Volume  XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  5,1899.

Number  811

STANDARD 
OIL CO. 
AND  LUBRICATING OILS

MANUFACTURERS  AND  DEALERS  IN

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Naphthas

Gasolines

Greases

The brand MICA A X LB  O PEASE  has become known as well as its good  qualities. 
The merchant handles  M ICA because his customer«, want the  best  Axle  Gr*-ase  they  can 
get for their money.  MICA is the  best  because  it  is  made  especially  to  reduce  friction, 
and friction is the greatest destroyer of axle - and axle boxes.

It is becoming a common saying that ‘‘Only one-half as much  M I^A  is required  for 
satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle grease/' so that MICA is not only the best Axle 
Grease on the market  bi*t  the  most  economical  as  well.  Ask  your  dealer  to  show  you 
M ICA in the new white and blue tin packagrs.

Highest Price Paid for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels.

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

National  Biscuit  Company,

SEAKS  BAKERY.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

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prices.  Samples cheerfully sent on application.

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Send for catalogue.

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

Mill and  Works, 200 South  Front Street at G. R. &  I R. R. Crossing.
Mail Address, Room 21 Powers’ Opera Honse Block.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL 5,1899.

Number 811

DESMAN

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C o m m e n c e d   B u s in e ss S e p t.  I,  1893.

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Total Death Losses Paid to Date.........  
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F R A N K  E . ROBSO N, President. 

T RU M A N   B. GO ODSPEED, Secretary.

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

PAGE

2 .  T h e  D ry  Goods  M arket.
3 .   Clerks*  Corner.
4 .  Around  th e  S ta te .
5 .  G rand  Rapids  G ossip.
6 .  W om an ’ s   W o rld .
7 .  H ints  to  D ru ggists.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Observations by a N. Y. Egg Man.
1 1 .  Gotham   G ossip.
12 .  Novel M ethods of Food Inspection
13 .  P ro cess B u tter Ruining C ream ery
14.  Shoes and  Leather.
15.  Acetylene  Lighting.
16 .  A m erican   D estin y.
17 .  Com m ercial  T ravelers.
■8.  Drugs  and  Chemicals.
19.  Drug Price Current.
2 0 .  G rocery  Price  C urrent.
2 1 .  G rocery  Price  C urren t.
32.  Hardware.
2 3 .  H ardw are  Price  C urren t.
2 4 .  Qualities of a Good  Sale sm a n . 

W a n ts  Colum n.

Th e  Lack  o f  Tim e.

It  is  probable  that  if  some good  fairy 
should  appear  to  us  overworked  and 
overdriveu  moderns  and  offer  us  the 
gratification  of  three  wishes,  as  used  to 
be  the  pleasant  way  in  Wonderland,  we 
would  take,  as  our  first  choice,  more 
time.  And  this  would  not  mean  that 
last,  awful,  palpitating  hour  when  we 
shall  stand  on  the  threshold  of  death, 
and  when  all  that  the  world  can  offer  of 
riches,  or  beauty,  or  honors,  we  would 
give  for  a  little  lengthening  of  the  span 
of  life. 
It  means  that  the  days  are  all 
too  short  for  what  we  have  planned  to 
do,  and  that  the  burden  of  every  excuse 
for  things  neglected  and  things 
illy 
done  is  the  lack  of  time.

There  are  so  many  things  we 

intend 
to  do  when  we  get  leisure  that  some­
times 
it  seems  that  we  have  put  off  all 
the  noble  resolves,  all  the  white  things 
and  the  bright  things  of our aspirations, 
to  that  future  that  never  grows  nearer, 
but  dances  on  before  us,  a  will-o’-the- 
wisp  that  constantly  eludes  us  as  we go 
forward.  Not  always  are  we going  to 
be  bogged  in  earth  mire.  We are  going 
to  think  better  thoughts,  we  are  going 
to  be  kinder,  and  more  patient,  and 
more  cheerful  after  a  bit.  Now  the 
fay’s  work  presses  so  heavily  upon  us 
we have  no  leisure  for  serene  thoughts, 
and  if  we are  impatient and cross—well, 
we  are  mentally  and  physically  over­
done,  with  nerves  stretched  to  the  snap­
ping  point.

Of  course,  we  realize  that 

Jam ie’s 
manners  need  reforming,  and  Tom  is 
into  a  big,  rough  boy,  and 
growing 
Mamie 
is  getting  pert  and  fast.  We 
don't  intend  to  let  our  children  grow  up 
that  way—oh,  dear,  no! 
Just  as  soon 
as  we  get  time  we  are  going  to  train 
Jamie  to  be  more  courteous,  we  are  go­
ing  to  have 
long  talks  with  Tom,  and 
try  to  awaken  in  him  higher  ideals,  and 
teach  Mamie  to  be  sweet  and  gentle; 
out,  pray,  how  can  a  woman  who  does 
the  work  of  two  seamstresses  to keep her 
children  tucked  and  ruffled  and  bloused

GßWßßAP/üS. M/CH.

A   reporting  agency  that  gives 
Facts withont Regard to Policy 
or Politics.  A  collection agency 
that Collects.

OpperlBBlli of a Lifetime!

A first-class opportunity to buy a  well- 
established  and  good  paying  business 
in a flourishing town in the Upper Pen­
insula.  The present proprietor did well 
for eighteen years and  wishes  to  retire 
on  account  of  age  and  poor  health. 
Prospect  for  future  is  even  brighter. 
Stock consists  of  a  well-selected  stock 
of  Groceries,  Dry  Goods, Ladies’  and 
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods,  Notions, 
Etc., and invoices about  $15,000.  L o ­
cation,  central.  Rent,  $9<x>  per  year. 
Five years’ lease, if  desired.  For  fur­
ther particulars address  X ,  care  Mich­
igan Tradesman.

Save  Trouble. 
Save  Money 
Save Time.

as  much  as  the  rich  ones  they  go  with, 
and 
looks  after  her  bouse,  and  belongs 
to  a  club  or  two,  and  runs  the  church 
sociables,  do  another  thing? 
There 
simply 
isn’t  time  for  it,  unless  an  ex­
tension  could  be  put  to  the  day.

It  has  always  been  the  same  way.  We 
remember  bow 
it  was  when  we  were 
girls.  We  were  always  intending  to  help 
mother. 
It  grieved  us—when  we  hap­
pened  to  notice  it—to  see  that  she  grew 
thinner  year  by  year;  that  the  patient 
eyes  grew  more  wistful,  and  the  thin 
bands  became  at 
length  almost  trans­
parent.  Sometimes  she  talked  about 
stopping  and  taking  a  rest  when  she  got 
time,  but  she  never  found  the  place 
where  she  could 
lay  her burden  down 
until  she  found  it  in  the  green  mound 
where  not all  our tears or self-reproaches 
could  reach  her. 
If  we bad  only  taken 
time  to  help  her,  time  idly  spent  in  a 
round  of  trivial  pleasures,  we  might 
have  kept  her  with  us a  little  longer. 
We  thought then  we  bad  gotten  a  lesson 
we  should  never  forget,  but  we didn’t. 
It 
just  the  same  now.  We  are  still 
waiting  to  find  time  to  say  the  kind 
word;  to  tell  some  one  how  we  love  and 
appreciate them ;  to  write  the  Utter that 
would  bring  pleasure  to  some  lonely 
one;  to  sit  with  our  children 
in  the 
twilight,  and  show  them  that  very  heart 
of  a  mother's  sacred  love,  without which 
all  care  for  their  bodies  is  but  woithless 
chaff.  We  have  not  time 
for  these 
things,  yet 
in  the  meantime  we  have 
leisure  for a  thousand  idle  schemes,  and 
plans  that,  like  boomerangs,  return  to 
injure  us. 

Co ra  St o w e l l.

is 

Hides,  Pelts,  Furs,  Tallow   and  Wool

Hides  are  firm  at  the  declined  price. 
The  demand  is  good,  but  the  quality  is 
scanned  closely.  The  best  lots  are none 
too  good  for  the  price  paid.

Pelts  are  few  and  neglected  at  former 
is  no  life  to  the  trade. 
values.  There 
The 
indifference  of  pullers  at  almost 
any  price  is  real,  as  they  do  not  know 
what  their  product  will  bring.

Furs  are  poor  in  quality  and  buyers 
are  net  plentiful.  The  spring  catch  is 
not  desirable  and  is  nelgected,  except  at 
extremely  low  values.

Tallow  is  in  good  demand,  with  high­
er  prices  and  small  offerings.  The  scar­
city  has  run  prices  above  what  soapers 
can  profit  by  in  using.

Wool 

is  relatively  no  lower,  but  very 
weak,  with  small  or  no  sale.  Many  are 
looking  around and watching what others 
may  do  and  awaiting  the  action  of  the 
combine.  Some  old  and  mothy  wools 
It 
are  being  sold  at  low  prices. 
is  as­
tonishing  how  much  there 
is  of  this 
stock.  The  new  clip 
is  close  at  hand 
is  quoted  at  last  year’s  prices  by 
and 
country  buyers,  but 
the  question  of 
prices  is  an  enigma  for  old  dealers.

W m.  T.  H e s s.

Som ew hat  Suggestive.

Flossie—I  don't  care,  I  think  Jack 

Townley  is  real  mean !

Annette—Why,  Flossy?
Flossie—He  wrote  to  me  from Florida 
saying  he  bad  shot  an  alligator  seven 
feet  long,  and  said when  he  shot another 
he  would  have  a  pair of  slippers  made 
for  me.

Things  Seen  and  Said .

The  company  of  a  garrulous  man  is 
most  highly  appreciated when somebody 
else  is  enjoying  it.  A  woman's  beauty 
and  attractiveness  are  more  apt  to he 
discovered  by  some  other  woman’s  hus­
band  than  by  her  own.  The  precocious 
is  a  source  of  joy  to  his  mother, 
boy 
but an  abomination  to  others 
in  whose 
company  he  is  interjected.  A  gushing 
girl  may  turn  the  head of the veal youth, 
but  she  succeeds  only 
in  turning  the 
stomach  of  the  mature  man.  Consider­
ing  bow  wise  all  babies  aie,  it is strange 
that  so  many  of  them  develop 
into 
noodles  long  before  they  attain  matur­
ity.  The  growing  boy  is  impressed  with 
the  belief  that  this  world  is  full  of  men 
who  have  no  other object  in  life  than  to 
help  him  on 
in  the  road  to  affluence; 
but  in  process  of  time  he  finds  it  is  the 
fortunes  of  children  of  a  larger  growth 
they  are 
interested  in—namely,  them­
selves.  Men  as  well  as  women  are given 
to  lying  about  their  ages;  but  a  horse  is 
more  fortunate.  His  owner  can  always 
be  depended  upon  to  lie  for  him. 
If 
one-half  the  stories  a  man  tells about bis 
dog  could  be  believed,  the  average  man 
would  hang  his  head  in shame and never 
again  boast  of  belonging  to  a  superior 
It  is  true  that  there  is  plenty  of 
race. 
room  at  the  top 
in  all  departments  of 
it  is  pretty 
industry,  but  unfortunately 
thoroughly  occupied  by  others. 
It  is 
fortunate,  perhaps,  that  we  can  not  live 
our  lives  over  again.  Beginning  with 
our  present  knowledge,  we  would  prob­
ably  be  so  puffed  up  by  our own  wis­
dom  that  we  should  make  a  worse  mess 
of  it than  we  have  already. 
It  is  clear 
that  we  do  not  entertain  a  very  high  es­
timate  of  others’  penetration,  else  we 
would  not  take  the  trouble  to  inform 
them  how  smart  we  are.  They  say  that 
beauty  is  but  skin  deep. 
It  is  for  this 
reason,  that  some  women  lay  their  com­
plexion  on  so  thick.  Some  cynics  affirm 
that  love  is  but  selfishness,  but  consid­
ering  the  kind  of  persons  that some men 
and  women  marry,  it 
like 
altruism.  The  man  who 
is  contented 
with  his  lot  is,  like  the  rest  of  us,  dis­
lot  of  other  things. 
contented  with  a 
im­
There  are  persons  with  whom  it  is 
possible  to  live  in  amity 
Even  their 
simplest  feed  disagrees  with  them.  The 
bric-a-brac  with  which  we  crowd  our 
habitations  costs  a  deal  of  “ dust,"  but 
then  it  seeks  to  repay  us  by its assiduity 
in  collecting  dust  nn  it  own  account. 
Our  necessities  increase  with  our  years. 
The  small  boy 
is  more  than  satisfied 
with  a  washed  face  having  a  plainly 
defined  high-water  line  just  beneath 
it. 
It  is  not  until  be  is  older  that  he  thinks 
it  necessary  to  bathe  bis  entire  body. 
Children,  when  drawing  a  house,  usual­
It  is  no  uncom­
ly  begin  at  the  roof. 
mon 
larger 
growth  to  attempt  to  begin  in  the  same 
way  in  building  their  fortune.

for  children  of  a 

looks  more 

thing 

The  only  way  to  prevent  a  man  mak­
ing  a  big  fool  of  himself  in  later  life  is 
to  make  a  fool  of  him  early.

Every  dog  has  his  day,  and  every 
other  dog  thinks  how  much  nicer  it  is 
than  his  day.

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D ry   G oods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons—Staple  cottons  have 
shown  no  material  change  during  the 
past  week,  although  the  volume  has  de­
creased  slightly  since  our  last  report. 
They  are 
in  a  firm  position,  however, 
and  there  have  been  some  slight  ad­
vances  during  the  past  week.  Coarse 
colored  cottons  show  the  greatest  activ­
ity 
in  the  way  of  advances,  but  it  is 
more  in  the  way  of  leveling  and  bring­
ing  them  up  to  the  pitch  of  other  staple 
cottons  than  anything  else.  There  are 
no  stocks  being  accumulated  yet,  and 
both  brown  and  bleached  cottons  are 
strongly  situated.  Ducks  show  only  a 
moderate  business  with  prices  firm. 
Wide  sheetings  are  strong.

Prints  and  Ginghams—Printed  cali­
coes  have  secured  an  excellent  business 
during  the  week  and  are  fully  up  to  the 
expectations  of  the  trade.  The  jobbers 
report  business  as  satisfactory.  Print­
ers  are  now  busy  on  the  dark  goods  and 
are  doing  practically  nothing  on  tht 
light  1 ines.  The  new  fall  goods  that  are 
open 
in  dress  styles  are  selling  well  at 
an  advance  of  # @ ^ c   per  yard  ovei 
last  season.

Blankets—The  blanket  business—re­
ferring  to  all  wool  and  cctton  warp 
blankets—is  in  a  very  thriving  condi 
tion.  The  volume  of  business  done  to 
date  is  away  ahead  of  recent  years,  the 
only  drawback  to  the  situation  being 
that  prices  are  very  low ;  but  the  pros 
pects  are good  for  advances  in  the  neat 
future,  the  subject  being  already  under 
consideration  by  certain  houses;  agent- 
are  generally 
for  some 
months.  Bed  blankets,  both  all  wool 
and  cotton  warp  goods,  in  whites and 
grays,  are  selling  well.  Something  of  a 
departure  in  all  wool  blankets  made  out 
of  Eastern  Oregon  fleece  wool  by  In­
dians,  are  attracting  very  favorable  at­
tention  by  reason  of their excellent qual­
ity,  harmonious colorings and low  prices 
as  compared  with  the  imported  article; 
the  line 
includes  steamer,  college anc 
also  bed  blankets.

sold  ahead 

Carpets—The  carpet  manufacturers 
are  very  busy  at  present.  Some  of  tht 
largest  mills  are  running  full.  Some  ot 
the 
ingrain  mills  have been  agreeably 
disappointed  this  season  at  the  volume 
of  business. 
In  some  instances  orders 
were  refused,  as  the  mills  had  previous 
ly  booked  all  that  they  couid  fill.  The 
season  statted  out  with  low  prices  and 
a 
large  volume  of  business  followed, 
mainly  in  cotton  warps,  all  cotton  and 
low  grade  12-pair  ingrains.  During the 
past  two  weeks  there  has  been  a  stiffen­
ing  in  values  of  yarn, and  good  wool  for 
filling 
is  scarce.  This  has  caused  the 
manufacturers  to  hold  for  higher  prices 
for  duplicate  orders.  While  there  ate 
already  some  few  mills  who  have  com 
menced  to  make  samples,  the  majority 
will  wait  until  the  middle  of  April 
Regarding  the  rumors  of  a  carpet  trust, 
some  of  the  large  manufacturers  do  not 
believe  it  will  be  possible  to  form  it,  as 
there  are  too  many  conflicting  interests. 
Manufacturers  of 
ingrains  as  well  as 
other  lines  are  looking  anxiously  for­
ward  to  the  opening  of  next  season,  as 
they  want  to  see  what the  prices  of  car­
pets  will  be.  Tapestry  and  velvet  car­
pets  still  have  a  good  run.  The  low 
price  at  which  the  regular  “ taps"  and 
velvets  are  made  to  dav,  has  induced 
more  business,  and  while  the  printed 
tapestry  has  sold  quite  freely,  the  low 
prices  of  the  regulars  have  narrowed the 
business  to  smaller  proportions.  Bun-

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Upholstery—While  some 

dar  wiltons  and rugs  are  selling  well.
jobbers  re­
port  a  fair  volume  of  business,  prices 
are  low  and  profits  small.  Cotton  warp, 
also  all  silk  damask  piece  goods,  are 
receiving  some  attention.  While  the 
stlling  price  for  the  goods  has  not  ad­
vanced,  the  silk  yarn  is  much  higher, 
and  bids  fair  to  advance  again.  This, 
the  manufacturers  claim,  will  mean 
higher  prices  next  season,  as  they  have 
not  made  any  money  owing  to  the  high­
er  values  for material  since the opening

Yarn—Much  care  must  be  used  in  the 
purchasing  of  mercerized  yarns.  So- 
called  mercerized  cotton  yarns  are  be­
ing  offered  at  low  prices  that  never 
were  subjected  to  the  mercerizing  proc­
ess.  To  all  outward  appearances  they 
are  as  represented,  but  they are  lustered 
by  various  patent  processes,  and  they 
lack  the  strength  and  permanence  of 
luster that characterize mercerized yams.
Neckwear—The  neckwear  manufac­
turers  have  been  working  night  and  day 
to  get  out  their  Easter goods,  but  the 
demand  has  been  so great  that  none of 
the  houses  have  been  able  to  make 
prompt  deliveries.

Carpet  Manufacturers  Getting  To­

gether.

a 

New  York,  April  3—At  the  New  York 
offices  of  several  of  the  New  England 
carpet  companies,  it  was  admitted  to­
day  that  a  movement  was  on  foot,  in­
stigated  by  a  Philadelphia  carpet manu­
facturer  to  consolidate  a number of large 
New  England  plants.  No  options  have 
is  yet  been  given,  and  the  affair  is  yet 
in  a  preliminary  stage. 
In  discussing 
the  matter,  a  New  York  sales  agent  ot 
a  New  England  company  said that offers 
had  been  made  for  the  purchase of near­
ly  all  the  large  plants.

“ The  movement  has  not  yet,  how­
ever, 
said  be, 
'where  options  have  been  given  or 
where  a  metting  has  been  called  by  the 
manufacturers  to  consider the  question. 
Personally,  I  believe  the  present  move- 
meut  will  not  be  successful  if  the  capi­
tal  stock  of  the  company  is  only $5,000, - 
000.  That amount represents  but  a  small 
fraction  of  the  capital  invested  in  the 
carpet  manufacturing  industry.  Unless 
toe  combination be made more extensive 
I  think  the  movement  will  fall  through, 
as  did  a  similar  one  five  years  ago.

reached 

stage,”  

“ Many  of  the  local  agents  admit  that 
1  combination  of  carpet  manufacturers 
can be  readily  accomplished,  and  would 
be one  of  the  strongest pools yet formed. 
is  pointed  out  that  inasmuch  as  it 
It 
requires  considerable  capital  to  enter 
the  business,  the  competition  from 
ir­
responsible  sources  would  be  almost 
wholly  eliminated.

“ One  of  the great  economies resulting 
from  the  scheme  would  be  the  opening 
of  a  large  selling  agency,  which  would 
then  do  away  with  the  commission  mer­
chants  and  the  sales  agents."

it 

Selection  and  Direction  o f  Employes.
I  was  recently  talking  to  a  gentleman 
who  is  the  owner and  manager  of  a very 
important  business,  one  in  which 
is 
necessary  for  him  to  delegate a  great 
deal  of important  work  to  his  employes. 
I  know  something  of  this  man’s  busi­
ness  of  which  I  bad  heard  from  other 
sources,  and  I  believe  he  has  the  best 
set  of  workers  I  know  about.  There  is 
not  a  man 
in  the  entire  number  who 
does  not  seem  to  be  working  with  his 
whole  heart  and  soul  in  the  interest  of 
the  house.

“ How  is  it,”   I  asked,  “ that  all  your 
people  are  so  enthusiastic?  They  all 
seem  to  work  together like  the  wheels in 
a  clock ;  I  do  not  believe  there  is  one of 
them  that  does  not  take  pretty  nearly  as 
much 
in  the  business  as  you 
do.”

interest 

“ Well,”   replied  the  gentleman,  “ I 
have  a  first-class  force.  Of  course,  I

in  selecting 
take  a  great  deal  of  pains 
them  at the  beginning. 
I  never  add  a 
man  to  the  force  unless  I  ascertain 
thoroughly  who  be  is and  what  kind  of 
stuff  he  is  made  of. 
I  hold  on  to  my 
people  and  make  them  good  workmen 
by  showing  my  appreciation  of  what 
they  may  do. 
I  do  not  want  people 
around  me  who are  afraid  of  me or have 
the  least  hesitancy  in  saying  what  they 
I  encourage  them  to  give  me 
think. 
is 
their opinion,  and  when  the  opinion 
good  I  say  so  right  out. 
I  do  not  try  to 
take  their  advice  and  belittle  it  in  their 
presence  and  afterward  put  it  into  prac­
tice and  try  to  palm  it  off  on  somebody 
else  as  my  own  thought.  When  any  of 
my  people  originate  a  good  idea  they 
get  credit  for  it  before  everybody. 
I 
think  they  appreciate  this and every one 
of  them  is  striving  to  suggest something 
as  often  as  possible  that  will  really 
help  the  business.  Then,  again,  I  pay 
my  people  all  I  think  they  are  worth. 
I

in  salary. 

have  not  been  but  once  in  two  years 
asked  by  any  of  my  employes  ior  a 
raise 
I  make  it  a  business, 
if  I  think  a  man  is  worth  more  than  he 
is  getting,  to  give  him  a  raise. 
I  do 
not care  bow  sma 1  the  raise  is,  my  em­
ployes appreciate  it  and  work that much 
it  because  I  give  it  to  them 
harder  for 
voluntarily. 
It 
is  only  human  nature 
that  a  man  should  appreciate  a  small 
voluntary  raise  in  his  salary  much  more 
than  be  would  appreciate  a  larger  raise 
if  be  had  to  ask  for  it  himself.

“ Then,  again,  I  do  not  ask  of  my 
employes  anything  that  is unreasonable. 
I  do  not  expect  them  to  do anything 
which  I  myself  would  net  want  to  do 
if 
our circumstances  were  reversed  and  I 
was  in  their  place.  When  an  emergency 
comes  up  and  an  extraordinary  effort  is 
required  ou  their  part,  I  always  thank 
them  when  they  perform  their  duties 
faithfully.  It encourages them and makes 
them  more  anxious  next  time  to  put 
themselves  out  for  my  benefit.”

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C lerks’  C o rn er.

Nasty  Habits  Which  Will  Not  Be  Tol­

erated.

Nobody  od  earth  has  any  higher  re­
spect  for  the  grocery  clerk  than  I  have. 
Grocery  clerks,  as  a  class,  are  an honest 
lot  of  hard  working  fellows,  as  good  as 
I  or anyone  else.  Lots  and  lots  of  them 
are  worthy  of  better  positions  than 
they’ve  got.

But  all  this  doesn’t alter  the  fact  that 
behind  grocery  counters  there  are  some 
of  the  worst  boors  that  ever  drew  the 
breath  of  life.  Some  of  these  are  fel­
lows  who  ought  to  herd  with  swine,  for 
that’s  what they  are  themselves.

The  most  unfortunate  feature  about  it 
is  that  these  fellows are  haraly  respon­
sible  for  their  own  coarseness,  since 
God  made  them  that  way.  At  the  same 
time,  if  I  were  a  grocer  I  should  no 
more  have  one  of  them  behind  mv 
counte*  than  I ’d  fly. 
Instead  of  attract­
ing  trade,  they  keep  it  away.

I  went  into  a  grocery  store  the  other 
day,  where  the  only  clerk  bad  the  most 
neglected  teeth  I  ever  saw  in  a  white 
man’s  mouth.  He  had  the 
smiling 
That  clerk  would  smiL 
habit,  too. 
graciously 
into  the  very  face  of  a  lady 
customer—and  did  while  I  was  there— 
just  as  if  he  had  the  finest  set  of  ivories 
that  ever  grew.

Now  there's  no  excuse  for a thing like 
that.  No  matter how  poor  a  clerk  is,  be 
can  buy  a  toothbrush  and  a  nickel’s 
worth  of  prepared  chalk.  This  may 
seem  like  an  insignificant thing  to  some 
of  you  fellows,  but  I  have  no  doubt 
in 
the  world  that  lots  and  lots  of  trade  has 
been  kept  away  from  stores  on  account 
of  things  much  more  insignificant  than 
this.  Take  a  fastidious 
lady,  clean, 
and  neat  as  a  pin  herself.  Think  she's 
going  to  subject  herself  to  such sights as 
this,  when  there  are  other  stores  to  go 
to,  where  the  clerks  are  clean  gentle 
men?

Not  much.
Then  there’s  the  simple  little  matter 
of  a  clean  shave—don’t  prick  up  your 
ears  there,  you  boys of 15 years old ;  I ’m 
not  talking  to  you—an 'unshaven  face 
isn't  one  tenth  as  bad  as  bad  teeth,  but 
it 
is  bad  enough.  No  man  with  any 
beard  at  all  can 
look  clean  and  neat 
with  a  three  days’  growth  on  bis  face.
I  tell  you,  all  these  things  count.
One  day  last  week  I  stood  in  a  small 
Philadelphia  grocery  stare  down  town 
The  clerk  was  waiting  on  a  lady  cus 
tomer,  and  at  the  same  time  talking 
with  a  young  man  acquaintance  who 
stood  a  little  to  one  side.  This  in  itself 
was  an  unbusinesslike  thing,  but 
wasn’t  the  worst  thing  he  did,  by  any 
means.
The  clerk  had  just  had  a  tooth  out.  It 
had  been  hurting  him  for a  long  time 
and  be  was  telling  bis  friend  all  about 
it.  The  minutest  details  he  brought  out 
—what  medicine  be  bad  used  for  it, 
how  awfully  it  bad  hurt,  how  he  had  re 
fused  to  take  gas,  and  so on,  and  so  on.
Finally,  be  opened  bis  mouth  right  in 
the  lady’s  face,  to  let  the  friend  see 
where  the  tooth  bad  been. 
I  saw,  too; 
nobody  in  the  store  could  have  missed 
it.  Evidently  the  tooth  had  just  been 
taken  out,  for the  gum  was  still  bleed 
ing,and  when  the  gentleman  opened  his 
mouth  he  revealed  a  bloody  gullet  and 
a  deep  red  bole  where  the  tooth  bad 
been.  His  mouth  was  half  full  of  tlood 
and  the  friend  exclaimed  over  the  nasty 
sight  with  proper  appreciation,  while 
the  heroic  clerk  looked  at  all  of  us  with 
a  vast  complacency.
The  lady  was  right  in  range  and  she 
bad  to  see,  too.  I  saw  her  drop  her  head 
and  swallow  bard  a  few  times. 
I  fe' 
like  swatting  the  fellow  over  the  head 
and  I  probably  would  have  done  it  if  he 
hadn't  been  a  bigger  man  than  I  am.

Now,  that  clerk  didn’t  think  he  was 
doing  anything  wrong.  He did  what  he 
thought  was  intetresting,  and  I  suppose 
he  rightly  surmised  that  we  three  who 
were  in  the  store  didn’t  see  such  sights 
every  day.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  we 
don’t.  But  at  the  same  time,  do  you 
think  such  things  are  calculated  to  get 
trade?  Do  you  think  they  are  even  cal 
culated  to  hold  it? 
I  don’t.  I  shouldn'

is 

Another  clerk 

be  one  bit  surprised 
lady  never  went  near  that  store  again.

if  that  sickened 
in  a  store  where  I  go 
sometimes 
invariably  picking  bis 
teeth.  He  must  eat  a  terrible  lot,  for  he 
keeps  the  toothpick  working  all 
the 
time,  no  matter  what  time  you  go  in. 
While  be  waits  on  a  customer be  bolds 
the  toothpick  in  bis  mouth,  and  keeps 
up  that  horribly  nasty  sucking act which 
s  my  pet  abomination. 
1  have  seen 
im  do  this  with  the  utmost  unconcern 
ight  in  customers’  faces.  Yet  he  didn't 
see  anything  wrong  in  it. 
If  I  were  to 
tell  him  be  was  a  p ig ;  that  he  was  do­
ng  something  nobody  in  pol  te  society 
would  tolerate,  he  would  probably  for­
cibly  resent  it.

That’s  why  I  don’t  tell  him.
My  point  about  such  breaches  is  that 
not  only  are  they  extremely  bad  man­
ners,but they actually  do  the  store  harm. 
It  is  natural  with  everybody  to  wai-t  to 
deal  where  they  are  free  from  sights 
that  repulse  them.  I  give  you  my  word, 
'd  never allow  such  a  clerk  to  wait  on 
me the  second  time,  even if  I  went  back 
to  the  store.

A  commoner  thing,  perhaps,  than  any 
of  the  habits  I  have  described  is  that  of 
leaning  the  nails  behind  the  counter. 
This  isn’t nice—decidedly it isn’t  Such 
things  should  be  done  in  private.  Least 
of  all  should  they  be  done  in  a  public 
store  where  customers  come.

It  isn't  clean ;  it  isn’t attractive.
I  was  going  to  say  a  word  or  two 
is 
about another  clerk  I  know  of  who 
constantly  picking  his  nose. 
I  shan’t 
say  much  about  that,  though,  for  it  is  a 
asty  subject  even  to  write  about.  A 
fellow  who  will  do  this 
in  public  is 
the  most  hopelessly  nasty  object  I  can 
conceive  of. 
I  wouldn’t  accept  $10 a 
week,  if  I  were  a  grocer,  to  let  such  a 
clerk  stay  in  my  store,  to  say  nothing  of 
oaying  him  a  salary.  He is  a  business- 
killer,  if  ever  there  was  one. 
Just  the 
other  day  my  wife  told  me  about  a  giil 
clerk  in  a  confectionery  store  she  often 
patronized—emphasis  on  “ often” —who 
does  the  same  thing.  She  said  she  bad 
shaken  the  store  entirely  and  would 
uever go  back  there  again,  just  on  that 
account.  And  her  trade  amounts  to 
something,  I  can  tell  you.
There  are  two  sides  to this thing.  One 
s  the  clerk’s  side,  and  the  other the 
grocer’s  side.  The  grocer’s  side  I have 
touched  upon  a  little.  Where  there 
are  several  clerks,and  one  has  any nasty 
personal  habit,  it  won’t  always  work  to 
keep  trade  away  from  the  store.  The 
customers  will  still  come,  perhaps,  but 
they  will  boycott  the  nasty  clerk  rtlig 
ously.  And  that 
is  where  the  clerk’s 
side  comes  in.  He  won’t  build  up  any 
personal  trade.  People  will  shun  him, 
and  they  won’t  do  it  long  before his 
employers  notice  it.  When  they  do that, 
his  time 
is  short.  Out  he  goes,  and 
even 
if  he  gets  another  job,  it  will  be 
the  same  story  over  again.

But  what  value  has  a  clerk  that every­

A  clerk  is  valuable  according  to  the 
amount  of  personal  good  will  he  can 
control  from  the  people  who  visit  the 
store. 
If  he  gets  where  people  seek 
him  out  when  they  want  anything  done 
and  wait  for  him  to  take  their orders 
be  has  become  very  valuable,  indeed 
and  has  a  good  foundation  laid  for  a 
business  of  his  own.

If Yw Hire flier 80 Bens

To  meet  a  funeral  procession  is a sign 
that  there  has  been  a  death  in  the  fam­
ily.

Be  decent,  boys.  Be  decent  and  be 

body  shuns?
gentlemen

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in  general  trade.

Saginaw—Chas.  Mave,  meat  dealer, 

has  sold  out  to  Kolb  &  Nowake.

Fenton—Arthur  M.  Davison  has  re­

moved  his  chthing  stock  to  Flint.

Girard—A.  A.  Perry  has  sold  bis  gro­

cery  stock  to  his  father.  James  Perry.

Elk  Rapids—Vlack  &  Co.,  of  Trav­
erse  City,  have  opened  a  meat  market 
here.

Charlotte—Cove  &  Kesler, 

lumber 
dealers,  have  sold  out  to  Webster,  Cobb 
&  Co.

Springpoit—Eben  Comstock  has  en­
in  the  grocery  business  at  this 

gaged 
place.

Coldwater—A.  J.  Skinner,  of  Baroda, 
has  purchased  the  book  stock  of  J.  B. 
Foote.

Athens—F.  O.  Hutchins  has  pur­
chased  the  dry  goods  stock  of  V.  R. 
Lepper.

Kalamazoo—Cornelius Radiker,dealer 
in  confectionery  and  cigars,  has  retired 
from  trade.

Gaylord—Qua  &  Wilson,  dealers 

in 
feed  and  groceries,  have  sold  out  to 
Nelson  Cook.

Quinnesec—Ida  M. 

(Mrs.  L.  M.) 
Packard  succeeds  Luther  M.  Packard  in 
general  trade.

Menominee—Jensen,  Sorensen  &  Co. 
have  purchased  the  grocery  stock  of 
Eierdam  Bros.

Luther—Mrs.  Scball  has  added  a  line 
ladies’  and  children's  shoes  to  her 

of 
millinery  stock.

Bay  City—Chas.  Bradley  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock of James Todds 
on  Litchfield  street.

Otsego—W.  G.  Andrus,  dealer  in  tin­
ware,  has  removed  bis  stock  to  more 
commodious  quarters.

Portland—The  lumber  firm  of  H.  K. 
Balderson  &  Co  has  been  dissolved, 
Fred  Balderson  retiring.

Corey—David  Berger,  of  Three  R iv ­
ers,  has  purchased  the  general  merchan­
dise  stock  of  J.  B.  Paddock.

Girard—John  Williams,  in  company 
with  his  son,  Glen,  will  shortly  open  a 
hardware  store  at  this  pi tee.

Holland—B.  Sterken  has  sold  his shoe 
stock  to  P.  Sljoter  &  Son  and  will  en­
gage  in  the  lumber  business

Blissfield—Geo.  Palmer  &  Co.,  Lim ­
in  the 

ited,  succeed  Collins  &  Palmer 
furniture  and  undertaking  business.

Detroit—M.  Schowitz  &  Co.  succeed 
Schowitz  &  Hirscbfield  in  the  ch thing 
and  men's  furnishing  goods  business.

Ithaca—Ingles  &  Hiffner  is  the  name 
of  a  new  grocery  and  bazaar  firm  which 
has  recently  been  formed  at  this  place.
Battle  Creek—W  E.  Brackett,  recent­
ly  of  the  firm  of  Brackett  &  Judd,  has 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  O  V. 
Pratt.

Union  City—M.  D.  Eberhardt  has 
purchased  a  grocery  stock  at  Fairfax 
and  has  already  taken  possession  of 
same.

Edwardsburg—D  W.  Ray  &  Co.  has 
purchased  the  agricultural 
implement, 
hardware  and  harness  stock  of  C.  M. 
Dennis.

Gladwin—A.  Cohen  has  formed  a  co­
partnership  with  Mr.  Weinberg,  of  Bay 
City,  and  engaged  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness  here.

Colon—The  stock  of  dry  goods  and 
groceries  formerly  belonging  to  Alfred 
Purkiss  has  been  closed  out  by  Edson, 
Moore  &  Co.,  Detroit,  to  B.  M.  Roush, 
who  will  dispose  of  it  at  auction  sale.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Houghton—B.  T.  Barry  has  tempor­
arily  discontinued  the  drug  business un­
til  his  new  building,  now being  erected, 
is  completed.

South  Allen—Salem  Zetoin  has  re 
moved  his  stock  of  groceries  to  Fre­
mont,  Ind.,  where  be  will  engage 
in 
general  trade.

Woodland-Shutter  &  Co.  have  sold 
their  drug  stock  to  H.  E.  Hill  &  Son, 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Clarksville—S.  E.  Bevier has engaged 
in  the  agricultural  implement  business, 
having  formed  a  copartnership  with
O.  Prasser  for  that  purpose.

St.  Johns—Wm.  M  Leland  is  making 
improvements  in  the  store  building  re­
cently  vacated  by  G.  W.  Hyde  and  will 
shortly  put  in  a  grocery  stock.

Hastings—E  L  Sentz  has  purchased 
the 
interest  of  A.  D.  Cook  in  the  gro­
cery  firm  of  Cook  &  Cook.  The  new 
firm  wi.l  be  known  as  Cook  &  Sentz.

Holland—Con  De  Pree  has  resigned 
his  position  as  clerk  in  the  Central drug 
store  and  will  engage  in  the  drug  busi­
ness  here  on  his  own  account  May  i.

Bay  Shore—The  name  of  the  Petos- 
key  Lime  Co.  has  been  changed  to  the 
Bay  Shore  Lime  Co.  The  officers  of 
the  corporation  remain  the  same  as  be 
fore.

Eaton  Rapids—The  Island  City  Feed 
store  has  been  discontinued  and  the 
manager,  Amos  McKinney  has  engage^ 
to  drive  an  egg  wagon  for  Stirling  & 
Crawford.

Lowell—Will  Taylor,  who  has  been 
engaged  in  the  grocery  store  of  R.  Van 
Dyke,  has  formed  a  copartnership  with 
Dan  T.  Bush  and  engaged  in  the  bak 
ery  business.

Litchfield —Barnhart  &  Shepard,  gro 
cers,  have  dissolved  partnership,  Mr. 
Barnhart  succeeding.  He  has  also  pur­
chased  the  Bulger  stock  and  will  con­
solidate  the  two.

Somerset—H.  A.  Smith  has  removed 
his  stock  of  general  merchandise 
to 
Moscow.  Aitbur  Burcroff  has  rented 
the  store  building  recently  vacated  and 
will  put  in  a  stock  of  groceries.

Olivet—B.  F.  Bremer  has  embarked 
in  the  hardware  business  at  this  place 
He  has  associated  himself  with  his 
brother-in  law, 
of 
Brighton,  who  will  take  charge  of  the 
store.

J.  E.  Wiechers, 

Detroit—George  A.  Moebs  &  Co.,  the 
cigar  and  tobacco  firm  at 92  Woodward 
avenue,  has  dissolved  partnership,  Gus­
tav  A.  Moebs  retiring.  The  other  mem­
bers  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  place.

Por  land -Vincent  P.  Cash  and  Matt 
J.  Debn  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under the  firm  name  of  the  V.  P.  Cash 
Co.  for  the  purpose  of  conducting  a 
produce  commission  business in Toledo. 
Lafayette  Bugbee  will  have  charge  of 
the  business.

Owosso--W.  H.  Bell,  of  Bay  City, 
has  purchased  the  Cheapside  crockery 
stock  of  C.  A.  Baldwin,  assignee,  at 
private  sale,  the  consideration  being 
about  $900.  He  will  add  a  line  of  gen­
eral  merchandise.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Alf.  Richards,  who 
has  been  engaged  in  the  clothing  busi­
ness  on  West  Portage  avenue  for  the 
past  six  years,  has  associated  himselt 
with  A  J.  Eaton  under  the  firm  name 
of  the  Alf.  Richards  Co.  and  engaged 
in  the  clothing  business  at  the  corner of 
Ashmun  and  Arlington  streets.

Homer—Before  Harmon  &  Allen  sold 
their  stock  of  boots and  shoes  to  Geo. 
W.  Feighner  they  ordered  a  bill  of 
j goods  of  Williams  &  Co.,  of  Winona,

Minn  ,  to  be  shipped  the  following fall. 
They  sold  their  stock  soon  alter  giving 
the  order,  and  advised  the  Winona  firm 
of  the  sale  and  cancelled  the  order. 
Williams  &  Co  paid  no  attention  to  the 
cancellation,  but  in  the  fall  sent  on  the 
goods,  which  Harmon  &  Allen  refused 
to  accept.  Williams  &  Co.  thereupon 
sued  Harmon  &  Allen  for  the  value  of 
the  goods,  resuiting  in  a  verdict  for  the 
defendants  at  the  trial  of  the  case  at 
Marshall  last  week.

Saginaw—Receiver T.  A.  E.  Weadock 
has  sold  the  remaining  assets  of  the  de­
funct  First  National  Bank of  East  Sagi­
naw  with  the  exception  of  some  town­
ship  bonds  and  other  securities,the  bids 
for  which  were  not satisfactory  to  him. 
Colonel  Michael  Jeffers  was  the  princi­
pal  bidder,  and  the  Howry  paper  to  the 
extent  of  842,000  was  knocked  down  to 
him  for Sioo.  Jacob Schwartz secured 400 
acres of land  in Gladwin  county for  8255. 
About  twenty  notes  endorsed  by  F.  E. 
and  A.  A.  Talmadge  and  aggregating 
over  S i.200,  were  sold  to  W.  S.  Eddy 
for  8100.  The  bidding  on  the  other 
notes  was  about  in  the  same  proportion 
except  those  secured  by  real  estate, 
which  brought  a  better  price.  The  nctes 
of  the  London  Tea  Co.,  endorsed  by 
H.  A.  Forrest,  aggregating  over  81.000, 
were  sold  for  $1  to  Michael  Jeffers. 
Frank  Lawrence  purchased  a  few  notes 
and  the  old  books  and stationery at $1  25 
per 
100  pounds.  The  office  furniture 
went  to  J.  B.  Peter,  Frank  Lawrence 
and  C d.  Jeffers. 
J.  B.  Peter also  pur­
chased  a  few  notes.  The  par  value  of 
the  property  put  up  aggregated  898,000, 
and  the  total  amount  realized  by  the 
sale  was $2  202.50.  Receiver  Weadock 
announced  himself  as  well  satisfied  with 
the  results  of  the  sale,  which  was  large­
ly  attended  and  attracted  much  interest.
Riverdale—Thos.  Tallow,  whose  mis­
doings  were  briefly  referred  to 
last 
week's  Tradesman,  turns  out  to  be  a 
defaulter  to  the  township,  which  he  was 
elected  to  serve  as  treasurer,  to  the 
amour t  of  $2,090.45.  His hardware  and 
furniture  stock  has  been  turned  over  to 
his  bondsmen,  including  a  carload  of 
nails  just  received  from  Foster,  Stev­
ens  &  Co.  and  a  large  shipmei t  of  fur­
niture  from  the  Charlotte  Manufactur­
ing  Co.  Attorneys  for  the  latter  will 
probably  throw  the  man 
into  bank­
ruptcy,  so  that  all  creditors  will  share 
alike.

in 

Manufacturing  Matters.

Detroit—Camille DeConinck,  proprie­
tor of  the  Royal  Hat  Co.,  is  succeeded 
by  the  Central  Clothing  Co.

Sherman  City—John  R.  Cameron  and 
G  W.  Johnson  have  formed a copartner­
ship  for  the  purpose  of  engaging  in  the 
manufacture  of  cheese. 

•

Millburg—The  farmers  in  this  vicin­
ity  to  the  number  of  43  have  each  taken 
8100  stock 
in  a  new  creamery  to  be 
built  at  this  place  by  a  co-operative 
company,  capitilized  at  $5,000.

Port  Huron—The  offer  of  the  Poit 
Huron  Engine  &  Thresher  Co.  to  sell
8128,000  of  its  preferred  stock was taken 
advantage  of  by  a  number of  the  em 
ployes  of  the  shops,  who,  on  one  after­
noon,  purchased  $11,000  of  the  stock.

Saginaw—The  Freud  Milling  Co.  has 
been  re-organized  as  the  National  Mill­
ing  &  Evaporating  Co.,  with  Julius 
Freud  as  President  and  William  Emery 
as  Secretary  and  Treasurer.  The  capi­
tal  stock  has  been  increased  to $75,000 
and  a  new  factory  will  be  located  at 
East  Tawas,  having  a  capacity 
for 
handling  1,000 bushels  of  potatoes  per 
day.

It 

the 

Saginaw—Briggs  &  Cooper,  of  this 
city,  own  seveial 
thousand  acres  of 
land  near  IJpton  which  contains  a  large 
quantity  of  hemlock  and  hardwood  tim­
is  the  intention  of  the  owners 
ber. 
land  this 
to  erect  a  sawmill  on  the 
spring  and  manufacture 
lumber 
there,  as  they  deem  it  more  profitable 
to  do  so  than  to  cut  the  logs  and  rail 
them  to  this  point.
Status  o f  the St.  Louis  Potato  Market.
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  April  4 —Trade  was 
very  slow  last  week.wdich  was  observed 
by  both  Jew  and  Gentile,  and  this,  with 
the  continued  bad  weather,  interferred 
with  all 
lines  of  trade.  We  have had 
exceptional  weather  here  in  this  section 
—cold,  snow  and  rain—much 
colder 
than  ever  known  here  at  this  season. 
All  planting 
is  backward,  which  will 
make  new  potatoes  very  late  this  spring 
and  will  make  a  better  demand  for  eat­
ing  potatoes  until  late  in  the  summer.

The  demand  for  both  seed  and  eating 
potatoes  has  been  slow,  merchants  bold­
ing  off 
in  the  expectatirn  that  prices 
will  sustain  a  further  decline  Shippers 
have  held  firm  and  generally  woulf  not 
come  to  buyers'  views,  so  trading  was 
light.  Receipts have  been  light  of  both 
seed  and  eating  stock,especially  of  any­
thing  in  choice  to  fancy eating potatoes. 
Poor  stock  has  been  more  plentiful  and 
easier,  but  fancy 
is  scarce,  with  light 
offerings  and  really  higher  prices.

is  now  warmer 

Seed  potatoes  are  moving  more  freely 
from  loading  stations  everywhere.  The 
weather 
in  the  Red 
River  Valley  and  We  hear  of  more  stock 
loading  on  this  account.  We  look  for 
1 iwer  prices  in  seed  potatoes,  especial­
ly  Ohios,  possibly  Rose;  also 
lower 
prices  on  common  to  fair quality,  but 
choice  or  fancy  bright  eating  potatoes 
are  improving  in  price  and  are  needed 
here.  We  find  much  poor  pit  potatoes 
coming  from  Michigan.  Such stock  will 
give  trouble  and  be  bard  to  sell.  Any­
thing  but  the  best  sells  slowly  and  low 
prices  muit  be  made  to  move  them. 
Shippers  should  be  very  careful  about 
buying  pit  stock. 
is  dark  and 
stained,  it  will  have  to  be  sold for much 
less  than  bright,  clean  pot itoes. 
It  is 
time  now  for  pit  stock,  and  we  want  to 
ca  t>on  shippers  to  watch  closely.

If 

it 

We  consider  the  market  here  in  better 
shape  now  than  at  this  time  last  week 
and  believe  the  demand  and  prices  of 
eating  potatoes  of  g~>od  quality  will  be 
better the  coming  we**k,  but  expect  seed 
stock  and  poor  quality  eating  potatoes 
will be lower.  Movement  of  potatoes  in 
the  Northwest  will,  no  doubt,  be  good 
from  this  on,  and  we  confidently  ex­
pect  receipts  to  increase.

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

Enlarging  the  Scope  o f the  Organiza­

tion.

Port  Huron,  April  3—The  name  of 
the  Po»t  Huron  Grocers  and  Butchers’ 
Association  has  been  changed  to  the 
Poit  Huron  Merchants  and  Manufactur­
ers’  Association.  The  organization  has 
125  members  and 
is  doing  excellent 
work.

At  the  meeting 

last  Friday  evening 
the  question  of  a  home  market  was  dis­
cussed  at  some  length,  and  it  was  voted 
to  hold  a  meeting  in  the  near  future  to 
which  all  farmers  will  be  invited. 
It is 
believed 
if  a  suitable  market  is  main­
tained  that  farmers  can  be  induced  to 
bring  their  produce  to  Port  Huron.

The  Sunday  closing  law  was  also  dis­
cussed,  and  the  Association  went  on 
record  as  opposing  the  opening  of  any 
stores  on  Sunday. 
It  will  also  advocate 
the  uniform  closing  of  all  stores  in  the 
evening  during  the  week.

The  Facts  in  the  Matter.

Chapin,  April  3—  I  see  you  note  my 
purchasing  the  cheese  factory  at  Cbes- 
aning  from  T.  A.  Cook.  That  is  a  mis­
take. 
I  purchased  of  Burgess  &  Peet, 
and  they  from  E.  Switzer.  Mr.  Cook 
runs  the  factory  at  Brant  Center and,  so 
far as  I  know,  expects  to  continue.  The 
factory  at  Chesaning  has  only  run  for  a 
short  time  in  the  past  two  years. 
I  ex­
pect  to  start  it  up  April  17  and  will  op­
erate  both  Chapin  and  Chesaning.

J.  B.  H o ffm a n .

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5

storage  buyers  are  in  the  field,  ready  to 
pay  9c  whenever  the  maiket  drops  to 
that  figure. 
It  is  claimed  that  Chicago 
buyers  are  putting  eggs  into cold  stor­
age  on  the  basis  of  12 j£c,  but  it  hardly 
seems  probable  that  any  considerable 
quantity  will  be  taken  on  that  basis.
Honey—Light  amber  finds  ready  de­
mand  on  the  basis  of  10c.
Lemons—As  a  result  of  the  heavy 
offerings  the  market  has  shown  a  de­
cline  amounting  to  about  25c  since  a 
week  ago.  Supplies 
in  the  market  at 
present  are  sufficient  to  meet  all  de­
mands.

Nuts—Hickory,  $ 1 .5o@2,according  to 

size.  Walnuts  and  butternuts,  60c.

Onions—Both  red  and  yeilow  stock  is 
in  fair  demand  at  5o@6oc.
Oranges—The  arrival  of  Mediterran­
ean  sweets  has  been  heavier  during  the 
past  week  than  at  any  time  since  the 
opening  of  the market.  Comparatively, 
values  rule  about  the  same.  The  de­
mand  for  seeedlings  continues  good.

Parsley—®!  per  doz.  bunches.
Parsnips—25c  per  bu.
Pop  Corn—50c  per  bu.
Potatoes—No  Michigan  buyer  can 
afford  to  pay  50c  per  bu.  on  the  basis 
of  the  present  market  and  the  grower 
is  firmly  holding  for  50c  or better. 
In 
the  meantime  roads  are  getting  bad  in 
the  Southern  and  Central  portions of  the 
Stite  and 
in  the  Northern  portion  it  is 
ne  ther  good  wheeling  nor  sleighing— 
snow  drifts 
in  some  places  and  bare 
ground  in  others.  Considering  the late­
ness  of  the  season  and  the  manner  in 
which  the  spring  work  of  the  farmer 
is 
going  to  be  crowded  into  a  few  days, 
it  would  seem  as  though  it  would  be 
belter  for  the  grower  to  unload  now  on 
the  basis  of  45c  than  hold  off  for  a  50c 
market  when 
it  may  come  at  a  time 
when  he  will  be  busiest  with  bis  spring 
work.
i i @ I2c : 
io@ 11c ;  ducks  n @ i2 c ;  geese, 

Poultry—Scarce.  Chickens, 

fowls, 
io c;  turkeys,  I2@I4C.
in  fair  demand  at  $3.50.

Sweet  Potatoes—Illinois  Jerseys  are 

The  G rocery  Market.

Sugars—Since  our  last  issue  raw  sug­
ars  have  made  two  advances  of  i - i6c 
and  are  now  quoted  at  4J^c  for  69  deg. 
test.  There  has  been  no  advance  in 
refined  and  the  difference  between  raw 
and  refined 
is  now  but  34c,  which  is 
conceded  to  be  below  the  cost  of  refin­
ing.  Sugars  are  undoubtedly  a  good 
purchase  and  buyers  can  not  make  a 
mistake  in  carrying  full  stocks.

Canned  Goods—There  has  been  a 
steady  demand  for  nearly  everything  in 
the  canned  goods  line.  There have  been 
no  changes  to  note  in  prices,  but  job­
bers  and  packers  are  cleaning  up  stocks 
and  some  grades  are  difficult  to  find.

for  nearly  everything 

Dried  Fruits—There  has  been  a  good 
in  the 
demand 
line,  raisins  and  prunes 
dried  fruit 
beading  the  list.  For  some  time  we 
have  repeatedly  urged  the  purchase  of 
prunes.  That  we  were  correct  is  shown 
by  the  recent  advance,  the price now  be 
ing 
higher  than  the  lowest  point 
touched.  Raisins  will  undoubtedly  go 
out  clean.  Eastern  stocks  are about  ex­
hausted. 
The  Raisin  Growers’  Asso­
ciation  holdings  are  not  heavy,  they 
having  disposed  of  all  their  Pacific  un­
graded  and  Pacific  2  crown 
loose  mus­
catels  and  have  but  a  few  cars  left  of 
heir  standard  grade  of  2  crown  loose 
muscatels.  Regarding  currants,  cables 
from  Greece  are  again  higher.  On  spot 
there 
is  decidedly  more  demand,  and 
prices  are  a  litile  stronger,  as  holders, 
in  view  of  the  heavy  loss  which  present 
prices  show,  are  inclined  to  take  ad­
vantage  of  the  favorable  change  in  the 
Greek  market.

Grand  Rapids  Oossip
The  Alfred  J.  Brown  Co.  recently 
cleared  a  carload  of  German  beet  seed.

John  G.  Hazlet  succeeds  Geo.  Mied- 
ema  in  the  grocery  business  on  Quimby 
street. 

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A.  A.  Manning  succeeds  Manning  & 
in  the  grocery  business  at  660 

Co. 
Wealthy  avenue.

Ed.  Cramer  has  purchased the grocery 
stock  of  B.  F.  Yerden  &  Co.  at  317 
Plainfnld  avenue.

Tbos.  R.  Dunstan  has  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Bellaire.  The  stock 
was  furnished  by  the  Worden Grocer Co.
Michael  T.  Crimmon  has  engaged  in 
the grocery  business  at  Copemish.  The 
Lemon  &  Wheleer  Company  furnished 
the  stock.  _________________

Herman  Teunis.wbo  conducted  a  gro* 
eery  store  at  the  corner  of  Fifth  and 
Stocking  streets,  has closed  out bis stock 
and  retired  from  business.

Elon  A.  Richards  has  purchased  a 
half  interest  in  the  drug  stock  of Emory 
A.  Richards,  druggist  at  766  East  Ful- 
on  street.  The  new  firm  will  be  known 
as  Richards  &  Co.

John  J.  Dawson,  of  Hastings,  has  pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  of  W;  H.  Ross, 
at  the  corner  of  Jefferson  and  Wealthy 
avenues,  and  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same  location.

Jacob  Vander  Linde, 

formerly  en­
in  the  grocery  business  in  this 
gaged 
city,  has  re-engaged 
in  trade  at  429 
East  street.  The  Ball  Barnbart-Putman 
Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Lawrence  &  Mathewson,  fruit  and 
porduce  dealers,  have  removed  from 
127  Louis  street  to 
16  North  Ottawa 
street,  where  they  have  better  facilities 
for  meeting  the  requirements  of  their
business.  _________________

Geo.  W.  Haines  and  Fordyce  A.  Sav­
age  have  formed  a  copartnership  under 
the  style  of  Haines  &  Savage  and  en­
gaged  in  the  grocery  business  at  Dowa- 
giac.  The  Worden  Grocer  Co.  furnished
the  stock.  _________________

Cone  &  Co  ,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Kent  City,  but  for 
the  past  three  years  engaged 
in  the 
same  business  at  Bellaire,  have  opened 
a  grocery  store  on  Cherry  street,  near 
the  Boulevard  building.  The  Worden 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Th e  Produce  M arket.

Tallman 

is  active. 

Apples—The  market  is  firm  and  the 
demand 
Sweets 
command  S3.  Baldwins  and  Greenings 
fetch  S4  25  and  Kings  and  Spys  are 
quoted  at  S4  50
Beans—The  market is quiet and  some­
what  lower,  due  to  the  lessening  of  the 
demand.  Local  handlers  are  taking  in 
all  the  stock  they  can  obtain  in  the  be­
lief  that  a  higher  range  of  values  will 
surely  follow  the  present  era  of  depres­
sion.
Butter—Receipts  are  not  large  and 
the  market  is  kept  closely  cleaned  up. 
Fancy  dairy  in  crocks  and  rolls  readily 
fetches 
151® i6c.  Factory  creamery  is 
stationary  at  20c

Cabbage—Home  grown  is  held  at  $1 

per  doz.  for  fair  stock.

Celery—20c  per  doz.  bunches 

for 

White  Plume.

Cranberries-----Wisconsin  Bell  and

Bugle.  $6;  Cape  Cod,  $7.
Cucumbers—$1  per  doz.
Eggs—Local  dealers  are  securing  14 
@I5C  for  their  shippers,  which  is  above 
the  parity  of  any  outside  market  with 
which  the  Tradesman  is familiar.  Cold

been  sufficient  to  show  any  growth  of 
wheat.  In  another  week  we  may  be  able 
to  form  some  opinion  of  the  growing 
crop.  Farmers’  deliveries  are  of a  very 
moderate  size  in  the  winter  wheat  belt.
In  the  Northwest  there  seems  to be  a 
large  movement  from  interior  elevators, 
while  farmers’  deliveries  are  also small. 
As  spring  work  comes  on  and  as  the 
season 
late,  farmers  will  not  have 
time  to  do  any  wheat  marketing  for 
some  time.  The  roads,  also,  are  break­
ing  up,  so  we  can  not  expect  much 
wheat  from  farmers’  wagons until spring 
work 
lower, 
farmers  ate  very  obstinate  and  say  they 
will  not  sell  any  wheat  under  70c.

is  over.  As  prices  are 

is 

Corn,  while  not  lower,  is  rather  slow, 
as  buyers  are  looking  for  lower  prices, 
in  which  they  probably  will  be  mistak­
en,  as  corn 
is  not  as  plenty  as  hereto­
fore. 
long  winter  has  made  a 
The 
large  hole  in  the  amount  on  hand,  espe­
cially  as  that  amount  is  not  very  large.
in  prices— 
very  strong  prices,  in  fact—and  will  go 
higher,  as  oats  are  not  plenty,  while  the 
demand  is  large.

Oats,  as  usual,  held  up 

Rye  seems  to  be*the  strongest  on  the 
list  and  will  probably  remain  so.  as 
there  seems  to  be  a  scarcity.

invisible 

We  might  state  here  that  in  reporting 
the 
last  week,  there  was  a 
slight  error.  While  the  Government 
made  it  198.000,000  bushels,  the  statis­
tician  counted  measured  bushels,  while 
the  weight  fell  short  three  pounds, 
which  would  leave  the  invisible at about 
189 000,000  bushels,  instead  of  140,000,- 
000  bushels,  as  stated.

Receipts  during  the  month  of  March 
were  235  cars  of  wheat,  102  cars  of  corn 
and  47  cars  of  oats.

During  the  week  there  were  75  cars of 
wheat,  32  cars  of  corn  and  12  cars  of 
oats.

Millers  are  paying  67c  for  wheat  or 

about  2c  from  the  high  point.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Gradual  Growth  of  Grand  Rapids 

Council.

Grand  Rapids.  April  3 -A t  the  regu­
lar  meeting  of  Grand  Rapids  Council, 
No.  131,  United  Commercial  Travelers, 
held  Saturday  evening,  April  1,  the ap­
plication  of  Cbas.  P.  Reynolds,  Martin 
H.  Van  Horn  and  Frank  H.  Spurrier 
were  received.  These  gentlemen  were 
admitted  and 
initiated  into  full  mem­
bership,  thereby  making  three  more 
earnest  and  enthusiastic  workers  for  the 
grand  order.
A  committee,  consisting  of  H.  E. 
Hatch,  J  B.  Mclnnes  and  F.  H.  Spur­
rier,  was  chosen  to  arrange  a  musical 
enteitainment  and  pedro  party,  to  be 
given  in  the  council  chambers  Saturday 
evening,  April  15.  to  which  all  travel­
ing  men 
in  the  city  and  their  friends 
are  cordially  invited.  The  same  com­
mittee  was  also  authorized  to  make 
preparations  for  a  boll,  to  be  given  be­
fore  warm  weather,  which  is  intended 
to  be  a  social  event  We  are  pleased  to 
note  the  steady  growth  of  our  Council 
and  would  thank  our  worthy  Senior 
Counselor  for  the  many  applications  he 
has  secured  of  late.
the 
Council  gave  a social dance in Strahan’s 
hall,  which  was 
largely  attended.  All 
the 
ladies  and  gentlemen  present  ex­
pressed  themselves  in  the  most  cordial 
teims  with  regard  to  the  entertainment.

Saturday  evening,  March 

25, 

L.  F.  Baker, Sec’y.

Not  to  Blame.

“ A  woman,”   remarked  the  man  who 
assumes  superior  airs,  “ has  no  sense  of 
humor.”
“ Well,”   answered  his  wife,  “ when 
you  consider  how  often  she  is  requested 
to  laugh  over  serious  matters  like house­
cleaning  and  Easter  bonnets  I  don’t 
| think  you  ought  to  blame  her.”

Flour and  Feed.

The  demand  for  flour  during  the  past 
week  has  been  steady,  but  not  urgent. 
Ruyers  seem  to  prefer  to  feel  their  way 
along  and  purchase  only  for  present 
needs.  There  seems  to  be  so  much  un­
certainty  about  the  outcome  of the grow­
ing  crop  of  wheat  and  so  many  conflict­
ing  reports  concerning  it  that  the  trade 
is  waiting  anxiously  for  more  definite 
information. 
If  April  showers  and 
warm  sunshine  bring  out and  resuscitate 
the  wheat fields  that  now  appear  brown 
and  dead,  present  prices  are,  undoubt­
edly,  high  enough;  but,  on  the  other 
hand, 
large  areas  sown  to  winter 
wheat  must  be  plowed  up  and  pi mted 
with  other crops—as  now  to  all  appear­
ances  seems certain—then present  prices 
will  soon 
look  cheap,  for  a  sharp  ad­
vance  will  come  suddenly  and  be  well 
maintained  for  some time.

if 

The  city  mills  are  all  running  stead­
ily,  as  usual,  and  have  plenty  of  orders 
booked  for  April  business

Millstuff 

in  good  demand,  with 
prices  unchanged 
for  the  week.  Feed 
and  meal  are  steady  and  moving  quite 
freely. 

Wm.  N.  R owe.

is 

Large  Loaves  o f  Bread 

The  largest  loaves  of  bread  baked 

in 
the  world  are  those  of  France  and  Italy. 
The  “ pipe”   bread  of  Italy  is  baked  in 
loaves  two  or three  feet  long;  while  in 
France the  loaves  are  made  in the shape 
long  rolls,  four  or five  feet  in 
of  very 
length,  and 
in  many  cases  even  six 
feet. 

_______

_____  

The  Pennsylvania  Senate  recently 
passed  by  a  vote  of  42  to  4  Senator 
R ice's  bill  which  legalizes  the  sale  of 
uncolored  oleomargarine  in that State.

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades and  prices,  phone Visner,  800.

It 

Nuts—New  crop  Brazils  are  now  ar­
riving  and  the  quality  is  giving  perfect 
satisfaction. 
is  reported  from  Nor­
folk  that  the  peanut  trust  is  an  assured 
fact  and  that  experts are  now going  over 
the  books  of  the  various  concerns  in  the 
deal,  verifying  the  figures  and  that  as 
soon  as  this  is  finished  the  plants  will 
go  into  the  bands  of  the  promoters.  The 
market,  in  consequence,  is  very  strong 
and  an  advance  is  looked  for  as  soon  as 
the  deal  is  consummated.

Teas—The  predicted  advances in low­
er  grades  of  blacks  and  greens  went  in 
to  effect  last  week.  Hyson.  Oolong  and 
English  Breakfast  are  affected  by  the 
change 
in  price,  in  most  instances  the 
range  between  high  and  low  quotations 
being  lesssened  The  tea  market  con 
tinues  firm  and 
it  is  believed  that  the 
conditions  fully  warranted  the  recent 
advances.  Some,  jobbers  are  inclined 
to  believe  that  prices  will  still  further 
advance.

Coffee—The  situation 

is  featureless, 
with  present  movement  restricted  some 
what  and  values  ruling  the  same  as  a 
week  ago.

Cereals—The  rice  market  is  quiet  at 
present,  with  previous  values  still  rul 
ing. 
In  some  lines  of  rolled  oat?  there 
has  been  a  reaction  from  the  advances 
two  months  ago  and  quotations  are 
lower.

Cocoanut—It  is  stated  that  the  manu 
facturers  of  shredded  cocoanut  have 
come  to  an  agreement  regarding  prices 
and  that  an  advance  will  be  the  result 
of  the  agreement.  Many  favored  retail­
ers  and  jobbers  who  were  on  the  inside, 
have  taken  on  large  stocks  in  anticipa­
tion  of  higher  prices.

The  Grain  Market.

Owing  to  fine  weather  the  last  few 
days,  wheat has  dropped  off  in  price  on 
futures  as  well  as  in  spot deliveries.  We 
fail  to  see  the  reason  for  the  decline,  as 
the  few  days  of  fine  weather  have  not

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Woman’s World

Th e  Virtue  o f  M oderation.

Not  long  ago  I  beard  a  little  Japanese 
fairy  story  that  ran  something  like this: 
Once  upon  a  time  there  was  a  woman 
old  and  ugly,  with  a  fjtce  seamed  with 
wrinkles  and  a  body  bent  and  aged  by 
the  passing  of  the  years,  but  notwith­
standing  all  this  she  had  set  her  foolish 
heart  in  love,  as  many  another  woman 
has  done,  upon 
a  beautiful  young 
Prince.  Needless  to  say,  be  passed  her 
by,  as  she  stood  by the  roadside,  with­
out  so  much  as  a  second  look,  but  by 
and  by  a  good  fairy  came  that  way  and, 
seeing  her  grief,  asked  her  why  she 
wept.  ‘ * Because, "«answered the woman, 
" I   am  old  and  ugly  and  find  no favor  in 
the  Prince’s  eyes.”   The  good  fairy, 
touched  at  the  old  woman’s  tears,  told 
her  of  a  magic  fountain  wherein,  if 
from 
one  bathed, 
them  like  a  discarded  garment  and 
left 
them  young  and  fair.  The  woman  hur­
ried  at  once  to  the  fountain  and  dipped 
in  its  water  and,  as  the  fairy  had  said, 
she  became  young  and  beautiful.  Not 
satisfied,  however,  with  what  she  had 
gotten,  she  dipped  again  and  again  un­
til  at  last  she  became  a  baby,  and  when 
the  Prince  passed  by  there  was  nothing 
but  a  mewling 
infant  on  the  brink  of 
the  fountain.  Womanlike,  she  bad  over­
done  it.

the  years  slipped 

it 

if 

It  is  said  this  is  a  very  old  storv,  but 
it  strikes  me  as  being  very  applicable 
to  the  woman  of  to-day.  We seem,  as a 
sex,  to  have  always  overdone  things, 
and  we  are  still  overdoing  them  now. 
We have  many  virtues,  but  not  the  vir­
tue  of  moderation.  We  know  many 
things,  but  not  how  to  stop  when  we 
If  we 
have  gotten  enough  of  a  thing. 
into 
are  industrious  we  work  ourselves 
such  a  state  of  nervous  prostration 
it’s 
a  question 
isn't  cheaper,  in  the 
long  run,  to  be  lazy  and  save  the  doc­
tor’s  bill. 
If  we  are  neat  we  are  such 
monomaniacs  on  the  subject  of  diit  we 
make  people  long  for  disorder  and  com­
fort. 
If  we  care  for  clothes  we get  so 
our  very  brains  are  cut  on  the  bias  and 
ruffled  in  the  middle. 
for 
philanthropy  we  encourage  pauperism 
and  mendicants  camp  on  our  ball  settee 
from  year’s  end  to  year's  end.  When  we 
are  good  we  are  so  overpoweringly  and 
uncomfortably  and  self-righteously  good 
we  make  every  one  who  knows  us  yearn 
for  the  society  of  cheerful  and  easy-go­
ing  sinners.  Somehow,  we  always  seem 
to be  at  one  extreme  or the  other,  with­
out the  ability  to  steer  in  the  safe  mid­
dle  course.

If  we  go  in 

This 

tendency 

towards  overdoing 
everything  explains 
in  a  homely  way 
many  things  to  which  we  assign  much 
higher-sounding  reasons.  For one  thing, 
we  are  always  talking  about  the  faith­
lessness  of  men,  the  treachery  of  friend­
ship,  the  ingratitude  of  children,  and 
we  never  stop  to  think  how  often  these 
misfortunes  are  simply  the  result  of  too 
much  love.  We  have  worn out  affection 
by  our too  great  demands  upon 
i t ;  we 
have  surfeited  the  beloved  one  by  a  de­
votion  that  has  simply  bored  and  made 
him  tired  of  the  strain  of  trying  to  live 
-up  to  our  ideal. 
If  I  should  ever  write 
a  novel—which  God  forbid—I  shall  not 
describe  my  melancholv  and 
tearful 
heroine  as  the  victim  of  a  perfidious 
friend  who  stole her husband’s  love  by 
means  of 
insidious  wiles.  Neither 
shall  I  describe  her as  a  forlorn creature 
whose  children  have  repaid  her  devo­
tion  with  blackest  ingratitude. 
I  shall 
devote  all  three  volumes  to  giving  a

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Perhaps  this  sounds  a 

realistic  study  of  how  a  perfectly  de­
voted  wife  and  mother  can  smother  the 
most  robust  affection  by  never-ending 
attention  and  kill  love  with  kindness.
little  brutal. 
We  all  have  a  theory  that  we  can’t 
have  too  much  of  a  good  thing  and 
especially  that 
in  matters  of the  affec­
tions  the  thing  can’t  be  overdone.  Per­
haps  there  can’t  be  too  great  a  reserve 
supply  to  draw  from,  but  nothing  else 
in  the  wide  world  needs  to  be  tempered 
with  so  much  forbearance  and  common 
sense  as  love.  And  nothing  else 
is  so 
unwise and  so  foolish.  We  laugh  at  a 
child  who  plants  a  flower and pulls it  up 
every  day  to  see  if  it  is  alive,  we  have 
a  proverb  that  the  watched  pot never 
boils,  yet  there  are  women  who  are 
never  satisfied  to  trust  any  affection  to 
itself.  They  watch 
it and  fuss  over  it 
and  agonize  with  dread  over  it  until, 
by  the  very  excess  of  their  devotion, 
they  kill  it.

Take  the  matter of  friendship,  for  in­
stance  Women’s  friendships  are  pro 
verbially  shortlived.  Why?  Because 
they  are always  overdone—too  violent  to 
last—and  they  demand  too  much.  There 
are  many  of  us  who  cherish  as  our  un 
attainable  ideal  a  friendship  that  would 
give  us  congenial  companionship,  but 
not be  forever  popping  into  our  bouses 
at  all  seasons  of  the  day  and night;  that 
would  give  us  understanding  and  sym­
pathy,  yet  respect  the  reserve  that  kept 
us  from  pouring  into  the  ear of  another 
the  secrets of  our  family,  Vut  we  don’t 
expect  to  realize  it  in  this  life.  On  the 
contrary,  we  know  very  well,  if  we  have 
what 
is  called  " a   woman  frien d ,"  she 
is  going  to  expect  us  to  listen  to  details 
about  her  husband  and  affairs  we have 
no  business  to  know  and  she  will  feel 
aggrieved 
in 
kind. 
If  she  falls  out  with  any  one  we 
are  bound  to  take  up  her quarrels  or 
else  she  sulks;  if  she takes  tickets  for 
a  series  of  concerts  we  have  to  sub­
scribe  whether  we can  tell  Wagner  from 
the  noise 
in  a  boiler  factory  or  not;  if 
she buys  a  foulard  and  a  sailor  hat  we 
have  to  get  them,  too,  no  matter  bow 
unbecoming  and  unsuitable  they  mav 
be 
In  the  end,  this  kind  of  too  in­
tense  friendship 
is  bound  to  burn  out 
just  as  surely  as  a  flame  in  a  draft,  and 
yet  we  wonder  why.

fail  to  retaliate 

if  we 

It 

is  always  those 

is  heresy  to  suggest  that  a  good 
deal  of  domestic  unhappiness  comes 
from  this  same  cause,  but  it  is  the  truth 
nevertheless.  No  one  would  advocate  a 
woman's  loving  her  husband  less,  but  a 
whole  volume  might  be  written  on  the 
advantages  and  wisdom  of  not  oppress­
ing  him  with  that  love.  The  most  cur­
sory  observation  will  show  anyone  that 
the  women  who  have  the  most  devoted 
husbands  are  never  the  ones  who  make 
slaves  of  themselves,  never  the  ones 
who, 
in  effect,  are  always  clinging 
around  the  man’s  neck,  humbly  grateful 
for  a  word  or  caress.  On  the  contrary, 
it 
independent  ladies 
who  have  had  the  good  sense  to  make 
outside  interests  for  themselves and  who 
accord  the 
like  right  to  a  man,  whose 
husbands  are 
lovers  to  the  end  of  the 
chapter.  The  minute  a  man  feels  that 
he  has  to  stay  at  home  in  the evening  or 
have  a  scene,  that  minute  his  house  be­
comes  a  prison  to  him  and  bis  wife a 
jailor.  The  instant  be  feels  that  be  can 
not  go  on  a  journey  without  her.tbat  in­
stant  she  becomes  a  burden  and  unwel­
come  companion.  The  wisest thing any 
woman  ever  learns  is  when  she  learns  to 
leave  those  she  loves  sometimes  alone.
Pretty  much  the .same  thing  also  may 
be  said  about  a  mother’s  love  for her

is  no  longer  their  all 
the  companion  that 

children.  There  is  nothing  else  in  life 
so tender,  so beautiful,  so  holy, as moth­
er  love,  and  sometimes  there  is '.nothing 
so  unwise.  Perhaps  the  one  inextin­
guishable  pang  of  jealousy that no moth­
er  ever  escapes  is  when  she realizes  that 
her  children  are  getting  away  from  her. 
She 
in  all,  no 
longer 
suffices. 
They  have  other  needs  and  other  de­
sires,  and  are  thinking  other thoughts 
than  hers. 
is  but  natural  that  she 
should  cling  desperately to  the  old  order 
and  bitterly  resent  the  new;  but,  little 
as  she  may  think 
it,  it  is  the  crucial 
time  of  her  life  and  theirs.  She  has 
come  to  the  parting  of  the  ways  and 
whether  they  go  different  paths  or  keep 
on  hand 
in  hand  with  her  depends  on 
whether  she  is  wise  enough and unselfish 
enough  to  sacrifice  herself  a  little  or 
whether  she  makes  her  love  a  burden  to 
them,  that  they  are  sure  to  escape  from 
as  soon  as  possible.

It 

Not  long  ago  I  was  thrown  with a  tiny 
mite  of  a  girl,  the  child  of  one  of  the 
overfond,  overanxious  mothers  we  all 
know,  and  one  who  was  simply  crushed 
by  her  sense  of  duty  to  her  children. 
The  child  had  never  had  a  moment  to 
herself  since  she  was  born.  A  skilled 
kindergarten  nurse  directed  her  play, 
some  responsible  person  sat  on  the  lawn 
and  watched  her  when  she  was  out  of 
doors  and  when  she  was  on  the street the 
little  band  was  always  held  tight  and 
fast  in  some  one  else's. 
It  was  not pos­

sible that  another  thing  could  have been 
done  for  her  mentally,  morally  or  phys­
ically 
in  the  way  of  attention,  yet  the 
little  creature,  through  it all,  was  dimly 
conscious  that  she  was  a  prisoner,  and 
her  constant  entreaty,  her  one  idea  of  a 
treat,  was  to  escape,  to  be  allowed  to 
go  off  by  herself. 
"Ju st  alone,"she 
would  beg,  "w ith  nobody  looking,  no­
body  touching  me—just  me,  by  my­
self. ’ ’

How  often  do  we  see  the  same  thing 
with  older children  and  how  often  does 
it  account  for  the  boys and  girls  who 
break  through  all  restraint  the  minute 
they  are  old  enough  and  turn  carelessly 
and  ungratefully  from  the  mother  love 
that has  been  too  fond,  too  unwise,  and 
kept  them  prisoners.
s o lI 

lonely 
thing.  If  we  are  to  think  great  thoughts 
and  do  great  things  we  must  each  have 
life  and  our  individual 
our 
opportunity,  and 
if  we  defraud  a  child 
of  that  chance  we  have  done him a  great 
wrong.  There  must  be  moderation  even 
in  love. 

The  human 

D o r o t h y   D i x .

is  a  very 

individual 

Asserting  His  Right  as  an  American. 
From the  New  England  Grocer.

A  stranger  enterd  a  Plymouth  grocery 
store  the  other day  and,  seeing  a  bottle 
of  Spanish  olives,  he  took  it  and  was 
marching  off  when  he  was  stopped.  He 
said  he  thought  as  a  free-born  Ameri­
can  be  had  a  right  to take  anything  that 
bore  the  bame 
“ Spanish!”   Wonder 
where  he got  the  idea?

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for  my  prescription,  the  real  estate  man 
was  unfolding  a  scheme  which  required 
$1,500,000  to  carry  out.  He  could  scrub 
around  and  raise  that 
in  an  hour,  ot 
course,  and  the  profits  could  by  no  pos­
sibility  tall  short  of  $3,000,000.  Not  a 
shade  of  annoyauce  crossed  the  drug­
gist’s  face. 
Indeed,  as  he  pasted  the 
label  on  my  bottle  he  worked  up  some­
thing  resembling  a  smile  ami  quietly 
replied :

"Y e s,  it  looks  like  a  big  thing,  and  I 
hope  you  will  keep  it  in  mind  and  give 
me  further  particulars  when  you  come 
in  again."

The  Drug  M arket.

Opium—Is  dull  and  weak.  There  are 
rumors  of  higher  prices  later  on  when 
speculators  get  all  the  cheap  opium 
bought  up.  Powdered  is  very  firm.

Morphine—Is  unchanged.
Quinine—Is  quiet  at  recent  advances. 
Manufacturers  will  not  contract  for  fu­
ture  delivery.

Sugar  Milk—Has  been  advanced  lc 

per  pound  by  manufacturers.

Cod  Liver  Oil—Has  declined.  Fish­
ing  has  been  good  this  year  and  stocks 
will  be  large.

Essential  Oils—Pennyroyal  has  been 
advanced  twice  during  the  p?st  week. 
As  stocks  are  light,  a  further  advance 
is  probable.  Wormwood 
is  also  scarce 
and  prices  have  been  advanced.

Roots—Golden  seal  is  scarce  and  con­

tinues  high. 

Ipecac  is  firmer.

Seeds—Canary 

is 

lower. 

that  the  present  price 
market  is  the  lowest  ever  known.

It 

is  said 
in  the  primary 

When  a  dog  bowls  under a  man's win 
dow  at  night  and  there  is  a  gun  handy, 
it 
is  a  sure  sign  of  an  early  death—to 
the  dog.

It 

is  always  the  bottom  dollar  that 

counts.

SI  BATTERSON &  CO.

E g g   Special

Poultry  Special

B U FFALO ,  N.  Y ., April 4,  1S99.

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The supplies  are  apparently  just  enough 
O   to meet  the  trade  at  13c,  so  that  it  would 
4 ►  seem  reasonably  safe  to  predict  a  fairly 
4 ►  healthy market.  The trade  in  the  interior 
O  
is  well  prepared  to  crowd  buying  prices 
(►   still lower, and we advise doing so,  as  well
0   as shipping up close.  We shall,  as  usual, 
4 w  do  all  we  can  to pleas-e you and merit your 
4 ►  continued  business.  We  are  prepared  to 
4 ►  store eggs for future market on as satisfac- 
4 ►  tory terms  as  anywhere  and  in  one  of  the 
4 ►  best  cold  storage  in  the  United  States.
4 ►  Those  desiring  such  service  will  be  fully 
4 ►  advised  on  application.  We  return  all 
4 ?  crates we can  and  as  near  original  lots  as 
4 f   possible.  Market to-day  mostly  i^c,  only 
4 ►  southern occasionally 
but  they
4 r  will probably soon be done.
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Dressed has been firmly and actively sus*
4 t  tained  wilh  very  light  supplie— lighter 
4 ►  than last week.  There  is  no  reason  why 
4 i  this  situation  should  not  continue  right 
4►   along on dressed,  and  we  feel  confident  in
1  ►  encouraging your steady  liberal  shipments 
4 f  weekly.  Yesterday's  and  to-day’s  sales: 
4 >  Dressed  fancy  young  chix,  1 3 ®  14;  fancy
0   yellow  fowls, 
11(^12;  fancy  dux,  i j ^ u ;
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fancy turx,  I3@i4, few extra selections  i5(& 
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16, and more of such  could  have  been  sold
0   at that;  geese sell  well  for  so  late  at  8@x>.
4 ►  Dive  young  chix  equally  scarce  and  well 
4 ►  sustained at  12c, few extras  12 Vi @130  We 
4 ►  would  thank you to send all you can of both 
4 ► 
live and dressed chix  and  fowls.  Dressed 
4 ►  turx  very scarce, live selling at  12^)13;  both 
4 ►  wanted very much.  Dive  dux,  n@>i2C per 
4 ► 
lb.  Dive geese,  75@qoc  each,  and  wanted. 
4 ►  We want dressed  poultry,  iced,  right  along 
4 ►  all summer.
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H IN T S   T O   D R U G G IS T S .

Things  They  A re  Expected  T o   Do 

M.  Quad In American Druggist.

and  Know.

It's  a 

interested 

Never  admit  to  a  customer that  you 
make  less  than  200  per cent  profit,  even 
on  a  box  of  cough  drops.  The  popular 
idea  is  200  per cert  ,  and  if  you  try  to 
s:ale  it  down  you'll  be  rated  as  a 
liar. 
You  can't  make  the average man believe 
that  you  don’t  stand 
in  with  three  or 
four  doctors  and  whack  up  on  prescrip­
tions,  and  so  it  will  be  a  waste  of  time 
to  argue  the  matter. 
I ’ve  long  bad  the 
idea  that  my  family  druggist  turns  over 
about $500  per  year  to  my family doctor, 
and  I  fee 1  rather  proud  of  it 
It  shows 
what  a  family  can  do  when  they  set 
about  it.  A  Pittsburg  druggist  hung  a 
parrot  at  his  door,  and  the  bird  yelled 
"Come  In !”   to  every  pedestrian  and 
pushed 
sales  along  at  a  tremendous 
rate.  An  Omaha  druggist  tried  the 
same  game,  but the  bird  damned  every­
body’s  eyes  and  ruined  business  in  two 
months.  Better  stick  to  the  newspapers 
and  periodicals.  Don't  set  up  a  tele­
phone  station  in  your  store  with the idea 
that  users  are  going  to  pay  anything. 
They’d  fork  over 
it  was  anywhere 
if 
is  expected  to  do 
else,  but  a  druggist 
anything and everything to accommodate 
the  public. 
little  hard  when  a 
man  who  has  used  the  telephone  four 
times 
in  one  day  wants  you  to  cut  the 
price  of  a  porous  plaster  square  in  two 
on  account  of  his  being  such  a  liberal 
customer,  but  you  are 
in  business  to 
study  human  nature  instead  of  making 
money.
Subscriptions  for  all  sorts  of  charities 
always  start  at  a  drug  store.  You  are 
expected  to  come  down like  a  little  man 
and  figure 
it  as  bread  cast  upon  the 
waters. 
I  was  telling  a  lady  one  day  of 
a  druggist  who  subscribed  a  dollar  to  a 
home  she  was 
in,  and  she 
walked  a  block  and  a  half  to  buy  a  ten- 
cent  toothbrush  of  him,  so that  bis  sub­
scription  might  return  to  him  tenfold. 
A  druggist  who  won’t  buy  tickets  for 
church  fairs,  picnics,  dances,  excur­
sions,  concerts  and  prize  fights  can’t 
expect  to  be  rushed  to  death  with  busi­
ness. 
I  know  a  young  man  who  used  to 
buy  a  cake  of  toilet  soap  once  a  month 
of  a  certain  druggist.  One day  the drug­
gist  refused  to  buy  a  $2  ticket  to  some 
sort  of  shindy  and  be  lost  that  young 
man's  custom  forever  and ever and ever.
All  drug  stores  are  expected  to  keep 
postage  stimps  and  to  sell  them  on  tick 
If  they  happen 
to  regular  customers. 
to  run  out  of  stamps  now  and  then  a 
dozen  rows  may  be  looked  for before  the 
boy  comes  in  with  a  fresh  supply. 
It’s 
almost  a  penal  offense  in  most  people’s 
estimation  for  a  druggist  to be  short, 
and  the  one  who  won’t  weigh  up  pack­
ages  and  lick  on  the stamps  is  regarded 
as  a  crank. 
is  generally  supposed 
that  be  makes  about $10,000  per  year 
I  was  in  a  drug 
profit  selling  stamps. 
store  one  day  when  a  lady  came  in  ana 
wanted  two  one-cent  stamps. 
There 
were  none  to be  bad,  and  after  remark­
ing  that  some  folks  didn't  care  whether 
they  accommodated  other  folks  or  not, 
she  flounced  out  and  went  to  a  grocery 
to  purchase  the  stick  of  gum  she had  in­
tended  to  buy  of  the  druggist.
Every  druggist  should  let  it  be  known 
that  he  cheerfully  welcomes  all  acci­
dents.  When  a  street  car  has  knocked 
some  tramp 
into  the  middle  of  next 
week,  what 
is  always 
is 
into  a  drug  store.  Wine  or 
hustled 
brandy 
is  supplied  free  of  cost,  with 
perhaos  a  few  rods  of  adhesive  plaster, 
and  although  trade  is  interrupted  for  an 
hour  and  the  crowd  generally  steals 
about  $5  worth  of  goods,  the  fact  that 
the  papers  say  the  sufferer  was  carried 
into  Blank's  drug  store  is  supposed  to 
recoup  the  druggist  ten  times  over. 
When  the  proprietor of  the  Blue-Front 
drug  store  refused  to  let  the police bring 
in  the  leg  and  arm  of  a  man  who  bad 
been  blown  up  and  make  efforts  to  re­
store  the  lost  spark,  scores  of  people 
hissed  him  for  bis  hard-heartedness and 
bis  trade  at  once  fell  off.

left  of  him 

It 

Let  a  drayman’s  horse  be  taken  with 
the  colic  and  bis  first  thought  is  to  run 
is 
him  into  a  drug  store.  His  second 
to get  something  for  nothing  which  will

It 

It 

work  a  cure. 
is  not  considered 
"good  business"  for a  druggist  to  talk 
politics or  express  a  preference  for  cer­
tain  candidates. 
is  nothing  to  him 
whether  good  or  bad  men  are  up  for 
office,  or  whether  bis  taxes  are  to  be 
lessened  or doubled. 
Just  as  sure  as  he 
opens  his  mouth  to give  his  views  some 
man  who  was  thinking  of  buying  a  ten- 
cent  sponge  or  a  dozen  sheets  of  fly­
paper  will  take  himself  off to  leave  his 
custom  elsewhere.  Any  other  man,  in 
any  other business,  can  talk  politics  by 
the  hour  and  show  up  at  all  caucuses 
and  conventions,  but  the  line  is  drawn 
at  the  druggist.  Let  him  but  express 
his  belief  in  the  honesty  or  dishonesty 
of  a  certain  candidate  and  sales  at  once 
begin  to  fall  off.

There  are  always  a  dozen  men 

in 
every  neighborhood  who  want  to  see 
the  family  druggist  prosper.  Each  one 
is  willing  to  tell  him  how  to  do  it  and 
each  has  bis  own  particular  plan.  The 
druggist  who  knows  bis  gait  will  listen 
to  all  and  be  thankful  for  the  friendly 
interest  displayed.  When 
it  was  sug­
gested  to  the  Triangle  drug  store  man 
by  one  of  bis  well-wishers  that  he  lend 
him  $500 on  his  unsecured  note  of  band 
as  a  bit  of  business  enterprise  that 
druggist  never  turned  a  hair.  He  was 
all  smiles  and  thanks  and  good-nature. 
He  didn’t 
lend  the  money,  but  he  cut 
the  price  of  liquorice  root  in  two  for bis 
adviser  and  thus  held  onto  his  friend­
ship. 
It  may  be  that  the  plumber,  gro 
cer,  butcher  and  coal  men  have  friends 
who  spend  hours  of their days and nights 
in  thinking  up  advertising  schemes  for 
them,  but  I  never  heard  of  it. 
It  is  the 
druggist  who 
is  thus  favored.  By  the 
time  he  has  sold  a  man  three  nickel 
cigars and  a  blue  mass  pill  the  custom­
er  begins  to  waim  up  to  him.  This 
is  pretty  sure  to  bring  up 
warming  up 
the  subject  of advertising  and  result 
in 
the birth  of  a  hundred  schemes  I  never 
yet  talked  with  a  man  on  the  subject  of 
advertising  who  didn't  firmly  believe 
that  the  druggist  bad  a  thousand  golden 
opportunities  before  him  and  was  neg­
lecting  them  all 
In  fact,  I'll  be  honest 
enough  to admit  that  for a  year or two  I 
lost  lots  of  needed  sleep  in  thinking  up 
schemes  to  enrich  mv  family  druggist 
I  presented  him  with  no  less  than  150 
bright  and  novel  ideas,  each  one  bound 
to  create  a  sensation and  boost  bis  daily 
sales,  and  although  he  turned  me  down 
and  hurt  my  feelings  I  didn't  abandon 
him  Mv  brightest  scheme,  as  I  re­
member  it,  was  to  call  his  place  "T h e 
Elephant”   drug  store.  A 
living  ele­
phant  was  to  be  stationed  on" either 
side of  the  door,  day  and  night,  a  brass 
band  of  twenty-four  pieces  was  to  play 
at 
intervals,  and  fifty  men  and  boys 
were to  parade  the  streets  bearing  signs 
o f:  "G e t  your  cough  syrup  a t ‘ The 
Elephant’  drug  store.”   The  scheme 
looked  to  me 
like  a  sure  thing  to  sell 
20 000,000  bottles  of  cough  syrup  in  a 
year,  and  I  went away  wounded  to  the 
quick  when  the  druggist  failed  to  en­
thuse.  Alter  mine  came  hundreds  rf 
other  schemes 
It  was  suggested  that 
there  be  a  balloon  ascension  every  week 
on  Wednesday,  and for that  day  only  the 
invigorators  be  cut 
price  of  all 
one-balf.  The  idea  was  that,  while  the 
druggist  might 
lose  a  couple  of  thou­
sands  on  the  invigorator,  he’d  make  up 
for  it  twice  over on  soda  water  and  bird 
seed.  A  hardware  man  who  bad  never 
advertised  a  dollar’s  woitb  in  bis  life 
used  all  his  spare  moments  for  a  month 
to  bring  forth  a  scheme  to  push  the 
druggist  to  the  top. 
It  was  to  open  a 
free  menagerie  in  the  hack  yard,  a  free 
public  library  upstairs,  and  to  draw 
soda  water  free  to  all  callers.  Everyone 
entering  the  doors  would  feel  morally 
bound  to  buy  a  package  of  powdered 
borax  or a  trial  bottle  of  perfumery,  and 
it  would  take  a  dry  goods  box  to  hold 
the  profits.  One  scheme  included  fires, 
robberies,  suicides,  bull  fights,  circus 
performances,  weddings  and  so  forth, 
and  bow  that  druggist  managed  to  turn 
them  all  down  and  yet  held  the  good 
will  of  the  originators  is  something  be­
yond  me. 
I ’m  not  giving  any  more  ad­
vice,  and  I  have  about  forgiven  the 
druggist  for  not  accepting  my  ideas, 
but  there 
is  no  let  up  on  the  part  of 
others.  Only  the  other  day,  as  I  waited

liver 

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that 

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

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WEDNESDAY,------APRIL 5. 1899.

G E N E R A L   T R A D E   S IT U A T IO N .
While  the  week  has  shown  a  falling 
off  in  the  aggregate  of  trade  movement, 
owing  to  a  number  of  well-defined 
causes,  as  a  natural  reaction  from  the 
long  season  of  unpiecedented  move­
ment,  unseasonable  weather  conditions, 
interference  of  religious  holidays,  elec­
is  yet  a  strengthening 
tions,  etc.,  there 
of  prices 
including 
wages,  and  a  generally  active  industrial 
undertone  which  show  that  there 
is 
nothing  to  indicate  an  unfavorable  con­
dition  of  affairs. 
Indeed,  it is a healthy 
indication  that  with  so  many  temporary 
interferences  there 
little  effect 
manifest

in  many 

is  so 

lines, 

The 

improvement  which  had  set  in 
last  week  in  the  stock  market  in  trans­
portation  especially  has  been  more  than 
maintained.  The  average  of  prices  for 
the  sixty  most  active  railroad  stocks 
last  week  $1.31  a  share,  and  the 
rose 
week  before 
it  had  also  risen  $1.76,  so 
in  two  weeks  the  average  has  ad­
that 
vanced  from  $72.02  to  $75.09  The 
in­
dustrial  stocks  also  advanced,  endeavor­
ing  to  make  up  last  week  for  their  ex­
ceptional  decline  the  week  before,  so 
that  they  also  record  for  two  weeks  a 
rise  of  $3.60.  The  sales last  week  were 
of almost record-breaking magnitude, but 
this  time  the steadiness and unhesitating 
rise  in  many  prices  were  more 
impres­
sive  than  the  frantic  operations  which 
caused  over  a  quarter  of  the  sales  to  be 
made  of  two 
industrial  stocks.  The 
current  week  shows  less  strength,  many 
in  both  lines  showing  a  decided  falling 
off  in  price.

it 

The  industrial  progress  toward  higher 
prices,  more  combinations,  more  en­
deavors  to  secure  partial  control  of  sup 
plies  of  material,  has  been  so  striking 
that  many  are  beginning  to  sound  an 
alarm.  But 
is  extremely  doubtful 
whether  warnings  will do  any good.  The 
business  world  has  fallen  into  another 
of  its  sadden  and  sweeping  epidemics, 
which  must  run 
its  course.  Sales  of
130,000 
in  the  last  half  of  the  year  at  Pittsburg 
tended  to  fix  the  price  at  $15.15  for  the 
season,  and  Philadelphia  and  Chicago 
are  both  higher,  while  steel  rails  have 
been  advanced  both  East  and  West,  and 
b  rs  hoisted  by  a  most  urgent  demand. 
The  demand  for  plates  has  far  exceeded 
the  supply  at  all  the  chief  markets,  and 
meanwhile  expected  consolidations  are 
now  affecting  business  in  hoops,  cotton 
ties,  tubes  and  other  products.

tons  Bessemer  pig  for  delivery 

Exports  of  cotton  have  shown  a  de­

cided 
falling  off,  as  compared  with 
last  year,  but  the  preceding  movement 
was  so  heavy  that  this  is  sufficiently  ac­
counted  for.  Movement  of  wheat  con­
tinues  more  steady  with  little  change  in 
prices. 
In  four  weeks  March  exports 
from  both  coasts  were  16,247.868  bush­
els, 
included,  against  15.610,799 
last  year.  And  while  corn  falls  off a 
shade  it  still  moves  so steadily  that  all 
past  records  for the  two  grains  together 
are  eclipsed.

flour 

A  man  who  has  been  hard  up  in  Phil­
adelphia  says  one  of  the  most curious 
ways  of  raising  ready  money  practiced 
by  the  impecunious  is the hypothecation 
of  soiled  linen.  The  bankers  are  the 
Chinese 
laundrymen,  whose  places  are 
so  numerously  scattered  over  the  city. 
When  a  needy  individual  has  no  other 
collateral  to  put  up  for  a  short  loan,  he 
finds.in  John  a  friend  in  need,  who 
is 
always  ready  to  make an  advance  on  a 
bundle  of  shirts,  collars  or  cuffs.  Very 
often  the 
loan  almost  equals  the  value 
of  the  security,  but  John  shrewdly  rea­
sons  that  his  customer  will 
let  other 
claims  go  by  default  before  he  will  for­
feit  the  shirts  and collars  so necessary in 
making  a  presentable appearance  The 
custom  of  making  use  of  the  laundry 
is  said  to  have 
man  as  an  “ uncle”  
originated 
in  San  Francisco,  and  was 
brought  eastward  by returning  travelers 
from  the  Pacific  slope.

Illinois’  new  pawnership  bill  is  now 
a  law.  One  hundred  Chicago  business 
men  are  said  to  stand  ready  to  put  up 
$1,000  each  for  the  incorporation  of  the 
pawners’  society  under  this  law.  When 
the  society  is  in  working  order the  poor 
person  who  must  go  to  the  pawnshop 
will  be  delivered  from  the  clutches  of 
the  “ 10  per  cent,  a  month”   sharks. 
The  incorporated  pawners’  society  may 
in­
charge  only  1  per  cent,  a  month  as 
terest  and  one-half  of 
1  per  cent,  for 
storage,  insurance,  etc.  There  is  pro­
vision  for  the  appointment  of  one  di­
rector  by  the  Mayor  of  a  city  and  one 
by  the  Governor,  so  that  the  operation 
of  this  new  style  pawnshop  will  be  un­
der  the  supervision  of  the  authorities. 
The  Merchants'  Club  of  Chicago  fath­
ered  the  bill

The  timely  and  suggestive  article  on 
clerk's  habits,  published  under  Clerks’ 
Corner  this  week,  was  original  with 
Stroller,  of  the  Grocery  World,  and 
should  have  been  credited  to  that  gen­
tleman  and  publication.  No  more 
thoughtful  and  practical  articles have 
in  the  trade  press  than 
ever  appeared 
Stroller’s 
contributions,  which  cover 
every fe'ture incident  to mercantile life. 
The  Tradesman  has  reprinted  many  of 
the  atticles  during  the  past  two  or  three 
years,  with  satisfaction  to 
itself  and 
profit  to  its  readers.

The  man  who  sets  his  watch  by every­
body’s  clock,  and  takes  everybody’s 
remedy  when  be  has  a  cold,  will  soon be 
able  to  see  his  finish.

If  Germany’s  supply  of  adventurous 
priests  only  holds  out,  the  kaiser  will 
own  the  bigger  part  of  China  before 
long.

China  has  commenced  the  manufac­
ture  of  smokeless  powder.  She  should 
smoke  less  opium.

Men  have  made  the  worst  sort  of 

mistakes  with  the  best  of  intentions.

Good  material  is  not  wasted  in  a shirt 

waist.

P R O V IN C E   O F   G O V E R N M E N T .
It 

is  probably  true  that  the  majority 
of  thoughtful  observers  are  more  and 
more 
inclined,  as  they  grow  older,  to 
discredit  the ability  of  any  form  of  po­
litical  government  to  save society.  The 
proper  province  of  government,  how­
ever,  has  never  yet  been  defined  to  the 
satisfaction  of  all  concerned,  and  pow­
erful  parties  have  proceeded  apparently 
upon  the  principle  that  it  is  practically 
unlimited.  Public  men can be  found  in 
the United  States  who  are  ready  to  de­
fend  the  doctrine  that  Congress  may 
give  the  force  of 
law  to  any  measure 
that  it  may  deem  likely  to  prove  bene­
ficial  to  the  people  of  this  country.  And 
the  people  themselves  are  disposed  to 
hold  the  Government  responsible  and  to 
look  to 
it  for  relief  in  anv  time  of  in­
dustrial  depression,  whatever  may  have 
been  the  actual  source  of  the  trouble ; 
and  there  are  those  who  really  seem  to 
imagine  that  there  is  scarcely  any  form 
of  moral  or  material  evil  which  might 
not  be  cured  by  some act  of 
legislation 
or a  change  of  administration.

But  what  are  the  reasons  which,  in 
the  face  of  this  evident  tendency,  in­
cline  so  many  thoughtful  and  serious 
men  to  doubt  the  ability  of  government 
to  do  much  more  for  society  than  to 
provide  the  means  of  public  and private 
defense—that  is  to  say,  armies,  navies, 
courts of  justice  with  an  efficient  cons­
tabulary,  systematic  and vigilant sanita­
tion,  instruction  in  the  absolutely  indis­
pensable  branches  of  learning  and  a 
revenue  system  for  the  sole  purpose  of 
meeting  the  actual  cost  of  an  economi­
cal  administration?  To  these  things 
they  would,  perhaps,  add  certain 
insti­
tutions  and  regulations  of  a  necessary 
character,  such, 
for  example,  as  the 
maintenance  of  a  proper  national  coin­
age 
system,  the  establishment  and 
working  of  mints,  and  a  sufficient  dip­
lomatic  corps.  But  beyond  these  limits 
they  would  not  expect  any  government 
to  accomplish  much  for  the  benefit  of 
its  country  or  of  mankind  at 
large. 
Why? 
If  the  question  were  addressed 
directly  to  a  man  of  the  class  referred 
to  he  might  remark,  in  the  first  place, 
that  bis  view 
is  determined  partly  by 
the  fact,  nowadays  so  commonly  pro­
claimed  that  superior  men—that  is  to 
say,  men  of  the  highest  ability  and 
character—are  keeping  out of  politics, 
or,  at  all  events,  will  not  become candi­
dates  for  office. 
is  true,  he 
would  say,  it 
is  a  very  discouraging 
circumstance  at  the  outset—a  failure  of 
the  system  at  an  extremely  important 
point.  The  fact  must  be  due  either  to 
the 
ignorance  or  the 
venality  of  the  people  generally;  or  it 
must  be  ascribed  to  a  strange  and 
anomalous  deficiency  on  the  part  of 
“ superior  men”   in  respect to their sense 
of  civic  duty.  But 
if  the  delinquent 
citizen,  the  man  who  can  but  will  not 
serve  his  country  were approached  with 
a  complaint  of  this  sort,  be  would  have 
at  least  some  excuses  to  offer,  although 
they  might  not  be  considered  quite  ex­
culpatory.  Men  of  a  high  order  of  abil­
in 
ity  are  usually  busy  men,  absorbed 
the  labors  of  professional 
life  or en­
grossed  with  the  cares  and  responsibili­
ties  of  extremely  important  business  in­
terests.  They  could  not  accept  office 
without  making  some  sacrifice,  or,  in 
some  cases,  without  disregarding  the 
claims  of  others  upon  their  personal 
service.  Then  the  smaller  offices  are 
not attractive  to  them  from  any  point  of 
view,  and,  as  a  rule 
in  politics,  it  is 
extremely  difficult  to  begin  at  the  top. 
Lawyers  have  the  best  chance,  perhaps,

indifference,  the 

If  that 

if  there  is  any  chance  at  all,  for  sudden 
elevation  to  the  highest  places  in  puh- 
lic  life ;  but  even  a  very  famous  lawyer 
would  have  to  look  for a  vfery  hard  fight 
if  he  found  himself  opposed  by  a  pro­
fessional  pol  tician  who  has  a  recog­
nized  “ pull”   and  has  always  kept  his 
fences 
It  may  be 
that  the  difficulties  have  been  exagger­
ated,  but  one  who  has  never  had  any­
thing  to  do  with  practical  politics  must 
accept  a  good  deal  on  report.

in  good  condition. 

The  view  of  government  entertained 
by  the  critic  referred  to  at  the  begin­
ning  of  this  article is largely determined 
also  by  the  hopeless  immensity  of  the 
work  undertaken  by  national 
legisla­
tures,  as  that  work  appears  to  him.  He 
remarks  that  legislative  bodies,  chosen 
usually  for  a  brief  term  of  years,  have 
no  coherent  and  well-understood  plan  of 
progressive  legislation.  He  sees  them 
moved  by  various  forces  from  without 
and  by  the  various  motives  that  appeal 
to  individual  members.  The  lobby  may 
be  kept  out  of  sight;  but,  in  one  form 
or another,  it  is  unavoidable.  And  the 
lobby,  at 
its  best,  is  still  concerned 
only  with  particul ir  interests—common­
individual  or  corporate  enter­
ly  some 
prise. 
In  the  past  it  has  often  been  a 
source  of  corruption ;  but  it  seems  to be 
something  in  the  nature  of  a  permanent 
institution.  Finally,  there 
is  a  whole 
school  of  political  students-formerly  a 
very  influential  school—who  insist  that 
civil  government  is  by  its  nature  essen­
tially  conservative  and  is  never  proper­
ly  concerned  with  any  consideration  of 
progress.  Society,  they  hold,  is  a  vital 
organism,  directed  in  its  growth  by  an 
inherent 
Their 
is,  “ Laissez  fa ire. ”   They  think 
motto 
that  as  government  is  not formed,  in  the 
first  place,  to  transact  the  business  of 
private  iife,  it  should  never  interfere  in 
the  management  of  such  business  in 
anyway.  Meanwhile  society  will  de­
velop  under  the  inspiration  of 
individ­
initiative,  as  fast  as  it  can,  main­
ual 
taining 
the 
symmetry  of  its  proportions.

its  natural  strength  and 

law  of  development. 

The  small  republic  of  Switzerland, 
with  an  area  of  about  one-tbird  that  of 
our  state  of  Pennsylvania,  bas  made 
rapid  progress 
in  the  developmert  of 
every  branch  of  industry.  In  spjte of the 
fa  t  that  every  pound  of  coal  and  every 
pound  of  iron  has  to  be 
imported,  the 
Swiss-made  machinery 
exports  of 
amounted 
in  value  to  over 34,000,000 
francs  in  1897.  The  Swiss  excel  in  the 
manufacture  of  watches,  cottons,  silks, 
laces  and  ribbons,  for all  of  which  the 
raw  material  bas  to  be  imported  from 
foreign  court-ies.

The  Boston  Globe  remaiks that a daily 
newspaper  now  without  a  picture 
lot ks 
as  odd  as  a  daily  newspaper  did  with  a 
picture  twenty  years  ago.  The  news­
papers  have  not  only  kept  up  with  the 
wonderful  changes  of  the  past  twenty 
years,  but  have  largely  set  the  pace  of 
progress.  _________________

It 

is  not  known  exactly  how  many 
volts  of  electricity  are  necessary  to  kill 
a  strong  man,  and,  as  far  as  beard 
from,  no  strong  man  bas.  the  volting 
ambition  to  try  the  experiment  on  him­
self.

Improvements  in  methods  of  killing 
people  will  keep  right  along  with  the 
progress  of  civilization,  and one  wealthy 
nation  at  war  will  not  have  great  ad­
vantage  over  another.

It 

is  best  to  break  up  a  cough  before 

it  breaks  up  your  lungs.

MICHIGAN  1 RADtSMAN

6

R A IL W A Y S   A N D   T R U S T S .

A  report  published  by  the  United 
States  Interstate  Commerce  Commission 
of  the  earnings  of  American  railways 
shows  that  their  total  gross  earnings 
during  the  year  ending  June  30.  1898, 
were $1,238,523,380,  being  an  amount  in 
excess  of  the gross  earnings  of  the prev­
ious  year of  $116,433,607.  As  compared 
with  the  gross  earnings  of  the  year  end­
ing  June  30, 
1894,  being  the  year  in 
which  the  recent  commercial  depression 
showed 
in  railway 
statistics,  the  year  covered  by  this  re­
port  shows  an  increase  in  gross earnings 
of  $165,161,583  These  figures  indicate 
a  return  of  prosperity  to the  railways  oi 
the  United  States.

itself  most  clearly 

Of 

the 

aggregate  gross  earnings, 
$332,892,782  must  be  credited  to  the 
passenger  service,  and  $874,865,487  to 
the  freight  service. 
It  should  be  ob 
served  that  receipts  for  carrying  the 
mail  and  express  and  certain  miscellan­
eous  items  are  included  in  the  earnings 
of  passenger service,  and  that  receipts 
from  stock  yards,  elevators  and  analo­
gous  items are  included  in  the  earnings 
of  freight  service.

The  operating  expenses  of  railways 
during  the  year covered  by  this  report 
were  $811,241,458,  being  an  amount 
in 
excess  of  corresponding  expenditures  oi 
the  previous  year  of  $58,716,694.  The 
net  earnings  for  the  year  were  $427,- 
281,922,  being  a  sum 
in  excess  of  the 
net  earnings  of  the  previous  year of 
$57,7 16,913 
The  fact  that  operating 
expenses  did  not  increase  in  proportion 
to  the 
increase  in  gross  earnings  is  of 
great  significance,  so  far  as  the  market 
value  of  railway  stocks  and 
railway 
bonds  is  concerned,  for  railway  securi­
ties  are  much  more  sensitive  to  the 
financial  showing  of a  corporation  than 
to  the  amounts  paid  as  interest on bonds 
or as dividends  on  stocks.

Of course,  all  the  railroads  were  not 
operated  at  a  profit,  for the consequences 
of  paralleling  lines  where  the  demands 
of  business  did  not  justify,  and of build­
ing  roads 
in  thinly  populated  regions, 
are  still  showing  themselves  in  the  re­
ceiverships  and  sheriffs’  sales  of  bank­
rupt  roads.  The  railroads  of  the  United 
States  represent  a  capital  stock  of  about 
$5,500,000,000,  and  a  mileage,  in  round 
numbers,  of  nearly  190,000.

These  railroads,  with  their  immense 
aggregation  of  capital  and  their  enor­
mous  mileage,  controlling  the  internal 
commerce  of  the  country,  are  only  pre 
vented  from  forming  a  vast  trust  or 
monopoly  combination  by  the  frail  bar­
rier  of  the 
interstate  commerce  law, 
which  the  Federal  courts are  constantly 
undermining  and  breaking  down.

If  the  railroads  could  only  form  a 
gigantic  trust,  they  would  be  able  to  re­
lieve  themselves  of  the  incubus  of  un­
wise  and  excessive  construction.  They 
could  shut  off  competing  and  non-pay­
ing 
lines,  or  else  dictate  rates  that 
would  give  a profit;  but,  fortunately,  the 
courts  have  not  yet  intervened  to  force 
the  people  to  pay  for  the  mistakes of the 
railway  projectors.  Every  railroad  that 
was  wisely  located  and  has  been  prop­
erly  managed  has  become a  paying 
in­
stitution ;  but those  that  were 
improvi- 
dently  and  imprudently  built,  contrary 
to  ordinary  light  and  knowledge,  have 
suffered 
just  as  does  any  other  unwise 
business  enterprise,  and  those  who  were 
so unfortunate  as  to  have  money in them 
must  take  the  consequences.

The  recent  opinion  of  Attorney  Gen­
eral  Griggs, to the  effect  that  there  is  no 
law  or  warrant  in  the  constitution  that 
can  authorize the Federal Government to

exercise  any  control  over  the  powerful 
commercial  combinations  that  are  de­
stroying  all  competition  in  their several 
lines  and  monopolizing 
in  the  several 
states  the  markets  in  the  chief  articles 
of  prime  necessity,  does  not  apply  to 
the  railroads,  because  they  are  engaged 
in  interstate  commerce and  are  within 
the  sphere  of  regulation  by  Congress, 
provided  they  are  not  regulated  too 
much.  Theoretically,  they  are  amen­
able  to  the  power of regulation possessed 
by  Congress  over  interstate  commerce, 
but  practically  the  existing  laws  on  the 
subject  are  held  in  great  disrepute.

On  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St. 
Paul and  the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa 
Fe  Railways  hereafter  all  engines  will 
be  pooled  and  run  continuously,  regard­
less  of  the  engineer 
in  charge.  Here­
tofore  each  man  has  bad  his  own  par­
ticular  engine  which  has  been  laid  up 
in  the  round  house  when  he  was  not 
working.  This  system,  it 
is  claimed, 
has  resulted  in  the  loss  of  thousands  of 
dollars  every  year  to  the  railroad  com 
panies,  as  an  engine  run  continuously 
will •  do  as  much  work  as  two  or  three 
that  are  laid  off  while  their  engineers 
ire  not  working.  The  companies  men­
tioned  evidently  take  no  stock  in  the 
claim  that  an  engineer  can  get  more 
work  out of  an  engine  he  is  acquainted 
with  and  takes  pride  in  than  can  a  new 
engineer,  neither  do  they  accept  the 
theory  that  machinery  needs  rest  as well 
as  man. 

_________________

A  strong  sentiment  is  growing  up 

in 
Nicaragua  in  favor  of  annexation  to  the 
United  States.  President  Zelaya  is  said 
to  favor 
it,  as  does  General  Estrada, 
who  is  governor  of  the  coast  provinces. 
Through  annexation.it  is  pointed  out by 
Nicaraguans  favoring 
it,  the  preserva­
tion  of  order  and  observance  of  law 
would  be  secured;  capital  would  be 
ready  to 
invest  in  the  development  of 
Nicaragua’s  natural  resources;  prosper­
ity  and  security  would  be  attained.  For 
the  United  States,  the  canal  question 
would  be  settled  beyond  dispute.  An­
nexation  to  the  United  States  is  becom­
ing  popular in  all  directions.

The  governors  of  the  Chinese  prov­
inces  are between the  devil  and the deep 
sea.  The Dowager Empress orders them, 
under  penalty  of  death,  to  oppose  by 
force  any  landing  of  armed  foreigners. 
And  if  the  foreigners  do  land,  the  gov­
ernors,  of  course,  will  not  be  able  to  op­
pose them.

Notwithstanding  the  severity  of  the 
weather  this  year  the  loss  of  sheep  in 
Montana  has  not  been  serious.  The  rea 
son  is  that  stockmen  provided  an  ample 
stock  of  bay  in  accessible  places.  With 
plenty  to  eat  full  grown  sheep  and  cat­
tle  can stand a great deal of cold weather.

A  horse  may  be  led  to  water;  but  be 
will  do  as  be  pleases  about  drinking.  It 
is  different  with  a  man  who  says trouble 
drove  him  to  drink.  Perhaps 
it  did; 
but  drinking  was  his  own  choice.

A  man  may  count  his  eggs before they 
are  hatched ;  but  he  will  be  more  accu­
rate  if  he  leaves  bis  chickens  until  he 
sees them._________________

It 

is  a  stand  off about  lying.  Some 
people  lie  to  prevent  trouble;  others  lie 
to  make  trouble.

Tbe  man  who  defies  public  opinion  is 

soon  despised  bv  those  who  respect it.

It  is  much  cheaper  for  a man to drown 

his  sorrows  in  water  than  in  liquor.

T H E   N EW   J A P A N E S E   T R E A T Y .
The  new  treaties  which  Japan  has  ne­
gotiated  with  all  the  principal  powers 
go  into  effect  in  July.  After  that  date, 
Japan  will  take  her  place  among  the 
nations  as  a  full-fledged  civilized  State. 
Her  domain  will  be  thrown  wide  open 
to  foreign  residents  and  travel,  and  for­
eigners  will  be  given  the  same  rights 
and  privileges  before  the  law  as  are  ac­
corded  to Japanese,  including  the  right 
to  trade  everywhere  and  to  bold  prop­
el ty.

in  Japan 

The  most 

important  change  which 
1  will  be  the 
will  take  place  on  Juiy 
ending  of  extra-territorial 
jurisdiction. 
Up  to  the  present  time  the  leading pow­
ers,  including  the  United  States,  have 
claimed  the  privilege  of  having  their 
subjects  residing 
tried  for 
offenses,  not  by  the  Japanese  courts,  but 
by  special  consular  courts.  This  right 
was  claimed  in  Japan,  as  it  is  claimed 
in  all  semi-barbarous  countries.  This 
special  jurisdiction  is  now  to  be  aban 
doned,  and  all  foreigners  residing  in 
Japan  will  henceforth  be  subject  to  the 
Japanese  laws  and  to  the  jurisdiction  ol 
Japanese  courts,  just  as  would  be  the 
case  with  foreigners  residing 
in  this 
country  or  in  France,  or,  for  that  mat­
ter,  in  any  other  civilized  country.

in 

July  1  will,  therefore,  mark  the  initia­
tion  of  Japan  into tbe  full  sisterhood  of 
nations.  What  a  degree  of  progress 
this  final  concession  on  tbe  part  of  the 
great  powers  attests!  Contrasted  with 
the  aversion  to 
foreigners  and  their 
treatment  which  Commodore 
harsh 
Perry  found 
|apan  fifty  years  ago, 
tbe  conditions  existing  in  that  country 
to-day  represent  a  most  wonderful  prog­
ress.  The  treaties  accepted  by  the  pow­
ers,  including  this country,  are practical 
announcements  to  the  world  that  Japan 
is  now  as  safe  a  place  of  residence  for 
foreigners  as  England  or  America,  and 
that  the 
lives  and  liberties  of  foreign 
residents  can  be  safely  trusted  to  Japan­
ese  laws  and  Japanese  courts.

The  great 

increase  which  Japan  has 
made  in  her  navy,  and  her demonstrated 
ability  to  send  a  large  army  across  seas 
and  to  maintain 
it  at  a  distance  from 
tbe  home  base,  have won  for  her  a  place 
among  the  military  powers,  and  Japan’s 
wishes  must  henceforth  be  consulted 
in 
all  matters  affecting  the  Orient  This 
wonderful  enterprise  and  enlightenment 
displayed  by  an  oriental  nation  is  one 
of  the  great  surprises  of  tbe  age.

in 

interference 

O U R   D E M A N D S   U PO N   C H IN A .
Although  the  United  States  has  care­
fully  avoided 
tbe 
schemes  now  in  progress  to  bring  about 
it  has 
the  dismemberment  of  China, 
been  impossible  to  avoid  becoming 
in 
some  measure  entangled  in  the  web  of 
diplomatic  fencing  at  present  progress­
ing  at  the  Chinese capital.  Tbe  demand 
of  tbe  German  and  British  governments 
for  extensions  of  their  concessions  at 
Shanghai  threatened  a  direct  encroach­
ment  upon  privileges  Americans  enjoy 
there.  The  United  States  has  a  conces­
sion  in  the  foreign  quarter  of Shanghai, 
and  tbe  Government  at  Washington 
feared  that  tbe  extensions  demanded  by 
Germany  and  Great  Britain  might 
in­
volve  an 
impairment  of  American 
rights.  The  American  Ministerat  Pekin 
was  accordingly 
instructed  to  demand 
that  any  extensions  granted  to  other 
powers 
in  Shanghai  should  also  be 
granted  to  this  country.

Although  tbe  Government 

is  amply 
justified 
in  demanding  that  American 
rights  be  respected,  there  can  be  no 
disguising  tbe  fact  that our demand that

the  same  privileges  granted  to Germany 
and  Great  Britain  be  also  granted  to  us 
involves  us 
in  an  association  more  or 
less  remote  with  the  entire  Chinese 
problem.  The  fact  can  not  be  over­
tbe 
looked  that,  after  Great  Britain, 
United  States  has  the  largest  trade 
in­
terests  in  China.  So  great  a  trading 
nation  as  we are  will  not  permit  so  vast 
and  lucrative  a  traffic  as  that with China 
to  slip  away 
from  us  without  much 
squirming,  and,  despite  our  aversion 
for  entangling  alliances  and 
intermed- 
iling  in  foreign  affairs,  it  will  be  diffi­
cult  to  keep  hands  off  in  a  matter  in 
which  we  have  so  deep  a  concern.

Maintaining,  as  we  do,  a  very  large 
naval  force  in  the  Far  East,  our demand 
upon  China  to  respect  our  rights  and 
privileges  in  Shanghai  can  not be easily 
ignored  by  that  power,  and  both  Ger­
many  and  Great  Britain  will  have to ad­
mit  that  fact,  and  either  modify  their 
demands  or  take  our  interests  into  their 
calculations.

Italy’s  demand  upon  China  for a  con­
cession  similar  to  that  granted  to  Ger­
many  has  been  more  recently  followed 
by  a  similar  demand 
from  Belgium. 
Six  European  powers  are  now  clamor­
ing  for  concessions  on 
the  Chinese 
coast,  and  others  may  be  expected  to 
put 
in  similar  claims  shortly.  These 
demands  are rather disquieting to Amer­
ican  interests,  as  their  success  will  have 
the  effect  to  close  the  door  to  Chinese 
trade,  as  far  as  we  are  concerned,  ex­
cept  on  that  portion  of  territory  which 
may  fall  to  tbe  share  of  Great  Britain. 
Our  strict  adherence to the time-honced 
principle  of  non  interference  promises 
to  be at  the  expense  of  our  trade  inter­
ests.  This  consideration  should  induce 
the  State  Department  to  closely  watch 
the  course  of  events  in  China,  so  that 
our  commercial  interests  in  that  part  of 
the  world  may  be  protected  as  far  as 
possible  consistent  with  our  policy  of 
non-interference.

It  took  him 

At  the  age  of  57,  Francis  B.  Thurber, 
of  New  York,  has  been  admitted  to  the 
bar. 
four  years  of  bard 
study  to  prepare  for  the necessary exam­
inations.  He  was  formerly  at  tbe  head 
of  the  great  grocery  house  of  Thurber, 
Whyland  &  Co.,  which  went  out of busi­
ness  several  years  ago.  At  one  time  he 
was  prominent  as  an  anti-monopolist 
and  took  an  active  interest  in  advocacy 
of  the  interstate commerce  act,  although 
he  now  stoutly  favors  railway pooling.

People  have  been  poisoned  with bread 
containing  salts  of 
lead,  which  came 
from  the  timber  used  to  heat  the  oven. 
The  Paris  Council  of  Hygiene  has, 
therefore,  forbidden  the  employment  of 
painted  or  unpainted  wood 
from  old 
houses,  old  sleepers 
impregnated  with 
creosote  or  sulphate  of  copper,  and  dis­
used  blocks  of  wood  paving  for  beating 
ovens,  on  the  ground  that  poisonous 
volatile  salts  may  arise  from  them  and 
deposit  on  the  roof  or  floor  of  the  oven.

In  the  Philippines  the  law  which  re­
lates  to  the  property  of  married  people 
is  entirely 
in  favor  of  the  wife.  Any 
property  a  bride  may  possess 
is  never 
by  any  chance  settled  upon tbe husband, 
and 
is  poor and  she  well  off,  he 
can  only  become  at  most  an  administra­
tor of  her  possessions.

if  he 

A  bill  to  coerce  and humiliate judges, 
adopted 
in  Wisconsin,  provides  that 
those  officials  shall  not  be  paid  their 
salaries  except  on  affidavit  that  no  case 
submitted  for  decision  has remained un­
decided  for  a  period  of  three  months.

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10

Fruits  and  Produce.

O bservations  by  a  N ew   Y o rk   E g g  

Man.

The  ups  and  downs  of  the  current  egg 
market  have  continued  to  absorb  a  con­
siderable  part  of  trade  energies  during 
the  past  week,but  the question  of  prices 
for  spring  storage  eggs  has  been  of  the 
most  vital  interest  to  those  wbo are  ac­
customed  to  accumulate  any  consider­
able  quantity  of  April  and  May  eggs. 
So  far  as  all  reports  of  contracts  made, 
or  offers  to  make  contracts,for  April  de­
livery  of  storage  packings  are  at  prices 
which,  according  to  the  general  argu­
ments  recently  set  forth 
in  these  col­
umns,  are  dangerously  and  unnecessari­
ly  high.  There  are  evidently  a  lot  of 
people  who  have  made  up  their  minds 
tb it  April  prices  are  going  to  rule  high 
and  wbo  have  concluded  to  take  the 
goods  anyway  and  run  the  chances. 
If 
these  hasty  and 
ill-considered  opera­
tions  should  create  a  general  conviction 
that  the  rates  mentioned  will  prove  per­
manent,  and  cause  a  general  competi­
tion  to  secure  goods  by  all  wbo  ordi­
narily  accumulate  spring  storage,  there 
will  be  nothing  left  to  which  one  may 
pin  a hope  for conservatism  and  safety 
until  alter the  rampant  speculators  get 
filled  up. 
It  seems  very  probable  that 
the  earliest  purchasers  will  pay  the  big­
gest  prices  and  if  the  large  egg  packers 
will  keep  their  own  hands  off  at  the 
dangerous  rates  now  generally  talked  of 
and  let  the  high  flyers  have  all  the stock 
latter  will  probably  get 
they  can,  the 
enough  before 
it 
is  too  late  to secure 
reasonably  satisfactory  goods  at  safe 
figures.

♦  

♦  

♦

Speaking  of  cold  storing  I  have  no­
ticed  that  most  of the  spring  eggs which 
are  kept  as 
late  as  December  show  a 
slight  growth  of  white,  delicate-fibered 
mold  when  they  come  out.  This  mold 
is  so  delicate  as  to  be  scarcely  notice­
able  unless  in  some  quantity  and  is  en 
tirely  removed  with  a  breath  of  air or  a 
light  handling  of  the  egg. 
It  has  ap 
peared  on  stock  kept  under  the  most  fa 
vorable  circumstinces  and  has  occa 
sioned  much  cogitation  on  the  part  of 
storage  men  as  to  methods  of  preven 
tion.  The  cases  of  it  which  have  come 
under  my  own  observation  generally 
have  shown  more  of  the  mold  toward 
the  center  of  the  cases,  which  naturally 
leads  to  the  conclusion  that  it  flourishes 
best  where  the  air  is  confined.

♦   *  *

By  the  way  here  is  an  idea  which 

is 
worthy  of  the  most careful  consideration 
of  egg  storers  and  some  of  our  storage 
men  are  already  giving  the  matter  some 
attention.  The  present  method  of  pack 
ing  eggs  for  storage  confines  tneeggs  in 
a  practically  tight  case  and  additional 
prevention  of  air  circulation  is  given 
by  the  fillers  and  flats,  which,  as  usually 
constructed,  confine each  egg  in  a closed 
cell  Toward  the  center  of  the  cases, 
especially,  there  is  absolutely  no  venti 
lation  and  the  egg  remains  immersed  in 
a  modicum  of  air,  vit  ated  by  the  gas­
eous  exhalations  of  the  egg  itself.  That 
these  gases  do  vitiate  the  air  there  can 
be  no  doubt  and  very  likely  use  ‘ or 
in­
crease  the  peculiar and undesirable “  ice 
bouse  flavor"  which  becomes  so  pro­
nounced  after  long  bolding.

*  *  *

Systems  of  ventilation  of  egg  rooms, 
when  devised  with  proper  facilities  for 
refrigerating  and  thereby  expelling  the 
moisture  from  the  fresh  air  before  ad­
mitting 
room,  have 
in  securing  more  per­
proven  valuable 

it  to  the  store 

fect  retention  of  qualitv,  and  it is known 
to  some  that  eggs  carried  in  open  trays 
are  far  better  preserved  than  those  car­
ried  in  closed  cases.  A  storage  case  and 
filler,  especially  designed  to  afford  free 
circulation  of  air,  would  very  likely 
prove  decidedly  more  advantageous  for 
holding  purposes  than  the  usual  closed 
cases  and  tight  compartments  now  gen­
erally  used  and  might  also  be  found  to 
obviate  the 
light,  fluffy  mold  growth 
mentioned  in  the  preceding  paragraph. 
It’s  worth  trying.

*  *  *

The  character  and  appearance  of  the 
case  has  an 
important  effect  upon  the 
salability  of  eggs  and  generally  affects 
the  selling  price  more  or  less  according 
to  the  general  condition  of  the  marktt.
I  notice  a  good  many  1  ts  of  Southern 
eggs  in  unattractive  looking  pine  cases 
which  generally  have  to  be  sold  ^ @ ic  
below  first  class  packings  and  some­
times  at  even  a  greater  reduction.  At 
the  same  time  there  are  many  marks  of 
Tennessee  and  Virginia goods which are
packed 
in  first  class  hard  wood  cases 
which  generally  sell  within  %c  of  the 
best  Western  and  a 
few  which  are 
graded  and  run  clean  and  of  good  size 
bring  as  much  as  Western.

*  #  *

It  is  true  that  at  this  season  of 

large 
consumption  differences  in  quality  of 
eggs 
lead  to  less  difference  in  selling 
value  than  is  the  case  later  but  there are 
other 
important  advantages  in  having 
stock  put  up  in  first-class  shape  which 
often  result  in  financial  gain.  The  com- 
ptrative  readiness  with  which  sales  of 
handsomely  and  carefully  packed  stock 
can  be  made is  often  a  very material ad­
vantage  when  stock  is  accumulating and 
prices  tending  downward.

*  *  *

A  receiver  here  reports  an  order  for 
ten  cars  of  April  storage  packings at 13c 
delivered—truly  a  dangerous  figure. 
It 
is  to  be  hoped  these  high  flyers  will 
soften  down  or get  filled  up  early.—N. 
Y.  Produce  Review.

G roceries 

Tainted  With 

T ob acco 

From the North Adams  Democrat.

Sm oke.

A 

local  grocer has  started  a  practice 
which  was  suggested  by  the  frequent 
complaints  made  by  the 
ladies,  and 
might  well  be copied.  This  man  con 
ducts  a  grocery  store,  and  it  frequently 
happens  that  a  number  of  men  congre- 
g. te 
in  the  rear  of  the  store  to  discuss 
questions  of  the  day.  Most  of  these 
men  are 
inveterate  smokers,  and  the 
store  socn  becomes  blue  with  tobacco 
smoke.  The  ladies  have  made  com 
plaints  that  the  groceries  were  tainted 
with  tobacco  smoke,  and  so  the  pro­
prietor  put  a  stop  to  tbe  smoking.  As 
he  sells  cigars  and  will  not  allow  a  pur­
in  tbe  store  bis  trade 
chaser  to  smoke 
b  s  been  dec-ecsed  considerably. 
It  is 
a  too  common  practice,  however,  for 
men  to  congregate 
in  tbe  stores  and 
smoke,  and  while  very  few  of  tbe  busi­
ness  men  realize  it. their  business  is  in­
that  the 
little.  Now 
jured  quite  a 
move  has  been  started 
it  would  be  a 
good  plan  to  follow 
in  other 
it  up 
stores.

A  Lost  Art.

Mrs.  Blickens—The  President  of  our 
Club 
is  going  to  lecture  next  Tuesday 
evening  on  "Conversation  as  a  Lost 
Art  "

Mr.  Blickens(yawning)—That  so?
Mrs.  Blickens—Well,  why  don’t  you 
go  on  and  make some sarcastic comment 
about  tbe  impossibility  of  conversation 
being  a  lost  art  while  women  remain  on 
earth?  Of  course, 
is  wbat  you 
think.

Mr.  Blickens—No,  I  agree  with  your 
President.  Conversation 
is  a  lost  art. 
When  only  one  side  can  be beard  it  is 
merely  talk.

that 

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G O T H A M   G O S S IP .

N ew s  from   the  Metropolis— Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  M arket.

favorable 

New  York,  April  i —The  general  sit­
uation 
in  grocery  circles  continues  sat­
isfactory  and  a  good  volume  of  business 
is  being  transacted  every  day.  The 
weather  has  been  very 
for 
work  and  the  buyers  here are  getting 
down  to  business  in  a  most  satisactory 
manner.
Coffee  is  about  the  most  uninteresting 
of  any  of  the  great  staples  at  the  mo­
ment.  Quietude  characterizes  the  situa­
tion  ana,  while  there  is  not a real  weak­
ness,  there 
is  hardly  the  firmness  that 
might  be  hoped  for.  Friday and  to-day 
are  largely  of  a  holiday  character  and 
the  street  seems  to  be  taking  an  after- 
dinner  nap.  Rio  N o.  7  continues  to  be 
quoted  at  6j£c  in  an  invoice  way. 
In 
store  and  afloat  the  amount  of  coffee  ag­
gregates  1  303  127  bags,  against  1,142,- 
625  bags  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
East  India  growths  are  quiet  at  about 
unchanged  rates.  Fadang,  24^ @25^0 
and 
fancy  stock  28@32c.  West  India 
growths are  steady  ana  some quite  large 
transactions  are  reported  under  way. 
Good  Cu::uti  is  worth  8%@8}íc
Raw  sugars  are  higher.  On  Wednes­
day  and  Thursday  some  40 000 tons  are 
said  to  have  changed  bands  at  4y%@ 
4.44c.  The  close  is  Arm,  with  supplies 
so 
light  that  the  outside  figure above 
give  is  likely  to  be  advanced  soon.  The 
refined  market,  acting  in  sympathy with 
raws,  shows  greater  activity  and  buyers 
realize  that  they  will  do  well  to  come  in 
out  of  the  wet  as  soon  as  possible.  On 
Thursday  afternoon  orders  began 
to 
in  with  great  frequency  and  all 
come 
day  Friday  and  to  day  the  same  has 
been  the  case.  Hards  are  all  firmly 
held  at 
list,  but  Arbuckle  has  shaded 
some  sorts  (5  and  14-16)  to  the  amount 
of  i - i6c.  The list  on  granulated  is  5>éc.
Tea  prices  are very firmly maintained, 
but  the  volume  of  business  during  the 
week  will  not  show  up  as  well  as  last 
week.  The  lower  grades  are  in  rather 
limited  supply  and  altogether  the  time 
is  favorable  for  buying,  as  there  seems 
no  prospect  of  lower  figures  in  the 
im­
mediate  future. 
Invoices  are  steady, 
but  little  is  doing  in  this  way.

Rice 

is  quiet  all  around.  The  de­
mand  has  been  quite  light,  except  for 
the  very finest  grades,  which are  in  light 
supply.  Prices,  however,  are  pretty  firm 
and  dealers  hope  for  a  change  for  the 
better  soon.  Reports  from  New Orleans 
indicate  a  much  larger  area  of  rice than 
last  year.  Choice  to  bead  rice  is  quot 
able  at  6%@8c \  Pama,  5@ 5^c  Japan, 
4& @ 5c ;  Java,  43¿@ 52¿c
in  molasses.  Ordeis  have  been  for small 
lots  for  sorting  up  purposes.  Sellers 
show  no  great  anxiety  to  dispose  of 
holdings,  nor  do  buyers  crowd  each 
other to  get  at  the  head  of the line.  Low 
grades  are 
in  light  supply  and  steady. 
Foreign  grades  are  firm.  Some new crop 
Ponce  has  been  received  and  is  held  at 
32@34C,  choice  to  fancy.  Exporters  are 
not  doing  much,  but  rates  are  firm  for 
toe  goods  they  want

I 

is 

In  canned  goods,  lemon cling peaches, 
California  apricots,  Barthtt  pears  and 
salmon are conspicuous by toeir absence. 
Everything 
in  comparatively  light 
supply  and  prices  are  firm.  Columbia 
River  No.  1  tails  are  held  at  $ 1.4 0 ®  
1  45 ;  fl its,  Si  55  and  upwards.  Sockeye 
tails, 
i5@ i.i7J^.  Peas  are  quiet  and 
steady,  within  the  range  of  all  the  way 
from  90c  to $1.50,  as  to  grade.  Corn  is 
strong  for  the  finer  qualities  of  New 
York  State,  which  are  held 
from  75 
@900;  Maine  goc^SSi  for  the  best.  No 
3  tomatoes,  N.  J..  82>^@90C.

Practically  no change  is  observable  in 
spices,  but quotations  are hardly  as  firm 
as  a  fortnight  ago.  Pepper  is  again  at­
tracting  some  attention,  with  Singapore 
black  quoted  at  io^c.

While  no  especially  large  transactions 
have  taken  place  in  dried  fruits,  there 
is  a  good  steady  demand  and  every­
thing  indicates  that  the  new  goods  will 
arrive  upon  comparatively  a  bare  mar 
ket.  Prices  are  well  adhered  to  and 
dealers  are  generally  pretty  well  content 
Loose  muscatel
with  the  situation. 

here  has  been  a  rather quiet  market 

raisins  are 
in  good  demand  and  the 
market  has  greatly  strengthened  within 
ten  days.  Notwithstanding  the  better 
heeling,  the  rates  for  loose  raisins  here 
are  still  said  to  be  below  those  on  the 
coast.  Domestic  dried  are  without  par­
ticular  change.
In  lemons  and  oranges,  the  situation 
is  practically  without  change.  A  1  ttle 
better  demand  for  lemons  has  sprung 
up  and,  as  the  supply  of  oranges  has 
lighter  this  fruit,  too,  is  a  little 
grown 
firmer.  Florida  oranges  especially  are 
in 
light  supply  and  there are  not  many 
more  to  come.  Russetts  are  worth  $2.75 
@4  per b ox;  brights.  $2  75@ 4  5 0 ;  Cali­
fornia  navels,  $2  75@ 4  25.
There  is  1  ttle  it  any  change  in  beans 
and  trade 
is  generally  quiet.  Choice 
marrow  are  still  worth  $1.50;  medium, 
Si  37J£@ i  40;  pea,  $1.3 5 ;  red  kidney, 
Si  77^ @ i.8o;  California 
limas,  $2  50 
@2.55

is 

size, 

Large 

extras, 

factory, 

smaller. 

The  butter  market 

in  excellent 
shape.  Arrivals  are  hardly  equal  to  the 
demand,  especially  for  the  extra  West­
ern  creamery  soits,  which  are  firmly 
held  at  23*;  firsts,  2i@ 2i>£c;  seconds, 
ig@2oc;  thirds,  I7@i8 
;  fancy  Western 
imitation  creamery,  i8@i8j^c  for  fancy 
and  i 5@ i6c  for  firsts;  13^@ 14.  for sec­
i6@ I7c ; 
onds ;  finest  Western  dairy, 
Western 
I4@ i4j£c; 
firsts,  i3J^@ i4c;  seconds  I3@ i3^ c.

The  cheese  market 

is  strong.  The 
demand  is  good  and  stocks  are  steadily 
growing 
full 
cream,  are  worth  I2@ i2^c  for  colored 
or  white.  Small  size  full  cream,  fancy 
stock,  sells  readily  at  I2^@ i3c.
Eggs  can  be  afforded  bv  everybody 
now.  The  finest  sort  of  Michigan  are 
quotable  at  about 
12 ^ 0 ;  in  fact,  the 
top  price  even  for  nearby  stock  is  not 
over  13^0.  Fancy  Western  duck  eggs 
are  worth  25c
Some  new  maple  sugar  has  been  sold 
at  about 9@ioc.  Old  is  worth  7@8c  and 
maple  syrup  6o@75c  per  gallon.
New  Bermuda  potatoes  $7  5o@9 for 
first  class  stock.  Domestic  potatoes  old 
stock,  from  $2@2  50  per  bbl.  in  bulk.
Baldwin  apples  are  held  from  $3.75 
@4  25  per  bbl.  Greenings,  $3.50  up  to 
$6,  the  latter  for  very  fancy stock.

’  Chinese”   poultry. 

Latest  Fad  in  the  Poultry  M arket
One  of  New  York’s  latest  fads  is  the 
craze  for 
This 
poultry  comes  alive  from  New  Jersey, 
Pennsylvania  and  other  neighboring 
points  and differs from other poultry only 
in  color.  Upon  investigating  the  mat­
ter  it  was  found  that  the  bright  purple 
and  ether  colors  are  caused  by  a  paint­
brush 
in  the  bands  of  an  expert  who 
seemed  to  be  able  to  dye  every  feather. 
At  any  rate  there  has  been  a  good  de­
mand  for  them  and  tbev  have  brought 
extreme  prices.  One  dealer  reports  hav­
ing  sold  about  forty  pairs last week from 
$5  per  pair  upward.  They  are  bought 
by  retail  dealers,  especially  egg  mer­
chants,  who  put  them  in  their  windows 
with  a  large  sign  marked  “ Chinese”   or 
”  Japanese  Poultry”   as  an  attraction. 
They  would  doubtless  receive  little  at­
tention  except  at  Easter,  but  the  enter­
prising  shipper  who  originated  the  idea 
reaped  a  rich  harvest.

Decided  in  Favor  o f  the  Retailer.
New  York.  April  1.—A  retail  poultry 
dealer  recently  purchased  part  of  a  car 
of  ducks  and  geese  from  a  West  Wash­
ington  Market  receiver  to  arrive  He 
agreed  to  pay  55c  per  pair  for  the ducks 
and  $i  37^   per  pair  for  the geese.  The 
receiver  evidently  had more  faith  in  the 
reta  ler  than  the  retailer  bad  in  the  re­
ceiver  as  the  latter  gave  the  retailer 
two  coops  of  ducks  of  a  mark  he al­
ready  had  in  to  bind  the contract.  When 
the  poultry  came  in  the  receiver sold 
it 
to  another  dealer  for 65c per  pair  for the 
ducks  and  $1.6 7^   per  pair 
the 
geese.  The  original  buyer  thereupon 
brought  suit  against  the  commission 
man,  in  the  city  court,  for  the  differ­
$90—between  what  be 
ence—nearly 
bought  the  stock 
for and  what  the  re­
ceiver  sold  it  for  to  the  other  dealer. 
The 
judge  decided  in  favor  of  the  re­
tailer.

for 

Solitary  meditation  naturally  gives 
some  people a  poor „opinion of mankind.

W. H. Young & Co.

Produce 
Commission 
Merchants

Pottstown,  Pa.

Branch  House,  LAKH  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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W.  R.  BRICE.

Established  1852. 

C. M.  DRAKE. 

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To our many friends and shippers throughout Michigan: 

We again take pleasure in  informing you that we have opened

our branch house  in Grand  Rapids, and are  in  the market for  an  unlim- 
ited quantity of  Fine Fresh  Eggs suitable for cold storage purposes.

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We are not new to you, as we  have  bought  eggs  of  you  for  several  ^ 3  

when selling or shipping  us.  We will buy  your  eggs  on  track  and  pay 
you all we can afford to pay consistent with  Eastern  markets.  Write  us  ^  
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REFERENCES: 

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

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

inspector  should  be  appointed 

Novel  Method  o f  Food  Inspection.
Battle  Creek,  April  i—I  believe  that 
an 
in 
every  village  and  city  in  the  Stite,  un­
der  the  control  of  the  Dairy  and  Food 
Commissioner,  for  the  purpose  of  in­
specting  dairy  and  creamery  butter,  so- 
called  process  butter,  oleomargarine and 
butterine.  Oleomargarine  is a legitimate 
product  and  has  just  as  good  a  right  to 
compete 
in  the  open  market  as  butter, 
but 
it  must  be  sold  for  just  what  it  is, 
not  for  butter,  as  his  been  done  when 
colored  in  the  semblance  of  yellow  but­
ter.

The  same  expert  could  act  as  inspec­
tor of  both  butter  and grain.  Under such 
a  law,  in  large  towns,  all  butter,  process 
butter, 
and  oleomargarine  must  be 
passed  upon  or  scored  according  to  the 
score  adopted  by  the  Michigan  Dairy­
men's  Association,  which  gives  flavor 
45,  grain  30,  color  10,  salt 
io,  package 
5 ;  total  100  points  Every package must 
have  a  stamp  or  label  attached,  and, 
when  bought  by  the  customer,  shows 
just  what 
it  is.  and  its  quality.  Then 
the  poor,  stinking  butter  must  drop  out 
or  improve  in  future  lots,  and  oleomar­
garine  can  not  be  sold  for  anything 
else,  even  when  colored.  This  would 
satisfy  the  grocers,  customers,  and  all 
makers  of  really  good  dairy  and  cream­
ery  butter—and  more  than  all,  it  would 
force  oleomargarine  to  stand  on 
its 
merits  alone  and 
the  manufacturers 
could  not  kick  and  cry  class  legislation, 
as  they  do  now.

The  cost  of inspection can be provided 
for  by  nominal  fees,  paid  by  the  pro 
ducers  of  these  goods,  same  as  the  pro 
ducers  already  pay  fees  for  other  prod­
uce.  When  the  fees  are  paid  the  stamps 
or  labels  are  attached  by  the 
inspector. 
inspecting  grain  can  be 
The  cost  of 
paid  for  in  the  same  way,  and  the  ex­
pense  to  farmers,  in  both  cases,  will  not 
be  a  fractional  part  of  what  they  now 
pay—or  lose—under existing cond  tions.
inspection  the 
great  mass  of  farmers  and dairymen will 
receive  more  for  their  good  butter,  and 
creameries  will 
increase  and  profit 
thereby.  Upon  some  such  plan  as  the 
above  I  believe  more  can  be  done  along 
the  line  of  improvement  in  the  making 
and  profitable  selling  of  good  dairy  but­
ter  than  under  any  present  plan,  and  it 
will  not  add  to  the  taxpayers’ burden  in 
the  least. 

J .   H.  B r o w n .

such  butter 

Under 

Prejudice  Against  C o ld   Sto rag e  Gam e.
The  prejudice  against  the  use  of 
game  which  has  been  in  cold  storage 
has  entirely  died  out  in  many  quarters, 
but  echoes  of 
it  appear  from  time  to 
time  in  the  daily  or  periodical  press  in 
the  shape  of  warnings  to  their  readers, 
and  these  nearly  always  along  what  we 
believe  to  be  erroneous  lines.  Thus 
Robt.  T.  Morris,  A.  M.,  M  D.,  in 
reply  to  an  enquiry  from  the  editor  of 
Recreation,  writes:

Answering  your  query  about  the  un­
wholesomeness  of  cold  storage  game,  I 
would  say  that  when  albuminous  sub­
stances, 
like  meat,  milk,  eggs  or 
cheese,  are  subject  to  a  temperature 
sufficiently 
low  to  prevent  the  free  de­
velopment  of  the  common  bacteria  of 
putrefaction,  they  seem  to  be  still  open 
to  attack  by  ceitain saprophyte bacteria, 
the  toxines  of  which 
are  harmful. 
These  toxines 
in  milk,  ice  cream  and 
cheese  often  prove  violently  poisonous 
and  many  fatal  cases  are  reported.

failed  to  suffer  at 

In  meats,  especially  in  cold  storage 
game,  the  tixines  do  not  often  accumu­
late 
in  sufficient  quantity  to  produce 
dangerous  symptoms,  but  they  are  apt 
to  cause  pretty  severe  gastro-imestinal 
irritation,  and 
I  presume  few  people 
who  have  eaten  much  cold  storage game 
have 
from 
diarrhoea  from 
its  effects.  One  might 
eat  a  good  deal  of cold  storage game  be­
fore  coming  upon  any  important  quan­
tity  of  toxines,  but  there  is  alwavs  so 
much  speculation  about  it  that  when  or­
dering  game  at  a  restaurant,  I  make  the 
waiter  interview  the  chef  to  make  sure 
that  no  cold storage  game  will  be sent  to 
fill  my  order.

least 

Although  there  are  certain  bacteria

doubtless, 

in  cold  storage  game. 
game  may, 

which  thrive  at  the  freezing  point,  it 
has  never  been  shown  that  such  are 
formed 
Cold 
storage 
be 
spoiled,as  well  as  ether  articles  of  food, 
but  if  so,  it  is  certainly  not  on  account 
in  spite  of  cold 
of  cold  storage,  but 
spoiled  game  should 
storage. 
Such 
and  doubtless 
is  treated  the  same  as 
any  other  spoiled  article  by  sensible 
restaurant  keepers  and  caterers,  i.  e.,  it 
is  promptly  rejected 
It  is  doubtless  in 
the 
interest  of  spoitsmen  to  have  the 
sale  of  game  out  of  season  interdicted, 
and  such  a  measure  would  practically 
stop  the  cold  storage  t.f  game.  To  what 
extent  Dr.  Morris  has  strained 
the 
medical  man  to accommodate the sports­
man  in  himself  it  is  difficult  to  say,  but 
it  is  a  notable  fact  that  others  who  were 
interviewed  knew  nothing  of  the  toxic 
properties  of  frozen  game,only speaking 
of the ffatuss in taste, etc.  The latter may 
be  due  to  the  very  fact  that  col i  storage 
and  freezing  put  a  stop  to  the  bacterial 
development  of  the  “ haut  gout”   (put­
refactive  taste)  which  most gourmands 
look  for 
in  game  This  would  put  an 
entirely different face  on the matter from 
that  pictured  by  Dr.  Morris,  who,  ac­
cording  to  bis  own  writings,  does  not 
seem  to  suffer  from  over-conscientous- 
ness  and  sincerity.

Eastern  E g g   Sto rage.
From the New York P rodu^ Review.

Toe  aeva  tage  of  hrving  eggs  stored 
at  points  most convenient  to  the  great 
est  consumptive  outlets  has,  of 
late 
years,  been  more  and  more 
felly  ap­
preciated. 
It  has  given  such  a  stiumu- 
lus  to  Eastern  storage  facilities  that  the 
enlargemen:  o' cold store rooms has  been 
very  much  greater  in  the  East  than 
in 
other  parts  of  the  country.

The  beginning  of  cold  storage unload­
ing  comes  at  a  season  when  weather 
conditions  are  unsettled  and  change­
able,  and  under  these  circumstances 
nearness  to  the  points  of  greatest  con­
sumption  is  a  material  advantage.  The 
modern  method  of  handling  cold storage 
is  to  take  out  a  few  at  a  time  as 
eggs 
needed  for  immediate consumption. 
In 
this  way  the  goods  can  be  worked  out 
with  satisfaction  to  consumers,  while  if 
any  considerable  time  must  elapse  be­
tween  the  store  bouse  and  consumption, 
bad  results  often  follow  during  the  mild 
and  muggy  weather  especially 
incident 
to  the  early  fall  season.

The  greatest  consuming  district  for 
refrigerator  eggs 
is  in  the  East  The 
population  of  the  Middle  Atlantic  and 
Eastern  States  is  nearly  one-third  of  the 
entire  United  States  and  of  this  popu­
larger  proportion  consists  of 
lation  a 
consumers  and  a  less  proportion  of  pro­
ducers  than 
in  any  other  part  of  our 
country.
Moreover,  the  development  of Eastern 
storage  facilities  to  large  proportions, 
having  come  later  than  in  the West,  has 
given  the  East  the  most  modern  meth­
ods  and  appliances,  and  the  most  per­
fect  storehouses  to  be 
the 
country.
These  advantages  of  Eastern  storage 
have  been  so  fully  appreciated  of  late 
years  that  almost  all  of  our  Eastern 
houses  have  been  filled  with  customers’ 
goods  while  many  Western  plants  have 
had  to  buy  eggs  themselves  in  order  to 
get  enough  for  economical  operation.

Egg  storers  who  know  their  own  in­
terests  will  appreciate  the  value  of plac­
ing  their  goods 
in  the  most  modern 
houses,  located  where  the  consumptive 
demand  is  naturally  the  greatest.

found 

in 

Strenuous  efforts  are  being  made by 
commission  merchants  in  Philadelphia 
to  suppress  the  unlawful  sale  of  oleo­
margarine.  So  little  assistance  can  be 
secured  from  the  Dairy  and  Food  Com- 
misioner  of  the  Department  of  Agricul 
ture  that  the  merchants  have  now  taken 
the  matter 
in  hand,  and  propose  to 
prosecute  all  dealers  whom  they  can 
find  selling  oleo  contrary  to  law.

wnat do you  do
With your Ban  Butter

No matter how  bad  it smells or how  nasty it  looks  you  can  purify  it  with  “ Lacto- 
butu”  and make nice elegant, sweet butter out of it.  There is no  excuse  now  for  any 
merchant selling his poor butter at a low price and losing  money  on  it  when  he  can 
treat several hundred pounds of mixed grades in a few hours aud make  it  all  uniform, 
pure and good.  This is the only process  for  treating  bad  butter  that  has  maintained 
the highest endorsement.

Every  merchant  knows  that 
when  he  sells  his  poor  butter 
for 5  and  6 cents  per  pound  it
is  purchased  by  some  process
firm  who  make  good  salable
butter out of it.  Why don’t you ?

One  customer  writes  that  by 
the  use  of  Lactobutu  he  now
makes  enough  out  of  butter
to pay all store expenses.

Thousands of dollars have been saved by the country  merchants  during  the  past  year 
by using this process,  which does not  conflict with the  most  rigid  laws  of  any  state. 
It requires no machinery  to work  the  butter.  No  extra  expense.  The  process  is  so 
simple a boy can work it.
WHAT IT  COSTS:  On receipt of $5.00 we will send you the  full  secret  process  and 
a box of Lactobutu sufficient to treat 500 po  nds.  With future orders for Lactobutu to 
those who have purchased the process we will send enough to treat 500 pounds for  $2. 

Write for Testlmonials. 

flention this Paper.

The Lacto 
Sutter Go.,

145 L3 Salle St.«

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Clover and Grass Seeds

Onion  Sets,  Field  Peas,  Seed  Corn

Highest Grades and Lowest  Prices.

ALFRED J.  BROWN  SEED CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

If any Beans to offer send sample; state quantity and price delivered Grand Rapids.

Seed Merchants.

P

hip your BUTTfcR AND EGGS to

R.  HIRT,  Jr.,  Detroit,  Mich.

34 and 36 Market Street,

435*437-439 Winder Street.

Cold  Storage  and  Freezing  House  in  connection.  Capacity 

75 carloads.  Correspondence  solicited.

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

April  i.  Write us.

H.  N.  RANDALL  PRODUCE CO.,

TEKONSHA,  MICH.

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13

Process  Butter  Ruining  the  Reputa­

tion  o f  Cream ery.

The  Department  of  Agriculture has 
been  conducting  a  series  of experiments 
in  Great  Britain  and  Continental 
Europe  with  American  butter,  and  Sec­
retary  Wilson  has  succeeded  in  estab­
lishing  the  fact  that there 
is  a  market 
for  that  product,  especially  in  England. 
He  has  succeeded 
in  overcoming  all 
the  obstacles,  or ly  to  find  that  his  work 
will  be  wasted  unless  something  is  done 
to  protect  the  American 
creameries 
from  the  competition  of  American proc­
ess  or  renovated  butter. 
The  latter 
product  is  being  extensively  introduced 
abroad  and  unless  stopped  will  be  cer­
tain  to  destroy  the  reputation for Ameri­
can  butter.  At  Chicago,  Elgin,  Omaha, 
Cincinnati, 
in  Michigan,  and  other 
points 
industries 
have  been  established  for  the  prepara­
tion  of  process  butter,  which 
is  made 
from  the  material  purchased  at  country 
stores  and  elsewhere  and  represents  cow 
fat  that  has  at  some time  been  offered 
for  sale  as  butter.  During  the  last  four 
or  five  years  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
dollars  have  been  invested  in  establish­
ments  where  this  oil  or  refuse,  or  what­
ever  it  may  be  termed,  has  been  subject 
to  mechanical  and  chemical  treatment, 
the  process  being 
then 
offered  on  the  market  as  fresh  butter 
and  sold  in  competition  with  the cream­
ery  product.

in  the  West, 

secret,  and 

large 

is 

its  clever 

The  danger  which  arises 

The  manufacturers  of  process  butter 
collect  their  material 
throughout  the 
country  districts  in  cans,  tubs,  boxes, 
and  other  receptacles. 
It  reaches  the 
in  an  oily  state,  and 
factory  generally 
not 
infrequently 
is  offensive  and  sick­
ening  because  of  the  odors  which  arise 
from  it.  By  mixing  it  with  fresh  milk 
and  subjecting  it  to  a  secret  process 
it 
comes  forth  to  all  appearances  fresh 
butter  and  is  sold  as  such on the market. 
is  a  large  profit  in  the  business 
There 
because  the  manufacturers 
can  buy 
their  stock  at 
less  than  ten  cents  a 
pound  and  can  prepare  it  for  the  mar­
ket  at  less  than  three  cents  a  pound.
from 

its 
competition  with  the  genuine  Ameri­
can  butter 
imitation,  a 
counterfeit  that  can  not  readily  be  de­
tected. 
It  can  be  easily  sold  for  the 
geniune article,  and  when  so substituted 
irreparable  damage  is  done.  Like  filled 
cheese  it  holds  its  form  for  awhile,  but 
soon  collapses  and,  unless  kept  in  re­
frigerators, 
This 
is  now  going  abroad, 
process  butter 
where 
is  being  disposed  of  by  un­
scrupulous  exporters  to  unsuspecting 
wholesale  and  retail  dealers.  Already 
some  complaint is  being  received  at  the 
Department  of  Agriculture of the quality 
of  American  butter  now  being exported. 
There  is  no  question  that  this complaint 
is  caused  by  the  renovated  article,  and 
unless 
its  shipment  is  soon  stopped  or 
so  regulated  that  it  may  readily  be  rec­
ognized  wherever  offered,  the  foreign 
market  for  American  butter  will  be 
ruined.  No  retail  dealer  likes  to  have 
eighty  tubs  out of  every  hundred  spoil 
on  his  bands,  and  this  will  be  the  ex­
perience  of  the  Europeans,  as  they  have 
no  facilities  for  keeping  the  process  ar­
ticle  in  refrigerated  compartments.

is  soon  unsalable 

it 

The  matter 

is  now  receiving  the  at­
tention  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture, 
but  he  can  not  do  much  effective  work 
until  the  next  session  of  Congerss. 
In 
the  meantime  the  European  market  is 
likely to  be  destroyed  and  will  be  unless 
he  can  succeed  in  exposing  the  fraud 
so  as  to  protect  the  reputation  of  the 
makers  of  genuine  creamery  butter.  A

brand  of  the  process  butter  is  now  be­
ing  offered  under  the  name  of  Elgin 
butter.  It  will  be  a  difficult  task  for  the 
officials  of  the  Agricultural  Department 
in 
to  find  a  way  to  assist  the  foreigners 
discriminating  between 
the  genuine 
Elgin  creamery  butter  and  the  Elgin 
process  product.  The  latter  bids  fair  to 
destroy  the  well-earned  reputation  of 
the  former.  So 
is  with  other  well- 
known  brands.  While  trademarks  may 
net  be  infringed,  the  counterfeit  will  be 
carried  to  a  wide  extent

it 

H en r y  E.  A lv o r d .

Catch  Phrases  Gleaned  From   Every­

w here.

Size  up  stock.
For  beauty’s  sake.
Ladies'  needables.
Better  each  season.
All  articles  of  merit.
No  fuss  and  feathers.
Buy  now—don’t  wait.
Prepared  for  the  weather.
We  knew—that’s  why.
A  seasonable  symptom.
Dollars  become  elastic.
For  that  chilly  feeling.
An  approachable  price.
Novelties  in  wearables.
Figure  fitting  shoes.
The  easy  shopping  store.
Your  wants  our  concern.
Health  makes  fair  faces.
Worthy  because  made  so.
Genius  of  merchandising.
Whole  families  trade  here.
You’ll  profit  by  proving  this.
Broken  lots  at  broken  prices.
Nearing  the  perfection  point.
Unequaled  because  the  best.
Short  stories  of  strong  values.
Proven  sterling  by  every  test.
“ Unbeatable’ ’  combinations.
Quick  picking—high  picking.
Short  prices  reach  tall  values.
Values  that  pass  all  precedent.
Opportunity  rings  at  your  door.
Ideals  turned  into  possibilities.
Not  expensive,  but  experienced.
Enough  for  all—but  come  early.
Be  watchful—be  wise—be  early.
Respect-deserving  merchandise.
Money  savers  for  money  earners.
Test  the  matter—save  the  dollars.
Step  lively  if  you  want  first  choice.
A  popular article at  a  popular  price.
Price  pickings  for  particular  people.
Prices  lowness  and  quality  highness.
Pass  it  on—let  neighbor  tell neighbor.
The  attractions  of our store invite you.
Prices  down  to  economy's  foundation.
Big  value  a  sure  basis  for  big  busi­

ness.

price.

things.
keep  it.
right.

Gathered  from  all  quarters—sold here.
A  saving  without a risk  is a gold mine.
The  shoe  you  want  at  the  wanted 

Prices  scaled  below  your lowest  guess.
in  buying  good 
True  economy 

lies 

The bigger  the  promise  the  better  we 
Popular because  made  right  and  sold 

Real  worth  saves  dollars  and  makes 

satisfaction.

economy.
these  will  stand.

A  thoughtful  expenditure  is  the wisest 

Shoddy  goods  would  not  stand  what 

Thoughtful  people  want  the  best. 

Dealing  here  they  get  it.
what  it  is  worth.

Worth  what  it  is  marked  and  marked 
Every  taste  and  every  purse  finds  sat­

isfaction  here.

Factories  fo r the M anufacture o f Bogus 

C urios.
From the Jeweler’s Circular.

A  well-known  curio  expert  makes  a 
remarkable  statement.  There  are  cer­
tain  factories  that  exist  in  Europe  for 
the  manufacture  of  all  kinds  of  works of 
art  that are  likely  to  attract  the  collect­
or.  Modern 
are 
stamped  with  old  marks  so  cleverly  that 
even  experts  have  been  deceived.  Arms 
and  armor  are  treated  with  acids  which 
eat  away  the  metal,  thus  producing  the 
same  effect  as  the  ravages  of  time. 
Carved  ivories  are  stained  with  oils  to

articles  of  china 

make  them  yellow,  and  are  subjected  to 
heat  to  make  them  crack.  Pieces  of 
furniture  have  holes  drilled  to  represent 
the  worm  holes,  and  so  on,  until  there 
will  in  time  be  very  little  in  the  way  of 
curios  which  are 
in  themselves  really 
curious.

Paris  is  one  of  the  strongholds  of  this 
class  of  forgers,  while  in  Hungary  there 
js  a  factory  where  Dresden  china  is  im­
itated  in  a  fair  manner.  There  is,  how­
ever,  one  safe  way,  and  that  is  to  buy 
through  reputable  dealers.  Forgeries  in 
all  works  of  art  very  rarely  get  into  the 
dealers’  bands.  As  a  rule,  they  are  sent 
to  auction  rooms.

Many  amateurs  have  an  idea  that they 
may  pick  up  a  priceless  work  of  art  or 
curio  for  a  mere  song.  This 
is  the 
chance  for  the  forgers.  They  know  all 
this  and  work  accordingly,  and  thus  the 
amateur  is  deceived. 
The  spurious

curio-makers  haunt  out-of-the-way  auc­
tion  rooms,  where amateurs  look  in  with 
the 
idea  that  none  but  themselves  can 
know  of  the  room 
in  question.  The 
sale  takes  place,  and  they  come  away 
with  a  gem,  so  they  think,  and  are 
perfectly happy until undeceived.  There 
has,  curiously  enough,  in  this  connec­
tion 
lately  been  discovered  a  disease 
which  eats  away  bronze  and  gives  it  a 
sign  of  artiquitv.  All  ohj*-»ts  of  an­
tiquity  fabricated  from  metallic  copper 
and 
important  alloy,  made  by  add­
ing  tin  in  certain  proportions,  are liable 
to  be  attacked  by  this  destructive  cor­
roding  affection.  Skilled  aitists of  these 
false  antiquities  are  known  to  inoculate 
•heir  reproductions  with  spots  of  bronze 
disease.

its 

The  shorter  a  man  is  in  bis  accounts 

the  longer  it  takes  tn  find  him.

Creameries Paying 

creameries 
promote  prosperity. 
We  build  the  kind 
that  pay. 
If  you 
like  to  see
would 

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

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

Our Creamery buildings are erected after the most approved Elgin model. 
We equip them  with  new machinery of  the  very  latest  and  best  type.
Creamery  Package MTg Co.,

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Write  or wire  me  for  any  information  you  may 
want.  Send  me  your  Butter  and  Eggs,  as  I  need 
them  and can  give  you  the  best  market  prices.

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Shoes and Leather

Patr onizing  M anufacturers  W ho  Run 

Retail  Sto re s.

The  aim  of  the  shoe  manufacturer 
who  would  succeed  must  be  identical 
with  the  aim  of  the  retailer  who  would 
succeed—he  must  give  to  the  buyers  of 
his  shoes  the  very  best  article  possible 
fact,  he  must out­
for  the  money. 
strip  his  competitors 
In  the 
ability  to  get  out  an  extra  good  shoe  at 
an  extra  low  price  lies  the  secret  of  the 
manufacturer’s  success.

in  this. 

In 

catches  the  retailer, 

In  this  day  of  semi  and  quarter-an­
nual  issuance  of  catalogues  the  average 
retailer  is  strictly  up  to  date.  He knows 
right  where  he  can  buy  the  best  shoe 
for  the  least  money,  and  right  there  be 
is  going  to  buy.  To-day  it  is  quality 
in  the  goods  and  big  cash  discounts 
instead  of 
that 
long  time  with  an  extension  of  time 
in 
which  to  pay  for goods,  as  was  the  case 
in  by-gone  days. 
I  can  conceive  of  no 
reason  that  should  prevent  the  retailer 
from  patronizing  the  manufacturer  who 
retails  his  own  shoes  provided 
the 
shoes are  up  to  the  standard  of  excel­
It  would  not be  business  policy 
lence. 
for  a  manufacturer to retail  a  poor  shoe. 
The  outcome  of  such  a  proceeding 
would  be  an  advertisement  the results  of 
which  would  be  a  minus  quantity,  and 
for  him  to  sell  the  retailer a  shoe  in­
ferior,  class  for class,  to  the  one he  (the 
manufacturer)  was  retailing  would  be 
suicidal  to  his  interest  as  a  wholesaler 
and  upon  the  retailers  he  depends  for 
the  bulk  of  his  business.

I  can  see  where  it  would  not  be  quite 
the  thing  for the  retailer to  patronize  a 
manufacturer  who  was  retailing  his 
product  in  the  city  or town  wherein that 
particular  retailer  was  engaged  in  busi­
ness,  as  the  public  would  think,  and 
correctly,  too,  that  the  manufacturer’s 
store  carried  the  larger  line  and  the 
bigger  variety  and  would  go  there  to 
buy,  although  the  prices  were  no  low­
er  than  at  the  regular  retail  store. 
Then,  too,  when 
it  came  to  a  fight  on 
the  line  of  price  cutting,  it  would  be 
worse than  folly  for the  small  retailer  to 
buck  the  manufacturer's  concern. 
It 
would  be  too  much  like  playing  a  man 
at  his  own  game.  All  the  advantage 
would  be  on  the  other  side.

My  experience  with  shoes  which  were 
manufactured  by  concerns  which  had 
retail  stores  of  their  own  has  been  very 
satisfactory.  My  customers  were  well 
pleased  with  them. 
I  have  never  found 
the  shoes  sold  to  the  retailer  by  these 
concerns  to  be  inferior  in  quality  to the 
ones  retailed 
in  their  own  establish­
ments.

In  fact,  I  have  found  the  manufactur­
er’s  retail  stores  to  be  a  very  good  ad­
vertisement for their  particular brands of 
shoes.  The  most  of  the  manufacturers 
who  retail  a  portion  of  their  output  are 
creating  thereby  a  popular  demand  for 
their  shoes,  and  I  believe  it  is  to the in­
terest  of  the  retailer  to 
the 
agency  for  such  a  line,  provided  it  is 
not  retailed  by  the  manufacturer  in  the 
same  town.

secure 

If  one  manufacturer  retails  in  your 
town,  the  best  thing  to  do  is  to  secure 
the  agency  for  some  line  retailed  else­
where  by  a  manufacturer  who 
is  an 
acknowledged  competitor  of the one who 
retails  in  your  town.  There  are  so  many 
good 
lines  that  popular  opinion  is  di­
vided between them.no one line having a 
monopoly  throughout  the  country,  and 
by 
judicious  advertising  and  careful

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

treatment  of  your  trade  you  may  even 
outdo  the  manufacturer’s  store.

Comparatively  so  few  manufacturers 
are  retailing  their  product,  and  those 
who  are  doing  so  in  so  few  cities  that 
at  present  I  see  no  necessity  for  meas­
ures  that  would  put  a  stop  to  it.
If  the  time  comes  when  manufactur­
ers’  retail  stores  become  epidemic,  as 
it  were,  when  they  become  so  numerous 
as  to  be  a  menace  to  the  welfare  of  the 
general retailers.let the retailers through­
out  the  land  form  a  confederation  for 
their  protection,  let them  draft  laws  that 
shall  be  inimical  to  the  wholesale 
in­
terest  of  the  retailing manufacturer.  Let 
them 
impose  a  penalty  on  their  mem­
bers  who  patronize  such  manufacturers. 
Then  those  manufacturers  will  find  it  to 
their  interest  to  close  the  doors  of  their 
retail  establishments  and  to  court  once 
the 
more,  exclusively,  the 
wholesale 
trade.—Boots 
Shoes 
Weekly.

favor  of 

and 

First-class  Passen ger  Service.

In  answer to  an  enquiry  regarding  the 
success  in  running  trains  between  this 
city  and  Chicago,  and  also  whether  the 
published  schedules  could  be  relied  up­
on  in  making  engagements  and connect­
ing  with  trains 
for 
points  bevond,  the  General  Passenger 
Agent  of  the  Chicago  &  West  Michigan 
Railway  called  for  the  daily  records  of 
the  three  trains  to  Chicago,  and  from 
them  this  report  was  made for the month 
of  March  just  passed :

leaving  Chicago 

March 
i,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  2,  ali  three  on  the  minute.
March  3,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  4,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  5,  one  eight  minutes  late  ac­

count bead  winds.

March  6,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  7,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  8,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  9,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  10,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  11,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  12,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  13  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  14,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  15,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  16,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  17,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  18.  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  19,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  20,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  21,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  22,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  23.  one  train  15  minutes late.
March  24.  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  25,  one  train  10 minutes late.
March  26,  ali  three  on  the  minute.
March  27,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  28,  one  15 minutes  late  account 
road  blocked,  one eight  minutes  late  ac­
count  road  blocked.

March  29,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  30,  all  three  on  the  minute.
March  31,  all  three  on  the  minute.
When  the  distance,  182  miles,  number 
of  stops  and  the  speed  (especially of  the 
flyer  leaving  here  at  noon),  are  consid­
ered,  this 
is  a  remarkable  showing. 
This  statement  means  that  out  of  a  total 
of  85  trains  only  five  were  delayed  and 
two  of  those  were  on  account  of  acci­
dents  to  other  trains.

Herold-Bertsch 
Shoe  Co.Jf-.Jf-

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Manufacturers 
and  Jobbers

Rindge, Kalmbach,  Logie  & Co.,

12,14 and  16  Pearl  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Manufacturers aid Jobbers of

Boots and Shoes

Agents  Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Company.

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

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

Be  sure  and see  them  before  placing your order.

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19 South  Ionia Street, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

We Want Ton to Kel into Out Wagon

this year,  for we will have what you want.  Agents 
for Candee Rubbers,  first  quality;  Federal  brand, 
second  quality.  Best Combinations in the  market 
in felt  boots with rubbers and socks and  the  finest 
line  of  Lumbermen’s  Socks  to  be  found.  Also a 
line  of  short socks, wool  and  leather  gloves  and 
mittens and  Mackinaws.  A  leather  top  lumber­
man’s rubber over will be  one of our leaders.  Our 
Rubber  and  Felt  Combination  will  be  with  a 
rolled edge at  the same price as  the  plain  rubber.
Prices  on  rubbers  will  be  made  April  30.  All 
other goods now upon  application.

STUDLEY  &  BARCLAY,  ’ S

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M ICH .

Acetylene  Lighting

Som e  Scientific  T ests  fo r  Acetylene 

G as  Generator.

There  are  four  villages in this  country 
lighted  in  part  or  entirely  by  acetylene 
gas,  and  a  number  of  stores,  factories, 
and  hotels  have  installed  plants  having 
a  capacity  of  about  two  hundred  lights 
each,  but  nevertheless  the  principal  de­
is  with  that  type  of 
velopment  to-day 
generator that  is  adapted  and 
intended 
for  the  lighting  of  such  places  as  dwell­
ing  bouses,  small  stores,  offices  or 
shops,  in  localities  where  the  ordinary 
city  gas  is  not  to  be  had  or  is  supplied 
at  an  excessive  price.

Up  to  the  present,  the  development  in 
generator  design  and  construction  has 
rather  tended  toward  multiplicity,  ren­
dered  possible  by  the  simplicity  with 
which  the  gas  can  be  generated,  and in­
ventors  find  that  it  requires  very  little 
ingenuity  to  devise  a  satisfactory  ap­
paratus  for  the  purpose.

inspect 

To  this  question  there 

This  multiplicity  of  apparatus  is 

in­
structive  as  a  study,  but  when  they  are 
actually  to  be  introduced  into  commun­
ities  where  their  faulty  action,  especial­
ly  in  the  bands  of  careless  or 
ignorant 
persons,  may  cause  loss  of  life  or  prop 
erty,  the  idea  at  once  suggests 
itself: 
How  are  we  to  know  whether  any  gen­
erator  of  the  host  offered  for sale is safe?
is  but  one 
answer—test  it,  have  some  one  else  test 
it,  or 
it  at  some  place  where 
the  generator  has  been  in  use  for  a  long 
time.  There  are  other  considerations  to 
be  reckoned  upon  than  the  simple  pos­
sibility  of  the  apparatus  being  able  to 
supply  gas.  Among  these  may  be  men­
tioned  the  possibility  of  the gas igniting 
through  the  generation  of  excessive beat 
in  a  generator  which  contains  some  air, 
and  consequent  explosion  of  the  ap 
paratus,  although  this 
liable  to  oc­
cur  only  in  the  drip  or  dip  types.  Gas 
may  escape  into the  generator room  and 
be  accidentally  ignited.  The apparatus 
may  be  so  made  that  emptying  or 
charging 
it  fills  the  apparatus  with  too 
much  air—a  fact  which  soon  becomes 
evident  when  the  careless  or  ignorant 
operator  brings  a  flame  near  it.  De­
lime,  tar  and  water  in  the 
posits  of 
house  pipes,  caused  by 
lack  of  filters 
and  condensers,  too  much  heating  or 
violent  generation,  or  an  overproduc 
tion  of  gas  may  hurst  the  apparatus  or 
blow  out  the  seals  and  fill  the  neigh­
borhood  with  an  evil-smelling  gas. 
Many  other 
inconveniences  may  be 
noted,  but  these  are  sufficient  to  show 
how  important  it  is  to  have  the  appar­
atus  tested  or  a  satisfactory  assurance 
that  this  has  been  done by  competent 
persons.

is 

In  this  connection  the  tests  made  by 
W.  W.  Duffield  under  the  direction  of 
Prof.  Lewes  and  Boverton  Redwood,  a 
sub-committee  appointed  by  the  Lon 
don  Society  of  Arts  to  test  the  genera­
tors  submitted  for  the  Imperial Institute 
Exhibition  (opened  June  15,  1898),  may 
It  was  decided  that  no 
be  of  interest 
apparatus 
should  be  admitted  until 
tested  and  shown 
to  be  safe.  They 
first  adopted  the  following  classification 
of  generators:

1. 

Those  in  which  the  gas  is  gener­

ated  by  water  being  allowed  to  drip  or 
flow 
in  a  small  stream  onto  the  top  of 
the  carbide.

2 

Those 

in  which  water 

rises 

around  the  carbide.

3.  Those  in  which  the  carbide  falls 

into the  water
Automatic. 

Those  having  storage

a 
holder  large  enough  to  take  all  the  gas 
given  off  by  the  maximum  charge  of 
carbide.

Those  having 

This  classification  differs  somewhat 
from  previous  ones,  and  is  interesting 
for  that  reason.  They  then 
laid  down 
the  conditions  for  the  admission  of  ap­
paratus  to  the  exhibition,  of  which  the 
following  is  the  substance:
Automatic  Generators. 

1.  Working 
pressures  must  not  exceed  that  of  100 
incres  of  water  (3.6  pounds  per  square 
inch).  2.  When  charged,  less  air must 
be  inclosed  than  one-fifth  the  capacity 
of  the  apparatus.  3 
Shutting  off  gas 
must  stop  generation 
in  a  seasonable 
time,  and  a  pipe  must  lead  any  acci­
dental  overproduction  outside the  build­
ing. 
4.  Gas  generation  should  not 
cause  excessive  heating.

Non-Automatic  Generators.  1.  Work­
ing  pressure  must  not  exceed  that  of 
100  inches  of  water.  2 
Air  spaces 
should  be  as  small  as  possible  and  gen­
eration  should  not  be  accompanied  by 
excessive  heating.  3 
If  pipe  between 
generator  and  holder  becomes  choked, 
a  blow-off  seal  must  be  provided  or 
water  may  be  allowed  to  escape  through 
the  water  supply  pipe.

Mr.  Duffield  was  given  a  set  of  rules 
in  his  tests,  of  which 

to  govern  him 
the  following  is  an  abstract:

1.  No  generator  to  be  tested  until  a 
sectional  drawing  is  submitted  with  the 
signed  statement  that  the  apparatus 
is 
in  proper  working  condition.

2.  Details  to  be  noted  before testing ;
a.  Dimensions  of  generating  chambers.
b.  Charge  carbide,  c.  Cubic  capac 
ity  of  gas  bolder  or  storage  chambers, 
d.  Vapor  condensers.  The  cubic  ca­
pacity  of  generating  chambers  deter­
mines  the  air  introduced  when  chare 
ing.

3.  Details  to  be  noted  during  work­
ing :  a.  Pressure 
in  generating  and 
storage  chambers,  b.  Temperature  in 
generating  chamber;  the  latter  is  deter­
mined  by  rods  of  tin  (melts  434  degrees 
Fahr.) 
lead  (melts  629  deg.  Fabr.), 
and  zinc  (melts  790 deg.  Fhar.,)  placed 
in  the  carbide,  and  examined  after  gen­
eration  for  fusion,  c.  Weight  carbide 
charged,  and  time  until  necessary  to  re­
charge 
in  regular  working,  d.  After 
removing  residue,  throw  it  into  pail  of 
water,  noting  whether  gas  is  given  off. 
Although  all  generators  used  the  same 
grade  of  carbide,  the  yield 
in  gas  per 
oound  varied  from  3.55  to  5  cubic  fett; 
this  undecomposed  carbide  in  the  resi- 
iue  may  cause  annoyance  and  be  dan­
gerous.  e.  If  the  gas  does  not  leave the 
generator  cool,  a  Liebig’s  condenser 
may  be  used  to  cool  the  gas  before  test­
ing.

The  generator  building  was  open  at 
all  sides,  and  each  apparatus  was  con­
nected  to  its  own  burners  inside  the  ex­
hibition  building,  forming  a  separate 
plant.  A  meter  and  mercury  pressure 
governor  was  attached  to  each  machine, 
and  drip  cocks  provided  for  pipe  con­
densation.

Every  day  a  weighed  quantity  of  car 
bide  was  supplied  to  each  txbibitor  ai d 
a  printed  record  blank  filled  out.  This 
blank  contained  the  items:  Name of ap­
paratus,  date,  charge  carbide,  gas  gen­
erated  (by  meter),  equivalent  in  cubic 
feet  per  pound,  number  of  burners  sup­
plied  and  hours  lighted,  kind  of  burner, 
pressure 
in  supply 
pipe,  cubic  feet  of gas  used  per  burner

in  generator  and 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
capacity 
less  than  the  volume  of gas 
generated  from  the  carbide  charge  and 
a  regulating  device  to  stop  contact  of 
carbide  and  water.
Non-Automatic. 

hour, 
from 
drips,  condition  of  lime  residue,  water 
flowing  to  waste  during  run,  and  notes 
as  to  the  general  behavior  of  the  ap­
paratus.

liquid  removed 

volume 

15

They  think  that  portable  lamps  may  be 
dangerous,  and  should  be  bandied  with 
care.  They  are 
from 
their  tests  that  generators  can  be  made 
which  are  absolutely  safe  with  ordinary 
precautions,  as  much  so  as  any  other 
method  of  lighting.

led  to  believe 

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The  generators  which  combine  the 
largest  yield  of  gas  with  strength  of 
material  and  simplicity  in  charging  the 
carbide,  and  in  emptying  the  residue, 
are  those  which  will  recommend  them­
selves  to  the  public.

When  manufacturers  are  trying 

to 
make  good  exaggerated  claims  for  their 
apparatus,  as  to  the  number  of  lights  it 
can  supply,  they  are  liable  to  overheat 
the  gas  and  be  pursued  by  a  consequent 
long  train  of  evils.  The  committee 
found  that  many  of  the  machines  sub­
mitted  had  to  have  their  rating  cut 
down  before  they  would  work  satisfac­
torily.  The  temperature  in  these  cases 
sometimes  was  sufficient  to  melt  tin.

Acetylene Qas

By the

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and  prices.

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during  the  past  two  years,  we 
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  concluding  paragraphs  of  this 
report are  worth  giving 
in  extenso,  as 
they  are  authoritative.  The  committee 
includes  such  men  as  Professors  Dewar, 
Lewes,  Roberts-Austen,  and  Thomson, 
Sir  Henry  Wood,  and  others,  all  men 
of  worid-wide 
is 
worth  while  knowing  what  they  think 
of  generator  types.  They  say :

reputation,  and 

it 

from  the 

We consider  that  non-automatic  gen­
erators,  with  a  bolder  capable  of  taking 
the  gas  generated 
largest 
charge  of  carbide  the  generator  will 
bold,  are  free  from  objections  attending 
all  automatic  generators  examined  by 
us,  and  we  are  of  opinion  that  every 
generator  should  be  fitted  with  an  ar­
rangement  by  which  ail  air  can  be 
rinsed  out  of  the  generating  chamber 
by  acetylene  or  some  inert  gas  before 
action  is  allowed  to  commence  between 
the  water and  carbide.
We  are  also  strongly  of  opinion  that 
every  generator  should  be  fitted  with  a 
purifying  chamber  or 
in 
which  the  acetylene 
is  purified  from 
ammonia  and  sulphurated  and  phos- 
phureted  hydrogen  and  from  other  im­
purities.

chambers 

construction. 

A  point  not touched  upon  as  yet  is in­
sufficient 
Some  cheap 
generators  are  built  of  thin  galvanized 
iron  riveted  and  soldered  and  dignified 
by  the  name  of  gas  machine.  These 
generators  soon  become  dented,  and 
rust  through 
in  a  comparatively  Short 
tim e;  in  some  cases  the  temperature  of 
generation  becomes  so great with the dip 
or  drip  type  that  the  solder begins  to 
melt,  and 
is  not  long  before  the  ap­
paratus  leaks  and  must  be  thrown  out. 
If  generator  manufacturers  were  more 
careful  and  insurance  companies  or city 
officials  more  vigilant 
inspection, 
these and  other  evils  would  not be  pos­
sible. 
In  many  cases  the  generator 
maker and  his  representatives  are  the 
worst enemies  of  acetylene  lighting.

in 

it 

As  the  multiplicity  of  apparatus  in­
creases,  the  public  good  demands  that 
some  guarantee  of  safety  be  provided 
and  that  each  type  be  tested  thoroughly 
before 
is  put  upon  the  market.— 
Scientific  American.

it 

The  Business  Theory  o f  a  C hurch.
From the Utica Press.

The  revelations  that  have  followed the 
request  for  the  resignation  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Anthony  H.  Evans,  pastor  of  the 
West  PresDyterian. Church  of  New  York 
City,  are  attracting  widespread  atten­
tion.  The  congregation  contains  many 
persons  of  wealth. 
It  is  said  to  be  one 
of  the richest congregations in the world. 
Rich  men  are  prominent  in  its  affairs 
and  their  wishes  control.  They  are 
men  who  have  been  successful  in  busi­
ness,  and  they  have  made  plain  their 
belief  that  a  church  should  be  con­
ducted  on  a  strictly  business  basis.

They  have  shown  that  there  is  a  de­
ficit  in  the  finances.  They  have  no  par­
ticular  fault  to  find  with  the  pastor  ex­
cept  that  he  has  not  been  able  to  make 
the  church  pay.  The  receipts  have  been 
falling  below  the  expenditures.  The 
thing  to  do,  in  their  opinion,  is  to  get 
another pastor  who  can  attract  profitable 
patronage.  He  has  increased  the  mem­
bership  and  the  attendance,  but  be  has 
net  drawn  what the  theatrical  profession 
calls  “ paying  bouses.”   He  has  not 
been  able  to  hold  people  who  pay  high 
pew  rents. 
It  is  said  that  there  will  be 
a  contest  over  the  acceptance  of  the  res­
ignation  that  be  has  given  in  compli­
ance  with  the  request  of  the  trustees, 
but  whatever  may  be  the  outcome  there 
will  be  no  loss  of  interest  in  the  propo­
sition  that  the  successful  pastor 
is  one 
who  makes  bis  church  pay.

Couldn’t  Help  Sayin g  It.

“ Dearest,”   asked  the  confiding  girl, 
after  her  usual  manner,  “ am  I  really 
your first and  only  love?”
“ No,  darling,”   said  the  young  drug­
gist,  “ but  you  are  something  just  as 
good. * *

Am erican  Destiny.

if 

To-day  our  destiny  is  brooding  over 
every  sea.  We  are  dealing  with  the 
world  and  with  the  unborn  years.  We 
are  dealing  with  the  largest  duties  that 
ever  crowned  and  burdened  human 
brows.  American  statesmanship  must 
be  as  broad  as  American  destiny  and  as 
brave  as  American  duty.  And  Ameri­
can  statesmanship  will  be  all  this 
it 
draws  its  inspiration  from  the  masterful 
American  people  and  their 
imperial 
history.

For the  American  people  have  never 
taken  fear  for  a  counselor.  They  have 
never  taken  doubt  for a  guide.  They 
have  obeyed  the  impulses  of their blood. 
They  have  harkened  to  the  voice  of 
God.  They  have surmounted insuperable 
obstacles  on  the  wings  of  a  mighty 
faith ;  they  have  solved  insoluble  prob­
lems  by  the  sovereign  rule  of  liberty ; 
they  have  made  the  bosom  of  the  ocean 
and  the  heart  of  the  wilderness  their 
home;  they  have  subdued  nature  and 
told  history  a  new  tale.  Let  American 
statesmanship  listen  to  the  heartbeats  of 
the  American  people 
in  the  present 
hour and  there  will  be  no  confusion,  no

hesitation,  no  craven  doubt.  The  faith 
of  the  Mayflower,  as  it  sailed 
into  the 
storm-fringed  horizon,  is  with  us  yet. 
The  courage  of  Lexington  and  Bunker 
Hill  is  with  us  yet.  The  spirit  of  Ham­
ilton  and  Jefferson  and  Jackson  and 
Seward  and  Grant  is  with  us  yet.  The 
unconquerable  heart  of  the  pioneer  still 
beats  within  American  breasts,  and  the 
American  flag  advances  still 
its 
ceaseless  and 
imperial  progress,  with 
law  and  order  and  Christian  civilization 
trooping  beneath  its  sacred  folds.

in 

in 

the 

The  American  people  are  the  propa­
gandists  and  not  the  misers  of  liberty. 
He  who  no longer  believes in the vitality 
of  the  American  people,  in  the 
immor­
tality  and  saving  grace  of  free  institu­
imperial  greatness  of 
tions, 
American  destiny,  belongs  not 
in  the 
councils  of  the  American  nation,  but  in 
the  somber  cabinets  of  the  decaying 
races  of  the  world.  The  American  peo­
ple  are  not perishing ;  they  are  just  be 
ginning  their  real  career.  The  full  sun­
rise  of  the  day  which  peculiarly  belongs 
to  the  American  people  in  the  progress 
of  human  events  has  flooded  all  the 
world  at 
live  each

last  and  we  will 

golden  moment  of  our  mighty  day  in  a 
way  as  great  as  the  day  itself.—Senator 
Beveridge.

T h e  Little  Arm   C h air.
Nobody sits in the little arm  chair;
It stands in a corner  dim;
But a white-haired mother, gazing- there,
And yearningly thinking of him,
Sees through the dust of long ago 
The bloom of the boy's sweet face,
A s he rocks so merrily to and fro,
With a laugh that cheers the place.

Sometimes he holds a book in his hand, 
And the lesson is hard to understand,
But she sees the nod of the father’s head,
And she hears the words so often said,

Sometimes a pencil and  slate,
The ligures to calculate;
So proud of his little son,
“ No fear for our little one.”

They were wonderful days, the dear, sweet days, 
W hen a child with sunny hair 
Was here to scold, to kiss and to praise 
A t her knee in the little chair.
She lost him back in her busy years,
When the great world caught the man,
And he strode away past hopes and fears 
To his place in the battle’s van.

But now and then, in a wistful dream,
She sees a head with a golden gleam 
And she live'» again the  happy day,
When the small arm chair stood just in the way, 

Like a picture out of date,
Bent over a pencil ana slate;
The day of her young life’s spring,
The center of everything.

The  man  who  persists  in  doing  bis 
fellowmen  usually  ends  by  doing  time.

©te Im u U n t

tljc  UnitcD  states  of  America,

To

H E N R Y   K  O C H ,   your  o l e r h . ^ ,   attorneys,  ager  ;
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  o> 
holding  through  or  under  you.

¿RESTING:

tiHjereas, It  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  o<

Ne./  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  tha 
t  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  Distric 
>f  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
omplained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY,

Cmplainar.t,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “ SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  seouring  soap

Horn,

we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRV
< -'"K   your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you 
gcnalties^^rhicl^^naj^al^jigoi^jroi^aiH^^ach^ofjrou  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  0* 
.■ ‘solutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
~u ostantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
>oap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

6t

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

hat  which 
alse  or  misleading  manner.

is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from 

in  any  way 

the  word  “ S A P O L IO *  in  any

t  The  honorable  Melville  W.  Fuller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
in  said  District  of  New 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand 

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

[signed]

[seal] 

R O W LAN D   COX.

Complainant s  Solicitor

S .  IX  © L IP H A N T ,

O r*

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

17

the  hotel  register.  He  can  note  it  in  the 
smile  that  adorns  the  faces  of  the  hotel 
men.  They  wear a  different  look.  It  was 
only  a  short  time  ago  when  the  strin­
gency  in  the  money market  was  most at­
tenuated  and  when  the  average  speech 
of  us  poor  mortals  tended  toward  the 
demnition  bow-wows,  that they  were  as 
silent  as  clams  and  as  cadaverous as  the 
old  fashioned  circuit  rider.  Smiles  are 
chasing  each  other  over  their  phizes 
to-day,  however,  and  they  are  rubbing 
their  bands  with  much  of  th«*ir  old-time 
cheer.  There  is  another  indication,  too. 
The  boys  have  a  fresh  lot  of  stories! 
The  old  stock  had  become  thread-bare 
and  cbestnutty.  One  can  always  tell  of 
the  presence  or absence  of  the  commer­
cial  traveler  by  the  brand  of  stories  go­
ing  the  rounds.  There  are  new  weaves 
in  yarns  as  well  as  in  goods.  And  so 
you  see  their  presence 
livens  up  the 
whole  lump  and  the  fact  that  they  are 
again  coming 
increased  numbers 
is  evidence  that  springtime  has  come, 
gentle  Annie,  and  that  confidence  is  ex­
panding  the  sinews  and  opening  up  the 
trade  centers  of  the  Upper  Peninsula.

in 

in  the  year 

Sample  Case:  Never  has  there  been 
put  forth  a  more  vigorous  protest 
against 
industrial  -combinations  than 
has  been  witnessed 
just 
passed.  The  economist,  the  social  re­
former,  the  philanthropist  have  waged 
unceasing  war against  the  greed  of  gain 
which  delegates  to  the  few  a  monetary 
and  social  supremacy  over  the  many. 
Men  of  all  classes  and  of all occupations 
have  had  their  eyes  opened  to  the  ter­
rible  fact  that  sooner  or  later—if  not 
successfully  treated—these  horrible  con­
tractions  of 
the  commercial  system 
must  end  either  in  hopeless  deformity 
or  complete  extinction  of  trade—so  far 
at  least,  as  the  majority  are  concerned. 
Nevertheless,  the  year  1898  has  been  a 
banner  year  for  trusts.  Last  month  saw 
the organization  of  three  new  combines, 
either  three  of  which  must  of  necessity 
work  barm  to  the  traveling  salesman. 
While  these  great  combines  must  seri­
ously  affect  all  trade,  no  class  of  busi­
ness  then  will  be  so  sadly  affected  by 
them  as  the  commercial  traveler.  He 
is  the  aorta  of  the  commercial  system 
and  when  he  ceases  to  be,  then  nothing 
remains  but  dissolution  of  trade,  for 
every  trust  that  is  organized  breaks  up­
on  those  ramifications  of 
commerce 
which  are  its  life.  The  traveling  sales­
man  then  is  the  one  who  should  be  up 
and  doing,  and  we  fear  that  he has  been 
somewhat  careless 
in  this  matter,  for 
not  until  of  late  does  he  seem  to  have 
realized  the  gravity  of  the  situation. 
Now  that  he  has  done  so,  however,  let 
him  not  remain  idle.  Think  over  the 
situation  seriously  and  talk  it  over  in 
your  council  chamber  and  lodge  rooms. 
The  constant  drop  wears  away  the  stone 
and  some  good  must  ensue  from  con­
certed  and  determined  action. 
The 
commercial  traveler 
is  menaced;  the 
danger 
is  a  serious  one  and  be  should 
consider  it  seriously.  Now  is  the  time.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Grand  Rapids—J.  Geo.  Lehman  has  a 
new  clerk  in  the  person  of  Frank  Mis- 
ner,  who  clerked  for  F.  J.  Dcttenthaler 
a  couple  of  years  and  was also employed 
at  one  time  by  the  Van  Every  Grocery 
Co.

Kent  City—Oscar  Holmquist  succeeds 
Oscar  Johnson  as  clerk  in  the  general 
store  of  A.  H.  Saur  &  Co.

Crystal—Dennis  O’Connell  has  taken 
charge  of  the  furniture  and  undertaking 
business  of  F.  S.  Caswell.

Coldwater—Ray  Fisk  has  resumed  bis 
former  position  as  clerk  in  Vern  Net- 
tleton's  hardware  store.

Jackson—Archie  Brown 

is  the  new 
clerk  at  E.  D.  Hamilton’s  store in place 
of  Eugene  Ingles.

Lansing—C.  K.  Esler  has  taken  a 
situation with  P.  L.  Daniels,  the pioneer 
druggist  of  this  city.  Mr.  Esler  is  an 
old  druggist,  who  has  for  the  past  ten 
years  resided  in  Lansing.

Nashville—Harry  White  has  gone  to 
Charlotte,  where  he  has  taken  a  posi­
tion 
in  Selkirk  &  Norton's  clothing 
store.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—A.  J.  Tuiian  has 
resigned  his  connection  with  H.  B. 
Sellito,  to  accept  a  position  in  H.  A 
Harrison  &  Co. ’s  jewelry  store.

Charlotte—Fred  Gibbons 

is  cierking 

for  Brown  Bros.

Hillsdale—Lewis  Green  retimed 

last 
week  from  Quincy  and  is  again  to  be 
found  behind  the  counter 
in  Boyl  & 
Brown's  dry  goods  store.

Three  Rivers—Dr.  E.  C.  Waltersdorf 
has  resigned  his  position  at  Snyder’s 
drug  store  to  take  the  management  of 
the  drug  store  of  F.  S.  Packard,  at 
Sturgis.  Mr.  Waltersdorf  has  held  the 
position  at  Snyder's  for  nearly  a  year.

Coldwater—Homer  H.  Wicks,  who 
has  been  clerking  for  the  Yesner  Cloth 
ing  Co.,  has  taken  a  position  as  clerk 
for  Thomas  Skelton,  succeeding  Will 
Laflin,  who  has  gone  to  Barryton to take 
charge  of  a  store  there  for  Mr.  Skelton

Cheboygan—Edward  Delottinville will 
in 

return  to  this  city  April  10  to  clerk 
Lee  &  Co. ’s  dry  goods  store.

Lake  Odessa—Will  Mooney  has  en 
tered  the  employ  of  Otis  Miner  as  clerk 
in  bis  general  store.

Chelsea—Edward  Webber 

is  now 
John  Farrell’s  grocery 

in 

clerking 
store.

Kalamazoo—D.  Beach  is  now  behind 
in  the  clothing  store  of 

the  counter 
Samuel  Folz.

Hastings—E.  E.  Faulkner,  of  Lowell, 
succeeds  Burt  Fraken  as  prescription 
clerk  for  Fred  L.  Heath.  Mr.  Fraker 
has  taken  a  similar  position  with  W.  F. 
Nagler,  the  Howard  City  druggist.

Chebovgan-----Frank  McMahon  has
taken  a position  as  clerk  with  the  F.  A. 
Kramer  Co.

Grand  Ledge—Frank  Vincent 
new  clerk  £tt  A.  B.  Schumaker’s

is  the 

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Cbas.  DeHate  has 
taken  his  old  position  in  J.  P.  Haller's 
book  store.

Saginaw—The  Saginaw  Dry  Goads  & 
Carpet  Co.  has  secured  two  new  clerks 
from  Grand  Rapids—MissM.  A.  Stuart, 
formerly  with  the  Nelson-Matter  Fur­
niture  Co.,  in  the  drapery  department, 
and  Walter  Honor,  formerly  with  the 
Morse  Dry  Goods  Co.,  in  the  carpet 
section.

Lansing  Journal:  A  prominent  Lans­
ing  young  man,  noted  among  the  mer­
chants  of  the  city  for  hesitation  in  pay­
ing  his  debts,  stepped  into  a  Washing­
ton  avenue  store  the  other  day  and 
in­
duced  the  new  and  unsuspecting  clerk 
to  trust  him  for  a  small  amount.  The 
proprietor  on  coming  in  and  seeing  the 
name of  an  old  debtor  on  his  books  was 
greatly 
incensed,  and  used  vigorous 
language  in  expressing  his  sentiments. 
A  day  or  two 
later  the  young  man  in 
question  entered  the  store  to 
secure 
more  merchandise  and  incidentally  to 
add  to  his  account.  The  clerk  informed 
him  that  his  credit  was  not  good, 
wherefore  the  young  man  assumed  a 
bantering  tone  and  used  a  few  choice 
sarcastic  remarks.  Without  a  word  the 
clerk  came  from  behind  the  counter and 
in  the  latest  approved  style  proceeded 
to  use  up  his  tormentor.  At  the  con­
clusion  of  the  exercise  it  was noticeable 
that  the  floor  presented  a  much  cleaner 
appearance  with  the  exception  of  a  few 
scattered  articles  which  had  been  dis­
placed  by  the  aerial  flights  of  the  sub­
ject.  The  litter,  after  being  propelled 
out  of  the  store  by  the  broad  foot  of  bis 
antagonist,  was  seen  to  retreat  up  the 
avenue  in  great  disorder.

Sure  Cure  for  Insomnia.

“ Well,  Billy how’s your  insomnia?”  
“ It's  all  right;  the  doctor  told  me  to 
take  a  brisk  walk  every  night  before go­
ing  to bed. ”

“ Did  it  cure  you?”
“ Y es;  while  I  take  a  brisk  walk,  you 

see,  my  wife  gets  the  baby  to  sleep.”

An  egg  war  at  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  recent­
ly,  between  two  East  End  grocers  en­
abled  the  housewife  to  purchase  a  dozen 
eggs  for  5c.  A  few  weeks  ago  they 
were  ohliged  to  pav  60c  a  dozen.

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Attended To in Any American Court.

Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the Grip.

President,  Oa a s.  S.  St e v e n s,  Ypsilanti;  Secre­
tary, J  C. S a u n d e b s,  Lansing;  Treasurer,  O,  C. 
G o uld. Saginaw,
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  J a m es  E   D a y ,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W.  A l l e n   Detroit.

United  Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

Grand Counselor, J. J. E v a n s. Ann Arbor; Grand 
Secretary, G.  S. V a lm o r e, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, W. S. W e s t , Jackson.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  B o yd  P a n t l in d ,  Grand  Kapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer,  G eo.  F.  Ow en,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

Lake  Superior Commercial Travelers’ Clnb.
President, F. G. T r u sco tt, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F. W ix so n,  Marquette.
Grand  Rapids Council  No.  131.

Spnior Counselor, D. E. Reyes:  Secretary-Treas­
urer,  L.  F.  Baker.  Regular  meetings—First 
Saturday of each month in Council  Chamber  in 
McMullen block.

G ripsack  Brigade.

Geo  Gargett,  of  Alma,  has  engaged 
to  travel  in  this  State  for  the  Milwau­
kee  Harvesting  Machinery  Co.

Marshall  Statesman : Schuyler French, 
who has  been  traveling for Morley Bros.,. 
of  Saginaw,  has  accepted  a  position  as 
traveling  salesman  for  Wells  &  Neleg- 
er,  of  Chicago.

Reading—The  prospect  of  Higley  & 
Son  moving  their  Algansee flouring  mili 
here  seems  to  have  gone  glimmering, 
but  there 
is  still  another  deal  on  foot 
which  at  this  time  appears  to  have  a 
show  for  success.

Marquette  Mining  Journal:  H.  O. 
McMain  one  of  the  best  known  and 
most  popular  grocery  salesmen  in  the 
Upper  Peninsula,  has  engiged  to  travel 
in  this  territory  for  Reid,  Murdock  Si 
Co.,  of  Chicago.

Owosso  Press:  A.  E.  Currev,  clerk 
in  C.  C.  Duff’s  grocery,  has  taken  a  po­
sition  as  traveling  salesman  with  C.  S. 
Blake  &  Co.,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  whole­
sale  tea  and  coffee  dealer.  His  territory 
will  be  in  Michigan  with  headquarters 
in  this  city.

Marquette  Mining  Journal: 

J.  W. 
Knowles,  who  is now  representing  Pem- 
berthy,  Cook  &  Co.,  in  this  territory, 
expects  to  add  himself  to  the  colony  ot 
traveling  men  who  make  this  city  head 
quarters.  His home  is  now  in  Menomi­
nee,  but  he  intends  to  move  here  when 
be  can  find  a  suitable  house.

Referring  to  the  retirement  of  Albion 
F.  Wixson  from  the  road,  the  Marquette 
Mining  Journal  remarks:  “ Mr.  Wixson 
is  the  dean  of  the  hardware  men  on  this 
territory.  He 
is  one  of  the  best  known 
of  all  the  salesmen  making  this territory 
and  bis  popularity  among  his  fellow 
drummers  is  attested  by  the  fact  that  he 
has  three  times  been  elected  Secretary 
and  Treasurer  of  the  Upper  Peninsula 
Travelers’  Club,  of  which  he  was  one 
of  the  founders. ’ ’

Menominee  Herald :  We  are  glad  to 
notice  an  influx  of  commercial  travel­
ers,  crawling  out of  their  boles,  as  the 
spring  season  opens.  They  are  harbin­
gers  of  brightening  trade  skies.  They 
are  the  pulse  that 
indicates  with  un­
erring  certainty  the  stagnation  or  the 
converse  of  all  commercial  activities. 
Their  presence  or absence  indicates  fa ­
vorable  or  unfavorable  trade  winds. 
It 
is  not  always  necessary  to  meet  face  to 
face  these  potent  factors  in  the  world’s 
commerce  to  know  that  they  are  on  the 
wing. 
It  does  not  need  one  gifted  with 
Divine  afflatus  to  tell  the  local  news 
gatherer  that  “ the  spring  trade  is  pick­
ing  up,  you  know.’ ’  He  can  see  it by

The  New  York  Clearing  House  has 
made  an  important  modification  of  that 
section  in  the  rule  to  charge for  the  col­
lection  of  out-of-town  checks,  which 
makes  the  minimum  charge  10  cents.  It 
was  changed  so  as to provide that checks 
drawn  on  banks  covered  by  the  same 
rate,  of  one  tenth  or  one-fourth  of  1  per 
cent.,  as  the  case  may  be,  and deposited 
together 
local  bank  by  the  same 
person,  can  be  bunched,  thus  avoiding 
the  payment  of  ten  cents  on  each check.

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Drugs—Chem icals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.

—  

Term expires

A. C. Schtjmacheb, Ann  Arbor 
Gao. Gundbum,  Ionia  - 
L. E. Reynolds, St.  Joseph 
- 
Hbnby Hum. Saginaw  - 
- 
Wirt p. Doty  Detroit 
- 

- 
- 

•  Deo. 31,1899 
Deo. 81,1900
-  Dec. 31,1901
Dec. 31,1902
Dec. 31, lt03

President, Gao.  G u n d b u m ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. S ch u m a c h er, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, H en r y  H e im , 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. S o u r w in e,  Escanaba. 
Secretary, C h a s.  F. Ma n n , Detroit.
Treasurer  - J ohn D.  Mu ir , Grand Rapids.

T h e  Adoption  o f  Pharm acy  as  a  Pro­

fession.*

In 

looking  over  the  topics  of  this 
course  of  talks  to  the  young  "men  of 
Traverse  City,  it  seemed  to  me  Profess­
or  Grawn  had  omitted  an 
important 
one  which  occupies  the  time  of  a  good 
many  men.  Was 
it  because  no  one  in 
Traverse  City  could  properly  present it? 
I  refer  to  the  trade  or  profession  of  the 
politician.  But as  each  speaker  who  has 
preceded  me  has 
that 
is  the  great  essential  to 
^character”  
business  or  professional  success, 
tbe 
reason  is  plain!

emphasized 

Mrs.  Humphrey  Ward puts  this  excel­
lent  criticism  upon  tbe  lips  of  one  of 
her  personages: 
“ No,  we  don’t  lack 
brains.  All  tbe  same,  I  tell  you  in  the 
whole  of  that  room  there  are  about  a 
dozen  people—ob,  not  so many, not near­
ly  so  many—who  will  ever  make  a mark 
even  for  their  own  generation.  Why? 
Because  they  have  every  sort  of  capac 
ity,  every  sort  of  cleverness,  but  no 
character. * *

Character  is  the  determining  quality 
in  manhood.  You  cannot  be  at  your 
best  in  any  line  of  achievement  or  pur­
suit  without  it;  and  in  no  profession  is 
it  more  essential  than  in  that  of  phar­
macy.

Pharmacy 

is  the  art  or  practice  of 
preparing,  preserving  and  compounding 
substances,  whether  of  the  vegetable  or 
mineral  wotld,  for  the  purpose  of  med­
icine,  and  embraces  materia  medica, 
botany  and  medicine.

Disease  was 

Pharmacy  and  medicine, 

in  most 
countries,  had  a  common  origin  in  the 
fetishistic  philosophy  of  the  savage, 
which  recognized  a  “ soul”   in  even  in­
animate  objects 
the 
“ soul”   of  one  object  attacking  anotbet 
and,  to  drive  this  evil 
influence  off, 
noises,  smells  and  various  contortions 
were  employed.  Tbe  fact  was  empir­
ically ascertained  that  herbs  had  benef 
icent _ properties,  which  were  at 
first 
expllined  on  the  fetishistic  philosophy. 
On  this  double  basis  of  empiricism  and 
a  fanciful  philosophy  developed  phar­
macy  and  medicine.  Pharmacy  early 
attained  a  high  development  among  the 
Egyptians.  A  papyrus  of  the  reign  of 
Sent,  33° °   B.  C.,  gives directions  as  to 
the  Dreparation  of  prescript'ons. 
In 
the  Ebers  papyrus,  1600  B.  C.,  is  a  for 
muliry  containing  prescriptions  of  fa­
mous  physicians.  Draughts,  blisters, 
powders,  ointments,  etc.,  are  tbe  chief 
preparations  mentioned;  mineral  and 
vegetable  drugs pre  used.  That the  “ art 
of _ the  apothecary,”   however,  already 
existed  among  the  Assyrians 
is  shown 
by  these  prescriptions.’  The  Hebrews, 
from  association  with  the Egyptians and 
Assyrians,  imbibed  a  taste  for  pbarma- 
cal  studies  and  the  “ art  of  the  apothe­
cary”   is  mentioned  very  early  in  Old 
In  Exodus  we  read 
Testament  history. 
where  Moses 
is  directing  the  prepara 
tion  of  an  ointment  for  annointing  the 
tabernacle: 
it 
an  oil  of  holy  ointment,  an  ointment 
compounded  after  the  art  of  the  apothe­
cary. "   And  in  Ecclesiastes,the  preach­
er,  X .,  i,  we  read:  “ Dead  flies  cause 
the  ointment  of  the  apothecary  to  send 
forth  a  stinking  odor. ”  
(Evidently  no 
flies  on  that  preacher!)  A  very  ancient 
memorial of  an  apothecaries’  g ir li  mav
•Address before young  men  of  Traverse  City

“ And  thou  sbalt  make 

high school by C. A. Bugbee.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

be  seen  in  tbe gateway  of  the  minster 
of  Ulm  (Germany). 
It  is  an  epitaph, 
with  the  picture  of  a  woman 
in  the 
dress  of  tbe  Fourteenth  Century.  The 
inscription  reads  as  follows: 
“ In  1413 
Died  Margarita,  Hainczan  Winkle's 
Daughter,  Apothecaress. ”   This  is  the 
earliest  record  we  have  of  a  woman 
pharmacist.  The  practice  of  pharmacy 
was  greatly  extended  by  the  Arabians, 
and  among  them  the  separation  of  med­
icine  and  pharmacy  was  recognized  as 
early  as  tbe  Eight  Century  and  was 
established  by  law  in  the  Eleventh.

It would be interesting to mention some 
of  the  remedies  and  prescriptions  of 
early  days. 
In  the  colonial  days  of  our 
own  countiy,  angleworms,  toads,  snails, 
formed  a  part  of  their  materia 
etc., 
medica—were 
it  so  to-day  I  imagine 
there  would  be  fewer  women  pharma­
cists.

The  first  American  Pharmacopoeia 
was  issued  in  1778:  the  first  American 
Dispensatory  in  1806.  Beginning  with 
1840,  there  has  been  a  revision  of  tbe 
American  Pharmacopoeia  each  decade. 
The  most 
important  change  in  that of 
1890  was  the  official  adoption  of  the 
metric  system  of  weight  and  measures. 
It  is  much  simpler and  of  easier  work­
ing  method  than  the  Apothecaries’  or 
Troy,  but 
is  very  slow  of  adoption  by 
pharmacists  and  physicians. 
It  seems 
Grange  that  the  two  Anglo-Saxon  na­
tions,  of  which  so  much 
is  now  being 
said,  are  tbe  last  and  the  slowest  in 
adopting  it.
Pharmacy 

is  of  a  two-fold  nature, 
professional  and  commercial.  We  speak 
of  ‘ professions”  and wetbinkof thelaw, 
medicine  and  the  ministry.  But  be­
cause  pharmacy  takes  on  so  largely  of 
the  commercial  it  is  no  less  a  profes 
sion,  and  ranks  to  day  equal  with  an y; 
and  when  you  enter  upon  tbe  st*:dy  of 
pharmacy  you  enter  the  door  of  an  hon­
orable  and  honored  profession,  made  so 
by  men  whose  lives  are  a  part  of  the 
world’s  history.  Among  them  are  such 
names  as  Kocb,  Jenner,  Lister,  Maiche, 
Remington,  Prescott,  Vaughan  and 
others.  And  it  rerts  largely  with  you  as 
to  what  round  of  tbe  ladder  you  will 
reach  in  this  profession. 
If  you  desire 
to  succeed  in  the  commercial  sense  vou 
can  best  accomplish  it  by  earnest  effort 
toward  professional  success. 
I  was  in 
a  physician’s  office  a  short  time  ago 
when  a  young  man  asked  the pbvsician, 
“ What  college  graduates  the  student' 
the  quickest?”   The  reply  was,  ” 1 
couldn’t recommend such  an  one ;  hut  if 
you  are  in  a  hurry  there  is  said  to  be  a 
diploma  factory  in  Milwaukee.”  
I  be­
lieve  none  present  here  to-night  are 
looking  for  that  kind  of  a  diploma, 
nor  are  desirous  of  getting  just  suffi­
cient  knowledge  to  pass  the  examina­
tion  of  a  Board  of  Pharmacy.

The apprentice  in  a  drug  store  begins 
his  work  on 
little  or  no  salary,  by 
learning  properly  to  sweep  and  dust,  to 
wash  bottles,  clean  graduates,  mortars, 
etc.,  and  here  he  gets  his  first  lessons 
in  chemistry,  for  he  must  know  what 
will  best  remove  tbe  oil,  acid  or other 
drug.  He  must  keep  the  windows  and 
show  cases  clean,  tend  the  fire  and  do 
the  several  things  devolving  on  the 
chore  boy  or  janitor;  keep the  shop  bot­
tles  and  drawers  filled  with  their re­
spective  drugs,  and  here  he  gets  his 
first  lessons  in  botany  and  materia  med­
ica.  It  is  a  good  plan  for an  apprentice 
to  note  down  the  names  of the  different 
drugs  while  doing  this  and  at  bis  first 
leisure  moments  “ read  up”   on  them 
In  a  short time  he  is  permitted  to  sell 
such  common  articles  as  copperas, 
sulphur,  gum  camphor,  ginger,  essence 
peppermint,  etc.,  and 
if  he  has  the 
right  kind  of  employer he  is  helped  to 
study  these  different  drugs. 
If  your  in­
tention 
is  to  become  a  pharmacist do 
not  enter a  drug  store  as  an  apprentice 
without  a  good  common  school  educa­
tion.  Any  young  man  who,  having  the 
opportunities  that  the  Traverse  City 
schools  give  him,  leaves  before  gradu­
ating  to  begin  any  profession  or trade 
makes  a  mistake  and  does  not  hasten 
the  accomplishment of  tbe  end be seeks 
It  is  just  as  important  that  you  should 
possess  this  education  when  you become 
au  apprentice  as  when  yon  enter  a  col­
lege  of  pharmacy.  Tbe  latter  requires

it,  and  the  former  should.  And  right 
here 
is  tbe  reason  why  so large a  per­
centage  fail  to  pass  the  examinations 
of  tbe  several  state  Boards of Pharmacy. 
Excepting  the  college  graduates,  over 
50  per  cent,  taking  tbe  examinations 
have  not bad  a  sufficient  preliminary  or 
common  school  education.  Partly  per­
haps  from  necessity,  but  oftener  from 
the  Young  American  desire  to  “ get 
ahead and become a bread-winner, ”  they 
leave  school  at  12  to  15  years  of age and 
enter  a  drug  store;  or  perhaps  some 
druggist  engages  them  for  tbe  hours out 
of  school  and,  demanding  more  and 
more  of  their  time,  they  must  either 
quit  tbe  school  or tbe  store.  Unfortu­
nately,  it  is  tbe  school.  In  three  or  four 
years  they  find  they  can,  or are  allowed 
to,  wait  upon  a  good  share of  tbe trade; 
have  been  permitted  to  put  up  a  good 
many  recipes  and  prescriptions  and, 
thinking  they  know  the  business  now— 
often  thinking  they  know  more  than  tbe 
proprietor—they  go  up  to  tbe  examina­
tion  only  to  be  bitterly  disappointed 
and  return  home thinking  tbe  members 
of  the  Board  are  a  lot  of cranks,  or  at 
least  a  set  of  conceited  fellows who have 
gotten  up  a 
lot  of  “ catch  questions”  
just  to  bother tbe  boys.  So  many  with 
little  preparation  appeared  at  the exam­
inations  of  the  Michigan  Board of Phar­
macy  that  a  few  years  ago it was obliged 
to adopt  a  rule  taking  into  account  the 
writing  and  orthography  in  marking  the 
papers;  also  it  required  more  practical 
experience  or  college  training  befoie 
taking  tbe  examination.

A  good  deal  of  criticism  could  be 
made  of  proprietors  who  do  nothing 
toward  instructing  an  apprentice or  giv­
ing  him  certain  hours  for  uninterrupted 
study.  There  are  many  hindrances  to 
successful  study 
in  tbe  store;  and  I 
would  not advise  any  here  to-night  to 
think  of  making  pharmacy  their  pro­
fession  unless  determined  to  get 
in 
some  way  the  college  training,  nor to  be 
satisfied  with  just  sufficient  knowledge 
to  pass  the  examination  of  a  Board  of 
Pharmacy. 
I  recall  one  of  tbe  latter 
kind  who  came  before  tbe  Michigan 
Board  seven  times  and  failed each time, 
notwithstanding  each  member  of  tbe 
Board received  a  lett-r from bis brother,
then  prosecuting  attorney  o f ----------
county,  extolling  tbe  merits  of  this 
brother  and 
instructing  tbe  Board  as 
to  their duty  in  the  matter.  This  can­
didate 
identified  asafottida  as  “ gar- 
lick,”   and  said  that  aloes  was  “ the  in­
ner kore  of  the  onion,”   etc.

But  neither  is  the  student’s  education 
finished  when  he  graduates  or  has  re­
ceived  his  certificate  from  the  Board  of 
Pharmacy. 
It  is  but a  means toward  an 
end  and  his  real  education  i i   only  be­
In  no  profession  has  there  been 
gun. 
greater  progress  nor 
is  there  any  that 
promises  richer  fields  for  investigation. 
Do  yon  desire  to  keep  np  with  the 
times—and  you  must,  to  be  successful— 
you  must  be  a  student  to-day,  and  to­
morrow.  Among  tbe  many  good schools 
of  pharmacy  none  offer  belter advan­
tages  than  tbe  University  of  Michigan 
Department  of  Pharmacy. 
Its  Dean, 
Professor  Albert  B.  Prescott,  is  one  of 
the  ablest  instructors  in  tbe  country  and 
his  reputation  as  such  and  as  a  writer 
is  world-wide.  The  same  can  be  said 
of  Professor  Stevens,  Dr.  Victor  C. 
Vaughan  and  others  of  its  faculty.  Two 
courses  are  offered  the  student:  a  two- 
vears’  course  leading  to the  degree  of 
Pharmaceutical  Chemist  and  a  four 
vears’  course  leading  to  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Science  m  Pharmacy. 
From  a  list  of  its  alnmni  I  find  its grad­
uates  holding  responsible  positions or 
conducting 
successful  pharmacies  of 
their own.

Let  me  quote  Professor  Prescott: 
“ As  a  pursuit  pharmacy 
is  now  in  a 
period  of  transition.  All  pursuits  are 
more  or  less  in  transition,  owing  espe 
cially  to  tbe  applications  of  science  to 
the  uses  of  man  at  the  close  of  tbe 
Nineteenth  Century.  But  pharmacy  is 
in  greater  transition  than  most any other 
branches,  for  reasons  as follows:  1.  The 
greater  number  and  complexity  of  med­
icines  and  the  chemical  arts  concerned 
in  their production.  2.  The greater  use 
of  chemicals  in  the  industries,  arts  and 
comforts  of  life.  3.  As  a  result  the

greater  need  of  special  qualification  of 
the  pharmacist.  Hence  state 
laws  of 
pharmacy  restricting  its  practice  to  the 
qualified.  Pharmacy  proper,  with  the 
application  of  science  to tbe  supply  of 
medicine,  to  sanitation  and  to  the  uses 
and  comfoits  of  tbe  community,  is  an 
inviting  pursuit  to  young  people  and 
a  pursuit  not  now,  nor  soon  to  be,  over­
crowded.  For thoroughly-trained  phar­
macists  tbe  demand  is  greater than  tbe 
supply.  For  tradesmen 
in  drug  wares 
with  the  lowest  permitted  requirements 
in  pharmacy  the  supply  is  greater  than 
tbe  demand. ”

Tbe  Traverse  City  high  school  offers 
first-class  preparation 
for  the  college ; 
or,  with  three  years  of  good  practical 
experience  under a  competent  and  w ill­
ing  employer,  a  successful  examination 
before  the Michigan Board of Pharmacy. 
Its  instructions  in  chemistry  and  Latin 
are  sufficient  for  tbe  Board  of  Pharmacy 
rgquirements,  its  instructions  in  botany 
and physics  very  helpful  and  its instruc­
tion  in  German  valuable. 
It  is  a  ques 
tion  to  day  which  is  of  the more  service 
to  tbe  student  in  pharmacy  or  medicine 
—German  or  Latin.  The  solution  is  in 
tbe  study  of  both.  Again  let  me  quote 
from  Professor  Prjescott: 
“ A  high 
school  graduate,  in  taking  a  course  in 
pharmacy,  of  at  least  two  college  years, 
with  earnest  industry  becomes  qualified 
in  the  applications  of  science  to  phar­
macy.  The expense of  taking  the School 
I of  Pharmacy  course  is  $300 to  $400,  in­
cluding  ail  living  expenses.  One  year 
may  be  taken  at  a  time,  in  intervals  of 
service 
in  a  drug  store  and  as  means 
may  be  obtained.  Many  young  men  can 
earn  their  own  way  in  this  education. 
It  is  all  within  tbe  public  scbocl  system 
of  tbe  State. 
is  no  more  than  so 
much  schooling  as is the fair inheritance 
and  prudent  choice  of  any  young  person 
if  possessing  tbe  diligence  and capacity 
to  profit  by 
It  requires  a  fair  de­
gree  of  adaptation  to  study,  to  scholar­
ship,  to  laboratory  training.  Tbe 
lab­
oratory  methods  of  high  schools  will 
fairly  test  the  adaptation  of  the  student 
to  practical  science.  Ail  the  studies  of 
tbe  high  schrol  are  tests  of  scholarship, 
of  that  adaptation  to  study which  is nec­
essary  to a  course  in  pharmacy.”

Bat  you  ask  me,  “ What  are  the  en­
couragements  to  enter tbe  profession  of 
pharmacy?”  
It  has  both  encourage­
ment  and  discouragement 
First,  wbat 
is  your adaptation?  Have  you  a  taste 
for  it? 
If  you  have  taken  the  Latin  or 
Scientific  Course  of  our  high  school  you 
it  from  tbe 
wiil  know.  Speaking  of 
commercial  side,  of  course 
is  all 
it 
profit—everybody  says  so and 
it  there­
fore  must  be  so.  The  average  salary  of 
tbe  drug  clerks  of  Michigan  is  $10  per 
week,  that  of  the  head  clerk  or  pre­
scription  clerk  $15  per  week,  while  the 
number  receiving  $20  per week  could be 

it. 

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Contain Mac........... 
35®  50
Copaiba...................  1  15®  1  25
Cubebse.................... 
90®  1  00
Exechthltos...........  1  00®  1  10
Erlgeron.................  1  00©  1  10
Qanltheria..............  l  50®  1  60
Oeranlum,  ounce...  ® 
75
Gossippil, Sem. gal.. 
50® 60
Hedeoma.................  1  in®  l  20
Jnnlpera..................  1  50® 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90®  2 00
Limonis...................  1  30® 
Mentha Piper.........   1  60® 2 20
Mentha Verld.........   1  50® 1  60
Morrhuse,  gal.........   1  00® 1  15
Myrcia,....................  4  00® 
Olive.......................  
75® 3 00
io®  12
Plcis  Liquida.........  
Picls Liquida, gal... 
R iclna.................... 
98® 1 00
Rosmarini...............  
® 100
Ross,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succini...................  40®  45
Sabina................... 
90©  1 00
Santal......................  8  50® 
Sassafras................. 
55®  60
Slnapls, ess., ounce. 
Tlglfi.......................   I  70®  1  80
Thyme.................... 
40®  50
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15® 
20
Potassium
Bl-Carb.................... 
is
15® 
Bichromate............  
13® 
15
5?®  57
Bromide..................  
12®  15
£ a rb .v .................  
Chlorate..po. 17®19c 
Cyanide..................  
35®  40
iodide......................  2 40® 2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
1.5
10®  12
Potass Nltras, opt... 
Potass Nitras........... 
io® 
tl
2u@  25
Pressiate................. 
Sulphate p o ........... 
15® 
i8

7 00
® 65

16® 18

28® 30

Radix

Aconitvm...............  
20®  25
Alth®...................... 
22®  25
Anchusa................. 
to® 
12
Arum po..................   @  25
Calamus................. 
20®  40
Gentiana........po  15 
12® 
15
Glychrrhiza... pv. 15  16®  18
Hydrastis Canaden .  @ 
*5
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  90 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
18®  20
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po............... 3 go® 4 on
Iris plox.... po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
25®  30
Maranta  Us...........  @ 
35
Podophyllum, po....  23®  25
75®  1  00
gjjeJ  .......................  
§bel, cut.................  @  1  25
75®  1  35
Hhel.pv................... 
Spigelia................... 
35®  38
®  13
Sanguinarla... po. 15 
Serpentaria............  
30® 
35
Senega.................... 
40®  45
Similax,officinalis H 
®  40
Smilax, M...............  
©  25
Scillse............. .po.35  10®  12
Symplocarpus, Foetl-
dus,  po.................  @  25
Valeriana, Rng.po.30  @  25 
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
IJngjbera...............  
12® 
16
Zingiber].........   ... 
25®  27
Semen
Anisum........ po.  15 
@ 
12
13®  15
Apium  (graveleons) 
Bird, is....................  
4® 
e
Carui............ po. 18 
10® 
12
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
8®  10
Cannabis  Sativa....  4M®  5
Cvdonlum...............  
75®  1  00
io@ 
Chenopodium  ........ 
12
Diptenx  Odorate...  1 40®  1  50
Fcenlcnlum............  
© 
10
Fcenugreek, po........ 
7© 
9
l*lnl.........................  3M®  4M
4®  4M
Lini,  grd....bbl. 3*  
Lobelia..................  
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4®  4M
BnP» 
5
............   4M® 
Sinapls Albu........... 
9®  10
Slnapls Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Spiritila 

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frum enti..................l  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. Vini Galli........  1  75® 6 50
Vini Oporto............   1  25® 2 00
Vini  Alba...............   1  25® 2 00

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

niscellaneous 

ScillseCo................. 
©
50
Tolutan...................,  ©
50
P ru n u sv lrg .......... 
©
50
Tinctures 
Aconltum Napel lis R 
60 
Aconitum Napellis F
50 
Aloes.*.....................
60 
Aloes and Myrrh__
60 
Arnica....................
50 
Assafcetlda............
50 
Atrope  Belladonna.
60 
Auranti  Cortex......
50 
Benzoin...................
60 
Benzoin Co..............
50 
Barosma.................
50 
Cantharldes...........
75 
Capsicum..............
50 
Cardamon...............
75 
Cardamon  Co.........
75 
Castor......................
i  00 
Catechu...................
50 
Cinchona.................
50 
Cinchona Co...........
60 
Columba 
............
50 
Cubeba....................
50 
Cassia  Acutifol......
50 
Cassia Aentifol Co  .
50 
Digitalis  __  .
50 
Ergot............
50 
Ferri Chloridum
36 
Gentian..................
50 
Gentian Co..............
60 
Guiaca....................
50 
Guiaca ammon........
60 
Hyoscyamus...........
50 
Iodine......................
75 
Iodine, colorless....
75 
Kino........................
50 
Lobelia...................
50 
Myrrh......................
50 
Nux Vomica...........
50 
Opii.........................
75 
Opii, camphorated.
50 
Opii,  deodorized.  ..
I  50 
Quassia...................
50 
Rhatany..............
50 
Rhei........................
50 
Sanguinaria...........
50 
Serpentaria............
50 
Stromonium...........
60 
Tolutan...................
60 
Valerian.................
50 
Veratrum Veride ...
50 
Zingiber..................
20
•dither, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
35
jEther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
38
Alomen..................   2M®
3
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7  3®
4 
A nnatto.................
40®
50
Anti moni,  po......
4®
5 
40®
Antimoni et PotassT
50 
Antipyrin
35 
®
Antifebrin 
........
o
20 50 
Argenti Nitras, oz !
Arsenicum.............
12 
Balm Gilead  Bud
40
Bismuth  8. N......... 1  40©  1  50
® 
Calcium Chlor.,  Is. 
9
®  10
Calcium Chlor., Ms. 
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms 
@  12
Cantharides, Rus.po  @  75
Capsici  Fructus. af.  @  15
Capslci Fructus, po. 
©  15
Capsici FructusB,po  @  15
Caryophyllus..po. 15  13®  14 
@ 3 00
Carmine, No. 40 .... 
Cera Alba...............  
50®  55
Cera Flava.............. 
40®
42 
Coccus.................... 
©
40 
©
Cassia Fructus........ 
33 
®
Contraria................. 
10. 45 
Cetaceum................  
©
50®
Chloroform.............  
53®  1  10 
Chloroform, squlbbs
Chloral Hyd Crst__
1  65®  1  90 
m  
25
C'hondrus
Cinchonidine.P.A W  28®  38 
Cinchonidlne, Germ  33©  38 
Cocaine.................  3 80©  4 f 0
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct.
70 
Creosotum.............
35 3
Creta............ bbl. 75
Creta, prep..............
5 
Creta, preelp...........
11
Creta, Rubra...........
8 
18®
Crocus.................... 
30
©
Cudbear................. 
34 
Cupri Sulph............   6M©
8
Dextrine.................. 
10®
13 
Ether Sulph............  
75®
90 
Emery, all  numbers
8
®
Emery, po...............
6
®30®
Ergota..........po. 40
35 
Flake  White...V....
12®
15 
Galla........................
33
®
Gambler.  ...............
9
Gelatin, Cooper......
@  60 
5®  60
Gelatin,"French......
Glassware, flint, box
75 A  10 
Less  than  box__
70 
9®
Glue,  brown........... 
13 
Glue,  white............  
13®
25 
Glycerina................ 
14®
20 
Grana  Paradis!  __  
©
25 
Hum ulus................. 
25®
55 
HydraagChlor  Mite 
®  90
Hydraag Chlor Cor.
®  80 
®  1  00 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
Hydraag Ammonlati 
®  1  15 
45®  55
HydraagUnguentum 
Hydrargyrum.......
®  75
_
Ichthyobolla, Am... 
75
75®  1  00
Indigo...................... 
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.
© 4 20 
Lupulin.
-  2 25 
45 
75
25 I 
13 3 
1M 
60

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65¡¡£

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10®
3®
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50®
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® 50 Lycopodium...........
........  ..
® 50 Macis 
@ 50 Liquor  Arsen et Hy-
drarg Iod.............
® 60
® 50 LiquorPotassArslnlt
@ 50 Magnesia, Sulph__
50® 60 Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
® 50 Mannia, S. F __
A M Menthol

Morphia, S.P. A  W ... 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
C. Co....................
Moschus Canton__
Myristica, No. 1......
Nux Vomica...po.20
Os  Sepia.................
Pepsin Saac, H. A  P.
t. Co....................
Picls Liq. N.N.M gal.
doz............................
Plcis Liq., quarts__
Plcis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg.. .po.  80 
Piper Nigra... po.  33
Piper Alba__ po.  35
Piix  Burgun...........
Plumbl  Acet...........
Pul vis Ipecac et Opii 
Pyre thrum, boxes H. 
& P. D. Co., doz.
Pyrethrum,  pv__
~u assise...............
uinla, S. P. & W. 
;uinia, 8. German
luinia, N.Y.........
,ubia Tlnctorum. 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin.................
Sanguis Draconls.
Sapo,  W...............
Sapo, M.................
Sapo, G...............
Siedlitz  Mixture..

2 20® 2 45
2 10® 3 35 
©  40
65®  80®  10 
15®  18
®  1  00
© 2 00 
® 1 00 
@  85
®  50
®  18 
30 
7 
o
13
1  10®  1  20
®  1 25 
35®  30
47©
42®
2®  53
12®  14
18®  20 
3 00® 3  10 
40®  50
12®  14
10®  13
®  15
30  ©  22

Slnapls........................ 
© 18
Sinapls, opt................  
© 30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.......................... 
© 34
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s 
®  34
Soda Boras..............  9  ©  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  ©  11
36®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  1M® 
2
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
5
4
Soda, Ash...............   8M® 
Soda, Sulphas.........  
© 
3
Spts. Cologne........... 
® 3 80
Spts. Ether  Co........  50®  55
Spt.  Myrcia Dom...  @  9 00
®
Spts. Vlni Rect. bbl. 
Spts. Vlni Rect. Mbbl  @
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
®
Spts. Vlni Rect.  5gal 
®
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  30® 1  35
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2li@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2M®3M
Tamarinds.................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice... 
28®  30
Theobromse............   46®  48
Vanilla...................  9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph................ 
7®  8

Oils

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

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
47 
Linseed,  Dolled......   48 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  48 

50
51
70
55

Paints  BBL. 

LB
Red Venetian.........  
lit 2  ®8
Ochre, yellow Mars, 
lit  2  ©4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
lit  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2|£  2M®3 
Putty, strictly pure.  2M  2lt®3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, Paris...........  13M©  1?M
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13®  16
Lead, Red...............   5lt©  6q
Lead, white............  5lt®  6Q
©  70
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’... 
©  XI
White, Paris Amer.. 
®  1  00
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
© 140
cliff...................... 
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

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

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Oval Chisel  Sash

Round  Sash 

White Wash  Heads 

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Square and  Chisel

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Color
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AXLB  GREASE.

dos.  gross
Aurora.........................56  6  00
Castor Oil....................00  7  00
Diamond..................... 50  4  00
Frazer’s ..................... .75  9  00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
9  00
nica, tin boxes............75  9  00
Paragon.......................55  000

CANDLBS.

8s.......................................... 7
16s.........................................8
Graffine..............................8
Wicking..............................80
Columbia, 
pints.............8  00
Columbia, 4  pints.............1  85

CATSUP.

Acteo.

Absolute.

B A K IN d   P O W D E R .
m ’b cans dos................... 
£  ID cans dos................... 

45
85
lb can  dos...................l  50
w lb (tens 8 dos................   45
75
lb cans 3 dos.  .  ........... 
lb cans 1 dos............ . 
1  01
Bulk.................................... 
»
os. Eng. Tumblers......  85
0 
v  lb cans per dos............   75
M lb cans per dos  ...........   1  80
t 
lb cans per dos............ 8  00
u  lb cans 4 dos case........ 
35
it lb cans 4 dos case........ 
55
lb cans 8 dos case  ......  
90

Arctic.
Bi Parity.

Hoasc.

Oar Leader.

Jersey Cream.

u  lb cans, 4 dos case......  
it lb cans. 4 dos case____ 

45
85
lb cans. 3 dos case........  1 60
lb. cans, per dos.........  8 00
1 
9 os. cans, per dos.............  1  85
6 os. cans, per dos.............  
85
M lb cans..........................  
45
it lb cans..  ...................... 
75
lb pans..........................  i  6C
85
1 lb. cans 
3 
os., 6 dos. case............  2 70
6 os., 4 dos. case 
.............3  80
9 os., 4 dos. case.................. 4  80
1 lb., 8 dos. case.................. 4  00
5 lb., 1 dos. case...................9 00
American........ 
. . . . __ 70
80
English.........  

Peerless.
........................ 

BATH  BRICK.

Queen Plaice.

 

BLUINd.COPIED

 

BROOrtS.

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

Small, 3 dos.......................   40
Large, 8 dos.......................  
75
Ho. 1 Carpet.......................  2  3
No. 8 Carpet.........................2  1
No. 8 Carpet............... 
1  8>
No. 4 Carpet.......................   1  4'
Parlor Gem......................  3  50
Common Whisk.................   9 1
Fancy Whisk.. 
95
Warehouse............. 
......  I  TO
CANNED OOOD8.
Tomatoes...............  8o© 
90
.......................   80@l  00
Corn 
Hominy....................  80
Beans, Limas.........   70©1 
30
Beans, Wax..............  90
Beans, string...........   85
Beans.  Baked........  75@1 
00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  75© 
-5
Succotash..............   9fxfti 
30
Peas................. .........   50©  85
Peas, French...... ....... 3 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.............   15@ 
Peaches, P ie...............1  0>
Peaches, Fancy..........1  40
Apples  gallons.........   @7 00
Cherries..................  90
Pears........................  70
Pineapple, grated...... 2 4O
Pineapple, sliced....... 3 25
Pineapple,  Farren__ 1 70
Strawberries.............. 1  10
Blackberries...........   80
Raspberries.............   85
Oysters, 1-lb.............   85
Oysters. 3-lb................1  45
Salmon, Warren’s __ 1  4 @1  60
Salmon.  Alaska..........1  35
Salmon, Klondike...  90
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star__ 3 20
Lobsters. 3-lb. Star__ 3 90
Mac  erel.l lb Mustard 10
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused. 1 75
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato 1  75
Shrimps  .....................8 00
Sardines, 
domestic  3U@ 
Sardines, mstrd. dom.5*4@  74 
Sardines.  French.......8  @ 32

28

C H E E S E

Acme..............
....  © 12X
Amboy............
...  ©
....  ©
Emblem  .........
Gold Medal....
....  ©
Ideal...............
....  ©
Jersey  ............
....  © 134
Riverside.........
....  ©
Brick...............
© 12
....  © 70
Edam...............
....  © 17
Leiden.............
Limburger...... ......   © 13
Pineapple......... ...... 50  © 75
....  © 17
Sap  Sago.........
Bulk
Red

Chicory

CLOTHES LINES.

W alter Baker A Co.’s.

CHOCOLATE. 
..23
lerman Sweet...............
Premium...................   . . . .  ..35
ireakfiui  Coer«
.46
Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos...... ..1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doi  ....... I 30
Cotton, 60 ft, per  dot  ....... 1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per dot  -----1 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  d ot........I 80
Jnte, 60 ft.  per  dot.............  80
Jute. 7t ft. 
«*»*............   <*

COCOA.

James Epps & Co.’s.

Boxes. 7 Ins.............................40
Cases, 16 boxes........................38
COCOA 5HBLLS.
301b  bags........................ 
24
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound  packages............  
4
CRBAfl  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bnlk in sacks..........................39

C O F P P R .
Roasted.

k m .

Santos.

F a ir.......................................... 9
Good........................................!0
Prime......................................12
Golden  ...................................13
Peaberry  ................................14
Fair  ......................................M
Good  ....................................  15
Prim e......................................W
Peaberry  ................................18
Prim e...... -  ....................... 
15
Milled..................................   17
Interior...............................  96
Private  Growth...................  3)
Mandehllng..........................   35
Im itation............................... 83
Arabian  ............ 
88

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

JUTU.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue.....................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__29
Wells’ Mocha and Java.....84
Wells’ Perfection Java.....84
Sancalbo............................. 81
Breakfast Blend................  18
Talley City Maracaibo 
... 18V4
Ideal  Blend.........................14
Leader Blend.......................124

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  bnyer  pays  from  the 
market in  which he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also Mo  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in fnll cases.
Arbnckle.......................   10 so
Jersey.............................   10 50
I d ^ u c h llu ’c  XXW .
MaLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.

Extract.

76
Valley C.ty Mi gross  .... 
Felix 4  gross................  Mb
Humme/s foil 4  gross.. 
85
Hnmxnai’s tin 4   gross.. 
1  43
CLOTHB5 PINS.
'f  gross boxes..........................40

Rousted.

Leghorn...........................

Currants.

Peel.

Raisins.

Patras bbls...................... @ jjK
Cleaned, bnlk  ................. © 6
Cleaned, packages..........© 64
Citron American 10 lb bx ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx © 04 
Orange American 10 lb bx  ©104 
Ondnra 28 lb boxes......  ©
Sultana  I Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown  ........  ©
Sultana 3 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
•inUans 5 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........   ©
Sultana package.........   ©
F A R IN A C E O U S   G O O DS.
84 1 lb.  packages.............1  50
Bulk, per 100 lbs.............3 50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Farina.

Grits.

24 2 lb. packages.............. 1  80
100 lb. kegs.......................2 70
SOOdb. barrels...................5.10

Jennings’.

D.O. Vanilla
.1 20
2 ox
-.1 50
3 Oz.
.2 00
4oz.
.3 00
6 oz.
4 00
No. 8
.6 00
No. 10.
No. 2T.1 25
No. 3 T.2 00
No 4 'r.2 40

D. C Lemon
75
2 os.
...1 0(J
3 oz.
..1 40
4 oz.
2 Ot
6 ox
No. 8 .2 4C
No. 10 ..4 <K
No. 2 T. 8C
No. 3 T.l 25
No. 4T.l 60
Pure Brand.
Lem.  Van.
1  20
2 oz. 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.
Tanglefoot,  per box...........  36
Tanglefoot, per case  ......... 3 20
Holders, per box of 50........  75
15
Sage.
15
Hops

HBKBS.

PICKLES.
medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count................  3 75
Half bbls, 800 count...........  2 38

Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count.........   4 75
HalfbbM  1.200 count........  2

RICB.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   OK
Carolina  No. 1 .................   6
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................  Mi

Imported.
■ 

Japan,  No. 1............   54© 0
Japan.  No. 2 
4»© 5
Java, fancy  head........5  © 54
Java,  No. 1.................  5  ©
Table............................  ©
Packed 60 lbs  <n  box. 

SALBRATUS.

Church’s Arm and Hammer.  15
Daland’s 
.................... 8 00
Dwight’s Cow .....................8  15
Emblem..............................3 50
Sodio....................................3 15
Wyandotte, MO 3is ..............3 00
Granulated, bbls..............  75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  90
Lamp, bbls.......................  75
Lamp, 1451b kegs..............  85

SAL buOA.

C O N D E N SE D   M IL K .

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  BO O K S.
Tradesman Grade.

Superior Grade.

Economic Grade.

50 books, any denom__   1  50
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1.000 books, any denom— 30 00
50 books, any denom__ 1 50
100 books, any denom__8 50
500 books  any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom ....80 00
50 books, any denom....  1 50 
100 books, any denom—   8 50 
500 books, any denom— 11 50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00 
Can be made to represent any 
80 books  .......................   1  00
50 books.................................2 00
100 books  .........................  3 00
350 books.................................C 25
500 books................................10 00
1000 books........ 

denomination from 910 down.

Coupon Pass Books.

Apples.

Credit Checks.

Universal Grade.

California Fruits.

17 50
50 books, any denom....  I 50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom.... 80 00
500, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel  punch......... ............75
DRIBD  FRUITS—DOnESTJC 
Snndrled............ ........  CJ[J4
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ®9>4 
Apricots»...................  ©,s>
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................  „  ©
Peaches.......................9  ©10
Pears..........................   ©
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelies..................
Raspberries....... ..—
100-120 25 lb 00X68.........   © 4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   ®
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  © »4
70-80 85 lb boxes.........   ©  614
60-70 25 lb boxes.........  © jJM
50 - 60 85 lb boxes.........   © *
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........   ©10
30-4085 lb boxes.........  ©
u  cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Pranas.

Raisins.

150 
London Layers 2 C’own. 
1 65
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............  
2 00
5
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
6
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
7
Loose Muscatels 4Crown 
L  M.. Seeded, choice......   8
L. M , Seeded, fancy........  94

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Hominy.

Beans.

Barrels  ............................ 8 50
Flake, 50 lb.  drums..........1 00
Dried Lima  ..................... 
5 4
Medium Hand Picked 1  2'©1  25 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  00
Imported.  25 lb. box........ 2 50
Common.............................  2 
Chester............................   2 25
Em pire............................   2 75
Green, Wisconsin, bn.......1 00
Green, Scotch, bn...........1  10
Split, bn............................ 2 50

Pearl Barley.

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

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

dago.

Tapioca

German............................   4
East  India.......................  
34
5
Flake..............................  
Pearl................................ 
44
Anchor, 401 lb. pkges—  
54
Cracked  bulk...................  34
24 2 lb packages...............2 50

Wheat.

SALT  FISH.

Cod.

Georges cured............  © 4
Georges genuine........  © 5
Georges selected........  © 64
Strips or bricks..........6  © 9

Herring.

nackerel.

Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 25 
Holland white hoop 4  bbl  5®  
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mchs 
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  86
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  35
No. 1100 lbs......................  13 25
No. 1  40 lbs......................  5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1 48
No. 1  8 lbs......................  180
No. 8 100 lbs......................  11  50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4 90
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  30
No. 3  8 lbs......................  107
Trout.
5 85 
No. 1100 lbs
2 40 
No. 1  40 lbs.........
No. 1  10 lbs...
68 
57
No. 1  8 lbs
•7 rn  a «) Fam 
No. I  No. 8
2 75 
1  40
2 90
40 lbs  .........  8  10
43
80
10 lbs.. ........ 
85
37
66
8 lbs.. ........ 
71
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

WhltaBsh.

INDIGO.

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

SAUERKRAUT.

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

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

Kegs 
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Qnarter Kegs............................ 1 85
1 lb. cahs........ 
..................  30
4  lb. cans............................   18

0

Choke Boro—Dupoat’s.

Kegs  ....................................4 25
H uf Kegs................................2 40
Qnarter Kegs............................ 1 35
1 lb. cans..............................  34

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs..........................................8 00
Hilf Kegs................................. 4 25
Qnarter Kegs........................... 2 85
11b. cans.........  

45

 

151b pails............ : .............   85
SGlbpalls............................   65

 
JBLLY.

LYB.

Condensed, 2 d o a ....................1 80
Condensed. 4  dos.................... 2 25

SNUFF.

Scotch, in bladders.............  97
Maccaboy, In jare................  85
French Rappee, In Jars......   48

SBBDS.

Anise  ..  ..............................  9
Canary, Smyrna................ 
34
Caraway............................. 
8
Cardamon,  M alabar......   60
Celery...............................   11
Hemp,  Russian.............. 
44
Mixed  Bird......................  44
Mustard,  white..................   5
Poppy  ..............................  10
R ape................................. 
44
Cuttle Bone......................  20

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

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

LICORICB. 

_
Pure......... ............................  £
Calabria..............................  •
81oüy....................................  ü
Boot  ....................................  10

Common Grades.

100 31b sacks....................... 1  95
60 5-lb sacks....................... 1  80
2810-lb sacks......................1  65

MINCB MBAT.

Worcester.

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

I1ATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brauds.

No. 9 sulphur...........................J ®
Ancbor Parlor..........................J 70
No. 2  Home.............................. * 10
Export  Parlor......................... 4 00

lb. cartons...........  .8 2T
50  4 
115  241b. sacks....................4 00
lb. sacks...................3 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks...................3 50
30 10 
lb. sacks...................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bnlk in barrels....................2 50

nOLAdSBS.
New Orleans.
B lack ..........................
Fair.........................
Good.............................
Fancy  ..........................
Open Kettle..................
Half-barrels 8c extra.
MU5TARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216......................
Clay, T. D. full count......
nnh, No. 8..........................

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Penna 8ait  Oo.’s............... 3 00

Warsaw.

56-lb dairy In drill bags......   30
28-lb dairy in drill bags......   15

Ashton.

66-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Higgins.

56-lb dairy In linen seeks...  60 

Solar Rock.

56-lb  sacks...........................  *1

Common.

Granulated F in e ....................   65
Medium  Fine......................   75

SOAP.

JAXON

Single box.................................2 °5
box lots, delivered.......2  0
5 
10 box lots, delivered.........2 75
JUS. S.  KIRK 8 CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d... .2 66
Dome.........................................2 75
Cabinet..................................... 2 20
Savon........................................ 2 50
White Russian......................... 2 35
White Cloud,  laundry........ 6 25
White Cloud, toilet................. 3 50
Dnsky Diamond. 50 6 oz__ 2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz— 8 00
Bine India, 100 R ib ................. 3 00
Kirkoline.................................. 3 50
Eos........................................... 2 50

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  . .2 75
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars__3 75
Uno, 100 M-lb. bars..............2 50
DoU, 10010-oz.  bare............ 3 06

Scouring.

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

SODA.

Boxes  .................................  64
Kegs, English 
..............  4R

S P IC E S .
Whole Sifted.

Pare Oroaad la Balk.

Allspice  ............................   14
Cassia, China in mats......... 12
Cassia, Batavia in bund— 25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........82
Cloves, Amboyna..............  14
Cloves, Zansibar................  12
Mace,  Batavia.....................66
Nutmegs, fancy...................60
Nutmegs, No.  1...................60
Nutmegs, No.  2.........  
  46
Pepper, Singapore, black... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .16
Popper,  shot........................16
Allspice  ..............................17
Cassia, Batavia...................3u
Cassia,  Saigon.....................40
Cloves, Zansibar..................14
Ginger,  A frican................ 16
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger, Jamaica................. 28
Mace,  Batavia.....................66
Mustard......................... 12@18
Nutmegs,...................... 40@o0
Pepper, Sing , black............1*
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage.  ...................................16

... 

SYRUPS
Cera.
Barrels...............................   18
Half  bbls.............. 
20
1 doz  1 gallon cans................. 3 90
1  doz. M gallon cans........ 1 70
2  doz. ii gallon  cans  .......1 76
Pair  .................................  16
Good................................   20
Choice..............................  26

Pure Caoe.

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Cera.

10 1-lb packages...................6
201 lb packages...................6M

Klngsford’s Silver  Gloss.

40 1-lb packages...................6M
6-lb boxes.................   ...... 7

Diamond.

6410c  packages  ...............6 00
128  5c  packages................ 5 00
82 10c and 64 6c packages.. .6 00

CeouBon  Cera.

201 lb. packages..................6
401 lb. packages..................  4M

Ceousoa Gloss.

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

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
Including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino.................................... 6 38
Cut  Loaf.................................. 5 63
Crushed...............................5 63
Powdered 
......................... 5 25
XXXX Pondered.................... 5 38
Cubes.......................................6 26
Granulated in bbls...................5 13
Granulated in bags.............5  13
Fine Granulated......................6 13
Extra Fine Granulated.......6 25
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 ‘¿5
Mould  A...................................5 38
Diamond  Confec.  A........... 5  )3
Confec. Standard A...........  5 00
.4 63 
No.
.4 t3 
No 
.4 63 
No.
.4 56 
No.
.4 56 
No.
.4 44 
No.
.4 38 
No.
.4 31 
No.
.4 2
No.
No.  10...................................4
No.  11................................... 4 1*
No.  12................................... 4 13
No.  18................................... 4 Oi
NO.  14.......................................4 06
NO.  16.......................................4 »6
No.  I«..................................4 06

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brand.

Fortune Teller....................35 0D
Our Manager....................  35  00
quintette........................... 36 uu

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

8. C. W.

.35 00

TABLE  SAUCES.

Lea A Perrin’s,  large...  4 75 
Lea A Perrin’s, small...  2 75
Halford,  large................. 3 76
Halford small...................2 26
Salad Dressing, l&Fge...... 4 66
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.............12
Pure Cider, Silver...................11

WICKING.

No. 0, per gross....................  20
No. 1, per gross....................  28
No. 2, pergross....................  35
No. 3, per gross....................  65

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
B atter.

Seymour XXX....................   b%
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family X X X ......................  5M
Salted XXX  ......................  6
New York XXX.................  6
Wolverine.........................  6
Boston..................................  7M

Soda.

Soda  XXX  .......................   6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton__  6M
Soda,  City...........  ...........   8
Long Island Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Zephyrette...........................io
Saltine Wafer......................  b%
SaltineWafer, 1 lb  carton.  6y2
Farina Oy-ter......................  5*
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.

Oyster.

Animals.............................  lOVi
Bent’s Water........................16
Cocoanut Taffy.................  io
Coffee Cake, Java.............   lu
Coffee Cake,  Iced..............  10
Cracknells.........................  15M
Cabans  .............................   UK
Frosted  Cream  .................   8
Ginger G em s....................   8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  7%
Graham Crackers  ............   8
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
imperials..........................   8
JumDles,  Honey.................  11%
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow  Walnuts...  16
Mich.  FroBted Honey__  12%
Molasses Cakes...................  8
Newton............. 
12
Nic Nacs..............................  8
Orange Gems.......................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8ft
Pretzels,  hand  m ade......   7%
Sears’Lunch.......................   7
Sugar  Cake.........................  8
Sugar  Squares....................  9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas........................  

 

 

 

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  ©16
Almonds, Ivaca.........   ©14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   ©15
Brazils new...............   © 7
Filberts  ....................  ©10
Walnuts, Granobles..  ©13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  ©lx
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................   ©11
Table Nuts,  fancy__  ©11
Table Nuts,  choice.-..  ©10
Pecans, Med.......... . 
Pecans, Ex. Large....  © 9
Pecans, Jumbos........   ©12
Hickory Nats per bn.,
Ohio, new................  ©1  60
Cocoanuts,  fnll  sacks  ©3 55
Chestnuts per bn........  ©
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Sons.  © 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted................... 
0  7
$  4#
Choloe, H. P., Extras. 
Choice, H. P„  Extras 
....... 
5*

Roasted 

Peanuts.

© 7%

Candies.
Stick Candy.

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

bbls.  pails
6M@  7
6M@  7
?M@  8
© 8
cases
@ 6M
@ 8M
©10

Mixed Candy.

© 6
Grocers...................  
© 6%
Competition............ 
Standard................. 
© 7
Conserve................. 
©  7%
© 7%
Royal...................... 
@  »I/,
Ribbon.................... 
© 7%
Broken................... 
Cut Loaf.................  
© 8
© 8
English Rock.........  
Kindergarten____  
© 8%
French  Cream........ 
© 9
Dandy Pan............ 
©10
Hand Made Cream mxd  ©13 
Ital. Cream Bubn», 35 lb p s  11 
Molas  es Chews,  15 ib. pails  13 
‘•Alla Samee,” 
5 lb. pails  12

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......  
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Choc.  Drops  .........  
Choc. Mono mentals 
Gum  Drops............  
.Moss  Drops............  
Sour Drops.............. 
Imperials...............  

© $%
© 8m
©10M
© 2
© 5
© 8
© 8M
@ 9
Fancy—la  g  Ib.  Boxes.

Lemon  Drops.........
Soar  Drops............
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate Drops  ...
H. M. Choc. Drops.
H. M  Choc.  Lt.aud
Dk. No. 12............
Gum  Drops............
Licorice Drops........
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  plain....
Lozenges,  printed..
Imperials...............
Mottoes...................
Cream Bar............
Molasses Bar 
Hand Made Creams.  80 
Cream Buttons. Pep.
and  Want............
String Rock............
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25
Wintergreen Berries
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped. 2  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes............   ... 
No.,2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  __ 

..

©50
©50
©60
©60
©75

@30 
@75 
©60 
©60 
@50 
©50 
©55 
©60 
©50 
©  90
@65
©60
©©60

@35
©50

Fruits.

Oranges.

Fancy Navels. 
Choice............
Meat Sweet.

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

@1 75
©3 50
2  75@3 (0
©3 25

©3 00
@3 25
@3 aO
@3 75
&

Medium  bunches...1  00  ©l  25 
Large bunches........l  5u  @2  uu

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

  12%

Pigs.

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

@13
@12
©IS
@22
@
@
@ 7

Dates.

Fards lu 10 lb  boxes  @10
©  6
Fards In  60 lb cases 
Persians, P H V......  
@6
lb cases, new........ 
@6
© 5
Salrs,  601b cases.... 

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene  ..  .................  @11M
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @10
W W Michigan...........  © 9m
Diamond White.........  @ 8M
D., S. Gas.  .................   ©12M
Deo. N aptha..............  ©12M
Cylinder............   ...29  ©34
E ngine......... ..........  11  ©21
Blank, winter 
ffi  ?

Provisions.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barralsd Pork.

Mess  ...........................      io 00
Back  ......................10 60©
Clear back..............  @<0 no
Shortcut.............................  
10 00
Pig.......................................  1* 00
Bean  ...  .......................  
9  iO
Family  ..........................  11  0j

Dry Salt Meats.

Bellies...................... 
5M
Briskets  ......................... 
Extra shorts.............  &M

5M

Smoked neats.

Hams, 12 lb average  __  
8M
8M
Hams, 14 lb average 
... 
Hams, 16 lb average...... 
7%
Hams, 20 lb  average...... 
7%
Ham dried beef  ............  
IIM
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
5m
Bacon,  clear........  ......7  @7M
California hams......  
5M
8m
Boneless hams.........  
Cooked  ham............10@12M

Lards.  In Tierces.

4 
4 

25
x5

4M
¿M

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

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

5M 
6M
7M
«M
6
9
6M
Beef.
Extra  Mess.......................10 25
Boneless  ............. 
12  „o
Rump................................12 25

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

Pig«’ Feet.

Tripe.

Kits. 15 lbs........................  
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs....................  1 35
M  bbls, 80 lbs....................  2 50
Kits, 15 lbs........................ 
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs...................   1 25
M  bbls, 80 lbs...................   2 25
P ork............................
Beef  rounds.................
Beef  middles...............
Sheep............................

20
3
10
60

11
10 <
15M
14n

Butte fine.

Rolls, dairy..................
Solid, dairy..................
Rolls,  creamery_____ - 
Solid,  creamery...........
Canned  Meats.

Corned  beef,  2 lb  ........2  15
Corned  beef, 14  lb.........14  75
Roast  beef,  2 lb.........2  16
Potted  ham,  mb.........   60
Potted  ham,  Ms.........  90
Deviled ham,  Mb.........  60
Deviled ham,  Ms.........  
90
Potted  tongue Ms......... 
50
Potted  tongue Ms.........   90

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass........................6t,@  8
Forequarters.............. 5M@  6M
Hind  quarters...........  7H@  t>M
Loins  No.  3...............   9  @12
Ribs............................7  ©12
Ronnds......................  7  @ ?M
Chucks......................  6  @  6
Plates  .......................  5  @  5M
Dressed......................4M@ 5
L oins.........................  © 7
Shoulders...................  © 5m
Leaf Lard...................  6M@
Carcass.....................   7M© 8
Spring Lambs............ 9  @10

Mutton

Pork.

Veal.

Carcass 
7%™  8
Hides  and  Pelts
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows :

Hides.

16 Green No.  1................
© ’M
Green No. 2................
©  6M
Bulls.......................
© 6
40
Cured No. 1................
30
@ »M
Cured No. 2................
27
© 7%
Calfskins,  green No. 1 @10
22
Calfskins, green No. 2 @  8M
20
Calfskins, cured No. 1 @11
18
Calfskins, cured No. 3 ©  0M
gal.
2 00 Pelts,  each................. 50©1  00
1  65
No. 1...........................
& 3M
1  10 No. 2...........................
© 2m
1  25 Washed, fine  ............ @18
Washed, medium.......
©23
Unwashed,fine....  ...11  @13 
Unwashed, medium ..16  @18

Pelts.
Tallow.

Wool.

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

5M

Butters.

AKRON  »TONEWARE. 
M gal., per doi 
............   45
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
8 gal., each.....................   52
10 gal., each.......... ...........  65
12 gal.,  each.....................   78
15 gal. meat-tnbs, each__1  05
20 gal. meat-tnbs, each.... 1  40 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ...2 00
30 gal. meat-tnbs, each__3 40
to 6 gal., per gal............  
6
Chum Dashers, per doz...  86 
M gel- flat or rd. bot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5M

Milkpens.

Churns.

Fine Glazed Milkpens.

Stswpnns.

M gal. flat or rd. bot., aoz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., eacb  5M  * 
M gal. firepron' 
11, doz.  86 
1 gal. flreprooi, ball, doz.l  10
M gal., per doz.................   40
M gal., per doz  ................   50
' to 5 gal., per gal............. 

Jnga.

6M

Tomato Jags.

M gal., per dos.................   50
l gal., each......................  6m
Corks for M gal., per dos..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
M gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00

Sealing Wax.

LAMP  BURNBRS.

5 lbs. In package, per lb...  2
No. 0 Sun..........................  
33
No.  1  Sun..........................  
31
No.  2  Sun..........................  
46
No. 3 Sun...........................   1  00
Tubular.............................. 
50
Security, No.  1...................  60
Security, No. 2...................  80
Nntmeg  ............................   go
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................   1  32
No.  1  Sun..........................   1  48
No.  2  Sun..........................   2  is
No. 0 Sun...........................   1  50
No. 1 Sun...........................  1  60
No. 2 Sun...........................   2 45

Common

Plrst  Quality.

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

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

top,
top,
top,

top,
top,
top,

XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Snn,  crimp 

  2 55
wrapped and labeled 
wrapped and  labeled. . .   2 75 
wrapped and  labeled....  8 76
CHIMNEYS—Peerl  Toe.
No. 1  Snn,  wrapped  and
labeled.  ......................... 3 70
No  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled.  ......................... 4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled............................4 88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,’’ 
for Globe Lam ns............. 
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ........  ......................  9
No. 2 Snn,  plain  bnlb,  per
doz  ................................   1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per doz......... 1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz...  ...  1  (SO
No. 1, Lime  (65c dos)........8 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)........4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  dos)........4  70

La  Beetle.

Rochester.

Blectrlc.

OIL CANE. 

No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  ......   4 00
No. 2, Flint  (8O0 dos)........4 40
Dos.
1 gal tin cans with  spont..  1  25
1 gal galv iron with spont.  1  48
2 gal galv Iron with spout.  2 48
3 gal galv iron with spont.  3 32 
5 gal galv Iron with  spout.  4 28 
3 gal galv Iron with faucet 4  17 
5 gal galv Iron with  faucet 4 67
5 gal Tilting cans..............7 25
5 gal galv iron  Nacefas,...  9 00

Pomp  Cana.

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

LANTERNS.

No.  OTubnlar side lift....  4 00
No.  1 B  Tubular........  ...  6 25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 50
No.  lTub., glass fount....  7 00 
No. 12 Tubular, Bide lamp.14  0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........8 75
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 1 dos.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No. OTubnlar,  cases2 doz.
45
each, box 15 cents.......... 
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5 dos.
each, bbl 35!....................  
I
No. 0 Tubular,  ball’s  eye, 
oases 1 dos. each.....—..  1 IB

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N
drains and Feedstuffs

W heat.

67

Wheat................................ 
W inter W heat  Ptonr. 

Local Brands.

Patents............................. 4 00
Second  Patent...................3 60
Straight..........................   3 25
Clear.................................. 3 00
Graham  ............................3 50
Buckwheat.................  ...  4 10
R y e..................................  3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 26c 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 5*1
Quaker, Ms........................  3 SO
Quaker, Ms......  ...............   3 50
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
45
Pillsbury’s Best  Ms..  4 
Plllsbury’s Best  Ms..  4 
35
Pillsbury’s Best  Ms..  4 
25
Plllsbury's Best  Ms paper.. 
Plllsbury’s Best  ms paper.. 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

Spring Wheat  Flour. 

Meal.

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Dnlnth Imperial, M8...........4 50
Dnlutb Imperial, Ms........   4  40
Duluth Imperial, Ms.........   4 3u
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Ms.......................  4 30
Gold Medal Ms....................4 2
Gold Medal Ms.........................4 10
Parisian, Ms...........................  4 3u
Parisian, Ms............................. 4 20
Parisian. Ms...........................   4 ,0
Ceresota, Ms......................   4  0
Ceresota, Ms......................  4 40
Ceresota, Ms......................  4 30
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ms..............................  4 50
Laurel, M8................................4 40
Laurel, Ms................................4 30
Bolted..........................   ..  1 90
Granulated..............................2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__16 50
No. 1 Corn and  Oats......   .16 00
Unbolted Com Meal..........15 fo
Winter Wheat  Bran..........14 no
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 15 00
Screenings..............................13 00
New corn, car lots............   36M
Less than  car lots............   38
Car  lots............................. 33
Carlots, clipped....................  34 %
Less than  car lota............   36
No. 1 Timothy carlots......   10 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots 
.1   50
Fish and  Oysters

Feed and Mlllstnffs.

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

©
©  10

Per lb. 
©  10@  10 
©  11 
©  15
©

Fresh Fish.
Whiteflsh................
T rout......................
Black Bass..............  8
H alibut...................
Ciscoes or Herring..
Bluefish..................
Live Lobster.........
Boiled Lobster........
Cod 
......................
Haddock.................
No.  1  Pickerel........
Pike.........................
Perch.......................
Smoked White........
Red Snapper...........
Col  River Salmon..
Mackerel 
..............
F. H. Counts...........
F. J   D. Selects........
Selects...................
F. J. D. Standards...
A nchors.................
Standards...............
Favorites................
Bulk.
Counts  ........................
X Selects.....................
selects..........................
Anchor Standards.......
Standards....................
Clams...........................
Shell  Goode.
Oysters, per  100......... 1 25@1  50
Clams,  per 100..........  @1  00

Oysters In Cons.

22

Hardware

H ow   H ardw are  C lerk s  C an   M ake 

Th em selves  Indispensible.

Always  have  a  system  about  your  ar­
rangement  of  stock,  placing  small  num­
bers  and  sizes  to  tbe  left  and  large  to 
the  right  or  vice  versa,  with  the  same 
system  on  tbe  top  and  lower  shelves  all 
through  the  stock.  Classify  tbe  goods 
and  arrange  the  stock  so  that  goods  in 
the  same  class  will  be  in  tbe  same  sec­
tions—builders’  and  mechanics’  tools— 
agricultural  tools  and 
implements— 
builders’  and  cabinet  hardware—struc­
tural,  merchant 
iron  and  heavy  hard­
ware-saddlery,  carriage and  wagon  ma­
terial—paints,  varnishes  and  glass— 
miscellaneous  hardware — fancy 
toys 
and 
sporting  goods—guns  and  gun 
goods—fishing  tackle—cutlery  and  sil­
verware—bicycles  and  accesories.

Try  to  arrange  goods  for  display  with 
an  eye  to  having  at  least  a  sample  of 
every  article  in tbe store in sight.  Goods 
well  displayed  often  sell themselves  and 
with  every  new  experience  in  arrange­
ment  will  come  new  and  original  ideas. 
Should  they  not  come  naturally,  create 
and  cultivate  them.  A  collection  of 
good  ideas  is  a  good  thing  to  have 
in­
cluded  in  your assets.  Keep  one  of  your 
in  tbe  store  for 
employer’s  catalogues 
reference  and  take  his 
invoices  and 
mark  the  costs  with  your  private  cost 
mark  with  the  initials  of  the  jobber  or 
factory  and  date  of  invoice. 
In  a  few 
months  you  will  have  your  employer 
asking  you  from  whom,  what  price  and 
date  he  bought  certain  goods.  By  youT 
method  you  have  tbe  prices  of  all  from 
whom  he  has  bought  and  if  there has 
been  no  market  change  you know who  is 
selling  the  cheapest  and can pick'out the 
lowest  price  from  each  seller,  and  your 
employer  is  beginning  to some  extent  to 
depend  upon  you.  This  gives  you  a 
knowledge  of  costs  and  you  know  now 
what  the  goods  are.  Study  the  cata­
logues  of  different  manufacturers  and 
the  numbers 
from  different  finishes. 
Study  all  the  catalogues.  Take  stove 
catalogues  of  different  houses  and  com­
pare  them  with  the  goods  you  have  in 
stock.  Notice  the  ovens,  sizes,  ventila­
fire-pots, 
tion, 
grates,  radiating  surface,  claims 
for 
different  composition  of  castings,  etc., 
etc.  In  refrigerator  catalogues  study  the 
system  of  ventilation,  traps,  etc.,  and 
be  able  to  tell  your customers  why  cer­
tain  packings  or fillings,  such  as  char­
coal,  mineral  wool,  etc.,  or  dead  air 
space  is  considered  the  better. 
In  fact, , 
catalogues,  whether  your 
study 
house  handles  the  goods  or  not.  A  cus­
tomer  may  call  any  day  for  goods  you 
do  not carry  in  stock  but  know  enough 
about  them  from  the  catalogue  to  make 
a  sale,  and  again  your  next  employer 
may  carry  a  full  line  of  these  goods  and 
you  will  go  to  him  with  some  knowl­
edge  you  would  not  have  had  except  by 
in­
studying  the  catalogue.  Take,  for 
stance,  Pike’s  catalogue  and  you 
learn 
that  Arkansas  stones are tbe  hardest  bad 
suitable  for  engravers,  surgeons  and 
dentists'  tools,  but  too  hard 
for  most 
edge  tools.  When  an  old-timer  calls for 
Quachita  stones  you  w.ll  know  he  wants 
Washita,  the name  having  been  changed 
many  years  ago,  and 
is  best  adapted 
to  most  edge tools.  Thousands  of  things 
that  might  escape  your  attention  in  tbe 
ordinary  course  of  business for years you 
learn  from  these  factory  and  job­
can 
bers’  catalogues. 
If  you  have  not  an 
unusual  retentive  memory  do  not  tax  it 
too  much,  but  have  a  memorandum

flue  system, 

linings, 

tbe 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

book. 
In  doing  your  work,  waiting  on 
customers,  etc.,  etc.,  you  will  see  things 
that  ought  to  be  done,  and  when  you 
have  finished  tbe  more  important  work, 
refer  to  your  memorandums  and  you 
will  be  surprised  at  tbe  number  of 
things  needing  to  be  attended  to  that 
would  have  escaped  your  memory  with­
out  the  note  book.

Cultivate  tbe  acquaintance  of  your 
architects  and  try to  get  them  to  specify 
goods  you  have  in  stock  or on which you 
have  tbe  exclusive  sale.  Learn  what 
goods  they  are  specifying  and  try  to  get 
your  employer  to  carry  them 
in  stock. 
Keep  your  stock  clean  and  study  the 
wants  of  your  customers.  Make  tbe 
traveling  salesmen  your  friends.  They 
will  always  be  glad  to  inform  you,  es­
pecially  on  their  special  brands,  but  do 
not  show  them  or  tell  them  what 
is  on 
the  want  book,  nor  at  what  price  their 
competitor  is  offering  goods  to  your em­
ployer.  No  matter 
if  you  are  getting 
$25  or  S3  per  week,  every  minute of 
business  hours  belongs  to  your  employer 
and  an  earnest  effort  to make every min­
ute  count  will  be  a  splendid  investment 
for  yourself  as  well  as  your  employer. 
Keep  a  memorandum  of  goods  called 
for  that  you  do  not  carry  in  stock,  to­
gether  with  the  date,  and  call  the  atten 
tion  of  the buyer  to  tbe  number  of  calls 
vou  have  for  certain  goods  within  a 
certain  period  of  time.  Do  not  ailow 
the  faults  of  others  to  warp  your  own 
judgment.  Study  human  nature  in your 
employer,  traveling  salesmen  and  your 
customers.  Try  to  see  the  "good  in 
wicked  folks,  tbe  depth  in shallow ftlks, 
tbe  designs  in  haphazard  minds,  tbe im 
pulsive  follies  of  tbe  cunning."  Do 
not 
ignore  them,  but  try  to  discern  to 
what  extent they  exist.

Practice 

in  printing,  marking  and 
making  out  price  lists,  as  this  is  one 
of  the  essential  things  in  a  hardware 
store  and  time 
is  not  wasted  while 
practicing  at  this  important  work.

Study  the  advertisements  in  the  large 
dailies  and  hardware  trade journals,  cat 
alogues,  etc.,  and  try  to 
improve  on 
them  in  changing  them  to  apply  to  your 
own  line.  Study  tbe  style  and  wording 
most  likely  to  attract  attention  and  give 
confidence  and  weight  to  its  meaning.

Do  not  forget  that  it  is  only weak men 
that  look  upon  "selfishness  as  a  virtue, 
rascally  shrewdness  as  enterprise  and 
greed  as  ab ility."

A  writer  once  said  that,  a  "good  re­
liable  set  of  bowels  were  worth  any 
quantity  of  brains.”   Take  good  care  of 
your  health. 
"Y o u   can't  get  something 
for  nothing  even  in  hades;”   and  if  you 
want  to  make  a  hardware  man  of  your 
self  you  will  have  to  "d ig   in”   in  ’99, 
1900  will  find  you  in  a  better  posi­
and 
tion.—Bena 
in  Stoves  and  Hardware 
Reporter.

Assim ulate  Metre politan  M ethods. 

From Stoves  and  Hardware  Reporter.

Cultivate  the  powers  of  observation 
as  much  as  possible  on  all  possible  oc­
casions  and  particularly  when  visiting 
the  city  markets.  Methods  which  can 
not  be adopted  intact  may  be  modified 
to  tbe  needs  of  tbe  smaller  stores  and 
prove  quite  useful  to  the  merchant  in 
promoting  trade.  In  tbe  citv  particular­
ly  the  enterprising  and  observant  mer­
chant  may  pick  up  ideas  which  he  can 
intervals  throughout  the  greater 
use  at 
part  of  the  year. 
The  metropolitan 
stores  particularly  pride  themselves  on 
their  progressiveness  and  versatility  in 
the  display  and  arrangement  of  goods 
in  the  windows  and  in  the  acquisition 
of  up  to-date  and  highly  perfected uten­
In  the  exposition  of 
sils  and  tools. 
goods  in  tbe  windows  especially  and 
in 
the  use  of  mechanical  and  ingenious 
contrivances  the  country  merchant  can

the 

like 

pick  up  many pointers  which  will  prove 
invaluable  to  him. 
It  is  said  that  be  is 
tbe  rich  man  who  can  avail  himself  to 
all  men’s  faculties.  Tbe  broadminded 
dealer  is  tbe  one  who  is  continually  en­
deavoring  to  glean  useful  infoimation 
from  all  quarters  and  strives  to  discern 
the  very  best  possible  means  by  which 
bis  business  may  be  conducted.  His 
mind  should  be 
full-celled 
honeycomb  stored  from  all  flowers.  An 
idea  which  can  not  be  used  one  time 
may  be  serviceable  at  another  time. 
It 
is  always  well  to  keep  a  reserve  fund  of 
plans  and  ideas  in  the  store  room  of  tbe 
brain  so  that  tbe  stock  of  then)  may 
never  be  wholly  exhausted  or  any  loss 
occur  from  their  total  absence  in  tbe 
shelves  of  the  cerebrum  and cetebellum. 
No  merchant  need  feel  when  contem­
plating  tbe  vast  resources  and  complex 
methods  of  the  city  establishments  that 
he can  do  nothing  to  emulate  their  ex­
ample  or  that  he  is  debarred  from  it  by 
his  limited  and  slender  resources.  Let 
him  use  what  he  can  in  a  smaller  way 
and  on  a  more  diminutive  scale,  and 
thus  assimilate  the  theories  and  keep 
them 
in  mind  so  that  be  can  employ 
them  as  his  business  develops  and  en­
larges.

When  a  woman  stops  crying  over 
trouble  and  begins  to  think,  it  is  a 
sign  that  she  is  getting  old.

When  a  man  visits  your  orchard  and 
meets  the  watch  dog,  it  is  a  sign  that 
his  errand  will  be  fruitless.

►>  Bicycle  Dealers

4   Who  have  not  secured  the  “  W ORLD ”  
agency  will  be  almost  sorry  they  didn't 
f f   speak for it—after it is too late.  “ W O RLD " 
wheels are easy sellers—stay sold and every 
“ W O RLD ”  sells another “ W ORLD.”   We 
XT  can take care of a few more good agencies.
£   Write for catalogue and  wholesale  prices.
  We are Michigan selling agents. 
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12  West  Bridge  Street, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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SPRAYERS

of  all  kinds.

Brass,

Copper 

and Tin
Write  for  prices.

Foster. Stevens &  go.

Grand  Rapids.  Mich.

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

Wm.  Brummeler & Sons, ZZSXZSSSL

buying elsewhere’

T h e  Adoption  o f  Pharm acy  as  a  Pro­

fession.

[c o n c l u d e d   f r o m   p a g e   e i g h t e e n ] 

counted  on  the  fingers.  As  to  the  sup* 
ply  and  demand,  please  remember  what 
I  have  quoted  from  Professor  Prescott 
about  thoroughly-trained  pharmacists. 
What  success  as a  proprietor?  That  de­
pends  on  your  adaptability  both  to 
pharmacy  and  to  business  which  re­
quires  strict  and  close attention.  There 
is  no  business  requiring  more  minute 
detail,  more  watchfulness  and  care,  than 
the  retail  drug  business;  and there is  no 
business  but  will  bring  larger  dividends 
in  dollars 
if  close  application,  hard 
work  and  long  hours  be  given  it,  and  if 
any  here  to-night  are  minded  to  enter  it 
with  only  a  view  to  the  dollars  there 
may  be  in  it,  I  would  most  emphatical­
ly  say,  don't  do  it.

line 

To  be  successful  in  a  business  sense, 
you  must  ha’ e  a  good  common  school 
education.  The  young  people  of  Trav­
erse  City  have  special  advantages  along 
this 
in  our  excellent  high  school 
and  the  Traverse  City  Business College. 
If  circumstances  are  such  that  you  can 
not  complrte  the  Latin  or  Scientific 
Course  make  the  best  possible  use of 
your  time  by  taking  one or more  studies 
in  either.  You  have  about  decided  to 
take  up  pharmacy,  but  you  are  not 
ready  to  nor  are  situated  to  enter col­
lege.  You  could  take  the chemistry and 
laboratory  work  and  Latin  of  the  high 
school;  or,  if  you  have  bad  these,  you 
could  take  some  commercial  work  in the 
Business  College,  and  at  the  same  time 
study  the  Pharmacopoeia  and  Reming­
ton's  Pharmacy.  Other  books  that  could 
be  studied  at  borne  with  profit  are  Al- 
per’s  “ The  Pharmacist  at  Work”   and 
Professor  Oldberg’s  “ Home  Study  in 
Pharmacy,”   also  some  good  work  on 
materia  medica.  Another  line  of  study 
which  is  helpful  is  that  of  the  National 
Institute  of  Pharmacy,  Chicago.  It  con 
sists  of  two  terms  of  fifteen  weeks  each. 
The  lectures  are  mailed  you  each  week, 
with  questions  on  the  preceding  lesson. 
These  must  be  answered  and  will  be 
returned  to  you  corrected,  together  with 
your  percentage.  But  all  these  are  only 
helps  and  again  I  would 
impress  upon 
you  the  desirabiltv  of  at  least  a  twc 
years’  course  at  the  University  of Mich­
igan  or  some  other  equally  good  school. 
Are  you  contemplating  the  study  of 
medicine?  Let  me  urge  you  to  first  take 
the  Pharmacy  Course  You  will  then  be 
better  equipped  for  your  profession,  and 
will  be  glad  you  profited  by  this  ad­
vice.
The  thoroughly  equipped  pharmacist 
is  not a  physician ;  neither is  the  physi­
cian  a  pharmacist  by  any  means  unless 
he  has  specially  prepared  himself  as 
such.
Again.be  who  would  succeed  in  phar­
macy  must  not  only  love  his  work,  but 
be  willing  to  work  bard,  endure  long 
hours  or  days  and  be  faithful,  methodi­
cal,  careful,  saving  and  self-sacrificing 
and  self-denying.  He  will  find  a  com­
pensation  not  counted  by  dollars  and 
cents;  and  in business,  while never rich, 
as  we  count  riches  to-d  y,  he  will  gain 
a  good  living,  be  able  to  put  a  little 
in 
the  bank,  and 
in  'the  twilight  days  of 
bis  life,  with  her  who  has  been  through 
all  bis  faithful helpmeet,  live  on  Easy 
Street,  enjoying  the  consciousness  ol 
having  done  bis  full  share  of  relieving 
the  suffering  of  this  world  and of having 
an  honored  name  and  place  among  bis 
ft-liowmen. 
is 
much  of  encouragement  in  pharmacy. 
To-day  in  the  practice  of  medicine,  the 
diagnosis  of  disease  is  not  in  the  “ feel 
ing  of  the  pulse”   and  “ looking  at  the 
tongue.”  
infectious  and  con­
tagious  diseases  examinations for bacilli 
must  be  made;  in  other diseases  tests 
for  sugar,  albumen,  pus,  etc.  Then 
there  is  the  demand  lor food,  milk  and 
In  these  and  others  the 
other  analyses. 
microscope  comes 
into  play.  Because 
of  the 
lack  of  time  of  the  busy  physi­
cian, 
for  the  care  and  watchfulness 
these  require,  he  turns  to  the  pharma­
cist,  who,  by  careful  training  and  with 
well-equipped  laboratory,  is  competent 
to  work  out  these  painstaking  details. 
Also  there  is  demand  for  competent 
pharmacists 
lines, 
such  as  mines  and  mining,  manufactur­

in  many  different 

Professionally, 

In  the 

there 

ing,  etc.,  and  position 
in  school  and 
colleges,  the  army  and  navy,  etc.,  so 
that  be  who  goes  beyond  the  tradesman 
and  makes  the  most of  every  opportun­
ity  will  not  only  add  to  bis  exchequer 
but  be  prospered  in  the  truest  and  best 
sense.  And  think  of  the  knowledge and 
the  pleasure  that  come  to  him  as  the 
wonders  of  nature 
in  the  mineral  and 
vegetable  kingdom  are  opened  up  to 
him,  and  he  rejoices  that  he 
lives 
among  such  surroundings  and  in  such 
an  age,  and  can  not  help  but  acknowl­
edge  in  bis  heait  He  who  is  the  Creator, 
of all.

I  trust  that,  among  so  many  young 
men,  amid  such  helpful  surroundings, 
there  are  some  who  will  find  dtlight 
in 
taking  up  and  pursuing  this  profession, 
and  who  may  some  day  become  worthy 
successors  of  the  honored  men  I  have 
mentioned  and  others.  But  don’t  lose 
your 
identity  and  your  profession  in  a 
store  where  pharmacy is made secondary 
to  soda  water,  china  and  glassware,  ten 
cent  counters,  etc.  Honor the profession 
and  it  will  honor you.
There  is  a  fascination  in  the  study  of 
pharmacy  to  young  women.  They  make 
good  students  and  almost  invariably  are 
successful  in  their  first  examination  for 
a  Board  of  Pharmacy  certificate.  At 
the  examinations  they  give  evidence  of 
thorough 
preparation. 
They  make  good  clerks  and  are  gener­
ally  successful. 
In  looking  over  the list 
of  the  alumni  of  the University of Mich­
igan,  I  find  the  women  graduates  bold­
ing  responsible  positions—I  also  find 
that  a 
large  percentage  of  them  were 
successful  in  changing  their  surnames.
It  has  given  me  pleasure  to  talk  to  so 
large  and  so  attentive  a  company  of 
young  men  and  women,  I  thank  you  all 
for  your  interest  and  attention,  and  will 
be  pleased  if  I  can  assist  you  further  in 
any  way 
in  making  your  choice  of  a 
profession.

preliminary 

The  G rocer’s  Burden.

Take up the grocer’s burden—
He stood your friend in trouble,
And now to wait lorever 
Of never-pay-up peoples 

Go pay him for your feed;
Served you  in time of need;
On unpaid bills high piled 
W ill starve his wife and child.

Take up the grocer’s burden—
His patience has been great,
But he, too, needs some money,
A check would be first rate.
Do not by sullen silence 
Allow  his hopes to wane—
To steal another’s profit 
For your unlawful gain.

Take up the grocer’s burden—
Remember how he came 
And filled your mouth on credit—
To cheat him is your shame.
Now, when you are obtaining 
The funds for which you sought,
Forget not what you promised—
Go,  pay for what you bought.
Take up the grocer’s burden—
It’s time for his reward—
Nor blame him if he asks you 
To settle for your board.
Don’t get in crusty humor 
When he requests a lift,
-  But calmly then remember 
You’re not-so very swift.

Take up the grocer’s burden—
You need not try again 
To call aloud for credit 
From other grocer men;
For you wil* find they do not 
Care whether you  exist—
The silent, sullen peoples 
Will have you on the list.

His  Luck.

rejected.

Harry—So  you  didn’t  get  that  pretty 

Miss  Dimple,  after  all?

Dick—N o;  I  had  the good  luck  to  be 

Harry—Sour grapes!  You  were 

just 

dead  gone  on  her.

Dick—I  admit  it. 

I  am  now,  when 
you  come  to  that.  But  I ’m  in  luck,  all 
the  same  When  I  meet  her  and  her 
in  society,  she  gives  her  at­
nusband 
tention  to  me,  which 
is  just  heaven, 
and  her  husband  all  the  time  is  torn  by 
pangs  of 
is - well,  the 
other  place  to  him.

jealousy,  which 

Never  refer  to  a  woman’s  age;  some 
women  have  bad  the  family  bible  sup­
pressed  on  that  account.

Never marry  a  girl  who  is  not 

indus­
trious—you  might  want  her  to  support 
you  sometime.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

14 00

02 50
2 50
2 60
2 70
2 80

WIRE  GOODS

 

 

 

WIRE

TRAPS

80
Bright..........................................................  
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s..........................................................  
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
80
Stanley Bnle and Level Co.’s .................dls 
70
Steel and Irrr  .............................................70410
Try and Bevels...........................................  
60
M itre............................................................ 
50
com. smooth,  com.

LBVBLS
SQUARBS

SHBBT  IRON

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

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

Nos. 10 to 14...................................02  70 
2  70 
Nos. 15 to 17............... 
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 Eyes........................................ per ton 20 00
Steel, Game......................................... 
75410
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s .........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley 4  Norton’s 70410
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion.........................per doz 
1  25
Bright M arket........................................... 
70
Annealed  Market........................................  
70
Coppered Market.......................................  6)410
Tinned Market...........................................   60
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ........................   3 80
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................  2 40
An Sable.................................................dls 40A1C
Putnam...................................................dls 
5
Capwell.................................................   ..net list
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s Genuine.............................................. 
40
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought.........  
75
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
75
Bird  Cages.................................................. 
Pumps, Cistern............................................  
Screws, New L ist.................................. 
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50410410
50
Dampers, American..............................  
600 pound casks..................
854
Per pound...........................
9
SHOT
D -op............................................................  1  45
B B and Buck.............................................  1  70
54©54............................................................  17
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary
according to  comnosltion.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................«715
14x201C, Charcoal........................................   7 1 0
20x14 IX, Charcoal........................................   8 5)

MISCELLANEOUS

TIN—Melyn Grade

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRBNCHBS

Each additional X on this grade, 01.25.

SOLDER

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................   6 25
14x20 IC, Charcoal........................................   6 2 >
10x14 IX, Charcoal........................................   7 5)
14x20 £X, Charcoal........................................   7 50

Each additional X on this grade, 01.50. 

ROOFING  PLATES

.

......................  5 50
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean..
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  6 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean............................  11  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   <0 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   12  00
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, ) 
14x56 IX. for No  9  Boilers, f P®1 P°una-  •

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE 

rw.)]nd 

10

4)
70.

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS AND  BIT5

 

 

 

AXES

BOLTS

.. per lb

BLOCKS

BARROWS

Snell’s........................................................... 
70
jennlng  genuine...................................... 25&10
Jennings  Imitation....................................60410
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................................................... 
Garden.................................................  net  30 00
Stove......................................................  
60A10
Carriage new list.................................... 
70
Plow......................................  
go
BUCKETS
Well,  plain...................................................• 3 50
BUTTS.  CAST
Cast Loose  Pin, figured.............. 
70&10
Wrought Narrow.........................................70&10
Ordinary Tackle
70
Cast Steel.......... CROW  BARS
Ely’s  1-10...........
Sick's C. F ..............................  
n  TÌ 
Ur. u ......... ..  .............. . 
Mnsket...................................  
Rim  Fire........... CARTRIDQBS
Central  Fire............................
CHISELS
Socket Firmer..
Socket Framing
Socket Comer..
Socket Slicks.............................
Morse’s Bit Stocks...................  
go
Taper and Straight Shank................. . . . . .. .504 5
Morse’s Taper Shank................................... 50&  5
Com. 4 piece, 8 in............................doz. net 
6')
Corrugated..............................................  
1  35
Adjustable.............................................. dls 40&10
30&10
Clark’s small, 018;  large, 026............. 
Ives’, 1, 018; 2, 024; 3, «30.......................  
25
New American................................. 
70&10
Nicholson’s............................................. ;; 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................6C&10
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27. 
2
List  12 
1

CAPS
.......................... ™

...   ppr m
.....  ppr in
m

GALVANIZED  IRON

EXPANSIVE  BITS

PILES—New  List

ELBOWS

16......... 

DRILLS

14 

13 

 

Discount,  70

15 
GAUGES

MATTOCKS

KNOBS—New List

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...................... 60&10
Door, mineral, Jap. trim m ings................... 
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................ 
80
Adze Bye............................. .......«16 00, dls  60410
Hunt Eye.....................................«15 00, dls 60410
Hunt’s........................................  «18 50, dls 20A10
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
40
40
Coffee, P. S. A W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables. 
Coffee, Landers. Ferry A Clark’s...............  
40
Coffee, Enterprise........................................ 
so
Stebbln’s Pattern.......................................... 60410
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................60410
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

MOLASSES  OATES

MILLS

NAILS

 

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

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire
Steel nails, base...........................................  2 3
Wire nails, base...........................................   2 30
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
06
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
8 advance....................................................  • 
10
6 
20
4 advance.................................................... 
30
3 
 
45
2 advance...................................................  
70
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
50
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance.................................   .. 
25
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  6 advance......................................  
45
Barrel % advance..................................... 
85
Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy................................   ©50
Sciota Bench................................................ 
qo
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, firstquality.......................................  ©50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme...............................................60A10A10
Common, polished.................................. 
704 5
Iron and  Tinned  ........................................ 
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
45
“A” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATBNT  PLANISHED  IRON 

Broken packages Vic per pound  extra. 

RIVETS

PLANES

PANS

HAMMERS

StRpI 

HOUSB  FURNISHING  GOODS

Maydole A Co.’s, new  list......................dls  33*
Kip’s  .................... .................................dls 
25
Yerkes A Plumb’s....... ........................... dl« t0A10
Voenn’s Soil«* 
11*1 
mi
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50410 
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

T h e  Qualities  o f  a  Successful  S a le s ­

man.

VVbat  are  tbe  essential  qualities  of  a 
successful  salesman?  There  are  a  few 
points  that  should  be  justly  considered 
as  esssential,  and  first  in  the  list,  as  1 
consider  it,  is  higher  moral  character. 
A few  may  place  this quality down lower 
in  the  list. 
I  believe  it  to  be  the  first. 
It  is  not  simply  to  be  above  drink  and 
other  vicious  dis^ipaton,  but  also  to  be 
honest  and  truthful  and  to  have  other 
cardinal  virtues,  to  be  honest  with 
his  house  and  to  be  honest  with  his  cus­
tomers,  bis  word  to  be  as  good  as  an 
United  States  bond.  With  such  a  man, 
all  that  the  bouse  wants  or  cares to know 
when  any  question  may  come  up  is  that 
Salesman  A  says  so.  How  the  bouse 
comes  to  rely  on  such  a  man,  and  bow- 
close  a  bond  is established between him­
self  and  his  customers  as  well  as  be­
tween  the  house  and  them !

I  do  not  mean  that  a  man  is  required 
always  to  tell  the  whole  truth,  that  is, 
all  that  he  knows  (as  may  be  demanded 
of  a  witness 
in  our  courts).  But  the 
salesman  who  is  successful  in  the  long 
run,  and  who  builds  up  a  trade  that 
sticks 
is  a  man  who  tells  tbe  truth,  a 
man  whom  his  customers  have  come  to 
confide  in  and  are  not  afraid  of.

learning  more  about  them. 

The  second  qualification  is,  that  the 
salesman  knows his business.  Thorough­
ness  is  the  word.  Know  all  you  possibly 
can  about  tbe  goods  you  sell.  Always 
be 
It  is  a 
iarge 
line  of  goods  that  the  traveling 
man  these  days  has  to  master,  but  ii 
you  are  aiming  at  the  first  rank  among 
salesmen,  learn  your  goods  thoroughly 
from  A  to  Z.

It  is  only  second  in  importance  to  th« 
learning  of  your  goods  to  study  and 
learn  your  customers.  This  is  the  strong 
point  of  some  salesmen,  and 
it  is  of 
very  great  value.  When  a  salesman  has 
been  on  a  territory  for  two  years  he 
ought  to  know  the  best  way  to  reach 
every  customer.  I  do  not  mean  that  any 
salesman  can  make  a  valuable  customer 
of  every  merchant  on  his  territory,  but 
I  do  say  that  he  should  have  studied 
every  desirable  merchant  so  thoroughly 
that  he  knows  the  best  way  in  which  he 
ought  to  be  able  to  get  in  his  work  with 
him,  and  he  should  equally  be  deter­
mined  to  win  tbe  man  in  the  end.  So,
I  say  be  thorough  through  and  through.
The  third,  qualification  is  diligence. 
falls 
The  easy-going, 
away  behind 
In  tbe  old 
McGuffey  reader  that  I  used  to  study  in 
the  district  school  there  was  a  reading 
lesson  taken  from  an  oration  by  one  ol 
the  leading  orators  of  tbe  generation 
that  followed  the  American  revolution, 
whose  subject  ran  as  follows: 
“ There 
is  no  excellence  without  great  labor.’ ’ 
For  more  than  forty  years  those  words 
have  been  ringing 
in  my  ears  and  in­
spiring  me  to  fresh  endeavors.

in  the  race. 

salesman 

lazy 

A  successful  salesman  is  no  exception 
to  the  rule.  He  must  be  instant  in  sea­
son  and  out  of  season.  He  can  net 
make  it  his  study  or  practice  to  put 
in 
five  days  or  less  in  the  week. 
If  be  is 
going  to  succeed  and  be  in  the  front 
rank  his  week  will  have six  full  days  in 
it,  and  not  a  day  less.  On  tbe  road  his 
chief  concern  will  not  be  as  to  where  he 
will  find  the  best  hotel  just  ahead  or the 
most  fun  with  the  boys,  but  how  be  can 
secure  tbe  most  trade.  The  painstak­
ing,  plodding,  persistent  worker  will 
leave  the  lazy  genius  far  in  the  lurch  in 
the  long  run.  We  have  only  to  refer  to 
our  own  observation  and  experience— 
each  one  of  us—to  confirm  this  state­
ment.

My  fourth  qualification  is  a  cheerful, 
good  temper.  Do  not  wear  a  long  face, 
is  the  gospel  that  this  teaches.  What 
if 
it  does  rain  or snow  when  we think 
there  ought  to  be  sunshine?  What  if 
we  did  lose  the  order  just  now  that  we 
expected?  We  may  justly  be  sorry  for 
it,  and  we  may,  also,  properly  express 
our  sorrow  for 
it,  but  why  get  sour  or 
mad  about  it? 
It  should  spur  us  to  re­
newed  effort  to  get  the  next  plum  that is 
in  sight.  When  I  lose  something,  either^ 
through  my  fault  or  that  of  someone 
else,  I  make 
it  my  practice  to  try  to 
even  things  up  by  getting  something 
that  is  ahead.  Sometimes  it  goes  hard 
to  bear  tbe  disappointment,  but  let  us 
bear  it  and  try  to  come  up  smiling  and 
always  make  the  best  of  it.

System  and  punctuality  togtthermake 
my  next  qualification  on  tbe 
list.  The 
successful  salesman,  as a  rule,  bas  bis
work  ail  carefully  planned  out,  then  be 
works  to  it.  His  trip  is  arranged  care 
fully  for  the  best  results,  and  he  plans, 
insofar  as  he  can,  to  visit  his  custom­
ers  as  frequently  and  at  such  times  as 
will  promise  the  most  trade,  and  then 
he  follows  tbe  schedule  rigidly,  except 
in  very  special  and justifiable cases.  He 
advises  his  customers  regularly 
in  ad­
vance  of  bis  visits,  and  his  appoint­
ments  are  carefully  kep t.

Some  salesmen  make  a  great  mistake 
n  this.  Their  routes  are  changed 
fre­
quently  and  for  insufficient  causes,  so 
that  their  customers  as  well  as  they 
themselves,  come  to  place  little  reliance 
on  their  advance  cards.  You  may  de­
pend  on  it  that  your  customers  should 
be  able  to  rely  on  your  being  there  by 
your  card  and  they  will  do  so  if  your 
rade  relations  with  them  are  what  they 
should  be. 
It  is  greatly  to  your  and our 
benefit  for  you  to  establish  fixedly  the 
reputation  with  your  customers  of  being 
prompt  in  keeping  your  appointments. 
If  you  are  not  so,  how  can  you  or  we 
expect  that  a  customer  will  bold  tbe  or­
der  for  you.  Besides,  if  a  man  of  our 
acquaintance  keeps  bis  engagement  of 
any  nature  with  us  carefully, we  come  to 
have  a  growing  respect  for  and  confi­
dence  in  him  which  are  likely  to  exer­
cise  a  more  or  less  potent  influence.

These  qualifications  we  believe  to  be 
the  leading  ones  of  the  successful  sales 
man.  There  are  other  very  desirable 
characteristics,  such  as  the  ability—we 
sometimes  call  it  the  faculty—of  read­
ing  men,  “ sizing  them  u p "  it  is  some­
times  called.  It  may  be  almost intuition 
with  some  to  do  this,  but  as  a  rule,  the 
only  safe  way  is  to  study  men  with  care 
as  we  meet  them.

Then,  there  is  that  wonderful  quality 
which  we  call  tact;  tuo  men  try  to  do 
the  same  thing.  Equal  in  ability.  One 
man  bas  tact,  the  ether  bas  not.  The 
latter  fails.  The  man  with  tact  suc­
ceeds.  Every  t  me  we  fail  to  do  what 
we  feel  we  should  have  accomplished, 
let  us  study  carefully  the  cause  of  fail­
ure,  go  to  the  root  of  it  and  we will gen­
erally  find  that 
it  was  more  tact  that 
was  needed.  Tbe  tactful  man  will  use 
all  bis  resources  to  best  advantage  and 
is  bound  to  succeed.

I  have  not  held  up  before  you  this 
ideal  salesman  without  knowing  some­
thing  of  the  labor  and  trials  that  are 
encountered  on  tbe  road.  For  thiiteen 
years  I  lived  on  the  road,  a  representa­
tive  of  one  bouse.  The man that  I  have 
described  is  not  tbe  man  that  I was.  He 
is  the  man  that,  in  every  respect.  I wish 
I  bad  been  and  I  believe  most  heartily 
that  he  is  tbe  man  for  you  to  copy.

R.  A.  K irk.

A re  You  a  Sleep er?
A  sleeper  is  one  who  sleeps.
A  sleeper  is  that  in  which  the  sleeper 

sleeps.
A  sleeper  is  that  on  which  runs  the 
sleeper  which'carries  the  sleeper  while 
he  sleeps.
Therefore,  while  the  sleeper  sleeps  in 
the  sleeper, 
carries  the 
sleeper over  the  sleeper  under the  sleep­
er,  until  the  sleeper  which  carries  the 
sleeper  jumps  off  tbe  sleeper  by striking 
the  sleeper  under  the  sleeper,  and  there 
is  no  longer any  sleeper  sleeping  in  the 
sleeper  on  the  sleeper.

tbe  sleeper 

W ANTS  COLUMN.

Advertisem ents  w ill  be  inserted  under this 
head  for tw o  cents  i   word  the  first  insertion 
and  one cent a  word  for  each  subsequent  in­
sertion.  No advertisem ents taken for iess than 
> 5 cents.  Advance paym ent.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

9'0

9l<

909

lished trade.  Address Mrs. A  A. Tyler. 

1  late A.  A.  Ty er  at 641  South  Division  St., 
Grand  Rapids.  Fine  location  and  well estab­

IX)R  SALE—HARDWARE  STOCK  OF  THE 
1710R  SALE—A  RAKE  OPPORTUNITY—A 

tlouri-hing  business;  clean  stock  of .hoes 
. 
and furnishing  goods;  established  cash  trade; 
best store and  location  in  city;  located  among 
tbe best iron mines in the country.  The coming 
spring will open  up with  a  boom  for  this  city 
and prosperous  times  for years  to  come  a  cer­
tainty.  Rent  free  for  six  months,  also  a  dis­
count on stock;  use of fixtures free.  Store  and 
location  admirably  -'dapted  for  any  line  of 
business and conducted  at small  expense.  Get 
in line  before  too  late.  Failing  health  reason 
for  selling.  Address  P.  O.  Box  804,  Negau- 
nee, Mich. 

__________________913

906

ir»OR  SALE-A  SHINGLE  AND  SAW  MILL 
with¿0 horse power  engine  and  boiler,  ail 
in  good  order.  Would  t  ade  for general  mer­
chandise.  For particulars,  address  Box 7.  Mt. 
Pleasant.  Mich. 
9'2
DRUw a n d  n o t io n  stock  fo r  sa l e  in
nice town for 31,500.  Address  T.  P.  Stiles, 
908
Millersburg. Elkhart Co.. Indiana. 
1j>OR  L IT E R A T U R E .  STATISTICAL  RE 
ports,  and  information  generally  about  the 
pulf coast and  south  Mississippi,  the  center  of 
the “Yellow Pine  Belt,”  write  the  “Pascagoula 
Commercial'  lub.” Scranton,  Miss. 
fjV>R S \LE—A  40-ACRE  PECAN  ORCHARD, 
X1  partial  bearing,  also  two  beautiful  homes, 
all  on  Mississippi  gulf  coast;  tlso  pine  lands. 
For  particulars  write  F,  H.  Lewis,  Scranton, 
Miss. 
\ e / a k t £ i/—P a r t n e r  t o  t a k e   h a l f  i n -
VV  terest in a general store  and  fish  business; 
the most paying iudustry in Michigan.  Cannot 
attend to it alone since tbe syndicate took effect, 
on acconnt  of  tbe  number  of  orders  being  re­
ceived.  For particulars address Neil Gallagher, 
St. James.  Mich. 
911
Mo n ey—if  you a r e a  m ill m a n.  h e r e 
is a chance for both you and me.  M\  shin­
gle  and  lumber  mill  for  sale  for  cash;  about 
4iM.00u.00 i  feet  logs  in  yard;  about  2,000,000 
shingle stock ready to cut, all  on  cash  contract. 
Mill re-dy to start April 3.  Future contracts in 
si^ht  for  three  years. 
J.  J.  Robbins  Boyne 
Fars.  Mich. 

IjVlR SALE—NEW,  CLEAN  S I OCK  OF  EN- 

eral merchandise in small town in Southern 
Michigan  on  Michigan  Central  Railroad;  ele­
gant farming country;  no competition within  a 
radius  of  twelve  miles;  stock  invoices  about 
$3,000.  This is a  good  business  and  good  loca- 
t on and must be so'd for cash;  no trades.  Ad­
dress  F. N.. care Michigan Tradesman. 
IjX)R  S.iLE—BOUSE  AND  L  T  IN  THAV- 
X1  erse  <  ity;  also  store  building  adjoining 
Steinberg's ope-a house.  Will sell eitheror both 
cheap.  S  Cohen.  Muskegon  Mich. 
900
AIT ANTED —GENERAL  STOCK  IN  THRIV 
vv 
ing  town  in  exchange  for  50-acre  fruit 
and vegetable farm, true® miles from city limits 
of Grand  Rapids.  Good  buildings  and  excel­
lent  soil.  Address  No.  891,  care  Micnigan 
Trade  man. 
s91
Drug  >t o r e  fo r  sa l e  o r t r a d e in   a
town of 800  inhabitants on  South  Haven  & 
Eastern Railroad in Van  Bnren  county.  Stock 
will  invoice  ab'  Ut  $1,00°;  has  been  run  on y 
about four  Tears;  new  fixture«;  low  rent.  Ad 
dress No. 897. care Michigan Tradesman.  897

tory $1,5' 0;  d»ily sales from $15 to $20.  Rea­
son  for selling, wish to q .it  the  busimss.  Ad­

dress No. 893, care Michigan Tradesman.  893

■ RUG  STOCK  FOR  SALE—WILL  INVKN- 
Money to  p a t e n t y our id e a s may  b e

obtained through our aid.  Patent Record 
Bdtimore. Md. 
885
JjiORbALE—IMPROVED FARM: GOODwEN 
X1  eral cropping, gardening and  fruit  raisiug: 
near market.  Address  Albert  Baxter,  Muske 
gon. Mich. 
88"
R a r e c h a n c e—h a l f in t e r e s t  in  n ic e
grocery business,  in  one  of  the  best  loca­
tions  in  Grand  Rapids.  Reason  for  selling 
must leave  city.  Address  No.  886  care  Mien 
lgan Tradesman. 
8«6
Big  st o r e  fo b  r e n t —o n e   or  t h r e e
brick  stores,  22x75  feet  each,  with  base­
ments and 10 foot  arches. 
' Would  make  a big 
department store.  F.  L.  Burdick  &  Co.’s  old 
stand.  The-mcst  central  and  best  location  In 
Southern  Michigan.  Write  to  Levi  Cole,  Men- 
dnn. Micb. 
db1  AA A  WILL  BUY  A  GOOD  JEAELRY 
qp X ' U " v   stock, including fixtures.  Locut» d 
in good town in Northern Michigan.  No oppo­
sition.  Address No. 889, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

__  

888

904

8a9

Michigan.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $5,  00. 

Michigan in city of 3,< 00inhabitants  Sales 
last  year.  $1.000;  stock  invoices  about  $1.200. 
Address No. 879. care Michigan Tradesman  879 
ANTED —SHOES,  C LO TH IN G ,  DRY 
goods.  Address  R.  B.,  Muskegon,  Mich.
699

FOR - ALE—GROCERY STOCK IN CENTRAL 
w
fM)R  SALE —CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK 
17IOR  SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  SHOES.  OWN- 

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

.  ers  wish  to  discontinue  shoe  department. 
Competition light.  Address No.  869, care  Mich­
igan T  adesman. 
INOR  SALE—HALF  INTEKEST  IN  OLD  ES- 
X1  tablished meat market, located in  excellent 
residence  district of Grand  Rapids.  Investiga­
tion solicited.  Address  No.  86j,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
EAOR  SALE —WELL-ESTABLISHED  AND 
X?  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. 

IfiOR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 

1  splendid fanning country.  No trades.  Ad­
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman 
680

869

806

868

866

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

W ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 
trv;  any  quantities  Write  me.  Orrin  J. 
Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 
8-0
\ \ T E  PAY SPOT CASH ON TRACK  FOR BUT- 
V? 
It  will  pay you  to get  our 
prices and  particulars.  Stroup  & Carmer,  Per- 
rinton, Mich. 
W ANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mich.  _______________________556

ter and eggs. 

771

M IS C E L L A N E O U S .

W ANTED—THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCED 
dry goods salesman.  Good references  re­
quired.  Stale  salary  expected.  Address  Box 
907
341  Cadillac, Mich. 
WANTED  POSITION  BY YOUNu  MAN,  A 
registered  pharmacist  Good  references. 
Address  45  North  Valley  Ave.,  Grand  Rapids,
901
Mich.
W ANTED—POSITION  AS  MANAGER  OR 
head clerk  in  country  store.  Have  had 
valuable  experience  as  manager  of  a  lumber 
atore  having  anuual  sales  of  $50,000.  Salary, 
moderate.  Address  No.  890,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
890
W AN - ED  AT  ONCE  A  GOOD SPECIALTY 
sale-man for the  grocery and  drug  trade. 
Must have  A  No.  1  references,  and  only  first- 
class men  need  apply.  The  Dunkley  Celery  & 
896
Preserving Co., Kalamazoo, Mich. 

îa s E H E S E S E L s a s a s E s a s p ^ E S i

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LABELS 
FOR
GASOLINE
DEALERS

r

The  Law of  1889.

Every  druggist,  grocer  or  other 
person  who  shall  sell  and  deliver 
at  retail  any  gasoline,  benzine  or 
naphtha  without  having  the  true 
name thereof and the words "explo­
sive when  mixed  with  air”  plainly 
printed  upon  a  label  securely  at­
tached  to  the  can,  bottle  or  other 
vessel  containing  the  same  shall 
be punished by a fine not exceeding 
one hundred dollars.

to 

We  are  prepared 

furnish 
labels which enable dealers to com 
ply  with  this  law,  on  the  follow­
ing  basis:

i  M . . .............. 7 5 c
5   M ....................... 5 0 c  per M
1 0 M ................ .4 0 c per M
ao   M .......................3 5 c  per M
5 0   M ....................... 3 0 c  per M

Tradesman  Company,

Grand  R apids,  M ich.

■ S H s a s a s a s a s a s H S E S E s a s J

Travelers* Time  Tables.
CHICAGO"‘•SESr**

Chicago.

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

•Every  day. 

Others week days only.

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan  Business Men’s Association 

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

retary, E. A .  S to w e, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

A .  Sto w e, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association

President.  C.  G.  J ew et t,  Howell;  Secretary 

He n r y  C. Min n ie,  Eaton Rapids.

H C T D A I T   Grand Rapids & Western.
1 / C   I   K v l l   I   f 

Nov.  13 1898.

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids......... 7:00am  1:35pm  5:25pi
Ar. Detroit.................... 11:40am  5:45pm 10:05pr
Lv. Detroit..................... 8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pn
Ar.  Grand  Rapids........12:55pm  5:20pm 10:55pir
Lv. G R7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. GR 11:45am  9:30pir 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Geo.  D s H a v e n .  General Pass. Agent

Detroit  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President, J o seph K n ig h t ;  Secretary, E. Ma r k s , 

221 Greenwood ave:  Treasurer, C. H. F r in k .

President,  F r a n k   J .   Dy k ;  Secretary,  H omer 

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

President, P. F .  T r e a n o r ;  Vice-President, J ohn 

Saginaw  Mercantile  Association 
McB r a t n ie ;  Secretary,  W.  H.  L e w is.

ooing  e a st

(In effect Feb. 5,1899.)

U IViai T LI  Detroit and Milwaukee Div
r i p   A  | \ i n   Trank  Railway  System 
Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit & N Y.........t 6:45am  t  9:55pm
Detroit  and  East..................tl0:16am  t 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit &  East........t 3:27pm  tl2:50pm
Buffalo,  N  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t’d  E x .. ..*  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...t 5:12pm -fl0:ll»m 
Eastbouud 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.
•Daily. 

tExcept Sunday.

C.  A.  J u st in ,  City  Pass.  Ticket Agent,

ftD A NH 
LUv/ai 1  LI 

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.
*  indiana  Railway 
Feb. 8, 1899.

Northern  Div.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am t  5:15pm
Trav. City A Petoskey............t   1:50pm  1 10:45pm
Cadillac accommodation........t 5:25pm tl0:55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City.. ..tit :00pm  t   6:35am 
7:45am train, parlor  car;  11:00pm train, sleep­
ing car.
Soothern  Div,  Leave  Arrlvt
Cincinnati...............................t  7:10am  t 9:45pm
Ft. Wayne 
.........  ................+ 2:01pm  t  1:30pa
Cincinnati..................................  *  7  00pm  * 6:30irr
Vicksburg  and Chicago........*11:30pm  *  9:0.'am
<:10  am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnat- 
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 00pm  *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.
Muskegon Trains.

(MING WEST.
LvG’d  Rapids............ t7:35am  tl :00pm ta:40pm
Ar Muskegon.. 
...  9:00am  2:10pm  7:05nm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon..............t8:10am  tll:45am  t4:00pn
Ar G’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:55pm  5:20pr
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm. 
tExcept Sunday.  »Dally

801X0 BAST.

C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 
W.  C.  B L A K E , 

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

Railway.

WEST  BOUND.

DULUTH, Snith  Shore und Atlantic 
Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)til:10pm  t7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City.................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace.........................  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie..............   13:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette.........................  2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. N estorta............................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Dulnth...................... ...................... 
8:30am
Lv. Duluth.............................................  *6:30pm
2:45am
At. Nestorla...........................-HI :15am 
Ar. Marquette.......................  
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............   3:30pm 
.........
Ar. Mackinaw City............ . 
8:40pm  11:00am
G. W. H i b b a r d , Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Ovlatt. Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

■AST  BOUND.

M A N K T F F   &  Northeastern  Ry.
i * l i a i   1 1 0  1  Lw k-rf  Best route to Manistee.

V ia  C. &  W . M.  Railway.

L v Grand Rapids.................................7:00am  .............
A r  Manistee..................... 
...12:05pm  .............
L v  M anistee....................... 
8:30am  4:10pm
A r Grand  Rapids  ...........................   1 :00pm  0:55pm

 

Jackson  Retail Grocers’  Association 

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

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

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  A. C. Cl a r k ;  Secretary, E. F.  C l e v e  

r a n d ;  Treasurer, Wm.  C.  K o ehn.

Bay Cities Retail  Grocers’ Association

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

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

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association

President, A. D. W h ip p l e  ; Secretary, G. T. Cam p 

b e l l ;  Treasurer, W. E. C o llin s.

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

P a r t r id g e .

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

Treasurer, S. J.  Hu f po r d .

St. Johns  Business  Men’s  Association.

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

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

Perry Business Men’s Association

President, H. W. Wa l l a c e ;  Sec’y, T . E . H e d d l e .
Grand  Haven  Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos ; Secretary, J. W. V e r Ho e k s.

Yale  Business  Men’s  Association

President, C h a s. R o u n d s;  Sec’y. F r a n k   Pu t n e y .

Simple
Account  File 

Simplest and 
Most  Economical
Method  of  Keeping 
Petit  Accounts
File and  1,000 printed blank

bill heads........................   $2  75

.

*

File and  1,000 specially

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

3  25

Printed blank bill  heads,

per thousand..................  
Specially printed bill heads,
per thousand.................. 
Tradesman  Company,

i  25

1  75

Grand  Rapids. 

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TO  ALL  POINTS  IN  MICHIGAN

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

We  Pay  HIGHEST  M ARKET  PRICES  in  SPOT  CASH  and  M easure  B ark  When  Loaded. 

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Correspondence  Solicited.

HEMLOCK  BARK

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

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We make a specialty of 

MICHIGAN  BARK  &  LUMBER  CO..  527“ isl8W,MÄGrand  Rapids, Michigan.
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Grand  Rapids, 
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Chas.  A.  Coye, 

■  you  prices. 

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

i  Valley  City 
I  Milling Co.,
J 
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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Sole  Manufacturers of  "LILY  WHITE,” 

"Tbe fiour the  best cooks nse.”

Dwight’s
Cleaned
Currants

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

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Wolverine Spice Co.,

Grand  Rapids.

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Mfrs. oi  a full line of
HANDMADE 
HARNESS 
FOR THE 
WHOLSALE 
TRADE

lobbers in

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

Orders  by  mail  given  prompt 

attention.

SMOKE

Banquet Hall  Little  Clears

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

MUSSULMAN  GROCER  GO..  Grand  Rapids.  Midi.

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

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Good  Yeast  Is  Indispensable.

FLEISCHMANN  &  CO.

U n d e r   T h e i r   YELLOW   LABEL  O f f e r   t h e   BEST!

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G rand  Rapids  A g e n c y ,  2 9   C rescen t  A v e .
D etroit  A g e n c y ,  118   B a te s  S t .

Our Aim

Is to produce the best quality of  goods, and  then  to  sell  them 
at the lowest possible prices  We expect a  fair  profit  on  the 
goods we sell, and we want our  customers  to  have  the  same 
We have never sacrificed quality  for  price,  and  we  don’t  ex­
pect to commence.  P U R IT Y   is a  hobby with  us  C LEA N ­
LIN E SS is insisted  upon in  every detail  of our business  We 
shall be pleased  to  have  an  opportunity  to  talk  prices  with 
you.  Our goods do their own talking.

NORTHROP,  ROBERTSON  &  CARRIER,

LANSING,  MICHIGAN.

AN  AWFUL  HABIT

g   And  a  Mighty  Dangerous One.

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3g' m
ESS

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  Money 
Weight System.

W hat  does  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.

