Volume XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  15,1899.

Number 808

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to  call  on  or 
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MICHIGAN  BARK &  LUMBER CO.,  527 and 538 wldd^

B£liks,

We are manufacturing  a Hard Wall Plaster that  makes  a wall  as 
hard as cement and one  that  grows  harder  with  age.  Can  be 
floated  or  darbeyed  without  applying  water  to  the  surface. 
Will guarantee  it to be the best  made 

Send  for catalogue.
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Manufacturers  and  Dealers  in  all  the  various  products  of
Gypsum,  including  “Eclipse”  Wall  Plaster,  Calcined  Plaster,
Land  Plaster and the best  Bug Compound  made.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

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

illustrated  catalogue  and  discounts.

rIf You Would Be a Leader

handle  only  goods of V A L U E .
If you are satisfied to remain at 
the tail end, buy cheap unreliable 
goods.

Good  Yeast  Is  Indispensable.

FLEISCHMANN  &  CO.

U n d e r   T h e i r   YELLO W   LA B EL  O f f e r   t h e   B E S T !

O u r A i m ^ i ^ t

Is to produce the best quality of  goods, and then  to  sell  them 
at the lowest  possible prices.  We expect a  fair  profit  on  the 
goods we  sell, and we want our  customers  to  have  the  same. 
We have never sacrificed quality  for  price,  and  we  don’t  ex­
pect to commence.  PURITY  is a hobby with  us.  CLEAN ­
LINESS is insisted upon  in  every detail of our business.  We 
‘hall be pleased  to  have  an  opportunity  to  talk  prices  with 
you.  Our goods do their own talking.

NORTHROP,  ROBERTSON  &   CARRIER, 

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Grand Rapids Agency, 29 Crescent Ave. 
Detroit Agency,  118 Bates St. 

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W e 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.

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Manufacturers of
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Correspondence and trial orders 

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Jobbers in

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

Orders  by  mail  given  prompt 

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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,

SEARS  BAKERY.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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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.
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are sole agents.

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P L U M   P U D D I N G

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proves with Age.  Made  in 

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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  pala-
table, and  especially  recommended
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Volume  XVL

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  15,1899.

Number 808

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A first-class opportunity to buy a  well-  J  
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on  account  of  age  and  poor  health.  •  
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United  States  and  in  all  foreign  business 
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FIGURE NOW  on  improving your office 
system for next  year.  Write  for  sample
leaf of our TinB BOOK and PAY ROLL.

BARLOW  BROS.,  Grand  Rapids.

The Preferred  Bankers 
Life Assurance Company

of Detroit,  Mich. 

Annual Statement, Dec. 31,1898.

Commenced Business 8ept. I, 1893.

Insurance in Force..................................$3,399,000  00
45.734  79
Ledger A ssets........................................ 
2168
Ledger Liabilities................................. 
Losses Adjusted and Unpaid...............  
None
Total Death Losses Paid to Date......... 
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Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
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11,00000
Death Losses Paid During the Y ear... 
Death Rate for the Y ear.......................  
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eficiaries 

F R A N K  E . ROBSON, President. 

TR U M A N  B. GOODSPEED, Secretary.

Save  Trouble 
Save Money. 
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IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

PAGE

а.  Biography  of  Paul  Steketee.
3.  Dry  Goods.
4.  Around  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
б.  Woman’s  World.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Success  In  Life.
■ a.  Points  on  Poultry  Raising.
15.  Gotham  Gossip.
16.  Shoes  and  Leather.
17.  Commercial  Travelers.
18.  Drugs  and  Chemicals.
19.  Drug  Price  Current.
20.  Grocery  Price  Current.
21.  Grocery  Price  Current.
22.  Arbitrary  Store  Rules  Harmful 

to Employes.

23.  Successful  Salesman.

Hardware  Price  Current.

24.  Catalogue  Competition.

Wants  Column.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter. 

Marquette—A.  T.  Emmons  has  been 
engaged to  take  charge  of  a  branch store 
which  the  Carlton  Hardware  Co.,  of 
Calumet,  will  estiblisb  at  either  Rock­
land  or  Greenland.

Edmore—Jacob  Snyder  has  a  new 
clerk  in  his  hardware  store  in  the  per­
son  of  Cal  Sawdy,  of  Big  Rapids.

Jackson—Archel  W.  Rogers,  formerly 
at  the  Globe  store,  has  taken  a  position 
with  Meade  &  Durant.

Carson  City—Freeman  Salisbury,  of 
Middleton, 
is  assisting  Miss  Linna 
Huntoon  to  look  after  E.  B.  Hun toon's 
grocery  stock.

Pentwater— Art.  B.  Flagg,  who  has 
been  drug  clerk  for  J.  L.  Congdon  & 
Co.  for  some  years,  has  retired.

Ithaca—Sidney  Hass  is again installed 
as  head  clerk  in  the  hardware  store  of 
Pinney  &  Horn  He  recently  resigned 
to  engage  in  business  on  his  own  ac­
count,  but  failed  to  find  a  location  to 
his  liking.

is 

Eaton  Rapids— Ira  L.  McArthur 
clerking  in  A.  W.  Annis’  shoe  store.

Houghton— B.  L.  Neuman,  manager 
of  Goodspeed’s  shoe  store,  was  called  to 
Portland 
last  week  by  a  telegram  an­
nouncing  the  sudden  death  of  bis  moth­
er  at  Geenvilie,  S.  C.  The 
funeral 
occurred  at  Portland  Tuesday.

Ithaca—O.  B.  Jerrolds  will resume his 
in  Crawford  Bros. ’  drug 

old  position 
store.

Lowell—Clare  M.  Findlay  succeeds 
Frank  W.  Tarleton  as  clerk  in  the  shoe 
store  of  A.  J.  Howk  &  Son.

Negaunee— Rosen  Bros,  have  a  new 
clerk 
in  their  dry  goods  and  clothing 
store  in  the  person  of  Leslie  Griffin,  of 
Shelby.

Belding— Ed.  Sovereen,  who has  been 
at  work  for  a  firm  in  Port  Hnron,  has 
taken  a  position 
in  the  dry  goods  es­
tablishment  of  Wm.  Barie  &  Son,  of 
Saginaw.

Ann  Arbor— Edward  Dwyer,  with 
Mack  &  Co.,  has  resigned  his  position 
to  enter  the  employ  of  D.  E.  Glass, 
who  has  just  purchased  the  boot  and 
shoe  stock  of  Doty  &  Feiner.  Mr. 
Feiner  will  remain  in  the  store to  assist 
Mr.  Glass  and  bis clerks.

Owosso—John  Alles, 

formerly  clerk 
in  the  shoe  bouse  of  E.  L.  Brewer,  is 
looking  for a  location 
in  which  to  em­
in  the  shoe  business  on  bis  own 
bark 
account.

Otsego—Judson  Ross  succeeds  Willis 
in  W.  J.  Old’s  grocery 

Clapp  as  clerk 
store.

Charlotte— Glenn  VanAuken,  clerk  in 
the  dry  goods  store  of  R.  C.  Jones  & 
Co.,  has 
taken  a  similar  position 
with  Geo.  J.  Barney  &  Son.  He  is 
succeeded  by  Geo.  C.  Walker,  who  has 
been  employed  for  several  years'  in  the 
general  store  of  Hickmott  &  Dukette, 
at  Mendon.

Decatur— Dellon  Styles 

is  the  new 

clerk  at  S.  N.  Thomas  &  Sons’.

Carson  City—After  a  four  weeks’  tus­
sle  with  fever,  W.  B.  Lane  is  again  at 
his  place  behind  the  counter 
in  the 
Carson  City  Mercantile  Co. ’s store.

Jackson—James  Winney  has  taken  a 
position  with  the  Economy  shoe  bouse.
Charlotte— F.  H.  Loveland  has  gone 
to  Greenville  to  take  a  position  in  a 
large  dry  goods  establishment  and  ex­
pects  to  remain 
indefinitely  if  every­
thing  is  satisfactory.

Bay  City— Henry  Beaubien  has  taken 
a  position  as  manager  of David  Miller’s 
store  on  Broadway.  Mr.  Miller  is  slow­
ly  recovering  from  a  serious  illness.

Lansing—Tbos.  R.  Palmer  has  gone 
to  Grand  Ledge  to  take  a  clerkship  in 
the  store  of  A.  A.  Wilbur  &  Co.

Charlotte—Ernest  A.  Hartwell  has  re­
signed  bis  clerkship  at  Hartwell’s  gro­
cery  store.

Stanton— Ferry  Hannifin,  head  sales­
man 
in  the  grocery  store  of  Ball  &  De- 
vine, was  married  recently to Miss Zillab 
Althouse,  of  Big  Rapids.  The  cere 
mony  occurred  at  this  place.

Among  the  notable  persons  who  will 
be  in  the  city  to-morrow  to  attend  the 
funeral  of  the  late  Paul  Steketee  is  W. 
S.  H.  Welton,  of  Owosso,  whose  store 
on  Canal  street  was  the  first  business 
in  which  the  deceased  was  em • 
house 
ployed 
in  Grand  Rapids.  Mr.  Welton 
is  now  over  80  years  of  age,  and  al­
though 
it  is  nearly  fifty  years  since  bis 
relations  as  employer  ceased,  bis  re­
membrance  of  the  sterling  qualities  ex­
hibited  daring  the  boyhood  of  the  de­
ceased  is  as  clear and  distinct  as though 
their  relations  were  more  recent.  No 
one  admired  Paul  Steketee  more  than 
bis  first  employer  and  no  one  rejoiced 
more  heartily 
in  his  remarkable  suc­
cess.

Police  Justice  Ochler,  of  East  St. 
Louis,  has  hit  upon  a  novel  plan to  cuie 
the  drink  habit.  He  administers  an 
iron-clad  oath  to  all  who  will  take  the 
pledge.  Two  witnesses  subscribe to  it, 
and  in  case  the  person  taking  the  oath 
violates  it  the  witnesses are  subpoenaed 
to appear against  him  as  prosecutors  on 
a  charge  of  perjury.  Ten  men  already 
have taken  this  oath,  and  the  justice 
is 
doing  a  rushing  business  despite  the 
possible  severity  of  the  punishment  for 
infraction  of  promise.  The  justice  is 
relying  on  the  Illinois  law  under  which 
be  administers  the  oath  to  make  his 
cure  effective.

Tribute to the Memory of Paul Steketee.
In  the  death  of  Paul  Steketee  the  city 
has  lost  a  good  man.  His  life  shows 
what  maybe  achieved  in this country  by 
one  of  bumble  birth  and  circumstances, 
if  be have  the  right  qualities  in  him— 
the  qualities  so  often  made  light  of  by 
some  of  the  nervous,  restless,  impatient 
young  business  men  of  to-day.  He 
in­
herited,  through  a  long  line  of  ances­
tors,  patience,  energy,  honesty,  perse­
verance  and  that  good  will  to  all  that 
was  ever  overflowing  and  that  strict 
in­
tegrity  that  thought  of  no  tricks but ever 
meted  out  honest  values.  His  experi­
ence  brought  out  and  made  active  all 
these  faculties.  Hard  times  or  close 
competition  could  not  destroy  these 
foundations  of  his  life  and  character. 
He  was  always  full  of  hope  and  good 
nature,  always  affable,  but  he  had  so 
much  of  will  power  and  resolution  that 
he  could  say  no  when  he  wished  and 
in 
such  a  manner as  not  to  offend,  but  to 
leave  uo  doubt  as  to  his  determination. 
When  be  had  but  staited 
in  business 
be  exhibited  the  same  qualities.  He 
was  a  close  buyer,  well  posted  as  to 
what  he  wanted  and  their  values,  but 
never  expecting  or  desiring  something 
for  nothing.  He  would  not  place  him­
self  under  obligations  to  any  business 
house  or  salesman  by  accepting  theater 
tickets  or  other  entertainment.  Finan­
cially,  he  never  lived  up  to  all  bis  priv­
ileges.  Honesty  and 
justice  underlaid 
the  foundations  of his life.  These  traits 
gave  all  his  customers  full  confidence 
in  him.  He  had 
large  concentration. 
He  accomplished  what  he undertook and 
would  “ fight  it  out  on  that  line  if  it 
took  all  summer.”   He  never  receded 
from  any  position  be  once  occupied. 
Good 
judgment,  energy,  economy  and 
faith 
in  himself  and  the  rest  of  man­
kind  were distinguishing characteristics 
of  his career.  He  will be greatly missed, 
not  only  by  his  own  family,  and  em­
ployes,  with  whom  he  was  always  on  fa­
miliar  terms,  but  by  a  very  large  circle 
of  friends  and  acquaintances.

Oscar  F.  Conklin.

Work  of  the  Employment  Committee.
Kalamazoo,  March  13—The  employ­
ment  and  Relief  Committee  of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip feels  that 
it  has  its  hands  full  in  trying  to  secure 
employment  for  all  who  ask  assistance 
in  that  line  and  would  like  to  suggest 
through  your  paper  that  any  one  of  our 
members  who  knows  of  a position of any 
kind  whatever  should  acquaint  us  with 
the  fact,  so  that  we  can  put  someone  in 
it,  if  possible.  A  postal  card  to  any  of 
us  will  do  the  business  and  give  us 
more  to  work  on.

I 

should 

like,  also,  to  suggest  to  the 

jobbers  and  manufacturers  of  this  Stite 
that  they 
inform  themselves  as  to  the 
benefits  they  may  derive  from  the  work 
done  by  our organization,  and,  if  suffi­
cient  to  justify  it,  that  they  communi­
cate  with  us  when  needing  men,  if  the 
right  man  is  not  in  sight.  We  guaran­
tee  that  we  shall  not  bore  them  and  if 
we  have  not  the  man  for  them  will 
frankly  say  so.  All we  wish  is  a  chance.
E.  Starbuck, 

Chairman.
Horse  meat  is  being canned in Oregon 
for  consumption  in  Europe.  There  can 
be  no ’beef  scandal  over  that.

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

which  occupation  he  followed  for  sev­
eral  months. 
In  1850,  W.  S.  H.  Wel- 
ton,  who  was  then  engaged  in  the  cloth­
ing  business  on  Canal  street,  concluded 
that  he  ought  to  have  a  Holland  clerk 
and,  on  making  enquiries  as  to  who 
would  serve him  well  and  faithfully 
in 
that  capacity,  was  recommended to Paul 
Steketee.  Oq  enquiring  where  he  was 
to  be  found,  he  learned  that  he  was 
digging 
in  the  river,  and  a 
day  or  two  afterward  he  went  down  to 
the  bank  of  the  river and,  seeing  a  boy 
up  to  his  waist  in  the  water,  motioned 
him  to  come  ashore.  The  boy  proved 
to  be  the  person  wanted;  a  bargain  was 
struck  on  the  spot,  and  the  next  morn­
ing  Paul  Steketee began  his  mercantile 
career  in  Grand  Rapids, although a  part 
of  the  time  be drove  team  and  worked 
on  the  10 acre  farm  owned  by  Mr.  Wel- 
ton,  comprising  what 
is  now  known  as

limestone 

G O N E  BEYO N D .

Paul  Steketee,  the  Veteran  Dry Goods 

Merchant.

In  the  early  days  of  the  Nineteenth 
Century,  when  the  Netherlands  were 
under  the  control  of  France,  Napoleon 
issued  an  edict  that  not  more  than 
nineteen  people  should  assemble  to­
gether  at  any  one  time  in  any  building 
in  any  of  the  provinces  constituting  the 
Netherlands.  Forty  years  later,  when 
the  country  was  no 
longer  under  the 
control  of  France,  King  William  II., 
who  was  the  head  and  front  of  the  Na­
tional  Church  of  Holland,  construed  this 
edict  to  apply  to  meetings  of  the  adher­
ents  of  the Dutch  Reformed Church,  who 
constituted 
the 
doctrine  of  the  established  church.  A 
series  of  petty  persecutions  was  insti­
tuted 
in  all  parts  of  the  kingdom,  in 
consequence  of  which  the  seceders  from 
the  established  church  were  obliged  to 
adopt  all  sorts  of  subterfuges  to  avoid 
detention  and  arrest.  It  was  not  uncom­
mon  for  the  dissenters  to  seat  the  old 
people  who  were  too  feeble  to  stand 
in 
a room,and raise a window or open a door 
so  that  the  preacher  who  conducted  the 
services  could  be  heard  and  seen  by 
the  old  people  seated  inside  and  the  as­
sembled  multitude  standing  outside.

the  dissenters 

from 

business  man,  as  bis  successful  mercan­
tile  career  has  proved.  Long  live  Paul! 
I  can  say  for  him  that,  in  my  long  busi­
ness  experience,  I  have  never  found  a 
more  faithful  employe  than  be  was.

In  1862,  Mr.  Steketee  formed  a  co­
partnership  with  John  H.  Doornink  un­
der  the  style  of  Doornink  &  Steketee 
and  engaged  in  the  dry  goods  business 
in  the  store  building  new  occupied  by 
the  Heystek  &  Canfield  Co.  The  part­
ners bad  a  combined  capital  of  $1,650, 
constituting  the  savings  of years,  and 
Mr.  Steketee  went  to  New  York  to  pur­
chase  the 
initial  stock.  He  found  the 
agents  of  the  cotton  mills  very  much 
disheartened  over the  war and  a  general 
opinion  prevalent  that  the  country  was 
going  to  the  bad  and  that  prices  were 
naturally  going  to  pieces.  This  was 
not  the  case  with  H.  B.  Ciaflin,  who 
had  great  faith  in  the  stability  and 
in-1 
tegrity  of  the  country,  and  advised  Mr.

In  1871, 

enal,  due  in  some  degree,  of  course,  to 
the 
remarkable  advances  which  all 
kinds  of  goods  sustained  during  the 
war.  Two  years  after the  firm  of  Door­
nink  &  Steketee  was  organized 
a 
branch  store  was  established  at  Holland 
City  under the  management  of  Geo.  G. 
Steketee,  the  firm  name  being  Door­
nink,  Steketee  &  Bro. 
In  1868,  George 
sold  out his  interest  in  the  business  and 
the  Holland  store  was  conducted  by  An­
dres  Steketee. 
the  big  fire 
wiped  out  the  business  at  Holland,  but 
Paul  re-established 
it,  with  Andres  as 
partner.  The  latter  became  sole  pro­
prietor  of  the  Holland  branch  in  1886 
and  has  since  conducted  the  store  there. 
The  copartnership  of  Doornink  &  Stek­
etee  was  discontinued  in  1872  and  the 
business  was  continued  by  Mr.  Steketee 
alone  until  1875,  when  he  retired  from 
trade a  couple  of  years  and  devoted  his 
attention  to  his  real  estate 
interests. 
Some  of  bis sons  in  the  meantime  hav­
ing  grown  to  manhood,  and  feeling  the 
necessity  of  educating  them  to  pursue  a 
mercantile  career,  he  re-engaged 
in 
business  at  the  corner  of  Monroe and 
Ionia  streets,  where  M.  H.  Treusch  & 
Bro.  are  now  located.  Some  ye  is  later 
he  erected  one  of  the  three  stores  the 
house  now  occupies  on  Monroe  street,  at 
which  time  the  firm  name  was  changed 
to  P.  Steketee  &  Sons,  including  John, 
Peter,  Paul,  Daniel  and  a  son-in-law, 
Cornelius  Dosker.  The  business  natur­
ally  grew  under  the  watchful  care of 
Mr.  Steketee,  supplemented  by  the  at­
tention  to  details  on the part of  the  sons, 
until 
it  has  become  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  profitable  in  the  State.  A  sec­
ond  frontage  on  Monroe  street  and  a 
double 
frontage'  on  Fountain  street 
have  long  been  occupied  and  within  a 
few  weeks  a  third  frontage  has  been 
purchased  on  Monroe  street.  Arrange­
ments  have  also  been  made  to  purchase 
all  the  land  running  from  the  east  end 
of  the  wholesale  store  to the  corner  of 
Ionia  and  south  on  Ionia  street  to  the 
Morton  House,  for  which  plans  have 
been  made  to  erect a  six-storv  and base­
ment  structure,  the  basement  and  first 
and  second  stories  to  be occupied  alto­
gether  by  the  wholesale  department 
This  change 
in  the  wholesale  depart­
ment  will  give  the  space  now  occupied 
by  the  wholesale  department  over to  the 
retail,  making  one  of  the  largest,  best 
equipped  and  best  lighted  retail  stores 
in  the  country.

Mr.  Steketee  was  married  in  1856 to 
Miss  Pieternella  Meeuwse,  of  Zeeland, 
and  bad  four  sons—John,  Peter,  Paul 
and  Daniel—and  one  daughter,  Mrs. 
Cornelius  Dosker.  The  family  reside  in 
a  beautiful  home at  2gg Fountain  street, 
from  which  the  funeral  of the  deceased 
will  be  held  on  Thursday  afternoon.

in 

interested 

i860,  but, 

Mr.  Steketee  was  Treasurer  of  the 
further  than  that, 
city 
never held  any  public  office.  He  was  a 
director  of  the  Grand  Rapids  National 
Bank  ever  since  its  organization  in  1880 
and  was 
in  manufacturing 
and  real  estate  enterprises  to a  limited 
extent.  All his life was devoted to the ex­
tension  and  upbuilding  of  his  drygoods 
business, and  so  faithfully  did  he  follow 
his  text  that  he  came to  be  regarded  as 
one of  the best  posted  men  in  the  bus­
iness.  As  a  buyer 
in  the  New  York 
market  he  never accepted  any  courte­
sies  from  a  seller.  He  insisted  on  hav­
ing  all  the discounts  possible,  but  never 
went  out  to dinner  nor  received  any  so­
cial  attentions  at  the  hands  of  the  men- 
from  whom  he  was  buying  goods.  This 
quality,  which  was  seldom  met  with  in 
the  New  York  market,  gave  Mr.  Stek-

In  such  an  atmosphere  and  amid  such 
surroundings  was  Paul  Steketee born,  at 
Borsele,  Province  of  Zeeland,  Feb.  24, 
1834.

Among  the  men  who seceded  from  the 
established  church  and  confessed  alle­
giance  to  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church 
was  John  Steketee—father  of  the  de 
ceased—who,  like  his  father and  grand­
father  before  him,  had  been  employed 
on  the  dykes—the  public  works  of the' 
kingdom. 
In  common with  others  bold­
ing  the  same  faith,  Mr  Steketee  was 
frequently  hauled  before 
the  King’s 
tribunal  and  compelled  to  pay  fines  for 
attending  meetings  forbidden  by  the 
Napoleonic  edict. 
The  persecutions 
became  so  frequent  and  the  tines  so 
irksome  that,  in  1847,  he  joined  the 
band  of  devoted  pilgrims  who  left  Hol­
land  in  April  of  that  year  in  three  ships 
to  found  new  homes  where  they  might 
worship  God 
in  accordance  with  the 
dictates  of  their  own  consciences.  The 
three  shiploads  contained  a  preacher,  a 
school  teacher,  a  wagonmaker,  a  car­
penter and  other  men  skilled  in  the  va­
rious  arts and  trades,  so  that  the  colony 
established  at  Zeeland  might  have with­
in  itself  all  the  elements  which  entered 
into  the  successful  prosecution  of  its 
work.  Each  head  of a  family  was  pro­
vided  with  a  certificate,  issued  by  the 
Dutch  Reformed  church,  recommending 
the holder  and  his  family  to  the  new  re­
ligious organizations  to  be  formed in the 
New  World.

John  Steketee  was  accompanied  by 
his  wife  and  nine  children—six  sons 
and  three  daughters—the  third  son  be­
ing  Paul  Steketee,  whose  sudden  death 
on  Monday  shocked  the  people  of Grand 
Rapids  and  the  Holland  colony.

Mr.  Steketee  and  family  went  direct 
to  Zeeland  township,  Ottawa  county, 
being  the  first  family  to  locate  in  that 
township.  One  year  after  the  family 
arrived  in  Zeeland,  Paul,  who  was  then 
14  years  of  age,  started  out  to  earn  a 
few  dollars  to  lighten  the  burden  of  the 
family  at  home.  His  first  employment 
was 
in  the  grocery  store  of  Pliny  P. 
Roberts,  at  Grandville,  where  be  re­
mained  a  few  months.  Hearing  flatter­
ing  reports  from  the  then  village  of 
Grand  Rapids,  be came  to  this city  and 
secured  employment  as  a  teamster,

jasSS»,

Steketee  to  buy  all  the  domestics and 
staples  in  the  cotton  goods  line  be could 
get  hold  of.  This  advice  be followed  to 
the  letter;  and  until  the  death  of  Mr. 
Ciaflin  be  was  on  confidential  relations 
with  that  eminent  gentleman.  He  in­
vested  practically  all  the  capital  of the 
firm  in  cotton  goods and cottonades,  and 
in  future  years  delighted  to  tell  of  the 
panic  which  seized  his  partner when  the 
goods  were  unloaded  on  the  sidewalk  in 
front of  the  store.  Especially  was  this 
true  of  the  ccttonade  purchase,  which 
looked  somewhat  protentous,  but  before 
the  store  was  open  and  the  goods  were 
on  the  shelves  their  market  value  bad 
nearly  doubled,  and 
the  cottonades 
which  Mr.  Steketee  had  purchased  for 
30  cents  a  yard  sold  over  the  counter 
for  $2  a  yard  before  the  last  bolt  was 
gone.  From  that  time  on  the  success 
of the  bouse  was  little  less than phenom­

Welton’s  addition,  bounded  by  Cherry 
and  Prospect  streets  and  Wealthy  and 
Madison  avenues.  Mr.  Steketee  re­
mained  with  Mr.  Welton  as  long  as  the 
latter  continued  business,  and  the  rela­
tionship  was  so  pleasant  that,  on  Mr. 
Welton’s  retirement,  he  used  bis  influ­
ence  with  John  &  George  Kendall  to se­
cure  for  him  a  position  in  the  drygoods 
store  they  were  then  conducting  at  the 
foot  of  Monroe  street. 
In  referring  to 
in  bis  ” History  of  Grand 
the  matter 
Rapids 
in  the 
Tradesman  three  years  ago,  Mr.  Welton 
referred  to  Mr.  Steketee as  follows:

in  1850,"  published 

Mr.  Kendall  held  about  the  same  rel­
ative  position  among the dry goods deal­
ers at  that  time  that  Henry Spring,  Paul 
Steketee and  William  B.  Herpolsbeimer 
now  enjoy.  Mr.  Steketee  was 
in  the 
employ  ot  the  writer two  years and  was 
then  employed  by  Mr.  Kendall,  under 
whose  tuition  he graduated  a  competent

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etee  a  noteworthy  reputation, and,  wher­
ever  he  went,  he  came  to be  known  as 
a  cash  buyer,  who  was 
influenced  only 
by  quality  and  price and  could  not  be 
swerved  from  bis  determination  by 
in­
vitations  which  owed  their origin  to  ul­
terior  motives.

Personally,  Mr.  Steketee  was  one  of 
the most  agreeable  of  men.  Deeply  re­
ligious,  and 
carrying  his  religion, 
without  ostentation,  into  his  every  day 
life,  he  long  ago  came  to be  known  as 
the  soul  of  honor,  whose  word  was  as 
good  as  his  bond  and whose conduct  was 
never  swerved  from  the  pathway of right 
and  rectitude.  Quick  to  recognize  a 
situation,  it  seldom  took  him many min­
utes  to  formulate  bis  opinion  of  any 
plan  which  was  presented  to  him  for 
consideration,  and  whether  bis  answer 
was 
in  the  affirmative  or  in  the  nega­
tive,  it  was  always  given  in  a  kindly 
manner,  so  that  the  persons  with  whom 
be  was  negotiating  could  not 
take 
offense.  His  judgment  on  matters  per­
taining  to  merchandising was invariably 
sound;  in  fact,  it  was  a  common  re­
mark  that no one could sell Paul Steketee 
an  article which  did  not  possess genuine 
merit,  no  matter  what  price was offered. 
The  woman  who  sought something flashy 
or  gaudy  never  thought  of  going  to  hi» 
store;  but  when  she  wished  somethin? 
that  would  wear,  she  knew  where  it 
could  be  obtained.

Genial 

in  disposition,  courteous 

ir 
manner,  loyal  to  his  family,  faithful  tc 
bis  friends,  steadfast  in  the  faith  of  hi» 
fathers,  without  an  enemy  in  the  world, 
Paul  Steketee  has gone  to  bis  reward, 
leaving  behind  him  a  memory  fragrant 
with  noble  deeds,  generous 
impulses, 
worthy  ambitions  and a well-earned  suc­
cess.

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons—The  list  of  advance» 
is  longer than  last  week,  and  the  major­
ity  of*  them  are  on  well  known  prints. 
Lesser  lights,  however,  have  follower 
the  upward  tendency  of  the  market.  | 
Buyers  are  having  a  hard  time to  se­
cure  the  goods  wanted  and  agents  are 
straining  every  nerve  not  only  to  securt 
goods  for  them,  but  to  hurry  along  or­
ders  which  have  been  placed  for  some 
time  and  which  customers  want  as  soon 
as  possible.  Requests are  coming  in  to 
make  shipments  earlier  than  the  time 
specified,  where  possible,  but 
is 
seldom  that  this  can  be  done.  On  the 
other  hand,  mills are  generally  behind 
in  shipments.  Heavy  brown  sheetings 
and  drills  are  particularly  scarce,  and 
agents  do not  care  to  make  contracts  for 
early  shipments  or  prompt  delivery, 
either  for  home  or  export  use.  Light 
weights  are 
in  the  same  condition  as 
heavy  goods.  Coarse  colored  cottons 
show  no  change  in  regard  to  demand, 
but  prices  are  advancing 
in  common 
with  other  lines.  Cotton blankets are  in 
a  particularly  strong  position,  and  sev­
eral 
lines  are  reported  as  withdrawn 
from  the  market.

it 

Prints  and  Ginghams—The print  mar­
ket  has  shown  even  more  strength  this 
week  than 
last  and  prices  have  ad­
vanced  both  in  fancy  and  staple  lines to 
a  large extent.  Stocks are  so  small  that 
they  amount to almost  nothing  and  the 
advances  in  the  print  cloth  departments 
have  been  an 
important  factor  in  the 
drive.  As  is  well  known,  the  price of 
print  cloths  is  not  in  the  same  propor­
tion  as  the  price  of  the  gray  cloths. 
There  is  no  desire on  the  part  of  print­
ers  to  discount  the  future  and  little  is 
done  except  for  near-by delivery.  Print­
ing  of  light goods  has ceased  except  on

Underwear—The 

definite  orders,  and  fall  lines  now  hold 
the  attention  of  the  mills.  Staple  lines 
are  strong  on  the  present  price  basis. 
Holders  have  been  obliged  to  refuse  or­
ders  for  large  amounts  because  they 
could  not fill  them  at  the  time  wanted. 
Napped  fabrics  are  very  firm  and  buy­
ers  are  looking  for  fall  goods  consider­
ably  ahead  of  the  usual  time.  The  ad­
vanced  schedule  of  wages  in  the  New 
England  mills 
is  freely  and  favorably 
commented  on,  as  showing  unbounded 
confidence  on  the  part  of  manufacturers 
in  present  and  future  trade  conditions.
light-weight  busi­
ness  is  reported  to  be  in  a  very satisfac­
tory  condition,  and  the  products  of  the 
mills  are  well  sold  ahead.  The  jobbers 
have  been  asking  for good  quantities, 
and  report  that  their orders  from  the  re­
tailers  have  been  very  satisfactory. 
Fancy  goods  are  in  excellent  demand, 
and  the'retail  trade  report  that  they  ex­
pect  to  do  a  large  business*  with  them 
this  coming  season.  Balbriggans  which 
sell  at  first  hands  at  $2  a  dozen  to $3 
and  $3.50 are  sold  well  into  April,  and 
duplicate  orders  continue  to  come  in  in 
very  large  quantities.  The  jobbers  re» 
oort  that  business  has  been  verv  satis­
factory  up  to  date,  and  that  it  is  con­
siderably  ahead  of  that  of  last  year, 
rhis  was  expected  on  account  of  the 
activity  among  the  retailers,  as  they 
have  sold  their  stocks  down  to  a  very 
iow  margin. 
It  would  be  useless  to  at­
tempt  to specify  the causes  for all  this, 
is  general  prosperity and  large  distribu­
tion  of  money  on  account  of  the  war, 
and  good  crops,  etc.,  have  all  entered 
largely  into  it.

to 

Hosiery—Wholesalers  have  all  sent 
their  representatives  to  the  New  York 
market 
look  up  the  question  of 
Hosiery  for  the  spring,  and  the  import­
ers  are  having  their  bands  full  taking 
care  of  them  now.  Prices  are  well 
maintained 
in  bctb  staple  and  fancy 
lines,  and  general  satisfaction  on  the 
present situation  and  future  prospects^is 
expressed.  Fancies  are  securing  liberal 
orders,  and  are  included  in almost every 
aill  of  goods.  Agents  are  showing  enor­
mous  lines  of  golf  stockings at generally 
medium  and  low  prices.  Light  weights 
are  prominent,  and  are  expected  to  be 
the  pick  of  sellers  this  season.  Much 
of  the  business  is  being  done  in  cotton 
40ods,  and  to  a  great  extent  plain 
legs 
with  fancy  tops;  $4.50 to  $g  per  dozen 
seems  to  be  the  price  at  which  most 
business  is  being  done.  There are  many 
varieties  of  woolen  golf  hose  offered, 
but they  do  not  seem  to  be  in  quite  the 
demand  that  was  intended  last  year at 
this  time.

Carpets— The 

carpet  manufacturers 
are  quite  well  employed,  having  orders 
in  sufficient amounts to  last  until  about 
the  first  or  middle  of  April.  The  busi­
ness  for  1898  where  worsted  yarn  was 
used  did  not  average  over  i;@2o  per 
cent,  of  the  total  business  done  in  Phil­
adelphia. 
It  has  been  a  difficult  matter 
for  the  manufacturers  who  obtained  or­
ders  without an  advance  to  fill  them,  as 
the actual  cost  has  been  from  2@3c  per 
yard  more  than  was  anticipated.  Man­
ufacturers  have  lost  money. 
It  is  true 
many  of  them  have  been  quite busv. 
The  present  tendency  to  advance  prices 
of  tapestry,  velvet  and  other  grades  of 
the  best  carpets  will  later  have  a  bene­
ficial  effect  on  ingrains.  While  this  im­
provement  may  not  be  felt  this  season 
on  ingrains,  there  is a  much  more hope 
ful  feeling 
in  the  trade  as  compared 
with  a  few  months  previous.  After  the 
middle  of April,  the manufacturers quite 
generally  commence  to  make  up  their 
samples  for  next  season;  in  fact,  some 
who are  short  of  orders  may  commence 
earlier.

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Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Carsonville—C.  C.  Carr,  baker,  has 

sold  out  to  Frank  Dart.

Kalamazoo— J.  W.  Brown  has  retired 

from  the  grocery  business.

McBain— W.  C.  VanDusen  has  em­

barked  in  general  trade  at  this  place.

Barryton—W.  J.  Shanks  will  shortly 

erect  a  warehouse  and  grain  elevator.

Whitehall— Aug.  Peterson  has  pur­
chased  the  bazaar  stock  of  Ed.  J.  Smith.
Middleville— Ed.  Headworth  has  en­
gaged  in  the  farm  implement  business.
Colon— Leland  &  McMillan  succeed 
Baird  &  Leland  in  the  implement busi­
ness.

V andalia—Fred  W illiam s  has added  a 
to  h is  grocery 

stock  of  bazaar  goods 
Stock.

Muskegon—M.  Workman  &  Son  have 
opened  a  new  hardware  store  on  Pine 
street.

Fremont—Fred  E.  Holt,  dealer 

in 
drugs  and  groceries,  has  removed  to 
Honor.

Holland—John  E.  Kiekintveld  has 
purchased  the  bazaar  stock  of  R.  S. 
Crandell.

Alpena— I.  Cohen  &  Bro.  succeed 
Isaac  Cohen  in  the  dry  goods  and  cloth­
ing  business.

Detroit—J.  C.  McCormick  &  Co.  are 
succeeded  by  Cbas.  Kujath  in  the  hard­
ware  business.

Burlington— Daniel  H.  Peters,  gro­
cer  and  meat  dealer,  has  sold  out  to 
Cameron  &  Phelps.

Casnovia— Mr.  Watson,  of  Whitehall, 
in  general  trade  at  this 

will  engage 
place  about  April  i.

L eR oy—Frank  Smith  announces  his 
intention  of  closing  out  his  branch  gen­
eral  store  at  Manton.

Litchfield — Eugene  Bulger,  grocery 
dealer  at  this  place,  died  suddenly  this 
week  of  heart  failure.

Menominee—Heslin  &  Brown  have 
in 

leased  a  store  building  and  engaged 
the  provision  business.

Owosso— Jackson  &  Son,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  have  purchased  the  hardware 
stock  of  Cyrus  Reimer.

Kawkawlin— H.  M.  Koffman  succeeds 
in  the  dry  goods, 

KoSman  &  Sbiller 
grocery  and  shoe  business.

Stittsviile—M.  Vandercook  has  sold 
in  the  harness  business  to 

his 
his  partner,  H.  G.  Kinsey.

interest 

Lansing— Dr.  John  Ball  has  bought  a 
drug  stock  at  Hanover,  Ont.,  and  gone 
there  to  locate  permanently.

Ypsilanti— Davis &  Kishlar,  drygoods 
and  carpet  dealers,  will  open  a  branch 
establishment  at  East  Tawas.

Stand ish— Wm.  H.  Honey,  dealer 

in 
groceries  and  shoes,  has  discontinued 
his  branch  store  at  Sterling.

Northvilie— Holmes,  Dancer  &  Co. 
are  closing  out  their  general  stock  and 
will  remove  to  Mason  April  i.

Kalamazoo—J.  C.  Bennett  &  Son.boot 
and  shoe  dealers,  are  closing  out  their 
stock  and  will  retire  from  trade.

Crystal  City—Orleans  Barker  has  re­
moved  from  Benzonia  to  this  place  and 
engaged  in  the  hardware  business.

Okemas—Cbas.  Ferguson  has  sold  bis 
interest  in  the  general  merchandise  firm 
of  John  Ferguson  &  Sons  to  A.  I.  Olin.
Lowell— Chas.  Alexander  has  sold  bis 
bazaar  stock,  which  was  conducted  un­
der  the  style  of  the Fair,to Clyde Collar.
Morenci— H.  D.  Pegg,  dealer in drugs 
and  groceries,  has  purchased  the  drug 
stock  of  J.  N.  L.  Carmon,  at  Lyons, 
Ohio,  and  placed  A.  T.  McComb,  his 
former clerk,  in  charge.

MICHIGAN  T R A D E S M A N

Quincy—Samuel  Kanouse  has  opened 
an  agricultural 
implement  establish­
ment,  placing  Hiram  Corless  in  charge.
Jackson—James  &  Smith  have  en­
gaged  in  the  dry  goods  and  notion  busi­
ness  under  the  style  of  the  Q jick  store.
Union  City— H.  Kalmback,  dry  goods 
dealer,  has  removed  to  South  Lyon.  He 
is  succeeded  by  R.  A.  Johnson,  of Hud­
son.

Hudson— R.  N.  Johnson  is  removing 
bis  dry goods  stock  to Union City,  where 
he  has  purchased  another  dry  goods 
stock.

Springport—The  agricultural 

imple­
ment,  vehicle  and  seed  firm  of  Welling­
ton  &  Doak  has  been  dissolved,  W. 
Doak  succeeding.

Battle  Creek— W.  H.  Holcomb  has 
sold  his  interest  in  the  clothing  firm  of 
Stevens,  Holcomb  &  Gordon  and  will 
remove  to  California.

Rapid  River—The  general  merchan­
dise  store  of  R.  G.  Baer  was  destroyed 
by  fire  Monday  morning.  The  stock 
was  insured  for $1,000.

Casnovia— F.  A.  Sunderlin  &  Bros, 
have  removed  their  general  stock  into 
new  and  more  commodious quarters  in 
the  I.  O.  O.  F.  block.

Port  Austin— G.  B.  Gibson  has  sold 
bis  drug  stock  to  Dr.  R.  J.  Smith,  of 
Pott  Huion,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  same  location.

Ironwood— Dr.  J.  R.  Moore  has  sold 
his  drug  stock  to  Oscar  J.  Bay  and 
Oscar  N jrdling,  who  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  old  stand.

St.  Louis—J.  J.  Noyes  has  purchased 
an  old  school  building  and  will  have 
it 
moved  to  the  railway  track  for  use as  a 
butter  and  egg  warehouse.

Brunswick— M  Goulette  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  Isaac Cassady,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same  loca­
tion,  adding  a  line  of  dry  goods.

Jonesville—A.  J.  Gilbert,  of  the  mer- 
cai.t  le  firm  of  Gilbert  Bros.  &  Mer­
chant,  has  scld  out  to  his  partners,  O li­
ver  Gilbert and  Edward  Merchant.

Thompsonville— Lester  E.  Adams,  of 
Evart,  will  shortly  erect  a  two-story 
building,  which  he  will  occupy  with  a 
hardware  stock  as  soon  as  completed.

Marcellus— John  Fisher,  of  the  furni­
ture  firm  of  King  &  Fisher,  has  re 
moved  to  Cassopolis  and  engaged  in 
the  same  line  of  business  at  that  place.
Bellaire— Geo.  L.  Williams  has  pur­
chased  the  store  building  of  Cone  & 
Co.  and  will  continue  the  hay  and  feed 
business  formerly  conducted  by  that 
firm.

Gladwin— D.  Mills,  who  recently  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  J.  W.  Spooner,  will 
add  a  fresh  stock,  which  be  will  con­
duct  in  connection  with  his  hardware 
business.

Traverse  City  Eagle— Harvey  Avery, 
of  New  Orleans,  traveling  salesman  for 
the  Simmons  Saw  Co.,  is  in  the  city. 
On  Wednesday  he  will  wed  Miss  Fanny 
Wilhelm.

Port  Huron—Chas.  F.  Taylor,  hard­
ware  dealer,  announces  his  intention  of 
engaging 
in  the  furniture  business  as 
soon  as  an  addition  to  his  building  can 
be  made.

Big  Rapids— N.  Tucker,  of  Caro,  has 
rented  the  store  building  which  was  re­
cently  partly  burned,  and  as  soon  as 
it 
has been repaired,  will  put  in  a  stock  of 
bazaar goods.

Saginaw— Harry  Dolson,  who has been 
connected  with  the  drug  business  of 
this  place  for  several  years,  and  A.  E. 
Moore,  formerly  of  this  city,  and  re­
cently  of  St.  Charles,  have  purchased 
the  drug  business  of  S.  Crandall  &  Co., 
at  St.  Charles.

Vernon— Forty  years  ago  last  Wednes­
day  Arthur and  W.  D.  Garrison  signed 
articles  of  partnership  and  commenced 
doing  business  under  the  firm  name  of 
W.  D.  &  A.  Garrison.

Elk  Rapids—A.  Goldfarb  will  shortly 
open  a  branch  dry  goods  store  at  Bel­
laire,  in  partnership  with  I.  Goldstick. 
He  will  place  his  daughter,  Simma, 
in  charge  of  bis  interests.

Portland— The  general  merchandise 
firm  of  J.  A.  &  J.  H.  McClelland  has 
been  dissolved,  J.  H.  McClelland  retir­
ing,  J.  A.  McClelland  will  continue 
the business  in  his own  name.

Owosso— Lawrence  &  Hilberg  is  the 
name  of  a  new  firm  which  came  here 
from  Birmingham,  Ohio.  They  repre­
sent  the  New  York  Racket  store  and 
deal  in  dry  goods,  notions  and  hard­
ware.

Menominee—The  grocers  of  Menomi­
nee  and  her  sister  city  of  Marinette 
have  organized  an  association  to  protect 
themselves  from  dead-beats  and  other 
evils  which  beset  the  venders  of  neces­
sities  for  the  inner  man.

Ludington—J.  S.  Stearns  has  pur­
chased  the  stock  of  dry  goods  and  gro­
ceries 
in  what  is  known  as  the  Fourth 
ward  store,  and  will  cater  wholly  to  the 
wants  of  bis  employes.  Mr.  Coburn  will 
manage  the  store,  as  heretofore.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—The  grocery  stock 
of  Royce  &  Reynolds  has  been  pur­
chased  by  W.  J.  Freeborn,  who  will,  for 
a  time,  continue  his  grocery  and  meat 
business  at  bis  old  stand,  in  addition  to 
operating  bis  new  establishment.

Alma— Byron  S.  Webb,  who  has  car­
ried  on  the  drug  and  grocery  business 
here  for  the  past  fifteen  years,  has  pur­
chased  a  half 
in  the  grocery 
stock  of  Win  Wilson.  The  new  firm 
will  be known  as  Wilson  &  Webb.

interest 

Rockford—Geo.  Eady  has  purchased 
the 
interest  of  Clay  Keeney  in  the  firm 
of  Lovelace  &  Keeney.  Lovelace  & 
Eady  will  hustle  for  all  the  potatoes, 
beans  and  apples  they  can  handle,  and 
will  also  continue  the  grain  business.

Crystal— F.  S.  Caswell  has  purchased 
the  furniture  and  undertaking  stock  of 
Ed.  DeYoung,  and  will  put  Dennis 
O’Connell  in  charge.  Mr.  DeYoung  has 
also  formed  a  partnership  and  engaged 
in  the  same  line  of  business  at  Alma.

Camden— Perry  Hagerman  has  sold 
his  interest  in  the  mercantile  firm of  M. 
S.  Fletcher  &  Co.,  at  Montgomery,  to 
his  partner and  returned  to  this  place. 
He  is  at  present  employed  by  O.  D. 
Chester,  banker  and  flour  and  sawmill 
operator.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Corunna—The  Fox  &  Mason  Furni­
is  obliged  to  work  thirteen 
its  or­

ture  Co. 
hours a  day  to  keep  pace  with 
ders.

Ann  Arbor—Camp  &  Kaufman  have 
purchased  the  plant  of  the  Michigan 
Table  Co.  and  will  engage  in  the  man­
ufacture  of  parlor and  upholstered  fur­
niture  for  the  wholesale  trade.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— Florsheim  &  Co  , 
shoe  manufacturers  of  Chicago,  who 
held  the  mortgage  on  the  shoe  stock  of 
R.  J.  Condlon,  have  sold  the  stock  to  F. 
W.  Roach  &  Co.,  who  will  add  their 
shoe  and  furnishing  goods  stock thereto.
Detroit—The  Little  Doctor  Medicine 
Co.  has  filed  articles of  incorporation  to 
manufacture  and  sell  pharmaceutical 
preparations  and  devices  for advertis­
ing  and  vending  purposes.  The capital 
stock  is  $!o,ooo,  with  $1,000  paid  in. 
The  incorporators  are  Edward  Bullock, 
J.  G.  Hollands,  Alfred  J.  Terry,  John 
L.  Lewis,  John  Weaver,  George  E. 
G rangow  and  John  I.  Sumner.

Flushing— Hart  Bros,  have  purchased 
a  125  horse  power  engine,  boilers  and 
all  necessary  apparatus  for  operating 
their flouring  mill  by  steam.  The  work 
of  erecting  a  new  boiler  house  will  be 
commenced  about  April  1  and  pushed 
rapidly  forward  until  completed.

Detroit— The  Whiting  Automatic
Pump  Co.  has  been  organized  with 
$300,000  capital,  with  $250,000  paid  in, 
for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  force 
pumps.  The  manufactory 
is  to  be  lo­
cated  at  Lapeer,  and  the  main  cflices  in 
Detroit.  The stock  is divided  into  30,000 
shares,  and  is  held  as 
follows:  Arthur 
E.  Whiting,  Detroit,  13,250;  James  P. 
Craig,  Lapeer,  7,500;  Richard  D.  Vail, 
Lapeer,  2,500;  Wm.  A.  Whiting,  De­
troit,  1,750.

Dissents  From  the  Interpretation  of 

the  Tradesman.

Bellaire,  March  1— One  of  your  sub­
scribers  has  called  my  attention  to  an 
article  in  the  Jan.  4  issue of  your  paper, 
entitled,  “ The  Dying  Century,”  
in 
which  you  make  this  statement:  “ We 
are  now 
in  the  last  year of the  Nine­
teenth  Century.  With  the  year  1900  will 
begin  the  Twentieth  Century.”   There 
has  been  considerable  talk  during  the 
last  year as  to  what  the  last  day  of  the 
Nineteenth  Century  will  be.  According 
to  your  statement,  that  day  would  be 
Dec.  31,  1899
May  I  disagree  with  you  and  tell  you 
my  reasons  for  doing  so?  First,  of 
course,  you  know  it  takes  one  hundred 
years  to  make  one  century;  therefore,  it 
will  take  190c  to  make  nineteen  cen­
turies.  Then  how  can  the  last  dav  of 
1899 be  the  last  day of the century?  That 
date  is  the  last  day  of  the  one  thousand, 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-ninth  year, 
and  one  year  is  lacking.  The  first  year 
after  Christ  is  designated  in  history  as 
the  year  one. 
If  the  year  one  is  the 
first  year,  the  year  two  the  second  year, 
etc.,  therefore,  the  year  1899  must  be 
the  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
ninety-ninth  year,  and  1900  would  be 
the  nineteen  hundredth  year,  and  Dec. 
31,  1900,  would  be  the 
last  day  of  the 
century,  as  it  takes  1900  years  to  make 
the  nineteen  centuries.  Take  the  pres­
ent  date,  March  1,  1899.  At the  end  of 
this  day  have  1899  years  two  months 
and  one  day  passed  since  the  birth  of 
Christ,  or  is  this  the  first  day  of  the 
third  month  of  the  one  thousand  eight 
hundred  and  ninety-ninth  year?  I  claim 
the  latter.  Writing  this  date— 1-3 99— 
what  does  it  mean  if  not  the  first  day  of 
the  third  month  of  the  ninety-ninth year 
of  the  present  century?  Look  up  the 
date  on  a  mortgage,  a  deed  or any  legal 
paper and you will find them dated in ¿ is  
way,  using  the  present  date:  “ On  this 
first  day  of  March  in  the  year  eighteen 
hundred  and  ninety-nine. ”   Mark  that 
it  says  in  the  year,  the  year  not  having 
yet  passed. 

G e o .  G o b h a m .

House  Worthy  of  Confidence.

The  Tradesman  has  received  several 
enquiries  concerning  W.  H.  Young  & 
Co.,  of  Pottstown,  Pa.,  who  announce 
that  they  will  continue  the  egg  business 
at  Lake  Odessa  established  by  A.  C. 
Hager.  Many  shippers  assert  that [they 
will  never  send  anything 
to  Lake 
Odessa  again,  because  of  the  gigantic 
swindle  perpetrated  at  that  place  by 
Mr.  Hager. 
In  the  opinion  of  the 
Tradesman,  such  prejudices  are  not  jus­
tified,  because  Young  &  Co.  are  reputa­
ble  and  responsible  people,  well  rated 
by  the  mercantile agencies,  and have the 
reputation  of  doing  exactly  as  they 
agree,  whereas  Hager  never  bad  any 
rating  to  speak  of,  seldom kept his  word 
and  should  never  have  been  accorded 
any  extended  credit.  The  Tradesman 
has taken  pains to  look  up  the  bouse  of 
Young  &  Co.  very  thoroughly  and  has 
no  hesitation in  stating  that,  in its  opin­
ion,  any  one  who  ships  the  bouse  will 
never  have occasion  to  regret his action.

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5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market  is very 
strong,  with  refiners bidding  \Yzc  for 96 
deg.  test.  While  this 
is  the  quotable 
market,  it  is  said  large  sales  have  been 
made to  speculators  at  i - i 6c  over  these 
figures.  The  refined  sugar  market  is 
steady,  with  no  shadings  being  made  on 
bard  sugars,  but  refiners  are  making 
the  usual  shadings  on  some  grades  of 
softs.  Packages  continue  oversold  and 
difficult  to  obtain  in  fair-sized  quanti­
ties.

Canned  Goods—There were heavy pur­
chases  of  spot  tomatoes  made  in  Balti­
more  this  last  week  and  for a  time  it 
looked  as  if  the  market  would  advance, 
but the  week  closes  without any  change 
in  price.  There 
is  a  speculative  de­
mand  for  second  yellow  peaches  and 
very  few  are  left  in  the  hands  of  pack­
ers.  Sardines  are  a  lit le  higher again, 
and  $3  f.  o.  b.  New  York  for  %  oils  is 
freely  predicted  as  being  the  ruling 
price 
in  two  weeks.  A  year ago  there 
were  in  the  hands  of  packers  something 
in  the  neighborhood  of  250,000 cases 
oils,  while  at  the  same  date  this  year 
packers’  stocks  are  only  about  50,000 
cases.  This  fact,  in  connection  with 
the  advance  in  tin  plate, which is equiv­
alent  to  25@30C  per  case,  and  the  talk 
of  the  combine,  makes  holders  very 
confident  that  higher  prices  will  be 
realized.

Dried  Fruits—Raisins are  moving  out 
fairly  well  and  stocks  of  the 
lower 
grades  are  light.  Prunes continue  strong 
and  some  advances  are  noted  on  the 
Coast.  Apricots have been  in  better  de­
mand  and  as  stocks  throughout the coun­
try  are  no  doubt  light,  the  increasing 
demand  will  undoubtedly  check  the  de­
clining  market  and  we  think  it  safe  to 
buy  at  present  prices.  Dates  are  in 
good  demand  at  the  advance  and  the 
trade are  taking  them  at  full  figures.

Syrups—The  demand  for  corn  syrup 
continues  heavy  and  manufacturers  are 
oversold.  Barrels  have  advanced  2^c 
from  the  lowest  point  and  cases  propor­
tionately.

Cereals—Owing  to  the  failure  of  the 
oatmeal  combine,  prices  on  both  barrels 
and  cases  have slumped.  As  millers still 
continue  oversold,  no  other  reason  can 
be given  for  the  decline  except  fear  of 
competition.

The  Produce  Market.

is  active. 

Apples—The  market  is  firm  and  the 
demand 
Tallman  Sweets 
command  $3,  Baldwins  and  Greenings 
fetch  $4  25  and  Kings  and  Spys  are 
quoted  at $4.50.

is  a  more 

Bananas—There 

liberal 
movement  than  a  couple  of  weeks  ago 
during  the  severe  weather.  Shipments 
arriving  at  Southern  ports  are  reported 
in  better  condition  and  the  movement 
to  Northern  points  has  been  consider­
ably  increased.  Demand  is  steady  and 
values  rule  firm.

is 

Beans— The  market 

in  a  waiting 
condition,  due  to  the  recent  spurt to  a 
higher  level  of  values. 
In  one  respect 
the  bean  market  is  peculiar,  in  that 
it 
is  either  very  active  or  very  dull.  A 
local  dealer asserts  that  either  everyone 
seems  to  be  out  of  beans  or  the  country 
seems to be  surfeited ;  that  one  enquiry 
is  invariably  followed  by  a  dozen  from 
all  parts  of  the  country,  and  that  one  or­
der  is  almost  always  followed  by numer­
ous  other  orders.  Handlers  are  paying 
90@g5C 
for  unpicked,  holding  city 
picked  mediums  at  $i. io@ i.25,  accord­
ing  to quality.

Butter— Receipts  of  dairy  grades  are 
meager  and  the quality  is  very  inferior. 
Dealers  are  paying  I3@i4c,  but are ¿not 
receiving  anywhere  near  enough  stock

to  meet  the  consumptive demands  of  the 
market.  Factory  creamery 
is  weaker, 
being  held  at  19c  for  fancy  and  18c  for 
choice.

Cabbage—Home  grown  has  advanced 

Celery— i8@2oc  per  doz.  bunches  for 

to $60  per  ton.

White  Plume.

Cranberries—The  market 

is  without 
change.  Cape  Cods  command  $7  per 
bbl.,  Wisconsins  and  Jerseys  are  in  fair 
demand  at  $6.
Cucumbers—Out  of  range,  so  far  as 
Michigan  markets  are  concerned,  be­
cause  Chicago  epicures  will  pay  $2  per 
doz.  for  all  the  stock  our  hothouses  can 
produce.
Eggs—The  manner  in  which  the mar­
ket  had  held  up  during  the  past  week 
has  been  contrary  to all  precedent.  Re­
ceipts have  been  cleaned  up  from  day 
to  day  as  they  came  in,  so  that  every 
night  the  market  is  practically  bare  of 
stock.  Dealers  have  met  with  no  diffi­
culty 
in  getting  14c,  except  where  the 
receipts  are  off  in  size,  and  the  slump 
which  has  been  expected  from  day  to 
day  has  failed  to  materialize. 
It  seems 
that  there  never  was  a  time  when  the 
people  were  consuming  the  receipts 
so  closely  as  at  the  present  time.  Coun 
try  merchants  are  paying 
io@i2,  but 
should  be  prepared  for a  slump,  which 
is  pretty  sure  to  come  before  the  end  of 
another  week.

Game— Rabbits  are  grabbed  up  as 

fast  as  they  arrive  at 80c  per  doz.

Honey—Amber  is  beginning  to  come 
in  again,  finding  ready  demand  on  the 
basis  of  ioc.
Lemons—The  market  rules  firm,  with 
former  quotations  well  sustained  and  a 
free  movement  for  this  season  of  the 
year.
size.  Walnuts  and  butternuts,  60c.

Nuts— Hickory,  $i.5o@2,  according  to 

Onions—Both  red  and  yellow  stock  is 
strong  at  65@75c,  the  demand  being 
greatly  in  excess of  the  supply.

Oranges—The  market 

holds  to  a 
steady  range,  with  an  active  demand 
on  the  entire  list.  Local  supplies  are 
liberal,  but  there  is  a  firm  undertone  of 
feeling  due  to  the  fact  that  reports  from 
Califronia  continue  somewhat  discoura­
ging,  and  the  dry  weather at that  point 
continues.  Advancing  values  are  re­
ported  from  coast  points.

Parsley—Chicago 

is  still  welcome  to 
all  we  can  produce,  so  long  as  her  deal­
ers  are  willing  to  pay  $2  per  doz.— 
which  is  beyond  the  Michigan  limit. 

Parsnips— 50c  per  bu.
Pop  Corn—50c  per  bu.
Potatoes—It  is  the  unexpected  which 
is  happening  now  in  the  potato  market 
and,  as  sometimes  happens,  the  farmer 
is  on  top,  because  be  holds  the  key  to 
the  situation.  During  the  three  weeks 
of 
intensely  cold  weather,  the  surplus 
stocks 
in  all  of  the  large  distributing 
and  consuming  markets  became  ex­
hausted  and  were  not  replenished  be­
cause  nearly  all  the  shipments  that  were 
made  in  the  meantime  arrived 
in  a 
frozen  condition,  which  necessitated 
their  going  to  the  dump.  Since  that 
time,  the  market  has  gradually  ad­
vanced  and  the  country  shippers  who 
bad  stocks 
in  their  cellars  have  been 
cleaned  out,  so  that  practically  all  the 
stock  is  now  in  the  bands  of  the  grow­
ers;  and,  of  course,  the  grower  is  with­
holding  his  supplies  so  long as  he  sees a 
chance  for higher  prices.  Greenville  is 
paying  55c,  G.  R.  &  I.  points,  50c, 
and  Oceana  points,  52c,  but  it  is  almost 
impossible  to  get  enough  stock  from  the 
farmers  to  keep  shipments  going  for­
ward.  Considering  the  condition  of 
things  and  the  clamorous  appeals  for 
supplies,  which  are  sure to  increase  in 
intensity  as  the  season  progresses,  there 
seems  to  be  no  reason  why  potatoes 
should  not  move  up  to  a  70c  basis,  al­
though  there  may  be  one  or two backsets 
before this  figure  is  reached.  The  de­
mand  for  seeding  purposes  from  the 
South  has  been  partially  supplied,  and 
it 
is  now  too  late  to  expect  further  de­
mand  in  that  direction.

Poultry—Scarce.  Chickens,  I2@i3c; 
i i @I2c ;  geese, 

io@ uc;  ducks, 

fowls, 
ioc;  turkeys,  I2@I4C.

Sweet  Potatoes— Illinois Jerseys  are  in 

fair  demand  a tj^  50®4.

The  Grain Market.

Owing  to  the  Government  report  of 
the  amount  of  wheat  in  first bands being 
the  largest  on  record— 198,000,000  bush­
els,  against  122,000,000  bushels  at  the 
same  time  last  year and  171,000,000  in 
1892—prices  slumped  off  considerably. 
The  trade  evidently  forgot  that  while 
there  was  171,000,000  bushels 
in  first 
hands 
in  1892,  wheat  was  worth  87c  in 
Grand  Rapids,  while  to  day  it  is  worth 
67c,  or  20c  less.  However,  crop  dam­
age  taik  advanced  prices  sharply  to­
day.  Wheat  at  present  prices 
is  low 
and  we  might  state  that  farmers  are 
in 
a  position  to  hold  onto  their  wheat  and, 
it  takes two  to  make  a  bargain,  the 
as 
bottom 
is  going  to  drop  out,  because 
when  there  are  no  sellers  the buyers will 
have  to  bid  up.  All  the  farmers  have 
to do  is  to  hold  on.

Corn  followed  wheat. 

It  broke  when 
the  Government  report  came  out,  al­
though 
it  was  no  bearish  report  at  all, 
so  far  as - corn  was  concerned,  but  it 
suffered  a  loss  of  fully  ic  per  bu.

While  oats  have  held  their  own  here­
tofore,  they  followed 
in  the  wake  of 
wheat  and  sold  off  ic  per  bushel  and 
did  not  recover  but  stayed  down.

Rye  did  not  show  any  decline.  That 
held  its  own.  We  might  say  that,  while 
the  corn  damage  is  largely  talked  of, 
we  are  still  of  the  opinion  that  it  is  too 
early  to  form  a  correct  statement  of  the 
amount  of  damage,  if  any,  as  we  are  on 
the  eve of  spring  and  this conundrum  of 
damage  to  wheat  will  soon  be  solved.

Receipts  were  70  cars  of  wheat,  14 

c irs  of  corn  and  10 cars  of  oats.

Millers  are  paying  67c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t.

Back  Number  Fiends  Who  Should Be 

Suppressed.

it 

The  greatest  nuisances  on  the  earth 
are the  people  who  are  always  recalling 
old  memories.  Every  one  numbers 
somebody  like  this among  his  acquaint 
ances.  He  remembers  when  all  the  peo­
ple  who  are  rich  and  fashionable  now, 
and  have  coats  of  arms  on  their carriage 
doors,  were  poor  and  bumble and  bad 
not  two  coats  to  their  backs,  to  say 
nothing  of  a  carriage.  Worse  luck,  he 
can  never  be  persuaded  to  keep  his 
memories  to  himself,  but 
insists  on 
sharing  them  with  every  one  he  sees. 
Does  he  meet  Mrs.  Highflyer,  he  at 
once  reminds  her  of  the  time  when  her 
mother  kept  a  news  stand  around  the 
corner  and  laid  the  base  of  the  substan­
tial  fortune  her  descendants  are  now 
enjoying,  and  whose  origin 
is  the 
business  of  their  life  to  forget.  Is he  in­
troduced  to  Miss  Passee  at  a  party?  Im­
mediately  he  endears  himself  to  her  by 
asking  her to  recall  something  that  hap­
pened  before  the  civil  war.  Let him  but 
run  across  his  old  friend,  Tom  Brown, 
now  a  bank  president  and  a  shining 
light  in  the  Young  Men’s  Christian  As­
sociation  and  a 
in  the  prayer 
meetings,and  he  makes cold chills  creep 
up  that  pious  man’s  spine  by  recalling 
the  times  when  they  used  to  make  a 
night  of  it  when  they were young.  Noth­
ing 
is  sacred  to  him.  He  will  ask  a 
mother  if  she  remembers  a  dead  child, 
forgetting  that  there  are  griefs  so  deep 
they  are  never  assuaged,  but  lie  in  the 
soul  like  a  fountain  of  bitter  water,  that 
may  overflow  at any  moment and  poison 
all  the  sweet  flowers  of  life that  may 
have  grown  up  about 
it.  The  other 
day  two  old  boys,  with  silver  hair  and 
time-lined  faces,  met  in  the  street  car. 
They  had  not  seen  each  other  for  many 
years  and  there  was  a brisk  fusillade  of 
questions,  with  one  putting  in  at  every

leader 

turn  with  ‘ ‘ do  you  remember.”   At  firs 
it  was  about  boyish  pranks  and  both 
chuckled  over  the 
reminiscences  of 
Then  presently 
childish  adventures. 
the  younger  asked  the  older  man 
if  he 
had  never  married. 
“ No,”   be  replied. 
Apparently  the  other  hardly  heard  him, 
for  he  went  on, 
‘ ‘ Do  you  remember 
Kitty  Gray?  Pretty  girl,  wasn’t  she? 
By  jove,  don’t  you  know  I  used  to think 
you  were  sweet  on  her.  People  used  to 
say  that  you 
left  home  to  make  a  for­
tune  so  you  could  marry  her  and  she 
got  tired  waiting  and  ran  off  with  an­
other  and  richer  man.  Lord,  how  time 
flies;  why  I  haven’t  thought  of  that  for 
forty  years,  but  you  remember  her, 
don’t  you?  Poor  K itty!”   The  older 
man’s  face  bad  blanched  under  the 
thoughtless  fire  of 
idle  talk  and  his 
hands  were  white  where  he  grasped  the 
back  of  the  seat  in  front  of  him,  but  he 
only  said, 
“ Yes,  I  remember,”   and 
the  man  went  on  with  the  flood  of  his 
recollections,  never  for  a  moment  sus­
pecting  that  be  had,  with ruthless hands, 
opened  the  grave  where  laid  buried  all 
the  love  and  hope  and  sweetness  of  his 
friend’s  young  life.  Old  memories  may 
be  like  the  perfume  that  drifts  to  us 
in 
purple  twilights  over  fields  of  clover, 
so  dear  and  precious  we  would  stay 
them  by  us  forever  if  we  could.  They 
may  be  so  sodden  with  bitter  and  hope­
less  tears  that  our  happiest  days  are  the 
days  when  we  forget. 
is  not  for  a 
stranger  to 
intermeddle  with  things  so 
sacred,  and  the  “ do  you  remember”  
fiend  should  be  suppressed.

It 

Hides,  Pelts,  Furs  and  Wool.

Hides  are  J^c  off  from  former  prices, 
but  are  still  high,  considering  the  qual­
ity.  The  demand  is  fully  up  to  the  sup­
ply,  leaving  no  accumulation.

Pelts  are  few  and  are  in  good  demand 

at  fair  prices.

Furs  await  March  sales  now  going  on 
is  small,  with 
in  London.  The  catch 
no  lots  held back for speculation.  March 
sales  for  the  past  few  years  have  been 
disastrous  and  shippers  have  preferred 
to  sell  at  home  this  season.  Offerings 
are  comparatively  small  on  this  side.

Wool 

is  slow  to  move  and  weak  at  a 
slight  advance  during  the  past  month. 
Manufacturers  do  not  take  hold  as 
promptly  as  holders  would  like.  The 
worsted  yarn  mills  combine  states  that 
it  wants  wool  at  a  less  price,  and  may 
gain  its  point,  in  face  of  the  new  clip. 
Prices  abroad  will  not  permit  of  impor­
tation. 
The  long-hoped-for  advance 
does  not  materialize  and  bulk  lot  hold­
ers  hang  on  like  grim  death.  Much  will 
be  carried  over  into  the  new clip,  which 
comes  soon  and  at  prices  said to be fully 
as  high  as  in  1898. 

W m.  T.  H ess.

Christian  Bertsch 

(Herold-Bertsch 
Shoe  Co.)  and  Wm.  Logie  (Rindge, 
Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.)  are  spending 
a  couple  of  weeks  at  Boston  and  the 
shoe  manufacturing  centers  of  Massa­
chusetts,  placing  orders  for  fall  goods.

The  South  End  Business  Men’s  Asso­
ciation  has  been  organized  by  the  busi­
ness  men  on  Burton  avenue  hill.  Two 
avowed  objects  of  the  organization  are 
to  secure  better  fire  and  police  protec­
tion. 

____ _ 

____

Geo.  L  Warren,  of  this  city,  has  pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  T.  H.  Weskey, 
in  the  drug  firm  of  Barth  &  Weskey,  at 
674  Wealthy  avenue,  the  firm  name  be­
ing  Barth  &  Warren.

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

tea.  all  kinds, 

grades  and  prices,  phone Visner,  800.

8

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

against 

be  very  unhappy  and  pity  him  because 
he doesn’t  seem to know it.  As a  matter 
of  fact.be  is  the  most blessed of mortals, 
because,  while  other  women  never think 
it  worth  while  to  try  to  avoid  running 
plump  up 
their  husband’s 
idiosyncrasies,  she  makes  a  study  of 
her  husband's,  and  never  makes  the 
mistake  of  ruffling  them  This  is  not 
for  the  sinister  purpose  accredited  to 
her,  but  simply  to  make  their  married 
life  more  smocth  and  pleasant. 
‘ My 
dear,'  I  beard  a  woman  of  this  kind say 
once  to  a  young  married  woman,  ‘ when 
you 
learn  that  you  can  lead  a  man,  but 
never  drive  him,  you  have  mastered  the 
secret  of  conjugal  felicity.  Learn  to 
choose  your  times  for  making  requests 
if  you  want  things  done.  Learn  to  ask 
as  a  favor,  instead  of  demanding  as 
right,  if  you  expect  to get  things.  Now 
my  husband  is  one  of  the  best fellows  i 
the  world,  but  he  has  what  is  common 
with  us  all,  perhaps,  a  conceit  of  hi 
own  opinion.  For  many  years  I  have 
let  him  believe  that  every  idea  in  the 
family  emanated  from  him  and  alway: 
ask  “ Don’t  you  think  so  and so?”  and 
have  yet  to  fail  to  do  what  I  wanted  to. 
and  that  without  the  slightest  friction. 
Why,  bless  you,  he  hasn’t  the  slightest 
idea  in  the  world  he didn’t advise  me  to 
buy  a  Paris  bonnet  and  have  my  gown 
trimmed  with  frilled  ribbon 
instead  of 
braid. 
It pleases  him,  and  doesn’t  hurt 
me,  you  know.  There  are  people  who 
consider  any  use  of  tact or diplomacy  in 
their  own  families  as  unworthy,  but,  as 
far as  I  am  concerned,  I have never seen 
in  bumping  up  against  ob 
any  good 
stacles  when  they  could  be  avoided. 
I 
know  people  criticise  me  and  call  me a 
“ managing  woman,”   but 
iflco u ld n '. 
get  along 
in  my  own  family  and  with 
my  own  servants  without  saying  un­
pleasant  things,  I  should  consider  my­
self  too  great  a  bungler  to  live. ’

“ Then,”   went  on  Elise,  “ think  of 
the  actual  vituperation  we  can  throw in­
to  calling  a  woman 
‘ strong-minded.’ 
Why  should  that  be  a  reproach,  either? 
Are  we  so  fond  ot  fools? 
Is  it  so  desir­
able  that  a  woman  should  be  weak- 
minded?  There isn’t any  use  in trying to 
blink  at  the  significance  we all  attach  to 
that  term.  Just  apply  the  epithet  to  a 
woman,  and  people  will  flee  her as  they 
would  the  smallpox  sign.  Suppose  a 
clever  young  girl,  who  was  finely  edu­
cated,  and  was  really  very 
intelligent, 
was  coming  to  see  you.  Why,  if  the 
newspaper  announced 
in  the  society 
column  that  the 
‘ strong-minded  Miss 
Simth’  was  going  to  visit  you,  you 
would  feel  like  suing  them  for  libel  for 
you  would  know,  no  matter  wbat  you 
did,  you  couldn’t  drag  a  man  with  a 
steam  engine  near  enough  to  ask  her  to 
dance,  and  everybody  would  look  at  her 
askance.  Yet  who  enjoys  the  society 
of  imbeciles  and  idiots?  Who  wants  to 
talk  to a  girl  who  isn’t  strong  minded?
It  is  simply  nothing  on  earth  but a  silly 
prejudice  we  have,  yet,  absurd  as  it  is, 
*am  sure  that  there  isn’t  a  single moth­
er’s  daughter  of  us  who  wouldn’t  bitter­
ly  resent  being  called 
‘ strong  minded,* 
and  still  we  belong  to  study  classes  and 
spend  our  money  on  lectures.

bearing  and  putting  up  with things  tbev 
ought  not  to  put  up  with,  simply  be­
cause  they  have  got  up  a  reputation  for 
being  patient.  They  ought  not  to  be 
patient.  They  ought  to  kick  against 
bad  conditions  until 
they  get  them 
remedied.  That's  the  way  men  do. 
What  is  the  most  powerful  influence  in 
the  world 
in  keeping  women  straight 
Just  the  simple  fact,  my  sisters,  that 
we  are  not  going  to  have any  meek  and 
patient  fathers  and  husbands  and  broth­
ers  forgiving  us  and  getting  up  in  the 
middle  of  the  night  and  letting  us  in 
when  we  come  home disgustingly drunk. 
And  when  women  cease  to  be  patient 
long  the  same  lines  we  shall  see  a  cor 
responding 
improvement  in  masculine 
morals.

“ Recall,  yourself,  some  of  the  most 
notable  results  you  have  seen  of  the 
‘ patient’  woman’s  work.  Don’t  you 
know  mothers  whose  patience  with tbei 
sons’  evil  ways  leads  them  to  sacrifice 
everything,  even  the  very  necessaries  of 
life,  with  the  result  that  the  boy,  always 
feeling  there 
is  somewhere  be can  go 
back  and  be  fed  and  clothed,  never 
pulls  himself  together  as  he  might  if  he 
knew  he  must  either  work  or  starve? 
Can’t  you  recall  wives  who  put  up  with 
overbearing  husbands  until  the  men  de­
velop 
I  can, 
and  I  have  seen  a  determined  second 
wife  straighten  out  that  kind  of a  man 
joy  to  behold. 
in  a  way  that  was  a 
Haven’t  you  seen  a  gentle  girl 
in  a 
family  put  up  with  all  the  whims  and 
fads  of  a  selfish  sister  until  the  latter 
became  a  crossgrained  and  querulous 
creature  who was  a terror to her  friends? 
We have all  seen  these  things and  it has 
made  us  feel  that  the  overly  patient 
woman  ought  to  be  squelched.

into  brutes  and Jbullies? 

“ Yes,”   said  Elise, 

in  conclusion, 
helping  herself  to  another  cup  of  tea, 
and  harping  back  to  the  original  sub­
ject,  “ it’s  funny  how  we are  slaves  to 
a  term,  whether  of  praise  or  blame,  but 
the  old  ones  that  we  are  in  the  way  of 
pplying  to  women  don’t  seem  adequate 
now.  We  need  revised  meanings  for 
them,  and 
it’s  time  for  a  new  shuffle 
and  deal  all  around."

D o roth y  D ix .

A  Property  of Cats.

“ Johnny,  what 

is  the  name  of  the 
it 
into  the 

Australian  weapon  that  returns  when 
is  thrown  violently  forward 
lr?”
‘ * The  boomerang. ’ ’
“ Is  there  anything  else  known  to 
science  that  has  that  peculiar  prop­
erty?”

“  Yes’m ;  the  cat. ”

Naming  the  Baby.

Mamma  (to  little  daughter  aged  four) 
What  shall  we  call  baby  brother 

Ethel?

Ethel  (who  has  always  beard  her 
grandfather  called  Colonel,  and  sup­
poses  that  to  be  his  name)—Oh,  let’s 
call  him  Colonel  for  grandpa.

W o m a n ’s  W o rld
New  Friends  in  Old  Clothes.

The  other  day  a  chattering  group  of 
women  dropped 
in  to  Elise's  for  their 
afternoon  tea  They  gossiped  as  women 
will,  and  when  at 
last  they  were  gone 
and  the  swish  of  their  silk-lined  skirts 
had  died  out  into a  distant  echo  Elise 
tim ed  to  me  with  a  puzzled  face.

somebody 

“ Did  you  ever  think,”   she  asked, 
“  wh  t  a  crying need there  is of a revised 
definition  of  some of  the  terms we apply 
to  each  other  and  that  we  keep  on  us­
ing,  although  they  have  long  ceased  to 
fit  the  case,  if  they  ever  did?  Now,  this 
afternoon 
said  something 
about  Mrs.  Blank,  and  Mrs.  A.  ex­
claimed,  with  a  well-bred  sneer: 
‘ Oh, 
she’s  such  a  managing  woman!’  She 
intended  it  as  about  the  batefulest thing 
she  could  say  and  all  of  us  understood 
it  as  a  biting  criticism.  Yet  why  in  the 
name  of  common  sense  should  it be con­
sidered  a  reproach  to  a  woman  to  be 
thought  to  know  how  to  manage? 
It 
ought,  instead,  to  be  the  highest  pos­
sible  compliment  that  could  be  paid 
her.

It 

is  an 

invidious 

idiotic  prejudice. 

“ No  one  would  think  of  there  being 
anything 
in  the  epithet  if  it 
were  applied  to  a  man.  We  think  a 
man  a  pretty  poor  sort 
if  he  doesn’ 
know  how  to  manage,  but  refer  to ¡ 
woman  as  managing  and we  immediate 
ly  conjure  up  a  vision  of  a  female 
Mepbistopheles  who  will  get  around  us 
someway  or  another,  and  we  feel  like 
turning  in  our  thumbs  and murmuring  a 
luck  charm  every  time  she  comes  near 
us. 
In 
reality,  the  managing  woman  possesses 
all  the  most  admirable  qualities.  She 
has  good  judgment,  self-control,  energy 
and  tact,  and  we  should  be  better  off  i 
we  imitated  her 
instead  of  criticised 
When  you  come  to  think  of  it,  you 
know  there  isn’t  any  especial  virtue  in 
hurting  and  bruising  yourself  in  trying 
to  climb  over  a  rough  stone 
fence, 
when,  if you  would  only  take  the  trouble 
it,  you  might  just  as  well 
to  hunt  for 
walk  calmly 
in  through  an  open  gate. 
This 
is  precisely  what  the  managing 
woman  does,  and  because  she  arrives 
unhurt  and  unscarred  at  ends  the  rest 
of  us  never  reach  with  all  our  striving 
and  tribulation,  we  are  suspicious  of 
her.

for 

is  sought 

“ As  a  general  thing,  if  we  were  only 
just  enough  to  admit  it,  we  would  find 
that  her  art 
is  simply  the  use  of  com­
mon  sense and  a  little  tact.  We  see  her 
invited  out  to  places  where  we  are  not 
‘ Of  course, 
asked,  and  we  cry  out: 
she  s  such  a  managing  woman 
she 
could  get 
in  anywhere,’  when,  in  all 
probability,  the  only  managing  she  has 
done  is  to  make  herself so  agreeable  her 
company 
everywhere. 
Sometimes  it  is  when  we  see  bow  much 
better  furnished  her  house  is  than  ours, 
how  much  prettier  her 
children  are 
dressed,  how much handsomer her gowns 
are  than  ours.  Then  we  speak  of  her 
bitterly  as  a  manager,  and  say  that  she 
can  make  one  dollar  do the  work of five, 
as  if  the  mercharts  were  in  league  with 
her  to  rob  us  and  enrich  her.  What  stuff 
and  nonsense!  A  dollar  is  a  dollar  and 
will  buy  a  dol  ar’s  w irth  for  everybody. 
The  only  thing 
is  that  thenranaging 
woman  can  afford  good  things  because 
she  never  wastes  her  money  on  spurious 
bargains  and  marked-down  things 
like 
the  rest  of  us.

“ One  person  for  whom  we  all  suffer 
vicariously 
is  the  managing  woman's 
husband.  We  are  always  sure  he  must

Why  She  Left.

Lady  (interviewing housemaid)—Why 

did  you  leave  your  last  place?

Housemaid— Because  master  kissed 

me,  mum.

Lady—And  you  didn’t  like  it,  eh?
Housemaid—O,  I  didn't  mind 
mum,  but the  mistress  didn’t  like  it.

it, 

167 Sc o tt St .,

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Buffalo Market Special.

EGGS:  Best advice is to keep down 
your buying prices where safe. 
Buffalo is a b g  and  good  out­
let, but can’t do impossibilities. 
Yet as  well  probably  as  any­
where.  To-day,  ruling  price 
is 14c.  With  Lent and  Easter 
demand, 
fair  prices  should 
hold and big demand prevail.

POULTRY:  Terribly scarce;  firm 

sales.
Fancy live  chix  il%   and  12c, 
dressed  12  and  13c. 
Fancy 
turx  live,  11  and 12c, dressed 
13 and  14c. 
Fancy  dux  live,
30 to 40c, dressed,  12 to  14.
We want all  kinds  of  Poultry 
very much.

POTATOES:  70c is the  prevailing 
price to-day  for  fancy  white. 
Common, less.

NOTE:  For fuller quotations, write 
us for produce exchange  price 
current— unquestionably  reli­
able. 

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Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best 
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Their Qerman Sweet  Chocolate Li good to 
eat and good to drink.  It Is palatable, nutri­
tions, and  healthful;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.
Bayers should ask for and be sore that they 
Bt the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
is on every package.
W alter Baker &   Co.  Ltd. 

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W O R L D ’S   B E S T

“ Another  description  to  which  we  are 
If  we 
victims  is  the  ‘ p.ifent  worn in ." 
‘managing’  and  ‘ strong-minded’  to 
use 
scourge  women,  we  use 
'patient'  as  a 
crown  for  martyts,  and  I  honest y  be- 
ieve  that  word  has  done  more  barm 
inspired  more  senseless  sacrifices 
and 
than  any  other  cause  in  the  world. 
I 
am  sick  and  tired  of  weak  women  who 
have  no  backbone  and  who  keep  on 
bearing  things  there  isn’t  any  use  in

S O .  C I G A R .  A L L   J O B B E R S   A N D

G  J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO,

G R A N D   R A P I 2 2 S .  M I C H .

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H . H / o t f   &>  C o .

t o  

Our  new  D r y   G ood s  D e p a rtm e n t  is  now  ready  for 
business,  and  opens  up  under  most  favorable  conditions  for 
a  prosperous  addition to  our  mammoth  establishment.  Our 
force  of  buyers,  who  thoroughly  canvassed  the  mills  of  the 
country,  have  returned  to  devote  their  energies  to  making  the 
department the  success  we  know  it  will  be.

Our  purchases  were  made  before  the  recent  advances,  and 
our  prices  are  right.  W e expect  to  give  our  customers  the 
benefits  of our  early  purchases  as  long  as  our  present  stock 
lasts.  There  is no question  but that goods  in  this line  will be 
higher in  the near  future,  so  we  advise  early  purchases  this 
season.  We,  however,  guarantee  that  our  prices  will  at  all 
times  be  in keeping  with  our  general  policy  of making  prices 
lower  than  our  competitors.

The  new  department’will  consist  of a  complete  selection  of 
the choicest  selling  numbers  of  Domestics,  Prints,  Lawns,
Dress  Silks,  Dress  Goods,  Flannels,  etc.,  and we  ask  an  op­
portunity to  submit  for  your  inspection  sample  swatches  of 
such  goods  as  you  may  be  interested  in.

Feeling  assured  that you  will favor  us  with  your  orders  in 
this  line,  as  not  only  are  our  goods  new,  clean  and  desirable, 
but our  prices  at  all  times  will  be  low,  we  remain,

Respectfully yours,

LYON  BROTHERS,

Successors  to  H.  WOLF  &  CO.

WHOLESALE  GENERAL  MERCHANDISE

246-252  E.  MADISON  ST.,  CHICAdO,  ILL.

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WEDNESDAY,------ MARCH  15.1899.

T H E  VA U N T IN G   TRUE.

That  portion  of  the  earth  known  as 
the  United  States  of  America  has  been 
facetiously  and  sometimes  maliciously 
nicknamed,  ‘ ‘ The  Land  of  Brag.”  
In 
her  own  conceit  she  is  in  every  respect 
the  "land  of  the  blest” — with  the  1  and 
without 
it.  Europe  pompously  talks 
about  her  Alps  and  her  Rhine.  The 
Ynakee  laughs  a  halfway  assent,  but  in­
sists  that  for  the  real  thing  you  want  to 
come  over  here  and  get  lost  among  the 
Rockies  and  see  what  you  think  of  the 
Hudson.  Lucerne  does  pretty  well  for 
a  lake,  so  far as  lakes  go  * * over there, ’ * 
but  it's  a  mud  puddle  when  compared 
with  that  sort  of  thing  in America.  We 
have  the  highest  mountains  and 
the 
longest  ranges,  the biggest  lakes  and  the 
longest  rivers,  the  grandest  valleys  and 
the  richest  mines  and,  better than  any­
thing  else,  the  largest  and  most  power­
ful  nation  on  the  face  of  the  earth. 
Knowing  this  to  be  true,  the  American 
has  not  been  backward  in  saying so,  not 
always  modestly,  and  the  European,  not 
given  to  American  travel,  has  put  down 
as  so  much  humbug  what  his  unwilling 
ears  have  heard.

As  time  goes  by,  however,  he  is  be­
coming  aware 
that  these  marvelous 
statements  are  true.  As  the  mists  of 
prejudice  slowly  disappear  be  finds  that 
there 
is  something,  after  all,  for  the 
brag  to  rest  on ;  but  it  is  not  confined 
simply to the  pig.  “ It  is  the  mind  that 
makes  the  body  rich,”   and  the  Spanish 
ideas  of  the  Yankee 
is  the  true  one. 
Then  the  smoke  cleared  away  from  the 
Bay  of  Manila  and  it  has  been  proven 
that  the  “ pig”   in  question  is  not  con­
fined  to  rooting.

Another  fact  has  lately  come  to  light: 
For  years  the  tongue  of  the  American 
tradesman  has  been  “ yarning”   about 
America's  ability  to  feed  the  world 
Better  than  that,  every  wheel 
in  the 
manufactories  of  the  world  might  stop 
and  the  land  between  thé  oceans and  the 
Great  Lakes  and  the  gulf  would  keep 
the  inhabitants  of  the  world  supplied. 
Best  of  all,  should  everything  but  the 
foundations  of  the  earth  be  swept  away, 
the  wit  of  the  American  would  be  equal 
to  the  emergency  and  the  universal  des­
ert  soon  would  be  blossoming  like  the 
rose.  Now  the  Great  Republic  stands 
ready  to  make  her  vaunting  true.  She 
has  been  looking  over  her accounts  and, 
the  task  done,  closes  the  books  with  a 
bang  and  an  exultant  “ I  told  you  so!”
Since  the  beginning  of  the  year  the 
cereal  food  exports  from  this  country

have  been  almost 
i,000,000  bushels  a 
day, 'and  the  granaries  of  the  wheat  and 
corn  sections  are  still  overflowing  with 
the  supply  on  hand,  which  can  not  be 
exhausted  with  the  present  transporta 
tion  facilities  before  the  harvest  fields 
of  the  Nation  pour  forth  the  greater 
yield  of the  present  year. 
In  manufac­
tured  exports  for  the  seven  months  of 
the  fiscal  year  the  amount  is  $23,000,000 
greater  than  the  highest  record  so  far 
made  in  the  corresponding  months.  For 
the  seven  months  ending  February  1, 
1899,domestic goods amounting  to $182,- 
336  503  were  exported,  an  average  of 
$1,000,000  for  every  business  day  of 
that  period.

if 

it 

That  is  a  good  report,  but 

is  by 
no  means  the  best:  For the  last  seven 
months  the 
imports  of  manufactures 
have  decreased  $35,000,000  from  those 
for  the  same  period 
last  year,  which 
mean 
it  means  anything,  that  the 
home  consumption  of  American  manu­
factures  has  been  increased  by  just  that 
amount.  It  means,  too,  that  if  this  sum 
be  added  to  the  increased  demands  of 
increased  population  the  total  in­
an 
crease 
in  American  manufactures  is  a 
result  which  the  Greatest  Nation  on  the 
face  of  the  earth  need  not  be  ashamed 
of.

that 

These  facts  and  these  figures are  not 
looked  upon  with  complacency  by  the 
thoughtful  on  the  other  side  of  the  sea. 
It  has  been  reluctantly  conceded  that, 
physically,  the  Western  continent  has 
been  constructed  on  a  grander  scale  by 
It  has  not  been 
an  Allwise  Creator. 
conceded 
in  other  respects  the 
Western  continent  amounts  to  much. 
That  opinion  recently-acquired  facts 
are  proving  to  be  a  false  one.  Dewey's 
guns  have  jarred  the  spectacles  from 
the  eyes  of  Europe  and  the  “ yarns”  
and  the  “ brag,”   which  have  amused 
the  Old  World  so  long,  are  not  the 
idle 
tales  they  have  been  supposed  to  be. 
The  New  World  is  feeding  the  old.  She 
is  clothing  her.  She  is  supplying  her 
with  better  manufactured  goods than  the 
Old  World  herself  can  make,  and  doing 
it  more  cheaply.  In  a  word,  the  United 
States  has  proved  her  vaunting  true  and 
the  rest  of  the  earth  admits  it,  as  the 
business  records  of  the world abundantly 
testify.

Wall  Street  financial  interests are back 
of  a  deal  that  will  practically  put  the 
mica  supply  of  the  world  into  the  con­
trol  of  a  syndicate.  Agents  of  the  syn­
dicate  are  busy  in  and  about  Norway, 
leasing  all  the 
Me.,  buying  up  and 
available  mica 
lands 
in  that  section. 
The  right  to  mines  in  about 15,000acres 
already  has  been  granted,  the  papers  in 
the  transaction  covering  all  the  known 
places  where  it  can  be  profitably mined. 
It 
is  stated  that  the  only  other  places 
where  mica  is  mined  to any  extent  are 
in  Grafton  county,  New  Hamsphire, 
and  in  North  Carolina. 
In  both  locali­
ties,  it  is  said,  the  supply  is  almost  ex­
hausted.

One  may  apologize  for  neglecting  a 
friend  under  peculiar  circumstances; 
but  a  neglected  cold 
is  not  so  easily 
pacified.

There  are  hundreds  of  people  here 
who  are  that  superstitious  that  they  will 
not  commence  a  job  of  hard  work  on 
Friday,  or anv  other  day.

Temper  is  not  to  be  put on  exhibition 

nor  given  away.

Fool  friends  have  not  made  Dewey 

foolish.

illustration 

C O M M E R C IA L   A N T A G O N ISM .
That  all  men  are  created  free and 
equal  has had  a  recent 
in 
commercial  lines.  American  importers 
have  got  tired  of  having  a  certain  class 
from 
of  American  citizenship  return 
Europe  with  any  number  of 
trunks 
crammed  with  all  sorts  of  merchandise, 
which  they  pass  through  the  bands  of 
the  custom  house  officer  with  a  com­
manding  wave  of  the  hand.  According 
to the  views  of  these 
importers,  while 
the  social  world  may  give  the  upper  ten 
thousand  the  benefit  of  every  doubt, 
trade  makes  no  such  discrimination  and 
if  there 
is  a  law  agiinst  smuggling  it 
shall  be  executed  without  fear  or  favor, 
whoever the  criminal  may  he.

It 

in 

Before 

landing 

Every  traveler  is  familiar  with  the 
procedure. 
in  New 
York,  the  custom  bouse  officer  takes 
his  place  at  head  of  the  dining  room 
and  the  passengers 
line  meet  him 
one  by  one  and  state  whether they  have 
“ anything  to  declare.”  
is  the  su­
preme  moment  of  character-test  Will 
the  passenger  lie or  tell  the  truth?  The 
importer  has  learned  from  extended  ob­
servation  that  that  line  of  passengers  is 
a  line of  liars and  that  the  richer—and 
so the  more  respectable! ?)—the  passen­
ger  the  bigger  the  lie  he  or  she  tells! 
There  is  a  law  permitting the most rigid 
search  of  the  baggage  of  travelers  re­
turning  from  Europe.  The  importers 
are  making  the  most  of  it  and  the  liars 
are outraged.

Unlike  the  robber  of  the  henroost, 
they  have a  good  deal  to  say.  They  are 
anxious  to  know,  in  the  first  place,  what 
kind  of a  free  America  that  is  which 
allows  any  one  or all  of  a  passenger’s 
forty  or  fifty  trunks  to  be  overhauled 
by  a  meddling  official;  and  they  want 
to  know,  with  all  the bitterness  of  the 
detected  henroost  robber,  why  the  Gov­
ernment  should  convert  itself  into  an ir­
resistible  police  force  to  compel  one 
citizen  to  walk  up  and  be  robbed  or 
swindled  by  another?

To  question  the  loyaity  of these Amer­
icans  to  the  Government  would  be as in­
famous  as  the  crime  in  which  they  have 
been  detected.  There  is  not  one of  them 
who  will  not  affirm, in  the  loudest  voice, 
with  bis  right  hand  up  and  the  other 
upon  bis  heart,  that  he 
is  and  always 
has  been  a  strong  upholder of  the  tariff 
—no  government  can 
live  without  i t ; 
but  what  this  has  to do  with  people  who 
want  to  avail  themselves  of  their  right 
to  buy 
in  the  European  market  and  to 
do  their  own  importing  is  what  they can 
statement  which, 
not  understand—a 
plainly  put,  means  this: 
that  class  of 
people  want  to take  advantage  of  their 
wealth  and  “ political  pull”   to  violate  a 
law  which  they  want  enforced  against 
everybody  but themcelves.

In  other  directions  they  have  been 
successful.  They  have  evaded  tax after 
tax  levied,  or  intended  to  be 
levied,  so 
that  the  wealth  of  the  country  sboula 
bear  its  part  of  the  public  burden.  For 
the first time it  has  met a tax  which  it  is 
compelled  to  pay.  The business  man  is 
responsible  for  this  happy  condition  of 
things,  a  fact  which  suggests  that  the 
business  man  should  enter  more  largely 
into  the  world’s  work  than  he  has  en­
tered  so  far  and  that,  should  be  do  so, 
there  are other departments of  the public 
industry  which  would  be  equally  and 
materially  benefited  thereby.

G EN ER A L   T R A D E  SIT U A T IO N .
In  the  summaries  of  the  output  of  the 
great  industries,  especially  of 
iron,  for 
the  month  of  February  there  is  some 
disappointment  that  there  is a  material

falling  off  in  quantity,  but  a  moment’s 
thought  will  explain  this  when 
it  is 
considered  that  the  long  period  of  in­
tense  cold  could  net  fail  to  badly  de­
range  operations  with  frozen  and  burst­
ing  pipes  and  other  interference  of  this 
kind.  Occurring  so  generally,  it  was 
taken  as  a  matter  of  course  and  so  fig­
ured  but  1  ttle 
in  reports,  but  its  im­
portance  becomes  manifest  in  its  effect 
upon  aggregates  of  production.

is  again 

The  general  course  of  the  stock  mar­
ket 
in  the  upward  direction, 
but  the  advance  is  not  attended  with 
anything  approaching  the  degree  of  ac­
last  previous  ad­
tivity  attending  the 
vance.  The  change  for  the  week 
in 
trusts  was $1.16  per  share,  while  on  ac­
count  of  the  decreased  earnings  of  rail­
roads  attending  the  terrible  storm  sea­
son  the  change 
in  these  was  only  25 
cents  per  share.  The  condition  of  ac­
tivity  characterizing  the  previous  ad­
vance  was  too 
intense  to be  a  normal 
one,  and  as  so  great  an  outlet  for  capi­
tal  has  been 
in  corporation 
changes  there  is  enough  to  account  for 
the  lower and  healthier  characteristics 
of  the  present  movement.

found 

a 

consumption 

The  return  of  pig-iron  production 
March  1  was  disappointing  because  few 
bad  expected  that  the  furnaces  in  oper­
ation 
in  the  Pittsburg  district  alone 
would  fall  12,000  tons  short,  as 
the 
Iron  Age  reports,  on  account  of  bad 
weather.  The  week's  output,  228,195 
tons,  against  237,639  weekly February 1, 
failed  to  lessen  the  scarcity  of  supply, 
and  the  unsold  stocks  were  further  re­
duced  46,431  tons  during  the  month, 
implying 
of  about 
977>979  tons  for  the  shoit  month.  As 
several  other  furnaces  have  been  pre­
paring  for  operation,  the  rapid  rise  in 
prices  stimulating  work  to  the  utmost, 
different  signs  may  be  expected  before 
if  the  new  demand  is  not 
long,  even 
checked.  Nearly  all 
important 
works are  covered  by  orders  taken  some 
months  ago,  and  running  for  most  of 
them  to July,  or  even  later,  so  that  the 
producing  force  remaining  available  for 
new  orders  is  remarkably  small.  But  it 
will 
increase  with  the  running  out  of 
old  orders  and  with  addition  of  new 
works.  Last  week’s advances,  50  cents 
per  ton  on  anthracite  at  New  York  and 
Southern  pig  at Chicago,  and 25 cents on 
Grey  Forge  at  Pittsburg,  were  accom­
panied  by  an  advance of  $4  per  ton  in 
plates  and  $1 
in  cut  nails,  but  large 
premiums  were  paid  for  early  delivery 
at  each  of  the  markets.

the 

Since the  close of  the  cold  period  the 
movement  of  wheat  has  resumed  an  ac­
tivity  exceeding  the  wonderful  outgo  of 
last  year,  although  the  price  of  course 
is  less.  The  price  movement  has  been 
in  the  direction  of  greater  strength, 
with  quite a  positive  advance in the  last 
day  or  two.

The textile  situation  continues  its  fa­
vorable  features,  although  the  advance 
in  the  price  of  cotton  comes  to  a  pause. 
Demand  and  price  for  manufactured 
products  continue  to  move  in  the  right 
direction.  The  sensation  in  the  woolen 
trade  has  been  the  movement  toward 
pooling  of  interests  in  certain  lines,  but 
little  effect 
is  yet  shown  on  the  price 
situation.  Sales  of  wool  have  not  been 
heavy  and  altogether  the  outlook 
is 
quiet, 

______ _______

Some  one  says  George  Washington 
was  first  in  war,  and  that  Dewey  was  on 
hand  before  the  war  commenced.  The 
American  Georges  are  ?11  right.

Bad  butter 

is  better than  no  butter ; 

but  it  is  not the  same  way  with  eggs.

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S U C C E S S   IN  LIFE.

Valuable  Suggestions  From  a  Promi­

nent Merchant.*

Before  dealing  directly  with  my  real 
subject  I  desire  to  speak  for a  few  mo­
ments  on  the  more  general  one,  tbe 
choosing  of  one's  life-work.  This  is  a 
very  serious  matter.  Many  a  good  me­
chanic  bas  been  lost  to  tbe  world  by  be­
coming  a  poor  professional  man,  and 
vice  versa.  Almost  every  boy  has  a 
to  some  particular 
natural  tendency 
is  gifted  by  nature  in 
employment,  or 
some  particular  way,  and  he  is  wise 
if 
he  cultivates  that  taste.  We  can  not  all 
be  ministers,  doctors,  lawyers,  bankers, 
manufacturers  or  merchants,  but  we  are 
all  sent  into  the  world  to accomplish  our 
life-work,  and  the  first  thing  for  us  to 
do  is  to  choose  the  proper  kind  of  work 
that  we  can  be  successful  in.  Look  over 
your  companions  and  you  will  call  to 
mind  a  boy  who,  with  his  jackknife 
alone,  can  make  a  kite,  repair  his  sled 
or  whittle  out  almost  anything  bethinks 
of.  He  reads  with 
interest  everything 
he  sees  relating  to  manufactured  arti­
cles,  buildings  or  machinery.  He  is  a 
natural  mechanic  and  should  seek  bis 
life-work  along  this  line,  for  he  would 
make  a  poor  preacher,  doctor  or  lawyer. 
During  vacation you  see  boys  setting  up 
peanut  and  lemonade stands,  and calling 
to  you  as  you  pass  along,  “ Ice-cold 
lemonade,  only 
five  cents  a  glass." 
They  will  make  merchants— it’s  their 
natural  trend;  and  you  can  pick  out 
others  who  would  make  good  ministers 
or  doctors,  lawyers  or  bankers.

A  few  days  ago  I  rode from  Detroit  to 
Port  Huron  over tbe  Grand  Trunk  Rail­
road  and  I  thought  of  Edison,  for  it  was 
on  this  same  road  that  be  started  in  to 
learn  telegraphy  aud made  bis  choice  of 
a  life-work.  Look  at  tbe  position  he 
occupies  to-day,  in  some  respect?  the 
greatest  man  of  tbe  Nineteenth Century. 
Consider  his  bumble  start  in  life—only 
a  train  boy  on  the  Grand Trunk between 
Detroit  and  Poit  Huron. 
See  him 
watching  and  working  at  tbe  telegraph 
system  of  tbe  road.  Look  at him  study 
mg  the  art of  telegraphy,  the  construc­
tion  of  batteries,  and  everything  con­
nected  with  it  A few  years  have  passed 
and  he  is  known  as  very  expert  in  send­
ing  and  receiving  dispatches.  He  is 
very  poor.  He 
is  sent  to  Boston  to 
“ take,"  as  it  is  termed,  the  New  York 
market  reports.  They  can  not  find  an 
operator 
to  receive  that  complicated 
message  who  does  not  have  to  “ break 
in "  on  tbe  senders  from  New  York. 
Edison  arrives  in  Boston. 
It  is  in  the 
middle  of  winter.  He  bas  on  a  linen 
duster  and  a  straw  hat;  and  all  his 
clothes  are  tied  up 
It 
makes  the  operators  and  tbe  manager 
laugh.  But  wait  until  4  o'clock,  when 
New  York  calls  up  Boston  to  receive tbe 
market.  Now  see  this  awkward, 
ill- 
dressed  country  boy  sit  down  at  tbe 
instrument  and  “ take"  tbe  market  re­
ports  for  over  an  hour  without  once 
in ."  Watch  tbe  astoqjsh- 
r'breaking 
ment  of  all  around  him 
they  are  per­
fectly  dumbfounded  when  the  New York 
operator  telegraphs,  “ Who  are  you?" 
for  such  a  thing  was  unknown  before. 
Think  of  all  the  wonderful  valuable  in­
ventions  that  have  come  from  Mr.  Edi­
son's  brain—tbe duplex telegraph instru­
ment  by  which  six  messages  can  be sent 
at  one  time  in  each  direction  over  one 
wire;  the phonograph  by  which  a  man's 
voice  can  be  preserved  indefinitely;  the 
mimeograph,  and  many  others  which 
time  forbids  mentioning.

in  a  bundle. 

I  would  also  bring  to  your  notice  a 
young  man  with  whom  most  of  you  are 
acquainted.  He  lived  with  his  parents 
on  a  farm  out  west  of  Traverse  City. 
His  people  were,  and  are,  farmers  who 
earned  their  living  and  got  a  start  in 
the  world  by  hard  work  and  careful 
economy.  This  particular  son,  while 
be  bad  to  do  bis  share  of  tbe  work  and 
partake  of  tbe  plain  but  honest  fare  set 
forth  in  his  home,  bad tbe electric  spark 
within  him  which  urged  him  on  to  the 
desire  for  an  education.  His  family 
not  only  did  not  in  any  way  encourage 
him,  but  on  tbe  contrary  tried  to  drive
•Address to High school  students  of  Traverse 
City by Herbert Montague,  Manager  Hannah 
& Itay Mercantile Co.

such  thoughts  out  of  bis  mind.  But  it 
was  of  no  use—he  was  determined,  and 
be  went ahead. 
It  was  very  bard  work, 
but  be  stuck  to  it,  and  graduated  from 
your  high  school.  Then  be  went  to Ann 
Arbor  and  stt  out  upon  bis  four  years' 
course,  always  studying,  always  work­
ing,  always  using  the greatest  economy, 
for  he  must  accomplish  this  great  task 
alone  and  unaided. 
“ Did  be  do  it?" 
Yes,  and  at  the  bead  of  his  class,  al­
ways.  Now,  he  is  a  teacher  in  the  great 
University  of  Michigan,  highly  re­
spected,  looked  up  to,  people  point  him 
out. 
in  Ann  Arbor  only  a  few 
days  ago  and  a  man  said  to  me,  “ Do 
you  know  John Lautoer?”   “ Yes,  why?" 
“ Well,  he  is  a  remarkable  fellow,  and 
attained  his  present  position  alone  and 
unaided  except  by bis indomitable pluck 
is  an  exam­
and  energy  and  push.  He 
ple  of  what  a  young  man  can  do 
if  be 
bas  the  right  kind  of  stuff  in  him  and 
is  determined  to  reach  the  height  to 
which  he  aspires. ”

I  was 

Read  tbe  life  of  Benjamin  Franklin. 
If  you  have  read  it  once,  read  it  over 
again.  Only  a  short  time  ago  I  read  his 
life,  although  I  bad  read  it  before  more 
than  once.  But 
it 
can’t  help  but  kindle  tbe  fire  of  desire 
within  a  man  or  boy  to  make  more  of 
himself  when  he  reads  of  such  men 
as  be.

it  did  me  good; 

I  have  spoken  of  Mr.  Edison  and 
others  only  as  an 
illustration  of  my 
point,  tbe  best  results  from  cultivation

of  natural  inclinations  and  a  steady  de­
termination  to  win.  Every  man,  to  suc­
ceed 
in  any  pursuit,  must  be  a  student 
in  tbe  fullest  sense  of  the  word.  Al­
ways  remember  what  Daniel  Webstar 
said :  “ There  is  always  plenty  of  room 
at  tbe  top. “   Set  your  mark  high  and try 
to attain  it  Don’t  be  content  to  be  a 
mere  breadwinner,  for,  if  you  are,  tbe 
day  will  surely  come  when  you  can  net 
do  even  that,  and  then  you  will  not only 
be  a  great  discomfort  to  yourself,  but  a 
burden  to  your  friends— if  you  should 
have  any—or,  as  a  last  resort,  tbe county 
charge. 
Someone  says,  “ The  world 
owes  me a  livin g."  Don’t  you  believe 
it  for a  moment. 
“ God  helps  him  who 
helps  him self,"  and  tbe  world  will  fur­
nish  a  living  to  tbe  man  who  works  for 
it,  and  to  him  only.  Be  determined  to 
be  tbe  best  in  your  vocation  and  have 
tne  world  and  your  fellowmen  bett-r  be­
cause  you  have  passed  through.  Think 
of  the  men  who,  from  the  most  adverse 
conditions  and  environments,  reached 
the  highest  position  in  this  or  any  other 
country:  Lincoln,  the  Rail  Splitter; 
Garfield,  the  Mule  Driver  on  a  canal; 
Grant,  tbe  clerk 
in  a  country  tanyard 
office 
If  you  read  their  lives  you  will 
learn  that  they  all  “ burned  tbe  mid­
night  oil  "   No  one  found  them  loafing 
around  playing  billiards  or  rolling  ten­
pins  to  kill  time.  No;  every  moment 
that  they  could  steal  from  necessary 
duties  was wisely and most  industriously 
devoted  to  study.  The  only  thing  that 
any  man  can 
leave  behind  him  when 
be  dies that  is  lasting, and  also  tbe  only 
thing  that  be  can  take  with  him,  is 
character;  more  precious  than  bank 
stocks,  or  farms,  or  jewels,  or  flocks,  or 
herds,  or  lands,  or houses.  It is a solemn 
thought  that  each  one  of  us  has  tbe

making  of  that  priceless  treasure,  char­
acter,  in  bis  own  keeping. 
It  is  just  as 
true  to-day  as  when  the  Divine  Master 
gave  it  foitb  in  that  matchless  Sermon 
on  tbe  Mount,  “ Whatsoever  a  man  sow- 
eth  that  shall  be  also  reap." 
If  you 
waste  the  days  of  your  youth  in  idleness 
what  can  you  expect  the  harvest  to  be 
in  your  old  age?  Nothing  bi t  sorrow, 
disappointment  and  poverty.  Examples 
of  these  can  be  seen  on  every  band,  and 
more  of  them  making.  You  see  them 
standing  on  the  street  corners  of  our  lit­
tle  city,  no  object  nor  aim  in 
life,  and 
seemingly  forgetful  that  with  every  set­
ting  sun  they  are  one  day  older  and  ap­
proaching  a  time  when  they  can  not 
longer  produce  tbe  wherewithal  to  sup­
port  them 
in  their  old  age.  Why  not 
be  up  and  doing?

Longfellow,  the  great  pott,  puts 

it 

most  beautifully  when  be  says:
“ Life i* real!  Life is earnest £
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art,  to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

*  *  *

“ Lives of great  men all remind  us 
We can make our lives sublime,
And,  departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time.”

Boys,  if  there  is  one  of  you  who  can’t 
repeat  that  beautiful  poem,  entire,  learn 
it  to-morrow. 
It  will  be  well  woith 
your  while.

Always  be  polite  and  courteous,  not 
only  to  those  above  you,  but  to  the  hum­
blest  person  you  know.  Especially  so 
with  old  people;  their  feet  are  rapidly 
traveling  the  receding  pathway  of 
life, 
where  tbe  lengthening  shadows  deepen, 
and  ere  long  that  call  will  come  which 
will  summon  them  into  tbe  Great  Un 
known.  Do  not  lose  a  single  oppoi tu­
rn ty  to  give  them  a  kind  word  or to per­
form  any 
It  costs  you 
nothing,  and  does  you  as  well  as  them 
good. 
If,  by  any  chance,  it  comes  a 
little  bard  for  you  to  do  this,  discipline 
yourself  to  it,  and  drive  the  obnoxious 
trait  out  of  your  character.

little  kindness. 

Be  manly—that  word  “ gentleman"  is 
awfully  misused  in  these  latter days.  Be 
patient  and  inoustrious.  Be  painstak­
ing.  Be  thorough.  Your employers know 
a  good  deal  more  about  you  than  you 
imagine  they  do.  Good  men  are  scarce. 
If  you  are  wise 
You  are  judged  daily. 
your  devotion  to  all  the 
interests  com­
mitted  to  you  will  make  you  indispen­
sable,  and  no  one  can  hire  you  away— 
they  will  not  let  you  go.  Whatever  you 
undertake,  make  it  a  point  to  know  al 
there 
is  about  everything  you  handle: 
where  it  is  made,  bow  it  is  made,  wbat 
it  is  made  of,  wbat  it costs,  wbat it sell - 
for,  where  it  is  kept  in  tbe  store—know 
all  about  it,  you  can't  know  too  much 
Very  soon  you  will  be  looked  up  to  as 
an  authority;  and  everybody  is  looking 
for and  wai ts  that  kind  of  a  man.  Then 
your  success  is assured ;  then people will 
seek  you,  you  won’t  have  to  seek  for  a 
position.

But  I  can  tell  you,  from  my  own  ex­
perience  in  the  last  twenty-seven  years, 
that  it  is  no  gala  day  picnic.  You can’t 
go  fishing,  hunting,  boating,  wheeling 
or  camping  out  when  you  would  like  to. 
If  you  would  make  yourself  valuable  to 
your  employer—and  therefore to yourself 
—you  must  apply  your  mind  and 
intel­
lect,  as  well  as  your  time,strictly  to your 
employer’s  best 
interests;  and  never 
hesitate  for  a  moment  to  do  whatever 
comes  along  for  you  to  do,  so  long  as  it 
is  honorable. 
I  have  seen  quite  a  num­
ber  of  young  men  drop  out  of  a  good 
pos  t  on  simply  because  they were asked 
to  perform  some  task  uncongenial  to 
their  ideas.  Don't  be  afraid  to  work. 
Keep  busy.  A  young  man  in  tbe  em­
ploy  of  our  company  some  little  time 
ago  rather  demurred  to  accepting  an 
advanced  position  and  higher  pay  be­
cause  he  was  afraid  that  be  could  not 
find  work  enough  to  do  in  the  depart­
ment  to  which  he  was  to  he  transferred 
What  do  you  think  of  that!  Well,  I  can 
tell  you  one  sure  thing,  he  will  climb 
up  the  ladder;  and  one  of  these  days  be 
will  be 
from  the  top. 
Nothing  can  keep  him  down—he  is  just 
as  sure  to  rise  as  to-morrow’s  sun.

looking  down 

I  was  asked  to  speak  to  you  about 
Merchandising 
a  Merchants 
Standpoint,  but  the  field  of  thought 
stretches  out  so  before  me  and  covers 
such  a  vast  amount  of  ground  that  I  am

from 

almost  at  a  loss  as  to  wbat  particular 
line  to  take  up,  or  how  to  present  it; 
what  to  say  and  wbat  not  to  say.  Surely 
in  a  thirty-minute  talk  not  enough  can 
be  said  on  any  single  phase  of  the  sub­
ject  to  give  you  a  very  clear  idea  of 
it, 
and  I  shall  therefore  touch  it  but lightly 
in  any  place.

jackknives. 

A  merchant  is one engaged  in  trade  or 
barter.  When  we had no money medium, 
commodities  were  exchanged,  the  one 
for  the  other.  This  was  called  trading. 
All  of  you  have,  at  one  period  of  your 
lives,  traded 
The  trade 
did  not  constitute  either  boy  a  mer­
chant,  but  the  transaction  was,  never­
theless,  a  trade.  A  merchant 
is  one 
whose  business 
is  buying  and  selling 
goods  and  wares,  such  as  groceries, 
boots  and  shoes,  dry  goods,  hardware, 
furniture,  grain,  live  stock,  etc.  Some 
persons  engaged  in  the  sale  of merchan­
dise  acquire  a  distinctive  classification, 
as  druggists,  butchers, 
jewelers,  etc. 
The  druggist  compounds;  tbe  butcher 
kills  tbe  animal  and  prepares  the  meat 
for  market;  the  jeweler  makes  and  re­
pairs.  The  grocer,  of  course,  never 
compounds  sugar  with sand ;  the butcher 
never  embalms  his  meat;  the  jeweler 
rarely  sells  brass  for  gold.  The  mer­
chant  buys  in  large  quantities  and  stl s 
in  smaller.  He  may  be  a  retailer, 
jobber,  or  wholesaler.  The  producer  or 
manufacturer  sells  in  large  quantities  to 
a  limited  number  of  wholesalers  or  job­
bers ;  the  wholesaler or jobber  to  a  large 
number,  and  bis  customers  to  tbe  gen­
eral  public.

it 

Merchandising 

is  tbe  broad  highway 
between  speculation and manufacturing ; 
it  presents  neither  the  risks  of  the 
but 
one  nor  the  profits  of  the  other. 
It  is  a 
is  sometimes  a  dusty 
safe  road, 
if 
one. 
is  too  often  dinned  into  the 
“ It 
ears  of  young  men  to  day  that  tbe  op­
portunities  for  success  are  constartly 
narrowing ;  that,  owing  to  tbe  concen­
tration  of  capital,  the formation of  trusts 
and  so  forth,  the  poor  boy  ot  to-day  has 
no  chance  to  make  his  mark  or  to  get 
on  in  tbe  world.  Nothing  could be wider 
of  the  truth.  Passing  by  the  trust  ques­
tion,  with  which  we  have  here  nothing 
to  do,  1  still  want  to impress  on  you  this 
truth,  that  such  opportunities  as  lie  be­
fore  young  men 
to-day  are 
greater  than  those  presented  anywhere, 
at  any  time  in  tbe  history  of  tbe  world, 
to  the  boy  of  ambition."

like  you 

For  an  argument,  since  they  suggest 
in  every  direction, 
themselves  to  me 
take  the  city  of  Chicago. 
In  Chicago 
tbe  department  store,  on  this  side  of  the 
ocean  at  least,  had 
its  origin,  and  bas 
marked 
its  gre: test  success.  At  one 
time  it  really  looked  as  if  the  big  store 
world  sw  How  up  the  little  one,  and  as 
if  the  man  of  small  capital  no  longer 
bad  a  show  to  make  a  living.  But  this 
was  a  rash  conclusion. 
It  is  true  that 
the  big  store  taught  tbe 
little  store­
keeper  many  methods  of  merchandising 
which  were  new  to  him. 
It  taught  him 
that  be  must  keep  bis  stock  carefully 
weeded  at  all  times;  that  he  must  have 
new  and  fresh  goods,  goods  of  the  latest 
styles  and  strictly  up  to  date;  that  he 
must  turn  his  stock  quickly  on  small 
margins  and  on  short  credits  or  for 
cash;  that  be  must  pul  a  personality 
into  bis  business  and  look  sharply  and 
carefully  after  all  tbe  details,  no  loose 
or  careless  methods  would  do  for  a  mo­
ment 
It  rather  took  the  breath  out  of 
the 
little  fellow.  But  Americans  are 
quick  to  learn  and  after  the  first  repulse 
and  confusion  younger  men  without 
capital,  bit  with  brains  and  energy  and 
the  apt  mind  for  catching  onto  success­
ful  methods,  opened 
their  little  stores 
again,  and  not  only  opened  them,  but 
kept  them  open  and  made  them  pay. 
Some  of  the  big  stores  in  Chicago  have 
succeeded  marvelously;  but  so  have 
some  of  the  1  ttle  ones. 
If  some  of  the 
small  shops  have  come  to  grief,  so  have 
some  of  tbe  big  ones.  Take  tbe  big 
ch thing  store  for  which  Willoughby, 
Hill  &  Co.  paid  $60,000 a  year  rent. 
They  failed  disastrously,  and 
to-day 
their  space  is  filled  by  a  dozen  1  ttle 
stores. 
If  you  will  walk  down  State 
street  to  night  as  far  as  Monroe,  you 
w‘ll  see  the  receivers’  signs  plastered 
all  over  the  big  department  store  of 
Frank  Bros.  When  I  tell  you  they  paid

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$85.000 a  year  rent,  and  that  it  cost  last 
year  to  run  the  public  schools  of  this 
city  only  $26 ooo,  you  will  realize  some 
thing  of  the  magnitude  of  such  a  con* 
cern.  Yet  that  store  came  to  grief.

Now  for  the  other  side.  A  few  years 
ago  two  brothers,  clerks  and  penniless, 
in  a  furnishing  goods  store,  opened  a 
modest  little  joint  in  the  same  line  over 
on  Dearborn  street  near  Monroe.  You 
could  hardly  call 
it  a  store.  A  paper 
screen—but  a  neat  one,  mind  you— 
served 
in  the  rear  of  the  store  for  their 
dressing  room;  and  at  noon,  if  you  hap­
pened  in  after a  tie,  you  would  find  one 
of  the  firm  taking  a  standing  lunch  be­
hind  the  screen,  but  with  a  neck  long 
enough  to  see  that  you  were  promptly 
waited  on  by  whoever  was  on  duty.  To­
day  these  same  young  men  are  at  the 
head  of  their  line 
in  the  city of  Chi­
It  is  a  modest  line,  but  it  made 
cago. 
Wilson  Brothers  millionaires. 
They 
didn’t  make 
it  all  at  once.  On,  no; 
just  a  little  at  a  time,  twenty-five  cents, 
tifty  cents,  and  then  a  dollar,  and  they 
saved  the  dollar.  Did  you  ever  stop  to 
consider bow  a  small  daily  saving  will 
amount,  in  a  little  time,  to quite  a  con­
siderable  sum.  Some  years  ago  a  young 
man  of  our  city,  and  now  in  business 
here,  said  to  me  that  be  couldn’t  save 
anything,as  he  was  getting  only  a  dollar 
a  day  and  his  board.  He  was  smoking 
a  cigar  and  I  asked  him  how  much  be 
spent  a  day  for  cigars.  He  said,  ” On 
an  average  twenty-five  cents.”  
I  said, 
"Suppose  you  save  that  quarter  and 
every  day  put  away  twenty-five  cents?”  
He  said  be  would  do  it 
Some  three  or 
four  years  afterward  be  showed  me  a 
certificate  of  deposit 
in  the  bank  for 
$365. 
It  was  a  small  saving,  but  it runs 
«P-  ,
When  a  man  seizes  your  ear  and 
whines  that  the  day  for  succeeding,  the 
day  for  small  beginnings,  is  past  put 
him  down  as  a  man  of  poor  judgment. 
Chicago  will  afford  you  just  such  objeit 
lessons  as  the  ones  I  have  cited,  as  long 
as  your  patience  would  last  to  listen  to 
them.  To-day,  the  gun  is  bigger,  I  ad 
mit. 
is  because  the  woilJ  of  com­
merce  is  bigger.  But  the  man  behind 
the  gun  counts,  just  the  same  as  he  a l­
ways  has  done  and  always  will  do  as 
long  as  men  are  men  and  guns are guns! 
Capital 
is  a  weapon  and  merely  a 
weapon.  Brains  can  always  command 
it,  but  capital  can  not  always  command 
brains!

I  read  in  the  paper  the  other  day  that 
Rockefellow,  the  Oil  King,  recently 
in 
an  address  said  that  he  would  pay  a 
salary  of  $1,000,000  a  year  to  the  man 
possessed  with  sufficient  brains  to  run 
his  business,  in  shoit,  to  take  bis place, 
as  be  was  tired  and  wanted to rest.  But 
that  vast  amount  of  money wouldn’t  find 
him  the  man;  and  if  it  did  such  a  man 
would  be  foi 1  sb  to  accept,  for  he  is 
sure  to  have  a  business  of  bis  own,  and 
money  enough  without  jeopardizing  his 
life  by  undertaking  such  a  great  work. 
Life  is  too  short;  and,  after  all,  "W bst 
is  life  in  this  world  to  a  man  if  his wife 
is a  widow?”

xbe  essentials  to  success  in  merchan­
dising  are  so  simple  that  they  are  gen­
erally  overlooked ;  but this  is  true  of  the

It 

in 

essertials  to  success 
in  almost  every­
thing  in  life.  Success  is  a  question  of 
thrift  and  patience,  and  the  majority  of 
men  in  merchandising,  and  out  of 
it, 
are  in  so  great  a  burry  to  get  rich  that 
they  haven’t  really  time  to,  if  you  will 
allow  the  paradox.  Of  course,  I  assume 
honesty  to  start  with,  for  without  that 
life  is  a  troublesome  game and not worth 
the  playing.  But,  with  the  honestly  to 
treat  the  public  fairly,  with  the  thrift  to 
deny  oneself  the  luxuries  that  most  men 
indulge  in  before  they  can  afford  them, 
and  the  patience  to  keep  everlastingly 
at  your  business,  success  is  just as  sure 
to  come  in  merchandising  as  night  fol­
lows  day.

If  you  choose  it  for  your  life-work you 
wiil  find  that  it  is  not  often  practicable 
to  follow  the  excellent  advice  of  Emer­
son,  "H itch  your  wagon  to  a  star.”  
There  are,  it  is  true,  stars  in  merchan­
dising,  but  most  of  them  are  shooting 
stars.  They  shoot  out  in  the  night  and 
that  is  the  last  of them.  The  place  that 
has  known  them  knows  them  no  more; 
and  some  experience  as  a  merchant 
leads  me  to  warn  you  against  that  sort 
If  you  are  a  boy  ready 
of  connection. 
to  work—anxious  to  work, 
fact— 
choose  rather  to  get  under  the  wing  of 
some  man,  or  some  combination of men, 
whose  methods  you  may  study  because 
of  their  conservatism  rather  than  be­
cause  of  their  brilliancy.  Remember, 
too,  that  impatience  wrecks  more  men 
than  panics.  Ol  course,  there  comes  a 
time  when  the  experienced  clerk  must 
consider  the  question  of  starting  out  for 
himself;  but  even  then  Patience  is  the 
best  counsellor  and  the  wise  man always 
gives  bis  present  opportunities  the  ben­
efit  of  every  doubt  before  be  puts  them 
by  to  try  an  experiment.  The  very  fact 
—and  it  is  a  startling  one— that  over  go 
per  cent,  of  the  ventures  in  business 
of  all  kinds  fail  is,  in  itself,  the  most 
effective  warning  on  the  point  I  wart  to 
impress. 
It  means  that  in  over go  per 
cent.,  not  of  the  men  who try,  but of  the 
times  they  try,  the  preparation 
in­
sufficient,  whttber  from  lack  of  capital, 
or  lack  of  experience,  or.lack  of  thrift. 
To  go  slowly  is  of  greater  importance 
in  merchandising  than  to  go  briIlia  tly.
The  special  adaptability  of  men  or 
boys  for  special  lines  of  merchandising 
may  profitably  be  dwelt  on.  While many 
men  may  succeed  in  almost  any  line  of 
merchandising,  there  are  still  special 
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gifts 
taste  in  color  and  fabric,  which 
is  ab­
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Let  the  choice  of  a  special  branch 
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in*:,  as  in  everything  else.  The  dray­
man's  boy  who  is  content  to  drive  the 
dray  will  always  be  permitted  to  follow 
his  inclination.  But  the  drayman's  boy 
who 
insists  on  being,  and  persists  in 
being,  a  merchant— really  I  know  of  no 
effective  way  of  preventing  him  from 
following  his  inclination. 
If  it  is  only 
strong  enough  it  will  carry  him through, 
and  over,  everjtbing.

But  that,  after all,  is  only  another  way 
of  saying  that  a  man  is  master of  bis 
own  destinies  and  may,  within  almost 
any  bounds,  be  what  be  wills  to  be, 
whether 
in  merchandising  or anything 
else.  The  great  essential  is perseverance 
and  keeping  constantly  at  it.

little  darky  boy  down  in  Dayton, 
Ohio,  wrote  a  little  poem  which  1  have 
often  read,  and  which  bears  so  well  up­
on  the  subject  of  which  I  have  been 
speaking,  so  far  as  constancy  of  pur­
pose  is  concerned,  that I have  concluded 
to  repeat 
it  to  you.  The  title  is  very 
simple  and  homely,  as  you  see;  it  is, 
“ Keep  A  Pluggin’  Away.”  

It  reads:

A 

I’ve a humble little motto 
Tiiat is homely, but it's true—
Keep a  pluggin' away.
It’s a thing,  when I’ve  an  object,
That I always try to do—
Keep a* pluggin* away.

When you've rising storms to quell,
When opposing waters swell,
It will never fail to tell—
Keep a*pluggin' away.
If the hills are high before 
And the paths are hard to climb 
Keep a-pluggin’ away;
Ana remember that  successes 
Come to him that bides his time —
Keep  a-pluggin'away.
From the greatest to the least 
None are from the rule released—
Be thou toiler, poet,  priest,
Keep a-pluggin' away.
Delve away beneath the surface,
There is treasure farther down—
Keep a-pluggin' away.
Let the rain come down in torrents,
Let the threat'ning heavens  frown —
Keep a* pluggin' away.
When the clouds have rolled away 
There will come a brighter day 
A ll your labor to repay—
Keep a-pluggin' away.
There’ll be lots of sneers to swallow, 
There'll be lots of pain to bear  - 
Keep a  pluggin’ away.
If you've got your eye on heaven 
Some bright day you'll wake up there— 
Keep a-pluggin' away.
Perseverance still is king;
Time its sure reward will bring;
Work and wait unwearying—
Keep a-pluggin’ away.

So,  I  would  say,  boys,  it  matters  little 
what  you  go  into;  if  you  will  only  go 
into  it  with  ambition.and “ keep a-plug­
gin’  away,"  you  will  be  all  right  and 
will  succeed.

There  is  no  line  of  merchandising  to­
day  but  tbat  presents  more  and  greater 
opportunities  than  ever  before  in  the 
history  of  the  world.  Take  the  hard­
ware  business.  There  never  has  been  a 
time  when  there  was  so  much  building 
of  all  description  and  character  as  now; 
when  there  were  so  many  tools  used  of 
all  description  and  kinds as  now;  when 
so  much 
iron  in  all  its  different  forms 
was  used  as  now—whether  in  the  cities, 
in  the  country,  or  upon  the  seas,  the 
same  is true  everywhere. 
In  the  cities 
large  blocks  are  being  builded  and  all 
kinds  of  improvements  put  forth ;  in the 
country  the  farmers  are  building  new 
houses,  new barns;  on  the  seas  the  ship­
immense.  The  means  for 
building 
transportation 
for  both  people  and 
freight  are  so  great  that  the  building  of 
cars  and  roads  requires  an  immense 
amount  of  material.  Ail  of  this  means 
increased  business  in  merchandising.

In  the  dry  goods  line  there  never  was 
a  time  in  the  memory  of man when there 
was  so  much  dry  goods  used  as  now. 
Our  ladies  have  more and  better dresses 
now  than  ever  before,  and  in  every  item 
of  this  line  more  goods  are  used.

In  clothing  the  men  of  our present day 
buy  more  and  better  clothes,  more  and 
better hats,  caps,  neckties,  etc.,enabling 
them  to  present  a  better  appearance 
among  their  fellows. 
It  is  true  men  are 
not  judged  wholly  by  their  clothes,  but 
a  well-dressed  man  or  woman  always 
presents  a  better  appearance  than  one 
shabbily  dressed.

In  the  grocery 

line  the  people  eat 
more  than  ever  before.  Take  the  one 
item  of  sugar.  The  average  consump­

is 

is 

over 

tion  of  sugar  per  capita—tbat 
is  for 
every  man,  woman  and  child—in  the 
United  States 
sixty-seven 
pounds.  Think  what  a  vast  amount 
it  must  require  to  supply  the  people 
of  this  country  with 
item 
of  sugar  alone;  and  there  is  really  no 
end  to  the  list  of  tempting  things  to  be 
had  in  the  grocery  store of  our  day.

the  one 

The  shoe  line—there never  was  a  time 
when  people  spent  so  much  money  for 
footwear  as  now.  Time  was  when  a 
good  many  people  went  barefooted,  my­
self  among  the  number,  but  now  every­
body 
in  this  land  of  ours  wears  shoes, 
more  or  less  expensive.

Nearly  all  have  carpets  on their floors, 
and  more  or  less  draperies  about  their 
rooms.  Our  tables  are  well  and  often 
expensively furnished.  Look  at  the  im­
provement  in,  and  increased  number  of, 
vehicles  of  all  description  used  on  our 
streets  to  day.  Consider also  the  item 
of  bicycles.  There  are  nearly,  if  net 
quite,  2,000  wheels  owned 
in  Traverse 
City.

its 

in  all 

All  of  this  shows  thrift  and  plenty; 
and  merchandising 
forms 
presents  unusual  attractions,  far  greater 
than  ever  before 
in  the  history  of  the 
world.  The  man  possessed  of  honesty 
of  purpose,  with  ambition,  with  pa­
tience  and  perseverance,  may  at  any 
stage  of  the  game  take  up  any one of the 
great  multitude  of  merchandising  in­
terests and,  with  economy  and  industry, 
succeed.

But  what  do  I  mean  by  success?  If  I 
bad  not  already  consumed  so  much 
time  I  would  like  to  follow  with  a  few 
remarks  on  this  idea;  but  I  will  close 
by  saying  tbat  by  success  I  do  not  mean 
that  a  man,  to  be  a  success,  must  be 
worth  a  million  dollars.  No;  far  from 
it.  Some  of  the  worst  failures  in  our 
country  have  been  men  of  large  wealth. 
George  M.  Pullman  was  one  of  them. 
When  be  died  he  was  worth  likely  from 
$15,000,000 to $25,000.000,  but  as  a  man 
be  was  a  failure.  He  was  a  failure  in 
his  family,  a  failure among  men,  feared 
and  hated  wherever  he  went,  and  I 
might  almost  say  without fear  of  contra­
diction  tbat  his  death  was  hailed  with 
some degree  of  satisfaction  by nearly all 
who  knew  him.  Would  you like to  have 
taken  his  place  for  all  his  wealth?  Cer­
tainly  his  memory 
is  not  an  enviable 
one.

The 

They  accumulated 

largest  wholesale  grocery  house 
in  the  United  States 
is  tbat  of  Reid, 
Murdock  &  Co  ,  of  Chicago.  Mr.  Reid 
and  Mr.  Murdock  were  two  young 
Scotchmen  who  arrived 
in  New  York 
some  fifty  or sixty  years  ago,  and  when 
they  stood  on  the  whaif  in  that  great 
city  they  counted  up  their  combined 
wealth  and  found  tbat  it  was  just  sev­
enty-five cents  This  money they proled, 
and  formed  a  partnership  which 
lasted 
without  change  or  interruption  to  the 
time  of  Mr.  Reid's  death,  which  oc­
curred  some  four  years ago.  These men 
were  sturdy  Scotch  gentlemen,  naturally 
gifted,  ambitious,  honest,  patient,  in­
dustrious. 
great 
wealth,  were  worth  their  millons,  but 
when  Simon  Reid  was  dying  be  turned 
to  bis  lifelong  friend  and  partner,  Mr. 
Murdock,  and  in  tones of  deepest  regret 
said,  “ Tom,  my  life  has  been  a  fail­
ure  ”   “ How  so?’ ’  said  Mr.  Murdock. 
“ Really you  can  not  say  that  You  have 
amassed  a  large  f.irtune  by  honest  and 
industrious  toil;  you  have  given  1  ber- 
ally  to  charities  and  to  the  church,  and 
are  well  thought  of  among  men.  Truly 
you  caD  not  say  tbat  your  life  has  been 
a  failure.  Far  from 
it.”   “ That  may 
all  be,”   said  Mr.  Reid;  “ but,  Tom, 
when  I  think  of  it,  that  not  one  of  my 
sons  is  capable  of  taking  the  least 
im­
in  our  great  business 
portant  position 
and  filling 
it  to  our  satisfaction  as  we 
would  require  from  anyone  whom  we 
might  hire  for  it,  I  feel  tbat  life,  for 
me,  has  been  a  failure."

Mr.  Reid,  in  his  dying  hour,  felt  the 
truth  come home to him that he had spent 
too  much  of  bis  time 
in  the  race  for 
wealth,  too  little  time  with  his  family 
and  had  given  little  or  no  attention  to 
his  sons.  Therefore,  boys,  do  not  set  it 
down  tbat,  to be  a  success  in  this  world, 
you  must  be  the  possessor  of  much 
wealth.

Altogether  Too  Demonstrative.

The  susceptible  young  man complains 
of  the  demonstrators.  The demonstrators 
are  young  women  who  sit  in  grocery 
stores,  or  drug  stores,  or  departmert 
stores,and  explain  to  the  men  and  wom­
en  who  pass  the  values  of  new  prepara­
tions. 
If  it  is a  flour  firm  that  they  are 
working  for.  they  fry  griddle  cakes;  if 
it 
is_  breakfast  food,  they  give  that  to 
you 
in  saucers;  if  it  is  medicine,  they 
administer  it  in  proper  quantities.  The 
susceptible  young  man  can not resift  the 
temptation  to  go  up  and  sample  the 
wares  of  the  demonstrators,  and  then 
when  he  has  done  so  and  they  sav: 
“ Hadn’t  you  better  take  home  a  pack 
age  of  this?’ ’  he  has  not  the  courage  to 
refuse.  Of  course  when  they  give  him 
the  package  to  take  home  they  say,  as 
the  pieman  did  to  Simple  Simon,  “ Let 
me  see  your  penny.”  
In  the  past  week 
the  young  man  savs  he  has  paid  50 cents 
tor  a  bottle  of  hair  re  ti rer,  although 
his  locks  are  thick  and  black  and 
lux­
uriant;  35  cents  for  some  sort  of  a  bet 
breakfast  drink,  although  he  is  a  man 
who  lives 
in  a  boarding  bouse,  and  50 
cents  each  for  two  new  varieties  of  pat 
ent  medicine,  although  he  is  never  ill 
from  one  year’s  end  to  another.  He 
thinks  tbat  the  young  women  of  the 
present  day  are  too  demonstrative.

T w o  o f a  Kind.

The  merchant  who  cuts  prices  and the 
employer  who  hammers  down  wages  are 
their  own  worst  enemies.  They  aie  twin 
cankers  gnawing  at  their  own  vitals. 
Until  the  purchasing  public 
is  fairly 
prosperous  trade  always  drags ;  and  the 
quickest  as  well  as  most  satisfactory 
way  to  put  money  in  circulation  is  to 
sell  high  grade  goods  at  profitable  fig­
ures  and  pay  good  wages.

His  Unutterable  Devotion. 

“ Arthur,  I  wish  you 

Clara's  husband  loves  her."

loved  me  as 

“ And  how  does  he  show  it?”
“ He  lets  her  read  long articles  to  bim 

on  bow  to  make  jelly. ’ ’

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Fruits  and  Produce.
Points  on  Poultry  Raising  and  Mar­

keting.

No  farmyard  is  complete  without 

its 
flock  of  poultry,  although  not  one  man 
out  of  one  hundred  among  those  who 
meet  in  the  daily  walks  of  life  has  any­
thing 
like  a  proper  conception  of  the 
magnitude  of  the  poultry industry of this 
country,  and  the  money-earning  capac 
ity  of  the  much  berated  hen.  This  is 
true  for  several  reasons,  among  which 
may  be  named  the 
fact  that  poultry 
growing  and  “ hen  farming"  have  been 
looked  upon  as  a  very  small  business 
and  one  entirely  bene- th  the  dignity  of 
the  average  farmer  He  has  been  con­
tent  to  pull  along  with  the  growing  of 
grain  crops,  live  stock or dairy farming, 
but  be  has  always  regarded  the  hen  as 
a  nuisance,  and  even  grudged  her the 
small  amount  of  grain  she  picked  up 
around  the  buildings.  He  has  always 
looked  upon  ben  farming  as  being  en­
tirely  beneath  the  dignity  of  an  able- 
bodied  man  and  accordingly  has  turned 
the  poultry  operations over to the “  wom­
en  folks"  and  the  children.

in 

Thanks  to  the  stringent  times  that 
have  fallen  upon  us  in  the  past  several 
years,  this  same  man  sees  things  differ­
ently  now.  When  the  condition of affairs 
brought  about  a  stagnation  and  conse­
quent  reduction 
the  value  of  bis 
products;  when  grain  of  all  kinds  fell 
below  the  actual  cost  of  production; 
when 
live  stock  could  not  be  sold  for 
the  value  of  the  food  they  had  con­
sumed, and  when  dairy  products  were  so 
low  that  be  abandoned  the  business,  be 
cast  about  him  for  something that would 
bring  him  some  ready  money,  some­
thing  that  would  help  to  pay  the  taxes 
and  interest,  something that  would  help 
to  lift  the  burdens  under  which  be  was 
groaning  and  from  which  he  had 
little 
hope  of  escape.  At  this  point  he  ob­
served  for  the  first  time  that  he  was 
carrying  a  good  many  eggs  to  town  for 
his  good  wife,  and  he  also  noticed  that 
eggs  and  poultry  sold  readily  and  that 
there  was  a  perpetual  market  at  a  cash 
price.  When  he  stopped  to  figure  the 
cost  of  care  and  maintenance  of  the 
flocks  be  discovered  that  his  bens  were 
earning  more  money 
in  proportion  to 
their  cost  and  care  than  any  live  stock 
he  had  upon  the  farm,  and  that  there 
seemed  to  be  no  limit  to  the demand  for 
their  products.

Soon  honest,  sober  reflection 

led  to 
conviction,  and  the  result  has  been 
more  hens  of  better breed, better  houses, 
better  care,  and  for  the  first  time  in  the 
history  of  the  country  the 
insignificant 
hen  has  taken  such position  in the minds 
of  the  people  as  her  intimate  and  in­
dispensable  relation 
to  our  domestic 
economy  demands.

For  the  benefit  of  those  who  have  not 
yet  decided  upon  making  this  change, 
we  wish  to  submit  a  few figures for care­
ful  study  and  comparison.  The  latest 
and  most  authentic  report  of  the  ben 
and  her  product  and  her  value  is  to  be 
found 
in  the  census  reports  of  i8go, 
from  which  we  draw  these  figures: 
In 
that  year  we  had  in  the  United  States 
28871,12$ 
26,738,315 
other  fowls. 
In  the  same  year  the  egg 
product  from chickens  numbered  q  836,- 
674,992.  Figuring  on  the  increase  be­
tween  1880 and  1890  as  a  basis,  we  have 
a  right  to  assume that  in  1897  we  have 
350,000,000 chickens  which  will produce 
about  13.750,000,000  eggs.  Counted  at 
the  average  price  for  eggs during  the 
past  year,  these  eggs  will  bring  to the

chickens 

and 

poultrymen  and 
farmers  $165,000,000. 
while  the  sale  of  poultry  for  table  con­
sumption,  at  a  very  conservative  esti- 
m. te, will  equal  $125,000,000 more,  mak­
ing  a  grand  total  of  $290,000,000  to  be 
placed  to  the  credit  of  the  little  ben.  If 
we  assume  that  each  hen  is  worth  30 
cents,  which  we  think 
is  quite  a  con­
servative  estimate,  we  shall  have  $105,- 
000,000  as  the  value  of  our  hens,  which, 
added  to  that  of  her  $290,000,000  of 
product,  brings  her  value  and  that  of 
her  product  up  to  $395,000,000.  Why, 
all  the  cows  in  the  country  only  amount 
to  a  total  value  of $264,000,000  in  round 
figures  The  hen  annually  earns  more 
than  the  total  valae  of  the  wheat  crop, 
more-  than  the  total  value  of  the  cotton 
crop,  and  is  still  clucking cheerily awav 
as  if  she  bad  done  nothing  remarkable 
after all.  Do  not  despise  the  ben.  Do 
not  look  upon  her as  being  beneath your 
dignity  and  consideration.  Heed  the 
advice  of  your  good  wife  who  knows 
more  of  ben  values  than  you  do.  Give 
better  care,  better  housing  and  more 
comfort  to  your  hens  and  they  will  take 
care  of  your  balance  in  the  bank.

Great  as  the  products  of  the  bens  are, 
as  has  been  indicated  in  the  figures pro­
duced  above, 
they  might  have  been 
nearly  or  entirely  doubled  if  the  proper 
system  of  care  and  feeding  bad  been 
employed.  Nearly  every  farmer  in  the 
country  is  more  or  less  acquainted  with 
what  are  known  as  complete  or balanced 
rations.  The  experiment  stations  and 
the  live  stock  and  agricultural  papers 
have  been  educating  him  along  these 
lines  for  years.  He  has  been  taught 
the  requisite  proportion  of  proteids,  al­
buminoids, 
carbohydrates,  etc.,  and 
their  combination  for  producing  the 
most  milk,  the  most  and  best  pork  the 
finest  and 
earliest  developing  beef, 
lamb,  mutton,  etc.  Much  of  the  suc­
cess  the  farmer  and  feeder  has  bad  in 
the  past  several  years  of  great  string­
ency  has  been  due  to  this  knowledge. 
While  all  this  has  been  going  on  the 
hens  have  been  obliged  to  live  upon  the 
offal  from  the  kitchen  table  and  the 
small  amount  of  grain  that  the  farmer 
couli,  by  the  pleadings  of  bis  wife,  be 
induced  to  give  her. 
It  is  quite  fortu- 
nate  that  all  men  have  net  been  alike 
in  this  respect,  and  that  while  the  ma­
jority  have 
ignored  poultry  entirely 
others  have  been  working  industriously 
to  produce  better  results  and  to  arrive 
at  certain  fixed  principles  in  the  feed­
ing  and  handling  of  hens.  Profound 
thought  and  study  have  been responsible 
for  improved  methods 
in  handling, 
feeding  and  marketing  poultry  and 
poultry  products,  and  fixed  rules  have 
now  been  iaid  down,  the  careful  obser­
vance  of  which  is  sure  to  produce  good 
results.

It  must  not  be  forge tten that hens have 
no  teeth  and  that  their  food  is  masti­
cated 
in  the  gizzard.  Ni ture  prompts 
the  hens  to  pick  up  and  swallow  gravel, 
glass,  small  shells  and  other  substances, 
it  may  be  noticed  that  they  prefer 
but 
articles  that  are  sharp  or 
irregular. 
Round  bits  of  gravel  do  not  serve  the 
purpose  well,  although  better  than  noth­
ing,  and  crystal  grit  is  the  best  substi­
tute  for  teeth  that  can  be  given  to  the 
hen.  It  not  only  grinds  the  food but  fur­
nishes  silica,  aluminum,  iron  and  mag­
nesium  to  the  fowls  as  nature  demands 
them.  All  animals  consume  more  or 
less 
It  is  one  of 
the  principal  elements  entering  into  the 
composition  of  the  bones.  The  domes­
ticated  hen  also  needs  more  of  it  than 
wild  stock  of  any  sort,  since  she  is 
stimulated  to  a  greater  production  of

in  some  form. 

lime 

Yours for business,

W. H. Young & Co.

Produce 
Commission 
Merchants

Pottstown,  Pa.

Branch  House,  LAKE ODESSA,  MICH.

On  or  about  the  first  of  April  we  shall  take 
charge  of  the  egg  business  at  Lake  Odessa,  Mich- 
gan,  formerly  operated by  Hager  &   Co.  Business 
of  egg  shippers  solicited.  Special  announcement 
by  letter.

REFERENCES:

H.  R.  Wager,  Ionia, Mich.

Bradstreet and  Dun Agencies.
Pottstown National Bank.

The Citizens  National  Bank,  Pottstown,  Pa. 
The  National  Iron Bank,  Pottstown,  Pa. 

Lake Odessa Savings Bank.

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eggs. 
In  consequence,  we  must  give 
her  more  than  she  usually  picks  up  in 
her  food.  The  most  serviceable  form 
in  which  to  give  her  lime 
is  in  the 
shape  of  coarsely  ground  bone  and  oys­
ter 
Feed  these  articles  most 
abundantly  at  the  time  when  the bens 
are  laying  most  freely,  and  anticipate, 
if  possible,by  feeding  early  in  the  sea­
son,  lest  your  fowls  eat  a  sbelless  egg 
and  thus  acquire  a  bad  habit.  The  im­
portance  of  providing  a  liberal  supply 
of  ground  bone  and  oyster shell for fowls 
is  less  understood  than  it  should  be  by 
breeders  of  poultry.  They  should always 
be  at  band  in  the  poultry  yard  where 
the  fowls  may  supply  themselves at will.
Plenty  of  fresh  water  is  a  necessity  in 
successful  poultry  raising. 
If  the  bens 
are  not  within  easy  reach  of  a  running 
stream  of  good,  clean,  cool  water,  then 
they  should  be  supplied  at  all  times 
from  a  stone  jar or  trough  so  arranged 
that  they  may  not  get  their  feet  into 
it 
In  preparing  their  food 
and  foul 
rations  corn  should  have  a  prominent 
place. 
is  a  most  easily  digested 
grain  and  forms  a  good  basis  for  egg 
production.  I  believe  that  one-third  the 
food  should  consist  of  corn ;  another 
third  of  wheat  and  the  balance  either  of 
meat  or  green  food,  such  as  boiled 
clover,  cabbage,  turnips,  potatoes,  etc. 
Clover 
is  a  healthful  stimulant  and 
should  be  used  freely,  although  it  is  im­
portant  to  have  frequent  changes  in  the 
diet.  Eight  or 
io  per  cent,  of  meat 
should  be  fed  to  supply  the  necessary 
nitrogen 
in  the  balanced  ration.  Both 
green  feed  and  meat  are  necessary  to 
perfect  egg  production.  When  they  are 
deficient 
it  will  be  found  that  the  eggs 
will  not  batcb  at  all  or  will produce orly 
weakly,  spindling  chicks.

it. 

It 

Poultry  not  only  requires  the  right 
kind  of  food,  but  also  must  be  sheltered 
in  a  good,  warm and  well-lighted  house. 
If  possible  in  building  poultry  bouses 
they  should  be  placed  on  a  slope  facing 
the  south  and  have  as  manv  glass  win­
dows 
in  them  as  possible  in  order  that 
the  hens  may  have  plenty  of  light  and 
sunshine. 
In  order  to  avoid  disease  the 
bouses  must  be  kept  clean  and  free 
from  vermin.  They should  be  thorough­
ly  whitewashed  two  or  three  times  per 
year.  The  worst  pests  among  poultry 
are  lice  and  mites,  which  can  be  easily 
gotten  rid  of  by  a  liberal  use  of  lice  de 
stroyer. 
If  sprinkled  on  the  floor,  nests 
and  roosts  it  will  exterminate  chicken 
lice,  which  are  so  fatal  to  the 
little 
chicks.  Hens  will  not  lay  and  neither 
will  poultry  fatten  when  covered  with 
vermin. 
If  a  success  is  to  be  made  in 
the  poultry business the houses and roosts 
must  be  kept  clean.

It 

It  does  not  pay  to  raise mongrel stock. 
is  justified  in  wasting  time  on 
No  one 
mongrels. 
is  the  same  with  poultry 
as  with  horses,  cattle,  sheep  or  bogs. 
The  most  money 
is  to  be  made  with 
thoroughbreds  It  costs  no  more  to  raise 
pure blooded  fowls  than  mongrels  and 
if  you  already  have  a  stock  of  common 
poultry  you  should  sell  off  the  roosters 
and  buy  full-blooded  ones,  all  of  one 
breed,  from  your  neighbor,  and 
thus 
gradually  improve  the  stock.

Now  in  regard  to  marketing ;  the  best 
kind  of  chicken  for  the  market  is  a 
plump  fowl  with  yellow  skin,  such  as 
the  Plymouth  Rock,  Wyandotte,  Light 
Brahma,  Leghorn,  or, 
in  fact,  almost 
any  chicken  with  light  feathers.  Stock 
of  this  kind  dresses  out  yellow  and  al­
ways  will  bring  the  top  of  the  market. 
Dark  feathered  poultry  when  dressed 
out has  a  dark  blue  skin,  and  it  always

sells  at  a  lower  price  than  light  colored 
stock.

The  best  breeds  of  chickens  for  broil­
ers  are  Plymouth  Rock,  Wyandotte  and 
Light  Brahma.  The  chicks  should  be 
hatched  in  January  and  February.

It  is  bard  to  get  bens  to  set  in  winter 
and  it is almost  necessary  for  the  farmer 
to  use 
incubators  to  raise  broilers  in 
time  to bring  the  best  prices.  The  in­
cubator  on  the  farm  is  being  brought  to 
more  profitable  use  every  year.  There 
is  no  doubt  that  the 
incubator  and 
brooder  method  of  raising  chickens  is 
a  wonderful 
improvement  on  the  hen 
method. 
is  cheaper  and  a  greater 
It 
number  of  fowls can  be  raised  from  the 
same  number  of  eggs.  Hens  can  be 
made  to  lay  nearly  double  as  many  eggs 
if  they  are  not  required  to  set,  and  it  is 
a  good  plan  to  use  incubators  instead 
of  taking  the  bens  from  their  work 
The  incubator  is  no  longer  an  experi­
ment.  There  are  several  first  class  ma­
chines  on  the  market,  and  no  mistake 
can  be  made  in  buying  any  one  of  half 
a  dozen 
leading  machines  which  are 
guaranteed  to  give  satisfaction.

The  breed  of  turkeys  raised  does  not 
make  so  much  difference  as the  breed of 
chickens.  Any kind  of  turkey  will  bring 
the  market  price  if  it  is  plump  and  fat, 
although  the  Bronze  seems  to  be the best 
all-around  breed,  and  the  blooded  stock 
will  fatten  more  quickly  and  at  less  ex­
pense  than  the  common  run  of  fowls.

In  raising  ducks  never  keep  anything 
but  white  feathered  stock.  The  Pekin 
duck  is  the best  and  always  brings  the 
top  of  the  market.

With  geese  only  the  largest  breeds 
should  be  kept.  The  Toulouse,  African, 
or  any  other  iarge  breed  is  all right,  and 
it  costs  no  more  to  raise  a  large  bird 
than  a  small  one.  The  market  is  never 
overstocked  on  large,  fat  geese.

later. 

The  best  season  in which to sell chick­
ens 
is  from  the  first  of  January  to  the 
first  of  November.  Every farmer  seems 
to  want  to  dispose  of  bis  poultry  during 
November  and  December,  and  conse­
quently  the  market is always overstocked 
at  that  time.  The  surplus  young  roost 
ers  should  be  sold during September and 
October,  as  they  will  bring  more  money 
If  it  is  impossible  to 
then  than 
market  them  until  after  that  time,  it 
is 
best  to  hold  them  until  after  the  first 
of  January,  for  prices  are  always  low 
during  the  intervening  months  Tur­
keys  are  most  salable  around  the  holi­
large  young 
days.  Old  turkeys  and 
gobblers 
for 
Thanksgiving and Christmas ;  poor stock 
should  never be  sent  to  the  market.  All 
should  be  well  fattened  before  being 
shipped.  The  hens  and  small  young 
gobblers  should  be  kept  until  alter the 
holidays  but  should  be  marketed  by  the 
first  of  February.

be  marketed 

should 

Capons  sell  best  from  the  first  of  Jan­
uary  to  the  first  of  March,  and  gener­
ally  bring  from  8  to  15c  per pound.  The 
larger  they  are  the  higher  price  they 
will  bring  per  pound.  Birds that  weigh 
less  than  seven  pounds  each  will  bring 
no  more  than  the  price  of  common 
chickens.

Live  geese  sell  best  in  September and 
October  and  dressed  geese  any  time 
after  the  first of  December to  the  first  of 
March.  There  is  no  paiticular  season 
in  which  to  sell  ducks.  Broilers  bring 
the  most  money  from  the  first  of  March 
to the  first  of  July, the  highest  price  be­
ing  obtainable  from  the  middle  of April 
to  the  first  of  June.  They  sell  by  the 
dozen  from  the  first  of  March  until 
about  tbe first  of  July  and  the  remainder 
of  the  season  by  the  pound.  They  gen-

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erally  bring  from  $3  per  dozen  the  first 
of  March  to  $6  or $7  per  dozen  during 
April  and  May.  About  the  first  of  July 
they  will,  as  a  general 
thing,  bring 
from  20  to  25c  per  pound,  the  price 
lower.  Chicks  should 
gradually  going 
weigh  from 
to  2  pounds  each  the 
first of March and as the  season  advances 
from  2  to  2>£  pounds  each.  They  should 
be  shipped  alive  from  the  first of March 
until  the  first  of  November.

In  dressing  capons  they  should always 
be  dry  picked  and  feathers  left  on  the 
neck,  wings,  legs  and  rump,  and  the 
tail  and  wing  feathers  should  be  left  in. 
Do  not  dress  out  any  capons  that  weigh 
than  7  pounds  each.  Keep  the 
less 
small  ones  until  they  grow  a 
little 
heavier.

The 

Before  dressing  poultry  it  should  be 
well  fed  and  watered  and  then  kept 
twenty-four hours  without  feed  previous 
to  killing.  When  stock  is  well  watered 
it  looks  brighter and  adds  to  its appear­
ance.  Full  crops  injure  the  appearance 
and  hurt  the  sale  of  the  poultry.  Never 
kill  poultry  by  wringing  the  neck  of  the 
fowl.  Bleed  the  bird 
in  the  mouth, 
leave head  and  feet  on,  and  do  not  re­
move  the  intestines  or  crops. 
In  scald­
ing  chickens  the  water should be as  near 
the  boiling  point  as  possible  without 
boiling.  Hold  the  bird  by  the  legs  and 
head  and  immerse;  move  up  and  down 
three  times. 
feathers  and  pin 
feathers  should  be  removed  immediately 
without  breaking  the skin.  Then  plump 
the  bird  by  dipping  it  for  ten  seconds 
in  water  nearly  or  quite  boiling,  and 
immediately  after into cold water.  Hang 
it  in  a  cool  place  until  the  animal  heat 
is  entirely  out  of  the  body.  To  dry  pick 
chickens  properly  the  work  should  be 
done  while  the  chickens  are  bleeding. 
Do  not  wait  until  the  bodies  get  cold. 
In  dressing  turkeys  observe  the  same 
rules  as 
in  dressing  chickens,  except 
that  turkeys  should  be  dry  picked,  as 
they  command  a  better  price  than  when 
scalded.  Ducks  and  geese  should  be 
scalded 
in  the  same  temperature  of 
water  as  other  poultry,  but  it  requires 
more  time  for  the water  to penetrate and 
loosen  the  feathers. 
is  sometimes 
necessary  to  wrap  the  carcass  in  a  piece 
of  old  canvas  or  burlap  for a  few  min­
utes  and  allow  it  to  steam.  Do  not  dry 
pick  geese  and  ducks  before  killing  for 
the  purpose  of  saving  the  feathers,  as 
it  causes  the  skin  to  become  very lumpy 
and 
is  a  great  injury  to 
the  sale  of  the  stock.  Do  not  singe the 
bodies  for  the  purpose  of  removing  the 
down.  Poultry  can  be  shipped  in  any 
kind  of  packages,  either  barrels  or 
boxes.  The  appearance  of  the  poultry 
has  more  to  do  with  the  sale  of  it  than 
the  kind  of  packages 
in  which  it  is 
shipped.

inflamed  and 

It 

In  selecting  a  shipment  of  poultry  for 
the  market  the  farmer  will  find  it  to  be 
of  advantage  to  have  bis  birds  of  uni­
form  size.  They  look  better and  neater 
and  will  bring  a  higher  price. 
If  the 
birds  are  tied  together  in  pairs  by  the 
necks,  always  select  two  that  look  as 
much  alike as  possible.  Pack  them  all 
neatly,  for  appearance  has  much  to do 
with  finding  a  market  for  them.  Handle 
the  carcass  so  carefully  that  the  light 
outer  skin  will  not  be  broken.  The 
shink  under-skin  showing  through 
in 
spots  detracts  from  their appearance.

There  is  one  thing  which farmers gen­
erally  overlook,  and  that  is  the  saving 
of  feathers,  especially  those  of  the  tur­
key.  At  present  first  grade  feathers  will 
bring  the  following prices:  Turkey tail 
feathers,  36c  per  pound;  wing  feathers, 
25c  per  pound;  body  feathers,  dry

picked,  5c  per  pound.  Chicken  body 
feathers,  drypicked,  S'AC  per  pound. 
Goose  and  duck  feathers,  from  25c  to 
45c  per  pound,  according  to the quality. 
While  it  might  not  pay  to  save  feathers 
from  a  few  fowls,  it  would  undoubtedly 
pay  well  where  a 
large  number  are 
dressed  out,  and  thus  the  fowls  would 
contribute  their  last  item  to  the  poultry 
fund,  which 
is  becoming  such  an  im­
portant  factor  on  the  farm.

P.  H .  S pr a g u e.

Character  in  Hats.

Show  me  how  a  man wears  bis bat and 
I  will  tell  you  what  manner of  man  he 
is.  Notice  yourself  bow  he  wears  his 
headgear  and  you  can  make  a  fair  esti­
mate  of  his  character. 
In  choosing  a 
companion  for  “ life,”   for  business,  for 
an  afternoon’s  jaunt  among  the  hills  or 
a  few 
lazy  hours  on  the  beach,  select 
the  man  whose  bat  seems  to  have  been 
made  for  him  and  which  be  has  set 
squarely  upon  his  head,  as  it  was  de­
signed  to  do,  with  never  a  tilt  to  the 
right  or  left  nor  fore  or aft.  He  is  a 
methodical man  and  a  comfortable  man, 
with  a  rare  endowment  of  common 
sense.  He  is  not given  to  Icariau  flights 
of  fancy.  He  obeys  the  injunction  of 
the  homely  philosopher  who  advised 
all  mankind  to  keep  bis  feet  upon  the 
ground.  His  enemies  never  dreamed of 
calling  him  a  visionary,  although  they 
might  be  heard  to  whisper  behind  their 
bands,  “ prosaic.”   The  man  whose  hat 
habitually  fits  bim  is  a  man  of accuracy 
and  logic.  Men  whose  bats  are always 
too  large  for  them  are  of  reflective 
habits.  They  are  careless of  externals 
and  given  to 
introspection.  They  are 
philosophical  and  likely  to  fall  into  fits 
of  preoccupation. 
They  are  men  of 
large  ideas  and  broad  views.  They  are 
apt  to  ignore  mere  details.  Conspicu­
ously  of  this  class  was the late Mr.  Glad­
stone,  whose  hat  brims always  showed  a 
disposition  to  reach  his  ears.  Men 
whose  hats  are always  too small for them 
are  vain  and 
finical.  The  man  who 
wears  bis  hat  drawn  over  bis  eyes  may 
not  be a  “ crook,”   but  he  is  undoubted­
ly  a  schemer.  He  excels 
in  strategy, 
whether  be  uses  bis  gifts  in  an  army 
campaign  or  in  a  coup  on  Wall  Street. 
He  is  of a  secretive  nature.  He is  self- 
reliant  and  self-centered,  which  is  only 
another  phrase  for  selfish.  He  is  not 
cheerful.  He  is, 
fact,  given  to 
gloomy  meditations.  He  may  be  a 
Macbiavelli  or  he  may  be  only  a  busi­
ness  promoter,  but  he  is  always,  first 
and  foremost,  a  schemer.  Much  more 
does  the  man  who  habitually  wears bis 
hat  pushed  off  his  forehead  enjoy  the 
confidence  of  his  fellowmen.  The  man 
who  wears  bis  hat  as  women  are  wear­
ing  their  newest  bonnets,  off  the  fore­
head,  is  essentially  frank.  He  is  ad­
mired  by  those  who  do  not agree  with 
any  of  bis  views  for  his straightforward­
ness.  He  has  a  joyous  nature. 
If  na­
ture  has  not  gifted  bim  with  a  singing 
voice  he  whistles.  The  man  who  wears 
his  hat  tilted  over  bis  forehead  is al­
ways  an  optimist.  The  man  whose  hat 
slopes  at  the  back  has  unusual  brain 
power.  The 
intellectual  predominates 
his  makeup.  The  man  whose  hat  slips 
qver his  forehead  is  of  strong  material­
istic  tendencies.  The  man  who  wears 
his  hat  at  an  acute  angel  on  the  back  of 
his  head  cares  little Jor  the  convention- 
alties.  He  is  more  tnan  likely  to  ignore 
them.  The  man  who  wears  his  hat 
drawn  forward  may  despise  them,  but 
he  pays  outward  observance  to  them. 
The  man  who  places  his  bat  on one  side 
is  independent.  The  man  whose  bat  is 
perfectly  straight  and  nicely  adjusted 
is a  man  of  mathematical  exactness  of 
purpose  and  practice.

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the  Market.

New  York,  March  11— The  coffee 
market  is quiet;  but  while  the  volume 
of  actual  business  going  forward  is  not 
large,  there  is  a  steady  tone  to  the  situ­
ation  and  sellers  seem  to  be quite  well 
content  with  the  outlook,  as  values  are 
pretty  firmly  maintained.  Rio  No.  7 
remains  at  7%c.  Scarcely  anything  at 
all  was  done  in  invoice  trading.  The 
speculative  market  was quiet  and  with­
in  a  range  that  shows  scarcely  a particle 
of  change. 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are 
1,271,376 bags, against  1,185,313  bags  at 
the  same  time  last  year.  Mild  coffees 
are  rather  depressed,  Good  Cucuta  be­
ing  quoted  at  8K@gc.  East  India  sorts 
are  firmer than  a  week  ago,  but  without 
special  change  in  quotations.

Quotations  on  refined  sugars  being 
guaranteed  by  the  American  Sugar  Re­
fining  Co  ,the  trade  was  large  and  other 
refineries  have  also  guaranteed  prices 
on  some  grades.  All  around,  the  busi - 
ness  has  been  brisk  and  the  situation  is 
a  “ comfortable"  one.  The  American 
Co.  maintains  the  list  price  all  through, 
but  Arbuckles  have  cut  under  i -i6c  on 
Nos.  2  to  7.  Raw  sugar  is  firmer and 
one  refinery  outside  the  trust  made  an 
offer  of  1-32c  advance  in  order  to  ob­
tain  a  cargo  of  8,250  bags  of  Cuba. 
Supplies  generally  are  r  tber  light.

At  the  auction  sale  prices  showed  a 
slightly  lower  range  for  Oolongs,  but  on 
the  street  there  has  been  no  change  and 
the  situation  is  firm  all  around.  Orders 
have  been  rather  limited  as  to  number 
from  both  the  country  and  city  trade. 
Scarcely  anything  is being  done  in 
in­
voice  trading.
There has  been  a  good  call  for  Japan 
rice  and  generally  the  orders  have  been 
for  “ prompt  d e liv e r y b u t   this has  in 
many  cases been  out of  the question  and 
dealers  will  not,  as  a  rule,  take  orders 
for  delivery  before  the end of the month, 
the  quotations  for  such  being  4%@$c. 
Java  rice  has  been  in  lighter  request. 
Domestic  sorts  are  firm  and  the  market 
is  held  at  very  extreme  figures  for  fancy, 
head.  Medium  and 
low  grades  art- 
moving  in  about  the  usual  manner  and 
without 
in  price—4^@ 5';
prime,  5K@ 5&c; 
fancy  head,  6@7
@ 7 # c .

change 

Aside  from  a  little  more  interest  be­
ing  shown  for  cloves  the  spice market is 
without  a  particle  of change.  Pepper  is 
firm  and  supplies  are  not  excessive. 
Singapore  pepper,  ii@ iij^ c;  Zanzibar 
cloves.  7%@7%c.

Transactions 

in  molasses,  while  not 
especially  large,  have  been  of  sufficient 
volume  to  make  a  decent  showing. 
Prices  generally  are  quite  well  adhered 
to  for  the  better  sorts.  Lower grades 
are  rather  “ droopy,"  although  matters 
have  been 
in  worse  shape  and  may  be 
again.  Good  to  prime  centrifugals, 
i6@26c.  Open  kettle,  32@38c.  Not 
much  activity  has  been  displayed  for 
syrups,  but  offerings  are  held  at  full 
values.  Buyers  gain  nothing  by  "shop­
ping"  and  holders  do  not  seem  to  dis­
play  any  anxiety  to  part  with  stock.

As  packers  generally  have  sold  their 
estimated  outturn  of goods,  the  canned 
goods  market  shows  less  activity.  From 
every  quarter  come  reports  that lead  one 
to believe that  the  pack  of  almost every­
thing  in  i8qq  will  be  the  largest  by  far 
that  has  ever  been  put  on  the  market,  if 
the  crops are  good.  Packers  in  many 
cases have  sold  at  last  year’s  quotations 
and  it  is  bard  to  see  just  how  they  are 
going  to  "come  out  even,"  as  the  cost 
of  putting  up  goods  is  almost  sure to  be 
increased  about  5  to  10  per  cent  over 
last  year.  California 
is  looking  for a 
big  peach  crop  and  probably  rejoices 
that  the  outlook  for  peaches  east  of  the 
Mississippi 
is  not  encouraging.  New 
Jersey  tomatoes,  No  3.  are  firm  at  85c. 
New  York  State  are  held  at  the  same 
figures  for  both  spot  and  futures.  New 
York  State  corn,  62j£@7oc  on  the  spot 
and  6o@8oc  for  futures.

Lemons are  in  rather  limited  demand 
and  prices are somewhat depressed.  The 
range  is  from  $2  SS@3  3° a  box.  Flor­
ida  oranges  seem  to  be  in  ample  supply 
here  just  now  and,  as  Jamaicas are  also

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numerous,  the  market  shows some weak­
ness.  Florida  russets  are  worth  $3.25 
@3  75  for  150s  and  $2  75@3  75  for  other 
sizes. 
Best  Californias,  $3.75@4.25 
Bananas  are quiet,  within  the  range  of 
$i@ i. 15  for  firsts.
There  is  a  fairly  good  demand  for 
dried  fruits  and  prices  are  generally 
firm.  No  special  change  has  been  made 
in  quotations.  Two  crown  California 
raisins,  4}i@4%c;  3-crown,  5@5Xc-
The  butter  market  is  steady  and  the 
better grades are selling reasonably well. 
Western  creamery  extras,  20c ;  firsts,  19 
@ig}4c;  seconds, 
i7K@ i8c;  imitation 
creamery,  17@ i8c ;  firsts,  i3@ 14c;  rolls, 
choice,  I4@i4>^c.

Large  size  full  cream  cheese  com­
mand  i i ^ c.  The  accumulation  is  rap- 
loly  being  taken  up  and  the  market  is 
getting 
into  good  shape.  Small  size, 
I2^C .

The  slump 

in  eggs  which  began  a 
week  ago  has  continued  steadily  and, 
as  the  receipts  have  been growing larger 
and 
larger,  the  prices  have  grown 
"downer  and  downer.”   At  the  Ex­
change  on  Friday  sales  were  made  at 
15c  for  strictly  fresh  ;  indeed,  there  are 
no  other  sort  of  eggs  here  just  now.  A 
year  ago  the  price  was  n c   and,  while 
it  is  not anticipated  a  rate like  this  will 
be  made  this  season,  it  is  evident  that 
quotations  will  not  advance  much  over 
those  prevailing  at  present.

Only  a  Dog.

into  the 

Billy  was  legally  sentenced  to  death 
and  executed  yesterday,  and  last  night 
a  weeping  child  mourned  and  refused 
to  be  comforted  because  be  was  not. 
Billy  was  a  dog,  just  a  common  cur, 
with  no  pretensions  to  breeding  that 
would  have  entitled  him  to  a  place  in  a 
bench  show,  and  no  good  looks  to  win 
friends  and  admiration  for  him  from 
the  passing  crowd.  He  was  covered 
with  an  unlovely  ttatch  of  coarse  yellow 
hair  and  be  always  limped  a  little  from 
tie   cruel  blow  that  bad  left  him 
lame; 
but  the  child  who  loved  him  and  whose 
playmate  be  was  took  no  account  of  any 
lack  of  symmetiy  or  grace.  She  only 
looked 
loyal,  honest,  wistfui 
dog  eyes  and  saw  there  that  which 
passed  all  outward  show  of  beauty.  You 
see,  Nellie  had  found  him  herself,  a 
miserable  little  puppy,  half  starved  and 
whining  piteously  where  be  had  been 
thrown  out  to  die.  She  bad  taken  him 
home  with  her,  although  they  were  of 
the  poorest,  and  thereafter  they  bad 
feasted  or gone hungry together, as times 
went,  learning  that  strange  and  touch­
ing  companionship  that  so  often  springs 
up  between  the  very  poor  and their pets. 
Nellie's  mother  went  out  to  work  by 
the  day,  leaving  the  child  to  pass  her 
time  as  best  she  might in  the  dreary  lit­
tle  room  on  the  top  floor  of the tenement 
bouse  in  which  they 
lived.  She  bad 
been  very  lonesome,  for  the  other  chil­
dren  in  the  bouse  were  big,  rough  boys, 
who teased  and  frightened  her,  but  alter 
she  found  Billy  she  was  quite  content. 
They  played  together  until  the  dim  old 
room  rang  with  childish  laughter,  and 
oftener  than  not,  when  the  tired  mother 
climbed  the  stairs  at  night,  she  would 
find  the  little  maid  fast  asleep,  with 
Billy  clasped  close  to  a  heart  that  was 
no  longer  lonely  or  afraid  with  so  much 
faithful  love  beating  against  it,although 
it  was only  a  dog’s.  But  by  and  by  the 
boys  on  the  floors  below,  tiring  of  old 
amusements,  discovered  a  new  and  ex­
quisite  pleasure.  They  found  that  they 
could  tease  Nellie  and  make  her  frantic 
with  fear  and  dread  by  pretending  they 
were going  to  hurt  Billy.  They  would 
seize  him  and.  holding  him  over  the 
well  of  the  staircase,  make  believe  that 
they  were  going  to  drop  him  down,  and 
the  child  would  kneel  to  them,  begging 
with  such  tears  and  supplications  as 
might  have  touched  a  heart  of  stone  for

in  the  band. 

her  pet’s  life.  Finally,  turning 
into  a 
little  fury,  as  the  gentlest  creature  will 
when  forced  to  battle  for  what she loves, 
she  would  fight  her  way  into  the  group, 
and,  seizing  the  dog,  fly  with  him  to 
her  room  and  there  barricade  the  door 
against  her  foes.  At 
last  the  matter 
came  to  a  crisis.  Billy,  being  only  a 
dog  and  not  having  that  exquisite  sense 
of  humor  that  can  find  amusement  in  a 
fellow-creature’s  suffering,  made a fran­
tic  effort and  broke away  from  bis  tor­
mentor.  He  saw  bis  little  mistress 
in 
tears,  and  with  a  growl  of  rage  he  flung 
himself  upon  the  nearest  boy  and  bit 
It  was  the  merest 
him 
scratch,  but 
it  was  enough.  The  boy, 
defeated  and  angry,  set  up  a  bowl.  The 
slatternly  women  on  the  landings,  eager 
for  a  sensation,  took  it  up,  and  almost 
before  one  knew 
it  a  policeman  had 
been  sent  for.  Billy  was  a  dog  and  he 
bad  bitten  a  boy.  He  had  transgressed 
the  law  and  he  must  die.  Thev  surged 
up  the  stairs  and  broke  open  Nellie's 
frail  little  barricade  and  explained  it  to 
her  brutally  enough.  The  dog  must  be 
killed.  Billy  stood  by  her,  wagging 
his 
looking 
doubtfully  about  from  one  to  another. 
Nellie's  arms  clasped  him  tight and fast 
and  her  little  body  shook  pitifully  with 
sobs,  but  they  unfastened  her 
fingers 
from  about  his  neck  and  took  him  away 
to  be  killed.  Late  that  night  the  police­
man  awaked  suddenly,  with  the  whole 
scene  flashing  before  him. 
" I   wish  it 
hadn’t  been  m e,"  he  thought,  uncom­
fortably,  and  then  be  said  to  himself, 
"Pshaw,  what  does 
it  matter!1  Just  a 
dog,  and  a  common  cur  at  thrt. ”   But 
in  the  dreary  room  on  the  top  floor  of  a 
tenement  bouse  a  child’s  face  was  wtt 
with  tears.  She  had  learned  the  first  sad 
lesson  of  loving  and  losing

tail  half-heartedly,  and 

Why Hucksters Can Undersell Grocers. 
From the Springfield, Mass., Republican.

According  to  well  authenticated  re­
ports  a  practice  is  in  vogue 
in  North 
Adams  which  should  be  summarily 
stopped.  This 
is  the  giving  of  short 
weights on  potatoes  which  are  peddled 
about  the  city  by  hucksters.  A  grocer 
who happened to be in  a  produce  market 
on  Center  street  the  other  day  saw  a 
cleik  sacking  potatoes  putting 
50 
pounds  in  a  sack.  His  curiosity  was 
aroused  and  he  asked  why  this  was 
done.  The  answer  was  the  potatoes 
were  sold  by  weight,  and  that  the  buyer 
ordered  them  put  up  that  way.  The 
buyer  was a  huckster,  and.the  clerk said 
many  of  the  hucksters  buy  their  pota­
toes  in  that  way  and  sell  the  50-pound 
bags  for  bushels.  The  wholesaler  was 
disgusted  with  these  fellows,  but  con­
sidered 
it  none  of  his  business,  as  he 
was  selling  potatoes  by  the  pound  and 
the  amount  ordered  was  put  into  each 
sack. 
is  believed  this  fraud  has  be­
come  widespread  in  North  Adams,  and 
the  subject  is  worthy  of  the  attention  of 
the  sealer  of  weights  and  measures  or 
some  other officials.

It 

The  Same  Old  Lie.

From tfie Lynn, Mass , News.

There  is  a  very  affable  young  man 

in 
this  city  who  deals  in  cigars  for  a  liv­
ing.  He  has  a  large  line  of  cigars,  and 
he  knows  how  to  sell  them.  You  go  in 
and  ask  him  what  kind  of  a  cigar a 
certain  brand  is.  Without  a  moment’s 
hesitation  or  the  slightest  embarrass­
ment he tells you  that  it  is  the  best cigar 
in  the  case,  and  that  the  profit  on  them 
is  so  small  that  be  only  keeps  them  to 
accommodate  his  trade.  This  works all 
right  until  some  day  you  go 
in  and 
think  you  will  try  a  different  brand, 
when  upon  asking  what  kind  of  a  cigar 
it  is  he  tells  you  without  a  blush  that  it 
is  the  best  cigar  in  the  case.  He  has 
told  me  this  same  tale  on  about  half  a 
dozen  different  brands,  until  I  am  now 
forced  to  the  conclusion  that  be  is  the 
neatest  approach  to  a  professional  liar 
of  anything  we  have  in  this  city.

What is  “ 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. 
Qua n tity  O n e-T h ir d   may  seem  ab­
surd, but this is
How it is done:

Take, for example,  10 pounds of butter; 
add  5  pounds 01 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.

j 

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.

145  La Salle Street, 

CHICAGO, III.

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Siloes  and  Leather
News  and  Gossip  Pertaining  to  the 

Shoe  Trade.

I  have  been  coining  to  the  market  to 
buy  for a  long  time,  but  this  is  the  first 
time 
in  a  good  many  years  that  I  have 
visited  a  shoe  factory,"   said  a  country 
merchant  during  the  week. 
" I   was  lit­
erally  astonished  at  the  changes  which 
have  taken  place  in  late  years. 
It  may 
seem  strange,  but  it  is  a  fact  that  there 
are  worlds  of  merchants  dealing 
in 
shoes,  and  many  exclusive  shoe  men, 
who  are  not  familiar  to  a  close  degree, 
and  have  but  a  very  general  idea  of  the 
process  and  work  of  the  factory. 
It  is 
an  eye-opener  and  an  instructive and 
valuable 
lesson  to  spend  a  day  in  close 
observation  of  the  making  of  shoes  in  a 
modern  factory. 
It gives  one  new  ideas 
and  makes  the  study  Gf  one's  business 
more 
I 
would  advise  every  merchant  who 
comes  to  the  market  to  visit  two or three 
of  the  great  factories  and  observe  thr 
process  of  making  shoes  as  it  is  carrieo 
on  to-day. 
It  is  simply  wonderful  tht 
progress  which  machinery  has  made 
The  shoe  dealer  who  conducts  a  repaii 
department  in  connection  with bis  stort 
will  have  a  valuable  opportunity  of  con­
trasting  old-time  hand  work  with  tht 
advanced  and  perfected present machin­
ery.  To  say  that  this  observation  wil 
not  be  of  benefit  to  him  is  impossible.
I  count  the  visit  I  made  tj  the  fa cto rs 
this  time  as  a  good  investment. ”

satisfactory  and  profitable. 

*  *  *

‘ ‘ My  shoe trade  has changed consider­
in  a  few  years,"  said  a  merchani 
ably 
in­
this  week,  "the  demand  steadily 
creasing  for  a  sensible  shoe.  When  one 
looks  back  over  the  various  styles  ano 
designs  which  have  bad  a  run  in  shoes 
in  the  past  few  years,  he can find a  great 
deal  in  them  of  discomfort  for  the  shoe 
wearer.  Styles  changed  rapidly  and  the 
shoe  wearer  passed 
through  all  the 
grades.  Things  went  to extremes,as tbe\ 
always  do.  There  are  certain  people, 
it  is  my  observation,  who  want  radical 
changes  and  variety,  but  I  believe  the 
people  who  demand  common  sense  and 
comfort  have  increased  faster  than  the 
devotees  of  fashion. 
is  more  com­
mon  for  people  who  come  into  my  store 
to  say,  ‘ I  want  a  good  fitting  sensible 
shoe. 
I  don't  care  so  much  about  the 
style'  than  it  was  formeily.  Of  course 
there  are  some people who are influenced 
in  buying  by  the  statement  that  a  par­
ticular  shoe 
is  the  fashion  or  is  to  be 
much  worn,  but  I  find  that  common 
sense  and  comfort  are  fast  overriding 
fashion.  Of  course  I  mean  that  people 
want  style 
in  their  shoes,  but  they  are 
more  practical  and want practical styles. 
There  were  formerly  extreme  shoe  de­
signs,  which  I  could  readily  sellbecause 
they  were  said  to  be  fashionable  fads, 
which  I  can’t  handle  at  all  now."

It 

*  *  *

it 

"Trade 

* ‘ I  am  pleased  to  see  the  shoe  jobbers 
getting  together at the rubber question, ”  
was  the  observation  of  one  merchant 
now  buying  in  the  market 
is 
always  more  satisfactory  and  profitable 
when 
is  settled.  Your  competitor, 
when  he  has  no  advantage  over  you  in 
buying,  is  on  the  same  footing  and  the 
chances  are  he  can’t  offer  profitably 
any  more 
inducements  than  you  can. 
Where  there  is  a  regular  market  price 
adhered  to,  there  are always  more  profit 
and  satisfaction.  Rubbers  have  been 
more  or  less  a  source  of  annoyance  witb 
me  and  I  presume  many  merchants  are 
in  the  same  boat  witb  me.  This  has

been  largely  due  to  the  cutting indulged 
in. 
I  have  found  myself  at times  com­
pelled  to  meet  a  competition  in  them 
which  caused  a  loss which I was satisfied 
was  not  sustained  by  my  competitors. 
We’ve  got  to  handle them  and  there 
is 
no 
reason  why  they  should  not  be 
handled  with  profit  and  advantage.  To 
stop  demoralization  in  any  line  of  trade 
is a  good  thing  and  whi  e  the  new  asso­
ciations  among  the  jobbers  are intended 
to  and  will  better  conditions  witb  them, 
I  look  for  it  to  have  a  good  effect  upon 
the  retail  trade,  too."

*  *  *

" I t  seems  to  me  as 

1 ‘ Among  the things I have noticed  par­
ticularly  in  my  trade  this  winter was the 
increasing  enquiry  for  a  shoe  which 
would  keep  the  feet  warm,"  says  a 
merchant. 
if  the 
people  complain  of  cold  feet  more  than 
they  formeily  did. 
In  thinking  about 
this  I  was  inclined  to  the  opinion  fre­
quently  that  people  are  more susceptible 
to  cold  than  they  were  years  ago.  Of 
course  this  was  just  mere  conjecture  on 
my  part. 
I  am  not  speaking  with  ref­
erence  to  the  particularly cold  spells  but 
m  general. 
I  live  in  Iowa  and  there  is 
more of  winter  to  be  encountered  there 
than  a  majority  of  the  merchants  now 
in  the  market  have  to  deal  witb.  The 
protection  of  the  feet from cold of course 
nay  be  secured  by  overshoes  and  arc­
tics,  but  this  is  something extra  and  has 
>t$  objections  upon  the  part  of  many. 
People  as  a  rule  want  cljsely  fitt  ng 
.hoes  and 
in  many  cases  so  cl istlv  tit 
ting  that  the  foot 
is  deprived  of  the 
lay  it  shot If  naturally  have.  These 
jeople  are  the  worst  sufferers  from  cold 
feet. 
It  is  difficult  to  convince  many  of 
hem  that  warm  feet  are  not  caused  by 
be 
leather  of  their  shoes  but  by  the 
feet  themselves,  and  they  insist  upon  a 
leather  which  will  preveit  their  feet 
from  becoming  cold  instead  of  buying  a 
shoe  which  will  permit  a  good  circula­
tion  of  the  blood 
in  the  foot  and  a 
proper  play.’ ’—Shoe  and  Leather Ga­
zette.

The  Hand  of Success.

The  qualities  necessary  to  make  a 
person  successful  in  life  may  be  repre 
sented  by  the  band :  first,  truthfulness, 
by  the  thumb;  second,  promptness,  by 
the  first  finger;  third,  correctness,  by 
the  middle  finger;  fourth,  neatness,  by 
the  third  finger;  fifth,  quickness,  by  the 
little finger;  sixth,  " stick-to-itiveness,”  
by  the  palm  of  the  hand.

These  qualities  all  have  the  same 
ending,  are  easily  remembered,  and 
should  be  cultivated  by every young per­
son  who  would  be  successful  in  any hon­
orable  depaitment  of  human  effort.

A.  N.  F ellow s.

Easily  Recognizable.

Stranger  (at  the  door):  I  am  trying 
to  find  a  lady  whose  married  name  I 
have  forgotten,  but  I  know  she  lives 
in 
this  neighborhood.  She  is  a  woman  eas­
ily  described,  and  perhaps  you  know 
her—a 
singularly  beautiful  creature, 
with  pink  and  white  complexion,  sea- 
shell  ears,  lovely  eyes,  and  hair  such  as 
a  goddess  might  envy.

Servant:  Really,  sir,  I  don’t  know—
Voice  (from  head  of  stairs):  Jane, 
tell  the  gentleman  I ’ll  be  down  in  a 
minute.

Makes  Too  Many Himself.

"D o   you  endeavor  to  profit  by  the 
mistakes  of  others?"  asked  the  curious 
one.

" I   haven’t tim e,”   replied  the  modest 
one. 
" I   have  to  crowd  things  pretty 
bard  to  profit  by  all  the  mistakes I make 
myself.' ’

1899  N et  P rice  L ist  on   C o m b in a tio n s

Combination  “Uncle Sam”

Combination  “A”

(1st  quality  Rubbers  and  1st  quality 

Knit Boots)

Men’s  Knit Boots 

Net per case.
12 prs each.
With 2 bkl. Gum  Perfections.$25  00
With Duck  Perfections........ 24  00
With Gum Perfections..........   22  00
With Gum  Hurons,  Heel......   21  00

Boys’ Knit Boots

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

Youths’  Knit  Boots 

With Gum  Hurons, no Heel. -  14  50 

Terms, Nov.  1,30 days, act.

(1st  quality  Rubbers  and  1st  quality 

Felt Boots)
Men’s White Felt Boots 

Net per case.
ia Pr» 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

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

HEROLD-BERTSCH  SHOE  CO.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS 

OF

RELIABLE  FOOTWEAR

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

5   A N D   7   P E A R L   S T .,  G R A N D   R A P ID S .

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Rindge,  Kalmbach,  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. 

Be  sure  and  see  them  before  placing  your  order.

Qeo.  H.  Reeder & Co.,

19 South  Ionia Street, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the Grip.

President,  Caab.  S.  Stkvens,  Ypsilanti;  Secre­
tary, J  C.  Saunders, Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C. 
Gould. Saginaw,

Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President,  James  E  Dat,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W.  Allen  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 

Grand Counselor, J. J. Evans. Ann Arbor; Grand 
Secretary, G  S. Valmore, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, W. S. West, Jackson.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Geo.  P.  Owen,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Clnb.
President, F. G. Truscott, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  Wixson,  Marquette.

S U C C E S S F U L   SA L E S M E N .

A.  D.  Crain,  Representing  Heath  & 

Milligan  Manufacturing  Co.

Alexander  D.  Crain was born at Rock­
ville,  Ind.,  Aug.  ii,  1851.  His  family 
afterward  removed  to  Terre  Haute, 
where  Mr.  Crain’s  father  achieved  dis­
tinction  as  a  judge of the criminal court, 
as  a  member  of  the  Legislature  and  as 
leading  candidate  for the  United  States 
Senate  at  the  time  of  bis  death.  Mr. 
Crain  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Terre  Haute  until  1868,  when  he  es­
poused  the  occupation  of  pharmacist 
and  worked  two  years  in  the  drug  store 
of  Mahan  &  Davis.  He  then  removed 
to  Burlington,  la.,  where  be  had  charge 
of  the  retail  drug  store  of  C.  P.  Squires 
&  Co.  for three  years. 
In  1873,  he  be­
gan  attending  the  pharmacy  school  at 
Ann  Arbor,  graduating with  high  honor's 
with  the  class  of 
'74.  For  a  year  be 
had  charge  of  the  drug  store  of  A.  S. 
Moncrief,  at  Atlantic,  la.,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1876  he  removed 
to  Des 
Moines.  Ia.,  to  take  a  clerkship  in  the 
retail  drug  store  of C.  W.  Roggs.  Thirty 
days  later  be  was  offered  a  more  lucra­
tive  position  to  travel  through  Central 
Iowa  for  the  wholesale  drug  house  of  E. 
R.  Cary,  which  position  he  filled  with 
satisfaction  to  all  concerned  for  three 
years.  On  the  death  of  Mr.  Cary  the 
stock  was  purchased  by  himself and  two 
associates,  who  continued  the  business 
two  years  under  the  style  of  Mitchell, 
Bartlett  &  Crain. 
In  1881  the  business 
was  merged  into a corporation under  the 
style  of  Mitchell,  Crain  &  Co.  and  in 
1885  the  firm  disposed  of  the  stock  and 
discontinued  business.  Mr.  Crain  then 
formed  an  alliance  with  Coffin,  DeVoe 
&  Co.,  of  Chicago,  with  whom  he  re­
mained  nearly  ten  years,  bis  territory 
including  all 
jobbing  points  from  the 
Mississippi  River  to  the  Coast  and 
from  St.  Paul  to  Memphis.  He  cov­
ered  his  territory  twice  a  year,  and  dur­
ing  this  time  established  a  reputation 
as  a  salesman  which  gave  him  a  stand­
ing  second  to  no  man  in the paint trade. 
In  1885  be  entertained  a  proposition 
from  the  Heath  &  Milligan Manufactur­
ing  Co.  to  cover  Western  Michigan, 
which  be  has  done  for  the  past  four 
years  with  excellent  results.  His  family 
continued  to  reside at  Des  Moines  until 
last  July,  when  they  removed  to  Grand 
Rapids,  locating  at  197  South  Union 
street.

Mr.  Crain  was  married  March  18, 
1879,  to  Miss  Helen  Gertrude  Scott,  of 
Chicago,  with  whom  be  bad  become  ac­
quainted  while  she  was  visiting  her 
uncle  in  Des  Moines.  They  have  had 
two  children,  George,  who 
is  now  18

years  of  age  and  is  attending  the  Grand 
Rapids  high  school,  and  a daughter  who 
died  at  the  age  of  8  years.

Mr.  Crain  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Iowa  State  Traveling  Men’s  As­
sociation  and  is  still  an  active  member, 
having  served  the  Association 
in  the 
capacity  of  Director  and  Vice-Presi­
dent.  He  is  an  attendant  of  Park  Con­
gregational  church,  of  which  bis  wife  is 
a  member.  He 
is  an  adherent  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity  as  far  as  the  Knight 
Templar  degree  and  the  Shrine,  and 
expects  soon  to  transfer  bis  affiliation 
from  Des  Moines  to  Grand  Rapids.

Mr.  Crain  attributes  his  success  as  a 
salesman  to  being  straightforward  and 
honest 
in  all  his  transactions  and  not 
knowingly  misiepresenting  anything  ht 
may  have  to  sell.  He  is  temperate  in 
bis  habits,  having  acted  all  through  lift-

on  the  assumption  that  artificial  stimu 
lants  and  successful  salesmanship  are 
not  compatible.  He  is  not  one  of  the 
kind  of  men  who  can  make  the  largest 
sales  on  bis  first  trip;  on  the  contrary, 
he  is  usually  able  to  make  satisfactory 
sales  on  his  first  trip  and  increase  them 
m  volume  with  every  successive  visit  to 
his  trade.  If  he  can  get  the  attention  of 
a  prospective  buyer,  he  can  usually  suc­
in  making  him  a  customer  and, 
ceed 
invari­
having  gained  that  point,  he  is 
ably  able  to  bold  his  patronage  so 
long 
as  he  remains  in  business.

Personally,  Mr.  Crain 

is  of  a  some­
what  reserved  disposition,  and  it  is  said 
by  those  who  know  him  best  and  esteem 
him  most  that  it  takes  some  time  to  se­
cure  bis  confidence,  but  that  when  the 
ice  is  once  broken  and  the  relationship 
once  established,  the  reserve  disappears 
and  the  many  admirable  qualities  of 
bead  and  heart  present  themselves.  A 
consistent  and  lifelong  Christian  gentle­
man,  loyal  to  himself  and  family  and 
faithful  to  bis  bouse  and  bis  trade,  Mr. 
Crain  has  every  reason  to  regard  his 
past  with  pleasure  and  bis  future  with 
confidence.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Martin  Rice,  of  Maple  Rapids, is  sell­
ing  cigars  for  Bailey  Bros.  &  Co.,  of 
Philadelphia.

Samuel  Harrison,  of  Kalamazoo,  has 
gone  on  the  road  for  the  American  Car­
riage  Co.

Chas.  H.  Maxwell,  a  traveling  sales­
man  for  a  Toledo  shoe  house,  was  badly 
injured  between  Mt.  Morris  and  Flush­
ing  last  Tuesday by  driving off a bridge. 
He  was  unconscious  when  found.

Kalamazoo  Gazette:  Miss  M.  E. 
Martin  has  taken  a  position  as traveling 
saleswoman  for  J.  B.  Welch  &  Co.,  of 
Syracuse.  Her  territory  will  be  Michi­
gan.

Kalamazoo  News:  Lillie Salomon  has 
gone  to  Perry,  where  he  has  taken  a 
position  with  the  Lamb  Glove  and  M it­
ten  Co.  as  traveling  salesman.  He  will 
begin  a  vigorous  campaign  through  the 
Central  States.

F.  E.  Bushman,  who  has  traveled 

in 
this  State  for  the  past  eight  years  for 
Rube  Bros.  &  Co.,  of  Allentown,  Pa  , 
Has  engaged  to  take  charge  of  the  cigar 
iepartment  of  Phelps,  Brace  &  Co.,  of 
Detroit,  the  engagement  to  take  effect 
March  15.  Mr.  Bushman  has  had  along 
and  varied  experience  in  the cigar busi­
ness,  beginning  as  a  cigarmaker,  after­
ward  as  the  owner of  a  successful  cigar 
factory  and,  still  later,  as  a  cigar  deal­
er,  jobber  and  traveling  salesman.  He 
takes  to  his  new  position  all  the  experi­
ence  gleaned  during  his  years  of 
inti­
macy  with  the  business,  and  will  un­
doubtedly  make  a  record  which  will  be 
satisfactory  to  himself  and  profitable  to 
his  house.

R.  N.  Hull,  editor  of  the  excellent 
traveling  men’s  department  of  the  Ohio 
Merchant,  thus  chronicles  the  move­
ments  of  a  gentleman  who  formerly cov­
ered  Western  Michigan  for  Franklin 
MacVeagh  &  Co.,  of  Chicago:  Chas. 
M.  Falls  was 
in  Cleveland  the  other 
day  enroute  from  Boston  to  Chicago. 
His  headquarters  are  in  the  latter  city, 
while  he  promotes  traffic  for  a  coffee 
importing  house  in  the  “ Hub.”   Mr. 
Falls  at  one  time  represented Spaulding 
&  Merrick, 
tobacco  manufacturers, 
through  Ohio  and  the  East.  A  large 
number of  the  old  regulars  formerly  en­
gaged  in  the  tobacco  selling  department 
have  gone  into  the  coffee  line,  and  this 
particular  field 
is  as  well  worked  now 
as  in  any  other  staple article.  Good men 
are  still  in  demand  in  both  lines.

One  of  the  swell  hotels  in  Boston  has 
issued  a  ukase  against  the  ubiquitous 
drummer  that  has  caused  no  small  ex­
citement  at  the  Hub.  The  proprietor 
of  two  of  the  most  famed  hotels  of  that 
metropolis,  Parker's  and  Young’s,  has 
recently  built,  furnished  and  opened  an 
inn  whose  claim  for  patronage  rests  up­
on  the  same  grounds  that  the  Astoria, 
of  New  York,  has  so  successfully  occu 
pied—that  is  to  say,  furnishing  all  the 
eclectic  luxuries  and  elegances  of  life, 
occidental  and  oriental. 
Into  this  hotel 
have  come  the  princely  merchants  of

the  West  and  South,  combining  in  their 
visits  to  Boston  their  commercial  er­
rands  with  all  the  comforts  of  a  home. 
Thither  have  come  also  to  seek  them 
the  drummers,  and  in  such  numbers  as 
to  interfere  with  the  comfort  of  guests, 
who  claim  not  to  find  there,by  reason  of 
the  presence  of  these  gentlemen,  that 
quiet,  scholarly  atmosphere  for  which 
the  city 
is  famous.  Accordingly,  and 
in  deference  to  this  defined  source  of 
discomfort,  the  proprietor  of  the  Tour­
aine  has  ordered  the  salesmen  to  seek 
their  customers  on  better  chosen  hunt­
ing  grounds.  The  annoyance 
in  the 
hotel  has,  therefore,  ended,  but  trouble 
among  the  drummers  has  just  begun, 
and  indignation  in  the  local commercial 
circles  rages.

Body  Blow.

“ There  was  a  poor  tramp  here  this 
afternoon,”   said  the  young  wife.  “ The 
poor  man  was  worrying  over  his  next 
meal,  he  told  me. ”

“ I  wonder,”   said  the  husband,” if 
worrying  over  the  next  meal 
is  any 
more  torture  than  worrying  over  the 
last  one. ”

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M ICHIGAN  S T A T E   B O A R D   O P   P H A R M A C Y .
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-  Dec. 31,1890 
Dec.  31,1900
-  Dec. 31,1901 
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A. C. Schumacheb,  Ann  Arbor 
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Secretary, A. C. Schumacheb, Ann Arbor. 
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President—J. J. S o u r w in e ,  Escanaba. 
Secretary, Chas.  F.  Mann, Detroit. 
Treasurer-J o h n  D.  M u i r , Grand Rapids.

Where  Distilled  Water  Is  Absolutely 

Necessary.

There 

inferior  article 

is  scarcely  an  article  in  the 
United  States  Pharmacopoeia  which 
is 
so  neglected  by  druggists  and  for  which 
an 
is  so  often  substi­
tuted  as  that  of  distilled  water.  Many 
druggists  know  this  important  factor  in 
the  drug  business  by  the  name  only; 
others  may  have  bottles  on  their  shelves 
with  labels  indicating  that  they  are  the 
containers  of  aqua  destillata,  but  what 
do  we  find  in  these  bottles?  As  a  rule  it 
is  either  old  and  contaminated  distilled 
water,  kept  there  more  for  show  than 
for  use,  or  it  is  ordinary  well  or  water­
works  water  of  a  varying  degree  ci  pur­
ity.  Only  a  small  minority  of  the  drug­
gists  keep  constantly  on  hand  a  fresh 
supply  of  distilled  water  for  consump­
tion 
in  their  prescription  work.  The 
utter  neglect  to  use  distilled  water 
where 
is  demanded  or  where  it  by 
right  should  be  used,  as  shown  by  many 
druggists,  is  sometimes  really  astonish­
ing.  Precipitated  or  cloudy  mixtures 
are  often  dispensed  where  perfectly 
clear  solutions  could  have  been  had  if 
distilled  water  had  been  used  as  the 
solvent. 
1  have  repeatedly  beard  drug 
gists  complain  of  the  poor  quality  of 
their  chemicals,  when  in  fact  the  blame 
actually  was  to  be  found  with  the  im­
pure  water  they  were  using. 
It  is  uni­
versally  recognized  that  no natural water 
is  sufficiently  pure  for  pharmaceutical 
purposes.  No  matter  how  pure  and 
sparkling  it  is,  it  always  contains  more 
or  less  fixed  or  volatile  foreign  constit 
uents.  Absolutely  pure  water  can  only 
be  obtained  by  distillation.

it 

The  Pharmacopoeia  demands  that 
distilled  water  should  be  used  in  more 
than  seventy  different formulas,  and  this 
does  not 
include  the  list  of  reagents, 
which,  of  course,  must  be  prepared  with 
pure  distilled  water,  inasmuch  as  they 
are  made  for  the  sole  purpose  of  testing 
chemicals  for 
impurities.  How  many 
druggists  are  aware  of  the  fact  that 
lime-water  must  be  made  with  distilled 
water  according  to  the  pharmacopoeia? 
It  is  also  demanded  that  aqua  ammonia 
and  liq  plumbi  subacet.  dilut.  shall  be 
made  with  distilled  water,  but how often 
It  is  a  common  occur­
is  it  so  made? 
rence  to  find  that  lead-water 
is  dis­
pensed  as  a  milky-white  fluid  with  a 
heavy  precipitate  of  carbonate,  and  to 
find  aqua  ammonia  with  a  bulky  brown­
ish  ferruginous  sediment;  while  in  fact 
both  of  these  solutions  ought  to  remain 
clear 
if  properly  made  with  distilled 
water.

It  can  not  be  too  strongly  urged  that 
only  distilled  water  should  be  used  in 
preparing  solutions  of  salts  of  certain 
metals,  such, 
for  instance,  as  silver 
nitrate,  lead  acetate,  zinc  chloride,  po­
tassium  permanganate,  mercuric  chlor­
ide,  iron  sulphate;  and  also  in  making

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

solutions  of  morphine  sulphate, atropine 
sulphate,  cocaine  hydrochlorate,  and  in 
fact  all  of  the  alkaloids  and  their  salts, 
If the  water  used  in  making solutions  of 
these  salts  is  not  entirely  free  from  im­
purities,  new  chemical  compounds  are 
formed  which  will  produce,  sooner  or 
later,  either  precipitation,  coloration 
or discoloration.  Yet  many  a  druggist 
does  not  for a  moment  hesitate  to  sub­
stitute  what  he  calls  a  pure  water  for 
the  distilled  water  prescribed.  Such  a 
substitution,  however,  must  be  consid­
ered  a  grave  one  in  instances  where  the 
pharmacist 
is  preparing  delicate  eye­
waters,  hypodermic  solutions,  or  re­
agents  for analytical  purposes.

Pure  distilled  water ought  to  be  kept 
in  every  drug  store.  And  in  order  to 
be  assured  of  getting  a  fresh  and  pure 
article  every  druggist  ought  to  make his 
own  supply.  Distilled  water  obtained 
from  the  jobber or  manufacturer  is  not 
always  of  the  best  quality.  Once  I  re­
ceived  from  a  wholesale  drug  bouse  a 
supply  of  distilled  water  which  con­
tained  more  solids  and  more  chlorine 
than  did  the  water  I  took  from  the  fau­
cet.  The  committee  on  adulteration, 
New  York  State  Pharmaceutical  Asso­
ciation,  reports  finding 
in  samples  of 
distilled water  as  much  as  50  parts  solid 
to  100,000  parts,  while  according  to  the 
last  report  of  the  Wisconsin  Dairy  and 
Food  Commissioner,the average  amount 
of  solids  found 
in  twenty-two  samples 
of  water  taken  from  the  public  supply 
amounted  only  to  43  parts 
in  100,000 
parts.

The  druggist,  however,  can  always 
have  on  band  a  fresh  and  pure  supply 
of  distilled  water  by  owning  a  still  aud 
by  taking  the  proper  care  in  operating 
it.  Especially  should  care  be  taken  to 
make  the  receiving  bottle  as  chemically 
clean  as  possible;  and  a  little  absorbent 
cotton  should  be  packed  around  the con­
ducting  tube  where  it  enters  the  mouth 
of  this  receiving  bottle.  As  the  cost  of 
making  a  supply  of  distilled  water  for 
the  store,  aside  from  the  cost  of  the  ap­
paratus,  is  only  that  of  the  fuel  con­
sumed,  there  is  really  no  excuse  for  not 
having  it.  The  operation  of  setting  up 
and  running  the  still  is  a  comparatively 
easy  one,  and  one  in  which  the  average 
apprentice  takes  more  than  ordinary  in­
terest.  Besides,  the  still  when  working 
is  likely  to  attract  the  attention  of  cus­
tomers  who  chance  to  be  present  at  the 
time.

it 

But,  as 

im portant  a ; 

in  a  pure  state. 

is  for  d ru g ­
gists 
to  get  a  supply  of  distilled   water, 
just  as  im portant  is  it  to  keep  this  su p ­
ply 
If  not  properly 
preserved,  d istilled   wateT  w ill  readily 
absorb 
from  the  dust  and 
gases 
If  an  ordinary  glass- 
stoppered  shelf-bottle  is  used  it  m ust  be 
thoroughly  cleaned  every  tim e  it 
is  re­
filled,  and 
is  advisable  to  put  an  in ­
verted  cap  of  p ap er  or  glass  over  the 
stopper.

im p u rities 
in  the  air. 

it 

O tto  J.  S.  Bo b e r g .

Peculiar  Clock.

A  Lewiston,  Me.,  merchant  has 

in 
his  store  an  old-fashioned  clock  which 
is  peculiarly  sensitive. 
It  sometimes 
stops,  and  if  any  one  steps  into the store 
or  goes  by,  it  will  start  again,  and  if  a 
horse  steps  on  a  certain  spot  in  the 
it  will  start.  A  man  who  hap­
street 
pened  to  notice 
it,  and  who  had  one 
like  it  himself,  said  that  bis  would  not 
run  after he  bad  started  his  furnace 
in 
the  fall. 
In  the  spring,  after  be  ceased 
to  keep  a  fire  it  would  run  all  right.

Some  people  think three  or  four  times 
before  speaking  once  and  then never say 
anything  worth  listening  to.

Putting  Copy  of  Prescription  on  the 

Label.

in  our 

A  practice  is  spreading  to an  alarm­
large 
ing  extent,  particularly 
cities,  of  writing  on  each  prescription 
(and 
in  many  cases  printing  in  bold 
type),  “ Put  copy  on  the  label.”   Upon 
enquiring  of  some  of  the  writers  of  such 
prescriptions  what  their  special  object 
was  in  writing  for a  copy,  it  was  st Ted 
that  they  desired  to  keep  track  of  their 
prescriptions  and  this  was  the  simplest 
plan.  One  busy  practitioner  frankly  ad­
mitted  that  it  was  largely laziness.  Very 
few  of  these  busy  men,  however,  realize 
the  evil  and  pecuniary  loss  which  this 
practice  often  entails.  Naturally  the 
patient 
looks  upon  the  matter  from  a 
commercial  standpoint;  be  pays  for  the 
services  of  bis  physician  just  as  he  does 
for  those  of  bis  lawyer,  dentist,  or  shall 
we  say  barber?  Suffering  from  bron­
chitis,  bis  doctor  is  summoned,  and 
after taking  one  or  two prescriptions  the 
patient  tecovers.  A  month  afterward, 
recognizing  the  symptoms  in  the  next 
attack  as  similar  to  those  experienced  a 
month  before,  ¡he  does  not  take  the 
trouble  to  summon  his  physician,  but 
has  the  prescriptions  renewed,  and  is 
at  once  attracted  by 
their  efficiency. 
Having  the  names  of  the  ingredients al­
ways  before  him  on  the  bottle,  be  is 
soon  encouraged  to  experiment with  this 
marvelous  cough  medicine,  and  some­
times  gets  the  ingredients  in  quantities 
and  compounds  them  at  borne.

It  is  true  that if the patient determines 
to  go  into  self-medication,  he  could  get 
copies  of  the  prescriptions and  embark 
in  the  enterprise  of  making  cough  med­
icines,  and  this  has  been  done;  but  if 
the  practice  of labeling  all  prescriptions 
in  this  way  becomes  general,  it  will  un­
doubtedly  result  in  furnishing  the  laity 
with  that  most  dangerous  thing,  “ a  lit­
tle  knowledge.”   How  common  it  is  to 
hear  men  and  women,  boys  and  girls, 
discourse  most  learnedly  of  the  value  of 
antipyrin,  phenacetine,  nux  vomica, 
calomel,  etc.  Self-medication  is  one  of 
the  great  evils  of  the  day.  Are  not 
physicians  encouraging  the  practice  by 
placing  permanently  before  the  eyes  of 
the  patient  the  exact  quantities  of  the 
ingredients  used 
in  the  prescription? 
There  is  no  necessity  for  mystery,  but 
surely  every  proper  interest  is  strength­
ened  and 
forwarded  by  withholding 
from  the  patient  the  knowledge  of  the 
constituents.  At  the  present  time  there 
seems  to  be  a  wave  flowing  over  the 
country  of  catering  to  the  public  curi­
osity 
it  not be 
very  difficult  to  restore  the  old  order  if 
the  physicians  continue  to  yield?  The 
public,  having  once  tasted  of  what  they 
think  is  freedom  from  secrecy,  will  re­
gard  a  return  to  the  old  way  as an  inter­
ference  with  their  liberty  and  rights.

in  this  respect.  Will 

Another  form  of  laziness  with  some 
practitioners 
is  to  direct  an  original 
bottle  of  some  proprietary  medicine, 
one  of  the  new  German  combinations 
we  will  say,  having  a  circular  with  full 
description  of  its  merits  and properties. 
The  patient  upon  recovery,  and  after 
studying  the  literature  of  this marvelous 
liquid,  naturally  concludes  that  the  man 
who  is  deserving  of  the  most  credit  for 
the  cure  is  not  the  doctor  who directs it, 
but  the  manufacturer  who  makes 
it 
How  is  it  possible  for physicians to con­
sistently  decry  proprietary  and  patent 
remedies  when  they  so  frequently  direct 
their  patients  to  use  them  because 
them  so  convenient  and 
“ they 
effective?”   How 
is  the dignity  of  the 
profession  and  its  knowledge  of  thera­
peutics  advanced  by  such  empirical

find 

methods?  How  often  do  we  bear  the 
busy  practitioner  say,  with  apparent 
cheerfulness,  *  I  don’t  know  and  I don’t 
care  what 
is  in  that  medicine;  I  know 
what  it  will  do,  and  that  is  enough  for 
my  purpose. ”   The  laity  is  surely  be­
ing  educated to believe  that  the  medical 
man  knows  no  more  than,  and  scarcely 
as  much  as,  the  marvelous  genius  who 
has  put  together  a  mixture  which  sells 
everywhere  and  apparently accomplishes 
such  great  results.  This  association  can 
exercise a  great  influence,  if  it  will,  by 
asking 
its  members  absolutely  to  de­
cline  to  prescribe  any  combination,  tbe 
constituents  of  which  are  unknown  and 
the  properties  of which are not thorough­
ly  tested ;  and 
if  practitioners  will  ab­
stain  from  placing  before  their  patients 
tbe  constituents  of  the  prescriptions 
which  they  have  ordered,they will  avoid 
training  them  in  habits  of  self-medica­
tion,  which  is  universally  recognized  as 
destructive  to  their own  best interests.

Jo s e p h   P.  R em in g t o n ,

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Is  rather  firm  at  tbe  decline 

noted  last  week.

Morphine— Is  unchanged,  although  on 
lower  prices  for  opium,  a 

account  of 
decline  is  looked  for.

Quinine— Has  again  advanced  and 

is 
very  firm  and  higher  prices  are  looked 
for.

Citric  Acid— Is  firm  at  the  recent  ad­
vance  and  higher  prices  are  looked  for, 
on  account  of- strong  position  abroad.

Alcohol—While  there  has  been  no 
change 
in  price  from  the  distiller,  de­
moralization  among  jobbers has  lowered 
prices.

Cocaine— Is  firm  and,  owing  to  scar­
city  and  high  prices  for  leaves,  another 
advance  would  not  surprise  any  one.

Essential  Oils— Lemon  and  bergamot 
have  declined.  Wintergreen  has  ad­
vanced  and  is  very  firm.  Pimento  has 
advanced,  owing 
to  high  prices  for 
berries.

Paris  Green— Has  advanced  and,  on 
account  of  the  high  price  for  copper,  is 
likely  to  be  higher  when  tbe  active  de­
mand  sets  in.

Ten  Out  of  Fifty-eight.

Ann  Arbor,  March  10—The  Michigan 
Board  of  Pharmacy  held  a  meeting  at 
Grand  Rapids  March  7  and  8,  1899. 
There  were  fifty  eight  applicants  pres­
ent  for  examination,  forty-one  for  regis­
tered  pharmacist  certificate  and  seven­
teen 
for  assistant  papers.  Six  appli­
cants 
received  registered  pharmacist 
papers  and  four  assistant  papers.  Fol­
lowing 
is  a  list  of  those  receiving  cer­
tificates :

Registered  Pharmacists—W.  D.  Ly­
man,  Muskegon;  J.  E.  Osborn,  Dowag- 
ia c ;  C.  B.  Shuman,  Manistee;  A.  1W. 
Olds,  Grand  Rapids;  John  Neuman, 
Detroit;  T.  V.  Benedict,  Grand  Rap­
ids.

Assistant Pharmacists—E.  J.  LaLonde,
E.  A.  Sepull,  Alpena;  H  C.  Hewitt, 
Jackson ;  E.  W.  Hackmutb,  Big Rapids.
All  members  of tbe  Board  were  pres­

ent  at  the  meeting.

The  next  meeting  of  tbe  Board  will 
be  held  at  Star  Island  June  26 and  27. 
Tbe  election  of  officers  takes  place  at 
the  June  meeting.

A.  C.  Schumacher,  Sec’y.

Thermohydrotherapy.

A  colored  woman  went  to  the  pastor 
of  her  cbucrh  the other  day  to  complain 
of  tbe  conduct  of  her  husband,  who,  she 
said,  was  a  lowdown,  woitbless,  trifling 
nigger.  After  listening  to  a  long  recital 
of  the  delinquencies  of  her  neglectful 
spouse  and  her  efforts  to  correct  them, 
the  minister  said:

“ Have  you  ever  tried  heaping  coals 

of  fire  upon  bis  head?”

" N o ,"   was  the  reply;  "but  I  done 

tried  hot  water.”

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

Morphia,S.P.AW...  2 20® 2 45 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
C.  Co....................  2 10® 2 35
Moschus Canton.... 
©  40
Myristica, No. 1......  
65®  80
Nux Vomica...po.20  ®  10
15©  18
Os  Sepia...  ........... 
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
©  1  00
D. Co.................... 
Plcis Llq. N.N.H gal.
doz........................ 
© 2 00
Plcis Llq., quarts__ 
©  1  00
Plcis Llq., pints.__ 
©  85
Pil Hydrarg.. .po.  80 
®  50
Piper Nigra...po.  22  @ 1 8
Piper Alba....po.  35  @  30
Pilx  Burgun........... 
7
Plumbi  Acet........... 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1  20 
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
© 125
AP. D. Co.,doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv........  25©  30
Qnassi®................. 
8®  10
41®  46
Quinia, S. P. A W.. 
34®  44
Qninia, S.German.. 
Quinia, N.Y............  
39®  44
Kubla Tinctorum... 
12® 
14
SaccharumLactis pv  18®  20
Salacln....................  3 00® 3 10
Sanguis Draconls... 
40®  50
Sapo,  W................... 
12©  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
Sapo, G.................... 
©  15
Siedlltz  Mixture  ..  20  ©  22

© 
10® 

Voe8.........................  

Slnapis........................  @ is
Slnapis, opt................   @ ao
Snuff, Macqaboy,De
© 34
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s 
©  34
Soda Boras..............  9  © 
11
Soda Boras, po........  9  ©  11
26©  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb.............   1K@ 
2
3© 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
5
Soda, Ash...............   354® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........  
© 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @  2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
Spt  Myrcia Dom... 
@ 9 00
Spts. Vlni Rect. bbl.  @
Spts. ViniRect-Hbbl  @
Spts. Vlni Rect. lOgal 
©
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @
l  20® 1  35
Strychnia,Crystal... 
Sulphur,  Subl.........   23i@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2}4@3H
Tamarinds.............. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice... 
28®  30
Theobrom®............   46©  48
Vanilla...................  9 00®16 00
Zinci  Sulph............  
8

7® 

Oils

BBL.  SAL.
Whale, winter......... 
70
70 
Lard,  extra.............  55 
60
Lard, No. 1.............. 
40 
45

19

46
47
70
60

Linseed, pure  raw..  43 
Linseed, boiled......   44 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  52 
Paints  BBL. 

LB
Red Venetian.........  144  2  @g
Ochre, yellow Mars.  1%  2  ©4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  Hi  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2V  2V4@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2%  2V@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13® 
15
Vermilion, English.  70® 
75
Green, Paris...........  13V4®  1754
Green,  Peninsular..  13® 
ig
Lead, Red...............   ali®  6m
Lead, white............  s i®   6)4
Whiting, white Span 
©  70 
Whiting,  gilders\.. 
©  to 
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00
Whiting, Paris  Bng.
cliff......................  @ 140
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra  Turp............   1  60®  1  70
Coach Body............   2 75© 3 00
No. 1 Turp Fum __  1  00©  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55©  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No. lTurp  70®  76

 

 

Conitun  Mac........... 
35®  50
Copaiba....................  l i&@ i  25
Cubebae...................... 
90® 
Bxechthltos 
1  00®  1  10
Brlgeron.................  l oo@  1  10
Gaultherla..............  l  50®  1  60
Geranium,  ounce...  ® 
75
Gossippil, Sem. gal..  50®  60
Hedeoma..................  1 on®  1  jo
J uni pera...................  1 50® 2 00
Lavendula..............  90® 2 00
Limonio....................  1 30®  1  40
Mentha Piper.........   l  60® 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   l  50®  1  60
Morrhu®,  gal.........   1  10®  1  25
Marcia,......................4 00® 4 5Q
75® 3 00
Olive 
Plcis  Liquida.........  
io® 
12
®  35
Plcis Liquida, gal... 
Moina ....................  
900  100
Rosmarini...............  
®  l 00
Rosa,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
! Docinl...................  40®  45
»»bina................... 
90®  1  00
Santal......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras.................  55®  60
Sinapis, ess., ounce.  @  65
.....................   1 70®  1  80
Thyme.  ..  .............  40®  50
opt............  
®  1  60
Tneobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
15®  18
Bl-Carb................... 
Bichromate............  
13® 
15
Bromide..................   S'®  57
Carb....................... 
12® 
15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®  18
..............   2 40® 2 50
Iodide... 
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
12
Potass Nitras........... 
n
Pressiate:...............   20®  25
Sulphate p o ........... 
jg

® 
10® 
10® 
15® 

Radix

Aeonltvm...............  
2o@  &
22®  25
...................... 
Anchusa................. 
10® 
t2
gai“ “n s .................  20®  40
g fn tia n a......po  15 
la® 
,5
Glvehrrhiza... pv. 15  16®  18
Hydrastis Canaden .  @ 
*5
®  90 
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore,Alba, po.. 
18®  20
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po............... 3 90® 4 on
Iris plox— po35®38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   25®  30
Maranta,  %s........... 
®  35
Podophyllum, po....  22®  25
5{|®{>0nt................. 
®  1  25
75®  1  35
Bbei*JP7..................  
Splgefia. 
.............. 
35®  38
Sanguinaria... po. 15  @ 
13
Serpentari a ............   30®  35
f?r>ega 
.............. 
40®  45
Similax,officinalis H 
®  40
M...............   @  25
10®  12
Selli®.............po.35 
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
®  25
dus,  po................. 
®  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zirngbera............. 
  12®  J6
Zingiber]...............  
25®  w
Semen

Anlsum.........po.  15  @ 1 2
13® 
Apium  (graveleons) 
15
Bird, Is.................... 
4® 
6
Carni.............po. 18 
io®  12
Cardamon................   1 25®  1  75
Cortanarum............  
|q
Cannabis  Satlva__  4V4®  5
Cydonium............... 
75©  1  00
Cnenopodlum........ 
10® 
12
Diptertx  Odorate...  1  40®  1  50
Foenlculum............   @ 
jo
Pcenugreek, po........ 
7® 
9
4®  4£
Lini,  grd....bbl. 3}< 
Lobelia..................   35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4®  4V4
4%(ch 
Rapa................. 
5
SinapisAlbu........ 
9® 
10
Slnapis  Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Spirltus 

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R ..  2 00® 2 25
Frumenti 
...............1 25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T ..  1  65® 2 00
Junlperis Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum N. E ....  1  go® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli........  1  75® 5 50
Vini Oporto..............  1 25® 2 00
Vini  Alba.................  1 25® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage............... 2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............   2 00® 2 25
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......  @ 1  25
Extra yellow sheeps’
woof,  carriage__  @  1  00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............  
©  1  00
©  75
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use.............. 
®  1  40
Syrups
Acacia.................... 
©  50
©  50
Aurantl Cortes........ 
Zingiber..................  @  50
©  60
Ipecac. 
.......... 
Ferri Iod......   ........  @  50
Rhei Arom.............. 
©  50
Smilax Officinalis... 
50®  60
Senega.................... 
©  50
a   g
spili»,  . 

 

1  00

10® 

ntscellaneons

ScillsCo.................  @ 
sc
Tolutan................... 
sc
© 
Prunus vlrg............   @  5C
Tinctures
Aconitum N a pel lis R 
0C
Aconitum Napellls F 
sc
Aloes.......................  
6C
60
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
sc
A m ica.................... 
Assafoetlda............  
5®
6C
A trope  Belladonna. 
5<]
Aurantl  Cortex...... 
60
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma.................  
50
Cantharides........... 
75
Capsicum........... 
50
Cardamon..........  
75
Cardamon  Co.........  
75
Castor...................... 
1  ¿O
Catechu................... 
50
Cinchona.................................50
Cinchona Co........... 
60
Columba 
go
............. 
Cubeba....................  
50
Cassia  Acutifol...... 
50
50
Cassia Acutifol Co  . 
Digitalis  ........ 
go
Ergot......................  
50
Ferri Chloridum 
35
Gentian..................  
go
Gentian Co.........  
go
Guiaca.....  ...........  
go
Gulacaammon__ _ 
go
Hyoscyamus.........  
50
Iodine...................... 
75
Iodine, colorless... 
75
so
Kino......................... 
Lobelia.............  
so
M yrrh................... 
50
Nux Vomica........... 
50
Op}}......................... 
75
Opii, camphorated. 
50
I  50
Opii,  deodorized.  .. 
Quassia.................  
50
go
Rhatany.................. 
Rhei.......................  
go
go
Sangnlnarla........"  
Serpentaria............  
so
Stramonium........... 
60
Tolutan..................  
go
Valerian................. 
go
50
Veratrum Vende... 
Zingiber..................  
20
Æther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30®  35
Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen...................  2M® 
3
3® 
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
4
Annatto  ... 
40®  50
........ 
Antlmoni,  po.........  
4® 
5
Antimon! etPotassT  40®  50
Antipyrin.............. 
©  35
©  21»
Antlfebrln 
.......... 
Argent! Nitras, oz .. 
©  50
Arsenicum.......... 
12
Balm Gilead  Bud  ..  38®  40
Bismuth  8. N........  1  40©  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  Is 
@ 9
® 
Calcium Chlor., 
10
Calcium Chlor.,  ^ s 
® 
12
Cantharides, Rus.po  @  75 
Capsici  FructU8, af.  ® 
15
Capslci Fructus, po.  ® 
15
®  15
Capsici FructusB.po 
12®  14
Caryophyllus. .po. 15 
© 3 00
Carmine, No. 40.... 
Cera Alba...............  
50®  55
Cera Flava.............. 
40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus..]...  @  33
Centrarla................. 
© 
10
Cetaceum...............] 
©  45
Chloroform..........  
50®  53
Chloroform, squlbbs  @  1  10 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  65®  1  90
Chondrus............. 
20®  25
Clnchonidine,P. A W  25®  35 
Cinchonldine, Germ  25®  35 
Cocaine..................   3 80®  4 CO
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct
Creosotum........  
©
©
Creta.............bbl.'75 
©
Creta, prep............  
Creta, preclp........ 
9©
©
Creta, Rubra.........  
Crocus..................  
is©
Cudbear.............. 
©
Cupri Sulph...........  6*®
10®
Dextrine.................. 
Ether Sulph............ 
75®
®
Emery, all  numbers 
Emery, po.............. 
@
Ergota............ po. 40 
30©
Flake  White........... 
12®
Galla.... 
-
®
Gambler.
Gelatin, Cooper
. 
_   60
......  
©
35©  60
Gelatin, French......  
75 &  10
Glassware, flint, box 
Less than  box__ 
70
9© 
Glue,  brown........... 
12
Glue, white............  
13®  35
Glycerins...............  
14©  30
Grana  Paradis!  .... 
©  25
HnmulU8................. 
25©  55
®  90 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
Hydrasg Chlor Cor.  @  80
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
©  1  00 
©  1  15 
Hydraag Ammoniati 
HydraagUnguentum  45©  55
Hydrargyrum.........  
©  75
Icnthyobolla, Am... 
66©  75
Indigo.....................  
75©  1  00
Iodine, Resubl........  8 60© 3 70
Iodoform................. 
© 420
Lupulin................... 
© 225
Lycopodium........... 
40©  45
Macis 
65©  751
Liquor  Arsen et Hy
drarg Iod.............  
©
LiquorPotassArsinit  10©
2©
Magnesia, Sulph__ 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
© 
Mannia, 8. F 
50©
»   3 25 1
Menthol. 

........... 

.. 

su
5
1014
15
«6
5
I  40
40

6
8
14
14

I  00

! 25
50
I  00

15
8
30
55
! 75
50
55

18
12
18
30
20
1212
12
15

25
30
12
14
15
17

15
: 25
75
40
15
2
50
7

14
25
35

30
25
30
20
10

65
45
35
28
80
14
12
30
60
28
55
13
14
16
59
10
00
70
30
0000
40
4
35
45
80

25
2025
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
22
25
36

*0
50
25
00
50
90
80
90
65
75
70
50

PAINT AND 
ARTIST’S
BRUSHES

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

F lat W all  bound  in  rubber, 

brass  and  leather 

Oval  Paint  Round  Paint 

Oval  Chisel  Varnish

Oval  Chisel  Sash

Round  Sash 

W hite W ash   Heads 

Kalsom ine

Flat  Varnish 

Square and  Chisel

All  qualities  at  satisfactory  prices.
Cam el  Hair  V arnish 

Flow ing

Mottlers 

Color
Badger  Flowing,

single  or  double 

C.  H.  Pencils,  etc.

HAZELTINE  &  PERKINS 

DRUG  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

G R O C E R Y  P R I C E  C U R R E N T .

The  prices  quoted  in  this  list  are  for the  trade  only,  in  such  quantities  as  are usually purchased  by retail 
dealers.  They  are prepared  just  before  going to press  and  are  an  accurate index  of the  local  market. 
It  is  im­
possible to  give  quotations  suitable  for  ail  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.

Banna.

Barrels  ............................2 60
Flake, 50 lb.  drams.........1 00
Dried Lima  ..................... 
5j<
Medlnm Hand Picked 1  2'® 1  25 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported. 25 lb. box.......2 50
Common...........................   2 0
Chester............................   2 25
Em pire............................   2 75
Green, Wisconsin, bn..... 1 00
Green, Scotch, bn........... 1  10
Spilt, bn...........................2 50

Pearl Burley.

Pena.

Rolled  Onto.

Rolled Avena,  bbl.......4 00
Monarch,  bbl..................3 81
Monarch,  »   bbl.............2 06
Monarch, 90 lb sacks.......1  80
Quaker, cases.  ................8 20
Huron, cases...................2 00

Sago.

Tapioca

German............................   4
East  India........................  3»
Flake— ........................  
5
Pearl................................ 
4»
Anchor, 401 lb. pkges.... 
5»
Cracked, bulk...................  3»
24 2 lb packages...............2 50

Wheat.

SALT  FISH.

Cod.

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

Herring.

riackarel.

Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 25 
Holland white hoop »bbl  5 25 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mens 
80
Norwegian....................... .........
Bound 100 lbs...................  3 10
Round  40 lbs...................  1  40
Scaled...............................  
14
Mess 100 lbs......................  15  00
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  *
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  36
No. 1100 lbs......................  13 25
No. 1  40 lbs......................  5 60
N0.1  10 lbs......................  148
No. 1  81bs......................  180
No. 8100 lbs......................  11  50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4  90
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  30
No. 2  8 lbs......................  107
5 25 
2 40 
68 
57
Fun 
2 75 
100 lbs
1 40 
40 lbs
43 
10 lbs
37
8 lbs
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS,

N0.I   No. 2
.  7 CO 6 50
2 90
.  8  10
80
85
66
71

White flsb

Trout.

N0.I

1 50 No. 1100 lbs.
1 65 No. 1 U) lbs.
2 00 No. 1 10 lbs.
8 lbs.
5
6
7
8
9»

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 dos in case.
Gall Borden  Eagle............. 6 75
Crown................................. 6 25
Daisy...................................5 75
Champion  ...........................4 50
Magnolia 
...........................4 25
Challenge............... 
8 35
Dime .  ................................. 8 86

 

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Orade.

Superior Orade.

Universal Orade.

Economic Orade.

Coupon Paaa Books,

denomination from 610 down.

50 books, any denom__   1  50
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books, any denom....11 50 
,000 books, any denom....20 00 
50 books, any denom....  1 50
100 books, any denom___ 2 50
500 books  any denom__ 11  50
.,000 books, any denom__ 20 00
50 books, any denom....  1 50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom.... 11 50 
L000 books, any denom....20 00 
Can be made to represent any 
20 books  ........................  1 59
50 books.................................2 00
100 books..............................  * 00
250 books...............................  6 85
500 books................................10 00
1000 books................................17 50
50 books, any denom—   1 50 
100 books, any denom....  8 50 
500 books, any denom.... 11 50 
,000 books, any denom —  20 00 
500, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 6 00
8000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch................. ••»  75
d r ied  P R u rrs-D o n B sn c  
Sundried............ -.......   ©J$
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ®9» 
Apricots....................  ©
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................  ©
Peaches.......................®  ©l®
Pours 
.............. . . .  D
Pitted Cherries...........
Prnnnelles..................
Raspberries........  —
100-180 85 lb boxes.........   © 4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   © »
80-90 85 lb boxes.........   © »»
70-80 25 lb boxes.........   © 6 »
60-70 25 lb boxes.........   © 6*
50 -60 25 lb boxes.........   © «
40-50 25 lb boxes.........  ©10
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........   ©
u  cent less In 50 lb cases 

California Pranas.

California Fruits.

Credit Checks.

Apples .

Raisins.

London Layers 2 Crown. 
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Peel.

Raisins.

Currants.

Leghorn...........................©12
Corsican...........................
Patras bbls.......................© jjH
Cleaned, bulk  ................. © »
Cleaned, packages.......... © 6»
Citron American 10 lb bx ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©10» 
Orange American 10 lb bx  ©10» 
Ondura 28 lb boxes......  ©
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crow n........  ©
Sultana 8 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sultana RCrawn.........   ©
Sultana 6 C row n........  ©
Sultana package.........   ©
FARINACEOUS OOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages.............1  50
Bulk, per 100 lbs.............3 50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Farina.

Otite.

AXLB GREASE.
dos.
Aurora........................55
Castor Oil...................80
Diamond.....................50
Fraser’s ..................... .75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
rtlca, tin boxes...........75
Paragon......................55

gross 
6 00 
7 00 
4 00 
0 00 
9 00 
9 00 
600

Acme.

Absolute.

lb can  dos........ 

BAKING  POWDER.
■ 'b cans dos................... 
»  lb Jans dos................... 

45
85
..... 1 60
w lb cans 8 dos.................  45
lb cans 8 dos................   75
lb oana I dos.................   I 00
Balk.........................  
10
6 os. Eng. Tumblers...........  85
v  lb cans per dos.............  75
»  lb cans per dos  ...........   1 80
lb cans per dos............8  00
1 
w lb cans 4 dos case........ 
35
»  lb cans 4 dos case........ 
55
lb cans 8 dos case........ 
90

Arctic.
El Purity.

Homs.

 

7 T3-El

Oar Leader.

Jersey Cream.

w lb cans, 4 dos case........ 
45
» lb cans, 4 dos case........  85
lb cans, 2 dos case........1 60
1 lb. cans, per dos............... 2 00
9 os. cans, per dos.............   1  25
6 os. cans, per dos.............  
85
u  lb cans..........................  45
X lb cans..........................  
75
lb cans..........................  1  58
1 lb. cans  ......................... 
85
3 os., 6 dos. case................   2 70
6 os., 4 dos. case 
............ 3  20
9 os., 4 dos. case.................. 4  80
1 lb., 2 dos. case.................. 4 00
5 lb., 1 dos. case...................9  00
American........ 
7V
English....................................80

BATH  BRICK.

Queen Flake.

Peerless.

 

 
BLUING.

tm m d

BROOrtS.

CANNBD GOODS.

Small, 3 dos.......................  
40
Large, 2 dos.......................  
75
Ho. 1 Carpet.......................  s  30
No. 2 Carpet.........................2  la
No. 8 Carpet.......................  l  85
No. 4 Carpet.......................  1  45
Parlor Gem............................  2 50
Common Whisk.................   90
Fancy Whisk..................... 
95
Warehouse................................2 70
Tomatoes...................  80®  90
Com  ..........................   80®1  00
Hominy......................  80
Beans, Limas..............  70®1 30
Beaus, Wax................  90
Beaus, String.............   85
Beans,  Baked............   75®1 00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  75®  85
Succotash...................  95®1  20
Peas............................  50®  85
Peas, French.............. 2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.................  15®  22
Peaches, P ie ...............1 00
Peaches, Fancy..........1  40
Apples,  gallons.........   @2  90
Cherries  ....................   90
Pears..........................   70
Pineapple, grated.......2 4O
Pineapple, sliced........2 25
Pineapple,  F arren....l  70
Strawberries...............1  10
Blackberries..............  80
Raspberries................  85
Oysters, 1-lb................  85
OyBten, 2-lb................1  45
Salmon, Warren’s __ 1  40®1  60
Salmon,  Alaska..........1  25
Salmon, Klondike......  90
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 20 
Lobsters, 2-lb. Star.... 3 90 
Mac'-erel,l lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, 1-lb. Sott6ed.l  75 
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato. 1  75
Shrimps.......................2 00
Sardines, » s domestic  3»@ 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5»®  7» 
Sardines.  French.......8  ® 82

CANDLES.

16s................................
Paraffine.......................
Wicklng................  ....

CATSUP.

Columbia, 
pints......
Columbia, »  pints......

CHEESE
Acme......................
Amboy....................
Emblem....................
Gold Medal.............
Ideal.......................
Jersey  ....................
Riverside.................
Brick.......................
Edam.......................
Leiden.....................
Limbnrger..............
Pineapple.................50
Sap  Sago.................
Chicory.
Balk  ..........................
....................
Red 

.8 00

.1  85

©  12 
©
©
©
9
@  12» 
©©  12 
©  70 
©  17 
©  13 
©  75 
®  17

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker A Co.’s.

German Sweet........................23
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, 78 ft,  per  dos............   96

COCOA SHBLLS.
801b  bags.......................  
Less quantity................. 
Pound packages............. 
CRBAT1 TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk In sacks..........................89

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3
4

COFFEE.
Roosted.

*oe-

F air........................................ »
Good.......................................10
Prim e..................................... If
Golden  .................................. 13
Peaberry  ............................... 14
Fair  .......................................M
Good  ..................................... 15
Prim e..................................... 1®
Peaberry  ............................... 18

Santee.

Maracaibo.

Prim e......... ....................... 
15
Milled....................................  17

Java.

Interior.................................?0
Private  Growth....................  3j
Mandehling..........................   35

Mocha.

Im itation...............................82
Arabian  .................................28

Roasted.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co-’s Brands
Fifth  Avenne......................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha....29
Wells’ Mocha and Java-----24
Wells’ Perfection Java...... 24
Sancalbo............................. 21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo........18»
Ideal  Blend.........................14
Leader Blend......................18»

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit on  the 
Invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  bnyer  pays  from  the 
market  In  which he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  or  package,  also » c  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
Is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   10  60
Jersey..............................  10 50
rtcLanghlln’s  XXXX.......
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mall  all orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.

Extract.

Valley City »  gross......  
75
I  15
Felix »  gross.................  
Hummel’■ foil »gross... 
86 
Hummel’s tin »   gross... 
1  48
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxes......  ..................40

INDIOO.

Madras, 5 lb  boxes.............  66
S. F .,2 ,3 an d 5 lb boxes....  50

SAUERKRAUT.

Barrels..............................  4 75
»-Barrels..........................  2 60

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

Kegs 
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 25
‘ lb. cahs..............................  30
» lb . cans............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

K egs........................................ 4 25
Half Kegs......................   .. .2 40
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 35
'lb .c a n s.........   ..................  34

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs..........................................8 00
__ f Kegs................................4 25
Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
'lb . cans..............................  45

JBLLY.

15 lb palls................. -.........  *5
SO lb palls............................   65

LYE.

Condensed, 2 dos  ...............1 JO
Condensed. 4 dos.................... 8 »

Scotch, in bladders.............  87
Maooabov, In Jars................  86
French Rappee, In Jars......   43

SNUFF.

SBBDS.

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

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Table, cases. 84 3-lb  boxes. .1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Butter, barrels, 880 lb. bmk.2 25 
Butter, barrels,2014 lbbags.8 50
Bntter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   55

LICORICE. 

_
Pure.....................................   5
Calabria..............................  ®
Sicily....................................  «
B o o t....................................  ®

Common Oradas.

100 8-lb sacks.........................1 95
605-lb sacks.........................1 80
2810-lb sacks....................... 1 65

MINCE MEAT.

Worcester.

Ideal, 3 dos. in ease................. 2 25

HATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

No. 9 sulphur...........................J ®
Anchor parlor..........................} 70
No. 2  Home.............................. » 1«
Export  Parlor......................... 4 00

lb. cartons................8 25
50  4 
115  2»lb. sacks....................4 00
lb. sacks................... 3 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks...............  .8 50
8010 
lb. sacks....................8 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk In barrels....................2 50

nOLASSBS.
New Orisons.

Black...............................  
F a ir.............................
Good............................
Fancy  .............................
Open Kettle.................
Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216...........•.........1 JO
Clay, T. D. full count........  66
Cob, No. 8..........................  
85

POTASH.

48 cans in case. 

. „
Babbitt’s...................................J 00
PennaSalt  Co.’s...................... 8 00

PICKLES.
Hedlnm.

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

Small.

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

Warsaw.

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

J1

Ashton.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60

Higgins.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60

Solar Reek.

66-lb  sacks...................  ....  21

Common.

Granulated Fine.................   65
Medlnm  Fine......................  75

SOAP.

J A X O N

 

Single box.................  
2  °5
5 box lots, delivered.......... 2 r0
10 box lots, delivered..........2 75
JA8.8. KIRK S GO/3 BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.................................... 2 75
Cabinet.................................2 90
Savon....................................2 50
White Russian.....................2 35
White Cloud,  laundry........6 25
White Cloud,  toilet.............3 50
Dnsky Diamond, 50 6 OZ....2 10 
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 os... .3 00
Bine India, 100 \  lb.............3 00
Klrkollne............................. 8 50
Eos.......................................2 50

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  ..8 75 
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars....8 75
Uno, 100 M-lb. bars............ 8 50
DoU, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 8 05

Scon ring.

Sapollo, kitchen, 8 d o s...... 8 40
Sapollo, hand, 8 d o s...........8 40

SODA.

Boxes  .................................6»
Kegs, English....................   4R

Jennings’

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

D. C. Lemon 
2 os.— .  75
3 os........ 1  00
4 os........ 1  40
6 os........2  00
No.  8.. .2  40
No. 10.. .4  00
No.  2 T.  80
No.  3 T.l  26
No.  4 T.l  60
Pare Brand.
Van, 
Lem.
1  20
2 oz. Taper Panel..  75
1 *0
2 oz. Oval..............  75
2 00
3 oz. Taper Panel.  1  35
2 25
4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60
PLY PAPER.
Tanglefoot, per box...........  36
Tanglefoot, per case...........3 20
Holders, per box of 50........  75
Sage.. 
Hops .

HERBS.

RICB.

Domestic.

Carolina bead....................   6»
Carolina  No. 1...................  6
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................   8»

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1.............  6»© 6
Japan,  No. 2............   4»© 5
Java, fancy head........5  © 5»
Java, No. 1.................   5  ©
Table............................   ©

SALBRATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s .............................8 80
Deland’s .............................8 15
Dwight’s .............................8 80
Taylor’s.............................. 3 00

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls..............   75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  90
Lnmp,bbl8.......................   75
Lamp, 1451b kegs..............  86

24 2 lb. packages.................1 80
100 lb. kegs........................ 2 70
200 lb. barrels.....................5 10J

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

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

SPICES.
Whole Bitted.

Pare Oround In Balk.

Allspice  ............................. 14
Caulk, China In mats..........12
Cassia, Batavia in bund....25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........ 82
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zanslbar..................12
Maoe,  Batavia.....................55
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs. No.  2...................45
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................. 23
Mace,  Batavia.....................65
Mustard......................... 12@18
Nutmegs,...................... 40050
Pepper, Sing, black............15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage......................................15

SYRUPS.

Cera.

Barrels...............................  17
Half  bbls.............................1»
1 doz. 1 gallon cans............2 90
1  doz. <4 gallon cans.......1  70
2  doz. M gallon  c a n s...... 1 75
Pair  .................................  16
Good.................................  20
Choice..............................  25

Pure Cane.

STARCH.

Kingsford’s  Cera.

401-lb packages...................8
201 lb packages...................6M

Kingsford’s Silver Olees.
401-lb packages...................6%
6-lb boxes.......................... 7

Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ............... 5 00
128  5c  packages.................5 00
82 10c and 64 5c packages...5 00

Cernia nn Cera.

201 lb. packages..................5
401 lb. packages..................4 \

Common Olese.

1-lb  packages......................4M
3-lb  packages......................  4M
8-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 20

SUGAR.

......................... 5 25

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which he
iiurchases to his shipping point, 
ndudlng  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino.................................... 5 38
Cut  Loaf...................................5 63
Crushed.................................... 5 63
Powdered 
XXXX Powdered.....................5 38
Cubes.......................................5 25
Granulated In bbls...................5 13
Granulated In  bags.............5  13
Fine Granulated...................... 5 13
Kxtra Fine Granulated.......5 25
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 25
Mould  A.................................. 5 38
Diamond Confec.  A........... 5  13
Confec. Standard A..................5 00
No.  1....................................... 4 75
No  2....................................... 4 75
No.  8....................................... 4 75
NO.  4  .................................4 69
No.  5.......................................4 63
NO.  6....................................... 4 56
No.  7.......................................4 60
No.  8....................................... 4 44
No.  9....................................... 4 38
No.  10.......................................4 81
NO.  11......................<.......... 4 81
No.  12.......................................4 81
No.  18....................................... 4 81
No.  14.......................................4 81
NO.  15.......................................4 81
No.  16....................................... 4 81

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brand. 

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

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

S. C. W...........

.35 00

Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands.

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

TABLB  SAUCES.

Lea A Perrin’s,  large...  4 75 
Lea A Perrin’s, small...  2 75
Halford,  large...............   3 75
Halford small...................325
Salad Dressing, large...... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small...... 2 75

VINEGAR.

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

WICKINQ.

No. 0, pergross....................   20
No. 1, pergross....................   25
No. 2, per gross....................   36
No. 3, per gross....................   55

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Butter.

Seymour XXX...................  5ft
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family X X X ....................   5%
Salted XXX  ......................  6
New York m .................  e
Wolverine.........................  6
Boston................................  7%

Soda.

Soda  XXX  ........................  6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__  0%
Soda,  City............ ............  8
Long Island Wafers......... 11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Zephyrette...........................10
Saltine Wafer....................  5%
SaltineWafer, 1 lb  carton.  6%
Farina Oyster.......................   5 »
Extra Farina Oyster..........  6
SWEET  OOODS—Boxes.

Oyster.

Animals............................  10%
Bent’s Water......................  15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   lu
Coffee Cake,  Iced..............  10
Cracknells...........................15%
Cubans  .............................   11%
Frosted  Cream...................  8
Ginger Gems......................  8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  7%
Graham Crackers  ............   8
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................   8
Jumoles,  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......  8%
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......   7%
Sears’Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sugar  Squares.................   9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas........................     12%

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene......................  @11%
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @10
W W Michigan...........  © 9%
Diamond White.........  © 8%
D., S. Gaa....................   @12%
Deo. N aptha..............  @12%
Cylinder....................29  @34
Engine.......................11  ©21
Black, winter.............  © 8

Candies.
Stick Candy.

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

Mixed Candy.

@ 6
Grocers.................... 
Competition............ 
@  6%
Standard.
_  7 
Conserve........
© 7% 
Royal..............
© 7% 
Ribbon.............
© 8% 
Broken...........
@© 8 
Cut Loaf.........
English Rock.. 
©  8 
Kindergarten.. 
© 8% 
French  Cream. 
© 9
Dandy Pan.
mo
Hand Made Cream mxd  @13 
Italian Crm Bnbns, 35 lb p s  11 
Molas  es Chews,  15 lb. palls  13 
‘-Alla Samee,” 
51b. pails  12

Fancy—In Bulk.

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

© 8%
© 8%
©10%
©12
© 5
© 8
© 8%
© 9

Fancy—In g  lb.  Boxes.

©50
Lemon Drops.........  
Sour  Drops............  
©50
©60
Peppermint Drops.. 
©60
Chocolate Drops__ 
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
©75
H. M.  Choc.  Lt.and
Dk. No. 12............. 
@90
Gum  Drops............  
©an
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
©50
Lozenges,  plain.... 
Lozenges, printed..  @50
Imperials................ 
©50
Mottoes................... 
©65
Cream Bar.............. 
©50
Molasses B a r.........  
©so
Hand Made Creams.  80  ©  90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Want............  
@65
String Rock............  
©60
Burnt Almonds...... 125  ©
Wintergreen Berries 
©50
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  .................
Fruits.
Oranges.
Fancy Navels.........
Choice...................
Seedlings................
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 360s.............
Ex.Fancy 300s........
Ex. Fancy  360s........
Bananas.
Medium bunches... 1 00  @1  85
Large bunches........1 50  @1  75

@3 75
@3 50
2 50@2 75

©35
©50

©3 50
@3 50
@3 76
@4  (JO
©

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Pigs.

Californias  Fancy..
Choice, 101b boxes..
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............
Fancy, 12 lb boxes..
Imperial Mikados. 18
lb boxes...............
Pulled, 6 lb boxes...
Naturals,  in  bags...
Dates.
Fards in 10 lb  boxes
Fards  in  60 lb  cases
Persians, P H V......
lb cases, new........
Sairs,  601b cases....
Nuts.

@14
@13
@18
@22
©
©
© 7

@10
@  6
©  6
©  6
© 5

Almonds, Tarragona..  @16
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @15
Brazils new................  ©  8
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Granobles..  @13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @li
Walnuts,  soft shelled
Calif.......................   @tl
Table Nuts,  fancy__  @11
Table Nuts,  choice...  @10
Pecans, Med....... .....  ©7%
Pecans, Ex. Large....  @ 9
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............   @1  60
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  ©4 00
Chestnuts per bu.......   ©4 00

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................  @7
Choice, H. p., Extras.  © 4%
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
5%
............... 

Roasted 

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

5%

Batters.

AKRON STONEWARE. 
%gal., perdos  ...............  45
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
8 gal., each......................  52
10 gal., each.....................  65
12 gal.,  each......................  78
15 gal. meat-tubs, each__1  05
20gal. meat-tubs,each.... 1  40 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ...2 00 
80 gal. meat-tubs, each. ...2 40 
to 6 gal., per gal............  
6
Chum Dashers, per doz...  85 
% gal. flat or rd.  bot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5%

Mllkpanz.

Chnrns.

Fine a  lazed Mllkpanz.

Stewpens.

% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5% 
% gal. fireproof, ball, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, doz.l  10
M gal., per doz..................  40
% gal., per doz..................  50
' to 5 gal., per gal.............  6%

Jnga.

Tomato Jugs.

Sealing Wax.

% gal., per doz.................   50
1 gal., each......................  8%
Corks for % gal., per dos..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dot..  30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
% gal., stone cover, dos...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00
5 lbs. In package, per lb...  2
LAMP BURNERS.
No. 0 Sun........................ 
  33
No.  1  Sun..........................  
34
No.  2 Sun..........................   46
No. 3 Sun...........................   1 00
Tubular.............................  
50
Security, No. 1...................  60
Security, No. 2...................  80
Nutmeg  ............................   50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 dos.
No.  0 Sun............   ...........  1 32
No.  1  Sun..........................   1 48
No.  2 Sun..........................   2  is
No. 0 Sun...........................   150
No. 1 Sun...........................  1  60
No. 2 Sun...........................   2 45

Common

First  Qnnllty.

No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

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

top,
top,
top,

XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
I  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

top,
wrapped and labeled....  2 55 
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled__  8 75
CHIMNBYS—Pearl  Top.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................3 70
No.  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled..............................4  88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bnlb,” 
for Globe Lam os............  
80

La  Bnstlo.

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
dos  .................................  9
No. 2 Suu,  plain  bulb,  per
dos  ................................   1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per dos......... 1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per dos......... 1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c dos)........8 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)........4 00
No. 2, Flint (800  dos)........4 70

Rochester.

Electric.

OIL CANE. 

No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  ........ 4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c dos)........  4 40
Dos. 
1 gal tin cans with  spont..  1  25
1 gal galv Iron with spout.  1  48
2 gal galv Iron with spout.  2 48
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3 32 
5 gal galv Iron with  spout.  4 28 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4  17 
5 gal galv Iron with  faucet 4  67
5 gal Tilting cans................7  25
5 gal galv Iron Nacefas....  9 00

Pomp  Cons.

5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7 80 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3  gal Home Rule.............10 50
5 gal Home Rule................12  00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9 60

LANTERNS.

No.  0 Tubular side lift....  4 00
No.  1 B  Tubular................6  26
No. 13 Tubular Dash. 
....  6 60 
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  OC
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........  8 76
LANTERN GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 dos.
each, box 10 cents........... 
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 2 dos.
each, box 15  cents.........  
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 6 dos.
each, bbl 8R....................... 
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
cases 1 dos. each....... . 

45
45
I
l ts

Swift  A  Company  quote  as

follows:

Barreled Pork.

Mess  ............................ .  10 00
Back  ......................10 50©
Clear back..............
©10 2'
Shortcut....................... .  10 00
Pig................................ .  14  00
Bean  ..........................
9 50
Family  .......................
.  11  0J
Dry Salt Meats
Bellies.........................
5%
Briskets  ......................
5%
Extra shorts...............
5M
Smoked neats.
8%
Hams, 12 lb average  ..
Hams, 14 lb  average
8M
Hams, 161b  average...
7%
7%
Hams, 20 lb  average...
Ham dried beef  .........
11
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).
5%
Bacon,  clear............... 7  @7%
California hams.........
5%
Boneless hams............
8%
Cooked  ham............... 10@12%

. 

Lards.  In Tierces.

Compound...................
4%
Kettle..........................
6%
55 lb Tubs......... advance 
%
80 lb Tubs......... advance  M
%
50 lb T ins......... advance 
20 lb Pails......... advance 
%
10 lb Pails......... advance 
%
1
5 lb Palls......... advance 
3 lb Palls......... advance 
1%

Sausages.

Bologna......................
Liver............................
Frankfort....................
P o rk ............................
Blood  .........................
Tongue .......................
Head  cheese...............

5%
6%
7%
6%
6
9
6%

Beef.

Extra  Mess................. ..10 25
Boneless  .................... ..12 7i
Rump.......................... ..12 50
Pigs’ Foot.
Kits, 15 lbs...................
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs.............. ..  1  35
%  bbls, 80 lbs.............. ..  2 50
Kits, 15 lbs..................
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs..............
%  bbls, 80 lbs.............. ..  2 25

Tripe.

Casings.

20
3
10
60

11
10%
15%
14»

Pork............................
Beef  rounds...............
Beef  middles............
Sheep.........................
Butterlne.
Rolls, dairy...............
Solid,  d a iry ..............
Rolls,  creamery........
Solid,  creamery........
Canned Moots.
Corned beef,  2 lb  ...
..  2 15
Corned beef, 14  lb__ ..14 75
Roast  beef,  2  lb__ ..  2  15
50
Potted  ham,  M8__
Potted  ham,  %s__
90
Deviled ham,  Ms__
50
Deviled ham,  & __
90
Potted  tongue Ms__
50
Potted  tongue %s....
90

.. 
.. 

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

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

.................... 7%© 8

© 7
©  5%

Mutton

Pork.

Veal.

Hides  and  Pelts.

Hides.

The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Green No.  1................
© 8 
© 7 
Green No. 2.............   .
Bulls.......................
@ 6 
© 9 
Cored No. 1................
Cured No. 2................
© 8 
Calfskins,  green No. 1 
@10 
Calfskins, green No. 2 
@ 8%
Calfskins, cured No. 1
Calfskins, cured No. 3 @  9%
gal.
50© 1  00
2 00 Pelts,  each.................
1  65
1  20 No. 1...........................
@ 3%
1  10 No. 2...........................
© 3%
1  00
1 25 Washed, fine  ............
©18
Washed, medium.......
©23
Unwashed, fine_____11  @13
81  50 
Unwashed, medium ..16  ©18
U  00

Pelts.
Tallow.

Wool.

Wheat.

67

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

Local Brands.

Patents............................. 4 on
Second  Patent...................3 50
Straight............................  3 26
Clear..................................3 00
Graham  ............................3 50
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, %s.............................3 75
Daisy, Ms.............................3 75
Daisy, %s.............................3 75
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, %s.......................   3 50
Quaker, Ms........................  3 50
Quaker, %s........................   3 50
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
PiUsbury’s Best %s...........  4 30
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 20
Pillsbury’s Best %s...........4  10
Pillsbury’s Best %s paper..  4  10 
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4  10 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.

Spring Wheat Flour. 

Meal.

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Duluth Imperial, %s...........4 35
Dulutb Imperial, M8...........4 25
Duluth Imperial, %s...........4  15
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal %s.......................  4 25
Gold Medal Ms.........................4 15
Gold Medal %s.........................4 05
Parisian, %s...........................  4 ¿5
Parisian, Ms............................. 4 15
Parisian. %s...........................   4 05
Ceresoia, %s......................   4 35
Ceresota, Ms......................  4 25
Ceresota, %s......................  4  15
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Laurel, %s..............................  4 35
Laurel, Ms.............................   4 25
Laurel, %s..............................  3 15
Bolted...................................   1 90
Granulated............................  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__ 16 50
No. 1 Com and  Oats..........16 00
Unbolted Com Meal..........15  10
Winter Wheat  Bran..........14 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 15 00
Screenings..............................13 00
New com, car lots...............35%
Less than  car lots............   37%
Car  lots............................. 32%
Carlots, clipped.................  34%
Less than  car lots.............36
No. 1 Timothy carlots......   9 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  ..  1ft 00
Fish  and  Oysters

Feed and Mlllstuffs.

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

Per lb
© 9
© 9
8  © 11
© 15
© 5
© 11
© 24
© 26
© 10
© 8
© 8
© 7%
© 6
© 8
© 8
© 12
© 16
©  38 
©  70 
©  27 
22
©  20

Fresh Fish.

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

Oysters In Cans.

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22

Arbitrary  Store  Rules  Harmful  to  Em­

ployes.
Written for the T r a d e s m a n .

It  is  a  question  if  the  ironclad  rules 
adopted  by  many  of  our  retail  concerns 
are  conducive  to  best  results,  when  the 
success  of  profitable  retailing  is  consid­
ered  in  all  its  bearings,  which  not  only 
depends  on  store  discipline,  but  on  re­
taining  the  hearty  co-operation  of  store 
force,  best  maintained  when  that  force 
works 
in  harmony  with  the  bouse  and 
department  heads,  which  is  seldom  done 
so  well by  the  arbitrary  force  of  rules  as 
by  the  more  humanly  liberal  means  of 
interesting  the  heart  and  bead,  as  well 
as  bands,  in  the  service  of  the  store.  To 
be  sure,  some  regulations  must  be  made 
and  their  observance 
insisted  on  by 
those  in  authority ;  but  these  must never 
be  greater  than  the  power  that  created 
them,  hence  can  be  set  aside  as  oc­
casion  seems  to  demand 
leniency  or 
when  common  sense  dictates  their  un­
fitness  for  the  specific  case.  For  in­
stance,  a  rule  which  states  the  exact 
minute  a  clerk  must  be  in  his  place  in 
the  morning,  subject  to  a  fine  entirely 
disproportioned  to  the  offense,  is a  rule 
that  never  ojght  to  be  on the regulations 
governing  the  actions  of  a  store  em­
ploye,  or, 
if  there,  then  not  enforcea 
until  after  the  delinquent  has  a  chance 
to  justify  his  act  by  reasonable  expla­
nation.  Very  few  profitable  clerks  will 
be 
late  unless  unavoidably  detained, 
neither  will  a  good  employe  habitually 
infringe  store  usages  as  relate  to  time 
of  beginning  or  leaving work ;  and wbeD 
a  store  has  the  hearty  co-operation  ana 
good  will  of  all  its  employes  it  is  bound 
to  meet  the  approval  of  the  purchasing 
public,  which 
is  the  verdict  which 
either  makes  or  breaks.

into 

Many  a  first-class  clerk  has  been 
spoiled  by  the  senseless  ruling  of  some 
irresponsible  department  head,  who  by 
some  elasticity  of  management  woulo 
have  proven  of  intrinsic  value.  Many 
of  the  arbitrary  rules  governing  em­
ployes’  acts  in  and  about  our  business 
houses  are  frustrated  by  not  changing  to 
conform  to  changeable  requirements.  A 
rule  or  set  of  rules  is  made governing 
the  business  when  new.  The  helpers 
employed  are,  to  all 
intents  and  pur­
poses,  merely  mechanical.  Time  de­
velops  the  business  and  changes  the 
automatic  help 
live,  active  men, 
who  use  their  brains  as  well  as  hands; 
the  business  grows,  but  that  old  rule  or 
set  of  rules 
is  held  in  force  so  rigidly 
that,  through forcing  these  men  of  ideas 
to  abandon  a  business  so  hampered with 
ironclad  rules, 
it  kills  the  business. 
And  for  what purpose?  Merely  to  main­
tain  “ the  dignity  of  the 
firm,”   by 
maintaining  the  rigidity  of  rule  instead 
of  fostering  and  maintaining  the  dig­
nity  of  manhood  by  making  it  self- 
respecting,  which  alone  can  command 
the  respect  of  outsiders.  Through  no 
other  source  so  well  may  the  salesman’s 
influence  and  worth  be  made  a  profit  to 
the  store  employing  his  services;  and 
we  hold  the  opinion  that  no other one 
thing 
is  quite  so  conducive  to  loss  of 
self-respect  among  employes  as  when 
the  store  rules  arbitrarily  demand  of 
them  automatic  instead  of brain service.
The  public  exploitation  of  some  petty 
violation—not  to  say  the  frequent  en­
forcement— of 
inconsequential  rule  or 
regulation  tends  to  stamp,  in  the  public 
eye,  each  and  every  employe  as  un­
trustworthy,  hence  tends  to  weaken  the 
respect  the  public  ought  to  have  for 
those  who  serve  them 
in  your  stead, 
which  respect  is  necessary  for  your  fu­
ture business.

You  ask,  How  may  a  store  be  man­
aged  without  a  set  of  rules?  We  reply, 
Any  merchant  combining  business  tact 
with  energetic  diplomacy  can  rule  bis 
employes  with  a  bond  stronger than  the 
strongest  ironclad  rule  could  make 
it— 
through  the  personal  respect  in  which 
his  employes  bold  him,  which  is  but  a 
reflection  of  his  own  manner  towards 
them. 
In  other  words,  respect  for an 
employe  begets  respect  in  him.  Trust­
ing  the  clerk  in  minor  matters  makes 
him  trustworthy in  things  of  greater  im 
port.  Humanity  demands  that* we  do 
not  expect  something  for  nothing,  and 
sees  to  it  that we get  disappointed  if  we 
look  for 
look  for 
growth  in  anything  made  a  slave  we  an­
ticipate  the  improbable.  Fasten  an  iron 
band  around  a  tree  and 
its  doom  is 
sealed 
is  to  remain  there.  No 
business  ever  was  ruined  by  the  first 
promulgation  of  a  set  of  rules,  no  mat­
ter  how  arbitrary;  but,  when  allowed  to 
gain  the  supreme  position  of  mastery, 
doom 
in  large  and 
burning  letters.

it,  hence  when  we 

is  written  thereon 

if 

it 

It 

Now  this  must  not  be  construed to  say 
or  imply  that  the  merchant  must  drop 
those  means  commonly  used  to  insure 
accuracy 
in  business  details,  as  there 
must  be  supervision  of  these  small 
things 
in  order  that  system  may  be 
maintained;  and,  no  matter  what  rea­
sonable  or  approved  form  this  super­
vision  takes,  it  implies  nothing  against 
a  sales-person,  and  no  honest  employe 
will  object  to  having  business  checks 
placed  upon  his 
transactions,  more 
valuable  to  detect  and  correct  mistakes 
than  for  any  other  purpose,  and  so 
looked  on  by  those  who  purchase,  very 
few  of  whom  enjoy  having  to come  back 
to  correct  small  errors  which proper sys­
tem  would  have  made 
improbable  if 
not 
impossible,  nor  do  many  of  them 
desire  to  have  a  mistake  made  in  their 
favor. 
is  only  those  rules of  no  im­
portance  which  we  would  have  elim i­
nated,  those  which  are  of  no  value  ex­
cept  in  cases where vast numbers of irre­
sponsible  clerks  are  employed  of  whom 
nothing  other  than  mechanical  service 
is  expected.  These  may  be  handled  and 
considered  merely  as  so  many  machines 
or  integral  parts  of  a  mechanical  force, 
to  be  held 
in  work, 
held  accountable  for  service  rendered 
and  released  from  their  niches  in  the 
business  machine  exactly  as  would 
automatoms  which  did  the  same  things. 
But  when  we  speak  of  the  men  and 
women,  in  general,  who  make  up  the 
sales-force  of  Michigan’s  retailers  we 
are  speaking  of  the  human  entity  man, 
a  reasoning,  thinking  creature,  who  by 
his  intrinsic  worth  holds  bis  present po­
sition  and  trustwortbily  discharges  the 
duties  of  that  position,  one  whose  per­
sonality 
is  a  factor  in  bis  employer's 
success,  one  to  whom  the  public  turns 
for  information.

in  check,  guided 

A  set  of  employes,  once 

interested 
heart,  head  and  hand 
in  the  work  en­
gaged  at,  areas  fully alive  to  its  success 
as  though 
it  were  their  personal  con­
cern.  Such  employes  need  no  ironclad 
rules  of  store  conduct.  They  are  always 
at  the  place  demanding  their  presence, 
are  ever  solicitious  for  the  welfare  of 
their employer,  realizing  that  only  by 
the  standard  of  bis  gain  can  their sue 
cess  be  measured.  Petty  rules 
in  this 
case  can  only  be  classed  as  unbenefiting 
irritation.  They  are  not  only  of  no  use 
but  actually  harmful  and,  like  the  iron 
band  about  the  growing  tree,  by  their 
unyielding  rigidity  destroy  life.  Any 
set  of  rules  that  bind  too  tightly  about 
the  personal  actions  of  store  employes 
result  only  in  extinguished  interest.

L.  A.  E l y .

Two  Places  Named  Jinksville. 

Merchant— I  wish  to  transport  some 

goods  to  Jinksville  and —

Railroad  Official  (irascibly)— Well, 
in  thunder  don't  you  go  to  the 

why 
freight department?
Merchant— It’s  a 

large  quant  ty  of 
goods,  and  I  wish  to  enquire  about 
rates.

Official—Go  to  the  freight  depart­
ment,  I  say.  Whatever  the  rates  are 
you'll  pay 
’em  or  keep  your goods at 
home.  No  reduction  to  you  or  anybody 
else.  Hear  that?  Clear  out  now.

Merchant— The  Jinksville  I  mean  is 
not  in  this  State,  but  the  Jinksville  over 
the  line.  There  is  a  rival  road  run­
ning  there,  you know,  and  I  can  easily— 
Official—Sit  down,  my  dear  sir,  sit 
down  and 
it  over.  James, 
bring  the  gentleman  a  cigar.  Henry, 
bring  the  gentleman  a  glass  of  cham­
pagne.  George,  tell  the  President  one 
of  our  most  valued  patrons  is  here.

let’s  talk 

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»   Bicycle  Sundries,  Fit- 
tings, etc.,  will  be mailed 
2 
to  dealers  or  repairmen 
2  
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on  application. 
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BLUE  FLAME-WITH  WICK.  AND  W ICKLESS.

Agents  for  the  Novelty  Mfg.  Co. 
Write  us  for  Circular  and  Prices.

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I  OST

FOUND,  A

L  GAIN.

Yes,  Lost! 

Lost,  Why?

BECAUSE  LACKING  SYSTEM .

And  many  a  business  now  being  run  without  profit 
could be put on a  paving  business  basis  by  adopting  the 
E G R Y   A U TO GRAPH IC  REGISTER  SYSTEM ,  using 
which insures finding1 a gain every  month.

No Leak*,  No Waste.

S.  K.  BOLES,  Sales Agent for Grand Rapids, 39 Monroe St.,  3d  floor.

L .  A   E L Y ,  A lm a, mien. 

Soles Agent. 

Everythingpresent

or Accounted lor.

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

23

WIRB  GOODS

 

WIRB

TRAPS

SHBBT  IRON

LBVBLS
SQUARE?

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WBIGHTS

Bright..........................................................  
go
so
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s............................................ 
so
 
so
Gate Hooks and Byes.......................   ..  . 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dls 
70
Steel and Iron...........................................   70410
TryandBevels.......................................... 
60
M itre...........................................................  
50
com. smooth,  com.
»2 40
2 40
2 45
2 55
2 65
2 75
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  80  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14....................................»2 70 
Nos. 15 to 17.............. 
2 70 
Nos. 18 to 21....................................  2 80 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................   3 00 
Nos. 25 to 26...................................   3 10 
No.  27 ..........................................  8 20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86......................................dls 
50
Solid Eyes........................................per ton 20 00
Steel, Game............................................. 
75410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley 4  Norton’s 70410
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per dos 
1  2£
Bright Market............................................. 
• 0
Annealed  Market........................................ 
;o
Coppered Market........................................  6)410
Tinned Market........................................... . 
Coppered Spring Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ........................   2 80
Barbed Fence,  painted................................   2 40
An Sable..................................................dis4041C
Putnam...................................................dls 
5
Capwell.................................................   „net list
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s Genuine.............................................. 
40
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought  ......... 
7;
Coe’s Patent, malleable.............................  
75
4)
Bird  Cages............................................. 
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
70
06
Screws, New List................................... 
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50410410
Dampers, American............................... 
50
8H
600 pound casks.......................................... 
Per pound................................................... 
9
D -op..............................................................  1 45
B B and Buck.............................................  1  70
H@H...........-...............................................  17
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal......................................... »5 75
14x20 IC, Charcoal.......................................  5 75
20x14 IX, Charcoal.......................................  7 00

MISCELLANEOUS

TIN—Melyn Grade

METALS—Zinc

HORSE NAILS

WRBNCHBS

SOLDER

Each additional X on this grade, »1.25.

SHOT

to

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. 

ROOPING  PLATBS

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  4  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  5 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean............................ 
9  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   4  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............  5  00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   8  00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   10 no
lft
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
14x56 IX. for No  9  Boilers, ( P®r P°und 
10

BOILER  SIZB TIN  PLATB 

S U C C E S S F U L   S A L E S M E N .

F.  E.  Bushman,  Manager  Phelps,

lived 

Brace  &  Co.’s  Cigar  Department.
Franklin  E.  Bushman  was  born  at 
Tekonsha,  March  6,  1862,  of  poor  but 
honest  parents,  who  died  when  he  was 
2  years  of age.  He  then 
in  va­
rious  families  in  the  neighborhood  un­
til  he  was  5  years  of  age,  when  he  was 
taken  by  a  farmer  near  Burlington,  with 
whom  he  remained  five  years.  During 
the  next  ten  years  he  worked  around  by 
the  day  and  month,  acquiring  the  rudi­
ments  of a  common  school  education  by 
occasional  short  attendance  at  country 
schools  during  the  winter months.  When 
20  years  of  age,  he  entered  the  employ 
of  a  blacksmith  near  Burlington  as  an 
apprentice  and  learned  the  trade,  when 
he  found  he  was  too  tall  to  pursue  the 
blacksmith’s  calling.  He  then  worked 
two  years  in  a  grist  mill,  but  was  com­
pelled  to abandon  the  business  on  sani­
tary  grounds.  He  then  resumed 
the

occupation  of  a  farmer,  subsequently 
renting  a  farm  near  Burlington,  which 
he  conducted  on  shares  for  two  years, 
at  the  end  of  which  time  an 
inventory 
disclosed  the  fact  that  he  bad  nothing 
to  show  for his  two  years’  work,  where­
upon'he got  out  auction  bills  and  dis­
posed  of  all  the  stock  and  personal 
property  be  had  managed  to  acquire.

Realizing  that  ordinary  agriculture 
brought  too  meager  returns  to  satisfy 
his  ambition,  he  decided  to  abandon 
the  farm,  and 
in  the  fall  of  1889 em­
barked  in  the  manufacture  of  cigars  at 
Burlington  under  the  style  of  F.  E. 
Bushman. 
At  first be  had  but  one  em­
ploye,  but  he  kept  adding  to  bis  force 
until  he  had  eight  people  on  his  pay 
roll.  The  following  spring  he  removed 
his factory to Athens,  where  he remained 
one  summer,  selling  out 
in  the  fall  to 
W.  J.  Francisco,  when  he  removed  to 
Homer,  where  he  opened  another  fac­
tory,  subsequently  taking  a  partner  in 
the  person  of  W.  L.  Bibbins,  after 
which  the  firm  name became  Bushman 
&  Bibbins.  By  March  1,  1892,  the 
working  force  had  been 
increased  to 
fifteen  persons,  when  exceptional  in­
ducements  were  held  out by the business 
men  of  Benton  Harbor  for  the  removal 
of  the  business  to  that  place.  Previous 
to  this  time  the  factory  had  been  an 
open  shop—that  is,  employed  non-union 
as  well  as  union  men—but on the change 
of  location 
it  was  thought  desirable  to

conduct a  strictly  union  shop,  in  conse­
quence  of  which  the  union  improved the 
opportunity  to  raise  the  scale  from $1.50 
to $3  per  thousand  more  than  had  ruled 
at  Homer.  Two  months  later,  and  with­
out  any  notice  or  excuse,  the  union 
again  arbitrarily  raised  the  scale  from 
$1.50  to  $3  per  thousand  more,  when 
Mr.  Bushman  saw  that  it  would  not  be 
possible  for his  firm  to  manufacture  its 
established  brands  at  a  profit  without 
lowering  the  quality  of  the  stock,  and 
he  thereupon  sold  out  to  bis  partner, 
taking  a  position  on  the road  for  the  tea 
and  cigar  bouse  of  J.  T.  Quinn  &  Co., 
of  Chicago.

In  February,  1895,  be  secured  a  posi­
tion  with  Edward  W.  Rube,  who  was 
then  engaged  in  the  jobbing  cigar  busi­
ness  at  Chicago.  This  position  be  filled 
with  satisfaction  to  all  concerned  for 
about  four  years,  when  be  resigned  to 
engage  in  the  wholesale and  retail  cigar 
business  at  South  Bend,  Ind.  This  he 
continued  for  about  a  year,  when he  was 
offered  the  position  of  Michigan  travel­
ing  representative  for  Rube  Bros.,  of 
Allentown,  Pa.,  with  whom  he has  been 
identified  for  the  past  two  years.  A  few 
weeks  ago  be  was  tendered  the  position 
of  manager  of  the  cigar  department  of 
Phelps,  Brace  &  Co  ,  of  Detroit,  result­
ing  in  bis acceptance  of  the  position,  to 
take  effect  March  15.

Mr.  Bushman  was  married  Jan.  1, 
1890,  to  Miss Belle Hyatt,  of Burlington, 
and  one  child—a  boy  7  years  of  age— is 
the  fruit  of  the  union.  The  family  has 
resided  in  their  own  home  in  Kalama­
zoo  until  a  few  days  ago  when  they  re­
moved  to  Detroit.  Mr.  Bushman  is  fond 
of  his  home  and  is  seldom  found  away 
from  it  during  the  evening,  albeit  he  is 
an  active  member  of  nearly  a  dozen 
secret  societies,  in  some  of which he has 
been  tendered  positions  of  trust  and  re­
sponsibility.

Mr.  Bushman  has  succeeded 

in  ac­
quiring  no 
inconsiderable  amount  of 
this  world’s  goods,considering  the  com­
paratively  short  time  be  has  been  in  re­
ceipt  of  a  liberal  salary.  He  naturally 
invests  his  surplus  earnings  in  real  es­
tate,  having  several  farms  and  a  num­
ber  of  residence  properties  in  the  city 
of  Kalamazoo.
in  Mr.  Bush­
*  The  change  wrought 
man’s  condition 
in  the  short  space  of 
nine  years  is  little  less  than remarkable, 
as  it  illustrates  the  rapid  strides  which 
can be  made  by  a  man  who  starts  out 
with  the  intention  of  rising  above  the 
common 
level  and  is  willing  to  make 
any  ordinary  sacrifice  and  subordinate 
every  minor  consideration  for the  sake 
of  acquiring  success.  Mr.  Bushman  is 
still  a  young  man,  in  the  full  vigor of 
manhood,  and  the  Tradesman  confident­
ly  predicts  that  his  new  connection  will 
prove  to  be  both  pleasant  and  profitable 
to  all  concerned  and  that  it  will  be  a 
stepping  stone  to  a  higher  place  of  use­
fulness  and  honor.

The  Advance  In  Brass Goods.

this  year  and 

Metals  which  enter  chiefly  into  the 
manufacture  of  brass  and  other goods 
have  advanced 
in  price  continually  of 
late.  The  difference  in  price  of  metals 
between 
last  is  great. 
Copper  has  advanced  over 68  per  cent., 
zinc  50  per  cent,  and  lead  about  20  per 
cent.  Manufacturers 
throughout  the 
country  have advanced  the price of brass 
goods,  as  it  was  absolutely  necessary  to 
do this  because  of  the  unusual  advance 
in  the  price  of  the  metals  entering  into 
their  composition.  The rise  in  the  price 
of  these  metals  is  due  principally  to  the 
unprecedented  demand 
in  the  United 
States  as  well  as  in  foreign  countries.

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUQURS AND  BITS
 

Snell’s..................................  
Jennlng 
Jennings 

70
genuine.............................. ".".".'.'.25410
Imitation...................................60410

 

AXBS

First-Quality, S. B. Bronze.........................  5  00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...................... 
9 50
First Quality. 8. B. 8. Steel.........................  5 so
First Quality, D. B. Steel............................  to 50

BARROWS

 

 

BOLTS

Raih'Oad.............................................. »12 00 14 00
Garden.................................................  net  30 00
Stove........... 
60*10
Carriage new list....................................  70 to 75
How........................................................ 
go
m   „ 
Well,  plain.................................................. • 3 25
„  
Cast Loose  Pin, figured................................70410
Wrought Narrow.......................................... 70A10
Ordinary Tackle...........................................  
70
CROW  BARS
Cast Steel................................ 
..per lb 

BUTTS, CAST

BUCKETS

BLOCKS

4

CAPS

DRILLS

CHISELS

CARTRIDGES 

»• D............................................... per m  45
Musket..................................................per m  75
Rim Fire.  .....................................................40410
Central Fire
Socket Firmer............................................. 
75
Socket Framing.............................. 
75
Socket Comer..................................................... 75
Socket Slicks..........................................."  
75
Horse’s Bit Stocks....................................... 
60
Taper and Straight Shank.......................... .504 5
Morse’s Taper Shank...............................’.'.504 5
Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
50
Corrugated..............................................  
1  25
Adjustable.............................................. dis 40410
Clark’s small, »18;  large, (26.............  
30410
Ives’, 1,118; 2.124
25
New American...........................................   70410
Nicholson’s................................................ 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................6C410
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27.  ... 
28
List  12 
16.........  
17

E X P A N SIV E   B IT S
‘  1:3,130............................ 
PILES—New  List

GALVANIZED  IRON 

ELBOWS

13 

14 

 

Discount, 70-10 to 70

15 
GAUOES

KNOBS—New Liât

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s....................   60410
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings 
........... 
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
80
MATTOCKS
Adze Eye.....................................316 00, dis  60410
Hunt Eye.....................................(15 00, dis 60410
Hunt’s........................................   »18 50, dis 20410
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
40
40
Coffee, P. S. 4  W. Hfg. Co.’s  Malléables. 
Coffee, Landers. Ferry 4  Clark’s...............  
40
Coffee, Enterprise.................. 
so
Stebbln’s Pattern.......................................... 60410
Stebbin’8 Genuine........................................ 60410
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
so

MOLASSES  GATES

MILLS

 

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...........................................   2 2 >
Wire nails, base...........................................  2 30
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance
8 advance.............................
6 advance.............................
4 
advance..........  .............
3 advance............................
2 advance............................
Fine 3 advance......................
Casing 10 advance.................
Casing  8 advance................
Casing  6 advance.................
Finish 10 advance.................
Finish  8 advance.................
Finish  »advance.................
Barrel % advance.................
PLANES
Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........
@50
Sciota Bench.........................
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, first quality.......................................  @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme..............................................60410410
Common, polished.................................. 
704 5
Iron and  T inned........................................  
60
Copper Rivets and B un............................... 
45
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATBNT PLANISHED  IRON 

Broken packages He per pound  extra. 

RIVETS

PANS

HAMMBRS

HOUSE  HUKNISHING GOODS

Maydole 4  Co.’s, new  list..................... dls  33 j*
25
Kip’s  ......................................................dl& 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s...................................dl« 40410
Mason’s Solid Oast Steel 
WV* Mai 
70
Blacksmith's Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50410 
Stamped Tin W are...........  ..........new list 7541C
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 20410
Pots................................................................6041
K ettles................................................... 
60410
Spiders......................................................  60410
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,8......................  ......  dls 60410
per doe. net  9 fie
State....................... 
Sisal  Q Inch and  larger............................ 
9H
Manilla........................................................ 
10*

HOLLOW  WARB

HINGES

ROPES

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

When  Catalogue  Competition  Need 

Not  Be Feared.

Cassopolis,  March  13— I  notice  the 
communications  published  in your paper 
about  catalogue  houses,  and  I  do  not 
like  the  manner  in  which  th«.y  advertise 
these  bouses.  The  writers  hold  out  the 
idea  that  goods  can  be purchased cheap­
er  from  these  houses  than from our home 
merchants,  when  the  facts  will  not  bear 
them  out.  Anyone  who  will  take  the 
trouble  to  look  the  business  up,  and  will 
study  their  prices  and  methods  of  doing 
business,  and  add  freights,  cost  of  draft 
or  postoffice  order,  postage and  risk,  to 
the  prices  named  in  the  catalogues  will 
find  that  he  can  buy  the  same  or  better 
goods  from  the  home  merchant  for  the 
same  or  a  lower  price.
The great  trouble  is  that the purchaser 
refuses  to  allow  the  local  dealer  credit 
for  freights,  but  expects  him  to  sell  the 
goods  at  the  bare  figure  named 
in  the 
catalogue.  The  writer  carries  one  of 
these  catalogues  and  finds  that  in  many 
cases  the  local  dealer,  in  the  face  of  the 
supposed  low  prices,can  pay  the  freight 
and  then  sell 
lower  than  they  do.  A 
lady  remarked  to  me  a  few  days  ago 
that  she  expected  to  send  to  one of  these 
houses  for  a  sewing  machine,  saying 
she  could  get  such  a  machine  as  she 
wished  for $18 
I  suggested  that  she  try 
the  local  dealer  and  she  said  it  was  no 
use,  as  be  couldn't  sell  as  cheap as these 
houses.  I  went  and  priced his machines, 
not  telling  him  why  I  did  so,  and  found 
that  he  sells  the  identical  machine  for 
$16  delivered  in  her  house—a  saving  to 
her of  $3  at  least.  And  yet  she  makes 
her  living  largely  by  boarding  traveling 
men  who  call  on  these  local  dealers! 
One  of  my  customers  recently  discov­
ered  an  envelope  in  one  of  his  custom­
er's  hands,  directed  to a catalogue house 
and,  upon  enquiry,  found  he  was  order­
ing  a  feed  cutter. 
I  happened  to  be 
there  at  the  time  and,  finding  what kind 
he  wanted,  made  him  a  price  on  a 
guaranteed  machine  (the  other  was  un­
guaranteed)  and  secured  his  order. 
I 
saved  him  $3  and  made  the  dealer $5 
and  my  house  made  its  regular  profit— 
and  all  this  on  a  $28  deal. 
The  point 
I  wish  to  emphasize  is,  that  they  do  not 
sell  goods  cheap,  hut  are  humbugging 
the  public  and  the  many  communica­
tions  which  attribute  the  success  of  the 
catalogue  houses  to  selling  goods  cheap 
do  the  mercantile  fraternity  a  posi­
tive  injustice. 

Star,

Marquette,  March 

Movements of Lake Superior T  ravelers.
13— M.  A.  Dun­
ning  (Marshall  Wells  Hardware  Co.)  is 
out  looking  after  the  bicycle  end  of  the 
business.
H.  O.  McMain  (Stone-Ordean-Wells 
Co.)  will  represent  Reid,  Murdock  & 
Co.  after  April  1.
Eugene Murphy  has  changed  from the 
to  Koch,  Loeber 

Zenith  Paper  Co. 
&  Co.

Hibbard,  Spencer,  Bartlett  &  Co. 
have  put  on  a  man  to  take  part  of  W. 
R.  Smith’s  large  territory.

E.  M.  Smith  (Northern  Hardware  & 
Supply  Co.)  will  move  to  Houghton  at 
once  and  look  after  the  mining  trade  of 
the  Marshall-Wells  Hardware  Co.

R.  J.  Waddell  (Mich.  Stove  Co.)  has 

just  paid  us  a  visit.

A.  T.  Emmons  will  manage  a  branch 
hardware  store  in  Ontonagon  county  for 
the  Carlton  Hardware  Co.  of  Calumet.
J.  P.  Carling  (I.  T.  &  G.  H.  Bow­

man  Co.)  is  with  us.

J.  C.  Foster  (M.  R.  Manhard  Co., 
Ltd.)  has  a  queer  side  line  to  his  hard­
ware  business—hogs  and  new  milch 
cows.
is  now  with  Sprague, 
Warner  &  Co.,  Chicago,  in  the  Fox 
River territory.

J.  A.  Fuller 

No  traveler  in  the  Upper  Peninsula 
is  so  proficient 
in  the  act  of  stepping 
in  the 
into  hotel  dining  rooms 
morning  as  J.  W.  Gray.  Affidavits  to 
this  effect  can  be  produced,  if  neces­
sary.

A  A.  Milne  (H.  J.  Heinz  Co.)  will 
be  missed  up  here.  He  becomes  the 
manager  of  the  traveling  men  west  of 
Pittsburgh,  with  headquarters  at  Pitts­
burgh.

Wanted—A  side  partner,  chum  and

late 

Ra r e c h a n c e—h a l f in t e r e s t  in  n ic e
grocery business,  in  one  of  the  best  loca­
tions In  Grand  Rapids.  Reason  for  selling, 
must leave  city.  Address  No.  886  care  Mich­
886
igan Tradesman. 
Big  st o r e  fo r  r e n t —o n e   o r  t h r e e
brick  stores.  22x75  feet  each,  with  base­
ments and 10 foot  arches.  Would  make  a big 
department store.  F.  L.  Burdick  &  Co.’s  old 
stand.  The most central  and  best  location  in 
Southern  Michigan.  Write  to  Levi  Cole,  Men- 
d >n. Micb. 
888
WILL  BUY  A  GOOD  JEWELRY
db-i 
d p i 'U v U   Stock, including fixtures.  Located 
in good town in Northern Michigan.  No oppo­
sition.  Address No. 889, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
889
Ha v e  f o u r   o r  f iv e   h u n d r e d   dol
lars  o  invest  in  some  good  enterprising 
bu  iness where services would be  required  Am 
practical  business  man  and  good  book-keeper. 
Can  furnl-h  best  of  references.  Central  or 
Southern Michigan preferred.  Address No 878, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
878
tjvjR  sa l e—h a r d w a r e  st o c k  in   o n e
1  of the best towns in Barry county.  Stock Is 
In  good  clean  condition.  Best  of  reasons  for 
selling.  Traders  need  not apply.  For  particu­
lars address Frank D  Pratt,  MiadlevUle,  Mich.
876
i poR  S vLE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  MER- 
1  chandise—Splendid  all improved  160  acre 
farm;  rich  soil,  good  location.  Mason  county, 
875
Mich.  Address Box 71, r uster, Mich. 
ANTED—A  BUTCHER'S  SECOND  HAND 
refrigerator in flist-ciass co  dition.  State 
lowest  spot  cash  price  f.  o.  b  cars.  Give  full 
description.  Address  Lock  Box  33.  McBride’s, 
Mich. 
874
i^OR SALE OR  TRADE—80  ACRES  •  HOICE 
farming  land;  good  bui dings;  3<>  acres 
ole«re I;  rest  heavy  limber  Address  Box  is. 
Epsi  on  Emmet C •,  Mich 
873
I/O R   ALE—GROCERY STOi  KIN CENTRAL 
r   Michigan in city of 3,< 0Uinhabitants  Sa'es 
last  year  $1  .000;  stork  invoices  about  81200 
Address No. 879  care Michigan Tradesman  819 
XtrANTED — SHOES,  CLO TH IN G .  DRY 
1 1   goods.  Address  R.  B.,  Mnskegon,  Mich.
699
IpOR  SALE —CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK 
1  located at one of the best trading  points  in 
M  chignn.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $5,  00. 
Store a- d warehouse will be rented  for  830  per 
month.  Will sell on  easy  terms.  Address  No. 
868. c>re Mich gan Tradesman. 
PEAS—WANTED, 5 CARLOADS  OF SMALL 
Wh.te Canada Field Peas, and 2 carlo-’ds  of 
Black Eye Marrowfat Peas.  Mail  samples  and 
state lowest  price  for  prompt  cash.  Add-ess 
843
Jerome B. Ric  & Co.. Cambridge. N. Y. 
FpOR  8ALE—TUFT’S  SODA  FOUNTAIN.
complete, in good order, with three draught 
tubes and ten  syrup  tubes  and  5x8  foot  marble 
slabs.  Address  Haseltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co., 
827
Grand Rapids. 

8b8

866

FOR SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  SHOES.  OWN- 
ers  wish  to  discontinue  shoe  department. 
Competition light.  Address No.  869, care  Mich­
869
igan T  adesman. 
i fiOR  SALE—HALF  INTEREST  IN  OLD  ES- 
1  ta Wished mt at market, located m  excellent 
residence  district of Grand  Rapids.  Investiga­
tion solicited.  Address  No.  861,  care  Mich'gan 
Tradesman. 
IpoR  HAY,  STRAW  AND  OATS  IN  CAR 
' lots  at  lowest  prices,  address  Wade  Bros., 
Cadillac or Traverse Citv.  Mich. 
817
LilOR  SALE — WELL-ESTABLISHED  AND 
X1  good-paying  implement  and  harness busi­
ness, located  In  small  town  surrounded  with 
good farming country.  Store  has  no  competi­
tion within radius of eight miles.  Address  No. 
806, care Michigan Tradesman.__________ 806
F OR  POTATOES  IN  CAR  LOTS,  ADDRESS 
Wade  Bros.,  Cadillac  or  Traverse  City, 
Mlch 
793
1 OA  ACRE FARM. VALUED AT84.000, FREE 
1 
and clear from encumbrance, 10 trade for
merchandise; also 810,000 worth  of  Grand  Rap­
ids property,  free  and  clear,  to  exchange  for 
merchandise.  Address Wade Bros., Cadillac  or 
Traverse City.  Mich.___________________792
i jV)R  SALE-NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
1  splendid farming country.  No trad .s.  Ad- 
680
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman 
BRCHANTS—DO YOU WISH CASH  QUICK 
for your stock of merchandise,  or any  part 

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

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

W ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 
trv;  any  quantities  Write  me.  Orrln  J. 
stone.  Ka amazoo, Mich._______________ 8 0
W E PAY SPOT CASH ON TRA«’K  FOR BUT- 
It  will  pay you  to get  our 
pricea and  particulars.  Stroup  & Carmer.  Per- 
rlnton, Mich._________________________771
W ANTED—1.000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mich.________________________ 556

ter and eggs. 

M ISC ELLA N E O U S.

F ir  sa l e—stock o f d r y goods, sh o es
and  furnishing  goods  amonnti <g t  $1.40; 
rent. 86.  Good place for live youug man to start 
cheap.  Add groceries,  and  it will  be  the  only 
general  store  in  town  Twenty  per  cent,  dis­
count  if  taken  this  month.  Address  No.  882, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
A  N  A1  GROCERY  MAN  WITH  FOUR  AND 
J \.  a half years’  experience  as  clerk  and  two 
and  oue half  years  as  manager  wou d  like  to 
correspond  with  some  merchant  desiring  a 
strictly  first-clare  man  for  a  position  of  trust 
Now employed and  can  furnish  gilt edge refer­
ences.  Address No. 877,  care  Michigan Trades­
man. 

877

883

•Wait  fof  the  Wippef

Profiting by the experience  of  the  numerous  generators  which  have  been 
put on the market during the past two  years, we  have  succeeded  in  creat­
ing an ideal generator on entirely new lines, which we have designated as the

dromio,  to act  with  S.  D.  Rogers  in  the 
dual  role  of  “ The  K ings."

Alex.  Stevenson,  after  twenty  odd 
years,  has  renounced  the  hardware  busi­
ness  and  entered  the  cigar  business  at 
Detroit.  Success  to Alex  ,  is  the  wishes 
of  bis  host  of  Upper  Peninsular  friends.

Resolutions  of  Respect.

furnishes 

(Grand  Rapids) 

The  Committee  on  Condolence of  Post 
E 
the 
Tradesman  with  the  following  resolu 
tions  expressive  of  the  grief  and  sym 
pathy  of  the  traveling  men  of  Grand 
Rapids  over  the  death  of  Albert  C. 
Wetzel:

Whereas— It  has  pleased  the  Divine 
Ruler  of  the  Universe,  in  His  infinite 
wisdom,  to  remove  from  our  midst  the 
spirit  of  our  respected  and  beloved 
brother  and  friend,  Albert  C.  Wetzel, 
and  taken  him  to  the  land  where  our 
fathers  have  gone  before  us;  and

Whereas—While  we  deplore  the  loss 
of  the  companionship  of  our  esteemed 
brother  and  deeply,  affectionately  and 
most  sincerely  sympathize  with  bis 
beartstricken  helpmate  and  orphaned 
child  in  the  loss  we  have  all  sustained, 
vet  we  bow  in  humble  submission to  the 
will  of  Almighty  God  and  realize  that 
He  doeth  all  things  well;  therelorebe it
to  the 
widow  and 
family  of  our  departed 
brother,  Albeit  C.  Wetzel,  our  heartfelt 
sorrow  and  sympathy  in  their  loss  and 
point  them  to  Him  who  is  the  refuge  of 
humanity 
in  the  hour  of  trouble;  and 
be  it  further

Resolved— That  we  extend 

Resolved—That in  the  death  of  Albert 
C.  Wetzel  the  world  has  lost  a  good 
man,  the  community  an  upright  citizen 
ind  the  traveling fraternity a dear friend 
whose  memory  will always be cherished  ; 
and  be  it  further

Resolved—That  a  copy  of  these  reso­
lutions  be  sent  to  the  family  of  our  de­
ceased  friend  and  brither  and  that  they 
be  priLted 
the 
Michigan  Tradesman.

in  our  official  organ, 

L eo  A.  Caro,
L.  M.  Mill s,
J.  P.  R e e d er, 

Committee  on  Condolence.

The  Buffalo  Egg  Market.

Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  March  14—Our  mar­
ket  has  gotten  down  to  business  prices 
now  and  the  consumption  will  be 
large 
at  these  prices,  so  can  use  heavy  re­
ceipts.  Up  to  this  writing  15c  has  been 
our  lowest  price,  but  we  expect  to  see 
the  maiket  drop  about  2c  yet  this  week, 
if  the  receipts  increase  as  expected.

J.  W .  Lansing.

Train  up  a  hired  girl  in  the  way  she 
should  go,  and  the  first  thing  you  know 
she's  gone.

All  men  who  have  long  hair  are  not 
poets.  Some  of  them  haven’t  the  price 
of  a  hair  cut.

W AN TS  COLUMN.

Advertisements  will  be  Inserted  under this 
head for two cents a word  the  first  insertion 
and one cent a word  for  each  subsequent in­
sertion.  No advertisements taken for less thaw 
ag cents.  Advance payment._______________

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

Mo n ey t o  p a t e n t y our id e a s m ay  b e
obtained through our aid.  Patent Record, 
885
B.ltimore, Md. 
W ANTED—YOUNG MAN WOULD LIKE  TO 
learn the wholes»le or retail grocery trade. 
Graduated  from  commercial  college  two  years 
ago as book-keeper.  Have had one year's expe­
rience.  References  furnished.  Address  No. 
884. cure Michigan Tradesman.__________ 881
SHINGLE MILL FOR SALE, WITH OR WITH- 
out 120 acres of land, situated  In  cedar tim­
ber  section.  Conveniences  for  boarding  men 
and stabling horses.  Address  N.  &  D.  C.  Jar- 
man, Petoskey, Mich.__________________ 880
For  sa l e —o n e  p a ir   day to n  b est
scales, good as new.  Address Box 535, Nash­
881
ville. Mich. 
SPLENDID  CHANCE  TO  GET  AN  ESTAB- 
lished  business  in  Grand  Rapids.  Yearly 
profits 81,500.  $3,500 will buy.  Will bear lnvesti- 
gatlon.  Geo. H. Felt, Grand Rapids, Mich.  883
FOR SALE—IMPROVED FARM; GOOD WEN- 
eral cropping, gardening and  fruit raising; 
near market  Address  Albert  Baxter,  Muske­
887
gon, Mich. 

WATERS  BUILDING.

TURNER  GENERATOR

If you want  tbe  newest,  most  economical  and  most  easily  operated  ma­
chine, write for quotations and full particulars.

TURNER  &  HAUSER,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Travelers’ Time  Tables.
CHICAGO-w SLTS;n
Ly.  G. Rapids............   7 30am  12:00nn  *11  45pic
Ar.  Chicago............... 2:10pm  5:15pm  7 20to
Lv.Chicago..  11:45am  6'5Qam  4:15pm *11  50pn 
Ar G’d Rapids 5:00pm  1:25pm  10:15r>m  * 6:20Mr 
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Lv  G’d  Rapids.............7:30am 
...........   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 r i A I T   Grand Rapids & Western. 
L i e   I  K U I   I  * 

Nov.  13 1898.

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids..........7:00am  1:35pm 5:25ps
Ar. Detroit.................... 11:40am  5:45pm 10:05pr
Lv. Detroit.....................8:00am  1:10pm 6:10pc
Ar.  Grand  Rapids........12 55pm  5:20pm 10:55pi>
Lv. GR7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. GRl1:45am  9:30pr 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Gao.  DeHavbn.  General Pass. Agent

f i n   A  IM F !  Trank  Railway  System 
v lIv A lY  LI  Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

(In effect Feb. 5,1899.)

g o i n g   EAST

ueave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit <5t N  V.........* 6:45am  t  9:55pm
Detroit  and  East..................tlO  16am  t 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit &  East....... t 3:27pm  tl2:50pio
Buffalo.  N  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t’d  Ex__*  7:20pm *10:16am
Gd.  Haven  Express............... *10:2lam * 7:’5  m
Gd. Haven  and lut  Pis........  M2:  8pm + 3’1°pm
Gd. Haven and  Mlwaufcee...t 5  12pm  +10:11  m 
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.
*Daily. 

tExeept Sunday.

C. A.  Justin,  City  Pass.  Ticket Agent,

G O IN G   W E S T

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.

H D A M n   R*pids  &  Indiana  Railway 
v l  l ( A n  LI 

Feb. 8.  1899.

Northern  D lv.  Leave  Arrlvt 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am  t 5:15pm 
.  ...t  1  50pm  10:45pm
Trav  t ity A Petnnsey 
Cadillac accommodation....... * 5:25pm +10 55ain
PetosaeyA Mackinaw City.,  .fl':00pm  ♦  6:35am 
7:45am train, parlor  car;  11:00pm train, sleep­
ing car.
5  r
Cincinnati................................t  7-loam t  9 45pm
Ft. Wayne 
+  •?  0  1 m  *  t  30
 
Cincinnati............................... * 7 00 •  * 6 3U
....*ll:3.pm  *  9:0 am 
Vicksburg  and Chicago 
and  parlor  car  'o  Chicago;  2 00pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft.  Way .e; 
upm  train  has 
sleeping car  to 'Cincinnati;  ll:3upm  train  has 
coach and sleeping car to Cnicago.

i :10  am  train  har-  naMoi  cm 

Southern  Dlv.  Leave 

......... 

Ci  - 

Chicago T rains.

TO CHICAGO.

FBOM   CHICAGO.

2 0'pm  *11 30pm
Lv. Grand Rapids... 7 I0«m 
Ar. Chicago............   2 3  pm  8 45pm 
6 25am
Lv. Chicago............................   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 3:02pm  has  Pullman 
parlor  car;  11:32pm sleeping car.
M uskegon  T rain s.

OOIM 6  W SBT.

Lv G’d  Rapids............ Yl :85am  tl :00pm t*:40p
Ar Muskegon..............  9:00am  2:10pm  7  m
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon..............t8:l0am  tU  :45am  t4 Onp
ArG’d Rapids.............9:30am  12:55pn- 
2 |ri
Sunday  train  leaves  Mnskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm 
tExeept Sunday,  »uai.y

GOING  EAST.

C.  L.  LOCKWOOD. 
W  C. BLAKE. 

Gen’l Passr. aid Ticket Agent.
Ticket Agent Union Station.

W EST  BOUND.

Railway.

tv  * ITU  South  Shore and Atlantic

DULUTH, 
Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. A l.)Ml:10pm  47:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City.................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St  Ignace.........................  9:0Oam  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie..............   12:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette  .......................   2:50pm  10:»0piu
Ar. Nestoria............................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth....................  
8:30am
Lv. Dulnth.............................................  +6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria...........................til :15am  2:45am
1:30pm  4:30am
Ar. Marquette  ...................... 
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............   3’30pm 
__
Ar.  Mackinaw City................ 
8:40pm  11:00am
G.  W  Hibbard. Gen.  Pa»*.  Agt.  Marquette. 
K. C'.  Ovlatt  Trav  Pass  Aet.  Gratid Rapids

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

B A ST  BOUND.

M A N K T F F   *  N o rth ed «  Ry.
1"  b a b a   v 1 0  1 
L a  Best route to Manistee.

V ia   C. A   W .  M.  Railway.

Lv.Grand Rapids................................7:00am 
.............
A r   M anistee.......................................12:05pm 
..  . . . .
L v   M a n is te e .................................   8:30am  4.10pm
Ar Grand  Rapids  .......................   1 .oopm  9:55pm

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Souvenir,  y2,  1  and 2  pound  packages;  Sweet  Violets,  l/2  and  1
pound packages;  Favorites,  X  pound packages. 
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Medicines, Extracts, Cereals, 
Crackers  and  Sweet  Goods, 
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Chas.  A.  Coye,

11  Pearl  Street, 
Grand  Rapids, 

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Dwight’s
Cleaned
Currants

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

Wolverine Spice Co.,

Grand  Rapids.

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And we will treat  you  right.  Remember 
that we have the largest stock  of  station­
ery  in  the  State  and  are  able  to  accord 
you the most varied  assortment,  the  best 
equipment, the most skillful workmanship 
and prices as  low  as  are  consistent  with 
good work.  We  solicit  an  inspection  of 
our lines and a comparison  of  our  prices 
with those  of  our  competitors,  confident 
that such inspection and  comparison  will 
result in our receiving your orders.

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Ter  necessitee  knowed  somethin’  'sides  the  wagin’  of  his 

chin.

And we who’s been  in business for these  forty years or  more
Think we’s got some peert ¡dears how ter run a grocery store.

But  I’ve noticed, Jim, old feller,  if yer try ter keep  in  line,
Hit takes a brush and scrubbin’ ter keep things lookin’ fine.
Peers  these  new  inventions,  called  the  Money  Weight  an’ 

sech,

Is about our sole salvation, ef we want ter keep  in tech.

'Taint no use ter growl an’ grumble when them system  men 

comes round.

Fer even ef we’re floatin’ now we might git run aground.
I’ve  been  weighin’  out  my  sugar  on  these  old-fashioned 

scales,

An' ther feller says no wonder thet so many of us fails.
Seems ter  me  likes we  gets  careless,  no  matter what we’re 

doin’,

An' the moth an’ rust keeps eatin’, an’ there’s always trouble 

brewin’;

An’  I’ve kinder been a thinkin’ sence I’m talkin’ here ter you,
Thet I’ll try this Money System an’ see what it’ll do.

There aint a grocer livin’, ef he’ll  stop ter calculate,
Can make an honest profit a pilin’ on down  weight.
It’s a little late in years ter be takin’ on  new schemes,
But it’s better late than never for improvement, it seems

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