Volume XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  12,1899.

Number 812

B R O W N   &   i S i   :   L T   l  e   w

W E S T   H N I 1  ) G E   S T -  
G R A N D   K A P I D S ,   M I C H .

Mfrs. ot  a full line of

HANDMADE 
HARNESS 
FOR  THE 
WHOLESALE 
TRADE

fobbers in

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

Orders  by  mail  given  prompt 

attention.

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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.

MUSSELMAN  GROCER  GO..  Grand  Rapids.  Mien.
MLOCK  BARK

W e   m easure 
and pay cash 
for  B ark  as 
fast  as  it  is 
loaded.  N ow  
is  the 
tim e 
to  call  on  or 
w rite  us.

MICHIGAN  BARK  &  LUMBER CO..  *  ^ 

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Qrand  kapids, Michigan.

We  Pay  HIGHEST  MARKET  PRICES  in  SPOT  CASH  and  Measure  Bark  When  Loaded. 

Correspondence  Solicited.

f “Eclipse” Ham Wall Piaster

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

NORTHROP,  ROBERTSON  &  CARRIER,

LAN SINQ ,  MICHIGAN.

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BEATS  THEM  ALL.  Can  be  floated  or  darbeyed  without
applying water to the surface— same  as  lime  mortar.  Makes
a wall as hard  as cement and grows harder with age.

Send  lor 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.

a*  Mill  and  Works,  200 South  Front  Street  at  G.  R.  &  I  R.  R.  Crossing.
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Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.  *
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TANGLEFOOT

STICKY  FLY  PAPER

ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  FOR  IT

PICTU RE C A R D S

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

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

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We  have  changed  our  corporate  name  ^  
from  the  Petoskey  Lime  Company  to  ^  
the  Bay Shore  Lime Company, and the name  ^  
of our lime  from  Petoskey  Standard  to 
Bay  Shore Standard.  No  other  change  in 
any  way.

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Bay Shore, Mich., April 1, 1899. 

Bay  Shore  Lime  Co., 

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barley-dust  or  other  adulteration  in  ours.  Orders 
for  any  quantity  promptly 
Favorable 
freight rates to all  points  on  C.  &  W.  M.,  D.,  G- 
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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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Grand  Rapids Agency,  39 Crescent Ave.
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O u r   C o ffe e s   a n d   T e a s

Must excel in  Flavor and  Strength  and  be 
constant  Trade  Winners.  All  our  coffees 
roasted on  day of shipment.

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Manufacturers  of  all  styles  of  Show  Cat-es  and  Store  Fixtures.  Write  us  tor 

illustrated  catalogue  -nd  discounts.

This  Showcase  only  $4.00  per  foot.

W ith  Beveled  Edge  Plate  Glass  top $5.00  per foot.

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{Durability

Are  requirements in the Paper Box trade. 
The  G r a n d   R a p i d s   P a p e r   B o x   C o . 
acknowledges  no  superior  in  the  manu­
facture of made-up and folding  Boxes  of 
all  descriptions  or  in  Die  Cutting  and 
Gold  and  Silver  Leaf  Label  work.  A 
trial  will  convince you

GRAND  RAPIDS  PAPER  BOX  CO., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Volume XVI

GRAND  RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL  12,1899.

Number 812

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

PAGE
2.  The  Dry  Goods  Market.
3.  Experience  of  a  Salesman.
4.  Around  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  Woman’s  World.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Features  of  Boston  Egg  Market.
11.  Gotham  Gossip.
12.  Observations by a N. Y. Egg Man.
13.  Clerks’  Corner.
14.  Shoes  and  Leather.
15.  Regarding  Unsalable  Goods.
16.  Lectures  to  Young  Men.
17.  Commercial  Travelers.
18.  Drugs  and  Chemicals.
19.  Drug  Price  Current.
20.  Grocery  Price  Current.
21.  Grocery  Price  Current.
22.  Hardware.
23.  Defens'  of the So-Called Trusts. 

Hardware  Price  Current.

24.  Local  Banks  in  Better Shape. 

Wants  Column.

PRIVATE  INTERESTS.

The announcement from Washington of 
the  probable  personnel  of  the  new 
isthmian 
inter-oceanic  canal  commis­
sion  has  occasioned  considerable  ad­
verse  comment  on  the  President’s  ac­
tion  by  some  prominent  papers 
in  the 
East  and  South,  among  them  the  En­
gineering  News.

The  chief  ground  for  criticism  is  that 
the  influence  of  the  old  Maritime  Canal 
Company,  which 
is  seeking  to  unload 
on  the  Government  at  a  big  figure  what­
ever  franchises  and  assets  it  may  have, 
and  that  has  succeeded  so  far  in  block­
ing  other  canal  propositions,  according 
to  these  critics,  is  still  apparent  and 
still  uppermost  in  the  composition  of 
the  new  commission.  The  ostensible 
purpose of  the  creation  of  the  new  com­
mission,  as  declared  in  the action of  the 
late  Congress,  was  to  have  an  impartial 
examination  and  comparison  made  of 
the  practicability,  strong  points  and 
cost  of  both  the  Nicaragua  and  Panama 
routes.  This 
if  the  Panama 
Company  had  been  influential  enough 
to  cast  some  doubt  on  the  weight  and 
correctness  of  the  preference  heretofore 
expressed  in  this  country  for  the  Nica­
ragua  route. 
If  there  be  a  well-based 
doubt  on  this  question  it  is  proper  that 
the  matter  should  be  rigidly  and  im­
partially  examined  into  and  that  canal 
only  indorsed  which  recommends  itself 
as  the  best  route  to  the  engineering  tal­
ent  of  the  country—all  points,  such  as 
length,  natural  obstacles  in  the  way  and 
cost,  being  considered.

looks  as 

It  has  lately  come  to  the  knowledge 
of  the  public  that  the  Panama  Company 
is  willing  to  sell  to  the  United  States, 
in  fact 
is  rather  anxious  to  unload  its 
great  undertaking  upon  other  shoulders. 
Here  then  we  have  two  companies  con­
tending  for  the  chance  to  torn  over  to 
the  Government  their  respective  fran­
chises  and  assets—the  one  with  much 
substantial  equipment  and  work  to  its 
credit, 
the  other  with  comparatively 
nothing. 
influence  of  the  one 
seems  to  have been  strong  enough  to se­

The 

cure  a  provisión  by  Congress  for  a  com­
parison  of  the  merits  of  the  two  routes, 
while  the  other,  it  is  now  charged,  has 
been 
influential  enough  with  the  War 
Department  or  President  to  practically 
block  an  impartial  investigation  by  se­
curing  “ a  packed  jury”   in  favor  of  the 
Nicaragua  scheme.

It 

is  unfortunate  for  us  that  we  are 
placed  between  two  powerful  fires  in  a 
matter  of  such  vital  importance  to  the 
Nation.  The  result  is  delay,  and  pos­
sibly  an 
interminable  delay,  for  either 
appears  capable  of  defeating  the  other 
if  not  strong  enough  to  command affirm­
ative  action  by  the  legislative  and exec­
utive  departments  of  the  Government  in 
its  own  interest.

The  country at large wants an  isthmian 
It  cares  not  particularly  for  the 
canal. 
Nicaragua  or  the  Panama  route,  so  only 
that  one  or  the  other  be  chosen  and 
pushed  to  completion.  The  Nation  does 
not,  however,  desire  to  see  the  Govern­
ment  “ worked”   by  the  promoters  of 
either  project,  and  will  certainly  con 
demn  any  action  by  the authorities or by 
the  new  commission  that  may  smack  of 
partiality  not  founded  upon  the  natural 
conditions  surrounding 
the  problem. 
The  people  want  the  canal  built  and 
controlled  by  the  Nation,  and  would 
hardly  approve  a  partnership  with  pri­
vate  speculators  in  the  premises.

It  is as  evident,  however,  as  it  is  un­
fortunate  that  intensely  selfish 
interests 
are  not  only  complicating  but  holding 
up  this  vital  canal  question,  to  the  con­
tinued  detriment  and  great  cost  of  the 
commercial  interests  of  the  Nation.  In­
deed,  it  appears  to  be  our  misfortune 
that  ail  our  great  National  questions 
must  be  embarrassed  if  not  determined 
by  class,  corporate  or  private  interests!

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
The  week,  which  was  a  record  break­
er  for  corresponding  weeks  of  many 
years  past 
in 
in  volume  of  business 
nearly  all 
lines  of  general  trade,  was 
marked  by  the  most  decided  reaction  in 
the  Wall  Street  market  that  has  oc­
curred  in  many  months.  Prior  to 
last 
week  the  stock  market  had  swallowed 
much  more  effervescent  stuff  than  its 
stomach  could  keep  down,  and  the  lurch 
of  the  money  market  bad  less  to  do with 
the  unloading  than  the  distressed  vic­
tims  imagined. 
It  was  on  the  whole  an 
intelligent  market.  It  not  only  discrim­
inated between railroad and other stocks, 
but  between  good  and  bad 
railroad 
stocks;  between  the  old  trusts preferred, 
the  value  of  which  had  been  shown  by 
successive  dividends,  and  the  old  com­
mon,  of  which  part  bad  the  same  ad­
vantage ;  the  new  preferred  trusts,  is­
sued  iu  part  for  property  furnished,  and 
the  new  common,  largely  given  as  a 
bonus  in  consolidations.  The  sixty  most 
active  railroad 
from 
their  highest  average  this  year,  $75.09, 
to  $71.43,  the  lowest  point  on  Friday, 
and  recovered  to  $73  43  at  Saturday’s 
close.  The  old  trusts  preferred  dropped 
from  their  highest  average  this  year, 
$95.03,  to  $91.80,  and  recovered 
to 
$93  14.  The  recovery  this week  is  steady 
in  most  lines,  showing  that  the  reaction 
was  of  a  temporary  speculative  charac­

stocks  dropped 

Handles  all  kinds  of 
Collections  and Com- 
mercial  Litigation. 

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SPRING  SUITS  A N D * 

OVERCOATS

Herringbones, Serges,JClays, Fancy Worst- 
¿   eds, Cassimeres.  Largest Lines;  no  bet- 
”   te 
£   ter  made;  perfect  fits;  prices  guaranteed; 

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* '  "  —   Manufacturers,

1-5° up-

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KOLB & SON

OLDEST FIRM,  ROCHESTER, N. Y.

Stouts, Slims a Specialty.  Mail  orders  at­
tended  to,  or  write  our  traveler,  Wm. 
Connor,  Box 346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  to  call, 
or meet him at Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand  Rap­
ids, April  25  to  29.  Customers’  expenses 
paid. 

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The Preferred  Bankers 
Life Assurance Company

of  Detroit,  Mich. 

Annual Statement,  Dec. 31,1898.

Commenced Business 8ept.  I, 1893.

Insurance in  Force..................................$3,299,000 00
fe<jger Assets 
45,734  79
.....................................  
21  68
Ledger Liabilities................................. 
Losses Adjusted and Unpaid...............  
None
51,061  00
Total Death Losses Paid to Date......... 
Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
1,030  00
eficiaries......................................... 
Death Losses Paid During the Y ear... 
11,000 00
Death Rate for the Y ear.......................  
3  64

F R A N K  E. ROBSON, President. 

TR U M A N   B. GOODSPEED, Secretary.

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QRAND RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN 

for sample sheet of their  “ PE R FECTIO N  
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Books arranged with trade classification of names. 
Collections made everywhere.  Write for particulars. 

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ter  and  that  the  former  level  of  values 
was  not  too  high.

Outside  the  stock  market business was 
of  astonishing  volume.  New York  clear­
ings  amounted  to  $1,543,1236,42  for  the 
week,  but  payments  amounted  to  $586,- 
882,385  at  other  cities  in  five  days,  so 
that  the  week’s  total  was  probably 
$2,200,000,000  or  more,  exceeding  the 
last  year  by  about  63  per 
same  week 
cent,  and  the  week 
in  1892  by  about 
69^  per  cent.  The  March  clearings, 
$8,726,599  138,  were  much  the 
largest 
ever  known  in  any  month,  even  exceed­
ing  those  of  January  by  $234,000,000, 
those  of  last  March  by  54.5  per  cent, 
and  those  of  March,  1892,  by  64.3  per 
cent.  The  quarterly exchanges,  $24,200,- 
66S>593  *n  amount,  exceeded  last  year’s 
by  40.5  per  cent,  and  those  of  1892  by 
49  3  per  cent. 
If  anybody  had  pre­
dicted,  when  President  McKinley  was 
inaugurated, 
that  “ in  two  years  the 
country’s  business  will  be  50  per  cent, 
larger  than  in  the  most  prosperous of  all 
past  years,”   he  would  have  been  men­
tally  stoned  to  death,  as  prophets  were. 
The  best  of  it  is  that  outside  New  York 
its  stocks  the  clearings  in  March 
and 
were  37.5  per  cent, 
in 
March,  1892.

larger  than 

The  iron  and  steel  situation  continues 
at  a  high  pressure  of  activity.  The 
urgency  ot  demand  is  making  itself  felt 
in  the  rapidity  with  which  new  works 
and  additions  are  being  installed,  but 
as  yet  with  little  effect 
in  prices.  Or­
ders  for  finished  products  are  held  back 
by 
inability  of  works  to  execute  them 
more  than  by  prices  asked,  and  yet 
many  good  orders  are  somehow placed— 
one  by  Philadelphia  for  3,000  tons  ship 
plates,  one  of  6,000  tons  for  a  Newark 
building  and  one  of  17,000  tons  open 
hearth  steel  for  the  East  River  Bridge. 
In  minor  metals  strength  reflects  heavy 
consumption,  with  Lake  copper  at  18c 
and  tin  at  24.35c.

The  Man  Who  Thinks.

The 

improve 

local  reputation,  says 

A  Chicago  business  man,  of  more 
than 
that  bis 
greatest  trouble  through  bis  commercial 
in  his  search  for  the 
career  has  been 
employe  who  thinks. 
average 
holder  of  a  position  goes  through  his 
routine  of  duty 
in  a  stupid,  “ dumb 
driven  cattle”   manner,  absolutely  refus­
ing  to  think  things  out  for  himself,  and 
thus  possibly 
in  method  the 
system  attending  his  individual  line  of 
duty.  An  employer  very  soon  learns  to 
regard  an  employe  with 
interest  who 
continually  asks  questions  concerning 
his  work,  who  seems  to  concentrate  bis 
mind  upon  his  task,  however 
insignifi­
cant,  who  seems  to  think  and  enjoy 
thinking  and  working.  That man's  tal­
ent  does  not  long  remain  folded  in  a 
napkin,  but  speedily  gains  for  its owner 
value  received,  and  for  its  owner’s  em­
ployer  the  peace  of  mind  that  can  only 
come  to  a  man  of  large  business respon­
sibilities  through  the  honest,  conscien­
tious  services  of  his  force,  through  men 
who  think.

The  Face  Changed.

Barber:  You  say  you  have  been  here 
I  don’t seem  to  remember  your 

before? 
face.

Victim :  Probably  not. 

It 

is  all 

healed  up  now.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

his  orders  before  a  more  general  rush of 
business 
in  order  to  have  his  stock  de­
livered  in  time  to  sell  to  his  customers. 
The  finer 
lines  of  wiltons,  axminsters 
and  body  Brussels  are  receiving  a  fair 
share  of  attention,  and  countermands 
on  carpets  are  seldom  beard  of  this  sea­
son.  The prospects  are  now  that  the  or­
ders 
in  hand  may,  in  some  instances, 
last  the  manufacturers,  especially  of  in­
grains,  up  to  the  middle  of  May.

Lace  Curtains—Are  commanding  a 
goodly  share  of  attention  in  both domes­
tic  and  foreign  lines.  Bobbinet  is  com­
ing 
into  popular  favor  and  some  very 
choice  lines  are  offered  to  the  trade.

Curtain  Shades— Have  been  advanced 
from  x/i  to  1  cent  per  yard,  according  to 
quality.  This  is  due  to  the  advance  in 
cotton  cloth  and  raw  material.

We are at the Front

again with our claim  made last season.  We make a specialty of ribbed  SSffl 
underwear for  Men’s,  Ladies’ andJMisses’Jwear to retail from five cents  gH/l 

to a half dollar.  Most every one  concedes  that  is  the  only  kind  for 
comfort and wear.  Of course there are  a  few  who  still  stick  to  the 
fllat goods.  For such  we carry several  lines  of  extra  good  values  to  IfftH 
retail at twenty-five and fifty cents.  Look us over,  that’s  all  we  ask.  «Kg

jfNM 

Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.,

Wholesale  Dry  Goods.

Grand  RapMs,  Mich.

2

D ry  P o o d s
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons— Brown  sheetings  and 
drills  show  rather  an  uneven  demand, 
although  about  all  qualities  are  called 
for  to  some  extent,  and  some  good 
sized  contracts  have  been  turned  down. 
Exporters  have  done  some  very  good 
trading,  and  have  taken  altogether  quite 
a 
of  goods. 
Bleached  cottons  are 
in  quite  limited 
demand.  The  principal  point  of  inter­
est 
is  in  delivering 
goods  on  earlier  orders.  Wide  sheetings 
are  quiet.

considerable  quantity 

in  this  direction 

Prints  and  Ginghams— Have  been 
more  active  during  the  past  week  than 
before.  This  is  particularly  noticeable 
where  something  like  nearby  deliveries 
could  be  promised.  Woven  fancy  dress 
goods have  shared  in  a  more  lively  re­
quest  than 
for  some  time,  and  now 
agents  are  well  supplied  with  orders. 
The  new  lines  of  fall dress goods opened 
at  a  higher  price,  and  it  will  probably 
be  maintained ;  ytt  there  is  nothing  to 
warrant  the  belief  that  they  will  be  ad­
vanced  in  the  near  future,  as  some  have 
predicted.  It  may  happen  several weeks 
hence,  but  not  right  away.  The  trade 
must  become  accustomed  to  the  present 
basis  before  anything  higher  is  named. 
It  is  a  good  time  for  the  buyers  to  take 
advantage  of  the  market.

Dress  Goods—The  strongest  factor 

in 
the  market  to-day 
is  the  black  crepon 
goods ;  orders  placed  therefor  have been 
sizable  and  numerous;  the  black  crepon 
seems  to  be  the  fabric  upon  which  buy­
ers  evince  a  unanimity  of  opinion  re­
garding 
its  standing,  and  their  opin 
ion 
is  being  substanitally  backed  up 
with  orders;  black  appears  to  be  the 
only  shade  in  crepons  that  takes  w ell; 
some  few  orders  have  been  placed  on 
other  shades,  but  in  comparison  with 
the  business  done  on  blacks  they  ap 
pear 
insignificant.  Camel's  hair  and 
mohair  fabrics  are  taking  well,  as  are 
also  cheviots  and  unfinished  worsteds; 
Venetians  are  also  attracting  some  good 
business.

lines. 

Hosiery— Prices  have  been  very  firm 
throughout  the  season  and  staple  and 
fancy  goods  are  very  low  in  stock.  Fine 
grades  of  fancy  hosiery  have  secured 
good  business,  but  cheaper  goods  have 
been  comparatively  quiet.  Stripes  and 
polka  dots  are  the  features  of  the  fancy 
market,  the  former  iu  both  vertical  and 
horizontal 
Importers  of  golf 
hosiery  have  bad a  fair  business.  Some 
of  them  report  that  it  has  been  exceed- 
ingly  good.  Nothing  new  has  devel­
oped  in  regard  to  the  knit  goods  trust. 
The  committee  has  begun  its  operations 
by  sending  communications to  manufac­
turers,  requesting  contributions 
from 
each  of  $25  to  defray  the  expenses  of 
investigating  the  'plants  to  be acquired 
by  the  trust  and  the  valuation  of  the 
same.  It  depends  upon the replies which 
they  receive  whether  the  attempt  to 
form  the  trust  will  be  continued.

Carpets— Ingrains  are 

receiving  a 
good  share  of  attention  in  the  Western 
States,  while  in  the  Eastern  and  Mid­
dle  a  fair  business  is  reported.  There 
is  also a  growing  disposition  to  take  a 
larger  amount  of  tapestry  and  velvet 
carpets.  With  the  more  general 
im 
provement 
in  trade  conditions  and  a 
larger  distribution  of  money  owing  to 
the  advance 
in  wages,  the  purchasing 
power of  the  people  will  be  larger  than 
it  has  been  for  some  time,  and  from 
this  fact  the  average  dealer  has  gained 
more  confidence  and  is  anxious  to  place

A  Chapter  of  Experience.

Henry  Goodwin,  who  runs  the  Craw­
ford  House,  in  Boston,  is  a  neighbor  of 
mine.  He  told  me  of  a  little  circum­
stance  the  other  day  which  illustrates 
one  of  the  peculiar  foibles  of  human 
nature.  Once  upon  a  time  there  was  a 
fire  at  bis  hotel 
It  was  not  a  very  ex­
tensive  fire,  but  did  considerable  dam­
age. 
In  fact,  in  twenty  minutes  over 
S6,ooo  worth  of  injury  was  done  to  the 
hotel  and  property  therein.  No  one 
knows,  nor  will  any  one  ever  know, 
probably,  just  what  caused  the  fire,  but 
it  is  presumed  that  it  was  kindled  from 
something  of  a  chemical  or  explosive 
nature  which  was  left  in  the  coat-room 
by  one  of  the  guests.  At  any  rate  the 
principal  damage  was done in this room, 
and  of  forty  or  more  overcoats  belong­
ing  to  guests  there  was  hardly  enough 
remaining  to  shovel  out  to  fill  a  bushel 
basket.

The  insurance  companies  settled  with 
the  hotel  proprietor,  and  he  in  turn  set­
tled  with  the 
individual  losers  of  the 
in  that  coat-room,  and  Mr. 
property 
Goodwin  says 
it  was  surprising  to  find 
how  many  forty  or  fifty  dollar  overcoats 
there  were  in  the  room  at  the  time.  An­
other  peculiar  thing  was  that  all the um­
brellas  were  silk  ones.  Some  of  them 
were  especially  expensive—had  come 
from  Europe  or  had  been  made  to  or­
der.

Really,  if  those  umbrellas  bad  not 
been  burned  they  would  have  formed  a 
most  artistic  and  valuable  collection, 
one  which  would  do  to  place  on  exhibi­
tion  as  curios.

I  say  all,  but  I  want  to  make  one  ex­
ception.  After  most  of  the  claims  bad 
been  paid  Mr.  Goodwin  received  a  let­
ter  from  Worcester  which  read  some-, 
thing  like  this :

Dear  Sir:  1  understand  that  you  are 
lor  the  umbrellas  which  were 
paving 
in  the  fire  which  occurred  at  your 
lost 
house  a  few  weeks  ago. 
I  stopped  at 
your  hotel  on  the  date  mentioned,  oc­
cupying  Room  no,  and  my  umbrella 
was  in  the  coat-room. 
I still  hold  check 
No.  39  for  the  same.  That  umbrella 
cost  me  fifty  cents  about  three  years 
ago,  and  I  have  used 
it  a  good  many 
times  since. 
It  was  net  in  thorough  re­
pair  but  still  quite  serviceable.  As  you 
are  paying  for  umbrhllas,  I  would  sug­
gest  that  you  send  me  the  sum  of  ten 
cents,  which  I  think  is  not  too  exorbi­
tant  a  figure  to  place  upon  that  um­
brella.

Mr.  Goodwin,  believing  there  was  at 
least  one  honest  man  in  Worcester,  sent 
out  and  got  a  handsome  silk  umbrella 
it  to  the  party  with  bis 
and  forwarded 
compliments. 
Thus 
is  honesty  re­
warded.  Really,  I  believe  this  circum­
stance 
in  the  world’s 
history.—George  E.  B.  Putnam,  in Boot 
and  Shoe  Reporter.

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Experience  o f a  Salesman  Out  O f  a 

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

Job.

‘ ‘ The  papers  are  making  a  great  deal 
of  capital  over  that  millionaire  duffer,”  
be  said,  as  be  took  my  easy  cbair. 
“ One  would  think,  to  read  tbe  account, 
that  he  was  the  only  man  in  the  wide 
world  who,  if  he  should  find  himself 
without  a  dollar,  would  say  the  same 
thing  and  do  it.  Somebody  asked  him 
what  he’d  do  if  he  lost  his  money  and 
he  said  he’d 
’ take  the  first  job  that 
came  along.’  What  else  could  he  do? 
That’s  what  I  did  and  I  had  a  bit  of 
hard-earned  experience  which  has  been 
no  end  of  service  to  me.

“ I  was  traveling  for a wholesale bouse 
and  had  been  meeting  with  splendid 
success. 
I  wasn't  careful  of  my  easily- 
got  money  and  I'm  afraid  that  I  rather 
put  on  a  little  more  style  than  circum­
stances  warranted—a young fellow rather 
likes  to 
‘fling  himself’  when  be  goes 
home  with  his  pockets  full  of  money. 
Well,  tbe  prosperity  didn't  last 
long 
and  I  was  out  of  a  job  and  out  of money 
at  the  same  time. 
I  didn’t  want  tbe 
folks  to  know  what  a  spendthrift  I  bad 
been  and  I  did  considerable  hustling  to 
find  another  position.  That’s  when  I 
found  out  what  is  meant  by  hard  times. 
I  went  to  tbe  nearest  city,  where  I  was 
a 
little  acquainted,  hired  a  room  and 
engaged  board  and  then  went  out  to 
ransack  the  town  for  a  job. 
I  raked 
that  city  of  seventy-five  thousand  peo­
ple  north  and  south  and  east  and  west, 
and  the  only  thing  that  even  hinted  at  a 
job  was  the  occasional  statement  that 
there  might  be  an  opening  with  the  fall 
trade.  That  was-  all  right  for  the  fall, 
but  what  good  was  that  to  do  me  if  I 
starved  to  death  sometime  in  August? 
That’s  tbe  way  tbe  condition  of  things 
began  to 
look;  I  had  already  made  up 
my  mind  that  I  would  starve rather  than 
go  home  and  hang  on  the  old  folks  for 
my  bread  and  butter.

“ Three  or  four  days  of  store-to-store 
soliciting  satisfied  me  that  I  couldn’t 
find  anything 
in  tbe  dry  goods  line. 
The  pay  for  settling  accounts  with  my 
landlady  was  getting  uncomfortably 
near  and  forcefully  suggested  that  in 
tbe  absence  of  work  behind  tbe  counter 
I  had  simply  got  to  get  it  somewhere 
else.  Then  I  began  to  wonder  what  else 
I  could  do.

“ For  once  in  my  life  I  was  where  the 
multi-millionaire  was  in  fancy  and  un­
der  the  force  of  circumstances  I reached 
the  same  conclusion :  I  would  take  tbe 
first  job  that  I  could  get  whatever  it 
might  be.  Like  the  boy 
in  the  back 
woods,  I  bad  to  have  the  coon  for  din­
ner.  Now  then  for a  break.  Every  man 
that  passed  me 
in  smock  and  overalls 
became  an  object  of  envy.  The teamster 
whose  heavily  loaded  dray chugged  over 
the  cobblestones  looked,  in  his  surety of 
a  dinner,  like  a  king  on  his  throne  as 
he  rode  by.  Could  I  be  a  teamster? 
Was  I  equal  to  the  loading  and  unload­
ing  of  hogsheads  and boxes, holding  no­
body  knows  bow  much?  I  looked  invol­
untarily  at  my  gloved  hands. 
I  took  off 
tbe  gloves  and 
It  was 
the  moment  of  trial. 
I  thought  of  tbe 
coon  and  my  board  bill  and  vowed  I’d 
take  that  first 
job  that  tbe  rich  fellow 
told  about.

looked  again. 

I 

” ’ Hello,  there!’  I  heard  a  cheery 
voice  call  out  from  the  curb. 
looked 
up  to  find  a  man  to  whom  I  had applied 
‘ Haven’t  been 
fora  job  the  day  before. 
successful  yet,  I  conclude. 
If  you  can 
turn  your  hand  to  a  little  rough  work 
maybe  I  can  do  something 
for  you. 
There’s a  firm  around  on the next street,

Nagle  Bros.,  who  are  after  a  teamster. 
Are  you  equal  to  it?’  My  ‘ Y es!’  was 
loud  enough  to  set  the  fire  alarm  going. 
‘ Then  come  right  around  there  now.’ 
We  went.

“   ‘ Got  your  teamster  yet?’
“   ’ No.’
“   ‘ Will  this  man  do?’
‘ ‘ That  man  looked  at  me.  His  eyes 
had  the  effect  of  the  X  rays. 
‘ Well,’  he 
said  slowly,  after  a  critical  examination 
of  my  marrow,  ‘he 
isn’t  built  on  tbe 
teamster  plan  exactly—his  bands  look 
as 
if  they  have  been  better  acquainted 
with  kid  gloves  than  with  sugar  barrels 
—but  if  he  can  stand  it  we  can.  Think 
you’re  equal  to  the  job?’

“   ‘ Yes.’
‘ ‘  ‘ Can  you  go  to  work  now?’
“   ‘ Yes.’
”   ‘ Ever  have  anything  to  do  with 

horses?’

door. ’

“   ‘ Y es.’
“   ‘ You’ll  find  the  team  at  the  back 

‘ ‘ Thanking  my  newly-found 

friend 
who  had  taken  me  there,  I  went  out  of 
the  back  door— I  hate  back  doors !—and 
around  through  the  alley  to  the  nearest 
dry  goods  store,  where  I  bought  some 
working  clothes.  Fifteen  minutes  later 
I  drove  down  the  alley  on  the  driver’s 
seat  with  my  first  load  of  goods.

‘ ‘ I  don’t  like  to  talk  about  those  fol­
lowing  six  weeks;  I  only  wish  that  mil­
lionaire  had  bad  tbe  same  experience— 
it  would  do  me  good  to  hear  what  be 
had  to  say  about  it.  For  the  first  few 
days  I  was  sore  from  head  to  foot. 
Every  fiber  of  my  body  uttered  its  live­
liest  protest  against  my  exactions  from 
i t ;  but  it  protested  in  vain.  At  first  I 
shrank  from  tbe  heavy  goods  I  had  to 
handle;  but  I  bad  to  do  it  and  I  did  it, 
and  they  seemed  to  take  in  the  situa­
tion  and  to  show  less  of  the  ‘ pure  cuss­
edness  of 
is 
usual  with  them.

inanimate  objects’  than 

‘ ‘ What  was  harder  for  me  to  put down 
was  my  pride.  My  first  ride  down  Main 
street  on  that  wagon  was  little  less  than 
agony. 
I  had  hoped  that  the  street 
would  be  filled  with  strangers— every 
other  face  I  knew. 
If  it  had  been  the 
boys  I  would  have  cared  less— I  could 
have  settled  with  them  in  tbe  old-fash­
ioned  way;  but  it’s  different  with  girls. 
Tbe  first  one  I  met  was  Lizzie  Upton, 
but 
just  as  she  was  looking  up  I  made 
believe  there  was  something  tbe  matter 
with  tbe  harness  and  got  by  without  be­
ing  obliged  to  recognize  her.  Then  I 
wanted  to  kick  myself  for  a  chump. 
I 
wasn't  doing  anything  to be ashamed  of, 
any  work 
if  it’s  honest. 
After  that  I  straightened  up  and  held 
the  reins  as  if  I  had  a  job  I  was  proud 
of. 
If  any  of  my  friends  were  on  tbe 
sidewalk  I  hailed  them  and  settled  that 
phase  of  the  situation  right  there;  then 
I  had  more  respect  for  myself.  I’ve  had 
more than  a  score  of  dances  with  Lizzie 
Upton  since  those  old  days,  and  while 
neither  of  us  has  ever  mentioned  it,  I 
have  an 
idea  that  I  haven’t  fallen  in 
her  eyes.

is  honorable 

‘ ‘ The  hardest  thing  for  me  to think  of 
now  Is  the  treatment  I  received  from 
It  was  snarl  and  snarl 
those  Nagles. 
from  morning  until  night. 
I  didn’t  ask 
any  odds  of  them  and,  by  gings!  I 
didn’t  get  any. 
If  I  had  been  an  A 
Number 
i  teamster  I  couldn’t  have 
pleased  them.  At  first  it  was  no  more 
than  I  had  any  right  to  expect,  for I  was 
new  to  tbe  work,  but  I  tried  my  level 
best  to  improve  in  every  possible  way. 
The  more  I  tried  the  more  I  saw  bow 
useless  it  was  to  try  to  please  them,  and 
then  I  began  to  wonder  what  I  was  do­

ing  it  for anyway.  My  body  bad become 
inured  to  the  work,  my  hands  were 
fairly  gloved 
in  callous;  but,  like  tbe 
blacksmith,  I  ‘ looked  the  whole  world 
in  the  face,  for  I  owed  not  any  man. ’ 
But  I’d  had  enough  of  that  employment 
and,  now  that  September  bad  come  in, 
I'd  see  what  could  be  done for a change.
‘ ‘ Here’s  where  the  strange  part comes 
in :  That  very  day  the  head  of  one  of 
the  best  houses  in  the  city  hailed  me  on 
tbe  top  of  my  load. 
‘ Do  you  want  a  job 
in  the  store?’  he  asked.

"   ‘ That’s  just  what  I  want  ’
"   ‘ When  will  you  come?’
“   ‘ To-morrow  morning.  What  will 

you  pay  me?’

I’ll  be  on  hand.’

”   ‘ Twelve  dollars  a  week.’
”   ‘ All  right. 
‘ ‘ I  delivered  that  load  and  droveba^k 
to  tbe  office.  Tbe  Nagle  I  bated  tbe 
most  was  there and  I  said;  ‘ Mr.  Nagie, 
if  you’ll  pay  me  what  is  due  me,  I’ll 
be  obliged  to  you.  I’ve a  job  in  my  old 
line  of  work  and  I’ve  promised  to  be 
there  in  tbe  morning.’

‘ ‘ You  should have heard  him.  In spite 
of  his  contemptible  treatment  of  me  be 
said  that  I  was  an  ungrateful  cuss;  that

3

in  out  of  pity  when  I  was 
he  took  me 
in 
starving  and  now  I  was  leaving  him 
the  lurch  when  he  needed me most,  etc., 
etc.  He  ended  his  tirade  by  paying me 
my  hard-earned  wages. 
I  waited  unt  l 
I  had  counted  the money  and  put  it  into 
my  pocket.  Then  I 
looked  him  full 
in  the  face  and  toid  him  what  I  thought 
of  him.

‘ ‘ The  next  morning  I  went  to  work  at 
the  head  of  a  department  in  a  dry goods 
bouse,  and  I  haven’t  been  out  of  a  job 
since. 
I  don’t  spend  every  cent  I  earn 
and  I  don't  expect  to  be  strapped  again 
as  I  was  then ;  but,  if  I  ever  am,  I  shall 
follow  out  the  old 
line  of  policy  and 
‘ take  the  first  job  I  can  find.’  ”

R i c h a r d   M a l c o l m   S t r o n g .

Deserved  Instant  Death.

The  grocer  was  industriously  sorting 
in 

bis  eggs  as  to  size  and  putting  them 
three  different  basktts.

Enter  the  man  who  always  wants  to 

know.

‘ ‘ What  are  you  doing  all  that  for?”  

he  asked.
answered  the  grocer.

‘ ‘ For  eggs,  sir—size,”  
And  he  went  on  sorting  them.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Laingsburg— Ezra  Barnard has opened 

a  coniectionery  store.

Calumet— Mrs.  E.  Wertin  succeeds 

Wertin  &  Co.  in  general  trade.

Gladwin—T.  Naylor,  hardware  deal­

er,  has  added  a  stock  of  furniture.

Calumet—Andrew  Anderson,  confec 

tioner,  has  sold  out  to  T.  A.  Olin.

Flushing—Clarence  A.  Fox  succeeds 

Herriman  &  Fox  in  general  trade.

Fountain— Reynolds  &  Thomas  will 

shortly  embark  in  the  drug  business.

Baraga—Getzen  Bros,  have  purchased 
the  confectionery  stock  of  Fred  Carroll.
Port  Huron— B.  C.  Farrand expects to 
open  bis  new  shoe  store  about  April  20.
Big  Rapids— A.  B.  Allen,  of AuSable, 
will  shortly  open  a  bazaar  store  at  this 
place.

Holland—W.  Zylstra  will  shortly  open 
a  grocery  store  at  87  West  Fourteenth 
street.

Saginaw—C.  F.  Kocb  &  Co.  succeed 
in  the  grocery 

Koch  &  Wiechmann 
business.

Homer— Wells  &  Andrews  have  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Samuel 
Hannah.

Marquette— A.  F.  (Mrs.  J.  C .)  Werle 
succeeds  Werle  &  Russell  in  the  meat 
business.

Mackinaw— S.  G.  Hosack  has  sold 
bis  stock  of  furniture  novelties  to  C. 
H.  Zimmerman.

Ionia—John  A.  Sessions  &  Son  have 
opened  an  implement  store  in  the  En- 
gleman  building.

St.  Johns—Walter  Emmons  will  here­
after  conduct  the  jewelry  business  of 
Porter  &  Emmons.

Adrian—Walters  &  Croft,  general 
dealers,  have  dissolved partnership,  Mr. 
Walters  succeeding.

Walled  Lake—The  general  merchan­
dise  stock  of  S.  Gage  at  this  place  was 
recently  consumed  by  fire.

South  Haven— Hulburt  &  Blood  have 
sold  their  flour  and  feed  business  to 
Trim  &  Co.,  late  of  Bangor.

Sand  Hill— F.  L.  Denio has purchased 
the  hardware,  vehicle  and  windmill 
stock  of  Hiram  J.  Willmarth.

Port  Huron—A.  W.  Loveland  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  John Poison,of  the 
grocery  firm  of  Bagley  &  Poison.

Dowagiac— F.  A.  Savage  and  G.  W. 
Haines  have  formed  a  copartnership 
and  engaged  in  the  grocery  business.

East Jordan—D.  C.  Loveday  has  pur­
chased  the  roller  rink  property,  which 
will be  converted  into  an  opera  bouse.

Berville—O.  H.  Shafer  continues  the 
grain,  produce  and  implement  business 
formerly  conducted  by  Brown  &  Shafer.
Benton  Harbor— E.  J.  Densmore,  of 
Dallas,  Tex.,  has  leased  a  store  build­
ing  and  will  shortly  open  a  bazaar  store 
here.

Elk  Rapids—T.  W.  Preston announces 
his  intention  of  removing his drug  stock 
from  Millbrook 
to  this  place  about 
July  1.

Hart— Peter  L.  DeVoist  has  sold  bis 
dry  goods  stock  to  A.  M.  Lester,  who 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.

interest 

Berrien  Center—A  J.  Ford  has  sold 
bis 
in  the  hardware  firm  of 
Ford  &  Patterson  to  his  partner,  J.  O. 
Patterson.

Battle  Creek— W.  H.  Willard,  drug­
gist  at  45  East  Main  street,  paid  $5.20 
fine  and  costs  last  week  as  the  penalty 
of  making  a  brutal  assault  on  Bert  H. 
Hoff master.  The  offense  was  committed 
April  4.

Stockbridge—Carter  &  Reason  have 
in  the  rear  of 
completed  a  warehouse 
their  store  building  for  the  reception  of 
their  implement  stock.

Howell—Wm.  P.  Govier  has  pur­
chased  an  interest  in  the “ racket*’  store 
of  E.  J.  Holt,  at  Fowerville,  and  will 
shortly  remove  to  that  place.

Houghton— Dr.  J.  P.  Mason  has  sold 
bis  drug  stock 
to  Edward  C.  Des 
Rocbers,  who  for  many  years  had  the 
active  management  of  the  business.

East  Jordan— Frank  Martinek  has 
purchased  the  store  property  of  Harri­
son  Mitchell  and  will  move  his  stock  of 
jewelry  thereto  during  the  summer.

Homer— Sam  Hannan  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  Andrews,  Wells  &  Co. 
The  new  firm  consists  of  W.  E.  An­
drews,  W.  O.  Wells  and  P.  L.  Wells.

•Milo— Martin  Woodard,  general dealer 
at  this  place,  died  April  5,  as  the result 
of  paralysis  of  the  heart.  The  remains 
were  taken  to  Salem,  N.  Y.,  for  inter­
ment.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Arthur  L.  and  Wm. 
F.  Cameron  have  formed  a  copartner­
ship  under  the  style  of  Cameron  Bros, 
and  purchased  the  meat  market  of  P. 
Cameron.

Saginaw— E.  A.  Tomlinson  &  Co. 
have  sold  their  drug  stock  at  114  North 
Michigan  avenue  to  Wm.  J.  Barker, 
formerly  clerk  in  the  drug  store  of  the 
Loranger  Co.

the  store  building 

Corinth— Willard  Purchase  has  pur­
chased 
formerly 
owned  and  occupied  by  J.  F.  Hacker 
and  will  remove  his  general  stock  to 
that  location.

South  Haven— E.  J.  Merrifield has pur­
chased  the  implement  stock  of  the Pom­
eroy  Implement  Co.  and  will  continue 
the  business  under  the  management  of 
L.  H.  Fancher.

Perrinton— Stroup  &  Carmer  wish  it 
understood  that  the  sale  of  their  general 
stock  does  not  offset  in  any  way  their 
butter  and  egg  business,  which  will  be 
continued  on  a  larger  scale  than  before.
Boon— Losie  &  Reynolds  have  com­
pleted  their  sawmill  and  purchased  a 
supply  of  logs.  They  expect  to  begin 
operations 
in  a  few  days.  Mr.  Losie 
will  continue  in  charge  of  the  mercan­
tile 
interests  of  J.  Cornwell  &  Sons  at 
this  place.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Benton  Harbor—John  D.  Luttrell  & 
Co.,  cigar  manufacturers,  have  sold  out 
to  Murray  &  Collins.

Maple  Rapids— The  Maple  Rapids 
Creamery  Co.  has  engaged  Fred  Bell, 
of  Sethton,  as  buttermaker.

Calumet-----The  Washington  Copper
its  capital 

Mining  Co.  has 
from  $1,000,000  to $2,500,000.

increased 

Port  Huron— The  Port  Huron  Engine 
&  Thresher  Co.  has  increased  its  capi­
tal  stock  from  $200,000  to $328,000.

Durand— Floyd  Derham,  of  Corunna, 
has  purchased  a  third 
interest  in  the 
flouring  mill  and  elevator  of  Pratt  & 
Jarvis.

Detroit—Brown  Bros,  have  merged 
their  cigar  manufacturing  business  into 
a  corporation  under  the  style  of  the 
Brown  Bros.  Co.  The  authorized  capi­
tal  stock  is  $200,000.

East  Jordan—D.  C.  Loveday  &  Co. 
have  added  to  their  brickyard  outfit  a 
molding  machine  to  replace  the  end  cut 
style,  thereby  adding  to  their  capacity 
and  placing  the  appearance  of  their 
brick  on  an  equal  with  their  excellent 
quality,  so  that  East  Jordan  Red  Brick 
will  be 
in  position  to  secure  a  reputa­
tion  such  as  they  deserve.

Detroit—The  Sprocket  Chain  Manu­
facturing  Co.  filed  articles  of  incorpora­
tion  Tuesday,  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$75,000.  The 
incorporators  are  Theo­
dore  D.  Buhl,  Linn  B.  Ball  and  Alex­
ander  McPherson,  each  $25,000.

Dansville— Love  Lathrop  has  been 
the  Dansville 
elected  President  of 
Creamery  Co.  and  Frank  Whipple  will 
serve  the  corporation  in  the  capacity  of 
Treasurer. 
the 
creamery  will  be  in  readiness  to  begin 
operations  May  1.

is  expected 

that 

It 

Detroit—The  Michigan  Detachable 
Chain  Co.  has  filed  articles  of 
incorpo­
ration.  The  capital  is  $50,000,  of  which 
half 
in,  and  the  stockholders 
are:  Thomas  H.  Simpson,  800  shares; 
John  L.  Simpson,  1,500 shares;  James 
D.  Brennan,  200  shares.

is  paid 

East  Jordan—The  South  Arm  Lum­
ber's  Co.’s  mill  started  its  season’s  cut 
this  week,  which  means  about  six 
months'  run.  The  East  Jordan  Lumber 
Co. ’s  and  Barker  Cedar Co. ’s mills  have 
been  running  steadily  since  the  first  of 
the  year  and  will  have  a  large  accumu­
lation  of  lumber  on  band  for  the  open­
ing  of  navigation.  The  amount  of  lum­
ber  to  be  shipped  from  East  Jordan  this 
season  will  not  fall  far  short  of  thirty- 
five  million  feet.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Portland— F.  H.  Clark  has  retired 
from  the  shoe and  grocery  store  of  his 
brother,  H.  W.  Clark,  to  take  a  clerk­
ship  with  Carpenter  &  Chubb,  at  South 
is  succeeded  by  Charles 
Lyon.  He 
Brooks,  who  was  formerly  employed 
in 
the  same  store.

Cassopolis—Cbas.  Walter  has  resumed 
bis  positon  in  the  general  store  of  Wal­
ter  &  Stemm.

Thompsonvilie—John Menold  has  sev­
ered  his  connection  with  his  brother 
George’s  drug  store  and  returned 
to 
his  home  at  Luther.

Middleville—A.  M.  Gardner  has  a 
new  clerk  in  the  person  of  Geo.  Matte- 
son.

Belding— M.  A.  Chapman  succeeds 
Clarence  Golden  as  clerk  in the clothing 
and  shoe  store  of  H.  J.  Leonard.

Kalamazoo—Edward  Chase  has  taken 
a  position  in  the  furnishing  goods  store 
of  W.  G.  Austin.

Bellaire—Clarence  Hill 

and  Miss 
Maud  Pendock  have  taken  positions  in 
the  dry  goods  and  clothing  store  of  P. 
Medalie.

Muskegon— Peter  Van  Denise,  of  this 
city,  and  Miss  Daisy  Budenmeister,  of 
Indianapolis,  Ind.,  were  married  at  the 
home  of  the  bride's  parents  in  Indian­
apolis  last  week.  Mr.  Van  Denise  has 
charge  of  the  wholesale  drug  depart­
ment.at  Fred  Brundage’s  store  and  will 
continue  to  reside  here.

Charlotte— Herman Dittmore has taken 
in  the  hardware  store  of 

a  clerkship 
Chapin  &  Rue.

Allegan— J.  B.  Wood  has  again  en­
tered  the  employ  of  G.  M.  Wirick  as 
clerk,  Lee  Granger  having  resigned  his 
position  there.

Traverse  City— S  Benda  &  Co.  have 
in  the  person  of Clark  O. 

a  new  clerk 
Corbett.

Grand  Ledge— H.  D.  Rowland  has 
taken  charge  of  the  grocery  store  of  J. 
R.  Shuart  &  Co.

Fremont—Chas.  Curtis  has  engaged 

to  handle  groceries  for  A.  K.  Wagar.
Traverse  City— Thomas  Wilhelm 

is 
now  behind  the  counter at  S.  E.  Wait’s 
drug  store.

Lyons- M.  A.  Herrick  has  a  new 
clerk  in  his  grocery  store  in  the  person 
of  Wilbur Owen,  of  Ithaca.

Stanton— H.  A.  Oleson  has  taken  a 
clerkship  in  Hansen  &  Jorgensen’s gen­
eral  store.

Ithaca— Frank  Cowdrey,  who has  been 
attending  the  College  of  Pharmacy  at 
Ada,  Ohio,  has  accepted  a  position 
in 
the  drug  store  of  Robinson  &  Watson.

Coldwater— Frank  Purdy  has  severed 
bis  connection  with  Mr.  Dailey  in  the 
Central  market  and  taken  a  position 
with  Collins  &  Lockwood.

Charlotte—F.  H.  McGrath  has  en­
gaged  a  new  clerk  in  the  person  of  Ray 
E.  Stevens,  of  Bellevue.

Albion— Andrew  Wetherwax,  formerly 
with  Tray  &  Fitzsimmons,  hardware 
dealers  at  Jackson,  has  taken  a  position 
with  Geo.  E.  Dean.

Ravenna—Wm.  E.  Patterson  has  en­
gaged  Peter  Reardon  as  prescription 
clerk.

Saginaw—Wm.  Stroebel,  who  resigned 
his  position  with  D.  B.  Pelton  &  Co., 
has  purchased  a  hardware  business  at 
Beaverton,to  which  he  will give his per­
sonal  attention.

Quincy— Edwin Howe  succeeds  Lewis 
Green  as  clerk  in  the  dry  goods  store 
of  Pearce  &  Lyon.

Saranac— Robert  K.  Taylor  has  taken 
a  position  as  salesman  with  the  Giant 
Clothing  Co.,  at  Grand  Rapids.

Charlotte— Randolph  Frace  has  closed 
his  work  at  Emery  Bros.' and  is now the 
new  clerk  at  Selkirk  &  Norton’s.

Alma— Roy  Streeter  succeeds  W.  C. 
Hawley  as  clerk  for  H.  J.  Vermeulen. 
Mr.  Hawley  has  engaged  with  J.  L. 
Miller  &  Son.

Plainwell—Bert  Howard  has  taken  a 
clerkship  in  the  grocery  store  of  W.  A. 
Lasher.

Saginaw—John  Schafer  has  engaged 

to  sell  goods  for  Oppenheim  &  Levy.

Kalkaska—Ora  Gibson,  who  has  been 
in  the  employ  of  M.  N.  Lehner  for  sev­
eral  months  past,  has  taken  a  similar 
position  behind  the  counter  in  Howard 
Price  &  Co. 's  hardware  store.

Middleville---Ernest  Runnels  has

taken  a  clerkship  in  the  general  store 
of  John  Campbell.

Albion— Marc  C.  Reed  has  secured 
a  position  w.ith  F.  L.  Burdick  &  Co., 
of  Sturgis.

Pentwater—Thomas  Bailey,  clerk  in 
the grocery  department  of  the  Sands  & 
Maxwell 
establishment,  was  married 
last  week  to  Miss  Mattie  Moodv,  the 
accomplished  daughter  of  Charles
Moody,  manager  of  the  same  depart­
ment.

It  is  told  of  Philip D.  Armour,  of Chi­
cago,  that  he  was  not  christened  Philip 
at  all.  He  was  named  after his  father, 
Danforth  Armour.  Mr.  Armour is quoted 
as  giving  this  explanation  recently  of 
how  be  got  the  name  of  P hilip:  " I   was 
named  Phil  after  a  colored  man  who 
lived  in  our  neighborhood  and  was  the 
terror  of  all  the  boys.  The  name  of  the 
fellow  was  Phil  Morgan,  and  be  was  up 
to  all  sorts  of  capers,  and  I  suppose  be­
cause  I  was  so  full  of  pranks  myself  the 
boys  called  me  Phil,  too.  The  ‘ D ’  in 
my  name  stands  for  Danforth.  That 
was  my  father’s  name,  but  the  boys 
in­
sisted  on  calling  me  Phil,  and  Phil  I 
remained,  my  mother  finally  consenting 
to  call  me  Philip  D.  Armour.*’

Do  not buy  more  than  you  want.  Do 
not  over-stock.  Buy  just  what  you  want, 
when  you  want 
it.  Never  have  too 
much,  and  never  have  too  little.  In  just 
enough  is  your  profit.  Do  not be  out of 
anything,  for  it  never  pays  to  give  the 
customer a  chance  to  cross  the  street.

Governor  Brady,  of  Alaska,  has  pro­
posed  the  branding  of  all  female  seals 
in  Behring  Sea  with  a  big  “ U.  S. ’ ’ 
This  would spoil  the  skins  for  commer­
cial  purposes and  stop  the  slaughter  of 
the  cows,  and  the  herds  would  then 
multiply and  replenish  the seas.

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

W.  H.  Skinner  has  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Howard  City.  The 
Worden  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Frank  T.  Cranmer has  purchased  the 
grocery  stock  of  B.  F.  Yerden  &  Co.  at 
317  Plainfield  avenue,  not  Ed.  Cramer, 
as  stated  in  our  issue  of  last  week.

Manning  &  Co.,  grocers  at  660 
Wealthy  avenue,have sold out to  Stephen 
Ford  and  Ora  Stanley,who  will  continue 
the  business  under  the  style  of  Ford  & 
Stanley.

Wm.  Mohrhard  has  retired  from  the 
firm  of  Mohrhard  Bros.,  meat  dealers  at 
239  East  Bridge  street.  The  business 
will  be  continued  at  the  same  location 
by  the  remaining  partner,  Peter  D. 
Mohrhard.

The  Grand  Rapids  Gas  Light  Co.  re­
ports  net  earnings  for  March  of $11,862, 
an 
increase  of  $1,060  over  the  corres­
ponding  month  of  last  year.  For  three 
months  the  net  earnings  were $39.185, 
an  increase  of  $3,741.

The  Grand  Rapids  Cold  Storage  Co. 
expects  to  complete  its  new  warehouse 
on  South  Front  street  so  as  to  be  able  to 
handle goods  requiring  cold  storage  by 
May  1.  Separate  apartments  have  been 
provided  for  eggs,  butter,  meats  and 
fruit  and  one  room  has  been  set apart 
for the  freezing  of  poultry  and  game.

The  current 

increasing  business  of 

issue  of  the  Tradesman 
marks  an  era  in  the  progress  of printing 
in  that  its  presses  are  operated  without 
the  use  of  shafting,  pulleys  or  belts- the 
power being  distributed  to  the machines 
by  electric  wires  and  the  motors  being 
made  a  part  of  each.  This  is  the  first 
use  of  this  method  of  distributing power 
in  the  State,  only  a  few  of  the  largest 
in  the  country  having  made  the 
cities 
trial. 
It 
is  a  well-known  and  accepted 
proposition  that 
in  press  rooms  with  a 
constantly  varying  number  of  presses  in 
operation  the  cost  of  driving  the  shaft­
ing,  pulleys  and  belts  averages  about 
the  same  as  the  cost  of  the  power  used 
in  the  presses,  varying from  40 to 60  per 
cent,  of  the  total.  The  use  of  directly 
connected  motors  reduces  this  loss  to  a 
very  small  amount.  The  addition  of  a 
new  fast  press,  made  necessary  by  the 
rapidly 
the 
Tradesman,  compelled  the  addition  of 
more  power,  and,  after a  careful  inves­
tigation,  it  was  decided  that  the  new 
method  cff  distributing 
the  power  to 
each  machine  by  wire  had  made  suffi­
cient  progress  to  warrant 
its  adoption. 
The  order  was  placed  with  the  Sprague 
Electric  Co.,  of  New  York,  which  has 
spent  enormous  sums  of  money  in  per. 
fecting  the  system  and  is  now  enjoying 
the  fruits  of  its enterprise.  The installa­
tion  of  the  work,  which  has  been  in 
charge  of  F.  S.  Wilhoit,  a  mechanical 
and  electrical  engineer  of  the Company, 
has  been  done  with  surprising  rapidity 
and  accuracy,  especially  considering 
the  newness  of  this  branch  of  engineer­
ing  science.  The  Tradesman 
is  well 
pleased  with  the  new  departure  and 
predicts  that  it  will  not  be  long  before 
the  new  method  will  become  the  rule 
where  electric  power  is  available,  and 
this  is  becoming  almost  universal.

The  Produce  Market.

is  active. 

Apples—The  market 

is  firm  and  the 
demand 
Tallman  Sweets 
command  $3,  Baldwins  and  Greenings 
fetch  $4.25  and  Kings  and  Spys  are 
quoted  at $4.50.

Bananas— Values  have  advanced  25c

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN
The  Grocery  Market.

is  now  $4.56  for 96 deg.  test. 

Sugars— Raw  sugars  have  advanced 
i-i6c  during  the  past  week and the  mar­
ket 
In 
sympathy  with  the  advance  in  raws,  re­
fined  advanced  %c  on  Friday,  and  the 
market  is  very  strong  at  the  advance. 
The  American  Sugar  Refining  Co.  is 
now  putting  out  granulated  sugar  in  2 
pound  cotton  bags,  packiug  150  to  the 
barrel.  As  the  price  is  the  same  as  the 
2  pound  paper  packages,  and  the  barrel 
can  be  much  easier  handled  than  the 
heavy  case,  this  will  undoubtedly  sup­
plant  the  2  pound  cartons.

Tea—The  tea  situation  is  practically 
featureless,  except  that  it  shows  a better 
movement  than  a  year  ago.  Values  con­
tinue  to  rule  firm  at  the  advance  noted 
a  fortnight  ago  and  it  is  anticipated,  if 
there 
is  any  change,  it  will  be  to  a 
slightly  higher  basis.

Coffee—Values  are  unchanged  from  a 
week  ago,  with  a  tendency  toward  an 
easier  basis,  if  any  change  occurs,  ow­
ing  to  the  light  demand.

Canned  Goods—There  is  no  change  to 
note  in  canned  goods.  The  demand  is 
good  and  comprises a little of everything 
in  the  line.

Dried  Fruits—The  demand  for prunes 
and  raisins  continues  good ;  stocks  are 
cleaning  up  in  good  shape.  There  is  a 
little  stronger  feeling  in  currants  and 
prices  may  advance.

Rice— Fancy  new  crop  Japan  rice  is 
now  arriving  and  is  giving  good  satis­
faction.

Syrups—Reports  from  Vermont  are 
discouraging  as  to  the  output  of  maple 
is  claimed  that  the  maple 
syrups. 
trees  were  overrun 
last  summer  with 
caterpillars  which  killed  the  leaves  and 
as  a  consequence  many  of  them  this 
spring  are  sapless.  A  small  crop  is  sure 
to  be  the  result.

It 

Cereals—One  New  York  manufacturer 
is  offering  his  goods  at  a  price  far  be­
low  what  they  are  usually  sold  at  and 
there 
is  an  easier  feeling  in  many  of 
the  brands  handled  by  the  local jobbers. 
The  demand  has  fallen  off  considerably 
of  late  and  this  is  said  to  be responsible 
for  the  easier tone  given  to  the  market 
by  the  manufacturers.

Fish—John  Pew  &  Son  (Gloucester) 
write  the  Tradesman  as  follows:  We 
have  passed  through  an  unusually  se­
vere  winter,  which  has  interfered  ma­
terially  with  the  catch.  The  shortage, 
as  compared  with  1898,  is  nearly  six 
million  pounds  on  salt  and  fresh codfish 
kinds.  About  one  half  of  the  fresh  cod­
fish  kinds  of  1898  went  to  the  curers  for 
salting  and  splitting,  while  only  one- 
third  of  the  receipts  of  the  same  kind 
of  fish  were  disposed  of  in  this  way  this 
year.  The  amount  of  salt  fish  for  bone­
less  whole  fish  shows  a  large  shrinkage 
the  Lenten  season  of 
compared  with 
1898.  We  make 
it  23,000  qtls.  The 
Lenten  demand  this  season  was  about 
12  to  1;  per  cent,  larger  than  that  of 
1898;  and  as  the  stock  of  salt  fish  at  the 
commencement  of  the  year  was  lighter 
than  usual,  before  the  Lenten  demand 
was  over  several  grades  of  fish  were  ex­
hausted.  At  present  our  market  is  bare 
of  last  fall's  catch  of  large  and  medium 
bank  codfish,  also  of  cusk  and  hake. 
The  present  stock  of  haddock  is  also 
quite  small.  The  advance  on  codfish 
kinds  has  been  justified,  and  we  think 
prices  will  be  no  lower  materially  for 
some  weeks,certainly  not  until  our  mar­
ket 
is  better  supplied  with  stock  than 
now.  We hardly  expect  prices  will  rule 
so 
low  throughout  the  year  as  those  of 
1898.  The  receipts  of  herring  this  year 
larger  than  for  the
to  date  are  much 

5

is 

same  period  of  1898.  At  the  same  time 
the  demand  has  been 
larger,  and  at 
present  there  are  no  round  herring  on 
hand,  and  but  very  few  split.  Smoked 
bloater  herring  have  been used more this 
year  than  usually,  and  the  Lenten  sea­
son  closed  with  none  of  any  account 
in 
stock.  Smoked  halibut,  on  account  of 
low  prices  and  quality,  has  met 
the 
with  a 
large  demand  and  prices  have 
advanced  about  j£c  on  all  grades.  The 
present  stock 
light.  Mackerel,  on 
account  of  their  high  prices  and  only  a 
few  sizes  to  offer,  have  met  with  a  re­
stricted  demand. 
The  stock  of  the 
American  catch  is  about  exhausted,  and 
those  on  the  market  now  (principally 
the  Irish  catch  and  in  a  few  bands)  are 
held  at  high  prices.  We  look  for the 
first  receipts  of  the  American  catch, 
which  will  be  Large  No.  3’s,  the  first  or 
second  week 
in  June.  Some  of  our 
Gloucester  vessels  are  now  in  the South­
ern  Atlantic  waters  for  mackerel;  but 
as  their  catch  will  be  marketed  fresh, 
we  shall  get  no  salt  mackerel 
from 
them.  What  the  mackerel  catch  will  be 
this  season  no  one  dares  to  predict,  as 
many  predictions  in  the  past  have  come 
to  naught.  Mackerel  are  such  myster­
ious  fish  that  the  wisest  in  the  business 
maintains  a  sphinx-like  attitude.  The 
mackerel  fleet  will  be  unusually  small 
at  the  commencement  of  this  fishery.
Hides,  Pelts.  Furs,  Tallow and  Wool-
The  hide  market  has  been  dragging 
until  this  week  it  braces  up  strong.  A 
heavy  advance  on  packers’  has  brought 
an  advance  on  light  hides,  with  strong 
demand.  The 
late  takeoff  shows  some 
impiovement  in  quality,  which,  togeth­
er  with  light  offerings  and  empty  vats, 
stimulate,  purchases.

Pelts  are  nominal  and  low  in  value, 

with  few  offering.

Furs  are  not  in  large  supply  nor  in 
great  demand,  except  for  early  catch, 
which  are  few.  The  close  of  the  season 
is  near  at  hand  and  no  one  wishes  to 
carry  stock  over.

Tallow  has  declined  in  price  %c  and 
the  demand 
is  not  so  great.  Values 
became  too  high  for  soapers.  The  sup­
ply  is  limited.

Wools  are  still  a  conundrum  to  old 
wool  men.  Sales  are  light,  with  a  fair 
amount 
in  sight,  but  all  costs  more 
money  than  it  will  bring  to-day.  Sales 
at  seaboard  seem  to  be  below  quotations 
when  returns  come  in.  Some  sales  re­
ported  made  in  Boston  are  below  prices 
paid  West  by  recent purchasers;  in fact, 
prices  West  are  relatively  higher  than 
East.  Holders  are strong  in  their  views, 
while  consolidated  manufacturers  keep 
out  and  pound  down  prices.  The  dear 
public  (dealers)  patiently  await  their 
day  of  reckoning,  believing  there 
is 
good  reason  for  wool  being  down  to  free 
trade  values,  as  compared  with  other 
products. 

W m.  T.  Hess.

Of  the  numerous  candidates  for  City 
Attorney,  Hon.  Peter Doran  is  undoubt­
edly  the  best  equipped  to  discharge  the 
duties  of  the  office  with  credit  to  the in­
cumbent  and  with  profit  to  the  city. 
Mr.  Doran  has  never  been  accused  of 
being  a  chronic  office  seeker  and  the 
faithful  manner  in  which  be  has  always 
served  bis  party  certainly  entitles  him 
to  recognition  at  this  time.

When  a  dog  barks  at  night  in  Japan 
the  owner 
is  arrested  and  sentenced  to 
work  for a  year  for  the  neighbors  whose 
slumbers  may  have  been  disturbed.

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades  and  prices,  phone Visner,  800.

over  a  week  ago  and  especially 
for 
fancy  stock.  Moderate  supplies  are  to 
be bad, with  increased  shipments  to  this 
market 
in  transit.  The  movement  at 
the  advance  has  been  satisfactory.

Butter— Receipts  are  not large and  the 
market 
is  kept  closely  cleaned  up. 
Fancy  dairy  in  crocks  and  rolls  readily 
fetches  I5@i6c.  Factory  creamery  is 
stationary  at  20c.

Cabbage— New  California  stock  com­
mands  $1.25  per  doz.  Home  grown  is 
in  fair  supply  at  $1  per  doz.

Celery—20c  per  doz.  bunches.
Cranberries---- Wisconsin  Bell  and

Bugle,  $6;  Cape  Cod,  $7.

Cucumbers—$1.25  per  doz.
Eggs— The  price held  up to  13c  in  the 
Grand  Rapids  market  all 
last  week—a 
higher  record  than  was  made  by  any 
other  market,  East  or  West,  transporta­
tion  considered.  Advices from  Chicago 
and  other  points  indicate  that  the  cold 
storage  people  are  picking  them  up  as 
rapidly as  they  can  obtain  them,  at any­
where  frqm  Ii@i2c,  and  this  is  giving 
stability  to  the  market.  Local  dealers 
were  compelled  to  draw  on  Chicago  for 
supplies to  the  extent  of  500  cases.  The 
warm  weather  and 
increased  receipts 
have  caused  a  decline  to  12c,  but  it 
hardly  seems  possible  that  the  market 
will  go  below 
ioc  this  week,  although 
the  cold  storage  buyers  expect  to  re­
ceive  plenty  of  shipments  on  a  9c  basis 
before  the  end  of  the  week.

Honey— Dark  is  in  fair demand  at  8c. 
Light  amber  is  active  at  ioc.  White  is 
practically  out  of  market.

Green  Onions— 12c  per  doz.  bunches.
Lemons—The  receipts  are  liberal  and 
the  market 
is.  well  supplied  with  a 
movement  in  excess  of  this  period  a 
year  ago.  Former  values  still  rule.

Lettuce— 15c  per  lb.
Maple  Sugar— ioc  per  lb.
Nuts— Hickory,  $i.5o@2,  according to 

size.  Walnuts  and  butternuts,  60c.

Onions— Home  grown  in  fair  demand 
at  6o@65c.  Bermuda  command  $2.25 
per  crate.

Oranges— —The  demand 

continues 
steady  and  is  satisfactory  for  this  peri­
od  of  the  year,  many  consumers  giving 
the  preference  to  oranges  over  other 
fruits  on  account  of  their  comparative 
cheapness.  The  call  for  seedlings  con­
tinues  good.

Parsley—$1  per doz.  bunches.
Parsnips—$1.25  per  bbl.
Pop  Corn— 50c  per  bu.
Potatoes—The  market 

is  without 
particular  change,  but  enquiries  for 
stock  are  coming  in  very  lively,  indi­
cating  a  more  active  market 
later. 
Dealers  are  paying  4o@5oc,  holding  at 
60c.

Poultry— Scarce.  Chickens,  Ii@ i2c; 
fowls,  io@i i c ;  ducks,  n @ i2 c;  geese, 
ioc;  turkeys,  I2@i4c.
Radishes---- Round,  20c  per  doz.
bunches.  Long,  15c  per  doz.  bunches.

Spinach—$1  per  basket.

Competition  and  Opposition.

“ Competition  is  the  life  of  trade.”  
The  merchant  who  promotes  a  healthy 
rivalry  and  honorable  competition  will 
find  it  so.

Opposition 

is  rank  poison  to  legiti­
mate  business. 
The  merchant  who 
wastes  his  time  clubbing  his  neighbors 
and  digging  pitfalls  for them  will  find 
it  so;  he  will  eventually  fall  in  his  own 
trap.

Competition  and  opposition  are easily 

confounded.

Competition is an honest man’s means.
Opposition 
is  a  two-edged  sword, 
likely  to  draw  blood  on  the  luckless 
handler.

Competition,  be  it  ever  so  sharp,  is 

tempered  with  fair  play.

Opposition  arouses  passion,  puts  a 
premium  on  trickery,  and  degrades 
business.

Competition  brings  improvement  and 

activity.
to  injure  an  opponent.

Opposition  suggests  any  old  scheme 
Competition  makes  friends.
Opposition  destroys  friendships  and 

make  enemies.

Competition  nourishes  profits.
Opposition  kills  them.

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Woman’s World

Miss  Fannie’s  Easter  Offering.

It  was  Maria  Wheat  who  first  told  us. 
Dear,  dear,  how  time  does  By!  It  was 
fifteen— no,  twenty  years ago,  and yet,  in 
thinking  of  it,  it  seems  no  longer  than 
yesterday. 
It  was  at  a  meeting  of  the 
sewing  circle,  and  we  were  sitting  busy 
at  our  work  in  Susan  White's  pretty  old 
parlor,  for  we  were  going  to  buy  a  new 
organ  for  our  church  at  Fairmount,  and 
while  the  men,  of  course,  would  do  all 
the  selecting  and  deciding about it,  they 
bad  graciously  allowed  us  to  raise  the 
money  for  it.  Now  we 
lacked  only  a 
small  sum,  and  this  we  hoped  to  raise 
by  private  subscription,  so  as  to  have 
the  organ  in  place  by  Easter  Sunday.

“ I’ll  begin  with  Miss  Fannie,  she 
will  be  sure  to  give,”  said Susan White, 
canvassing  the  liberal  ones,  and  chew­
ing  the  end  of  her  pencil  for  inspira­
tion,  as  she  made  out  a  list.

Maria  Wheat  flushed  up  to  the  roots 
of  her  hair. 
“ N o,"  she  said,  “ I  was 
at  her house  yesterday,  and  I  mentioned 
the  matter  to  her,  and  she  said  that  she 
was  sorry,but  that  just  now  sne  couldn’t 
give  anything  to  the  fund.  She  said  she 
had  other  and  unexpected  expenses  just 
now,  and  she  was  sorry,**  wound  up 
Maria  lamely.

We  all 

looked  our  surprise,  for  for 
Miss  Fannie  to  fail  us  was  as  unex­
pected  as 
if  the  earth  had  opened  up 
under  our  feet,  and  Mrs.  Jenkins,  who 
had  not  lived  long  in  Fairmount,  broke 
out  with,  “ What  a  shame!  How  stingy 
With  that  big,  fine  house,  too,  and  not 
a  chick  or  child  to  spend  on. 
I  should 
think— "

“ Miss  Fannie  stingy!’ ’  we  cried  in 
is  the 
indignant  chorus. 
“ Why,  she 
most  generous  soul  alive,  and 
if  she 
does  live  in  that  big  house,  it's  because 
it  was  left  to  her,  and  she  can't  sell 
it, 
it’s  more  expense  than  profit  any­
and 
way,’ *  for  in  Fairmount,  where we knew 
everybody’s  affairs,  we  knew  well 
enough  that  of  all  the  large  estate  that 
had  once  belonged  to  Miss  Fannie’s 
father,  nothing  had  been 
left  but  the 
great,  rambling  old  mansion  bouse, 
with  its  fine  old  carved  furniture,  and  a 
few  bonds  that  brought  in  but  the scant 
iest  income.

That  afternoon  as  I  walked  home with 
Maria  Wheat  she  broke  a  long  silence 
by  saying :  “ I’m  afraid Miss Fannie  is 
in  trouble.  Not  that  she  said  anything. 
You  know  her  way,  so  quiet,  and peace­
ful,  and  calm,  but  she  looked  to  me this 
evening 
like  she  had  been  crying,  and 
in  the  library  there  was  a  great  gap, 
and  when  I  looked  again  I  saw  that  her 
splendid  old  carved  mahogany  table 
was  gone. 
‘ Why,  Miss  Fannie,’  I  said, 
‘ where’s  your  table?'and  she  gave  a 
queer  little  gasp,  and  said  she  had  sold 
it  to  those  Chicago  people  who  were 
down  here  at  Susan  White's  last  year. 
You  remember  how  they  carried  on  over 
it?’ * 

I  nodded.

“ And  then, “ went  on  Maria,  “ she 
told  me  that  about  not  being  able  to 
give  anything  to  the  organ  fund,  al­
though  she  had  been  more  interested  in 
it  than  any  of  us.  I  know  that  hurt  her, 
and  to  have  to  sell  her old  furniture! 
Why,  I’ve  beard  her  say  many  a  time 
that  it  was  like  old  friends  to  her,  and 
that  with  it  she  was  never  lonely,  for  it 
seemed  to  her  the  chairs  were  never 
vacant,  but  filled  with  the  gentle  ghosts 
of  those  she  has  loved  and 
lost.  Why, 
she  would  have  starved  before she would 
have  parted  with  a  stick  of  it  What  do 
you  suppose  is  the  matter?”

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

I 

could  only  sigh  in  vague  sympathy. 

None  of  us  knew;  Miss  Fannie  vouch­
safed  no  explanation,  and I  have  always 
felt  it  a  proof of our tenderness and  re­
finement  of  feeling  that  no  one  asked. 
We  took  her  angels’  food,  and  blanc 
manges,  and  jellies  of  our  own  making, 
as  if  she  were  ill,  and  got  into  a  way  of 
dropping 
in  the  twilight,  to  say  a 
word  that  might  show  we held  her  in our 
hearts,  but  we  asked  no  questions. 
What  she  told  us  we  would  know—no 
more;  and,  as  for  Miss  Fannie, 
the 
matter  lay  so  simply  and  plainly  before 
her  that  she  probably  never  dreamed 
that  she  was  an  object  of  romantic  in­
terest  to  us.

in 

Not  far  from  our  little  village  was 
that  most  desolate  and  pathetic  spot  on 
all  God's  sweet  earth—the  county  poor- 
house.  Here  were  brought  the  waifs  of 
humanity,  friendless  old  men  and  wom­
en,  whose  work-worn  bands  bad  grown 
too  feeble  longer  to  earn  sustenance  for 
their  poor  bodies;  little  children  who 
found  no  place  by  some  sheltering  fire­
side;  the  feeble-minded  and  afflicted 
with  none  to  care  for them. 
It  was  a 
place  to  wring  one’s  heart  with  pity, 
in  deference  to  our  own  peace  of 
and 
mind  we  forgot 
it  and  ignored  it  just 
as  often  as  possible.

it  with 

laughter 

All but  Miss  Fannie.  It  was  the  place 
she  went  oftenest,  and  we  mocked  her 
preference  for 
that 
was  very  close  to  tears,  for  we  knew  she 
did  an  angel's  work  out  there,  and  was 
the  one  gleam  of  sunshine  on  the  dark 
horizon  of  its  poor 
inmates.  But  that 
was  the  way  she  happened  to  find  the 
boy.  When  she  saw  him  first  be  was 
sitting,  a  forlorn  and  helpless 
little 
creature,  clothed  in  rags,  upon  a  broken 
log  near  the  gate,  moaning 
like  a 
trapped  wild  creature  as  he  rocked him­
self  back  and  forth.  She  stopped  and 
spoke  to  him  gently,  and  he  turned  up 
towards  her  a  face  that  was  as  beautiful 
as  a  seraph’s,  but  oh,  the  pity  of  it,  was 
blind.  They  told  her  that  he  had  just 
been  brought 
into  the  poorhouse,  and 
that  he  wept  for  bis  dead  mother,  and 
went about pathetically feeling,  groping, 
bunting  for  her and  crying  out  that  he 
could  find  her  if  he  could  only  see.

After  that,  as  the  months  went  by, 
Miss  Fannie  came  to  know  him  very 
well,  and  he  followed  her  about  with 
the  faithful,  bumble  devotion  of  a  dog. 
Her  first  glimpse  on  coming  was  always 
the  patimt  little  face  and  the  sightless 
eyes  turned  towards  the  road  where  she 
must  come,  and  her  last  was  of  the 
wistful  little  figure  listening  for  the  dy­
ing  echo  of  the  wheels  that bore her,  bis 
one  friend,  from  him.  He  was  very 
ignorant,  but  his  face  would  flash  with 
understanding  as 
little  she 
taught  him  the  beautiful  truths  of  the 
old,  old  B)ok  that  encompasses  ail  of 
divine  wisdom,  and  human  philosophy, 
and  hope.  Once  as  she  was  reading  to 
him,  she  chanced  on  the  story  of  Christ 
restoring  the  sight  to  the  blind,  and  she 
was 
that 
clamped  her  own  like  a  vise.

stopped  by  a 

little  band 

l.ttle  by 

“ Is— is  that  true?”   be  asked.
“ Oh,  surely,”   she  answered.
“ And  can  Christ  do  anything?  Could 
he  make  me see?”  enquired the boy  pas­
sionately  and  breathlessly.

“ He  is  all  powerful,”   answered  Miss 
Fannie,  with  a  lump  in  her  throat,  for 
bow  could  she  say  that  the  day  of  mir­
acles  was  indeed  over  to  this  child?  It 
was  too  cruel.

The  boy  answered  nothing  more,  but 
late  that  night  it  was  found  that  his  lit­
tle  bed  was  empty  and  that be was gone. 
A  searching  party  was  organized  and

lanterns, 

they  set  out  with 
looking 
through  the heavy  woods  for  him.  On 
and  on  they  traced  the  wavering 
little 
footsteps,  and 
toward  morning  they 
came  upon  him,  torn  with  briars  and 
bruised  with  falls  over  stones  and  roots, 
but  with  the  light  of  a  great  purpose  on 
bis  face.

“ I  am  going  to  find  Christ  and  ask 
him  to  make  me  see,”   he  said,  simply; 
“ I  have  searched  for him all  night long, 
and  have  not  found  him.  He  must  be 
very  far away,  isn’t  he?”

They  told  him yes,  and  took  him  back 
with  them,  his  little  childish  heart  torn 
with  unchildish  sobs,  but  never  doubt­
ing  that  he  should  some  day  find  his 
Lord  and  receive  his  sight.

This  set  Miss  Fannie  thinking.  Who 
am  I,  she asked, that  I shall  measure  the 
mercy  of  God,  or  say  that  he  does  not 
perform  miracles  to-day? 
Then  she 
thought  of  a  great  surgeon,  world  fa­
mous,  who  bad  given  back  to many peo­
ple  their  sight.  If  only  he  might  see  the 
boy ! 
It  happened—Miss  Fannie  main­
tains it was Providence— that a great con 
vention  was  being  held 
in  a  big  city 
near  by,  and  that  the  great  man  was  to 
be  one  of  its  guests  of  honor.  Nobody 
ever  knew  how  she  did 
it 
was  never  easy  to  refuse  Miss  Fannie 
anything,  but  some  way  she 
induced 
him  to  stop  over  for  a  day  in  our  vil­
lage,  and  while  wealthy  patients  waited 
his  return  the  great  surgeon  was  giv­
ing  all  of  his  skill  to  a  forlorn  little  boy 
from  the  county  poorhouse.

it.  Perhaps 

Then  it  was  we  knew  why  Miss  Fan­
nie  had  made  no  contribution  to  the  or­
gan  fund,  and  why  the  old  mahogany 
table  was  gone. 
It  happened  that  it 
was  late  on  Saturday  night,  just  before 
the  dawn  of  Easter  morning,  that  we 
knew  for certain  that  the  operation  was 
successful  and  that  when  the boy opened 
his  eyes  again  he  would  see.

“ Isn’t 

it  wonderful?”   said  Maria 
“ It  is  like  seeing  the  resurrec­
Wheat. 
tion  happen  again  before  your  very 
eyes.  Think  what  Easter  will  mean  to 
that  poor  child,  coming  up  out  of  the 
very  darkness  of  the  grave  to  all  light 
and  beauty, ”  and then  she  quoted  some­
thing  softly  about “ whereas I  was blind, 
now  I  see. ’ ’

“ And  Miss  Fannie?”   I  asked.
Maria  pointed  to  the  open  door,  and  I 
looked 
in.  The  boy  lay  with  his  face 
unconsciously  turned  to  the  east,  where 
for him  the  first  day  was  about to break, 
and  Miss  Fannie  knelt  by  the  bed,  and 
we  knew  she  was  laying  'her  Easter 
offering  at  the  feet  of  her  Lord.

D o roth y  D ix .

It 

Deceitfulness  of Riches.
is  a  common  saying  among  men 
who  would  have  things  otherwise  than 
they  are  that  the  rich  of  our  country  are 
growing  richer  and  the  poor,  poorer. 
This  may  be  so. 
I  know  some rich  who 
are  growing  richer,  and  I  know  some 
poor  who  are  growing  poorer,  and  I  do 
not  know  which  to  pity  more.  Neither 
one  of  these  men  is  1 ike ly  to  grow  any 
better  as  a  man  or  as  a  citizen.  The 
poor  man  growing  poorer  is  likely  to  be 
a  dangerous  element  in  society.  He  has 
no  property  interests  to  induce  him  to 
respect  the  property  interests  of  others. 
He  may  be  ready  fuel  for  the  flames  of 
insurrection.

The  rich  man  growing  richer,  with an 
increasing  appetite  for  riches,  is a  dan­
gerous  element  in  society.  His  abnor­
mal  appetite  for dollars  may 
lead  him 
to  eat  up  his  smaller  neighbor,  whom 
he  can  not  properly  digest  and  assimi­
late.  The  abnormally  rich  quickly  de­

generate 
into  the  criminally  rich;  and 
the  criminally  rich  are as  much  more 
dangerous  than  the  criminally  poor as 
their  riches  increase  their  influence.

The  great  conserving  element  of  so­
ciety  is  the middle class—the fairly well- 
to-do—those  who  clothe  and  feed  them­
selves  and  lay  by  a  little  for  a rainy day 
and  for  a  friend  in  need.  This  class 
includes  almost  all  the  contented  ones, 
almost  all  the  cheerful  ones,  almost all 
the  educated,  intelligent  ones,  almost 
all  the  righteous  ones,  almost  all  the 
helpful  ones.  In  this  class  those  people 
live  on  whose  bounty  almost  all  chari­
table  works  must  subsist,  and  to  whom 
we  turn  for  comfort  when  we  need  it 
most.

Think  of  this,  you young clerk-on-ten- 
dollars-a-week,  when  a  great  yearning 
for  speculative  wealth  comes  into  your 
vitals  and  takes  away  your  appetite  for 
slow  dollars.  Remember  that  a  great 
hunger  for  other  people's  wealth  can 
never  be quenched  by  getting  other peo­
ple's  wealth.  It  is  a  hunger that  is  from 
the  devil,  and  such  goetb  not  out  but  by 
prayer and  fasting.

Be  ashamed  to  be  pauperishly  poor; 
dare  to  be  but  fairly  well  to  do;  but 
don’t  ever  let  me  or  yourself  or any 
other  man  catch  you  hankering  to  be 
rich.  You  had  better  hanker  to  have 
the  moon  dropped  into  your lap.  I  know 
plenty  of  rich  men  who  have about  as 
much  fun  holding  onto  their  riches  as 
they  would  have  bolding  the  moon  in 
their arms.  They  wear  themselves  out 
with  a  load  which  at  best  they  can  drag 
only  as  far  as  the  grave.  Then they  die 
as  tired,  as  poor  and  as  dead  as  the 
dead  sewing  woman  in  her attic.— Dea­
con  in  Furniture  News.

The  Man  Who  Succeeds.

C.  V. White  in  Canadian Business.

The  man  who  makes  a  success of an 
important  venture  never  waits  for  the 
crowd.  He  strikes  out  for  himself. 
It 
It  takes  a  great  lot  of 
takes  nerve. 
grit.  But  the  man  who  succeeds  has 
both.  Any  one  can  fail.  The  public 
admire  the  man  who  has  enough  confi­
dence 
in  himself  to  take  a  chance. 
These chances  are  the  main  thing,  after 
all.  The  man  who  tries  to  succeed  must 
expect  to  be  criticized.  Nothing  im­
portant  was  ever  done  but  the  greater 
number  consulted  previously  doubted 
the  possibility.  Success 
is  the  accom­
plishment  of  that  which  most  people 
think  can’t  be  done.

BBtafcHsbednSO.

Walter Baker & Go.

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

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their manufactures.

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

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WEDNBSDAY,------APRIL 12.1899.
TH E  LAW  OF  CHANGE.

The  experiment  of self-government  in 
this  country  has  developed  certain tend­
encies  that  are  supposed  to  strengthen 
the  probability  that 
it  will  prove  per­
manently  successful,  although  no  one 
denies  that  it  has  been  attended by some 
other  developments  of  a  manifestly 
in­
auspicious  character.  The  apprehension 
that  free  institutions  might  be  sudden­
ly  overthrown  here,  as  they  have  been 
occasionally  overthrown  elsewhere,  by 
a  military  hero  or  other  popular  leader 
under  some  conjuncture  of 
circum­
stances  peculiarly  favorable  to  a  coup 
d’etat,  is  no  longer seriously entertained 
in  any  quarter.  The  vast  extent  of  the 
country,  the  counterpoise  of  its  various 
sections, 
the  centers  of  conservatism 
afforded  by  the  governments  of  the  sev­
eral  states,  and,  most  of  all,  the  mental 
habit  and  temper  of  the  people,  com­
bine  to  render  a  revolution  of  that  sort 
impossible,  at  all  events  fora  long  time 
to  come.  Whatever changes  occur  m  the 
political  system  of  the  United  States 
will  come  as  the  logical  result of a grad 
ual  process  of  adaptation  to altered  con­
ditions  and  mainly  without  individual 
advocacy  or  leadership.  As  in  science 
it  happens  now  and  then  that  a  new 
law  of  nature,  or  a  new  and  important 
fact,  is,  without  consultation  or  con­
cert,  discovered  and  announced  by  dif­
ferent  men 
in  different  parts  of  the 
world  practically  at  the  same  time,  so 
in  the  great  departments of political  and 
economical 
administration  material 
changes—new  systems,  new  methods— 
are  simultaneously  suggested  to  many 
minds  just  when  social,  or  industrial 
and 
has 
opened  the  way  for  them,  and,  perhaps, 
made  them  indispensable  to  progress.

development 

commercial, 

Change  is  the  one  invariable rule,  and 
no  political  community,-no  state,  is  so 
prosperous  and  so  well  satisfied  with 
its  prosperity  that 
it  can  permanently 
resist  those  constant  forces  which  in 
every  sphere  of  human  activity  are  re­
placing  the  old  order  with  the  new. 
It 
is  true  that  changes  in  the  framework of 
a  government  provided  with  a  written 
constitution 
like  that  of  the  United 
States  are  greatly  hindered  and  dis­
couraged  by  the  enormous  difficulties 
in  their  way.  The  constitution  of  the 
United  States  can  not  be  amended with­
out  the  expressed  consent  of 
‘  the  leg­
islatures  of  tbree-fonrths  of  the  several 
states,”   or  of  “ conventions 
in  three- 
fourths  thereof;’ ’  and  no  amendment 
can  be  submitted  before  two-thirds  of 
both  houses  shall  propose 
it,  “ or,  on

convention 

the  application  of  the  legislatures  of 
two-thirds  of  the  several states,  shall call 
a 
for  proposing  amend­
ments.”   That  instrument  is  undoubted­
ly  in  itself  a  masterpiece  of  statesman­
ship,  and,  considering  the  difficulty  of 
amendment,  it  must  be  regarded  as  es­
pecially  fortunate  that  it  has been  found 
unnecessary  to  subject  it  to  frequent  al­
its  authors,  for  all  their 
terations;  but 
wisdom  and 
learning,  were  unable  to 
secure  human freedom against every pos­
sible  form  of  attack.  Now,  at 
least, 
men  are  beginning  to  suspect  that  it  is 
possible  that  despotism  may  be  estab­
lished  under  the  shelter  of  the  Federal 
constitution  and 
in  entire  conformity 
with  laws  originally  enacted  for  the  de­
fense  of  free  institutions.  The  organic 
law  of  the  land  has  worn  well  for a  hun­
dred  years  and  more;  but  now  a  doubt 
has  arisen  as  to  whether 
it  is  broad 
enough  to  cover  every  vital  point  that 
may  be  exposed  in  the  inevitable course 
of  social  development.

The  men  who  made  that  constitution 
may  well  have  thought  that  they  had 
sufficiently  assured  the  freedom  of  pos­
terity  when  they  had  provided  a  perfect 
bulwark  for  civil  and  religious  liberty 
They  did  not  foresee  that  the  growth  of 
trade  would  bring 
into  operation  new 
systems  of 
industrial  and  commercial 
organization  which  would  very  seriously 
individ­
endanger  personal  liberty  and 
ual  enterprise  in  the  business world. 
It 
is  not  necessary  at  this  late  day  to  ex­
plain  bow 
that  condition  has  been 
brought  about—it  has  become  only  too 
sadly  familiar.  But  this  is  the  states­
man's  dilemma:  How  can  individual 
rights  and  liberties  in  business  be  per­
fectly  secured  without  the  enactment  of 
laws  which  will  limit  the  right  of  con­
tract  and  operate  in  restraint  of  trade 
and  as  a  practical  denial  of  its  natural 
freedom?  Then  how  can  individualism 
be  saved  by  a  recourse  to  socialism? 
Thegreat corporations,left to themselves, 
threaten  to  absorb  all  business  interests, 
and  so  to  govern  the  world.  They  would 
land  society 
in  socialism— without  a 
division  of  profits  or  products.  A  reg­
ularly  organized  and  recognized  social 
state  would  be  better;  but  the  choice  is 
bard. 

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The  automobile  is  credited  with  an­
other  virtue  besides  assisting  tbe  busy 
man  or  woman  in  getting  to a desired 
place  in  a  burry.  A  New  York  physi­
cian  has  discovered  that 
in  taking  X- 
ray  pictures  and  using  electricity on  bis 
rheumatic  patients  be  does  not  find  it 
necessary  to  transport  large  electric bat­
teries.  He  simply  calls  tbe  automobile 
over  the  ’phone  and,  as  it  stands  by  the 
door,  be  attaches 
its  storage  battery 
wires,  which  lead  to  the  sick room.  The 
current  is  regulated  by  a  small 
instru­
ment,  and  the  electrical  treatment  or  X- 
ray  picture 
further 
trouble. 

is  taken  without 

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In  Japan  what  we  call  “ after-dinner 
speeches’ ’  are  made  before  dinner,  thus 
insuring  brevity  and 
furnishing  topics 
for  conversation  during  tbe  meal  itself.

New  Jersey 

is  to  have  a  battleship 
named  for  her.  The  New  Jersey  will  be 
a  great  addition  to  the  mosquito  fleet.

A  man  with  a  history  is  always  in­
isn't  a  book  agent  and 

teresting 
wants  to  sell  you  one.

if  be 

The  person  who  has a  mission  is  an 

uncomfortable  acquaintance.

Aguinaldo  will  soon  be  a  man  with­

out  a  country.

FACE  TO FACE WITH A PROBLEM.
Even  tbe  great  city  of  Philadelphia 
finds  that  the  greater  city  of  New  York 
appears  to  enjoy  what 
is  popularly 
known  as  a  “ pull”   with  the  Govern­
ment  that  is  securing  first  consideration 
for  New  York  over  other  ports  whose 
harbors  have  been  designated 
in  the 
rivers  and  harbors  bill for improvement.
The  Philadelphia  Ledger,  comment­
ing  on  tbe  fact  that  already  plans  for 
the  forty-foot  channel  in  New  York  har­
bor  have  been  prepared  and  arrange­
ments  made  to  prosecute  the  work  with 
vigor,  hopes  that  the  engineers  will  get 
around  to  Philadelphia  after  awhile  and 
that,  “ at  some  indefinite  time after,  tbe 
work  of  dredging  a  thirty  foot  channel”  
— in  the  Delaware—“ may  be  begun!”  
Then  the  Ledger  concludes:  “ Phila­
delphia's  business  men,  who  have  un- 
deitaken  to  push  the  work  of  improving 
the  city’s  facilities  for  commerce,  can 
not  afford  to  stop  pushing  for  sometime 
to  come. ’ ’

What  a  lesson  here  for Grand  Rapids!
If  the  city  of  Philadelphia  feels  tbe 
necessity,  in  spite  of  the  favorable  ac­
tion  of  Congress  in  its  behalf  so  far,  of 
continued  “ pushing"  efforts 
for  some 
time  to  come  by  its  business  men,  to 
secure  improved  facilities  for  the  city’s 
commerce,  bow  much  greater  tbe  neces­
sity  resting  upon  the  citizens  of  Grand 
Rapids  to  redouble  their  endeavors  in 
behalf  of  the 
improvement  of  Grand 
River.

Congress  has  virtually  endorsed  our 
river  improvement  project  and  made  a 
rather  generous  allowance  for continu­
ing  the  work,  but  the  continuing  con­
tract  clause  is  still  to  be  secured,  which 
alone  will  insure  the  steady  prosecution 
of  the 
improvement.  And,  although 
we  can  congratulate  ourselves  that  a 
good  start  has  been made and that every­
thing  points  to  the  ultimate  success  of 
the  undertaking,  so  much  remains  to 
be  done  that  it  can  truly be  said  that  we 
are  not  yet  farther  than  tbe  threshold.

in 

Recognizing  this  fact,  the  public- 
spirited,  energetic,  worthy  and  repre­
sentative  citizens  who  have  heretofore 
the  premises, 
carried  the  burden 
feeling  that  now  the  city  must  begin 
in 
a  more  general  way  to  take  up  tbe  work 
remaining  for 
it  to  do,  have  appealed 
to  the  public  for  assistance  to  enable  us 
to  perform  our  duty  to  ourselves  in  the 
premises  and  expedite  the  realization 
of  our  hopes.

This 

is  a  time  for  the  citizens  of 
Grand  Rapids  to  put  on  their  “ think­
ing  caps”   and  determine,  once  for  all, 
what  they  will  do  in  the  premises.  The 
future  of  this  city  is  largely  involved  in 
this  river 
improvement.  We  can  be­
come  great  or  we  may  be  distanced  by 
rivals  and  retrograde.  We  are  not  yet 
“ out  of  the  woods’ ’  as  a  commercial 
point—there 
is  much  yet  to  be  done  to 
fix  our  future  beyond  question.  We 
have  reached  the  “ parting  of  the ways’ ’ 
between  progress  and stagnation !  Every 
dollar  of  every  citizen  is  involved  in  the 
problem  now  before  this  people.

There  is  no  use  mincing  words.
A  comparatively  few  men  have  here­

large 

tofore  given  their  time  and  money  to 
the  work  of  bringing  tbe  river  improve­
ment  matter  to 
its  present  degree  of 
development.  Hundreds  of  men  who 
own 
interests  here  that  would  be 
benefited  by  any  development  of  Grand 
Rapids  have  not  contributed  a  cent  to­
ward  the  preliminary  work !  Many  of 
these  men  have  actually  thrown 
the 
weight  of  their 
influence  against  the 
improvement,  thus  placing  themselves 
in  the  category  of  laggards  and  stum­
bling  blocks.

It 

is  this  narrow,  selfish,  mossback 
spirit  that  may  not only overreach itself, 
but  seriously  and  permanently  cripple 
tbe city for the  next  quarter of a century !
There  must  come  a  change  at  once  or 
this  community  will  suffer  id   tbe future. 
In  this  day  of  sharp  rivalry  between 
cities,  and  especially  between  Western 
cities,  a  place  like  Grand  Rapids  can 
not  stand  still. 
It  must  go  forward  or 
go  backward.  Nothing now  but  the  most 
stupid  selfishness  and  the  densest  moss- 
backism  can  stand 
in  our  pathway. 
Will  we  seize  our  opportunity  or  neglect 
it?  Will  the  people  as  a  whole  con­
tribute  to  further  our  progress  or  con­
tinue  to  depend  upon  a  few  men  to 
bring 
them  prosperity,  wealth  and 
greatness?

It  is  going  to  take  money,and  a good­
ly  amount  of  it,  not  for any  improper, 
but  absolutely  necessary  and 
legitimate 
expenditure,  to  carry  our  part  of  this 
work  of  securing  a  ten-foot  channel  to 
Lake  Michigan.  Unless  tbe  people  of 
Grand  Rapids  put  their  shoulders  to  tbe 
wheel  and  assist  the  Government  in  tbe 
work,  they  may  as  well  begin  to  antici­
pate  a  future 
loaded  with  disappoint­
ment  and  embittered  by  the  rapid  prog­
ress  of  successful  rivals  and  tbe  reflec­
tion  that  they  threw  away  golden  op­
portunities !

This  community  is  face  to  face with a 
problem  which  must  be  promptly  solved 
—whether  narrow,  selfish 
indifference 
shall  weight  the  city  down  or  a  broad 
public  spirit  shall  grasp  and  utilize  our 
chances  for  a  great  future?  There  is 
no  dodging  this  question,  and  it  is  a 
serious  one.  What  will  tbe  people  do 
—you  and  you— for  every  one  is  indi­
vidually  and  directly  interested?  Don’t 
ask  what  your  neighbor  is  doing  or  has 
done  for  Grand  Rapids,  but  ask  your­
self  whether  you  are  doipg  what  a  good 
citizen  should  do  in  that  direction!

The  Crown  Princess  of  Denmark  has 
—and  perhaps  enjoys—the  double  dis­
tinction  of  being  the  tallest  and  richest 
royal  lady  in  Europe.  She  stands 6  feet 
2  inches,  and  is  worth  between $25,000, - 
000 and  $30,000,000.  Five-sixths  of  her 
fortune  was  inherited  from  her  maternal 
grandfather,  Prince  Frederick  of  the 
Netherlands.  Her  grandmother  was 
Miss  Desiree  Clary,  daughter  of  a  Mar­
seilles  stock  broker,  who  jilted  Napo­
leon  Bonaparte,  afterward  Emperor,  in 
order  to  wed  Bernadotte,  who  became 
King  of  Sweden  and  Norway.

The  way  to  get  at  tbe  well  of 

im­
patience  that  is  in  a  man  is to  bore him.

The  man  who  picks  your  pocket  likes 

it better  than  he  does  bis own.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

0

A  GOOD  INVESTMENT.

The  determination  of  the  citizens  of 
St.  Louis  to  celebrate  the  one hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  Louisiana  purchase 
in  1903  promises  to  be  the  event  of  the 
Twentieth  Century  as  the  World’s  Fair 
at  Chicago  was  that  of  the  Nineteenth. 
Whether  the  celebration  will  take  the 
form  of  another  World's  Fair  remains 
to  be  seen;  but 
is  not  likely  that 
“ The  White  C ity"  and  its  wide-spread 
glory  will  be  allowed  to  go  down  in  his­
tory  without  an  attempt  on  the  part  of 
its  municipal  rival  to  surpass  the  suc­
cess  of  the  Columbian  Exhibition.  A 
bill 
in  Congress 
asking  the  aid  of  the  Government of  the 
United  States,  and  the  city  at  the  mouth 
of  the  Missouri  has  taken  hold  of  the 
enterprise  in  earnest.

is,  or  was,  pending 

it 

While  the  Fair of  ’93  bad  a  tendency 
to  create  comparisons  between  the  Old 
World  and  the  New,  not  always  favor­
able to  the  old  one,  that  of  1903  will  be 
no 
less  suggestive;  but  they  will  be 
chiefly  confined  to  what  the  century  has 
done  in  that  territory,  which  passed 
from  the  bands  of  Napoleon  to  the  in­
fant  republic  of  North  America.

What  that  domain  was  no  one  knew. 
It  doubtless  had  boundaries,  but  they 
were  not  defined.  They  extended  in­
definitely  to  every  point  of  the  compass 
from  the  Eastern  limit,  the  Mississippi 
River,  the  source  of  which  no  white 
man  knew.  Priest  Hennepin  had,  in­
deed,  stood  upon  the spot  where  Minne­
apolis  now  stands  and  had  listened  to 
the  roar  of  St.  Anthony’s  Falls;  but  the 
country  above  the  falls  was  unknown. 
The  author  of  the  Declaration  of  In­
dependence, 
then  President  of  the 
United  States,  in  describing  it  to  Con­
gress,  in  1804,  stated  that  “ there  exists 
about  one  thousand  miles  up  the  Mis­
souri,  and  not  far  from  that  river,  a  salt 
mountain,  said  to  be  180  miles long and 
45 
in  width,  composed  of  solid  rock 
salt,  without  trees  or  even shrubs on it.’ ’ 
The  amount  of  territory embraced  in  the 
purchase  was  1,171,931  square  miles. 
The  sum  paid  for  it  was  $1,500,000,  an 
amount  which,  at  the  rate  of  a  cent  and 
a  half  an  acre,  even 
in  Yankeeland 
must be  considered  a  bargain.

With  the  purchase  price  on one side of 
the  account,  it  is  fair to  consider the  re­
turns  that  stand  upon  the other.  One 
writer  affirms  with  more  or  less  truth 
that  enough  coon  skins  have  been  taken 
from  the  territory  to  pay  for  i t ;  but  if 
that  amount  of  coon  production  should 
be  found  too  small,  it  is  safe  to  affirm 
that  pelts  enough  have  been  taken  from 
other  animals  more  than  to  balance  the 
account.  From  this  same  tract  a  num­
ber of  states  have  been  formed,  not  one 
of  which  would  fail  to  resent  the  asser­
tion  that 
its  financial  value  is  not  far 
more  than  the  original  price  for  the 
whole  tract.

In  this  connection  it  may  be  well  to 
say  that  in  the  single  state  of  Colorado 
two  square  miles  of  the  Louisiana  pur­
chase  can  be  selected which can produce 
gold  enough 
in  two  years  to  equal  the 
purchase  money.  The  city  of  Leadville 
has  already  produced  the  amount  so 
many  times  over  as  to  make  the  count­
ing  monotonous;  while Little Gilpin  has 
yielded  seven  times  the  sum  that  was 
paid  for  the  territory.  These  are  only 
a  few  of  the  returns,  but  they 
in  them­
selves  are  large  enough  to  warrant  the 
statement  that  the  Louisiana  purchase 
has  turned  out  a  good  investment.

The  people  of  St.  Louis  may  have 
been  influenced  somewhat  by the origin­
al  figures  in  estimating  the  cost  of  the 
celebration  of  the  grand  anniversary;

but  on  general  principles the $15,000,000 
will  not  be  considered  too  much.  The 
day  of  small  things  has  gone  by  in  this 
country  of  large  ideas,  physical  or  men­
tal.  The  metropolitan  city  of  the  vast 
territory 
in  question,  wide-gauged  as 
the  wide  West  which  she  represents,  has 
proposed  to  furnish  $10,000,000 as  her 
own  share  of  the  undertaking  and  asks 
the  general  government  to  assume  a 
modest  one-third.  It  will,  doubtless,  be 
furnished ;  but  should  the  refusal  come, 
that  same  tract  of  territory,  the  home, 
wholly  or  in  part,  of  more  than  a  dozen 
states  of  the  Union,  will  see  to  it  that 
the $5,000,000  is  forthcoming.

later  toiler  for 

That  St.  Louis knows how  to  make  the 
most  of  her  opportunity has already been 
proven.  She  will  not  be  found  wanting 
in  this,  her greatest  undertaking.  Chi­
cago  had  her  Columbus;  but  St.  Louis 
has  her  La  Salle  and  it  shall  go  bard 
but  the 
the  world’s 
praises  shall  not  better  the  instruction 
gained  at  the  “ Creamy  City.”   That 
was  the  culmination  of  four  hundred 
years  of  human  endeavor  on  both  sides 
of  the  sea.  This  is  a  century  of  trans­
formation  from  savagery  to  refinement. 
Chicago  astonished  the  world  with  the 
best  which  bad  at  that  time  been  seen. 
It  remains  for  St.  Louis  to  show,  not 
only  the best  which  the  world  has  done 
in  1903,  but  what  the 
inhabitants  of 
that  wilderness  forming  the  Louisiana 
purchase  has  accomplished 
the 
world’s  work  to  make  the  Nation  to 
which  it  now  belongs  the  leading one  in 
the  grand  march  of  Empire.  That  this 
is  her  ideal  there  can  be  no doubt.  That 
she  will  realize  that  ideal  need  not  be 
questioned ;  and they who  then  make  the 
pilgrimage  to  that  Western  shrine  will 
be  willing  more  than  ever  to  admit  that 
the  Louisiana  purchase  in  the  hands  of 
the  Americans  has  proved a good  invest­
ment.

in 

it 

In  many  parts  of  the  country  it  has 
become  customary  to  send  messages 
over  the  telephone  to  telegraph  offices, 
where  they  are  taken  down  by  a  repre­
sentative  of  the  telegraph  company  and 
transmitted  as  telegrams  to  more  dis­
tant  points.  The  question  has  recently 
arisen 
in  Indiana  whether  the  employe 
of  a  telegraph  company  who  receives 
such  a  telephone  message for subsequent 
telegraphic  transmission  acts  as  the 
agent  of  the  telegraph  company  or as 
the  agent  of  the  sender  of  the  message; 
and 
it  has  been  held,  in  the  Appellate 
Court  of  that  State,  that  he  must  be 
deemed  the  company’s  agent  where  it 
appears  that 
is  the  custom  at  the 
offices of  the  company  to  receive  tele­
phone  messages  to  be  sent  on  as  tele­
circumstances, 
grams.  Under 
therefore,  the  telegraph  company 
is 
liable  for  a  mistake  on  the  part  of  the 
in  the  name  of  the  person  for 
agent 
whom  the  despatch 
intended,  which 
prevents 
from  ever  reaching  him. 
Where  an  error  of  this  kind  led  to  the 
miscarriage  of  a  telegram  designed  to 
inform  the  plaintiff of  the  death  of  his 
father,  a  verdict  of  $200  against  the 
Western  Union  Telegraph  Company  was 
upheld  on  appeal. 
It appeared  that  the 
failure  to  transmit  the  telegram  to  the 
plaintiff  prevented  him  from  attending 
his  father's  funeral.  The  Indiana  courts 
bold  that  mental  anguish  may  be  taken 
into  account  in  such  cases,  even  al­
though  there  be  no  other  substantial  in­
jury.

such 

is 

it 

The  gasmeter  wins  every  time,  be­
cause  it  never  says  a  word  and  never 
tries  to  prove  that  it  is  right  and  tells 
no  lie.

AMERICAN  COMPETITION.

The  purchase  in  this  country  by  Brit­
ish  railroads  of  large  numbers  of  loco­
motives  has given  rise  to  considerable 
discussion  and  no  little  amazement  on 
the  part  of  British  manufacturers.  Brit­
ish  railway  companies  have  so  persist­
ently  boasted  of  the  superiority  of  their 
homemade  locomotives that the purchase 
of  the  American  engines  represents  a 
most  unlooked-for  change  of  front.

Of  course, 

there  are  explanations 
forthcoming  from  the  English  railroads 
for  patronizing  foreign  machine  shops 
instead  of  the  borne  establishments,  but 
even  the  explanations  offered are  credit­
able  to  American enterprise.  It is  stated 
that  the  companies  which  gave  the  or­
ders  for  the  American  engines  were  in­
fluenced  by  the question  of  prompt  de­
livery,  the  American  houses  guarantee­
ing  delivery  many  months  in  advance 
of  the  best  British  offers.

It  seems  that  the  Midland  Railway  of 
England,  one  of  the  companies  which 
is  now  buying  locomotives  from  Ameri­
can  makers,  has  orders  for  no  less  than 
170  new  locomotives with English shops, 
the  first  deliveries  on  which  were  to 
have  been  made  in  July,  1898,  and  to  be 
followed  up  so  that  fifty  would  have 
been  in  service  on  the  road  by  the  end 
of  February.  Up  to  January,  however, 
not  a  single  one  had  been  delivered  by 
the  English  contractors,  while  an  order 
for the  prompt  delivery  of  twenty  addi­
tional 
locomotives  at  an  extravagant 
price  could  not  secure  a  promise  that 
the  first  would  be  ready  earlier  than 
fifteen  months  from  the  date  of  the  con­
tract.  On  the  other  hand,  the  American 
concern  which  took  this  order  agreed 
to  furnish  the  twenty  engines  in  four 
months.

It  is  stated  further,  in  explanation  of 
the  inability  of  British manufacturers  to 
make  prompt  deliveries,  that  the  great 
strike  of  last  year did  much  to  cripple 
the  facilities  of  the  English  establish­
ments  to  promptly  fill  orders;  but  it  is, 
at  the  same  time,  admitted  that  Euro­
pean  establishments  have  much  to  learn 
from  this  country  in  point  of  promptly 
delivering  work  contracted  for.

It 

It  is  not  only  in  the  matter  of locomo­
tives  that  American  manufacturers  are 
competing.  An  American  firm  has  se­
cured  a  contract  for bridgework  on  tbe 
Soudanese  railroad  running to Khartoum 
because  delivery  of  tbe  material  was 
guaranteed 
in  a  few  months,  whereas 
British  firms  required  a  year  to  com­
plete  the  same  deliveries. 
is  thus 
that  American  enterprise  and  energy 
are  sorely  winning  their  way.
THE  SAME  SORT  OF  TYRANNY.
Inspector  General  R.  C.  Breckin­
ridge,  of  the  United  States  army,  has 
just  returned  to  Washington  from  a  tour 
of  inspection  in  Cuba  and  Puerto  Rico.
General  Breckinridge  appears  to  have 
taken  a  very  sensible  and  practical 
view  of  the  condition  of  public  senti­
ment  in  the  islands.  The  people  com­
plain  that  they  are  still  under  the  Span­
ish 
laws  that  were  in  force  before  tbe 
war  and  that  although  there  has  been  a 
change  of  masters,  there  is  no  change 
in  social  and  commercial  conditions.

Take  tbe  situation  in  Puerto  Rico,  as 
it 
is  described  by  General  Breckin­
ridge.  That  island,  at  least,has  become 
a  part  of  the  United  States.  There  is 
no  obligation,  as  there  is  no  intention, 
to give  it  independence.  Being  United 
States  territory,  its  people  are  entitled 
to  the  benefit  of  such  laws  as  can  be 
applied  to  them.  Of  course,  no  form  of 
self-government  can  be  set  up  for  them

until  it  shall  be  shaped  out by Congress ; 
but  they  should  be  given  tbe  advantage 
of  being  able  to  trade  with  the  United 
States.

When  Spain  owned  Puerto  Rico,  the 
markets  of  Spain  were  at  least  open  to 
the  products  of  the  island  and  there  was 
much  business  in  that  direction.  Since 
the  war,  Spain  has  closed  her  markets 
tight  against  Puerto  Rico,  and  the 
United  States  has  not  opened  com­
merce  to  the  people.  This  has  resulted 
in  an  overproduction  of  goods  and  a 
stagnation  in  the  markets  and  commer­
cial  world. 
If  the  ports  of  the  United 
States  were  measurably opened to Puerto 
Rican  goods,  business  would  probably 
increase  and  the 
industrial  condition 
would  improve.

It  is  a  poor  piece  of  policy  that  al­
lows  the  United  States  Government  to 
restrain  the  people  in  the  Spanish 
is­
lands  from  being  able  to  enjoy  the  ben­
efit  of  being  in  close  relations  with  the 
great  free  Republic.  But  the  Govern­
ment  has  given  no  such 
facilities. 
Spanish  military  government  has  been 
exchanged  for  American  military  gov­
ernment, 
government 
means  despotism,  no  matter  by  whom 
it  is  carried  on.

and  military 

What  is  wanted  in  the  Went  Indies 

is 
a  strong  band  to  put  down  brigandage 
and  other  violent  lawlessness;  but  be­
yond  this  the  poeple  should not be  made 
to  feel  the  presence  of  such  a  repressive 
force.  No  effoit  has  been  made  in  any 
of  those  countries  to  impress  the  people 
with  the  fact  that  there  is  any difference 
between  Spanish  domination and United 
States  domination. 
If  both  are  equally 
tyrannous,  it  is  plain  there  is  no  differ­
ence  between  them,  and  this  is  what  the 
people  of  all  those  countries  seem to  be­
lieve.

Why  are  such  injurious,  unwise  and 
impolitic  conditions  maintained  when 
every  consideration  of  peace  and  pros­
perity  demands  that  the  people  of  tbe 
newly-acquired  islands  should  be  made 
to  realize  that  they  have  fallen  into  the 
bands  of  friends  with  whom  it  is  profit­
able and  beneficial  to  live  in  peace  and 
amity,  and  that  only  outlaws  and  des­
peradoes  have  any  reason  to  fear  such 
relations?  The  President can at least re­
lax  tbe  old  Spanish 
laws  and  let  the 
people  feel  that  they  have  acceded  to 
some of  tbe  benefits  of  American liberty 
and  free  institutions.

A  Newcastle,  Pa.,  congregation 

is 
about  to build a church.  One parishioner 
offered  to  subscribe  $1,000  providing 
nothing  but  white  glass  was  used  in  tbe 
windows.  He  wanted  the  pure,  bright 
and  glorious  sunlight  of  heaven  to  fall 
upon  him  when  at  his  devotions.  But 
another  member  of  the  church  said  he 
would  give  $1,000,  and  even more,  if the 
windows  would  be  of  colored  glass.  He 
wanted  the  lights  and  shadows  that  play 
about  him  to  be  softened  by  the  beauti­
ful  and  delicate  tints  of  tbe  glass-stain- 
er’s  art  The  building  committee 
is 
perplexed  to  know  how  to  get  both 
subscriptions.

A  woman  must  write  and 

lecture  for 
a  number  of  years  before  she  can  make 
money  by  recommending  soap  and  re­
frigerators  and 
flour  raising 
stuff.

special 

The  monthly  magazines  are  having  a 
hard  time  keeping  up  with  the  battles 
in  Manila.  There  are  too  many  spots, 
too  far  apart,  for  the special  artist  to  be 
on.

Imitation  is  sincere  flattery;  but  it  is 

thrown  down  in  a  patent  office.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

Fruits and  Produce.
Features  of the  Boston  Egg  and  But­
Correspondence New  York Produce Review.

ter  Market.

As  a  rule,  Boston  keeps  iu 

line  with 
other  places  on  the  butter  market,  but 
list  week  was  an  exception.  While  tbe 
West  and  New  York  were  firm,  with  a 
demand  fully  equal  to  tbe  supply,prices 
in  Boston  declined  one  cent,  owing  to  a 
very  slow  trade.  And  this  came  entire­
ly  unexpected,  for  during  tbe  week  be­
fore  there  was  a  quick  sale  for  all arriv­
ing  at  an  advance  in  prices.  Receipts 
showed  some  increase  it  is  true,  but  no 
more  than  was  counted  on,  and  there 
was  no  reason  for  the  decline  except the 
very  light  demand.  Why  there  should 
be  such  a  falling  off  nobody  could  tell, 
except  that  dealers  bought  more  on  tbe 
rising  market  than  they  could  dispose 
of,  and  consequently  held  aloof  until 
they  worked  off  what  they  had  on  hand. 

*  *  *

Boston 

is  peculiarly  situated 

in  re 
gard  to  butter  and  at  this  season  the 
market  is  always  in  a  sensitive  condi­
tion.  Receivers  get  supplies  from  va­
rious  sections,  and  can  not  form  any 
idea  from  one  week  to  another  how 
much  of  an 
increase  there  will  be  in 
their  consignments.  They  feel  anxious 
to  clean  up  every  day,  as  they  know 
that  the  butter  now  coming  in  has  no 
keeping  qualities,  and 
if  they  can  not 
get  one  price  they  will  accept  any  rea­
sonable  bid  rather  than  let  a  buyer  go. 
Then,  too,  the  quality 
is  less  uniform 
now  than  at  any  other  time,  and  lots 
from  the  same  shipper  vary  somewhat 
every  week.  This  feature  is  more  no­
ticeable 
in  butter  coming  from  Maine 
than  from  any  other  New  England  state 
and  for  this  reason  it  has  a  wider  range 
of  value.

*   *  

*

Vermont  and  New  Hamspbire  supply 
the  largest  quantity  of  a  desirable  fresh 
butter  at  present,  and  they  will  con­
tinue  to  do  so  until  the  creameries  in 
Northern  New  York  are  fully  in  opera­
tion.  But  the  West  is  our  great  source 
of  supply  in  mid-winter and  when  flush 
of  tbe  grass  season  is  on.  A  large  por­
tion  of  the  stock  put  into  cold  storage 
comes  from  the  West  and  this  feeds  us 
when  tbe  nearby  production  runs  light 

*  *  *

Boston  uses  about  50,000,000  pounds 
of  butter  per  year,  but  she  is  losing 
some  of  her  distributing  trade  from  tbe 
fact  that  a  few  large  dealers  in  Lowell, 
Manchester,  Lawrence  and  Worcester 
get  direct  shipments  from  creameries in 
the  dairy  districts.  There  was  a  time 
when  most  of  the  manufacturing  cities 
and  towns  in  New  England  drew  their 
supplies  of  butter  from  Boston,  except 
when  they  got  supplied  from  farmers  in 
their  vicinity,  but  a  large  part  of  this 
trade  is  lost.  This  loss  is  compensated 
to  some  extent  by  tbe  steady  growth  of 
Boston  and  its  suburbs,  but  the  increase 
in  receipts  from  year  to  year  is  not 
what  it  should  be.

*   *   *

A  wholesale  dealer  in  Manchester,  N. 
H.,  who  has  distributing  stores  in  two 
in 
or three  of  tbe  manufacturing  cities 
this  State  and  New  Hampshire,  said  tbe 
other  day  that  be  received  over  two mil­
lion  pounds  of  butter  direct  last  year 
which  be  distributed  all  through  tbe 
Merrimack  Valley.  A  few  years  ago  all 
the  large  quantities  he  received  came 
through  Boston.

*  *  *

The  egg  situation  is  attracting partic­
ular  attention.  For  the  first  time  this 
year  receipts  have  exceeded  tbe  wants 
of  the  regular  trade  and  some  purchases 
have  been  made  for  cold  storage  on 
12%  to  13c  here.  This  is  at 
basis  of 
least  2c  higher  than  on  storage  eggs  last 
year,  and  there  is  a  good  deal  of 
inter­
est  among  egg  men  to  know  if  prices 
have  touched  bottom.  Tbe  large  opera­
tors  last  year  were  fairly  successful  and 
they  are  naturally  anxious  to  go  into 
storage  business  this  year,  but  tbe  dif­
ference  in  price  may  make  them  hesi­
tate.

*  *  *

Tbe total  receipts of eggs last year  at

Boston  were  about  890.000  cases.  Stor­
in  March  and  in  July 
ing  began  early 
there  were  140,000  cases 
in  the  prin­
cipal  warehouse  bere.  These  were  all 
used  up  a  month  ago.

*  *  *

Tbe  eggs  most  desirable  for  cold  stor­
age  are  those  coming  from  Michigan, 
Indiana,  Northern  Illinois,  Iowa  and 
some  of  the  more  Northwestern  States. 
Within  a  year  or  two  great  improve­
ments  have  been  made  in  tbe  style  of 
packages  and 
in  tbe  seiection  of  the 
eggs.  There  was  a  time,  and  that  not 
long  ago  when  Eastern  eggs  brought  2 
or  3  cents  more  than  Western,  but  now 
there  is  hardly  any  difference.  In  fact, 
for  storage  during  tbe  early 
spring 
months  Western  are  preferred.
How  a  Maine  Woman  Broke  the  Egg 

Market.

From the Boston Evening  Transcript.

Retail  grocers  in  Salem  are  still  dis­
cussing  the  way  their egg  market  was 
flurried  not  many  days  ago  in  the height 
of  the  Lenten  season,  when  eggs  were 
beginning  to  get scarcer  and scarcer and 
the  price  mounted  a  little  higher  daily. 
Just  at  this  time  a  Mrs.  Kirkpatrick 
from  Bangor,  Me.,  arrived  in  Salem  to 
make  a  new  home.  Her  husband,  who 
was  a  prosperous  merchant  in  tbe  Pine 
Tree  State,  had  sold  out  his  business  to 
engage  in  another  line  in  the  neighbor­
hood  of  Salem.  Their  family  consisted 
of  two  lively  boys.

Not  long  after  Mrs.  Kirkpatrick  ar­
rived  she  found  the  price  of  eggs  to  be 
40  cents  a'dozen—an exorbitant  price  in 
Maine—with 
the  prospect  that  they 
would  be  still  more  costly.  So  she  wrote 
home  to  relatives  and  asked  them  to 
send  her  a few  eggs at  Bangor  price—20 
cents  a  dozen.  Her  relatives  were  gen­
erous  and  when  the  eggs  arrived  Mrs. 
Kirkpatrick 
found  bersrlf  confronted 
with  an  entire  case  filled  with  tbe  best 
“ What  shall  we  do  with them?”  
stock. 
was  the  question  of  the  hour 
in  the 
Kirkpatrick  household  that  day.  The 
boys  finally  solved  the  problem.  After 
some  pleading  from  them,  their  mother 
gave  them  baskets  and  allowed  them  to 
go  out  on  tbe  streets  of  Salem  peddling 
Maine  eggs  at  32  cents  a  dozen.  The 
youngsters  staited  at  noon  and  in  two 
hours  had  sold  out.  The  eggs  were 
brown  and  fine and  went  as  fast  as  tbe 
housewives  bad  a  sight  of  them.  As  the 
eggs  went,  so  did  the  news.  Before 
many  hours  the  information  that eggs  of 
the  best  quality  were  selling  uptown  at 
32  cents,  when  the  market  price  was 
getting  to  be  considered  prohibitive, 
reached  tbe  store  keepers.  Agents  went 
about  and  soon  discovered  tbe  cause  of 
tbe  trouble.

To  lower  the  price  of  the  overdue 
in  the  stores  would  not  have  had 
eggs 
the  slightest  effect 
in  the  face  of  the 
superiority  of  the  fresh  Maine  stock. 
The  dealers  held  meetings  to  try  to  find 
out  where  the  new  eggs  had  come  from, 
and  if it  would  be  safe  to buy up a  lot  of 
them.  The  news  spread  further.  The 
agitation  of  the  marketmen  betrayed 
them,  and  a  brakeman  on  a  Boston  and 
Maine  train  received  a  tip.  On  his  next 
trip  to  Maine  he  ordered  a  box  of  eggs 
sent  to  him  in  Portland,  and on  his  next 
trip  but  one  back  through  Salem  he 
took  them  off  into  the  station  to  peddle 
them  at  35  cents.  Although  there  was 
not  very  much  of  a  crowd  in  the  station 
that  day  the  eggs  were  sold  before  the 
train  started  and  tbe  brakeman  had  bis 
cash  in  band.  He  telegraphed  for  an­
other  case  and  went  on  to  Boston.  That 
was  tbe  last  straw.  Tbe  next  day  every 
grocery  store  in  Salem  was  selling  eggs 
at  32  cents,  although  mostly  at  a  loss.

Slightly  Mixed.

The  following 

is  a  bona-fide  copy  of 
a  letter  received  by  a Western grocer not 
long  ago:

“ Dere  sir  plese  send  me  4  pounds  of 
cofe  and  sum  te.  My  wife  bad  a  boy 
last  night  also  ten  pounds  of  cheese  and 
a  rat  trap,  he  wayed  7^  pounds  and  a 
hatchet  and  nails. “

Life  is  mostly  made  up  of praying  lor 
it  would  clear 

rain  and  then  wishing 
off.

fc: 

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. 

years.  We shall stand on the same  platform we have  used  in  our  busi- 

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News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 
Special Correspondence.

the  Market. 

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New  York,  April  8—Arbuckle  was  re­
in 
ported  to  be  a  heavy  buyer  of  coffee 
it  was  said  that  his  pur­
Santos,  and 
chases  on  Wednesday  and  Thursday 
there  amounted  to  50,000  bags.  This 
was  taken  as  a  straw  indicating  a  firm­
er  market  and  on  the  street  there  was 
certainly  a  better  feeling  Jobbers  were 
doing  more  and  the  whole  market  tone 
was  one  of  considerable  strength.  Rio 
No.  7  ilises  firm  at  6%@6^c.  The 
amount  here 
and  afloat  aggregates 
1210,425  bags,  against  1.159,961  bags 
at  the  same  time  last  year, 
l'he  specu 
lative  market  has  been  rather  more  ac­
tive  than  for  a  week  or  so  and  closes 
with  considerable  firmness.  Prices  have 
advanced  about  5  points.  Mild  coffees 
are  firm  and  jobbers  are  seemingly  pay­
ing  full  values  for  good  roasting  grades 
of  West  India  soits.  Good  Cucuta  is 
held  at  8X@8Kc.

Almost  25,000  packages  of  tea  will  be 
sold  next  week  and,  pending  the  auc­
tion,  there  is  little  of  interest  transpir­
ing 
in  the  general  market  The  only 
weakness  shown  is  on  some  lines of For­
mosa?,  which  are  selling  at  a 
lower 
price  than  a  week  ago,  the holders prob­
ably  wishing  to  dispose  of  the  same  be­
fore  the  sale  takes  place.

Most  of  the  demand  for  rice has seem­
ingly  heen  for  Japan.  The  market  gen­
erally,  however,  is 
firm  for  all  sorts, 
without  exception.  Domestic  sorts  of 
really  desirable  rice  are  scarce  as  to 
quantity  and  the  quotations  made  are 
firmly  adhered  to. 
Prime  to  choice 
Southern,  5^@6j<c;  bead,  7@8c,  the 
latter  perhaps  a 
little  extreme,  but  at 
which  sales,  nevertheless,  have  been 
made.  Patna,  5@5Kc;  Japan,  4|^@5c.
Pepper  shows  considerable  firmness 
again  after  a  lull  of  a  couple  of  weeks. 
Aside  from  this,  the  entire  situation 
is 
without  interest.  Singapore  black  pep­
per,  io%@io%c.  Quotations 
in  other 
lines  are  practically  the  same  as  for 
some  weeks  past

There  is  about  all  the  business  going 
in  mo'asses  that  could  be  ex­
forward 
pected  and  dealers  generally  seem 
pretiy  well  content  with  the  outlook 
Prices  are  steady.  Centnfugals,  good 
to  prime,  i6@26\  Open kettle,  32@38c, 
and  blends,  28@32c.  Offerings  of  gro­
cery  grades  of  molasses  are  very  small. 
Syrups  are  in  moderately  liberal  supply 
and,  while  the  demand  is  not  extremely 
large,  there 
is  a  fair  trade  going  on. 
Prime  to  fancy  sugar  goods  are  worth 
20@25C.

The  canned  goods  market  will  be 
more  closely  cleaned  up  when  the  first 
new  goods  arrive  than  has  been  the case 
in  the  previous  history  of  the  trade.  Go 
where  you  will,  you  will  hear  the  same 
story  of  light  stocks.  There  has  been  an 
enormous  demand  for  goods  of  the  pack 
of  1899,  and  this  demand  still  keeps  up, 
notwithstanding  the  fact  that  many  of 
the  leading  packers  have  sold  their  en­
tire  output  Gallon  apples  have  been 
advanced  and  there  is  an  opinion  that 
New  York  State  goods  will go  to  a  point 
above  $3  25,  at  which  figure  such  goods 
are  now  selling  in  Chicago  New  York 
State  corn 
is  worth  65^700  and  up  to 
90c  for  fancy  stock.  Tomatoes  are  very 
firm,  New  Jersey  grades  of  standard  3s 
selling  at  85c.  Salmon 
is  well  held 
within  the  range  of  $1  io@i. 15  for  No.
1  tall  Alaskas.  Columbia  River  No.  1 
tails.  Si  40(^1.45  and  even  higher.  Peas 
are  well  held,  fine  sifted  selling  on  the 
spot  from  90c  up  to $1.50  for  fancy.

The  dried 

fruits  market 

is  steady, 
both  for  Pacific  coast  and  domestic 
product.  Stocks  are  small  and  becom­
ing  reduced  rapidly  to  a  still  lessened 
amount.  Prices  are  about  as  last  week.
The  demand  is  light  for  lemons,  but 
prices  are  firmly  held  and  holders  seem 
to  think  they  are  justified  in retaining  a 
good  ‘  grip”   on  stocks  in  hand.  Sicily 
lemons  are  worth  every  fraction between 
$2  and  $3  a  box  As  to oranges,  nominal 
quotations  are  made  for  Floridas,  with 
few 
if  any  coming  to  band.  Jamaicas 
are  also  about  out  of  the  market  and 
California  fruit  remains  alone.  Califor­

nia  seedlings,  $2  75@3;  Florida russets, 
S2.75@4;  brights,  $2.75@4.5o

Arrivals  of  butter  have  not  been  large 
and  there  is  quite  a  firm  feeling,  espe­
cially  for  the  best  Western  creamery, 
which  is  comparatively  hard to find,  and 
which  sells  readily  at about 2ij£c;  firstc, 
20j^@2ic;  seconds,  i9@2oc;  tbirds,  16 
@i8c. 
Imitation  creamery  is  firm  and, 
in  fact,  the  demand  is  such  that  stocks 
are  very  closely  sold  up.  Fancy.  i8@ 
i8j^c;  firsts,  I5@i6j£c;  seconds,  I3>^@ 
14c;  finest  Western  dairy  sells  freely  at 
i6@I7c ;  extra  Western  factory, 
;
14c;  seconds,  13 X @ n 5^c;  roll 
firsts, 
butter,  I4@i4^c.’
The  cheese  market  is  in  a  very  satis- 
factorv  condition  and  by  the  time  any 
appreciable  amount  of new stock  arrives 
the  boards  will  be  pretty  well  cleaned 
up  of  old  stock.  Large  size  State  full 
cream  cheese  is  worth  i2@ i2% c;  small 
size,  I2^@i3c.  Little  doing  for  export.
Stock 
must  grade  “ up  to  scratch”   in  order  to 
bring  quotations.  Michigan  stock 
is 
quotable  at  I2J£@I3C  Taking  the  whole 
line  together,  the  range  is  within 
i2@ 
I3%c-
is  little  doing  in  beans.  The 
is  dull  and  buyers  seem 
whole  market 
to  take  no 
the  situation. 
Choice  marrow,  $i.47^@ i  50¡medium, 
$1-37K  !  pea,  $1.32^31.35¡;  red kidney, 
limas,  $2  47^ 
$i.75@i.8o  California 
@2  50
Bermuda  potatoes,  per  bbl.,  $4@9,  as 
to  size  and  quality.  Scotch,  per  168 lb. 
s  cks,  $2@2  25.  Long  Island,  per  bbl., 
bulk,  $2@2  50.  Western,  180  lbs.,  $2@ 
2  12.
Process  Butter  a  Prolific  Source  of 

The  egg  trade  is  rather  quiet 

interest 

There 

in 

Fraud.

it 

it 
livery. 

Elgin,  111.,  April  11— Process  butter 
is  a  prolific  source  of  fraud. 
It  is 
further  a  serious  menace  to  the  estab­
lished  character  of  the  honest  product, 
is  as  a  rule  put  on  the  market  in 
as 
its 
I  can  see  no  cure  for  this 
except  it  be  put  on  a  par  with  oleomar­
If  its 
garine  in  the  matter  of  coloring. 
is  allowed  this 
manufacture  and  sale 
should  be  under a  distinctive  color. 
I 
understand 
is  sometimes,  especially 
immediately  after  undergoing  manipu 
lation.bard  to  distinguish  from  the  hon­
est  article,  and  the  manufacturers  there­
of  are  as  unscrupulous  as  any  ot  the 
manufacturers  of  oleo.  It  has  been,  and 
p  obably  is  now,  put  on  the  market  by 
at  least  one  firm  as  “ Elgin  made  But­
ter.”   This  is  done  with  the  unmistak­
able  intention  of  conveying  to  the  un­
informed  (and  most  all  but  the  dealers 
on  the  Elgin  Board  belong  to  this class) 
the  impression  that  the  genuine  Elgin 
is  a 
creamery  butter 
swindle  pure  and  simple 
It  is  taking 
advantage  of  the  reputation  t f  an honest 
product  to  sell  a  spurious  one.  The 
reputation  of  “ Elgin  Creamery”   and of 
is  &t  stake  as  a 
the  producers  thereof 
necessary  consequence. 
is  a  moie 
insidious  enemy  even  than  oleo  to  hon­
est  butter.

is  offered. 

law  to  mark 

The  only  efficient  means of killing  the 
incident  to  the  production  of 
fraud 
process  butter  is  a 
it 
“ Renovated  Buiter,”  
in  so  plain  a 
manner  that  nobody  may  be  mistaken 
in  the  reading  thereof,  and  a  proviso 
for  cdoring  it  with  a  distinctive  color. 
To  provide  for  the  efficient  enforcement 
of  these  provisions,  it  may  he  further 
necessary  to  levy  on 
it  a  small  tax  to 
bring  it  under  the  revenue  law.

It 

It 

A.  M.  C.  T o d s o n .

A  Tale  With  a  Moral.

Once  upon  a  time  a  tramp  was  sorely 
in  peed  of  something  to  eat  and  ap­
proaching  a  farm-house  he  spake  unto 
the  farmer,  saying:  “ If  you  will  give 
me  the  wherewithal  to  satisfy  the  crav­
ings  of  the  inner  man,  I will  kill  all  the 
rats about  the  place.”

“ Agreed,”   said  the  tijler  of  the  soil, 
and  he  ordered  bis  good  wife to give the 
tramp  a  square  meal.

After  the  tramp  had  devoured  every­
thing 
in  sight  he  went  to  the  wood- 
pile  and  selected  a stout club;  then seat­
ing  himself  on  the  porch  be  said  to  the 
farmer,  “ Now  bring  on  your  rats.”

Moral— Always  have  the  details speci­

fied  in  the  contract.

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Extra Fancy Navel Oranges

Car  lots  or  less.  Prices  lowest.

Maynard  &  Reed,

54 South  Ionia Street, 

MILLER & TEASDALE

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

POTATOES

CAR LOTS ONLY.  ST. LOUIS, MO.

The  Seeds  offered  by  us  are 
largely  our  own  production  and 
all  carefully  tested  before  sent 
out.  PR ICES  AS  LO W   AS 

ANY  R E SPO N SIB LE   H OUSE  IN  T H E   TRADE.

Alfred  J.  Brown  Seed  Co.,

Ask  for  Wholesale  Price  List.

Growers  and  M erchants,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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W H O L E S A L E   F R U IT   AND  P R O D U C E

C L E V E L A N D ,  OHIO.

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operations  for  this  season’s  business.  Our  business  is  to  supply  everything 
dainty, tilling and satisfying in  the line  of fruits and  vegetables,  and we are de­
termined to ao a larger business with you this year than last.  Let us know your 
wants and we will quote you  prices.  Write for our weekly price bulletin.

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Observations  o f  a  Gotham  Egg  Man 
One  of  our  prominent  egg  receivers 
remarked  that  he  noticed  a  growing 
preference  for  30 dozen  cases  as  against 
36s.  Comparing  the  advantages  of each 
it  would,  in  fact,  seem  that  these  are 
rather 
in  favor  of  the  30  dozen  size 
Some  local  buyers  give  a  slight  prefer 
ence  to  36s  when  the  delivery  is  by  ex 
presses,  which  charge  a  uniform  price 
per  case,  and  there  is  perhaps  a  slight 
difference  in  freight  charges  in  favor  of 
the  large  case  But  these  slight  advan 
tages  seem  to be more than  offset by the 
fact that 30 dozen  cases are much  more 
easily,  economically  and  safely  handled 
and  by  the  difference in loss from  break 
age.  Four  30 dozen  cases  can  be  leaded 
on  a  hand  truck  in  transferring,  against 
only  three  36s,  which  makes  quite  1 
difference  in  the  time  of  loading  or  un 
loading 
large  quantities.  The  weight 
of  a  36 dozen  case  is  such  that  when  the 
cases  are  handled  singly  they  are  apt  to 
be  dropped  or  set  down  heavily  and  the 
greater amount  of  filling  offers  less  re 
sistence, incieasing  proportion  of  break 
age.  For  cold  storage  the  30 dozen case 
is  decidedly  preferable,  both  for  these 
and  other  reasons.
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An  egg  man  called  my  attention  to  a 
lot  of  eggs  received  from  a  Southern 
shipper  in  which  the  invoice  Called  for 
a  considerable  quantity  of  duck  eggs, 
but  there  were  no  marks  on  the  cases  to 
show  which  of  them  contained  the  duck 
eggs.  This  naturally  makes trouble,  for 
it  confines  the  sale  of  the  whole  lot  to 
such  buyers  as  are  willing  to  take  the 
mixed  cases  also,  and  for  other  self-evi 
dent  reasons.  All  mixed  cases  should be 
plainly  and  neatly  marked,  preferably 
with  a  stencil.

In  spite  of  all  that  has  been  written 
and  preached  on  the  subject  of  egg 
packing  I  still  see  an  occasional 
lot  of 
eggs  packed  without  the  cardboard  flats 
above  the  top  layer  and  below  the  bot 
tom  layer  of  eggs.  Mv  attention  was 
called  recently  to a  lot  of  eggs  packed 
without  these  necessary 
safeguards. 
Straw  had  been  placed  in  the bottom  of 
the  case and  the  first  filler  directly  over 
it.  The  top  of  the  case  was  finished  in 
the  same  way.  The  eggs  in  the  bottom 
layer  had  naturally  worked  down  into 
the  packing  and  the  top  packing  had 
worked  down  into  the  top  layer  so  that 
the  whole  packing  was  loose  and  a large 
part  of  the  eggs  was  broken.  The  flats 
should  always  be  placed  between  the 
top  and  bottom  layers  and  the  packing. 
For  packing  eggs  designed  for  current 
use  good  dry  straw  answers  pretty  well, 
but  excelsior 
is  better.  Always  avoid 
using  newspapers.  They  are  unsightly 
and  often  afford  too  much 
information. 
For  storage  packing  cork  shavings  are 
by  far  the  best—much  better  than  ex 
celsior.— New  York  Produce  Review .

last  week's 

Status  o f the St.  Louis  Potato  Market.
St.  Louis,  April  11—Our  predirtions 
in 
letter  on  potatoes  came 
true,  only  the  receipts  have  been  much 
lighter  than  expected  and  the  market  is 
higher  than  even  the most bullirh looked 
for.  We  refer  to  eating  potatoes,  for 
seed  stock  has  declined  considerably,  is 
lower,  and  the  market 
is  rather  easy, 
while  choice  white  eating  potatoes  are 
5@7c  higher  than  at  the  beginning  of 
last  week.
The  general  market  has  undergone 
quite  a  change  and  nearly  all  parties 
who  were  looking  for  price  of  eating 
potatoes  to  go 
lower  have  come  to  the 
conclusion  that  the  present  outlook  will 
make  steady  and  possibly  higher prices.
At  all  events,  the  movement  is  light 
at  loading  stations;  roads  are  very  bad 
everywhere.  All  shippers  are  holding

firm  at  ruling  market  prices,  wbil„ 
many  refuse  to  name  prices,  evidently 
having  nothing  to  ship  just  at  present. 
Burbanks  are  very  scarce  and  few  are 
offered.  There 
is  a  good  enquiry  for 
them.

Michigan  Rurals  are  supplying  the 
best  trade  and  are  about  the  only  really 
nice  white  potatoes  available.  Michi 
gan  has  been  shipping  some  very  niev. 
bright  Rurals  in  here  lately  and such al 
ways  sell  well.  A  few  real  nice  Russets 
from  Michigan  are  showing  up  and 
meet  ready  sale.
There  is  quite  a  scarcity of really nice 
white  potatoes; stocks are very  light and 
nearly all  dealers  want  to  buy  and  are 
ready  to pay  higher  prices  if  potatoes of 
tine quality  can  be  had.  Common mixed 
white  potatoes  are  selling  better and  are 
higher  in  price;  in  fact,  there  is  a  gen­
eral  advance 
in  white  potatoes.  The 
weather,  which  has  continued  cool— 
even  cold, with  freezing  and  heavy frosts 
every  night—is 
interfering  with  the 
seed  trade.  Seed  potatoes  are  selling 
slow—demand 
is  light.  Planting  can 
not go  on  with  such  weather. 
It  is  still 
winter  here— something  unusual  for  so 
late  in  the  season—which  will make new 
potatoes 
later  than  usual  and  a  better 
demand  later than  usual for old potatoes.
All  conditions  in  potatoes  combine  to 
make  a  strong  market  next  week,  with 
a  good  demand.  Nearby  towns,  finding 
it  bard  to  buy  North,  are  again  coming 
here,  which  is  using  up  quite  a  quan­
tity  of  the  common  eating  potatoes  ar­
riving,  and  will  make a  better  demand 
and  better  market  for  such.  There  is  a 
freer  movement  in  North  and  South Da 
kota,  which 
is  bringing  Ohios  and 
mixed  red  stock,  also  some  Rose.  Rose 
will  not  sell  here  except  at  about 65c; 
Ohios,  85@90c;  mixed  red  at  60c;  Bur­
banks,  Rurals  and  Russets  will sell best. 

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

Ducks  vs.  Wall  Street  Investments.
A  circular sent  out by  a  firm  of  Wall 
Street  tipsters  says:  “ It 
is  now  over 
three  years  since  we  first  addressed  you 
about  our  stock  operations.  During  that 
time  had  you 
invested  $100 at  the  be­
ginning  and  compounded  your  profits, 
vour  S 100  would  now  be  neailv  $4, 775. 
Is  there  any  business  that  will  pay  you 
better  than  $4,775  profits  on  $100 capital 
in  three  years?"  A  copy  of  the  circular 
iLto  the  bands  of  a  man  in  Mary­
fell 
land,  who  made  this  rejoinder:
“ The  answer  is  yes— ducks,  tame, 
puddle,  muscovy,  Pekin  or  any  other 
breed.  A 
little  girl  bad  15  cents  with 
which  she  bought a setting otduck eggs 
She  borrowed  a  brooding  chicken  hen 
from  her  mother  and  all  the  eggs  were 
hatched  out.  Her  profits  for  the  first 
six  months  were $8,  and  she  kept  three 
the  next  six 
hens  and  a  drake  for 
months’  operations 
It 
is  fair  to  pre­
sume  that  her  profits  will  be  at  least  $8 
for  each  six months;  one year$16;  three 
years $48.  Divide $48 by her 15 cents and 
the  quotient  will  be  320—that  is,  each 
of  her  15  cents  will  produce  320  cents; 
on  $1  or  100  cents  the  profit  will  be 
32,000 cents  or $320;  on  $100 capital  the 
profit  would  he  $32,000,  against  the 
$4, 775’  Verily  a  good  investment  is  in 
duck  eggs.' ’

Egg  Cases  Broken  Up and Destroyed.
From the New  York Sun.

There  are  two  standard  packages  of 
eggs,  one  being  a  case  bolding  thirty 
dozen,  the  other  a  case  holding  thirty- 
six  dozen.  Of  the  enormous  number  of 
boxes  cont lining  eggs  annually received 
here— more  than  two  and  a  half  million 
cases  of  eggs  were  received  in  this  city 
last  year—almost  all  are  broken  up  and 
destroyed  when  they  have  once  been 
emptied,  but  there  are  some  egg  cases 
intended  for  the  carriage  of  eggs  from 
nearby  points  to  this  city,  as  from  Long 
Island  or  from  Jersey,  that  are  more 
substantially  made  and  specially  con­
structed  with  a  view  to  their  repeated 
use,  coming  to  the  city  full  and  going

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Takes  pleasure  in  announcing  to  the  fruit  and  produce  ship­
pers  of  Michigan  that  its  new  plant,  on  the  corner  of  South 
Front  Street  and  O.  R.  &   I.  R.  R.,  is  rapidly  nearing  com­
pletion  and  that  it  will  be  prepared  to  receive  shipments  or 
consignments  of all  kinds  of perishable  goods  by  May  1.  The 
plant  is  thoroughly  modern  and  up-to  date  in  every  respect, 
having  rooms  of different  temperatures,  adapted  to  the  neces­
sities  of shipper^.  A  specialty  will  be  made  of freezing  poul­
try,  game  and  meats.  Correspondence  desired  with  country 
shippers  of  butter,  eggs  and  poultry.  W e  solicit  an  inspec­
tion  of  our plant  and  process,  which  we  believe  to be the most 
complete  in  every respect  in  the  West.

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WHOLESALE DEALER  IN

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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 pounds.  With future orders for Lactobutu to 
those who have purchased the process we will send enough to treat Soo pounds for  *2. 

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live  to  learn ;  but  some  of  ns 
seem  to  live  a  great  deal  mote  than  we 
learn.

We make a specialty of this class of work and solicit correspondence 
with those who need anything in this line.

RADESMAN  COMPANY, 

-  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Clerks’  Corner.
Carry  the  Message  to  Garcia.

In  all  this  Cuban  business  there  is 
one  man  stands  out  on  the  horizon  of 
my  memory  like  Mars  at  perihelion.

When  war  broke  out  between  Spain 
and  the  United  States,  it  was  very  nec­
essary  to  communicate  quickly  with  the 
insurgents.  Garcia  was 
leader  of  the 
somewhere 
in  the  mountain  fastnesses 
of  Cuba— no  one  knew  where.  No  mail 
nor  telegraph  message  could  reach  him. 
The  President  must  secure  his  co-oper­
ation,  and  quickly.

What  to  do?
Someone 

to 

said 

the  President, 
“ There’s  a  fellow  by  the  name  of 
Rowan  will  find  Garcia  for  you,  if  any­
body  can. ”

Rowan  was  sent  for  and  given  a  letter 

to  be  delivered  to  Garcia.

How  “ the  fellow  by  the  name  of 
Rowan”   took  the  letter,  sealed  it  up  in 
an  oil-skin  pouch,  strapped  it  over  bis 
heart 
in  four  days  landed  by  night  off 
the  coast  of  Cuba  from  an  open  boat, 
disappeared 
in 
three  weeks  came  out  on  the  other  side 
of  the  island,  having  traversed  a  hostile 
country  on  foot,  and  delivered  his  letter 
to  Garcia,  are  things  I  have  no  special 
desire  now  to  tell  in  detail.

jungle,  and 

into  the 

The  point  I  wish  to  make is this:  Mc­
Kinley gave  Rowan  a  letter  to  be  deliv­
ered  to  Garcia;  Rowan  took  the  letter 
and  did  not  ask  “ Where  is  he  at?”

land. 

By  the  eternal!  there  is  a  man  whose 
form  should  be  cast  in  deathless  bronze 
and  the  statue  placed  in  every  college 
of  the 
is  not  book-learning 
young  men  need,  nor  instruction  about 
this  and  that,  but  a  stiffening  of  the 
vertebra  which  will  cause  them  to  be 
loyal  to  a  trust,  to  act  promptly,  con­
centrate  their  energies;  do  the  thing— 
“ Carry  a  message  to  Garcia!”

It 

No  man  who  has  endeavored  to  carry 
out  an  enterprise  where  many  hands 
were  needed  but  has  been  well-nigh 
appalled  at  times  by  the 
imbecility  of 
the  average  man—the  inability  or  un­
willingness  to  concentrate  on  a  thing 
and  do  it.  Slipshod  assistance,  foolish 
inattention,  dowdy 
indifference  and 
half-hearted  work  seem  the  rule;  and 
no  man  succeeds,  unless  by  book  or 
crook,  or  threat,  he  forces  or  bribes 
other  men  to  assist  him ;  or  mayhap, 
God  in  His  goodness  performs a miracle 
and  sends  him  an  Angel  of  Light  for  an 
assistant.

You,  reader,  put  this  matter  to  a  test: 
You  are  sitting  now  in  your  office—six 
clerks  are  within  call.  Summon  any 
one  and  make  this  request:  “ Please 
look 
in  the  encyclopedia  and  make  a 
brief  memorandum  for  me  concerning 
the  life of  Correggio.”

Will  the  clerk  quietly  say,  "Yes, 

sir,”   and  go  do  the  task?

On  your  life,  he  will  not.  He  will 
look  at  you  out  of  a  fishy  eye  and  ask 
one  or  moie  of  the  following  questions:

Who  was  he?
Which  encyclopedia?
Where  is  the  encyclopedia?
Was  I  hired  for  that?
Don’t  you  mean  Bismarck?
What’s  the  matter  with  Charlie  doing 

it?

Is  there  any  hurry?
Sha’n’t  I  bring  you  the book  and 

let 

you  look  it  up  yourself?

And  I  will  lay  you  ten  to  one  that 
after  you  have  answered  the  questions, 
and  explained  how  to  find  the  informa­
tion,  and  why  you  want 
it,  the  clerk 
will  go  off  and  get  one  of  the  other

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN 

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slipshod 
imbecility  and  the  heartless 
ingratitude  which,  but  for  their  enter­
prise,  would  be  both  hungry  and  home­
less.

Have  I  put  the  matter  too  strongly?
Possibly  I  have;  but  when  all  the 
world  has  gone  a-slumming  I  wish  to 
speak  a  word  of  sympathy  for  the  man 
who  succeeds—the  man  who,  against 
great  odds,  has  directed  the  efforts  of 
others,  and  having  succeeded, 
finds 
there’s  nothing  in  it—nothing  but  bare 
board  and  clothes.  I have  carried  a din­
ner  pail  and  worked  for day’s wages and 
I  have  also  been  an  employer of  labor 
and  I  know  there 
is  something  to  be 
said  on  both  sides.  There  is  no  excel­
lence,  per  se,  in  poverty:  rags  are  no 
recommendation ;  and  all  employers  are 
not 
rapacious  and  high-handed,  any 
more  than  all  poor  men  are  virtuous. 
My  heart  goes  out  to  the  man  who  does 
his  work  when  the  “ boss”  
is  away  as 
well  as  when  he  is  at  home.  And  the 
man  who,  when  given  a  letter  for  Gar­
cia,  quietly  takes  the  missive  without 
asking  any  idiotic  questions  and  with 
no  lurking  intention  of  chucking  it  into 
the  nearest  sewer  or  of  doing  aught 
else  but  deliver  it  never  gets  “ laid  off”  
nor  has  to  go  on  a  strike  for  higher 
wages.

Civilization  is  one  long anxious search

for  just  such 
individuals.  Anything 
such  a  man  asks  shall  be  granted.  His 
is  so  rare  that  no  employer  can 
kind 
afford  to  let  him  go.  He  is  wanted 
in 
every  city,  town  and  village— in  every 
office, shop, store and factory.  The world 
cries  out  for  such;  he 
is  needed,  and 
needed  badly—the  man  who  can  carry  a 
message  to  Garcia.—The  Philistine.

Art  School  at  Macatawa.

An  art  school  is  to  be  established  at 
Macatawa  Park  in  July,  which,  if  suc­
cessful,  will  probably  be  made  a  perma­
nent  fixture  and  will  be  conducted  on  a 
scale  similar  to  the  college  work  of  the 
Northern  resorts.  Frank  Forest  Fred­
erick,  Professor  of  Art  and  Design  in 
the  University  of  Illinois,  will  be  in 
charge  of  the  classes,  which  will  be 
held  in  a  studio  in  the  Macatawa  Park 
auditorium.  Work  will  begin  Monday, 
July  3,  and  continue  during  the  summer 
months.  There  will  be  three  classes, 
the  elementary  class  for  the  study  of 
freehand  drawing  and  perspective,  the 
intermediate  class  for  the  study  of  com­
position  and  methods  of  sketching,  and 
the  advanced  class  for  the  study  of 
landscape  painting.

Full  information  may  be  had  by  ad­
dressing  Prof.  Frederick  at Champaign, 
111.  Ask  agents  of  the  C.  &  W.  M.  or 
D.,  G.  R.  &  W.  Railways  for  circulars, 
and  remember  that  these  lines  are  the 
ones  to  take  for  Macatawa  Park.

G e o r g e D e H a v en, G.  P. A.

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clerks  to  help  him  try  to  find  Garcia— 
and  then  come  back  and  tell  you  there 
is  no  such  man.  Of  course,  I  may  lose 
my  bet,  but  according  to  the  Law  of 
Average  I  will  not.

And  this 

incapacity  for  independent 
action,  this  moral  stupidity,  this  infirm­
ity  of  the  will,  this  unwillingness  to 
cheerfully  catch  bold  and  lift,  are  the 
things  that  put  pure  Socialism  so  far 
into  the  future. 
If  men  will  not  act  of 
themselves,  what  will  they  do  when  the 
benefit  of  their  effort  is  for  all?

A  first-mate  with  knotted  club  seems 
necessary ;  and  the dread of getting “ the 
bounce”   Saturday  night  holds  many  a 
worker  to  his  place.

Advertise  for a  stenographer and  nine 
out  of  ten  who  apply  can  neither  spell 
nor  punctuate—and  do  not  think  it  nec­
essary  to.

Can  such  a  one  write  a  letter  to  Gar­

cia?

“ You  see  that  book-keeper,”   said  the 

foreman  to  me  in  a  large  factory.

“ Yes,  what  about  him?”
“ Well,  he’s  a  fine accountant,  but  if 
I’d  send  him  uptown  on  an  errand,  be 
might  accomplish  the  errand  all  right, 
and  on  the  other  hand,  might  stop  at 
four  saloons  on  the  way,  and  when  he 
got  to  Main  street  would  forget  what  he 
bad  been  sent  for. ’ ’

Can  such  a  man  be  intrusted  to  carry 

a  message  to  Garcia?

We  have  recently  been  hearing  much 
for  the 
maudlin  sympathy  expressed 
“ down  trodden  denizen  of  the  sweat 
shop”   and  the  “ bomtless  wanderer 
searching  for  honest  employment,”   and 
with 
it  all  often  go  many  bard  words 
for  the  men  in  power.

Nothing 

loaf  when  his  back 

is  said  about  the  employer 
who  grows  old  before  his  time 
in  a 
vain  attempt  to get frowzy ne’er-do-wells 
to  do  intelligent  work,  and  his  long  pa­
tient  striving  with  “ help”   that  does 
nothing  but 
is 
turned.  In  every  store  and  factory  there 
is  a  constant  weeding  out  process  going 
on.  The  employer  is  constantly  sending 
away  “ help”   that  have  shown  their 
in­
capacity  to  fuitber  the  interests  of  the 
business,  and  others  are  being taken  on. 
No  matter  how  good  times  are,  this 
sorting  continues,  only  if times  are  hard 
and  work  is  scarce  the  sorting 
is  done 
finer—but  out,  and  forever  out,  the  in­
It  is  the 
competent  and  unworthy  go. 
survival  of  the 
Self-interest 
prompts  every  employer  to  keep the best 
—those  who  can  carry  a  message  to 
Garcia.

fittest. 

I  know  one  man  of  really  brilliant 
parts  who  has  not  the  ability  to  manage 
a  business  of  bis  own,  and  yet  who  is 
absolutely  worthless  to  anyone  else,  be­
cause  he  carries  with  him  constantly the 
insane  suspicion  that  bis  employer  is 
oppressing  or  intending  to  oppress him. 
Should  a  message  be  given  him  to  take 
to  Garcia,  his  answer  would  probably 
be,  “ Take  it yourself,  and be damned !”
To-night  this  man  walks  the  streets 
looking  for  work,  the  wind  whistling 
through  bis  threadbare  coat.  No  one 
who  knows  him  dares  employ  him,  for 
be  is  a  regular  fire-brand  of  discontent. 
He  is  impervious to  reason  and  the  only 
thing  that  can  impress  him  is  the  toe  of 
a  thick-soled  No.  9 boot.

Of course,  I  know  that  one  so  morally 
is  no  less  to  be  pitied  than  a 
deformed 
physical  cripple;  but 
in  our  pitying, 
let  us  drop  a  tear,  too,  for  the  men  who 
are  striving  to  carry  on  a  great  enter­
prise,  whose  working  hours  are  not 
limited  by  the  whistle,  and  whose  hair 
is  fast  turning  white  through  the  strug­
gle  to  hold  in-line  dowdy  indifference.

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but  are  never  able  to  master  the  fourth. 
Hence  fail.

In  considering  the  topic  before  us  I 
have  nothing  to  do  with  the  first;  that 
is  assumed—nor  the  fourth;  that  is  a 
sad  misfortune  of  those  who  are  notable 
to  bring  their  wants  within  the  limit  of 
their  means.  And 
just  here  let  me  say 
that  to  this  class  my  hearty  sympathy 
goes  out. 
It is  made  up  of  those  whole- 
souled,  big-hearted,  easy-going,  well- 
wishing,  good  fellows  whose  company 
and  business  acquaintance  one  enjoys, 
but  who  usually  are  the victims of others 
who  do  not  deserve  their  acquaintance, 
much  less  their  friendship.

But  the  second  and  third,  getting  a 
trade  and  getting  a  profit  from  it,  I 
must  deal  with  to  prove  the  assertions 
which  I  have  already  made.  Let  us  see 
what  advantage  there  is  in  the  way  of 
getting  trade  to  the  average  dealer  who 
sells  goods  made  by  a  manufacturer who 
also  has  retail  stores  of  his  own ;  and  if 
I  prove  that  he  actually  does  derive 
benefits  from  so  doing,  you  must  admit 
with  me  that  the  wise  dealer  should cast 
aside  the  thought  of  monopoly  and  for 
his  own  good  buy  goods  from such  man­
ufacturers.

I  have  already  asserted,and  I  believe, 
that  the  successful  trade  getter  is  the 
liberal  advertiser.  At  the  present  mo­
ment  I  have  not  in  mind  a  single retail­
ing  manufacturer  who  is  not  a  generous 
advertiser.  The  very  existence  of  such 
stores  as  they  conduct  is  a  good  adver­
tisement  for  the  particular  shoe  which 
they  make and sell,  and  the  retailer  who 
wishes  to  sell  the  same  shoe  can  reap 
the  benefit  of  the  advertisement  and  it 
costs him  notbing.  Thus  we  have  trade- 
bringer  No.  1  and  no  cost.

is  seen 

There  are  no  manufacturers  retailing 
their own  shoes  who  do  not  aim  to make 
and  sell  the  very  highest  priced  and 
best  shoes  that  can  be  successfully  sold 
in  the  community  in  which  their  stores 
are  located ;  and  the  very  fact  that  this 
same  shoe 
in  your  store  im­
presses  your  customer  with  the  fact  that 
you  are  handling  good, 
responsible 
goods.  Trade-bringer  No.  2,  and  no 
cost.  Perhaps 
it  may  be  as  well  to  il­
lustrate  this  point  fully:  A  number  of 
years  ago  I  was  employed  as  manager 
of  a  department  of  a 
large  clothing 
firm,  who  were  just putting in men's and 
boys’  shoes. 
I  put  in  a  certain  line  of 
shoes  manufactured  by  a  firm  who  also 
had  retail  stores.  For  convenience  we 
will  call  them  Smith  shoes.  The  store 
was  located  on  a  prominent  corner  near 
the  railroad  depot,  where  a  great  many 
commercial  travelers  passed. 
I  kept  a 
nice  window  filled  with  these  high- 
priced  fine  shoes,  always  conspicuous-

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in  felt  boots  with  rubbers  and  socks  and  the  finest 
line  of  Lum berm en’s  Socks  to  be  found.  Also  a
line  of  short  socks,  wool  and  leather  gloves  and 
m ittens  and  M ackinaw s.  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.

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Shoes  and  Leather
Patronizing  Manufacturers  Who  Run 

Retail  Stores.

I 

affirm  that a  retail shoe dealer should 

buy  his  goods  from  any  person  or  firm, 
no  matter  who  they  are  or  where  they 
are  located,  whether  they  be  retailers, 
jobbers,  auctioneers,  agents  or  manu­
facturers ;  no  matter  what  their  color, 
nationality  or  religion,  just  so  that  they 
furnish  the  goods  from  which  said  re­
tailer  can  realize  the  greatest  benefit 
in  point  of  profit  and  general  satisfac­
tion  to  his  customers.  And  I  further 
say  that  all  shrewd  dealers  will  do  so.
I  am  going  to  ask  the shoemakers who 
read  your  valuable  journal,  “ What  are 
you  in  business  for? 
Is  it  to  help  along 
certain  dealers  and  business  enterprises 
that  happen  to  be  of  some  particular 
political  or  religious  opinion that agrees 
with  yours,  or  that  happen  to  do  busi­
ness 
in  a  certain  way  or through  a  cer­
tain  channel  that  suits  your  ideas,  and 
help  crush  out,  pull  down  and  drive 
away  those  who  do  not?”   No,  I  think 
not.  When  your  answers,  variously  ex­
pressed,  are  sifted  down  there 
is  but I 
one  object  to  gain.  Or,  using  a  more 
modern  expression,  if  you  will  pardon 
the  slang  of 
it,  “ You  are  out  for the 
best  of  it.”   Now,  then,  how  shall  this 
result  be  attained? 
I  argue  that  retail 
shoe  merchants,  under  most  circum­
stances,  who  to  a  certain  extent  handle 
shoes  made  and  exclusively  advertised 
by  manufacturers  who  also  have  some 
retail  stores  of  their own  which  they sell 
a  portion  of  their  production,  do  realize 
advantages  that  are  not  enjoyed  by their 
less  liberal-minded  competitors who will 
not  sell  such  goods.

I  do  not  wish  to  be  understood  as  say­
ing  that  while  the  one  prospers the other 
will  fail,  but  I  do  say  that,all  other  cir­
cumstances  being  equal,  the  one  starts 
with  undeniable advantages  not  enjoyed 
by  the  other. 
If  there  were  no  other 
consideration,  there  is  this  one—that  he 
starts  with  goods  advertised  and  famil­
iar  to  his  trade,  thus  gaining  an  advan­
tage  right  from  the  beginning.  In  these 
times  of  hustle  and  bustle  and  sharp 
competition  it  is  the  liberal-minded  ad­
vertiser  who  succeeds  in  business.

I 

Although  but  thirty-four  years  old,  I 
have  spent  more  than  twenty  of  these 
years  among  shoes,  in  every  capacity, 
from  a  window  washer  to  proprietor.
I  like  shoes. 
like  to  see,  handle,  fit 
and  sell  them  and  I  have  made  them  a 
life  study. 
I  have  watched  the  success 
and  misfortune  of  many  business  men 
and  firms  from  time  to  time,  and  have 
noted  the  reasons  for  same;  and  I  have 
decided  that  there  are  four  essential 
things  in  the  life  of  the  shoe  merchant 
that,  in  order  to  achieve  success,  one 
must  comprehend  and  master.  The  lack 
of  any  one  of  them  means  failure.

1.  He  must  have  the  store.
2.  He  must  get  the  trade.
3.  He  must  profit  from  the  trade.
4«  He  must  be  able  to  so  manage  bis 
the 

live  within 

affairs  that  he  can 
amount  of  his  gain.

He  may  thus  be  considered  among bis 
fellow-tradesmen  and  in  his  community 
a  prosperous  and  successful  business 
man.

Hundreds  have  the  first  who  never see 

the  second.  Hence  fail.

Thousands  enjoy  the  first  and  second 
who  never  realize  the  third.  Hence 
fail.

Hundreds  of  thousands  have  the  first, 
enjoy  the  second  and  realize  the  third,

Geo.  H.  Reeder & Co.,

19 South  Ionia Street, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

Herold=Bertsch
Shoe

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Manufacturers 
and  Jobbers

iy  displaying  the  name  of  the  maker. 
The  window  and  the  name 
invariably 
attracted  attention,  especially of  persons 
who  would  come  into  the  store  and  say, 
I  see  you  sell  the  Smith  shoe 
“ Ah! 
here.  You  are 
in  handling 
such  good  goods.’ ’

justified 

“ Well,  we  think  so,  or  we  would  not 

handle  them. ”

“ I  tell  you  they  are  all  right.  They 
have  a  fine  store  in  Chicago’ ’  (or  New 
York  or  Cleveland,  as  the  case  may  be).
“ Yes,  they  have  fine  stores  and  get 
fine  prices.  We  do  not  have  so  fine  a 
store,  but  sell  as  fine  goods  at 
less 
prices  ’ ’

“ Well,  if  this  is  the  case  I  had  better 
I  wear  Smith shoes 

buy  my  shoes  here. 
always. ”

I  can  truly  say  that  during  my  ten 
years’  experience  as  manager  of  that 
store  this  has  happened  hundreds  of 
times.

What  was  the  cause  of  these  sales? 
Smith’s  big  store  Who  got  the  benefit? 
We  did.

How  much  did  it  cost?
Nothing
Now  this  would  have  happened  had  1 
been  selling  Douglas,  Victor,  Emerson, 
Hanan  or  any  other  well  known  make of 
shoes  manufactured  by  those  who  have 
their  own  stores. 
I  merely  give  it  to 
prove  the  assertion  I  make,  that  the 
very  existence  of  a  fine  store  selling 
good  goods  is  without  doubt a  very  good 
advertisement 
retailer  who 
wishes  to  handle  their  lines.  Hence, 
from  a  business  standpoint  why  net 
patronize  them?

the 

for 

If  I  were  going  into  the  shoe  business 
in  any 
large  city  to-day,  and  had  the 
necessary  capital,  I  would  rather  start 
next  to  the  largest  and  most  successful 
of  these  stores,  and  sell  their goods,  too. 
They  could  do  the  advertising  and  I 
would  reap  the  benefit  and  apply  the 
money  thus  saved  in  using  some  other 
device  to  attract  trade  to  my  store. 
They  can  not  sell  shoes  to  their  own  re 
tail  stores  one  cent  cheaper  than  they 
can  sell  them  to  me  if  I  have  the  cash 
to  pay  for  - them,  so  I  am  on  an  equal 
footing  with  them 
in  every  way,  and 
ahead  in  point  of  saving  money  on  ad­
vertising  that  particuhr  make  of  shoe 
Trade  winner  No.  4.  and  no  cost.

Now  let  us  go  on  to  our  third  division 
— profits;  and  here  I  argue  that  the  re­
tailer  can  realize  just  as  much  profit,  if 
not  more,  from  manufacturing-retailers’ 
goods  as  any  other,  even  if  the  prices 
are  already  stamped  on  the  goods. 
In 
my  opinion,  these  stores  have  a  tend­
ency  to  keep  prices  up,  and 
if  every 
retailer  could  always  realize  as  much 
net  gain  on  all  his  goods  as  these 
stamped  prices  would  net  him  he  would 
never  break  up  on  account  of  small 
profits.  You  never  hear  of  these  stores 
cutting  the  life  and  profits  out  of  goods 
in  their  retail  stores.  No;  they  keep 
them  up.  Hence  we  realize  the  goal 
in  our  retailer  s  pilgrimage  and  score 
another  good 
reason  why  the  retail 
merchant  should  buy  goods  from  the 
manufacturers  who  also  have 
retail 
stores  of  their  own.

One  more  point,  and  I  will  say  good­

bye :

consumer 

I  argue  that  the manufacturer who also 
has  retail  stores  of  bis  own  comes  in 
closer  touch,  through  these  stores,  with 
the 
than  his  competitor; 
hence  through  that  medium  has  a  better 
opportunity  to  learn  the  changes 
in 
style, 
the  wants  of  the  wearers,  the 
whims  and  ideas  of  the  actual  consum­
er,  and  to  know  the  deficiencies  in  lasts 
leather,  thus  gaining  knowledge
and 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

that  it  is  impossible  for  his  competitor 
to  get.  Hence,  he  should  be  able  to 
make  little 
that  will 
guarantee  to  his customer more practical 
and  salable  footwear  than  can  otherwise 
be  produced.

improvements 

The  foregoing  reasons  being  true,  I 
say  for  bis  own  good  the  retail  shoe 
dealer  should  not  boycott  the  manufac­
turer  who  has  retail  stores  of  bis  own, 
any  more  than  the  manufacturer  should 
boycott  and  refuse  to  sell  to  retailers  if 
they  should  choose  to  buy  a  factory  and 
make  a  portion  of  their own  goods.

Now  you  ask  for a  remedy;  and  I  re­
ply,  we  do  not  want  any  remedy.  Let 
them  go  ahead.

I  tell  you,  no  retailer  should  be  afraid 
of  them. 
I  say,  let  more  of  them  start 
if  they  want  to.  They  are  no  great suc­
cess  as  retailers  and  never  will  be. 
They  sell  good,  high-priced  goods,  and 
only  advertise  well  such  goods  for  re­
tailers.  So  let  them  go  ahead.  They 
will  remedy  themselves  in  time.— Boots 
and  Shoes  Weekly.
Sound  Advice  Regarding  Unsalable 

Goods.

Few  retail  merchants  realize  the  con­
stantly 
increasing  cost  of  portions  of 
their  stock  which  are  daily,  monthly, 
and •  yearly  growing  in  amount  because 
original  figures  are  adhered  to  for  sell­
ing  prices,  regardless  of  the  fact  that 
certain  articles,  by 
lack  of  popularity 
or  because  they  have  already  had  their 
day,  are  woith  less  than  their  first  cost. 
The  tenacity  with which some merchants 
hang  onto  old  goods  year  after year,  in­
ventorying  them  at  the original cost,  in­
stead  of  present  market  value,  is  cer­
tainly  worthy  of  a  better  cause.

An  article  costing  originally  ten  dol­
lars,  taking  the  value  of  money  at  or 
dinary  interest  rates,  would  stand  at  the 
end  of  the  second  year  at  about  eleven 
dollars,  at  the  end  of  the  fifth  year  thir­
teen  dollars,  and  so  on,  each  succeeding 
year  piling  up  the  cost,  in  that  the 
money  represented  has  not  been  earning 
interest  or  a  profit  elsewhere,  and 
an 
therefore 
it  would  be  charged  to  the 
goods.  Meanwhile  the  goods  are  dimin­
ishing  in  value,  compared  with original 
figures,  in  a  more  rapid  ratio  than  their 
cost  is  piling  up.

If  the  merchant  had  sacrificed  the  ar­
ticle  the  first  year  for eight  dollars,  the
loss  on  the  transaction  at  the  end  of  five

years,  using  the  same  interest  calcula­
tions  as  before,  would  amount  to  only 
two  dollars  and  seventy-five  cents;  but 
the  eight  dollars  turned  over  and  over 
again  at  the  usual  percentage  of  profit 
would  have  earned  much more than  this. 
By  comparison  the  oftquoted  saying, 
“ We  got  our  money  back  anyway,’ ’  ut­
tered  by  those  who  hold  an  article  for 
several  years  and  then  sell  it  at  its orig­
inal  cost,  becomes  extremely  ridiculous.
Carrying  a  stock  of  dead  or  unsalable 
goods  locks  up  so  much  capital  in  trade 
that  the  merchant  often  finds  himself 
unable  to  take  advantage  of  the  usual 
cash  discounts.  This  means  that  goods 
otherwise  costing  him  ten  dollars,  less 
7  per  cent,  for  quick  money,  or  nine 
dollars  and  thirty  cents  net,  will  stand 
him  ten  dollars  net.  His  reputation  of 
being  a  close  cash  buyer  is  thus  lost, 
and  the  consequence  of  a  considerable

amount  of  dead  stock  on  the  shelves 
is 
that  the  merchant  is  obliged  to  pay long 
prices  for  all  of  bis  goods.

Merchants  who  get  into  this  position 
are  no  longer  sought after by wholesalers 
when  there  are  special  bargains  to  be 
offered,  for  at  such  times  only  strict 
cash  buyers  are  approached.  This  fre­
quently  means 
in  a  given  community 
that  the  merchant's  competitors  can  sell 
certain  goods  and  make  reasonable 
profits  at  prices  that  represent  actual 
cost  to  him.  Putting  the  knife  into  the 
prices  of  unsalable  goods  and  getting 
rid  of  them  is  the  only  way  to conduct  a 
successful  business.  The  first  loss  on 
unsalable  articles  is  always  the  small­
est  loss. 

C.  H.  A r n o l d .

Like  many  other men  of  great  wealth, 
Claus  Spreckels,  the  sugar  millionaire, 
has  a  rooted  aversion  to  personal  dis­
play.  He  carries  a  cheap  silver  watch.

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Large white enameled  dial,  very  ser­
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you  that  they  are  only  trying  to  get  you  to  aid  their  —g  
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TO  YOUNG  MEN.

Lectures  on  Business and Professional 

Subjects.
Traverse  City,  April 

io—For  some 
time  it  bad  occurred  to  me  that  a course 
of 
lectures  to  young  men  on  business 
and  professional  subjects  would  be  of 
great  value  to  them  in  deciding  upon 
their  life  work.  With  this  idea  in mind, 
the  following  course  was  arranged  and 
carried  out  during  the  past  winter:

1.  Jan.  25— The  Legal  Profession,  by 

Edwin  S.  Pratt.

2.  Jan.  31—Journalism,  by  Thos. 
T.  Bates,  Editor Grand Traverse Herald.
3.  Feb.  7— The  Christian  Ministry, 
by  Rev.  D.  Cochlin,  Pastor  Congrega­
tional  Church.

4.  Feb.  14— The Medical  Profession, 
by  Dr.  A.  S.  Rowley,  Assistant  Super­
intendent  Northern  Michigan Asylum.

5.  Feb.  21—The  Banking  Business, 
by  Frank  Welton,  Assistant  Cashier 
First  National  Bank.

6.  Feb.  28—The  Mercantile  Busi­
ness,  by  H.  Montague,  General  Mana­
ger  Hannah  &  Lay  Mercantile  Co.

7.  March  7— Teaching  and  School 
Supervision,  by  President  Chas.  Mc- 
kenny,  Central  Michigan 
Normal 
School.

8.  March  14—The Railroad Business, 
by  C.  E.  Murray,  Agent  G.  R.  &  I. 
R.  R.

9.  March  21— Pharmacy,  by  C.  A. 

Bugbee,  City  Drug  Store.

10.  March  28—Mechanical Engineer­
ing,  by  W.  F.  Calkins,  Traverse  City 
Iron  Works.

The  speakers  selected  to  address  the 
young  men  are,  with  one  exception, 
well-known  and  successful  business  and 
professional  men  of  this  city.  They not 
only  readily  consented  to  speak,  but, 
without  an  exception,  deemed  it a  priv­
ilege  to  be  able,  in  this  way,  to  assist 
young  men 
in  determining  what  their 
life  work  shall  be.  They  were  asked 
not  to attempt any  flights  of oratory,  but 
to  speak  right  out  of  their  personal  ex­
It  was  sug-
perience  and  observation. 

?;ested  to  them  that  they  emphasize  the 

ollowing  points :
‘  Character.
["“ Preliminary  training.
[¡¡Specialization.

Industry.
Opportunities  for  doing  good. 
¡¡Probabilities  of  success  from  a  finan­
cial  standpoint.

It  was  gratifying  to  me  to  notice  how 
into  the  young 
every  speaker  rubbed 
the  necessity  of  good  habits, 
men 
thorough  training,  the  strictest integrity 
and  patient  industry  as absolutely essen­
tial  to  the  highest  success  in  any  voca­
tion.

The  course  was  made  absolutely  free 
to  the  young  men;  the  only  conditions 
asked  were  that  they  attend  all  the  lec­
tures  unless  they  could  present  a  good 
excuse  for  not  doing  so;  that  they  come 
for  the  purpose  of  learning  and  getting 
all  the  assistance  possible  out  of  them 
Tickets  were 
issued  giving  the  dates 
and  subjects  of  the  lectures.  These they 
were  asked  to  present  at  the  door  each 
night.

While  the  course  was  designed  pri­
marily  for  the  young  men  over fifteen 
years  of  age  enrolled  in  the  high school, 
it  was  by  no  means  confined  to them. 
An 
invitation  was  extended  to  all  the 
young  men  of  the  city  who  thought  they 
would  be  interested.  As  a  result,  the 
audience  each  evening  contained a large 
number  of  clerks,  students  of  the  busi­
ness  college,  attendants  at  the  asylum 
and  employes  in  the  various  factories  of 
the  city.  Several  young  men  drove  in 
a  distance  of  eighteen  miles.

The  success  of  the  course  was  beyond 
ray  most  sanguine  expectations,  the  at­
tendance  reaching  the  number  234.

I  thoroughly  believe that  a  course  of 
lectures  along  similar  lines  may  be 
made  to  form  a  very  important factor  in 
the  education  of  young  men. 
It  is  my 
purpose  to  arrange  a  more extensive and 
comprehensive  course  along  the  same 
general  line  for  next  year.

We  need  to  dispossess  the  young  men 
of  our  schools  of  the  idea  that  they must 
all  be  doctors, 
lawyers,  preachers  or 
in  order  to  win  an  honorable
teachers 

and  influential  place  in  life.  The  great 
fields of general merchandising,  mechan­
ical  engineering,  banking,  agriculture, 
railroading,  etc.,  are  open  and  afford 
equal  opportunities  for  doing  good  and 
winning  distinguished  success.

C.  T.  G r a w n, 

Supeiintendent  City  School.

The  Leaven  in  the  Meal.

if 

It 

is 

Just  now,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord, 
1899,  we  are  all  agog  on  the  matter  of 
trusts.  Some  are  pulling  their hair over 
impending  ruin  and  others  scratching 
the  same,  to  see  the  crack  of doom,  and 
another  the  wind ;  in  these  octopus com 
binations  one  sees  a  vampire  and  an­
other  a  fat  mackerel.  One  hears  the 
crack  of  doom  and  another  the  wind  in 
a  pium  tree  and  the  dropping  of  mellow 
fruit 
in  the  baskets  below.  We  make 
orations  and  preach sermons,  put  anath 
emas  into  printers’  ink  and  diatribes 
into  public  speeches.  We  perspire  and 
rave and  Ajax  looses  his  girdle  and  his 
forearm  in  defiance  of  the  electric  bolt. 
All  of  this  is  right  enough  as  a  means 
of  defense  from  what, 
left  alone, 
might  become  a  Goliath  among  modern 
evils.  So  far,  so  good.  Is  it  not  a  fact, 
however,  that  we too  often  overlook  the 
causes  when  we  are  making  long  faces 
at  the  consequences?  We  break  eggs 
and  spare the  hen  that  lays  them.  We 
shout  the  cub  of  the  wolf  and  leave  its 
in  the  den.  The  trust  is  not  an 
dam 
injected  foreign  substance  into  the 
in­
is  a  product  thereof. 
dustrial  body. 
It  may  be a  wart,  an  ulcer  or a  hump, 
it  not  a  bone  of  our  bone  and 
but 
flesh  of  our  flesh? 
It  has  been  suckled 
and  cradled  by  ourselves.  We  have  de­
veloped  the  conditions  out  of  which  a 
trust  is  as  natural  as  a  mushroom  out  of 
manure.  We  have  made  business  as 
warm  as  the  climate  in which Beelzebub 
toasts  his  toes.  Competition  has  been 
a  razor  on  a  bone.  Trade  has  become a 
shaving  business.  We  cut  prices,  wages 
and  honest  profits  to  gain  advantage 
over  a  competitor.  We  are  willing  to 
live  on  red  herring  if  we  can  only  get 
him  to  come  down  to  the  same  diet. 
The  result  is  a  general  scramble  for  the 
bones  and,  after  that,  repentance.  We 
confess  we  have  made  fools  of  ourselves 
and,  having  got  to  the  bottom  of  the 
well,  we  pray  for  a  tope  to  haul  us  out. 
The  trust  comes  along  and  proposes  dry 
socks  and 
It  is  from 
this  standpoint  the  trust  seems  to  be 
anything  rather  than  a  satyr,  hobgoblin 
or  vampire. 
It 
looks 
like  a  savior,  but  it  isn’t.  The 
idea  is  a  dividend  more  than  a  deliver­
ance.  As  a  nation  we  have  a  predilec­
tion  for  fat  finances.  Enough  is  a  lost 
word  where  gains  are  concerned.  No 
melon  i$  too  large  for  the  mouth  or  too 
sweet  for  the  tooth.  We can  not get  too 
rich  or  make  the  pile  too  fast.  The  art 
of  exchanging  a  sprat  for a  mackerel  is 
a  special  profession.  We  loan  the  knit­
ting  needles  and  steal  the  stockings. 
Society 
is  crowded  with  men  who  are 
looking  for  cake  and  pie,  not  by  work 
of  the  bands,  but  by  the  special  func­
tion  of  doing  the  caterpillar act  on  a 
lettuce.  This  breed  is  rapidly  multiply­
It  is  collared  and  cuffed  and  well 
ing. 
fed.  and  the 
instincts  thereof  are  as 
common  and  natural  as  wool  on  the 
scalp  of  an  Ethiopian.  We  shave  con­
tracts  as  well  as  notes,  collect  dis­
counts  on  tickets  for  charity  balls  and 
orphan  homes  and  are  ready  to  preach 
or  pray  or  legislate  according  to  salary. 
The  business  man  will  work  seven  dajs 
a  week,  spoil  the  comfort  of  his  night 
cap  and  act  generally  like  a  galvanized 
frog  when  a  dollar  is  in  sight.  Is  it any

Its  pose  is  impressive. 

less  foolishness. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

hair  raising surprise that,  with  such con­
ditions  existing,  a  trust  can  be  other­
wise  than  fascinating,  as  is  a  spangled 
fly  to  a  hungry  trout?  The  young  of  a 
bird  dog  chases  a  sparrow,  the  cub  of  a 
lion  snorts  at  the  blood  of a  baby  ante­
lope,  a  tadpole 
is  a  creature  of  spawn 
and  what  is  begotten  is,  and  always will 
be,  of  that  which  begets.  The  question 
is  as  to  whether  a  so-called  trust  can  or 
can  not  get  away  from  the  blood  there 
is  in  it.  Will  it  reproduce  the evils from 
which  it  professes  to  be  an  effort  to  es­
cape?  No  one  questions  the  logic  of 
its  evolution,  but  will 
it  bring  forth 
the  same  fruit  in which  it  found  its  ger­
minating  seed?  Can  moneyed  interests 
run 
industries  as  they  do  stocks  and 
bonds,  and  not  hold  them  on  its  finger 
and  laugh  to  see  them  kick?  Will  it  be, 
as  was  remarked  by  the  axman  in  a land 
survey,  who  was  one  day  chased  by  hor-

that,  although 

nets  and  the  next  day  by  wasps,  who,  in 
a  run  to  escape  the  latter,  expressed  his 
conviction 
they  bad 
changed  their  clothes,  they  "spake  the 
same 
tell  the 
tale.  Can  we  get  away  from  the  leaven 
in  the  meal? 

language?’ ’  Time  will 

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CommercialTravelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President,  Ch as.  S.  Ste v en s,  Ypsilanti; Secre­
tary, J. C. Sa u n d e r s,  Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C. 
G o u ld. Saginaw,
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President,  J a k e s  E.  D a t ,  Detroit;  Secretary 

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

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 

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

Grand Rapids Connell No. 131.

Senior Counselor. D. E. K e y e s ;  Secretary-Treas­
urer,  L  F.  B a k e r .  Regular  meetings—First 
Saturday of each month in Council  Chamber  in 
McMullen block.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  B o yd  P a n t lin d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, G eo.  F.  Ow en,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Clnb. 
President, F. G. T b u sc o tt, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F. W ixbon, Marquette.______
Some  of  the  Types  of  Commercial 

Travelers.

commercial 

How  many  kinds  of  the  versatile  and 
ubiquitous 
traveler  one 
meets,  in  different  shapes  and  sizes,  and 
bow  easily  the  observant  can  classify 
and  assign  them  to  the  several types ¿nd 
classes of  which  they  form  part.

For 

instance,  there 

is  one  type  of 
those  who  peregrinate  with  which  we 
knights  of  the  grip  are  familiar;  but 
not  as  a  person  do  we  grow  familiar; 
simply  by  observation 
is  our  sense  of 
classification  awakened.  With  the  in­
dividual,  thank  Heaven!  we  have  no 
fellow  feeling.  We  all  know  him.  He 
is  always  the  last  to  enter the  'bus  at 
the  railway  stations  so  that  he  may  be 
first  to  enter  the  hotel,  where  be  makes 
a  rush  for  the  register,  and  as  you 
patiently  wait  while  he  places  bis  name 
on  the  open  page  you  bear  him  say  to 
the  clerk :  “ Did  you  get  any  mail  for 
me?  Can  I  get  a  big  sample  room? 
Is 
that  room  warm  (or  cool,  thermometric 
conditions  considered)?’ ’  These  and 
various  other  questions  are  fired  at  the 
smiling  clerk,  who,  with  his  usual  ur­
banity,  tells  him  he  will  get  the  best 
room  in  the  house  (and  then  gives  it  to 
someone  else  for  private  reasons).

Then  there 

is  the  young  traveler  on 
his  maiden  trip.  How  loquacious  be  is 
with  everybody,  from  the  bell  boy  up, 
and  how  he  relishes  the  opportunity that 
enables  him  to  enter  into  conversation 
vitb  some  of  the  old-timers  who  know 
all  the  ropes.  During  the  conversation 
he  tells  us  bow  he  bad  an  elegant  busi­
ness 
in  Asheville,  where  he  sold  A  B. 
C.  Smith  a  fine  bill,  and  how  be  con­
siders Jones,  of  Brownville,  a poor judge 
of  good  things  and  away  behind  the 
times.  You  listen  to  it  all complacently, 
and  kindly  refrain  from  telling  him  of 
the  reputation  Smith  has  made  among 
the  boys  as  a  ready  canceller  of  orders, 
and  you  also  fail  to  tell  him  that  Jones 
is  considered  one  of  the  shrewdest  buy­
ers  on  the  line.

You  were  young  and  enthusiastic once 
yourself,  and  you  know  how  much  he 
has  to  learn  before  he  discovers  that  an 
order  is  an  order  until  it  is  either  can­
celled  or  shipped.

We  have also  met  the  mysterious trav­
eler,  the  man  who  always  keeps  away 
from  the  common  herd  and  communes 
with  himself 
in  some  isolated  corner. 
Always  writing  letters  (probably to him­
self),  or figuring  up  orders  (that  he  ex­
pects),  and  thinking  up  some  scheme 
to  startle  the  unsuspicious  and  guileless 
merchant;  be 
is  too  much  oppressed 
with  his own  self-interest  to  become ac­

quainted  with  the  men  he  travels  with, 
and  they—strange  to  say—don’t lose  any 
sleep  over  the  fact.

The  smart  (?)  man !  Ah,  how  be  talks 
of  his  achievements,  and  is  the  recip­
ient  of  the  open-mouthed  admiration  of 
the—well,  the  bell  boys  probably.  He 
can  sell  any  man  on  the  road,  and  he 
doesn’t  cater  to  any  merchant.  He  sells 
them  stuff  whether  they  need  it  or  not, 
and  never  less  than  a  carload  of  goods 
He  has  no  use  for  small  buyers,  and  is 
so  successful  that  every  time  you  meet 
him  he 
is  representing  a  new  bouse, 
probably  on  account  of  having  sold  all 
the  goods  his  previous  employers  can 
make  for  years,  thus  probably  leading 
them  to  let  him  out,  on  account  of  hav­
ing  nothing  further  for  him  to sell.  Per­
haps !

But  the  scene  changes,  and  after  rub­
bing  up  against  the  types  spoken  of 
how 
it  gladdens  your  heart  to  see  one 
of  the  genuine  “ good  fellows.’ ’

He  is  usually  one  of  these  quiet,  un­
assuming,  business-like 
fellows,  who 
never  seem  to  be  in  a  hurry,  and  whose 
presence 
is  felt  and  not  known  by  his 
boisterousness.
*  He  doesn’t  ask  for  the  best  room,  but 
you  will  notice  he  generally  gets  it,  just 
the  same.  He  doesn’t  tell  you how many 
goods  be  sold  this  trip,  but  you  notice 
that  he  fills  out  a  good  many  sheets  of 
paper  that  look  suspiciously  like  order 
blanks.  He  generally 
likes  a  quiet 
game;  sometimes of  whist or  cinch,  and 
alas!  sometimes  of  the  sort 
in  which 
“ chips”   are  essential,  and  during  the 
game  he  thaws  out  and  you  bear  one  or 
two  new  stories,  as  be  gets  off  some  of 
the  good  things  be  has  beard  lately.

You  notice  everyone  seems  to  know 
and  like  him  and  all  salute  him  with, 
“ Hello,  Jim!”   when  they  run  across 
him,  and  as  he  grips  their hands  you 
see  that  pleasant  smile  and  the  bright 
twinkle  in  his  eye  as  he  says:  “ How’s 
things?”

Always  ready  to  put  his  band  in  his 
pocket  for a  sick  or needy  fellow  man, 
and  never  running  down a competitor  or 
a  competitor’s  line;  he  goes  through 
life  smoothly,  leaving  a  pathway  along 
which  are  strewn  the  good  wishes  of  all 
who  know  him  and  the  hopes for success 
in  the  future  of  all  with  whom  he  is 
acquainted.

He  is  the  exponent  of  the  best  type  of 
the  traveler  and  association  with  the 
knights  of  the  grip  leads  me  to  think 
his  name  is  legion,  for  although  “ there 
are  others”   we  temporarily  forget  their 
lack  of  his  attributes,  and  say,  when  we 
think  of  the  many  of  bis  kind  we know: 
“ Good  luck  and  God  bless  ’em !”

Joseph  C.  Martin,  who  died  the  other 
day 
in  Florence,  Mass.,  was  the  in­
ventor  of  the  cash  carrier  system  used 
in  many  states.  He  also  secured  a  pat­
ent  for  a  device  which  he  called  his 
“ pick-up  machine,”   which  is  designed 
to  collect  messages  from  all  the  desks 
of  clerks  in  a  certain  building,  convey 
them  automatically  to  the  desk  of a  cen­
tral  superintendent  or other  officer  and 
deposit  them,  thus  doing  away  with  the 
services  of  an  army  of  errand  boys.

John  Sherman  is  not  the  only  distin­
guished  man  who  has  had  the  privilege 
of  reading  his  own  obituary. 
Lord 
Brougham  saw  two  sets  of  his,  and  Gar­
ibaldi  saw  about  half  a  dozen.  Mr. 
Sherman's  present  attack  of  pneumonia 
is  the  third  from  which  he  has  suffered, 
the  first  occurring  when  he  was  only  16 
years  old.

Twenty-five  years  ago  France  was 
able  to  put  as  many  soldiers  in  the  field 
as  Germany.  To-day 
it  falls  short  by 
about  i,ooo,ooo'men.

Alms  and  Objects  of the United Com­

mercial  Travelers.

Since  organization, 

Grand  Rapids,  April  n — Believing 
the  Tradesman  to  be  the  official  organ 
of  the  traveling  men  of  Grand  Rapids,
I  ask  the  privilege  of  communicating  to 
them  a  matter  worthy  of  their  earnest 
consideration. 
I  wish  to  call  to  their 
attention  the  fact  that  on  Oct.  15,  1898, 
there  was  organized  in  this  city  Grand 
Rapids  Council,  No.  131,  of  the  order 
of  United  Commercial  Travelers  of 
America.  This order  is  a  secret  benev­
olent  society,  founded  by  commercial 
travelers  for  the  benefit  of  commercial 
travelers. 
There  are  at  present  145 
councils,  in  thirty  four  different  states, 
with  a  total membership of nearly twelve 
thousand. 
twelve 
years  ago  there  have  been  levied  forty- 
four  assessments  of  $2  each,  making  an 
average  cost  of  less  than  $8  a  year.  On 
April  1,  there  had  been  paid  in  claims 
over $160,000.  The  prime  object  of  the 
order  is  to  unite  fraternally  all  commer­
cial  travelers,  to  elevate  their moral and 
social  standing,  to  secure  just  and  equi­
table  favors  and  to  place  the  profession 
upon  the  high  plane  to  which  of  right 
it  belongs.  The 
insurance  benefits  are 
reliable  and  given  at  exactly  cost.  All 
claims  are  paid  promptly  and  in  full  on 
the  following  basis :  Accidental  death, 
$6,300;  loss  of  both  eves,  $5,000;  loss of 
betb  bands,  $5,000;  loss  of  both  feet, 
$5,000;  loss  of  band  and  foot  $2,500; 
loss  of  one  band,  $1,250;  loss  of  one 
foot,  $1,000;  loss  of  one  eye,  $650.  An 
indemnity  of  $25  per  week  will  be  paid 
for  accidental 
injury  for  a  period  not 
exceeding  fifty-two  consecutive  weeks.
is 
a  widows  and  orphans’  fund which  is by 
far  the  best  feature  of  the  order.  The 
widow  of  a  deceased  member,  should 
she  require  aid,  is entitled  to  the  sum  of 
$250  per  year,  which  is  equal  to  $5  per 
week  and  will  keep  the  wolf  from  the 
door  in  any  case.

In  addition  to  these  benefits,  there 

Should  the  orphan  of a deceased mem­
ber  require  aid,  a  guardian  will  be  ap­
pointed  by  the  Council  and  the  child's 
support  and  education  will  be  paid  for 
by  the  order  until  the  fifteenth birthday.
These  benefits  have  proved  a  blessing 
to  many  a  member  in  bis  time  of  need 
and  to  many  a  wife  and  mother  in  their 
hour  of  distress  and  affliction.

Every  worthy  commercial  traveler 

in 
this  city  should  investigate  and  see  if 
this  is  not  just  what  he  has  been 
look­
ing  for—a  first-class  secret  organization 
of  commercial  travelers,  national  in  its 
character  and  mutual  for  its  members 
in  all  the  word  implies.

We beg the  consideration of  the  reader 
for  this  lengthy  preface  to  the  flattering 
data  which  mark  the  beginning  of  an­
other  prosperous  year,  but  the  phenom­
enal  growth  of  the  order  deserves  and 
demands  attention.  To  its  officers  con­
gratulations;  to 
its  members,  every­
where,  greetings!  Nothing  succeeds  in 
this  world  like  success  and  you,  broth­
ers,  have  succeeded.

L.  F.  B a k e r ,  Sec’y.

Gripsack  Brigade.

William  Connor  is  in  Milwaukee  for 
in  the  interest  of  Kolb  & 

a  few  days 
Son,  Rochester,  N.  Y.

Cadillac  Council,  No.  143, 

is  the 
name  of  the  second  lodge  of  U.  C.  T. 
formed  at  Detroit.  The  first  meeting 
was  held  one  night  last  week,  followed 
by  a  banquet  at  the  Griswold  House.

Bruce  Watson,  of  Cedar  Springs,  has 
gone  on  the  road  for  the  Hicks  Fanning 
Mill  Co.,  of  Kalamazoo.

John  A.  Barnum,  of  Homer,  has  en­
gaged  to  travel  in  this  State  for  J.  F. 
Graham,  jobber  of  shoes  and  rubbers  at 
Clyde,  N.  Y.

Local  traveling  men  are  talking  of 
sending  a  delegation  to  Lansing  to  urge 
the  enactment  of  the  anti-trust  bill  now 
under  consideration  by  the  Legislature.
James  A.  Massie,  formerly  with  the 
John  Finzer  Bros.  Co.,  is  now  on  the 
road  for  B.  J.  Reynolds.  His  territory 
includes  nearly  all  the 
from 
Mackinaw  City  to  the  Indiana  line  and 
from  Owosso  to  Lake  Michigan.

towns 

Lansing  Republican :  The  business­
like  signature  of  M.  E.  Woodruff,  of 
Akron,  Ohio,  on 
the  register  at  the 
Hotel  Downey yesterday  is characteristic 
of  the  little  woman  who  signed  it.  Mrs. 
Woodruff 
is  one  of  the  many  women 
thrown  on  their  own  resources,  com­
pelled  to  face  the  stern  realities  of  life. 
Her husband  was  a  traveling  salesman 
for  a  paper  sack  factory  and  on  his 
death  she  took  his  place  and  has  been 
very  successful.  She  commands  a  large 
business  in  flour  bags  among  the  Mich­
igan  millers  and  is  an  especial  favorite 
among  those  connected  with  the  trade. 
It 
is  unnecessary  to  say  that  she  is  a 
charming  lady.

Why  He  Came  Back.

“ Yes,  sir,”   said  the  narrator,  “ after 
being  apparently  dead  for  a  week  he 
suddenly  returned  to  life.”

“ How  do  you  explain  it?”
“ Only  on  the  ground  that  be  was  op­
posed  to  trade  combinations  and could 
not  bear  the  idea  of  sleeping for  ages  in 
a  coffin  made  by  the  proposed  trust.”

Easily  Reconciled.

Mrs.  Darling— Mercy,  Charles,  what 

have  you  been  drinking?

Mr.  Darling— I  don’t  know. 

is 
what  they call “ the same. ”  Quite a fash­
ionable  drink,  I  should  say.

It 

“ Oh,  that  was  all? 

I  am  so  glad  it 

was  not  some  kind  of  liquor.”

R E M O D E L E D   H O T E L   B U T L E R
1.  M.  BROWN,  PROP.

Rates, $1. 

Washington Ave.  and  Kalamazoo St.,  LA N SIN G .

H O T E L   W H IT C O M B

ST. JOSEPH, MICH.

A. VINCENT. Prop.

$ 2   PER  DAY. 

FREE  BUS

THE  C H A R LE STO N

Only first-class house in MASON.  M i c h .  Every 
thing new.  Every room heated.  Large and well- 
iighted sample rooms.  Send your mail care  of  the 
Charleston,  where the boys stop.  CH AR LES  A . 
CA LD W E L L, formerly of Donnelly  House,  Prop.

Taggart,  Knappen  &  Denison,

PATENT  ATTORNEYS

811-817  Mich. Trust Bldg., 

-  a rand Rapids 

?

Patents Obtained.  Patent Litigation 
Attended To in Any American Court.

YOU OUGHT TO SEE THIS  BIRD  FLY  IN  YOUR CIGAR CASE.

SWEET;  RICH. 

$35  PER M. 

SEND  MAIL ORDER.

THURLOW  WEED  CIGAR.  $70.00 per M.  TEN  CENTS STRAIGHT.

AARON  B.-GATES,
,  MICHIGAN  AGENT S T A N D A R D   C IG A R   C O .,

CLEVELAND,

OHIO

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MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

Drugs—Chem icals
MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
-  Dec. 31, 1899 
A. C. Sch u m ach er,  Ann  Arbor 
-  Dec. 31,1900
Geo. G u n d r u m ,  Ionia  - 
- 
-  Dec. 31,1901
L. E.  R e y n o l d s, St.  Joseph 
- 
H e n r y He im ,  Saginaw  - 
-  Dec. 31,1902
Wir t  P. D o t y , Detroit 
- 
Dec. 31,1803

-------- 

President, G eo.  G u nd rum ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Sch u m ach er, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, H e n r y  He 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.  So u r w in e,  Escanaba. 
Secretary, C h a s. F. Man n,  Detroit. 
Treasurer-J ohn D.  Mu ir , Grand Rapids.

INDIANA  IN  LINE.

Full  Text  of  the  New  Hoosier  Phar­

macy  Law.

shall 

Section  i.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  Gen­
eral  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Indiana, 
that  on  the  taking  effect  of  this  act  the 
Governor  of  Indiana  shall  appoint  five 
pharmacists,  who 
constitute  a 
board  to  be  styled  the  Indiana  Board  of 
Pharmacy.  Two  members  of  said  board 
shall  be  appointed  and  hold  office  for 
one  year,  one  for  two  years,  one  for 
three  years  and  one  for  four  years,  and 
each  until  bis  successor 
is  appointed 
and  qualified,  and  the  term  of  office  of 
each  person  thereafter  appointed  shall 
be  four  years.  Annually  after  these  first 
appointments  the  Governor  shall  ap­
point  pharmacists  to  fill  vacancies  as 
they  occur  by  expiration of  terms  of  ap­
pointment.  Any  vacancy  occurring  at 
other  times  in  said  board  shall  be  filled 
by  a  pharmacist  appointed  by  the  Gov­
ernor  for  the  unexpired  term.  All  of 
said  appointments  shall  be  made  by  the 
Governor  from  pharmacists  of  recog­
nized  experience  and  ability.  No  per­
son 
in  any  manner  connected  with  any 
school  of  pharmacy  shall  be  eligible  to 
service  on  said  Board.  Any  member  of 
said  Board  may  be  removed  by the Gov­
ernor  for cause.

fail 

Sec.  2.  Each  member  of  said  Board 
shall,  within  ten  days  after  his  appoint­
ment,  take  and  subscribe  an  oath  or 
affirmation  before  a  competent  officer  to 
faithfully  and  impartially  perform  the 
duties  of  bis  office.  Should  any  ap­
pointee 
to  qualify  within  the 
specified  time  his  place  shall  be  de­
clared  vacant,  and  the  vacancy  shall  be 
filled  as  specified 
in  Section  i.  Said 
Board  shall,  within  fifteen  days after the 
appointment  of 
its  members,  organize 
by  the  election  of  a  President  and  a 
Secretary  from  among  its  members,  who 
shall  hold  office  for  one  year  and  per­
form  such  duties  as  shall  be  prescribed 
by  said  Board  and  as  hereinafter  men­
tioned.  The  Board  shall  adopt  such 
rules  and  regulations  as  it  may  deem 
necessary  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of 
this  act. 
It  shall  report annually  on  the 
first  Monday  in  December  to  the  Gov­
ernor  upon  the  condition  cf  pharmacy 
in  the  State. 
It  shall  meet  four  times 
a  year  for  the  transaction  of  official 
business,  as  follows:  On  the  second 
Wednesdays  of  January,  April,  July 
and  October,  respectively,  at such places 
as  the  Board  may  select.-  At  such  meet­
ings  said  Board  shall continue in session 
from  day  to  day  until  the  business  of 
such  meeting  is  complete,  not,  however, 
exceeding  three  days  at  any  meeting. 
Three  members of  said  Board  shall  con­
stitute  a  quorum.

Sec.  3.  Upon  the  payment  of  such 
fee  or  fees  as  hereinafter  provided,  said 
issue  a  license 
Board  shall  grant  and 
as  Registered  Pharmacist  or  as  Regis­
tered  Assistant  Pharmacist  to  any  per­
son  not  less  than  eighteen  years  of  age, 
as  hereinafter  provided,  for  two  years 
or  the  unexpired  portion  thereof  prior 
to  the  next  regular  date  of  re-registra­
tion,  upon  producing  evidence  satisfac­
tory  to  said  Board  of  one  of  the  follow­
ing  qualifications,  to-wit:

FOR  REGISTERED  PHARMACIST.

First.  He  shall,  at  the  time  of  the 
taking  effect  of  this act,  be  the  proprie­
tor  or  manager  of  a  store  or  pharmacy

in  which  physicians’  prescriptions  are 
compounded;  or

Second.  He  shall  have  been  engaged 
as  clerk  for  at  least  four  years 
immedi­
ately  preceding  the  passage  of  this  act, 
in  a  store  or  pharmacy  in  which  physi­
cians'  prescriptions are compounded ;  or
Third.  He  shall  pass  a  satisfactory 
examination  before  said  Board  and 
shall  produce  and  file  such  evidence  as 
is  satisfactory  to  said  Board,  of  having 
served  four  years  in  a  store  or pharmacy 
where  physicians’  prescriptions  are 
compounded.
FOR  REGISTERED  ASSISTANT  PHARMA­

CIST.

served 

Second.  He  shall  have 

First.  He  shall  have  served  as  clerk 
for  at  least  two  years  immediately  pre­
ceding  the  passage  of  this  act  in  a  store 
or  pharmacy where physicians’ prescrip­
tions  are  compounded;  or
as 
for  two  years  in  a  store  or  phar­
clerk 
macy  in  which physicians’  prescriptions 
are  compounded  and  shall  pass  a  satis­
factory  examination  before  said  Board.
In  the  case  of  an  applicant  for license 
as  a  Registered  Pharmacist  or as a Reg­
istered  Assistant  Pharmacist,  who  is  a 
graduate  of  a  school  of  pharmacy  of 
such  standing  and  requirements  as  are 
satisfactory  to  the  Board  of  Pharmacy, 
the  actual  time  spent  in  attendance  at 
such  school  shall  be  accepted  as  an 
equivalent  for  a  term  of  service  of equal 
in  a  store  or  pharmacy  where 
length 
physicians’  prescriptions 
com­
pounded.  All  persons  desiring  regis­
tration  without  examination  shall  make 
application  to  the  Board  prior  to July  1, 
1899.  Said  Board  may,  in 
its  discre­
tion,  grant  and  issue  a  license,  without 
examination,  as  Registered  Pharmacist 
or  as  Registered  Assistant  Pharmacist, 
to  any  person  who  shall  produce  to  said 
Board  a  certificate  of  registration of like 
tenor  from  another  state  subject  to  the 
general  conditions  of  this  act.

are 

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- 
- 

- 
- 

- 
- 

Sec.  4.  The  fees  for  registered  pbar-
macists  shall  be  as  follows :
For  registration  and  certificate  -  $2  00 
For  examination  - 
-  3  00
For  re-registration 
1 00
- 
The  fee  for  registered  assistant  phar­
macists  shall  be  as  follows :
For  registration  and  certificate  -  $i  oo 
-  2 00
For  examination  - 
- 
For  re-registration 
co
- 
- 
A l l   £__ _  .1 __11  L . __ * J   x .  
.  D
All  fees  shall  be  paid  to  the  Secretary 
of  the  Board  with  the  application.  All 
certificates  or  licenses  issued  under  the 
provisions  of  this act  shall  be  effective 
only  for  the  unexpired  portion  of  the 
two  years  preceding  the  next  regular 
date  of  re-registation.  The  next  regu­
lar  date  of  re-registration  shall  be  July 
1,  1901.  Any  person  licensed  or  hold­
ing  a certificate of registration issued un­
der  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  be 
required  to  re-register  by  application 
within  thirty  days  after  the  expiration 
of  such 
license  or  certificate,  if  he  de­
sires  to  continue  as  a  pharmacist  or  as 
an  assistant  pharmacist. 
Failure  to 
comply  with  the  foregoing  provisions 
of  this  section  shall  subject  the  offender 
to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars  nor 
more  than  oDe  hundred  dollars  for  each 
week  which  shall  elapse  thereafter  and 
before  such  person  shall  re-register.

Sec.  5.  Each  applicant  for  registra­
tion  or  examination  shall  produce  and 
file  with  his  application  such  evidence 
touching  his  qualifications  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  the  rules  and  regulations 
of the  Board.

Sec.  6.  The  Secretary  of  the  Board 
shall,  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of 
his  office,  execute  an  official  bond,  ap­
proved  by  the  Governor,  payable  to  the 
State  of  Indiana,  in  the  penal  sum  of 
one  thousand  dollars,  conditioned  for 
the  faithful  discharge  of  the  duties of 
his  office.  He  shall  keep  a  record  of 
the  doings  of  the  Board,  which  record 
shall  contain  the names  and  residences 
of  all  the  applicants  and  the  action 
taken  on  their  respective  applications. 
He  shall,  at  the  close  of each meeting of 
the  Board,  transmit  to  the  Secretary  of 
State  for  record  a 
list  containing  the 
names  and  residences  of  such  persons as 
shall  have  received  licenses  as  Regis­
tered  Pharmacists,  and  also  a  list  con­
taining  the  names  and  residences  of 
such  persons  as  shall  have  received 
licenses  as  Registered  Assistant  Pbar-

macists  at  such  meeting  of  the  Board. 
The  Secretary  of  the  Board,  upon  the 
order  of  the  Auditor  of  State,  shall 
transmit  to  the  Treasurer  of  State  all 
moneys  received  by  him  as  Secretary, 
together  with  a  sworn  statement  of  the 
expenses  of  said  Board  at  snch  meet­
ing,  which  moneys  shall  be  held  for  the 
payment  of  the  salaries  and  expenses  of 
the  Board,  as  provided  in  Section  7  of 
this  act.  The  Secretary  of  the  Board 
shall  notify  each  holder  of  a  license  or 
certificate  the  date  of  the  expiration  of 
said  license  or  certificate,  not  less  than 
thirty  days  nor  more  than  sixty  days 
prior  to  the  expiration  of  said 
license 
or  certificate.
Sec.  7.  Each  member  of  the  Board, 
except the  Secretary,  shall,  receive  five 
dollars  for  pay  for  each  day  actually 
engaged  in  service  at  the  meeting of the 
Board,  together  with  the  necessary  ex­
penses  incurred  in  the  performance  of 
bis  strictly  official  duties,  an  itemized 
statement  of  which  must  be  filed  with 
the  Auditor  of  State;  the Secretary  shall 
receive  not  to  exceed  fifteen  hundred 
dollars  per  annum,  and necessary  travel­
ing  or  other  expenses;  said  salary  of 
Secretary  to  be  paid  in  monthly  install 
ments,  upon  the  order  of  the  Auditor  of 
State.  Upon  the  order  of  the  Auditor 
of  State,  the  compensation  and  expenses 
of  said  Board  shall  be  paid  out  of  the 
fund  m  the  State  treasury  arising  from 
the  fees  as  provided  in  Section  4,  and 
in  no  case  shall  any  of  the  said  com­
pensation  and  expenses  be  paid  out  of 
the  general  fund  in  the  State  treasury.
Sec.  8.  On  and  after  July  1,  1899,  it 
shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  con­
duct  a  store  or  pharmacy  in  which  is 
sold  at  retail,  or  to  sell  at  retail,  any 
chemical,  drug  or  medicine  which  is 
poisonous,  or  which  contains a  poison ; 
or  to  compound  for  sale  at  retail  any 
physician’s  prescription,  unless  there 
be  in  charge  a  Registered  Pharmacist, 
or  a  Registered  Assistant  Pharmacist, 
under  the  provisions  of  this  act.  And, 
provided,  that  nothing  in  this  act  shall 
apply  to,  nor 
in  any  manner  interfere 
with  the  business  of  a  regularly licensed 
physician  in  compounding  for  and  sup­
plying  his  patients  with  such  medicines 
as  may  seem  to  him  proper  in  his  pro­
fessional  capacity  as  a  physician.  And, 
provided,  that  nothing  in  this  act  shall 
apply  to,  nor  in  any  manner  interfeie 
with  the  business  of  a  general  merchant 
in  selling  any  of  the  following  articles, 
towit:  Patent  medicines,  paregoric, 
hive  syrup,  spirit  of  camphor,  Epsom 
salts, 
tincture  of  arnica,  compound 
carthartic  p'lls,  Paris  green,  London 
purple,  white  hellebore,  concentiated 
lye,  sodium  carbonate,  sodium  bicar 
bonate,  tobacco,  spices,  perfumes, 
fla­
voring  extracts,  borax,  copperas,  alum, 
sulphate  of quinine,  or  any  chemicals  or 
commonly  employed  as 
preparations 
dye  stuffs  or 
insecticides,  and  such 
other  articles  as  may  from  time  to  time 
be  allowed  by  the  Board  of Pharmacy.

Sec.  9.  Any  person  violating  any  of 
the  provisions  of  Section  8,  of  this  act, 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of a  misdemean­
or,  and  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall 
be  fined  in  any  sum  not  exceeding  one 
hundred  dollars,  nor  less  than  five  dol­
lars  for  each  offense.

The  Drug  Market.

There  are  few  changes  to  note.
Opium—Advanced  1714c  on  the  8tb, 

and  is  tending  higher.

Morphine— Is  firm,  but  is  not  yet  ad­

vanced.

Quinine—The bark situation continues 
strong  and  quinine  is  not  firm  at  pres­
ent  prices, 
although  manufacturers 
maintain 
their  quotations..  Outside 
dealers  are quoting  lower.

Cinchonidia— Has again advanced and 
is  only  offered  in  a  small  way  by  manu­
facturers.

Essential  Oils—Pennyroyal  has  ad­
vanced  about  50  per  cent,  in  the  last 
two  weeks  and  is  very  scarce.  Worm­
wood  is  also  higher.

Care  will  kill  a  cat;  but  if  you  don’t 
care,  a  bootjack  or  a  gun  is  just  as  effi­
cient.

Three  Solutions  Which  Might  be 

Dropped.

Prof.  L.  E.  Sayre  is  of  opinion  that 
in  order  to  make  room  in  the  Pharma­
copoeia  of  1900  for  the  new  remedies 
which  have  earned  a  place  therein,  sev­
eral  "old  preparations  which  have  out­
grown  their  sphere of usefulness’ ’ should 
be  dropped.  From  a  considerable  en­
quiry  among pharmacists and physicians 
he  thinks  there  are  in  particular  three 
solutions  whose  "day  and  generation 
are  rapidly  passing  aw ay,"  and  which 
should  therefore  be  omitted  in  the  next 
revision. 
ferria 
liquor 
cetatis,  liquor  ferri  nitratis,  and 
liquor 
arseni  et  bydrargyri  iodidi.

These  are: 

The  only  purpose  the solution of ferric 
acetate  ever  served,  anyway,  was  its  use 
in  making  the  tincture  of  ferric acetate, 
which 
is  an  unofficial  preparation. 
"Why  should  we  make  a  preparation 
official  for  the  purpose  of  preparing  an 
unofficial  one?"  As  for  the  second  solu­
tion,  that  of  ferric  nitrate,  Professor 
Sayre  thinks 
it  may  be  possessed  of 
therapeutic  virtue,  but  if  so  this  is  un­
recognized  and  unappreciated,  for  the 
solution 
is  used  scarcely  at  all.  The 
third  solution,  that  of  iodide  of  arsenic 
and  mercury,  should  be  dropped,  he 
thinks,  because it  is  unstable  and should 
always  be  prepared  extemporaneously 
in  small  quantity  when  ordered  by  the 
physician.  When  kept  long  free  iodine 
is  liberated. 
Pharmaceutical  writers 
have  said  that  the  solution  may  be  re­
stored  by  rubbing  it  in  a  mortar  with  a 
little  metallic  mercury  or  arsenic,  but 
the  Professor  thinks  that  rather  than  be­
ing  rubbed  in  a  mortar  it  had  better  be 
rubbed  out  of  the  Pharmacopoeia.

♦

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Money  talks—but  it  doesn’t  always 

speak  when  spoken  to.

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2   highest  bidder,  all  the  stock  of  drugs,
5   druggist  supplies,  fixtures,  book  accounts 
2   and assets of the said bankrupt at the  store
2   building  in  which  stock  is  now  situated
3   In St. Johns at  i :oo o’clock in  the  afternoon - 
2   of the eighteenth day of April, 1899.
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Morphia, S.P.&W...  2 20® 2 45 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.4
C.  Co....................  2 10® 2 35
Moschus Canton__  @  40
Myristica, No. 1......   66®  80
Nux Vomica.. ,po.20  @ 
10
15®  18
Os  Sepia................. 
Pepsin Saac, H. St P.
D. Co.................... 
O  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.Mgal.
doz........................ 
@200
Picis Uq., quarts__  @  1  00
Picis Liq., pints.__  @  85
PilHydrarg...po.  80  @ 5 0
Piper Nigra...po.  22  @  18
Piper Alba....po.  35  @  30
Piix  Burgun...........  @ 
7
Plumb!  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvls Ipecac et Opil  1  10®  1  20
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
@ 1  25
St P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum, pv........ 
25®  30
Quassia................. 
8® 
10
47®  52
Quinia, S. P. A W.. 
42®  52
Quinia, S. German.. 
Qulnla, N.Y............  
2®  52
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12®  14
18®  20
SaccharumLacti8 pv 
Sal&cin....................   3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconls... 
40®  50
Sapo,  W................... 
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
Sapo, G....................  @  15
Sledlltz  Mixture__  20  @  22

Slnapls........................  
® is
Sinapis, opt................   @ so
Snnif, Maccaboy, De
Voes.........................   @ 34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s  @  34
SodaBoras..............  9  @ 
11
Soda Boras, po........  9  @ 
11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  1M@ 
2
g
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
Soda, Asb...............   3M@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
Spt.  Myrcia Dom...  @ * 00
Spts. Vini Beet. bbl.  @
Spts. Vlni Rect. Mbbl  @
Spts. Vint Rect.lOgal  @
Spts. Vlni Rect.  5gal  @
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  30® 1  35
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2M@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2M@3M
Tamarinds.................  
8® 10
Terebenth Venice... 
28®  30
Theobrom«.........   . 
46®  48
Vanilla...................  9 00@16 00
Zincl  Sulph............  
7® 
8

Oils

B B L .  OAL.
Whale, winter.........  
70 
70
60
Lard,  extra.............  55 
Lard, No. 1.............. 
45
40 

19

52
53
70
55

Unseed, pure  raw.. 
19 
50 
Linseed,  boiled......  
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
48 
Paints  B B L . 

LB
Red Venetian.........  
IK  2  ®8
Ochre, yellow Mars. 
IK  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
IK  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2M  2M@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2K@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.......... . 
13® 
15
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, Paris...........  13M®  17M
13® 
Green,  Peninsular.. 
16
Lead, Red...............   5K@  6m
5K@  6M
Lead, white........... 
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders’. . .  @ 
io
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
C liff............................  
@  1  40
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

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—
Declined—

AUUUUUIU.................f
70® 75
Benzoicum, German
Boracic....................
® 16
29® 41
Carbollcum............
Citricnm.................
48® 50
Hydrochlor...........
3® 5
8® 10
Nitrocum...............
Oxallcum...............
12® 14
@ 15
Phosphorlum,  dll...
Salicylicnm.............
50® 60
Sulphur!cum.  ........
5
IK®
Tannlcum.............. 1  25®  1  40
Tartarlcum.. : .........
38® 40
Ammonia 
4® 6
Aqua, 16 deg...........
6® 8
Aqua, 20 deg...........
19® 14
Cûbonas.................
12® 14
Chloridum..............
Aniline

Black....................... 2 00® 2 25
Brown.............   80® 
i 00
B ed..................   45® 
50
Yellow....................  2 50® 3 00
Cube see...........po. 18  13®  15
Junlperus......... 
8
Xanthoxylum........  
25®  30
Baleamnin

Baccae.

0® 

50® 

50® 

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
15

Copaiba............. 
55
Pern.........................  @275
Terabln, Canada__ 
45®  50
55
Tolntan............. 
Cortex
Abies, Canadian.... 
C and«....................  
Cinchona Flava...... 
Enonymns atropurp 
Myrlca Cerifera, po. 
Pranns Virgin!........ 
Quillala,  gr’d .........  
Sassafras....... po. 18 
Ulmns...po. 15,  gr’d 
Bxtractnm
Qlycyrrhlza  Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza, po.....  
Hamatox, 15 lb box. 
Hamatox, I s .......... 
Hamatox, Ms........  
Hamatox, Ms........
Ferro
Carbonate Precip...
Citrate and Qoinla..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanldum Sol.
Solnt.  Chloride......
Sulphate, com’l ......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per ewt.........
Sulphate, p u re ......
Flora

24®  25
28®  30
11®  12
13®  14
14®  15
16®  17

15 
2 25 
75 
40 
15 
2
50
7

Folia

Arnloa.................... 
12®  14
i>2@  25
Anthemis...............  
Matricaria..............  30®  35
Barosma.................. 
25®  30
Cassia Acntifol, Tin*
nevelly................. 
18®  25
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and Ms.................  
12®  20
Ora Ural................... 
8®  10
Gnnuni 
®  65
Acacia,  1st picked.
®  45
Acacia, 2d  picked.
®  35
Acacia, 3d  picked.
®  28
Acacia, sifted sorts
Acacia, po............... 
60®  80
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20  12®  14
Aloe, Cape__ po. 15  @  12
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40  @  30
Ammoniac.............. 
56®  60
Ass&fOBtlda__po. 30  25®  28
50®  55
Bensolnum............  
Catechu, is..............
®  13
@  14
Catechu, Ms............
16 
Catechu, Mo*...........
59 
C am phors............
Bupnorblum. .po.  36
10 
G&lbanum...............
1  00 
70 
Gamboge  po...........
Gualacum..... po. 25
@  30 
® 3 00 
Kino...........po. I3.U0
@  60 
Mastic....................
@  40
Myrrh............po.  45
Opii.. .po. 4.80@K.00 3 3’@  3 45
25®  35
8hellac.................... 
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tragacanth............  
50®  80
Her be
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majoram__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg
Rne...............os. pkg
TanacetumV os. pkg 
Thymus,  V. .oz. pkg 
ITagnesia.
Calcined, Pat..........   55®  60
Carbonate, f a t........ 
20®  22
Carbonate, K. & M..  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum
Absinthium............   4 50® 4  75
Amygdals, Dnlc.... 
30®  50
Amygdals, Amars .  8 00®  8 25
Anisl.......................  1 85® 2 00
Auranti  Cortex......   2 40® 2 50
Bergamii.................  2 80® 2  90
Cajfpnti................... 
75®  80
Caryophylli............   80®  90
nedar........................ *  36®  66
Chenopadli.............. 
® 2 75
rinnamonli.............  1 60®  1  70
45®  50
Ciuonella.............. 

i 25

1 40

® 75

35®  50
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba...................  l  is® 
Cubebs...................... 
go® 
Bxechthitos...........  1 00®  1  10
Brigeron.................  l 00®  1  10
Gaultherla..............  i  50®  1  60
Geranium,  ounce... 
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1  20®  1  30
Junipera..................  1 50® 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
go®  2 00
Limonis...................  1  30® 
Mentha Piper.........  l  60® 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1  50® 1  60
Morrhus,  gal.........   |  00® 1  15
“ ¿Tela,....................  4  00® 
4 50
Olive...................... 
75®  3 00
Picis  Liquida.  ......  
io® 
12
Picis Liquida, gal... 
®  35
R icina....................  
92®  1 00
Rosmarini...............   @  1 00
Ross,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Buccini...................  40®  45
Sabina................... 
go®  1 00
Sanisi........................2 50® 7 00
Sassafras................. 
55®  60
@  65
Slnapls, ess., onnce. 
Tig1» .......................  1  70®  1  80
Thyme....................  40® 
so
Thyme,  opt............   @  1 60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
15®  18
Bl-Carb.. 
.............. 
13® 
Bichromate............  
15
52®  57
Bromide..................  
Carb.....................  
12®  15
16®  18
Chlorate..po. 17@19c 
Cyanide...................  35®  40
Iodide.. 
..............   2 40®  2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10® 
12
Potass Nitras........... 
io@ 
u
Prussiate...............  
gua  05
Sulphate p o ........... 
Ia§  18
Radix

Aconltvm...............  
20®  25
................................. 2m  25
Anchusa................. 
io@
Arum po...............  
or
Cal»««»................"  20® 
¡0
Centiana.......po  15 
19® 
15
16®  18
Glychrrhiza.. .pv. 15 
@  P5
Hydrastis Canaden . 
®  00
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
18®  20
Inula, po................. 
15®  go
Ipecac, po................. 3  90@ 4  On
Iris plox —  po35@38 
35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   25®  30
@  35
........... 
Podophyllum, po.... 
22®  25
gbel  .......................  
75®  1 00
75®  1 35
^ el’JPy................... 
Spigola..........  ......   35®  38
Sanguinaria... po. 15 
®  13
Serpentaria............   30®  35
Senega....................  40®  45
Similar,officinalis H 
®  40
Smilax, M................  @  25
Scili«............ .po.35 
12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
®  25
dus,  po................. 
Valeri ana, Eng. po. 30  @  25
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
ZJnglber a ...............  
12®  16
Zingiber j ...............  
25®  27
Semen
@ 1 2
Anlsnm.........po.  15 
13®  15
Aplnm  (graveleons) 
Bird, Is.................... 
4® 
6
10® 
Carni............ po. 18 
12
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
8® 
Coriandrum............ . 
10
Cannabis  Sativa....  4M® 5
Cydonium...............  
75®  1 00
Chenopodium........ 
10® 
12
Diptenx  Odorate...  1  40®  1 50
Foenlculum............   @ 
10
7® 
Pcenugreek, po........ 
9
U n i.........................  3M0 4 V4
4® 4M
U n lg rd ....b b l. 3M 
lobelia,..................  
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4® 4M
............   4M® 
5
®®pa 
g® 
Sinapis Albu........... 
10
Slnapls  Nigra.........  
n@ 
12
Spirltus

10® 

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................. 2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................. 2 00® 2 25
Velvet extra sheeps'
wool, carriage......  @  1  25
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__  @  1  00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................  @  1 00
Hard, for slate use..  @ 7 5
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............  @  1  40

Syrups

Acacia....................  @  50
Auranti Cortes........  @  50
Zingiber..................   @  50
Ipecac...................  
@  60
Ferri Iod.................   @  50
Rbei Arom..............  @  50
Smilax Officinalis...  50®  60
Senega....................  @  50
S  so
Solila................ 

.. 

1 00

niiceilaoeous 

Scillae Co.................  @
5050
Tolntan...................  @
Pranns vlrg............  
@
50
Tinctures 
Aconitum N apellis R 
60 
Aconiturn Napellis F
50 
Aloes.......................
60 
Aloes and Myrrh__
60 
Arnica....................
50 
Assafœtlda............
50 
Atrope  Belladonna.
60 
Auranti  Cortex......
50 
Benzoin...................
60 
Benzoin Co..............
50 
Barosma.................
50 
Cantharides...........
75 
Capsicum..............
50 
Cardamon..............
75 
Cardamon  Co.........
75 
Castor......................
I  00 
Catechu..................
50 
Cinchona.................
50 
Cinchona Co...........
60 
Columba  .  '............
50 
Cu beba. 
..............
50 
Cassia Acutifol__
50 
Cassia Acutí fol Co  .
50 
Digitalis  ........
50 
Ergot.......................
50 
Ferri Chloridum
35 
Gentian..................
50 
Gentian Co.........
60 
Gniaca...................
50 
Guiaca ammon........
60 
Hyoscyamus...........
50 
Iodine.... .................
75 
Iodine, colorless....
75 
Kino.......................
50 
Lobelia................
50 
Myrrh......................
50 
Nux Vomica........
50 
Opil.........................
75 
Opii, camphorated.
50 
Opil,  deodorized. 
.
I  50 
Quassia...................
50 
Rhatany.............
50 
Rhei....................
50 
Sanguinaria  .
50 
Serpentaria............
N) 
Stromonlum.........
60 
Tolutan..................‘
60 
Valerian..............
50 
Veratrum Veride. !
50 
Zingiber..................
20
Æther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
35 
Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
38
Alumen...................  254®
3
3®
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
4 
A nnatto.................   40®
50
Antimoni,  po........ 
4®
5 
Antimoni et PotassT  40®
50 
Antipyrin............  
@
35 
Antifebrin........... 
Oh
20 
Argenti Nitras, o z.
50 
®
Arsenicum.............
12
Balm Gilead  Bud "
38®  40
Bismuth  S. N........
1  40®  1  50 
Calcium Chlor.,  is 
9
Calcium Chlor., Ms 
10 
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms 
12 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
75 
Capsici  Fructus. af 
15 
Capslci Fructus, po.
15 15
Capsici FructusB.po 
Caryophyllu8..po.  15 
12®  14
„
Carmine, No. 40... 
® 3 00 
Cera Alba............  
50®
■   55
Cera Flava............  
40®
42 
Coccus...........
40 
Cassia Fructus
33 
@
Centrarla.................
10 45 
Cetaceum............@
50®
Chloroform............ 
53 
Chloroform, squlbbs  @ __
1  10
Chloral HydCrst....  1  65®  1  90
Chondrus............... 
20®  25
Cinchonidine.P.A W  38®  38
Cinchonidine, Germ  23®  38
Cocaine..................   3 80®  4 f0
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct.
Creosotum........ 
©
Creta............. bbl. 75 
@
Creta, prep..............  @
Creta, precip........... 
9®
Creta, Rubra.... 
@
Crocus.................... 
is®
Cudbear.................  @
Cupri Sulph............   6M@
Dextrine.................. 
io@
Ether Sulph............ 
75®
Emery, ail  numbers  @
Emery, po................  @
Ergota...........po. 40  30®
12®
Flake  White........... 
Galla........................  @
Gambler.  ...............  
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper......   @  60
35®  60
Gelatin, French...... 
75 *   10
Glassware, flint, box 
Less  than  box__ 
70
9®
Glue,  brown........... 
12 
Glue, white............  
13®
25 
14®
Glycerina................ 
20 
Grana  Paradis!
  . . . .   @
■
25 
Humulus................. 
25®
55 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @ 
90 
Hydraag Chlor Cor.
SO 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
@  1  00 
Hydraag Ammoniatl 
@  1  15 
45®  55
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
@  75
65®  75
Ichthyobolla,  A m ...
  75®  1 00
Indigo.................. 
Iodine, Resubl........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................  @ 420
Lupulin...................  @ 2 25
Lycopodium........... 
40®  45
Macis 
66®  75
Liquor  Arsen et Hy-
drarglod.............   @  25
LiquorPotassArsinlt  10®  12
Magnesia, Sulph__ 
3
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  1M
Mannla, S. F __ 
50®  60
O 3 25
Menthol. 

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

@ 
@

@

■

PAINT AND 
ARTIST’S

BRUSHES

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

Plat Wall  bound  in  rubber, 

brass  and  leather 

Oval  Paint  Round  Paint 

Oval  Chisel  Varnish

Oval  Chisel  Sash

Round  Sash 

White  W ash  Heads 

Kalsomine

Flat Varnish 

Square  and  Chisel

All  qualities  at  satisfactory  prices.

Camel  Hair  Varnish 

Mottlers 

Color
Badger  Flowing,

Flowing

single or double 

C.  H.  Pencils, etc.

HAZELTINE  &  PERKINS 

DRUG  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

1

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1

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MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

Hominy.

Beans.

Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 50 lb.  drums..........1 00
Dried Lima  ..................... 
5 V
Medium Hand Picked 1  25® 1  to 
Maccuronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported.  25 lb. box........ 2 50
Common...........................  2 O'
Chester............................  2 25
Empire 
...........................  2 75
Green, Wisconsin, bn.......1 00
Green, Scotch, bn...........1  10
Split, bn............................ 2 50

Pearl Burley.

Pens.

Rolled  Oats.

Rolled Avena,  bbl.........4 00
Monarch,  bbl........................3 75
Monarch,  *4  bbl...................2 00
Monarch, 90 lb sacks........ 1 80
Quaker, cases........................3 80
Huron, cases......................... 8 00

Sage.

Tapioca

German............................  4
East  India.......................   3*4
6
Flake.............................. 
4*4
Pearl................................ 
Pearl,  24 1 lb. pkges........ 
65i
Cracked, bulk...................  3*4
24 2 lb packages............... 2  50

Wheat.

SALT  PISH.

Cod.

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

Herring.

flnckeral.

Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 25 
Holland white hoop *4bbl  5%  
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mens 
80
Norwegian.......................   _
Round 100 lbs...................  3 10
Round  40 lbs...................  1  40
Scaled...............................  
14
Mess 100 lbs......................  15  00
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 80
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  65
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. 2 100 lbs......................  11  50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4  90
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  30
No. 2  8 lbs......................  107
Trout.
5 26 
No. 1 100 lbs.
2 40 
No. 1  4011N..........
68 
No. 1  101ba...........
57
No. 1  811m...........
No. 1 No. 8 Fam
2 75
100 lbs__ ....  7 CO 6 50
1  40
8  90
40 lbs  ... ....  3  10
43
80
10lbs.... .... 
85
37
66
8 lbs.... .... 
71
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Whltsfish.

doz.  gross

AXLB  OREASB.
Aurora.........................55 
Castor Oil................... 60 
Diamond.....................50 
Frazer’s ......................75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
nica, tin boxes........... 75 
Paragon...................... 55 

CANDLES.

8s  .........................................7
16s  ......................................... 8
Paraffine................................ 8
Wlcklng...............................80

CATSUP.

Jolumbla, 
pints............. 2 00
Columbia, *4 pints.............1  25

6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00

Acum.

Absolute.

BAKINd  POWDER.
x  'b cans doz................... 
*4 ID Jans doz................. . 

45
85
lb can  doz...................l  50
45
w  !b cans 8 doz................. 
*4 lb cans 8 doz................. 
75
lb cans 1 do*.................   1  00
10
Balk.................................... 
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........... 
85
H lb cans per do*............  
75
*4 lb cans per dos  ........... 1  80
1 
lb cans per dos.............8  00
w lb oans 4 do* case........ 
85
£  lb cans 4 dos case........ 
55
lb cans 8 doz c a se ......  
90

Arctic.
B! Parity.

Hone.

Jersey Cream.

>4 lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
14 lb cans, 4 doz case........ 

45
85
lb cans. 8 doz case........1 60
1 lb. cans, per doz..............  8 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.............  1  85
85
6 oz. cans, per dos................ 
hi lb cans............................. 
45
*4 lb cans..  ........................  
75
lb cans..........................   1 50

Our Leader.

Peerless.

Queen Plake,

1 lb. cans  ............................  
3 oz., 6 doz. case.................   8 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case 
.............3  80
9 os., 4 doz. case................... 4 80
1 lb., 8 do*, case................... 4 00
5 lb., 1 dos. case..................  9 00
American................................70
English....................................80

BATH  BRICK.

BLUINQ.

CHEESE

Acme......................  ®  13
Amboy..............  ...  ®
Emblem...................  @
Gold Medal..............  @
Ideal........................  ®
Jersey  ....................   ®  1354
Riverside.................  ®
Brick.......................  ®  12
Edam.......................  @  70
Leiden....................   ®  17
Limburger..............  ®  13
Pineapple.................50  ®  75
Sap  Sago.................  ®  17
5
Bulk 
Red 
7

........... 
............................ 
CHOCOLATE.

Chicory.

Walter Baker A Co.’*.

CLOTHES LINES.

German Sweet........................28
Premium..................................35
Breakfast  Coen« 
.  ..46
Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos.......1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz  .......1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  d o z .......1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz  ----- 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos  .......1  80
Jnte, 60 ft.  per  dos..........   80
Jnte. 78 ft.  DP”  4«*...........   Of

COCOA.

85

Janies Epps & Co.’s.

Boxes, 7 lbs.............................40
Cases, 16 boxes........................38
COCOA SHELLS.
801b  bags.......................  
854
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound  packages............  
4
CRBAIl TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk in sackB..........................89

COFFEE.
Roasted.

Rio.

Java.

Santos.

F a ir........................................   9
Good........................................10
Prim e......................................12
Golden  ...................................13
Peaberry  ................................14
Fair  ..............................  
  14
Good  ......................................15
Prim e......................................16
Peaberry  ................................18
Prim e........  ......................  
15
Milled....................................  17
Interior.................................  26
Private  Growth...................  3)
Mandehling..........................   35
Im itation................. 
82
Arabian  ................................. 28
Roasted.

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenne...................... 29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__ 29
Wells’ Mocha and Java.__ 24
Wells’ Perfection  Java.......24
21
Sancaibo................ 
Breakfast  Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo 
...1854
Ideal  Blend..........................14
Leader  Blend.......................1354

 

 

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
Invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also \ c   a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
1b  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbnckle.......................   10 so
Jersey.............................   10 50
ricl,aaghlta’a  XXXX.
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.

Extract.
75
Valley City 54 gross 
Felix 54  gross................. 
1  is
Hnmmei’s foil 54 gross.. 
86
1  43
Hamm ii’s tin 4   gross 
CLOTHES  PINS.
6 gross boxes...........................40

. 

40
75

B L U I N G

BROOflS.

CANNED  GOODS.

Small, 3 doz.......................... 
Large, 2 doz.......................... 
No. 1 Carpet.......................   2 3)
No. 8 Carpet.......................2  is
No. 3 Carpet.......................   1 85
No. 4 Carpet.......................   1 41
Parlor Gem..........................2 50
Common Whisk...................  9)
Fancy Whisk........................  
95
Warehouse............................2 73
Tomatoes...................  80®  90
Com  ..........................   80@1  00
Hominy.....................   80
Beans, Limas.............   70®1  30
Beans, Wax...............   90
Beans, String.............  85
Beans,  Baked............   75@1  00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  75®  t>5
Snccotash...................  95@1  20
Peas............................  50®  85
Peas, French...... .......2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.................  15®  22
Peaches, P ie..............1  00
Peaches, Fancy.........1  40
Apples,  gallons.........   @3  00
Cherries....................   90
Pears..........................  70
Pineapple, grated......2 4O
Pineapple, sliced....... 2 25
Pineapple,  Farren__ 1  70
Strawberries..............1  10
Blackberries..............  80
Raspberries................  85
Oysters, 1-lb................  85
Oysters, 2-lb...............1  45
Salmon, Warren’s __1  4"@1  60
Salmon.  Alaska.........1  25
Salmon, Klondike......  90
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 20
Lobsters. 2-lb. Star__3 90
Mackerel,1 lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused.l  75 
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato.l  75
8hrimps......................2 00
Sardines, Xs domestic  34® 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5%®  7*4 
Sardines.  French.......8  @ 28

CONDENSED  MILK.

4  dos in case.
Gall Borden  Eagle..................6 75
Crown......................................6 25
Daisy........................................5 75
Champion  ...........................4 50
Magnolia 
...  ................... 4 85
Challenge............... 
3 35
Dime.........................................8 85

 

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

Superior Grade.

Economic Orade.

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
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
50 books, any denom....  1  50
100 books, any denom__ 2 50
500 books, any denom__ 11 50
1.000 books, any denom....20 00 
Can be made to represent any 
20 books  ........................  1  00
50 books...............................  2 00
100 books  .........................  3 00
250 books...............................  6 25
500 books................................10 00
1000 books........ 

denomination from 110 down.

Coupon Pass Books,

Apples.

Credit Checks.

Universal Grade.

California Fruits.

.17 50
50 books, any denom—   1  50 
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00
500, any one denom’n ........ 3 00
1000, any one denom’n ........ 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ........ 8 00
Steel punch..........................75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOrtBSTIC 
Sundried......................  ®7H
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©94 
Apricots.....................
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................  ©
Peaches.......................10  ©U
Pears............. .............  ©
Pitted Cherries........... 
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries................
100-120 25 lb Doxes.........  ®  4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   © 5
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........   @5 4
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........   © 6*
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........   © 6R
50-60 25 lb boxes.........   ©6
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  ©10
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  ©
M cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Prunes.

H i

Raisins.

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

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Peel.

Raisins.

Currants.

Leghorn.........................©12
Corsican.......................... @13
Patras bbls.......................@ 54
Cleaned, bulk  ................. @6
Cleaned, packages...........@ 6*4
Citron American 10 lb bx  @13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx @10*4 
Orange American 101b bx  @10*4 
Ondnra 28 lb boxes......  @
Snltana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown-------  ®
Snltana 3 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sultana a Crown.........  
ft
Snltana 6 Crown ..........  @
Sultana package.........   @
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages..............1  50
Balk, per 100 lbs..............3 50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Purina.

Grits.

24 2 lb. packages..............1  80
1001b. kegs...................... 2 70
200jlb. barrels--  ............... 5.10

INDIGO.

Madras, 5  lb  boxes.............  66
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes__  50

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
Kegs 
.................................. 4 00
Half Kegs............................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs........................ 1 25
1 lb. cabs........ 
.................   30
*4 lb. cans............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Bugle Dock—Dupont’s.

Kegs..................................... 8 00
Half Kegs.............................4 25
Quarter Kegs.......................2 25
lib. cans.............................  45

JBLLY.

15 lb palls............................   35
80 lb palls............................  05

LYE.

Condensed, 2 dos  ...............I 80
Condensed. 4 dos................ 8 85

UCORICB.

Pure.....................................   JO
Calabria..............................  ®
Molly....................................  }4

MINCE MEAT.

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

nATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.......................1 85
Anchor Parlor..................... 1 TO
No. 8  Home.......................... » JO
Export  Parlor..................... 4 00

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 
Batter, barrels, 8801b. bnlk.2 85 
Butter, barrels, 2014 lb bags. 2 50
Batter, sacks, 28 lbs............   25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   55

Common Grades.

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

Worcester.

lb. cartons....................8 25
50  4 
115  2J41b. sacks........................4 00
lb. sacks....................... 8 TO
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks....................... 8 50
3010 
lb. sacks....................... 8 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  82
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk In barrels.................... 2 50

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

66-lb dairy in linen sacks...  00 

Higgins.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Solar Rock.

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

Common.

Granulated Fine...................   6*
Medium  Fine........................  75

SAUERKRAUT.

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

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

B lack ..............................   U
F air..................................  
14
Good................................. 
»
Fancy  .............................
Open Kettle...................... 25@35

Half-barrels 8c extra.
MU5TARD.

Horse Radish, 1 doz............. 1 75
Horse Radish, 8 doz............ 3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz............1 75

*  PIPES.

Clay, No. 216........................1  TO
Clay, T. D. fnll count................  66
85
Cob, No. 8..........................  

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s..............................4 00
Penna Salt  Co.’s................. S 00

PICK LBS. 
riedlnm.

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

Small.

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

RICE.

Domestic.

SCALES.

Per doz.
Pelonze Household.......... .12 <0

Weighs 24 lbs by ounces.

SEEDS.

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

SNUFF.

Scotch, in bladders..............   87
Maccabqv, In jars..................  85
Frencb Rappee, In Jars.......  48

SOAP.

J A X O N
Single box............................ 8 85
5 box lots, delivered.......... 2 90
10 box lots, delivered..........2 75

m . 8.  KIRK 8 GO/8 BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.................................... 2 TO
Cabinet.................................2 20
Savon....................................2 50
White Russian.....................2  35
White Cloud,  laundry.... ..6 25
White Cloud,  toilet.............3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz__ 2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__3  00
Bine India, 100 \  lb.............8  00
Kirkollne............................. 8 50
Eos.......................................2  50

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  ..2 TO
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars__3 75
Uno, 100 R-lb. bars.............. 2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars.............2 05

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

Scouring.

SODA.

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

Jennings’.

D.C. Vanilla ÖO. Lemon
2 os...  ...  75
2 os.... ..1 20
3 os. ___1 00
3oz.... ..1  50
4 oz. ......1  40
4 os..  ...2 00
6 oz.......2 00
6 os__ ..3 00
No. 8.-.2 40
No.  8
4 00
No. 10.. .4 00
No. 10.  .6 00
No. 2T.  80
No.  2 T.l 25
No. 3 T.l  25
No.  3 T.2 00
No. 4 T.l 50
No  4 T.2 40
Lem.  Van.

Pare Brand.

2 oz. Taper  Panel..  75 
2oz. Oval..............  75 
3oz. Taper  Panel.  1 35 
4 oz. Taper Panel.. 1  60 
PLY  PAPER.
Tanglefoot, per box...........  36
Tanglefoot, per case...........3 20
Holders, per box  of 50......   75
Sage.....................................   15
Hops....................................  15

HERBS.

1 20
1 90
2 00
2 25

Carolina head....................   6*4
Carolina  No. 1  .................   5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................   3R

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1............   6*4® 6
Japan,  No. 2 
. . .   4y*@ 5
Java, fancy head........5  @ 5*4
Java, No. ( .................   5  @
Table...........................   @

SALBRATU5.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer.  15
Deland’s 
........................8 00
Dwight’s Cow..  ................... 8  15
Emblem  ..............................3 50
Sodio.........................................3 15
Wyandotte, ICO 3£s.......... ...3,00
Granulated, bbls..............   75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  90
Lamp, bbls.......................   75
Lamp, 1461b kegs..............  85

SAL SuOA

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

  45

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pare Ground la Balk.

Allspice  ............................  14
Cassia, China In mats......... 12
Cassia, Batavia In bond....25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........82
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zansibar................   12
Maoe,  Batavia.....................56
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
Nntmegs, No.  1................ .50
Nutmegs, No.  2..............  
Pepper, Singapore, black... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .16
Pepper,  shot........................15
Allspice  ..............................17
Cassia, Batavia...................3u
Cassia,  Saigon.................... 40
Cloves, Zansibar.................. 14
Ginger,  A frican.................15
Ginger,  Cochin....................18
Ginger,  Jamaica  ................23
Mace,  Batavia.....................65
Mustard......................... 12@18
Nutmegs,...................... 40@50
Pepper, Sing , black............15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage......................................15

SYRUPS
Cera.

Barrels...............................  18
Half, b b ls........................  
20
1 doz. 1 gallon cans................. 2 90
1  doz. M gallon cans........ 1 70
2  doz. M gallon  cans  .......1  75
Fair  ..................................   16
Good...........................  
Choice........................ 

Pure Cane.

 
 

STARCH.

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brand.

Fortune Teller....................35 00
Our Manager....................  35  00
Quintette........................... 35 U0

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’sbrand.

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

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

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain....  8 
Malt White Wine,80grain....11
20
Pure Cider, Red Star..............12
25
Pure Cider. Robinson.............14
Pure Cider, Silver...................11

WICKINO.

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

Crackers.

Klngsford’s  Cera.

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

Klngsford’s Silver  Gloss.

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

Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ...............5 00
128  5c  packages................ 5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00

Common  Corn.

201 lb. packages..................5
401 lb. packages..................4M

Common Gloss.

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

STOVE POLISH.

No. 4,3-doz in Case, gross..  4  50 
No  6,8 dos In case, gross..  7 20

SUGAR.

iturchases to his shipping point, 

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he
ncludlng  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino....................................5 50
Cut  Loaf.................................. 5 75
Crushed.............................. 5  75
Powdered 
......................... 5  38
XXXX  Powdered.................... 5 50
Cubes...................................5
Granulated in bbls...................5 25
Granulated in bags................. 5 25
Fine Granulated......................5 26
Extra Fine Granulated.......5 38
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5  38
Mould  A..............................
Diamond Confec.  A........... 5 ¿6
Confec. Standard A................. 5 13
No.  1....................................4 75
No  2................................... 4 75
No.  3  .................................4  75
No.  4  .................................4 ifl
No.  5  .................................4  63
No.  6................................... 4 56
No.  7 ..................................4 50
NO.  8....................................4 44
No.  9....................................4 |
NO.  10................................... 4 31
No.  11....................................4 2i
No.  12....................................4 1«
No.  18................................... 4 1
No.  14................................... 4 13
No.  16................................... 4 18
No.  16  ................................. 4  IS

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Batter.

Seymour XXX...................  5M
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family X X X ....................   5U
Salted XXX  ......................  5M
New York XXX.................  6
Wolverine.........................  6
Boston................................  714

Soda.

Oyster.

Soda  XXX  .......................   6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton__  654
Soda,  City.........................  8
Long Island  Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Zephyrette...........................10
Saltine Wafer....................  sm
SaltineWafer, 1 lb. carton.  6M
Farina Oyster....................   5ft
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  OOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  1014
Bent’s W ater....  ..............   15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   lu
Coffee Cake, Iced................10
Cracknells.........................  15M
Cubans  .............................   11^4
Frosted  Cream...................  8
Ginger Gems  ...................   8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  7%
Graham Crackers  ............   8
Graham Wafers.................   10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................   8
Jumoles,  Honey................  HM
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow  Walnuts__  16
Mich.  Frosted Honey__  12M
Molasses Cakes.................  8
Newton..............................  12
Nic Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  814
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......   714
Sears’Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sugar  Squares.................   9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas............................ ,1214

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @16
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @15
Brazils new................  @7
Filberts  ....................   @10
Walnuts, Gronobles  .  @13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @li
Walnuts,  soft shelled
Calif.......................  @11
Table Nuts,  fancy__  @11
Table Nuts,  choice...  @10
Pecans, Med.......  .......  @714
Pecans, Ex. Large....  @ 9
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bn.,
Ohio, new...............   @1  60
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @3 50
Chestnuts per bn........  @

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Sons.  @  7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted........ .........  
0 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  @ 414
Choice, H. P.,  Extra«,
Roasted  ................. 
614

Candies.
Stick Candy.

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

bbls.  pails

6140 7
6140 ?
7140 8
@  8
cases
@ 614
@814
@10

Mixed Candy.

@ 6
Grocers.................... 
Competition............ 
@ 614
@ 7
Standard................. 
@714
Conserve................. 
@714
Royal...................... 
Ribbon  ................... 
@814
@ 734
Broken  ................... 
@ 8
Cut Loaf................. 
English Rock.........  
@8
@814
Kindergarten.........  
French  Cream........ 
@ 9
Dandy Pan............ 
@10
Hand Made Cream mxd  @13 
Ital. Cream Bubns, 35 lb p s  11 
Molas-es Chews,  15 lb. pails  13 
“Alla Samee," 
5 lb. pails  12

Fancy—In Balk.

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

@ 814
@ 814
@1014
@12
@  g
@ 8
@ 814
@9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.
Lemon  Drops......... *  @50
Sour  Drops............  
@50
@eo
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops__ 
@00
H. M. Choc. Drops. 
@75
H.  M.  Choc.  Lt.and
Dk. No. 12............  
@90
Gum  Drops............  
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
Lozenges,  plain.... 
@50
Lozenges, printed.. 
@50
aso
Imperials................ 
2 S
Mottoes................ 
Cream Bar.............. 
@ta>
Molasses Bar  .........  
@50
Hand Made Creams.  80  @  90 
Cream Buttons. Pep.
and  Want............ 
@65
String Rock............  
@60
Burnt Almonds...... 125  @
Wintergreeu Berries  @50

Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
to ?«58...... -.......... 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes................. 
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  ...............

@35
@50

Fruits.

Oranges.
Fancy Navels.........  
@100
Choice...................  
^
Seedlings................   3 0?@3 15
Meat Sweet.............  
©3 50

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

@3 00
@3 25
@3 60
@3 75
@

Bananas.

Medium bunches...1  00  @1  25 
Large bunches........150  @2  00

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Figs.

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

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

Oils.

Barrels.

Eocene  ......................  @1114
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt.  @10
W W Michigan............  @ 914
Diamond White.........  @ 814
D., S. Gas....................  @1214
Deo. N aptha..............  @1214
Cylinder............. ....29  @34
Engine.......   ............ 11  @21
Black, w inter...........  @8

Wheat.

Wheat................................  66

Winter  Wheat  Floor. 

Local Brands.

Patents.............................   4 on
Second  Patent..................   3 50
Straight............................  3 25
Clear..................................  3 00
Graham  ............................  3 50
Buckwheat.......................
R y e..................................  3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Bali-Barnhart-Putmau’s Brand
Daisy, 14s............................3 75
Daisy, Ms............................3 75
Daisy, 14s............................ 3 75
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, Ms........................  3 50
Quaker, Ms........................  3 50
Quaker, 14s........................   3 50
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Plllsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 45
Pillsbury’s  Best Ms...........  4 35
Plllsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 25
Plllsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4 25 
Pillsbuiy’s Best Ms paper..  4  x5 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

Spring  Wheat  Flour. 

Olney A Judson ’s Brand.

4 50
Dnluth Imperial, Ms---
4  40
Dulutb Imperial, Ms -  -
4 30
Duluth Imperial, Ms...-
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Gold Medal Ms..............
4  30
Gold Medal Ms.............
4  20
Gold Medal Ms............
4  10
Parisian, Ms..................
4 30
Parisian, Ms................
4 20
Parisian.  Ms................
4  lO
Ceresota, Ms................
4  40
Ceres ota, Ms................
4  3)
Ceresota, Ms................
4  20
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ms...................
4  50
4  40
Laurel, Ms ...................
Laurel, Ms...................
4  30
Bolted.........................
1  90
Granulated.................
2  10
St. Car Feed, screened
17  00
No. 1 Com and  Oats...
16 50
Unbolted Corn Meal...
15  F0
Winter Wheat  Bran...
is  no
Winter Wheat Middlings. 16  00
Screenings...................
13 00
New corn, car lots.  ...
36M
Less than  car  lots......
38
Car  lots.......................
33
Cariots, clipped...........
34 M
Less than  car lots......
36
No. 1 Timothy carlots..
10 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots
1» 50

Feed and Mlllstuffs.

Corn.

Meal.

Oats.

Hay.

F i s h   a n d   O y s t e r s

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
Whiteflsh...............
@ 10
T rout...................... @ 10
Black Bass..............  8 @ 11
Halibut................... @ 15
Ciscoes or Herring.. @ 5
Bluefish..................
@ 11
Live Lobster.........
@ 28
Boiled Lobster........ @ 30
Cod 
...................... @ 10
Haddock................. @ 8
No.  1  Pickerel........ @ 9M
Pike......................... @ 8
Perch....................... @ 6
Smoked White........ @ 8
Red Snapper........... @ 8
Col  River Salmon.. @ 12
Mackerel 
.............. @ 16
F. H. Counts........... @ 40
F. J   D. Selects........ @ 30
Selects...................
@ 27
22
F. J. D. Standards...
Anchors................. @ 20
Standards...............
@ 18
Favorites................ @
Bulk.
gal.
Counts  .......................
2 Od
1  65
X  Selects.....................
Selects..........................
Anchor Standards.......
110
Standards....................
Clams...........................
1  25
Shell  Goods.
Oysters, per  100.........1  25@1  5-
Clams,  per  100.........
@1  0-

Oysters in Cons

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKROM  STONEW ARE.

Batters,

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

Milkpans.

Churns.

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

M gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5M 
M gal. fireproof 
-11, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireprooi, ball, doz.l  19

Stewpans.

Juga.

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

Tomato Juga.

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

Sealing Wax.

2

5 lbs. in package, per lb... 
LAMP  BURNERS.
No.  0 Sun......................  ..  33
No.  1  Sun..........................   31
No.  2  Sun..........................  
46
No. 3 Sun...........................   1 00
Tubnlar.............................  
50
Security, No.  1...................  60
Security, No. 2...................  80
Nutmeg  ............................  
50
LAMP CHIMNBYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................   1  3g
No.  1  Sun..........................   l  48
No.  2  Sun.................. ....... 2  18
No. 0 Sun.......................  
  150
No. 1 Sun...........................  1  60
No. 2 Sun...........................   2 45

Common

Plrst  Quality.

No.  0 Sun, 
No. 
1 San, 
No.  2 Sun, 

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

crimp 
crimp 
crimp 

top,
top,
top,

top,
top,
top,

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

wrapped and labeled....  2 55 
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
wrapped and  labeled....  3 76
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled...........................3 70
No.  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................  4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled............................4  88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,” 
for Globe LamDS............  
80

La  Bastle.

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

Rochester.

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

Electric.'

Pomp  Cons.

OIL CANS. 

No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ...... 4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80o dos)___  4 40
Dos.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv Iron with Bpout.  1 48
2 gal galv Iron with spout.  2 48
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3 32 
5 gal galv Iron with  spout.  4 28 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4  17 
5 gal galv Iron with  faucet 4 67
5 gal Tilting cans..............7 25
5 gal ga^v iron Nacefas....  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7  80 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rule............... 10 50
5 gal Home Rule............... 12 00
5 gal  Pirate  King..............  9 50
No.  0Tubular side lift....  4 0C
No.  IB   Tabular........  ...  6 25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6  F0
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__ 7 ( i
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  < •.
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........3  .5
LANTERN  GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 dos.
each, box 15  cents.........  
-5
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls 5 dos.
eacb, bbl 351....................... 
*
No. 0 Tabular,  boll’s  eye, 
oases 1 doz. e a c h . . . . 1  (5

LANTERNS.

4\
e%
%
M
M
%
%
1
1M

5V4
614
714
614
a
9
6M

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barreled Pork.
Mess  ............................ 
Back  ......................10 50@
Clear back.............  
Shortcut.............................   10 00
Pig.......................................  1* 00
Bean  .............................   9  to
Family  ..........................  11  0J

10  00
@10 00

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

5M
514
5M

Smoked  neats.

Hams, 12 lb average  __ 
8M
8M
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
Hams, 16 lb average...... 
7M
7M
Hams, 20 lb  average...... 
Ham dried beef  ............  
1114
5M
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
Bacon,  clear................. 7  @714
California hams............  
514
Boneless hams...............  
8m
Cooked ham.................io@12 y,

Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound...................... 
Kettle.............................  
55 lb Tubs.........advance 
80 lb Tubs.........advance 
501b T ins......... advance 
20 lb Pails.........advance 
10 lb Pails.........advance 
5 
lb Pails.....advance 
31b Pails......... advance 

Sausages.

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

................ 
Beef.

Pigs’ Feet.

Extra  Mess......................... 10 25
Boneless  ........................12 60
Bump......   .....................12 25
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
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

Tripe.

70

Casings.

P ork..................................  20
Beef  rounds................... 
3
Beef  middles................... 
10
60
Sheep.............................  

Butterlne.

Rolls, dairy................... 
Solid,  dairy.................... 
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery............  

11
io>4
1514
14*,

Canned Meats.

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

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass......................6>i@  8
Fore quarters............   5M@ 6M
Hind  quarters...........  7M@  9M
Loins  No.  3...............   9  @12
Bibs.........................  .  7  @12
Rounds......................  7  @  7M
Chucks.....................   6  @6
Plates  .......................  5  @ 5M
Dressed......................4M@  5
L oins.........................  @ 7
Shoulders...................  @  5^4
Leaf Lard...................  6M@
Carcass......................7M@ 8
Spring Lambs.............9  @10

Mutton

Pork.

Veal.

7M77  8

Carcass 
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Hides.
Green No. 1..........
@ ’ M 
Green No. 2..........
@ 6M
Bulls....................
Cured No. 1..........
@  *M 
_
Cured No. 2........... 
-   7M
Calfskins,  green No. 1  @10
Calfskins, green No. 2  @ 8M
Calfskins, cured No. 1  @11
Calfskins' cured No. 2 @  0M
Pelts,  each
50@1  00
No. 1.........
@ 3M
No. 2.........
@ 2*
Washed, fine  ............   @16
Washed, medium.......  @£0
Unwashed, fine....__  9  @11
Unwashed, medium ..14  @!6

Pelts.
Tallow.

Wool.

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Hardware

Effect  of  Industrial  Combinations  on 
From  the Iron Age.

Prices.

Considerable 

loose  writing 

is  being 
in  the  daily  press  relative  to  the 
done 
effect  upon  prices  o f the  numerous  con­
iron  and  steel  interests. 
solidations  of 
These  consolidations  are 
indiscrimi­
nately  denominated 
‘ trusts,”   and  they 
are  savagely  scored  for  advancing  un­
reasonably  the  prices  of  iron  and  steel 
products.  Now 
it  is  a  fact  that  in  the 
entire 
list  not  one  is  of  a  character  to 
bring  it  in  the  class  of  trusts.  Here,  for 
instance,  is  the  Federal  Steel  Company, 
which  is  assumed  by uninformed writers 
to  be  a  great  monopoly,  overshadowing 
the  American  steel  trade.  The  interests 
controlled  by  that  company  represent 
only  a  part  of  the  steel producing capac­
ity  of  the  country,  the  properties  united 
under  that  corporation  being  only  such 
as  are  quite  closely  related  and  their 
amalgamation having been accomplished 
for  the  purpose  of  putting  them  as  thus 
united 
in  better  position  for  enduring 
the  severe  competition  for  business  in 
depressed  times.  The  National  Steel 
Company,  another  great  steel  corpora­
tion,  was formed by  the  union  of  a  num­
ber  of  plants  located  near  one another 
and  dealing  with  practically  the  same 
classes  of  consumers  in  the  same  terri­
tory. 
It  also  represents  but  a  fraction 
of  the  steel  producing  capacity  of  the 
country,  probably  not  one-fifth  of  it. 
The  American  Steel  &  Wire  Company 
and  the  American  Tin  Plate  Company 
come  nearer to  actual  monopolies  than 
any  of  the  others,  but  both  of them  have 
some  outside  competition  and  both  of 
them  were  formed  by  the  union  of  man­
ufacturers  who  bad  passed  through  a 
harrowing  period  of  destruction  to  cap­
ital  by  excessive  competition  for  busi­
ness. 
It  is  not  necessary  to  go  over  the 
entire  list  to  come to  the point involved, 
which  is  that  not  one  of  them  was  or­
ganized  for  the  purpose  solely  of  ad­
vancing  prices  and  squeezing  the  con­
sumer.  We  have  seen  combinations  of 
this  kind  in  the  past,  all  of  them  result­
ing 
in  a  worse  condition  of  business 
than  existed  when  the  combination  was 
formed.  These  new  efforts  to  ameliorate 
the  troubles  of  manufacturers  are of  a 
different  character,  aiming  either  to 
prevent  the  recurrence  of  ruinous  prices 
by 
largely  controlling  production  or  to 
meet  the  necessity  of  low  prices  without 
loss  of  profit  by  controlling  their own 
supplies  of  raw  materials.

it 

But 

is  asserted  that  the  prices  of 
wire  nails,  tin  plate,  steel  billets  and 
other  products  of  consolidations  have 
advanced  so  enormously  that  the  high 
prices  now  ruling  are  absolute  proof  of 
the  exercise  of  arbitrary  power 
in  that 
direction.  Now  let  us  examine  some  of 
the  facts  and  see  if  this  can  be  sus­
tained. 
It  will  not  be  disputed  that  we 
have  for  some  time  witnessed  a  demand 
for  iron  and  steel  surpassing  anything 
the  world  ever  saw.  The  demand  is  not 
confined  to  one  country  but  comes  from 
all  parts  of  the  globe. 
Its  volume  is  so 
large  that  stocks  of  raw  material  and 
finished  products  have  almost  disap­
peared.  Consumers  may  be  said  to  be 
living  from  hand  to  mouth  at  the  pres 
ent  time,  not  because  they  fear  to  buy, 
as  w^s  the  case  during  the  depression, 
but  because  they  can  not  get  what'  they 
need  fast  enough  Reserve  stocks  have 
not  only  gone,  but  reserve  producing 
capacity  has  also  been  drawn upon near­
ly  to  the  available  limit.  What  is  the 
consequence?  We  see  in  lines  in  which 
consolidations  have  played  no  part  ad­
vances  in  price  even  greater than  in  the 
lines  presumably  affected  by  consolida­
tions.  The  manufacture  of  steel  plates 
is  entirely  free  from  anything  of  this 
character,  yet  plates  have  advanced  at 
Pittsburgh  from  90  cents  per 100  pounds 
to  $2.  Foundry  pig  iron  is another  com­
modity  free  from  the  effect  of  consoli­
dations,  but  No.  2  Southern,  which  sold 
at  $6.50 at  the  furnace  or  lower,  has  re­
cently  been  sold  at  over $12.  Other  ex­
amples  of  the  same  character  could  be 
cited,  showing  conclusively  that  the 
in  prices  has  been  due  to  the  fact
rise 

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

that  the  demand  exceeds  the  supply. 
Turning  to  wire  nails,  we  find  that  car­
load  lots  at  Pittsburgh,  which  sold  down 
to  $1.25  per  keg,  are  now  bringing 
$2.05,  which  is  by  no means  an  advance 
to  correspond  with  that  of  either  steel 
plates  or  foundry  pig  iron,  and  in  re­
gard  to tin  plate,  $2  50 per  box  at  works 
was  an  extremely  low  price  on  carload 
lots  of  100  pound  cokes,  whereas  they 
now  bring  $4.05  to  $4.10,  also  showing 
but  a  comparatively  moderate  advance. 
The  same  comparisons  might  be  made 
in  other  commodities,  but  these  will 
In  a  court  of  justice,  a  fair 
suffice. 
hearing 
is  given  even  to  a  red-handed 
murderer. 
In  the  greater  court  of  pub­
lic  opinion  the  same  fair  hearing should 
be  given  to  men  who  are  not  criminals, 
but  are  safeguarding  their 
interests. 
The  consolidations  have  thus  far  shown 
no  disposition  to wring exorbitant profits 
from  the  people.

The  Hardware  Market.

Trade  continues  of  good  volume,  al­
though  dealers  at  the  present  time  are 
persuing  the  waiting  policy,  as  the  re­
tail  trade,  owing  to  the  bad  weather 
prevailing  during  the  past  month,  has 
not  been  up  to  the  usual  volume.  Prices 
on  all  hardware  remain  firm  and  in  all 
instances  where  advances have not taken 
place  they  are  now  being  marked  up  to 
correspond  with  cost  of  raw  material  in 
the  various  lines pertaining  to  the  goods 
to  be  made. 
In  wire  and  nails  there 
have  been  no  further  advances  made 
and  it  is  hoped  the  manufacturers  will 
be  satisfied  with  the  prices  now  being 
obtained.  However,  if  the  price  of  raw 
material  continues  to  advance,  we  may 
look  for  still  further  advances 
in  wire 
and  nails.

Window  Glass—Owing  to  a  strike  at 
the  several  factories,  the  price  on  win­
dow  glass  has  been  quite  firm during the 
past  week,  and  if  the  strike  is  not  sat­
isfactorily  adjusted,  we  may 
look  for 
higher  prices  to  rule  during  the  balance 
of  the  year.

Sbett  Iron— The  price on  sheet  i ron  is 
materially  higher  at  factory,  but jobbers 
who  have  contracts  tor  their  season’s 
supply  have  not  yet  fully advanced  their 
prices  to  correspond  with  present  prices 
at  factory.  We  presume  it  will  only  be 
a  short  time  before  they  will  make  their 
prices  to  correspond  with  present  cost 
were  they  obliged  to  go  into  the  market 
for a  fresh  supply.

Miscellaneous— Prices  on  the  follow­
ing  goods  have  been  advanced  and  job­
bers  are  asking  the  following  prices: 
Iron  clad  rails  have  been  advanced  $1 
per  dozen ;  coil  springs,  25c  per  dozen ; 
3  and  5  gallon  galvanized  oil  cans,  both 
with  spout  and  faucet,  50c  per dozen; 
Rogers'  1847  knives  and  forks  are  now 
held  firmly  at  $3  10 a  set;  bronze  foot 
and  chain  bolts  have  advanced  20 per 
cent.;  dinner  pails  of  all  kinds  average 
an  advance  of  50c  per  dozen ;  elbows  of 
all  kinds  have  advanced  from  io@2oc 
per dozen jstamped'ware  of  all kinds has 
been  advanced  by  all  jobbers  from  2o@ 
30  per  cent.  ;  6  quart  plain  dairy  pans 
are  now  selling  at $7.50  per  gross  or 65c 
by  the  dozen;  galvanized  wash  tubs 
have been  advanced  $1  per  dozen ;  gal­
vanized  sprinklers,  $1  per  dozen.  While 
this  does  not  give  one-tenth  of  advances 
that  have  been  made  on  all  lines  of 
hardware,  it  gives  sufficient  information 
so  the  retail  dealer  can  see  that  it  is 
necessary  for  him  to  examine  closely  as 
to  cost  of  his  goods  and  see  that  bis 
retail  prices are  marked up accordingly, 
so  that  »ben  be  comes  to  replenish  his 
stock  he  will  not  find  that  be has  sold 
his  goods  for  less  than  be  can  replace 
them.  The  general  consensus  of  opin­
ion  is  that  prices  will  not  be  any 
lower 
this  year.

W ro n g  C u e .

“ Do  you  take  this  woman  to  be  your 
wedded  w ife?"  asked  the  Justice  when 
the  proper  point 
in  the  ceremony  had 
been  reached.
‘ ‘ You’ve  missed  your  guess,  Judge,”  
answered  the  prospective  benedict,  who 
was  there  principally  because  be  had 
been  threatened  with  a  breach  of  prom­
ise  suit. 
“ I’m  the  one  that’s  being 
taken. ”

NOW  YOU 

S E E fT

all  about  you  and 
everywhere that 
the  merchant 

who has  the  best  system  of  doing  business  and 
sticks^to one pre-arranged plan, succeeds  in  doing 
a profitable trade,  while  he who  has  no  plan, try­
ing to  run  without  system, will  see  his  business 
get away from and final ruin swamp him.

THE  EGRY  AUTOGRAPHIC  REGISTER 

shown at  top, used with  our  system  of  business, 
will insure success, as it stops all leaks,  keeps ones 
business standing prominently in  mind, saves time, 
labor and  money,  thus  continually  piling  up  the 
ingredients of all fortunes.

NOW  YOU  DONT

think for a minute  that  our  entire working  force, 
planning  for years  a  perfect  system,  can  fail  in 
showing advantages  to  you, by which  your  busi­
ness would be  benefited.  We  have  practical  sys­
tems adapted to nearly all  kinds of  retail  merchan - 
dising,  and would  be pleased to aid  you  in  placing 
your busiriess on a profitable basis.  The  merchant 
without svstem stands  no show against  his  neigh­
bor who has the best.  Address orders or inquiries 

L. A. ELY, Sales Agent, Alma, Mich.

G.  R.  salesman, S. K. Bolles, 39 Monroe St. 3d floor.

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

*
Wholesale & Retail Bicycles & Sundries,  <
J
*

12  West  Bridge  Street, 
Grand  Rapids, Mich. 

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

Wm. Brummeler & Sons, S tS S JS S S .

buying elsewhere

SPRAYERS

of  all  kinds.

Brass,

Copper 

and Tin
Write  for  prices.

Foster. Stevens & Go .

Grand Rapids. Mich.

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WIRE  GOODS
Bright............ ............................
Screw Eyes..................................
Hook’«..................................
Gate Hook« and Eye«.................
LEVELS
dls
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 
..
SQUARES
Steel and Irrr 
.........................................
Try and Bevels...........................................
M itre...........................................................

SHEET  IRON

70A10
60
50
com. smooth,  com.
 
2 5 )
2 £0
 

 

 

12 57

WIRE

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

2 70
2 80
2 90
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14................................... «2  70 
2  70 
Nos. 15 to 17............. 
Nos. IS 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 CO
Steel, Game............................................  
75A10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley A Norton’s 70A10
15
Mouse, choker............................per doz 
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
i  25
Bright Market............................................. 
'0
Annealed  Market........................................  
10
Coppered  Market........................................  61A10
Tinned Market...........................................   CO
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  .........................  2 81
Barbed Fence,  painted...............................  2 40
Au Sable..................................................di«40A!C
Putnam...................................................dis 
5
Capwell..................................................... net list
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled  ..................  
30
Coe’s Genuine.............................................. 
40
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought  .........  
7»
75
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
Bird  Cages........................................... 
4 1
Pumps, Cistern.................................... 
70
Screws, New List...................................  
so
Casters, Bed and  Plate...........  ..............50A10A10
Dampers, American.............................
50
600 pound casks....................................
8H
9

MISCELLANEOUS

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

.. 

 

B B and Buck......
.....................

SHOT

SOLDER

......   1 45
......   1  70
___  17

TIN—Melyn Grade

The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.........................................»715
14x20 IC, Charcoal................................  
20x14 IX, Charcoal............................... 
 
Each additional X on this grade. «1.25.
10x14 IC, Charcoal............................... 
6 2 ,
14x20 IC, Charcoal.......................................  
6  21
10x14 IX, Charcoal.......................................  7  0 >
14x20 IX, Charcoal............................................  7 50

TIN—Allaway Grade

Each additional X on this grade. «1.50. 

. 

 

 

7 0
8 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  5  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean...........  ..............  6  50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.......................... 
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade........... 
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade........... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade........... 
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   12  4)
BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATE 
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, j 
14x56 TX. for No  9  Boilers. <- per pound.

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5

Defense  of  the  So-Called  Trusts. 
There are  labor  trusts  as  well  as  cap­
ital  trusts,  aud  in  all  the annals  of  com­
bination  there  are  no  greater  illustra­
tions  of  tyranny  than  the  attitude  of 
some  of  the  labor  organizations  towards 
laborers.  This,  however,  was  the 
in­
evitable  outcome  of  organization  and  of 
the  evolution  which 
is  now  going  on 
throughout  the  world  under  the  opera­
tion  of  the great  forces  that  now  control 
the  world—steam,  electricity  and  ma­
chinery.  Under  the  operation  of  these 
forces  the  world  has  grown  richer.  All 
the  resources  of  nature  are  being  devel­
oped.  Capital has  increased  faster  than 
the  opportunities  for  its  profitable  em­
ployment,  as  is  evidenced  by  the  stead­
ily  decreasing  rate  of 
I  used 
to  think  that  combinations  of  capital 
would  abrogate  competition,  but  experi­
ence  has  shown  that,  instead  of  abrogat­
ing  competition,  it  has  elevated  that 
force  to  a  higher  plane. 
If  a  combina­
tion  of  capital  in  any 
line  temporarily 
exacts  a  liberal  profit,  immediately  cap­
ital  flows 
into  that  channel,  another 
combination  is  formed,  and  competition 
ensues  on  a  scale  and  operates  with  an 
intensity  far  beyond  anything  that  is 
possible  on  a  smaller  scale,  resulting  in 
breaking  down  of  the  combination  and 
the  decline  of  profits to  a  minimum.

interest. 

Because 

A  striking  illustration  of  this  is  found 
in  the  sugar  and  coffee  industries  to­
day.  Arbuckle  Bros,  bad  attained  a 
commanding  position  as  roasters  and 
sellers  of  coffee,  and  they  also  sold  but 
did  not  refine  sugars. 
the 
American  Sugar  Refining  Co.  would 
not  sell  them  cheaper  than  other  buyers 
of  sugar  they  decided  to  go  into  the 
sugar  refining  business,whereupon  lead­
ing  spirits  in  the  American  Sugar  Re 
fining  Co.,  seeing  that  the  margin  of 
profit 
in  the  coffee  business  was  good, 
decided  to  go  into  roasting  and  selling 
coffee.  The  result  has  been  that  the 
contest  of  giants  has  reduced  the  profits 
in  both  industries  to  a  minimum,  if  not 
to  a  positive 
loss,  making  it  bard  for 
smaller  manufacturers  and  dealers  to 
live,  but  saving  millions  of  dollars  for 
consumers  that  would  have  otherwise 
inured  to  manufacturers  and  dealers.

The  evil  of  overcapitalization  is  often 
condemned,  and  no  doubt  it  is  an  evil 
it  hurts 
but 
its  authors  as  often  as  it 
does 
investors,  although,  perhaps,  not 
to  the  same  extent. 
It  is  very  difficult 
to  estimate  actual  values  where  earning 
is  such  a  large  factor,  and  this 
power 
as 
is  well  known,  varies  greatly  with 
the  changing  conditions  of  trade.  At 
present  trade 
is  good,  money  is  easy, 
and  we  see  great  activity  in  the  forma 
tion  of  “ trusts”   with  enormous  capital 
izations,  which  only  time  can  prove  the 
value  of,  but  it  is  safe  to  say  that  there 
will  come  periods  of  business  depres 
sion  when  it  will  not  be possible  to  earn 
dividends,  and  these  securities  will  find 
their  level.

In  many 

A  large  capitalization  can not increase 
earning  power,  but  it  may  serve  to  con 
ceal  the  percentage  of  earnings  on  the 
actual  cost  of  some  properties  and 
fur 
nish  counters  with  which  to  juggle  in 
the  stock  market. 
industrial 
properties  the  “ good  w ill,”   which 
a  property  created  by  brains,  industry 
time  and  popularity,  is  the  principal 
value.  Unlike  a  railroad  or gas  com­
pany,  this  can  not  be  reproduced,  and 
the  sole  measure  of  capitalization  is 
its 
earning  power.  What  other  measure  can 
there  be  to  the  capitalization  of  a  news­
paper or  ordinary  industrial  company? 
Never  before  has  there  been  so  much

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

necessity  for  caution  and 
on-the  part  of  investors.

investigation 

Hardware  Price  Current.

of 

industry 

the  organization  of 

individual  opportunity. 

the  organization 
trusts”   dwarfs 
iminisbes 

The  theory  has  been  advanced  that
into 
individual  effort  and 
I 
do  not'think  this  is  true  any  more  than 
the  enlistment  of  bushwhackers  in  the 
regular  army  dwarfs  effort  and  dimin- 
shes  opportunity.  The  bravest,  wisest 
and  strongest  naturally  become  officers 
industry,  and 
those  less  capable become  the  rank  and 
file,  with  opportunity 
for  promotion 
based  on  merit.  Luck  and opportunity, 
doubtless,  have  something  to  do  with 
leadership,  but  the  fact  remains  that 
steam,  electricity  and  machinery  have 
forced  the  organization  of  industry,  and 
is  now  a  contest  of  nations  for  the 
trade  of  the  world.  We  can  not  all  be 
generals  or  admirals 
in  industrial  or­
ganizations.  but  we  can  try  for  it,  and 
it  is better  to  be  a  good  private  than  to 
be  an  eminent  bushwhacker.

The  popular  hostility  to  trusts  is  due 
principally  to  lack  of knowledge of their 
economic  effects,  and  these  are  gradual­
ly  becoming  better  known.  There were 
just  enough  abuses  attending  them  to 
;ive  an  excuse  for  sensational  journal- 
stic  denunciation,  and  this  has  caused 
undue  prejudice  A  great  politico-eco­
nomic  question  like  this  should  be  con­
sidered  dispassionately  and  all  sides  of 
it  carefully  investigated  before  conclu­
sions  are  reached.

F rank  B.  T hurber.

Goods  For  Spring  Trade.
From Stoves  and  Hardware  Reporter.

It 

The  time  draws  near  when  women 
will  begin  thinking  about  house  deali­
ng,  that  period  which  strikes  terror  to 
masculine hearts and drives  them  in  dis­
gust  and  vexation  from  the  domestic 
domicile. 
is  at  such  a  time  that 
many  articles  and  utensils  which  are 
used  for  kitchen  furnishings  and  which 
have  worn  out  during  the  winter  months 
are  replaced  with  new  ones.  New  stovee 
are  purchased  and  new 
linoleums  as 
well,  and  we  believe  it  would  be a  good 
plan  for  all  hardware  dealers  who do not 
keep  the  latter  to  have  a  varied  and  at­
tractive  assortment  of  them,  because  in 
the  good  housewife’s  mind  they  are 
in­
dissolubly  connected  with  her new stove. 
For  what  kitchen  looks  well  without  a 
linoleum?  The  brightest,  newest  and 
shiniest  stove  that  was  ever  constructed 
would  present  but  a  poor  appearance 
when  put  up  in  a  kitchen  which  had  a 
bare  floor 
linoleums 
save  work,  and  that  is  a  very  important 
consideration  in  the  eyes  of  all  women, 
the  most  of  whom  have about  twice  as 
much  work 
they  have  time  or 
strength  to  do.  Let  the  hardware  mer­
chant  be  making  preparations  to  cater 
to  these different desires of the daughters 
of  Eve  and  commence  to  advertise  such 
goods  as  w>li  be  likely  to  strike  their 
fancy  and  suit  the  interior  dimensions 
of  their  purses.  There  are  so  many 
kinds  of  linoleums  of  all  sorts  and  de­
signs  that  no  difficulty  can  be  found 
in 
exploiting  the  most  attractive  and  de­
sirable  varieties.  Several  different  dis­
plays  might  be  made  of  them  during 
the  coming  weeks  until  the house-clean­
ing  and  renovating  season  is  entirely 
past.

it.  Anyway, 

as 

in 

It Makes  a  Difference.

A  workingman  with  a  dinner  pail  in 
his  hand  came  out  of  a  little  shop,  and 
was  met  by  a  fellow  workingman,  who 
said :

“ Why,  Jim,  you’re  working  over  time 

now,  aren't  you?”

“ No,”   was  the  reply,  “ I’m  not.”
“ Aren't  you  putting 

in  more  than 

eight  hours  a  day?”

“ Yes.”
‘ ‘ I  thought  eight  hours  was  the  union 

schedule,”   remarked  the  outsider.

“ Yes,  but  you  see  I  have  just bought 

the  shop. ”

14 00

AUQURS AND  BITS
Snell’s..............................................
Jennlng 
Jennings

genuine..................................... 25 A10
Imitation...................................so <£10

AXES

BOLTS

BARROWS

First Quality, S. B. Bronze..........................   5 50
First Quality, D. B. Bronze........................   9 50
First Quality. 8.  B. 8. Steel.........................  6 25
First Quality, D. B. Steel.............................  10 50
Railroad................................................... 
Garden.................................................  net  30 00
Stove......................................................  
60&10
Carriage new list.................................... 
70
Plow........................................................ 
go
Fell,  plain...............................   .................• 3 50
Cast Loose  Pin, figured............   ..............   70&10
Wrought Narrow.......................................... 70&10
Ordinary Tackle......................... 
70
CROW  BARS
Cast Steel................................ 
5

BUTTS,  CAST

BUCKETS

..per lb 

BLOCKS

. 

 

CAPS

65

DRILLS

CHISELS

CARTRIDGES

.................................. ....... per m 
Fnoir’o r?  w 
___
Hick’s C. F ......................................... per  m
................................................... per m
Musket............................................... per  m
Rim Fire...................................................... 40&IO
Central  Fire..................................  ........... 
20
Socket Firmer............................................. 
70
Socket Framing.............................   III Til * 
70
Socket Corner...............................’  ..........  
70
Socket Slicks...................................................... 70
Morse’s Bit Stocks.............................  
go
Taper and Straight Shank............... ........... 50*   5
Morse’s Taper Shank........................ . . . .  .. 50A  5
Com. 4 piece, 6 In...........................doz.  net 
6J
Corrugated............................................. 
j  25
Adjustable..............................................dis 40&10
Clark’s small, #18;  large, <26........... 
30&10
Ives’, 1, «18; 2, «24; 3, «30.......................  
25
New American..........................................  70&10
Nicholson’s............................................. 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................................  .6CA10
GALVANIZED  IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27 
28
List  12 
16.. 

EXPANSIVE BITS

PILES—New  List

ELBOWS

13 

14 

17

Discount,  70

15 
GAUGES

MATTOCKS

KNORS-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  60A10
Hunt Eye.....................................«15 00, dis 60A10
Hunt’s........................................»18 50, dls 20A10
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
40
40
Coffee, P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables. 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry A Clark’s................ 
40
Coffee, Enterprise....................  
 
30
Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60A10
Stebbln’s Genuine....  ................................. 60A10
Enterprise, self-measuring....................  
30

MOLASSES  GATES

MILLS

 

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base................................................  g 9.)
Wire nails, base................................................  2 30
30 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance..'.................................
06
8 advance.............................................
10
6 
advance.........................................
20
4 advance..............  .............................
30
3 
advance.........................................
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
Sclota Bench........................................
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, first quality......................................   @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme.............................................. 60A10A10
70A 5
Common, polished.................................. 
60
Iron and T inned........................................  
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
45
“A" Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATBNT PLANISHED  IRON 

PLANES

RIVETS

Broken packages He per pound  extra. 

PANS

HAMMBRS

HOUSE  FURNISHING OOODS

Maydole A Co.’s, new  list..................... dls  as*
25
Kip’s  ...................................................... dls 
Yerkes A Plumb’s...................................dl« 10A10
v M«n’s SoiM Pf)«t Stppi 
9 0/» 1««. 
^
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50&10 
Stamped Tin W are.......................new list 75AP
Japanned Tin Ware........ 
20Air
Pots...............................................................60 A1
K ettles.......................................................   60A10
Spiders......................................................... 60A70
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,8...............................  dls 60A1C
per do«, net  9 ss
State......................... 
Sisal, H Inch and larger.............................  
9K
10li
Manilla.......................................................  

HOLLOW  WARE

HINGBS

ROPES

 

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IN  BETTER  SHAPE.

Improved  Condition  of  Local  Banking 

Interests.

The  bank  statements  were  called  a 
month  earlier  than  usual.  Not  before 
in  ten  years,  at  least,  has  an  April  re­
port  been  invited.  The  call  this  time 
was  addressed  to  the  National  banks 
only.  The  National  banking 
law  re­
quires  five  statements  annually,  while 
the  State  law  calls  for  only  four.  The 
State  Bank  Commissioner  passed  the 
call  this  time,  but  three  of the four State 
banks  published 
their  statements  as 
usual,  and  from  the  fourth  the  figures 
were  obtained  to  make  the  subjoined 
comparisons.  The  Trust  companies are 
not  included  in  the  statistics  given.

The  consolidated  statement  for  April 
5,  the  date  of  the  statements  called  for, 
compares  very  favorably  with  that  of 
May  5,  1898,  although  the  season  a  year 
ago  was  one  month  further  advanced. 
The  loans  and  discounts  show  an 
in­
in  round  numbers  of  $350,000; 
crease 
the  stocks,  bonds  and  mortgages  an 
in­
crease of $750,000;  the amount carried  in 
outside  banks  an 
increase  of  $26,000, 
and  the  cash  and  cash  items  a  decrease 
of  $37,000.  The  total  of  outside  de­
posits  and  cash 
items  April  5  was 
$2,734,239  54,  as  compared  with  $2,745,- 
605.64  eleven  months  ago—a decrease  of 
about $11,000.

The  surplus  and  undivided  profits 
accounts  fall  short  but  $2,928  of the May 
5,  1898,  report,  and  it  is  safe  to  assume 
if  the  comparison  were  made  with  even 
dates  there  would  be  shown  a  very  sat­
isfactory 
increase  for  this  year.  The 
commercial  deposits  show  an  increase 
of  $530,000;  the  savings  and  certificates 
increase  of  $489,000;  the  bank  de­
an 
posits  an 
increase  of $164,000,  and  the 
total  deposits  an  increase  of  $1,226,000.
The  increase  in  loans  and  discounts 
is  an  encouraging  sign  of  awakening 
activity 
in  business  circles,  and  if  the 
report  were  for  a  month  later,  by  which 
time  the  season  will  be  in  full  swing, 
the 
increase  would,  doubtless,  be  still 
greater  than  it  is.  The  increase  in  the 
deposits  has  been  enormous  and  it  is  in 
commercial  savings  and  bank  deposits 
In  spite  of  the  increase  in  de­
alike. 
posits  of  over  a  million  dollars 
the 
amount  of 
idle  money  carried  by  the 
banks  in outside deposits and  cash  items 
shows  a  decrease  of  about $ 11,000.  The 
banks  are  loaned  up  more  closely  than 
in  several  years  past.

in 

increase 

If  the  comparison  be  made  with  the 
statement  of  May  14,  1897,  the  show­
ing  for  this  year  will  be  much  more  fa­
vorable  still.  The 
loans 
and  discounts  exceeds  $2,000,000;  of 
stocks,  bonds and  mortgages,  $1,300,000; 
due  from  banks  and  cash  items,  $726,- 
000.  The  surplus  and  undivided  profits 
show  a  falling  off,  incident  to  the  six 
weeks  difference  in  time  and  also  to  the 
fact  that  two  of  the  banks paid quarterly 
dividends,  which  they  did  not  do  two 
years  ago.  The  commercial  deposits 
show  an  increase  of  $1,400,000;  the  sav­
ings  deposits  an  increase  of  $1,680,000, 
and  the  total  deposits  an  increase  of 
$3,280,000.  This is  a  pretty  good  show­
ing  for  two  years,  and  for  that  matter 
the  statement 
is  one  of  the  best  that 
has  ever  been  made.  The  loans  and 
discounts  surpass  the  best  record  of  the 
ante-panic  period  and  the  deposits  far 
exceed  the  deposits  of  that  day.

season  is  extremely  late  and  now  wheat 
is  moving 
in  the  winter  wheat  belt 
prices  have  eased  off  since  last  writing 
The  Northwest  sent 
in  a  full  quota  of 
wheat,  which  was  expected,  as  the  as 
sessor  was  around  about  the  first  of  the 
month  and  the  prudent  farmers  did  not 
want  their  wheat  assessed  for  taxation 
so  they  were  good  sellers.  This  wi 
stop  now.  The  Government  report  was 
78  9-10  per  cent.,  against  82  per  cent. 
March  10  and  86 7-10  per  cent,  at  the 
same  date  one  year  ago.  Exports  are 
fully  up  to  expectation,  while  our  vis 
increase  of  544,000 
ible  made  another 
bushels.  Wheat 
in  passage  showed’ 
decrease  of  about  1,237,000  bushels 
Aside  from  this 
ideal  weather,  every 
thing  tended  for  strong  markets,  but  all 
goes  for  naught  when  the  Chicago  farm 
er  takes  it  into his  head  to  sell  wheat.

Corn  heid  its  own,  although there were 
strong  efforts  made  to  break  the market 
but  all  offerings  were  readily  absorbed, 
While  40c  corn  for  May  was  predicted, 
it  only  sold  at  34^c  yesterday,  so  40c 
will  not  be  realized  this  May.

Oats  showed  a  trifle  weakness,  but 
there  is  a  strong  undertone  that  sustains 
prices  on  any  weak  spots.  The  late 
ness  of  the  season  will  soon  have  an 
effect  on  prices,  as 
last  year  the  oats 
were  about  all 
in  the  ground  at  this 
time,  while  this  year  no  one  has  made 
any  effort  at  plowing  as  yet.

Owing  to  foreign  demand,  rye  keeps 
as  strong  as  ever  and,  as  told  before, 
will  demand  good  prices  until  the  for 
eign  crop  will  be  harvested.

The  demand  for  flour  has  been  good, 
while  feed  has  been  reduced  $1  per  ton.
Receipts  at  this  place  were  90  cars  of 
wheat,  7  cars  of  corn  and  6  cars of  oats.
Millers  are  paying  66c  for  wheat  to­

day. 
C.  G.  A.  V oigt.
Unique  Price  List  of Laundry  Work.
Chas.  F.  Young, Vice-President  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Bark  and  Lumber  Co., 
recently  picked  up  a  unique  price  list 
of 
laundry  work  at  Mesick,  of  which 
the  following  is  a  fac  simile:

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The  Grain Market.
is  the  controlling  factor  in 
the  wheat  market.  While  crop  damage 
large and  the
has  been  reported  very 

After  a  man  has  dropped  a 

few 
thousand  dollars  in  stocks,  it  is  useless 
to  tell  him  that  there  is  no  money  in 
them.

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

Saginaw  Merchants  Discuss 

Topics.

Live 

Saginaw,  April  n — The  Retail  Mer­
chants’  Association  held  a  little  admir­
ation  meeting  the  other  evening  over 
the  carrying  of  the  market question,  and 
the  favorable  outlook  in  the State for the 
good  roads  amendment.  It  was  decided 
to  reorganize for  work  upon  the  market 
question  by  the  appointment  of  a  com­
mittee  of  five.  President  Tanner  an­
nounced  that  he  would  name  the  com 
mittee  at  the  next  meeting.  Archie 
Robertson  will  be  chairman  of  the  new 
committee,  and  T.  J.  Norris  will  be 
member  of  it.

The  fibhy  conditton  of  the  business 
streets  came  in  for a  roast. 
It  was  de­
clared  that  Genesee  avenue  was  a shame 
and  disgrace 
its  present  condition. 
It  was  decided  to  have  a  petition  in  all 
the  business  places  where  customers 
might  sign,  calling  upon  the  Common 
Council  to  have  the  streets  cleaned  and 
kept  clean  through  the  spring  and  sum 
mer.

in 

T.  J.  Norris  brought  up  the  fishing 
bill  now  before  the  Legislature  in  the 
interests  of  the  net  fishermen  who  de­
sire  to  set  their  nets 
in  the  Saginaw 
River  and  tributaries.  He  said 
that 
sportsmen  generally  were  against  the 
bill  and  that  both  of  Saginaw’s  repre­
sentatives  and  Senator  Leidlein  were 
awaiting  backing  from  home  to  buck 
the  bill  good  and  hard.  T.  A.  Downs 
thought 
it  would  be  a  good  scheme  to 
do  a  little memorializing and, in compli 
ance  with  his  resolution,  Secretary  Em 
erson  and  R.  A.  Horr  were made  a  com­
mittee  to  draw  up  a  resolution  to  be 
generally  signed,  calling  upon  the  Leg 
:slature  to  defeat  the  bill.

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W A T ER M E LO N S, CANTA LOUPES AND 
new potatoes  The Johnson-Brown Co.  of 
Albany,  Ga..  perhaps  the  largest  Individ  al 
growers of melons  m  the  State,  invite  all  reli­
able  dealers,  who  des’re  to  do  business  w'th 
shippeis  who  are  rellab'e  and  will  ship  what 
they sell, to op-n  correspondence  with  them  in 
reference  to  purchase  of  waterme ons,  cauta 
Ion pen a~d new potatoes. 
WANTED—I AM LOOKING FOR LOCATION 
in good town of 2,500 to i0,00 >  to  open  per­
manent lirst-class dry goods  store.  Address  A. 
F. Z.. care Michigan Tradesman. 
gif>
t[R)K  SALE—HARuWARE  STOCK  OF  THE 
late A.  A.  Ty er  at  641  South  Division  St., 
Grand  Rapids.  Fine  location  and  well estab­
lished trade.  Address Mrs. A  A. Tyler. 
909
II'OR  SALE —A  RARE  OPPORTUNITY —A 
flourishing  business;  cleau  stock  of shoes 
and furnishing  goods:  established  cash  trade; 
best store and  location  in  city;  located  among 
the 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  204,  Negau- 
nee, Mich. 
RUG AND NOTION STOCK  FOR  SALE  IN 
nice town for $1,500.  Address  T.  P.  Stiles, 
Millersburg. Elkhart Co.. Indiana. 
Ii'OR  L IT E R A T U R E .  STATISTICAL  RlT 
ports,  and  information  generally  about  the 
gulf coast and  south  Mississippi,  the  center  of 
the “Yellow Pine  Belt,”  write  the  “Pascagoula 
9to
Commercial ( Inb.” Scranton, Miss. 
T'OR S \LE—A  40-ACRE  PECAN  ORCHARD, 
A  partial bearing,  also  two  beautiful  homes, 
all  on  Mississippi  gulf  coast;  also  pine  lands. 
For  particulars  write  F.  H.  Lewis,  Scranton. 
MISS;___________ 
T i r  a n t e d — p a r t n e r  t o  t a k e   h a l f i n -
V T  terest in a general store  and  fish  business; 
the most paying industry in Michigan.  Cannot 
attend to it alone since the syndicate took effect, 
on account  of  the  number  of  orders  being  re­
ceived.  For particulars address Neil Gallagher. 
St. James. Mich. 
gj,
Mo n ey—i f  you a r e a  m ill m a n ,  h e r e
is a chance for both you and me.  My shln- 
for  sale  for  c ^ h ;  about 
400,000.00>  feet  logs  In  yard;  about  2,000,000 
stock ready to cut, all  on  cash  contract. 
Mill rendy to start April 3.  Future contracts in 
sight  for  three  years. 
J.  J.  Robbins,  Boyne 
Falls, Mich. 

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908

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91,

804

j  opera 1_____  ______ _
Cohen.  Muskegon. Mich.

FOR SALE—NEW,  CLEAN STOCK  OF OEN- 
eral merchandise in small town in Southern 
Michigan  on  Michigan  Central  Railroad:  ele­
gant farming country;  no competition within  a 
radius  of twelve  mileB;  stock  invoices  about 
$3,000.  This is a good  business  and  good  loca­
tion and must be sold for cash;  no trades.  Ad- 
dress  F. N„ care Michigan Tradesman. 
II'OR  SALE-A  SHINGLE  AND  SAW  MILL 
1?  with 30 horse  power  engine  and  boiler,  all 
in  good  order.  Would  t-ade  for general  mer­
chandise.  For particulars,  address  Box 7.  Mt. 
Pleasant,  Mich. 
gig
Fo r  Sa le—h o u se  a n d  lo t  in   t r a v -
eree  City;  also  store  building  adjoining 
Steinberg’s opera house.  Will sell eltheror both
cheap.
900
Drug  sto re  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  about  $1,000;  has  been  run  only 
about four  years;  new  fixtures;  low  rent.  Ad 
dress No. 897. care Michigan Tradesman.  897
TVRUG  STOCK  FOR  SALE—WILL  INVEN- 
tory $1,^0;  daily sales from $15 to $20.  Rea­
son  for selling, wish to  q .it  the  business.  Ad­
dress No. 893, care Michigan Tradesman.  893
Money to pa t e n t yo u r id e a s may b e
obtained through our aid.  Patent Record, 
Baltimore, Md. 
$85
II'OR SALE—IMPROVED FARM; GOODgEN 
J?  eral cropping, gardening and  fruit  raising; 
near market.  Address  Albert  Baxter,  Muske­
gon, Mich. 
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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  Mich- 
igan Tradesman. 
Ii'OR - ALE—GROCERY STOCK IN CENTRAL 

last  year.  $10,000;  stock  invoices  about  $1,200. 

Michigan in city of 3,000inhabitants  Sales 
Address No. 879, care Michigan Tradesman.  879 
ANTED —SHOES,  CLO TH IN G ,  DRY 
goods.  Address  R.  B.,  Muskegon,  Mich.
699
Ii'OR  SALE —CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK 
located at one of the best trading  points  in 
Michigan.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $5,>00. 
Store ai'd warehouse will be rented  for  $30 tier 
month.  Will sell on  easy  terms.  Address  No. 
868, C4re Mich gan Tradesman. 
Ii'OR  SALE—HALF  INTEREST  IN  OLD  ES- 
tablished meat market, located in  excellent 
residence  district of Grand  RapidB.  Investiga­
tion solicited.  Address  No.  864,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
ÏÔR  SALE — WELL-ESTABLISHED  AND 
good-paying  implement  and  harness  busi­
ness, located  in  small  town  surrounded  with 
good farming country.  Store  has  no  competi­
tion within radius of eight miles.  Address  No. 
806, care Michigan Tradesman. 
806
Ii'OR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad- 
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman.  680

868

866

886

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

W ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 
try;  any  quantities  Write  me.  Orrin  J. 
8i0
Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 

MISCELLANEOUS.

915

W ANTED—POSITION.  HAVE  HAD  TWO 
years’ experience in general store.  Best of 
references.  Address  Lock  Box  95,  Manton, 
Mich. 
W ANTED —POSITION  BY  YOUNG  MAN 
with six  years’  experience  as  clerk.  Ad- 
dress Lock Box O, Maple Rapids. Mich. 
ANTaD—THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCED 
dry goods salesman.  Good references  re­
quired.  state  salary  expected.  Address  Box 
341. Cadillac, Mich. 
ANTED  POSITION  BY YOUNG  MAN,  A 
registered  pharmacist  Good  references. 
Address  45  North  Valley  Ave.,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 

5oj

907

918

B A T T E R S O N   <&  C O .

B U F F A L O ,  N. Y ., April  io, 1899.

M A R K E T .

EOT*—Very  light  receipts;  a  large  demand. 
Quick sales to-day at  13 and iffle.  We very much 
want more liberal  supplies.

Poultry—Both  live  and  dressed  poultry  in 
lighter supply every week.  Fancy young chickens, 
dressed,  I3@i4c;  fowls,  I2@i2$£c.  Live  chickens, 
12@12%c;  fowls,  IO@IIC.

Very full  quotations  in  our  produce  exchange 
price current  on  demand.  Satisfactory  references 
anywhere. 

Very respectfully,

BATTERSO N   &  CO.

Re s p o n s i b l e . 

r e l ia b l e . 

p r o m p t .

Paris Green Labels

_  
The  Paris  Green  season  is  at  hand  and 
•   those  dealers  who  break  bulk  must  label 
their packaged according to  law.  We  are 
prepared to  furnish  labels  which  meet  the 
requirements of the law, as follows:
too.............................. 25 cents.
2<x>.............................. 40 cents.
S°°.......  
75 cents.
1000..........................$1  00.

Labels  sent  postage  prepaid  where  cash 

accompanies order.

Tradesman Company,

Qrand Rapids, nich.

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CHICAGO

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association 

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

retary, E  A. Sto w e, Grand Rapids.

Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids............  7 30am  12:00nn  *11  45pm
A.r.  Chicago............... 2:10pm  5:15pm  7 20in
Lv. Chicago. ..11:45am  6 50am  4:15pm *11  50pm 
A.r. G’d Rapids  5:00pm  1:25pm  10:15pm  * 6:20am 
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

*Rvery  day. 

Others week days only.

Michigan  Retail 0 racers’ 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 ett,  HoweU;  Secretary 

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

n P T D H I T   Grand Rapids & Western.
L I C   1   K v M   1   9 

Apr.  to,  1899. 

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........ 7:00am  1:35pm 5:25pn
A.r  Detroit....................11:40am  5:45pm 10:05ptr
Lv. Detroit.................... 8:15am  1:10pm 6:10prr
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......  1:10pm  5:20pm 10:55pcr
Lv. GR7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. GRU:45am  9:30p 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

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

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

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

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association 
K l a f ;  Treasurer, J.  G eo.  L ehm an.

President,  F r a n k   J.  Dyk;  Secretary,  Homed 

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

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

Dwight’s
Cleaned
Currants

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

Wolverine Spice Co.,

Grand  Rapids.

$ 
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Feed  .

t
Corn and Oats j

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

$  Valley  City 
I  Milling  Co., 
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Grand  Rapids.  Mich.  |
i Sole Manufacturers of  “LILY WHITE,”  j  

“The flour the best cooks use.” 

i

f i n   A  \ j r t   Trank Railway  System

1 mJ   Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv
(In effect Feb. 5, 1899.)

GOING  EAST

Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit & N  Y.........* 6:45am t  9:55pm
Detroit  and  East..................+10  in am  t  5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit &  East........t  3:27pm  +12:50pm
Buffalo.  N  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t'd Ex__ *  7:20pm *10:16am
GOING  WEST
Gd.  Haven Express............... *10:21am * 7:>5"m
Gd. Raven  and lnt  Pts......... +12:58pm + 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee...+ 5  12pm +10:11  m 
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.

•Daily.  +Except Sunday.

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

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.

n n i   A in   Rapids  &  Indiana Railway
l l l y A i 1  L I 

Peb. 8. 1899.

Northern Dlv.  Leave  Arrivi 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...+ 7:45am + 5:15pm
Trav  ( ity A Petoskey....... ...+  1:50pm  ’10:45pm
Cadillac accommodation........+ 5:25pm +10 55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City. ...+!• :00pm  *  6:35am 
7:45am train, parlor  car;  11:00pm train, sleep­
ing car.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  at
Cincinnati.......................  
............... ♦ 2  Oipm  ♦  1  30,
F t Wayne 
Cincinnati............................... * 7 00pm  * 6:30-
Vicksburg  and Chicago  — *ll:3.ipm  * 9:0 am 
i :10  am  traiu  has  parlor  car  to  Clncu r. 
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 Cnicago.

■+ 7:10am  t  9 45pm

......  

Chicago Trains.

FROM  CHICAGO.

TO  CHICAGO.
Lv. Grand Rapids...  7  10am 
2  0>pm  *11  30pm
Ar. Chicago............   2  3 ipm  8  45pm  6 25am
Lv. Chicago............................   3  02pm 
Ar  Grand Rapids...................   9  45pm 
car;  11:00pm, coach and sleeping car.
parlor  car;  11:32pm sleeping car.
Muskegon Trains.

Trai  leaving Grand Rapids 7:t0am has parlor 
Train  leaving  Chicago 3:02pm  has  Pullman 

GOING w e s t .
...  9:00am  2:10nm  7-<i5  m 
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 

Lv G’d  Rapids............ +7:35am  +1:00pm t.v4ui-
Ar Muskegon. 
arrives Muskegon-10:40am.
GOING  KABT.
Lv Mnskegon..............+8:10am  tll:45am  +4 0u,
ArG’d Rapids  .. 
....  9:30am  12:56pm  5 2>''
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm.
+Except Sunday.  »Daily

C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 
W. C. BLAKE, 

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

*11 32pin
6 30am

DULUTH,

WEST  bound.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)til :10pm  +7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City..................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St  Ignace...........................  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sanlt Ste. Marie..............  12:90pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette  .......................   2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestorla  ..........................   5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. D uluth........................................  
8:30am
tfl :30pm
Lv. Duluth............................................. 
Ar. Nestorla..............................+il:15am  2:45am
1:30pm  4:30am
Ar. Marquette...................... 
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............  
.........
3:30ipm 
Ar.  Mackinaw City................ 
8:40pm  11:00am
G.  W  Hibbard, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Ovtatt. Trav.  Pass  Agt.. Grand Rapids

■ AST  BOUND.

M A N K T FP   4 Northeastern **■

i ' l i k i l l O  I   I 4 U   Best route to Manistee.

■

Via  C. &  W . M.  Railway.

Lv Grand Rapids............................7x10am  ...........
Ar  Manistee.................................. 13:05pm  ...........
Lv  Manistee......................... 
Ar Grand  Rapids  .......................   1:00pm  0:55pm

8:30am 

 

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 e lto n.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

l a n d ;  Treasurer,  W m. C.  K oehn.

Bay Cities Retail Grocers* Association

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

Traverse City Baslness Men’s Association
H o l l y ;  Treasurer, C. A .  Hammond.

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

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

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

P a r t r id g e.

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

Treasurer. S. J.  Hu ffo r d.

S t Johns Baslness  Men’s  Association. 

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

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

Perry Business Men's Association

President, H. W. Wallace;  Sec’y, T. E. Heddle.
Grand  Haven Retail  Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. V e b Ho e k s.

Yale Business Men’s Association

President. C h as. Ro u n d s;  See'y. F r a n k Pu tn ey

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bill beads.......................  $2  75

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per thousand................. 
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your profits  every time  a  customer  comes  into  your  store  to  make 
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The brand MICA AXLE GREASE  has become known as well as its good  qualities. 
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get for their money.  MICA is the  best  because  it  is  made  especially  to  reduce  friction, 
and friction is the greatest  destroyer of axies and axle boxes.

It is becoming a common saying that  “ Only one-half as much  MICA  is required  for 
satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle grease,”  so that MICA is not only the best Axle 
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