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Michigan  Business Men’s Association 

President,  C.  L.  W h it n b t ,  Traverse  City:  Sec 

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Michigan  Retail Grocers' Association 

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

A .  S to w e, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association

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H e n r i  C.  Min n ie .  Eaton  Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers* Association 

President, J o seph K nu. h t ;  Secretary, E .  Ma r k s . 

221 Greenwood ave:  Treasurer, vJ. H.  F r in k .
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Saginaw Mercantile Association 
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President, G eo .  E .  L e w is ; Secretary,  W.  H. P o r- 
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Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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JREF.TING:

To

B . O O H ,   your  o l e r l L a t ,   attorneys,  ag e r.j 
s a l e s m e n ,   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  ot 
holding  through  or  nnder  yon,

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

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

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

we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said. HENRY
KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you
i  ider  the ^ pains..and  penalties  which^ma^^fall^u£on^von^and^eact^>f^on  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  dc
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

B y  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as

“ SAPO LIO ,”   or  when  “ SAPO LIO ”   is  ashed  for,

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from  in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO"  in  any 
false  or  misleading  manner.

l i t o t i » ,

[seal]

.  

ROWLAND  COX,

Complainant's  Solicitar

The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
in  said  District  of  New 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand 
Jersey,  this  i6th  day  of  December, 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

[signed]

S.  D.  OLIPHANT,

Cürk

Volume  XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY  4,1899.

Number 798

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Insurance in  force.....................................$2,746,000.00
Net Increase during 1897.......................  
104,000.00
Net A ssets................................................. 
32,73s.49
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
17,000.00
Death Losses Paid During  1897............. 
6.31
Death Ratefor 1897................................... 
Cost  per 1,000 at age 30 during  1897___ 
8.25
FRANK E. ROBSON, Pres.

eficiaries............................................  

TRUMAN  B. GOODSPEED. Sec’y.

 

THE  DYING  CENTURY.

We  are  now 

in  the  last  year  of  the 
Nineteenth  Century.  With the year 1900 
will  commence  the  Twentieth  Century, 
destined  to  be  more  remarkable  than 
was  its  immediate predecessor for scien­
tific  discovery  and  progress  in  civiliza­
tion  and  enlightenment  and its influence 
upon  human  affairs.

At  the  dawn  of  a  new  epoch  in  the 
world's affairs it  will  not  be  out of place 
briefly  to  review  the  most  important 
events  of  the  last  century  in  order  that 
some  light  may  be  thrown  upon  that 
which 
into  existence, 
so  that  we  may,  although 
in  a  weak 
and  darkling  way,  forecast  what  it  has 
in  store  for  the  human  race.

just  coming 

is 

their 

gained 

institutions  and 

The  Nineteenth  Century was essential­
ly  an  era  of  revolution. 
It  was  marked 
by  the  most  titanic  struggles  to  over­
throw  all  that  was  ancient  and  conse­
crated  by  almost  immeasurable usage  in 
human  government  and  human  knowl­
edge.  The  American  colonies  of  Great 
Britain,  having 
inde­
pendence,  had  set  up  a  government  up­
on the  basis  of  the  equality  of  the  rights 
of  men  and  guaranteeing  to  its  people 
free 
liberty  regulated 
by  law.
*;This  wonderful  example  was  soon 
followed by  the  French  people,  who,  in­
stead  of  teaching  equality  of  rights  and 
constitutional  iiberty,  proclaimed  abso­
lute  equality,  liberty  and  fraternity  for 
men.  Such  extreme  radical  doctrines 
put  in  execution  could  only  bring  forth 
blood  and  violence,  overturning  all  po­
litical,  moral  and  religious 
institutions 
in  their  way  and  creating  what is known 
in  history  as  the  “ Reign  of  Terror.”  
But the  revolution  against  old  forms  of 
political  autocracy  went  on 
in  many 
other  countries 
in  a  more  human  and 
proper  way  until  nearly  all  the  nations 
of  Europe  felt  its  beneficent 
influence, 
while 
in  America  human  slavery  and 
European  despotism  were  extinguished, 
and 
it  was  reserved  for the  closing  of 
the  century  that  the  last  relic of Spanish 
tyranny,  which  had  commenced  in  the 
New  World  four  centuries  ago,  should 
be  brought  to  an  end.

But  the  Nineteenth  Century  was  not 
only  peculiarly  the' epoch  of  human  lib­
erty,  but 
it  has  been,  above  all  the  six 
thousand  years  of  recorded  time, the age 
of intellectual progress and scientific dis­
covery.  The whole of  the  economic  and 
industrial  use  of  steam  and  electricity 
belongs  to  this  period.  The  entire  sys­
tem  of  free  public  education  is  another 
fruit,  while  nearly  the  entire  employing 
of  labor-saving  machinery  in  manufac­
turing  and  other  industries  is  peculiar 
to  the  age,  and  the  modern  newspaper 
and  the  vast  production and multiplying 
of  hooks are  no small  part of  the  glory 
of  the  period.

The  chemist,  the  electrician,  the  op­
tician  and  the  mechanician  are  to-day 
the  genii  who,  at  the  mere  expression 
of  a  wish,  annihilate  time  and  space, 
giving  us  instant  news  of  events  occur­
ring 
in  distant  hemispheres  beyond 
seas;  presenting  us  with  direct  views 
and  .wonderful 
information  concerning 
the  shining  suns  and  worlds  that  stud 
the  abysses  of  the  midnight  sky  and

hurry  on  their journeys through measure­
less  space;  or  they  open  to  our  view 
that  minute  domain  in  which  alone  are 
found 
infinitesimally  small  creatures, 
which,  however,  are  instinct  with 
life, 
and  which  have  their  loves  and  their 
tragedies  as  do  the  inhabitants  of  the 
great  world.

In  all  the  arts  of  peace  and  war,  in 
the  complex and multifarious appliances 
for  increasing  and  cheapening  the  com­
forts  and  luxuries  of  life,  and  for  mak­
ing  more  dreadful  and  destructive  the 
means  of  military  slaughter,  there  has 
been  progress  commensurate  with  the 
enormous  advance  in  knowledge,  so  that 
in  all  departments  have 
civilized  men 
been  marching  abreast,  and  there 
is, 
more  than  ever,  reason  to  believe  that 
this  progress  will  go  forward  at  a  mul­
tiplied  rate  of  speed  and  power.

In  the  Twentieth  Century  there 

is 
every  reason  to  believe  that  the  extreme 
polar  regions  of  the  earth,  the  only  un­
solved  problems  of  geography,  will  be 
sufficiently  explored  and  the  actual  po­
sitions  of  the  extremes  of  the  earth's 
axis  of  rotation  determined  and  visited 
Then  will  be  ascertained  the  origin  of 
the  American  civilizations  of  Yucatan 
and  Peru,  and  of  the  races  that  created 
them.  The  mysteries  of  the  supposed 
migrations  and  the  distribution  of  the 
various  races  of  men  upon  the  earth will 
be  made  plain,  and  all  the  puzzles  of 
ethnology  will  be  unraveled.  The  rid 
dies of geology will all  be  unriddled,  and 
we  will  know  all  about  the  causes  that 
swallowed  up  in  the  ocean  the  Atlantis 
of  the  ancient  Egyptians  and  the  con­
tinent  of  which  fragmentary  relics  re­
main  in  the  innumerable  groups  of 
is­
lands  in  the  South  Pacific  Ocean.  Nor 
will  there  be  any  longer  an  ignorance of 
the 
time  when  the  American  Gulf 
Stream  flowed  up  the  Mississippi  River 
and  made  it  possible 
for  enormous 
hairy  elephants  to  swarm  in  Alaska  and 
Siberia.

All  the  wonderful  volumes  of  human 
knowledge  will  be  open,  and  man  will 
know  everything,  except  the  mysteries 
of  spirit  and  the  problems  of  life  and 
death.

is  nothing 

But  will  the  new  century  usher  in  a 
period  of  universal  peace,  plenty  and 
prosperity?  Optimism  has  already 
bailed  the  national  peace  congress  and 
general  disarming  proposed  by  the 
young  Czar  of  Russia  as  the  harbinger 
of  such  a  millennial  consummation. 
There 
in  the  history  of  the 
great  century  just  closing  that  can  war­
rant  such  a  hope.  The  most  significant 
facts  in  the  political  history  of  the  cen­
tury 
is  the  consolidation  of  outlying 
into  great  and  powerful  em­
countries 
pires. 
It  was  attempted  by  Bonaparte, 
but  be  sought  to  weld  together  into a 
single  nationality  the  most  discordant 
elements  of  population,  people  of  races 
that  had  no  sympathy  or traditions  in 
common.  He  might  have  made  an  em­
pire  of  the  Latin  races,  but  bis  ambi­
tion  reached 
far  beyond  such  a  goal, 
and  he  failed.  Russia  and  Germany  are 
the  best  examples  of  powerful  military 
nations  made  up  respectively  of kindred 
peoples  and  races.  England’s  empire  is

wholly  commercial,  and  is  held  together 
by  ties  of  mutual  commercial benefits.

Then  there 

in  progress,  and 

This  building  of  vast 

imperial  na­
tionalities  is  but  just  begun.  The great 
powers  of  Europe  are  engaged 
in  dis­
membering  and  dividing  out  all  the 
countries  of  Asia  and  Africa,  and,  like 
hungry  and  savage  beasts  rending  their 
prey,  each 
is  ready  to  fly  at  the  throat 
of  the  other.  While  these  proceedings 
are 
long  after  they 
shall  have  been  completed,  there  can  be 
no  universal  disarming.  Every  nation 
must  stand  on  guard  to  defend  its  ill- 
gotten  prey. 
is,  on  one 
side,  the  abnormal  growth  in  all  nations 
of  the  money  power 
in  the  hands  of 
classes,  and,  on  the  other,  constant  and 
immense  growth  of  socialism  to  oppose 
it.  With  the  powers  of  avarice  ranged 
on  one  hand,  and  all  the  savage  ele­
ments  of  envy,  covetousness  and  bitter 
resentment  on  the  other,  there  can  be 
no  sudden  or  immediate development  of 
peace,  harmony  and  prosperity  among 
men. 
spiritual 
power,  working  as  it  were  miraculously 
among  men,  may  be  able  to  bring  them 
to  a  state  of  love  and  charity;  but,  if 
left  to  the  devices  of  their  own  hearts, 
they  will  All  the  new  century  with  the 
same  bloody  violence  as  they  have  done 
to  all  the  others  that  came  before. 
There 
sight  that 
promises  universal  peace  and  good  will 
among  men.  The  Nineteenth  Century 
was  born  amid  the  lurid  flames  and  the 
ferocious  slaughter  of  the  Napoleonic 
wars. 
incident  with 
Spain  in  1898,  although  a  mere  toy  war 
carnage  and  devastation 
as  to 
the 
wrought  by 
it,  may  yet  he  the  spark 
that  will  fire  the  vast  explosive  maga­
zines  of  all  the  great  nations.

Some  extraordinary 

is  no  prospect 

The  American 

in 

Some  one  should  write  a  book  of  eti­
quette  for  an  employer  to  follow.  When 
a  girl  calls  at  a  place  of  business  to  see 
her  young  man  and  talks  to  him  a  half 
hour or  more,  while  his  work  waits, is  it 
proper  for  the  employer  to  say  anything 
about  it,  or  should  he  regard  it  as  one 
of  the  young  man’s  “ rights?’ ’  Business 
men  report  a  great  deal  of  this going  on 
and  complain  bitterly.  Have  they  any 
“ right”   to  complain?

Society 

leaders  of  the  New  York  400 
should  get  themselves  together  and  re­
solve  that  no  one  of  them  is  better  than 
the  others,  and  give  the  world  a  rest  on 
the  pedigree  of  those  who came from  the 
Dutch  and  descended  from  vulgar work­
ing  people.  This  country  is  not  old 
enough  to  base  an  aristocracy on  loafers 
who  consider  themselves  noble  because 
they  are  idle.

Hobson  became  an  American  hero  at 
Santiago;  but  subsequent  undignified 
action  along  the  kissing  line  has broken 
and  tarnished  the  halo  that  valor  won. 
Nevertheless  he 
is  still  a  brave  man. 
He  has  faced  more  powder—on  silly 
women’s  faces—than  any  man 
in  the 
navy,  and,  sad  to  say,  has  been  more 
ridiculed.  _________________

There  are  a  number  of  men  who  are 
not  worried  by  their  debts.  They  let 
their  creditors  do  the  worrying.

SPRING  LINE 1899 

NOW  READY

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

WHOLESALE2CLOTHIERS 

KOLB & SON
Rochester, N. Y.

, 

Write our traveler,  Wm.  Connor,  Box  346, 
Marshall,  Mich., to  call,  or  meet  him  at 
Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand  Rapids,  Jan.  4-9.

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P r y  Goods
T he  Dry  G oods  M arket.

Staple  Cottons—Four-yard  sheetings 
are  much  firmer  than  before,  but  the  de­
mand  for  light-weight goods has  become 
a  little  quieter,  although  the  recent  ad­
vances  are  full  sustained.  Ducks  are 
firmer,  and 
increasing. 
Brown  Osnaburgs  are  very  steady,  but 
the  demand 
is  moderate.  Ticks  and 
plaids  are  firm  and  steady.

orders 

are 

Prints and  Ginghams—There  has  been 
an  excellent  demand for printed calicoes 
and  mail  orders  have  been  good  also. 
The  course  of  the  print  cloth  market 
is 
having  its  influence  and  buyers  are  ap­
preciating  the  fact  that  it  is  likely to  be 
even  stronger  in  the  near  future.

Dress  Goods—The  agents  for  the  do­
mestic  mills  are  receiving  a  fair num­
ber of  orders  for  spring  goods this week, 
but  the  retailers  who  would  naturally  be 
placing  orders  for  spring  are  somewhat 
backward  as  yet,  and  it  seems  probable 
that  they  will  defer  their  purchases  un­
til  the  last  moment,  confident  that  they 
will  be  able  to  pick  up  all  the  desirable 
styles  that  they  may  want  at  the  last 
moment.  Whether  they  will  be  able  to 
do  so or  not  remains  to  be  seen.  They 
may  get  badly 
left,  to  use  a  trite  ex­
pression,  and  not  be  able  to  find  what 
they  want 
It 
seems  that  all  of  the  orders  for  spring 
are  not  in  yet,  although  the  agents  bad 
for  a  while  thought  that  that  was  the 
case,  as  business  dropped  off to  such  an 
extent.

if  they  wait  too  long. 

Woolens—Fancy  worsteds  and  cassi- 
meres  from  $1.25  to $2  and  piece-dyed 
cheviots  and 
fancy  patterned  serges, 
herringbones  and  broad  wales  have 
been  the most favored fabrics in the oup- 
licate  business which  was  going  during 
the  week.  Commission  merchants,  sell­
ing  agents  and  even  woolen  goods  man­
ufacturers  all  enjoy  a  much  brighter 
feeling,  and  are  possessed  of  a fixed  be­
lief  that  the 
light-weight  season  will 
round  up  quite  satisfactorily,  all  things 
considered.  Many  of  them  are  also  of 
the  opinion  that  the  heavy-weight  sea­
son  just  about  to  be  opened  will  witness 
very  prosperous  conditions  which  will 
result  in  a  more  profitable  business  for 
the  woolen  goods  manufacturer  than  be 
has  enjoyed  in  some  years.

in 

Hosiery—A  retrospect  of  the  season 
just  closing  reveals  a  fairly  satisfactory 
business 
imported  goods  and,  con­
sidering  the  limited  amount  of  hosiery 
brought  over  from  Europe,  it  can  be 
said  to  have  done  as  well  as  could  be 
expected.  The  old  staple  lines  which 
are  sold  under  a  trade  mark  have,  of 
course,  held  their  place  in  the  market 
and  will  continue  to  do  so. 
In  view  of 
the  demoralized  condition  which existed 
in  hosiery 
last  season  in  the  fancy  de­
partment,  it is probable that dealers  will 
require  some  distinguishing  mark  on 
imported  hose  before  placing 
lines  of 
any  large  orders. 
It  is  well  that  this  is 
so,  and  will  probably  guard  against  a 
repetition  of 
last  season's  overstocked 
market.  The  exact  status  of  fancies  for 
the  future  is,  of  course,  impossible to  be 
determined  until  the  season  is  fairly 
open,  but  the 
is  that  fine 
lines  of  silk  and  other  high-grade  hose 
will  meet  with  a  ready  sale  as  hereto­
fore.  An  improvement  in  cotton  hosiery 
has  been  noted,  and  manufacturers  of 
full-fashioned  goods  have  all  they  can 
attend  to,  and  are  well  sold  up  into 
spring.  This  branch  of  the  industry  is 
advancing  very steadily,  and  very  prom­
ising  results  are  in  sight.

impression 

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Knit  Goods—With 

the  knit  goods 
manufacturer  preparations  for the  forth­
coming  heavy-weight  season  are  in  full 
sway,  and  are  thoroughly  occupying  his 
mind.  Samples  have  to  a  great  extent 
been  gotten  ready,  and  are  waiting  for 
the  price  ticket  before  going  on  the 
market. 
Jobbers  do  not  generally  ex­
pect  any  material  change 
in  grades 
other  than  a  possible  tendency  to  favor 
the  better  class  of  goods,  for  which  it  is 
expected  that  the  demand  will  be  more 
marked  than  for  several  years. 
It  is 
only  possible  to  judge,  of  course,  from 
the  past  season,  as  no  orders,  compara­
tively,  have  been  taken  thus  far  for next 
fall.  Some  orders,  indeed,  have  been 
for  cheap  grades,  and  even 
received 
quite 
large  ones  are  reported,  but  this 
premature  business 
is  not  regarded  as 
advantageous,  in  view  of  the  fact  that, 
samples  not  having  been  made  up,  the 
buyer  has  the  privilege  of  canceling  the 
order  if  subsequent  examination  of sam­
ple  proves  unsatisfactory.  Reorders  on 
spring  goods  have  been  quite  plentiful, 
and  have  been  more  welcome on account 
of  their  being  mostly  for the high grades 
of  underwear.  A  very  warm  season  will 
probably  increase  this  demand very  ma­
terially  with  the  approach  of  the  sum 
mer  season,  and  high-grade  underwear 
will  figure  very  prominently  in  reorders 
on 
Jobbers  are  feeling 
sanguine  as  to  the  future,  and confident­
ly  predict  a  very  large  business  as  soon 
as  the  market  is  well  under  way.  With 
this 
in  mind  manufacturers  will 
think  and  act  on  broad  lines,  and  with­
out  being  hampered  with  the  thought  of 
a  possible  disturbance  in  business  con­
ditions.  The  bugbear  of  war  has  been 
wiped  away,  leaving  the  country  in  an 
excellent  financial  condition,  and  every 
indication  pointing  to  a  most  healthy 
prosperity.

light  weights. 

idea 

Josh  Billings’  Definition  o f  a  “Square 

Man.”

The  square  man  mezzures  the  same 
each  way  and  hain't  got  any  winny 
edges  nor  cheap  lumber  in  him.  He  is 
free  from  knits  and  sap,  and  won't 
iz  klear  stuff,  and  I  don’t 
warp.  He 
care  what  you  work  him  up 
into  be 
won't  swell  and  he  won’t  shrink.  He  iz 
amongst  men  what  good  kiln-dried 
boards  are  among  carpenters;  he  won’t 
season-crack. 
It  doesn't  make  any 
difference  which  side  ov  him  yu  come 
up  to,  he  iz  the  same  bigness  each way, 
and  the  only  way  to  get at  him  ennybow 
iz  to  face  him.  He  knows  be  iz  square 
and  he  never  spends  any  time trying  to 
prove  it.

His  Specialty.

Old  M.  D .—Are  you  having  much 

practice?

thank  you.

Young  M.  D.—Yes,  quite a good  deal, 
Old  M.  D .—Ah,  I'm   glad  to  hear 
it. 
Are  you  making  a  specialty  of  any  par­
ticular  thing?

Young  M.  D .—Yes,  indeed.  About 
nine-tenths  of  my  time  is  devoted  to the 
practice  of  economy.

The_  trade  trick  of  a  Dubuque  patent 
medicine manufacturer has proved rather 
expensive.  The  price  of  his  product as 
printed  on  the  label  is  $1,  but  his  price 
to  the  trade  is  but  25  cents. 
In  stamp­
ing  the preparation he therefore stamped 
according  to  the  real,  instead  of  the 
printed  price.  He 
is  now  under  bail 
awaiting  action  of  the  Federal  grand 
jury.

Medical  science  makes queer  breaks 
at  times.  A  Wisconsin man who dropped 
dead  the  other  day  was  said  to  have 
been  a  victim  of  heart  disease,  but  the 
postmortem  showed  that  be  had  choked 
to  death  on  a  picee ol  beefsteak.

Fame  has  its  disadvantages. 

It never 
lets a  man’s  creditors  get  off  his  trail.

Balanced  the  Account.

The  driver  of  a  grocer’s  delivery 
wagon  collided  with  a  vehicle driven  by 
a  tinsmith,  and  while  the  grocer's  man 
was  not  to  blame,  be  patiently  bore a 
great  deal  of  abuse  from  the  other. 
Finally,  when  the  tinner threw  snow  in­
to  bis  face,  the  other  put  down  the  lines 
and  calmly  said :

“ Have  you  read  what  the  different 
clergymen  are  saying  about  the  non­
existence  of  a  place  of  punishment?”  

“ Yes,  I  have.”
“ And  do  you  believe  there  is  a  lake 

of  fire  and  brimstone?”

“ No,  1  don’t;  and  I  want  $5 from you 

as  damages. ”

“ If  I  believed  there  was  such  a  place 
I ’d  drive  on,”   slowly  continued  the 
grocer's  man,  “ but  as  I'm  purty  sure 
there  ain’t,  I ’ll  give  you  your  dose  now 
and  keep  the  books  balanced !”

just  what  he  said  be  would 
in  three  minutes,  and  drove  on 

He  did 
do 
whistling.

A  merchant  will  do  well,  in  the  ar­
ranging  of  his  store,  from  the  coloring 
of  the  walls  to  the  dressing  of  the  win­
dows,  to keep  the  women  he  knows  con­
tinually  in  mind.  Women  take  fancies 
to  a  store,  or dislikes.  There  may  not 
be,  in  all  cases,  any  stated  reason  for 
the  dislike,  but  the  fancy  can  always 
be accounted  for.  The  place  seems  to 
present  to  her  more  than  she 
imagined 
she  needed.  The  goods  go  beyond  her 
expectations.  The manners  of  the  clerks 
please  her. 
is  not  especially  the 
office  of  a  clerk  to  gossip  with  custom­
ers,  but,  at  a  second  or  third  meeting, 
if  there 
is  a  respectful  showing  of  re­
membrance,  it  is  a  strange  sort  of  wom­
an  who  is  not  pleased. 
is  a  delicate 
flattery  that  one's  face should be remem­
bered  out of  so  many.

It 

It 

The  cut-rate  druggist  does  his  best  to 

bring  sickness  within  the  reach of all.

John  G.  Miller & Co.,

Chicago,  111.

Maanfacturers  of

All  Wool  Clothing

I  will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel  Jan. 
4th  and  5th  with  John  G.  Miller 
&  Co.’s  famous  all  wool  line  of 
fine  clothing. 
I  shall have  all the 
new  styles  of  Blue  Serges,  Clays 
and  fine  line  Spring  Overcoats 
of the  Herringbone pattern.  Suits 
$4 to $16.  Overcoats $5.50 to $16. 
Come  and  see  me.  Expenses  al­
lowed  all customers.  S. T.  BOWEN.

On  Their  First  Trip

Our  salesmen will  show a  choice  as­
sortment of

PERCALES

W e have the pretty  cluster  stripes  in 
our line.  Be sure and see them.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  & Co.,

Our new line of W ash  Fabrics will  be  ready 

for inspection about January 5th.

Oxford,  Madras,  Ginghams,  Prints  in  Simp­
sons,  Hamiltons,  Pacific,  Allens,  Cocheco  and 
other leading brands.

500  pieces  of  new  Percales, 32  and  36 inch 

goods, all  new patterns.

Dress Goods from 8,  10,  12 ^ ,  15c up to 37^0 

in new colors and styles.

Be  sure  and  look  us  over  before  placing 

orders.

Jt*  C o n e   Wholesale Dry Goods.
•  O IC K C IC C   VA  OUIIS)  Urand Rapids, Mich.

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WORKING  WOMEN.

S om e  o f  the  W rongs  They  Endure  in 

New  York.

“ If  there  is  any  one  particular  thing 
which  New York working women need, ”  
remarked  a  prominent  member of  the 
Social  Reform  Club  recently,  “ it 
is 
some  sort  of  protection  against  minor 
evils.  When  a  wrong  gets  acutely  bad, 
the  workers  may  rise  up  and  make their 
protest  heard  and  heeded ;  but  for  one 
great  wrong  which  provokes  drastic 
measures  tbere  are  a  thousand  petty 
grievances  which  wear  on  temper  and 
health  and  character. 
You  have  no 
idea  of  the  number  of  petty,  mean  little 
ills,  too  small  apparently  for any  busi 
ness  man  to  inflict  on  any  one,  which 
womenworkers  unprotestingly  endure.

“ Everybody  knows  about  the 

fines 
for  tardiness  and  the  long  hours  at  holi­
day  time  for  which  no  extra  pay  is 
given  in  many  of  the  dry  goods  bouses 
Fewer  people,  however,  have  heard  01 
the  big  factories,  where  the  girls  have 
to  furnish  their  own  thread  and needles. 
One  wonders  that  they  don't  have  ti 
furnish  their  own  cloth,  too. 
In  ont 
place  I  know  of  this  item  of  thread  anc 
needles  amounts  to  35  cents  a  week  for 
each  girl.  While  that doesn’ t  seem  like 
a 
large  sum  to  a  woman  who  spends 
eight  or  ten  times  that  for  cab  hire,  it 
is  a  serious  matter  to  the  girl  whost- 
weekly  wages  of  $5  or  $6  must  covei 
food  and  lodging,  clothing  and  carfare.
“ In  another  place  they  charge  each 
girl  25  cents  for  a  box  to  keep  her  hat 
in, whether  she  uses  it  or not.  When  she 
enters  the  firm’s  employment  she  is  re­
quested  to  pay  25  cents  for  a  key  to  the 
box.  As  all  the  keys  are  alike,  the  pos­
session  of  one  does  not give  security  ol 
any  kind.

“ In  a  big  cigar  factory  every  girl 
must  submit  to  being  searched  before 
she  goes  out.  The  reason,  of  course,  is 
that  every  one  is  suspected  of  being  a 
thief,  which  doesn’t add  to  the  workers' 
sense  of  self-respect,  to  say  nothing  of 
the  humiliation  attendant  upon 
the 
search.

“ About  the  worst  thing  I ’ ve  heard 
in  a  long  time,  however, has  been  going 
on  in  a  Broadway  glove  factory.  There 
the  girls  are  fined  at  the  rate  of  $10  for 
a  quarter  of  a  cent’s  worth  of  uninten­
tional  and  almost  unavoidable  neglect. 
Several  hundred  girls  are  employed  in 
this  factory,  simply  to  sew  the  hooks  on 
gloves  and  put  in  the  little  tapes  back 
of  the  hooks.  For  doing  this  they  are 
paid 
12  and  16 cents  a  dozen—12  cents 
for  5-hook  gloves  and  16  for  7-book.  Of 
course,  you  understand  that  means  12 
cents  for  each  dozen  pairs  of  gloves,  not 
for  each  dozen  buttons.  As  wages  go, 
it  is  not  so bad  either.  A  good,  smart 
worker  could  do  twelve  dozen  pairs  a 
day,  if  she  could  get  them.  There 
is, 
however,  a  system  of  giving  out  the 
work  which  keeps  the girls  waiting  all 
day 
in  the  shop  to  do  seven  or  eight 
dozen  pairs.

“ That 

isn't  the  chief  grievance  the 
girls  have,  however.  Several  months 
ago  a  new  set  of  rules  was  promulgated, 
one  of  which  was  that  if  the  examtner 
found  one  tape  missing on  a  girl's  work 
for the  day,  the girl  should  not only  sew 
it  in,but  she  should  also  take  a vacation 
for  two  weeks.  As there  might  be  nearly 
six  hundred  tapes  to  be  sewed  on  in 
a  day’s  work,  it  would  not  be  surpris­
ing  if  even  the  most  painstaking worker 
should  omit  one,  and  to  deprive  her  of 
work  for a  fortnight  for such  an  offense 
is  equivalent  to  fining  her at  least  $10 
The
for  a  quarter  of-a-cent  offense. 

rule  has  certainly  been  impartially  en­
forced,  for a  woman  who  has  worked for 
the  firm  for  fourteen  years  was  laid  off 
the  other day.

“ And  right  here  let  me  tell  you  that 
one of  the  most  difficult things for work­
ing  women  is  to  get their grievances be­
fore  the  head  of  a  firm.  Those  glove 
workers  got  up  a  petition  setting  forth 
their  grievances,  stating  that  no  worker 
intentionally  omitted  the  tapes,  and 
begging  that  a  fine  of  25  cents  be  im­
posed 
instead  of  the  two  weeks’  ‘ lay­
o f f .’  The  superintendent  got  wind  of 
the  petition,  confiscated it  and  promptly 
discharged  the  woman  whose  name  ap­
peared  at  tjje  head of it.  That,of course, 
frightened  the  girls.  Some  prominent 
woman  heard  of  the  trouble  and  finally 
saw  the  proprietor about  it.  He  prom­
ised  all  sorts  of  reforms,  but  I  heard 
the  other  day  that  things  are  going  on 
just  the  same  and  some of  the  most con­
scientious  workers  are  now  having  any­
thing  but  enjoyable  vacations.”

Necessity  of  Mercantile  Honor.

A  high  sense  of  honor  is  a  necessary 
in  all  walks  of  life,  but  in 
possession 
business 
is  particularly  essential  if 
it 
ibe  possessor  of  it  desires  that  bis  abil 
ity  should  become 
favorably  known 
There  are  greater  temptations  in  busi 
ness  than  elsewhere  to  do  little,  shady, 
questionable  things  which,  taken  in  the 
aggregate,  soon  amount  to  absolute  dis- 
uonor.  Strict  mercantile  integrity,  that 
Highest  form  of  honor,  is  unfortunately 
not  always  as  universally  prevalent  as  it 
should  be.  The  temptation  to  do  wrong, 
However,  does  not  come  from  without 
alone,  but 
is  reinforced  from  within. 
A  desire  to  use  another’s  money  in  un­
certain  enterprises,give  too  small  meas­
ure  in  goods  or to  fill  orders  carelessly 
or  purposely  with  goods  other  than 
those  requested  are  some  of 
its  forms. 
Confidence  is  easily  shaken  and  equally 
difficult  to  re-establish,  and  one  way  or 
the  other  it 
is  bard  to  stem  the  tide 
when  once  it  begins to ebb or flow.  Mer­
cantile  honor  should  be  regarded  as  the 
first  principle  of  a  successful  career.

The  A  B  C  of  Dont’s.

Assume  too  much.
Brag,  bluff  or bulldoze.
Cut  prices.
Dictate  to  a  customer.
Encourage  bard  luck  stories.
Forget  that  you're  in business to make 

money.

way  to  result.

T oo  Many  B osses  Already.

Sweet  Young  Thing—But  why  should 

not  women  enter  politics?

Savage  Bachelor—Too  many  bosses 

there  now.

When  a  man  has greatness  thrust upon 
him,  it  usually  doesn't  take  him  very 
long  to  get  rid  of  it.

Many  statesmen  look  upon  a  morning 
cocktail  as  a  constitutional  amendment.

Give  goods  away.
Hound  a  customer  to  death.
Insist.
Juggle  with  prices  or  truth.
Knuckle  to  any  man.
Lose  money  on  sales.
Misconstrue  facts.
Neglect  your  appointments.
Offer  more  than  you  can  live  up  to.
Push  the  cheapest  grade.
Question  a  customer's  judgment.
Run  down  competitors.
Sulk  when  you  fail.
Try  to  sell  everybody.
Underestimate  the 

intelligence  of  a 

Vacillate—stick  to  your  object.
Worry.  Let  the  other fellows  do  that.
Xper t to  much.
Yarn.  There  are too  many  liars  now.
Zigzag.  The  straightest  is  the  nearest 

buyer.

Small  Impositions  Unworthy  of  Re­

tailers.
There are  some small 

impositions  to 
which  retailers  are  prone  which  are  de 
cidedly  questionable  and  unworthy  of 
men  who  possess  a  high  sense  of  honor. 
The  chief  cause  of  their  perpetration  is 
the  fear  that  some  competitor  will  ac­
quire  an  advantage  over  them ;  hence 
they  desire  to  secure  the  benefits  them 
selves  if  they  possibly  can.  When  any 
chance  offers  itself  to  cut  down  an  ex­
pense  account,  the  retailer  is  certain  to 
be on  hand,  cocked  and  primed,  to  seizc- 
his  share  of  the  advantage.  This  prac­
tice  has  assumed  such  vast  propoit.ons 
that  wholesalers  have  at 
last  been 
obliged  to  become  exact  in  their  rules 
in  making  settlements 
according  to 
specified  terms.  Every  business  estab­
lishment,  whether  retail  or  wholesale, 
ought  by  all  means  to  bear  all  of its own 
business  expenses. 
it  can  not,  then 
it  should  go  out  of  business  as  soon  as 
possible.  Where an  honest,  upright  pel 
icy  of  paying 
its  own  expense  is  pur­
sued  tbere  will  be  comparatively  little 
trouble  and  dissat  sfaction.  As  it  stands 
now,  the  retailer 
is  not  always  certain 
of  bow  far  he  can  go  in  making  the 
wholesalers  stand  charges  which  be 
sbould  pay  himself  and  consequenth 
makes  a  good  many  experiments  to  see

If 

how  far  their  generosity  will  extend. 
No  buyer  sbould  be  offended  by  the  en­
forcement  of  rules  which  are  intended 
to  do  away  with  unbusinesslike  ex­
actions.  A  merchant whose  trade  is  de­
sirable,  and  who  manages  his  business 
in  a  careful  and  enterprising  way,  will 
see  the  justice of these claims  and  feel  a 
righteous  shame  for having  participated 
in  tnem.

Tradesman 

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Tradesman  Company

Grand Rapids, Micb.

Not the  Cheapest  Line  in  the  Market

by  any means,  but most emphatically the

Best  Selling  Line

because quality is  the  main thing sought.

HANSELMAN  CANDY  CO.,  Kalamazoo,  Mich.

PURITY AND  STRENGTHI

&  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.

FLE1SCHMANN  &   CO.

A  DESK  FOR  YOUR  OFFICE

We don’t claim to sell “ direct  from  the  factory** 

but do claim that we can sell you at

Less than  the  Manufacturer’s Cost

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

Our  No.  61  Antique  Oak  Sample  Desk  has  a 
combination  lock  and  center  drawer.  Raised 
panels  all  around,  heavy  pilasters,  round  corners 
and made of  thoroughly  kiln  dried  oak.  Writing 
bed made of 3-ply built-up stock.  Desk is castered 
with ball-bearing casters  and  has  a strictly  dust- 
proof curtain.  Our special price to  readers  of  the 
Tradesman  * 2 0 .   Write for  our  illustrated  cat­
alogue and mention this paper when you  do so.

SAMPLE FURNITURE CO.

JOBBERS  OP  SAMPLE  FURNITURE.

PEARL  AND  OTTAWA  STS. 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

Around the State
M ovem ents  o f  Merchants.

West  Branch—A.  B.  Am on,  grocer, 

has  removed  to  Alanson.

Cheboygan—J.  A.  Todd  has  purchased 

the  bazaar  stock  of  W.  F.  Pew.

Hopkins—R.  R.  McKinnon  has  sold 

his  general  stock  to  G.  E.  Bates.

Saranac—A.  W.  Burnett has purchased 

the  drug  stock  of  Will  M.  Clark.

Morenci—M.  C.  Rorick  has  retired 
from  the  grocery  firm  of  Rorick  &  Lee.
Jackson—Norris  B.  Vedder  succeeds 
Vedder  &  Vedder  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Bangor—M.  D.  Trim  &  Son  succeed 
E.  M.  Bisbop  in  the  flouring  mill  busi­
ness.

Pickford—F.  H.  Taylor  has  removed 
his  general  stock  from  Rudyard  to  this 
place.

Houghton—H. 

Ingersoll  has  sold 
his  hardware  and  grocery  stock  to  C. 
P.  Hill.

J. 

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Tate  Bros,  have 
to  Alfred 

sold  their  grocery  stock 
Harper.

St. 

Joseph—Strelow  &  Co.  succeed 
Gabel  &  Strelow  in the grocery and meat 
business.

Monroe—M.  D.  Duvall,  grocer  and 
meat  dealer,  has  sold  out  to  Bice  & 
Hausberger.

Mason—Chas.  W.  Browne  has  sold  his 
paint,  oil  and  wallpaper  stock  to  W.  B. 
Ketcham  &  Co.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Eddy  &  Douglas 
succeed  A.  H.  Eddy  in  the  hay,  flour 
and  feed  business.

Clio—The  Clio  Hardware  Co.  has 
purchased  the  hardware  and  vehicle 
stock  of  Chas.  O.  Mann.

Escanaba—The  Gunter  Packing  Co. 
has  established  branches  at  nearly  all 
the  Upper  Peninsula  cities.

Memphis—Burton  Pemberton  has  pur­
chased  the  drug,  stationery  and  wall­
paper stock  of  A.  B.  House.

Portland—Fred  L.  Francis,  formerly 
engaged 
in  the  cigar  business,  will 
open  a  boot  and  shoe  store  here  about 
Feb.  i.

Jackson—R.  W.  Smith,  son  of  Hugh 
L.  Smith,  has  been  admitted to partner­
ship 
in  the  hardware  firm  of  Barnard, 
Smith  &  Co.

Davisburg—P.  A.  Wright  &  Co.  suc­
ceed  Wright  Bros,  in  the hardware,  har­
ness,  agricultural  implement  and  cider 
mill  business.

Belding—O.  F.  Webster  has  pur­
chased  the  flour,  feed  and  fuel  business 
of  E.  E.  Fales  and  will  conduct  the 
business  at  the  old  stand.

Omer—The  Squire  &  Sterling  Mer- 
canile  Co.,  Limited,  has  closed 
its 
branch  store  at  Shearer,  but  will  con­
tinue  the  branch  at  Selkirk.

Kalamazoo-----Hal.  W.  Glover,  of
Adrian,  has  purchased  the  stock  of  the 
Kinsman  Dry  Goods  Co.  He also  con­
ducts  a  similar  store  at  Adrian.

Jackson—C.  B.  Farnham  has  leased 
the  store  building  formerly  occupied  by 
the  Sample  Shoe  Co.  and  will  pnt  in  a 
stock  of  clothing  about  March  i.

Six  Lakes—W.  C.  Westley  has  pur­
chased  the  grain  and  elevator  business 
of  O.  D.  Van  Deboget  &  Co.  and  will 
continue  the business  at  the  same  loca­
tion.

Detroit—Sales  Bros.,  dealers  in  heavy 
hardware,  have  purchased  James  Flow­
er,  Bro.  &  Co. 's  iron  and  brass  foun­
dry,  etc.  The 
latter  concern  has,  for 
some  time,  really  been  a  part  of  the 
Roe  Stephens  Manufacturing Co.,  which 
makes  the  sale.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—The grocery  firm of 
J.  S.  Royce  &  Co.  has  dissolved  part­
nership,  Chas.  Royce  retiring  and  J.  S. 
Royce  becoming  sole  proprietor.

Kalamazoo—Wm.  Chase,  formerly  of 
the  Candy  Kitchen  in  this city, has  pur­
chased  the  Delton  flouring  mill.  Chas. 
C.  Whiton, of  this  city,  will  have charge 
of  the  local  trade.

Port  Huron—The  Lovejoy  &  Allen 
Co.,  which  conducts  a  wholesale  grain 
and  hay  business  at  this  place and  at 
Croswell,  is  succeeded  at the latter place 
by  Killam  &  Dafoe.

Mount  Morris—Thomas  A.  Major 
writes  the  Tradesman  that  this  place 
would  be  an  excellent 
location  for  a 
merchant  tailor  to  engage  in  business, 
there being  no  competition  in  this  line.
Onaway—L.  F.  Lane,  proprietor  of 
the  New  York  Store,  proposes  to  erect  a 
new  store  building  on  First  street,  op­
posite  J.  M.  Clark's  cash  store,  early  in 
the  spring.  The  plans  call  for a  30x60 
main  building  and  an  addition  30x60, 
one  story  high,  14-foot  ceilings.  The 
building  will  have  a  frontage  on  First 
street  of  46  feet.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Detroit—The  Schilling Corset  Co.  has 
changed  its  style  to  the  American  Lady 
Corset  Co.

Kalamazoo—Rhodes  &  Co.,  bicycle 
manufacturers,  have  dissolved  partner­
ship,  Wm.  Locher  succeeding.

Bay  City—Work  on  the  new  plant  of 
W.  D.  Young  Co.  was started  this  week, 
and  it  is  expected  the  plant  will  be 
in 
operation  in  three  months.

Shelby—C.  C.  Moore  is  at  work  on  a 
new  acetylene  gas  machine  which  he 
believes  will  have  some  improvements 
over  any  existing  machine.

Cheboygan—The  shingle  manufactur­
ers  here  have  agreed  on  a  price  for 
manufacturing  shingles  and  have  bound 
themselves  to  adhere  to  the  price asked.
Bay  City—The  sawmill  of  the  Camp­
bell-Brown  Lumber  Co.  is cutting  55,000 
feet  of  lumber a  day,  and  it  is  expected 
the  mill  will  be  operated  throughout  the 
winter.

Bay  City—The  woodenware  factory  of 
Bousfield  &  Co.  is  undergoing  repairs. 
The  company 
is  crowded  with  orders 
and  work  of  repairing  is  being  pushed 
night  and  day.

Roscommon—J.  B.  Redhead  is  erect­
ing  a  small  mill  here  to  take  the  place 
of  one  recently  destroyed. 
It  will  be 
designed  to  manufacture  shingles  and 
lumber,  and a  lumber  yard  will  be  oper­
ated  in  connection.

Marquette—W.  J.  Richards,  a  compe­
tent  boilermaker  and  repairer,  has  ac­
cepted  a  position  as  traveling  foreman 
of  the  Muskegon  Boiler  Works,  of  Mus­
kegon.  His first duties  will  be  installing 
a  large  plant  in  Florida.

Calumet—The  Calumet  Fur  Co.  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$5,000  to  deal  in  furs,  dress  goods  and 
general  merchandise.  Thé  incorporators 
are  Nathan  J.  Eisendrath,  Rosa  Wil­
liams  and  Olive  M.  Rickard.

Fiber—Cull i s  &  Hibbert  lately bought 
6,000  acres  of  land of the Palm estate,  in 
Chippewa  county.  They  employ 
100 
men  and  are  pushing  business.  They 
are  operating 
in  pine,  hemlock,  cedar 
and  pulp  wood.  Four  camps are  being 
run.

Adrian—Robert  Kirk  is  the 

inventor 
of  a  patent  weather  strip,  and  it  has 
been  adopted  by  the  Pullman  Palace 
Car  Co.,  he  having  just  closed  a  con­
tract  to  furnish  it  for all  their  cars.  A 
factory  will  be  established  here  for  its 
manufacture.

Saginaw—The  old  Gebhart  &  Esta- 
lumber  yard  is  being  closed  out. 
brook 
1873, 
This  firm  began  business  here  in 
the  mill  being  on  the  site  of  the  old  L. 
B.  Curtis  &  Co.  sawmill.  The  sawmill 
was  operated  until  three  years  ago, 
it  went  out  of  commission.  A 
when 
planing  mill  was 
in  the  meantime 
erected,  but  that  was  burned  two  years 
ago,  and  since  that  time  the  firm  has 
been  closing  out  its  business  as  rapidly 
as  circumstances  would  permit.

Cheboygan—Pelton  &  Reid  have 
closed  a  deal  with  Munro  &  Gordon,  of 
Pembroke,  Ont.,  for  15,000,000  feet  of 
pine  logs  which  are  being  put  in  this 
winter  on  Lake  Wahnapitae,  and  will 
come  down  French  River  to*Georgian 
Bay,  where  they  will  be  made  up 
into 
rafts  and  towed  to  Cheboygan.  Tt  is 
claimed  that  these  logs  are  being  taken 
from  Indian 
land  and  will  not come 
under  the  act  of  the  Ontario  Legislature 
prohibiting 
logs 
from  Canada.  Pelton  &  Reid  are  also 
putting  10,000,000  feet  of  logs  into  Up­
per  Peninsular  waters  which  will  be 
rafted  to  the  mill  at  Cheboygan 
in  the 
spring. 
is  the  intention  of  the  firm 
to  run  their  mill  night  and day next sea­
son.

the  exportation  of 

It 

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Kalamazoo—Hascall  Harrington  has 
secured  a  position with Frederick Glass, 
Jr.,  &  Co.

Battle  Creek—H.  P.  Kane  has  re­
signed  his  position  with  the Paano Man 
ufacturing  Co.,  of  Chicago,  and  taken  a 
position  as  salesman  with  G.  A.  Du- 
Bois,  of  this  city.

Cedar  Springs—LeRoy  Purple,  of 
Edmore,  has  taken  a  clerkship  in  the 
hardware  store  of  S.  A.  Nickerson.

Harbor  Springs—Otis  Druce  has  sev­
ered  his  connection  with  G.  C.  Adams 
to  take  a  clerkship  in  the  general  store 
of  Lowell  Lamkin,  at  Good  Hart.

Owosso—A.  E.  Curry has  resumed  his 
former  position  in  the  grocery  store  of 
Duff  &  Detwiler.

Zeeland—M.  C.  Ver  Hage  has  a  new 
clerk  in  his  hardware  store  in  the  per­
son  of  C.  Bolier.

Menominee—Chester  Lewis 

is  now 
employed  as  a  clerk  in  the  store  of  the 
Northern  Hardware  &  Supply  Co.  Her­
bert  Nelson,  formerly 
in  the  grocery 
business,  is  also  engaged  there.

Bay  City—John  L.  Bassingthwaite, 
for  seventeen  years  book-keeper  for  C. 
R.  Hawley  &  Co.,  will  retire  from  the 
position  on  account  of  the  many  duties 
devolving  upon  him 
in  the  establish­
ment.  Mr.  Bassingthwaite  will  not  re­
tire  from  the  store,  but  will  give  bis 
entire  time  and  attention  to  other 
lines 
of  work  in  connection  with the business. 
The  change  will  relieve  him  of  consid­
erable  responsibility  and  work.  Mr. 
Bassingthwaite  will  be  succeeded  as 
book-keeper  by  John  C.  Catheron,  for 
seventeen  years  employed 
in  similar 
work  at  the  Bay  City  flouring  mill.

St. 

Ignace—Thos.  Green  has  taken 
the  position  of  book-keeper  for  Cham­
bers  Bros.

F ife  Lake—Dudley  Green  quits  work 
at  LaBar’s  drug  store  this  week  and 
will  be  installed  as  book-keeper  for  bis 
father  with  the  beginning  of  the  new 
year.

Ionia—Dick  K.  Webber  has  gone  to 
Detroit,  where  he accepts  a  responsible 
position  as  assistant  manager 
in  the 
coat  department  of  J.  L  Hudson's  big 
store.

Traverse  City—Harry  Kent  has  taken 
the  position  of  collector  in  the  Traverse 
City  State  Bank.

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples—The  market  continues  weak 
and  dumpish,  due  to  the  prominence 
assumed  by  oranges.  Dealers  bold 
choice  grades  at  $2.25@3  per  bbl.,  ac­
cording  to quality.

Bananas—The  market  has  been  kept 
well  cleaned  up,  with  a  fair  supply  to 
draw  on.  Values  are  firm.  Heavier  re­
ceipts  are  expected  from  this  time  for­
ward.

Beans—Handlers  pay  50@75c  for  un­
picked,  holding city  picked  mediums  at 
$1.10.

B eets—25c  per  bu.
Butter—Factory  creamery  commands 
is  above  the  parity  of 
2o@2ic,  which 
in  Eastern  markets. 
the  price  ruling 
Dairy  grades  are  coming 
freely, 
commanding  I2@ 15c,  according  to  the 
quality.  Many  country  merchants  are 
still  paying  I5@ i8c,  on  account  of  local 
competition,  although there is  no  market 
in  which  the  stock  can  be  unloaded 
without  a  loss.

Cabbage—$3  per  100  beads  for  home 

in 

grown.

Carrots—20c  per  bu.
Celery—15@ 18c  per  doz.  bunches  for 

White  Plume.

Cranberries—Cape  Cods,  $7.50  per 
bbl.  ;  Wisconsin  Bell  and  Cherry,  $7; 
Jerseys,  $6.  The  demand 
is  steady, 
with  ample  supplies  offered.  Values  are 
bolding  up  well,  with  good 
indications 
that they  will  advance later  on  choicest 
lots.
for  hothouse
stock.

Cucumbers-----75c@$i 

Eggs—Receipts  of  fresh  are 

its  coolers  and  with  but  a 

increas­
ing  in  both  number  and  volume,  but  as 
both  storage  and  pickled  stock  is  prac- 
itcally  exhausted,  the  trade is  compelled 
to  depend  altogether  on  fresh  for  sup­
plies.  Chicago  begins  the  new  year with 
but  little  more  than  30,000 cases  of  eggs 
in 
faint 
shadow  of  a  hope  of  getting  any  more. 
And  more  than  half  of these 30,000 cases 
are 
in  the  bands  of  one  concern—the 
Western  Union  Cold  Storage  Co.  Dur­
ing  the  last  few  weeks  Cuba has gobbled 
up  a  large  percentage  of  the  production 
of  the  Southeastern  States,  and  Greater 
New  York  has  secured most  of  the  stock 
of  the  New  England  States.  The  Far 
West  has  crept 
in  with  flattering  in­
ducements  and  laid  claim  to  nearly  all 
of  the  output  of  the  Central  West,  and 
Chicago  has  been  forced  to  take  the 
“ oversights”   of 
this  section  of  the 
land.  Local  dealers  pay  21c  for  candled 
stock,  holding  same  at  22c.
is  very 

Honey—There 

stock  in  the  market,  such  as  comes 
commanding  12c. 
9c  for  amber  stock,  holding  at  10c.

little  white 
in 
Jobbers  are  paying 

Lemons—The  market 

is  believed  to 
be  on  a  steady  basis  now.  Values  have 
declined  several  times  during  the  last 
month  and  a  half,  but  the  demand  is 
good  at  present  figures  and  the  move­
ment 
liberal  for  the  season  of  the 
year.

Lettuce—1 4 ®  15c  per  pound.
Nuts—Hickory,  $i.5o@2  50.  according 

to  size  Walnuts  and  butternuts,  60c.
Onions—Spanish  have  declined  to  $1 
per  crate.  Home  grown  are  3@5c  high­
er,  commanding  3o@35c  per  bu.

is 

Oranges—Trade  has  been  quiet  the 
past  week,  with liberal  receipts  of  fancy 
California  navels.  The  holiday  demand 
was  excellent,  due  to  the  high  value  of 
apples  and  other  fruits.  Prices  are  a 
trifle  lower  than 
last  week,  quotations 
having  been  reduced  25c  under  former 
prices.

Parsley—25@30C  per  doz.
Parsnips—50c  per  bu.
Pop  Corn—i^ @ 2c  per  lb.  The  crop 
was  not  large  and  the  supply  is  un­
doubtedly  limited.
_  Potatoes—The  market  is  without  par­
ticular  change,  with  no  indication  of  an 
improvement  in  the  near  future.

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

good  demand  at  $3.

A  test  case  is  one that  is  brought  to 
see  how  much  the  lawyers  can  make 
out of  it.

For  G illies  N.  Y, 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades and  prices,  phone Visner,  80a

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BANK  N O T E S.

Grand  Rapids  Oossip

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars—Raw 

sugars  have  decliued 
i - i6c  since  our  last  issue  and  are  now 
quoted  at  $4-31  for  96  deg.  test  centrif­
ugals.  While  the  Trust  refiners  are  still 
holding  at  a  5c  basis,  Arbuckle  and 
Doscher  have  reduced  their  list  i - i6c 
and  this  cut  will  probably  be  met by  the 
Trust  within  a  few  days.

Tea—The  movement  has  been  almost 
up  to  that  of  December  a  year ago.  The 
higher  duties,  however,  have  conspired 
against  as  large  a  volume  of  sales.  The 
strength 
in  tea  has  developed  with  the 
latter  part  of  this  month  and  has  gone 
to  medium  greens  and  blacks.

Coffee—Package  coffee  remains  firm 
at  the  advance  noted  last  week.  Other 
coffees  are  fairly  firm  at  quotations,  but 
the  market,  generally  speaking,  is  fea­
tureless.

Canned  Goods—During  the 

Dried  Fruits—There is a good demand 
for  raisins  and  prunes  at  unchanged 
prices,  although  some  holders  of  prunes 
are  asking  a  slight  advance.  We  have 
repeatedly  urged  the  purchase  of  prunes 
and  still  say  that  dealers  can  make  bo 
mistake  in  buying  liberally.  The  Wash­
ington  and  Oregon  crops  are  in  and dis­
posed  of  and  the  California  crop  is  un­
questionably  short of  last  year  and at the 
low  prices,  prunes  are  rapidly  going 
into  consumption.  Peaches  have  ad­
vanced  %@}£c  on  some grades,  but  are 
selling  slowly.  There  are  not,  however, 
enough  of  them  offering  to  cause a  de­
cline,  as  they  will  all  be  consumed  be­
fore  new  crop.  The  same  applies  to  ap­
ricots.  Currants  seem  to  have  at  last 
touched  bottom.  The  Greek  market  is 
reported  stronger  and  has  advanced 
about  %c  from  the  lowest  point.  The 
stronger  feeling  is  said  to  be  caused  by 
the  hope  that  the  new  Russian  treaty 
that  will  go  into  effect  Jan.  15  will  al­
low  of  the 
importation  into  Russia  of 
currants  on  a  more  favorable basis  than 
at  present,  in  which  case  the  con sump 
increased.
tion  will  be  materially 
last  six 
weeks  we have  bad  a  good  deal  to  say 
about  the  tomato  situation  and  only  a 
few  weeks  ago  predicted  that  the turn of 
the  year  would  see  higher  prices.  That 
we  were  right  is  proven  by  the  advance 
that  took  place 
Eastern 
packed  tomatoes  have  advanced  at  least 
5c  and  Western  goods  are  so  scarce  that 
it  is  difficult  to  quote  a  market,  but  we 
can  safely  say  that  strictly  standard 
brands  are  fully  5c  above  the  lowest 
point. 
In  our  opinion,  the  advance  has 
only  commenced  and  that  much  higher 
prices  will  rule  before  new  stock  is 
in. 
Much  has  been  said  of  corn.  Those  who 
are  inclined  to  be  bearish  point  to  the 
large  pack  of  1898,  which,  as  compared 
with  that  of  1897,  showed  an  increase  of 
51  per  cent.,  but  they  seem  to  forget 
that  the  1897  pack  was  way  below  nor­
mal  and  that  the  1898  pack  is  but  little 
in  excess  of  the  pack  of  1893.  Notwith­
standing  this  large  pack,  it  is  estimated 
that  only  about  10  per  cent,  of  it  is  still 
in  packers'  hands.  Some  packers are al­
ready  naming  future  prices and we know 
of  one  packer who sold  130,000 cases  in 
five  days  and  then  withdrew.  This  is  a 
good 
jobbers  are  not 
heavily  stocked  with  old  corn,  for  if 
they  were  carrying 
large  blocks  they 
would  not  be  anxious  to  contract  for  fu­
tures.  String  beans  are  again  higher 
and  are  held  at  7o@75c  at  Baltimore. 
is  a  total  advance  of  25^300  or 
This 
about  40  per  cent.  There 
is  not a  sin­
in  the  whole  canned
gle  weak  point 

indication  that 

last  week. 

5

fixed  on  the  theory  that  if  the  State  and 
National  annuals  were  held  on  the  same 
date  stockholders 
in  both  would  find  it 
difficult  to  do  their  duty  at  the bank 
polls.  This  difficulty  has  upon  experi­
ence  been  found  to  be  more  apparent 
than  real  and  a  change  is  advocated.

*  *  *

Theodore  C.  Sherwood, 

for  several 
years  Cashier  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Na­
tional  Bank,  and  later  State  Bank  Com­
missioner,  has  resigned  the  presidency 
of  the  Peninsular  Savings  Bank  of  De­
troit.  He  declined  another  term,  as 
other business  engagements  demanded 
his  attention.

*  *  4c

The  Detroit  banks  have  done  no  bet­
ter  than  those  in  Grand  Rapids 
in  the 
matter  of  dividends.  Two  paid  5  per 
cent,  and  taxes,  one  2  per  cent,  quar­
terly,  one  4  per  cent,  and  the  other  2, 
2yz  and  3  per  cent.,  mostly  with  taxes.

*  *  *

Burglars  have  found  a  way  to  solve 
in  Lima, 
the  time  lock  and  a  bank 
Ohio,  is  the  first  victim  of  the  discov­
ery.  The  bank  vaults  were  closed  in  the 
usual  way  and  the  next  morning,  al­
though  the  time  attachment  was  found 
running  as  calmly  as  ever,  the  vaults 
were  open  and  the  contents  gone,  with­
out trace  of  dynamite  having  been  used 
and  with  very  few  traces of implements. 
An  old-time burglar  who  has  been  in­
terviewed  on  the  subject  explains  the 
mystery  by  saying  that  a  powerful  mag­
net  was  applied  to  the  time  piece  and, 
with  the  clock  stopped,  it  was  easy  to 
manipulate  the  bolts.

*  *  *

Compared  with  the  meager  profits  of 
the  banking  business,  the margins  made 
by  some  manufacturing concerns  appear 
marvelous.  The  Portland  Manufactur­
ing  Co.,  which  turns  out  a  patent  wash­
ing  machine 
invented  by  Manager 
Terriff,  handed  its  stockholders  a  50  per 
cent,  cash  dividend  Jan.  1,  1898,  a  sim­
ilar dividend  July  1,  and  a  25  per  cent, 
dividend  Jan.  1,  1899  Of  course,  this 
sort  of  a  record  means  that  the  Portland 
Manufacturing  Co.  has  a  manager  who 
knows  his  business  from  A  to  Z  and 
is 
able  to  wring  success  from  a  business 
which  is  strewn  with  the  wrecks  of  hun­
dreds  of  failures.

Hides,  Pelts,  Furs  and  W ool.

Hides  are  firm  and 

in  demand  and 
have an  advancing  tendency,  on account 
of  scarcity.  Few  tanners  have  made 
any  money  the  past  year,  as  the  large 
tanning  capacity  kept  the  leather  mar­
ket  well  supplied  and  also  cleaned  up 
the  market  of  hides  at  high  prices.

Pelts  are  so  few  in  Michigan  that  the 
many  buyers  keep  them well cleaned up, 
while  prices  are 
in  keeping  with  the 
wool  market,  which  is  low.

Furs  are  nominal  in  price,  with  less 

competition.

Wools  are  selling  freely  at  the  sea­
board,  being 
in  good  demand  without 
any  advance  in  price.  There  are  more 
buyers  in  the  State  and  many agents  are 
looking  for  consignments.  There  are 
also  more  enquiries.  The  stuff  seems  to 
be  wanted,  although  the  failure  of  one 
of  our  largest  woolen manufacturers puts 
a  damper  on  sales  or on  any  advance 
that  may  be  talked.  W m.  T.  H e s s.

J.  T.  Hughes,  for  ten  years  behind 
the  counter  for  H.  J.  Vinkemulder,  has 
opened  a  grocery  store  a  450  South  D i­
vision  street.  The  Lemon  &  Wheeler 
Company  furnished  the  stock.

Collard  &  Strickland  have  opened  a 
grocery  store at  Alba.  The  Ball-Barn- 
bart-Putman  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Nuts—The  only  really  strong  point 

goods  line  and  we  predict  that  the  new 
pack  will  find  smaller  stocks  in  the 
bands  of  packers,  jobbers  and  retailers 
than  has  been  seen  in a number of years.
is 
peanuts,  which  are  held  very  firm  at 
the  advance  noted  last  week.  Several 
of  the  other varieties in  this  line  show  a 
decline—almonds,  J^c  and  Brazils,  ^c. 
Filberts  are  steady  and  there  will  prob­
ably  be  no  lower  prices,  as  stocks  are 
only moderate.  Walnuts are also steady, 
as  there  has  been  a  good  demand  at  the 
decline.

Rice—The  market  for  domestics  has 
ruled  firm,  on  account  of  scarcity.  A 
small  parcel  of  fancy  polished  imported 
Japan 
is  being  offered  at  reasonable 
prices  and  is  meeting  with  a  fair  sale. 
Further  large  shipments  are  due 
in 
February  and  prices  will  probably  de­
cline  then.

Provisions—The  situation  in  provis­
ion  lines  remains  practically  the  same 
as  last  week.  The  easier  feeling  with 
regard  to  mess  pork  continues.  Lard 
remains  at  the  same  quotation  as a week 
ag°. 

# 

#

The  Hardware  Market.

It  is  a  long  time  since  the  trade  has 
witnessed  the  closing  of  a year  in  which 
there  was  such  a  general  feeling  of  sat­
isfaction  and  hopefulness  in  regard  to 
the  business  situation.  Trade  during 
the  past  year has  been  of  a  satisfactory 
volume,  but  as  to  profit  returns,  that 
is 
something  that 
is  impossible  at  the 
present  time  to  form  an  idea  of,  as  the 
inventories  have  not been  closed  up  and 
the  balance  sheets  struck.  The  indica­
tions  for  prosperous  business  during  the 
coming  month  are  very  promising,  and 
it 
is  believed  that  many  advances  will 
occur  and  be  taken  advantage  of  by 
both  jobber  and  retailer  which  will  re­
sult  in  profit  to  them  both.

it 

Barbed  Wire—Trade 

in  this  line  for 
future  shipment  has  been  far  beyond 
the  average.  The  majority  of  the  retail 
trade  have  covered  their  wants  at  the 
low  prices  which  were  prevailing  dur­
ing  the  closing  months  of  1898.  The 
recent  advance  which  has  taken  place, 
which  amounts  to  a 
10c  per  cwt.  ad­
vance  on  both  wire  and  nails,  we think 
is being  fully  maintained  by all jobbers. 
The  present  quotations 
for  shipment 
follows:  painted 
from  mill 
barbed, 
barbed, 
$1.8 5;  wire  nails,  $1.40.  It  is  intimated 
by  those  who  are  familiar  with  the  mar­
kets  that  another  advance  will  soon  be 
made  and  it  is  wise  for  those  who  have 
not already  covered  their  wants  to  take 
advantage  of  the  situation  as 
it  now 
exists.

galvanized 

are  as 

$1.50; 

Miscellaneous—In  many 

lines  there 
have  been  advances  which we call  atten­
tion  to,  as follows:  Chisels  and  drawing 
knives  have  advanced  in  the  neighbor­
hood  of  20  per  cent.,  while  all  kinds  of 
sheet  iron,  bar  iron  and  steel  are  much 
firmer  in  tone.  Galvanized  iron  has  ad­
vanced  5  per  cent.,  and  it  is  believed 
that  another  advance  will  soon  take 
In  many  lines  there  has  been  a 
place. 
decline,  which 
in  rope, 
which  has  fallen  off  about  yic  per  lb. 
In  window  glass  a  decline  which  aver­
ages  from  10 to  15  per  cent,  on  both sin­
gle  and  double  has  taken  place.  The 
decline  on  glass  at  the  present  time 
is 
only  for  January  orders  and  after  that 
the  former  price  will  prevail.

is  noticeable 

Net  Returns  Received  by  Local  S tock­

holders. .

invested.  The  dividends 

The  banks  are  making  their  semi­
annual  distribution  among  stockholders 
of  their accumulated  earnings  and  it 
is 
pleasing  to  note  that  none  of  the  local 
institutions  fail  to  observe  the  interest­
ing  ceremony.  The  dividends,  as  a 
rule,  are  not  very  plump,  but  doubtless 
the  money  they  represent  will  be  none 
the  less  welcome  to  those  who have their 
money 
just 
declared  by  the  Kent  Savings,  4  per 
cent.,  and  by  the  Fourth  National,  2 per 
instead  of  semi­
cent.,  are  quarterly, 
annual,  and 
in  the  subjoined  table  the 
amount  they  have  distributed during  the 
half  year  is  given.  The  Old  National 
Bank  pays  taxes in addition to dividends 
and  this means  about  1 ^   per  cent,  more 
than  appears  on  the  face.  The  dividend 
record  and  the  amount  of  money  in­
volved  is  as  follows:
RATE 
AMOUNT
Old National...................... 3 per 
cent.$24,000
National  City..................3  percent..................  15,000
Grand Rapids  National..3 per cent................  15,000
Fourth  National................... 4 per 
cent.  12,000
cent.  3,000
Fifth National.......................3 per 
$69,000
Grand Rapids Savings.. .3 per cent................ $  4,500
Kent Savings......................... 8 per 
cent.  4*000
Peoples  Savings...........  3 per cent.................  3,000
cent.  4,500
State Bank...............................3 per 
$16,000
Michigan Trust............... .4%  per cent...........$  9,000
Peninsular T rust............ 2\4 per cent...............  2,500
$11,500
$96,500
This  has  all  the  appearance  of  a  nice 
comfortable  aggregate  and  it  represents 
interest  on  the  banking  capital  of  the 
city  at  the  rate  of  about  .0326  per  cent, 
for  the  half  year;  but  it  is  not,  by  any 
means,  all  “ velvet.”   From  the  divi­
dend  returns  the  stockholders  will  pay 
about  $36,500  in  taxes  for State,  county 
and  school  purposes.  When  the  taxes 
are  paid  there  will  be  about  $60,000  left 
or a  small  fraction  more than 2 per cent, 
on  the  capPal 
invested.  The  banks 
have  a  surplus  piled  up  to  the  amount 
of  $874,395,  and,  if  this  be  included 
in 
the  capital,  the  semi-annual  dividend 
rate  is  still  further  reduced  to  .0154  per 
cent. 
The  dividends,  taxes  and  net 
returns  last  July  were  approximately  the 
same  as  now  and  the  average  returns  on 
bank  stock  investment  for  the  year  has 
been  slightly 
in  excess  of  3  per  cent. 
With  this  condition  of  affairs  before 
them  it  is  not  surprising  that  a  consoli­
dation  of  some  of  the banks  is  urged  or 
that a  reduction  in  the  rate  of 
interest 
on  deposits  is  advocated.

Grand Total, 

.

.

.

 

*  *  *

The  only  change  of importance among 
the  State  banks  by  reason  of  the  recent 
election  of  directors  is  in  the  Michigan 
Trust  Company.  D.  D.  Cody,  who  has 
been  Second Vice-President  of  the  com­
pany  since  its  organization,  asked  to  be 
relieved,  although  retaining  his  place 
on  the  directorate,  and  Anton  G.  Hod- 
enpyl  was  elected  in  his  place.  George 
E.  Hardy,  who  began 
in  the  office  as 
clerk  and  has  for  several  years  been  As­
sistant  Secretary,  was  made  Secretary. 

*  *  *

The  National  bank  annuals  will  be 
held  next  Tuesday.  No  changes  of  im­
portance  are  anticipated  in  any  of  the 
banks.  There  was  such  a  shaking  up  a 
year  ago  that  none  are deemed necessary 
now.

*  *  *

It  is  reported  that  Frank  Conlon  will 
act  as 
local  agent  f8r  the  Arbuckle 
sugars  at  this  market,  filling  orders  for 
the  present  from  the  Western  depot  of 
the  refinery  at  Chicago.

It  is  understood  that  State  Bank Com­
missioner  Maltz  will  recommend  that 
the  date  for  the  State  bank  annuals  be 
changed  to  the  same  date  as  the  Na­
tionals.  The  December  date  was  so

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Woman’s World

S o m e  N ew   Year’s  Resolutions  for 

Men.
Elise  was  sitting 

in  her  pleasant 
library,  intently  reading  a  neat  type­
written  list  as  long  as  her  arm.

“ What 

is  it?”   I  enquired  with  inter­

est.

“ New  Year’s  resolutions,”   she  re­

sponded  promptly.

“ Goodness,  gracious!”   I  exclaimed, 
aghast,  “ you  surely  aren’t  going  to  try 
to  keep that  many?  It's  enough  to  bring 
on  paresis  even  to  attempt  to  remember 
what  they’re  about.”

“ Don’t  be  alarmed,’ ’  she  returned, 
“ they  are  not  intended  for  personal use. 
They  are  merely  a  little  list  I  have  pre­
pared  for  some  men  I  know.  You  see, 
Dorothy,”   she  went  on  earnestly,  “ I ’ve 
been  thinking  over  the  matter,  and  I ’ve 
come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  trouble 
with  us  women  is  that  we  have  gotten 
into  the  habit  of  trying  to  monopolize 
ail  the  domestic  virtues  and  self-sacri­
fices.  You  can’t  pick  up a paper without 
seeing  a  long  article  on  a  woman’s  duty 
to  make  home  happy,  or  a  w ife’s  duty 
to  her  husband,  or  a  mother's  sacred 
duty  to  her  children.  But  do  you  ever 
hear of  its  being  a  man's  duty  to  make 
home  so  attractive  his  wife  won’t  want 
to  go  out  in  the  evenings?  Does  any­
body  ever  advise  him,  when  he  comes 
home  tired  a*  night,  to  put  on  his  dress 
suit  and  try  to  entertain  bis wife to keep 
her  from  being  attracted  by  younger 
and  handsomer  men?  Not  much.  Do 
you  ever  see  a  roomful  of  prosperous 
middle-aged  men  sitting  around 
in  a 
father's  convention  discussing  how  to 
do  their  duty  to  their  children?  No­
body  ever  did. 
in 
favor  of  giving  the  men  a  show  and 
letting  them  take  a  hind  in  the  happi 
ness-making  and  the  duty  business.

It  isn’t  right. 

I ’m 

"N ow   when  the  New  Year  resolution 
time  comes,”   went  on  Elise,  studying 
her  list,  “ I  just  want  to  get  in  a  few  of 
my  domestic  principles,  and,  my  word 
for  it,  you  will  see  it  will  do  more  real 
good  and  bring  about  more  genuine  re­
forms  than  all  the  swearing  off  from 
smoking  and  drinking  since  Adam. 
Comparatively  few  women  are  afflicted 
with  husbands  who  get  drunk  or  smoke 
to  excess,  but  millions  of  us  have  to  put 
up  with  men  who  are  in  crying  need  of 
a  little  wholesome  reformation,  and  who 
might  make  us  so  much  happier  if  they 
only  would.

“ What  would  I  suggest?  Oh,  lots  of 
things.  To  begin  with: 
I ’d  have  them 
make  a  cast-iron  resolut  on  to  spend 
more  of  their  time  at  home.  When  a 
man  marries  a  woman  he  leads  her to 
suppose  he  does  it  because he yearns  for 
unlimited  quantities  of  her  society,  and 
it  must  strike  any  fair-minded  person  a 
good  deal  like  getting  goods  under  false 
pretenses 
if,  as  soon  as  the  honeymoon 
wanes,  he  chases  off  to  the  club  or down 
town  the  minute  he  gets  his  dinner, 
leaving  her  to  solitude  and  the  unexcit­
ing  delights of  her own  company. 
It  is 
a  situation  that  perhaps  a  man  never 
appreciates,  because  he  has  never been 
there  himself. 
It  couldn’t  happen  to 
him,  because  the  moment  he  detected  a 
symptom  of  lonesomeness  he  would  put 
on  his  hat  and  go  off  to  the  theatre,  or 
the  corner  saloon,  or  some  place  where 
there  was 
light  and  brightness  and 
gayety.  A  woman  has  no such resources. 
She  can’t  go  around  at  night  by  herself 
bunting  up  company,  but  must  sit  at 
home,  no  matter  how 
lonesome  and 
bored  she  may  be.  Men  are  forever

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

wondering  why  women  want  to  congre­
gate  together  in  boarding-houses.  One 
answer  to  the  conundrum  is  that  they 
want  somebody  to  talk  to  while  their 
husbands  are  down  town  at  night. 
I 
have  yet  to  see  the  woman  whose hus­
band  was  a  home-keeping  and  home- 
loving  man  who  wasn't  satisfied  to  stay 
there,  too.  There’s  one  thing  dead  cer­
tain,  and  that 
if  men  were  as 
anxious  to  stay  at  home evenings as they 
were  to  call  on  a  girl  before  marriage, 
and 
if  they  took  as  much  trouble  and 
pains  to  try  to  entertain  their  wives  as 
they  did  their  sweethearts,  the  domestic 
millennium  would  be  within  hailing 
distance.

is  that 

their  wives’ 

“ Another  good  resolution  that  would 
make  household angels  sing  together  for 
joy  would  be 
if  men  would  remember 
that  being  a  woman  doesn't  make  any 
one  enjoy  having  all  their  theories  and 
ideas  derided  and  scoffed at.  There are 
plenty  of  women  who  can't  venture an 
opinion  on  any  subject  from the weather 
to  the  political  situation  without  having 
their  husbands  tell  them they don’t know 
what  they  are  talking  about,  and  they’d 
better  keep  quiet 
It  may  be  true,  but 
if  a  man  marries  a  fool  it  is  his  own 
fault.  He  picked  her  out  from  among 
all  the  other women  in  the world because 
she  was  the  one  that  suited  him  best 
and  was  most  congenial  to  his taste,  and 
if  she  doesn't  know  a  blessed  thing  he 
has  no  right  to  say  a  word.  As  a  gen­
eral  thing  men  fall 
into  this  fault  of 
disparaging 
opinions 
through  sheer  carelessness  of  the  wives’ 
feelings  and  conceit  of  their  own views. 
just  let  one  stop  and  ask  himself 
But 
how  he  would 
like  to  be  continually 
made  to  look  cheap  before  the  children 
and  the  servants,  how  he  would  like  to 
have  bis 
ideals  and  often  even  bis  re­
ligion  ridiculed,  and  every  time  be 
tried  to  tell  a  joke  or a  good  story  have 
somebody  who  went  out  into  the  world 
more  and  saw  and  heard  more  remind 
him  that  it  was  a  hoary  chestnut.  Could 
there  be  a  more  exquisite  cruelty  prac­
ticed?  Yet  thousands  of  women  go 
through  this  daily  maityrdom  from  men 
think  they  are  good  husbands.
who 
‘ Tom  was  always  good  to  m e,’  said 
a  poor  wretch  of  a  woman,  weeping 
over  the  body  of  a  murderer;  ‘ he  never 
beat  me  where  the  marks  would  show.’
it  seems  to  me  a  man  might 
resolve  net  to  unload  all  his  troubles  on 
the  family  hearth.  Of  course,  I  know 
every  day  a  man  has  to  go  through  with 
enough  to  try  the  patience  of  a  saint, 
but  because  cotton  has  gone  down,  in­
stead  of  up,  or  things  haven’t 
run 
smoothly  at  the  office  is  no  real  reason 
for  slapping  Sammy  and  kicking  the 
cat  as  soon  as  he  gets  within  bis  own 
door.  A  man  might  occasionally  re­
member  that  a  woman  has  troubles  ol 
her  own,  and  needs  to  be  cheered  and 
brightened.  We  are  continually  told 
that  a  woman  should  meet  her  husband 
with  a  smile,  but  no  woman  can  smile 
long  enough  or brightly enough  to  raise 
the  temperature  in  a  house  where a man 
is  sitting  around  with  a  scowl  on  his 
face.  It  takes  reciprocity,  and  it  is  just 
as  much  a  man's  business  to  smile  and 
help  make  home  happy  as  it  is  a  wom­
an’s.

“ Then 

“ It  strikes  me,  too,  that  about  the 
best  resolution  many  a  man  could  make 
would  be  to  try  to  get  acquainted  with 
his  children.  We  have  all  laughed  over 
that  old  story  about  the  little  boy  of  the 
hard  overworked  and  overrushed  busi­
ness  man  who  asked  his  mother who was 
that  man  who  spends  Sundays  here,  but 
It
there's  a  deal  of  pathos  in  it,  too. 

is  the  fashion  among Americans to leave 
too  much  to  the  mothers,  and  let  the 
fathers  off  with  too  little  of  the  real 
training  of  the  children.  How  many 
fathers  take  time  to  talk  and  play  with 
their Children?  How  many  try  to  really 
get  to  know  their  little  thoughts and 
dreams  and  ambitions?  Too  few,  too 
few,  yet  the  time  comes  in  every  boy’s 
and girl's life when  they need the strong, 
restraining 
influence,  the  calm,  good 
judgment,  the  knowledge  of  the  world 
chat  only  a  man,  and  that  man  their 
father,  can  give  them.  But  they  don  t 
know  him  well  enough  to  confide  in 
him.  He  has  only  been  a  machine  that 
made  money  for  them.  There 
is  not 
even  a  bond  of  comradeship  between 
them.  Any  man  who  doesn’t  know  why 
Johnny  likes  one  toy better than another, 
and  who 
isn’t  personally  acquainted 
with  his  children’s  companions  and  his 
daughters’  beaux  may  be  sure  that  he  is 
laying  up  trouble  for  himself,  and  that 
he 
important 
business  of  bis  life.

is  neglecting  the  most 

“ There’s  always  room  for  plenty  of 
good  resolutions  New  Year’s  day,  and 
other  days.  He  might  resolve,  if  be 
really  meant  to  turn  over a new  leaf  and 
try  to  do  bis  part  towards  making  home 
happy,  to  make  bis  wife  an  allowance, 
and  pay  it  promptly,  as  a  debt  of honor; 
to  remember  that  servants  are  mortal, 
and  that  you  can't  hire  a  $2  a  week  girl 
like  a  S i,000  chef ;  to  bear  in 
to  cook 
mind  that  a  woman  never  gets  too old  to 
like  a  compliment,  or  to  be  interested 
in  hearing  that  her  husband  loves  her 
and  appreciates  her,  and,  above  all,  to 
save  some  of  his  good manners and good 
humor  for home consumption.

“ I  don’t  suppose  I'll  live  to  see  any 
of  my  theories  carried  out,”   added 
Elise,  dolefully,  “ but  I  can  tell  vou

they  are  badly  needed  reforms  in  a  lot 
of  families  I  know. ”

D o r o th y  D ix .

Claim  Tea 

is  Discriminated  Against.
Hikonojo  Komada,  manager  of  the 
Japan  Tea  Expoit'ng  Co.,  of  Kobe, 
Japan,  and  Takenosuke  Furuya,  of  New 
York,  both  represent  tives  of  the  Japan 
Tea  Traders’  Association  and  of several 
rtber  associations  of  tea-growers  and 
traders,  passed  through  Pittsburg 
last 
week.  Bi th  are  veterans  and  leaders  in 
the  tea  trade  between  the  Orient and the 
United  St  tes  Mr.  Komada 
is  on  a 
business  trip  t »  this  country,  and during 
the  stop  of  the  train  said : 
it 
is  an  unjust  discrimination  of  the 
United  States  Government  to  put  a  tax 
or  tariff  on  tea  and  not  on  coffee. 
It 
has  seriously  affected  the  importation 
of  tea.  Since  the  duty  has  been  placed 
on  tea  many  people  have  discontinued 
the  use  of  that  beverage,  and  are  now 
using  coffee. ”

“ I  think 

H. VAN TONGEKEN,  Holland, Mich.

Car  Stoves
Potato Shipments

for

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.

W E S T   H R I D G B   S T . ,  
G R A N D   R A P I D S ,   NT I C H .

Mfrs. of a full line of

HANDMADE 
HARNESS 
FOR  THE 
WHOLSALE 
TRADE

Jobbers in

SADDLERY,
HARDWARE,
ROBES,
BLANKETS,
HORSE
CO LLARS,«
WHIPS,  ETC.

Orders by  mail  given  prompt 

attention.

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7

Changed  From  Level  Death  A ssess­

ment  to  Graded  Plan.

Detroit,  Jan.  2—The  result  of  the  an­
nual  election  of  officers  of  the  Michigan 
Commercial  Travelers’  Association, 
held  in  Detroit,  Dec  31,  was as follows:

President—James  E.  Day,  Detroit.
First Vice  President—John G.  Cooper, 

Second  Vice-President—John  C.  Em ­

ery,  Grand  Rapids.

Third  Vice-President—C.  M.  Page, 

Detroit.

Rochester.

Columbus.
strong,  Toledo.

Fourth  Vice  President—E.  J.  Guild, 

Fifth  Vice-President—G.  W.  C.  Arm­

Board  of  Trustees—for  one  year,  M. 
J.  Matthews;  for  two  years,  C.  C.  Sned- 
eker,  J.  F. 
.Cooper,  G.  S  Valmore. 
The  above,  with  John  A.  Murray  and 
S.  H  Hart,  who  bold  over,  wili  con­
stitute  the  Board  for  the  coming  year.

Trustees  of  the  Reserve  Fund—J.  W. 
Ailes  and  H.  A.  Marks,  with  G. 
W.  Edsnn  and  John  J.  Alley,  who hold 
over,  will  constitute  this  Board  for  the 
coming  year.
The  convention  was  well  attended 
and,  I  believe,  enjoyed by every member 
present

Among  the  enjoyable 

features  was 
the  partaking  of  a  dinner  given  the  en­
tire  convention  bv  Postal  &  Moray, 
proprietors  of  the  Griswold  House.
A  substantial  foundation  was  laid  for 
future  growth  and  prosperity  by  the 
adoption  of  a  plan  and  a  revised  and 
amended  constitution  in  harmony  with 
it,  changing  from  a  level  death  assess­
ment  to  a  graded  monthly  payment 
plan.  The  pith  of  the  changes  is  con 
tained 
in  the  following  table  of  rates 
and  ages:
21-29  inclusive,  $2.25  per month,or $27 

per  year  or  $10 80  for  $1,000.

30-39 inclusive,  $2  75 per month, or $33 

per  year,  or  $13  20  for  $1.000.
$39  per  year,  or $15  60 for $1,000.

40-44 
inclusive.  $3  25  per  month,  or 
45  and  upwards,  $3  50  per  month,  or 

$42  per  year,  or $16  80  for $1,000.
It  will  be  seen  that  inducements  are 
now  offered  to  all  commercial  travelers 
within  the  age  of  eligibility  (which  is 
now  under  50  years)  to  become  mem­
bers  of  our  Association  and  secure  for 
their  loved  ones  the  $2,500  offered  by 
the  Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’ 
Association  at  a  lower  rate  than  can  be 
obtained 
in  old-time  insurance  or  kin­
dred  organizations,  with  a  guarantee  of 
safety  better  even  for  the  future  than  'in 
the  past,  which  has  always  been  ample 
in  the  Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’ 
Association.

I  can  not  employ  too  strong  language 
in  expressing  my  personal  gratification 
at  the  results  of  the  convention  Al­
ready  our  morning  mail  brings  us  three 
checks,  covering  six  months’  advance 
assessments  from  three  members,  with 
every  prospect  that  at  the  first  meeting 
of  the  new  Board  of  Trustees  on  Satur­
day  evening  ten  or  more  applications 
for  membership  will  be  presented  for 
their  action,  all 
induced  by  the  new 
plan.  Nor  can  I  close  without  express 
ing  a  deep  sense  of  obligation,  which  I 
believe 
is  shared  with  me  by  every 
member  conversant  with  the  details,  to 
M.  J.  Matthews,  who  prepared  with  care 
and  studv  and  much  labor the admirable 
plan  under  which  we  shall  work  in  the 
future. 

S.  H .  H a r t.

R esponse  By  A.  C .  W etzel  at  S agi­

naw  Convention,  M.  K.  o f  G.

its  life  away.  During 

Amid  this  splendid  scene  we  thus 
again  meet  around  this  festive  banquet 
board  like  Greeks  of  old,  our 
joys  and 
triumphs  to  unfold.  What a  great  year 
has  been  the  one that  is  now slowly ebb­
ing 
its  brief 
existence  we  have  transformed ourselves 
a  quiet,  peace-loving  nation, 
from 
whose chief  claim  and  charm  lay  in 
its 
various,  innumerable  industries  and  the 
its  bountiful  and  prolifically 
tilling  of 
productive  soil, 
into  a  nation  which 
ranks  foremost  amidst  its  mighty  con­
temporaries.  With  the  first  thunderous 
report  of  Humanity’s  war  came  the  fall 
of  Manila,  which  has  no  counterpart  in 
the  annals  of  the  w irld’s  hi-tory ;  the 
conquest  of  Puerto  Rico,  the garnering

in  of  the  Gem  of  the  Antilles,  to  say 
nothing  of  our  National  Sugar  Plum 
that  came  to  us  without  strife  or  strug­
gle,  a  diadem  studded  on  the  placid 
bosom  of  the  Pacific,  2,500  miles  west 
of  the  Golden  Gate.  Michigan,  our 
Michigan,  one  of  the  brightest  stars  in 
the  constellation  of  the  states—and  we 
are~*always  proud  of  her—stands  out 
prominently  in  all  of  these  soul-stirring 
events,  through  the  splendid  achieve­
ments  of  her  sturdy  sons  on  both  land 
and  sea.

Let  us  be  thankful  that  the  President, 
in  his  wisdom,  saw  fit  to  call  to  bis 
council  from  our  commonwealth  a  man 
eminently  fitted  to  help  guide  the  des­
tiny  of  the  nation  during  this  inter­
national  crisis,  and  together  let  us  de­
voutly  thank  the  Ruler  of  the  universe 
for the  great  victories  won,  in  helping 
lift  poor,  trodden  humanity  from  the 
tyranny  of  their  mercenary  oppressors

AncTnow  that  peace  is  restored  to  the 
people 
in  all  lands,  and  the  dawn  of  a 
new  era  blazes  the  way  to  future  pros­
perity,  let  us  so  govern  ourselves  as  a 
people  as  to  command  the  respect  and 
co-operation  of  all  mankind.

it  be 

Who  can  help  but  rejoice  with  us? 
Who  has  a  better  right  than  we?  Hasn't 
our  commercial  warfare  since  the  ces­
sation  of  hostilities  been 
in  keeping 
with  the  spirit  of  the  times?  Who knows 
but  what  some  of  our  houses  are  this 
moment  planning  to  equip  us  for  com­
mercial  conquest  in  our  newly  acquired 
colonies?  Wouldn’t 
like 
them,  knowing  as  they  do  our  londness 
for  making  new  territory?  But  let  us 
hope  that  we  may  be  spared  to adminis­
ter  to  the  wants  of  our  constituents,  in 
our  own  well-beaten  paths,  as  we  have 
done  in  the  past,  freely  mingling  with 
one  another  in  the  sweet  spirit  of  broth­
erly  love  and  affection.  And  when  we 
lay  aside  our  grips  and  the  duties  in­
cident  to  a  traveler’s  life,  may  we  be 
proud  of  the  part  we  have  played  in  the 
affairs of  men  and  happy  in  our  loyalty 
to  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip.

just 

We  always  look  forward  to  our annual 
pilgrimage  with  a  great  deal  of  genuine 
pleasure,  for  the  good  time  we  have,  for 
the  good  we  accomplish,  and  the  gen­
eral  good  cheer  that  always  prevails, 
and  nowhere 
it  more  fully  demon 
strated  than  in  the  city  in  which  we are 
assembled  to-night,  for  hospitality 
is 
written everywhere—there is a  happiness 
in  evidence  here  that  is  born  of  good 
cheer.

is 

But  hospitality 

is  not  the  only  thing 
Saginaw  excels  in.  Away  back 
in  the 
sixties,  they  began  digging  up  enter­
prises,  which  have  since  made  the  city 
a  familiar  household  word 
in  many 
climes.  First,  they  struck  a  briny  fluid 
which,  crystalizing 
into  salt,  has  sea­
soned  the  earth ;  next  the  lumber  indus­
try,  which  has  boused  the  multitudes; 
and,  finally,  they  dug  again  and  have 
struck  a  ”  Klondike”   of  the  first  mag­
nitude-bituminous  in  its nature and the 
finest  that ever  gave  way  to  a  miner’s 
pick. 
its  many  diggings,  it 
several  years  ago  dug  up  a  Post  whose 
initial  is  an  F,  that  sturdy  old  auxiliary 
of  our  fraternity;  the  pride  of  the  Sag- 
inaws,  and  who  does  not  admire 
its 
person el?

Post  F   has  always been  noted  for 

its 
lavish  entertainment  whenever  oicasion 
demands  it,  and  here  is  hoping she  may 
grow  and  prosper  in  the  years  to  come, 
crowned  with  the  laurels  she  has  so 
nobly  won.

But 

in 

The  M anufacture  o f  Nickel.

inch 

Makers have  succeeded  in  electro-de­
positing  nickel  plates  20x30  inches  in 
of  an  inch thick,  which 
size  and  H  to 
are  so  tough  and  elastic  that  it  is  very 
difficult  to  chisel  the  metal ;  and  the 
shearing  of plates  more than one  twenty- 
fifth  of  an 
in  thickness  is  as 
troublesome  as  the  manipulation  of  so 
much  tempered  steel,  says  the  En­
gineering  Magazine. 
It  is  an  important 
fact,  also,  that  these  plates,  ordinarily, 
will  neither  break  under  the  hammer  or 
crack  under  the  punch.  The  greater 
portion  of  the output  of  pure  nickel 
is 
used  in  making  nickel  steel  and  Ger­
man  silver,  and  the  rest  cast  in  anodes 
for nickel  platers.

S om e  o f  the  Evils  o f  Long  Dating.
Notwithstanding  the  agitation  of  the 
question  during  recent  years  the  perni­
cious  custom  of  giving  extended  dating 
on  the  sales  far  ahead  of  deliveries  is 
in  the 
showing  scarcely  any  decrease 
leading 
lines  of  trade.  A  few 
large 
houses  in  certain  branches  which  some­
time  ago  gave  long  dates  have 
indeed 
plucked  up  courage  and  taken  a  bold 
stand.  They  are  refusing  all  orders  ex­
cept  on  a  thirty  days’  and  sometimes 
even  on  a  fifteen  days’ dating.  The  ex­
ceptionally  hard  times  through  which 
we  have  recently  passed  and  the  fierce 
competition  existing  are mainly  respon 
sible  for  yielding  to  the  sixty  days’, 
ninety  days’,  and  even  four  months’ 
extra  time  which  is  often  demanded  by 
the buyers. 
is  certainly  becoming  a 
very  serious  question  where  long  dating 
will  end.

It 

The  custom  of  extended  datings  be­
comes a  very  severe  tax  on  the  whole­
saler,  necessitating,  as  it  does,  earlier 
placing  of  orders  and  the  using  of  large 
long 
sums  of  money  for  manufacturing 
before  actual  requirement 
It  makes  a 
demand  for additional  capital  and  con- 
sequenty  greatly  increases  the 
interest 
account. 
It  obliges  salesmen  to  be  on 
the  road  many  weeks  earlier  than  for­
merly,  thus  paving  the  way  for  more 
frequent  cancellations. 
causes 
additional  expense  in  selling  the  goods. 
The  cost  of  all  these  items  must  be 
in­
cluded  in  the  price  of  the  goods  and 
therefore  in  the  end  is  paid  for  by  the 
retailer.

This 

Is  long  dating  then  an  actual  benefit 
to  the  retailer?  Bv  constantly  demand­

ing  the  largest  possible  dating  and  the 
most  liberal  terms  retailers  injure  their 
credit  and  at  the  same  time  give  cause 
for  suspicion.  Their  purchases  in  near­
ly  all  cases  are  far  beyond  their  actual 
needs.  Their  stock  is  not  in  nearly  so 
good  condition  or  so  well  in  hand  as 
though  their  purchases  were  governed 
by  their  actual  necessities,  and  as  if 
their  goods  were  bought  with  an  eye 
single  to  what  they  could positively sell.
Those  who  insist  upon  receiving  the 
furtherest  dating  and  the  longest  time 
find  one  season’s  accounts  leaping  into 
the  next. 
thus  being 
reached,  they  are  frequently  met  with 
refusals  to  further  increase  the  account. 
This  sometimes  happens 
in  the  very 
dullest  months  of  the  year,  when  it  is 
impossible  for  them  to  realize  from 
sales.  Accordingly  it  is  oftentimes  the 
cause  of  failure.  Again  by  grasping  for 
a  certain  date 
instead  of  distributing 
their  maturities  too  many  obligations 
come  due  at  the  same  time.  This  is 
very  apt  to  seriously  cramp  them.

Their 

limit 

It 

is  the  real  reason  for  giving 
What 
datings? 
is  simply  to  permit  the 
customer  to  avail  himself  of  all the ben­
efits  of  cash  settlements  and  to  allow 
him  to  realize  so  far  as  possible  on  the 
sales  of  the  goods.

With  the  prospects  of  improving trade 
and  a  healthier  condition  of  business 
and  in  full  view  of  the  slight  advantage 
which  is  really  gained  by  long  datings, 
it  is  to  be  hoped  that  business  will  soon 
be  brought  to  a  thirty  days’  basis.  This 
result  would  greatly  add  to  the  prosper­
ity  of both  wholesaler  and  retailer.—C. 
H  Arnold  in  Htrdware.

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in  many 

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATIO N.
It  is  a  long  time  since  a new  year  was 
ushered  in  with  so  nearly  universal 
in­
dustrial  prosperity  in  this  country as the 
present.  When  the  tide  of  returning 
activity  began 
its  flow  two  years  ago, 
its  movement  was  so  distressingly  slow 
that  many  were  skeptical  as  to  whether 
there  was  any  real  improvement.  Grad­
ually  and  slowly  a  little  revival  in  gen­
eral  trade  became  apparent  here  and 
there, 
instances  to  die  out 
again,  so  that  months  passed  before 
there  was  enough  improvement  to  give 
general  assurance  that  the  change  so 
long  hoped  for  was  coming.  Naturally 
attention  was  directed  to  the  iron  in­
dustry,  long  considered  the  most  infal­
lible  barometer  of industrial  conditions, 
but  for  months  and  months  the  grey 
metal  stubbornly  refused  to give  the  de­
sired 
indications.  After  a  time,  how­
ever,  there  was  noted  an  increase  in  de­
mand  and  production,  but  prices  were 
immovable. 
in 
creased  until,  at  last,  there  was  a  great­
er  output—all  absorbed  by domestic con­
sumption  or  sold 
in  foreign  market— 
than  ever  known,  and  yet  the  price  sit­
uation 
un­
changed.  At 
last,  the  movement  has 
begun to  affect quotations,but,  fortunate­
ly,  the  change  is  so  moderate  and  slow 
that 
it  has  not  operated  to  cut  us  off 
from  foreign  consumption.

Slowly  the  activity 

substantially 

remained 

Earlier  than 

iron,  the  transportation 
industries,  aided  by  an  unprecedented 
harvest,  began  to  show  evidences  of  the 
improving  situation  in  increased  traffic 
and  earnings.  The  recovery 
in  prices 
of  shares  was  slow  and  subject  to  many 
speculative  setbacks  before the improve­
ment  had  become  so  general  as  to  make 
itself  more  independent  of  such 
influ­
into  the  past  year,  the 
ences.  Coming 
complications  with  Spain  caused  a  de­
pression  which  culminated 
just  at  the 
beginning  of  actual  hostilities,  when  it 
was  found  that  the  effects  of  a  war  were 
so  fully  discounted  that  improvement 
has  continued  without  hindrance  ever 
since,  the  average  of  quotations  closing 
at  the  highest.  At  the  declaration  of 
war  with  Spain  the  average  of 
leading 
stocks  was  $52 65.  This  year  closes  at 
*67 07.

The  slowest  of  all  the  industries  toas- 
sume a  normal  condition  of  activity  has 
been  that  of  textiles.  Early  in  the  pe­
riod  of  revival  a  considerable  start  was 
made,  in  the  woolen  industry,  but  a  too 
sanguine  disposition  on  the part of man­
ufacturers  and  the  trade  soon  made  it

manifest  that  conditions  were  being 
forced.  Although  the  revival  in  activity 
was  positive, 
too  great  expectations 
caused  disappointment  and  reaction. 
The  present  season  shows  a  more settled 
feeling,  and  real  improvement  is  suffi­
cient  to  meet  reasonable  anticipations. 
But  slower  still  than  wool,  cotton fabrics 
seemed  as  though  they  could  be  moved 
by  nothing.  Prices  were  at  the  lowest 
on  record,  with  so  little  demand that the 
outlook  was  gloomy 
Efforts 
were  made  to  curtail  production,  but 
these  seemed  to  have  little  effect.  At 
the 
last,  however,  there  is  a  decidedly 
healthy  movement  and  the 
improve­
ment 
in  prices,  while  small,  is  enough 
to  give  courage  to  the  producers,  who 
are  learning  to  adjust  their  ideas  to  the 
new  basis  of  values.

indeed. 

in  an  aggregate 

Thus  the  new  year  comes 

in  with  all 
industries 
in  healthy  movement.  The 
increase  in  activity  has  been  such  as  to 
result 
in  clearing 
house  business  for  November  beyond 
any  month  on  record.  This  has  been 
followed  by  a  still  greater  showing  for 
December.  The  pressure  of  orders  has 
been  such  as  to  curtail  the  season  of 
stock  taking  to  the  utmost,  and  the  year 
opens  with  well-filled  order  books  and 
the  assurance  of  a  steady  increase  in  all 
lines  of  industry.

it 

Some  people  are  attracted by  claptrap 
and  stage  thunder,  imagining  that  the 
noise 
is  real  thunder  because  they  are 
not  familiar  with  the  method  by  which 
it  is  produced.  Others  who  have  been 
behind  the  scenes  and  have  noted  how 
easy 
is  to  play  on  the  imaginations 
of  the  ignorant  and  the  credulous  refuse 
to  accept  the  bogus  for  the  real,  do their 
own  thinking  and  decline  to  be  victim­
ized  by  every  mountebank  who  comes 
along  to  capture  their  hard-earned  dol­
lars  under  the  pretense  of  doing  them 
good  by  accomplishing something which 
is  impossible  of  accomplishment.

President  Diaz,  of  Mexico,  has offered 
free  passage,  tools,  seeds,  oxen and  land 
to  such  Spanish  soldiers  as  desire  to 
settle  in  his  country,  exacting  in  return 
20  per  cent,  of  their  products  until  they 
own  their  land. 
In  following  his  pro­
gressive  disposition.  President  Diaz 
may  make  serious  errors  of  judgment, 
but  there  is  a  business  turn  in his efforts 
to  secure  settlers 
in  a  country  where 
lands  are  so  plentiful  that  they  are 
worth  nothing  without  them.

Phrenologists  find  in  Lord  Salisbury's 
head  the  bumps of self-esteem,  cautious­
ness,  imagination,  perception  and  rea­
son 
strongly  developed.  Hope  and 
personal  ambition  are  small,  but  firm­
ness  is  very  large.

It  will  be  found  upon  investigation 
that  the  women  who  criticise  the  men 
most  severely  for  eating  pie  with  their 
knives  are  the  ones  who  make  the 
toughtest  pie  crust.

Beef  has  been  embalmed,  so  that 
soldiers  a long  distance  from  the  killing 
place  have  been  enabled  to  look  upon 
its  remains.

An  old  maid  is  inconsistent  and illog­
ical  when  she  wishes  she  could  be a 
mother-in  law  for the  sake  of  bossing  a 
silly  married  man  she  knows.

European  diplomats,  as  cruel  as  they 
an  be  made,  say  the  Czar  is  for  peace 
because  his  government  has  not  money 
enough  to  go  to  war on.

The  corset  trust  is expected to squeeze 

somebody.

SC O T C H E D ,  NOT  KILLED.

It  was  taken  for  granted  some  sum­
mers  ago,  when  Eugene  Debs  and  bis 
henchmen  ran  against  the bayonets  of 
the  United  States  troops,  that a  whole­
some  lesson  bad  been  learned by  that 
aggressive 
and  one-ideaed  organiza­
tion. 
It  was  supposed  that,  at  last,  a 
line  had  been  drawn  beyond which  even 
that  combination  of  impudence  would 
not dare  to go. 
It  has  been  found  that 
the  contrary  is  the  fact.  Colorado  has 
lately  proved  it.  The  Board  of  Educa­
tion  of  Denver  were  ordered  by  the  or­
ganized  labor  in  that  city  to adopt a rule 
that no  contracts  should  be  let by  it  for 
buildings and  other needs  except to con­
tractors  who  should  agree  to  employ 
only  union  labor.  Not  liking  that  sort 
of  interference,  that  department* of  the 
city  government  ¡did  not  propose  to  re­
ceive any  such  dictation  and  expressed 
some  unwillingness  to  recognize  any 
such  authority. 
The  organized-labor 
thumbscrews  were  immediately  applied 
and  a  suspension  of 
labor  on  several 
school  buildings  almost  completed  was 
threatened.  The  absolute  need  of  the 
buildings  seemed  to  the  Board  a  suffi­
cient  reason  for  complying  with  the  de­
mand  and  they  weakly  yielded  to  the 
outrage;  and  the  labor  party  rejoiced 
with  exceeding  great  joy.

With  that  for  a  precedent  the  Board 
were  ready  to  go  on  with  their  labors. 
A  school  building  needed  repairing  and 
a  contractor agreed  to  do  the  work  for a 
certain  sum 
if  compelled  to  use  union 
labor  and  for  a  less  amount  if  allowed 
to  employ  non-union  labor.  The  Board 
refused  to  award  the  contract  unless 
union  men  were  employed.  A  bill  was 
filed  against  the  Board  to  have  the  con­
tract  declared  illegal.  The  lower  court 
sustained  the  contract.  The  Supreme 
Court  reverses  the  decision. 
It  bolds 
that  the  rule  in  question  discriminates 
between  different  classes  of  citizens,  re­
stricts  competition  and  tends to increase 
the  cost  of  work  which  has to  be  paid 
for by  all  the  taxpayers  and  not  by  or­
ganized 
The  rule  was 
adopted  for  the  benefit  of  a  labor  trust 
and  to  put  a  stop  to  the  competition  of 
unorganized 
It 
was  adopted  to  drive  into  unions  men 
who  do  not  want  to  join  them,  by  mak­
ing  it  harder  for  those  men  to get  work 
if  they do  not join unions.

labor  with  that  trust. 

labor  alone. 

The  real  reason  which  the  highest 
tribunal 
in  the  State  gives  for  its de­
cision  lies  in  the  unconstitutionality  of 
the  attempt  to  make  public  employers 
of  labor  discriminate  against  one  set  of 
citizens  in  favor  of  another,  because  the 
non-union  man  does  not  belong  to the 
labor  unions.  Were  such  a  discrimina­
tion  lawful,  it  would  be  lawful  to  pro­
vide  that  no  contract  should  be  let  to  a 
contractor,  no  matter  how  low  his  bid, 
unless  be  should agree  to  employ certain 
sects  or  sinners.

Here 

is  a  case  in  hand:  A  certain 
establishment  needed  an  engineer.  A 
non-union  man  was  engaged.  The  man 
entered  upon  his  duties  and  proved  in 
every  way  satisfactory.  Then  came  the 
statement that  the  man  had  not  success­
fully  passed  bis  examination.  He  ap­
plied  to  the  authorities,  to  be  informed 
that 
join  the  union  his 
papers  would  be  promptly made  out  and 
he  might  go on  in  the  position.  He  re­
fused,  and  will  give  up  his  place  rather 
than  make a  fuss  about  it.

if  he  would 

public  organizations  will  be  free  to  em­
ploy  whatever  labor  they  please,  union 
or non-union. 
It  asserts  that  a  private 
citizen  can  discriminate  between  differ­
ent  classes  of  labor,  if  he  chooses,  but 
that  the  State,  before  which  all  classes 
stand  on  an  equal  footing,  can  not so 
discriminate.  That 
is  to  say:  Non­
union  men  have  rights  as  well  as  union 
interfere  with 
men  and 
the  enjoyment  of  these  rights  will  do 
it 
to  their  cost.

they  who 

THE  TRO UBLE  IN  NORWAY.
It  is  not  often  that  the  twin  kingdoms 
of  Norway  and  Sweden  attract  much  at­
tention  in  international  affairs  or claim 
a 
large  share  of  public  notice.  How­
ever  thrifty  and  prosperous they may be, 
they  wield  small  influence  in  the  coun­
cils  of  nations;  hence  it  must  be  some­
thing  very  uncommon  in  their  domestic 
happenings  to  startle  the  world.

however,  Norway  and 
Just  now, 
Sweden  are 
in  the  public  eye.  There 
is  trouble  brewing  between  the  two 
countries,  and 
it  will  require  all  of 
King  Oscar's  tact  and  pluck to maintain 
himself  in  quiet  possession  of  his  dual 
crown.  The  trouble 
is  not  a  new  one, 
but  has  existed  for  years,  and  has  many 
points  of  similarity  with  the  situation 
in  the  Austro-Hungarian  Empire.  Nor­
way  has  for  a 
long  time  demanded  a 
separate  diplomatic  corps,  and  in  every 
respect  a  separate  government  from that 
of  Sweden.  The  Norwegians  feel  that 
they  are  being  rather  overshadowed  by 
the  Swedes,  and  they  resent  it.  The 
main  bond  of  union  between  the  two 
monarchies 
is  the  fact  that  the  same 
Prince  wears  the  crown  of  both  coun­
tries.

The  latest  demand  is  that  Norway  be 
allowed  a  separate  and  distinctive  flag. 
King  Oscar  opposes  the  flag  proposition 
and  refused  his  sanction,  although,  un­
der  the  constitution,  the  change  can  be­
come  law  without  his  action.  On  the 
subject  of  the flag  the  King  says:

I  can  not  sanction  this  measure  of  the 
Storthing, which  is  now  presented  to  me 
for  the  third  time,  and  I  consider  that 
it  is  incumbent  upon  me  to  state  pub­
licly  on  what ground  my  determination 
is  based.  The  present  emblem  of  union 
in  the  Swedish  and  Norwegian  flags 
was  introduced 
in  the  first  year  of  the 
rule  of  my  late  father,  and  was  enthus­
iastically  received  by  the  Norwegian 
people.  Since that  time  the  Norwegian 
flag  bearing  the  emblem  of  union  has 
been  carried  over all  seas,  honored  and 
honoring. 
I  can,  therefore,  see  no  rea­
son  for an  alteration  which  I  know  will 
be  received  with  regret  by  a  great  num­
ber  of  patriotic  Norwegian  citizens. 
If, 
in  the  future,  the  emblem  of  union  is 
borne  on  the  Swedish  mercantile  flag, 
while 
is  removed  from  the  corres­
ponding  Norwegian  flag,  the  common 
token  of  equality will  be found  missing, 
and  thus  may 
lead  to  an  incorrect  ap­
preciation  of  the  position  of  the  two 
countries  to  the  prejudice  of  Norway. 
In  itself  this is  quite  sufficient  cause  for 
me,  as  King  of  the  country,  not  to  give 
my  assent  to  the  measure,  although  ar­
ticle  79 of  the  constitution  does not give 
me  the  right  to  prevent  the  promulga­
I,  therefore,  resolve  that 
tion  of  a  law. 
the  Storthing’s  decision  of  Nov.  11 
last 
shall  not  receive  my  sanction,  but  that, 
according  to  article  79,  it  shall  be 
promulgated  as  a  law.

it 

Disinterested  people  will  be  apt  to 
agree  with  the  views  expressed  by  the 
K in g;  but  sentiment  and  popular  jeal­
ousies  are  likely  to exert more influences 
with  the  masses  than  the  wisest  of opin­
ions.

It 

is  plain  that  this  decision  of  the 
Supreme  Court  will  stop 
further  at­
tempts  to  secure, by  laws,  ordinances  or 
rules,  a  monopoly  for organized labor  in 
for
Colorado.  Contractors  who^_work 

Hobson  sought  the  bubble  reputation 
at  the  cannon’s  mouth,  and  found  it. 
He  has  since  cheapened  it  on  a  lot  of 
kissing  mouths.  Mars  becomes  a  mon­
key  when  he tries  to  play  Cupid.

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

The 

THE  PANAMA  CANAL.
intense  opposition  to  the  con­
struction  of  the  proposed  Nicaragua  in- 
teroceanic  ship  canal,  which  appears  on 
all  sides 
in  the  Senate  of  the  United 
States,  naturally  leads  to  the  belief  that 
the  canal  will  never  be  a  reality  during 
the  lifetime  of  the  present  generation.
One  Senator  opposes  the  canal  on  one 
score  and  another  Senator  has  some 
other  ground  of  objection,  and  so  on 
through  the  entire 
list  of  the  "great 
men"  who  sit  in  the  Senate  end  of  the 
capitol. 
But  bow  much  soever  tbe> 
may  differ  in  their  reasons  for opposing 
the  construction  of  the  canal  they  al> 
unite  in  the  opposition,  which 
is  the 
one  result  sought  by  the  powerful  in­
terests  that  are  combating  the  enter­
prise.

If  the  Nicaragua  scheme  is  as  good 
as  dead,  the  statement 
is  now  made, 
with  a  good  deal  of  assurance,  that  the 
old  Panama  Canal  project 
is  very 
much  alive  and  that the  canal  is going 
to  be  completed.

in  New  York. 

The  Director  General  of  the  Panama 
Company,  M.  Maurice  Hutin,:  with 
some  other of  its  officials,  has  been  re­
cently 
The  Director 
General  spoke  very  frankly  of  what  is 
being  done  for  the  completion  of  the 
Panama  Canal,  and 
it  must  be  owned 
that  the  recent  operations are important.
It  was  given  out  that  the  new  com­
pany  has  no  connection  whatever  with 
the  old  De  Lesseps  organization. 
Its 
directors  are  all  prominent  and  wealthy 
French  capitalists  and  business  men, 
who  sustain  no  relations  with  De  Les 
seps or  his  company.  They  have  taken 
up  the  enterprise  where  De  Lesseps 
dropped 
it,  and  are  pushing  it  ahead 
with  a  great  deal  of  energy.  They  have 
now about  4,000  men  employed 
in  ac­
tual  work  upon  the  canal and they prom­
ise  to  open 
it  for  navigation  in  about 
eight  years.  The  whole  of  the  work 
done by  the  De  Lesseps  Company,  with 
all  the  machinery  and  apparatus  as 
sembled upon  the  Isthmus  for that work, 
has  been  turned  over  to  the  new  com­
pany  by  the  French  courts,  and  the only 
obligation  the  new  company  has  shoul­
dered 
in  return  for  the  possession  ot 
property  which  cost  at  least $125,000,000 
is  to  agree  that  after  the  canal  shall 
have  been  completed  a  certain  percent­
age  of  its  net  earnings  shall  be  turned 
over  to  the  security  holders  of  the olo 
company.

mentioned  above,  in  an  interesting  arti­
cle 
in  the  November  Forum,  goes  into 
the details  of  the  work  which  has  been 
done and  of  that  in  progress.  The  en­
tire  length  of  the  canal,  as  laid  out,  is 
forty-six  miles,  of  which  about  fifteen 
miles  on  the  Atlantic  side  and  seven 
and  a  half  miles  on  the  Pacific  side,  or 
about  one-half  of  the  whole  distance, 
will  be  at  sea  level.  Of  this  distance 
eighteen  miles,  or about  two-fifths of the 
entire  route,  is  to-day  essentially  com­
pleted,  so that  at  a  moderate  outlay  for 
dredging  it  will  be  made  at  once  serv­
iceable.  There  are,  therefore,  only  to 
oe  considered  the  twenty-three  and  a 
half  miles  between  Bohio,  on  the  At­
lantic  side,  and  Miraflores,  on  that  of 
the  Pacific. 
Two  excellent  harbors, 
which  will  demand  no  outlay  for  pro­
tection,  are  available;  and  the  Panama 
Railroad  skirts  the  canal  throughout  its 
entire  route,  to  be  availed  of  in  con­
struction.  Ample  quarters,  in  fair  con­
dition,  for  the  increased  force of  labor­
ers  are  already  prepared  at  many  sites. 
These  advantages  are 
immense  where 
time  is  of  so  much  importance.

With  locks  as  were  proposed  by  De 
Lesseps  in  his  last  struggle  to  finish  the 
canal,  the  highest  level  to  which  ships 
would  have  to  be  raised  will be 96^ feet 
above  mean  tid e;  but  General  Abbott 
believes  that  a  canal  at  sea  level  can  be 
constructed  about  as  cheaply  as  one 
with locks. 
It  is  an  interesting  and  at 
the  same  time  a  complicating  fact  that 
while  the  rise  and  fall  of  the tides in the 
Caribbean  Sea  at  Colon  is  not more than 
inches,  on  the  Pacific  side  the 
a  few 
range 
is  often  twenty  feet. 
It  would 
[therefore  be 
impracticable  to  have  a 
tide-level  canal  open  at  each  end.  The 
Pacific  entrance,  at  least,  would  have 
to  be  protected  by  gates  strong  enough 
to  endure  the  assaults  of  the  Pacific 
tidal  waves.

Of  course,  it  would  add  greatly  to  the 
prestige  and  defensive  power  of  the 
United  States  to construct  and  own  an 
nteroceanic  canal  through  the  Ameri­
can  ishmus;  but,  so  far  as  commerce  is 
concerned,  the  Panama  Canal  will  an­
swer  every  practical  purpose,  and,  be­
ing  controlled  by  France,  it  would  not 
he  under  the  obstructive  and  adverse 
influences  of  the  powerful  American 
transcontinental 
railroads  which  are 
ready  to  expend  millions  of  dollars,  if 
necessary,  to  prevent  the  construction 
of  the  canal  over  the  Nicaragua route.

The  new  company  has  now 65,000,- 
000  francs  in  its treasury,  and  its direct 
ors  are  confident  that  they  can  raise  in 
France  all  the  additional  money  needed 
for the  completion  of  the  work.  Before 
coming  before  the  public  at all  with 
their plans,  they  took  great  pains  to  as 
sure  themselves,  by  reports  from  the 
best  engineering  experts,  of  the  feasi 
bility  of  cdmpleting  the  canal,  of  it» 
cost,  of  the  condition  of  the  harbors at 
its - two  ends,  and  of  the  value  of  the 
last 
work  already  done  upon  it.  The 
ye port  has  just  been  made by  an 
inter­
national  technical  commission,  which 
comprised  such  eminent  authorities  as 
the  chief  engineer  of  the  Kiel  Canal. 
Herr  Fulcher;  the  chief  engineer  of  the 
Manchester  Canal,  Mr.  Hunter;  Mr. 
fetley,  chief  engineer  of  the  Croton 
Aqueduct 
in  New  Y ork;  and  General 
Henry  L.  Abbott,  of the  Engineer  Corps 
of  the  United  States  army.  This  com 
mission  has  reported  that 
it  will  cost 
not  to  exceed  $100,000,000  to  complete 
the  canal,  with  eight  locks  on  each  side 
of  the  central  divide,  and  that  the  work 
can  be  done  in  about  eight  years..

General  Abbott,  bf  the  commission

The  Swedes  have  a  custom  which 
might  profitably  be  copied  by  other  na­
tions. 
In  the  mines  of  that  country  the 
workmen  have  their  tools  sharpened  by 
a  special  blacksmith,and  he  is paid,  not 
by  the  number  of  tools  sharpened,  but 
ny  the  number  of  yards  bored  by  the 
miners  whose  implements  he  has  sharp­
ened  during  the month.  Thus,  when  the 
smith  is  skillful  and  does  his  best  be 
makes  more  money  than  be  does  when 
his  work  is  not  well  done,and  there  is  a 
decided  gain  all  around.

Ten  thousand  bushels  of  rice  have 
ieen  raised  this  year on  the  North  Car 
olina  State  farms  by  convict  labor.  The 
crop  required  the  labor  of  thirty-five 
convicts,  and  the  greater  acreage  was 
land  only  reclaimed  from  marshy wastes 
last  year.  The  quality of the  rice  is  said 
to  be  very  good

The  drug  store  almanac has  its  place 
in  the  world. 
It  is  given  away,  and  not 
sold,  and,  therefore,  does  not  become  a 
drug  in  the  market.

A  mean  man 

good  health.

is  olten  nlessed  with 

is  American 

AMERICAN  MAIZE  IN  GERMANY.
In  spite  of  the  German  prejudice 
against  whatever 
in  the 
line  of  food  products,  there  are  strong 
indications  that  the  land  of  the  Kaiser 
is  about  to  submit  to  an early surrender. 
That  country  has  stubbornly declared  its 
opposition  to  the  American  hog  and  has 
as  determinedly  set  its  face  against  the 
use  of  Indian  corn. 
The  American 
tradesman  has  been  biding  his  time, 
has  met  point  by  point  the  objections 
raised  against  the  Western  cereal  and 
now,  after  many  days,  begins  to  feel 
that his  labor  has  not  been  in  vain.

To  the  traveler 

in  the  German  em­
pire,  if  be  be  an  American,  it  has  long 
been  a  marvel  that  the  common  class 
have  not  taken  eagerly  to  anything 
which  would  be  a  substitute  for  the 
loaf*  their  principal  article  of 
black 
diet. 
It  is  heavy.it  is  sour.  Composed 
of  a  mixture  of  rye  and  the  lowest  qual­
ity  of  wheat,  and  made  by  the  careless, 
unskilled  hands  of  the  peasantry  into 
what  they  are  pleased  to  call  bread,  it 
is  something  worse  than  the  old  time 
New  England  "ry e   ’n’  Injun”   article, 
long  since  discarded  in  this  country and 
worthy  only  of  remembrance  as  being 
the  venerable  ancestor of  Boston  brown 
bread.

It  is  pleasing  to  notice,  however,  that 
the  German  stomach  has  concluded  that 
the black  loaf  is  not the  only  bread 
in 
the  world.  Maize  has  been  tested  upon 
cattle  and  horses,  and  when 
it  was 
found  that  the animals  did  not  die,  but 
waxed  fat  instead,  a  venturesome  Ger­
man  made bold  to  try  it  upon  himself, 
with  commendable  results.  The  grain 
bad  the  same  effect  as  beer  upon  the 
German  physique,  which  led  to  a  test  of 
distillation. 
That  proved  satisfactory 
and  now  the  article  is  gradually  finding 
its  way  to  the  German  table.

is  astonishing. 

For  the  last  ten  or  fifteen  years  the 
growth  in  the  use  of  Indian corn  in Ger­
many 
It  began  away 
back  in  the  50's ;  and  early  in  the  pres­
ent  decade  stocks  of  growing  corn 
in 
pots  were  used  as  floral  ornaments  for 
the  dinner tablé.  Later  years  have seen 
the  importations  increase,  until  to-day 
that of  Indian  corn  surpasses  any  other.
Aware  of  this,  the  dealer  has  deter­
mined  to  increase  still more  its importa­
tion.  He  believes  that  what 
is  most 
needed  now 
is  a  knowledge  of  the  ex­
cellencies  of  the  grain  on  the  part  ol 
the  common  people,  not  only  of  Ger 
many,  but  of  the  rest  of  Europe.  To 
scatter  this  knowledge  it  has  been  de 
cided  to  open  at  the  Paris  Exposition of 
IQOO a  kitchen  for  the  preparation  and 
gratuitous  distribution  of  bread  anc 
other forms  of  food  made  from  maize 
This  has  led  the  German  chemist  ti 
analyze  the  grain and  he  has  found  that, 
in  respect  to  richness  in  the  elements 
producing  fat,  beat  and  strength,  In 
dian  corn  surpasses  all  other cereals. 
This  result 
is  cheering,  and  it  is  pre­
dicted  that  when  the  laboring  masses  ol 
Europe  find  that  by  proper  preparation 
and  cooking  it  can  be  made  wholesome 
and  delicious,  maize  will  supersede  tbf 
use  of  wheat  and  rye  in  the  Old  World 
And  the  United  States,  it  must  be  re 
membered,  is  ahead,  beyond  all  chance 
of  competition,  in  its  production.

in 

Bremen  and  Hamburg,the  great  corn- 
importing  centers  of  Germany,  tell  an 
interesting  story  of  importation :  Ham­
burg 
1897  received  618,861  tons  of 
maize,  valued  at  $9.996,000,  and  Bremer 
242,954  tons,  at $3,808,000—an 
increase 
of  almost  50  per  cent,  over  1896.  Ham 
burg  supplies  the  upper  Elbe  and  Oder 
regions.  Denmark  draws  thence  her

9

supply  and  from  these  two  centers  other 
European  countries  will  receive  ship­
ments ;  so  that  it  may  be  safely assumed 
that  not  many  years  will  go  by  before 
the  toil-burdened  masses  of  the  Old 
World  will  be  singing  the  praises of this 
newly-found  food  product  of  the New.

G E R M A N   i m m i g r a t i o n .

in 

introduce 
is  a  new  emigration 

One  of  the  measures  which  it  is  pro­
the  German 
posed  to 
Reichstag 
law. 
One  of  the  provisions  of  this  proposed 
law  bolds  that  once  a  German,  always 
a  German.  This  would  prevent  German 
subjects  from  becoming  naturalized sub­
jects  or  citizens  of  any  foreign  power. 
Such  a  measure  could  not  fail  to  bring 
about,  sooner  or 
later,  disagreeable 
clashes  between  this  country  and  Ger­
many.  According  to  American law  and 
custom,  a  naturalized  citizen  is  entitled 
co  all  the  same  rights  and  protection 
which  are  assured  to  Americans  by 
birth.  This  country  has  always  refused 
to  recognize  the  right  of  a  foreign coun­
try  to  exercise  jurisdiction  over  natur­
alized  citizens  who  were  formerly  their 
subjects  on  the  ground  that  "once  a 
subject,  always  a  subject,”   and  several 
serious  controversies  have  arisen  with 
European  powers over  the  matter.  The 
American  contention  as  to  the  rights  of 
naturalized  citizens  has  been  generally 
accepted  by  a  sort  of  tacit  agreement; 
hence 
it  would  be  a  dangerous  move 
for  Germany  to  attempt  to  revive  the 
old  claim  that  once  a  subject,  a  German 
must  always  remain  a  subject.

Owing  to  the  German  military  system 
of  compulsory  service  in  the  army,  and 
the  practice  of  careful  police  surveil­
lance  of  all  strangers  and  travelers,  the 
adoption  of  a  law  such  as 
is  proposed 
in  the  Reichstag  would  render  German 
Americans  who  desired  to  visit  their 
tatherland 
liable  to  arrest  for  evading 
military  service  or for having abandoned 
(heir  allegiance. 
It  is  also  Germany’s 
idea  apparently  to  make  it  incumbent 
upon  all  Germans  living  abroad  to  re­
turn  to  Germany 
in  the  event  of  war. 
Such  a  system  would  be  intolerable  and 
could  not  be  recognized  for  a single mo­
ment  by  this  country.

It  has  been  the  practice  of  the  United 
States,  from  the  very  beginning,  to  hold 
that  a  naturalized  American 
citizen 
could  not  be  held  amenable  to  any  of 
the  obligations  which  his  former  alle­
giance  involved.  A  naturalized  Ameri­
can  could  not,  therefore,  be  compelled 
to  do  military  service  in  the  land  of  his 
former  residence.  There  are  abundant 
precedents  to  show  that  this  country  has 
not  hesitated  to  go  to  the  utmost  ex- 
remes  to  protect  naturalized  citizens 
from  attempts  of  governments  to  whom 
they  formerly  owed  allegiance  to  force 
them  to  submit  to  military  service.

idea 

Germany’s 

is,  of  course,  to  en­
courage  the  emigration  of  her  surplus 
population,  but  at  the  same  time  retain 
the  allegiance  of  these  emigrants and be 
able  to  draw  upon  them  as  available 
military  material.  Other  countries  can 
not  be  expected  to  submit  to  any  such 
plan  which  would  permit  the  building 
up  within  their  boundaries  of  a  large 
foreign  population  incapable  of amalga­
mation  with  their  native  populations 
and  of  no  value  whatever  from  a  politi­
cal  or  military  standpoint.  This  coun­
try  would  not tolerate  such  a  thing  for  a 
moment;  hence  Germany,  if  she  desires 
to  avoid  future  trouble,  bad  better aban­
don  all  thought  of  enforcing  the  theory 
that  once  a  subject,  ?lwavs  a  subject.

Drummers  have  tde  g rip ;  but  they 

check  it  and  leave  it  at  their  hotel.

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Fruits and  Produce.

Olive  Oil  as  a  Food.

From the San Francisco Trade Journal.

is 

The  cultivation  of  olives  in  this  State 
is  making  rapid  progress,  and  there­
is  gratifying  to  find  that  the 
fore  it 
medical  fraternity 
turning  atten­
tion  to  the  superiority  of  pure  olive oil 
in  nearly  all  diseases.  The  latest  con 
tribution 
in  this  line  is  by  Dr.  E.  A. 
Osborne,  superintendent  of  the  Califor­
nia  Training  School  for  Feeble  Minded 
Children,  wherein  he  states  with  great 
particularity  of  detail  the  beneficent  re­
sults  that  have  accrued  from  the  treat­
ment  of  hundreds  of  children  with  pure 
olive  oil.  These  patients  have  suffered 
from  all  sorts  of  diseases. 
In  nearly 
every  instance great improvements  have 
been  noted, whether the  oil  was  used  in­
ternally  as  both  medicine  and  food,  or 
it  was  used  as  an  emolient  in 
whether 
dressings.  He  says 
is  a  household 
remedy  at  the  home,  the  staff  of  the 
medical  aids. 
is  to  medicine  what 
bread  is  to  the  bill  of  fare  of  every 
home.  After  giving  many  interesting 
cases  in  detail,  Dr.  Osborne  concludes 
as  follows:
It  stands  unrivaled  as  an  element 

It 

it 

1. 

of  natural  food.

2. 

It  is  unsurpassed  as  a  remedy  in 
most,  and  probably  in  ail.  wasting  dis­
it  relieves  the  stomach, 
eases,  where 
rests  overtaxed  digestive  organs,  lubri­
cates 
inflamed  alimentary  tracts  and 
arrests  their  fuither  congestion,  satisfies 
most  all  demands  of  the  system  for  a 
concentrated  heat  producing  food,  and 
restores  to  a  worn-out  or  broken-down 
tissue just  such  elements  of  repair as  its 
reconstruction  demands.
It  possesses  a  direct  alternative 
effect  in  constitutional  diseases.
It  exerts  a  distinctive  influence 
upon  the 
liver,  and  apparently,  also, 
upon  the.  kidneys.  The  benefits  to  be 
derived  from  olive  oil  in  liver  derange­
ments  are  not  at  all  chimerical.
Its  reconstructive  properties  fol­
5. 
low 
its  external  application  quite  as 
readily  as  when  given  internally,  and 
in  some  cases  the  former  seems to  be 
preferred.

3. 
4. 

The  medical  profession,  then,  has  a 
deep  interest  in  the  culture  ol  the  olive 
tree,  and  the  fostering,  to  the  utmost 
perfection,  of  the  industry  of  preparing 
a  positively  pure  oil,  such  as  may  be 
placed  in  everybody's  hands  “ without 
prejudice  and  without  misrepresenta 
tion. ”   Physicians  have  the  same  rigtt 
to  demand  an  absolutely  unadulterated 
oil  as  they  have  to  demand  pure qui­
nine,  pure  morphia  or  any  other drug, 
chemical  or  remedy.  But  the  sick,  they 
who,  suffering,  need 
its  balm,  and 
would  be  the  grateful  recipients  of  its 
priceless  virtues,  have the strongest  plea 
to  enter at  the  bar of  justice  against  its 
contamination  and  substitution. 
In  the 
concluding  part  of  bis  report  the  Doctor 
shows  the great  superiority  of  olive over 
cod  liver oil  in  such wasting  diseases  as 
consumption.  He  shows that  most of  the 
so-called  cod  liver oil  is  an  abominable 
adulteration, 
just  as  most  of  the  so 
called  olive  oil  is  innocent  of  the  oil  of 
olives.  But  he  concludes  that  if  the  real 
California  olive  oil 
is  used  it  is  even 
better  than  the  purest  cod  liver  oil,  for 
the  latter  is  at  best  an  unpalatable  ani 
mal  product  with  a  strongly  noxious, 
fishy  taste. 
It  overtaxes  the  digestive 
juices  and  cloys  the  stomach,  while 
olive  oil,  being  a  sweet  and  delicious 
vegetable  product,  is  absorbed  by  the 
svstem  and  goes  at  once  to  the  upbuild­
ing  of  wornout tissues.

Drawbacks  to  the  Winter  Egg  Trade 
Merchant in Minneapolis Commercial  Bullelin 
These  are  the  days  when  the enemy  of 
honest  eggs  gets 
in  his  work.  As 
the  hens  slow  up,  these  annual  contam- 
inators  throw  the  throttle  wide  open, 
and  salted  eggs,  pickled  eggs,  shriveled 
eggs,  and  eggs  showing  various  shades 
of  antiquity  are  run  in  upon  egg  con 
sumers  under  the  usual  commercial 
lie 
of  “ strictly  fresh  eggs.”   Very  few 
country  merchants “ candie”  eggs before 
buying,  and  much  less  before  shipping, 
and  the first  inspection  eggs  strike  is  in

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

the  egg  room  of  the  wholesale  commis­
sion  house.

criticism 

Much  unjust 

could  be 
averted  if  the  country  merchant  would 
into  the  internal  character  of 
examine 
bis  eggs  before  shipping  them,  just  a 
little,  for  then  the  shrinkage  would  not 
be  large  enough  to  disturb  his  profane 
vocabulary.

The  consignee  stands  between 

the 
shipper and  the  consumer,  and  his  duty 
is  to  reject  everything  not  suitable  for 
food  and  to  pass  every  egg  that  can 
show a  clean  inspection.
The  practice  of  bolding  eggs  for an 
advance  in  price,  or  for some other  rea­
son,  is  most  discouraging  to  the  virgin 
freshness  of  the  product.

It  has  never  ytt  been  done  successful­
ly ;  that  is the cackled  newness of an egg 
in  all  points  can  not  be  preserved  intact 
by any  method  of  human  discovery.
When  a  ben  has stuttered her good-bye 
to  the  egg  she  has 
just  laid,  no  certifi­
cate  of  her  moral  character  or her stand­
ing 
in  society  will  pass  as a  guarantee 
that  it  will  remain  "fre sh .”  

Holding  eggs  shows  neither  good 
business  sense  nor  a  profit,  for  as  prices 
advance,  the grade  retreats  two  to  one.
Eggs  should  be  graded  by  the  receiv­
er,  as  they  come  from  the  producer; 
small  eggs,  dirty  eggs  and  “ floaters”  
should  be  sent  back  to  be  laid  over  and 
washed.  The  writer knows  of  but  one 
country  merchant  who  grades  his  eggs 
before 
is 
obliged  to  hunt  for  a  buyer  at  a  good 
advance  over  the  usual  market  quota­
tions.

shipping,  and  be  never 

#

The  Currant  Market  Weakening. 

From the New York Commercial.

Weakness  has  developed  in  currants* 
owing  to  the  larcer  arrivals  of  the  past 
two  weeks.  Tbeie  has  been  some de­
cline, and  quotations  are  now  at  the  low­
est  point  touched  this  season. 
Last 
week's  arrivals  aggregated  about  16,000 
packages,  which,  in  addition  to  the  ar­
rivals  of  the  previous  week,  have  given 
the  market  rather  excessive  supplies. 
Mocks  are  well  distributed, a large num­
ber  of  holders  being  interested,  which 
has  a  tendency  to  keep  prices  down. 
There  is  a  loss  at  present quotations  on 
the 
lowest  purchases  of  the  season 
Greek  cables  report  a  strong  market  at 
6c  advance  per  100  lbs.

There  has  been  a  large  demand  for 
currants  during  the  holiday 
cleaned 
trade,  principally 
in  pound  cartons. 
Offerings  are  made  for  this  week's  de­
livery  at  5%c,  and  a  large  demand  is 
anticipated  by  holders.

The  currant  market has  been  general­
ly  firm  during  the  season,  notwithstand­
ing  that  the  crop  was  70,000 tons  larger 
than 
last  year.  Fortunately,  the  out­
put  was  the  best  quality  ever sent to this 
country.  Offering  superior  goods  at 
fair  prices  held  the  market  steady  all 
the  season  until  recent  arrivals,  coming 
at  the  close  of  the  holiday  demand, 
caused  weakness  and  a  fractional  de­
cline.  Trade  is  repotted  quiet,  but  im­
provement 
is  expected  as  soon  as  the 
effects  of  the  holiday  buying  are  over.

Supply  o f  Sm all  Canned  Fruits Short. 
From the New York Commercial.

Not  for  some  years  has  the  supply  of 
canned  small  fruits  been  as  short  as  at 
present.  There  are usually sufficient ber­
ries  and  simdar  varieties  of  fruits  to 
satisfy  all  possible demands.  This year 
is  said  that  there  is  a  deficiency  in 
it 
practically  all 
lines,  and  prices  tend 
upward.  The  quality  of  the  pack  is 
reported  quite  up  to  the average,  but 
the  supply  will  scarcely 
last  until  the 
beginning  of  the  next season.
The  reason  for  the  shortage  is  not  en­
tirely  clear,  but  appears  to  be  due to 
unfavorable  growing  conditions.  Some 
packers  who  have  hitherto  packed  con­
siderable  quantities  of small fruits aban­
doned  them  entirely  this  year.  But  de­
mand  for all  varieties  of  canned  goods 
has  been 
larger  than  ever before,  and 
small  fruits  come  in  for their  share  of 
increase.  The  combination  of  all 
the 
these 
influences  has  created  a  present 
shortage,  which  will  cause  an  increase 
in  prices  as  soon  as  spring  demand  be­
gins.

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

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GOTHAM  G O SSIP .

N ew s  from   the  M etropolis—Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  Dec.  3 1—The  coffee  mar­
ket  has  lofct  some  ot  the  activity  which 
characterized  it a  week  or  so  ago  and  is 
once  more  at  about  the  same  level  as 
the  beginning  of  the  month.  Few orders 
have  come  to  hand,  either  from  country 
dealers  or  city  trade.  On  tfie  spot  Rio 
No.  7  is  held  at 6%c,  which  has  been 
shaded  in  one  instance,  at  least.  Total 
stock  here,  642  606 bags;  afloat,  460 000 
bags.  The  general  feeling  in  the  trade 
is  one  of  confidence  and  dealers  think 
the  year  will  come  in  “ joyfully.”

The  year  closes  with  the  tea  market 
in  better condition  than  for  some  time. 
Holders  are  firm,  as  they  seem  to  think 
that  purchases  can  be  made  to  better 
advantage  now  than 
later  on.  There 
has been  an  appreciable  advance  in  the 
price  of  some of  the  cheaper  grades and 
Amoys  are  held  at 
iqJ£@2oc;  old  crop 
Formosas,'  24c;  country  green,  22c; 
Japans,  26@26j£c.
Refined  sugar  is  steady,  but  the  vol­
ume  of  trading  is  not  large.  No changes 
have been  made  in  the  list.  The  “ w ar" 
seems  to  have assumed  its  usual  blood­
thirstiness,  but  the  seat  of  action  is  now 
in  Chicago.  Rumor  has  it  that  Searles 
internal 
got  out  of  the  trust  owing  to 
dissensions,  but  this 
is  possibly  only 
“ yellow 
is  generally 
journalism.”  
stated,  however,  that  the  Trust  has  lost 
a  huge 
lot  of  money  and  there  seems 
to be  no  end  to  the  fight.

It 

Not  a  large  volume  of  business  has 
is 
been  transacted,  but  the  rice  market 
for  the  belter 
very  Arm,  especially 
grades,  and  these  are  in  light  supply. 
This 
is  a  good  time  to  buy,  or  at  least 
it 
is  not  likely  there  will  be  a better. 
Prime  to  choice  domestic,  5fi@ 6X c ; 
Japan,  5@5K c.  New  Japan 
is  said  to 
be  of  very  desirable  quality.  Reports 
come  of  very  great  loss  to  the crop  in 
Burmab,  said  to be  250,000 tons,  out  of 
an  export  surplus  of  2,000,000  usually
In  sympathy  with the general markets, 
spices  generally  are  very  firm.  This  is 
especially  true  of  pepper.  Sales are  not 
large,  but  they  are  quite  numerous  and 
orders  from  the  country  have  been  at 
full  rates.  Singapore  black  pepper  is 
quotable  at  q^ @ ioc.

Open  kettle  molasses  sells  freely  at 
full  quotations  and  buyers  take  no 
lower  rates  another  day. 
chances  of 
Lower  grades  are  somewhat  easier. 
Good  to  prime  centrifugal, 
i6@26c ; 
open  kettle,  32@36c.  Syrups  are  also 
in 
light  supply  and  the  market  is  de­
cidedly  Arm.  Prime  sugar  syrups  are 
held  at  ig @ 2 0 C .

In  canned  goods,  the year goes  out  in 
a  more  satisfactory  way  than  any  pre­
ceding  one  for  a  decade. 
Jobbers  are 
handling  enormous  quantities  of  goods 
and  among  retailers  the  same  story  is 
heard.  Statistics  compiled  here  show 
that  the  corn  pack  is  over  50  per cent 
larger  than  a  year ago,  but the  market 
is  well  cleaned  up  and  i8gq  will  come 
upon  the  scene  with  “ blooming  pros­
pects”   for  the  spring  campaign.  To­
matoes,  especially,  are  Arm,  and  Jersey 
brands are  sparingly  offered  at  82>¿@85 
@90C.

The  dried  fruits  market  is  in  good 
condition  and  a  good  many  goods  are 
changing  hands,  even  if   no  one  sale  is 
of  a  very 
large  amount.  Prices  are 
practically  unchanged  and  no  new  de­
velopments  are  expected  until  after  the 
new  year.

Green  fruits  are  steady  and  prices  are 
well  adhered  to.  Sicily lemons are  worth 
from  $2  3o@3,  as  to  size  and  quality. 
Oranges  are  in  fair demand  at  a  range 
for  Floridas  of $3@5  per  box.  Califor­
nia  mvels,  $2.5o@4.

The  butter  market  shows  little  change 
and  prices  are  practically  the  S3me  as 
last  week.  Strictly  fancy  full  cream 
iq@2oc ;  seconds, 
is  worth  2 1c ;  Arsts, 
!7@ i8c ;  June  extras,  19c; 
imitation 
creamery,  Anest,  i6j£@ i7c ;  Arsts, 
14K 
@ i5 ^ c ;  Western  factory,  extra,  14^0.
Trading  in  cheese  is  moderate and the 
year  closes  with  an  unchanged  market. 
Large  size  full  cream 
is  worth  io ^ c ; 
small  size,  11c.

Fresh  eggs  are 

in  light  receipt  and 
readily  bring  30@ 3ic;  Western  Arsts, 
27c ;  refrigerator  goods,  ig@2ic.
Michigan  Produce  D ealers  Form  an 

Organization.

From the Detroit Free Press.

Unscrupulous  and  irresponsible  buy­
ers  of  produce  may  soon  come  to  grief. 
The  produce  shippers  and  dealers  cf 
Michigan  have  organized  for  the  pur­
pose of  blacklisting them and frustrating 
their  unholy  designs  upon  the  pocket 
book  of  unsuspecting  growers  and  ship­
pers.  The  tricks  of  these  buyers are 
numerous,  and,  having  the  advantage 
of  the  growers,  in  point  of  distance, 
they  do  not  hesitate  to  rob  them.  The 
desirability  of  an  equalization  of freight 
rates  and  legislation  favorable  to  ship­
pers  also  made  an  organization  neces­
sary.
Fifty  produce  shippers  from  different 
parts  of  the  State  met  in  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  yesterday  afternoon, 
in 
response  to  a  circular  letter  issued  some 
time  ago  by  R.  R.  Bane,  of  this  city. 
All  sorts  of  grievances  were  aired,  and 
it  was  decided  to  organize.  A  consti­
tution  was  drafted  and  accepted,  and 
the  name  of  Michigan  Produce Dealers' 
Association  was  adopted.  Any  person 
buying  and  shipping  ten  cars cf produce 
in  a  year  is  entitled  to  become  a  mem­
ber.  The  duty  of  the  transportation 
committee  will  be  to 
investigate  all 
complaints  against  transportation  com 
panies  made  by  members,  and  to  equal­
ize  freight  rates  so  as  to  place  members 
on  a  competing  basis  with  shippers  of 
all  other  points.  There will  be  a  griev­
ance  committee,  whose duty  it  shall  be 
to  report  on  all  unscrupulous  shippers 
to  the  officers  of  the  Association  and  to 
see  that  they  are  punished.
following  officers  were  elected : 
President,  E.  A.  Moseley,  Grand  Rap­
ids;  First  Vice-President,  C.  L.  Ran­
dall,  Oxford ;  Second  Vice-President, 
Samuel  W.  Buck,  Gaylord;  Third  Vice- 
President,  F.  M.  Sheffield,  Detroit; 
Secretary,  R.  R.  Bane,  Detroit;  Treas­
urer,  W.  H.  Lovely,  Howard  C ity; 
Transporation  Committee,  C.  J.  Cband 
ler,  Detroit;  C.  H.  Wells,  Greenville; 
J.  Wisler,  Mancelona;  D  O.  Wiley, 
Detroit;  T.  F.  Moseley,  Detroit;  Leg­
islative  Committee,  E.  C.  Roberts. 
Lapeer;  M.  N.  Kelly,  Metamora;  F.  J. 
Booth,  A ttica;  E.  L.  Richmond,  Roch­
ester;  John  Matthews,  Dryden.

The 

Improvement in  W isconsin  C h eese.
Madison,  Wis.,  Dec.  3 1— In  a  recent 
interview  with  A.  D.  DeLand,  of  She­
boygan,  who 
is  a  wholesale  dealer  in 
cheese,  handling  several  million  pounds 
annually,  I  was  informed  by  him  that at 
no  time  in  the  history  of  the  State  has 
Wisconsin  cheese  graded  so  high 
in 
quality  as  during  the  year  1898;  and 
that  the  demand  for  it  far  exceeded  the 
supply ;  that  the  prices had  increased 20 
per cent,  in  the last two years ;  that  very 
little  was  exported  to  Europe,  largely 
because  of  the  strong  domestic demand ; 
that  there  was  practically  no  skim 
cheese  made  in  Wisconsin  to  d ay;  and 
that  the  total  product  of  the  State,  ran­
ging  from  Afty-Ave  to 
sixty  million 
‘pounds, 
including  Swiss  and  similar 
varieties  of  cheese,  would  bring  in  the 
open  market,  at  current  prices,  nearly 
six  million  dollars.
The  Wisconsin  cbeesemaker is rapidly 
learning  the  fundamental  lesson  which 
every  producer  must  learn,  to  be  suc­
cessful,  that  a  Arst-class  article  will  al­
ways  be  in  demand.  He 
is  beginning 
to  understand  that 
it  pavs  to  educate 
his  patrons  bv compelling them  to  bring 
him  good  milk ;  to  keep  a clean factory, 
and  to  keep  bis  eyes  wide  open  to  the 
investigations  which  are being  made  by 
the  other  cheesemakers  and  by  the  ex­
periment  stations  in  the  wav  of  making 
and  curing  cheese. 

H.  C.  A dam s.

After a  man  has  bad  occasion  to  em­
ploy  a  Arst-class  lawyer,  it  is  useless  to 
tell  him  that  talk  is  cheap.

Many  a  thief  goes  to  prison  because 
he  neglects  to  steal  enough  to  feeaflrst 
class  lawyer.

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any  quantity  of  Fresh 
Eggs.  Would be pleased 
at  any  time  to  quote 
prices  F.  O.  B.  your 
station to merchants hav­
ing  Eggs to offer.
Established at Alma 1885.
W. ROGERS
ALMA,  MICH.

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Always  aim  to  have  the  busiest  store 
of 
its  kind  in  town.  Some  one’s  stoie 
must be  the  busiest—why  not  yours? 
If 
you  are  not as  good  as  your  neighbors, 
it  would  be  well  to  And  out  where  the 
trouble 
is,  and  try  to  improve  on  past 
efforts.  Remember,  the  proof  of  supe­
riority  lies,  not 
imagination,  but  in 
Shake  off  your  business.  Once 
results 
allow  yourself  to  be  entangled 
in  its 
deadly  folds,  and  the  sheriff  may  have 
to  be  called  into  the  rescue  of  yourself 
and  your  creditors.  One  of  the  inevit 
able  results  of  poor  trade  is  a  feeling  of 
discontent  and  dissatisfaction  through­
out the  store.  Trade  languishes.  The 
merchant  grows  irritable.  He 
is  dis- 
satisAed  with  himself  and  his  surround­
ings.  His  clerks  become  infected.  The 
business  of  the  store  is  only  half  done, 
and  nothing 
is  done  right.  Customers 
quickly  notice  the  change.  The  general 
air  of  shiftlessness  disgusts  them.  The 
gloom  on  the  faces  of  merchant  and 
clerks  scares  them  away  and  bad  busi­
ness  is  made  even  worse.  Get  custom­
ers 
into  the  store,  even  if  you  have  to 
go  and  fetch  them  and  pay  them  to 
come.

His  C heese  W as  G ood.

Boy  (in  great  haste)—Memuddersent 
me  for  some  cheese.  Got  any  what's 
good?
Grocer  (affably)—Yes,  sonny,  we’ve 
got  some  that  I  can  recommend  highly. 
It's  made  under  our  own  direction,  at 
our own  dairy,  from pure  Orange  county 
milk,  and 
is  of  an  exceptionally  mild 
and  pleasant  flavor.  About  how  much 
will  you  have?

Boy—Gimme  enough  to  bait a rat-trap 

with.

W here  T here  Is  a  B igger  C rowd.
“ What  a  busy  place  this 

is !”   ex­
claimed  a  customer  in  the  new  grocery 
department  of  a  big  department store.
from  the  country,  “ but  you 
to  see  the  complaint  department!”

“ Yes.indeed,”   said  a  new  clerk  fresh 
just  ought 

and Jobbers of

Pearl Brand Oysters

In  Cans or  Bulk.

Consignments of Poultry and Game 

Solicited.

43  E.  Bridge  St. 

Grand  Rapids.

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Heading Brand for fifteen Years. 

Once Sold, Always Called for. 

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If you  wish  to  secure  the  sale  of a brand  which  will  always  give 
satisfaction, arrange to handle  Anchors,  which  are  widely  known  and 
largely advertised.  When ordering oysters through your jobber, be sure 

T   and specify “ Anchors.” 

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

O ne  C ause  o f  Bad  Flavor 
From the New York Produce Review.

in  Butter. 

interested 

Woile  discussing  the  question  of qual­
ity  with  a  well  known  receiver  of  butter 
from  the 
who  has  recently  returned 
West,  I  was  much 
in  bis 
statement  of  conditions  affecting  the 
making  of  fine  butter,  based  upon  ex­
tended  observations  while  in  the  North 
west. 
I  can  not  begin  to  tell  all  that 
he  said,  but  a  point  or  two 
it  seems 
to  me  should  claim  very  serious  consid­
eration.
“  If  you  would  write  a  pretty  strong 
story  on  the  evils  ot  delivering  milk  at 
the  creameries  two,  three  or  four  times 
a  week  I  think 
it  might  do  a  vast 
amount  of  good,’ ’  said  the  receiver. 
“ Under  conditions  of  that  kind  it 
is 
simply  out of  the  question  to  produce  a 
fine  article  and  we  shall  have a  lot of 
poor  butter  every  winter  until  there  is  a 
change  in the method of delivering milk. 
Now  I  know'  for  a  positive  fact  that 
some  farmers  have  held  their  milk three 
days,  and  I  learned  of  one  man  who did 
not  take  his  milk  to  the  creamery  for 
Imagine  what  kind  of  stuff 
four  days. 
that  was. 
I  have  no  doubt  from  what  I 
heard  that  some  creameries  reject  poor 
milk,  but  there  is  a  good  deal  of  care­
lessness  at  the  weigh  can,  and  then  1 
was  told  that  everything  within  reason 
bad  to  be  taken  in  order  to  get  milk  to 
run  on  during  the  period  of  shortest 
milk  supply. 
If  a  farmer  had  facilities 
for  keeping  his  milk  away  from  the 
stable  or  house  where  it  is  almost  cer­
tain  to  take  on  bad  flavors  there  migtt 
be  reasonably  safe  ground  for  carrying 
it  over  one  day,  but  they  haven’t  got 
such  a  place  and  the  consequence is that 
their  milk 
it  spoils  the 
is  poor  and 
churning. 
I  tell  you  frankly  that  to 
make  fancy  butter  the  milk  must go  to 
the  creamery  every  day,  and  until  that 
time  comes  there  will  be  a  lot^of trouble 
with  poor butter. ’ ’

This  is  no  new  story  and  yet  it  keeps 
cropping  up  so  often,  and  every  time 
attention 
is  called  to  it  there  is  an  in­
creasing  mass  of condemnatory evidence 
against  the  practice  of  infrequent  de­
liveries  where  high  quality  is  sought. 
I 
am  not  going  to  discuss  the  economic 
involved,  but  I  am  certain 
questions 
that  an  everyday  delivery  of  milk 
is 
absolutely  essential  to  the  production  of 
fancy  butter  and  the  trend  of our butter­
making  will  be  more  and  more  in  that 
direction.

It  has  fallen  to  mv  let  to  examine  a 
large  amount  of  butter  this  winter, 
sometimes  with  the  salesman  in  whose 
store  I  was  visiting,  and  sometimes  in 
company  with  Inspector  Healy.  The 
defect  above  all  others  was  bad  flavor, 
which  could  come  from  nothing  else 
than  poor  milk.  In some creameries  this 
was  more  marked  than  in  others,  but  at 
times  I  found 
in  seven  out of  ten 
creameries 
in  one  store.  Buyers  for 
highest  class  trade  would  turn  up  their 
noses  and  curse  the  man  who  made 
such  stuff,  without  half  realizing  the 
difficulties  under  which  the  buttermak- 
ers  were 
laboring.  There  has  been  a 
good  deal  of  shifting  around,  both  in 
the  shipments  of  goods  and  the  class  of 
trade  that  has  taken  them,  and  my  ob­
servation 
is  that  there  has  been  a  more 
decided  discrimination  during  the  past 
two  months  than  I  have  seen  for  years. 
The  time  will  come,  and 
I  do  not 
think  it  is  very  far  off,  when  creameries 
that  churn  up  everyday  milk  will  get 
enough  more  for the  product  to  pay  for 
the  expense  in  making  the  butter.

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Why  Southern  E ggs  Are  Inferior. 

From the New York Produce Review.

The  Southern  section  of our  egg-pro­
ducing  country-say  that  lying  south  of 
the  Ohio  River  and  extending  east  to 
the  Atlantic—possesses  natural  advan­
tages  for  profitable  egg-raising  peculiar 
to  itself.  The  season  being  so  much 
earlier,  young  chickens  reach  the laying 
age  sooner than  in  more  northerly 
lati­
tudes,  fowls  recover  earlier  from  the 
moulting  process,  and  the  machinery  of 
®gg*Pr°duction  gets,  in  working  order 
under  average  weather  conditions  at  a 
time  when  the  t  tal  supply  of  fresh eggs 
in  the  country  is  naturally  the  smallest. 
But  the  egg 
indust  y  of  the  South  has 
never  been  developed  to  its  proper  con­

dition.  The  breeds  of  poultry  found  on 
most  of  the  farms  are  small  and  receive 
no  adequate  care,  so that  the  stock  com­
ing  into collectors’  hands averages small 
and  dirty.  There  has  been  some  im­
provement  of  late  years  in  this  respect, 
and  from  a  few  shippers  we  now receive 
a  quality  of  stock  far  superior to  that of 
former  years,  but  these  are  still  excep­
tional.  Moreover  the  practice  of  bold­
ing  eggs  by  farmers  from  August  and 
September  in  the  effort  to  secure  profits 
from  the  later advance  in values is prac­
ticed  in  the  South  under  less  favorable 
conditions  than  in  the  North  and  West, 
and  the  quality  of  these  country  hold­
ings,  which  are  mixed  into  the  current 
collections  during  the  late fall  and  early 
winter,  is  unusually  poor.
November  and  December,  and  some­
times 
is 
severe)  are  the  months  when  Southern 
egg  men  have  their  best  opportunity. 
During  this  period  new  eggs  are  gener­
ally  very 
scarce  and  our  Southern 
friends  might  develop  their  business  so 
that  their goods  w^uld  occupy  the  lead­
ing  place  in  Northern  markets.  This 
can  only  be  done  by  introducing  breeds 
of  fowls  which  produce  large  eggs,  by 
cultivating  greater  care  of  the  flocks 
and  providing 
laying  quarters  which 
would  insure  cleanliness  ot  the  product, 
and  by  discouraging  the  holding  of  late 
summer  and  early  fall  eggs  in  farmers' 
hands.

(when  the  winter 

January 

Southern  collectors  can  do  much to in­
stitute  these  improvements.  They  have 
only  to  realize  the  difference 
in  quali­
ties themselves,  provide  themselves  with 
candlers  who  can  tell  fresh  eggs  from 
old  ones,  and  set  their  paying  prices  on 
a  scale  as  to  size,  freshness  and  clean 
ness.  As  soon  as  farmers  found  the  re­
turns  for 
fTesh  eggs 
markedly  higher than  for  small  or  dirty 
or held  lots  they  would,  if  instructed  by 
circular,  etc.,  be  induced  to  change  and 
improve  their  methods.

large,  clean  and 

That  the  thing  can  be  accomplished 
by  collectors 
illustrated  by  a  story 
t lid  us  by  a  large  receiver this  week. 
He  was,  a  year  or  two  ago,  receiving 
eggs  from  a  Southern  shipper  who  sent 
to  market a  liberal  quantity  of  very 
in­
different  stock.  The  receiver  wrote  the 
shipper  that  be  would  pay  the  expenses 
of  a  trip  to  New  York  if  he  would  come 
up  and  learn  something  about  our  mar­
ket  requirements.  The  shipper came. 
He  examined  eggs  from  other  packers, 
saw  the  buyers  coming  to  get  eggs  and 
heard  their  criticisms  and  complaints; 
learned  the  relation  of  quality  to  value 
and  went  back  home.  Since  then  his 
goods  have  improved  so  much  in  qual­
ity  and  packing  that  they  now command 
as  high  a  price  as  any  fresh  Western 
eggs  arriving.  This  is  an  exceptional 
case,  but  there 
is  room  for  equal  im­
provement  in  all  Southern  sections.

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C aviare  from   Canada  in  Dem and. 

From the Canadian Grocer.

It  was  sent 

The  demand 

Another  Canadian  product  has  been 
exported  to  Great  Britain  and  been  re­
ceived  with  favor.  A  shipment  of  1,500 
pounds  of  caviare,  the  roe  of  fish  from 
the  Great  Lakes,  has  been  sent from  Rat 
Portage  to  London,  through  the  effoits 
of  the  Canadian  Department  of  the  Im­
in  cold 
perial  Institute. 
storage. 
for  caviare 
throughout  the  United  Kingdom 
is  a 
large  and  rapidly-increasing  one.  The 
best  product  arriving  on  the  market 
comes  from  Russia. 
The  Canadian 
shipment  is  said  to  closely  resemble  it, 
and  to  be  much  superior  to  a  large  pro 
portion  of  that  arriving  there.  As  the 
article  brings  high  prices,  it  is  devoutly 
wished  that  the  trade  may  assume  large 
proportions.

Malaria 

is  a  malady the  doctor  savs 
you  have  got  when  be  doesn’t  know 
what  is  the  matter  with  you.

Doctors  used  a 

lance  to  bleed  their 
patients  in  olden  times.  Now  a  lance  is 
unnecessary.

It  is  useless  to  worry;  but  it  is useless 
to  tell  a  man  that  it  is  useless  to  worry.
lonely  day  in  a  yellow  dog’s 

is  a 

It 

life  when  nobody  kicks  him.

Saying  the  right  thing  at  the  right 
time 
is  equivalent  to  keeping  your 
mouth  shut  when  you  have  nothing  to 
say.

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A  dog  can  say  more  with  his  tail  in  a 
minute  than  the average  man  can  ex­
press  with  bis  tongue  in  a  month.

The  slow  movements  of  the  average 
fat  man  rather  tend  to  contradict  the 
theory  that  haste  makes  waist.

Some  men  who  fool  with  a  bent  pin 
can’t  see  the  point—but  they  feel  it just 
the  same.

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That is P U R E   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 
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Why the Trade  Increases

Our spice trade continues to increase  faster and faster.
Who handies them?  All sorts and  conditions  of  mer­
chants.  They  use  them  because  they  are  good—not 
because they are cheap.  The  dealer  who  doesn’t  sell 
our  spices  is  losing  a  large,  growing  and  profitable 
trade.  The chances are  he isn’t selling  the right  kind 
of spices  and  isn’t  giving  his  customers  s.- tisfaction.
He isn’t building up the spice trade he ought to have and 
might haye—isn’t making the money he ought to make.
Our  traveling  representatives  want  to  tell  you  all 
about it—why our spices are the best in  the world  and 
how  and  why  there’s  money  in  them  for  you.
Northrop,  Robertson  & Carrier,

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goods,  by  the  salesman,  which  will 
make  dollars  for  the  house and  econ­
omize  the  salesman's  time,  that  he  may 
devote  all  the  time  possible  to  the  sale 
of  goods,  covers  the aim  of  the  depart­
ment.

Not  averse  to  details,  for  in  no  other 
department 
in  the  house  are  the  little 
things  expected  to  be  looked  after as 
here. 
It  is  because  the  department  has 
scrutinized  matters  which  have  been 
passed  over  by  others  that  its  value  is 
becoming  apparent  in  every  progressive 
jobbing  house.

Enterprising,  for  he  must  lead—must 
go  ahead,beckoning  the  salesmen  to  fol­
low.  There 
is  no  class  of  men  to-day 
more  willing  to  be  led  into larger  fields 
of  usefulness  and  on  to  greater  attain­
ments than  the  Twentieth Century sales­
man.  The  salesmen's  department  does 
the  picket  duty  for  the  house.  The  buy­
ers  realize  its  efficiency  as  an  aid  to  in­
creased  purchases. 
It  is  a  power  in  the 
bands  of  the  right  manager.

in 

Prudent,  for  he  must  not give  his  en­
terprise  too  free  a  band.  He  must  be 
wise 
in  branching  out  into  new  terri­
tories  and  on  new  lines.  He  must be 
very  careful  to  lead  the  salesmen aright. 
It  only  takes  a  few  errors 
judgment 
on  the  part  of  the  leader to  cause  the 
salesman's  confidence  to  waver.  Some 
buyers  feel  a  salesman  can  sell  any­
thing,  regardless  of  quality  or  merit. 
They  are  correct  only  to  a  certain  ex­
tent.  No  true  salesman  who  desires  to 
increase  his  worth  to  bis  employers  will 
willingly  unload  trash  on  his  customers.
is 
easily  scared 
is  not competent  to  be  at 
the  head  of  this  department,  where 
emergencies  are  of  frequent  occurrence. 
Bluffs  are  numerous;  unheard-of  prices, 
baits  and  rumors  of  impending  troubles 
which  never  occur are  everyday  affairs
Just,  for he  must  keep  the  best  inter­
ests  of  both  his  employers  and  co-work­
ers  always 
in  mind.  For  this  reason 
bis  position  is  not  an  enviable  one.  To 
have  the  entire  confidence  of  both  is 
the  highest  compliment  which  can  be 
paid  any  manager.

Self-possessed—for  a  man  who 

Sagacious,  for  he  must  be  able  to  go 
to  the  bottom  of  things,  dissect motives, 
size  up  applicants,  detect  schemes, 
guard  against  the  designs  of  others,  and 
have  the  ability  to  turn  failure  into suc­
cess.

Sympathetic,  for this  is  the most  im­
portant  of  all  qualities.  His  sympathy 
must  be  broad  and  free. 
It  will  be  in 
greater  demand  than  any other attribute, 
because  of  its  scarcity  elsewhere.  There 
is  no  investment  which  brings  larger 
returns  than  a  sympathetic  interest  in 
others.—Charles  W.  Emery 
in  Hard­
ware.

about  bow  he  was  trying  to  poke  his 
nose  some  place  where  it  had  no  busi­
ness  to  be  and  how  be  got  turned  down.
He  knows  more  about  the  customers’ 
affairs,  on  his  route,  inside  of  a  month, 
than  you  do,  although  some  of  them 
have  been  your  customers  for  years.

Some  people  seem  to like Mr.  Nozey— 
look  on  his  advances  and  familiarity  as 
evidences  of 
if  they 
have  any secrets  they  had  better look out 
for him.

friendship—but 

He 

is  generally  very  close  mouthed 
about  bis  own  affairs,  however.  When 
a  salesman  comes 
in  your  store  and 
opens  his  sample  case,  up  comes  Mr. 
Nozey  and  stands  there  until  he  has 
finished  bis 
inspection  or  you  tell  him 
to  go  about  bis  business.  Before  he  has 
been 
in  your  store  a  great  length  of 
time  he  is  calling  bread  men,  cake  men 
and  salesmen  by  their  first  names  and 
talking  familiarly  with  them,  if  they 
are  foolish  and  short  sighted  enough  to 
let  him.

If  you  don’t  watch  him,  he  will  in­
spect  your  accounts  and  find  the  exact 
state  of  your  business.  You  guess  this 
from  the  knowing  way  he  talks  about 
his  former  employer's  affairs  and  you 
feel  annoyed  every  time  he  comes  near 
you  when  your  ledger  is  open.

As  a  general  thing  be  has a  very  good 
opinion  of  himself  and  calls  his  nozi- 
“ I  tell  you  a  man  can't 
ness  nerve. 
get  along 
in  this  world  if  he  doesn’t 
have  nerve!”   is  one of  his  favorite  ex­
pressions.

He  seems  to  be  a  regular 

ironclad

when  it  comes  to  being  turned  aside  by 
shafts  of  sarcasm  or  ridicule,or  as  some 
would  express  it,  he  has  the  face  of  an 
iron  pot.  Bye  and  bye  people  get  tired 
of  turning  him  down  and  he  is  accepted 
or  endured  where  more  worthy  people 
with  some  degree  of modesty can not go.
What  be  calls  nerve,  other  people  call 

cheek,  brass  and  impudence.

Some  doctors  take  life  easy—others 

take  whatever  they  can.

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S om e  Things  Essential  for a S u ccess­

ful  M anager.

The  man  who  has  saved  money  from 
is  the  best  man  to  make 

his  earnings 
and  save  it  for  an  employer.

Salesmen,  like  other  mortals,  will  re­
ceive 
suggestions  and  advice  more 
graciously  from  a  person  who  has  been 
a  success  himself.

The  successful  manager  will  be  found 
to  have  been  a  success as  a  salesman 
and  not one  of  mediocre  ability.

Theory  will  not  satisfy  the  majority 
of  men  on  the  road  to-day;  they  want 
suggestions  only  from  men  who  base 
their  counsel  on  practical  experience.

Those  who  may  adopt  this  key  to  suc­
cess  in  the  future  should  not  blunder  by 
making  some  old  house  employe  man­
ager,  thinking  it  would  be  an  easy posi­
tion  to  fill  and  quite  suitable  for a  man 
of  declining  years.  Rather pension him ; 
he  no  doubt  deserves  it  and  it  will  pay 
better,  because  he  will  not accomplish 
the  desired  results.  The  salesmen, while 
they  will  appreciate  his  fatherly  advice 
and  respect  his  grey  hairs,  will  soon 
conclude  he  is  not  quite  up  to  date  and 
his 
influence  over  them  will  quickly 
wane.  The  work  requires  all  the  energy 
vigor  and  force  a  younger  man can mus­
ter,  and  then  sometimes  he  wishes  for  a 
double  portion.

A  man  who  has  been  there himself 

is 
the  one  who  appeals  to  the  salesmen, 
and  from  whom  a  letter  in  reply  to  one 
from  them,  explaining  their  difficulties 
and  trials,  does  good 
like  a  dose  of 
medicine.

through 

The  cause  of  the  downfall  of  many  a 
salesman 
strong  drink  and 
strange  women  has  been  because  of  a 
feeling  that  they  had  no  one  on  earth, 
forgetting  the  One  above,  to  whom  to 
take  their  discouragements. 
In  their 
despondency,  they  allowed  themselves 
to  be  “ caught”   by  her  feigned  sym­
pathy,  and  have  tried  to  drown  their 
troubles 
in  a  whisky  glass,  or  forget 
them  at  the  card  table.  No  man  careth 
for  m e;  every  man’s  hand 
is  against 
me,  is  the  cry  of  many  after  receiving 
one  of  those  cutting  letters  which  only 
some  men  who  lack  the  experience  of 
the  road  can  write,  and  as  a  conse­
quence,  know  nothing  about,  nor  can 
they  imagine,  a  contingency  which  this 
action  on  the  part  of  the  salesman  was 
to  meet.

Buyers  or  others  who  are  associated 
with  salesmen  or  who  correspond  with 
them,  whose  education  has  been  alto­
gether  acquired 
in . the  bouse,  are  un­
able  to  put  themselves  in  the salesman’s 
place,  and  often  do  not  interpret  mat­
ters  as  the  salesman  expects. 
They 
should  not  wonder  why  the  salesman 
often  requests  the  kindly  offices  of  the 
salesmen's  department  in  bringing  mat­
ters  to  their  attention  instead  of  writing 
them  direct.

Seniority  should  not  be  considered  in 
the  selection  of  a  manager  from  among 
salesmen. 
If  the  senior  salesman  hap­
pens  to  be  the best  fitted  for the  posi­
tion,  it  is  indeed  fortunate  and  compli­
mentary  to  him.

Success  as  a  salesman  does  not  insure 
success  as  manager  of  co-workers.  A 
successful 
salesman  necessarily  has 
many  of  the  qualifications  of  a  success­
ful  manager. 
In  selecting  one  for  this 
peculiar and  important  position,  see  to 
it  that  your  choice  is  methodical,  not 
adverse  to  details,  enterprising,  self- 
possessed,  just  and  sympathetic.

Methodical,  for  he  will  be  compelled 
to  classify  and  arrange  his  work,  be­
cause  of  the  scope  of  the  department. 
Anything  connected  with  the  sale  of

Some  Peculiarities  o f  the  Inquisitive 

Clerk.

Correspondence Philadelphia Grocers’ Review.
Ever  have  a  fresh,nozey  clerk  in  your 
employ? 
I  don't  mean  a  clerk  who 
wants  to  learn  all  he  can  about  the busi­
ness,  both  for  your  benefit  and  his  own ; 
but  one  who  is  always  trying  to  find  out 
what  you  do  not want him  to and  who 
takes  it  for  granted  everyone  wants  to 
hear  him  talk.  There 
is  nothing  too 
deep  or  too  shallow  for  him  to  express 
an  opinion  on. 
It  does  not  take  much 
to  get  him  started ;  the  only  trouble  is 
to  get  him  to  quit  when  be  is  started.
He  is  like  a  jack  in  the  box  when 

it 
comes  to  shutting  him  up.  Every  time 
you 
lift  the  lid  or show  him  the  least 
bit of  countenance  up  he jumps as  fresh 
as  ever.  You  can  sit  on  him  until  you 
are  ashamed  of  yourself  and  begin  to 
pity  him ;  but  be a  little  bit  easy  with 
him  and  you  have  the  whole  job  to  do 
over  again.  He  does  not  seem  to  mind 
it,  however.  He  sometimes  even  brags

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

suggestion 

Shoes  and  Leather
D o  O ur  Feet  P rotest  T oo  Much?
The 

that  considerable 
good  might  be  accomplished  in  the  way 
of  preventing  pain  and  deformity  to  the 
human  foot  by  the  establishment  of  a 
humane  society  after  the order of  that 
which  watches  over  the  welfare  of dumb 
animals  was  not,  of  course,  thrown  out 
seriously,  but  with  an  idea  of  showing 
the  possibilities  for  good  in  such an im­
possible  project.

But  the  uncharitable  cobbler  remarks 
there  are  multitudes  of  dumb 
in  the 

that 
bipeds  as  well  as  quadrupeds 
world.

He  says,  moveover,  that  man  resolute­
ly  and  from  choice  fetters  bis  feet  in 
unsuitable  shoes  and  then  blames the 
shoemaker  for the evil results;  while the 
horse  has  no  option  about  bis  footgear, 
and  would  often  raise a  vigorous  kick 
to  express  his  disapproval  of  the  bun­
gling  work  of  his  shoesmaker  if  such 
protest  would  result  in  his getting a sen­
sible and  comfortable  set  of  shoes.

Passing  the  cobbler’s  sarcasm,  which 
drops  upon  the  slightest  provocation,  it 
must  be  admitted  that,  whether  in  the 
matter  of  clothes  or 
in  moral  posses­
sions,  the  man  who 
is  a  free  agent  is 
more  reprehensible  than  the  creature 
who  has  influences  and conditions thrust 
upon  him  which  he  is  compelled  to  ac­
cept.

Now  the hardened  shoe  man  may look 
coldly  upon  these attempts  to  bring  the 
foot  into  safe  sanitary  conditions,  and 
he  will  assert  that  it  is  utterly  useless 
to  preach  these  reformatory  sermons.

But,  on  the  other  hand,  the  patient, 
humane  philosopher  contends  that the 
short  sermon,  illustrated  by  warning  ob­
ject 
lessons,  is,  by  no  means,  wasted 
time  if  it  saves  one  pair  of  straying feet 
in  one  thousand.

He  says  that  it  is  not too  late  for  the 
crookedest  foot  to  return  to  paths  of 
pleasantness  and  of  peace  and  to  be 
saved  while  the  reform 
shoemaker’s 
lamp  holds  out to  burn.

The  unfortunate foot  in too many cases 
has  acquired  its  permanent angles,  con­
trary  to  Nature,  which  never  forms  an 
angle,  but  delights  in  curves,  in rounded 
symmetrical  forms.

The  soft,  plump  cushions  of  flesh  at 
the  foot  have,  in  many  instances,  been 
either compressed  or dissipated,  leaving 
only  the  framework  or  joints  of  the  foot 
to  oppose  themselves  to the  cruel  pres­
sure  of  the  relentless  leather of the shoe.
We  retailers  get  occasional  glimpses 
of  these  sharp,  angular outlines 
in  our 
experience  with  feet,  but  only  the  pow­
erful  X-rays  can  reveal  the  phenomena 
of  distorted 
lower  members  to  the  on­
looker  in  the  street.

It  is 

just  possible  that  the  critical 
Carlyle  had 
then  undiscovered 
Roentgen  rays  in  view,  with  the  seers's 
prophetic  eye,  when  he  spoke  of  look­
ing  into a  man.

the 

This 

is  what  he  says:  “ Happy  he 
look  through  the clothes  of a 
who  can 
man  (the  woolen  and  fleshly,and  official 
bank-paper,  and  state-paper  clothes) 
into  the  man  himself  and  discern,  it 
may  be,  in  this  or  the  other  dread  po­
tentate a  more  or  less  incompetent  di­
gestive  apparatus,  yet  also  an 
inscru­
table,  venerable  mystery,  in  the meanest 
tinker that sees  with  eyes."

Bnt  we  retailers  have  neither the time 
nor  the  inclination  to  penetrate  these 
mysteries.

We  must  clothe  these  feet  as  well  as 
leave  to  Providence and

we  can,  and 

the consciences of shoe wearers all the rest.
Besides,  to  old  retailers  the  revela­
tions  of  X   rays  would  be  entirely  super­
fluous.

The  curious  things  that  might  be 
brought  to  light  on  the  busy  thorough­
fares  if  a  humane  society  for  this  pur­
pose  were  practicable,  and 
if  it  pos­
sessed  legal  powers  equal  to  those  con­
ferred  upon  the  S.  P.  C.  A .,  would  as­
tonish  us.

Cramped  and  abraded  feet  would  be 
stripped  of  their  torturing  covers  and 
the galled  members  would  appeal  to  the 
tender  feelings  of  humanity 
just  as 
strongly  as  do  the  galled  spots  under 
the horse’s  collar  and  saddle.

But  the  same  righteous  indignation 
against  the  owner of  the  foot  could  not 
be aroused  as  that  which  excites  us 
in 
the  case  of  the  horse,  because  the  foot 
owner  has  voluntarily  incurred  the  in­
juries  in  which  bis  feet  are  involved.

The  thing 

is  not  feasible,  of  course; 
and  yet  the  resolute  reformer asks:  “ If 
legislation  against self-destruction—that 
of  the  whole  body—is  tenable  ground 
for 
judicial  interference  with  personal 
rights,  then  why  not  also  the  maiming 
or  injury  of any  member  of  that  body?"
Well,  the  suicide,  if  he  be  successful 
in  his  ghastly  attempts,  can  get  no 
further  punishment 
fellow 
mortal,  and  the  owner  of  the  tortured 
foot  feels  tolerably  safe  from  any  out­
side 
interference  with  his  inalienable 
rights  in  the  matter  of  clothing  his body 
as he  chooses.

from  his 

And the  leather  man,  the  shoe  manu­
facturer  and  the  retailer  are  abettors 
in  this  independent  stand,  and  will  be 
his  surety,  if  need  be,  in  case  of  legal 
trouble.

It 

is  worse  than  useless  to  legislate 

against  fashion  in  our  day.

Neither  prohibitory  nor  sumptuary 
laws  will  ever again  have any terrors for 
the  modern  shoe  wearer.

Puritanical  dictation  has  had  its  day.
The  feet  were  born  free  and  equal, 

but  man  has  changed  all  that.

it 

is 

While 

impossible  to  procure 
statistics  showing  the  average  number 
of  feet  that  are  permanently  disabled by 
their  unsuitable  coverings,  we  hear  oc­
casionally  of 
in 
which  even  death  has  been  the  penalty 
of the  violation  of  Nature's  laws.  The 
pessimistic  cobbler  savs  the  average  of 
disabled  feet  arising  from  small  or  mal­
formed  shoes 
is  at  least  nine  in  every 
ten  pairs.

instances 

startling 

But  the  cobbler  is  hastv  in  his 

judg­
ment,  as  well  as  uncharitable  in  his  es 
timate  of  foolish  humanity.

The  cobbler, 

slouchy  shoes,  about  three  sizes 
large  for his  feet.

too,  wears  tattered, 
too 

From  this  quite  comfortable  stand­
point he can criticise severely the owners 
of  more  restrained  feet.

He,  being  without  sin 

in  this  local 
human  weakness,  thinks  that  he  has  the 
right  to  cast  the  first  stone  at  any  un­
fortunate shoe  reprobate  who  happens  to 
come  under his  notice.

I  am  sorry  to  add  that  this  veteran 
cobbler,  who  has  followed  a  narrow  rut 
through  life,  casts  not  only  the  first 
stone,  but  the  last  one,  too;  and  in  his 
most 
irascible  mood,  when  aggravated 
by  some  persistent  tight-sbde  patron, 
the  cobbler  is  tempted  to  throw  his  lap- 
stone at  the  offender.

But  the  offender  laughs,  “ The  world 

will  follow  its  own  wise  (?)  way.”

But  if  frightful  records  of  deaths  by 
lockjaw  superinduced  by  wearing  tight 
shoes  will  not  deter  people  from  taking 
such  risks,  what attention  are  they  like­
ly  to  pay  to the irate cobbler’s warnings?

Actual  death  from wearing  tight  shoes 
is  an  extreme  happening,  but  the  pos­
sibility  remains,  nevertheless.

Now  as  “ All  that  a  man  hath  will  he 
give  for  his  life ,”   one would reasonably 
suppose  that  for  life  he  or  she  would 
give  up  wearing  tight  shoes.

But  it  is  doubtless another  extreme  to 
large  majority  of  shoe 
in  danger  of  self-destruc­

assert  that  a 
wearers  are 
tion  from  this thoughtless  practice.

It  ought  not  to be necessary to frighten 
sensible  shoe  wearers  with  gruesome 
instances  of  fatal or even  painful  results 
arising  from  the  habit  of  crowding  the 
foot, 
for  everyone  who  wears  shoes 
knows the  perfect serenity of mind,  when 
the ghost  of  pride  is  paid,  to  be  found 
in  comfortable  shoes.

But  this  ghost  of  pride is a formidable 

foe  to comfort.

" I t   will  not down.”

Women’s extra fine, per doz__ $2.00  Retail at 3i;c
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 
Child’s No.  1, per doz............ 
1.35 
Men’s No.  1, per doz...................  2.50  Retail at 30c

Retail at 18c
Retail at 18c

Above are long, fine Fleece.

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19 South  Ionia Street« 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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Our line of Spring Shoes are now 
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Be  sure  and  see  them  before 
placing your  orders  as we  have 
some “ hot stuff” in them.

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Over  Gaiters 
Leggings

Women’s  10 button, Felt, per doz......................82.50
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 Kin^, 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

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 bii ding, short wool,  per doz...  2.00

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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.

We  have an elegant line  of spring samples to show you. 

Be  sure  and see  them  before  placing your order.

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But,  alas!  the  age  of  unalloyed  com­
fort  passed  with  the  hiding  of  the  old 
Egyptian  and  Roman  toes  underneath 
solid  leather.

The  constant  fretting  of  the  human 
foot  began  with  the  entire  disappear 
ance  of  the  sandal;  and  the  foot  began 
to be  disciplined  to  new  and  trying con­
ditions.

But  as  such  comfort  was  incompatible 
with  advanced 
ideas  of  beauty,  men 
gradually  covered  their  feet  and  ankles, 
finding  more  and  more  scope  for  orna­
mentation  as  the  surface  of  covering  in 
creased,  and  getting  some  solace  for 
their  pains  in  the  added  attractiveness 
of  their  footwear.

The  age  of  beauty  is  our own.
Our galaxy  of  shoes  present  pictures 
and  poems  never  seen  by  the  Egyptian 
or  Roman  in  his  bare-toed  comfort.
innumerable  pieces 

and 
many  colors,  glittering  under their  load 
jet  and  metal  decorations,  may  be 
of 
seen,  rivaling 
in  gorgeousness  an  old 
Venetian  mosaic.

Shoes  of 

And  this  external  splendor  need  not 
is 
inside  of  the  shoe  that  makes  or 

be  to  the  detriment  of  comfort,  as  it 
the 
mars the  foot.

But  there  will  always  be  misguided 
mortals  who  will  accept  of beauty  under 
painful  penalty,  and  to  most  of these 
beauty 
in  inverse  ratio to 
their  size.

in  shoes 

is 

In  fact,  of  the  poor  abused  human 

foot  we  may  say,  with  Hamlet:

“ To  what  base  uses  we  may  return !”
And  to  what  wretched  mechanical  use 

we  may  put  our  uncomplaining  feet!

It  is  an  undeniable  fact,  vouched  for 
by  the  veteran  shoe  dealer,  that  the  hu­
man  foot  is  more  often  used  for  a  shoe 
stretcher  than  the inanimate instruments 
made  expressly  for  that  purpose.

It  is  no  wonder,  then,  that  its  cranks, 
hinges,  pivots and  levers  are  somewhat 
strained  and  out  of  gear  at  times,  and 
that 
its  protuberances  are  worn  and 
abraded  by  the  powerful  service  re­
quired  of  the  foot.

It  has  been  alleged  of  the  dude  that 
he  keeps  six  pairs  of  shoes  always  on 
hand,  and  that  these  are  numbered  from 
the  wild,  untamed  toe-squeezers  and  in­
step  vises  down  to  the  old  backs  that 
bring  him  comfort  on  occasions  of  re­
laxation,  when  isolated  from  his  critical 
fellow  mortals.

These 

latter are  a  great  solace  to  the 

shoe  stretching  foot.

They  are  a  good  deal  like  opium  and 

hasheesh  are  to  the  eaters  of  them.

These  six  footwear  teams  are  being 
successively  put  through  their  paces  in 
what  are  termed  probationary  trials, 
in  order  to  size  them  up  and  prepare 
them  for  regular  service.

As  soon  as  the  old  hacks  are  turned 
off,  the  next  in  rank  take  their  places, 
and  a  pair  of  brand  new  torturing  ones 
are  put  at  the  head  of  the  list.

Even  under  the  eight  hour  law  and 
with  a  Saturday  half-holiday  allowed, 
such  feet  are  terribly  overworked,  and 
very  naturally  appeal  to some  humane 
society  for  protection.

Meanwhile  the  cobbler  growls  his 
disapproval,  the  reformer beseeches  for 
a  reform,  the  retailer  goes  right  on  fit­
ting  six  pairs  of  shoes  to  one  pair of 
feet, 
the  manufacturer  stands 
ready  to  make  twelve  pairs  for  each 
person 
if  agreeable;  and  such  persons 
are  multiplying  now,  to  the  growth  oi 
the  trade.

and 

Perhaps  our  feet  protest  too  much.— 
in  Boots  and  Shoes 

E.  A.  Boyden 
Weekly.

Impending  Doom   o f  the  N ew  England 

S h oe  Industry.

The  most  expert  and 

industrious  ar­
tisans  in  the  shoe  industry  are  born  and 
bred  in  New  England.  From  our  homes 
have  gone  West and  South  the  men  who 
are  building  up  the  industry  in  many 
states.  Massachusetts  makes  over  one- 
balf  and  New  England  three-fifths of the 
shoe  product  of  the  United  States,  and 
we  shall  maintain  that  position  if  we 
improve  our  opportunities.

Our  business has  been  built  up  where 
men  were  permitted  freedom  of  action, 
where 
inventive  genius  had  full  sway, 
and  where  free  men  could,  without  in­
terference,  use  every  power  with  which 
nature  had  endowed  them,  to  establish 
a  system  and  adapt 
invention  to  the 
largest  possible  results.  Having  created 
labor  saving  machine,  the  ability  to 
a 
use 
its  full  product  was  a  New 
England  birthright.  Men  and  women 
could  act  up  to  their  individual  capac­
ity,  or according  to  their  own  pleasure. 
They  submitted  to  no  masters  except  of 
their  own  choice,  and  they  asked  no 
man  except  their  employer  what  they 
should  or  should  not do.

it  to 

By  this  exercise  of  free  individual 
action  they  were  able  to  establish  an  in­
dustry  which  is  the  marvel  of  the world. 
In  the  greater  part  of  New  England 
similar conditions  exist to-day.  In other 
parts  there  have  crept 
in,  under  the 
guise  of 
a  beneficent  organization, 
abuses  that  are  making  it  impossible  tt 
successfully  conduct  the  business,  and 
are  destroying  the  opportunity  to  earn 
wages  of  thousands  of  would-be  indus­
trious  workmen.

receive, 

A  few  men,  acting  in  secret,  like  the 
Spanish  Inquisition,  undertake  to  deny 
the  right  to  citizens  to  work,  except  by 
paying  tribute  to  them and  submitting 
to  their  dictation  as  to  what and  how 
much  work  they  shall  perform,  what 
wages  they  shall 
for  whom 
they  shall  work  and  bow  long.  They 
uave  the  power  to  destroy,  and  they  use 
■ t;  but  if  they  have  the  power  to create, 
they  have  not  exercised 
it.  They  ter­
rorize a  community  as  no  Ku  Klux  of 
the  South  was  ever  able  to  do. 
If  the 
government of  the  state  or nation  should 
attempt  to  exercise  such  powers there 
would  be a  revolution  inside  of  a  week, 
and  there  ought  to  be.
What  began  as  an 

fur 
good,  and  was  recognized  and  com 
mended  as  such  by  well-wishers  of  men 
who  labor,  has  fallen  under  control  of 
irresponsible  men,  who  use  their  power 
so  as  to  make,  in  some  communities, 
the  boasted  freedom  of  American  citi­
zens  to  conduct  business,  or  to  work 
with  their  brains  or  hands  as their  own 
interest  directs,  little  else  than  a  by­
word.

instrument 

It  is  our duty, individually and united­
ly,  to  make  a  stand  against  this  inter­
ference between employer and employed, 
until  the  evil  is  removed. 
It  will  blast 
the  business  prospects  of  any  commun­
ity  where 
it  can  maintain  a  foothold. 
None  will  question  the  right  of  men  to 
organize  for any  lawful  purpose  and  to 
accept,  or decline  to  accept,  conditions 
or  wages,  either  individually  or  collec­
tively.  But  organization  does  not give 
them  the  right  to  interfere  with  nor  to 
intimidate  or  abuse  those  who  are  will­
ing  to  accept  conditions  and  wages,  and 
who  want  to  work,  nor does  it  give  them 
the  right to conspire  to destroy lawfully- 
established  business.

As  conducted  now,  these  organiza­
tions,or the  secret  councils  which  claim 
to  represent  them,  are  daily  violating 
the  principles  on  which  New  England

government  was  founded. 
In  some sec­
tions  the  right  of  the  individual  to  la­
bor according  to  his  own  wishes  is noth­
ing  but  a  tradition  coming  down  from 
the  years  that  are  past.

If  New  England 

is  to  maintain  her 
position  in  the  very  front  rank,  the  lim­
itations  that  now prevent employed alike 
from  freely  exercising  all  the  powers  of 
brain  and  eye  and  hand  must  be  re­
moved  at  any  cost. 
If  we  do  not  elim­
inate  this  baneful  influence  that  plants 
itself  in  the  path  of  industry  the  man­
ufacturing  establishments 
that  have 
made  New  England  what  she 
is  will, 
one  by  one,  be  transferred  to  more  fa­
vorable  localities. 

W m.  B.  R ic e.

Proper  B usiness  M ethods.

In 

It  is  probably  true that in most  places 
retailers  whose business  has  been  retro­
grading  and  developing  a  tendency  to 
loss  rather  than  profit ascribe  the  result 
very 
largely  due  to  causes  other than 
true  ones.  A  recent  writer  says  they 
often  beguile  themselves  with  the  idea 
that  crop  failures,  low  wages,  lack  ot 
employment, 
fierce  competition  and 
other  facts  of  the  same  general  class 
are  the  causes  of  the  changes  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  the  com­
munity.  The  good  will  of  one’s  cus­
tomers,  like  a  reputation  for  honesty, 
when  once gone  is  seldom  regained.

Proper  business  methods,  stated  very 
briefly,  are  honest  values  and  reasonable 
expenses.  “ Honest  values”   means  hon­
est  merchandise  and  honest  prices. 
“ Reasonable  expenses”   means outlay  at 
all  times  within  the  bounds  of  business. 
The  old-fashioned  profit,  which  partook 
more  of  the  character of  highway  rob­
bery  than  any  other,  is  an  institution 
of the  past. 
It  may  even  now  occasion­

is 

ally  thrive  for  a  short  time  under favor­
able  conditions,  but  in  such  cases  the 
day  of  retribution  is  bound  to  overtake 
those  who  practice  it.

Abraham  Lincoln's  remark,  “ You can 
fool  some ot  the  people  all  of  the  time, 
and  all  of  the  people  some of  the  time, 
but  you  can  not  fool  all  the  people  all 
the  time,”   should  ever  be  before  the 
mind  of  the  business  man. 
It  should 
serve  as  a  beacon 
light  to  warn  him 
away  from  dangerous  practices.  The 
business  which  has  been  built  upon 
what 
is  described  as  proper  business 
methods 
invariably  successful  and 
always  prosperous.  The  foundation  is 
one of  solidity  and strength and  one that 
can  easily  sustain 
its  burdens  through 
times  of  depression.  With  the  shop­
keeper  who has  forfeited  the  confidence 
of  the  community  by  unfair  practices, 
wrong  business  methods and illegitimate 
profits,  and 
finds  his 
business  surely  slipping  away,  the  best 
course 
is  to  select  another  location  and 
a  new  field  of  action  and  build  up  a 
new  business  by  proper  methods.  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 print­
ers'  ink  alone,  but  honest  values  and 
reputation  for  reliability  are  potent  fac­
tors.  Moderate  expense 
is  also  essen­
tial  to  a  satisfactory  balance  sheet.

in  consequence 

Com prom ise  With  C onscience.

Grocer’s  Clerk—We’re  not  selling 
any  of  these  Spanish  olives.  The  peo­
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Grocer  (after  considering  the  matter) 
—Well,  it  will  not  do  to  change  the 
label  to  “ American  olives,"  because 
it  wouldn’t  be  honest.  And,  besides, 
we'd  have  to  sell  them  cheaper.  Label 
them  “ Castilian  olives,”   Jacobs,  and 
mark  them  up  5  cents  a  bottle.

When  a  man  pays  a  doctor’s bill,  he 

often  wonders  if  life  is  woith  living.

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DRUG  ST O R E   ANGEL.

H ow  a  Local  C ustom er  P resum es  to 

O ffer  Advice.
M.  Quad In American Druggist.

Mr.  Bowser  has  no regular programme 
with  his  butcher  or  grocer  or  coal  man, 
nor has  be'any'sel  policy  with  the  cob­
bler  who builds  up  the  heels  of bis shoes 
intervals,  or  the  street  peddlers  who 
at 
yell  their  goods  over  bis  gate. 
It  is 
only  with  his  family  druggist  that  he 
holds  to  programme  and  policy.  He 
began  it  fifteen  years  ago,  and  there 
is 
no  change  yet.  There  have  been  sev 
eral  changes  of  family  druggists,  but 
none 
in  Mr.  Bowser.  When  the  old 
druggist  vacates  the corner  store  and a 
new  one  takes  bis  place,  Mr.  Bowser  is 
on  band  among  the  first  customers.  He 
isn't  there  to  have a  prescription  filled 
or  to 
invest  in  a  hot-water  bag,  but  to 
give  advice.  A  dozen  grocers  may  come 
and  go and  be gives  them  no  heed,  but 
with  the  family  druggist  the  case  is 
different.

I  am 

"M y   name,”   begins  Mr.  Bowser  as 
he  enters  the  store—"m y  name  is  Bow 
ser. 
I  live around  the  corner and  half­
way  down  the  block.  Although  I  have 
a  small  family  I  am  a  liberal  patron  of 
drug  stores,  and  I  always  pay cash.  You 
know  your  business  as  a  druggist,  do 
you?”

" I   think  I  d o ,"  is  the  reply.
"T h at  is  well.  This  is  no  corner  for 
a  druggist  who  has  only  half-learned bis 
business.  You  have  come 
into  a  new 
neighborhood.  Success  or  failure  will 
depend  upon  your  personality.  Always 
greet  every  caller  with  a  smile  of  wel­
come.  Don't  take  any  part  in  politics 
and  don’t become  a  fixture at  any  par­
ticular church.  Stand  neutral  between 
labor  and  don’t  have  any 
capital  and 
family  rows  to  cause  gossip. 
I  am  ad­
vising  you  as  a  friend  who has  your  in­
terests  at  heart. 
in  a  burry  this 
morning,  but  will  call  again  and  give 
you  further  pointers.  Meanwhile,  think 
over  what  I  have  said.”
The  family  druggist 

is  generally  a 
man  who  sizes  up  human  nature  at  its 
value,  and  he  decides  to  bear  with  Mr. 
Bowser.  That’s  the beginning  of  it, and 
the  end  only  comes  when  the  poor  man 
dies  or  finds  some one  to  buy  him  out 
Mr.  Bowser  at  once  becomes  a  sort  ot 
guardian  and  partner  of  that  drug  store. 
When  he  isn't  playing  the  guardian  ana 
partner  he 
is  making  himself  a  nui 
sance.and  one which  nothing  can  abate. 
interest  he  exhibits  in  stock  and 
The 
sales  couldn't  be  greater 
if  be  had 
$10 000  invested.  There  are  two  hun­
dred  mornings 
in  the  year  when  be 
V just  runs  in”   to  advise  the  druggist 
that  copperas 
is  bound  to  go  sky-high 
or  porous  plasters  to  advance  50  per 
cent,  and  that  now  is  the  time  to  load 
up,  and  there  are  more  than  200  even­
ings 
in  the  year  when  be  calls  to  point 
out  various  changes  which  could  be 
made  with  benefit  to  all  concerned. 
There  are  times  when  the  family  drug 
gist  wearies  of  Mr.  Bowser  and  is  in­
clined  to  balk,  but  he  discovers  that  be 
has  balked  too  late.
“ S ir !”   replies  Mr.  Bowser as  he  ad­

gist.

vances  upon  the  man  of  drugs and walks 
on  bis  toes  and  shakes  a  finger  under 
bis  nose,  "you  have  got  a  drug  store 
here,  but  what 
is  a  drug  store  without 
patronage? 
I  am  giving  you  my  coun­
tenance  and  support,  and  through  me 
vou  are  getting  the  patronage  of  this 
neighborhood. 
If  you  want  me  to  with­
draw—if  you  want  me  to  take  my  cus­
tom  elsewhere-----”

That  settles  the  family  druggist,  and 
be  decides  that  it  is  better  to  bear  the 
ills  than  to ,be  thrown  out of  business. 
Mr.  Bowser  does  not  stop  at  general  in­
terest.  His  solicitude  would  be  touch­
ing 
if  otherwise  applied.  He  has  a 
scrap  book  wherein  he  has  pasted  and 
preserved  a  score  of  newspaper clip­
pings  relating  to  fatal  mistakes  made 
oy  druggists.  He  is  early  and  often  on 
the  ground  with  that  scrap-book,  and 
his  aim  is  to  keep  those  fatal  mistakes 
constantly  on  exhibition  and  in mind.

"A n y  prescriptions  to-day?"  he  asks 
as  be  saunters  in  of  an  evening  with  a 
box  of  troches  or  a  bottle  of  soda-mints 
in  view.

"T h ree  or  four,”   replies  the  drug­

"A n d   you—‘you  are  sure  you  made  no 
fatal  mistake?  Lord,  man,  but  there 
isn’t  a  day  passes  that  some  druggist 
doesn’t  put  up  morphine  for  quinine! 
How  can  you  be  sure  that  you  didn’t 
make  some  awful  m istake?"

It's  an  old  story  with  the  druggist,but 
be  never  hears 
it  witdout  feeling  a 
chill  slip  up  and  down  his  spinal  col­
umn.  He  made no  mistake  in those pre 
scriptions.  He  has  been  in  business  ten 
years  and  made  no  mistakes,  and  yet 
Mr.  Bowser’s  way  of  putting  things 
would  give  any  druggist goose-flesh.

If  Mr.  Bowser  isn't  feeling 

“ So  easy  to  do  it,  you  know,”   con­
“ Look  at that  case 
tinues  Mr.  Bowser. 
in  Oshkosh  a  month  ago.  Tbere  was  a 
druggist  who  had  been  in  business  for 
thirty  years,  and  who  bad  filled  22.000 
prescriptions  without  a  mistake.  Then 
be  became  absent-minded  for 
thirty 
seconds and  killed  off  a  college  profes 
sor.  You  may  think  you  filled  those 
prescriptions as  straight  as  a  string,  but 
I  shouldn't  be  a  bit  surprised  if  you 
substituted  something  somewhere.”
in  real 
high  spirits  be  will  stop  right  there  and 
give  the  druggist  a  chance  to  get  his 
color  back,  but 
if  be  is  he  will  kindly 
offer  to take  a  list  and  run  around  to the 
various  houses  and  make  sure  that  the 
patients  are  still  alive.  As  stated  in  the 
beginning,  he 
is  a  very  liberal  patron 
of  the  drug  store.  Before  he  was  twenty 
years  old  he  got  the  idea  that  his 
liver 
was  misplaced,  and  he  has  been  doc­
toring  for  it  ever  since.  For  six  months 
in  the  year bis  lungs  are  his  great  anx­
iety,  and  during  the  other  six  his  lum­
bago,  dyspepsia,,  rheumatism,  catarrh 
and  nervous  prostration  demand  atten­
tion.  With  the first  few  sales  the  drug­
gist  fondly  imagines  that  he  has  an  off­
set,  but  there  are  many  surprise  parties 
in  store  for  him.  Mr.  Bowser  doesn’t 
propose  to  be 
laid  away  in  his  grave 
through  the stupidity  of his family drug­
gist. 
If  he  is  solicitous  for  other  peo­
ple,  be  is  doubly  so  for  himself  He  in­
vests  in  consumption  cure  with  seem­

It 

ing  great  confidence  that no tragic after­
clap  will  follow,  but the  odds  are five  to 
one  that  at  midnight  he  will  rout  the 
druggist  out  of  his  first  sleep  and  hold 
that  bottle  under his  nose  and  say:

‘ " I   took  a  dose  according  to  direc 
tions,  but  I ’ ll  be  hanged  if  I don't think 
there’s  a  mistake  about 
it !  Are  you 
positive  no  mistake  has  been  m ade?"
is  so  even  down  to  the  stick  of 
licorice  or  a  porous  plaster. 
It  is  a 
cash  sale  at  the  time,  and  Mr.  Bowser 
doesn't  object  to  a  hundred  per  cent, 
profit,  hut tnere  is  always  an  after-clap. 
He  will  buy 
10  cents'  worth  of  castor 
oil  for  young  Bowser  and  take  it  home 
with  a  perfect  feeling  of  security,  but 
within  an  hour  after  the cub  has been 
dosed  the  father 
is  back  at  the  drug 
store  to anxiously  observe:

" I   saw  you  put  up  that  castor  oil  and 
I  was  dead  sure  there  was  no  mistake, 
but  it  seems  to  affect  the  boy  queerly 
You  couldn’t  have  mingled  anything 
deadly  with  it  as  we  were  watching  the 
ambulance  go  by,  could  you?"

One or  two  of  the  druggists  who  have 
done  business  in  Mr.  Bowser’s  neigh­
borhood  have  laid  down  and  died,  while 
others  have  sold  out and  never  stopped 
until  they  got  a  thousand  miles  away. 
It  is  a  splendid  business  corner,  and  it 
is  likely  to  be  occupied  by  a  new  drug­
gist  as  fast  as  an  old  one  goes,  but  no 
druggist  will  ever  be  happy  there.  Mr. 
Bowser  owns  bis  house  and  likes  the 
neighborhood  and  couldn’t  be  induced 
to  sell  out  and  move  away. 
It  is  just 
possible  that  he  may  be  run  over  by  a 
street  car  or  break  bis  neck  trying  to 
ride  a  bicycle,  but  all  the  odds are  in 
his  favor.  He  has  a  good  thing  and  he 
knows  it,  and  he  is  going  to  keep  right 
on  making  life  miserable  for  bis  family 
druggist  until  he  either  dies  of  old  age 
or the  soda  fountain  explodes  and  blows 
bis  head  across  the  street  in  bunks  and 
chunks.

Leads  to  L oss  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  tiade.
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 
the  holiday  season.

Tardiness 

A  clerk  who  is  prompt  commands  the 
admiration  and  confidence  of  his  em­
ployer.

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  custom 
ers,  always  having  your  work  well  in 
band,  always  knowing  just  what  condi­
tion  your  stock  is  in,  always  ready  with 
the 
information  you  are  expected  t« 
possess  and  always  to  have a  reason  for 
your actions.

Soul-Stirring  E loquence.

When  Grant  was  up  for  the  presi­
dency  a  second  time,  and the  watcnword 
ot  the  opposition  was "Anything to  beat 
Grant, ”   a  Southern  colonel  who  bad  a 
great  admiration  for  the  Silent  Soldier 
was  interrupted  in  the  course  of  a  cam­
paign  speech,  whereupon  he  wheeled 
about  and,  with  uplifted  hands,  hair 
bristling  and  eyes  flashing  fire,  ex­
claimed: 
"B u ild   a  worm  lence  around 
a  winter  supply  of  summer  weather; 
skim  the  clouds  from  the  sky  with  a 
teaspoon;  catch  a  thunderbolt 
in  a 
bladder;  break  a  hurricane  to  harness; 
ground  sluice an  earthquake;  hake  bell 
in  an 
ice-house;  lasso  an  avalanche; 
fix  a  clout  on  the  crater  of  an  active 
volcano;  hive  all  the  stars in a nail k e g ; 
hang  out  the  ocean  on  a  grapevine  to 
d ry;  put  the  skv  to  soak  on  a  gourd ; 
unbuckle  the belly-band  of  eternity,  and 
paste 
‘ To  Let’  on  the  sun  and  moon, 
but never,  sir—never  for  a  moment  de­
lude  yourself  with  tne  idea  that  you  can 
beat  Grant!  ’

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LABELS 
FOR
GASOLINE
DEALERS

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The Law of  1889.

Every  druggist,  grocer  or  other 
person  who  shall  sell  and  deliver 
at  retail  any  gasoline,  benzine  or 
naphtha  without  having  the  true 
name thereof and the words "explo­
sive when  mixed  with  air”  plainly 
printed  upon  a  label  securely  at­
tached  to  the  can,  bottle  or  other 
vessel  containing  the  same  shall 
be punished by a fine not exceeding 
one hundred dollars.

to 

We  are  prepared 

furnish 
labels which enable dealers to com 
ply  with  this  law,  on  the  follow­
ing  basis:

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5  M ......................50c per M
10 M ......................40c per M
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50 M ......................30c per M
Tradesman  Company,

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Doctors  often  disagree,  but  they  don’t 
disagree  half  as  much  as  their  medi­
cines  do.

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We  Realize

Our Coffees and  Teas

That  in  competition  more  or  less  strong

Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

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constant  Trade  Winners.  All  our  coffees 
roasted on  day of shipment.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the Grip. 

President,  C a a s. 
S t e v e n s,  Ypsilanti; Secre­
tary, J. C.  Sa u n d e r s, Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C. 
G o u ld. Saginaw,
MIcnigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  J a m e s  E.  D a y ,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C .  W.  A l l e n   Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 

Grand Counselor, J. J. E v a n s. Ann Arbor; Grand 
Secretary, G  S. V a lm o r e, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, W. S. W e s t , Jackson.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mntnal  Acci­
President,  J.  B o yd  P a 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 ix so n,  Marquette.

Sum m arized  Report  o f  Saginaw   Con­

vention,  M.  K.  o f  G.

At  the  tenth  annual  convention  of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  held  at 
Saginaw 
last  Tuesday  and  Wednesday, 
the  first  thing  on  the  programme  was 
the  presentation  of  the  President’s  ad­
dress,  which  was  published  verbatim 
in  last  week's  issue  of  the  Tradesman.
The  address  was  referred  to  a  com 
mittee  consisting  of  A.  F.  Peake,  S.  E. 
Symons  and  W.  C.  Wetzel.

The  Treasurer’s  and  Secretary’s  re­
ports  followed.  They  showed  that  there 
were  1,830  members,  135  of  whom  were 
honorary;  151  new  members  since  last 
year;  three  death  levies ;  $8,258  paid 
into  the  death  fund ;  $1,634  paid  in  in 
dues,  and  thirteen  deaths.

Two  communications  were  received 
from  Bay  City,  inviting  the  organiza­
tion  to  hold  the  eleventh  convention  in 
that  city,  whereupon 
it  was  moved  by 
Mr.  Jones  that  the  Board  of Directors be 
instructed  to  the  effect  that  it  was  the 
sense  of  the  meeting  that  the  next  con­
vention  be  held  at  Bay  City.  The  mo­
tion  prevailed.
President  Hoffman  announced 
the 
following  special  committees:
Credentials—A.  C.  Northrup,  C.  J. 

Phillips,  W.  R.  Kilbourne.

Order  of  Business—R.  P.  Bigelow, 

G.  H.  Randal],  J.  J.  Evans.

Resolutions—E.  P.  Waldron,  H.  B. 

Colman,  G.  W.  Gorman.

Amendments—E.  M.  Converse,  L.  M. 

Mills,  J.  F.  Hammill.
Vice-Presidents—E. 

Wittloff  and  W.  R.  Foster.

I.  Smith,  J.  C. 

Under  the  heading  of  reports  from the 
various  congressional  districts,  F.  M. 
W.itbeck,  of  Benton  Harbor,  sent  in  a 
written  report,  detailing  his  endeavors 
to  establish  a  post  at  Benton  Harbor  for 
the  three  cities  of  Benton  Harbor,  St. 
Joseph  and  Niles.  His  efforts  had  not 
been  crowned  with 
success,  but  he 
hoped  to  have  the  post  started  within 
another  year.  The  communication  was 
ful  of  humor  and  kept  the  Knights 
laughing  and  applauding  for  fully  five 
minutes.
Michael  Howarn,  chairman  of  the 
Hotel  Committee,  detailed  his  experi­
ence  in  undertaking  to  secure  a  $2  rate 
from  some  of  the  leading  hotels  of  the 
State;  also 
in  adjusting  grievances 
against  other  hotels.

The  Committee  on  Employment  and 
Relief  suggested  that  a  sum  of  $100  or 
$150  be  voted  from  the  general  fund  for 
the  assistance  of  members  of  the  order 
who  were  taken  sick  away  from  home. 
The  report  was  a  comprehensive  one 
and  showed  that  the  Committee  bad 
been  busy.  Its  chairman,  Mr.  Starbuck, 
was  accorded  a  vote  of  thanks.

E.  P.  Waldron  was  also  voted  thanks 
in  securing  the  inter­

for  his  efforts 
changeable  mileage  book.

In  the  evening  an  elaborate  entertain­
ment  was  given  the  guests  in  the  form 
of  a  banquet,  musical  entertainment 
and  cake  walk.  The banquet  was  served 
by  the  ladies  of  the  Woman’s  Hospital 
and  reflected  credit  on  their  ability  as 
caterers.

At  the  morning  session,  Wednesday, 
the  Committee  on  Resolutions presented 
the  following  report :

Whereas—It  has  pleased  Almighty

God  to  summon  by  death  during  the 
past  year  our  esteemed  brothers,  B. 
McCormick, 
J.  B.  Cushman,  Edwin 
Hudson,  William  Boughton,  Henry 
Empe,  A.  H.  Bruen,  A  J.  Colgrove, 
Fred  Corbett, 
J.  N.  Bradford,  W.  W. 
McEwen,  John  McHugh,  Louis  Immen- 
gart  and  C.  F.  Sheldon,
Resolved—That  by  death  there  have 
been  taken  away  from  our  membership 
worthy  and  esteemed  brothers,  and  that 
we  recognize  our great  loss  and  the  still 
greater  loss  to their families and friends.
Resolved—That the Michigan  Knights 
of  the  Grip,  in  convention  assembled, 
at  Saginaw,  Dec.  28,  1898,  do  extend  to 
the  families  and  friends  of  our deceased 
members  our  sincere  and  heartfelt  sym­
pathies  in  their  bereavement,  and  be  it 
further

Resolved—That  a  copy  of  these  reso­
lutions  be  spread  upon  our  minutes  and 
a  copy  forwarded  to  each  of the families 
of  our  departed  brothers.

Resolved—That  the 

thanks  of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip  be  and 
are  hereby  extended  to our outgoing offi­
cers  for  the  painstaking  efforts  and  the 
very  efficient  manner 
in  which  they 
have  carried  out  the  duties  of  their 
various  offices  during  the  year  1898.

Whereas—Tbe  standing  committees of 
this  organization  are  a  most  potent  fac­
tor 
in  accomplishing  a  great  good  to­
ward  carrying  out  the  preamble  of  our 
organization  and  resulting  in  great  ben­
efits  to  its  members,

Resolved—That  the Michigan Knights 
of  the  Grip,  in  convention  assembled, 
do  hereby  extend  their  hearty thanks  for 
their  untiring  efforts  and  earnest  work 
during  the  past  year.

Resolved—That  a  vote  of  thanks be 
extended  to  the  municipal  officers  of 
Saginaw  and  citizens  in  general  for  the 
generous  hospitality  with  which  they 
have  received  us  and  for  the  universal 
kindness  which  they  have  extended  to 
visiting  knights  and  their  ladies  during 
this  convention.

Resolved—That  a  special  vote  of 
thaDks  be  and  is  hereby  tendered  to  the 
members  and 
for 
marked  kindness  and  courtesies  which 
they  have  manifested  to  our  visiting 
members  and 
ladies  during  this  con­
vention.

ladies  of  Post  F 

Resolved—That  a  vote  of  thanks  be 
extended  to  the  press  of  Saginaw  and 
Michigan 
in  general  for  the  efficient 
and  generous  manner  in  which  they  at 
all  times  furthered  our interests,and that 
our  thanks  are  especially  due  to  our 
official  organ.
lection  of  the  following:

Election  of  officers  resulted  in  the  se­

President—Charles  L.  Stevens,  Ypsi­

lanti.

Secretary—John C.  Saunders,  Lansing.
Treasurer—O.  C.  Gould,  Saginaw.
New  members  of  the  Board  of  D i­
rectors—John  Thorn,  of  Owosso;  Geo. 
H  Randall,  of  Bay  City,  and  L.  M. 
Mills,  of  Grand  Rapids.

It  was  voted  to  provide  a fund  of  $100 
for  the  use of  the  Employment  and  Re­
lief  Committee,  the  Board  of  Directors 
to  exercise  its  judgment  in  authorizing 
the  transfer  from  the  general  fund,  such 
expenditure  not  to  exceed  $15  in  any 
particular  case.
A  belated  report  from  the  Committee 
on  Railroads  was  read.  It recommended 
that  tbe  Knights  work  for  a  2,000  mile 
interchangeable  book  for $50,  with a  $10 
rebate.

The  innovation  did  not  take.  N.  B. 
Jones  thought  the  northern  interchange­
able  mileage  book  was  a  pretty  good 
thing  and  that  it  was  best  to  leave  well 
enough  alone. 
The  recommendation 
was  laid  on  the  table,  but  the  other  por­
tion  of  the  report,  complimenting  the 
railroads  that  bad  done  away  with  the 
gate  system  and  calling  upon  some  oth­
ers  to  follow  suit,  was  received  and 
placed  on  file.

L.  M.  Mills,  of  Grand  Rapids,  intro­
duced  a  resolution  rebuking  the  Central 
Passenger  Association  for  endeavoring 
to  get  the  Michigan railroads to abandon 
the  northern 
interchangeable  mileage 
book,  as  follows:

Whereas—It  has  been  reported  that 
the  Railroads  of  Indiana,  Illinois and 
Wisconsin,  comprising  the  Central  Pas­
in­
senger  Association,  are  striving  to 

Hoffman,  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of 
the  Grip.

St. 

Johns  Republican :  F.  H.  Bush 
has  a  position  as  traveling  salesman  for 
the  Acme  Manufacturing  Co.,  of  Read­
ing, Pa.,  and  will  go  on  the  road  for  the 
next  three  months.  His  territory  will 
be  Michigan  and  Wisconsin.  He  will 
be  home  in  time  for  the  spring  trade.

Hastings  Herald :  H.  J.  Iden,  of  Bed­
ford,  has  accepted  a  position  as  travel­
ing  salesman  for the  Deering  Harvest­
ing  Machinery  Co.  He  will  have  his 
headquarters  for  the  present  in  Battle 
Creek.  Last  year  Mr.  Iden  was  very 
successful  as  a 
local  agent  in  selling 
the  Deering  machinery  and  his  pres­
ent  position  comes  as  a  well-earned pro­
motion.

Ishpeming  Iron  Ore :  Very  few  com­
mercial  travelers  have  graced  the  city 
with  their  presence  during  the  past 
week  or  so.  Nearly  all  of  them  went  to 
their  homes  to  spend  the  holidays  and 
have  not  yet  returned. 
It  is  expected 
that  there  will  be  a  great  many  drum­
mers  in  tbe  city  early  next  week,  as  all 
will  start  out  again  immediately  after 
New  Years.

Benton  Harbor  Palladium : 

It  is  re­
ported  here  that  Miss  Harriet  E.  Est- 
low,  a  popular  teacher 
in  the  public 
schools  of  this  city,  and  Mr.  Randolph, 
a  traveling  salesman  for  Armour  &  Co., 
of  Chicago,  were  quietly  united  in  mar­
riage  Thanksgiving  day  at  Wheaton,  Il­
linois.  Miss  Estlow,  or  Mrs.  Randolph, 
is  away  spending  the  holiday  vacation 
and  none  of  her  acquaintances  here 
seem  to  be  aware  of  the  fact,  which was 
reported  in  a  late  Wheaton  paper.

The  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip 
has  always  been  peculiarly  fortunate  in 
the  selection  of  its  presidents,  and  ex- 
President  Hoffman  has  proved  no  ex­
ception  to  the  general  rule.  Mr.  Hoff­
man  has  given  the  organization  the ben­
efit  of  his  best  thought  and  constant 
effort  and  be  rounded  out  his  career  by 
presiding  over  the  Saginaw  convention 
with  dignity  and  discretion.  The  fact 
that  151  new  members  were secured dur­
ing  the  year  demonstrates  how  persist­
ent  he  has  been  in  the  work  of  spread­
ing  the  gospel  of  good  fellowship.

It  is  far  better  to  have  one  hand  on  a 
postoffice  than  both  eyes  on  a  foreign 
mission.

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ST. JOSEPH,  MICH.

A. VINCENT. Prop.

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iighted sample rooms.  Send your mail care  of  the 
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Hotel  Colurrjbfe

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 and trains.
A   First-class  Lunch  Room  in  connection.

W.  H.  FLETCHER,  Prop.

FORMERLY  OF COLUMBIAN  RESTAURANT

fluence  the  railroads  in  Michigan,  com­
prising  the  Northern  Mileage  Ticket 
Bureau,  to  abandon  the  very  satisfactory
1.000  mileage  book  now  sold  by  the  lat­
ter  Association,  and  adopt  in  its  stead 
the  “ exchange  for  ticket”   book  issued 
by  the  former  association ;  therefore  be 
it
Resolved—That  the Michigan  Knights 
of  the  Grip,  in  convention  assembled, 
do  most  earnestly 
request  that  such 
change  be  not  made,  and  that  we  do 
most  heartily  approve  of  the  present
1.000  mile  interchangeable  book  issued 
by  the  Northern  Mileage Ticket Bureau, 
and  do  hereby  promise  a  most  loyal 
support  of  same.

following  amendments  to  the 

The 

constitution  were  adopted:

Sec.  V I.,  Art.  V .—Omit  after  the 
words  “ in  case  of  vacancies  arising 
in 
any  official  position”   the  words  “ other 
than  President.”

To  amend  as  much  of  Sec.  II,  of  Art. 
V  as  relates  to  the  bond  of the  Secretary 
and  so  much  of  Sec.  Ill,  of  Art.  V .,  as 
relates  to  the  bond  of  the  Treasurer,  by 
omitting  the  words  “ a  good  and  suffi­
cient  bond”   and 
inserting  the  words 
“ a  bond  from  an  approved  Indemnity 
Company. ”
That  the 

latter  part  of  Sec.  V.,  of 
Art.  X I.,  be  so  amended  as  to  read  as 
follows; 
“ And  he  can  be  re-instated”  
at  any  time,  upon  signing  a  certificate 
of  health  and  paying  annual  dues for the 
present  year,  if  unpaid,  and  tbe  last 
death  assessment  provided  he  has  not 
passed  the  age  of  fifty-five  years.

To  Art.  XIV.  of  the  constitution: 
Provided,  however,  that  any  proposed 
amendment  to  the  constitution  which 
may  be  submitted  to  the  Board  of  Di­
rectors  thirty  days  before  the  annual 
convention  and  which  shall  have  tbe en­
dorsement  of  any  regularly  organized 
post  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip  or  be  proposed  by  ten  memhers  of 
the  Michigan  Knights  of  tbe  Grip  of 
good  standing,  shall  be  ordered  printed 
and  mailed  to  the  members  for  consid­
eration  at  tbe  next  annual  convention 
following.
After  the  election  the  Committee  on 
Vice-Presidents  reported  its  list  as  fol 
lows:  First  district,  John McLean.  De­
troit;  second  district,  A.  W.  Stitt,  Jack- 
son ;  third  district,  E.  Starbuck,  Kala­
mazoo;  fourth  district,  F.  M.  Witbeck, 
Benton  Harbor; 
fifth  district,  W.  F. 
Rlake,  Grand  Rapids;  sixth  district, 
W.  F.  Sullivan,  Lansing;  seventh  dis­
trict,  J.  C.  Wittliff,  Port  Huron;  eighth 
district,  M.  V.  Foley,  Saginaw;  ninth 
district,  George  Arniotte,  Muskegon; 
tenth  district,  E. 
J.  Scbreiber,  Bay 
City;  eleventh  district,  A.  W.  Peck, 
Traverse  C ity;  twelfth  district,  T.  J. 
Furlong,  St.  Ignace.

Just  before  the  convention  adjourned 
there  were  calls  for  the  new  President. 
President-elect  Stevens  said  that  he  felt 
honored  to  be  chosen  President  of  such 
an  organization  of  business  men.  He 
knew  the  duties  that  would  devolve  up­
on  him,  and  he  had  accepted  them  with 
a  desire  to  serve  the  organization  with 
fidelity  and  credit  to  himself.  The 
election  was  all  the  more  a  compliment 
because  the  Knights  had  recognize  a 
little town  which  bad  no  post  to back  its 
candidate.
Treasurer-elect  Gould  was  also  called 
upon, 
the 
Knights  for  the  honor  conferred  upon 
him.

and  gracefully 

thanked 

The  convention  then  adjourned.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Geo.  B.  Hartom,  for  the  past  year 
bouse  salesman  for  the  Ball  Barnbart- 
Putman  Co.,  has  gone  on  the  road  for 
that  house,  taking  Central  Michigan 
territory.

Strudley, 

Harry  William 

traveling 
representative  for  the  Jenks  &  Muir 
Manufacturing  Co.,  of  Detroit,  was 
married  at  Flint  last  week  to  Miss  Ann 
Eleanor  McMaster.

Hugh  G.  Hoffman,  Kalamazoo,  has 
engaged  to  travel  in  this  State  for  the 
specialty  department  of  the  Samuel 
Cupples  Woodenware  Co.,  of  St,  Louis. 
Mr,  Hoffman 
is  a  son  of  ex-President

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Drugs—Chemicals

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

- 
F. W. R. P i b b t , Detroit 
A. C. S c h c m a c h e b,  Ann  Arbor 
G eo.  G u n d b c m ,  Ionia  - 
- 
L. E.  R e y n o l d s, St.  Joseph 
He n r y  U n ix ,  Saginaw  - 

-------  

President, G eo.  G u n d b c m ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A . C. Sc h u m a c h er, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, H k n b y   Heim, 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.

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

S om e  Preparations  o f  the  National 

Formulary.

The  modern  practice  of  prescribing 
medicaments  of special  manufacture has 
become  a  burden  upon  the  pharmacist 
which,  if  not  relieved,  will  surely  end 
disastrously  to  those  who,  adhering  to 
the  ancient  landmarks,  strive  to  supply 
their  patrons  with  medicaments  of  their 
own  manufacture  or of  generally  recog­
nized  and  officially  accepted  composi­
tion.  Indeed,  the  thought  has  impressed 
itself  more  and  more  upon  my  mind 
that 
if  physicians  had  entered  into  a 
conspiracy  to  drive  the  educated  and 
qualified  pharmacist  out  of  business, 
they  could  not  have  pursued  a more cer­
tain  method  than  that  which  has  be 
come  a  common  practice  during  the 
last  decade.  In  my  personal experience, 
drugs,  chemicals  and  pharmaceutical 
preparations  which  were  considered  in­
dispensable  under  the  old  practice  now 
remain  unused  on  the  shelves  or become 
ruined  before  they  can  be  disposed  of; 
and  this 
in  face  of  the  fact  that  these 
same  drugs,  chemicals  or  preparations 
are  the  component  parts  of,  or are  rep­
resented  by,  the  preparations  of  special 
manufacture  now  popularly  prescribed.
So  simple  a  drug  as  gentian  root  is 
made  into a  palatable  and  sightly  prep­
aration  by  the  aid  of  some aromatics, 
wine  and  glycerin,  and,  with  the  assur­
ance  of  the  manufacturer  that 
it  has 
taken  years  of  study  to  perfect  the  for­
mula, it  is  at  once  successfully  launched 
into  popular  favor  among  prescribers, 
and  takes  the  place  of  old  and  well- 
known  preparations  over  which 
the 
new one possesses no tangible advantage. 
But  a  more  serious  manifestation  ob­
trudes 
itself  as  a  consequence  of  the 
modern  practice.  Formerly  the  physi­
cian,  confining bis  prescription to drugs, 
chemicals  and  preparations  of  officially 
recognized  quality  and 
composition, 
knew  exactly  what  he  was  prescribing 
and  the  patient  accepted  his  prescrip­
tion  without  enquiry.  Now,  the  patient 
is  familiar  with  the  name  or  title  of  the 
medicament  that 
is  being  prescribed 
for  him,  and  is  more  than  likely  to  ask 
for 
prescription,  while 
neither  he  nor the  physician  has  a  true 
knowledge  of  its  composition;  for  such 
knowledge 
in  most  instances  based 
npon  more  or  less  obscure  or misleading 
statements  borne  upon  the  label  or  upon 
the  circular  accompanying  the  prepa­
ration.

it  without 

is 

Under these  conditions  it  is  not  to  be 
wondered  that  the  purely  commercial 
element  has  overwhelmingly  gained  as­
cendency 
in  the  practice  of  pharmacy 
and  that  the  professionally  inclined  are 
largely  in  the  minority—I  was  about  to 
say  hopelessly  so,  but  I  am  unwilling 
to  concede  that. 
I  have  occasionally 
met  with  the  statement  that,  as  applied

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

to  politics,  the  minority  is  always 
in 
the  right.  However this  may  be  of  pol­
itics,  I  am  not  sure  that  it applies  with 
like  force  to  the  revolution  that  has  in­
vaded  the  practice  of  pharmacy ;  but  I 
do  believe  that,  with  persistent  effort, 
and  with  the  aid  of  thinking  men  in the 
medical  profession,  the  minority  will 
eventually  lead  the  majority  into  chan­
nels 
in  which  the  commercial  shall  be 
subservient  to  the  scientific  and  profes­
sional qualifications.  Among these efforts 
perhaps  the  most  important  is  the  suc­
cessful  introduction  of  authoritative for­
mulas  for  the  preparations  that  are  now 
popularly  prescribed,  and  the  accept­
ance  by  physicians  of  the  preparations 
made  in  accordance  with  such formulas, 
by  reputable  pharmacists  everywhere. 
This  has  been  the  aim  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  in  compil­
ing  and  issuing  the National Formulary, 
a  work  which  has  been  completely  re 
vised  since  the  date  of  my paper initial­
ly  referred  to,  and  which  has  in  some 
degree  at  least  met  with  recognition  by 
the  medical  profession. 
in 
some  localities,  where 
its  merits  have 
been  properly  presented  to  physicians, 
it  has  been  accepted  as authoritative  for 
many  preparations  to  replace  those of 
special  manufacture,  and  as  the  work 
its  usefulness 
becomes  better  known 
will  doubtless  be  extended. 
In  further 
ance  of  this  object,  and  with  the  hope 
that  the  work  may  become  more  gen­
erally  known  and  appreciated  by  pre 
scribers,  I  therefore  venture  to  again 
call  the  attention  of  the  American  Med­
ical  Association  to  the  National  For­
mulary,  illustrating its  utility  and  scope 
by  brief  comments  on  a  few  prepara­
tions  that  seem  to  merit  attention and  to 
serve  as types  of  the  general  contents.

fact, 

In 

in 

forty-seven 

With  a  list  of  eighty-six  formulas  for 
elixirs, 
for  syrups  and 
forty-four  for  liquors,  one  should  con 
sider  the  ground  of  modern  so-called 
elegant  pharmacy  pretty  well  covered ; 
but  the  list  utterly  falls  short  of  the 
number which  enterprising 
individuals 
have  succeeded 
introducing  to  the 
notice  of  practitioners  of  medicine, 
and  which  must  be  kept  in  stock  in  a 
modern  pharmacy.  The  difference  be­
tween  the  one  and  another  is  in  many 
cases  that  between  “ tweedle  dee  and 
tweedle  dum, ”   the  selection  by  the  pre- 
scriber  being  quite as  much  due  to  con­
venience  or  whim,  and  in  neither  case 
justified,  when  the  identical components 
on  the  shelves  of  every  properly  ap­
pointed  pharmacy  may  expeditiously 
be  compounded  into  a  palatable  and ac­
ceptable  preparation. 
It  is  true  that  to 
construct  his  own  formulas  will  put  the 
prescriber  to  some 
In 
some  cases  he  will  probably  be  com­
pelled  to  consult  with  bis  neighboring 
pharmacist  so  that  the  resultant  pre­
scription  may  be  sightly  and  palatable 
as  well  as  efficient.  But  the  trouble  is 
well  worth  the  taking,  for  his  results  in 
the  treatment  of  disease  will  be  based 
entirely  upon  his  own  selection  of  the 
medicament,  instead  of,  as 
is  too  fre­
quently  the  case,  upon  that  of  the  man­
ufacturer. 
If,  then,  the  prescription 
having  become  established  to  his  satis­
faction,  the  physician  will  take  the 
trouble  to  write  out  the  components 
when  prescribing,  he  can  reasonably 
hope  to  have  his  prescription  prepared 
acceptably  at  any respectable pharmacy; 
or  in  case  the  formula  is too lengthy and 
circumstantial,  its  publication 
in  some 
of  the  numerous  medical  and  pharma­
ceutical 
it  public 
property,  as  it  should  be,  and  the  prep­
aration  may  then  be  prescribed  under  a

journals  will  make 

inconvenience! 

in  stock. 

selected  title.  Unfortunately,  the  prac­
tice  has  gained  ground  modernly  that 
formulas  constructed  under  the  condi­
tions  named  are  being  withheld  from 
publicity,  and  a  new  child  is  thus  born 
to  enrich  the  modern materia medica,  in 
most  instances  under a  coined name and 
with  the  corner  druggist  as  its  sponsor.
The  Formulary  also  commends  itself 
on  the  score  of  economy.  Many  of  the 
preparations  can  be  made  extempora­
neously,  or  at  short  notice,  with  such 
materials  as  are  on  the  shelves  of  every 
well-appointed  pharmacy,  there  being 
only  a 
list  of  ten  preparations —in 
themselves 
inexpensive—which  for  the 
convenient  preparation  of  the  others  are 
advised  to  be  kept 
This 
facility  to  make  palatable  preparations 
at  short  notice  also  commends  itself  on 
the  ground  that  they  will  reach  the  pa­
tent  in  an  absolutely  fresh  condition, 
and  particularly  so 
in  the  case  of  two 
classes  of  preparations—the  emulsions 
and  the  effervescent  powders.  Possibly 
both  of  these  have  had  their  day,  for 
they  are  not  prescribed  with  nearly  the 
frequency  they  were  formerly.  But  for 
that  very  reason  it  is  desirable  that  the 
pharmacist  should  be  placed  in  position 
to  dispense  them  in  a  fresh  condition, 
since  both  of  these  classes  of  prepara­
tion  rapidly  undergo  change  and  be­
come  unfit  for  use;  and  being  usually 
dispensed  in  original  containers and un 
der  seal,  it  becomes  practically  impos­
sible  to  insure  their  quality.  The  For 
mulary  makes  excellent  provision  foi 
both.

With  regard  to  emulsions,  it  observer 
that  the  “ successful  formation  of  emul­
sions,  whether of  fixed  or  volatile  oils, 
is  most  successfully  and  expeditiously 
accomplished  with  acacia  as  the  emul­
sifying  agent.”   Hence,  preference  is 
given  to acacia,  although other emulsify­
ing  agents,  such  as  mucilage  of  Irish 
moss,  mucilage  of  dextrin,  glycerite  of 
egg  and  tincture  of  quillaya,  are  not 
ignored,  their  use  and  application  be­
ing  exemplified  in  a  number  of  alterna­
tive  formulas  for  preparing  emulsion  of 
cod  liver  oil.  The  directions  given  are 
so  plain  and  explicit  that  they  may  be 
readily  followed  by the operator,  with as­
surance  of the  production  of an emulsion 
containing  50  per  cent,  by volume of  the 
oil,  together  with  such  other  medicinal 
ingredients,  hypophospbites, 
flavoring, 
etc.,  as 
it  may  be  desirable  to  incor­
porate.  In  the  case  of  Acacia  Emulsion 
the  amount  of  the  acacia  need  not  ex­
ceed  12  per  cent.,  while  the  emulsifica­
is  as  perfect  as  in  the  best  emul­
tion 
sions  of  the  market,  and 
far  more  so 
than  is  the  case  with  the  most  of  them. 
Good,  pure  material  is  easily  obtained 
in  the  market,  and will  certainly  be sup­
plied  by  the  pharmacist  if  the  physi­
cian  will  take  the  trouble  to  make  the 
demand  for  the  pharmacist’s rather than 
for  the  manufacturer’s  product.  As  to 
effervescent  powders, 
formulary 
maintains  that  they  are  most conven­
iently  and  efficiently  dispensed  in  the 
form  of  fine  powder,  because 
in  this 
condition  they  can  be made  extempora­
neously  and  with  an  assurance  of  their 
freshness  and  efficiency.  The  popular 
demand  for  Granular  Effervescent  Pow­
ders,  however,  is  not  ignored,  and 
for­
mulas  are  given  for  their  preparation 
under  modifications  which are important 
only 
in  so  far  as  they  enable  the  dis­
penser  to  granulate  the  powder 
in  a 
convenient  and  expeditious  manner. 
But  the granulation  of  the  powder  is ad­
missible  only 
it  is  contemplated  to 
prepare  the  effervescent  preparation  for 
stock ;  and  the  liability  of  such  to  de­

the 

if 

of  manufactured 

teriorate,  on  keeping,  being the  same  as 
that 
effervescents 
should  prompt  the  physician  to  discour­
age  their  use, by  confining  his prescrip­
tion 
extemporaneously  prepared 
effervescents  in  fine  powder.  The  latter 
can  be  made  as  quickly  as any prescrip­
tion  that  requires  the  admixture  of  sev­
eral  powders.

to 

The  advantages  resulting  from  the 

practice  of  so  prescribing  are:

Accuracy,  because  the  composition  is 

determined  by  the  prescription.

Celerity,  because  the  prescription  can 
be  prepared  from  stock  at  hand,  and 
there  is  no  delay  in  searching  the  mar­
ket  for  a  specialty.

Efficiency,  because  the  medicine 

is 

freshly  prepared.

E conom y,  because 

the  prescription 
need  not  exceed   a  sin g le   dose,  and there 
is  no  loss  from  deterioration.

C.  L e w is   D ie h l ,  P h.  M.

If  protected 

Permanent  Solution  o f  O xalic  Acid.
Oxalic  acid  solutions,  more  particu- 
laly  when  dilute,  decrease 
in  acidity 
upon  standing  when  exposed  to  light 
and  air. 
from  the  light, 
however,  such  solutions  will  remain  un­
if 
changed  for  six  months,  particularly 
made  from  distilled  water. 
Riegler 
has  recommended  the  addition  of 50 Cc. 
of  sulphuric  acid  to  the  litre,  which 
is 
sufficient  to  preserve  a  centi  normal  so­
lution  of  oxalic  acid.  Jorissen has found 
that Fricke’s  suggestion  of  adding  boric 
acid  is  impracticable,  since  double  the 
quantity  recommended  by  Fricke 
(1 
Gm.  to  the  litre)  is  requisite  to  prevent 
any  change  in  the  solution.  The  addi­
tion  of  acohol  tends  to  diminish  the 
acidity  on  standing,  a  fact  which 
is 
probably  due  to  the  formation  of  esters, 
the  mixture  of  oxalic  acid  and  alcohol 
developing  an  odor  of  aldehyde  on 
standing.

T he  Drug  M arket.

Opium—The bear movement continues 
and,  on  account  of  stringency  of  money 
in  the  primary  market  forcing sales,  has 
tended  to  lower  prices.

Morphine—Has declined  10c per ounce 

in  sympathy  with  opium

in  good  demand  at  un­

Quinine—Is 
changed  prices.

Oil  Wormwood—Is  scarce  and  higher. 
The  New  York  market  has  been  dull 
during  the  past  week,  on  account  of  the 
holiday  season,  and  there  are  no  other 
changes  to  note  in  the  drug  line.

Alcohol—Has  advanced  2c  per  gallon 

and  is  tending  higher.

Linseed  Oil—The  new  trust  now  has 
control  of  nearly  all  the  mills  and  has 
advanced  prices.  The days of low-priced 
linseed  oil  are  past.

D octors  Must  Learn  to Write.

A  writer  in  a  recent  number  of  Medi- 
cin  Moderne,  after  expressing  bis  sym­
pathy  with  the  pharmacists  whose  diffi­
cult  task  it  is  to  decipher  illegible  pre­
scriptions,  adds  that  the  matter  has  at­
tracted  the  attention  of  the  dean  of  the 
medical  faculty  of  Paris.  The  execrable 
bandwriting  of  many  French  physicians 
is  thought  to be  a  menace  to  the public, 
and  the  dean 
is  reported  to  have  said 
that  be  would  take  the  earliest  oppor­
tunity  of  bringing  the  matter  to  the  no­
tice  of  the  faculty.  The  pharmacists  of 
America  will  doubtless  sympathize  with 
this  movement.

Some  politicians  who  claim to be self- 
interrupted  be­

made,  were  evidently 
fore  the  job  was  completed.

When 

liquor  goes  to  a  man’s  bead  it 
usually  feels  itself  in  a  lonesome  place.
Liquor  has  a  peculiar  way  of  getting 
the  best of  a fellow after  he gets it down.

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

Morphia, S.P.& W..  2 30® 2 55 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co....................   2 20® 2 45
Moschus Canton__ 
®  40
65®  80
Myristica, No. 1...... 
Nux Vomica...po.20 
®  10
Os  Sepia................. 
15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co.................... 
©  1  00
Picis LIq. N.N.Kgal.
doz........................ 
® 200
Picis Liq., quarts__  @  1  00
Picis Liq., pints......  @  85
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80 
®  50
Piper Nigra...po.  22  @ 1 8
Piper Alba__po. 35 
@  30
Pilx  Burgun...........  @ 
7
Plumb!  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1  20
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
@ 1  25
& P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
25®  30
Quassias..................  
8®  10
31®  36
Quinla, S. P. & W .. 
23®  33
Quinta, S.German.. 
Quinia, N.Y............  
33®  35
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12®  14
18®  20
SaccharumLactis pv 
Salacin....................  3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconis.. 
40®  50
Sapo,  W................... 
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
Sapo, G....................  @  15
Siedlitz  Mixture 
  20  @  22

Slnapis........................   @ 18
Sinapis, opt................   @ 30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes..........................  @ 34
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s 
®  34
Soda Boras..............  9  ®  11
Soda Boras, po.......   9  @  11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
2
Soda,  Carb.............. 
IK® 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
5
3® 
Soda, Ash...............   3 ¿4® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
Spt  Myrcia Dom...  @ 0 00
Spts. Vini Reet. bbl. 
®  2  56
Spts. ViniRect-Kbbl  @  2 61 
Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal  @ 2 «4 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @ 2  66
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40® 1 45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2%@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2j2@3K
Tamarinds.................  
8®  10
Terenenth Venice... 
28®  30
46®  48
Theobromse............  
Vanilla...................  9 00®16 00
Zinc!  Sulph................ 
7®  8

Oils

Whale, winter.........   70 
Lard,  extra.............  50 
Lard, No. 1.............. 
40 

BBL.  SAL.
70
60
45

19

Linseed, pure raw..  42 
Linseed,  Dolled......   43 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  49 

45
46
70
52
Paints  BBL.  LB
Red Venetian.........  
ly  2  ®8
ly   2  @4 
Ochre, yellow Mars. 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
1^   2  @3 
2K@3 
Putty, commercial.. 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2K  2y@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13® 
15
75
Vermliion, English.  70® 
Green, Paris...........  18K®  22
Green,  Peninsular..  13® 
16
Lead, Red...............   &y@  6m
Lead, white...........  5y@  <*M
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders’...  @  90
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @ 140
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra  Turp............   1 60®  1  70
Coach Body............   2 75® 3 00
No.  1 Turp Fum __  1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No.lTurp  70®  75

SALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

75

50® 60

00® 4 50

Conlum Mac........... 
35®  50
Copaiba...................  1  15®  1  25
Cubebse......................  
go® 1 00
Exechthitos  .........   1 
00®  1 10
Erlgeron.................  1 
01®   1 10
Gaultheria..............  1 
50®  1 60
Geranium,  ounce...  ® 
Gossippll, Sem. gal.. 
Hedeoma.................  1 
on®  1 10
50® 2 00
Junlpera..................  1 
Lavendula................  
90® 2 00
Limoni8...................  1 
30®  1 50
Mentha Piper.........  1  60®  2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1  50®  1  60
Morrhuae,  gal.........   1  10®  1  25
Myrcla,....................  4 
Onve....................... 
75® 3 00
Plcl8  Liquida.........  
10®  12
PiciB Liquida, gal...  @  35
B icina.................... 
96®  1 05
Rosmarini...............   @  1  00
House,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succlni...................  40®  45
Sabina................... 
go®  l  00
Santal......................  2 
50® 7 00
Sassafras................. 
55®  60
®  65
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
Tlglii.......................  1  70®  1  8'
Thyme.................... 
40®  50
Thyme,  opt............  
®  !  60
15®  20
Theobromas........... 
Potassium
15® 
is
Sl-Carb.................... 
Bichromate............ 
13® 
15
Bromide..................   50®  55
12®  15
Garb....................... 
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®  18
Cyanide................... 
35®  40
Iodide......................  2 4»®  2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure  A®  30 
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
® 
|5
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10© 
12
Potass Nitras........... 
io@ 
1
Prussiate................. 
21®   25
Sulphate p o ........... 
15® 
ig

Radix

® 

Aconitvm...............  
20®  25
AJthas.....................  
22®  25
to® 
Anchusa................. 
12
Arum po..................   @  25
Calamus................. 
20®  40
Gentiana....... po  15 
12®  15
18
Glycbrrhiza  pv. 15  16® 
Hydrastis Canaden .  @  60
®  65 
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore,Alba, po.. 
18®  20
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po............... 2 80® 3 0«
Iris plox.... po35®38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
25®  30
Maranta,  14s........... 
©  35
Podophyllum, po__ 
22®  25
55®  1  00
g b e l....................... 
^   j  05
Rhei, cut.............. 
75®  1  35
Rhel, pv...............  
38®  3g
Splgelia................... 
San gu inaria.  po.  15 
13
Serpentaria............  
30®  35
Senega....................  40®  45
Similax,officinalis H 
®  40
Smilax, M...............  
®  ¿5
10® 
»olllae.............jpo.35 
12
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po................. 
®  25
Valeriana,Eng. po.30  @  25
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a.............  
12®  16
Zingiber j ...............  
25®  27
Semen
Anisum.........po.  15 
@ 
12
Apium  (graveleons) 
13® 
15
Bird, Is.................... 
4® 
6
Garni.............po. 18 
10® 
12
Cardamon...............   1  25©  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
¡o
8® 
Cannabis  Sativa...  4M@  5
Cvdonium...............  
75®  1  00
io@ 
Chenopodium  ........ 
12
Dipterix  Odorate...  1 40®  1  50
Foanlculum............  
® 
10
7® 
Foenugreek, po........ 
9
3H®  4H
L inl... 
4®  4H
Lini,  grd —  bbl. 3m 
Lobelia......  .........  
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4®  4%
B*Pa 
4H@ 
5
Sinapis Albu........... 
9® 
10
Slnapis  Nigra......... 
11® 
12
Spirltus 

 

 

 

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

carriage................. 2 50® 2  75
carriage...............   2 00© 2 25
wool, carriage......  @  1 25
wool,  carriage__  @  1 00
carriage................  @  1 00
®  75
©  1 40

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
Nassau sheeps  wool
Velvet extra sheeps’
Extra yellow sheeps’
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use.............. 
Syrups
Acacia.................... 
®  50
®  50
Auranti Cortes........ 
©  50
Zingiber.................. 
Ipecac. 
©  60
.......... 
Ferrilod................. 
©  50
Rhei Arom..............  @  50
Smilax Officinalis... 
50®  60
Senega....................  
so
© 
o   50
Sciilaa.....................  

 

niscellaneous

®  50
Scilla Co................. 
©  50
Tolutan................... 
®  50
Prunus virg..  ........ 
Tinctures
60
Aconitum NapellisR 
50
Aconitum NapellisF 
Aloes.......................  
60
60
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
Arnica....................  
50
Assafoetlda............  
50
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
50
Auranti  Cortex...... 
60
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
50
Barosma................. 
Cantharides........... 
75
Capsicum...........  . 
50
Cardamon..........  
75
Cardamon  Co.........  
75
1  00
Castor...................... 
Catechu................... 
50
Cinchona............. 
50
Cinchona Co.........  
60
Co’umba 
............  
50
Cuheba....................  
50
Cassia  Acatlfol......  
50
50
Cassia AmtifolCo 
50
Digitalis 
. . . .  
50
E rgot...................... 
Fern Chloride m 
35
Gentian........... 
50
60
Gentian Co.........  
Guiaca................... 
50
60
Guiacaammon........ 
Hyoscyamus........... 
50
Iodine.... ................. 
75
Iodine, colorless__ 
75
Kino........................  
50
Lobelia.................. 
50
Myrrh......................  
50
Nux  Vom.ca........... 
50
Opii......................... 
75
50
Opii, camphorated. 
I  50
Opii,  deodorized 
 
50
Quassia................... 
Rhatany..................  
50
50
Rhei......................... 
Sangulnaria........... 
50
so
Serpentaria............ 
Stromonium........... 
60
Tolutan...................  
60
50
Valerian................. 
50
Veratrum Veride... 
Zingiber.................. 
20
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30®  35
’¿®  38
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F 
Alumen..................   214® 
3
3®  4
Alumen,gro’d..po.7 
A nnatto................     40®  50
Antimoni,  po.........  
4® 
5
Antlmonl et PotassT  40®  50
Antipyrin.............. 
©  35
Antlfebrln 
© 
........... 
*1
Argent) Nitras, oz ..  @  50
Arsenicum..............  
10® 
12
Balm Gilead  Bud  ..  38®  40
Bismuth  S. N......... 1  40®  1  50
®  9
Calcium Chlor.,  Is.. 
Calcium Chlor., V4s. 
® 
10
@  <3
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms. 
®  75
Cantharides,  Rus.po 
@  15
Capsicl  Fructus. af. 
®  15
Capsicl Fructus, po. 
Capslci FructusB.po 
®  15
12®  14
Caryophyllus.-po.  15 
Carmine, No. 40......  @ 3 00
Cera Alba...............  
50®  55
Cera Flava.............. 
40©  42
Coccus.................... 
©  40
®  33
Cassia Fructus........ 
Centrarla.................  @  10
Cetaceum................  
©  45
Chloroform............. 
50®  53
Chloroform, squibbs @  1  10
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  65®  1  90
Chondrus................ 
20®  25
Cinchonidine.P.A W 
25®  35
Clnchonidine, Germ 
22®  30
Cocaine.................  3 55® 3 75
70
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 
Creosotum...........  
®  35
©  2
Creta............. bbl. 75 
5
Creta, prep.............. 
© 
9®  11
Creta, preelp........... 
Creta, Rubra...........  @ 
8
Crocus...................  
  18®  20
Cudbear.................  @  24
5® 
Cupri Sulph............  
6
Dextrine.................. 
10®  12
Ether Sulph............ 
75®  90
Emery, all  numbers 
8
Emery, po....... ........ 
6
Ergota...........po. 40  30®  35
12®  15
Flake  White........... 
Galla........................ 
©  23
Gambier.  ...............  
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper......  @  60
Gelatin, French...... 
35®  60
75 &  10
Glassware, flint, box 
70
Less than  box__ 
9®  12
Glue,  brown........... 
13®  25
Glue, white............  
Glycerina................ 
14®  30
Grana  Paradisi  .... 
®  25
Humulus................. 
25®  55
®  85
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
@  75
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
@  95
Hydraag Ammoniati ©  1  10
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........  
©  70
Ichthyobolla, Am... 
65®  75
Indigo...................... 
75®  1 00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform................. 
© 4 20
© 225
Lupulin................... 
Lycopodium...........  40®  45
66®  75
Macis 
Liquor  Arsen et Hy-
drarg Iod.............  
®  25
LiquorPotassArsinit  10®  12
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
2© 
3
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
©  IK
Mannia, S. F __ 
50®  60
© 3 00
Mentho’. 

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

® 
© 

8
75
15
41
¿5
5
1014
15
65
5
40
40

6
8
14
14
25
Oll
50
00

15
830
55
■y
55

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
15

25
30
12
14
15
17

15
25
75
40
15
2
50

14
25
35

28
25
30
20to
65
45
35
28
80
14
12
30
60
28
55
13
14
16
48
10
00
70
30
0060
40
75
35
45
80

25
2025
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
2225
36

fO
50
25
10
: 25
2080
8u
65
: 75
70
50

PAINT AND 
ARTIST’S

BRUSHES

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

Flat W a ll  bound  in  rubber, 

b rass and  leather 

O val  Paint 

Round  Paint 

O val Chisel V a rn ish

O val Chisel S a sh

Round S a sh  

W hite W a sh   Heads 

Kalsom ine

Flat V a rn ish  

Square and  Chisel

All  qualities  at  satisfactory  prices.
Cam el  H air V a rn ish  

Flo w in g

M ottlers 

Color
Badger Flowing,

single or double 

C.  H.  Pencils, etc.

HAZELTINE  &  PERKINS 

DRUG  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

^

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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 E R Y   P R I C 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 going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. 
It is im­
possible to give quotations suitable for all  conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av­
erage prices for average conditions of purchase.  Cash  buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer  than 
those  who  have  poor  credit.  Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is 
our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.

doz.  gross

AXLE  OR EASE.
Aurora......................... 55 
Castor Oil.................... 60 
Diamond......................50 
Frazer’s .......................75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
nica, tin boxes............75 
Paragon.......................55 

6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00

Acme.

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
w 'b cans doz................... 
45
14 lb ¿ansdoz.................  85
lb can  doz...................1  50
w lb cans 8 doz.................  45
14 lb cans 8 doz................   75
]  lb cans 1 doz.................   1 00
Bnlk...................................  
10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers...........  85
V lb cans per doz.............  75
tt lb cans per doz  ...........   1  20
I 
lb cans per doz............2  00
w lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
14 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
55
lb cans 2 doz c a se ......  
90

Arctic.
El Purity.

Home.

Oar Leader.

Jersey Cream.

K lb cans, 4 doz case......  
K lb cans, 4 doz case........ 

45
85
lb cans, 2 doz case........1 60
1 lb. cans, per doz..............  2 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz............. '  85
K lb cans..........................   45
14 lb cans..........................  75
lb cans..........................  1 50
1 lb. cans  ......................... 
85
3 
oz., 6 doz. case............   2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. c a s e ......................3 20
9 os., 4 doz. case.................. 4 80
1 lb., 2 doz. case.................. 4 00
5 lb., 1 doz. case...................9 00
American............................... 70
English.................................... 80

BATH  BRICK.

Queen Plaice.

Peerless.

BLUING.

CONDENSED

BROOllA.

CANNED  GOODS.

Small, 3 doz.......................  
40
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
do. 1 Carpet.......................  2 10
No. 2 Carpet.......................   1 95
No. 8 Carpet.......................  1 65
No. 4 Carpet.......................   1 30
Parlor Gem............................  2 25
Common Whisk.................   80
Fancy Whisk......................  83
Warehouse................................2 50
Tomatoes...................  80©  90
Corn  ..........................   80@1  00
Hominy......................  80
Beans, Limas..............  70@1 30
Beans, Wax................  75
Beans, String.............   70
Beans,  Baked............   75@1  00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  50
Succotash...................  95© l  20
Peas............................  50©  85
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
P e a rs.......................  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  40©l  60
Salmon,  Alaska......... 1 25
Salmon, Klondike......  90
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 00
Lobsters, 2-lb. Star__3 40
Mackerel,1 lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused.l  75 
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato.l  75
Shrimps......................2 00
Sardines, Ks domestic  3K© 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5K©  7K 
Sardines,  French.......8  @ 22

CANDLBS.

8s..........................................7
16s........................................ 8
Paraffine................................8
Wicking..............................20

CATSUP.

Colombia, 
pints  .............2 00
Colombia, K pints.............1  25

CH EESE

Acme......................  ©  11K
Amboy....................   ©  12
Emblem...................  @  11K
Gold Medal.............   ©  11
Ideal........................  ©  UK
Jersey  ....................   ©  UK
Riverside.................  @  UK
Brick.......................  ©  12
Edam.......................  ©  70
Leiden.....................  ©  17
Limburger..............  ©  13
Pineapple.................50  ©  75
Sap  Sago.................   ©  17
5
Bnlk 
Red 
7

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

Chicory

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker A Co.’s.

German Sweet........................23
Premium..................................35
Breakfast  Coco*.  ................... 46

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  dos...........1 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos...........1 80
Jnte, 60 ft,  per  dos. 
Jute. 72 ft.  per  dos.,

COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags.......................  
Less quantity.................  
Pound  packages............  
CRB Ail  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk in sacks..........................29

2K
8
4

COFFEE.

O n ra.
Rto.

Santos.

Mexican and  Guatemala.

F air........................................ »
Good.......................................10
Prim e..................................... 11
Golden  .................................. 12
Peaberry  ............................... 13
Fair  .......................................12
Good  .......................’.............18
Prim e..................................... 14
Peaberry  ...............................IS
Fair  .......................................13
Good  ..................................... 16
Fancy 
.................................. W
Prim e..................................... 1®
Milled..................................... 20
Interior.................................. 19
Private  Growth......................20
Mandehllng............................ 21
Im itation...............................20
Arabian  .................................22

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha.... 29
Wells' Mocha and Java......24
Wells’ Perfection Java...... 24
Sancaibo............................. 21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo........18K
Ideal  Blend.........................14
Leader Blend......................12

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
Invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market in which he  purchases 
to his shipping point, Including 
weight  of  package,  also lie  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
Is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbnckle.......................   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.

Extract.

76
/alley City K gross  . . . .  
Felix K gross................. 
1  16
Hnmmel’sfoil K gross... 
85
1  43
Hummel’s tin K  gross... 
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxes...........................40

Peel.

Raisins.

Currants.

Leghorn..........................©If
Corsican.......................... © ld
Patras bbls.......................@ •
Vostizzas 50 lb cases........@ 6K
Cleaned, b n lk ..................© *
Cleaned, packages..........& 7K
Citron American 10 lb bx ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©10K 
Orange American 101b bx  ©10K 
Ondura 28 lb boxes......  ©
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown  ........  ©
Snltana 3 Crown.........   ®
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sul tan»  5 Grown  ........  ©
Snltana 6 Crown.........  ®
Snltana package.........   @
FARINACEOUS GOODS. 
24 1 lb.  packages.............1  50
Bnlk, per 100 lbs.............3 50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Farina.

Grits.

24 2 lb. packages.............. 1  80
1001b. kegs.......................2 70
2001b. barrels.................... 5*10

CONDENSED  MILK.

4  dos In case.

Gall Borden  Eagle.............6 75
Crown................................. 6 25
Daisy.................................. 5 75
Champion  ...........................4 50
Magnolia 
...........................4 25
Challenge.............. - ........... 8 35
Dime.................................... 8 85

COUPON  BOOKS. 

Tradesman Grade.

Superior Grade.

Universal Grade.

Economic Grade.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 810 down.

50 books, any denom....  1 50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books  any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
50 books, any denom....  1 50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11 50
1.000 books, any denom....20 00 
Can be made to represent any 
20 books  ........................  1  00
50 books............................ 2 00
100 books  .........................  3 00
250 books..........................   6 25
500 books........................... 10 00
1000 books............  
..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 ...... 6 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.  .....■•■■••••• 
DRIED  FRUITS—DOnBSTIC 
Sundried....................
Evaporated 60 lb boxes.  ©9 
Apricots.....................   ©
Blackberries...............
Nectarines................. „  ©tn
Peaches.......................  ®  ©1°
PpRTR 
Pitted Cherries...........
Prnnnelles..................
Raspberries....... ..••••
100-120 25 lb boxes.........   © 4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   © »
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........   ®  »K
70 -80 25 lb boxes.........   @
60-70 25 lb boxes.........  © 6*
50 -60 25 lb boxes.........   ©  8
40-50 25 lb boxes.........   ©10
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  ©
u  cent less In 50 lb cases 

California Prunes.

California Pratts.

Credit Checks.

Apples.

........Q

Raisins.

150
London Layers 2 Crown. 
1  65
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............  
2 00
5
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
6
7
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, choice......   8
L. M , Seeded, fancy........  9K

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Hominy.

Peas.

Beans.

Rolled  Oats.

Pearl Barley.

Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 501b.  drams..........1  00
Dried Lima  ..................... 
4K
Medium Hand Picked__   1 10
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  lo 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, bu.............1  10
Split, bu.............................. 2 
Rolled Avena,  bbl------ 4 25
Monarch,  bbl.....................3 
Monarch,  K  bbl................ 2 
Monarch, 90 lb sacks........1  80
Quaker, cases.....................3 
Huron, cases.......................1 
German............................   4
East  India........................  3K
Flake.............................. 
3*
3X
Pearl................................  
5 
Anchor, 401 lb. pkges.... 
Cracked, bulk................... 
3M
24 2 lb packages...............2 50
S alt  Fish.

Tapioca.

Wheat.

Sago.

Cod.

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

Herring.

ITackerel.

Holland white hoops, bbl.  8 00 
Holland white hoop Kbbl  4 50
Holland,  H  bbl.................   2 60
Holland white hoop, keg. 
65 
Holland white hoop mchs 
75
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................   3 50
Konnd  40 lbs...................  1  75
Scaled...............................  
14
Mess 100 lbs......................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  66
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  3j>
No. 1100 lbs......................  13  25
No. 1  40 lbs............... 
5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1 48
No. 1 
8 lbs....................   120
No. 2 100 lbs......................  9 25
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4 00
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  08
No. 2 
89
Trout.
No. 1100 lbs. 
........  5 25
No. 1  40lbs.........  
..  2 40
.. 
68
No. 1 
No. 1 
57
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs...........7 CO 
2 75
40 lbs...........  3  10 
1  40
10 lbs...........  85 
43
8 lbs........... 
37
71 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS

10 lbs.................... 
8 lbs....................  

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

WMtsflsk.

 

Jennings’.

___ ____Ula 
2 oz...
1  20
3 os...
.1  50
4 oz..
2  00
3  00
6 o z ...
4  00
N o.  8No. 10____
6  00
No.  2 T.l 25 
No.  3T-2 00 
NO  4 T.2 40

D. C. Lemon
2 OZ__ .  75
3 OZ----- ..1  Ot
4 oz___ .1  4C
.2  OC
6 oz----
.2  4C
N o .  8.
.4  00
N o.  10.
No  ___
No.  3 T.l 25 
No.  4 T.l 50

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

Sonders’.

Van 
1  20 
1  ?0 
2  00 
2  25

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
for  the

in  the  world 

Best 
money.
Sage.... 
Hops...

HBRBS.

INDIOO.

Madras, 5  lb boxes..............   65
F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes....  50

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
Kegs 
..................................4 00
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs....................... 1 25
1 lb. cabs..............................  30
K lb. cans............................  18

Choke Bore—Dupont’«.
50

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

75
00
Eagle Duck—Dupont's.
20
75

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

 

JBLLY.

15 lb  palls............................   35
301b  palls............................  65

LYB.

Condensed, 2 dos  ...............1  20
Condensed. 4 d o i................2 26

LICORICE.

Pure.....................................
Calabria.............................   J®

MINCE MEAT.

Ideal, 8 dos. In case................. 2 25

I1 ATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands

No. 9 sulphur...........................1 66
Anchor Parlor..........................J to
No. 2  Home.............................. ] J®
Export  Parlor......................... 4 00

Scotch, in bladders............   87
Maccaboy, In jars................  85
French Rappee, in jars__ 
48

SBBDS.

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

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Table, cases, 24 3-lb  boxes. .1  50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Butter, barrels, 280lb. bulk.2 25 
Butter, barrels, 2014 lb bags .2 50
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   55

Common Grades.

100 3-lb sacks.............................1 95
60 5-lb sacks.............................1 80
28 10-lb sacks...........................1 65

Worcester.
lb. cartons.................. 3 25
50  4 
T15  2Klb.  sacks......................4 00
lb. sacks......................3 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks.................3  50
3010 
lb. sacks......................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bnlk In barrels.................... 2 5

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

Warsaw.

Ashton.

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black................................
F air..................................  

I*

Open Kettle...................... 25@35

Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

Horse Radish, 1 doz..................1 75
Horse Radish, 2 doz.................8 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........... l 75

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216..........-.........1 f®
Clay, T. D. fall count........
Cob, No. 8..........................  
“

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

PICKLES, 
riedlam.

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

Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count.........   4 75
Half bbls  1,200 count..........2 00

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   6K
Carolina  No. 1  .................   »
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................  *■

Imported.

japan,  No. 1............   6K@ 6
Japan,  No. 2... 
4h®  5
Java, fancy head.......5  ©  5J4
Java, No. 1.................  5  ©
Table............................  @

SALBRATUS.

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.

JAXON
Single box............................ 2 ?0
5 
box lots, delivered......2 45
10 box lots, delivered..........2 40
JA8.  8.  KIRK  l CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.................................... 2 75
Cabinet.................................2 20
Savon.......................................2 50
White Russian................     2 35
White Cloud,  laundry.... ..6  25
White Cloud,  toilet.............3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz__2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__3 00
Blue India, 100 X lb.............3 00
Kirkoline............................. 3 50
Bos.......................................2 50
SCHULTE  SOAP CO.’S  BRANDS
Clydesdale, 100 cakes, 75 lbs  . . .  .2  75 
No-Tax, 100 cakes, 62 1-2 lbs. . .  .2  00
Familj,  75 cakes, 75 lbs..............2  50
German Mottled, 60 cakes, $0 lbs.. 1  75 
Cocoa Castile, 1$ lbs., cat 1-1 & 1-2..1  $0 

Chipped Soap for Laundries.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls................  75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  90
Lamp, bbls.........................   75
Lump, 1461b kegs..............  85

SAUERKRAUT.

Barrels...............................   3 25
K-Barrels..........................  I 75

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  . .2 75
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars__ 3 75
Uno, 100 X-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 3 05

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d o z .......2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 d oz............2 40

Boxes  ...............
Kegs, English__

5K
4*

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

Provisions.

21

Crockery and

Glassware.

Candies.
Stick Candy.

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

Mixed Candy.

Grocers...................
@ 6 
Competition....'......
@ 0% 
Standard.................
@ 7 
Conserve.................
@ 7H 
Royal......................
@ 7M 
Ribbon....................
@ 8M 
Broken  ...................
@
Cut Loaf.................
@  8 
English Rock.........
@ 8 
Kindergarten.........
@  8H 
French  Cream........
@ 9 
Dandy Pan.............
@10
Hand Made Cream mxd  @13

Fancy—In Bulk.

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

@ 8M 
@ 8* 
@10M 
@12 @ 5 
@   8 
@  8M @ 9

Fancy—In  5 lb.  Boxes.

Lemon  Drops.........
@50 
Sour  Drops............
@50 
Peppermint Drops..
@60 
Chocolate Drops__
@60 
H. M. Choc. Drops ..
@75 
Gum  Drops............
@30 
Licorice Drops........
@75 
A. B. Licorice Drops
@50 
Lozenges,  plain__
@50 
Lozenges,  printed..
@50 
Imperials...............
@50 
Mottoes...................
@55 
Cream Bar..............
@50 
Molasses B a r.........
@50 
 
.
Hand Made Creams. 
  „  
80  @  90
Plain  Creams.........   60  @90
Decorated Creams..  —
String Rock............
@60
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25
Wintergreen Berries 
@60
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes..................
Fruits.
Oranges.
Mexicans  F lo rid a
style  box...  ........ 
Fancy Navels.........  
Choice..................... 
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 360s.............  
Ex.Fancy 300s........ 
Ex. Fancy  360s ......... 
Bananas.

@35
@50

@3  50
@3  50
@3 75
@4  (JO
@ t  00

@3 25
@3  25
@3 00

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Figs.

Californias  Fancy.. 
Choice, 10 lb boxes.. 
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............  
Fancy, 12lb  boxes.. 
Imperial Mikados, 18
Id boxes...............  
Pulled, 6 lb boxes... 
Naturals,  In  bags... 
Dates.

@16
@15
@18
@22
@
@
@ 7

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pare around in Balk.

Allspice  .............................. 14
Cassia, China In mats..........12
Cassia, Batavia In bund__ 25
Cassia, Saigon In rolls........ 82
Cloves, Amboyna................ 14
Cloves, Zanzibar..................12
Mace,  Batavia.....................55
Nutmegs, fancy...................60
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2.........  
  45
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .13 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .16
Pepper,  shot........................15
Allspice 
.............................17
Cassia, Batavia...................3o
Cassia,  Saigon................... 40
Cloves, Zansibar..................14
Ginger,  A frican................ 15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger,  Jamaica  ................23
Mace,  Batavia.....................65
Mustard.....................12@18
Nutmegs,..................40@o0
Pepper, Sing , black............15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage...................................-..15

SYRUPS
Cera.

Barrels...............................  17
Half  bbls.............................1#
1 doz  1 gallon cans..................2 30
T  doz. M gallon cans........ 1  70
2  doz. M gallon  c a n s...... 1  75
Pure Cane.
Pair  .......................  
  16
Good.................................  20
Choice..............................  25

 

STARCH.

Kin gafo rd’s  Cora.

101-lb packages...................6
20 1 lb packages...................6M
Klngsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 1-lb packages...................  6V4
6-lb boxes.......................... 7

Diamond.

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

Common Cora.

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

Common alosa.

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

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUOAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer payi 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
Including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino....................................5 25
Cut  Loaf..............................5 t
Crushed...  ..  .................... 5  50
Powdered  ...........................5  13
XXXX  Powdered.....................5 25
Cubes....................................... 5 13
Granulated in bbls...................5 00
Granulated In  bags................. 5 00
Fine Granulated...................... 5 to
Bxtra Fine Granulated.......5  13
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5  13
Mould  A...................................5 25
Diamond  Confec.  A................5 00
Confec. Standard A................. 4 88
No.  1....................................4 63
No  2................................... 4 63
No.  3...................................4
No.  4................................... 4 56
No.  5....................................4 50
No.  6................................... 4 44
No.  7...................................4
No.  8................................... 4 81
No.  9................................... 4 25
No.  10................................... 4 1»
No.  11................................... 4 19
No.  12................................... 4 19
No.  18................................... 4 19
No.  14................................... 4 19
No.  15....................................4 19
No.  16....................................4 19

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brand. 

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

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands.

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

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

VINEOAR.

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

WICKINa.

No.O, per gross...............
No. 1, per gross.................
No. 2, per gross.................
No. 3, per gross.................

.  20
25
.  35
.  55

C r a c k e r s .

The  National  Biscuit Co.

quotes as follows :
Butter.

Seymour XXX.................
5M
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family XXX  ..................
5M
Salted XXX  ....................
6
New  York XXX...............
6
Wolverine...................
6
Boston.....................
7M
Soda.

Soda  XXX  ......................
6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton...
6M
Soda,  City...........  ..........
8
Long Island  Wafers........ 11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  . 12
Zephyrette.......................
10
Saltine Wafer...................
Saltine Wafer, 1 lb  carton
Farina Oyster.................
Extra Farina Oyster........

Oyster.

5M
6M
6

SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals..........................
10M
Bent’s Water.................... .  15
Cocoanut Taffy...............
10
Coffee Cake, Java............ .  10
Coffee Cake, Iced............ .  10
Cracknells....................... .  15 M
Cubans  ............................
11M
Frosted  Cream................. .  8
Ginger G em s...................
8
Ginger Snaps, XXX.........
7M
Graham Crackers............ .  8
Graham Wafers................ 10
Grand Ma Cakes.............. ..  9
Imperials......................... .  8
JumDles,  Honey.............. .  UM
Marshmallow  ................. .  15
Marshmallow  Creams__ .  16
Marshmallow  Walnuts...
16
Mich.  Frosted Honey__ 12M
Molasses Cakes............... .  8
Newton............................ .  12
Nic Nacs.........................
.  8
Orange Gems..................
.  8
Penny Assorted Cakes... •  8M
Pretzels,  hand  made  __ .  8
Sears’ Lunch.................... .  7
Sugar  Cake....................
.  8
Sugar  Squares................
9
Vanilla  Wafers.............. .  14
Sultanas.........................

.  12M

O i l s .
Barrels.

Eocene......................  @UM
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @10
WW Michigan...........  @ 9*
Diamond White.........  @ 8M
D.,8. Gas....................   @ 9V4
Deo. N aptha..............  @ 7M
Cylinder....................29  @34
Engine.......................11  @21
Black, winter. 
...  .  O  8

Wheat.

Wheat................................ 
Winter Wheat Flonr. 

Local Brands.

Patents.............................   4 00
Second  Patent..................   3 50
Straight..........................   3 25
Clear.................................. 3 00
Graham  ............................3 60
Buckwheat.......................4 25
R ye..................................   3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnbart-Putman’s Brand
Daisy, Ms............................ 3 40
Daisy, Ms............................ 3 40
Daisy, Ms.............................3 40
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  %8.......................   3  55
Quaker, Ms........................  3 55
Quaker, Ms........................   3  55
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 50
Ptllsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 40
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........4 30
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4 20 
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4 20 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.

Spring Wheat Flour. 

Meal.

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Duluth Imperial,  Ms...........4  20
Duluth Imperial, Ms-  ------4  10
Duluth Imperial, Ms.........   4 00
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Ms.......................  4 40
Gold Medal Ms.........................4 30
Gold Medal Ms.........................4 20
Parisian, Ms...........................  4 40
Parisian, Mb............................. 4 30
Parisian, Ms...........................   4 20
Ceresota, Mb...........................  4 40
Ceresota, mb...........................  4 30
Ceresota, Ms...........................  4 20
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ms..............................  4 30
Laurel, Mb..............................  4 20
Laurel, Mb..............................  3 10
Bolted....................................  l 90
Granulated............................  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__16 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........15  50
Unbolted Com Meal..........15 00
Winter Wheat  Bran..........14  00
.Winter Wheat Middlings. .15 00
Screenings................. T...13 OO
Old corn, car lots......
...  4Í
New corn, car lots.  ..
....  33
Less than  car lots__ ....  40
Car  lots....................
....  31
Carlots, clipped.........
....  35M
Less than  car lots__ ....  37
No. 1 Timothy cariota... 
8  50 
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots
.9  50
Fish and  Oysters

Feed and Millstuffs.

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

65

Beef.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as

Tripe.

Cosing*.

Sausages.

Butterine.

Pigs’ Feet.

follows:
Barralad Pork.
Mess  .............................
10 00
Back  ......................10 50@
Olear  back..............10 25@!0 75
Shortcut......................... 10 50
13 75
Pig..................................
Bean  ............................
9  75
Family  ..........................
11 03
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies............................
5£
Briskets  .........................
5M
Extra shorts..................
hH
Smoked Heats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  __
8M
Hams, 14 lb  average
8M
Hams, 16 lb  average......
73£
Hams, 20 lb  average......
7M
Ham dried beef  ............
11
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  .
5M
Bacon,  clear.................7 @7M
California hams............
5
Boneless hams...............
8M
Cooked  ham.................10@12M
Lords.  In Tierces.
Compound......................
4
Kettle.............................
6M
55 lb Tubs__... advance
%
80 lb Tubs......... advance
M
50 lb T ins......... advance
%
20 lb Pails......... advance
%
10 lb Pails......... advance
%
5 lb Pails......... advance
1
3 lb Pails......... advance
«6
Bologna.........................
5M
Liver...............................
6M
Frankfort.......................
7M
P o rk ...............................
6M
Blood  ............................
6
Tongue  ..........................
9
Head  cheese..................
6M
Extra  Mess.................... 10 25
Boneless  ....................... 13 00
Rump............................. 13 25
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
P ork...............................
20
Beef  rounds...................
3
Beef  middles.................
10
Sheep.............................
60
Rolls,  dairy..................
9M
Solid, dairy  ..................
9
Rolls,  creamery............
14
Solid,  creamery............
13M
Conned Meats.
Corned  beef,  2 l b ......
2 25
Corned beef, 14  lb........ 15 00
Roast  beef,  2 lb......... 2  15
50
Potted  ham,  M8........
Potted  ham,  Ms........
90
50
Deviled ham,  Ms........
Deviled ham,  Ms........
90
Potted  tongue Ms........
50
Potted  tongue Ms.......
90
Fresh  Meats.
Carcass......................6m@  8
Fore quarters............ 5 @  6M
Hind  quarters...........  6M@  9M
Loins  No.  3...............   9 @12
Ribs.........................  .  7 @12
Rounds......................  7 @ 7M
Chucks.......................  6 @  6
Plates  .......................  4 @
Dressed......................  4 @
Loins  ..  .................... @  6M
Shoulders................... @  5M
Leaf Lard..................   6 @
Carcass..................... 6 @  7
Spring Lambs............ 7M@ 8M
Carcass 
...... 7 @ 7M
Per lb. 
Hides  and  Pelts.
@  10 
@  9 
@  10 @  18 
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
@  5
follows:
@  ll
Green No. 1................ @ 8
22
Green No. 2................ @ 7
10
Cured No. 1................ @  9
8
Cured No. 2................
9
@ 8
*M Calfskins,  green No. 1 @10
Calfskins, green No. 2 @  8M
5
Calfskins, cured No. 1 @11
8
Calfskins, cured No. 3 @  9M
8
12
Pelts,  each.................
50@1  00
18
No. 1........................... @ 3
35
27
No. 2........................... @ 2
25
20 Washed, fine  ............ @18
18 Washed, medium....... @23
Unwashed, fine..........11  @13
Unwashed, medium ..16  @18
Fun.
gal. 
........  1  75
Cat, W ild...............
...... 1  60 Cat, House  ............
......   1 20 Deer Skins, per lb... 
Fall Muskrat...........
......   1  15
......  1  10 Red Fox..................
......   1 25 Grey Fox......   .......
Mink.......................
Racoon....................
'l 25@1  50
@1  00 Skunk......................

20@  50 
5@  20
12M
3@  12
25@  1  25 
27@  75
2u@  1  40 
20@  90
20@  1  20

Pelts.
Tallow.

Mutton

Hide«.

Wool.

Pork.

Veal.

Beef.

5M

5M

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters,

Jugs.

Churns.

Common

Milkpsns.

Stewpans.

Fruit Jars.

Sealing Wax.

Tomato Jugs.

First  Quality.

LAMP  BURNBRS.

Fine Glazed Mllkpans.

M gal., per dot...................  40
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5
8 gal., each.......................   40
10gal.,each.......................  50
'2 gal.,  each.......................  60
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 1  10
20 gal. meat-tubs, each__ 1  50
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ... 2 25 
30gal. meat-tubs, each....2 70 
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. flat or rd. bot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5 
M gal. flat or rd. bot., aoz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5M 
M gal. fireproof, ball, doz.  86 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 
M gal., per doz...................   40
M gal., per doz...................   42
' to 5 gal., per gal...............  
M gal., per dos...................  42
1 gal., each........................  
Corks for M gal., per dot..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preservo Jars and Covers.
M gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 
5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
No.  0 8un..........................   33
No.  1  Sun..........................  
34
No.  2  Sun..........................   46
No. 3 Sun...........................   1 00
Tabular.............................  
50
Security, No. 1...................  60
Security, No. 2...................  80
Nutmeg  ............................   50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................   1 32
No.  1  Sun..........................   1  43
No.  2 Sun.......................... 2  18
No. OSun...........................   1  50
No. 1 Sun...........................   1  60
No. 2 Snn......... .................2 45
No.  0  Snn,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Snn,  crimp 
No. 
f  Snn,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

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

top,
wrapped and  labeled....  2 55 
top,
wrapped and  labeled. . .   2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled....  8 75 
CHIMNEYS—Pearl Ton.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................3 70
No.  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled..............................4 88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamt>s............. 
80
No. 1 San. plain  bulb,  per
doz  .................................  9
No. 2 Snn,  plain  bnlb,  per
doz  ..................................  1 15
No. 1 Crimp, per dos......... 1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per dos......... 1  60
No. 1, Lime  (66c dos)........8 60
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)........4 00
No. 2, Flint (8O0  doz)........4 70
No..2, Lime  (70c doz)  .......   4 00
No. 2, Flint  (8O0 dos)........4 40
Dos.
1 gal tin cans with  spont..  1  25
1 gal galv Iron with spout.  1  48
2 gal galv Iron with spout.  2 48
3 gal galv iron with spont.  3 32 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  4 28 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4  17 
5 gal galv Iron with  fanoet 4 67
5 gal Tilting cans................7  26
5 gal galv iron Nacefas....  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7 80 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rale............... 10 50
5 gal Home Rule................12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9 50
No.  0 Tubular side lift....  4 00
No.  1 B  T ubular........... 6 26
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6  50
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp.14 0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........8 75
LANTERN aLOBBA.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 dos.
each, box 10 cents........... 
46
No. 0 Tabular,  cases 2 dos.
45
each, box 15 cents.......... 
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls 5 dos.
each, bbl 35)...................  
 
No. 0 Tabular,  bull’s  eye, 
oases 1 dos. each.............  I 85

LANTERNS.

Pomp  Cans.

top,
top,
top,

OIL CANS. 

La  Bastle.

Rochester.

Electric.

8

Fards in 10 lb  boxes  @10
Fards  in 60 lb cases  @  6
Persians, P H Y ......  
@
@6
lb cases, new........ 
Ssirs,  60 lb cases__ 
@5
Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @16
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @15
Brazils new................  @8
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Granobles..  @13
WalnutB,  Calif No.  1.  @li
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................  @12
Table Nuts,  fancy__  @11
Table Nuts,  choice...  @10
Pecans, Med.......... . 
Pecans, Ex. Large....  @  9
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bn.,
Ohio, new...............   @1  60
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @4 "0
Chestnuts per bn.......   @4 00

@ ?M

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  @  6M
Fancy,  H.  P„  Flags
Roasted...................  @ 6H
Choice, H. p., Extras.  Q 4M
Choice, H. P„  Extras,
Roasted  ................. 
5M

Fresh Fish.
Whiteflsh................
T rout......................
Black Bass..............  8
Halibut...................
Ciscoes or Herring..
Blueflsh..................
Live Lobster.........
Boiled Lobster........
Cod 
......................
Haddock.................
No.  1  Pickerel........
Pike.........................
Perch.......................
Smoked White........
Red Snapper...........
Col  River Salmon..
Mackerel 
..............
F. H. Counts...........
F. J   D. Selects.......
Selects...................
F. J. D. Standards...
Anchors.................
Standards................
Favorites................
Bulk.
Counts  ................
X  Selects..............
Selects..................
Anchor Standards.
Standards............
Clams....................
Oysters, per  100.
Clams,  per 100,

Shell aoods. 

Oysters In Cans

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

22

Hardware

Prohibit  Fraudulent  Representations by 

Statutory  Enactment.

Ante Lucem in American Artisan.

invade  the  open 

To  say  that  any  man  or  body  of  men 
shill  not  engage  in  any  legitimate  busi 
ness  and  upon  any  scale  they  may elect, 
that  they  may  or  may  not  sell  at  cost  or 
less  than  cost,  that  they  may  not  go  into 
the  open  markets  as  purchasers,  in gross 
quantities,  at  ruinously  low  prices,  tak 
ing  advantage  of  conditions  and  other 
men's  necessities,  tbat  they  shall  not 
also 
labor  markets 
purchasing  therein  at the lowest possible 
figure,  even  unto  starvation  wages  (la­
bor’s  necessities  unconsidered),  the nec­
essary 
labor  and  help  to  conduct  and 
carry  on  business  in  detail—to  say  that 
men  shall  not do  these  things  and  to  at 
tempt  the  passage  of  laws  to  prohibit 
their  doing  so  are  most assuredly  at  va­
riance with  the  common  law  ot  a  repub­
lican 
form  of  government  and  our 
Americanism.

*  *  *

It 

law  making 

is  equally  as  doubtful  if  men  can 
be  made  nonest  by 
legislative  enact­
ment.  There  is,  however,  no  doubt  that 
any  state  may  pass  restrictive  measures 
curtailing  or  cutting  off  entirely  many 
of  the  abuses  wQich  have  grown  into 
modern  merchandising.  What 
is  to 
prevent  or  hinder  any  state  or  number 
of  states  from  prohibiting  entirely  the 
adulteration  of  any  and  all  food  prod­
ucts  and  enforcing  such  a  law?  What  is 
to  prevent  any  state  or  states  from  pass­
it  compulsory  t > 
ing  a 
brand  every  adulterated  and 
inferior 
product  of  whatever  kind,  known  as 
shoddy  goods,  cheap  paints,  etc.,  just 
in­
what  they  are  as  to  compounds, 
gredients,  qualities,  etc.?  What 
is  to 
prevent  any  or all  states  from  passing  a 
stringent  law  regulating  business  adver­
tising,thus  preventing  any  and  all  man­
ufacturers, 
department 
stores,  cataloguers,  and  retailers  from 
advertising  an  article,  commodity  or 
what-not  as  genuine  when  it  has  not  a 
scintilta  of  genuineness  about it?  What 
is  to  prevent  the  passage  of  laws  regu 
lating  advertisements  of  half-off  sales, 
closing  out  sales,  fire  sales,  bankrupt 
sales,  marked-down  sales  and  such  like?

wholesalers, 

*  *  *

The  public—or  at  least  the  business 
portion  of  the  public—is  quite  familiar 
with  all  these  schemes,  many  of  them 
being  bare-faced  frauds  to  gull  the  gul­
lible ;  and the innocent,  easily persuaded 
by  the  tinsel  advertisements,  are  done 
for,  their  good money going for.worthless 
or quarter-value  products.

♦  *  *

How  often  do  you  see  things  adver­
tised  at  most  ridiculously  low  prices  (if 
genuine)  and  when  you  come  to  the 
store  find  the  article  mere  rot;  or  pos­
sibly  when  several  gross  ora large quan­
tity  of  articles  are  advertised  to  be  put 
on  sale  (say  Monday  morning)  at  away- 
off  sale  price,  when  you  come  in  at  8:30 
or  9  a.  m  ,  the  affable  clerk  tells  you 
the  last  one  is  sold,and  then  importunes 
you  to  buy  something  else. 
If,  finally, 
you  could 
learn  the  actual  facts  in  the 
case  there  was  originally  not  more  than 
one-twelfth  of  one  dozen  articles  to  start 
with,  and  that  formed  the  basic  factor 
for  a  large  lying  advertisement.

*  *  *

The  clothing  dealer  takes  a  $15  or $18 
suit,  marks 
it  $7.50  or $9.  places  it  in 
his  show  window  as  an  attraction,  ad­
vertises  as  a  great  bargain  50  or  too 
suits.  Some  one  who  is  a  judge  of  val 
ues  comes 
in,  wants  t J  buy  a  suit,  the 
saleman  begins  showing  stock,  the  pros­
‘ I  want  one  like 
pective  buyer  says: 
the  suit  in  the  show  window." 
"What 
one 
is  that?"  and  they  go  out to  see. 
" O h !"   says  the  salesman,  "w e   haven’t 
a  suit  of  that  goods  tbat  will  fit  you 
in 
"W ell,  let  me  see  it,  please.”  
stock.”  
" I t ’s  no  use,  it  won't  fit  you,  and  in 
tbat  class  of  goods  we  haven’t  your  size 
in  stock;  let  me  show  you  something 
else.”  
" N o ,"  and  the  prospective  cus­
tomer  walks  off.

*   *   *

The  suit  has  only  been  advertised and 
in  the  window  as  a  decoy,  and

placed 

laws 

every  employe  about  the  house  is  on­
to  it.

and  all  classes  of  stores.

Like  schemes  are  worked  in  furniture 
It  is  possible  to  reach  all  these  evils 
and  cut  them  off  by  the  enactment  of 
statutory 
If  a  man  advertises a 
closing-out  sale,  going  out  of  business, 
it  must  be  so. 
If  a  half-off  sale,  the 
goods  must  be  sold  at  haif  values  of  ac 
tual  market  prices  for  the  same  class  of 
goods  elsewhere,  and  there  should  be  a 
law  to  punish  for  marking  up  prices  to 
twice  values,  and  then  trying  to  close 
them  out  to  the  public  under  the  plea 
of  half  off  sales.

To  do  these  things  would  be  good 
republicanism  and  good  Americanism. 
And  when  men 
in  business  organize, 
band  together  for  the  purpose  of putting 
a  stop  to  that  class of questionable trans­
actions,  it  is  also  Americanism  of  the 
broadest  kind.

The  Value  o f  Politeness.

There 

in  which  his 

is,  perhaps,  no  quailtv  which 
contributes  more  directly  toward  suc­
cess  in  business  than  that  quality  which 
has  been  termed 
the  "politeness  of 
kings” —punctuality.  And  it  was  never 
so  essential  an  element  in  business  life 
as  it  is  at  the  close  of  this  Nineteenth 
Century.  The  modern  man  of  affairs 
lives  at  such  high  pressure,  duties  and 
interests  crowding  his  life  to  an  extent 
which  was  altogether  foreign to the more 
easy  going  days 
fore­
fathers  lived  and  worked,  that  in  order 
to  keep  abreast  of  his  engagements  be 
must  perforce  parcel  out  bis  time  so 
closely  tbat  none  of  it  shall  be  wasted. 
To  do  this  effectively,  punctuality  in all 
his  engagements  is absolutely necessary. 
The  judicious  business  man  knows  this 
and  acts  accordingly.  Punctuality,  or­
der,  system,  are  his  watchwords  and 
amid  the  cares  and  distractions  of  a 
busy  life  he  is  able  to  accomplish  with­
out  undue  pressure  an  amount  of  work 
which  would  be  utterly 
impossible 
otherwise.  On  the  other  hand,  there  are 
men  we  meet  who  seem  to  be  always 
running  to  catch  up  with  their business. 
They  are  ever  in  a  hurry  and  give  one 
the  impression  of  being  late  for  a  train. 
These  are  the  men  who  lack  method;  to 
whom  punctuality  is  an  unknown  quan­
tity.  They  seldom  accomplish  much. 
Their  work 
is  always  dene  hurriedly 
and  imperfectly.  The  keeping  of  their 
engagements 
left  very  much  to 
chance,  and  they  come  to  be  regarded, 
in  consequence,  as  unreliable.  Punc­
tuality  begets  confidence;  for  the  man 
who 
is  always  on  time  is,  as  a  rule,  a 
man  whose  business  affairs  are  all  car­
ried  on  on  the  same  systematic,  orderly 
lines,  and  this  fact 
is  quickly  recog­
nized  by  those  with  whom  he  comes  in 
contact.  How  soon,  too,  do  employers 
learn  to  depend  upon  and  value  the  em­
is  punctual  and  intrust  him 
ploye  who 
with  more  responsible  duties. 
Some 
one  has  said : 
"T h e   youth  who  has  ac­
quired  a  reputation  for  punctuality  has 
made  the  first  contribution  to  the  cap­
ital  that  in  after  years  makes  bis  suc­
cess  a  certainty.”   No  truer  remark 
was  ever  made. 
It  might  with  advan­
tage  be  taken  as  a  motto  by every boy or 
young  man  on  entering  business  life. 
Punctuality 
is  a  debt  of  honor  owed  to 
those  with  whom engagements are made. 
Failure  to  keep  them  on  time  is  not 
only  a  lack  of  courtesy  but  a  direct 
in­
justice. 
It  causes  disturbance  and  irri­
tation  to  those  who  are  disappointed  or 
kept  waiting  and 
is  sure  to  recoil  in 
the  unpunctual  person. 
some  way  on 
Unpunctuality,  moreover 
is  not  merely 
a  profligate  wasting  of  one’s  own  time 
but  also  a theft  of  the  time  of  others.
Common  sense  is a  good  thing  in 

its 
way,but  it  has  broken  very  few  records.

is 

Oatman’s  Handy  Hoops

For  Tubs,

Pails  or 

Barrels !

Put up in neat display box, 

and rivets included.

Patent applied for.

No. to order by.

Inches wide.

Inches long.

Box of Ço.

Box of 25.

0
1
2
3
4

V»
A
I
iK

30
z8
So
80
So

$1.7 5
3.30
4.00

$3.00
4.00

These hoop*« are flared,  with one end punched all ready  to  get  the  size  and  rivet  t* gether 
by placing the tub bottom side up, and  putting the  hoop  around with  the  punched end lapped 
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 ot hooping.  For sale oy

FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO., 0BAND  RAPIns-

fias
I   Glark-Rutka-Jewell Go.

3 8   A N D   4 0   S -  IONIA  S T .
O P P O S I T E   U N IO N   D E P O T

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

FULL  LINE  OF

KRAUT  AND  SLAW  CUTTERS 
MEAT  CHOPPERS 
BARN  DOOR  HANGERS 
BAR  IRON
SHELF  AND  HEAVY HARDWARE 
COMMON  WIRE  AND 
CEMENT-COATED  NAILS.

Strictly  wholesale.  Orders  filled  promptly  at  bottom 

ruling  prices.  Mail  orders  solicited.

A
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WILLIAM  REID

Importer and Jobber of

P O L IS H E D   PL A T E  

W IND O W  
O R N A M E N T A L

PA IN T

OIL.  WHITE  LEAD. 

V A R N I S H E S  
B R U S H E S

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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.

Hardware  Price  Current.

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N
cut  price. 
I  thought  they  were  losing 
money  on  every  one,  and  that  I  could 
3ick  up  good  goods  at  a  big  reduction. 
Instead,  every  blank  one  of  their  drives 
is  a  blanked  fraud!  They’re  making 
on  every  one. 
Instead  of  taking  a  good 
lot of  goods  and  cutting  the  price,  they 
in  a  lot  of  seconds  or cheap  trash 
lay 
and  sell  it  as  a  drive.  The  price  looks 
low,  but 
I  ain't 
a-goin'  to  do  business  that  way!  No, 
I’ll  go  to  the  wall  before  I  w ill.”
sir! 
In  the  country  I  never  heard  this man 

BARR0W5

It’s  big. 

it  ain’t. 

AXES

AUGURS AND BITS

Snell’s ................................................................  
70
Jennings’, genuine.......................................... 25*10
Jennings’, Imitation....................................... eo&io

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

23

WIRB  QOODS

LBVBLS
ROPES

80
Bright..........................................................  
80
Screw Byes................................................... 
Hook’s..........................................................  
80
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
70
Sisal, % Inch and  larger.............................  
8V4
Manilla......................................................... 
9K
Steel and Iron.............................................  70*10
Try and Bevels...........................................  
60
M itre................... 
50
com. smooth,  com.

SHBBT  IRON

SQUARES

 

 

 

WIRB

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

(2 40
2 40
2 45
2 55
2 65
2 75
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14...................................(2 70 
Nos. 15 to 17...................................  2 70 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................  2 80 
Nos. 22 to 24...................................  3 00 
Nos. 25 to 26...................................  3 10 
No.  27..........................................  3 20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dis 
50
Solid Eyes..........................   ...........per ton  20 00
75*10
Steel, Game............................................. 
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
1  25
Bright Market................................ 
75
 
 
Annealed  Market........................................  
75
Coppered  Market..........................................70*10
Tinned Market...........................................   62)4
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.........................  2  15
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................  1  80
An Sable..................................................dis40*lC
Putnam.................................................. dis 
5
Northwestern......................................... dis 10*10
30
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought...................  80
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
80
Bird  Cages............................................  
50
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
80
Screws, New List...................................  
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50*10*10
Dampers, American  .  ..........................  
50
600 pound casks...........................................  
7 4
Per pound....................................................    7g
W@Vi...........................................................  
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

MISCELLANEOUS

TIN—Melyn Grade

METALS—Zinc

HORSE NAILS

WRENCHES

SOLDER

Each additional X on this grade, (1.25.

li

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal......................................   4  50
14x20 IC, Charcoal......................................   4  50
10x14 IX, Charcoal.......................................  6 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 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   8  00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   10 00
BOILER  SIZB TIN  PLATB 
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, |
14x56 IX. for  No  9  Boilers. <• per pound

BUYING  BARGAINS

Which  Turned  Out  T o  Be  Cheap 

Trash.
Stroller in Grocery World.

inhabitants 

I  have  a  friend  who  is  wiser now  than 
be  was  six  months ago.  Up  to  that  time 
he  had  done  business  in  a  little  town  of
5,000 
in  this  State,  where 
competition  from  the  cutter  is  practi­
cally  unknown.  He  thought  he  could  till 
a  larger  field,  so  be  made  a  real  estate 
deal  and  got  hold  of  a store up in Frank- 
ford. 
It  is  within  two  squares  of  one  of 
the  branch  stores  of  a  big  cutter,  and 
the  owner  very  frankly  told  him  that, 
and  also  added  that  my  country  friend 
would  have  considerable  trouble 
in 
meeting  the  competition.  But  he  was 
feeling  bis  oats  pretty  well,  so  be  de­
cided  to  take  the  store  and  show  the 
grocers  of  Philadelphia  bow  to meet  the 
cutter.
I  remember  very  well  the  day  he  un­
folded  to  me  the  scheme  he  was  going 
to  use 
It  wasn’t a  very 
new  idea,  but  he  thought  be  bad  origi­
nated  it.  He  was  very  enthusiastic  over 
it  and  bad 
it  all  figured  out  how  he 
could  simply  smash  the  cutter  into  a 
thousand  fragments.

in  doing  this. 

“  Look here, ”   he  said  to  me  one  day. 
And  he  handed  me  a  great  pile  of  these 
cheap  circulars  that  most  of  the  Phila­
delphia  cutters  use.  All  of  these cir­
culars  offered,  as  baits,  you  know,  very 
tempting  bargains,  like  two 
loaves  of 
bread  for  a  cent  and  so  on.  All  these 
baits  my  friend  bad  marked.

“ Now,  see  here,”   he  said,  animated­
ly,  “ here's  Blank  offering a can of fancy 
corn  for  3  cents.  That's  36  cents  a 
dozen.  Why,  the  cheapest  good  corn  I 
can  get  is  55  cents,  and  that  ain’t  any­
thing  extra.  Now,  I'll  simply  send  peo­
ple  to  that  fellow's  store  and  buy  all 
that  corn  1  can  get.  He  can't  keep  up 
that  price  very  long,  and  when  he  stops 
I ’ll  start  in. 
I  can  afford  to  sell  it at 
5  cents  and  make  a  good  profit,  whiie 
he's  losing  on  every  can.

like  that. 

“ Here’s  another  fellow  selling  a  loaf 
of  bread  for a  cent,"  he  went  on.  “ I ’ll 
get  all  of  that,  too.  1  can’t  buy  bread 
for  anything 
I'll  work  the 
same  dodge  with  bread  and  with  every 
one  of  these  big  drives.  By  doing  that 
1  can  afford  to  sell  the  goods all the time 
and  make  a  profit  at  almost  the  cutter's 
special  price  at  which  he  loses.  See?"
“ Y e s ,"  I  said,  “ I  see,  but  assuming 
that  the  scheme  is  all  right  otherwise, 
do  you  suppose  these  cutters  are  going 
to sell you an unlimited  quantity  of  these 
cut  goods?"

“ How  can  they help  it?" he answered. 
“ I ’ll  send  boys  there  that  they  don’ t 
know. ”

Well,  that  was  my  friend’s  wonderful 
scheme,  and  a  week  or  two  ago  I looked 
him  up  to  see  whether  he  bad  started  it 
yet  and  how  it  worked.

There  were  one  or two  customers  in 
the  place  when  I  entered,  and  when 
these  were  gone  the  grocer  and  I  sat 
down  for a  moment  in  a  corner  behind 
the  counter.

“ Well,  how  have  you  made  out?”   I 

Oh,  pretty  well,”   was  the  reply,  but 

it  wasn't  very  enthusiastically  said.

“ How  did  your  scheme  work?”  

I 

asked.

asked  then.

“ What  scheme?”   he  said,  absently.
"W hy,  that  scheme  you  bad  to  beat 

the  cutter.  Don't  you  know?”

rapidly 

I  bad  unwittingly  touched  a  painful 
subject,and  it  was  painful  for  other rea­
sons  besides  the  mere  failure  of  the 
scheme.

becoming 

The  man’s  face  flushed.
“ You've  got  the  greatest  lot of  blank 
thieves  down  here  I  ever  saw !”   be 
said, 
excited. 
“ There’s  no  show  for  an  honest  man 
who  wants  to  do  the  right  thing  by  his 
trade!  These  cutters  ought  to  be  kicked 
to  death !  They  ain’t  fit  to  liv e !  Why, 
the  stuff  they  put  in  people’s  stomachs 1 
wouldn't  give  to  my  dog  up  in the coun­
try.  But  the  people  down  here  seem  to 
want  it,  and  they’re  getting  it,  too.

‘ You  asked  about  that  scheme,”   he 
“ It  didn't  work  at  all,  and  I ’ll 
said. 
I  did  these  thief  cutters 
tell  you  why. 
justice  to  assume  that  they  were 
the 
selling  these  drives  of  theirs at  a  real

use one  breath  of  profanity.

1  threw 

” ‘ I  bought  several  things  there,”   he 
continued,  in  a  quieter  tone,  “ but  they 
were  all  trash. 
’em  all  away. 
One day  this  fellow  up  above advertised 
a  drive  in  corn.  He  said  it  was  fancy 
New  York  State  corn  and  he  sold  it  at  4 
cents  a  can.  Well,  for  fancy  York  State 
corn  that  was  way  cheaper  than  I  could 
buy  for—a  good  deal  cheaper.  So  1 
sent  some  people  up  there  and  they 
Like 
bought  about  two  dozen  cans. 
a  fool  I  didn’t  send  one  first  and 
look 
at 
it  before  I  got  any  more,  but  I  gave 
’em  all  the  money  together,  and they  all 
got  back  at  about  the  same  time.  As 
soon  as  I 
looked  at  the  stuff  I  knew  I 
was  stuck. 
It  was  old  Maryland  corn, 
and  the  bummest  stuff  you  ever  saw. 
There  was  something  the matter with  it, 
and  a  canned-goods  salesman  who  is  a 
friend  of  mine  said  the  cutter  paid 
about  40  certs  a  dozen  for  it. 
I  threw 
the  whole  stuff  away. 
I  couldn’t  have 
sold  it  and  held  my  bead  u p !

“ I  got  quite  a  lot  of  stuff  there,  and 
it  was  all  the  same  way.  One  day  he 
advertised  a  special  drive  in fancy print 
butter  at  18  cents.  He  said  on  bis  cir 
cular 
it  was  regular  25  cent  butter. 
Well,  I  figured  that  if  it  was  I  would  be 
savin’  money  by  getting  some,  so  I  sent 
and  got  several  pounds.  This  time  1 
sent  for  one  pound  first,  and  that  didn’t 
seem  so  bad,  so  I  got  more. 
It  was  the 
funniest  butter  you  ever  saw,  and  at  18 
cents,  I  got 
I  hadn’t  had 
in  the  store  two  hours  before  it  got 
it 
all  watery—dripped  over  everything. 
Why,  it  lost  all  its  shape!  And  stink ! 
Great  Ceasar,  how  some  of  that  butter 
did  stink!  All  of  it  didn’t,  but  several 
pounds  had  a  nasty,  rancid  smell. 
1 
got  disgusted  then,  and  threw  the  whole 
lot  of  it  out. 
I  wouldn’t  bother  with it! 
I  suppose  that  butter  was  the  worked* 
over  stuff  they  call  porcess  butter.

in  it  again. 

the 

“ That’s 

last  thing 

I  bought 
there,”   went on  my  friend,  “ and  since 
then  I  haven’t  bothered  with  the  cutter 
much. 
I ’m  doing  a  little  business  right 
along,  but  it  ain't  what  I  expected.  It's 
wonderful  how  people  bite  at  these 
frauds.  But  I  won’t  do  business  that 
wav,  if  I  die  for  it !”

Then  after  a  minute  he  said,  wearily, 

“ l  wish  I'd  never  come  down  here.”

Want  T o  Tax  O leo  Out  of  Existence.
The  National  Dairymen’s  Union  is 
back  of  still  another  scheme  to  force 
oleo  out  of  existence.  They  will  en­
deavor  at  the  present  session  of  Con­
gress  to  have  the  internal  revenue  tax 
greatly 
increased,  so  that  the  selling 
price  of  oleo  will  be  raised  to  that  ol 
butter.  This  would  destroy  oleo's  ad­
vantage.
The  National  Dairymen’s  Union 
charge  the  Internal  Reveuue  Depart­
im 
ment  with  neglecting  to  enforce  an 
portai.t  part  of  the  revenue 
law.  The 
internal  revenue  inspector 
is  supposed 
to  do  two  things.  He  is  supposed  to  see 
that  the  man  who  sells  oleo  pays  his  tax 
and  he  is  also  supposed  to  see  that  oleo 
is  sold  for  wbat  it  is.  The 
inspectors, 
however,  content  themselves  with  see­
ing  that  the  oleo  is  properly taxed,  leav­
ing  the  selling  for  itself  to  be  attended 
to  by  the  State  authorities,  if  there  is  a 
State  law,  and  leaving  it  entirely  unat­
tended  to  if  there  isn’t.  The  National 
Dairy  Union  also  charges  that  few,  if 
any,  State  anti-oleo  laws  are  enforced 
with  any  degree of  energy.
Whether the  move  will  go  through  is a 
question.  When  the  measure taxing  oleo 
was  under  discussion,  the  tax 
in  the 
original  draft  was 
15  cents,  but  this 
was  bitterly  fought,  and  one  reduction 
after  another  made  until  2  cents  was 
reached,  and  at  that  the  bill  passed.

 

CAPS

BOLTS

BUCKBTS

70
4
65 
55 
35 
60

BUTTS,  CAST

Railroad.............................................$12 00  14 00
Garden.................................................  net  30 00
Stove......................................................  
60*10
Carriage new list...................................  70 to 75
Plow........................................................ 
so
Well,  plain......   ..........................................I 3 25
Cast Loose  Pin, figured............................... 70*10
Wrought Narrow.............................. 
70*10
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle.......................
CROW  BARS
Cast Steel................................
Ely’s  1-10....................................
Hick’s C. F ..................................
G. D............................................
Musket.......................................
CARTRIDGES
Rim Fire....................................
Central  Fire...............................

............. 
..per lb 
..perm  
..perm  
..perm  
..perm  

Morse’s Bit Stocks....................
Taper and Straight Shank.........
Morse’s Taper Shank.................

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

.50* 5 
.25* 5
80
80
80
80
60
.50* 5 
50*  5
Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
50
Corrugated.............................   .............. 
135
Adjustable.............................................. dis 40*10
Clark’s small, (18;  large, 126..............
.30*10
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, (24; 3. (30  ....................
25
Vew American....................................
70*10
Nicholson’s..........................................
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps..........................
.6C&10
GALVANIZED  IRON 
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27. 
28
16.
List  12 
17

EXPANSIVE  BITS

PILES—New  List

ELBOWS

CHISELS

DRILLS

14 

13 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
GAUGBS

MATTOCKS

KNOBS—New List

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...................... 60*10
Door, mineral, jap, trimmings.................... 
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
80
Adze Eye.....................................(16 00, dis  60*10
Hunt Eye.....................................(15 00, dis 60*10
Hunt’s....  .................................  $18 50, dis 20*10
Coffee, Parkers Co.’8.................................... 
40
40
Coffee, P. S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.. 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry *  Clark’s................ 
40
Coffee, Enterprise........................................  
ao
Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

MOLASSES  OATES

MILLS

NAILS

 

 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.
Steel nails, base...........................................  
1 55
Wire nails, base...........................................  
iao
30 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
06
8 ad vance.................................................... 
10
6 advance.................... 
20
4 advance.................................................... 
30
3 advance...................................................  
45
2 advance...................................................  
70
Fine 3 advance...........................................  
50
Casing 10 advance........................................ 
15
25
Casing  8 advance........................................ 
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance......................................  
25
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel X advance.......................................... 
85
Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy................................   @50
Sciota Bench................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  @50
Bench, firstquality......................................   @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
70* 5
Common, polished.................................. 
Iron and  T inned........................................  
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
60
’’A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
'B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 
Broken packages %c per pound  extra. 

PATBNT PLANISHED IRON 

PLANBS

RIVETS

PANS

HAMMBRS

Maydole *  Co.’s, new  list...........   ........ dis  SS'?»
Kip’s  ..................................................... dis 
25
Terkes *  Plumb’s...................................di« 10*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..................30c list 
7C
Blacken**’-’- 8*1W Co-*  gtooi 
*n*•?

on. 
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS

HOLLOW  WARB

Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 75*1
Japanned Tin Ware......................................20AH
Granite Iron Ware........................ new list 40*1 r
Pots................................................................80*1
Kettles........................................................  60*1(
Spiders.......................................................   60&11
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,8................................ dis 60*1(
State......................................... per doa. net  2 59

HINGES

24

Grand  Rapids  Retail  G rocers’  A ssocia­

tion.

at 

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers'  Association, 
held 
the  office  of  the  Michigan 
Tradesman,  Tuesday  evening,  Jan.  3, 
President  Dyk  presided.

It  has 

letter  was 

The  following 

In  the  West,  everything 

received 
from  the  Secretary  of  the  Denver  Retail 
Grocers’  Association:
is  sold  by 
weight,  with  the  exception  of  eggs  and 
a  few  other  things.  As  regards potatoes, 
they  are  always  placed  in  sacks  by  the 
farmers,each  sack  weighing  from  100  to 
125  pounds,  and  when  sold  to  the  mer­
chant  by  the  car  load,  which  consists  of 
from  50  to  75  sacks,  they  are  weighed 
on  the  city  scales  under  the  supervision 
of  the  city  weighing  official.  When 
purchased 
in  smaller  quantities,  they 
are  generally  weighed  on  a  iarge  plat­
form  scale  by  the  commission  mer­
chants,  the  grocer again  weighing them, 
so  as  to  see  that  the  weights correspond. 
No  doubt,  it  will  prove  rather a  diffi­
cult  task  to  educate  the  Western  people 
to  purchase  goods  by  the pound,  instead 
of  by  the  peck  and  bushel,  but  I  think 
it  will  prove  far  more  satisfactory  and 
advantageous  if  you  can  so  accomplish 
it. 
in  the  past  and  always  will 
be  the  method  of  retailing  goods  by  the 
Western  grocer,  as  it  is  by  far  the  best 
way.
We  sincerely hope  your  Association  is 
well  established  and 
that  you  have 
branch 
the 
throughout 
associations 
State.  Our  Association  is  but  eighteen 
months  old,  but 
it  has  made  such  vast 
strides  and  become  so  firmly  established 
that  it  has  surpassd all  expectations  and 
proved  most  beneficial  to  all  the  groc­
ers.  Out  of  a  possible  450 grocers  in 
the  city,  400  are  members  of  the  Asso­
ciation.  We  have  branch  associations 
throughout  the  State  and  new  ones  are 
forming  at  frequent  intervals.
I  would  like  to  enquire  if  your  Asso 
ciation  has  made  any  contract  with  the 
flour  mills  or  merchants,  establishing  a 
uniform  retail  price  for  flour?  Also  if 
you  have  made  any  arrangement  with 
the  jobbers  and  commission  merchants, 
prohibiting  them  from retailing?  Would 
like  very  much  to  gain  the  above  infor­
mation,  and  in  the  future  if  at  any  time 
we  can  give  you any information desired 
or 
in  any  way  further  the  interests  of 
your  Association,  we  will  be  only  too 
glad  to  do  so.

An  application  for  membership  was 
received  from  F.  J.  Dettenthaler,  which 
was  accepted.

The  resolutions  in  regard  to a uniform 
holiday  closing  schedule  and  the  buying 
and  selling  of  potatoes  by  weight  were 
taken  from  the  table  and  laid  over  until 
the  next  meeting.

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  called  attention  to 
the  numerous  farmers  now  peddling  on 
the  streets  and  suggested  that  the  sale 
of  produce  be  restricted  to  the  public 
market.
Mr.  Wendorff  stated  that  this  matter 
was  already  being  discussed  by  the 
Committee  on  Trade  Interests.

B.  S.  Harris  recommended  that  the 
Committee  on  Trade  Interests  be  re­
quested  to  take  the  matter  up  with  the 
Council  Committee  now  considering  the 
revision  of  the  city  charter.

J.  Geo.  Lehman  commended  the  sug­
gestion  and  volunteered  to  act  on such  a 
committee.
Mr.  Wendorff  moved  that  Mr.  Detten­
thaler  and  Mr.  Lehman  be  added  to  the 
Committee,  which  was  adopted.

There  being  no  further  business  the 

meeting  adjourned.

The  Grain  M arket.

There  seems  to  be  no  let-up  in  the 
exports  of  wheat,  which  would  be  still 
if  cars  could  be  procured  for 
larger 
shipment.  Another  large  decrease 
is 
reported—1,890,000 bushels—while many 
expected  a  small  increase,  especially  as 
the  increase  for  the  corresponding  week 
last  year  was  2,500,000  bushels.  A  de­
crease  may  be  expected  right  along, 
and  it  will  need quite  a  movement  from 
first  hands  to  keep  pace  with  our  ex­
for home  consumption.  We
ports  and 

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N
Flour and  Feed.

Trade  during  the  past  week  has  been 
light  and  of  the  usual  holiday character. 
The  recent  advance  in  wheat,  however, 
has  awakened  greater 
interest  on  the 
part  of  buyers,  who  are  studying  the 
situation  carefully,  and  the  indications 
now  point  to  a  good  demand  for both 
wheat  and  flour  from  foreign  and  do­
mestic  buyers  for  spring  trade.  Exports 
continue  to  be  very  heavy  and  home 
consumption  is  much  greater  than  ever 
before.  Pure  flour  legislation  has  elim­
inated  many  of  the  cheap  mixtures  that 
were  hawked  about  last  year  at  nominal 
prices  to  deceive  the  public  and  greatly 
injure  the  legitimate  milling  business. 
Now  all  such  mixtures  must  be 
labeled 
and  when  so 
labeled  they  do  not  find 
ready  sale,  which  proves  conclusively 
that  the  American  people,  as  a  rule,  do 
not  want  anything  but  pure  food  and 
prefer  to  pay  a  fair  price  for  it,  rather 
than  to  take  cheap  mixtures  even  at 
cost.  The  city  mills  are  invoicing  and 
making  general  repairs  this  week,  but 
will  all  be  running  steadily  next  week.
The  demand  for  millstuffs  is  good,  at 
advanced  prices.  Feed  and  meal  are 
moving  steadily  and  a  trifle  higher,  in­
fluenced  by  corn  and  oats.

W m.  N.  R o w e.

Predicts  Still  Higher  P rices for  Eggs. 
From the Chicago  Record,  Jan,  3.

“ I  think  that  within  the  next  week 
or  ten  days  eggs  will  be higher  than 
they  have  ever  been  before in the history 
of  the  business, "  said Walter J.  Mooney, 
manager  of  the  Western  Union  Cold 
Storage  Co.,  yesterday.  " A t   this  time 
last  year  there  were  about twice as many 
eggs 
in  the  market  and  the  receipts 
were  more  liberal.  A  year  ago  to-day 
we  had  something 
like  50,000  cases. 
Outsiders  have  offered  us  big  figures  for 
our  holdings,  but  we  have  refused  to 
part  with  them. 
I  think  that  within  a 
very  short  time wholesale  prices  in  Chi­
cago  will  be  25  cents  a  dozen,  and  there 
is  no  telling  how  high  the  people  will 
have  to  pay  for  them.  There  is  a  cer­
tain  class  of  people  who  must  have  eggs 
at  any  price,  and  I  feel  rather  sorry  for 
them. ”

Chas.  H.  Libby  has  purchased  the 
butter  and  egg  business  of  Pettit  Bros., 
98  South  Division  street,  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business.  Mr.  Libby  has 
bandied  butter  and  eggs  in  a  jobbing 
way  in  connection  with his grocery busi­
ness  at  95  South  Division  street  for  sev­
eral  years  and  has  the  necessary  experi­
ence  and  capital  to  conduct  the business 
successfully.

WANTS  COLUMN.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

I NOR SALE—91,800  GROCERY  STOCK; $3,500 
1  grocery  stock:  $7,t00  hardware  and  im 
plemeut  stock;  $4 000  drug  stock;  $7,000  drug 
stock; one rebuilt intermediate  Campbell  cylin­
der printing press, with Brown folder; one large 
Orchestrion, fine, cost  $6,000 to  import, bargain; 
brick  flouring  mill, roller  process,  capacity  200 
barrels per  day, water  power; one  4 b>n  grain 
elevator on the  C. & G. T. Railway,  in  the  best 
wheat  district  in  Southern  Michigan.  D.  D. 
Ford, Room 14, Annex  Blk, Batt'e  Cr  ek, Mich.
807

Bu s in b s s  c h a n c e—f o r   sa l e,  dry

goods,  clothing  and  men’s  furnish ng 
goods business;  wel. established  in  live  town. 
Good reasons for selling.  Address H. T.  Crosby 
& Co., Clayton, Mich. 
805
I ¡MIR SAL  —STOCK OF JEWELRY, SILVER- 
’  ware, books,  stationery  and wall  paper  in 
live town in Northern Michigan  Good reasons 
for  selling.  Address  Books,  care  Michigan 
804
Tradesman. 

FOR  SALE—GROCERY  AND  BAKERY 

stock, best in  city;  cash  business  of $ls,000 
to  $20.000  year y;  good  location,  ch< ap  rent. 
Poor health reason  for  selling.  Address Comb. 
Lock Box 8’6, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 
| jM)R  SALE—WELL-ESTABLI-HED  AND 
J?  good-paying  implement  and  harness  busi­
ness, located  in  small  town  surrounded  with 
good farming country.  Store  has  no  competi­
tion within radius of eight miles.  Address  No. 
806, care Michigan Tradesman. 
806
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, 
783
LaGrange,  Ind. 

803

799

789

800

P HOTO  RAPH GALLERY TO RENT AFTER 
Jan. 1;  best location and oldest stand in the 
i ity.  Write  Alpena  County  Savings  Bank,  Al­
797
pena, M  eh 
r|MJ  EXCHANGE -  $2,fr 0  HARRISON  INDE- 
X  pendent  Telephone  stock  for  i\  first-class 
meat market and  fixtures,  etc.,  or  general  mer­
chandise of equal amount.  Address Lock  Box 
33, McBride’s, Mich. 
796
ipOR SALE CHEAP—12  LIGHT  ACETYLENE 
gas machine and fixtures.  Address Howard 
798
Price & Co., Kalkaska, Mich. 
I ¡MIR SALE—NEW, CLEAN STOCK OF HARD- 
ware and implements, invoicing from  $2,500 
to $3,000.  Also ware rooms,  store  and  dwelling; 
good location.  Inspection of property solicited. 
No  trade.  Address  Hardware,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
YX7ANTED—A  STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
TT  chandise or hardware in small town.  Will 
pay  cash.  Address  No.  799,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman 
OIX BEAUTIFUL  LOTS  IN  HARVEY,  TWO 
O   miles  fiom  Chicago  for  sale  or  trad 
for 
farm'ng  land  or  city  property  in  Central  or 
South* rn Michigan.  The  above  lots  are  first- 
class, centrally located, taxes  low  and  paid  to 
date, title guar *nteed. ¿A fine investment in one 
of Chicago's most prosperous suburbs.  For par­
ticulars write to  Box  No.  444,  Harbor  Springs, 
Mich. 
IZMIR  SALE — RESIDENCE  LOT-,  HOUSES 
J?  and lots and 40  acres  of  improved farming 
land near Kalamazoo,  which  I  will  sell  cheap 
for cash on  long time or exchange  for  stocks of 
merchandise anywhere in Michigan  or  Indiana. 
Inspection of properties solicited.  F.  E.  Bush­
man, 714 So  Park S t , Kalamazoo, Mich. 
788
I ¡MIR  POTATOES  IN  CAR  LOT-,  ADDRESS 
Wade  Bros.,  Cadillac  or  Traverse  City, 
Mich 
793
■\ Oik  ACRE FARM. VALUED AT$4 000, FREE 
1 £ i\j  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. 
792
I ¡MIR  SALE-CHEAP.  IF  TAKEN  AT ONCE, 
wholeeale butter and egg business.  Cali  or 
write 98 South Division St., Grand  Rapids.  791
I NOR  SALE—GROCERY  BUSINESS,  GOOD 
location and good trade. Reason for selling, 
other business on hand.  Address No.  795,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
795
I ¡MIR SALE—CL EAN SHO it STOCK INGROW- 
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.  784, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
EST  LOCATION  IN  MICHIGAN  FOR  A 
cold  storage  and  general  produce  dealer. 
Write to the  Secretary  of  tne  Otsego  Improve­
ment Association. Otsego. Mich. 
i jMIR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE —HOT  SODA 
apparatus,  silver,  mammoth,  up-to-date, 
Tufts’  pattern,  $225,  $5  per  month,  6  per  cent, 
interest.  Also Soda Fountain, modern, eighteen 
syrups, two sodas,  four mineral  tubes,  magnifi­
cent  cherry  top,  Tufts’  pattern,  $1,100,  $10  per 
month,  6  per cent.  Also  Fixtures,  drug  and 
jewelry:  three 8 ft.,  one  12-ft.  wall  cases,  plate 
glass;  24 ft. drug shelving, half glass;  four 8-ft. 
silent  salesman  cases,  beveled  plate,  grand; 
$1,000, $10 per  month,  *  per cent.  Address  766, 
care Michigan Tradesman 
ANTED —SHOES,  CLO TH IN G ,  DRY 
goods.  Address R. B., Box 351, Montague, 

784

766

631

Mich. 

699

Ha v e  sm a ll  g e n e r a l  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 
v&lne.  Address Lock Box 531, Howell, Mich.
739
I ¡MIR  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

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._________________________ 771
ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
ANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS,
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
556

Ithaca,  Mich._______________________  

Caulkett & Co.. Trave’se City.  Mich. 

381

FIREPROOF  SA F E S

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

VOUNG  MAN  WANTED  FOR  COUNTRY 
1   STORE.  Address  802,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
8%
W ANTED —PERMANENT  POSITION  IN 
dry goods or shoe store,  by  young man 28 
years old; 12 years’  experience;  Al  ref  renc  s. 
Address No. 8<*7, care  Michigan Tradesman.  807
SITUATION  WANTED—BY  REGISTERED 
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.______________794
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.

743

look  for a  freer  movement  from  now  on, 
providing  the  roads  are  good,  especially 
as  the  present  price  is  considered  very 
fair.  The  Argentines  are  selling  some 
wheats,  but  not  enough  to  cause  uneasi­
ness;  while  many  begin  to  doubt  the  re­
port  of  an  abundant  harvest.  Russia, 
also, 
is  not  sending  out  the  amount 
which  was  expected.  All  this  caused  an 
in  the  markets  in  the  United 
advance 
States.  There 
is  only  one  thing  that 
holds  prices  where  they  are,  and  that  is 
the  large  crop  raised.  Should  anything 
happen  to  our  growing  crop  we  may  see 
prices 
jump,  but  for  the  present  wheat 
on  the  ground  looks  well.

Corn 

is  also  strong,  and  the  new  is 
nearly  as  high  as  old  was  last  week, 
and  it  would  be  as  high  were  it  not  that 
it 
is  rather  soft  yet,  owing  to  the  very 
mild  weather.  Corn  at  this  time  needs 
good  freezing  weather  to  make  it sound. 
We  can  say  corn  advanced  from  ic  to 
2c  per  bu.

Oats 

is  again  on  top,  having  gained 
It  looks 
though  the  top  was  about 

another  cent  during  the  week. 
now  as 
reached.

taking  all  things 

Rye  has  held 

its  own  remarkably, 
into  consideration.
This  has  been  a  strong  week  for  all 

kinds  of  grain.

Receipts  during  the  past  week,  owing 
to  the  holiday  times,  have  been  normal: 
44  cars  of  wheat,  19  cars  of  corn  and  11 
cars  of  oats.

Receipts  for  the  month:  265  cars  of 
wheat,  100  cars  of  corn  and  51  cars  of 
oats.

Receipts  for  the  year  1898:  2,833  cars 
of  wheat,  741  cars  of  corn  and  497  cars 
of  oats.  This  is  the  largest  amount  of 
wheat  ever  received  during  any  year 
since  1875  and  for a  few  years thereafter 
wheat  was  shipped  out  of  Grand  Rap­
ids.

What  becomes  of  all  the  oats  shipped 
in  here 
is  a  mystery,  as  we  had  a  fair 
crop.  Corn  was  a  poor crop, so  we  must 
expect  to  receive 
large  supplies  from 
outside.

Millers  are  paying  65c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t.

One  o f  Pingree’s  Pet  M easures.
One  of  Govenor  Pingree’s  pet  meas­
ures  was  enacted  by  the  extra  session  of 
the  Legislature  last  spring and approved 
It  provides  that 
by  him  April  15,  1898 
the  property  of  any 
citizen 
soldier 
legal  proc­
shal  be  exempt  from  any 
ess  during  the  term  of  his 
service 
and  for  six  months  after  such  service 
shall  cease.  The  latter  provision  is  now 
being  taken  advantage  of  by  many  de­
linquent  citizens  who  carried a  gun  dur­
ing  the  recent  Spanish  war,  to  the  dis­
traction  of  collectors  and  the  dismay  of 
their  creditors.  The  full  text  of  the 
“ Pingree  dead-beat  bill, ”   so-called,  is 
as  follows:

Section  1.  That  all  citizens  of  this 
State,  while  engaged  in  actual  military 
duty 
in  the  service  of  this  State,  or  of 
the  United  States,  in  the  event  of  war 
with  Spain,  as  members  of  the  naval 
brigade,  national  guard,  or 
in  the 
United  States  army,  navy,  or  marine 
corps,  or  any  other  branch  of  service, 
shall  not  be  subject  to  proceedings  in 
this  State  for  the  collection  of  any  debt 
incurred  prior  to,  or  during  such  peri­
od  of  service.

Sec.  2.  The  property  of  such  citi­
zens,  serving  as  above  mentioned,  shall 
be  exempt  from  execution,  levy,  seiz­
ure,  or  attachment  for  debts  contracted 
prior  to,  or  during  such  service,  and 
shall  continue  exempt  for  a  period  of 
six  months after such service shall cease ; 
except  in  cases  where  the  statutes  of 
limitations  might  operate  to  make  such 
debts  or  obligations  void.

Travelers’ Tiftie  Tables.
CHICAGO aad West Michigan R*y

Sept. 35, 1898.

Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids............   7:30am  13:00am *11:45pm
Ar.  Chicago............... 2:10pm  9:15pm 
7:20am
Lv.Chicago... 11:45am  6:50am  4:15pm *lt:50pm 
Ar.G’dRapids 5:00pm  1:25pm  10:30pm * 6:20air 
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Lv. G’d  Rapids.............7:30am  8:05am  5:30pm
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on 
night trains to and from Chicago

*Rvery  day. 

Others week days only.

H P T D n i T   Grand Rapid» & Western.
U C   1   K v I   1   9 

S e p t. 2 5 , 1898.

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pm
Ar. Detroit....................11:40am  5:45pm 10:05pn
Lv. Detroit....................8:00am  1:10pm  8:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......12:55pm  5:20pm 10:55pm
Lv. G R 7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G R 11:45am  0:30pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Gao.  DbHavbn,  General Pass. Agent.

f i n  A M H   Tnu,k Railway System
v l l V / a i  T U   Detroit and Milwaukee Div.

(In effect Nov.  13,  1898.)

EAST. 

Leave. 
'  Arrive,
t  8:46am.Sag.,  Detroit, Buffalo 4 N Y . t  9:55pm
tl0:10am......... Detroit  and  East........ .t 5:27pm
t  8:20pm. ...Saginaw, Detroit A East__tl2:45pm
* 7:20pm  Buffalo, N. T. A Boston....*1(1:15am
*10:10am__Gd. Haven  and  Int. Pts....*  7:’5 >m
tl2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:12pm 
t  5:30pm. ..Gd. Haven and Milwaukee.  5:27pm 
Eastward—No-16 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
22  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 17 Wagner parlor car.
*Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

WKST

E. H. H uo h xs. A  G. P. A T. A. 
Ban. F l b t c h b b , Trav. Pass. Agt.
C.  A.  J u st in,  City Pass.  Agent.

97 Monroe St.  Morton House.

Nov.13, 1898.

GRAND Rapids  &  indiana Railway
Northern Div.  Leave  Ainvi 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey A Mack...t 7:45am t  5:15pm
Trav- City A Petoskey............t 2:10pm tl0:45pm
Cadillac accommodation........+ 5:25pm t!0:55am
Petoskey A Mackinaw City.. ..tH :00pm  t  6:35pm 
7:45am  and 2:10pm  trains  have  parlor  cars; 
11 :Ojpm train has sleeping car.
\rrlvt
Cincinnati 
..................... t 7:10am  t  9 45pm
F t Wayne 
................t  2:10pm  t   1:55,..
Cinolnnatl.............................   7:00pm  6:30i-
For Vicksburg and Chicago.. *11:30pm  9:10am
7:10  am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Clnclnnai 
and  parlor  car  to  Chicago;  2:10pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Wayne;  7:00pm  train  has 
sleepihgcars  to Cincinnati;  11:30pm  train  has 
coach and sleeping car to  Chicago.

Southern  Div.  Leave 

......  

Chicago Trains.

raon Ch ic a g o .

TO CHICAGO.
Lv. Grand Rapids... 7  10am  2  10pm  *11 30pm
Ar. Chicago............   2 O pm 
6 25am
Lv. Chicago............................   3 02pm  *11 32pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...................  9 45pm 
6 30am
Train 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.

9  10pm 

Muskegon Trains.

Oprwq w e st.

som e b a s t .

LvG’d  Rapids...  ___+7:35am 1 1:00pm to:40pn
Ar Muskegon.... 
9:00am  2:10nm  7:05pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:35am.
Lv Muskegon..............t8:10am  til :45am  t 4.00pr
Ar G’d Rapids.............9:80am  12:55pm  6:20pp
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm. 
tBxoept Sunday. 
'Daily.

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

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent 
Ticket Agent Union Station.
DULUTH, s^ ‘ ^
A““ k
Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. A L)tll:10pm  t7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City.................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignaee.........................  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie................  12:90pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette......... ...............  2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria............................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth............................................ 
8:30am
Lv. Duluth...........................................   t6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria...........................til :15am  .2:45am
1:30pm  4:30am
Ar. Marquette.......................  
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie....................3:30pm 
..
8:40pm  11:00am
Ar. Mackinaw City................ 
G. W. Hibbabd, Gen. Paaa. Agt. Marquette. 
B. C. Ovtatt Trav. Pass. Agt. Grand Rapids
IW ANK TFF  &  Northeastern Ry.
IT S f a i   . A O  A  A-< Aw  Best route to Manistee.

WBST  BOUND.

BAST  BOUND.

Via  C. A   W . M.  Railway.

L v Grand Rapids...............................   7:00am  ............
A r  Manistee...................  
12:05pm  ............
L v   Manistee.......................................  8:30am  4:10pm
A r Grand  R a p id s...........   ............   1 :00pm  9:55pm

TRADESMAN  COMPANY’S

CLASSIFIED  LIST  OF

POISONOUS  DRUGS

THE LAW.

H .  S.  Sec.  9320.  Every  apothecary, druggist or other person  who  shall  sell  and 
deliver at  retail any  arsenic, corrosive  sublimate, prussic  acid  or  any  other  substance 
or liq u id  usually  denominated poisonous  without  having  the  word “poison'  and  the 
true  name  thereof ’ and the  name o f some simple antidote,  i f   any  is  known, written  or 
prin ted upon  a label attached to  the  v ia l, box  or  parcel  containing  the  same, shall  be 
punished by  a fin e  not exceeding $10 0 .

To enable druggists  and country merchants to meet  the  requirements  of  the  above  statute 
without going to the expense of putting  in a large  assortment  of  labels,  we  have  compiled  and 
classified a list of drugs which are poisonous,  or become  so in overdoses.

They are arranged  in fourteen groups,  with  an antidote for each  group;  that is,  an  antidote tor 

any of these poisons will  be found in some one of these fourteen antidotes.

This arrangement will  save you  money,  as it does away with  the  need  of  the  large  variety 
of antidote labels  usually  necessary,  as with  a  quantity  of  each  of  the  fourteen  forms  you  are 
equipped for the entire  list.

There  are  113  poisonous  drugs which  must  all be labeled as such,  with  the  proper antidote 
attached.  Any  label  house will  charge  you  but  14  cents  for  250  labels,  the  smallest  amount 
sold.  Cheap enough,  at a glance,  but did you ever figure  it out—113  kinds at  14 cents—$15.82? 
With our system  you get the same results,  with  less detail and for less than one-third the money.
By keeping the  labels  in  a  handsome oak case,  they never get mixed up and they do not curl.
Price,  complete,  $4.  Order direct or  through  any wholesale house.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  «Rand rapids.

That  boy of mine  at  Saizo,

H as some  powerful funny ways, 

With ideas highfalutin',

Like  most folks  now-a-days.

He keeps harpin'  now on System, 

On  Money-Weight  and such, 

Says  scales that  I  used in  startin' 

Was  a costin’  him  too much.

He’s gone and  got the finest

That them Dayton folks turn out; 
Says they’re savin’  him the nickels 

Without the  slightest doubt.

Well,  there’s some mighty changes, 

And it ain’ t fer  me  ter say 

That John  should  run  his business 

In my old fashioned way.

If there’s something in  a System 
That will save  him overweight, 
And he’s sure  it saves  him  money, 

I  say don’t  hesitate.

If kickin’  out old  methods,
And  a puttin’  in  the  new 

Is  goin’  ter help  my boy along, 

I  say Amen;  don’t you?

Absolutely  Free

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

Premiums  are  given  with  an  ob­
ject in view.  We recommend  to  mer­
chants to give away premiums to their 
customers  to  i n c r e a s e   t h e i r   c a s h  
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.

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.

Including  the parlor clock. 

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

gi
£
Our regular price of silverware is invariably $1.25 eacji.  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. 
£
§
174 WABASH AVE., CHICAGO, ILL  i

THE  REGENT  MANUFACTURING CO., 

-  

With Beveled  Edge Plate Glass top $5.00 per loot.

SHOW  CASES  OF  ALL  STYLES

Until  Nov. 

1  we  will  furnish  these  b'guly  nnished  show  cases  with  inlaid  wood 

comers at the following low prices f o b   Bryan:

3fe e t........ $4.50 
4 feet........   6.25 

5 feet..................... $7.25 
6 feet.....................  S.15 

7 feet................. -I  9.25 9 feet...$12,25
8 feet................. 

10.50 10 

feet.  13.35

Cases are  15 inches high, well finished, all double thick glass,  mirror lined pandl

doors in rear.  Guaranteed satisfactory in every  respect.  Cases  17  inches  high  10 
cents extra per foot.  Write us for circulars and catalogue of our Combination Cases

THE  BRYAN  SHOW CASE  WORKS,  Bryan,  Ohio.

