  in  the  jewelry  store 
of  H.  M.  Smith.

Lansing— F.  C.  Cahow  has  taken  the 
in  the 

position  of  prescription  clerk 
Bauer drug  store.

Lansing—John  Rose  has taken  a cleri­
cal  position  with  J.  R.  &  W.  S.  Es- 
selstyn.

Negaunee—August  Kerkela,  who  has 
been  employed  in  M.  C.  Quinn’s  store 
as  clerk  for  a 
long  time,  has  taken  a 
similar  position  with  the  Star  Savings 
Bank,  Isbpeming,  succeeding  Andrew 
Lind.

late 

Charlotte— Allen  Fleury, 

clerk 
with  Lamb  &  Spencer,  has  taken  a  po­
sition  with  a  South  Bend  grocery  firm.
Lansing—Ralph  Wheeler  has  taken  a 
position  with  the  Mapes  Clothing  Com­
pany.

Albion—George  E.  Webster,  formerly 
with  Jewett  &  Knapp,  but  for  the  past 
two  years  with  the  same  firm  at  Lan­
sing,  has accepted  a  position  as  window 
trimmer  in  B.  Younker’s  dry  goods 
house  in  Louisiana,  Missouri.

Charlotte—Glenn  Ellis  succeeds  Vern 
Riley  at  McGrath’s  grocery,  while  the 
latter  has  engaged  with  Harmon  & 
Ratbburn,  the  north  end  grocers.

Traverse  City— Miss  Minnie  Beitner 
in  the  neckwear 
the  Hamilton  Cloth­

has  taken  a  position 
department  of 
ing  Co.

Armada— Merle  Adams  has  secured  a 
position  in  the  retail  store  of  Marshall 
Field  &  Co.,  at  Chicago.

An  amusing  story  reaches  the  Trades­
man  regarding  the  antics  of  a  billy goat 
and  a  big  dog  at  Thompsonville,  the 
former  owned  by  I.  J  Quick  and  the 
latter  by  Edgar  Campbell.  There  seems 
to  exist a deep-seated antagonism,  which 
has  resulted 
in  the  goat  losing  both  of 
bis  horns,  while  the  dog  is  rather  the 
worse  for  wear.  The  contests  of the two 
combatants  furnish  amusement  for  the 
whole  town  and,  instead  of  getting  up  a 
parade  or buying  fireworks  to  entertain 
visitors  from  outside,  the  people  get  up 
an  encounter between  the  two.

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Grand  Rapids  Oossip
is  en­
The  Clark-Rutka-Jewell  Co. 
larging  its  office,  so  that  it  will  occupy 
the  entire  front  of  the  store  in  the  Clark 
building.

Gilbert  Smith  will  shortly  engage  in 
the  grocery  business  at  Wallin.  The 
Ball-Barnbart-Putman  Co.  has  the  order 
for  the  stock

Mrs.  E.  Crandall  has  embarked  in 
the  grocery  business  at  Amble.  The 
stock  was  furnished  by  theOlney  & Jud- 
son  Grocer  Co.

W.  G.  Manning  has  retired  from  the 
grocery 
firm  of  Manning  Bros.,  at  660 
Wealthy  avenue.  Adson  A.  Manning 
will  continue  the  business.

J.  Beishuizen  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  the  corner  of  Grandville  and 
Third  avenues.  The  Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

T.  H.  Visner,»  fish  dealer  at  694 
Cherry  street,  has  sold  a  half  interest  in 
the  business  to  Chas.  R.  Visner.  The 
new  firm  will  be  known  as  Visner  Bros.
Corl,  Knott  &  Co.  have  taken  pos 
session  of  the  Mrs.  Ida  Parks  millinery 
stock,  at  Benton  Harbor,  by  virtue  of  a 
chattel  mortgage.  The  sale  will  occur 
Dec.  24.

A.  T.  Johnson,  who  recently  removed 
his  shoe  stock  from  Traverse  City  to 
Boyne  City,  has  added  a  line  of  grocer­
ies.  The  Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.  fur­
nished  the  stock.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  raw  market  has  declined 
i-i6c  during  the  week  and  closes  at 
4j£c  for 96 deg.  test  centrifugals.  Re­
fined  is  nominally  unchanged,  but  it 
is 
said  that  list  prices  are  being  shaded 
i-i6@J^c  by  refiners.

Tea—Lowered  stocks  are  gradually 
causing  an  upward  tendency. 
It  is  un­
deniable  that  the  dealers  who  are  con­
stantly  hunting  after the  low  grades  are 
paying  much  more  than  they  are  worth, 
when 
is  considered  that  these  teas 
will  be  almost  sure  to  prove  unsatisfac­
tory.

it 

started 

reports 

Molasses  and  Syrups—The  market  for 
good  molasses  has  advanced from  i@5c, 
according  to grade,  the  largest  advance 
being  on  open  kettle  grades.  The  crop 
damage 
the  upward 
movement,  which  was  further  strength­
ened  by  buyers  who  had  been  holding 
off,  coming  into  the  market  and  as  de­
sirable  grades  are  really  scarce,a  sharp, 
quick  advance  followed.  There  is  less 
good  molasses  produced  every  year,  as 
the  tendency 
large  central 
factories  that  produce  more  sugar,  but 
at  the  expense  of  quality 
in  the  mo­
is  better,  financially,  for 
lasses.  This 
the  smail  farmer,  but 
is  doing  away 
with  the  old  “ open  kettle”   process  of 
manufacture  and 
its  products.  There 
is  a  good  demand  for  corn  syrups  at 
unchanged  prices.

is  toward 

Rice—The  Southern  market  has  ad­
vanced  about  %c  on  domestics.  The 
market  on  foreign  sorts  is  unchanged.
Canned  Goods—Gallon  apples  are  at­
tracting  the  most  attention  in  this  line, 
as  the  shortage  in  the  pack  is  becoming 
more  apparent  as  the  season  advances. 
Packers  are  now  through  canning  and 
there 
little  stock  in  their 
hands.  Tomatoes  and  corn  are  un­
changed,  but  are  in  a  very  strong  posi­
tion.  There  is  some  enquiry  for a  cheap 
corn,  but  there  seems  to  be  a  scarcity 
of this grade.  String  beans  have  ad­

is  but  very 

vanced  again  5c  and  the  market  is 
strong.  Fancy  stringless  beans  are about 
cleaned  out.

Cereals—A  general  advance  on  rolled 
oats  of  ioc  per barrel  and  5c  per  case  is 
announced  and  millers  are  still  over­
sold.

in  this 

Dried  Fruits—There  is  no  change  to 
note 
line,  except  on  currants, 
which  are  %c  lower,  and on some grades 
of  peaches,  which  are  up  about  #c. 
There  is  a  little  more  enquiry  for  evap­
orated  apples  and  the  turn  of  the  year 
will,  undoubtedly,  see  higher  prices. 
Stocks  in  the  hands  of  the  evaporators 
are  light.  There  has  been  a  very  good 
demand  for  prunes  and  raisins  at  un­
changed  prices.  Several  cars  of  the 
Pacific  ungraded  arrived  in  this  market 
this  week  and  are  being  rapidly  dis­
tributed.  The  demand  for  new  dates 
has  been  exceptionally  good  and  local 
stocks  are  cleaned  up.  The  quality 
is 
very  satisfactory.

Provisions— Mess  pork  is  not quite  as 
firm  as  it  was  a  week  ago,  owing  to  an 
easier  feeling  in  the  fresh  pork  market 
and  the  very  light  call  at  this  season  of 
the  year.  Many  farmers  have  already 
slaughtered  hogs  and  cattle,  which  has 
resulted 
in  an  easier  market,  with  a 
somewhat  lessened  demand  for  all  salt 
and  smoked  meats.  Lard  remains  at 
the quotations  of  last  week.

Fish— Prices  are  unchanged,  but  will 
probably  advance  after  January  1.  Cod 
is  in  fair  demand  for  the  season  at  un­
changed  prices. 
is  very 
strong,  and  the  combination  recently 
formed  to  take  care  of  this  fish  seems 
to  be  in  control.  Domestic sardines  are 
very  dull  and  uninteresting.  Salmon  is 
unchanged.

Lake 

fish 

The Grain  Market.

There  has  been  quite  a  change  in  the 
wheat  market.  From  dulness  this  cereal 
has  become  very brisk.  Liverpool cables 
came 
in  at  an  advance  and  held  it. 
Short  dealers  bought  in  and  there  was 
some  investment  buying.  All  tended  to 
strengthen  the  market,as  was  predicted. 
Receipts  at  initial  points,  both  in  win­
ter  and  spring  wheat  sections,  were 
liberal.  The  only  depressing  influence 
was  the  large  increase  of 3,800,000 bush­
els,  being  the  largest  at  this  time  of  the 
year  ever  before known.  To  offset  this, 
heavy  rains  are  reported  in  the  Argen­
tine,  where  harvest 
is  about  to begin. 
Should  wet  weather  last  any  length  of 
time,  owing  to  that  climate,  it  will  ruin 
the  crop.  Another  factor  that  tends  to 
strengthen  the  market 
is  the  foreign 
demand,  which  keeps  up—about  three- 
quarters  of  the  world’s  shipments  are 
American—also  a  report  that  Minnesota 
has  only  30  per cent,  of  her  wheat  left 
in  first  bands.  Taking  all  things  into 
consideration,  it  looks  as  though  there 
will  be  a  change  for the  better.

Corn  keeps  well  up  in  price.  There 
seem  to  be  no  weakening  features  to 
dispute  the  strength  which  is  centered 
in  corn.

Oats,  as  was  predicted,  keep  climb­
ing  slowly  and  about  ic  can  be added 
to  previous  quotations.  The  causes  for 
the  upward  movement 
in  both  cereals 
have  been  stated  previously.

Rye  has  advanced  fully  ic.  The  for­
is  excellent.  Should  the 
eign  demand 
distillers  start  up  we  shall  see  better 
prices  on  rye  also.

Receipts  were  very  moderate  the  past 
week— 58  cars  of  wheat,  19 cars  of  corn 
and  9  cars  of  oats.

The  mills  are  paying  62c  for  wheat.
C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

The  Produce  Market.

grown.

Apples—The  market  is  dull  and  slug­
gish  and  25c  per bbl.  lower  than  a  week 
ago.

Bananas—An  advance  of 25c  over  last 
week  has  occurred,  not  so  much  because 
there  was  a  shortage  in  supply,  but  be 
cause  quotations  ruled  under  values. 
The  market  continues  steady  at  the  ad­
vance,  with  fair supplies.

Beans—Handlers  pay  5o@75c  for  un­
picked,  holding  city  picked  mediums 
at  $1.10.

White  Plume.

Beets—25c  per  bu.
Cabbage—$3  per  100  heads  for  home 
Carrots—20c  per  bu.
Celery— I5@i8c  per  doz.  bunches  for 
Cranberries— Cape  Cods,  $7  50  per 
b b l.;  Wisconsin  Bell  and  Cherry,  $7; 
Jerseys,  $6.
stock.

Cucumbers---- 75c@i$ 
for  hothouse
Eggs— Strictly  fresh  are  scarce  at  20 
@2ic,  but  storage  supplies  are  in  am­
ple  supply  at  i6@ 18c,according  toqual- 
lty.
Honey— 10c  for  amber  and  I2@i2>£c 
for  white  clover  stock.
Lemons—The  demand  is  showing  an 
easy  tone,  the  demand  being  inactive, 
while  supplies are  liberal.

Lettuce— I4@ i;c  per  pound.
Nuts— Hickory,  Si  50(^2.50,  accord­
ing  to  size.  Walnuts  and  butternuts,  60c 
per bu.

Onions—Spanish  are  in  only  fair  de­
mand  at  $1.25  per  crate.  Dealers  pay 
28c  for  White  and  Red  Globe  stock  and 
22@2$c  for  Yellow  Danvers  and  Red 
Weatherfields.

Oranges— There  are  ample  supplies 
of  all 
lines  of  California  navels  and 
seedings,  with  a  good  supply  of  Mexi­
can.  The  Redlands  and  Highland lines 
of  California  navels  reached  the  market 
this  week  and  are  excellent 
in  quality 
and  color.  Prices  rule  close  to  quota­
tions,  with  more  firmness  expected  in 
the  near future.

Parsley—25@30C  per  doz.
Parsnips—50c  perbu.
Pop  Corn— i#@ 2c  per  lb.  The  crop 
was  not  large  and  the  supply  is  un­
doubtedly  limited.

Potatoes—The  market 

is  somewhat 
stronger,  due  to  the  shortage  of  cars, 
which  has  had  a  tendency  to  clean  up 
outside  markets.  Refrigerator  cars  are 
very  difficult  to  secure  at  present,  ow­
ing  to  the  large  number  employed  in 
moving  fruit  from  the  orange belts.  The 
railroads  naturally  cultivate  this  trade, 
in  preference  to  the  potato traffic,  be­
cause  they  secure  longer  hauls  and  their 
cars  do not get  such  hard  usage.  Rail­
road  officials  assert  that  there  will  be 
no  reduction  in  the  rate,  because  de­
mand  for  cars  is  now  in  excess  of  the 
supply,  and  that  the  crop 
is  moving 
rapidly  on  the  present  basis.  Many 
Michigan  shippers  are  finding  an  outlet 
as  far  east  as  Pittsburg,  which  would 
seem  to  indicate  that  New  York  crop 
was  about  marketed.

Squash—75c@$i  per  100  lbs.
Sweet  Potatoes— Illinois Jerseys are  in 

good  demand  at  $2.

Grand  Rapids Retail  Grocers’  Associa­

tion.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  at  the  office  of  the  Michigan 
Tradesman  Tuesday  evening,  Dec.  20, 
President  Dyk  presided.
The  Committee  on  Flour  reported 
progress  and  was  urged  to  continue 
its 
efforts  with  all  due  expediency.

The  Committee  on  Banquet  reported 
progress,  which report  was  accepted  and 
placed  on  file.
The  following  communication  was  re­
ceived  from  John  M.  Hirt,  of  the  Cleve­
land  Retail  Grocers’  Association:

In  reply  to  your  esteemed  favor  of 
Dec.  7,  I  most  cheerfully  give  you  what 
information  I  can  on  the  subject  of  the 
uniform  selling  price  of  sugar  in  our 
city.  Our  Association  started  out  by 
appointing  a  committee  to  devise  and 
submit  a  plan  to  establish  a  retail  price 
on  sugar.  This  committee, 
together 
with  a  committee  of  jobbers,  formulated 
and  submitted  a  plan,  according  to

which  the  retail  price  of  sugar  should 
be  not  less  than 
and  not  more  than 
ic  above  the  wholesale  price  for  small 
quantities, %c  off  for  twenty-five  pounds 
or  more,  and  J£c  above  the  wholesale 
price  for fifty  pounds  or  more.  The  re­
port  of  the  committee  was  unanimously 
adopted  and  the  Sugar  Committee  was 
instructed  to  put  the  plan  into  opera­
tion  at  the  fixed  date.  By  dint  of  bard 
work  on  the  part  of  the  Committee,  and 
with  the  united  support  of  the  jobbers— 
and,  in  one 
instance,  the  assistance  of 
the  American  Sugar  Refining  Co.—we 
succeeded,  and  to-day,  and  from  the 
date  fixed,  sugar  is  sold  at  the  same 
price  by  every  dealer  in  Cleveland.  As 
the  matter  stands  at  present,  with  the 
new  competition  the  American  Sugar 
Refining  Co.  has,  there  is  no  such  thing 
as  enforcing  our  card  price,  except  by 
moral  suasion,  but  we  have  a  strong  As­
sociation  of  over 800 —I  believe  nearly 
goo—members.  Every good grocer in the 
city,  with  two  or  three  exceptions, 
is 
in  the  fold.  We  have  in  our  treasury 
over  $2,000.  We  also  have  nicely  fur­
nished  headquarters,  and  the  best  of 
fraternal  feeling  exists  among  our mem­
bers. 
If  there  is  a  break  reported,  our 
agent—and, 
the  Sugar 
Committee—attends  to  the  matter  at 
once.  So  far,  we  have  succeeded  ad­
mirably.  I  hope  you  may  succeed  along 
these  lines.

if  necessary, 

The  communication  was  placed  on 
file  and  the  Secretary  instructed  to  ten­
der  the  thanks  of  the  Association  to 
Mr.  Hirt  for  his  kindness.

The  subject  of  buying  and  selling  po­
tatoes  by  weight  was  then  taken  from 
the  table  for  discussion.

B.  S.  Harris  stated  that  he  continues 
to  buy  potatoes  by  weight,  and  thinks 
be  gains  something  by  having  the  load 
weighed  on  hay  scales,  at  a  cost  of  10 
cents.
E. 

D.  Winchester  stated  that  this 

to 

method  might  do  for  Mr.  Harris,  but  he 
would  have  to  send  the  grower  down 
town,  owing 
there  being  no  bay 
scales  on  the  hill.  He stated  that  if  the 
grocer  buys  by  weight  he  ought  to  sell 
It  is  much  more  diffi­
the  same  way. 
cult 
load  of  potatoes  to 
weigh  a  bag  or  two  at  a  time  than  to 
measure 
It  would  not be 
necessary  to  weigh  the  load  if  the  grow­
ers  did  not  give  such  skimpy  measure.

in  buying  a 

in  baskets. 

J.  J.  Wagner believed in  getting all the 
experience  possible  on  this  subject. 
In 
Denver  both  fruit  and  vegetables  are 
bought  and  sold  by  weight.  He  moved 
that  the  subject  be  laid  on  the  table  un­
til  the  next  meeting,  and  recommended 
that, 
the  secretary 
correspond  with  leading  grocers  in  the 
West,  where  more  modern  methods  pre­
vail.  The  motion  was  adopted.

in  the  meantime, 

Mr.  Wagner advocated the  adoption of 
the  resolution presented at  the  previous 
meeting  providing 
that  Christmas, 
Fourth  of  July  and  grocers’  picnic  day 
be  observed  as  full  holidays,  and  that 
the  stores  be  closed  at  noon  on  all  other 
holidays.

Mr.  Witters  seconded  the  motion,  cit­
ing  the  example  of  E.  J.  Herrick,  who 
always  closed  on  the 
three  holidays 
specified,  no  matter  what  conflicting 
circumstances  might  arise.

Mr.  Winchester  called  attention to  the 
fact  that 
it  would  work  a  hardship  to 
some  customers  to  have  the  store  closed 
two  days 
in  succession,  and  moved  as 
an  amendment  that  the  grocers  close 
their  doors  at  noon  Dec.  26  and  Jan.  2, 
which  was  adopted.
Mr.  Wagner  then  moved  that  action 
on  the  original  motion  relating  to  the 
adoption  of  a  general  resolution for holi­
day  closing  be  laid  over  until  the  next 
meeting.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.

A.  K.  Wheeler  walks  the  street  with 
new  vigor,  having 
lately  reached  the 
conclusion  that  he  has  two  investments 
which  will  pay  50  per  cent,  dividends, 
instead  of  one.  Recent  developments 
cause  him  to  hug  the  comforting  belief 
that  the  Waggoner  clock  will  equal  the 
Toledo  wheel  business  as  a  dividend- 
payer  in  the  very  near  future.

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades and  prices,  phone  Visner,  800.

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

0

Woman’s World

Using  Tact  in  Giving  Christmas  Pres­

ents.

When  I  called  on  Elise,  a  few  days 
ago,  in  company  with  a  couple  of  other 
ladies,  we  found  her  surrounded  by  en 
ticing 
in 
crisp  white  paper,  on  which  she  was 
writing  the  names  of  the  fortunate  peo­
ple  for  whom  they  were  intended.

looking  packages,  done  up 

“ What,”   we  cried, 

in  amazement, 
“ Christmas  presents  already!  Why,  we 
hadn't  thought  of  such  a  thing  yet  “

"Oh,  w ell,"  put 

"N o,  I  suppose  you  hadn’t ,"   she  re­
turned.  “ I  have  observed  that this is the 
time  of  year  when  it  is  likely  to  dawn 
upon  us  suddenly  that  Christmas  is  al­
most  here  and  we  aren’t  ready  for  it. 
The  same  thing  happens  every  year, 
but  we  never  get  used  to  it. 
I  suppose 
that  the  only  people  in  the  world  whom 
the  season  isn’t  sprung  on  as  an  annual 
surprise,  like  an  unexpected  Jack 
in 
the  box,  are  the  children,  who  have 
been  counting  the  months  and  weeks 
and  days,  and  to  whom  it  seems a weary 
eternity  from  Christmas  to  Christmas."
one  woman 
gloomily,  "a ll  the  old  Christmas  spirit 
is  dead  anyway.  All  the  simplicity 
and  sweetness  have gone out  of  it.  Even 
the  babies  now 
look  a  gift  doll  in  the 
mouth,  and  making  presents has become 
nothing  more  nor  less  than  a  species  of 
polite  blackmail.  We  deny  ourselves 
things  that  we  want  to  send  gifts to peo­
ple  who  don’t  need  them  or  care  for 
them,  but  who  expect  them,  and  we  are 
tired  and  cross  and  worn  out  and,  as  a 
general  thing,  our‘ Merry  Christmas’  is 
about  as  delicious  a  bit  of  satire  as 
you  can  run  across 
twelve 
months. ”

the 

in 

in 

it’s  mostly  our  fault? 

"Y es,  I  know,”   said  Elise,  dropping 
another  lump  of  sugar  slowly  into  her 
tea. 
"Y es,  I  know  all  about  that,  I’ve 
been  all  along  that  line,  but  don't  you 
think 
Is  there 
anywhere  else 
in  all  the  wide,  wide 
world  where  we  show  as  little  common 
sense  as  about  the  way  we  celebrate 
Christmas?  For  one  thing  we  wait  until 
the  last  possible  moment  before  we  buy 
our  presents,  although  we  have  had  a 
whole  year  in  which  to  think  about  it, 
and  knew  we  were  bound  to  have  them 
at  the  appointed  time.  Then  we  rush 
out  and  struggle  with  the  mobs 
in  the 
stores,  and 
is  when  we  emerge  with 
torn  clothes  and  nervous  prostration  and 
a  lot  of  things  we  don’t  want  and  never 
intended  to  buy  and  realize that we have 
made  precious  geese  of  ourselves  that  a 
cold  frost  settles  down  on  the  Christmas 
spirit. 
I  don’t  know  of  anything  more 
depressing  and  discouraging  than  to  sit 
down  calmly  and  face  the  fact  you  have 
made  a  fool  of  yourself.

it 

“ That  is  one 

item.  Another 

is  the 
homemade  Christmas  gift.  Just  now, 
when  you  meet  a  woman  who  is  pale 
and  worn  and  sallow  and  cross,  you 
don’t  ask  her  if  she  has  had  a  fever. 
You  know  she  is  a  victim  of  the  home­
made  Christmas  gift  fallacy  and  has 
been  slaving  all  day  and  sitting  up  all 
night  concocting  things  out  of  paste­
board  and  ribbon  and  gilt  braid. 
I 
know  what  I’m  talking  about,  for  I’ve 
suffered  in  the  cause.  I have  been  taken 
in  by  the  descriptions  of  how  easily 
and  how  cheaply  you  could  make  pin 
cushions  that  would  be  a  joy  forever to 
your  friends,  and  picture  frames  and 
opera  bags  and  things  that  would  only 
require  a  little  brocade  and  a  few  yards 
of  ribbon  and  a  little  tinsel  and  would 
lovely,  and  so  simple  a
be  perfectly 

child  could  do  it.  Let  the  woman  who 
is  thinking  of  embarking  in  the  home­
made  present  business  just  take  a  pen­
cil  and  figure  out  what  all  her  materials 
will  cost,  and  the  chance are  she  will 
find  it  is  about  the  price  of  old  tapestry 
and  Royal  Worcester,  to  say  nothing  of 
subsequent  doctors’  bills. 
If  you  have 
any  friends  who  insist  on  some  of  your 
own  handiwork,  buy  them  something  at 
the  woman’s  exchange. 
It  will  be 
cheaper  in  the  long  run.

it 

It 

individuality. 

lot  of  money. 

"In   spite  of  all  that 

is  said  to  the 
contrary,  there  are  very  few  of  the  peo­
ple  to  whom  we  make  Christmas  gifts 
who  are  sordid  enough  to  care  for  them 
for  just  the  money  value  they  represent, 
but  we  all  know  from  experience how 
much  easier 
is  to  be  grateful  for 
something  we  want  than  it  is  for  some­
thing  we  don’t  want.  We  send  a  woman 
who  never  reads  anything  but  the  fash­
in 
ion  notes 
the  paper  a  copy  of 
Browning, 
or  we  present  a  pair  of 
opera  glasses  to  a  girl  who  lives  in  the 
country  a  hundred  miles  from  a  theater, 
and  then,  because  there  is  a  forced  note 
in  their  letter  of  thanks,  we  rashly  ac­
cuse  them  of  being  ungrateful  and  not 
caring  for  our gift because it  didn’t  cost 
a 
is  nothing  of  the 
It  is  simply  because  we  ignored 
kind. 
their  tastes  and 
is 
in  human  nature  not  to  resent  a 
not 
misfit  Christmas  present. 
It  is  so  elo­
quent  of  a  duty  gift  and  of  our  having 
bought  a 
things  that  we 
thought  we  could  make  ‘ do.’  Just  take 
the  matter to  yourself.  Don’t  you  know 
that  the  presents  "you  have  cared  most 
for  have  not  been  the  most  expensive 
gifts,  but little  remembrances  that  said, 
Even  your  whims  and  fads are  precious 
to  me,  and  so  I  send  you  another  bit  of 
old  china  or  a  queer  fan  to  add  to  your 
collection  or  a  photograph  of  a  famous 
picture  we  once  enjoyed 
together? 
Haven’t  you  had  gifts  like  that,  costing 
perhaps  only  a  few  cents,  that  brought 
a  quick  thrill  of 
loving  gratitude  to 
your  heart,  and  then  had  other  well- 
meaning  but  blundering  people  send 
you  expensive  things,  so 
inappropriate 
it  made  you  long  to  throw  them  at  the 
donor’s  bead?  There’s  a  tact  in  giving 
that  no  one  can  afford  to  ignore.

job-lot  of 

It 

"Then,  in  my  opinion,  there’s  a  lot 
of  nonsense  talked  about  not giving use­
ful  presents.  We  are  afraid  of offending 
our  friends  by  giving  them  something 
they  need,  yet  I am  sure  that  in  the  ma 
jority  of  cases  nothing  would  be  more 
welcome  than  some  little  thing  that 
would  minister  to  the  personal comfort, 
some  added  luxury  or  convenience  that 
would  make  the  daily  life  more  smooth 
and  easy.  Doesn’t  your  own  experience 
teach  you  that  a  poor  girl  would  rather 
have  a  pair  of  party  slippers  or a  new 
silk  waist  than  a  first  proof  etching,  or 
the  tired  mother  of  a  family  who  has  to 
struggle  along  on  scant  means  prefer  a 
nice,  easy 
low  sewing  chair to  a  piece 
of  bric-a-brac  that  she  would  have to  be 
forever  striving  to  protect  from the chil­
dren? 
is  a  mournful  reflection  how 
much  money  we  waste  in  giving  people 
things  they  don’t  want  when  we  might 
just  as  well  give  them  something  that 
would  be  of  use. 
I’ve  given  a  good 
many  useful  Christmas  presents  of  late 
years,  and  I  haven't  found  one  yet  that 
didn’t  go  to  the  right  place.  Our  poor 
relation  are  tired  of being  grateful  for 
band-painted  celluloid  boxes,  and  are 
glad  enough  to  get  something  of  some 
account.

It 

"Speaking  about  this,  I  know  one 
family  who  have  solved  the  Christmas 
in  a  way  that  is highly
gift  problem 

it, 

‘ we  are 

satisfactory  to  themselves. 
’ You  see,’ 
said  one  of  the  girls  who  was  telling me 
about 
in  the  unfortunate 
predicament  of  having  a  big  amount  of 
taste  and  a  small  amount  of  money.  Of 
course,  we  don’t  like  to  let  the  day  pass 
without  some  token  of  good  will  and 
remembrance  to  each  other,  and  so  we 
used  to  afflict  each  other  with  a  lot of 
dinky  little  things  that  were  an  affront 
to  our  artistic  sense  and  yet  which  we 
didn’t  dare  to  chuck 
into  the  fire  for 
fear  of  hurting  somebody’s  feelings. 
Now,  we  pool  our  funds,  and  each  per­
son  gets  only  one  present 
instead  of 
eight,  but  it  is  something  worth  while, 
and 
it  comes  with  the  united  love  and 
good  wishes  of  the  family.  You  can  see 
for  yourself  how  the  thing  figures  out, 
and  that  the  money  which  was  spent  on 
buying  eight  silly  and  useless  trifles 
will  buy  you  some  one  thing  you  really 
care  to  have,  and  that  will  he  a  pleas­
ure  for a  long  time,  for  we  take  care  to 
let  our  little  preferences  be  discreetly 
known.  Surprises  are  luxuries  only  the 
rich  can  afford  and  we  don’t  take  any 
risks  on  them. ’

“ So  far as  hinting  goes,”   Elise  went 
on,  "there’s  never any  use  in  throwing 
out  gentle  hints  to  the  men  of  your  own 
family  about  things  you  would  like to 
have.  Nothing  short  of  a  downright 
request  fetches  them. 
I  remember  one 
time  I  had  started  on the engrossing and 
fascinating  collection  of  silver  toilette 
articles.  Christmas  was  coming  and  I 
thought  I  would  drop  a  few  hints  to  my 
family  that  silver  puff  boxes  and  po­
made  jars and  soon  would be acceptable. 
Well,  I  discoursed  on  silver  until  I 
could  have  given  a  populist  orator 
points  in  a  16 to  i  convention.  I walked 
them  by  jewelers’  windows  and  made 
them  read  the  advertisements 
in  the 
back  of  the  magazines,  and  then  when 
Christmas  morning  dawned  they  gave  a 
*20  book  of  engravings,  as  if  I  were a 
kindergarten  baby  to  be  satisfied  with  a 
picture  book,  and  a  big  fluffy  feather 
boa—and  I’ve  got  a  neck two inches and 
a  half  long.  Since  then  I  always  say  If 
vou  are  going  to  surprise  me  with  a 
Christmas  gift  I’d  prefer  so  and  so. 
Men  don’t  resent  it,  either.  They rather 
It  saves  them  the  worry  and 
like 
bother  of  thinking  about 
it.  and  the 
poor  dears  will  forgive  us  anything  on 
earth  so  long  as  we  don’t  put  them  to 
any  trouble.

it. 

But  to  go  back  to  what  we  started 
to  talking  about,  I  think  that  if  we 
would  all  do  cur  Christmas  shopping  in 
time,  so  that  we  shouldn’t  be  worn  out 
by  rushing  through  a  lot  of  things at  the 
last  moment;  if  we  put  more  love  and 
thought  and  less  money  in  our  gifts;  if 
we  would  refrain  from  giving expensive 
gifts to  people who would  feel  they  were 
laid  under  a  burden  by  them,  and  if  we 
were  brave  enough  to  make  no  presents 
hut  such  as  we  could  afford  we  would 
find  that  the  Christmas  spirit had  come 
back  to  earth,  merry  and 
joyous,  and 
full  of  peace  and  good  w ill.”

D orothy  D ix.

An  Unneighborly  Act.

Mrs.  Brown  (who  has  borrowed  but­
ter  from  her  neighbor)— Do  you  know, 
Jane,  I  half  believe this  is the same but­
ter  we  paid  the  Greenes  with  day before 
yesterday.

Jane— It  does  taste  mightily  like  it 

Terrible  stuff!

Mrs.  Brown—To 

that  the
Greenes  would  pass  such  butter  as  that 
on  a  neighbor! 
I’m  sure  it’s  the  same.

think 

When  you  credit  a  man  with  his  good 
inteations,  don’t  expect  him  to  cash 
them.

The  Noise  Nuisance.

One  of the greatest  curses  of  modern 
times  is  noise.  The  daily  life  of  a  city 
is  attuned  to  the  shrieks  of  whistles,the 
rumble  of  trolley  cars  and  the  yell  of 
those  peripatetic  merchants  who  murder 
sleep  and  make  the  early  morning  hid­
eous  with  their  cries.  Just  bow  much 
all  of  this  noise  wears  upon  us  or  to 
what  extent  we  suffer  from  this  contin­
ual  jar and  fret of  discordant  sounds  we 
do  not  perhaps  sufficiently  realize  our­
selves,  but there  can  be  no  question  that 
it  is  responsible  for  many  serious  dis­
orders of the  brain  and  nerves.

It  is,  of  course,  impossible  that  the 
affairs  of  a  big  city  should  be  carried 
on  without  much  turmoil  and  noise. 
It 
improbable  that  even  the 
is  certainly 
unnecessary  noise  of  jingling  bells  on 
delivery  wagons  and  the  ear-splitting 
cries  of  the  banana  man  will  ever  be 
abated,  and  the  only  remedy  seems  to 
be  in  the  cultivation  of a  sentiment 
in 
favor  of  gentleness  and  quietness  that 
will  educate the  general  public  up  to  a 
higher  consideration  for  others,  just  as 
the  society  for  the  prevention  of  cruelty 
to  animals  has  taught  the  most  unthink­
ing  to abstain  from  needless  cruelty  to 
dumb  beasts.

To  a  large  extent  this  reform  lies 

in 
the  hands  of  women,  and  should  begin 
at  home.  Shrill  and  strident  speaking 
should  be  a  spanking  offense  in  every 
house.  Shrieking  what  one  ha's  to  say, 
instead  of  speaking  in  a  gentle  tone  of 
voice,  is  mere  habit  and  bad  training, 
for  which  there  can  be  no  possible  ex­
cuse.  Neither  can  any  adequate  apol­
ogy  be  offered  an  outraged  public  for 
providing  children  with  drums  and  tin 
horns  and  other  peace-destroying  de­
vices,  and  the  mere  fact  that  children 
enjoy  such  fiendish 
instruments  is  no 
more  reason  for  gratifying  them  than  it 
would  be  to  cultivate  their  savage 
in­
stincts  in  any  other  respect.

All  of  us  recall  the  homes  of  well- 
meaning  women  who  permitted • their 
children  to  render  everything  a  perfect 
bedlam. 
There  was  no  single  spot 
where  one  might  read  in  peace,  never 
a  quiet  hour  for  communing  with  a 
friend.  No  matter how  kind  or good  or 
personally  charming  such  a  woman  may 
be,  or how  luxurious  her  house,  we  fled 
from  them  at  the  earliest  possible  mo­
ment,  and  remembered  them  with  hor­
ror.  On  the  other  band, 
there  are 
houses  where 
the  very  atmosphere 
breathes  peace  and  rest,  and  whose 
soothing  silence  wraps  you  like  a  gar­
ment,  and,  no  matter  how  poor a  place 
it  is,  you  know,  like the  prophet  of  old, 
that  it  has  been  good  for  your  soul  to be 
there.

The  woman  who  goes  clumping 
around  a  room  as  if  she  wore  wooden 
shoes,  who  screams  her  remarks at  her 
husband  and  children,  whose  jingling 
chains  and  ornaments remind  you  of  the 
heroine  of  the  nursery  rhyme  who  had 
music  wherever  she  went,  may  not  be 
lacking  in  refinement,  but  it  must  for­
ever be true  that  the  ideal  woman of our 
dreams 
is  she  whose  footfall  is  light, 
whose  voice  is  low and  sweet as a caress­
ing  song,  and  who  would  be as  incapa­
ble of being  boisterous  and  noisy  as  she 
would  be  of  doing  any  other  vulgar 
thing. 

Cora  Stow ell.

Averted Criticism.

“ How  did  you  come  to  put  this  poem 
on  the  back  of  a  Government  bond?" 
enquired  the  editor.

I  was  tired  of  bearing  you  say  my 
poetry  wasn’t  worth  the  paper  it  was 
written  on, ’ ’  the  author  serenely  an­
swered. 

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G E N E R A L   T R A D E   S IT U A T IO N .
The  record  of  the  week  shows a steady 
continuation  of  a  volume  of  business  in 
all  lines  without  an  equal  in  the  history 
of  the  country.  The  feature  which  has 
been  most  prominent  is  that  there  was 
never  a  time  when  so  much  money  was 
seeking  employment  as  at  the  present. 
The  consequence  of  this 
is  that  stock 
trade  in  Wall  Street  has  been  unusually 
heavy,  some  days  showing  phenomenal 
activity.  On  account  of  the  favorable 
reports  of  railway  earnings  their  shares 
have  been  favorites  and  prices  have 
scored  a  positive advance.  While  trade 
in  the  trusts  and  industrials  has  been 
active,  prices  have  shown  a  slight  de­
cline  on  the  average.  Among  other 
evidences  of  the  plentifulness  of  money 
may  be  cited  the  fact  that  interest  rates 
are  being  reduced,  until  it  is  reported 
that  European  nations  are  effecting 
large  loans  in  this  country.  Of  course 
it  is  impossible  that  we  should  continue 
to  levy  such  tremendous  tribute  in  the 
vast  balance  of  trade  in  our  favor  for  so 
long  a  time  without 
its  both  making 
money  seem  unduly  plentiful  for  profit­
able  loaning  and  causing  the  debtor  na­
tions  to  look  to  us  for  loans.

increasing  pace. 

The building  up  of  the  foreign  debt to 
this  country  is  constantly  going  on,  and 
at  an 
Exports  of 
wheat,  corn  and  cotton  exceed  those  of 
last  year  at  same  period  by  a  heavy 
percentage.  Other  exports  are  unusu­
ally  heavy,  while  imports  are  relatively 
small.  This  condition  has  continued  so 
long  and  at  such  increasing  ratio  that  it 
may  well  be  asked,  Where  is  it  all  to 
end?

The  wheat and  other  grain  trade  has 
been  heavy,  but  prices,  especially  of 
the  white  cereal,  have  tended  down­
ward ;  on  the  whole,  though,  change  has 
been  slight.  The  price  of  cotton  has 
held  steadily  at  5.81,  with  active  trade.
While  the  holiday  season  is  usually 
iron  and 
attended  by  dulness 
steel  trade,  this  season  shows  an 
in­
creasing  activity  in  all  lines.  Reports 
of  heavy  orders  for  domestic and foreign 
trade  are  far  beyond  expectation  and 
all  works  are  pushing  operations  ac­
cordingly.  The  tendency  of  prices  is 
stronger,  although  there  are  no  material 
changes.

in  the 

There  is  better  feeling  in  the  textile 
trades  than  for a  long  time  past  Wool­
ens  for  spring  trade  are 
in  good  pros­
pect  and  dealers  are more confident  than 
at  any  time  since  the  era  of  revival  be­
gan.  Then  in  cotton  goods  the  demand

has  developed  until  there  is  a  stronger 
tendency 
in  prices  and  altogether  the 
outlook  is  brighter  than  for  years  past.
The  volume  of  clearing  house  pay­
ments, 
indicator  of 
trade  conditions,  is  considerably  in  ex­
cess  of  any  on  record,  showing  that  the 
aggregate  of  exchange 
in  all  lines  is 
beyond  precedent.

the  best  general 

T H E   T E M P E S T   IN  C H IC A G O .
The  excitement  in  Chicago  over  the 
attempt  of  the  street  railway  companies 
to  obtain  through  a  manipulated  city 
council  fifty-year  franchises  and  virtual 
monopolies  presents  the  spectacle  of  an 
outraged  community  reaching  the  limit 
of  forbearance  with  corrupt  municipal 
politics.

for 

The  great  trouble  with  the  American 
people  is  that  they  bottle  their  political 
virtue  too  long  and  are  only  aroused  to 
the  necessity 
vigorous  protest 
against  official  misconduct  and  govern­
ment  abuses  at  the  eleventh  hour.  They 
indifferently  suffer  ward  politicians  to 
control  nominating 
conventions  and 
place  boodlers  or  self-seeking  adven­
turers 
into  a 
spasm  of  indignation  because this  char­
acter  of  representative  does  not  turn  out 
to  be  a  pattern  of  morality  and  patriot­
ism  and  statesmanship.  They  open  the 
door  for  jobbery  and  fraud  and  then 
express  surprise  that  corruption  enters. 
Often  men  without  either  character or 
ability  are  chosen  for  local  offices  and 
re  elected  after  having  made a notorious 
record !

in  office,  and  then  fly 

in  the 

These  practices  are  especially  com­
mon 
larger  American  cities, 
where  the  more  intelligent  and  the  tax- 
paying  classes  allow  municipal  admin­
istration  to  fall  into  unworthy  hands  by 
default,  as  it  were.  Abuse  of  authority 
and  robbery  of  the  public  under  such 
circumstances  are  naturally  to  be  ex­
The  popular  outcry  against 
pected. 
bad  government  that  then  follows 
is 
generally  as  ineffective  as  it 
is  ridicu­
lous.  The  public  have  gathered  the 
fruits  of  their  own  conduct and obtained 
only  such  government  as  they  might 
have  expected.  They  get,  in  fact,  no 
more  than  they  have  virtually  endorsed, 
than  they  ought  to  get  as  a  rebuke  of 
in  the  first  place  to 
their 
inattention 
their  civic  duties. 
In  a  word,  they  de­
serve  very  little  sympathy—and  receive 
but  little.

in 

This  uprising  in  Chicago against  the 
is 
boodlers,  however,  shows  that  there 
at 
least  a  limit  even  to  the  easy-going 
and  accommodating  patience  and  in­
difference  of  the  average American  citi­
zen.  The  public  can  be  aroused  under 
too  great  provocation  to  rise 
its 
might  against  corrupt  or  disreputable 
representatives. 
The  better  and  the 
proper  plan  would  be  to  see  in  the  first 
instance  that  such  men  did  not  get 
office,  but  having  neglected  that  duty  it 
is  better  late  than  never,  possibly,  to  do 
as  the  Chicagoans  are  now  doing.  Such 
spasmodic  protests  against  bad  govern­
ment  will  not wholly  purify  the  official 
atmosphere,  nor 
eradicate  the  evils 
which  have  aroused  them,  but  they  have 
their  uses,and  check  flagrant  abuses  for 
a  time  at  least.

The  most  costly  leather  in  the  world 
is  known  to  the  trade  as  the  piano 
leather.  The  secret  of  tanning  this 
leather 
is  known  only  to  a  family  of 
tanners  in  Germany,  although  the  skins 
from  which 
it  is  tanned  come  almost 
entirely  from  America.

Christmas  time 

and  buy.

is  of  the  sweet  buy 

A M E R IC A N   D IP L O M A C Y .

in  that  city. 

The  British  Minister  at  Paris,accord­
ing  to a  press  report,  made  some  com­
plimentary  reference  to  American  di 
plomacy  in  the  course  of a somewhat  in­
formal,  if  not  wholly  unofficial,  address 
recently  delivered 
To 
European  observers  generally,  perhaps, 
the  most  striking  feature  in  the  Ameri­
can  method  of  conducting  negotiations 
is  its  directness. 
It  may  be  hoped  that 
the  Government  of  this  country,  con­
scious  at  once  of  its  strength  and  of  the 
justice  of 
its  purpose,  will  always  ex­
hibit  the  utmost  sincerity in the conduct 
of 
its  foreign  affairs;  but  a  carping 
critic  might  suggest  that,  in  effecting  a 
settlement  with  Spain  at  the  close  of  a 
war which has conclusively demonstrated 
the  superior  strength  of  this  country  by 
land  and  sea,  the  representatives  of  the 
Government of  the  United  States  were 
in  a  position  to  dictate  the  terms  of 
peace,  and  that  the  Spanish  diplomats 
would  probably  have  secured  more  sub­
stantial  concessions 
if  the  result  had 
been  at  all  dependent  upon  finesse.  If 
the  power  nf  Spain  had  been  the  most 
serious  factor  in  the  problem  which  the 
American  commissioners  bad  to  solve  a 
criticism  might  not  be  so  easily  m et; 
but  the  greater  number  of  the  European 
, powers  were  watching  the  course  of  the 
United  States  with 
jealousy  and  dis­
trust,  and  a  rude  and  awkward  touch 
might  have  easily  introduced  into  the 
situation  new  and  more  dangerous  com­
plications.  As 
it  was,  the  American 
commissioners  achieved  peace  without 
abandoning  any  material  demand  which 
they  had  at  any  time  presented  in  the 
course  of  the  negotiations,  and  without 
incurring  even  so  much  opposition  as 
might  be  expressed  by  a  protest  from 
any  other  European  power than  Spain 
herself.  This  result  was  due,  indeed, 
neither  to 
indirection  nor  to  finesse; 
but  it  must  be  ascribed  to  a  thorough 
comprehension  of  the  general  trend  of 
European  policy—a  policy  which  may 
be  said  to  be  prescribed  by  the 
indus­
trial  and  commercial  necessities  of  that 
continent.  There 
is  more  statesman­
ship,  more  diplomatic  sagacity  dis­
played 
in  recognizing  the  key  of  a  sit­
uation  of  that  nature  than  could  be 
shown 
in  the  employment  of  any  de­
gree  of  artfulness  or  mere  cunning.

In 

the  settlement  of  some  former 
differences  with  Spain,  growing  out  of 
the  purchase  of  Louisiana  and  of  the 
attempt  to  annex  Florida,  a  treaty, 
actually  signed  by  the accredited  agents 
of  both  governments,  birely  escaped 
failure after all,  in  consequence  of  the 
discovery  of  an  apparent  act  of  bad 
faith  on  the  part  of  the  Spanish  Minis­
ter  at  Washington,  the  representative  of 
bis  government in the negotiation.  After 
a 
long  and  frequently-interrupted  dis­
cussion  of  the  subject  matter,  a  treaty 
was  finally  agreed  on,  and  signed  Feb. 
22,  1819,  containing,  among  other  pro­
visions,  a  stipulation  to the  effect  that 
all  grants  of  land  made  before  Jan.  24, 
1818,  by  Spain 
in  the  ceded  territory 
were  to  be  ratified  ¡and  confirmed,  pro­
vided  the  holders  of  the grants  fulfilled 
the  conditions  of  them  according  to  the 
terms  of  the  same;  but all  grants  made 
after  the  above  date  were  to  be  null and 
void.  Mr.  Adams,  the  American  Min­
ister,  supposed  that  large  grants  to  the 
Duke  of  Alajon,  Count  Punon  Rostro 
and  Senor  Vargas  were  thus  made  in­
valid;  and  Onis,  the  representative  of 
the  Spanish  government,  and  De  Neu- 
ville,  the  French  Minister,  who  was 
active  throughout the  whole  transaction 
as an  intermediary  between  Adams  and

it 

invalid.  The 

Onis,  had,  by  their  language,  left  that 
impression  on  his  mind.  Mr.  Adams 
was greatly  chagrined  by  the  discovery 
that  the  grants  in  question  were  dated 
Jan.  23,  1818,  and  were  therefore  valid, 
unless  it  could  be  shown  that  there  was 
fraud  in  the  date.  He  regarded  himself 
as  the  dupe  of  Onis,  who,  he  believed, 
had  used  De  Neuville  as  a  tool  to  ac­
complish  and  perpetuate  a  fraud.  De 
Neuille,  however,  declared  that  his  un­
derstanding,  and,  be  believed,  that  of 
Onis,  was  that  the  three  grants  were, 
under  the  treaty, 
im­
portance  of  this  issue  can  be  understood 
when 
is  stated  that  the  three  grants 
were  supposed  to  cover a  large  part  of 
the  territory  of  Florida.  Under  these 
circumstances  Mr.  Forsyth,  the  Ameri­
can  Minister  at  Madrid,  was  directed 
to  deliver  to  the  King  a  declaration 
that  the  treaty  was  signed  with  mutual 
understanding that those grants were null 
and  void  and  that  they  would  be  so 
held  by  the  United  States.  The  King 
was  by  this  time,  however,  indisposed 
to  ratify  the  treaty,  and  alleged  various 
grounds  of  objection,  even  going  so  far 
as  to charge  that  it  had  been  changed 
after  signature.  On  this  side  of  the 
ocean  there  was  also  some  feeling,  and 
the  project  of  taking  possession  of Flor­
ida  by  force  was  discussed  in  Congress. 
France  and  Russia  urged  President 
Monroe  not  to  be  precipitate  in  dealing 
with  Spain  and  he  resolved  to  pursue  a 
more  patient  course.  At 
last,  comply­
ing  with  the  advice  of  the  Cortes,  the 
King,  Ferdinand  VII.,  ratified 
the 
treaty, appending  the  statement  that  the 
disputed  grants  were  invalid.

It 

liberality  and 

is  reasonable  to  expect  that  the 
character  of  diplomacy  of  the  future 
will  reflect  the  advance  of 
its  civiliza­
tion,and  that  the  great  family  of nations 
will  more  and  more  appreciate  the  fact 
that  the  prosperity  of  each  can  be  best 
promoted  by  the  maintenance  of  peace 
upon  a  basis  of 
justice. 
So  far  the  diplomacy  of  the  United 
States  has  been  found,  in  the  best  sense 
of  the  words,  both conservative  and  pro­
gressive— firm  but  not  aggressive.  Pres­
ident James  B.  Angell,  the  author  of  the 
chapter  on  "T h e  Diplomacy  of  the 
United  States,”   in  that  voluminous  and 
very  valuable  work,  "Narrative  and 
Critical  History  of  America, "concludes 
with  the  followigg  well-deserved encom­
ium :

One  must  close  the  study  of  this  part 
of  diplomatic  history  with  the  proud 
conviction  that  the  American  statesmen 
whose  work  we  have  been  tracing  have 
no  occasion  to  fear  comparison  with  the 
ablest  European  diplomats of their time. 
They  rendered  a  worthy  service  to  their 
country  and  to  all  mankind.

It 

is  comparatively  easy  to  make  a 
statement,  but  somewhat  difficult  to  sus­
tain  it  by  facts. 
It  is  a  very  easy  thing 
to  start  out  to  accomplish  a  certain  re­
sult,  but  much  more  difficult  to  secure 
its  accomplishment 
These  remarks 
are  applicable  to  the  mistaken  zeal  of 
certain  well-meaning  people  who  have 
undertaken  to  secure  needed  conces­
sions  from  the 
incoming  Legislature 
without  first  profiting  by  the  experience 
of  the  past  with  a  view  to  avoiding  the 
rocks  on  which  previous  movements, 
started  under 
favorable 
auspices,  have  stranded.  The  Trades­
man  has  spent  several  hundred  dollars 
in  the  last  sixteen  years  in  securing 
ie- 
gal _ opinions  and 
information  on  the 
subject  of  exemptions  from garnishment 
process  and  has  a  long  and  varied  ex­
perience  which  is worth several thousand 
dollars  to  any  man  or set  of  men  who 
propose to  undertake  the  reform  of  our 
very  imperfect and  unequal  laws.  This 
information 
is  at  the  disposal  of  any 
business  man  at  any  time  and  can  be 
had  for  the asking.

even  more 

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9

It 

T R A D E   W IT H   T H E   T R O P IC S .
That  human  force  which  has  most  of 
all  operated  to  develop  the  physical  re­
sources  of  the  world  and  to  open  up 
new  countries  for  such  development  is 
the necessity  for  providing  for  the phys­
ical  needs  of  human  beings  themselves.
is  true  that  religion  and  science 
have  had  their heroes  and  martyrs and 
have  achieved  their respective  victories 
in  exploring  unknown  regions,  but  there 
has  been  no  systematic  and  extensive 
progress  until  commerce  has  accom­
plished  it.  Even  uncivilized races traffic 
together,  so  that  each,  by  an  exchange 
of  products,  may  secure  from  the  others 
something  it  lacks  or does  not  produce. 
The  greater  the  degree  of  civilization, 
the  greater  the development of  interna­
tional  commerce,and  the  country which, 
in  proportion  to  its population,  conducts 
the  greatest  commerce  may  be  consid­
ered,  so  far as  physical  development 
is 
concerned,  to  be at  the  head  of  civiliza­
tion.

The  commercial  nation  not  only  pro­
cures  from  every  part  of  the  world,  on 
the  most  favorable  terms,  whatever  its 
people  require,  but  it  carries  the  light 
of  civilization  to  peoples  that  did  not 
previously  possess 
it,  and  so  they  are 
brought  into  association  and  finally  be­
come  members  of  the  great  family  of 
nations,  bound  together  by  the  golden 
chain  of  commerce,  which  is  one  of  the 
necessary  conditions  of  peace.

There  is,  however,  no benevolence  in 
commerce. 
It  is  carried  on  exclusively 
for  personal  or  national  advantage,  but 
it  creates  conditions  that  are  more  or 
less  benevolent,  because  the trader finds 
it  more  advantageous  to treat  his  cus­
tomer  fairly,  so  that  he  can  continue  to 
do  business  with  him,  than  to  estrange 
him  by  dishonest  practice  or destroy 
him  by  violence.

In  the  earliest  times the  rule  was  for 
the  strong  to  rob  the  weak.  Powerful 
nations  plundered  the  feebler,  and  this 
system,  carried  on  for  many  centuries 
by  Rome,  was  subsequently  adopted  by 
other  European  nations.  It  was  for  pur­
poses  of  plunder  only  that  the  Spanish 
conquistadores  braved  the  dangers  rf 
unknown  seas  and  found  the  rich  coun­
tries of  the  New  World.  The  Spaniards 
robbed  their colonies  down  to  the  very 
last  moment  of  possession,  and  it  was 
only  by  revolution  and  war  that  their 
unfortunate  dependants  ever  escaped 
the  exactions  of  the  plunderers.

When  Great  Britain  started  out on  the 
course  of  conquest  and  colonization,  the 
greatness  of  which  has  become  a  won­
der  of  the  world,  plunder  and  extortion­
ate  exaction  were  the  object  in  view. 
England  bad  not  then become  the great­
est  commercial  nation 
in  the  world. 
The  American  colonies  and  India  were 
made  to  experience  the  heavy  band  of 
the  spoiler.  But  England  has  found 
out  that  vastly  more  wealth  is  to  be  se­
cured  by  fostering  and  trading  with 
colonies  than  by  stripping 
them  of 
their  accumulations.  Robbery  can  only 
be  practiced  occasionally  when  condi­
tions  and  opportunity  are presented,  but 
commerce  is  perennial. 
It  goes  on  for­
ever and  increases  with  development.

England  to-day,  at  the  bead  of  the 
colonizing  nations,  is  foremost  in  com­
merce.  The  greatest  commerce  and  the 
most  profitable  commerce  is  that  which 
results  from  the  exchange  of  the  prod­
ucts  of  the  temperate  zones  with  those 
of  the  tropics,  because  the  products  of 
one zone  are  essentially  different  from 
those  of  the  others,and  the  nations  mak 
ing  these  exchanges get  each  from  the 
others  just  what  each has not and greatly

needs.  Benjamin  Kidd,  writing  in  the 
Atlantic  Monthly  for  December,  on  the 
trade  of  the  United  States  with  tropical 
countries,  says:

in  question. 

Looking  down  the  import  list  (of  the 
United  States)  for  1895,  and  taking  the 
fifteen  heads  under  which  the  largest 
values  were  imported,  we  find  that  they 
include  some  two-thirds  of  the  total  im­
ports of  the  United  States.  A  glance  at 
the  principal  commodities  is  sufficient 
to  show  to  what  an  enormous  extent  the 
produce  of  the  tropics  is  represented. 
Here  the  two  items  which  stand  at  the 
top  of  the  list  are  coffee  and  sugar,  of 
which  the 
imports  were  valued  at,  re­
spectively,  $96,000,000 and  $76,000,000. 
The  value  of  the  imports  of  these  two 
articles  alone  does  not  fall  very far short 
of  one-fourth  of  the  total  value  of  the 
imports  of  the  United  States  for  the 
year 
If  we  add  to  it  the 
values  under  three  other heads—namely, 
(1)  India  rubber,  (2)  tobacco and  (3) 
tea— we  have  a  total  of  about  $221,- 
If  we  endeavor  to  deal  with 
000,000. 
the  whole 
import  list,  and  seek  to  dis 
tinguish  what  proportion  of  the  total 
imports  of  the  United  States comes from 
the  region  embraced  between  latitude 
30  degrees  north  and  30 degrees south  of 
the  equator,  we  get a  total  value  of,  ap­
proximately,  $250,000,000  from  tropical 
regions.  This 
is  over one-third  of  the 
entire  imports of  the  United  States,  the 
total  for  the  year  from  all  sources  being 
$731,000,000. 
In the  case  of  the  exports 
of  the  United  States  the  currents  of 
trade  are  somewhat  different,  about  47 
per  cent,  of  the  entire  export  trade  be­
ing  with  the  United  Kingdom.  But  of 
the  remainder,  the  export  trade  to  the 
large  proportion, 
tropics 
amounting 
in  all  to,  approximately, 
$96,000,000.

forms  a 

Adding  together  this  export  and 

im­
port  trade,  it 
is  seen  that  the  United 
States  annually  does  a  business of $346,- 
000,000  with  tropical  countries.  But 
that  is a  mere  bagatelle  compared  with 
the  trade of  England  with tropical coun 
tries,  since  England  owns  or  controls 
most  of  the  rich  tropical  countries, 
and  has  500  ships  where  the  United 
States  has  one.  Moreover,  the  South­
ern  States  of  the  Union  produce  the 
greatest  part  of  the  world’s  cotton  sup­
ply,  which  may  be  classed  as a  tropical, 
or at 
least  Southern,  product  of  enor­
mous  value,  which  goes  far  to  swell 
England’s  Southern  trade.

Now  that  the  United  States  has  come 
important 
into  possession  of  some  very 
tropical  territory,  there 
is  an  opportu­
nity  that  ought  to  be  made  the  most  of 
to  develop  a  great  commerce.  It is  most 
strange  that  men  who  claim  to be states­
men  do  not  see  this,  and  are  making  all 
sorts  of  partisan  political  obstacles  in 
the  way  of 
improving  a  grand  oppor­
tunity  which  enterprise  and  wise  man­
agement will  convert  into  vast  wealth.

Peace has  its  heroes,  and  one  of  them 
is  William  Carney,  an  engineer  at  the 
Richmond  rolling  mills,  who  met  death 
by  falling  against  a  large  gear  wheel, 
which  tore  one  limb  completely  off. 
With  his  life's  blood  ebbing  away  Car­
ney  performed  a  remarkable  act  of 
heroism.  He  was  alone  in  the  engine- 
room  and  knew  that  no  one  would  be 
liable  to  enter  for  hours.  Realizing  that 
a  terrible  disaster  would  result 
if  fires 
under the  boilers  were  left  burning,  he 
dragged  his  body  fifty  feet  to  the boiler- 
room,  turned  off  the  natural  gas  and 
into  unconsciousness. 
then 
Twenty  minutes 
later  the  machinery 
stopped  because  of  lack  of  steam,  and 
employes  rushing  to  the  engine-room  to 
ascertain  the  cause  found  Carney dying.

lapsed 

Spain  will  no  longer  smoke  Havana 
cigars  when 
import  duties  are  added 
to  the  first  cost  of  goods  made  in  the 
Yankee  annex.

In  many  respects  there 

O N   T H E   R O A D   T O   P R O S P E R IT Y .
is  now  in 
progress  great  business  activity.  Money 
is  abundant  in  the  vaults  of  banks  and 
the  coffers  of  capitalists,  and  can  be 
had  on  easy  terms  for any  reasonable 
enterprise  by  those  who  can  give  the 
proper security.

The  «successful  ending  of  the  brief 
war  with  Spain  has  added  an  excite­
ment  to  the  stock  market,  which  may  be 
said  to  be  booming.  The  bank  clear­
ings  are  of  great  volume,  showing  large 
commercial  activity.  Railroad  earnings 
are  large. 
The  Financial  Chronicle 
compiles  returns  from  93,600  miles  of 
road, showing  an  increase  in  gross  earn­
ings  for  November  of  $2,187,476 over 
last  year,  a  percentage  increase  of  4  5 
per  cent.,  and  this  against  very  large 
totals  for  a  year  ago  as  compared  with 
November,  1896.

The  export  trade  of  the  United  States 
is  large,  with  an  extraordinary  excess 
of  exports  over  imports.  The  produc­
tion  and  consumption  of  iron  and  steel 
are  being  carried  on  upon  a  scale  un­
precedented  in  this  country.

The  facts  stated  show  that  there  is 
great  business  activity  in  certain  direc­
tions,  and  the  question  may  well  be 
asked :  Is  not  this  prosperity?  To  an­
swer  this  question,  we  must  take  into 
consideration  the  low  price  of  potatoes 
and  cotton—two  great staple productions 
of  this  country.  That  is  a  dispiriting 
fact  to  a  great  body  of  the  population, 
and  the  great  manufacturing 
industries 
in  cotton,  wool and  leather  are  in  a  very 
depressed  condition.  The  fact 
is  that 
the  productive  power  of  the  American 
people 
is  far  greater  than  their  con­
sumptive  power.

A  man  with  hand  labor  in  agriculture 
or  in  manufacturing  can  make  enough 
for  the  consumption  of  himself  and 
family,  and  under  such  circumstances 
the  markets  for  necessaries  would  sel­
dom  be  overstocked  and  therefore  there 
would  be  no  fall  in  prices  of  such  arti­
cles.  But  machinery  has  multiplied 
the  productive  power of  the  population, 
so  that  the output  is  far greater than  the 
people  can consume.  The  result  is  that 
either  the  excessive  production  must 
be  cut  down  by  discharging  employes 
or  by  working  shorter time,  and  in  ex 
treme  cases  by  closing 
factories  and 
mines.

Any  curtailment  of  the  employment 
of  labor  bears  with  the  most  injurious 
force  upon  the  workers  who  make up the 
great  body  of  the  people.  When the peo­
ple  are  not  employed  or  are  not  earn­
ing,  then  there  is  no  prosperity.

If  American  statesmanship  had  kept 
pace  with  American  mechanical  inven­
tion  and  scientific  discovery  a  better 
*tate  of  affairs  would be  with  us.  When 
it  was  seen  that  the  scientists  and  me­
chanicians  were  so  greatly  increasing 
the  productive  powers  of  the  American 
people  in  all  sorts  of  industries,  there 
should  have  been  corresponding  efforts 
on  the  part  of  the  statesmen  of  this 
country  to  have  developed  to  the  great­
est  degree  existing  foreign  markets  and 
to  have  opened  new  ones.  That  is  what 
England, 
the  greatest  manufacturing 
nation  in  the  world,  has  done.

When  the age  of  machinery  had fairly 
dawned  upon  English  manufactures, 
English  statesmen  began  to  realize  the 
necessity  for  finding  new  markets  for 
British  products;  and  that  policy,  so 
steadily  followed,  has  placed  England 
at  the  head  of  the  manufacturing  and 
commercial  nations,  so  that  the  United 
Kingdom,  with  a  population of less than 
its  own
40,000,000,  is  able  to  supply 

people  with  all  necessaries  except bread 
and  meat  and  has  an  immense  surplus 
of  manufactures  to  sell  abroad. 
It  must 
be  plain  that  the  United  States,  with 
nearly twice 40,000,000 of population and 
possessing  all 
labor-saving  .machinery 
in  existence,  must have  powers of indus­
trial  production  vastly  greater than  any 
other  nation  on  earth,  and  after  supply­
ing  its  own  people  could furnish  a  great 
part  of  the  population  of  the  globe 
with  necessaries  and  luxuries.

Until  there  can  be  some  equilibrium 
established  between  the  production  and 
consumption  of  the  results  of  Ameri­
can  labor there  must  be  many  disturb­
ances 
industrial  conditions. 
When  the  masses  of  the  people  are  not 
earning  or  are  not  generally  employed 
at  fair  wages  there 
is  no  substantial 
prosperity.

in  our 

What  has  been  said  above  is  general 
in  its  nature  and  application,  and  does 
not  refer  to  local  conditions,  which  are 
very  favorable 
in  many  ways.  But, 
taking  a  broad  and  general  view,  it  can 
not  be  said  that  an  active  and  excited 
stock  market  and  abundant  money 
mean  prosperity.  Plenty  of  money  at 
low  rates  of  interest  means  rather  lack 
of  enterprise. 
If  all  the  wheels  of  com­
merce  were  turning  at  full  speed  money 
idle.  It  would  all  be  in 
would  not  be 
active  use. 
The  situation,  however, 
shows  a  return  of  business  confidence, 
and  that  is  an  important  condition  pre­
paratory  to  a  great  business  revival. 
Let  us  hope  that  it  is  rapidly  approach­
ing. 

_____________

It  is  a  singular  and  difficult  situation 
which  exists  at  Butte,  Mont.  The  pros­
perity— indeed,  the  very  existence—of 
that  city 
is  dependent  upon  the  ore 
smelters  and  reduction  works.  The  ac­
tivity  of  those  establishments  is  an 
in­
dex  to  the  welfare  of  the  town.  Yet  the 
busier  the  smelters  the  worse  it  is  for 
the  health  of  the  population.  The fumes 
of  sulphur  and  other 
irritating  sub­
stances  play  havoc  with  human  lungs, 
and  as  the  smelters  increase  their  ca­
pacity,  the  health  of  the  city  becomes 
worse  and  worse.  The  people  of  Butte 
induce  the 
are  in  a  quandary. 
smelters  to  shut  down  or  seek  other 
lo­
cations,  there  will  be  nothing 
left  of 
Butte. 
If  the  present  situation  con­
tinues,  the  town  will  be  a  mere  hospital 
with  a  graveyard.attachment. 
It  would 
be  difficult  to  suggest  a  remedy  other 
than  to  scatter  the  smelting  establish­
ments  upon  the  outskirts  of  the  city, 
and  even  that  expedient  would probably 
prove  to  be  a  mere  palliation  rather 
than  a  remedy.  The  citizens  of  Butte 
will  have  to  choose  between  their  mate­
rial  prosperity  and  their  health.  The 
smelters  can  always  find  workmen  if 
they  pay  high  enoupb  wages.

If  they 

On  Christmas  day  tbe Canadian postal 
issue  a  new  stamp  to 
authorities  will 
commemorate  the 
inauguration  of  im­
perial  penny  postage.  The  feature of tbe 
stamp,  which  has  been  specially  de­
signed  to  make  Canada  better  known, 
is  a  neatly  executed  map,  in  miniature, 
of  the  world,  showing  the  British  pos­
sessions 
in  red  as  distinguished  from 
all  other  countries.  Underneath  tbe 
map  is  the  inscription,  “ Xmas,  1898,’ ’ 
so  that  the  date  of  the 
inauguration  of 
penny  postage  throughout  the  empire 
may  be  a  matter  of  record.  Still  further 
below  are  the  words,  taken  from  the 
works  of  one  of  the  Canadian  poets, 
“ We  hold  a  vaster  empire  than  has 
been. ’ ’

About  the  only  good  thing about  some 
is  their  reputation  for  being  bad.

men 

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

Shoes  and  Leather

How  a  Pair  o f  Shoes  Re-United  a 

Family.

Did  you.  ever  see  Punch  at  a  puppet 
show?  That’s  Silas  Lanhem;  only  Silas 
has  no,  wife  and  so  his  neighbors  bad  to 
suffer  out  the  martyrdom  of  Judy.  Still 
this  morose  old  fellow  was  a  mighty 
convenient  chap  to  have  in  the  place, 
for  he  made  good  shoes,  and  nearly  all 
the  good  people  (with  not  a  few  bad 
ones,  those  who  couldn’t  pay  spot  cash) 
were  glad  to  wear  them.  So  Silas  was 
well  patronized  at  the  same  time that  he 
was  despised  and  hated.

There  were  certain  gossips 

in  the 
town  who  declared  that  Silas  had  been 
a  very  dapper  youth  at  one time,  tall, 
straight  and  handsome,  and  that  his 
degeneration  was  more  the  result  of 
certain  private  disappointments  than  of 
age  or  natural  disposition.  Be  that  as 
it  may,  there  was  no  denying  the  fact 
that  these  conditions  no  longer  existed, 
if  they  had  ever  done  so;  and  Silas 
himself  would  have  been  the  very  last 
man  in  the  world,  had  he  been  consult­
ed,  to  deny  it.  For  whatever  his  faults, 
he  was  neither  vain  nor  foppish;  bis 
worst  enemies  admitted  that.  And  when 
in  the  presence  of  the  sex  with  one 
member  of  which  his  name  was  said  to 
have  been  years  before  associated,  he 
seemed  delighted  to  assume  his  very 
worst appearance.

But  if  Silas  was  usually  morose  and 
churlish  with  his  customers,  it  was  no­
torious  that  he  was  unusually  so  at  each 
recurrence  of  that  festive  season  known 
as  “ The  Holidays,’ ’  a  fact  that  people 
usually  attributed  to  the  entire  lack  of 
harmony  between  his  disposition  and 
the  prevailing  spirit  of  fellowship  and 
good  feeling.  A  few,  the  romantically 
inclined,  asserted  their  belief  in the tor­
turing 
influence  of  old  memories;  but 
as  this  presupposed  a  phase  in  the  old 
man's  nature  not  generally  recognized 
as  being  there,  the  theory  met  with 
scant  favor.

It  is  not,  however,  in  the  nature  of 
objectionable  events  to  show  any  great 
consideration  for  our  wishes,  so  Christ­
mas  was 
in  the  habit  of  visiting  Silas 
Lanhem  along  with  the  rest  of  the  com 
munitv,  and  the  shoe  merchant  was 
obliged  to  make  the  best  of  it.  Usually 
he  spent  the  time  outside  of  shop  hours 
in  posting  his  books,  balancing accounts 
and  doing  various  disagreeable  little 
jobs  saved  up  for  this  particular  time. 
During  the  holiday  season  evening  al­
ways  found  him  busily  occupied  at  his 
desk  until 
late  bedtime,  and  while bis 
hours  of  leisure  and  recreation  during 
the  year  were  few,  through this  one  por­
tion  of  it  they  were  absolutely  nil.

Now  it  is  not particularly exhilarating 
in  the  midst  of  running  up  the  middle 
row  of  figures  representing  full  page 
columns  to  be  suddenly 
interrupted, 
especially  when  to  finish  the  task  one 
is  crowding  far  into  the  hours  usually 
appropriated  for  rest. 
If  Mr.  Lanhem 
had  not  been  so  thoroughly  astonished 
by  a  visitor  at  so  late  an  hour  it is more 
than  likely  he  would  have  surprised  the 
intruder  with  one  of  his  characteristic 
outbursts  when  in  a  temper.  As  it was, 
in  very  astonishment  he  allowed  the 
knock  to  be  repeated  before responding.
If  his  astonishment  had  been  great at 
the  interruption  when  most  of  the  world 
was  supposed  to  be  asleep,  his  amaze­
ment  was  simply  unbounded  when  the 
door  opened  to  admit,  not  a  croaking 
raven,  but  a  sprightly  young  girl,  who 
walked  briskly  up  to  the  shoe  mer­

chant’s  desk  and, 
thereon,  said  hastily:

laying  a  package 

“ Please  excuse  this  interruption,  Mr. 
Lanhem,  but I bad been  told  you  worked 
at  your  desk  until  late  at  night,  and  I 
had 
important  business  with  you  to­
night ;  to-morrow wouldn’t do  at  all,  you 
see.  Mama  wouldn’t  be  asleep  then, 
you  know,  and  besides,  there  wpuldn’t 
be  time.  You  see,  our  house  burned 
down 
just  before  we  came  here  last 
week,  and  among  the  things  lost  in  it 
was  a  pair  of  old  shoes  (unworn  shoes, 
understand)  that  seem  to  have been  old 
keepsakes  of  mama's.  You  have  no 
idea  bow  she  has  fretted  about  their 
loss.  I  don’t  know  why  or  what she  kept 
them  for;  some  old-time  romance  like­
just  the  same,  she  looks  as  if 
ly.  But 
she  had 
lost  an  old  friend.  To-day  I 
went  over  to  Bemus— that’s  where  we 
lived  before  we  came  here—and  among 
the  rubbish  and  ruins  I  found one  of  the 
shoes  entirely  uninjured,  but  the  other 
was  not  to  be  found;  gone  up  in  smoke 
I  suppose.  What  I  want  is  a  mate  to 
in  this  package  ready  for  to­
the  shoe 
morrow  night. 
I  know  it  would  be  the 
most  precious  Christmas  gift  I  can  give 
mama.  Can  you  have  it  done  in  time? 
Please  do  say  yes. ’ ’

There  are  occasions  in  the  lives of the 
most  self-possessed  people  when  they 
are 
taken  too  utterly  by  surprise  to 
frame  their  own  words  and  Mr.  Lanhem 
was  now  facing  one  of  those  occasions. 
Without  his  will,  almost  against 
it, 
came  the  desired  promise  and  before 
be  could  recall  it  the  radiant  face  ex­
pressed  the  thanks that  words  refused  to 
do  and  the  fair  owner  was  gone.

“ Well!  well!  Of  all  adventures!”  
laughed  the 
half  grumbled  and  half 
“ Was  it  a  real  existence  or 
merchant. 
only  a  fancy? 
I  wish  I  bad  pinched  it 
and  made  sure.  That  being  now  im 
possible,  I  will  just  pinch  this  package 
and  test  its  genuineness.  It seems pretty 
substantial;  guess  I’ll  just  open  it  and 
see  what  sort  of  a  contract  I  have 
taken. ’ '

Half  wondering  at  bis  own  curiosity 
(for  he  of  late  years  paid  little  personal 
attention  to  the  jobs  that  came to  his 
repair  shop)  he  cut  the string and pulled 
the  wrapper  aside,  revealing  a  quaint, 
old-fashioned,  woman’s 
shoe,  well 
enough  made  and  very  dainty  in  its 
dressing  of  lace  and  satin  bows.  Just 
one  moment  be  looked  at  it,  then  laid 
it  down  and,  seating  himself,  looked 
straight  before  him  at  the  opposite 
in  the  storeroom  the clock 
wall.  Out 
was  striking  twelve.  Christmas! 
If  be 
beard  he  gave  no  sign.  The  tire  in  the 
grate,  destitute  of  fuel, 
smouldered 
down  into  embers  and  gradually  went to 
sleep.  The  lamp  burned  dry  and  turned 
its  wick 
into  a  smoking,  glowing,  ill­
smelling  mass.  Still  the  man  sat  there, 
awake,  but  unconscious  of  bis  own  ex­
istence,  and  seeing  nothing  but  a  wom­
an's  shoe.

Three  hours  later  he  crept  out  of  the 
little  repair  shop  at the  rear  of  his  es­
tablishment,  the  shoe  still  in  his  hand. 
Almost  awkwardly  be  seated  himself at 
the  bench,  the  one  be  had  spent  so 
many  weary  hours  upon  before  prosper­
ity  smiled  on  him,  and  went  to  work! 
As be advanced  his  hand  regained 
its 
old-time  skill  and  he  forgot  in  the  ex­
citement  of the  hour that  he  was  a  great 
shoe  merchant  beyond  the  necessity  of 
manual  toil.  Somehow,  although  the 
pattern  was  so  unique  it  was  not  a  new 
one  to  him,  and  as  he  almost  tenderly 
fashioned  it into shape,  beautifying  and 
decorating  it with  long-disused and half- 
forgotten  devices,  the  face  of  puppet

Punch  became  for  the  time the  hand­
some  youth  of  which  the gossips  told.

Not  until  his  work  was  done  did  the 
merchant  feel  a  sense  of  bis  own  weari­
ness,  and  carrying  the  finished  shoe,  as 
nearly  like its mate as  human skill could 
make  it,  back  to  his  office,  he  wrapped 
the two  up  together,  rekindled  the  fire 
and  lying  down  upon  the  rug  before  it, 
went  to  sleep. 
It  was  Christmas,  and 
there  would  be  no one  there  to  disturb 
him.

All  through  his  sleep.  he  watched 
those  shoes as  if  to  guard  them,  and  as 
he  looked  they  seemed  expanding  un­
der  his  eyes.  He  no  longer  saw  them, 
but a  pleasant  home  and  thriving  shoe- 
shop  took  their  place.  He  wondered 
bow  it  could  be,  but  realized  that  he 
was  lying  there  watching  himself  at 
work  in  the  shop.  Occasionally  through 
the  window  he  caught  glimpses  of a

Qeo.  H.  Reeder  & Co.,

19 South  Ionia Street, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Agents  for  LYCOMING  and 
KEYSTO N E  RUBBERS.  Our 
stock  is  complete  so we  can  fill 
your orders at once.  Also a line 
of U.  S.  R u b b e r   C o .  C o m b i n a ­
Send  us  your  orders 
t i o n s . 
and  get  the  best  goods  made.
Our line of Spring  Shoes are now 
on  the  road  with  our  travelers.
Be  sure  and  see  them  before 
placing your  orders  as we  have 
some “hot stuff” in them.

It
Rindge, Kalmbach,  Logie &  Co.,

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12,14 and  16  Pearl  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Manufacturers and  Jobbers of

Boots and Shoes

Agents  Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Company.

A   full  line  of  Felt  Boots  and  Lumbermen’s  Socks.

W e  have  an  elegant  line  of  spring  samples to show you. 

Be  sure  and  see  them  before  placing  your  order.

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Over  Qaiters
Leggings

Women's extra fine,  per doz__$2.00  Retail at 25c
Misses’ extra fine, per doz........   1.70  Retail at 20c
Child’s extra fine, per doz..........  1.50  Retail at 20c
Men’s extra fine, per doz...........   2.75  Retail at 35c
Women’s No.  1, per doz............  1.75  Retail at 20c
Misses’ No. 1, per doz................   1.50  Retail at 18c
Child’s No.  1, per doz.................   1.35  Retail at 18c
Men’s No.  1,  per doz.................   2.50  Retail at 30c

Above are long, fine Fleece.

Women’s old style binding, short wool, per doz. $1.25 
Misses’ old style binding, short wool, per doz.  1.10 
Child’s old style binding, short wool, per doz..  1.00 
Men’s old style bit.ding, short wool,  per doz...  2.00

Women's  10 button, Felt, per doz.....................(2.50
Women’s  10 button, Trilby, per doz.................   3.00
Women’s  10  utton.  Empress,  per doz.............   4.50
Women’s  10 button,  Victoria,  per doz..............6.00
Women’s  7 button, Josephine,  per  doz...........   4.00
Men’s  10 button,  Storm King, per doz............  6.00
Men’s  10 button,  Blizzard, per doz..................   8.00

Women’s all wool Leggings, above knee.......

Per doz........................8:0.50

Women’s mixed  wool  Leggings,  above  knee

Per doz.......................   9.00
Sox for Rubber Boots, per doz......................... 81.25

HIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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sweet-faced  woman  whom  he  knew  to be 
bis  wife.  And  then  a  cloud  shut  out 
the  vision,  and  the  shoes  stood  there  be­
fore  him  on  his  office  desk.

Again  he  was  looking  through a gaily 

lighted  window,  not  of  a  home  but  of  a' 
home-destroyer.  The furniture  was  rich, 
the  trimmings  tasteful  and  the  crowd 
were  gay,  very  gay.  He  saw  there  men 
and  women  in  various  stages  of  drunk­
enness  and  degradation,  and 
in  the 
midst  of  that  throng  he  saw  the  face  of 
his  wife;  and  again  the cloud came over 
the  vision  and  the  shoes  were  standing 
on  his  desk.

Now  the  scene  was  changed  to  a dusty 
roadway  and  be  to  a  homeless wanderer, 
a  tramp. 
Intemperance  had  set  its  seal 
upon  him  and  he  neither  feared  God 
nor  cared  for  man.  His  life  had  been 
blighted  and  he  had  himself  become  a 
blight  on  earth.  And  in  the  midst  of  it 
all  he  met  another  homeless  wanderer 
like  himself.  And  it  came  to  pass  one 
night  the  man  was  dying. 
In  the  midst 
of  his  delirium  be  spoke  of  many 
things;  of  home,  of  the  East,  of  pleas 
ant  memories  and  of  his  childhood.  But 
through  it  all  there  ran  a  wild  delirious 
wail  for  the  sister  who,  to  save  her 
brother  from  bis  evil  associates,  had 
dared  the  lion  in  his  den  and  dragged 
the  erring  one  out  from  an  infamous  re­
sort,  only  to  find  she  had  been  seen  to 
it  by  her  husband  and  by  him 
enter 
in  the  midst  of 
been  deserted.  And 
the  wild,  almost 
tale  he 
spoke bis  sister’s name;  and the watcher 
beside  him  dropped,  for  it  was  that  of 
his  former  wife.  The  cloud  came  back 
and  once  more  the  shoes  stood  on  the 
desk.

incoherent 

Yet  again  came  the  vision ;  now  of  a 
long  and  weary  search  for  the loved one, 
the  disappointed  hopes,  the  bitter  dis­
appointments,  the  failures, 
the  aban­
doned  search  that  bad  left  the  searcher 
a  hater  of  mankind.  Once  again  the 
cloud  came  back  and  before  his  eyes 
there  sat  the  shoes  upon  the  desk.

Outside, 

the  Christmas  bells  were 
ringing.  Twenty  years  ago  they  rang 
upon  his  wedding  day.  What  right  bad 
they  to  ring  now?  He  arose  and  went 
forward  to  close  the  inner  door  that  he 
might  not  hear  the  sound.  Somebody 
outside  was  trying  the  latch.  He  drew 
the  bolt  and  opened  the  door  to  find  bis 
visitor  of  the  evening  before.

“ The  work  is  done,”   he  said  almost 
softly. 
“ Accept the  work  as  my Christ 
mas  offering.  Good  morning.”   And 
he  closed  the  door  rudely  in  her  face.

♦   *  *

The  little  Christmas tree  was  stripped 
of  its  dainty  fruit,  and  these  two  happy 
mortals,  the  young  girl  and  her  mother, 
were almost  ready  for  their  usual  quiet 
evening  talk.

“ Just  one  thing  more,  mama,  and 
then  you  are  to  tell  me  all  about  your 
early  life—and  mine.  You  know  you 
promised  to  long  ago,  and  I  have al­
counting  the  hours  ever 
most  been 
since.  But  first 
let  me  give  you  one 
more  little  offering  of  love.”

Wonderingly  the  woman  undid  the 
wrappings  and  disclosed a pair of dainty 
shoes,  the  ones  she  bad  treasured  so 
long  and  now  mourned  as  lost.

“ On  one  condition,  mama,  I  return 
them  to  you,”   said  the  girl,  playfully; 
“ that  you  tell  me  their  history,  why  you 
keep  them. ’ ’

“ I  will  tell  you.  Yes. 

In  fact,  their 
story  goes  with  the  other,  for  you  see, 
your  father  made  them  for  me  when  he 
was—before  we  were  married.  They 
were  his  first  work  after  he  set  up  for 
I  wore  them
himself  twenty  years  ago. 

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

1 1

at  my  wedding  that  year Christmas  day, 
but  never  since.  More  than  nineteen 
vears  since he  left.  Can  it  be  possible! 
And  yet,  the  time  has  seemed  long. 
Just  three  months  afterward  to  a  day,  I 
will  show  you  the  date,  for  I  set 
it 
down 
inside  on  the  lining  the  day 
he  left,  and—why,  how  is  this?  There 
is  no  writing  here,”   and  the  woman 
held  the  shoe  up  closer  to  the  light.

“ It  can  not  be  the  same  shoe,  and 
yet— ’tis  like  it.  Tell  me,  Nell,  where 
did  you  find  it?”

Surprised,  and  taken  wholly  off  her 
guard,  the  girl  confessed  her  ruse.  But 
almost  without  waiting  for  her to  finish 
the  mother  seized  her  arm,  and,  trem­
bling  violently,  said:

“ Who  is  he?  Take  me  to  him.  There 
is—there  can  be  but  one  hand  can  make 
it  so  like. ”

As  she  opened  the  door a  man  came 
toward  her  and  held  out  his hands.  One 
look,  one  word,  and,  as  the  reunited 
family  stood  together  freed  from  the 
troubled  waters  that  bad  so  nearly  en­
gulfed  them,  the  Christmas  bells  rang 
out  their  evening  service.

“ ’ Come,”   said  the  merchant,  hold­
ing  out  his  arm,  “ come,  they  are  call­
ing  us.  Last  night  I  wondered  if the joy 
bells  had  a  right  to  ring.  To-night  I 
feel  as  though  the  Christmas  bells  of 
‘ Peace 1  Good 
Paradise  were  ringing 
will  to  man !’  from every star. ” — Wilder 
Graham  in  Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder.

Effect  o f  Fire  Insurance  on  the  Re­

tailer’s  Credit.

The  constant  diminution  in  the  rate 
in­
per  cent,  of  profits  and  the  marked 
crease 
in  the  cost  of  doing  business, 
due  largely  to  sharp  competition  as  well 
as  business  depression,  have  wellnigb 
reduced  the  business  of a wholesale mer­
chant  or  jobber to profitless transactions. 
Accordingly,  it  has  become  an  absolute 
necessity  that  losses  from  bad  debts  be 
reduced  to  a  minimum.  The  jobber, 
therefore,  is  forced  to  give  very  careful 
attention  to  the  financial  condition  of 
those  to  whom  credit  is  granted.  He 
must  make  careful  investigation of mat­
ters  which 
in  the  prosperous  times  of 
the  past  have  been  lightly  considered  or 
possibly 
The 
trained 
judgment  of  the  credit  man, 
therefore,  is  being  constantly  exercised 
concerning  those  things  which  tend  to 
make  credit  giving  a  risk  that  is  not 
warranted  by  the  present  condition. 
If 
the  retail  merchant  only  realized  this 
he  would  cease  to  take  offense  when  he 
is  courteously  asked  for  particulars with 
respect  to  his affairs.

entirely  overlooked. 

Insurance  has  come  to  be  recognized 
as  one  of  the  most  important  elements 
entering 
into  the  question  of  credit. 
Next  to  the  trusting  out  of  goods,  insur­
ance  against  fire  is  the  roost 
important 
matter..  Neverthless,  there  are  many 
merchants  who  fail  to  give  insurance 
that  consideration  to  which  it 
is  en­
titled.  It  is  often  found  in investigating 
statements  that  either  no  insurance  at 
all  is  carried  or else  that  the 
insurance 
is  very  small  compared  with  the  value 
of  the  stock  on  hand.

the 

jobber 

The  retail  merchant  should  realize 
that  when  he  buys  goods  upon  credit 
without  taking  out  a  proper  insurance 
he  asks 
to  assume  a 
double  risk.  First  there  is  the  ordinary 
credit  risk,  and  second  there  is  the  risk 
from  fire.  Almost  invariably  the  goods 
remaining  in  the  warehouses  of  the  job­
bers  are amply  insured.  When the goods 
are transferred  from  the  jobber’s  ware­
house  to  the  store  of the  retailer they 
should  likewise be  insured  against  fire.

If  insurance  is  being  neglected  from 
lack  of  appreciation  of  its  importance 
that  fact  may 
indicate  to  the  creditor 
that  the  business  methods  in  general  of 
the  merchant are  more  or  less  slack. 
If 
be  is  heedless  of  insurance,  which  is  so 
vitally 
important,  very  naturally  be 
may  be  suspected  of  trusting  out  his 
goods  too  freely  and  to  be  an  indifferent 
collector  and  also  a  careless  buyer. 
Straws  show  which  way  the  wind  blows, 
and  the  manner  in  which  insurance  is 
managed  is  a  straw  in  the  wind  which 
the  jobber  is prone to watch very closely.
The  high  rates  for  insurance  prevail­
ing  in  towns  and  villages  is  often  given 
as  a  reason  for  not  carrying 
insurance 
or  for  carrying 
limited  amounts  only. 
Does  it  never  occur  to  the  retail  mer­
chant  that  the  only  reason  for high  rates 
is  that  on  the  average  fires  in  such 
lo­
calities are  more  frequent  and  more dis­
astrous  than  in  better  protected  places? 
Insurance  premiums  are  based  upon  the 
quality  of  the  risk.  The  higher the  rate 
is  that  the  insurance  companies  name 
the  greater  the  danger  is  that  they  know 
to  exist;  hence  the  greater  need  to  the 
merchant  of  the  protection  that  insur­
ance  gives.

For  the  country  merchant  to carry  any 
part  of  the  risk  himself  is  to  be  penny 
wise  and  pound  foolish.  Such  a  course 
is  unjust  to  those  who  extend  credit  to 
him.  Accordingly,  be  should  not  be 
surprised,  when  pursuing  this  course, 
if,  in  some  cases,  credit 
is  absolutely 
withheld  until  his  stock  is  sufficiently 
insured.

The  unwisdom  of  neglecting  insur­
ance  on  the  score  of  economy  becomes 
apparent  on 
some  unfortunate  day 
when  the  merchant’s  stock  is  consumed 
by  fire  and  the  earnings  and  accumula­

insured  then  all 

tions  of  years  vanish  in  an  hour. 
If the 
s ock  had  been  properly  insured  there 
would  be  enough  to  meet  business  obli­
If  it  was  not 
gations  and  start  anew. 
properly 
is  lost  and 
capital  and  credit  are  both  gone.  Insur­
ance 
is  a  subject  worthy  of  most  care­
ful  thought  upon  the  part  of  every  busi­
ness  man. 
If  there  has  been  neglect  in 
this  regard  the  remedy  should  be  ap­
plied  at  once. 
It  will  have  the  effect  of 
renewing  confidence  and  strengthening 
credit,  as  well  as  protecting  the  busi­
ness,  the  home  and  the  family.  Every 
merchant's  rule  should  be  to  keep  well 
insured  in  good  companies  and  never 
to  allow  policies  to  lapse.—George  G. 
Ford  in  Dry  Goods  Economist.

How  to  Dress  Windows.

Retailers  who  know  how  to  trim  their 
windows  to  good  effect  are  pleasingly 
numerous.  An  evidence  of  this 
is 
afforded  by  a  walk  along  any  business 
street,  selected  at  random,  either 
in 
town  or  village.  Clerks  who  know  how 
to  trim  windows  are,  however,  scarce. 
Why 
is  this?  Surely  it  is  not  because 
there  is  not  a  plenty  of clerks who would 
make  good  trimmers.  No,  it  is  simply 
because  there  are  so  few  of  them  who 
will  give  it  the  time  it  deserves. 
It  is 
one  of  the  most  important  parts  of  the 
successful  clerk’s  business  and  is  just 
as 
advertising 
matter. 
In  a  majority  of  cases  it  does 
not  get  nearly  the  thought  and  consid­
eration  that  it  should.  The  big  retail­
ers  trust  it  to  one  of  their clerks  and  it 
is  done  well  because  they  usually  em­
ploy  the  best  service  and  furnish  plenty 
of  material.  In  the  smaller  stores,  how­
ever,  it 
is  not  always  done  well  when 
left  to  the  discretion  of  a  clerk,  for 
even  if  the  clerk  gives  it  the  time  and 
study  it  requires,  he  is  often  hampered 
by  a  lack  of  material  and a lack of time.

important  as  writing 

Michigan  &  Ohio 
Acetylene Qas C o, Ltd.

Jackson,  Mich.

Jobbers of Calcium Carbide.
Breckenridge,  Mich.,  Dec.  2,  1898. 
Michigan and  Ohio Acetylene Gas Co.

Gentlemen:  Having  used  your  Gas 
Machine  now ten  months, will say  I  am 
perfectly  satisfied with  results  obtained. 
It is just as  cheap  as  oil  and  I  can  run 
mine cheaper and then have  a  light  that 
I  can  see  by.  You  have  a  good  thing 
and I  wish you success.

CHAS.  M ERRILL.

Yours respectfully, 

ACETYLENE 60S GENERATOR

Harbor  Springs, Aug.  17,  1898.

Gentlemen:  The  generator  pur­
chased of  you  is  lighting  two  dwell­
ings, a machine shop  and  office  and 
doing it with  less  expense  and  trou­
ble  than  they  were  ever  lighted  be­
fore. 

I am much  pleased with it.

Yours truly 

E.  SHAY.

Geo. F. Oven & GO. Oraad  Rapids 

Michigao.

1 2

Fruits  and  Produce.

The  Peach  Outlook of Western  Michi­

gan.

Twenty-five  years  ago,  in  the  neigh­
borhood 
in  which  I  now  live and,  in 
fact,  in  the  whole  of  Kent  county,  there 
was  not  a  peach  orchard  containing  or 
exceeding  one  thousand  trees,  and  there 
were  very  few which contained anywhere 
near  as  many.  Soon  after  this  time, 
however,  one  or  two  venturesome  spirits 
branched  out  and,  at  the  risk  of  losing 
their  reputation  as  sane,  conservative 
people, planted  as  many  as two  thousand 
trees.  Everybody  said,  “ What  are  you 
going  to  do  with  all  the  fruit?  You  are 
growing  too  many  peaches  and  you  will 
have  no  market  for  your  product. ”   We 
heard  this  same  story  every  year  from 
that  time  until  the  present,  but  still  the 
people  kept right on planting ;  in fact,  it 
became  epidemic  and everybody planted 
a  peach  orchard,  until,  to-day,  in  this 
same  county,  orchards  of from five to ten 
thousand  trees  are  to  be  seen,and*can be 
found  on  nearly  every  farm 
in  some 
sections.  We  have  a  market  for  all  the 
good  fruit  we produce,at fairly remuner­
ative  prices;  in  fact,  our  only  trouble 
for  the  past  three  years  has  been that we 
bad  not  enough  good  fruit  to  hold  all  of 
our  buyers  nor  to  supply  the  demand. 
We  do  not  know  how  long  this  will  con­
tinue,  but  there  certainly  must  be  a 
lim it;  and  when  one  studies  this  ques­
tion  and  realizes that  this  heavy  plant­
ing  of  peach  trees 
is  not confined  to 
Michigan,but  that  in  many  of  our  sister 
states  the  planting  is  equally  heavy,  it 
is  perhaps,  well  to  pause  and  again  ask 
the question.  Where  can  we  dispose  of 
the  product?  To  say  nothing  of  the 
home  competition,  can  Michigan  com­
pete  in  the  great  markets  of  the  coun­
try  with  other  peach  growing  states? 
What  particular  advantages  have  we 
that  will  enable  us  to  hold  our  own 
should  it  ever  come  to  be  a  question  of 
the  “ survival  of  the  fittest?”  
If  these 
questions  can  be answered  satisfactorily 
to  ourselves,  then  the  peach  outlook  is 
not  so  bad.  If  they can  not,  we  had  bet­
ter stop  planting. 
I  believe  they  can 
be  so  answered.  Experience has  demon­
strated  that  Michigan  is  surer  of  a  crop 
than  any  other  state  in  the  Union. 
In 
our  best  peach  localities  not  one  year  in 
ten 
is  there  an  entire  failure  of  the 
crop,  while  the  history  of  the  peach 
crop  in  many  of  the  other  states 
is  ex 
ceedingly  checkered.  This  is  especial­
ly  true  of  the  Southern  States,  Georgia, 
Texas,  Tennessee  and  Missouri. 
Indi­
ana  and  Ohio  are  planting  heavily  of 
this  fruit,  but  are  not  nearly  so  certain 
of  a  crop  as  is  Michigan.  The  quality 
of  our  fruit  is  much  better  than  that  of 
the  fruit  of  the  States  named  and  comes 
to  maturity  at  a  time  when  it  is  wanted 
in  large  quantities,  during  the  cool  fall 
months,  while  the  Southern  fruit  comes 
in  the  middle of our 
to  market  right 
summer  beat,  and 
in 
limited  quantity.  As  for  the  Eastern 
States, 
they  are  not  producing  half 
enough  to  supply  the  demand  of  their 
large  cities,  and  they  have  been  com­
ing  to  us  for  their  supply  ever  since  we 
bad  it  in  sufficient quantity to meet their 
wants.  They  like  our  fruit  and  will  be 
our  customers  so  long  as  we  can  give 
them  the  desired  quality  and  quantity. 
Our  location 
is  such  that  we  are  in 
reach  of  all  of  the  large  markets  of  the 
country,  with  the  aid  of  the  modern  re­
frigerator  car,  and 
if  there  is  a  failure 
of  crop  or  shortage  anywhere, 
is 
Michigan  fruit  which  fills  the  place.  If

is  wanted  only 

it 

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

these  conditions  do  not  prevail,  then 
the  good  quality  of  our  fruit,  its  time  of 
ripening,  our good 
location,  etc.,  com­
bine  to  give  us  a  great  advantage over 
our  competitors,  so  that  so  far as  a mar­
ket 
is  concerned,  I  believe  we  have 
nothing  to  fear.

I  have  been  referring  entirely  to  good 
fruit.  We,  necessarily,  have  much  that 
is  not  first-class,  and  the  time  has  come 
when  we  must  dispose  of  this  inferior 
fruit 
in  other  ways than  in  shipping  it 
out,  either  packed  away  in  the  bottom 
of  our  packages  or otherwise.  Many  of 
our  markets  are  too distant, with the cost 
of  transportation  too  great  for this  grade 
of  fruit,  and  we  must  look  to  the  can­
ning  factory  and  the  evaporator  for  a 
market.

There  is  another  phase  of  this  ques­
tion  about  which  I  am  not  so  confident, 
is  fruit  tree  diseases  and  in­
and  that 
sect  pests.  They  have  been 
increasing 
of  late  and  in  some  sections  of  the State 
are  making  serious  inroads  Doubtless 
the  able  and  energetic  work  of  the  State 
Inspector  of  Nurseries  and  Orchards, 
coupled  with  the  watchful  care  of  the 
Agricultural  College  and  Experiment 
Station,  will  suffice  to  keep  them  in 
check.  Our  inspection  laws  should  be 
strengthened  and  strictly  enforced.

All  things  considered,  I  see  nothing 
especially  discouraging 
in  the  peach 
outlook  for  Michigan.  The  profits  of 
the  grower  are  not  large,  but  are  prob­
ably  as  good  as  in  any  branch  of  agri­
culture.  Location  has  much  to  do  with 
this.  I  should  certainly  think  it  not  ad­
visable  to  rush  into  peach  growing  re­
gardless  of 
location  or  adaptability. 
Those  engaged  in  other  lines of business 
would  better  continue  them, 
for  loss 
and  disappointment  are  almost  sure  to 
follow  indiscriminate  planting.

R o b e r t  D .  G r a h a m .

Why  Apple  Prices  Are  Lower. 

From the New  York  Commercial.

Notwithstanding  the  short  crop  of  ap­
ples, prices  have declined  in  this market 
the  past  week  under  pressure  of  holders 
to  dispose  of  their  supplies.  The  cold 
weather  decreased  shipments  for a  few 
days,  but  they  have  begun  again  on 
quite  as  liberal  scale as before  the  cold 
wave  arrived.  Receipts  for  last  week 
were  18.236  barrels,  against  18,420  for 
the  corresponding  week  last  year,  a  rel­
atively  small  decline.  Since  Jan.  1  the 
decline  has  been  considerably  more. 
Total  receipts  have  been  730,101  bar­
rels,  compared  with  1,072,272  for  the 
same  period 
last  year,  a  decline  of 
342,171  barrels.

Prices  have  ruled  high  all  the  season 
up  to  the  cold  weather.  Fancy  North 
ern  winter  varieties  have  brought  as 
high  as  $6.50  a  barrel,  but  $4.5o@5  is 
the  highest  paid  now,  and  a  relatively 
small  proportion  of  arrivals  bring  that.
Two  reasons  are  influential  in  this: 
One  is the  fact  that  growers  and  ship­
pers  are  bolding  back  their  best  goods, 
expecting  higher  prices  after the turn of 
the  year.  The  other 
is  that  a  large 
amount  of  fruit  is  being  sent  forward 
as  barrel  stock  this  year  which  in  ordi­
nary  years  would  scarcely  be  considered 
worth  picking.

Export  shipments  are  declining  both 
in  this  country  and  Canada.  Prices  in 
Europe 
continue  at  about  previous 
range,  provided stocks  are  of  good  qual­
ity  and  in  good  condition.  Dealers  say 
the  present  reaction  is  only  temporary 
and  that  prices  will  assume their pre­
vious  level,  or go  higher  shortly.

Put  It  at  the  Top.

The  most  successful  advertisers  have 
pretty  generally  reached  the  conclusion 
it  is  best  to  put  the firm  name at 
that 
the  top  rather than  at the  bottom  of  an- 
nouncemets  Of  course,  the main  thing 
is  to advertise.  The  arrangement  of the 
subject  matter 
is  a  detail  which  mer­
chants  should  not  be  long  in  mastering.

The  best  are  the  cheapest 
and  these  we  can  always 
supply.

ALFRED  J.  BROWN  SEED  CO.

24  and  26  North  Division  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

HARVEY  P.  MILLER. 

EVBRBTT P. TEASDALE.

MILLER &  TEASDALE  CO.

WHOLESALE BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION.

FRUITS,  NUTS,  PRODUCE

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The  Potato  King  o f  Indiana.

in  Michigan, 

Indianapolis,  Dec.  18—A  corner  in 
apples  exists  in  Indianapolis  which  re­
tailers through  this  section  of  the  coun­
try  have  made  a  number  of  unsucessful 
efforts  to  break.  Last  fall  while  the  ap­
ples  were  hanging  on  the  trees  in  In­
diana  and  neighboring  states,  James  L. 
Keach,  a  commission  man,  sent  his 
agents  through  the  fruit  growing  dis­
tricts  and  they  quietly  bought  all  the 
apples  they  could  get  their  hands on. 
By  the  time  the  crop  had  been  gathered 
and  shipped  to  the  purchaser  Keach 
had  50,000 barrels  in  cold  storage in this 
city,  and  10,000  more  stored  away  in 
other  cities.  The apple  crop  was  un­
usually  short 
Indiana, 
Ohio  and  Kentucky,  and  Keach  ob­
tained  a  greater  part  of  the  orchard 
product.  As  the  fall  demand  for the 
fruit  came  on,  the  retailers  discovered 
that  Keacb's  commission  house  was  the 
only  place  from  which  they  could obtain 
their  stocks.  But  be  was  in  no  burry  to 
sell.  He  has  gradually  worked  the 
price  up  until  he  is  turning  the  apple 
corner  to  good  account. 
It  is  said  tnat 
his 60,000 barrels  cost him $150,000,  and 
he  has  sold  from  his  supply $250,000 
worth,  while  his  stock 
is  still  unex­
hausted.  Keach 
is  expected  to  clear 
about  $150,000 on  his apple transactions.
in  1879 
When  be  reached  the  city  he  had  a 
wobbly  wagon,  a  bony  horse and  $10  in 
money.  With  this  capital  be  bought  a 
ljad  of  potatoes,  which  he  peddled  from 
door to  door.  A  few  years  ago  be  cor­
nered  the  potato  market  ana  from  his 
manipulations  cleared  $100,000.  He 
has  since  then  been  known  as  the  "P o ­
tato  K in g."  For  some  years  he  has 
been  active  in  Indianapolis  politics.

He  came  to  Indianapolis 

Why  Oregon  Fruit  Is Superior to Cali­

fornia  Products.

Max  Pracht,  one  of  the  leading  fruit 
growers  of  the  Pacific  slope,  has  the 
following  to  say  regarding  the  produc­
tion  of  peaches,  apples  and  prunes  in 
Oregon,  and  of  the  charges  that  Cali­
fornia  buyers  and  growers  work  to  the 
detriment  of  their  Oregon  brethren:

limited 

The  demand  for  Oregon  peaches  in 
the  fresh  state  is  so  great  that  very  few 
are  dried.  The  lack  of  co-operation 
among  our  fruit  growers  has  enabled 
such 
large  concerns  as  the  Earl  Fruit 
Co.,  of  Sacramento,  to  secure  the  bulk 
of  our  Eastern 
consignments,  and 
peaches  from  the  Ashland  district  are 
sold  as  such,  as  they  have  a  reputation 
superior  to  the  California  output

Apples,  of  which  Oregon  raises  the 
best  on  the  coast,  are  bought  on  the 
the  enterprising  California 
trees  by 
shipper,  who 
sends  his  men,  paper 
and  boxes,  shipping  to  his  own  mar­
kets,  always  as  "California"  fruit. 
It 
is  a  well-known  fact that California does 
not  produce  good  apples  outside  of  a 
very 
zone,  on  the  Central 
Pacific  Railroad  in  the  Sierra  Nevadas, 
near  Penrbyn,  and  the  buyer 
in  the 
East,  when  be  gets  a good,  well-flavored 
apple  under  a  California  label  may  take 
it  for  granted  that  be  is  getting  an  ap­
ple  grown  in  Oregon.

The  gravest  offense  to  our  fruit  in­
dustry,  however, 
in  the  matter  of 
prunes,  of  which  the  output  in  Oregon 
is  enormous,  and  the  size  and  quality 
far  superior  to  any  produced  anywhere 
in  California.  Prunes  need  more  rain 
than  California  affords;  they  do  better 
where  there 
is  a  winter  of  sufficient 
coldness  to  stop  the  running  of  the  sap 
and  give  the  tree  a  rest  California 
produces  practically  but  one  prune,  the 
Petite  d ’Agen,  or  so-called  French,  a 
small  but  very  sweet  prune.  The  large 
sub-acid  Italian  thrives  best in Oregon, 
and  the  crop  of  both  the  Italian  and 
French,  heretofore  produced  in  Oregon, 
has  been  bought  by  California  and  Chi­
cago  houses 
in  bulk,  packed  in  sacks. 
Where  growers  have  insisted  on packing 
their  own  crop 
in  boxes,  the  buyers 
would  insist  on  the  absence  of  brands, 
thus  giving  them  a  clear opportunity 
to  put  on  their own  California brands.

Prunes  shipped  out  of  Oregon  in  bulk 
are  manipulated  in  San  Francisco,  Sac­
ramento,  Chicago and  elsewhere,  being

is 

sorted  and  graded,  "sweated,"  if  nec­
essary,  or treated  to  a  glycerine  process 
which  gives  them  a  high  polish.  The 
largest  are  then  packed  and  branded 
with  California  brands,  the  small  ones 
dumped  back  into the  sacks  and sold  as 
Oregon 
to 
"fa c e "   up  boxes  of  very  small  Califor- 
nias,  of  which  that  State,  owing  to  the 
drought  in  1898,  has  a  large  supply, 
some  of  them  being,  in  fact,  nothing 
but  pit and  skin.

fruit,  or  used 

inferior 

If  the  consumer could  be  once  got  to 
understand  the  difference  between  the 
methods of  drying  and  curing  as  prac­
ticed 
in  Oregon  and  California,  he 
would  never ask  for  a  California  prune. 
The  Oregon  fruit  is  dried  and  cured 
in 
hot  air dryers  of  approved  construction, 
and  requires  but  twenty-four  hours  in 
the  process.  From  first to  last it  is  away 
from  and  out  of  reach  of  insects,  such 
as  flies,  beetles,  gnats,  midgets,  etc. 
These have  free access to  the  California 
fruit,  as  it  is  dried  in the sun,  requiring 
from  three  to  five  days,  giving  ample 
time  for  the  accretion  of  dust  and  the 
accumulation  of  insects,  which  stick  to 
the  sweet  viscid  surface,  and  which, 
while  they  may  add  to  the  weight,  cer­
tainly  add  nothing  to  the  quality. 
Prunes,  as  packed  in  Oregon,  if  sold  to 
the  consumer  without  being  tampered 
with  by  the  unscrupulous  spectulator, 
will  be  easily  recognized  by  the  house­
wife,  because of  the  light  brown  clear 
and  clean 
is  produced  in 
stewing.  The  open  air  dried  product 
of  California  will  produce a  dark  col­
ored  liquor,  containing  black  sediment, 
which 
latter  will  be  found  to  consist 
largely  of  matter  foreign  to the  fruit.

liquor  that 

Needed  Changes  in  Freight  Rates.
Boston,  Dec.  18— At  the coming meet­
ing  of  the  National  League  of  Commis­
sion  Merchants  of  the  United  States,  to 
be  held  in  New  Orleans  Jan.  11,  12  and 
13,  it  is  understood  that action  will  be 
taken  to  oblige  railroads,  if  possible, 
to  rate  pears  and  quinces  in  the  same 
class  with  apples,  and  also  to oblige  the 
railroads  to  designate  on  freight  bills 
the  names  of  shippers  and  points  from 
which  shipments  are  made.
A.  Warren  Patch,  of this  city,  Secre­
tary  of  the  League,  says  that  while  ap­
ples  are  carried  by  railroads  as  fifth 
class,  pears  and  quinces,  which  average 
no  higher  in  market  value,  are  rated  as 
second-class  freight;  where  the  rate  on 
the  former  is  35  cents  a  hundred,  the 
charge  on  the  latter  is  75  cents.  Ac­
cording  to  present  methods  of  billing, 
the  commission  merchants claim  that  in 
the  customary  charging  back  of 
the 
freight  expenses  to  the  shippers  the 
commission  men  often  have  no  way  of 
determining  from  the  bills  to  whom  the 
charge  should  be  made;  if  the  railroads 
were  to  designate 
the  shippers  and 
points this difficulty could be avoided.

Prune  Season  Longer Than  Usual. 

From tbe New York Commercial.

it 

Prunes  generally  cease  to  attract  at­
tention  toward  tbe  last  of  November, 
and  are  quiet  up  to  or  after  Jan.  1. 
This  year  tbe  activity  has  continued, 
and  is  now  quite  as  strong  as  it  was  a 
month  ago.  No  certain  explanation  is 
obtainable,  but 
is  said  to  be  partly 
due  to  the  fact  that  the  season  was  late, 
and  that  shipments  to  fill  orders  placed 
before  drying  was  finished  were  delayed 
in  transit,  and  dealers  were  obliged  to 
tide over  as  best  they  could.  This  diffi­
culty  being  past,  there  are  some  indi­
cations  of  a  weakening  in  tbe  market, 
and  prices  only  bold  firm.

Large  sizes  are practically cleaned up. 
There  are  a  few  left  in  Washington  and 
Oregon,  it  is  said,  and  some  Californias 
are  still  obtainable  from  second  hands, 
bet  few  more  will  come  forward.  There 
has  been  considerably  increased  call  for 
very  small  sizes,  but  these  are  short, 
and  about  all  taken  now.  Medium  sizes 
have  been  attracting  more 
attention 
lately,  but  not  sufficiently  to  increase 
prices. 

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T h at  W as  E asy.

Belle— How did  you  find  out  the name 

of  Maud’s  new  beau?

Lena— I  gave  her  my  new  pen  to  try.

L aw re n ce   &   M a th e so n

Packers of

P . & B .

O YSTER S

Jobbers of

Foreign  Fruits, 

Nuts,  Dates, etc.
For  Christmas  we  shall  have  a 
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C A S H   F O R   P R O D U C E .

How   to  Establish  the  System 

in  a 

Written fo r  the T r ad esm an.

Country  Store.

Paying  cash  for  produce is a departure 
from  old  and  well-established  custom, 
but  only  as  we depart from time-honored 
customs  do  we  advance.  Only  as  we 
discard  systems  that  were  good  a  score 
of  years  ago  and  adopt  the  present-day 
methods  do  we  come  to  the  standard  of 
up-to  date  merchandising.

How  awkward  would  sound  an  answer 
to  the  enquiry  of  “ How  much  do  you 
pay  for  butter  to-day?”   should  that  an­
swer  be,  “ We  give  2  1-6  pounds  of 
granulated  sugar,  3  1-7  yards  of  Har­
mony  calico,  7-10  pair  of  Herms.  hose, 
or  18%  pounds  of  common  salt  for  a 
pound  of  good  b u t t e r a n d   yet  how 
much  nearer  the  truth 
to  say, 
“ Sixteen  cents  a  pound,  Madame,”   be 
cause,  when  we  mention  price in dollars 
and  cents,  we  mean  the  coin  of  the 
realm  or  our  country’s  medium  of  ex­
change,  not  an  exchange  of  commodi­
ties.

than 

On  the  following  three  reasons  do  I 
base  my  assertion  that  cash  is  to be  pre­
ferred  as  a  basis  of  payment  for  farm 
produce  brought  to  the  store:  first,  it 
is  better  for the  merchant;  second,  it  is 
better  for  the  producer;  third,  it  is  bet 
ter  for  the  consumer,  on  which  three­
fold  interest  devolves all there is of good 
in  retail  merchandising.

The  welfare  of  the  merchant  is  en­
hanced 
in  that  this  plan  places  him 
where  be  must  discriminate  more  close­
ly  as  to  quality,  paying  an  equitable 
price  to  all,  this  price  always  being 
based  on  worth. 
It  wins  the  good  will 
of  the  producer,  because  it  gives  him 
the  only  true  medium  of  exchange  be­
tween  the  higher  classes  of  civilization, 
money. 
It  holds  the  consumer’s  good 
will,  because  he  secures  what  he  pays 
for,  a  first  class  article  at  a  proportion­
ate  price,  or  a  second-rate  at  its  rec­
ognized  worth.

The  interests  of  the  producer  are  ad­
vanced  in  proportion as  the strife among 
them  to  secure  the  highest  price  ele­
vates  the  standard  of  production,  while 
cash 
in  hand  gives  to  American  labor 
its  just  recompense  of  doing  exactlv 
what  it  pleases  with  the  output  of  toil, 
whether that  be  a  manufactured  article 
or grown.

The  consumer,  last  but  most  mighty 
of  the  three,  is  benefited  in  not  paying 
a  fancy  price  for  a  so-called  first-class 
farm  or  dairy  product  when  what  he 
really  get 
is  unworthy  the  rating  of 
even  low  grade  third  class,  this,  danger 
being  eliminated  by  the  greater  care 
exercised  in  buying  when  cash,  the • ac­
tual,  the  real  moving  power  of  trade 
is 
handed  over  cheerfully,  because  man­
kind,  especially  that  portion  engaged 
in  retail  trade,  always  counts  the  dol­
lars  when  paying  out,  as  these  are  the 
very  foundation  rocks  of  a  business.

It  has  long  been  my  habit  neither  to 
offer  nor  accept  criticism  of  any  kind 
which  did  not  bear  with  it  a  plan  or 
suggestion  of  betterment,  or  at  least 
something  tending  that  way,  new,  novel 
and  on  its  face  worthy  a  trial.  This  in 
view,  I  will  attempt  to  outline  a  system 
and  illustrate  its  workings  whereby  the 
average  general  store  of  our  country 
towns  can  receive  a  benefit  by  adopting 
in  business  deals 
the  cash  principle 
with  farmer  patrons. 
In  the  first  place 
we  will  presuppose  the  firm  adopting 
this  plan  to  be,  or  as  wishing  to  be,  the 
leaders  of 
their  particular  business 
world,  in  order  to  be  which  requires

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

generalship,  coupled  with  an 
indomi­
table  energy  that  wills  a  thing  only  to 
push  it  to  final  victory.  My plan  would 
be  to  resolve  to  do business  on  a  paying 
basis  only;  not  to  work  and  plan  mere­
ly  to  remain  a  convenience to  neigh­
bors,  but  to  be  a  ruling  spirit  among 
them  and  have  their  confidence.  This 
confidence  can  be  best  gained  and  most 
surely  retained  by  an  upright,  dignified 
honesty  in  all  mutual  dealings,  and only 
to  such  as  intend  this  would  I  address 
my  remarks.

In  considering  this  plan  I  would  an­
in  the  not  too  distant 
ticipate  a  date 
future  and 
thoroughly  advertise  that 
after  that  date  all  kinds  of farm produce 
handled  would  be  bought 
for  cash, 
strictly  on  merit,  every  transaction  to 
be  governed  by  actual  worth. 
I  would 
have  some  one 
in  my  employ,  prefer­
ably  a  young  and  popular  man,  to  take 
in  all  produce  aud  issue  therefor  a  cash 
check  in  duplicate,  payable  at  sight  to 
bearer  by  the  cashier of  the  store.  This 
must  be  done  without  a  suggestion  that 
you  want  to get  this  money  back  or  that 
you  are  conferring  a  personal  favor  in 
paying  cash  for  what  you  buy,but rather 
act  as  though  it  was  a  favor  conferred 
bv  allowing  you  to  act  as  agent 
in 
handling  the  products  of  farm,  garden 
or  dairy  for  your  friends.  At  first  it 
will  require  some  money;  also  consid­
erable  nerve  to  see  your  cold  cash  paid 
out  for  what  you  have  been  used  to giv­
ing  merchandise  for.  The store  to  adopt 
this  plan  must  have  goods,  prices  and 
store  service  to  chain  cash  purchasers 
there ;  and  even 
if  the  money  be  tem­
porarily  carried  out  of  the  store,  the 
chances  are  that  it  will  speedily  return 
and  enter  your  cash  box  the same day  or 
very  soon  thereafter,  because  the  money 
received  from  this  source  is  almost  uni­
formly  devoted  to  running  expenses, 
and  human  nature  will  see  that  he  who 
is  free  to  give  cash  should  receive  it 
again  freely,,  often  with  additions  of 
cash  from  other  sources,  as  the  funda­
mental  principles  of  success  underlie 
this  plan.  What  better  system  can  be 
ndopted  than  that  time-honored  one  of 
doing  to  others  as  we  would  be  done  by 
—in  this  case  paying  cash  as  we  de­
mand  cash?

The  employes  of  a  casb-for-produce 
store  would  make  an  extra  effort  at 
salesmanship,  for  they  know  the  deals 
are  cash  deals  and  not  a  mere  produce- 
exchange  slip. 
In  a  cash deal  the  clerk 
knows  that  price,  quality,  need  and 
salesmanship  combined  will  effect  a 
sale,and  consequently  gives better atten­
tion to  the  customers’  needs,  desires and 
personalities  than  he  would  do  if  he 
knew  that  they  would  “ have  to trade out 
their  exchange  slip  anyhow.”   And 
right 
in  the  matter  of  this  improved 
store  service  lies  one  of the  strongest 
arguments  for  adopting  the  cash-for- 
produce  system  I  could  possibly  set 
forth.  Better  still,  the  customer  feels 
the  change  and  where,  before,  trading 
was  a  mere  matter  of  business  (often  of 
a  perfunctory,  disagreeable  nature) 
it 
now  becomes  a  matter  of  pleasurable 
shopping,  a  delight  to  customer  and 
clerk,  while  many  a  now so-called crank 
would  become  a  welcome  cash-paying 
customer  at  any  counter  in  the  store, 
where  under  the  old  regime  the  duty  of 
serving  was  shirked  so  far as  circum­
stances  allowed.  Best  of  all,  life  blood 
is 
into  the  business  and  is 
felt  in  all  its  parts.

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Another  important  point  to  be  consid­
ered  in  this  connection  is  that  the  'cus­
tomer  who  receives  cash  for  produce  to­
day  becomes  a  live advertiser to-mor-

Creameries

Paying 
creameries 
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We  build  the  kind 
that  pay. 
If  you 
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We  are  so  positive  that  our 
Spices  and  Queen  Flake  Baking  Powder  are 
pure  that  we  offer  One  Hundred  Dollars  for  every 
ounce  of  adulteration  found  in  a  package  of  our 
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row,  being  bound  to  tell  of  the  new  or­
der  of  things  to  friends  and  associates, 
the  result  being  that  new  faces are  seen 
in  your  place  of  business,  while  old- 
imers  are  tied  more  permanently to you 
by  a  system  that  recognizes  equality  of 
persons,  and  establishes  an 
inequality 
of  produce  by  paying  full  honest  worth 
for  everything,  that  worth  being  based 
on  what  each  separate  parcel  will  bring 
the  markets  of  the 
when  placed  on 
world 
straight  competition  with 
things  of  its  own  class.

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Now,  as  to  the  workings  of  this  plan: 
Your assistant,  who  should  be both com­
petent  and  firm,  weights,  measures  or 
counts,  as 
is  the  established  rule  for 
that  particular thing,  then  writes  an  or­
der  on  cashier  by  some  system  of  dupli­
cating  all figures and facts, which amount 
should  be  based  on-the highest price you 
can  afford  to  pay.  We  will  suppose  it  is 
the  farm-wife  who  receives  this  cash 
for  the  first time  in  exchange  for  prod­
uce.  She 
is  delighted  at  having  per­
fect  freedom  to  trade  where  she  will 
and,  to  enjoy  this  new-born  freedom, 
sails  somewhat  stiffly  out  of  the  door  on 
a  shopping  tour. 
But,  if  you  could 
follow  that  woman,  you  would  see  that 
the  shopping  tour  was  lim ited;  that  she 
bought  nothing  whatever  elsewhere,  be­
cause  her  conscience  would  be  pulling 
her  back  to  the  source  of  her supply, 
even 
if  your  up-to-date  methods  did 
not  have  fcr  her  a  stronger  attraction. 
Shortly  she  returns  with  an  open  letter 
in  her  hand,  or  some other  visible  evi­
dence  that  she  has only  been  absent  to 
the  postoffice  and  would  never  think  oi 
spending  a  cent  elsewhere  than  right  in 
that  particular  store!  Now  is  the  time 
to  kill  a  good  beginning  by  overzealous 
attention.  This  customer  must  feel  free 
to  buy  or  let  alone  at  her  own pleasure. 
At  the  same  time 
it  is  a  good  oppor­
tunity  to  demonstrate  your  too  often 
meaningless  sign,  It  Is  a  Pleasure  to 
Show  Goods,  all  the  while  wearing  that 
air  of  business  that  plainly  says,  We 
care  more  for  your  good  will  than  for 
your  money,  although  we  are here  for 
the  purpose  of  receiving  both 
if  the 
same  is bestowed  by you  in  utmost  free­
dom ;  otherwise we would  prefer to have 
no  dealings  with  you,  as  we  want  our 
trade  to  feel,  ‘ Once a  customer,  always 
a  customer.’  ”  

L.  A.  E ly.

Certified  Checks.

What  does  the certification  of  a  check 
certify?  This  question  was  raised  by 
the  refusal  of  one of  the  Chicago  banks 
to  cash  a  certified  check  presented  by 
the  city  comptroller. 
It  was  not  con 
tended  that  there  was  anything  crooked 
or  irregular  in  the  matter  in  any  stage- 
of  the  case,  only  that  the  drawer  of  the 
check  had  asked  that  payment  be  re­
fused.  A  decision  has  since  been  ren­
dered  by  the  Appellate  Court  which 
turned  wholly  upon  the  real  purport  of 
certification.  On  one  side  it  was con­
tended  that  when  a  bank  certifies  a 
c -eck  it  simply  declares  that  the drawer 
of the  same  bad  in  bank  at  the  time  to 
his  credit  a  balance  sufficient  to  cash 
it,  but  does  not  guarantee  that  there 
will  be  at  any  future time.  As a  neces­
sary  part  of  this  contention,  the  drawer 
can  stop  payment  on  a  certified  check 
the  same  as  any  other.  The  opposite 
contention 
is  that  a  certification  is  a 
declaration  on  the  part of  the bank  that 
it  has  taken  from  the  .account of the 
signer of  it  money  enough  to pay it,  and 
holds  the  same  subject  to  the  drawee  or 
his  assigns,  no  matter  bow  long  the  de­
lay 
The  Appellate 
Court,  following  other  decisions,  bolds 
to  the  latter  view,  and  by  so doing  con­
forms  to  the  general  understanding  of 
the  community  as to  what  certification 
really  signifies.

in  presentation. 

O N E   C E N T   S T A M P S .

Reasons  for  Their  Decreasing Use  by 

Business  Men.

From the Few  Orleans  Times-Democrat.

One  of  the  curious  circumstances  of 
modern  commercial  life  is  the  passing 
of  the  i-cent  stamp.  It  is  rapidly  going 
out  of  date  for  the  mailing  of  cata­
logues,  circulars,  samples  and  other 
matter  sent  through  the  postoffice 
in 
large  quantities  by  business  houses  and 
many  concerns  have  ceased  to  use  it  al­
together.  A  few  days  ago  a  reporter 
dropped  in  at  the  private  office  of  one 
of  the'  leading  retail  establishments  of 
this city,  and  observed  a  bushel  basket 
of  freshly  addressed  envelopes  in  one 
corner.  A  busy  clerk  was  decorating 
each  with  a  2-cent  stamp.

contain 

“ Those  envelopes 

small 
printed  folders,”   said  one  of  the  part­
ners  in  the  house,  “ announcing  some 
winter  novelties.  There  is  not  a  scratch 
of  a  pen  on  any  of  them  and  they  could 
be  sent  just  as  easily 
for  a  penny 
apiece.  As  there  are  5,000  in  the  lot, 
it  would  mean  a-saving  of  just  $50  in 
to-day’s  postage  b ill.”

“ Why  the  mischief  don’t  you  do  it, 

then?”   asked  the  visitor.

it  doesn’t  pay. 

“ Because  we  have  learned,"  said  the 
merchant,  “ that 
It  is 
one  of  the  economies  that  doesn’t  econ­
omize.  Nowadays,  the  average  busy 
man  rarely  opens  an  unsealed  envelope 
bearing  a 
i-cent  stamp.  He  knows 
without  looking  further  that  it  contain 
advertising  matter  and  throws  it  into 
the  waste  basket  at  once.  Even  if  he 
opens  it  he does  so  with  a  mind  already 
prejudiced,  because  the 
stamp  pro­
claims  that  the  enclosure  is  printed.”

“ But why should that prejudice him?”  

interruped  the  reporter.

“ Because  it  destroys the individuality 
of  the  communication.  Every  man  likes 
to  feel  that  he  is addressed  personally, 
and  if  be  knows  in  advance  that he isn’t 
a  bad  effect  is  made. 
It  is as the differ­
ence  between  talking  to  him  as  one  and 
as  a  crowd  from  a  platform.  This  may 
seem  like  splitting  hairs,  but  advertis­
ing  has  become  such  an  art  at  present 
that  absolutely  nothing  must  be  over­
looked.  We  put  a  2-cent  stamp  on 
the  envelope,  which  insures  its  at  least 
being  opened.  Then  we  must  depend 
on  the  attractiveness  of  the  folder  to  in­
terest  the  recipient.
“ We  have  reduced  the  matter  to  a 
very  exact  business  basis,"  continued 
the  merchant.  “ Take,  for  instance,  this 
particular  bunch  of  mail.  The  folders 
are gotten  up  quite handsomely,and  cost 
us  $125  for  the  5,000,  or  t.%  cents 
apiece. 
I  calculate  that  four-fifths  of 
them  would  be  thrown  away  if they went 
out  with  i-cent  stamps.  That  would  be 
a  clear  loss  of  $100  for  the  enclosures, 
$40  for  postage,  and,  say,  $15  for  en­
velopes,  addressing  and  so  on,  making 
a  total  of $155.  The  increased  cost  of 
the  2-cent  stamps  is  $50,  but  we  are 
certain  that  they  will 
land  one of  the 
folders 
in  the  hands of  each  person  on 
the  list.  The  net  saving  is $105  There 
is  no  sentiment  nor  imagination  about 
the  transaction. 
is  a  clear,  cold 
matter of  arithmetic.  We  formerly used 
the  i-cent  stamp  wherever  we could,  but 
experience  and  close  observation  have 
taught  us  that  it  was  bad  policy.”

The  reporter  talked  to  several  other 
business  men  on  the  subject,  and  found 
them  of  practically  the  same  opinion.
“ The change  is  largely  due,”   said  a 
well-known  wholesaler,  “ to 
in­
creased  cost  of  advertising  matter  in 
tended 
for  distribution  through  the 
mails.  Not  long  ago  most  business 
houses  contented  themselves  with  very 
simple  pamphlets,  giving  prices  and 
perhaps  embellished  with  a  few  small 
cuts.  The  whole  thing  was  cheaply  got­
ten  up,  printed  on  very  ordinary  paper 
and  cost  a  mere  trifle.  The  modern 
’ booklet,’  as 
it  is  generally  called,  is 
quite  a  different  affair.  The  cover  de­
sign 
is drawn  by  a  first-class arfst,  the 
illustrations  are  frequently equal to those 
of  the  magazines  and  the  matter 
is 
probably  prepared  by  a  high-priced  ex­
pert.  Needless  to  say,  the  mechanical 
work  must  be  in  accord,  and  the  ex­
pense  of  such  a  publication  is a  serious

the 

It 

it 

item.  Here,  for  instance,  is  one  of  our 
special  catalogues,  with  pictures  litho 
graphed 
in  six  colors.  The  silk  rib 
bon  drawn  through  the  back  alone  cost 
more  than  the  old-time  price  list  all 
told.

is  that 

“ When  we 

incur  such  an  outlay  we 
must  be  reasonably  certain  that  the 
booklet  is  at  least  seen  by  the  people  to 
whom 
is  addressed,  and  under  the 
circumstances  it  would  be  foolish  to  use 
a 
i-cent  stamp.  That  would  at  once 
suggest  something  cheap  and  common.
“ But  we  use  a  2-cent  stamp  at  pres­
ent,”   he  continued,  “ to  carry  even  a 
simple 
little  slip  giving  certain  ship­
ping  directions  to  our  customers.  Our 
idea 
it  catches  the  eye  of  the 
man  we  are  after.  A  good  many  busy 
men  have  their  mail  sorted  by  a  con­
fidential  clerk  before  they  see  it,  ana 
unsealed  envelopes  with  i-cent  postage 
are  apt  to  be  thrown  aside  then  ana 
there  as  of  no  impoitance. 
If  there  is 
a 2-cent  stamp  they  are  quite  sure  to re­
main  in  the  batch  that  reachs  the  bead 
of  the  house.  Samples  of  dress  goods 
in  unsealed  en­
were  formerly  sent 
velopes,  almost 
invariably,  but  they 
were  so  apt  to  slip  out  and  get  lost  thai 
the  practice  has  been  generally  aban­
doned.  Some  of  these  samples are  quite 
expensive,  and 
it  doesn’t  pay  to  take 
chances. ’ ’
Christm as  and  New  Year  Excursion 

Tickets.

The  Michigan  Central  will  sell  round 
trip  tickets  to  all  stations  on  its  lines 
and  to  stations  on  connecting 
lines, 
within  a  prescribed  territory,  Dec.  23, 
24,  25,  26,  30 and  31,  1898,  and  Jan.  1 
and  2,  1899,  at  greatly  reduced  rates. 
Return  limit  Jan.  3.  W.  C.  B l a k e , 
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

A   C H R IS T M A S   W IN D O W .

Why  the  Little  Lads  Liked  the  Pic­

tures.
Written for the Tbadkbmak.

from  down 

One  bitter cold  evening  the  fore  part 
of  last  week,  about 7 o’clock,  we stopped 
in  front  of  one of  Friedman's  windows, 
Kitty  Klyde  and  the  writer,  waiting 
for  our  street  car  to  trail  its  slow  pace 
from  the  Land  of  Nowhere  to  the  corner 
opposite  us.  The  time  seemed  long  to 
wait,  so  we  fell  to  examining  the  mul­
tiplicity  of  objects  behind  the  big  plate 
glass.  As  we  stood  in  discontent  at  the 
delay,  and  muffled  up  to  our  eyes  in 
our  warm  winter  coats,  along  came two 
little  urchins 
the  street. 
They  were  poorly  clad,  their  garments 
looking  none  too  comfortable  for  early 
fall  wear.  Everything  they  had  on  was 
baggy  and  a  misfit.  Their  little  thin 
overcoats—hardly  worth  the name—hung 
up  in  the  back  and  down  at the pockets, 
and  bent old  brassy  safety-pins  did duty 
for  buttons.  An  old  cap  minus  the 
brim  sat  rakishly  on  the  mop  of  short 
yellow  curls  adorning  the  head  of  one 
child,  while the  other boy  had  evident­
ly  fallen  heir  to  the  castaway of  some 
pampered  darling  of  Fortune,  for  what 
had  once  been  a  beautiful  richly-em 
broidered  Turkish  fez was jammed down 
over his  scant  locks,  which  hung  from 
under the  sharp  edge  of the  fez  in  little 
mouse-colored  strings,  looking 
for  all 
the  world 
like  the  frayed-out  fringe  of 
a  dingy  old  shawl.  Their  skimpy  little 
coat  collars  lay  limp  from  their  scrawny 
little  consumptiony  throats.  One  of  the 
lads  had  on  red  woolen  stockings, 
through  the  large  holes  of  which  one 
caught  more than  glimpses  of  a  pair  of 
white  cotton  ones  underneath.  His 
leather  shoestrings  were  tied  in  a  bard 
knot  and  draggled  on  the  ground,  and 
the  red  hose  hung  over the  tops  of  his 
shoes,  which  were  stubbed  at  the  toe 
and  shapeless  at  the  heel.  The  wind 
beat  cuttingly  around  their bony  little 
legs  and  their  blue 
little  bird’s-claws 
were  thrust  so  deeply  in  their overcoat 
pockets  that  the  effort  bent  their  backs, 
except  as 
they  would  be  suddenly 
yanked  out  to  emphasize  their  remarks 
as  they  pointed  at  the  objects  that  at­
tracted  them 
Both 
children 
if  a  good  square 
meal  was  an  utter  stranger  to  their  lum­
bar  regions.

in  the  window. 

looked  as 

Kitty  and  I  are  especially 

interested 
in  boys  of  their  age;  so,  as  they  drew 
near,  a  glance  passed  between  us  and 
we  each  became  apparently  absorbed  in 
contemplation  of  the  knickknacks 
in­
tended  to  open  the  purses  of  Christmas 
shoppers.

know  how  it  sounds,  and  bow  you  say  it 
when  you  see  something  you'd give your 
eyes  to  possess),  one  of  “ the  kids" 
exclaimed,  as  they  bounded  in  between 
“ My!  but  don’t  1 
us  and  the  window. 
wisht  everything 
in  this  here winder 
wuz  only  ten  cents,  like  it is down there. 
Don’t  you,  Billy—don’t  you  wisht  every 
single  one  uv  these  here  things wuz only 
ten  cents?  My!  but  don't  I  wisht 
it.”  
And  he  drew  a  long  sigh  as  if  be  might 
as  well  wish  he  were  Chauncey  Depew. 
Then,  realizing  our  presence,  be  turned 
and  looked  up  in  my  face. 
“ Say!”   he 
said,  with  delightful 
camaraderie, 
“ wouldn’t  it  jess  be  too  slick  fer  any­
thing  ef  all  these  here  things 
in  this 
winder  wuz  only  ten  cents?’ ’  And  he 
made  a  sweeping  gesture  with  his  blue 
hand,  that  I  just  ached  to  gather  up 
in 
mine  and  hold  until 
it  got  warm. 
“ Say!”   he  went  on,  still  addressing 
me,  “ did  you  know  thet  there's  two 
great  big  winders  down  the  street  here 
a  ways  where  there’s  not  a  thing  in  ’em 
thet  costs  more’n  ten  cents?  Hully  G ee! 
but  I  wisht  it  wuz  so  here.”

For  his  sake  I  “ wisht”   so,  too.
The  boys  seesawed  from  one  thing  to 
another  that  struck  their  eye,  but  we 
noticed  that  they  always  paused  longest 
over  at  the  right,  and  they  kept  sidling 
over  there  as  if  their hearts  were  finally 
settled  on  one  object  to  the  exclusion 
of  the  dozens  of  other  things  displayed.
Curious  to  know  what  the  lodestone 
was,  we  followed  their gaze,  which  ever 
rested  on  two  large  pictures  of  Biblical 
import.  One  was  of  the  Savior  on  the 
cross,  while  below  at  the  left  stood  two 
women  in  an  attitude of  mild adoration. 
To  the  right  was  another  woman,  who 
was  catching  on  a  white  cloth  the  blood 
flowing  from  Jesus’  feet.  There  was 
no  more  expression  in  the  countenances 
if  the  women  than  if  they  were  picking 
flowers 
in  a  Persian  garden—nor  so 
much ;  but  there  was  plenty  of  color  in 
the  pictures,  the  dresses  being  of  most 
gaudy  hues,  and  the  massive 
frame 
was  all  gilt  and  of  ornate  design.  The 
other  picture  was  all  black  and  gray— 
dark  and  gloomy  to  contemplate. 
It 
must  have  represented  the  interview  of 
Peter  with  Jesus  before  the  miracle of 
Christ  Walking  on  the  Water. 
In  the 
iistance  was  the  sea.  Near  the  shore 
was  a  ship  with  wind-filled  sails.  The 
waves  were  running  high,  the  sky  was 
ominous  with  black,  angry  clouds, 
while  the  vivid  forks  of  lightning in  the 
background  would 
inspire  a  feeling  of 
dread  in  the  stoutest  heart.  In  the  fore­
ground  at  the  left  was  the  suppliant  fig­
ure  of  the  apostle,  while  near  him  stood 
the  Christ,  with  hand  raised  in  protec­
tion,  and  a  face  of  heavenly calm.  The 
picture  was  only  a  cheap  print,  the

frame,  of  oak  and  gilt,  was  big  and 
coarse,  but  the  subject  was  of  strong 
human  interest.  One  was  instinctively 
drawn  to  it  and  no  wonder  those  chil­
dren  felt  the  holy  influence  of  the  Pres­
ence.

But  I  wanted  their opinion  in  their 
own  words,  so  1  moved  away  from 
those  two  pictures,  over  toward  others 
—of  flowers,  female  figures  and  choir 
children—and  asked,  carelessly,  “ What 
would  you  rather have,  boys,  in  all  this 
great  big  window?”

“ Them !" 

they  answered, 

in  one 

breath.

“ Them  what?"  I  asked.
“ Them  there  pictures,"  they  again 

answered  both  at  once.

in 

“ Which  ones?  Oh,  you  mean  this 
with  the  big  chrysanthemums 
it, 
like they  have  in  the  flower  stores;  and 
this  of  a  Venus  sitting  on  the  clouds 
with  the  cupids  flying  around  her and 
giving  her  posies;  and  all  these  of  the 
pretty 
ladies  sitting  in  the  beautiful 
rooms, ’ ’  I  purposely observed.

“ No,  no,  no!”   they 

impatiently  ex­
claimed;  “ not  them there—these here. “  
And  they  moved  over to the  Christ  pic­
tures,  looking  back  for  us to  follow.

“ Oh,  those!”   I  said,  in  a  tone  as 

if 
“ Those!  And 

just  comprehending. 
why  those?”

“ Ob,  because,”  answered  Little  Tow 

head  vaguely.

“ Well,  but  why  don’t  you  like  these 
“ They 
too;  and  the 

others  so  well?”   I  persisted. 
are  good  big  pictures, 
frames  are  just  as  wide.”

The  boys  seemed  at  a 

loss  for an 

answer.

away: 

To  divert  them  from  their subject  I 
continued,  moving 
“ And 
wouldn’t  you  rather have  some  of  these 
toilet bottles  with  the  bright ribbons on; 
or  those  hand-mirrors  with  the  silver 
backs;  or  the  painted  handkerchief 
boxes?  Ob,  no!  I  know  what  you’d  like 
best  of  all—one  of  those  great big lamps 
up  there,  all  covered  with 
flowers. 
That's  what— I  know!” And  I  descanted 
with  enthusiasm  on  the  merits  of  all 
these  things,  and  of  the  showy  lamps  in 
particular.

“ Yes.  the  lamps  is  beau-ti-ful,”   he 
looked  at  them  wistfully,  “ and  I’d  like 
one  uv 
’em  awful  well, ”   this time  it 
was Fringe Hair who spoke,  “ but—but— 
I druther have the pictures—these here. ”  
And  he  again  wavered  over  to  their 
hearts’  desire.

“ So  you 

like  those  two  pictures  the 
best  of  all  the  things  in  this  great  big 
window.  Now,  why  is  it?  Is  it  because 
that  one  has  so  much  color  in  it,  and 
because  this  one  is  so big,  and  so  much 
for  the  money?”  
latter  was 
marked  $1  69.)  The boys hesitated.

“ Y — e— s,  I  guess  so,”   said  Towsie- 
top,  with  an  uncertain  ring  in bis voice.
“ I  know  why  we  want  ’em  so  bad,”  
suddenly  exclaimed  Fringe  Hair.  “ It's 
because  it’s Jesus!”

Polly  P e p p e r .

He  Got  Even  With  Her.

A  good  story  reaches  us  from  Kala­
mazoo  of  the  disastrous  results  which 
followed  a  wife’s  disregard  of  her  hus­
band’s  objections  to  peroxide.  There 
were  several  tints  in  the  wife’s crown of 
glory  and  she  had  decided  that  inas­
much  as 
it  was  nearly  all  blonde  any­
way  the  best  thing  she  could  do  was  to 
peroxide  the  whole  lot.  On  broaching 
the  subject  to  her  liege  lord,  however, 
she  was  met  with  such  decided  disap­
proval  as  to  put  a  damper on  her  plan 
for  a  time  By  way  of  squaring  things 
the  husband  gave  her a  handsome  check 
and  told  her  to  get  a  new  dress.  When 
came  home  from  the 
this  garment 
dressmaker,  it  was 
immediately  tried 
on  and  there and  then  she  decided  that 
yellow  hair and  that  gown  would  “ just 
match  splendidly. ”   Next  day  she  bad 
the  job  done,  and  it  must  be  confessed 
that  she  did  not  admire  herself  quite  as 
much  as  she  had  expected.  When  her 
husband  came  home  in  the  evening  he 
gazed 
in  amazement  at  the  transforma­
tion,  but  did  not  say  much,  and the wife 
congratulated  herself  on  his  taking  it 
so  easy.  Hubby  was  unusually  silent, 
however,  and 
she  feared  a  coming 
storm.

like 

Next  morning  he  went  to  bis  office  in 
anything  but  an  amiable  mood.  He  sat 
tor  an  hour tugging  savagely  at  his  au­
burn  beard  and  mustache,  and  finally 
decided  on  a  course  of  action.  An  hour 
or so  before his  usual  quitting  time  be 
visited  a  barber  shop,  where  he  bad  bis 
beard  and  mustache  dyed  a  poisonous 
looking  black.  The  natural  paleness  of 
his  face  was  hugely  exaggerated  by 
the  stygian  hue  of  his  hirsute  adorn­
ment and  be  looked  like  a  photograph 
taken  after  death.  Then  he  went  home 
and  burst 
into  the house  with  a  grisly 
attempt  at  a  cheery  grin  and  a  bluff 
manner.  His  wife  met  him  in  the  ball. 
it?”   he  asked  htr. 
“ How  d’ye 
“ Great,  ain’t 
thing,  eh? 
Thought  I’d  have  it  fixed  up  as  a  sort 
of  contrast  to  you,  y ’know.  Now  we’re 
both  ornamental  around  the  house,  see? 
You  look 
like  an  orange-padded  tab­
ouret  and  I  like the  cross  section  of  an 
oil  stove.  Oh,  ain’t  we a lovely bunch !”
Then  he  caught  sight  of  himself  in 
the  mirror  over  the  mantel  and  fell  into 
a  chair and  bowled  mirthlessly.  After 
several  hours  of  pleading  she  induced 
him  to  sneak  around  to  a  late-closing 
barber  shop,  where  he  had  his  beaid 
and  mustache  removed.  She  can  not,  in 
return,  have  her  dead yellow hair shaved 
close  to  her  head,  of  course,  but  he  has 
her  promise  in  typewriting that  she  will 
let  the  peroxide  wear off,  never  in  this 
life to be  renewed.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the drip. 

President, J ohn A.  H o ffm an,  Kalamazoo; Secre­
tary, J.  C.  Sa d n d k r s, Lansing;  Treasurer, C h as. 
McN o l tt, Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  C.  C.  Snsdbkeu,  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 alm ork, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, W. S. West, Jackson.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  B oyd  Pa n t l in d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, G eo.  F.  Ow en,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President, F. G. T r u sco tt, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  W ixson,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Cass  Frost,  of  Lansing,  has  taken  a 
position  as  traveling  salesman  for the 
Central  City  Soap  Co.,  of  Jackson.

Willis  P.  Townsend  has  signed  with 
the  Christenson  Baking  Co.  to  represent 
it  in  the  same  territory  for  a  sixth  year.
W.  H.  Brezette,  traveling  representa­
tive  for  the  Bryden  Horse  Shoe  Co.,  of 
Albion,  is  on  an  extended  Western  trip 
as  far  as  Denver and  Salt  Lake  City.
Hillsdale  Council,  U.  C.  T .,  held 

its 
first  anniversary  entertainment and  ban­
quet  last  Saturday  evening,  the  former 
at 
its  hall  and  the  latter at  the  Smith 
House.  The  Council  now  has  tweny-six 
members.

Duff  Jennings,  who 

traveled  nine 
years  for  W.  J.  Gould  &  Co.,  trans­
ferred  his  allegiance  to  C.  Elliott  & 
Co.  Dec. 
i.  Mr.  Jennings  made  an 
enviable  record  with  the  old  bouse  and 
looks  forward  to  new  conquests  in  his 
new  conneciion.

Owosso  Times:  Frank  E.  Wicking 
has taken  a  position  as  traveling  repre­
sentative  in  Michigan  for  L  Hershfield 
&  Brother,  of  New  York,  manufacturers 
of  clothing  and  trousers.  Mr.  Wicking 
has  been  traveling  for  J.  H.  Copas  & 
Sons  during  the  last  eleven  months.

Lansing  Journal:  Charles  Christo­
pher,  salesman  for  Robson  Bros.,  has 
resigned,  to  take  effect  January  i,  when 
he  will  become  the  representative  of 
Northrop,  Robertson  &  Carrier  for 
Northern  and  Eastern  Michigan.  Mr. 
Christopher  will 
succeed  Allen  D. 
Grant,  who  has  resigned  to  take  a  posi­
tion  with  the  Charles  Wright  Medicine 
Co.,  of  Detroit.

An  English  writer,  who  is  himself  a 
commercial  traveler,  says: 
“ United 
States merchants and manufacturers send 
out  a  high  class  of  representatives— as­
tute  men  who  have 
large  and  varied 
experience 
lines; 
men  educated  in  the  details  of  the  busi­
ness  they  represent;  men  of  the  age that 
brings  wisdom  and  accuracy ;  men  that 
earn  and  command  the  largest  salaries, 
and  men  of  push,  energy  and  vigor."

in  their  respective 

J.  C.  Watson  (Daniel  Lynch)  is  tak­
ing  the  first  vacation  he  has  had  since 
the  World’s  Fair.  His  route  is  being 
covered  for  a  month  by  bis  son,  Frank 
E.  Watson,  who  has  been  engaged  in 
gold  mining  in  Eldorado  county,  Cali., 
for  the  past  twelve  years. 
It  is  possible 
that  the  Junior  Watson  will  conclude  to 
take  up  his  residence  in  this  State,  di­
viding  the  territory  heretofore  covered 
by  the  Senior  Watson.

At  the  adjourned  meeting  of  Post  E 
(Grand  Rapids),  held  at  Sweet’s  Hotel 
last  Saturday  evening,  Chairman  Jones 
announced 
Entertainment 
Committee  for  the  ensuing  year  would 
be  Fred  Blake,  B.  S.  Davenport,  Harry 
Winchester,  Geo.  F.  Owen  and  Fred  J.

that 

the 

Ephlin.  It  was  decided  to  go to the Sag­
inaw  convention  via  the  D.,  G.  R.  & 
W.  route,  leaving  the  union  depot  at  7 
o'clock  next  Tuesday  morning. 
It  is 
hoped  that  the  Grand  Rapids  delega­
tion  will  exceed  twenty-five  members.

Hiilsdale  Standard:  W.  A.  Wagner, 
who  has  been  for  the  past  nine  years 
with  Berdan  &  Co.,  wholesale  grocers 
at  Toledo,  has  severed  his  connection 
with  that  concern,  and, 
in  company 
with  five  other  employes  of  the  same 
house,  has  formed  a  new  firm,  to  be 
known  as  the  Church  &  McConnell  Co. 
and  will  run  a  wholesale  company  in 
that  city.  Mr.  Wagner  will  act as  trav­
eling  salesman  for the  new  company,  on 
his  former  route,  and  thus  be  able  to 
continue  his  residence  here,  a  fact  his 
many  friends  in  Hillsdale  and  his  old 
customers  along  the  route  will  be  glad 
to  learn.

it. 

A traveling  man who represents a large 
shoe  house  returned  a  few  days  ago 
from  a  ten  weeks’  trip  to  principal 
cities 
in  parts  of  the  South  and  West. 
He  said,  when  asked  about  bistrip : 
“ I  have  been  on  the  jump  for  nearly 
three  months. 
It  would  not  have  been 
possible  for  me  to  have  covered  the 
amount  of  territory  which  I  did  except 
that  I  am  well  acquainted  with 
In­
stead  of  staying  two  or  three  days  in  a 
city  as  I  might  have  done,  I  simply  saw 
my  customers  and  jumped  to  the  next 
place.  As  an  evidence  of the  amount  ot 
ground  that  I  covered,  l  may  add  that 
during  the  first  month  I  was  out  I  was 
twenty-one  nights 
in  a  sleeping  car. 
That  means  a  mighty  hard  thirty  days’ 
work,  as  any  traveling  man will allow. ”
St.  Johns  News:  After  a  connection 
with  Baldwin,  McGraw  &  Co.,  of  De­
troit,  covering  a  period  of  nearly  nine 
years,  E.  P.  Waldron  will  sever his con­
nection  with  that  company  on  January  1 
and  intends  to  hereafter  devote  his  time 
entirely  to  the  various 
in 
which  he  is  personally  interested  in  St. 
Johns.  Mr.  Waldron  gives  up  a  salary 
of  $3,600  a  year  to  make  this  change, 
but  naturally,  with  the  large  interests  of 
the  St.  Johns  Land  Co.,  of  which  he  is 
chairman,  and  the  different  enterprises 
which  he  owns  demanding  attention, 
he  feels  that  his  personal  supervision  is 
necessary  to  satisfactory  results,  and  be 
has  wisely  concluded  to  devote  bis  en­
ergy  and  push  entirely  at  home.  Mr 
Waldron  has  shown  great  public  spirit 
in  every  improvement  proposed  in  town 
and  has  taken  an  active  interest 
in  all 
plans  formulated  to  promote the  general 
welfare  of  St.  Johns.
Recommends  the  Candidacy  of  Mr.

interests 

Stevens.

Marshall,  Dec.  18—Knowing  that  you 
take  a  lively  interest  in  the  Knights  of 
the  Grip,  I  am  venturing  to  presume 
that  you  will  not  consider  me  intruding 
upon  your  valuable  space  in  writing  to 
express  my  deep  sense  of  pleasure  in 
learning  that  Charles  Stevens  is  a  can 
didate  for  President. 
I  have  known 
Mr.  Stevens  for  twenty  years,  during 
which  time  be  has  always  proven  him­
self  a  good—very  good—loyal  and  most 
gentlemanly  commercial  traveler,  and  I 
can  speak  from  personal experience  and 
without  ostentation  of  his 
charitable 
and  other  noble  acts. 
I  think  no  one 
I, 
can  doubt  his  ability  for  the  office. 
for  one,  know  of  no  member more fitted, 
and  his  appointment  will  add  laurels ‘to 
one  of  the  best  organizations,  that  of 
the  Knights  of  the  Grip,  in  the  State  of 
Michigan.
I  think  I  might  add  that  I  am  one  of 
the  oldest  members,  bolding  certificate 
No.  170. 
I  do  know  that  I  have  many 
friends  among  the  members,  who  will,  I 
am  sure,  give  me  credit  for  sincerity 
and  honesty  of  purpose  in  my  recom­
mendation. 

W il l ia m   Connor.

boarders,  etc.,)  rooms  on  first  floor  up 
are  always  occupied.  Rooms  on  floors, 
four  to  seven,  reserved  for commercial 
trade,  who  may  rest  assured  they  will 
find  quiet  and  be  above  the  dustline. 
The  dangerous  gas  stove  and noisy radi­
ator  are  not  tolerated.  Tbe  heating  is 
all  done  by  a  stove  in  the  hall—on  the 
first  floor.  Gas  and  electricity  are  so 
dangerous  and  unsatisfactory  that  we 
have  placed  at  enormous  expense,  fine 
oil  lamps  in  each  room.  The  unsightly, 
burglar  inviting  fire  escape  has  been 
tabooed,  and  as  this  hotel  has  stood  for 
fifty-five  years,  guests  can  rest  assured 
there  is  no  danger  from  fire.  By advice 
of  the  eminent  Dr.  Bonebreak,  our  beds 
are  made  of  pure  vegetable  corn-husks 
placed  on  light  springs,backed  through­
out  with  heavy  slats,  thereby  insuring 
safety  to  the  heaviest  occupant.  Said 
slats  prevent  sagging  and 
inspire  con­
fidence  (cuss  words  and  pain.)  We  as­
sure  you  that nothing like disease-breed­
ing  cotton  or curled  hair  is  used.

The  electric  call-bell  nuisance  never 
existed  here  and  never  will.  We  supply 
tbe  wants  of  our  guests  before  they  re­
tire,  thereby  insuring  peace  to  the  clerk 
and  porter,  and  quiet  to  the  guetts. 
Grass  matting  is  used  in  all  bed  rooms 
in  place  of  unsanitary  wool  carpets.  All 
other 
appointments  equally  perfect. 
Should  you  not  like  your treatment  or 
your  accommodations,  pay your  bill  and 
get  out;  you  won’t  be  missed—we  are 
not  keeping  hotel  for  grumblers  or  our 
health.  The  clerk  and  porter  can  gen­
erally  be  found 
In 
case  the  porter  is  not  there  “ he  is  up- 
street,”   and  “ will  be back soon. ”   The 
bar  is  just  in  rear  of  office,  and  having 
no  outside  entrance,  the  people  are 
compelled  to  pass  through  tbe  office, 
thereby  giving  the  traveling  trade  the 
opportunity  to  get  acquainted  with some 
of  the  best  people  in  town  at  a  nominal 
expense.  Guests  can  obtain  plenty  of 
drinking  water at  the  bar.

in  the  bar-room. 

following 
low  rates  prevail: 
Tbe 
Board, 
(American  plan),  $2  upward. 
The  $2  rooms  are  in  the  attic,  and  as 
vou  come  down  we  go  up.  Baths  (al­
(Water  proof) 
ways  cold)  25  cents. 
soap,  extra.  Towels,  extra. 
Sample 
in  same,  extra. 
room,  extra. 
Everything  extra.

Fire 

Catchem  &  S qubezem.

If it  wasn't  for  the fools  in  this  world, 
wise  men  would  have  to  work  for a  liv­
ing.
R E M O D E L E D   H O T E L   B U T L E R
I.  M.  BROWN, PROP.
Rates, $1. 

Washington Ave. and Kalamazoo St.,  LA N SIN G .

HOTEL WHITCOMB

S T . JO SE P H ,  M ICH . 

A. VINCENT. Prop.

FREE  BUS.

$ 2   PER  DAY. 

TH E  C H A R LE S TO N

Only first-class house in  MA8 0 Nj  Mic h .  Every­
thing new.  Every room heated.  Large and weil- 
lighted sample rooms.  Send your mail care  of  the 
Charleston, where the boys stop.  CH AR LES  A . 
C A LD W E L L, formerly of Donnelly  House,  Prop.

Hotel  Columbia

Finest Furnished House in 
TRAVERSE CITY.  MICH.

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  and  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 ana trains.
A   First-class  Lunch  Room  In  connection.

W.  H.  FLETCHER,  Prop.

FORMERLY  OF  COLUMBIAN  RESTAURANT

The  Changes  of  Twenty  Years. 

Written for th e  T r a d esm a n.

I  can  not  resist  the  temptation  to  say 
to  the  traveling  men,  through  the  medi­
um  of  the  Tradesmen,  “ I’ve  a  compli­
ment  for  you. ’ ’

It  was  my  pleasure  to  meet,  not  long 
ago,  a  sweet-faced  ex-landlady;  one 
who  for  many,  many  years  made  the 
house  over  which  sbe  long  presided  so 
homelike  that,  to  use  her own  words, 
“ the  boys  always  said 
it  was  next  to 
going  home  to  stay  with  us  over  Sun­
day. ”   The  dear  old  lady  had  “ given 
up  the  reins  to  daughter;’ ’  still,  it  was 
very  evident  that  she  bad  not  lost  in­
terest 
in  the  comfort  of  those  she  had 
so  long  and  faithfully  served,  for  she 
paused 
in  the  entertainment  of  the 
stranger,  who  awaited  her  train,  to  say 
to a  maid  who  passed  through the  room, 
laden  with 
linen,  “ Be  sure  that  they 
are  well  aired.  We  don’t  want  any  one 
who  stops  with  us  to  catch  their  death 
sleeping  in  damp  sheets.’ ’

I  did  not  start  out,  however,  to  give 
the  sunny  grandma  well-deserved  com­
pliments,  but  to  pass  on  her  compli­
ment  to others.

She  was  speaking  of  the  difference 
between  tbe  up-to-date  hotel  of the pres­
ent  and  the  hostelry  of  some  twenty 
years  ago. 
" I   tell  you  where  I  see  a 
greater  change,"  said  sbe,  with  face 
aglow;  “ it’s  in  the  traveling  men.  We 
used  to  call 
’em  ‘ bummers;’  and  the 
name  was  good  enough,  too,  for  they 
were  a  tough  lot.  My  daughters  were 
young  then  and  used  to  wait  on  the 
tables,but  I  was  careful  that  they  didn't 
go  nigh  the  ‘ bummers'  table.’  ”

At  this  I  ventured,  “ Why,  I  know  of 
traveling  men  who  were  as  much  of 
gentlemen  twenty  years  ago  as  they  are 
now. ’ ’

an 

sucb 

‘ drummers’  table;’  and  I 

“ Didn't  stop  with  us,  then !”   was  tbe 
emphatic  answer. 
“ All  who  came  our 
way,  in  those  days,  would  bear  watch­
ing.  But,  after a  spell,  once  in  awhile, 
one  would  take  my  breath  away,  come 
Sunday,  by asking  where  they’d  find  the 
best  preaching.  Then,  by  degrees,  we 
saw 
improvement  that  I 
wouldn’t  allow  them  to  call  it  anything 
but 
let  my 
daughters  wait  on 
it,  too.  How  is  it 
now?  There  isn’t  a  mite  of  use asking 
that  question.  Any  one  with  half  an  eye 
can  see  that  ‘ bummers’  and  ‘ drummers' 
are  nowhere,  these  days,  but  I  tell  you, 
instead,  there  are  a  lot  of  traveling gen­
I  can  hardly  realize  the  differ­
tlemen. 
ence  between  then  and  now. 
Instead  of 
being  surprised  if  one  of  them  should 
go  to  church,  as  I  was  once,  I  am  sur­
prised  if  they  don’t  all  go. 
It  seems  to 
me  as 
if  two-thirds  of  ’em  are  either 
members  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  or  some 
I  tell  you  it’s a  big 
religious  society. 
‘bummers'  to  Christian 
change  from 
traveling  men. 
It  warms  my  old  heart 
to  see  it,  too,  for  somehow I seem  like  a 
mother  to  ’em  all.”

Is  not  this  a  compliment  worth  re­
It  seems  so  to  me,  and  so  I 

peating? 
pass  it  on. 

H.  H.  T.

The  Commercial  Hotel.

Branches all over the United States.

Special Attention Given Commercial Trade.

A ll Appointments  Perfect.

Facilities Unequalled.
Your Trade Solicited.

Sample  rooms  on  first  floor  (on  the 
alley).  No  deadly  (or  any  other kind 
of)  elevator.  Strong  colored  men  per­
form  this  service  (for  two  dollars  per 
week  in  “ tips.")  Our  stairs  have  been 
changed  to an  angle  of 75  degrees,  mak­
ing  them  straighter,  and  giving  more 
It  having  quite  a 
room 
large 
trade  (of  politicians,

in  the  halls. 
special 

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

Drugs—Chemicals

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

F .  W.  R.  P e r r t , Detroit 
A. C. Sch d m ach eb,  Ann  Arbor 
Geo.  Gu n d r u m ,  Ionia  - 
L. E. Re y n o l d s,  St.  Joseph 
- 
H e n b t  Heim .  Saginaw  - 

•" 

- 

President, G eo.  G u ndrum,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Sch u m ach er,  Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, H e n b y  H eim , Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.

Detroit—Jan. 10 and 11.
Grand Rapids—March 7 and 8.
Star Island—June 26 and 27.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.
President—J. J. So u r w in e,  Escanaba. 
Secretary, C h a s.  F.  Man n, Detroit.
Treasurer  J ohn D.  Mu ir , Grand Rapids.

inches 

long,  24 

iron  table  top. 

A   Useful  Stove  For  the  Pharmacy.
Some  seventy  years  ago,  more  or  less, 
Michael  Faraday,  who  was  declared  by 
Sir  Humphrey  Davy  to  be  the  greatest 
of  his  discoveries,  published  a  work  on 
chemical  apparatus  and  manipulation. 
In  the  list  of  apparatus  he  described  a 
It  was  of  brick  with 
chemical  furnace. 
In  dimensions  it 
an 
was  about  36 
inches 
wide,  and  30  inches  high.  The  body  of 
the  furnace  was  not  built  solidly  of 
brick ;  but  back  of  the  fire-box  was  a 
vacant  space  which  was  utilized  for  a 
drying  oven.  This  had  doors  on  both 
sides.  Above  the  oven  ran  a  wide  and 
shallow  flue  which  conveyed  the  smoke 
and  gases  from  the  fuel  into  the  chim­
ney.  The  iron  top  was  pierced  over the 
fire-box  with  boles  for  vessels  which 
it 
was  desired  to  expose  to direct fire heat; 
and  by  a  rectangular  hole  for  receiving 
a  sand-bath  large  enough  to  occupy  the 
space  over  the  hot chamber,  and warmed 
by  the  products  of  combustion  as  they 
passed  from  the  fire  into  the  chimney.
It  is  needless  for  the  purpose  of  this 
paper  to  pursue  the  description  any 
further.  The  builders  of  stoves  em­
ployed  for  culinary  purposes,  in  some 
instances, 
to  my  certain  knowledge, 
have  followed  very  implicitly Faraday’s 
idea,  with the  two  exceptions  of  making 
the  stoves  entirely  of  iron  and  omitting 
the  sand-bath.  They  have  the  hot  oven, 
and  beneath  it  a  warm  chamber,  which 
to  the  pharmacist  is  excellent  for  dry­
ing  drugs  and  salts  which  are  too  damp 
for  use  for  certain  purposes. 
If  I  were 
at  my  old  home  in  Maine,  I  believe  1 
could  have  one  of  these  stoves  fitted 
with  a  sand-bath  by  having only the  pat­
tern  made  from  which  to  cast  it,  the top 
plate  being  so  arranged  with  movable 
covers  as  to  permit  the  substitution  of 
the  sand-bath  without further  alteration. 
Back  of  the  sand-bath  should  be  set  two 
five-gallon  copper  tanks  tin  lined,  one 
of  which  should  be  religiously  reserved 
for  the  distilling  of  water,  and  the  other 
for  hot  water  for  the  various  uses  as 
needed  during  the  day.  The  cost  of 
such  a  stove  would  exceed  to  some  ex­
tent  that  of  the  ordinary  heater,  but  to  a 
man  who  prefers  to  make  his  own  prep­
arations  and  not  trust  himself  in  the 
hands  of  others,  the  facilities  which 
it 
in  his  way  will  more  than 
will  place 
compensate  for  the  excess.

What  now  can  be  done by  the  capable 
pharmacist  with  a  stove  so fitted  up? 
Let  us  take  two  or  three  examples  from 
duties  which  are  liable  to  occur  every 
day.  The  pharmacist  has  a  small  quan­
tity  of  an  extract  to  prepare.  Having 
mother tincture,  he  introduces  it  into  a 
flask,  attaches  his  condenser  and  re­
ceiver,  places  it  on  the  sand-bath  or the 
water-bath,  and  so  distils  off  the  alcohol 
with  comparatively  little  loss.  Theres-

idue  he  introduces into  a tared  evapora­
ting  dish,  reduces 
it  to  the  required 
in  the  same  manner as  in  the 
weight 
preliminary  distillation,  and  it  is  ready 
for  dispensing.  The alcohol so recovered 
be  stores  until  he  has  recovered  more  in 
a  few  subsequent  operations,  when  he 
unites  the  several  portions,and  treating 
them  with  potassium  permanganate,  by 
a  final  distillation  obtains  a  pure  spirit.
Or  suppose  he  has  a tough,  bard,  solid 
extract  to 
in  a  magistral 
pill.  He  saves  a  great  waste  of  elbow 
grease  and  patience  by  setting  bis  mor­
tar  to  warm  in  the  sand-bath,  and  when 
it  is  warmed  through,  dropping  the  ex­
tract  already  weighed  out  into  the  mor­
tar  along  with  a  few  minims  of  water, 
when  a  moment’s 
rubbing  with  the 
warmed  pestle,  and  presto!  the  extract 
is  reduced  to  a  workable  consistence.

incorporate 

Again,  he  has  the  mist  glycyrrhizae 
comp,  of  the  U.  S.  P.  to prepare.  Does 
he  take  a  mortar  and  proceed  to grind 
up  the  hard,  tough  licoric  extract,  the 
while  mentally  anathematizing  the  doc­
tor  who  prescribed 
it?  Not  he.  He 
knows  a  trick  worth  two  of  that  He 
cracks  up  the  extract 
into  fragments 
which  will  pass  the  neck  of  the  bottle, 
adds  a  part  of  the  required  water,sets  it 
on  the  sand-bath  or  in  the  water-bath 
for  fifteen  minutes,  gives  the  bottle  a 
shake,  and  the  licorice  is  dissolved.  A 
few  minutes’  work  completes  the  whole. 
And  so  I  might  go  on  enumerating  a 
variety  of  operations  which  a  man  who 
knows  enough  to  perform  what  has been 
described  can  do  without  being  farther 
prompted. 
In  the  National  Formulary 
there  are  about forty formulas in the exe­
cution  of  which  the  sand-bath  or the 
water-bath  would  be  extremely  useful  if 
not 
indispensable.  And  the  same  is 
true  of  the  U.  S.  P.

entertain  kindly  the 

In  visiting  several  apothecary  shops 
recently  I  have  been  struck  with  the 
fact  that  they  are  usually  nine-tenths 
parlor and one-tenth k itchen.  For a good 
working  pharmacy  these  proportions 
ought  almost  to  be  reversed ;  and  then 
room  would  be  given  for a  good  chem­
ical  stove  like  that  already  described. 
The  advantages  of  such  an  apparatus 
are  sufficiently  obvious;  but  while  some 
would 
idea  of 
adopting  it,  some  would  receive  it  with 
undisguised  contempt,  and  others  with 
indifference,  or  open  hostility. 
“ Many 
men of many minds’ ’  is  as characteristic 
of  retail  apothecaries  as  of  any  other 
group  of  men. 
It  is  believed  that  the 
younger  men  in  the  business  are  ambi­
tious  to  learn  everything  they  can  about 
the  scientific  side  of  pharmacy;  and 
that  the  older  men,  seeing  the  trend  of 
the  trade,  are  discouraged  at  the  out­
look,  and  being  loth  to 
invest  more 
inclined  to  let  things  go 
money,  are 
with  the  drift.  Considerations  akin  to 
these,  as  well  as  a  determined  hostility 
to  all  enemies  of  scientific  pbarmacv, 
have  induced  me  to submit for favorable 
judgment  and  acceptance  a  description 
of  the  above  mentioned  apparatus.

In  conclusion,  I  would  say  that  the 
pharmaceutical  stove  herein  described 
is  not  proffered  to  those  who  prefer  to 
hug  a  big  cylindrical  hall  heater,  or 
toast  their  shins  before  a  little  parlor 
stove,  regardless  of  the  benefit  to  be 
derived  from  a good  working  stove;  nor 
for  those  who  are  indifferent  to  the 
scientific  side  of  pharmacy,  and  prefer 
to  remain  for  the  rest  of  their  lives  in 
ignorance,  rather  than  employ  a  little 
time  and  exertion 
in  working  at  real 
pharmacy.  But  it  is  for  those  pharma­
cists,  old  or  young,  big  or  little,  who 
strive  to  make  and  to  understand  the 
preparations  which  they  handle,  and 
who  are  students  of  the  art  and  science 
of  pharmacy.  Such  pharmacists  as these 
travel  a  road  upon  which  neither  cut­
throat  cutters,  nor nostrum mongers,  nor 
Philistine  drummers  can  either  travel 
or  rival  them  or  impede their  progress.

H.  F.  Cummings.

D rugs  Affected  by  Light.

The  following  is  a  list  of titles of the 
drugs  and  chemicals  stocked  ordinarily 
by  pharmacists,  which  are  prone  to 
change  or 
decomposition 
through  the  action  of  actinic  light:

chemical 

liquor 

ferri 

argenti 

sulphas, 

cvanidum, 

biomoformum, 

Acidum  gallicum,  acidum  bydrocyan- 
icum  dilutum.  aether  aceticus,  ammo­
nium  carbonate,  aqua cblori,  aqua chlo­
roform i,  aqua 
laurocerasi,  aqua  rosae 
fortior, 
argenti 
iodidum,  argenti  nitras,  argenti  nitras 
dilutus,  argenti  nitras  fusus,  argenti  ox- 
idum,  aristol,  arseni  iodidum,  bismuthi 
et  ammonii  citras,  bismuthi  oxyiodi­
dum, 
chloroformum, 
cincbonidinae 
colchicinum, 
creosotum,  eucalyptol,  elixir  phosphori, 
ferri  chloridum, 
ferri  citras,  ferri  et 
ammonii  citras,ferri  et ammonii tartras, 
ferri  et  potasii  tartras,  ferri  et  quininae 
citras,  ferri  et  quininae  citras  solubis, 
ferri  et  strychnine  citras,  ferri  iodidum 
saccharatum,  ferri  phosphas  solubilis, 
ferri  pyrophopbas  solubilis,  ferri valeri­
anas,  gossypium  haemostaticum,  guaia- 
col,  hydrargyri  chloridum  mite,  by- 
drargyri  cyanidum,  hydrargyri  iodidum 
flavum,  hydrargyri 
iodidum  rubrum, 
hydrargyri  oxidum  flavum,  hydrargyri 
oxidum  rubrum,  hydrargyri  subsulphas 
flavas,  hydragrum  ammoniatum,  hydrar­
gyrum  cum  creta,  hydrochinon,  aqua 
bydrogenii  dioxidii,  iodoformum,liquor 
ferri  acetatis,  liquor  ferri  et  ammonii 
acetatis, 
subsulpbatas, 
liquor  pottassae  (green  glass  better than 
flint  glass  for  this  preparation;  green 
glass  is  ordered  by  the  U.  S.  Pharma­
liquor  sodae  (green  glass), 
copoeia), 
sodae 
Jiquor 
lupisinum, 
salicylas,  morph inae  acetas, 
methyl 
napbtol,  oleum 
amygdalae  amarae, 
oleum  anisi,  oleum  aurantii 
florum, 
oleum  bergamottae,  oleum  betulae  vol­
atile,  oleum  cari,  oleum  caryophylii, 
oleum  cinnamomi,  oleum  erigeonttis, 
oleum 
eucalypti,  oleum  gaultheriae, 
oleum  hedeomae,  oleum juniperi,  oleum 
lavandulae  florum,  oleum limonis,  oleum 
mentbae  viridis,  oleum  myrciae,  oleum 
myristicae, 
pbosphoratum, 
oleum  pimentae,  oleum  rosae,  oleum 
rosmarini,  oleum sabinae,  oleum santali, 
oleum  sassafras,  oleum  sinapis  volatile, 
oleum  terebinthinae,  oleum  tbymi,  par- 
aldebydum,  pbysostigminae  salicylas, 
phyostigminae sulphas,plumbi  iodidum, 
potassii  permanganas,  pyrogallol  quin- 
idinae  sulphas,  quininae,  quininae  bi­
sulphas,  quininae hydrobromas, quininae 
hydrochloras,quininae sulphas,  quininae 
valerianas, 
santón inum, 
sodii  salicylas,  spiritus  aetheris  nitrosi, 
spiritus  glonoini,  spiritus  phosphorii, 
strontii  iodidum,  syrupus  croci,  svrupus 
rubi  idaei,  terebinum,  tinctura  aeon it i 
ex  berba  recente,  tinctura  belladonnae, 
tinctura 
acetatis  Rademacheri, 
tinctura  hyoscami  ex  berba  recente, 
unguentum  hydrargyri  ammoniati,  un­
guent um  hydrargyri  oxidi  flavi,  unguen­
tum  hydrargyri  oxidi  rubri,  unguentum 
iodi,  unguentum  iodoformi.  unguentum 
plumbi 
potassi 
iodidi,  zinci  permanganas.

resorcinum, 

unguentum 

chloratae, 

iodidi, 

oleum 

ferri 

The  use  of  green  glass  containers  for 
the  solutions  of  the  alkalies  is  advised, 
not  on  account  of  the  action  of  the  light 
upon  the  solutions,  but  because  these 
powerful  alkalies  act  upon  flint  glass 
more  readily  than  upon  green  glass.

The  D rug  Market.

Opium— Notwithstanding  strong  re­
ports  from  primary  market,  this  article 
is  dull  and  slightly  lower.  There  is  no 
doubt  of  an  upward  movement  after  the 
holidays.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine—The  market 

is  firm  at  the 

recent advance.

Boracic Acid— Is  scarce  and  the  price 

has  been  advanced.

Menthol— Has  advanced,  on  account 
of  higher prices abroad and  small stocks.
is  very  firm  and 
advancing,  on  account  of  small  stocks.
Hops—Choice are  scarce and  have  ad­

Ergot— The  market 

vanced.

Linseed  Oil— Has  advanced,  on  ac­

count  of  higher  prices  for  seed.

Turpentine— Continues  to advance.

W ho  W ill  Succeed  Perry?

Considerable  speculation  is  being 

in­
in  by  the  drug  trade  as  to  the 
dulged 
probable  successor  of  F.  W.  R.  Perry 
in  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy.  Mr. 
Perry’s  five  year  term  expires  Dec.  31, 
but  he  will  continue  to  serve  on  the 
Board  until  his  successor  is  appointed 
and  qualifies.  Governor  Pingree  has  an­
nounced  that  no  appointments  will  be 
made  until  after a  United  States  Sena­
tor 
is  elected,  so  that  Mr.  Perry  will 
probably  remain  on  the  Board  until 
about  Feb.  1—and,  possibly,  five  years 
longer.  Some  of  the  friends  of  Benj.
F.  Schrouder,  of  Grand  Rapids,  are 
urging  his  name  on  the  Governor,  but 
it  is  understood  that  Mr.  Schrouder  will 
make  no  active  effort 
in  his  own  be­
half, believing that  such  an  office  should 
seek  the  man,  instead  of  the  man  seek 
the  office.

It 

Opposed  to  the  New  Rule.
is  claimed  that  a  new  rule  of  the 
State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  requiring  a 
nine  months’  course  of  study  each  year 
from  pharmacy  students,  is  a  discrimi • 
nation 
in  favor  of  the  University  of 
Michigan  and  against  other  Michigan 
colleges,  as  no  other  in  the  State  has  a 
nine  months’  course  of  study.  Dr.  John 
E.  Clark,  Dean  of  the  Detroit  Medical 
College,  says  an  effort  will  be  made  to 
have  the  rule  changed,  even if  it  is  nec­
essary  to  go  to  the  Legislature.

Married  Life  Expensive.

A  Russian  merchant  recently  posted 
the  following  announcement  in  front  of 
his  place of  business:

“ The  reason  why  I  have  hitherto 
been  able  to  sell  my  goods  so  much 
cheaper  than  anybody  else  is  that  I  am 
a  bachelor,  and  do  not  need  to  make  a 
profit  for  the  maintenance  of  a  wife  and 
children.  It 
is  now  my  duty  to  inform 
the  public  that  this  advantage  will 
shortly  be  withdrawn  from  them,  as  I 
am  about  to  be  married.  They  will, 
tberefore,  do  well  to  make  their  pur­
chases  at  once  at  the  old  rate. ’ ’

Snowed  Under  With  Letters.

Ann  Arbor,  Dec.  19—Secretary  A.  C. 
Schumacher,  of  the  State Board of Phar­
macy,  desires  to  have  it  known through­
out  the  State  that  all  certificates  for 
which  the  money  has  been  sent  will  be 
issued  during  the  course  of  the  present 
week.  Pharmacists’  certificates  expire 
December  18  and  many  persons  are 
alarmed 
lest  their  renewal  does  not 
each  them.  Secretary  Schumacher  has 
received  fully  500  letters  a  day  during 
the  past  week,  a  correspondence  which 
has  thrown  him  behind  for a  short  time.

More  than  40  per  cent,  of  the  British 
people  could  not  write  their names when 
the  queen  ascended  the  throne.  The 
proportion 
in  that  condition  has  now 
been  reduced  to  7  per  cent.

A L W A Y S   A   W IN N ER !

I

$35.00 per M.

H. VAN TONGEREN,  Holland, Mich.

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N
Morphia,S.P.AW...  2 40® 2 65 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.(¿A
C. Co....................  2 30® 2 55
Moschus Canton__ 
®  40
65®  80
Myrlstica, No. 1...... 
Nux Vomica...po.20 
®  10
Os  Sepia................. 
15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co.................... 
®  1  00
Picis Llq. N.N.Kgal.
® 2 00
doz........................ 
Picis Liq., quarts__  
®  1  00
Picis Llq., pints.__ 
®  85
®  50
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80 
®  18
Piper Nigra... po.  22 
Piper Alba__po.35 
®  30
Piix  Burgun........... 
® 
7
Plumb!  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1  20 
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
®  1 25
& P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyre thrum,  pv........  25®  30
8®  10
Quassl®................... 
Quinta, S. P. & W .. 
31®  36
23@  33
Quinia, S.German.. 
QuJnia.N.Y............   33®  35
Ruble Tinctorum... 
12®  14
SaccharumLactis pv  18®  20
Saladn....................   3 00® 3 10
Sanguis Draconis... 
40®  50
Sapo, W................... 
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
Sapo, G.................... 
O  15
Siedlltz  Mixture__  20  ®  22

Sinapis.................... 
®  18
Sinapis, opt............  
®  30
Snuff, Maccaboy,De
Voes...................... 
®  34
®  34
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s 
Soda Boras..............  9  ®  11
Soda Boras, po........  0  ® 
11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb.............. 
2
IK® 
5
Soda, Bl-Carb.........  
3® 
Soda, Ash...............   3K® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne........... 
® 2 60
50®  55
Spts. Ether Co........ 
® 9 00
Spt  Myrcla Dom... 
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. 
® 2 54 
Spts. Vinl Rect. Kbbl 
® 2 59 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @2 62 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @ 2 64 
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1 45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   214®  4
Sulphur,  Roll........  2K@3K
Tamarinds.............. 
10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobrom®............   46®  48
Vanilla....................  9 00®16 00
ZInci  Sulph............  
8

7® 

8® 

Oils

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

1 0

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
37 
Linseed, boiled......   38 
Neatsfoot, winter str 
65 
47 
Spirits Turpentine.. 

40
41
70
55

%

LB

Paints  BBL. 
Red Venetian.........   114  2
Ochre, yellow Mars.  Iff  2 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  144 2  _ 
Putty, commercial..  2k 2K®3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2K 244®3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............
13® 16
Vermilion, English.
70® 75
Green, P a n s...........
18H@ 22
Green,  Peninsular..
13® 16
Lead, Red...............
544® «M
Lead, white............
544® 6 k
Whiting, white Span 
O 70
Whiting,  gilders’. ..
TO
■
White, Paris Amer..
®  1 00
Whiting, Paris  Bng.
cliff......................
®  1 40
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 Fum __  1  00®  1  10
Bxtra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No. lTurp  70®  75

PAINT AND 
ARTIST’S

BRUSHES

Our stock  of  Brushes  for  the  season 
of  1899  is  complete  and  we  invite 
your  orders.  The  line  includes

Plat Wall  bound  in  rubber, 

brass and  leather 

Oval  Paint  Round  Paint 

Oval  Chisel  Varnish

Oval  Chisel  Sash

Round  Sash 

White Wash  Heads 

Kalsomine

Flat Varnish 

Square and  Chisel

All  qualities  at  satisfactory  prices.
Camel  Hair Varnish 

Flowing

Mottlers 

Color
Badger  Flowing,

single or double 

C.  H.  Pencils, etc.

HAZELTINE  &  PERKINS 

DRUG  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

SALB  PRICE  CURRENT.

Conlnm  Mac........... 
35®
Copaiba...................  1  15®
CubebSB.................... 
90®
Rxechthltos...........  1 00®
Erigeron.................  1  00®
Qamtheria..............  1  50®
Geranium,  ounce...  ® 
Gos8ippii, Sem. gal.. 
50®
Hedeoma.................  l  on®
Junípera..................  l  50®
Lavendula.............. 
90®
Limonis...................  1  so®
Mentha Piper.........   1  60®
Mentha Verid.........   1  50®
Morrhuse,  gal.........   1  10®
Myrcla,..................... 4 000
Olive..............................
Picis  Liquida.  ......  
ii
Picis Liquida, gal...
R lcina...................
Rosmarini...............
Ros®,  ounce...........  6
Succlnl...................
Sabina................... 
90®
Santal....................... 2 50®
Sassafras.................  55®
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
®
Tlglfl.......................  1  70®
Thyme....................  40®
Thyme,  opt............  
®
Theobromas........... 
is®
Potassium
15®
Bl-Carb.................... 
is®
Bichromate............  
Bromide..................  
so®
Carb.......................  
12®
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®
Cyanide...................  35®
Iodide......................  2 40®
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
®
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10®
Potass Nitras........... 
10®
Prnsslate.................  20®
Sulphate p o ...........  Ts@

Radix

li
||

Aconitvm...............  
20®
22®
Althse...................... 
Anohusa................. 
10®
Arum po..................  
®
Calamus.................  20®
Gentlana........po  is 
12®
Olychrrhiza... pv. 15  16®
Hydrastis Canaden 
Hydrastis Can., po. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
Inula, po................. 
Ipecac, po..............  2
Iris plox.... po35®38
Jalapa, pr................
Maranta,  14s...........
Podophyllum, po..
R hei............
Rhei, cut.............. .’
Rhei, pv...................
Spigel ia................"
Sanguinaria... po. 15
Serpentaria............
Senega.................
Similax,officinalis H
Smilax, M...............
Scills.............po.35 
Symplocarpus, Fosti-
dus, po.................  @
Valeriana, Bng.po. 30  @
15®
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingibers...............  
12®
Zingiber j ...............  
25®
fiemen
®
Anlsum.........no.  15 
13®
Aplum  (graveleons) 
Bird, Is.......................  
4®
10®
Carui.............po. 18 
Cardamon...............   1  gj®
Corlandrum............ 
8®
Cannabis  Sativa__  4V4®
Cvdonium...............  
75®
10®
Cnenopodium........ 
Dipterlx  Odorate...  1  40®
Foenlculum............  
®
7®
Foenugreek, po........ 
L lni........................  3H@
Llnl,  grd.... bbl. 3w 
4®
Lobelia......... .........  35®
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4®
Rapa.......................   4tt®
Sinapis Albu........... 
9®
Sinapis Nigra.........  
11®
Splritus 

> 

li

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00®
Frum enti..................1  25®
Junlperis Co. O. T..  1  65®
Juniperis Co...........  1  75®
Saacharum  N. E ....  1  go®
Spt. Vinl Galli........  1  75®
Vini Oporto............   1  25®
Vinl Alba...............   1  £5®

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................. 2 50®
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................  2 00®
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage...... 
®
Bxtra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__ 
®
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage............ -. 
®
Hard, for slate use.. 
®
TelloW  R e ef,  for 
slate  use.............. 
®
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac.
Ferri Iod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega....................
Soill*.......................

1  40

875
15
41
45
5
10
14
15
65
5
1 40
40

6
8
14
14

! 25
i  00

50I 00

15
8
30

56
! 75
50
55

18
12
18
30
2012
12
12
15

25
30
1214
15
17

15
! 25
75
40
15
2
50
7

14
25
35

28
25
30
20
10

65
45
35
2880
14
12
30
60
28
55
13
14
16
48
10
00
70
30
0060
40
85
35
45
80

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
2225
36

75
50
25
10
25
20
80
80
65
75
70
50

 

niscellaneous

Scilla Co................. 
®  50
Tolutan...................  @  50
Prunus virg..  ........ 
®  50
Tinctures
Aconitum N apellis R 
60
50
Aconitum N apellis F 
Aloes.......................  
60
Aloes and Myrrh__  
60
50
Arnica.................... 
As8afcBtida............  
50
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
Auranti  Cortex...... 
50
Benzoin................... 
60
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma.................  
go
Cantharides........... 
75
go
Capsicum.............. 
Cardamon............... 
75
Cardamon  Co.........  
75
1  00
Castor...................... 
go
Catechu................... 
Cinchona................. 
go
Cinchona Co........... 
60
Columba  ...............  
go
Cubeba....................  
go
Cassia Acntlfol......  
go
50
Cassia Acntlfol Co  . 
50
Digitalis.........  
go
Ergot....................... 
35
Ferri Chloride m 
Gentian..................  
go
Gentian Co.............. 
60
Guiaca................  
go
60
Guiaca ammon__ „  
Hyoscyamus........... 
go
Iodine...................... 
75
75
Iodine, colorless.... 
Kino................   
go
Lobelia...................  
50
Myrrh.............;.......  
50
Nux Vomica........... 
50
Opii......................... 
75
50
Opii, camphorated. 
1  50
Opii, deodorized.... 
go
Quassia................... 
Rhatany.................. 
go
Rhei......................... 
50
50
Sangulnarla........... 
Serpentaria............  
50
Stramonium........... 
60
Tolutan...................  
60
Valerian................. 
go
Veratrum Veride... 
50
Zingiber..................  
20
Either, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30®  35
iBther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen...................  2k@ 
3
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
4
3® 
Annatto  ... 
..........  40®  50
Antimoni,  po.........  
4® 
5
Antimonl et PotassT  40®  50
Antlpyrln.............. 
®  35
Antifebrln.............. 
®
®  50
Argent! Nitras, oz .. 
Arsenicum..............  
10®  12
Balm Gilead  Bud  . 
38®  40
Bismuth  8. N......... 1  40®  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  Is.. 
9
® 
®  10
Calcium Chlor., Ks. 
®  12
Calcium Chlor., 14s. 
®  75
Cantharides, Rus.po 
®  15
Capsid  Fructus. af. 
®  15
Capsicl Fructus, po. 
®  15
Capsici FructusB.po 
12®  14
Caryophyllus..po. 15 
Carmine, No. 40__ 
® 3 00
Cera Alba...............  
50®  55
Cera Flava.........  
40®  42
®  40
Coccus.................... 
Cassia Fructus......  
@  33
®  10
Centrarla................. 
®  45
Cetaceum................  
Chloroform............. 
50®  53
®  1  10
Chloroform, squibbs 
Chloral Hyd Crst__  1  65®  1  90
Chondrus................ 
20®  25
Cinchonidine,P.& W  25®  35
Clnchonldine, Germ  22®  30
Cocaine.................  3 55® 3 75
70
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 
Creosotum...........  
®  35
®  2
Creta............. bbl. 75 
5
® 
Creta. prep 
........... 
Creta. precip.........  
9® 
11
Creta, Rubra........... 
® 
8
Crocus.................... 
18®  20
@  24
Cudbear................ 
Cupri Sulph............  
5® 
6
Dextrine.................. 
10®  12
75®  90
Bther Sulph............ 
Emery, ail  numbers 
® 
8
Emery, po.,.............  @ 
6
Ergota........... po. 40  30®  35
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
Galla........................  •  ®  23
Gambier.  ................ 
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper......  
®  60
Gelatin, French......   35®  60
75 &  10
Glassware, flint, box 
Less  than  box__  
70
Glue,  brown........... 
9®  12
Glue, white............  
13®  25
Glycerine...............  
14®  20
Grana  Paradisi...... 
®  25
Humulns................. 
25®  55
®  85
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
®  75
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
®  95
©  1  10 
Hydraag Ammonlati 
HydraagU nguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........  
®  70
IcnthyoDolla, Am...  65®  75
Indigo.  ................... 
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................  @ 4  20
Lupulin................... 
© 2 25
Lycopodium........... 
40®  45
66®  75
Macis 
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarglod.............  
®  25
LiquorPotassArsinlt  10®  12
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
2® 
3
®  IK 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannla, S. F .... 
50®  60
Mmtho*. 
® 3 00

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

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

G R O C ER Y  P R IC E  C U R R E N T .

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 gfoingf to press ana 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.

do*,  gross
Aurora  .......................55  6  00
Castor Oil....................00  7  00
Diamond..................... 50  4  00
Frazer’s ..................... .75  0  00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75  9  00
nica. tin boxes............75  9  00
Paragon.......................55  6  00

Absolute.

B A K IN d   P O W D E R .
w ’b cans doz..................  
45
K lb jan sd o s................... 
85
lb can  d o z .............. 
•  5*
Acme.
*
......  
U lb cans 8 doz. 
H lb cans 8 doz. 
........... 
'■
.............  1  »
.  lb cans l dos. 
Balk................  
u
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers...........  85
U lb cans per dos 
75
lb cans per dos 
..........  1  20
1 
lb cans per <los...........  2  00
Nona.
35
U lb cans 4 dos case 
It lb cans 4 doz case  ...... 
55
lb cans 2 doz case 
90

Arctic.
Bl Parity.

......  

.. 

 

PEEKSm

Oar Leader.

Jersey Cream.

u  lb cans, 4 doz case----- 
45
it lb cans. 4 doz case........  85
lb cans. 2 doz case........1  60
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 oz. cans, ner doz.............  1  25
85
6 oz. cans, per doz................ 
^  lb cans..........................  
45
H lb cans..........................  
7-
lb cans..........................  1  '
I 
1 lb. can* 
85
8 oz., 6 doz. case................   2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case 
...........3  20
9 os., 4 doz. case.................  4 80
1 lb., 2 doz  case................ 4  00
5 lb., 1 doz. case.................  9 00
American...............................it
English...................................80

Peerless.
Queen Plake

BArn  brick.

.... 

BLUING.

CQtroiNSH)
& L u i i l G

CANNED GOODS.

Small. 3 doz.......................   40
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
BR00O5.
Ho. 1 Carpet.........................2  1 >
No. 2 Carpet..........  
........   l  9
No. 3 Carpet......................  1  6
No. 4 Carpet............................   l 3)
Parlor Gem.......................  2  2i
Common Whisk.................  
-o
Fancy Whisk..  -................  8)
Warehouse................................2 50
Tomatoes..................   80©  90
Corn  ..........................  80@1  00
Hominy......................  80
Beans, Limas..............  70©1  30
Beaus, Wax................  15
Beans, string..............  70
Beans,  Baked............  75@1 00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  50
Succotash...................  QMtl  20
Peas............................  50®  86
Peas, French.............2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.................  15®  22
Peaches, P ie..............  90
Peaches, Fancy........ 1  40
Apples,  3-lb...............   95
Apples,  gallons........ 2 25
Cherries  ....................  90
Pe8rs..........................  70
Pineapple, grated......2 40
Pineapple, sliced.......2 25
Pineapple,  Farren__1  70
Strawberries.............1  10
Blackberries..............  80
Raspberries...............   85
Oysters, 1-lb................  85
Oysters, 2-lb..............1 45
Salmon, Warren’s __1  4' @1  60
Salmon.  Alaska......... 1  25
Salmon, Klond'ke......  90
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star__ 3 00
Lobsters, 2-lb. Star__3 40
Mac  erel,l lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused. 1  75 
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato 1  75
Shrimps.....................  2 00
Sardines. %s domestic  3M@ 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5%®  7K 
Sardines,  French.......8  ® 22

CANDLB8.
8s
16s 
..............................
'amffine.......................
Wlcking.......................

CATSUP.
pints 

/Olnmbla, 
... 
Columbia  It pints......

C H E E S E
Acme......................
Am boy......................
Emblem
Gold Medal.............
Ideal.......................
Jersey  ....................
Lenawee.................
Riverside.................
Brick.......................
Edam.......................
Leiden................. .
Llmbu'ger..............
Pineapple.................50
Sap  Sago.................
Chicory
iuik
ted

..7
..8
..8
.20

2 00 
1  25

®   10H 
®  12 
©  UK
@  11
©  >i* 
@  m* 
@  o* 
@  UK 
@  12 
@  70 
®  17 
@  13 
®  75 
®  17
6
T

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker 4k Co.’a.

•erman Sweet........................28
Premium............................   ..35
........... 46
breakfast Coco» 

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos  ........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dos.........1  20
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  doz.............  80
Jnie. 72 ft.  tw'  l o t . . .........   96

COCOA SHBLLS.
201b  bags...  -................ 
Less quantity.................  
Pound  packages............  
CRBAfl  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk in sacks..........................29

2*
3
4

C O F F E E .

Oraea.
Rle.

Mexican and  Guatemala.

Fair 
......................................9
Good........................................10
Prim e......................................11
Golden  ...................................12
Pea berry 
.............................. 13
Santos.
Fair  ........................................12
Good  ......................................13
Prime......................................1*
Pea berry  ................................15
Fair  ........................................15
Good  ......................................16
Fancy 
...................................17
Maracaibo.
Prim e......... ............................ 19
Milled......................................20
Interior...................................19
Private  Growth...................... 20
Mandehling.............................21
Imitation  ................................20
Arabian  ................................. 22
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha. ...29 
Wells’ Mocha and Java. — 24
Weils’ Perfection Java...... 24
Sancalbo............................. 21
Breakfast Blend................  18
7alley City Maracaibo.......18H
[deal  Blend.........................14
Leader Blend......................12

Roasted.

Mocha.

Jam.

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
tbe  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit on  the 
for  the  amount  of
Invoice 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
'n which  n  m r '
market in which he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including
____ 
Ipping.
weight  of  package,  also lie  a
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
Is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   11  00
Jersey................. — —   10 50
ncLaaghlla’s  XXXX.....
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City VI gross......  
75
Felix K gross................. 
1  15
Hummel’s foil H gross... 
85
Hmnmel’stin K   gross... 
148
CLOTHES PINS.
I groai boxes................... 40

Extract.

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 dos In case.
6 75

Gall Borden  Eagle........ 
Crown......................................6 25
Daisy....................................... 5 75
Champion  ...........................4 60
Magnolia 
......................  4 25
Challenge.............. - ........... 3 35
Dime 
..............................3 35

COUPON  BOOKS. 

Tradesman Grade.

Superior Grade.

Economic Grade.

50 books, any denom....  150
100 book?, any denom___ 2 50
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
50 books, any denom—   1 50
100 bookB, any denom___ 2 60
500 books  any denom...  II  50
1.000 books  anv denom__ 20 00
50 books, any denom....  1 50 
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books, any denom....11 50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00 
Can be made to represent any 
20 dooms  .......................   1  0U
50 books.................................2 00
100books  .........................  800
250 books...............................  C 25
500 books............................... 10 00
1000 books......  

denomination from 610 down.

Coupon Pass Books,

Apples.

Credit Checks.

Universal Grade.

California Pratts.

..17 50
50 books, any denom—   1 50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__ 11 50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00
500, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch..................... • 
75
DRIBD  FRUITS—DOnBSTIC 
gnndrled......................  Q*
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©9 
Apricots.....................   ©
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................   ©
Peaches.......................9  Q10
Pears...........................  O
Pitted Cherries..........
Prnnnelles..................
Raspberries.................
100-120 25 lb ooxes.........   © 4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  @5
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........   ©  OH
70-80 25 lb boxes.........   ©  6*
60-70 25 lb boxes.........   ©  6*
50-6025 lb boxes.........   © 3
40-5025 lb boxes.........  ©10
30-40 25 lb boxes......  ©
u  ¡ ent less In 50 lb cases 

California Pranas.

Raisins.

1  50 
London Layers 2 C’own. 
1  0
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown...... . 
2 00
5
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
6
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4Crown 
7
L. M.. Seeded, choice......  
8
L. M , Seeded, fancy........  9H

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Peel.

Raisins •

Cnrrants.

Leghorn..........................©12
Corsican..........................©13
Patras bbls...................... © 6
Vostizzas 50 lb cases.......© 614
Cleaned, bulk  ................. © 7
Cleaned, packages..........© 7K
Citron American 101b bx ©18 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©12 
Orange American 10 lb bx ©12 
Ondura 28 ib boxes......  Q
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown  ........  ©
Sultana 8 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 4 Crown..........  ©
Mnittm 5 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........  ©
Sultana package—  
©
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
Farina.
241 lb.  packages.............1  50
Bulk, per lOOlbs.............3 50
Walsh-DeRon  Co.’s Brand.

Grits.

2421b. pacaagoo...............1  80
1001b. kegs.......................2 70
2001b. barrels...................5.10

INDIGO.

Madras, 5  lb  boxes............   56
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes... 
50

GUNPOWDER.
RMIe—Dupont’s.

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

lb. cahs.... 

 

 

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

K egs...................................4 25
Half K e» ......................  ..  2 40
Quarter Kegs...................... 1 35
lb. cans.........................   34
1 
Bagie Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs....................................8 00
Half Kegs........................... 4 25
Quarter Kegs......................2 25
lib .can s.........  - ..............   45

JELLY. 

\

15 lb pells............................   ©
80 lb pells............................   66

LYE.

Condensed, 3 d o * ............. 150
Condensed. 4 dos...............3 25

LICORICE.

Pore.....................................  *
Calabria..............................  ■
Sicily....................................  M
B oot...................................   10

4

MINCE MBAT.

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

MATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

No. 9 sulphur...........................1 66
Anchor Parlor..........................J 70
No. 2  Home.............................. \ JO
Export  Parlor......................... 4 00

rtOLA5SB8.
Now Orleans.
Block.............................
F air...............................
Good..............................
Fancy  ..........................
Open Kettle...................
Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

Horse Radish, 1 doz................. 1 75
Horse Kadish, 2 doz.................3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz..  .......1 75
2 40
Clay, No. 216......................  1  70
Clay, T. D. full count........  w
Cob, No. 8..........................   ©

PIPBS.

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

PICKLES.
riedlnm.

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

Smell.

Barrels, 2,400 count—
4 75 
Half bbls  1,200 count........  2 88

RICE.

Domestic.

Caroline heed....................   6H
Carolina  No. 1  .................   5
Carolina No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................   SX

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1.............  6K@ 6
Japan,  No. 2 ............4*@ 5
Java, fancy head........5  © 5K
Java, No. 1.................   5  ®
Table............................
SALBRATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls..............  75
Granulated,  100lb oases..  9J
Lump, bbls.......................   75
Lamp, 1461b kegs..............  86

SAUERKRAUT.

Barrels.............................   3 25
H-Barrels..........................  I 75

SNUFF.

Scotch, in bladders.............  87
Maccabov, in jars................  85
French Rappee, In Ja n ......   48

SBBDS.

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

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

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

Common Grades.

100 8 lb sacks.......................1  95
60 5-lb sacks.......................1  80
2810-lb sacks..................... 1  65

Worcester.

lb. cartons.............8 25
50  4 
115  2Klb.  sacks................4 00
lb. sacks................8 15
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks................3 50
SO 10 
lb. sacks................3 50
8 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk in barrels................... 2 5

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

Warsaw.

Ashton.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Higgins.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Solar Rock.

56-lb  sacks...........................  21

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

Common.

SOAP.

J A X O N

Single box........................... 2 f 0
5  box lots. delivered......2 45
10 box lots, delivered..........2 40
JAS.  8.  KIRK  S GO/8 BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.................................... 2 75
Cabinet.................................2 90
Savon...... .............................2 50
White Russian.................... 2 35
White Clond,  laundry........6 25
White Cloud,  toilet.............3 50
Dusky Diamond. 50 6 oz__ 2 10
Dnsky Diamond, 50 8 oz__ 3 00
Blue India, 100 % lb.............3 00
Kirkoline..............................8  50
Eos.......................................2 50
SCHOUE  SOAP GO/8  BRANDS
Clydesdale, lOOcakes, 75 Ibi  . . .  .2  75 
Ht-Tu, 100cakes, 621-2 lbs... .2  0«
Family,  75 cakes, 75 lbs............ 2  59
German Mottled, (0 cakes, SO lbs.. I  75 
Cocoa Castile, 18 lbs., cat 1-4 A1-2.. 1  80 

Chipped Soap for Landries. 

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  . .2 75 
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars....3 75
Uno, 100 |f-lb. bars.............. 2 50
Doll, 10010-oz.  b a n .............9 06

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d o s...... 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 8 d o s...........2 40

SODA.

Boxes  .................................5H
Kegs, English......................4«

Hominy.

 

Peas.

Beans.

Pearl Barley.

Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 601b.  drams...........1 00
Dried Lima 
.........   4K
Medium Hand Picked....  110 
Maccaron! and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb.  box......  60
Imported.  25 lb. box.........2 50
Common...........................  2 25
Chester............................  2 50
Em pire........  .................   8 00
Green, Wisconsin, bn........1 00
Green, Scotch, bn..............1 10
Spilt, bn.............................2 50
Rolled Avena,  bbl......... 4 °5
Monarch,  bbl................  .3  65
Monarch,  H  bbl............... 1 96
Monarch, 90 lb sacks......... 1 *R
Quaker, cases................... 8 20
Huron, cases......................1 75
German............................  4
East  India.......................   3H
3Q
Flake..............................  
Pearl.............................. 
  3*
Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkges.... 
5 
Cracked  bulk...................  3J4
24 2 lb packages...............2 50

Rolled  Oats.

Tapioca.

Wheat.

5aga.

S a lt   F is h .

Cod.

Georges cured...............  © 
Georges genuine.......   © 6
Georges selected........  © 6H
Strips or bricks......... 6  © 9

Herring.

nackeral.

Holland white hoops, bbl.  8 00 
Holland white hoop Hbbl  4 50
Holland,  M  bbl.................   2 60
Holland white hoop, keg. 
65 
Holland white hoop mens 
75
Norwegian.........................   _
Bound 100 lbs....................   8 50
Round  40 lbs.....................  1 75
Scaled...............................  
14
Mess IN) lbs...........................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs..........................   6 80
Mess  10 lbs........................  1 ©
Mess  8 lbs........................  1 36
No. 1 100 lbs.......................  IS 25
No. 1  40 lbs....................  
No. 1  10 lbs........................  1 48
No. 1  8 lbs......................  120
No. 2 100 lbs........................  9 25
No.2  40lbs........................  4 0)
No. 2  10 lb s....................  108
89
No. 2  8 lbs......................  
6 25
No. 1100 lbs. 
No. 1  401b*.................  
 
 
No. 1  10 lbs..................... 
68
No. 1  8 lbs......................  
5?
No. 1  No. I  Pun
100 lbs...........  6 75 
2 75
1 40
40 lbs...........  3 00 
10 lbs........... 
43
83 
8 lbs...........  69 
37
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Wkltsflsh.

Trout.

 

5 60

Jennings’.

D.O. Vanilla
2 oz.
..1 20
...1 50
3 oz.
4 oz.
..2 00
..3 00
6 0S.
No. 8 4 00
No. 0 .6 00
No. 2 T.1 25
No. 3 T.2 00
No 4 TJZ 40

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

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

Lem.  Van
1  21
1 90
2 00
2 25

Soadera’.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

Best  in  the  world  for 
money.
Sage......................................  15
Hops....................................  15

HERBS.

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

SPICES.
W M tS U M .

Pare Ground in Balk.

Allspice  ............................. 14
Cassia, China in mats.........12
Cassia, Batavia in bond__25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls....... 82
Cloves, Amboyna...............14
Cloves, Zanzibar.................12
Mace,  Batavia....................55
Nutmegs, fancy..................80
Nutmegs, No.  1.................. 50
Nutmegs, No.  2.................. 45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, white... 18
Pepper,  shot.......................15
Allspice  ..........................»..17
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon..............  ...40
Cloves, Zanzibar..................14
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger, Jamaica................. 23
Mace,  Batavia................... 65
Mustard......................... 12@18
Nutmegs,...................... 40@s0
Pepper, Sing , black............15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage.................................... 15

SYRUPS.

Cera.

Barrels................................   17
Half  bbls...........................1#
% doz. 1 gallon cans........ 1  50
1-  doz. % gallon cans.......1  75
2  doz. M gallon  c a n s.....1  75
Pair  .............................. 
Good.................................  SO
Choice..............................  25

Pure wane.

 

  18

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Cera.

401-lb packages...................8
201 lb packages.....................6M
Klngsford’s Silver Okies.
40 l ib packages...................  6M
8-lb boxes.......................... 7

Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ...............5 00
128  5c  packages................5 00
3210c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00

Common Cora.

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

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages......................4M
3-lb  packages......................  4m
8-lb  packages......................  5
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3
B arrels.............................   3

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  poundB  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino....................................5 38
Cut  Loaf.................................. 5 63
Crushed.................................... 5 63
Powdered  ...........................5 25
XXXX Powdered.................... 5 38
Cubes....................................... 5 25
Granulated in bbls................... 5 13
Granulated in  bags..................5 13
lin e Granulated...................... 5 13
Bxtra Fine Granulated.......5 25
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 25
Mould  A.................................. 5 38
Diamond Confec.  A........... 5  13
Confec. Standard A................. 5 00
No.  1....................................... 4 75
No  2....................................... 4 75
No.  8....................................... 4 75
No.  4....................................... 4 69
No.  5....................................... 4 63
No.  6....................................... 4 56
No.  7....... 
No.  8....................................... 4 44
No.  9....................................... 4 38
No.  10.......................................4 3i
No.  11....................................... 4 25
No.  12.......................................4 24
No.  18....................................... 4 25
No.  14....................................... 4 «5
No.  16....................................... 4 19
No.  16....................................... 4 19

4 50

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. 
New Brick........................83 00

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brand. 

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

G. 

J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

S. C. W...............................35 oo

Ruhe Bros. Co. ’s Broads.

 

Double Eag'es. 6 sixes.855*170 00 
Gen. Maceo,5size8....  55@7U 00
Mr. Thomas.............  
35 00
Cuban Hand Made.... 
35 00
Crown  Five................ 
35 00
Sir  William................ 
35 00
35 00
Club Five................... 
35 00
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 
Little Peggy.............. 
35 00
Signal  Five...............  
35 oO
Knights of Pythias 
 
35 00
Key West Perfects, 2 ss 56@60 00

TABLB  SAUCES.

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

VINEGAR.

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

WICKING.

No.0, pergn>8s....................   20
No. 1, per gross....................  25
No. 2, per gross....................  35
No. 3, per gross....................   55

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Batter.

Seymour XXX...................  b%
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  8
Family XXX  ....................   5m
Salted X X X  ..............   6
New York X X X ...........   6
Wolverine.........................  6
Boston................................  7M

Soda.

Soda  x x x   .......................   e
Soda XXX, 3 lb carton__  6M
Soda,  City...........  ...........   8
Long Island Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Zephyrette...........................io
Saltlne Wafer....................  5M
SaltineWafer, 1 lb  carton.  6M
Farina Oyster....................   5m
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.

Oyster.

Animals............................  iovi
Bent’s Water......................  15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  io
Coffee Cake, Java.............   to
Coffee Cake, Iced................10
(’racknells.........................  15V4
Cubans  .............................   livj
Frosted  Cream...................  8
Ginger Gems  ....................  8
Ginger Snaps, X X X .......  7%
Graham Crackers  ............   8
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
imperials..........................   8
Jumoles,  Honey................  11M
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow  Walnuts...  16
Mich. Frosted Honey__   12M
Molasses Cakes.................   8
Newton............................   12
Nlc Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................   8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8M
Pretzels,  band m ad e......   8
Sears’Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sugar  Squares.................   9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas............................  12%

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene......................  © lift
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @  9V4
WW Michigan...........  @9
Diamond White,.......   © 8
D., S. Gas....................  © 9
Deo. N aptha..............  @7
Cylinder....................25  @M
Engine.......................11  OH
Black, winter........ 
0   8

Candies.
Stick Candy.

bbls. pails
Standard.................  6M@ 7
Standard H. H........ 
6H@ 7
Standard Twist......   6  ©  8
© 8
Cut Loaf.................  
cases
Jumbo, 32 lb  ..........  
& 6%
©  8%
Extra H. H.............. 
Boston  Cream ...... 
©10

Mixed Candy.

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

Fancy—In Balk.

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

© 6
© 6M
© 7
© 7V4
© 7V4
© 9
© 8V4
© 8
© 8
© 8M
© 9
@10
©13

© 8%
© 8H
©<0K
©’2
© 5
© 8
© 9
© 9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops.........  
©50
Sour  Drops............  
@50
Peppermint Drops.. 
©60
Chocolate Drops.... 
©80
H.  M. Choc. Drops..  ©75
Gum  Drops............  
©30
Licorice Drops........ 
©75
A. B. Licorice Drops 
©50
Lozenges,  plain.... 
@50
©50
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Imperials...............  
©50
Mottoes................... 
©55
Cream Bar.............. 
©50
Molasses B a r.........  
©50
Hand Made Creams.  80  @  90
Plain  Creams.........   60  @90
Decorated Creams.. 
@90
String Rock............  
©60
Burnt Almonds...... 125  @
Wintergreen Berries 
©60
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  .................
Fruits.
Oranges.
Louisianas.............. 
Mexicans  F lo rid a
stU ebox............ 
Fancy Navels.........  
Lemons.
Strictly choice 380s.. 
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 360s  ............ 
Ex.Fancy 300s........ 
Ex.Fancy 360s........ 
Bananas.

@3 75
@4 00
@4  25
@4  50
@4 25

@4 00
©125
@4 25

©35
©50

Medium bunches...]  00  @1  85
Large bunches........1  5u  @1  75

Foreign Dried  Fro its. 

Figs.

Californias  Fancy.. 
@16
Choice, 101b boxes.. 
@15
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............  
@18
Fancy, 12 lb boxes.. 
©22
Imperial Mikados, 18
I d  b o x e s ....................... 
©
Polled, 6 lb boxes...  @
Naturals,  in  bags... 
© 7
Dates.

@16

Fards in 10 lb  boxes  @ 9
Fards In 60 lb cases  @ 6
Persians, G. M’s......  
@ 6M
@6
lb cases, new........ 
Sairs,  601b cases.... 
© 5
Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
Almonds, Ivaca.........
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............
Brazils new................
Filberts  ....................
Walnuts, Naples........
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
Table Nuts,  fancy__
Table Nuts,  choice...
Pecans, Med.......... .
Pecans, Ex. Large....
Pecans, Jumbos........
Hickory  Nuts per bn.,
Ohio, new...............
Cocoanuts.  full  sacks 
Chestnuts per bu........

@15
©8Vi
@11©13
@12
@<2
@ 1 1
@10
@?K
@10
@12
@1  60 
©4  0 
@4 00

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................
Choice, H. P., Extras. 
Choice, H. p„  Ex tret, 

Boasted

@7 
© 4M
6H

Grains and Feedstuffs

P r o v i s i o n s .

Wheat.

Wheat.................... ...........  62

Winter Wheat Flonr. 

Local Brands.

Patents............................. 4 01
Second  Patent...................  3 50
Straight............................  3 25
Clear..............:..................  3 00
Graham  ............................3 50
Buckwheat.......................4 25
Bye 
.................................  3 25
Subject  to  nsual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’8 Brand
Daisy, Ms.............................3 40
Daisy. Ms.............................3 40
Daisy, Ms.............................3 40
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, Me.......................   3 45
Quaker,  ms........................  3  45
Quaker, Ms......  ...............   3 45
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 30
Pillsbury’s  Best Me...........  4 2<
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4  10
Pillsbury's Best Me paper  4  10 
Pillsbury’s Best Me paper..  4  10 
Ball-Bambart-Putman’s Brand.

Spring Wheat Flour. 

Dulutn Imperial. Ms.........4 00
Dulutb Imperial, Ms.  ____3  90
Duluth Imperial, Me......... 3  50
Lemon A Wbeeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Me..................  4  10
Gold Medal Me.................... 4 00
Gold Medal Ms....................3 9)
Parisian, Me......................   4  10
Parisian, Ms.......................  4 00
Parisian. Ms.......................  3 90
Ceresota, Me......................   4  15
Ceresota, Me......................   4 <5
Ceresota. Me.....................  3 95
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Me.........................  4  H
Laurel, Me  • ........................ 4  00

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Corn.

Meal.
....................
Feed and Mlllatnffs.

Bolted............................. .  1 90
Granulated 
2  10
St. Car Feed, screened  ... 16 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........ .1  50
Unbolted Corn Meal....... .IS  00
Winter Wheat  Bran...  .
.13 00
Winter Wheat Middlings. .14  00
Screenings....................... .13 00
Old corn, car lots...........
38
New coru, car lots...........
Less than  car lots........... 34 M
.  36 >4
Car  lots............................ .  30M
Carlots, clipped...............
33
Less than  car lots.  ........ .  35
No. 1 Timothy carlots..  .
8  50
9  C.0
No. 1 Timothy  ton lots
Fish and Oysters

Oats.

Hay.

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

Swift  A  Company  quote  as

Lards.  In Tierces.

follows:
Barreled Pork.
Mess  ............   ..........
9  50
Back  ......................10 50©
Clear back..............10 25@i0 5'
Shortcut......................
10  O
13 50
Pig...............................
Bean  .... .....................
9 75
Family 
10 50
Dry Salt Meats
Bellies.........................
Briskets  ......................
5M
Bxtra shorts...............
5 H
Smoked  neats
Hams, 12 lb  average  ..
8M
Hams, 14 lb  average
8M
Hams, 1610  average...
7M
Hams, 20 lb  average...
7*4
Ham dried beef  .........
11
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).
5*
Bacon,  clear........  ..... ?M@7M
California  hams.........
5
Boneless hams............
9
Cooked  ham............... 10@12M
Compound...................
3*
Kettle..........................
6M
55 lb Tubs......... advance
%
SO lb Tubs......... advance
50 lb T in s......... advance
%
20 lb Pails......... advance
M
10 lb Pails......... advance
%
5 lb Palls......... advance
1
31b Palls......... advance
1*
Sausages.
Bologna......................
5H
Liver...........................
6M
Frankfort....................
7%
P ork............................
6M
Blood  .........................
6
Tongue .......................
9
Head  cheese...............
6K
Extra  Mess.................
10 25
Boneless  ....................
13 00
Rump.........................
13 26
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs...................
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs............
1  35
M  bbls, 80 lbs..............
2 50
Kits, 15 lbs..................
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs..............
1  25
M  bbls, 80 lbs..............
2 25
Casings.
Pork..........................
20
Beef  rounds...............
3
Beef  middles............
10
Sheep.........................
60
Butterlne.
Rolls, dairy...............
9M
Solid, daily  ..............
9
Rolls,  creamery........
14
Solid,  creamery  ......
13M
Canned  Meats
Corned  beef,  2 lb  ...
2  ”6
Corned  beef, 14  lb— 15 00
Roast  beef,  2 lb__
2  15
Potted  bam,  Ms__
50
Potted  ham,  Ms__
90
50
Deviled ham,  M8__
90
Deviled ham,  Ms__
50
Potted  tongue Ms  ...
90
PottP<1  tongno vjg

Tripe.

Beef.

F r e s h   M e a t s .

Beef.

Carcass...................... 6M@ 8
Fore quarters............ 5 ©  6M
Hind  quarters........... 6
Loins  No.  3................ 9 ©12
Ribs............................ 7 @12
Rounds  ...................... 7 © 7M
Chucks.....................
6 © 6
Plates  ....................... 4 ©
Dressed...................... 4 ©
Loins......................... @  6M
Shoulders...................
©  5M
Leaf Lard.................. 5K@
Carcass..................... 6 © 7
Spring Lambs............ 7M@ 8*
Carcass
7 © 7M

Mutton

Pork.

Veal.

Fresh Fish.

Per lb
Whitefish...............   @  11
T rout......................  @  9
Black Bass..............  8  ©  10
Halibut...................  @  18
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  5
Blueflsh..................   ©  It
Live Lobster.........  
©  20
Boiled Lobster........  @  22
Cod 
......................  @  10
Haddock.................  ©  8
No.  1  Pickerel........  @  9
Pike.........................  @  EM
Perch.......................  @  5
Smoked White........  @  8
Red Snapper...........  @  10
Col  River Salmon..  ©  12
Mackerel 
..............  ©  18
F. H. Couuts...........  ©  35
F. J  D. Selects........  @  27
Selects...................  @  2 •
F. J. D  Standards... 
20
A nchors.................   @  18
Standards...............   @  16
Favorites.................  ©  14
gal.
Counts  .............................   1  75
X  Selects................................   1 60
Detects.....................................  1 20
Aucbor Standards..................   1 10
Standards..............................   1 no
Clams......................................  1 25
Oysters, per  100....... 1  25@1  5r
Clams,  per  100.........   ©1  CO

Oysters in Cons.

Shell Goods.

Bulk. 

Hides.

Pelts.
Tallow.

H i d e s   a n d   P e l t s .
The Cappon A  Bertscb  Leather
Co., 100 canal  Street, quotes  as
follows:
© 8
Green No. 1................
© 7
Green No. 2................
Cured No. 1................
©  9
Cured No. 2................
© 8
Calfskins,  green No. 1 ©n
Calfskins, green No. 2 ©  SM
Calfskins, cured No. 1 ©11
Calfskins, cured No. 2 ©  9M
........ 50© 1  00
Pelts,  each 
No. 1...........................
© 3
No. 2...........................
© 2
Washed, fine 
........... @18
©23
Washed, medium.......
Unwashed, fine.......... 1 @13
6 @18
Unwashed.
Cat, W ild................. 20©  50
Cat, House  ..  ......... @  20
Deer Skins, per lb__ 12M
3©  12
F i ll   Muskrat............
25©  1  25
Red  Fox..................
Grey Fox................
27© 
75
2 <0  1  40
Mink 
.............
20©  90
Racoon.....................
Skunk....................... 2u@  1  2U

Wool.

Furs.

21

Crockery and

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Button.

Jugs.

Churns.

Common

Milkpans.

Stewpans.

Fruit Jars.

Sealing Wax.

Tomato Jugs.

P in t  Quality.

LAMP  BURNERS.

Fine Glazed Milkpons.

M gal., per dos...................  40
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5
8 gal., each.......................   40
10 gal., each.......................  50
12 gal.,  each.......................  60
15 gal. meat-tubs, each__1  10
20 gal. meat-tubs, each... .1  50 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ...2 25
30 gal. meat-tubs, each__2 70
2 
to 6 gal., per gal.........  5
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 
Pint....................................  4 50
Quart................................. 4 75
M  gal  ................................  6 50
Covers.................................   2 00
Rubbers............................. 
25
M gal. fiat or rd. bot., doz.  45 
1 gal. fiat or rd. bot., each  5 
M gal. fiat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. fiat or rd. bot, each  5M 
M gal. fireproof, ball, doz.  85 
I gal. fireproof, ball, doz.l  10 
M gal., per doz...................   40
M gal. , per doz...................   42
1 to 5 gal., per gal............  
5M
M gal., per dos...................  42
1 gal., each...................... 
5M
Corks for % gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  30 
Preserve Jars and Coven.
M gal., stoue cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00 
5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
No. 0  Sun..........................   33
No.  1  Sun..........................  
31
46
No.  2  Sun........................... 
No. 3 Sun.............................  1  00
Tubular.............................  
50
Security, No. 1...................  60
Security, No. 2...................  80
Nutmeg  ............................   50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Second».
Per box of 6 doz.
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.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Son,  crimp 
No. 
1  Sun,  orimp 
No.  2  Son,  crimp 

wrapped and  labeled__ 2  10
wrapped and  labeled__  2  15
wrapped and  labeled__ 8  15

top,
wrapped and  labeled__  2 56
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled__  8 75
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Ton.
No. 1  Son,  wrapped  and
labeled.............................3  70
No.  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled......... ...................  4 88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamt>s............  
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ........  ...................... 
o
No. 2 Son,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ..................................  1 15
No. 1 Crimp, per dos.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per dos......... 1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c dos)........3 50
No. 2,  Lime  (70c doz)........4 00
No. 2,  Flint (80c  doz)........4 70
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  .......   4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c dos)........  4 40
Dos.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1 48
2 gal galv Iron with spout.  2 48
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3 32 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  4 28 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4  17 
5 gal galv Iron with  faucet 4 67
5 gal Tilting cans..............  7 25
5 gal galv iron Nacefas__ 9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7  80 
5 gal Bureka non-overflow 10 50
3  gal Home Rule_  ___ 10 50
5 gal Home Rule................12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9 60
No.  0Tubular8ldellft....  4 00
No.  1 B  Tubular................6  25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6  60
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........8 75
LANTERN OLOBBS.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents. 
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 2 dos.
each, box 16 cents.........  
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls  5 dos.
each, bbl 35....................... 
No. 0 Tubular,  buM's  eye, 
eases 1 dos. each 

......   46
45
3
.  —   1 16

Pump  Cano.

LANTERNS.

top,
top,
top,

OIL CANS. 

La  Bootle.

Rochester.

Blectrlc.

22

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

Hardware

C o ld   Weather  Goods.

Almost  all  of  this  variety  of  goods 
come  under  the  head  of  hardware,  or  at 
least  ought to.  This will  doubtless  be  a 
good  year  for  skating.  Already  the 
ubiquitious  boy 
is  beard  jingling  his 
skates  together  on  his  way  to  or  from 
frozen  ponds  or  streams.  See  therefore 
that  your  stock  of  skates 
is  sufficiently 
complete  to  supply  the  wants of  your 
neighborhood.  Nature  is  periodically 
clothed  in  spotless  raiment  during  these 
months  and  coasting  is  fully  as  populai 
as  skating. 
It  may  indeed  be  indulged 
in  when  the  latter  is  impossible.  Santa 
Claus  is  very  fond  of giving  sleds  for 
Christmas  gifts,  thus  gladdening  many 
boyish  hearts  at  the  sight  of  their bright 
red  or green  runners  and  top.  The high­
ly  economical  people  who  have  put  ofi 
the  purchase  of  a  heating  stove  until 
the  eleventh  hour  now  find  themselves 
compelled  by  the  extreme  cold  to  un­
loose their  purse  strings  for  some  heat­
ing  apparatus. 
It  is  well  therefore  to 
push  the  line  of  heating  stoves  as  much 
as  possible  at  this  period.  Where  a 
customer,  who  may  at  the  time  happei 
to  be  purchasing  other  things,  exhibits- 
an 
in  stoves,  talk  them  up  to 
him.  Show  how  they  are  managed.  E x­
plain  the  general use of dampers, grates, 
etc.,  at  the  same  time  expatiating  upor 
the  merits  of  certain  stoves likely to  suit 
him.  Where  some  previous  acquaint­
ance  with  some  prospective  purchaser’s 
circumstances  has  been obtained  by  for­
mer dealings  with  him,  the  retailer  car 
judge of whether a  wood  stove,  or soft  or 
hard  coal  heater  will  possibly  be  more 
desirable  for  him.  Show  coal  vases 
prominently  now  in  addition  to  stoves, 
for  every well regulated household shoulo 
have  one  or  more  of  them.

interest 

Side  Lines  for  the  Hardware  Dealer. 
From Stoves  and  Hardware  Reporter.

lamps, 

linoleums, 

There  was  a  time— not  so  very  lont 
ago,  either—when  certain  lines  of  mer­
chandise  were  considered  things  apart 
from  hardware  and  savoring  of  a  sort  of 
mercantile  sacredness  to  touch  which 
would  be  sacrilegious.  This  was  before 
the  hardware  dealer  began  to  put  bis 
strength 
into  things  other  than  mere 
hardware.  Those  lines,  the  addition  of 
which  has  done  so  much  to  build  up 
the  retailer’s  trade,  are,  for  example, 
bicycles, 
leather 
goods  and  kindred  lines.  All  of  course 
have  not  seen  fit  to  branch  out  in  this 
way  and  put  in  stock  all  the  above men­
tioned  goods;  but  those  who  have  done 
so  and  at  the  same  time displayed much 
enterprise and  activity  in  pushing  them 
have  materially  benefited  their  busi­
ness.  The old  antiquated  theory,  which 
has  not  entirely  died  out  yet,  that  hard­
ware  stores  should  confine  themselves 
to  “ exclusive”   matters,  such  as  strictly 
legitimate  lines  closely  or  inseparablv 
related  to  their  original  stocks,  is  be­
ing  fast  exploded.  Progress,  competi­
tion  and  the  needs  of  the  people  have 
changed  all  that. 
In  the  hurry  and 
flurry  of  the  present  day,  people  desire 
to  save  as  much  time as  possible  when 
doing  their  purchasing,  and  the  store 
which  carries  the  most  numerous  lines 
of  goods  is  the one  which  caters  to  this 
demand  for  convenience.  Besides,  the 
hardware  dealer  has  proved  by  the 
thought  and  study  put  upon  these  so- 
called  side  lines  that  he  can  stock  them 
as  carefully  as  the  department  store. 
lib­
Expert  knowledge  combined  with 
erality 
in  expenditure 
is  bound 
to 
bring  satisfactory  results 
in  supplying 
the  demands  of  the  most  fastidious  pub­
lic.  As time  passes  on,  to  these  quali­
fications  are  added  experience  and  ac­
curacy  in  selection,  which  increases  the 
appreciation  felt  by  the  public.  The 
hardware  dealer’s  information  may  be­
come as  valuable  to  him  in  the  acquisi­

tion  of additional  lines as  in  the  buying 
of  his  regular  stock.  He  learns  to  do 
nothing  by  halves,  but  regards  his  new 
lines  as  being  as  important  as  the old- 
timers. 
It  would  do  no harm  the  writer 
believes  if  the  hardware  dealer  would 
branch  out  even  more  than  he has  al­
ready  and  thus  accustom  people  to  the 
presence  of  different  goods  in  his  store 
and  make 
it  a  purchasing  center  for 
many  varieties of merchandise.  It would 
oe  done  with  a  serious  purpose  in  view 
—that  of  competing  fairly  and  most 
effectively  with  the  department  stores. 
Example  shows  what  gigantic  propor­
tions  the 
latter  have  assumed  by  the 
adoption  of  such  a  scheme  and the hard­
ware  dealer 
should  employ  similar 
means.

Puncture  Proof  Bicycle  Wheel.

The  one  feature  in  the  bicycle  which 
gives  a  feeling  of  anxiety  and  uncer­
tainty  to  the  rider 
is  the  liability  to 
Jisaster  through  the  loss  of the  cushion­
ing  air.  Perhaps  no  other  point  has  bad 
is  much  study  by  the  inventor  with  so 
little  prospect  of  success as  the  retain­
ing  of  the  delightful  elasticity  of  the 
pneumatic  tire  while  overcoming 
its 
proneness 
to  disagreeable  surprises. 
The  most  successful  effort  so far brought 
10  attention  seems  to  be  that  of  M.  C. 
Oviatt,  of  Traverse  City,  whose 
inven­
tion  consists  of  a  wheel  having  a  tire  of 
iolid  rubber,  with  a  tread  much  broader 
than 
in  the  old  solid  tire.  Then  the 
spokes  are  made  shorter  than  the  ordi­
nary  wheel  would  require  and  are at­
tached  to  a  rim  smaller 
in  diameter 
than  the  wheel,  thus  making  two  rims 
separated  by  a  space.  It is  in  this  space 
that  the  principal  means  of  elasticity 
is  found.  A  band  of  leather  passes 
I around  midway  between  the  rims,  being 
secured  to  each  by  small  rods  placed 
alternately  several 
inches  apart.  This 
arrangement  gives  any  degree of elastic­
ity  desired,  becoming  more  rigid  and 
firm  by  the  increase  of  the 
load.  Con 
trary  to  what  might  be  thought,  the 
wheel  presents  a  handsome  appearance 
and  will,  no  doubt,  enjoy  a  wide  sale 
among  those  who  wish  to avoid  the  an­
noyance 
inherent  in  the  old  method,  or 
who  wish  to  subject  their  wheels  to  spe­
cially  hard  usage.

Obedient  to  the  Letter.

“ If  you hammer  that  shoe  on  the  floor 
again,  Elsie,  I  shall  whip  you,”   said 
Vlrs.  B.— who  was  vainly  endeavoring 
to  ward  off  an  oncoming  nervous  head­
ache—to  her  little  girl  at  play  in  the 
next  room.

The  noise  ceased  for  some  moments, 
then  recommenced  even  louder  than  be­
fore.

“ Come  here  this 

instant,  E lsie,”  

called  the  exasperated  mother.

And  the  child  obeyed,  with  blue  eyes 

opened  wide  in  innocent  surprise.

“ I  am  going  to  whip  you,  Elsie.  Did 
I  not  forbid  you to  hammer  that  shoe  on 
the  floor  again?  And  you  have  dis­
obeyed  me. ’ ’

“ I  did  not  disobey  you,  mother. 

It 
was  not  that  shoe  that  I hammered then ; 
it  was  the  other  one.”

Never  Lose  Their  Interest.

From the St.  Ignace Enterprise.

We  don’t  know  whether  business  men 
who  take  the  Michigan  Tradesman  ever 
think  of  taking  it  home,  but  if  they  do 
not  they  make  a  great  mistake.  No 
lady  could  fail  to  enjoy  that  charming 
article  on  Good  Manners  for  Girls,  in 
last  week’s  number,  by  Dorothy  Dix, 
whose  contributions,  by  the  way,  never 
lose  their  interest.

It  W as the  Sam e  Fellow.

The  man  who  talks  so  loudly  what  be 
knows  regarding  advertising  is  the  man 
who  put  a  three-liner  in  the  classified 
column  of  a  Sunday  paper once  in  or­
der U)  find  somebody  who  would  furnish 
capital  to back  up  his  experience.

Glark-Ro t k i-Jew ell Go.

3 8   A N D   4 0   S -  IO N IA   ST .
O P P O S IT E   U N IO N   D E P O T

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

w

4

FULL  LINE  OF

K R A U T  A N D   SLAW   C U TTER S  
M EA T  CHO PPERS 
BARN  DOOR  HANGERS 
BAR  IRON
SH ELF  A N D   HEAVY  HARDW ARE 
C O M M O N   WIRE  A ND  
C E M E N T-C O A TE D   N AILS.

Strictly  wholesale.  Orders  filled  promptly  at  bottom 

ruling  prices.  Mail  orders  solicited.

O a tm a n ’s   H a n d y   H o o p s

For  Tubs, 
Pails  or 

Barrels

Pot op in neat display box, 

and rivets included.

Patent applied for.

No.  to order by.

Inches wide.

Inches long.

Box of 50.

Box of 25.

0
2
3
4

y»
%
I
«li
1%

39
£
So
So

$ 1.76
3.30
4.00

$3.00
4.00

These hoops are flared,  with one end punched all ready  to  get  the  size  and  rivet  together 
by placing the tub bottom side up, and putting the  hoop  around with  the  punched end Upped 
on the outside, so that you can  mark for the two holes to be punched.
These hoops do away with the annoyance of pulling a bundle  of  hoop  iron  apart  to  get  a 
few cents*  worth of hooping1.  For sale oy

uFOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO.,  «»and  rapids.
W ILLIAM   R E ID

Importer and Jobber of

PO LISH E D   PLA TE 

W INDOW  
ORN AM ENTAL

PA IN T O IL.  W HITE  LEAD. 

V A R N ISH E S 
B R U SH ES

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

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

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

23

Hardware  Price  Carrent.

AUOURS AND BITS
Snell’S........................................ 
Jennings’, genuine.......................
Jennings’, Imitation....................

rrn
............ 25*10
............ 60*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze........... ............   5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze......
............   9  50
First Quality. S.  B. S. Steel...........
...........   5 50
First Quality, D. B. Steel.............. .............  10 50
Railroad.........   ...........

BARROWS

AXBS

WIRE  GOODS
Bright.........................................
Screw Eyes.................................
Hook’s.........................................
Gate Hooks and Byes............... .
Stanley Rnle and Level Co.’s__
Sisal, % Inch and larger............
Manilla...................................... .
Steel and Iron...............................................70*10
Try and Bevels...........................................  
60
M itre............................................................ 
50
com. smooth,  com.

80
80
80
80
70
9*
11

LEVELS
ROPES

SHEBT IRON

SQUARES

dis 

WIRB

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

#2 40
2 40
2 45
2 55
2 85
275
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14................................... #2 70 
Nos. 15 to 17...................................  2 70 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................  2  80 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................  3  00 
Nos. 25 to 26...................................  3 10 
No.  27..........................................  320 
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 .........................  50
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
1  26
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
Bright Market.......................................  ... 
75
Annealed  Market........................................  
75
Coppered Market..........................................70*10
Tinned Market...........................................  
62%
Coppered Spring Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.........................  2 05
Barbed Fence,  painted...............................  1 75
An Sable..................................................dis 40&1C
Putnam................................................... dis 
5
Northwestern..........................................dis 10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled... „.............. 
30
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought...................  80
80
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
50
Bird  Cages............................................. 
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
80
Screws, New List...................................  
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50*10*10
Dampers, American  .............................  
50
600 ponnd casks...........................................  
7Q
Per pound....................................................  
7Jf
V4@H............................................................  12V4
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................# 5 75
14x20 IC, Charcoal.......................................  5  75
20x14 IX. Charcoal...................... 
...........   7 00

TIN—Melyn Grade

MISCELLANEOUS

METALS—Zinc

HORSE NAILS

WRENCHES

SOLDBR

Each additional X on this grade, #1.25.

TIN—Allaway Grada

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

Each additional X on this grade, (1.50. 

 

ROOFINa  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   4  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  5 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  9  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   4  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5  00
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   8 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   10 00
0
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I ___ 
'4x66 TX. for  No  9  Rollers, f per Pound- - • 
8

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATB 

4 50

M E N   O F   M A R K .

Wm.  D.  Weaver,  Treasurer  Clark- 

Rutka-Jewell  Co.

Wm.  D.  Weaver  was  born  on  a  farm 
in  Walker  township,  Kent  county,  Dec. 
17,  1856,  bis  parents  being  Canadian 
born.  He  attended  school  at  the  Walker 
schoolhouse  until  ig  years  of  age,  when 
be  attended  the  Grand  Rapids  high 
school  two  winters.  His  first  business 
experience  was  with  the  former  whole­
sale  grocery  house  of  Shields,  Bulkley 
&  Co.,  with  which  he  identified  himself 
in  1880  in  the  capacity  of  driver  of  a 
delivery  wagon.  He  was  soon  promoted 
to  the  position  of  assistant  shipping 
clerk  and,  subsequently,  to that  of  ship­
ping  clerk.  In  the  fall  of  1882  he  trans­
ferred  his  allegiance  to  the  wholesale 
grocery  house  of  Clark,  Jewell  &  Co., 
with  which  bouse  and  its  successors  be

Rutka,  Vice  President,  and S.  M.  Wells, 
Secretary.

Mr.  Weaver 

is  an  attendant  at  the 
South  Congregational  Church  and  is  a 
member of the  A.  O.  U.  W.  Aside  from 
these  relations,  he 
is  not  much  of  a 
“ jiner, ”   all  of  his  thoughts  and  aspira­
tions  being  centered  in  his  home  at  376 
Horton  avenue,  where  he  has  a  wife  and 
an  u-yearold  daughter.  His  wife’s 
name  was  Miss  Lillian  A.  Huff  prior 
to  their  marriage  on  Sept.  15,  1880.

Mr.  Weaver  attributes  his  success  to 
steady  and  persistent  application  to 
business;  to  the  fact  that  he  has  done 
his  duty,  as  he  sees  it,  without  circum­
locution  or  ostentation, and  be  is,  natur­
ally,  proud  of  the  friends  be  has  made 
and  the  customers who  entertain  for him 
a  high  measure  of  respect.  Few  men 
remain  seventeen  years  with  one  house 
and  are then  able  to  transfer  their  alle-

has  since  been  constantly  identified— 
ten  years  as  shipping  clerk,  three  years 
as  city  salesman  and  the  past  four  years 
as  manager  of  the  cigar  department.  In 
addition  to  the  positions  which  he  suc­
cessively  occupied,  he  became  a  stock­
holder  in  the  institution  on  the  incorpo­
ration  of  the  house  as  the  I.  M  Clark 
Grocery  Co.,  at-which  time  he  was 
elected  a  director  of  the 
company. 
This relationship he has  since  sustained, 
with  credit  to  himself  and  with  profit 
to  the  house.

Within  a  few  days  Mr.  Weaver  has
made  an  important  change,  having  sold 
interest  in  the  Clark-Jewell  Wells 
his 
Co.  and  purchased  an 
in  the 
wholesale  hardware  house  of  Clark 
Rutka-Jewell  Co.,  which  institution  be 
will  serve  as  a  director  and  also  in  the 
capacity  of  Treasurer,  the  other officers 
being  M.  J.  Clark,  President,  J.  J.

interest 

giance  to  a  house  which  is  so  closely re­
lated  as  the two wholesale establishments 
are  in  the  Clark  building.

When  remonstrated  with 

for  relin­
quishing  a  business  to  which  he  has 
devoted  nineteen  consecutive  years  and 
espousing  an  occupation  which  involves 
long  and  patient  study  in  order  to  mas 
ter  the  enormous  amount of  detail  con­
nected  therewith,  Mr.  Weaver  asserts 
that  what  has  been  done  once  can  be 
done  again ;  that  the  principles  of  busi­
ness  are  practically  the  same,  no  mat 
ter  what  the  line  may  be,  and  that  the
same 
industry  which  enabled  him  to 
work  his  way,  step  by  step,  up  the 
tedious  ladder  of  the  grocery  trade  will 
serve  him  to  equal  purpose  m  his  new 
undertaking.

Advocates  of  early  rising  should  re­
member  that  it’s  the  early  worm  that 
gets  caught.

60&1O
50
1  2  2F»
............ 70&10
............ 70*10

BOLTS

.. per lb 

CROW  BARS

BUTTS,  CAST

Stove ............................
Carriage new list.....................
Plow...............................
BUCKETS
Well,  plain....................
Cast Loose  Pin, figured......
Wrought Narrow....................
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle..................
Cast Steel.......................
CAPS
Ely’s  1-10..........................
Hick’s C. F ...............................; .........ner m 
r\  TV 
.......................... F®*  m  
Musket.................................. 
SS, ™ 
CARTRIDGES
Rim Fire.......................
Central  Fire............................... 
Socket Firmer..............
Socket Framing.............. 
Socket Comer................. 
Socket Slicks................  
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks................
Taper and Straight Shank......
Morse’s Taper Shank..............
ELBOWS

CHISELS

** 

70
4

55
w
£

gñ
on
gñ

K/LCr K
ok* k

60
.50* 5 
50A  5

Com. 4 piece, 6 in.
doz. net 
50
Corrugated.........
1  25
.........  
Adjustable.........
........dis 40*10
EXPANSIVE  BITS
Clark’s small, #18;  large, #26 ........ 
30*10
Ives’, 1, #18; 2, #24; 3. #30  ............  
05
FILES—New  List
New American..........................  
70*10
Nicholson’s......................................................... j»
'  6C&10
Heller’s Horse Hasps.............................  
GALVANIZED  IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27 
28
jo 
List  12 
17

13 

14 

"  

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
GAUGES

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

KNOBS—New List

MATTOCKS

MILLS

Adze Eye.....................................#16 00, dis  60*10
Hunt Eye.....................................#15 00, dis 60*10
Hunt's........................................  #18 50, dis 20*10
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
NAILS

MOLASSES  QATBS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

 

 

 

PLANES

■steel nails. base...........................................   155
Wire nails,  base.................... .......................  1  ao
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance..........................................  
06
8 advance  ..................................................  
10
6 advance  ..................................................  
20
4 ad vance.................................................... 
30
3 advance...................................... 
 
45
2 advance...................................................  
70
Fine 3 advance.....................................  . .. 
50
Casing 10 ad vance............... 
 
15
Casing  8 advance........................................ 
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance......................................  
85
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
3,-
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance..........................................  86
Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy................................   @50
Sclota Bench................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, firstquality......................................   @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme...............................................60&10&1C
Common, polished......................  
70*5
60
Iron and  T inned........................................  
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  21 
Broken packages %e per pound  extra. 
Maydole * Co.’s, new  list.............................. dis 33^»
Kip’s  ...................................................... dis 
Terkes A Plumb’s............................................. dis t0*l0
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c Usi 
'Macks"-«*'-’- 
i.

PATENT PLANISHBD IRON 

HAMMERS

rw   otn/A  tr» .* •*<» 
HOUSB FURNISHING GOODS

RIVETS

PANS

25
70

 

HOLLOW  WARB

8tamped Tin Ware.........................new list 75*1
’spanned Tin Ware......................................20*1
Granite Iron Ware....................  .. new list 40*1
‘nts...... 
60*1
60* '
p*tles 
aiders 
60*'
Gate, Clark’s, 1,8,8................................dis 60*1'
State......................................... per doz. net  2 50

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

HINGES

 

 

 

24

G O T H A M   G O S S IP .

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

is  very  decided 

New  York,  Dec.  17—The  coffee  mar­
ket  here  shows  more  firmness  than  for  a 
long  time.  Orders  from 
the  country 
came  in  freely  and  those  who  declined 
to  buy  at  quotations  Monday  or  Tues­
day  came  on  Thursday  or  Friday,  ask­
ing  forgiveness  and  loaded  themselves 
up  at  prevailing  rates,  glad  to  do  so, 
even  if  tney  did  pay more.  Saturday the 
volume  of  trade  is  less,  as  prices  have 
advanced  too  tar  again.  Little,  com­
paratively,  has  been  done  in  a  specula­
tive  way.  As  to  whether  there  is  legit­
imate  cause  for  the  recent  advance, 
there 
opinion  both 
ways,  and  the  point  is  whether  the  sup­
ply  will  be  as  large  as  heretofore  _esti- 
mated— 12,000.000  bags—or  only 
two- 
thirds  of 
is  now 
claimed.  All  sorts  of  rumors  as  to  tde 
coffee  sugar  war  have  been  prevalent, 
some  papers  asserting 
it  to  be  only  a 
sham 
in  order  to  manipulate  the  stock 
market.  Woolson's  manager  says  the 
fight 
is  a  dreadfully  earnest  one,  etc. 
On  the  spot  No.  7  Rio  is  firm  at  6^c. 
In  store  and  afloat  tne  amount  is  1,092,- 
325  bags,  against  1,024,660  bags  at  tht 
same  time 
in 
sympathy  with  Brazil  grades,  have 
shown  more  activity  and  prices  are 
firmly  maintained.

last  year.  Mild  sorts, 

that  amount,  as 

The  volume  of  business  going forward 
in  refined  sugar  is  of  very  limited  mag­
nitude,  but  the  market,  nevertheles,  is 
steady.  The  guarantee  of  prices  so  long 
offered  by  the  Trust  has  been  with­
drawn,  and  matters  may  grow  more 
in­
teresting  from  day  to  day.  Quotations 
are  firmly  maintained.

While  no  greater  activity  is  observ­
able 
in  tea,  prices  at  auction  have 
shown  some  advance  and the situation  is 
rather  more  favorable  for holders.  Litile 
has  been  done  in  line  trading.  At  the 
auction  old  crop  Formosas  sold  at  24c 
as 
inside.  The  attendance  at  the  sale 
was  quite  large,  buyers  being  present 
from  all  parts.

While  a  large  amount  of  rice  changed 
hands,  it  was  chiefly  because  one  spec­
ulator  bought  to  sell  to  another.  Still 
actual  legitimate  sales  were  quite  freely- 
made  and  prices,  as  expected,  were 
firm,  both  for  domestic  and  foreign. 
Prime  to  choice  Southern,  5ti@ 6 }4c; 
head,  6#@ 7c;  Japan  5^c.

Not  a  single  change 

in  spices  has 
taken  place  during  the  week 
in  quota 
tions.  Few  transactions  have  occurred 
in  pepper,  which  still  remains  at 
for  Singapore.

The  molasses  market  is  very firm and, 
is  found  in  obtaining  just 
as  difficulty 
the  quality  sought  for,  "owing  to 
its 
absence,"  holders  will  not  part  stocks 
save  at  full  rates.  Centrifugals,  fair 
to  good,  I3@i8c  for  old  crop.  New 
open  kettle  will  fetch  32@37c.

For export  there  has  been  a  fair  de 
mand  for  syrups  and  altogether  the mar­
ket  is  in  quite  a  satisfactory  condition, 
with  prime  to  fancy  ig@25c.

Canned  goods  are  firm  on  all  lines. 
There  is  a  good  healthy non-speculative 
trade,  and  altogether dealers have  every 
cause  for  congratulation  as  the  year 
draws  to  a  close.  Not  for  a  long  time 
have  tomatoes,  peas  and  corn  been  in 
as  good  shape  as  to-day,  and  packers 
will  enter  the  new  year  full  of  hope;  in 
fact,  they  may  overdo  the  matter  next 
season.  Standard  New  Jersey  tomatoes, 
8o@goc.

Lemons  and  oranges  have  both  met 
with  good  demand  during  the  week. 
Florida  oranges  have  been  in  freer  re­
ceipt  than  anticipated,  but  buyers  are 
apparently  holding  back  until  they  find 
out  how  much  stock 
is  still  to  come. 
Sicily 
lemons,  $2.3o@3  25,  as  to  size 
and  quality;  oranges,  Jamaicas  re­
packed,  per  bbl.,  $5.5o@6;  Florida rus 
sets,  $3.25@4 ;  brights,  $3  50®5 ;  Cali­
fornia  navels,  $3@4  25.

Eggs  are  in excellent demand and sup­
plies  are  light  and  few  reported  on  the 
way.  Best  Western  are  worth  26@27C ; 
refrigerator stock,  2o@22c.

The  butter  market 

desirable  stock 

is 

is  firm.  Reallv 
in  light  supply  and

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

firsts, 

extra  Western  creamery  moves  at  21c ; 
firsts,  i9@2oc;  seconds,  I7@ i8c ;  thirds, 
I5@ i6c;  june  extras, 
Imita­
i6j£@i7C;  lancy  rolls,  14 
tion, 
® i4 l^c.

ig@20C. 

The  cheese  market  is dull and lifeless. 
Buyers  take  only  enough  for  their every­
day  wants,  and  no  great  activity 
is 
looked  for  until  the  turn  of  the  year 
and  even  then  it  is  unlikely  the  market 
will  be  perceptibly  affected.

One  of  the  employes  of  a  large  de­
partment  store  on  Broadway  asserts  that 
nearly  all  the  women  accused  of  shop­
lifting  in  the  big  stores  could escape the 
ignominy of  arrest  if  they  cared  to.  "In  
the  great  majority  of  cases,”   he  said, 
"w e  have  to  arrest  the  women  to  pro­
tect  ourselves.  When  they  are  detected 
and  taken  to  a  room  to  be  searched  and 
the  articles  found  on  them  establish 
beyond  all  question  their  guilt,  one 
would  suppose  that  they  would  be  will­
ing  to  confess  when  the  opportunity  of 
escape  is  given  to  them.  But  quite  the 
reverse  is  true. 
In  the  face  of  the  most 
positive  proof  they  continue  to  protest 
their 
innocence  and  threaten  us  witb 
suits  for  damages  the  moment  they 
leave  the  building.  All  of  them  imme 
diately  begin  to 
talk  about  damage 
suits,and  it  is  a  curious  fact  that  this  is 
true  of  women  who  have  never  before 
had  any  experience  with  the  police.  To 
most  of  these  the  opportunity  is  given 
to  avoid  all  publicity. 
If  they  would 
quietly  leave  after they have been proved 
guilty  that  would  be  sufficient  to  save 
their  reputations.  But  they  are  never 
willing  to  do  that  and  talk  only  of  dam­
age  suits.  We  have  to  cause  the  arrests 
to  protect  ourselves."

later  made  a  buyer. 

The  managers  of  some  department 
stores  want  to  know  what  their  rivals 
are  doing 
in  the  bargain  counter  way 
and  this 
is  obtained  by 
information 
women  who  pose  as  shoppers.  There  is 
one  woman  who  entered  a  Broadway 
store  four  years  ago  as  a  cloak  model 
and  proved  so  able  a  saleswoman  that 
she  was 
She 
spends  her  time  at  this  season  in  the  ri­
val  department  stores,  noting  the  bar­
gains  advertised  and 
looking  out  for 
novelties  which  she  can  recommend  to 
her  employers. 
“ If  we  see  that  a  rival 
store  is  advertising  goods  at  a  cut  price 
which  we  sell,”   she  said,  " it  
is  my 
business  to  go  and  purchase  them  so 
that  we  may  compare  the  quality  with 
our  own  stock. 
If  the  quality  is  the 
same  our  prices  are  adjusted  to  suit  the 
cut,  and 
if  our  goods  are  better  the 
salesmen  and  women  who  handle  them 
are  informed  of  that  fact,  so  that  when 
a  prospective  purchaser  says  that  so- 
and-so  are  selling  the  same  thing  at  a 
less  price  he  or  she  may  truthfully  say 
that  our  quality  is  better.  This  spying 
on  our  rivals  requires  experience  to  do 
it  well. 
If  I  happen  to  be  known  to 
the  floorwalker  of  a  rival  store  and  be 
wants  to  head  off  my  enquiry  about  bis 
bargains  he  sends  the  word  around  to 
the  salesgirls  to  tell  me  that  the  bar­
In 
gains  advertised  are  all  sold  out. 
such  a  case  I  get  a  woman  who 
is  un­
known  to  them  to  make  the  purchase.”

Lead  to  Lo ss  o f  Trade.

Stock  badly  kept,  untidy 

looking 
shelves  or  counters,  and  disarranged 
window  or  department  displays  will  not 
make  your  customers  believe  that  you 
are  too  busy  to  attend  to  these  matters; 
it  will  only  suggest  untidy,  unbusiness­
like  methods,  and  lead  to  loss  of  trade.
Tardiness  in  wrapping  goods  and  re 
turning  the  package  to  the  customer, 
also  carelessness 
in  tying  parcels,  is 
often  the  cause  of  a  customer  saying, 
"Please  send  it.”   Bear  this  in  mind  as 
the  holiday  season  draws  near.

A  salesperson  who 

is  prompt  com­
mands  the  admiration  and  confidence 
of  bis  employer.

But  promptness  means  more  than  be­

ing  on  time  in  the  morning.

It  means  being  at  your  post  whenever 
needed—ever  ready  to  attend  to  cus­
tomers,  always  having  your  work  well 
in  hand,  always  knowing  just  what  con­
dition  your  stock 
is  in,  always  ready 
with  the  information  you  are  expected 
to  possess,  always  to  have  a  reason  for 
your  actions,  etc.

Hides,  Pelts,  Furs,  Tallow and  Wool-
Hides  have  advanced  slightly,  as  the 
quantity  does  not  seem  adequate  to  the 
demand.  It  is  not  a  question  of  quality, 
and  purchasers  grumble  at  the  price, 
but  decide 
later  that  they  must  have 
them.

Pelts  are  few  and 

low  in  value,  al­

though  there  is  a  fair  demand.

Furs  are  more  quiet,  it  being  too  late 
to  ship  for  London  sales  in  January. 
Exporters  are 
inclined  to  hold  up  on 
purchases  until  they  know  the  outcome 
of  what  has already gone forward.  There 
are  no  more  speculative  prices  being 
paid.  Home  consumption  creates  a  fair 
demand.
Tallow 

is  low,  with  demand  weak, 

except  for  choice  grades.

Wool 

is  selling  in  the  coast  markets 
quite  freely  and  at  firm  and  slightly  ad­
vanced  prices  on  some  grades. 
It  i» a 
relief  to  know  that  the  commodity  is 
wanted  at  some  price.  This  price  has 
been affected by  quantities  of  previously 
manufactured  cheap  goods, 
in  which 
cheap  cotton  was 
largely  used.  The 
free  wool  chap,  also,  was  not  idle  in  bis 
day  on  a  prolific  money  market,  and 
bis  stocks  are  ample  for  all  demands. 
There 
is  little  demand  West  and  salts 
cut  a  sorry  figure  to  quote  a  market  on.

W m.  T.  Hess.

The  first  ship  that  passes  through  the 
new  Nicaragua  canal  will  announce  the 
coming  commercial  supremacy  of  the 
United  States 
in  the  Pacific.  The  fu­
ture  markets  of  the  world,  as  generally 
accepted,  are  the  western  borders  of 
South  Africa,  Australia,  Hawaii,  Japan, 
Corea,  China,  the  Philippines,  and  ul­
timately  India.  Upon  the  completion 
of  the  canal  cables  will  be  laid  to  these 
countries.  Then  we  shall  better  appre­
ciate  the  need  of  American  bottoms 
over  which  to  float  our  own  flag. 
In  a 
fair  race  for  supremacy  we  shall  outdo 
all  rivals,  even  with  an  ‘ ‘open  door”  
at  our  great  waterway.  Our  future,  as 
seen  through  a  glass  pointed through the 
coming  canal,  is  dazzling 
in  its  mag­
nificence.  Even  although  it  cost  $100, - 
000,000,  it  will  be  worth  to  this  country 
ten  times  that  amount. 
If  we  are  al­
ready  the  richest  nation  on  the  eaitb, 
what  shall  we  be  when  the  world  is  ours 
commercially?

WANTS  COLUMN.

BUSINESS  CHANCES. 

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under this 
heed for two cents a word  the  first  insertion 
and one cent a word  for  each  subsequent in­
sertion.  No advertisements taken for less than 
as cents.  Advance payment._______________
=
I  PAY  CASH  QUICKLY  AND  PROMPTLY 
for stocks of m  rchandise  of  any  kind  and 
size,  at  a  discount. 
Communications  held 
strictly  confidential.  Address  A.  E.  Poulsen, 
LaGrange,  Ind._______________________ 783
SIX BEAUTIFUL  LOTS  IN  HARVEY,  TWO 
miles  from  Chicago,  for  sale  or  trad -  for 
farming  land  or  city  property  in  Central  or 
Southern Michigan.  The  above  lots  are  first- 
class, centrally located, taxes  low  and  paid  to 
date, title guaranteed. ¿A fine investment in one 
of Chicago’s most prosperous suburbs.  For par- 
ticuiers write to  Box  No.  444,  Harbor  Springs, 
Mich. 
IAOR  SALE —RESIDENCE  LOT-,  HOUSES 
JL  and lots and 40  acres  of  improved farming 
land near Kalamazoo,  which  I  will  sell  cheap 
for CRsh on  long time or exchange  for  stocks of 
merchandise anywhere in Michigan  or  Iudiana. 
Inspection of properties solicited.  F.  E.  Bush­
man, 714 So  Pars St., Kal im»zoo, Mich. 
788
IpOR  POTATOES  IN  CAR  LOT-,  ADDRESS 
Wade  Bros.,  Cadillac  or  Traverse  City, 
793
Mich 
m ACRE FARM, VALUED AT$4 000, FREE 
and clear f om encumbrance, to trade for 
merchandise; also $10.000 worth  of  Grand  Rap­
ids property,  free  and  clear,  to  exchange  for 
merchandise.  Address Wade Bros., Cadillac  or 
Traverse City, Mich. 
O  EXCHANGE  FOR GENERAL MERCH AN - 
dise—40 acre  fruit  farm,  choice  trees  just 
commenced to bear, fine location in the  famous 
Michigan fruit belt,  I  M miles  from  town; also 
a grain farm and stock farm.  Give  full  partic­
ulars of stock in first letter.  Address Lock Box 
.5, Breedsville, Van Buren Co.,  Mich. 

787

789

792

For  sa l e—a  f in e   w in t e r   h o m e  a t
McMeekin, Florida,  26  miles  w*-st  of  Pal- 
atka;  five acres of land,  150 orange trees to bear 
next spring, also pears, plums,  figs,  giapes  and 
berries;  ten minutes' walk from depot and post- 
office;  two-story,  seven-room  house,  with  ver­
andas;  good well of water and good neighbors; 
land  slopes  down  to  Mirror  Lake;  two  other 
lakes  in  sight;  small  barn,  buggy  house  and 
sheds;  price,  $1,500.  A.  H.  McClellan,  Bls- 
coyne, Florida._______________________ 785
TX7ANTED—TOBUY A GOOD ICE BUSINESS 
Yv 
in a town o  2,000 population and no  oppo­
sition.  Address No. 782,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man________________________________ 782
FOR  SALE-CHEAP.  IF  TAKEN  AT ONCE, 
wholeeale butter and egg business.  Call  or 
write 98 South Division st., Grand Rspids.  791
IjVJR  SALE—GROCERY  BUSINESS,  GOOD 
location and good trade. Reason for selling, 
other business on hand.  Address No.  795,  care 
Michigan Tradesman._________________ 795
IT'OR SALE—CLEAN SHOE STOCK IN GROW- 
1  ine  manufacturing  town  of  5,000,  county 
seat, surrounded by  good  farming  trade.  Will 
sell at a bargain  as  owner  has  o her  business 
which demands his attention.  Address No.  781, 
care Michigan Tradesman._____________ 784
YX7ANTED—LOCA 1 ION  FOR  A  PRIVATE 
I t   bank by gent eman of  ample  means,  good 
character and excellent bus’ness  qualifications. 
Location  must  be  a  good  business  point  sur­
rounded  by  prosperous  farming  community. 
Address No  780, care Mich'gan Tradesman.  780
FOR SALE-OLD AND WELL-ESTABLISHED 
bakery business in a  city  of  16,000  popula­
tion.  For particulars  write  to  Wm. Malmborg, 
215 Cleveland Aye., Ishp  ming,  Mich.____ 776
B est  location  in   Mic h ig a n  fo r  a
cold  storage  and  general  produce  dealer. 
Write to the  Secretary  of tne  Otsego  Improve­
631
ment Association. Otsego. Mich. 
TO  EXCHANGE—FOR  CLOTHING,  DRY 
goods or shoes, very nice  well rented Grand 
Rapids property.  Address No.  552, care  Michi­
552
gan Tradesman. 
fp O   EXCHANGE—FARM  FOR  CITY  PROP- 
.JL  erty;  80 acres, part  improved.  Adapted  to 
general farming and peach raising.  J. H. McKee 
& Son, Houseman Block, Grand Rapids. 
770
ITiOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE —HOT  SODA 
1  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’  pal tern,  $1,100,  $10  per 
month,  6  per cent.  Also  Fixtures,  drug  and 
jewelry:  three8 ft.,  one  12-ft.  wall  cases,  plate 
glass;  24 ft. drug shelving, half glass;  four 8-ft. 
silent  salesman  ca«es,  beveled  plate,  grand; 
$1,000, $10 per  month,  a  per  cent.  Address  766, 
care Michigan Trade-man______________766
WANTED — SHOES,  CL OTHING,  DRY 
goods.  Address R. B., Box 351, Montague, 
699
Mich.__________________________ 
AVE  SMALL GENERAL  STOCK,  ALSO  A 
stock 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
I7IOR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
'  splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad- 
680
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman. 
Mer c h a n t s—do you w ish cash  q u ic k
for your stock of merchandise,  or any  part 
of it?  Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mich.
__________ 628
TO  EXCHANGE — FARMS  AND  OTHER 
property for dry  goods, clothing and  shoes.
Address P. Medalie, Mancelona.  Mich. 
553
COUNTRY  PRODUCE

ter and eggs. 

W E PAY SPOT CASH ON TRACK  FOR BUT- 
It  will  pay you  to  get  our 
prices and  particulars.  Stroup  &  Carmer,  Per- 
rinton, Mich. 
ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 
try;  any  quantities.  Write  me.  Orrin  J. 

771

Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich.__ 

706

ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co.. Traverse City, Mich. 
381
ANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH 
EGGS,
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
553

Ithaca,  Mich. 

FIREPROOF  SAFES

C4 EO. M. SMITH,  NEW  AND  SECONDHAND 
I   safes,  wood  and  brick  building mover, 157 
613
Ottawa street, Grand Rapids._____  
MISCELLANEOUS.

W A N T E D  — REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
vv  M ust furnish good reference as to honesty 
and good habits.  J. H. Chapman,  Mears,  Micb

794

o   pharmacist, 27 years  of  age,  registered  10 
years.  Married.  Have had both city and coun- 
trip  experience.  Am  good  prescriptionist and 
manager.  Can give good references.  Am work­
ing now, but desire  change.  Address  No.  794, 
care Michigan Tradesm <n. 
PECIALTY  SALESMAN  NOW  ON  THE 
road wishes to make a change for other good 
selling specialty.  Address  No. 779,  care  Mich­
igan Tradesman. 
W AN I ED—A  POSITION  AS  TRAVELING 
salesman  by  energetic man of  long  busi­
ness experince.  Address No. 764, care Michigan 
7S4
Tradesman 
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

779

Travelers* Time  Tables.

/VIANK TFF  & Northea8tern Ry-
I » l i l i   ' 10  1  Ld 

Best route to Manistee.

Vîa  C. &  W .  M.  Railway.

^ " 6’

Lv Grand Rapids.............................. 7:00am  ............
A r  Manistee..;...............................12:05pm  ............
Lv  Manistee......................................8:30am  4:10pm
A r Grand  R apid s...........................  1:00pm 0:55pm

C H IC A G O "'“
Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids............   7:30am  12:00am *11  45pm
Ar.  Chicago................2:10pm  9:15pm  7 2  air
Lv.Chicago..  11:45am  6 50am  4:15pm  *11'50pn 
Ar.G’dRapids 5:00pm  1:25pm  10:30pm  * 6:20air 
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskejr.
Lv. G’d  Rapids.............7:30am  8:05am  5:30pm
Parlor cars on day tra’ns and sleeping cars on 
night trains to and from Chicago

*Bvery  day. 

Others week days only.

DETROIT,G raid Rapids & Western.

Sept, as, 1898.

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pc
Ar. Detroit................... 11:40am  5:45pm  10:06pr
Lv. Detroit....................8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pn
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......12:55pm  5:20pm  10:56pir

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Lv. OR7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G R 11:46am  9:30pr 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week dayB only.

Gno.  DjsHaven,  General Pass. Agent.

GRAND Traak  Railway System

Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

(In effect Nov.  13,  1898 )

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t  6:45am  Sag.,  Detroit, Buffalo A N Y . t  9:55pm
tl0:10am......... Detroit  aud  East..........t  5:27pm
t  3 2'pm ....Saginaw, Detroit A  East.. ..t 12:45pm
• 7:20pm__ Buffalo, N  Y. & Boston__ *l():15am
*10:10am....Gd. Haven  and  Iut. Pts— * 7:*5 >m 
tl2:63pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate. + 3-12pm 
t   5 30pm...Gd. Haven and Milwaukee.  5:.7pm 
Eastward—No. 16 has Wague.  parlor car.  No 
22  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No.  17 Wagner parlor car.
•Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

WEST

E. H. b r a n s , A  G. P. AT. A. 
B xn.  F le tc h e r. Trav. Pass. Agt 
C.  A.  J u stin,  City  Pass.  Agent.

97  Monroe St.  Morton House.

GRAND Rapids  S  'urlane  Kaliway 

v Nov. 13. 1898.

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrivi 
Trav. C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am  t 5:15pm
Trav. I ity A Peu.-xey 
----- 1 2  10pm  tl0:45pm
Oadillac- accommodation........♦ 5:25pm +10 55am
Petoskey A Mackinaw City—..tl‘:00pm  t  6:35pm 
7:45am  and 2:10pm  tcains  have  parlor  cars; 
11:0 pm train has sleeping car.
AoutUern  uiv.  Leave  Air**
Cincinnati...............................t  7:10am t  9 45pm
Ft. Wayne 
Cincinnati..............................  7 00+m  6 30>
For Vicksburg and Chicago.. *11:3, pm  9:1  am 
"( :10  am  traiti  ha.  panur  cai  •«.  Olncmio- 
and  parlor  car  *o  Chicago;  2:10pm  trsin  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Way .e;  7:'0pm  train  has 
sleeping cars to Cincinnati;  11:30pm  tram  has 
coach and sleeping car to Cnlcago.

............................t  2'tftpm t   1  K

Chicago Trains.

TO CHICAGO.

FROM CHICAGO.

2  l«pm  *11 30pm
Lv. Grand Rapids... 7 10am 
Ar. Chicago............ 2  0  pm  9  10pm 
6 25am
Lv. Chicago.............................  3 02pm  *11 82pm
Ar  Graud Rapids...................   9 45pm 
6 30am
Trat  leaving 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.

Muskegon Trains. 

going  w bst.

LvG’d  Rapids............t7:35am  11:00pm t5:40pr
Ar Mnskegon......  
9 00am  2:W»"n  7 n5-m
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Mnskegon 10:35am.
BvMuskegon..............18:10am  til:45am  t4 00po
ArG’d Rapids  .. 
9'SOam  12:5Bn"'  5 30iw
Snnday  train  leaves  Mnskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm. - 
tExcept Sunday.  *i>aiiy.

(KMJiH  BAST.

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

Gen'l fassr. and Ticket Agent 
Ticket Agent Union Station.

DULUTH, Snath Share and Atlantic 

Railway.

WBST BOUND.

Lv. Grand Raplda(G.R-A L)til:10pm  t7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City...................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St  Ignace..........................   9:0oam  5:20pm
Ar. Sanlt Sta Marie.................  12:90pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette..........  ...........   2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestorla.............................   5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth..............................................  8:30am

BAIT BOOTH).

Lv. Duluth...'........................................  t6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria..............................tll:15am  2:45am
Ar. Marquette............. 
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault 8te. Marta...............   3:30pm 
Ar. Mackinaw City.  .............  8:40pm  llHIOkm
G. W.  Hib b a r d , Gen. Paaa. Agt Marquette. 
B. C. Ovlatt Trav. Fata. Agt, GrandRaplds

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

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BUCKWHEAT

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.

9

VALLEY  CITY 
MILLING  CO.

ORAND RAPIDS.
9

Sole manufacturers of “ LILY WHITE.

‘The flour the beat cooks use.”

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Go. LB

■ 

Dorchester, Masa.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

No  Chemicals  are  used  in 
their manufactures.
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one 
cent a cup.
Their Premium  No.  1  Chocolate, pnt up in 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best 
plain chocolate in the market for family use.
Their Oerman  Sweet  Chocolate ii  good  to 
eat and good to drink.  It is palatable, nutri­
tions, and  healthfnl;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.
Buyers should ask for and be. sure that they 
get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
is on every package.
W alter Baker &  Co.  Ltd. 

Dorchester*  Mass.

B e g ip   th e 
N e w   y e a f  
B ig h t

S h a k e   o f f  t h e

D ra g g in g   Chain?

o f  Credit

•Ml

by abandoning the time-cursed credit system, 
with  its losses and  annoyance,  and  substitut­
ing therefor the

Coupon  B o o k   System

which  enables  the  merchant  to  place  his 
credit transactions  on  a  cash  basis.  Among 
the manifest advantages of  the  coupon  book 
plan are the following:

No  Forgotten Charge.
No  Poor  Accounts.
No  Book-keeping.
No  Disputing  of  Accounts.
No Overrunning of Accounts.
No  Loss of Time.
No Chance for Misunderstanding.

We are glad at any time to send a full  line of 
sample books to any  one  applying  for  them.

Tradesman  Company,

Grand  Rapids.

Heavy, Heavy Hangs Over

Wasted  Energy,  Wasted  Stock,  Wasted Capital.

All  for Want of System.

Modern  invention  and  ingenuity  have  made 
it  possible  for any person  in  the  Grocery  or  Meat 
retailing business to  know exactly,  to the  smallest 
fraction of a  dollar,  what they  must  charge  a  cus­
tomer on  every sale to  reap  a fair,  honest profit.

This  is  accomplished  solely  by  the  adoption 

of that wonderful  invention,  the

Money  W eight  System

This system  is found  only  in  our  Computing 
Scales.  No  merchant  should  hesitate  to  better 
his  condition  when  the  remedy  for  that  dreaded 
disease,  A L L -L O ST -B Y -E R R O R ,  commonly 
known  as  Dead  Loss,  can  be  had  for  the  asking. 
W e will  fill the  prescription  for  you.  Drop  us  a 
line  and  let us diagnose your case.

T he  C o m p u tin g  S ca le   Co.

Dayton,  Ohio.

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A  GOOD  S E L L E R BROWN 

W E S T   B R I D G E   S T .. 
G R A N D   R A P I D S ,  MICH,

8c STv HI L. K

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 I 
foundation,  and  is  especially  adapted 
for cooking feed, trying out lard,  mak­
ing soap,  scalding  hogs  and  poultry, 
and all work  of  this  nature.  Made  in 
four sizes—40,  60,  70 and  100 gallon.
ADAMS  &  HART,  Jobbers,  Grand  Rapids.

Mfrs. ot  a full line of

HANDMADE 
HARNESS 
FOR  THE 
WHOLSALE 
TRADE

Jobbers in  „

SADDLERY,
HARDWARE,
ROBES,
BLANKETS,
HORSE
COLLARS,
WHIPS,  ETC.

Orders  by  mail  given  prompt 

attention.

PURITY AND  STRENGTH.'

k co/s

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,

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

FLEISCHMANN  &

CO.

Johnson  Paper 
&  Supply  Co.,

Kalamazoo,  Mich.,

Wholesale  Dealers la

Wrapping Paper, Stationery, Willow nnd  Wooden Ware,
Snow  Shovels,  Oyster  Pails,  Paper  Bags,  Pine  and 
Cedar Tubs and Peilff ^ tl  

,

S P E C IA L —Try our $5.00Job, assorted 5 and  10 cent Writing Tablets.

Our new assortment of 25 cent Briar Pipes  are  very  attractive*;  one  dozen  on 
a stand.  You will be pleased with them.

Mail orders promptly attended to and satisfaction guaranteed.

