Volume  XVI. 

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floated  or  darbeyed  without  applying  water  to  the  surface.
Will guarantee it to be the best  made 

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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.

Mill  and  Works,  200  South  Front  S<reet  at  G.  R.  &   I  R.  R.  Crossing.
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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. 

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Packed  in  boxes, tins  or  in  handsomely  labeled 
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Volume  XVI

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  29,1899.

Number  810

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

PAGE

2.  The  Dry  Goods  Market.
3*  One  Way  to  Combat  the  Cata­

logue  Houses.

4.  Around  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  Woman’s  World.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.

Men  of  Mark—C.  U.  Clark.

10.  Good  Results  From  the  Use  of 

Water  Glass.

11.  New York Egg Market Uncertain.
12.  Gotham  Gossip.
■ 3«  Rocky  Mountain  Stprekeeplng,
14.  Shoes  and  Leather.
15.  One  business  Man’s  View  of the 

Golden  Rule.

16.  Clerks’  Corner.
17.  Commercial  Travelers.
18.  Drugs  and  Chemicals.
19.  Drug  Price  Current.
20.  Grocery  Price  Current.
21.  Grocery  Price  Current.
22.  Banks  and  Banking.
23.  The  Hardware  Market. 
Hardware  Price  Current.

24.  America’s Relation to England. 

Wants  Column.

OUR  COMMERCIAL  CO N Q U ESTS.
There  is  one  article of American man­
ufacture  which 
is  forcing  its  way  into 
all  other countries  with  the  most  aston­
ishing  success  and  against  all  rivalry 
of  the  home  manufactories  and 
the 
prejudices  of  custom.  That  article  is 
the  American  railway  locomctive.

We  were  told  the  other  day  that  the 
Russian  government  bad  made  a  con­
tract  with 
the  Baldwin  Locomotive 
Works  for  eighty-nine  engines  for the 
Trans-Siberian  railway,  all  of  them  to 
be  delivered  within  the  next  two  years. 
The  same  company  has  contracts  to  fur­
nish  ten  locomotives  for  France,  ten  for 
one  railway 
for 
Egypt  and  twenty  for  Sweden—or  144 in 
11.  It  appears  that  in  1896  we  exported 
312  locomotives,  the  next  year  348,  last 
year  580,  while  this  latter  number  is  al­
ready  exceeded  in  the  contracts  for  this 
year.

in  England, 

fifteen 

Aside  from  the  mere  fact  of  the  rapid 
growth  of  the  export  trade  in  this  par­
ticular  line 
is  the  significant  adoption 
of  American progressive methods abroad 
indicated  in  this  marked  preference 
as 
for  American  locomotives. 
It  indicates 
a  triumph  of  American  ideas  in  Europe 
— the  steady  development of  the  revolu­
tion  in  thought  and  customs  which  the 
New  World  is  inciting  in  the  Old.  Our 
best  appliances  for  progress  can  net  be 
utilized 
causing 
something like the  same  results,  socially 
and  politically,that have  been  witnessed 
here,  The  more  we  feed  the  world  and 
furnish 
it  with  American  instruments 
for changing  old  industrial  systems  and 
for  breaking  down  ancient  customs,  the 
more  will  the  leaven  of  Americanism 
work  to  the  accomplishment  of  startling 
revolutions  in  Old  World  thought.

in  Europe  without 

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

BARLOW  BROS.,  Grand  Rapids.

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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 
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le d g er Assets  .......................................   ‘  45,734  79
L e d g e r  Liabilities  . 
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None
Losses  Adjusted and  Unpaid...............  
Total  Death  Losses  Paid  to  Date......... 
51,061  00
Total  Guarantee  Deposits  Paid  to Ben­
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Death  Losses  Paid  During the Y ear... 
Death  Rate for the  Y ear...............  

1,030  00
11,000 00
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F R A N K   E .  R O B S O N ,  President. 

T R U M A N   B.  G O O D S P E E D ,  Secretary.

BpporiuDim oi a UTetime!

A first-class  opportunity  to  buy  a  well- 
est.iblished  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  oi  a  well-selected  stock 
of  Groceries,  Dry  Goods,  Ladies’  and 
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods,  Notions, 
Etc.,  and  invoices about  $15,000.  L o ­
cation,  central.  Rent,  $900  per  year. 
Five years’  lease,  if  desired.  For  fur­
ther particulars address  X ,  care  Mich­
igan Tradesman.

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Established  1841.

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Widdicomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, jVlicii. 

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

L. P. WITZLEBEN.  nanager.

Save  Trouble. 
Save Money. 
Save Time.

Candy  rabbits  and  sugar  eggs  get 
in  confec­

along  very  sweetly  together 
tioners’  windows,  waiting  for  Easter.

Japan 

is  making  a  bold  push  for  at 
least  a  share  of  the  carrying  trade of  the 
Pacific.  Although  she  now  has  but 
about  joo.ooo  tons  of  modern  steam  ton­
nage,  the  significant  fact  is  that  this 
is 
nearly  all  new  and  up  to  date.  The  ves­
sels  constituting  the  new  steamer  lines 
under  the  Japanese  flag  were  mainly 
built 
in  British  or  German  yards,  but 
their  owners are  far too  shrewd  to  de­
pend  entirely  on  foreigners.  Last  year 
a  Japanese  ship-building  company  at 
Nagasaki  launched  a  6,ooo-ton  steamer. 
The  materials  for  this  vessel  were,  it  is 
true,  imported,  but  the  labor  was  en­
tirely  performed  by  Japanese,  and  from 
putting  together a  steamer  to  planning 
and  building  one  will  be  an  easy  step 
for  this  quick-witted  and 
industrious 
people.  Nor  is  it  likely  that  Japan  will 
continue  many  years  longer  to  depend 
as  she  does  now  on  foreign  yards  for her 
warships.  Heretofore  all  the  Japanese 
warships  have  been  built  abroad.

introduced 

Should  the  Legislature  of  New  York 
take  favorable  action  upon  a  bill  re­
cently 
by  Assemblyman 
Samuel  Scott  Slater,  incorporating  the 
Industrial  and  Commercial  Exhibition 
Company  of  New  York,  and  should  the 
plans  of  many  of  the  leading  business 
men  of  New  York  materialize,  New 
York,  in  the  spring  of  1902,  will  have 
an  exposition which will cost $30,000,000 
and  will  cover  one-third  more  floor 
space  than  that  of  the  World’s  Fair  in 
Chicago.  The  object  of  this  exposition 
will  be  to  attract  to  New  York  the  buy­
ers  and  merchants  of  tbe  country  by 
having  the output of tbe world's factories 
and  mills  under  one  roof,  thereby  giv­
ing  prospective  purchasers  a  chance  to 
examine  and  compare  goods  made  in 
distant  localities  without  traveling  to 
those  sections,  and  to  attract  European 
trade  to  this  country  by  a  concentrated 
display  of  our  manufacturing  interests.

law 

The  new 

in  Kansas  which  pro­
vides  that  uncollectible  judgments  ob­
tained  against  firms,  corporations  or  in­
dividuals  on  behalf  of  tbe  State  shall  be 
sold  at  public  auction  has  not  proved 
very  successful 
In 
Cowley  county,  tbe  other  day,  such  a 
sale  brought  $200,  and  the  bill  for  ad­
vertising  was $1,450,leaving  tbe  taxpay­
ers  out  of  pocket  just  $1.250

its  operations. 

in 

Boston’s  aldermen  are  to  be curbed  in 
tbeir  extravagant  use  of  carriages  at 
tbe  city’s  expense.  A  bill  has  been  in­
troduced 
in  tbe  Massachusetts  Legisla­
ture  to  provide  that  thecity fathers shall 
use  carriages  at  public  expense  only  for 
public  funerals  and  at  tbe entertainment 
of  distinguished  guests,  and  then  only 
upon  the  written  order of  the  mayor.

Two  rival  companies  are  fighting  for 
the  privilege  of  operating  automobile 
vehicles  for  public  use  on  the  streets  of 
Boston. 
The  omnibuses  which  they 
wish  to  use  would  carry  fifteen  people 
each,  and  as  they  would  be  equipped 
with  rubber tires  they  would  make prac­
tically  no  Doise.

The  crust  of  society  becomes  tough 

and  hard  in  the  course  of  time.

ONLY  ELEVEN  HOLIDAYS.

The  Clerks’  National  Protective Asso­
ciation,  which  is  the  trades  union  under 
whose  banner  retail  clerks  are  enrolled, 
proposes  to  establish  eleven  arbitrary 
holidays  during  the  year,  as  follows: 

New  Year’s  day,  full  day;  Washing­
ton’s  birthday,  close  at  1  o’clock ;  Good 
Friday,  full  day;  Spring  election  day, 
close  at  1  o’clock;  Decoration  Day, 
full  day;  Midsummer  day,  close  at  1 
o’clock ;  Independence  day,  July  4,  full 
day;  July  5,  close  at  1  o'clock;  Labor 
Day,  Sept.  4,  full  day;  Thanksgiving 
day,  full  day,  and  Christmas  day,  full 
day.

This  arrangement  has  already  been 
carried  into  effect  in  a  few  towns,  de­
spite  the  active  opposition  of  the  mer­
chants,  who  assert  that  the  number  of 
holidays  is  too  great,  working  unneces­
sary  hardship  to  the  customer  who  is  so 
unfortunate  as  to  be  compelled  to  buy 
bis  supplies  from  day  to  day. 
In  some 
cases  the  merchant  is  permitted  to  open 
his  store  on  the  holidays  named  and 
wait  on  customers  whose  necessities  are 
urgent;  in  other  cases,  a  watch  is  estab­
lished  by  the  union  and  tbe  opening  of 
the  store  by  the  owner  is  prohibited  un­
der  penalty  of  the  boycott.

And  yet  it  is  asserted  that  we  live 

in 
a  free  country,  where  all  men  are  en­
titled  to an  equal  chance  in  the  pursuit 
of  life,  liberty  and  happiness!

lactones 

in  other  channels. 

The  lamp  chimney 

in  the 
Indiana  gas  belt  have  closed  down 
in­
definitely,  many  of  them  discharging 
all  workers  and  advising  them  to  seek 
employment 
The 
reason  given  for  tbe  shut  down  is  the 
sluggish  markets,  but  the  real  cause  is 
the  introduction  of  chimney-blowing 
machines  by  three  companies,  which 
enable  them  to  produce  better  goods  at 
one-fourtb  tbe  band-made 
labor  cost. 
Tbe  band  manufacturers  can  not  com­
pete  with  them,  and  it  is  predicted  that 
many  of  tbe  factories  will  never  be 
put  into  operation  again.

Proposed  legislation  in  Maine regard­
ing  tbe  issue  of  mileage  books  by  rail­
road  companies  has  been  abandoned  on 
promises  by  tbe  companies  to  extend 
tbe  use  of  such  books  to  tbe  wives  of 
tbe  purchasers,  and  to  remedy  alleged 
in  freight  and  passenger 
inequalities 
tariffs. 
It  has  been  discovered  by  tbe 
Legislature  that  tbe  Board  of  Agricul­
ture  employs  counsel  to  press  the  bills 
it  conceives  to  be  for  the  benefit  of  the 
State  and  charges  the  expense  to  tbe 
State. 

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Franee  has  now  a  law  by  which  mar­
riage  may  be  dissolved  without  cost  to 
the  applicants.  Tbe  Paris  divorce  court 
devites  Thursdays  to  gratuitous  de­
crees.  On  one  day  recently  294  couples 
were  divorced  during  a  session  of  four 
hours,  an  average  of  more  than  one  d i­
vorce  a  minute.  The  applicants  be­
longed  to  the  working  class,*  in  which 
divorces  were 
the 
passage  of  the  law.

infrequent  before 

The  man  who  makes  tbe  most  noise 
about  his  rights  to  bis  own  opinions 
does  not  want  to  keep  them.  He makes 
himself  a  nuisance  trying  to  give  them 
to  other  people.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Dry  Goods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

in  the  market 

Staple  Cottons—There  are  no  decided 
changes 
in  the  market  for  staple  cot­
tons.  There  is  a  quieter  demand  for  the 
various  lines,  but  this  was  expected 
in 
view  of  the  quantities  that  have  been 
contracted  for,  and  the  existing  condi­
tions 
Stocks  of  all  de­
scriptions  are  at  a  minimum  and  the 
product  of  the  mills  is  well  sold  ahead. 
Prices  for  brown  and  bleached  goods 
are  well  maintained.  All  grades  ot 
bleached  shirtings  and  cambrics  are 
firm,  with  moderate  sales.  Wide  shirt­
ings,  which  are  advanced  in many line-, 
show  good  sales.  Canton  flannels  and 
cotton  and  cotton  warp  blankets  are well 
sol i  up,  and  very  firm  Coarse  colored 
cottons  are  well  conditioned,  and  plaids 
are  advancing.

Prints  and  Ginghams—The  market  on 
printed  fabrics  is  rather  quiet,  with  the 
exception  of  business  which  has  come 
to  hand  through  the  mails,  which  has 
raised  the  sum  total  to  very  respectable 
proportions.  There  are  no  changes  t> 
report  in  regard  to  ginghams.  For  the 
new  fall  season,  there  has  been  a  good 
business  found 
for  domets  and  other 
napped  woven  fabrics,  and  the  prices 
have  an  upward  tendency.

Knit  Goods —The  market  for  fDt  and 
ribbed  goods  has 
improved  decidedh 
during  the  past  week,  much  more  than 
was  evident  during  the  two  weeks  pre­
vious.  There  has  also  been  an  excellei t 
demand  for  the  finer  grades  of  fleeced 
goods.  All  thiee  of  these  lines  have  se­
cured  excellent  business  so  far  and  the 
prospects  are  bright.  On 
the  ether 
hand,  the  low  grade,  fleeced  underweai 
has  become  a  bugbear  to  the  trade. 
Prices  are  too  low  and  the  quality  toe 
poor  to  give  satisfaction  to  either  the 
stHer  or  buyer,  and  besides  this,  those 
who  have  placed  orders  for  the  cheap 
goods  do  not  feel  any  security  in  re­
gard  to  the  deliveries. 
In  the  medium 
and  higher  grades,  however,  there seems 
to  be  every  assurance  that  the  season 
will  be  successful  Flat  and  ribbed
goods  are 
in  an  excellent  position  anc 
buyers  now  have  every confidence  in  the 
In  light-weight  goods  the  sit­
market. 
uation  has 
improved  very  materially 
and  good  reorders  are  coming  to  hand. 
It 
looks  now  as  though  it  might  be  a 
hard  matter  to  make  the  arrangements 
for  a  “ knit  goods  trust,”  which  was 
recently  proposed.  While  the  news­
paper  reports  seem  to  show  that  there 
was  a 
large  attendance  of  prominent 
manufacturers,  the  actual  facts  of  the 
case  are  that  there  was  quite  a  small 
attendance,  and  but  one  or  two  of  tbt 
prominent  mills  were represented.  Un 
less  the  larger  concerns  take  bold of this 
affair,  it does  not  seem  likely  that  it  can 
be  a  success,  and  what  the 
larger  con­
cerns  would  benefit  by  such  an  arrange 
ment  is  not  quite  clear.  They  are  do­
ing  a  good  business  at  fairly  satisfac­
tory  prices  and  the  combination  would 
merely  serve  to  help  a  large  number  of 
smaller  and  less  responsible  mills 
int » 
a  position  which  would  enable  them  to 
compete  with  these  other  houses  in  the 
same  lines.  This  or  similar  scheme 
have  been  tried  neatly  every  year  for 
some  time  past,  and  in  every  case  the' 
have  fal  en  through  immediately.  No 
m iter  what  agreement  was  made,  ii 
would  be  broken  time  and  time  again, 
and 
it  seemed  to  be  impossible  to  de­
pend  upon  the  written  agreements  of 
some  of  those  interested.

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Connor,  Box 346,  Marshall,  Mich  ,  to  call, 
or  met-t him  at Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand  Rap­
ids,  April  iS  to  21. 
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and  trust companies.  The  people  are  now 
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called  industrial  stocks,  but  they  will  ulti­
mately  turn  to  something  more  solid  and 
substantial,  when  financial  stocks  of  all 
kinds  w ill  undoubtedly  sustain  a  higher 
range  of  values.  Those  who  have  idle 
money  awaiting  investment  in  perfectly 
safe channels are invited to correspond  with 
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sented, to sell our popular brand of clothing.

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THE  WHITE  CITY  BRAND

THE  WHITE  HORSE  BRAND

in­
which  has  been  in  the  market,  has 
terfered  with  the  business 
in  woolen 
hosiery  this  season,  but the  latter  is  now 
showing  improved  conditions  and  will 
undoubtedly  be 
in  a  very  satisfactory 
position  before  the  end  of  the  season. 
Prices  are  being  wtll  maintained,on  ac­
count  of  the  improved  demand.  Travel­
ing  salesmen  who  have  arrived  from 
their  Western  trips  report  quite  a  satis 
factory  business  throughout that section. 
Their  customers  expect  to  find  a  good 
fall  business  and  have  prepared  with 
this  end 
in  view.  There  are  no  very 
large  stocks  to  be  found  in  the West and 
when  the  duplicate  orders  begin  to  ar­
rive,  the  books  will  show  excellent  busi­
ness.  There  is  but  1  tile  to  say  in regard 
to  spring  business  for cotton hosiery,  for 
it  drags  aiong  in  an  uneventful  chan­
nel,although  something  is  being  accom­
plished  each  week.  There  is  not  as 
nucb 
interest  taken  in  the  fancy  lines 
as  in  previous  weeks,  but  such  styles  as 
the.  jobbers  have  found  ready  sale  for 
are  still  wanted.

Carpets—The  large  mills  report  a  de­
cided  improvement  in  the  carpet  situa­
tion.  Agents  are  feeling  more  encour 
aged  over  the  outlook.  The 
large  job- 
Oers,  as wtll  as  retailers,  are  doing  more 
business,  and  while  it  is  mainly  on  the 
nedium  priced  goods,  there 
is  also  a 
gradual  improvement  in  the  demand  for 
the  bttter  grades,  including  Brussels, 
axminsters,  wiltoos,  velvets  and  tapes­
tries,  and  while  there  is  no  chance  for 
a  further  advance  this  season,  after  May 
t  prices  are  expected  to  be  higher  all 
around.  Some 
in  the  trade  claim  that 
there  have  been  too  many  orders  for 
carpets  taken  at  old  prices.  A rumor  is 
going  the  rounds  of  the  trade  that  an 
effort  is  being  made  by  the  Smith  mill, 
S.  Sanford  &  Sons  and  E  S.  Higgins 
Co.  to  combine  together  for  the  purpose 
of  overcoming  competition,  which  has 
ieen  very  sharp,  and  of  cuitailing  pro­
duction  until  the  demand  shall  be  more 
in  keeping  with  the  supply. 
It  is  now 
quite  generally  admitted  that  the  manu­
facturers  are  now  on  a  more  equal  foot 
ing  than  they  have  been  at  the  com­
mencement  of  a  new  season  since  the 
new  tariff  went  into  effect.  As the anti­
tariff  wool 
is  now  practically  used  up, 
both 
spinners  and  manufacturers  of 
carpets  must  obtain  more  money,  and  it 
will  onlv  require  an  increasing  demand 
for  material  to  advance  prices,  as stocks 
are  comparatively  light.

Rugs— Smyrna  rugs  are  active,  and 
some  m  11s  contn ue  to  run  ove  time  to 
supply  the  increased  demand.  The  fine 
grades  of  wilton,  ax mi tster,  Brussels 
and  tapestry  rugs  are  al  o  in  demand, 
and  art  squares  are  also  sharing  in  the 
improvement.

Cause  of  the  Trouble.

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There  was  a  disagreement  and  the 
mother  undertook  to  straighten  things 
out.

“ Why  can't  you  play  nictly?"  she 

asked.
■ “   ’Cause  he  wants  to  boss  things,”  
answered  the  younger. 
“ He  wants  me 
to  play  I’m  President  of  the  United 
States. ”

“ Well,  why  don’t  you?"

'Cause  it’s  my  turn  to  he  Dewev. 

He  can’t  be  Dewey  all  the  time  ”

One  Fare  for  the  Raund  Trip.

On  accou  t  of  the  Mohawk  Cl  ih  Bin 
quet, 
the  Michigan  Central  Railwav 
will  sell  excursion tick* ts  to  Detroit  and 
return  at  one  fare,  on  March  2q  and 
morning  train  of  March  30.  Return 
limit,  March  31.  Phone 6c6

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City  Ticket  Agent.

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done  up  to  the  present  time.  This  is  a 
favorable  point 
in  the  late  market  for 
old  potatoes.  There  is  still  a  good  seed 
demand.  The  demand 
for  Rose  and 
Hebruns  will  last  longest.

M ill e r  &  T easdale  Co.

Even  the  change  in  a  retail  dry  goods 

store  comes  to  him  that  waits.

The  landlord  has  an  easier  job raising 

the  rent  than  the  tenant  has.

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alogue  bouses  could  not  obtain  the  well- 
known  brands  of  goods  which  people 
want  and  will  have 
it  would  cripple 
them  seriously ;  not only  because  a  large 
part  of  their  trade  is  on  such  aiticles, 
but  because  the  well  known  staple  ar­
ticles  make  the  best  leaders  with  which 
to  draw  trade.

The merchant  who  hopes  to  suivive  in 
the  fight  must  employ  only  up-to-date 
business  methods,  discarding  careless 
buying,  long  time  accounts  and  extrav­
agance 
in  running  expenses.  Let  him 
remember  that  no  soldier  carries  to-day 
the  flintlock  musket  of  Revolutionary 
times,  however  well  such  weapon  served 
some  honored  forefather  or  however 
much  he  may  treasure  it  as  a  relic.

Qu il l o.

Review  of the  St.  Louis  Potato  Market.
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  April  2 8 -Reviewing 
the  market  since  our  last,  will  say  that 
prices  reached  the  top  m Uh  Thursday, 
March  16,  and  since  then  prices  have 
steadily  declined—no  sharp  def i  ne,  no 
slumps,  but  a  cent  to  two  cents  a  day. 
Prices  have  declined  from  top  io@i2i, 
some  say  net  so  much.  Top  prices  here 
were  75c  on  best  eating  potatoes.  To­
day  the  top  is  75c  on  best  eating  stock, 
possibly  not  over  63c,  and  buyers  are 
holding,  although  still  lower  prices  are 
expected  before  the  end  of  the  week.

Reports  from  most 

loading  stations 
say  farmers  are  bringing  them  to  mar­
ket.  Lower  prices  always  do  this. 
Shippers  are  offering  more  freely.  Re­
ceipts,  while  not  heavy  here,  are  suffi 
cient  for  all  needs,  and  shod  I  they 
in 
crease,  the  rnaiket  must  go  lower—no 
market  can  stand  heavy  receipts  at  this 
time  of  year.  Farmers  are  bound  to 
move  their  potatoes  soon  They  have 
more  back  than  they  want  to  admit 
There  is  not  as  much  stock  damaged  as 
reports  led  us  to  believe 
Present  de 
velopments  prove  that  crnclusivelv

Seed  stock, 

that  is  Rose  and  Ohio«, 
have  held  up  in  price  and  gone  higher, 
but  in  our  opinion  they  are  at  the  top, 
and  as  receipts  increase  of  each,  we  can 
not  hope  to  bold  prices  up  so  high. 
Ohios  have  sold,  that  is,  best  Red  River 
stock,  at  $ i@ i . io ;  Minnesota,  go@95«:; 
Rose,  75@8oc. 
I hese  prices  are  too 
high.  Planting 
is  very  la»e ;  bo.b  cold 
weather  and  rain  have  interfered.  Of­
ten  farmers  plant  freily  late  in  Febru­
ary  and  early  in  March,  and are  through 
in  the  American  Bottoms  east  of  the 
City  here  by  this  t  me  for  early  crop, 
while  this  year  ldtle  planting  has  been

One  Way  to  Combat  the  Catalogue 

Houses.
Written fo r the T radesman.

In  commercial  life,  under free  compe­
tition,  as  in  animal  and  vegetable  exist­
ence  in  a  state  of  nature,  there  is  sur­
vival  of  the  fittest. 
In  the  struggle  be­
tween  the  retail  dealer  and the catalogue 
bouse, if  either  is  to  crush  out  the  other, 
the  survivor  will  be  the  one  that  proves 
to  be  in  the  long  run  the  better  able  to 
supply  the  wants  of  the  public 
in  a 
cheap  and  satisfactory  manner.  For,  let 
it  be  remembered  that  a  store,  whether 
it  be  an  immense  catalogue  house  or  a 
little  crossroads  grocery,  exists  for  the 
people,  not  the  people  for  the  store,  and 
when  any  establishment,  large  or  small, 
fails  of  being  a  good  and  useful  sup­
plier  of  people’s  wants 
it  forfeits  its 
commercial  right  to  live.

The 

local  retail  store,  properly  con­
ducted,  is  so  admirable  an  institution 
in 
itself,  so  great  a  convenience  to  the 
community,  its proprietor  so  valuable  as 
a  citizen  and  a  taxpayer,  that  it  would 
seem 
its  right  to  live  requires  no  new 
demonstration ;  yet  the  menace  offered 
to 
its  very  existence  by  the  catalogue 
houses  has  not  been  overdrawn.  The 
compet  tion  they  offer  is  the  most  seri­
ous  with  which  the  local  merchant  in 
many  sections  has  to  contend.  Such  be­
ing  the  case,  the  struggle  against  them 
should  enlist  the  earnest  co-operation  of 
all  those  whose  means  of  livelihood  is 
thus  endangered.

The  contest  should  be  waged  along 
two  lines,  one  object  being  to  cripple 
the  adversary  wherever  practicable,  the 
other  to  better  in  every  possible  manner 
the  local  store  as  a  place  of  supply. 
In 
reality  these  narrow  to  one  object,  for 
whatever  makes  the 
local  store  a  more 
attractive,  economical  and  desirable 
place  in  which  to  purchase  goods  in  so 
much  weakens  the  grasp  of  the  cata­
logue  houses.  As  has  been  stated,  legal 
remedy,  being  out  of  harmony  with  the 
institutions,  is  not  to  be 
spirit  of  our 
thought  of. 
It  may  seem  hard  to  the 
retailer  that  he  can  Dot  be  protected  by 
a  tariff  from  those  who  would  undersell 
him,  as  is  the  manufacturer,  and  that 
the  benefits  of  bounties,  subsidies  and 
the  like  are  not  for  him.  But  the  fact 
remains  that  he  is  not  likely  to  secure 
any 
legal  enactment  that  will  convert 
his  business  into  a  healthy  and  success­
ful  “ infant” — it  isn't  that  kind  of  an 
industry.

This  being  the  case,  it  is  best  to  dis­
card  “ baby”   methods  entirely. 
By 
this  we  mean  stop  trying  to  convince 
people  that  they  ought  to  patronize  you. 
A  small  and  very  slow  boy  can  attend 
to  all  the  business  that  will  come  to  any 
ordinary  establishment  from  a  sense  of 
duty  on  the  part  of  patrons.  Yet  there 
is  a  deepseated  instinct  in  the  breast  of 
almost  every  citizen,  and  the  specious 
arguments  of  the  catalogues  have  failed 
to  eradicate 
local  dealers 
have  a  rightful  claim  upon  him ;  and 
this  will  prove  a  most  powerful  ally  to 
any  merchant  who  can  show  that  the 
same  amount  of  money  spent  with  him 
will  bring  as  great  a  return 
in  the 
necessaries  and  comfoits  of  life  as  if 
sent  away.  The  burden  of  proof  always 
rests  with  the  catalogue  houses.  They 
must  nit  only  seem  to  sell  as  cheap,  but 
cheaper,  otherwise  people  will  prefer­
ably  patronize  the  home  dealers.

it,  that  the 

Put  yourself  for  a  moment in the place 
of  the  laboring  man  who  works  for 
low 
wages,  or  the  farmer  who  with  poor 
crops  and 
low  prices  is  trying  to  pay 
the  mortgage  on  his  place  and  support 
bis  family.  Under  like  circumstances

the  only  argument  that  would  appeal  to 
you  would  be  the  price-argument—the 
getting  of  the  most  for  the  least  money; 
and  this 
is  precisely  the  argument  the 
catalogue houses are  using  “ for all  there 
is  in  it.”

Let  the  local  dealer  meet  this  with  an 
effectual  price-argument  of  bis  own. 
Let  him  make  low  cash  prices  on  goods 
in  quantity.  He  can  afford  to  sell  mus­
lins  and  calicoes  by  the bolt,  hosiery 
and  other  articles  by  the  dozen,  crack­
ers  and  sugar  by  the  barrel,  soap  by  the 
box  and  canned  goods  by  the  case,  at 
very 
in  so  doing 
there  is  no  waste,  with  but little labor in 
handling. 
This  manner  of  selling 
should  be  advertised  and  pushed  to  the 
fullest  extent.  We  are  convinced  that 
this  method  alone,  properly  employed, 
would  accomplish  wonders.

low  margins,  since 

in  quantity  with  only  a 

The  local  dealer  may  reason,  and 
very  naturally,  that  his  business  is,  of 
necessity,  small  and  that  bis  only  safety 
lies  in  adhering  rigidly  to  what  he  con­
siders  bis  rightful  margins  of  profit; 
but  it  will be  much better for  him  to  sell 
goods 
little 
to  let  his  customers  send 
profit  than 
away  for  their  goods 
If  thought  bet­
ter,  it  may  be  made  a  rule  to  give  re­
duced  prices  on  a  certain  number  of 
dollars'  worth  of  goods  bought  at  one 
time  for  cash ;  but  for  obvious  reasons 
the  method  first  mentioned  has  many 
advantages.

in  part 

A  study  of  those  bulky  volumes  which 
the  catalogue  houses  put  out—at  no 
small  expense,  by  the  way—will  be  of 
value,  showing  the  retailer  not  only 
wbzt  he  has  to  contend  against,  but  also 
giving  him  an  insight  into  the  meth­
ods  employed  so  shrewdly  and  effective­
ly.  This  study  will  convince  him  that 
the  advantages  they  offer  to  buyers  are 
at  least 
imaginary.  A  good 
share  of  their  talk  about  “ selling  at 
wholesale,”   “ saving  the  buyer  all  the 
margihs  of  retailing,”   “ giving  him 
goods  at  mill  prices,”   and  the  like,  is 
pure  moonshine,  for  there  are  many 
prices  named 
in  these  books  that  are 
not  low  as  retail  prices.  They  give  all 
the  profits  any  merchant  need  to  ask. 
We  have  indicated  how  the  real  advan­
tages  which  they  offer,  largely 
in  the 
shape  of  “ cut”   or  leading  prices  on 
staple  articles,  may  be  met  by 
low 
prices  on  goods  in  quantitv.  Now,  by 
argument,  by  comparison,  by  showing 
strikingly  and  persistently  what  he 
himself 
in  the  way  of  prices 
and  qualities,  the  local  dealer  should 
prick  their  bubble,  in  so  far  as  they  are 
relying  upon  mere  force  of  bold  asser­
tion  oft  and  emphatically  repeated.

is  doing 

the  high 

The  average  local  merchant  does  not 
talk  enough,  does  not  advertise  enough, 
does  not  get  the  full  force  and  benefit 
of  the  really  low  prices  be  often  makes. 
He  must  show  up  bis  side  of  the  ques­
tion: 
freights  and  express 
charges  that  the  catalogue  buyers  must 
pay;  the  disadvantages  of  not  seeing 
goods  before  purchasing  and  of  waiting 
for  days  for needed articles;  the expense 
of  returning  unsatisfactory  goods,  and, 
not  least,  the  market  he  affords  for  cer­
tain  kinds  of  farm  produce.

The  powerful 

leverage  that  can  be 
brought  to  bear  upon  manufacturers  bv 
demanding  that  they  shall  not  sell  their 
goods  to  the  catalogue  houses  has  been 
well  brought  out 
the  Tradesman. 
They,  the  manufacturers  particularly  of 
well-known 
widely-advertised 
brands  of  goods,  should  be  given  a  per­
emptory  “ Choose  ye  this  day  whom  ye 
will  serve.”   They  would  not  be  long 
If  the  cat­
in  making  up  their  minds. 

and 

in 

B U F F A L O ,  V   V.,  March  _>S,  iSch

Egg  Special

Cold and  warn1  waves  help  to  keep  the
market  on  the rag tree!  edge  and  dealers
hardly  hold  sains: opinions or prices a whole
(lav.  We  quote 15c  as  conservative  mar-
k et.  The  deman<1  is  reallv  large  and  very
closely  cleans  up daily arrivals.  We  would
like  to  handle  a i.hare of  your eggs, if going
to  Buffalo,  assn ring-  von  excellent  service
every  w a v ;  hut  \at  do  not  expect  to  divert
jour  shipments from  any  better  market.
U  ill advance *iberallv  if  «anted.  Ship  by
freight  only  now ,  and  put  plenty  of  straw
or excelsior  throiug-hout  crates to insure sate
carriage.  Duck eggs  in  good  demand  and
quick  sale at  iSffi 20c. 
(ioose eggs also firm
and  quick  at 6c(V/ 70c a dozen  to-day.

Poultry  Special

Former  prices  are  still  well  susta ¡ned-
Occasional  1c>ts  showing:  extra  heav v  or
rough  (both live  and  dressed) 
a little
under,  but  tin•  average  sales  are  excellent.
We  do  not  intluence  your  shipments5  bv
quoting  abov e  the  market  or  offeringr  in-
ducements  \\ie  cannot  carry  out 
\  ester-
day’s  and  to  <lav’s sales:  fancy  live  chi x.  12
©>iz¥„  fancy d ressed.  13@ 14: 
fa ncy live
„,  fancy  dressed,  ntfV  12;  fancy
fowl, 
fancy  dressed,  1?Or  \4 :
live  dux, 
loffi  11, 
fanev  live  tur x,  1 if»/  >2.  fancy  dressed,
i ^(T/.
lte.ne.nl)er  that  Thursday  and  K.ritlav
14. 
are  the best p
ouitry  days,  and  have  poul try
h fariy  hv  5  1  rr

Potatoes

Receipts  ccmtinue  very  light  and  prices
well  0 »11 trolle d.  Sales  from  store  am:1  de
livered.  on  fancy,  70c,  mostly;  few  hit;her,
and  some  coturnon  less.  We  can  sijit  if
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Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Saginaw—John  T.  Rose,  meat  dealer 

has  sold  out  to  Jas.  Lester.

Verne—John  Fredette  has  sold  bis 

general  stock  to  Henry  Hufahl.

Orangeville—Timothy  Ellsworth  has 

engaged  in  the  grocery  business.

Wheeler’s  Corners— Roy  Davis  has 

sold  bis  grocery  stock  to  James  Hart.

Caro—J.  H.  Beckton  succeeds  J.  H. 

Beckton  &  Co.  in  the  drug  business.

Saint  Charles—Crandall  &  Co.  have 
sold  their  drug stock to Dolson &  Moore.
Sickels—Seth  J.  Curtis  has  purchased 
the  general  stack  of  Andrus  D.  Lassen.
Portland— H.  F.  Caswell  has  sold  his 
general  stock  to  H.  C.  Langdon,  of  Port­
land.

Girard—Jas.  E.  Perry  has  purchased 
the  drug  and  grocery  stock  of  A.  A. 
Perry.

Morenci— Hallett  Walker  has  pur­
chased  the  meat  business  of  E.  B. 
Prentiss.

Galesburg— Little  &  Mack  succeed 
in  the  grocery  and  meat 

James  Little 
business.

Port  Huron— Dorland  &  Cullen,  gro­
cers,  have  dissolved,  Herbert  Dorland 
succeeding.

Jasper— DeLand  &  Burt  will  move 
their  general  stock  into  their  new  brick 
block  April  i.

Prescott— Eymer  &  Roland  succeed 
imple­

Geo.  Eymer  in  the  agricultural 
ment  business.

Ironwood— Bay  &  Nordling  have  pur­
chased  the  drug  and  stationery  stock  of 
John  R.  Moore.

Btllevue—Wm.  Donald,  of  Battle 
Creek,  succeeds  R.  C.  Needham  in  the 
bakery  business.

Springville---- Chas.  Desermia, 

of
Onsted,  has  purchased  the  general  stock 
of  Chas.  Jessup.

West  Bay  City—W.  D.  Lennon  &  Co. 
succeed  Lennon  &  Co.  in  the bazaar and 
grocery  business.

Mayville—Weinberg  Bros,  have  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  Maud  (Mrs. 
John  W .)  Buff um.

Montague— Louis  Ro.e  has  opened  a 
clothing  and  men’s  furnishing  goods 
store  at  this  place.

Rapid  City—Adolph  Hirsbman,  of 
in  the  dry 

Central  Lake,  has  engaged 
goods  business  here.

St.  Joseph— R.  C.  Strelow  &  Co., 
grocers  and  meat  dealers,  have  sold  out 
to  Edward  J.  King.

Laurium---- The  Laurium  Hardware
incorporated,  succeeds  the 

Co.,  not 
Burgan  Hardware  Co.

Belding—E.  R.  Spencer  and  T.  A. 
Welch  have  purchased  a  general  mer­
chandise  stock  at  Gaines.

Cheboygan— David  H.  Moloney 

is 
closing  out  his  stock  of  boots  and  shoes 
and  will  retire  from  trade.

in 

Menominee— Heslm  &  Brown  have 
fruit  and  vegetable 

engaged 
business  in  the  Paalzow  block.

the 

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

Ovid—Anthony  Lorae  has  purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  Gardner  Stanton 
and  will  continue  the  business.

Barryton-Mrs.  Blanche  Jarvis  has 
purchased  the  confectionery  and  bakery 
business  of  Mrs.  Wm.  Hayward.

Hilliards—Adam  Adomshich  has  pur­
chased  the  giocery  stock  of  Frank  Kam­
inski  and  will  continue  the  business.

Detroit—Hunter  &  Hunter  succeed 
in  the  dry 

Hunter,  Glenn  &  Hunter 
goods,  cloak  and  millinery  business.

M I C H I G A N   TRADESMAN

Marshall—The  furniture  and  under­
taking  firm  of  Deuel  &  Hughes has been 
dissolved,  Earl  B.  Hughes  succeeding.
Williamston—J.  B.  Young  has  pur­
chased  the  boot  and  shoe  shop  which  is 
located  in  the  clothing  store  of  Watkins 
Bros.

Springport— W.  H.  West,  who  repre­
sents  a  large  Eastern  firm,  has  opened 
a  butter  and  egg  establishment  at  this 
place.

Springport—The 

implement  firm  of 
Well  ngton  &  Doak have  dissolved  part­
nership.  Mr.  Doak  will  continue  the 
business.

Kalamazoo—The  drug  stock  of  Hall 
Bros.  &  Co.  has  been  purchased  by  F. 
H.  Crooks  &  Co.,  who  will  continue  the 
business.

Hillsdale—H  L.  Lawrence  &  Co.  is 
the  name  of  the  new  firm  which  suc­
ceeds  Oscar  Hanccck  in  the  grocery 
business.

Escanaba—Scbemmel  &  Johnson  have 
received  their  hardware  stock  and  are 
getting  it  into  shape  in  their  location  at 
819  Ludington  street.

Owosso— S.  B.  Pitts  did  not  purchase 
a  stock  of  groceries  when  in  East  Thet 
ford  a  few  days  ago,  as  reported.  He 
will  remain  in  Owosso.

Edwardsburg—C.  M.  Dennis  has  sold 
his  hardware  stock  to  R.  D.  May  and 
D.  W.  Ray,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  same  location.

Martin— Dr.  J.  A.  Heasley  has  de­
cided  to  open  a  new  drug  store here 
under  the  personal  supervision  of  Mr. 
Dunwell,  formerly  of  Plainwell.

Grand  Marais— Hargrave  &  Hill  have 
added  hardware  to  their  general  line  of 
merchandise,  A.  F.  Wixson  (Fletcher 
Hardware  Co.)  selling  the  stock.

Mackinaw—A.  D.  Carr  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  meat  firm  of  Carr  &  An­
drews  to  Charles  Dagwell,  the  new  firm 
being  known  as  Dagwell  &  Andrews.

interest 

Alaion—Geo.  E.  Dean  has  pur­
chased  an 
in  the  wood,  coal 
and  feed  business  of  T.  J.  Mack,  the 
new  firm  name  being  T. 
J.  Mack 
&  Co.

Flint— C.  A.  Hutton  has  sold  his  gro­
cery  stock  to  Harry  Morrisb,  who  for 
several  years  has  been  engaged  in  the 
grocery  department  of  O.  M.  Smith 
&  Co.

have 

Decatur— Criffield  &  Dewey,  cloth­
iers, 
partnership. 
Charles  E.  Criffield,  the  former  owner, 
will  continue  the  business  in  bis  own 
name.

dissolved 

Genesee— E.  B.  Woodin  has  sold  his 
general  stock  to  Frank  Rogers, 
the 
youngest  of  the  firm  of  Roger  Bros., 
who  operate  a  flouring  mill  at  this 
place.

Stockbridge— Emil  Milner  has  pur­
chased  Cba  Its  Brook's  interest  in  the 
undertaking  nusiness  of  Brooks  &  Mil­
ner and  hereafter  the  firm  will  be  Mil­
ner  Bros.

Cold water—C.  T.  Yapp  has  sold  a 
half  interest  in  his  grocery  stock  to  B.
B.  Gorman.  The  new  firm  will  con-, 
tinue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
Yapp  &  Gorman.

Manton — W.  H.  Campbell  has sold bis 
stock  of  furniture  to  Jerry  Williams, 
who  has  removed  it  to  his  jewelry  store 
building.  Mr.  Campbell  will  retain  the 
undertaking  department.

Copemish—G.  H.  Marzolf,  who  has 
been  engaged  in  general  trade  here  for 
several  years,  has  concluded  to  retire 
from  active  business  on  account  of  poor 
health.  He  has  sold  bis  stock  to  Orcutt 
&  Moeller,  who  have  removed 
it  to 
Crystal  City  and  consolidated 
it  with 
their  stock  there.

Bellaire—M.  J.  Flanelly,  of  the  hard­
ware  firm  of  Meyer  &  Flanelly,  who 
now  resides  at  Ludington,  will  settle 
his  affairs  at  that  place  and  make  this 
bis  permanent  home.

Cadillac— Nelson  R.  Torrey  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  father  in  the 
marble  and  granite  business  of  Geo  S. 
Torrey  &  Sons.  The new  firm  will  be 
known  as  Torrey  Bros.

St.  Johns—O.  P.  DeWitt  purchased 
the  jewelry  stock  of  Krepps,  DeWitt  & 
Co.  at  auction  sale,  the  consideration 
being  $2,500.  The  business  will  be  con­
tinued  by  Mr.  DeWitt.

Marquette— Phelps,  Brace  &  Co.  have 
discontinued 
their  branch  wholesale 
grocery  house  at  this place,shipping  the 
stock  to  Detroit,  where  it  will  be  con­
solidated  with  the  parent  stock.

Newberry—C.  D.  Danaher  has  pur­
chased  the  dry  goods  and  clothing  stock 
of  A.  J.  Noble  and  will  add to the stock. 
He  has  also  purchased  the  shingle  mill 
lately  operated  by  the  Noble  estate.

East  Jordan—A.  B.  Steele,  who  pur­
chased  the  Gardner  property  a  year  ago 
and  opened  a  store  here,  returned  last 
week  to  his  former  home  in  Advance, 
taking  his  stock  of  groceries  with  him.
Jasper  - Jua.ci  Jenkins  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  Mr.  Blain  and  will 
start  a  cheese  factory  at  Rome  Center, 
having  purchased 
the  boiler,  vats, 
presses,  hoops,  etc.,  of  James  A.  Dun­
bar.

Laurium—August  Hietala  and  J.  H. 
Jylba  have  formed  a  copartnership  un­
der  the  style  of  Hietala  &  Jylha  and 
engaged 
in  the  grocery  and  provision 
business.  The  firm  has  a  cash  capital 
of  $1,800,  each  paitner  contributing 
$900.

interest 

Lowell—Chas.  McCarthy  has  sold  a 
third 
in  his  grocery  stock  to 
Cbas.  H.  Alexander  and  another  third 
interest  to  Frank  Taylor and  the  busi­
ness  will  hereafter  be  conducted  under 
the  style  of  Chas.  McCarthy  &  Co.  The 
new  partners  are  old-time  clerks  in  the 
establishment  who  have  justly  earned 
the  promotion  thus  accorded  them.

Negaunee—The  Lake  Superior  Prod 
uce  &  Cold  Storage  Co.  has  recently 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$65,000.  The  officers  of  the  company 
are  as  follows:  A.  J.  Ruhl,  President; 
J.  P.  Petermann,  Vice  President;  John 
W.  Ruhl,  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  and 
J.  H.  Rice,  H.  L.  Baer  and  Johnson 
Vivian,  Jr.,  directors.  The  company 
will  absorb  the  interests  of  A.  J.  Ruhl 
&  Co.  April  1,  and  it  is  the  intention  to 
erect  a 
large  cold  storage  plant  at 
Houghton  the  coming  summer,  the  site 
being  already  secured.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Caseville—John  R.  Poss  is  the  new 
proprietor  of  the  Caseviile  roller  mills, 
he  buying  the  same from W.  R.  Stafford, 
of  Port  Hope.

Mason—The  Mason  Buggy  Co.  suc­
ceeds  the  Mason  Carriage  Co.,the  mem 
bers of  the  new  firm  being  I.  J.  Kellogg 
and  Chas.  McBride.

Otsego—The 

lumber,  wood  and  bi­
cycle  firm  of  Sebright,  Hale  &  Co.  has 
been  dissolved,  Messrs.  Sebright  and 
Edstll  having  purchased  the  interest  of 
Lewis  H.  Hale and  the  Hale  estate.

capital 

Cass  City— The  Wettliwfer  &  Poitz 
Manufacturing  Co.  has  been  organized 
to engage  in  the  agricultural  implement 
business,  with  a 
stock  of 
$10,000,  of  which  $1,900 
in. 
The  members  of  the  corporation  are 
George  Wettlawfer,  Stratford,  Ont.  ; 
W.  E.  Portz,  Tavistock,  O  t.  ;  Henry 
Wettlawfer  and  J.  A.  Benkelman,  of 
Cass  City.

is  paid 

Riverdale—This  is  an  excellent  loca­
tion  for  a  grain  elevator  and  produce 
buyer and  the  business  men  of  the place 
will  undertake  to  assist 
liberal 
manner 
the  establishment  of  such  a 
business  here.

in  a 

in 

Detroit—T.  D.  Buhl,  L.  B.  Bell  and 
Alexander  McPherson  have  organized 
the  Sprocket  Chain  Manufacturing  Co. 
for  the  manufacture  of  malleable  iron 
castings.  The  capital  stock  is  $75,000, 
with  $15,000  paid  in.

Lansing—The  Novelty  Knitting  Co. 
has  been  organized  witb  a  capital  stock 
of  $15,000,  of  which  $12,000  is  paid 
in. 
incorporators  are  W.  J.  Owen,  C.
The 
C.  Pierce,  E.  H.  Humphrey,  F.  F. 
Humphrey,  H.  E.  Bodman  and  E.  J. 
Davis,  all  of  Detroit.

Portland— A  movement  is  on  foot  to 
operate  the  Portland  creamery,  which 
has  been  idle  for  a  number  of  years. 
It 
is  proposed  to  organize  a  company,  se­
cure  subscriptions  to  the  amount  of 
$1,000 and  equip  the  plant  with  modern 
appliances.  John  A.  Webber,  who  prac­
tically  owns  the  plant,  offers  to  turn  the 
property  over  to  the  new  company  for a 
nominal  price  and  take  stock  for  the 
amount.

Manistique—Ross  Bros,  are  erecting 
a  sawmill  at  Spalding  and  expect  to  be­
gin  operations  by  May  1.  The  com­
pany  has  purchased  68,000 acres  of  tim­
ber  land  of  the  Spalding  Lumber  Co., 
and  on  May  1  the 
latter  company  will 
relinquish  all  claims  to  the  store and 
mill  property  at  Cedar  River.  The  new 
mill  will  be  one  of  the  best  in  the  coun­
try, 
costing,  when  completed,  over 
$40,000.  The  daily  capacity  will  be
30,000 
shingles  and  4,000  posts.  The  com­
pany  has  logged  extensively  this  winter 
and  about 
is 
banked  along  the  river.

io,ooo,coo  feet  of  logs 

feet  of  lumber,  4,000  ties,  250,000 

Commends  Mr.  Banker’s Combination 

Plan.

Kalamazoo,  March  27— I  take  a  num­
ber  of  trade  papers,  and  undertake to 
read  them  all  carefully  because of  the 
valuable  information  I  derive therefrom 
and  the  suggestions  I  am  able  to  utilize 
to  advantage. 
In  all  my  experience 
with  trade  papers,  however, 
I  have 
never noted  a  more  thoughtful  contri­
bution  than  J.  M.  Banker's  excellent 
in  the  last  Tradesman  on  “ Safe 
article 
Anchorage  for  the  Retailer.”  
It  hits 
the  mark  squarely  between  the  eyes  and 
offers  the  most  feasible  plan  1 have  ever 
had  brought  to  my  attention  for  the 
amelioration  of  the  retail  dealer. 
It  is 
a  pity  that  every  retailer  in  the  country 
could  not  have  the  privilege  of  reading 
the  article,  so  as  to  give  the  subject  the 
enlightened  thought  that  comes to  every 
man  of  sense  after  perusing  so pertinent 
and  suggestive a  treatment  on  the  sub­
ject.  It  seems  to  me  that  no  more profit­
able  matter  could  be  discussed  at  the 
coming  convention  of  the  Michigan 
Retail  Grocers’  Association  than  this, 
because  some  remedy  must  be  adopted 
for  the  present  congested  condition  of 
the  retail  trade—menaced  on  one  side 
by  the  department  store  and  on the other 
side  by  the  catalogue house—or  iberuin 
which  Mr.  Banker  so  graphically  de­
scribes  will  surely  ensue.

C e l e r y   Cit y.

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Didn’t  Work.

“ We  persuaded  our  married  daughter 

to  move  back  from  the  country. ’ ’ 
“ Didn’t  she  like  it  out  there?”
“ Yes;  but  she  was  always  coming  in­
to  town  just  when  we  wanted  to  go  out 
to  visit  her.”

Amount  Not  Limited.
She— I  suppose  every  man 

in  this 
world  has  a  limited  amount  of  conceit?
He— Not  at  all,  madam;  most  of  us 

have an  unlimited  amount.

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Allger  &  Co.  succeed  Irwin  &  Allger 
in  the  grocery  business  at  113  South 
Division  street.

Ward  Buzzell  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Twin  Lake.  The  Bail-Barn- 
hart  Putman  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

A.  Hirschman  has  engaged 

in  the 
grocery  business  at  Rapid  City.  The 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

Fleischmann  &  Co.  have  removed 
their  office  and  salesroom  from  26 Foun­
tain  street  to  29  Crescent  avenue,  where 
they  have  larger  and  better quarters than 
before. 

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C.  M.  Drake  and  W.  J.  Kane,  who 
have  handled  the  Grand  Rapids  end  of 
W.  R.  Brice  &  Co.  for  the past  two  sea­
sons,  are  on  the  ground  again,  ready 
for  business  as  soon  as  the  price  of eggs 
gets  down  to  the  cold  storage  basis. 
They  occupy  the  same  location  they had 
last  year.  _____________

The  grocery  firm  of  Allgier  &  Van 
Heulen,  at  160  Clancy  street,  has  been 
dissolved,  John  Allgier  succeeding.  L. 
M.  Van  Heulen  has  leased  a store build­
ing  at  the  corner  of  Jefferson  avenue 
and  Pleasant  street  and  will  put  in  a 
line  of  groceries and  provisions.  The 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  furnished 
the  stock.  _____________

The  Thompson  &  Bunnell  Lumber  Co. 
has  est  blisbed  a  branch  office  and  yard 
at  Evansville,  Ind.,  placing  the  new 
business  under  the  management  of  Karl 
Fries,  who  has  been 
in  the  employ  of 
the  company  for  the  past  three  years  as 
Southern  buyer.  The  Evansville  branch 
will  be  utilized  principally  as  a  pur­
chasing  point  for  oak  and  poplar  lum­
ber.

The  Produce  Market.

Beans— The  market 

Apples—The  market 

is  firm  and  the 
demand  is  active.  Tallman  Sweets com­
mand  S3,  Baldwins  and  Greenings  fetch 
S4.25  and  Kings  and  Spys  are  quoted 
at  $4  50.
is  still  in  a  nor­
mal  condition,  awaiting  the  return  of 
in  demand  or  price  or 
another  spurt 
both.  Some  years  ago  it  was  very  gen­
erally  believed  that  the  condtiion  of  the 
bean  market  depended,  to  a  great  ex­
tent,  on  the condition  of  the  potato  mar­
ket  and  the  price  of  that  staple.  Of  late 
years,  however,  this  theory  has  been 
thoroughly  exploded,  frequently  to  t««. 
disappointment  and  loss  of  dealers  >•*** 
still  cherished  the  belief  that  there  was 
any  connection  between  the  two.

Butter—The  market  continues  strong, 
due  to  the  lack  of  receipts.  Fancy dairy 
in  crocks  and  rolls  readily  fetches  t5@ 
16c.  Factory  creamery  is  stationary  at 
20C.

Cabbage— Home  grown 

per  doz.  for  fair  stock.

is  held  at  $1 

for 

Celery—20c  per  doz.  bunches 

White  Plume.
Bugle,  $6 ;  Cape  Cod,  $7.

Cranberries-----Wisconsin  Bell  and

Cucumbers—Declined  to $1 per  doz.
Eggs— Local  dealers  are  paying  about 
12c,  with  the  possibility  of  a  little high­
er  market  the  latter  part  of  the  week,  in 
case  the  present  stormy  weather  con­
tinues.  After  Easter, 
is  expected 
that there  will  be  an  immediate  slump 
in  the  market,  when  the  Eastern  buyers 
who  are  already  in  the  field  will  prob­
ably  begin  operations.

Honey— Light  amber  finds  ready  de­

it 

mand  on  the  basis of  10c.

Lemons— The  active  demand  con­

tinues,  with  values  ruling  firm.

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

size.  Walnuts  and  butternuts,  60c.

Onions— Both  red  and  yellow  stock  is 

in  fair  demand  at  5o@6oc.

Parsley—$1  per  doz.  bunches.
Parsnips— Declined  to  25c  per bu.
Pop  Corn— 50c  per bu.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Poultry—Scarce.  Chickens,  I2@i3c; 
Ii@ i2 c ;  geese, 

io@ iic  ;  ducks, 

fowls, 
10c;  turkeys,  I2@ i4c.

is  a 

Sweet  Potatoes— Illinois  Jerseys are  in 

Potatoes—The  market 

fair  demand  at  $3.50.
little 
weaker  than 
it  was  a  week  ago,  but 
there  is  not  very  much  shrinkage  in  the 
price,  although  there 
is  not  the  same 
anxiety  to  secure  stock.  Accumulations 
are  small,  both  in  the  bands  of  dealers 
and  shippers,  and  in  case  the  breakup 
in  the  roads  should  continue  any  con­
siderable 
length  of  time,  the  Trades­
man  confidently  expects  to  see  the  price 
at  buying  points  advance  to  65@7oc, 
because  there  will  surely  be  a  scarcity 
of  stock  before  the  farmers  will  have 
time  and  opportunity  to  meet  the  de­
mand. 
in 
heavily,  in  anticipation  of  the  demand 
which  is  pretty  sure  to  arise.

Local  buyers  are 

laying 

Flour and  Feed.

During  the  past  ten  days  quite  a  rad­
ical  change  in  sentiment  regarding  the 
value  of  breadstuffs  has  taken  place. 
According  to  the  Government  crop  re­
port,  farmers  have,  without  doubt,  quite 
a  quantity  of  wheat  in  their  hands,  but 
from  this  time  on  they  are  naturally 
slow  sellers  every  year,  on  account  of 
the  necessity  of  making  preparation  for 
spring  crops.  This  year  will  be  no  ex­
ception,  because  the  winter  weather  has 
already  continued  so 
long  that  spring 
work  is  coming  all  in  a  bunch  and there 
will  be  a  grand  rush  to  hustle  in  spring 
crops  as  soon  as  warm  weather  comes. 
Then,  again,  the  reports  of  crop  dam­
age  from  various  sections  of  the  country 
are  of  an  alarming  nature  and  farmers 
who  have  any  wheat  for  sale  prefer  to 
wait  until  they  can  know  more  about 
the  real  extent  of  damage  done  by  the 
severe  winter.

Stocks  of  both wheat  and  flour in deal­
ers’  hands  are  light,  and  with  a  light 
movement  of  wheat  from  farmers  for the 
next  two  months,  it  is  but  reasonable  to 
expect  that  values  will be sustained and, 
in  all  probability,  somewhat  advanced.
The  city  mills  are  all  running  stead­
ily  and  have  a  good  volume  of  orders 
booked  for  April.
Mill  stuff  is 

in  excellent  demand, 
with  prices  well  sustained.  Feed  and 
meal  have  been  moving  quite  freely  at 
fair  prices,  based  on  cost  of  grain,  as 
they  are  relatively  somewhat  cheaper 
than  millstuff. 

W m.  N.  R owe.

Hides,  Pelts,  Furs,  Tallow  and  Wool
Light  bides  have  declined  in  all  mar­
kets.  They  are  poor  in  quality  and  high 
in  price and  the  tanner  is,  therefore,  out 
of  pocket.  Packer’s  bides  have  ad­
vanced  and  are  closely  sold  up.  There 
is  no  accumulation  of  any  grades.

Pelts  are  inactive,  without  any  quan­
tity  being  offered.  Values  are nominal. 
Pullers  have quantities  of wool  on  hand, 
with  no  enquiries  for  pulled.

Furs  are 

in  fair  demand  for  most 
kinds  of  the  winter  catch,  while  spring 
skins  are  not  wanted,  except  at  a  low 
value.

Tallow  is  in  good  demand  at  quite  an 
advance  on  all  grades,  with  a  short  sup­
ply.  Prices  are  too  high  for  soapers, 
but  they  must have a  certain  amount for 
use  with  other  oils.

Wool 

is  still  firm,  with  no  advance 
and  with  light  sales.  Michigan  wools 
have  moved  to quite  an  extent  during 
the  past  month,  with  some  little  enquiry 
coming.  Values  are  not  up  to  the  cost 
of  present  holdings.  The  new  clip  is 
near  at  band,  with  local  buyers  ready  to 
pay  last  year’s  prices,  in  the  face  of  a 
loss.  They  still  have  faith  in  higher 
values,  which  are  now  down  to  free 
trade  prices. 

W m.  T.  Hess.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars —Raw  sugars  are  practically 
unchanged.  There  is  a  very  strong  un­
dertone,  with  sales  made  at  a  basis  of 
4^c  for  97  deg.  test.  All  refiners  re­
port  an 
increased  business  in  refined. 
Arbuckle  has  reduced  package  sugars 
i-i6c,  bringing  them  down  to  the  basis 
of  the  American  Sugar  Refining  Co. 
Some  concessions  are  being  made  on 
softs,  but  bards  are  unchanged.  The 
National  Sugar  Refinery  will  start  up 
about  the  first  of  April.

Molasses  and  Syrups—The  molasses 
is  firm.  Receipts  at  New  Or­
market 
leans  are  practically  nothing. 
Corn 
syrups  are  meeting  with  a  good  sale and 
prices  are  unchanged.

canned 

Canned  Goods—There  has  been  a  fair 
demand 
locally  ‘for  spot  corn,  tomatoes 
and  peas.  Prices  have  been  made  on 
new  pineapple  for  future  delivery  and 
quotations  range  about  10c  higher  than 
last  year.  At  the  advanced  quotations 
there  has  been  a  good  business  done. 
A  well  known  Baltimore  authority  has 
the  following  to  say  regarding  the  Bal­
timore  market  on 
goodc: 
“ Briefly,  the  canned  goods  market  here 
during  the  past  week  was  dull,  but 
strong.  There  is  not  a  weak  spot  in  the 
entire 
list;  on  the  contrary,  those  ar­
ticles  which  have been  quiet  and  neg­
lected  heretofore  are  beginning  to  show 
more  life.  Outside  of  the  regular  every­
day  jobbing  orders,  however,  there  was 
very 
little  doing,  comparatively,  both 
buyers  and  sellers  seeming  content  to 
await  developments.  The  outlook  for 
the  canned  goods  business  during  the 
next  three  or  four  months  is  good,  very 
good,  all  along  the  line  and  the  packers 
feel  encouraged  to  anticipate  a  higher 
range  of  values  excepting  in  those  arti­
cles  which  have  already  bad 
large  ad­
vances.  As  to  the  coming  peach  crop, 
the  college  professors  call  it  a  ‘ gone’ 
peach  crop,  but  some  of  the  hardheaded 
practical  men  who  grow  the  fruit  for a 
living  refuse  to  believe  there  won’t  be 
any  peaches  at  all.  The  opening  of  rail 
and  lake  navigation  next  month 
is  ex- 
expected  to cause  further  activity  in  the 
market;  already  buying  has  commenced 
for  shipment  then.  Tomatoes  for  both 
spot  and  future  delivery  are  attracting 
the  most  attention.’ ’

Dried  Fruits—-Prunes  are  steady  at 
full  prices  under  greatly  reduced stocks. 
The  general  situation 
is  unchanged. 
Holders  believe  the  prospect  is  more 
encouraging  than  usual  and  refuse  con­
cessions  on  what  may  be  termed 
large 
lots.  On  the  Coast  the  situation  shows 
improvement,  with  advancing  prices 
on  about all  sizes.  Raisins  are  in  large 
demand  and  recent  sales  have  reduced 
spot  goods  materially.  The  J.  K  Arms- 
by  Co.  has  the  following  to  say  about 
raisins:  “ We  want  to  call  your  atten­
tion  to  the  present  condition  of  the 
raisin  market.  Eastern  stocks  are  get­
ting  pretty  well  cleaned  up ;  there  is 
now  a  good  deal  of  enquiry  for  raisins 
and  purchases  are  being  made  for  ship­
ment  from  the  Coast.  The trade  are  tak­
ing  the  cheapest  grade  they  can  get, 
which 
is  now  2  crown  Pacific  brand. 
Next  to  these  come  the  3 crown Pacifies. 
About  twenty-three  carloads  of  the  2 
crowns  have  been  sold  during  the  last 
few  days,  leaving  practically  about  ten 
to  twelve  cars  unsold.  There  is  a  steady 
trade  for  raisins  and  they  are  being 
gradually  eaten  up.  The  stock  that  is 
left  in  the  hands  of  the  Association  will 
positively  not  be  sold  at  anything 
less 
than  Association  full  prices,  and  we 
believe  they  have  no  more  raisins  there 
than  will  be  absolutely  needed  during

5

the  balance  of  the  season.  Buyers  here 
are  strongly  advised  to  purchase  now, 
as  higher  prices  are  looked  for  very 
soon;  that  is,  after  the  2  crown  Pacifies 
are  gone  they  will  have  to  buy  the  3 
crown  Pacifies,  and  when  these  are  gone 
they  will  have  to  take  the  standards, 
and,  as  we  have  said  above,  they  will 
not  be  sold  at  any  reduction  from  Asso­
ciation  full  prices.”   Stocks  of  Per­
sian  dates  have  been  increased  by  the 
European  cargo  of  5,300  boxes,  con­
signed  to  a  number  of  importers.  Busi­
ness  continues  good,  however, 
and 
prices  remain  at  previous  figures.

Cocoanut—Manufacturers  of  desicca­
ted  cocoanut  admit  that  a  plan  is  ma­
turing  to  form  a  combination  in  their 
branch  of  trade,  with  a  capitalization 
of  $6,000,000  or $7,000,000.  The  lead­
ing spirits  in  this  organization  are  to  be 
Leopold  Scbepp,  of  New  York, 
the 
Dunham  Manufacturing  Co.,  of  St. 
Louis,  and  the  Wetmore  &  Pride  Man­
ufacturing  Co  ,  of  Philadelphia.

The  Grain  Market.

As  was  predicted  last  week,  this  is  a 
weather  market,  owing  to  the  seemingly 
unseasonable  weather  and  bad  crop  re­
ports.  Wheat  has  bad  a  steady  advance 
during  the  week  of  5c  on  active  futures 
between  extreme  prices  and  3c  on  spot 
cash  wheat.  The  market 
is  in  a  very 
unsatisfactory  condition  for both  buyer 
and  seller.  This  will  continue  for  sev­
eral  weeks  yet.  The  visible,  as  usual 
this  year,  made  another  75,000 bushel 
increase,  so  now  we  have  as  much  in 
the  visible  on  hand  as  last  year.  We 
might  also  state  here  that,  while  the 
Government  crop  report  gave  us  the 
invisible  amount  on  hand  at  198.000,000 
bushels,  it  omitted  to  state  that  this 
was  measured  bushels,  while  the  aver­
age  weight  this  year 
is  59  pounds, 
which  would  cut  down  the  figures  to 
140,000,000  bushels.  Taking  all  things 
into  consideration,  we  think  wheat  is 
about  low  enough.

Corn  has  been  very  strong  and  shows 
an  advance  of 
the 
weather  has  something  to  do  with  the 
price  of  corn.  This  cereal  is  probably 
as  low  as  it  will  be.

i>^c.  Of  course, 

Oats  remained  steady,  which  is  about 

all  that  can  be  said.

Rye  advanced  3c  since  last  writing 
and  is  very  firm.  Farmers in this section 
are  very  firm  in  their  opinion  as  to  crop 
damage  and  are  holding  onto  all  grains, 
expecting  higher  prices,  especially  on 
account  of  the  lateness  of  the  season.

Receipts  of  wheat  by  rail  have  been 
exceedingly  small,  being  only  22  cars  of 
wheat,  24  cars  of  corn  and  8 cars of oats.
The  millers  are  paying  68c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V oigt,

Gradually  Gaining  Ground.

The  Commercial  Credit  Co.  is  grad­
ually  gaining  ground,  its  list  of  sub­
scribers  now  numbering  over  500.  The 
growth  of  the  business 
is  due  to  the 
good  service  given,  particularly  in  the 
matter  of  collections,  in  which  depart­
ment  the  company  is  especially  strong. 
Hardly  a  day  passes  that  Manager  Ste­
venson  does  not  receive  a 
letter  from 
some 
subscriber,  complimenting  him 
on  the  collection  of  the  account  which 
was  deemed  hopeless  by  the  owner,  hav­
ing  long  ago  been  passed  to  profit  and 
loss.

The  dignity  of  labor  can  never  be  il­
lean  against 

loafers  who 

lustrated  by 
lamp  posts  for  a  living.

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades and  prices,  phone  Visner,  800.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W om an ’s  W orld

Buying  An  Easter  Bonnet.

tribulation, 

O.ie  of  the  stiange  misapprehensions 
of 
life  under  which  men  labor  is  that 
women  enjoy  buying  their  Easter  bon­
net  By  common  consent  they  seem  to 
regard 
it  as  a  festive  occasion  and  to 
view  the  trip  to  the  milliner’s  as  some­
thing  in  the  nature  of  a  picnic.  So  far 
from  this  being  the  truth,  it  is  a  season 
of.  harassment  and 
from 
which  we  generally emerge  with nervous 
prostration  and  a  hat  we  don’t  like,  and 
one  of  the  principal  reasons  Eacter Sun­
day  always  seems  the  gladdest  time  of 
all  the  glad  new  year 
is  because  we 
realize  then  that,  for  weal  or  woe,  be­
coming  or  unbecoming,the  bonnet  ques­
tion  is  settled.  There  can  he  no  more 
sending  back  to  the  store  and  exchang­
ing  feathers  for  flowers,  or  tnlle  for  rib­
bon.  As  diplomats  say,  “ The  incident 
is  closed,’ ’  and  we  have  to  reconcile 
ourselves  to  what  we  have  bought.

Of  course,  every  mother’s  daughter  of 
us,  in  the  privacy  of  our  own  home, 
knows  exactly  what  we  ought  to  get 
and  bow  much  it ought to cost us.  Above 
all  we  know  a’l  the  "don ’ts. ”   We 
know  that  the  woman  with  the long  thin 
face  shouldn’t  emphasize  it  by  getting 
a  hat  that  flares  high  up  and  is  sur 
mounted  with  towering 
feathers.  We 
know  that  the  woman  with  a  turned-up 
nose  who  buys  a  turned-up  bonnet  is 
simplv  flying  in  the  face  of Providence 
We  are  perfectly  aware  that  she  with  a 
knobby  face  with  irregular features,  who 
gets  a  hard,  unyielding,  uncompromis­
ing  sort  of  headgear  looks “ rockv, ”  and 
that  nobody  short  of  an  angel  from 
heaven 
is  pretty  enough  to  stand  a  so- 
called  plain  walking  hat  We  know, 
on  general  principles,  that  a  bonnet 
should  never  be  an  accident,  but  an  or­
nament.  and  that  we  should  avoid  those 
that  look  like  an 
inappropriate  after­
indulgence  or 
thought,  an 
an 
It  might  be 
thought  that  with  all  this  knowledge  it 
would  be  the  simplest  thing  in the world 
to  go  down  and  buy 
just  exactly  what 
we  want  and  what  suits  us  and  wear  it 
in  joyfulness  and  peace.  Alas,  how  lit­
tle  do  the  inexperienced  who  think  thus 
know  of  the  ways  of  milliners!  The 
bonnet  that  comes  up  to  our  ideal  of 
what  we  ought  to  have  is  never  the  one 
that  fires  our  fancy,  and  so 
it  is  that 
whereas  we  went  in  determined  to buy  a 
useful  plain  straw  with  durable  ribbon, 
we  come  out  with  a  confection  of violets 
and  tulle  and  a  bill  that  makes  cold 
chills  run  up  and  down  our  backs  when 
we  think  of  it

ill  directed  ambition. 

injudicious 

And  this  reminds  me  of  Elise.  The! 
other  dav  I  met  her  wearing  such  a 
stunning  new  creation  I  felt  myse'f  jus­
tified  in  remarking  upon  it

“ Jack  bought  it.”   she  said
“  It’s  a  dream. ”   I  murmured
“ It  cost  $31, 
she  went  on.
“ Goodness!”   I  exclaimed.
“ And  he  get  the  lesson  of  his  life,”  

she  smiled.

“ How  was  that?”   I  enquired.
“  Well, ”   she  said,  ‘ * you  know,  Tack 
thinks,  and  he  really  isn’t  different from 
other  men,  that  he  has  a  beaven-or- 
dained  genius  for  shopping.  He  has 
likewise  a  correspondingly  poor  opinion 
of  my  abilities  in  that 
line,  especially 
as  exemplified  by  my  purchases 
in 
millinery. 
In  fact,  it’s  about  the  only 
thing  that  we  ever  get  into  an  argument 
about  and  you  might  sav  that  the  onlv 
cloud  that  ever  comes  up  on  our  matty- 
monial  horizon  is  the  size  and  shape  of

a  hat.  Every  year  when  the  time  comes 
for  buying  my  summer  and  winter 
headgear  we  go  over  the  same  ground. 
It  doesn’t  make  the  slightest difference 
what  I  buy;  I've tried him  on  little  bats 
and  big  bats  and  medium  sized  bats, 
but  it's  a  case  of  all  coons  look  alike  to 
him,  and  all  hats  are  open  to  the  same 
criticism.

“ Suppose,  for 

instance,  I’ve  bought 
a  little  bonnet.  I  wait until after  dinner, 
when  he  ought  to  be  mollified  and  in  a 
good  humor 
if  be  isn’t.  Then  I  take 
out  the  box— which  I  have  bidden  un 
der  the  stairs  in  the  hall—and  produce 
my  triumph  of  millinery. 
I  know  he  is 
going  to  make  fun  of  it,  but  I  assume  a 
nonebahnt  and  insinuating  air  and  try 
to  sav  casually,  ‘ How  do  you  like  my 
new  bonnet?’  He  takes  it  up,  holds  it 
on  one  finger  and  turns  it  around  and 
says: 
‘ You  call  this  a  bonnet!  Three 
bunches  of  violets,  a  wisp  of  lace  and  a 
buckle?  By  George! 
it’s  no  wonder 
that  the  as\lums  and  sanitariums  are 
crowded  with  women  when  you  see  how 
they  dress  and  that  there  isn’t  a  one  in 
the  whole  bloomin'  sex  who  has  enough 
sense  to  buy  so  simple  a  thing  as  a bon­
net.  Going  to  wear  that  at  night,  I  sup­
pose,  with  no  other  protection  on  your 
head,  and  the  next  day  you’ll  be  groan­
ing  with  the  neuralgia  and  sending  for 
the doctor.  Look  at  me!  Did  you  ever 
see  me  with  a  thing  like  that  on  my 
1  have  entirely  too 
head?  Never! 
much  regard  for  my  health  and  too 
deep  a  sense  of  the  sacredness  of  my 
duty  to  my  family,  if  you  haven’t,  to 
expose  myself  that  way.  What  did  you 
‘ Fifteen  dollars,’
pay  for  it,  anvway?’ 
‘ Fifteen  dollars!' 
I  try  to  sav  defiantly. 
be  howls. 
'Fifteen—suffering  Moses! 
Fifteen  dollars  for  three  bunches  of 
v  olets,  a  string  of  lace and that buckle! 
It’s  an  outrage!  It’s  a confidence  game! 
It’s  highway  robbery  and  ought  to  be 
punishable  by  law.  Here,’  and  he  takes 
out  a  pencil  and  begins  figuring  on  the 
back  of  an  envelope,  ‘ how  much  lice  is 
there  in  that  bow?’  ‘ About  half  a  yard,’
‘ And  what  is  it 
I  say  on  the  guess. 
‘ And  how 
worth?' 
little  purple 
much  are  those  dinky 
flowers  worth?’ 
‘  ’ Bout 
two  bits  a 
bunch.’ 
‘ Oh,  I 
this  buckle?’ 
‘ And 
don’t  know.’ 
it’s  nothing  but 
glass  and  brass  and  ought  not  to  be 
worth  more  than  10  cents  at  the  out 
I  groan,  remembering  the  mil­
side.' 
liner  called 
‘ And  this  straw 
frame?’ 
‘ I  don’t  know,'  I  say  again. 
‘ I  never  ran  a  millinery  store.’  Jack 
surveys  it  contemptuously. 
‘ W ell,’  he 
says  at  last,  ‘ it's  no  bigger  than  a  sau-, 
cer,  and  you  can  buy a  load  of  straw  for 
a  dollar  or  so.  but  I  want  to  be  fair,  so 
I’ll  put  it  in  at  35  cents,  although  that’s 
an  outrageous  price. ’  Then  he  adds 
it 
up 
triumphantly; 
‘ that  gives  you  a  grand  total  of  $2.20— 
the  real  cost  of  the  hat.  And  you  see, 
just  simply  been 
my  dear,  vou  have 
done  to  the  tune  of  $12  80.' 
‘ But it  was 
‘ Imported  from 
“ imported,”   ’  I  urge 
‘ But  they 
Division  street.’  he  sniffs. 
wouldn’t  sell 
less,  and  I 
wanted  it,’  I  cry  at  last,  in  conclusion. 
‘ That's 
‘ That’s 
just  the  way  you  women  let  yourselves 
be  imposed  on.  You  never  know  what 
anything 
is  really  worth.  You  should 
just  say  distinctly  and  conclusively  that 
the  bonnet  is  worth  about  83  and  you’ll 
give  them  that,  and  no  more.  I  venture 
to  say  I  can  go  down there  and  buy  any­
th ing  they  have  for $5.  There’s  nothing 
like  a  person  really  knowing  what  they 
are  about. ’

‘ Perhaps  a  dollar.’ 

‘ There!’  he  says, 

it,’ he  answers. 

it  for  any 

it  ‘ real.’ 

‘ Well, 

just 

“ That  was  last  year.  This  spring  I

determined  to give  him  bis  chance,  and 
so  the  other day  I  told  him  I  wanted  a 
new  hat  and  invited  him  to  go  with  me 
and  help  me  pick  it  out,as  I  wanted  to 
get  something  to  please  bis  taste  this 
time.  We  made  an  appointment  and  I 
went  to  his  office  and  got  him  and 
steered  him  for  the  millinery  store.

“   ‘ Now,  Jack,’  ”   I  said, “   ‘ I want you 
I'm  not  going  to 

to manage  this  affair. 
say  a  word.  You  do  all  the talking. ’

“   ‘ All  right,’  he  confidently  replied, 
‘ and  I'll  see  that  you  don’t  get  taken  in 
by  any  of  their  skin  games,  and  when 
we  get  through  you’ll  admit  what  I 
have  told  you  all  along,  that  beauty  and 
economy  are  not  incompatible  in  mil­
linery  if  you  only  assume  a firm  attitude 
and  know  how  to  manage.  You’ll  have 
the  hat  of  your  life,  madame,  and  it 
won’t  cost  over  $5. ’

“ Well,  we  went  in,  and  one  of  those 
tall,  haughty,  silk  lined  creatures  who 
always  make  you  feel  as  humbly  con­
scious  of  every 
inferiority  of  your 
if  a  searchlight  had  been 
toilette  as 
turned  on  you  came  uo  t >  wait  on  us 
Jack  has  been  about  the  world  a  bit,  but 
all  his  experiences had  ne<er  fitted  him 
to  deal  with  a  head  milliner,  and  I  saw 
him  begin  to  wilt.  He  had  come 
in­
tending  to  take  a  high  and  mighty  air 
with  some  dowdy  little  girl,  and  here  be 
was  being  patronized  from  the  top  of 
bis  head  to  the  sole  of  bis  foot  bv  an 
autocrat  who  never  even  lets  a  woman 
so  much  as  venture  a  suggestion.  Pres­
ently  I  heard  Jack  saying  in  bis  best so 
ciety  way  and  in  precisely  the  tone  of 
voice  he  would  use  if  be  were  asking 
Mrs.  Croesus  to  let  him  bring  her  an 
ice, 
‘ I—we— my  wife—would  you  be 
kind  enough  to  show  us  some  new  bon­
nets?’

“ The  first  thing  she  brought  out  was 
a  monstrosity  that  I  wouldn’t  have  been 
caught  dead  in  and  the  price  was  818.

“   ‘ Oh,  I  began,  deprecatingly,  ‘ we 
don’t  care  for  anything  so  expensive. 
Let  us  see  something  cheaper.*’

“   ‘ Cheaper,’  began 

the  woman,  a 
scorn  of  economy  thrilling  every  word, 
‘ this  is  really very inexpensive.  M’sieur 
would  not  like  to  see  madame  wearing 
a  thing  that  was  coarse  and  dowdy.’

“   ‘ Certainly  net,’  said  Jack,  ‘ I  al­
ways  buy  the  best;  cheapest  in  the  long 
run,  you  know. ’

“ Well,  at  that  I  dropped  out  of  the 
game  and  I  never  enjoyed  anything 
more 
in  my  life  than  watching  that 
woman  work  him.  We  tried  on  hats, 
and  tried  ’em  on,  and  in  the  course  of 
it  she  told  Jack  that  he  bad  the  taste  of 
an  artist,  and  that 
it  was  a  pleasure 
and  a  privilege  to  receive  his  sugges­
tions,  and  that  we  looked  so  young  no 
one  would  have believed  we  were  mar­
ried,  and  wbat  happiness  it  must  be  to 
madame  to  have  always  the  benefit  of 
the advice of  a  man  so  sympatique  and 
with  such  knowledge  of  dress,  and  so 
on,  and  so  on  And  in  the  end  she  sold 
him  this  hat,  which  he  regarded  as  a 
bargain  at 831.

“ When  we  got  out  on  the street again, 
‘ Jack,’  I  said,  ‘ I  am 
I  turned  to  him. 
It  does  take  the  strong  and 
converted. 
unwavering  masculine  intellect  to  deal 
I’ll  never buy  another 
with  a  milliner. 
bat  for  myself  as  long  as  I  live. 
I'll 
always  get  you  to  go  with  me  and  se 
lect  it.*

“   ‘ No,  vou  won’t ,’  he  answered,  ‘ not 
much!  You’ll  never  get  me  inside a 
millinery  store  again. 
It’s  a  pleasure, 
but  it  comes  too high  for  me.*

“ Y et,”   added  Elise,  craning her head 
abound  to  get  a  back  view  of  her  hat 
“ I  think  this  hat  was  cheap enough—all 
things  considered.”

Dorothy  D ix.

Grandmothers— Old  and  New.

No  one  can  read  the  papers  nowadays 
without  being  led  to  the  conclusion  that 
the  subject  of  paramount 
interest  to 
women 
is  how  to  keep  young.  The 
advertising  columns  teem  with  the  lau­
dations  of  creams  and  lrtions,  each  of 
which 
is  guaranteed  to  be  a  perennial 
fountain  of  perpetual  youth,  and  the 
women's  page 
loaded  to  the  guards 
with  advice  about  massage  to  ward  off 
wrinkles  and  physical  culture  exercises 
to  keep  down  fat  or  promote plumpness, 
until  one  wonders  if  this  kind  of  thing 
goes  on  what  we  are  going  to  do  for 
grandmothers  in  the  future— for  women 
who  are  frankly  and  avowedly  and  con­
tentedly  old.

is 

Of  course,  everybody 

is  glad  of  the 
lengthening  span  of  youth  that  modern 
It  is  good  for  them 
ideas  give  women. 
and  good  for  the  world  that  they  should 
keep  their  bodies  strong  and  supple 
with  outdoor  exercise  and  their  hearts 
and  minds  young  with  new  thoughts 
and  new  interests,  but  when  one  sees  an 
elderly  woman  pinning  false  frizzes  on 
over  her  honest  gray  hair  before  she 
puts  on  a  sailor  bat  and  starts  out  on 
her  wheel,  one can  but  sigh  for  the  good 
old  days  when  a  woman  was  content, 
when  age  had  come  to  her,  to  wear  caps 
and  sit  quietly  at  home  in  her  corner.

Many  of  us  cherish  among  our  most 
hallowed  memories  such  a  picture. 
Other  people  might  come  and  go.  Do­
mestic  events  might  raise  cyclones  that 
swept  over  other  pa  ts  of  the  house,  but 
grandmother’s  corner  was  like  a  shrine 
up  to  which  the  troubled  waters  might 
indeed  creep,  but from which  they  rolled 
back,  calmed  and  stilLd. 
She  was 
never  too  busv  to  hear  the story of child­
ish  woes,  or to  mend  a  broken  toy  or  a 
broken  heart.  Grandmother,  in  all  her 
life,  had  never  prayed 
in  public  and 
would  have  died  of  fright  at  the  sound 
of  her  own  voice  in  a  woman’s meeting, 
but 
long  after  the-  words  of  the  most 
eloquent  preachers  turned  to  dust,  the 
sermons  she  preached  in  the  quiet dusks 
to  the  children  at  her  knee  came  back 
to  shape  their  lives  for them.  Grandma 
knew  nothing  of  logic,  but,  before  the 
saintly 
light  on  the  old  face  that  had 
been  turned  so 
long  towards  the  new 
it  bad  caught  some  of  its 
Jerusalem 
radiance,  all  the  poor  arguments  of 
in­
fidelity  and  agnosticism  slunk  back 
abashed.

It 

is  hard  to  believe  that  the  new 
grandmother 
is  going  to  be  any  im­
provement  on  the  old,  and  we  can  but 
feel  a  thrill  of  pity  for  the  little  people 
who  will  have  no  such  gracious  and ten­
der  memories,  but  instead  will,  in  after 
years,  recall  a  painted  and  powdered 
and  frizzed  old  woman making desperate 
efforts  to  hold  onto  a  vanished  youth, 
and  who  even  taught  their  baby  lips  to 
call  her  some  silly  name 
instead  of 
grandmother,  ashamed  of  the  very  title 
that  time  bad  brought  her.  Of  course, 
the  new  grandmother 
far  more 
learned  woman  than  her  predecessor, 
and  knows  things  of  which  she  never 
dreamed.  She is progressive  and  up  to- 
date  and  perfectly  capable  of  entering 
into  the  details  of  her  grandsons’  foot­
ball  game  or  her  granddaughters'  flirta­
tions,  but  it  may  be  even  doubted  if 
in 
this  hail-fellow-well-met  companion­
ship  the  influence  for  good  is  as  strong 
as 
in  the  old  days  when  there  were 
things  one  could  not  have  told  grand­
mother  any  more  than  one  could  have 
violated  a  sanctuary.  Modern  times 
have brought  about many improvements, 
but  the  cld-fashioned  grandmother  was 
the  better. 

Cora  Stow ell.

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WHAT  IS  THE  OUTCOM E?

is 

The  Tradesman 

in  receipt  of  a 
number  of  letters  from  its  readers,  com­
mending  and  commenting  on  the  com­
bination  plan  of  merchandising  sug­
gested  by  a  valued  contributor  in  last 
week’s 
is  evidently 
suggested 
in  the  belief  that  the  com­
petitive  system  has  proven  a  failure,  so 
far  as  the  retail  trade  is  concerned,  and 
that  there  are  but  two  alternatives—co­
operation  on  the  one  hand and combina­
tion  on  the  other.

issue.  The  plan 

To the  statement  that  the  competitive 
system 
is  a  failure,  the  Tradesman  is 
not  inclined  to  dissent.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  competition  has  been  carried  to 
that  extent 
in  this  country  that  it  has 
practically  ceased  to  be  competition,  in 
the  best  sense  of  the  term,  and  has  de 
generated  into  strife,  in  which  the  ele­
ment  of  honorable  rivalry 
is  almost 
wholly  eliminated.  The  average  dealer 
acts  on  the  assumption  that  he  has  no 
competition  worthy  of bis consideration ; 
that  his  goods  are  better  and  his  prices 
lower  than  those  of  his  neighbor 
in 
trade.  His  sole  ambition  is  to  win  the 
patronage  and  secure  the  dollars  of  his 
competitors'  customers,  do matter  what 
means  he  employs  or  what  deceit  and 
chicanery  be  utilizes  to  bring  about  this 
result.  This  demoralization  is  due  to 
the  introduction  of  the  department  store 
and  the  questionable  methods  resorted 
to  by  that  class  of  traders  to  attract  and 
customers.  The  demoralization 
hold 
has  crept 
into  localities  remote  from 
department  stores,  just  as  the  deadly 
miasma  of  the  valley 
is  sometimes 
swept  up  the  mountain,  poisoning  the 
blood  and  paralyzing  the  ambition  of 
those  who 
inhabit  the  higher  levels. 
There are,  of  course,  honorable  excep­
tions  to  the  general  rule.  Every  com­
munity  of  any  consequence  contains 
merchants  who  scorn  the  methods  of  the 
hyena 
in  trade  and  refuse  to  comform 
to  the  new  order  of things.  Unfortunate­
ly,  their  number  is  gradually  lessening 
and  their  influence  is-gradually  waning.
What,  then,  is  the  logic  1  outcome? 
There  are  but  two alternatives—co-oper­
ative  distribution  or  communism  on  the 
one  side  or  combination  and  consoli­
dation  on  the  other.  The  retail  trade  is 
gradually  coming  to  a  point  where 
it 
must  face  the  issue,  just  as  the  manu­
facturing 
interests  of  the  country  have 
already  met  that  dilemma.  Experience 
has  demonstrated  that  it  is  just  as  nec­
essary  that  the  expense  of  retail  distri­
bution  should  be  curtailed  as  it  is  that

the  expense  of  manufacturing  should  be 
lessened.  The  people  are  demanding 
that  the  necessities  of  life  shall  be  de­
livered  at  their  doors  at  the  smallest 
possible  margin  of  expense  and  profit. 
The  department  store  apparently  meets 
this  demand  by  buying  staple  goods  in 
such  quantities  as  to  secure  the  most 
favorable  terms  and  distributing  them 
at  a 
low  ratio  of  expense  by  means  of 
cheap  help  and  the  most  approved  mod­
ern  business  methods,  which  involve  no 
element  of  loss  through  the  giving  of 
credit.  Unable  to  buy  goods  as  cheaply 
as  the  department  store,  or  to  turn  them 
over  at  as  low  a  ratio  of  expense  by rea­
son  of  the  employment  of  male  clerks 
instead  of  cheap  girls,  and  seriously 
handicapped  in  the  race  by  the disposi­
tion  to  still  cling  to  the  credit  business, 
the  average  retail  dealer  finds  himself 
unable  to  compete  with  the  department 
store  on  an  even  basis  and  make any­
thing  more  than  a  bare  living.

In  view  of  these  facts  and  in  consid­
eration  of  the  experience  of  the  whole­
sale  trade,  which  finds 
it  necessary  to 
create  and  maintain 
iron-clad  agree­
ments  on  sugar,  coffee,  soap,  tobacco 
and  a  score  of  other  staple  articles,  in 
order  to  avoid  doing  business  at  a  loss, 
is 
it  any  wonder  that  the  retail  dealer 
turns 
in  disgust  from  the  competitive 
system  and  yearns  for some  plan  which 
will  yield  him  the  returns  incident  to 
combination  or  bring  him  the  peace  of 
mind  consequent  upon  co-operation?

FOLLOWING SMITH’S FO O TSTE PS
George  Clapperton  has  announced 
himself  as  a  candidate  for congressional 
honors—not 
in  so  many  words,  but by 
an  action  which  plainly  foreshadows  his 
intentions.  When  an  aspiring  politician 
goes  before  a  meeting  of  trades  union­
ists  and  voluntarily  announces  that  he 
has  "made  a  study  of  unionism’ ’  and 
is  prepared  to  commend  its  tenets  and 
tendencies,  it  can  safely  be  set  down  as 
a  fact  that  the  compliant  gentleman  has 
one  eye  firmly  fixed  on  the  dome  of  the 
Capitol  at  Washington  and  that  he  has 
entered  upon  a  policy  of  conciliation 
and  stultification  to  satisfy  this ambi­
tion.  Of  course,  a 
lawyer  has  excep­
tional  facilities  for carrying on the study 
of  trades  unionism  from  bis  lofty 
loca­
tion  on  the  top  floor of  the  Trust  build­
ing,but an hour's  actual  experience  with 
unionism  on  the  ground  floor of  a  fac­
tory  or  one  short 
interview  with  a 
boorish  and  arbitrary  walking  delegate 
or  strike  manager  will speedily convince 
the  candid  searcher after truth that there 
is  a  vast  difference  between  preaching 
and  practice—between  the  aims  and 
objects  of  unionism  as  set  forth 
in  the 
text  books  of  the  movement  and  the 
hunger  and  disappointment  and  defeat 
of  the  men  who  blindly  follow  the  lead­
ership  of  venal  and  unscrupulous  mana­
gers.  The Scriptures  declare  that  a  man 
shall  be  judged  by  his  fruits  and  not  by 
his  pretensions.  The  fruits  of  union 
ism, in  the  perverted operation prevalent 
to  day,  are  drunkenness,  disorder,  dis­
loyalty  and  anarchy,  and  the  lawyer 
with  political  ambitions and  the preach­
er  with  good  intentions who countenance 
such  an  element  by  attending  the  meet­
ings  of 
the  marplots  and  uttering 
honeyed  words  to  men  whose  abiding 
place  is  the  slums  and  saloons  will  have 
something  to  answer  for  in  after years 
when  the  results  of  their  actions  are 
brought  home  to  them.

If  Rudyard  Kipling 

is  permitted  to 
read  all  the  poetry  that  has  been written 
about  him  it  may  make  him  sick  again.

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
There 

is  enough  of  variety  in  both 
movement  and  prices  to  make  the  in­
dustrial  situation  interesting and to show 
that  the  advance,  which  on  the  whole  is 
very  general,  is  subject  to  the  checks 
and  stimulus  of  varying 
conditions, 
which  would  not  be the  case  in  a  boom 
movement.  During the  past  week  there 
has  been  a  diminution  in  the  activity 
of  the  more  speculative  stocks,  hut  this 
has  been  more  than  overbalanced  by 
the  increase  in  standard  railway  shares. 
These  have  appreciated  in  value  on  an 
average $1.76  per  share.  The  manipu­
lated  stocks,  led  by  sugar  which  had 
been  so  unduly  boomed  the  preceding 
week,  met  with  sufficient  reaction  to 
carry  the  average  of  trusts  downward  63 
cents  per  share.

The  movement  of  all  principal  prod­
ucts  except  cctton  continues  without 
abatement  The  exports  of  wheat,  in­
cluding  flour,  have  been  in  three  weeks 
12,259.628  bushels,  against  12.060,135 
last  year,  and  of corn  11,647,541,  against 
11,723,187  last  year.  0.f  the  two  grains 
together  the  exports  since  July  1  have 
been  about  313.000,000  bushels,  against 
305,000,000  last  year. 
Copious  rains 
have  rejoiced  California  with  prospects 
of  a  great  yield,  and  while  news  of 
in­
jury  by  the  weather  comes  from  some 
districts  at  the  West,  as  always  happens 
at  this  season,  the  single  fact  that West­
ern  receipts  of  wheat  have  been  10,180,- 
957  bushels 
in  three  weeks,  against 
7,893,606  last  year,  shows  clearly  that 
no  shortage  of  supplies  is  generally  ap­
prehended. 
Influenced  partly  by  such 
reports,  but  probably  more  by  foreign 
advices,  especially  of  famine  in  Russia 
prices  steadily  advanced  during 
last 
week,  in  all  4^  cents,  with  corn  also 
1 %  cents  stronger.  This  week  main­
tains  the  upward  tendency,  with a  slight 
slackening  at  the  last  on  account  of  fa­
vorable  crop  reports.

Cotton  exports  have  remarkably  de­
creased,  since  March  1  having  been 
only  276,251  bales,  against  678,446  last 
year,  and  the price  has  shown  weakness, 
although  closing  without  change.  The 
heavy  exports  earlier  and  great  stocks 
carried  abroad  make  the  shrinkage  nat­
ural,  but  it  means  an  important  reduc­
tion  in  merchandise  exports.  Although 
factories  are  busy  and  goods  are  strong 
in  price 
in  spite  of  the  weakening  of 
the  material,  the  takings  of  spinners, 
North  and  South,  have  been  in  March 
thus  far  7,000 bales  less  than  last  year, 
while  receipts 
last 
week  were  larger  than  a  year ago.  The 
woolen  manufacture  has  been  buying  a 
little  more  freely  of  wool,  with  consid­
erable  concessions  in  prices  by  Eastern 
dealers  and  also 
in  sales  by  Western 
holders.  The  machinery  is  not  all  fully 
employed,  and  the  prospect  of  various 
consolidations  appears  to  retard  busi­
ness  to  some  extent.  In  boots  and  shoes 
shipments  during  March  have been con­
siderably  smaller  than 
last  year,  but 
larger than  in  any  other  year,  and  not 
withstanding  recent  advances  in  leather 
there  seems  to  be  more  business,  al­
though  jobbers  are  still  conservative.

from  plantations 

The  iron  situation  continues  the  same 
intensity  of activity,  with  advances 
in 
manufactured  products  which  threaten 
to  check  foreign  demand  if  continued. 
It  seems as  though  the  opening  of  the 
world’s  markets  which  resulted  from the 
Spanish  war  has  stimulated  demand  un­
til  it  has  forced  prices  far  above  the 
normal. 
It  remains  to be  seen  to  what 
extent  the  prestige  may  be  maintained. 
It  is  probable  that  slackening  demand 
will  bring  a  return  to a  nearer  parity

with  the  rest  of the  world.  Prices  have 
advanced  24  per  cent,  for products taken 
together  since  February  1,  and  38  per 
cent,  for  pig  iron,  and  although  Bess­
emer  has  yielded  some  during  the  last 
week,  anthracite  at  Newark,  Grey  Forge 
at  Pittsburg  and  Southern  pig  at  Chi­
cago  are  all  higher.

At  the  principal  clearing  houses,  in 
twenty  working  days  of  March,  pay­
ments  have 
averaged  $304.905,000, 
which 
is  44  5  per  cent,  more  than  last 
year  and  57.8  per  cent,  more  than  in 
1892.  Less  speculative  stock excitement 
may  have  rendered  returns  deceptive; 
the  payments  at  the  thirteen 
largest 
cities  outside  New  York  may  be  separ­
ately  compared,  but  they  show  an  in­
crease  over  last  year  of  39  per  cent,  for 
the  week  and  26 per cent,  for the  month, 
and  an 
increase  over  1892  of  44  per 
cent,  for the  week  and  38  per  cent,  for 
the  month. 
It  can  not  be  denied  that 
in  volume  business  is  far  surpassing  all 
records.  _____________

took 

in 

When  the  hour  came  for  the  Kansas 
Legislature  to  close,  the  other  day,  the 
executive  council 
the  somewhat 
remarkable  precaution  of  stationing 
detectives  at  every  exit  of  the  state- 
house,  with 
instructions  to  see  that  no 
It 
public  property  was  carried  away. 
has  been  the  custom 
the  past,  it 
seems,  for  a  vast  number  of  articles, 
ranging  from  typewriters  down  to 
ink- 
stands 
in  value,  and  from  desks  and 
chairs  to  bunches  of  envelopes  in  size, 
to  disappear  at  the  end  of every session, 
and  the  authorities  decided 
that  for 
once  at  least  this  sort  of  stealing  should 
be  discouraged.  The  detectives  found 
plenty  to  do,  and  dozens  of  would-be 
thieves  were  forced  to  disgorge.  The 
depredators  were  chiefly  legislative  em­
ployes.  It  would  be  interesting  to know 
whether  the  Kansans  are  peculiar  in 
looting  their  Capitol  or  in  taking  action 
to  prevent  the  dirty  business.  There 
are  other  states 
legislative 
"souvenirs”   are  not  qu;te  unknown.

in  which 

The  purpose  of  the  United  States  to 
exercise  control  in  Cuba  only  until  such 
time  as  the  people  of  that 
island  shall 
be  able  to  establish  a  stable  government 
is  reaffirmed  in  the  decision  of  Attor­
ney  General  Griggs  denying  the  appli­
cation  of  the  Commercial  Cable  Co.  to- 
1 and  a  cable 
in  Cuba.  By  the act  of 
March  3,  1899,  Congress  directed  that 
"no  property  franchise  or  concessions 
shall  be  granted  in  the  island  of  Cuba 
during  the  occupancy  thereof  by  the 
United  States."  This  precludes  the 
granting  of  the  cable  company’s  re­
quest,and  is  a  wise  inhibition.  A  power 
less  scrupulous  might  farm  out  ail  that 
is  worth  while 
in  the  island  while  in 
temporary  possession,  so  that  when  the 
Cubans  came  into  power  they  would find 
nothing  to  administer  upon.  The  good 
faith  of  the  United  States  is  to  be  pre­
served.

There  will  be  no  marrying  in  haste 
and  repenting  at  leisure  in  Wisconsin 
henceforth.  The  new  marriage  law,  as 
passed  by  the  Assembly,  provides  that 
five  days  must  elapse between the taking 
out  of  the  license  and  the  marriage cer­
emony,  and  that  during  the  time  the 
license  must  be kept  on file and recorded 
by  the  Register  of  Deeds  of  the  county 
where  the  parties  or  the  bride  resides, 
or,  in  case  the  parties  are  not  residents 
of  the  State,  in  the  county  where  the 
ceremony  is  ta  take  place.

There 

is  war  enough 

in  Manila  to 
keep  the  magazines  supplied  with  bat­
tle  matter for  a  couple of  years.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

e

MEN  OF  MARK

C.  U.  Clark,  President  Michigan  Bark 

&   Lumber  Co.

It 

is  not  often  that  a  person  is  priv­
ileged  to  do  business  or  be  associated  in 
a  business  way  with  three generations  of 
the  same  family,  but  the  editor  of  tbe 
Tradesman  bas  had  the  privilege  and 
pleasure  of  doing  business  with  three 
generations  of  Clarks— Nathaniel  Clark, 
who  is  spending  tbe  evening  of  bis  life 
in  Reed  City,  N.  B.  Clark,  whose 
tragic  death  a  couple  of  years  ago 
shocked  the  business  world  with  which 
identified,  and  Clarence  U. 
he  was 
Clark,  who  succeeded  his 
father  as 
President  of  the  Michigan  Bark  &  Lum­
ber  Co.  Tbe  first  business  experience 
the  writer  had  was  in  the  general  store 
of  Clark  &  Simpson,  at  Reed  City,  in 
the  spring  of  1872.  Nathaniel  Clark, 
the  senior  partner,  devoted  his  entire 
attention  to  the  mercantile  business, 
while bis  partner dabbled  in  timber  and 
lumber,  Mr.  Clark  was  diligent 
in 
business  and  soon  secured  for  the  firm

it 

considerable  sober  thinking.  There  is 
such  a  thing  as  a  too  friendly  rivalry 
and 
is  barely  possible  that  such  a 
condition  of  things  may  be  now  ap­
proaching  between  John  and  Johnathan, 
Not that  anything  like  strained relations 
exists.  So 
long  as  the  rivals  are  head 
to  head  in  the  commercial  race  it  is  ex­
citing  and  enjoyable  for  both,  but  the 
moment  one  forges  ahead  the  friendli­
ness  will  take  to  itself  wings.  A  few 
figures  will  furnish  a  moral  and  adorn 
the  tale:

The  exports  of  domestic  merchandise 
from  the  United  States,  in  tbe  eight 
months  ending  with  February,  amount 
to  $89,335,141  ;  those  from  the  United 
Kingdom  amount  to  $789,960,427.  The 
domestic  exports 
the  United 
States,  during  the  calendar  year  1898, 
were  $1,233,564.828,  while  those  of  the 
United  Kingdom  were $1,131,944,331,  a 
difference  of  over  $100,000,000.

from 

That  year  was  the  first  in  which  the 
United  States  came  out  ahead  in domes 
tic  exports.  Twice  before  the  domestic 
exports  of  this  country  have  been  over 
a  billion  dollars,  while  for  tbe 
last 
twenty  years  tbe  United  Kingdom  has 
constantly  gone  beyond  that  amount  In 
1879,  the  latest  year  in  which  ber  ex­
ports  of  domestic  merchandise  fell  be­
low  a billion  dollars,  they  amounted  to 
$928,929,026;  that  same  year  our  figures 
for  the  same  merchandise  were  $754,- 
656,755.  so  that,  during  the  double  dec­
ide,  Great  Britain  scores  a  gam  of  22 
per  cent,  and  the  United  States  finds  63 
per cent,  for  ber  record  of  gain,  during 
the  same  period.

In  writing  abont  the 

AGITATION  AGAINST  BOUNTIES.
injury  done 
sugar-producing countries by the bounty- 
fed  beet  sugar  of  Europe,  newspapers 
and  other  publications  have  not  com­
into  account  as 
monly  taken  India 
among  tbe  countries 
injured  by  this 
It  now  develops,  how­
competition. 
ever,  that  India 
injured 
by  the  cheap  European  beet  sugar  and 
has  actually  been  forced  to  follow  the 
example  of  tbe  United  States  and  im­
pose  countervailing  duties  upon  bounty- 
fed  sugar  in  self-protection.

is  seriously 

It  must  not  be  supposed,  however, 
that  the  situation  in  India  is the  same 
as  that  prevailing  in  tbe cane-producing 
countries  of  the  West  Indies. 
It  is  true 
that  the  bounty-fed  sugar  has  mate­
rially 
injured  tbe  West  India  sugar- 
producing  islands;  but  it  has  done  so, 
not  by  competing  with  their  sugar  in 
their  own  home  markets,  but  by  forcing 
down  tbe  price of cane sugar  in  the  mar 
kets  of  Great  Britain.  The  West Indies 
export  large  amounts  of  sugar,  whereas 
India  exports  but  little,  nearly  all  bei 
production  being  consumed  at  home.

The  action  of  India  in  imposing coun­
tervailing  duties  will,  without  doubt, 
stimulate  the British  West India colonies 
to  renew  their  demand  for  protection 
from  bounty-fed  sugar.  They themselves 
imposing  duties. 
can  do  no  good  by 
What  they  demand 
is  that  Englano 
should  place  a  tax  on  bounty-fed  beei 
sugar  sufficient  to  drive  it  out  of  Eng­
lish  markets,thus  giving  colonial  sugars 
preferential 
Thus  Great 
Britain  is asked  to  tax  the  millions  of 
her  population  for  the  benefit  of  a  num 
ber  of  small  colonies.  This  is  a  very 
different  proposition  from  that  which 
confronted  India.

treatment. 

In  British  India  sugar  is  produced  on 
a  large  scale  and  is  one  of  the 
leading 
industries  of  the  people,  but  the  prod­
uct  is  nearly  all  consumed at home.  Tbe 
imported  beet  sugar,  by  materially  low­
ering  tbe  price  of  sugar  to  consumers, 
has  greatly  damaged  the  sugar-cane  in­
terests  of  the  natives, 
the 
value  of  their  lands  and  curtailed  their 
incomes.  The  countervailing  duty  bas, 
therefore,  been  imposed  as  a  protection 
to  tbe  home  industry.

impaired 

The  situation  in  India  is  very  similar 
to  that  prevailing  in  the  United  States. 
The  competition  of  bounty-fed  beet 
sugar  was  becoming  a  serious  menace 
to  tbe  domestic  sugar  industry  before 
Congress  decided  to  put  a  countervail­
ing  duty  equivalent  to  tbe  bounty  paid. 
Tbe  duty  has  been  successful  in  check­
ing  the  competition  of  beet  sugar,  and 
this  success  bas  no  doubt  been 
instru­
mental  in  inducing  the  Indian  govern­
ment  to  adopt  the  countervailing  duty.
The  action  of  India  is  another  blow 
at  the  bounty  system  of  continental 
Europe,and will  aid  the  agitation  which 
is  constantly  growing  against  the  con­
tinuance  of  the  bounties.

A  FRIENDLY  RIVALRY.

It  was  a  joyful  occasion  for  host  and 
guest  when  Ambassador  Choate  re­
marked,  among other  things,  at  tbe  ban­
quet  in  his  honor,  that  tbe  two  nations, 
while  standing  side  by  side  in  carrying 
out tbe  high  ideals  of  National  upright­
ness  and  honor,  would  still  continue  a 
friendly  rivalry  in  regard  to  the  world’s 
commerce.

The  time  has  been  when  a  statement 
of  that  character  would  have  met  with  a 
complacent  “ Well!”   from  tbe  country 
of  the  “ Woolsack;”   but  there 
is  little 
doubt  in  commercial  circles  that  the  in 
cidental  remark  has  been  the  cause  of

office  of  bis  father,  which  position  he 
retained  with  the  subsequent  firm  of 
N.  B.  Clark  &  Co. 
In  1892,  when  the 
business  was  merged  into  a  corporation 
under  the  style  of  the  Michigan  Bark  & 
Lumber  Co. ,Mr.  Clark  became  a  stock­
holder,  and  two  years later  he  was  made 
a  director  and  elected  to  the  respon­
sible  position  of  Secretary  and  Treas­
urer.  On  the  death  of  his  father,  May 
15,  1897,  he  was  elected  President  of 
the  company,  which  position  he  has 
filled  with  great  credit  to  himself  and 
with  profit  to  the  stockholders.

Mr.  Clark  was  married  Oct.  15,  1891, 
to  Miss  Cora  E.  Sees,  of  Grand  Rapids, 
and  has  had  two  children—a  daughter 
now  nearly  2
years  old  and  a  son  who 
died  at  the  age  of  6  months.  He  is  an 
attendant  of  the  Congregational  church, 
of  which  bis  wife  is  a  member,  and 
is 
a  devoted  adherent  of  the  Masonic  fra­
ternity  up  to  the  33d  degree.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of 
tbe  Grip.

Mr.  Clark  attributes  his  success  in 
business  to  his  intimate  knowledge  of 
details,  due  to  tbe  fact  that  be  bas  un­
dertaken  to  master  every  part  of  the 
business.  He  has  been  kept  very  busy 
since  his  boyhood 
in  acquiring  this 
know ledge,  so  that  he  has  bad  no  time 
for  foolishness,  having  devoted  every 
moment  to  the  study  of  hemlock  bark 
from  the  time  it  is  peeled  from  the  tree 
until  it  produces  the  finished  product  at 
the  hands  of  the  tanner.  The  fact  that 
he  was  able  to  take  up  the  work  of  bis 
father,  when  the  latter  was  suddenly 
summoned  from  the  scene  of  bis  activ­
ity,  and  carry  it  forward  to  a  successful 
issue  cleaiiy  demonstrates  that  during 
the  years  of  his  tutelage  he  made  the 
best  of  bis  opportunities  and  omitted 
learning  no  point  which  would  con­
tribute  to  his  success.

There  is  something  peculiar  and  al­
in  the  frequency  with 
most  ominous 
which  the  State  Department  officials are 
giving  out  foreign  commendations  of 
our consular  service,  and  the  informa­
tion  supplied  by  it  to  American  mer­
chants  and  manufacturers.  Of  course, 
these  praises  from  English,  German 
and  French  authorities  make very pleas­
ant  reading,  but  if  they  are  to  serve  as 
arguments  for  leaving  unchanged  the 
present  method  of  selecting  and  remov­
ing  our  foreign  representatives, 
then 
they  are  open  to  a  good  deal  of  suspi­
cion.  That  all  of  our  consuls  are  dis­
reputable  or  incompetent  politicians 
is 
a  claim  that  no  sane  man  would  make, 
but  that  more  than  a  few  of  them  are 
one  or  the  other,  or  both,  is  beyond 
question,  and  equally  certain  is  it  that 
the 
in 
vogue,  if  perpetuated,  will  prevent  the 
formation  of  a  service  as  creditable 
throughout  as  it  now  is  in  spots.  The 
foreigners  envy  us  the  best,  most 
intel­
ligent  and  most  industrious  of  our  con­
suls,  and  well  they  may,  but  no  Ameri­
can  citizen  bas  traveled  to  tbe  more out- 
of-the  way  parts  of  the  world  without 
finding  himself  forced  to  listen  in angry 
silence  to  tales  that  were  inspired  not 
by  envy,  but  by  well-warranted  con­
tempt.

system  of  appointment  now 

No  trust  bas  angered  the  anarchists 
and  trades  unionists  so  much  as  the 
proposed  soap  trust.  They  never  use 
soap;  but 
is  tbe  principle  of  the 
thing  they  stick  at,  and  resolve  to  do 
tbe  combine  dirt.

it 

There  are  some  people  who  make  it 
necessary  to  lie  about  them  when  any­
thing  good  is  to  be  told  of  them.

In  tbe  exchange  of  commodities  dur­
ing  the  last  twenty  years  the  advantage 
is  in  favor  of  this  country. 
In  1879 our 
exports  to  the  United  Kingdom  were 
$346.485,881; 
in  1898,  $584,398,302,  a 
gain  of  54  per  cent.— ours  for  the  same 
time  being  63  per  cent.—a  statement 
the  more  remarkable  from  the  fact  that 
our  imports  from  the  United  Kingdom 
have  not  increased  at  the  rate  her  pur­
chases  from  us  have  grown.  The  im­
ports  into  the  United  States  from  Great 
Britain  in  1898  are  no  greater  than  they 
were  twenty  years  ago,  the  imports  from 
that  country  in  1879  being  $108,538,812 
and  in  1898 $108,945,185.

in  Europe. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  Great  Britain 
would  enjoy  the  progress  of  tbe  United 
States,  as  it  is  here  recorded,  if  it  were 
tbe  result  of  rivalry  between  this  and 
any  other  country 
It  re­
mains  to  be  seen  whether,  if  this  con­
dition  of  things  continues,  tbe  rivalry 
will  remain  so  friendly  as  it  was  re­
ported  to  be  at  the  time  of  tbe  banquet. 
Blood  is  thicker  than  water;  but  there 
are  limits  even  to  that,  and  even  mem­
bers  of  the  same 
family  have  been 
known  to  disagree.  The  Yankee’s  love 
for  the  Almighty  Dollar,  pronounced  as 
it  is,  has  been  inherited,  and  it  is  safe 
to  predict  a  lively  time  if  each  of  these 
two  branches  of  the  Saxon  family  ever 
makes  up 
its  mind  to  gain  the  entire 
possession  of  the  same  thing.

The  Mayor  of  Atchison  has  officially 
notified  the  citizens  that  he wants every­
body  to  take  a  course  of  the  cider-vine­
gar  treatment 
for  the  prevention  of 
smallpox.  This  treatment  extends  over 
a  week,  and  the  patient  is  expected  to 
trke  a  tablespoonfui  of  vinegar  three 
times  a  day.  The  Mayor  is  backed  by 
tbe  city  physician,  who  declares  that 
it 
is  the  best  preventive  known.

By  tbe  time  a  man  has  dropped  all 
his burdens,  be  has  become  so  old  and 
worn  out  that  be  is  a burden  himself.

the  confidence  and  patronage  of  the 
people.  He 
is  a  man  of  strong  convic­
tions,  intensely  religious  and  eminently 
fair  in  his  dealings.  Although  the  rela­
tionship  of  employer  and  clerk  was  of 
only  a  few  months'  duration,  the  exam­
ple  of  Mr.  Clark  and  the precepts he  in­
culcated  in  his  clerk  have  been  of 
last­
ing  value  to  the  latter  in  his  life  work.
Clarence  U.  Clark  was  born  on  a 
prairie  farm  in  Mower  county,  Minne­
sota,  Nov.  27,  1868.  When  he  was  3 
years  old,  bis  parents  removed  to  Reed 
City,  where  they  remained  two  years. 
Their  next  abiding  place  was  at  Chase, 
where  for  two  years  tbe  father  was  asso­
ciated  with  the  construction  depart­
ment  of  the  F.  &  P.  M.  Railroad. 
The  family  then  removed  to  Fremont, 
where  the  elder  Clark  was  connected 
with  the  C.  &  W.  M.  Railway,  subse­
quently  establishing  himself  in the hem­
lock  bark  business,  which  afterwards 
grew  to  such  large  proportions under his 
own  and  his  son’s  direction.  Mr.  Clark 
attended  school  at  Fremont  during  the 
eleven  years  he  resided  at  that  place 
and,  on  the  removal  of  the  family  to 
Cadillac,  went  on  the  road  purchasing 
and  inspecting  bark,  covering  the  buy­
ing  points  between  Cadillac  and  Reed 
City,  including  tbe  Luther  and  Osceola 
branches.  Sept.  1,  1886,  the  family  re­
moved  to  Grand  Rapids,  where Clarence 
attended  Swensberg's  business  college 
In  the  spring  of 
during  the  winter. 
1887  be  resumed  bis  position 
in  the

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Fruits  and  Produce.
Good  Results  From  the  Use  o f Water 

Glass.

Some  months  ago  the  Tradesman  de­
voted  considerable  space  to  the  report 
of  experiments  which  bad  been  made  in 
Germany  with  various  methods  of  pre 
serving  eggs,  from  which 
it  appeared 
that  of  all  the  methods  tried  a  solution 
of  water  glass  afforded  the  most  satis 
factory  results.  The  North  Dakota  ex 
periment  Station  at  Fargo  has  recently 
issued  a  bulletin  containing  an  interest 
ing  report  of  further  experiments  made 
by  E.  F.  Ladd  with  a  solution  of  water 
glass,  from  which we  take  the following

During  the  past  summer a  statemer.. 
was  made 
in  one  of  the  agricultural 
journals  that  water  glass  was a preserva 
tive  for  eggs.  From  the  nature  of  this 
product  the  method  seemed  promising 
and 
it  was  decided  to  make  some  ex 
periments  to  determine  whether  it  had 
any  real  value  for  this  purpose.  The 
shell  of  an  egg  has  a  very  thin  coating 
of  mucilagenous,  albuminous  matter 
upon  its  surface  that  seems  to  protect 
the  eggs  for  a  considerable  time  from 
atmospheric  action  or  the  introduction 
of  the  germs  of  decomposition. 
If  this 
coating  be  removed  immediately  after 
the  egg  is  deposited  while  still  warm 
the  keeping  quality  seems  to  be  much 
reduced,  or 
if  eggs  that  become  soiled 
in  the  nest  are  washed,  this  albuminous 
coating  is  softened  and  the  life  of  the 
egg  shortened  thereby.  This  would  sug 
gest  that  a  method  for  preserving  egg_ 
should  be  one  based  upon  experiments 
that  would  tend  to  more  thoroughly  pro 
tect  this  natural  condit  on  of  the  eggs, 
and  at  the  same  time  keep  the  air as 
far  as  possible  from 
the  eggs.  For 
this  purpose  lime  has  not  proved  wholly 
successful,  neither  has  salt  nor  brine, 
for  while  each  of  them  aid  in protecting 
against  air,  the  albuminous  coating  ol 
toe  egg  has  been  destroyed and  the  shell 
much  weakened.  These  adverse  condi­
tions  seem  to  be  more  largely  overcome 
by  the  use  of  water  glass  than  in  either 
of  the  other  methods.  After experiments 
with  solutions  of  various  strengths,  and 
under  varying  conditions,  we  found  a 
io  per  cent,  sdution  of  water  glass 
would  preserve  eggs  very  effectually,  so 
that  at  the  end  of  three  and  one-halt 
months  eggs  that  were  preserved  the 
first  part  of  August  still  appear  to  be 
perfectly  fresh. 
In  most  packed  eggs, 
little  time,  the  yolk  setiles  to 
after  a 
one  side,  and  the  egg 
inferior 
in  quality. 
In  boiling  eggs  preserved 
for  three  and  one-half  months  in  water 
glass  the  yolk  retained  its  normal  posi­
tion  in  the  egg,  and  in  taste  they  were 
not  to  be  distinguished  from  fresh  un­
packed  store  eggs.  Again,  most  packed 
eggs  will  not  beat  up  well  for  cakemak­
ing  or  frosting,  while eggs  from  solution 
in  water glass  seemed  quite  equal  to  the 
average  fresh  eggs  of  the  market. 
It 
should  be  borne  in  mind  that  in  these 
experiments  only  fresh  eggs  were  used 
for  preserving;  no  egg  was  more  than 
four  days  oil.  Eggs  that  have  already 
become  stale  can  not  be  successfully 
preserved  by  this  or  any  other  known 
method  so  as  to  come  out  fresh.
Water  glass  is  a  very  cheap  product 
that  can  usually  be  procured  at  not  to 
exceed  50c  per  gallon,  and  one  gallon 
would  make  enough  solution  to  preserve 
fifty  dozen  of  eggs,  so  that  the  cost  of 
material  for  this  method  would  only  be 
about  ic  per  dozen.  Water  glass  is  so­
dium  and  potassium  silicate,  sodium 
silicate  being  usually  the  cheaper. 
If 
wooden  kegs  or  barrels are  to  be  used in 
which  to  pack  the  eggs  they  should  first 
be 
scalded  with  boiling 
water  to  sweeten  and  purify  them.  For 
those  who  may  desire  to  try  this  method 
I  give  the  following  directions:

thoroughly 

is  then 

Use  pure  water 

that  has  been 
thoroughly  boiled  and  then  cooled.  To 
each  ten  quarts  of  water  add  one  quart 
of  water  glass.  Pack  the  eggs  in  the 
jar  and  pour  solution  over  them,  cover­
ing  well.

Keep  the  eggs  in  a  cool  dark  place.

A  dry  cool  cellar  is  a  good  place.

Regulating  the  Sale of Process  Butter
Albany,  March  23—Gov.  Roosevelt 
gave  a  hearing  this  noon  on  Senator 
Ambler’s  bill  regulating  the  manufac 
ture,  sale  and  branding  of  process  but 
ter,  a  compound  of  various  grades  of 
butter  worked  over  and  manipulated  by 
the  use  of  preservatives.  The  hearing 
developed  the  fact  that  the  State  De­
partment  of  Agriculture  can not prohibit 
the  sale  of  butter  of  an 
inferior  grade, 
and  although  this  had  no  direct  bearing 
on  the  measure  under  discussion  it  pro­
voked  from  the  Governor  an  expression 
to  the  effect  that  he  hoped  a  bill  aimed 
against  such  butter  would  be  speedily 
passed.

The  opposition  to  the  process  butter 
bill  was  represented  by  a  number  of 
wholesale  commission  merchants,  who 
were  heard  through  Attorney  J.  S. 
Frost,  of  this  city.  Mr.  Frost  admitted 
that  they  were  opposed  merely  to  the 
branding  of  the  butter  as  such.

Gov.  Roosevelt thought,  under the  cir­
cumstances,  that  it  was  unnecessary  for 
any  of  the  advocates  of  the  bill  to  pre 
sent  any  arguments,  thus  practically  an 
nouncing  that  be  would  sign  the  bill.

Since  the  hearing  above  described the 
measure  has  passed  both  houses  of  the 
Legislature  in  the  following  form :

No  person  by  himself,  his  agents  or 
employes,  shall  manufacture,  sell,  offer 
or  expose  for  sale,  butter  that  is  pro­
duced  bv  taking  original  packing  stock 
or  other  butter  or  both  and  melting  the 
same,  so  that  the  butter  fat  can  be 
drawn  off,  then  mixing  the  said  butter 
fat  with  skimmed  milk  or  milk  or 
cream  or  ctder  milk  product  and  re- 
churning  the  said  mixture,  or  that  is 
produced  by  any  similar  process  and 
is 
commonly  known  as  boiled  or  process 
butter,  unless  he  shall  plainly  brand  or 
mark  the  package  or  tub  or  wrappei 
in 
which  the  same  is  put  up  in  a  conspic­
uous  place  with  the  words  “ Renovated 
If  the  same  shall  be  put  up, 
Butter.”  
sold,  offered  or  exposed 
in 
prints  or  rolls,  then  the  said  prints  or 
labeled  plainly  with 
rolls 
printed 
in  a  conspicuous  place 
on  the  wrapper  with  the  words  “ Reno­
vated  Butter.”   If the  same  is  packed  in 
tubs  or  boxes  or  pails  or  other  kind  of 
case  or  package,  the  words  “ Renovated 
Butter”   shall  be  prn ted  on  the top  and 
side  of  the  same  in  letters  at  least  one 
neb  in  length  so  as  to  be  plainly  seen 
by  the  purchasers. 
If  such  butter  is 
exposed  for  sale  uncovered,  not 
in  a 
package  or  case,  a  placard  containing 
the  label  so  printed  shall  be  attached  to 
the  mass  of  butter  in  such  manner  as  to 
easily  be  seen  and  read  by  the  purchas­
er.  No  peison  shall  sell,  offer  or  expose 
for  sale  any  butter  or  other  dairy  prod­
uct  containing  a  preservative,  but  this 
shad  not  be  construed  to  prohibit  the 
use  of  salt  in  butter  or cheese.

shall  be 

for  sale 

labels 

Reason  for  Doubt.

“ Did  you  sever  your  connection  with 
the  firm  or  were  you discharged?”  asked 
the  friend.

The  man  out  of  a  job  gave  a few min­

I’m  a  little  uncertain  about  that,”  

utes  to  thought  before  answering.
he  said  at  last.
"Uncertain?”
“ Yes.  Of  course,  I  know  that  office 
boys  arejdischarged  and  general  man­
agers  sever  their  connections,  but  I 
can’t  be  sure  that  I  was  high  enough  up 
to  sever  my  connection,  and  I don’t  like 
to  think  I  was  low  enough  down  to  be 
discharged.  Perhaps  you’d  better  make 
t  that  the  firm  and  I  disagreed.”

It 

is  always  surprising  how  much 

deeper a  hole  is  after  one  gets  into  it.

The  trouble  market  is  easy  and  it  can 

always  be  borrowed  at  low  rates.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

If  the  eggs  are  kept^in  too  warm?a 
place  the  silicate  is  deposited  and  the 
eggs  are  not  properly  protected.  Do  not 
wash  the  eggs  before  packing  for,  by  so 
doing,  you  injure  their  keeping  quality 
probably  by  dissolving the mucilagenous 
coating  on  the  outside  of  the  shell.

For  packing  use  only  perfectly  fresh 
eggs,  for  stale  eggs  will  not  be  saved 
and  may  prove  harmful  to  the  others.

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UNCERTAIN  MARKET.

New  York  Egg  Dealers  Unable  to 

Fathom  the  Future.

I 

have  heard  a  good  deal  of  talk  on 

forth. 

the  street  during  the  past  week  in  re­
gard  to  the  prospect  for  prices  of  eggs 
during  the  height  of  the  approaching 
storage  season.  There  is  a  fear  that  the 
competition  for  April  eggs  will  be  too 
strong  to  afford  a  supply  to  those  who 
would  govern  their  paying  prices  by  the 
considerations  then  set 
This 
seems  to  be  rather  unfortunate and  it  is 
to  be  hoped  that  conservatism  may  still 
prevail.  There  are  some  further  consid­
erations 
in  regard  to  the  conditions 
which  bear  upon  the  profits  of  spring 
holdings  which  add  materially  to  the 
uncertainties  of  the  outcome  and  which 
throw  the  results  of  spring  storage  even 
more  wholly  upon  chance  if  prices  are 
maintained  above  average  rates.  I  refer 
to  the  effect  of  summer  weather  upon 
the  quantity  of  summer and  fall  fresh 
production.  During  the  heated  period 
of  July,  August  and  September  the 
spoilage  of  eggs  is  more  or  less  accord­
ing  to  the  degree  of  heat  and  there  is 
little  doubt  that  the  effect  of  summer 
weather  upon  the  general  condition  of 
the  fowls  makes  considerable  difference 
in  the  extent  of  fall  production  also. 
Moderate  weather  through  the  summer 
has  a  material  influence  upon  the  early 
unloading  of  spring  eggs  because  it  re­
duces  the  waste,  makes  a  larger quan­
tity  of  the  production  available  for  con­
sumption,  and  tends  to  prolong 
the 
period  of  free  laying  later  in  the  fall. 
The  reverse  is  also  true. 
I  suggest  this 
evident  fact  simply  to  show  that  the im 
portant 
the 
chances  of  spring  holding  are  largely 
unknowable  and  that  even 
if  general 
circumstances  should  seem  to  warrant 
full  prices  in  April  and  May  the  later 
conditions  are  about  as  likely  to  be  un­
favorable  as  the  reverse.

elements  which 

affect 

At  this  season  of  year,  before  the  de­
mand  for  storage  goods  appears,  there 
is  rather  a  peculiar  situation  as  to  the 
discrimination  of  qualities  of  eggs. 
There  are  always  some  fastidious  buy­
ers  who  examine  quality  critically  and 
who  naturally  give  preference  for  those 
goods  which  show  superior  size  and 
cleanness;  but  we  have also  a very large 
outlet  with  less  critical  customers,  and 
the  difference  in  selling  value  between 
fancy  grades  and  those  which  are  of  av­
erage  serviceable quality  depends  large 
ly  upon  the  general  condition  of  the 
market.  Sometimes  it  amounts  to  %c 
or  %c  and  sometimes  it  disappears  al­
together.  When,  by  reason  of  a  sudden 
change  in  values  which  is  not  generally 
anticipated,  the  ideas  of  holders  are  at 
variance  and  the  offers  to  sell  become 
irregular,  differences 
in  quality  gener­
ally  receive  some  recognition 
in  the 
price  paid.  But  when  conditions  are 
such  that  eggs  are  very  freely  offered  at 
a  time  when  demand 
is  also  tree,  it 
often  results  that  the  most  fastidious 
dealers  can  take  their  pjck  of  the marks 
offering,  while  the  cheaper  class  of 
trade  is  obliged  to  pay  the  same  price 
for qualities  which  would  be  unsatisfac­
tory  to  the  more  critic]  buyers.  It  is  for 
this  reason  that  the  quotations  for  West­
ern  eggs  are  sometimes  uniform,  while 
at  other  times  they  show  a  range  of  %c 
to  yic  as  to quality.

I 

had  an  enquiry  from  Pennsylvania a 

few  days  ago  asking  why  it  is that  the 
market quotation  for  State  and  Pennsyl­
vania  eggs  has  of  late  years been  nearer

to  the  price  of  Western  than  foimerly. 
Others  may  be  interested  in  the  ques­
tion.  The  fact  is  that  in  general  there 
has  been  some  improvement  in the aver­
age  quality  of  Western  eggs  and  at some 
seasons  of  year  the  best  of them  are  now 
as  good  and  as  valuable  as  any  of  the 
nearby  receipts  which  come  upon  the 
wholesale  market.  At  all  seasons  there 
are  small  lots  of  Jersey  and  nearby  eggs 
arriving  from  henneries  where  special 
pains  are  taken  and  which  And  special 
outlets  at  a  premium  above  general 
wholesale  rates.  There  is  no  means  of 
establishing  any  regular  basis  of  value 
for  such,  for  it depends upon  the charac­
ter  of  the  outlet  as  much  as  upon  the 
quality  of  the  stock.  At  this  season 
nearby  eggs  which  come  on  the  whole­
sale  market  in  the  usual  course  of  trade 
are  no  better  and  bring  no  more  than 
the  best  Western.  Later  in  the  season, 
when  hot  weather  is  affecting  the  qual­
ity  of  the  stock,  the  nearby  goods  bring 
a  little  more,  but  the  difference  of  late 
years  has  rarely  been  more  than 
per 
doz.  and  scarcely  ever  more  than  ic.

*  H=  *

To  get  the  advantage  of  full  market 
prices  for  eggs  nothing 
is  more  im­
portant  than  the  style  of  the  cases  and 
packing.  Of  course  size  and  cleanness 
are  very 
important  considerations,  but 
the  first  thing  that  strikes  the  eye  of  a 
purchaser  is  the  exterior  quality. 
I  no­
tice  many  lots  of  eggs,  especially  from 
the  South,  which  come 
into  the  stores 
in  all  sorts  of  cases— scarcely  two  alike, 
and  none  of  them  neat and trim.  These 
goods  are  generally  condemned  before 
they  are  looked  at  and  can  only  be  sold 
at  a  concession,  no  matter  how  good  the 
eggs  may  be.  Shippers  may  accept  it 
as  a  fact  that  while  all  eggs in first-class 
packages  may  not  sell  at  top  price,  no 
eggs  in  second  or  third-class  packages 
will  do  so.

*  *  *
The  matter  of  fillers 

is  also  a  most 
in  assuring  the  sale  of 
important  one 
eggs  at  full  value. 
In  spite  of  all  that 
has  been  said  or  written  on  this subject, 
I  find  a  good  many  lots  of  eggs  arriv­
ing 
in  poor  condition,  owing  to  the 
weak  and  flimsy  character  of  the  filler. 
If  the  fillers  are  so  thin  and  weak  as  to 
afford  no  proper  resistence  to the weight 
of  the eggs,  they do  net  give  proper  pro­
tection  and  lead  to  breakage  and  a  gen­
erally  mussy  condition.  Moreover  the 
fillers  should  fit  the  cases  snugly,  other­
wise  they  will  shift  and  any  lateral  mo­
tion  is  likely  to  cause  breakage.'

*  

*  

*

I  had  a 

letter  from  a  well-known 
Philadelphia  egg  man  last  week.  He 
had 
just  returned  from  the  egg  field  of 
Ohio  and  Indiana  and  reported  that 
there  was  a  general  impression our there 
that  production  would  be  moderate  this 
spring  and  prices  higher  than  last  year. 
Speaking  of  the  recent  effort  to  inter­
fere  with  the  correct  compilation  of  re­
ceipts  at  New  York,  be  says:  “ Any 
member  of  the  Mercantile  Exchange 
acting  as  one  of  them  does  now  over 
there  should  be  fired’ ’—a  homely  ex­
pression  but  one  which  is  certainly  ap­
propriate  to  the  occasion.  This  Phila­
delphia  man  also  reports  some  interest­
ing  things  going  on  out  in  the egg field ; 
for  instance,  he  tells  about  a  New  York 
egg  man  who  proposes  to  compel  a cer­
tain  shipper  to  sell  him  his  April  and 
May  goods;  the  threat  is  that  if  he  de­
clines,  this  enterprising  New  Yorker 
will  put  men  out  in  the  country  and  buy 
up  the  goods  first  hand. 
It’s  getting  to 
be  a  great  game,  this  egg  business.— 
N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

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To our many friends and shippers throughout Michigan:

about  March 25.  when we shall be in the market  for  an  unlimited  quan-  ^8 

We shall  open our branch  house  in  Grand  Rapids  on  or  ^
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S i   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  ^3 

y —  years.  We shall stand on  the same  platform we have  used  in  our  busi- 
^Z  ness for the last fifty  years,  viz.,  prompt  remittancts,  fair,  square  deal-  1 2  
^   ing, and  you can always depend on getting a hundred cents to the  dollar  ^  
y -   when selling or shipping  us.  We will buy  your  eggs  on  track  and  pay 
STl  you all we can afford to pay consistent with  Eastern  markets.  Write  us  3  
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Yours for business, 

for prices. 

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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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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:

Bradstreet and  Dun Agencies.
Pottstown  National Bank.

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

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  March  25—The  volume  of 
business  being  transacted  here  grows 
apace,  and  few  there  are  who  can  recall 
more  activity  in  general merchandising. 
Prices  are  very  firm  and  on  all  sides 
are  heard  expressions  of  satisfaction.

With  continued  very  large  receipts  at 
Rio  and  Santos  and”  weaker  advices 
invoice  market  for 
from  Europe,  the 
coffees  has  not  the  animation  that  had 
been  looked  for.  Quiet  and  steady  is  a 
phrase  that  fairly  characterizes  the  situ­
ation.  There  has  been  no  anxiety  shown 
to  dispose  of  holdings  and,  on  the  other 
hand,  buyers  seem  willing  to  let  mat­
ters  go  on  as  they  are,  taking  only 
enough  for  current  wants.  The  statis­
tical  position  is  one  that  does  not  sug­
gest  much  change,  one way  or the  other. 
In  store  and  afloat  the  stock  of  Rio  ag­
gregates  1,312,285  bags,  against  1,147,- 
601  bags  at  the  same  time  list  year.  On 
the  spot  Rio  N'l.  7  is  held  at  6  116c 
and  No.  4  at  6^c.  For  mild  grades 
there 
is  a  prttty  fair  demand  for  the 
very  best  qualities,  with  good  Cucuta 
held  at  8%@gc.  East  India  sorts  of 
choice  growth  are  well  held,  but  with 
nothing  doing  for  the  lower  varieties.

A  thousand  packages  of  teas  have 
been  sold  in  this  market  for  London  of 
India  and  Ceylon  and  2.000 of  Congous 
—the  former at  14c,  the  latter  at  about 
I2^c.  At  the  moment  the  London  mar 
ket 
is  higher  than  this.  Conditions, 
however,  are  practically  unchanged  on 
the  street  and 
is  changing 
bands  in  the  way  of  invoice  lots.  Low 
grade  Chinas  and  Japans  appear  to  be 
enjoying  as  good  demand  as  any and are 
selling  ahead  of  the  choice  varieties. 
Quotations  for  superior  to fine  teas  are 
about  as  follows:  Foochow,  25>£@28c; 
Formosas,  28@34c;  new  crop  Japans 
28>i@3ic;  Congous,  28@35c.

little  tea 

Dealers  appear to  be  pretty  well  sup­
plied  with  sugar  for  the  present  and 
transactions  are  for  immediate  wants  to 
complete  broken  stocks  The  range  ot 
prices  remains about  the  same,  although 
Arbuckle  and  Doscher  have  made  1  16c 
shading  on  the  soft  grades.  There  is 
still  talk  of  a  settlement  of  all  war,  and 
yet  the  war  goes  on—on  paper,  at  least.
The  rice  situation  remains  practically 
unchanged 
large 
amounts  are  reported,  b it  there  has 
been  a  fairly  satisfactory  aggregate of 
small  orders  from  out-of-town  dealers. 
Japan  has  had  most  of  the  call.  Prime 
to  choice  Southern,  5J£@6#c.  Domes­
tics  generally  are  well  held  for  the  bet­
ter  sorts,  the  supply  of  which 
is  not 
large.

Few  transactions  of 

The  whole  spice  line  is  moving  slow­
ly,  and  yet  matters  have  been worse  and 
might  be  again.  Pepper is  not  meeting 
with  the  active  demand  which  charac­
terized 
it  a  few  weeks  ago,  but  rates 
are  well  held  as  supplies  are  very  light.
Grocery  grades  of  molasses  are  in 
rather  light  demand,  the  orders  coming 
being  mostly  for  stocks  to  replenish 
broken  assortments.  Prices  are 
firm, 
good  to  prime  centrifugal  being  held  at 
i6@26c;open  kettle,  32@38c. 
In  the 
svrup  market  there  is  little  to  report 
Prices  are  firm  and  supplies  are  not 
over  abundant

it 

Canned  goods  stocks  are 

light  and 
there 
is  some  let-up  to  the  rush  of  or­
ders  which  has  been  going  on  for  so 
long.  The  business  of  forming  the  trade 
into  a  trust  seems  to  be  going  forward 
merrily  and 
is  now  announced  that 
this  combination  will  be  totally  unlike 
any  other trust.  Corn  is  in  fair demand, 
with  New  York  State  from  75@8oc  for 
future  delivery  and  65@7oc 
for  spot. 
Maine  corn 
is  very  scarce  for  spot  de­
livery.  For  futures  the  rate  is  from  80 
©85c  f.  o.  b.  Portland.  Tomatoes  are 
very  firm,  with  No.  3  New  Jerseys  on 
the  spot  quotable  at  8o@90c  or  more. 
Futures,  8o@8sc.  There  is  a  moderate 
jobbing  demand  here  for  peas,  with 
Early  Junes  at  70^850.

for 

The  demand 

is  rather 
light.  Sicilys  are  worth  from  $2.25© 
3.25,  with  almost  every  figure  between. 
Oranges  are  selling  with  rather  more

lemons 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

russets, 

freedom.  Jamaicas  are  about  exhausted 
for the  season.  California  navels.  $2.75 
@4  25; 
Florida 
S3@4  25; 
bnghts,  S3.25@5.  Bananas  are  firm, 
with  quotations 
from  90c@Si. 15  for 
firsts  per  bunch.
The  demand 

for  California  dried 
fruits  has  been  quite  active  for  a  fort­
night,  some  Western  buyers  seeking  to 
replenish,  especially  stocks  of  dried 
peaches,  from  here.  Their  offers  have 
hardly  been  attractive enough to produce 
any  large  transactions,  however.  Prices 
are  steady  and  no  change  in  quotations 
is  shown  for  either  raisins  or  prunes. 
For  domestic  fruits  there 
is  a  steady 
feeling,  but  with  hardlv  any  apprecia­
tion 
in  quotations.  Fancy  evaporated 
apples  are  steady  at  9^@ioc.  Rasp 
berries,  io@ioj£c-
Quite  a  large quantity of  butter  which 
was  delayed  in  transit  reached  here Fri­
day,  and  the  market  is  easier.  Out-of- 
town  dealers  have  gone  rather  slowly  in 
making  purchases  ahead  of  current  re­
quirements,  as  rates  have been  too  high 
for  them  to  do  much.  Extra  Western 
creamery  is  woith  22c;  firsts,  2i@2i>£c; 
seconds, 
imitation 
creamery  is  steady  within  a  range  of  18 
@ i8^c  for  fancy  stock.  Western  dairy 
of  tne  better  grades  is  closely  sold  up. 
Quotations  are  from  i6@ 17c  for  finest. 
Western  factory  is  quiet,  but  quotitions 
are  pretty  firmly  adhered  to— 14@ 14)^0 
for  extras;  roll  butter,  choice  stock,  14 
@H'Ac.

i9@2oc. 

Fancy 

There  is  a  fair  demand  for cheese and 
the  general  tone  of  the  market 
is  a 
healthy  one.  Large  size  State,  colored, 
is  worth  12c  if fancy.  Small  size,  iancy,
12@12%C.

The  egg  market  has  taken  another 
tumble  and  for  fancy  Western  stock  the 
top  seems  to  be  about  13c—possibly 
!3K c.  There  is  no great  accumulation 
of  stock  here,  however,  and  the  rate 
will  perhaps  go  no  lower  for  some  time.
The  bean  market  is  unsettled.  Choice 
marrows, 
$1.50; 
choice  mediums, 
8*  37/4@i-4o;  choice  pea,  $1.35;  red 
ki  mey,  $1  75@ i .8o.
The  demand  lor potatoes  is  active and 
the  supply  is  not  excessive,  the  market 
being  fairly  strong.  State  and  Western 
stock,  per  bbl.  (10  lbs.),  $2@2.25.

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HARRIS &  FRUTCHEY, 

W rite  for  prices  at  your  station  to

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MILLER & TEASDALE

POTATOES

CAR LOTS ONLY.  ST. LOUIS, MO.

in e   s e e a s   ottered  by  us  are 
largely  our  own  production  and 
all  carefully  tested  before  sent 
P R I C E S   A S   L O W   A S  
out. 

A N Y   R E S P O N S I B L E   H O U S E   IN   T H E   T R A D E .

A sk  for  W holesale  P rice  L ist.

Alfred  J.  Brown  Seed  Co.,

Growers  and  Merchants,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

BEANS

W e   are  in  the  m arket 
every  day  in  the  year  # 
for  beans;  car  loads  V 
or  less,  good  or  poor. 

W ri  e  us  for  prices,  your  track, 
in  M ichigan.

C.  E.  BURNS,  Howell,  Mich. 

T h e  best  equipped  elevators  5
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An  Interesting  Experiment.

From the  Philadelphia  Record.

The  customs  authorities  are  watching 
an 
interesting  experiment  now  being 
made  in  the  United  States  bonded stores 
to  restore  the  commercial  value  of  146 
cases  of  champagne  which  was  frozen 
during  the  blizzard 
in  railroad  cars 
while  being  transported 
in  bond  from 
New  York  to  Philadelphia.  The  wine 
came  on 
the  French  steamship  La 
Bretagne  from  Havre  to  New  York,  and 
was  consigned  to  a  well-known  club 
in 
this  city.  As  a  rule,  experts  state  that 
frozen  champagne  should  be  consumed 
at  once  or  it  is  valueless.  As this  could 
not  be  done  in  this  case,  the  wine  was 
stored  in  the  warm  cellars  of the bonded 
stores,  which  are  below  the  surface  of 
the  earth,  and  where  there  is  always  a 
uniform  temperature. 
It  was  noticed 
that  there  was  a  deposit  of  cream  of tar­
tar  in  the  bottles,  which,  the  Govern­
ment  officials  think,  if  gradually  dis­
solved 
in  the  warm  temperature  of  the 
bonded  stores,  will  restore  the  wine to 
its  former  value.

A  Practical  Agriculturist.

“ 1, ”   said  the  orator,  “ am  an  Amer­
ican  of  the  good  old  stock,  rooted  deep 
in  the  soil— ”

The  only  stock  I  ever  heard  of  that 
rooted  deep  in  the  soil.”   said  the  farm­
er  in  the  audience,  “ was  hogs.”

Next  Trouble.

Harris—Walters  has  been 

looking 
pretty  sad  since  his  daughter  got  mar­
ried,  hasn’t  he?

Correl—Yes;  you  see,  he had  no  soon­
er got  his  daughter  off  his  bands  than 
be  found  be  would  have  to  put  her  hus­
band  on  bis  feet.

Never judge  a  man  by  the  clothes  he 
form  your  estimate  from  the 

wears; 
wearing  apparel  of  bis  wife.

We are Headquarters for Onions

If  you  have  any  stock,  we  w ill  buy  it.
If  you  want  any  stock,  we  can  supply  it.

Vinkemulder  Company,  araod  Rapids,  Mich.

JOBBERS OF FRUITS AND PRODUCE.

Extra Fancy Navel Oranges

Car  lots  or  less.  Prices  lowest.

Maynard  &  Reed,

54  South  Ionia  Street, 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

BUTTER &  EGGS

Cash  f.  o.  b.  cars.  We  buy  in  carlots  or  less  after 

April  1.  Write us.

H .  N .  R A N D A L L   P R O D U C E   C O .,

TEKONSHA,  JVUCH.

Ship  your  BUTTbK AND EGGS  to

R.  HIRT,  Jr.,  Detroit,  Mich.

34 and  36  Market  Street,

Cold  Storage  and  F reezin g  H ouse  in  connection.

75  carloads.  Correspondence  solicited.

435-437-439  Winder Street.
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Rocky  Mountain  Storekeeping. 

Written for the  Tradesman.

Given  a  convenient,  roomy  storeroom, 
an  efficient  corps  of  clerks  and  a  busy 
community,  the  problem  of  success  will 
depend  upon  the  man  at  the  bead  of  the 
concern. 
There’s  where  “ old  man 
Means”   shines.  His  mark  is  on  every­
thing  in  and  around  that  establishment. 
It  begins  with  the  broad  platform  at  the 
door  and  is  seen  in  every  nook  and  cor­
ner  throughout  the  ample  interior.

“ Do  you  scrub  your  floor,  old  man?”  
I  asked  after  I  bad  been  there  long 
enough  to  get  acquainted. 
“ The  store 
floors  of  my  youth,  as  they  rise  from  the 
dim  and  misty  past,  are  not  so  clean 
and  white.  My  Denver  grocer  does  not 
often  indulge  in  the cleansing properties 
of  soap  and  water. 
Is  neatness  the  first 
law here,  as  order  is  in  heaven?”

“ Is  not  your  knowledge  of  the  estab­
lishment  overhead  pretended rather  than 
real ;  and  wouldn’t  it  be  a  little more  in 
accordance  with  all  ideas  of  a  becoming 
modesty  if  you  should  assume  less  of 
such  knowledge  when  you  know  you 
have  it  not?”

That,  so  far  east  as  Michigan,  would 
be  called  “ sass. ”   Out  here  in  the  Cen­
tennial  State,  from  the  President  of  a 
duly 
incorporated  company,  it  is  con­
sidered  wit ;  and,  while  the  President 
was  busy  laughing  at  it,  I  gave  my  at­
tention 
things 
which  I  had  come  to  see.

to  other  matters  and 

The  white  floor  suggested  the  clean 
window  and  I  found  it.  The  Colorado 
sunshine,brighter  than  that which bathes 
in  “ placid  Leman,”   was  not  shut  out 
from  that  store  among  the  Rockies  by 
dirt-stained  glass. 
It  poured  down 
from  the  blue  sky-arches  upon  the snow - 
crested  mountain-tops  and  their  steep 
sides  white  with  glittering  splendor, 
and  flooded  the  store  with 
its  radiance 
yellow  as  the  gold  hidden  everywhere in 
the  mighty  storehouses  of  the  moun­
tains.

for.  That 

England  where  the  man  behind 
the 
counter  could  not  readily  find  the  mer­
chandise  called 
is  not  a 
failing  here;  and  so  I  might  go  on  in 
detail  with  the  peculiar  virtues  of  the 
I  will  not  do 
store,  wherever  located. 
this;  I  will  simply  say  that  the  store 
is 
a  model  of  its  kind,  and  so 
is  a  fair 
reflex  of  its  manager,  as  all  stores  are.
In  a  certain  sense  a  trading  place  is a 
fair  sample  of  the  community  in  which 
it  stands.  Like  seeks  like  in  commerce, 
as  in  the  social  w orll;  and  I  don’t  be­
lieve  that  the  tradesman  has  any  busi­
ness  to  neglect  the  moral  advancement 
of  his  patrons,  so  far  as  he  can  do  this 
without  interfering  with  what  does  not 
concern  him.  This  can  be  done  better 
in  the  country  than  in  the  town.  There 
is  not  a  country  store  in  Michigan,  nor 
anywhere  else,  managed  by  a  man 
worthy  of  the  name,  who  does  not  stand 
for  the  best  element 
in  bis  neighbor­
hood,  and  who  does  net  directly  and  in­
directly  lift  bis  patrons  into  the  higher 
plane  he  is  almost  sure  to  stand  upon. 
His  opinion  obtains  in  all  questions  of 
public  concern.  He  is  the  representa­
tive  man,  or  one  of  that  class,  and  as  he 
little  world 
frowns  or  favors  so  the 
around  him 
In 
the  city  this  is  true  in  a  less  degree.  In 
this  particular  mountain  town, 
filled 
with  the  mining  class,  this  same  whole­
some  influence  is  noticeable.

is  banned  or  blessed. 

The  mining  element  is  not  hopelessly 
pious.  The  morals,  like  the  means  of 
subsistence,  are  decidedly  underground. 
Refinement  is  not a  characteristic  of the 
thought,  and face  and  tongue  bear  pain­

I 

have  seen  trading  places  in  New 

I 

didn’t ;  and  I  use  what  be  said  now 

ful  evidence  of  the  lack  of  it.  So  from 
that  point  of  view  I  studied  this  store, 
and  I  can  see  why  Heaven  wanted  old 
man  Means  to  take  it  in  hand.  He  had 
to  be  out  and  in  and  I  made  the  most 
of  my  opportunity  to  ask  questions.

“ You  have  a  rather  rough  element 

here  to  deal  with.”

“ Rough’s  the  devil.”
“  How  does  the  boss  gft  over  the  bad 

places?”

to  be’n  here 

“ Don’t  have  any.  He cleans  ’em  up. 
Ought 
t’other  day: 
Damn  skunk  planted  himself  behind 
the  stove  and  opened  up,  Told  two  or 
three  rank  ones  and  the  old  man  told 
him  to  shet  up or clear out.  He wouldn’t 
do  neither.  Wimin  folks  come  in;  but 
that  didn’t  make  no  odds  and  I’ll  be 
damned— I  wouldn’t  said  that  ef  he’d 
be’n  here—ef  he  didn't  take  him  by  the 
nap  o’  the  neck  and  seat  uv  bis  pants 
and 
into  the  middle  of  the 
street.  Did  for  fact.”

land  him 

That  kind  of  man,  when  his  tongue 
it  hard  to  stop. 
I  looked  interested  and 

gets  under  way,  finds 
This  one  did 
he,  encouraged,  went  on.

“ Used  to  think  the  boss  got  holt  the 
wrong  shop;  ’tis,  for  him.  High  toned, 
ye  know.  Can’t  bear  speck  o'  dirt. 
Alius  looks  ’s  ef  he  stepped  out  band- 
box.  Never  says  nothin';  but  I  says  ter 
Jim,  ‘ He’ll  have  fit  ef  ye  don’t  keep 
swep’ up.’  You’d  ought  to  see  wimin 
folks. 
fly.  One  two 
cabbaged  to  him  and  I  thought  he  was 
a  goner  sure;  but  somehow  they  got 
the’r  toes  on  a  line  and  dassen't  git 
over. 
It’s  all  right  fer  us,  and  ’tain’t 
bad  fer  him  ef  he  can  git  ust  ter  it.  Ye 
see,  he’s  pullin’  us  all  up  ter  his  level. 
Here  he  comes —don’t  tell  him  I’ve 
squealed. ”

Some  mighty 

only  to  show  what  I  have  always  be­
lieved,  that  the  minister  and  the  store­
keeper are co-workers  in the community, 
with  the  advantage  in  many  respects  on 
the  store  keeper’s  side.

With  this  for  an  inkling  of  what  was 
going  on 
in  the  establishment,  I  con­
cluded  to  see  and  hear  for  myself  some­
thing  of  the  customers  who  patronize 
that  store.  Comfort  is  a  leading  feature 
of  all  humanity ;  so  I  accepted  the  glass 
of  sweet  cider  and  cigar,  stationed  my­
self  behind  a  barricade  of  boxes  where 
I  could  see  and  hear  and  not  be  seen, 
and  waited  developments.

Alas and  alas!  Human  nature  is  the 
same  the  world  over,  only 
in  Central 
City  I  think  it  is  a  little more so.  -There 
is  the  same  woman  up  here  who  comes 
in  and  picks  over  and  eats.  Her  sister 
by  the  way  of  Eve  lives  just  across  the 
way  and  comes  regularly  to quarrel  over 
the  small  eggs  sold  her  and  complain 
about  the  nasty  butter,  the  adjective  ap­
plying  better  to  her  own  slatternly  rai­
ment  MacAllan’s 
“ old  ben”   which 
made  bis  Mondays  a  torment  was  large­
ly  on  hand  to  sample  and  not  to buy, 
and  while  my  study  went  on  every 
in, 
phase  of  trading  humanity  came 
made  the  usual  display  of 
itself  and 
passed  out.

I  do  not  like  Central  City,  I  should 
not  like  to  keep  store  there;  and,  while 
I  was  then  nearer  Heaven  than  I  may 
ever  be  again,  I  shall  not  repine  if  I 
do  not  see  again  the  city  clutching  the 
rugged  mountains  with  its grimy  bands 
to  keep 
itself  from  rolling  to  the  base. 
I  left 
it  early  one  morning  with  the 
fingers  of  the  wind  pointing  at  some 
figures  below  zero  on  the  thermometer, 
hoping  and  praying  that  old  man Means 
might  soon  be  found  again  in  the  more 
congenial  circles  of  the  Queen  City  of 
the  Plains.

R ichard  Malcolm  Strong.

Yellow-Fleshed 

and  Yellow-Legged 

Poultry a  Yankee  Fad.

Prom the Inland Poultry.

It  is  an  odd  fact  that  the  great  Amer­
ican  poultry  consuming  public  is  great­
ly  prejudiced 
in  favor  of  the  yellow- 
legged,  yellow-fleshed  fowl.  That  it  is 
merely  a  matter  of  fashion,  or  fad,  is 
amply  proven  by  the  fact  that  in  all 
other  countries  the  preference  is  given 
to  the  white-mealed  birds.  France  is 
recognized  as  authority  upon  the  edible 
qualities  of  all  the  foods  devoted  to  the 
use  of  man,  and  in  that  sunny  land  the 
Houdan  stands  pre-eminent.  They  have 
been  bred  for  generations  for  the  ex­
press  purpose  of  use  as  a  table delicacy. 
They  are  a  bird  of  medium  weight  and 
large  breast  predominance;  being  smail 
boned  and  fine  fleshed,  with  a  small 
amount  of  offal,  they  are  a  profitable 
carcass  for  the  consumer  to  purchase. 
In  the  great  Paris  markets,  huge  piles 
of  dressed  Houdan  and  La  Fleche  fowls 
can  be  seen  at  the  numerous  stalls. 
These  are  reared  in  small  flocks  by  the 
villagers  adjacent  to  the  city,  and  sold 
to  professional  dealers,  who  make  the 
daily  or  weekly  tours.  They  are  not 
bought  up  by  hucksters,  then  sold  to 
commission  houses  and  put  in  cold stor­
age,to  be  palmed  off  on  a confiding pub­
lic  as  fresh  poultry.  England 
is  an­
other  country  where  the  gastronomic 
quality  of  fowls  is  greatly  appreciated. 
No  attention 
is  given  to  the  color,  but 
all  efforts  are  directed  to  the  production 
of  a  fowl  of  size  combined  with  edible 
qualities.  The  Dorking  has  long  been 
the  favorite  of  the  English  bon-vivant. 
These  fowls,  while  being  of  the  differ­
ent  surface  colors  accorded to  the  differ­
ent  varieties,  all  have  the  same  charac­
teristic  shape  that  reveals  a  member  of 
the  Dorking  tribe : 
long,  deep  bodies, 
heavy  in  breast  and  dressing,  a  plump, 
neat,  medium  size  carcass.  The  Eng­
lish  Dorking  and  French  Houdan  are  of 
the  same  general  type,  both  having  the 
fine  bones  and  surplus  of  meat.  They 
also  both  exhibit  the  five  toes. 
It  is 
claimed  that  the  Houdan 
is  a  made 
bird,  with  Dorking  blood  predominant 
The  Langshan  fowl  has  att  acted  much 
in  England  as  a  tal'le  fowl, 
attention 
many  of 
their  gastronomic  experts 
claiming  that,  as  roasters,  they  are  un­
excelled  by  any  other  variety.  This 
variety  has  met  with  great  favor  in  this 
country,  more  for  their  beauty,  hardi­
ness,  and  laying  qualities  than  their  fit 
ness  for  food.  Those  who  are  fortunate 
enough  to  be  able  to  add  Langsbans  to 
their  bill  of  fare  will  coincide  with  the 
English  view  of  their  superiority  over 
many  others.  After  all,  the  question  of 
color  of  flesh  is  rank  nonsense,  as  it  has 
nothing  to  do  with  the  flavor  or  grain of 
the  flesh.  The  only  objection 
to  be 
quoted  against  a  white  or  dark  skinned 
bird  is  that  of appearance when dressed, 
as,  unless  carefully  cleaned,  the  pin 
feathers  exhibit  themselves  to  a  greater 
extent.  There  will  be  but  little  prefer­
ence  given  in  a  few  years,  as  the  Amer­
ican  people  are  rapidly  becoming  a 
poultry  consuming  people  and  will learn 
to  choose  quality  regardless  of  color.

Popular  Education  and  Agitation. 

Geo. C. Smithe in Detroit Journal.

If  there 

is  no  remedy 

in  patriotic  sentiment. 

in  law  or  in 
legislation  for  the  recognized  evil  of  the 
department  store,  as  your  editorial  of 
Wednesady  concluded,  there  should  be 
a  remedy 
If 
that  institution  is  a  menace  to  business 
conditions  that  are  important to the gen­
eral  welfare,  as  familiar  facts  cited 
in 
your  article  make  evident,  then  the  sen­
timent  of  patriotic citizens  should refuse 
to  give  to  the  department  store  the 
patronage  without  which  it  would  cease 
to  exist,  and  give  that  patronage  in­
stead  to  the  numerous  and  diversified 
businesses  which  the  business  health  of 
the  community  needs,  but  which  the  de­
partment  store  is  crowding  out  of  exist­
ence.  Popular  education  and  agit  tion 
along 
line  ought  to  accomplish 
enough  to  check  and  reverse the  present 
tendency,  and  lead  a  great  many  people 
to  resolve  that  they  will  no  more patron­
ize  nor  visit  the  department  store,  as the 
writer  did  some  time  ago  resolve  from 
just  this  consideration.

the 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

13

What is “ Lactobutu” ?

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

What will “ Lactobutu” do?

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

flow it is done:

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

The great advantage

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

Our terms:

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

THE  LACTO  BUTTER  CO.

145  La Salle Street, 

CHICAGO, 111.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

1 4

Shoes  and  Leather

Patronizing  Manufacturers  Who  Run 

Retail  Stores.

Beyond  any  question  of  doubt  there 
should  be  co  operation  on  the  part of re­
tailers  throughout  this  entire  country, 
devising  some  methods  whereby  a  pro­
tection  can  be 
instituted  against  the 
effects  on  trade  being  produced  by  the 
manufacturing  retailer.

No  manufacturer  can  conscientiously 
serve  the 
interests  of  the  retail  trade 
and  at  the  same  time  conduct  stores  of 
his  own,  retailing his  own  production.

These 

There  have  been  brought  to  my  mind 
the  names  of  several  manufacturers  who 
send  representatives  and  samples  to  the 
retail  trade  and  at  the  same  time  con­
duct  and  operate  their  own  individual 
retail  stores. 
representatives 
undertake  to  impress  upon  the  trade  the 
fact  that  the  goods  they  carry  are  of  a 
world-wide  standard,both  in  quality  and 
price,  and  at  the  same  time  the  retail 
end  of  the  firm's  business 
is  disposing 
of  goods 
in  their  stores  at  prices  less 
than  that  price  which  they  undertake  to 
force  the  retailer  to  obtain. 
These 
same  manufacturing  retailers  push  the 
retail  portion  of  their  business  with 
more  zeal  than  they  do  that  which  they 
propose  to  elevate  the  outside  retailer 
with.  Many  advertise  and  herald  it  to 
the  world  that  it  is  unnecessary  to  pay 
two  profits.  “ Buy  of  IJs;”   “ From  Fac­
tory  to  Consumer;”   “ One  Profit,”   are 
some  of  the  catch  phrases  used.

Suppose  you  are  buying  your  fine  line 
of  men's  footwear  of  this  firm.  Your 
store 
is  up  on  “ Hustle  street.”   You 
have  built  up  quite  a  large  business  on 
Goodworkman & Co. 's line of  shoes  at $5 
and  $6.  You 
impress  the  fact  of their 
intrinsic  value  upon  your  customers. 
You  are  compelled  to  retail  them  at  the 
above  named  prices  owing  to  the  cost of 
them.  One  of  your  best  customers  calls, 
you  fit  him  with  a  pair.  Price  is  asked ; 
be  confronts  you  with  a  clipping  from  a 
leading  daily  paper,  stating:  “ We  will 
this  week  sell  our  entire  line  of  Box 
Calf  and  patent  leathers  at  $4.  All  sizes 
and  widths.  Pay  one  profit.  Factory  to 
your  feet.  Price  the  world  over  for 
these  same  goods,  $5  and  $6.  Good- 
workman  &  Co. ’ '

Your  customer  asks  you  how  it  is  he 
has  always  paid  you  the  *5  and  $6  for 
these  same  goods.  What  is  your  answer?
He  at  that  very  moment  thinks  that 
you  have  been  imposing  on  him,  that  it 
is  to  his  interest  to  visit  Goodworkman 
&  Co. 's  city  store  in  the  future.

Who  loses  by  this?
Many,  many  retailers  handling  manu­
lines  have  experi­

facturing  retailer's 
enced  this  very  kind  of  trouble.

Now,  permit  us  to  go  away 

from 
home  a  few  miles  and  see  some  other 
forms  of  evil  of the  purchasing  of  man 
ufacturing  retailers.  Many  traveling 
salesmen  carry  their  samples  into  the 
retailers'  and  submit  them.  They  are 
asked, 
Is  this  shoe  the  cheapest  your 
people  are  manufacturing?”

fine 

"Y es,  sir.”
“ Well,  how  is  it  that  my  friend Bings 
was  in  Shoedomville  last  week,  and  he | 
says  be  saw  your  firm’s  retail  store  ad­
line  of  your  patent 
vertising  a 
leathers,  etc.,  at  $4,  and 
inasmuch  as 
he  has  always  worn  your  make,  pur­
chased  a  pair. 
I  saw  them,  and  they 
are  the  same  grade  as  you  charge  me 
$3  75  for.  You  know  you  said they  could 
not  be  sold  for  less  than  *5  the  world 
over.  My  customer  laughed  at  me.  and 
says  he  is  awful  sorry,  but  he  will  al­

ways  order  his  shoes  of  your  retail 
store!”   Who  is  injured  in  this?

Again,  any  manufacturing 

retailer 
catering  to  the  outside  retail  trade  to  a 
great  extent  becomes  careless  as  to  the 
wants  of  that  class  of  trade. 
If  his  line 
is  not  favorably  received  by  the  retail­
ers,  what  cares  he?  He  reasons  it  that 
his  stores  dispose  of  about  as  many 
goods  as  he  can  make,  and  that  retail 
trade  is  a  trouble,  anyway.  They  are  al­
ways  asking  for  new  lasts,  patterns  and 
some  new  ideas,  and  if  it  was  not  for 
some  of  his  customers  down  in  Texas or 
California  whom  he  has  been  selling  for 
so  many  years,  he  would  quit  the  road 
entirely. 
Is this  not  a  serious  condition 
or  atmosphere  for  a  manufacturer  to 
permit  himself  to  fall  into? 
Is  he  un­
dertaking  to  be  progressive  in his ideas, 
styles  of  his  goods;  is  he  constantly  on 
the  alert,  undertaking  to  supply  his  cus­
tomers  with  the  best  and  latest creations 
in  styles?

What  has  caused  him  to  fall  into  this 
lethargy? 
Is  it  not  the  fact  of  being  in 
a  position  of  fancied 
independence, 
occasioned  by  the  fact  of  possessing 
his  own  means  of  distribution  to  con­
sumers?

There  is  not  a  salesman  to-day  carry­
line  on 
ing  a  manufacturing  retailer's 
if  his 
the  road  who  would  not  be  glad 
house  would  discontinue 
their  retail 
stores  and  give  time,  brains  and  capital 
towards  producing  for  the  retailer.

Business  of  our  present  day  is  con­
ducted  on  modern  principles.  Success 
can  be  obtained  only  by  keeping abreast 
the  progressiveness  of  the  hour.  Goods 
must  possess  the  intrinsic  value,  style, 
fit,  and  they  can’t  have  embodied  in 
their  construction  these  essentials  un­
less  their  producers  utilize  the  methods 
that  are  modern  and  at  their  command.
There  are  many  factories  to-day  de­
voting  time,  capital  and  brains  towards 
the  benefiting  of  the  retailer.  Their 
everyday  thoughts and  actions  are  taken 
up  devising  methods  of  increasing  the 
retailer’s  business  and  supplying  him 
with  the  best.

Too  many  of  our  retailers  are  asleep. 
They  are  perfectly  oblivious  to  their 
surroundings.  They  sleep,  sleep,  all 
the  year through,  and  when  that  end 
is 
reached  they  wonder  why  business  has 
been  dull  and  why  some  certain  neigh­
bor has  made  such  a  success  when  be 
is  a  newcomer  and  they  are  old  in  the 
business.  They  never  remain  sufficient­
ly  awake  to  learn  that  ingenuity,  pro­
gressiveness  and  brains  are  producing 
and  offering  as  the  reward  of  their  la­
bors  probabilities  heretofore  unknown.
We  ask  ourselves, is  there  any  cure for 
our  patient?  Every  manufacturer  has 
the  prerogative  of  disposing  of  bis 
products  as  may  please  him best.  There 
is  only  one  method  to  pursue  in  order to 
overcome  the  effects  of  manufacturing 
individual  retailer. 
retailers  upon  the 
That  is,  buy  your  lines  from  manufac­
turers  who  make a  specialty  of  catering 
for  your  business.  This  will  only  please 
the  manufacturing  retailer 
in  such  a 
class.  Encourage  the  production  of  the 
best.  Know  what  you  are  buying.  Let 
quality,  style  and  fit  be  the  fundamental 
features  of  your  business.  Be 
investi 
gative.  Examine  every  line  of  samples 
that  opportunity  permits.  You  will  soon 
obtain  an  education. 
It  is  the  fool  who 
never  changes  his  mind,  and  oft-times 

line.
Never be  wedded  to  any  line  of  man­
ufacture.  This  age  is  too  progressive 
tor  such  nonsense.  Factories are  start­
ing  up  every  day.  making  bids  for  your 
business,  utilizing modern  methods,  etc 
At  the  present  day  the  prizes  of  busi­
ness  can  only  be  plucked  by  calling  in­
to  requisition  perseverance, 
industry, 
attentiveness  and  executive  ability  — 
Boots and  Shoes  Weekly.

We Want Ton to Gel into Out Wagon

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for Cahdee  Rubbers,  first  quality;  Federal  brand, 
second  quality.  B est  Com binations  in  the  m arket 
in  felt boots  w ith  rubbers  and  socks  and  the  finest
line  of  Lumbermen’s  5ocks  to  be  found.  A lso  a 
line  of  short socks, wool  and  leather  gloves  and 
m ittens and  Mackinaws. 
A   leather  top  lum ber­
m an’ s  rubber  over  w ill be  one  of  our  leaders.  O ur 
Rubber  and  Felt  Combination  w ill  be  w ith  a 
rolled edge at  the  sam e  price  as  the  plain  rubber.
Prices  w ill  be  announced  A pril  1st.

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Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Boots and Shoes

Agents Boston  Rubber Shoe  Company.

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

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

One  Business  Man’s  View  of  the 

Written for the T radesman.

Golden  Rule.

From  the  time  I  was  kiiee-high  to 
a  grasshopper  I  have  had  the  Golden 
Rule  dinged 
in  my  ears.  My  mother 
taught 
it  at  her  knee  and  the  minister 
preached  it  from  the  pulpit;  and  yet  I 
am  not  a  convert.  After  repeated  ex­
periments  I  have  come  to  the conclusion 
that  the  theory 
is  pretty  but  does  not 
work  worth  a  cent.

When  I  was  a  little  shaver  I  remem­
ber  my  aunt  was  sick  for  a  couple  of 
weeks.  Now  I,  too,  had  been  sick 
in 
my  life,  going  through  the  usual  cate­
gory  of  children’s  diseases. 
It  was  al­
ways  my  greatest  happiness,  sick  or 
well,  to  have  company,  and  I  felt  like 
a  king  when  people  came  to  the  door  to 
enquire  about  my  condition.  So  I 
thought  I  would  show  the  same  consid 
eration  for  my  aunt.  For a  day  or  two 
the  girl  was  polite,  but  then  she  told 
me  not  to  come  any  more  for  I  dis­
turbed  my  aunt.

In  college  I  was  no  blockhead  at 
mathematics  and  Latin.  Many  of  the 
students  were  in  the  habit  of  coming  to 
me  for  help,  but  when  I  wished  a  favor 
— well,  I  might  whistle.

In  business 

it  is  the  same  old  story. 
There  is  no  time  to  stand  on  ceremony. 
A  fellow  who  stops  to  heip  a  lagging 
brother  is  apt  not  to  make  much  prog­
ress  himself  and  so  earns  the  reputation 
of  being  goodhearted,  but  without  push. 
Push  is  the  only  means  to  success. 
It 
means  going  through  heaven  and  hell  to 
get  to  the  goal,  which  requires,  often­
times,  the  destruction  of  everybody  and 
everything  along  the  way.  A  young 
man  may  have  enough  brass  to  start  a 
foundry  and 
ignore  the  existence  of 
every  other  individual  in  the  universe, 
yet  if  he  “ gets  there”   people  laud  him 
to  the  skies  You  know  there  is  nothing 
that  succeeds  like  success.

People  call  me  clever  and  shrewd  and 
admire  my  business  ability;  but  I  know 
that  I  have  bad  to  pay  the  price,  and 
would  rather  not  reflect  over  my  meth­
ods.  Being  sharp  means  getting  ahead 
of  the  other  fellow.  One  must  know  lots 
of  tricks  in  trade  and  be  able  to  steal  a 
march  on  the  more  credulous  and  less 
versatile. 
It  means  grinding  down  to 
the  last  penny  in  buying,  and  making 
as  large  a  profit  as  possible. 
It  means 
making  other  people  pay  for  your  mis­
takes. 
It  means  not  to  trust any  one, 
not  even  one’s  best  friends,' for  there 
are  sure  to  be  some  black  sheep.

But  enough  of  this;  I  have  other  ex­

periences  to  relate:

One  day  when  my  wife  was  having 
one  of  her  nervous  headaches  I  took  it 
into  my  head  to  give  her  a  nice  sur­
prise.  She  bad  spoken  of  needing  a 
wrapper,  so  unbeknown  to  her,  I  made 
my  way  into  the  best  dry  goods  store  in 
town  and,  guessing  at  the  amount  re­
quired  for  such  a  gown,  bought  nine 
yards  of  red  stuff—they  called 
it  cash- 
mere—and  had  it  sent  up  to  the  house. 
I  could  scarcely  wait  for evening.  When 
I  did  reach  home  my  wife's  usually 
cheery  face  was  a  study.  She  showed 
me  the  goods  and  asked  me  if  I  knew 
anything  about  it.  Just  to  prolong  the 
pleasure  of  the  surprise  I  looked  mys­
tified  and  said  “ No.”   She  gave  a  sigh 
of  relief  and  remarked  that  some  good- 
hearted  creature  must  have  taken  pity 
on  her  wrapperless  condition,  but  she 
was  in  a  quandary  as  to  what  to  do. 
In 
the  first  place,  red  was  horribly  unbe­
coming  to  her  complexion,  and  then 
there  was  almost  enough  cloth  to  make 
two  dresses.  She  was  wondering  if  the

wisest  plan  would  not  be  to  have it dyed 
and  made 
into  a  dress;  but  then,  that 
would  not  be  particularly  satisfactory, 
as  rough  things  were  the  style.  It is safe 
to  say  I  made  no  disclosures  that  day— 
nor has the time  yet  arrived  when  I  wish 
to  assume  the  role  of  a  “ goodhearted 
creature”   with  a  soft  place  in  his  bead. 
Yet  goodness  knows  I  was  innocent 
enough.  Red  is  my  favorite  color,  and 
hadn't  that  clerk  declared 
it  was  the 
height  of  fashion?  As  he  laid  the  soft 
goods 
in  folds  I  was  reminded  of  my 
favorite  sister  Catherine,  who  generally 
chose  something 
in  that  style.  What 
greater  honor  could  I  confer  on  my  wife 
Bertha?

I  was  scarcely  more  fortunate 

in 
choosing  a  chair  as  a  birthday  present 
for  my  Aunt  Sallie.  Bertha  was  busy 
and  so  could  not  accompany  me  on  the 
quest,  but  bad  declared  that  oak  was 
“ the  thing.”  
I  bearded  the  lion  in  his 
den  and  entered  one  of  the  best  furni­
ture  stores  in  town.  When  I  asked  for 
oak  rockers  the  clerk  led  me  through  a 
maze  of  chairs  of  every  description  to 
a  dark  corner  where  there  were  a  few 
dusty  specimens  of  the  kind  I  had  men­
tioned.  They  were  a  sorry  lot.  The 
clerk  volunteered  the 
information  that 
oak  was  going  out,  so  they  did  not keep 
much  of  an  assortment  on  band ;  still, 
it  was  a  cheap  wood,  so  there  was  a 
little  demand 
for  servants’  rooms. 
Then  he  showed  me  some  beautiful  ma­
hogany  chairs  which  he  said  were  “ all 
the  rage  and  truly  elegant.”  
They 
certainly  were  fine,  and  took  the  shine 
off  of  anything  we  bad  at  home.  I  chose 
a  chair  with  a  green  silk  seat,  paying  a 
pretty  penny  for 
it,  and  wished  that 
some  one  cared  enough  for  me  to  make 
me  such  a  present.  A  few  days  later  I 
received  a  note  from my aunt expressing 
profuse  thanks.  When  we  went  to  visit 
her  the  next  summer  my  wife  was  hor­
rified  over  the  chair.  The  carpet  was 
a  bright  blue,  and  every  other  piece  of 
furniture  in  the  room  was  oak !

One  day  a  friend  of  mine  was  in town 
and  I  invited  him  to  supper.  We  had 
not  seen  each  other 
in  ten  or  fifteen 
years,  but  had  always  remained friends, 
and  I  considered  nothing  too  good  for 
him. 
It  was  the  time  when  Dutch 
lunches  were  all  the  go,  and  they  were 
the  greatest  treat  I  could  have.  Bertha 
suggested  that  my  friend  might  net  be 
such  an  enthusiast  as  I,  and  thought 
it 
would  be  wise  to  be  prepared  so  that  he 
need  not  go  hungry.  But  I  poohed  at 
the  idea  and  said  that  “ Charley  bad 
good  taste  and  knew  a  good  thing. ” 
Imagine  my  dismay  when  he  refused 
everything  except  the  rye  bread !  Said 
“ be  was  a  victim  of  dyspepsia  and  did 
not  dare  eat  the  sausage,  herring-salad 
or  cheese,  and  would  I  excuse  him  from 
the  beer,  too?”

These  are  a  few  experiments  along 
the  Golden  Rule  theory.  When  I  look 
around  me  I  am  of  the  opinion  that 
other  people  fare  much  the  same.  Take 
for  instance,  the  giving  of  presents.  At 
Christmas,  for  a  wedding,  a  birthday, 
or  any  other  anniversary,  people  plan 
and  scheme 
in  order  to  give  their 
friends  what  they  themselves most want, 
yet  never  feel  they  can  afford.  On  the 
other  band,  they  are  liable  to  get  what 
is  of  no  earthly  use  to  them. 
I  am  re­
minded  of  the  experience  of  a  young 
couple  who  were  to  be  married.  They 
had  plenty  of  love,  but  had  to  confine  it 
to  a  bare  little  nest  of  three  rooms.  The 
groom  had  a  rich  uncle,  so  they  were 
alloting  much  on  his  present.  It  proved 
to  be  a  massive  silver  punch  bowl, 
which  would  have  been  the  suitable

them— why, 

thing  in  his  magnificent  bachelor  quar­
ters,  but  for 
they  had 
scarcely  dishes  to  set  their  table;  yet 
they  dared  not  exchange  the  white  ele­
phant  for  necessities,  and  were  com­
pelled  to  keep  it  deposited  in  a  vault  at 
one  of  the  trust  companies.

How  many  daughters  have  lost  moth­
ers  and  been  left  to  care  for  the  father. 
They  have  been  models  of  devotion  and 
sacrificed  their  dearest  wishes,  yet  in  a 
few  years  the  fathers have married again 
and 
left  them  homeless  to  shift  for 
themselves.  Or,  they  have  been  mothers 
to  the  children,  who  grew  up  demand­
ing  everything  and  giving  nothing  in 
return,  and  finally 
left  the  long-suffer­
ing  ones  to  solitary  existences  un­
cheered  by  love  or  sympathy.

How  many  clerks,  book-keepers  and 
teachers  have  exhausted  mind  and  body 
in  devotion  to  their  work.  They  have 
liberally  and  helped  others  less 
given 
fortunate 
themselves;  yet  when 
they  became  a  little  superanuated  or 
sickness  befell  them  they  were  shoved 
aside  and  left  to  surmount  their  difficul­
ties  as  best  they  might.

than 

N o;  I  have  come  to  the  conclusion 
that  selfishness  is  a  virtue,  and  I  would 
advocate, 
strongly,  a  “  self-theory. ”  
Use  plenty  of  common  sense  and  look 
out  for  Number  One  every  time.  Serve 
yourself, if you would be well  served,  and 
then  you  are  sure  to  be  suited.  You  will 
then  have  the  reputation  of  being  pru­
dent  and  foresighted,  and  of  minding 
your  own  business. 
fortune 
comes  to  you  no  one  else  can  have  the 
credit  of  your  success.

If  good 

To  call  on  a  friend  and  find  a  bent 
pin  on  your  chair  is  a  sign  that  there  is 
a  small  boy  in  the  family.

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Qeo.  H.  Reeder & Co.,

19 South  Ionia  Street, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

Tradesman 

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to  your  custom ers.

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like 
a  good  cream ery  in  your  com m unity  w rite  to  us  for  particulars.

P ayin g 
cream eries 
prom ote  prosperity. 
W e  build  the  kind 
If  you 
that  pay. 
would 
to  see 

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

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Clerks’  Corner.

How  To  Train  and  Manage  Clerks 
One  good  clerk  is  worth  a  dozen  poor 
ones.  The  one 
is  an  aid  to  business 
the  others  only  obstacles.  The  former 
relieves  the  proprietor  by  his  care  an_ 
attention  to  such  of  the  details  of  the 
business  as  are  entrusted  to  him ;  the 
latter,  by  their  carelessness  and  mis 
takes,  cause  increased  labor  in  the  ne 
cessity  of  not  only  looking  after  them, 
but  also  after  every  detail  of  the  work 
entrusted  to  them,  to  see  that  it  is  prop 
erlv  done.

One  of  the  greatest  difficulties  of find 
ing  good  clerks  arises  from  the  unwill 
in  the  trade  to  teach 
ingness  of  men 
immediate  necessity  for  a 
them.  The 
clerk  to  sell, 
fold,  tie  up  goods  and 
keep  the  store  clean  or  in  order  is  all 
that 
is  sought  to  be  supplied  on  the 
side  of  the  employer,  and  a  weekly  sal 
ary  to  be  received,  with,  perhaps,  the 
opportunity  to  steal  a  knowledge  of  the 
business,  is  all  that  is  expected  by  the 
clerk.

In  hiring  a  young  man  or boy for  your 
business,  be  careful  to  select  a  youth 
you  think  has  a  natural  adaptation  and 
ability  for  the  business,  and  then  make 
an  engagement  for  a  certain  period,  of 
from  three  to  five  years,  on  a  specified 
compensation  for  each  year,  part  of  the 
compensation  being  a  thorough  tuition 
in  the  business.

Consider 

it  your  duty  to 

impart  to 
him 
in  the  daily  routine  all  you  know 
yourself  concerning  the  management  of 
the  business.  The  learner,  seeing  that 
in  him,  feels  a 
you  take  an 
reciprocal 
in  your  business, 
and  you  both  soon  come  to  view  the  re­
lation  between  yourselves  as  of  higher 
consideration  than  a  mere  mercenary 
engagement.

interest 

interest 

A  false  notion  prevails  with  many 
merchants;  that  is,  in  their  training  up 
a  youth  they  are  entitling  themselves  to 
a  continuance  of  his  services  after  the 
first  engagement  expires.  Nearly  the 
only  objection  advanced  against  this 
method  of  training  up  clerks  has  been 
what  was  falsely  called  their ingratitude 
for  what  had  been  done  for  them.

Instances  of  this  kind  are  known 
where  all  the  kindly  affection  which had 
grown  up  between  the  parties  for  years 
of  mutual  confidence  was  embittered  at 
the  end  of  the  term  by  some  ill-natured 
display  of  this  disposition  on  the  part 
of  the  employer,  who,  had  be  reflected, 
would  have  overlooked  the  indiscreet  or 
trifling  remarks  which  he  too  readily 
construed  into  signs  of  ingratitude.

Some  dealers  have  a  principle  of 
never keeping  clerks  long  in  their  em­
ploy  on  the  ground,  mainly,  that  while 
they  are  new  in  the  place  they  are  more 
zealous  and  make  greater  efforts,  while 
after  they  have  been  some  time  in  the 
one  employment  they  become  careless, 
feeling  that  they  are  settled  permanent­
ly.  Such  employers  are  generally  not 
well  served,  as  the  short  term  of  service 
of  each  clerk  is  soon  noticeable.

All  things  considered,  it  is  better  to 
make  as  few  changes  as  possible.  We 
know  the  failings  of  those  we  have  and 
how  far  we  may  depend  on  them.

A  stranger  has  to  be  watched  at  all 
points  until  we  learn  where  he  may  be 
trusted.  However,  when  a  clerk  shows 
that  he  has  no  anxiety  longer  to  obey 
his  employer’s  reasonable  requirements 
it  is  time  he  was  away  from  bis service.
Clerks  are  human;  they  have  their 
failings.  They  require  sometimes  to  be 
plainly  spoken  to  for  neglect  or  inatten­

tion  to  the  duties  incumbent  on  them, 
and  the  employer  who  fails  to  speak  at 
the  proper  time  neglects  an 
important 
duty  and  will  have 
insubordination 
among  the  clerks  in  his  business.  But 
it  must  not  be  forgotten  that  when  they 
do  well  they  like  to  be  praised  for 
it, 
or  at 
least  have  the  service  acknowl­
edged  by  a  kindly  recognition.

The  employer  who  has  plenty  of  cen­
sure  for  bis  clerks  and  no  praise  is  in  a 
fair  way  to  be  very  poorly  served.

Nor  are  clerks  machines,  that,  having 
been  used  for  this  day,  can  be  thrown 
aside  when  night  comes  without  a  care 
or  a  thought  about  them  until  they  are 
wanted  again.

Although  an  employer  may 

think 
there  is  no  moral  obligation  resting  on 
him  to  care  for  bis  clerks’  behavior 
when  away  from  bis  place  of  business, 
his  pecuniary  interest,  which  will  often 
be  imperiled  by  a  clerk’s  misconduct, 
should  induce  him  to  see  to  it  that  the 
hours  of  leisure of  those  in  bis  employ­
ment  are  not  spent 
in  evil  courses, 
which  will  bring  discredit  on  them,  and 
subsequently  on  him, 
for  employing 
them.

Sometimes  clerks  have  evil  habits  of 
various  kinds  which  cause  them  to  be 
a  continual  source  of  annoyance,  and 
although  at  times  efficient,  they  are  so 
unreliable  as  to  be  of but little real value 
to  their  employer.  While,  on  the  one 
side,  the  retailer  should  not  expect  per­
fection  in  his  clerks,  he  ought  not,  on 
the  other  band,  to  put up with confirmed 
deficiencies  which  can  not,  with  rea­
sonable  efforts  on  his  part,  be  amended. 
It 
is  a  good  policy  to  get  rid  of  such 
ncompetents  at  once,  and  not  waste 
valuable  time  in  trying  to  reform  them.
Probably  one-half  of  the  aduit  male 
population  in  these  United  States  con­
sider  themselves  well  qualified and  fully 
competent  to  sell  goods,  thinking  they 
have  a  salesman’s ability  to  the  great 
est  extent;  yet  there  is  not one  in  over a 
hundred  who  possesses  such  qualities  of 
mind  and  person  that  he  can,  even  un­
der  very  favorable  circumstances,  be­
come  a  good  salesman.

Almost  everybody  can  speak  in  pub­
ic,  and  so  almost  everybody  can  sell 
goods,  yet  we  have  few  orators  and  not 
many  more  salesmen.

A  good  salesman  should  have  a  com­
prehensive  knowledge  of  the  goods  be 
sells,  their  origin,  peculiarities  and  ad­
vantages  over goods  of  similar  charac­
ter,  so  as  to  be  able  to  properly  recom­
mend  them.

Often  salesmen  think  the  ait  of  sell­
ing  goods 
lies  wholly  in  talking,  and 
sometimes  acquire  a  habit  of  talking 
too  much.

A  salesman  should  learn  to  study  the 
disposition  of  bis  customers,  and  in  all 
cases  be  polite  and  act  the  gentleman.
The clerk  of  to-day  will  be  the  mer 
chant  of the  future,  and  his  future  suc­
cess  as  a  business  man  will  depend  up­
on  the  way  you  handle  him  while  he 
is 
your  clerk. 
T.  Schmid

Gradually  Gaining  Ground.

The  Commercial  Credit  Co.  is  grad­
ually  gaining  ground,  its  list  of  sub­
scribers  now  numbering  over  500.  The 
growth  of  the  business 
is  due  to  the 
good  service given,  particularly  in  the 
matter of  collections,  in  which  depart­
ment  the  company  is  especially  strong. 
Hardly  a  day  passes  that  Manager  Ste­
venson  does  not  receive  a 
letter  fiom 
some 
subscriber,  complimenting  him 
on  the  collection  of  the  account  which 
was  deemed  hopeless  by  the  owner,  hav­
ing  long  ago  been  passed  to  profit  and 
loss.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

THE

THE  MO8T  SIMPLE  AND 

COMPLETE  DEVICE  FOR  GENERATING 

ACETYLENE  GAS  IN  THE  MARKET. 

ABSOLUTELY  AUTOMATIC.

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

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

C O R .  LOUIS AND  CA M P A U   S T S ..

G R A N D   R A P ID S .  MICH.

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

WAIT'  FOR  TH E  WINNER
Profiting by  the  experience  of 
the numerous generators  which 
have been  put  on  the  market 
during  the  past  two  years,  we 
have succeeded  in  creating  an 
ideal generator on entirely  new 
lines, which we have designated 
as the

TURNER
GENERATOR

If  you  want  the  newest, most 
economical  and  most  easily 
operated  machine,  write  for 
quotations  and  full  particulars,

TURNER  &  HAUSER,

121  OTTAWA  ST., 
GRAND  RAPIDS.

Acetylene Gas

B y   the

Kopf 
Double 
Generator

Send  to  the  m anufacturers  for  booklet 

and  prices.

M.  B.  Wheeler  Electric  Co.,

99  Ottawa  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

No more smoke nor  dust to destroy your goods.
No ratchets nor levers attached to the water sup­
ply to get  out  of  order  and  your  lights  going 
out.  No blowing off  of  gas  as  in  other  ma­
chines. 
Its capacity is  such  that  it  is  impos­
sible for  the  machine  to  waste  gas.  It  is  the 
highest priced machine on the  market, because 
it is made of the best material  and  constructed 
in a factory that makes gas machines for a busi­
ness, and will  last a lifetime if proper­
ly  cared for.  Look into the merits  of 
the  Bruce  before  buying.  We  sell 
Carbide to users of  all  machines, giv 
ing manufacturers’ prices.  All orders 
promptly  filled, as we  carry  a  large 
stock on hand constantly.  For  infor­
mation and  prices, address,

I I   MICHIGAN  AID  OHIO  ACEIYIEI  GAS  CO.,  LIU  « M l ,  Alien.

1.1. run, kntoj.

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D. 

R.  Hazen  has resigned his position 

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the drip.

President,  Caas.  S.  Stevens,  Ypsilanti;  Secre­
tary, J   C. Saunders,  Lansing;  Treasurer,  O,  C. 
Gould. Saginaw,
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  J ames  E.  Da t,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W.  Allen  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

Grand Counselor, J. J. E vans. Ann Arbor; Grand 
Secretary, G. S. Valxoke, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, W. S. W est, Jackson.

dent Association.

Michigan Commercial Travelers' Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Geo.  P.  Ow en,  Grand 
Rapids.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President, P. G. T ruscott, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. P. Wixson,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

J.  K.  Littleton  is  now  on  the  road  for 
Burckhardt  &  Co.,  manufacturers  of 
lard  and  lard  oils  at  Cincinnati.

Coldwater  Republican:  Carl  Yaple 
left  Tuesday  for  a  trip  through  Iowa 
in 
the  interest  of  the  Tappan  Shoe  Manu­
facturing  Co.

the  Nottawa  public 
as  principal  of 
schools  and  gone  on  the  road  for  the 
Quincy  Knitting  Co.

Kalamazoo  News:  Louis  J.  Marsh 
has  resigned  his  position  as  traveling 
salesman  with  Raynor  &  Co.  and  has 
taken  a  similar  position  with  the  Star 
Paper  Co.

Kalamazoo  News:  C.  J.  Laughlin, 
who  travels  for  the  dry  goods  firm  of 
Wm.  Hengere  &  Co.,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
will  soon  remove  here  with  his  family, 
taking  up  his  residence  on  South  West 
street.

Quincy  Herald:  The  Quincy  Knit­
ting  Co.  has  engaged  several  men  to  go 
on  the  road  with  samples  of  its  work 
to  solicit  orders.  M.  M.  Dickerson, 
H.  A.  Graves,  C.  D.  Babcock  and 
Fred  Herwortb,  of this place,  are  among 
the  number.

Alfred  D.  Otis,  Jr.,  has  engaged  to 
cover  Southern  Michigan  and  Northern 
Indiana 
for  the  Cappon  &  Bertsch 
Leather  Co.,  of  which  corporation  his 
father  is  manager  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
branch.  Mr.  Otis  is  a  chip  of  the  old 
block,  judging  by  the  progress  he  made 
the  first  week  out.

Kalamazoo  Gazette:  £.  H.  Stein  has 
accepted  a  position  as  traveling  sales­
man  for  a  furniture  factory  in  Omaha. 
His  brother-in-law  is  general  manager 
of  the  firm,  which  manufactures  dining 
room 
furniture.  Mr.  Stein  will  be 
greatly  missed  in  Kalamazoo.  He  was 
a  prominent  singer  and  was  the  bass  in 
the  quartet  composed  of  Messrs.  Mc­
Hugh,  Taylor,  Cornell  and  Stein.

Prominent  traveling  men  of  Indiana 
and  Illinois  are  negotiating  for  the  pur­
chase  of  the  White  Sulphur  Springs  at 
Montezuma,  Ind.,  for  the  purpose  of  es­
tablishing  a  home  for  the  fraternity. 
The  springs  consist  of  an  artesian  well 
having  a  flow  of  17,000 barrels  per  day 
and  1,760  feet  deep  and  a  bathing  pool 
holding  14,000 barrels  of  water.  There 
are  nine  acres  of  ground  with  the 
springs,  and  a  hotel  of  forty  rooms  and 
a  bathhouse.  The  first  step  towards  the 
purchase  has  been  taken.  The  travel­
ing  men  of  the  two  States  number  about
in  the 
general  store  of  Horning  &  Sons,  at  Mt. 
Pleasant,  succeeds  Manley  Jones  as 
traveling  representative  for  the  Lemon 
&  Wheeler  Co.,  Mr.  Jones  having  en­
gaged  to  travel 
for  the  Waggoner’s 
Watchman  Clock  Co.,  of  Muskegon.

C.  F.  Marsh,  formerly  buyer 

120,000,  and  it  is  the  intention  to  pro­
vide  a  place  where  they  can  go  with 
their  families  to  spend  the  summer or 
for their  health.  Probably jtioo,000  will 
be  expended  on  improvements.

justice. 

R.  N.  Hull  in  Ohio  Merchant:  Now 
and  then  a  commercial  traveler,  un­
mindful  of  the  Nemesis  that  overtakes 
the  evil  doer,  wanders  from  the  path  of 
rectitude  and  falls  into  the  clutches  of 
avenging 
Fortunately  these 
cases  are  few  and  far  between,  which  is 
a  credit  to  the  large  army  of  young  men 
through  whose  hands  passes  a 
large 
share  of  the  money  used  in  the  channels 
of  mercantile  life;  when it is considered 
that  but  little  check  can  be  put  on  the 
individual  entrusted  with  selling  and 
collecting  on  the  road  for  his  firm—tba* 
no  cash  register can  be  fastened  to  him 
to  produce  an  unfailing  report—that  he 
is  beset  with  temptations  on every band, 
the  integrity  of  the  craft 
is  well  sus­
tained,  with  only  an  occasional  lapse. 
The  young  man  of  Cleveland  reported 
in  the  daily  papers  this  week  as  refus­
ing  to  give himself  up  as  a  fugitive,  a 
defaulter, 
is  a  repetition  of  the  old 
story.  Trusted  with  the  business  ot  his 
employer,  he  listened  to  the  siren  song 
of  that  most  subtle  tempter,  and  fell. 
‘ ‘ Lost  at  poker”   has  sounded  the  death 
knell  of  most  of  them  who  turn  not  a 
deaf  ear  to  the  wiles  of  Satan,  and  the 
poor,  weak  employe  goes  to  the  bastile 
dishonored  and  disgraced.  Could  the 
salesman  but  foresee  this  dreadful  con­
clusion 
in  all  the  hideous  results,  this 
first  step  turned  wrong  would  not  be 
taken,  and  a  good  character  would  ever 
be  sustained.

Movements of Lake Superior T  ravelers.
Marquette,  March  27— M.  F.  Stell- 
ill  at  the  Cl iff ton 

is  seriously 

wagen 
House,  Marquette.

E.  B.  Clark  (Banner  Tobacco  Co.) 
is  out  on  bis  last trip,  his  bouse  having 
been  absorbed  by  the  American  To­
bacco  Co.

E. 

B.  Baldwin  (Marshall-Wells Hard­

ware  Co.)  did  business  east  of  Mar­
quette  last  week.

M.  Smear  Brown  (Hazeltine  &  Per­
kins  Drug  Co.)  was  with  us  last  week.
A.  T.  Emmons  (Carlton  Hardware 
Co.)  will  make  bis  home  at  Rockland, 
where  he  will  be  able  to  closely  watch 
the  running  trade  in  Ontonagon  county. 
Mr.  E.  spent  part  of  his  boyhood  days 
there,  when  bis  father  used  to  run  a 
hardware  store  at  Rockland.  The  town 
then  had  ;,ooo  or more  inhabitants  and 
about  a  year ago  less  than  300.  With the 
opening  up  of  the  old  mines,  near by, 
it  is  catching  its  second  wind  and  will 
boom  the  next  year.

Albion  F.  Wixson  has  purchased  the 
hardware  stock  of  the  Burgan  Hardware 
Co.  (Laurium)  and  will  resign  his  po­
sition  with  the  Fletcher  Hardware  Co., 
to  take  effect  April  15.  He  has  spent 
thirteen  years  on  the  road—five  years 
with  the  Fletcher  Hardware  Co.  and 
eight  with  Standart  Bros.—twelve  of 
which  has  been  spent  in  the  Lake  Su­
perior  territory.  The  new  firm  will  be 
known  as  the  Laurium  Hardware  Co.

Port  Huron  Grocers  Favor  a  Canal.
Port  Huron,  March  28—At  the  last 
meeting  of  the  Port  Huron  Grocers  and 
Butchers’  Association, 
the  proposed 
canal  from  Lake  Huron  to  Black  River 
received  considerable  attention  and  a 
vote  disclosed  the  fact  that  all  but  A. 
H.  Nern  and  Henry  Mcjennett  favored 
its  construction.

Six  of  the  local  bakers  were  present, 
with  a  view  of  satisfying  the  grocers  re­
garding  the  weight  of  bread.  The bak­
ers  were  unable  to  agree  upon  a uniform 
weight  and  the  matter  was  not  dis­
posed  of.

The  committee  appointed  to  visit  the 
Marlette  cheese  factory  reported  favor­
ably  and 
is  probable  that  a  number 
of  Port  Huron  people will  engage  in  the 
manufacture  of  cheese at  that  place.

it 

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Muskegon—Sibley  &  Co.  have  a  new 
prescription  clerk  in  the  person  of  Ed. 
M.  Gay,  formerly  engaged  in  the  drug 
business  at  Allegan.

Laurium—C.  W.  Ryckman  is  behind 
the  counter  for  the  new  grocery  firm  of 
Hietala  &  Jylha.

Muir— Howard  Seabrook 

is  clerking 

in  the  Terrill  drug  store.

Charlotte— Harry  White,  of  Nashville, 
has  taken  a  position  with  Selkirk  & 
Norton.

Port  Huron— Homer  Dutton 

is  now 
the  International  Tea 

at 

employed 
store.

Lansing—C.  K.  Esler  has  quit  the 
printing  business  and  taken  a  position 
with  Philo  Daniels,  druggist.

Dowagiac—E.  R.  Randall,  formerly 
of  the  Fox  Brothers’  dry  goods  store  of 
Niles,  has  succeeded  Warren  Hackstadt 
at  Lee  Brothers  &  Co. ’s.

Charlotte— Henry  Lupert,  of  Lansing, 
will  assist  Greenman  &  Levy,  the  new 
clothing  firm.

Ypsilanti— Fred  Babcock,  "formerly  of 
the  fire  department,  has  taken  a  clerk­
ship  with  Clayton  &  Lambert.

Kalamazoo—Clarence  J.  Moore  has 
taken  a  position  in  the  hardware  store 
of  J.  F.  Duncan,  at  St.  Joseph.

Howard  City—Cbas.  Cookingbam  has 
resigned  bis  position  in  Nagler’s  drug 
store  and 
is  preparing  to  re-engage  in 
the  manufacture  of  brick  with  Cbas. 
Edbergb.

Cedar  Springs— Ned  Wheeler  has  re­
signed  his  position  as  traveling  sales­
man  for the  Wheeler  &  Fuller  Medicine 
Co.,  and  has  returned  to  bis  former  po­
sition  with  Peck  Bros.,  Grand  Rapids. 
E.  A.  Marvin  succeeds  him  with  the 
Medicine  Co.

Athens—L.  B.  Thompson  has  ac­
cepted  a  position 
in  bis  father’s  store 
at  Marshall  and  will  move  there  with 
his  family.

St.  Johns—Milo  Pray  has  severed  his 
connection  with  john  Hicks  and  is  now 
in  the  employ  of  the  King-Richard- 
son  Co.

Simon’s 

Wolverine—S. 

lumbering 
operations  having 
let  up  somewhat  at 
Indian  River,  T.  Wright  has  resumed 
bis  old  position  at  this  place,  and 
A.  L.  Hess  has  severed  his  connection 
here  with  S.  Simon,  leaving  for  his 
home 
in  Indian  River,  where  be  will 
re  enter  the  employ  of  F.  E.  Martin  in 
the  course  of  a  few  weeks.

California— Lewis  Wilson  has  entered 
the  employ  of  V.  U.  Hungerford  as 
clerk.

Newberry— Miss  Vosburg,  of  Detroit, 
has  taken  a  position  as  cashier  in  C. 
D.  Danaber's  new  store.

Mendon— Fred  Woodworth has secured 
a  position  in  the  grocery  store  of  L.  J. 
Lowe.

Springport—G.  W.  Landis,  of  Ann 
Arbor,  is  employed  as  pharmacist  at 
Doak  &  Orrison’s,  succeeding  Mark 
Homes,  who  has  taken  a  similar  posi­
tion  in  Webb’s  drug  store,  at  Jackson.

St. 

Johns—Harry  McQuistion,  of 
Elsie,  is  working  in  the  store  of  Porter 
&  Emmons.

Sherwood—Elgin  Fulton  has  taken  a 
in  the  A.  R.  Klose  grocery 

position 
store.

Decatur— Hugo  Stern,  who  has  been 
in  the  employ  of  Fred  Stern  for the  past 
few  months,  has  gone  to  Fargo,  N.  D., 
where  he  will  clerk  in  the  clothing store 
of  his  cousin.  Max  Stern.  Milton  Cohn 
succeeds  to  bis  position  here.

Bath 

correspondence:  McGrath’s
is  quite  a  young  looking man, 
clerk 
sleek  and  quite  good  looking.  The  drug 
store  soon  became  the  emporium  for 
chewing  gum  with  the  young  ladies. 
Just 
imagine,  if  you  can,  their aston­
ishment  when  one  day  be  happened  to 
remark,  ‘ ‘ I  got  a  letter  this  morning 
from  my  son  who  is  in  the  31st  Mich­
igan.  He  says  the  weather  is  just  love­
ly  in  Cuba.”   The  front  door  opened, 
exit  of  the  fair  ones  and  the  mercury 
in  the  thermometer  that  hung  on  the 
door  casing  dropped  to  zero.  Tell  & 
Davis  have  sale  for  chewing  gum  now.

Commends  Mr.  Montague’s Contribu­

tion.

Laurium,  March  27—I  desire  to  com­
mend  the  article 
in  the  Tradesman  of 
March  15,  entitled  “ Success  in  L ife,”  
by  Mr.  H.  Montague.  Boys  behind  the 
counter,  have  you  all  read  it? 
If  not, 
turn  back  and  read 
it  carefully.  You 
will  get  new  impulses  therefrom  which 
will  be  helpful  to  you.

This  compliment 

is  not  intended  to 
minify  any  of  the  articles  or  editorials 
which  have  appeared  in  the Tradesman. 
They  have  all  been  excellent  and  a 
great  stimulus  to  me,  and  should  be  to 
all  who  are  so  fortunate  as  to  receive 
the  paper.  My  prayer,  Mr.  Tradesman, 
is  that  you  may  live  long  and  continue 
as  progressive 
in  the  future  as  I  have 
always  found  you  in  the  past.

C.  W.  R yckm an.

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MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1899 
A.' C.  Schumacher,  Ann  Arbor 
Gbo. Gundrcm,  Ionia 
Dec. 
Dec. 31,1901
L.  E.  R eynolds, St.  Joseph 
Henry  Heim.  Saginaw 
- 
-  Dec. 31,1902
Wirt P. D oty  uetrolt 
Dec. 
President, Geo.  Gundrum,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, Henry  Heim, Saginaw.
Examination Sessions.
Star Island—June 26 and 27.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.

.  Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

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

The  Pharmacist  as a Veterinarian.
The  English  apothecary  in  rural  dis­
tricts  has  always  had  more  or  less  op­
portunity  to  prescribe  for  sick  horses, 
and,  where  he  has  taken  the  trouble  to 
read  up  on  the  subject  and  has  been  an 
observant  and  intelligent  man,  has  been 
able  to  develop  a  valuable  adjunct  to 
his  business. 
In  America  this  depart 
ment  of  the  pharmacist’s  business  is 
not  yet  of  general  adoption.  Where 
pharmacists  have  come  into  possession 
of  a 
lucrative  veterinary-remedy  busi• 
ness,  it  has  usually  been  a  case  of  the 
office  seeking  the  man.  The  public  at 
large  is  inclined  to  run  to  the drug  store 
for  advice  and  assistance,  where  some 
pet  animal 
is  stricken  with  an  acute 
attack,  the  cause  and  nature  of  which 
are  alike  mysterious.  The  symptoms 
are  described,  and  the  pharmacist,  ap­
plying  his  knowledge  of  materia  med- 
ica,  gives  a  remedy  which,  providen­
tially,  proves  to  be  an  adequate  cure. 
From  that  point  his  reputition  begins 
to  grow,  and  presently  he  finds  he  has 
added  another  profitable  feature  to  his 
business. 
If  the  American  pharmacist 
would  seriously  set  to  work  to  create  for 
himself  a  department  of  this  kind,  and 
do  it  in  a  systematic  and  conscientious 
way,  he  would  fare  in  this  regard  quite 
as  wtll  as  his  English  brother.

The  love  of  horseflesh  seems  inherent 
in  mankind.  Despite the  general  adop­
tion  of  the  bicycle  as  a  means  of  rapid 
transit  and  of  recreation,  the  use  of  the 
carriage  and  saddle-hor^e  continues  to 
increase.  As  a  rule,  a  man  keeps  a 
horse  for  the  delight  of  himself  and 
family 
just  so  soon  as  he  can  possibly 
afford  it.  And  to  possess  a  horse  means 
to  add  to  the  family  another  unit  which 
is  rather  more  liable  to  illness  and  ac­
cident  than  any  of  the  other  units.  He 
needs 
care  and  attention. 
Eternal  vigilance  seems  to  be  the  price 
of  a  sound  and  healthy  horse.  The  fam 
ily  man  may,  as  a  last  resort,  call  in  the 
veterinary  surgeon,  but  nine  times  out 
of  ten  he  will  depend  upon  his  apoth­
ecary,  and  be  guided  by  his  advice. 
And  what 
is  here  said  of  the  family 
man  may  with  equal  truth  be  said of  the 
farmer, 
the  stablekeeper, 
the  stock raiser— in  fact,  of  all  men  who 
use  or  keep  horses  for  any  purpose 
whatever.

the  carter, 

constant 

It  has  been  said  that  a  veterinary 
surgeon  gets  half  his  living  below  a 
horse’s  knees  and  hocks. 
It  certainly 
is  true  beyond  all  question  that  the most 
serious  of  a  horse’s  ailments  are  those 
of  the 
leg  bones  and  of  the  hoofs.  A 
pharmacist  may  much  more  safely  pre 
scribe  for  colic,  flatulence,  constipation, 
diarrhoea,  jaundice,  gastritis,  enteritis, 
cold  or  catarrh,  bronchitis,  pneumonia, 
pleurisv,  congestion  of  the  lungs,  fever, 
strangles,  staggers,  worms,  glanders, 
farcy,  or  anything  indeed  which  lies  in

j the  trunk  or  the  head  of  the  animal, 
than  attempt  the  treatment  of ring-bone, 
spavin,  side-bone,  corns,  sand-crack, 
tboroughpin,  curb, 
overreach,  canker, 
thrush,  windgall,  soft  funcb, 
sprain, 
capped-hock,  splint,  etc.  All  the  dis­
31,1900
eases  of  the  trunk  and  head  are so close­
31, lk03
ly  analogous  to  those  common  to  man 
that  the  pharmacist  has  a  groundwork 
of  knowledge  upon  which  to  base  his 
treatment  of  them.  But  when  it  comes 
to  diseases  of  the  bones  of  the  legs,  and 
the  soft  and  hard  parts  of  the  hoofs, 
there  the  resemblance  of  the  horse  to 
man  entirely  ceases  When  a  case  of 
disease  of  the  legs  or  hoofs  is  presented 
to  him,  there  are  only  two  courses which 
the  pharmacist  can  follow 
if  he  have 
any  regard  for  his  own  reputation:  He 
must  either  turn  the  case  over  to  a qual­
ified  veterinary  surgeon,  or  recommend 
the  use  of  some  well-known  and  reliable 
ready-made  preparation. 
In  either case 
be  will  have  followed  a  safe  course.

symptoms  of  disease, 

It  has  generally  been  found  that  the 
readiest  method  by  which  the  pharma­
cist  may  develop  the  veterinary-remedy 
department  of  his  business  is by  issuing 
to  all  the  owners  of  horses  in  his  vicin­
ity  a  booklet  on  the  diseases  of  the 
horse.  This  booklet  must  be  so  written 
that  it  will  afford  no  specific  instruction 
by  whichahe  horse-owner  may  proceed 
on  bis  own  account,  but  rather  it  should 
describe 
the
causes  which  have  probably  operated  in 
producing  it and  how to prevent a  future 
recurrence  of 
it,  with  general  sug­
gestions  as  to  the  care  of  the  animal  the 
year  around.  Such  a  booklet  is  calcu­
lated  to  stimulate  the  interest  and  de­
velop  the  intelligence  of  the  owner,  and 
make  him  more  watchful  of  the  be­
havior  of  his  beast 
It  will,  moreover, 
naturally  draw  him  to  the  pharmacist 
from  whom  it  emanates  when  occasion 
for  treatment  arises. 
I  personally  know 
of  at 
least  one  such  booklet  that  has 
proved  successful  in  this  way.  Where 
the  pharmacist  prefers  to  issue  matter 
bearing  his  own  particular  ear-marks, 
and  from  his  local  press,  he  can  very 
readily  obtain  the  necessary  technical 
information  from  any  of  the  well-known 
veterinary  text  books. 
is,  however, 
of  little  real  importance  whether  he  ob­
tain  the  booklet  ready-made  or  write 
and  print  it  himself.  Whichever course 
he  may  adopt  he  is  certain  of 
interest­
ing  the  people  to  whom  be sends  it,  and 
of  bringing  them  to  his  store  when  any­
thing  goes  wrong.— W.  F.  Young  in 
American  Druggist.

It 

The  Waiter’s  Dilemma.

It  was  in  one  of  the downtown  restau 
rants  that  the  short  little  woman  and her 
tall  husband  went  for  dinner  one  night 
last  week.

“ Will  you  have  oysters?”   asked  the 

man,  glancing  over  the  bill  of  fare.

" Y e s ,”   said the short little woman,  as 
in  vain  to  touch  her  toes  to 
“ And,  John,  I  want  a  has­

she  tried 
the  floor. 
sock.”

John  nodded,  and,  as  he  banded  bis 
order  to  the  waiter,  he  said:  “ Yes, 
and  bring  a  hassock  for  the  ladv. ”

“ One  hassock?"  asked the waiter with 
what  John  thought  more than  ordinary 
interest,as  he  nodded  in  the  affirmative. 
Still  the  waiter  did  not  go,  but  brushed 
the  tablecloth  with  a  towel  and  rear­
ranged  the  articles  on  it  several  times, 
while  his  face  got  very  red.  Then  he 
came  around  to  John's  side,  and,  speak­
ing  sotto  voce,  said:  “ Say,  mister,  I 
haven’t  been  here  long,  and  I’m  not 
onto  all  these  things.  Will  the  lady 
have the  hassock  broiled  or  fried?”

Kansas  papers  are  now  claiming  that 
the  freeze  which  killed  the  fruit  in  that 
section  was  the  best  thing  that  has  hap­
pened  to  the  trees  for  years.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  Evil  of Substituting.

It 

Pharmacists  frequently  ask themselves 
relations 
as  to  how  more  congenial 
might  be  established between  the  physi­
cians  and  themselves. 
is  therefore 
an  acknowledged  fact  that such relations 
do  not  exist  to  the  extent  they  should, 
else  the  subject  would  not  be  broached.
The  writer,  having  been  born  and 
bred  among  drugs,  and  done  service 
in 
a  retail  store  and  as  representative  for  a 
manufacturer  of  pharmaceutical  prepa­
rations,  thus 
interviewing  both  physi­
cians  and  druggists,  feels  that  he  can  at 
least  depict  the  sentiment  expressed  by 
both  former  and  latter.  Naturally  each 
defends  his  own  case,  but  let  us  con­
sider  the  matter  from  the  standpoint  of 
each.

In  the  first  place,  many  physicians 
carry  their  own  remedies  to  a  large  ex­
tent,  and,  as  they  express  it,  inconven­
ience  themselves  thereby,  and,  as  we 
know,  injure  the  druggist  financially. 
This  practice 
is  constantly  increasing 
among  the  medical  profession,  to  the 
detriment  of  the  retail  pharmacist;  and 
the physician  appears to  be slowly  draw­
ing  away  from  tb?  latter,  both  socially 
and  commercially.

Now 

let  us 

see  why  this  state  of 
affairs  exists.  The  medical  fraternity 
lays  stress  on  several  matters which  may
to  a  large  extent  be  responsible:  Sub­
stitution,  the  low  figure  at  which  patent 
medicines  are  sold,  and  the  practice  of 
some  disreputable  druggists  of  using 
prescriptions  to  their  own  advantage.

As  to  accusat'on  No.  i,  substitution, 
it  is  true  that  this  evil  exists  to  an  ap­
preciable  extent  among  a  certain  class 
of  druggists.  That  the  conscientious 
pharmacist  should  be  made  to  suffer  for 
the  misdoings  of  bis 
less  reputable 
is  a  p ity;  but  how  to  remedy 
brethren 
this  iniquity? 
It  might  be  partially  ac­
complished  by  proclaiming  the  wrongs 
of  the  evil-doer  to  both  physician  and 
public.  Certain  manufacturéis  do  this 
very  thing  among  the  doctors,  and  it  is 
a  pity  the  public  can  not  by  some  judi­
cious  means,  be  mide  acquainted  with 
those  who  seek  to  impose  upon  them. 
He  that  will  trifle  with  a  prescription 
intended  for  treatment  in  a  case  about 
which  he  knows  nothing  will  not  hesi­
tate  to  defraud  his  patrons  if  given  the 
opportunity;  and  these  patrons  should 
be  made  conscious  of  whom  they  are 
dealing  with.  I  can  really  see  no  plau 
sible  reason  why  any  druggist  should 
stoop  to  such  a  practice.  He  may  be 
the  gainer  by  a  few  cents  on  the  article 
substituted,  or  be  saved  the  trouble  of 
procuring  what  possibly  be  does  not 
have  in  stock ;  but  is  be  not  the  loser  in 
the  end?  Argument 
is  unnecessary.— 
Proceedings  Connecticut  Pharmaceut:- 
cal  Association.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Is  dull  and  weak,  but  it  is 
believed  that  prices  have  now  reached 
bottom.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Further advances have taken 
place  during  the  week  on  all  brands. 
All  foreign  manufacturers  advanced  on 
the  24th  and  are  now  all  at  the  same 
price  as  New  York  and  Powers  & 
Weightman.  Fifty  cent  quinine  is  st  11 
talked  of.

Cincbonidia— Has  advanced  about  50 
per  cent,  in  the  last  thirty  days  and  now 
costs  the  same  as  quinine  did before  the 
advances.

Citrate  Iron,  Quinine  and  Citrate 
Iron,  Quinine  and  Strychnine— Have 
all  advanced  15c  per  lb.

Roots— Arrow  has  advanced  and 

is

tending  higher.  Golden  seal  continues 
scarce  and  high.

Cod  Liver  Oil— Is  weak  and  lower.
Glycerine—The  market 

is  very  firm 
and  an  advance  is  talked  of  by  the  re­
finers.

Balsams— There  are  no  changes  to 
note.  Peru  is  firm.  Fir  is  scarce,  but 
prices  have  not  advanced  materially.

Essential  Oils—Anise  is  slightly  low­
er.  Lemon,  bergamot  and  orange  are 
in  a  firm  position,  hut  there 
is  no 
change  in  price.  Citronella  is  weak  and 
lower.  WiDtergreen,  natural,  is  scarce, 
and  has  been  advanced.  Wormwood 
is 
in  small  supply  and  prices  rule  firm.

Spices—Cloves  are  weak  and  slightly 

lower.  Black  pepper  is  easier.

Evils  of  Misrepresentation.

it 

is 

It 

in 

flat, 

truth 

interest. 

facts  without 

Falsehood  and  misrepresentation  may 
be  compared  to  balls  which  roll 
in 
every  direction.  They  are  easy  to  pro­
pel  and  they  are  equally  difficult  to  stop 
when  they  once  get  started.  Thus  the 
habit  of  prevaricating  and  juggling  and 
shuffling  with 
readily  con­
tracted,  but  it  is  not  by  any means read­
ily  broken  off.  Houses  which  desire  to 
pose  as  first-class  unhesitatingly  resort 
to  such  practices,  misrepresenting  their 
wares 
in  a  conscienceless  manner. 
There  appears  to  exist  a  well-nigh  in­
eradicable  aversion  to  the  statement  of 
honest 
exaggeration. 
Merchants  too  often  think  that  such  as­
sertions  are 
commonplace  and 
lacking 
is,  we  know, 
impossible  to  make  a  great  sensation 
with  the  plain  truth  and  without  any 
enhancing  of  the  real  state  of  the  case, 
is  better  to  produce a  less  bril­
yet 
liant  but  more  permanent  and  satisfac­
tory  effect. 
It  is  also  preferable  to  re­
tain  confidence  won, 
indul­
ging  in  an  unfortunate predilection  ior 
florid  utterances  which  can  not  be  borne 
out  by  facts.  Describing  goods  in  an 
ambiguous  way  which 
leaves  much 
doubt  about  their  real  quality  and  sug­
gesting  that  they  are  superior  to  what 
they  really  are 
is  wrong.  Falsehood, 
like  murder,  will  out,  and  it  can  not  be 
kept  bidden  for  any  great  length  of 
time.  The  clear-minded  person  who 
may  net  have  enough  conscience  to  re­
strain  him  from  performing  such  ac­
tions  should  at  least  see  the  expediency 
of  it. 
If  a  temporary  gain  is  made  by 
misrepresentation  a  permanent  future 
loss  is  also  incurred  by  it.  Every  mer­
chant  who  expects  and  desires  to  retain 
that  unblemished  integrity  which  alone 
will  keep  the  customer’s  confidence 
in 
the  store  unshaken  will  represent  goods 
as  they  really are.

instead  of 

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Morphia,S.P.&W...  2 20® 2 45 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co....................  2  10® 2 35
Moschus Canton__ 
®  40
65®  80
Myri8tica, No. 1...... 
Nnx Vomica...po.20 
®  10
Os  Sepia...  ........... 
15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co.................... 
®  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N. V4 gal.
doz........................ 
® 2 00
Picis Liq., quarts__ 
®  1  00
Picis Liq., pints...... 
@ 8 5
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80  @  50
Piper Nigra... po.  22  @  18
Piper Alba__po.  35  @ 3 0
Pilx  Burgun...........  @ 
7
Plumbi  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1  20 
Pyrethrnm, boxes H.
A P. D. Co., doz...  @  1  25
Pyrethrnm,  pv........ 
25®  30
8®  10
Quassi»................. 
47®  52
Quinia, S. P. &  W.. 
4?@  52
Quinia, S. German.. 
Quinia, N.Y............  
2®  52
RubiaTinctorum... 
12®  14
SaccharumLactis pv  18®  20
Salacin....................  3 00® 3  10
40©  50
Sanguis Draconis... 
Sapo,  W................... 
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
Sapo, G.................... 
®  15
Siedlltz  Mixture  ..  20  ©  22

Voes.......................... 

Sinapis........................  @ 18
Sinapis, opt.................  @ 30
Snuff, Maccaboy,De
© 34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s 
©  34
Soda Boras..............  9 © 
11
11
Soda Boras, po........  9 ® 
28
Soda et Potass Tart.  26® 
Soda,  Carb........  ...  1 V4@ 
2
5
3® 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
Soda, Ash...............   3H@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas......... 
® 
2
Spts. Cologne........... 
® 2  60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
@ 0 00
Spt.  Myrcia Dom... 
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.  @
®
Spts. Vini Rect. V4 bbl 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
®
©
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
Strychnia, Crystal... 
1  30@1 35
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2X®  4
Sulphur,  Roll........  2J4@3yt
Tamarinds.................  
s@  10
Terebenth Venice...  28® 
30
Theobrom»............  
46®  48
Vanilla..................   9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Snlph................ 
7®  8

Oils

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

Linseed, pure  raw..
Linseed,  boiled......
Neatsfoot, winter str 
Spirits Turpentine..

Paints  BBL.  LB
Red Venetian.........  1%  2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars.  1X2  ®4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
lx   2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2X  2V£®3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2Vi  2X@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
Vermilion, English.  70®  75
Green, P aris...........  13H®  17V4
13®  16
Green,  Peninsular.. 
Lead, Red...............   5X@  6*
Lead, white........... 
5X@  654
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders’... 
®  .  10
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
Cliff......................  @ 140
Universal Prepared.  I  00®  i  15

Varnishes

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

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced
Declined—

.iteutum .................<
70® 75
Benzoicum, German
Boracic....................
@ 16
29® 41
Carbolicnm............
48® 50
Oitricum.................
3® 5
Hydrochlor...........
8® 10
Nltrocum...............
12® 14
Oxalicum...............
@ 15
Phosphor! 11m,  d il...
50® 60
Salicylicum.............
5
Sulphuricum...........
IX®
Tarinicum.............. 1  25®  1>  40
38® 40
Tartaricum..............
Ammonia
4® 6
Aqua, 16 deg...........
6® 8
Aqua, 20 deg...........
12® 14
Carbonas.................
12® 14
Chloridum..............
Aniline
Black....................... 2 00® 2 25
80®  1  00
Brown....................
45® 50
R ed.........................
Yellow.................... 2 50® 3 00
Baccae
13® 15
13®
Cnbe»e...........po. 18 
6@ 8
Juniperus...............
29® 30
Xanthoxylum.........
Balsamum
50® 55
30®
Copaiba...................  
@ 2 75
Peru.........................  @
49® 50
Terabln, Canada__ 
49®
50® 59
50®
Tolutan...................  
Cortez 
18
Abies, Canadian....
12
Cassl»....................
18
Cinchona Flava......
30
Euonymus atropurp 
20
Myrlca Cerlfera, po.
12
Prunus Virgin!.......
12
Quillala,  gr’d .........
12
Sassafras........po. 18
15
Ulmus...po. 15,  gr’d
Bxtractum
Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 
Giycyrrhiza, po...... 
Hsmatox, 15 lb box. 
H»matox,ls........... 
Hsematox, V4s.........  
Htematox, X»........
Perm
Carbonate  Preclp..
Citrate and Quinia..
Citrate Soluble.......
Ferrocyanldum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride......
Sulphate, com’l......
Sulphate,  com'l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate,  p u re ......
Plora
Art ioa  ..................
Anthemis...............  
Matricaria.............. 

24® 25
34®
28® 30
28®
11@ 12
11®
13® 14
13®
14® 15
14®
<6® 17
15
2 25
75
40
15

12® 14
°2@ 25
°2@
30® 35
30®

50
7

25® 30
18® 25
25® 30
12® 20
8® to

Folia
Barosma..................
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly.................
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  29® 
Salvia officinalis, 14s
and Ms.................
Ora Ursi..................
annual 
@ 65
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
@ 45
Acacia,  2d  picked.. 
35
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
■
© 28
Acacia, sifted sorts.
60® 80
Acacia, po...............
14 
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12®
Aloe, Cape__po. 15 
®
12 
30 
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40 
®
60 
Ammoniac.............. 
59®
28 
Assafoetlda— po. 30  29®
55
90®
Ber soinnm  . . . . ......  
13
Catechu, Is.............. 
®
14 
Catechu, Vis..  ........ 
®
16 
®
Catechu, Ks............  
59 
Camphor» 
—  
53®
®
Euphorbium..po.  S5 
10 
00 70 
Galbanum ................. 
®
Gamboge  po........... 
69®
30
Guaiacum......po. 25 
®
@ 3 00 
Kino...........po. (3.u0
@  60 
Mastic....................
Myrrh............ po.  45
@  40
Opii.. .po. 4.80®15.00 3 25®  3  3 1
25®  35
Shellac.................... 
Shellac, bleached... 
40®  45
Tragacanth............  
50®  80
Herba

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium.-oz. pkg 
Eupatori urn .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum —  oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir.. oz. pkg 
Rue.............. oz. pkg 
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
riagnesia.
Calcined, Pat..........  
55®  60
Carbonate, Pat........ 
20®  22
20®  25
Carbonate, K. A M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings  39®  36

Oleum
Absinthium............   3 75® 4 <0
Amygdalae, Dulc__  
30®  50
Amygdal», Amar» .  8 00®  8 25
Anisi.......................  1  85® 2 00
Aurantl  Cortex......   2 40®  2 50
Bergamii.........   .....  2 80®  2 90
75®  80
Cajiputi................... 
Caryophylli............   8u®  91
°edar....................... 
35®  65
Chenopadli.............. 
® 2 75
r'innamonli.............  1  60®  I 70
45®  90
Coronella 

.. 

00® 4 50

35®  50
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba...................  i  15®  1  25
Cubeb»......................  
90® 
00®  1 10
Exechthitos  ...........  1 
Erigeron.................  1 
00®  1 10
Gaultheria..............  l 
50®  1 60
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal..  50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1  Of®  1 10
50© 2 00
Junipera..................  l 
Lavendula................  
90® 
Limonis...................  l 
30®  1 40
Mentha Piper.........  1  60®  2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1  50®  1  60
Morrhu«,  gal.........   1  io@  1  25
Myrcia,....................  4 
Olive.......................  
75® 3 00
10®  12
Picis  Liquida.........  
Picis Liquida, gal...  @  35
R icina.................... 
92® i 00
Rosmarinl...............   @  1  00
Ros»,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succlnl................... 
40®  45
go®  i  oo
Sabina................... 
50® 7 00
Santal......................  2 
Sassafras................. 
55®  60
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
®  65
TlglB.......................  1 
70®  1 80
Thyme....................  40®  50
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
gl-Carb.................... 
ig
is® 
13® 
Bichromate............  
15
Bromide..................  
5 ®   57
12® 
.................  
0 «b.. 
15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®  18
Cyanide..................  
35®  40
Iodide......................  2 40®  2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
i5 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10©  12
Potass Nitras........... 
10® 
il
Prussiate.................  21®   25
is®  18
Sulphate p o ........... 

Radix

Aconitvm...............  
20®  25
22®  25
-f 1th » ...  ...............  
io@ 
Anchusa................. 
12
®  25
Arum po................. 
Calamus................. 
20®  40
12®  15
Gentiana.........po  15 
Glychrrhiza.  pv.  15 
16®  18
Hydrastis Canaden .  @ 
‘ 5
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  90 
Hellebore,Alba, po.. 
18®  20
Inula, po................. 
is®  20
Ipecac, po............... 3 90® 4 0«
Iris ploz.... po35®38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   25®  30
Maranta,  Vs...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po.  ..  22®  25
75®  1  oo
g h e i....................... 
gi>ei,cut.................  @ 125
79®  1  %
Rhei’JPX-................. 
Spigelia................... 
35®  38
Sangulnaria.  po. 15 
18
Serpentaria............ 
30®  35
Senega.................... 
40®  45
Similax,officinalis H 
®  40
Smilax, M...............   @  25
Soill®............ .po.35 
12
Symploearpus, Fmti-
dus,  po.................  @  25
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30  @  25
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a......... .. 
12®  16
Zingiber ] ...............  
25®  27
Semen

10® 

® 

Anlsum..........po.  15  @  12
13® 
Apium  (graveleons) 
15
Ril'd, Is.................... 
e
4® 
Carui..............po.  18 
10®  12
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
8® 
10
Cannabis  Satlva....  4W@  5
Cvdonlum............... 
75®  1  00
Cfaenopodium  ........ 
io@ 
12
Dlptenx  Odorate...  1  40®  1  50
FoBnlculum............  
® 
10
Fcenugreek, po........ 
7® 
9
Lint 
.................   3*4®
4®  4V4
Lini,  grd....bbl. 354 
39®  40
Lobelia..................  
Ph&rl&ris  Canarian. 
4®  4%
Rapa.......................  4 V4@ 
5
Sinapis Albn........... 
9®  10
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Spirltus

Frumenti, W.  D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frum enti..................1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T ..  1  65® 2 00
Junlperis Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum N. E ....  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vtni Gall!........  1  75® 6 50
Vlnl Oporto............   1  25® 2 00
Vini  Alba...............   1  25® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sbeeps’ 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 
Blate  use.............. 
®  1 40
Syrups
®  50
Acacia.................... 
Aurantl Cortes........ 
®  50
®  50
Zingiber..................  
Ipecac 
®  60
.......... 
Ferri Iod...... ..........  
®  50
Rhei Arom.............. 
®  50
Smilax Officinalis...  50®  60
Senega....................  
©  50
#1  *0
..................... 

1  00

2 00

niscellaneous 

Scillffi Co.................
Tolutan...................
Prnnus vlrg............
Tinctures 
Aconitum N apellis R 
Aconltum N apellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafoetlda............
Atrope  Belladonna
Aurantl  Cortex......
Benzoin..................
Benzoin Co............
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum...........
Cardamon..........
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor......................
Catechu..................
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co.  ........
Columba 
............
Cubeba....................
Cassia  Acutifol......
Cassia Acutifol Co 
Digitalis 
...  .
Ergot......................
Ferri Chloridum
Gentian.  ........
Gentian Co.........
Guiaca...................•
Gniaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus.........
Iodine.... ............
Iodine, colorless...
Kino.......................
Lobelia..................
Myrrh......................
Nux Vomica.........
Opii.........................
Opii, camphorated.
Opii,  deodorized.  ..
Quassia...................
Rhatany.  ..............
Rhei........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stromonium.........
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride... 
Zingiber..................
/Ether, Spts. Nit. 3F  30® 
/Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  3-t@
Alumeu...................  2V4©
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7  3®
A nnatto.................
40®
Antimoni,  po__
4®
40®
Antimoni etPotassT
Antipyrin..............
Antifebrin 
........
Argent! Nitras, oz .
Arsenicum.............
Balm Gilead  Bud  .
Bismuth  S. N........
Calcium Chlor.,  is! 
Calcium Chlor., Vis 
Calcium Chlor.,  54s. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsicl  Fructus. af 
_  
Capsici Fructus, po 
Capsicl FructusB.po  @ 
12®
Caryophyllus..po.  15 
®
Carmine, No. 40  ... 
Cera Alba...........  .. 
50®
Cera Flava.............. 
40®
Coccus................... 
@
Cassia Fructus.......  
©
Centrarla................. 
©
©
Cetaceum................  
50®
Chloroform.............  
®
Chloroform, squibbs 
Chloral Hyd Crst 
  1  65®
Chondrus................  
20®
Ctnchonidine.P.A W  28® 
Cinchonidine, Germ  21®
Cocaine.............. 
3 80®
Corks, Ust, di8.pr.ct.
®
Creosotnm............. 
®
Creta.............bbl. 75 
©
Creta, prep............. 
Creta, preclp........... 
9®
Creta, Rubra........... 
@
Crocus.................... 
18®
Cudbear.................  @
Cnpri Sulph............   6V4®
10®
Dextrine.................. 
Ether Sulph............ 
75®
Emery, all  numbers 
®
Emery, po...............   @
Ergota..........po. 40  30®
Flake  White..........  
12®
Galla........................ 
a
Gambier.
8®
____ 
Gelatin, Cooper
®
Gelatin, French...... 
35®
75  &
Glassware, flint, box 
Less than  box__
9®
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue, white............  
13®
t4@
Glyeerina................ 
Grana  Paradisl  __   @
Humulus................. 
25©
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
® 
® 
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
® 
® 
Hydraag Ammoniati 
HydraagUnguentum  45®
Hydrargyrum.........  
®
Icnthyobolla, Am... 
65®
75®
Indigo...................... 
Iodine, Resnbi........  3 60®
Iodoform.
@
Lupulin...................
Lycopodium...........
Macis 
Liquor  Arsen et Hy
drarg Iod.............
LiquorPotassArsinit
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannia, S. F —

10®
I  40®
©

10®
@50®

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

50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
50 
75 
50 
75 
75 
I  00 
50 
50 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50 
50 
50 
50 
75 
50 
I  50 
50 
50 
501so 1 
so¡ 
60 1 
60 
so ;
50 t 
201

38
3
4 
50
5 
50 
35 
20 50 
12 
40
1  50
9
10 
12 
75 
15 
15 I 
15
14 I
3 00 
55 
42 
40 
33 I 
101 
45 
53
1  10 
1  90 ; 
25 
38 
38 1
4 CO : 
70 i 
35 i
25
1118 I 
20 j
*5
1290 I 
8
6 
35
15 
23
9 
60 
60
10 ! 
70 
12 
25 
20 
25 
55 
90 
80
1  00
1  15 
55 I 
75 
75
1 00
3 70
4  20
2 25 , 
45 
75!
25 
12 
3 
1VÌ 
60 
3 25

PAINT AND 
ARTIST’S

BRUSHES

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

Flat  W all  bound  in  rubber, 

brass  and  leather 

Oval  Paint  Round  Paint 

Oval  Chisel  Varnish

Oval  Chisel  S ash

Round  Sash 

W hite W ash   Heads 

Kalsom ine 

• 

F lat Varnish

Square  and  Chisel

All  qualities  at  satisfactory  prices.
Cam el  Hair  Varnish 

Flow ing

M ottlers 

Color
Badger  Flowing,

single  or  double 

C.  H.  Pencils,  etc.

HAZELTINE  &  PERKINS 

DRUG  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

I

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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 .

i ^ e  K fces  Quote<^ 

ln ey  are prepared just before going to press ana are an accurate index of the local market. 

}his  list  are  for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail 
a 
dealers, 
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  OREASE.
Aurora...............
..... 55
Castor Oil........... ...... 60
Diamond............
....50
Frazer’s .............. ......75
ELL Golden, tin boxes 75
nica, tin boxes... ......75
Paragon..............
...55

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

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

A c m .

m ’b cans doz...................  45
% lb Jans doz................... 
85
lb can  doz...................1 GO
K lb cans 8 dos.................  45
% lb cam 8 dot................  
75
lb cam l doz.................  1  00
Bulk.................................... 
10
8 
85
os. Eng. Tumblers....... 
14 lb cans per doz............   75
M lb cam per d o s...........   1 80
lb cam per dos............ 8 00
I 
M lb cam 4 dos case........ 
85
% lb cans 4 dos case........ 
55
90
lb cans 8 dos ca se......  

Arctic.
Bl Parity.

Homo.

Oar Loader.

Jersey Cream.

U lb cans, 4 doz case......  
45
% lb cans. 4 doz case........  85
lb cans. 3 doz case........1 60
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   8 00
9 
os. cans, per dos.........  1  85
6 oz. cam, per dos.............  
85
45
14 lb earn.......................... 
tflboans.......................... 
75
lb cans..........................  1  50
85

Poerlooa.
........................ 

i lb. cans 
5 os., 6 doz. case.....................   8 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case 
9 os., 4 doz. case....................... 4 80
1 lb., 8 dos. case....................... 4 00
5 lb., 1 dos. case....................... 9 00
American........ 
...................78
English.........  
80
C O N E IN p

 
BLUING.

BATH  BRICK.

Queen Flake.

............ 3 20

BROOflS.

CANNED OOODS.

Small, 3 doz.......................   40
Large, 8 doz.......................  
75
So. 1 Carpet.......................  2 31
No. 8 Carpet.........................2  l-
No. 8 Carpet.......................  1  gi
No. 4 Carpet.......................   j  4*
Parlor Gem  ......................  2 50
Common Whisk.................   91
Fancy Whisk......................  95
Warehouse............................... 2 7J
Tomatoes...................  8n@  90
Con* 
......................  80@t  00
Hominy.....................   80
Beans, Limas.............   70@1  30
Beaus, Wax...............  90
Beans, string.............  85
Beans.  Baked............  75©1  00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  75©  -5
Succotash...................  9f*ai 80
Peas............................  50a   85
Peas, French............. 2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom........  ......   15a   28
Peaches, P ie..............1  01
Peaches,  Fancy.........i  40
App’es  gallons.........   @1  00
Cherries  ....................   90
Pears..........................  70
Pineapple, g r a t e d . 2 4O
Pineapple, sliced....... 2 25
Pineapple,  Farren__ 1  70
Strawberries..............1  10
Blackberries..............  80
Raspberries...............   85
Oysters, 1-lb................  85
Oysters, 2-lb...............1  45
Salmon, Warren’s ..  .1 4 @1  60
Salmon.  Alaska.........1  25
Salmon, Klond'ke......  90
Lobsters, l-lb. Star__3 20
Lobsters, 3-lb. Star__3 90
Mac  erel.l lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, l-lb. Sonsed.1  75 
Mackerel,l-lb Tomato 1  75
Shrimps 
................... 2 00
Sardines.  54« domestic  3'<@ 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5%@  7% 
Sardines,  French...... .8  @ 82

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 dos in case.
Gall Borden  Eagle.............6 75
Crown................................. 6 85
Daisy.................................  5 75
Champion...........................4 50
...........................4 85
Magnolia 
Challenge...............   
3 35
Dime....................................8 85

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

Superior Grade.

Economie Grade.

50 books, any denom....  1 50
100 books, any denom__ 2 50
500 books, any denom....11 50
1.000 books, any denom__ 80 00
50 books, any denom__ 1 50
100 books, any denom__ 2 50
500 books  any denom... .11 50
1.000 books, any denom__ 80 00
50 books, any denom....  1 50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom. ...11 50
1.000 books, any denom__80 00
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from 610 down.
20 books............................. 
i 00
50 books...............................  8 00
100 books  ...........................8 00
850 books...............................  C 85
500 books................................10 00
1000 books............  

Coupon Pass Books,

Apples.

Credit Checks.

Universal Grade.

California Pratts.

...17 50
50 books, any denom....  150 
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11 50
1.000 books, any denom__ 80 00
500, any one denom’n........ 8 00
1000, any one denom’n........ 5 00
8000, any one denom’n........ 8 00
Steel punch.......................  
75
dried PRurre—DonBsnc
Sundrled........................   ©7%
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©9% 
Apricots.....................   ©15
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................   ©
Peaches.......................6  ©lc
Pears...........................  ©
Pitted Cherries..........
Prnnnellea..................
Raspberries................
100-180 85 lb boxes.........   © 4
90-100 85 lb boxes.........   © 5
80 -90 85 lb boxes.........   ©5%
70-80 25 lb boxes.........   @ 6)4
60-7025 lb boxes.........   ©614
50-60 25 lb boxes.........   © «
40 -50 85 lb boxes.........   ©10
30-40 85 lb boxes.........   ©
14 cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Pranas.

Raisins.

1 50
London Layers 2 C’own. 
165
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown...... . 
2 00
5
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
6
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
7
L. M.. Seeded, choice......   8
L. M , Seeded, fancy........  9%

FOREIGN.
Citron.

P0Ol#

Raisins.

Currants.

Leghorn..........................®12
Corsican.......................... @13
Patras bbls.......................© 5%
Cleaned, bulk  ..................© 6
Cleaned, packages............© 6%
Citron American 10 lb bx ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©' 0% 
Orange American 10 lb bx ©10% 
Ondnra 88 lb boxes.—   ©
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown------  ©
Sultana S Crown..........  ©
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Bnltana 5 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........   ©
Sultana package.........   @
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
84 1 lb.  packages..............1  50
Bulk, per 100 P s..............3 60
Walsh-DeF  o Co.’s Brand.

Parian.

Grits.

CANDLES.

8s .......................................... 7
16s......................................... 8
Paraffine................................ 8
Wlcking............... 
80
CATSUP.

Colombia,  pints............. 2 00
Colombia, % pints.............1  85

 

 

CHEESE
Acme......................  @  1344
Amboy....................  
E
Emblem  .................  @
Gold Medal..............  @
Ideal........................  ©
Jersey....................  
a   13
$
Riverside.................  
Brick.......................  ©  12
Edam....................... 
a   70
Leiden.....................  ©  17
Lim burger..............   @  13
Pineapple.................50  ©  75
Sap  Sago.................  ©  17
Bulk 
5
Red 
t

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

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Bokor 4  Co.'s.

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

CLOTHES LINBS.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos.........1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dos.........1 80
Cotton, 60 ft, per  dos.........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per d o s........1 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per dos.........1 80
Jnte, 60 ft,  per dos.............  80
Jnte. 78 ft.  per dos..............  96

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

2%
8
4

 

COPFFB.
Roasted.

■ego.

Fair.......................................... 9
Good.......................................10
Prime......................................18
Golden  ...................................18
Pea berry  ................................14
Fair  ........................................14
Good  ......................................15
P r im e ...................................16
Pea berry  ................................18

Santos.

Maracaibo.

Prime................................. 
15
Milled....................................  17

Java.

Interior.................................  76
Private Growth....................  3)
Mandehllng............................ 35

Mocha.

Imitation............................... 88
Arabian  ................................. 28

Roootod.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......................89
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha. ...29 
Wells’ Mocha and Java.....84
Wells’ Perfection  Java...... 84
Sancaibo............................. 21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo. 
... 18%
Ideal  Blend.........................14
Leader Blend.......................12%

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  yonr  shipping 
point, giving you credit on  the 
invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market In which he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also 44c  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100 lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   10 R0
Jersey.............................   10 50
Vlzadinn’l  XYYV.
McLaughlin’s  XXXX sold  to 
retailers only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.

Extract.

Valley City % gross......  
Felix % gross................. 
Hummel’s foil % gross... 
Hnmmel’stin %  gross... 
CLOTHES PINS, 
i  gross boxes......  .......  

75
1  16
85
148 
40

24 2 lb. packages................ 1 80
100 lb. kegs........................ 2 70
800>lb. barrels................... .5 10

SAUERKRAUT.

Barrels...............................   4 75
%-Barrels...........................   2 60

SNUFF.

Scotch, In bladders............   37
Maccabov, In jars................  35
French Rappee, In Jars......   48

SBBD8.

Anise  ..  ...........................  9
Canary, Smyrna................ 
3%
Caraway..........................  
8
Cardamon,  Malabar......   60
Celery.................................   11
Hemp.  Russian.............. 
4%
Mixed  Bird...................... 
4%
Mustard,  white..-............  
5
Poppy  ................................  10
Rape.................................  4%
Cattle Bone........................  80

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Table, cases. 84 3-lb boxes.. 1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb b u s.8 40 
Batter, barrels, 8801b. bnik.2 85 
Butter, barrels, 8014 lbbags.9 50
Batter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Batter, sacks, 56 lbs............  56

Common Gradoo.

100 3-lb sacks........................ 1 95
60 6-lb sacks........................ l 80
2810-lb sacks.......................1 65

Worcester.

lb. cartons................... 8 25
50  4 
115  2%lb. sacks........................4 00
lb. sacks.......................8 75
60  5 
22 14 
lb. sacks....................... 3 50
3010 
lb. sacks....................... 3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk In barrels.....................8 50

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Higgins.

56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 

Solar Rack.

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

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

Common.

SOAP.

JAXON
Single box.................  ........2 B5
5  box lots, delivered...... 2 r0
10  box lots, delivered......2 75
JIS.  8.  KIRK  S GO/S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.........................................2 75
Cabinet......................................2 so
Savon........................................ 2 50
White Russian......................... 2 35
White Cloud, laundry........ 6 25
White Clond, toilet..................3 50
Dusky Diamond. 50 6 oz....2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__ 3 00
Bine India, 100 X lb..................3 00
Kirkoline.................................. 8 50
E os..........................................2 50

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 80 l-lb. bars  . .2 75
Good Cheer, 60 l-lb. bars__ 3 75
Uno, 100 X-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 10010-oz.  bars............ 8 05

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 dos...... 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 8 doz...........2 40

Scouring.

SODA.

Boxes  .................................  5%
Kegs, English....................   4R

Hominy.

Banns.

Pearl Barley.

Barrels  ........................... 2 50
Flake, 50 lb.  drums.........1 00
Dried Lima  ..................... 
5%
Medium Hand Picked 1  2'©1 25 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported, 85 lb. box........ 8 50
Common...........................  2 0
Chester............................   2 25
Empire............................   2 75
Green, Wisconsin, bn.......1 00
Green, Scotoh, bu.  ..........1  10
Split, bn............................ 2 50
Rolled Avena,  bbl.........4 00
Monarch,  bbl......................3 5
Monarch,  %  bbl.................8 00
Monarch, 90 lb sacks........ 1 80
Quaker, cases......................3 80
Huron, cases....................... 8 00

Rolled  Oats.

Peas.

Sago.

Cod.

Tapioca

German............................  4
3%
East  India........................ 
Flake..............................  
5
Pearl................................  
4%
Anchor, 40 I lb. pkges__  
5%
Cracked  bulk...................  3%
34 2 lb packages...................2 50

Wheat.

Herring.

riackarel.

© 4 
© 5 
©5% 
© 9

SALT PISH.
Georges cared............
Georges genuine........
Georges selected........
Strips or bricks......... 6
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...................  3 10
Round  40 lbs...................  1 40
Scaled...............................  
14
Mess 100 lbs.......................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs........................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs........................  1 65
Mess  8 lbs........................  1 35
No. 1100 lbs.......................  13 25
No. 1  40 lbs........................  5 6U
No. 1  10 lbs........................  1 48
No. 1  8 lbs......................  180
No. 8 100 lbs......................  11  50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4 9)
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  30
1  07
No. 2  8 lbs.
5 25 
No. 1100 lbs.
2 40
No. 1  40 lbs.........
No. 1  10 lbs...
No. 1  8 lbs.............
Whltotish.
.  No. 1 No. 8 Fam
2 75
100 lbs.... ....  7 CO 6 50
1 ^0
2 90
40lbs  ... ....  3 10
43
80
10 lbs__ .... 
86
37
66
8 lbs__ .... 
71
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Trant. 

INDIGO.

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

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
Kegs 
.................................. 4 00
Half Kegs............................ 8  85
Quarter Kegs.......................1  85
1 lb. cahs........ 
..................  30
% lb. cans............................  18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs  ....................................4 25
Half Kegs............................ 2  40
Quarter Kegs.......................1
1 lb. cans..............................  34

Eagle Dock—Dupont’s.

Kegs.....................................8  00
Half Kegs............................ 4  25
Quarter Kegs.......................2  25
lib. ca n s............................  45

JBLLY.

15 lb palls............................   85
80 lb pails............................   65

LYB.

Condensed, 2 d o s................... 1 90
Condensed. 4 dos.................... 8 86

LICORICE. 

„
Pare.....................................   JO
Calabria..............................  *
Slolly....................................  J*
B oot....................................  I®

MINCE MEAT.

Ideal, 3 dos. In case.............2 85

HATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

No. 9 sutohur...........................1 65
Anchor Parlor..........................J 70
No. 2  Home......   ................ 1  1®
Export  Parlor......................... 4 00

nOLASSBS.
Now Orleans.

Black................................
Fair..................................   M
Good................................. 
J®
Fancy  .............................. 
  **
Open Kettle...................... 25©36

Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, NO. 216...........................  1 70
Clay, T. D. full count........ 
Cob, No. 3..........................  

86
»6

POTASH.

48 cans In case. 

Babbitt’s...................................J 00
Penna8alt Co.’s .................  3 00

.

PICKLES.
riedlnm.

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

Small.

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

RICH.

Domestic.

Jennings’.

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

D.C Lemon
2 os.
...  75
3 oz. ___1 00
4 oz. ......1 40
6 oz. ....2 00
No. 8...2 40
No. 10...4 00
No. 2T.  80
No. 3 T.l  85
No. 4 T.l SO
Pare Brand.
Lem.  Van.
1  20
2 os. Taper Panel..  75 
2oz. Oval..............  75 
1*0
3 oz. Taper Panel.  1 35 
2 00
4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 
2 25
FLY PAPER.
Tanrlefoot, per box...........  36
Tanglefoot. per case  ......... 3 20
Holders, per box of 50........  75
Sage.....................................   15
Hops....................................  15

nbKBS.

Carolina head....................  6%
Carolina  No. 1  ...................  5
Carolina  No. 2....................   4
Broken.................................  3J£

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1............   5%© 6
Japan,  No.2.. 
...  4%© 5
Java, fancy  head........5  @ 5%
Java, No. 1.................  5  ©
Table............................  @
Packed 60 lbs  in  box. 

SALBRATUS.

Church’? Arm and Hammer. 1  15
Deland’s 
......................3 0«
Dwight’s Cow............................3 15
Emblem...................................3 50
Sodio.........................................3 15
Wyandotte, If0 5£s...................3 00
Granulated, bbls................  75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  90
Lnmp.bbls.........................  75
Lamp, 1461b kegs................  86

SAL bvDA.

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pare Ground la Balk.

Allspice  .............................. 14
Cassia, China In mats........ 12
Cassia, Batavia in band.... 25
Cassia, Saigon In rolls.......82
Cloves, Amboyna.............. u
Cloves, Zansibar................12
Mace,  Batavia...................56
Nutmegs, fancy................. 80
Nutmegs, No.  1................. 50
Nutmegs, No.  2..................45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .18
Pepper,  shot......................15
Allspice  .............................. 17
Ctessla, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon..............  ...40
Cloves, Zansibar..................14
Oinger,  African..................15
Singer,  Cochin................... 18
Oinger,  Jamaica................. 23
Mace,  Batavia................... 65
Mustard........................ 12@18
Nutmegs,..................... 40@o0
Pepper, Sing , black.......... la
Pepper, Sing., white.......... 22
Pepper, Cayenne................ 20
Sage.....................................15

SYRUPS
Cera.

Barrels................................  18
Half  bbls.......................  
20
1 doz  1 gallon cans............3 90
1  doz. M gallon cans.......1 70
2  doz. 14 gallon  c a n s...... 1 75
Pair  ..............................  
 
Good.................................  20
Choice.............................   26

Pure Cane.

STARCH.

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brand. 

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

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’b brand.

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

......... 35 00

Rube Bros. Co.’s Brands. 

Double Eag'es. 6sizes.*a5W 70 00
Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes__  55@7(J  00
Mr. Thomas...............  
35  00
Cuban Hand Made.... 
35 00
Crown  Five................ 
35 00
35 00
Sir  William................ 
Club Five................... 
35 00
35 00
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 
35 00
Little Peggy.............. 
Signal  Pive................ 
35 (,o
Knights of Pythias 
 
35 00
Key West Perfects, 2 sz 55@60 00

16

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
Stick Candy.

bbls.  pails
Standard.................  6M@ 7
6)4@ 7
Standard H. H........ 
Standard Twist......  
?)4@ 8
@ 8
Cnt Loaf................. 
eases
@6)4
Jumbo, 32 lb  ..........  
Extra H.H.............. 
@8)4
Boston  Cream........ 
@10

Mixed Candy.

Grocers...................  
@ 6
@ 6)4
Competition............ 
@ 7
Standard................. 
Conserve................. 
@7)4
goyal..................... 
@7)4
@ 8)4
Ribbon.................... 
@ 7M
Broken................... 
Cat Loaf.................  
@ 8
@ 8
English Rock.........  
@ 8)4
Kindergarten.........  
French  Cream........ 
@ 9
Dandy Pan............ 
@10
Hand  Made Cream mxd  @13 
Jtal. Cream Bubn*, 35 lb p s  11 
Molas es Chews,  15 lb. palls  13 
‘ Alla Samee,” 
5 lb. patlB  12

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......  
@ 8)4
Lozenges,  printed..  @ 8)4
Choc.  Drops........... 
@10)4
Choc.  Monumentals  @12
Gum  Drops............  
@ 5
Moss  Drops............  
@ 8
Sour Drops.............. 
@  8)4
Imperials...............  
@9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops.........  
@50
@50
Sour  Drops............  
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
Chocolate Drops__ 
@60
H. M. Choc. Drops. 
@75
H. M.  Choc.  Lt.and
Dk. No. 12............  
@90
Gum  Drops............  
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
Lozenges,  plain.... 
@50
Lozenges,  printed.. 
@50
Imperials.............. 
@50
@gg
Mottoes................... 
Cream Bar.............. 
@go
Molasses B a r.........  
@50
Hand Made Creams.  80  @  90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Want............  
@65
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  .  .........

@3g
@50

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

@3  on
@3 zä 
@3 iO 
@2 75 
@

Medium bunches... 1  00  @1  25
Large bunches........1  5u  @2 Oo

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Figs.

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

Fards in 10 lb  boxes 
Fards  in  60 ib cases 
Persians, P H V .......  
lb cases, new........ 
Sairs.  601b  ca ses.... 
Muts.

@14
@13
@16
@22

@ 7

@10 
@ 6
@6
@ 6
@   g

Almonds, Tarragona..  @16
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @15
Brazils new................  @ 8
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Granobles..  @13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @li
Walnuts,  soft shelled
Calif.......................  @11
Table Nuts,  fancy__  @11
Table Nuts,  choice...  @10
Pecans, Med.......... 
@7)4
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)4
Choice. H. P.,  Extra«,
5)4
........ 

Routed 

Wheat.

Wheat................................  68

Winter Wheat Flour. 

Local Brands.

Patents............................. 4 on
Second  Patent...................3 50
Straight............................  3 25
Clear.................................. 3 00
Graham  ............................3 F0
Buckwheat....................... 4  10
B ye..................................  3 25
Subject  to  nsnal  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Daisy. Ms.............................3 75
Daisy, Ms.............................3 75
Daisy, Ms.............................3 75
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  Ms........................  3 50
Quaker, Ms........................  3 SO
Quaker, Ms........................  3 60
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’b Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 45
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 35
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 25
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4 25 
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4 z5 
Ball Barnhart 
(man’s Brand.

Spring Wheat Flour. 

Meal.

Feed end Millstnffs.

Olney A Jndson’s Brand.

Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Ms.....................4 25
Gold Medal Ms.....................4 .5
Gold Medal Ms.....................4 <*5
Parisian, Ms.......................  4 25
Parisian, Ms......................... 4 15
Parisian. Ms.......................   4 05
Ceresota, Ms.......................  4 35
Ceresota, Ms.......................  4 25
Ceresota, Ms.......................  4 ,g
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Laurel, Ms.........................  4  35
Laurel, Ms.........................4  25
Laurel, Ms......................... 4 .,5
Bolted................................  1 90
Granulated........................  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened___16 50
No. 1 Corn and  Oats.......... 16 00
Unbolted Corn Meal...........1R *0
Winter Wheat  Bran...........14 no
Winter Wheat Middlings..15 00
Screenings.......................... 13 00
New corn, car lots............   36 4
Less than  car lots............   38
Car  lots............................. 32H
Carlots, clipped................   34%
Less than  car lots.  ......... 36
No. 1 Timothy carlots......  9 00
No. 1 Timothy  ton lots 
l 1 on
Fish and Oysters

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
Whitefish...................  @ 10
T rout.........................  @ 10
Black Bass..............  8  @  11
Halibut......................  @ 15
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  5
Bluefish......................  @ 11
Live Lobster.........   @
Boiled Lobster........  @
Cod 
.........................   @ 10
Haddock....................   @ 8
No.  1  Pickerel........  @  8
Pike.........................  @  7)4
Perch..........................  @ e
Smoked White........  @  8
Red Snapper___...  @  8
Col  River Salmon..  @  12
Mackerel 
.................   @ 16
F. H. Counts...........  @  38
'0
F. J  D. Selects........  @ 
Selects.......................  @ 27
F. J. D  Standards... 
22
A nchors....................   @ 20
Standards...................  @ 18
Favorites....................  @
gal.
Counts  .............................   * 00
X Selects..................................l 85
Selects................................
Anchor Standards..................   1 10
Standards..........................
Clams......................................   1 25
Oysters, per  100......... 1 25@1  50
Clams,  per 100..........  @1  00

Oysters in Cans.

Shell Geode.

Balk. 

Provisions.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

foUows:

Barreled Perk.

Mess  ..............................  10  00
Baok  ......................10 50@
Clear back.............. 
@10  no
Shortcut..............................  10 00
P ig ..............................  
1» 00
Bean  .............................   9 vo
Family  ..........................   u   oj

Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies............................ 
Briskets  ......................... 
Extra shorts................... 

5v
g)J
b%

Smoked neats.
Hams, 12 lb average  ...
8)4 
..
Hams, 14 lb  average 
8M 
Hams, 161b  average....
7* 
Hams, 20 lb  average__
7)4 
Ham dried beef  ...........
11 
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  .
5* @7M 
Bacon,  clear.................7
California  hams 
»X
Boneless hams
8)%
...................  
Cooked  ham..................10@12M

Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound......................  
Kettle.............................. 
56 lb Tubs.........advance 
80 lb Tubs.........advance 
50 lb T ins.........advance 
20 lb Pails.........advance 
10 lb Palls.........advance 
5 lb Palls.........advance 
31b Palls......... advance 

Sausages.

Bologna......................... 
Frankfort...................
P ork...............................  
Blood  ............................ 
Tongue..........................  
Head  cheese................... 

4^
6M
%
m
%
%
%
1
1M

gu

6)4
6
9
6M

Beef.

Extra  Mess......................... 10 25
Boneless  ........................12  -0
Romp.................................. 12 25

Pigs’ Peet.

Kits. 15 lbs..77................  70
M  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 35
M  bbls, 80 lbs........................2 50

Tripe.

Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
M  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 25
M  bbls, 80 lbs.....................   2 25

70

Casings.

P ork...............................  20
Beef  rounds................... 
s
Beef  middles...........
10
Sheep.......................
60
Bntterlne.

Rolls,  dairy................... 
Solid,  d a iry ................... 
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery............. 

h
10 4
ism
14 n

Canned  Meats.

Corned  beef,  2 l b ........2 15
Corned beef, 14  lb.........14  75
Roast  beef,  2 lb.........2  15
Potted  ham,  Ms.........   50
Potted  ham,  Ms..........  90
Deviled ham,  Me.........   50
Deviled ham,  Ms.........   90
Potted  tongue Ms.........   50
Potted  tongue Ms.........   90

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

.. 

Veal.

Pork.

Mutton

Carcass........................6M@ 8
Forequarters.............. 5M® 6H
Hind  quarters...........  6M@  tv,
Loins  No.  3.................9  @12
Ribs............................. 7  @12
Rounds.......................   7 @ 7M
Chucks.......................  6  @6
Plates  .......................   4  @
Dressed......................4M@ 5
Loins.........................  @ 7
Shoulders...................  @  5m
Leaf Lard...................  6M@
Carcass......................7  @  tm
Spring Lambs.........  8  @  9
Carcass 
.  .  7mm  8
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Green No. 1..........   @ 7M
Green No. 2.............   .  ©  6M
Bulls....................... 
@6
Cured No. 1................   @ i-m
Cured No. 2................  @ 7m
Calfskins,  green No. 1  @u
Calfskins, green No. 2  @ 8M
Calfskins, cured No. 1  @11
Calfskins, cured No. 2  @9)4
Pelts,  each.................  50@1  00
No. 1.....................   @3)4
No. 2........................   @
Washed, fine  ............   @18
Washed, medium.........  @23
Unwashed, fine.......... 11  i l l
Unwashed, medium ..16  @18

Pelts.
Tallow.

Hides.

Wool.

21

Crockery and

Glassware.

Churns.

Batters,

to 6 gal., per gal.... 

AKRON STONBWARB. 
)4 gal., per dot  ...............   45
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
by.
8 gal., each......................  52
10 gal., each.....................   65
12 gal.,  each......................  78
15 gal. meat-tubs,each.... 1  05 
20 gal. meat-tubs, each. ...1  40 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ...2 00
30 gal. meat-tubs, each__3 40
2 
6
Churn Dashers, per doz...  86 
M fial- flat or rd. hot, doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5)4
)4 gal. fiat or rd. bot., aoz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot, each  5M 
M gal. fireproof, ball, dos.  86 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, dos.l  10
M gal., per doz..................  40
M gal. , per d o s................   go
1 to 5 gal., per gal............. 
6)4

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

Stewpans.

Milkpans.

Juga.

Tomato Jngs.

Seeling Wax.

LAMP  BURNBRS.

M gal., per dos.................  go
1 gal., each......................   gM
Corks for M gal., per dos..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  30
Preservs Jars and Covers.
M gal-, stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00
5 lbs. In package, per lb...  2
No. 0 Son............................. 
33
No.  1 Sun............................. 
31
No.  2  Sun.......................... ;  «
No. 3 Sun............................   1 00
Tubular................................ 
go
Security, No. 1........................60
Security, No. 2...................j  80
Nutmeg  ..............................   go
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds. 
„  
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................   1  3a
No.  1  Sun..........................   x  48
No.  2 Sun..........................| 2 18
No. 0 Sun  ..........................  1  go
No. 1 Sun...........................  1  go
No. 2 Snn...........................   g 45

Common

First  Qullty.

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

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

XXX Flint.

Blectrtc.

Rochester.

La  Bestle.

No.  0  Sun,  crimp  top,
No.  1  Sun,  orimp  top,
No.  2  Son,  crimp  top,

wrapped and labeled__  2 55
wrapped and labeled.  ..  2 75 
wrapped and  labeled__  3 75
CHIMNEYS— Pearl Top.
No. 1  San,  wrapped  ana
labeled..............................8 70
No  2  Son,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled..........................   4 88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,” 
for Globe LamDs............  
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................  9
No. 2 Sun,  plain bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per doz......... 1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz......... 1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........8 60
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)........4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c doz)........4 70
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ...... 4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c dos).........4 40
Dot.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1 25
1 gal galv Iron with spout.  1 48
2 gal galv Iron with spout.  2 48
3 gal galv Iron with spout.  3 32 
5 gal galv Iron with  spout.  4 28 
3 gal galv Iron with fancet 4 17 
5 gal galv Iron with  faucet 4 67
5 gal Tilting cans............... 7 25
5 gal galv Iron Nacefaa....  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7 80 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3  gal Home Role............10 50
5 gal Home Role................12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9 50
No.  0Tubular side lift....  4 00
No.  1 B  Tubular........  ...  6 25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 50
No.  lTnb., glass fount....  7 00 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........8 75
LANTERN GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents...........  46
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 do*.
each, box 15 cents.........  
45
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5 doz.
each, bbl 35i.......................  8
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
cases 1 doi. e a c h . . . I  K

LANTERNS.

Pump  runs

OIL CANS. 

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

VINEGAR.

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

WICKINQ.

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

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as foUows:
Butter.

Seymour XXX...................  514
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family XXX  ....................   514
Salted XXX  ................ 
a
New  York XXX................     6
Wolverine.........................  g
Boston....................................7J4

Bod«.

Oyster.

Soda  XXX.........................  6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__  6)4
Soda,  City.........................  g
Long Island  Wafers... ” ’. !  11 
L. I. Wafers. 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Zephyrette...........................10
Saltine Wafer....................   5^4
SaltineWafer, 1 lb  carton.  6)4
Farina Oy-ter....................   5*
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  OOODS—Boxes.
Animals..........................    iou
Bent's Water....  ........... ’ ’  15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java..............  lu
Coffee Cake,  Iced..............  10
Cracknells.........................  15)4
Cubans  ..............................  u u
Frosted  Cream...................  8
Ginger G em s....................   8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  7)4
Graham Crackers  .............  s
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................   8
JumDles,  Honey................
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow  Walnuts...  16
Mich. Frosted Honey__   12)4
Molasses  Cakes.................  8
N ew ton..........................   12
Nlc  Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................   8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8)4
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......   7)4
Sears’Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sugar  Squares.................   9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas............................   12)4

O ils.
Barrels.

Eocene.....................  @11)4
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @10
W W Michigan...........  @ 9)4
Diamond White.........  @ 8)4
D., 8. Gas....................   @12)4
Deo. N aptha..............  @12)4
Cylinder....................29  @34
Engine...................... 11  Q21
Black, winter...........  @8

Kingsford's  Cera.

401-lb packages...................6
201 lb packages.....................6m

Kingsford’s Silver (Hots.

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

Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ................5  00
128  5c  packages.................5 00
3210c and.64 5c packages.. .5 00

Common Cora.

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

Common Qloss.

1-lb  packages......................  414
3-lb  packages......................  4)4
6-lb  packages......................  5
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3
Barrels  ...............................  3

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUOAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he
i>urchases to his shipping point, 
ncludlng  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino.................................... 5 38
Cut  Loaf.................................. 5 63
Crushed.... ...........................5 6)
Powdered 
......................... 5 25
XXXX  Powdered.................... 5 38
Cubes....................................... 5 25
Granulated in bbls...................5 13
Granulated in  bags................. 5 13
Pine Granulated...................... 5 13
Bxtra Pine Granulated.......5 25
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 "a
Mould  A...................................5 38
Diamond Confec.  A........... 5  13
Confec. Standard A...........  5 00
No.  1........................................4 63
No  2....................................... 4 13
No.  8....................................... 4 63
No.  4 ......................................4 56
No.  5.......................................4 58
No.  6....................................... 4 44
No.  7....................................... 4 38
No.  8....................................... 4 81
No.  9...................................4 2
No.  10....................................... 4 25
No.  11....................................... 4 1»
No.  12....................................... 4 13
No.  18....................................... 4 0,
No.  14.......................................4 08
No.  15 
No.  16 

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22

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

the  amount  to  be  needed  depends  upon 
the  amount  of  business  and  that  varies 
with  season.  Having  a  great  many 
places  of 
issue  and  these  scattered  all 
over  the  country,  any  local  demand  can 
be  readily  met,  and  when  capital 
is 
needed  in  the  South  to  move  the  cotton, 
sugar  and  rice  crops,  or  in  the  We  t  to
pay  for  harvesting  tbe  fruit  and  grain, 
in  tbe  East  for  manufacturing,  it 
or 
just  as 
can  be  quickly  supplied  and 
quickly  retired  when 
it  has  served  its 
purpose.

Fourth.  Depcs  t  banks  render  a  valu­
able  service  in  capital  building  The 
savings  bank 
is  of  benefit  to  the  de­
positor  by  furnishing  him  a  convenient 
place for  storing  small  amounts of value. 
We  must  realize  that  most  "men  must 
live  off  from  what  they  produce  and 
nothing  that  they  produce  can remain  in 
existence  for  a  very  long  time.  Houses 
decay,  clothes  are  easily  ruined,  stock 
dies  and  the  fruits  of  the  field  are  per­
ishable.

Tbe  problem  presents  itself  to  a  pro­
ducer,  how  can  1  preserve  what  I  pro­
duce  or  its  value  until  I  shall  need  it?

The  answer  comes,  turn  it  into  money 
and  depos  t  it  in  the  bank,  and 
it  will 
be  careful  y  preserved  against  the  time 
of  need.  There  may  be  safer  things 
than  a  bank,  lor  a  bank  may  become in-

& ¥ ¥ * * * * ¥ * ¥ * * * ¥ * * ! * ¥ * ¥ ¥ * ? ? ? &
I  B ic y c le   D e a le r s   f

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

Adams & Hart,

Wholesale & Retail Bicycles & Sundries,

12  West  Bridge  Street, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

4Ö

fr 

US'  SUPPLIES

and  rendered  many  banks  unprofitable 
and  forced  them  into  liquidation.

With  the  growth  of  the  credit  system, 
exchanges  between  different  parts  of  the 
country  and 
internationally  were  ex 
pedited  and  simplified,  the  expense  of 
and  time  required  for  the  transportation 
of  money  were  saved  and  consequently 
industrial operations quickened and were 
rendered  more  efficient  To 
illustrate 
A few  days  since  an  Elk  Rapids  gentle 
man  desired  to  send  $30  to  a  friend  on 
the  Pacific  coast  for  immediate  use.  He 
at  first  thought  of  the  old-time  way  of 
shipping  the  money  by  express.  On 
enquiry  found  it  would  cost $4  and  con­
sume  a  week  in  transit. 
In  his  extrem 
ity  he  bethought  himself  of  the  bank 
and  found  that  he  could  by  the  use  of 
the  bank  check  system 
furnish  his 
friend  the  money  as  quickly  as  by  ex­
press  and  for  the  small  charge  of  15 
cents.  But,  greater  dispatch  being  de­
sired,  the  bank  by  use  of  the  telegraph 
and  check  system  combined  was  able  to 
receive  the  money  over  its  counter  in 
Elk  Rapids  and  in  an  hour’s time trans­
fer  the  credit  to  a  bank  on  the  Western 
coast  for  the  use  of  the  friend,  for  half 
the  cost  of  an  express  shipment.

No  one  can  compute  the  great  amount 
of  time  and  expense  saved  to  the  com­
mercial  world  and  the  extra  volume  of 
business 
is  enabled  to  transact  be­
cause  of  the  banks,  and  if  they  rendered 
no  other  service  this  would  be  sufficient 
reason  for  their  existence.

it 

Second,  banks,  by  the  discounting  of 
business  paper and the loaning of monev, 
greatly  stimulate  manufacturing,  trade 
and  commerce.  The  Elk  Rapids  Iren 
Co.,  for  example,  invests 
its  working 
capital 
in  manufacturing  iron,  lumber 
and  flour,  which  are  seldom  sold  for 
cash,  but  to  be  paid  for at  some  future 
is  apparent  that  if  the 
ime  Now,  it 
long 
ime  granted 
for  payment  be 
enough,  the  company  would  have 
its 
money  expended  and  the  representation 
of  that  capital,  the  iron,  etc.,  soid  and 
n  possession  of  other  parties,  while  the 
company  would  have  to  borrow  more 
capital  or  close 
its  furnace  and  mills 
until  they  might  receive  pay  for  their 
products  sold

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Pertinent  Observations  by  a  Practical 

Banker.

A  very  small  percentage  of  men,  in­
cluding  business  men,  could  give  off­
hand,  a  correct  statement  of  the  real 
purposes  of  a  bank,  or  any  adequate 
reason  for  the  important  position  banks 
hold  in  our  intricate commercial system 
Besides  this,  superficial  observers, 
to 
whom  banking  operations  are  as  mys 
terious  as  Egyptian  Sorcerers,  often 
times  charge  the  banks  with  being  the 
source  of  selfishly-conceived  designs  on 
our  monetary  system,  causing  industrial 
paralysis,  low  wages,  hard  times,  pov 
erty  and  crime.  A  terrible  accusation 
Let  us  see  if  it  be  a  true  one. 
It  is  not 
to  be  wondered  at  that  the  American 
people  should  have  so  little  knowledge 
of  our  banking  system,  for  since  the 
days  of  the  elimination  of  the  ‘ ‘ Wild 
Cat”   and  “ Red  Dog”   banks  which 
were  so  numerous  and  unsafe  at  the 
close  of  the  rebellion,  we  have  devised 
and  brought  into  operation a remarkably 
effi:ient,  well-guardsd  system,  which  no 
longer  compels  the  constant  scrutiny 
and  attention  of  the  public  to  prevent 
evils. 
is  a  business  too  complex  to 
be  comprehended  at  a  glance.

It 

But,  what  are  the  functions  of  a bank? 
What  service  does  it  render  a  commu 
nity  or  nation?  Does  it  contribute  alike 
to  the  prosperity  of  the  rich  and  poor, 
employer  and  employed?  Can  banks  be 
dispensed  with?  Are they  a  burden  up­
on 
industrial  operations,  making  a  tax 
upon  labor  and  capital  for  their  main­
tenance  through monetary manipulations 
as 
is  somttimes  charged?  There  are 
five  kinds  of  service  rendered the public 
by  these 
institutions  and  the  perform­
ance  of  any  one  of  them  will  merit  the 
title  of  bank.

returning 

First,  banks  provide  safe  places  for 
the  reception  and  custody  of  money  and 
other  evidences  of  value  and  facilitate 
exchanges  of  credit.  The  original  func­
tion  of  a  bank  was  to  receive,  safely 
guard  and  deliver  when  called  for,  all 
kinds  of  bullion,  currency  and  evi 
dences  of  property, 
to  the 
owner  the  same  bullion  or  other  prop­
erty  which  he  had  deposited,  being 
nearly  the  same  in  effect  as  the  safety 
deposit  vaults  of  to-day  and  a  tax  upon 
its  patrons  for  the  expense  of  mainte­
nance.  While  this  was  an  improvement 
on  the  custum  of  keeping  money  in  pri-j 
vate  coffers,  still  it  was  unprofitable  and 
worked 
ill  results  on  the  public,  for  it 
hoarded  and  withdrew  from  circulation 
a  vast  amount  of  capital  which  ought  to 
have  been  in  use.  Then  there  began  to 
be  shown  the  convenience  of  paying  an 
obligation  by  an  order,  or  check,  on  the 
bank.  Such  checks  were  often  placed 
to  the  credit  of  the  payee;  thus  a  sim­
ple  cbauge 
in  the  books  of  the  bank 
took  the  place  of  drawing  money  with 
which  to  pay  the  debt,  and  time  was 
saved  and  risk reduced.  Thus developed 
the  check  system  of  exchanges  and  that 
resulted  in  the  bank  having  constantly 
on  hand  money  which  it  could profitably 
loan. 
It  then  proposed  to  accept  de­
posits  without  charge  and  compensated 
itself  for  the  service  rendered  by 
loan­
ing  such  portion  of  the depositors’ funds 
as  could  safely  be  spared.  Thus  the 
expense  of  maintenance  of the  bank  was 
transferred 
from  the  depositor  to  the 
user  of  the  depositor’s  funds.  Sharp 
competition  has  driven  the  banks  of  to­
day 
into  the  unwarrantable  and  unsafe 
practice  of  paying  excessive  interest  on 
deposits  and 
is  a  burden  that  has 
been  the  indirect  cause  of  many failures

it 

If 

it  were  not  for  banking  capital, 
which  comes  forward  at  this  time  and 
relieves  the situation,  business  would  be 
crippled,  men  thrown  out  of  employ­
ment  and  general  stagnation  would  re­
sult.

The  bank  now  offers  to  loan  the  man­
ufacturer  money,  taking  for  security  bis 
manufactured  wares,  or  to  buy  the  notes 
or  acceptances  be  may  have  received 
for  goods  sold,  deducting  his  interest  in 
advance,  called  the  discount.

Thus  the  manager  or  the  creditor gets 
possession  of  his  capital  three  or  four 
months  sooner  than  he  would  without 
the 
intervention  of  the  bank,  and  al­
though  he  does  not  get  the  full  face 
value  of  his  paper,yet  in  a  paying  busi­
ness  he  will  make  more  by  discounting 
his  paper  and  using  his  capital  than  by 
waiting.

Thus  industries  are  built  up,  capital 
in  activity,  the  demand  for 
increased 
labor  strengthened,  and  general  pros­
perity  increased.

Third.  National  banks  supply  the 
country  with  a  part  of  its  circulating 
medium,thereby  making  what  is  termed 
an  “ elastic  currency,”   from  the  fact 
that 
it  can  be  issued  or  retired  as  oc­
casion  mav  demand.  The  demand  for 
money  is  like  the  demand  for coal  We 
need  more  coal  at  certain  seasons  than 
we  do  at  others.  So  with  money,  we 
need 
it  to  settle  balances  in  trade  and

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WIRE  GOODS

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Bright..........................................................  
Screw Byes................................................... 
Hook’s..........................................................  
Gate Hooks and Byes. 
.. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ..............  din 
Steel and lrrr 
Try and Bevels  .......................................... 
M itre..................  

80
80
80
80
70
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60
50
com.  smooth,  com.

LEVELS
SQUARE5

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2 60

WIRE

TRAPS

82 50
2 51
2 70
2 80

HORSE  NAILS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

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

Nos. 10 to 14................................... 82 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............................................  
75410
50
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
Oneida Community, Hawley 4  Norton's 70&10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
1  ■&
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
Bright Market............................................  
0
Annealed  Market...........................................  
'.0
Coppered Market......................................  6 410
Tinned Market.............................................  
tO
Coppered Spring  Steel.................................... 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ..........................   2 80
Barbed Fence,  painted....................................  2 40
An Sable.................................................dls 4041C
Putnam.... 
5
Capwell.................................................... net list
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.......................  
Coe’s Genuine........................................  
 
7>
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought  ......... 
75
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
4 1
Bird  Cages  .......................................... 
Pumps, Cistern............................................. 
Screws, New List...................................  
n>
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50410410
Dampers, American.....................................  
600pound casks....................................  ... 
Per pound.................  
.............................  
D  o p ............................................................  1  45
B B and Buck.............................................  1  70
*4©>4..........................................................   17
Tbe prices of tbe many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by  private  brands  var?
according to  comnositlon.
TIN—Melyn Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................8 7  15
14x20 IC, Charcoal.....................  
...........  7  0
20x14 IX, Charcoal..................................... 
8 5

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MISCELLANEOUS

METALS—Zinc

WRBNCHBS

SOLDER

Bach additional X on this grade. 81.25.

SHOT

8V4
9

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TIN—Allaway Grada

10x14 IC, Charcoal.....................  
6 2 '»
14x20 IC, Charcoal..................................... 
6 2 1
7  & )
10x14 IX, Charcoal..................................... 
14x20 IX, Charcoal......................................   <51

Bach additional X on this grade. 81.50. 

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
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...........
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade  ..........   12

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATE
BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATE

43

70

50

in  her  stove 

solvent.  But  land  may  deteriorate,  and 
jewels  be 
lost,  so  as  a  depository  of 
value  there  is  risk  in  everything.  This 
was  the  verdict  of  the  old  lady  who  de­
posited  $1,700 
for  safe 
keeping  over  night  and  the  next  morn­
ing,  not  thinking  of  her  treasure,  put  a 
fire  in  the  stove  and  cremated her board. 
Besides,  when  stored 
in  a  bank,  the 
value  may  be  readily  withdrawn,  while 
if 
land  and  other  propeity  may  not 
be  thus  at  command.  But  besides  this 
direct  benefit  there  is  an  indirect  ben 
efit  arising  from  savings banks.  The 
small  deposits  of  many  men  combined 
form  a  control  over  capital  large enough 
to  promote 
the  business  enterprises, 
strengthen  old  industries  and  establish 
new  ones.  The  more  capital  the  more 
enterprise.

in 

through 

from  him,  and 

Fifth.  There  is  one  ether  service  ren­
dered  by  banks  which,  while  not  as 
important  and  essential  as  the 
four 
functions  previously  mentioned,  is  quite 
as  generally  employed  by  the  mercan 
tile  world  and 
is  a  great  saving  and 
convenience  I  speak  now  of  the  collec­
tion  department.  This  department  en 
ables  the  creditor  to  draw  his  draft  or 
make  bis  written  demand  on  bis  debtor, 
who  may  be  many  thousands  of  miles 
distant 
the 
agency  of  bis  bank  and  its  agents  col­
lect  the  debt  for  a  nominal  considera 
tion.
•  This  system  proves  mutually  advan­
tageous  to  both  debtor  and creditor.  For 
instance,  a  dealer  in  Chicago  desires  to 
purchase  of  an  Elk  Rapids  mtrehant  a 
carload  of  potatoes.  The  merchants  are 
strangers  to  each  other  and ne  ther cares 
to  trust  the  other  with  the  value  repre 
sented  by  the  potatoes,  or  perhaps  the 
local  merchant  can  not  afford  to  be  out 
the  use  of  bis  money  during the time the 
consignment  would  be  in  transit.or  dur­
ing  any  delay  that  might  occur 
in  the 
receiving  and  selling  of  the  same  and 
the  remitting  therefor.

In  this  case  the  local  merchant  would 
purchase  the  potatoes  with  his  own  cap­
ital,  if  able;  if  not,  he  would  perhaps 
borrow  of  his  bank,  on  the  strength  of 
the  tra  saction,  and  load  and  ship  his 
car consigned to  himself at  Chicago.  He 
would  tike  the  railroad  company’s  re­
ceipt  therefor,  or  bill  of  lading,  as  it  is 
called,  to  his  banker  and  deposit  it  with 
bin ,together  w  th  a  draft on the Chicago 
merchant 
the 
to  his  corres­
banker  would 
ponds t  hank  at  Chicago  and  the  mer­
chant  wcul 1  there  pay  the  draft  on  him 
for  the  price  of  the  potatoes,  receive  the 
bill  of  lad.ng  and  claim  his  property  of 
the  ra  lroad  company.

lor  collection. 

forward 

This, 

Do  you  not  think  the  five  important 
functions  peculiar  to  banks,  which  1 
have  briefly  spoken  of,  prove  that  banks 
have  a 
legitimate  existence,  that  they 
can  net  be  dispensed  with,  that  rightly 
managed  they  are  a  blessing,  directly  or 
ind  rectly,  to  everybody  and  ¡that  they 
are 
just  as  necessary  to  the  business 
activities  of  a  n-.tion  as  the  railroad, 
telegraph  and  telephone?

Thus  we  have  considered  the  place 
banks  occupy  in  the  business  world,  the 
reason  for  their  existence  and  the differ­
ent  forms  of  institutions  known  by  the 
name  of  hank  Wn  1 *  the  method  or 
pi in  of  bank  ng  is  easy  to  understand, 
yet  to  manage  a  b  11k  successfully  re­
quires  the  utmost  shrewdness,  keenness, 
good  sound  sense  and  honesty  beyond 
reproach  on  the  part  of  its  directors and 
officers. 
liberality 
must  be  tempered  with  good  judgment, 
for  management  which  is  too  conserva­
tive  will  render a  bank  powerless  to  do

Conservatism  and 

business  and  unprofitable  to 
its  stock­
holders,  and,  on  the  ether  hand,  too 
much  liberality  brings  the  same  result, 
probably  more  disastrously  by 
losses 
from  bad  loans  and  a  loss of  public  con­
fidence. 

F.  B.  M o o r e,

Cashier  Elk  Rapids  Savings  Bank.

The  Hardware  Market.

The  general  features  of  the  hardware 
market  remain  as 
in  our  last  report. 
General  advances  are  taking  place  in 
almost  everything'  connected  with  the 
hardware  trade.  The  demand  from  the 
retail  trade  continues 
large  and  prob­
ably  growing  and  in  several  lines 
is 
probable  that  a  shortage  will  be  the  re­
sult,  so  that  merchants  who  have  not 
covered  their  requirements  may  be  put 
to  some 
inconvenience,  on  account  of 
not  being  able  to  obtain  tbe  goods.

it 

Wire  and  Nails—Wire  and  nails  still 
remain  at  tbe  following  prices:  nails 
$2.25;  pointed  barbed  wire,  $2.40;  gal­
vanized,  $2.80.  Whether  any  advance 
will  shortly  be  made  is  something  that 
we  are  unable  to  prophesy  at  this  time.
Sheet  Zinc— The  manufacturers  have 
again  advanced  their  price 
per  lb., 
making  the  price  at  tbe  present  time  by 
tbe  sheet  qc,  or  in  600  lbs.  casks,  8^c.
Dripping  Pans— These  goods  have 
been  advanced  J£c  per  lb.,  owing  to  the 
advance  in  sheet  iron.

Tacks—Advances 

are  being  made 
gradually  by  tack  manufacturers  and, 
in  view  of  an  excellent  demand  and 
general  tone  of  tbe  market,  prices  are 
decidedly  firm.  The  advance  up  to  the 
present  time  on  this  line  of  goods  aver­
ages  about  20  per  cent.

Balances  and  Scale  Beams— In  con­
sequence  of  repeated  advances  in  ma­
terial,  this  line  of  goods  tas  been  ad­
vanced  about  18  per  cent. _

Tinware—All  classes  of  tinware,  both 
pieced  and  stamped,  on  account  of  the 
increased  cost  of  tin’ plates,  have  been 
advanced  20  per  cent.

Galvanized  Ware— Everything  in  this 
line, 
including  pails,  coal  hods,  etc., 
owing  to  the  advance  on  galvanized 
iron,  has  been  marked  up  about  18  per 
cent.

Wire  Cloth—This  article 

is  very 
strong 
in  price  and  is  very  scarce  and 
in  all  probability  further  advances  will 
be  made.  The  price  at  the  present  time 
in  full  rolls  is  $1.25  per  hundred  square 
feet.

Screen  Doors  and  Windows— Owing to 
tbe  advance  in  wire  cloth,  manufactur­
ers  have  withdrawn  all  prices  and 
job­
bers  have  advanced  their  prices  from 
5oc@$i  per  dozen

Miscellaneous—The  fcllowing  goods 
have  been  advanced 
in  price  as  fol­
lows:  Picks  and  mattocks,  5 per  cent.  ; 
truckee  wedges,  %c  per  lb  ;  wire  ox 
muzzles,  10c  per  doz.  ;  harpoon  hay 
forks,  ioc  apiece;  horse  shoes,  25c  a 
keg;  R.  R.  milk  cans,  $3  per  doz.  ; 
toe  calks, 
j£c  per  lb.  ;  shovels  and 
spades,  common  strap  to $6 90  per  doz. 
and  socket  strap  to  $7.50  per  doz.  ;  bar 
iron,  2c  per  lb.  ;  sleigh  shoe  steel,  2j$c; 
gas  pipe,  new 
list  with  60,  10,  10 and 
10  per  cent,  oflf  We  might  add  to  this 
that  almost  everything  on  tbe  shelves  of 
hardware  jobbers  bas  been  advanced  in 
price  by  manufacturers  from  5  to  30  per 
cent.

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No  Evidence  of  an  Inheritance 

say  Jobson  has 

inherited 

"T hey 
$10,000. ”

“ That  must be  a  mistake."
"What  makes  you  think  so?"
" I   saw  him  less  than  an  hour ago  and 

be  was  perfectly  sober."

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS AND BITS

.’..................................................... 

Snell’s. 
70
Jennlng  genuine  ...................................... 25410
Jennings  Imitation....................................60410

AXBS

CAPS

BOLTS

BLOCKS

BARROWS

BUTTS.  CAST

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
60410
Stove...................................................... 
Carriage new list..  ...............................  70 to 75
Plow......................................  
 
go
BUCKETS
Well,  plain...................................................8 3 50
Cast Loose  Pin, figured................................70410
Wrought Narrow.......................................... 70410
 
 
Ordinary Tackle.......................... 
70
CROW  BARS
Cast Steel................................ 
5
..per lb 
66
Ely’s  1-10.............................................. perm 
Hick’sC. F ...... ....................................perm 
55
G- D-.................................................... perm 
45
Musket................................................per m 
7&
Rim  Fire........................................................40410
Central  Fire.................................................  
20
CHISELS
Socket Firmer... 
.................................... 
70
Socket Framing. 
............................................... 70
Socket Corner... 
............................................... 70
Socket  Slicks__
............................................... 70
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks...................................... 
60
Taper and Straight Shank........................... 504 5
Morse’s Taper Shank................................. .50a  5
Com. 4 piece, 6 In............................doz. net 
63
1  ¡s
Corrugated..............................................  
Adjustable..............................................dls 40410
Clark’s small, 818;  large, 826.......................30410
Ives’, 1, 818; 2, 824 ; 3, 830  ............................ 
25
New American............................................. 70410
Nicholson’s....... ........................................... 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................6C410
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27........ 
28
List  12 
16.........  
17

GALVANIZED  IRON

EXPANSIVE  BITS

PILES—New  List

CARTRIDGES

ELBOWS

13 

14 

Discount,  70

15 
GAUGES

MATTOCKS

KNOBS—New List

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s....................   60410
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings..................  
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
80
Adze Bye.....................................816 00, dls 60410
Hunt Eye.....................................815 00, dls 60410
Hunt’s....  .................................  818 50, dls 20410
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
40
40
Coffee, P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables. 
Coffee, Landers. Ferry 4  Clark’s...............  
40
Coffee, Bnterprfse........................................ 
30
Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60410
Stebbln’s Genuine..... ..................................60410
Enterprise, self-measuring.........   ............  
an

MOLASSES  OATES

MILLS

NAILS

 

 

advance.................................  
advance............................. 
 
advance.....................................  

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire
Steel nails, base...........................................   22
Wire nails, base...........................................   2 30
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
05
8 ad vance...................................................  
10
20
6 
 
4 
 
30
3 
45
2 advance...........
Fine 3 advance...
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
Casing  6 advance...................................... 
Finish 10 advance......................................  
Finish  8 advance......................................  
Finish  6 advance.................
Barrel % advance............
PLANES
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Sclota Bench................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy........................   @50
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Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............ 
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“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9  2f 

PATBNT PLANISHED IRON 

Broken packages 54c per pound  extra. 

RIVETS

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Yerkes 4  Plumb’s.
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50&10 
Stamped T1d W are..................... new list 7541
Japanned Tin Ware 
2041
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America’s  Relations  With  England.

V7ritte n  fo r th e  T radesman.

It  was  a  notable  event,  attended  by  a 
notable  gathering.  The  annual  banquet 
of  the  Associated  Chambers  of  Com­
merce  of  Great  Britain  had  assembled, 
with  the  Ambassador  of  the  United 
States  as  the  principal  guest.  Beside 
him  sat  Lord  Chief  Justice  Russell  and 
Rear  Admiral  Lord  Charles  Beresford 
and  at  the  feast,  beside  these,  were 
Lord  Salisbury,  the  Premier  of  Eng­
land,  Hon.  Sir  Henry  Stafford  North- 
cote,  the  President  of  the  Association, 
the  Right  Hon.  C.  T.  Ritchie,  Presi­
dent  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  James  R. 
Carter,  Second  Secretary  of  the  United 
States  Embassy,  and  many  members  of 
Parliament. 
It  was  England’s  best, 
drawn  by  a  common  impulse  to  extend 
the  right  hand  of  fellowship  and  good 
will  to  a  kinsman  from  across  the  sea 
with  a  different  surname.  A  long  line 
of  American  diplomats had preceded the 
newly-appointed  Ambassador.  Events 
of  momentous 
importance  between  the 
nations  there  represented 
in  his  and 
their  relations  with  the  rest  of  the  world 
centered  upon  the  guest  of  the  English 
people  the  keenest  interest.  The  Rear 
Admiral  shortened  his  speech  that  the 
company  might  listen  to  “ the  new  Am­
bassador  of  the  United  States,  whom 
every  man  of  the  fore  and  aft 
in  Eng­
is  delighted  to  see,”   and  Vice 
land 
President  Harper, 
in  submitting  the 
toast,  “ Our Guests,’ ’expressed  bis pleas 
ure  at  the  coming  of  the  American  Am ­
bassador’ * when there is every disposition 
to tighten  the  bonds  of  the  Anglo-Saxon 
race, whose  only  objects  are  peace,  pros­
perity,  freedom  of  trade  and  progress.”  
Then  the  English  heart and  the  hos 
its 
pitality  of  the  English  Isles  showed 
unmistakable  presence.  It  sprang  to  its 
feet  and  cheered 
lustily  for  the  man 
from  over  the  sea  and  the  hour  had 
come  for  America  to  respond  to  tbi_ 
royal  welcome. 
In  a  silence  brightened 
by  the  manifest  expectation  beaming 
upon  every  face  the  representative  of 
the  Great  Republic  arose.  He  was  at 
his  best—only  those  who  have  seen  Mr 
Choate  under 
similar  circumstances 
know  what  that  best  is—and  with  pre 
tended  embarrassment  he  stood  for  a 
moment  the  center  of  that  tremendous 
presence.

His  theme  was “ America’s  Relations 
with  England.”   He  was  the  representa 
tive  of  that  America  in  the  highest 
sense of  the  term,  and  theme  and  repre^ 
sentative  were  worthy  of  each  other. 
The  eagle  and  the  lion  sat  down  to­
gether  and  both  were  benefited.  So  the 
proud  bird  of  the  mountain”   plumed 
himself  to  his  heart’s content;  and when 
he  fain  would  have  talked  of  other 
things  the  British  lion,  who  has  so  often 
growled  disapproval  at  America’s  “ My 
Country,  ’tis  of  thee,”   urged  him  with 
cries  of  “ Go  on !”   to continue the pleas­
ing 
times  have 
changed,  and  as truly  have  the  English 
people  changed  with  them.

Truly, 

story. 

the 

There  may  be  something  in  the might 
of  the  American  monitor  which  has 
produced  this  change;  but  it 
is  nearer 
the  truth  to  believe that  after a  century 
of  misunderstanding  Saxon  honesty  and 
Saxon  will  and  Saxon  manhood  again 
stand  hand  to  hand  and  heart to  heart 
as  they  stood  together  in  the  olden  time 
on  the  English  downs  against  the invad­
ing  Danes  and  the conquering Normans. 
That  century  of  misunderstanding  has 
led  the  Englishman  to  believe  the  Yan­
kee to  be  a  most  degenerate  Saxon,  a 
craven  to  make  up 
in  brag  what  he 
lacks  in  courage— in  the  Saxon  heart

is  nothing  so  contemptible 

there 
that—but  when  he  finds,  as  he  has 
found, the  brain and  brawn  on  this  side 
of  the  sea  in  no  respect  inferior  to  h 
own,  pride  and  admiration  take  the 
place  of  contempt  and  the  Saxon  broth 
ers  with  a  common  joy  watch  the  de 
parture  of  the  Spanish  hosts  from  Cuba 
as  their ancestors  centuries  ago  on  the 
coast  of  Kent  saw  the  Danes,  beaten 
and  humiliated,  driven  from  the  shores 
of  England.

What  the  outcome  of  this  renewed 
friendship 
is  to  be  no  man  can  now 
foretell.  If  the  Saxon  past  is  an  earnest 
of  the  Saxon  future  on  both  sides  of the 
Atlantic,  the  two  nations  can  fulfill  no 
grander  prophecy  than  that  which  fell 
from  the  lips  of  the  American  Ambas 
sador  when  he  said,  “ Let  our  voices al 
ways  be  lifted  together  for  the  cause 
of  human  progress  and  the  advance 
ment  of  civilization,  and 
law,  order, 
peace  and 
freedom,  which  are  the 
nurses  of  commerce  the  world  over,  wi 
prevail  and  the  cause  of  humanity  wi__ 
be  advanced I”   That  is  the  ideal  of the 
nations  and  the  Saxon  alone  can  attain 
unto  it. 

R.  M.  St r e e t e r ,

Another  Plan  to  Mitigate  Catalogue 

Competition.

Owosso,  March  28— In  the  Tradesman 
of  March  1  I  noticed  your  liberal  offer 
for the  best  method  of  meeting  the com­
petition  of  catalogue  stores,  which,  as 
your  headlines  suggest,  have  become  so 
dangerous  a  menace  to  the  retail  trade. 
In  the  Tradesman  of  the  8th  I  find some 
communications  upon  the  growing  evil 
but  no  suggestions  of  a  remedial  char 
acter.  To  my  mind,  the  solution  seems 
so  plain  and  easily  accomplished  that 
have  wondered  why  it  has  not  been  sug 
gested  by  a  dozen  of  your  contributors. 
Individual  efforts  are  hopeless  to  meet 
and  remedy  the  evil.  Well  organized 
mercantile  effort  will  succeed,  and  right 
here  your  persistent  zeal  and  activity  in 
organizing  mercantile 
associations 
throughout  the  State,  and the  encourage­
ment  you  have  given  them  through  the 
columns  of  the  Tradesman,  come  to  the 
rescue of  the  retail  dealers  in  their  ex 
tremity.  My  plan 

is  this:

In t  the  name  of  the  local  Business 
Men’s  Association,  wherever  there 
is 
one  formed,  let  every  individual  mem­
ber  sign  an  conractt'in  the  shape  of  a 
stand  ing  advertisement,  to  be 
inserted 
in  each  of  the  newspapers  published 
in 
any  place  where  such  associations  have 
been  formed,  agreeing  to  sell  to  their 
customers  any  article  of  merchandise  of 
the  same  value  as  those  advertised  in 
the  catalogues  at  the  same  prices  men 
tioned  in  said  catalogues,  adding  there 
to  only  the  actual  expenses  to the  buye, 
in  getting  his  goods  from  the  catalogue 
stores  to their own  towns,  such  as  post­
age,  express  or  freight  charges,  money 
orders,  etc.  This  plan  would  give  eacL 
individual  merchant  the  benefit  of  a 
general  and  permanent  notice  by  the 
press at  a  very  small  cost  to  each,  or,  in 
case 
it  was  thought  best,  the  cost  of 
publication  might  be  paid  out  of  funds 
belonging  to  the  Association. 
In  vil­
lages  where  there  are  no organizations 
the  dealers  might  combine  in  the  same
general  way 
for  mutual  protection. 
This  plan  seems  to  me  very  simple, 
easy  to  carry  out,  and  I  believe  would 
mitigate  the  evil  and,  perhaps,  wipe 
it 
out  altogether.  This  advertising  notice 
would  represent  all  the  lines  of  trade 
and  guarantee  catalogue  prices  to  the 
customer  and,  probably,  better  goods 
W.  S.  H.  Welto n.

Dangerous  For  the  Women.

Wickwire—This  prominence  of  wom­
is  going  „to  cause  trouble  thirty  or 

en 
forty  years  hence.

Mrs.  Wickwire—I ’d  like  to  know  who 

will  be  troubled?

Wickwire— The  girl  babies  who  are 
It 
impossible  for  them  to  keep 

being  named  after  eminent  women. 
will  be 
people  from  guessing  their ages.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Urge  the  Establishment  o f  a  Public 

Market.

Saginaw,  March  27—The  Retail  Mer­
chants’  Association  had  a  meeting  last 
evening,  and  prepared  to  boom 
the 
market  project 
in  view  of  the  expres­
sion  to  be  made  pro and  con  by  the  tax­
payers  at  the  approaching  spring  elec­
It  appeared  to  be  the  consensus 
tion. 
of  opinion 
that,  now  that  the  people 
were  to  express themselves  on  the  sub­
ject,  it  would  be  well  to  have  a  few 
public  meetings  to  urge  public  senti 
ment  in  favor  of  the  market.

In  the  absence  of  President  Tanner, 
T.  A.  Downs  acted  as  chairman  of  the 
meeting.  Mr.  Downs  reported  that  the 
solicitation  committee  on  the  east  side, 
of  which  he  was  a  member,  had  secured 
between  $350  and  $400  as  a  fund  for 
pressing  the  good  roads  and  market 
projects;  the  west  side  committee,  he 
understood,  had  secured  between  ¿150 
and  $200  for the  same  purpose.

Archie  Robertson,  chairman  of  the 
Market  Committee,  reported  that  the 
market  question,  as  the  Association 
knew,  had  been  voted  by  the  Council  to 
be  submitted  to the  people.  He  thought 
it  would  be  a  very  proper  plan  to  have 
some  public  meetings,  to  be  addressed 
in  favor  of  bonding  the  city  for  the 
market.  There  were  some  things  that 
the  new  condition  of  affairs  with  refer­
ence  to  the  market  made  necessary, 
and  he  thought  there  should  be  a  re- 
organization  of  the  Market  Committee. 
There  would  be  ordinances,  site  for  the 
east  side,  and  forms  and  usages  govern­
ing  markets  that  would  have  to  be  de­
cided  upon. 
It  was  thought  wise  to  de­
fer  the  re-organization of  the  Committee 
until  after election,  as  it  was  not  known 
for  sure  that  these  details  would become 
necessary.

Short  in  His Accounts. 

Riverdale,  March  28—T.  Talion, 
Township  Treasurer  of  Seville  town­
the  silver  caucus  on 
ship,  attended 
Thursday 
last  and  was  unfortunate 
enough  to  lose  from  his  pocket  a  roll 
containing  about  $800  of  the  township 
funds ;  at  least,  this  is  the  explanation 
he gives  for the  shortage.

People  who  think  they  can  make  hay 
when  the  sun  shines  have  never  tried  to 
do  it  when  there  was  snow  on  the 
ground,  sparkling  and  shining 
in  the 
beautiful  sunlight.

Business  combines  stop  at  nothing.  A 
fertilizer trust  has  been  formed  in  New 
Jersey,  the  home of  trusts.

WANTS  COLUMN.

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

W ANTED—GENERAL  STOCK  IN  THBIV- 
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. 
891
Drug  store  for sale  or trade in  a
town of 800 inhabitants on  South  Haven  & 
Eastern Railroad in Van  Bnren  county.  Stock 
will  invoice  about  81,000;  has  been  run  only 
about four  vears;  new  fixture«;  low rent.  Ad­
dress No. 897. care Michigan Tradesman.  897
STORE  FOR  RENT  AND  FIXTURES  FOR 
Sale—One  of  the best locations in  Allegan. 
Address Kohlenstein  Bros.,  dry goods, Allegan 
Mich. 
895  ’
T'tRUG  STOCK  FOR  SALE—WILL  INVEN- 
•*-'  tory $l,5i'0;  daily sales from $15 to $20.  Rea­
son  for selling, wish to quit  the  business.  Ad- 
dress No. 893, care Michigan Tradesman.  893
Money to patent your ideas may be
obtained through our aid.  Patent Record. 
Baltimore. Md. 
SHINGLE MILLFOR SALE, WITH OR WITH- 
out 120 acres of land, situated  in  cedar tim­
ber  section.  Conveniences  for  boarding  men 
and stabling horses.  Address  N.  &  D.  C.  Jar- 
880
man, Petoskey.. Mich. 
fjH)R SALE-IMPROVED FARM; GOODGEN- 
eral cropping, gardening and  fruit  raising; 
near market.  Address  Albert  Baxter,  Muske- 
88*
gon. Mich.___________  

885

8*8

gag

ARE 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. 
BIG  STORE  FOR  RENT—ONE  OR  THREE 
brick  stores.  22x75  feet  each,  with  base­
ments and 10 foot  arches.  W< uld  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. Mich. 
ifcl  n o n   WILL  BUY  A  GOOD  JEvVELRY 
dPA’l/vfV   stock. Including fixtures.  Located 
iu  good town in Northern Michigan.  No oppo­
sition.  Address No. 889, care Michigan  Trades-
man.
889
LjMiR SALE-HARDWARE  STOCK  IN  ONE 
A  of the best towns in Barry county.  Stockis 
in  good  c’ean  condition.  Best  of  reasons  for 
selling.  Traders  need  not apply.  For  particu­
lars address Frank D  Pratt,  MiddlevlUe,  Mich.
876
W ANTED—A  BUTCHERS  SECOND  HAND 
refrigerator in fiist-class co  ditlon.  State 
lowest  spot  cash  price f.  o.  b  cars.  Give  full 
description.  Address  Lock  Box  33.  McBride’s. 
Mich. 
8-4
ALE—GROCERY STOCK IN CENTRAL 
1  Michigan in city of 3,'OuInhabitants  Sales 
last  year.  Si",000;  stock  invoices  about  $1,200. 
Address No. 879. care Michigan Tradesman  879
ANTED — SHOES,  CLO TH IN G ,  DRY 
goods.  Address  R.  B.,  Muskegon,  Mich.
699
IfiOR  SALE —CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK 
located at one of the best trading  points  in 
Michigan.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $5,' 00. 
Store a> d warehouse will be rented  for  $30 per 
month.  Will sell on  easy  terms.  Address  No. 
868. earn Mich gan Tradesman. 
868
Fo r SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  SHOES.  OWN- 
ers wish  to  discontinue  shoe  department. 
Competition light.  Address No.  869, care  Mich- 
igan T  adesman. 
869
L'OR  SALE—HALF  INTEKEST  IN OLD  ES- 
a 
ta Wished m* at market, located in  excellent 
residence  district of Grand  Rapids.  Investiga­
tion solicited.  Address  No. 86 j,  care  Miclrgan 
Tradesman. 
LM)R  SALK — WELL-ESTABLISHED  AND 
-■-  good-paying  implement  and  harness  busi­
ness, located  in  small  town  surrounded  with 
good farming country.  Store  has  no  competi­
tion within radius of eight miles.  Address  No. 
806, care Michigan Tradesman. 
JjH)R  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  aTOCK.  A 
A  splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad- 
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman. 

ggg

806

680

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

MONEY-!F YOU ARE a MILL MAN,  HERE 

Is a chance for both you and me.  My ahin-
2mSi^,m Ì T b?r,miU ,for  sale  io t  cash;  about 
400,000.00)  feet  logs  in  yard;  about  2.000,000 
^ningle stock ready to cut, all  on  cash  contract, 
i? start April 3.  Future contracts  in
i 
Falls. Mich!*186  yearS- 
R0bbln9’  B$ T
W A N TED —A  CAPABLE  MAN  WITH  $2,000 
cwry Mock  of  goods  and  manage 
branch business;  $150 per month  and  expenses: 
also extra percentage;  permanent position:  ref­
erences required.  Henry Vernon, Boyce Build- 
lng, Chicago. III. 
BAKERY  AND  RESTAURANT  FOR  SALE. 
• J   Good business.  Address Postoffice  Box 32, 
Eaton Rapids, Mich. 

902

9q,

J- 

•OR SALE—NEW,  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  i-EN- 
c™! merchandise in small town in Southern 
Michigan  on  Michigan  Central  Railroad;  tie 
gant fanning country;  no competition within  a 
JH Í58  Si.,tw,elve  “ Bes;  stock  invoices  about 
$3,000.  This is a good  business  and  good  loca­
tion and must be sold for cash;  no trades.  Ad- 
dress F. N.. care Michigan Tradesman. 

904

j»OR  SALE—RESIDENCE  PROPERTY  AND 
building,  the  latter  adjoining  Stein­
berg 8  Opera  House.  Traverse  City.  Will  sell 
cheap  and accept  merchantable  goods  In  Dart 
p-yment.  S  Cohen.  Mu-kegon. 
| COMPARATIVELY NEW $9.500 STOCK  DtiY 
\ J   good«  for  sale  in  Coldwater. 
J.  H.  Mon- 
agne. Cold water. Mich
^V)R  SaLB—HOUSE  AND  L‘»T  IN  TRAV- 
—  , cjk®  pity;  also  store  building  adjoining 
Steinberg’s opera honse.  Will sell either or both 
cheap.  S. Cohen. Muskegon, Mich. 

900

8r9

9 5

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

\A T  ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 
try;  any  quantities.  Write me.  Onin J. 
Stone, Kalamazoo. Mich. 
E PAY SPOT CASH ON TRACK FOR BUT- 
It will  pay you  to get  onr 
ter and eggs. 
prices and  particulars.  Stroup & Carmer.  Per- 
rinton, Mich. 
ANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 

—8.0

771

Ithaca,  M ich._______  

555

MISCELLANEOUS.

W A N T ED  - POSITION  BY YOUNG  MAN.  A 
registered  pharmacist  Good references. 
Address  45  North  Valley  Ave.,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 
90!
CLERK  WANTED— EXPERIENCED  MAN 
for dry goods  and  shoe  department.  Must 
speak  German.  Permanent  position  for  right 
man.  Good  references  required.  S.  Maudlin 
<k 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  $50,000.  Salary, 
moderate.  Address  No.  890,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
W AN 1 ED  AT ONCE  A  GOOD SPECIALTY 
salesman for the  grocery and drag  trade. 
Must have  A  No.  1  references,  and  only  first- 
class men need  apply.  The  Dunkley  Celery  & 
Preserving Co.. K«lanmzoo. Mich 
896
W ^N TfiD -BK lG H T, AOllVK YOUAU 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. 

goo

890

T r a v e le r s ’  T im e   T a b le s .  MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

CHICAGO

Michigan  Business Men’s Association

President,  C.  L.  Wh itn et,  Traverse  City;  Sec­

retary, E  A.  Stowe, Grand Rapids.

C hicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids............   7:30am  12:00nn  *11:45pm
At.  Chicago............... 2:10pm  5:15pm  7:20am
Lv.Chicago...11:45am  6:50am  4:15pm *11 50pm 
Av.G’dRapids 5:00pm  1:25pm  10:15pm  * 6:20am 
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Lv. G’d  Rapids.............7:30am 
...........   5:30pm
Parlor cars oil day trains and sleeping cars on 
night trains to and from Chicago

•Kvery  day. 

Others week days only.

Michigan  Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J .W isler,  Mancelona;  Secretary,  E 

A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President.  C.  G.  J ewett,  Howell;  Secretary 

Henrt C. Minn ie, Eaton Rapids.

nP T D O IT   Qrand Rapids & Western. 
l / C  I  l \ U I   1 t 

Nov.  13 1898.

Detroit  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J oseph Knig ht;  Secretary, E. Marks, 
221  Greenwood ave:  Treasurer, (J. H. F rink.

Detroit.

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

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Guo.  DeH aven.  General Pass.  Agent.

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

President,  F rank  J.  Dy k ;  Secretary,  H oxer 

Saginaw Mercantile  Association 
McBratnib;  Secretary,  W.  H.  Lew is.

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

n n   A  V jr v   Trank Railway  System
v llw A w l v i J   Detroit and Milwaukee Div

(In effect Feb. 5,1899.)

GOING  EAST

Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit & N Y.........t 6:45am  t 9:55pm
Detroit  and  Bast..................+10:16am  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............... *10:21am * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven  and Int  Pts......... tl2:58pm  t 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee. ..+ 5:12pm tl0:llam  
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.

*Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

C. A.  J ustin,  City  Pass.  Ticket Agent,
97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.
GRAND Rapids  &  ¡Milana Railway
Northern Div.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C'y, Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am + 5:15pm
Trav. City & Petoskey............t  1:50pm +10:45pm
Cadillac accommodation........t 5:25pm +10:55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City....+11:00pm + 6:35am 
7:45am train, parlor  car;  11:00pm train, sleep­
ing car.
Southern  Div,  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati...............................+ 7:10am + 9:45pm
Ft Wayne 
....................  — + 2:09pm + 1:30pm
Cincinnati............................... * 7:00pm * 6:30am
Vicksburg  and Chicago........ *11:30pm * 9:00am
7:10  am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati 
and  parlor  car  to  Chicago;  2:00pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Wayne;  7:00pm  train  has 
sleeping car  to  Cincinnati;  11:30pm  train  has 
coach and sleeping car to Chicago.

Chicago Trains.

PROM CHICAGO.

TO CHICAGO.
2 O.ipm  *11 30pm
Lv. Grand Rapids... 7  10am 
Ar. Chicago............   2 30pm 
8 45pm 
6 25am
Lv. Chicago............................   3 02pm  *11 32pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...................   9 45pm 
6 30am
Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor 
car;  11:00pm, coach and sleeping car.
Train  leaving  Chicago 3:02pm  has  Pullman 
parlor car;  11:32pm sleeping car.
Muskogon Trains.

Lv G’d Rapids............ +7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pm
Ar Muskegon.............   9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon............. +8:10am  +U:45am  +4:00pm
Ar G’d Rapids............9:80am  12:56pm  5:20pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm. 
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C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 
W. C. BLAKE, 

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

DULUTH,

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)til :10pm  +7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City..................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace..........................   9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie................  12:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette  ........................  2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestorla............  
5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth.............................................  
8:30am
Lv. Duluth..........., ................................  +6:30pm
Ar. Nestorla............................  +11:15am  2:45am
Ar. Marquette.......................  
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............   3:30pm 
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Ar. Mackinaw City...............  8:40pm  11:00am
G. W. Hib b a r d , Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Ovlatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

 
BAST  BOUND.

 

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L v  Grand Rapids.....................  
A r  Manistee....................................12 »5pm 
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L v   Manistee.....................................  8:30am  4.10pm
A r Grand  Rapids  .........................   1:00pm  0:44pm

7:00am

Grand  Rapids Retail Meat  Dealers’ Association 
President, L. J. Katz;  Secretary, Ph il ip Hil b e r : 

Treasurer, S. J. Huppord.

Wolverine Spice Co.,

Qrand  Rapids.

i Sole  Manufacturers of  “LILY  WHITE,’’ 

“The flour the  best cooks use.”

3  U A V cPV A V rA 'feftV r»!

Drop  us  a  card  and we will  quote 
you prices.

-  We make a  specialty of
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Dwight’s
Cleaned
Currants

11  Pearl  Street, 
Grand  Rapids.

Chas.  A.  Coye,

Feed

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.  W e  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.

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

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GrantT Rapids,  Mich.

P L U M   P U D D I N G

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

Im-

proves with Age.  Made in 

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

15  cents per pound.

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

HANSELMAN  CANDY  CO.,  Kalamazoo,  Mich.

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MONEY  SAVING  AND  MONEY  MAKING  MEANS 

O U K   S Y S T E M   R E G IS T E R S   A U T O M A T I C A L L Y   all  Business  Transactions,  Cash,  Credit,  E x ­

change,  Produce,  etc.  etc.  Address

L.  A.  ELY,  S A L E S   A G E N T ,  A L M A ,  M IC H .

Grand  Rapids  Salesman,  S.  K.  B O L L E S ,  3rd Floor,  39  Monroe Street.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J. F rank H elm er;  Secretary, W.  H. 

P or ter;  Treasurer,  L. Pelton.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association

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

land;  Treasurer, Wm. C. Koehn.

Bay Cities  Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  M.  L.  DeBa ts;  Sec’y, 8. W. Waters.

Traverse City Business Men’s Association
Holly;  Treasurer, C. A. Hammond.

President,  T hob.  T.  Bates;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

Owosso  Business  Men’s   Association 

President, A. D.  W h ipple ; Secretary, G. T. Camp 

bell;  Treasurer, W. E. Collins.

Alpena Business Men’s  Association

President,  F.  W.  Gilc h r ist;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

Partridge.

St. Johns  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, T hob. Bromley;  Secretary, F rank A. 

P ebcy ;  Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Perry Business Men’s Association

President, H. W. Wallace;  Sec’y, T. E. H eddle.
Grand  Haven  Retail  Merchants’ Association
President,F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VebHobkb.

Yale Business  Men’s Association

President, Chas. Rounds;  Sec'y, F rank Putney.

Established « 80.

Walter Baker & Go. LQL

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE.HIGH GRADE

coconsA N D
CHOCOLATES

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

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

Dorchester,  Mass.

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TO   ALL  POINTS, IN  MICHIGAN

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And  a  M ighty  Dangerous One.

You can’t  tell where you are  going 
to  land,  for  it’s  mighty  uncertain 
business, 
this  giving  away  your 
profits.  You  may  argue  that  this 
doesn’t  strike  you,  but  it  does  un­
less  you  are  a  user  of  the  M o n e y  
W e ig h t   S y s t e m .

W hat  docs  the  Money  Weight

System do?.

It saves the pennies, that’s what it 

does.  Write to us about it.

Scales sold on easy monthly pay­

ments without interest.

The  Computing  Scale  Co.,

Dayton,  Ohio.

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

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N A P H T H A   A N D   G A S O L I N E S

Office and  Works,  BUTTERWORTH AVE., 

ORAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Bulk works at Grand  Rapids,  Muskegon, Manistee, Cadillac,  Big Rap- 
Ids,  Grand  Haven,  Traverse City,  Lndington. Allegan, 
Howard  City,  Petpskey,  Reed  City,  Fremont,  Hart,’ 
Whitehall, Holland and Fennville

Highest  Price  Paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels.

