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Upon  tests  made  by  the  Dairy  and 
Food  Department  of  the  State  of 
Michigan  E pp’s  C ocoa  is  an  arti- 
cle  of  food  to  be  used  with  favor. 
By  a  patent  process  the  oil  of  the 
Cocoa Bean,  being the life of Cocoa, 
instead  of  being  extracted  (as  in 
most  brands  of  Cocoa),  is  retained. 
It  is  the  most  nutritious and  pala­
table,  and  especially  recommended 
to  persons  with  weak  stomachs.

3d

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  22,1899.

Number 809

lo You keen——
Do  You  keep

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Oyster 
Crackers 1

If  N o t,  W h y   N o t?

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.

Coopersville  Roller  Mills

P L U M   P U D D I N G

Merchant
Millers

Manufacturers of

White Lillie

W inter W heat Plour.

G rah am   and  Feed.

Correspondence and trial orders 

Solicited.

F.  J.  YOUNG,  Prop.
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STICKY  FLY  PAPER

A SK   Y O U R   JO B B E R   FO R   IT

New  Confection  in  Pudding  Shape.  Delicious.  Always  Ready  for  Use."'' Im­

proves with Age.  Made in  yi,  i, 2, 3 pound sizes and also in cakes.

15  cents per pound.

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

P IC T U R E  C A R D S

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

T R A D E S M A N   C O M P A N Y ,   G r a n d   R a p i d « .

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Banquet Ball Little Clears

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

MUSSELMAN  GROCER  GO..  Grand  Rapids.  Mich.

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Grand Rapids Agency,  39 Crescent Ave. 
Detroit A gency,  118 Bates S t.

that 

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

T R A D E S M A N
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GRAND  RAPIDS.

Our

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.  PU RITY  is a hobby with  us.  CLEAN ­
LINESS is insisted upon  in every detail of our business.  We 
«ball be pleased  to  have  an  opportunity  to  talk  prices  with 
you.  Our goods do their own talking.

NORTHROP,  ROBERTSON  &  CARRIER,

LANSING,  MICHIGAN.

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Builders  and  Masons

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.

|  Gypsum  Products Manufacturing Co.,

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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.

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Hulk  works at Grand  Rapids,  Muskegon,  Manistee, CaaiUac.  Big  Hap 
Ids,  Grand  Haven,  Traverse  City.  Lud  ngiou  Allegan, 
Howard  City,  Petoskey,  Reed  City,  Fremont,  Hart,' 
Whitehall, Holland and  Fennvllle

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Number 809

Volume  XVI.

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W e  have  BRANCH  OFFICES  and con­
nections  in  every  village  and  city  in  the 
United  States  and  in  all  foreign  business 
S'  centers,  and  handle  all  kinds  of  claims 
A   with despatch and economy.

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

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

PAGE

2.  The  Dry  Qoods  Market.
3.  Safe  Anchorage for the Retailer.
4.  Around  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  Woman’s   W orld.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Statistics  Invalidated  by  a  Co­

terie  of  Egg  Shippers.

11.  Danger  Ahead  for  Egg  Market.
17.  Gotham  Gossip.
18.  Shoes  and  Leather.
19.  Condensation  of  Air.
20.  The  Atmosphere  r f  the  Store.
21.  Commercial  Travelers.
22.  Drugs  and  Chemicals.
23.  Drug  Price  Current.
24.  Grocery  Price  Current.
25.  Grocery  Price  Current.
26.  Hardware.
27.  How the Burglar Met His Death. 

Hardware  Price  Current.

28.  The  W hiner  in  Trade.

W ants  Column.

rules  provide that  every  bank  violating 
the  rules  and  failing  to  charge  the  pre­
scribed  fee  for  collecting  shall  be  fined 
$5,000,  with  expulsion  from  the  Clear­
ing  House  Association  as  the  penalty 
for  the  second  offense.  As  it  would  be 
practically 
impossible  to  do  a  banking 
business  in  New  York  without  member­
ship 
in  the  Association,  the  force  of 
this  can  easily  be  seen.

This  action  on  the  part  of  the  New 
York  banks  is  not  unlikely  to  result 
in 
similar  action  on  the  part  of  banks  in 
other  markets,  because 
the  country 
check  system  has  come  to  be  regarded 
as  an  unmitigated  nuisance,  because  it 
entails  an  unnecessary  and  unwarranted 
jobber  or  the 
expense  on  either  the 
banker,  or both. 
If  the  bank  charges 
its  customer  what  it  costs  to  realize  on 
the  check,  the  jobber  is  out  that  much, 
and  if  competition  compels  the  bank 
to  accept  the  check  at  par  and  pay  a 
collection  fee  thereon,  it  deprives  the 
stockholders  of  the  revenue  to  which 
they  are  entitled.  The  proper  proce­
dure,  of  course,  is for the person making 
the  remittance  to  buy  a  draft  or  an  ex­
press  order,  instead  of  sending  a  coun­
try  check,  which  is  seldom  par  beyond 
the  confines  of  the  town  in  which  the 
bank 
located.  Detroit  bankers  are 
already  considering  the  matter  of  fol­
lowing  the  example  set  by  their  big 
brothers  in  New  York,  and  in  case  De­
troit  takes  such  action,  Grand  Rapids 
bankers  will,  in  all  probability,  follow 
suit.

is 

The  Tradesman  has  frequently  bad 
occasion  to  decry  the  tendency  of  the 
country  trade  to  remit  by  local  check, 
because  it  is  unfair  and  unbusinesslike. 
The  man  who  buys  a  bill  of  goods  in 
Chicago  or  Detroit  or  Grand  Rapids 
should  pay  for  them  in something that is 
par  in  Chicago,  Detroit  or  Grand  Rap­
ids  It  is  not  right  for  the  buyer  to  re­
mit  by  local  check  which  is  subject  to  a 
discount,  any  more  than  bis  customers 
have  a'right  to  arbitrarily  deduct  10  or 
25  cents  from  each  account  when  pay­
ing  their bills.  The  system 
is  wrong, 
because  it  stimulates  and  fosters  the  is­
suing  of  checks  when  there  is actually 
no  money  on  deposit,  and  in  this  way 
enables  the  merchant  to  create  and 
maintain  a  fictitious credit,  which works 
injury  tor  himself  and  injustice  to  bis 
creditors.  If  A.  C.  Hager,  who  swindled 
Michigan  merchants  out  of  $50,000  last 
year,  had  been  compelled  to  remit  by 
draft,  instead  of  by  check,  the  creditors 
of  that  notorious  thief  would  have  been 
many  thousand  dollars  ahead. 
The 
country  check  system  is wrong in theory, 
wrong  in  principle  and  wrong  in  appli­
cation,  and  the  sooner 
it  is  abolished 
and  a  safe  and  businesslike  method 
adopted  in  its  place  the  better  it will  be 
for  all  concerned.

The  late  Senator  Morrill,  of  Vermont, 
was as  careful  of  the  public  property  as 
if  he  bought  and  paid  for  it  out  of  his 
private  purse.  He  always  carefully 
untied  and  saved  the  piece  of  red  tape 
that  came  around  his  mail,  in  conse­
quence  of  which  his  was the  only  com­
mittee-room  that  never  made a  requisi­
tion  for  tape.

Chicago  has  an  anomaly  in  the  person 
of  Ralph  Roe,  who  is  at  present  making 
his  headquarters 
in  the  Windy  City. 
Roe 
is  not  the  gentleman's  real  name 
nor  that  under  which  be  graduated  from 
an  Eastern  college.  He  simply  uses  it 
for  professional  purposes,  and  his  pro­
fession 
is  that  of  a  tramp.  But  he  has 
a  mission,  and  there  is  the  redeeming 
feature.  Who  ever  before  heard  of  a 
tramp  with  a  mission?  Mr.  Roe is form­
ing  a  vagabonds’  trades  union.  He  has 
tramped  over  the  whole world during the 
past  twenty-five  years  and  be  knows  his 
business  from  alpha  to  omega.  The 
Amalgamated  Association  of  Hobos  is 
to  protect 
its  members  from  the  law 
and,  presumably,  from  dogs  and  home­
made  pie. 
is  to  build  homes  and 
issue  maps  of  the  best  "lunch  routes" 
and  in  every  way  make  life  easy  for  its 
supporters  and  miserable  for  non  union 
tramps  and  beggars,  who  are  to  be 
pestered  and  annoyed  and  maligned  the 
same  way  that  non-union  workmen  are 
treated  by  their  brethren  in  other  occu­
pations.

It 

There  is  a  great  demand  for  old  bot­
tles  in  New  York.  Nearly  every  brew­
ery  in  the  city  is  calling  for  them,  and 
can’t  get  enough.  The  reason  is  that 
since  the  close  of  the  war  an  immense 
demand  for  bottled  beer  has  sprung  up 
in  Cuba  and  Puerto  Rico. 
It  comes  to 
a  considerable  extent  from  the  Ameri­
can  troops  in  these  islands,  but  the  na­
tives  also  appear  to  be  rapidly  becom­
ing  beer  drinkers.  Exporters  charge 
extra  for  the  bottles.  They  do  not  get 
them  back,  as  it  would  not  pay  to  stand 
the  return  freight.  So  there 
is  a  big 
demand  for  nearly  every  kind  of  old 
bottle,  provided  it  holds  a  pint  or quart.
Elgin,  111.,  claims  to  be  the  residence 
of  the  American  butter  king,  in  the 
person  of  John  Newman,  who  was  re­
cently  elected  President  of  the  Board  of 
Trade  in  that  city. 
In  all  the  world  be 
is  probably  the  largest  producer  of  that 
bovine  gold  which  gilds  the  staff  of 
life.  Every  day  be  drives  up  from  the 
pasture  herds  of  55,000  cows,  and  every 
morning  he  skims  the  cream  from  500,- 
000  quarts  of  milk,  enough  fluid  to  sail 
a  yacht  in.

In  certain  parts  of  Sweden,  where  the 
most  absolute  confidence  is  reposed 
in 
the  honesty  of  the  people,  a  very  in­
formal  postal  system  is  in  vogue.  As 
the  mail  steamer  reaches  a 
landing 
place  a  man  goes  ashore  with  the 
let­
ters,  which  be  places 
in  an  unlocked 
box  on  the  pier.  Then  the  passerby 
who  expects  a 
letter  opens  the  box, 
turns  over  the  letters,  and  selects  bis 
own,  unquestioned  by  any  one.

A  “ trusted  cashier"  in  New  York 

is 
missing  with  $30,000  of  bis  employer’s 
money.  He  was  "ruined  by  women,”  
of  course. 
it  were  not  for  women 
how  could  dishonest  men  excuse  their 
shortcomings?

If 

Of  course  Gomez  will  want  to  be  the 
first  president  of  Cuba.  A  soldier  of 
fortune  from  San  Domingo,  it  would  be 
remarkable  if  he  were  content  with  his 
Cuban  experiences  in  the  bush.

BARLOW  BROS.,  Grand  Rapids.

COUNTRY  CH E CK S.

The Preferred  Bankers 
Life Assurance Company

of Detroit, Mich.

Annual Statement,  Dec. 31,  1898.

Commenced  Business 8ept.  I,  1893.

Insurance in Force..................................$3,299,000 00
45t734  79
Ledger Assets  ....................................... 
2168
Ledger Liabilities  ................................. 
Losses Adjusted and Unpaid...............  
None
51,061  00
Total Death Losses Paid to Date......... 
Total Guarantee Deposits  Paid to Ben­
1,030  00
.................................. 
Death Losses Paid During the Year... 
11,000 00
Death  Rate for the Y  ear....................... 
364

eficiaries 

F R A N K  E. ROBSON,  President. 

TR U M A N  B. GOODSPEED, Secretary.

OtportmlH o! a Uielime!

A first-class opportunity to buy a  well- 
established  and  good  paying  business 
in a flourishing town In the Upper Pen - 
insula.  The present proprietor did well 
for eighteen years and  wishes  to  retire 
on  account  of  age  and  poor  health. 
Prospect  for  future  is  even  brighter. 
Stock consists  of  a  well-selected  stock 
of  Groceries,  Dry  Goods, Ladies’  and 
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods,  Notions, 
Etc., and invoices about  $15,000.  Lo­
cation,  central.  Rent,  $900  per  year. 
Five years’ lease, if  desired.  For  fur­
ther particulars address  X,  care  Mich­
igan Tradesman.

M

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' V l   I N S .co.  .

The Mercantile Agency

> J.W.Champlin, Pres.  W. F r e d  McBain, Sec. •

Prompt, Conservative, 5afe. 

A  

Established  1841.

R. Q.  DUN & CO.

Widdicomb Bid’s , Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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

L. P . W1TZLEBEN.  manager.

Save  Trouble. 
Save  M oney. 
Sava Time.

No  Longer  Par 

in  the  New  York 

Market.

interested 

Business  men  and  bankers  all  over 
the  country  are 
in  the  new 
rule  adopted  by  the  New  York  Clearing 
House  Association  last  week  to  secure  a 
uniform  charge  by  its  members  for  the 
collection  of  checks  and  drafts  drawn 
upon  banks  at  interior  points.  An  ex­
ception  is  made  in  favor  of  items  to be 
collected 
in  Boston,  Providence,  A l­
bany,  Troy,  Jersey  City,  Newark,  Phil­
adelphia  and  Baltimore,  checks  on 
which  cities  may  be  credited  as  cash  if 
the  banks  so  desire.

For  collecting  checks  drawn  on  banks 
in  Connecticut,  Delaware,  Maryland, 
Illinois,  Kentucky,  Maine, 
Indiana, 
Massachusetts,  Michigan,  Missouri, 
New  Hampshire,  New  Jersey,  New 
York,  Ohio,  Pennsylvania,  District  of 
Columbia,  Vermont,  Virginia,  West 
Virginia  and  Wisconsin  a  charge  of  not 
less  than  one-tenth  of  1  per  cent,  is  to 
be  made.  That  means  that  for collecting 
a  check  for  $100  drawn  on  a  bank  in 
any  of  these  States,  the  charge  would  be 
10 cents.

For  collecting  checks  on  banks 

in 
Alabama,  Arizona,  Arkansas,  Califor­
nia,  Colorado,  Florida,  Georgia,  Idaho, 
Indian  Territory,  Iowa,  Kansas,  Louis­
iana,  Minnesota,  Mississippi,  Montana, 
Nebraska,  Nevada,  New  Mexico,  North 
Carolina.  North  Dakota,  Oklahoma, 
Oregon,  Sou:h  Carolina,  South  Dakota, 
Tennessee,  Texas,  Utah,  Washington, 
Wyoming  and  Canada  the  charge  shall 
be  not  less  than  one-fourth  of  1  per 
cent,  or  25  cents  on  the $100  check.

No  check,  regardless  of  the amount 
for  which 
it  is  drawn,  shall  pay  less 
than  10 cents  charge,  which  means  that 
in  the  second  group  of  States  above 
mentioned  all  checks  for $100  or  less, 
even  although 
it  be  for  only  $5,  must 
pay  a  collection  charge  of  10 cents.
The  banks  have  evidently  gone 

into 
this  thing  seriously,  judging  from  the 
The
penalties 

they  have  adopted. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

\W ash  Goodsl

2

Rapidity  o f  Business Changes.

From  Shoe  and Leather Facts.

The  business  man  must  be  very  alert 
these  days  to  carefully  note  and  keep 
apace  with  the  changes  arising  and 
liable  to  arise  in  the  processes  of  con­
ducting  trade  and  manufacturing  opera­
tions.  There 
is  an  old  theory  that  the 
human  system  is  renewed  at  the  period 
of  every  seven  years.  Whether  this  ab­
solutely  holds  good  or  not  may  be  a  de­
batable  point,  but 
it  is  certain  that  in 
this  comparatively  short number of years 
the  character  of  most  businesses  is  al­
most  entirely  changed.  The  Iron  Age, 
in  referring to  this  matter  recently,  said 
that  the  man  who  totally  withdraws 
from  participating 
in  any  particular 
branch  of  trade  will  find  on  re-entering 
it  seven  years  later  that  most  of  bis 
technical  knowledge  is  unavailable  and 
inapplicable,  causing  him  to  learn  the 
business  over again.  Unless  he  applies 
himself  diligently  to  master  the  new 
conditions  which  have  arisen 
the 
meanwhile,  he 
is  pretty  certain  to  be  a 
back  number,  having  completely  lost 
step  with  the  march  of  progress  during 
the  years  of  his  retirement.

in 

Even  those  who  steadily  continue  to 
follow  the  same  calling  are  obliged  to 
keep  on  the  qui  vive,posting  themselves 
constantly  upon  the  developments which 
are  taking  place,  or  they  will  find  them­
selves  sadly  handicapped  in  the  contest 
for  success,  their  competitors  having 
pushed  forward  while  they  stood  still. 
is  particularly  true  of  the  shoe 
This 
and 
leather  trade 
in  all  its  branches. 
Compare,  for  example,  the  leather  and 
footwear  on  the  market to-day with those 
produced  and  offered  less  than  ten  years 
ago.  Then  large  quantities  of  French 
kid  and  other  foreign  leathers  found  a 
ready  market  here,  while  the  American 
manufacturers  were  in  despair  over  the 
decline 
for  pebbles, 
straight  grains  and  other  classes  of 
morocco.  They  set  to  work,  however, 
and  bow  amazing  the  result! 
In  many 
branches  of  the  manufacture  of  foot­
wear  then  hand  work  was  used  entirely, 
whereas  now  the most improved mechan­
ism  is  utilized  in  all  departments  of  the 
production  of  footwear.

in  the  demand 

Retailers,  too,  have  been  hard  at  work 
solving  the  problems  which  have arisen, 
and  the  business  of  catering  t >  the  con­
suming  public  is  on  an altogether differ­
ent  basis  from  what  it  was  only  a  few 
years  ago.

largely 

traditional. 

Thus  it  is  seen  that  in  what 

is  prac­
in 
tically  only  one-fifth  of  a  generation 
life  of  individuals  a  new  business 
the 
generation 
is  developed  or  springs  up. 
To  them  the  methods  of  former  years 
are 
They  have 
learned  ther  lesson  in  a  new  school,  and 
there  have  been  new  conditions  thrust 
upon  them,  which  they  have  accepted 
unquestioniugly.  Those  who  have  ex­
perienced  the  changing  conditions  in
former  years  and  kept  apace  with  the 
newest  developments  have  the  added 
advantage  of  experience,  an  item  of  the 
greatest  value  and  importance,  but  they 
are  the  most  unfortunate  cf  all  persons 
if  they  have  neglected  their  opportuni­
ties  in  this  respect  and  have  not  suffi­
cient  knowledge  or  capital  to  recover 
lost  ground.

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons— There 

is  a  steady 
business  coming  forward  and  prices 
have  no  effect  in  stopping  trading,  pro­
vided  the  goods  can  be  found.  The 
mills  are 
in  a  little  better  condition  to 
deliver than  those  manufacturing  fancy 
or  dress  styles,  the  latter  being  now 
largely  turned  onto  fall  styles.  There 
are  still  some  advances  being  made, 
and  some  of  the  important  lines  are  re­
ported  as  being  advanced  around  5  per 
cent.  Prices  are  steady  and  strong  in 
the  brown  goods  division,  both  in  heavy 
and  light  weights.

Prints  and  Ginghams—There has been 
no  decided  change 
in  the  conditions 
of  the  printed  goods  market,  and  the 
advanced  prices  noted 
strongly 
maintained  by  the  sellers,  and  there  is

are 

is  a  drop 

little  trouble  from  this  source,  for  the 
goods  are  wanted  at  almost  any  price 
that  the  buyers  have  to  pay,  and  there 
is  no  question  that  the  prices  are  on  a 
solid  foundation,  and  very  little 
likeli­
hood  of  there  being  any  receding  for 
some  tim e;  on  the  other  hand,  unless 
there 
in  the  price  of  cotton 
and  of  print  cloths,  there  can  be  no 
change 
in  printed  goods  other  than  a 
further  advance.  Both  fancy  and  staple 
lines  are  in  excellent  shape  in  calicoes. 
In 
fine  specialties,  stocks  are  small, 
and  deliveries  are  generally  consider­
ably  behind. 
Robes,  draperies  and 
other  lines  similar  are  rather  quiet,  but 
firm.  Ginghams  are  well  sold  up  in  all 
directions,  and  the  situation 
is  very 
much  against  buyers.

Carpets— The  call  is  for all  lines,  in­
cluding  fine  pile  fabrics  and  tapestry 
velets  and 
ingrains,  and  the  trade  re­
port  a  decided  improvement  in  the  de­
mand  for  the  better  class  of goods.  This 
will  give  the  all  wool  ingrains  a  better 
chance  next  season.  The  consumers  are 
beginning  to  realize  that  it  is  not  cheap 
to  buy  inferior  goods  offered,  as  a  very 
small  amount  more  of  money  will  pro­
cure  a  more  serviceable  carpet,  which 
will  outlast  three  of  the  cheap  grades, 
giving  satisfaction  from  the  first.  From 
the  commencement  of  next  season  the 
manufacturers  of 
ingrains  anticipate  a 
more  favorable  condition to  their  line  of 
business,  which  has  been  more  de­
pressed  than  any  other. 
Individual  in­
stances  can  be  found  where  the  manu­
facturers  are  already  in  better  shape  as 
compared  with  the  opening  of  the  sea­
son.  This  is  due  to  the  general 
indus­
trial  improvement  all  over  the  country, 
and  retailers  are  more  willing  to  place 
orders.

Woolens—The  cotton  worsted  business 
continues  one  of  very  close competition. 
Within  the  range  of  fabrics  are to  be 
seen  good,  bad  and 
indifferent.  Some 
that  are  soft  to  the  feel,  having  a  good 
worsted  face,  of  good  body  and  attract­
ive  design,bave  compared  favorably,  as 
far  as  the  volume  of  orders  is  con­
cerned,  with  the  more  successful  lines 
of  all  worsted  goods;  lines  into  which  a 
small  percentage  of  cotton  has  been 
carded,  and  which  can  be  and  doubtless 
are  sold  by  some  clothiers  as  strictly 
all  worsted  fabrics,  have  sold  to  a  fair 
extent;  getting  away  from  the  better 
class  of  goods  there  are  to  be  found 
fabrics  which,  while 
cotton 
worsteds,  have  such  a  small  percentage
of  worsted  threads  in  them  that  a  very 
close  examination  would  be necessary  to 
detect  any  trace  of  worsted ;  some  very 
neat  designs  of  through  and  through 
fabrics  having  a  cotton  warp  are  to  be 
bad  in  the  vicinity  of  half  a  dollar.
How  One  Merchant  Circumvents  the 

called 

Catalogue  Houses.

Tekonsha,  March  15— I  note  in  your 
valued  paper that  you  wish  to  hear from 
retail  dealers  regarding  the  best  plan  to 
stop  business  going  to  catalogue  houses. 
Our  plan  is  this:  Advertise  to  meet  all 
prices  pul  out  by  such  houses.  We 
keep  a  catalogue  on  our  counter  of  one 
of  the  largest  houses  doing  this  busi­
ness.  We  show  our  customers  their 
prices  on  articles  they  wish  to purchase, 
then  add  the  expense  of  postage,  ex­
press  or  freight,  sending  money  and  so 
forth,  and  sell  the  goods  at  the  prices 
quoted 
in  the  catalogue.  We  have  no 
trouble 
in  selling  the  goods  and, 
in 
most  cases,  at  a  living  profit.  We  are 
surely  diverting  at  least  50  per  cent,  of 
the  trade  in  our  line  that  formetly  went 
to  these  houses  before  we commenced on 
this  plan  and  expect  before  the  season 
is  over  to  have  80 or 90  per  cent,  of  it. 
We  require  cash  down,  the  same  as 
people  have  to  pay  when  dealing  with 
the  catalogue  houses.

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wear will put more mo­
ney into  a  merchant’s 
pocket  than any other 
method  known  for  its 
sale. 
It  is  a fact that 
nine  men  out  of every 
ten will stop and make 
a purchase of a  tie  or 
two  that  happens  to 
attract  their attention 
w h i l e   passing 
the 
store.  W e  will  be 
ready  to  deliver  for 
Easter  trade  a  very 
choice  assortment  of 
colorings  in  the latest 
shapes  to  retail  at  a 
quarter  and  half  dol­
lar. 
If  our  salesman 
does not reach  you in  time to show  the line  then write us, stat­
ing  price  and  quantity,  and  we  can  surely suit you.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.

Wholesale  Dry  Goods, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

with  the  retail  grocery  business,  as  that 
seems  to  be  the  victim  of  a  great  deal 
of  misapplied  energy  and  lost  oppor­
tunity,  the  general  plan  to  be  that  of  a 
limited  stock  company,  each  member  to 
take  stock  and  be  responsible  to  the 
amount  of  bis  present  investment  and 
having  one  vote  in  the  management  for 
each  share  of  stock  owned by  him ;  each 
store  in  the  combination  to  be treated as 
a  branch  of  the  organization,  under  the 
general  management  of  a  board  of  man­
agers  chosen  by  the  stockholders;  the 
earnings  and  expenses  to  be  pocled  and 
shared  pro  rata,  computed  on  a  per­
centage  basis  according  to  the  shares  of 
stock ;  each  stockholder  or  branch  man­
ager  to  make  daily  reports  of  sales  and 
expenses  and  requisitions  for  stock  to 
the  central  office  and  to  be  responsible 
for  the  conduct  of  the  business  under 
bis  charge,  depositing  all  cash  received 
with  the  treasurer  of  the  organization, 
who  should  be  under  sufficient  bonds 
to  indemnify  the  stockholders.

It  will  be  understood,  of  course,  that 
there  would  be  a  number  of  details to be 
arranged  under this  general  outline,  but 
it  is  believed  that  the  foregoing  skele­
ton  embraces  the  principal features  nec­
essary  to  the  organization  proposed.

Now  let  us  proceed  to  consider  some 

of  its  advantages:

to 

the 

1.  As 

location, 

various 
branches  scattered  throughout  a  large 
town  or  city  under  one  management 
would  prove  a  positive  advantage,  as 
customers 
in  all  parts  of  the  city  could 
find  right  at  tbeir  verv  doors  the  same 
goods,  at  the  same  prices  and  on  the 
same  terms,  that  they  could  procure  at 
the  downtown  store,  and  with  just  as 
good  service  they  could  find  no  possible 
excuse  for going  farther and  faring  no 
better.

2.  Every  detail  of  the  business  could 
be  so systemized  under  competent  man­
agement  that  the  commercial  inconven­
iences  would  be  minimized  and  no  time 
or  labor  wasted.

3.  The  financial  standing  and  credit 
of  the  combination  would  equal  the  sum 
of 
its  combined  capital  and  afford  its 
members  all  the  advantages  of  the  pres­
tige  conceded  to  ample  capital.

4.  The  central  office  could  contract 
for  advertising  for the  entire  business, 
securing  the  lowest  rates,  and  the  goods 
advertised  being  offered 
in  all  the 
stores,  the  combination  would  get  the 
advantage  of  the  entire  circulation.

5.  The  volume  of  its  combined  busi­
ness  would  give  the  combination  a  pur­
chasing  power  in  the  market  that  no 
individual  member  could  ever  hope  to 
rival  outside  of  it  and  that  no  large  re­
tail  store,  however  favorably  situated, 
could  surpass.

Safe  Anchorage  for  the  Retailer. 

W ritten for the T r ad esm an.

It 

The  smaller  retail  trades  are  drifting, 
not  with  the  central 
current  of  the 
stream  of  progress,  but  with  the  diver­
ging  tide  that  strands  the  driftwood.  It 
may  be  only  a  question  of  a  few  years 
when  their  dismantled  barques  will  be 
strewn  among  the  wrecks  of  time. 
In­
dividually,  their members  are  not  strong 
enough  to  pull  back 
into  the  central 
current  and  they  have  no  anchorage  to 
prevent  their  further  involuntary  drift­
ing. 
is  a  grave  question  whether  it 
is  not  now  too  late,  even  by  combined 
effort,  to  command  force  enough  to  re­
gain  a  position  in  the  central  stream. 
But 
it  may  be  possible  to  find  an  an­
chorage  which  will prevent further drift­
ing,  as  a  temporary  expedient,  until 
opportunity  shall  offer,  by 
judicious 
manipulation,  to  work  them  back  into 
position  or  to  transfer  the  crew  and 
cargo  to  safer  craft,  without serious loss.
lo­
cated  possess  immense  advantages  over 
the  smaller  and  scattered  retail  estab- 
Lshments:  i, 
in  location^;  2,  in  com­
mercial  conveniences;  3,  in  larger  cap­
ital;  4,  in  practical  advertising  facili­
ties ;  5,  in  volume  of  business;  6, 
in 
buying  advantages;  7,  in  cash  patron­
age

The  larger  retail  bouses  centrally 

On  the  other  hand,  the  smaller  and 
scattered  retailers  are  heavily  handi 
capped :  1,  by  reason  of  their  isolated
locations  they  can  command  only  a  lim­
ited  patronage  at  best;  2,  their  lack  oi 
conveniences  costs  them 
in  time  and 
labor  out  of  proportion  to  their  indi­
vidual  volume  of  business;  3,  their  in 
dividual  capital  limitation  lessens  their 
individual  importance  and  prestige  and 
loses  them  their  discounts and  market 
advantages;  4,  they miss,  almost  wholly, 
the  advantages  of  newspaper  advertis­
ing,  by  reason  of  tbeir  limited  areas  of 
patronage,  nearly  always  being  obliged 
to  pay  regular  rates  and  getting the ben­
efit  of  only  a  very  small  percentage  of 
the  circulation;  5,  their individual busi­
ness 
is  entirely  disproportionate  to  the 
running  expenses  charged  against  it, 
preventing  their  meeting  prices  with 
the  larger  stores  and  resulting  in  the 
loss  of  trade;  6,  it 
is  well  known  that 
the  house  which  does  the  largest volume 
of  business 
is  the  choice  patron  of  the 
large  jobber and  manufacturer,  securing 
the  lowest  prices  and  the  best discounts, 
the  small  retailer  being  out  of  consider­
ation 
in  this  particular;  7,  many  of 
their  customers  merely  use  them  for 
convenience  and  accommodation,  work­
ing  them  for  credit  in  emergency  until 
pay  day  and  then  patronizing  the  down­
town  stores  for  cash.

These  things  conceded,  what  can  the 
small  retailer  do  to  put  himself  in  a 
to  meet  this  overwhelming 
position 
competition  and 
save  himself  from 
eventual  disaster?

At  the  risk  of  being  condemned  as 
visionary  and  impractical,  permit  me  to 
suggest  a  possible  plan  for  relief.

The  large  manufacturers,  jobbers  and 
heavy  retailers  have  found  it  desirable, 
possibly  necessary, 
to  combine  tbeir 
efforts  along  certain 
lines  to  protect 
tbeir  interests.  Why  can  not  the  retail­
ers  in  every  city  and town of importance 
where  competition  from  the  large  stores 
and  amongst  themselves  is squeezing the 
very 
life  out  of  them  form  a  combina­
tion  to  secure  most,  if  not  all,  of  the 
advantages  enjoyed  by  the  large  retail­
ers?

Let  us  first outline  a  plan  of combina­
tion  and  follow  by  summing  up  its  ad­
vantages:  We  will  begin,  for  instance.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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vestment  and  worry  would 
cease  to 
trouble  the  hours  which  should  be de­
voted  to  pleasant  dreams.

could 

9.  Unworthy  members 

be 
weeded  out  and  kept  out ;  no  single 
individual  could  hope  to  stand  against 
the  combination  for  any  length  of  time 
—in  fact,  an  individual possessing  abil­
ity  enough  to  make  an impression would 
know  too  much  to  undertake  it,  for 
in­
dividual  competition  would  be  to  him 
preferable  to  fighting  a  combination.

In 

10. 

localities  where  too  many 
stores  exist  the  surplus  accommodation 
could  be  removed  to  other  localities  or 
the  stocks  consolidated  and  tbeir owners 
into  partnership  or  given  em­
taken 
ployment  somewhere 
in  the  combina­
tion.

Why  should 

it  be  thought  less  prac­
tical  to  form  a  combination  of  this  na 
tire  in  the  retail  trade  than  in  the  man­
ufacturing  business  or  other  large  inter­
ests?  Would  it  not  be  a  great  deal  more 
sensible  to  enter  into  an  arrangement  of 
this  character  than 
to  be  continually 
flying  at  each  other's  throats,  and  into 
the  face  of  Providence,  metaphorically 
speaking? 
Is individual misery  sweeter 
than  collective  enjoyment?

J.  M.  B a n k e r .

A  little attention  to details,like  plenty 
of  string,  so  the  package  will  not  be­
come  undone 
in  the  street,  and  good 
wrapping  paper,  so that  it  will  not  tear, 
costs so  little  more,  and  so  much  more 
pleases  the  customer.

Executive  ability 

is  the  faculty  of 

getting  some  one  to  do  your  work.

Two  of  a  Kind.

Husband  (at  the  breakfast  table):  O 
for  some  of  the  biscuits  my  mother used 
to  make!

Wife  (sweetly):  I’m sorry you  haven’t 
got  them,  dear.  They  would  be  just 
about  stale  enough  by  this  time  to  go 
well  with  that  remark.

A  few  flashes  of  silence  occasionally 
improve  some  people’s 

would  greatly 
conversation.

SPRING  SUITS  AND 

OVERCOATS

Herringbones, Serges,'Clays, Fancy Worst­
eds, Cassimeres.  Largest Lines;  no  bet- 
X  ter  made;  perfect  fits;  prices  guaranteed; 
a   $3*50 up.  Manufacturers,
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  Stouts, Slims a Specialty.  Mail  orders  at- 
t   tended  to,  or  write  our  traveler,  Wm. 
J   Connor,  Box 346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  to  call, 
J   or meet him at Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand  Rap-
▼
ids,  March 27  to  31.  Customers* expenses

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substantial,  when  financial  stocks  of  all 
kinds  will  undoubtedly  sustain  a  higher 
range  of  values.  Those  who  have  idle 
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6.  Having  absolute  control  of  the  re­
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most  eliminated  and  eventually  a  cash 
system 
inaugurated,  and  with  credits 
and  collections  handled  through  a  cen­
tral  office,  there  would  be  very  little 
occasion  to  suffer  imposition.

7.  Systematic  and  economical  man­
agement  would  reduce  expenses  to  the 
lowest  point  and  afford  a  better  margin 
of  profit

8.  Competition  among  the  members 
being  entirely  eliminated,  prices  uni­
formly  regulated  and  the  profits  shared 
equally,  there  need  be  no  useless  waste 
of  energy,  but 
its  stead  a  friendly 
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ambition  to  do  the  most  business  pos­
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Around  the State

Movements  of  Merchants.

Clare—J.  H.  Schilling,  grocer,  has  re­

moved  to  Petoskey.

Twin  Lake—Ward  Buzzell  has  em­

barked  in  general  trade.

Durand— E.  B.  Shultz  has  opened  a 

paint  and  wallpaper  store.

Sagihaw—j.  T.  Rose  has  sold  his 

meat  market  to  Jas.  Lester.

Honor— Nelson  Holt,  of  Mt.  Pleasant, 

has  engaged  in  the  drug  business.

Arland— A.  B.  Lyman  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  A.  M.  Cook,  of  Leslie.
Marshall— M.  B.  Powell  has  sold  bis 
drug  stock  to  Sam  and  Tom  Swartout.
succeeds 
Wicking  &  Storrer  in  the  clothing  busi­
ness.

Owosso— Fred  J.  Storrer 

Three  Rivers— Ingersoll  &  Co.  have 
sold  their  bazaar  stock  to  E.  V.  Abell 
&  Co.

Port  Huron-----Will  McArthur  has
opened  a  meat  market  at  322  Commer­
cial  street.

Wacousta—John  C.  Oding  has  sold 
his  general  stock  to  Maurice  Streeter, 
of  St.  Johns.

Bronson—William  Blass  has  removed 
his  stock  of  dry  goods  from  Constantine 
to  this  place.

Empire—L.  E.  Collin  and  John  Frye 
implement  and 

in  the 

have  engaged 
vehicle  business.

Lewiston— David  Watson, 

furniture 
dealer  and  undertaker,  has  sold  out  to 
Newton  H.  Traver.

Manton—W.  Elevier 

is  closing  out 
his  stock  of  general  merchandise  and 
will  retire  from  trade.

Stockbridge— Milner  Bros, 

succeed 
Brooks  &  Milner  in  the  furniture  and 
undertaking  business.

Marshall—Deuel  &  Hughes,  furniture 
dealers  and  undeitakers,  have dissolved, 
Mr.  Hughes  succeeding.

Saginaw—Mrs.  Peter  Mills  is  closing 
out  her  grocery  stock  on  Douglass  street 
and  will  retire  from  trade.

Perrinton—J.  J.  Myers,  of  Davis,  has 
purchased  the  dry  goods  and  grocery 
stock  of  Stroup  &  Carmer.

Hagensville— Wilson  &  McHarg  suc­
ceed  W.  H.  Wilson  in  the  grocery  and 
agricultural  implement  business.

Bay  City—John  Slezak  has  embarked 
in  the  boot  and  shoe  business at  the  cor­
ner  of  32d  street  and  Michigan  avenue.
Elmdale— E.  L.  Grant  has  sold  his 
general  stock  to  L.  Lott,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  the  same 
loca­
tion.

Owosso— J.  T.  Walsh  has  purchased 
the  boot  and  shoe  stock  of  W.  S.  Lusk 
and  will  add  a  line  of  men's  furnish­
ings.

Elk  Rapids—Joseph  Butler  succeeds 
the  late  R.  G.  Bruce  as  manager  of  the 
grocery  department  of  the  Elk  Rapids 
Iron  Co.

Cassopolis—Otis  J.  Beeson  has  pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  of  Smith  &  Fitz­
gerald,  of  Goshen,  Ind.,  and  already 
taken  possession  of  same.

St.  Johns—G.  W.  Hyde  has  closed  out 
his  grocery  stock  and  removed  to  Hast­
ings,  where  be  will  embark  in  the  gro­
cery  and  bakery  business.

Shaytown— Roy  Freemire  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  C.  S.  Jack- 
son  and  will  continue  the  business  in 
partnership  with  Arthur  Allen.

Ovid— Brazill  Marvin,  dry goods deal­
er  at  this  place,  recently  committed 
suicide  by  shooting  himself  in  the  fore­
head.  He  bad  suffered  much 
from 
rheumatism  of  late,  which  was  probably 
the  cause  of  self-destruction.

St.  Johns—W.  H  H.  Chapman,  of 
Chesaning,  has  purchased 
shoe 
stock  of  A.  E.  Dutcher  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  this  place.

the 

Alma—A  change  has been made in  the 
furniture  and  undertaking  firm  of  Dean 
&  Hollenbeck,  Mr.  Hollenbeck  selling 
bis  half 
interest  to  C.  DeYoung,  of 
Crystal.

Lake  Odessa—Charles  Wright,  of 
Carleton  Center,  has  purchased  the  gro­
cery  and  crockery  stock  of  Mr.  Man­
ning,  who  recently  came  here 
from 
Grand  Rapids.

Chesaning—Otis  Bettis  has  sold  his 
interest 
in  the  shoe  firm  of  Bettis  & 
Hotaling  to  his  partner,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
Wm.  Hotaling.

Benton  Harbor— J.  A.  Sheffield,  of  the 
drug  firm  of  J.  A.  Sheffield  &  Son,  re­
cently  died  from  an  attack  of  pneu­
monia.  He  was  a  prominent  business 
man  of  this  place.

Saranac—Geo.  W.  Ford  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  carriage business of  Foid 
&  Arnold  to  Irving  C.  Stebbins,  of 
Easton.  The  new  firm  will  be  known 
as  Arnold  &  Stebbins.

Elk  Rapids—The  drug  stock  of  the 
late  Chas.  Vaughan  has  been  moved  to 
Central  Lake  and  will  be  consolidated 
with  that  of  Hugh  Vaughan,  thereby 
leaving  Elk  Rapids  with  but  one  drug 
store.

Alma—W.  E.  Wilson  writes  the 
Tradesman  that  the  contemplated  co­
partnership  between  himself and  Byron 
S.  Webb  was  not  consummated.  The 
firm  of  Wilson  &  Webb  is,  therefore, 
non  est.

Buchanan— The  meat  market  former­
ly  conducted  by  Frank  A.  Treat  and 
later  by  Beck  Bros,  has  been  purchased 
by  Jas.  R.  Detwiler,  of  Schoolcraft, 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Battle  Creek— The  Stevens  &  Gordon 
Co.  has  been  organized  by  A.  H.  Stev 
ens,  M.  S.  Gordon  and  H.  A.  Preston 
to  engage 
in  the  mercantile  business. 
The  capital  stock  of  the  corporation  is 
.$15,000,  of  which  $6,000  is  paid  in.

Negaunee— Rosen  Bros.,  who  conduct 
a  dry  goods  and  clothing  store  at  Mus­
kegon,  have  purchased  the  dry  goods 
stock  of  M.  E.  Joyce. 
It  is  understood 
that  they  will  put  it  on  the  market  with 
the  other  stocks  they  have  purchased.
Rapid  City— R.  E.  Hughes  and E.  F. 
Henderson  have  formed  a  copartnership 
and  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business, 
which  will  be  conducted  under  the 
management  of  Mr.  Henderson,  Mr. 
Hughes  remaining  in  St.  Louis,  where 
he  has  an  established  grocery  business.
Hudson—J.  Roney  &  Co.  have  sold 
their  grocery  and  crockery  stock  to  E. 
D.  Clark  and  A.  H.  Colvin,  who  will 
continue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
Clark  &  Co.  Mr.  Colvin 
is  traveling 
representative  for  Phelps,  Brace  &  Co. 
and  will  continue  his  relations  with 
that  house  for  the  present. 

•

Manufacturing  Matters.

Chesaning—Jacob  B.  Hoffman,  of 
Chapin,  has  purchased  the  cheese  fac 
tory  of  T.  A.  Cook  and  will  continue 
the  business.

Benton  Harbor— Between  $30,000  and 
$40,000  in  stock  in  the  new  beet  sugar 
factory  here  has  been  subscribed  by 
Cleveland  capitalists.

Hudson—A.  &  D.  Friedman  have 
closed  their  dry  goods  store at Hillsdale, 
but  will  continue  their  dry  goods  store 
here.  They  will  shortly  embark  in  the 
manufacture  of  skirts,  wrappers  and 
shirt  waists  at  Detroit

Middleton— The  Rockafellow  Grain 
Co.,  Ltd.,  has  purchased  the  elevator  at 
this  place.  The  business  will  be  man­
aged  by  G.  C.  Culver.

Gobleville—The  Gobleville  Canning 
Co.  has  been  organized  by  W.  W. 
Lewis,  J.  L.  Clement  and  A.  B.  Chase, 
trustee,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $5,000, 
one-half  of  which  is  paid  in.

Hudson—Geo.  Lord,  who  owns several 
cheese  factories  in  this  vicinity,  is  crit­
ically  ill.  Some  time  ago  be  went  to 
Detroit  to have  an  operation  performed 
for  a  cancer  on  bis  side.  For  a  time 
he 
in  health,  but  be  is  now 
suffering  greatly  from  a  return  of  the 
dreadful  malady,  and  it  is  feared  be 
is 
past  recovery.

improved 

Yale— The  Yale  Evaporating  &  Can­
ning  Co.  has  been  organized  by  B.  R. 
Noble,  R.  M.  Lothian,  James  McColl, 
A.  W.  Ferguson,  Wm.  Ruh,  E  F. 
Read,  Harvey  Tappan,  James  Wallace, 
Grant  Holden  and  W.  G.  Wright. 
It  is 
estimated  that  the  company  will  use 
from  250  to  300 bushels  of  potatoes  per 
day  throughout  the  fall  and  winter,  ne­
cessitating  the  purchase  of  over  7,000 
bushels  of  potatoes  per  month.

lubricating 

Port  Huron—Geo.  B.  Stock  has  pur­
chased  the  foundry  and  machine  shop 
of  Dr.  Northrup  for a  consideration  of 
$2,500.  He  has  leased  the  foundry  to 
Robert  Harris, 
the  former  occupant, 
and  will  also  lease  the  machine  shop. 
He  will  erect  an  addition  to  the  prop­
erty,  which  will  be  occupied  by  the 
Stock  Lubricator  Co.,  which  is  at  pres­
ent  operating jn  Chicago  and  Holyoke. 
im­
This  firm  will  manufacture  the 
compound 
proved  Xyl  te 
and  other  friction  reducers. 
It  is  ex­
pected  that  the  plant  will  be  in  running 
order by  May  1.
Changes  in  the  Hannah  &   Lay  Store.
Traverse  City,  March  15—I have yours 
of  the  13th  and  have  noted  the  contents 
What  was  properly  our  dry  goods  and 
clothing  department,  I  have  divided  in­
to  two  blocks,  as  I  might  call  them. 
I 
have  taken  everything  that  pertains  to 
men's  wear,  such  as  clothing,  hats, 
caps,  neckties,  underwear,  gloves,  mit­
tens,  and  put  that 
into  one  block  of 
stock,  with  Frank  Kafka  as  foreman. 
Mr.  Kafka  has  been  with  us  nearly 
twenty  years,  beginning  as  cash  boy  in 
the  old  store

The  remainder  of  the  dry  goods  de­
partment  I  have  organized  as  another 
block  of  stock,  with  E.  E.  Wilhelm  as 
foreman.  Mr,  Wilhelm  is  the  oldest  son 
of  our  Mr.  Wilhelm  who  was  with  us 
thirty-five  years  and  who  was  Treasurer 
of  our  company  for  the  last  seven  years.
I  have  engaged  Mr.  Rogers  to  assist 
me  in  the  advertising  and  to  dress  the 
windows  and  to  help  generally  between 
these  two  blocks  of  stock  wherever  be  is 
needed  most. 

H.  M o n t a g u e ,
General  Manager.

Has  Quit  the  Horse  Trading  Business. 
From the  Ann Arbor Times.

one  on 

F.  G.  Clark  is  a  good  joker  and  en­
joys  a  joke  on  himself  as  much as if had 
somebody  else. 
perpetrated 
When  J.  W.  Haas  came 
into  bis  shoe 
store  the  other  day,  Clark  expressed  a 
wish  that  he  could  be  the  owner  of  a 
horse.  Haas  informed  him  that  be  had 
one  that  be  would  sell  cheap.  Clark 
wanted  to  know  bow  much.  He  said 
that  he  would  trade  him  for  a  pair of 
good  shoes.  Clark  figured  that  be  could 
sell  the  hide  for  more  than  that  would 
come  to  and  told  Haas  to  go  ahead  and 
select  his  footwear.  He  did  so,  and 
then  Clark's  newly-acquired  equine 
proved  to  be  a  saw  horse.  Clark  has 
now  quit  the  horse  trading  business.

Charlotte—C.  L.  Rulison 

Ernest  Hartwell  as clerk 
grocery  store.

succeeds 
in  Hartwell’s 

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades and  prices,  phone Visner,  80a

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Bay  City—'Leon  Brownell, 

formerly 
with  the  Bay  City  Cash  Dry  Goods  Co., 
has  taken  a  position  with  the  new  Bay 
City  Dry  Goods  and  Carpet  Co.

Holland— Ernest  Menscbing,  former­
ly  employed 
in  the  shoe  store  of  Peter 
Boyer,  has  taken  a  position  with  a  De­
troit  shoe  firm  as  traveling  salesman.

Battle  Creek—Jasper  Parmalee  has re­
signed  bis  position  as  salesman with  W. 
N.  Gleason  and  accepted  a  more  lucra­
tive  one  with  C.  J.  Austin.

Tecumseh—Arthur  Darling,  of  Ou­
sted,  has  taken  a  position  as  clerk  in 
Lowry’s  grocery.

Owosso—Clifford  Lewis,  of  Byron, 
has  taken  a  position  as  clerk  in  Fred 
Carpenter’s  grocery.

Negaunee— Miss  Minnie  Tourville, 
who  has  managed  Michael  C.  Quinn’s 
dry  goods  store  for  several  months,  has 
taken  a  similar  position 
in  a  store  at 
Calumet.

Bellaire— Miss  Emily  Hubbard  suc­
ceeds  Pearley  &  Flanagin  as  clerk  in 
the  dry  goods  store  of  Miller  Bros.

Rockford—Albert  Wellbrook has taken 
a  position  in  thq  Wurzburg  department 
store,  at  Grand  Rapids.

Owosso—Will  Lusk  will  act  as  clerk 
in  the  boot  and  shoe 

for  J.  T.  Walsh 
business.

Ludington—C.  E.  Winslow  has  taken 
charge  of  the  dress  goods  department  of 
the  Busy  Big  Store.  He  hails  from 
Keota,  Iowa.

Ann  Arbor—C.  Hardy  Woodruff  has 
secured  a  position  as  bead  salesman 
in 
Newcomb,  Endicott  &  Co. ’s  new  shoe 
department  in  Detroit.

Niles— Edward Randall,  who  has  been 
in  the  employ  of  Fox  Bros.,  has  ac­
cepted  a  similar  position  with  a  Dowa- 
giac  dry  goods  bouse.

Holland— Peter  Van  Kolken  has  been 
retained  as  clerk  in  S.  Riedsma’s furni­
ture  store.  Mr.  Van  Kolken  was  for­
merly  a member of  the  Holland  Tea  Co.
Sault  Ste.  Marie— Harry  Monteitb,  of 
St.  Ignace,  has  taken  the  position  of 
book-keeper 
in  T.  I.  Everett’s  flour 
mill.

Standish— Mr.  Pawley,  of  Saginaw, 
who  has  charge  of  the  Saginaw  Hard­
ware  Co.’s  branch  store  here,  is  con­
valescing  after  a  serious  attack  of  in­
flammation  of  the  bowels.

Ludington—Miss Minnie  Moloney  has 
taken  a  clerkship  in  Rye  Adams’  new 
dry  goods  store.

Traverse  City—J.  W.  Lucas,  of  Grand 
in  J.  W. 

Rapids,  is  a  new  salesman 
Slater's  house  furnishing  store.

Kalamazoo— Daniel  Houts,  of  Three 
Rivers,  formerly  of  this  place,  has  re­
turned  and  accepted  a  position  with  the 
Edwards  &  Chamberlin  Hardware  Co.
Holland— Ardis  & Warnock have hired 
a  full  corps  of  clerks  for their new store. 
Fred  Dyke,  formerly  employed  at  Van 
Putten’s,  will  have  charge  of  the  dry 
goods  department.  He  will  be  assisted 
by  Miss  Minnie  Dok.  Miss  Stewart 
will  be  employed 
in  the  shoe  depart­
ment  and  the  clothing  department  will 
be 
in  charge  of  Antone  Boet,  of  Grand 
Haven.

Jackson— Fred  Boucher  has  resigned 
his  position  with  C.  J.  McGuiness  and 
taken  a  similar  position  with  Butts,  the 
clothier  and  tailor.

Standish—The  Michigan Manufactur­
ing  &  Mercantile  Co.  has  a  new  clerk 
in  its  dry  goods  department  in  the  per­
son  of  Mr.  Weber,  of  Portland.

Marquette— C.  W.  Hall  has  resigned 
a  clerkship 
in  the  dry  goods  store  of 
Albeit  T.  Van  Alstyn  to  take  the  man­
agement  of  the  Emporium.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

price.  The  amount  of  red  stock  is  so 
small,  in  comparison  with  the  white 
stock,  that  red  brings  fully  as  good 
prices  as  white.
fowls, 
io c;  turkeys  I2 @ I 4 C.

Poultry—Scarce.  Chickens,  I2@i3c; 
i i @ I 2 c ;  geese, 

io @ n c;  ducks, 

Sweet  Potatoes—Illinois  Jerseys  are 

in  fair  demand  at  S3  ;o@4.

Bell  Telephone  Figures  Not  Like 

Caesar's  Wife.

The  local  representative  of  the  Bell 
Telephone  Co.  recently  caused  to  be 
published 
in  the  Grand  Rapids  daily 
papers  the  statement  that  his  company 
has  4,000  subscribers  in  this  city  and 
vicinity.

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

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  furnished 
with  ample  supplies  of  green  fruit,  but 
there  seems  to  be  a  scarcity of ripe  fruit 
for  shipping  purposes. 
Some  orders 
are  held  up  for  this  reason  waiting  the 
receipt of  ripe  fruit.

Bananas— The  market 

Beans—The  activity  of  the  past  two 
or  three  weeks has  lapsed  into a  period 
of  quietness,  which  will  probably  con­
tinue  for  a  week  or  ten  days,  although 
the  high  price  of  potatoes  is  likely  to 
have  a  stimulating  effect  on  the  mar­
ket.  Handlers  are  paying  90c  for  un­
picked,  holding  city  picked  mediums  at 
$ i . i o @ i . I 2   in  carlots.

Butter— Receipts  of  dairy  grades  are 
not  sufficient  to  meet  the  consumptive 
demand  of  the  market,  in  consequence 
of  which  local  dealers  are  compelled  to 
draw  on  remote  districts  for  supplies. 
Fancy  dairy 
in  crocks  or  rolls  readily 
fetches  15c.  Factory  creamery  is  a  little 
stronger,  being  held  at 20c for fancy and 
19c  for  choice.

Cabbage—Home  grown  has  receded 

to $35  per  ton.

for 

Celery—20c  per  doz.  bunches 

Cranberries—The  market 

White  Plume.
is  without 
change.  Cape Cods  command  $6.50  per 
bib.,  Jerseys  are  in  fair  demand  at  $6 
Cucumbers— Hothouse  stock  remains 
steady  at $2  per  doz.

Eggs— Local  handlers  succeeded 

in 
holding  the  market  up  to  14c  until  Fri­
day,  when 
it  went  off  to  13KC«  and  on 
Monday  morning  was  again  reduced  to 
I2j¿c,  which  is  above  the  parity  of  any 
other  market, New  York not excepted.  A 
year  ago  eggs  were  bringing  9c,  as 
against  I2^c  at  the  present  time,  which 
is  a  clear  gain  of  33  per  cent,  for the 
producer  and  country  dealer.  There  is 
likely  to  be  a  drop  in  the  price  as  soon 
as  a  few  sunshiny  days  appear,  and  it 
is  not  safe  for  any  dealer  to  pay  over 9c 
for  eggs,  unless  he  has  a  local  outlet  for 
his  stock  and  can  watch  the  market 
closely  from  day  to  day.
Honey—Light  amber  finds  ready  de­

mand  on  the  basis  of  10c.

Lemons—Californias continue  to  be in 
moderate  receipt  with  the  market  firm. 
Values  have  not  advanced  any  over  a 
week  ago.

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

size.  Walnuts  and  butternuts,  60c.

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

Oranges—There 

is  an  increased  call 
for  seedlings  since  the  advance  in  nav­
els.  Receipts  are  fair  but  there  is  no 
accumulation  noticeable,  and  values  on 
all  grades  are  well  sustained,  as  indica­
tions  point  to an advance at coast points. 

Parsley— $2  per  doz.  bunches.
Parsnips— Declined  to  25c  per  bu.
Pop  Corn— 50c  per  bu.
Potatoes—The  market held up strongly 
until  Saturday  night,  since  which  time 
there  has  been  a  little  weakening  in  the 
in  the 
demand,  without  any  change 
price;  in  fact,  the  weakening 
in 
the 
demand  is  taken  by  local  dealers  to  in­
dicate  that  there  will  be  a  fresh  ad­
vance  as  soon  as  the  market  can  rally, 
and  some  predict  that  it  will  go as  high 
as  70c  before  it  stops.  The  past  few 
days  has  demonstrated  that  there 
is 
practically  no  potatoes  in  Ohio  and  In­
diana,  except  such  as  are  shipped  in 
from  the  states  further  North.  Stocks 
in  dealers’  hands  are  practically  ex­
hausted  and  potatoes  in  pits  and  cellars 
are  frozen  solid.  Local buyers  are  ac­
tively  bidding  for  stock,  Lowell  dealers 
paying  57c,  Rockford,  55c  and  Oceana 
and  Grand  Traverse  points,  50c  and  up­
wards.  5\  peculiarity  of  the  market  this 
year 
is  the  preference  for  long  white 
stock,  in  place  of  round  white  stock.  A 
year ago  New  England  would  not  take 
long  stock,  preferring  the  round,  but 
this  year  the  roaikets congenial to Mich­
igan  jobbers  are  making  no  discrimina­
tion,  although  a  year  ago  there  was  a 
disparity  of  2@5c  per  bushel  in  The

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars—The 

raw  sugar  market 

is 
firm,  with  no quotable  change  in  prices, 
there  having  been  sales  made  during 
the  past  week  at  4^£c  for 96 deg.  test. 
The  London  market 
is  reported  firm, 
with  an  advancing  tendency  on  beet. 
Owing  to  rumors  that  the  American  and 
some  of  the 
independent  refiners  bad 
come  to  an  agreement  and that the sugar 
fight  was  nearing  an  end,  the  stock 
market  has  been  wild  for a  few  days, 
an  advance  of  $30  per  share  being  made 
on  one  day  of  last  week.  This  in  turn 
caused  some  speculative  buying 
of 
sugars. 
In  the  face  of  this  so-called 
strong  market  all  grades  of  softs  have 
since  been  reduced  an  average  of  yic, 
and  the  market  is  called  firm  at  the  de­
cline,  with  no  concessions.  Refiners 
continue  oversold  on  2  pound  packages 
and  the  American  are  accepting  orders 
for  a  limited  quantity  only,  subject  to 
a  week’s  delay.

Syrups  and  Molasses—The  demand 
for  corn  syrup  continues  good  and  ship­
ments  from  refiners  are  delayed 
two 
weeks.  The molasses  market  is  reported 
firm,  but  business  is  light.

Dried  Fruits—All  grades  of  Califor­
nia  dried  fruits  are  firm  and  stocks  in 
first hands  are  much  reduced.  Raisins 
are 
improving  and  prices  on  the  lower 
grades  are  quoted  %  to  %c  higher. 
Holders  of  peaches  are  indifferent  sell 
ers,  as  they  are  confident  that,  with  the 
very  light  stocks,  prices  will  be  no 
lower.  Stocks  of  currants  are  somewhat 
reduced  and,  with  an 
increasing  de­
mand  from  cleaners,  the  market  is  well 
sustained.

Canned  Goods—There  is  an  improved 
demand  for  spot  corn  and  tomatoes  and 
it  is  difficult  to  find  stock  except  at  an 
advance  of  2>£c  per  dozen.  The  de­
mand  for  spot  peas  is  also  good  and  a 
number  of  favorite  brands  are  sold  out. 
The  buying  of  future  corn  and  tomatoes 
has  slackened  off  a  little,  as  most  pack­
ers  have  sold  out  their  prospective  pack 
and  most  jobbers  have  made  their  pur­
chases. 
If  an  order  for  tomatoes  were 
to  be  given  now,  it  probably  could  not 
be  placed  under  an  advance  of  5  cents 
from  opening  price.  Some  packers  are 
still  accepting  corn  orders  at  opening 
prices,  but  offerings  are  light  Sardines 
continue  to  advance  and  the  demand 
continues  good.

Cereals—The  demand  for  rolled  oats 
and  all  cereal  products  continues  good 
at  the  decline  and  mills  are  oversold 
ten  days  to  two  weeks.

Rice—The  demand  for  domestics con­
tinues  to  absorb  all  offerings  and  prices 
are  maintained.  The  market  for  Japans 
is  very  firm  and  sales  are  in  excess  of 
receipts,  nothing  being  obtainable  ex­
cept  for  future  shipment.

The  Buffalo  Egg  Market.

Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  March,  20—The  past 
week  has  brought  us quite a  steady mar­
ket,  closing  at  I3@i3^c,  with  a  cold 
wave  and  quite  a  fall  of  snow.  This 
will  have  an  effect  to  keep  the  prices 
firm  and  shut  off  the  receipts  somewhat.

J.  W .  L a n s in g .

John  G.  Adrion,  meat  dealer  at 62 
Coldbrook  street,  has  sold  out  to  Louis 
Rohe.

As  the  new  switch  board  for  the  new 
Bell  telephone  building,  of  which  the 
public  has  beard  so  much,  is  equipped 
for  1,440 telephone  numbers,  the  indica­
tions  are  that  the  Bell  Co.  is  not  ex­
pecting  in  the  now  near  future any  pro­
nounced  growth.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
the  most  reliable  estimate  and  informa­
tion  as  to  the  number  of  Bell  telephones 
in  this  city,  including  both  free  and 
paid  phones  in  service,  is  1,240,  being 
250  less  than  the  company  had  three 
years  ago.

is 

in 

included 

In  order  to  ascertain  bow 

large  a 
“ vicinity" 
the  4,000 
estimate,a  circle  was  drawn  on  a  Rand- 
McNally  map  of  Michigan,  having  a 
radius  of  fifty  miles.  The  following  is  a 
list  of  all  cities  and  towns  inside  that 
circle,  where  there  are  exchanges—all 
independent  exchanges  being 
included 
under the  heads  of  Citizens.  The  num­
ber  of  telephones  in  service  in  each  ex­
change  is  indicated:

Places

Grand  Rapids......... ......... 1240
Low ell...................... .........  59
Saranac  .................... ......... 
i
Ionia......................... .........   83
Lake Odessa............. .........  
i
Grand  Ledge........... .........  
2
Caledonia................ ......... 
i
2
.........  
M iddleville............
Hastings.................. .........   73
9
Nashville.................. .........  
Rockford.................. .........  
I
Cedar  Springs......... .........  
2
Howard  C it y ........... .........  
2
Coral......................... ......... 
O
2
.........  
Lakeview................
3
Stanton...................... .........  
.........  
Sheridan................
I
...........   52
Greenville...............
.........   25
Belding..................
3
Sparta...................... ......... 
.........  
I
Casnovia  ................
3
Newaygo  ................ ........... 
.........  
Ccopersville............
i
.........   "5
Muskegon...............
...........   58
Grand  Haven.........
...........  115
Holland..................
......... 
Zeeland.......................
i
......... 
Allegan.........................
i
8
.........  
Otsego  ....................
12
......... 
Plainwell................
Wayland......................
...........  
I
Kalamazoo................ ..............  470
0
......... 
Saugatuck...................
0
Douglas......................... .........  
0
Fennville..................... .............  
Grandville.................. .............  
I
South  H aven ...........
.............. 
i

Bell  Citizens
2690
36
43
161
36
76
7
39
75*
I
43
32
69
7
15
44
14
91
53
18
12
17
6
498
7
161
25
126
9»
48
34
695
28
14
34
7
162

2350

5515

*In  10 days.
Besides 

the 

thirty-three  exchange 
cities  and  towns above,  there  are  within 
the  fifty  mile  circle  164  towns  and  vil 
lages  having  but  one  or  two  telephones 
known  as  “ public”   or  “ toll”  
tele­
phones.  Of  these,  the  strength  of  the 
Bell  Co.,  as  compared  with  the  Citizens 
Co.,  is  as  follows:

The  Citizens  Co.  has  161  stations.
The  Bell  Co.  has  41  stations.
In  other  words,  these  towns  having 
toll  stations  only  are  occupied  as  fol­
lows :

Total  towns  occupied,  164.
By  both  companies,  38.
By  Bell  Co.  only,  3.
By  Citizens  Co.  only,  123.
A  summary  of  the  above  groups  will 
give  all  the  telephones  in  use  within  50 
miles  of  Grand  Rapids,  as  follows:
Bell 
In exchanges.....................................*i3^° 
4* 
T oll line  station................................... 
Total telephones........................3,401 

5.5*5
*3*
5,646

Citizens

The  Tradesman 

is  prepared  to  pub­
lish  a  list  of  the toll  stations  above  re­
ferred  to  and  there  can  be  no  question 
as  to  the  approximate  accuracy  of  the 
figures,  as  they  will  not  be  called  into 
question  by  either  the  Bell  or  the  Citi­
zens  Co.

Neither  newspaper  buncombe,  nor 
millions  of  bonds,  nor  millions  of  stock, 
nor  repeated  bluffs  and  threats,  nor  po­
litical  pulls,  nor  corrupt  corporation 
methods  can  ever  re-establish  in  West­
ern  Michigan  the  supremacy  of  the  Bell 
Telephone  Co.  This  is  probably  true 
of  the  State  at  large  and,  at  the  present 
rate  of  growth  of  the  independent  tele­
phone  movement,  it  will  be  but  a  short 
time  when  the  supremacy  of  the  Bell 
Co.  in  any  community  will  be  a  thing 
of  the  past.

The  Grain  Market.

Wheat  has  been  very  inactive  the  past 
week, with  a  downward  tendency.  There 
have  been  small  spurts  but  of  short  du­
ration  and  a  decline  of  2c  per  bushel  in 
wheat  centers  has  been  established  for 
the  May  option, while cash has  sold  from
to  \]/ic  over  May  in  the  Northwest. 
While  there  was  plenty  of  bear news, 
especially  that  the  visible  keeps  on  in­
creasing,  even 
if  only  a  small  amount 
weekly,  we  find  our  visible  nearly  as 
much  as 
last  year  when  farmers  were 
sweeping  their  wheat  granaries  to  get 
the  price  which  the  Lieter  deal  was  es­
tablishing,  as  May  sold  20c  higher and 
cash  25c  per  bu.  more  than  prices  of  to­
day.  We  have  in  round  numbers  in  the 
visible 
29,992,000  bushels,  against 
31,417,000  bushels  last  year.  Receipts 
in  the  Northwest  are  large,  while  in  the 
winter  wheat  belt  they  are  very  moder­
ate.  Foreigners  are  picking  up  round 
lots  when  prices  suit  them.

Corn  has  been  more  steady  than 
wheat.  The  trade 
in  that  commodity 
has  held  up  well,  especially  as  this  cold 
weather  lasts,  which  necessitates  more 
feeding,  so  prices  are  rather  firm.

Oats  are  also  firm  at 

last  week’s 
prices,  with  a  strongunder-tone.  Prices 
in  oats  will  probably  remain  steady  for 
the  rest  of  the  season.

Rye  has  sagged  fully  3c. 

It  looks  as 
though  outside  demand  has  decreased 
very  much  to  let  prices  down  3c  in  one 
week.

To  sum  the  whole  matter  up  we  may 
state  this  was  a  poor  week.  The  pres­
ent  is  what  is  termed  a  weather  market 
and  will  remain  so  until  something 
definite  is  known  as to the growing crop.
Receipts  have  been  moderate,  being 
50  cars  of  wheat,  15  cars  of  corn  and  7 
cars  of  oats.

Millers  are  paying  66c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

Albert  Landauer,  formerly of this city, 
is  now  agent  for  Fleiscbmann  &  Co.  at 
Portland,  Oregon.  He  owes  his  posi­
tion  to  Ludwig  Winternitz,  Auditor  of 
the  house,  who  has  always 
shown 
marked  partiality  toward  Grand  Rapids 
boys 
in  filling  positions  of  trust and 
responsibility.

Louis  Hoelzley, 

grocer  and  meat 
dealer  at  527  Ottawa  street,  has  sold  his 
meat  market  to  B.  j.  Everett,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same 
loca­
tion.  Mr.  Hoelzley  will  continue  the 
same  line  of  trade  at  43  East  Bridge 
street. 

____

_ 

John  Duck  has  opened  a  grocery  store 
at  the  corner  of  West  Leonard  street and 
Alpine  avenue.  The  Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

The  man  who  is  satisfied with  himself 

is  very  easily  satisfied.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

6

W oman’s World

Making  the  Best  o f  Things.

“ I  suppose,”   said the woman with the 
lorgnette  and  the  gray  hair to  her  com­
panion,  “ Isuppose  that there  never  was 
a  time  when  the  pursuit  of  happiness 
was  not  the  chief  aim  in  life,  but  you 
used  not  to  hear  so  much  about it  as  you 
do  now.  You  took  it  for  granted  that 
everybody  was  as 
joyous  as  circum­
stances  permitted,  and  they  did  not  feel 
called  upon  to  explain  whether  it  was 
the  result  of  philosophy  or  they  were 
born  that  way  and  couldn’t help  it.”

"W e ll,”   replied  her  friend,  "w e ’ve 
changed  all  that  nowadays.  The  pur­
suit  of  happiness  has  become  a  cult, 
and  almost  every  woman  you  know  is 
trying  to  live  up  to  some  theory  on  the 
subject,  and  struggling  to  get 
into  a 
state  of  mind  that  will  enable her  to 
maintain  an  unruffled  calm  when  the 
cook 
leaves  without  warning  and  the 
children  come  down  with  the  measles. 
Sometimes  she  calls  it  mental  science, 
sometimes 
is  Christian  science,  or 
something  occult  or  transcendental,  but 
whatever  it  is,  ninety-nine  times  out  of 
a  hundred 
is  a  charm  that  doesn’t 
work. ”

it 

it 

"T h a t’s  so,”   agreed  the  woman  with 
the  lorgnette,  "and  it always  strikes  me 
as  strange  that  in  our  search  for  happi­
ness 
it  doesn’t  oftener  occur  to  us  that 
the  real  philosopher’s  stone  for  which 
we  are  looking 
lies  in  the  simple  ex­
pedient  of  learning  to  make  the  best  of 
things.  When  we  acquire  the  art  of 
doing  that  we  have  come  pretty  near 
solving  the  riddle  of  the  painful  earth 
for  ourselves  and  those  about  us.  Wom­
en  are  not  good  at  abstract  contempla­
tion ;  they  are  not  built  that  way,  and 
they  never  will  be  able  to  think  them­
selves 
into  an  exalted  calm  for  more 
than  half  an  hour  at  a  time,  but  there 
isn’t  a  single  one  of  them  who can’t find 
permanent  happiness  for  themselves 
in 
hustling  out  and  doing  something  for 
somebody  else.  For  my  part,  1  never 
see  a  woman  trying  a  mental  science 
attitude  of  mind  on  her troubles without 
thinking  she  had  better  go borne and 
make  the  best  of  things  if  she  really 
wants  any  satisfactory  results.”

"A h ,  but 

it's  a  gift  to  be  able  to 
make  the  best  of  things,”   began  the 
other.

"  Not  a  bit  of  it, ”   retorted  she  with 
the lorgnette;  " i t ’s good  sense  and  good 
philosophy  and  good  religion  and— ”

if  you 

"  Do  you  remember  Mary  Graham?”
The  woman  with  the  lorgnette  waved 
"Now  there’s  an  example  for 
it  airily. 
like,”   she  exclaimed. 
you, 
"What  a 
life  she  had!  Always  poor 
and  hard  worked,  with  that  speculating 
husband  of  hers,  yet  she  absolutely 
wrested  victory  out  of  defeat and  got 
more  happiness  than  other  people  who 
always  have  everything  their own  way. 
She  positively  wouldn’t  see  the  dark 
side  to anything.  Why,  once  I  went to 
see  her  when  things were bad with them, 
and  she  was 
in  a  dingy  little 
third-story  back  room. 
It  was  simply 
awful  and,  to  make  things  worse,  there 
was  one of  those dreadful  German musi­
cians  who  played  all  day  and  half  the 
night  on  a  wheezy  cornet.  Mary  met 
me  with  a  smile that  couldn’t have been 
more  radiant  in  a  palace.  She  had  put 
chairs  over  the  worst  grease  spots  on 
the  carpet  and  hung  her  pictures  where 
they  would  cover  the  dirtiest  places  on 
the  wall  paper,  and  all  the  time  I  was 
there  she  discoursed  upon  the  purity  of 
the  air  and  the  quiet  of  being  off the

living 

streets,  and  when  I  jumped  at a  partic­
ularly  mournful  squeak  from  the  cornet 
she  said  that  was  Herr Von  Something 
or  Other  and  what  a  privilege  it  was  to 
be  able  to  listen  to  such classical music. 
It  was  almost  like  going  to  the  opera, 
without  the  bother of  having  to dress for 
it  or the  expense.”

" Y e s ,”   agreed  the  other,  "and  think 
of  those  girls  of  hers.  Positively,  any 
other  woman  would  have  just  sat  down 
before  such  ugliness  and  given  up  in 
despair.  But  she didn’t.  She  studied 
them  just  like they  were a mathematical 
problem  she  had  to  solve.  She  saw  that 
one  was  short  and  fat  and  dumpy  and 
dark  and  the  other  skinny and  tall  and 
bony  and  with  hair and  eyebrows  and 
skin  as  much  the  same  muddy  color as 
if  they  had  been  cut  off  the  same  piece 
of goods.  Of  course,  even  she  couldn’t 
work  miracles  and  make  them  bowling 
beauties,  but  she  did  the  next  best 
thing.  She  drilled  them  into  learning 
how  to  walk  and  sit  and stand and dance 
and  she  dressed  them 
in  ways  that 
brought out  every  good  feature  and  hid 
every  bad  one.  Don't  you  remember 
how  the 
little  dumpy  one  always  had 
quaint  striped  gowns  without  a  bit  of 
trimming  and  bow  the  tall  scrawny  one 
was always  simply  swathed  in  puffs  and 
shirrs  of  soft  stuff?  They  always looked 
so  sweet and  dainty  and  well-bred  I  am 
sure  none  of  us  ever  dreamed  how  plain 
they  really  were.  Once  their  mother 
said  to  me,  ' I  have  never  even  inti­
mated  to  my  girls  that  they  are  not 
beautiful,  because  I  don’t  want  them 
ever to have  the  consciousness  of  ugli­
ness. 
It  would  only  emphasize  their 
plainness,  just  as  the  consciousness  of 
beauty  makes  a  pretty  woman  ten  times 
more  radiant. ’ 
It  was  her  philosophy, 
you  know,  of  making  the  best  of  things, 
and  I  often  wonder  it  doesn't  occur  to 
the rest  of  us  to  try  it  on  ourselves  On 
the  contrary, 
look  what  a  mania  we 
have  for  making  ourselves  uglier  than 
we  need.  Think  of  all  the  women  with 
long  noses  and  high  foreheads  you  have 
seen  at  the  theater this  winter  with their 
hair  done 
in  pompadour  rolls;  recall 
the  wrinkled  old  necks  and  bony  arms 
boldly  displayed  at  the  opera  and  ob­
serve  all  the  multitude  of  pale  sallow 
faded  blondes  who  will  wear  light  tan 
and  pale  gray  or  die.”

ill. 

the  woman  with  the 

"Oh,  you  needn't  stop  at  that,”  
lorgnette. 
said 
"Y ou  can  carry  the  theory  all  through 
life  and  you  will  find  that  the  art of 
making  the  best  of  things  is a  panacea 
for  every 
If  we  would  do  that  we 
wouldn  t  need  to  make  such  drafts  upon 
the  overworked  sympathy  of our friends. 
Every  now  and  then  s^me  hysterical 
woman  comes  to  me  with  the  story  of 
her domestic  troubles.  Her  husband  has 
some  fault  that  grates  upon  her  and 
‘ gets  on  her  nerves, ’  as  the  boys  say, 
and  she  has  brooded  over  it  unt  1  she 
has  lost  sight  of  every  good  quality  and 
can’t  see anything  else  in  all  the  world. 
I  just  simply  ache  to tell  her  that  she  is 
making  a  goose  of  herself and  ought  to 
go  back  home  and  make  the  best  of 
things.  She  says  he 
is  stingy  about 
money. 
I  remind  her  that  he  never 
drinks.  She  says  he  is  cross  and  dic­
tatorial.  Think  of  all  the  luxuries  with 
which  he  surrounds  you,  I  suggest.  Or 
perhaps 
it  is  some  one  of  the  other 
million  hateful  things a  good  man  can 
be  and  do.  Ah,  but,  I  say,  you  have 
always  been  kept 
in  the  shelter  of a 
home and  have  never known  what  it  is 
for  a  woman  to  feel  that  only  her  own 
frail  hands  stand  between  her and want. 
Think  of  your blessings  and  be  grateful

for  them.  Make  the best  of  things,  in­
stead  of  the  worst.”

"And  she  never  thanked  you  for  your 
interposed  the 

advice,  I’ll  warrant,”  
other  woman.

"N o,  I’m  bound  to  admit that  I  never 
yet  found  a  person  who  asked  for  sym­
pathy  to  be  satisfied  with  sense,”   the 
woman  with  the  lorgnette acquiesced. 
"B ut  it’s  just  as  bad  with men.  Some­
times the  party  with  the  tale  of  woe  is a 
man.  He  has  spent  days  and  nights 
taking  an  inventory  of  bis  wife’s  faults 
and  shortcomings  and  has  entirely  lost 
sight  of  her  good  qualities.  What  a 
pity,  instead  of  airing  their  troubles  in 
the  divorce  court,  he  can’t  make  the 
best  of  her.  She  is  extravagant,  he  says. 
How  much  worse,  I  tell  him, 
if  she 
were  stingy  and  held  the  purse  strings. 
He 
is  bookish  and  complains  that  she 
hasn’t an  idea  above progressive euchre. 
Only  fancy,  I  say,  if  she  were 
literary 
and  went  about  reading  papers  and  lec­
turing  on  women’s  rights.  Of  course, 
it 
is  aggravating  to  see  waste  where 
there  should  be  thrift,  but 
if  a  man’s 
wife  is  true  and  loyal  and  good  he 
should  thank  God  and  pay  the  bills.
"Just  think  of  wh  t  a  reformation 

in 
life 
it  would  really  work  if  everybody 
would  quit  whining  and  go  to  work  to 
make  the  best  of  everything.  The  peo 
pie  who  have  seen  better  days  would  no 
longer  weary  us  with  their  plaints 
They  would  be so busy making  things  as 
comfortable  and  pleasant  as  they  could 
that  they  wouldn’t have  time  for  lamen­
tations  that  do  no  pood.  The lot of  those 
unfortunates  who  are  born  weak  of  body 
or brain  would  not  be  so unfortunate be­
cause  their  parents  would  be  so  intent 
on  making  the  best  of  things  for  them 
that  whatever  faculty  they  had  would  be 
cultivated  to  the  utmost,  so  that  the 
intellect 
cripple  might  have a  brilliant 
as  his  weapon  in  the  battle of 
life  and 
even  the  feeble-minded  might  be  strong 
of  body,  with  hands  trained  to  some 
good  trade.  Half  the  sickness  would 
be  done  away  with,  for  when  we  learn 
to  make  the best  of  things  we  shall  not 
so  often  abuse  our  poor  bodies;  and 
perhaps,  best  of  all,  we  shall  have fewer 
regrets  and  hearts  that  ache  less  often, 
for  we  shall  be  wise  enough  to  make the 
best  of  friendship  and  love  while  it  is 
still  with  us  and  not  wait  to inscribe our 
sentiments  on  tombstones.”

" I t ’s a  cheerful  theory,”   commented 
the  other  woman,  smiling  at  the  speak­
er’s  enthusiasm,  "but  it  wiil  never  be­
come  popular.  Wb*t  should  we  do  with­
out  our  troubles?  There  would  be  noth­
ing  to  talk  about  Do  you  remember 
the old  story  about  Disraeli?  When  be 
couldn’t  remember  a  person's  name  he 
would  enquire  sympathetically, 
'And 
how  is the  old  complaint?’  [and  it  an­
swered  just  as  well.  Everybody  had 
one. ’ ’

The woman with the lorgnette laughed. 
"A h ,  well,”   she  said,  " I   will  make  the 
best of  not being  able  to  convert  you  to 
my  theory. ’ ’ 

D o r o t h y   D i x .

Knew  Her  Business.

Lady— I  wish  to  get a  birthday  pres­

ent for my  husband.

Shopwalker— How  long  have  you  been 

married,  madam?

“ Ten  years.”
"Bargain  counter  to  the  right,  mad­

am.”

The  Best  Plan.

' * I  have  decided  to ask  your  father's 
consent  by  letter,  Pauline.  Now,  what 
sort  of  letter  would  you  advise  me  to 
write?”

" I   think  that  I  would  write  an  anon­

ymous  letter.”

Duty  o f the  Country  Press.

From the Coloma Courier.

It 

Starved  to  it  from  lack of local patron­
age or  for some other  reason,  we  see  the 
country  press  throughout  this  region  are 
admitting  city  catalogue house advertis- 
ments  to their columns.  By  buying  in­
ferior  stock  in  large  quantities and  em­
ploying  boys  and  women  thirteen  to 
fourteen  hours  per  day  at  wages but  lit­
tle better  than  that  paid  slave  laborers 
some  of  these  concerns  are  now  able  to 
undersell  the struggling  home  merchant 
—the  man  who has  perhaps  accommo­
dated  you  many  times  in  the  past  one 
way  and  another,  the  man  who  takes 
your  bay  and  eggs  and  butter  off  your 
hands  and  at  whose  fire  you  toast  your 
shins  and  under  whose  horse-sheds  you 
stable  your  team  while  awaiting  the  ar­
rival  of  a  quantity  of  catalogue-house 
purchases. 
is  safe  to  estimate  that 
nine-tenths  of  the  articles  carried  in 
stock  by  the  country  retailer,  waste  and 
freight  included,  are  sold  as  cheaply  as 
the  same  quality  of  goods  can  be  sold 
per  catalogue,  and  the  possible  remain­
ing  tenth  should  be  purchased  of  the 
home  merchant  anyway,  for  your  own 
sake  as  well  as  bis.  Wbat  will  you  do 
when  the  catalogue  bouse  succeeds  in 
stamping  the  country  merchant  out of 
existence?  This  is  not  impossible,  and 
is  hastened  and  encouraged  by  every 
dollar’s  worth  of  goods  purchased  of 
the  encroaching  foreigner. 
It  is  every 
man’s  privilege  to  sell  in  the  dearest 
and  buy  in  the  cheapest  market,  but  in 
this 
fear  the  purchaser 
will  ultimately  find  he  has  bis  markets 
reversed.  Carrying  the  advertisement 
is  possibly  much-needed  meat and bread 
to  many  of  our  contemporaries,  and  is 
perfectly  legitimate,  of  course,  as  is  the 
desire  of  the  city  dealer to  extend  the 
boundaries  of  his  field  of  operations; 
but  unless  actual  starvation  stares  it 
in 
the  face  a  country  newspaper  should  be 
very  careful  not  to  call  too  loudly  the 
attention  of  its  readers  to  the  supposed 
superiority  of  the  catalogue-house  sys­
tem  over  the credit  or  spot  cash  systems 
of  its home  business  houses.

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Egg  Special

Careful observers have noticed that  Buf­
falo has kept  pace  with  all  other  markets, 
considering the diiference in transportation, 
and there is no reason  why it should not do 
so  right  along.  Most  every  shipper  has 
lost  money  for  some  time  inevitably,  but 
now  they  are  getting  buying  prices  to  a 
safrr  point,  some  money  should  be  made. 
Remember  that  we  are  not  buyers,  hence 
we  have  no  eggs  to  force  ahead  of  ship­
pers,  so  our  interests  are  mutual.  Since 
Thursday, yesterday and to-day, it has been 
impossible to sustain  eggs  at  over  13c,  the 
same as New  \ ork, about, but  the  demand 
is great and rapidly increasing, and  the  re­
ceipts seem to keep up closely with  the  de­
mand.  Bang down buying prices  to  10,  9 
or 8c as necessary to be safe, and keep rush­
ing  them  along  close  up.  Please  report 
any delays or errors.  Ask for advances  if 
needed.  Few sales Southern  12H, we hear.

Poultry  Special

This week  beats  the  record  for  scarcity 
and  high  sales  of  every  kind  and  grade, 
some elegant returns, and  ought  to  induce 
more  liberal  shipmeuts;  but  it  is  probably 
too scarce in the interior.
Quick Firm Sales Yesterday and To  day: 
Fancy live chix,  iaVi to 13, fancy dresesd, 13 
to  14;  fancy  live  fowl,  i t
to  12,  fancy 
dressed,  12 to  I2j£;  fancy live dux, 50 to 60, 
fancy dressed,  14 to  15:  fancy  live  turx,  12 
to 13,  fancy  dressed,  14  to  15.  No  geese 
wanted.

Potatoes

Few holders have sold at 70  and  73c,  and 
some claim more for fancy white from store 
and  delivered. 
Prospects  are  certainly 
bright.  Some very bad reports of frost in­
dicate good future for sound,  choice  stock.
We would like to hear from potato men.
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GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION. 
The  principal  characteristic  for  the 
week  has  been  the  continuance  of  the 
unusual  activity 
in  nearly  all  lines. 
Talk  of  a  checking  of  demand  on  ac­
count  of  the  considerable  advance  in 
prices,  particularly 
iron  products, 
still  seems  without  warrant  as  to  actual 
conditions,  although 
it  may  well  be 
questioned  as  to  bow  long  prices  can 
continue  their  upward  movement  with­
out  a  restraining  effect. 
In  the  stock 
market  the  increasing  activity  and  ad­
in  values  have  been  more  than 
vance 
maintained 
in  trust  shares,  while  rail­
roads  have  shown  a  slight  reaction  on 
account  of  the  severe  season.  Specula­
tive 
interest  carried  Sugar  upward  no 
less  than  $30.75  per  share, to  be  followed 
by  a  reaction  of  13  points;  Tobacco 
$13.62,  and others from $3  to $8.  A  fac­
tor  which  has  no  doubt  had  an  influence 
in  these  advances  is  that  there  is  a  de­
cided  reaction  from  the  fear  of  trust  or­
ganization  of  recent  weeks,  thus  again 
increasing  the  pressure  of  capital  for 
investment.

The  rapid  advance  in  iron  and  steel 
still  continues  until 
forebodings  be­
come  manifest  as  to  where  it  will  end. 
There  are  reports  of  the  loss  of  some 
contracts,  both  foreign  and  domestic,  on 
account  of  high  prices,  but  still  there 
is  enough  in  band  and  offering  to  keep 
In  ship­
the  activity  to  the  utmost. 
large 
building 
orders  are  being  refused  for 
lack  of 
ability  to  handle  them.

lines  especially,  many 

Attempts  to  control  the  wool  situation 
by  combination  are  as  yet  of little avail, 
prices  having  shown  a  decline  of  2 to  3 
cents.  In  standard  lines  of  men’s  wool­
ens  prices  have  shown  steadiness,  with 
fair  demand.  Medium  and  lower  qual­
ities  move  slowly,  with  prices  favoring 
buyers.  Cotton  goods  are  still  held 
strongly  in  price,  with  advances  in  sev­
eral 
is  resulting  a 
slight  falling  off  of  demand.  The  boot 
and  shoe  situation  is  not  so  favorable as 
expected,  although  shipments  continue 
active;  there 
less  of  new  business 
materializing.

lines,  until  there 

is 

The  decline 

in  wheat  which  charac­
terized  the  market  near  the  close  of  the 
week 
is  followed  by  a  recovery  of  sev­
eral  points  this  week.  Western  receipts 
in  two  weeks  have  been  2,120,000  bush­
larger  than  last  year,  with  exports, 
els 
included,  of  8,512,867  bushels, 
flour 
against  8,163,817 
last  year.  For  the 
crop  year the  exports  of wheat including 
flour,  have  been  close  to  177,000,000

SCO TCH   THE  SERPENT.

in  accordance  with 

One  of the  results  of  the  strike  last 
year 
in  the  State  printing  office  at 
Lansing,  and  a  factor  in  the  fight which 
is  not  yet  ended,  is  the  adoption  of  a 
joint  resolution  by  both  branches  of  the 
Legislature  to  submit  to  the  voters  at 
the  spring  election  a  proposition  to 
amend  the  constitution  so  as  to  permit 
the  establishment  of  a  plant  under  State 
ownership  and  management  for  doing 
the  State  printing,  which  is  now  let  by 
contract  to  lowest  bidders.  This  move­
ment  takes  its  initiative  from  the  print­
ers’  union, 
the 
threat  made  during  the  strike.  As  it  is 
in  line  with  the  socialistic  principles to 
which  unionism  tends,  it  is  but  natural 
that 
it  should  receive  the  enthusiastic 
support  of  all  kindred  organizations. 
Because  so  large  a  proportion  of  the 
city  press  of  the  State  stands  in  awe  of 
these  organizations,  thus  either  giving 
the  movement  support  or  refraining 
from  opposition,  it  seems  probable  that 
there  will  be  little  difficulty 
its  be­
ing  carried  to  a  successful  issue,  unless 
the 
less 
selfish  and  more  patriotic  regard  for  the 
welfare  of  the community can be aroused 
to  take 
interest  in  the  matter and  thus 
vote  down  one  of  the  most  iniquitous 
measures  ever  conceived  by an infamous 
gang  of  marplots.

larger  element  which  has  a 

in 

it. 

found  that  such  an 

In  several  of  the  states  the  matter of 
establishing  printing  offices  under  state 
ownership  has  received  consideration. 
Most  of  these  have  been  deterred  from 
such  action  by  the  constitutional  ob­
jection  to  engaging  in  industrial  enter­
prises 
in  competition  with  their  citi­
zens.  These  have  found  that  there  is 
no  more  reason  why  the  state  should  do 
the  printing  required  for  the  public 
service  than  that 
it  should  engage  in 
the  manufacture  of  any  other supplies  it 
requires  and  which  are  now  furnished 
by  competitive  bidders.  Among  the 
states  which  have tried  the  experiment, 
New  York  affords  a  notable  example  of 
It 
one  which  quickly  abandoned 
was 
institution 
served  no  more  effectual  purpose  than 
the  adding  to  the  facilities  for  political 
jobbery,  which  were  already  sufficient 
in  that  ring-cursed  State,  and  so  the 
sentiment  became  so  strong  against  it 
that  the  scheme  was  abandoned.  Oc­
casionally  various  municipalities have 
essayed  such  enterprises,  prompted  by 
unfair  combinations  among  bidders  or 
the  zeal  of 
‘ ‘ reforming’ ’  officials,  but 
these  are  not  long  continued.  When they 
have  run 
long  enough  to  assume  their 
Dormal  status  and  to  begin  to  furnish 
balance  sheets,  it 
is  found  that  there 
are  other and  cheaper  ways  to  circum­
vent  bidding  combinations  and  conspir­
acies  than  by  the  establishment  of a 
public  industry.  Just  now  the  Mayor of 
Boston 
is  achieving  a  costly  notoriety 
by  a  most  promising  departure 
in  this 
direction.  The  example  will  be  of  more 
value  when  time  is a  factor  in  the state­
ments.

The  Government  printing 

office 
affords  an  excellent  example of  the  de­
moralizing 
influence  of  unionism  and 
politics combined.  Under the  machina­
tions  of  politicians  and  walking  dele­
gates  the  establishment  has  developed 
into  one  of  the  most  expensive  printing 
plants 
its  output 
costs  the  country  three times as  much 
as  the  same  result  would  cost 
if  the 
work  were  done  in  a  private,  instead  of 
a  public,  office.  The  reason  for  this 
is  the  large  number of  useless  men  who 
are  carried  on  the  payroll.  The  office 
is  pointed  to by  trades  unionists  as  the

in  the  world,  while 

ideal  for  the  employe—large  pay  and 
short  hours.  Thus 
it  has  become  the 
goal  toward  which  turn  thousands  of 
men  who  can  for  any  reason  command  a 
political  pall,  not  only  in  the  printing 
trade,  but  who  can  claim  any  excuse  to 
connect  themselves therewith  as  clerks, 
inspectors,  supervisors,  etc.

The  Government  printing  office 

is  a 
grand  success. 
It  affords  means  for 
political  rewards  for  which  the  other 
departments  would  be  entirely 
inad­
equate. 
It  presents  a  magnificent  ap­
pearance  for  it  is  arranged and managed 
to  make the  finest  possible  show,  but  as 
an  industrial  undertaking 
it  is  a  bril­
liant  example  of  how  costly  it  is  pos­
sible  to  do  cheap  and  commonplace 
printing.  As  long  as  partisanship  is  so 
great  a  factor  in  governmental  affairs— 
as  long  as  political  rewards  are  neces­
sary— so 
long  will  the  Government 
printing  office  continue  to  be  a  neces­
sity.  Without  these  reasons  for  its exist­
ence— if 
it  were  only  a  question  of  ob­
taining  the  best  and  cheapest  service 
for the  Government— it  would  not  stand 
a day.

But  with  all  its  vast  capabilities,  in 
the  nature  of  things  one  central  institu­
tion 
is  not  sufficient  to  meet  all  de­
mands  of  those  rendering  political  serv­
ice  or  who  from  their  relation  to  labor 
organizations  and  for  other  similar  rea­
sons  may  claim  recognition. 
If  a  Gov­
ernment  printing  office  on  a  smaller 
scale  can  be  established  at  each  state 
capital,  it  will  operate  in  a  correspond­
ing  degree  to  satisfy  this  great  need.  It 
happens  opportunely 
for  those  who 
would  like  to  see  the  multiplication  of 
these  gilded  hotbeds  of  political  corrup­
tion  and  jobbery  that  there  should  be  a 
controversy  between  the  office  having 
the  State  contract  and  its  former  em­
ployes,  if  indeed,  as  would appear from 
the  outrageously  unreasonable  demands 
of  the  latter  in  forcing  the  strike,  there 
was  not  some  ulterior  object  of  this 
kind  in  view.

The  State  of  Michigan  does  not  want 
a  printing  office.  The  taxpayers  can 
not  afford  to  support  so  costly  a  luxury. 
The  interests  of  clean  and  decent  poli­
tics  do  not  demand  an  institution of this 
kind— there are already  too  many  facil­
ities  for  the  legitimate  requirements  of 
political  rewards.  The establishment of 
such  an  enterprise  would  be  no  experi­
ment;  its  results are  sufficiently  obvious 
elsewhere,  except  that  there 
is  danger 
that  it  would  become  an  essential  and 
permanent  factor  in  the  increasing  ring 
element  in  the  State  Government.

The  Menominee  Indians, 

in  North­
western  Wisconsin,  are  making as much 
money  in  lumber  operations  as  are  the 
Osages at  farming.  By  the  sale  of  pine 
logs  in  years  past  the  1,300  men,  women 
and  children  have  accumulated  a  tribai 
fund  aggregating  $1,000,000,  which 
is 
still  growing.  The  tribe  expends  about 
$75,000  a  year  in  logging  operations, 
and  clears  from  $50,000  to  $100,000  an­
nually. 

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The  Parisians  are  taking  more kindly 
to their  parvenu  president.  They  find 
much  in  M.  Loubet  to  admire.  He 
is 
not  an  upstart,  is  plain  and  sincere  in 
his  plainness,  and  his  greatest  pride  is 
that  he  was  born  on  a  farm  and  is the 
son  of  peasant  farmers.  A  few  years  of 
such  a  ruler  will  do  the  gay  Parisians  a 
deal  of  good.

There  are  lots  of  people  in  the  world 
who  would  find  pleasure  in  minding 
their own  bnsiness  when  they  once  be­
came  used  to  it.

bushels,  about  17,500,000 more  than  last 
year,  and  even  at  present  low  prices  the 
movement  from  farms  does  not  stop. 
Corn  exports have  reached  about  123,- 
800,000  bushels,  in  two  weeks  720,000 
more  than 
last  year,  and  the  price  is 
slightly  lower.
The  daily 

average  of  payments 
through  the  principal  clearing  houses 
in  March  has  been  46.2  per  cent,  larger 
than  last  year  and  59.1  per  cent,  larger 
than  1892.  At  the  thirteen  cities  outside 
New  York  the  increase  over  last  year 
has  been  31.2  per  cent,  and  43.4  per 
cent,  over  1892.  With  $93.000,000  paid 
daily  at  these  thirteen  ciites  instead  of 
$64,000,000  in  1892,  currency  is  natural­
ly  employed  more  actively,  but  no  sign 
of  stringency  is  reported  from  any quar­
ter.  Another  million  in  gold  has  been 
shipped  from  Australia  to  San  Fran­
cisco.  Merchandise  imports  this  month 
at  New  York  have been  $6,400,000,  or 
20  per  cent,  more  than  last  year,  when 
they  declined  rapidly  after  March.  The 
exports  have  been  $4,000,000,  smaller 
for  two  weeks  of  this  month— they 
amounted 
last  year  to  $112,600,000— 
and  were  $51,000,000  larger  than  im­
ports.  Yet  the  li)w  price  of  wheat  and 
the  decrease  in  movement  of  corn  leave 
something  to  be  made  up,  as  in  Febru­
ary,  by  the  exports  of  manufactured 
products,  which  may  continue 
large 
for  some  time  yet  on  old  orders,  not­
withstanding  the  rapid  rise  in  iron  and 
steel.

The  Chicago  Daily  News  for  March 
17  contained  the  advertisements  of  147 
men 
seeking  employment  and  1,052 
houses  seeking  men,  which  would  ap­
pear  to 
indicate  that  there  are  about 
seven  positions  open  to  every  man  who 
is  in  search  of  employment.  No  surer 
proof  of  the  changed  condition  of things 
in  the  labor  market  could  be  presented 
than  this.

Spain  claims  to  have  islands  to  sell, 
and 
is  selling  the  Carolines  to  Ger­
many.  She  will  not  attempt  to  deliver 
the  goods,  and  it  will  be  useless  for  the 
natives  of  the 
islands to  kick  because 
they  do  not want  to  be  Dutchmen  under 
Germany’s  rule.  Spain  will  get  the 
money,  and  her  trusting  and 
loving 
subjects  will  get  sold.

The  bill  that  has  been  passed  by  both 
branches  of  the  Tennessee  Legislature 
taxes  trading  stamp  agencies $500  per 
annum  in  each  county  in  which  they  do 
business, 
and  merchants  using  the 
stamps  $250  per  annum;  provided,  that 
merchants  issuing  individual  checks  or 
coupons  shall  pay  no  tax.

The  blonde  type  will  have  disap­
peared  from  Europe  in  two  centuries, 
according  to  an  English  physician,  who 
declares  that  of  100  blondes  only  55 
marry,  while of  100 brunettes,  75  marry. 
In  Germany  and  Scandinavia  also  the 
blonde  type 
is  much  less  predominant 
than  it  used  to be.

returns  of 

A  remarkable  proof  of  the  expansion 
of  German  trade  is  furnished  by  the 
traffic 
the  Suez  canal. 
Twenty  years  ago  the  German  share of 
the  canal  traffic  was  1  per cent,  of the 
total  tonnage. 
It  is  now  11  per  cent,  a 
large  proportion  of  the  trade being  with 
British  possessions.

Cloth  is  now  being  successfully  made 
from  wood. 
If this  goes  on,  it  will  not 
be  long  before  the  trees  will  be  keeping 
our  clothes  in  their trunks,  for  people  to 
take  out  and  use  when  needed.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

0

THE  NEW  ARBITER.

Startled, 

The  guns  w^jich  sunk  the  Spanish 
navy  at  Manila  and  Santiago  did double 
duty.  They  proclaimed  the  end  of  a 
power  that  for  centjries  has  been  a 
blight  to civilization and they announced 
to  the  council  board  of  nations  the  com­
ing  of  a  new  arbiter. 
the 
members  of  that  council  board  watched 
the  vanishing  smoke  of  the  siege  guns 
and  rose 
involuntarily  to  their  feet as 
America  passed  before  them  and  took 
her  place  at  the  head  of  the  council 
The  coming  was  not  a  welcome  one. 
li 
had  been  long  foretold.  For  three  hun­
dred  years  the  walls  of  that  council 
chamber  bad  received  and  retained  the 
shadow  of  that  fair hand.  The  writing 
on  the  wall  had  been  verified  and  they 
sank  apprehensively  to  their  seats  as 
that  same  fair  band  was  pi teed  deter­
minedly  upon  the  Scales  of  Justice. 
“ What  have  we  to  do  with  thee?”   was 
the  unasked  qiestion  upon  every  lip 
and  the  modern  monarch,  unlike  the 
ancient  ruler,  needs  no  prophet  to  in­
terpret  the  fateful  “ upharsin. ”

That  the  presence  of  this  new  powei 
in  the  council-gatherings  of  the  world 
is  recognized 
is  apparent.  What  the 
new  arbit  r thinks,  and  especially  whai 
she 
is  to  do,  has  become  a  mat  er  ot 
much  concern.  Once 
in  the  recei t 
history  of  events  it  was  a  matter  of  in 
difference  whether  or  not  she  “ Remem­
bered  the  M <ine;“   now  her  methods  ol 
ment.l  r< tei tion  need  no  farther  prool 
and  the  powers  that  be  await  with  re­
spectful  att  tude  the  expression  of  the 
arbitei’s  opinion.

found,  which 
It  admires 

That  tois  consideration  is  largely  du> 
to  the  American  behind  the  Americai 
gun  is  undoubtedly  the  prevailing  opin 
ion;  but 
if  tb«t  were true,  the  atttud« 
of  monarchical  power  to-day  would  lack 
the  element of  genuine  and  wholesome 
respect which is  a  marked  characteristic 
of  its  present  “ distinguished  consider­
ation"  for  this  country.  Aside  from 
the  intelligent  use  of  gunpower,  aside 
from  the  physical  fear  of  disastrous 
consequences,  that  genuine  manhood, 
which  makes  the  whole  world,  admires 
likes  the  same  sterling  qualities, 
and 
inspire 
wherever 
its 
manly  heart. 
in  the  first 
place  the  physical  “ I  can”   of  robust 
America. 
In  spite of  all  foreboding  ii 
likes  her  determined  “ I  will”   and,  best 
of  all,  it  hears  with  unfeigned  relief 
her conscientious and unalterable “  No. ”  
It  has  become  weary  of  monarchical 
chicanery  and  treachery.  It  is  disgusted 
with  kingly  lying. 
is  hating  mors 
and  more the  dishonesty  which  charac 
terizes the diplomacy of the Midde A ges; 
and  it  inhaled  deep  draughts  of 
invig­
orating  modern  nationalism  when  at  the 
treaty  at  Paris  the  contemptible  state­
craft  of  Louis  XI.  stood  abashed  and 
powerless  in  the  mighty  presence of  the 
world's  new  arbiter.  She  has been  long 
in  coming.  She  has  come  at  last. 
Im­
perial  manhood,  at  that  fateful  tribunal, 
grappled  again  with  imperial  kingship, 
and 
the  manhood  of  crown-burdened 
Europe,  with  that  of  crown-sbattering 
America,  has  signified 
its  hearty  ap­
proval  of the righteous decision rendered 
then  and  there.

It 

With  the  character  of  the  arbiter  thus 
determined,  the  nations  are  ready  to 
stand  by  her  findings.  They  are  free 
from  all  prejudice. 
They  are  wise. 
They  are  just  More  can  not  be  asked 
for.  So  Italy  brings  her  claims  to  this 
court  of  justice.  So  China,  in  her  de­
spair,  clings  pleadingly  to the unstiined 
ermine of  the  newly-found  arbiter.  So 
the  rapacious  would-be  plunderers  of

impatiently 

empire stand snarling upon the borders of 
China,  waiting 
for  the 
opinion  of  the  couit. 
if  she  only  would 
take  a  band  with  them;  but  she  will 
not.  If  she only would favor one ofjtbem ; 
but  she  looks  a  frowning  "  No" ;  and 
for  the  first  time  in  history  the  rulers  of 
the  earth  are  standing  uncovered  in  re­
spectful  silence, 
to  be  taugbt  by  a 
worthy  example  that  national  salvation 
is only  a  pait of  that  universal salvation 
which  rests  unchangeably  and  forever 
upon 
the  Golden  Rule—an  opinion 
which  now  could  come  only  from  the 
newly-recoenized  arhit*-r  of  the  world.

The  many  failures  of  socialistic  co­
operative  schemes  do  not  deter  succes­
sive  attempts.  The  latest  of  these plans 
announced 
is  that  of  a  band  of  Tolstoi 
in  Minnesota,  who  have  bar­
students 
gained  for 
i.ooo  acres  of  land  in  the 
valley  of  the  Red  River  of  the  North, 
in 
the  western  part  of  Minnesota. 
There,  when  the  snows  have  gone,  they 
will  erect  buildings,  and  begin  to 
live 
m  unity,  in  the  vain  hope  that  compe­
tition  and  the  human  frailty  of envy will 
not  enter.  The  community  will  be  made 
if  men  and  women  representing  all 
tranches  of  business  with  the  exception 
of  that  of  manufacturing  and  selling 
nquor,  which  is  to  be  barred.  Every­
thing  is  to be  owned 
in  common,  and 
$150  is  the  entrance  fee  which each  per­
son 
joining  the  colony  or  living  upon 
tne  community  grounds  will  be  com­
pelled  to  turn  into  the common treasury 
Plans  have  been  made  for a  variety  of 
industries,  but  thus  far  only  two  lines 
if  business  are  really  ready  to  open  in 
the  new  community.  These  are  a  tailor 
shop  and  the  inevitable  printing  plant, 
v  thout  which  no  socialistic  community 
feels  itself  properly  equipped.  This  is 
to  be  the  first  co  operative  colony  in 
Minnesota,  but 
it  has  a  measure  of 
success  it  is  likely  to  have  many  adher­
ents,  as  the  State  has  a  large  number  of 
persons  with  socialistic  tendencies.

if 

A  thirty-four  years’  extension  of  the 
treet  railroad  franchise  in  Indianapolis 
oas  been  granted  by  the  Indiana  Legis­
lature,  in  return  for  which  the  company 
tgrees to  pay  to  the  city  $750.000  in  in­
stallments, or at  the  rate  of about  $44,000 
a  year,  pave  between  its  tracks,  spend 
$1,000,000  in  betterments  to 
its  plant, 
give  the  city  the  best  service,  sell  six 
tickets  for  25  cents  and  twenty-five  fot 
$1,  practically give  the  city  255  acres  of 
land  for a  park  (the  rental  being  $1  per 
year),  and  permit  the  city  to  buy  the 
11 mt  at  the  end  of  the  term  of  the  fran- 
cbise. 

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The  zone  tariff  introduced  some  years 
ago  on  Russian  railways  has  greatly 
stimulated  travel,  as  in  Hungary,  where 
this  system  originated.  For  long  dis 
tances,  Russia 
the  cheapest 
country  to  travel  in.  A  ticket  from  St 
Petersburg  to  Odessa,  1,200  English 
miles,  costs  only  $6.50  third  class,  or 
$10  in  the  second,  which  is  about  one- 
half  of  what  it  would  cost  to  travel  the 
same  distance  in  Germany.

is  now 

A  bill  is  beture  the  Connecticut  Leg­
islature  which,  if  passed,  will  require 
makers  or  sellers  of  bicycles  to  guaran­
tee  them  for  two  months,  and  fixes  a 
fine of  from  $5  to $20  in  case  of  viola­
tion  of  the  law.

Bavaria  can  boast  of  twenty-eight 
pencil  factories,  which  employ  10,000 
people,  including men,  women  and  chil­
dren.  Together  they  produce  no  fewer 
than  4,000,000 black  and  300,000 colored 
pencils  per  week.

DISMEMBERMENT  OF  CHINA.
The 

independence  of  China  is  now 
nothing  better  than  a  name.  The  dis­
memberment  of  that  vast  empire,  with 
its  teeming  population,  is  not  only 
im­
pending,  but  has  actually  commenced. 
The  great  coast  line,  extending  from 
French  Tonquin  to  the  Gulf  of  Pichili, 
is  now  parceled  out  among  the  Euro 
pean  powers,  and  although  the 
interior 
provinces  are  still  nominally  under 
Chinese  rule,  they  are  included  within 
more  or  less  well-defined  spheres  of 
in­
fluence.

Commencing  at  the  extreme  western 
end  of  the  Chinese  coast,  France  has 
‘ leased"  Lei-Chau,  near  its  older  pos­
sessions  in  Tonquin.  Next,  tjwards  the 
north  and  east,  are  the  British  pos­
sessions  of  Hong  Kong  and the admitted 
sphere  of 
influence  along  the  Cai ton 
River region.  The  province  of  Fo-kien, 
opposite  Formosa,  is  claimed  by  Japan, 
and  that  power  will  no  doubt  promptly 
assert  her  reversionary 
interest  in  it. 
The  province  of  Chilang  is  the  territory 
now  claimed  by  Italy,  and  from  there, 
northward  and 
the 
British  sphere  of  influence,  which  ex­
cepts  only  the  German  concessions  at 
Kiao  Chau.  Eastward  of  the  Gulf  ol 
Pichili,  including  the  whole  of  Man­
churia,  Russia  has  already  taken  pos­
session,  and 
in  that  part  of  the  empire 
Chinese  rule  has  ceasea  even  to  be  a 
myth.

eastward,  runs 

There  is  little  doubt  that  Italy’s  de­
mand  is  pait  of  the  British policy.  Now 
that  the  dismemberment  of  China  is  in­
evitable,  the  British  will  undoultedly 
endeavor  to  secure  the 
lion’s  share  of 
the  spoils,  and  if  the  extent  of  the  coast 
line  now  held  by  the  British  is  a  criter­
ion  of  the  amount  of  hinterland  to  be 
secured,  the  British  sphere  of  influence 
will  include  the  richest  and  most  popu­
lous  parts  of  China.

Although  this  country,  in  pursuance 
its  traditional  policy,  has  refused  to 
of 
interfere  in  the  parctling  out  of  China, 
it  can  not  regard  the  dividing-up  now 
in  progress  without  serious  concern 
This  country  enjoys  a  large  trade  with 
China,  and  this  trade  is  sure  to suffer  in 
all  territory  not 
included  within  the 
British  sphere  of  influence.  This  is  not 
a  very  pleasant  prospect;  but,  with  a 
policy  of  non-interference,  it is not  clear 
that  anything  can  be  done  in  the  prem 
ises to  save  onr  trade.

CHANGE  IN  GERMAN SENTIM ENT.
During  the  time  immediately  preced 
ing  as  well  as  during  the continuance  of 
the  war  with  Spain,  German  sentiment 
was  distinctly  unfriendly,  nut  to  say 
hostile,  to  the  United  States.  The  Ger­
man  press  teemed  with  pro-Spanish  ar­
ticles,  and 
in  not  a  few  instances  was 
distinctly  hostile  to  us.

Now  all  this  has  suddenly  changed. 
The  German  government  has  not  only 
ceased  to  advocate  commercial  retalia­
tion  on  us  for  our  high  tiriff  duties, 
but has  reprimanded  Admiral Diedrichs 
for his  course  in  the  Philippine Islands, 
and  has  missed  no  opportunity  to  man­
ifest  a  decidedly  friendly  feeling.  The 
first  evidences  of  this  change  of  senti­
ment  were  found  in  the  relaxation of the 
rigorous  prohibitive  measures  against 
American 
fruit  and  meat  products. 
This  was  soon  followed  by  a  change  in 
tone  in  the  inspired  press,  and,  lastly, 
there  has  been  the  withdrawal  of  the 
German  ships  from  the  Philippines,  the 
placing  of  German  interests  in  that  part 
of  the  world  under American protection, 
and  the  supercession  of  Admiral  Died 
richs,  the  German  commander  of  the

China  squadron,  by  Prince  Henry  of 
Prussia.

Germany  has  apparently  recognized, 
first,  tbat  in  a  commercial  or  tariff  war 
with  the  United  States,  German 
inter­
ests  are  likely  to  be  damaged  much 
more  seriously  than  those  of  this  coun­
try ;  and,  second,  that  Germany's 
in­
terests  are  to  be  subserved  better by  re­
maining  on  friendly  terms  with 
thfe 
United  States  and  Great  Britain  than by 
making  common  cause  with  Russia  and 
France.

This  change  of  sentiment  on  the  part 
of  Germany  will  be  welcomed  by  this 
country,  for  the  reason  that  our trade re­
lations  with  the  German  Empire  are 
most  important,  and  the  hostility  which 
has  been  manifested  to  our  products 
during  recent  years  has  been  a  cause  of 
much 
irritation  and  considerable  loss. 
While  the  two  countries  have  few  polit­
ical  aims 
in  common,  they  are  closely 
rtl  ted  commercially,  and  for  that  rea­
son  friendly  M itions  are  much  desired.

Samuel  Sloan,  wbo  has  just  retired 
from  the  presidency  of  the  Delaware, 
Lackawanna  and  Western  Railrcad,  at 
the  ripe  old  age  of  82,  began  bis  re­
markable  career  without a penny  and  he 
retires  with  many  millions.  He explains 
bis  success 
in  accumulating  a  foitune 
by  saying  that  when  he  first  went  to 
work,  no  matter  what  bis  salary  was, 
be  saved  some  of  it.  The  first  thousand 
di liars  was  the  hardest  to  gtt,  but  it 
soon  grew  to $5,000,  and  then  to  higher 
figures. 
“ Economy  is  one  of  the  most 
important  roads  to  wealth.  When  I  say 
economy  I  do  not  mean  sordidness,  but 
I  do  mean  a  proper  appreciation  of  the 
value  of  money.  Given  proper economy, 
integrity,  earnestness,  application  to 
detail,  and  vou  will  win  every  t  me.”

During  the  course  of  tbe  trial  in  Bos­
ton  the  other day of  a woman  restaurant- 
keeper,  who  was  charged  with  selling 
milk  “ beiow  standard,"  the  fact  was 
developed  that  no  Bostonian  dissatisfied 
with  his  milkman  can  change unless  the 
new  milkman  be  ready  to  submit  to  a 
fine  of  $50  from  the  Milk  Dealers’ Asso­
ciation.  Tbe  defendant  testified  tbat 
upon  finding  tbat  the  milk  she  was  get­
ting  was  poor,  she  tried  in  vain  to  buy 
from  other  milkmen,  but they  feared  tbe 
$50  fine  of  tbe  trust,  and  refused  to  stll 
to  her.  She  finally  succeeded  in  getting 
better  milk  by  purchasing  from  ancther 
dealer  in  the  name  nf  her  janitor.

The  Daughters  of  the  American  Rev­
olution  in  Washington,  being  undecided 
as  to  a  point  concerning  the  re  election 
of  officers,  asked  Speaker  Reed  to  solve 
the  problem  for  them.  He  complied, 
and  was  probably  not  surprised  to  learn 
that,  not 
the 
Daughters  of  tbe  American  Revolution 
refused  to  accept 
it  and  followed  an­
other  authority,  which  brought  them  out 
where  they  w an ted   tn  be.

liking  his  decision, 

There 

is  nothing  in  a  name. 

In  tbe 
streets  of  Topeka,  tbe  other  day,  a  bull­
dog  named  “ Dewey”   was  licked  good 
by  a  cur  named  “ Rover.”   This  sug­
gests  that  among  tbe  thousands  of  black 
and  white  and  red  and  yellow  boy 
babies  that  have been  named  “ Dewey,”  
some  of  them  will  fail  to  become  honest 
and  valuable  citizens.

Men  who  spend  unhappy  moments 
borrowing  trouble  already  feel  chilly 
because  scientific  cranks  have  figured 
out  tbe  problem  to  show  tbat  the anthra­
cite  coal  deposit  of  the  world will be ex­
hausted  in  the  year  2033.

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Fruits and  Produce.

Statistics  Invalidated  by  a  Coterie  of 

Egg  Shippers.

From the New York Prodace Review.

Statistics  of  receipts  of  produce  in 
connection  with  the  market  prices  of 
such  produce afford  a  record  of  value  to 
the  trade  at  large  for  which  our  organ­
ization  of  merchants  expend  thousands 
of  dollars  annually. 
It  would  seem  as 
if  the  universal  value  of  these  statistics 
would  create  an  universal  desire  to 
guard  their 
integrity  on  the  part  of 
every  member  of  the  trade  interested. 
Strange  to  say,  however,  this  is  not  so. 
There  are  some  so  ignorant of the causes 
which  determine  values  of  fluctuating 
commodities  as  to  believe  that  they  can 
affect  these  values  in  their  own  interest 
by  falsifying  the  statistics  of  supply, 
and  of  these  some  have  so  little  regard 
for a  broad  commercial  truthfulness  as 
to  obstruct  to  the  extent  of  their  power 
the  collection  of these  statistics, with  the 
result  of  making  them 
inaccurate  and 
unreliable.

The  firm  of  Jean,  Hurst  &  Co.  and 
some  other  allied  concerns  who  are 
large  shippers of  eggs  from  the  South­
west  and  who  are  represented  on  the 
New  York  market  and  on  the  New  Yotk 
Mercantile  Exchange  by  one  E.  M. 
Garrison,  caused  last  year a  serious  in­
terruption  to  the  accurate  collection  of 
the  receipts  of  eggs  by  insisting th  ttbe 
Baltimore  &  Ohio  Railroad,  which  was 
then  handling  their  shipments,  should 
not 
include  these  shipments  when  re* 
porting  to  the  Exchange  officials  their 
total  deliveries.  At  that  time  consider­
able  feeling  was  generated  against  this 
concern  on  account  of  t'^eir  action,  and 
against  the  Baltimore  &  Oaio  Railroad 
for  complying  with  taeir  unjust  de­
mands,  and  after  considerable  work  on 
the  part  of  the  Exchange  committee  on 
stati-ticsan  assurance  was  obtaineathat 
thereafter  the  receipts  would  be  accu­
rately  repotted.

But 

it  appears  that  this  Jean  Hurst 
combination 
is  again  adopting  similar 
tactics  of  suppression.  They  are  now 
forwarding  their  goods  largely  over  the 
Delaware,  Lackawanna &  Western  Rail­
road  and 
lreight  officials  of  that  read 
have  informed  the  officers  of  New  York 
Mercantile  Exchange  that,  under  a  de­
mand  from  the  shippers,  they  will  no 
longer 
in  their  report  of  egg 
deliveries  the  quantities  shipped  by 
Jean,  Hurst  &  Co.

include 

It  is  useless  to  argue  further as  to  the 
fallacy  of  the  reasoning  which  prompts 
tais  action  on  the  part  of  a  Western 
It  arises  from  an ignorance  of 
shipper. 
commercial 
laws  which  may  be  ex- 
petted  of  any  who  have  so  little  appre­
ciation  of  business  ethics as  to  induce 
them  to  make  use  of  similar  informa­
tion  furnished  by  others  while  they  sur­
reptitiously  withhold  their  own.  We 
simply  wish  to  call  stt-ntion  of  the 
New  York  commission  trade  to  the  fact 
that  the  prime  function  of  their trade 
organization,  in  which  they  have 
in­
vested  several  hundred 
thousands  of 
dollars,  and  to  which  they  look  for  ac­
curate  guides  to  market  conditions,  is 
being  subverted  by  the  action  of  this 
coterie  of  egg  shippers.

It 

is  an  outrage  that  the  accuracy  of 
the  trade  statistics  ot  a  city  like  New 
York  should  be  at  the  mercy  of  any 
in­
dividual  or  individuals.  The  organiza­
tions  whose  members  are  chiefly 
inter­
ested  in  the  correct  compilation  of these 
statistics  are  the  New  York  Mercantile 
and  Produce Exchanges.  The  law com­
institutions,  acting  in 
mittees  of “these 
concert,  should  take 
immediate  steps 
to  secure the  passage  of a 
law  compel­
ling freight  lines  to  make accurate  daily 
reports  of  the  total  quantity  of  staple 
produce  delivered  in  cities  where  mer­
chants  are  organized  under  the  state 
laws  for  the  purpose  of  compiling  such 
information.

In  the  meantime  it  is  evident  that  no 
person  should  be  allowed to  retain mem­
bership  in  our  exchanges  who,  for  him 
self  or  bis  principals,  performs  acts  di­
rectly  obstructive  of  the functions of  the 
institution.  Members  of  the  New  York 
Mercantile  Exchange  agree to abide  by

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

its  rules.  As  these  rules  provide  for 
the  accurate  compilation  of  statistics  of 
receipts,  one  who  obstructs  such  com­
pilation  can  not  be  said  to  abide  by 
them  and  should  be summarily expelled. 
The  membership  of  any  organization 
should  be  unanimous  in  their desire  to 
further  the  prime  objects  of  the  associa­
tion  and  should  ceitainly  contain  none 
who 
is  antagonistic  to  such  objects. 
Furthermore  a 
line  which  is 
willing  to  thwart  the  purposes  and  in­
terests  of  the  trade  at  large  it   the  dicta­
tion  of  any  patron  should  be  discrim­
inated  against  by  the  majority  in  every 
possible  way.

freight 

An  Unpopular  Hearse.

From the Kennebec Journal.

The 

The  town  of  Holden  is  the  owner of  a 
hearse that  is  out  of  a  job. 
It  is  a  good 
hearse,  only  six  years  old,  clean,  bright, 
and  as  good  as  new;  but,  in  spite  of  its 
apparent  attractiveness  and  in  spite  of 
the  fact  that  it  cost  the  town  $750,  it  has 
not  carried  a  coffin  or  led  a  funeral  pro 
cession  for  more  than  four years.  Ui.t.1 
five  years  ago  it  was  the  most  popular 
and  widely-employed  hearse in  Northern 
Hancock  county,  and  was  hired  by  peo­
ple  in  Eddington,  Dedham  and  Clifton. 
One  day  the  driver,  having  taken  a 
body  to  Brooklin  for 
interment,  saw  a 
chance  to  turn  an honest dollar by bring­
ing  back  a  load  of  salt  fish.  Then  the 
trouble  began.  The  fish  didn’t  harm 
the  hearse  any,  and  the  hearse  didn't 
hurt  the  fish,  but  when  the  story  gc t out 
the  usefulness  of  the  hearse  was  gone*. 
Those  who  had  friends  to  bury  sent  t<> 
Bangor,  ten  miles  away,  and  paid  $10 
or  $15  for  a  hearse,  sooner than  have 
the  local  hearse  for nothing.

town  had 

the  hearse  newly 
painted  and  varnished,  hoping  to  re 
move  the  prejudice,  but  the  fish  story 
held  on,  and  the  village  boys  threw 
stones  at  the  hearse  house  to  show  their 
contempt. 
In  a  year or  so  the  feeling 
against  the  hearse  became  so  strong that 
men  detlired  in  their  wills  that  their 
heirs  should  be  disinherited  in  case  the 
testators  were  carried  to  the grave in the 
Holden  hearse.  Those  who  didn  t  wish 
to  mention  the  hearse  got  around  it  by 
demanding  that  their  bodies  should  be 
conveyed 
in  a  hearse  from  Dedham  or 
Bangor.  These  wills  were  filed  in  the 
probate  office  in  Bangor,  and  before  the 
property  could  be  divided  the  heirs 
were  obliged  to  prove  that  the  request 
regarding  the  hearse  bad  been  fulfi  led. 
The affair  has  caused  no  end  of  trouble 
and  expense,  but 
in  spite  of  the  time 
that  has  elapsed,  the  feeling  is  stronger 
to-dav  than  it  was  five  years  ago.  This 
spring  there  was  an  article  in  the  town 
warrants  ‘ to  see  if  the  town  will  vete  to 
seli  the  hearse. ”  

It  was  adopted.

The  Department  Store  in Switzerland. 
Berne Correspondence Chicago Record.

Berne  is  peculiar  in  some  things,  and 
in  matters  of  progress  and  enterprise  is 
far  behind  tbe  other  Swiss  cities.  A 
tradesman  who  bad  done quite  a  busi­
ness in  small  wares bought  several  small 
stores  on  tbe  main  arcaded  street  of  tbe 
city,  and  prepared  to  erect  a  modern 
department  store,  as  far  as  the  Conti­
nental 
idea  goes.  He  wanted  to  make 
bis  establishment  as  attractive  as  pos­
sible  and  accordingly  sought  to have  tbe 
dark  and  gloomy  arcades  in  front  of  bis 
proposed  building  removed. 
Such  a 
storm  of  protests  was  made  against  this 
wilful  destruction  of  tbe  ancient  and 
typical  stonework  that  he was  obliged  to 
abandon  s  hi  scheme  and  get  even  by 
making  his  store  the  finest  in  the  city. 
He  even  has  had  an  elevator  installed. 
There  must  be  tour  in  Berne  When  tbe 
1-ttle  dealers  saw 
it  and  knew  that  it 
was  good,  tbev  held  a  largely  attended 
It  is  (heir  desire  to 
meeting  to  protest 
have  a  store  with  several  departments 
so  heavily  taxed  that  it  will  be 
impos­
sible  for  tbe  owner  to  realize anything 
out  of  bis  venture

Would  Not  Die  Young.

“ That  palmist  said  tb^t  for  Si  he 

could  tell  me  bow  long  I  would  live.”

“ Did  he?”
“ He  said  I  would  have to  live  many, 
many  years  before  I  would  have  sense 
enough  to take care  of  money. ’ ’

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The  Seeds  offered  by  us  are 
largely our  own  production  and 
all  carefully  tested  before  sent 
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Growers  and  Merchants,
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ing  the  realization  of  an  average  profit 
hazardous  if  not  actually  improbable.

We  consider  that  these  latter  possi­
bilities  are  quite 
likely  to  result  from 
present  and  recent  conditions of  our  egg 
market  unless  operators  can  be  con­
vinced  of  the  danger  from  a  considera­
tion  of  similar  conditions  experienced 
in  the  past,  and  in  this  connection  it  is 
our  purpose  to  call attention  to  some  in­
teresting  and  important  facts.

The  price at  which  spring  eggs  may 
be  piofitably  withdrawn  to  storage  nat­
urally  depends  upon  the  extent of spring 
production  in  relation  to  the  fresh  pro­
duction  of  the  following  fall  and  winter 
is  of  course  net  certainly  to  be 
and 
known. 
The  willingness  of  storage 
operators  to  buy  and  the  extent  of  their 
purchases 
is  largely  a  matter of  sei ti- 
ment  based  upon  the  most  recent  results 
of  the  business  without  due  regard  to 
average  conditions;  and 
is  to  the 
danger  of  this 
influence  that  we  wish 
especially  to  point.

it 

It 

is  well  known  to  those  who  have 
followed  the  course  of  egg  values  even 
for  a  few  years  that  when  spring  prices 
have  been  speculativtly supported above 
a  certain  very  moderate  point  the  aver­
age  result  of  holding  has  been  unfavor 
able,  and  that  even  when  the  first  cost 
of  storage  eggs  has  been  very  low  there 
have been  seasons  when unfortunate  re­
sults  have  been  avoided  only  by  acci­
dentally  fortuitous  weather  conditions 
during  the  following  winter.  The course 
of  egg  values  during  the  past  five  years 
will  serve  to  give  illustration  of  these 
varying  conditions.

In  considering  these  prices  it  must 
be  understood  that  the  ranges  given,and 
averages  also,  are  for  the  finest  qualities 
only  of  the  various  kinds. 
In  the  case 
of  stirage  eggs  particularly  the  large 
quantity  of  undergrades  would material­
ly  reduce  the  general  average.

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
igan,  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.

DANGER  AHEAD.

Egg  Market  Likely 

to  Be  Unduly 

Stimulated.

As  we  approach  the  season  when  sur­
plus  egg  production  will  be  withdrawn 
to  cold  storage  to  bold  for  the  fall  and 
winter  markets  it  will  be  well  for  oper­
ators 
in  eggs  to  cast  an  eye  over  past 
experiences  so  that 
they  may,  per 
chance,  avoid  a  threatened  danger  and 
cling  to  methods  which  alone  have,  in 
the  past,  been  productive  of  profitable 
results.

The  business  of  holding  eggs  from 
spring  to  fall  and  winter,  while  based 
upon  purely  economic  considerations, 
has  become  more  or  less  a  matter of 
speculation  so  far as  its  financial  results 
are concerned,  by  reason  of  the  enor­
mous  extent  to  which  it  is  indulged  in 
and  the  consequent  danger  that  the 
quantity  of  reserve  stock  carried  may, 
under  some  conditions,  be  so great  as 
to  preclude  the  possibility  of  a  profit­
able  unloading.

One  of  the  dangers  likely  to  result  in 
an  unfortunate  outcome  of  speculative 
holdings  is  to be  found  in  the  enormous 
development  of  cold  storage  facilities 
and  the  accompanying  fact  that  a  stor­
age  house  can  carry  two  roomsful  of 
eggs  for  very  little  more  expense  than 
is  incurred  in  carrying  one.  The  capac­
in  this  country  is 
ity  for  egg  storage 
now  so  great  that,  if 
it  is all  utilized 
during  a  season  when  production  is  nor­
mal  or  perhaps  a  little  below  normal, 
the  result 
is  to  stimulate  cost  price 
above  a  point  which  will  insure  an  av­
erage  profit  when  unloading  the  quan­
tity  thus  carried  unless  under  fall  and 
wirter  weather conditions  of an  unusu­
ally  favorable  character.

led 

The  development  of  the  egg  storage 
facilities  to  large  proportions  was  first 
effected  in  the West  and  notably  in  Chi­
cago.  But  after  these 
facilities  bad 
been  carried  to  great  proportions  the 
fact  that  Eastern  holding  of  stored  eggs 
offered  material  advantages 
to  a 
further  great  extension  of  Eastern  facil­
ities,  both  in  New  York,  Philadelphia 
and  Boston,  and  in  many  of  the  smaller 
cities  of  New  England,  New  Jersey, 
Pennsylvania,  and  New  York  State.  Al­
together,  among  the  operators  who  ap­
preciate 
the  value  of  having  goods 
stored  nearest  to the  greatest  consuming 
districts of  the  East,  the Eastern storage 
facilities  now  have the  call  and  some  of 
the  larger  storage  concerns  of  the  West 
have  of  late  years  often  been  obliged  to 
buy  goods  themselves  in  order  to  gtt 
enough  for  economical  operation.  The 
effect  of  these  conditions  is  very  likely 
to  strain  the  business  of  cold  storing 
of eggs  to  a  dangerous  point.

it 

During  the  months  of  April  and  May, 
when  surplus  production  is greatest,  and 
when  values  are  fixed  almost  entirely  by 
the  disposition  of  speculative  buyers, 
we may look  for the keynote  of the year’s 
profits  or  losses  in  egg  holding.  During 
that  period 
is  possible  to  vary  the 
proportion  of  consumption  and  holding 
by  price  to  a  material  degree;  thus  on 
an  unchangeable  basis  of  lie   New  York 
there  would  be  greater  consumption, 
less  storage  and  consequent 
greater 
chance  of  profit  than  at  12  or  13c.  But 
the  prime  controller of  these  conditions 
is  the  disposition  to  store. 
If  specu­
lative  operators  insist  upon  securing 
their  usual  quantities  under  conditions 
light  available  stocks,  or 
of  unusually 
if  unusually 
large  quantities  are  de­
manded  under  usual  supplies,abnormal­
ly  high  prices  result,  with  the  effect  of 
reducing  current  consumption  and  mak-

In  the  spring  of  1897 although  values 
were  abnormally  low  the  quantity  of 
stock  withdrawn  to  storage  was  large 
and  with  an  unusually  free  summer  and 
fall  production  the  unloading  of  spring 
purchases  was  unsatisfactory;  ultimate 
disaster  was  avoided  onlv  by  unusually 
light  offerings  of  fresh  eggs  during  the 
following  January. 
In  November  and 
most  of  December  of 
'97  holders  of 
spring  storages  were pressing  for  sale  at 
any  price  which  would  return  a  new 
dollar  for  an  old  one  and  although  the 
goods  cost only  on  the  basis  of  about  10 
@ io^c  New  York  in April,thousands of 
cases  were  sold  at  a  loss,  and  a  disas­
trous  wind  up  was  avoided  only  by  an 
unusually  light  December  production  of 
fresh  eggs.

The  season  of  189;  96 gives,  thus  far, 
the  closest  analogy  to  present and recent 
conditions  that  we  have bad  for  many 
vears.  Storage  eggs  of  the  season  of 
’94  were  cleaned  up  early  in  the  winter 
at  comparativvey  full  rates  and  in  Feb­
ruary  the  distributing  markets  were 
thrown  upon  current  production  for  sup­
plies.  Cold  weather  then,  as  recently, 
gave  light  supplies  and  high  prices  and 
the  range  of  values  was  nearly  as  high 
as  was  the  case  last  month.  March  of 
’95  also  contained  a  30c  market  for 
fresh  Western,  as  has  this  month,  and 
although 
later  heavy  receipts  carried 
prices temporarily  down  to  n % c  before 
the  first  of  April,  the  beginning  of  stor­
age  speculation  forced  a  recovery  and 
the  average  for  April,  1895,  was  no  less 
than  13c  at  New  York,  and  for  May 
I3}ic. 
foolhardy 
speculation  which  supported  so  extreme 
a  range  of  prices at that time  was  the 
direct  result  of  conditions  almost 
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To our many friends and shippers throughout Michigan:

We shall open our branch  house  in  Grand  Rapids  on  or 
about March 25  when we shall be  in the market for  an  unlimited  q .an- 
tity of  Fine  Fresh  Eggs suitable for cold storage purposes.

We are not new to you. as we  have  bought  eggs  of  you  for  several 
years.  We shall stand on  the same platform we have  used  in  our  busi­
ness for the last fifty  years,  viz,,  prompt  remittanos,  fair,  square  deal­
ing, and you can always depend on getting a hundred cents to the  dollar 
when selling or shipping  us.  We will buy  your  eggs  on  track  and  pay 
you all we can afford to pay consistent with  Eastern  markets.  Write  us 
for prices. 

Yours for business,

W.  R.  BR ICE   &  CO.

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REFERENCES: 

Corn  Exchange National  Bank,  Philadelphia. 
W. D.  Hayes, Cashier Hastings National Bank, Hastings, Mich. 
Fourth  National  Bank,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 
D. C.  Oakes,  Coopersville,  Mich. 

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tical  with  those  which  we  have  recently 
experienced.  Shall  we  repeat  the  deal? 
The  fates  forbid!  It  was  then  disastrous 
and 
in  all  probability,  be 
it  would, 
again  the  same.

In  ’95  it  was  well  along  in  September 
before  any  of  the  high-priced  storage 
eggs  could  come  out  at  a  profit  and 
then  it  was  very  meager.  Later  in  the 
year  the  prevailing  prices  afforded  a 
moderate  profit  on  some  of  the  best of 
the  holdings,  but  for  average  qualities 
it  was  hard  to  get  cost  back 
Large 
stocks  were  carried  over  into  ’ q6  and  as 
January  and  February  were  open,  giv­
ing  us  good  supplies  of  new  eggs,  the 
wind  up  of  the high  priced  storages  of 
the  previous  spring  was  disastrous  m 
the  extreme.

We  recall  these  experiences  now  be­
cause,  from  all  the  talk  we  bear among 
egg  men,we  fear  there  is  serious  danger 
of  a  repetition  of  them.  The past  year’s 
storage  business  in  eggs  was.  happily, 
a  profitable  one and  the  comparatively 
early  closing  out  of  the  stock,  together 
with  remarkably  cold  weather  and  light 
production  since,  gave  us  booming  and 
excited  markets  during  February  and 
early  March.  The  conditions  are  the 
same  as  those  which  led  to  high  prices 
during  the  storage  season  of 
’9;,  which 
proved  generally  unprofitable,  and  to 
many  most  disastrous.  May  this  con­
sideration  tend  to  encourage  conserva­
tive  operations  during  the  approaching 
speculative  period.

We  look  for  a  heavy  production  of 
eggs 
in  April  and  May.  The  South­
western  hens  have  been  set  back  by  ab­
normally  severe  weather  and  probably 
the  height  of  production  will  come  at 
the  same  time  in  more  than  usual  of  the 
great  egg  producing  states.  Speculative 
buyers  can  set  their  price  and  be abso­
lutely  certain  of  getting  goods at  the 
rate  they  name  if  they  will  be  satisfied 
with  the quantity  of  surplus  ohtiinable. 
Generally  improved  business  conditions 
may  perhaps  warrant  a  slightly  higher 
price  than 
in  the  spring  of  1897,  but 
safety  can  certainly  not  be  looked  for 
on  any  higher  basis  of  cost  than  pre­
vailed  last  year and  even  on that  basis  a 
profitable  unloading  might  easily  be 
preverted  by  a  reversal  of  the  weather 
conditions  which  have  proven  so  potent 
a  favorable  factor  during  the  past  sea­
son.— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

Varied  Sources  From  Which  Egg Sup­

plies  Are  Drawn.

From Ihe New  York Sun.

surrounding 

A  man  who  eats  an  egg  or  two  for  bis 
breakfast  might  perhaps  not  realize  the 
number  of  eggs  that  it  takes  to  supply 
the  aggregate  wants  of  the  people  of 
this town  and  of  the  cities  and  towns  of 
the 
territory  that  draw 
more  or  less of  their  egg  supplies  from 
here.  There  were  received  in  New  York 
from  Jan.  1  to  March  11  of  the  present 
year  279,988  cases  of  eggs,  as  against 
388,238 
for  the  corresponding 
period  last  year.  The  receipts  of  eggs 
here  last  year  were  2.642.252  cases.  The 
great  falling  off  in  receipts  in  the  early 
period  mentioned  this  year,  as  distin 
guisbed  from  the  corresponding  period 
of  last  year,  was  due  to  the  widespread, 
long-continued  and  unusual  severity  of 
this  year's  winter.

cases 

There  are  two  standard  commercial 
packages  for  eggs,  one a  case  of  thirty 
dozen  and  the  other  a  case  of  thirty-six 
There  are  about  as  many 
dozen. 
shipped 
in  one  size  case  as 
in  the 
other,  so  that  the  average  of  the  egg 
packages  would  be  about  thirty-three 
dozen  to  the  case,  or,  say,  400  eggs,  so 
that  the  receipts  from  Jan.  1  to  March 
II  of  this  year,  a  period of  seventy days, 
amounted  to  about  111,995,200  eggs,  or 
an  average,  approximately,  of  1,600,000 
eggs  daily. 
It  will  be  borne  in  mind

n 

that  this  was  a  season  of unusual restric- 
in  the  supply,  and,  moreover,  that 
the  great  egg  season  in  the  year  is  not 
winter,  but  spring.

Up  to  about  fifteen  years  ago  Indiana 
and  Illinois  were  about  the  Western 
imit  of  the  sources  of  supply of eggs for 
this  market,  eggs  coming  from  those 
and  from  all  the  intervening  states,  and 
more  or  less  from  the  South,  as  well  as 
from  familiar  local  sources  of  supplv. 
Eggs  come to  this  market now from sub­
stantially  the  entire  country  west of  here 
and  east  of  a  line  drawn  down  through 
North  Dakota,  South  Dakota.  Nebraska, 
into  Texas.  Eggs  are  re­
Kansas  and 
ceived  bere  from  Texas  daily 
in  the 
season.  Some  eggs  come  from  Okla­
homa.  Eggs  come  practically 
from
everywhere  east  of  the  line  indicated, 
from  Iowa  and  Alabama,  Michigan  and 
Missouri,  Ohio and  Arkansas,  Mississ- 
npi  and  Pennsylvania,  Tennessee  and 
Kansas.  Scattered  throughout  this  re­
gion  there  are  now  thousands  of  egg­
shipping  places, 
large  and  small,  at 
which  eggs  are  col  ected  and  shipped 
The  egg  shipping  season  at  various 
places  depends  on  the  locality.  From 
the  North  more  or  less  eggS-pometh** 
year  around ;  from  tfce'sotvtb  none ;  or 
practically  none,  in  summer,  and  the 
Southern  shipping  season  becomes  more 
and  more limited  the  further  South  the 
ilic e ,  until  at  the  extreme  Southern 
points  $jf  shipment the shipping  is  sub­
stantially confined  tb  the  witter  season.
The  Wide  extension  in  recent  yeaeinf 
the  sources  of  the  egg-supply^for  this 
market!  is,  of  course,  due. primàri!y'To 
the  enormously  increased-'  demandi;  It 
is  due,'also,  in  very*  large «ensure to 
the  great  improvement  in  the  egg-ship- 
ping  -package  and  the  great  increase 
and 
improvement  in  the  facilities  for 
transportation.  Eggs  come  nowadays 
from  t' -  most  distant  points  with  re- 
quickness ■ '■ from  Texas,  for 
m£rkah 
in  three*day$,  so that  distance 
1nitand 
scarce]] 
j& |<esb  eggs  from 
litfes.v  The  sbip-
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ping  package 
as ' to  Ihe  manner'of  its^qfSTfstrhction. 
The  cafes  are  provided  wifb  wh|t  are 
called  gjlers,  the  fillers  being  /TSifcfcs  of* 
cardboard  placed 
with \sSeets  of  atrdqoarq  bnweehLjhe 
tiers,  eiacb  egg  ocbqpvipg/a  separate 
pigeon-bole or  compartment? in a. tier.  >
is  carried  on \ ifow  not 
only  fa^mbre  extensively,  wut  fàì  edere
systematically,  than  ever  beftwei 
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parts  obtbe  country than  in  cithers,  »Id. 
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There  St re  many  great  chicken  farms. 
and
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everywhere  more.or  less.
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at  tbe  mohi^nt,  comnfercial  eggs  ipav 
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in  valuif^ t... much  as "fpr-e eents.a 
dozen;  handsome,'  lagge,  selected,  high 
grade  eggs  may  be  wbMBjwe;^ ^  
dozen  more  than  ordinary  eggs  “These" 
superior  eggs  may  be  tbe  production  of 
special  breeds  of  stock,  but  tbe  eggs  of 
comparatively  ordinary  stock  packed 
with  care  might  bring  half  a  cent  or  a 
cent  more  a  dozen  than  the  same  eggs 
packed  as  they  run.  More  and  more 
egg  raisers  give  attention to sucb'dttails 
nowadays,  culling  out  eggs  that  are 
dirty  or  discolored  and  packing them bv 
themselves  to  sell,  although they  may  be 
as  big  and  heavy  and  good  as  the  oth 
ers,  at  less  than  regular  price,  but  more 
tbao  making  tb  s  good  by  the  added 
price  obtiined  for  the  others,  due  in 
great  measure  to  their  sightliness  of  ap 
pearance.  More  handsome  eggs  may be 
seen  for  sale 
in  retail  stores  now  than 
ever  before.

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Modern  cold  storage  provides a means 
of  keeping  tbe  eggs  of  the  plentiful sea­
son  against  the  season  of  scant  supply, 
and  improved  methods  of  refrigeration 
and  of  pickling make  it  possible to keep 
them  now  better  than  ever.

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in  market.  They  are  here 

New  York,  Mar.  18—Every  day  sees 
evidences  of  the  increasing  volume  of 
trade  and  an  increasing  number  of  buy­
ers 
from 
every  part  of  the  countrv  and  they  are 
doing  quick  buying.  They  realize  that 
nothing 
is  to  be  gained  in  looking  for 
"bargains”   with  every  market  boom­
ing.  So they  take  what  they  want,  and 
they  have  the  cash  in  a  good  many  in­
stances  to  pay  for  the  stuff,  and  all  this 
"adds  to the gaiety  of .nations  ”

Reports  from  Rio  and  Santos,  sent  in 
every  day,  almost  invariably  tell  of 
large  receipts  at those  ports,  the  aggre­
gate  on  Thursday  reaching  28.000  bags. 
No  decided  alteration 
in  the  state  ot 
affairs  prevailing 
in  this  market  last 
week  has  taken  place  during  the  past 
six  days, 
the  street  market  keeping 
fairly  steady.  Rio  No.  7  is quotable at 
6 3-16C  for  invoice  lots  The  stock  on 
hand, 
in  store  and  afl 'at,  aggregates 
1,296,202  bigs, against  1.161,537  bags  at 
the  same  ti  ne  last  year.  Litt e  is  doiug 
in  futures  and  the  general  t ine  ot  the 
speculative  market is quit t.  Mild grades 
are  moving 
in  a  limited  way  at  prices 
showing  practically  no  change.  Fair  to 
good  Cucuta 
East 
India  sorts  are  quiet  an 1  unchanged. 
Padang 
Interior,  25@25^c;  Mochas, 
l8@2IC.
The  tea  market  is  well  sustained  and 
the  demand  for  the  better  sorts  of  tea 
has  been  qu  te  sat  sfactory.  Offerings 
of  the  lower  grades  are' not  excessively 
large  and,  as  Loudon  rates  have  ad­
vanced  siigbtly,  the  situation  here 
is 
decidedly  firm.  L  ttle  or  nothing  was 
done  in  invoice  lots.

is  worth  8@8^c. 

interest 

In  sugar  more 

in  the  stock 
market  has  been  shown  than  in  the  real 
aiticie.  Stocks  went  up  like  a  rocket 
and  there  are  those  who  prophesy  that 
the  Standard  Oil  crowd  will  affiliate 
with  Arbuckle  and  gradually  oust the 
Havemeyers.  The  situation 
is  full  of 
interest  and  everybody  is watching  Wall 
Street.  There  are  rumors  to  the  effect 
that  a  settlement  had  been  arrived  a t; 
but  these  were  all  denied.  The  tone  ot 
the  market  is  firm  and  some  very  satis­
factory  transactions  in  the  market  were 
recorded.  List  prices  have  been  main­
tained  on  all  kinds  of  bards.

There 

is  a  very  decided  scarcity  of 
really  desirable  stock  of  domestic  rice, 
and  for  such  extreme  figures  have  been 
paid.  Foreign  sorts  have  sold  well, 
most  of  the  demand  being  for Japan. 
Prices  are  verv  firmly  adhered  to  and 
remain  practically  as  last  week.  There 
has  been  a  limited  sale  of  Patna  rice  at 
from  5@5>£c 
Domestic,  prime  to 
choice,  5>£@6X c.
The  molasses  market  has  been  rather 
quiet,  but  still  there  have  been  quite a 
good  many  orders  received  and  prices 
certainly  show  no  weakness  from  last 
week’s  figures.  Low  grades  have  not 
been  wanted  and  we  have  very  little  to 
report  in  this  in  the  way  of  sales  made 
Good  to  prime  Centrifugal, 
i6@26c ; 
blends,  28@32c.  Syrups  are  in  a  lairly 
active  distributing  demand  and  prices 
are  firmly  maintained.  Little  is  doing 
for expoit.  Prime  to fancy sugar svrup, 
2o@25c.  Supplies  are  not  large  and  any 
suduen  demand  would  clean  the  market 
up  pre>ty  thoroughly.  Corn  syrup  is  in 
slow  movement,  but  with  prices  un­
changed.
for  canned  goods  in  a 
in 
jobbirg  way 
fact,  it 
is  doubtful  whether  there  was 
ever a  more  active  market at  this season 
of  the  year  than  we  are  having  now. 
Light  stocks  are  repoited  from  every 
quarter,  one  large  dealer  claiming  that 
bis  sales  for  March  have  averaged  100 
cases  of  tomat ies  per  day.  Canners  are 
mighty  cautious  about  future  sales,  as 
the  outlook  for  an  increase  in  the  price 
of  cans 
is  very  brilliant  just  now,  and 
they  must  take  this  into  consideration. 
New  York  State  spot  corn  is  worth  6;@ 
70c;  futures,  65c.  There  is  very  1  tt e 
Maine  corn  here,  and  for  Maine  futures 
is  65c.  Tomatoes  are  strong 
the  rate 
and  offerings  continue  light,  with  New 
Jersey  at 85^87>4c.

is  simply  booming; 

The  demand 

Domestic  dried  fruits are  in  about  the 
same  condition  as  for  a  month  past 
Fancy  evaporated  apples  are  worth  10c. 
The  export  demand  for  this  fruit  bas 
fallen  off  somewhat  and  for  the  moment 
the  market  is  rather  heavy.  California 
dried  fruits  are  firm.  There  is  a  de­
cided  scarcity 
in  some  things  and  in 
others  the  price  has  advanced  so  rapid­
ly  that  sales  have  been  checked.

Lemons  and  oranges  are  in  about  the 
last  week,  although 
same  condition  as 
the  former  are  not  quite 
in  as  free 
movement.  Florida  oranges  are  very 
firm  and  are  not  in  excessive  supply. 
Rather  more  demand  has  sprung  up  for 
bananas,  and  they  are  now  quotable  at 
i @ i . 15  per  bunch  for  firsts  Florida 
russet  are  worth  $3^4.25  per  box,  as  to 
ize  California  navels,  $3@4  25.
There  is  a  fairlv  steady  demand  for 
medium  and  pea  beans.  Choice  mar­
rows  are  worth  $t.co@i  52^,  but 
it 
takes  very  fancy  stock  to  fetch  the  out 
side  figure.  Choice  pea.  Si  35.  A  sat­
isfactory  trade 
limas  is 
going  on  and  some  good  sized  lots  have 
changed  hands  at  about  $2.6o@2.65. 
is 

Fancy  fresh  creamery  butter 
in 
ghter  receipt  and  the  market  is  quite 
firm,  although  higher  figures  than  20c 
can  not  well  be  made.  -FiTsts, 
io@ 
qj^c ;  seconds,  lyyZ® 1 8 ;   fancy  imi- 
tinn  creamery  is  well  held  and  sells at 
7®i7?£c3wf  fancy;  L5@ i6c  for  firsts; 
3^©H4C'*for  seconds.  Western  dairy 
sells  lairly Swell  at  16c  for  finest  stock ; 
choice  rolls,  I4@i4^c.

in  California 

Th^re  is  a  fairly" satisfactory  amount 
of  business  going  forward 
in" Cheese 
and, jfwftb  the  market  pretty  closely 
leaned  up,' the  season  promises to  open 
n  pretty  good  shape.  .Fancy  fall  made, 
large?  size  colored . cheese,  12c;  small 
size  fancy  stocky  "Tr'^fiSi’tTTt'r  •  '

Arrivals  of  eggs jjre  coming  in  at  a 
great  rate  and  prtqes  bave  gone  down 
accordingly  to  about 
i3@ 14c  for  best 
i5,qbo  to  20,000  cases 
Western.  With 
per  day  coming  to band,  the  outlook 
is 
good  for  cheap  Easter  eggs.

Pot does  are  in  moderate  supply  and 
the  demand  is  good.  '‘Long  Island,  per 
bbl.,  $2@2  25 ;  Maine  Hebron,.  sack, 
$2.25 ;  - New  Bermudas,  per  bbl.,

“ Watch  the  Red. Bundles."

Prom the Advertiser.

Then  he  thought  about 

Over  at  the  little town  of  Robinson, 
111.,  is  a merchant  named  Murphy  who 
owes  bis\  success  to  a  roll  of  red  wrap 
ping  paper.  Murphy  has  the  biggest 
store 
in  the  town now  and  ought  to  be 
rich  in  a  few  years.  About  four  years 
ago  be  received  bis  customary  shipment 
of  wrapping  paper,  and  on  opening  it 
up,  found  it  to contain,  among tbe  usual 
rolls  of  manila,  one  big  roll  of  bright 
red  paper  which  he bad  not  ordered.  It 
had  gotten 
into  bis  shipment  by  mis­
take.  His  first  impulse  was  to  return 
it,  but  on  second  thought  it  occurred  to 
him  that  it  could  be  used,  even  if  it  was 
off  color. 
it 
some  more,  and  concljded  to  turn  it  to 
in  all  farming  com­
good  account.  As 
munities,  Saturday 
is  tbe  great  trading 
day  at  Robinson.  So  Murphy  advertised 
a  special  sale  for  the  next Saturday,  and 
stated  in  the  advertisement  that  all  pur­
chases  woi Id  be  wrapped  in  red  paper. 
"Watch  tbe  Red  Bundles!”   was  the 
bold  catch-line  of  his  advertisement. 
People  did  watch  tbe red bundles.  They 
were  so  conspicuous  that  it  looked  as 
though  everybody  had been to Murphy’s. 
The  farmer  coming  into  town  would  see 
so  many  red  wrapped  packages  being 
carried  around  that  he  was  instantly  re­
minded  of  Murphy’s  adveitisemert  and 
would  make  a  bee-line for the same store 
himself.  The  result  was  the  biggest 
Saturday 
in  the  history  of  Murphy’s 
business.  That  afternoon  he telegraphed 
to  Chicago  for  a  big  shipment  of  red 
wrapping  paper. 
I presume  that  it  cost 
him  a  trifle  more  than  the  plain manila, 
but 
it  has  built  up  a  big  business  for 
him.  Everything  you  buy  at  Murphy’s 
is  done  up  in  brilliant  red,  and  in  every 
advertisement  he  prints  appears  the  im­
pressive  line:  "Watch  the  Red  Bun­
dles.”

One  of  the  things  that  make life worth 
ivmg  is  to  remember and  recognize  the 
nistakes  of  yesterday.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

18
Shoes  and  Leather

Patronizing  Manufacturers  Who  Run 

Retail  Stores.

Should  retailers  patronize  shoe  manu­
facturers  who  retail  in  their own stores  a 
portion  of  their  production?

No,  unequivocally,  eternally,  no.  As 
“ Self-preservation  is  the  first law  of  na­
ture”   in  the  animal  world,  so  ought  it 
in  the  commercial  world,  and  the 
be 
shoe  merchant  who 
is  endowed  with 
brains  enough  to  think  just a little ought 
to  ask  himself,  is  be  in  business  for  the 
shoe  manufacturer's  benefit  or  for  bis 
own  pocket's  good?

As  I  view  the  question,  he  is  in  it  not 
for  pleasure  but  for  the  profits 
left 
after  all  expenses  are  paid— I  know 
If  he  is  similarly 
that’s  my  position. 
situated,  then 
let  him  by  all  means 
leave  the  manufacturer  of  a  line  that 
advertises  and  stamps  the  line  with  the 
it  be 
maker's  name  on 
“ Wallack, ”  
“ Rover,”  
“ Crawfish,”   or  even  any  ladies’  make, 
severely  alone,  because 
if  he  doesn’t 
learn  by  bitter  experience  (some 
he’ll 
people  only 
learn  that  way,  however) 
that  it  were  better  if  he  bad.

it,  whether 

“ Royal,”  

What  advantage  has  the  retailer  in 
line?  Some  free  ad­
handling  such  a 
vertising  possibly,  in  his 
local  news­
paper.  He  really  pays  for  it,  because 
the  maker  adds  that  onto  the  cost  of 
producing  the  shoe  and  the  retailer pays 
for  it  when  he  is  buying  the  goods. 
I 
am  buying  makes  of  goods  just  as  good 
as  any  special  manufacturer  can  make, 
and  am  selling  just  as  many—yes,  more 
than  any  of  the  special  stores  do.  Sup­
pose  I  buy  from  one  of  the  makers  of  a 
special 
line,  the  manufacturer  has  a 
lead-pipe  cinch,  in  the  expressive  slang 
of  the  day. 
If  I  handle  the  line  nicely 
this  season  and  expect  a  larger trade 
next  season,  buy  accordingly,  and  I 
don’t  sell  them,  when  Mr.  Maker’s  man 
comes  around  I ’m  barreled  up  (“ the 
unexpected 
you 
know).  “ I’m  sorry,  but  I  can’t  use  any 
of  your  goods  until  I reduce this stock.”  
Mr.  Salesman  goes  straight  down  the 
street  and  sells  a  business  rival,  and 
Mr.  Rival  doesn’t hesitate to tell  every­
body  he  knows  that  has  been  wearing 
that  special  make  that  he  now  has  the 
special 
line  and  what  I  have  are  last 
season’s  style  and  goods,  etc.,  ad  libi­
tum.

always  happens,”  

Then  take  the  other  side. 

If  I  am  in 
a  large  city,  which  is  the  case,  and  sell 
thousands  of  pairs  of  their goods,  it's 
only  a  question  of  time,  and  that  usu­
ally  a  very  short time,  before  they  open 
up  a  store  of  their  own.  No,  thank  you, 
we’ve  never  bandied  a  line  and  adver­
tised  Mr.  Manufacturer,  nor do  we  pro­
pose  to  as  long  as  we  know  ourselves.

Suppose  their  goods  are  good  fitters 
and  splendid  wearers—there are  others, 
and  lots  of  lines  that  wear  as  well,  fit as 
well,  look  and  sell  as  well,  and  you  can 
make  as  good  a  profit  on,  yes  and  often 
more,  and  that’s  what  we’re all  after.

As  for  handling  a  maker’s  line  with 
his  (the  maker’s)  name  stamped  on  the 
shoes,  in  my  humble  judgment  that’s 
suicidal  for any  progressive,  up-to-date 
dealer to do.

Let  me  relate  an  incident  in  the  his­
tory  of  A.  J.  Cammeyer,  the 
largest 
retail  shoe  dealer  in  the world,  therefore 
a  good  example  to  pattern  after:  Not 
many  years  ago  Mr.  Cammeyer  was  sole 
agent  in  the  city  of  New  York  fora  cer- 
tain'make  of  ladies*  shoes.  He  bad  that 
fact  announced 
large  signs  on  the 
front  and  inside  of  bis  store, and  adver­

in 

informed  that 

tised  it  extensively.  He  heard  that  the 
firm  who  made  these  goods  had  sold  a 
large  department  store.  Mr.  Cammeyer 
was  using  thousands  of  dollars’  worth  of 
their  goods,  and  he  went  down  to  the 
factory  and  asked  the  bead  of  the  firm 
if  the reported  rumor  was  correct.  He 
was 
it  was;  that  they 
thought  it  was  high  time  that  one  man 
should  not  have  the  exclusive  sale  in  a 
city  as  large  as  New York. 
‘ All right, ”  
Mr.  Cammeyer  is  reported  to have  said, 
“ let  me  have  a  list  of  all  goods  in  the 
works.  All  goods  that  are  not  cut  are 
hereby  countermanded;  all  goods  that 
are  in  process  of  making  make  and  de­
liver at  once.  When  they  are  finished 
send  me  a  statement  of  my  account  to 
date,  and  we’ll  not  buy  a  penny’s  worth 
from  you  in  the  future.”   Returning  to 
his  store  he  called  his  manager of  the 
ladies’  department  to his office and said: 
“ Take  down  every  sign  of  that  make 
(mentioning  the  name  of  the  makers) 
from  off  the  front  and  inside this  store; 
sell  every  pair  of  their  make  at  cost, 
and  put  a  P.  M.  on  them  at  that  selling 
price—from  to-day  on  A.  J.  Cammeyer 
sells  no  one’s  shoes  but  A.  J.  Cammey- 
er’s !”   And  he  has  lived  up  to that 
declaration,  and  it’s  a  pretty  good  dec­
laration,  too.  A  declaration  of  inde­
pendence  of  the  shoe  dealer—that  no 
manufacturer 
literally  own  his 
store  and  tell  him  what  be  shall  do  or 
sell.

shall 

No,  we’ve  never  bandied  any  of  the 
special  makers  who  advertise 
in  the 
magazines;  we  don't  propose  to,  and 
we  are  doing,  and  purpose  to  endeavor 
to  continue  to  do,  the  largest  shoe  busi­
ness,  as  we  have  always  done.

The question  is  asked:  “ What’s  the 
remedy?  Ah,  there’s  the  rub.”   Not 
at  a ll—I  will  say  that  I’ve  learned  a 
great  deal 
from  the  manufacturers’ 
stores  and  from  department  store  man­
agers,  and 
learned  as  much  more  from 
keeping  my  eyes  open  and  trying  to im­
prove  conditions,  and  I  propose  to  tell 
a little— yes,  enough  to  help  many  a  live 
man  who 
is  trying  to  find  out  what’s 
wrong—what  I ’ve  learned  by  an  experi­
ence  of  over  ten  years  in  the  retail  shoe 
business.  That  goods  well  bought  are 
half  sold 
is  an  old  maxim,  and  yet  75 
per  cent.,  if  not  more,  of  the  shoe  men 
who  own  shoe  stores  seem  to  forget  it. 
Another  favorite  saying  of  mine  is, 
“ Everything  goes  to  junk,”   wlficb  is  a 
more  forceful  way  of  saying  that  goods 
—particularly  shoes—are  not worth more 
than  they  will  bring. 
I  care  not  what 
they  originally  cost,  what  they  will  sell 
for  to-day 
is  what  they’re  worth,  and 
not a  penny  more.

In  the 

last  seven  years  I've  gone 
through  at  least  ten  shoe  stocks  of  men 
who  bad  failed  in  the  business,  or  had 
reached,  or  rather  their  business  had 
declined  to  that  point  where  they  were 
eating  up  the  profits  of  former  years.

Looking  at  the  stock,  store and  all  the 
conditions,  I  found  that  in  most  cases it 
was  a  good  deal  of  “ dry  rot.”   A  great 
many  different  makes  of  goods,  and  in­
variably  a 
lot  of  small  sizes  in  every 
make,  and  lots  of  narrow  lasts.  Whether 
they  were children’s  shoes,  men’s,  boys’ 
youths’  or  women’s,  it  was  always  the 
same  story,  just  as  if  they  couldn’t  get 
enough  of  the  piano  sizes,  so-called, 
because  the  woman,  man  or  child  that 
wore  such  sizes  must  do  nothing  but  sit 
down  and  play  the  piano  and ride when­
ever  they  went  out,  because  most hu­
mans  don’t  wear  A A  or  As  and  is  to 
women’s,  or  men’s  4  to  5^ — they 
might  have 
long  ago  when 
athletic-looking  men  and  women  were

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Rindge, Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.

12,14 and  16 Pearl Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Manufacturers aid 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.

HBe  sure  and  see  them  before  placing  your  order.

Goodyear 
Glove
Sporting Boots. 
Also  Duck 
Boots  for 
Hard  Wear..
Write
HIRTH, 
KRAUSE 
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Qeo.  H.  Reeder & Co.,

GRAND 
RAPIDS.

19 South  Ionia Street, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Agents  for  LYCOMING  and 
K EYSTO N E RUBBERS.  Our 
stock  is  complete  so we  can  fill 
your orders at once.  Also a line 
of U.  S.  R ubber Co.  Combina­
tio ns. 
Send  us  your  orders 
and  get  the  best  goods  made.
Our line of Spring Shoes are now 
on  the  road  with  our  travelers.
Be  sure  and  see  them  before 
placing your  orders  as we  have 
some "hot stuff” in them.

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that  be  is  yet  to  reach  that  solution,  as 
liquid  air  was  once  manufactured  at  an 
expense  of  $500 a  pint  and  be  has  al­
ready  made  it  at  an  expense  of  20  cents 
a  gallon.  Should  he  be  successful 
in 
this  there 
is  absolutely  no  limit  to  the 
possibilities;  and  we have  not  to  con­
sider  for  a  moment  the  advantage  of 
crossing  the  ocean  in  a  vessel  with  the 
encumbrance  of  coal-bunkers,  boilers 
and  smokestacks,  or  of  crossing  the 
continent  with  a  locomotive  with  water 
tank,  boiler  and  tender,  in order to  un­
derstand  the  practicable  uses  of  such  a 
discovery.  We  can  bring  it  nearer  home 
and  imagine  bow  every  house,  store  and 
factory  may  be  heated  and  lighted  by  a 
dynamo  run  by  an  engine  that  furnishes 
itself  with  power,  drawing 
its  supply 
from  the  atmosphere  without  expense, 
and  every  farmer  may  have  a  power 
that,  without  expense,  will  cut  his  feed, 
thresh  his  grain,  churn  bis  butter,  as 
well  as  light  and  heat  bis  house.

O.  E.  B.

Fit  Guaranteed.

From the Chicago Tribune.

Customer  (at  shirt  counter)— Here's  a 
shirt  I  bought  of  you  the  other  day.  It's 
too  small  for  m e;  I  tore  it  trying  to  put 
it  on.

Salesman—That's  too  bad,  but  you’ve 
spoiled  it,  so  we  can’t  take  it  back.  I’ll 
tell  you  what  you  can  do,  though :  Go 
over  to  the  drug  department  and  you 
can  get  a  small  bcttle  of  anti-fat  for  10 
cents.

Bound  To  Be  Mean.

“ There’s  one  thing,"  said  the  mis­
anthropic  wife,  “ that  I  must  say  about 
that  man  you  dislike  so  much.  He  al­
ways  gets  up  in  the  morning  and  cleans 
the  snow  off  in  a  public-spirited  way."
“ Yes,”   was the answer.  “ He couldn't 
miss  the  satisfaction  of  annoying people 
by  the noise bis  shovel  makes.”

FeedÌ'
Corn and Oats

Our  feed  is  all  made  at 
one mill. 
It is all ground 
by  the  same  man.  He 
thinks  he  knows  how  to 
do 
it  right  because  he 
has  been  doing  it  for  a 
dozen years.  We believe 
he  does  it  right  or  we 
would  get  another  man. 
Our  customers  evidently 
think  he does  it  right  be­
cause  they  keep  on  or­
dering, and our feed trade 
has  been  enormous  this 
winter  and  doesn’t  seem 
to 
let  up.  We  don’t 
want it  to  ‘ ‘let  up,’ ’  and 
your order will help along. 
Send  it  in.  W e’ll  give 
you  good  feed  at  close 
prices.

t Valley  City 
I Milling  Co.,
I
i Sole Manufacturers of  “LILY WHITE,” 

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

“The flour the best cooks use.”

below  par  in  most  people’s  estimation— 
that  was  before  I  was  born,  so  I  don't 
know  anything  of  it.

A  few  years  ago  I  was  speaking  to  a 
most  successful  shoe  buyer,  and  told 
him  that  I  found  that  4,  4y2  and  5  were 
the  best  sellers 
in  women’s  shoes;  he 
not  only  agreed  with  me,  but  said: 
“ We  sell  twenty-four  pairs  of  each  of 
those  sizes  to  one  pair  of  2s  or  7s” — put 
this  in  your  pipe  and  smoke 
it,  my 
friends,  or  put  your  sizes  that  you  sell 
down  with  every  sale,  and  you’ll  find 
out  that  you  can  do  more  business  with 
less  stock.

Let  the  shoe  dealer  “ ginger”   up, 
watch  wbat’s  selling  and  find  out  why 
such  a  line  isn't  selling  or  being  sold, 
and  do  not  rest  until  that  lot  or those 
lots  say  good-bye  to  the  store.

Eternal  vigilance  is  the  price  of  a 
clean  shoe  stock.  Keep  your  store  look­
ing  clean  and  bright,  therefore  attract­
ive  and  inviting.  Make 
it  a  part  and 
parcel  of  your  business  to do  personal 
advertising—be  a  “ joiner;’ ’ that  is,  be­
come a  member  of  different fraternal  so­
cieties  and  organizations  and  identify 
yourself  with  the  people  of  your village, 
town  or  city,  and  you  need  have  no  fear 
of  the  exclusive  store,  because  you  will 
be  the  proprietor  of  the  store and  the 
manufacturers  are  usually  represented 
by  a  manager,  who barely,  if  ever,  takes 
the  same  interest  as  the  proprietor  does 
or ought  to.

Remember,  you  can't  sell  all the shoes 
that  are  sold;  if  you  get  your  share  of 
trade  you  ought  to  be—yes,  must  be— 
satisfied.

I’ve  found 

In  conclusion  I  would  say,  all  things 
come  to  him  who  waits,  yet  hustles 
while  he  waits.  This 
is  particularly 
true  in  the  shoe  line. 
it  to 
be  the  only  recipe  for  business  success, 
which  I  can  modestly  say  I’ve  helped 
to  contribute  to.  To  my  fellow  mer­
chants  all  over  this broad  land  and  fel­
low  shoe  retailers,  I  say,  “ Go  thou  and 
do  likew ise!"—See  More  in  Boots  and 
Shoes  Weekly.

A  Valuable  Domestic.

From the Chicago Post.

“ Yes;  we  pay  that  girl  $6 a  week, 
but  she’s  worth  ever  cent  of  it,"   said 
the  experienced  bousekepeer.

“ Six  dollars!”   cried  the  novice. 
‘ * Why,  you  can  get  as  good  as  you  want 
for $4  or $4.50. ’ ’
“ Oh,  I  don’t  know,”  returned  the ex­
“ I  think  this 
perienced  housekeeper. 
one  saves  me  more  than  the  excess. 
She’s  been  flirting  with  the  plumber  all 
winter,  and  now  she’s  just  beginning  to 
smile  on  the  iceman.”

The  pawnbroker  who  takes  the  most 
in  bis  business  has  the  least 

interest 
principle.

Some  Facts  About  the  Condensation 

of  Air.
W ritten fo r th e T badkbhak.

The  March  issue  of  McClure’s  Mag­
interesting  ac­
azine  contains  a  very 
count  of  an 
interview  of  the  corres­
pondent  with  Charles  E.  Tripler,  of 
New  York  City,  and  a  visit  to  his  lab­
oratory,  the  purpose  being  to  enquire 
into  the  particulars  of  Mr.  Tripler's  ex­
periment  in manufacturing and utilizing 
1  quid  air.  As  Mr.  Tripler  is  the  first 
man  who  ever  ran  an  engine  with liquid 
air,  as  well  as  the  first  to  invent  and 
patent  a  machine  for  its  manufacture, 
is,  as  a  matter  of  course,  the  very 
he 
best  of  authority  on 
•  subject  that  is 
being  considered  by  the  scientific  men 
of  the  world,  and  one  that  promises  to 
be  not  only  of  interest  but  of  practical 
value  to  nearly  every  person 
in  the 
civilized  world.

The  process  of  the  manufacture  of 
liquid  air consists  of  compressing  air 
and  producing  cold 
in  the  machine 
until  800  cubic  feet  of  air  at  ordinary 
pressure  becomes  a  single  cubic  foot  of 
liquid  at  a  temperature of  312  deg.  be­
low  zero;  and,  as  a  single  cubic  foot  of 
ice  may  be  converted  by  the  use  of  heat 
(producing  a  temperature  of  212  deg. 
above  zero)  into  steam  of  great  expan­
sive  power  and  capable  of running great 
engines,  so  a  single  cubic  foot or  gallon 
of  liquid  air,  which  by  the  natural  heat 
of  our  atmosphere  would  be  rapidly 
changed  to  its  natural  state,  would  have 
equally  great  expansive  power  and 
capabilities.

The  liquid  air  itself  may  be  handled 
as  safely  as  a  piece  of  ice  or  a  jug  of 
water,  and  although  there 
is  always  a 
dense  white  mist  arising  from  it,  it  is 
perfectly  harmless  unless confined,  when 
at  once 
it  becomes  as  much  of  a  giant 
as  would  a  boiler of  boiling  water  with­
out  an  escape  valve,  and 
it  has  been 
used  to  run  a  ten  borse  power  engine 
exactly  the  same  as  steam.

The  most  wonderful  part of  it  still  re­
mains  to  be  told,  which  is that, although 
it  takes  power  to  manufacture  liquid 
air,  it  has  been  proved  that  there  is 
power  enough  in  three  gallons  of  liquid 
air  to  manufacture  ten  more;  that  is  to 
say,  an  engine  can  be  run  for  the  man­
ufacturing  of 
liquid  air  with  no  other 
power than  30  per  cent,  of  the  manufac­
tured  product,  which  is  more  wonderful 
than  the  wildest  dreams  of  the perpetual 
motion  crank.

Now,  with  these  two  facts  before  us, 
viz.,  liquid  air can  be  made  and  liquid 
air  can  be  utilized,  and  that  safely, 
there  is  but  one  other  to  be  solved—that 
is  to  manufacture 
it  without  expense. 
is  very  firm  in  the  belief
Mr.  Tripler 

We make the best  Sprayers  on  earth.  Get  our  circular  and  prices  before 

buying elsewhere.

Wm.  Brummeler  &  Sons, 5 E K S 5 S C S .

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We  Realize

That  in  competition  more  or  less  strong

Our Coffees and  Teas

M u s t  excel  in  Flavor  and  Strength  and  be 
constant  Trade  Winners.  All  our  coffees 
roasted  on  day  of  shipment.

T he J.  M .  B our Co., 

Jefferson Avenue,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Ontario S t., Toledo, Ohio.
Ij u u l o j u u l o j u u u u u l o j u u u u u u u u u l

COFFEES
MAKE  BUSINESS

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W AIT  FO R   T H E   W IN N ER

T he  A tm osphere  o f the  S tore.

Written for the  T ra d esm a n.

A  marked  contrast  is  noticeable  in 
the  atmosphere  of  different  stores.  By 
atmosphere  we  mean,  not  the  gaseous 
mixture  of  oxygen  and  nitrogen,  but 
rather  the  moral  or  physical  medium 
which  fills  every  establishment  as  really 
and  completely  as  the  material  air.

One  store  always  has 

its  crowd  of 
loafers.  They  are  a  nuisance  and  the 
proprietor  knows  it and  often  wishes  he 
were  rid  of  them.  He  sometimes  gets 
desperate  and  threatens  to  “ fire  the 
whole  shooting  match.”   He  puts  forth 
no  effort  to  make  them  welcome  and  is 
even  cross  and  surly  to  these  most  fre­
quent  visitors;  but  all  to  no  purpose. 
Another  store,  perhaps  the  very  next 
one, is  equally  well  warmed  and  lighted 
The  proprietor  is  genial,  the  clerks  are 
courteous.  Seats  are  provided  and  any 
person  who  has  to  wait  a  long  or  short 
time  is  made  welcome.  No  one,  unless 
it  be  an  occasional  “ drunk,”   is  ever 
told  to  “ move  on.”   There  are  no  signs 
reading,  “ Loafing  not  allowed  here,’ 
yet  there  is  no  loafing. 
If  you  were  to 
ask  one  of  the  habitues  of  the  one  place 
why  he  never  spends  his  evenings at the 
other  store  his  answer  would  likely  be 
vague  and  unsatisfactory.  He  could  not 
analyze  his  feeling  of  attraction  to  the 
one  store  nor  bis  repugnance  toward  the 
other.  All  that 
investigation  can  dis 
cover  is  that  the  atmosphere  of  the  one 
is  congenial,  while  that  of  the  other  is 
not. 
It  may  be  mentioned  that  a  loafer 
can  no  more  live  in  a  brisk,  thorough 
going  business  air  than  human  lungs 
can  breathe 
fumes  of  burning 
sulphur.

the 

Take  another  illustration:  A  girl  who 
has  had  very  defective  home  training 
goes  to  work  in  a  certain  store.  She 
a  happy-go-lucky  mortal  by  nature  and 
she  does  not  change  her  ways.  Fre 
quently  she  is half  or  three-quarters  of 
an  hour  late  in  the  morning.  Besides 
being  careless  in  her  personal  appear 
anee  her  work  is done  in  a slipshod,  dis 
orderly  fashion. 
Innumerable  mistakes 
in  computation,  measuring  goods  and 
making  change  are  traced  to  her.  Re 
proof  has  no  effect.  Finally  the  pro 
prietor,  although  a  very  lax  disciplin 
arian,  can  endure  it  no  longer  and  dis 
misses her.  It  chances  that  her  next  sit 
uation  is  in  the  store  of  a  very  different 
sort  of  business  man.  Very  soon 
great  change  is  apparent.  She  is  in  her 
place  attending  to  her  duties  promptly 
every  morning.  She  dresses  neatly  and 
has  become  more  accurate and painstak 
ing.  Now  this  change  is  not  due  to  any 
lesson 
losing  her  old  posi 
tion.  She  lives  at  home  and  works  for 
spending-money,  so  she  was  not  very 
sorry  to  lose  her  old  place  nor  particu 
larly  glad  to  get  another.  There has 
been  no  real  transformation  of  charac 
ter ;  that  would  require  years  to  effect. 
It  is  not  as  the  result  of  reprimands that 
she  is  doing  differently.  After  explain­
ing  her  duties  to  her  carefully  in  the 
beginning  the  proprietor  has  bad  little 
to  say  in  regard  to  them,  and  that  lit le 
more  in  the  way  of  courteous  suggestion 
than  of  reproof.  The  explanation  of 
it 
all  is that  the  atmosphere  of  the  two 
stores  differs;  loose  methods  are  as  im­
possible 
in  the  one  as  they  are  natural 
in  the  other.

learned  by 

The  creation  of  a  new—and,  so  to 
speak,  correct—atmosphere  in  place  of 
an  old,  incorrect  one  is  a  difficult  mat­
ter and  one  requiring  time  and  unceas 
ing  effort.

A  merchaut  feels,  perhaps,  that  the 
in  his  store  system  is  a

greatest  fault 

lack  of  order and  neatness.  The  stock 
gets  badly  mixed  and  goods  do  not show 
up  to  advantage.  Dust,  dirt  and  con­
fusion  reign  supreme. 
It  sometimes 
even  happens  that  goods  can  not  be 
found  when  wanted  and  the  sale  and  the 
time  spent 
in  search  are  both  lost. 
Maybe  he  will  go  to  his  store  some 
morning,  order  a  general  cleaning  up, 
lay  down  a  rigid  rule  that  things  must 
be  kept  in  their  place,  display  consid­
erable  irritation  at  the  dirt  and disorder 
and  proclaim  a  sudden  total  change.  If 
he  goes  at  it  in  this  way  all  bands  will 
gain  the 
impression  that  “ the  boss  is 
having  a  cranky  spell,”   and  the  im­
provement be  tries  to  inaugurate  will  be 
shortlived. 
Id  a  few  days  things  will 
ipse  into  their  old  ruts.
Bnt,  instead,  let  him  undertake  the 
change  thoughtfully  and  systematically 
and  arrange  not  only  for  general  clean­
ing,  but  for  the  keeping 
in  order  of 
every  portion  of  the  stock.  Let  him 
divide  the  stock  into  sections  and  make 
each  assistant  responsible  for  one  sec- 
should  be  understood  that 
ion. 
when  any  clerk  has  a  few  minutes' 
lei­
sure 
it  is  to  be  spent  in  tidying  up  the 
tore  somewhere;  and let  each  one  know 
cleatly  just  toe  specific  work  he 
is  to 
do. 
If,  after  getting  the  system  under 
way,  the  merchant  exerts  a  constant 
pressure  sufficient  to  keep  it  going  he 
will  find  in  a  few  months that  bis  store 
has  the  desired  atmosphere  of  neatness 
and  order.

It 

As a  general  rule  the  atmosphere  of  a 
store  corresponds  quite  closely  to  the 
personality  of  its  ruling  spirit,  whether 
be  be  the  owner  of  the  establishment  or 
some one  hired  to  conduct  it.  But  there 
are  exceptions. 
Sometimes  the  pro­
prietor  or  manager  fails  to  make  his 
personality  felt  as 
it  should  be.  His 
methods  of  work,  his treatment  and  care 
of  customers,  all  of  his  business  ways, 
are  correct  so  far as  he  himself  is  con­
cerned,  but  they  are  not  reflected  in  his 
employes.  This  often  results  from  his 
trying  to  do  too  much  himself.  A  man 
who  started  with  a  small  beginning  and 
has  built  up  a 
large  and  flourishing 
business  naturally  feels  that  be  can  do a 
great  many  things  better  than  any  one 
else  and  makes  the  mistake  of  spending 
his  time  and  strength  attending  to a 
multitude  of  details  when  he  might 
much  better  expend  his  energies 
training  and  directing  his  subordinates 
and  in  the  general  management  of  his 
affairs. 
If  only  one  boy  is  employed  it 
pays  to  train  him.  When  the  number  of 
employes  is  large  and  the  pay roll heavy 
it  becomes  absolutely  necessary  that  the 
working  force  be  so  educated  and  di 
rected  that  the  highest  possible  effi 
ciency  will  be  realized.  The  old  adage 
that  “ A  good  boss  does  half  the  work”  
is,  in  its  way,  true;  but  he  does 
it  by 
his  skillful  management,  by  instilling 
correct  methods  and  by  enforcing  the 
thorough  performance  of  duty  by  each 
man  under  him,  rather  than  by  trying 
personally  to  perform  the  lion's  share 
of  the  labor. 

Q u i l l o .

Was  Willing  To  Be  Neighborly.

The  Rev.  Mr.  Goodley— And  do  you 

love  your  neighbors  as  yourself?

Mrs.  Scroggs—Well,  I  can’t  say that  I 
do,  but  I’d  be  willing  to  try  if  she'd 
return  that  last  pound  of  coffee  she  bor­
rowed  from  us.

Has  the  Artistic  Touch.

“ I understand that vour friend is fitting 
in  at  ictly  artistic  man­

up  bis  room 
ner. ’ ’

“ 1  guess  it  must  be  so,”   replied  the 
“  Every  time  I  sit 
it  goes  to 

heavy  young  man. 
on  a  piece  of 
pieces.”

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as the

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

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

and Treasurer, C. W. A lle n  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 
Grand Counselor, J. J. E v a n s. Ann Arbor; Grand 
Secretary, G. S. V alm o r e, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, W. S. W e s t, Jackson.

dent Association.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  B o y d  P a n t lin d ,  Grand Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, G eo.  F.  Ow en,  Grand 
Rapids.
Lake Saperlor Commercial Travelere* Club.
President, F. G. T b u sc o t t, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F. W ixson,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

H.  A.  Hazen  has  gone  on  the  road 
for  the  piano  department  of  Edward 
Germain,  of  Saginaw.

O.  L.  Palmer, 

the 
Palmer  Shirt  Co.,  is  now  on  the  road 
for  the  Sheboygan  Knitting  Co.

formerly  with 

Mrs.  E.  R.  Powell  has  leased  the 
Stanton  House  to  John  Hansen,  of  the 
firm  of  Hansen  &  Jorgensen,  dealers  in 
general  merchandise.

Ionia  Standard :  A.  L  Bush  goes  on 
the  road  again  for  the  Pease  Iron  Co., 
of  Cincinnati,  the  firm  for  which  be 
previously  worked  for  many  years.

Fred  L.  Slaght,  for  several  years  past 
book-keeper  for  the  Fourth  National 
Bank,  has  engaged  to  travel  for  the 
Lambertville  Rubber  Co.  His  territory 
comprises  Northern  Michigan 
and 
Northern  Wisconsin.

Cbas.  L.  Stevens,  who  has  covered 
Michigan  for  the  past  thirteen  years  for 
Weed,  Colburn  &  Co.,  of  Toledo,  has 
engaged  to  travel  for  R.  E.  Bonar  & 
Co.,  manufacturers  of  bats  and  caps  at 
New  York  City.  Mr.  Stevens  will  take 
with  him  to  his  new  posiiton  the  con­
fidence  and  respect  of  all  with  whom  be 
has  dealt  during  the  past  dozen  years, 
and  as  bis  new  connection  is  a  larger 
house than  the  old  one and manufactures 
many  of 
its  own  goods,  be  confidently 
believes he  will  be  in  a  position  to  ac­
cord  his  customers  better  service than 
he  has  been  able  to  heretofore.

Detroit  Free  Press:  The  landlords 
of  the  city  have  come  to the  conclusion 
that  the  formation  of  so  many  trusts  is 
injuring  their  business,  but  they  see  no 
remedy  for  it.  They  cite  the  formation 
of  the  tobacco  trust  as  a  good  example. 
This  consolidation  of  a  score  or  more  of 
tobacco  plants  all  over  the 
country 
means  the  withdrawal  from  the  road  of 
several scores of traveling men.  The  lat­
ter are the  chief  support  of  all  the  good 
commercial  hotels 
in  the  country  that 
operate  the  year  around,  and  the  with­
drawal  of  this  class  of  trade  is  going  to 
seriously  cut 
into  the  receipts  of  the 
hostelries.  The  loss  of  the  travelers 
affects  the  railroads  also,  and this  is  one 
of  the  rare  cases  where  one  big  monop 
is  given  a  hard  blow  by  another. 
oly 
Local  traffic 
is  always  going  on,  but 
long  hauls  of  travelers  are  also  an  im­
portant  item  in  the  passenger  receipts 
of  the  railroad.  The  formation  of  the 
sugar,  the  cracker,  glass  manufactur­
ing,  wire  nail  and  other  trusts  of  man­
ufacturing 
interests  means  the  loss  to 
thousands  of  traveling  men  of  their 
jobs,  and,  incidentally,  to the hotels  and 
railroads  of  their  trade.

New  Orleans  Times-Democrat: 

“ I 
used  to  work  for  a  collection  agency  in 
one of  the  Northern  cities,”   said  a  lady 
perfumery  drummer  who  is  now  at  an

uptown  hotel,  ” and  my  experience  was 
tolerably  exciting.  My  duty  was  to  sit 
at  a  rolltop  desk  in  the  office  and 
im­
personate  the  proprietor.  Light  work, 
did  you  say?  Just  you  wait.  All  day 
long  men  would  come 
in  red-eyed  to 
lick  the  boss. 
'Where’s  the  fellow  that 
sends  out  these  blackmailing  letters?’ 
was  the  usual  salutation.  Then  I  would 
smile  sweetly  and  say,  ‘ I  am  the  pro­
prietress;  what can  I  do  for  you?’  At 
that  the  visitor  would  look  dazed,  mut­
ter  things  under  his  breath,  and  walk 
off.  Occasionally  the  real  proprietor 
would  peep  through  an  inside  window 
to  see  whether  I  was  still  alive,  for  I 
must  admit  our  letters  were  calculated 
to  give  a  man  the  homicidal  mania. 
Things  went  along  all  right  for  nearly  a 
month.  Then  one  day  a 
little  wiry 
in  carrying  a  thick  cane. 
chap  walked 
‘ Where’s  the  boss?’  he  said. 
I gave  the 
‘ Don't  believe  a 
usual  fairy  story. 
word  of 
it,’  he  replied,  ‘ still  I  can’t 
beat  a  woman. ’  He  thought  a  while, 
and  something  in  his  eye  made  me  feel 
creepy. 
‘ I’ll  have  to  take  it  out  on  the 
fixtures,'  he  said, 
finally,  and,  upon 
my  word,  he  broke  up  every  blessed 
thing 
in  the  shop.  He  did  it  quickly 
and  systematically,  and  you  never  saw 
such  an  awful  ruin! 
I  yelled  murder, 
but 
it  did  no good,  and  be  went  right 
ahead.  As  a  wind-up  he  smashed  the 
chandelier  and  bade  me  a  polite  good- 
day.  When  the  proprietor  came  in  he 
had  a  fit. 
into 
the  perfumery  business.  The  work  is 
harder,  but 
is  much  less  trying  on 
it 
one’s  nerves.”

It  was  after  that  I  went 

in 

A  drummer  who  travels 

in  his  own 
special  train  of  cars  has  secured  no 
small  amount  of  advertising 
the 
West.  According  to  the  New  York 
Morning  Telegraph,  bis  name  is  Felix 
Carr,  and  be  hails  from  New  York.  He 
concluded  that  it  would  be  a  scheme  to 
represent  several  firms,  instead  of  one, 
and  after  making  the  desired  connec­
tions,  on  a  commission  basis,  be  leased 
a  Wagner  car  and  two  baggage  coaches. 
Space  in  the  Wagner  was  set  aside  for 
office  purposes  and  a  rolltop  desk,  type 
writer,  letter-press  and  other  necessary 
furniture  were  purchased.  The  office 
was  also  provided with table,  easy chairs 
and  all  the  popular  magazine  current 
literature. 
The  drawing  rooms  were 
used  as  sleeping  compartments,  and 
every  convenience  was  provided  for  the 
comfort  of  Mr.  Carr  and  his  assistants, 
and  also  his  visitors.  The  baggage 
coaches  were  fitted  with  counters  and 
shelving  for  the  display  of  the  various 
lines  bandied,  space  being  reserved  for 
kitchen,  dining  room  and  buffet.  The 
novelty  of 
the  scheme  “ caught  on”  
with  the  country  merchants,  who  were 
notified  several  days  in  advance  of  the 
time  of  arrival  of  the  train,  and  the 
visit  of  Mr.  Carr  was  always  good  for  a 
half-column  story  or  more  in  the  local 
papers.  The  expenses  of  this  enterpri­
sing drummer are over $1,500  per  month. 
He  has  been  out  three  months  and  pro­
poses  to  stay  out  three  months  longer. 
He  estimates  bis  six  months’  expenses 
at  $10,000,  and says  that  be  will  certain­
ly  sell  over  $250,000  worth  of  goods, 
which,  at  10  per  cent,  commission,  will 
net  him,  over  and  above  all  expenses, 
a  profit of  $15,000  for half a year’s work. 
Now  that  Mr.  Carr’s  experiment  has 
is  said  that  other 
proven  successful,  it 
traveling  salesmen  will 
the 
scheme. 
Two  well-known  drummers 
have  decided  to  pool  their  interests and 
are  negotiating  with  the  Pullman  com­
pany  for  a  special  train  which,  to  use 
their  own 
simply 
“ stun”   the  countrymen.

expression,  will 

adopt 

M ost  Fatal  M istake  a  Salesm an  Can 

Make.

intact;  it 

Of  all  the  errors  that  a  salesman  can 
make  the  most  fatal  is  to  borrow  money 
from  his  customers.  The  most  dire 
necessity  can  hardly  furnish  an  excuse 
for  doing  so. 
It is  enough  to  ask  a  cus­
tomer  to  cash  a  check  received  from  the 
bouse,  which  can  be  added  to  the  day’s 
deposit  at  the  bank  and  thus  keep  the 
cash  balance 
is  presuming 
upon  good  nature  and  putting  a  man  in 
a  position  that  may  work  harm  to  his 
interests  to  ask  a  customer  to  cash  a 
draft  upon  the  bouse,  even  although 
there  is  no  danger  of  its  being  dishon­
ored ;  it 
is  business  suicide  to  negoti­
ate  a  straight  loan.  Merchants  have  no 
money  to 
loan  to  their  business  asso­
ciates,  and,  while  probably  the  greater 
number  will  help  a  salesman  with whom 
their  relations  are  particularly  cordial 
with  seeming  willingness,  they  will  re­
member  very  distinctly  the  date  upon 
which  payment  was  promised,  and  if 
the  money  is  not  forthcoming  promptly, 
will  have  a  growing  feeling  of  uneasi­
ness  until  they  get  it—a  feeling  that  re­
turns  when  the  salesman  calls  thereafter 
and  the  possibility  that  be  may  want 
another  favor  of  the  kind presents itself.
“ To  him  that  hath  shall  be given, 
and  from  him  that  hath  not  shall  be 
taken  away  even  that  which  he  hath,”  
reads  the  old  law,  and  it  nowhere  finds 
better exemplification  than  in the matter 
of  personal  credit. 
It  is  the  man  who 
has  money,  whose  manner  and  bearing 
indicate that  he  is  in  no  need  of  favors, 
to  whom  they  come  most  readily;  but 
into  hard  straits  and  once 
let  him  get 
show  himself  to  be 
in  need  of  funds, 
his  well-fed  and  well-groomed  appear­
ance  avails  him  nothing.  He  is  ever 
after  a  man 
in  need,  liable  to  call  for 
assistance and  to be  kept at  a  distance. 
Better  is  it  for  a  salesman  to  wire  home 
or  to  friends  not  upon  bis  list  of  cus­
tomers,  to  borrow  from  a  fellow  sales­
man,  to  "stand  off”   the  hotel-keeper 
and  go  out  of  town  upon  the bumpers  of 
a  freight  train than to strain bis relations 
with  a  customer  whom  he  wants  to  sell 
in  the  future  and  to  risk  the  loss  of  his 
friendly  regard.

I  had  not  expected  to  write  anything 
upon  this  subject,  but I have just learned 
of  so flagrant  a  breach  of  good  business 
manners 
in  this  regard,  by  a  salesman 
for  another  bouse  whom  I  know  and 
like,  that  I  feel  impelled  to  do  so.  The 
loan  (a  considerable  amount)  was  made 
nearlv  six  years  ago,  I  am  told,  and  the 
greater  portion  of 
it  remains  still  un­
paid.  The  occurrence  has  cost  the  man 
one  position,  and  if  the  circumstances 
are  as  related  to  me  he  stands  in  a  fair 
wav  to  lose  another  should  the  facts 
reach  his  employer’s  ears.  He 
is  a 
bright  fellow  and  a  good  salesman,  and 
it  would  seem  to  the  ordinary  observer 
that he  would  realize  the  gravity  of  the 
situation  and  find  some  way  to  pay  up 
this  old  score.

It 

It 

“ There  are three  good  friends,”   says 
Poor  Richard,  “ an  old  wife,  an  old  dog 
and  ready  money."  An  old  traveler, 
now  nearing  the  last  inn  on  his journey, 
puts  it  still  stronger. 
“ I  will  tell  you 
one  thing  that  you  will  do  well  to  re­
member,”   said  he,  “ and  that 
is  that 
there  is  nothing  that  will  stick by  a man 
in  his  old  age  but  ready  money. 
is 
bis  best  friend  at  any  time,  but  when 
he  gets  old  there  is  nothing  that  will  so 
befriend  him. 
insures  him  a  home, 
no  matter  what  happens;  it  keeps  him 
from  being  a  burden  upon  bis  children, 
enables  him  to  be  of  use  to  them  when 
he  can  not aid  them  in  any  other  way, 
and  will  procure  him  all  the  rational 
enjoyments  and  comforts  to  the  end." 
is  probably  worth  $200,000,  the  re­
He 
sult  of  his 
individual  efforts,  and  has 
earned  the  right  to  speak  with  author­
ity.  “ I  never  spend  money  without  try­
ing  to  get  its  worth,"  he  said. 
“ I  am 
not mean  or stingy— I  try  not  to  be—but 
whatever  I  get,  whether  it  be  pleasure, 
clothes  or  anything  else,  I  see  that  it  is 
worth  what  I  pay  for  it,  and  unless  it 
is  something  that  I  can  afford  I  don't 
get  it.”

Our  newest  salesman  is  a  man  of  the 
same  kidney.  He  comes  from  a  decay­
ing  bouse  that  are  loose  in  their  money 
matters.  After  he  had  been  lectured  by 
everybody  else,  I  took  him  to  the  credit 
man  for a  final  talk  before  starting  out, 
and  be  came  back  to  me  after 
“ I 
like  the  way  things  are  done  here,  and 
the  way  men  are  paid,”   said  he. 
“ Where  I  came  from  the  boys  had  open 
accounts  and  drew  when  they  pleased, 
and  some  of  them  were  always  over­
drawn. 
like  this  business  of  paying 
once  a  month  and  the  way  credits  are 
looked 
It 
don't  pay  to be  loose  in  money  matters, 
of  all  things. ”  

into  before  firms  are  sold. 

R e x .

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privates to  a  general.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Drugs—Chemicals
MICHIQAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1898
F.  W. R. P i b b t ,  Detroit 
•  Dec. 31,1899 
A. C. Sch u m ach er,  Ann  Arbor 
Dec. 31,1900
Gio. Gu n d r c m ,  Ionia  - 
L. E. R e y n o l d s, St.  Joseph 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
H k n b t  Hu h ,  Saginaw  .
  Dec. 31,1902 
.

—  

- 

.

President, G eo.  G u n b r u m ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Sc h u m a ch er, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, Henby  H eim, Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.
Star Island—June 26 and 27.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—N ot. 7 and 8.

STATE PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.
President—J. J. Soubwine,  Escanaba. 
Secretary, Chas. F. Mann, Detroit.
Treasurer  J ohn D.  Mu ir, Grand Rapids.

T he  Preparations  Used 

opathy.

in  Home­

Tbe  principal  preparations  used 

in 
homeopathic  pharmacy  are  tinctures, 
called  mother  tinctures,  liquid  attenua­
tions  from  these,  called  dilutions,  and 
triturations 
in  powder  form,  which  are 
attenuations  of  the  crude  drug  with 
milk-sugar. 
All  other  preparations, 
much  used  and  recognized by tbe United 
States  Pharmacopoeia,  such  as  fluid  ex­
tracts, 
infusions,  wines,  etc.,  do  not 
have  a  part  in  homeopathic  pharmacy. 
A  drug  may  be  given  homeopathically 
in  any  of  these  forms,  however.

The  tinctures  vary  from  those  of  the 
U.  S.  P.  With  few  exceptions  they  are 
uniform  in  strength,  in  tbe  new Homeo 
pathic  Pharmacopoeia  being 
io  per 
cent.,  while  those  of  the  U.  S.  P.  are 
made 
in  the  strength  considered  to  be 
the  best  for  each  particular  drug.  They 
are  made  where  possible  from  the  un­
dried,  fresh  plant,  the  plant  moisture 
being  considered  as  a  part  of  the  mens­
truum.  They are  more  difficult  to  make, 
and  receive  more  care  and  study 
in 
their  preparation.

The  dilutions  are  all  made  in  deci­
mal  proportions,  and  are  termed  dilu­
tions  or attenuations.  Only  one  grade 
of  dilution  is  now  recognized,  the  deci­
mal,the centesimal not  being  recognized 
by  tbe  new  Homeopathic  Pharmaco 
poeia.  The  tincture  has  a  drug  strength 
of  i  to  io,  and  is,  therefore,  called  the 
first  dilution  or 
ix,  tbe  second  being 
made  from  this  by  taking  one  cubic 
centimeter  of  the  tincture  and  nine 
cubic  centimeters  of  the  menstruum. 
This  is  called  2x.  The  third,  or  3x,  is 
made 
in  the  same  manner,  taking  one 
part  of  tbe  2x  and  nine  parts  of  mens­
truum,  and  so  on.

Triturations  are  mixtures of medicinal 
substances  with  sugar  of  milk.  This 
substance  is  of  a  hard  crystalline  char­
is  of  much  aid  in  comminu­
acter  and 
tion,  which  process 
is  carried  out  by 
triturating  in  a  mortar  for  some  hours. 
The  newness  of  a  drug  is  considered  of 
much  importance.

Tincture  triturations  are  made  by  ab­
sorbing  tinctures  in  sugar  of  milk.  At­
tenuations  of  the  above  may  be made by 
tbe  same  method  as  dilutions  of  tinc­
tures,  sugar  of  milk  being  substituted 
in  place  of  a  menstruum.

Tbe  physician,  as  a  rule,  administers 
bis  own  medicines,  and  dosage  varies 
to  a  marked  extent  with  different  physi­
cians,  some  using  for  liquids  exclusive­
ly  tinctures,  which  they  dilute  with 
water.  Others  use  dilutions  of  varying 
degrees  of  strength  either  diluted 
in 
water  or  by  medicating  disks.  These 
disks  are  cone-shaped,  made  from  cane- 
sugar and  egg  albumen,  about six  m illi­
meters 
in  diameter,  and  each  is  sup­
posed  to absorb  about two minims.  Most 
of  tbe  chemical  salts  are  administered

in  the  form  of  triturates  and  powders, 
one,  two,  or  three  grains  to  the  dose; 
or  in  the  form  of  trituration  tablets.

The  pellet  or  globule,  which  has  so 
long  been  the  distinctive  method  of  ad­
ministering  homeopathic  medicines  is 
now  little  used  by  the  physician. 
is 
still  used  in  domestic  practice,  but  even 
here  is  fast  being  displaced  by  the  disk 
and  the  tablet.

It 

T he  D rug  M arket.

Opium— Is  dull  and  weak.  Conditions 
are  favorable  for  a  large  crop  and  this 
is  tbe  cause  of  the  lower  prices.

Morphine—Is  dull  and  tending  lower.
Quinine— The  market  can  be  said  to 
be  excited.  Predictions  are  for  very 
much  higher  prices.  Bark  has  been 
sold  abroad  at a price  6o  per  cent,  high­
er than  was  paid  at  tbe last auction sale. 
Much  interest  is  manifested  in  the  out­
come  of  the  sale  of  bark  next  Thurs­
day,  after  which  there  will  no  doubt  be 
another  advance.  The  London  price 
to-day 
is  much  higher 
than  the  price  in  the  United  States.  A 
40c  price  for  bulk  quinine  is  probable 
within  a  week.  P.  &  VV.  advanced  their 
price  2C  per  ounce  on  the  18th.

is  37c,  which 

Salicylic  Acid—Owing 
competition,  has  declined.

to  foreign 

Salicylate  Soda— Is weak  and  lower.
Essential  O ils—Clove  is  lower,  on  ac­
count  of  a  decline  in  clove  stems.  Win- 
tergreen  is  scarce  and  higher.

Seeds—There 

is  nothing  of  interest 
to  note  in  this  line  except  the  firm  po­
sition  of  California,  both  yellow  and 
brown.

Linseed  O il—Has  been  advanced  by 

the  new  trust  2c  per  gallon.

An Identity Reaction for Pepperm int Oil.
Arzberger  recommends  the  following 
reaction :  Warm  a  few  drops  of  oil  of 
peppermint  with  5  Cc.  of formaldehyde, 
when a pink color,turning rapidly  to vio­
let  red, with either  menthol or menthene, 
ensues. 
If  concentrated  acetic  acid 
be  added  to the  liquid  it  dissolves  with 
a  beautiful  red  color,  turning  rapidly  to 
violet  red  and  gradually  growing  darker 
until  it  becomes  of  a  dirtv brown.  Jap­
anese  oil  of  peppermint  does  not  show 
this  reaction.  Some  variation  is  shown 
in  the  color  developed  in  the  different 
oils  examined,  which fact may  eventual­
ly  be  made  use  of  in  determining  the 
relative  value  of  different  samples.  Oils 
of  bay,  lavender,  pine,  spearmint,  etc., 
do  not  produce this reart:on.  Theauthor 
has  not  yet  determined  which  of  the 
constituents  of  the  oil  is  involved  in  the 
reaction.
Necessity  of  Examining  O ne's  Pur­

chases.

Frank  Edel  says  in  the Western Drug­
gist  that  not  long  ago  he  examined  a 
sample  of  so-called  pure  cream  of  tartar 
which  contained  only  38  per  cent,  of 
potassium  bitartrate,  the  balance  being 
starch,  talcum,  and  the 
like.  Shortly 
after  he  was  given  a  sample  of  borax 
for  chemical  examination,  and  found  it 
to  contain  38  per  cent,  of  carbonate of 
sodium.  Again,  he  examined  several 
samples  of  powdered 
cinnamon  and 
cloves,  and  found  the  cinnamon  to  be 
adulterated  with  ground  cocoanut shells, 
while  the  cloves  contained  less than one- 
third  tbe  oil  that  they  should  to  have 
been  even  of  fair quality.  Another case 
was  a  specimen  of  ground  flaxseed. 
This  was  bought 
from  a  prominent 
wholesaler  and  contained  less  than  half 
the  oil  it  should,  and  showed  under  the 
microscope  that 
it  was  mixed  with  oil 
cake.

The general  opinion  seems  to  be  that 
somebody 

economy  should  begin  at 
else's  home.

DRUG  STO R E  SITTER.

How  He  Invariably  M akes  Him self  at 

M.  Quad in American Druggist.

Home.

in 

I  have  never  been  really  envious  of 
Astor,  Gould,  Vanderbilt  or  Rockefeller 
and  their  millions,  but  there  is  one  man 
whose  position 
life  I  have  always 
coveted—the  drug  store  sitter. 
I  have 
known  a  score  of  such  in  my  time,  and 
their good  fortune  has always  made  me 
sulky  and  disagreeable  towards  tbe 
world  at  large. 
I can't  say  that  if  I had 
been  given  a  chance  I  would  have made 
a  grand  success  of  tbe  profession,  but  I 
should  have  tried  my  level  best  and 
died  game. 
I’m  not  too  old  yet,  but  I 
despair of  an  opening.  There  are  too 
many  others  looking  for  such  easy  jobs.
The  drug  store  sitter  is always  a  man 
of  middle  age.  Sometimes  he  has  two 
or  three  houses  to  rent  or  is  trying  to 
live  on  the  interest  of  bis  money,  and 
sometimes  he  doesn’t  even  own 
the 
bouse be  lives  in  and  his  wife  earns  the 
family  keep  at  tbe  wash-tub.  Nobody 
ever  enquires  about  these  things,  how­
ever.  When  his  position  as  a  sitter  is 
established  he 
is  above  financial  criti­
cism.  He  may  have  been  familiarly 
known  as  Ben  or  Joe  for  a  dozen  years 
previously,  but  after  he  has  put  in  his 
first  month  around  the  store  all  famil­
iarity  is  dropped  and  be  is  “ Mister.’ ’ 
I  think  all  druggists  are  opposed  to  sit­
ters  on  principle,  but  they  are  made  to 
realize  that  they  are  a  necessary  evil. 
They  bear and  forbear  in  hopes  the “ at 
tachments" will  get  blown up,  fall  down 
tbe  well  or  die  in  their  beds,  and  yet 
when  one 
is  thus  rid  of another takes 
his  place,  and  so  it  will  probably  go  on 
to  the  end.

Tbe  drug  store  sitter  makes  himself 
at  home  from  tbe  first  hour.  That’s 
what  he's  there  for.  He’s  always  sure 
of  a  good  fire  in  winter and  a  reason­
ably  cool  place  in  summer.  It’s  a  place 
where  he  can  find  others  and  be  found 
himself,  and  there  is  no  office  rent  to 
pay.  The  druggist  not only takes  a  daily 
paper  for  the  benefit  ot  tbe  sitter,  but 
more  or  less  news  is  always  picked  up. 
Then,  too,  a  druggist  is always  receiv­
ing  almanacs  and  circulars  worthy  of 
tbe  closest  perusal,  and 
if  there  be  a 
dearth  of  reading  matter  tbe first  woman 
who  comes 
in  after  paregoric  is  only 
too  glad  to  give  tbe  gossip  of  the neigh­
borhood. 
In  about  two  weeks  after  his 
first  call  the  sitter  begins  to  call  the 
druggist  “ Doc,”   and  to  feel  at  home 
behind  the  counter  and  be  ready  with 
much  advice,  and  thence  on  he 
is  as 
much  of  a  fixture  as  the  sponge  basket 
or  the  soda  fountain. 
is  about  a 
month  before  tbe  general  public  reaps 
any  benefit.  Then  tbe  sitter tears  him­
self  away  from  tbe  drug  store 
long 
enough  to  show  up  at  the  grocery  and 
impress  tbe  men  sitting  around  on  the 
cracker  and  sugar  barrels.  They  are 
ready  to  be  impressed.  A  certain  rev­
erence 
lelt  for  a  drug  store, 
and  some  of  this  must  descend  to the 
sitter.  He  knows  bis  gait.  He  looks 
wise  and  waits  to  be asked  about  busi­
ness.  There  is  pride  in  his  tones as  he 
replies  that  business 
is  booming,  and 
be 
like  a  trooper  about  tbe  daily 
cash  receipts  in  order  to  add  to  bis  own 
dignity.  He  feels  the  respect  in  every 
mind,  but  the  climax  comes  when some­
body  asks  him 
if  he  can’t  mention  a 
remedy  for 
indigestion,  kidney  com­
plaint  or  insomnia.  That's  what  he’s 
been  waiting  for,  and be  assumes  all  the 
dignity  and  gravity  of  a  doctor as  he 
glibly  refers  to  calomel,  orthoform,  cit­
rate,  anoline,byoscine,salol  and  a  dozen 
other  things  he  has  jotted  down  and 
committed  to  memory  for  the  purpose 
of  getting  off  at  tbe  right  time.  If given 
proper  encouragement  he’ll  ring 
in 
from  ten  to  fifteen  medical  terms  and 
half a  dozen  Latin  words,  and  when  be 
takes  bis  departure  some  one  is  sure  to 
throw  up  his hands and  exclaim :

is  always 

“ Gosh  all  hemlock,but  wbo’d  a-thunk 

lies 

It 

it 1”

pointers.  He  is  consulted  regarding 
felons,  warts,  wens,  obstinate cold sores, 
dandruff,  sore  heels,  headaches, 
'sore 
throats  and  coughs,  and  it  is  declared 
awfully  good  of  him  when  he  volunteers 
to  run  in  and  see a  baby  with  the  colic 
or  a  boy  who  has  been  swallowing 
peach-stones.  He  is  given  dozens  of 
opportunities  every  week  to  talk  about 
nux  vomica,  hypopbosphites,  alkaloids, 
salicylates  and  chlorides,  and 
it’s  all 
the  same  to his  hearers  whether be  gets 
them  right  or  wrong  end  to.  He  may 
have  been  considered  a  scrub  sort  of 
man  before  becoming  a  sitter,  but  after 
a  time  public  opinion  undergoes  a 
change  and  men  take  pains  to  brag  of 
his  smartness  and  boast  that  they  al­
ways  knew he  had  it  in  him.

I 

have  always  wished  I  could  get  a 

It 

druggist  out  into  tbe  woods  and  secure 
his  candid  opinion  as  to  his  sitter,  but 
have  never  been  able  to  accomplish  the 
feat.  No  matter  what  they  think,  how­
ever,  be  has  become an  adjunct,  and 
it 
try  to  upset 
would  be  dangerous  to 
things.  His  position 
is  well  defined, 
because  be  started  in  to  define  it  him­
self. 
is  his  duty  to  occupy  tbe  only 
chair;  to  keep  possession  of  the  only 
newspaper;  to  welcome  all  callers 
in 
advance  of  the  druggist  and  ask  what  is 
wanted. 
If  he  is  the  right  sort  of brand 
he  makes  all  customers  feel  glad  that 
they  didn’t  go  to  tbe  carpenter  shop  for 
their  prescriptions  or  to  the  blacksmith 
for their  patent  medicines.  He  is cheer­
fully  willing  to  advise,  and  his  personal 
experiences  with  pitch-plasters,  hot- 
water  bags  and  consumption  cures  are 
both 
interesting  and  valuable  to a  man 
who  wants  to  live  out  his  allotted  years. 
For  the  first  few  weeks  the  sitter  is 
rather 
in  awe  of  the  doctors  who  drop 
in,  but  contact  soon  puts  him  on  a  fa­
miliar  footing.  He has  no  diploma  and 
can’t  practice,  but  having  got  onto  the 
contents  of  most  of  tbe  bottles  on  the 
shelves  he 
is  imbued  with  a  fraternal 
feeling  and  can  be  made  a  friend  for 
life 
if  called  “ Doc.’ ’  Three  months 
after  his  initiation  he  is  ready  to  greet 
any  physician  entering  the  store with :

“ Hello!  Doc—good  morning  to  you! 

Got  any  interesting  cases  on  hand?’ ’

“ Nothing  more  exciting  than  a  case 

of  measles.’ ’

it 

“ Measles,  eh?  Well,  you  know  your 
business  and  I’m  not  a  man  to  be  pok­
ing  my  nose 
in,  but  if  I  was  a  doctor 
I’d  want  to  be  dead  sure  whether  it  was 
measles  or  smallpox.  You  are  up  on 
first  symptoms,  of  course? 
It  would  be 
awkward  to  have  it  turn  out  smallpox. 
If  you  think  I  can  be  of  any  assistance 
just  let  me  know.’ ’

The  doctors  usually  treat  the  sitter 
like  contempt,  but  he 
with  something 
gets  his  revenge  on  tbe  druggist. 
In 
four  months  he  tbiiiks  he  owns  tbe 
store;  in  two  more  be  thinks  he  owns 
the  druggist  as  well.  Then  be  begins 
to  suggest  and  advise  and be aggressive, 
and 
is  a  bard  job  for  a  customer  to 
tell  who  is  the  a< tual  head.  Only  once 
in  my 
life  did  I  ever know  of  a  drug­
gist  to  rebel  against  his  sitter.  The 
sitter  had  worn  out  bis  chair  and  acci­
dentally  broken  his  cuspidor,  and  he 
wanted  them  replaced.  He also  wanted 
a  curtain  hung  at  a  certain  window  and 
tbe  show-cases  wrastled  around.  To  my 
great  amazement,  and  probably  to  his 
own  as  well,  tbe  druggist  replied that  if 
the  sitter didn't  like things  he’d  better 
move  out  on  the  sidewalk.  There  was 
five  minutes  of  red-het conversation and 
then  the  man  of  drugs  went  down  into 
bis  boots  and  acknowledged  his  error. 
He  wasn't  forgiven  at once. 
It  was  two 
or  three  minutes  before  tbe  sitter  ex­
tended  tbe  hand  of  reconciliation  and 
said :

“ AH  right,  Jim—we’ll 

it  go  this 
time,  but  don  t  ever  let  me  hear  such 
an  outbreak  again. 
I’m  not  here  for 
my  own  benefit,  but  for  yours.  If  I  drop 
this  store  nine-tenths  of  the  custom 
drops  you,  and  don’t  you  get  tbe  idea 
that  I’m  chained  to  the  floor  and  can’t 
get  away!’ ’

let 

In  another  month  tbe  sitter has  a  rec­
ognized  standing  in  bis neighborhood as 
a  medical  man.  He  is  net  a  regular 
doctor,  of  course,  but  it  is  argued  that 
he  couldn’t  sit  around  a  drug  store  for 
two  months  without  picking  up  lots  of

The  cheapest  watch  made  will  not 
in  a  year— if  you  don’t 

vary  a  second 
wind  it  up.

Tbe  only  thing  a  man  wants  after  he 

gets all  tbe  money  he  needs  is  more.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

SALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

00® 4 50

75
50®  60

0n@  1 10
50® 2 00
30® 1 40

Coninm Mac........... 
35®  50
Copaiba...................  1  15®  1  25
Cubeba...................... 
go® 1 00
00®  1 10
Exechthitos  ...........  1 
Erigeron.................  1 
00®  1 H)
Gaultheria..............  1 
50® 1 60
Geranium,  onnce...  ® 
Gossippli, Sem. gal.. 
Hedeoma.................  1 
Jnnlpera..................  1 
Lavendula.............. 
90® 2 00
Limonls...................  1 
Mentba Piper.........  1  60® 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1  50®  1  60
Morrhua,  gal.........   1  10@  1  25
Myrcla,....................  4 
Olive.......................  
75® 3 oo
io® 
Plcls  Liquida.........  
12
®  35
Plcls Liquida, gal... 
B icina.................... 
92® 1 00
Rosmarini...............  
® 100
Boss,  onnce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succinl...................  40®  45
Sabina................... 
go®  l 00
50® 7 00
Santal......................  2 
Sassafras.................  55®  60
®  65
Slnapis, ess., onnce. 
Tigli!.......................  1 
70®  1 80
40®  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............   @  i  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
15®  18
Bl-Carb.................... 
Bichromate  ........... 
13® 
15
Bromide..................  
5 @  57
Garb.. 
12® 
.................  
15
Chlorate..po. 17®19c  16®  18
Cyanide...................  35®  40
Iodide........................2 40® 2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
® 
15
Potass Nltras, opt... 
10® 
12
Potass Nltras........... 
j
10® 
Pressiate................. 
2.®  25
Sulphate p o ........... 
15® 
is

® 

Radix
20®  25
Aconitvm 
. 
.................... 
22®  25
Anchusa................. 
11®  
12
Arum po..................   @  25
20®  40
Calamus................. 
Genti ana....... po  15 
12®  15
i6@ 
Glychrrhiza..  pv. 15 
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  Ms...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po....  22®  25
gì»«]  .......................  
75®  1  00
®  1  25
Rbel, cut.. 
........... 
75®  1  35
Rhel.pv..................  
Splgelia.................. 
35®  38
Sanguinaria,  po. 15 
13
Serpentaria............   30®  35
Senega....................  40®  45
®  40
Similax,officinalis H 
Smilax, M...............   @  25
Spille............-po.35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Foetl-
dus,  po................. 
®  25
®  25 
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ...............  
ig
12® 
Zingiber]...............  
25®  27
Semen
ig
® 
Amsum.........po.  15 
13® 
Apinm  (graveleons) 
15
Bird, Is.................... 
g
4® 
10®  12
Carni.............po. 18 
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Corlandrnm............ 
8® 
10
Cannabis  Satlva__  4H@  5
Cydonlum...............  
75®  1  00
Chenopodium  ........ 
io@ 
12
Dipterlx  Odorate...  1  40®  1  50
Fosnlculum............   @ 
10
Fcenugreek. po........ 
7® 
9
.....  ...  3M@  4M
kjni 
4®  4M
Lini.  grd .... fcbl. 3*  
Lobelia..................  
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4®  4M
Sinapis Albu........... 
9® 
10
Slnapis  Nigra.........  
11®  12
Spirito*

Frumenti, W.  D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frum enti..................1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T ..  1  66® 2 00
Jnnlperis Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum  N.  E ....  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli........  1  75® 6 50
Vini Oporto............   1  25® 2 00
Vini  Alba...............   1  25® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................  2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................  2 00® 2 25
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage...... 
®  1  25
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__ 
®  1 00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................ 
®  1 00
®  75
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  nse.............. 
®  1  40
Syrups
Acacia.................... 
®  50
Anrantl Cortes........  @  50
Zingiber..................   @ 5 0
Ipecac- 
@  60
Ferri Iod.................  @  50
Rhei Arom..............  @  50
Smilax Officinalis...  50®  00
Senega....................  @  50
senin  ............. 
to

.......... 

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niscellaneous

Scilla Co v..............   @  50
Tolutan...................  @  50
Prunus vlrg............   @  50
Tincture*
Aconitum N apellis R 
60
50
Aconitum Napellis F 
Aloes.......................  
60
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
60
50
Arnica....................  
Assafcetida............  
50
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
Anrantl  Cortex...... 
50
Benzoin................... 
60
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma................. 
50
Cantharides........... 
75
Capsicum........... 
50
Cardamon..........  
75
Cardamon  Co.........  
75
1  00
Castor...................... 
Catechn................... 
50
Cinchona................. 
50
Cinchona Co.  ....... 
60
Columba 
...........  
50
Cubeba.................. 
50
50
Cassia  Acutlfol...... 
50
Cassia Acnti fol Co 
50
Digitalis 
. . . .  
Ergot......................  
50
Ferrl Chloridtm 
35
Gentian........... 
50
Gentian Co.........  
60
Gniaca....   ...........  
50
go
Gniaca ammon........ 
50
Hyoscyamns........... 
Iodine...................... 
75
Iodine, colorless__ 
75
Kino........  ............. 
50
Lobelia.................. 
50
Myrrh..................... 
50
Nux Vomica........... 
50
Opii......................... 
75
50
Opii, camphorated. 
I  50
Opii, deodorized.  .. 
Quassia................... 
50
Khatany.  ...............  
50
so
Rhei......................... 
50
Sanguinaria........... 
Serpentaria........... 
so
60
Stromoninm......... 
Tolutan.................. 
go
Valerian................. 
50
50
Veratrnm Veride... 
Zingiber.................. 
20
Æther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30®  35
38
Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F 
Alnmen...............  
2M@ 
3
A lumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
4
3® 
A nnatto...............  
40®  50
4® 
Antimoni,  po.........  
5
Antimoni et PotassT  40®  50
Antipyrin.............. 
@  35
Antifebrin 
@  20
.........  
Argent! Nltras, oz !.  @  50
Arsenicnm..............  
10® 
12
38®  40
Balm Gilead  Bnd  . 
Bismuth  S. N......... 1  40®  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  Is 
@ 9  
Calcium Chlor., Ms.  @  10
Calcinm Chlor.,  Ms 
@  <2
Cantharides, Rus.po  @  75
Capsid  Fructus. af.  @  15
Capsid Fructus, po.  @ 1 5  
Capsid FructusB.po  @  15
Caryophy 11 us.. po. 15  12®  14
Carmine, No. 40 .... 
® 3 00
Cera Alba........... 
50®  55
Cera Flava.............. 
40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cas8iaFructus__  
@  33
Centrarla...............  
@ 
10
Cetacenm................   @  45
Chloroform............. 
50®  53
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  10 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  65®  1  90
Chondrus............... 
20®  25
Cinchonldlne.P.A W  25®  35
Cinchonldine, Germ  25®  35
Cocaine..................   3 80®  4 ro
70
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct. 
Creosotum........ 
@  35
@  2
Creta.............bbl. 75 
Creta, p re p ........... 
@ 
5
9®  11
Creta, preclp..........  
Creta, Rubra...........  @ 
8
Crocus.................... 
is®  20
Cudbear.................  @  24
Cuprl Suiph.........   .  6M@ 
8
10®  12
Dextrine................  
Ether Suiph............ 
75®  90
Emery, all  numbers  @ 
8
Emery, po...............   @ 
6
Ergota..........po. 40  30®  35
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
Galla........................  @  23
Gambler.  ................ 
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper......   @  60
35®  60
Gelatin, French...... 
75 &  10
Glassware, flint, box 
Less  than  box__ 
70
9®  12
Glne,  brown........... 
Glne, white............  
13®  25
Glycerina................  14® 
-30
Grana  P aradisi__  @  25
Humulus................. 
25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  90
Hydraag Chlor Cor.  @  80
Hydraag Ox Rnb’m.  @  1  00 
Hydraag Ammoniatl 
®  1  15 
HydraagUnguentum  45®  56
Hydrargyrum.........   @  75
Ichthyobolla, Am...  65®  75
Indigo...................... 
75®  1 00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................  @420
Lupulin...................  @ 2 25
Lycopodium........... 
40®  45
............  
Macis 
65®  75
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarglod.............   @  25
LiquorPotassArslnlt  10®  12
Magnesia, Snlph__  
3
2® 
Magnesia, Snlph,bbl  @  1M 
50®  60
Mannla, S. F .... 
Menthol 
O 3 26

8
75
16
41
50
5
10
14
15
80
5
40
40

6
8
14
14

25
0050
00

15
8
30
55
75
50
55

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
15

25
30
12
14
15
17

15
25
75
40
15
2
50
7

14
25
35

30
25
30
2010
65
45
35
28
80
14
1230
60
28
55
13
14
16
59
10
0070

3000

60
40
4
35
45
80

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
22
25
36

í fO
50
I 25
i on
! 50
! 90
80
93
66
! 75
70
50

Morphia,S.P.4W...  2 20® 2 45 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
C.  Co....................  2 10® 2 35
Moschns Canton__  @  40
Myrlstica, No. 1......   66®  80
Nux Vomica...po.20  @  10
Os  Sepia................. 
15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co....................  @  1 00
Plcls Llq. N.N.M gal.
doz........................  @ 2 00
Picis Llq., quarts__  @  1  00
Plcls Liq., pints......  @  85
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80  @  50
Piper Nigra... po.  22  @ 1 8
®  30
Piper Alba__ po.  35 
Pi ix  Burgtm...........  @ 
7
Plumb!  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvls Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1  20 
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
&P. D. Co., doz...  @125
Pyrethrnm, pv........ 
25®  30
Quassia................. 
8®  10
Quinla, S. P. A W.. 
43®  4-
36®  46
Quinia, S. German . . 
Quinia, N.Y............   41®  46
Rubla Tlnctorum... 
12®  14
SaccharnmLactis pv  18®  20
Salacin....................   3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconls.. 
40®  50
Sapo,  W..................  
12®  14
10®  12
Sapo, M.................... 
Sapo, G................... 
O  15
Siedlits  Mixture 
20  @  22

Slnapis....................  @  18
Sinapis, opt............   @  SO
Snuff, Maccaboy.De
Voes.....................   @  34
SnuffjScotch,DeVo’s  @  34
Soda Boras..............  9  @  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  @ 
11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  1M@ 
2
5
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
Soda, Ash...............   8M@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........  50®  55
Spt.  Myrda Dom...  @ 9 00
Spts. Vmi Rect. bbl.  @
Spts. VlnlRect-Mbbl  @
Spts. Vlni Rect. lOgal  @
Spts. Vlni Rect.  5gal  @
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  30® 1  35
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2M@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........  2M@3M
8®  10
Tamarinds.............. 
Terebenth Venice... 
28®  30
Theobroma............  
46®  48
Vanilla...................  9 00@16 00
Zlnd  Snlph............  
7® 
8

Oil*

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
45 
Linseed,  Dolled......   47 
Neatsfoot, winter str 
65 
52 
Spirits Turpentine.. 

48
49
70
60
Paint*  BBL.  LB
1*   2  ©a
IX  2  @4 
1M  2  @3 
2M  2M@3 
2M  2M@3
13®  15
70®  75
13M®  17M 
13®  16
a*@  6M 
5M@  6M 
@  70
@  1 00
@  1  40 
1  00®  1  15

@  TO 

Red Venetian.
Ochre, yellow Mars 
Ochre, yellow  Ber. 
Putty, commercial. 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion,  P rim e  
American.... 
Vermilion, English 
Green, Pans ... 
Green,  Peninsular.
Lead, Red......
Lead, white... 
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders . 
White, Paris Amer., 
Whiting, Paris  Bng.
cliff.....................
Universal Prepared.
Varnishes

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

B B L .  SA L .
70
60
45

Whale, winter.........   70 
Lard,  extra...............  55 
Lard, No. 1................. 
40 

r   PAINT AND  T
ARTIST’S 
BRUSHES

|

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

Flat  W all  bound  in  rubber, 

brass  and  leather 

Oval  Paint  Round  Paint 

Oval  Chisel  Varnish

Oval  Chisel  Sash

Round  Sash 

White W ash  Heads 

Kalsomine

Flat  Varnish 

Square  and  Chisel

All  qualities  at  satisfactory  prices.
Camel  Hair Varnish 

Flowing

Mottlers 

Color
Badger  Flowing,

single or double 

C.  H.  Pencils,  etc.

HAZELTINE  &  PERKINS 

DRUG  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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

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

AXLB  QREASE.

Aurora..........................56 
Castor Oil.....................00 
Diamond...................... 50 
Fraser’s ...................... .75 
IX.L Golden, tin boxes 75 
rtica, tin boxes............ 75 
Paragon........................55 

do*,  gross
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00

BAKINd  POWDER.

Absolute.

A o n .

Home.

lb can  dos........ 

Arctic.
El Parity.

w ’b cans doz...................  45
£  ID Jans dos...................  85
....  1 50
u  lb cans 8 dos.................  45
£ lb o an s8 d o s.................  75
lb cans 1 dos.................   1 00
Bulk.................................... 
10
6 os. Eng. Tumblers...........  85
v  lb cans per dos.............  75
£  lb cans per d o s ............  1  20
1 
lb cans per dos............ 2  00
M lb cans 4 dos case........ 
35
£  lb cans 4 dos case........ 
55
lb cans 2 dos c a se ......  
90

EEE3Sn

u  lb cans, 4 doz case...... . 
45
£  lb cans, 4 doz case........  85
lb cans, a doz case........1 60
1 lb. cans, per doz..............  2 00
9 oz. cans, per dos.............   1  25
6 os. cans, per dos.............  
85
u  lb cans..........................   45
£  lb cans..........................   75
lb cans..........................   1 50
85

Jersey Cream,

Oar Leader.

Queen Flake.

1 lb. cans  ......................... 
5 oz., 6 doz. case.....................   2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case 
9 os., 4 doz. case....................... 4 80
1 lb., 2 dos. case.......................4 00
5 lb., 1 dos. case....................... 9 00
American........  .....................70
English......... 
80

BATH  BRICK.

............ 8 20

Peerless

 

BLUINd.

5

S

BROOITS.

S
& L u i M G
Small, 3 doz.......................  
40
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
So. 1 Carpet.......................  2 3
No. 2 Carpet.........................2  1
No. 8 Carpet.......................  1  8
No. 4 Carpet.......................  1  4
Parlor Gem............................  2 50
Common Whisk.................   9)
Fancy Whisk.....................  
95
Warehouse................................2 73
CANNED  GOODS.
Tomatoes...................  80®  90
Corn 
.........................  80@1  00
Hominy......................  80
Beans, Limas..............  70®1 90
Beans, Wax................  60
Beans, String..............  85
Beans,  Baked............  75® 1  00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  75®  s5
Succotash...................  95® 1  20
Peas............................  50®  85
Peas, French.............. 2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.................  15®  22
Peaches, P ie...............1  0 1
Peaches, Fancy..........1  40
Apples,  gallons..........  @1  00
Cherries  ....................   90
Pears..........................   70
Pineapple, grated...... 2 40
Pineapple, sliced....... 2 25
Pineapple,  Farren__1  70
Strawberries.............. 1  10
Blackberries..............  80
Raspberries................  85
Oysters, 1-lb................  85
Oysters, 2-lb................1  45
Salmon, Warren’s ....1  4'@1  60
Salmon.  Alaska......... 1 25
Salmon, Klond’ke......  90
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 20
Lobsters, 2-lb. Star__3 90
Mac  erel,l lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused.1  75 
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato. 1  75
Shrimps.......................2 00
Sardines, £■ domestic  3<4® 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5%®  7£ 
Sardines,  French.......8  ® 22

CANDLES.

168..................................................................8

8s.......................................... 7
^araffine.............  
  8
Wicklng.............................. 20

 

 
CATSUP.

Columbia, 
pints..............2  00
Columbia, £  pints.............1  25

®   12

©

@  12 
®  70 
©  17

CHEESE
Acme......................
Amboy....................
Emblem...................
Gold Medal.............
Ideal........................
Jersey.....................
Riverside.................
Brick....................
Edam.......................
Leiden.....................
Limburger..............
Pineapple.................50
Sap  Sago.................
Chicory.
Bulk  ...........................
Red 
..........................
CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker A Co.’s.
German Sweet................. 
..23
Premium................. 
®
Breakfast Cocoa.....................46

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos.........1  00
Cotton, GO ft, per  dos........ 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  dos........ I  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  dos........ 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos.........1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  dos.............  80
Jnte. 72 ft.  per  dos..............  95

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

2£
8
4

COFFEE.
Roasted.

K M .

F a ir.......................................
Good.......................................
Prim e......................................1?
Golden  ...................................13
Pea berry  ................................14
Fair  ........................................J4
Good  ......................................15
Prim e......................................18
Peaberry  ..........................,...18

Santos.

Maracaibo.

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

Java.

Interior.................................. *8
Private  Growth....................   3j
Mandehllng............................ 35

Im itation................................22
Arabian  ..............................

Mocha.

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  yonr  shipping 
point, giving you credit on  the 
invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market iu which he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also Me 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
Is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   10 50
Jersey............   ..............   10 50
'IcLaugMIn's  XXXX. 
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold  to 
retailers only.  Mall  all orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.

..

Bxtract.

Valley City £  gross......  
75
Felix £  gross................. 
1  15
Hummel’s foil £  gross... 
85
Hummel’s tin £   gross... 
1  48
CLOTHES PINS, 
i  gross boxes......  ..................40

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 dos In case.
Gall Borden  Eagle............. 6 75
Crown................................. 6 25
Daisy...................................5 75
Champion  ...........................4 50
Magnolia 
...........................4 25
Challenge.............. - ........... 3 35
Dime.  .................................>86

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

Superior Grade.

Universal Grade.

Bcoaomlc Grade.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 810 down.

50 books, any denom—   1  50
100 books, any denom__ 2 50
500 books, any denom....11  50 
,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 
1,000 books, any denom— 20 00 
Can be made to represent any 
20 books  .......................   1 55
50 books.................................2 00
100 books  .........................  8 00
250 books............................... ,6 ®
500 books................................¡0 22
1000 books................................17 60
50 books, any denom—   1  50 
100books, any denom....  2 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 ...... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch......... 76
DRIED FRUITS—OOnBSnC 
Apples .
Snndrled •■■■■■■■■■......   ©Ju
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ®9£ 
prlcots.....................   ©lo
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................   ®
Peaches.......................  ®10
W
Ppopfl 
.................. ............. 
Pitted Cherries..........
Prnnnelles..................
Raspberries....... ......
100-120 25 lb boxes.........  © 4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  8
80-90 25 lb boxes.........   © •>£
70-80 25 lb boxes.........   © 6£
60-70 25 lb boxes.........   © M i
50-60 25 lb boxes........-  ®  8
40-50 25 lb boxes.........  ©10
30 -40 25 lb boxes.........  ©
u  cent less In 50 lb cases

California Pranas.

California Frolts.

Credit Checks.

Raialna.

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

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Peel.

Raisins.

Currants.

Leghorn...........................
Corsican..........................©w
Patras bbls...................... © "T*
Cleaned, bulk  ................. © J
Cleaned, packages..........@
Citron American 10 lb bx ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©¡OH 
Orange American 10 lb bx ©10£ 
Ondura 28 lb boxes......  ©
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown  ........  @
Sultana 8 Crown..........  ®
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sultana B Crown.........   ©
Sultana 6 Crown..........  ®
Sultana package.........   ©
FARINACEOUS  OOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages.............1  50
Bulk, per 100 lbs.............3 50
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Parian.

Grits.

24 8 lb. packages................ 1 80
lOn lb. kegs........................ 2 70
2001b. barrels................... 3  101

INDIGO.

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

SAUERKRAUT.

Barrels..............................  4  75
£-Barrels..........................  2 80

Hominy.

Beans.

Barrels  ............................2 50
Flake, 501b.  drums......... 1  00
Dried Lima  ..................... 
5£
Medium Hand Picked 1  2"®1 25 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  80
Imported.  25 lb. box..  ...2 50 
Common...........................  2 0
Chester............................  2 25
Em pire............................  2 75
Green, Wisconsin, bu......1 00
Green, Scotch, bu.  ........1  10
Split, bu.......................... 2 50

Pearl Barley.

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Rolled Avena,  bbl....... 4 00
Monarch,  bbl..................3  6
Monarch,  £  bbl.............2 00
Monarch, 90 lb sacks..... .1  80
Quaker, cases.  ................8 20
Huron, cases................... 2 00

3ago.

Tapioca

German............................  4
3£
East  India.......................  
Flake.............................. 
6
Pearl................................  W
Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkgeB.... 
5£
Cracked, bulk...................  S£
24 2 lb packages.............. 2 50

Wheat.

3ALT PISH.

Cod.

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

Herring.

 

nackorol.

Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 25 
Holland white hoop £bbl  5 25 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mens 
80
Norwegian.......................   „
Round 100 lbs...................  8  10
Round  40 lbs...................  1  40
Scaled...............................  
I*
Mess 100 lbs......................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  ®
Mess  8 lbs.......... ..........   1  35
No. 1100 lbs......................  18 25
No. 1  40 lbs............... 
5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1  48
No. 1 
8 lbs....................  120
No. 2100 lbs......................  U  50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4  90
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  30
8 lbs....................  107
No. 2 
Trout.
5 25
No. 1100 lbs. 
No. 1  401bs.........  
-  2 40
No. 1  10lbs...  ..............  
68
57
8 lbs.................... 
No. 1 
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100lbs...........7 CO  6 50  3 0’
40 lbs...........  3  10  2 90  1  f0
10 lbs........... 
85 
45
8 lbs...........  71 
39
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Whtteflsb.

80 
60 

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
...................................4 00
Kegs 
Half K en ................................. ? »
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 *>
1 lb. cahs...  .. 
...................   30
£  lb. cans..............................  18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs  ....................................4 25
Half Kegs....................... ..  f 40
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 35
1 lb. cans...............................   34

Bogle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs..........................................8 00
Half Kegs................................. 4 25
narter Kegs........................... 2 25
Quar 
cans...............................   45
lib. <

JBLLY.

15 lb palls............................   „
80 lb pails............................  65

LYB.

Condensed, 2 d o s ............. 1*0
Condensed. 4 dos...............* »

 

LICORICE.
........... .................. 

SO
Pure.
Qgr
X 
Calabria.............................   ®
Sicily....................................
B o o t....................................

MINCE MBAT.

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

riATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.....................J ®
Anchor Parlor....................J ™
No. 2  Home........................J
Export  Parlor....................4 w

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black................................  
»
F a ir..................................  
£
Good.................................  X
Open Kettle......................26©»
Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

Horse Radish, 1 doz...........1 »
Horse Radish, 2 doz...........3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz..........1  76

PIPES.

Clay, No. 216. ......... •.........1 JJJ
Clay, T. D. full count........ 
65
Cob, No. ............................  ®

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s...................................4 00
Penna Salt  Co.’s......................2 «0

PICKLES, 
rtedlom.

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

S a u ll.

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

RICE.

Dom estic.

Carolina head....................   6£
Carolina  No. 1  —   ..........  ®
Carolina' No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1............   6£® 6
Japan,  No. 2 ...........is ®  5
Java, fancy  head........5  © 6£
Java, No. 1.................  5  ©
Table.................................  ©

8ALBRATU5.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

Church’s .............................* 8C
Deland’s .............................8  15
Dwlght’B.............................3 30
Sodio...................................3 15
Taylor’s .............................. 8 00

SAL SODA.

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

Jennings’.

D.C. Vanilla
.1 20
2 os.
..1 50
3oz.
.2 00
4 oz.
.3 00
6oz.
4 00
No. 8
.6 00
No. 10.
No. 2T.1 25
No. 3T.2 00
No 4 ’r.2 40

D.C Lemon
75
2 os.
...1 01
3 oz.
...1 40
4 oz.
2 00
6 oz.
No. 8 .2 41
No. 10 ..4 (K
No. 2 T. 80
No. 3 T.l 25
No. 4 T.l 50
Pare Brand.
Lem.  Van.
1  20
2 oz. Taper Panel. .7 5  
2 oz. Oval..............  75 
1*0
3 oz. Taper Panel.. 1  35  2 00
4 oz. Taper Panel.. 1  60  2 25
Tanglefoot, per  box........  36
Tanglefoot, per case  ......... 3 20
Holders, per box of SO........   75
Sage.....................................   ©
Hops...............................   »

PLY PAPER.

NURBS.

SNUFF.

Scotch, In bladders.............  87
Maccaboy, In Jars................  85
French Rappee, In Jars......   48

SBBDS.

A nise................................  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........................  20

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

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

Conuaon Grades.

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

Worcester.

lb. cartons................... 8 25
50  4 
115  2£lb. sacks........................4 00
lb. sacks.......................3 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks...............  .8 50
3010 
lb. sacks....................... 8 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk In barrels....................2 50

Warsaw.

56-lb dairy In drOl bags......   80
28-lb dairy in drUl bags......   15

Ashton.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  80 

Higgins.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  80 

Solar Rock.

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

Coounoa.

Granulated Fine.................   65
Medium  Fine......................   75

SOAP.

J A X O N
Single box.................  
2 <>5
 
5 box lots, delivered.......... 2  r0
10 box lots, delivered..........2 75
JKi. S. KIRI I CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.................................... 2 75
Cabinet.................................2 20
Savon....................................2 50
White Russian.....................2  35
White Cloud,  laundry........6 25
White Cloud, toilet.............3 50
Dusky Diamond. 50 6 o s....2 10 
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 0Z....3 00
Blue India, 100 % lb.............3 00
Kirkoline..............................8 50
Bos.......................................2 60

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  . .2 75 
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars... .3 75
Uno, 100 M-lb. bars.............. 2 50
Doll, 100 loos,  bars.............8 05

Scouring.

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

SODA.

Boxes  .................................6£
Kegs, English......................  4g

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
Stick Candy.

SPIC ES.
Whole SUM.

Allspice  ..............................14
Cassia, China In mate.........12
Cassia, Batavia In bund....26
Cassia, Saigon In rolls....... 82
Cloves, Amboyna...............14
Cloves, Zanzibar................ 18
Mace,  Batavia....................66
Nutmegs, fancy..................60
Nutmegs, No.  1..................50
Nutmegs, No.  2..................45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, white... 18
Pepper,  shot.......................16
Allspice  ...  ....................... 17
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon..............— 40
Cloves, Zanzibar..................14
Ginger,  African..................16
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger, Jamaica................. 23
Mace,  Batavia....................66
Mustard.........................12@18
Nutmegs,......................40@i>0
Pepper, Sing , black............18
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne..................80
Sage...................  ................15

Pare Qround la Balk.

SYRUPS.

Cera.

Barrels...............................  18
Half  bbls.......................  
20
1 doz. 1 gallon cans............2 90
1  doz. M gallon cans.......1 70
3  doz. M gallon c a n s...... 1 76
Pair  .................................  16
Good.................................  20
Choice..............................  25

Pare Cane.

STARCH.

Klagsford’s  Cera.

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

Klngsford’s Silver Gloss.

401-lb packages................... 6M
6-lb boxes...........................7

Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ............... 5 00
188  5c  packages.................5 00
3810c and 64 6c packages.. .5 00

Common Cora.

801 lb. packages.................. 5
4011b. packages................. 4R

Common Gloss.

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

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he
irarchases to his shipping point, 
ncludlng  20  pounds  for  thé 
weight of the barrel.
Domino...............................5 38
Cut  Loaf............................. 5 63
Crushed...............................6 63
Powdered 
.........................5 26
XXXX  Pondered............... 5 38
Cubes..................................5 26
Granulated in bbls..............5 13
Granulated in  bags............5  13
Fine Granulated.................5  13
Extra Fine Granulated......6 25
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 a>
Mould  A.............................5 38
Diamond Confec.  A.......... 5  13
Confec. Standard A............5 00
No.  1.................................4
No 
2.................................4 t 3
No.  8.................................4 63
No.  4................................ 4 66
No.  5.................................4 58
No.  6.................................4 44
No.  7 .............................. 4
No.  8.................................4 31
No.  9.................................4 2
No.  10..................................4 26
No.  11..................................4  I *
NO.  12..................................4 13
No.  18..................................4 0,
No.  14.................................. 4 06
No.  16.................................. 4 16
No.  16.................................. 4 06

TOBACCOS.

Cigar«.

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

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brand. 

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

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

Ruhe Bros. Co. ’s Brands.

Double Eagles. 6 sizes.*55«70 00
Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes__  55@7o  00
35 00
Mr. Thomas...............  
Cuban Hand Made.... 
36 00
Crown  Five................ 
35 00
36 00
Sir  William................ 
Club Five................... 
35 oo
36 oo
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 
Little Peggy.............. 
35  oo
Signal  Five...............  
35 00
Knights of Pythias 
 
35 00
Key West Perfects, 2 sz 55@60 00

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

VINEGAR.

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

WICKING.

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

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Batter.

Seymour XXX...................  5*
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family XXX  ....................   5*
Salted XXX  ....................  
a
New York XXX.................  6
Wolverine.........................  g
Boston................................  7m

Soda.

Soda  XXX  .......................   6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__  6M
Soda,  City.........................  8
Long Island Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Zephyrette...........................10
Saltine Wafer....................   54
SaltineWafer, 1 lb  carton.  614
Farina Oyster....................   5?»
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.

Oyster.

Animals............................  10*4
Bent’s Water......................  15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java..............  lu
Coffee Cake, Iced................10
Cracknells.........................  1554
Cubans  .............................   hm
Frosted  Cream...................  8
Ginger G em s....................   8
Ginge r Snaps, XYX...........  7*4
Graham Crackers..............  8
Graham Wafers.................   10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................   8
Jumbles,  Honey................  lift
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow  Walnuts....  16 
Mich. Frosted Honey....  12M
Molasses  Cakes.................  8
N ew ton...........................   12
Nle Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8M
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......   7*4
Sears’Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sugar  Squares.................   9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas............................  12M

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene.......................  @I1M
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @10
W W Michigan...........  @ 9i4
Diamond White.........  @ 854
D„ S. Gas....................   @12*
Deo. Naptha............   @12*
Cylinder....................29  @34
Engine.......................11  @21
Black, winter.............  @8

bbls.  pails
Standard.................  6*@  7
6M@  7
Standard H. H.......  
?M@  8
Standard Twist......  
Cut Loaf................. 
@  8
cases
@ 6*
Jumbo, 32 l b .......... 
@ 8*
Extra H. H.............. 
Boston  Cream........ 
@10

Mixed Candy.

@  6
Grocers.................... 
Competition............ 
@  6*
@  7
Standard................. 
@ 7*4
Conserve................. 
@ 7*
Royal...................... 
Ribbon.................... 
@  8*
@  1%
Broken................... 
Cut Loaf................. 
@  8
@  8
English'Rock.........  
Kindergarten.........  
@  8*
French  Cream........ 
@  9
Dandy Pan............ 
@10
Hand Made Cream mxd  @13 
Ital. Cream BnbnH, 35 lb p s  11 
Molas  es Chews,  15 lb. pails  13 
‘•Alla Samee,” 
5 lb. pails  12

Fancy—In Balk.

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

@ 8*
@ 8*
@10*
@12
@ 5
@ 8
@ g*
@ 9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

@so
@50
@00
@60
@75
@90
@30
@75
@50
@50
@50
a m
@55
@50
@50

Lemon Drops.........  
Sour  Drops............  
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops.... 
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M.  Choc.  Lt.and
Dk.No. 12............  
Gum  Drops............  
Licorice Drops........ 
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  plain__ 
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Imperials................ 
Mottoes................... 
Cream Bar.............. 
Molasses B a r.........  
Hand Made Creams.  80  @  90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Want............ 
@55
String Rock............  
@00
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  ...............

@35
@50

Fruits.
Oranges.
Fancy Navels.........  
@3 75
Choice...................  
@3 50
Seedlings.................  2 50@2 75
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 360s  ............ 
Ex.Fancy  300s........ 
Ex. Fancy  360s........ 
Bananas.

@3 50
@3 50
@3 70
@4  u0
@

Medium bunches... 1  00  @1  25
Large bunches........1  5o  @175

Foreign Dried  Pratts. 

Figs.

Californias  Fancy.. 
@14
Choice, 101b boxes..  @13
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............  
@18
Fancy, 12 lb  boxes.. 
@22
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............  
@
Pulled, 6 lb boxes...  @
Naturals,  in  bags...  @ 7

Dates.

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

Almonds, Tarragona..  @16
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @15
Brazils new...............   @ 8
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Grenobles..  @18
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @li
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................  @11
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.......   @

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................  @7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  @ 4 *
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
Bess ted  ................. 
6*

25

Crockery and

Glassware.

5M

Batters.

AKRON ITONBWARB. 
M gal., per doz  ...............   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  06 
20 gal. meat-tubs, each....1  40 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ...2 00 
30gal. meat-tubs,each....8 40 
2 to 6 gal., per gal............   6
Chum Dashers, per doz...  85 
M gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5*

Milkpans.

Churns.

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

M gal- flat or rd. hot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5*  
M gal- fireproof, ball, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, dos.l  10

Btawpans.

Jngs.

M gal-, per doz.................   40
M gal., per doz..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal............   6*

Tomato Jugs.

M gal., per dos.................  50
1 gal., each...................... 
e*
Corks for M gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
M gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00

Sealing Wax.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2

LAMP  BURNERS.

No.  0 Sun..........................   33
No.  1  Sun..........................   31
No.  2  Sun..........................   46
No. 3 Sun...........................  1 00
Tubular.............................  
50
Security, No. 1...................  60
Security, No. 2...................  80
Nutmeg  ............................  
50
LAMP CHIMNBYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 dos.
No.  0 Sun..........................   1  33
No.  1  Sun..........................   1  48
No.  2 Sun..........................   2  18
No. 0 Sun...........................  1  50
No. 1 Sun...........................  1  60
No. 2 Sun...........................   2 45

Common

First  Quality.

No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No0.  1  Snn,  crimp 
No.  2  Snn,  crimp 

wrapped and  labeled....  2  10
wrapped and  labeled....  2  15 
wrapped and  labeled__ 8  16

top, 
top,
top,

top,
top,
top,

XXX Pllnt.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
f  Snn,  crimp 
No.  2  Son,  crimp 

wrapped and  labeled....  2 55 
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
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  Bulb,” 
for Globe Lanins............  
80

La  Bastlo.

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  .................................  9
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   |   15
No. 1 Crimp, per doz......... 1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz......... 1  60

Rochester.

No. 1, Lime  (65c dos)........3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)........4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)........4 70

Electric.

OIL CANS. 

No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ........ 4  00
No. 2, Flint  (80o dos)........4 40
Dos. 
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1  48
2 gal galv Iron witb  spout.  2 48
3 gal galv iron witb 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 Nacefos....  9 00

Pnmp  Cans.

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  50

LANTERNS.

No.  0Tubular side lift....  4 00
No..  1 B  Tubular........  ...  6 25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 50
No.  lTub., glass fount....  7 00 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........8 75
LANTERN QLOBBA.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 dos.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 dos.
each, box 15 cents.........  
45
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5 dos.
each, bbl 351.......................  3
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
oases 1 dos. each... ».___l  25

P r o v i s i o n s .

Swift  A  Company  quote  as

follows:

.  10 00
@10 2S
.  10 00
.  14  00
. 
9 50
.  11  OJ

Barreled Perk.
Mess  ..........................
Back  ......................10 50@
Clear back.....  ......
Shortcut......................
Pfg...............................
Bean  ...  ....................
Family  .......................
Dry Salt Meats
Bellies.........................
Briskets  ......................
5M
Extra shorts...............
5M
Smoked neats
Hams, 12 lb  average  ..
8M
Hams, 14 lb  average
8M
Hams, 161b  average...
7M
Hams, 20 lb average...
7M
Ham dried b e e f.........
11
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).
5K
Bacon,  clear............... 7  @7M
California hams.........
SX
Boneless hams............
8*
Cooked  ham............... 10@12M

Lords.  In Tierces.

Compound...................
Kettle..........................
551 b Tubs......... advance 
80 lb Tubs......... advance 
50 lb T ins......... advance 
20 lb Pails......... advance 
10 lb Pails......... advance 
5 lb Palls......... advance 
3 lb Pails......... advance 

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

4*
644
44
v
44
44
X
1
1M

5M
6VÎ
7M
6
9
6M

Tripe.

20
3
10
60

Beef.
Extra  Mess............
..10 25
Boneless  .................... ..12 7)
Rump.........................
..12 50
Pigs’ Pest.
Kits. 15 lbs.................. ..  70
M  bbls, 40 lbs.............. ..  1  35
M  bbls, 80 lbs.............. ..  2 50
Kits, 15 lbs...  . . . ........ .. 
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs.............. ..  1  25
M  bbls, 80 lbs.............. ..  2 25
Casings.
P o rk .........................
Beef  rounds...............
Beef  middles............
Sheep.......................
Butterlne.
Bolls,  dairy...............
11
Solid,  dairy  ..............
10«
Bolls,  creamery........
15M
Solid,  creamery........ • •  14m
Canned Meats
Corned beef,  2 lb  ...
..  2 15
Corned beef, 14  lb__
Roast  beef,  2 lb__ ..  2  15
Potted  bam,  Ms__
50
Potted  ham,  Ms__
90
Deviled ham.  Ms__
50
Deviled ham.  Ms__ ..  90
Potted  tongue v s __
50
Potted  tongue Ms__
90
Fresh  Meats.

.. 

Beef.

Voal.

Pork.

Mutton

Carcass...................... 6M@ 8
Fore quarters............ 5M@  6M
Hind  quarters........... 6*@  »M
Loins  No.  3................ 9  @12
Ribs............................ 7  @12
Rounds...................... 7  @ 7M
Chucks....................... 6  @ 6
Plates  ....................... 4  @
Dressed...................... 4*@ 5
Loins  ..  .................... @ 7
Shoulders................... @  5M
Leaf Lard................... 6M@
Carcass..................... 7  @  7M
Spring Lambs............ 8  @  9
Carcass  .................... 7Mft 8
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as
follows:
Green No. 1................ @ 8
Green No. 2................ @ 7
Bulls.......................
@  6
Cured No. 1................
@ 9
Cured No. 2................ @ 8
Calfskins, green No. 1 @10
Calfskins, green No. 2 @  8M
Calfskins, cured No. 1 @11
Calfskins, cored No. 2 @  9M
Pelts.
Pelts,  each.................
50@1  00
Tallow.
No. 1...........................
@ 3M
No. 2........................... @  2M
Washed, fine  ............
@18
Washed, medium....... @23
Unwashed, fine....__ 11  @18
Unwashed, medium.. 16  @18

Hides.

Wool.

Wheat.

66

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

Local Brands.

Patents...............................4  on
Second  Patent....................3 60
Straight............................  3 25
Clear....................................3 00
Graham  ............................3 60
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, Ms.............................3 75
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, Ms........................  3 50
Quaker, Ms.........................   3 50
Quaker, Ms........................   3 50
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Plllsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 30
Pillsbury’8 Best Ms...........  4 20
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4  10
Plllsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4  10 
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4  10 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

Spring Wheat Floor. 

Meal.

Olney A Jndson’s Brand.

Dulutn Imperial, Ms.........4 35
Dulutb Imperial, Ms.........4 25
Duluth Imperial, Ms.........  4  15
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Gold Medal Ms.........................4 25
Gold Medal Ms.........................4 15
Gold Medal *8.........................4 05
Parisian, Ms...........................  4 25
Parisian, Ms............................. 4 15
Parisian. Ms...........................   4 05
Ceresota, Ms........................4 20
Ceresota, Ms......................  4  10
Ceresota, Ms......................  4  0J
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Lanrel, Ms.............................   4 35
Laurel, Ms..............................  4 25
Laurel, Ms..............................  3 15
Bolted....................................  1 90
Granulated..............................2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__ 16 50
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........16 00
Unbolted Com Meal..........15  ?0
Winter Wheat  Bran..........14  (10
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 15 00
Screenings.............................. 13 00
New corn, car lots............   36*
Less than  car lots............   38
Car  lots............................. 32M
Carlots, clipped.................  34M
Less than  car lots......... ..  36
No. 1 Timothy carlots......  9 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots 
10 00
Fish and  Oysters

Feed and Mlllztuffs.

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

Fresh Fish.
Per lb. 
Whitefi8h................
@  10 
T rout......................
@  10 
Black Bass..............  8
@  11
nituuut...................
«0
Ciscoes or Herring..
5
Bluefish..................
«3 11
Live Lobster.........
@ 24
Boiled Lobster........ @ 28
Cod 
...................... @ 10
Haddock................. @ 8
No.  1  Pickerel........ @ 8
Pike......................... @ 7V
Perch....................... @ 6
Smoked White........ @ 8
Red Snapper........... @ 8
Col  River  Salmon.. @ 12
Mackerel 
.............. @ 16
F. H. Counts........... @ 38
F. J  D. Selects.......
@ ?0
@ 27
Selects...................
F. J. D. Standards...
22
Anchors................. @ 20
Standards...............
@ 18
Favorites................ @
Bnlk.
gal 
Counts..........................
2 00 
1  85 
X  Selects.......................
Selects...........................
1  20 
Auchor Standards.........
1  10 
Standards.....................
1  00 1 25
Clams.............................
Shell Goods.
M 60
Oysters, per 100........1 :
Cuams,  per 100........
E 00

Oysters in Cons

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Hardware

is  gained.  The  clerk 

T he  F irst  Y ear  in  a  H ardw are  S tore.
The  first  year  in  a  hardware  store  is 
generally  the  most  unsatisfactory  to  the 
clerk. 
It  seems  from  the  thousands  of 
difficulties  that  arise  that  he  will  never 
be  able  to  master  them,  but  interest  in 
the  work  is  doubly  increased  as  knowl­
edge 
in  small 
towns  looks  with  admiration  at  the  job­
bers’  traveling  salesman  and  wishes  be 
could  have  the  opportunity  of  learning 
found  in  a  well-regulated  wholesale  es­
tablishment.  Here  is  where  most  young 
men  make  their  mistake.  You  can  not 
sell  goods  for  any  wholesale  house  until 
you  have  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
goods,  as  your  knowledge  to  be  success­
ful  must  be  superior  to  that  of  the  buy­
er. 
If  you  go  to  work  for  the  jobber 
you  commence  work  at  7  or  8  a.  m.  and 
quit  at  6  p.  m.  During  these  hours  you 
are  obliged  to  show five  times  the  ac­
tivity  that  you  are  called  upon  to  dis­
play  in  the  smaller  towns,  and  if  you  do 
not  get  away  with  enough  work  to  make 
a  good  showing  you  are  dropped,  as 
they  have  no  positions  for  slow  people. 
Almost  invariably  you  are given  a  posi­
tion  to  get  out  goods  and  pack  them. 
Most  of  the  goods  are  in  original  pack­
ages  and  you  become  familiar  with 
names,  numbers,  sizes,  etc.,  but  not 
with  the  goods  themselves  for  a  long 
time. 
If  your  position  is  in  the  office 
you  become  familiar  with 
lists,  dis­
counts  and  the  general  run  of  prices, 
but  never  become  familiar  with  the 
goods.  The  most  desirable  place  in  a 
jobbing  bouse  is  the  sample  and  sales­
room,  but  to  get  there  you  must  show 
ability  to arrange and  display  goods  to 
their  best  advantage,  have  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  lists,  discounts,  net  prices 
and  be  a  No.  1  salesman,  stand  in  with 
the  credit  man  and  show  good judgment 
in  making  sales  and  opening  new  ac­
counts.  There  are  many  men  ahead  of 
you  and  you  will  find  the  road  much 
more  difficult  than 
in  smaller  places. 
On  the  other  band,  look  at  the  oppor­
tunities  for  an  ambitious  beginner  in  a 
smaller  town,  say  one  of  5,000  or  6,000. 
You  work  from  7  a.  m.  to 9  p.  m.,  or 
about  three  hours  more  than  the  city 
man.  Do  not  kick  on  these  three  hours 
extra 
labor,  as  they  are  your  three  op­
portunities  each  day  to  learn  so  much 
more,  and  if  you  apply  yourself  you  will 
find  them  a  splendid  investment.

Begin with  the  determination  of  mak­
ing  yourself  the  clerk  that  fills  every 
want  of  his  employer.  Commence  by 
making  a  study  of  the  goods,  sizes, 
numbers,  finishes,  classification,  quality 
and  usefulness.  Your  customers  will 
educate  you  to  some  extent,  but  do  not 
hesitate  to  be  eternally  asking  questions 
of  your  fellow  clerks  when  you  are  un­
able  to  solve  the  problem  by  yourself 
and  in  return  do  everything  you  can  to 
help  all  the  clerks,  as  in  this  way  you 
gain  their  good  will  and  each one knows 
something  the  others  do  not.  One prob­
ably  understands  stoves  thoroughly,  the 
other  builders’  hardware  and  so  on. 
Try  to absorb  all  the knowledge together 
with  all  the  good  qualities  as  you  see 
them 
in  each  and  avoid  the  bad.  Do 
everything  in  yout  power to  please  cus­
tomers  of  the  bouse  and  gain  new  ones, 
and  do  not  allow  anything  to  prevent 
your  pulling  together  with  the  other 
clerks  for  the  good  of  the  bouse 
If 
they  like  you  they  will  not  impose  on 
you  and  if they  do  shove  their own work 
on  you,  do  all  you  can  of  it,  as  it  will 
redound  to  your  own  credit  in  the  end.

They  may  commence  by  making  fun  of 
your  efforts,  but  ‘ ‘ Ridicule  never  hurts 
an  honest  man;  he  only  is  a  slave  who 
complains."  Join  in  the  laugh  against 
yourself and  make  friends.  Do not  allow 
your  early  troubles  to  discourage  you. 
One of Josh Billings’ truths was:  ‘ ‘ Every 
sorrow  has 
its  twin  joy  and  the  fun  of 
scratching  almost  pays  for  the  itch ."— 
Bena  in  Stoves  and  Hardware Reporter.

Origin  and  G radual  Grow th of the  De­

partm ent  S tore.

From the Dry Goods Chronicle.

To  Ireland  must  be  given  the  credit 
for  the  first  glimmer  of  the  idea that has 
in  the  present  depart­
its  culmination 
ment  store. 
Its  inception  saw  the  light 
in  the  dry  goods  establishment  of Todd, 
Burns  &  Co.,  in  Dublin,  but  it  was then 
only  the  germ.  When  A.  T.  Stewart  re­
turned  to  Ireland  from  bis  first  visit  to 
this  country,  his  acute  perception  noted 
the  advantage  of  this  manner  of  doing 
business  and 
in  all  probability  it  led 
him  to  improve  upon  and  put  into  exe­
cution  the  idea  suggested  by  the  meth­
ods  of  this  Irish  concern. 
In  this  coun­
try  the  introduction  of  the  department 
store  plan  was  tardily  accepted,  and 
even  with  A.  T.  Stewart’s  eailier efforts 
there  was  little  hope  of  an  awakening. 
Not  until  close  onto  the  fifties  did  the 
idea  assume  strength.

Before  the  advent  of  the  department 
store  the  stores  were  of  the  average 
dimensions  of  about  25  feet  front,  ex­
tending  from  50  to  100 feet  in  depth, 
the  business  being  usually  confined  to 
the  ground 
floor.  There  were  stores 
selling  only  dry  goods  proper,  others 
selling  fancy  goods  and  notions,  the 
former greatly  in  preponderance.  There 
were  a  few  millinery  stores  and  some 
stores  especially  devoted  to  the  manu­
facture  and  sale  of  mantles;  only  in  the 
latter  two  were  women  employed,  there 
being  a  force  of  skilled  workwomen  in 
the  millinery  and  mantle  stores  as  well 
as  saleswomen  in  the  millinery  shops.

At all  seasons  of  the  year  the  hours  of 
labor  were abnormally  long  and  weari­
some.  There  was  no  settled  agreement 
as  to  opening  or  closing,  this  being  lelt 
with  each 
individual  proprietor.  The 
day’s  work  varied  from  7  a.  m.  to  10:30 
or  11  p.  m.  on  week-days,  and  as  late 
as  12  p.  m.  (and  sometimes  later)  on 
Saturdays.  Only  those  stores  that  had  a 
high  class  clientele  would  open  at  7:30 
or  8  a.  m.  and  close  at 9 or 9130  p.  m. 
In  those  days  the  dry  goods  stores  had 
scarcely  any  of  the  comforts,  and  ab­
solutely  none  of  the  luxuries  or  conven­
iences  of  the  present  day  appointments.
in­
The  two-price  system  with  all  its 
in 
quires  of  selling  goods  was  the  one 
almost  universal  use 
in  the  dry  goods 
trade  of  those  times.  There  is  no  gain­
saying  the  fact  that  it  was  a  most unfair 
system,  and 
led  to  great  abuse  on  the 
part  of  dishonest  merchants  and  their 
employes.  With  the  exception  of  a  few 
houses  the  dry  goods  salesman  of  those 
days  was  expected  to  exercise  his  ait  in 
getting  the  highest  possible  price  for an 
article  from  a  customer  irrespective  of 
its  value. 
It  was  a  system  of  haggling 
between  the  buyer  and  seller  in  which 
all  the  tricks  of  the  trade—and  they 
were  legion— were  called 
into  play  by 
the  salesman,  and  in  which  subteifuge, 
evasion,  quick-wittedness  and  finesse 
were  brought 
into  requisition  by  the 
buyer.  One  of  the  most vicious features 
of  the  two-price  system  of  those  times 
was  what  was  technically  known  in  the 
trade  as  half-overs— that  is,  certain  ar­
ticles  were  marked  by  the  proprietor  so 
as  to  give  the  salesman  one-half  the 
price  obtained  over  a  certain  figure. 
This,  of  course,  was giving  a  premium 
for  downright  dishonesty.

On  this  side  of  the  water  the  depart­
ment  store  first  gained  prestige  in  the 
City  of  New  York. 
It  was  of  gradual 
growth—first  fancy  goods  and  notions 
were  added  to  the  stocks  of  general  dry 
goods;  after  a  while  laces  and  em­
broideries.  New  departments  were 
added,  one  at  a  time  When  millinery 
and  ribbons  and  a  department  for the 
making  to order of mantles and costumes 
were  added  in  rotation  it was  the  begin­
ning  of  the  dawn  of  that  competition

I  Bicycle  Dealers

boys’ 

clothing, 

that  is  the  life  of  trade.  After  this  the 
addition  of  new  stocks  came  somewhat 
in  the  following  older:  Carpets  and 
upholstery,  furs,  women’s  muslin  un­
derwear, 
furniture, 
crockery  and  glassware  and  house  fur­
nishings,  men’s  clothing,  toys,  leather 
goods,  cutlery,  silverware,  patent  medi­
cines,  stationery  and  books,  jewelry  and 
shoes. 
include 
pianos,  sporting  goods,  bicycles,  har­
ness  and  carriages,  the  physician,  the 
dentist,  the  manicure  and  the  under­
taker.

later  additions 

The 

A  Succession  o f  Failures.

From the Atlanta Coni-titution.

A  coroner’s  jury  delivered  the  follow­
ing  verdict  on  the  sudden  death  of  a 
merchant  who  bad  recently  failed  in 
business:

"W e,  the  jury,  find from the  new doc­
tor's  statement,  that  the  deceased  came 
to his  death  from  heart  failure,  superin­
duced  by  business  failure,  which  was 
caused  by  speculation  failure,  which 
was  the  result  of 
failure  to  see  far 
enough  ahead."

Followed  the  Pattern.

you  are  a  fool

Head  of  the  Establishment—David, 
David— Well,  sir, 
I  can’t  help  it 
When  you  engaged  me  you  told  me  to 
imitate  you,  and  I've  done  the  best  I 
could.

It  is  a  wise  father that  knovs  as much 

as  bis  own  son.

Who  have  not  secured  the  “  W ORLD ”  
agency  will  be  almost  sorry  they  didn't 
speak for it—after it is too late.  “ W O R LD " 
wheels are easy sellers—stay sold and every 
“ W O R LD ”  sells another “ W ORLD.”   We 
can take care of a few more good agencies. 
Write for catalogue and  wholesale  prices.
We are Michigan selling agents.
Adams &  Hart,

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  Wholesale & Retail Bicycles & Sundries,

12  West  Bridge  Street, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

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

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How  the  B urglar  Met  His  Death.

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

“ These  stag  bostelries  may  be  im­
peccable,  but  give  me  the  good  old- 
fashioned  kind  that  mother  use  to run,“  
eructated  from  the 
larynx  of  a  red­
headed  gentleman  who  vended  codfish 
and  prunes.

He  wasn't  one  of  those  sunny-disposi- 
tioned  men  who  when  visited  with  the 
grip  could  down  a  colossal  potion  of 
quinine,  escalade  into  a  bed  that  a  baby 
had  fortified  with  cracker crumbs,  close 
bis  orbs  and  fancy  he  was  at  the  sea­
shore,  with  the  roar  in  his  head  the  bil­
lows  and  the  crumbs  the  cooling  sands.
He  was  sitting  at  one  of  those  quarter 
sawed  oak  writing  tables  that  are  quar­
tered  for  the  convenience  of  the  com­
mercial  peregrinator.  They  are  sort  of 
a  tit-tat-toe  arrangement  where  the  stall 
where  one  man  writes,  geometrically 
speaking,  is  the  complement  of  the  op­
posite side.

The  gentleman  who  was  circumval- 
lated  behind 
the  pianobox  finished 
parapet  facing  the  redheaded  man  was 
perpetually  pounding  the  table  with  his 
fist  and  agitating  the  gentlemen  who 
occupied  the  other  three-quarters.  This 
bombardment  was  telling  enough  to  de 
molish  the  hybrid  disposition  of  a  Man- 
tansas  mule,  still  the  furious  cannonad­
ing  abated  not.  Finally,  three-fourths 
of  the  occupants  of  the  table  arose  as 
one  man  and  shot  mauser  glances  at  the 
commercial  gunner  whose  face  floated 
the  Spanish  colors— a  sallow complexion 
and  red  eyes.  These glances  tore  great 
holes 
in  his  attention.  The  board  of 
enquiry  found  that  the  Spanish-faced 
man  was  traveling  for  a  fountain  pen 
concerp  and  that  he  was  writing  a  letter 
in  to  the  bouse  with  one  of  their  pens.
The  protocol  was  signed  and  the  gen­

tlemen  resumed  their  writing.

“ Have  any  of  you  gentlemen  a  blot­

ter?"  asked  the  redheaded  man.
Three  white  flag  of  truce 

looking 
blotters 
immediately  waved  above  the 
bulwarks  as  though  fearing  that the  red­
headed  Aguinaldo  might  commence 
hostilities  from  his  quarter.

He  took  the  blotter  proffered  by  the 
gentleman  at  his  right and  trailed  it  in­
to  the  sea  of  ink  that formed his heavily 
shaded  writing.

It  was  one  of  those  new,  thirsty  blot­
ters  whose  foraminous  surface  never had 
imbibed  ink,  and  when  it  was  returned 
it resembled  the  tattooed  epidermis  of  a 
Filioino  As  it  beheld  itself  in  one  of 
the  small  mirrors  that  paneled  the  par­
titions  of  the  table  this  sentence  stood 
out  plainly:  “ Collected  $900  to-day. 
Will  send  draft  in  the  morning.”

The  man  who  bad 

lent  the  blotter 
gave a  start  “ So  the  fellow  has  $900 in 
his  jeans,  has  be?  I  wonder  what  kind 
of  a  sensation  would  creep  over the gen­
tleman  should  he  find  this  money  miss­
ing  in  the  morning! 
It’s  worth  trying 
for  anyhow;  that  amount  of  money 
doesn’t  grow  on  every  bush."

The  redheaded  man  approached  the 
that  be 

register  and  told  the  clerk 
guessed  he  would  retire.

“ I  am  sorry  but  I  will  have  to give 
you  a  room 
in  the  new  annex.  The 
rooms  are  not  quite  finished,  still  they 
comfortable.  We  are 
are  large  and 
burning  gas 
in  that  part;  the  electric 
wiring  is  not  yet  completed.”

“ I  guess  I can  stand  it, “  spoke  up the 

redheaded  man.

The  clerk  tapped  the  bell  and  the 

The 

drummer  was  on  his  way  to  his  room.

redheaded  man  didn’t  make 
mother-in-law  visits  to  dreamland ;  on 
the  contrary his  stays  were  short  He

was  so  loosely  wrapped  in  slumber  that 
be  was  continually  taking  cold.  He  had 
a  habit  of  hanging  his  watch  at the bead 
of  his  bed  so  that  in  bis  wakeful  mo­
ments during  the  dead  hours  of  night he 
could  determine  whether  it  was  to-day 
or  yesterday  that  he  couldn’t sleep.  He 
was  unable  to  drive  a  tack  into  the  iron 
bedstead,  so  was  content  in  banging  his 
watch  on  a  projecting  wire  that  dangled 
at  the  head  of  bis  bed.

It  was  a  terrible  night outside  and  the 
wind  blew  a  perfect  hurricane.  The 
rain  came  down  in  torrents  and  played 
a  tattoo  on  the  plate glass windows.  The 
lightning  wrote  a 
literary  hand  in  the 
blackened  sky,  now  and  then  mumbling 
to  itself,  with  an  occasional  thundering 
clap  of  applause  in  token  of  its  own 
handiwork. 
like  some 
men,  wasn’t  always  in  such  an  awful 
hurry  it  might  accompish  more  than 
it 
does;  still  on  this  particular  night  it 
struck  a  solar  plexus  blow  and  felled  a 
small  forest  of  electric  light  poles.

lightning, 

If 

The  redheaded  man  was  awakened  by 
a  dull  thud  like  the  noise  of  a  ninety- 
day  note  falling  due.  He  sprang  from 
his  bed  and  lighted  the  gas,  and  there 
lay  the  prostrate  form  of  a  man.  He 
bad  a  roll  of  bills  in  one  band  and  a 
watch 
in  the  other;  but  he  had  no 
word  of  explanation  to  offer.  He  was 
stiffer 
lenten  mackerel  and 
seemed  to  have  received  a  severe  shock 
of  some  sort.

than  a 

Investigation  showed  that  during  the 
night  a  live  wire  had  blown  across 
those  leading 
into  the  hotel  and  the 
small  piece  that  held  the  redheaded 
man's  watch  was  rendered  alive.  The 
burglar  had  extracted  the  $goo  and  was 
about  to  depart  when  he  saw  the  watch. 
He  grasped 
it  and  in  so  doing  took  an 
electric  launch  across  the  River Jordan.

Clyde  W.  Francis.

Told  By  a  Traveler.

Edward  Maurer,  who  travels  out  of 
Indianapolis  for a  Cincinnati  shoe  firm, 
tells  the  following:

In  one  of  the  little  towns  out  in  Iowa 
there 
lives  a  crusty,  close-fisted  mer­
chant  named  Shaw,  whose  heart  is  in 
the  right  place,  but  whose  manner 
is 
exceedingly  gruff.  Shaw  is  well-to-do, 
but  he  secured  his  wealth  by  bard 
work,  and  he  does  not  let  any  of  it  get 
away  from  him  if  be  can  help  it.  Shaw 
is  not  a  member  of  any  church,  but  his 
wife  is  a  believer  in  the  Methodist  doc­
trine  and  attends  the  village  church 
regularly.  About  a  year  ago  the  congre­
gation  decided  that  a  new  building  was 
absolutely  necessary,  and  Mrs.  Shaw 
induced  her  husband  to  advance  money 
to  build,  it.  Shaw,  of  course,  took  a 
mortgage  on  the  structure,  and  he  was 
careful  to  see  that  it  was  constructed 
according  to  the  plans and  that  no 
in­
In  fact  he 
ferior  material  was  used. 
devoted  his  entire  attention  to  the  con­
struction  of  the  new  church, 
for  he 
looked  upon  it  as a business proposition 
It  was  finally  completed,  and  one  Sun­
day  morning,  shortly  after  it  bad  been 
dedicated,  be happened  to  pass  it  on  his 
way  home.
It  was  raining  at  the  time,  and  the 
first  thing  he  noticed  was  that  proper 
drainage  bad  not  been  provided  for 
The  water  was  pouring  from  the  eaves 
of  the  building,  and 
it 
would  weaken  the  foundation,  be  se­
cured  a  shovel  and  began  to  dig a ditch. 
While  he  was  busily  engaged 
in  his 
work  the  new  preacher  came  up,  and, 
seeing  him  at  work,  stopped  to  have  a 
talk  with  him.

fearing  that 

“ Good  morning,”   said  the  preacher.
“ Good  morning,”  
replied  Shaw, 

gruffly,  without  raising  his  eyes.

preacher. 
“ My 
to  this  church?"

“ Ab,  a  child  of  God,”   said  the 
friend,  do  you  belong 
“ Hell,  n o ,"  answered  Shaw,  fiercely. 

“ This  church  belongs  to  m e."

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2 90
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14....................................*2 70 
Nos. 15 to 17...................................   2 70 
Nos. 18 to 21....................................  2 80 
Nos. 22 to 24....................................  3 00 
Nos. 25 to 26...................................   3 10 
No.  27 ..........................................  3 20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, '86...................................... dls 
50
Solid Byes........................................ per ton 20 00
Steel, Game......................................... 
75610
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley 6  Norton’s 70610
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
1  21
Bright Market............................................. 
0
Annealed  Market........................................ 
;o
Coppered Market.......................................  6 >610
Tinned Market..............................................  CO
Coppered Spring  Steel.................................... 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ..........................   2 89
Barbed  Fence,  painted................................   2 40
An Sable.................................................dis 4061C
Putnam.................................................. dls 
5
Capwell..................................................... net list
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.......................  
Coe’s Genuine.................................................  
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought  .........  
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
Bird  Cages................................................... 
Pumps, Cistern............................................. 
Screws, New List...................................  
1-5
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50610610
Dampers, American.............................. 
600 pound casks...........................................  
Per pound................................................... 
D’o p ............................................................  1 45
B B and Buck.............................................  1  70
K@K............».............................................   17
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.......................................*7( 5
14x20 IC, Charcoal.......................................   7  0
20x14 IX, Charcoal.......................................   8 5 >

MISCELLANEOUS

TIN—Melyn Grade

METALS—Zinc

HORSE NAILS

WRBNCHBS

SOLDER

Each additional X on this grade, 11.25.

SHOT

8K
9

7<
75

 

 

 

30
49

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal.......................................  
6 2 >
14x20 IC, Charcoal................................... 
10x14 IX, Charcoal........................................  7 a J
14x20 IX, Charcoal........................................  7 59

Bach additional X on this grade, 11.50. 

 

6 2 i

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean..............................   5 50
14x20 IX., Charcoal, D ean.............................  6 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   11 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade  ............ 
5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.............   6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...........  >1 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...........  12  '0
,n
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, i 
14x56 IX, for No  9  Boilers. ( P61 P°una-  • 
10

BOILER  SIZE TIN PLATB 

4)
70

50

AUOURS AND  BITS

AXBS

BOLTS

BARROWS

Snell’s........................................................... 
70
Jennlng  genuine.......................................25610
Jennings  Imitation....................................80A10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.............................   5 50
First Quality, D. B. Bronze.............................   9 50
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel..........................   6 25
First Quality, D. B. Steel.................................  10 50
Railroad.....  ........................................... 
14 00
Garden.................................................  net  30 00
Stove.....................................................  
60610
Carriage new list....................................  70 to 75
Plow.......................................................  
50
„   , 
Well,  plain....................... ...........................s 3 50
Cast Loose  Pin, figured..............................  70610
Wrought Narrow.......................................... 70610
Ordinary Tackle...........................................  
70
CROW  BARS
..per lb 
Cast Steel...............................  
.......................................... perm 
Hick s C. F ..........................................per m 
” • ....................................................... perm 
Musket...............................................per m 

BUTTS,  CAST

BUCKETS

5
65
55
45
75

BLOCKS

CAPS

CARTRIDGES

DRILLS

CHISELS

gbo PItOl .................................................... “0610
Central Fire.................................................. 
20
Socket Firmer............................................. 
70
Socket Framing..............................  * 
.* 
70
Socket Comer......................................... 
 
70
Socket Slicks..............................................  * 
70
Morse’s Bit Stocks.....................................  
60
Taper and Straight Shank.........................* .50*  5
Morse’s Taper Shank................................... 50&  g
Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
69
Corrugated.........   ..................................  
j  gg
Adjustable................................................dis 40610
Clark’s small, #18;  large, 326................. 
30610
Ives’, 1, 318; 2,124; 3,130............................  
25
New American...........................................   70610
Nicholson’s......................................................... 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................6C610
28
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27. 
List  12 
17

GALVANIZED  IRON 

EXPANSIVE BITS

FILBS—New  List

ELBOWS

16.........  

14 

13 

. 

Discount,  70

15 
OAUOBS

KNOBS—New List

60610
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s................ 
Door, minerai, jap. trimmings 
.................  
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................ 
so
MATTOCKS
Adze Bye.....................................lie 00, dis 60610
Hunt Eye.....................................*15 00, dis 60610
Hunt’s........................................  118 50, dis 20610
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
40
40
Coffee, P. S. 6  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malléables. 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry 6 Clark’s................ 
40
Coffee, Enterprise......................................  
30
Stebbin’8 Pattern.......................................... 60610
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60610
Enterprise, self-measuring......... ............... 
30

MOLASSES  OATES

MILLS

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.
Steel nails, base...........................................   22
Wire nails, base...........................................   2 30
90 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
05
8 advance.................................................... 
10
6 advance.................................................... 
¿0
4 
advance................................................ 
30
3 advance...................................................  
45
2 advance...................................................  
70
Fine 3 advance...........................................  
50
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
25
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance.................................   .. 
25
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  6 ad vance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance....................................... 
85
Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy................................   @50
Sciota Bench................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  ( 
Bench, first quality.......................................  @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme.............................................. 60610610
Common, polished............................. 
706 5
60
Iron and T inned........................................ 
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
45
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON 

Broken packages %c per pound  extra. 

PLANES

RIVETS

PANS

HOUSE  FURNISHING GOODS

Maydole 6 Co.’s, new  list..................... dis  33j*
Kip’s  ......................................................dis 
25
Terkes 6  Plumb’s...................................dl« 10610
VsBIWl’s S olM  P.BSt Stppl 
90/» Hsi
Blacksmith's Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50&10 
Stamped Tin W are.......................new list 7561C
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 2061C
Pots................................................................6061
K ettles............................... 
60610
Spiders.......................................................   60610
HINGES
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3...............................dis 60610
State...  ................. 
perdos.net  2 fi*
Sisal, K Inch and  larger-------*.................  OK
10*
Manilla.......................................................  

HOLLOW  WARB
 

ROPES

 

HAMMBRS

28

T he  W hiner  in  T rade.

If  there 

is  any  class,  clique  or  clan 
which  the  retail  grocery  trade  can  well 
afford  to  dispense  with,  it  is  the whiner. 
We  meet  him  in  all  localities  and  in  all 
stages  of  prosperity. 
In  most  cases, 
however,  he  is  not  prosperous  and,  true 
to  his  nature,  he  insists  on  attributing 
his  lack  of  success  to  the  shortcomings 
of  his  customers,  the  machinations  of 
his  competitors  and  the  natural  deprav- j 
ity  of  the  wholesale  trade.

In  dealing  with  the  jobber,  the whiner 
invariably  complains  about  the  meager­
ness  of  his  collections,  the  amount  of 
goods  be  has  trusted  out,  the  lack  of ap­
preciation  on  the  part  of  his  customers, 
the  carelessness  of bis clerks,  the  illness 
of  his  family  and  a  dozen  other  matters 
which  should  possess  little  or  no  inter­
est  for  the  jobber.  Then  he  complains 
about  the 
leakage  from  the  molasses 
barrel,the  short  weight  codfish  and  rai­
sins,  the  quality  of  the  coffee  not  being 
up to  the  former  standard,  the harshness 
of  the  letter  reminding  him  that  his  ac­
count 
is  past  due  and  numerous  other 
things  which  be  would  never notice— 
much 
less  speak  of— if  be  were  as  in­
tent  on  bis  proper  work  of  making 
money  and  pleasing  his  customers  as 
he  is  on  making  the  most  of  the  un­
pleasant 
life  and  finding 
fault  with  his  surroundings.
His  attitude  toward  his 

immediate 
competitors 
is  anything  but  friendly. 
No  matter  bow  pleasantly  they  may 
greet  him  or  how  courteously  they  may 
treat  him,  he  repulses  their  advances 
and 
insists  that  they  are  actuated  by 
sinister  motives;  that  they  have  suc­
ceeded  in  seducing  his  best  customers 
by  unfair  methods  and  unwarranted 
in­
ducements ; 
that  they  sell  sugar  too 
cheap  and  pay  too  much  for  eggs— in 
short,  that  they  have  entered  into a  con­
spiracy  to  ruin  him  and  wreck  bis busi­
ness.

incidents  of 

His  demeanor  toward  his  patrons  is 
anything  but  amiable  and  businesslike. 
He  upbraids  his  best  customer  because 
she  does  not  give  him  all  of  her  orders 
and  brusquely 
informs  his  occasional 
customer  that  she  comes  in  the  store  so 
seldom  that  he  has  forgotten  how  she 
looks and  where  she  lives.  His  moody 
preoccupation 
to  take  on 
credit 
customers  without  having  a 
definite  understanding  as  to  when  set­
tlement  is  to  be  made,  and  then  be 
whines because  they  allow their accounts 
to  run  for  months.

leads  him 

To  his  clerks  he is anything but agree­
able.  No  matter  how  early  they  may 
appear  in  the  morning  or how  hard  they 
may  work  during  the  day,  no  word  of 
praise  escapes  bis  lips.  He  magnifies 
every  mistake  and  complains at  every 
failure  to  make a  sale.  Every breakage 
which  occurs in the  store or in  the course 
of  delivering  goods  is  referred  to  again 
and  again,  as  though  frequent  repeti­
tion  tended  to  exalt  its  importance  in 
the  mind  of  the  clerk  who  was  so  un­
fortunate  as  to  take a  false  step.

To  the  trade  journal  publisher  the 
is  a  never-failing  source  of 
whiner 
amusement.  He  seldom  subscribes  for 
a  trade  journal,  because  he  “ can  not 
afford 
it”   and,  besides,  he  “ gets  more 
papers  now  than  be  can  read, ”   as  he 
expresses 
it,  at  the  same  time  pointing 
to a  dust-covered  pile  of  sample  copies 
which  have  been  sent  him  by  the  gen­
erosity  of  publishers. 
If  be  ever  takes 
the  trouble  to  unwrap  and  read  a  trade 
paper,  he  invariably  finds  something  to 
condemn  and  be  straightway  writes  the 
editor  an  angry  remonstrance  for  print­
ing  “ such  stuff.”   On  account  of  his

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

lack  of  information,  owing  to  the^des- 
ultory  nature  of  the  little  reading  his 
mental  infirmity  permits,  it  frequently 
happens  that  be  runs  across  something 
on  which  he  wishes  more light,  in which 
case  he  propounds  a  long  series  of ques­
tions,  the  answer to  which  may  require 
hours  of  research,  but  no  stamp  accom­
panies the enquiries and  no  acknowledg­
ment  or  word  of  thanks  ever  reaches  the 
editor  for his  trouble.

family—and 

in  the  canine 

In  my  humble  opinion,  there  is  no 
room  in  this  world  for  the  whiner— ex­
cept 
the 
sooner  he  is  given  to  understand  that  he 
is an  unnecessary  and  disturbing  factor 
in  the  commercial  world,  which  can 
get  along  without  him  better  than  it 
can  with  him,  the  sooner he  will  be  in­
clined  to  reform  his  methods  or  transfer 
into  some  other  occupation 
himself 
is  not  so  conspicuous 
where  whining 
and  disagreeable  as 
it  is  in  the  retail 
grocery  business.— E.  A.  Stowe  in  Ohio 
Merchant.
Uncle  Sam   Not  Known  in  W est  S u ­

perior.

Maurice  Shanahan,  Treasurer  of  the 
Bissell  Carpet  Sweeper  Co.,  recently 
made  a  business  trip  to  Duluth,  during 
the  course  of  which  he  took  a  street  car 
ride  to  West  Superior.  As  the  car  was 
nearing  the 
latter  city,  Mr.  Shanahan 
called  out  to  the  conductor:

* ‘ Put  me  off  at  the  custom  house.''
A  little  later the conductor approached 
his  passenger  with  a  puzzled  look  on his 
face  and  remarked:

“ What  bouse  did  you  say  you  wanted 

to stop  at?”

“ The  custom  house,”   was  the  reply.
The  conductor  resumed  his  place  at 
the  rear  of  the  car,  but  soon  returned  to 
Mr.  Shanahan  and  repeated  his question 
a  second  time.

The  answer  was  the  same  as  before, 
whereupon  the  conductor  ventured  the 
question:

“ Who  runs  the  house?”
Mr.  Shanahan  noted  the  man’s  per­
plexity  and  the  misunderstanding  under 
which  he  was  laboring  and  replied:

“ Down  our  way  we  call  him  Uncle 

Sara. ’ ’

“ No  man  by  that  name  runs  a  hotel 
in  this  place,”   emphatically  rejoined 
the  conductor.

Purely  a  M atter  o f  Business.

F.  M.  Witbeck,  hardware  dealer  at 
Millburg,  who  divides  his  time  between 
conducting  a  store  and  presiding  over  a 
justice  court,  thus  advertises  both  oc­
cupations  in  a  local  paper:

Young  man,  if  you  are  keeping  com­
lady,  that’s 

pany  with  a  nice  young 
your  business.

If  a  young  lady  has  a  sweetheart  good 

and  true,  that  ber’s  business.

But  if  you  love  one  another and  want 

to  get  married,  that’s  my  business.

Our  charges  are  reasonable  and  we 
will  not  refuse  a  limited amount of stove 
wood 
in  part  payment  for  tying  the 
nuptial  knot.

If  the  groom 

When  the  bride  is  past  70  years of age 
and  the  groom  under  18,  reduced  rates 
will  be  given. 
is  85  or 
over  and  the  bride  16,  double  price  will 
be  charged.  All  others  at  regular rates.
Cook  stoves  and  furniture  furnished 
contracting  parties  at  reduced  prices. 
Give  us  a  call.

Our  neighbors,  the  Mexicans,  pay  but 
little  more  attention  to  smallpox  than 
we  do  to  bad  colds  and  the  mortality  is 
rarely 
large.  The  chief  danger  must 
be  in  the  fright  which  seizes the Ameri­
cans. 
In  Manila  also  the  natives  have 
a  way  of  walking  around  nonchalantly 
with  the  disease.

Hides,  Pelts,  Furs,  Tallow  and  Wool-
Hides  are  off  in  price,  quantity  and 
quality,  and 
is 
easier.  The  quality  will  not  warrant 
past  prices  and  collections  are  not  1 irge 
enough  to  worry  dealers

the  demand  market 

Pelts  are  slow  of  sale  at  old  prices, 

with  few  offerings  in  country markets.

Furs  are  poor  and  assoited  close. 
London  sales  show  an  advance  in  fine 
goods,  while  poor  and  common  goods 
rule  some  lower.  Lining  stock 
is  in 
good  demand,  but  at  no advance.  Fine 
furs  are  strong,  with  a  fair  advance  in 
values.

Tallow  is  firmer and  higher.  The  de­
mand  is  for  soaper’s  stock,  which  shows 
no  accumulation  and  a  good  demand. 
Soaps  yield  no  margins  on  present 
prices.

Wool  is  quoted  weak  East,  with  light 
sales.  State  wools  have  gone  out  more 
freely  at  an  advance price  above  former 
offerings.  More  wool  has  left  the  Slate 
during  the  past  two  weeks  than 
for 
months  previously.  The  demand  holds 
good  at  former asking  price.

W m.  T.  Hess.

From  Butter  to  Yeast.

in 

succeeded 

Richard  D.  Suiter,  who  was  asso­
ciated  with  his  late  father  in  the  butter 
and  eggs  business  at  Cleveland,  when 
be 
securing  $150,000 
woith  of  goods  at  the  bands  of credulous 
shippers,  and  who  subsequently  organ­
ized  a  stock  company  to  continue  the 
business  under  the  style  of  the  Ameri­
can  Butter  Co.,  has  wound  up that  busi­
ness  and  organized  the  Noonday  Yeast 
Co.,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $1,000,000. 
His associates  in  the  company  are  John 
C  Heald  and  Edna  Conrad,  both  of 
Cleveland,  and 
is  understood  that 
those  who  dealt  with  the  tiler  Suiter 
will  have  the  privilege  of  subscribing 
for  stock  in  the  new  corporation.

it 

Funds  are  lacking  to  carry  on  a  revo­
in  France,  although  pretenders 

lution 
and  rebels  mav  be  plentiful  enough.

Uncle  Sam  does  not  borrow  trouble. 
He  has  bought  and  paid  for  it,  to  the 
tune  of  $20,000,000  for  one  lump.

When 

lightning  goes  on  a  strike,  the 
walking  delegate  has  no  time  to  collect 
money  for  his  own  suppoit

Reduced  rates  to  Europe  happen  at  a 
time  when  travelers-  have  no  desire  to 
go  that  way.

The  less  people  know  about  each 
other  the  politer  they  are  when  they 
meet.

WANTS  COLUMN.

Advertisement*  will  be  Inserted  under this 
head for two cent* a word  the  first  Insertion 
and one cent a word  for  each  subsequent in­
sertion.  No advertisements taken for less *>«« 
ag cents.  Advance payment.______________

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

ANTED—GENERAL  STOCK  IN  THRIV 
ing  town  in  exchange  for  50-acre  fruit 
and vegetable farm, tnree miles from city limits 
of Grand  Rapids.  Good  buildings  and  excel­
lent  soil.  Address  No.  891,  care  Michigan 
Trade-man. 
S91
Be s t  o p e n in g   in  t h e  u n it e d   s t a t e s
for a druggist.  Elegant store for rent.  Best 
location  in  best  town  in  the  State—Dowagiac. 
Mich.  Move  your  stock  or buy  new.  Careful 
investigation  Invited.  Address  E.  T.  Van 
Ostrand. Allegan, Mich. 
894
Dru g  st o r e  fo r  s a l e  o r t r a d e in   a
town of 800 inhabitants on Sonth  Haven  & 
Eastern Railroad in Van  Buren  county.  Stock 
will  invoice  about  11,000;  has  been  run  only 
about four  years;  new  fixtures;  low rent.  Ad 
dress No. 897, care Michigan Tradesman.  897
COMPARATIVELY NEW >8,500 STOCK DRY 
J.  H.  Mon 
ague. Cold water, Mich.________________809
Fo r  sa l e—h o u se  a n d  l o t  in   t r a v - 
erse  City;  also  store  building  adjoining 
Steinberg’s opera honse.  Will sell either or both 
900
cheap.  S. Cohen, Muskegon, Mich. 

goods  for  sale  in  Coldwater. 

888

STORE  FOR  RENT  AND  FIXTURES  FOR 
Sale—Oue  of  the  best locations in  Allegan. 
Address Kohlenstein  Bros.,  dry goods, Allegan, 
895
Mich. 
ptRU G   STOCK  FOR  SALE—WILL  INVEN- 
L '  tory 11,50);  daily sales from $15 to $20.  Rea­
son  for selling, wish to q-.iit the  business.  Ad­
dress No. 893, care Michigan Tradesman.  893
Mo n e y  t o  p a t e n t  y o u r  i d e a s   m a y   b e
obtained through our aid.  Patent Record, 
885
Baltimore. Md. 
W anted—YouNti man would like to
learn the wholesale 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. care Michigan Tradesman. 
884
SHINGLE MILL FUR SALE, WITH OR Vt IT 11- 
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
IjMJR SALE—IMPROVED FARM: GOODGEN- 
'  eral cropping, gardening and frnit  raising; 
near market.  Address  Albert  Baxter,  Muske­
887
gon, Mich. 
RÁRE CHANCE—HALF INTEREST IN MCE 
grocery business,  in one  of  the  best  loca­
tions in  Grand  Rapids.  Reason  for  selling, 
must leave  city.  Address  No.  886  care  Mich­
igan Tradesman. 
886
Big store  for  rent—one  or  three
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- 
don. Micb. 
A H A   WILL  BUY  A  GOOD  JEWELRY 
* U "U   stock, including fixtures.  Located 
in good town in Northern Michigan.  No oppo­
sition.  Address No. 889, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
889
IpOR  SALE—HARDWARE  STOCK  IN  ONE 
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,  Miadleville,  Mich.
_______________________ 876
W ANTED—A  BUTCHER’S  SECOND  HAND 
refrigerator in first-class co  dition.  State 
lowest  spot cash  price  f.  o.  b  cars.  Give  full 
description.  Address  Lock  Box  33.  McBride’s, 
874
Mich. 
Fo r   - a l e —g r o c e r y  s t o c k  i n  c e n t r a l
Michigan in city of 3,<>00 inhabitants  Sales 
last  year.  $ln,000;  stock  invoices  about  $1,200. 
Address No. 879. care Michigan Tradesman.  879
WANTED — SHOES,  C L O T H I N G ,   D R Y  
_______________________________________699
Fo r   s a l e  — c l e a n   h a r d w a r e   s t o c k  
located at one of the best trading  points  in 
Michigan.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $5,<00. 
Store ai<d warehouse will be rented  for* $30 per 
month.  Will sell on  easy terms.  Address  No. 
868, cs re Mich' gan Tradesman. 
868
IP OR  SALE—TUFT’S  SODA  FOUNTAIN, 
complete, In good order, with three draught 
tubes and ten  syrup tubes and 5x8  foot marble 
slabs.  Address  Haseltlne  &  Perkins  Drug Co., 
827
Grand Rapids. 
IpOR SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  SHOES.  OWN- 
*  ers  wish  to  discontinue  shoe  department. 
Competition light  Address No. 869, care  Mich­
869
igan T  adesman. 
IpuR  SALE—HALF  INTEKEST  IN  OLD  Es­
tablished mt-at market, located In excellent 
residence  district of Grand  Rapids.  Investiga­
tion solicited.  Address  No. 865,  care  Michigan 
866
Tradesman. 
ÍÍTOR  SALE — WELL-ESTABLISHED  AND 
good-paving  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
IpOR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad- 
680
dres8 No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman 

goods.  Address  R.  B.,  Muskegon,  Mtch. 

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

T*7ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 
~v 
try;  any  quantities  Write  me.  Orrln J. 
Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich.___________ „ 
8'0
WE PAY SPOT CASH ON TRACE FOR BUT- 
It  will  pay yon  to get  onr 
771
rin ton, Mich. 
W ANTED—1,000 CASES  FRESH 
EGGS,
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mich.________________________ 566

ter and eggs. 
prices and  particulars.  Stroup <s Carmer,  Per­

MISCELLANEOUS.

LERK  WANTED—EXPERIENCED  MAN 
for dry goods and  shoe  department.  Must 
speak  German.  Permanent  position  for  right 
man.  Good  references  required.  S.  Maudlin 
& Co., Bridgman. Mich. 
896
W ANTED—POSITION  AS  MANAGER  OR 
head clerk  in  country  store.  Have  had 
valuable  experience  as  manager  of  a  lumber 
store  having  annual  sales  of  950,000.  Salary, 
moderate.  Address  No.  890,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
890
W AN i ED  AT ONCE  A  GOOD SPECIALTY 
salesman for the  grocery and drug  trade. 
Must have  A  No.  1  references,  and  only  first- 
class men need  apply.  The  Dunkley  Celery  & 
Preserving Co., Kalamazoo, Mich._______ 896
WANTED—BRIGHT, ACTIVE YOUNG MAN 
as dry goods and shoe salesman and stock- 
keeper in  town  of  2,500  population.  New, up- 
to-date stores.  Only experienced,  reliable man 
wanted.  Address No. 892, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
892
Fo r sa l e—sto ck o f  d r y  goods, sh o es
and  famishing  goods  amountiug to  $1.300; 
rent, $6.  Good place for live young 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. 

882

Travelers* Time  Tables.
CHICAGO
Lv.  G. Rapids............   7 30am  12:00nn  «11  45pm
At.  Chicago............... 2:10pm  5:15pm  7 20 in
Lv.Chicago..  11:45am 6:50am  4:15pm *11  50pm 
Ar.G’dRapids 5:00pm  1:25pm  10:15om * 6:20am 
Traverse City,  Charlevoix and  Patoakey.
Lv. G’d  Rapids.............7:30am 
...........   5:30pm
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on 
night trains to and from Chicago

C h ic a g o .

♦Every  day. 

Others week days only.

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association 

President,  C.  L.  Whitney,  Traverse  City;  Sec­

retary, E   A.  Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J.WisLEB, Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 

A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

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

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

n P T D fllT  0raDd *»P,d* & Western.
UC 1 I\vM I 9 

Nov.  13 1898. 

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids......... 7:00am  1:35pm  5:25pn
At. Detroit....................11:40am  5:45pm 10:05pr
Lv. Detroit.....................8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pn
Ar.  Grand  Rapids....... 12:55pm  5:20pm 10:55pp
Lv. G R 7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G R 11:45am  9:30pt' 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, A baa and  Greenville.

Gxo.  DeHaven.  General Pass. Agent.

Detroit Retail Qracers’ Association 

President, J oseph Knight;  Secretary, E. Ma sk s, 

221 Greenwood ave;  Treasurer, C. H. F rink.

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

President,  F r a n k   J.  D y k ;  Secretary,  Ho x b b 

Saginaw Mercantile Association
McBratn ie;  Secretary,  W.  H.  L ew is.

President. P. F. T bbanor;  Vice-President, J ohn 

GOING  BAST

(In effect Feb. 5,1899.)

HI? A Mil ^nM,k Railway System
v I I v A i ’l U   Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv
--------------------------------------------------yt---------
Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit AN Y.........* 6:45am  t  9:55pm
Detroit  and  East.................. tlO  16am  t  5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit &  East........t 3:27pm tl2:50pm
Buffalo.  N  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t’d  Ex__* 7:20pm *10:16am
GOING  WEST
Gd. Haven Express...............*10:2lam * 7:'5 <m
Gd. Haven and int  Pis.........+12:8pm 13‘lQpm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee. ..t 5  12pm 4-10:11  m 
East bound 6:45am tiain has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbouud 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.

*Daily.  tjixcept Sunday.

C.  A.  J ustin,  City  Pass.  Ticket Agent,

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.

/ i n   a  v j n   Rapids  S  Indiana  Railway 
v II\ A .iv  U  

Feb. 8.1899.

Northern  D lv.  Leave 

Arrlvi 
T rav.C ’y,Petoskey A  M ack ...t  7 :45am  t   5 :15pm 
.. .t   1.50pm  -10:45pm
Trav  <  By A  P etm ie; 
Cadillac at commodation........ ♦  5 :25pm +10 55aui
Petosaey A Mackinaw Ciiy.. .fl’ :00pm  *  6:35am 
7:45am train, panor car;  11:00pm train, sleep­
ing car.
Cincinnati..............................t 7:10am  +  9 46pm
F t Way .e  __ * 
Cl tclniiatl............................. * 7 00 > 
....*11:3-pm  * 9:0 am 
Vicksburg  and Chicago 
and  parlor  car  o  Chicago;  2 00pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Way  e:  7:1 Opm  train  has 
sleeping car  to  Cincinnati;  11:30pm  train  has 
coach and sleeping car to Cuicago.

\  »
..............♦ * 0  im   *  1  30
* 6 30

Southern  D lv.  Leave 

,.10  am  <i«'  Ga 

iiarloi  ch 

>Ti  • 

Chicago Trains.

TO CHICAGO.

FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. Grand Rapids...  7  10am  2 0 -pm  *11 30pm 
Ar. Chicago............   2 3  pm  8 45pm 
6 25am
Lv. Chicago.... 
..............   3 02pm  *lt  32pm
Ar  Grand  Rapids....................   9 45pm 
6 30am
leaving Grand  Rapids 7 :10am  has parlor 
Trai 
car;  11:00pm. coach  and sleeping car.
Train  leaving  Chicago 3:ii2pm  has  Pullman 
parlor car;  11:32pm sleeping car.
Muskegon Trains.

GOING  W IS T ,

9-OOatr  2-ton»»-  r-ng  m
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  RapidB  9:15am; 

L v G ’d  Rapids..............t7 :35an>  +1:00pm  t>:40p
Ar Muskeg" 
arrive8 Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon...............+8:10am  t i l : 45am  t4  00p>
Ar G’d Rapids  .. 
.  9:30am  I2:55ptr  s  2in-
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  5 :30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm 
tB xcep l Sunday.  • Dai iy

OOWO  BAST,

C.  L.  LOCKWOOD. 
W  C.  BLAKE. 

Gen'l Passr. a- d Ticket Agent. 
Ticket Agent Union station.

DULUTH,

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. A I.)+11:10pm  +7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City................   7:35am 
4:20pm
Ar. St  Ignace  ...  ..................  B:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault ste. Marie..............   12:20pm  9:50|>ai
lOnOpiu
Ar. Marquette  ...  .................   2:50pm 
Ar.  Mestoria  ................. 
5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth 
.......................................... 
8:30am
Lv. D nlutb............................................  +6:30pm
Ar  Nestmia. 
..................... til :15am  2:4 >am
Ar.  Marquette...................... 
1:30pm  4:3(imd
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............  
__
3:3l)pm 
Ar  Mackinaw City...............   B:4npm  11:00am
U.  W  H'bbakd. Gen. Pass. Agt  Marquette. 
T - mv  Pi «   Agi  G th*  d  Repid-
V  1 

■ AST  BOUND.

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IVI A 1NIKTFP  4  Northeastern Ry.
i 1 l i t  1 * 1 0  1  L i L/  Best route to Manistee.

Via  C. A  W .  M.  Railway.

Lv Grand Rapids..............................7:00am 
............
A r  Manistee\..................................12:05pm  ............
Lv  Manistee....................................  8:30am  4.10pm
A r Grand  Rapids  .........................   1 .oopm  0:55pm

:  W% make a specialty of 

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%  Store  Awnings 
|
I  Roller Awnings 
I
I  Window  Awnings §
|
|   Tents,  Flags 
%  and  Covers 
$

Drop us  a  card  and we will  quote  ^ 
£
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11  Pearl  Street,  jr
?
Grand  Rapids. 

ej  you prices. 
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Chas.  A.  Coye, 

Dwight’s 
Cleaned 
Currants

If you want nice, fresh, new  JfJ 
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.

FOLDING PAPER  BOXES Printed  and  plain  for  Patent 

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

G RA N D   R A PID S  P A P E R   BOX  C O .

PHONE 8 5 0 . 

81. 83  AND 8 5  CAMPAU ST..  GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

^000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000009
No  Confectioner’s  Stock  Is  Complete

without a line of Hanselman’s Famous  Chocolates.  Put  up  in 
Souvenir,  y2,  1  and  2  pound  packages;  Sweet Violets, y2  and  1 
pound packages;  Favorites,  %  pound packages.
Also full line packed in  5  pound boxes.

HANSELMAN  CANDY  CO.,  Kalamazoo,  Mich,

o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o c

SEND FOB OUR SIMPLE BOOKS Of WILL PAPERS

If you desire  to  replenish your Wall  Paper  stock, or if 
you are in the market for  new goods,  it will  be to your 
interest  to  see  our  samples.  We  have  a  very  large 
assortment  of cheap  and medium-priced goods.  Our 
Prices, Terms and  Discounts we guarantee to be as low 
as any jobber or manufacturer.  Write us.

HEYSTEK  &  CANFIELD  COMPANY,  the  wall  paper jobbers

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

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Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J. F r a n k H e l m e r ;  Secretary, W.  H. 

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

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  A  C. C l a r k  ;  Secretary, E. F.  Clevb 

l a n d :  Treasurer, Wm. C.  K oehn.

Bay Cities Retail Grocers' Association

President,  M.  L.  De Bats ;  Sec’y, S. W. Waters.

Traverse City Business Men’s Association
Ho l l y ;  Treasurer, C. A. Ham mond.

President,  Thos.  T.  B a t e s ;  Secretary,  M.  B 

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, A. D.  W h ip ple ; Secretary, G. T. C am p 

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

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

P a r t r id g e.

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. J. K a t z ;  Secretary, P h il ip Hil b e r : 

T reasurer. S. J.  Hu ppo r d.

St. Johns Business  Men’s Association. 

President, Thos  Bromley:  Secretary, F rank A. 

Percy;  Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Perry Business Men’s Association

President, H. W. W a l l a c e ;  Sec’y, T. E. He d d l e.
Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President  F. D. Vos ; Secretary, J. W. VbrHoeks

Yale Business Men’s Association

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

T R A V E L

VIA

F.  &  P  M.  R.  R.

A N D   S T E A M S H I P   L IN E S  

TO  A L L   POINTS  IN  MICHIGAN

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

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“It’s  as  good  as  Sapolio,”  when  they  try  to  sell  you  Z ^  
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell 
you  that  they  are  only  trying  to  get you  to  aid  their  —g  
z ^  
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new  article. 
Is  it  not  the  Z^Z 
public?  The  manufacturers,  by  constant and  judi-  —m  
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose 
very  presence  creates  a  demand  for  other  articles. 

: 
W ho  urges  you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

Z^Z

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

illustrated  catalogue  and  discounts. 

1

This Showcase only $4.00 per foot.

With  Beveled Edge Plate Glass top $5.00 per foot.

HEMLOCK  BARK

w

W e  measure 
and pay cash 
for  Bark  as 
fast  as  it  is 
loaded.  Now 
is  the  time 
to  call  on  or 
write  us.

*

MICHIGAN  BARK  & LUMBER CO..  **»- * **» W“ " Â Ï Î S ^

B R O W N  Sc S E H B E R

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

Mfrs.  ot  a full line of

HANDMADE 
HARNESS 
FOR  THE 
W HOLSALE 
TRADE

Jobbers in

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

Orders  by  mail  given  prompt 

attention.

Guess the man what said invention was pretty close ter kin
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.

T H E   CO M PUTING   S C A L E   CO..  D a y t o n .  O h i o .

Scales  sold on  monthly payments,  without  interest.

