Volume XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, MARCH  1 ,1899.

Number 806

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They are delicate and Crisp and  run  a great  many 
to pound,  making them  the  best  and  at  the  same 
time the cheapest Oyster Crackers on  the  market. 
Packed  in  boxes, tins  or  in  handsomely  labeled 
one pound cartons.  Send  us a trial order.

National  Biscuit  Company,

SEAKS  BAKERY.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

DO  YOU  RUN  A  STORE

If so, you can avoid all the losses  and  annoyances 
incident to  the  pass  book  or  any  other  old-fash­
ioned  charging  system  by  adopting  one  of  our 
coupon systems.  We carry  in  stock  four  regular 
coupon books and manufacture special coupons to 
order  for  hundreds  of  merchants  in  all  parts  of 
the country.  We  solicit  correspondence  and  will 
furnish full line of samples on application.

T R A D E SM A N   CO M PA N Y ,  G rand  R ap id s,  M ich.

WORLD’S  BEST

SC.  CIGAR.  ALL  JOBBERS  AND

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GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

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By  a  patent  process  the  oil  of  the
Cocoa Bean,  being the life of Cocoa,
instead  of  being  extracted  (as  in
most  brands  of  Cocoa),  is  retained.
It  is  the  most  nutritious and  pa la-
table, and  especially  recommended
to. persons  with  weak  stomachs. 

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W IL L IA M   R E I D

Importer and Jobber of

POLISHED  PLATE 
WINDOW 
ORNAMENTAL

PA IN T

OIL.  WHITE  LEAD. 

VARNISH ES 
BRUSHES

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

W e   have  the  largest  and  m ost  com plete stock of G lass and  Paint  G oods 
in  W estern  M ichigan.  E stim ate s  furnished.  A ll orders  filled prom ptly. 
D istribu tin g  agents  for  M ichigan  of  Harrison  Bros.  & Co.’s  Oil  Colors, 
D ry  Colors,  Mixed  Paints,  Etc.

P I C T U R E   C A R D S

We have a large  line of new goods in fancy colors 
and  unique designs, which we are offering at  right 
prices.  Samples  cheerfully sent on application.

T R A D R SM A N  COMPANY, G r a n d  R ap id «

A DESK FOR YOUR OFFICE

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

but do claim that we can seU you at

Less than the Manufacturer’s Cost

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

Our  No.  61  Antique  Oak  Sample  Desk  has  a 
combination  lock  and  center  drawer.  Raised 
panels  all  around,  heavy  pilasters,  round  corners 
and made of  thoroughly  kiln  dried  oak.  Writing 
bed made of 3-ply built-up stock.  Desk is castered 
with ball-bearing casters  and  has  a strictly  dust- 
proof curtain.  Our special price to  readers  of  the 
Tradesman 8 2 0 .  Write for  our  illustrated  cat­
alogue and mention this paper when you  do so.

SAMPLE  FURNITURE  CO.

JOBBERS  OP  SAMPLE  FURNITURE.

PEARL  AND  OTTAWA  STS. 

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P U R IT Y  AU D   STREN G TH !

& GQ/S  GQP1PRESSED  YEAST

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,

FLEISCH/VIANN  &  CO.

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Banquet Hall Little Giqars

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

MUSSELMAN  GROCER  GO..  Grand  Rapids.  Mich.
P L U M   P U D D I N G

Manufacturers  of  all  styles  of  Show  Cases  and  Store  Fixtures.  Write  us  tor 

illustrated  catalogue  and  discounts.

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

proves with Age.  Made in 

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Souvenir,  l/2,  1 and 2  pound  packages;  Sweet Violets,  y2  and  1  0
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FOLDING  PAPER  BOXES Printed  and  plain  for  Patent 

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

GRAND  RAPIDS  PAPER  BOX  CO.

PHONE 8 5 0 .  

81, 8 3  AND 8 5  CAMPAU S T ..  GRAND R A PID S. MICH.

This Showcase only $4.00  per foot.

With  Beveled  Edge Plate Glass top $5.00 per foot.

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W E S T   B R ID G E   SST-. 
G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  MICH.

Mfrs. of  a full line of

HANDMADE 
HARNESS 
FOR  THE 
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Jobbers in

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

Orders  by  mall  given  prompt 

attention.

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R. O.  DUN  &  CO.

Widdicomb Bid's, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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

L. P. WITZLEBEN  flanager.

SPRING  SU IT S  A N lT i 

OVERCOATS

Herringbones, Serges,'Clays. Fancy Worst­
eds, Cassimeres.  Largest  Lines;  no  bet­
ter  made;  perfect  fits;  prices  guaranteed; 
$3.50 up.  Manufacturers,

KOLB & SON

OLDEST FIRM,  ROCHESTER, N. Y.

Stouts, Slims a Specialty.  Mail  orders  at­
tended  to,  or  write  our  traveler,  Wm. 
Connor,  Box 346,  Marshall,  Mu h ,  to  call, 
or me*-t him at Sweet's  Hotel,  Grand  Rap­
ids,  March  9  to  14.  Customers'  expenses 
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FIGURE  NOW  on  improving your office 
system for next  year.  Write  for  sample 
leaf of our TUIE BOOK and PAY ROLL.

BARLOW  BROS.,  Grand  Rapids.

The  Preferred  Bankers 
Life Assurance Company

of Detroit, Mich.

Annual  Statement,  Dec. 31,  1898.

Commenced Business Sept.  I,  1893.
Insurance in Force........................$3,299,000 
Ledger Assets  ...................................  
Ledger Liabilities 
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Losses Adjusted and Unpaid................  
Total Death  Losses Paid to Date.........  
Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
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Death Losses  Paid During the Year  .. 
Death Rate for the Y e ar................  

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45,734  79
21  OS
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51,061  00
1,030  00
11,000 00
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eficiaries 

F R A N K  E .  ROBSO N, President. 

T R U M A N   B.  GO O DSPEED, S  cretary.

Save  Trouble. 
Save  Money. 
Save TtaN.

The  Lost  Fortune.

It 

is  theirs  to 

ljnely  and  poor 

To  molt  of  us  there  is  nothing  else 
in  life  so  forlorn  and  pathetic  as  those 
who  have  seen  better  days.  Always  to 
have  been 
is  bad 
enough,  heaven  knows,  but  how  much 
sadder seems  the  lot  of  those  whose very 
memories  furnish  them  with  a  standard 
by  which  to  measure,  hour  by  hour, 
their  misery. 
learn, 
through  bitter  tears,  the  strange,  bard 
ways  of  poverty,  to  sit  by  cold  and  des­
olate  hearths,  where  once  were  warmth 
and  cheer,  and  to  think  through  solitary 
years  of  clinging  arms  that  no  longer 
enfold,  and  kisses  that are  but  memor­
ies  on  old  and  unloved 
lips.  Far  bet­
ter,  one  would  think,  never  to  have 
known  the  sunshine,  if  one  must  be 
doomed  to  leave  it  behind  him.  Yet 
there  is  another  and  a  broader  philoso­
phy  than  this,  and,  curiously  enough, 
an  old  negro  woman  was  a  few  days  ago 
its  prophet.  She  lives  in  the  outskirts 
of  the  city  in  a  little  shanty-like  house, 
which,  poor  as 
it  is,  still  makes  some 
pretence  of  style  among  its  humble  sur­
roundings.  For  one  thing  there  is  a 
fence,  and 
a  gate,  kept  religiously 
closed,  instead  of  standing  hospitably 
and  shiftlessly  open  to  invite  any  idle 
wayfarer  to  stop  and  gossip,  as  is  the 
custom  in  that  easy-going  community. 
For another.  Aunt  Dinah,  while  a  min­
istering  angel 
in  times  of  sickness, 
holds  herself  with  a  certain  aloofness, 
and  only  associates  with  her  neighbors 
on  terms  of  distinct  condescension  and 
patronage. 
“ Yon  see,”   she  sometimes 
explains,  “ it  ain't  like  I was always po’ 
and  ain’t  never  knowed  what 
it  was 
jest  to  have  oodlins  of  money.  Dese 
yere  niggers,  dey  was  born  po',  and  dey 
Das  hilt  dere  own  ever sense,  an’ scusin' 
le  s’ciety  don’t  bury 
’em  when  dey 
lies,  de  corporation  will  have  to.  But 
me,  I  been  rich,  an'  I ’m  gwine  to  live 
up  to  rich  folks’  ways,  an’  pick  an’ 
choose  my  company.  Huccome  you 
ain't  never  heered 
’bout  dat  time  1 
drawed  money 
in  de  lottery?  Hit  was 
lak  d is:  One  day  I  was  gwine  up  to 
Miss  Simmons'  to  git  de  wasbin',  jest 
as  I  been  doing  all  de  time,  when,  lo, 
and  behold,  I  found  a  dollar  right  in  de 
middle  of  de  street,  a  lyin’  beside  a  ole 
horse  shoe.  Well,  any 
fool  would  a 
knowed  dat  was  lack  money,  an’  I  des 
went  as  fas’  as  I  could  go  to  a 
lottery 
shop  and  buy  me  a  ticket.  De  ticket 
was  13  somethin’—I  forgot  now—but, 
anyway,  it  begun  wid 
13,  and  shore 
enough  when  de  drawing  come  off  it 
drawed  $5,000.  My  oie  man,  Jake,  he 
was  a  working  down  town,  and  when 
be  hears 
it  he  des  flings  down  de  saw 
he  was  sawing  wood  wid,  and  come  on 
borne  to  tell  me. 
I  was  stand in’  by  de 
stove  frying  liver  for  supper,  and  I  jest 
eased  de  skillet  over  to  de  side  of  de
it  wouldn’t  burn,  and  we set 
stove  so 
down  to  spend  that  money. 
Jake,  be 
was  for  buying  a  pink  shirt  and  yaller 
shoes  and  a  gold  watch,  and  I  was  set 
on  havin’  a  melogeum.  Course  I  don’t 
know  how  to  play  on  hit,  neidermore 
did  Jake,  but  Deidermore  does  de white 
ladies  dat 
is  got  dem  piannys,  an’  to 
my  mind  dey  ain’t nothin'  got  so  much 
style  to  it  as  a  melogeum,  wid  a  red

kiver  over  hit.  Well,  we  sot  dere,  and 
we  sot  dere,  a  talkin'  and  at  las’  Jake 
says  to  git  de  ticket  an’  less  look  at 
bit,  an’,  lo,  an'  behold,  when  we  try  to 
find  hit  hit  was  gone.  We  looked  every­
where,  but  hit 
'twaru’t  no  use.  Hit 
was  gone,  an’  de  money  wid  bit.  An'  1 
went  back  to  fryin'  de  liber,  aud  Jake, 
be  went  back  an'  hunted  up  his  saw 
an’  went  to  sawin’  wood  agio. 
Jake, 
he  was  powerful  discouraged,  but  1 
don’t 
'T ain ’t 
everybody  dat  kin 
lose  dat  much 
money,  an'  be  ought  to  be  proud  be 
done got  de  cbanst.  Me,  I  sets  here  in 
de  evenings  jest  as  ca'm  an’  satisfied, 
an’  I  t’inks  ’bout  what  I  done  bad  an' 
now  rich  I  been,  an'  ’tain’t  like  I  done 
been  all  my  life  one  dese  here  folks  dat 
ain’t  never  bad  nothin'. 
I  done  seen 
better days,  an’  dere’s  a  whole  heap  of 
comfoit  in  dat.’ ’

look  at  hit  dat  way. 

New  Departure  in  the  Shoe  Trade.
C.  M.  Henderson  &  Co.,  of  Chicago, 
have  made  a  new  departure  iu  the  shoe 
trade  by  discarding  the  sale  of  all 
leather  goods  made  by  other  manufac­
turers.  Hereafter  all  their  goods  will 
he  made  at  Dixon.  111.,  where  the  bouse 
has  three  large 
factories.  Shipments 
of 
leather  goods  will  be  ¡made  direct 
from  factory  hereafter.

The  reputation  for  honesty  and  pa 
long  enjoyed  by  the  new 
triotism  so 
President  of  France  is  standing 
in  bis 
favor  now  and  commanding  the  confi­
dence  of  the  con=ervative  forces  in  the 
republic.  There  is  never  much  to  fear 
from  honesty  and  patriotism  in  office.

Travelers  in  Australia  complain  that 
almost  the  only  trees  in  the  continent 
are  eucalyptus,  and  they  afford 
little 
shade, as they  have  learned  to  turn  their 
leaves  edgeways to  the  sun.  The  botan­
ical  gardens  in  the  cities  are,  however, 
declared  to  be  dreams  of  beauty.

A  bill  to  reduce  telegraph  rates  in  In­
diana  to  20 cents  for  ten  words  has  been 
voted  down  in  the  Senate.  The  opposi­
tion  was  on  the  ground  that  “ to  cut  the 
already  meager  profits of  the  telegrapL 
companies 
in  small  towns  would  mean 
10 close  the offices. ”

A  scheme 

is  under  way  to  connect 
Liverpool  with  all  the  manufacturing 
towns  within  a  radius  of  seventeen 
miles  by  electric  street  railroads,  which 
will  carry  passengers  in the daytime and 
freight  at  night.

Emperor  William  claims  to  hold  his 
position  by  divine  right;  but  fault-find­
ing  people  claim  that  if  he  had  been es­
pecially  created  to  rule  the  German 
empire  the  Creator  would  have  made  a 
better  job  of  it.

Maine  has  seventeen  spool  factories, 
and  the  white  bitch  trees  of  that  com­
monwealth  annually  supply  the  material 
for  300,000,000  spools,  on  which  is  sub­
sequently  wound  about  50,000,000,000 
yards  of  thread.

A  man  suffering  from  gout  never  gets 

the  sympathy  his  sufferings deserve.

Number 806

The  new  bankruptcy  law  is  likely  to 
prove  to  be  anything  but  satisfactory  to 
the 
jobbing  trade,  who  have  come  to 
realize  that  it  must  necessarily  result  in 
keeping  their  lines  of credit  down  lower 
than  they  have  in  the  past. 
In  spite  of 
the  good  times  and  the  improved  con­
dition  of  business  generally,  the 
losses 
of  the  jobbing  trade  are  likely  to  prove 
larger  this  year than  during  the  period 
ot  depression  and  poor business,because 
of  the  number  of  merchants  who  are 
availing  themselves  of  the  provision  of 
the 
law  providing  for  legal  discharge 
from  further  obligation.  Attempts  to 
enforce  collection  at  this  time  n. turally 
precipitate  unexpected 
losses,  and  un­
less  the  law  is  amended  to  change  tl is 
feature 
it  will  become  so  unpopular 
tfat  there  will  be  a  universal  clamor 
from  the  jobbing  trade  for 
its  repeal. 
This 
is  simply  a  repetition  of  previous 
experience,  no  bankruptcy  law  having 
been  long-lived  in  this  country.

The  son  of  the great  Worth  of  Paris, 
after  a  calculation  of  the  amount  spent 
in  France  upon 
ladies’  dresses,  esti­
mates  the  average  yearly  expenditures 
for  gowns  and  mantles  at  the  sum  of 
$200,000,000!  Fifty  millions  of  this 
is 
paid by  American,  English  and  Russian 
women.  This  recalls  the  fact  that 
it 
was  the  French  dressmakers  who  first 
denied  the  reports  that  France  was  un­
friendly  to  the  United  Stites  during  the 
early  days  of  the  war  with  Spain.

A  natural  soap  mine  and a  paint mine 
have  been  found 
in  the  foothills  near 
Ashcroft,  B.  C.  The soap  mine  is  real­
lakes.  Their  bottoms  and 
ly  several 
shores  are 
incrusted  with  a  natural 
washing  compound,  made  up  of  borax 
and  soda. 
It  is  as  good  as  the  washing 
powders 
Trials  by 
blacksmiths  and 
farm  workmen  show 
that  it  will  remove  grease  and dirt  more 
quickly  than  soap.

in  common  use. 

Mrs.  Alice  Fretman  Palmer  says  that 
in  1840  there  were  but seven occupations 
open  to  women 
in  the  way  of  wage­
earning,  whereas  now  the  field  includes 
several  hundred  branches  of  industry. 
Sixty-one  per  cent,  of  the  women  of 
Massachusetts  between  the  ages  of  15 
and  35  years  are  wage  earners,  domestic 
servants  forming  a  much  smaller  class 
than  other  occupations.

Wellington,  Kan.,  built  a  new 

jail 
last  year,and  the authorities  determined 
to  name 
it  alter  the  first  prisoner  who 
might  be  confined  in  it.  This  prisoner 
proved  to  be  a  woman,  Mrs.  Horton, 
and  the  institution  was  promptly  named 
“ Horton  ja il.”   Now  it  has  been  proven 
that  the  woman  was  innocent,  and  she 
proposes  to  sue  the  Wellington  authori­
ties  for  damages

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Old  Gomez  was  given  a royal welcome 
in  Havana  and  for  the  time  overshad­
owed  ail  other  prominei.t  characters 
in 
that  city. 
Iu  the  midst  of  his  triumph, 
however,  be  should  nor  forget  that,  but 
for the  interference  of  the  United States 
in  Cuba,  every  Cuban  soldier  who 
marched  behind  him  lust  Friday  would 
have 
long  ago  been  dead  from  starva­
tion  or  immured  iu  Spanish  bastiles.

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

Dry Goods

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons—The 

staple  cctton 
division  of  the  market  is  exceptionally 
firm,  and  business  has  been  of  good 
proportions  during  the  past  few  days. 
Bleached  cottons  are  stiffening,  and 
higher  prices  will  be  quoted 
soon. 
There  is  a  moderate  demand  for  coarse, 
colored  cett m s;  prices  are  firm,  and 
holders  are  apparently  without 
any 
anxiety  with  regard  to  sales.

late 

Underwear—All 

Prints  and  Gingham s—The  tendency 
of  prices  in  printed  goods 
is  still  up­
ward,  and  for  future  delivery  they  art- 
expected  at  value  only.  Fine  printed 
goods,  staple  ginghams,  dress  style 
ginghams,  and  all  napped  goods  art- 
very  strong  and  entirely  against  buyers.
the  manufacturers 
have  enough  orders  now  to  keep  them 
busy  ui.til  April,  and  some  way  into 
May,  and,  although  they  are  working 
overtime,  deliveries  are  late,  much  to 
the  dissatisfaction  of  the  retailers,  whc 
are  asking  for  earlier  shipments  than 
usual.  Some 
large  orders  have  been 
placed  for  the  great  midsummer  sale, 
which  are  becoming  equally  as 
im­
portant  as  the  winter  ones,  and  the  gen­
is  that  those buyers  wh< 
eral  opinion 
wait  urtil 
in  the  season  before 
placing  orders  will  not  only  have  to  pay 
higher  prices,  but,  in  many  cases,  will 
not  be  able  to  get  any  underwear  at  all, 
or.  at  the  best,  have  to  wait  until  per­
haps  July,  when  the  season  is  practical 
ly  over.  Some  of  the  large  houses  sell 
ing  the  popular-priced  goods  will  ad­
vance  their  prices  this  month,  while 
those  who  are  making  the  finer  grades 
of  undergarments  are  bolding  off  a 
while,  but they  w  11  not  be  able to  renew 
orders  at  old  prices  when  their  present 
stock  of  white  goods  and  embroideries 
gives  out,  as  both  of  these  markets  are 
very  high  at  present,  and  the  narrow 
margin  on  which  underwear  is  sold  will 
not  permit  their  paying  more  for the 
materials  without  changing  the  price 
Another  reason  for the  great  rush among 
the  manufacturers  is  due  to  the  fact that 
many  of  them  have  t imed  their  atten­
tion  to  the  making  of  white  shirtwaists, 
which  they  find  more  satisfactiry,  as the 
sales  are  large  and  the  profits greatly  in 
excess  of  that  of  underwear.

Hosiery—There  has  been  a  small  bui 
fairly  steady  demand  for cotton  hosiery 
during  the  week,  including  both  staple 
lines  and  fancies  in  hose  and  half  hose; 
prices  are  quite 
irregular,  and  conse­
quently  no  quotations  are  made.  The 
market  seems  to  be  in  the  buyers'  fa 
vor.  and  they  are  easily  able  to  place 
orders,  either  for  spot  delivery  or  for 
the  future.  For  the 
immediate  future 
there  seems  to  be  evidence  of an  over 
supply,  but  it  must  be  remembered  that 
the  cotton  crop  did  not  come  up  to  ex­
pectations  this  season,  and  further,  that 
the  recent  severe  weather  has  injured 
the  crops  that  were  in  the  ground.  Tbi* 
will  undoubtedly  have  the  effect  of 
strengthening  the  cotton  division  of  th^ 
market,  although,  as  the  present  sup­
plies are  large,  the  effect  may  not  be 
immediate.  Wool  hosiery  has  main­
tained  its  price  on  a  steadier  basis,  and 
there  has  been  a  fair  amount  of  trading 
accomplished.

Dress  Goods—There  is  no  particular 
feature  to  be  noted  in  connection  with 
the  dress  goods  situation.  Things  are 
moving  along  without  any  particular 
bitch  or  hindrance,  the  general  grist  of 
reorders  on  spring  weight  fu rie s   being 
very  fa ir;  stock  goods are being steadily

lines,  unless 

reduced,  and  by  the time  fall  lines  get 
well  under  way,  the  market  will  be 
pretty  well  cleaned  up  on  many  im­
lines  Nt thing  has  been  done 
portant 
as  yet  on  spring 
it  has 
been  in  a  very  quiet  way,  and until  such 
a  t  me  as  the  fall  goods  are  being  put 
before  the  buyer  for  his 
inspection, 
things  will  necessarily  pass  along  rather 
slowly. 
In  the  reordering  on  spring 
weights,  plain  dark  fabrics  hold  their 
prominent  position ;  tasty  serges,  neat 
plaids,  striped  and  dotted  effects  are 
being  taken;  suiting  fabrics 
in  small 
checks,  broadcLtbs,  mohair  goods,  etc., 
are  still 
in  the  swim.  There  has,  in 
fact,  been  no  change  in  the  character of 
tbe  demand  during  the  week.  A  con­
fident  tone  pervades  tbe  market  regard­
ing  the  fall  season;  everything  gives 
promise  of  a  good,  sound season's  trade, 
both  on  domestic and foreign  iabrics,  in 
the 
ladies’  wear. 
While,  of  course,  it 
is  very  largtly  a 
matter  of  guess  work,  it  is  tbe  general 
expectation  that  popular  fabrics  will  be 
much  tbe  same  as  last  season,  modified 
<n  certain  respects.  Storm  serges,  it  is 
btlieved,  w  11  have  a  good  hold  on  tbe 
ordering  during  the  approaching  sea­
son ;  these  fabrics  are  very  neat  and  de­
sirable,  having  many  points  of  exctl- 
l-r.ee;  suiting  fabrics  are  expected  to 
important  role  also,  many  be­
play  an 
lieving  that  such  goods,  in  a 
large  va­
riety  of  shades  and  designs,  are  going 
to  dominate  the  market.
the  Menace  of the  Catalogue  House.
Coloma,  Feb.  27—I  wish  you  would 
please  call  tbe  attention  of  the  country 
merchants,  through  tbe  columns  of  your 
valuable  magazine,  to tbe  fact  that  the 
poor  trade  of  tbe  present  and  tbe  past 
is  due  to  the  catalogue bouses selling di­
rect  to  the  consumer.

lines  of 

various 

In  some  small  villages,  the  amount  of 
goods  received  by  the  consumer  from 
is  equal  to  tbe 
some  foreign  market 
amount  received  by  tbe  merchants. 
It 
is  very  easy  to  see  where  the outcome  of 
tbe  small  dealer  will  be  in  a  short space 
of  time  at  the  presei t  rate  of  speed.

The  traveling  man  of  to-day  wonders 
why  the  dealers  do  not  buy  sc  many 
goods  as  they  have  bought  a  few  years 
back.  Tbe  catalogue  houses  can  answer 
tbe  question  with  lit  le  difficulty.

The  wholesaler  already  sees  that  his 
relation  with  tbe  retailer  is  declining 
If  the  retailer  can’t  sell, 
''very  year. 
he  ceitainly  can  not  buy 
Is  there  a 
remedy? 
I think  so.  Let  the  jobber  re­
fuse  to  buy  goods  of  tbe  manufacturers 
that  sell  to  said  bouses. 
I  am  tel 1  that 
£ .  C.  Atkins  &  Co.,  saw manufacturers, 
refused  a  ten  thousand  dollar  order from 
a  ci tilogue  house.

Please  use  the  matter  in  anv  way  you 
prefer,  as  you  know  your  publ  cation  is 
a  friend  of  every  jobber  and  rctcler.  If 
you  can  find  any  ideas  of  impoitance  in 
this  conglomeration  woithy  of  publica­
tion,  you  are  at  liberty  to  do  so.

This  matter  is  of  vital  importance  to 

the  retailer,  also  to  the  jobber.

1  understand  that  tbe  nail  trust has re­
fused  to  sell  nails  to  said  bouses,  so 
there  is  one  trust  of  all  trusts  that 
is  a 
benefit  to  small  dealers.  E .  A.  Hi l l .

The  grievance  referred  to  by  Mr.  Hill 
presents  a  serious  aspect,  because,  un­
less  it  is  checked  by  legislation  or  some 
other equally  effective  method,  it  will 
result  in  the  ultimate curtailment  of  the 
trade  of  the  country  merchant  to  that 
extent  that  it  will  no longer be profitable 
for him  to  continue 
in  business.  The 
menace  of  tbe  department  store  to the 
city  merchant  is  not  greater  than that  of 
tbe catalogue  bouse  to  the  country  mer­
chant.  Both  abuses  are  an  outgrowth of 
system,  which  has 
the  comp  t>tive 
in  fierceness  during 
greatly 
increased 
the  past  half  dozen  years.  There 
is  a 
remedy  for  both  the  department  store 
and  the  catalogue  house  in  countries

liberty 

where  paternal  governments  prevail, 
like  Germany, but in  a  republic,like tbe 
Un.ted  States,  where  freedom 
is  fre­
quently  carried  to the  extent  of mockery 
is  only  another  name  for 
and 
license,  tbe  problem 
is  more  serious. 
There  must  be  a  solution  to  the  prob­
lem,  and  any  one  who  can  devise  a  sys­
tem  by  which  tbe  competition  of  the 
catalogue house can  be  extinguished  or 
even  curtailed  w ll  he  ert't’ed  to tbe

gratitude  of  every  retail  merchant.
With  a  view  to  stimulating  agitation 
along  these  lines,  the  Tradesman  cheer­
fully  offers 
its  subscribers  cash  prizes 
of  $5,  $3  and  $2,  respectively,  for  the 
best  three  contributions  on  this  subject. 
Anv  merebart  who  has  any  suggestion 
to  offer  in  tbe  premises  is  also  cordially 
invited  to  co  operate  with  tbe  Trades­
man  and  its  readers  in  endeavoring  to 
reach  a  solution  of  this  perplexing 
problem.

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from 
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In 

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T IM E   TO   ACT.

Michigan  Grocers  Awakening  From 

Their  Lethargy.
Clare,  Feb.  27—I  would 

like  very 
much  to  ask  every  retail grocer id Mich­
igan  if  it  is  not  time  for  us to  make one 
grand  move,  with  a  solid  front,  perfect­
ly  united,  upon  some  basis  agreeable  to 
all,  for  a  complete  organization  of  all 
the  rttail  grocers  of  Michigan,  so  that 
we  may  be able  to  keep  step  with  the 
era  of  trusts  and  combines?  The  whole­
sale  grocers  have  spent a  great  deal  ol 
time  during  the  past  two  months  in  try­
ing  to  form  a  more perfect combine—for 
just  wbat  purpose  I  am  not  positive— 
and  there  have  been  representatives  to 
meetings  held 
in  New  York  and  also 
Chicago  from  Michigan  and,  if  we have 
been  properly 
informed  by  the  press, 
these  meetings  have  been  in  connection 
with  representatives  of  other  large  com 
bines,  such  as  toe  sugar trust  As nearly 
everything  the  grocer  sells  to-day  ol 
manufactured  goods 
is  controlled  or 
handled  by  trusts  or  combines,  I believe 
the  retailer should  awake  and  be  up  to 
date  and  have  a  voice  in  his  business, 
and 
it  is  to  the  best  interests  of  our 
business  and  the  State  that  these  com­
bines  are  right  and  proper,  let  us  also 
combine  and  help  perpetuate  the  same; 
and,  if  not,  let  us  be  fearless  and  con 
demn  them  as  dangerous.

if 

While  the  retail  dealer  may  feel  very 
weak,  financially,  to  face  combines  rep­
resenting  millions,  yet  we are  the means 
used  for  distributing  the  output  of  these 
combines  and  trusts  and  pay  whatever 
prices  they  may  ask,  as  supply  and  de­
mand  do  not always  fix  the  price  with 
trust  or  combine  goods.

We  are  informed  that  four  big  meat 
firms  of  Chicago  actually  fix  the  retail 
price  of  meat  in  Boston.  How  long,  at 
the  present  rate  of  combines,  will  it  be 
before the  trusts  will  make  the  price  for 
the  grocer,  both  in  buying  and  in  sell­
ing?

Grocerymen,  wake  up  and  speak. 
Shall  we continue  to  sell  and  push  the 
sale  of  trust-made  goods,  such  as  crack­
ers,  soaps,  tobaccos,  sugars,  spices  and 
many  other articles?

Would 

it  not  be  well  for  the  retail 
grocery  trade of  the  State  to  ask  Presi­
dent  Wisler  to  call  a mass  convention  of 
the  Michigan  Retail  Grocers'  Associa 
tion,  to  be  held  in  Grand  Rapids  some 
time  in  March  or  April,  for  the  purpose 
of  discussing  these  matters  face  to  face, 
with  a  view  to  reaching  conclusions and 
planning  a  campaign  against the contin­
uance  of  existing  abuses?

in  the  columns  of  the  Tradesman,  be 
cause  it  is  taken  by  nearly  every  gro 
ceryman  in  the  State  and  is  everywhere 
regarded  as  the  candid  and  faithful 
friend  of  the  retail  dealer,  never having 
led  the  trade  astray  by  bad  advice  or 
poor  example. 

J.  F.  T atm an.

The  Tradesman  is  pleased  to  receive 
the  communication  from  Mr.  Tatman, 
because  he  never  undertakes  a  move­
ment  of  this  kind  except  from  the  spur 
of  necessity.  When  the ¡wholesale  gro­
cers  undertook  to  exact  cartage and box­
ing  some  years  ago,  it  was  Mr.  Tatman 
who  issued  the  call  for  the  first  conven­
tion  of  Michigan  grocers,  as  a  re­
sult  of  which  the  Northern  Michigan 
Retail  Grocers’  Association  was ushered 
into  existence.  This  organization  was 
afterward  merged 
into  the  Michigan 
Retail  Grocers'  Association,  which  has 
done  excellent  work 
in  several  direc­
tions.  The  Tradesman  cordially  sec­
onds  Mr.  Tatman’s  suggestion  that  a 
special  meeting  be  called  to be  held 
in 
this  city 
in  the  course  of  a  few  weeks, 
because  there  are  several  matters,  in­
cluding needed  legislation,  which should 
be  taken  up  and  discussed  by  the  retail 
grocery  trade  with  as  little delay  as  pos­
sible.  With  a  view  to  making  the  so­
cial  feature  of  the  proposed  meeting  as 
pleasant  as  possible,  the  Tradesman 
will  take  pleasure  in  inviting  the  gro 
cers  who  attend  the  convention  to  par­

I 

am  disposed  to  make this suggestion 

it  Was  a  Dream.

Husband  (at  breakfast)—I  bad  an 

awful  dream  last  night.

Wile—What  was  it,  John?
Husband—I  dreamed  that your m< the» 
was  out  riding  and 
ran 
away.  Just  as  they  approached  a  fright 
fl 1  precipice,  with  a  sheer  declivity  ol 
500  feet—

the  horses 

(pale-faced)—Oh, 

John, 

that 

Wife 

was aw ful!
all  a  dream. 

Husband—I  woke up  and  found  it  was 

It  was  simply  terrible.

’Twas  Ever  Thus.

“ How  women  change!”   said  the  mar 
who  had  been  married  a  year. 
“ M\ 
wife  used  to  write  to  me  and  send  me  a 
bushtl  of  kisses  in  her  letters. ”

“ Um, ’ ’  said  the  man  who had  beei 

married  a  quarter  of  a  century.

“ But  now  when  I  leave  fur  the  offic* 
just  gives  me a  peck,  and  a  shor 

she 
one at  that. ’ ’

Behind  Lock  and  Key.

Jones—Dear  m e!  You  say  you  ofte 
liy  down  the  1 iw  ta  your  wife.  How  di 
you  go  about  it? 
Bones—Why, all  you  need  is  firmness 
into  my  study,  lock  the 
it  over the  transom.  All 

I  usually  go 
door  and  do 
you  need  is  firmness—in  the  door!

,

“ My  dear,’ ’ said  a  frightened  hus­
band 
in  middle  of  the  night,  shaking 
his  wife,  “ where  did  you  put  that  bot­
tle  of  strychnine?”  
“ On  the  shelf  nexi 
to  the  peppermint.”  
“ Oh,  Lord!” fn 
groaned,  “ I've  swallowed  it  ”  
“ Well 
for goodness’  sake, ”  whispered his wife 
“ keep  quiet,  or you’ll  wake  the  baby.’
Every  workman  in  Japan  is  ticketed 
the  labels  attached  to  his  cap  and  back 
bearing  bis  name,  his  business  and  his 
employer's  name.

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

8

ticipate  in  an  informal  spread  at  one of 
the  city  hotels.

The  views  of  the  Tradesman  on  the 
subject  of  organization  are  well  known 
to  every  Michigan  merchant,  inasmuch 
as  this  publication  was  the  pioneer 
in 
the  West 
in  advocating  organization 
among  retail  dealers  and  its  editor  as­
sisted  very  materially  in  the  organiza 
tion  of  the  hundred  local  businessmen’s 
associations  which  flourished  in  Michi­
gan  a  dozen  or fifteen  years  ago.  No 
longer  ago  than 
last  week,  in  sending 
his  regrets  to  the  Port  Huron  grocers  on 
account  of  his  inability  to  attend  their 
annual  banquet,  he  expressed  himself  as 
follows:

It  is  an  unfortunate  fact  that  grocers 
as  a  class  do  not  derive  all  the  benefits 
they  might  from  organization,  becaust 
of  the  lack  of  co-operation,  lack  of  en 
thusiasm  and 
lack  of  persistent  effotts 
along  certain  well-defined  lines. 
I  be- 
1  eve  that  if  the  retail  grocers  of  Grann 
Rapids  or  Po>t  Huron  or  Detroit or Sag­
inaw  or  any  other city  were  to  stand  to- 
g»ther  as  one  man  in  the  advancement 
• if  their best  interests  and  in  opposition 
t j   abuses  and  trade  wrongs,  they  woula 
revi 1 jtionize  present  mttbods 
in  less 
ban  ten  seconds.  Why grocers as a  clas- 
do  not stand  together, when their  welfare 
depends  on  such  action,  I  am  unable  to 
understand.  With 300 grocers  in  the  cite 
of  Grand  Rapids  and  about  150  enrolled 
on  the  membership  roll  of  tne  Retail 
Grocers’  Association,  the  regular  meet­
ing  which  was  held  last  Tuesday  even­
twenty 
ing  was  attended  by  exactly 
members;  yet  subjects  weie 
intrnduceo 
and  discussed  which  were  of  vit; 1  inter­
est  to  every  grocer,  large  or  smi 11,  riel 
or  poor.  As  1 
looked  over the  twenty 
genii-men  who  attended  the  meeting,  l 
could  not  help  feeling  that  if the gather­
ing  comprised  300,  instead  of  twenty, 
and  there  was  one-tenth  part  of  the  en- 
thus asm  in  the  entire  membership  that 
characterized  the  faithful  few  who  were 
there,  the  cutter,  the  dead-beat,  the job 
ber  who  sell*  the  consumer,  the  manu­
facturer  who  sells  the  department  store 
and  every  other  barnacle  which  standi 
in  the  way  of  the  success  of  the  grocei 
would  disappear  instantly.

Feed  I5

Corn and Oats |

\ 

Our  feed  is  all  m ade  at 
one m ill. 
It is all  ground 
by  the  sam e  man.  H e 
thinks  he  knows  how  to 
do 
it  right  because  he 
has  been  doing  it  for  a 
dozen years.  W e believe 
he  does 
it  right  or  we 
would  get  another  man. 
Our  custom ers  evidently 
think  he  does  it  right  be­
cause  they  keep  on  or­
dering,  and our feed trade 
has  been  enorm ous  this 
w inter  and  doesn’t  seem 
to 
let  up.  W e  don’ t 
w ant  it  to  “ let  up,”   and 
your order w ill help along. 
Sen d  it  in.  W e ’ ll  give 
you  good  feed  at  close 
prices.

E5H5BSH5H5H5HSH5H5H5

LABELS 
FOR
GASOLINE
DEALERS

f

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 co m 
ply  with  this  law,  on  the  follow­
ing  basis:

Ì  Valley  City 
I  Milling  Co.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Sole Manufacturers of  “LILY WHITE.” 

“The flour the best cooks use.”

i  M ...................75c
5  M ......................50c per M
10 M ......................40c per M
2 0 M ..................... 35c per M
50 M ......................30c per M

Tradesman  Company,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

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buying elsewhere.

CTg Sjw)  Do  Not 
JR gK   Overlook

The  fact,  for it  is  a  fact,  that 
the  easiest  lime  to sell  is  the

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Petoskey Standard

If 
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you  do not handle Petoskey Standard Lime,  you should 
investigate its  merits  at once.  Write  us.

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MICHIGAN  T R A D E S M AN

Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Bancroft—Conrad  Frye  succeeds  Kent 

&  Frye  in  the  meat  business.

Escanaba—Cbas.  Grunerd,  meat  deal­

er,  has  s jI i  out  to  F.  Brunner.

Ida—P.  D.  Woodring  succeeds  P.  D. 

Woodring  &  Co.  in  general  trade.

Mt.  Pleasant—Piper  Bros,  have  re­

moved  their  bazaar  stock  to  Marion.

St.  Joseph—Bert  W.  Ricaby  succeeds 
Ricaby  &  Failing  m  the  drug  business.
Detroit—C.  Francis  Stewart  has  pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  of  W.  Gaynor  & 
Co.

Benton  Harbor—W.  L.  Hogue  has 
purchased  the  general  stock  of  M.  Min- 
del.

Flushing—Chas.  E.  Penoyer  has  pur 
chased  the  grocery stock of J.  S.  Thomp­
son.

Sand  Beach—David  Comar  has  re 
moved  bis  drug  stock  back  to  Marine 
City.

Cold water—H.  A.  Wirley 

succeeds 
Gamby  &  Wnley  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Armada—E.  D.  Arnold  has  removed 
his  stock  of  furniture  into the Robertson 
block.

Ida—Albright  &  Hanson  succeed 
Chas.  Hanson  in  the  meat  and  grocery 
business.

Quinnesec—D.  J.  Basso  succeeds Far­
rell  &  Basso  in  the  grocery  and  meat 
business.

Brooklyn—A.  C.  Coffin  has  sold  bis 
boot  and  shoe  and  grocery  stock  to  M. 
G.  Every.

Detroit—J.  H.  Sammer  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  hardware  stock of Lemutl 
Huilourt.

Charlotte—Prindle  &  Co.,  Limited, 
in  the  clothing 

succeed  A.  J.  Prindle 
and  shoe  business.

Menominee—W.  H.  Ball  has  removed 
in  the  flour 

to  Charlotte  and  engaged 
and  feed  business.

Jackson—The  stire  building  vacated 
by  E.  C.  Greene  w<ll  be  occupied  byC. 
B.  Farnham,  cl  ithier.

Escanaba—G  1 netti  &  Pierce,  furni­
ture  dealers and  undei takers,  have  sold 
out to  J.  C.  Maynard.

Pontiac—H.  H.  Wilson &  Co.  succeed 
in  the  grocery  and 

Henry  H.  Wilson 
boot  and  shoe business.

Durand—F.  B.  Sabins  &  Co.  is  the 
name  of  the  hardware  firm  which  suc­
ceeds  Sabins  &  Brewster.

Buchanan—Richards  &  Emerson  suc­
ceed  Geo.  B.  Richards  in  the  furniture 
and  undertaking  business.

Fennville—P.  L.  Soloman  has  re­
moved  his  stock  of  clothing  to  Grand 
Junction,  bis  former  home.

Allegan—The  Home  Bakery 

is  the 
style  adopted  by  Mrs.  Flora  Thompson, 
successor to  Mrs.  L.  S  Turner.

Hill nan—The  lrte  John  Murphy,  pro­
prietor  of  the  Hillman  Hardware  Co., 
is  succeeded  by  Wm.  M  Levyn.

Battle  Creek—W.  A.  Wattles  has  pur­
chased  the  agricultural  implement  and 
harness  stock  of  Frank  H.  Latta.

Laingsburg—Miss  Bertha  Tbroop  has 
sold  her  bazaar  stock  to  Mrs.  Edith 
Eaton  and  Miss  Georgie  Robrabacher.
Armada—Fred  A.  Kipp  and  Moiton 
Torrey  have  formed  a  copartnership 
and  embarked  in  the  grocery  business.
Jackson—F.  D.  Hamilton,  who  oc­
cupied  the  building  purchased  by  E.  C. 
Greene,  has  s<ld  his  crockery  and  gro 
eery  stock  to  W.  H.  Hamilton,  of  B  ttle 
Creek,  who  will  dispose  of  as  much  of 
the  stock  as  possible  and  add  the  re­
mainder  to  his stock  at  Battle Creek.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—J.  L.  Sandelman 
has  leased  a  store  building  and  opened 
a  clothing  and  men’s  furnishing  goods 
store.

Albion—Robert  L.  Staples  will  here­
after  conduct  the  boot  and  shoe  busi­
ness  of  Amidon  &  Staples  in  his  own 
name.

Niles—The  H.  E.  Lowry grocery stock 
has  been  turned  over to  Kidd,  Dater  & 
Co.  who  have  shipped  the  goods to  Ben­
ton  Harbor.

Owosso—C.  S.  Allison  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  H.  W.  Mann  store build­
ing  and  will  occupy  same  with  their 
jewelry  stock.

Quincy—M.  J.  Condra  bid in  the  boot 
and  shoe  stock  of  J.  C.  Joiner at auction 
sale  and  will  continue  the business.  His 
bid  was  $585.

Carson  City—M.  Medler  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the general  merchandise  firm 
of  Medler  Bros 
to  his  partner  and 
will  remove  to  Alma.

Ludmgton—Geo.  Adams and  Jas.  Rye 
have  resigned  their  positions  in  the  Big 
Store  and  embarked 
in  the  dry  goods 
business  on  their  own  account.

Alpena—Benj.  Kramer,  who  has  been 
engaged  in  business  here  for  nineteen 
vears,  will  remove  his  tailoring  estab­
lishment  to  Bay  City  early  in  March.

Mason—H.  S.  Holmes,  of  Chelsea, 
has  leased  the  store  building  vacated  by 
the  Mills  Dry  Goods  Co.  and  will  oc­
cupy 
it  about  April  1  with  a  stock  of 
dry  goods.

St.  Joseph—Edward  J   King,  who  has 
resided 
in  Chicago  for  some time,  has 
returned  to  this  place  and purchased  the 
grocery  stock  and  meat  market  of  Stre- 
low  &  Co.

Hillsdale—Oscar  Hancock,  who  has 
conducted  the  grocery  business at  his 
present  location  for  nearly  forty  years 
has  soli  out  to  Lawrence  &  Co.,  of 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.

Ionia—G.  F.  Whitney  &  Son  have
leased  the  Gorham  store  building  and 
are  making  extensive 
improvements 
before  removing  their  dry  goods  and 
grocery  stock  therein.

Hillsdale—W.  H.  Woodward,employed 
as  salesman  by  C.  S.  Wolcott,  piano 
dealer,  has  removed 
to  Cincinnati, 
where  be  will  engage  in  the  music busi­
ness  on  his  own  account.

Lansing—Frank  McKinley,  clerk  at 
the  New  Grand  Hotel,  and  J.  Lewis 
Warren  of  this  place,  have  formed  a  co­
partnership  and  engaged  in  the  tailor­
ing  business  at  Jackson.

Bay  City—Frank  A.  Tepoorten  has 
lust  celebrated  the  20th  anniversary  of 
his  entrance  into the  drug business.  For 
the  past  eight  vears  be  has  been  located 
at  500  Lafayette avenue.

Elkton—D.  G.  Neuber  wr:t“S 

the 
Tradesman  tV t  the  repott  tbst  he  was 
offering  50 cei ts  on  the  dollar  is untrue; 
thot he  has  paid  100 certs  on  the  dollar 
and  proposes  to  coLtmue  to  do  so.

Charlotte—F.  A.  Goldsborough,  re­
cently  of  Mt.  Pleasant,  will  shortly 
ereit a  building  in  which  be  will  em­
bark  in  the  marble  business.  Cbas.  E. 
Henion  will  represent  him  as  soliciting 
salesman.

Greenville—The  stationery,  furniture 
and  crockery  firm  of  Nelson  &  Wilson 
has  been  dissolved,  W.  G.  Nelson  and 
Charles  Wilson  each  taking  a  share  of 
the  goods  and  opening  separate  estab­
lishments.

Charlotte— W.  B.  Harmon  has  pur­
chased  the  interest of  his  partner,  S.  B. 
Ratbbun,  in  the  North  End  Grocery. 
Mr.  Ratbbun  will  probably  take  a  posi­
tion  as  traveling  salesman  for  a  Chi­
cago house.

Shepherd—Frank  R.  Latbrop  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  and  bazaar  stock  of 
Squire  Wessels  and  will  continue  the 
business  under  the  management  of  M. 
C.  Latbrop,  formerly  engaged 
in  gen­
eral  trade  at  Riverdale.

Montague—Geo.  Mindrop  has  as

The 

signed  bis  grocery  stock  to  W.  E.  Os- 
inun. 
is 
$1,183.40,  of  which  about $800  is  owing 
Geo.  Hume  &  Co.,  of  Muskegon.  The 
assets  inventory  $790 40.

indebtedness 

total 

Fennville—Geo.  F.  Goodrich  has  sold 
his  drug  and  paint  stock  to  Mrs.  E.  A. 
Andrews  and  Dr.  R.  W.  Harrold,  of 
Chicago.  The  firm  name  will  be  E.  A. 
Andrews  &  Co.  The  business  will  be 
conducted  by  Mrs.  Andrews.

Hancock— S.  D.  North  &  Son  have 
incorporated  under  the  same  style  to 
continue  the general  merchandise  busi­
ness.  The  capital  stock  is  $65,000,  all 
paid  in.  The  incorporators  are Geo.  S. 
North,  W.  H.  Whittle and  Frederick  F. 
Wagener.

Jackson—E .  C.  Greene  has  purchased 
of  W.  H.  Hamilton  the  building  known 
as  the  Diamond  T   store  at  115  East 
Main  street.  He  has  also  leased  tbp 
Morrison  building  adjoining  and  will 
convert  both 
into  one  large  store,  re­
moving  his  clothing  and  men's  furnish­
ing  goods  stock  therein.

Big  Rapids—The  stock  of  the  Big 
Rapids  Hardware  Co.,  owned  by  the 
Saginaw  Hardware  Co.,  will be  removed 
to  some  other  location  about  April  1. 
A.  B.  Jackson  has  had  the  management 
of  the  business.  M.  A.  Wells  &  Co. 
have  leased  the  building  and  will  oc­
cupy  it  with  their  clothing  stock.

Detroit—Henry  Allen,  Charles  H.  L. 
Allen,  William  Y.  Allen  and  Barto 
Belwortby  have  become 
incorporated 
under  the  firm  name  of  Henry  Allen  & 
Sons,  and  will  deal  in  cloths,  woolens, 
tailors'  trimmings,  etc.  The  capital 
stock  is  net  stated  in  the  articles  of  as­
sociation,  but  Mr.  Belworthy,  who  is  a 
special  partner,  has  put  in  $8,ooo  cash.
is  closing 
out  his  drug  and  stationery  stock,  pend­
ing  the  erection  of  a  three-story  block 
which  will  shortly  be  erected  by  Mrs. 
Sheldon  on  the  site  of  his  present  loca­
tion.  Mr.  Barry  will  occupy  the  corner 
store  in  the  new  block,  and  during  his 
vacation  will  devote  bis  time  to  ex 
ploitmg  Parke,  Davis  &  Co. ’s  line  in 
the  Upper  Peninsula.

Houghton—B.  T.  Barry 

Breedsville—B. 

J,  Robertson,  who 
was  formerly  engaged  in  the  dtug  and 
grocery  business  here,  will  shortly  re­
sume  business  at  this  place  on  a  larger 
scale  than  ever before,  handling  a  half 
dozen  different  lines.  So 
far  he  has 
purchased  st  cks  as  follows:  Groceries 
from  B.  Desenberg  &  Co.  ;  crockery 
from  H.  Leonard  &  Sons;  shoes  from 
Rindge,  Kalmbacb, 
Logie  &  C o .; 
clothing  from  Ideal  Clothing  Co.

Houghton—The  Lake  Superior  Pro­
duce  and  Cold  Storage  Co.  has  been  or­
ganized  to  engage 
in  the  business  of 
buying  and  selling  at  wholesale and  re­
tail  all  kinds  of  merchandise,  etc. 
Authorized  capital,  $65,000.  Capital 
subscribed,  $65,000.  Paid 
in,  $9,750. 
Incorporators:  Adolph  J.  Ruhl,  Adolph 
J.  Ruhl,  trustee,  Houghton;  Johnson 
Vivian, 
Jr.,  Opecbee;  John  P.  Peter­
man,  Allouez;  Henry  L.  Baer,  Han­
cock.

Middleville—Dr.  Nelson  Abbott  has 
filed  a  voluntary  petition  in bankruptcy, 
which  action  was  precipitated  by  the 
foreclosure  of  a  $500  mortgage  on  his 
drug  stock,  held  by  Cornelius Crawford. 
Appraisal  of  the  stock  while  it  was  in 
the  hands of  the sheriff  shows  total  as­

sets  of  $1,700  and  liabilities  in  excess 
of $3,200. 
It  is  alleged  that  the  transfer 
of a  branch  stock  to  the  father  of  Mr. 
Abbot  was  made  with  fraudulent  intent, 
and  this  claim  will  be  the  basis  on 
which  his  creditors  will  act  in  opposing 
his discharge  from  bankruptcy.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Clarksville—Tbadeus  Mercer  has  be­
gun  operations  for  the  season 
in  bis 
cheese  factory,  with  Mr.  Love as maker.
Detroit—The Davidson Pipe and  Nov­
elty  Co.  has  changed  its  corporate  name 
to  United  States  Cbemico  Wood Co.  and 
increased  its  capital  stock  to $25,000.

Lansing—The  Lansing  Cooperage  Co. 
has  been  organized 
to  manufacture, 
purchase and  sell  cooperage  with  a paid 
in  capital  of  $6,000. 
Incorporators: 
Jacob  F.  Schultz,  John  Warner,  J.  Fred 
Schultz,  Christine  Schultz.

Calumet—The  Calumet  &  Heckla 
Mining  Co.  has  purchased  of  the  John 
Spry  Lumber  Co.  several  tracts  of  pine 
and  hemlock 
for  a  consideration 
of  $100,000  Some  of  the  land  is situated 
in  the  eastern  portion  of  Luce  county 
and  a  portion 
in  Whitefish  township, 
Chippewa  county.

land 

Waylaud—The  Wayland  Creamery 
Co.  has  been  organized  to  secure  and 
manufacture  milk  and 
its  products. 
Authorized  capital,  $5,000.  Capital  sub­
scribed  and  paid 
Incorpo­
rators:  Arthur  H.  Clark,  L.  F.  Wall- 
brecht,  F.  E   Pickett,  U.  S.  Kenfield, 
E.  O.  Hanlon,  E.  F.  Clark,  E .  W. 
Pickett. 

in,  $5,000. 

_______ 

______

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.
Menominee—Frank  Williams, who has 
been  employed  as  clerk 
in  the  hard­
ware  store  of  the  Northern  Hardware  & 
Supply  Co.  for  a  number of  years,  has 
resigned  his  position  and  will  work 
in 
the  same capacity  for  Herman  Berthcldt 
in  bis  new  store.

Traverse  C itv—W.  E.  Wilson,  sales­
man  in  J.  W.  Slater’s  house  furnishing 
store,  has  returned  to  his  home 
in 
Grand  Rapids  on  account  of  sickness.

Cadillac—Al.  Letts  is  now  employed 

at  the  Wilcox  Bros,  grocery  store.

Escanaba—Eugene  Godin  has  taken  a 
position  with  Matt  Smith,  who will  soon 
open  a  men’s  furnishing  goods  store  at 
813  Ludington  street.

Eaton  Rapids—N.  D.  Carlton,  who 
has  been  employed  as  clerk  for  the  firm 
of  Stirling  &  Crawford  for  the  past  four 
years,  has  severed  his  connection  with 
them  and  has  commenced  clerking  for 
the  Knapp  Grocery  Co.

Albion—Dwight  W.  Robinson  has 
taken  a  position  in  the  dry  goods  store 
of  Geo.  T.  Be lien.

Paw  Paw—E .  Smith  &  Co.  have  a 
new  clerk  in  their  cl  thing  store  in  the 
person  of  J.  I.  Huff,  of  Decatur.
Howard  City—John  B  King 

is  now 
in  Bradley  &  McGeorge’s 

employed 
grocery  store.

Ishpeming—C.  G.  Senecal,  of  Mar­
quette.  has  taken  the  management  of the 
dry  goods department  of  Kahn  &  Skud.
St.  Joseph—Louis  E.  Finn,  prescrip­
tion  clerk  for  Howard  &  Pearl,  was 
married  recently  to  Miss  Orah  Rust,  of 
Lock land,  Ohio.  The  ceremony  took 
place  in  Chicago.

Middleville—W.  B.  Brown has severed 
his  connection  with  M.  C.  Hayward  & 
Son  to take a  more  responsible  position 
with  F.  L.  Burdick  &  Co., at Sturgis.

Henry  Meijering  succeeds  Stephen 
Ford  in  the  meat  business at  45  Foun­
tain  street.  He  was  formerly  a  resident 
of  Jamestown.

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5

Grand  Rapids  Oossip

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars—Raws are  stronger and  higher. 
Refined grades  are  weak  and  slight  con­
cessions  are  being  made  from  quota­
tions.

Tea—The  tea  trade has  not been  ac­
tive.  A  fair  business  has  been  done, 
considering  the  circumstances. 
The 
market  is  fully  as  strong,  however,  as  it 
has  been,  and  no  concessions  are  pos­
sible.

these 

Coffee—Dealers  are  beginning  to  feel 
that  the  heaviest trade  of  the  year  for 
the  present  season  is  practically  over. 
Figures  will  show  that the  sale  of  pack­
age  coffee  in  this  territory  was  slightly 
in  excess  of  a  year  ago  for  the  three 
heaviest  months  in  the  year,  November, 
December  and  January.  This  was  no 
doubt  due  to  the  severe  cold  weather 
which  prevailed  during 
three 
months  and  the  natural  increase  in  de­
mand, as  well  as  the  fact  that  consumers 
generally  have  been  better  able  to  pur­
chase  than  they  were the preceding year.
Canned  Goods—Tomatoes are  practic­
ally  unchanged.  Corn  has  been  dull, 
generally  speaking,  although  some  fair­
sized  blocks  have  moved  out.  Prices 
show  no  change.  Peas  are  very  quiet 
and  nothing  is  doing  except  on  regular 
brands  that the  trade  must  have.  Stand­
ard  grades  of  peas are  not  abundant 
in 
supply.  Peaches are  rather  slow.  There 
is  some  enquiry  for  Baltimore  seconds 
at  full  prices and  California  goods are 
moving  in  a  fair  way.  There  have  been 
no  changes 
in  price,  and  a  better  de­
mand  is  expected.

Dried  Fruits—Prunes  are  the  best 
sellers  on  the  list  and  prices  are  firmly 
held  at  the  advance  noted  last  week. 
Small  sizes  are  getting  rapidly  cleaned 
up  and  further advances  are  not  unlike­
ly.  Peaches  are  rather  quiet,  the  radi­
cal  advance  of a  few  days  ago  having 
killed  the  sale  to  a  great  extent.  Cur­
rants  are  unchanged  and  the  demand 
for  the  cleaned  variety  is  fairly  good. 
Raisins  are  in  rather  small  demand,  the 
bulk  of  the  calls being  for  the  ungraded 
variety.  The  announcement of  the  dis­
solution  of  the  raisin  trust  has  not yet 
affected  the  secondary  markets.  A pri­
cots  are  not  moving  very  well,  but 
prices are firm.

Molasses—The  values  on  molasses 
continue  firm,  with  only  a  fair  move 
ment,  such  as 
is  required  for the  im­
mediate  needs  of  the  retail  trade.  A 
difference of  opinion  prevails  as  to  the 
effect  of  the  recent  Southern  fro'sts  on 
the  Louisiana  cane  crop.  Some  of  the 
more  optimistic  are  inclined  to  believe 
that  no  great  amount  of  injury was  done 
take 
to  the  crop.  Others,  however, 
If  the 
contrary  view  of  the  situation. 
prospective  crop  was 
injured  to  any 
it  ought  to have  a  future 
great  extent 
influence  on  prices,  with  a  tendency  to 
advance  them.

Salt  Fish—Some  changes  have  been 
made  in  the  prices  of  several  lines  of 
salt  fish  the  past  week.  They  have  for 
the  most  part  been  toward  an  easier 
basis.  This  is  true of  the  highest  grade 
of  herring,  in  which  there  has  been  a 
decline  amounting  to  about  S i.50 per 
barrel,  and  smaller 
lots  in  proportion. 
The  salt  fish  market  is  beginning  to 
show  a  trifle  more  activity  than  was 
noticeable 
last  week  and  as  the  Lenten 
season  progresses  it  is  more  than  likely 
that  trade  will  improve.

Rice—The  movement  of  rice  is  only 
lines  of 
fair.  High  grade 
rice are  reported  to be  in  good  demand

imported 

in  the  Eastern  markets  with  a  very  firm 
undertone  of  feeling  that  may  result 
in 
better  prices.

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples—The  market  continues  strong 
and  satisfactory.  Good  solid  cold  stor­
age  stock  commands  $3  for  Tallman 
Sweets  and  Pippins,  $4.25  for  Baldwins 
and  Greenings  and  $4  50  for  Spys and 
Kings.

Bananas—Suppl  es  are  more  liberal, 
but  not  yet  equal  to  the  demands  of 
the  trade.  A  brisk  demand  continues 
from  city  and  country  buyers.

Beans—Handlers  pay  5o@75c  for  un­
picked.  holding  city  picked  mediums 
at  qoc@ $i. 10.

Beets—25c  per bu.
Butter—Factory  creamery  is  strongly 
held  at  20c  for  fancy  and  igc  for choice. 
Fancy  dairies  are  scarce,  due to the  in­
terruption  of  shipments  incident  to  the 
cold  weather,  readily  commanding  15© 
16c.  Ordinary  grades  of  dairy  are  in 
plentiful  supply  at  io@I2c.

Cabbage—Scarce  and  higher,  due 
partially  to  the  large  amount  of  stock 
frozen.  Dealers  bold  at  $30  per  ton. 

Carrots—25c  per  bu.
Celery—i 8@2oc  per  doz.  bunches  for 

White  Plume.

Cranberries—The  market 

is  without 
charge.  Cape  Cods  command  $7  per 
bbl.,  Wisconsins  fetch  $6  and  jerseys 
are  slow  sale  at $5.50.

Cucumbers—Hothouse  stock 

is  still 

held  at  $1  per doz.
Eggs—The  past  week  has been  an  ex­
citing  one,  quotations  having  kited  to 
40c  in  some  markets  and  to  30c  in  this 
market.  The  result  was  that  consump­
tion  ceased  almost 
instanter.  Locally, 
eggs  have  declined  to  20c,  with  indica­
tions  of  a  further  decline  to  15c  by  the 
end  of  the  week.  Country  merchants 
should  be  careful  not  to  be  led  astray by 
temporary  quotations  and  pay  higher 
prices  th.an  can  be  realized  when  the 
eggs  are  sent  to  market.
fast  as  they  arrive  at  80c  per doz.

Game—Rabbits  are  grabbed  up  as 
Honey—Amber has  declined  to 8c and 

white to  ioc.  The  demand  is  small.

Lemons—Eastern  advices  are  to  the 
effect  that  it  has  been  several days since 
Ruy  fresh  arrivals  of  stock  and  in  the 
larger  produce  markets  the  opinion  is 
quite  general  that  the  market  will  take 
on  better  prices  before  long,  unless  re­
ceipts  within  the  next  few  days  are  lib­
eral.  Californias  are 
in  moderate  re­
ceipt  in  this  market.  Prices  rule  firm. 
Lettuce—14 ®  15c  per  pound.
Nuts—Hickory, 
$i.5o@2,  according 
to  size.  Walnuts  and  butternuts,  60c.
Onions—Dealers  meet  no  difficulty  in 
getting  50c  for  red  and  60c  for  yellow.
Oranges—The  movement  out since  the 
shipping  weather  developed  has  been 
decidedly  heavy.  Local  trade  has  also 
increased  since  the  fresh  stock came  in. 
Fully  three  quarters of the orange crop is 
reported  to  have  been  harvested  and 
crop  statistics  give  tone  to  the  belief 
that  the  grand  totals  for  the  season  will 
be  much  smaller  than  they  were  a  year 
ago. 
Parsley—The  market  is  still  hovering 
around  50c  per  doz.,  due  to  the  enor- 
mus  consumptive  demand  of  the  Chi­
cago  market.

.

.

.

Parsnips—50c  per bu.
Pop  Corn—50c  per  bu.
Potatoes—The  market 

is  decidedly 
stronger and  higher,  but  no  one  appears 
to  be  able  to  form  a  definite  conclusion 
as  to  the  outcome.  Local  dealers  are 
paying  30@35c  at outside buying points, 
holding  at  4o@4$c  for  city  trade  The 
situation  at  St.  Louis  is  thus  described 
by  the  Miiler  &  Teasdale  Co.  under 
“ The  market  is  very 
date  of  Feb.  28: 
strong, 
indeed.  We  anticipate  even 
higher  prices 
in  the  next  week  or  ten 
days,  but  we do  not believe  that  prices 
can  be  maintained 
long.  We  may  be 
wrong,  but  it  is  our opinion  that  as  soon 
as  the  movement  begins  at 
loading 
stations  prices  will  decline.”
Poultry—Scarce.  Chickens,  I2@ i3c; 
fowls, 
io@ i i c ;  ducks,  n @ i2 c ;  geese, 
ioc;  turkeys,  I2@ I4C.

Sweet  Potatoes—Illinois  Jerseys  are in 

fair  demand  at $3.5a

The  Telephone  Situation.

While  the  local telephone situation has 
attracted  much  attention  during  the 
past  three  years,  the  last  sixty  days  has 
been  of  greatest 
interest,  for  with  the 
advent  of  the  new  year  came  a  new 
management  on  the  part  of  the  Michi­
gan  Telephone  Co.  The  cherished  tra­
ditions  of  the  past  were  suddenly  and 
dramatically  thrown  aside  by  the  Bell 
Co.  and  an  aggressive  activity  of  new 
methods,  new  plans,  new  promises,  new 
theories  and  new  threats  was  heralded 
by  the  leading  newspapers  in  every  city 
and  town  in  the  State.  Where  heretofore 
the  Bell  Co.  refused  to  patronize  the 
newspapers,  at  the  beginning  of  the 
new  year a  new  leaf  was  turned  and  on 
the  ledger appears  a  new  account.  Con­
tracts  were  made  with  every daily  paper 
of 
for  one 
year's  advertising  for a  daily  announce­
ment  and  special  rates  for  special  mat 
ters.  Payments  were  made  in  advance, 
as a  rule,  for  the  entire  year's  advertis­
ing. 
the  remainder  of  the 
State  by the amount  of  space  contracted 
for and  used  in  this  city  during  the past 
two  months,  the  Bell  Co  will  pay  over 
$20,000  to  Michigan  newspapers  dur­
ing  1899.

in  the  State 

importance 

Judging 

*  

*  

*

Why  do  corporations  whose  existence 
depends  on  securing  from  the  public 
unreasonable  profits  and  unjust  charges 
ever  parade  their  “ millions!”   The 
$2,000,000  Erie  Co.’s  bonds  offered  in 
January  and  the  $2,500 000  Michigan 
Co.’s  bonds  offered  in  February  can  not 
fail  to  impress  the  public  with  the  fact 
that  the 
independent  companies  have 
thoroughly  threatened  the  oveithrow  of 
the  Bell  Co.,  and  that  only  by  the  most 
liberal  use  of  money  to  create  public 
opinion  unfavorable  to the  independent 
companies;  by  rebuilding  much  of 
its 
property  to  enable  it  to compete in qual­
ity  of  service  with  tbe 
independent 
companies;  by 
installing  in  this  city  a 
modern  switch  board  and  other appa­
ratus,and the  keeping  of  a  large number 
of  professional  solicitors 
in  tbe  field, 
can  the  Bell  Co.  ever  hope  to  regain  its 
lost  prestige  and  patronage.

*  

*  

*

its  opponents 

The  struggle  between  the  Bell  Co. 
is  most  severe  in 
and 
in  all  the  State  no  com­
Michigan  and 
pany  has  had  tbe  atticks  made  upon 
it 
so  persistently  and  savagely  by  the  Bell 
Co.  as  has  the  local  Citizens  Co.—and 
no  company  is  better  prepared  to  with­
stand  the  assault.  Every  prophecy made 
by  the  Bell  Co.  three  years  ago  has 
proved  false.  The  Citizens  Co.  has 
grown  and  prospered,  while  the  Michi­
gan  Bell  Co.,  rather  than  abandon  the 
field  a  bankrupt,  has  reorganized  since 
January  1.  Stock  in  the  Citizens  Co.  is 
eagerly  sought  at  par  and  better,  and 
pays  2  per  cent,  quarterly  dividends 
with  the  regularity  of  clockwork.  Stock 
in  the  Bell  Co.  pays  no  dividends  and 
is  going  begging,  no one  wanting  it  at 
any  price. 
In  spite  of  the  fact  that  the 
Bell  Co.  has  had  from  two  to  twelve 
solicitors  after  subcribers  at  any  rates 
(or no  rates  if  only  it  could  secure  con­
tracts),  this  company  has  to-day 
less 
than  1,200  instruments  in service  in  this 
city,  including  both  the  free  and  paid 
telephones.  Previous  to  the  Citizens 
Co.  beginning  service  the  Bell  Co.  bad 
1,481  telephones 
in  this  city.  Of  the 
subscribers  using  Bell  telephones  pre­
vious to  the beginning  of  service  by  the 
Citizens  Co.,  and  who  to-day  use t  le- 
phones,  but  twenty-five  offices and  fifty- 
one  residences  do  not  use  the  Citizens 
instruments.  Of  the  2,600 Citizens  tel­

in  service 

ephones 
in  Grand  Rapids 
1,980 are  in  offices  and  residences  not 
using  any  other  telephone.

*  

*  

*

Last  month  (February)  the  Citizens 
Co.  took 
102  new  contracts,  being  the 
largest  number  in  any  one  month  in two 
years.  Of  these contracts,  sixtv-five were 
secured  during  tbe  last  fifteen  days  of 
January—seventeen  being  taken  on  Feb. 
28.  Tbe  Citizens  Co  has  maintained 
its  rates—being  $20 anywhere  in tbe city 
for  residences  and  $30 
for  business 
places  within  one  mile  of  exchange — 
and  has  paid  all  expenses  of  operation 
and  maintenance  and  2  per  cent,  divi­
dends  each  quarter  for  the  past  two 
years.

*  

*  

*

The 

is  competition. 

The  Citizens  Co.  has  kept  its  prom­
It  gives  good 
ises  with  our  people. 
service.  It  has  more  toll  line  telephones 
in  Western  Michigan  than  has  the  Bell 
It  has  established  and  maintains 
Co. 
as  low  rates  as 
it  is  possible  to  make 
and  give  first  class  service  and  by  its 
franchise  from  the  city  has  guaranteed 
its  rates.  The  Bell  Co.  has  no  franchise 
limiting  or  guaranteeing  rates.  Where 
there  is  no  competition  the  Citizens  Co. 
makes  tbe  same  reasonable  and 
low 
rates  as  to  points  having  competition. 
The  Bell  toll  rates  are  low  only  where 
there 
improve­
ment  in  service  and  reductions  in  rates 
were  brought  about  by  the  Citizens  Co. 
Can  anv  Grand  Rapids  business  man 
afford  to  bestow  his  telephone  patron­
age 
in  such  a  way  that  if  others  foil iw 
his  example  the  local  company  would 
be  driven  out? 
In  this,  the  greatest 
struggle  the  people  have  yet  had  with 
corporation  rule,  shall there be any  ques­
tion  as.  to  tbe  attitude  of  any  Grand 
Rapids  citizen?  Shall  tbe  300 
local 
business  men  who  own  the  Citizens  Co. 
continue  to  receive  tbe  support  of  this 
community,  or  will  some  considerable 
number of  unworthy  citizens  aid  a  com­
pany  whose  record 
is  one  of  extortion 
and insult.simply  because  of  temporary, 
less-than-cost  rates?

The  Herold-Bertscb  Shoe  Co.  author­
izes  the  announcement  that  Russell  W. 
Bertsch  will  cover  the  trade  heretofore 
visited  by  the 
late  Albert  C.  Wetzel. 
Alonzo  Herold  will  cover the  lake  shore 
territory  formerly  visited by Mr.  Bertsch 
and  S.  H.  Simmons  will  also  enlarge 
his  territory.  These  changes  will  ren­
der  unnecessary  the  employment  of  an 
add.tional  s  lesman  at  this  time.

Lucas  H.  Mulder  has  purchased  tbe 
grocery  stock  at  the  corner  of  Lagrave 
street  and  Wenham avenue formerly con­
ducted  by  G.  Van  Dam,  who  has  re­
tired  from  trade  to  embark 
in  agricul­
tural  pursuits.  Mr.  Mulder  was  former­
ly  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  un­
der  the  style  of  Kloet  &  Mulder.

The  style  of  W.  C.  Hopson  &  Co., 
wholesale  dealers 
in  tin  and  tinners’ 
supplies  at  the  corner  of  Louis  and 
Campau  streets,  has been  changed  to  the 
Hopson-Haftenkamp  Co.,  not 
incorpo­
rated. 
_______
O. 

A.  Fanckboner,  who  recently  sold 

his drug  stock  at  427  East  Bridge  street 
to  D.  T.  Paulson,  has opened  a  5  and  10 
cent  store  on  East  Main  street,  Kala­
mazoo. 

_____ _ 

______

Peter  Jasper,  meat  dealer  at  the  cor­
ner of  North  Coit  and  Palmer  avenues, 
has  added  a  line  of  groceries.

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades and  prices,  phone Visner,  800.

6

Woman’s World

Putting  Yourself  in  His  Place.

The  gray  and  asbeD  days  of  Lent  are 
upon  us,  and  you  have  been  thinking, 
nay  dear  little  girl,  of  the  way  in  which 
you  could  beit  observe  the  penitential 
season.  You  have  danced  the  soles  ofl 
your  dainty  satin  slippeis;you  have 
screamed  and  scrteched  at  teas  and  re­
ceptions  until  you  were  hoarse;  you 
have  talked  nonsense  at  dinners  until 
you  disgusted  yourself,  and  flirted  it 
tbe  theater  unt  1  you  were  deadly  weary 
of  it all,  and  felt  that  you  could  cry  out 
with  the  preacher  of  old,  "V anity  ol 
vanities,  all  is  vanity  and  vexation  of 
spirit. ”

for  your  having 

But  underneath  the  apparent  frivclity 
there  is  the  true  and  womanly  heart  of 
you,  jrst  as  tie   sound  wine  lies  under 
the  froth  and  bubbles  on  the  top  of  the 
gliss,  and  you  feel  that  you  would  like 
to  be  of  some  real  use  in  the  world  and 
to  know  that  some  one  was  the  bttter 
and  happier 
lived 
Sometimes 
in  the  morning  when  you 
first  awaken,  or  in  the  quiet  dusk,  you 
think  that  you  have  gotten  pretty  far 
away  from  the 
ideals  with  which  you 
started  out  so  short  a  time  ago  and  th  t 
you  would  blush  to  mett,  face  to  face, 
the  lofty  sentimeits  about  a  woman’s 
career that  you  expressed  in your gradu 
intended  to  go 
ating  essay.  Then  you 
into  society  only  enough  to  keep 
in 
touch  with  your  fellow  creatures.  You 
had  no 
it  absorb  all 
thought  and  feeling  and  ambition  and 
strength.  On  the  contrary,  it  was  to  be 
merely  a  diversion  and  not  interfere 
with  your serious  purposes and profound 
study.  You  did  not  know  then,  as  you 
do  now,  that  there  is  no halfway  ground 
for a  girl,  and  that  she  must  be  either 
swept  along  with  the  current 
in  the 
swim  of  society  or  else  stay  safely  out 
high  and  dry  on  the  bank,  and  you 
smile,  as  older  and  wiser  people  have 
done,  to  realize  how  little  we  can  fit  our 
theory  of  life  to  the  actual  conditions.

idea  of 

letting 

Now,  however,  you have  time  to  think 
quietly,  and to  ask  yourself  in  the  words 
of  the  politician,  "W hat  are  we  here 
for?”   And  I  would  like  to  suggest  that 
about  the  best  thing  along  the  line  of 
righteousness  that  any  girl  can  do  is  to 
try  the  experiment  of  putting  herself  in 
other  people’s  places  and  attempt,  for 
a  time  at  least,  to  do  as  she  would  be 
done  by. 
It  may  not  sound  romantic 
or  picturesque,  but  to  most  girls  who 
have  only  thought  of  themselves  it  is 
likely  to  be  a  startling  no-’elty.

Suppose  you  try  putting  yourself  in 
your  mother's  place,  for  instance.  You 
have  never  thought  there  was  anything 
especial  about  her.  She  was  simply  a 
watchful  providence  that  stood  between 
you  and  unpleasant  things,  and  you 
have  taken  her  devotion  as  such  a  mat­
ter  of  course  it  wasn't  worthy  of  men- 
t on.  But  think  of  it  now.  Do  you  re­
member 
in  the  old  days,  before  your 
father  had  made  bis  fortune,  how  in  or­
der  that  you  might  go  with  richer  girls 
and  not  be  ashamed  she  slaved  all  day 
long  and  half  the  night  over  your 
clothes,  making  them  dairty  and  fine? 
Nobody  knows  the self-sacrifice  of  those 
years  when  she  did  the  work  of  seam­
stress  and  cook  and  nurse  and  chamber­
maid,  and  wore  made-over  clothes  to 
save  for her children’s  sake.  She  loved 
pretty  things  She  bad  a  taste  for books 
and  a  beautiful  tilent  for  music,  but 
she  let  them  rust out,  that  the  fine  new 
bouse  and  the  piano  and  the  luxury 
might  be  all  for  you.  Don’t  you  think

if  you  bad  done  all  that  for another  per­
son  that  you  would  waLt  some  return  foi 
it?  Don’t  you  think  it  seems  bitter  hard 
that  she  should  get  nothing  now  but 
snubs,  that  her  opinion  should  be  de­
rided  as  old-fashioned  and  that  there 
should  never  even  be  a  word  of  grati 
tude  for  all  that  she  has  sacrificed? 
I 
in  her*  place,  wouldn’t  you 
you  were 
like  to  feel  kisses  on  your  work-worn 
bands  and  to  know  that  in  your  cbil 
dren’s 
loving  eyes  there  was  a  hale 
about  your  gray  old  head?

Then  there’s vour  father.  Try  putting 
in  the  place  of  a  hard-headed 
yourself 
business  man  and  see  what  sort  of  ar 
investment  you  must  seem  to  him.  He 
spent  thousands  of  dollars  on  your  edu­
cation  and  must  have  looked  forward  to 
some  returns  in  the  way  of  companion­
ship.  What  does  be  get?  The  privilege 
of  signing  checks.  Nothing  more. 
If 
be asks  you  to  sing,  you  are  always  toe 
tired  or  too  out  of  voice  or  too  some­
thing. 
If  he  wants  to talk  you  are  in  a 
fidget  to  get  off with  some  giggling girls 
<  r  addle-pated  dudes,  and  so  far  as  he 
can  see,  you  haven’t  an 
idea  in  the 
world  above  a  cotillion  favor.  Don’t 
you  think,  just as a  mere  matter  of  busi 
ness,  it  must  seem  to  him  that  he  has 
gotten  a  pretty  poor  return 
for  his 
money?

It  ought  to  be  easy  enough  to  put  our­
selves  in  other  women's  places  and  do 
*s  we  would  be  done  by,  seeing  we all 
want  the  same  things  and  have  the same 
grievances, but  when  we  realiy  do  it  the 
millennium  will  be  in  sight. 
Just  con 
sider,  for instance,  if you were  a  hostess, 
how  you  would  like  a  girl  who  appar 
ently  thought  that  you  gave  entertain­
ments  for  no  other  purpose  than  to  fur 
nisb  her  with  a  picturesque  background 
for her flirtations,  and  who was sulky and 
full  when  routed  out  from  behind  the 
palms? 
If  you  were  an  elderly  lady, 
what  wouli  you  think  of  a  girl  who took 
no  pains  to  hide the  fact  that  she  was 
bored  to  death  by  having  to  spend  a few 
minutes  in  your  company? 
If  you  were 
a  married  woman,  how  wot 11  you  1  ke 
for  a  pretty  young  girl  to  try  to  get  up 
a  flirtation  with  your  husband  and  rid­
icule  you  for  being  jealous  when you  re­
sented 
If  you  were a  homely  girl, 
would  you  enjoy  having  the popular  girl 
spend  the  time  recounting  her  triumphs 
and  what  this  man  said  and  the  other 
man  thought,  and  how  tieater  parties 
and  candy  and  flowers  were  lavished 
upon  her?  You  know  very  well  that  you 
would  get  tired  of  it  very  quicklv.  We 
may  do  many  of  these  things  thought­
lessly,  but  no  one  is  dull  when  it  comes 
to  their  own  feelings,  and when in  doubt 
about  any 
line  of  conduct  a  safe guide 
is  to  make  a  personal  test. 
If  it  would 
be  unpleasant  to  us  we  may  be  pretty 
sure  it  would  be  to  other  people.

it? 

Then,  for  goadness’  sake,  put yourself 
in  the  place  of  the  average  young  man 
and  refrain  from  hinting.  Try  to  re­
member  that  bis  entire  salary  for  a 
month  would  not  pay  for  one  of  your 
silk  lined 
frocks,  and  out  of  that  he 
must  settle  with  his  landlady  and  wash­
woman,  and  that 
it  doesn't  allow  any 
margin  over  for  extras  Every  time  you 
inveigle  him  into  sending  you  violets  or 
candy  or  roses  you  are  sending  him  to 
the  lunch  courter  or  into  debt  There  is 
a  general  theory  that  every  man  is  a 
millionaire  and  has  money  to  burn. 
Nothing 
is  so  far  from  the  truth.  We 
can  count  all  the  rich  men  in  town  bv 
name,  and  there  is  something  infinitely 
pitiful  in  the  way  so  many  girls  force  a 
man  either  to  spend  money  on  them  or 
seem  mean.  When  a  man 
in  love

is 

MI CHI GAN  TRA D E S MA N

with  a  girl,  and  wants  to  please  her,  it 
takes  the  courage  of  a  hero  for  him  to 
nave  enough  determination  to  resist  her 
lints,  and  many  a  man  makes  his  first 
start  on  the downward  road  of  dishon­
esty  to  gratify  bis  sweetheart’s  silly  de­
sire  to  be  able  to  brag  about  presents 
her  best  beau  sent  her.  Put  yourself  in 
a  man's  place,  girls,  and  think  of  how 
much  more  respect  he  must  have  for  a 
girl  who  will  not  bint,  and  how  beart- 
feltly  grateful  he  must  be  to  one  who 
will  not  receive  any  kind  of  a  present.
Lent,  as  you  have  observed,  little  sis­
ter,  is  a  time  of  sermons  intended  for 
nber  people,  and  perhaps  this  one  is 
no  exception  to  the  rule.  We  can  all 
see  bow  other  sinners  ought  to  profit  by 
them  and  feel  very  self-righteous  as  we 
make  the  application  and  think  bow 
conscience-smitten  our neighbors  ought 
to  feel.  There 
is  Mary  Smith,  who  is 
so  envious,  and  Susie  Perkins,  who  is 
such  a  horrid  little  gossip,  and  Elsie 
Perkins,  who 
is  such  a  fibber.  As  for 
is,  thank  heaven,  none  of  these  things 
apply  to  us,  and  we  run  over  the  cata­
logue  of  our  virtues  as  complacently  as 
a  merchant  "O .  K .-ing”   the  items  of  a 
good  account.  But  there are  times  when 
we  preach  sermons  to  ourselves  from 
which  there  is  no  escape,  and  we  never 
get  nearer  the  very  heart  of  all  true 
goodness  and  charity  than  when  we take 
is  our  text  the  golden  rule,  and  try  to 
do  unto  others  as  we  would  that they did 
unto  us. 

D o roth y  D ix .

Old-Fashioned  Remedy.

In  these  highly  civilized  and  humani­
tarian  days,  when  it  is  proposed  to  rule 
the  world,  and  convert  sinners  from  the 
error  of  their  ways  by  ethical  means  in­
stead  of force,  many  good,  old-fashioned 
customs  have  fallen  into  disuse.  Among 
these  is  the  shake.  Not  even  naughty 
children  are  shaken  now  when  they  are 
bad,  although 
it  used  to  be  found  a 
potent  and  effective  means  of  grace,  so 
of  course  the  feasibility  of  applying  it 
to  grown  people 
is  unhappily  entirely 
out  of  the question.

is 

is 

There 

But  how  many  women  one  knows  who 
could  be  so  much  benefited  and  made 
so  much  more  agieeable  by  a  real  good 
shaking! 
the  coroplacert 
woman,  for  instance,  who goes  through 
life  with  an  assumption  that  she 
in­
carnate  wisdom,  and  petfectly  capable 
of  deciding  everybody’s  affairs  for them 
better  than  they  can  do 
it  for  them­
selves.  She  makes  her  family  eat  what 
she  likes,  she  forces  them  to  believe  in 
her  particular  brand  of  thee logy,  she 
compels  them  to  follow  the  careers  she 
picks  out  for  them,  and  to  conform  to 
her  ideas  in  all  respects. 
In  clubs  atd 
church  societies  she  must  rule  cr die, 
simply  because  she  knows  she  knows 
better  than  any  one  else.  Generally  she 
is  a  good  woman  and  an  intelligent 
woman,  and  she  would  be  a  real  benefit 
to  any  community  if  she  could  only  get 
a  good 
jar  that  would  shake  her  self- 
conceit.

laws  governing 

The  Texas  Legislature  is  considering 
a  bill  which  is  of  interest  to  liars  there 
and  everywhere  else. 
If  this  becomes  a 
'aw,  proof  that  a  man  has  been  called  a 
liar  will  become  a  full  defense  in  as­
sault  and  battery—that 
is  to  say,  the 
man  with  the  battered  nose,  blackened 
eye  and  hiatused  front  teeth  will 
learn 
in  a  court  of  justice  that  it "served  him 
right.”   The 
liars  in 
other  states  vary. 
In  Kentucky  it  is  a 
misdemeanor  punishable  by  a  $20 fine 
to  call  any  man  a  liar,  and  a  police  jus­
tice  of  Louisville  has  declared  from  bis 
bench  that  a  lie  in  Kentucky  means  a 
blow.  This  memorable  declaration  was 
given 
in  discharging  honorably  a  man 
who  had  knocked  down  another  fellow 
liar  and  had  been 
for  calling  him  a 
brought 
In  V ir­
ginia,  by  the 
law  of  1896,  a  man  who 
calls  another  man  a  liar  is  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor,  and on  conviction  may  be 
fined  not  more  than  *25. 
In  Georgia  it 
is  slander,  punishable  by  $1,000  fine  or 
a  year 
in  the  penitentiary,  or  both,  to 
call  a  man  a  liar  unless  you  can  prove 
that  he 
is  one,  in  which  case  you  get 
clear.  The  Georgia  courts  hold  that  a 
lie  constitutes  the  first  blow and justifies 
a  violent  response.  In  Arkansas  passing 
the  lie  is  a  misdemeanor  punishable  by 
In  Mississippi  insulting  words 
a  fine. 
are  civilly  actionable. 
In  South  Caro­
lina  and  West  Virginia  the  same.

into  court  to  answer. 

Since  the  cultivation  of  rice  first  be­
gan,  in  the  early  eighties,  in  Russia, 
there  has  been  a  steady  increase  in  its 
production,  and  the  annual  product  now 
amounts  to  about  50,000  tons. 
It  is  now 
quite generally  used  by  the  peasants, 
and  the quality  of  the  native  article  is 
reported  to  be  equal  to  the  imported.

An  ordinance  has  been  introduced 

in 
the  Indianapolis  Common  Council  pro­
hibiting  any  street  car  company  or  em­
ploye  from  demanding  a  fare  of  a  pas­
senger to  whom  a  seat  can  nrt be  given 
in  the  car.  For any  violation  of  the or­
dinance a  fine of  not  more  than  $25 
is 
provided  for  each  separate  offense.

It 

invalidism. 

Then  there 

is  the  woman  who  is  al­
ways  imagining  herself  ill.  She  makes 
a  career  of 
is  an  ex­
cuse  for  all  she  does  and  leaves  undone. 
Her children  are  neglected,  her servants 
waste  and  destroy,  but  she  feels that she 
has  excused  everything  by  moaning 
something  about  "m y   poor  head”   or 
“ my  poor nerves. ”   Of  course  there  are 
women  who  are  hopelessly  afflicted.  No 
pity  nor  patience  is  too  gr*at  to  extend 
to  these  sufferers,  but  nine  tenths  of 
the  women  who  go  complaining  around, 
making  life  a  burden  for all about them, 
are  invalids  simply  because  they are  too 
lazy  and  self-indulgent  to  be well.  They 
just  need  something  to  shake  them  up, 
out of  their  lethargy.  All  of  us  have 
invalids 
known  women  who  bad  been 
for  years  who  were  cured  by 
some 
great  shock.  The  death  of  the  husband 
or  father,  who  had  borne  with  their 
whims and  complaints,  forced  them  to 
beerme  bread  winners,  and  they  sud­
denly  found  themselves  cured.

Every  now  and  then  we  meet  some 
dissatisfied  woman.  Sometimes  she 
is 
a  girl,  the  indulged  and petted  daughter 
of  adoring  parents,  sometimes  she  is  a 
wife and  mother  with  a  good  home,  but 
she scorns  the  simple  peace  and  plenty 
in  which  she  lives,  and  yearns  for  a 
career.  She  thinks  only  of  dazzling  the 
world,  and  does  not  realize  bow few suc­
ceed  and  how  many  fail,  or  how  long 
and  bitter,  and  beset  with  weary 
labor, 
and  tears,  and  toil,  is  the  pathway  of 
those  few  who  do  reach  the  top  of  the 
ladder.  What  a  shaking  up  she  needs 
to  make  her  appreciate  the  blessings 
that  have  fallen  to  her  lot.  Sometimes, 
indeed,  fate  takes  the  business  into 
its 
own  bands,  and  through  bitter  sorrows 
a  woman  learns  the  value  of  what  she 
has  despised.  She  sets  her  confident 
judgment  overthrown,  she  feels  the  ten­
der  care that  surrounded her taken away, 
over  a  little  grave  she  learns  how  pre­
cious  was  the  clinging  of  the  little  arms 
that  once  wearied  her,  and  it is  this  that 
makes  so  many  women  in  later  life  so 
much  sweeter  and  better  than  in  youth.

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Announcement

March,  1899

After  forty-seven  years’  successful  expe­
rience  in  the  wholesale  boot  and  shoe  busi­
ness,  and after careful  consideration, we  have 
decided upon a most radical  change  from  the 
old and traditional  lines of doing business.

In leather goods we shall  handle 
exclusively the product  of  our  own  factories.
S econd.  This product will include every­

First. 

thing in footwear.

Third.  W e  shall  manufacture  for  and 

sell to  retail merchants only.

Fourth.  W e  shall  give  to  our  patrons 
the benefits  to  accrue  from  doing  away with 
the profit required by the  middleman.

Fifth.  Our goods will  be shipped direct 

from our consolidated  factories.

Sixth.  W e shall continue to  carry a full 

line of rubbers.

Seventh.  Our  general  business  offices, 
including our  financial  department  and  sam­
ple rooms, will  be  maintained  at  our  present 
location  on  the corner  of Adams  and  Market 
streets  (where  we  have  been  for  fourteen 
years) in the city  of  Chicago, where we  have 
been  engaged 
in  business  for  forty-seven 
years.  W e are Chicago merchants.

Some of the Reasons

First.  Our  factory  plants, consolidated 
at  Dixon,  near Chicago, are completed to  the

point where  we  are  able  to  make  all  styles 
and grades of boots and shoes.

S econd.  The capacity of these  plants is 

10,000 pairs daily.

Third.  The present demand  on the  part 
of  the  retailer  is  for  freshly  made  goods 
shipped direct  from the  factory, thus avoiding 
the cost entailed by handling through the mid­
dleman.  We  have  been  manufacturing  and 
selling our own product to retailers for  years, 
and we have established the  fact that  a  supe­
rior general  line  of  boots  and  shoes  can  be 
made  here  in  the West,  with  Western  labor 
and  Western skill, and sold to much better ad­
vantage to the  retailer  than  it  is  possible  to 
supply  them  to  him  from  Eastern  factories 
through middlemen  or any other channels.
Fourth.  The railway  and  mail  facilities 
of  to-day,  the  advanced  methods  in  all  de­
partments of trade, and  the universal  demand 
from every quarter for  the  production  of  the 
necessities of life at  a fair price with no unnec­
essary middleman to control their distribution, 
conclude us  in the belief that we, with our mag­
nificent  factories, unexcelled  if equalled in the 
United  States,  should  at  once  set  the  pace— 
should unhesitatingly pioneer  this  method  of 
doing business in the West.  Will you join us?

Faithfully yours,

C.  M .  H enderson  &  Co.

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WEDNESDAY,----- MARCH  1.1899.

NEW  PRO BLEM S  FOR  AMERICA.
The  problems  confronting  the  Ameri­
can  people,  who  are  proposing,  for  the 
first  time  in  the  history  of  their country, 
to  undertake  the  control  and  exploiting 
of  tropical  countries,  are  many  and 
strange.

Disregarding  the  troublesome  ques­
tions  that  attend  at  every  step  the  de­
vising  of  governmental  and  pol  tical 
systems  for  the  people  of  the  East  and 
West  Indian  countries  that  have  fallen 
into  the  bands  of  the  American  people, 
it  may  well  be  asked  how  those  coun­
tries  are  to  be  made  profitable  to  the 
Great  Republic  to  which  they  are  ex 
pected  to  owe  allegiance  or  submission. 
In  order to  gain  material  or  pecuniary 
benefits  out  of  Puerto  Rico  and  the 
is  necessary  that  they 
Philippines,  it 
should  furnish  a 
large  and  profitable 
trade  to  the  American  people  or  that 
they  should  pay  adequate  tribute  int 1 
the  National  Treasury  over  and  above 
all  the  money  spent  in  maintaining con­
trol  and  administration  over  them.

It  is  plain  that  such  territories  must 
be  made  self-supporting  or  else  they 
will  be  a  burden  to  this  country.  Then 
they  must  furnish  tribute,  either  in  the 
form  of  an  internal  or  tariff  revenue,  or 
in  some  other  way,  in  order  to  make  it 
worth  while  to  keep  them  and  spend 
money  on  them.  No  direct  revenue  can 
be  expected  from  such  colonies,  how­
ever,  for  all  the  money  that  can  be 
raised  from  their  people  by  taxation 
will  be  required  for  local administration 
and  public 
improvement.  As  those 
countries  now  are,  they  can  not  be  ex­
pected  to  afford  any  large  markets  for 
American  products,  since  the  bulk  of 
the  population  of  the  Philippines 
is 
made  up  of  semi  savages  and  barba­
rians.

The  only  way 

in  which  any  special 
pecuniary  benefits  are  to  be  derived 
from  the  possession  of  those  islands  is 
exploiting  and  developing  their 
in 
wealth.  How 
is  this  to  be  done?  The 
East  and  West  Indian  Islands  under 
consideration  are agricult iral  countries 
They  have  no  important mineral wealth. 
Whatever 
is  got  out  of  them  must  be 
done  by  cultivating  the  soil.  Americans 
can  go  there  and  purchase  and  operate 
plantations  for  the  growth  of  cotton, 
sugar,  rice  and  tropical  fruits,  for  for­
eign  trade;  but  in  order  to  do  this  they 
must  have  labor.  That  is  lacking.

It  is  no  solution  of  the difficulty to say 
that  the  Philippine  Islands  have  some 
ten  millions  of  population.  The  fact

just  what 

remains  that  the  natives  of  tropical 
is­
lands  w  H  not  work,  save  in  a  most  ir­
regular  and  desultory  way.  They  will 
do 
is  necessary  to  furnish  a 
bare  subsistence,  and  beyond  that  they 
will  not  labor.  The  Spaniards  eaily 
discovered  that  the  native  islanders  in 
the  East  and  West  Indies  could  not  be 
relied  tin  as  laborers,  and  so  they  im­
ported  negroes  from  Africa  to  work  in 
the  mines  and  cultivate  the 
fields. 
Later,  when  slavery  was  abolished  in 
the  Spanish  West  Indies,  Chinese  labor­
ers  were  carried 
in  great  numbers  to 
Cuba  and  Puerto  Rico,  while  Chinese 
are  the  only  reliable 
in  the 
Philippines.  There  are  100,000 of  those 
Asiatics  there,  and  in their hands  are the 
principal 
In  Cuba  and 
Puerto  Rico  the  freed  negroes  can  not 
be  depended 
on  to  do  any  work. 
Chinese  who are  there under contract are 
the  only  laborers  who  can  be, depended 
It  should  also  be  noted  that  most 
on. 
of  the  l»bor  in  the  Hawaiian  Islands 
is 
done  by  Chinese.  Japanese  and  Po  ti- 
guese.  As  to  the  natives,  they  are,  like 
all  such  islanders,  easy-going,  indolent 
and  stIf-indulgent.

industries. 

laborers 

Here,  then,  at  the  very  beginning, 
comes  up  the  all-impoitant  question  of 
1 ihor 
in  any  consideration  of  the  ex- 
pl uting  and  developing  of  the  wealth 
of  the  newly-acquired  Spanish 
islands. 
The  West  Indian  negroes  can  net  be de­
pended  on.  Those  in  Cuba  make  up  the 
bulk  of  the  Cuban  army,  and  the  wild, 
free,  brigandish 
life  of  their  alleged 
campaigning  places  them  out  of  the 
quest  on  as  laborers.  Negroes  from  the 
Southern  States  of  the  Union  could  be 
sent  to  the  West  Indies;  but 
in  the 
Philippines  the entire dependence would 
have  to  be  on  Chinese  contract  labor.

labor 

labor.  Such 

W.  Alleyne  Ireland,  writing 

in  the 
Februarv  Popular  Science  Monthly,  de­
clares  that,  after  ten  years  of  life  in  the 
British  tropical  countries,  the  depend­
ence  for  work  of  all  sorts  is  on  im 
ported  contract 
is 
used 
in  British  Guiana,  Trinidad, 
Jamaica,  Qieensland,  the  F iji  Islands, 
the  Straits  Settlements  and  Mauritus. 
The  coclie  system  in  use  in  the  British 
colonies  is  under  governmental  control. 
The  coolies  imported for labor are bound 
to  their contract  for  five  years.  Under 
the  system  in  use,  the  laborers  must  be 
furnished  with  bouses,  rent  free,  and 
water.  The  planter  is  bound  to  pay  to 
the  men  a  minimum  wage  of  24  cents  a 
day  and  to  each  woman  16  cents.

Such  is  the  sort  of  business  to  which 
the  Americans  who  shall  undertake  to 
settle  and  develop  new  tropical  posses­
sions  will  have  to  engage  in. 
It  would 
be  the  beginning  of  a  new  sort  of  slav­
ery  and  the  establishing  of  social  aDd 
political  abuses  without  end.  Regarded 
no  matter  from  what  point  of  view,  tbe 
task  of  controlling  and  developing  the 
tropical  regions  surrendered  by  Spain is 
full  of  difficulty  and  peril  and  must  be 
approached  with  extreme  care.

The  Tradesman  heartily  commends 
the  suggestion  of a  Clare  merchant  that 
a  special  meeting  of  the  Michigan  R e­
tail  Grocers’  Association  be  held  in 
Grand  Rapids  this  month  or  next  to 
consider  matters  of  vital  interest  to  the 
trade.  The  suggestion  is  so  pertinent 
that  the  Tradesman  trusts  that  Presi­
dent  Wisler  will  conclude  to authorize  a 
call  for  tbe  convention  at  an  early  date.
A  Chicago  *jjstice  has  fined  a  man 
825 
If  this  punishment 
should  become  general,  the  revenue 
from  such  fines  would  support  a  city 
government  without  other assessment.

lying. 

for 

RETURNING OUR  S TO C K S .

According  to  tbe 

financial  reports 
from  New  York,  large  blocks  of  Ameri­
can  securities  have  been recently return­
ing  from  Europe  to  be  delivered  to pur­
chasers  on  this  side  of  tbe  Atlantic. 
This  is  rather  a  new  thing,  within  cer­
tain  qualifications,  and,  consequently, 
is  deserving  of  more  than  passing  men­
tion.  For  a  long  time  after  tbe  panic 
of  1893,  large  blocks of  American  secur­
ities  were  unloaded  by  Europe;  but 
these  securities  belonged,  for  the  most 
part,  t j  tbe  speculative  class,  many  be­
ing  non  dividend-paying  stocks,  and 
bonds  hardly  ranked  among  tbe  gilt- 
edged  properties.  The  present  move­
ment  in  this  direction  consists  of 
in­
vestment  stocks—that  is,  securities  pay­
ing  dividends  and  otherwise  classed  as 
gilt-edged.

Referring  to  this  mutter,  Bradstreet’s, 
which  is  an  authority  on  matters  finan 
cial,  mentions a  circumstance  which  has 
attracted  no  little  attention. 
It  is  that 
such  a  large  proportion  of  the  securit  es 
which  London  has  thus  sold  ta  New 
York  represent  investment  holdings,  be­
ing,  as  can  be  readily  seen  from  the 
character  of  the  actual  certificates  ana 
tbe  names 
in  which  they  stand,  aivi 
dend-paying  stocks  held  for investment, 
in  many  cases  for  a  number  of  years 
past,  but  which  have  been  brought  out 
by  what their  European  owners  consid 
ered  tbe  extravagantly  high  prices  that 
have  prevailed  here.

Bradstreet’s  further  points  out  that, 
if  Europe  has  been  willing  to  part  with 
eood  dividend-paying  securities,  there 
has been  a  demand  more  than  sufficient 
ti  absorb  them  on  this  side  of  the  At­
lantic.  The  transfer  involves,  not only 
a  return  of  the  property  to  American 
ownership,  but  a  paying  out at  home  of 
the 
involved,  instead  of 
its  shipment  abroad.

income 

large 

The  homeward  movement  of  good 
American  stocks  means  also  that  tbe 
difference  between  the  earning  capacitv 
of  capital  between  this  country  and 
Europe  has  undergone  a  change.  E v i­
dently  European 
investors  find  Ameri­
can  stocks  which we buy eagerly no long­
er  desirable  as 
investments  at  current 
rates  of  money.  On  our  part,  money 
having  become  so abundant  as  to  earn 
in  the  loan  market, 
but  small 
we are  disposed  to  invest 
in  securities 
and  pay  for  them  prices  which  even 
Europe  considers  high.

interest 

Whatever  may  be the  ultimate  result 
of  the  recent  great  activity  and  rapid 
rise  in  securities  in  this  country,  there 
is 
are  no  signs  that  a  material  reaction 
near  at  hand. 
In  a  country  like this 
it 
takes  a  long  period  of  inflation  to  pro­
duce top-heaviness.  Moreover,  it  must 
be  remembered  that  tbe  past  season  was 
a  period  of  abundant  crops  and  great 
prosperity  throughout  the  country,  and 
that  the  demand  for  securities  is  tbe 
legit  mate  outcome of  the  fact  that  the 
masses  of  the  people have surplus money 
to  invest.

record 

just  closed 

GENERAL  TRADE  S IT U A T IO N .
The  remarkable  feature of the month’s 
is  that, 
business 
inclemency  and  se­
while  the  unusual 
vere 
storms  must  have  materially 
affected  the. volume,  there  was  yet  so 
favorable  a  showing  as  compared  with 
all  corresponding  periods  of  the  past. 
Thus  the  daily  payments  through  the 
clearing  bouses  have averaged $309 000,- 
000.  against  $232000 000  last  year and 
$206,000,000  in 
1892,  the  largest  prev­
iously  reported.
in 

tbe  stock  market  has

Interest 

shifted  largely  from  the  t'ansportation 
ti  tbe  industrial  sticks,  tbe  former 
los­
ing  interest  because of  tbe  natural  tend­
ency  to  decline  on  account  of  the  effect 
of  tbe  weather  on  earnings.  There  has 
been  but  slight  variation  in  transporta 
tion  prices,  however,  showing  that  as 
securities  their  value  is  too  well  fixed, 
but the  spirit  of  speculation  has 
led  to 
aa  unusual  interest  in  industrials  Tbe 
tobacco  combine  which  was  consum­
mated  a  week  ago  was  followed  by  a 
rise  of  $31.25  per  share  and  tbe  same 
speculative  tendency  carried  wire  for­
ward  $10 87  per  share  and  sugar  $3.75. 
Indeed,  tbe  ii fluence  on  industrials  was 
so  general  that  it  carried  the  average 
up  $2  go,  while  transposition  declined 
about  8cr  cents.  The  natural  reaction 
from  tbe 
industrial  speculations  is  zl- 
readv  manifest 
in  this  week’s  trading, 
giving  tbe  entire  market a decided tend­
ency  to  decline

The  wheat  movemei t  has  shown  un­
expected  volume  during  the  month  con­
sidering  the  interference  of storms.  The 
price  tendency  has  been  upward,  as 
would  be  natural  on  account  of  reports 
ii terruptions  to  sup- 
of  damage  and 
pi  es,  culminating 
in  a  more  decided 
advance  in  tbe  1 ist  few  days.

The  iron  and  steel  industry  still  con­
tinues  ti  take  the 
lead  in  all  the  ele­
ments  of  strength.  With  orders  for  the 
majority  of  the  works  booked  to  July, 
demand  is  offering  more  cont acts  than 
can  be  cared  for and consequently  prices 
are  advancing  with  considerable  rapid­
increase  in 
ity.  Since  January 
1  the 
grey  forge  and  Bessemer 
is 
16.5  per 
cent,  and  in  bars,  pi  tes,  steel  rails and 
structural  shapes  17.6  percent.  It  would 
inevitable  that  the  advance  must 
seem 
have 
its  effeit  in  a  diminution  of  for­
eign  orders  soon.

The  cotton  and  cottm  goods  situation 
shows  more  of  hopefulness,  as  to  prices, 
than  for  many  months,  or  even  years, 
in  the  past.  The  price  of  the  staple 
has  steadily  advanced  for several weeks, 
the  increase  since  January  1 being about 
13  per  cent.  Sales  of  wool  continue 
only  moderate. 
Increased  movement  is 
in  tbe  boot  and  shoe  trade, 
reported 
with  a  slight 
in  quotations 
which  dealers  seem  to  have  been  de­
manding  and  awaiting  for  some  time.

lowering 

Attention 

is  direct-d  to  the  offer  of 
$10 for the  best  series  of  articles  em­
bodying  practical  suggestions relative to 
the curtailment  of  catalogue  house  com­
petition,  which has  come  to  be a  serious 
menace  to  the  country  merchants  of 
Michigan.  The  prizes  are  offered  in  the 
belief  that  good  will  result  from  the 
igitation  and  that  possibly  some  plan 
may  be  suggested  which  will  be  suffi­
ciently  feasible  to  justify  its adoption at 
'he  hands  of  the  retail  trade.  Some 
idea  of  the  magnitude  which  the  traffic 
has  reached  may  be  inferred  from  the 
statement  that  the  amount  of  freight 
from  catalogue  houses  received  at  many 
towns  exceeds 
in  tonnage  the  receipts 
of  merchandise  by  the  regular  retail 
trade. 

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The  Roads  Improvement  Association 
of  Great  Britain  is  being  revived  after 
being 
in  a  moribund  state  for  seveial 
vears,  and  its  scope  is  to  be  broadened. 
It  will  deal  with  every  subject  that  re­
lates  to  the  improvement  of  the  roads, 
not  only  as  regards  tbe  surface,  but  also 
in  such  matters  as  the  provision  of 
milestones,  signboards,  seats  and  shel­
ters. 
It  will  distribute  pamphlets  of 
instruction  to  road  repairers,  as  well 
as  gauges  to  test  the  size  of  stones to  be 
placed  on  the  roads.

SOLVED  TH E   PROBLEM.

How  the  Dry  Goods  Clerk  Became 

Self-Supporting.

W ritte u   fo r th e   T r a d esm a n.

Katherine  Graves’  castles 

in  Spain 
in  a  single  day.  Her 
were  dissolved 
father  left  home 
in  the  morning  well 
and  in  usual  spirits.  Two  hours  later 
he  dropped,  a  victim  to  heart  failure, 
and  all  efforts  to  resuscitate  him  were 
in  vain.  A  messenger  bad  been  dis­
inform  his  wife  of  his  ill­
patched  to 
ness,  but  she  was 
in  no  way  prepared 
for  the  shock  of  later  revelations.

It  had  never  occurred  to  Mr.  Graves 
that  such  a  contingency  was  possible 
to  him,  for  he  had  always  been well  and 
strong.  Years  before  be  bad  taken  out 
a  $2,000  life 
insurance  policy  and  he 
had  kept  the  premiums  paid  up.  He 
had  had  always  a  large  salary,  so his 
family  were  able  to  live  in  the best style 
and  be  leaders  in  society.  It  is true they 
were  always  several  hundred  dollars 
in 
debt,  but  his  credit  was  good anywhere. 
He  was a  plain,  substantial  sort of  man, 
who  woulj  have  been  contented  to  live 
in  a  simpler manner.  On the other band, 
be  was  proud  of  bis  handsome  wife  and 
attractive  daughter  and  be  was  thankful 
to  have  the  strength  and  ability  to  en 
able  him  to  furnish all the accessories  ot 
life  which  seem so  necessary to  the  hap­
piness  of  so  many  natures.

Each  year  he  hoped  to  get  ahead  and 
lay  by  a  small nestegg.  Each  year ended 
with  a long  list of unpaid  bills.  He com­
forted  himself  wtb  the  assurance  that  be 
was  still  a  young  man.  Even  if  he  did 
not  begin  to  save  until  he  was  50  he 
could  on  his  salary  lay  up  enough  for 
old  age. 
Just  now  was  the  important 
time 
in  Katherine’s  life.  No  one  bad 
a  lovelier daughter and  be  wjshed  to see 
her  married  to a  man  who  could  appre­
ciate  her  charms  and  do  more  even than 
he  had  been  able,  for  she  was  fitted  to 
grace  a  high  position.  As  soon  as 
Katherine  was  gone  there  would  be  an 
excuse  for  them  to  move  into smaller 
quarters,  although  how  Mrs.  Graves 
would  accept  such  an  arrangement  was 
a  question.  Katherine  was  popular and 
had  plenty  of  devoted  admirers;  but she 
was  still  young  and  having  such  a  good 
time  that  she  was  in  no  hurry  to  give 
up  her  freedom.  Her  greatest  desire 
was  a  trip  abroad  and  her  father  was 
considering  its  feasibility for the  follow­
ing  summer  when  the  end  came.

Mother  and  daughter  had 

loved  Mr. 
Graves  devotedly,  still  they  had  wished 
him  different  and  more  like  their 
ideal 
of  husband  and  father.  He  had  worked 
with  might  and  main  to  provide  for 
their 
innumerable  wants  and  had  had 
little  chance  for  self-cultivation.  When 
he  came  home  at  night he was exhausted 
in  mind  and  body  and  went  reluctantly 
to the  social  functions  which  were  their 
very  life.  Now  they  realized  for  the 
first  time  how  indispensable he  was,  for 
they  were  as  practical  as  a  pair  of  chil­
dren

For  the  next  six  weeks  theirs  was  a 
harassed  existence.  The  insurance  bad 
been  paid,  but  every  mail  brought  a 
bunch  of  bills  and  there  was  nothing for 
them  to  do  but  pay.  At  last  they  were 
square  with  the  world;  but  poverty 
stared  them 
in  the  face,  for  not  more 
than  a  thousand  dollars  stood  between 
them  and  actual  starvation.

It  was  now  impossible  to  remain  over 
a  month  longer  in  their  house.  They 
rented  one  near  town  and  tried  to  keep 
boarders;  but  experience  and  competi­
tion  were  against  them  and  patronage 
came  so  slowly  that  their  expenses  were 
several  times  their  receipts  and  they

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

0

were  compelled  to  sell  their  furniture  at 
auction  to  pay  the  rapidly-accumulating 
debts.  They  were  able  to  save  only  the 
smaller and  less  pretentious  pieces,  but 
they  were  enough  to  furnish  a  small 
bouse  in  a  quiet  street.  To  their  neigh­
bors,  a  postman  on  one  side  and  a 
motorman  on  the  other,  they  presented 
a  grand  appearance;  but they  felt them­
selves  living 
like  cattle,  it  was  such  a 
box  of  a  bouse.

To  think  of  having  such  neighbors! 
To  think  of  having  to  give  up  every­
thing !  They  could  no  longer  consult 
their  tastes  as  to  food  even  and  were 
thankful  not  to  go  hungry. 
Their 
mourning  dresses  were  not  made  for 
wear  and  tear  and  with  the  greatest 
care  were  becoming  so  shabby  as  to  be 
tit  for  the  ragbag;  yet  no  others  would 
be  forthcoming.  No  longer  was  a  car­
riage at  their  command  and  even  car­
fare  seemed  a  luxury.  They  advertised 
for  lodgers  and  soon  their  rooms  were 
fu ll;  but  with  all  their  planning  they 
could  not  make  both  ends  meet  and 
Katherine  realized  that  she  must  get  to 
work.

The  simplest  and  most  natural  solu­
tion  seemed  to  be  for  her  to  teach.  At 
home  she  had  attended  a  fashionable 
school,  where  she  was  much  petted  and 
made  to  feel  that  she  was  remarkably 
bright.  Not  that  she  had  studied  hard, 
but  she  had  tact  and  knew  how  to  shirk 
the  disagreeable  and  still  make  a  bril­
liant 
in  fact,  everything 
was  so  easy  that  she  had  not  considered 
it  worth  her  while  to  graduate. 
It 
seemed  galling  now  to  come  down  to 
teaching  where  she  had  so  recently been 
a  leader;  but there  was  no  other  way for 
her than  to  put  her  pride  in  her  pocket 
and  live  above  her  circumstances.

impression; 

The  Misses  Graham  met  her  with  ex­
ceeding  cordiality,  but  assumed  most 
superior airs  when  she stated her errand. 
The  one  opening 
in  the  school  would 
require  a  person  of  long  and  tried  ex­
perience  and  of  course  she  would  be  out 
of  the  question  in  an  institution  of  such 
high  standing.  However,  they  felt  sorry 
for  her  misfortunes  and  would  be  glad 
to  furnish  her  with  a  testimonial  as  to 
character  and  work  completed  with 
them.  She  beat  a  hasty  retreat,  for  be? 
wrath  was  rising  fast.  They  were  crazy 
to  suggest  such  a  thing  as  her  character 
or  ability  being  questioned! 
She, 
Katherine  Graves,  daughter  of  Sydney 
Graves,  Cashier  of  the  Third  National 
Bank !  Thank  her  lucky  stars  she  was 
not  dependent  on  them  tor  her  bread 
and  butter. 
She  guessed  there  were 
plenty  of  other  schools  and  where  a lady 
would  be  recognized.

in  competition  with 

However,  there  proved  to  be  only  one 
other private  school,  one  which  had  al 
ways  been 
the 
Misses  Graham’s.  The  principal  was 
not 
in  the  first  time  she  called  and  sr 
she  had  to  make  the  two  weary  miles  a 
second  time.  Professor  Long  was  a 
plain,  thickset,  comfortable  looking  in­
dividual  whose  imagination  did  not  ap­
pear  to  reach  beyond  pancakes  and 
problems.  He  did  not  invite  Katherine 
to  sit  down,  and  dismissed  her  without 
a  question  But  she  did  not turn quickly 
enough  for  him  not  to  notice  the corners 
of  her  mouth  droop  and the slight quiver 
in  her voice.  He  called  her  back,  for 
he  was  not  cold-hearted  enough  for  her 
beauty  not  to  attract  him,  and  be  said 
rather  gruffly,  “ You  are  probably  a 
stranger  in  the  city.  I  would  advise  you 
to  go  to  the  training  school  connected 
with  the  public  schools.  They  furnish 
positions  to  all  their  graduates. ”   And 
when  she  bad  gone  he  might  have  been

to 

heard 
remark  under  bis  breath, 
“ That’s  a  remarkably  handsome  girl 
and  she  has  chosen  pretty  tough  lin es."
Katherine  saw  one  member  of  the 
school  board,  but  she  saw  no  chance  for 
herself 
in  the  public  schools,  for  only 
graduates  were  admitted  to  the  corps  of 
teachers  and  it  was  an  utter  impossibil­
ity  for  her  to  spend  a  year  in  the  train­
ing  school.  She  must  try  for  something 
which  would  offer 
immediate  returns. 
She  did  not  feel  qualified  for  newspaper 
work,  still  she  presented  herself  as  an 
applicant  at  one  of  the  large  offices. 
She  climbed  the  narrow  dark dirty stairs 
and  entered  the  editorial  rooms  reeking 
with  tobacco  smoke  and  nasty  under 
foot.  There  was  a  deafening  clatter  of 
machinery.  She  stood  several  minutes 
without  any  one  looking  up.  Then  a 
looking  man  with  his  hat  on  the 
rough 
back  of  bis  bead 
leaned  back  in  bis 
chair,  squirted  a  mouthful  of  tobacco 
juice  through  his  teeth  and  demanded 
her  errand.  She  trembled  from  bead  to 
foot,  and  was  thankful  to  get  once  more 
into the  fresh  air.

Her  chances  now  narrowed themselves 
to  clerking  and  after  repeated efforts she 
secured  a  position  as  assistant  in  the 
lace  department  of  one  of  the  large 
stores.

And  so she  was  to  be  a  working  wom­
an.  Her  mother  wrung  her  bands  in 
despair  and moaned,  “ To think of any of 
my  family  sinking  so  low  as  to  become 
a  shop  g irl!  My  dear  father  and  mother 
would  as  soon  have  gone  to  prison  as  to 
associate  themselves  with  such  beg­
gars."  There  was  nothing  for Katherine 
to  say,  so  she  was  wise  enough  to  keep 
silent.  She  would  never  let  her  mother 
know  how  she  felt.  It was  the  inevitable 
and  there  was  nothing  left  but  for  her to 
bear  the  ordeal  with  all  the fortitude she 
could‘command.

She  scarcely  slept  during  the  night, 
hut  in  the  morning  she  was  at  the  store 
at  the  required  time.

How  awkward  she 

felt  behind  the 
counter.  The  clerk  next  her  did  not 
look  more  than  three  or  four  years  her 
senior,  yet  how  comfortable  and  at  her 
ease  she  appeared.  She  was  short  and 
bad  a  dumpy  figure.  Her  forehead  was 
concealed  under  a  thick  bang  of  bushy 
hlack  hair.  Her  dress  was  of  cheap 
material,  but  there  was  a  cert tin  style 
and  “ go”   about  it  which  suited  the  in­
dividual  and  was 
in  keeping  with  the 
quantities  of  cheap  jewelry.  She  flirt-d 
and  talked  slang 
incessantly,  yet  she 
showed  a  warm  heart  at  the  bottom  Al 
most her  first question  was  to  ask  Kath­
erine  whether  she  “ had  a  young  m an." 
She  seemed  always  standing  around  and 
fooling,  yet  when  she  was  busy  shu 
worked  with  a  vim  and  not  theslighte-t 
detail  escaped  her  attention.  She  ex­
plained  rapidly  about  the  arrangement 
of  goods  and  showed  Katherine  bow  to 
display  the  laces  to  the  best  advantage 
She  laughed  over the  newcomer's  awk 
wardness  and  remarked,  “ You’re  green 
as  horseradish  leaves,  but  if  you  stick 
like  a  horsefly  you’ ll  catch  on  by peach 
time. ”

Katherine  tried  to  freeze  out  such 
effrontery,  but her  companion  remained 
unabashed.  To  think  of  a  girl  of  that 
coarse  stamp  daring  to  criticise  her!

The  day  seemed  an  eternity,  but  it 
finally  dragged  to  its  weary  end.  She 
could  have  dropped  in  a  heap  where she 
stood,  and  wondered 
if  she  would  be 
able  to  get  home alive.  How  her  com­
panions  chattered  as  they  put  on  their 
wraps.  Some  of  them  were  jubilant over 
the  prospect  of  going  to  the  theater  that 
evening.  There  was  a  great hurry  and

flurry,  yet  several  of  the  girls  stopped 
to  ask  Katherine  how  her  first  day  had 
gone  and  assure  her  each  day  would  be­
come.easier.  There  were  some  hard, 
determined  faces,  but  there  were  more 
gentle,  refined  ones  and  melodious 
voices  which  seemed  more  fit  for  the 
parlor.

When  she  reached  home there  was  not 
a 
light  to  be  seen  downstairs.  As  she 
entered  the  door  a  querulous  voice  is­
sued  from  the  depths  of  the  darkness: 
“ Is  that  you,  Katherine?  I  thought  you 
would  never  get  here;  I  am  so  sick.”  

Katherine  found  her  mother  in  bed 
with  her  head  all  bandaged  and  her 
eyes  red  and  swollen  from  weeping.  To 
ber  daughter's  anxious  enquiry  she  ex­
plained,  “ I  have  gone  to  pieces  with  a 
raging  headache.  The  stupid  servant 
bas  made  outrageous  blunders  until  I 
was  wild  and  fled  to  bed  for  protection. 
induce  me to  eat  any­
Nothing  would 
thing. 
I 
presume'there 
is  enough  on  hand  for 
Sibilla  to  arrange  you  a  little  lunch,  but 
I  have  paid  little  attention  to  what  is  in 
the  house,  for  eating  is  the  least  of  my 
troubles."

I  am  too  miserable  to  live. 

The  kitchen,  too,  was  dark. 

She 
lamp,  which  displayed  the 
lighted  a 
wild  disorder.  The 
luncheon  dishes 
had  not  even  been  piled  up,  the  fire  had 
gone  out  in  the  range  and  pots  and  ket­
tles  stood  around  half 
full  of  dirty 
water.  She  climbed  the steep back stairs 
to the  servant’s  room.  Sibilla  was  in  a 
heap  by  the  window,  her  head  in  her 
lap,  crying  for  all  she  was  worth.  She 
got  up  slowly  and  was  the  picture  of 
forlornity  as,  with  her  head  dropped, 
she  came  toward  Katherine.

" I   was 

for  w aiting,"  she  sobbed, 
“ till  you  come  home and  then  I  goes  at 
once. 
I ’m  not  after  working  for  a  lady 
as  your  mother.  She  never  shows  me 
how  she  wants,  and  she  scolds  me  when 
I works  wrong. ’ ’

Katherine  could  have  cried  from  vex­
ation  and  exhaustion ;  but she  knew  this 
was  no time  to  give  way  to  her feelings. 
She  could  not  allow  an  impudent servant 
around,  still  it  was  worse  to  have  none 
at  all.  Sibilla  was  net  far  wrong,  for 
Mrs.  Graves  knew  nothing  about  work 
until  it  was  done;  but  Sibilla  must  not 
understand  this  nor  be  allowed  to  feel 
that  she  was  a  necessity,  so  she  must  be 
careful  what  she  said.

“ As  you  like,  Sibilla.  Here  is  your 
money  up  to  to-night.  But  it  is  stormy 
out and  if  you  care  to  do  so  you  may re­
main  until  morning.”

The  girl  calmed  down  at  once  and 
concluded  she  would  not  be  in  such  a 
hurry.  Together  they  managed  to  con­
coct  a  nice  little  supper  and  even  Mrs. 
Graves,  in  the  midst  of  her  mountain  of 
pillows,  seemed  suddenly  to  regain  her 
appetite.  As  for  Katherine  she  was 
simply  famished  and  was  ready  to  de­
vour  dishes  and  all.  She  went  to  bed 
immediately  and  her  mother,  who  was 
wakeful  and wanted  some  one  to  talk  to, 
could  not  rouse  ber.

large-eyed  and 

She  was  up  early,  for  all  responsibil 
ity  now  bung  on  her  shoulders.  Mrs. 
Graves  was 
irritable. 
She  had  decided  she  was  threatened 
with  that  panacea  of  women  too  lazy  to 
exert  themselves—nervous  prostration— 
and  concluded  to  remain  in  bed  until 
she  was  “ rested.”   Sibilla was meekness 
itself  and  declared  she  “ never  could 
think  of  leaving  Miss  Katherine  with 
her  mother sick  in  bed  and  all  the  work 
to  be  done. ’ ’

From  that  time  on  all  the  planning 
devolved  on  Katherine,  but  she  seemed 
to  be  equal  to  the  emergency.  She could

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MI CHIGAN  TRA D E S MA N

work  like a  beaver  and  her  spirits  were 
seldom  oppressed  except  by  her  moth­
er’s  wailings.

“ Yourfather,  Katherine,  had  no  heart 
else  why  should  he  have  allowed  us  to 
undergo  this  disgrace?  Everybody  else, 
too,  has  forsaken  us  in  our  time  of  bit­
ter  trial.  Well,  I  am  sure  I  can  stand 
it 
if  they  can ;  but  it  shows  how  little 
people’s  friendship  is  to  be  depended 
upon. ”

If  Katherine  had  any  misgivings  she 
never  expressed  them,  but  tried  to  get 
her  mother  off  this  morbid  strain ;  and 
her  spirits  rose  with  each  effort;  some­
times  she  almost  felt  happy  and  tried  to 
bum  one  of  the  old  tunes.  Experience 
made  her  work  at  the  store  lighter. 
There  was  a  certain  excitement and fas 
cination  about  business  and  it  gave  an 
opportunity  to  study  human  nature. 
More  and  more  was  she  impressed  with 
the  amount  of  energy,  character and tact 
necessary  to  become  a  successful  sales­
woman.  And  she  found  mticb'to  attract 
her  toward  her associates.  They,  too, 
suffered  and  enjoyed,  had  their  aspira­
tions and  disappointments.  The  clerks, 
for  their  part,  were  all  fond  of  her; 
went  to  her  for  help  and  suggestions  or 
for  sympathy  in  their  troubles,  and  she 
exerted  a  good  influence  over  them.  As 
a  natural  result  a  club  was  formed  of 
the  girls  in  the  store  and  she  made 
its 
first  President.  Its  purpose  was literary, 
but  the  most  practical  subjects  were  not 
ignored—dress,  manners,  modulation  of 
the  voice,  correct  speech—all  received 
their  proper  attention. 
It  created  a 
different  atmosphere  about  the  estab­
lishment  and  the  clerks  were  sought 
after by  other firms.

Katherine  herself  had  all  sorts  of  ex­
periences.  After  the  novelty  had  worn 
off the  work  many  times  was  monoto­
nous  and  wearisome.  Some  of  the  old 
acquaintances,  when they  recognized  her 
at all,  tried  to  patronize  her,  and  young 
men  to  flirt  with  her.  But  her  woman­
liness  repelled Till  such  advances.

One  day  a  traveling  man  representing 
a  New  York  firm  came  on  business  to 
the  store.  She  did  not  need  an  intro­
duction  to  know  that  it  was  Jack  Bemis. 
As  children  they  had  been  most  devcted 
friends,  and  used  to  talk  about  “ when 
they  grew  up  and  were  married.’ ’  But 
while he  was  still  a  young  boy his father 
moved  to  another  state  and  the  children 
lost  sight  of  each  other.

Now  be  could  only  exclaim,  “ Why, 
Katherine  Graves!  To  think  of  your 
being  the  first  friend  I  should  meet  on 
reaching  my  old  home!’ ’  And  he  stayed 
over  a  train 
in  order  to  have  a  visit 
with  her  in  the  evening.

He  seemed  to  renew  bis  affection  for 
bis  former  home,  for all  bis  trips  were 
planned  to  bring  him thither.  One even­
ing  be  appeared  unusually sober  and  for 
a  time  had  little  to  say,  but  at  last  the 
truth  came  out:

“ Katherine,  I  have  decided  not  to 
travel  any  more  and  so  this  is  my  last 
trip. 
I  return  to  New  York  to  accept 
a  partnership  with  the  firm  I  work  for. 
I  have  been  successful  far beyond  my 
expectations  and  have  saved  up  money; 
and 
I  now  have  only  one  wish  to  be 
gratified.  But  that  is  the dearest  of  all. 
Can  you  not  guess  what  it  is? 
I  have 
come  this  evening  to  reclaim  the  prom­
ise  made  me  when  you were in pinafores 
and  I  in  knickerbockers.  We are grown 
up  now  and  you  know  I  have  always 
loved  you,  and  1  always shall.  There  is 
only  one  way,  but  it  is  for  you  to  say 
the  word. ”

Her  answer  was  only  audible  to 
Jack’s  ears;  but  there  was a  quiet  little

wedding  six  weeks  later.  To-day  Mrs. 
John  H.  Bemis  is  mistress  of  one  of  the 
fine  homes  of  New  York  City.  She  is 
loved  alike by  the  rich  and  poor of  her 
acquaintance.  She  is both a social leader 
and  a 
literary  success.  People  some­
times  wonder  how  she  has  ever,  in  her 
position,  been  able  to  retain  such  sim­
plicity  and  genuineness  of  character. 
Her  bobby  is  shop  girls  and  she  is  ever 
ready  to  fight  their  cause.  She  has 
in­
troduced  model  homes  and  clubs  and 
enriched  the  opportunities  of  many  a 
working  woman  until  they  look  up  to 
her as  a  veritable  saint.  And  her  own 
life 
is 
just  so  much  enriched  and 
blessed. 

U.  E.

The  Man  With  the  Lady’s  Hand. 

Written for the T&adcbmak.

“ Beg  pardon,  Madam,  but  if  you’ ll 
be  so  kind  as  to  take  my  knife  and  re 
duce  this  piece  of  roast  beef  to  masti 
cable  sizes,  you  will  have  my  everlast­
ing  gratitude.’ *

The  words  came  from  a respectful  but 
queer  looking  gentleman.  They  were 
addressed  to  a  refined  middle-aged  ap­
pearing  lady  who  sat  next  to  him.

If  the  lady  bad  that  minute  been  on 
the  block  in  a  Circassian  slave  market 
she  would  certainly  have brought  a  high 
price,  as  blushing  women  command  a 
high  figure  among  Circassians.

Was  some  escaped  lunatic  exercising 
his  larynx  in  accordance  with  the  men­
tal  conception  of  some  insane  idea  that 
staggered  blindly  over  the  miniature 
golf  links  of  his brain?

The  lady  and  the  stranger  were the 
only  ones  at  the  table and  she  looked 
anxiously  at  one  of  the  waiters  across 
the  room.

“ I  am  no  base  ball  player with a glass 
arm,  but  this  kid  glove  covers  an  arti­
I  think  in  the  course  of  a 
ficial  band. 
it. 
few  weeks  I  will  be able  to  manage 
You'll  notice  it’s  a  lady’s hand. 
It  was 
the  only  one  they  bad 
in  stock—the 
male  hands  were  all  on  a  strike  in  that 
institution. 
I  suppose  if  it  bad  been  a 
man’s  hand  I  could  have  managed  it, 
but  so delicate a  piece  of  mechanism  as 
a 
lady’s  hand  baffles  me—although  I 
presume  I  am  not  the  only  gentleman 
who  has had  a  false  feminine  hand  be­
stowed  on  him. ”

Certainly  the  man’s  mind  was  un­
healthy,  the  exercise  of  reason  impos­
sible  with  him  and  the non-development 
of  the  faculty  of  good  breeding  only  too 
plain  to  be  seen.

“ If  you  will  kindly  form  the  fingers 
of  this  hand  so  that  they  will  be able  to 
grasp  a  fork  I  will  excuse  you  from 
further  manual  labor.’ ’

The  lady  did  as  be  requested,  but 
hurriedly  finished  her  meal  and  left  the 
room.

*  *  #

A  queer 

looking  man  appeared 

in 
front  of  the  cashier’s  desk  in  an  up­
town  bank  with  a  check  for' $5,000. 
The  check  contained  no  signature,  but 
on  the  line  left  blank  was  the  mark  of  a 
lady's  thumb.  The  cashier  took  the 
check,  passed  a  magnifying  glass  over 
it and,  comparing  it  with  another  sim i­
lar  mark,  O  K. ’d  it.

“ That  ‘ signature’  always waives iden­
the  cashier  as  be 
tification,”   said 
banded 
it  back  to  the  stranger,  who 
passed  it  in  to  the  paying  teller  and  re­
ceived  the  amount  of  the  check.

The  stranger  had  not been  gone  more 
than  an  hour  when  an  elderly  lady  came 
into  the  bank.  She  walked  up  to  the 
cashier’s desk  and  engaged  in  a  short 
conversation.

“ By  the  way,  Mrs.  Briston,  I  see that 
you  are now  placing  your  ‘ thumb-mark’

on  the  end  of  the  signature  line  instead 
of  the  center as  formerly. ’ *

“ Certainly  not,”   replied  the  lady.
“ I  beg  to  differ  with  you,”   politely 
said  the cashier,  flushing.  Going  to  the 
the 
paying  teller,  he  returned  with 
$5,000 check. 
“ Doesn't  that  look 
like 
it?”   he  asked,  handing  her  the  once 
valuable  piece  of  paper.

A  queer  expression  came  over  the 
“ I  never  uttered  that 

woman’s  face. 
check!”   she  exclaimed.

“ It  is  certainly  you r‘ thumb  mark.’ 

Here—look  at  it  through  this glass.”  

“ Yes,  it’s  my  ‘ thumb-mark’  without 
a question of a  doubt,  but  I  never  placed 
it  there. ”

“ You  certainly  must have  done  so— 
could  you  have  a  photograph  taken  of 
yourself and  not  be  present?”

“ Of  course  I  placed  it there—what am 
I  thinking  about?  But  I  positively  can 
not  remember  doing 
I  had  about 
bargained  for  the  piece  of  property  ad­
joining  me  and  the  amount of this check 
was the  price  agreed  upon  ”

“ That’s  what  I  supposed  this check 
was  for,”   replied  the  cashier. 
“ I 
heard  you  speaking  about the deal  when 
you  were  in  here  last.”

"D escribe the  man who presented  it. ”  
The cashier  did  so,  but  before  he  fin­
ished  the  woman  exclaimed,  " I t ’s  the 
man  with  the  lady’s  hand!”

it. 

*  *  *

The  stranger  was  never  found  nor  the 
mystery  cleared  up  until  the  other  day 
when  the  lady  received  a  letter  dressed 
in  mourning.  She  opened  it  and  found 
the  following:

Dear  Madam :  Ten  years  ago  I  was 
a  struggling  dentist 
I 
read  an  account  in  the  papers  of  your 
unique  way  of  signing  your  checks. 
When  you  helped  the queer  looking man 
with  his  false hand! ?) you unconsciously

ib  your  city. 

left  the  imprint  of  you  delicate  thumb 
on  the  inside  of  my  wax-coated  glove. 
It  was  very  easy,  with  the  aid  of  a  vul- 
canizer,  to  produce  an  imprint  of  your 
thumb.  Yours,

M an  W it h  a  L a d y’s  H a n d.

P.  S.  This  letter  will  be  mailed  a 

week  after  my  demise.

Cl y d e  W.  F r a n c is.

The  Chinaman’s  Diagnosis.

A  Chinaman 

is  speaking  to  himself 
as  be 
irons  a  shirt.  Picks  up  a  shirt 
showing  evidence  of  having  been  well 
cared  for and  says:

“ Blacbelor.  Him  landlady  flix  him .”  
Picks  up  another,  buttonless  and  all 

frayed  at  the  wrists  and  neck.

“ Mlallied  man.”

clerks,  but 

Well-dressed  clerks,  but  of  course  not 
“ dudey”  
clerks  well 
brushed  and  with  clean  linen,  add  char­
acter to the store,  and make  sales  easier. 
The  appearance  of  the  seller  counts.

We make a specialty of 

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|   Store Awnings 
I  Roller  Awnings 
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I  Window Awnings |  
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I  Tents,  Flags 
£  and  Covers 
J
£   Drop us  a  card  and we will  quote 
gj  you prices.

Chas.  A. Coye,

II  Pearl Street, 
Grand Rapids, 

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may not have  been  able  to  reach  you  as  yet, but  if  you will  drop  us  a 
line we shall be glad to send him promptly or else mail  you  a  WORLD 
Catalogue and talk about Agency.  We  are  selling  agents  in  Michigan 
for different factories and can quote prices that will no doubt be interest­
ing.  Better write us.

Have you our ’99 catalogue of Bicycle Sundries?

Shoes  and  Leather
Pertinent  Hints  to  Progressive  Shoe

Dealers.

There  is a  class  of  retailers  on  Eighth 
street 
in  Philadelphia  that  rush  into 
blood  curdling  headlines  telling  of  the 
“ Greatest  Shoe  Values  on  Earth,”   us­
ing  superlative  upon  superlative  in  the 
descriptions  of  their  reductions.  Better 
avoid  such  buncombe.  The  shrewd  re­
tailer  will  not allow  himself  to  be  car­
ried  away  with  enthusiasm  in  the  tell­
ing  of  his  store  news.  He  will  stick  to 
the  confidence-inspiring  style  of  adver­
tisement  that  has held  him  in  such  good 
stead  on  all  other occasions.  Look  at 
the Wanamaker style  of  writing.  Point­
ed,  chatty,  descriptive,  conservative. 
Such  a  method  of  writing  store  news 
never  fa ls   to draw  the  expected  busi­
ness. 
It  will  not  be  his  fault,  nor the 
fault  of  the advertising,  if  the  retailer 
who  adopts  this  style  doesn’t  get  along 
well.

*  *  *

last  week.  There 

An  old-time  custom  shoemaker,  who, 
some  years  ago,  bad  fallen  from  grace 
as  a  retailer of  shoes  to  the  bumble  po­
in 
sition  of  a  mere  cobbler,  was  buried 
Trenton 
is  a  story 
about  bis  career  that  was  told  to  the 
writer  and  that  should  serve  to  remind 
the  retailer  and  the  clerk  of  the  value 
of  a  good  temper  and  a  pleasant  smile 
The  old  cobbler’s  death  has  deprived 
the  town  of  one  of  its  most  familiar  fig­
ures.  He  had  not always  been  a  cob­
bler,  for  it  was  only  a  few  years  ago 
that  be  had  a double  store  and  a  rating 
of  $4,000.  He .finally  failed.  He  made 
several  attempts  after  be  failed  to  keep 
a  more  ambitious  place  of  business than 
his  cobbling  sbantv  afforded.  But  he 
always  came  to  grief  and  regularly  re 
turned  to  his  shop  on  a  side  street. 
T he  cause  of  all  his  failures  was  a  lack 
of  the  amiability  necessary  to  retain  the 
good  w'll  of  the  persons  who  came  to 
buy  from  him. 
It  became  established 
at  an  early  stage  of  his  career  that  his 
temper  was  bad,  but  experience  seemed 
a  possible  teacher  that  might  ultimately 
compel  him  to  be  polite  to  bis  custom­
ers.  That  day  never  came.  He  was 
well  known  by  sight  to  so  many  people 
and  was  such  an  established figure about 
the  town  that he  might  have  prospered 
bad 
it  not  been  for  the  infirmities  of 
temper  that  made  contact  with  him  so 
disagreeable.

*  *  *

Another  thing  was  told  to  the  writer 
while  he  was  in  Trenton  last  week :  A 
certain  wide-awake  retailer  of  the town, 
it  was  said,  makes  it  a  practice to  look 
over  the  marriage 
license  list  in  the 
daily  papers  every  morning  and  then  to 
mail  to  each  woman  a  circular  in  which 
be  assures  her  of  his  best  wishes  for  her 
future  married  bliss  and  suggests  that 
economy  will  be  conserved  by  her  mak­
ing  bis  store  ber  trading  place.  This 
scheme,  it  was  said,  has  been  used  to 
good  advantage  by  the  retailer  for  over 
It  would  probably  not  be  suc­
a  year. 
cessful 
in  every  instance,  however,  the 
results  depending  largely  upon  the class 
of  trade addressed.  While  one  class  of 
people  would  think  such  a  circular  very 
nice,  others  would  be  apt  to be offended.

*  *  *

Have  you  ever  looked  over an English 
newspaper  and  noticed  the  difference 
between  their advertisements  and  ours? 
Have  you  observed  that  there  is  less 
variety  of  style  of  address  in  them  than 
we  see  in  our  newspapers,  just  as  there 
is greater  sameness  in  the  typography 
and  make-up?^  If  you  haven’t  noted

A  city  man,  who  bad  just  moved  into 
the  country,  was  trying  to  milk  a  cow, 
his  wife  standing  by  and  looking  on 
admiringly.  After a  time,  the  husband 
exclaimed: 
“ Oh,  dear!  I  wish  I  knew 
bow  long  cows  ought  to  be  m ilked!”  
“ Why  the  same  as  short ones,  my love,”  
said  his  wife,  with  an  air  of  superior 
wisdom.

Combination «Uncle Sam”

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
these,  do 
it  next  year,  when  you  go  to 
the  Paris  Exposition.  There  is  not  so 
wide  a  divergency  between  the  French 
and  American  methods,  however,  for 
some  forms  of  advertising  are decidedly 
American 
in  appearance,  apparently 
heralding  a  marked  change  in  the  Paris 
way  of  addressing  possible  customers. 
The  old-time  assertion,“ They  do  things 
better 
therefore, 
scarcely  hold  good  to-day  with  refer­
ence  to  display  advertisements.  The 
Paris  advertisement  writer,  unlike 
Wanamaker’s  ad-smith,  does  not  make 
use  of  any  introductory  remarks in order 
to  induce  the  reading  of  bis  announce­
ment.—Shoe  and  Leather  Facts.

in  France,”   will, 

Youths’  Knit  Boots 

Men’s Knit Boots 

Boys’  Knit  Boots

Knit Boots)

Net per case.
I2 prs each.
With 2 bkl. Gum  Perfections.$25  00
With Duck  Perfections..........24  00
With Gum Perfections........... 2200
With Gum  Hurons,  Heel.......   21  00

With Gum Perfections............20  00

(1st  quality  Rubbers  and  1st  quality 

With Gum  Hurons, no H eel..  14  50 

Terms, Nov. 1,30 days, act

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Combination “A”

(1st  quality  Rubbers  and  1st  quality 

Felt Boots)
Men’s White  Felt Boots 

Net per case.
12 Pra each
With  Duck Perfections........... $23 00
With Gum  Perfections...............22 00

Men’s Gray Felt Boots 

With 2 bkl. Gum Perfections.  23  00
With  Duck  Perfections.........  22  00
With Gum  Perfections............... 20 50
With Gum  Hurons,  Heel...........20 00

Boys’ Grey  Felt  Boots

With Gum  Perfections............  18  50
With Gum  Hurons,  Heel.......   17  50

Youths’ Gray  Felt Boots 

With  Hurons, no  Heels..........  13  00

1899  Net  Price  List on  Combinations

Telling  Rubber Advertisement.

The  following  announcement  of  rub­
ber  goods  appeals  so  forcibly  to  the 
women  that the  Tradesman  feels  no hes­
itation  in  recommending  it to its friends 
in  the  shoe trade:

Now  and  then  one  finds  a  woman  who 
obje< ts  to  wearing  rubbers  because  they 
make her  feet  look 
large  and  untrim. 
It  was  only  a  few  years  ago  that  many, 
many  women  objected  to  wearing  rub­
bers  because  they  detracted  from  the 
trim  appearance  of  the  foot.  But  every­
body  knows  that  nothing  else  ruins  the 
health  so  quickly  as  wet  feet,  and  the 
only  possible  way  to have  dry  feet,  es­
pecially 
in  winter,  is  to  wear  rubbers. 
So  rubbers  have  come  back  into style  as 
indispensable  to good health.  The added 
fact  that  rubbers  are  now  so  much  more 
shapely  and  graceful  in  their  lines  than 
they  were  a  dozen  years  ago,  and  that 
they  are now  made  in  such  infinite  va­
riety,  has  served,  of  course,  still  further 
to  increase  their  popularity.  But  there 
remain  a  few  fastidious  women,  mostly 
of  the  younger  generation,  who  still  ad 
here  to  the  old  prejudice against  rub­
bers.  They  do  net,  however,  belong  to 
the  new  woman  class.  There  was  a 
tune,  not so  many  years  back,  when 
it 
was  not quite  fashionable  to appear too 
robust.  They  would  have been thorough­
ly  up-to  date 
if  they  bad  been  old 
enough  to  flourish  in  those  days,  for a 
little  languor  was  considered  rather  be­
coming 
in  a  young  woman.  But  that 
dav  has  passed.  The  pale,  drooping, 
indoor  girl,  who  wears  no  rubbers  on 
the  street,  has  given  way  to  the  riding, 
walking,  golf-playing  girl.  Health  has 
received  the  seal  of  fashion.

Wise  Sayings.

Cold  coffee  is  apt to make the boarders 

The  smaller a  man's  mind  is  the  less 

he  seems  to  know  it.

For a  merciless  critic  commend  us  to 

the  unsuccessf11  author.

The  man  who  is  in  love  with  himself 

has  no  fear of  being  jilted.

The  rooster  is  a  tidy  bird.  He invari­
ably  carries  a  comb  with  him.
Men  sometimes  worship  women  be­
cause  they  are  unable  to  understand 
them.
Culture  doesn’t always  make a  gentle­
man.  Some very large beets are cultured.
The  water  shark  bites  a  man's leg  off, 

but  the  land  shark  merely  pulls  it.

hot.

Retort  Courteous.

“ I  punish  you,  my  child,  to  show  my 

love  for  you. ’ ’

“ It 

isn’t  necessary  for  your  love  to 

work  overtime  on  my  account,  ma. ”

An  Honest  Admission.

“ So  you  want  to  marry  my  daughter, 
young  man?  What  are  your  prospects?”  
“ Pretty  poor,  unless  you  give  your 

consent. ’ ’

HIRTH,  KRAUSE &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

HEROLD-BERTSCH  SHOE  CO.  ¡

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MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS 

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RELIABLE  FOOTWEAR 

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Our  Spring  line  is  a  Winner;  wait  for  our  travelers  and  5* 
“win**  with us.—When  in  the  city  see  our  spread.—Agents 
for W ales  Goodyear  Rubbers. 

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Rindge,  K alm b ach ,  Logie  &   Co.,

12,14 and 16 Pearl Street,

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Boots and Shoes

Agents  Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Company.

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

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

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Be sure  and see  them  before  placing your order.

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Qeo.  H.  Reeder & Co.,

19 South Ionia Street, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Agents  for  LYCOMING  and 
K EYST O N E  R U B B E R S.  Our 
stock  is  complete  so we  can  fill 
your orders at once.  Also a line 
of U.  S.  R u bber Co.  Cohbina- • 
tions. 
Send  us  your  orders 
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.

Tradesman 

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4 Quires, 320 pages............ 3  00
5 Quires, 400  pages............   3  50
6 Quires, 480 pages............4  00

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invoices.............................. $2  00

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Fruits  and  Produce.
The  Demand  for  Uniformity in  Butter. 
Prom the  St.  Louis Interstate Grocer.

"T h e   demand  for  fine  butter  is  exact­
in g,”   said  W.  N.  Tivy,  the North Third 
street  commission  merchant,  “ and  it  is 
wanted  the  same  all  the  time 
in  color, 
flavor,  salt.  etc.  Give  the  retailer  of 
such  butter a  single  tub  that  is  off,  and 
he  will  soon  fire  it  back  to  you,  or  in­
vite  you  in  no  uncertain  tones  to  send 
for 
it  at  once,  probably  a  distance  of 
three  or  four  miles.  The  grocer  him­
self  may  not  have  noticed  it  when  re­
ceived,  but  as  he  may  probably  dish 
it 
out  to as  many  customers  as  there  are 
pounds  in  the 'tub,  about  60,  it 
is  very 
soon  discovered  and  returned  to  him. 
Often  in  anger  he  dumps  it back  in your 
tub.  in  anything  but  a  careful  manneV, 
as  he  feels  that  this  poor butter  has  huit 
his  trade,  and 
forced  some  of  his  cus­
tomers  to  go  elsewhere  to  get  what 
suited  them,  to  bis  loss  You  may  try  to 
excuse  it,  but  it  is  a  hard  matter  to  try 
to  even  pacify  him  for  the  injury  done, 
and  he  cautions  you  never  to  send  him 
a  tub 
like  that  again,  or  be  will  quit 
trading  with  you  altogether. 
In  fact, 
you  are  lucky  if  be  has  not  decided  on 
that  already,  and  got  a  tub  elsewhere. 
You  may  offer  him  another  tub  “ of  the 
same  brand,”   and  the probability is that 
it,  or take  any 
be  will  never  look  at 
chances  on  it.  There  are  grocers 
in 
St.  Louis  so  particular that  they  will  go 
short  of  butter  a  day  or  two  rather  than 
change  from  what  has  been  pleasing 
and  has  increased  trade.  Such  butter  as 
this  finds  ready  and  constant  sale  to  the 
same  party,  while  an  irregular make has 
to  hunt  a  buyer  and  coax  him  by  low 
prices 
It  remains 
with  the  farmers,  therefore,  to  crowd 
out  the  sale  of  butterine.  As  long  as 
they  are  content  with  marketing  an 
in­
ferior  grade  of  butter,  they must  be  con­
inferior  prices  and  to  put 
tent  with 
themselves  on  a 
level  with  butterine 
competition.  Say  what  they  will,  the 
butterine  manufacturers  depend  upon 
prices  to  sell  their  goods.  Of  course, 
they  make  their  products  as  attractive 
as  possible  and  use  every  means  w  thin 
their  power to  convince  the  public  that 
the  spurious  article  is  as  healthy  and  as 
palatable  as  the  genuine,  but they  would 
not  find  willing  converts  if  they  were 
not  backed  up  by  their  low  prices  and 
the  low  grades  of  country  butter  placed 
on  the  market.  To  bring  about  this de­
sired  end  every  state  should have a com­
petent  dairy  commissioner,and  until  we 
secure  the  appointment  of  such  com­
missioners 
interests  will 
suffer. ’ *

instead  of  quality. 

the  dairy 

Effect  of  the Oleo  Industry on  Kansas.
From  the Topeka  Dally Capital.

The  statesmen  who  conducted  the 
oleomargarine  business  for  the  benefit 
of  the  downtrodden  masses  have 
in­
volved  the  public 
in  much  mystery 
concerning  the  merits  and  demerits  of 
the  butter question,  many  people  being 
persuaded  that  butter  is  a  more  or  less 
dangerous  product.  The  oleo  makers 
have  confined  their  demands  in  legisla­
tures  within  what  they  consider  very 
conservative 
limits,  but  their  success 
will  inspire  them  to  new  exertions  and 
in  a  few  years  we  will  probably  see  re­
formers  pressing  bills  against  the tyran­
nical  buttermakers,  crowding  them  off 
the  earth 
interest  of  the  poor 
man’s  friend,  the  packing  bouse  com­
bine

in  the 

Buttermaking  has  of  late  made  such  a 
stand  against  the  oleo  trust  that  the 
latter,  long  suffering  as 
it  is,  will  not 
endure  it  without  a  mild  protest  Meas 
ures  will  be  introduced  into  the  legisla 
tures  requiring  dairymen  to  color  their 
butter  green  and  to  stamp  the  name, 
age and  previous  condition  of  the  cow 
from  which  tbe  article  purports  to  be 
derived.  The  name,  sex,  age  and  color 
of  hair of  the  milkmaid  will  also  be  re­
quired,  with  a  picture  of  the  red­
cheeked  damsel  printed  on  tbe package, 
showing  her  head  closely  shaven  or  her 
curly 
locks  securely  enclosed  in  a  net. 
Affidavits  will  be  required  showing  how 
often  tbe  milk  pail  is  cleaned,  together

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with  a  certificate  from  the  Secretary  of 
the  Live  Stock  Commission  testifying 
to  the  good  health  of  the  cow.  These 
requirements  being  met  all  that the oleo 
philanthropists  will  demand  in  addition 
will  be a  small  tax  of  a  few  cents  a 
pound  on  all  butter brought to market.

The  oleo  makers  establish  themselves 
on  the  principle  that  butter  is  a  relic  of 
barbarism,  while  the  only  simon-pure, 
fin  de  siecle  article  is  the  new  product 
of  oleomargarine.  What  is  oleomarga 
rine?  Assistant  Commissioner  of  Agri­
culture  Kracke  states  that  it  is  made  of 
different  kinds  of  fat,  cotton-seed  oil. 
cbemic;ls,  sometimes  other  products, 
colored  to  represent  pure  butter.  On  his 
recei t  trip  from  New  York  to  the  Na­
tional  Congress at  Texas,  they  were  fed 
exclusively  on  oleomargarine  except 
in 
the  dining  cars. 
If  oleomargarine  were 
driven  out  of  the  market,  the  average 
price  for  butter  would  be  from  2 to  3 
cents  a  pound  higher  than  it  is.  He 
said  that  some  of  it  runs  into  New  York 
City  yet;  that  it  comes  in  largely  in  the 
night-time  in  hearses,  paint  barre.s  and 
similar  packages.  He  showed  a  sam­
ple  of  paraffin  wax  which  weighed  35 
grains,  which  bad  been  taken  out of less 
than  an  ounce  of  oleomargarine.  This 
is  at  the  rate  of  six  to  seven  pounds to 
100  pounds  of  butter.  It  gave  a  stiffness 
to  the  oleomargarine,  to  make  it  better 
represent  butter.  Paraffin  wax  is  in­
soluble  and 
indigestible,  and,  in  fact, 
is  net  affected  by  acids

in  this  country 

Oleomargarine  consists largely of lard, 
cottonseed  oil  and  other  soft  fats,  to 
which  paraffin  wax  is  added  to make the 
product  “ stand  up”   like  butter.  The 
oleomakers  point  out  that  if  their prod­
uct  is  net  encouraged  by  legislation  and 
if  the  people  are  not  taught  to  eat  it 
in 
preference  to  butter  the  cattle  business 
will  go  to 
the  demnit  on  bowwows. 
Oleo  statistics  prove  that  the  cattle rais­
ers  of  Kansas  get  2S  cents  a  head  more 
for  their  cattle  because  of  the  oleomar­
garine  industry.  But  cleo  statistics  ig­
nore  the  fact  that  three-foui ths  of  oleo­
margarine  made 
is 
shipped  abroad,  so  thnt  if  no  oleo  were 
sold  at  all  in  this  country  the  total 
loss 
to  cattle  raisers  would  not  be  over 6 
cents  a  bead  on  cattle. 
It  is  not  be­
lieved  that  a  fall of 6  cents a bead would 
ruin  the  cattle  business  and  it  is  known 
that  some  of  the  leading  dairymen  in 
Kansas  are  selling  their  herds and going 
into  the  cattle  business,  being  dis­
couraged  with  the  outlook  for  butter and 
alarmed  at  the  encroachments  of  oleo­
margarine,  backed  as  it  is  by  gigait  c 
capital.  The  cattle  business  will  suffer 
more  from  the  destruction  of  the  dairy 
industry  than  from  tie   reasonable  regu­
lation  of  oleomargarine,  prohib  ting 
these  manufacturers  of  spurious  butter 
from  coloring  their  paraffiu  to  resemble 
yellow  butter.

Florida  Orange-Growers  See  S~me 

Light.

F.  B.  Keith,  District  Passenger 
Agent  of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  and 
St.  Paul  Railroad,  just  returned  from  a 
tour  through  Florida,  said,  concerning 
the  damage  done  the  orange  groves  by 
the  storm : 
“ The  impression  generally 
prevails  that  the  older  trees  are  saved. 
Old  orange-growers  with  whom  I  dis­
cussed  the  situation  told  me  that  in 
their  opinion  tbe  young  trees  were 
killed,  but  tbe  old  trees  would  be  able 
to  do  their  full  productive  duty  in  the 
future  Orange  gatherers  are  now pluck­
ing  the  fruit  from  the  grove  near  the 
Tampa  Bay  Hotel,  and  the  oranges 
seem  to  be  in  good  condition. 
I  have 
an  orange  grove  at  Dade  City,  and  the 
reports  I  receive  from  it are  to the effect 
that  the  trees  stood  tbe  test  better  than 
they  did  in  1894.  and  that  in  all  proba­
bility  all  the  old  trees  are  safe.”

How  She  Came  To  Hold  Him.

Policeman—I  don’t  see  how  a  little 
woman  like  you  succeeded  in  capturing 
and  bolding  a  big  burglar  like  that.

Little  Woman  (weakly) —It  was  dark, 
and  I—I  thought  it  was  my  husband try­
ing  to—to  elope  with  the  servant  girl.

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GOTHAM   GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

Mighty 

New  York.  Feb.  25—We  are  once 
more  “ on  deck”   here  and  everything  is 
jogging  along  merrily.  Business is  good 
and  a  very  large  number of  out-of-town 
buyers  are  here  looking  over  the  ground 
for  spring  trade.
little 

is  doing  in  the  coffee 
market  beyond  the  everyday  transac­
Prices  at  primary  points  are 
tions. 
relatively  about  as  high  as  here.  Rio 
No  7  is  worth  6j£c.  Prices  for  invoices 
have  sagged,  but  the  decline  has  been 
very  slight. 
In  store  and  afloat  the  ag­
gregate  amount  of  coffee 
is  1.426,679 
bags,  against  1,172.517  bags  at  the  same 
time  last  year.  Mild  coffees  are  mov­
ing  slowly.  Stocks  are  fairly  large  and 
no  disposition  to  try  to  advance  rates  is 
shown.  The  most  desirable  soits  of East 
India  coffres  have  been  in  good  request 
and 
larger  quantities  have  changed 
hands  than  for  many  weeks  previously.
Trading  in  sugar  has  been  moderately 
active—only moderately—yet  the  market 
is  decidedly  firm.  Arbuckle  quotes 
granulated  at  4  94  in  100  bbl.  lots  and 
the  Trust  at  even  5c.  Most  of  the  trad­
ing  has  been  in  small  lots,  sufficient  for 
the  wants  of  every  day.

Transactions  in  teas  are  mostly for the 
lower  grades  and  a  fair  volume  of  trade 
has  taken  place.  Orders  have  come  to 
band  from  nearly  every  section  of  the 
Union  and  the  tea  market  of  to-day  is  a 
thing  of  beauty,  as  compared  with 
last 
week.

Full  values  have  been  paid  for  rice 
this  week  by  purchasers  and,  while 
prices  are  firm,  the  volume  of  trading  is 
only  moderate,  especially  of 
lower 
grades.  Foreign  rice  is  firm,  but  rather 
quiet.  Prime  to  choice  Southern, 
@6lic  \  Japan,  4?6@5*AC-
There  is  the  same  old  story  of  contin­
ued  strength  for  black  pepper,  which  is 
now  held  at  n c   at  the  lowest  The  re­
mainder  of  the  spice  line  is  unchanged.
The  molasses  market  is  firm  and  fair­
ly  active.  Full  values  have  obtained  for 
medium  grades,  and 
low  grades,  too, 
are  well  held.  Fancy  sorts  of  foreign 
are  firm  and  Puerto  Rico  is  quotable  at 
28@35c ;  Domestic,  good  to  prime,  i6@ 
26c ;  open  kettle.  32@36c.  Syrups  are 
moderately  active.  Cane  syrups  have 
been  most  sought  for.  Prime  to  fancy 
sugar,  i9@25c.

remained 

The  canned  goods  market  during  the 
week  has  been  very  quiet. 
It  seems  to 
be  the  period  “ between  seasons”   and 
everybody 
is  waiting  for  the  spr  ng 
tide,  which  will  probably  set  in  good 
and  strong.  There  has  been  a  pretty 
good  demand  for  futures,  especially 
for goods  of  well  known  merit.  Prices 
have 
practically  without 
change.  Spot  New  York  corn commands 
65c  and  for  future delivery from 6o@65c 
Future  Maine  corn 
is  worth  8o@85c 
f.  o.  b.  Portland.  Large  lots  of  future 
Maine  corn  have  changed  hands,or  will 
when  it  is  in  the  market,  on  quotations 
made  this  week.  New  York  future peas 
have  sold  from  85c  up  to  S i.75,  as  to 
variety,  brand,  etc.  No  3  New  Jersey 
tomatoes  are  worth  82J4@85c.  New 
York  State  futures  have  sold  pretty  well 
within  a  range  of  $ i @ i . c>5

There  has  been  a  pretty  fair  demand 
for  most  sorts  of  California  dried  fruits 
and 
jobbers  generally  report  a  fairly 
satisfactory  condition  of  things.  Prunes 
are  steady  and  peaches  and  apricots  are 
especially  firm,  while  the  amount  on 
band  is  not  at all  large.

$5@5  50; 

Lemons  and  oranges  have  sold  with 
just  about  the  usual  freedom.  Sicily 
lemons,  as  to  size,  *2.6o@3  35.  Re­
packed  Jamaica  oranges  are  worth  per 
barrel 
California  navels, 
$ 2  75@3  5o;  Florida  russets,  $3@3-75; 
brigbts,  $3  25@5.
The  butter trade  generally  is  satisfac­
tory,  but  quotations  show  no  advance 
and  the  supply  on  hand  is  sufficiently 
large  to  prevent  any  upward  tendency of 
importance.  Stricty  fancy  creamery 
is 
held  at  23c,  but  it  must  be  strictly  up to 
mark  to  bring  this  quotation.  Firsts, 
2o@2ic;  seconds,  i8@I9c ;  finest  West­
i8@I9c ;  Western 
ern  June  creamery, 
imitation  creamery, 
fancy,  i 8@ i8J6c ;*

firsts,  I5@i6c ;  Western factory,  I2@ i4c; 
rolls,  I4@i4)£c.

The cheese  market  continues  in a very 
satisfactory  condition.  Stocks  are nar­
rowing  down  and  the  general  tone  is 
firm.  Fancy  large  size  State  cheese 
is 
fancy 
worth  io j^ c;  small  size,  colored, 
stock,  ii@iiXc.
Eggs  are  “ out  of  sight,”   near-by 
fancy  commanding  36c.  New  York 
and  Pennsylvania,  35c;  Western  fresh 
gathered,  34@35c,  and  even  Southern 
stock  is  worth  3o@32c.  There  is  money 
in  eggs  sure  now  and  they  are  almost 
the  '  golden  eggs. ’ ’  There  never  was  a 
better  time  for  “ hustling”   in  this  mar­
ket,  and  “ the quicker  the  sooner.’ ’ 
If 
we have  a  spell  of  warm  weather  there 
will  be  a  slump,  but  just  now  eggs  are 
the  best  things  a  grocer  can gather in.

Possibility  of  a  Prune  Pool.

From the New York Commercial.

Rumors  have  been  floating  about  all 
the  week  regarding  the  possible  concen­
tration  of  spot  supplies  of  prunes,  but 
but  little  definite  information  has  been 
obtainable. 
It  was  said  the  first  of  the 
Wf-ek  that  two  or  three  strong  firms  were 
trving  to  secure  control  of  the  spot  sup­
plies  of  ^11  prunes,  and  it  was  declared 
that  the  eff  rt  had  been  successful.  The 
announcement  of  the  attempt  created 
firmer  ter ling 
in  the  market  and  also 
brought  in  more  and  larger  orders.

It  is  known  that  supplies  in  all  posi­
tions  are  limited  and  the  announcement 
of  probable  concentration  of  spot  sup­
plies  caused  some  uneasiness  among 
dealers  short  of  stocks,  and  they  made 
baste  to  get  ready  for  the  prospective 
advance.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  there  is 
no  quotable  change  in  prices,  although 
holders  are  firm  in  their  views  and  re­
fuse  to  consider  anything  but  full  fig­
ures.

It  has  developed,  however,  that  no  at­
tempt  has  been  made to concentrate Cal­
ifornia  stocks.  The  object  was  to  form 
a  pool  to  control  the  handling  of Oregon 
and  Washington  Italian  prunes.  There 
are  but  few  cars  of  Noithwestern  goods 
obtainable,  and  the  object  is  to  control 
distribution  in  such  a  manner that  there 
will  be  no  reduction 
in  price  before 
next  season’s  stocks  come  in.  North­
western 
friends 
throughout  the  East  this  season.  The 
California  product  has  been  compara­
tively  short,  and  large  sizes  were  st Id 
for  export  before  domestic  buyers  had  a 
chance  to  place  orders.  The  result  has 
been  that  all  large  sizes  distributed  in 
Eastern  markets  this  year  have  come 
from  the  Northwest. 
It  was  not  known 
yesterday  whether  the  deal  was  entirely 
closed  up  or not,  but  it  was  said  that  it 
probably  would  be* in  the  near  future.

goods  have  made 

The  Orange  Situation  in  Florida. 

From the New York Commercial.

A  gentleman  was  among  the  fruit 
dealers  yesterday  who  has  just  returned 
from  Florida.  He 
is  the  owner  of  a 
number  of  orange groves  and  took  pains 
to 
investigate  the  results  of  the  late 
freeze.  He  said  that  probably all  orange 
trees  down  to  the  middle of  the  State 
were  frozen  to  the  ground.  Below  that 
the  damage  was  less,  but  was  still  seri­
ous.  There  is  a  chance  for  the  old  trees 
to  escape  with  the  loss  of  the  new wood. 
When  asked  what he  intended  to  do,  he 
replied  that  his  first  thought  was  to 
abandon  all  further  attempts  to  grow  or­
anges,  and  pocket  his  loss,  but  further 
consideration  has  led  to  the  conclusion 
that  there  is  still  a  possibility of  secur­
ing  a  return  for  the  money  already  ex­
pended,  and  what  may  be  required  to 
put  the  groves  into  bearing  condition. 
He  has  about  determined  to  keep  up the 
fight  a  while  longer.  He  thinks  a  large 
proportion  of  those  who  have  lost this 
time  will  quit  the  business  and  says  it 
is  bis  belief  that  the  opportunities  for 
success  will  be  largely  increased  there­
by.  Referring  to  the  prospect  for  vege­
tables,  he  said  that  everything  was 
killed  to  the  ground,  but  that  growers 
were  beginning  to  put 
in  their  new 
crops,  and  will  now  be  able  to  get  their 
produce  into this  market  ahead  of Geor­
gia.  He  found  very  few  discouraged 
growers,  but  said  that  most  of  them 
were  ready  to take  hold  again.

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

Cause  of  H alf  the  Merchant’s  Woe.
W ritten for the T r a d e sm a n .

In  regard to  an  expression  used  in  the 
article  entitled  “ Women  Workers,”  
in 
the  Michigan  Tradesman  of  February 5, 
there  is  more  to  say  of  “ that  unguarded 
moment,”   because  most,  if  not  all,  the 
mistakes  of  our 
lives  are  the  result  of 
those  same  moments,  hence  they  are  of 
importance  to the  world  at  large  as  well 
as  the  individual.

In  an  unguarded  moment  some  plau­
sible  tale,  well  told  by  an  able  tongue, 
beguiles  the  merchant  into  overbuying, 
the  result  being  cut  prices  or goods  car­
ried 
in  stock  beyond  their  season,  the 
former  condition  being  likened  to  pick­
ing  green  fruit,  from  which  no  good  re­
turns,  as  this  state  of  affairs  generally 
culminates  in  loss  on  entire  deal,  which 
makes  this  unguarded  moment  a  factor 
leading  to that  man’s  failure.

Perhaps  in  some  unguarded  moment 
a  merchant  will  be  led  to  believe  that 
some  outside  investment  or  speculation 
will  lead  to  sudden  wealth,  only  to  find 
bitter disappointment  when  the  realiza­
tion  comes,  thus  showing  the  danger  of 
those  moments  when  one  is  unprepared 
for  sound  judgment,  and  seeks,  without 
the  aid  of  his  reason,  to  find  some  royal 
road  to  wealth,  some short-cut  that  leads 
to  fortune,  which  is  as  hard  to  find  as 
the  proverbial  needle 
in  a  haystack, 
that, 
found,  slips  so  easily  from  the 
fingers.

is 

led 

In  an  unguarded moment another mer­
chant 
into  the  purchase  of  a 
“ gold  brick,”   by  putting  in  a  new  line 
department  of  which  he  has  no  knowl­
edge. 
It  looks  well  on  the  outside,  but 
as  a  usual  thing  that  department  run 
outside  the  knowledge  of the responsible 
head  is  a  drain  on,  rather  than  a  source 
of  supply  to,  the  revenues  of  the  busi 
ness,  thereby  becoming  a  monument  to 
the  stupidity  of  him  who  ventured  into 
unknown  depths.

the 

Another  may,  in  an  unguarded  mo­
ment,  be  caught  by  the  plausible,  yet 
delusive,  extra  dating  and  help  the  job­
ber  unload  undesirable  early  purchases, 
made  less  valuable  through  the  change­
ableness  of  Fashion’s  dictates, 
then 
have  unsalable goods  on  hand  that  re­
quire  all 
ingenuity  of  Yankee 
shrewdness  to  work  off  without  a  severe 
loss;  and  yet 
it  was  but  at  that  un­
guarded  moment  when,  bestitating  be­
tween  a  flat  refusal  and  a  conservative 
purchase  for  immediate  needs,  the  bait 
of  extra  date  decided  him  to  stick  his 
own  hand 
in  the  fire,  becoming  the 
cat’s-paw  to  the  shrewder  business  man 
once  removed  towards  the  source  of 
supply,  the  jobber,  who,  bitten,  turns to 
bite  bis  friend.

This  same  “ fleeting  phantasma  of 
the  brain”   may 
influence  another  to 
load  up  on  staples  beyond  his  ability  to 
meet  maturing  b ills;  thus  through  the 
door  opened  into his  business  methods 
by  that  little  unguarded  moment  he  al­
lows  to  enter  the  scorpion  that  kills 
man’s  credit,  slow pay, and at once loses 
his  reputation  for  prompt  settlements. 
Yet 
'tis  but  another  instance of a  mo­
mentary  carelessness,  a  quiet  yielding 
to a  plausible  tale.

Another  gets 

into  bis  place  of  busi 
ness  in  the  morning  laboring  under  a  fit 
of  “ blues,”   and  in  an  unguarded  mo­
ment  goes  through  his  stock  and  cuts 
deep 
into  the  prices  at  sacrifice  of 
profit,  when  a 
little  stiffening  of  the 
backbone  would  have  disposed  of  as 
many at a  fair  profit,  retaining  the  dig­
nity  of  business  done  on  businesslike 
methods.  This  cutting  of  prices  is  a 
disease  that  grows  by 
feeding  until

what  was  once but  a  result  of  an  attack 
of  "th e  blues”   pursues  its  victim  until, 
weary  of  the  unequal  struggle  against 
seeming  fate,  he  throws  up  his  hands 
and  adds  another  name  to  the ‘ * vast ma­
jority”   of  those  who enter the  business 
race,  becoming  one  more  failure  to  be 
traced  back  to  that  insignificant  un­
guarded  moment  when  the  first  retreat­
ing  step  was  taken.

In  an  unguarded  moment a  merchant 
may  allow  himself  to  show  impatience 
towards  a  customer,  and  through  this 
little  thing  he 
loses  the  bonds  formed 
by  years  of painstaking  effort  and drives 
from  his  door  one  whose  trade helps 
feed  himself  and  family.

victory  perched,  by 

It  was  only  at  some  unguarded  mo­
ment  the  soldier on  picket  duty  allowed 
sleep  to  overcome  him ;  but  this  little 
lapse of  duty,  which  may  have  been  but 
momentary,  was  enough  for  the  watch­
ful  foe  to  overcome  him  before  an alarm 
could  be  made,  thus  opening  an  en­
trance  way  into  the  camp,  resulting 
in 
defeat  of  an  army  on  whose  shoulders 
seeming 
and 
through  which  defeat  a  nation's  doom 
instances  have 
is  often  sealed,  and 
been  known  where 
the 
same  has 
changed  the  history  of  the  world.  Gen­
eral  Montejo 
is  reputed  to  have  said, 
“ If  Dewey  had  not  stolen  in  on  us when 
we  were  not  watching,  he  never  could 
have  entered  Manila  harbor.”   But  you 
and  I  believe  that  Dewey,  backed  by 
bis  brave  American  men,  would  have 
gone  successfully  in  even  although  the 
entire  Spanish  fleet  had  been  on  the 
spot*  with  all  eyes  open  and  never  an 
unguarded  moment;  and  yet  this  ex­
satisfies  the 
cuse  of  unpreparedness 
Spanish  mind,  whence 
its  application 
to  the  point  in  hand.  That  victory  pos­
sibly  changed  the  entire  course  of  fol­
lowing  events,  making  what  seemed  an 
insignificant  navy  a  recognized 
almost 
in  the  world,  honored  at  home 
power 
and 
abroad;  and  we  can 
trust to  those  in  command  of  that  navy 
that  there  shall  be  no  unguarded  mo­
ments  aboard  our  American  warships 
by  which  defeat  shall  ever  be  the  por­
tion  of  our arms  on  land  or on  sea!

respected 

its  dealings, 

A  merchant  becomes  the  leader  in  his 
town,  then  thinks  nothing  can  occur  to 
change  this  leadership  when  in  an  un­
guarded  moment  be  allows  a  competitor 
to  approach  close  to  his  position,  then 
step  upon  his  platform  and  finally  shove 
him  off  into blank  space,  through  sheer 
force  of  push,  all  resulting  in  that  un­
guarded  moment  when  his  trade  was 
allowed  to  feel  that  bis  store  was not up- 
to-date  in 
fittings,  fur­
nishings  and  help;  and  he  practically 
turns  over to  the  new  man,  wide  awake 
to  the  requirements  of  retail  merchan­
dising,  his  rights,  acquired  by  a  life  of 
hard  work,  but  lost  through the careless­
ly-guarded  gates  to  his  house  of  busi­
ness,  through  which  he  allowed  to  pass 
out  his  best  assistants  for  better  pay 
elsewhere,  his  best  customers  following, 
in  through  which  opening  was  brought 
cheaper  help  that  got  still  more  cheap, 
to meet  the  demands  upon  his  business, 
resulting 
in  complete  failure  where 
prosperity  seemingly was a  fixture.

In  an  unguarded  moment  a  merchant 
will  allow  himself  to  speak  harshly  or 
sneeringly  to  a  clerk  in  the  presence  of 
customers,  which  not  only  makes  less 
profitable  the  future  help  of  that  clerk, 
but  serves  to  alienate  that  customer’s 
trade  and  add  another  codicil  to the will 
of  the  powers  that  be,  reading:  “ To 
this  unguarded  moment  be  charged  the 
purchase  price  of  another  nail  to  help 
make  a  coffin  for  my  business,  the

corpse  of  which  I  am  preparing  by  all 
such  acts  on  my  part. ’ ’

In  some  unguarded  moment  all.  or 
nearly  all,  of  life’s  besetting  ills are  al­
lowed  to  fasten  themselves  upon  us, 
and  we  weakly  bewail  our  fate  when 
our own  lack  of  concentration  alone 
is 
to  blame.  We  allow  our  forces  to  be 
divided,  our  strength  wasted,  our  re­
sources  unapplied,  our chances  accepted 
by  another,  then  complain  that  disaster 
overtook  us  through  an  unguarded  mo­
ment.  We  allow  ourselves  to  work  on, 
year  in  and  year  out,  without  rest  or 
recreation, 
then  when  strength  and 
health  fail  us  we make  excuse that  in 
an  unguarded  moment  we  sat  in  a draft, 
caught  cold,  which  settled  in  la  grippe, 
developed 
into  pneumonia  and  very 
nearly  finished  our course  for  us,  when 
all  that  was  lacking  was  that  unguarded 
moment  when,  rest  declined,  recreation 
unsought,  pleasures 
and 
Death 
invited  to  a  seat  at  our  board, 
we  set  up  the  standard  of  wear  for  our 
mental  and  physical  nature  which 
is 
never applied  to  the  machine—contin­
uous  work  without  oil.

discarded 

In  an  unguarded  moment  the  young 
clerk  falls  a  victim  to  the  temptation  of 
money,  pilfers  from  his  employer,  re­
grets  the  act  but  does  not  replace  the 
funds,  again  and  again  yielding  until 
from  force  of  habit  he  plans  his  way 
and  becomes  a  confirmed  thief,  all  of 
which  might  have  been  avoided  had 
his  employer  furnished  himself  with  the 
means  of  removing 
from  the  young 
clerk’s  way  the  temptation  to  take,  by 
use  of  such  appliances,  adapted  to  his 
business,  and  approved  by  others 
in 
similar  lines,  as  have  proven  them­
selves  to  be  hindrances  to  peculations 
and  aids  in  building  up  character  on  a 
foundation  agaimt  which the tempt  tion 
of  money  can  make  no  impression.

With  the  weight  of  these  arguments 
before  us,  can  we  do  other  than  con­
clude  that  the  unguarded  moments  of 
our  lives  are  fraught  with  greatest  dan­
ger  to our  welfare  and  ought  to  find  no 
place  in  our  list  of  excuses  fornotbeirg 
more  successful 
in  our  undertakings? 
Let  us  be  ever  watchful  and  on  our 
guard  against  this  foe  to  business  dis­
cipline and  success,  the  unguarded  mo­
ment,  making 
it  a  thing  disconnected 
with  our  lives. 

L.  A.  E l y .

* 

Three  Visits  Were  Enough.

A  young  man  once  went  to  a  Phila­
delphia  millionaire  with  a  request  for 
pecuniary  aid  to  start him  in  business: 
“ Do  you  drink?”   asked  the  million­

aire.

“ Once  in  a  while. ”
“ Stop 

it!  Stop 

then  come  and  see  me. ”

it  for  a  year,  and 

The  young  man  broke  off the  habit  at 
once  and  at  the  end  of  the  year came 
to  see  the  millionaire  again.
ful  man.

“ Do  you  smoke?”   asked  the success­
* * Now  and  then. ’ ’
“ Stop  itl  Stop  it  for a  year and  then 
The young  man  went borne and  broke 
away  from  the habit. 
It  took  him  some 
time,  but  finally  he  worried  through  the 
year  and  presented  himself again.
“ Do  you  chew?”   asked  the  philan­
thropist.

come and  see  me again.”

|'Yes,  I  do,”   was the desperate reply.
Stop  it !  Stop  it  for a  year  and  then 

come and  see  me  again.”

The  young  man  stopped  chewing,  but 
he  never  went  back  again.  When  asked 
by  his  friends  why  he  never called  on 
the  millionaire  again,  he  replied  that 
he knew  exactly  what  the  roan  wasdriv- 
■ *)g  at. 
“ He’d  have  told  me  that  now 
that  I  have  stopped  drinking  and  smok­
ing  and  chewing  I  most  have  saved 
enough  to  start  myself  in  business.  And 
I  have. ’ ’

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“Laciofioir

What U “ Lactobutu” ?

It is purely a vegetable compound, con­
taining nothing  injurious.  A  child can 
eat any quantity of  it without  the  least 
harm.

What will “ Lactobutu”  do?

It  will  purify  and  sweeten  old  rancid 
butter  and,  with  our  process  of  treat­
ment, make good butter  out  of  it, with 
uniform  color,  and  also  increase  the 
I n c r e a sin g   t h e 
quantity  one-third. 
Qu a n tity  O n e-T h ir d   may  seem  ab­
surd, but this is
How it is done:

Take, for example, io pounds of butter; 
add 5  pounds of fresh milk, then add a 
small  amount  of  “ Lactobutu”   and 
with our process of  treatment, the milk 
will all turn to butter and you will then 
have,  by  adding  a  little  more  salt,  15 
pounds  of  good  butter  ready  for  sale. 
The  question  is  sometimes  asked,  “ Is 
not  the  milk  worked  into  the  butter, 
and  can  be  worked  out  again?”  No, 
such is not the case.  The milk turns 
to  butter,  and  will  always  be  butter 
until consumed.
Every  merchant  knows  that  when  he 
sells his poor  butter  for  4  and  5  cents 
per  pound  it  is  purchased  by  some 
process  firm  who  make  good  salable 
butter out of it.  W H Y  DON’T   YOU? 
Our  process  does  not  adulterate;  it 
purifies, and does not conflict with State 
laws.  Increasing the quantity with only 
pure sweet milk has been  known  here­
tofore by only a very few most success­
ful process butter workers.

The great advantage

To  the  merchant  is—say  he  has  200 
pounds of mixed grades of butter which 
is undesirable;  some  dull  or  rainy day 
his clerks can in  one  hour’s  time  treat 
the entire lot and  make  300  pounds  of 
butter,  all  one  color,  and  improve  the 
quality  so  that  it  will  bring  a  much 
higher price at home or  in  the  market. 
Note the profit!  Butter treated by our 
process will  keep  sweet  twice  as  long 
as ordinary butter.

Our terms:

On receipt  of  $5.00   we  will  send  you 
the secret of how to treat the butter, in­
cluding a package “ Lactobutu”   suffi­
cient to treat 500 pounds.  After you buy 
the secret we will  supply  the  “ Lacto­
butu”  sufficient to treat 500  pounds  at 
$2.00 per package.
Our process  for  treating  butter 
is so 
simple  that  a  boy  10  years  old  can 
operate it.
The only thing you need  besides  what 
we  furnish  is  a  simple,  home-made 
box or vat, or tub, in which to treat the 
butter.
It requires only a few  minutes  to  treat 
the butter by our process 
There is no excuse for  any  merchant's 
selling bad butter in his Store.
The merchant who uses our process for 
treating butter can pay more for butter. 
He can  sell  butter  cheaper,  and  can 
always have a better quality  of  butter, 
and make  more  money  out  of  it  than 
his  competitors.  For  testimonials 
write us.  When  you  order,  men­
tion this paper.
THE LACTO BUTTER CO.

1 4 5  La Salle Street, 

CHICAGO, 111.

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time,  but  some of  the  recent  analyses  of 
commercial  oleo  have  shown  nearly 
10 
p‘Ir cent,  of  this  wax.  Professor Geisler, 
<Tnemist  for the  metropolitan  district  of 
Hhe  New  York  State  Agricultural  De­
partment,  has 
just  completed  a  very 
careful  analysis  of  a  sample  of  oleo 
taken  from  one  of  the  retail  grocery 
stores  of  this  city  by  Assistant  Commis­
sioner  Kracke,  and  the  results  of  his 
investigation  are  astonishing. 
From 
the  sample  of  a  trifle  less  than  one 
ounce  of  oleo  there  was  extracted  40.88 
grains  of  paraffine.  This  is  so  close  to 
10  per  cent,  that  in  a  6o-pound tub there 
would  be  six  pounds  of  this tasteless but 
exceedingly  objectionable  matter.
It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  paraffine 
is  absolutely  indigestible,  that  it  resists 
the  action  of  nearly  all  acids,  and  that 
105  degrees  of  heat  is  required  to  ren­
der  it  soluble.  The  best  medical author­
ities  in  the  country  agree  that  the  intro­
duction  of  such  substance  into  the  hu­
man  stomach  is  dangerous to health,  and 
the  laws  against  the  adulteration  of a 
food  product  in  that  way  should  be most 
rigorously  enforced. 
It  is time  that  the 
unscrupulous  methods  of  the  makers  of 
oleomargarine  were  more 
thoroughly 
aired,  and  that  an  unsuspecting  public 
should  receive  greater  protection  from 
this  gigantic  fraud.

little 

most  embarrassing  blunders,  however, 
happened  to  a  dainty 
lady  who 
has  to  wear  not  only  false  teeth  but  two 
lairs  of  spectacles.  Sewing  at  some 
Dorcas  Society  not  long  since,  she 
wished  to  change  her  glasses,  but her 
hand,  like  a  hasty  or  careless  child,  but 
half  attended  to  her brain,  and  she  dis­
covered  herself  with  her  teeth  in  her 
hands 
instead  of  her  spectacles.  Car 
conductors  could  tell  many  a  laughable 
story  of  postage  stamps offered  for fares, 
and  of passengers  both  vexed  and  vexa­
tious  who  pass  their  own  stations  or  at­
tempt  to  stop  short  of  them.  Perfectly 
sober  and  perfectly  sane  men  have 
walked  in  at  neighbors’  doors  and  even 
entered  the  dining-room  before  discov­
ering that they were perhaps several doors 
from  their  own.  The  ludicrous  errors 
of hand,eye  and ear  would  afford  a  valu­
able  study  to  the  psychologist,  but  they 
serve  a  better  purpose  perhaps in giving 
occasion  for  laughter  as  we  jog  on  or 
bent  the  stile.

Oranges  From  Japan.

A  feature  of  the  orange  trade  last 
week  was  the  receipt  of  several  carloads 
of  oranges  from  Japan,  which  arrived by 
way  of  San  Francisco  and 
Seattle. 
These  oranges  are  of  the  tangerine  va­
riety,  packed 
in  small  boxes,  of  about 
twenty-five  pounds  net,  and  generally

came  in  good  condition.  The  fruit  was 
of  handsome  appearance,  high  color and 
sweet. 
It  brought  $1.30  a  box,  a  fairly 
satisfactory  price,  remembering  that the 
fruit  reached  here  too  late  for  the  holi­
day  demand,  something  which  will  be 
remedied  next  season.

Dwight’s
Cleaned
Currants

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

Wolverine Spice Co.,

Grand Rapids.

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Tricks  of  Mind  and  Muscle.

When  a  college  professor gravely apol­
ogizes  to  the  cow  he  has  stumbled 
against  or a  literary  woman  repeatedly 
runs  against  one  of  her  own  shade  trees 
while discussing metaphysics, the trifling 
blunders  are  often  attributed  to some 
peculiar  constitution  of  mind  supposed 
to belong  to  genius;  but  these  tricks  of 
mind  and  muscle  are common  to  many 
in  the  familiar  footpath  way.  The  lack 
of  co-ordination  between  brain  and 
muscle  leads  to  many  a  laughable  mis­
take,  a  few  instances  of  which  are  here 
given :  A  woman  recently  went to  pur­
chase  some  Hamburg  trimming  and, 
wishing  to  put  on her spectacles,  opened 
her  umbrella 
instead,  and  having  a 
merry  heart  as  well  as  tricky  biceps, 
she  hurried  away  from  the  counter  con­
vulsed  with laughter,  the  saleswoman no 
doubt  thinking  her  would-be  customer 
was  something  of  a  lunatic.  A  teacher 
in  a  well-known  academy  has  a  habit  of 
carrying  his  umbrella  over  his  shoulder 
like  a  gun,  and  one  cloudy  morning, 
picking  up  a  broom  instead  of  the  um­
brella,he  hurriedly walked off with it and 
wohld  no  doubt  have  gone  directly  to 
prayers  so  accountred  bad  not  bis  wife 
called  him back.  A  young  lady  took  an 
ice  cream  soda,  and  took  the  long spoon 
awav  with  her,  discovering  her  mistake 
when  she  undertook  to  fan  herself  with 
the  spoon  at  a  lace counter.  Who  that 
uses  pen  and  mucilage  has  not dipped 
the  brush 
ink,  and  sprawled 
over the  paper  with  pen 
inadvertently 
dipped  in  the  wrong  bottle?  One of  the

in  the 

The  Neatest,  Most  Attractive  and 

Best  Way

to handle butter is  to  put it in our

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LANSING, MICH. 

in 

Since  our  last 

are—but  because 

Status  of the St. Louis Potato  Market.
S t  Louis.  Mo.,  Feb.  27—All  produce 
is  higher;  this  should  be  welcome  news 
to  shippers  and  farmers,  but  we  have 
found  that  shippers  and  farmers  are 
generally  better  posted  than  receivers. 
Cabbage  is  booming  and  we bear  prices 
of  $40 at  loading  station,  and  very  little 
to  offer  at  any  price.  California  and 
Texas  will  supply  us  soon.
letter,  potatoes  have 
advanced,  not  because  there  are  not 
plenty  of  potatoes  back 
farmers’ 
hands—there 
the 
weather  was  so  cold  nothing  could  be 
loaded,  and  later  bad  roads 
interfered 
so  that  few  potatoes  have  been  shipped 
from  anywhere.  Potatoes are  scarce  in 
all  the 
large  markets,  but  we  believe 
they  are  more  scarce  here  than  any­
where.  Dealers  are  buying  from  each 
other and  stocks are  fast  being  used  up. 
Seed  stock,  that  had  been  stored  for  the 
spring  seed  trade  South,  is  being turned 
out  for  eating  purposes.  Receipts  were 
never  so  light,  being entirely inadequate 
to  suppfy  the  demand,  and  the  towns 
nearby  here  are  drawing  on  St.  Louis 
for  their  supplies,  as they  are  not able 
to  draw  any  from  the  North.  This  nat­
urally 
tends  to  reduce  stocks  here. 
Even  Triumphs  are  being  used  for  eat­
ing,  and  anything  sells.  But  wait!  As 
soon  as  farmers  can  draw  to  the  station, 
there  will  be  plenty  to  go  around,  but  it 
will  take  a  little  time  to  reach  the  mar­
kets  and,  in  the  meantime,  consump­
tion  goes  on  steadily.

M il l e r   &  T e a s d a l e  Co.

The  Storage  of  Eggs.

From Chamber’s  Journal.

in 

An  interesting  experiment  in egg stor­
age  was  recently  brought  to  a  success­
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the  warehouse  of 
Messrs.  Christianson,  of  Bernard  street, 
In  August  a  batch  of  50,000 
Leith. 
Scottish, 
Irish  and  Danish  eggs  was 
sealed  up 
in  patent  storage  apparatus 
and  was  examined  four  months  after­
ward,  only  a  small  proportion  of  the 
eggs  being  found  unfit  for  use.

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The  secret  of  the  method  is  to  keep 
the  eggs  cool,  to  allow  free  access  of 
air  around  each  egg,  to  keep  them  up­
right 
them 
periodically  so that  the  yolk  of  the  egg 
is  constantly  embedded  in  the  albumen. 
These  desiderata  are  brought  about by 
placing  the  eggs  in  frames,  which,  by 
the  action  of  a  lever,  can  be  inclined 
in  different  directions  as  needed. 
In 
this  way  23,000  eggs  can  be turned  over 
in  half  a  minute  without  risk  of  break­
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From the American Creamery.

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some  of  the  manufacturers  of  oleomar­
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substance  have  been  found  from  time  to

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As  regards  the  complete  decomposi­
tion  of  the  carbide,  it  has  been  already 
pointed  out  that 
in  generators  of  the 
first  subdivision  there  may  be  a  small 
quantity  of  the  carbide  left  undecom­
posed  if  water  enough  to  flood  the resid­
uum  be  not  admitted,  while 
in  non­
automatic  generators  of  the  second  sub­
division  this  is  practically  impossible. 
In  generators  of the  third  subdivision, 
in  which  carbide  drops  into  a  large  ex­
cess  of  water,  it  might  be  imagined that 
any  carbide  in  the  residue  was  an 
im­
possibility ;  but 
in  point  of  fact,  this 
class  is  often  the  worst  offender  in  this 
respect,  as,  if  the  generation  has  been 
in  action  for  some  time,  a  thick  sludge 
of 
lime  collects  at  the  bottom  of  tbe 
generator,  into  which  the carbide  sinks, 
and  a  large  lump  of  carbide  will  often 
bake  for 
itself  so  tough  a  layer  of  oil 
and  lime  that  it  resists the  action  of  tbe 
water,  and  is  found  unacted  upon  when 
the  generator  is  cleaned  out.  The  usual 
explanation  given  by  the  generator 
maker  is  that  “ it  is  crust  present  in  tbe 
bad  carbide.”  
In  a  good  generator  the 
maximum  yield  of  gas should be evolved 
from  the  carbide,  but  a  fact  which  tbe 
generator  makers  have  utterly  over­
looked  up  to  the  present time  is  that 
if 
you  take  a  number  of different machines 
and  supply  them  all  with  exactly  the 
same  carbide,  no  two  will  give  tbe same 
yield  of  gas,  the  best  generators  giving 
volumes  approximating  to  5  cubic  feet 
per  pound  of  carbide,  while  tbe  worst 
will  give  barely  4  cubic  feet,  a  result, 
as  usual,  placed  at  the  door of  the  car- 
bide.
Tbe  causes  which  tend  to  diminish 
the  volume  of  acetylene  given  off are:

1.  Undue  pressure  in  tbe  generator.
2.  Tbe  acetylene  after  generation 
having  to  pass  through  a  column  of 
water.
3.  Undue  heating,  causing  polymeri­

zation.

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The  first  of  these  is  very  noticeable, 
and  is  due  to  the  increased  volume  of 
gas  dissolved  by  water  under  pressure. 
Although  ten  volumes  of  water  at  ordi­
nary  atmospheric pressure only dissolves 
11  volumes  of  acetylene,  at  two  atmos­
pheres  pressure 
it  dissolves  double tbe 
quantity.  When  acetylene  is  generated 
at  or above  the  surface  of  water,  but  lit­
tle  dissolves  at  once,  the  top  layer  of 
water  rapidly  becoming  saturated,  but 
when  the  gas  has  to  bubble  up  through 
a  mass  of  water,  as  in  generators of  the 
third  class,  a  heavy  loss  from  solution 
takes  place.  The  last  cause  has  already 
been  discussed,  and 
is  not  so notice­
able  in  its  result.
The  pressure  in  all  parts  of  a  genera­
tor  should  be as nearly as possible equal, 
and  as  low  as  possible,  and  this  is  best 
obtained  b->  working  freely  into  a  gas 
holder  of  sufficient  size.  The  home 
office  fixed 
inches  of  water  as  the 
limit of  pressure  permissible  in  genera­
tors,  but  I  think 
it  was  a  mistake to 
allow  more  than  20  inches,  and  I  should 
certainly  not advise  the  use of  a genera­
tor  which  gave  more  than  that  amount.
Every  part  of  the  generator  should  be 
easily  accessible,  and  complicated  taps 
and  valves  should  be  avoided,  while 
ease  of  charging  and  clearing  valves 
should  be  attended  to,  and  ample  room 
provided 
in  the  generator  for the  in­
crease  in  bulk  which  takes  place  when 
carbide 
into  lime.  One 
pound  of  pure  calcic  carbide yields 1.15 
pounds  of  slaked  lime—1  kg.  of  carbide 
yields  1156 grains  of  slaked 
lime—and 
the  volume  this  will  occupy depends  en­
tirely  upon  the  way  in  which  tbe  water 
is  brought  m  contact  with  it.
In  an  automatic  generator  of  the  first 
subdivision,  where  water  drips  slowly 
upon  the  carbide  in  sufficient  quantity 
to  decompose  it  but  not to  flood 
it,  the 
lime  swells  up  and  occupies  from  2  to 
2.5  times  the  bulk  of  the  original  car­
bide ;  when,  however,  the  water  flows  in 
more  rapidly,  tbe 
impact  of  tbe  water
♦Lecture by  Prof. V.  B.  Lewes,  before  British 

is  converted 

Society  of Arts.

beats  down  the  lime,  and  the  space  oc­
cupied  is  not  so  large. 
In generators  of 
the  second  class,  in  which  water  rises 
from  below,  the  weight of  the  undecom-
fiosed  carbide  a*bove  it  presses  down the 
ime  below  and  keeps  it  in  a  compact 
mass,  occupying  about  one-half  more 
space  than  the  carbide  from  which  it 
was  formed. 
In  designing  a  generator 
of  the  third  subdivision,  the  tank  con­
taining  the  water  into  which  the  car­
bide  falls  should  be  provided  with  a 
false  bottom,  so  as  to  leave at  least  8 
inches  to  1  foot  of  water  below  the point 
at  which  the  carbide  is  decomposed  for 
the  lime  sludge  to  settle  in.

Another  requisite  of  a  good generator, 
overlooked  up  to  the  present  time,  is 
that  there  should  be  an  arrangement  by 
which  the  air  present  in  tbe  generator 
can  be  rinsed  out  by  some  of  the  acety­
in  the  bolder,  or  by  some 
lene  already 
inert  gas  like  carbon  dioxide. 
I  think 
this  is  a  most  important  precaution,  as 
recent  researches  by  H.  Gerdes  show 
that  instead  of  acetylene  requiring to  be 
diluted  with  about  twelve  times  its  bulk 
of  air  in  order to  obtain  tbe  maximum 
pressure  on  explosion,  mixtures of  equal 
volumes  of  acetylene  and  air  give  tbe 
most  powerful  result. 
It  must  be  re­
membered  that  the  temperature at which 
acetylene  decomposes 
into  carbon  and 
hydrogen,  with  evolution  of  heat,  is  780 
degrees  C.,  but  tbe  temperature  of  igm 
tion 
is  480  degrees  C.  ;  and  in  such  a 
mixture  the  degree  of  heat  needed  to 
cause  explosion  will  more  nearly  ap­
proach  tbe  latter  than  tbe  former  tem­
perature,  and 
is  quite  conceivable 
that  in  working  on  a  big  scale  tbe  car­
bide  might  easily  reach  the  necessary 
temperature  while  such  a  mixture  of 
acetylene  and  air  still  remained  in  con­
tact  with  it.  Indeed,  I  have  come  across 
several  cases  of  explosion  which  could 
only  be  explained  by  this.

it 

If  a  mixture  of  equal  volumes  of 
acetylene and  air  be  ignited  in  an  open 
cylinder  18  inches  high,  a  lurid  disk  of 
flame  runs  down  the  cylinder,and  a  vast 
cloud  of  carbon  is  given  off,  but no  sign 
of  anything  approaching  explosion  oc­
If.  however,  this  be  done  in  a 
curs. 
closed  vessel,  tbe  very 
lowness  of  the 
combustion  brings  about  tbe  explosion, 
as  the  combustion  of  tbe  portion  of  tbe 
mixture  first  ignited  creates  a  pressure 
under  which  the  remainder  detonates  at 
the  temperature  of  combustion,  and 
gives  the  high  pressure  noticed  in  those 
experiments.

In  experiments  which  I  have  made  I 
have  found  it  extremely  difficult  to'  ig­
nite  such  a  mixture  of  air  and acetylene 
in  a  tube  by  means  of  an  electric spark, 
but 
if  a  flask  be  employed,  so  that  a 
considerable  volume  of  the  mixture  is 
present,  the  spark  at  once  causes  a  vio­
lent  explosion,  the  finely  divided  parti­
cles  into  which  the glass  is  blown  being 
an  ample  proof  of  the  explosive  force 
having  been  of  an  extremely sharp char 
acter.

The  fact  that  a  mixture of  one volume 
of  air and  one  volume of acetylene burns 
extremely  slowly  in  an  open  cylinder, 
and  also  the  tact  that  it  is  difficult  to 
ignite  by  a  spark  the  mixture  in  small 
portions,  is no  argument  against  the ex 
plosibility  of  the  mixture,  as,  if  you 
take a  mixture of carbon  disulphide and 
nitric  oxide  in  a  short cylinder,  ii burns 
with  simply  a  bright 
flash  of  light, 
which  is  noted  for  its richness  of actinic 
rays;  whereas,  if  a  very 
long,  narrow 
cylinder  be  employed,  it  burns  down  to 
a  certain  point,  and  then  detonates, 
biowing  the  cylinder  to  pieces,  such 
phenomena  being  entirely  due  to tbe  in­
crease  in  rapidity  of  combustion,  which 
finally  terminates  in  an  explosive  wave.
in 
generators 
is  due  to  the  irregular de­
velopment  of  the  acetylene,  which  at 
first  comes  off  with tremendous rapidity, 
and  then,  as  tbe  exterior  carbide  be­
comes  coated  with  lime,  gets  slower and 
slower,  while  tbe  after  cracking  off of 
this  coating  then  gives  irregular  rushes 
of  gas.  Many  attempts  have  been  made 
to  get  over  this  trouble,  perhaps  tbe 
most  successful  being tbe decomposition 
of  the  carbide  by  means  of  a  solution  of 
sugar,  which  has  the  power  of  dissolv­
ing  tbe  lime  as  it 
is  formed,  and  so 
gives  a  uniform  and  less rapid evolution

A  good  deal  of  the  trouble  arising 

If  tbe  carbide 

It  of  course  increases  the  ex 

of  gas. 
pense,  and  it  would  only  beavailabl 
the  generators  of 
table  and  bicy* 
lamps,  where  cost  is  a  secondary 
sideration.  Alcohol,  also,  when  m 
with  the  water,  tends  to  regulate  tbtf 
generation.  The  effect  of  various  oils 
regulating  the  evolution  of  the gas 
has  also  been  tried  with  a  certain 
amount  of  success. 
is 
coated  with  oil  it  is  protected  from  the 
action  of  water  all  tbe time  the  oil  is 
clinging  to  the  material. 
In  one  form 
of  automatic  generator a  layer  of  light 
oil  is  placed  on  the  surface  of the water. 
As  tbe  water  rises  past  tbe  carbide  tbe 
oil  rises  with  it,  and  the  action  of  the 
water  on  tbe  carbide  commences  a  few 
minutes  after  the  water  has  come  in 
contact  with  it  and  has  had  time  to  dis­
place  the  oil,  while  on  cutting  off the 
gas  tbe  water  is  again  driven  down,  and 
as  tbe  oil  on  its  surface  comes 
in  con­
tact  with  tbe  partially  decomposed  car­
bide 
is  supposed  to  coat  it  and  stop 
tbe  after  generation.  With  very  small 
generators  working  well  within  their 
capacities  this  may  be  successful,  but 
large  charge  of  carbide  tbe 
with  any 
heat  remaining 
in  the  lumps  of  solid 
material  would  probably  be  sufficient  to 
distill  out  some  of  the  light  oil  em­
ployed.

In  concluding  this  part  of  the  subject 
I  can  only  say  that  I  believe that as time 
goes  on  the  tendency  on  the  part  of 
acetylene  consumers  will  be  to  use  tbe 
simplest  form  of  generator  available, 
with  a  holder  proportionate 
the 
needed  consumption.

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GONE  BEYOND.

Death  of Albert  C.  Wetzel,  the  Shoe 

Salesman.

Lodge  No  86,  of  which  the  deceased 
was  an  esteemed  member.  The  funeral 
services  were  conducted  by  Rev.  Ed­
ward  G.  Lewis,  assisted  by  Geo.  G. 
Whitworth.  The  floral  offerings  were 
many  and  beautiful. 
interment 
was  made  in  Valley  City  cemetery.
*  *  *

The 

Deceased  was  born  in  Bay  City,  Feb. 
21,  1863.  While  still  a  child  the  family 
removed  to  Zilwaukee,  where  he  was 
early  sent  to  school.  Until  14  years  of 
age  he  attended  the  German  school, 
where  he  graduated,  and  then  went to 
the  English  schools, 
taking  a  three 
years’  course,  with  bis  diploma  at  the 
end  of 
it.  With  two  languages at  bis 
command  and  the  years  of  shoool  train­
ing  to  back  them,  he  left  the  school- 
house  for  the  beginning  of  a  commer­
cial 
life.  This  be  found  in  a  general 
st  re,  one of the  hest  places  in  the  world

later,  on  the  organization  of  theHerold- 
Bertsch  Shoe  Co.  in  December,  1892, 
Mr.  Wetzel  became  a  stockholder and 
director  of  the  corporation,  and  was 
elected  Treasurer,  which  position  he 
filled  to  the  date  of  his  death.  He  was 
naturally  assigned  to  the  Eastern  Mich­
igan  trade  of  the  house,  which  he  cov­
ered  regularly  up  to  the  time  of  bis 
death  with  credit  to  himself  and  with 
profit  to  bis  house.

Deceased  was  an  attendant  of  the  D i­
vision  Street  M.  E.  church,  and a mem­
ber  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  He  was a Mason 
of  fourteen  years’  standing  and  a worthy 
brother  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip,  which  organization  has  honored 
him  and  itself several times  by selecting 
him  to  fill  positions  of  trust  and  respon­
sibility.  He 
leaves  a  wife  and  one 
child,  a  boy  of  4  years—the  first  child 
infancy—father  and
having  died 

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Muskegon  News: 

account  of  the  consolidation  of 
the 
house  with  the  Herold-Beitsch  Shoe  Co.
J.  A.  Hanna,  who 
has  been  on  the  road  for the  Alaska R e­
frigerator  Co.  since  October  15,  has  re­
turned  here  to  remain  during  the  sum­
mer  months  and  will  take  bis  old  posi­
tion 
in  the  company’s  office.  Mrs. 
Hanna  and  child  spent  several  months 
at  Battle  Creek  but  also  returned  last 
evening.

St.  Louis  Leader:  Em il  Wolf,  who 
has  been  traveling  for the  last  four  or 
five  years  for  a  Racine  shoe  firm,  will 
commence  for  the  Hamilton  Brown  Co. 
of  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
in  a  short  time. 
Emil  is  a  St.  Louis  boy  who has worked 
his  way  up  from  the  bottom  round  of 
the  ladder and  deserves  the  success  he 
is  attaining.

Another  lodge  of  the  U.  C.  T.  will 
shortly  be  inaugurated  in  Detroit  under 
the  name  of  Cadillac  Council.  Permis­
sion  to  organize  a  second  society  has 
been  granted  by  the  original  council 
and  the  work  of  musteiing 
in  recruits 
will  be begun  as  soon  as  the  dispensa­
tion  is  received  from  the  headquarters 
of  the  order at  Colunrbus.

Detroit  Journal: 

In  connection  with 
his  duties  as  a  traveling  salesman  for 
the  Banner  ^jggar  Co.  Chas.  H.  Fee, 
about  nine  ywTrs  ago,  began  to  solve 
the problem  of  growing  Havana  tobacco 
on  Michigan  soil  on  a  farm  belonging 
to  the  M.  B.  Milis  estate.  He  is  at 
present  preparing  a  consignment  of 
30.000  pounds  for  shipment  to  New 
York.

Chas.  L.  Stevens,  President  of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  came  to 
Grand  Rapids  Sunday  to  attend  the 
funeral  of  the  late  Albert  C.  Wetzel,  in­
stead  of  going  to  Ypsilarti  to  spend  the 
day  with  his  family,  as 
is  bis  usual 
custom  Mr.  Stevens’  thoughtfulness  in 
this  respect  was  favorably  commented 
on  by  many 
local  members  of  the 
Knights  of  the  Grip.

Willard  H.  James,  who  covers  North­
ern  Michigan  and  the  Upper  Peninsula 
for  C.  M.  Henderson  &  Co.,  of  Chi­
cago,  suffered  the  loss  of  his  mether  by 
death  at  Chicago  last  Wednesday.  The 
funeral  and 
interment  were  held  on 
Friday. 
joins  Mr. 
James’  many  friends  among  the  frater­
nity  in  extending  to  him  heartfelt  sym­
pathy  in  bis  bereavement.

The  Tradesman 

R E M O D E L E D   H O T E L   B U T L E R  
Rates, $1. 

I.  M.  B R O W N ,  P R O P .

Washington Ave. and Kalamazoo St.,  L A N S IN G .

HOTEL WHITCOMB

ST. JOSEPH,  MICH. 

A. VINCENT. Prop.

Surrounded  by  all  that  human  love 
could  bestow—the  devotion  ot  wife,  rel­
atives  and  frienos—the  soul  of Alnrrt C. 
Wetzel  passed  to  eternal  rest  Friday 
morning,  February  24  All  his  life  was 
fill-;d  with  the  high  endeavors  and  tae 
noble aspirations  that  make  true  man­
hood.  He  chose  the  profession  of  trav­
eling  salesman  as  his 
life’s  work; 
bravely,  step  by  step,  be  climbed  until 
he  attained  the  position  that  woith, 
ability  and  courage  could  win.  He 
entered  upon  bis  37th  year  while  strick 
en  with  his  fatai  ill jess,  but  the  years 
that  lty  behind  were  filled  with  tender, 
kind deeds —loyalty to friends,  charity  to 
the  poor,  and  those  sad  and  beaten  by 
life ’s  combat  always  found  a  smile,  a 
kind  word,  a  willing  hand.  About  him, 
as  he  lay  in  bis long  list  sleep,  crowded 
friends;  tears  flowed from aching hearts, 
remembering  some past kindness;  beau­
tiful  flowers  came  from  relatives  and 
friends  and  business  associates—mute 
messages  of  love  and  appreciation.  So 
much  was  he  beloved,  so  deeply  will  he 
be  missed—a  man  true  to  himself,  true 
to  his  fellowmen,  and  around  whose 
memory  shines  the  halo  of  truth  and 
purity.

*  *  *

The  deceased  was  apparently  as  well 
as  he  ever  had  been  in  his  life  a  week 
before  be  died.  On  Thursday,  Feb.  16, 
be  called  on  bis  customers  at  Coleman 
and  spent  the  night at the Calkins House 
at  Clare.  During  the  night  he  was taken 
sick,  and  Chas.  F.  Young,  who  bad 
been  his  companion  during  the  day  and 
who  occupied  an  adjoining  room  at  the 
hotel,  asked  him 
if  he could  be  of  any 
assistance.  The  reply  was  that  the 
ill­
ness  was  probably  a  temporary  matter 
and  that  he  would  surtly  be  all  right  in 
the  morning. 
Instead  of  being  better, 
however,  he  was  very  much  worse,  and 
Mr.  Young  accompanied  him  on  his 
ride  to  Reed  City.during which  he  slept 
most of  the  time.  He  was  unable  to  get 
home  until  the  afternoon  train  Friday, 
when  a  physician  was  called  and  every­
thing  possible  was  done  to  allay the rav­
ages  of  the  disease,  which  proved  to 
be  an  acute  form of  typhoid pneumonia. 
A  counsel  of  physicians  was  held  and 
everything  that  medical skill and careful 
nursing  could  do  was  done,  without  re­
sult.  Death  brought  release  on  Friday 
morning.  The  funeral,  which  was  held 
at  the  family  residence,  10  Portsmouth 
Terrace,  Sunday  afternoon,  was  very 
largely  attended,  being  under the  aus­
pices  of  local  members  of  the  Michigan 
Knights of  the  Grip  and  F.  and  A.  M.

for an  all-round  commercial  training, 
and,  whereas  in  this instance,  the duties 
of  postoffice.  and  express  office  are 
added 
long  hours  and  busy 
ones.  This  life-beginning  took  place 
in  1881  and  continued  for  two  years  and 
a  half.

it  means 

He  returned  to  Bay  City  in  1883  and 
entered  the  house  of  Rose,  Lewis & Co., 
where he  remained  five  years.  Think­
ing  that  the  time  had  come  for  a  part­
nership,  he  suggested  the  advantages  of 
such  an  arrangement  for 
life  to  Miss 
Helen  Swaby,  a  high  school  teacher  of 
Bay  City,  with  so  much  confidence  in 
the  success  of  the  enterprise  that  she 
consented.  This  was  in 
1887.  Sever­
ing  bis  connection  with  Rose,  Lewis  & 
Co.,  he  and  his  partner  came  to  Grand 
Rapids,  the  senior  member of  the  firm 
joining  his  fortunes  with  F.  W.  Wurz­
burg’s  dry  goods  house. 
Five  years

mother and  family  of  four  brothers  and 
one  sister to  mourn  his  untimely  death.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Jacob  F.  Best,  who  has  traveled  for 
the  finding  house  of  Wilhelm  &  Co. 
ever since  the  inauguration  of  the  busi­
ness,  has  retired  from  that  position  on

FREE  BUS.

$ 2   PER  DAY. 

THE CHARLESTON

Only first-class house in MASON.  MlCH.  Every­
thing new.  Every room heated.  Large and well- 
lighted sample rooms.  Send your mall care of  the 
Charleston, where the boys stop.  C H A R L E S  A . 
C A L D W E L L, formerly of Donnelly House,  Prop.

CUBAN  HAND WORK CIGAR.  BEST HAVANA  LEA F.  $35  PER  M.

NAVEL LON DUES SIZE.  SEND MAIL ORDER.

TRURLOW  W EED   CIGAR.  $70.00 per M.  TEN CENTS STRAIGHT.

“ iS2Jih2rak»r  STANDARD  CIGAR  CO.,  CLEVEL4" dohio.

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Drugs--Chemicals

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MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
Dec. 31,1898
F .  W. R. P i b e t , Detroit 
- 
-  Dec. 31,1899 
A. C. Sc h u m a c h eb,  Ann Arbor 
Dec. 31,1900
Qko. G u n d b u m ,  Ionia  - 
- 
L. B. R e y n o l d s, St.  Joseph 
- 
-  Dec. 31,1901
Henbt He im , Saginaw  - 
Dec. 31,1902

President, G eo.  G u n d b u m ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. S c h u m a c h e r , Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, H e n b t   Heem, Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.
Grand Rapids—March 7 and 8.
Star Island—Ju n e  26 and 27.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

STATE PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.
President—J. J. Sousw t n i,  Escanaba. 
Secretary, Ch a s.  F. Ma n n, Detroit. 
Treasurer-J ohn D.  Mu ir , Grand RapidB.

Some  Evil  Features  o f  Exchanging 

Goods.

To be  generous  and  lenient is a grand, 
good  thing,  so  good,  indeed,  that  per­
haps  many  will  question  my  good  pur­
pose  in  advising  anything  to  the  con­
trary.  But,  although  in  many  instances 
advice  of  this  nature  might  be  con­
demned,  yet,  when  to  be  guided  by 
these  good  principles  is  a  source of dan­
ger  to  the  pharmacist’s  patrons  and  a 
menace  to  tbe  stabilitvof  his  reputa­
tion,  he  is  justified  in  b 4 R   only 
in  a 
limited  way  either  generous  or  lenient. 
By  this  I  do  not  mean  that  every  gener­
ous act  of  tbe  pharmacist  will  result  in 
harm  either  to  himself  or his  patron. 
My  remarks  apply  only  to  that  generos­
ity  and  leniency  sometimes  shown  cus­
tomers 
in  changing  articles  either  for 
their accommodation  or for the  rectifica­
tion  of  mistakes  which  they  have  made.
As  an  example  of  what  I  mean  I  will 
cite  a  case  which  every  pharmacist  will 
recognize  as  one  of  daily  occurrence. 
A  child  purchases,  let  us  say,  ten  cents' 
worth  of  syrup  of  tolu,  to  be  dispensed 
in  a  bottle  which  she  has brought for the 
purpose.  The  child  takes  the  package 
and  goes  home,  everything being appar­
ently  satisfactory.  But  it  is  not  long  be­
fore  she  returns,  and  states  that  she  has 
made  a  mistake,  or,  perhaps,  accuses 
you  of  having  given  her  the  wrong  arti­
cle.  She  then  requests  you  to  change 
it,  which,  of  course,  you  are  expected 
to  do.  But  before  doing  so  your  own 
interest  behooves  you  to  consider  the 
possible  consequences.

This  bottle  comes  to  you  in  a  condi­
tion  of  cleanliness  of  which  you  can 
know  but  little  if anything definite.  The 
bottle  may  have  contained  some  poison­
ous  substance  or  may  have  been  in  con­
tact  with  a  person  ill  with  some  conta­
gious  disease.  Again,  it  might  contain 
traces  of  some chemical substance which 
might  cause  you  trouble  in  a  prescrip­
tion  should  it  happen  that  the  returned 
article  came 
in  contact  with  another 
preparation  incompatible  with  it.  Any 
one  of  these,  if  known  to  you,  would  be 
sufficient  to  prevent  your  returning  the 
material  to  the  stock  container. 
If  this 
is  so,  and  if  you  can  not  tell  positively 
the  condition  of  the  bottle,  then  you  are 
justified 
in  telling  your  little  customer 
that  you  can  not  change  the  syrup,  or, 
if  tbe  child 
is  too  small,  in  writing  a 
note  explaining  briefly  your  reasons  for 
being  unable  to  exchange 
If  tbe 
amount  or  value  is  small  you  may  find 
it  expedient  to  throw  it  away,  and  give 
in  its  place  the  desired  article.

it. 

In  the  example  given  above  I  have 
mentioned  only 
liquids,  but  the  same 
principles  are  applicable  to  powders. 
With  powders,  however,  it 
is  usually 
possible  to  tell  whether  the  package  has 
been  tampered  with  or  not.  In  any  case

if  the  package  is  not  returned  within  a 
reasonable  time  to  change  it  would  be 
inadvisable.

Rubber goods  must  be exchanged with 
almost  the  same  care  accorded  other 
lines.  They  are  used  for  such  purposes 
that  they  are  much  exposed to infectious 
diseases.  Even  with  nipples  little free­
dom  should  be  allowed  tbe  customer. 
Many  people,  not  content  to  try  a  nip­
it  to  the  light,  wish  to 
ple  by  holding 
do  so  by  putting 
in  their  mouth. 
This  practice  is  most  reprehensible  and 
should  be  resolutely  put  down.  The 
same  may  be  said  of  the  practice  of  re­
turning  syringes or atomizers after  using 
them,  unless,  of  course,  they  are defect­
ive.  Even  in  a  case  like  this  an  effort 
should  be  made  to  repair  tbe  article and 
return 
it  to  the  customer  rather  than 
supply  another  in  place  of  it and  return 
the  repaired  article  to  stock.

it 

These  points  about  exchanging  goods 
are  too  little  observed  by  tbe  average 
pharmacist.  Part  of  this  negligence— 
for  negligence  it  is—is  due  to a  desire 
to  please,  and  part  is  due  to  a  desire  to 
avoid  the  trouble  of  explaining a refusal 
to  exchange  an  article.  These  reasons 
will  appear  to  many  to  have  merit,  but 
do  you  think  that  a  lady  could  stand  by 
and  see  a  man  ask  to  see  some  nipples, 
try  all  of  the  nipples  shown  him  in  his 
mouth  which  but  a  moment before had 
held  a  strong-smelling  pipe,  and  then 
step  up  to  make  her  choice? 
If  she 
could  she  would  be  tbe  most  unnatural 
of  mothers.  Her  first  impulse  would  be 
to  flee  from  a  store  where  such repulsive 
tests  of  goods  were  permitted.

Care  in  a  matter  of  this  kind  requires 
but 
little  effort.  Tbe  greatest  effort  is 
to  introduce  the  rule,  but  that once  done 
your  customers  will  respect  you  for it.— 
Geo.  L.  Keiley  in  American  Druggist.

Deodorization  o f  Kerosene.

A new  method  of  both  deodorizing and 
decolorizing  gasoline  or  kerosene  is  de­
scribed 
in  a  German  exchange.  This 
method  consists  simply  in  tbe  addition 
of  i  per  cent,  of  amyl  acetate.  To  de­
stroy  alike  the  offensive  odor of  kero­
sene  and  to  render  it  colorless,  the  fol­
lowing  treatment 
is  found  successful: 
To  a  mixture  of  one-fourth 
litre  of 
sulphuric  acid  and  one and three-fourths 
litres  of  water  is  added,  after  cooling, 
thirty grams of potassium permanganate, 
followed  by  mixing  with  four  and  five- 
tenths  litres  of  kerosene,  tbe  whole  to 
stand  for twenty-four  hours,  with  occa­
sional  shaking.  After  this  period,  tbe 
kerosene 
lifted  off  and  agitated  for 
several  hours  with  a  solution  of  seven 
and  five-tenths  grams  of  the  potassium 
permanganate  and  fifteen  grams  of  so­
dium  carbonate  in  one  litre of water,the 
separating  kerosene  being,  it 
is  said, 
thus  rendered  odorless  and  colorless.

is 

Moths  in  the  Show  Case.

Having  once  deposited  their  eggs,  it 
is  very  difficult,  in  fact,  impossible,  to 
wholly  get  rid  of  moths  until  that  crop 
of  larvae  have  developed  and  done  such 
damage  as  they  can.  We would  suggest 
that  you  clear  out  the  show  case  com­
pletely,  pour a  little  chloroform  into tbe 
crevices  under the  case,  beat out  the  in­
sects  as  much  as  possible  from  the  pow­
der  puffs,  etc.,  and  keep  the  air  of  the 
show  case  filled  with  chloroform  vapor 
by  keeping  an  open  vial  of  chloroform 
in  the  case.  This  will  limit  tbe  damage 
considerably and will prevent tbe further 
development  of  moths  and  the  deposi­
tion  of  new  eggs.

A  man  can’t check  his  creditors  un­

less his  bank  account  is all  right.

The  Purity  o f  Antipyrine.

is  official 

Antipyrine 

in  the  British 
Pharmacopoeia  under  the  name  phena- 
zone,  the  patent-law  monopoly  having 
expired,  and  a  member of  the  Pharma­
ceutical  Society  has  recently contributed 
a  note  bearing  on  the  quality  of the 
commercial  samples  of  the  antipyrine 
substitutes sold  as  antipyrine.  One  of 
these  attracted  special  notice  from  the 
fact  that  when  placed  in  water  minute 
magenta-colored  spots  were  noticed  at 
various  points.  The  sample  was  laid 
aside  and  examined 
later to ascertain 
the  cause  of  the  colored  spots.  E x ­
amined  with  the  naked  eye  tbe  sample 
looked  all  right.  On  examining  it  with 
a 
lense  certain  minute  dust  particles 
were  seen,  some  of  which  did  not  ap­
pear  to  be  acted  on  by  water,  but  others 
were  immediately  dissolved,  with,  pro­
duction  of  a  deep  magenta  color  which 
slowly  changed  to  a  brownish  color. 
These  latter  were  undoubtedly  the cause 
of the  magenta  spots.  They  presented 
all  the  qualities  of fucbsineor rosaniline 
hydrochloride.  On  adding  a  very  few 
particles  of  fuchsine  to  a  sample of pure 
phenazone  it  was  found  to behave in  ex­
actly  tbe  same  way  as  the  sample  in 
question.  Tbe  spots  seemed  undoubted­
ly  due  to  tbe  presence of  minute  par­
ticles  of  fuchsine 
in  the  samples  of 
phenazone.  Probably  fuchsine  was  be­
ing  handled  in  the  same  works while the 
phenazone  was  being  dried,  and  some 
floating  particles  of  the  fuchsine  dust 
had  settled  down  on  it. 
It  was  well  for 
pharmacists  to  be  on  their  guard,  es­
pecially  when  the  patent  monopoly  for 
any  of  these  synthetic remedies expired. 
During  the  currency  of  the  monopoly 
one  might  rely  generally  on  tbe  reputa­
tion  and  ability  of  the  patentee,  but 
after  that  a  great  many  new  makers  ap­
peared  and  there  was  greater  risk  of 
some  not  being  up  to  proper  standard.

Watching  the  Individual. 

Merchants  are  prone  to  regard  their 
customers  only  in  the  m ass;  it  is  better 
to think  of  them  as  units,  each  of  which 
is  a  little  center  of  influence  that  may 
help  to  make  or mar your fortune.  With­
out  giving 
it  thought,  tbe  average  re­
tailer  will  overestimate  tbe  number of 
bis  customers.  He  is  apt  to guess that 
he  has  a  thousand,  when  in  fact  he  may 
have  but a  few  hundred  that  are  in  any 
true  sense  his  regular  patrons.

In  many  cases,  especially  in  country 
towns  or  small  cities,  where  the  pro­
prietor  knows  or  should  know  his  trade 
personally,  it  is  easy  to  keep  a  definite 
record  of  regular  customers,  and  to 
make  this  record the basis for individual 
work. 
It  will  take  a  little  time,  to  be

P a a s  

F a s t e r  Fgg 

Q t e s

Paas

sure,  but  the  average  druggist  has  an 
abundance of  time,  and  this  suggestion 
is  for those  who  have  not  yet  gotten  to 
the  point  where  their  business  keeps 
them  on  the  jump.

Take  a  moderate-sized  blank  book 
is  best,  or 
(one  with  subdivided  index 
In  this  book  de­
use a  Graves’  index.) 
vote  a  page  to  each  customer. 
Put 
down  bis  name  and  address,  and  then 
let  follow  a  running  memorandum  of 
your business  with  him.  You can  make 
a  record  of  each  visit  to  your  store,  of 
the  amount  of  his  purchases,  of  any 
special  price given  him,  of any  personal 
peculiarities  that  it  may  be  well  to  re­
member,  of  any  article  sold  him  that 
you  may  wish  to  make  enquiry  about 
later,  etc.

A  tablet  can  be  kept  behind  the coun­
ter on  which  a  quickly  penciled  memo­
randum  can  be  made  at  time  of  visit,  to 
be  posted  to the  record  later.  Every  one 
of  your  customers  is  an  asset.  By  some 
such  system  you  can  soon 
learn  how 
many  such  assets  you  have  and  wbat 
each 
is  worth  to  you  You  will  also 
know  when  you  lose  a  customer and  can 
take  direct  steps  to  regain  him.  With­
out  some  record  a  customer  may  drift 
away,  be  gone  a  year,  and  become  firm­
ly  attached  to  some  other  store before 
you  find  you  have  lost  him. 
In  many 
cases  you  will  never  miss  him  at  all 
without  some  such  reminder.

The  live  manufacturer or  jobber  now­
adays  has  an  elaborate  card 
index  sys­
tem  by  which  be  keeps  track  of  you, 
and  the  plan  which  he  finds  profitable 
can,  in  a  modified  form,  be  applied  to 
your  own  business.

T he  Drug  M arket.

Opium—Is  weak  and 

lower,  on  ac­
count  of  cables  from  primary  markets 
stating  they  are  having  favorable weath­
er  in  tbe growing  sections.
Morphine—Is  unchanged.
Quinine—Is  steady,  but  firm  at  ad­

vanced  prices.

Glycerine—Has  advanced  ic  per  lb., 

with  prospect  for higher  prices.

Cocaine—Is  very  firm  and,  with  tbe 
high  prices  for  crude  material,  another 
advance  is  expected.

Norwegian  Cod  Liver  O il—Is  tending 

lower.

Balsam  F ir—On  account  of  scarcity, 
Oregon  has  advanced  to  the  same  price 
as  Canada  and  both  are  very  firm.

Goldenseal  Root—On  account  of  scar­

city  has  again  advanced.

Strychnia—Has  declined 

ioc  per 

ounce.

Our misfortunes  would  not amount  to 
it  not  for  tbe  comments  of 

much  were 
our  friends  upon  them.

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7 
Plumbi  Acet........... 
12
Pulvls Ipecac et Opil  1  10©  1  20 
Pyre thrum.
i,boxesH.
& P. D. Co., doz. 
©  1  25 
25®  30
Pyrethrum, pv....
Quassie...............
8©
37©
Quinla, S. P. &  W. 
Quinta, S. German
3*@  40
Quinla, N.Y.........
12©  14
Rubia Tinctorum. 
SaccharumLactis pv
18©  20 
Salacin................
3 00© 3  10 
Sanguis Draconis
40©  50
Sapo,  W ..............
12©  14
Sapo, M...............
10©   12
Sapo, G...............
Siedlitz  Mixture.

10©

20  ©

1 9

46
47
70
60

26© 28

Slnapis........................  
© 18
Slnapis, opt................  
© 30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
© 34
Voes.......................... 
Snnff,Scotch,DeVo’s 
©  34
Soda Boras..............  9  ©  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  ©  11
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  1M@ 
2
Soda, Bl-Carb.........  
5
3© 
4
Soda, Ash...............   3M@ 
Soda, Sulphas.........  
2
© 
Spts. Cologne........... 
© 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50©  55
Spt.  Myreia Dom... 
© 9 00
© 2 54
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. 
© 2 59
Spts. Vini Rect Mbbl 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
© 2  62 
Spts. Vini Rect  5gal 
© 2 64
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  30©  1  35
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2It®  4
Sulphur,  Roll........  2M@3M
Tamarinds...........
Terebenth Venice.
Theobromse.........
Vanilla.................
Zlnci  Snlph.........
Oils

8© 10
28© 30
.. 
46© 48
.  9 00@16 00
7© 8

Whale, winter..
Lard,  extra__
Lard, No. 1......

BBL. 6 AL.
70
70
60
..  55
45
40

Linseed, pure raw.. 
Linseed,  Dolled......
Neatsf oot, winter 8tr
Spirits Turpentine..

43
44
65
52
Paints BBL.

LB
u t 2 ©a
Red Venetian.........
Ochre, yellow Mars. u t 2 ©4
Ochre, jrellow  Ber..
i*  2 ©3
Putty, commercial.. 2M 2H©3
Putty, strictly  pure. 
2M 2|t©3
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............
13© 15
Vermilion, English.
70© 75
Green, Paris........... 12  © 17
Green,  Peninsular..
13© 16
Lead, Red...............   alt©  6)4
Lead, white............  534©  6)4
©  70
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’... 
©  10
White, Paris Amer.. 
©  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff...................... 
©  1  40
Universal Prepared.  1  00©  1  15

Varnishes

No. 1 Tnrp Coach...  1  10©  1  20
Extra  Tnrp............   1  60©  1  70
Coach Body............   2 75© 3 00
No. 1 Tnrp F um __  1  00©  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55©  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No. lTurp  70©  75

Advanced- 
ïDeclined—

4© 
6
6© 
8
19©  14
12©  14

Acldum
Acetlcum.................(
6@9
Benzolcum, German
70®
Boradc....................  
©
Carbollcum............   29©
d trlcn m .................  48©
Hvdrochlor............. 
3©
Nltrocum...........
Ozallcum...........
12®
Phosphorium,  dll
Sallcylicum............. 
60®
Sulphuricum...........  Hi©
Tannlcum..............  1  25©  1 40
Tartarlcum.............. 
38©  40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Carbonas................. 
Chlorldtun.............. 
Aniline
Black.......................  2 00© 2 25
Brown.................... 
80©  1  00
R ed......................... 
45©  50
Yellow....................  2 50© 3 00
Baccm.
Cubesee...........po. 18 
13©  15
Juntperus................ 
6© 
8
Xantnoxylum.........   25©  30
Balaamum
Copaiba...................   SO©  55
© 2  75
Pera........................ 
Terabin, Canada—  
45©  50
50©  55
Tolntan...................
Cortez 
Abies, Canadian—
Casslse....................
Cinchona Plava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Uyrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virginl........
Quill ala,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
minus...po. 15, gr’d 
Extraction 
Glycyrrhlza Glabra
Glycynhlza, po...... 
Htematox, 15 lb box. 
Hæmatox, I s ........... 
Heematox, Ms.........  
Htematox, 348........ 
Perm

24©
28©
11©
13©
14©
16©  17

18 
12 
18 
30 
20 
12 
12 
12 15

Carbonate Precip... 
Citrate and Quinla.. 
Citrate Soluble........ 
Ferroeyanidum Sol. 
Solnt.  Chloride......  
Sulphate, com’l ......  
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........  
Sulphate,  p u re ......  

Flora

15
2 25
75
40
15
2
SO
7

Arnica.................... 
12©  14
Anthemls...............  
°2©  25
Matricaria..............  30©  35

25©

23©  28

Folia
Barosma..................
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
neyelly.................
Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 
Salvia officinalis, Mb
and Ms.................
Ora Urei...................
Gummi
©  65
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
©  45
Acacia, 2d  picked.. 
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
©  35
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
©  28
Acacia, po...............   60©  80
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12©  14
Aloe, Cape__po. 15 
©  12
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 
©  30
Ammoniac.............. 
66©  60
Assafcetlda__po. 30  25©  28
60©  55
Benzoinum............  
Catechu, Is.............. 
©  13
©  14
Catechu, Ms............  
Catechn, Mb-........... 
©  16
53©  59
Camphor»  ............. 
©  10
Ruphorbium..po.  35 
Gaibanum...............  
©  1  00
Gamboge  po........... 
65©  70
Gualacnm......po. 25 
©  30
© 3 00
Kino...........po. I3.u0 
M astic.................... 
©  60
Myrrh............ po.  45 
©  40
Opii.. .po. I5.10®5.20 3 40©  3 5
Shellac.................... 
25©  35
Shellac, bleached...  40©  45
Tragacanth............  
50©  80
Herba

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum__oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg 
Rne.............. oz. pkg 
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  Y..oz. pkg 
flagnesla.
Calcined, Pat........... 
55©  60
Carbonate, Pat........  20©  22
Carbonate, K. & M..  20©  25
Carbonate, Jennings  35©  36

Oleum
Absinthium............   3 75© 4 CO
Amygdalae, Dulc__ 
30©  50
Amygdalae, Amarae .  8 00©  8 25
Anisf.......................  1 » ©  
Aurantl  Cortex......   2 40©  2 50
Bergamii.................  3 00© 
75©  80
Cajfputi................... 
Caryophylli............   8k©  90
"edar....................... 
35©  65
©  i 75
Chenopadil.............. 
finnamonll.............  1  60©  1  70
C tr  Delia...............  
45©  60

2 00
3 20

Radix

00© 4 50

00©  1 10
50© 1 60

on©  1 10
50© 2 00
40© 1 60

.Conium Mac........... 
35©  50
Copaiba...................  1  15© 1  25
Cubebae....................  90©  1  00
Exechthltos...........  1  00©  1  10
Erlgeron.................  1 
Gaultheria..............  l 
75
Geranium,  ounce...  © 
Gossippil, Sem. gal..  50©  60
Hedeoma.................  l 
Junipers..................  l 
Lavendula.............. 
go© 2 00
Limonis...................  l 
Mentha Piper.........  1  60© 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1  50©  1  60
Morrhuae,  gal.........   l  io@  1  25
Myreia,....................  4 
Olive.......................  
75© 3 00
Picis  Liquida.........  
10©  12
Picis Liquida, gal... 
©  35
R icina....................  92©  l 00
Ro8marinl...............   @100
Rosae,  ounce...........  6 50© 8 50
Succlnl................... 
40©  45
Sabina................... 
go©  i  00
Santal......................  2 
50© 7 00
Sassafras.................  55©  60
©  65
Slnapis, ess., ounce. 
Tlglii.......................  1  70©  1  8
40©  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............  
©  i  60
Theobromas........... 
15©  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.................... 
ig
is© 
Bichromate  ........... 
13© 
15
Bromide..................   5  ©  57
ia© 
Garb....................... 
15
Chlorate..po. 17©19c  16©  18
Cyanide................... 
35©  40
40© 2 5«
Iodide........................2 
Potassa, Bitart, pure  2s@  30
© 
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10© 
12
Potass Nitres........... 
10© 
1
Prussiate.................  2u©  25
Sulphate p o ........... 
15© 
is
_
22©
ic©
©
12©
16©

Aconitvm...............  
Althae...................... 
Anchusa................. 
Arum po
Calamus.................
Gentians........po  15
Glychrrhiza..  pv. 16 
Hydrastis Canaden 
Hydrastis Can., po..
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
  „
18©
Inula, po................. 
i5©  __
Ipecac, po............... 3 90© 4 on
35®  40
Ins plox--- po35@38 
Jalapa, pr...............  
¡¿5©  30
^B rants,**........... 
©  35
Podophyllum, po....  22©  25
g “®  ....................... 
75©  1  00
©  1  25
gheLcut...  ........... 
75©  1  35
Rhcl.pv..................  
Spigeua................... 
35©  38
© 
Sanguinaria.,  po. 15 
18
Serpentaria............  
30©  35
40©
ffhega.................... 
Similax,officinalis H 
©
Smilax, M...............  
¡a
Sctllae............ . po.35
10©
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
du8,  po.................
Valeriana,Eng. pó'áó 
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingibers...............  
Zingiber j .............. 
Semen
Anlsum......... po.  15
12 
Apium  (graveleons) 
15
Bird, Is.
Carni..............po. Ì8  10© 
12
Cardamon...............   1  25©  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
8© 
to
Cannabis  Sativa....  4M©  5
Cydonlum...............  
75©  1  00
Chenopodium  ........ 
io@ 
12
Dipterlx  Odorate...  1 40©  1  50
Foenlculnm............  
©
7©
Foenugreek, po........ 
L ini...................  
  3M@
4©
Lini,  grd  ...bbl. 3)4 
Lobelia................... 
35©
4©
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
Rapa.......................   4M©
Sinapis Albu........... 
g©
Slnapis  Nigra.........  
11©
Spiritus 

„ „
15©
ii©
^

Frumenti, W.  D. Co.  2 00© 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00© 2 25
Frum enti..................1 25©  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T..  1  65© 2 00
Jnniperis 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

5ponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................. 2 50© 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................  2 00© 2 25
Velvet extra sheeps’ 
wool, carriai
©  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....................
Aurantl Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac. 
..........
Ferri Iod...... ..........
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega....................
Helllw.....

©60©

niscellaneous 

50
50
50
60 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
SO 
75 
50 
75 
75 
1  00 
50 
50 
60 
50 
50 
60 
SO 
50 
50 
36 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50 
50 
50 
50 
75 
50 
I  60 50 
50 
50 
50 
10 
60 
60 
50 
50 
20

ScillsCo.................
Tolutan...................
Prunus virg............
Tinctures 
Aconlturn Napellls R 
Aconl turn Napellls F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica-....................
Assafcetlda............
At rope  Belladonna.
Aurantl  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon...............
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor......................
Catechn..................
Cinchona................
Cinchona Co...........
Coiumba 
............
Cubeba....................
Cassia  Acutifol......
Cassia A jutifol Co  .
Digitalis  __  .
E rgot.....................
Fern Chloride m
Gentian...........
Gentian Co.........
Guiaca....   ...........
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus...........
Iodine.... .................
Iodine, colorless....
Kino.........................
Lobelia..................
Myrrh......................
Nux Vomica...........
Opil.........................
Opil, camphorated. 
Opii,  deodorized.  ..
Quassia. 
Kha
atany..................
Rhei.........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stromonium...........
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrnm Verlde...
Zingiber..................
Æther, Spts. N it 3 F  30© 
Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F
Alumen..................   2 W©
Alumen, gro’d.  po. 7 
3©
A nnatto.................
Antimoni,  po.........
Antimoni et PotassT
Antipyrin..............
Antirebrin 
...........
Argent! Nitras, oz ..
Arsenicum..............
Balm Gilead  Bud  ..
Bismuth  S. N.........
Calcium Chlor.,  Is 
Calcium Chlor., Ms.
Calcium Chlor.,  Qs. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsid  Fructus. af.
Capsici Fructus, po.
Capsid FructusB^po 
Caryophyllus.-po. 15 
Carmine, No. 40  ...
Cera Alba...............  
Cera Flava__
Coccus...........
Cassia Fructus
Centrarla........
Cetaceum................
Chloroform.......... 
Chloroform, squibbs 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  65©  1  90
Chondrus............... 
20©  25
Cinchonldine.P.&W  25©  35 
Clnchonldine, Germ  22©  30 
Cocaine.................   3 80©  4 CO
70 
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct.
Creosotum.......
35 
©
Creta.............bbl. 76
25 
©
Creta, prep.............. 
9©
Creta, precip........... 
11
©
Creta, Rubra........... 
8 
Crocus.................... 
18©
20 
©
Cudbear................. 
24 
Cupri Snlph............   6M©
8 
Dextrine.................. 
10©
12 
Ether Snlph............  
75©
90 
Emery, all  numbers 
©
8
Emery, po....... ........ 
©
6 
Ergota.......... po. 40  30©
35 
12©
Flake  White...V.... 
15 
Galla........................ 
©
23
Gambler.  ................ 
8©
9 
Gelatin, Cooper......  
©
60 
60 
Gelatin, French......  
35©
75 A  10 
Glassware, flint, box
Less than  box__
70 
_
Glue,  brown........... 
9©
12 
Glue, white............  
13©
25 
14©
Glycerine................ 
30 
..  ©
Grana  Paradis!
25 
Humulns................. 
25©
55 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
©
85 
75 
Hydraag Chlor Cor.  @
95 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.  @
©  1  10 
Hydraag Ammonlatl 
45©  55
HydraagU nguentum
Hvdrargyrum.........
©  75
IcnthyoDolla, Am,..
65©  75
Indigo...................... 
75©  1 00
lodine, Resubi........  3 60© 3 70
_  4 20 
Iodoform.
Lupulin...................
® 2 25 ! 
Lycopodium...........
0©  451
Mads 
6©  75 i
Liquor  Arsen et Hy­
25 I 
drarg Iod.............
©10©
LiquorPotassArsinit
12 - 3
Magnesia, Snlph__
Magnesia, Snlph,bbl 
©  m i
50©  60
Mannia, S. F .... 
a 3 23 ‘
Menthol.

50©
_ 

.........

80©

PAINT AND 
ARTIST’S
BRUSHES

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

Plat Wall  bound  in  rubber, 

brass and  leather 

Oval  Paint  Round  Paint 

Oval Chisel  Varnish

Oval  Chisel 5ash

Round  Sash 

White Wash  Heads 

Kalsomine

Flat Varnish 
Square and  Chisel

All qualities at satisfactory prices.
Camel  Hair Varnish 

Flowing

Mottlers 

Color
Badger  Flowing,

single or double 

C.  H.  Pencils, etc.

H A Z E L T IN E   &   P E R K IN S  

DRUG  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

GROCERY FRIGE 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 io give quotations  suitable  for all  conditions of purchase,  and those below are given as representing av­
erage prices  for average conditions of purchase.  Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer  than 
those  who  have  poor  credit.  Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions,  as it is 
our aim to make this  feature of the greatest possible use to  dealers.

Hominy.

Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 50 lb.  drams..........1 00

Beans.

Dried L im a....................  
414
Medium Hand Picked....  110

Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  00
Imported, 25 lb. box........ 2 50

Pearl Barley.

Common...........................  2 0
Chester............................   2  25
Em pire............................   2 75

Paaa.

Green, Wisconsin, bn.......1 00
Green, Scotch, bn.  ..........1  10
Split, bn..........................     2 

Rolled  Oats.

Rolled Avena,  bbl.........4 25  .
Monarch,  bbl................  .4 00
Monarch,  *4 bbl...............2  13
Monarch, 901b sacks........1 90
maker, cases................... 8 20
Luron, cases.....................2 00

Sage.

German............................  4
East  India........................  3*4
Flake....... ......................  
Pearl..............................  
Anchor, 40 lib.pkges.... 

5
  4*4
5*4

Tapioca.

Wheat.

Cracked, bulk...................  8*4
24 2 lb packages...............2 50

SALT PISH.

Ced.

Herring.

rtackerel.

Georges cared............  © 4
Georges genuine........  © 5
Georges selected........  @ 5*4
Strips or bricks......... 6  © 9
Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 25 
Holland white hoop *4 bbl  5 25 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mens 
80
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  3 10
Round  40 lbs...................  1 40
8caled................................ 
14
Mess 100 lbs......................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  ®
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  *
No. 1100 lbs........................13  25
No. 1  40 lbs......................  5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1 48
No. 1 
8 lbs....................  120
No. 2 100 lbs......................  11  50
No. 2  40 lbs....................  4  91
No. 2  10 lbs....................  I 30
No. 2 
8 lbs....................  107
No. 1100 lbs......................  5 26
No. 1  4011M....................  2 40
No. 1  lOlba...
No. 1  81be................
Whtteflsh.

Trent.

No. 1 No. 2
2 75 
100 lb«.... ....  7 CO 6 00
1 40 
401be  ... ....  3  10 2 70
43 
75
10 lbs — .... 
37
63
8 lbs--- .... 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

85
71

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 dos in case.
Gail Borden  Eagle............. 6  75
Crown................................. 6 25
Daisy...................................5 75
Champion...........................4 50
Magnolia 
...........................4 25
Challenge.............. - ........... 2 35
Dime....................................2 86

COUPON  BOOKS.

Trude »man Grade.

Superior Grade.

Universal Grade.

Bconomic Grade.

Coupea Pass Books,

denomination from 810 down.

50 books, any denom—   1  50
100 books, any denom__ 2 50
500 books, any denom....11  50
1.000 books, any denom....20 00
50 books, any denom—   1 60
100 books, any denom__ 2 50
500 books  any denom__ 11 50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
50 books, any denom....  1 50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom....11 50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
Can be made to represent any 
20 books  .......................   1 00
50 books.................................2 00
lOObooks  ...........................>00
250 books.................................6 25
500 books................................10 00
1000 books................................17 60
50 books, any denom—   1  60 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11 50
1.000 books, any denom....20 00
500, any one denom’n ...... 2 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.................... . •_75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOriBSTIC 
Apples.
Sundried.............. 
  ©7J4
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©9*4 
Apricots.....................   ©
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................   ©
Peaches.......................®  ©1°
Pears...........................  ©
Pitted Cherries..........
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries....... .  —
100-120 25 lb boxes.........   © 4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   ©  5
80-9025 lb boxes.........   ©  3V4
70-80 25 lb boxes.........  ©
60-7025 lb boxes.........   © g*
50-60 25 lb boxes.........   © J
40 -50 25 lb boxes.........   ©10
30-40 25 lb boxes.........   ©
u  cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Prunes.

California Fruits.

Credit Checks.

 

Raisins.

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

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Peel.

Raisins.

Currants.

Leghorn...........................
Corsican............................©*3
Patras bbls........................© •
Vostizzas 50 lb cases....... @614
Cleaned, bulk  ................. © 6*4
Cleaned, packages........... @ 7
Citron American 10 lb bx Ql© 
Lemon American 10 lb bx @10*4 
Orange American 10 lb bx @10*4 
Ondnra 28 lb boxes.—   @
Sultana  l Crown.........   @
Sultana 2 Crown  ........  ©
Sultana 8 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sultana R Grown.........   ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........   ©
Sultana package—
FARINACEOUS
Farina.
241 lb.  packages.............1  50
Bulk, per 100 lbs.............3 50
Walsb-DeRno  Co.’s Brand.

Grits.

AXLB OREASE.
Aurora................. ......55
Castor Oil........... ...... 60
Diamond............. ...... 50
Fraser’s .............. ...... 75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
nice, Unboxes... ......75
Paragon.............. .  ...55

dos. gross
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

AciM#

IfOBM.

Arctic.
El Parity.

m 'b cans doz...................  45
KlD J U id o i...................  
85
lb can  dot...................1 50
W lb cans 8 dos.................  45
*4 lb eaiui 2 do*.................  75
lb can« l doc.................   I 00
Bulk.................................... 
10
fl oc. Eng. Tumblers...........  85
M lb cans per dos.............  75
*4 lb cans per doc............ 1 80
lb eanc per doc............2 00
1 
w lb cans 4 dos case........ 
85
56
*4 lb cans 4 dos case........ 
90
lb cans 2 doc c a se ....... 
* * * * • I g l
v  lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
45
M lb cans, 4 dos case........ 
85
lb cans, 2 dos case........ 1 60
1 lb. cans, per dos..............  2 00
9os. cans, per dos..........  1  25
6 os. cans, per dos.............  
85
Q lb cans..........................   45
M lb cans..........................   75
lb cans..........................  1  50
1 lb. cans  .........................  
85
8 os., 6 dos. case................   2 70
6 os., 4 dos. case 
...........8 20
9 os., 4 dos. case............ .  4 80
1 lb., 2 dos. case................. 4 00
5 lb., 1 dos. case................. 9 00
American................................70
English....................................80

BATH  BRICK.

Jersey Cream.

Queen Flake.

Oar Loader.

Peerless.

BLUING.

CONSUMED 
5 < S earD s

BROOnS.

Small, 3 dos.......................  
40
Large, 2 dos.......................  
75
No. 1 Carpet.......................2  10
No. 2 Carpet.......................  19)
No. 8 Carpet.......................  1 6>
No. 4 Carpet.......................  l S3
Parlor Gem.......................   2 25
Common Whisk..................  80
Fancy Whisk......................  83
Warehouse......................... 2 50
CANNED GOODS.
Tomatoes...................  80®  90
Com 
.........................  80@1  00
Hominy......................  80
Beaus, Limas..............  70®1 30
Beans, Wax................  75
Beans, String..............  70
Beans,  Baked............   75® 1  00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  75®  »5
Succotash...................  95®1  20
Peas............................  50®  85
Peas, French...... ....... 2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.................  15®  22
Peaches, P ie ...............1  0)
Peaches, Fancy..........1  40
Apples,  3-lb................ 1 90
Apples,  gallons..........2 75@2 80
Cherries....................   90
Pears..........................  70
Pineapple, grated.......2 4O
Pineapple, sliced........2 25
Pineapple,  Farren....l  70
Strawberries............1  10
Blackberries..............  80
Raspberries........... 
85
Oysters, 1-lb..............  85
Oystere, 2-lb................1  45
Salmon, Warren’s __ 1  4' ®1  60
Salmon.  Alaska..........1 25
Salmon, Klondike......  90
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 20 
Lobsters, 2-)b. Star....3 90 
Mac  erel,l lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused. 1  75 
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato. 1  75
Shrimps  .....................2 00
Sardines. 
domestic  3<4© 
Sardines, mstrd. dom.5%®  754 
Sardines,  French....... 8  ® 22

CANDLBS.

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

Colnmbla, 
pints..............2 00
Colombia, *4 pints............. 1  25

 

CH EESE
Acme......................  ®  12
Amboy....................  
0   13
Emblem...................  @
Gold Medal..............  ®
Ideal........................ 
0
Jersey .....................  ®  125»
Riverside.................   ©
Brick.......................  @  12
Edam.......................  ®  70
Leiden..................... 
0   17
Llmbnrger..............   ®  13
e.................50  ®  75
Sap  Sago.................   ®  17
Bulk  .............................. 
6
Red 
T

Chicory.
....................  

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker A Co.’s.

German Sweet........................28
Premium.................................©
Breakfast Cocoa.....................46

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos.........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dos.........1 20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  dos.........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  dos.........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos.........1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  dos.............  80
Jnte. 72 ft.  per  Cos.............   96

COCOA 5HBLL8.
201b  bags.......................  
Less quantity................. 
Pound  packages............. 
CRBAJT TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
BulklnsackB..........................29

214
3
4

COFFEE.

Green.
R»o.

Santos.

Mexican and Onateasala.

F air.......................................... 9
Good....................................... 10
Prim e................................. ...11
Golden  ...................................12
Peaberry  ................................13
Fair  ........................................12
Good  ......................................12
Prime......................................14
Peaberry  ................................15
Fair  ........................................13
Good  ...............................   .7.16
Fancy 
...................................17
Maracaibo.
Prim e......................................J?
Milled......................................20
Interior...................................19
Private  Growth...................... 20
Mandehllng............................ 21
Im itation................................20
Arabian  ................................. 22

Mucha.

Java.

Roasted.

Package.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenne......................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha... .29 
Wells’ Mocha and Java.....24
Wells’ Perfection Java...... 24
San cal bo............................. 21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo........1854
Ideal  Blend.........................14
Leader Blend.......................1254
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  yonr  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market in  whlcS  he  purchases
to his shipping point, including
weight  o?Ppackage,  also Kc  ä 
pound.  In  601b.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   11  00
Jersey..............................  10 50
ricLuughlla’s  XXXX.......
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail all orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.

‘ ‘ sh he pi

Extract.

Valley City *4 gross......  
75
Felix *4 gross.................  
1  15
Hummel’s foil *4gross... 
86
Hummel’s tin *4  gross... 
1  48 
CLOTHB5 PINS, 
igrote boxes......  ..................40

INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb  boxes............   56
8. F., 2, 8 and 5 lb boxes....  50

SAUERKRAUT.

Barrels..............................  4 75
*4-Barrels..........................  2 60

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

Kegs 
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 25
lb. cabs.........................   30
1 
*4 lb. cans............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

50
Eagle Dnck—Dupont’s.
Kegs..........................................8 00
f Kegs................................. 4 25
Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
lib .can s..............................  ©

JBLLY.

15 lb palls............................   25
20 lb palls............................   66

LYE.

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

LICORICE. 

_
Pure.....................................   ®
Calabria..............................  •
«oily....................................  M
B o o t....................................  1®

mince m ea t.

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

rtATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

No. 9 sulphur...........................J ®
Anchor Parlor..........................J 70
No. 2  Home..............................J JO
Export  Parlor......................... 4 uu

SNUFF.

Scotch, in bladders.............  27
Maccaboy, in Jars................  85
French Rappee, In Jars......   43

SBBDS.

A »i< b o 
Q
Canary, Smyrna................  3*4
Caraway...........................  8
Cardamon,  M alabar.......  00
Celery...............................  11
Hemp,  Russian................  4*4
Mixed  Bird......................  4*t
Mustard,  white.........   ...  5
Poppy  ..............................  10
Rape.................................  _4*4
Cuttle Bone......................  20

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Table, cases. 24 8-lb boxes.. 1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Bntter, barrels, 2801b. bnlk.2 25 
Batter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 50
Bntter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Batter, sacks, 56 lbs............   55

Common Grades.

100 81b sacks......................... 1 95
60 5-lb sacks.........................1 80
88io-lb sacks....................... 1 65

Worcester.

50  4 
lb. cartons................8 25
115  2*41b. sacks....................4 00
lb. sacks................... 3 75
00  5 
2214 
lb. sacks................... 3 50
lb. sacks................... 8 50
3010 
!8 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk in barrels.....................2 50

nOL ASSES.
New Orleans.
Blaek...........................
F a ir...............................
Good.............................
Fancy  ..........................
Open Kettle..................
[alf-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, NO.  216......................1 70
Clay, T. D. full count........  ®
Cob, No. 2..........................   ®

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s......... . .................* 0®
Penna Salt  Co.’s................8 00

PICKLES, 
fledlnm.

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

Small.

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

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   6*4
Carolina  No. 1  .................   5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................   *X

Imported.

japan,  No. 1................6*4© 6
Japan,  No. 2—   —   4*@ 5
Java, fancy head........5  © 6*4
Java, No. f .................  6  ©
Table............................   ©

BALBRATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

Church’s ............................. 2 8C
Deland’s ............................. 1 16
Dwight’s ............................. 3 30
Taylor’s ...............................3 00

SAL SODA.

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

Warsaw.

66-lb dairy In drill bags......   20
28-lb dairy In drill bags......   15

Ashton.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60

Higgins.

56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60

Solar Reck.

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

 

81

Common.

Granulated Fine.................   6i
Medium  Fine......................   75

SOAP.

JA X O N
Single box...................  
2 °5
5 
box lots, delivered......2  '0
10 
box lots, delivered......2 75
JUS. S.  KIRK 8 CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.................................... 2 75
Cabinet.................................2 30
Savon....................................2 50
White Russian.................... 2 35
White Cloud,  lanndry........6  25
White Clond, toilet.............3 50
Dusky Diamond. 50 6 os....2 10 
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 os....8 00
Bine India, 100 X lb.............S 00
Kirkoline............................. S 50
Bos.......................................2 50

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  . .2 75
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars__3 75
Uno, 100 M-lb. bars.............. 2 50
Doll, 10010-os.  bars.............2 05

Scouring.

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

SODA.

Boxes  .................................5)4
Kegs, English......................44

Jennings*.

D.C. Vanilla
2 Os.......1 20
3 os....... 1  50
4 oz....... 2 00
60s.......3 00
No.  8  4 00
No. 10.  .6 00
No.  2 T.1 25
No.  3 T.2 00
No  4 T J 40

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

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

Lem.  Van
1 20
1 N)
2 00 
2 25
.  15 
.  15

HBRBS.

24 2 lb. packages, 
lOn lb. kesrs 
200 lb. barrels..

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

SPICES.
Whale Sifted.

Pare Oroand In Balk.

Allspioe  ............................. 14
Caesla, China In mats.........18
Cassia, Batavia in bond. ...85
Cassia, Saigon in rails....... >8
Cloves, Amboyna............... 14
Cloves, Zanslbar.................18
Mace,  Batavia....................55
Nutmegs, fancy..................80
Nutmegs, No.  1.................. 50
Nutmegs, No.  8.................. 46
Pepper, Singapore, black... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .16
Pepper,  shot.......................15
Allspice..............................17
Cassia, Batavia..................30
Cassia,  Saigon....................40
Cloves, Zanslbar.................14
Ginger,  African.................15
Ginger,  Cochin.................. 18
Ginger,  Jamaica................ 88
Mace,  Batavia....................65
Mustard.........................12@18
Nutmegs,......................40®o0
Pepper, Stag, black...........15
Pepper, Sing., white...........28
Pepper, Cayenne.................80
8age........ 
.........................is
SYRUPS
Cora.

Barrels...............................  17
Half  bbls........................... 10
1 doz  1 gallon cans............3 96
1  doz.  A gallon cans.......1 70
2  doz. M gallon  c a n s...... 1 75
Pair  ................................   16
Good.................  .............  80
Choice.............................   85

Pure Cane.

STARCH.

Klngsford’s Cora.

401-lb packages...................8
801 lb packages...................654
Klngsford’s Silver Close.
401-lb packages...................6*
6-lb boxes.......................... 7

Diamond.

84 lOo  packages  ............... 5 00
128  5c  packages.................5 00
3210c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00

Common Corn.

801 lb. packages..................5
401 lb. packages..................  4M

Common Close.

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

STOVE POLISH.

No. 4,3 doz in Case, gross.. 4  50 
No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross..  7 80

SUGAR.

{»urchases to his shipping point, 

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  yon 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he
ncluding  80  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino....................................5 2*
Cut  Loaf...................................6 tO
Crushed...  ..........................5 50
Powdered 
......................... 6  13
XXXX Powdered................5
Cubes....................................... 5 13
Granulated in bbls...................5 00
Granulated In bags................. 6 0u
Fine Granulated...................... 5 CO
Bxtra Fine Granulated.......5  13
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .6  IS
Mould  A.................................. 5 25
Diamond Confec.  A........... 5 00
Confec. Standard A.............4
No.  1..................................4
No  8..................................4 «3
No.  8..................................4 63
No.  4 ................................ 4 66
No.  5 ................................4 50
No.  6..................................4 44
No.  7................................. 4
No.  8..................................4 31
No.  9..................................4 25
No.  10..................................419
No.  11..................................4 19
No.  18..................................4 19
No.  18..................................4 19
No.  14..................................4 19
No.  15............................  ...4 19
No.  16..................................4 19

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H .4 P . Drug Co.’s brand. 

Quintette......................... 35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

S. C. W............................... 3s 00

Rube Bros. Co.’s Brands.

Double Eagles, 6 sizes.*55^70 00
Gen. Maceo,5sizes__   55@70 00
Mr. Thomas...............  
35  00
Cuban Hand Made.... 
35 00
Crown  Five................ 
35  00
35  00
Sir  William................ 
Club Five................... 
35 00
35 00
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 
Little Peggy.............. 
35  00
Signal  Five...............  
35  00
Knights of Pythias.... 
35 00
Key West Perfects, 2 sz 55@0O 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 56
Salad Dressing, small......8 75

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain....  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain....13
Pure Cider, Red Star..............12
Pare Cider. Robinson.............It
Pure Cider, Silver...................11

W1CK1NG.

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

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Butter.

Seymour XXX...................  514
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family XXX  ....................   oyi
Salted XXX  ....................  
a
New York XXX.................  6
Wolverine.........................  6
Boston................................   7j4

Soda.

Oyster.

Soda  XXX  .......................   6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton__  6%
Soda,  City........................   8
Long Island Wafers..........  11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Zephyrette...........................10
Saltlne Wafer...................     514
SaltineWafer, 1 lb  carton.  6yt
Farina Oyster....................   5a
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  OOOD5—Boxes.
Animals............................  ioa
Bent’s Water......................  15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   10
Coffee Cake, Iced................10
Cracknells.........................  15A
Cubans  ..............................  liyj
Frosted  Cream...................  8
Ginger Gem s....................   8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  7A
Graham Crackers.............  8
Graham Wafers.................   10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
imperials..........................   8
Jumbles,  Honey................11%
Marshmallow  .....................15
Marshmallow  Creams........ 16
Marshmallow  Walnuts__   16
Mich. Frosted Honey__   12*
Molasses Cakes.................  8
Newton..............................  12
Nic Nacs............................   8
Orange Gems.....................   8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8V4
Pretzels,  hand m ad e......   7A
Sears’ Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sugar  Squares.................   9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas...............................  12 A

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene.......................  O il A
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @10
WW Michigan...........  @ 9A
Diamond white.........  @ 8A
D.,S. Gas....................   @12A
Deo. N aptha..............  ©12A
Cylinder................... 29  @34
Engine...................... 11  @81
Black, winter.............  @8

Candies.
Stick Candy.

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

bbls.  nails

6A© 7
8A© 7
7A© 8
@  8
cases
@  6 A
@  8A
@10

Mixed Candy.

@ 6
Grocers.................... 
@ 6 A
Competition............ 
Standard.................  
@ 7
@ 7A
Conserve................. 
Royal...................... 
@ 7A
@ 8A
Ribbon.................... 
@ 73£
Broken................... 
Cut Loaf.................  
@ 8
English Rock.........  
@ 8
@ 8A
Kindergarten.........  
French  Cream........ 
@ 9
@10
Dandy Pan.............. 
Hand Made Cream mxd  @13

Fancy—In Bulk.

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

@ 8A
@ 8A
@10A
@12
@ 5
@ 8
@  8 A
@9

Fancy—In  5   lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops
Sour  Drops.............
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops....
H. M. Choc. Drops..
H. M.  Choc.  Lt.and
Dk. No. 12............
Gum  Drops............
Licorice Drops........
A. B. Licorice Drops
Lozenges,  plain__
Lozenges,  printed..
Imperials................
Mottoes...................
Cream Bar..............
Molasses B a r.........
Hand Made Creams. 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Want............
String Rock.............
Burnt Almonds...... 1 85
Wintergreen Berries 
Caramels. 
No. 1 wrapped, 8  lb.
boxes...................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes...................
No. 2 wrapped, 8  lb. 
boxes

@50
@50
@00@60
@75
@90
@30
@75
@50
@50
@50
@50
@55
@50
@50

@60
@
@50

@35
@50

80  @  90

Fruits.
Oranges.
Fancy Navels.........  
.................. 
Seedlings................. 
Lemons.
Strictly choice 3608.%  @3  50
@3  50
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 360s  ............ 
@3 75
Ex. Fancy 300s........ 
@4  uo
Ex. Fancy 360s........ 
@4 00
Bananas.

@^25
0
@2 50

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

Foreign Dried Frnits. 

Figs.

Californlas  Fancy.. 
Choice, 101b boxes.. 
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............  
Fancy, 121b  boxes.. 
Imperial Mikados, 18
lo boxes...............  
Palled, 6 lb boxes... 
Naturals,  in bags... 
Dotes.

@14
@13
@18
@22
@
@
@7

Fards in 10 lb  boxes  @10
Fards  in 60 lb cases  @ 6
Persians, P H V......  
@ 6
@6
lb cases, new........ 
Sairs,  601b cases....  @ 5

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @16
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @15
Brazils new................  @ 8
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Gronobles..  @13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @lx
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................  @«2
Table Nuts,  fancy__   @11
Table Nuts,  choice...  @10
Pecans, Med...............  @ 7 A
Pecans, Bx. Large....  @ 9
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory Nats per bn.,
Ohio, new................  @1  60
Coco aunts,  full  sacks  @4 no
Chestnuts per bu.......   @4 00

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................  O 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  O 4A
Choice, H. pk,  Bxtra«,
Boasted  .................  
5A

Provisions.

 

5A

5Ji
5M

Swift  &  Company  qnote  as 

Barreled Pork.

4M
694
%
M
%
A
%
1
1A

Lords.  In Tierces.

follows:
Mess  ..............................  10 00
Back  ......................10 50@
Clear back.............  @10 2 i
Short eat..........................  10 00
Mg...................................   u  00
Bean  .....  
9  50
 
Family  ..........................  11  0J
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies......................  
Briskets  ......................... 
Extra shorts............. 
Smoked neats.
8A
Hams, 12 lb average  __ 
8M
Hams, 14 lb average 
... 
Hams, 161b  average......  
7%
Hams, 20 lb average......  
7A
Ham dried beef  ............  
11
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
h \
Bacon,  clear........  ...... 7  @7A
California hams....... 
5M
Boneless hams.......... 
8*
Cooked  ham.............10@12A
Compound... 
Kettle...........
55 lb Tubs__ .. .advance
301b Tubs.... .. .advance
501b Tins  ...
. ..advance
20 lb Palls...
...advance
10 lb Palls...
...advance
51b Pails...
. ..advance
31b Palls...
...advance
Sausages.
Bologna.................
Liver.........................
Frankfort................. .
P o rk .........................
Blood  ......................
Tongue  ....................
Head  cheese............
Extra  Mess..................... 10 25
Boneless  ........................12 7i
Rump.............................. 12 50
Kits, 15 lbs......................  70
M  bbls, 40 lbs..................  1 35
A  bbls, 80 lbs.........   .......2 50
Kits, 15 lbs......................  70
M  bbls, 40 lbs..................  1 25
A  bbls, 80 lbs................... 2 25
P ork...............................   20
3
Beef  rounds................... 
Beef  middles.................... 
10
Sheep.............................  
60
Rolls, dairy................... 
10A
Solid, d a iry ................... 
10
Rolls,  creamery............  
15A
Solid,  creamery 
........... 
147«
Corned beef,  2  l b ......... 2 15
Corned beef, 14  lb......... 14 75
Roast  beef,  2  lb..........2 15
Potted  ham,  Ms.........   50
Potted  ham,  As.........   90
Deviled ham,  Ms.........   50
Deviled ham,  As.........   90
Potted  tongue Ms.........   50
90
Potted  tongue As.........  
Fresh  Meats.

Conned Manta.

Pigs’ Peet.

Butterine.

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

Beef.

Pork.

Hides.

Mutton

Veal.
 

Carcass........................6M@ 8
Fore quarters.............. 5  @  6 A
Hind  quarters...........  6A@  9A
Loins  No.  3.................  9 @12
Ribs...............................7 @12
Rounds.........................7 @  7A
Chucks........................  6 @6
Plates  .......................  4  @
Dressed........................5M@
Loins.........................  @7
Shoulders.........................  @ 5A
Leaf Lard...................  6A@
Carcass......................  6  @
Spring Lambs.............. 7A@ 8 A
7A© 8
Carcass 
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Green No. 1................
@ 8 
@ 7 
Green No. 2................
Bulls.......................
@ 6 
@ 9M 
Cured No. 1................
Cared No. 2................
© »M 
©lb 
Calfskins,  green No. 1 
Calfskins, green No. 2 
© 8A 
Calfskins, cured No, 1 
©11 
Calfskins, cured No. 8 
© 9A
Pelts, each.................  50@1  00
No. 1................   @ 3M
No. 8................  @ 2M
Washed, fine  ............   @18
Washed, medium............  @23
Unwashed, fine_____ 11 @18
Unwashed, m®d)um ..16  @18
20® 50
Cat, W ild.................
5@ 20
Cat, House  ............ .. 
Deer Skins, per lb... .  12A
Fall Muskrat........... .  3@ 12
25®  1  25
Red Fox..................
27® 75
Grey Fox................
Mink.........................  2u®  1  40
Racoon......................  20® 90
Skunk...................... .  20©  11  20

Pelts.
Tallow.

Wool.

Fare.

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

B atten.

AKRON STONBWARB. 
A gal., per dos  ...............   45
1 to 6 gal., per gal...........  5A
8 gal., each......................  52
10 gal., each.....................   65
12 gal.,  each.....................   78
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 1  05 
20 gal. meat-tubs, each....1  40 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ...2 00 
30 gai. meat-tubs, each....2 40 
2 
to 6 gal., per gal.........   6
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 
A gal- flat or rd. hot., doz.  45 
1 gal. fiat or rd. hot., each  5A

Mllkpune.

Churns.

Fine Glazed Mllkpene.

A gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5A 
A gal- fireproof, ball, dos.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, dos.l  10

Btewpans.

Jugs.

M gal-, per dos..................  40
A gal., per dos.................   50
1 to 5 gal., per gal............   6A

Tomato Jags.

A gal-, per dos.................   50
1 gal., each...................... 
a*
Corks for A gal., per dos..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  30
Preserve Jars and Coven.
A gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00

Sealing Wax.

LAMP  BURNBRS.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
No. 0 Son..........................  
33
No.  1  Sun..........................  
34
No.  2 Sun..........................   46
No. 8 Sun...........................   1 00
Tubular.............................   50
Security, No. 1...................  60
Security, No. 2...................  80
Nutmeg  ............................  50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 dos.
No. 0 Sun..........................  1 32
No.  1  Sun..........................   1 48
No.  2 Snn.......................... 8  18
No. 0 Sun...........................   1 50
No. 1 Sun...........................  1  60
No. 8 Sun............................  8 45

Common

Plret  Quality.
No.  0  San,  crimp 
No.  1  Snn,  orimp 
No.  8  Snn,  crimp 

wrapped and  labeied....  8  10 
wrapped and  labeled....  8  15 
wrapped and  labeled__8  15

top,
top,
top,

top,
top,
top,

XXX Flint.
No.  0  Son,  crimp 
No.  1  Snn,  orimp 
No.  8  Snn,  crimp 

wrapped and  labeled__8 55
wrapped and labeled.  ..  8 75 
wrapped and  labeled__  8 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 88
No. 2  Snn,  “Small  Bulb,” 
for Globe Lamra............  
80

La  Baetia.

No. 1 Snn. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   9
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bnlb,  per
doz  ................................   1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per dos.........   1 85
No. 2 Crimp, per dos......... 1  60

Rochester.

No. 1, Lime  (65c dos)........8 50
No. 2, Lime  (70o dos)........4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c dos)........4 70

Electric.

OIL CANS. 

Pomp  Coo«.

No. 2, Lime  (70c 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 spont.  2 48
3 gal galv iron with spont.  3 32 
5 gal galv Iron with  spont.  4 28 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4  17 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 4  67
5 gal Tilting cans..............7 25
5 gal galv Iron Naoefas....  9 09
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7 80 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3  gal Home Rnle............10 50
5 gal Home Rnle................12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9 59
No.  0Tubular side lift....  4 00
No.  1 B  Tubular..............6 25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 60
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No. 12 Tubnlar, side lamp.14 0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........8 76
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tabular,  cases 1 dos.
each, box 10 cents..........   46
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 8 doz.
each, box 15 cents..........  45
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5 dos.
each, bbl 36|.................... 
I
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
oases 1 dos. each..........  1 85

LANTERNS.

Wheat.

68

Wheat................................ 
Winter Wheat Floar. 

Local Brands.

P atents............................. 4 O')
Second  Patent...................3 50
Straight............................  3 25
Clear.................................. 3 00
Graham  ............................3 F0
Buckwheat.......................4 10
R ye..................................  3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Daisy, As............................ 3 40
Daisy, Ms............................ 3 40
Baisy, As.............................3 40
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, As........................  3 50
Quaker, Ms........................  3 50
Quaker, As........................   3 50
Clark-Jewell Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best As...........  4 60
Plllsbnry’s  Best Ms...........  4 50
Pillsbury’s Best As...........  4 40
PillBbury’s Best As paper..  4 40 
Pillsbnry’s Best ms paper..  4 40 
Ball-Barnhart-Piitman’s Brand.

Bpring Wheat Flour. 

Meal.

Olney A Jndson’s Brand.

Duluth Imperial, As__ ...  4 40
Duluth Imperial, Ms.  .. ...  4 3U
Duluth Imperial, As.... ...  4 20
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Gold Medal As............. ...  4 40
Gold Medal Ms.............. ...  4 30
Gold Medal As............
...  4 20
Parisian, As.................. ...  4 40
Parisian, Ms................
...  4 30
Parisian. As.................. ...  4 20
Ceresota, As...........................  4 40
Ceresota, Ms...........................  4 30
Ceresota. As...........................  4 20
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, As..............................  4 40
Laurel, Ms. .........................  4 ¿0
Laurel, As..............................  3 20
Bolted....................................  1 90
Granulated..............................2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__16 50
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........16 00
Uubolted Corn Meal..........15 ?o
Winter Wheat  Bran..........14 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 15 00
Screenings.............................. 13 00
New corn, car lots...................3 ¡A
Less than  car lots.............  18A
Car  lots................................33A
Carlots, clipped.................  35*
Less than  car lots.
36
Hey.
No. 1 Timothy carlots... 
9 00 
No. 1 Timothy,  ton lots
1"   00
Fish and  Oysters

Feed and Mllletuffa.

Corn.

Gate.

Fresh Pish.
Whitefish................
T rout......................
Black Bass..............  8
Halibut...................
Ciscoes or Herring..
Blneflsh...................
Live Lobster.........
Boiled Lobster........
Cod 
......................
Haddock.................
No.  1  Pickerel........
Pike.........................
Perch.......................
Smoked White........
Red Snapper...........
Col  River Salmon..
Mackerel 
..............
F. EL Counts...........
F. J   D. Selects........
Selects...................
F. J. D. Standards...
A nchors.................
Standards................
Favorites.................
Bulk.
Counts..........................
X  Selects.....................
Selects..........................
Anchor Standards.......
Standards....................
Clams...........................
Shell Goods.
Oysters, per  100......... 1
Clams,  per 100..........

Oysters la Cans.

Per lb. 
@  11 @  9
@  12 
@  15 
@  5
@   11 
@  22 
©  24 
@   10 
@  8 @  9
©  8A

@  12 
@   18
@  38 @  ' 0 
@  27 
22
@  80 
@  18 
@  16 
gal
....  8 10 
....  1  90 
....  1 20 
....  1  30 
....  1 0U 
....  1  25

■ 1 50 

1 00

22

Hardware

How  to  Compete  With  the  Depart­

ment  Store.

My  idea  of  the  best  way  to  treat  de­
partment  stores 
is  to  compete  with 
them,  and  by  this  I  mean  to  keep  a 
greater  variety  of  goods.  The  great 
trouble  I  find  with  most  of  the  retail 
hardware  dealers  is that  where  there  are 
three  and  four dealers in  a  town  all keep 
the  same  goods,  ' ‘ bread  and  cheese, ’ ’ 
and  nothing  more,  whereas  they  should 
expand  and  have  more  of  a  variety.  To 
know  bow  best  to  counteract  the 
influ­
ence  of  these  large  stores,  it  is  neces­
sary  to  study  their  methods  and,  if  ad­
visable,  copy them where they are  strong 
and  combat  them  where  they  are  weak.
is  the  real  difference  between 
the  average  hardware  store  and the ordi­
nary  department  house?

What 

The  fact  is,  every up  to-date  hardware 
dealer  has  a  number of  departments 
in 
his  establishment,  for 
if  he  confined 
himself  strictly  to  hardware  I  fear he 
would  be  very  short  lived.  We  have 
at  our  store  a  hardware  department;  a 
sporting  goods  department, 
including 
guns,  rifles,  revolvers,  ammunition  of 
all  kinds,  fishing  tackle,  athletic  goods, 
such  as  the  Whitley  exerciser,  dumb 
bells,  Indian  clubs,  boxing  gloves,  etc.  ; 
a 
lamp  department;  a  crockery  and 
glassware  department;  a  tinware  and 
granite 
ironware  department;  a  stove 
department;  a  tin  shop  and  repairing 
department;  a  harness  department;  a 
paint,  lead  and oil  department;  a  pump 
department;  a  sash,  door and  blind  de­
partment ;  a  farm  machinery  depart­
ment;  a  vehicle  department;  a  bicycle 
department;  a  sewing  machine  depart­
ment;  and  one  more,  which we are  will­
ing  to  close  out,  a  credit  department.

According  to this,  we  have,  to  a  cer­

tain  extent,  a  department  store.

The  so-called  department  stores 

in 
large  cities  like  New  York  and  Chicago 
are  doing  well  and  making  money,  at 
least  some  of  them  are ;  but  outside  ol 
these 
in  the  smaller  towns  where  the 
same  thing  has  been  attempted,  they 
are  failing  and  they  can  not  succeed 
if 
the  regular dealer  gives  them  the sharp, 
intelligent  competition  they  deserve.

In  my 

judgment,  it 

is  far  better to 
have  a  larger  variety  of  goods  and  have 
what  people  want  and  sell  it  cheap—in 
fact,  if  necessary,  sell  it  very  cheap  for 
a  year  or  two  until  these  department 
fiends have  gone  out  of  business—than 
it  is  to  sit  down  and  grumble  about  it. 
My  observation  leads  me  to  believe that 
most  of  us  do  not  give  the  department 
stores  the  sharp  competition  they  de­
serve  and  therefore  make their  pathway 
the  easiest to  success. 
In  order to  suc­
cessfully  compete  with  the department 
store,  the  hardware  merchant  must  ele­
vate  his  business,  try  and  sell  a  better 
and  higher  grade  article  than  can  be 
found 
in  the  department  and  "Cheap 
John"  stores.  The  hardware  business 
is  second  to  none,  not  excepting  bank­
ing,  dry  goods,  manufacturing  or  even 
the  professions. 
It  is a  business  which 
requires  the  highest  moral,  intellectual, 
honest, 
straight-forward,  persevering, 
everyday  business  man.

One  of  the  first and  most  important 
things  is to have  your  store  neat,  clean 
and  attractive,  with  good  show  windows 
and  well-arranged  displays.  The  dis­
plays  should  be  changed  at  least  once  a 
week  and  more often  if  time  permits. 
A  hardware  store  should  be  made  very 
attractive,  so much  so  that  the  ladies 
and  children  want  to go to  your  store to

buy  what  they  want 
line.

in  the hardware 

I  would  rather  have  one  lady  come  to 
my  store  than  three  men.  By  this,  1 
mean  as  far as  observing  things  is  con­
cerned,  and  the  little  shopping  they  do 
they  will  always  remember  and  are  able 
to tell  their  friends,  and  frequently  they 
will  come 
in  together  to  look  and  per­
little  more  shopping,  but 
haps  do  a 
sooner  or  later  they  will  buy. 
I  always 
try  to  make  them  feel  perfectly  at  ease 
tnd  show  my  goods  with  pleasure, 
whether they  buy  or  not.

into 

Department  s+ores  should  never  be 
mentioned  unless  forced 
it,  and 
then  only  with  as  few  remarks  as  pos­
sible.  The  more  you  talk  about  them, 
the  more  you  advertise  them  to  your 
customers,  and  they  get  curious  and 
want  to  see  for  themselves  and  you  may 
lose a  good  customer.

It  behooves  every  wide-awake  hard­
ware  dealer to add special brands.  When 
I  say  special  brands,  I  mean  an  articR 
which  we  have  proved  to  have  merit, 
the  sale  of  which  we  can  control  and the 
guarantee  on  which  is  backed  up  by  the 
is  supplying  us  with  the 
jobber  who 
ioods.  We  have  found 
it  easy  to  get 
special  brands of practically every staple 
in  our  line,  of  undoubted  merit,  ol 
equal  or  superior  finish  and  generally  at 
1 iwer  prices.  With  these  goods  in  our 
bands  it  is  comparatively  easy  to  sell  a 
saw,  chisel,  file  or  auger  bit  with  our 
knowledge  of  the  superior quality  of  the 
article.

The  impression  prevails  that  it  takes 
too  much  time  to  talk  special  brands. 
On  this  point  I  will  say  that  we  never 
talk  or  sell  special  brands  of goods  that 
we  have  not  absolute  faith  in ;  we  never 
talk  up  special  brands that  we  can  not 
control  the  sale  o f;  but when  we  believe 
in  an  article  and  it  is  ours  for that  ter­
ritory,  and  the  catalogue bouses  and  de­
partment  stores  can  not get  it,  then,  if 
we  have  not  time  to  talk  these  goods, 
we have  not time  to  make  money.

For 

instance,  take  a  common  5-16 
auger  bit.  A  man  can  buy  the  same 
anywhere  for  10 cents.  Take  a  special 
brand  and  a  little  better goods,  which 
will  cost  from  1  to  2 cents  more,  and 
it 
will  easily  sell  for  from  5  to  ic cents 
more.  The  same  thing  holds  good  on 
files.  Take  an  eight  inch  mill  file,  a 
Nicholson,  Disston,  Black  Diamond  or 
any  standard  brand,  and  the  department 
store  sells  them  at  10 cents.  So  can  we 
but  without  much  profit. 
If  you  have 
a  special  brand  of  your own,  show  it  to 
your  customer  and  tell  him  that  it  is 
something  extra  fine,  but  that  it  costs 
15  cents,  or  two  for  25  cents.  The 
chances are  ten  to  one  that  be  will  take 
the  better  grade,  and  what  does  this 
mean  to  you,  Mr.  Hardware  Dealer? 
It 
means  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  differ­
ence  in  your  profits.  To  illustrate  more 
fully—we  will  take  ten  dozen  8  in.  mill 
files,  at  15  cents  each,  equals  $18.  Ten 
dozen  at 
10  cents  each  equals  $12—a 
difference  of  $6 net  profit.  With  a  few 
exceptions  the  same  holds  good  through 
the  whole  line  of  goods.

Take,  foT 

instance,  a  wash  boiler— 
a  common  I.  C.  or coke  tin  one,  and 
again  you  have  to  compete  with  the  de­
partment  store and  the  result  is no profit 
or  a  very  small  one. 
If  a  customer 
comes  to  ray  store and  wants  to  buy  a 
boiler,  I  ask  him  if  he warts a good  one 
or something  cheap.  You  know  wbat  be 
I  take 
says—“ Beth  good  and  cheap. ”  
the  best  one  I  have 
in  the  store  and 
show  it  to  him.  The  price  may  stagger 
him. 
If  it  does,  I  get  the  cheapest  one 
we  have  and  the  contrast  is  so great  he

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

is  surprised.  Then  I  talk  quality  and 
try  to  convince  him  that  the  best  is  al­
ways  the  cheapest 
in  the  end.  The 
chances  are  that  he  will  take  the  best 
one.

A  short time ago  a farmer’s wife came 
in  and  asked  to  see  a  boiler.  She  said, 
" I   want  a  good  one  this  time. 
I  have 
been  married  five  years  and  have  had 
seven  boilers."  Do  you  think  that  there 
was  any  difficulty  in  selling  her  a  good 
16 ounce  all  copper  boiler  on  which  I 
made  a  dollar and  a  half  profit?  This  is 
but  one  of  many  instances.

To  mark  all  goods  in  plain  figures 

is 
I  deem  it 
another 
very 
important  for  the  reason  that  if  a 
person  calls  at  the  store  he  usually

important  feature. 

picks  up  things  and  turns  them  over, 
and  if  he  can  see  and  know  the  price  it 
often  helps  to  sell  the  article.  On  the 
other  hand,  if  he  has  to  ask  wbtt  each 
if  he  were 
article  costs,  he  feels  as 
troubling  too  much,  and  is 
liable  to  go 
out  without  even  purchasing  that  fo 
which  be  came  in.

Some,  no  doubt,  will  not  agree  with 
me  on  this  point,  and will  say  that  some 
persons  are  bound  to  "squeeze"  down 
the  price,  and  that  having  a  private 
mark  one  can  ask  an  advanced  price 
and  then  come  down  a  little,  thereby 
obtaining  the  regular  price.  This  is  not 
good  hardware  doctrine.  You  must  bear 
in  mind  that  you  are 
in  one  of  the 
noblest  businesses,  and  must  try  to  con-

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vince  your  customer that  you  have  but 
one  price. 
It  may  not always  work,  but 
in  a  very  bad  case  we  do  not come down 
on  the  price,  but 
if  they are bound  to 
have  it  cheaper  we throw  in  some  small 
article  and  the  chances  are  they  buy.

In  conclusion,  allow  me  to  say  a  word 
in  behalf  of  the  traveling  salesman.  We 
take  it  for granted  that  every  one 
is  a 
gentleman  until  we  find  him  the  con­
trary.  We  treat  him  as  we  would  wish 
to  be  treated  were  we  in  his  position 
and  give  him  our  prompt  attention,  for 
his  time  is  as  valuable  as  our own. 
If 
we  do  not  care  to  buy  from  him  or are 
not  in  want  of  anything,  we  politely  tell 
him  that  nothing  is needed and,  bidding 
him  good  day,  invite  him  to  call  again 
should  he  come  our  way.  This  gives 
him  an  opportunity  to  see  some  one else 
and,  perhaps,  saves  him  a  day’s  work 
or a  night's  sleep.  When  the  one  comes 
from  whom  we  wish  to  buy,  we  give 
him  our  prompt  attention,  buy  what  is 
needed  and 
let  him  go.  We  find  this 
plan  most  satisfactory  to  both  sides  and 
we  wish  to  have the good  will  of  every 
traveler. 
If  we  treat  him  well  he  can 
do  us  a  great  deal  of  good  although  we 
may  not  buy  a  dollar’s  worth  from  him ; 
should  we treat  him  otherwise,  be  could 
do  us  much  injury. 
It  is  greatly  to  the 
interest  of  every  hardware  dealer to bear 
the good  will  of  the  traveling  salesmen 
who  visit  him.  They  are  often  able to 
help  him,  and  whether  they  do  so  or 
not  will  depend  upon  the  treatment they 
receive  at  bis hands. 

John  H essel.

Delivered  Prices  on  Goods.

It  appears  to  me  that  there  is  nothing 
that  will  advance  the  interests  of the  re­
tail  hardware  trade  more  in-this  time ol 
trusts  and  consolidations  than  the  es­
tablishment  of  delivered  prices  on  all 
goods  we handle,  provided  the  shipment 
exceeds  100  pounds  in  weight.  We  all 
know  that 
jobbers  and  manufacturers 
in  a  better  position  to  get  right 
are 
freight  rates  than  the  retailers,  because 
by  shipping  over different lines they can 
not be  forced  to  give  a  road  their  busi 
ness  (when  there  is  a  choice)  that  takes 
advantage  of  them  by  shipping to points 
having  but  one railroad accommodation 
From  the  time  on  that  I  contracted  for 
my  first  stock  of  stoves,  the  stove  com­
pany  volunteered  to  get  the 
lowest  ob­
tainable  freight  rate  for  me,  st-t'ngtbat 
they  could  secure  a 
lower  rate  than  I 
could,  which  fact  I  was  also  soon  con­
vinced  of,  and  up  to  the  time  delivery 
was  made  I  depended  on  the  stove man­
ufacturer  to  secure  this  rate  for  me. 
The  same  is  true  in  the  delivery  of  car- 
lots  of  wire  and  nails,  and  if  this  is 
true  on  carlots 
is  certainly  fully  as 
local  shipments,  if  at­
applicable  on 
tended  to. 
it 
would  be 
imposing  in  the  least on  the 
jobbers  and  manufacturers  (any  more 
than  to  ask  them  to go  to  the  trouble 
and  expense  of  boxing  goods),  because 
in  a  great  many  instances  the  rates  are 
lower on  a  1,000  mile  run  than  to  points 
on  a  too mile  run. 
I  have  been  told  of 
3c  rates  on  300  mile  runs,  and  also  of 
lower  deliveries  by  boat  and  rail  than 
by  either  alone,  the  distance  being 
about  equal.

I  do  not  believe  that 

it 

A  great  many  goods  are  made  in  the 
East  and  shipped  West,  and  all  of  the 
jobbers  and  manufacturers  I  have  had 
the  pleasure  of  doing  business with offer 
to  make  Chicago  delivery,  and  a  great 
many  offer  to  lay  the  goods  down at des­
tination 
if  we  are  not  in  present  need 
of  the  stock.  Selling into Western cities, 
delivery 
is  made  to  competing  cities, 
and  as  nearly  as  I  can  learn  at about

in  all 

the  same  prices 
instances  that 
we are  asked  to  pay  on  Chicago  deliv­
ery. 
If  delivery  of  goods  can  be  made 
outside  of  their territory,  why  can  it  not 
be  made  in  their  territory?  Does  it  not 
seem  plausible  that  if  the 
jobbers  and 
manufacturers  were  paying  the  freight 
to  its  destination,  the  percentage  they 
would  have  to  add  to  prices  of  goods 
would  be  less  than  one-half  of  rates 
given  us  and  beside  we  would  at  all 
times  know  exactly  what  the  goods  cost 
us  laid  down  at  the  time  of  placing  our 
orders?

it 

In  November,  1898,  I  bought a  car  of 
wire  on  which  I  was  guaranteed  a  5c 
rate.  When  the  freight  bill  was  pre­
sented,  it  called  for a  7J^c  rate. 
I  pro­
tested  about  paying 
it,  but  under  the 
promise  of  our  local  freight  agent  to 
have 
investigated,  I  paid  the  full 
amount and  waited  for the rebate,  which 
did  not  come.  Several  months  there­
after,  in  January,  1899,  I  bought a  car 
of  nails  of  the  same  party  of  whom  I 
bad  bought  the  wire,  and  again  was  as- 
ssured  of  a  5c  rate. 
I  then  told  him  my 
experience  with  the  7^[c  rate  and  that 
our  freight  agent had  been  unable to  get 
the  refund  of  the  overcharge.  He  asked 
me to  wait  until  the  car of nails arrived, 
and  in  case  it  again  called  for 7Jic rate, 
and  I  was  unable  to  get  the refund made 
from  here,  to  forward  both  freight  re­
ceipts  to  their*house  and  they  would 
make  a  collection  of  both.  The  second 
car  took  the 
rate  and  our  local
agent  did  his  utmost  to  collect  the  over­
charge,  but again  failed  to  do  so.  I  for 
warded  both  freight  receipts  to  the  job­
bing  bouse,  who  notified  me  inside  of 
two  weeks  that  the  railroad  company 
bad  refunded  $12.85  overcharge and  that 
the  same  had  been  placed  to  the  credit 
of  my  account.

I  believe  that 

it  is  economy  on  our 
part  to  pay  the  extra  expense  (added 
to  the  price  of  goods)  that  a  manufac­
turer  or 
jobbing  house  is  put  to  in  ob­
taining  the  lowest  freight  rates  and sell­
ing  their  product  at  delivered  prices, 
especially  as 
is  at  present,  where 
fully  one-half  of  the goods  we  buy  are 
being  sold  on  delivered  terms,  and  at 
just  as  low  prices  as  when  we  are  asked 
to  pay  the  freight.  Where  do  we  find 
the  retailer  in  a  town  of any  size  who  is 
not  compelled  to  deliver  the  goods  be 
sells  free  of  charge? 

Louis  D ietz.

it 

Prairie; 

These  are  the  principal  nicknames  of 
the  states:  Alabama,  Cotton  state;  Ar­
kansas,  Bear;  California,  Golden;  Con­
necticut,  Nutmeg;  Delaware,  Blue Hen ; 
Georgia,  Empire  State  of  the  South; 
Illinois, 
Indiana,  Hoosier; 
Iowa,  Hawkeye;  Kansas,  Garden ;  Ken­
tucky,  Blue  G rass;  Louisiana,  Creole; 
Maine,  Pine  Tree;  Maryland,  Old Line; 
Massachusetts,  B ay;  Michigan,  Wolver­
ine;  Minnesota,  Gopher;  Mississippi, 
Bayou;  Nevada, 
Sage  brush;  New 
Hampshire,Granite; New York,Em pire; 
North Carolina,  Tar  H eel;  Ohio,  Buck­
eye ;  Pennsylvania,  Keystone;  Rhode 
Island,  Little  Rhody;  South  Carolina, 
Palmetto;  Texas,  Lone  Star;  Vermont, 
Green  Mountain;  Virginia,  Old  Domin­
ion ;  Wisconsin,  Badger.  The  states  not 
given  fyive  no  nicknames  accepted  gen­
erally.

Apropos  of  the  vigorous  discussion 
which  has  for  some  time  been  in  prog­
ress 
in  scientific  circles  as  to  what  the 
horseless  carriage  shall  be  called,  a 
correspondent  of  a  New  York  paper 
suggests  the  good  old  word  “ go-cait. ”  
This  term  has the  merit  of  being  short, 
fully  descriptive  and  thoroughly  Anglo- 
Saxon.

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WIRE

TRAPS

SHEET  IRON

LEVELS 
SQUARE.'

SAND  PAPER
SASH WEIGHTS

80
Bright..........................................................  
80
Screw Byes................................................... 
80
Hook’s..........................................................  
80
Gate Hooks and Byes.................................. 
Stanley Buie and Level Co.’*..........?. ..dig 
70
Steel and Iron...............................................70*10
Try and Bevels...........................................  
60
M itre............................................................ 
50
com. smooth,  com.
SS 40
2 40
2 45
2 55
2 65
2 75
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14...................................SS 70 
Nos. 15 to 17............... 
2 70 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................  2 80 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................   3 00 
Nos. 25 to 26..................................   3 10 
No.  27.........................................   3 20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, '86................................................ dls 50
Solid Byes...................................... per ton  20 00
Steel, Game......................................... 
75*10
50
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker........................... per dos 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per dos 
1  25
Bright Market..............................  
75
 
 
Annealed  Market........................................  
75
Coppered Market..........................................70*10
Tinned Market............................................  62Vi
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  .........................   2 f5
Barbed Fence,  painted.............................   2 25
Au Sable............................................................dls 40*1C
Putnam............................................................. dls 5
Capnell.................................................... net list
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
40
Coe’s Genuine.............................................. 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought  .........  
7i
75
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
Bird  Cages............................................. 
4)
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
70
bo
Screws, New List...................................  
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50*10*10
Dampers, American............................... 
50
8
600 pound casks.......................................... 
Per pound......................... 
8*4
SHOT
D o p ............................................................  1  45
B B and Buck.............................................  1  70
Vi©Vi............... ...........................................   17
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary
according to  composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................I 5 75
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................................  
 
20x14 IX, Charcoal........................................   7 00
Bach additional X on this grade, $1.25.

TIN—Melyn Grade

MISCELLANEOUS

MBTALS—Zinc

HORSE NAILS

WRBNCHES

SOLDER

5 76

 

 

 

ROOFING PLATES

TIN—Allaway Grade

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, 11.50. 

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean...............................  4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean..............................  5 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean..............................   9 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade..............  4 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.............   5 no
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.............   8 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   10'0
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
10
„ound 
1 w
14x56 IX. for No  9  Boilers, i P“  P°nna 

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATB 

Hardware  Price Curreat.

CAPS

BOLTS

BUCKETS

BARROWS

AUOURS AND BIT5
Snell’s........................................................... 
70
Jennlng  genuine........................
...........25*10
Jennings  Imitation......................
...........60*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze*.........
...........  5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...........
...........  9 50
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel...........
...........   5 50
First Quality, D. B. Steel..............
...........  10 50
Railroad........................................
..$12 00  14 00 
Garden............................................
..  net  30 00
fi0&10
Stove..........................................
„  .. 
Carriage new list............................
Plow................................................ ..  ..  70 to 75 
SO
Well, plain......   .........................
...........$ 3 25
BUTTS. CAST
Cast Loose  Pin, figured.................
............ 70*10
Wrought Narrow............................
............ 70*10
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle.......................
70
CROW  BARS
Cast Steel................................
4
Ely’s 1-10........................................
65 
Hick’s C. F .....................................
55
G. D.............................................
Musket.......................................
CARTRIDGES
Rim Fire.........................................
Central  Fire..................................
Socket Firmer................................
Socket Framing............................
Socket Corner................................. ........... 
Socket Slicks.................................
Morse’s Bit Stocks...................  ...
Taper and Straight Shank..............
Morse’s Taper Shank......................
Com. 4 piece, 6 In..........................
Corrugated.....................................
Adjustable.....................................
EXPANSIVE  BITS
Clark’s small, $18;  large, C26........
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30  ..............
FILES—New  List
New American.............................
Nicholson’s...................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27.........  
List  12 
16........  

7Ä
7ff
............. 
00
............ 50* 5
............ 50*  5
doz. net 
50
1 25
........ 
........dis 40*10
............ 30*10
............  
25
...........70*10
70
..........  60*10
28
17

..per lb 
..perm  
..perm  

GALVANIZED  IRON

ELBOWS

CHISELS

4(V6]A
¿0

DRILLS

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

13 

14 

Discount, 70-10 to 75

15 
GAUGBS

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

KNOBS—New List

MATTOCKS

MILLS

Adze Bye............................. ....... 116 00, dls  60*10
Hunt Eye.................................... 115 00, dls 60*10
Hunt’s.........................................118 50, dls 20*10
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s............................  .... 
40
40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.. 
40
Coffee, Landers. Ferry & Clark’s................ 
Coffee, Enterprise........................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern................. ........................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

MOLASSES  OATBS

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...........................................   2(5
Wire nails, base.......................  .................  2  15
30 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
06
8 advance.................................................... 
10
¿advance.................................................... 
20
4 advance.................................................... 
30
3 advance...................................... 
 
45
2 advance...................................................  
70
Fine 3 advance...........................................  
50
15
Casing 10 advance........................................ 
25
Casing  8 advance........................................ 
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
25
Finish 10 advance......................................  
35
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
Finish  6 advance......................................  
45
Barrel % advance.............. 
85
PLANES
Ohio Tool Co.’8,  fancy................................   @50
Sdota Bench................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, first quality......................................   @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme......  
................................... 60*10*10
Common, polished.................................. 
70* 5
Iron and Tinned  ........................................  
60
Copper Rivets and Bars............................... 
45
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHBD IRON 

Broken packages Vic per pound extra. 

RIVETS

PANS

 

HAMMBRS

25
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HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS

Maydole *  Co.’s, new  list............................... dls 33V*
Kip’s  ...................................................... dls 
Yerkes *  Plumb’s..............................................dl« 40*10
Mosnn'fi Rolfd 
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50* 10
Stamped Tin Ware  .......................new list 75*16
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 20*10
Pots............................................................... 60*1
Kettles................................................... 
60*10
Spiders............................................ 
60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,8................................ dls 60*10
— per dot. net  2 59
State......................... 
Sisal. Vi Inch and larger............................ 
8Vi
Manilla.......................................................  
9Vi

HOLLOW  WARE

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

How  a  Woman  Stops  a  Car.

is. 

The alleged  humorists  like  to  talk  of 
the  way  a  woman  stops  a  car,  or tries 
to.  She  waves  her band,  she  shakes  her 
umbrella,  she  Dods  her  head,  and  alto­
gether  she  acts  like  an  overexcited 
Chinese  mandarin. 
It  is  all  very  true, 
and  the  man  pats  himself figuratively on 
the  shoulder  and  thanks  his  lucky  stars 
that  bis  noble  masculinity  was  not  fash­
ioned  after  the  manner  of  this  queer 
femininity.  And  that  is  where  the  man 
is  unreasonably  bard  on  the  woman,  as 
he  often 
If  the  motormen  were 
motorwomen,  perhaps  the  woman  who 
would  like to  be a  passenger on the next 
car  would  not  be  obliged  to  waste  so 
much  of  her  valuable nervous force.  But 
the  motorman 
is  very  much  of  a  man. 
He  sees  the  woman  when  she  makes 
the  first  little  faint  motion  for  him  to 
stop  the  car,  and  be  thinks,  after the 
fashion  of  a  man,  mannishly:  “ There 
is one  of  those  fool  women  motioning  to 
me. 
I  have  seen  h er;  I  see  everyone 
who  looks  in  the  direction  of  the  car; 
but,  of  course,  she  doesn’t  know  that. 
I ’m  going  to  stop  the  car,  but  sbe  won’t 
expect  me to, and  sbe  will  have  a  dozen 
fits,  and  probably  dance  on  the  track 
before  I  get  anywhere  near her. ’ ’  Then 
the  motorman 
looks  coldly  ahead,  and 
there  is  not a  motion  of his  body  to 
in­
dicate  that  he knows  there  is  a  woman 
within  a  thousand  miles.  The  woman 
sees  this  cold  unconsciousness  and  sbe 
begins  to  talk  to  herself.  “ There’s  that 
wretched  motorman’ ’—perhaps  she  says 
“ beastly”   if  sbe  is  very  late and  she 
is  very  anxious  to  get that  particular 
car—“ he  isn't  looking  at  me  at  all. 
1 
know  what  it  means;  it  means  that  he 
is  late and  be  intends  to  make  up  time, 
and  he  will  just  fly by m e;  but I'll make 
him  see  me  or know  the  reason  why. ”  
Then  she begins  the  Chinese  mandarin 
gyrations  that make  every  man  who sees 
her  chuckle  with  delight. 
If  sbe  tells 
her  husband  at  night  how  she  nearly 
missed  her  engagement  because 
the 
motorman  almost  refused  to  stop,  he 
remarks:  “ I  don’t  see  why  you  women 
don’t do  as  the  men  do.  The  motorman 
sees  you  fast  enough,  and  he  will  stop 
if  you  give  him  time. 
I  only  give  him 
the  slightest  nod.”  
“ Yes,  and  that’s 
enough,”   says the  woman,  indignantly, 
“ and  then  he  only  slackens  the  speed 
of the car,  or,  if  he  doesn’t,  you 
jump 
on  and  don’t  give  it  another  thought 
And  will  he  stop  if  I  give  him  time? 
When  you  have  bad  three  cars  pass  you 
one  after  another,  as  I  have,  you  may 
do  something  more than  nod  at  the  mo­
torman. 
I  declare  I  have  been  so  mad 
sometimes  that  I  could  have  killed  the 
motorman  and  conductor,  bcth.  Some 
of these days  I  believe  I ’ll  jump  on 
if 
I  do  get  killed,  and  it  will  serve  them 
right.”   And  every  word  that  the woman 
says 
is  true,  and  the  conductors  and 
motormen  will  some  time  have a  vast 
amount  of 
feminine  wrathfulness  to 
answer  for,  to  say  nothing  of  the ac­
counting  for  wasted  nervous  energy.

Has 

Invented  a  Hermetically-Sealed 

Package.

Kalkaska,  Feb.  27—Alfred  H.  Sack 
has applied  for  letters  patent on an orig­
inal  hermetically  sealed  package 
for 
shipping  goods  to  foreign  countries. 
Mr.  Sack  has  made  a  careful  study  of 
the  subject  for several  months  and  has 
satisfied  himself  that  deterioration  in 
canned  goods 
caused 
through  atmospheric  changes  in  transit, 
also  germs,  bacteria,  animalcules,  or 
parasites.  Some  of  these organic  bodies 
and  odors  are 
in  the  cars,  wharves, 
docks,  bolds  of  vessels,  subterranean 
vaults or basements.  They  work through

is  principally 

the  pores  of  the barrels,  tubs,  firkins, 
etc.,  although  not  always  discovered  by 
the  naked  eye,  sense  of  smell,  or  taste, 
but  have  commenced  their  work  of  de­
composition  while  the  goods  were  en 
route.

If  you  have  butter  in  a  tub  or  firkin, 
it  will  taste of  the  wood  and  any  odor  it 
is  in  contact  with.  That  is  proof  that 
impurities,  as  mentioned  before,  are 
attracted  to or are  drawn  inside.  If  but­
ter and  meats  are  well  preserved 
from 
contact  with  outside  organic  matter, 
they  will  keep for  an  indefinite  period.
No  foul  odors  can  enter  this  package. 
It 
is  hermetically  sealed. 
It  can  be 
opened  at  either  end  for  examination 
and  can  not  be  opened  in  transit  with­
out destroying  the  package.  On  arriv­
ing  at  the  commission  house,  custom 
house  or  foreign  poit,  the  seal  can  be 
broken  at  either  end,  one  or  both  ends 
taken  out  for examination  and  replaced 
without  injury  to  the  package,  a  key be­
ing  forwarded  for  that  purpose.  An 
oyster  or  fish  dealer  on  the  coast  can 
ship 
inland  his  products  in  the  pack­
age.  A  butter dealer  can  use  the  same 
package  that  was  used  for  fisb  to  ship 
butter  in.  Merchants  and  shippers  can 
not ask  tor  rebates  on  weight  of  bult -r 
packages  because  the  variation 
is  so 
small  A  barrel  of  pork,  lard  or  butter 
can  be  sent  to  foreign  port  and  an  ex­
porter  can  use  the  same  package  foi 
consigning  valuable  oils,  spices,  teas 
etc.,  and  the  package  can  be  handl'd 
without  risk  of  injury  in  loading  or  un­
loading.  The  cost  will  not  exceed  25c 
on  a  barrel  package,  or  15c  on  a  pack­
age  bolding  50  pounds  of  butter,  more 
tian  present  prices  of  barrels,  tubs  and 
expect  it  to  be  less  than  that amount.

It  will  require  special  machinery, 
made  under  bis  directions.  A  plant 
fully  equipped  for  the  manufacturing  of 
the  above  named  packages  would  not 
cost 
employing 
twenty-five  to  thirty  men.  The  output 
would  be  from  $300 to $500  per  day  of 
finished  goods.

exceed  $io,uoo, 

to 

Hides,  Pelts,  Furs  and  Wool

The  bide  market  is  without  change. 
Offerings  are  light  and  tending  toward 
poorer  quality.  Prices  are  high  and 
firm,  except  on  special  lines.

Pelts  are  few  and  far  between,  with 

prices  to full  value.

Furs  are 

in  good  demand  for  No.  1 
goods.  Many  kinds  show  the  spring  de­
terioration  in  color and  quality  and  are 
not  eagerly  sought  after.  The  catch 
is 
light  in  Michigan.

firm 

Wool  remains 

in  price,  with 
slight  advance  on  some  grades.  Sales 
are  not  large,  but  there  is  quite  a  de 
mand  at  strong  value.  The  new  clips, 
near  at  hand,  wiil  be  wanted,  buyers 
even  now  talking  of  last  year’s prices as 
a  basis,  with  last  year's  purchases  on 
band  at  a  loss  on  present  seaboard  mar­
kets. 

W m.  T.  H e ss.

Mancelona  H erald:  D.  McWhorter, 
a  Grand  Rapids  traveling  man,  who 
was  in  town  just after  Mr.  Bates'  house 
burned  a  couple of  weeks ago,  upon  be­
ing  told  that  the  occupants  lost  every­
thing  in  the  shape  of  wearing  apparel, 
informed  Mr.  Handy  that as  soon  as  be 
returned  home  he  would  send  up  some 
“ plunder”   to  help  them  out.  That  he 
remembered  his  promise  is shown by the 
fact  that  last  Saturday  Mr.  Handy  re­
ceived  from  him  a  large  trunk  packed 
with  clothing,  much  of 
it  being  new, 
for the  unfortunates  who  lost  so  heavily 
in  that  fire.  Traveling  men  are  often 
accused  of  being  reckless,  devil-may- 
care  sort  of  fellows,  but  it  can  not  be 
denied  that  some  of  them  are  sympa­
thetic  and  big  hearted  just  the  same.

An  Exception.

“ Have  you  noticed,  pa,  how  often 
“ Yes,  my  son;  but  it never applies  to 

ma  says,  ‘ and  so on,  and  so on?’  ”  
buttons. ’ ’

The  Grain  Market.

indifference 

Wheat  was  dull  all  the  week,  b it  w  th 
all  the 
in  trading,  wheat 
coulJ  net  be  crowded  down  but  re­
mained  firm  and  with  a  strong  under­
tone.  Some  dealers  who  are  bearisblv 
inclined  began  to  doubt  the  wisdom  of 
short  selling  under  present  conditions. 
While  crop  damage  is  largely  talked  of, 
we  think  it  too  early  to  pass an opinion, 
so  will  lit  t  me  tell  t  at.  W em tice  that 
the  daily  papers  have  been  saying  daily 
that  wheat 
is  higher,  which  would  in­
dicate  quite  an  advance,  when  the  fact 
is  that  cash  wheat  is  about  %c  and  May 
'¿ c  higher  than  one  week  ago. 
wheat 
Our exports  are  still  large,  owing  to  the 
tact  that  Russia 
is  not  furnishing  her 
.sual  quota,  which  certainly  means  a 
sboitage 
in  t u t  qiaiter.  Should  crop 
damage  prove  what  many  talk  of,  the 
prices  will  be  considerably  higher.

Corn  has  held  its  own remarkably well 
■ nd  we think  that  it  is getting  a  strong­
er  posit  on  and  will  sell  some  higher.

Oats  have  been  losing  a  title  and  ran 
ut  be  said  to  be  strong,  but  rather  on 
the dull  and  drooping  order.

Rye  remains  very  steady  and  firm.
Receipts  during  February  were  18 8  
cars  of  wheat,  107  cars  of  corn  and  38 
cars  of  oats,  which  shows  a  decrease  ot 
so cars  of  wheat,  but  an  increase  of  59 
cars  of  corn  and  11  cars  of  oats,  as  com­
pared  with  the  corresponding  week 
in 
189 8

The  weekly  receipts  were:  wheat  41 

cars;  corn.  27  cars;  oats,  16  cars.

Millers are  paying  68c  per  bushel  for 

wheat. 

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

W A N TS  COLUMN.

Advertisements  will  be  Inserted  under this 
bend for two cents a word  the  first  insertion 
and one cent a word  for  each  subsequent in­
sertion.  No advertisements taken for less than 
1 5  cents.  Advance payment.______________

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

872

2 000 or more inhabitants.  Have  $150  cash  to 
put in.  Address  Baker  care  Michigan  Trades 
man. 

I  WISH TO bUY A BAKEKY IN  A  TOWN  OF 
iJ'OR  SALE—A  BARE  OPPORI UNITY — A 

’  flourishing business;  clean  stock  of shoes 
and  furnishing  goods;  established  cash  trade; 
nest  store  and  location  in cit  ;  located among 
the best iron mines in the country.  The coming 
spring will op°n up with  a  boom  for  this  city 
and  prosperous  times  for  years to come a cer- 
'ainty.  Rent  free  for  six  months,  also  a  dis­
count on stock; use  of  fixtures  free, 
i-tore and 
location  admirably  adapted  for  any  line  of 
bu-inesa and  conducted  at small  expense.  Get 
in line  before  too  late.  Failing  health  reason 
for  selling.  Address  P.  O.  Box  204,  Negau- 
nee.  Mich 
848
W ANTED — SHOES,  C LO TH IN G ,  DRY 
goods.  Address  B.  B.,  Muskegon,  Mich.
699
Fo r sa l e—c l e a n   stock  sh o es,  ow n-
ers  wish  to  discontinue  shoe  department. 
Competition light.  Address No.  869, care  Mich­
igan T  «desman. 
TfOK SALE—PATENT  ON  A  GOOD,  PRAC- 
r   tical  Cash  Rec  rder  Has  money  drawer 
attached.  Keeps  reco  d  of  each  clerk's  sales 
separate.  Will sell  outright or  part  cash  with 
royalty.  Waguer  Mauufac.uring  Co.,  Sidney, 
Ohio. 
S70
W ANTED—LOCA I ION  FOR  DRUG  STOKE 
In town of  from  60  to  1,500  inhabitants; 
r  will  buy  stock  of  rrugs.  Address  No.  h71, 
871
care Michigan Trade  m  n. 
LV)R  SALE—HALF  1NTE  ESI'  IN  OLn  Es 
P   tnbiisbed m- at market, located in  excelleut 
residence district of Grand  Rapids.  Investiga­
tion solicited  Address  No. 86  ,  care  Mich gan 
Tradesman. 

866

869

f X>R  SALE  BEST  GROCERY  BU  IN ESS 

in Grand Rapids.  Sloes  clean  and  active. 
Trade well establi-hed.  Right  man  can  e. sily 
clear$3,wo  per  year  Terms  easy  Rent  low. 
Address No. 864. care Michigan Tradesman. 86.
S ALE* »AN —  ENTLEMAN  OR  FIRM  OF 
undoubted  qualifications  for  sele  patent­
ees  and  manufacturers  of  folding  baby  car­
riages  and  go carts;  c  mmisson  basis;  must 
carry  stock.  Full  particulars,  Patent  Folding 
Carriage < ’o.. 13  Broadway.  New York. 
i jVJR  SALE —CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK 

located at one of the best trading  points  in 
Store a  d warebonse will be rented  for  $30  per 
month.  Will sell on  easy  terms.  Address  No. 
868. c  re Mich gan Tradesman. 

M'chignn.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $5,  00. 

Grand  Rapids.  Proper y  cost  $3.500  at  low 

IjVlRRA' E—'I HREE LOTS AND DESIRABLE 

r  sideuce  propeity  at  37  A’thur  avenue. 
valuation.  Will sell cheap forcash or exchange 
for clean stock of merchandise.  B. N. Pickard, 
Leland, Mich. 

8 >2

860

868

861

827

843

849

851

For  sa le—d rug  stock  a n d f ix t u r e s,

including a fine soda  fountain, which  will 
invoice annut $1,500.  Will  be  sold  at great  re­
duction If taken at once.  Located in one of the 
finest corner Mocks in  a  town  of 4.0 0 inhabit­
ants.  For  infoimatlon  address  H.  F.  Msrsh. 
Allegan. Mich. 
Ij'OR  SALE-ONLY  .VIOCK  OF  GE.M  RAL 
r   merchandise in small town in Central Mich­
igan;  on railroad;  doing str ctly  cash business; 
staple goods  as good as new;  wtL invoice about 
$2.000.  Owners desire to devote entire a'tention 
to butter and egg  business.  Stroup  &  Carmer, 
Perriuton, Mien. 

son for -elling. poor health.  Address  Mrs. 
Augustin  Leins,  1227  Chisholm  St.,  Alpen >, 
Micb. 

■ HETION  BREWERY  FOR  SALE.  REX 
SAFE INVESTMsN I —IN  THE  WAY  OF  A 

very large fire proof s»fe, wdb  burg ar proof 
chest. at one quarter the original tost.  For de 
sc  iption and piite, write E.  Kiug  &  Sons,  Lis­
8-V7
ts»  , M xh. 

PEAS—W A.M’i.U. 5  t a KLuaDS  OF  SMALL 

Wb  te Canada Field P  as, and 2 carlo-'ds of 
Black Eye Marrowfat Peas, 
» ail  amples  and 
state lowest  price  for  prompt  cash.  Add  ess 
Jerome B. RiC  & Co , Cambridge.  N. Y 
lT'OR  SALE—TUFT'S  SODA  FOUNTAIN, 
U  complete, in good order, with three draught 
tuoes and ten  syrup  tubes  and  5x8  foot  marble 
slabs  Address  Haseltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co., 
Grand Rapids. 
'TV!  EXCHANGE—DE>1RaRLE  AND  CEN- 
JL  trally located  reside) ce  property  in  Kala­
mazoo for general or grocery stock in good town 
iu  Central  Michigan.  Will  sell  same  ou  long 
t me.  Addr—s B >x 357.  Ka'am-zoo  MicK.sll 
'p o   EX*  HANGK—9  LOT»  U'INCUMBERED 
a  on  Highland  avenue,  near  Madison,  for 
merchandise  Will Hoi  omb. Plymouth.  M4

Cadillac or Traverse C t>  Mich 

INoR  HAY,  STRAW  AND  OATS  IN  CAR 

lots  at  lowest  prices  address  Wade  Bros., 
RUG STORE FOR  SALE  (IK TRADE  IN  A 
town of 8 0 inhabitant'  on  South  Haven  & 
Eastern Railr ad  in  VatiBu-en  county  Stock 
will  invoice  about  $1.00  ;  has  been  run  onlv 
about four years;  new fixture';  low  rent.  Ad­
dress No. 842, care Michigan Tradesman.  842

1f»OR  SALE—GROCERY  AND  BAKERY 

stock, best in  city;  cash  business  of $18.000 
to  $20.0(0  yearly;  good  location,  cheap  rent. 
Poor health  reason  fur  selling.  Address Comb.
Lock Box 836, Eaton Rapids, Mich._______ 803
|a OK  SALE— WELL  EsTAnLlbHEK  AND 
A?  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.  Addiess  No. 
806,care Michigan Tradesman. 
L'OR  POT \TOES  IN  CAR  LOTS.  ADDUESS 
U   Wade  Bros.,  Cadillac  or  Traverse  City, 
Mioh 
-t O A   ACRE FARM. VALUED aTM.OIO, FREE 
I a U  and clear from encumbrance, io 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. 

dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman 

splendid fanning country.  No trad  s.  Ad- 
680

IfiOR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
Me r c h a n t s —d o   y o u   w is h  c a s h   q u ic k

for your stock of merchandise,  or any  part 

of It?  Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mich. 
________ 
628

793

806

792

#17

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

ter and eggs. 

W a n t e d —b u t t e r ,  e g g s   a n d   p o u l -
try;  any  quantities  Write  me.  Orrin  J. 
stone, Ka amazoo, Mich._______________8 0
W E  PAY SPOT CASH ON TRA<’K  FOR BUT- 
v v 
It  will  pay you  to  get  onr 
prices and  particulars.  Stroup & Carmer,  Per- 
rinton, Mich._________________________771
W ANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mich,__________________  
556
FIREPROOF  SAFES

B1 Eu.  M. SMITH,  NEW  AND  SECONDHAND 

I   safes,  wood  and  brick  building mover, 157 

Ottawa street. Grand Rapids.___________ 619

MISCELLANEOUS.

W AN > ED — FIRST-CLASS GROCERYMAN, 
one  c  pabie  of  managing  business.  Ad 
dress No  86r. care Michigan Tradesman.  86»
W aNTED-POSITION  BY  A  REGISTERED 
phnrm aot,  with  a  view  to  buying  the 
stock;  married;  nine  years’  experience  with 
country and city trade.  Address  No.  841,  care 
M chigan Tradesman._________________ 8il
■\X7ANTED-SITUATION  IN  DRUG  STORE 
vv  Registered by examination; fourteen >ears’ 
experience;  widower.  Address  No.  840,'  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

R40

SA FE   AND  PERM ANENT 

IN V ESTM EN TS 

No class of securities has been more high­
ly esteemed in the past than stock  in banks 
and trust companies.  The  people  are  now 
temporarily  insane  on  the  sub]  ct  of  so- 
called industrial  slocks,  but they  will  ulti­
mately turn  to  something  more  solid  and 
substantial,  when  financial  stocks  of  all 
kinds  will  undoubtedly  sustain  a  higher 
range  of  values.  Those  who  have  idle 
money  awaiting  investment  in  perfectly 
sate channels are Invited tocorrespond with 
the  undersigned,  who  is  in  a  position  to 
give reliable advice  on  investments  of this 
character.  V in d k x , care Michigan Trades­
man, Grand Rapids.

W all 
P a p e r 
D ealers 
A ttention
Have you bought your Spring Stock? 
Do you need any Wall Paper to  sort 

1

up your stock?

Remember  that  we  are  the  only 
jobbers in  Michigan.  The  line  of 
Wall  Papers  we  show  this  spring 
can not be equaled.  We represent 
fifteen  of  the  leading  factories  in 
the  United  States.  Our  prices, 
terms  and  discounts  we  guarantee 
to be identically  the  same  as  fac­
tory we represent.

Correspondence Invited.
Heystek & Canfield Co.,

The  Wall  Paper Jobbers. 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

® ® @ ® ® ® ® ® ® ® @ ® ® ® ® ® S ® ® ® '

E stablished 1780.

Walter Baker & Co. £&

▼▼▼ 
r

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE.HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

No  Chemicals  are  used  in 
Trade-Mark, 
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one 
cent a cup.
Their Premium  No.  1  Chocolate, put np in 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, Is the best 
plain chocolate in the market for family ase.
Their  German  Sweet  Chocolate  1j   good  to 
eat and good  to drink.  It is palatable, nutri­
tious, and  healthful ;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.
Buyers should ask for and be sure that  they 
get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
is on every package.
W a lte r   B a k er &   Co.  Ltd. 

Dorchester,  Mass.

Simple 
Account  File
Simplest and 
Most Economical 
Method of  Keeping 
Petit Accounts
File and  i,ooo printed blank

billheads........................  $2  75

File and  1,000 specially

printed bill heads.......... 

Printed blank bill heads,

per thousand..................  
X  Specially printed bill heads,
per thousand................... 
T  
X 
Tradesman Company,
a 

Grand Rapids. 

3  25

1  25

1  75

a
AAAAAA

Travelers’  Time  Tables.
CHICAGO “4W^ X ,>
Lv  G. Rapids............  7 30am  12 OOnn  *11  45pa
Lv.Chicago..  11:45am 6 50am  4:15pm *11  50jo 
Ar  Chicago............... 2:10pm  5.15pm 
7 20 .u
Ar G’dRapid*  5:00pm  l:25pm  10:15nm  * 6:20iv 
Traverse  Cit>,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Lv  G’d  Ranlds...........   7:3oam 
...........  5:30pm
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars  on 
night trains to and from Chicago

Chicago.

•Every  day. 

Others week days only.

n C T D H I T   Qraad Rapids & Western. 
L I C   1  K U I   1  « 

Nov. 13 1898.

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids..........7:00am  1:35pm  5:25pn
Ar. Detroit.....................11:40am  5:45pm 10:06pn
Lv. Detroit......................8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pn
Ar.  Grand  Rapids____ 12 55pm  5:20pm 10:55pir
Lv  G R7:00am 5:10pm  A r.G R ll:45am  0:30pv 
Parlor can on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Ainu and  Greenville.

Gso.  De Haven.  General  Pass. Agent.

i l  l i   A   M i l   ^ ruD*t  ^*^way  System 
VJ IV ia i v l i   Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

(In effect Feb. 5,1899.)

GOING  EAST

treal & Boston, L’t'd  Ex 

ueave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit & N  ¥.........*■  6:45am  t 9:55pm
Detroit  and  East..................tlO  16am  t  5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit A  East.......t 3:27pm  112:50pm
Buttalo.  N  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
..*  7:20pm «10:16am
GOING  WEST
Gd.  Haven  Express...............*10:2lam * 7:i5um
Gd. Haven  and lut  Pis........  tl2:o8pm t 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and  M  lwaukee...+  5  12pm 110:11m 
East bound 6:45am tiaiu has Wagner parlor car 
to Det  oit, eastbouud 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.

•Dally.  -(-Except Sunday.

C. A.  J u s t i n ,  City  Pass.  Ticket Agent,

97  Monroe St.,  Morton House.

GRAND Rapids  ft  Indiana Railway 

Feb. 8. 1899.

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey A Mack...t 7:45am + 5:15pm 
. .  ...1  1  50pm  '10:45pm
Ttav  *  ity a  Petossey 
Cadillac a  commodation........* 5:25pm tlO 55am
Petosaey A Mackinaw Ciiy..  .+1  :00pm  *  6:35am 
7:45am train, parior  car;  11:00pm train, sleep 
ing car.
Aouthern  Dlv.  Leave  Arr»
Cincinnati...............................t  7:10am + 9 45pm
F t Way ie 
............................t i O i m *   1  30
Cl'icui'iatl............................. * 7 00 >ui  * 6 30.
....*11:3-pm  *  9:0 am 
Vicksburg  and Chicago 
»  Ctunui 
and  parlor  car  o  Chicago;  2 00pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Way  e; 
opm  train  has 
sleeping car  to  Cincinnati;  11:30pm  train  has 
coach and sleeping car to Cuicago.

i.lU  am  Ham  Ua--  oarlor  oh 

Chicago Trains.

TO CHICAGO.

FROM CHICAGO.

Lv. «rand Rapids...  7  iO«m  2 0  pm  *11  30pm 
Ar. Chicago  ...........  2 3  pm  8  45pm 
6 25am
Lv. Chicago..................4........  3 02pm  *11  32pm
Ar  Grand  Rapids..................   9 45pm 
6 30am
Trai 
leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor 
car;  11:00pm, coach and sleeping car.
Train  leaving  Chicago 3:ii2pm  has  Pullman 
parlor  car;  11:32pm sleeping car.
M u sk eg o n   I r a in s .

GOING  W EST.

9 00am  2  lOnm  7-05  m
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am: 

Lv G’d  Rapids...........t7:35am  tl :00pm t5:40pn
Ar Muskeg - 
arrives Muskegon 10:49am.
Lv Muskegon..............+8  10am  til:45am  t4  OOpi
ArG’d Rapids  .. 
..  «-aoain  I2:55r>n>  •»  2»n*
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  5:30pm;  ar 
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm 
tExcepi suuusj.  * uai - y

GO  ■  EAST.

C.  L.  LOrKWOOD, 
W  C.  BLAKE, 

Gen'l Paasr. a-  d T’oket  Agent 
Ticket Agent Cniou station

DULUTH, Sonth Shore and Atlantic 

Railway.

W EST  BOUND.

Lv  Grand Rapids (G. R. A I.)*ll :10pm  t7:45am
Lv.  MackinawClty  ................  7:35am  4:20pm
5:2Upm 
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BAST  BOUND.

jpf tlje  Uniteti  States  of America,

To

H E N R Y   K O C H ,  your 

attorneys,  a g e r.j
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and, all  claiming  m< 
holding  through  or  under  you,

it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  o'

GREETING :

Ulereas,

Ne.v  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part*of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  tha' 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
omplained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  M ORGAN’S   SO N S  CO M PANY,

C .  nplainart,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “ SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap.

llom, R a re fa re , we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

KvX'K,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you 
.  ->'’er  the  pains  and  penalties  which  may  fall  upon  you  and  each  of  you  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  di 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

By  word  of mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

“ SAPOLIO,”  or  when  “ SAPOLIO”  is  asked  for,

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from 
false  or  misleading  manner.

:n  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO”   in  any 

W i t n e s s  f   The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
in  said  District  of  Nev» 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand, 

United  Sta‘es  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
Jersey,  this  16th  day  of  December, 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

[ signed]

&   D.  O LIPH A N T,

C lark

M A M K T P P   &  Northeastern Ry.
I » l i l i   a 1 0   A  1-d L-d  Best route to Manistee.

[seal] 

Via C. &  W .  M.  Railway.

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12:05pm
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4:10pmo:55pm

ROW LAND  COX,

ComJrlainant s  Solicitor

The laziest  man in Slumberville 
Opened  and closed his store at will.
“ No  system  in mine,”   he always said,
“ Just give  me  my good old comfortable  bed.”

He knowed his business  an’  knowed  it  well,
Needn’t no Agent attempt to tell 
Him  how to run  a grocery store 
Cause he’d been  in this business afore.

“ I’m  makin’  a livin’ ,”   he’d always say,
“ An’  ef folks  don’t like  my easy way 
Of gettin’  along  an’  runnin’  a shop,
They can deal somewhere else ef they want ter stop.”

But it wasn’t long until right next  door 
A  fellow he dubbed  “ A  Dude from  Lenore”
Had  opened a shop with  goods bright  and new 
With  the  Money  Weight  System  right in view.

It’s needless  to tell  what became of the  man 
Who tried  to get on  without any  plan.
He’s perhaps  sleeping yet  in  some desolate  place, 
For he  hadn’t  a  System  to help him keep  pace.

Write  to  TH E  COMPUTING  SC A LE  CO.,  Sg 
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Dayton,  Ohio, 
Money  Weight  System,  easy  payments,  etc. 

full  particulars  about  the 

for 

T r n m r t r r n r \

that 

The Tradesman  Com­
pany  has  long  been  of 
the  opinion 
the 
ideal method of  keeping 
small accounts has never 
yet  been  invented,  and 
it  therefore  makes  a 
standing  offer  of  $500 
to  the  person  who  can 
devise  a satisfactory  system  that  shall  be  simple, 
economical and  practicable. 
It  must occupy small 
space  and  be  so  easily handled  that inexperienced 
people may use it with safety.  It is a condition of the 
office that the article be patentable and that  the pat­
ent be sufficiently broad to be valuable.  For such  a 
device, no matter by whom  invented  and patented, 
the Tradesman  Company  will cheerfully pay $500.

TR A D ESM A N  
C O M P A N Y /

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