Volume XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  18,1899.

Number  800

Seymour Crackers^

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

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and merchants need have 

no  hesitation  in  keeping 

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THE  ONLY  WAY...

To learn the  real  value of a trade  or class paper 
is to find out how  the  men  in whose interest it is 
published value it.  Ask the merchants of Mich­
igan what they think of the .  .  .

M ICH IGAN  T R A D E S M A N

We  are  willing  to  abide  by  their  decision.

New  Confection  in  Pudding  Shape.  Delicious.  Always  Ready  for  Use. 

Im­

proves with Age.  Made in 

i, 2, 3 pound sizes and also in cakes.

15  cents per pound.

G R A N D   R A P I D S   O A N D Y O O .

Four  Kinds  of  Coupon  Books

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids,  flich.  <§

Creameries Paying 

like 
a  good  creamery  in  your community  write  to  us  for  particulars.

creameries 
promote  prosperity. 
W e  build  the  kind 
If  you 
that  pay. 
would 
to  see

A  M O D EL  C R E A M E R Y .

Our Creamery buildings are erected after the most approved Elgin model. 
W e  equip  them  with  new  machinery  of  the  very  latest  and  best  type.
Creamery  Package  M’f'g   Co.,

1*3-5 W. Washington St.,

CHICAGO, ILL.

Why the Trade Increases

Our spice trade continues to increase  faster and faster.
Who handles 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 have— 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,  L**^  t-

Write  for  prices.

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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,  i i 8  Bates S t.
Grand Rapids Agency,  26  Fountain  S t.

FLEISCH MANN  &  CO.

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

Mfrs. ot  a full line of

HANDMADE 
HARNESS 
FOR  THE 
WHOLSALE 
TRADE

Jobbers in

SADDLERY,
HARDW ARE,
ROBES,
BLANKETS,
HORSE 
COLLARS,
W HIPS, ETC.

Orders  by  mail  given  prompt 

attention.

m e   PAPER  BOXES Printed  and  plain  for  Patent 

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

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Volume  XVI

The Preferred  Bankers 
Life Assurance Company

o f  D etroit,  M ich. 

Annual Statement,  Dec.  31,  1898.

C om m enced  B usiness 8 ep t.  I,  1893.

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Insurance in  Force................................. $3,299,000  00
led ger Assets 
.....................................  ’  45,734  79
21  oS
Ledger Liabilities 
Losses Adjusted and Unpaid............... 
None
Total Death  Losses Paid to Date........  
51,061  00
Total Guaiantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
1,030 00
.. 
Death Losses Paid During’ the Y ear... 
11,000 00 
Death Rate for the Year.......................  
3  64

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eficiaries 

F R A N K  E. ROBSON, President. 

TRU M AN   B. GOODSPEED, Secretary.

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NOW  R E A D Y

KOLB & SON

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

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•  
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2   Write our traveler,  Wm.  Connor,  Box  346,
2   Marshall,  Mich , to  call,  or  meet  him  at 
2   Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand  Rapids, Jan.  14 and 
2  
'7.  also Jan.  26-31.  Winter  Overcoats and 
▼

WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS

  Ulsters still  on hand. 

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Michigan  to  protect  our  subscribers 
against loss by  worthless  debtors  and  to 
collect all other claims.

L. J. Stevenson. Manager and Notary.

R. J. Cleland  and  E.  C.  Spalding,  Attorneys.

FIGURE  NOW  on  improving your office 
system for next  year.  Write  for  sample 
leaf of our T in e  BOOK and PA Y ROLL.

BARLOW  BROS.,  Grand  Rapids.

Prompt, Conservative, Sale. 

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T h e  M e r c a n t il e  A g ency

Established  1841.

R .  G .  DUN  &   CO.

Widdicomb Bld'g, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Books arranged with trade classification oi names. 
CoUections made everywhere.  Write for particulars. 

L. P. W1TZLEBEN  manager.

Save  Trouble. 
Save  Money. 
Save Time.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  18,1899.

Number 800

It  is  said  that  more  steel  is  used  in 
the  manufacture  of  pens  than  in  all  the 
sword  and  gun  factories  in  the  world.

It  is  so  praiseworthy  to  be  looking  for 
work  that  a  great  many  young  men  are 
looking  for  work  that  they  never  intend 
to  do.

All  United  States  senators ought  to be 
good  for  something. 
It  is  said  Senator 
Allen,  of  Nebraska,  is  the  best  billiard 
player  in  bis  State.

Persons  who  think  more  of  personal 
notoriety  than  public  good  do  barm 
when  they  thrust  themselves  to  the  front 
in  a  cause  that  needs  substantial  back­
ing. 

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Co-operative  towns,stores or boarding­
houses  should  never  be  started  without 
the  permission  of  the  labor  agitators, 
who  must 
live  on  the  wages  of  others 
without  contributing  any  capital  or 
service  to  their  support.

A  Washington  girl  asked  General 
Wheeler  why  he  wore  no  medals,  and 
he  replied  that  he  had  none. 
“ I  am  no 
I  never 
bicyclist,”   added  be, 
made a  century  run  in  my  life.”   He 
might  bave  added  that  be  never  led  a 
brass  band.

‘ ‘ and 

The  use  of  fence  wires  ca  the  Aus 
tralian  plains  as  telephone  conductors 
is  becoming  general,  and  the  farmers 
thus  commonly  communicate  over  dis­
tances  of  seven  and  a  half  to twelve  and 
a  half  miles.  Unfortunately  the  wires 
conduct 
lightning  as  well  as  the  feeble 
telephone  currents,  and  animals  that 
take  refuge  against  the  fences  are  often 
killed  by  a  stroke  that  reached the  earth 
at  some  distant  point  and was conducted 
to  them  by  the  fence.

A  correspondent  of  the  New  York 
Times,  who  styles  himself  “ Somewhat 
of  an  Authority  on  Grip, ”   stated  the 
other  day  that  since  he  has  been  careful 
to  keep  his  feet  dry  he  has  not  suffered 
trom 
influenza,  and  that,  having  pre­
viously  had  it  four  years  in  succession, 
he 
is  certain  that  the  ailment  was  al­
ways  contracted  through  the  feet.  An­
other  correspondent  now  bobs  up  to  ob­
serve  that  he  has  had  influenza five years 
in  succession,  and 
that  he  has  two 
wooden  legs! 

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Experiments  to  reproduce  dead men’s 
features  from  their  skulls  are  being 
made  in  Germany.  The method  pursued 
is  that  proposed  by  the  late  Prof.  His, 
of  Leipzig,  to  reconstruct  the  face  of 
John  Sebastian  Bach.  At  the  University 
of  Graz  the  skulls  of  criminals who have 
been  executed  are  used.  Casts  of  these 
will  be  taken 
in  plaster  and  given  to 
different  persons  to  treat  according  to 
the  rules  laid  down.  The  results  will 
then  be  compared  with  one  another  and 
with  photographs  of  the  original  owners 
of  the  skulls,  taken  either  before  or 
after  death.  Should  they  prove  at  all 
successful 
in  obtaining  a  resemblance 
there 
is  likely  to  be  a  painful  rum­
maging  among  the  bones  of  the  great 
men  of  the  past.

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Chicago 
Retail  Druggists’  Association  it  was de­
cided  to  fight  the  new  trade  rules  of  the 
wholesale  dealers,  which  cut  discounts 
for  payments  within  10  days  of  the  first 
of  the  month  from  i ji  to  1  percent., 
and  which  enact  that  purchases  must 
henceforth  be 
in  quarter-of-a-dozen 
lots, instead of  one-sixth  and  one-twelfth 
dozens.

It  is  said  that  German  officials  abso­
lutely  ignore  the  stamps  and  brands  of 
American  officers  through  whose  hands 
American  meat  products  pass  before 
their  shipment,  claiming  that  certifi­
cates  of  inspection  from  this country are 
unreliable.  The  real  cause of Germany’s 
antagonism  to  American  me it  appears 
to  be  found  in  the  pressure  brought  to 
bear by  the  agricultural  interests of  that 
country  upon  the  government,  in  order 
to  preserve  the  home  market.

The  fruit-jar  industry  is  in  a  state  of 
disruption  and  plants  are  closed  down. 
The  introduction  of  machinery  by  Ball 
Bros  ,  of  Muncie,  Ind.,  a  year  ago,  by 
which  they  are  able  to  produce  fruit 
jars  at  a  labor  cost  of  16 cents  a  gross, 
has  made  it  impossible  for  band  manu­
facturers  to  compete  with  them.  Labor 
already  bas  submitted  to  a  30  per  cent, 
cut  and  another  30  per  cent,  is  to  be 
demanded.  Even  then  the  manufactur­
ers  will  be  unable  to  compete  with  the 
machines.  The  time  of  $6  and  $8  a 
gross  for  jars  bas  gone  and  it  is  pre­
dicted  that  within  a  year  they  will  be 
selling  for  less  than  $3,  which will  mean 
that  the  entire 
industry  of  the  United 
States,  and  practically  of  the  continent, 
will  be  in  the  hands  of three firms which 
now  control  the  machines.  The  band 
manufacturers,  save  one,  have  closed 
their  plants  and  are  changing  machin 
ery  for  other  glass  manufactures.  Two- 
cent  jars  will  mean  that  the  tin-can 
trade  will  be  disrupted  more  or  less  and 
that  all  fruits  will  he  packed  in  glass.

War  revenue  stamps  are  engaging  the 
attention  of  the  philatelists  to  a  greater 
or  less  extent.  Full  collections  of  the 
issues  are  already  rare,  and  it  is  said 
that  they  are  likely  to  become  more  so 
as  time  advances.  The  outlay  necessary 
in  order to  secure  a  complete  list  of  the 
stamps  deters  many  enthusiasts  from 
venturing  into  the  field.  A  man  is  apt 
to  think  twice  before  purchasing  a  $50 
documentary  war  revenue  stamp,  just 
for  the  sake  of  adding  it  to  bis  collec­
tion,  and,  unless  this  valuable  bit  of 
paper 
is  acquired,  the  collection  is  not 
complete.  Some  of  the  stamps  are  al­
ready 
Soon  after  Congress 
passed  the  bill  an  issueof half  cent doc­
umentary  stamps  of  orange  color  was 
It  was  a  mistake  to  use  the 
printed. 
orange 
ink—a  mistake  that  was  soon 
discovered  and  rectified.  The  correct 
color  should  have  been  a  grayish  steel. 
Naturally  the  philatelists  seized  upon 
the  orange 
issue  with  avidity.  Many 
of  the  collectors,  it  is  said,  have  made 
strenuous  efforts  to  gather  as  many  as 
possible  before 
the  general  public 
“ caught  on”   to  the  real  value  of  the 
article  and  raised  the  price  accord­
ingly.

scarce. 

The  deal  for  the  absorption  of  the 
greater  part  of  the  plants  of  the  Ameri­
can  Spirits  Co.  by  the  Standard  Distil­
ling  and  Distributing  Co.,  of  which 
premonition  has 
lately  been  given 
through  the  big  rise  in  Standard  Dis­
tilling  preferred  stock,has  received  offi­
cial  confirmation.  Without  any  increase 
in 
its  present  capital  stock,  or  the  is­
sues  of  any  additional  securities  what­
ever,  the  Standard  will  come  into  actual 
control  and  management  of  the  proper­
ties  of  the  American  Spirits  Co.,  which 
it  will  probably  pay  for  by 
its  own 
stocks  held  in  the  treasury.

Attention 

is  directed  to  the  list  of 
fifty-two  acetylene  gas  generators  which 
have  been  approved  by  the  Bureau  of 
Fire  Protection  Engineering,  published 
elsewhere  in  this  week’s  paper;  also  to 
the  list  of  ten  Michigan  generators 
which  have  not  yet  secured  the  ap­
proval  of  the  Bureau. 
It  will  be  well 
for  those  who  are  contemplating  the 
purchase  of  a  generator  to  preserve  the 
list  of  approved  machines  and  decline 
to  have  anything  to  do  with  a  generator 
which  has  not passed  the  scrutiny  of  the 
Bureau,  as  the 
installation  of  a  gener­
ator  which  has  not  been  approved  in­
validates  the 
insurance  of  the  user  in 
the  event  of  a  fire.
Fraud  in  the  Use of  Spurious Brands.
State  Commissioner  of  Agriculture 
Weiting,  in  his  annual  report  to  the 
New  York  Legislature,  says  that  the 
cbeesemakers  of  New  York  are  now 
making  a  nearly  uniform 
first-grade 
cheese.  The  full  cream  cheese  manu­
factured 
is  nearly  all  branded  with  the 
New  York  State  full  cream brand, which 
is  a  guarantee  to  the  consuming  public 
relative  to  the  New  York  cheese  upon 
which 
it  appears,  but  a  great  fraud  is 
being  perpetrated  upon  the  people  by 
the  false  use  of  the  New  York  State 
brand,  or  the  duplicates  of  it,  by  deal­
ers  in  other  states.  He  says  it  is  known 
that  the  New  York  State  brand  bas  been 
duplicated  and  placed  upon  cheese 
which  was  sold  as  New  York  State  full 
cream  cheese  which  was  not  made  in 
the  State  at  all,  most  of  which  was  of 
aD  inferior  quality,  and  be  bas,  through 
bis  agents,  found  cheese 
in  Southern 
States  bearing  the  New  York  State  full 
cream  cheese  brand.the  particular  num­
ber  of  which  had  not  been  issued  from 
his  office  for  five  years.  He  insists  that 
there  should  be  national  legislation  to 
stop  this  great  fraud,  which  not  only  is 
operating  upon  the  New  York  State 
cheese  porducers,  but  is  a  greater  fraud 
on  the  consuming  public.

He  says  that  a  bill  authorizing  the 
Governor  of  each  state  to  file  a  state 
trademark  at  Washington,  that  trade­
mark  to  be  used  upon  any  goods  man­
ufactured  within  the  state  tor  which  it 
was  filed,  if  properly  enforced,  would 
remedy  the  fraud.

Large  Peanut  Crop.

The  peanut  crop  of  the  United  States 
this  year  will  hardly  fall  short of  4,000,- 
000  bushels.  Most  of  this  crop  is  grown 
in  North  Carolina,  Virginia,  Tennessee 
and  Georgia.  Prior  to  the  war  the  pea­
nut  crop  barely 
aggregated  500,000 
bushels.

Partition  Not  Made  by  Hands.

Bacon— My  partner  and  myself  want 

a  wooden  partition  across  the  store.

Builder—Well,I  think  if  you  put  your 

heads  together  you  can  accomplish  it.

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Dry Poods

Consideration

For  Other
Feelings.
Written for the  Tradesman.

People’s

The  holiday  rush  was  on  and  the 
clerks  in  Jarvis  &  Co.'s  big  dry  goods 
store  were  kept  busy  from  eight  o’clock 
in  the  morning  until  ten  at  night.  The 
burden  of  the  work  was  lightened  a  lit­
tle  by  the  help  which  the  extra  clerks, 
hired  for  the  Christmas  week,  could 
give;  but 
it  often  happened  that  they 
were  more  of  a  hindrance  than  a  help, 
for,  not  knowing  the  stocks,  they  were 
continually  asking  where  things  were 
and  what  was  the  price  of  this,  that  and 
the  other.  The  dress  goods  department 
does  not  come  in  for  much  of  a  rush  at 
this  season,  so  that  as  many  of  the 
clerks  as  could  be  spared  were  sent  to 
other  departments  to  help  them  out. 
It 
so  happened  that  the  day  before  Christ­
mas  the  manager  requested  me  to  go  to 
the  men’s  furnishings  department  and 
walk  the  aisle 
It  was  while  thus  en­
gaged  that  the  following  incident  came 
under  my  notice:

At  the  necktie  counter  there  were sev­
eral  salesmen  and  among 
them  one 
whom  I  knew  to  be  an  extra  hand 
There  was  a  certain  unexplainable 
something  about  this  fellow  that  caused 
in  me  a  feeling  of  antipathy  towards 
him. 
I  was  curious  to  see  if  any  of  the 
people  upon  whom  he  waited  were 
affected 
in  the  same  way.  As  the  day 
wore  on  I  saw  that  he  missed  more sales 
than  be  made.  His  manner  to  custom 
ers,  while  not  exactly  rude,  was 
indiff­
erent  and  bis  speech  flippant.  If  one  of 
his  customers 
left  the  counter  without 
buying,  he  usually  had  some  unpleasant 
remark  to  pass  about  it  to  some  of  hi 
fellows,  and  that 
in  hearing  of  other 
customers.

A  man  of  this  sort  can  do  much  dam 
age  to  trade,  and  while  it  was  in  reality 
no  business  of  mine,  it  provoked  me  to 
think  that  a  fair-dealing  firm,  such  as 
Jarvis  &  Co.  are,  should  have  trade 
driven  out  of  their  store.

About  ten  o'clock  a  young  man,  evi 
dently  not  city  bred  but  well  dressed 
and  with  an  expression  of  face  that 
stamped  him  a  man  and  a  gentleman 
asked  me  to  show  him  where  he  could 
get  a  necktie. 
I  took  him  down  the 
aisle  to  the  necktie  counter  and  turned 
him  over  to  the  disagreeable  salesman 
who  was  the  only  one  not  engaged  at the 
time.  There  was  a  large  showcase  filled 
with  a  choice  assortment  of  neckwea 
on  the  counter  and  I  heard  the  young 
countryman  say,  “ Now  don't  take  down 
a 
want  out  of  the  show  case  here  and  save 
you 
lots  of  bother;’ ’  and  he  began  to 
look  over  the  ties  in  the  case.

lot  of  boxes,  for  I  can  select  what 

The  salesman  then  opened  the  case 
and took out a brilliant pink four-in-hand 
and,  with  a  wink  to  one  of  the  other 
clerks,  remarked:  “ Here’s  an  up-to 
date  shade 
in  a  necktie;  and,  by  the 
way,  it  will  just match your pulse-warm 
ers. ”

This  remark  drew  my  attention  to  the 
young  fellow’s  wrists  and  I  saw  that  be 
bad  on  a  pair  of  soft  woolen  pulse 
warmers  of  a  bright  pink  shade and  of 
a  fashion 
long  since  gone  out  of  date 
there  being  a  large  fluffy  border  around 
the  pait  nearest  the  hand,  such  as 
used  around  the  top  of  yarn  slippers.

The  young  man  took  the  pink  neckti 
and,  laying 
it  over  one  of  the  pulse 
warmers, looked  at  it  critically  and  then 
said :  “ I didn't know  they  matched  the 
different  parts  of  men's  wear  in  that 
way. ”

“ Ob,  yes,"  replied  the  salesman; 
you  know  the  proper  thing  now  is  to 
have  your  hat,  overcoat  and  overgaiters 
just  the  same  shade,  and  then  your 
necktie  must  be  the  same  as  your  pulse- 
warmers. 
It  wouldn’t  look  well  to  have 
too  many  colors,  you  know;’ ’  and  the 
salesman  again  winked  at  one  of  his 
fellow  clerks.

The  young  countryman  looked  up  just 
n  time  to  see  this  and,  laying  the  pink 
e  down  on  the  show  case,  asked,  in  a 
quiet  voice  but  that  trembled  slightly, 
Young  fellow,  did  you  ever  do  any­
thing  because  of  love?  You  don't  know 
as  you  ever  have?  Well,  l  just  want  to 
tell  you  this  little  bit  of  human  history; 
not  because  I  want  you  to  think  any 
better  of me,  for  that doesn’t matter,  but 
because  the  knowing  it  may  help  you  to 
be  just  a  little  more  considerate  of other 
people's  feelings:  These  old-fashioned 
wristers  that  I'm  wearing  were  knit  by 
my  mother  on  her  dying  bed.  They 
were  the  last  labor  of  love  that  she  was 

r  able  to  do  for  me,  for  she  died 

few  hours  after  they  were  finished.  We 
buried  her  day  before  yesterday  out  at 
Fairmont. ”

An  awkward  siience  settled  over  the 
busy  department  as  the  young  country 
man  took  his  leave.

During  the  balance  of  the  day  that 
salesman  didn't  lose  a  single  customer 
but  when  the  store  opened  for  business 
the  day  after  Christmas  he  was  among 
the  salespeople  who  didn’t  come  back.

M ac  A ll a n .

For 

in  the  community. 

Suffered the  Torments o f the  Damned 
I  deliberately  chose  my  calling  and 
studied  for  it,  so  that  I  have  nothing 
against  the  profession  to  which  my  life 
must  hencefoith  be  devoted.  But,  sir 
believe  the  drug  clerks,  particularly in 
the  large  cities,  are  the  hardest  worked 
poorest  paid  and  least appreciated  peo 
pie 
in  our 
keeping,  even  more  than  in  that  of  the 
doctors  who  prescribe,  is  the  public 
health.  We  must  keep  our brains  clear 
and  be  ready  to  fill  a  prescription  when 
called  from  our  beds  at  2  o’clock  in  the 
morning  as  accurately  as  at  high  noon 
Some  time  ago  I  was  myself  under 
the  weather.  The  bard  work  was  telling 
on  me  and  I  was  threatened  with  in 
fever.  One  midnight 
somnia  and 
while  I  was 
in  this  condition,  I  was 
rung  up  and,  with  tottering  steps  and 
reeling  brain,  I  made  my  way  down  to 
the  store.  Outside  the  door  I  found 
boy  awaiting  me,  from  a  house  near  by 
with  a  prescription  calling  for  a number 
of  half-grain  morphine  powders.  The 
doctor  who  wrote  the  prescription  was 
a  friend  of  mine  and  a  very  careful 
man.  The  powders  were  for  an  old 
gentleman  who  had  been  ailing for some 
time,  and  I  knew  they  were  intended  to 
induce  sleep. 
I  filled  the  prescription 
properly,  as  I  thought,  and  when  the 
boy 
left  I  returned  to bed.  As  I  could 
not  rest,  I was  up  early  and  downstairs 
Like  a  dream  I  recalled  the  morphine 
prescription. 
it  over;  yes,  the 
powders  were  to  be  one-half  grain  each 
taken  as  directed.

I  read 

I 

looked  at  the  scales;  they  had  not 
been  touched  since  I  handled  them,  but 
I  was  frozen  with  horror  when  I  saw 
that  there  was  a  tengrain  weight  on  one 
side.  I  had  given  the  man  enough  mor 
phine  to  kill  a  dozen  men,  for  there 
were  four  powders. 
I  can  not  describe 
the  torture  that  followed. 
bad  committed  an  unpremeditated  mur­
der, 
I  shrank  at  the  sound  of  every 
footstep  and  shuddered  when  anyone en­
tered  the  store.

I  felt  that 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

About  q o’clock  my  friend,  Dr.  Todd, 
came 
in  with  a  very  sad  face,  and  in 
answer  to  my  enquiry  as  to  the  health 
of  Mr.  O’Dell,  the  man  for  whom  the 
medicine  had  been  prescribed,  he 
said:

“ The  man  is  dead.”
"M y  G od!"  I  gasped.
“ Oh,”   said  the  doctor,  " I   fully  ex­
pected  it.  The  morphine  was  simply 
intended  to  ease  him  off."

"B ut  did  be  take  it?"
"N o ;  by  the  time  the  boy  got  back 
with  the  medicine  the  old  man  was 
dead.’ '

joy  on 

learning  this. 

Language  is  all  too  weak  to  picture 
my 
I  kept  my 
secret  to  myself  and  secured  the  pow­
ders  as  soon  as  possible.  From  that 
day  to  this  I  never  made  up  a  prescrip- 
lon  when  my  hand  was  not  steady  and 
my  brain  clear.—T.  E.  McGrath 
in 
American  Druggist.

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PRO  AND  CON.

Handling  Crockery  and  Glassware  in 

a  Country  Store.

Written for the T r ad esm an.

Crockery  and  glassware,  being articles 
of  universal  household  use,  would  seem 
by  right  to  have  a  place  in  the  stock  of 
the  general  dealer.  The  genuine  coun 
try  store  situated  at  the  crossroads, 
with  perhaps  no  competition  nearer 
than  the  village  several  miles  away,  has 
unmistakable  need  of  its  little  stock  ot 
staple  crockery  and  glass,  and  if  this  is 
well  selected  it  can  hardly  fail  to  find 
steady,  if  not  rapid,  sale.  But  the  deal­
er  in  a  town  or  village  where  there  are 
already  several  fairly  complete  stocks 
with  which  he  must  come  into  compe 
tition  will  do  well  to  look  the  situation 
over  carefully  before  investing  in  these 
lines. 
is  already  well 
covered 
it  may  be  best  to  keep  one's 
money  for  other  goods.  For the  crock­
ery  business 
is  easily  overdone.  Alt 
that  is  purchased  by  an  ordinary  fam­
ily  during  a  year,  including  tableware, 
chamber  sets,  lamps  and  odd  or  fancy 
pieces,  costs but  a  small  portion  of  what 
the  same  family  expends  in  a 
like  pe­
riod  for  groceries,  shoes  and  dry  goods. 
No  line 
is  more  sensitive  to  financial 
conditions,  local  as  well  as  general;  in 
is  very  slow- 
"hard  times”   crockery 
moving  stock,  while  a 
little  wave  of 
prosperity  will  quickly  double  nr  treble 
sales.

If  the  ground 

It  is  not  worth  while  to  try  to  do  any­
thing  with  these  goods  unless one is able 
to have  as  varied  and  attractive  a  stock 
as  that  carried  by  competitors. 
If  a 
lady  wants  only  a  set  of  white  granite 
plates  she  prefers  to  get  them  at  some 
place  where  handsome  styles  of  deco­
rated  ware  are  kept.  How  often  do  we 
see  a  feeble  attempt  made  that  can  not 
possibly  result  in  profit.  Perhaps  there 
are  four  or  five  dirty  dishes  in  a  win­
dow,  a  few  more  on  a  shelf  in  the  back 
of  the  store,  while  the  main  stock,  small 
and  poorly  assorted,  is kept  in  the  base­
ment.  If  a  dish  is  called  for  no  one  can 
just  where  to  find  it,  nor  exactly 
tell 
what  the  price 
is— perhaps  not  even 
whether  it  is  in  stock  or  not.

Plenty  of  good  display  space  is  in­
dispensable  to  success  with  crockery 
and  glassware.  Good  shelving,  strong 
enough  not  to  sag  under  its  weight,  or 
tables  for  displaying  the goods,  or  both, 
are  absolutely  necessary;  and 
these 
should  be  located 
in  a  sightly  part of 
the  store.  Then  the  stock  must  be  kept 
clean  by  frequent  dusting  and  occasion­
al  washing.  This  is  no  small  task  amid 
the  dust  and  dirt  of  a  general  store. 
But 
it  pays  to  keep  the  goods  at  all 
it  pays  to  keep  them  clean.  Plain  white 
cups  and  saucers  and  the  cheapest  glass 
tumblers  are  attractive 
if  bright  and 
shining,  while  French  china  and  cut 
glass  are  uninviting  to  even  the  casual 
observer  if  covered  with  dust,  flyspecks 
or  cobwebs.

if 

Another  requisite  of  success  is  good 
taste  in  selecting  goods,  or,  more  ex­
actly  speaking,  good 
judgment  as  to 
what  will  suit  the  taste  of  the  people 
who  are  to  buy.  Of  two  patterns  of  dec 
orated  semi-porcelain  exactly  the  same 
in  price  and  quality  of  ware  one  will 
be  a  winner and  sell  readily  at  a  profit, 
while 
it  will  be  difficult  to  get  rid  of 
the  other  at  first  cost,  hence  the  im­
portance  of  making  correct  selections. 
Then  some  time  and  careful  study  must 
be  devoted  to  the buying,  the  pricing 
up  and  all  the  little details  of  the  busi 
It  is  often  necessary  to  go  over 
ness. 
the  stock  and  make  an 
inventory  of 
what  is  on  hand,  so  that  what  is  low  or

entirely  out  may  be  filled  up  without 
overstocking  on  other  aiticles.  This 
trouble  is  not  always  taken.  When  the 
stock  begins  to  run  low on certain things
and  the  assortment  is  a  little  broken  a 
crate  or  two  of  dishes  and  several  bar­
rels  of  glassware  are ordered.  Of course, 
this  will  give  the  shelves  a  filled-up  ap­
pearance,  but  sucb  buying  is  bound  to 
accumulate  dead  stock  that  will  absorb 
the  greater  portion  of  the  profits.

It 

Another  error  which  the  careless  buy­
er  is  liable  to  make  is  the  purchase  of 
unsalable  assortments.  Not  that  ail  as­
sortments  are  unsalable  or  unprofitable; 
if  the  price  is  right,  whether  any  given 
assortment  is  a  boon  to  the  small  dealer 
or  a  delusion  and  a  snare  depends  en­
tirely  on  what  is  in  it.  Jobbing  houses 
are  wont  to  throw  out  some very alluring 
baits  in  the  form  of  five-cent,  ten-cent 
and  twenty-five-cent  assortments.  For 
instance,  ten  dozm  of  different  items  of 
glassware,  some  of  them 
large  pieces 
and  staple  sellers, are  offered  at  seventy- 
five  cents  per  dozen. 
It  is  held  out  that 
these  wili  all  sell  readily  at  ten  cents 
apiece,  netting  the  retailer  a  handsome 
profit;  besides,  selling such  large  pieces 
at  so  low  a  price  will  "bring  people  to 
your  store." 
is  hard  to  resist  this 
last  argument—buying  for  seventy-five 
cents  and  selling  for  one  dollar  and 
twenty  cents  looks  profitable  enough. 
But  there 
is  a  package  charge  of  say 
ninety  cents— it takes  quite  a  large  cask 
to  hold 
ten  dozen  good-sized  glass 
pieces.  Then  there  are  freight  charges, 
which,  if  the  goods  have  to  be  sent a 
long  distmce  by  rail,  are  no  small 
item.  Some  allowance,  too,  must  be 
made  for  breakage.  The  actual  cost  of 
toe  goods  when  laid  down  in  the  deal­
er’s  store  is  considerably  above seventy- 
five  cents  per  dozen.  Then,  if  the  larger 
articles  sell  off  first,  which  is  naturally 
and  generally  the  case,  leaving  tl,ree  or 
four dozen  small  and  unattractive  items 
that  have  to  be  put  on  the  five-cent 
counter  to  move  them  at  all,  it  is  read­
ily  seen  that  the  profits  of  the  assort­
ment  partake  of  the  illusory  nature  of 
many  other  earthy  things.

it 

inferred  that  there 

While  dwelling  somewhat  on  the  un­
pleasant  and  unprofitable  features,  and 
insisting  strongly  that  the  conditions  of 
success  must  be  complied  with 
if  suc­
is  to  be  achieved,  we  do  not  wish 
cess 
to  have 
is  no 
pleasant  and  profitable  side  to  the  mat­
ter  of  handling  crockery  and  glassware 
in  connection  with  other goods.  On  the 
contrary,  we  are  inclined  to  think  that 
under  fairly  favorable  circumstances 
it 
may  be  made  a  pleasing  and  lucrative 
branch  of  general  store-keeping.

One  thing  that  is  favorable  is  that  the 
goods  are,  as  one  may  say,  self-adver­
tising.  An  attractive  display  of  pretty 
dishes  can  net  fail  to  set  the ladies talk­
ing ;  they  tell  their  friends  and  ac­
quaintances  and  these  will  drop  in  to 
see  them.

Another  favorable  point 

is  the  en­
during  satisfaction  which  the  purchaser 
experiences.  While  a  dress  or a  shoe 
may  soon 
lose  the  splendor  of  its  new­
ness,  a piece  of  china  or  glsss  is  a  thing 
of beauty that is truly a joy forever— until 
it  gets  broken  or,  what  is  far  more  an­
noying  to  the  lover  of  these  things, 
"n ick ed ."  And,  strange  to  say,  when 
this 
inevitable  catastrophe  occurs  she 
does  not  lay  the  blame  on  the  seller. 
Indeed,  if  the  goods  sold  are  wbat  they 
should  be 
it  is  rare to have  any  com­
plaints  about  the  goods.  This  is  restful 
in  comparison  with  bearing  bow  flour 
has  not  raised,  butter  has  not  been  fit 
to  eat,  dress goods have  shrunk  or  faded

shoes  have  prematurely  "given 

and 
out. ’ ’

A  stock  of  dishes  is  singularly  free 
from  deterioration  of  all  kinds  alter  it 
is  once  in  the  store.  Excepting  a  very 
little  breakage 
in  moving  the  goods 
about  the  building,  they  keep  perfectly. 
Moth  and  rust  do  not  corrupt,- neither 
are  thieves  likely  to  carry  the  stock 
away.  They  are  unaffected  by  the  heat 
of  summer or the  cold  of  winter.  They 
neither  fade  nor  shrink  nor  go  out  of 
style.  Of  course,  there  are  fashions 
in 
dishes,  but  tbe  changes  are  not  abrupt 
enough  to  cause  loss.

In  another  article  we  shall  attempt  to 
show  how  a  small  amount  of capital may 
be  most  judiciously 
invested  in  these 
lines  and  how  to  make  them  pay.

Q u il l o .

Don’ts For Drummers.

Don’t  come  into  a  store  trying  to  sell 
It 

goods  with  a  cigar  in  your  mouth. 
isn’t  businesslike.

Don’t  come 

gum  or  tobacco. 

into  tbe  store  chewing 
It  doesn't  look  nice.
Don’t  be  fresh  with  the  salesladies, 
even  although  you happen  to  have  sold 
them  goods  before;  you 
lose  their  re­
spect.

Don’t  shake  hands.  There  is  no  need 
for  this,  and  a  man  doesn’t  care  to 
shake  hands  every  time  a  commercial 
man  wants  to  sell  him  goods.

Don’t  under  any  circumstances  ask  a 
buyer  out  for  a  drink  or  a  dinner. 
It 
isn’t  right,  and  the  man  who  employs 
buyers  would  not  encourage  this  under 
any  condition.

Don’t  pull  out  your  order book  and 
say  you  sold  Marshall  Field  so  much, 
and  John  Wanamaker  so  many.  The 
average  buyer  doesn’t  care  a  rap  wbat 
you  sold  the  other  fellow.

Don’t  show  your  temper  when"  tbe 
buyer  tells  you  be  can  not  use  your 
is  bad  taste  and
goods  this  time. 

It 

may  cause  you  to  lose  a  second  attempt 
to show  your  samples.

Don’t  tell  a  buyer  be  ought  to  buy  a 
dozen  of  this  and  a  dozen  ot  that  when 
he  gives  you  an  order  for  a  half  dozen. 
He  knows  what  he  needs  better than you 
do.

Don’t  accept  a small order sneeringly ; 
remember  "From  small  acorns  large 
trees  grow.”
Don’t  make  a  buyer  feel  as  if  you 
knew  it  ail  and  be  didn’t.  It makes him 
feel  sore  against  you  and  you  will  be 
tbe  loser.

Don’t  bring  another  drummer  in  the 
introduce  him  to  the  buyer. 
is  a  presumption  that  the  buyer 

store  to 
This 
doesn’t  relish.

Don’t  ever  tell  a  buyer  you  just  came 
all  the  way  from  New  York  to  see  him 
and  sell  him  goods.  This  doesn’t  go 
nowadays.

Don't  promise  to  give  one  firm  the 
control  of  air  article,  unless  you  mean 
it. 
If  you  don’t  keep  your  promise, 
your  name  is  "D ennis"  forever  more.
Don’t  make  any  promises  unless  you 
intend  keeping  them.  Better not  prom­
ise  too  much.

Don’t  speak  disparagingly  of  a  com­
petitor’s goods.  This never accomplishes 
any  good.

Don’t  give  a  buyer  a  duplicate  unless 
your  firm’s  name  and  address are on that 
duplicate.  This  is  important.

Don’t  say  mean  things  about  a  buyer, 
although  you  have  cause  to.  Guard  your 
mouth.  You  may  sell  him  some  day,  if 
you  keep  your  tongue,  but  you  never 
will  if  you  cast  mean  remarks.

Don’t  bribe  a  buyer.  It  is despicable, 
low,  contemptible.  Should  you  occa­
sionally  make  a  sale  this  way,  you  will 
surely  regret  it  in  the  long  run.

Wanted  the  Same  Make.

" I   want  to  get  a  typewriter  for  my 

husband. ’ ’

"A ny  particular  make,  ma’am?" 
"W ell,  I  heard  a  business  friend  tell 
my  husband  that  his  typewriter  was  a 
‘ Little  Peach.’  Have  you  that  make?"

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Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Dexter—Thos.  S.  James 

is  closing  i 

out  bis  hardware  stock.

Ovid—John  Jones,  of  Sl  Clair,  has 

opened  a  bazaar  store  here.

Clifford— Weston  6c  Jacobs  succeed 

Moss  &  Weston  in  general  fade.

Grape—W.  J.  Seitz  has  purchased  the 

general  stock  of  S.  F..  Younglove.

Flint—A.  J.  Paimer  succeeds  Palmer 

&  Shannon  in  the  dry  goods  business.

Jackson— Layman  Bros.  &  Bait  sue-j 
ceed  Layman  Bros,  in  the  dry  goods,  \ 
clothing  and  furnishing  goods  business.  I
Lansing—John  R.  Everett  has  sold  ; 
his  grocery  stock  to  Frank  T.  Albright,  j
Howell—Oscar  A.  Culver  has  sold  his j 
cigar and  confectionery  stock  to  Maud  , 
Wise.

Bellevue— H.  M.  Weed  has  purchased  j 
the  hardware  stock  of  T.  B.  Morten  j 
&  Co.

Oxford—Cbas.  M.  Glaspie,  grocer 
and  stationer,  has  sold  out  to  Oliver  &  j 
Howser.

Flint—Cbas.  Crawford succeeds  Craw­
ford  Sc  Bieck  in  the  merchant  tailoring 
business.

Dimondale— H.  C.  Lee  has  sold  his ; 
grocery  and  crockery  store  to  W.  J.  j 
Bateman.

Osvosso— L.  M.  Watson  has  sold  his i 
drug  stock  to  Howard  A.  Blackmar,  of 
Charlotte.

Muskegon— N.  McGraft,  proprietor  of j 
the  Opera  House  drug  store,  has  retired ! 
from  trade.

Buchanan— Frank Corey  continues  the ] 
meat  and  grocery  business  of  Corey  Sc  ; 
Winchester.

Morenci —E.  B.  Rorick  6c  Co.  have | 
purchased  the  hardware  stock  of  H.  E.  j 
Green  &  Co.

Calkinsviile— Wm.  J.  Johnston  has] 
sold  his  general  stock  and  will  engage ; 
in  ether business.

Sherman— E.  W.  Wheeler  has  pur-  ! 
chased  the  general  merchandise  stock ] 
of  J.  H.  Wheeler.

Lansing—A.  M.  Robson  will  open  a , 
grocery  stare  at  m   Washington  avenue  i 
within  a  fortnight.
Menominee— A. 

LeBlanc 

succeeds j 
in  the  drv  goods ] 

Belanger  &  LeBlanc 
and  bazaar  business.

Dimondale—H.  F.  Miller  succeeds 
Whitmore  Bros,  in  the harness,  carriage 
and  agricultural 
implement  business.
Whitehall—J  T.  Moore  will  shortly 
remove  his  stock  of  boots  and  shoes  to 
Wocley,  Wash.,  where  he  will  engage  in 
business.

Owosso— C.  C.  Duff,  formerly  of  the 
grocery  firm  of  Duff  &  Detwiler,  has 
re-purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  E.  L. 
Devereaux.

Muskegon—George  J.  Proehmer,  Jr., 
of  Chicago,  has  purchased  the  bakery 
business  of  Mrs.  H.  Elends  at  17  S. 
Terrace  street

Lansing—Geo.  E.  Field  has  retired 
from  the  grocery  firm  of  Harlow  &  Co., 
which  did  business  under  the  style  of 
the  Banner  Grocery  Co.

Detroit—Alexander  Barnett  has  re­
moved  his  boat  and  shoe  stock  to  Bat­
tle  Creek,  where  they  have  formerly 
conducted  a  branch  store.

Lansing— M.  H.  Sherman,  who  con­
ducted  a  drug  and  grocery  store  at  the 
corner  of  Washington  avenue  and 
Franklin  street,  has  removed  to  Perry.
Bath— Hall  6:  Joy,  undertakers  at this 
place,  have  purchased  the 
furniture 
stock  and  undertaking  business  of  E. 
E.  Huyck,  of  Grand  Ledge,  and  will 
shortly  remove  to  that  place.

Benton  Harbor—Jos.  H.  Edgcombe 
has  resigned  his  position  as  salesman 
with  Skeily  6c  Co.,  and  will  shortly 
embark 
in  the  grocery  and  wall  paper 
business  on  East  Main  street.

Lansing— F.  B.  Holder,  of  the  bazaar 
firm  of  Holder  &  Co  ,  has  purchased 
the  bazaar  stock  of  Shaw  &  Co.,  at 
Williamston.  Edward  Flitton  has  been 
placed  in  charge  of  the business.

Tekonsha—C-  E.  Fousel,  for  several 
years  engaged  in  the  dry  goods  and gro­
cery  store  of  J.  W  Randall,  has  pur­
chased  a  hardware  stock  at  Centerville 
and  w:ll  engage 
in  business  at  that 
place.

Cassopolis—D.  L.  French  has  retired 
from  active  business  by  a  dissolution  of 
partnership  with  H.  E.  Moon,  after 
thnty-seven  years  spent  in  the  hardware 
trade.  Mr.  Moon  will  continue  the 
business.

Jackson—Leonard  Durant has resigned 
in  the  dry  goods  store  ol 
his  position 
L  H.  Field  and, 
in  company  with 
Andrew  Meade,  has  opened  a  men’s 
furnishing  goods  store  under  the style  of 
Meade  Sc  Durant.

Mt.  Clemens—Morgan  Sc  Qaacken- j 
bush  succeed  Corey  A.  Qaackenbush  in j 
the  bakery  business.
Bay  City—John  Carroll  & Co.  succeed * 
in  the  produce  and

formerly 
in  the  agricultural  implement 
engaged 
business  aDd, 
in  the
grocery  firm  of  Adams,  Perry  &  Smith,
St.  Ignace— Fred  Louden  8c  Son  have  will  remove  to  Cleveland  aDd  engage 

Carroll  &  Rose 
commission  business. 

Cold water— M.  J.  Smith, 

later,  a  partner 

put  in  a  line  of  groceries  in  connection j *n  the  grocery  business  about  Feb.  1. 
with  their  bazaar  stock. 

j  Three  Rivers— John  Diffenderfer.  for
Detroit— L.  Kimmel  8c  Co.  have  sold ja  number  of  years  managing  clerk  in 
their  dry  goods,  clothing  and  millinery j the  clothing  store  of Froblien  8c  Knapp, 
stock  to  Jacob  Freedman. 
¡has  formed  a  copartnership  with  bis
Thompson—John  Patterson  Sc Co.  sue- j father-in-law,  Wm.  Thomas,  and  en- 
ceed  John  Patterson  in  the  cedar  busi-| gaged  in  the  hardware business at Jones, 
Hillsdale— C.  A.  Shepard  sued  the
ness  and  general  trade. 
Saline—E.  A.  Hauser  &  Co.  have | American  Express  Co.  for  $10  because 
sold  their  drv  goods,  grocery  and  crock-  jthev  refused  to  send  a  package  for  him 
ery  stock  to  Humphrey  &  Co. 
unless  be  first  paid  for the  one-cent  rev-
jewelry  firm  j enue  sump.  Before  the  case  came  to 
of  the  Eugene  Deimel  Co.  has  changed  j trial  the  company  settled  by  paying  the 
in-
its  style  to  Noack  8c  Gorenflo. 

S $10 and  the  costs  Mr.  Shepard  had 

Detroit—The  wholesale 

Montrose— James  Shanahan  succeeds  curred.

Shanahan,  Haight  Bros.  &  Co.  as  pro- 
prietor of  the  Montrose  Bank. 

Adrian—Clark,  Mason  &  Co.  have 
j sold  their  wholesale grocery  business  to

Ovid—A.  S.  Berry,  of  St.  Ciair,  has j Ira  Bartley,  of  Toledo. 

Ira  Mason  and I 
removed  to  this  place  and  engaged  in  Will  Curtis,  of  the  Adrian  firm,  will  be 
in  the  Toledo  concern,  and
the  merchant  Uiloring  business. 
Cass  City—J.  W.  Heller  &  Son,  sue-  the  Adrian  branch  will  be discontinued, 
cessors  to Jas.  Tennant,  have  sold  their j  Mason  &  Co.  intended moving to Toledo 
grocery  stock  to  H.  L.  Hunt  and  C.  W 
to  open  in  business,  expecting  to  con- 
Heller,  who  will  continue  the  business  tinue  here,  but  Bartley  made an  advan- 
under  the  style of  H.  L.  Hunt  8c  Co. 

jtageous  offer and  changed  the  plans.

interested 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Lapeer—A  movement  is  on  foot  here 
to  organize  a  business  men’s  associa­
tion.  A  general  agreement  has  beeD 
entered 
into  by  the  business  men  to 
this  effect.  The particular  object  of  the 
organization  is  to  inaugurate  a boom  for 
Lapeer  by  offering 
inducements  for 
manufacturers  to  locate  here.

Saginaw—For  some  time  negotiations 
have  been  pending  for  the  consolidation 
of  the  Bank  of  Saginaw  and  the  First 
National  Bank  of  the  west  side.  The 
First  Nationol,  according  to  the  report, 
interests  to  the  Bank  of 
is  to  sell 
Saginaw  and  surrender  its  charter. 
It 
is 
intimated  that  Ammi  W.  Wright,  of 
Alma,  one  of the  directors  of  the  First 
National,  will  bold  a  similar  position 
and  also  the  presidency  of  the  consol­
idated  bank.

its 

Manufacturing  Matters.

Romeo— Edward  J.  Proctor  succeeds 
in  the  manufacture  of 

Proctor  Bros, 
rakes  and  broom  bancles.

Weidman—J.  S.  Weidman  has  started 
his  big  band  mill  and  will  cut  hard­
wood  during  the winter  months.

Battle  Creek—Ratbbun  &  Kraft  suc­
ceed  Mason,  Raihbun  &  Co.  in  the 
planing  mJi  and  lumber  business.

Kent— A.  L.  Power  has  leased  his 
cheese  factory  to  Albert  N.  Saur,  who 
has 
the  same  cbeesemaker 
who  has  been  employed  by  Mr.  Power 
in  the  past

retained 

West  Branch— The Gale Lumber  Co. ’s 
sawmill  and  planing  mill  will  resume 
operations  this  week,  repairs  having 
been  made  and  everything  being 
in 
readiness for  a  long  run.

Muskegon—The  candy  manufacturing 
concern  of  Snyder  &  Straub  will  here 
after  be  conducted  under  the  name  of 
Snyder  &  Thayer,  E.  W.  Thayer  hav­
ing  purchased  the 
interest  of  John  G. 
Straub,  who  expects  to  engage  in  the 
same  business 
in  Pueblo,  Col.,  with  a 
brother  in  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind.

Jackson— The  Jackson  Paper  Manu­
facturing  C o ’s  plant  has  been  sold  on 
execution  sale  to  Perkins.  Goodwin  & 
Co.,  Burgess  Sulphite  Fiber  Co.  and 
Solomon,  Broas  8c  Co.,  for  81,500,  sub­
ject 
to  mortgages  aggregating  $43.- 
532-12>  held  by  the  People’s  National 
Bank,  Jackson  City  Bank  and  Eugene 
Pringle  as  trustee.

Detroit—Articles  of  incorporation  of 
the  Morgan  8c  Whately  Co.,  who  will 
carry  on  the  manufacture,  purchase  and 
sale  of 
ladies’  and  children’s  wearing 
apparel,  have  been  filed  with  the County 
Clerk.  The  capital 
is  $50,000,  with 
$8,080  paid  in.  The  stockholders  are: 
Charles  L.  Morgan  and  E.  Clements 
Whately,  154  shares  each;  George  E. 
Lane,  500  shares.

Sumner  Wells,  Secretary  and  Treas­
urer  of  the  Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.,  is 
spending  the  month  on  the  Atlantic 
Coast,  beginning  at  New  Orleans  and 
ending  at  New  York.  He 
is accom­
panied  by  bis  wife.

E.  Corey  &  Son  have  closed  out  their 
grocery  stock  at  South  Grand  Rapids. 
Cbas.  Corey,  the  junior  partner,  has  en­
gaged  to assist  Joseph  P.  Visner  exploit 
the  city  trade  of  Edwin  J.  Gillies  &  Co.

James  Redman  will  shortly  engage  in 
the  grocery  business  at  Breckenndge. 
The  Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.  has  the  or­
der  for  the  stock.

D.  T.  Paulson  &  Co.  have  purchased 
the  drug  stock  of  O.  A.  Fanckboner  at 
427  East  Bridge  street.

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades  and  prices,  phone  Visner,  80a

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.
Ithaca—Chas  Sweetman  has  taken 
the  position  in  Sam  Kircbheimer’s store 
made  vacant  by  the  resignation  of  Mr. 
Kress.

Hillsdale— Fred  G.  Gray  has  taken  a 
position  with  the  Fletcher  Hardware 
Co.,  at  Detroit,  and  expects  to  report 
for  duty  there  next  Monday  morning.

Rochester—A.  H.  Good  has  gone  to 

Milford  to  clerk  for  Tuckey  &  Co.

Alma—Eugene  Delong,  who  has  been 
clerking  in  Lakeview  for  a  short  time, 
has  returned  to  Alma  and  is  now behind 
the  counter  at  F.  E.  Poilasky’s.

Traverse  City— Lou  F.  Bassett,  of 
Cheboygan,  an 
experienced  clothing 
man,  has  taken  a  position  in  the  cloth­
ing  department  of  Steinberg’s dry goods 
store.

Manton—Cbas.  H.  Hall,  a 

former 
salesman  at  the  Bailey  store,  has  begun 
bis  duties  as  salesman  at  the  store  of 
Frank  Smith,  to  succeed  Ralph  Liddle, 
who  returns  to  Manistee,  Mr.  Hall  is 
succeeded  at  the  Bailey  store  by  a  Mr. 
Gibson  of  Fowlerville.

Sherman— Wm.  Lount,  until  recently 
pharmacist  at  Rose's  drug  store,  re­
signed  his  position  to  take  a  more  lu­
crative  position 
in  Detroit  and  G.  A. 
Johnson,  of  Traverse  City,  is  employed 
by  Mr.  Rose  to  fill  the  vacancy.

Jackson— Mr.  McFern,  of  Philadel­
phia,  has  taken  a  position  with  L.  H. 
Field  as  manager  of  his  cloak and  dress 
goods  department.  Mr.  McFern  has 
been  for  years  connected  with  Straw- 
bridge  &  Clothier,  of  Philadelphia.

Kalamazoo—A.  Kinsman  has  removed 
to  Detroit  to  take  a  position  with 
Strong,  Lee  &  Co.

Sixteen  Out  of Fifty-One-

Ann  Arbor,  Jan.  16—The  Michigan 
Board  of  Pharmacy  held  a  meeting  at 
Detroit  Jan.  10  and  11.  There  were 
fifty  one  applicants  present  for  exam­
ination,  thuty-nine  for  registered  phar­
macist  certificate  and  twelve  for  assist 
ant  papers. 
Fourteen  applicants  re­
ceived  registered  pharmacist papers and 
two  assistant  papers.  Following 
is  a 
list  of  those  receiving  certificates:

Registered 

Pharmacists---- J.  N.
Adams, 
Sault  Ste.  M arie;  Morris 
Ascher,  Detroit;  R.  B.  Campbell,Pom­
p eii;  C.  C.  Charles,  St.  Louis;  J.  A. 
Coran,  Ann  Arbor;  E.  A.  Kavanagb, 
Jackson ;  W.  J.  Leacock,  Vassar;  A.  J. 
McComb,  Morenci;  F.  W.  Sauer,  Ann 
Arbor;  R  M  McKenna,  Detroit;  Ar­
thur  Whale,  MarKtte;  W.  F.  White, 
Detroit;  John  Willis,  Detroit;  J.  A. 
Zinger,  Detroit.
Assistant  Pharmacists— E.  0.  Ber­
tram,  Detroit;  C.  E.  Pope,  Detroit.
The  next  meeting  of  the  Board  will 
be  held  at  Grand  Rapias  Mar.  7  and  8.

A.  C.  Sc h u m a c h e r,  Sec’y.

The  World’s  Potato  Crop.

The  potato  crop  of  the  world  aggre­
gates  4,ooo,ooo.oco  bushels  the  wheat 
crop  2,500,000,000  bushels  and  the  corn 
crop  2.600,000,000  bushels.  The  potato 
crop  of  the  United  States  is  reported  to 
be  250,000,000 bushels.  We laugh  about 
the  Irish  eating  potatoes.  They  are 
good  feeders  on  this  vegetable.  The 
inhabitants  of  the  Emerald Isle consume 
individually  1,467  pounds each per year, 
or  four  pounds  daily.  But  Germany 
comes  pretty  close  to  the  Irish  record. 
She  eats  annually  per  inhabitant  1,300 
pounds;  Holland  eats  846  pounds;  Nor­
way  and Sweden,  740;  the United States, 
Italy  stands  at  the  foot  of 
200  pounds. 
the  list 
in  consumption  of  the  potato. 
Her  people  eat  annually  only  48  pounds 
each.

A.  W.  Peck 

(Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug  Co.)  was  compelled  to  pull  off the 
road  last  week  by  reason  of  illness.

Why  men  drink 

woman ;  but 
staggers  the  men.

it 

is  what  staggers a 
is  what  they  drink  that 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

Grand  Rapids  Oossip
Tributes  of  Respect  to  the Memory of 

Mr.  Worden.

The  untimely  death  of  Adelbert  E. 
Worden,  President  of  the  Worden  Gro­
cer  Co.,  cast  a  gloom  over  the  grocery 
trade  of  this  market  last  week.  The 
funeral,  which  was  held  at  the  family 
residence  Friday  afternoon,  was  in  har­
mony  with  the  quiet  and  unassuming 
character  of  the  deceased.  The  inter­
ment  was  in  Valley  City  cemetery.

At  a  meeting  of  the  wholesale  grocers 
of  Grand  Rapids,  held  on  Thursday, 
the  following  resolutions  were  adopted : 
Whereas—The  community  has  been 
called  to  mourn  the  sudden  and  fatal 
accident  which  has  befallen  our  fellow 
citizen,  Adelbert  E  Worden;  therefore 
Resolved— That  we  record  our  esteem 
and  regard  for  our  departed  friend,  who 
was  ever  courteous,  kind-hearted  and 
considerate  to  all  who  were  connected 
with  him  in  social  or business  life ;

Resolved—That  we  tender our  sincere 
sympathy  to  his  family  in  their  painful 
bereavement;
Resolved—That  a  copy  of  these  reso­
lutions  be  sent  to  the  family  and  the 
daily  papers;
Resolved—That,  as  a  further  mark  of 
our  respect,  we  will  attend  the  funeral 
services  in  a  body,  and  close  our  places 
of  business  during  the  hours  thereof.

At  a  meeting  of  the  directors  of  the 
Worden Grocer  Co.,  held on Monday,  the 
following  resolutions  were  adopted ;

Whereas— By  the  unexpected  visita­
tion  of  Providence,  we  are  called  upon 
to  mourn  the  death  of  our  beloved  and 
honored  President,  Adelbert  E.  Wor­
den ;  and
Whereas—The  cordial and confidential 
relations  between  him  as  President  of 
the  Worden  Grocer  Co.  and  the  mem­
bers  of  this  board  make  it  fitting  that 
we  record  our  appreciation of  his  value; 
therefore,  be  it

an 

character, 

Resolved—That  in  his  death  we  real­
ize  that  one  of  God's  noblemen  has 
passed  from  our  midst  into  the  Great 
Beyond,  leaving  behind  him  a  memory 
of  business  honesty  and  integrity,  an 
untarnished 
enviable 
record  in  the  furtherance  of  the  whole 
sale  trade  in  our  city,  and  a  moral  and 
social  example  worthy  of  the  emulation 
of  a ll;  that  his  removal  from  our  midst 
and  from  the  position  of  honor  and  re­
sponsibility 
in  which  he  had  been 
placed  by  us,  and  which  he  has  so  ably 
filled,  leaves  a  vacancy  appreciated  and 
felt  by  all  the  members  of  this  board, 
the  members  of  this  firm,  the  trade  at 
large  and  the  city  of  Grand  Rapids, 
which  he  has  faithfully  served  in  a pub­
lic  capacity  and  as  an  exemplary  citi­
zen.

Resolved— That  we  extend  our  deep 
sympathy  to  the  afflicted  family  of  our 
departed  friend  and  co-worker  in  the 
loss  they  have  sustained.

•  qualities  of 

is 

The  Tradesman 

in  receipt  of  the 
following  feeling  tribute  from  Parke 
Matbewson,  of  Detroit:

The  world  of  traffic  goes  on  to-day, 
but  in  a  minor  key  with  all  who feel  the 
sad  void  that  has  reached  it  in  the  sud­
den  going  on  of  that choice spirit known 
to  us  as  A.  E.  Worden.  And  with  this 
heavy  feeling  of  sadness  that  mingles 
with  the  mysterious  question  Why? 
comes  the  consoling  thought  of  the  rare 
character,  the  well  dis­
ciplined  mind  that so  impressed  all  who 
came  within  its  sphere.  Who  can  esti­
mate  the  moral  value  of  such  an  exam­
ple?  What  a  changed  world  this  will 
be  when  the  majority  of  the  active  men 
of  business  affairs  reach the  quiet poise, 
the  manner that  charms,  and  give  the 
hearty  greetings  that  add  so  much  to 
business  life  and  so  sweeten  the  atmos­
phere  that  surrounds  the  business  days 
of  each  week.  I  believe  that  in  no  other 
sphere  of  the  present  day  is  the  Chris­
tian  spirit  more  effective  for that  for 
which  it  stands  than  in  thus  leavening 
the  business  mind  with  thoughts  of 
kindly  manners  and  good  will.  The 
exactions  of business are very absorbing,

never  more  so  than  now,  and  business 
men 
seem  overburdened  with  their 
many-sided  cares.  All  honor  to  those 
who,  like  A.  E.  Worden,  are  superior 
to  their  burdens  and  meet  them  with  a 
smile. 
In  this  sudden  event  how  well 
fitting  are  the  words  of  the  poet  Bryant 
in  the  familiar  lines:
“ So live, that when thy summons comes to join 
The innumerable caravan that moves 
To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take 
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou £0 not, like the quarry slave at night, 
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed 
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave 
Like one who wraps the drapery of nis couch 
About him and lies down to pleasant dreams."

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—The  market  is  a little  strong­
er  than  a  week  ago,  but  not  sufficiently 
so  to  change  quotations.  Present  indi­
cations  are  that  there  will  be  a  shrink­
age 
in  cold  storage  stocks,  which  will 
be  likely  to  add  to  the  strength'of  the 
situation.  Apples  are  coming  out  of 
winter  storage  in  fairly  good  shape.

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

Beets—25c  per  bu.
Butter— Factory  creamery 

is  weaker 
and  lower,  local  dealers  having  reduced 
quotations  to 
ig@2oc.  The  market  is 
well  supplied  with  dairy  grades,  which 
are 
local  handlers  at 
IO @ l2C.
Cabbage— While  there  is  still  enough 
for  local  supply,  there  is  no  surplus  for 
shipment.  The  price  is  higher,  holders 
meeting  no  difficulty 
in  getting  $4@5 
per  100 heads  for good  stock.

in  by 

taken 

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

White  Plume.
Cranberries—Cape  Cods.  $7.50  per 
bbl.  ;  Wisconsin  Bell  and  Cherry, $6.50; 
Jerseys,  $6.

Cucumbers— Hothouse 

stock 

com­

Eggs—’The  market 

mands  75c  per  doz.
is  lower  than  a 
week  ago  and  the  tendency  will  be 
downward  from  now  on.  Receipts  are 
excellent  in  quality  and  appearance, 
being  taken  in  at  i9@2oc.

Honey—Amber 

is  held  at  9c,  while 

white  is  slow  sale  at  11c.

is  a 

Lettuce— 14@ 15c  per  pound.
Nuta— Hickory,  $i.5o@2  50 according 

to  size.  Walnuts  and  butternuts,  60c.

Oranges—There 

Onions— Home  grown  continue  to  ad­
vance,  being  now  quotable  at  4o@42c. 
Spanish  are  nearly  cleaned  out,  dealers 
in  getting 
experiencing  no  difficulty 
$1 @1.25  for  the  few  crates  yet  on  hand.
liberal  move­
ment  at  present,  the  outside  trade  in­
creasing 
in  volume  and  the  local  de­
mand  being  all  that  could  be  expected. 
Values  do  not  rule  as  firmly  as  a  week 
ago  and  there 
is  a  tendency  to  shade 
present  quotations  on  certain  lines  to 
large  handlers.

Parsley—25@3oc  per  doz.
Parsnips—50c  per  bu.
Pop  Corn—  i#@ 2c  per  lb.
Potatoes— Local  handlers  are  paying
22@23C  at  outside  buying  points,  but 
the  prevailing  price  would  probably 
slump  off  2@3C 
if  shippers  could  get 
cars  enough  to  meet  their  requirements.

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

moderate  demand  at $2  75.

The  Result  of Going to  Extremes.
From the Minneapolis  Commercial  Bulletin.
A  strong  effort  is being  made  to  re­
peal  the  Illinois  garnishment  law.  The 
Bulletin  and  Trade  suggested  a  short 
time  ago  that  this  would  be  likely  to 
law  has 
happen,  because  the  Illinois 
gone  to  an  extreme. 
It  still  believes 
it  will  be  wiser  to 
that 
take  a  middle  ground,  say  an exemption 
of  $12  or $15,  than  to  ask  for  a  change 
to  $8  or $10.  A  law  is  never  settled  as 
law  because  a 
legislature  may  enact 
a  law,  hence  for  best  results  it  is  better 
never  to  ask  extremes.  The  exemption 
in  Minnesota 
is  now  extreme.  A  new 
law 
let  it  be  conserva­
tive;  then  it  will  last  longer.

is  needed,  but 

in  Minnesota 

Doan  &  Taylor,  meat  dealers  at 643 
South  Division  street,  have added  a  line 
of  groceries.  The  Musselman  Grocer 
Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Grand Rapids Retail  Grocers’  Associa­

tion.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Retail 
Grocers’  Association,  held  at  the  office 
of  the  Michigan  Tradesman  Tuesday 
evening,  Jan.  17,  President  Dyk  pre­
sided.

A  communication  was  received  from 
Detroit,  stating  that  the  Grand  Rapids 
Association  had  been  assessed  $100  to 
assist  in  defraying  the  expense  of  ex­
ploiting  the  proposed  amendments  to 
the  exemption  and  garnishment  laws, 
which  was  discussed  at  considerable 
length  and  laid  on  the  table.

The  matter  of  establishing  a  uniform 
closing  schedule  was  then  taken  from 
the  table  for  discussion.  The  original 
resolution,  introduced  by  J.  Geo  Leh­
man,  provided  for  all  day  closing  on 
July  4,  Grocers’  Picnic  day  and  Christ­
mas  and  half-day  closing  on  all  other 
legal  holidays

Henry  J.  Vinkemulder  moved,  as  an 
amendment,  that  Thanksgiving  day  be 
included 
in  the  list  of  all-day  closing 
days.

Julius  J.  Wagner  demurred  to  the 
amendment,  believing  that  the  attempt 
to  close  too  many  days  would  weaken 
the  scheme  to  that  effect  that  it  would 
become 
inoperative  all  along  the  line. 
He thought  grocers  could  afford  to  close 
all  day  three  days  in  the  year.

Mr.  Vinkemulder  stated  that,  in  bis 
opinion,  Thanksgiving  was  fully  as  im­
portant  as  any  of  the  holidays  named.

A.  Brink  stated  that  few  grocers  on 
Grandville  avenue  closed  July  4,  on  ac­
count  of  the  fireworks  the  average  gro 
cer  expects  to  dispose  of  on  that  day.

Mr.  Wagner  said  that  he  would  rather 
restrict  all-day  closing 
to  Christmas 
and  Grocers’  Picnic  day,  and  have  it 
unanimous,  than 
include  too  much  in 
the  schedule  and  not  have  it  lived  up 
to.  He  stated  that  be  could  not  recall  a 
time  when  he  had closed all day Thanks­
giving.

On  being  put  to  vote,  Mr.  Vinke- 
mulder’s  amendment  was  lost,  where­
upon  Homer  Klap  moved  that  July  4  be 
stricken  from  the  list  of  the all-day clos­
ing  schedule.
Fred  W.  Fuller  opposed  the  amend­
ment,  on  the  ground  that  July  4  is  a  day 
when  the  average  grocer  wishes  to  get 
out  of  town  into  the  country  or  to  some 
of  the  resorts,  to  avoid  the  noise  and 
confusion  incident  to  the  celebration  of 
the anniversary.

Mr.  Klap's  amendment  was 

lost, 
whereupon  the  original  resolution  was 
adopted  by  a  practically  unanimous 
vote.

Frank  J.  Dettenthaler,  of  the  special 
Committee  on  Charter  Amendments,  re­
ported  that  he  had  called  on  the  City 
Attorney,  also  the  Mayor’s  Secretary, 
and  that  the  latter  had  agreed  to  notify 
the  Committee  of  any  meetings  held  by 
the 
joint  committee  of  the  Common 
Council  and  Board  of  Trade.

There  being  no  fuither  business,  the

meeting  adjourned.

The Grain Market.

The  market  has been remarkably quiet 
during  the  past  week.  Receipts  were 
moderate,  owing  to  the  roads  not  being 
in  good  condition.  Exports  were  about 
1,000,000 bushels  less  than  the  previous 
week,  being  5.647,000  bushels. 
The 
visible  made  a  gain  of  570,000  bushels, 
where  a  decrease  was  expected,  which 
leaves  the  visible  about  9,500,000  bush­
els  less  than 
last  year  and  60,000,000 
bushels  less  than  in  1895.  The  surprise 
is 
in  the  visible  showing  an  increase 
while  exports  were  large  and  receipts  at 
initial  points  only  moderate.

The  fact  is,  trading  is  very  languid. 
The  stock  and  bond  markets  are absorb­
ing  the  attention  of  the  traders  all  over 
the  country,  leaving  all  farm  products 
alone.  This  will  change  in  due  time, 
as  all  kind  of  bonds  and  stocks  are  at 
their  pinnacle.

Corn  has  also  been  very  quiet  and 
prices  are  the  same  as  last  week,  with  a 
weaker  tone.

The  contrary 

is  the  case  in  the  oat 
market.  They have  advanced  ic  per  bu.
Rye  aiso  closed  2c  higher,  but  that  is 
speculative  and  we  can  expect  to  see  it 
recede  to  the  figure  of  one  week  ago.

In  flour  there 

is  nothing  to  say,  as 
most  dealers  are  not  stocking  up  yet. 
However,  we  are  looking  for  a  good  de­
mand  in  the  near  future.

Bran  and  middlings  are  in  as  good 
demand  as  ever  from  home  consumers.
Receipts  during  the  week  were  48 
cars  of  wheat,  15  cars  of  corn  and  5 cars 
of  oats.

Millers  are  paying  64c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t.

Stimulated  by  its  success  in  the 

Enlarging  Its  Scope  and  Usefulness.
local 
field,  in  which  it  has  come  to  be  almost 
indispensable  to  the  retail  dealer,  bank­
er,  physician,  real  estate  dealer,  etc., 
the  Commercial  Credit  Co.  has  decided 
to  enlarge 
its  sphere  of  usefulness  by 
creating  an  out-of-town  department,  by 
means  of  which  subscribers  in  any  part 
of  the  State  can  secure  all  the  benefits 
in  the  organization  on 
of  membership 
the  same  terms  as 
local  subscribers. 
This  arrangement  has  been  under  con­
sideration  for  several  months,  resulting 
in  the  adoption  of  a  system  of  special 
blanks  and  forms  which  will  enable out­
side  members  to  communicate  and  co­
operate  with  the  central  office  to  the 
same  extent  as  local  members  who  have 
access  to  the  office  by  telephone.  Full 
particulars  in  regard  to the new arrange­
ment  can  be  had  on  application  to  the 
office  of  the  Company  in  the Widdicomb 
building,  either  personally  or  by  mail.

Hides,  Pelts.  Furs  and  Wool.

Hides  have  advanced  too  fast  for  the 
good  of  the  trade  and  the  market  has 
consequently  weakened  to  some  extent. 
The  demand 
for  all  that  is 
offered,  but  tanners  could  see  too  much 
loss  at  prices  they  tried  to  force  by 
dealers.

is  good 

Pelts  are  slow  in  coming  into  market, 
as  holders  of  the  few  anticipate  better 
prices.

Furs  are  on  a  waiting  market  for 
something  to  turn  up,  which,  so  far  as 
furs  are  concerned,  will  be  the  London 
sales,  report  of  which  is  expected  about 
the  22nd.

Wool  is  in  a  strong  position,  with  fair 
sales  at  firm  prices.  There  are  no  weak 
spots  left  and  every  purchaser  must  pay 
full  prices  to-day.  There  is  a  consid­
erable  enquiry  and  a  strong  market 
abroad,  which 
indicates  an  advance 
here.  There  are  little  or  no  sales  in the 
State. 
The  Grip  Booms 

W m.  T.  H ess.
the  Prescription 

Trade.

Retail  druggists  throughout  the  city 
are  having  an  unprecedented  and  very 
welcome 
increase  in  their  prescription 
business  as  the  result  of  the  prevalence 
of  the  grip  and  the  typhoid  fever  main­
ly  resulting  from  it.

The  changes 

in  the  Worden  Grocer 
Co.  necessitated  by  the  death  of  the 
late  A.  E.  Worden  are  briefly  set  forth 
in  the  official  announcement  of  the 
house  on  page  7.  Messrs.  Freeman, 
Butts  and  Blake  are  grocerymen  of 
long  experience  and  excellent  judgment 
and  need  no  introduction  to  the  retail 
trade  of  Michigan.

E.  T.  Bolster  &  Son,  who  recently 
suffered  the  loss of  their  grocery  stock 
at  Saranac  by  fire,  have  re-engaged 
in 
business  at  the  same  place.  The  Mus­
selman  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

6

Woman’s World

Denoument  Attending  the  Purchase of 

a  Perambulator.

Dramatis  Personae:  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Algernon  Horton,  young and  doting  par­
ents.

The  Baby.
Scene—A  luxuriously  furnished  nurs­
in 
ery.  Cradle,  elaborately  done  up 
fluffy  white  muslio and 
lace  and  pink 
ribbons.  Cabinet,  full  of  christening 
gifts,  running  from  silver  pap  bowl  and 
coral  rattle  to  a  wooly  horse.  Mrs  Hor­
ton  bolds  Baby  on  her  lap  and  contem­
plates  him  rapturously,  while  Mr.  Hor­
ton  beams  upon  them  both.

Mrs.  Horton  (addressing Baby)— Bess 
Isn’t  he  Mover’s  own 
itty  tootsie  wootsie? 
look  at  him! 

’ im  itty  hearty! 
precious  dartin' 
(To  Mr.  Horton)  Just 
Isn’t  he  a  darling?

Mr.  Horton  (with  conviction)—Oh, 

he’s  all  right.

Mrs.  Horton  (indignantly)—All right? 
I  should  say  he  was  all  right!  Why, 
mamma  and  the  nurse  and  the doctor all 
said  he  was  the  finest  baby  thev  ever 
saw,and  if  they  are  not  capable  of  judg 
ing  babies  I  should  just  like to  know 
who 
is,  that's  all.  All  right,  indeed! 
Why,  anybody,  to  hear  you  talk,  would 
think  he  was  just  a  common,  ordinary 
baby,  like  the  kind  that  are  born  every 
day!

Mr.  Horton  (confidentially,  abandon­
ing  his  assumption  of  indifference)— 
Well,  do  you  know,  that's  just  what  I 
like  about  him  so  much.  He’s  so  differ­
ent—so—er— individual.  Got  character 
remarkable. 
already. 
He’s  really  the  first  baby  I  ever saw 
in 
my  life  that  interested  me  in  the  slight­
est  degree.

It’s  certainly 

Mrs.  Horton—Yes.  isn’t  he  perfectly 

fascinating?

Mr.  Horton  (contemplativelv)—Yes, 
it  really  is  remarkable  how  early  he  has 
developed  a  marked  individuality.  By 
It’s  the 
Jove,  it  must  mean  something 
most  extraordinary  thing  I  ever  saw. 
I 
should  really  like  to  speak  to  Professor 
Von  Schmidt,  or  some  of  those  other 
big  scientific  fellows,  about  it.  Why,  at 
his  age  all  the  other  babies  I  ever  saw 
were 
just  mere  shapeless  bundles  of 
clothes,  with  little  round  red  faces  with 
no  more  expression  to  them  than  there 
is  to  a  cream  cheese.  Positively,  you 
couldn’t  tell  one  of  them  from  another, 
if  you  wanted  to,  to save your life,  while 
with  him—

Mrs.  Horton  (with hoiror)—Oh,  Algy, 
only  fancy  anybody  mistaking  our  Baby 
for  any  other  baby !

It  would  be 

Mr.  Horton—That’s  just  exactly  what 
I  say—they  couldn’t. 
im­
possible.  Only  look  at  him.  Of  course, 
eyebrows  yet, 
he—hasn’t—got  much 
and—and  bis  eyelashes  are  a  trifle 
in­
distinct,  and  bis  nose  isn’t  as  decided 
as  it  will  be  after  a  while,  but  his  face 
is  so  full  of  expression  and 
individual­
ity.  There  would  be  no  more  excuse  for 
anyone  mistaking  him  for  some  other 
child,  because  they  are  both  babies, 
than  there  would  be  in  mistaking  one 
man  for  another  because  both  wore 
trousers.  That's  just  what  I  said  to  that 
idiot  Brown  yesterday.  I  said,of  course, 
I  am  willing  to admit  that  other  babies 
all  look  as  much  alike  as  peas  in  a pod, 
but  mine  is  entirely  different.  He's  got 
—er—a  look  of  intelligence  that is really 
phenomenal  in  one  of  his  age.

Mrs.  Horton—The  very  idea  of  think­
ing  our  Baby 
It  just 
shows  how  you  can  be  deceived  in  peo­
ple. 
I  actually  thought  that  Mr.  Brown

like  others! 

is 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

intelligent  man  when  I  met  him  at 

an 
the  Smythe  dinner.

Mr.  Horton  (indulgently)—Oh,  well, 
you  can't  blame  him  too  much—he 
hasn’t  seen  ours  yet.

Mrs.  Horton 

(relenting)—Oh, 

of 
course;  I  didn’t  think  of  that.  And 
that  reminds  me,  Algy,  of  something 
I've  been  thinking  about:  Don’t  you 
think  we  ought  to get  the  Baby  a  car­
riage?  Of  course,  nurse  takes  him  out, 
but  he  ought  to  go  out  more. 
It  seems 
almost  wickedly  selfish  to  just  keep  him 
here  to  enjoy  ourselves.  We  ought  to 
let  other  poeple  see  him  and  hear  him 
talk.  Why,be  said  ‘ ‘ goo’ ’ yesterday  just 
as  plainly  as  anything.  Just think  what 
a  comfort  it  would  be  to  anybody  to  see 
him— people  who are  in  trouble,  or  hun­
gry,  or—er—er— may  be  actually  freez­
ing,  for all  we  know.

Mr.  Horton—That’s  so.
Mrs.  Horton  (addressing  Baby)— Is 
Mover  goin'  to  send  her  own  ducky dar- 
lin’ 
itty  lammie  out  to  tomfort  de  peo­
ples?  (To  Mr.  Horton)  I’ll  go  down and 
buy  him  a  carriage  to-morrow. 
(Medi­
tatively)  Oh,  Algy,  just  think  how  per­
fectly  sweet  he  will 
in  a  white 
enameled  carriage  with  a  big  lace  um­
brella  and—

look 

Mr.  Horton  (breaking  in  on  the  rbap 
sody)—There  you  go!  That’s  just  like 
a  woman.  Going  to  buy  a  thing  be­
cause 
it’s  got  a  little  white  paint  and 
some  lace  flummery,  without  giving  the 
things  of  real 
importance  a  thought 
What  sort  of  springs  are  you  going  to 
get?  Are  you  going  to  have  pneumatic 
tires  on  the  wheels  or not?  That’s  what 
I  want  to  know.

Mrs.  Horton  (crestfallen  and  doubt­
thought 

ful)— I  don't  know— I  never 
of  there  being  any  difference.

Mr.  Horton  (triumphantly)—Just what 
I  supposed.  You’ll  go  and  buy  some­
thing  that  looks  pretty,  and  (darkly) 
the  first  time  they  roll  it  over an  ob­
struction  on  the  street 
it  will  fall  to 
pieces  and  injure  that  child  for  life ! 
Kill  him  outright,  or  make  him  a  crip­
ple,  or—

Mrs.  Horton  (in  tears)—Oh,  A lg y ! 
how  wise  you are.  And how providential 
I  happened  to  mention 
I 
(solemnly)  shall  always  feel  that  you 
have  saved  Baby’s  life.

it  to  you. 

Mr.  Horton  (relenting)—Well,  we’ll 
go  down  to-morrow  and  buy  a  nice, 
strong,  substantial  carriage  for  him ; 
and  we'll  take  him  along  so as  to  be 
sure  to  get  it  the  right  size.

(The  next  day,  at  the  shop.)
The  Merchant  (exhibiting  perambu­
lators)  Here’s  one,  sir,  that  I  think  will 
suit  you.  Good  gracious!  is  this  the 
youngster?  My,  but  he’s  the  finest  chap 
I’ve  seen 
in  years!  How  old  did  you 
say?  Three  months!  Why,  I’d  have 
taken  him  for  six.  Splendid  head,  sir. 
Got  plenty  of  sense  in  that.  Looks  like 
you,  sir,  although  his  face  resembles  his 
ma.  Here,  John,  bring  those  finer  baby 
buggies  down  this  way.  Won’t  do  to 
put  a  child  like  this  in  anything but  the 
best  in  the  house.  Yes,  yes,  really  the 
most  remarkable-looking  Baby  I  ever 
saw.  So  bright  Opens his  eyes  just as 
natural  as  can  be.  And  just  listen  at 
him  cry  now. 
I've  seen  babies  that 
would  cry  just  for  nothing.  Looked  like 
they  waited  to  get  on  sleeping ¿cars  and 
in  public  places  where  they  could  afflict 
the  most  people,  and  then  they’d  begin 
a  concert  that  would  beat  the  band;  but 
this  Baby—you can  just  look  at  him  and 
tell  he  doesn't  ever cry  unless  he’s hun­
gry,  or  sleepy,  or  something.  Are  these 
carriages  safe?  Yes,  sir.  The  very  best 
on  the  market.  We  have  them  made  es­

in 

pecially  for  us,  and  guarantee  every 
one.  You’ll  take  this?  Thank  you,  sir. 
Shall  we  send 
it?  Ob,  you’ll  just  put 
the  Baby 
it  and  give  him  his  first 
ride?  That’s  right.  Thank  you,  sir. 
Good  morning,  sir. 
(Throwing  kiss  to 
Baby)  Goodbye,  little  darling!

Mrs.  Horton  (as  they  reach  the  street) 
Ob,  Algy,  what  a  nice  man!  And  bow 
intelligent!  He  seemed  to appreciate 
Baby  just  at  once.

Mr.  Horton  (complacently)  Oh,  Per­

kins  is  no  fool.
Mrs.  Horton 

(triumphantly)  Look, 
Algy,  what  did  I  tell  you?  Didn’t  I  tell 
you  that  it  would  just  do  anybody  good 
to  look  at  Baby!  See!  everybody  that 
we  meet  smiles  at  him.  Oh,  I’m  so 
thankful  I  wasn’t  selfish  about  him.

Mr.  "Horton—Oh,  yes,  I  dare  say;  but 
what  do  you  suppose  that  grinning  idiot 
finds  so  amusing?

Mrs.  Horton— I don’t  know,  I’m  sure. 
(Walks  rapidly  ahead  for  a  few  steps 
facing  the  perambulator. 
and  turns, 
Becomes 
suddenly  ghastly  pale  and 
makes  a  frantic  grab  at  a  card  tacked 
boldly  on  the  front.  Moans  )  Oh, 
Algy,  they forgot  to  take  the  advertising 
sign  off!

Mr.  Horton  (snatches  the  card  out  of 
her  hand  and  reads.  ‘  Our  Own Make!”  
(Stands  dazed  and  helpless  for a  mo­
ment. )

Both  Mr.  Horton  and  Mrs.  Horton 
(talking  at  the  same  time,  recrimina­
tion 
is  what 
comes  of  going  shopping  with  you! 
(Turn  and  flee  down  a  back  street.)

in  their  voices)—This 

D oroth y  D ix .

Origin  of the  Clam.

Johnny:  Paw,  I  know  how  clams  was 

started.

His  Father:  Well?
Johnny:  After  all  the  other  animals 
was  made  there  was  a  lot  of  gristle  left, 
and  there  wasn't  anything  else  they 
could  do  with  it,  and  they  made  it  into 
a  clam.

Tea  drinkers  can  point  to  the  life  of 
the  late  Sir  W.  Jenner  as  evidence  of 
the  virtues  of  their  particular beverage, 
even  when  taken  to  excess,  for  through­
out  his  busy  career  the  distinguished 
physician’s  sole  stimulant  was  tea.  He 
drank 
it  with  his  lunch,  he  took  it  in 
bis carriage  while  on  bis  round  of after­
noon  consultations,  he  drank  it again  at 
dinner,  and  tea  was  taken  as  a  “ night­
cap  ”   With  many  persons  tea  causes 
indigestion,  but  not  so  with  the  de­
ceased  doctor,  for  with  his  affection  for 
tea  was  combined  a  love  of  the  table. 
According  to  Dr.  Cooper  Bentham,  who 
was  bis  assistant  for  fifteen  years,  be 
was  “ a  great  feeder.”   During  those 
years,  from  1875  until  his  retirement  in 
i88g,  Sir  W.  Jenner  made  a 
large  in­
come, averaging  from £12,000 to  £15,000 
per  annum,  not  counting  exceptional 
fees.  Dr.  Bentham,  in  a  communica­
tion  to  the  London  Telegraph,  says  the 
late  Sir  A.  Clark  boasted  he  once  made 
£24,000 a  year,  but  it  was  bard  to  un 
derstand  how  he  did  it.  Sir  William 
received  two  very 
in  the 
course  of  his  practice,  each  of  £5,000 
and  from  Americans.  He  took  as  much 
as  1,000 guineas  a  day  in  country 
jour­
neys.  Sir  W.  Jenner,  who  was  pbysi- 
cian-in-ordinary  to  the  Queen,  attended 
the  Prince  Consort 
in  bis  last  illness, 
and  brought  the  Prince  of  Wales  safely 
through  the  attack  of  typhoid  fever  in 
1871.

large  fees 

There  never  was  a  surer  way  to  get 
behind  the  bars  than  to  stand  too  much 
in  front of  them.

Fitting  Ourselves  to  Any  Condition 

o f  Life.

into 

large  and 

little  beating  of 

There  is  a  strange  and  comforting 
philosophy  in  the  fact  that  we  can  learn 
to  fit  ourselves  to  almost  any  condition 
of  life  that  fate  imposes  upon  us.  Most 
of  us  have  been  genuinely  surprised  to 
find  with  what  ease  and  naturalness  we 
could  drop 
luxurious 
ways  of  doing  things  the  first  moment 
we  got  a  chance,  and,  happily,  the  re­
verse  of  this  is  also  true.  When  adverse 
fortune  comes  there  is  a  little  fretting, 
a 
impotent  hands 
against  the  bars,  and  then  habit,  like  a 
gentle  ghost,  leads  us  quietly  and 
im­
perceptibly  by  new  ways,  where  flowers 
grow  that  we  learn  to 
love almost  as 
well  as the  old.  The  country  boy,  fresh 
from  the  farm,  where  nature  spread  a 
velvet  carpet  for  his  tread,  where  the 
winds  swept  over  perfumed 
fields  of 
clover,  and the  stillness  of  the  night  was 
only  broken  by  the  call  of  some  drowsy 
bird  to  its  mate,  thinks  at  first  that  he 
can  never  become  accustomed  to  the 
city. 
Its  hard  streets  bruise  his  feet, 
ts  noisome  odors  sicken  him,  its  cease­
less  roar  wearies  and  confuses,  but  in  a 
little  while  he  ceases  to  nctice  them, 
and  the  whir of  the  trolley  car  and  the 
shriek  of  the  engine  become 
lullabies, 
by  which  he  sleeps  as  sweetly  as  he 
slept  to  the  patter  of  summer  rain  on 
the old  farm-house  roof.  We  grow  used 
t~>  the  disagreeable  and  adjust  ourselves 
to 
it,  and,  curiously  enough,  perhaps 
the  things  that  we  miss  most  out  of  our 
lives  when  they  are  gone  are  not  the 
vanished 
joys  but  the  sorrows  we  bad 
learned  to  bear.  We  miss  them  when 
they  are  gone,  just  as  the  back  that  has 
once  shaped  itself  to  a  hurden  can never 
again  be  straight  and  upright  as  it  was 
before.  Sometimes  we  see  a  strong  and 
vigorous  man  or  woman  chained  like 
a  slave  to  an invalid's chair;  sometimes 
we  see a  mother  bending 
in  boundless 
love  over a  deformed  and  hideous  child 
so  repulsive  that  others  turn  away  from 
it 
loathing,  and  when  we  bear that 
death  has  mercifully  set  them  free,  we 
think  there  is  something  almost  unrea­
sonable 
in  their  grief.  We  can  not 
know  how  empty  seem  the  hands  with 
no  more  ministry  to  perform,  how  pur­
poseless  the  life  that  has  nothing  more 
to  bear  and  forgive,  how  deep  the  ten­
derness  grows  that  feels  thit  it  must 
make  up  to  one  stricken  soul  for  every 
good  that  fate  has  withheld.  A  little 
story  like  this  was  told  me  the  other 
day  about  a  poor  woman  who  for  many 
weary  years  bad  had  to  bear  with  a 
drunken  and  worthless  husband.  She 
had  a  tiny  stire  in  which  she  made  a 
scant  living,  supporting  him 
idle­
ness,  toiling  early  and 
late  while  be 
caroused  with  his  companions  or  slept 
off  a  drunken  debauch. 
For  herself 
there  was  never  an  indulgence  nor  a 
pleasure.  Nothing  but  hard  work  and 
bard  living,while  her  brutal  and  shame­
less  husband  wrenched  from  her  every 
penny  for  his  own  indulgence.  At  last, 
however,  he  died,  and  a  lady  who  had 
known  all  the  pitiful  details of  the  little 
storekeeper’s 
in  to  say  as 
kindly  a  word  to  her  as  she  could,  un­
der the  circumstances  “ You  must  miss 
“ Yes, 
your  husband?”  
ma’am,”   replied  the  other. 
“ It  does 
seem  so  queer  to  go  into  the  store  and 
find  something 
in  the  till.”   No  re­
proaches,  no  complaints  of  all  she  had 
endured.  All  the  toil  and  privation  for­
gotten.  She  had  borne  her  burden  so 
long  that  there  was  only  a  strangeness 
and  a  loneliness  in  not  having  to  bear 
it  any  more. 

C o r a   S t o w e l l .

life  stopped 

said. 

she 

in 

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WORDEN  GROCER CO

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The  death  of  our  honored  President  has  necessitated  some  changes  in  the  officers  of  our  corporation,  as  follows:
W.  L.  Freeman,  who  has  filled  the  position  of  Treasurer  since  the  organization  of  the  company,  has  been  elected  President, 

in  place  of  the  deceased.

Chas.  F.  Rood  and  Wm.  F.  Butts,  who  have  occupied  the  positions  of  Vice-President  and  Secretary,  respectively,  retain 

the  same  positions.

W.  F.  Blake,  who  has  been  a  director  of  the  company  since  its  organization,  succeeds  Mr.  Freeman  as  Treasurer  and  will 
devote  his  entire  attention  to  office  duties  as  soon  as  satisfactory  arrangements  can  be  made  to  cover  the  trade  he  has  visited  since 
the company  began  business.

Eugene  C.  Worden  succeeds  his  father as  a  director  of  the  corporation.
W e  embrace  this  opportunity to  thank  the  trade  for  the  generous  patronage  accorded  us  in  the  past  and the kindly sympathy 
expressed  by  our  customers  and  competitors  in  the  hour  of  our  bereavement.  W e  appreciate  these  manifestations  of  friendly 
interest  and  assure  our  customers  that  we  shall  endeavor to  merit  a  continuance  of  their  confidence  and  patronage.

WORDEN  GROCER  CO.

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E.  A.  STOW E,  E d it o r . 

WEDNESDAY,  •  -  -  JANUARY 18. 1899.
DANGERS  OF  STATEHOOD.
The  New  York  Tribune  is  emphatic­
ally  opposed  to  ever  granting  the  priv­
ilege  of  statehood  to  Hawaii,  or to  any 
outlying  possession  we  now  control  or 
may  hereafter  control. 
The  Tribune 
believes  that,  in  deciding  upon  a  form
of  government  for  Hawaii,  this  prohi­
bition  against  statehood  ever  being 
granted  at  some  future  date  should  be 
same  New  York 
emphasized. 
journal  believes  that 
it  is  the  general 
sentiment  of  the  American  people  that 
the  right  of  statehood  should  be  limited 
to  our  present  continental  boundaries, 
and  that  neither  Puerto  Rico,  Cuba,  the 
Philippines  or  any  outlying  territory 
should  ever  be  admitted  to  the  Union 
as  a  state.

This 

Although  the  position  of  the  Tribune 
may  appear  somewhat  inconsistent  with 
its  enthusiastic  advocacy  of  adminis­
tration  measures,  it  is  undoubtedly  the 
proper  position. 
is  true  that  it  is 
somewhat  contrary  to  the  spirit  of  our 
constitution  and  our  traditions  to  main­
tain  outlying  possessions  which  must 
never  hope  to  become  states ;  but  the 
situation  can  be  controlled  in  harmony 
with  our  free  institutions.

It 

territories  which  have  been 
The 
created 
in  the  past  have  always  been 
considered  as  future  states,  the  terri­
torial  form  of  government  being  merely 
considered  a  stepping-stone  to  state­
hood.  When,  therefore,  this or  that  pub­
lic  man  talks  of  the  annexation of Cuba, 
Puerto  Rico,  or  some  ether  outlying  is­
land,  the  average  American  understands 
that  these  places  are  ultimately  to  be 
erected 
into  sovereign  states,  enjoying 
all  the  privileges  and  attributes  of  the 
thirteen  original  commonwealths.  Most 
of  the  territory  which  we  have  acquired 
in  the  past,either by  conquest  or annex­
ation,  has  been  admitted  into  the Union 
in 
the  shape  of  a  number  of  states ; 
hence  it  is  but  natural  that  annexation 
should  be  considered practically synony­
mous  with  admission  to  statehood.

There  can  be  no  doubt  at  all  that  it 
would  be  a  great  misfortune  to  admit 
any  of  the  former  Spanish  possessions 
to  statehood,  for  the  very  good  reason 
that  they  are  not  htted  for  such  a  priv­
ilege.  Their  populations  are  of  a  diff­
erent  language  and  have  different  cus­
toms  and  traditions.  In  their  hands  our 
system  of  state  government  would  be 
misunderstood  and  would  lead  to  con­
stant  turmoil.  If  they  are  to  be  retained 
at  all,  they  must  be  considered  merely 
as  colonies,  or,  at  best,  autonomous  de-

pendencies.  To  give  such  communities 
the  right  to  represeutation  in  Congress 
and 
in  the  Senate  would  be  extremely 
dangerous.  Let  them  have  local  self- 
government  and 
laws  suited  to  their 
needs,  but  give  them  no  voice  in  our 
domestic  affairs,  nor  tbe  right  to  intro­
duce  their  products  into  our  markets  in 
free  competition  with  our own.
INCREASE  OF CITY  POPULATION.
Professor  E.  J.  James,  in  the  January 
□umber  of  tbe  Annals  of  the  American 
Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Sci­
ence,  presents  quite  an 
interesting  ar­
ticle  on  the  growth  of  the  large  cities, 
being,  more  strictly  speaking,  a  com­
parison  of  relative  growth  of  the  urban 
with  the  non-urban  population.

increase 

in  cities  of  8,000 

It  has  long  been  an  observant  fact 
that  the 
in  population  in  tbe 
cities  has  beeu  much  in  excess  of  that 
of  the  rural  districts,  and  that  this  con­
centration 
in  the  large  trade  centers  is 
not  peculiar  to  any  particular  country.
In  1790,  the  year  of  the  first  census  of 
the  United  Sates,  the  percentage  of  the 
tutii  population 
in­
habitants  or  more  was  3.3;;  in  1890  the 
percerttge  was  29.20;  and,  at  the  usual 
rate  of  increase,  the  percei tage  is  prob­
ably  now  about  33  or  34.  Professor
James  thinks  that  8,000  inhabitants  is 
too  high  a  limit  for  ubran  populations 
and  favors  1,000, 
in 
towns  of  that  size  or  larger  being  in 
1890  41.69.  This  probably  is  much  too 
low,  as  places  w-tb  even  2,000  or  3.000 
inhabit ints  have  few  of  the  characters 
tics  of  a  city.  Considering  all  places 
with  net  less  than  1,000  urban,  however, 
the  urban  population  increased  between 
1880  and  1890  47  07  per  cer.t  and  the 
rural  population  only  12 66  per  cert 
The  most  rapid  growth  in  this  country 
has  been 
in  the  cities  in  the  sparsely 
settled  districts  of  the  West,  as  Omaha, 
Denver  and  Kansas  City.

the  percentage 

lived 

In  England  the  same  tendencies  are 
evident.  Between  1881  and  1891  the  ur 
ban  population,  on  the  basis  of  towns 
of  1,000  or  more,  increased  15  3  per 
cent,  and  tbe  rural  3  4  per cent.  In  1890 
61.5  per  cent,  of  the  t  til  population  of 
England 
in  towns  of  10 000  or 
more 
inhab  tints  and  22  per ceLt.  in 
cities  of  250,000  or  more.  Although 
France,  as  a  whole,  has been  decreasing 
m  numbers  of  late,  Paris  has  managed 
to 
increase  by  100,000  in  tbe  last  five 
vears.  Rural  France  has  decreased  in 
the  same  time  450,000.  Tbe showing  of 
Germany,  Austria  and  Russia  has  been 
more  like  that  of  England.

the 

One  result  of  the greater  increase  in 
the  cities  compared  with  the  rural  dis­
tricts,  suggests  tbe  Baltimore  News,  was 
brought  out  in  tbe  recent  investigations 
of 
labor  question  by  Professor 
Wyckoff  of  Princeton.  The  rapid  in­
crease  in  the  cities  has,  of  course,  made 
labor  competition  keener and work  more 
difficult  to  obtain,  while  the  number  of 
men  out  of  work  has  increased.  Profess­
or  Wyckoff  found  that  the  farmers  are 
in  need  of  bands  whom 
almost  always 
they  can  not  get. 
It  would  be  weli  if 
means  could  be  devised  for  sending  a 
large  part  of  our  immigrants  into  the 
farm  districts,  or  at  least  keeping  them 
from  crowding  tbe  tenement  districts 
of  the  great  cities, in  which  a  large  ma­
jority  of  them  settle.

All  honest  packers—and  there  are 
hundreds  of  them,  putting  up  good  and 
wholesome  meats—would  like  to 
see 
the  head  of  the  army  embalmed for rais­
ing  a  scandal  likely  to affect  foreign  as 
well  as  domestic  trade.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
It 

is  becoming  a  matter of  surprise 
that  the  steady  advance  in  most  leading 
lines  of  trade, 
in  both  activity  and 
prices,  should  continue  so  long  without 
any  material  reactions.  For  example, 
the  steady  movement  of  stocks,  which 
have  appreciated  over  16 per cent,  since 
November,  continues  with  almost  un­
changing  ratio,  tbe  record  for the  aver­
age  for  last  week  being  $1  47  per  share. 
This  week  especially,  the  wise  ones  are 
predicting  a  set-back  and  many  of  the 
foreign  traders,  notably  London,  are  be­
coming  so  uneasy  that  their  sales  are 
very  heavy;  and  yet all  bear 
influences 
are  promptly  met  by  tbe  absorbing  ca­
pacity  of  tbe  home  market.  That  this 
capacity  for  absorption  is  owing  to  the 
great  amount  of  capital  seeking  perma­
nent  investment  is  indicated  by  the  fact 
that  second  and  third  class  shares  are 
constantly  becoming  more  prominent, 
while  many  of  the  best investment prop 
erties  are  disappearing  from  the  Strett

in  December, 

A  year  ago  the  volume  of business had 
expanded  so  much  that some were afraid 
that  things  were  going  too  fast,  Janu­
ary  showing  a  gain  of  35  per  cent  over 
1897  in  the  exchanges.  Bi.t  the  first  ball 
of  this  January  shows  a  gain  of  27  9  pei 
cent,  over  last  year  and  73  5  per  cert 
over  tbe  same  weeks 
in  1897.  Tbest- 
are  not  records  which  any  speculat» 
can  manufacture  or  manipulate,  but  art- 
the  records  which  actual business  makes 
for  itself.  Nor  is  there  room  to  disput. 
the  official  record  of  produce  exports, 
which  were 
1897,  by 
far  the  greatest  ever  known  m  any 
month,  over  $125,000,000  in  value;  but 
in  the  month  just  ended  tbe  exports  oi 
tbe  principal  staples  have  been  in  value 
§4,642  900  greater  than  in  1897,  in spite 
of  some  decrease  in  oil,cattle  and  hogs 
The 
low  price  for  cotton  has  not  pre­
vented  an  increase  in  the value expoitea 
of  $3,405,984,  nor  does  tbe  low  price  ol 
wheat  prevent  the  increase  of  $1,996.972 
for  the  month.  January  exports  from 
New  York  show  an  increase  thus  far  ol 
47.5  per  cent,  over  last  year,  and  cottor 
expoits  from  all  ports  this  month  show 
increase  of  151,000  bales,  or  more 
an 
than  40  per  cent. 
It is this  great  excess 
of  exports,  creating  foreign 
indebted­
ness  to  this  country  at  the  rate  of  about 
$1,000,000  every  half-day,  that  causes, 
and  in  some  degree  justifies,  the  confi­
dence  shown.

Tbe  West  is  still  shipping  grain  be­
yond  even  the  unprecedented  rate  of 
last  year. 
In  two  weeks  of  January  the 
exports  of  wheat,  flour  included,  have 
been  12,507,339  bushels,  against  8.772,- 
□93  for  the  same  weeks  last  year,  anc 
meanwhile  the  exports  of  corn  have 
been  7,199,913  bushels,  against  6,910.- 
578  last  year.  To  date,  all  records  ol 
wheat  exports  have  been  surpassed 
ir 
this  crop  year,  with  corn  only  about 
2,500,000  bushels  behind 
last  year. 
Wheat  has  been  growing  a little stronger 
in  price,  but  not  because  Western  re­
ceipts  run  short,  for  this  month  they 
have  been  3,100,000  bushels,  or  55  per 
cent,  larger  than  last  year.

iron  situation 

The  greatest  assurance  of  strength  in 
is  still  found  in  the 
the 
fact  that,  with  constantly 
increasing 
production,  stocks  on  hand  are  showing 
a  steady  depreciation.  The  operation 
of  demand  and  of  organizations  to  con­
trol  competition  has  resulted  in  a  gen­
eral,  although  moderate, 
in 
prices.  The  conservatism  in  this  regard 
indicates  that  the  manufacturers  mean 
to  keep  on  a  basis  which  will  continue 
to  give  them  access to  the  world’s  mar­
kets, realizing that a  more  radical  course

increase 

would  result 
in  killing  the  goose  on 
which  they  depend for their golden eggs.
Thus  tbe  advances,  including  tinplate 
and  the  minor  metals,  are  kept  in  har­
mony  with  improving  conditions  in  for­
eign  quotations.

The  general  outlook  in  textiles  con­
tinues  to  show  more  strength  and  man­
ufacturers  are  feeling  much  encourage­
ment,  although  it  is  yet  early  to  judge 
of  the  season’s  distribution.  Boots  and 
shoes  are  still  showing  conservatism  on 
account  of  the  undue  cost  of  leather, 
and  although  there  are  heavy  shipments 
they  are  exceeded  by  those  of  last  year 
and  of  1895.
OMNIVOROUS  HUMAN  ANIMAL.
A  few  weeks  ago  a  paragraph  found 
its  way  into  the  Tradesman  to  tbe  effect 
that  the  working  classes  of  Puerto Rico, 
on  account  of  the  almost  prohibitive 
tariffs  imposed  on’  imported  food,  were 
compelled  to 
live  chiefly  on  roots  and 
fruits  and  that  they  suffered  for tbe  lack 
of  sufficient  food.  This  state  of  things 
was  supposed  to  prove  that  vegetable 
food  is  unfit  for  tbe  support  of  the  hu­
man  race.

Any  such  conclusion  is  foolish  in  the 
extreme.  The  nutrition  of  tbe  human 
body  requires  that  certain  proportions 
of  carbon,  hydrogen,  oxygen,  nitrogen, 
potash,  phosphorus  and  some  other  ele­
mentary  substances  shall  be  supplied  in 
due  proportions.  These  can  be  got  out 
>f  vegetables 
just  as  well  and  just  as 
efficaciously  as  out  of  aDimal  food,  and 
there 
is  no  sort  of  doubt  that  aD  ex­
clusive  vegetable  diet,  embracing  a 
proper  variety  of  articles,  would  be 
vastly  more  beneficial  and  less injurious 
than  an  exclusive  meat  diet. 
In  fact, 
about  the  only  people  upon  the  planet 
who  live  on  animal  matters  exclusively 
are  the 
inhabitants  of  countries  in  the 
Polar  regions,  where  vegetables  do  not 
grow.  They  are  probably  among  tbe 
most  degraded  of  all  human  creatures.
is  so  organized  that  he can  eat 
almost  anything  that  grows  from  tbe 
that 
soil,  that  walks  upon  the  earth, 
flies 
in  the 
waters.  He  is  omnivorous,  for  the  rea­
son  that  he 
is  the  only  animal  that  is 
found  in  every  zone  and  climate  of  our 
globe.  He is created  to  meet  tbe  condi­
tions  existing  wherever  his  lot 
is  cast. 
When  people  can  exercise  any  prefer­
ence 
in  the  food  they  eat,  they  choose 
that  which  is  the  most  palatable,  but  is 
not  necessarily  the  most  wholesome. 
Most  of  tbe  diseases  to  which  flesh 
is 
heir  are  tbe  fruit of  imprudence  and ex­
cess 
in  eating  and  drinking,  no  matter 
what  may  be  the  specific articles so mis­
used.

in  the  air,  or  that 

lives 

Man 

foolish 

The  sort of  intolerance  that  denounces 
is  an 
either  vegetarians  or  meat-eaters 
fanaticism. 
unreasonable  and 
is  no  doubt  that  an  exclusive 
There 
vegetable  diet  is  beneficial  to  many 
in­
dividuals,  while  all  the  great  beasts  of 
burden,  such  as  the  elephant,  the  horse, 
tbe  ox,  the  camel  and  the  llama,  are  ex­
clusively  vegetarians,  and  from  such 
food  they  gain  the  strength  which  en­
ables  them  to  perform  their  laborious 
tasks.  But,  while  there  are  few  exclu­
sive  meat-eaters,  tbe  staple  dish  of  the 
English  is  roast  beef,  while  the  Amer­
icans are  the  chief  breeders  and  eaters 
of  swine's  flesh,  and  they  are  among 
the  foremost  nations.

In  the  matter  of  food  man  is  a  law 
to  himself.  He  eats  what  be  can  get 
most  conveniently,  and  he 
is  made  to 
conform  to  the conditions which regulate 
his  food  supply.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

BREAD  AND  MEAT.

Tfae  American  people,  with  their  vast 
production  of  meats  and  breadstuffs,  do 
not  understand  the  condition  of  the 
in­
habitants  of  those  countries  where  the 
domestic  supply  of these  necessaries  is 
not  sufficient  to  feed  the population,  and 
as  a  consequence  more  or  less  of  the 
subsistence  of  the  people  must be  de­
rived  from  foreign  countries.

The 

immense  expanse of  the  United 
States,  extending  through  20 degrees  of 
latitude  and  30  degrees  of  longitude, 
embracing  conditions  of soil and climate 
that  can  produce 
in  abundance  every 
bread  plant,  from  rice 
in  the  South, 
through  the  entire  list  of  corn,  wheat, 
rye  and  barley,  without  counting  oats, 
which  are  reserved  for  feeding  beasts of 
burden,  and  whose  millions  of  horned 
cattle,  hogs,  sheep  and  other  animals 
furnish  meats  in  the  greatest  profusion, 
presents  conditions  not  realized  any­
where 
is  not  easy  for 
Americans  to  understand  the  situation 
in  countries  where  much  of  the  food 
supply  has  to  be  drawn  from  abroad.

in  Europe. 

It 

that  there 

It  is  so  in  Germany  that  the  country 
does  not  produce  meat  and  bread 
enough  for  its  people.  United  States 
Consul  Albert,  at  Brunswick,  Germany, 
reports 
to  the  State  Department  at 
Washington 
is  widespread 
complaint  of  the  high  prices  of  food. 
The  German 
farmers  clamored  for  a 
protective  tariff  against  foreign  grain 
and  meats,  and  to  please them  the  tariff 
was  enacted.  The  people are  suffering 
in  consequence.  He  quotes  some  ex­
tracts from the  Brunswick Landeszeitung 
newspaper  on  the  subject. 

It  says:

Not  only 

in  the  north  of  Germany, 
but  also  in  the  south,  the  prohibition  of 
the  import  of  cattle  has  driven  the 
prices  to  an  extraordinary  height,  and 
caused  great  discontent  among  consum­
ers.  This  is  shown  even  in papers which 
are  favorable to  the  agricultural  interest 
and  have  supDorted  it. 
In  the  Munich 
Allgemeine  Zeitung,  an  expert  proves 
that  the  prohibition 
is  not  necessary, 
and  that  diseases  would  not  be  brought 
in. 
In  Bavaria,  the  number  of  cattle 
for  slaughter  has  diminished  so  greatly 
that  the  demand  can  not be  supplied. 

Further  it  says:
According  to  the  representation  of  a 
physician  who  was commissioned  by  the 
city  officials  of  Beuthen  to  investigate 
the  interdiction  of  swine  and  its  effect 
upon  the  means  of  support  of  the  work­
ingmen,  the  use  of  meat  among  them 
has  diminished  one-third,  and  whenever 
a  piece  of  meat  comes  on  the  family 
table 
it  is  so  small  that  it  only  suffices 
for  the  satisfaction  of  one  man.  The 
present  conditions  will  work  an  injury 
to the  capacity  for labor  and  the  power 
of  endurance  of  the growing generation. 
Several  years  ago  the  price  of  a  kilo­
gram  (two  pounds  three  ounces)  of 
swine  flesh 
in  Upper  Silesia  was  from 
13  to  15  certs;  in  August,  1895,  >t al­
ready  reached  26 cents;  and  after  small 
fluctuations,  has  risen,  in  September  of 
last  year,  to  37Jé  cents.

Consul  Albert  presents  figures to  show 
that  the  population  in  Germany  is  in­
creasing  more  rapidly  than  the  means 
of  subsistence. 
In  regard  to  the  supply 
of  meat,  there  can  be no question  about 
this.  Germany  can  not  supply  the  de­
mand. 
In  the  matter  of  breadstuffs, 
under  improved  methods  of  fertilization 
and  cultivation,  it  is  hoped  by  the  san­
guine  that  the  supply  may  meet  the  de­
mand ;  but  in  the figures  given,  human 
consumption  of  breadstuffs alone  is  con­
sidered,  and  no  allowance  is  made  for 
the  consumption  by  cattle  and  poultry 
and  the  grain  used  in  the  manufacture 
of  spirits.

The  Consul  thinks  that  Germany  is 
rapidly  reaching  the  same  position  held 
by  England  before  the  abolition  of  the

influence  of  a 
corn  laws.  Under  the 
protective  tariff, 
industrial  enterprise 
has  increased  immensely.  Germany  now 
rivals  the  United  States  and  England 
in manufactures;  but,  unlike  the  United 
States,  it  has  net  the  provisions  and 
breadstuffs  for  its  home  consumption 
with  a  surplus  for  other  nations.

The  result  will  be  that  the  free  im­
port  of  grain  and  provisions  into  Ger­
many  will 
in  the  end  be  resorted  to. 
The  people  must  have  cheap food.  That 
is  a  necessity  that  all  statesmanship 
must  recognize,  and  the  lack  of  it  will 
bring  on  revolution. 
is  terrible to 
think  what  would  be  the  situation  in 
time  of  war,  when  all  imports  would  be 
cut  off,  of  people  forced 
to  depend 
on  foreign  countries  for  a  food  supply. 
That  condition  is  the  weakest  point  in 
the  entire  defensive  position  of  Great 
Britain,  and it is  this  that  makes  friend­
ly  relations  with  the  United  States  so 
necessary._____________

It 

Quite  a  number  of  the  employes  and 
stockholders  of  the  John  Finzer  &  Bro. 
Tobacco  Co.,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  were 
enriched  by  the  absorption  of  that  cor 
poration  by  the  Continental  Tobacco 
Co.  For  several  years  the  managing 
employes  have been  given  a  little  stock 
at  Christmas  time,  and  at  other times 
they  were  allowed  to  buy  stock  in  the 
Finzer Co.  at  low  prices.  This went  on 
for  several  years.  When  the  deal  was 
closed,  Hughey  Gorman,  a  foreman 
in 
the  factory,  received  $50,000  in  cash  for 
his  stock,  and  an  equal  amount  of  pre­
ferred  and  common  stock  in  the  Conti­
nental.  Mr.  Sheets,  an  overseer,  re­
ceived  $80,000.  David  Keller,  the  Sec­
retary,  received  $300,000 and  a  position 
in  New  York  worth  $15,000 a  year.  R. 
Finzer  was  given  $60,000 for  bis  share, 
while  Mrs.  Finzer  received  about $600,- 
000  for  the  holdings  of  her  deceased 
husband.  The  President  of  the  com­
pany,  Charles  C.  Vogt,  received  as  his 
share  $300,000. 
It  is  recalled  that  one 
year  the  Finzer Co.  declared  a  cash  div­
idend  of  100  per cent.

The  New  York  Herald  boasts  that 
New  Yorkers  spent $25,000,000  in  char­
ity  during  1898.  Laying  aside  the ques­
tion  of  why  such  a  tremendous  outlay 
was  necessary 
in  the  midst  of  such 
boasted  prosperity, we  come  to  the  ques­
tion,  "When  will  some  great  city  boast 
that  it  did  not  find  it necessary to  spend 
a  dollar  for  charity,  its  people being 
employed  at  living  wages?"  While  we 
are congratulating  ourselves  that  char­
ity  is  provided  in  abundance,  let  us  not 
forget  that  it 
is  our  duty  to  strive  for 
that  condition  when  charity  will  not  be 
needed.

The  engraving  on  the  new  silver  cer­
tificate  is a  radical  departure  from  that 
on  the  old  one.  The  American  eagle  is 
all  that  appears  on  it  and  the  bill  pre­
sents  a  neat  and  artistic  appearance. 
The  Secretary  of the Treasury authorized 
the  order 
issuing  the  new  certificates, 
because the  old  design,  which  was  very 
complicated,  required too  much  ink  and 
made  the  figures  in script unintelligible. 
The  seal  on  the  new  certificate  is  re 
garded  as  more  difficult  to counterfeit 
than  the  old  one.

A  book  published  in  Japan  a thousand 
years  ago  notes  that  at  that  time  good 
silk  was  already  produced  in twenty-five 
provinces  of  that  country.

Wise  men  talk  but  little.  They  know 
that  to  the  wise'a  word  is  sufficient, and 
that on  the  foolish  all  words are  wasted.

THE  PROBLEM  OF  THE  AGE.
Half  a  century  ago the  medical  books 
were accustomed  to  declare  that  but  for 
the  fact that  many women were invalids, 
and  nearly  all  of  the  wealthier classes  of 
them  were  sure  to  become  so,  the  physi­
cians  would  scarcely  be  able  to  make  a 
livelihood. 
longer.  The 
women  are  not now  habitual  invalids. 
On  the  contrary,  they  are  more  vigorous 
and  healthful  than  ever  before,  and  are, 
if  possible,  more  beautiful.

is  so  no 

It 

it 

Beauty 

is  an  evolution,  and 

is 
evolved  both  physically  and  mentally 
It  is  improved  by  the  better  health  of 
women  and  it  developed  out  of the men­
tal  conditions  by  which  women  realize 
that  beauty  is  a  great  charm  and  attrac­
tion 
in  the  estimation  of  the Gther  sex, 
and  the  desire  to  be  beautiful,operating 
in  conjunction  with  physical  causes, 
acting  through  successive  generations, 
has  increased,  and  will  continue  to  in­
crease,  the  beauty  of  women  until  they 
will  be  like  “ daughters  of  the  gods,  di­
vinely  tall  and  most  divinely  fair."

But  how  about  the  men? 

If  their 
evolution  of  health  and  beauty  were 
progressing  parallel  with  that  of  the 
women,  it  might be  possible  to  look  for­
ward  to  such  a  perfect  development  in 
both  that  the  race  so  produced  would 
surpass  all  in  the  past  and glorify future 
its  splendid  bodily 
generations  with 
beauty  and  masterful 
intellectual  and 
spiritual  power.

But,  physically,  it  would  seem  that 
modern  man  has  culminated  and  is  tot­
tering  to  his  decline.  This  is  the  only 
age  of  the  world  when  men  had  at  one 
and  the  same  time  alcohol,  tobacco, 
opium,  cocaine  and  the  manifold  other 
nerve-destroying  drugs.  Whisky  and 
brandy  have  been  commonly  known  but 
a  few  centuries.  Tobacco  dates  from 
the  discovery  of  America.  Opium  was 
brought  from 
the  Far  East,  and  the 
coca 
leaf  from  Peru.  They  have  come 
into  common  use  within  a  brief  period.
The  excessive  use  of  these  powerful 
drugs  is  undermining  the  male  consti­
tution. 
It  is  to-day  the  man  that  is  the 
victim  of  nervous  diseases.  The  fre­
quent  and  apparently  unaccountable 
failure  of  men 
in  all  classes  of  life  is 
commonly  attributed  to overwork ;  but  it 
is  really  in  most  cases  the  result  of  de­
bauchery  and  other  excesses,  aggravated 
by  attempts  to  brace  up  with  nerve-de­
stroyers.

The  Romans  were  the  most  wonderful 
debauchees  the  world  ever  saw  No 
other  such  excesses  in  eating,  drinking 
and  sensuality  were  ever  known.  But 
they  did  not  know  alcohol.  They  drank 
wine,  but  they  did  not  attempt  to  re 
pair  the  effects  of  their  excesses  with 
drugs.  They  rested  the  body  until  it 
recovered 
its  power  by  its  own  natural 
forces.  To  day  all  sorts  of  poisonous 
pick-me-ups  are  used  to  hasten  the  re­
covery,  and  these  aggravate  the  dam­
aging  conditions.

This  state  of  things  is  confined  to  no 
class  or  quality  of  modern  manhood. 
is  among  the  most  com­
The  hoodlum 
mon  users  of  the  hypodermic 
injection 
of  opium.  Negro  ruffians  are  devoted 
to  cocaine.  Men  can  not  deprave  the 
powers  of  the  body  without  depraving 
the  soul. 
It  is  in  the  fact  that  women 
are  so  much  more  free  from  such  bodily 
depravity  that  they  are  spiritually  so 
much  purer. 
In  the  terrible  Kreutzer 
Sonata,  which  is  the  expression  of a sort 
of  religious  fervor  fanatical  to  almost 
the  last  degree  of  madness,  it  is  stated: 
Woman,  the  average  woman  of  so­
ciety,  is generally  a  dissipated  creature, 
without  moral  foundation,  an  egotist,  a

It 

chatterbox;  our  girls,  that  is,  the  ayer- 
age  girl  of  20,  a  fascinating  being,  cap­
able  of  the  noblest,  of  the  most  sublime 
deeds.  How  do  you  account  for  this? 
The  natural  conclusion  is  that  man  has 
ruined  her  and  drawn  her  down  to  his 
moral  level. 
is  an  undeniable  fact 
that  when  boys  and  girls  come  into  this 
world  with  equal  gilts,  the  moral  worth 
of  the  girl  is  tar  superior.  Firstly,  the 
girl  is  not  subjected  to  those  malignant 
enticements  which  we  are  exposed  to. 
She  does  not  smoke,  gamble,  drink, 
curse  nor  fight.  Secondly,  this 
is  the 
principal  cause  why  she  is  purer  moral­
ly.  Therefore  she  always  remains  su­
perior  to  man.  She  is  bis  superior  when 
a  girl,and  when  a  woman,  in our sphere, 
where  the  husband  does  not  need  to  la­
bor  for  their  support,  she  will  retain 
her  superiority  over  him  and  become 
his  master.

This  is true  as  to  its  statement  of  the 
fact  that  women  are  better  than  men 
and  the  cause  of  it.  But  man  can  drag 
her down,  and  he  is  doing 
it.  Almost 
everything  in  human  nature  is  possible. 
There  comes  to  us  from  remote  antiq­
uity  the  story  of  the  Amazons,  a  nation 
of  women  who,  finding  their  men  re­
duced  to  a  low  state  of  physical  vigor 
and  moral  depravity,  slaughtered  and 
exterminated  them,  taking  upon  them­
selves  all  the  cares  of  the  state,  as  well 
as  of  the  home,  and  thereafter  their 
only  association  with  the  other  sex  was 
with  the  powerful  men  of  the  fierce  and 
warlike  nations  of  foreigners.

The  women  of  to-day,  who  are  grow­
ing  in  strength  and  beauty,  may  reach 
a  point  when  they  will  loathe and  resent 
the  decline and  decay  of  their  men,  and 
may  rise  up  against  them,  as  did  the 
Amazons.  The  possibilities  of  such  an 
occurrence  in  a  country  like  this are ex­
tremely  remote.  The  conditions  of  life 
that  could  bring  about  such  a  situation 
exist  only 
in  cities,  and  they  do  not 
affect  the  great  body  of  the  population. 
Fresh  men  are  constantly  coming  in 
from  the  country  to  take  their  places  in 
the  great  work  of  the  cities.  Rut  in 
the  Old  World  there  are  cities  where 
demoralization 
its  ter­
it  was  doubtless  from 
rible  work,  and 
some  such  object 
lesson  that  the  mad 
dreamer  of  the  Kreutzer  Sonata  drew 
his  deathful  inspiration.

is  carrying  on 

in 

lost 

submarine 

Human  nature 

impurities  cast 

its  abysses,  and 

is  like  the  waters  of 
the  ocean,  whose  vast  powers  of  self­
purification  seem  equal 
to  every  de­
mand.  A  thousand  rivers  pour  inces­
santly  their  muddy  floods  into  its  vast 
basin, 
convulsions  belch 
into  it  sulphurous  fires;  but  it  remains 
profound,  terrible  and  all-overcoming. 
into  it  disappear 
The 
and*  are 
its 
waters  are  always  sparkling  and  trans­
parent.  The  vast 
interior  power  by 
which  human  nature  is  purified 
is  all- 
sufficient  for  the  demands  that  are made 
upon 
it  has  always  been  most 
potential  when  that  demand  was  most 
urgent.  The  Romans,  lacking  alcohol, 
tobacco  and  all  the  depressing  and pow­
erful  neurasthenic  drugs  of  to-day,  sur­
vived  their  debaucheries  for  five  cen­
turies  before  the  virile  and  ferocious 
barbarians  swept  them  into  destruction. 
How  long,  with  the  means  of  moral 
and  physical  self-destruction  so  terribly 
multiplied  and  armed  against  modern 
society,  can 
it  withstand  such  assaults? 
This  is  the  ptoblem  cf  tfe  modern  age.

it,  and 

Woman 

in  politics 

is  a  recognized 
force  now.  Three  women,  all  wives, 
are  telling  against  the  seating  of  one 
of  Utah’s  representatives  in Congress.

People  full  of 

idle  curiosity  do  not 
seem  to  care  to  know  how  work  would 
agree  with  them.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Fruits  and  Produce.
Difficulties  Which  Beset  the  Olive  In­

dustry.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.

The  Los  Angeles  Times  publishes  a 
long  article  on  the  condition  of the olive 
industry 
in  the  Southern  counties,  in 
which  the  writer  takes  the  most  gloomy 
view  of  the  probable  outcome  of  the  in­
vestments  in  olive  culture.  We  are  not 
judge  so  well  as  the 
in  a  position  to 
writer  in  the  Times  of  the  condition 
in 
the  particular  localities  named, but  it  is 
an  undoubted  fact  that  there  are  large 
areas  in  the  State  where  the  olive  will 
bear  as  freely  and  regularly  as 
it  ap­
pears  to  bear  anywhere.  There  has  been 
an  olive  boom,  and  many  growers  who 
have  invested  money  upon  conclusions 
which  have  been  jumped  at  must  now 
face  losses  which  always  follow 
invest 
meuts  made  without  due  investigation 
and  deliberate  judgment.

if  well-enforced  pure 

At  the  bottom  of  the  olive  business 
there  are  two  difficulties:  In  the  first 
place,  olive  oil  can  not  profitably  com­
pete  in  the  general  market  with  the  less 
expensive  vegetable  oils.  These  oils 
will  be  used  for  purposes  of  adultera­
tion,  or, 
food 
laws  prevent  that,  they  will  boldly  com­
pete  under  other  names  for  the  trade.
If  cottonseed  oil  does  not  sell  freely  for 
table  use,  it  will be called “ Union Salad 
O il,”   or  something  else.  Under  such 
names  cottonseed  oil  to-day  has  nearly 
all  the  restaurant  and  much  of  the  fam­
ily  trade  for  table  oils.

Here  and  there  an  energetic  producer 
of  ample  means  may  create  a  demand 
for  his  special  brand  of  oil  at  a  high 
price.  This  does  not  help  the  unknown 
producers,  who  must  sell  their  oil  at 
the  price  of  refined  cottonseed  oil.  The 
pickled  olives  can  net  be  counterfeited, 
but  the  demand 
is  very  trifling  in  the 
United  States.  For  ripe  pickled  olives 
a  demand  has  to  be  created. 
It  could 
be  created  if  the  prices  were  made  low 
enough,  but  a  ripe  pickled  olive  that 
will  keep 
is  a  rather  costly  product. 
From  these  things  arises  the  second 
difficulty  of  creating  a  market  for an 
expensive  product.

These  difficulties  are  inherent  in  the 
business,  and  should  have  been  dulv 
considered  before planting  by  those  who 
have  invested  so  recklessly.  But besides 
these  planters  have  added  others.  They 
have  planted  largely of  foreign  varieties 
of  recognized  excellence  in  their  native 
localities  without  waiting  to  determine 
by  experiment  how  they  would  do  here. 
To  this  day  there  are  but  two  varieties 
of  olives  whose  success  is  established  in 
California:  One  of  these 
is  the  Mis­
sion,  which 
is  the  only  olive  any  one 
has  yet  made  money  on,  and  the  other 
is  the  Redding  Pickoline,  which 
is 
probably  a  wild  olive,  and,- at  any  rate, 
is  not  worth  raising.

If  no  olives had  ever  been  planted 

in 
the  State,  except  experimentally,  but 
the  Mission,  our  olive  growers  would  be 
better  off.  Another  cause  of  disaster  is 
the  crowding  in  of  108  trees  to  the  acre 
in  the  majority  of  orchards,  when  from 
40  to  50  is  all  that  the  land should carry. 
Warnings  against  both  these  practices 
have  been  abundant  from  the  beginning 
of  the  industry  in  the  State,  and  could 
have  escaped  no  one  who  used  ordinary 
diligence  in  investigating  before invest­
ing.

industry 

In  spite  of  all  this,  we  think  growers 
foolish  who  have  dug  out  their  olive 
trees  because  they  bore  nothing  this 
year. 
It  is  very  likelv  that  next  year’s 
corp  will  be  all  the  better.  A  crop  in 
every  alternate  year 
is  all  that  is  ex 
pected  by  experienced  olive  growers. 
The 
is  now  in  a  condition  to 
justify  a  careful  official  investigation, 
extending  over  two  or  three  years,  and 
conducted  with  scientific precision.  The 
Agricultural  College  will  undertake  it  if 
the  State  will  provide  funds.
The  best  man  for  the  work  is  Prof.  A. 
P.  Hayne,  now  with  bis  regiment  at 
Manila.  As  there  is  to  be  no  fighting, 
he  could  probably 
resign  and  come 
home.  We  do  not  think  he  could  serve 
his  country  better  than  by  spending  a 
year  or  two  in  a  thorough  study  of  the

olive  groves  now  of  bearing  age  in  this 
State.  There  have  been 
invest­
ments  which  ought  not  to be  needlessly 
abandoned.

large 

American  Enterprise  Threatened 

Jamaica.

in 

their 

Kingston,  Jamaica,  Jan.  8—Ameri­
cans  interested  in  industrial  enterprises 
in  Jamaica  would  do  well  to  keep  an 
eye  on  what  is  going  on  here  at present, 
as  it  is  not  improbable  that  the  future 
of 
interests  may  be  seriously 
menaced  by  the  sudden  influx  on a large 
scale  of  English  capital  and  enterprise.
What  Jamaica  owes  to  the  develop­
ment  of  her  fruit  trade  by  American 
enterprise  is  well  known.  At  a  most 
critical  economical  crisis  it  proved  her 
salvation,  and  Jamaicans  have  not  been 
slow  to  recognize  the  fact. 
But  the 
conditions  are  now  changing,  and  the 
very  American  enterprise  to  which  the 
island  owed  so  much  is  threatened  by 
the  reaction  of  that  English  lack  of  en­
terprise  that  opened  the  door  to  the 
is  to some 
Americans.  This  reaction 
extent  primarily  due  to 
the  United 
States  Government's  action  in  threaten­
ing  the  Jamaica  fruit  trade  with  extinc­
tion  through  the  operation  of  the  Ding- 
ley  law.  Perhaps  no  other  single  cause 
contributed  so  much  to  the  awakening 
of  British 
in  Jamaica’s  con­
cerns.  This  it  certainly  was  that  stirred 
the  British  Colonial  Secretary  of  State, 
Mr.  Chamberlain,  and  caused  him  to 
interest  a  great  English  fruit  trading- 
house  in  the  matter.  That  firm  has  now 
investigated  the  field,  found  it  a  prom­
ising  one  and 
is  preparing  a  compre­
hensive  scheme,  including a  fleet  of  fast 
well-fitted  steamers,  to  monopolize  the 
Jamaica  fruit  trade  and  divert  it  from 
the  American  to  the  English  market. 
No  doubt  Cuba  and  Puerto  Rico  can 
supply  the  American  market.  But  what 
about  the  American  capital  already 
in­
vested i

interest 

Several  other  big  enterprises also  are 
on  foot which,  while  they  promise to  re­
establish  the 
industrial  prosperity  of 
Jamaica  and  the  other  British  West 
Indies  generally,  threaten  to  destroy 
influx  of  American  indus­
that  steady 
trial  and  commercial  enterprise 
to 
which  the  more  far-seeing  colonies  look 
as  the  thin  edge  of  the  wedge that  is 
one  day  to  accomplish  the  inevitable 
and  desired  absorption  into  the  United 
States.  First  among  these  schemes  is 
one  for  the  erection  of  central  sugar 
in  Barbados  and  the  smaller 
factories 
Antilles,  whereby 
is  supposed  that 
West  Indian  cane  sugar  will  be  enabled 
profitably  to  fight  European  beet  sugar 
in  the  English  market.  A  similar  plan 
for  Jamaica  also  has  been  adopted  by 
big  Glasgow  firm,  which  has  organized 
a  syndicate  with  a  capital  of  $1,500,000 
for  the  purpose.

it 

launched 

Last  but  not  least  of  these  movements 
— not  to  mention  smaller  ones  that  in 
themselves  mav  have  large  ultimate 
suits— is  the  West  Indian  Co-operative 
Union,  recently 
in  London 
which 
is  more  thoroughly  calculated 
than  anything  else  to  close  the  door  to 
individual  American  enterprise in  these 
islands. 
It  contemplates  making  every 
West  Indian  landholder,  whether  owner 
or tenant  and  trader,  however  individ 
ually  impecunious,  an  interested  party, 
with  some  stake  in  the  concern.  The 
scheme  seems  practicable enough  in  de 
tail,  especially  when  one  remembers 
that  the  underlying  motive  is  to  monop 
olize  the  trade  and 
industry  of  the 
islands  to  the  exclusion  of  American in 
terests  and  to  exterminate  the  growing 
American  sentiment  which  the  recent 
annexation  movement,  however  sneered 
at  and  minimized,  brought  home  to  the 
apprehension  of  Great  Britain  as  pos 
sibiy  nothing  else  could  have  done.

The  important  point  is  that  all  th 

involves  to  a  great  extent  the  American 
export  trade  to  the  British  West  Indies 
and  particularly  Jamaica,  which  has 
made  so  phenomenally  promising an  in 
crease  during  the  last  dozen  years  or  so.

A  politician  will  shake  your  hand  one 

minute  and  pull  your  leg  the  next.

An  amateur  that  can  sing  and  won’t 

sing  ought  to have a  medal.

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Money  in  Truck  Farming.

Pricetown,  Pa.,  Jan. 

14— Peter  R. 
Scblegel  is  a  recent  graduate  of  Buck- 
nell  University  at  Lewisburg,  in  this 
State.  He  saw  that  the  professions  were 
crowded,  so  he  concluded  not  to  waste 
any  time  on  the  law,  medicine  or  theol 
ogy.  He  made  up  his  mind  to be a 
small  farmer.

He  took  a  four  acre  tract  between 
here  and  Fleetwood,  and  began  a  sys­
tematic,  scientific  cultivation  of  the 
soil.  He  now  makes  as  much money  as 
many  farmers  do  on  100  acres.  He  is 
an  expert  truck  gardener,having worked 
for  four  years  on  a  high-class  truck 
farm  in  Florida. 
In  addition  to  this  be 
had  experience  on  several  large  farms 
near  the  college.  Not  only  has  he  ex­
hibited  more  than  ordinary  tact  in  mar­
keting  his  products,  but  whatever  he 
raises  is  of  the  finest  quality,  and  con­
sequently  commands  a  price  far above 
the  average.  One  of  the  specialties  of 
the  Scblegel  truck  garden 
is  melons. 
He  raised  on  half  an  acre  2.600  melons, 
which  be  sold  in  bulk  at 6  and  8  cents 
apiece  Melon  raising  must  be  done 
scientifically,  if  one  wishes  to  receive 
perfect  fruit.  The  trouble  with  most  of 
the  melons  on  the  market  is  that  they 
lack 
sweetness.  Mr.  Scblegel's  are 
sweet,  tender  and  juicy.  He  attributes 
his  success  to  a  system  of  fertilization. 
He  adds  certain  elements  to  the  soil  to 
produce  saccharine  matter  in  the  mel­
ons,  and  gets  what he  wants.

conditions. 

Mr.  Scblegel  also  makes  an  especial 
effort  to  raise  vegetables  early  or  late 
in  the  season.  He knows  just  wbat  veg­
etables  and  what  varieties  are  best 
adapted  to  the  different  seasons  and  the 
weather 
Last  year  he 
planted  peas  in  the  open ground as early 
as  March  18  and  produced  an  early 
crop.  Then  he  planted  some  that  were 
picked  and  marketed  late  in  October at 
good  prices.  His  experience  has taught 
him  that  peas  can  stand  wet  and  cold 
weather as  well,  but  readily  suffer  under 
hot  and  dry  conditions.  A  white  frost 
seldom  hurts  peas.  Mr.  Schlegel's gar­
dens  are  elevated  to  such  an  extent  and 
slope  in  such  a  manner  that  the  ground 
becomes  fit  for  cultivation several weeks 
earlier  in  spring  than  the  average  soil. 
He  raises  all  sorts  of  vegetables  and  se­
lects  the  varieties  in  accordance  with 
the  tastes  of  his  customers.  He,is  a 
strong  advocate  of  small  farms and  says 
if  college  men  would  buckle down  to 
work  on  five acres  of  ground  and  bring 
their brain  work  to  action  they wouldn’t 
need  to  be  hard  up  in  the  professions. 
He  is  in  good  health  and  enjoys  being 
bis  own  boss  without  excessively  hard 
labor.  He  keeps  a  horse,  two  cows, 
hens  and  pigeons,  and  all  yield  some­
thing  for  his  purse  or  bis  table.
Extent  To  Which  Chestnuts Are  Used 

As  Food.

From  a  recently  published  Govern­
ment  report  on  the  use  of  nuts  for  food 
the  following  is  taken  concerning  chest­
nuts  in  France:
The  absence  of  Indian  corn  as  an  ar­
ticle  of  diet  among  the  poorer classes  in 
France  is  to  certain  extent  replaced  by 
the  popular  chestnut.  Throughout  the 
center of  this  country,  from  the  Bay  of 
Biscay  to  Switzerland,  there  are  large 
plantations,  and  almost  forests,of  chest 
nut  trees.  These nuts  differ  very  much 
from  the  ordinary  species  indigenous  to 
the  United  States; 
they  are  broad, 
large,  and  resemble  the  American  horse 
chestnut  or  buckeye  (Esculus  bippocas- 
tanum),  and  are  extensively  eaten  by 
human  beings  and  animals.  Great 
care  is  taken  in  harvesting  this  nut  be­
fore the  severe  frosts  touch  it,  as  freez­
ing  hastens  fermentation.

The  poor  people  during  the  fall  and 
winter  often  make  two meals from chest­
nuts.  The ordinary  way  of cooking them 
is  to  remove  the  outside  shell,  blanch 
them;  then  a  wet  cloth  is  placed  in  an 
earthen  pot,  which  is  almost  filled  with 
raw  chestnuts;  they  are  covered  with  a 
second  wet  cloth  and  put  on  the  fire  to 
steam.  They  are  eaten  with  salt  or 
milk.

Hot  steamed  chestnuts  are  carried 
in  baskets  or 
around  the  city  streets 
pails.  The  majority  of  the  working

people,  who  usually  have  no  fire  early 
in  the  morning,  eat 
them  for  their 
breakfast,  with  or  without  milk.  Physi­
cians  state  that,  as  an  article  of  food, 
chestnuts  are  wholesome,  hearty,  nutri­
tious  and  fattening.  These  nuts  are 
often  used  as  a  vegetable,  and  are  ex­
ceedingly  popular,  being  found  on  the 
table  of  the  well-to  do  and  wealthy. 
They  are  served  not  only  boiled,  but 
roasted,  steamed,  pureed  and  as  dress­
ings  for  poultry  and  meats.

Chestnuts  are  made  into  bread  by  the 
mountain  peasantry.  After the nuts  have 
been blanched they are dried and ground. 
From  this  flour  a  sweet,  heavy, 
flat 
It  resembles  the  oaten 
cake  is  made. 
cake  so  popular  among  Scotch  peas­
ants.  They  are  extensively  employed 
for  fattening  animals,  especially  hogs. 
The  nuts  are  boiled  without  shelling. 
Only  small,  inferior  fruit  is  thus  used.
Review  of the  California  Fruit  Crop. 
From the California Fruit Grower.
industry  of  California  for 
The  fruit 
the  year  i8g8  makes  a  wonderful  show­
ing  if  one  remembers  that  the  State  has 
just  experiened  one  of 
the  severest 
droughts  it has ever known.  The drought 
of  1864  crippled  trade,  the  next  in  1877 
did 
less  harm  but  left  manv  sufferers, 
while  the  dry  season  of  1898,  as  far  at 
least  as  it  affected  fresh fruit shipments, 
has  left  ut  a  minor  scar.

loss,  however, 

The  overland  movement  of  fresh  de­
ciduous  fruits  from  California  in  1896 
amounted  to  4,052  carloads,  in  1897  to 
5,323  carloads,  and  in  1898  to  5,007  car­
loads,  a  loss  as  compared  with  the  pre 
vious  year  of  only  about  6  per  cent. 
The  actual 
is  greater 
than  these  figures  indicate, because  only 
a  part  of  the  1897  apple  shipments  were 
reported,  whereas  in  1898  all  of  the  ap­
ple  shipments are  included  in  the  totai.
The  last  shipping  season  was  an  un­
usually  extended  one. 
Shipments  of 
apples  from  the  Pajaro  Valley,  Santa 
Cruz  county,  are  only  now  closing,  and 
strawberry  shipments  from the same sec­
tion  ceased  only  two  weeks ago,  after  a 
run  of  over  eight  months.  Less  than 
three  weeks  ago  from  this  writing,  a 
carload  of  California  grapes  sold  in  the 
Boston  market  at  auction,  realizing  the 
sum  of  $1,384.

While  the  shipments  of  fresh  decidu­
ous  fruits in  1898 were  less  than  in  1897, 
the  aggregate  money  return  has  been 
nearly,  if  not  quite,  equal  to  that  of  last 
year.  The  fresh  fruit 
industry  of  the 
State  has  been  given  no  very  severe 
blow  because  of  the  phenomenally  dry 
year,  although 
isolated  localities  and  a 
number  of  individuals  have  suffered.

The  greater  damage  from  drought  has 
been  almost  entirely  confined  to  a  re 
duced  wheat  production,  a  lessening  of 
the  mineral  output  and  some  loss to  cat­
tle  and  dairy  interests 
in  certain  sec­
tions, and  even  these  have  not  been  gen­
eral.
The  citrus  fruit  producing  sections  of 
the  State have  enjoyed  the  preliminary 
spurt 
inseparable  from  the  shipments 
for  the  holidays.  The  work  of  moving 
to  the  East  the  California  crop  of  or­
anges  will  begin  again  shortly,  and  the 
packing  houses  for  months to  come  will 
be  centers  of  activity.  The  output  of 
oranges  and  lemons,  unless  frosts  inter­
vene,  will  be  of  fair  size  and  the  pros­
pects  for  remunerative  prices  may  gen­
erally  be  considered  good.

Hard  to  Sell  Eggs  by  Weight.

A  writer 

in  the  Country  Gentleman 
says,  regarding  the  sale  of  eggs  by 
weight:  “ Some  years  ago  I  had  a 
brother-in-law  who  kept  a  grocery,  and 
he  tried  to  sell  eggs  by  the  pound.  He 
soon  found  it  a  very  difficult  matter. 
I 
have  seen  him  spend  nearly  a  minute 
weighing  out  a  pound  of  eggs.  And  in 
no  case,  or  very  seldom,  could  be  get 
exactly  a  pound,  for  there  would  be  a 
fraction  one  way  or  the  other,  and  in 
disgust  be  gave 
it  up.  After be  had 
the  scale’s  hopper  with  wbat 
filled 
seemed  to  be  a  pound,  be  would  take 
out  one  and  put 
in  one  of  a  different 
size,  and  so  change  two  or  three  differ­
it  very  different 
ent  times.  He  found 
from  weighing  tea  or  coffee, 
for  he 
could  sprinkle 
in  either  of  them  until 
the  scales  balanced,  and  then  the  job 
was  done.' ’

late  figures, 

According  to  the 

Review of the Chautauqua Grape Crop
the 
Chautauqua  grape  crop  was  the  equiva­
lent  of  3,000,000 9-pound  basktts  less  in 
1898  than  in  1897.  The  Chautauqua  & 
Erie  Grape  Co.  handled  3  374  cars, 
about  1,000  less  than  the  previous  year. 
Outside  shipments  make  the  total  3,800 
cars,  each  holding  2,800  baskets.
During  the  hot  weather  of  September 
and  October  grapes  sold  for  $%@6c  per 
9  pound  basket.  As  the  season  neared 
its  end  prices  improved,  but  the  aver­
age  will  not  exceed  8c  per  basket  Five 
years  ago  the  average  was  from  i6@2oc, 
according  to  variety  and  condition

The  proportion  sold  in  bulk  last  year 
was  larger  than  ever  before,  but  the 
prices  realized  were  small.

Growers  are  said  to  be  generally  dis­
satisfied  and  are  wondering  what  the 
end  will  be.  They  say  they  can  not  re­
duce  expenses  of  production  materially, 
and  that  there  must  be  a  change  or  they 
will  be  forced  out  of  business.  Some 
of  them  report  losses  for  1898,  and  none 
of  them  made  money.  With a  large  crop 
the  result  would  be  even  more  unsatis­
factory  than  it  was  last  year.
To-  Make  Artificial Meat Extracts With 

Chemicals.

A  Brussels  chemist  has  discovered  a 
synthetic  process  of  imitating  all  exist­
ing  meat  extracts,  producing  by  chem­
ical  means  an  article  far  superior  to  the 
natural  and  at  a  much  less  cost.  Ex 
periments  have  shown  the  chemical sub­
stitute  to  be  remarkably  nutritious,  and 
analysis  shows  its  chemical  constituents 
to  be  identical  in  all  essentials  with  the 
natural  product  A  company  is  form 
ing,capitalized  at  $200,000,  to  undertake 
the  manufacture of chemically-combined 
food  products.

Prohibition  will  never become popular 
as  long  as  the  price  of  a  glass  of  lemon­
ade  will  buy  two  beers.

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merit a continuance.  Our salesmen, Walter Baker,  fl. A. Sage,  C. D. Waldo  and  C. W. 
Slpley, will visit the trade regularly.

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4 3 5 - 4 3 7 - 4 3 9   W I N D E R   S T R E E T .

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

Correspondence  solicited.

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12
Clerks’  Corner.

Inconsiderate  Employers  and  Flannel- 

Mouthed  Lunkheads.

It  is  a  mystery  to  me  that  some  gro­
cers  can  keep  any  clerks  at  all.  A  clerk 
is  not  a  dog,  although  some  grocers 
seem  to  think  so. 
In  fact,  I  have  seen 
some  clerks  treated  worse  than  a  kind 
master  would  treat  his  dog.  And  the 
most  lamentable  feature  about  it  is  that 
the  market  for  clerks  is  so  overstocked 
that  the  average  clerk  realizes  perfectly 
well  that 
if  be  kicks  it  means  being 
kicked—out,  with  a  hundred  more  to 
take  his  place.

A  good  many  grocers entirely  miscon­
strue  a  clerk’s  position  in  the  store. 
They  seem  to  think  he  is  there  simply 
as  a  laborer.  Well,  he  is  there  to  labor, 
of  course,  but  he  is  also  there  to  learn 
the  business.  You  don’t  suppose  that  a 
young  man  of  ambition  would  enter  a 
grocery  store  to  do  hard,  dirty  work  at 
a  few  dollars  a  week  if  the  only  future 
ahead  was  the  doing  of  that  same  bard, 
dirty  work  at  the  same  few  dollars,  year 
in  and  year  out,  do  you?  Not  much. 
He’s  there  to  learn the business.  He  has 
ideas  of  a  store  of  his  own,  or  a  man 
agership  somewhere,  and 
the  grocer 
ought  to  realize  that;  he  ought  to  help 
him  along. 
It's  a  mistake  to  think  that 
all  that  is  necessary  is to  put  him  be 
hind  the  counter.  The  clerk  can’t  pick 
everything  up.  He  must  be  told  dozens 
and  dozens  of  things,  and  he  ought  to 
be  told  them.

I  know  a  grocer  up  in  Newark,  N.  J 

who  seems  to  resent  every  attempt  of 
his  clerk  to  get  hold  of  any  of  the  ideas 
of  the  business.  And  he  reseDts  these 
attempts  very  roughly,  too—not  in  away 
a  self-respecting  man  can  stand  very 
well.

This  grocer  holds  to  the  old-fashioned 
notion  of  marking  the  cost  price  i 
cipher  on  every  price  label.  Directly 
underneath  he  has  the  selling price,  also 
in  cipher,  but  be  has  a  different  cipher 
for  each,  and  the  clerk  is  only  allowed 
to  know  the  one  which  means the selling 
price.  He 
is  kept  on 
the  outside— 
looked  on  as  an  outsider.

Several  weeks  ago  I  had  some conver 
sation  with  this  clerk.  He’s  a  bright, 
intelligent  fellow,  worthy of  better  treat 
ment  than  he  gets.

“ I  don’t  get  any  show  here,”  he said 

“ I  came  here  to  learn  the  business, 
ain’t  going  to  be  a  grocery  clerk  all  my 
life.  But  I  ain't  allowed  to  learn  it, 
except 
just  what  I  can  pick  up.  You 
know  he  has  two  marks  on  every  label 
— one  for  the  cost  and  the  other  for  the 
price  to  sell  at.  He'd  never  tell  me the 
cost  mark,  and  one  day  I  said  to  him :

•*  ‘ M r .---- ,  I’d like  to  get  some  idea
of  bow  you  estimate  profits;  would  you 
please  explain  the  cost  marks  to  me?’ 
“ He  snapped  me  off  as  short  as  pii 

crust.

“   ‘ No.  I  won’t ! ’  he  says, 

‘  ’Tain 

none  of  your  business.  I  pay  you  wages 
to  work  around  the  store,  not  to  stick 
your  nose  in  my  business!’  ”

Isn’t  that a  nice,  decent  way  to  treat 

a  clerk?

“ And  he acts  so  small  about things, 
“ There  are  two  i 

said  the  clerk. 
three  people  who  seem  to  like to have 
me  wait  on  them,  because  I  treat  them 
as  well  as  I  can,  and  they  got  so  they 
wait  until  I  got  through  what  I  was  do 
ing,  so  I  could  ’tend  to  them.  He  soon 
got  onto  that  and  he  set  himself  to  see 
just  who  did 
it  As  soon  as he  found 
out,  he  would  send  me  down  the cellar 
to  do  some  job  as  soon  as  any  of  these

people  would  come 
would  wait  on  ’em  himself.

in.  And  then  he 

‘ And  then  you  never  get any  credit 
for  anything  you  do,  either.  A  man 
ight  work  his  feet  off  and  he’d  never 

say  ‘ thank  you. *  ’ '

m 

This grocer  is  in  luck. 

If  he  treated 
some  clerks  this  way,  they’d  gouge  him 
behind  his  back.  They’d  slip  up  on 
in  every  way  they  could,  and  it 
would  be  only  human  nature  to  do  it. 
The  clerk  he  has  is  entirely  too  decent 
fellow  for  him.  He’s  so honest  and 
self-respecting  that  he  goes on  workiug 
just  the  same,  regardless  of  the  treat­
ment he  gets.

it 

How  foolish 
is  for  a  grocer to  do 
is sort  of thing.  Why,  as  a  labor-sav­
ing  device  a  good  clerk  is a  wonder. 
Put  a  little  responsibility  on  him  and 
you’ll  make  a  man  of  him,  and  a  valu­
able  man,  too.  He’ll  take a  pait  of  the 
work  off  your  shoulders.  He’ll  give  you 
an  easier time  Instead  of  looking  after 
all  the  stock  yourself,  let  some  good 
clerk  see  that  it’s  kept  up—not  in  the 
way  of  actual  buying,  but 
in  posting 
you.  The  minute  you 
let  a  clerk  see 
that  you  recognize  him  as  one  of  the 
wheels  of  the  wagon,  he’ll  be  a  differ 
ent  fellow,  and  he  can  give  you  tip 
after  tip  that  is  worth 
in 
gold.  But  he 
isn't  apt  to  lick  a  hand 
that  strikes  him.

its  weight 

I’m  talking  now  about  good  clerks 
've  seen  some  flannel-mouthed  lunk 
heads  behind  grocery  counters  that 
weren’t  worth  the  powder  and  shot  it 
would  take  to  blow  their  heads  off 
They  never  should  have  been  there,  and 
suppose  they  were  there  only  because 
I  don’t believe  in 
they  worked  cheap. 
cheap  men.  The  clerk  who 
is  willing 
to  work  for $4  a  week  will  probably  do 
your  business  more  than  $4  worth  of 
damage.
There 

is  such  a  thing,  however,  as 
the  fresh  clerk.  He  ought  to  be  sat 
down  on  very  bard,  and  if that  doesn' 
do,  he ought  11  be  fired.  He’ll  do harm 
Why,  I  now  a  grocery  store  where  lots 
ladies  won't  go  because  the  clerk 
of 
there 
is  so  fresh.  He's  one  of  these 
things,  you  now,  who  thinks  they  are 
just the  thing  with  ladies.  And  because 
they  are 
just  the  thing  they  have to 
‘ jolly  the  ladies  along  occasionally.' 
That  goes  all  right  with  some,  but 
doesn’t  with  most  No  lady 
likes  to 
have  to  listen  to  a  lot  of  gobble-gabble 
while  she’s  being  waited  on.  And  she 
doesn't like  a  lot  of  fresh  suggestions as 
to  what  she  ought  to buy,  either.

I  saw  a  clerk  fired  on  the  spot  for 
this once.  He  was  waiting  on  a 
lady 
who  bad  just  bought  some  butter.  She 
was 
in  the  habit  of  buying  so  many 
pounds  a  week,  and  this  fresh  clerk 
thought  she  ought  to be  using  more.  So 
he  said,  in  the way  of  conversation,  very 
vivaciously:

“ I  don’t  see,  Mrs.  Brown,  why  you 
with  your  very 
large  family,  use  only 
two  pounds  of  butter  a  week.  Guess  you 
eat dry  bread  sometimes,  don’t  you?”

A  very  pert,  impertinent  remark,  and 
it  made  the  lady  very  warm  under  the 
collar.  The  reference  to  the  large  fam 
ily  made  her  especially  hot, because  she 
already  had  seven  children,  and  the 
number  seemed  to  increase  every  year 
with  the  regularity  of  clockwork.  That 
gets  to  be  a  nuisance  sometimes,  you 
know,  and  people  become  sensiti 
upon  it.

The  proprietor  of  the  store  overheard 
this  remark,  and  I  was  glad,  for  the 
sake  of  his  trade  with  the  lady,  that 
did.  He had  walked  up  pretty  close 
in  the  course of  waiting
the  clerk 

another customer,  and  heard  the  remark 
very  clearly.

“ See here!”   he  said  to  Mr.  Fresh, “ I 
don’t  allow  anybody  to  talk  to  my  cus­
tomers that  way.  You  get  out  of  here, 
and  do  it  quick !”

The  clerk  stood  dumbfounded.
“ Why,  Mr.  — ”   he began.
“ Get  out,  I  say!”   said  the  grocer.
And  the  clerk  got,  too,  for  there  was 

blood  in  the  grocer’s  eye.

As  a  matter of  fact, I  question whether 
that clerk  really  intended  impertinence. 
He  was  just  one  of  those  fresh  asses 
who  think  such  things  are  sociability. 
Really,  I  shouldn’t be  surprised 
if  he 
really  honestly  thought  that he  was  do­
ing  his  employer a  good  turn  by  culti­
vating  such  friendly,  social  relations 
with  the  customers 

But  he  lost bis  job,  all  the  same.
And  so  he  should.—Stroller  in  Gro 

eery  World.

One  On  the  Bishop.

Not  long  ago  an  Episcopal bishop was 
guest  at  a  dinner  party  in  Baltimore. 
“ By  the  way,”   said  one  of the  guests.
„  woman,  "do  you  know  that  there  are 
times  when  it  is  dangerous  to  enter  an 
Episcopal  church?”

is  that,  madam?”   said  the 
bishop,  with great dignity,  straightening 
‘  imself  up  in  bis  chair.
positively  dangerous 
church,”   she  replied.

“ I  say,  there  are  times  when 
enter 

“ What 

it  is 
the 

in  the  pulpit,  when 

“ That  can  not  be,”   said  the  bishop. 
Pray  explain,  madam.”
“ Why,”   said  she,  “ it  is  when  there 
,s  a  canon 
the 
bishop  is  charging  the  clergy,  when  the 
choir 
is  murdering  the  anthem  and  the 
organist  is trying  to  drown  the  choir»”  
A  hearty  laugh  went  the  round  of  the 
table  at  the  bishop's  expense,  and  he 
acknowledged  that  at  such  a  time he 
could  well 
imagine  it  disagreeable,  at 
least,  if  not  dangerous,  to  be  present.

to 

No  Department  Stores  in  France. 
While  there  are  co-operative  stores  in 
Paris,  the  law  does  not  tolerate  depart 
ment  stores.  No  shop  keeper  is allowed 
to  engage 
in  more  than  one branch  of 
trade,  the  result  being  that  experienced 
retail  dealers  are  protected  from  unfair 
competition.  French  law  also  discrim­
inates  against  trusts  or  combinations 
having  for  their  object a  monopoly  in 
manufacturing.  Co-operative stores are 
less  frequently  found  in  France  than 
in 
Germany, although the latter country  also 
has  laws  in  force  which  prohibit depart 
ment  stores.

Much  More  Difficult.

“ Doctor,  you  treated  me  once  for 
lung  fever.”   Why  i?  your  bill  for treat­
ing  me 
‘ pneumonia*  so  much 
larger?”

“   ‘ Pneumonia,’  sir,  is  a  good  deal 
It  ain’t  every  doctor 

for 

harder to  spell. 
that  can  do  it.”

Qualified  For  the  Position.

Secret  Service  Secretary—I  want  a 
is  skilled  in  translating  ci­

man  who 
phers.

Applicant—Then  I'm  your  man.  For 
two  years  now  I've  put  up  prescriptions 
in  a  drug  store.

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13

STARTING  RIGHT.

Developing  the  Boy  in  the  Right  Way.
“ If  more  fathers  would  take  a  course 
with  their  sons  similar  to  the  one  my 
father  took  with  me, ”   observed  one  of 
Boston’s 
leading  business  men,  “ the 
boys  might  think 
it  hard  at  the  time, 
but  they’d  thank  him  in  after  life.”

“ What  sort  of  a  course?”   we  asked.
“ Well, I  was a  young  fellow of twenty- 
two,  just  out  of  college,  and  I  felt  my­
self  of  considerable  importance.  I  knew 
my  father  was  well  off,  and my head  was 
full  of  foolish  notions  of  having  a  good 
time  and  spending  lots  of  money.  Later 
on  I  expected  father  to  start  me in busi­
ness,  after  I’d 
‘ swelled’  a  while  at 
clubs  and  with  fine  horse-flesh.-

‘ Like  a  wise  man, 

1  ‘ If  the  boy’s  got  the  right  stuff 

father  saw 
through  my  folly,  and  resolved  to  pre­
vent  my  self  destruction,  if  it  were pos­
sible.
in 
it,’  I  heard  father 
him,  let  him  prove 
say  to  mother  one  day. 
' I  worked  hard 
for  my  money,  and  I  don’t  intend  to  let 
Ned  squander 
it  and  ruin  himself  be­
sides  ’
“ That  very  day  father came along and 
banded  me  $50,  remarking,  ‘ Ned,  take 
that  money,  spend  it  as  you  choose,  but 
understand  this  much,  it’s  the  last  dol­
lar  of  my  money  you  can  have  until  you 
prove  yourself capable  of earning money 
and  taking  care  of  it  on  your  own  ac­
count  ’
“ I  took  the  money  in  a  sort  of  dazed 
manner  and  stammered  out,  ‘ I—why— I 
—I— want  to  go  into  business. ’
”   ‘ Business!’  exclaimed  father,  con 
temptuously ;  ‘ what  do  you  know  about 
managing  the  mercantile  business?  Get 
a  clerkship  and  learn  the  alphabet  be­

" I  

fore  you  talk  to  me  of  business. ’  And 
father 
left  me  then  to  ponder on  his 
words.  And  that  $50  was  the  last  moaey 
my  father  ever  gave  me,  until  at  his 
death  I  received  my  part  of  the  prop­
erty  by  inheritance.

felt  hard  and  bitter  then,  felt  nay 
father  was a  stingy  old  fogy,  and  men­
tally  resolved  to  prove  to  him  that  I 
could  live  without  his  money.  He  had 
aroused  my  pride— just  what  he 
in­
tended,  I  suppose.
“ For  three  days  I  looked  about  for  a 
place  to  make  lots  of  money.  But  I 
found  no  such  chances,  and  at  length  I 
in  a  large  retail 
accepted  a  clerkship 
store  at  $400 a  year.
‘ stinginess’ 
at  this  time  was  demanding  $2  a  week 
for  my  board  through  that  first  year.

“  Another bit  of  father’s 

“ At  the  end  of  my  first  year  I  had 
laid  aside  $200,  and  the  next  year,  my 
salary  being  raised  $100,  I  bad  $500 
laid  by.
me 
viously.

“ One  hundred  cents  meant  more  to 
in  those  days  than  $100  had  pre­

“ To-day  I  am  called  a 

“ At  the  end  of  four  years’  clerking  I 
went  to  my  father  with  $1,500 of  my 
own,  and  asked  him  if  he  was  willing 
to  help  me  enter  business.  Even  then 
he  would  only  let  me  hire  the  money, 
$2.000 at 6  per  cent.
successful 
business  man.  And  I  have  my  father  to 
thank  for 
in  self- 
denial,  self-respect  and 
independence 
which  he  gave  me—although hard  at  the 
time— put  the  manhood  into  me.
“ Years  afterward,  father  told  me  it 
cost  him  the  hardest  struggle  of  his  life 
to  be  so  hard  with  his  boy.  But  he  felt 
it  was the  only  course  to  make  a man  of 
me.  Many  a  time  we  laughed  heartily 
over  that  1  t le $2  board  b ill.”

it.  Those 

lessons 

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  Jan.  14-T h e   coffee  situa­
tion  shows  little  if  any  change  from  last 
week.  The orders  from  the  country  have 
been  for  rather  limited  amounts  and 
buyers  do  not  seem  to  show  any  dispo­
sition  to  load  up  at  prevailing  rates 
Holders  are  confident,  however,  and 
claim  to  have  the  better  end  of  the 
market,  and  quotations  are  firmly  ad­
hered  to. 
Supplies  seem  sufficiently 
large  to  meet  all 
immediate  wants. 
Rio  No.  7  is  held  at  6ffic.  The  amount 
in  store  and  afloat  aggregates  1,232.321 
bags,  against  1,134,810 bags  at  the  same 
time  last  year.  Mild  coffees  are  not 
particularly  active,  but  the  general  mar­
ket  is  firm  for  most  West  India growths.
There  has  been  a  very  satisfactory 
market 
in  sugar  and  some  orders  have 
been  received  for  good  round  lots.  The 
trust  refineries,  on  orders  for  500  barrels 
and  upward,  have  guaranteed  prices 
for  30  to  60  days.  Outsiders  have  not 
followed.  The  situation  between  the 
rival  refiners  will,  perhaps,  grow  more 
interesting  now,  as  the  stockholders 
stand  solidly  by  Mr.  Havemeyer  in  his 
vigorous campaign.  Granulated  is  listed 
at  5c.

The  tone  of  the  tea  market 

is  firm, 
but  no  special  activity  prevails  and  or­
ders  coming  are  for  only moderate quan 
tities— just  enough  to  supply  broken  as 
sortments.  Considerable  invoice  trading 
has  been  done.  Quotations  have  re­
mained  practically  unchanged.

The  rice  market  is  firm  Quotations 
are  so  high  that  business  is  limited  and 
yet  holders  will  not  abate  a  jot  This 
season  is  always  the  dull  period.  Offer 
ings  are  light  of  all  grades,  and  espe 
cially 
is  this  true  of  the  better  sorts 
This  applies  to  foreign  and  domestic 
both.  Prime  to  choice  domestic,  5^ 
@6 J4 c;  Japan,  s@5%c.
Pepper  is  very  firmly  held,  owing,  no 
doubt,  to  reports  of  a  tremendous  short 
age.  Lampong,  as  reported  from  Lon 
don,  will  send  but  22.000  piculs,  wbili 
last  year,  and  usually, 
it  sends  rive 
times  that  amount 
Singapore  is  quit 
able  here  at  io^@ io^c.  Aside  from 
pepper,  the  market  remains  about  un 
changed  and 
transact  cns  are  of  ai 
everyday  character.

Low  grades  of  molasses  are  quiet 
The  demand  has  been  m  stly  for  the 
better sorts,  which  are  firmly  held,  an 
supplies  are  somewhat  limited.  Good 
to prime centrifugals,  i6@26c ;  rpen krt 
tie,  32@36c.  Syrups  have  sold  rath 
slowly  and  quotations  are  about  as  the 
have  been  for  several  weeks  prime  to 
fancy  sugar  ranging  from  tq@25c.

in  future 

Nothing  in  the  whole  line  of groceries 
than  canned 

attracts  more  attentioi 
goods.  Firmness  characterizes  alun 
every  article  on  the  list.  Some  large 
tom itoes  have 
transactions 
been  reported  on  the  same  btsis  as 
last 
year—67J^c  for  Maryland f.  o  b  county 
Jersey  packers  are  not  accepting  last 
year's  rates  and  appearances  seem 
justify  their  decision.  Not  much  has 
been  done  in  future  corn.  From  Ch 
cago  come  reports  of  a  sale  of  180,000 
cases  of  futures  at  62}£c  and  15c  per 
100 allowed  for  freight.

Orders  for  dried  fruits  are  mainly  for 
supplies  to  fill  gaps  in  broken  assort 
ments.  While  the  volume  of  trade  is  not 
large,  the  market  is  firm  all  around  and 
quotations  are  generally  well  main­
tained.  California  raisins  are  rather 
jobbers  re 
quiet  at  the  moment,  but 
port  a  generally  good  movement 
in 
prunes  and  at  full  rates.  Evaporated 
apples  are  in  better  demand  and,  as  the 
supply  seems  to  be 
limited, 
prices  are 
Fancy,  g^@ toc; 
choice,  9@9^c.
Oranges  and 

lemons  have  been  in 
rather  restricted  movement,  but  prices 
are  firm.  Sicily  lemons,  $2.25@3,  as  to 
size  and  quality.  Repacked  Jamaica 
oranges,  per  barrel, 
50;  Sicily,
per  box,  $2  25@2  50;  California  navels,

Eer  box,  $2.50^3  50.  Bananas  have 

een  in  slow  movement  at  qor@$i  per 
bunch  for  firsts.  There  is  little  demand 
for pineapples  and  quotations  are  nom­
inal.

rather 

firm. 

Butter 

Receipts"of  apples  are  light,.-but  quo­
tations  appear  to  have  reached]  the  top 
and  no  further  advance  is  to  be  noted. 
Greenings  are  still  held  at  $4  5°@5-5° 
per  bbl.  for  fancy  stock;  Baldwins,  $4 
@4.50,  but  the  fruit  must  be  very  nice 
to  fetch  these  rates.
The  bean market  is quiet  for  all  sorts. 
Choice  marrows,  $i.5o@ i.52>£.  Choice 
medium,  $1.32^.
is  rather  quiet.  Supplies  of 
reallv  desirable  goods  are  not  large, 
but  there  seems  to  be  enough  to  “ go 
round.’ ’  Western  extras,  creamery,  21c; 
iq@2oc ;  seconds,  I7@i8c ;  fancy 
firsts, 
i6j4@i7>£c; 
i8@i8>ic; 
une, 
finest 
imitation  creamery, 
i6J£@I7c ; 
firsts, 
i4^@i5J^c;  Western 
factory, 
une  extras,  14c;  fancy  rolls,  I4@i4>£c.
cheese  market  shows  greater 
The 
strength  than 
last  week.  The  demand 
has  been  sufficient  to  keep  stocks  well 
cleaned  up.  Large,  full  cream,  State, 
oj^c  for  September  and  October  make; 
small,  11 @ 11X c-

Eggs  are  lower.  Receipts  continue 
increase  and  the  market  is pretty well 
supplied,  although  for  really  desirable 
stock  there 
is  a  good  call  Western, 
fresh  gathered,  loss  off,  2oJ^c;  fair  to 
good,  i9@20C.

firsts, 

How  He  Collected a  Debt.

A Danbury,  Conn.,  merchant  has  been 
trying  for  several  months  to  collect  a 
bill  of  $6  from  a  man  who  is  known  as 
being  very  slow  pay.  The  merchant 
has  sent  bill  after  bill  to  his  debtor, 
but  with  no  effect.  The  merchant  was 
becoming  doubtful  of  ever  being  able 
to  get  a  cent  out  of  the  man,  when  he 
t  on  a  scheme  which  proved  success 
ful.  He  went  to  the  desk  and  made  out 
statement,  which  showed  that  the  man 
owed  the  firm  $36.  He  mailed  this  and 
awaited  developments  When  the  mer 
chant  went  down  the  street  to  open  his 
store 
in  the  morning,  lo  and  behold! 
there  was  the  delinquent  debtor  waiting 
for  him.  “ Look  here!”   he  said,  “ what 
do  you  mean  by  sending  me  such  an 
outrageous  bill  as  this?”   He  was  wav­
ing  the  bill  in  the  air  as  be  said  it,  and 
had  evidently  been  getting  mader  every 
minute  since  he  received  it.  The  mer­
chant  looked  at 
it  and  suggested  that 
they  go  inside  while  he  looked  over  the 
books  tr  see  if  it  was  correct.  Of course 
he  discovered  that  the  bill  amounted  to 
only  $6,  which  the  man  paid 
imme­
diately,  and  went  out  perfectly  satisfied.

Fivefold  Increase  in  Tax 

“ It 

Elgin,  111.,  J=in.  17—The proposed  in­
crease  in  the  tax  on  colored  oleomarga­
rine  from  2  cents  to  10 cents  a  pound  is 
intended  to  be  practically  prohibitive, 
and  to  compel  dealers  in  the  article  to 
sell  it  in  its  uncolored  state.  But  cer­
tain  creamery  men  do  not  believe  this 
law  would  reach  the  real  difficulty  One 
of  these  men  has  said :
isn't  the  oleo  stuff  that  damages 
the  trade  in  butter  so  much  as  it  is  the 
process butter,  made from odds  and  ends 
of  butter 
in  various  factories.  When 
creamery  butter  is  selling  in Elgin  at  21 
and  22  cents  a  pound,  wholesale,  and 
vou  see  creamery  butter  advertised  in 
Chicago  at  18  cents  a  pound,  you  may 
isn’t  the  oleomargarine  that 
it 
know 
does 
it. 
It’s  this  made-over  process 
butter. ’ ’

Louisiana  as  an  Orange  Section.
A  branch  of  agriculture  which 

ii 
claiming  much  attention  from  the  farm 
ers  and  others  in  Louisiana,  and  which 
promises  to  reach  a  state  of  high  de 
velopment  in  the  next  few  years,  is  or 
ange  culture.  Several  farmers  already 
boast  of  small  orchards,  although 
their  primitive  state. 
It is  evident  that 
the  success  achieved  by  these  venture 
some  farmers  is  responsible  for  the  re 
newed 
in  orange 
raising,  and  many  are  preparing  to  lay 
out  young  trees  by  the  thousands.
He  Reserved  His  Opinion.

interest  now  shown 

Papa— Now,  Johnny,  I  have  whipped 
you  only  for  your  own  good. 
I  believe 
I  have  only  done  my  duty.  Tell  me 
truly,  what  do  you  think  yourself?

Johnny— If  I  should  tell  you^wbat 
think,  you’d  give  me another  whipping

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Shoes  and  Leather
»___  

.

Footwear  On  the  Move.

The  shoemaker  has  come  to  the  front, 
and  now  takes  bis  place  in  the  same 
rank  as  that  in  which  are  lined  up  the 
most  useful,  skillful  and  necessary  arti­
sans  of  modern  times.

He 

is  not  only  a  useful  man,  but  he 
must  be  an  ingenious  decorator  in  order 
to  meet  the  demands  of  modern progress 
upon  his  trade.

There  are,  however,  shoemakers  of 
various  grades,  differing  in  their  attain­
ments  and  separated  by  degrees  of  ca­
pacity  for  advancement,  just  as  there 
institutions  of  learning 
are  grades 
for  scholars  of  various  degrees  of 
intel­
lectual  capacity.

in 

Assuming  that  the  term  “ average”  
shoemaker  means  the  one  who  is  some­
where  between  the  expert  and  the  bun­
gling  driver of  pegs  who  will  never  rise 
to  the  middle  class  even,  it  must  be 
doubted  whether  this  average  artisan  in 
our  craft  is  fitted  to  cope  with  the  new 
conditions  and  requirements  of 
the 
trade.

As a  sort  of  auxiliary  he  may  be  use­
ful  in  his  way,  but  at  the  front  he would 
be  a  dismal  failure.

And  yet  he  believes  in  himself,  and 
often  admits  of  no  superior  in  the  craft, 
because  be  has  pegged  away  for  many 
years,  but  without  advancing  with  the 
times.

This  average  shoemaker  believes  that 
he 
is  competent  to  construct  footwear 
for  anyone  who  comes his  w ay;  he  be­
lieves  that  he  can  make  shoes  to  fully 
meet  the  requirements  of  a  pair  of  ac­
tive,  muscular  feet  that  expect  to  walk 
something  like  six  hundred  miles  in  the 
shoes  he  can  furnish.

This  would  be  only  about  three  miles 
a  day  for  a  period  of  little  more  than 
six  months.

This  is  not  an  unreasonable  expecta­
tion  on  the  part  of  the  purchaser,  for  a 
pair  of  fairly  good  shoes  will  perform 
this  length  of  service;  and  an  active 
man  who 
is  much  out  of  doors,  and 
whose business  requires  short  trips,  will 
easily  cover  this  much  ground.

Now  the  average  shoemaker  will  ac­
cept  this  important  contract  in  the  most 
confident  manner,  and  will  proceed  in 
the  conventional  way  to  make a diagram 
of  the  ground  plan  of  the  foot;  he  will 
take  measurements  of  the  ball,  instep 
and  heel  girths,  dismiss  his  client  with 
a  wave  of  the hand,  and  then  proceed  to 
leather  up  his 
last  according  to  these 
hasty  measurements,  and  the  thing  is 
done—so  far as  the  average shoemaker’s 
science  goes.

But  the  tread  and  gait  of  the  feet that 
are  waiting  to  get  into  those  shoes  have 
not  even  entered  into  the  shoemaker’s 
calculations.

If  it  were  that  nicely-fitted 

last  that 
had  to  wear  the  shoe,  all  would  be  well, 
and  the  march  might  begin  and  end 
satisfactorily.

The  gait  not  having  been  enquired 
into,  probably  the  short,  quick  step  of 
the  wearer  of  the  new  shoes,  from  the 
lack  of  flexibility  in  the  soles  and  the 
want  of  proper  bearings, 
too  soon 
changed 
into  a  slow,  uncertain  tread 
from  sheer  necessity;  from  the  want  of 
proper  adaptation  of  the  heels,  the long, 
swinging  stride 
is  reduced  to a  short, 
jerky  one,  in  order  to  avoid  unpleasant 
jarring  in  that quarter.

In  this  state  of  affairs  if  the  wearer 
can  and  will  submit  to  the  new  condi­
tions,  it  is  to  be  a  case  of  adapting  the 
feet  to  the  shoes,  instead  of  the  reverse,

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

until  the  shoes  are  finally  conquered.
With  this free-hand sort of shoemaking 

many  unpleasant  results  must  follow:

The  bandy-legged  man  can  get  no 
more  happiness  out  of  life  at  the  foot 
until  the  thick  outer  edges  of  the  new 
shoes  are  worn  down  to  his  natural  or 
unnatural  position; 
the  knock-kneed 
man,  as  a  pedestrian,  is  miserable  until 
attrition  has  reduced  the  inner  edges  of 
his  soles  to  the  angle  of the  old  ones.

The high-heeled  person  gets  no  good 
gait  again  until  his  stilts are  worn down 
so  that  he  does  not  have  to  walk  gin­
gerly  in  his  painful  effort  to  keep  the 
pressure  of  bis  body  back  from  his  in­
steps.

There  are  many  other  characteristics 
in  form  and  gait  of  shoe-wearers  which 
the  average  shoemaker  can  not  provide 
for 
in  his  limited  knowledge  as  to  the 
needs of  the  foot  in  motion.

is, 

for 

There 

instance,  the  knee- 
sprung  man,  who,  like  bis  four-footed 
friend,  requires  ample  thickness  at  the 
toes  of  his  shoes  in  order  to  make  bot­
toms  wear  out  at  all  evenly.

Many  other  minor  but 

important 
points  will  naturally  occur  to 
the 
thoughtful  and  skilled  workman,  so  that 
be  will  not  simply  measure  and  make 
footwear  for 
inanimate  dummies,  but 
for  live,  active  feet  on  progressive  ani­
mals  with 
individual  characteristics 
which  must  be  taken  into  account.

The  latter knows  that the  shape  of  the 
foot  is  not  everything,  but  that  the  man­
ner  of  putting  it  down  and  the  act  of 
locomotion  are  of paramount importance 
in  constructing  shoes  for  feet  that  need 
something  more  than  coverings.

Comparing  the  ordinary pedestrian  on 
the  street  with  the  soldier  on  the march, 
as  to  the  service  required  of  the  shoes, 
and  the  importance  of  their  adaptation 
to  the  requirements of the feet,  the  latter 
should  have  more  careful  consideration 
as  to  footwear.

In  military  tactics  the  length  of  the 
direct  step  is  laid  down  as  twenty-eight 
in  common  time,  measuring 
inches, 
from  heel  to  heel,  and 
in  swiftness  at 
the  rate  of  ninety  in  a  minute.

The  length  of  the  double-quick  steps 
is  thirty-three  inches,  and  the  swiftness 
at  the  rate  of  one hundred  and  sixty- 
five  steps  a  minute.

This  speed  may  be 

in 
emergencies,  to  one  hundred  and  eighty 
steps  a  minute,  or  three  steps  per  sec­
ond,  without  breaking  into  a  run.

increased, 

This 

is  also  the  average  gait  of  the 
good  pedestrian  on  the  street,  varied 
according  to  circumstances.

The  length  of  step  of  the  average 
woman  is  far  more  difficult  to  ascertain 
than  that  of  her  masculine  competitor,
It  varies,  without  any  known  reason 
for  its  variations,  and  is  much  shorter 
and  quicker,  as  a  rule,  than  that  of  a 
man.

snoes  On  toe  Top  Shelves

are  slow  sellers unless you 
have  a

Bicycle  Step  Ladder

soon  rise above  mediocrity  in  his  craft 
and  can  shoe  the  more  sturdy  male 
biped.

At any  rate,  the  expert  shoemaker 

is 
expected  to  make  shoes  that  are  fit  for 
active  service—a  service  in  which  the 
feet  must  bear  all  the  labor,  and  must, 
therefore,  be  consulted.

This  matter  of  progression  is  a  won­
derful  thing  when  we  come  to  think  of 
it  seriously.

It  has been  truly  said  that  walking  is 
accomplished  partly  by  the  force  of 
gravity—by  the  falling  forward  of  the 
body  at  regular  intervals—without the 
active  exercise  of  the  muscles.

If  anyone  doubts  that  the  falling  for­
ward  of  the  body,  stopped  at  regular 
intervals  by  the  interposition  of  one  of 
the  feet  on  the  ground,  is  the  way  we 
walk,  let  him  experiment  by  stopping

Geo.  H.  Reeder  & Co.,

19 South  Ionia Street, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

to  put  them  within  reach. 
W rite

HIRTH,  KRAUSE & CO.,

GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

Rindge, Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.,

12,14 and  16  Pearl Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Mannfactarers aid Jobbers of

Boots and Shoes

Agents  Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Company.

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

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

Be  sure  and  see  them  before  placing  your  order
en 

j

'W'  -V-  -T 

-5-  -W  JR--’

A  woman’s  reasons  for  her  step  or 
gait  are  no  more  producible  than  her 
motives  for  some other  feminine  eccen­
tricities,  notably  that  of  moving :
“  Don’t ask me why I wish to move—
You might as well ask me to prove 

I have my own good reasons;
Why Nature has her  seasons.”

The  woman’s  quick,  uncertain,  un­
is,  probably,  one  of  the  un­

equal  step 
revealed  mysteries  of  life.

There  is  no  average  to  be  formed  for 
it,  and  no  reason  to be adduced  for  its 
curious  diversity.

If  the  average  shoemaker,  whose  effi 
ciency  for  practical  handicraft  has  been 
somewhat  discredited 
this  article, 
can  make  footwear  to  meet  the  uncer­
tain  requirements  of  some  of  these  pe­
culiarly  active  feminine  feet,  be  will

in 

•v.

HEROLD -B E R T SO H   SH O E  CO.

M A N U FA C T U R E RS  AND  JO B B E R S  

O F

RELIABLE  FO O TW EAR

Our  Spring  line  is  a  Winner;  wait  for  our  travelers  and 
“ win”   with  us.— W hen  in  the  city  see  our  spread.— Agents 
for  Wales  Goodyear  Rubbers.

5   a n d   7  P E A R L   S T .,  G RA N D   R A P ID S.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

suddenly  in  a  brisk,  long-striding  walk 
and  rigidly  retain  the  erect  position  of 
the  body  as  it  was  at  the  last  step.

He  will  find  himself  bending  forward 
at  an  angle  of  several  degrees  in  so 
awkward  a  pose  that  he will impulsively 
straighten  himself  up  and  assume  the 
erect  attitude of standing,  which is  quite 
different  from  that  of  walking.

But  this  alternate  falling  forward  of 
the  body  and  straightening  up  again  to 
assist  propulsion must not be confounded 
with  the  stooping  position  so  commonly 
seen  on  the  streets.

It  is  a  natural  inclination  of  the body 
forward  above  the  hips  in  order  to  give 
momentum  to  the  frame  in  the  art of 
walking  only.

Good  shoes,  perfectly  adapted  to  the 
interesting 
indispensa­

feet,  in  these  varied  and 
movements,  are,  therefore, 
ble.

But  the  shoemaker,  from  time  out  of 
mind,  has  been  figuratively  kicked  by 
his  own  shoes  and  cuffed  by  the  wearer 
of  his  products  for  many  troubles  that 
he  is  not  responsible  for.

It  has  been  thoughtlessly  declared 
that  the  proof  of  ill-fitting  footwear  is 
conclusive  from  the  fact  that a  wearer 
of  new  shoes  finds  relief  from  their 
pain  frequently  while  sitting  down.

While  it  is  true  that  shoes  having  in­

sufficient  room  for  the  feet at some point  . 
produce  rather  less  inconvenience  when 
the  weight  of  the  body  is  removed  from 
the  feet,  it  is  equally  true  that  tired 
feet,  even  in  perfect-fitting  shoes,  or  in 
no  shoes  at  all,  find  relief  in  the  same 
posture.

it 

If  we  look  more  closely  into  this shoe- 
wearing  problem 
is quite ilkely  we 
shall  find  that  the  average  shoemaker 
has  no  more  sins  lying  at  his  door  than 
has  the  average  shoe-wearer.  The  lat­
ter 
insists,  too  often,  with  the  custom 
maker  upon  a  tightly-drawn  tape  about 
the  foot  and  a  narrow  sole,  and  ¡in  the 
dealer's  store  quite  frequently  the  shoe 
that  can  be  easily  put  on  is  not  just  the 
thing  desired.

A  sensible  co-operation  between  these 
two  “ average”   mortals  would  usually 
result  in  shoes  adapted  to  the  feet,  b«th 
at  rest  and 
in  lively  motion,  and  thus 
harmony  might  be  brought  about be­
tween  the  two.

It  is  true,  all  the  same,  that  the  mod­
ern  manufacturer,  although  he  can  not 
possibly  forecast  the  various  forms  of 
individual  feet  that  shall  seek  to  occupy 
his  shoes,  does,  nevertheless,  do  the 
best  he  can for promiscuous humanity by 
providing  good  model  shapes 
in  his 
wares,  which  are  intended  for the  aver­
age  normal  feet.

Shoes  are  no  longer  fashioned  over

the  crude,  amorphous  block  of  wood 
which  served  as  a  formative  core for the 
almost  shapeless  footwear  of  our  less 
finical  ancestors,  and  which  products 
were  regarded  by  our  less  skillful  and 
less  scientific  shoe  artisans  as  the  ne 
plus  ultra  of  the  shoemaking  craft be­
cause  they  were  so  far  in  advance  of 
those  that  had  gone  before.

Of  course,  footwear  has  always  been 
on  the  move,  literally,  plodding,  trudg­
ing  or  scurrying  to  its  final  destination ; 
but  it has  remained  for  our day and gen­
eration  to  witness  footwear  moving  on­
ward  and  upward  to  perfection  in  the 
art,  dropping  old  methods  by  the  way, 
until  it  now  unites  beauty  and  adapta­
bility  in  a  degree  never  before  attained 
in  its  history.— E.  A.  Boyden  in  Boots 
and  Shoes  Weekly.

Keep  Accounts  Collected.

An  old  and  successful  merchant,  in 
speaking  of  keeping  accounts  collected, 
says:  “ I  have always  made  it an invari­
able  rule  to  present  my  accounts  regu­
larly  every  month,  and  while  I  was  do­
ing  a  strictly  retail business  I  made  it  a 
point  to  secure  a  promise  of  payment  at 
a  certain  date,  or  at  least a  checking  up 
of  the  account.  This  obviated  much 
trouble 
in  collecting  the  bill  later  on, 
and  was  worth  all  the  time  taken. 
If, 
however,  a  bill had  been  running  for  six 
months,  without  any  plausible  excuse 
for  non-payment,  I  turned  it  over  to  a 
reliable  attorney  or  agency  for  collec­
tion. 
I  found  that  this  process  cost  me 
less  and  brought  quicker  returns  than 
my  own  collectors  could  make  me  when 
the bills  had  been  long  due, as the  debt­
ors  seemed  very  often  to  have  become 
accustomed  to  standing  off  a  man  to 
whose  visits  they were hardened.  In  this 
way  I  kept  my  books  cleaned  up,  and 
during  a  series  of  years  I  figured  that 
the  net  saving  to  me  was  fully  5  per 
cent,  on  my  gross  business.  This,  of 
itself,  was  a  good  profit,  and  I  have 
never hesitated  to  recommend  the  same 
course  to  my  young  friends  when  start­
ing  in  trade  for  themselves.”

Nothing  Small  About  Him.

“ What  appears  to  be  the  matter  with 
your  father?”   enquired  the doctor,  as  he 
hastily  put  his  clothes  on.

“ He’s  got  the  plumbago,”   replied 
the boy.  “ I  think  that’s  what  maw  says 
it  is.”

“ Pain 

in  the  small  of  the  back,  I 

presume,”   said  the  doctor.

“ No,  sir,  he  hain’t  got  no  small  of 
the back.  My  paw  weighs  284  pounds.”

A  man  never wants  to  be  an  angel  as 
long  as  he  can  make  a  living  at  any­
thing  else.

Retail  Credits  From  Moral  and Finan­

cial  Standpoints.

The  retail  merchant  is  a  transgressor 
of  the  moral  law  whenever  he  permits  a 
customer  to  buy  on  credit an  amount  of 
merchandise 
in  excess  of  the  purchas­
er's  ability  to  pay.  The  fathers  of  the 
church  expounded  and  enforced 
this 
code.  The  immortal  “ Bard  of  Avon”  
truly 
says,  “ Opportunity  makes  the 
thief.”   Whenever  a  dealer  induces  or 
allows  an  honest  person  of  weak  will­
power  to  purchase  more  goods  than  be 
can  pay 
from  providing 
himself  and  those  dependent  upon  him 
with  the  absolute  necessities  of 
life,  be 
is  morally  responsible  for  the dishonesty 
of  the  buyer. 
In charging  for  the  goods 
instead  of  donating  them,  he  becomes  a 
party  to  a  crime.

for,  aside 

In  the  Lord’s  Prayer  we  say,  “ Lead 
us  not 
into  temptation,  but  deliver  us 
from  evil.”   What  greater  temptation 
can  be  offered  a  poor  weak  mortal  than 
to  be  escorted  through  a  magnificent  es­
tablishment,  invited  to  feast  his  eager 
eyes  upon  artistic  wares  and to purchase 
of  the  same  without  regard  to bis ability 
to  pay?  From  what  greater  evil  can 
humanity  be  delivered  than  from  the 
crime  of  dishonesty,  which  entails  con­
demnation,humiliation  and  the  sacrifice 
of  character,  together  with  the  loss  of 
self-respect?  Dr.  Johnson,  in  urging 
the  abolition  of  imprisonment  for  debt, 
declared  that  failure  to  pay  was  not  al­
ways  the  crime  of  the  debtor  alone,  be­
cause  the  creditor  shares  the  act  and 
very  often  more  than  shares  the  guilt  of 
the  improper  trust.  From  a  strictly 
moral  point  of  view  and  for  the  reasons 
enumerated,  I  assert  that  the  merchant 
who  adheres  as  nearly  as  possible  to  a 
cash  basis 
in  conducting  his  business 
will  be better  off  morally than his neigh­
bor  who  credits  indiscriminately.

Considering  the question  from a finan­
cial  point  of  view,  it 
is  plainly  evi­
dent  to  every  business  man  that  during 
no  period  of  his  career  has  ready  cash 
been  so  potent an  element  of  success  in 
the  mercantile  world  as 
it  is  to-day. 
The  markets teem  with  the  merchandise 
of  every  name  and  nature,  which  can 
be  secured  at  the  very  lowest  prices  by 
the  prospective  purchaser  who  has  the 
cash  with  which  to  pay  for  the  goods. 
The old-fashioned  retail  method  of  buy­
ing  a  six-months’  supply  of  merchan­
dise  twice  a  year  has  been  superseded 
by  that  of  making  daily  purchases on 
ten  days’  time,  thus  keeping  stocks  al­
ways  fresh  and  making  the  proverbial 
sixpence  serve  to  the  fullest  extent. 
Competition  has  so  cheapened  goods 
and 
improved  trade  service  that  the 
merchant  who  does  not  take  advantage

of  every opportunity to raise the standard 
of  his  business  to  that  of  his  rivals  will 
soon  fall  behind 
in  the  ceaseless  race 
for  wealth  and  commercial prestige,  and 
finally  become  a  wreck.

To  meet  their  obligations  promptly 
men  in  business  must be prompt collect­
ors.  They  must  bear  in  mind  that  they 
are  not  in  business  for  the  accommoda­
tion  of  the  public,  nor  for  the  mere 
pleasure  of  doing  business,  but  for  their 
own  material  advancement.  They  must 
understand  that  under  no  circumstances 
are  they 
loading  up  their 
ledgers  with  slow  accounts  which  mean 
just 
so  much  unproductive  capital. 
in 
Such  accounts  become  uncertain 
value  from  the  very  hour  the  charge 
is 
made.

justified 

in 

Some  customers,  as  a  rule,  get  trusted 
at  one  store  and  spend  their  money  in 
another  where  a  cash  business  is  done. 
Prompt  collectors  in  every  line  of  trade 
stand  highest  in  the  world  of commerce. 
They  are  the  men  of  reputation  and  of 
personal  worth,  the  men  whose  advice 
on  matters  of  great 
importance  is  al­
ways  sought  and  whose  judgment  is  al­
ways  accepted  as  the  law  of trade.  They 
handle  their  business  and  their  capital 
to  the  very  best  advantage,  give  their 
customers  the  finest  goods  and  the  best 
service,  and 
invariably  secure  the  most 
profitable  patronage.  They  save  thou­
sands  of  dollars  annually  by  managing 
their  credit  business  on  as  nearly a  cash 
basis  as  possible.  They  are  thus  en­
abled  to  buy  their  goods  in  the  cheapest 
markets,  save  all  discounts  and  obtain 
the  highest  financial  standing 
in  the 
commercial  world.

in 

John  J.  Cu m m in s.
The  Turning  Point  of Success.
A  clerk  who  doesn’t  get  into  business 
for himself  before  he  is  40  years  old 
is 
likely  to  consider  himself  something  of 
a  failure 
life.  Jay  Gould  used  to 
share  this  idea  in  a  measure.  He  used 
to  say  that  a  man  was  a  success  or  a 
failure  before  he  was  forty,  meaning  by 
that,  not  that  a  man  must  have  gained 
his  fortune  or  fame  before  that  birth­
day  came  or  he  would  never  get  these 
things,  but  that  he  must  have  made  it 
clear  that  he  was  on  the  highroad to  for­
tune  or  to  fame  before  the fortieth birth­
day  passed  or  else  he  could  be  assumed 
to  be  upon  the  path  that  leads  either  to 
failure  or  to  mediocrity.  Clerks  who 
are  nearing  forty  may  profitably  bear 
this  in  mind,  so  that  it  may  encourage 
them  to  form  the  conclusion  that  so  far 
in  their  careers  they  have  only  given 
promise  of  a  splendid  maturity,  that 
their  powers  are  still  undeveloped  in 
comparison  with  the  ultimate  capacity 
which  they  may  yet  reach,  and  that, 
after  all,  their  future  is  before  them.

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That  in  competition  more  or  less  strong

Our  Coffees and  Teas

Must excel  in  Flavor  and  Strength  and  be 
constant  Trade  Winners.  All  our  coffees 
roasted  on  day  of  shipment.

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HALF  A  HUNDRED.

Acetylene Generators  Licensed  by 

Underwriters.

Wm.  H.  Merrill,  Jr.,  Secretary  of  the 
Bureau  of  Fire  Protection  Engineering, 
furnishes  the  Tradesman  with  the  fol­
lowing 
list  of  fifty  two  acetylene  gas 
generators  which  have  been  approved 
by  the  Bureau  as  being  of  satisfactory 
construction:

Acetogen,  F.  Cortez  Wilson  &  Co., 

Aladdin,  American  Gas  Light  Co.,

Chicago,  111.

St.  Louis,  Mo.

American,  American  Acetylene  Gas 

Machine  Co.,  Minneapolis,  Minn.

Automatic  Valveless,  Lucas  Bros., 

'Minneapolis,  Minn.

Beucus,  Beucus  Automatic  Acetylene 
Gas  Generator  Co.,  Cedar  Springs, 
Mich.

Bruce,  Karst  &  Breher,  St.  Paul, 

Minn.

Buckeye,  Price  Manufacturing  Co., 

Gnadenhutten,  Ohio.
Buffington,  H.  Geissel  &  Co.,  Chi­
cago,  III.,  and  Buffington  Acetylene  Gas 
Co.,  Minneapolis,  Minn.

Capsbeaf,  Sawyer  &  Havens,  Belle­

vue,  Mich.

Castana,  Iowa.

Castana,  Castana  Acetylene  Gas  Co., 

Chicago  Jewel,  Monarch  Manufactur­

ing  Co.,  Indianapolis,  Ind.

Crown,  Crown Acetylene  Gas  Machine 

Co.,  Detroit,  Mich.

Daylight,  Moody  & Oflutt,  Louisville, 

Ky.

Ind.

Draper,  Draper  &  Langston,  Dana, 

Eagle,  Walmsley,  Fuller  &  Co.,  Chi­

Eclipse,  Eclipse  Manufacturing  Co., 

Emansee,  Modica  &  Carroll  Co., 

Epworth,  Epworth  Gas  Light  Co., 

Eureka,  F.  W.  Arney  &  Co.,  Terre 

cago,  111.
Chicago,  111.
Chicago,  111.
Epwortb,  la.

Haute,  Ind.

Fierce  Daylight,  J.  C.  Charbeneau, 

Mt.  Clemens,  Mich.

Harger,  Jenks  &  Son,  Prairie  City, 

Harris,  Harris-Hart  Co.,  Chicago,

Iowa.
111.
Gas  Co.,  Kansas  City,  Mo.

Hennessy,  American 

Incandescent 

Hull,  J.  M.  Hull,  Atchinson,  Kas. 
Indiana,  W.  A.  McCune,  Sterling, 
111.,  and  General  Acetylene  Supply  Co. 
Kansas  City,  Mo.

Iowa,  Hartung  &  Ellwood,  Cedar 

Rapids,  la.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Kopf,  M.  B.  Wheeler  Electric  Co, 
Ill
Co.

Laun,  Laun  Bros.,  Orland  Park, 
Leader,  Sarran  Manufacturing 

Cincinnati,  Ohio.

Leckband,  Leckband  Acetylene 

Co.,  Adair,  la.

Leede,  Solar  Acetylene  Gas 

Minneapolis,  Minn.

Little  Giant,  W.  R.  Stokes,  Minne 

Gas

Co.

apolis,  Minn.

St  Louis,  Mo.

Marquette,  Missouri  Acetylene  Co.

Mulhern,  Adair  Gas  Co.,  Adair,  la. 
National,  National Acetylene Gas  Co. 

Cleveland,  Ohio.

National  Sunlight,  National  Sunlight 

Gas  Co.,  Minneapolis,  Minn.

Niagara  Falls,  Niagara  Falls  Acety 
lene  Gas  Machine  Co  ,  Niagara  Falls, 
Ont.

No  Valve,  T.  H.  J.  Leckband,  Adair, 

Iowa.

Ordway,  National  Acetylene  Gas  Gen­
erator  Co.  and  Crane  &  Ordway  Co., 
St.  Paul,  Minn.

Owen,  Geo  F.  Owen  &  Co.,  Grand 

Rapids,  Mich
Patterson,  Patterson  Generator  Co., 
Batavia,  N.  Y .,  Monroe  Foundry  & 
Furnace  Go.,  Monroe  and  Norwalk 
Foundry  &  Machine  Co.,  Norwalk, 
Ohio.

Reynolds,  Powers  &  Reynolds,  Nash­

ville,  Mich.

Scantlin,  Scantlin  &  Bailey  Manufac­

turing  Co.,  LaFayette,  Ind.

Shafer,  Shafer  Acetylene  Gas  Gener­

ator  Co.,  Terre  Haute,  Ind.

Shakopee,  Sbakopee  Acetylene  Gas 

Generator  Co.,  Shakopee,  Minn.

York.

Solar,  Solar  Gas  Machine  Co.,  New 
Star,  Star  Acetylene  Gas  Co.,  St. 

Paul,  Minn.

ton,  Neb.
Mich.

Strahle,  Strahle  Generator  Co.,  Stan­
Sun,  F.  W.  Preussel,  Mt.  Clemens, 
Taylor,  Taylor  Acetylene  Gas  Ma­

chine  Co.,  Minneapolis,  Minn.

Triumph,  Craig-Reynolds  Foundry 

Co.,  Dayton,  Ohio.
Rapids,  Mich.

Turner,  Turner  &  Hauser,  Grand 

The 

following  Michigan  machines 
have  been  before  the  Bureau  and  have 
not  yet  been  approved :

All  Right,  F.  J.  Cook,  Fowlerville. 

Machine  disapproved.

Climax,  Detroit  Acetylene  Gas  Gen­
erator  Co.,  Detroit.  Examination  of 
plans  shows  machine  to  be  defective.

Cline,  Alexander  Furnace  Co.,  Lan-! 
sing.  Re-examination  shows  much  im­
construction;  general 
provement 
workmanship,  however, 
still  below 
standard ;  further  improvements  neces­
sary  to  warrant  approval.

Crown  Jewell,  B.  F.  Bailey,  Ypsi- 

in 

lanti.  Disapproved.

Eaton,  Eaton  Company,  Limited, 

Olivet..  Not  approved.

Eger,  R.  J.  Eger,  Bay  City.  Not  yet 

satisfactory.

Hess,  W.  T.  Hess,  Grand  Rapids. 

Not  approved.
Machine  not  yet  suitable  for  use.

Kennedy,  J.  E.  Kennedy,  Caledonia. 

Quinn,  S.  A.  Quinn,  Muskegon.  Ex­

amination  arranged  for.

Shute,  U.  S.  Acetylene  Light  &  Car­
bide  Co.,  Detroit.  Application  for  ap­
proval  withdrawn  by  manufacturer.
Killed  by  the  Explosion  of  a  Home 

made  Generator.

iron  workers. 

The  Scientific  American recently pub- 
ished  a  somewhat  lengthy  article on  the 
subject  of  acetylene  gas  generators, 
cautioning  users  to  beware  of  home­
made  affairs  and,  at  the  same  time, 
giving  directions  how  a  perfectly  safe 
and  economical  generator  can  be  con 
structed  by  anyone  having  access  to 
tools  used  by  tinners,  plumbers  or 
galvanized 
It  appears 
that  the  article  happened  to  fall  into 
the  hands  of  a  worthy  citizen  of  Pem- 
berville,  Ohio,  who  proceeded  to  con­
struct a  generator  from  the  plans recom­
mended  by  the  Scientific  American. 
Before 
in  successful  operation, 
however,  the  machine  blew  up,  killing 
the  maker 
instantly.  The  manner  in 
which  the  explosion  occurred  is thus de­
scribed  by  the  postmaster  at  Pember- 
ville  in  a  letter  to  a  local  manufacturer 
of  generators:

it  was 

I  will  give  you  what  information  I 
can  as  it  was  given  to  me.  Mr.  Kiel, 
the  deceased.had  completed  a  machine, 
of  which  the  model  and  plans  were 
from  the  Scientific  American. 
taken 
Mr.  Keil,  to  test  the  light,  had 
lighted 
two  or  three  matches,  but  there  was  not 
enough  gas  generated  to  make a light on 
ihe  jets,  so  he  leaned  over  the  generator 
on  his  right  side  and  then  opened  the 
stop  cock  below  and  lighted  it  with  bis 
lett  hand,  causing  the  explosion.  The 
can  inside  of  the  outer  can  blew up with 
such  force  as  to  tear  off  his  right  arm, 
otherwise  tear  the  flesh  of  bis  body,  and 
break  his  left  arm  and  jaw  bone.  If  you 
wish  to  know  what  generator  he  used, 
you  will  have  to  consult  the  plans  and 
the  model  of  the  Scientific  American 
This 
is  all  the  information  I  can  give 
you. 

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They  Were  Regular  Patrons.

Little  Boy— Please,  I  want the  doctor 

to  come  and  see  mother.

Doctor’s  Servant-----Doctor’s 

out.

Where  do  you  come  from?

Little  Boy—What!  Don’t  you  know 
me?  Why,  we  deal  with  you— we  had  a 
baby  from  here  last  week.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

How  the  Sale  of Generators  Is  Hand­

icapped  by  Monopoly.

From the Financial and Commercial Times.

is 

An 

law 

industrial 

The  young  and  rapidly  growing 

instance  of  flagrant  abuse  of  the 
patent  laws  by  a  large  concern  having 
headquarters 
in  Chicago  has  recently 
come to  our  attention,  and  we  commend 
it  to  the  notice  of  the  national  commis­
sion  appointed  to  revise  the patent laws. 
Judge  Grosscup  of  the  federal  bench, 
and  Messrs.  Forbes  of  New  York  and 
Greely  of  the  patent  office.  President 
McKinley’s 
commission 
might  also very properly take cognizance 
of  the  curious  and  anomalous  situation.
in­
dustry  of  acetylene  gas  lighting  is  ab­
solutely  dependent  upon  the  production 
of  the  calcium  carbide,  which  serves  as 
the  fuel  for  the  gas  generating  ma­
chines.  This  carbide  is  manufaitaied 
under  special  conditions  and  by  a  pat­
ented  process,  but where there is demand 
we  always  expect  to  find  supply.  This 
natural 
in  force  everywhere, 
practically,  in  the  United  States  outside 
of  Wisconsin  and  Illinois  (Cook  county 
excepted). 
In  these  states  a  man  can 
not  buy  calcium  carbide,  even  for  cash 
in  advance,  unless he  agrees  to  use  it  in 
a  particular  make  of  generator,  one  of 
the  kind  commonly  known  as 
'  sprin 
klers. ”   This  generator  is  only  one  of 
many,  and  not  by  any  means  the  best  of 
the  many.
A precisely  parallel  case  would be fur­
nished 
if  all  the  coffee  in  the  country 
were  controlled  by  one  corporation,  and 
this  corporation  should  refuse  to  sell  to 
anyone  who  did  not own  a  certain brand 
of  coffee  pot.  Or,  to  change  the  figure, 
what  would  a  prospective  purchaser  say 
if  on  going  to  buy  a  pair  of  shoes  he 
should  be  asked  what  kind  of  socks  he 
wore?
Absurd  as  these  illustrations  appear, 
they  represent  exactly  the  demands  of 
the  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  Acetylene 
companies  upon  users  of  acetylene  gas. 
Having  secured  the  exclusive  rights  to 
the  sale  of  calcium  carbide 
in  these 
States  (with  the  exception  mentioned), 
they  presume  to  dictate  the  make  of

apparatus  their  customers  shall  employ. 
If  the  consumer  refuses  to  be  coerced 
into  buying  the  apparatus  sold  by  them 
be  must  send  over  the  border to  Canada 
for  his  supply  of  carbide,  and  the  high 
duty  added  to  the  Canadian price makes 
the  cost  almost  prohibitive.
If  the  generator  designated  by  these 
companies,  who  are  virtually  one  con­
cern  operating  under  several  names, 
were  in  any  wise  superior  to  other  ma­
chines,  and  if  the  others  were  defective 
or  dangerous,  the  restriction  upon  the 
sale  of  carbide  could  then  be  justified 
on  the  ground  that  the 
introduction  of 
the  competing  machines  would  hurt  the 
reputation  of  acetylene  as  a  light  and 
thereby 
injure  the  worth  of  the  patent 
favored  by  the 
local  carbide  agents. 
Any  such  claim,  however,  is  disproved 
by  the  evidence  of  the  fire insurance ex­
aminers  who  have  inspected  the  various 
makes  of  generators.  Their  verdict 
is 
that  this  particular‘ ‘ sprinkler  ’  patent 
is  hardly  up  to  the  standard  set  by  rival 
generators.  The  very  fact  that  those  in­
terested  in  this  machinehave  resorted  to 
such  unbusinesslike  methods  to  meet 
sales  has 
competition 
strengthened  this  suspicion  of 
inferior­
ity.
lacks  what  most  European 
countries  have,  namely,  a law  to  compel 
it 
the  owner  of  a  patent  to  make  use  of 
for  the  benefit  of  the  public. 
If  be 
manufactures  under  his  patent  he  must 
sell  bis  product  to  the  general  public 
at  a  fairly  reasonable  price,  or  else  the 
law  makes  him  issue  a  compulsory  li 
cense  to  someone  else  to  make  the  pat­
ented  article.  The  American  laws  do 
not  contemplate  the  possibility  that  a 
manufacturer  would  use  one  patent  to 
destroy  tee  value  of  another  patent,  in­
cidentally  injuring  hundreds  of business 
men  at  the  same  time,  as  is  done  in  the 
peculiar  proceeding  of  which  we  have 
given  an  outline. 
It  behooves  Congiess 
to  do  awav  with  this  serious  handicap 
upon  a  new  industry.

America 

force 

and 

One  way  to  prevent  hiccough  is  to ab­
stain  from  going  out  between  the  acts.

Michigan  &  Ohio 
Acetylene Gas C o , u*

Jackson, Mich.

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

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

Yours respectfully, 

CHAS.  M ERRILL.

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A C E T Y L E N E   G A S   IN  T H E   M A R K E T . 

A BSO LU TE LY   A U TO M A TIC.

To  get  Pure  Gas  you  must  have  a  Perfect 
Cooler and a  Perfect Purifying  Apparatus.  We 
have them both and the best made.  The Owen 
does  perfect  work  all  the  time.  Over  200  in 
active operation in  Michigan.

Write for Catalogue and particulars to
G EO . F. OW EN  &   C O .,

C O R .  LOUIS  And  CAMPAU  S T S .,

GRAND  R A P ID S ,  M ICH.

Also Jobbers of  Carbide, Gas  Fixtures, Pipe and Fittings.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip. 

President,  Oa a s.  S.  St e v e n s,  Ypsilauti;  Secre­
tary. J  C. Sau n d e rs,  Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C. 
G o u ld, Saginaw,
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  J am es  E.  D a y ,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W.  A llen  Detroit.

United  Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 

Grand Counselor, J. J.  Ev a n s. Ann Arbor; Grand 
Secretary, G  S. V alm o r b, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, W. S. West, Jackson.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owbn,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

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

Gripsack  Brigade.

The  PoDtiac  Buggy  Co.  has  engaged 
T.  J.  Godfrey,  of  Sand  Beach,  to  repre­
sent  it  in  Iowa.

Arthur  E.  Strever,  of  Owosso,  has  en­
gaged  to  cover  Texas  for  the  Estey 
Manufacturing  Co.

Hillsdale  Leader;  E.  M.  Wheeler 
has  staited  on  the  road  as  agent  of  the 
Elysian  Manufacturing  Co  ,  of  Detroit, 
in  perfumery  and  toilet  goods. 
dealer 
He  will  travel 
in  Indiana,  with  head­
quarters  here.

Jose  A.  Gonzalez  concluded  that  he 
could  not  afford  to  accept  the  Govern­
ment  appointment  to  Cuba,  after  inves­
tigating  the  subject  at  Washington,  and 
resumed  his  visits  to  the  trade  after 
onlv  one  week’s  interruption.

Menominee  Herald:  Lieut.  Jas.  A. 
Leisen  has  taken  a  position  with  the 
Dingman  Soap  Co.,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
as  traveling  salesman,  and  has  already 
started  out  on  the  road.  His  territory 
will  be  the  Upper  Peninsula  of  Michi­
gan  and  Northern  Wisconsin.

Belding  Banner:  Ben  P.  Angell 

left 
last  week  for  Nebraska,  be  having  been 
assigned  that  territory  in  which  to  rep­
resent  the  Richardson  Silk  Co.,  with 
headquarters  at  Omaha.  He  has  been 
traveling  in  Ohio  and  this  change  rep­
resents  confidence  in  bis  ability.

Owosso  Press:  Edward  Calvin,  rep­
resenting  Bement  &  Sons,  of  Lansing, 
was 
in  the  city  yesterday  visiting  his 
old  friend,  F.  J  McDannel.of  the  Post 
al  Telegraph  office.  The  men  were 
boys  together.  Mr.  Calvin  resides 
in 
Chicago  and  has  just  begun  traveling  in 
Michigan  for  the  Bement  house.

Lapeer  Clarion :  The  Detroit  Casket 
Co.’s  popular  representative,  W.  S. 
Washer,  who  has  recently  suffered  so 
much  at  Grace  Hospital,  we  are  pleased 
to  note  is  out  and  about  business  again. 
He  made  his  first  trip  since  the  opera 
tion  on  Monday,  coming  as  far  north­
ward  as  Utica.  He  anticipates  being 
hereafter  stronger  and  healthier  than 
ever.

Menominee  Leader:  Frank  Horton, 
formerly  traveling  salesman  for  Pen- 
berthy.  Cook  &  Co.,  has  been  visiting 
in  Marinettee  the  past  week,  prior  to 
bis  leaving  for  the  copper  country, 
where  be  will  be  employed  by  Sprague, 
Warner  &  Co.,  wholesale  grocers  of 
Chicago,  as  one  of  their  representatives 
in  that  district.  Mr.  Horton  formerly 
resided  in  this  city.

Niles  Sun:  William 

I.  Daviess, 
traveling  for  a  Jackson  supply  bouse, 
was  found  Saturday  morning  by  the 
night  force  of  the  Mishawaka  Pulp  Co., 
lying  upon  the  bank  of  the  St.  Joseph 
River.  His  clothing  was  covered  with 
ice  and  snow  and  he  was  nearly  lifeless 
from  cold.  His  condition 
is  nearly 
hopeless,  but  he  has  recovered  suffi­

ciently  to  tell  that  he  was  attacked  by 
thugs,  relieved  of  his  valuables  and 
then  tossed  into  the  river.

Chas.  Clarke, 

formerly  Traveling 
Freight  Agent  for  the  D .,  G.  H.  &  M. 
Railroad,  with  headquarters  at  Grand 
Rapids,  but  for  several  years  past  New 
York  Agent  for  the  Grand  Trunk  Rail­
way,  with  headquarters  at  Buffalo,  has 
been  promoted  to  the  position  of  D ivi­
sion  Freight  Agent  of  the  Grand  Trunk 
Railway  System,  w  th  headquarters  at 
Detroit.  Mr.  Clarke  is  a  genial  gentle­
man  who  has  many  friends  in  Michigan 
who  will  rejoice  with  him 
in  bis  suc­
cess.

Geo.  T.  Smith,  who  represented  P. 
Lorillard  &  Son  in  this  territory for sev­
eral  years,  but  for  the  past  four  years 
has  carried  the  samples  of the  Wilson  & 
McCallay  Tobacco  Co. —three  years 
in 
Michigan  and  one  year 
in  Iowa—has 
engaged  to  travel  for  Jennings  & Smith, 
taking  the  territory  formerly  covered  by 
F.  D.  Claire,  which  comprises  Eastern 
and  Southern  Michigan  and  Northern 
Ohio  and  Indiana.  Mr  Smith 
is  per­
sistent and  energetic  and  has  a  pleasing 
is  every  reason  for 
address  and  there 
believing 
that  be  will  achieve  fresh 
laurels  in  bis  new  connection.

Morenci  Observer:  Eugene  Zeluff, 
of  Adrian,  traveling  salesman  for  the 
Banner  Cigar  Co.,  of  Detroit, 
ran 
against  two  sandbaggers  Ute  Thursday 
night  week  near  the  Michigan  Central 
depot  at  Jackson  and  was  struck  on  the 
back  of  the  head  and  knocked  down. 
Being  an  athlete  himself, 
the  blow 
barely  stunned  him  and  he  recovered 
before  the  fellows  could  rob  him.  One, 
who  gave  his  name  as  “ Mose”   Smith, 
was  pursued  by  Zeluff  and  beaten  until 
he  begged  for  mercy,  and  was  turned 
over  to  the  police.  The  other escaped. 
Zeluff  bad  $175 
in  his  pocket,  but 
the  vigor  with  which  he  defended  him­
self  made  his  money  safe.  Next  morn­
ing  be  declined  to  prosecute,  being  sat­
isfied  with  the  thrashing  he  gave  the 
thief,  and  not  desiring  notoriety.
Movements of Lake Superior T ravelers.
Marquette,  Jan.  17—S.  H.  Corbett, 
Ex-Sheriff  of  Ontonagon  county,  suc­
ceeds  M.  A.  Dunning  in  this  territory 
for  Morley  Bros.  Mr.  Corbett  will  live 
in  Marquette.

Wm  Pohlman  (Edson,  Moore  &  Co.) 

is  on  this  territory  at  present.

C.  M.  Hoi ton  (Burnham.  Stoepel  & 
Co.)  is  working  with  F.  G.  Triescott. 
Mr.  Horton 
looks  after  the  men’s  fur­
nishings  and  Fred  after  the  business.

John  Corrigan,  one  of  the  oldest— in 
years  of  service—travelers  on  Lake  Su­
perior,  is 
ill  at  the  Calumet  House, 
Calumet.

Oscar  Hopperstead,  formerly  with  the 
Menominee  Iron  Works  Co.,  will  enter 
the  employ  of  the  Portage  Lake  Hard­
ware  Co.,  Houghton.

M.  R.  Manhard  spent  a  few  days  last 

week  at  Newberry.
The  annual  souvenir  booklet  of  the 
Lake  Superior  Commercial  Travelers’ 
Club  has  just  been  issued  and  is  being 
distributed  to  members  and  friends  of 
the  Club.  The  book  is  gotten  up  much 
it  was  last  year,  with  the 
in  the  style 
title  and  the  year  1899  in  gilt. 
Inside 
is  a  list  of  the  officers  and  members  of 
the  Club,  the  by-laws  of  the  organiza­
tion,  a list of  the  hotels  of  the  Peninsula 
with  their  rates,  railroads  and  steamer 
lines,  a  daily  memorandum,  merchan­
dise,  classification,  distances  between 
stations  on  the  railroads  of  the  Penin­
sula, 
excess  baggage  rates,  express 
money  order  rates, tables  of  weights  and 
measures,  postage  rates, and  a  couple  of 
poems  calculated  to  appeal  particularly 
to  the  drummer.  Besides  this  the  book 
contains  a  fine  line  of advertising  from 
hotels,  liveries  and  concerns  which  the 
traveling  men  most  patronize.

The  Salesman  and  the  Office  Man.
Every  ordinary  salesman—or  at  least 
in 
four  out  of  every  five  of  him—has  it 
for the  fellow  in  the  office  who  runs  the 
accounts,  adjusts  claims  for  differences 
and  has  general  sway  where  sales  are 
concerned. 
I  have  no  doubt  that  from 
his  point  of  view  he  usually  has  good 
reason  for  the  hard  feelings  he  enter­
tains  for  his  coadjutor  at  home,  for  in 
many  ways  their  methods  of  thought 
and  work  are  diametrically  opposed, 
although  both  are  working  in  a  common 
cause.

The  salesman  is  a  natural  expansion­
ist. 
“ We  want  orders,”   writes  the 
house,  and  he  counts  that  day  as  lost 
whose  low-descending  sun  sees  no  req­
uisition  for  goods  mailed  in.  With  all 
his  desire  to  work  for  the  house’s  best 
interest  and  to  do  what  he  knows  will 
please  the  men  at  home,  he  occasionally 
allows  himself  to  be  overpersuaded, 
and  falls  back  upon  the  plea  of  expedi­
ency  in  expltining  to  bis  house  why  be 
deviated  from  instructions.

The  office  man,  on  the  contrary,  is  a 
born  “ detailist, ”   if  I  may  coin  a  word, 
whose  life  is  spent  in  working  out  the 
sum  of  2x2  equals  4,  and  who  sees  no 
in  altering  either  the 
sense  or  reason 
factors  or  the  result.  A 
loss  through  a 
bad  account,  or  any  reduction  from  the 
maximum  profit  the  order  should  yield, 
he  feels  as  a  personal  reproach,  and  so 
he  anxiously  guards  against  any  tend­
ency  toward 
looseness  of  method  or  a 
generosity  that  may  diminish  the  total 
footings.  While  the  salesman  is  an  op­
timist  working 
in  a  hail-fellow-wtll 
met  spirit  of  brotherly  love,  the  ideal 
credit  man  is  a  cold-blooded  duffer with 
a  diseased  liver  and  a  memory  that  re­
fuses  to  take  cognizance  of  any  claims 
friendship,  ex­
of 
pediency  or 
large  profit  that  might 
change  the  footings  of  the  ledgers to  the 
firm’s  detriment.

love,  kinship  or 

“ Here  is  a 

cries  the  salesman. 
brother!’ ’

large,  fat,  juicy  order,”  
“ Congratulate  me, 

“ But  the  man’s  financial  record  is 
against  him ,”   objects  the  credit  man, 
“ and  he  is  already  three  months  behind 
in  his  payments. “

“ The  banks  in  his  town  speak well  of 

him ,”   says  Traveler.

“ Did  they  tell  you  in  what  amount 
they  are 
in  bis  business 
through  notes  they hold?" queries Credit 
Man,  sarcastically.

interested 

“ Hubbard  &  Simpkins’  man  tells  me 
his  firm  are  glad  to  sell  this  man  all  he 
warts,”   insists  Traveler.

“ No  doubt  of  it,”   says  Credit  Man; 
“ but  be  is  careful  to  collect  the  old  in­
debtedness  before he contracts the new. ”  
“ But,  hang  it,  man!”  cries  Traveler, 
in  despair,  “ look  at  the  prices  and  the 
big  profit.  You  can  afford  to  run  a  little 
! risk  on  an  order  like  that.”

“ I  never gamble,’ ’  says  Credit  Man, 
coldly;  “ and,  besides,  if  he  intended  to 
pay  for  the  goods  he  would  have  been 
more  particular  about  their  cost.”   And 
be  indites  a  polite  note  to  the  derelict 
customer  to  the  effect  that  the  present 
condition  of  business  will  not  warrant  a 
further  extension  of  credit  and  that  he 
would 
like  a  remittance  to  cover  the 
past  due  account,  upon  receipt  of  which 
the  “ valued  order”   given  Mr.  Traveler 
will  be  filled.  Often  the  cash 
is  paid 
and  the  goods  shipped,  and  the  sales­
man,  upon  his  next  call,  is favored  with 
the  customer’s  opinion  of  the  picayune 
policy  of  bis house,  and  his  unfavorable 
estimate  of  the  credit  man’s  personal 
character  and  maternal  parentige. 

Occasionally  there  is  a  credit  man

who  does  not  figure  thus. 
I  once  heard 
a  number  of  business  men  discussing 
the  standing  of  their  customers,  and 
one  firm  was  mentioned  who  had  been 
hanging  for  some  time  on  the  verge  of 
bankruptcy.  Only  one  of  the men  pres­
ent  had  this  firm  on  his  books.

“ I  think  they  owe  us  some  hundred 
and  fifty  dollars,”   said  be. 
“ They  buy 
about  all  their  goods  from  us,  so  that 
their  purchases 
in  the  last  year  have 
amounted  to  over  two  thousand  dollars, 
at  good  round  prices.  We  shall  still 
have  made  a  good  profit  on  the  business 
if  we  should  lose  every  dollar  of  their 
present  indebtedness.”

"They  can  buy  nothing 

from  us,”  

said  each  of  the  others.

“ Well,  they  can  from  me,”   said  the 
first  speaker. 
“ I  have  two  or  three 
other accounts  of  this  same  kind,  and  I 
rather  enjoy  having  them.”

Another  firm  was  mentioned  which 
had  recently  gone  under,  and  one  of  the 
other  men,  a  German,  admitted  a  loss 
of  840,  the  remainder  due  on  a  8600  bill 
of  goods.

“ You  were  lucky  to  come  out whcle, ”  
“ You 

said  the  man  who  took  risks. 
d  dn’t  lose  anything,  after  all.”

“ We  lost 840,”   said  the  German.
“ But  I  mean  you  were  nothing  out  of 

pocket. ”

“ We  were  840  out  of  pocket,”   said 
“ That  was  our  money, 

the  German. 
and  we  didn’t  get  it.”

“ Still,  the  amount  you  received  left 
you  a  profit  after  paying  for  the  goods 
and  the  expense  of  doing the business, ”  
said  the  other,  but  the  German  shook 
his  head.

“ We  sold  the  goods  for 840  more  than 
lost  840  of  good 
we  received;  so  we 
money,”   said  he;  and  so  would  figure 
nine  tenths  of 
the  credit  men  of  the 
country. 

_____
He  Was  Protected.

Judge—Weren’t  you  afraid  to  strike 

the  daikey  on  the  head?

Prisoner—No,  sir;  I  had  on  brass 

knuckles.

Hotel  Colurnbia

Finest Furnished House in 
TRAVERSE CITY.  MICH.

Just  Opened  and  Ready  for  Business. 
Located  on  corner  of  Front  and  Park ists., 
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  hells 
and  good  ventilation.  Mo  inside  rooms.
Hot and cold water in all parts of the house. 
Rates $1.50 per day.  Free bus to and from 
all boats and trains.
A   First  class  Lunch  Room  in  connection.

W.  H.  FLETCHER,  Prop.

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ST. JOSEPH,  MICH. 

A. VINCENT. Prop.
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Only first-class house in  M ASON,  Mich.  Every­
thing new.  Every room heated,  Large and well- 
lighted sample rooms.  Send your mail care  of  the 
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MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
Dec. 31,1898
F. W. R. Pnrby, Detroit 
-  Dec. 31,1899 
A. C. Sch u m ach er,  Ann  Arbor 
Dec. 81,1900
Gao. G u n d r u m ,  Ionia  - 
L .  B.  R e y n o l d s, St.  Joseph  - 
-  Dec. 31,1901
H e n r y H e im , Saginaw  - 
-  .  Dec. 31,1903

• 

- 

President, G eo.  G u ndrum,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Schu m ach er, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, H e n r y  He im , Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.

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

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

The  Filing  of  Prescriptions.

A  simple,  reliable  and  convenient 
method  of  prescription  filing  is  impor­
tant  to  every druggist.  In  the  first  place 
it  must  be  so  simple  that  one  single 
operation  places  the  prescription  on  the 
file. 
It  must  be  so  convenient  tbat  no 
time  is  lost  in  referring  to  any  particu­
lar  prescription  and  so  reliable  that 
once  filed  its  place  is  fixed  and  certain. 
The  old-time  method  of  stringing  the 
prescriptions  consecutively  on  a  long 
wire  and  hanging  them  on  nails  in  odd 
corners  of  the  back  room,  a  resting 
place  for  dust  and  cobwebs,  becoming 
yellow  with  age,  ragged  and  dirty,  is 
neither  neat,  reliable  nor  convenient. 
The  various  patent  filing  arrangements 
each  possess  some  advantages,  but  some 
are  expensive,  others  more  or  less  com­
plicated,  and  nearly  all  require  pre­
scription  papers  of  nearly  a  uniform 
size.  Now  our  experience  has been tbat 
it  is  a  rare  case  that  the  different physi­
cians  of  a  town  all  use  a  prescription 
blank  tbat  is  uniform  in  shape and  size. 
The  druggist  may  keep  them  supplied 
with  blanks  and  notwithstanding  they 
will  often  use  any  odd  bit  of  paper  that 
comes  to  hand,  or,  being  supplied  by 
another  druggist,  their  blanks  do  not 
correspond.  The  result 
is  that  with 
some  of  the  patent  filing  cases  the  pre­
scriptions  must  be  trimmed  or  doubled 
over  before  they  will  fit.  This  is  unsat­
isfactory  and  sometimes  exasperating.
Another  plan  followed  by  some  drug­
gists  of  pasting  the  prescriptions 
in 
books,  while rather  convenient  for  refer­
ence,  is  troublesome  and  prevents  the 
withdrawal  of  an  original  prescription, 
which  is  sometimes  necessary.  We  have 
also  known  druggists  to  copy  all  their 
prescriptions  regularly 
in  a  book  kept 
for  the  purpose,  but this  entails  not  only 
a  great  deal  of  labor,  but  the  prescrip­
tions are all  copies  instead  of  originals. 
There  is  not  only  danger  of  mistakes  in 
copying,  but they  would  not  be  accepted 
by  any  court  as  documentary  evidence.
The  simplest  plan  is  the  best,  and  we 
will  give a  description  of  a  method  re­
quiring  no  apparatus, 
tbat  we  have 
found  entirely  satisfactory  and  that  is 
attended  with  no  expense  and  very little 
trouble:

In  the  first  place,  we  keep  a  little  up­
right  file  on  the  prescription  counter,  a 
simple  straight  wire  in  a  broad  heavy 
base,  on  which  are  stuck  the  prescrip­
tions  as  they  are  filled.  This wire holds 
about  five  hundred  prescriptions.  The 
point  of  the  wire  is  flattened  and  broad­
ened  a  little  so  as  to  allow  an  eye  to  be 
drilled  near  the  end.  As  soon  as  the 
file 
is  run 
through  the  eye  and  the  five  hundred 
prescriptions  are  drawn  over  on  the 
string.  Then  a  flat  wooden  button  is 
tied  at  each  end  of  the  string  and  the

is  nearly  filled  a  string 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

package  of  prescriptions 
is  put  into  a 
neat  paper  box  of  suitable  size,  and  the 
end 
is  labeled  with  the  first  and  last 
number  of  the  prescriptions.

We  use  boxes that originally contained 
Whitman's  confections,  being  neat  and 
of  just  the  right  size  to  hold  the  pre­
scriptions  nicely.  As  the  boxes  are 
filled,  they  are  set  upon  a  shelf  in  reg­
ular order,  or,  if  you  please,  in  a  con­
venient  closet.  They  make  a  neat  ap­
pearance  on  a  shelf,  protect  the  pre­
scriptions  perfectly  and  any  particular 
number  from  one  to  fifty  thousand  can 
be  found  in  a  moment,  and  it  seems  to 
us  nothing  better 
is  needed.— C.  J. 
Wolfe  in  American  Druggist.
The  Drug  Market.

Opium—The  market  is  unsettled  and 
a  firm  feeling  prevails,  as  the  larger 
holders  are  not  willing  to  sell  at  present 
prices.  There 
is  no  doubt of  a  higher 
market  later  on.

Morphine— Is  steady  at  unchanged 

Quinine—Is  in  good  demand  and  the 

prices.

price  is  firm.

Bromides— Potash,  sodium  and  am­
monium  have  all  been  advanced  2c  per 
pound.

Cocoa  Butter— Is  higher  abroad  and 
has  been  advanced  2c  per  pound  in  this 
market.

Borax  and  Boracic  Acid— Are  firm 

at  the  advance  noted  last  week.

Menthol—The  market 

is  firm  at  the 
last  week,  with  good 

advance  noted 
demand.

Essential  Oils— Lemon,  orange  and 
bergamot  are  very  firm.  Sassafras  is 
firm  and  advancing.  Wormwood  is  very 
firm  at  our quotations.

Seeds—Caraway  is  firmer,  owing  to 
higher  prices  abroad.  Poppy  is  slightly 
lower.

Spices—Are  all  steady  except  black 

pepper,  which  is  very  much  higher.

Linseed  Oil—There  is  no  change  to 
note.  The  new  company  will  be  or­
ganized  this  week,  with  only  two  out­
side  mills  to  compete  with  them.

Harold  Frederic  on  Medicine.

The  following  passage  from  the  late 
Harold  Frederic’s  novel  “ The  Damna­
tion  of  Theron  W are,”   although  put  in­
to  the  mouth  of  one  of  the  characters, 
may  perhaps  be  taken  as  expressing  bis 
own  opinion  on  the  subject.  The  Rev. 
Theron  Ware,  at  his  first  interview  with 
Dr.  Ledsmar,  is  uncertain  whether  his 
interlocutor  is  a  doctor  of  medicine  or 
of  one  of  the  other  faculties:

“ Oh,  yes,  it 

is  m edicine,"  replied 
“ I  am  a  doctor  three  or  four 
Ledsmar. 
times  over  so  far  as  parchments  can 
make  one. 
In  some  other  respects, 
though,  I  should  think  I  am  probably 
less  of  a  doctor  than  anybody  else  now 
living. 
is 
regularly— for  many  years,  and  I  take 
no  interest  whatever  in  keeping  abreast 
of  what  the  profession  regards  as  its 
progress. 
I  know  nothing  beyond  what 
was  being  taught  in  the  ‘ Sixties,’  and 
that,  I  am  glad  to  say,  I  bave  mostly 
forgotten. ’ ’

I  haven't  practiced—that 

“ Dear  me,”   said  Theron. 

“ I  bad 
always  supposed  that  science  was  the 
most  engrossing  of  pursuits—that  once 
a  man  took  it  up  he  never  left  it.”

“ But  tbat  would  imply  a  connection 
between  science  and  medicine, ”   com­
mented  the  doctor. 
“ My  dear  sir,  they 
are  not  even  on  speaking  terms."

Joseph  H.  Choate  says  that  once,  as  a 
Harvard  student,  he  went  into  a  Boston 
cheap  eating-house and  asked  the  wait­
er  what they  had.  “ Everything,"   was 
the  answer.  “ Get  me  som e,"  said  Mr. 
Choate.  * * One  order of  hash, ’ ’  shouted 
the  waiter.

Prescribing  Pharmacists  and  Dispen­
A. C. Matchett,  M.  D., in  American  Druggist

sing  Doctors.

American  physicians  protest  almost 
unanimously  against  “ counter  prescrib­
ing”   by  druggists,  although  the  drug­
gist  may  be  a  graduate of  the  best  of 
medical  colleges  of  this  country  or  of 
any  foreign  country.  Now,  I  propose 
that  if  the  physician,  as  the  manager of 
a  drug  store,  be  he  ever  so  well  quali­
fied  by  the  most  liberal  medical  educa­
tion  and  extensive  general  practice  of 
medicine,  be  debarred 
from  counter 
prescribing,  then  the  doctor  in  general 
practice  of  medicine,  outside  of  a  drug 
store,  be  prohibited  from  dispensing 
his  medicines  for  his  patients  at  the 
bedside,  except 
in  the  most  limited 
manner  possible,  and  only  in  the  most 
extreme  cases  of  emergency,  and  then 
only  sufficiently  to supply the immediate 
necessity  of  the  moment,  until  the  med­
icine  prescribed  can  be  obtained from  a 
reliable  and  thoroughly  qualified  drug­
gist  and  chemist.
If  the  druggist,  by  simply  following 
the  profession  of  a  druggist,  is  disqual­
ified  to  prescribe  for  the  sick  seeking 
his  aid  at  the  druggist’s  counters,  no 
matter  how  thoroughly  educated  as  a 
physician  he  may  be,  bow  much  more 
should  the  physician  engaged 
in  the 
general  practice  of  medicine  be  pro­
hibited  from  usurping  the  duties  of  the 
dispensing  chemist,  which  duties,  it 
is 
notorious,  not  one  physician  in  a  hun­
dred  is  perfectly  qualified  by  education 
in  the  medical  college  to  discharge.

No  matter  how  thorough  may  bave 
been  the  medical  student’s 
training 
in  the  theory  of  medicine,  surgery, 
obstetrics  and  kindred  branches  of 
anatomy,  physiology, histology,  biology, 
botany  and  materia  medica,  it  is  noto­
rious  tbat  be  leaves  this  medical  alma 
mater  ignorant  of  almost  all  things  that 
should  form  part  of  the  education  of  a 
practical  pharmacist.  True,  it  may  be 
that  he  has  a  few  of  the elementary facts 
concerning  crude  drugs  in  the  store  of 
knowledge  obtained 
in*  his  regular 
course  of  studies,  but  he  knows  almost 
nothing  at  all  of  what  is  required  to 
constitute  the  necessary  education  of  an 
apprentice  in  a  drug  store.  Yet  such  a 
graduate  of  medicine  is  turned  out upon 
a  suffering  world,  and  at  onCe  becomes 
perfectly  competent  to  compound  the 
most  subtle  poisons,  with  a  reckless 
disregard  of  possible  consequences  for 
the  patient  prescribed  for,  simply  be­
cause  he  may,  forsooth,  bave  been  a 
graduate 
in  medicine,  and  scarcely 
knows  the  simplest  principles  of  phar­
macy.  The  physician  who graduates  in 
medicine as  well  as  in  a  first-class  col­
lege  of  pharmacy  is  surely  as well quali­
fied  to  practice  counter  prescribing  in  a 
drug  store as  a  simple graduate of  med­
icine,  without  a  thorough  education 
in 
pharmacy,  is  qualified  to  practice  his 
own  pharmacy  in  his  medical  practice.
Should  not  our  pharmacy  laws  be  en­
forced  rigorously  against  the  physician, 
who  may  be  totally  ignorant  of  the  pro­
fession  of  pharmacy  and  yet  is constant­
ly  endangering  the  lives  of  bis  patients 
by  practicing  or attempting  to  practice 
pharmacy  when  he  may  be  totally  igno­

P a a s 1
t a s t e r   |LGG
D y e s W

Paas

rant  of  almost  everything  pertaining  to 
tbat  noble  calling,  however  well  quali­
fied  he  may  be  as  a  physician?  How 
much  of  truth  and  justice  are  there 
in 
all  this?
is  a  most  important  subject  of 
This 
thought  for  both  tbfe physician and phar­
macist  and should be thoroughly studied, 
a  fair  unprejudiced  decision  arrived  at, 
and  the  proper  steps  taken  not  only  to 
protect  the  physician  against  the  great 
injustice  of  counter  prescribing  by  the 
druggist,  but  to  protect  the  druggist  as 
well  as  the  entire  public  from  the  grave 
danger  of  physicians attempting to prac­
tice the  profession  of  pharmacy  which, 
in  nine  out  of  ten  cases,  they  are  totally 
incompetent  to  do.

Mercuric  Cyanide.

common 

sulphate  and 

This  salt  is  no  longer  official;  it  was 
formerly  prepared  by  reaction  between 
potassium  ferrocyanide,  sulphuric  acid 
and  mercuric  oxide,  or  it  may  be  pre­
pared  by  dissolving  mercuric  oxide  in 
hydrocyanic  acid.  Mercuric  cyanide  is 
used  to  some  extent  by  dyers  as  a  mor­
It 
dant. 
is  seldom  found  as  an  article 
of  stock 
in  drug  stores and  is  used  by 
chemists  largely as a source of cyanogen. 
It  is  soluble  in  eight  parts  of  cold  water 
and  the  solution  has  a  very  disagreeable 
metallic  taste.  While  nausea  is  one  of 
the 
symptoms  of  chronic 
cyanogen  poisoning,  this  symptom  usu­
ally  appears  as  one  of  the  effects  of  an 
over-extended  exhibition  of  the  salt  in 
small  doses.  Regarding  the  antidotal 
treatment  this 
is  necessarily  limited. 
The  direct  chemical  antidote  consists 
of  the  administration  of  a  mixture  of 
ferrous 
ferric  chloride 
with  sodium  carbonate,  the  object  being 
to  convert  the  soluble  cyanide 
into  an 
insoluble 
In  most 
cases  of  poisoning  by  hydrocyanic  acid 
or  cyanogen  compounds,  there 
is  no 
time  for  the  administration  of  a  chem­
ical  antidote, 
in  consequence  of  the 
rapidity  of the  action  nf  the poison,  and 
the  treatment  is  chiefly  directed  to  the 
maintenance  of  respiration  by  artificial 
means  and  the  administration  of  small 
doses  of  atropine  and  ether  subcutane­
ously.  The  statement  tbat  the  symptoms 
of  poisoning  observed  in  the  crime  now 
under  discussion 
in  the  metropolitan 
newspapers  were  those  of  potassium 
cyanide  has  little  more  than  hasty  con­
jecture  or  newspaper  speculation 
to 
bear  it  out.  No  scientific  evidence  has 
yet  been  adduced  to  bear  out  the  sug­
gestion  that  either  potassium  or  mer­
curic  cyanide  was  used  as  the  causa 
mortis  letbalis.

ferrocyanide. 

iron 

General  Wood  has  granted  the  peti­
tion  of  several  Spanish  merchants  for 
permission  to  close  their  stores  on  Sun 
day,  they  having  been  compelled 
to 
keep  open  seven  days  in  the  week under 
the  Spanish  law.  He  has  also  issued  an 
order  directing  the  closing of the saloons 
on  the  Sabbath,  and  there  is  not  likely 
to  be  a  "Sunday  closing”   question  in 
Santiago  so 
long  as  that  city  shall  be 
under  military  rule.

It  never  occurs  to  a  boy  that  he  will 

some  day  know  as  little  as  his  father.

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Conium Uac........... 
35®  50
Copaiba.....................1  15®  1 25
Cubebse....................  90®  1 00
SxechthitOB...........  1  00®  1 10
Rrigeron.................  1 00®  1 10
3anltberia..............  1 50®  1 60
Geranlam,  ounce...  ® 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal..  50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1 on®  1 10
Junlpera..................  1 50®  2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90® 2 00
Llmonis......... .......... 1  40®  1 50
Mentha Piper.........  1  60®  2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1 50®  1 60
Morrhuse,  gal.........   1  10®  1 25
M yrcia,....................  4 00®  4 50
Olive.......................  
75® 3 00
10®  12
Piets  Liquida.  ......  
PÌCÌ8 Liquida, gal...  @  35
Rlelna.................... 
96® 1 05
Rosmarini...............  
® 100
Ross,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succlni...................  40®  45
Sabina................... 
go®  l 00
Santal......................  2 50®  7 00
Sassafras.................  56®  60
®  65
Sinapls, ess., ounce. 
riglll.......................  1  70®  1 8><
40®  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............  
®  l  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bl-Carb.................... 
is® 
18
Bichromate...... 
_
Bromide..................   6 @  57
12® 
Carb.......................  
15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®  18
Cyanide..................  
35®  40
Iodide......................  2 40® 2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
® 
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
|5
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10®  12
Potass Nitras........... 
io@ 
11
Prussiate.................  20®  25
15®  18
Sulphate p o ........... 

Radix
20®
Aconitvm.............. 
22®
Althas...................... 
Anchusa................. 
io@
®
Arum po..................  
Calamus.................  20®
Gen ti ana........po  15 
12®
Glychrrhiza... pv. 15 
Hydrastis Canaden.
®
Hydrastis Can., po..
Hellebore, Alba, po..
18®
Inula, po................. 
...
15®
Ipecac, po............... 2 80® 8 on
Iris plox— po35®38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
25®  30
Maranta,  fcs........... 
®  35
Podophyllum, po....  22®  25
g k e i....................... 
75®  1  00
Rhel, cut.................  @  1  25
Rl»ei,pv..................  
75®  1  36
Spigelia................... 
35®  38
Sanguinaria.. ,po. 15 
®  18
Serpentaria............   30®
Senega....................  40®
Slmllax,officinalis H 
®
Smilax, M................ 
6k
Seillte............ po.35
10®
Symplocarpus, Foeti- 
dus,  po.................
Valeriana, Rug. po. 30 
Valeriaua,  German.
15®
Zingiber a................  w a
Zingiber]...............  
25®
Semtn
Anlsum......... do.  15  @ 1 2
13® 
Apium  (graveleons) 
15
Bird.18.................... 
6
4® 
Carol.............po. 18 
10®  12
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
g® 
Coriandrum............  
10
Cannabis  Satlva....  4v,@  5
Cvdonlum...............  
75®  i  00
10®  12
Chenopodium  ........ 
Dlpterix  Odorate...  1 40®  1  50
Fcsnlculnm............  
® 
10
Pœnugreek, po........ 
7® 
9
SV4®  4H
Linl 
4®  4V4
Llnl,  grd— bbl. 3)4 
35®  40
Lobelia................... 
Pharlarls  Canarian. 
4®  4V4
Rapa.......................  4 V4® 
5
SinapisAlbn........... 
9® 
10
Slnapis  Nigra.........  
li@ 
12
Spirit us
Frumentl, W.  D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frnm enti..................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

 

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................. 2 50© 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................  2 00® 2 25
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
®  1 25
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__
®  1  00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................
®  1 00 
Hard, for slate use..
®  75
Yellow  R e ef,  for 
slate  use..............
1  40
Syrups

Acacia....................  @  50
Aurantl Cortes........  @  50
Zingiber..................   @  50
©  60
Ipecac. 
.......... 
Ferrilod...... ..........  
®  50
Rhei Arom.............. 
®  50
Smilax Officinalis...  50®  60
Senega....................   @  50
so
Snillm............. .. 

t% 

.. 

®
©
©

niscellaneous 

Seillte Co.................  
Tolutan................... 
Prunus vlrg............  
Tinctures 
Aconitum N apellis R 
Aconitum Napellls F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Mynh__
Arnica....................
Assafoetida............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon...............
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor......................
Catechu...................
Cinchona................
Cinchona Co...........
Columba 
............
Cubeba....................
Cassia  Acutlfol......
Cassia Acntlfol Co  .
Digitalis  ........
Ergot............
Fern Chloridem
Gentian..................
Gentian Co..............
Gulaca....................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus. . . . __
Iodine......................
Iodine, colorless....
Kino........................
Lobelia..................
Myrrh......................
Nnx Vomica...........
Opii.........................
Opii, camphorated.
Opii,  deodorized....
Quassia...................
Rhatany...................
Rhei.........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stramonium...........
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride...
Zingiber..................
.Ether, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
?4®
.¡Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F 
Alnmen...................  2w@
3®
A lumen, gro’d ..po. 7 
A nnatto.................   40®
Antimoni,  po.........  
4®
Antimon! et PotassT  40®
Antlpyrin.............. 
©
©
Antifebrin.............. 
Argentl Nitras, oz ..  @
Arsenicum..............  
10®
38®
Balm Gilead  Bud  .. 
Bismuth  8.' N......... 1  40®
Calcium Chlor.,  Is.. 
©
Calcium Chlor., Vis.  @
Calcium Chlor.,  Qs.  @
Cantharides, Rns.po 
®
Capsicl  Frnctu8. af. 
®
Capsid Frnctus, po.  @
Capsicl FrnctusB.po  @
12®
Caryophyllns..po.  15 
Carmine, No. 40......   @
Cera Alba................  50®
Cera Flava..............  40®
Coccns.................
Cassia Frnctns__
Centraria..............
Cetaceum................
Chloroform.............  
Chloroform, sqnibbs
Chloral Hyd Crst__
Chondrus...............
Clnchonidine.P.A W  25® 
Cinchonldine, Germ  22®  30
Cocaine.................  3 55® 3 75
70
Corks, list, dis.pr.ot. 
Creosotum........  
©  35
©  2
Creta............. bbl. 75 
© 
Creta, prep.............. 
5
Creta, preclp........... 
9®  11
Creta, Rnbra........... 
© 
8
Crocus.................... 
18®  20
Cudbear................. 
©  24
Capri Sulph............  
5® 
6
10®  12
Dextrine.................. 
75®  90
Ether Sulph............ 
Emery, all  numbers  @ 
8
Emery, po...............  @ 
6
Ergota...........po. 40  30®  35
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
Galla........................  @  23
Gambler.  ...............  
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper......   @  60
Gelatin, French...... 
35®  60
75 &  10 
Glassware, flint, box 
70
Less than  box.... 
Glue,  brown........... 
9®  12
Glue, white............  
13®  25
14®  20
Glycerina................ 
Grana  Paradis!  __  @  25
HumulU8................. 
25®  56
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  85
Hydraag Chlor Cor.  @  75
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
®  95
Hydraag Ammoniatl 
©  1  1C 
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........   @  7C
Ichthyobolla, Am...  65®  75
Indigo...................... 
75®  1 00
Iodine, Resubi........  8 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................  @420
Lupulin...................  @ 2 25
Lycopodium........... 
40®  45
Macis 
65®  75
Llqnor  Arsen et Hy­
@  251
dra rglod.............  
LiquorPota8sArsinlt  10®  12
Magnesia, Sulph__ 
2® 
3
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  1V4 [
Mannla, S. F __ 
60®  60 I
«  3 00 1
1 Menthol. 

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

50®

Morphia, S.P.AW... 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C. Co....................
Moschus Canton__
Myristica, No. 1......
Nnx Vomica.. .po.20
Os  Sepia.................
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co....................
Picls Liq. N.N.Vi gal.
doz........................
Picls Liq., quarts__
Plcis Liq., pints......
Pll Hydrarg...po.  80 
Piper Nigra...po.  22
Piper Alba__po.  35
Pllx  Burgun...........
Plumb!  Acet...........
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Py rethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum, pv........
Quassia..................
Quinla, S. P. & W .. 
Quinla, S. German..
öulnla, N.Y............
Rubla Tinctorum... 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin....................
Sanguis Draconls...
Sapo,  W...................
Sapo, M....................
Sapo, G....................
Siedlltz  Mixture...

2 30® 2 55
2 20® 2 45
@  40
65®  80
@  10 
15®  18
@  1 00
@ 2 00 
@ 1 00 
®  85
®  50
@  18 
@  30
7
@ 
10®  
12 
1  10®  1 20
@  1  25 
25®  30
8®  
10 
31®  36
23®  31
33®  35
12®  14
18®  20
3 00® 3 10
40®  50
12®  14
10®   12
®  15
20  @  22

Sinapls....................  @  18
Sinapls, opt............   @  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes......................  @  34
Snnff,Scotch,DeVo’s  @  34
Soda Boras..............  9  ©  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  @  11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb.............. 
2
lVi® 
Soda, Bl-Carb.........  
5
3® 
Soda, Ash...............   8Vi@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
Spt  MyrciaDom...  @ 9 00 
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.  @ 2 56
Spts. Vini Sect. Vibbl  @ 2 61 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @2 64 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @ 2 66 
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   21£@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........  2V?@3V4
Tamarinds.............. 
8®  10
TereDenth Venice... 
28®  30
Theobromse............   46®  48
Vanilla....................  9 00®16 00
Zinc!  Sulph............  
8

7® 

Oils

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

BBL.  GAL.
7D
60
45

19

Linseed, pure  raw..  42 
Linseed, boiled......   44 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  52 

45
47
70
57
Paints  BBL.  LB
Red Venetian.........  
Iff  2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars.  1£  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  11(2  ®3 
Potty, commercial..  2M  2v6@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2V%  21(@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
75
Vermilion, English.  70® 
Green, P aris...........  18V4®  22
Green,  Peninsular..  13® 
16
Lead, Red...............   5J£@  6q
Lead, white............  6l£@  6V4
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gliders’...  @ 1 0
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @ 140
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  10®  1  29
Extra  Tnrp............   1  60®  1  70
Coach Body............   2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Fum __  1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  56®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No. lTnrp  70®  75

r   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 Wall  bound  in  rubber, 

brass and  leather 

Oval  Paint  Round  Paint 

Oval  Chisel  Varnish

Oval Chisel  Sash

Round Sash

I

White Wash  Heads 

Kalsomine

Flat Varnish 
Square and  Chisel

|
j

i!

All  qualities  at  satisfactory  prices.
Camel  Hair Varnish 

Flowing

Mottlers 

Color
Badger  Flowing,

single or double 

C.  H.  Pencils, etc.

HAZELTINE  &  PERKINS 

DRUG  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

L ----------—

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

 

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 doz in case.
Gall Borden  Eagle  ............6 75
Crown................................. 6 85
Daisy...................................5 75
Champion  ...........................4 50
Magnolia 
...........................4 85
Challenge............... 
8 35
Dime........................ 
8 85

COUPON  BOOKS.

 
Tradesman Grade.

Superior Grade.

Universal Grade.

Economic Grade.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 510 down.

50 books, any denom__   1  50
100 books, any denom__8 50
500 books, any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
50 books, any denom__   1  50
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books  any denom.... It  50
1.000 books  any denom__20 00
50 books, any denom....  150 
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11 50
1.000 hooks, any denom— 20 00 
Can be nude to represent any 
20 books  .......................   1 00
50 books............................ 2 00
100 books  .........................  8 00
250book8............................ 6 25
500 books.......................... WOO
1000 book»........ 
.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.... 80 00
500, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 6 00
8000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch...........■■■■■ ■• 
75
d ribd P R urrs—D oriB snc 
Sundried........• •••.......   ©„
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  Q9 
Apricots.....................   ®
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................   ®
Peaches.......................9
Fears...........................  ©
Fitted Cherries...........
Prunnelle«..................
Raspberries....... ......
100-120 25 lb boxes.........   ® f
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   ©  »
80 - 90 85 lb boxes.........   0  »H
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........   ©
60-70 261bboxe8.........   ®
50-60 25 lb boxes.........   © *
40-5025 lb boxes.........  ©10
30-40 85 lb boxes.........  Q
u  cent less In 50 lb cases 

California Pranas.

California Fruit«.

Credit Checks.

Apple«.

Raisins.

1 50 
London Layers2C»own. 
1 ®
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown...............  
2 00
5
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
6
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
7
L. M., Seeded, choice......   8
L. M , Seeded, fancy........  9H

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Leghorn...........................®1|

Currants.

Paul.

Raisins.

Patras bbls........................@ *
Vostizzas 50 lb cases------ @ ®H
Cleaned, bulk  ................. O *H
Cleaned, packages........... © 7
Citron  American 10 lb bx ©18 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ®10H 
Orange American 10 lb bx  ®10H 
Ondnra 28 lb boxes......  ©
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ®
Sultana 8 C row n........  ©
Sultana SCrow n.......  ©
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 5 Crown  ........  ©
Sultana 6 Crown  ... 
©
Sultana package.........   ©
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages..............1  50
Bulk, per 100 lbs..............3  50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Purina.

Grits.

CANDLES.
16s..............................
Paraffine.....................
Wicking.....................
CATSUP.
pints  ... 
olnmbla, 
Columbia, H pints 
CHEESE
Acme......................
Amboy....................
Emblem...................
Gold Medal.............
Ideal.......................
Jersey  ....................
Riverside.................
Brick.......................
Edam.......................
Leiden.....................
Limburger..............
Sap  Sago.
Hulk
Red

Chicary.

.......2 00
......1  25

©   11K 
@  12 H 
@  UH 
©  11 
©  UH 
©  UH 
©  UH 
©  12 
©  70 
©  17 
©  IS 
©  75 
©  17
5
T

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker A Co.’a.

German Sweet........................88
Premium..................................35
Breakfast Cocoa................ ..46

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz...........1 00
Cotton, SO ft, per  doz...........1 80
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz...........1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz...........1 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz...........1 80
Jnte, 60 ft,  per  doz.............  80
Jnte. 78 ft.  per  doz.............   95

COCOA SHBLLS.

80 lb  bags........................... 
Less quantity 
Pound  packages............  
d  packag
CRBAT1 TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk in sacks..........................29

4

2H

COFFEE.

Oreea.

Santee.

Mexican and Guatemala.

F a ir..............................................*
Good........................................10
Prim e......................................U
Golden  ...................................1*
Peaberry  ................................13
Fair  ........................................1*
Good  ......................................13
Prim e......................................M
Peaberry  ................................15
Fair  ........................................1»
Good  ............................... — 16
Fancy 
...................................1"
Maracaibo
Prim e......................................19
Milled......................................80
Interior...................................19
Private  Growth...................... 80
Mandehllng............................ 21
Im itation................................80
Arabian  ................................. 88

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenne......................89
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha— 89 
Wells’ Mocha and Java. — 84
Wells’ Perfection Java...... 24
Sancalbo.............................81
Breakfast Blend.................  18
7 
alley City Maracaibo...18H
[deal  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
market in  which he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also Re  a 
pound.  In  601b.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In fnll cases.
Arbuckle.......................   H  00
Jersey..............................  10 50
IcLaughlln’s  XXXX. ......
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mall  all orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.

Extract.

doz.  gross

AXLE GRBASB.
Aurora.........................56 
Castor Oil....................00 
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
0 00

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

Acsm*

m 'b cans doz...................  45
H lb jans doz................... 
85
lb can  doz...................1  50
u  lb cans 3 doz................. 
45
75
H lb cans 8 doz................  
i  lb cant 1 doz.................   1 00
Bulk...................................  
10
6 
oz. Eng. Tumblers.......  85
w lb cans per doz.............  75
H lb cans per doz  ........... 1  30
lb cans per doz............ 8  00
1 
u  lb cans 4 doz case........ 
85
15 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
55
90
lb cans 2 doz c a se ......  

Arctic.
El Parity.

Homo.

Oar Leader.

Jersey Cream.

u  lb cans, 4 doz case......  
H lb cans, 4 doz case........ 

45
85
lb cans, 8 doz case........1 60
1 lb. cans, per doz..............  8 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.............  1  85
6 os. cans, per doz.............  
85
H lb cans..........................   45
K lb cans..........................   75
lb cans..........................  1 50
I lb. cans  ......................... 
85
5 oz., 6 doz. case..............   8 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case 
...........3  80
9 os., 4 doz. case.................4  80
lib .,2 doz. case.................4  00
5 lb., 1 doz. case.................9  00
American............................... 70
English....................................80

BATH  BRICK.

Queen Plaice,

Peerless.

bluing.

c o m m )

BROOrifi.

& L u i m i
40
Small, 3 doz......................
75
Large, 2 doz......................
do. 1 Carpet.....................
2  10
No. 2 Carpet...................... .  1  95
No. 3 Carpet...................... 1  65
No. 4 Carpet...................... .  1  30
Parlor Gem...................... .  8 25
Common Wblsk................
80
Fancy Whisk....................
.  80 
Warehouse.......................
.  8 50
CANNED GOODS.
Tomatoes...................  80©  90
Corn  ....................... 
80@1  00
Hominy........................  80
Beans, Limas..............  70®1 30
Beans, Wax................  75
Beans, String.............   70
Beans,  Baked............   75@l  00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  50
Succotash..................   95® 1  20
Peas............................  50®  85
Peas, French......   ... .2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mnshroom.................  15®  22
Peeches, P ie...............   90
Peaches, Fancy.........1  40
Apples,  3-lb.................  95
Apples,  gallons.......... 2 25
Cherries......................  90
Pears............................  70
Pineapple, grated........2 4O
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@1  60
Salmon,  Alaska...........1 25
Salmon, Klondike.......  90
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 20
Lobsters, 2-lb. Star___3 90
Mac <erel,l lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused.l 75 
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato. 1  75
Shrimps.......................2 00
Sardines, Xs domestic  3<4® 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5%©  7% 
Sardines,  French......8  © 82

/alley City H gross...... 
Felix H grosz.................  
Hnmmel’zfoll H gross... 
Hummel’s tin H  gross... 
CLOTHES PINS.
6 gross boxes...........................40

75
1  15
86
1 48

24 2 lb. packages...............1  800
IOO lb. kegs....................... 8 701
800 lb. barrels................... 5.10

Hominy.

Peas.

Beans.

Pearl Barley.

Barrels  ............................2 50
Flake, 501b.  drums.........1  00
Dried Lima  .....................  4H
Medium Hand Picked....  110 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  101b.  box......  60
Imported. 25 lb. box.......2  50
Common...........................  2 25
Chester............................  2 50
Em pire............................  3 00
Green, Wisconsin, bn..... 1  00
Green, Scotch, bu...........1  10
Split, bu...........................2  50
Rolled Avena,  bbl....... 4  25
Monarch,  bbl..................3  75
Monarch,  H  bbl.............2  00
Monarch, 90 lb sacks.......1  80
Quaker. cases................. 3  20
Huron, cases...................1  75
German............................  4
East  India.......................   3H
Flake.............................. 
3H
Pearl................................ 
3%
Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkgeB.... 
5
Cracked, bulk...................  3)4
24 2 lb packages............... 2  50

Rolled  Oats.

Tapioca.

Wheat.

Sago.

Salt  Pish.

M .

 

Herring.

Georges cured...............   © 4
Georges genuine........  © 5
Georges selected........  ©  6H
Stripe or bricks.........   6  © 9
Holland white boops, bbl.  6 00 
Holland white hoop H bbl  4 50
Holland,  H  bbl......... . 
8 60
Holland white hoop, kig. 
65 
Holland white hoop mchs 
75
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  3 50
Round  40 lbs....................   1 75
Scaled..................... 
  M
(lackerd.
Mess 100 lbs......................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs.  ....................   6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  65
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  35
No. 1100 lbs......................  13  85
No. 1  40lb s.....................   5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1  48
No. 1  8 lbs  ...................   180
No. 2 100 lbs......................  9 25
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4 ft)
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  08
89
No. 2 
No. 1100 lb* 
5 25
No. 1  4011»....................   2 40
No. 1  101b«....................
No. 1  8 lba..................... 
67
No. 1  No. 8  Fam
100 lba...........7 CO 
2 75
1 40
40 lbs...........3  10 
10 lbs...........  85 
43
37
lbs......   71 
8 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

811»..................... 

Wklteflsk.

Trout.

Jennings’.

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

D. C Lemon
...  75
2 oz.
3 oz.
....1 OC
4 oz. ......1  4C
6 oz. ....2 0C
No. 8...2 40
No. 10...4 0C
No. 2 T.  80
No. ST.l  25
No. 4T.1 50
Lem.  Van 
1  20
1  70
2  00
2  25

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

fionderà’.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the

Best  In  tbe  world  for 
money.
Sage.. 
Hops.

HBRBS.

INDIGO.

Madras, 5  lb  boxes............   56
\  F., 8, 3 and 5 lb boxes... 
50

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

Kegs 
Half Kegs.................................2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 85
l lb. cahs..............................  30
H lb. cans............................  18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs..........................................8 00
Half Kegs.................................4 25
Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
' lb. c a n s ...........................   45

JELLY.

151b  palls............................  35
30 lb palls............................  66

LVB.

Condensed, 2 dos  ...............1  80
londensed. 4 dos  .............. 2 Si
„
Pure.....................................   *9
Calabria.............................   *
Root.....................................   10

UCORICB. 

MINCE m eat.

Ideal, 8 doz. in case............ 2 85

nATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur...................... } J®
Anchor Parlor.....................J  <0
No. 2  Home......................... 1  10
Export  Parlor.....................4 00

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black................................ 
11
Fair-............................. 
i*
Good................................. 
*
Fancy  ............................
Open Kettie......................25@36

[alf-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

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

PIPBS.

Clay, No. 216......................1 70
Clay, T. D. fnll count........  66
Cob, No. 8..........................  
»5

POTASH.

48 cans in case. 

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

PICKLES, 
riedlum.

Barrels, 1,800 count...........  3 75
Half bbls, 600 count...........  2 38

Small.

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

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................  6H
Carolina  No. 1  .................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken.............................  
3|f

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1............   SH@ 6
Japan,  No. 8 
4*@  5
Java, fancy head........5  © 5H
Java, No. f .................  5  ®
Table............................  @

SALBRATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church’s .............................8 80
Deland’s ...... ......................8  15
Dwight’s .............................8 80
Taylor’s .............................. 8 00

SAL SODA.

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

SAUERKRAUT.

Barrels.............................   4 00
^-Barrels................ 
..  2 36

SNUFF.

Scotch, In bladders......... ..  87
Maccaboy, In Jars............. ..  35
48
French Rappee, In  Jars...

SEEDS.

9
A nise...............................
Canary, Smyrna................
3H
Caraway..........................   8
Cardamon,  M alabar......   60
Celery...............................   11
Hemp,  Russian.............. 
4
Mixed  Bird...................... 
4H
Mustard,  white................  5
Poppy  ..............................  10
Rape................................. 
4H
Cuttle Bone......................  80

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.8 40 
Butter, barrels, 880 lb. bnlk.2 85 
Batter, barrels, 8014 lbbags.2 50
Batter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............  55

Common Grudos.

100 3 lb sacks.......................1  95
605-lb sacks...................... 1  80
8810-lb sacks.....................1  65

Worcester.

lb. cartons.............. 8 85
50  4 
115  2Hlb. sacks...................4 00
lb. sacks.................. 3 75
60  5 
8814 
lb. sacks..................8 50
30 10 
lb. sacks.................. 3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  82
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk In barrels...................8 5

Warsaw.

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

Azhten.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Higgins.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Solar Rock.

66-lb  sacks...........................  81

Common.

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

SOAP.

J A X O N

Single box............................ 2  :0
5 box lots, delivered.......... 2 45
10 box lots, delivered..........2 40

JAS. 8.  KIRK 8 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
Bine India, 100 *  lb.............3 00
Klrkollne..............................8 60
Eos.......................................2  50

SGHULfE SOAP CO.’S BRANDS

Clydesdale,  100 cakes, 75 lbs........2  75
Ho-Tax, 100 cakes, 02 1-2 lbs---- 2  00
Family,  75 cakes,  75 lbs............2  50
fitrnan Mettled, 60 cakes, 60 lbs. .  I  75 
Cocoa Castile, 18 lbs., cat 1-4 & 1-2..1  80 

Chipped  Soap  for  Laudriei.

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  . .2 75
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars__ 3 75
Uno, 100 v-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 ltMw.  bars............ 9 06

Sapollo, kitchen, 3 d o s...... 2 40
Sapollo, band, 3 doz...........8 40

Scouring.

SODA.

Boxes  ................................. 6H
Kegs, English......................4%

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pare around in Balk.

Allspice  ............................   14
Cassia, China in mats......... 12
Cassia, Batavia in band. ...25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........82
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zanzibar..................12
Mace,  Batavia.....................55
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs. No.  2............ 
45
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .13 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .18
Pepper,  shot........................15
Allspice 
.............................17
Cassia, Batavia...................3u
Cassia,  Saigon...................40
Cloves, Zansibar..................14
Ginger,  African..................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
Corn.
B arrels............................  17
Half  bbls.............. 
.  .  .19
1 doz  1 gallon cans................. 2 90
1  doz. ft gallon cans........ 1 70
2  doz. ft gallon  c a n s...... 1  75
Pair  .................................  18
Good.................. 
20
Choice..............................  25

Pare Cone.

 

STARCH.

Klngsford’s Corn.

10 l-lb packages...................8
20 1 lb packages...................6 ft
Klngsford’s Silver aloes.
40 l -lb packages...................6ft
8-lb boxes.........................7

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

Common Corn.

201 lb. packages..................5
40 1 lb. packages..................  4%

Common Gloss.

l-lb  packages......................  4ft
3-lb  packages....................  4ft
6-lb  packages............. ........5
40 and 50 lb boxes............... 3
Barrels 
3

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

... 

STOVE POLISH.

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. 

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

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

8. C. W............................... 35 00

Rube Bros. Co.’s Brands.

Double Eag'es. 6 sizes.$r>5'370 00 
Gen. Maceo.5sizes....  55@70 00
Mr. Thomas...............  
35 00
Cuban Hand  Made.... 
35  00
Crown  Five................ 
35 00
Sir  William................ 
35 00
35 00
Club Five................... 
35 00
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 
Little Peggy  .............. 
35 00
Signal  Five...............  
35 00
Knights of Pythias__ 
35 00
Key West Perfects, 2 sz 55@60 00

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

VINEGAR.

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

WICKING.

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

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Batter.

Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Salted XXX  ......................  g
New  York XXX.................  6
Wolverine.........................  6

Soda.

Soda  XXX  .........................   e
Soda XXX, 3 lb carton__   6y
Soda,  City..........  ..............   8
Long Island  Wafers.......   11
L. I. Wafers,  I lb carton  ..  12 
Zephyrette.........................10

Oyster.

Saltine Wafer, 1 lb  carton.
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  aOODS—Boxes.

Bent’s Water......................  15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   lu
Coffee Cake, Iced................10

Frosted  Cream...................  8
Ginger Gem s....................  8
Graham Crackers  ..............   8
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials............................   8
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow  Walnuts...  16
Mich. Frosted Honey__   12ft
Molasses  Cakes.................  8
Newton..............................  12
Nie Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................   8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8ft
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......   8
Sears’ Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sugar  Squares.................   9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas............................  12ft

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene.......................  © lift
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  ©10
W W Michigan...........  © 9ft
Diamond White.........  © 8ft
D., S. Gas....................   © lift
Deio. N aptha............  
© lift
Cylinder...................  29  ©34
...........  11  ©21
Engine  . 
Bt*nk. wlnV1' .. 
© 8

.. 

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

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
créait  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
Including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the Darrel.
Domino...............................5 2’
Cut  Loaf............................. 5 > 0
Crushed...  ..  ....................5 50
Powdered 
.........................5  13
XXXX  Powdered............... 5 25
Cubes..................................5 13
Granulated in bbls..............5 00
Granulated In bags............ 5 0u
Fine Granulated.................5 to
Extra Fine Granulated...... 5  13
Extra Coarse Granulated... 5  13
Mould  A..............................5 25
Diamond  Confec.  A...........5 00
Confec; Standard A............ 4 88
...................4  63
No.
1....
...................4 63
No
2....
...................4  63
No. 8....
...................4 56
No. 4  ...
...................4  50
No. 5  ...
...................4 44
No. 6....
...................4 38
No. 7  ...
...................4 31
No. 8....
................4 25
No. 9....
................4  19
No. 10  ...
...................4  19
No. 11...
...................4  19
No. 12 
.
...................4  19
No. 13  ...
...................4  19
..
No. 14 
...................4  19
No. 15
..............  4  19
No 16 
..

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

©  8ft 
© 8ft
©10ft
©12
© 8
© 8ft
© 9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

©50
©50
©60
@60
@75
©30
@75
©50
©50
©50
©50
©55
©50
©50
60 @90
@90
©60
©60

Lemon Drops.........
Sour  Drops............
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate Drops__
H. M. Choc. Drops..
Gum  Drops............
Licorice Drops........
A. B. Licorice Drops
Lozenges,  plain__
Lozenges,  printed..
Imperials..............
Mottoes................
Cream  Bar..............
Molasses B a r.........
Hand Made Creams. 80 ©  90
Plain  Creams.........
Decorated Creams..
String Rock............
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25 ©
Wintergreen Berries
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes  ...............
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes  ..................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes  ...............

©35
©50

Fruits.
Oranges.
Fancy Navels.........
Choice................

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

@3 25
«£2 75

©3 50
@3 50
©3 75
@4  U0
@4 00

Medium bunches...1 00
Large bunches........l 5U @1  75

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Figs.

©  6
© 5ft
© 6
© 5

@16
@15
@18
@22
©
©
© 7

Californias  Fancy..
Choice, 101b boxes..
Extra  choice,  1U  lb
boxes new............
Fancy,  12 lb  boxes..
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............
Pulled, 6 lb boxes...
Naturals,  in  bags...
Dates.
Fards in 10 lb  boxes
Fards in  60 lb cases
Persians, P H V......
lb cases, new........
Sairs,  601b cases....
Nuts.
©16
Almonds, Tarragona..
Almonds, Ivaca.........
©14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............
©15 
Brazils new...............
© 8 
Filberts  ....................
©10 
Walnuts, Granobles.. 
©13 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
©li
Walnuts,  soft shelled
Calif.......................
©12 
Table Nuts,  fancy__
©11 
Table Nuts,  choice...
©10 
Pecans, Med...............
© 7ft 
Pecans, Ex. Large....
© 9 
Pecans, Jumbos........
©12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
©1  60 
Ohio, new...............
@4 <0
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks
Chestnuts per bu.......   ©4 00

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  ©  6ft
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................  © 6ft
Choice, H. P., Extras.  ©  4ft
Choice. H. P..  Extras,
Boasted  .................  
5ft

Duluth Imperial, fts.

Meal.

Feed and Millstuffs.

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Gold Medal fts.........................4 30
Goid Medal fts...«....................4 20
Parisian, fts...........................  4 40
Parisian, fts............................. 4 30
Parisian, fts...........................   4 20
Ceresota, fts...........................  4 40
Ceresota, fts...........................  4 30
Ceresota, fts...........................  4 20
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, fts..............................  4 40
Laurel, fts..............................  4 30
Laurel, fts..............................  3 20
Bolted....................................  1 90
Granulated............................  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__16 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats......   .1-  50
Unbolted Com Meal..........15  uo
Winter Wheat  Bran..........14  00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 15 00
Screenings...................... ..13 00
Old corn, car lots...........
44
New corn, car lots......... ..  37ft
Less than  car  lots.........
39
Car  lots.......................... ..  32
Carlots, clipped..........   ...  35ft
Less than  car lots.  ...... ..  37
No. 1 Timothy carlots__
9 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  . .  9 »0
Fish and  Oysters

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

Fresh Fish.

Per lb. 
Whitefish...............
©  10
9
T rout......................  -
Black Bass..............  8
10
15 
Halibut...................
5
Ciscoes or Herring..
Bluefish..................
11
Live Lobster.........
20
Boiled Lobster........
22
10
Cod 
......................
Haddock.................
8
9
No.  1  Pickerel........
Pike.........................
8ft
Perch.......................
5
8
Smoked White........
Red Snapper...........
8
12
Col  River Salmon..
18
Mackerel 
..............
35
F. H. Counts.........
27
F. J  D. Selects......
25
Selects..................
20
F. J. D. Standards.
18
A nchors...............
16 
Standards..............
14 
Favorites..............
gal.
Bulk.
Counts ...............................   I 75
X Selects...........................   1  60
Selects..................................1 20
Auchor Standards.............   1  10
Standards..........................  1  1U
Clams.................................   1  25
Oysters, per  100.........1 25©l 50
Clams,  per 100.
©1  00

Oysters in Cans,

Shell Goods.

©

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuf fs
(

C a n d i e s •

Provisions.

Stick Candy.

bbls pails  ^

4 on 
3 50

Mixed Candy

Local Brands.

Winter Wheat F loar. 

Standard.................
Standard H. H........
Standard Twist......
Cut Loaf.................
Jumbo, 32 lb  ..........
Extra H .H ..............
Boston  Cream........

6ft© 7
6ft© T
F
7ft© 8 
© 8 
S
cases  5
© 6ft  c
© 8ft  C
©10 
E
ty e ..................................  3 25
1
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis
Grocers...................
c
© 6 
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
Competition............
.
@ 6ft 
Standard.................
© 7  
d
Conserve.................
© 7ft 
:
Royal ..  .................
@ 7ft  I
Ribbon....................
© 8ft  L
Broken...................
© 7ft 
l
Cut Loaf.................
© 8
English Rock.........
c
©8 
Kindergarten.........
© 8ft  >
French  Cream........
© 9  
;
Dandy Pan............
«aio 
^
Hand Made Cream mxd @13 
c
I
i

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.

Spring Wheat Flour.

Fancy—In Balk.

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON STONBWARB. 

Batters.

Jags.

Charns.

Common

apped an

Milkpans.

Stawpans.

Fruit Jars.

Sealing Wax.

Tomato Jugs.

LAMP  BURNBRS.

Fine Glazed Milkpans. 

ft gal., per dos..................     40
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5
8 gal., each.......................   40
10 gal., each.......................  50
12 gal.,  each.......................   60
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 1  10 
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 1  50 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ...2 25
30 gal. meat-tubs, each__2 70
2 to 6 gal., per gal............   5
Churn Dashers, per dos...  85 
Pint......................................4 50
Quart................................... 4 75
ft  gal  ................................  6 50
Covers.......................................2 00
Rubbers............................. 
25
ft gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5 
ft gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot, each  5ft 
ft gal. fireproof, ball, dos.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, dos.l  10 
ft gal., per doz...................   40
ft gal., per dos...................   42
1 to 5 gal., per gal............   5ft
ft gal., per dos...................  42
1 gal., each...................... 
5ft
Corks for ft gal., per dos..  20 
CorkB for  1 gal., per dos..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers, 
ft gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...1  00 
5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
No. 0 Sun..........................  
33
No.  1  Sun..........................  
34
46
No. 2  Sun..........................  
No. 3 Sun...........................   1  00
Tubular.............................  
50
Security, No.  1...................  60
Security, No. 2...................  80
Nutmeg  ............................  50
LAMP CHIMNBY5—Seconds.
Per box of 6 dos.
No. 0 Sun..........................   I  32
No.  1  Sun..........................   1  48
No.  2 Sun.......................... 2  18
No. 0 Sun...........................   1  50
No. 1 Sun...........................   1  60
No. 2 Sun........................... 2 45
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
1 Sun,  crimp 
No. 
2 Sun,  crimp 
No. 
XXX Flint.
0 Sun,  crimp 
1 Sun,  crimp 
2 SniSun,
crimp 

First  Quality.
top,
~ and labeled....  2  10
top,
wrapped and  labeled__
2  15
top,
wrapped and  labeled__ 8  15

top,
wrapped and labeled....  2 55 
top,
wrapped and  labeled. . .   2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled__  3 75
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................8  70
No.  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and  *
labeled..............................4  86
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamm............. 
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
dos  .................................  9
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per dos......... 1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per dos......... 1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c dos)........8 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)........4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c dos)........4 70
No. 2, Lime  (7Cc dos)  ........ 4 00
No. 2, Flint  (800 dos)........4 40
Dos. 
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1  48
2 gal galv Iron with spout.  2 48
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3 32 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  4 28 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4  17 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 4 67
5 gal Tilting cans................7  25
5 gal galv iron Nacefas....  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady Btream.  7 80 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rule................10  50
5 gal Home Rule................12 00
5 gal Pirate  King.............   9  50
No.  0Tubular side Uft....  4 00
No.  1 B  Tubular........  ...  6 25
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 GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 dos.
46
each, box 10 cents........... 
No. 0 Tubular,  cases2dos.
each, box 15 cents.........  
46
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5 dos.
each, bbl 351.......................  3
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
oases 1 dos.each...  .....  1 25

No. 
No. 
No. 

1  25
1  40
1  20

Pomp  Cons.

LANTERNS.

OIL CANS. 

La  Bastlo.

Rochester.

Blectrtc.

4

6ft

5ft

7ft
7ft

8ft
8ft

5ft
5ft

Sausages.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

Barr*lad Pork.

Smoked  neats.

follows:
Mess  ...............................   10 00
Back  ......................10 50©
Clear b a ck ........... 10 25©10 75
Shortcut...........................  10 50
Pig....................................  13 75
Bean  .............................  
9  75
Family  ............................  11 03
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies...................... 
Briskets  ......................... 
Extra shorts............  
Hams, 12 lb  average  __ 
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
Hams, 16 lb average. 
Hams, 20 lb  average. 
Ham dried beef  ............  
11
5ft
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
Bacon,  clear.................7  ©7ft
California hams............  
5
8ft
Boneless hams.........  
Cooked  ham............10©l2ft
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound...................... 
Kettle.......................  
55 lb Tubs..........advance
80 lb Tubs..........advance
50 lb T ins..........advance
20 lb Pails.......... advance
10 lb Pails..........advance
51b Palls......... advance
3 lb Pails..........advance
Bologna.........................
Liver...............................
Frankfort.......................
P ork...............................
Blood  ............................
Tongue ..........................
Head  cheese...................
Extra  Mess......................... 10 25
Boneless  ........................13 00
Rump.................................. 13 25
Kits, 15 lbs......................  70
ft  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 35
ft  bbls, 80 lbs.... 
........... 2 50
Kits, 15 lbs......................  70
ft  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 25
ft  bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 25
P ork...............................  20
3
Beef  rounds................... 
Beef  middles.................... 
10
60
Sheep.............................  
Oft
Rolls, dairy................... 
Solid, d a iry ..................  
9
14
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid, creamery........... 
13ft
Corned beef,  2 l b ....... 2 25
Corned beef, 14 lb...........15 00
Roast  beef, 
2 lb. 
2  15 
Potted  ham, 
50 
fts. 
Potted  ham, 
90 
fts. 
Deviled ham, 
50 
fts. 
Deviled ham, 
90 
fts.
Potted  tongue fts 
50 
90
Potted  tongue fts
Fresh  Meats.

Canned Meats.

Pigs’ Feet.

Butterlne.

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

Beef.

Pork.

©  6ft
©  5ft

Carcass...................... 6ft© 8
Forequarters.............5  @  6ft
Hind  quarters...........  6ft© 9ft
Loins  No.  3.............. .  9 @12
Ribs.........................
.  7 @12
Rounds  .................... .  7 © 7ft
Chucks.................  .. 6 © 6
Plates  ...................... .  4 ©
Dressed.................... .  4 ©
Loins.......................
Shoulders.................
Leaf Lard................. .  6 ©
Mutton
Carcass.................... .  6 ©  7
Spring Lambs........... .  7ft© 8ft
7ft
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes as 
follows:
Green No. 1................
© 8ft
Green No. 2................
© 7ft 
© 9ft
Cured No. 1................
Cured No. 2................
© 8ft 
Calfskins, green No. 1 
©10 
Calfskins, green No. 2 
© 8ft 
Calfskins, cured No. 1 
Calfskins, cured No. 2 
©  9ft
Pelts,  each.................  50© 1  00
No. 1...........................
© 3ft
No. 2...........................
© 2ft
Washed, fine  ............
©18
©23
Washed, medium.......
Unwashed, fine..........11
©13
©18
Unwashed, medium ..16 
50 
Cat, W ild...................  20©
20
Cat, House  ..............  5©
Deer Skins, per lb ....  12ft
12
Fall Muskrat............  3©
Red Fox...................   25© 
27©  75
Grey Fox................... 
Mink..........................  2j© 
Racoon.......................  20©  90
Skunk.........................  20© 

Pelts.
Tallow.

©11 

Hides.

Wool.

Pars.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

2 2

Hardware

Future  Value  of  Manila  Hemp.

Prom the New  York  Sun.

The  unique  fiber  plant  of  the  Philip­
pines  is  not  the  least  among  our new ac­
quisitions.  We  shall  monopolize 
its 
production  unless  other  tropical  regions 
have  better  success  in  tneir  further  at­
tempts  to  transplant  it.  Thus far  Manila 
hemp 
is  a  commercial  success  only 
when  raised  in  the  Philippines. 
It  is 
one  of  the  chief  resources  of  the  islands 
and  for  ten  years  this  country  has  taken 
an  average  of  41  per  cent,  of  the  total 
exports.

From  the  bast,  or  fibrous  outer  leaf, 
comes  the  coarse,  strong  fiber,  which  is 
the  best  material  used  for  sailcloths  and 
cordage.  It is particularly  recommended 
by  the  fact  that  it  is  not  easily  rotted by 
salt  water.  The fiber  yielded  by  the  in­
ner  stalks  is  fine  and  weak  and  from  it 
are  woven  textile  fabrics  superior  in 
softness  and  lightness  to  those  made  of 
the  best  Russian  hemp.  These 
fabrics 
are  seldom  exported,  being  bought  by 
Chinese  merchants  at  Manila  for  local 
consumption.  This  useful  variety  of 
the  banana  plant,accordingly,  yields two 
qualities  of  fiber,  the  one  strong  and 
coarse  and  the  other  fine,  soft  and  pli­
able,  and  both  are  in  great  demand.
Manila  hemp  produces,  under the  best 
conditions,  as  high  as  3,000  pounds  ot 
fiber  to  the  acre,  and  although  6.528,964 
bales  have  been  exported  in  the  last  ten 
years,  the  industry  is  still  in  its  infancy 
and  is  capable  of  enormous  expansion. 
Its  development,  like  all  things  under 
Spanish  colonial  rule,  has  been  spas 
modic  and  unsystematic.  A  recent 
writer  on  the  Philippines  says  that  un­
der  proper  encouragement  the  Orient 
itself  would  absorb  more  than  the  entire 
present  product.  The  world's  markets 
will  take  several  fold  the  quantity  of 
fiber  that  is  now  supplied.

We  shall  see  what  American  energy 
and 
ingenuity  will  achieve  in  the  de 
velopment  of  a  great  industry,  which 
we  may  wbol  y  control,  in  a  land  where 
there  is  not  a  single  well-kept  farm  or 
plantation  to-day,  where 
is  no 
agricultural  machinery outside  the  sugar 
mills,  and  where a  sharpened  stick  does 
service  as  a  plow.

there 

Concerted  Effort  to  Keep  Up  Prices
From Stoves  and  Hardware  Reporter.

is  no 

With  the  wave  of  prosperity  which 
has  been 
inundating  the  country  for 
some  time  there  ought  to  be  more  stren 
uous  efforts  made  to  keep  prices  up  as 
much  as  possible.  As  a  rule  where  they 
have  the  opportunity,  people  prefer  to 
buy goods  of  substantial  wearing  qual­
ity  which  will  insure  some  satisfaction 
in  the  use  of  them.  Too  often  it  is  ob­
served  that  there 
intermediate 
price  in  styles  of  goods.  That  is  to  say, 
one  variety  will  be  exceedingly  expen­
sive  and  another  too  cheap.  This  is 
one  of  the  many  extremes  which  should 
be  avoided 
if  possible.  Neither  the 
merchant  nor clerk  takes  sufficient  cog­
nizance of  the  great  volume  of this trade 
and  makes  but  feeble,  badly  directed 
efforts  to  cater  to  it.  It  has  indeed  often 
happeaed  that  only  after  repeated  re­
quests  on  the  part  of  customers  has  any 
effort  been  made  to  gratify  this  multi­
plicity  of  demands  for  goods  of  a  better 
quality.  There  should,  by  all  means, 
be  a  unanimity  among  merchants  in  the 
endeavor  to  maintain  prices  throughout 
the  country. 
It  can  not  well  be  done 
single  handed,  for while  there  would  be 
a  vast  number  who  would  see  the  ad­
vantage  of  this  raise,  there  would  be 
many  more  who  would  be  inclined  to 
make  unfavorable  comparisons  between 
the  prices  prevailing  at  different  stores. 
Ignorant  people  would  be  ready  to think 
there  was  much  injustice  in  disparity 
of  prices  if  all  merchants  did  not  con­
nive 
in  keeping  them  up  while  selling 
better  goods.  In this  way  strength  is  ob­
tained  by  union  and  business  interests 
are  promoted 
is  one 
thing  to  keep  prices  within  the  reach  of 
the  masses  and  quite  another to  grind 
them  down  so  that  all  concerned  in  the 
manufacture,  sale  and  purchase  of  the 
merchandise  are  injured.  All  actions, 
however  small,  have  some  appreciable

incalculably. 

It 

results  and  it  is  only  too evident that the 
store-keeper  suffers  when  the  working 
man  is  not  prosperous,  whereas  he  de­
pends  for  his  prosperity  upon  the  main 
taming  of  prices  on  products  which  he 
assists  in  manufacturing  or  producing. 
Too  often  the  retailer 
is  the  one  who 
should  bear  all  the  blame  of  the foisting 
of  low  priced  goods  on  the  market.  He 
generally  creates  the  demand  by  adver­
tising  cheapness  as  one  of  the  most  at­
tractive  attributes  which  they  can  pos­
sess. 
It  stands  to  reason  that  if  the  re­
tailer  is  continually  desiring to purchase 
low  priced  goods,  if  imitations  are  put 
forth  with  as  much  gusto  as  the  genuine 
article,  each  particular  party  who  is  en­
gaged 
its  production  and  disposal 
must  follow  suit.  No  one  is  benefited 
by  such  a  proceeding,  while  great  harm 
may  be  done. 
It  is  time  to  change  all 
this  and  the  present  year  is  one  of  the 
best  times  to  begin.

in 

Disposing  o f  Odd  Lots.

Odd  lots,  small  articles  and  damaged 
wares  are  frequently  the  cause  of  much 
trouble  and  worry  in  the  disposition  of 
them.  This  difficulty  may  be  obviated 
to  a  great  degree 
if  they  are  handled 
properly.  One  of  the  principal  reasons 
for  this  is  the  prolonged  carelessness  on 
the  part  of  cleiks  and  merchants  in 
negligently  allowing  them to accumulate 
until  they  have  assumed stupendous pro­
portions ;  then  a  discouragement  is  felt 
in  the  ability  to  move  them  at  all. 
However,  there 
is  no  necessity  for  this 
if  due  precaution  is  taken  to  prevent  it. 
The  writer  has  often  observed  instances 
where  a  refusal  was  made  to  reduce  the 
price  of  goods  which  were  slightly 
in­
jured.  Yet  these  goods  could  by  no 
possibility  have  sold  at  their  regular 
price  unless  some  chicanery  was  re­
sorted  to  in  order  to  conceal  the  fact 
that  they  were  injured.  The  latter  pro 
ceeding  would  of  course  ultimately  re­
sult  detrimentally  to  business,  but  few 
are  so  farsighted  as  to  look  for  the  re 
suits  of  actions  when  tBev  take  place. 
For  the  time  being  a  complacency  is 
ielt 
in  the  thought  that  the  full  price 
was  obtained.  But this  is  usually  short­
lived  and  unlikely  to  be  repeated  with 
the  same  person.  The  best  way 
is  to 
try  some  rather  original  mode  of  dis- 
Dosing  of  them.  Do  not  tie  them  in 
bundles  and  put  them  in  seme  inaccess­
ible  place  where  people  can  not  see 
them.  Put  them  on  the  counters  in  lots, 
each  marked  one  price  and 
let  people 
choose  and 
look  among  them  as  they 
Such  a  counterful  of  goods 
please. 
like  these  odds  and  ends  should  be 
placed  in  a  prominent  position 
in  the 
store,  thus  enabling  people  to  get  at 
them  quickly.

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

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39
So
So
So

$1.76
3.30
4.0 0

$3.00
4.0 0

These hoops are flared,  with one end punched all ready  to  get  the  size  and  rivet  together 
by placing the tub bottom side up, and putting the  hoop  around with  the  punched  end 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

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CLARK-RUTKA-JEWELL GO.

38 and 40 S. Ionia Street, 

to

OUR  NEW OFFICE IS  NEARLY 

COMPLETED

OPPOSITE UNION DEPOT

American  Tin  Plate  Hurts  Wales.
W.  Phillips,  of  Swansea,  Wales,  which 
was  until  within  a  few  years  the  center 
of  the  tin  plate  manufacturing 
industry 
of  the  world, 
is  visiting  the  United 
States.  Speaking  of  American  compe­
tition, he  said :  “ There  can  be  no  deny­
ing  that  the  tin  plate  industry  of  Wales 
has  suffered  greatly 
from  American 
competition.  Mills  which  ran  for  years 
at  a  handsome  profit  suddenly  found 
themselves  confronted  with  a  competi­
tion  which  they  were  unable  to  meet, 
and  as  a  consequence,  after  the  loss  of 
much  money,  they  closed  down.  Thou­
sands  were  thrown  out  of  employment 
and  much  hariship  and  suffering  have 
resulted. 
It  was  simply  the  result  of 
old  methods  and  machinery  trying  to 
compete  with  improved  methods  in  the 
hands  of  a  mechanically  ingenious  peo­
ple.  Matters  now,  however,  are  begin­
ning  to  pick  up.  The business  is  being 
readjusted  to  meet  American  competi­
tion.  Old  mills  have  been  abandoned 
and  those  of  a  better  character are being 
supplied  with  modern  machinery  and 
equipped 
in  every  particular to  manu­
facture  just  as  cheaply  as  the  American 
mills.  The  wage  scale  has  also  been 
reduced,  and  the  trouble  over  this  has 
caused  much  delay  in  getting  the  newly 
equipped  mills 
The 
Swansea  district,  of  course,  will  never 
hold  the  dominating 
influence  it  once 
did  in  the  tin  plate  industry,  but  it  will 
still  hold  a  prominent  place 
in  the 
trade. * *

in  operation. 

General Hardware Orders filled promptly at bottom 
ruling  prices.  Mail  orders  solicited.

WILLIAM  REID

Importer and  Jobber of

P O L IS H E D   P L A T E  

W IN D O W  
O R N A M E N T A L

PAINT O IL .  W H IT E   L E A D . 

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

GRAND  R APID S,  MICH.

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

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

The  Druggist  Who  Got  Even.

M.  Quad in American Druggist.

‘ * When  I  was  ready  to  go  out  into  the 
world  and  set  up  as  a  druggist,’ ’  said 
little  man  with  the  big  dia­
the  sleek 
mond  pin,  ” 1  made  the  mistake  of  set­
ting  up  shop  in  a  small  town. 
It's  al­
ways  a  mistake,  because  you  have at 
least  one  old  drug  store  to  buck against, 
and  there  are  cliques  you  know  nothing 
of  until  too  late.  This  town  was  in  the 
West,  and  it  seemed  to  me  to  be  a  good 
opening  for  a  bustler.  There  was  only 
one  druggist,  and  be  kept  dry  goods 
and  boots  and  shoes  as  well,  and  hadn’t 
the  ambition  to  hang  a  sign  in  the  win­
dow. 
I  got  a  corner  store,  fitted  it  up 
in  modern  style,  and  when  I  opened up, 
my  place  was  a  novelty  to  all  and  some­
thing  for  a  country  town to feel proud of. 
The  old  druggist  had  it  in  for  me,  of 
course,  and  as  I  bad  no  whiskers  on  my 
chin  he  found  plenty  of  people  to  be­
lieve  with  him  that  it  would  be  a  risky 
thing  to  trust  me  with  a  prescription. 
There  were  four  doctors  in  the  place, 
and,  of  course,  it  was  my  business  to 
1  got  one  around  all  right, 
work  them. 
but  the  others  wanted  to  wait  and  see 
bow  things  went.  The  one  I  got  hap­
pened  to  be  the  one  who  bad  the  least 
practice,  and  he  wanted  an  even  divide 
on  profits.  Not  only  that,  but  he  helped 
himself  to  my  port  wine  and  brandy  so 
often  that  I  was  behind  the game.
" A s   a  stranger,"  continued  the  sleek 
little  m an,"l  didn’t  know  that  if  I went 
to  board  with  Mrs.  Brown,  on  Wilson 
street.  Mrs.  Green,  on  Ash  street,  to­
gether  with  all  her  friends,  would  be 
down  on  me. 
I  went  to  Mrs.  Brown’s, 
and  there  were  twenty  families  in  the 
town  who  wouldn’t  enter  my  store  in 
consequence. 
It  was  social  rivalry,  you 
know,  and  they  carried  it  into  business,
I  was  getting  a  good  room  and  board 
for  $4  per  week,  and  Mrs.  Green  sent 
me  word  that  she  would  do  better  by me 
for $2. 
I  used  to  be  called  a  fair  sing 
er,  and  I  used  to  attend  church  every 
Sunday. 
I  started  out  haphazard  and 
brought  up  in  the  Presbyterian  edifice. 
From  the  moment I was seen  to  enter  its 
doors  I  was  a  marked  man.  Not 
Methodist  or  Baptist  in town would even 
glance  into  my  show  windows.  If  I  had 
alternated  at  the  different  churches  i 
might  have  relieved  the  strain,  but  be 
ing  invited  to  join  the  choir,  I  stuck  to 
the  Presbyterians  and  sealed  my  fate, 
Several  parties  were  given  at  which  ! 
showed  up,  and  this  intensified  the  bit 
terness.  They  wouldn’t  let  me  stand 
neutral,  but  I  must  stand  or  fall  with 
the  clique. 
it  was  so  in  religion  it 
was  far  worse  in  politics. 
I  bad  never 
voted,  and  didn’t  care  a  tinker’s  tunk 
which  side  won,  but  from  the  way  both 
sides  got  after  me  you’d  have  argued 
that  my  single  vote  was  to  decide  some 
momentous  question. 
I  didn’t  want  to 
make  any  more  enemies,  and  therefore 
refused  to  register,  and  lo !  both  parties 
were  down  on  m e!  I  ought  to have  done 
a  trade  of  $50  per  day,  but  owing  to  the 
combinations  1  often  bad  less  than  $3  to 
count  up  at  the  close  of  business.

If 

I  told  you  about  the  doctors  hanging 
off. 
It  was  well  enough  for  them  to  be 
sure  of  capabilities,  but  that  wasn~ 
what  kept  tbem  from  throwing  business 
my  way. 
Each  bad  a  marriageable 
daughter,  as  I  finally  came  to  know 
and  each  was  waiting  to  see  whose 
daughter  I  was  going  to  shine  up  to. 
made  a  selection  without  knowing  any 
thing  about  the  little  scheme,  and 
that  way  I  won  over  a  doctor,  who  sent 
in  a  prescription  now  and  then.  The 
other  two  were  down  on  me,  however, 
and  I  could  figure  out  that  every  time 
put  my  arm  around  that  girl  I  was  ten 
dollars  out  of  pocket. 
I  had  no  idea  of 
marrying  her,  but  one-half  of  society 
congratulated  me  and  bought  tooth 
brushes  and  porous  plasters,  while  the 
other  half  looked  askance  and  wouldn' 
have  sticky  fiy-paper at  a  penny a sheet 
I  was  running  behind  expenses  every 
week  and  wondering  where  I  could  find 
another  opening,  when  I made  the  worst 
move  of  all.  They  had  a  public  spell 
ing  school  in  the  town  ball. 
have  bad  sense  enough  to have remained 
in  the  store,  but  as  there  was  no  busi 
ness  doing,  I  locked  her  up  and  went 
over  to  the  hall.  Both  sides  wanted  me.

1  ought 

graveyard.  With  all 

and  the  side  I  went  on  beat  the  other. 
Indeed,  I  was  ass  enough  to  be  the  last 
one  up,  and that  was  something  the  peo­
ple  didn’t propose to  stand from  any  up­
start  stranger.
When  I  realized  that  I  was  knocked 
out  a  feeling  of  revenge  took  possession 
'  me.  I  made  up  my mind to get square 
itb  that  town  or  leave  my  bones  in 
its 
its  faults,  it  was 
sporty  town,  and  I  took  that  as  a  basis 
I knew  a  horseman  in  Chi­
work  on. 
cago  who  was  up  to  tricks,  and  I  went 
up  to  see  him.  One  day,  a  week  later, 
tin  peddler  arrived  in  my  town  and 
began  to  blow  around  about  the  gait  of 
his  old  horse.  He  bragged  and  bluffed 
until  two  or  three  men  became  inter­
ested,  and  the  result  was  a  race  on  the 
county  fair grounds.  They  bad  two  or 
three  trotters 
in  town,  and  when  the 
ing  got  started  the  crowd went  in  with 
whoop.  After  the  tin  peddler  bad  put 
up  $600  of  the  long  green  a  few  of  the 
people  began  to  smell  a  rat,  but  when 
the  race  was  called  our  dark  horse  stood 
win  or  lose  enough  to  fit  out two  drug 
stores  like  mine.  The  odds  were  ten  to 
one  against  him  ¡at  the  start,  and 
wasn't  even  money  until  he  came  out 
on  the  track.  We  had  a  walk-over,  and 
before  the  crowd  got  ready  to  break 
things,  the  peddler  had  left  town.  My 
pockets  bulged  with  my  share  of  the 
boodle.
Tfaere  was  a  certain  gang  which 
played  poker  three  nights  in  the  week, 
sent  up  to  Chicago  for  a  chap  who 
new  his  business  and  worked  him  in 
on  the  gang.  They  thought they  had  a 
fat  pigeon  in  him,  but  he  worked  tbem 
up  to  a  climax  and  dropped  out  of  town 
with  such  a  wad  that  none  of  the  dead- 
game  sports  could  buy  a  five  cent  cigar 
for  days  to  come.

I  wanted  one  more  whack  at  the  town 
and  I  got  it.  There  was  no  state  law 
regarding  dentistry.  A  blacksmith  or 
an  undertaker  could  practice  on  any­
body  who  was  willing.  There  used  to 
be,  and  may  be  yet 
in  some  of  the 
states,  fakirs  who  travel  from  town  to 
town  and  do  dentistry. 
I  got  hold  of 
one  and  gave  him  a  pointer.  He  ad­
vertised  to  pull  teeth  for  nothing  and 
furnish  plates  at  $5  each.  He  bad  a 
rush  of  customers.  For fifteen  days  be 
put  in  twelve  hours  per  day yanking  out 
old  teeth,  and  when  be  got  around  to 
the  last  he  had  a  peck  of  them. 
I  was 
paying  him  $5  per  day,  however,  and 
the  work  was  not  like  sawing  wood. 
When  he  folded  his  tent  and stole silent­
ly  away  there  were  about  300  men  and 
women 
in  that  town  waiting  for  upper 
or  lower  plates,  and  all  speaking  with  a 
sp.  The  church  choir  bad  to  be  laid 
off,  ministers  and  school  teachers  took 
vacation,  and  business  and  society 
bad  to  gum  it.  The  two  local  dentists 
must  have  had  work  for  the  next  twelve 
months  and  got  rich  out  of  it,  but  I 
never  asked  my  share  of  the  profits. 
I 
had  to  pack  up  my  stock  and  find  a new 
opening,  but  there  was  nothing  to  kick 
about. 
I  was  ahead  of  the  game  in  a 
financial  way,  and  the  day  I  left town 
even  the  ticket  agent  arid  the  man  who 
checked  my  trunk  dared  not  open  their 
mouths  to  bid  me  good-bye,  because 
their  teeth  were  m issing."

Necessity  of  Practical  Knowledge.
"W ell,  what  is  an  island?"  asked  the 
man,  upon  being  informed  that  bis  son 
had  now  taken  up  the  study  of  geogra­
phy  at  school.

"Land  entirely  surrounded by water,”  

replied  the  boy.

island 

is  land 

"That  is  not  correct,"  said  the  man. 
"An 
surrounded  by 
water on  all  sides  except  the upper side. 
Land  entirely  surrounded  by  water  is 
suburban  real  estate. ’ ’

Then  the  man  remarked  to  his  wife 
that  schools  were  too  theoretical;  there 
was  need  of  an  admixture  of  practical 
knowledge  in  their  instruction.

He  Enjoyed  It.

Upper:  That  cigar  you  gave  me  did 

Lower:  I’m  glad  of 

it.  When  did 

me  lots  of  good.

you  smoke  it?

Upper:  Oh,  I  didn’t  smoke  it. 

I 
it  to  Howard;  I  hate  him,  you 

gave 
know.

WIRB  OOODS

LEVELS
ROPES

80
Bright..........................................................  
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s..........................................................  
80
Gate Hooks and Byes.................................. 
80
70
Stanley Bole and Level Co.’s.................dls 
8H
Sisal, J4 Inch and  larger.............................  
Manilla......... ............................................... 
9K
Steel and Iron.............................................  70*10
Try and Bevels...........................................  
60
M itre..................  
50
*  com. smooth,  com.

SHBBT IRON

SQUARES

 

 

 

255

WIRB

TRAPS

SAND  PAPBR
SASH  WEIGHTS

»2 40
2 40
2 45
2 65
2 75
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14................................... 12 70 
Nos. 15 to 17.  ...............................  2 70 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................  2 80 
Nos. 22 to 24..................................  300 
Nos. 25 to 26...................................  3 10 
No.  27 ..........................................  3 20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86.................:................... dls 
50
Solid Eyes........................................per ton 20 00
Steel, Game......................................... 
75*10
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s ......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
1  25
Mouse, delusion.........................per dot 
Bright Market............................................. 
75
Annealed  Market........................................  
75
Coppered  Market..................................... ...70*10
Tinned Market...... ....................................  62K
Coppered Spring Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.........................  2 25
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................  1  90
An Sable..................................................dls40*lC
Putnam.................................................. dls 
5
Northwestern......................................... dis 10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
50
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought  .........  
80
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
80
50
Bird  Cages  ...........................................  
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
80
85
Screws, New L ist.................................. 
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50*10*10
50
Dampers, American.................. 
 
METALS—Zinc
600 pound casks...........................................  
74
Per pound....................................................  
l i
K@K.............................................................   12
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.........................................»575
5 75
14x20 IC, Charcoal................................... 
20x14 IX, Charcoal...........................................   7 00
Bach additional X on this grade, (1J25.

MISCELLANEOUS

TIN—Melyn Grade

HORSB NAILS

WRBNCHBS

SOLDER

 

TIN—Allaway Grads

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

Each additional X on this grade, »1.50. 

 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean...............................  4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean..............................  6 60
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 EX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.............   10 00
BOILER  SIZB TIN  PLATB 
nnund 
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
0 
14x66 IX. for No  9 Boilers, f *** P°una

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUOURS AND  BITS

Jennings’, genuine.......................................26*10
Jennings’, imitation.................................... 60*10

AXBS

First Quality. S. B. Bronze.............................   5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze.............................   9 50
First Quality. 8. B. S. Steel..............................  5 50
First Quality, D. B. Steel.................................  io 50

BARR0W5

70

CAPS

BOLTS

BLOCKS

BUCKETS

CARTRIDGES

CROW  BARS

BUTTS, CAST

Railroad.............................................( 18 00  14 00
Garden.................................................  net  30 00
Stove........... ..........................................  
60*10
Carriage new list........................................  70 to 75
Plow........................................................ 
so
„  
Well, plain...................................................• 3 25
Cast Loose Pin, figured............................... 70*10
Wrought Narrow.......................................... 70*10
Ordinary Tackle........................................... 
Cast Steel........................................... per lb
Ely’s  1-10............................................ per m
Hick’sC. F .......................................... perm
O. D.
.perm
60
Musket..........................................perm 
Rim Fire.....................................  .............  go* g
Central  Fire...............   ...............................gg* 5
Socket Firmer... 
Socket Framing. 
Socket Corner... 
Socket Slicks....
Morse’s Bit Stocks.............................  
go
Taper and Straight Shank...............  
go* 5
Horse’s Taper Shank................................ . .50*  5
Com. 4 piece, 6 In............................doz. net 
50
Corrugated..............................................  
1  25
Adjustable.............................................. dls 40*10
Clark’s small, 618;  large, 626....................   30*10
Ives’, 1, »18; 2, »24; 3. »30............................ 
25
New American...........................................   70*10
Nicholson’s................................................... 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................6C*10
28
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27.........  
List  12 
16.......  
1?

GALVANIZED  IRON

EXPANSIVE BITS

PILES—New  List

ELBOWS

CHISELS

DRILLS

14 

13 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
aAUOBS

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

KNOBS—New List

MATTOCKS

MILLS

Adze Eye............................. .......»16 00, dls 60*10
Hunt Eye.....................................S15 00, dls 60*10
Hunt’s........................................$18 50, dis 20*10
40
Coffee, Parkers C a’s.................................... 
40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.. 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry *  Clark’s................ 
40
Coffee, Enterprise........................................ 
30
Stebbln’s Pattern.......................................... 60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring......... ...............  
30

MOLASSES  OATES

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base................................................  1 65
Wire nails, base................................................   1 70
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
05
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
8 advance.................................................... 
10
6 advance...'............................................... 
20
4 advance.................................................... 
30
45
3 advance...................................... 
 
2 advance...................................................  
70
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
50
15
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  8 advance........................................ 
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance......................................  
25
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  ¿advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance.......................................... 
85
Ohio Tool Co.’8,  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  Tinned........................................  
60
Copper Rivets and Bars............................... 
60
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON 

Broken packages %c per pound  extra. 

PLANBS

RIVETS

PANS

HAMMERS

Maydole *  Co.’s, new  list..................... dls  S3j*
25
Kip’s  ......................................................dls 
Terkes *  Plumb’s...................................dls 10*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 80c list 
70

Wo»»4 of\-% 'fp  to,

j«** 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

HOLLOW  WARB

Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 75*lf
Japanned Tin Ware......................................20*10
Granite Iron Ware.........................new list 40*10
Pots................................................................60*1
K ettles....................................  
60*10
Spiders  ......................................................  60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,8................................ dls 60*10
State...  ................................... perdos.net  »6»

HINOBS

 

24

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—Raws  are  irregular  and  weak, 
with  sales  of  96 deg.  test  centrifugals  at 
last 
4#c,  a  decline  of  i-i6c  since  our 
is  quiet. 
issue.  The  refined  market 
Although  there 
list 
prices,  Arbuckle  and  Doscher  are  shad­
ing  such  softs  as  they  have  %c  and  the 
i - i 6c. 
American 
There are  no  shadings  on  hards  and  Ar­
buckle  reports  that  he  is  oversold  on  2 
pound  packages.

is  shading  all  softs 

is  no  change  in 

least 

Tea— Indications  point  to  a  very  ac­
tive  trade  during  the  next  few  weeks 
The  better  grades  show  no  change  in 
price,  but  the  lower  grades  have  moved 
up  at 
ic  per  pound,  and  conces­
sions  on  anything  are  out  of  the  ques­
tion.  News  from  the  markets  in  China 
and  Japan  tell  of  great  shortages 
in 
stocks,  of  very  firm  markets,  of  advanc­
ing  prices.  News  was  received  during 
the  week  that  the  shortage  of  English 
breakfast  tea  exports  to  the  United 
States  this  year  would  reach  2,000,000 
pounds,  or about  35  per  cent.

Coffee—Eastern  advices  continue  to 
the  market  on 
indicate  firmness 
Brazilian  grades.  Medium 
lines  are 
especially  in  strong  demand  from  trade 
not  bent  on  speculation.

in 

Futures  are 

Canned  Goods—The  situation  on  to­
matoes  is  unchanged.  Stocks  in  pack­
ers’  bands  are 
light.  Prices  are  htl 
stiff  and  any  demand  would  advance 
the market.  Gallons have advanced about 
20c. 
selling  well  ano 
many  packers  report  that  they  have  al­
ready  taken  orders  for all  that  they  care 
to  contract  for.  Corn 
is  very  strong, 
strictly  standard  New  York  State  being 
held  by  packers  at 6o@65c  at  the  fac­
tory,  according  to  brands.  Offers  st 
anything  under  these  prices  are prompt 
ly  turned  down.  Some  of  the  largest 
packers  are  entirely  sold  out  and  are 
looking  for  choice  lots to  be  put  under 
their  own 
label.  Succotash  is  getting 
scarce  and  one  of  the  largest  commis­
sion  houses  in  the  East  reports  nothing 
to  offer.  The  weather  for  packing  oys­
ters  continues  very  unfavorable  and 
none  whatever  are  being canned.  Stocks 
are  very  light  and  the  price  on  standard 
brands  of  1  lb.  has been  advanced  2j£c. 
There  is again  talk  of  the  sardine  syn­
dicate,  but  there  has  been  so  much  talk 
of  late  upon  this  subject  that  the  mar­
ket  does  not  seem  to  be  affected  by  this 
last  rumor.

Dried  Fruits—The 

improved  condi­
tion  of  the  market  continues  and  almost 
all  lines  are  feeling  the  effects.  Rai­
sins and  prunes  are  unchanged,  but  are 
steadily  going 
into  consumption  and 
in  jobbers’  hands  are  beginning 
stocks 
to  show  the  results  and  there  is  a  little 
more  enquiry  from  this  source.  The 
demand  for currants  continues  good  and 
prices  of  bulk  show  another  fractional 
advance.  The  low  prices  and  excellent 
quality  of  the  cleaned  article  are  result­
ing 
increased  consumption  and 
cleaners  report  a  good  demand.  There 
are  heavy  receipts  of  dates due  in  New 
York  this  week,  but  prices  are  firmly 
maintained,as  the  demand  is  very good, 
owing,  no  doubt,  to  the  good  quality  of 
this  year’s  crop.

in  an 

Rice—There  is  a  fair  demand  of  rice 

and  prices  are  firmly  maintained.

Nuts—The  slump  in  grenoble  walnuts 
seems  to  have  been  checked  and  the 
market  now  favors  holders.  There  are 
practically  no  French  to  be  had  and 
stocks  of  Naples  are  very  light.  Pea­
nuts are  again  higher,  another  advance 
of  Jic  having just been  wired  from  Nor­
folk.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Molasses— The  New  Orleans  market 
on  molasses 
is  very  firm  and  strictly 
choice  grades  of  centrifugal  are  scarce 
and  wanted  by  the  trade  New  crop  low 
grades  are  net  coming 
in  freely  and 
trading  in  this  grade  is  confined to those 
bouses  which  carried  over  stocks  from 
last  season.  Later  on,  as  receipts  in­
crease,  we  may  expect  a  decline  in  low 
grades.

Provisions—The  provision  market 

is 
unusually  active  for  this  season.  The 
cause 
is  the  reaction  against  poultry 
which  has  overtaken the public stomach, 
which  became  satiated  with  it  during 
December.  The  demand  for  provisions 
is  reported  good  in  every  market  of  the 
country,  and  the 
largest  markets  have 
advanced  # c   per  pound  on  the  whole 
ine.  Lard  has  advanced  %@}4c  per 
pound  during  the  week,  and  the  ad­
vanced  price  will  probably  be  main­
tained.  This  prophecy  refers  to  the 
general  provision 
line  as  well  as  lard 
Compound 
per  pound.

lard  has  also  advanced 

Salt  Fish—Owing  to  the  approach  of 
the  Lenten  season,  it  is  anticipated  that 
the  salt  fish  market  will  now  begin  to 
take  on  more  strength  than  for  several 
months  past.  Values  will  undoubtedly 
rule  stronger  this  year  than  they  did 
twelve  months  ago,  on  account  of  the 
short  supply.  It  is  reported  in  the  East 
ern  market  that  the  sardine  market  is 
still  in  an  unsettled  condition  and  that 
the  plan  to  arrange  a  syndicate  has 
'alien  through,  owing  to  the  high values 
placed  on  the  principal  plants,  which 
made  the  purchase  of  them  out  of  the 
question.

this  plan  and  operated 

Tobacco—The  Continental  Tobacco 
Co.,  which  now  controls  the  plug  busi 
ness  of  America,  has  issued  to  jobbers 
tn  announcement  of its new price sched­
ule.  Goods  will  be  billed  to  jobbers  at 
the  price-to-retailers,  and 
jobbers  will 
receive  10  per  cent,  rebate  every  two 
months.  The  “ drop-shipment”   system 
will  be  practically  discontinued  after 
February  28.  The  American  Tobacco 
Co.  had 
it 
through  the  jobbers.  Any  retailer  or­
dering  100  pounds  or  more of  tobacco 
could  have 
it  shipped  direct  from  the 
American  Tobacco  Co.,  “ dropped"  at 
the  nearest  freight  station.  He gave  his 
order  to  the  jobber’s  salesman,  bow 
ever,  and  was  billed  through  the  jobber. 
The  American  Tobacco  Co.  allowed  the 
10  per  cent,  discount  to  the  jobber,  5 
per  cent,  extra  discount  supposed  to  be 
given  to  the  retailer  for  ordering  in 
large  quantities.and  $1  to  the  salesman. 
As  a  matter  of  fact  many  jobbers  gave 
the  dollar  and  all  to  the  retailer,  and 
out  of  the  whole  deal  got  only  the  2  per 
cent,  discount  for  their  cash  payment 
to  the  American  Co.  The  5  per  cent 
was  discontinued  January  10,  and  the 
dollar  to  the  salesman  will  not  be  given 
after  February  28  Drop-shipments  are 
nominally  continued,  but  they  are  only 
for  such  goods  as  were  on  the  American 
Co.’s  list,  and  include  none  of  the  Con­
tinental’s  other  brands.  As  the  whole 
is  thus  reduced  to a  10  per  cent, 
thing 
basis, 
the  same  as  the  discount  on 
smaller  lots,  drop  shipments  will  prac­
tically  be  discontinued. 
The  Conti­
nental  sends  out  a 
list  of  86 different 
kinds  and  styles  of  plug  tobacco  with 
and 
its  announcement. 
“ Spearhead,”   which  were 
formerly 
made  with  six  10-cent  cuts  to the  plugs, 
now  have  five  at  the  same  price.  The 
scale  throughout  has  been  altered  with 
an 
idea  of  cutting  off  the  demand  for 
some  superfluous  brands  and  concen­
trating 
it  on  a  score  or  so  of  standard

“ Climax’ ’ 

kinds.  The  old  plan  of  plug  factories 
was  to  allow  a  discount  per  pound, 
scheduled  on  a.price  card,  sometimes 
more  or  sometimes 
less  than  10  per 
cent.,  varying  with  the  quality  of  the 
goods.  The  new  plan  evens  the discount 
on  all  grades  of  goods.  The  average 
price  to  the  retailer,  it  is  claimed,  is 
considerably 
than  heretofore. 
Officers  of  the  Continental  say  they  are 
not  making  any  provision  against  price 
cutting,  and 
is  effected 
against  that  evil  it  will  have  to  be  done 
by  the  jobbers  themselves.  They  deny 
also  that  the  company  is  instigating  or 
aiding  combinations  of  jobbers.

if  anything 

lower 

A  Chinese  Buddhist  priest,  who 
claims  to  have  sat  in  a  cave  at Adam’s 
Peak,  Ceylon,  with  his  legs  crossed,  lor 
six  years,  during  which  time  he  spoke 
t j  no  one,  and  subsisted  on half  an  inch 
of  a  blade  of  grass  only  daily,  is  at  pre­
sent  in  Bangkok  trying  to  improve  bis 
exchequer  on  the  strength  of  his  ex­
ploits.  He  does  net  meet  with  much 
success.

It 

isn’t  always  to  a  man’s  credit  to 
is  to  his 

stop  drinking—sometimes 
lack  of  credit.

it 

WANTS  COLUMN.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under this 
head for two cents a word  the  first  insertion 
and one cent a word  for  each  subsequent in­
sertion.  No advertisements taken for less than 
>5 cents.  Advance payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

82$

826

827

radesman. 

'  complete, in good order, with three draught 
tubes ana ten  sy u p   u  es  and  5x8  foot  ■> arbie 
flubs.  Addr  ss  llmeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co., 
Grand Rapids. 

IpOR  SALE—TUFT’S  SODA  FOUNTAIN.
ÌX>R SALE—PAPER ROLLS FOR CAsH  REG 

ifters, all w'dtbs. at $1 50 prrdi'zen.  A  bert 
E. Doherty. 34 S bley s t .  Detroi',  Mich. 
117'ANTED  TO  EXCHANGE  F'>R  STOCK 
f t   of clothing or furnishing goods productive 
re  1 estate, fr-*e and cl-ar.  paying good interert. 
Ad iress C. W. G., care M'ch gan Tradesman  825
R e g is t e r e d  ph a r m a c i  t d e ->ik e s m r
uaiiou,  country  towu  preferred.  For  six- 
t  eu  mouths  apothecary  on  U.  S.  Oregon. 
Honorable  .¿is -barge  U  S.  Navy.  Fourteen 
years’  experience.  A 1  references.  Add  ers« 
Oregon, crre  Michigan 
824
FOR  SALE  FOR  CASH—BE-VT HARDWARE 
b u sin e ss in  Michigan.  Stock invo ces $9,0 >0. 
Sa es for 1898, $42 000.  Will sed  cheap  for  ca-h 
if taken at on.e.  Address No. 823, care Mich gun 
8.3
Tradesman. 
FOR  SALE—ONE SET  WEEK’S  FOUR  TON 
fl tor scales;  three  beams,  no weights,  two 
pound notches; platfo-m about5x6.  Practically 
n*-w  Addres- W.  B. Reed, Remus.  Mich.  822
yiOR  EX  H  iNGE—A  FINE,  WELL-1 M- 
X   proved fruit  grain  and  st  c e  farm  of  1*H) 
acres, in  v<asou cou  >y.  Michigan, for merchan­
dise or other productive property.  Address Box 
71,  u  ter, Mich. 
829
in'OR  s a l e—h a r d w a r e  st o c k  o f  t h e
X?  late A  A. Tyler  at  641  South  Division  St., 
Grand  Rapids.  Fine  lomtiou  and  well-estab­
lished trade.  Address Mrs. A.  \. Tyler. 
dhjr/W i  BUYS  MEDICAL  PRaCI'CE  OF  13 
qp»JUU years, which averages $2 500 annually; 
aiso office  fixtures, horses, buggy. cutter, robes, 
etc  Address  Bov  175,  Vandero It,  Mich.—the 
bust tnwn in Northern  Michigan. 
TXTANTED— PARTNER IN THE  MANUFAC- 
Vt 
ture  of  a  patented  household  article 
which  is  in  general  demand.  A  good  oppor­
tunity to make a large profit  on  a  small invest­
ment.  Address A. C. McCutheon,  Sparta, Mich.
819
ceries, flour, feed, etc.,  loc-tel  in Kalama 
Wish  to  go  out  of  business.  Address  A  B. 
Tru> sdale. 9 7 East Ave., Kalamazoo 

tr»UR  SALE  MY  STOCK  OF  DRUGS. GKO- 

■ O  EXCHANGE—DESIRABLE  AND  CKN- 

trally located  residence  property  in  Kala­
mazoo for general or grocery stock in good town 
in  Central  Michigan.  Will  sell  same  on  long 
ti  e.  Addresa Box 357. Kalamazoo, Mich.  8il
W ANTED—LOCATION  FOR  DRY  GOODS 
or dry goods and shoe  store  combined  in 
town of 1,000 to 7,000  Will buy  stock  in  estab 
lished star d  if  for  sale.  Address  F.  W.,  care 
808
Michigan Tradesman. 
$10 Q Q Q   FiRsT  MORTGAGE, DRAWING
percent.,  on  good  improved 
proierty. to exchange  for  stock  of goods.  For 
part culars  address  No.  812,  care  Michigan 
812
Tradesman. 
For  sa l e—drug  a n d g r o c ery  st o r e.
Good chance for a worker;  comer  location, 
lil health of owner cause  for  selling.  Address 
813
W  8. Terrill  Muir, Mich 
TX )  EXtHANGK—9  LOTS  UNINCUMBERED 
JL  on  Highland  avenue,  near  Madison,  for 
merchandise.  Will Hoi, omb, Plymouth.  814
Fo r  s v l e—sm a ll  stock  o f  d rug s
and flx'ures at a bargain.  Hizeltine  & Per­
816
kins Drug Co . Grand Rapids  Mich. 
F«»r  h a y,  straw  a n d   OATS  IN  Car 
lots  at  lowest  prices,  address  Wade  Bros., 
817
Cadillac or Traverse City,  Mich. 

820

821

zoo, Mich., 927 East avenue.  Will  ell for $1,600. 

I NOR  S4LE- FINE  STOCK  GENERAL  MER- 

'  cna.dlse  and  well  established  business; 
best point In State for general store; three years’ 
lease of building,  with  chance  to  buv  reason­
able; located on two Hues of railroad; fine ship­
ping facilities, etc ; prospects bright for Increase 
in business.  Reason for selling  toomnch other 
business  Address Box 35. Elmdale. Mich.  818
B u s in e s s  c h a n c e —f o r   sa l e,  d ry
goods,  cloth'ng  and  men’s  furnish ng 
goods business;  well established  in  live  town. 
Good reasons for selling.  Address H. T.  Crosby 
& Co., Clayton, Mich.__________________ 805
FOR SAL  —STOCK OF JEWELRY, SILVER- 
ware, books,  stationery  and wall  paper  In 
live town in Northern Michigan  Good reasous 
for  selling.  Address  Books,  care  Michigan 
804
Tradesman. 
For  s a l e —g rocery  a n d  b a k e r y  
stock, best in  city;  cash  business  of  $l-,000 
to  $20 0 0  year y;  good  location,  ch  ap  r<nt. 
Poor health reason  f- r  selling.  Address Comb. 
803
Lock B >x 8 6, Eaton Rapids. Mich. 
LOK  SALE — WELL EsTAbLI  HEI>  AND 
X1  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

792

783

I  PAY  CAsH  SLICKLY  AND  PROMPTLY 

for stocks of m  ichandise  of  any  kind  and 
Communications  held 
size,  at  a  discount. 
strictly  confidential.  Addtess  A.  E.  Poulsen, 
LaGrange.  Ind. 

13HOTO  HAPH GALLERY TO RENT AFTER 
Jan. 1.  b -st location and oldest stand in the 
. ity.  Write  Alpena  County  Savings  Bank,  Al­
pena, M ch 
____________________797
TO  EXCHANGE-$2,5 0  HARKIsON  INDK- 
peudent  Telephone  stock  for  n  first-class 
meat market ai d  fixtures,  etc.,  or general  mer­
chandise of equal amount.  Address Lock  Box 
796
Si, McBride's, Mich. 

PJVOR  POTATOES  IN  CAR  LOT',  ADDRESS 
1  Wade  Bros.,  Cadillac  or  Traverse  fity, 
Mich_______________________________ 793
1 OA ACKE FARM. VALUED AT$4 010, FREE 
1 ¿ U   and clear f  om encumbrance, 10 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. 

tNOR SALE—CLEAN sHOa STUCK IN GROW- 

im>  manufacturing  town  or  6,000,  county 
se >1, surrounded by  good  farming  trade.  Will 
sell ai a bargain  as  owner  has  o her  business 
which demands his attention.  Address No.  781, 
care Michigan Trade'tnan. 
784
BK'T  LOCATION  IN  MICHIGAN  FOR  A 
cold  storage  and  genera]  produce  dealer. 
Write to tue  Secretary  of tne  Otsego  Improve­
ment Association  Otsego. Mich 
631
L''OR  SALE  OK  EXCHANGE —HOT  SODA 
r   apparatus,  silver,  mammoth,  up-to-date, 
tufts'  pattern, $225,  $5  per  month,  6  per  cent, 
interest  Also Soda Fountain  modern, eighteen 
syrups, two sodas. You- mineral  tubes, magnifi­
cent  cherry  top.  Tufts’  pattern,  $1,lun,  $io  per 
month,  6  per cent.  Also  Fixtures,  drug  and 
jewelry:  three 8 ft.,  oue  12-ft.  wall  cases,  plate 
glass;  21 ft. diug shelving, half glass;  four 8-ft. 
si ent  salesman  ca-es,  beveled  plate,  grand; 
$1.000, $10 per  month.  *  per cent.  Address  766, 
care Michigan  Trade man 
WJTANTED — SHOES,  C LO TH IN G ,  DRY 
Y T  goods.  Address R. B., Box 351, Montagne, 
Mich. 
699
H a v e  sm a ll  g e n e r a l  stock,  also  a
slock of  musical  goods,  sewing  machines, 
bicycles, notions, etc., with wagons and teams— 
an established business.  Stock Inventories from 
$2.000 to $3.500,  as  may  be  desired.  Will  take 
free  and  clear  farm  in  good  location  of  equal 
value.  Address Lock Box 531, Howell, Mich.

766

1  splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad­

i jM)R  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
MERi HANTS—DO YOU  WISH CASH  qUICK 

for your stock of merchandise,  or any  part 

dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman 

of it?  Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mien.
628

680

739

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

WANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 
try;  any  quantities  Write  me.  Orrin  J. 
Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 
810
W E PAY SPOT CASH ON TRACK FOR BUT- 
It  will  pay yon  to get  our 
prices and  particulars.  Stroup  & Carmer,  Per- 
rinton, Mich. 
771
W ANTED—1.000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
sss
Ithaca,  Mich. 

ter and eggs 

FIREPROOF  SAFES

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

815

W ANTED—POSITION  BY  DRUG  CLERK 
who has had three years’ experience.  Can 
give best nf references.  Address  No.  830,  care 
830
Michigan Tradesman. 
WANTED — l OSITION  BY  DKUG,  DKY 

good» and grocery cierk.  Address R., care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
■V°UNG  MAN  WANTED  FOR  COUNTRY 
1   STORE.  Address  802,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

W a NTud — PanM tAliVl’  Poaillu.N  IN 
dry goods or shoe store,  by  young man  28 
years old; 12 years’ experience;  AI  refr renews 
Address No. 859, care Michigan Tradesman.  809
SITUATION  WANTED—BY  REGISTERED 
pharmacist, 27 years  of  age,  registered  10 
years.  Married.  Have had both city and coun­
trip experience  Am  eoo.i  prescriptionist and 
manager.  Can give good references.  Am work­
ing now, but desire  change.  Address  No.  794, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
794

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Travelers*  Time  Tables.

CHICAGO

Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids............   7:30am  12:00&m *ll:45pm
Ar.  Chicago...............   2:10pm  9:15pm  7:2oam
Lv.Chicago..  11:45am 6'50am  4:15pm *ll:50pir 
A t. O’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

•Every  day. 

Others week days only.

DETROIT.O rand Rapidi & Western. 

Sept, ag, 1898.

Detroit.

L▼. Grand  Rapids......... 7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pi
Ar. Detroit....................11:40am  5:45pm  10:06pi
Lv. Detroit.....................8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pr
Ar.  Grand  Rapids........12:55pm  5:20pm  10:66pir
Lv. G R 7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G R 11:45am  9:30pn 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains ran week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

(In effect Nov.  13,  1898)

Detroit and Milwaukee Div

Gno. D iH in i.  Genera] Pass. Agent
GRAND Trank Railway System 
Leave. 
Arrive,
t  6:45am.Sag., Detroit, Buffalo i N Y . t  9:56pm
410:10am......... Detroit  and  East..........t  5:27pm
t  8:20pm__Saginaw, Detroit A East....tl2:45pm
* 7:20pm  Buffalo, N. Y. & Boston....*10:15am
•10:10am....Gd. Haven and  In t Pts....* 7:'5nm 
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.
tExcept Sunday.

•Dally. 

EAST. 

WEST

E. H. H u m s, A  G. P. A T. A. 
Bax. F l e t c h e r , Trav. Pass. Agt.
C.  A.  Justin,  City  Pass.  Agent.

97 Monroe St.  Morton House.
gJiaaa Railway 

■ 898.

GRAND
Northern Div.  Leave  Arrlvt 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey A Mack. ..t 7:45am t  5:15pm
Trav. City A Petoskey............t  2:10pm tl0:45pm
Cadillac accommodation........4 5:25pm tl O 55am
■ Petoskey t»iln eklnnwGhy. -441» teOpaM-WMOpm 
7:45am and 2:10pm  trains  have  parlor  cars; 
11:0.pm train has sleeping car.
Southern  Div.  Leave  Arrtv.
Cincinnati... 
......................t  7:10am t  9 45pm
Ft. Wayne 
............................t  2:10pm t   1:55,«.
Cincinnati..............................  7 00pm  6:30*r'
For Vicksburg and Chicago..*11:3Jpm  9:10am 
7:10  am  train  has  panor  car  to  Clncluns 
and  parlor  car  to  Chicago;  2; 10pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Wayne;  7:00pm  train  has 
sleeping cars  to Cincinnati;  11:30pm  train  has 
coach and Bleeping car to Cnicago.

Chicago Trains.

LABELS
FOR
GASOLINE
DEALERS

r

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,  onjthe  follow-
jug  basis:

i M . . . .........75c 
S M . . .
.........50c per M 
10M   .
........ 40c per M 
20 M __ .......35c per M 
50 M ---- .........30c per M 

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Grand  Rapids, -fVtlch. 

rBUCKWHEAT

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

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

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

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

9

VALLEY  CITY 
MILLING CO.

GRAND RAPIDS. 
*

Sole manufacturers of “ LILY WHITE. 

The flour the best cooks use

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S M O K E

Banquet flail  Little  Cigars

These goods are packed very 
tastefully 
in  decorated  tin 
boxes which can  be  carried in 
the vest pocket, 
io cigars in 
a box  retail  at  10 cents.
They  are  a  winner  and  we 
are sole agents.

MUSSELMAN  GROCER  GO..  Grand  Rapids.  Mictl.

m p M  CHICAGO.

2 10pm  *11 30pm
6 25am

TO CHICAGO.
Lv. Grand Rapids...  7  10am 
Ar. Chicago............ 2  0 pm  9 10pm 
Lv. Chicago............................   3  02pm 
Ar  Grand Rapids...................   9 45pm 
car;  11:30pm, coach and sleeping car.
11:32pm, sleeping car.

Tral" leaviug Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor 
Train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has  psrlor car; 

«11 32pm
6 30am

Muskegon Trains.

GOINS WN8T.

9:00am  2:10nni  7-05> m
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 

LvG’d Rapids...........t?:36am tl :00pm t5:40pn
Ar Muskegon__  
arrives Muskegon 10:35am.
Lt Muskegon..............48:10am  41t:46am  44.00pr
Ar G’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:55pn>  5 20iw
Sunday  train  leaves  Mnskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm. 
tExcept Sunday.  »Dally.

GOING BAST.

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

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

DULUTH, Sontk Shore and Atlantic 

Rnihray.

WXBT  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L )tll :10pm  47:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City..................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St  Ignaee..........................   9:0oam  5:20pm
Ar. Sanlt Ste. Marie.................  12:90pm  9:5ftpm
Ar. Marquette  .......................   2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria.................... 
5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth............................................. 
8:30am
Lv. Dnlnth.............................................  46:30pm
Ar. Nestoria............................ tU:15am  2:45am
Ar. Marquette  ...................... 
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. 8ault Ste. Marie..............   3:30pm 
Ar.  Mackinaw City................  8:40pm  11:00am
G.  W  H i b b a r d .  Gen. Pass. Agt.  Marquette. 
R  C.  Ovtatt  Trav  P ubs  Agt.. Grand itapldi

BAST  BOUND.

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MANISTEE à  Northeastern Ry.

Best route to Manistee.

Via  C. &  W. M.  Railway.

ENGRAVERS BY ALL THE 
HALFTONE 
ZINC-ETCHING 
WOOD ENGRAVING

¡3 $  
$  S T A T IO N E R Y   H EA D IN G Sjjjg^ 
W  

55  P 0 P TR A IT5 ,  B U ILD IN G S ,

LEADING PROCESSES

E V E R Y T H IN G . 

MACHINERY, 

£

TRADESMAN COMPANY

GRAND  RAPIDS. M ICHIGAN.

Lv Grand Rapids.............................. 7:00am
Ar  Manistee...............................12:05pm
Lv  Manistee.......................  
Ar Grand  Rapids  .......................   1:00pm

 

 

8:30am

4:10pm
9:S5Pm

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association 

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

retary,  E. A.  Stow e, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Retail Grocers’ Association

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

A.  St o w e , Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association

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

He n b t C.  Min n ie,  Eaton  Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

221 Greenwood ave;  Treasurer, c. H. Frink.

Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association
K l a p ;  Treasurer, J.  G eo.  L ehman.

President,  F b a n k   J.  D y k ;  Secretary,  Hom es 

Saginaw Mercaatile Association 
Mc B r a t n ie ;  Secretary,  W.  H.  L e w is.

President. P. F. T r ea n o k;  Vice-President, J ohn 

Jackson Retail Grocers' Association 

President, Geo. E.  Lewis; Secretary,  W.  H. Por­

t e r ;  Treasurer,  L.  P e l t o n .

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  A. C. Clark ;  Secretary, E.  F.  Cleve­

land:  Treasurer, Wm. C.  K o k h n .

Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  M.  L,  D e B a t s ;  Sec’y, 8.  W.  W a te r s.

Traaorr City Business Men’s Association 

Paaaldent,  T hos.  T.  B a t e s ;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

H o l ly ;  Treasurer, C. A.  Hammond.

Owosso  Bnsioess  Men’s  Association 

President, A. D.  W h ipple ; Secretary, G. T. C a m p­

b e l l ;  Treasurer, W. E. C ollin s.

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

President,  F.  W.  Gil c h r is t;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

Pa r t r id g e.

Grand Rapida Retail Meat Dealers’ Association 
President, L. J.  K a t z ;  Secretary, Ph il ip Hil b e n ; 

Treasurer. S. J.  Hu fpo r d.

St. Johns Business  Men’s Association. 

President, Thob  B r o m l e y;  Secretary,  F r a n k A. 

P e r c y ;  Treasurer, C l a r k  A. Putt.

Perry Business Men’s Association

President,  H. W. W a l l a c e ;  Sec’y, T.E. He d d l e.

Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos ; Secretary, J. W. V b b Ho e k b.

Yale Business Men’s Association

President, C h as. Ro u n d s;  Sec'y, F r a n k Pu t n e y.

u r t a r  m m

SAVES  THE  WASH. 

SAVES  THE  WASHER.

Once Upon a Time There Lived a Man

And  that  man’s  son  is  living  to-day,  perhaps  in  some 
big  city  or  in  some  small  country  village.  No  matter 
where  he  lives,  we  are  going  to  find  him,  and  if  we  find 
him  running  a  grocery store,  we are going to ask him how 
he  is  flourishing.  We  are  going  to  ask  him  if  he  uses

me Moneu weight Sun

and  if  not,  we  want  to  know  why  not.

Perhaps  it  hasn’t  been  properly  explained  to  him; 
some  one  has  made  a  mistake,  and  from  our knowledge 
of  our  System,  we  are  inclined  to believe  some  one  has 
turned a  deaf  ear  when  he  should  have  been  listening.
No man’s son can  afford  to  be  without  the  Money 

Weight  System  if  he  is  a  merchant.

Scales  sold  on  easy  monthly  payments— without 

interest.  Write  for  pointers.

The Gomputino scale 60.

Dauion. OHIO.

A  GOOD  SELLER

The  Economy  Parmer’s 
Boiler  and  Feed  Cooker

The  Kettle  is  of  smooth,  heavy cast- 
iron.  The furnace or jacket is of heavy, 
cold  rolled steel,  and very durable.  We 
guarantee this  Feed  Cooker  never  to 
buckle  or  warp  from  the  heat. 
It  is 
designed  to set on the ground, or stone 
foundation,  and  is  especially  adapted 
for cooking feed, trying out lard,  mak­
ing soap,  scalding  hogs  and  poultry, 
and all work  of  this  nature.  Made  m 
four sizes— 40,  60,  70 and  100 gallon.

ADAMS  &  HART,  Jobbers,  Grand  Rapids.
A  DESK  FOR  YOUR  OFFICE

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

This  Showcase only $4.00  per foot.

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

SHOW  CASES  OF  ALL  STYLES

but do claim that we can sell you at

Less than the  Manufacturer’s Cost

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

Our  No.  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 tnis paper when you  do so.

S A M P L E   FURNITURE  CO.

JOBBERS  OP  SAMPLE  FURNITURE.

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

-  

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

Until  N ov.  1  we  will  furnish  these  b'gu iy  nmshed  show  cases  with  inlaid  wood 

corners at the  follow ing  low  prices  f o b   Bryan:

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

5 feet.........#7.25 
6 feet.........  8.15 

9 feet  ___ $12.25
10 feet.........  1325

7 feet.........$9.25 

8 feet........  10.50 

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

THE  BRYAN  SHOW CASE  WORKS,  Bryan, Ohio.

