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Volume XVI.

L.  Perrigo  Co.

Manufacturing Cbenists, 
Allegan, Mich.

The  Merchant’s  Ear

Is what we want.  We don’t want to chew it,  but  we  want  to 
talk into it a few brief moments.  We have been supplying  the 
trade with our goods for a number of  years  and  the  fact  that 
tfyey have proven sellers is evinced by the large  numb* r  of  or­
ders we are receiving.  Our goods are put  up  and  sold  under 
our guarantee.  Our reputation  is  back  of  them  and  you  can 
wager that we will  preserve that.  We kindly ask you to write 
us for prices on anything in our line.  We handle all druggists' 
sundries  and have in store some valuable  information  for  you 
if you will but speak  the word.

L.  PERRIGO CO.,  Mfg Chemists,

Allegan,  Mich.

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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19,1899.

Number 813

Our Specialties:

Tablets..

Root.

L. P.  Brand Soda.
Perrigo's Headache Pwds. 
Mandrake  Bitters.
Perrigo's Quinine Cathartic 
Perrigo's Dyspepsia Tbits. 
Perrigo's Catarrh  Cure. 
Perrigo's Cough Cure. 
Perrigo’s Magic Relief. 
Perrigo’s Sarsaparilla. 
Perrigo'»* Sure Liniment. 
Perrigo’s Ex. of Blackberry 
Perrigo's Insect Powder. 
Perrigo’s Poison Fly Paper. 
Perrigo’s  Poultry Powder. 
Perrigo's Stock  Powder. 
Perrigo's Hog Powder. 
Marshmallow Cream. 
Bartram’s  Liver  Pills. 
Bartram’s Veterinary Elixr. 
Sennara for Children. 
Porous  Plasters.
Flavoring  Extracts 
Druggists' Sundries.

and  Cough  Drops. 

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overtime.  Those Uneeda  Biscuit 
are  the  greatest  sellers  I  ever 
had  in  the  store.  The  mint 
must  be working overtime, too; 
never had so many nickels in all 
my life.  And  it’s  easy  money!
No  time  lost  in  wrapping;  no 
extra  expense 
for  paper  or 
twine.  That  Uneeda  box  is  a 
beauty. 
It’s  dust  proof,  damp 
proof,  odor  proof.  People  use 
’em  for  lunch  boxes when  the 
biscuit  are  gone.  No  wonder 
everybody says

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from  the  Petoskey  Lim e  Company  to  ^  
the  Bay  Shore  Lime  Cdmpany, and the name  ^ Z  
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W ith  Beveled  Edge  Plate Glass top $5.00 per foot.

This Showcase only $4.00 per foot.

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MAKE  BUSINESS

MICA 

AXLE

has become known on account of its  good  qualities.  Merchants  handle 
Mica because their customers want the best  axle grease they can get for 
their money.  Mica is the best because  it  is  made  especially  to  reduce 
friction,  and friction  is  the  greatest  destroyer  of  axles  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  grease  on  the  market  but  the  most  eco­
nomical as well.  Ask  your  dealer  to  show you  Mica  in  the  new white 
and blue tin packages.

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illustrated  catalogue  and  discounts.

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

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Jefferson Avenue, Detroit,  Mich. 
Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio.

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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19,1899.

Number 813

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OVERCOATS

KOLB  & SON

£   I Ierringbones, Serges,¡Clays, Fancy Worst- 
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Y   Connor,  Box 346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  to  call, 
x   or meet him at Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand  Rap- 
J   Ids,  April  25  to  29.  Customers’ expenses 
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  paid.

The Preferred  Bankers 
Life Assurance Company

of  Detroit,  Mich. 

Annual Statement,  Dec. 31,  1898.

Commenced Business Sept.  I,  1893.

Insurance in  Force................................. ;
Ledger Assets........................................
Ledger Liabilities  .................................
Losses Adjusted and Unpaid...............
Total Death Losses Paid to Date........
Total Guarantee  Deposits  Paid to Ben­
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Death Losses Paid During the Y ear... 
Death Rate for the Y ear.......................

$3,299,000 00 
45.734  79 
21  68 
None 
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11,000 00
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F R A N K   E. ROBSON, President. 

TR U M A N   B. GOODSPEED, Secretary.

if Yob  Hire  Over 80 Hamls

Don’t write to

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN 

for sample sheet of their  “ PE R FECTIO N  
TIM E  BOOK AND P A Y   R O L L.’’

Their  W A G E   T A B L E ,  however,  fits 
(and pleases) firms  who  hire  from  one  to  a 
million hands.  So do  their  PA T.  MANI- 

+   IFOLD  SH IPPING  BLAN K S.

Organized  under  the  laws  of 
Michigan  to  protect  business 
men  against  poor  accounts.

T he  M ercantile  A gency

Established  1841.

R.  Q.  DUN  &  CO.

Widdicomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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

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IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

PAGE
2.  The  Dry  Goods  Market.
3.  Druggist  Doomed.
4.  Around  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  Woman’s  World.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Observations by a N. Y. Egg Man.
11.  How  to  Keep  Cheese.
1 a.  Gotham  Qossip.
13.  The  Trusts  and Their  Cure.
14.  Success  as  a  Clerk.
16.  Clerks’  Corner.
17.  Commercial  Travelers.
18.  Drugs  and  Chemicals.
19.  Drug  Price  Current, 
ao.  Grocery  Price  Current, 
ai.  Grocery  Price  Current, 
aa.  Hardware.
33.  Hardware  Price  Current.
34.  Story  of  a  Cash  Girl.

Business  Wants.
RAILWAY  EXPANSION.

Railroad  construction  is  a  good  index 
of  the  degree  of  confidence  in  the  com­
mercial and financial  situation  generally 
and  the  fact  that  such  construction  has 
for  several  years  past  been  at  a  low  ebb 
shows  that  there  is  a  very  intimate  rela­
tion  between  railway  expansion  and  the 
business  situation.

For  four  years,  up  to 1898,  the  railway 
less  than  2,000  miles 
construction  was 
for  each  year.  When  railway  building 
was  carried  on  at  the  highest  rate  of 
progress,  as  much  as  10,000  and  12,000 
miles  of  track  were  put  down  in  a  sin­
gle  year,  while  one-half  that  amount 
was  considered  a  very  fair  year’s  work. 
After  years  of  depression,  when 
less 
than  2,000  miles  of  track  were  laid  an­
nually,  the  new  mileage  rose  in  1898  to 
3,000  miles,  showing  symptoms  of  re­
vival.  Now  comes  the  Chicago  Railway 
Age,  a  very  painstaking  and  careful 
student  of  all  matters  pertaining  to  rail­
ways,  and  predicts  a  mileage  of not  less 
than  5,000  for  1899.

This  would  be  a  most  desirable  con­
summation,  since,  as  the  Age  well  ob­
serves,  it  would  mean  an  investment  in 
the  neighborhood  of  $150,000,000.  This 
in  the 
investment,  moreover,  is  made 
most  valuable  form  possible 
for  the 
public  interest.  Every  mile  of  new  rail­
way  increases  the  facilities  of  trade  and 
commerce  for  the  entire  people  of  the 
United  States. 
It  would  mean  the  de­
velopment  of  new  country,  the  settling 
of  new  land,  the  building  of  new  com­
munities,  the 
increasing  of  all  values 
The  railway  itself,  moreover,  once built, 
is  a  permanent  addition  to  the  taxable 
wealth  of  the  state  in  which 
it  lies. 
Finally,  5,000  miles  of  new  railway  to 
be  operated  would  mean  the  permanent 
employment  at  good  wages  of  about 
2,500  men.

The  Age’s  records  show  that  at  the 
present  time  over  4,000  miles  are  either 
under  contract  or  actually  under  con­
struction,  and  that  many  hundred  miles 
more  are  almost,  it not  quite,  ready  to 
be  let,  and  this does  not 
include  many 
hundred  miles of  grade which  have been

completed 
in  the  past  few  years.  The 
following  are  the  States  which  show 
over  100  miles  of  line  under  contract  or 
under  construction:  Pennsylvania,  160 
miles;  West  Virginia,  140  miles;  Vir­
ginia,  100  miles;  North  Carolina,  182 
miles;  Georgia,  146miles;  Florida,  153 
miles;  Alabama,  109  miles;  Louisiana 
144  m iles;  Michiagn,  171  miles;  Illi­
nois,  185  miles;  Minnesota,  135  miles; 
Iowa,  291  miles;  Indian  and  Oklahoma 
territories,  204  miles;  Arkansas,  216 
miles;  Texas,  108  miles  (including  82 
miles  of  grade,  most  of  which  was  com­
pleted  last  year);  California,  175  miles; 
Idaho,  207  miles;  Oregon,  127  miles; 
Washington,  180  miles.

The  Grain Market.

We  can  report  a  substantial  advance 
in  wheat  since  our  last,  although  the 
visible  is  about  1,000,000  bushels  more 
than  one  year  ago.  The  universal  re­
ports  of  crop  damage  from  the  winter 
wheat  belt  are  having 
their  effect. 
While  in  this  vicinity  we have no reason 
to  complain  of  any  damage,  south  of  us 
—say  from  twenty  miles—the  damage to 
the  wheat  fields 
is  considerable.  One 
man  writes  us  that  be  has  sold  a  sixty 
acre  wheat  field  for $60,  or $1  per  acre 
for  the  wheat  on  it.  Many  talk  of  plow­
ing  the  wheat  up  and  planting  in  oats 
and,  where  the  soil  is  right,  in  corn. 
Others  claim  wheat 
is  drying  up,  but 
with  the  fine  rain  we  had  wheat  certain­
ly  was  greatly  benefited,  but  it  should 
be  borne 
in  mind  where  there  is  so 
much  complaint  there  must  be consider-» 
able  damage.  Receipts  from  first  hands 
are  indeed  very  small,  as  farmers  pre­
fer  to  bold  their  wheat,  as  the  granaries 
were  swept  clean  last  year, and  we  must 
expect  that  they  will  hold  on  a  little 
longer.  We  also  must  not  forget  that 
in  eleven  weeks  we  shall  have  harvest 
here.  Of  course,  should 
the  winter 
wheat  crop  be  only  325,000,000  bushels, 
we  will  see  higher  prices  on  wheat. 
Futures  are  about  3c  higher.

Corn,  as  usual,  followed  wheat  and 
the  advance  is  2c  per  bushel.  The  vis­
ible 
in  corn  decreased  over  2,000,000 
bushels,  and  that  without  the  waterway 
being  open.  What  will  it  decrease  when 
water  shipments  take  place?

Oats  have  almost  stood  still—no  ad­
vance.  The  probable  reason  is  owing 
to  re-seeding  the  plowed-up wheat  fields 
with  oats.

Rye  is  strong,  with  a  small  advance.
Receipts have  been  exceedingly  small 
the  past  week,  as  follows:  wheat,  32 
cars;  corn,  18  cars;  oats,  6  cars.

We  might  state  that  9  cars  of  hay 
were  received,  which,  with  what 
is 
brought  in  with  wagons,  makes  Grand 
Rapids  quite  a  bay  market.  The  Board 
of  Trade  has  been  at  work  to  get  a more 
perfect  report  from 
the  railroads  of 
what  is  received  here  in  the  way  of  all 
kinds  of  produce,  but  for  some  reason 
the 
railroad  companies  do  not  take 
kindly  to  giving  reports  further  than 
what  they  report  at  present.

Millers  are  paying  69c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Never  judge  a  woman's  cooking  by 
the  cake  she  sends  to the  church  social.

Questionable  Attitude  of  the  Country 

Press.
Written for the Tradesman.

local 

liberal 

interest 

in  every 

The  newspaper  published  in  a  coun­
try  town  is  supposed  to  take  pride  and 
rejoice  in  the  success  and  prosperity  of 
its  local  patrons,  the  business  men,  and 
to  be  ready  and  willing  at  all  times  to 
aid  them 
legitimate  way  to 
boom  the  town  by  encouraging  and  fos­
tering 
in  manufactures 
and 
increasing  the  volume  of  trade  in 
all  its  branches,  so  that  its  own  columns 
may  be  filled  with  advertisements,  on 
which  source  the  newspaper  relies  for 
its  profits  and 
final  success,  without 
which  it  would  soon  cease  to  exist.  As 
a  rule,  the  men  engaged 
in  mercantile 
in  this  age  are  disposed  to  be 
pursuits 
very 
in  their  use  of  printer’s 
ink.  They  generally  believe  that  adver­
tising  is  the  key  to  prosperity.  This  is 
recognized  by  every  up-to-date  business 
man;  but  when  the  liberal  advertiser  in 
the  local  newspaper 
looks  through  its 
columns  and  finds  side  by  side  with 
bis  own  advertisement  a  flaming  pic­
torial  advertisement  with  the  staring 
headline,  “ Buy  Goods 
in  Chicago,”  
and  remembers  that  this  fake  advertise­
ment  visits  bis  customers as  often  as 
bis  own  legitimate  announcement,  be  is 
liable  to  feel  a  little  tired,  as  the saying 
goes,  and  naturally  a 
little  disgusted 
that  the  local  editor,  for  the  miserable 
pittance  he  receives  from  the  agent  of 
this  catalogue  monstrosity,  should  give 
it  equal  prominence  with  his own steady 
advertisement.  On  my  desk  as  I  write 
are  a  round  dozen  of  different  country 
newspapers  whose  columns  prominently 
display  the  announcements of Montgom­
ery  Ward  &  Co.  and  Sears,  Roebuck  & 
Co.,  and  in  some  cases  the  editor  gives 
them  special  notice  and  by  so  doing 
gives  character  to  the  abominable  fraud 
upon  tbe  local  dealer,  his  neighbor  and 
patron.  Common  justice  and  good  will 
towards  the  local  dealer  should  suggest 
tbe  propriety  of  refusing  all  such  ad­
vertisements  upon  the  ground  that  all 
orders  sent  these 
catalogue  houses, 
either 
in  Chicago  or  elsewhere,  repre­
sent  just  so  much  money  that  should  be 
taken  in  over  tbe  counter  of  his  friend 
and  home-advertising  patron,  the  coun­
try  merchant.  The  man  who  sends  his 
money  away  from  home  to  purchase 
goods,  unsight  and  unseen,  from  these 
catalogue  concerns,  besides  running  the 
risk  of  being  swindled  in  tbe  value  of 
tbe  goods  sent,  commits  a  wrong  to­
wards  tbe  merchant  who  is  in  the  habit 
of  paying  him  the  highest  price  for but­
ter  and  eggs  or  anything  else  he  may 
have  to  sell  and  of  whom  he  has  the 
cheek  to  ask  for  credit  when  hard  up.

From  an  ethical  standpoint,  both 
newspaper publisher  and  the  patron  of 
these euemies of  legitimate trade are to 
blame. 

W.  S.  H.  W elton.

An  amusing  tale  is  told  by  a  country 
doctor  in  England.  He  had  been  at­
tending  a  parson 
for  a  considerable 
period,  and  according  to  custom,  now 
fortunately  becoming  antiquated  there, 
attending  him  gratis.  When 
in  due 
course  the  parson  died,  bis  widow  wrote 
to  enquire  how  much  the  doctor  would 
allow  her  for  the  medicine  bottles.

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Dry  Poods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons—There  have  been  one 
or  two  slight  irregularities  noticed  in 
brown  goods,  but  nothing  that  would 
affect  the  market 
in  any  way.  Heavy 
brown  sheetings  and  drills  are  scarce. 
The  light-weight  division  of  the  staple 
market 
in  coarse  yarn  sheetings  and 
fine  yarn  gray  goods  has  been  without 
material  change.  Bleached  cottons  are 
rather  quiet,  but  steady,  and  white 
sheetings  the  same.  Coarse  colored  cot­
tons  show  very  little  of  interest.

Prints  and  Ginghams—There has been 
an  increase  noted  in  the  orders  for both 
fancy  and  staple  calicoes,  but  the  na­
ture  of  the  business  remains  without 
material  change.  Flannels  for  fall  are 
being  well  taken  care  of,  and  while 
open  quotations  are  not  made,  they  are 
said  to  be,  on  good  authority,  from  7@ 
7 /4 c  per  yard.  Business 
in  ginghams 
is  slow,  owing  to  small  stocks  and  slow 
production. 
is 
taken  as  fast  as  possible.

Everything 

in  sight 

Carpets—The  carpet  business,  while 
not  quite  so  brisk  the  past  week,  has  in 
volume  been  quite  satisfactory.  There 
is  a  growing  demand  reported  for  the 
better  grades  of  carpets,  and  the  body 
Brussels,  which  has  been  very  slow  for 
several  years,  has  begun  to  share  in  the 
improvement  in  trade,  as  well  as  wil- 
tons,  ingrains,  tapestries  and  velvets, 
and  the  outlook  is  more  promising  for 
ingrains  as  we  approach  the  new  sea­
son.

The  cottun 

Upholstery— The  business  among  the 
manufacturers  of  piece  fabrics  contin­
ues  moderate. 
tapestry, 
also  the  cheap  summer  curtains,  are 
quite  brisk,  and 
some  have  orders 
enough  to  last them for some time.  The 
latter  are  made  with  chenille  and  tinsel 
effects  in  the  stripes  crosswise  of  the 
curtain.  Red  and  green  grounds  are 
the  predominating  colors  in  all  lines  of 
upholstery.

Woolen  Goods—Business 

in  dress 
goods  fabrics 
is  coming  along  nicely, 
and  agents  are  strongly  impressed  with 
the  favorable  indications  for  a  satisfac­
tory  season’s  trade.  The  drift  of  time 
but  serves  to  strengthen  their  opinions 
as  regards  the  possibilities  of  the  fall 
season.  Conditions  in  connection  with 
the  market  are  acknowledged  to be  of 
a 
lusty  character,  and  the  ordering  is 
gaining  in  momentum  and  importance. 
Of  course,  some  grumbling 
is  beard 
regarding  the  unpleasant  weather  which 
has  delayed  the  retail  business in spring 
goods,  but  this  is  referred  to  as  a  tem­
porary  condition,  which  will  probably 
soon  be  rectified,  or  as  soon  as  the  gen­
uine  spring  weather obtains.  They look 
at  the  matter  as  being  simply  a  delay 
in  business  rather  than  a  loss of it.  This 
applies  to  both  men’s  wear  and  dress 
goods  fabrics.  People have  been  afraid 
to  come  out  in  their  spring  “ togs”   for 
fear  of  pneumonia  and  kindred  ail­
ments,  and  as  a  vast  number  of  people 
never  make  preparations  beforehand, 
they  have  not  yet  purchased their spring 
garments.  A  few  consecutive  genuine 
spring  days  will  serve  to  impress  upon 
them  the  necessity  of 
lighter-weight 
garments,  and  then  there  will  be  a  rush 
to  the  retailers  of  spring  garments.  A 
brisk  spring  business  will  exert.

Underwear— The  manufacturers  of 
underwear  are  still  busy  and  in  some 
cases  have  more  work  than  they  can 
do.  They  have  given  up 
in  despair 
trying  to  secure  more  operators,  and 
many  are  having  part  of  their goods

large  orders. 

made  in  other  cities.  Traveling  men, 
in  the  West  paiticularly,  are  sending  in 
very 
In  the  South  cold 
weather  has  retarded  business  some­
what,  but  this  will  only  be  temporary. 
In  comparing  the  orders  for  the  May 
and  June  sales  it  has  been  ncted  that  in 
nearly  every 
instance  they  are  much 
larger  than  last  year,  and  the  class  of 
goods  asked  for  is  of  generally  a  much 
higher  standard.  The  underwear  manu­
facturers  are  trying  to  educate  the  re­
tailers  to  realize  that  first-class  goods 
cost  money. 
It  has  been  the  custom 
heretofore  for  a  buyer  to  visit  at  the 
end  of  the  season  one  of the large under­
wear  manufacturers  who  has  a  big  stock 
left  over  and  offer him  a 
of  underwear 
ridiculously 
low  price  for  what  he  has 
on  hand.  This  year,  however, 
there 
will  be  no  left  over  stocks,  for  as  soon 
as  the  goods  are  turned  out  they  are im­
mediately  shipped  to  some  customer 
who  has  been  waiting  for  them.  Prices 
on  all  white  goods  and  embroideries are 
still  very  high,  and  already  some  deal­
ers  have  asked  for  an  advance,  while 
the  others  are  hillin g  off  until  they 
open  their  new  hr.es.  The  designers  in 
the  various  factories  are  turning  out 
daily  new 
in  underwear,  hand­
lace,  embroidery 
somely  trimmed  with 
and  narrow  ribbon  being  mostly 
in  fa 
vor,  although  there  are  a  few  buyers 
who  still  cling  to  the  very  fine  narrow 
edging, 
tuckings  and  hem-stitched 
effects.  The  new  skirt  made  to  fit  tight­
ly  across  the  hips  is  selling  to  a  certain 
class  of  trade,  but  the  majority  still  ask 
for  the  old  model.  French  corset  cov­
ers  are  made  up  more  elaborately  than 
ever.  This 
is  probably  due  to  the  un­
usual  popularity  of  white  shirt  waists 
this  season.

ideas 

Skirts— Although  there are more  white 
skirts  being  sold  this  season  than  ever 
before,  it  seems  to  have  no  effect  upon 
the  enormous  demand  for  silk  petti­
coats.  Every  faitory  is  working  to  its 
full  capacity,  and  they  have  enough  or­
ders  on  hand  now  to  keep  them  busy 
for  some  time  11  come.  Some  beauti­
ful  cord  and  striped  silks  are  being 
used 
in  some  of  the  new  skirts,  but  the 
plain  and  changeable  taffetas  still  have 
the  greatest  preference.  Royal  purple, 
lavender,  cerise,  yale,  turquoise,  cadet 
blue  and  heliotrope  continue  to  be  the 
Accordion  pleating, 
leading  colors. 
laces  and 
insertions,  narrow  ribbons, 
etc.,  are  being  used  in  every  conceiv­
able  manner.  There  has  been  such  a 
large  demand  for  mercerized  petticoats 
that 
impossible  to  turn  them  out 
fast  enough.  These  goods  are  being 
made  up  in  stripes,  as  well  as  in  plain 
effects.  The  call  for  summer  skirts 
is 
just  about  beginning,  and  the  orders 
show  an  imnrnvement  over  last  season.

is 

it 

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  similir  to  the  college  work  of  the 
Northern  resorts.  Frank  Forest  Fred­
erick,  Profetsor  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 
montbs.  The  e  will  be  three  classes, 
the  elementary  ciass  for  the  study  of 
freehand  drawing  and  perspective,  the 
intermediate  1 lass  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 aven, G.  P. A.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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These  are  a  few  choice 
patterns  of  our  line  of 
Collars.  W e   carry  a 
complete  line  and  would 
be pleased to quote prices 
and  send  samples  of  any 
or  all  styles.
P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS

WHOLESALE  DRY  GOODS,
GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

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We secured at a recent auction sale a  big  1 3  
lot of  fancy  checked  and  striped  ribbons 
in  No.  1  width.  They  make  a  splendid  ^  
seller  for  hair  ribbons  and  fancy  work.  ^  
75 cents per  bolt  is  our  price.  Our  lines 
of moire and satin ribbons were never  be-  ^  
fore  as  complete.  All  widths  from  one 
line  to  twenty-two.  All  colors  imagina-  ^ 3  
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W e  G uarantee

Our brand of Vinegar to be an ABSOLU TELY  PURE APPLE- 
JUICE  VINEGAR.  To any person who will analyze it and find 
any deleterious acids or anything that  is  not  produced  from  the 
apple, we will forfeit

ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS

We also guarantee it to be  of  not  less  than  40  grains strength. 
We will prosecute any person found using our packages for cider 
or vinegar without first removing all traces of our brands therefrom.

RoblOSOIl  Cider flnd  Vinegar Co.,  Beaton Harbor, Mich.

J  ROBINSON,  Homager.

This is the guarantee we give with every barrel of our  vinegar.  Do  you  know  ofjauy  other 
manufacturer who has sufficient confidence in his output to stand back  of  his  product  with  a 
similar guarantee? 

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come  in  oftener  and  give  me  pointers? 
Always  open  to  pointers,  you  know,  and 
you've  got  i   level  head  on  you.  Drop 
in  every  day  and  say  good  morning  at 
least—d-r-o-p  in  any  tim e.”

And  then  it  came  to  me  that  the  other 
druggist  didn't  have  a  little  way  about 
him—a  Smiler  way—a  t-a-f-f-y  way.

NOW  YOU 
SEE  IT

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.

THB  EGRY  AUTOGRAPHIC  REGISTER

shown at  top,  used with  our  system  of  business, 
will insure success, as it stoDS 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  DON’T

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  nave  practical  sys­
tems adapted to nearly all kinds of  retail  merchan­
dising, and would be pleased to aid  you  in  placing 
your business on a profitable basis.  The  merchant 
without system 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.

Paris Green Labels

The  Paris  Green  season  is  at  hand  and 
those  dealers  who  break  bulk  must  label 
their packages according to  law.  We  are 
prepared to  furnish  labels  which  meet  the 
requirements of the law, as follows:
100................... 
....  25 cents.
200.............................40 cents.
500....... 
75 cents.
1000 

...............   Si  00.

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Labels  sent  postage  prepaid  where  cash 

accompanies order.

Tradesman  Company,

Grand Rapids, filch.

DRUGGIST  DOOMED.

Because  He  Is  All  Things  to  All Men. 
M.  Quad in American Druggist.

When  Mr.  Smiler  bought  out  the 
White  From  drug  store  a  few  months 
ago  toe  business  was  on  its  last  legs and 
it  was  the  general  opinion  that  he'd 
sink  wnat  money  he  bad  and  throw  up 
the  sponge.  The  White  Front  was  a 
good 
location,  but  business  had  been 
falling  off  for  several  years  and  no  one 
could  exactly  tell  why. 
I  bad  ceased  to 
be  a  customer,  with  many  others  in  the 
neighborhood,  but  if  asked  why  I  bad 
no  good  reason  to  offer. 
I  was  among 
the  first  to  walk  in  on  Mr.  Smiler  to  get 
a  line  on  him,  and  ten  minutes later  I’d 
have  bet  dollars  to  cents  that  be  would 
make  a  success.  What  the  White  Front 
man  bad  lacked  Mr.  Smiler  bad  up  his 
sleeve  by  the  carload.  He  hadn't  a 
hundred  dollars  in  cash  as spare capital, 
but  he  had  a  way  with  him.

looking  well 

“ Why,  good  morning  to  you—g-o-o  d 
morning!"  he  heartily  exclaimed  as  he 
advanced  with  outstretched  hand.  "You 
are 
this  morning  and  I 
hope  none  of  the 
family  are  ailing. 
Tooth  powder?  Why,  of  course,  and  if 
you  find  it  to  your  liking  I’ll  keep  it  in 
stock  for  you.  Just  got  my  soda  foun­
tain  iu  operation  this  morning.  Try  a 
glass  of  my  root-beer  to  please  me. 
I 
see  you  smoke.  Just mention  your  brand 
and  I'll  have  it  here  in  stock.  Drop  in 
tor  a  chat  occasionally. 
I’m  new  to  the 
locality  and  want  to  get  posted."

That  was  all  taffy,  of  course,  but  it 
flattered  me  just  the  same.  I  went  home 
family  ailments  and 
to  hunt  up  the 
within  twenty-four  hours  I  had  sent  to 
Mr.  Smiler 
for  vaseline,  paregoric, 
borax,  cough  syrup,  bird-sand,  malt  and 
cod  liver  oil.  Not  only  that,  but  1  told 
my  neighbor,  Mr.  White,  to  drop  in. 
He  did  so,  and  Mr.  Smiler  greeted  him 
with:
“ Ah!  glad  to  see  you,  sir—g-l-a-d  to 
see  you! 
I  believe  your  servant  girl 
was 
in  here  after a  bottle  of  magnesia 
for  the  children.  Hope  they  are  all 
right,  Mr.  White?  You  are 
looking 
rugged  and  I  congratulate  you.  Sit 
down  and  smoke  a  cigar  with  me  and 
tell  me  what  was  the  matter  with  this 
store  before  I  bought  it  out. "

That  was  taffy  again,  but  Mr.  White 
was  pleased  over  it.  That  was  the  line 
Mr.  Smiler  took  from  the  very  first  day.
I  knew  he  bad  struck  the  road  to  suc­
in  occasionally  to 
cess,  but  I  dropped 
note  how  he  dodged  the  corners. 
1 
was  present  when  a  lady  called  to  dis­
pose  of  three  $i  tickets  for  a  Sunday 
school  excursion.

school 

"Sunday 

excursion!" 

ex­
claimed  the  smiling  Mr.  Smiler,  as  he 
came  out  from  behind  the  counter  rub­
bing  bis  hands;  "dear  me,  but  I’d  buy 
twenty-five  tickets 
if  I  wasn’t  pinched 
to  meet a  bill  due  to-morrow.  Bless  the 
Sunday  schools  and  the  dear  children 
and  the  teachers!  I  feel  like  paying  for 
the  whole  thing,  but  I  must  look  out  for 
my  business  credit.  There'll  be  another 
excursion 
later  on  or  a  church  festival 
or  a  fair,  and  don't  forget  me  or  my 
feelings  will  be  hurt.  Good  evening  to 
you  and 
just  use  my  name  everywhere 
you  go  and  don’t  fail  to  call  on me  next 
time. ”
I  was  there  when  the  secretary  of  the 
Amalgamated  Workingmen's  Union 
came  in  with  five  $i  tickets  to a  bar­
becue.  His  programme  was  to  remark 
to  Mr.  Smilei  that  250  of  the  members 
lived  within  a  half  a  mile  of  the  store 
and  that  they  patronized  the  druggist 
who  patronized 
them,  but  before  be 
could  get  out  a  word  the  druggist  bad 
him  by  the  hand  and  was  saying:
' * Had  you  passed  me  by  1 should have 
felt  slighted.  Yes,  I  saw  by  the  papers 
that  you  were  to  have  a  barbecue.  Good 
thing.  Splendid  thing.  Can’t help  but 
strengthen  your  cause  and  lead  to  suc­
cess. 
If  I  only  bad  time  I’d  be  with 
you  that  day  and  make  a  little  speech. 
As  to  tickets,  I'd  take  fifty  if  I  wasn’t 
so  infernally  pushed  for  money.  Can't 
spare a  dollar  to  day  upon  my  word,  but 
don’t  miss  me  next  time—d-o-n-’t  miss 
me! 
I'm  with  you,  you  know,  but  I've 
got  to  pay  my  bills  or those  heartless 
wholesalers  will  close  me  up.  Here— 
have a  cigar or a  glass of  soda.”

And  again  I  was  present  when  the 
woman  who  wants  poison  and  sympathy 
equally  mixed  made  a  call.  She  shows 
up  at  every  family  drug 
itoie  about 
once  a  month.  Trouble  witn  her  hus­
band  has  decided  her  ti  shuffle  off 
through  the  medium  ot  arsenic,  Out  be­
fore  taking  the  fatal  dose  sbe  wants  to 
be  assured  that  sbe  has  the  sympathy  of 
the  public.

idea—what  an 

"M y  dear,  dear  woman,"  began  Mr. 
Smiler  as  be  took  both her hands  in  bis, 
"don’t  take  arsenic  and  don't  die.  We 
all  have  our  home  troubles,  but  we  must 
bear  them  bravely.  Your husband can’t 
spare  you,  the  church  can’t  spare  you, 
and  the  neighborhood  would  be  grieved 
and  astounded  to  bear that you even con­
templated  suicide.  Bless my  heart,  but 
what  an 
idea!  Never 
worry  over  anything  your  husband  says 
or  does.  Men  are  strange  animals  and 
you  must  take  them  as  they  run.  Here 
—take  a  glass  of  wine,  and  let  s  hear 
no  more  about  arsenic  James,  put  on 
your  bat  and  see  the  lady  home  in  good 
shape  — in  g-o  o  d  shape."
Mr.  Smiler  knew  that  the  ward  poli­
ticians  would  be  canvassing  him 
to 
know  where  he  stood,  and  be  was  ready 
for  them.  When  the  plumber  on  the 
next  block  came  in  one  day  for  a  5  cent 
cigar  and  incidentally  remarked  that  a 
Democratic  ward  caucus  was  to  be  held 
that  evening  and  he  hoped  to  see  every 
true  patriot  on  band,  Mr.  Smiler  smiled 
his  broadest  and  blandest  as  he  replied :
" A   ward  caucus,  eh?  A b !  it  I  only 
had  a  responsible  person  whom  I  could 
leave  in  charge  here  for  an  hour  or two! 
I’ll  try  my  best,  but  if  I’m  not  there  I 
hope  you’ll  drop  in  and  tell  me who was 
nominated.  Ot  course,  we’ll  tlect  him 
by  a  large  majority—bound  to  elect him 
— b-o-u-n-d  to  do  it."

The  plumber  went  away  to  tell  every­
body  that  the  druggist  was  a  Democrat 
from  head  to  heel,  and  a  day  or  two 
later  the  butcher  dropped 
in  to  get  a 
porous  plaster and  to  carelessly observe:
"Knowing  that  you  are  in  favor  ol 
honest  local  government,  I  thought  l ’o 
remind  you  that we  have out Republican 
ward  caucus  to-night  ’ ’

"A b ,  thank  you—thank  you,"  replied 
Mr.  Smiler 
in  the  heaitiest  manner. 
"Yes,  we  must  have  an  honest  man  to 
represent  this  precinct,  and  I  shall  be 
proud  to  help  nominate  and  elect  him. 
I’ll  do  my  best  to  get  there,  but  if  I 
don't  show  up  I'll  take  off  my  coat  on 
election  day  and  make  things  hum.  Got 
to  elect  him  by  200  majority—g-o-t  to 
do  it. ”

Deacon  Schermerhorn,  who  never pat­
ronizes  anything  outside  of  the  Metho­
dist  church 
if  he  can  help  it,  dropped 
in  to  see  how  the  land  lay  and  mention 
that  there  was  a  vacant  pew  next  to  his, 
and  Mr.  Smiler  fairly  beamed  on  him 
as  be  replied that  he  hoped  to get settled 
within  a  few  weeks  and  reserve  church 
hours  for  himself.

Deacon  Sabin,  who  wouldn’t buy coal, 
meat  or  groceries  of  anybody  but a Bap­
tist,  dropped  in  after  Deacon  Schemer- 
horn  to  solicit  a  contribution  to  pur­
chase  a  bell,  and  Mr.  Smiler  was  softer 
than  silk  as  be  replied :

"Why,  of  course—of  course!  We 
must  have  a  bell  for  our  Baptist  church 
and 
it  must  be  a  boomer.  Let's  see, 
now— let’s  see.  Come  in  later  and  we’ll 
talk  it  over.  Yes,  we’ve  got  to  have  a 
bell—g-o-t  to  have  one,  and  I  don’t 
know  but  I’ll  go  in  for  chimes."

I  can’t  tell  you  whether  Mr.  Smiler  is 
a  Democrat  or a  Republican ;  whether 
he  sypmathizes  with  labor  or  is  a  high- 
headed  aristocrat;  whether  he  believes 
in  expansion  or  contraction—free  silver 
or  gold  basis.  He  doesn’t  mean  that  1 
or  any  one  else  shall  know. 
It  s  bis 
business  to  be  bland  and  smiling  and 
fatherly  and  urbane, 
it's  his  business 
to dodge  and  evade and yet be interested 
in  everything.  The  White  Front  drug 
store  is  doing  such  a  rushing  trade  that 
he  must  shortly  get 
in  a  third  clerk. 
Until  last  night  I  couldn't  exactly  fig­
ure  it  out  why  I  went  back  on  the  other 
druggist.  Then  I  went 
into  Smiler’s 
for  some  quinine  and  he  came  rushing 
at  me  to  exclaim :

"A b !  but  I  was  just  thinking  of  you 
and  about  to  send  around  to  the  bouse 
to  ask  if  you  were  ill 1  Why  don’t  you

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April  26th  to  May 4th, one week, 
I  will  be  at  Sweet’ s  Hotel,  Grand 
Rapids,  with  a  full  line  of  JOHN 
G.  MILLER  &  CO.’S  men’s  suits 
and  spring  overcoats,  boys’  and 
children’s wear, summer clothing, 
alpaca  coats,  serge  coats  and 
vests,  dusters,  brilliantines,  etc., 
for  immediate  use. 
If  you  cannot 
meet  me  send  your  mail  orders  or 
write  me  to  call on you.  Expenses 
allowed  all  purchasers.  My  fall 
and  winter  line  I  also have with me 
complete. 

S.  T.  BOWEN.

S M O K E

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

MUSSELMAN  GROCER  GO.,  Grand  Rapids.  Micti.

W O R L D ’ S   B E S T

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Around  tbe State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Jasper— H.  P.  Hayward  has  engaged 

in  general  trade.

Sutton’s  Bay— Frank  B.  Gannett  has 

opened  a  jewelry  store.

West  Bay  City—Jas.  S.  Todd,  grocer, 

has  sold  out  to  C.  Bradley.

Menominee— Theo.  J.  Sauve,  grocer, 

has  removed  to  Marinette,  Wis.

Elk  Rapids—Chas.  Mahan  has  sold 

his  drug  stock  to  Willis J.  Mills.

Williamsville— Weikel  &  Ruch  suc­

ceed  Weikel  &  Lee  in  general  trade.

Lawton—Claude  and  Ray  Mitchell 
have  opened  a  flour and  feed  store here.
Ithaca— Ingles  &  Hiffner  have  opened 
a  bazaar  and  grocery  store  at this  place.
Ironwood—O’Donnell  Bros,  succeed 
in  the  grocery  busi­

Thos.  O’Donnell 
ness.

Mancelona— Mrs.  A.  Gates  has  closed 
out  her  grocery  stock  and  retired  from 
trade.

Benton  Harbor— E.  J.  Densmore  has 
opened  a  bazaar  store  in  the  Hulburd 
block.

Morley—C.  E.  Hawley  succeeds  the 
hardware  Arm  of  B.  D.  Williamson 
&  Co.

Bronson—David  E.  Boag  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  F.  L. 
Warne.

Beaverton—Wm.  A.  Stroebel  has  pur­
chased  tbe  hardware  stock  of  John  T. 
Harvie.

Hillsdale—J.  C.  Garlough  succeeds 
in  the  grocery 

Garlough  &  Johnson 
business.

Union  City—Clifford  &  Easton  have 
added  undertaking  to  their  furniture 
business.

Kalkaska—The  Jefferson-Strong  Co. 
succeeds  A.  E.  Pierce  in  the  grocery 
business.

Owosso—Detwiler  &  Son  have  pur­
chased  tbe  flour  and  feed  business  of  F. 
E.  Kinney.

Traverse  City— H.  L.  Witkop  has 
opened  a  bazaar  store  at  404  South 
Union  street.

Millington— R.  F.  Squires  has  re­
moved  his  hardware stock  from  Vassar 
to  this  place.

Muskegon—The  People’s  Hardware 
in  business  at 63  W. 

Co.  has  engaged 
Western  avenue.

Allen— Whitmore  & Blood  is  the name 
of  tbe  new  mercantile  firm  which  suc­
ceeds  Whitmore  &  Co.

Manistee—J.  A.  Lindstrom  has leased 
a  store  building  and  will  engage  in  the 
dry  goods  business  May  1.

McBride's—Chas.  H.  La  Flamboy 

is 
ill  as  the  result  of  a  sud­

dangerously 
den  attack  of  appendicitis.

Mt.  Clemens—W.  W.  Cox,  the  drug­
gist,  mourns  tbe death  of  bis  17 year  old 
son  from  spinal  meningitis.

Ridgeway—O.  L. 

of
Britton,  has  purchased  the  dry  goods 
and  grocery  stock  of  E.  J.  Gould.

Lenardson, 

Calumet— Hanson  &  Son  will  here­
after  conduct  the flour and  feed and pro­
duce  business  of  Niemi  &  Hanson.

Camden— Royal  Hadley,  of  Pioneer, 
Ohio,  has  completed  arrangements  to 
remove  his  general  stock  to  this  place.
Frankenmuth—John  W.  Hoerauf  will 
hereafter  conduct  the general mercantile 
business  of  Hoerauf  &  Kern  in  his  own 
name.

Benton  Harbor— Harry  Kidd  has  pur­
chased  an  interest  in  tbe  retail fruit  and 
candy  business  of  Geo.  Butzbach  at  No. 
139  Pipestone  street.  Mr.  Butzbach 
will  devote  his attention  to  the  whole­
sale  part  of  the business.

Ann  Arbor— Eugene  Beal  has  closed 
his  branch  shoe  store  at.  Owosso  and 
consolidated  tbe  stock  with  bis  stock  in 
this  city.

Saginaw—The 

Imperial  Pharmacy 
Co.  is  the  name  of  the  new  firm  which 
continues  the  drug  business  of  A.  E. 
Tomlinson  &  Co.

Homer—Clark  DeReamer, 

formerly- 
engaged  in  the  meat  business  at  Union 
City,  has  embarked  in  the grocery  busi­
ness  at  this  place.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Hotton  Bros,  have 
contracted  for  the  erection  of  a  new 
meat  market,  26x50  feet  in  dimensions, 
two  stories  and  basement.

Battle  Creek—O.  M.  Rockwell  has 
sold  his  drug  stock  to Edward  Hamblin, 
formerly  chief  drug  clerk  in  the  depart­
ment  store  of  Chas.  J.  Austin.

Ann  Arbor—Albert  Lutz  and  Leo 
Grüner have  formed a copartnership  and 
will  carry  on  tbe  boot  and  shoe  business 
at  the  old  stand  of  L.  Grüner.

Kingsley— F.  E.  Moore  is  erecting  a 
new  store  building,  22x70  feet 
in  di­
mensions,  which  will  be  occupied  by 
Dr.  Fenton  with  bis  drug  stock.

Otsego— Knoblock  &  Son  have  pur­
chased  the  meat  market  of  Martin  & 
Vaughan  and have  united  their  business 
in  tbe  building  occupied  by  tbe 
latter 
firm.

Port  Huron—C.  C.  Lowry,  of  Dallas, 
Tex.,  has  purchased  the  confectionery 
stock  of  C.  A.  Sweetser  and  will  con­
duct  a  wholesale  and  retail  establish­
ment.

Big  Rapids—On  May  1  the  firm  of 
A.  S.  Hobart  &  Co.  will  become  the 
Hobart  Mercantile  Co.  The firm  is  com­
posed  of  A.  S.  Hobart and  his  two  sons, 
Ralph  and  Verne.

Remus— Emmet  Wiseman  has  placed 
J.  A.  Hynes  in  charge  of his drug stock, 
having  been  called  to  Big  Rapids  to 
assist  his  father  in  carrying  on  tbe  lat­
ter's  undertaking  business.

Petoskey—J.  H.  Schilling,  who  re­
moved  his  grocery  stock  from  Clare  to 
this  place,  will  shortly  erect  a  two-story 
building,  24x185  feet  in  dimensions,  on 
the  site  recently  purchased  by  him.

Pontiac— R.  D.  Scott  &  Co.  has  been 
reorganized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$80,000.  Tbe  following  are  the  stock­
holders :  R.  D.  Scott,  W.  R.  Scott,  E. 
S.  Todd,  John  Gummer  and  Mary  D. 
Ward.

Marshall— Messrs.  Hasbrouck 

and
Lockwood,  of  Convis,  have  purchased 
the  grocery  and  shoe  stock  of  A.  W. 
Palmer  and  will  continue  the  business 
at  this  place  under  the  style  of  Has­
brouck  &  Co.

Montague—R.  S.  Calkin  has  pur­
chased  the  Mindrop  grocery  stock,  re­
cently  assigned  to  W.  E.  Osmun.  Mr. 
Calkin  will  remove  his  jewelry  stock  to 
the  Kison  building,  the present  location 
of  tbe  grocery  stock,  where  he  will  con­
duct  both  lines  of  business.

Fremont— W.  W.  Pearson,  of  the  gen­
eral  merchandise  firm  of  Pearson  Bros. 
&  Co.,  has  decided  to  go  it  alone,  and 
will  take  charge  of  the  clothing  depart­
ment  of  that  establishment.  The  firm 
name  will  not  be  changed  for  the  pres­
ent,  and  business  will  be  continued  un­
der  tbe  same  roof  as  before.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Kalamazoo—The Wolverine Paper  Co. 
has  sold 
its  plant  to  tbe  Kalamazoo 
Paper  Co.,  which  will  operate  both 
mills.

Three  Rivers— The  Three  Rivers 
Lumber  Co.  has  been  organized  to  en­
gage 
lumber  business  at  this 
place.

in  the 

Detroit—Tbe  National  Milling  & 
Evaporating  Co.  succeeds  the  Freud 
Milling  Co.,  which  formerly  operated 
here and  at  Saginaw.

Charlotte—A  new  lumber  yard,  under 
the  ownership  of  Wm.  Smith,  of  Eaton 
Rapids,  will  be  located  near  tbe  eleva­
tor  of  L  H.  Shepherd.

Houghton— Mackham  &  Jones  have 
moved  into  their  new  building  and  re­
sumed  the  manufacture  of  confectionery 
on  a  larger  scale  than  before.

St.  Johns—Carl  D.  Shaw  has  pur­
in  the  planing 
chased  a  half  interest 
mill  business  of  his  father.  The  new 
firm  will  be  known  as  Shaw  &  Son.

Crystal—The  creamery  at  this  place 
has  beeu  purchased  by  C.  Case,  of 
Crystal,  and  John  Fitzpatrick,  of  But­
ternut,  who  are  converting 
into  a 
cheese  factory.

Lansing—A  new  company 

is  being 
formed  here,  with  Wallace  S.  Olds  at 
the  head,  for  the  purpose  of  manufac­
turing  gasoline  engines.  The  plant  of 
the  Lansing  Lumber  Co.  will be utilized 
for a  manufactory.

it 

Detroit—The  Detroit  Toboggan  Chute 
Co.  has  been  incorporated.  Tbe  capital 
stock 
is  $10,000,  with  Harry  E.  Bald­
win,  Charles  V.  Morris,  George  Hatt, 
Edward  J.  Warren  and  John  H.  Tigchon 
as  the  incorporators.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Capsule  Co.  has 
filed  articles  of  incorporation.  The  cap­
ital  stock  is  $100,000,  all  paid  in.  The 
stockholders  are  Samuel  R.  Bateson, 
5,000  shares,  and  Alexander  G.  Unsoeld 
and  Robert  E.  Graham,  2,500  shares 
each.

Zeeland—The  South  Ottawa  Cheese 
Co.  will  erect  a  two-story addition  to  its 
factory,  26x36 
in  dimensions, 
which  will  be  used  as a curing room.  A. 
Labuis  will  serve  the  factory  in  the  ca­
pacity  of  salesman  during  the  coming 
season.

feet 

Ionia—D.  C.  Crookshanks  and  Fred 
Somers  have  formed  a  copartnership 
and  succeed  to  the  planing  mill  and 
lumber  business  of  tbe  Williams  Mnfg. 
Co.  Mr.  Crookshanks  was  once  before 
connected  with  this  business,  being  as­
sociated with Alderman Gregg Williams, 
whose 
interest  the  new  firm  now  pur­
chases.

implements,  has  been 

Detroit—The Detroit Harrow & Manu­
facturing  Co.,  to  manufacture  agricul­
tural 
incorpo­
rated.  Capital  stock,  $50,000;  stock­
holders,  James  W.  Fales,  725  shares; 
Alex  McVittie,  625  shares;  John  H. 
Brown,  Rural  Retreat,  Va.,  800  shares; 
William  E.  Macklein,  800  shares; 
Frederick  D.  Rolison,  400  shares,  and 
J.  D.  Deland,  400  shares.

St.  Charles— The  J.  H.  Somers  Coal 
Co.  is  taking  over 800 tons  of  coal  daily 
its  mine  at  this  place.  Within 
from 
sixty  days 
it  will  have  a  new  mine  in 
operation  a  mile  and  a  quarter  south  of 
St.  Charles  and  next  month  tbe  com­
pany  will  start  another  shaft  for  a  new 
mine  about  a  mile  north  of  St.  Charles, 
where 
it  has  developed  a  fine  vein  of 
coai  and  has  several  hundred  acres  of 
land  secured.

Chelsea—The  Glazier  stove works  will 
be  removed  to  Cleveland  by  next  July 
unless  the  citizens  guarantee  a  bonus  of 
$25,000  in  cash  to  the  company  and  free 
light  and  power for a period of ten years. 
If  the  request  is  granted,  the  firm  will 
increase  the  capacity  of  the  plant  and 
employ  more  workingmen,  adding  new 
and  improved  machinery.  Public  opin­
ion  is  divided  on  the proposition.  Last 
year  the  village  bought  the  water  works 
and  electric  lighting  plant  of  the  Gla­
ziers  for $46,000.

Status  of the St. Louis Potato Market.
St.  Louis,  April  18—The  potato  mar­
ket  was  characterized  by  good  buying 
until 
last  Wednesday  noon,  when  the 
market  began  to  show  weakness;  not  on 
account  of  heavy  receipts,  for  receipts 
have  not  been  heavy  here  for some time, 
but  in  sympathy  with  Chicago  and other 
markets,  also  on  reports  that  the  move­
ment  was  better  at  loading stations,  that 
the  roads  were  getting  better  and  also 
tbe  almost  universal feeling that receipts 
would 
increase  with  tbe  fine  weather 
which  prevails  everywhere.  Then,  too, 
more  fresh  green  vegetables  are  show­
ing  upon  all  markets,  which  always  has 
its  effect  on  potatoes,  reducing  con­
sumption.

The  strong  point  of  the  St.  Louis 
market 
is  that,  even  while  prices  are 
easy  and  trade  is  dull,  buyer?  must  buy 
for  needs  and  will,  no  doubt,  continue 
to  buy  heavily,  and  we  look  for  a  good 
trade  here.  Prices  may  rule  the  same 
or  slightly 
lower,  but  we  think  trade 
will  be  better.  The  seed  trade  has  been 
very  active  and  prices  have  held  up. 
Farmers  are  planting  and  tbe  weather 
has  been  favorable,  mild  and  pleasant. 
Obios  and  Rose  met  best  sale  and  are 
still  selling  well.  Hebrons,  too,  while 
not  fetching  as  high  prices,  easily  com­
mand  6o@62c.
We  look  for  a  good  movement  from 
all 
loading  stations  the  coming  week. 
The  market  is  unsettled  and very  uncer­
tain  and  nobody  can  tell  what  to expect. 
Evidently  there  are  more  potatoes  held 
back  yet  to  come  to  market  than  was 
expected,  and  yet,  who  can  tell?

Miller  &  T easdale  Co.

Saginaw  Travelers  Indulge  in  a  Ban­

quet.

Tbe  opening 

Saginaw,  April  16—After  the  installa­
tion  of  tbe  officers  of  Saginaw  Council, 
No.  43,  U.  C.  T .,  at  K.  of  P.  hall  last 
evening,  an  adjournment  was  taken  to 
the  dining  rooms  of  the  Vincent,  where 
a  banquet  was  served.  The  Council 
was 
joined  by  Post  F,  Knights  of  the 
Grip,  and  several  guests  were  present 
from  Bay  City.  E.  C.  Gould  acted  as 
toastmaster. 
selection 
was  a  mandolin  solo  by  Earl  Williams. 
M.  V.  Foley  told  some  anecdotes  in  an 
entertaining  way.  A  vocal  duet  by  Mrs. 
T.  G.  Moorbouse  and  Mr.  McKay  was 
greatly  appreciated.  Miss  Mildred 
Sweat  followed  in  a  recitation.  M.  S. 
Brown  spoke  on  “ Traveling  Men  and 
Trusts,”   and  the  reading  of  a humorous 
selection  by  Mrs.  M.  S.  Brown  created 
considerable  amusement.  Earl Williams 
followed  in  a  comic  recitation.  V.  W. 
White,  of  Bay  City,  made  an  entertain­
ing  speech,  after  which  Mrs.  Moorhouse 
and  Mr,  McKay  favored  with  a  duet. 
Theodore  Hill  related  some  incidents 
in 
lives  which  were  not 
“ snaps,’ ’  speaking  of  where  competi­
tion  and  natural  causes  placed  them 
in 
a  predicament.  George  H.  Randall  re­
sponded  with  an  interesting  talk.  The 
guests  left  the  banquet  room  at  mid­
night,  having  passed  a  delightful  even­
ing. 

travelers’ 

m  m  m

Hudson  Gazette:  John  Whitbeck,  of 
the  well-known  firm  of  Whitbeck  Bros., 
has  accepted  a  very  responsible  and 
lucrative  position  with  Ross  W.  Weir  & 
Co.,  importers  and  jobbers  of  teas  and 
coffees,  New  York.  His territory  will  be 
in  Southern  Michigan,  Northern  In­
diana  and  Northern  Ohio.  Mr.  Whit­
beck  will  retain  his  interest  in  the  gro­
cery  business  here  for  a  time  at  least, 
leaving  the  same  in  charge  of  his broth­
er  Frank.

Lawrence  &  Mathewson  are  repre­
sented  on  the  road  by  Cliff  Herrick, 
who  covers  all  the  outside  trade  of  the 
house,  while  Will  Wood  looks  after  the 
needs  and  necessities  of  the  city  trade.
Frank  L.  Bean  has  purchased  the 
hardware  stock  of  Wm.  Vander  Made  at 
36  West  Leonard  street.

For  Gillies  N.  Y.  tea,  all  kinds, 

grades and  prices,  phone Visner,  80a

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Hardware  Market.

Trade  continues  of  good  volume  and, 
while  retailers  as  a  general  thing  rre 
quite  well  supplied,  they  are  still  buy­
ing  freely  of  goods  that  have  net 
reached  the  top  limit  in  higher  prices.
Wire  and  Nails— To  start  the  week 
the  American  Steel  &  Wire  Co.,  owing 
to  the  advance  in  raw  material,  four d 
it  necessary  to  make  advances  on  all 
kinds  of  wire  and  nails,and  also  change 
the  price  to  buyers  of  carload  and  less 
than  carload  buyers.  Prices,  as  adopted 
by  the 
jobber  at  present  time,  are  as 
follows:  No.  6  to  q  annealed  wire,  $2  20 
at  mill,  $2.35  from  stock,  with  an  ad­
vance  of  50c  extra for galvanizing  on  all 
sizes  between  6 and  14 ;  painted  barbed 
wire,  $2.40 at  mill  and $2.50 from s*ock, 
with  an  advance  of  50c  for  galvanized 
barbed;  wire  nails,  $2.30  at  mill  and 
$2.40  from  stock.  All  mill  shipments 
now  are  based  on  Pittsburg  rate  of 
freight,  no  matter  from  what  point  they 
are  shipped.

Miscellaneous---- As  many  advances
have  taken  place,  we  think  under  this 
head 
is  the  best  way  to  make  note  of 
them.  Steel  and  truckee  wedges  of  all 
kinds  have  advanced 
j£c  per  lb.  ;  log 
chain  of  all  kinds,  %c;  both  Manila 
and  sisal  rope,  %c  per  lb.  ;  chisels  of 
all  kinds,  10  per  cent.  ;  picks  and  mat­
tocks,  20  per  cent.  ;  barn  door  hangers, 
from  5oc@$i  per  doz.  ;  Junior  gasoline 
stoves,  from  25@5oc  each;  Royal  enam­
eled  ware,  the  discount  has  advanced  to 
60  per  cent,  off  list;  all  kinds  of  hatch­
ets  average  an  advance  of 25c per dozen ; 
stove  pipe  elbows,  from  10  to  20c  per 
dozen,  depending  upon the  kinds ;  mal 
leable  clevises  are  now  held  at  4c  per 
lb.  ;bar iron  is held firmly  at  2c  per  lb., 
full  extras.  As  will  be  noticed,  ad­
vances  are  being  made  on  everything 
just  as  soon  as  the  manufacturers  can 
get  at  the  correct  cost  of  the  raw  ma­
terial. 
lines  this  advance  is 
quite  rapid  and  prices  are  constantly 
changed  from  day  to  day.

In  many 

Window  Glass— The  American  Win­
dow  Glass  Co,  having  withdrawn the ex­
treme  prices  which  were  made  to  the 
jobbers  of  the  country,  an 
large  glass 
advance  has  taken  place. 
It  went  into 
effect  Monday,  April  17,  and  the  price 
at  the  present  time,  so  far  as  we  are 
able  to  learn,  is  held  firmly  as  follows: 
85  and  5  per  cent,  for  single  strength, 
and  85  and  10  per  cent,  for double.  This 
price,  however,  it  is  believed,  will  only 
be  made  for  this  month,  as  the  time  for 
closing  down  of  all  factories  is  so  near 
at  hand  that  a  further  advance 
is  ex­
pected  to  take  place  by  May  x.
The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Baldwins  and  Ben  Davis  are 

in  good  demand  at  S3-75  per  bbl.

Asparagus—$1.60  per  dcz.  bunches.
Bananas— Stock 

in  good 
shape  and  is  meeting  with  an  increased 
demand,  owing  to  the  fact  that  bananas 
are  comparatively  speaking  one  of  the 
lowest  fruits  on  the  market.

is  arriving 

Butter— Receipts  are  more  liberal  and 
the  price  has  receded  very  materially. 
Fancy  dairy  in  crocks  and  rolls  is  slow 
sale  at  I3@i4c.  Factory  creamery  is 
stationary  at  18c.

Cabbage—$5@6  per  crate  for  Califor­
nia.  No  home  grown  has  been  received 
for  several  days.
Celery—To  poor  to  ship.  Local offer­
ings  command  20c  per  doz.
*  Cranberries— Cape Cod command $2.50 
per  bu.
„  Cucumbers—Si. 35  per  doz.

Eggs—Local  dealers  are  paying  11c 
and  find  a  consumptive*  outlet  for all 
they  can  secure.  Brice  &4Co.  stand,pat

at  ioc,  but  Young  &  Co.  (Lake  Odessa) 
are  offering  11c  and  Cutler  (Ionia)  is 
reported  to  be  paying  12c.  An  8@gc 
market  is  evidently  not  to  be  witnessed 
this  year,  at  least  so  far  as  spring  eggs 
are  concerned,  owing  to  the  manner  in 
which  the  Eastern  markets  are  holding 
up,  in  consequence  of  lessened  receipts 
and  increased  consumption.

Honey— Dark  is  in  fair  demand at  8c. 
is  active  at  10c.  White 

Light  amber 
is  practically  out  of  market.

Green  Onions— I2@i5c  per  doz.. 

bunches.

Lemons— The  demand  continues  good 

for  the  season,  with  liberal  receipts.

Lettuce— I2@i5c  per  lb.
Maple  Sugar— 10c  per  lb.
Nuts—Hickory,  $i.5o@2,  according 

to  size.  Walnuts  and  butternuts,  60c.

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

Oranges—Outside  of  navels,  supplies 
are  liberal,  with  a  free  movement  to 
both  the  city  and 
the  country  trade. 
Owing  to  the  fact  that  coast  stocks  are 
well  cleaned  up,  the  sentiment  seems  to 
indicate.that  values  will  go  higher.

Parsley—$1  per  doz.  bunches.
Parsnips—$1.25  per  bbl.
Pineapples—$1.60  per  doz.  for  Flor- 

idas.

Pop  Corn— 50c  per  bu.
Potatoes—Dealers  are  paying  40c  and 
is  a  conun­

bold  at  50c.  The  market 
drum.

Poultry—Scarce.  Chickens, 

i i @I2c ; 
io@i i c ;  ducks,  n @ i2 c;  geese, 

fowls, 
io c;  turkeys,  I2@i4c.
Radishes— Round, 

20c 

per  doz. 
bunches.  Long,  15c  per  doz.  bunches.

Spinach—8o@goc  per  bushel.
Strawberries—$2.75  per  crate  of  24 

pints.
Grand Rapids Retail  Grocers’  Associa­

tion.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ Association held 
at  the  office  of  the  Tradesman  Company 
Tuesday  evening,  April  18,  Vice-Presi­
dent  Brink  presided.

Alger  &  Co., 

113  South  Division 
street,  and  L.  M.  Van  Heulen,  389 
Jefferson  avenue,  applied  for  member­
ship  and  were  accepted.

Treasurer  Lehman  reported  a  balance 

on  hand  in  the  treasury  of  $321.57.

A  member  complained  that  coffee  is 
being  sold  at  a  price  which  does  not 
afford  a  living  margin,  which 
is  con­
trary  to  the  selling  price  promulgated 
by  the  manufacturer.

Another  member  observed  that  he  had 
more  difficulty 
in  getting  a  profit  on 
XXXX  with  his  country  customers  than 
with  the  city  trade.

interview  the 

It  was  suggested  that  a  committee  be 
local  oil 
appointed  to 
companies,  and  ask  them  to  withdraw 
their  peddling  wagons  in  the  city,  and 
report  at  the  next  regular  meeting,  and 
the  chairman  named  as  such  committee 
A.  Brink,  Peter  Braun  and  Homer 
Klap.
The  Secretary  read  a  letter  from  Hill 
Bros.,  of  the  Jackson  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association,  as  follows:

If  you  wish,  you  may  warn  the  mem­
bers  of  your  Association  against  John 
H.  Lewis,  who  has  recently  removed 
from  this  place  to  your  city.  He  was 
formerly 
in  the  employ  of  the  Fuller 
Buggy  Co  as  teamster.  He  always 
paid  us  promptly  until 
the  last  two 
weeks,  although  he  had  not  patronized 
our  store  long,  and  came  well  recoro- 
minded.  He  left  town  last  Sunday,tak­
ing  his  household  goods,  before  we were 
aware  of  anv  such  intention  on  his  part.
There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.

Chas.  L.  Davis  and  Geo.  Davis  have 
formed  a  copartnership  under  the  style 
of  Davis  &  Davis  and  will  shortly  en­
gage, in  the  produce  and  commission 
business  at  127  Louis  street.

Mrs.  Anna  Maybee  has  sold  her  gro­
cery  stock  at  13  Irving  Place  to  Gilbert 
H.  Porter, 
the 
grocery  business  at  263  South  Division 
street.

formerly  engaged 

in 

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars— Raw  sugars  are again  higher, 
sales  having  been  made  at  4%  for 96 
deg.  test  centrifugals  and  4J^c  for  89 
deg.  test  muscovadoes.  This  brings  the 
difference  between  raws  and  refined 
down  to  34c,  which  is  acknowledged  to 
be  below  cost.  On  the  strength  of  this, 
brokers  are  predicting  higher  prices  for 
refined.  Refiners  have  withdrawn  the 
thirty  and  sixty  days'guarantee and this 
is  taken  as  an  indication  by  some  bro­
kers that  an  agreement  has been reached 
between  the  American  and  the indepen­
dent  refineries.

Canned  Goods— The demand  for  corn, 
tomatoes  and  peas  continues  good  and 
desirable 
lots  are  difficult  to  find  at  an 
advance  of  2j£c  per  dozen.  Stocks  in 
packers’  bands  are  exceedingly  light, 
and  that  jobbers’  surplus  storks  which 
have  been  carried  for  several  years  are 
cleaned  up 
is  an  evidence  of  the  good 
demand  in  this  line.

is  but 

Dried  Fruits—There 

Syrups  and  Molasses—Low  grade 
sugar  syrups  are  practically  out  of  the 
market,  the  foreign  demand  for  these 
goods  having  cleaned  up  all  of  the  low 
grades,  and  there  is  now  nothing  being 
offered  by  refiners  at  less  than  I5@i6c, 
New  York.  Partly  on  this  account  and 
partly  on  account  of  the  continued  cool 
weather, the  demand  for  corn  syrup  con­
tinues  good  and  prices  are  unchanged.
little 
change  to  note  in  the  dried  fruit  situa­
tion.  The  market 
is  strong  on  almost 
everything  in  the  line and,  although  the 
demand  is  confined  to  small  purchases, 
there  are  no  large  stocks  of  either  rai­
sins  or  prunes  and  prices  are  firmly 
maintained, with an  advancing  tendency 
on 
lower  grades.  On  account  of  the 
heavy  demand  from  England,  the  Gre­
cian  market  on  currants  is  higher,  and 
our  Eastern  market  is  stronger  in  sym­
pathy,  but  no  advance  has  as  yet  taken 
place.  Reports  from  Smyrna  regarding 
the  coming  fig  crop  say  that  although 
the  crop  wiil  be  much  in  excess  of 
last 
year 
it  will  be  only  about  half  of  an 
average  yield.

Cereals—Owing  to  the  higher  market 
on  oats,  the  price  of  oatmeal  has  ad­
vanced  15c  per  barrel  and  the  market  is 
very  strong  at  the  advance.

Vinegar—The 

consolidation  of  the 
vinegar  manufacturing  interests,  which 
has  been  under  way  for  some  months, 
will  be  completed,  it  is  thought,  in  the 
course  of  the  present  week.  The  name 
of  the  new  industrial combination  is  the 
American  Vinegar  Co.,  and  it  will  be 
capitalized  at  about $10,000,000.  Henry 
Clews  &  Co.  will  finance  the  scheme. 
Options  have been  taken  on  fully  90  per 
interests  of  the 
cent,  of  the  vinegar 
country,  and 
is  expected  that  the 
company  will  control  that  percentage  of 
the  output.  The  constituent  companies 
will  take  in  return  for  their  plants  both 
stock  and  cash,  the greater  portion  of 
the  purchase  price  to  be  paid  for  with 
stork.

it 

Confectionery— Now 

it  is  a  $75,000,- 
000  candy  combine,  which  will 
include 
all  of  the  principal  manufacturers in the 
United  States.  The  project  has  been 
discussed  for  several  months,  and  has 
been  met  favorably  on  all  sides.  One 
of  the  objects  of  forming  the  combine 
is  to  reduce  the  operating  expenses  and 
to  lessen,  if  possible,  the  sharp  compe­
tition  which  the  manufacturers  claim 
is  ruinous  to  their  business.  The  ex­
penses  in  operating  the various factories 
will  be  materially  decreased.  Each  con­
cern  now  has  on  the  road  from  eight  to 
ten  salesmen,  whose  traveling  expenses 
and  „salaries  aggregate  a  vast  sum  per

5

year. 
In  addition  to  this,  each  con­
cern  has  a  buyer,  who  attends  only  to 
the  purchase  of  raw  materials.  Under 
the  management  of  the  combine,  the 
number  of  salesmen  would  be  decreased 
to a  great  extent.  The  cost  of  operation 
to  the  manufacturers  will  be  decreased 
in  the  matter  of  purchasing  the  raw 
material.  The  important  article  in  the 
manufacture  of  candy 
is,  of  course, 
sugar,  and  the manufacturers  realize  the 
vast  saving  that  can  be  made  if  all  the 
sugar  used  by  a  certain  number  of  fac­
tories  was  purchased  in  one  large  order. 
The  price  of  candy  depends  in  a  great 
measure  on  the  price  of  sugar,  and  a 
change  in  the  price  of  that  commodity 
is  always  followed  by  a  corresponding 
change  in  the  price  of  candy. 
It  is  un­
derstood  that  an  effort  is  being  made  to 
control  the  raw  material  that  to  a  great 
into  the  manufacture  of 
extent  enters 
candy.  This  will 
include  the  sp'ces, 
flavoring  extracts,  etc.  Of  course,  sugar 
and  glucose  are  already  taken  care  of, 
but  the  high  priced  extracts  and  ma­
chinery  will  be  the  main  features  ti  be 
controlled  by  the  combine.  The  chief 
success  achieved  by  the  promoters  has 
in  Chicago,  Detroit,  Milwaukee, 
been 
St.  Louis  and  Cincinnati. 
these 
cities  the  dealers  are  working  together 
harmoniously  in  the  matter  of  prices,  a 
uniform  scale  of  prices  being  adhered 
to  as  rigidly  as  if  the  concerns  were 
already  under  the combine management.

In 

Flour and Feed.

Much  anxiety  over  the  condition  of 
the  growing  winter  wheat  crop,  together 
with  a  multitude  of  conflicting  reports, 
makes it extremely difficult  for flour buy­
ers  to  form  an  opinion  which  they  are 
willing  to  back  up  with  liberal  orders. 
The  same  conditions  seem  likely to con­
tinue  for  the  next  three  or  four  weeks 
and  a  hand-to-mouth  policy  will,  no 
doubt,  be  pursued  by  the  trade  until 
growing  weather  more  fully  settles  the 
question  of  damage.  On  the  other  hand, 
those  consumers  who  usually  purchase  a 
winter’s  supply  of  flour  are  getting  near 
the  bottom  of  the  barrel;  navigation 
will  soon  be  fully  opened,  and  these  in­
fluences,  together  with  a general  revival 
of  spring  trade,  will  soon  greatly  in­
crease  the  demand  for flour.  Against 
this 
increased  demand  we  must  place 
the  fact  that  supplies  of  winter  wheat 
at  central  storage  points  are  extremely 
small;  also  that  farmers  for  the  next 
sixty  days  will  be  extremely  busy  put­
ting  in  spring  crops  and  will  have  but 
little  time  or  disposition 
to  market 
wheat,  nor  will  they  try  to  do  so  unless 
the  price 
is  considerably  advanced. 
The  position  seems  to be  one  of  great 
strength,  and  both  wheat  and  flour  at 
present  prices  would  appear  to  be  low 
enough  to  invite  investment.

The  city  mills  are  all running steadily 
and  have  a  good  line  of  orders  booked 
for  April  and  May.

Millstuffs  are  in  fairly  good  demand, 
but  prices  have  dropped  off  $1  per  ton. 
Feed  and  meal  are  moving  steadily, 
with  prices  unchanged  for  the  week.

W m.  N.  Rowe.

last  Wednesday, 

At  a  special  meeting  of  the  stock­
holders  of  the  Clark-Rutka-Jewell  Co., 
held 
the  corporate 
style of  the  company  was changed  to  the 
Clark-Rutka-Weaver  Co.  The  capital 
stock  of  the  corporation  was  also  in­
creased  at  the same  time.  M.  J.  Clark 
continues  as  President  and  J.  J.  Rutka 
as  Vice-President,  while Wm.  D.  Weav­
er  assumes  the  duties  and  responsibili­
ties  of  Secretary  and  Treasurer.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

0 
W om an’s W orld
To  What  Extent  Women  Are Justified 

in  Proposing.

“ One  of  the  things,”   said  Elise  the 
other  day,  “ that  no  woman  ever  fails  to 
resent 
is  the  suggestion  that  she had 
anything  whatever  to  do  with  marrying 
her  husband.  She  may  be  as  meek  and 
bumble  as  the  traditional  worm,  but  let 
anybody  hint  that  she  did the  proposing 
and  she  turns  on  you  with  a  snapping 
denial.  So  well  understood  is  this  fem­
inine  idiosyncrasy  that  we  have  tacitly 
accepted  a  polite,  if  ridiculous,  theory 
that  it  is  only  by  dint  of  the  most  per­
sistent  persuasion  that  a  woman  is  ever 
induced  to  forsake  the  state  of  single 
blessedness.  We  even  carry  the  idea  so 
far  that  we  say  a  girl  is  married  ‘ to’  a 
man,  and  that  she  is  ‘ led’  to  the  altar, 
as 
if  she  were more  or  less  of  a  victim, 
instead  of  being  pleased  to  death  at  her 
good  luck  in  catching  the  man  she  has 
been  out  for. ’ ’

“ W ell,"  said  the  practical  woman, 
“ inasmuch  as  a  woman  is  always  about 
twice  as  much  married  as  a man  is,  and 
as  matrimony  makes  or  mars  her hap­
piness  so  much  more  than  it  does  bis, 
the  old  cutsom  that  makes  her  merely 
negative  in  the  matter  isn’t  fair,  any­
how.  We  wouldn’t  sit  down  and  wait 
on  the  chance  of  any  other good  thing 
being  brought  to  our  door  and  offered 
to  us.  We  would  go  out and hunt for it. ’ '
“ I  don’t  know  but  wbat  we  do,”   put 
in  the  woman  in  the  tulle  hat.  “ Some­
times  I  think  that  the  reason  we  deny 
the  charge  of  doing  the  proposing  so 
bitterly 
is  because  we  have  a  bad  con­
science  in  the  matter.  Look  about  you. 
Don’t  you  know  dozens  of  men  whoj 
you  are  morally  certain  were  proposed 
to,  instead  of  doing  the  proposing?  Of 
course,  the  woman  didn’t  go  to  them 
and  say,  ‘ My  adored  Algernon,  I  love 
you.  Let  me  ask  your  mother  for  this 
precious  hand !  Give  me  the  privilege 
of  seeing  that  your  socks  are  darned, 
and  your  buttons  are  on,  and  of  protect­
ing  you  from  overdone  meat  and  under­
done  bread  and  the  other  vicissitudes 
and  hardships  of  a  single  life. *  Oh, 
no.  Any  such  flatfooted  proposition  as 
that  would  scare  a  man  into  blue  fits, 
and  she  knows  better.  She  gently  insin­
uates  the 
idea  into  bis  own  conscious­
ness  until  he  believes  it  originated  with 
him,  and  be  spends  the  balance  of  bis 
days  congratulating  himself  upon  his 
superior  astuteness  in  selecting that par­
ticular  woman  from  out  all  the  millions 
of  her  sex.  And 
in  reality  he  never 
it,  and  never 
had  anything  to  do  with 
would  have  noticed  her 
if  she  hadn't 
called  bis  attention  to  herself.

It 

“ Then  take  the  bashful  man. 

If 
left  to  do  the  lovemaking  and  propos­
ing  would  he  ever  reach  the  altar? 
Not  in  a  thousand  years! 
is  aston­
ishing,  too,  bow  many  really  desirable 
men  suffer  from  this  affliction,  and,  for 
my  part,  I  am  never  more  pleased  with 
the  determination  and  enterprise  of  my 
sex  than  when  I  see  some  woman  secure 
a  bashful  man  for  her  husband. 
I've 
watched  the  process  a  hundred  times, 
and 
If 
the  shy  man 
leaves  home  while  he  is 
young,  he  is  dead  sure  to  marry  either 
his 
lmdlady’s  daughter  or  a  girl  who 
boards 
If  he  stays  at 
home  the  girl  who  is  the  jolly-good-fel- 
low  gets  him.  He  begins  by  treating 
her  like  a  boy.  She  is  chummy  and easy 
to  get  acquainted  with,  and  by  and  by 
he  finds  she 
is  the  best  of good  com­
pany.  There's  no  nonsense  about  their

it  always  ends  the  same  way. 

in  the  house. 

conversation.  Good  heavens,  I  should 
say  not!  She  knows  her  business.  To 
drag  in  sentiment  would  be  to  frighten 
him  away 
just  as  surely  as  a  shy  fish 
would  slip  away  from  the  too  alluringly 
displayed  bait.  After  a  while  he  has 
to  go  away,  or  she  has  to  leave,  and 
there  must  come  an  end  to  the  pleasant 
comradeship.  She  sheds  a  few  tears 
He  has  never  had  a  woman  weep  with 
sorrow  at  parting  from  him  before,  and 
he  goes  off  his  head  a  bit.  When  he 
comes to  again he finds himself engaged, 
and  he  never  knows  to his  dying  day 
bow  it  happened.”

it 

is  in 

is  the  straight  truth. 

“ I  used  to  read,”  put in  the  practical 
woman,  “ in  Thackeray,  where  he  says 
that  any  woman,  without  an  actual 
hump,  can  marry  any  man  she  wants, 
and  I  used  to  wonder  how  she  did  it. 
Now  I  know.  She  makes  him  believe 
she 
love  with  him.  That  over­
throws  all  the  old  theories,  doesn’t  it? 
But 
If  there 
ever  was  a  time  when  men  were  fasci­
nated  by  the  scornful  beauties  who 
flouted  them,  that  time  is  far,  far  away 
in  the  past.  It  doesn’t  work  now.  Why,
I  have  seen  a  woman  throw  herself  at  a 
man’s  head 
in  a  way  that  you  would 
have  thought  would  have  disgusted 
it  didn’t.  He  couldn’t  see 
him,  but 
anything 
in 
it  but  the  superior  judg­
ment  of  a  woman  who  knew  a  good 
thing  when  she  saw  it. 
I  honestly  be­
lieve  that  nine-tenths  of  the  men  who 
get  married  are  attracted  by  that  thing 
first. 
‘ is  a  girl 
who  has  sense  enough  to  admire  me, 
and  see  the  points  of  my jokes,  and  who 
asks  my  advice  on  every  subject.  That 
of  itself  shows  her  to  be  a  person  of  re­
markable  penetration  and 
intelligence. 
Then,  poor  dear,  she’s  in  love  with  me. 
She  can't  help  that,  of  course,  and  I'm 
sure  I  don’t  wonder at  it,’ and forthwith 
he  marries  her  as  a  reward  for  her  good 
taste. 
In  novels,  you  know,  it  wouldn’t 
happen  that  way.  The  man  would  break 
his  heart  for  some  woman  who  turned 
up  her  nose  at  him  and  wouldn’t  have 
him  at  any  price,  but  in  real  life  things 
are  much  more  sensibly  arranged,  and 
my  observation 
is  that  a  man  sets  a 
woman  who  doesn’t  admire  him  down 
as  a  chump  and  never  wastes  a  second 
thought upon her. ”

‘ Here,’  he  will  say, 

“ Do you  actually  think  a  woman  who 
lets a  man  see  she  cares  for  him  pro­
poses?”  
I asked  the  practical  woman, 
and  she  shrugged  her  shoulders  as 
she answered : “  As you choose. Of course, 
it  takes  nerve  or  inexperience—the  old 
stager  or  a  debutante—to  play the game, 
but  it’s  a  three-times winner. ”

“ Then  there  are  widows,”   mused  the 
woman  in  the  tulle  hat.  “ Does  anybody 
suppose  that  they  are  in  reality  so  much 
more  attractive  than  other  women,  or 
that  there 
is  a  special  arrangement  of 
Providence  to  furnish  them  with  hus­
bands?  We  know  better.  Yet  all  around 
us  we  see  widows  getting  married again 
before  their  crape has  time  to  get  rusty, 
while  other  women,  just  as  charming 
and  as  young  and  as  pretty,  never  have 
a  chance  to  get  married  at  all. 
I  main­
tain  it  is  nothing  but  superior  finesse. 
Far  be 
it  from  me  to  suggest  that 
widows  do  the  proposing,  but  there  are 
places  where,  if  you 
lead  a  person  to 
the  brink,  be  will  topple  over  himself. 
I  have  been  interested  in  watching  the 
way  a  widow  and  a  spinster  conduct  a 
matrimonial  campaign,  and  there's  all 
the  difference  between  them  that  there 
is  between  a  bungling  volunteer  officer 
and  a  seasoned  campaigner.  Let us  sup­
pose,  for  instance,  they  are  both  about 
thirty-five,  an  age  when  one has  natur­

ally  acquired  views  of  things.  The 
spinster  brings  hers  to  the  front 
She 
parades  them,  and  argues  about  them. 
The  widow  conceals  hers  as  carefully 
as  she  does  her  first  gray  hairs.  She 
knows  that  men  have  married  crosseyed 
women  and 
redheaded  women  and 
hunchbacked  women,  but  no  man  ever 
married  a  woman  who  argued 
if  he 
knew  it  in  time  to  save  himself.  Then 
the  widow  knows  the  value  of  a  domes­
tic  background. 
You  don’t  see  her 
achieving  her  richest  triumphs  by  run­
ning  around  to  boarding  houses  and 
hotels  and  unhomelike  places.  She  is 
in  her  own  home,  and  its  quiet  comfort 
pleads  for  her  with  the  eloquence  of 
angels.  She  doesn’t  expect  rhapsodies 
like a  debutante,  she  doesn’t  have  to 
fuss  over  trousseaux 
like  a  young  girl 
or  run  a  fellow  frantic  with  the  splurge 
of  a  fashionable  wedding.  She  offers 
the  ideal  of  genial  comradeship,  and 
when  a  man  contrasts  this  with  the  hys­
terical  demands  of  a  young  girl' or  the 
argumentations, 
theories  and  convic­
tions  of  the  spinster  who  is  set 
in  her 
ways,  it  isn’t  any  wonder  he  so  often 
chooses  the  widow.

“ Well,”   said  Elise,  “ for  my  part,  I 
think  a  woman  has  just  exactly as  much 
right  to  propose  as  a  man  has,  and  if 
we  can  do  it  without  the  dear  creatures 
finding 
it  out,  why  that  scores  one  for 
our  superior  cleverness.  A  good  bus 
band 
is  a  good  thing  to  have,  and  I 
don’t know  that  a  woman  can  be  better 
employed 
than  looking  around  until 
she  finds  what  she  wants,  and  then  get­
ting  him— if  she  can.”

Dorothy  D ix.

Some  Things  Which  the  Busy Woman 

Fails  To  See.

It  is  inevitable  that  there  should come 
times  in  the  life  of  every  busy  working 
woman  when  she  turns  envious  eyes  up­
on  those of  her  sisters  who  have  nothing 
to  do  and  who  are  burdened  with  no 
cares  and  no  responsibilites.  At  the 
moment 
it  seems  to  her  that  no  lot  in 
the  world  is  so  fortunate  and  so  blest  as 
the 
lot  of  those  who  have  no  ties  nor 
duties,  who  need  neither  think  nor  act 
for  others,  but  are  free  to'merely  exist. 
It  is  a  state  of  negative  happiness,  that 
was quaintly  summed  up  once  by  a  toil- 
worn  old  seamstress  who,  coming  un­
expectedly 
fortune,  was 
asked  concerning  her  future plans,  when 
she  replied:  “ I ’m  not  going  to  do  a 
thing  on  God’s  earth  but  board!”

into  a 

little 

It 

is  tired  of 

Sometimes  the  woman  who  complains 
is  a  busy  housewife,  who  tells  you  she 
is  worn  out  with  worrying  over 
incom­
petent  servants  and  that life has resolved 
itself,  for  her,  into  wbat  Mr.  Mantalini 
used  to  call  a  “ demnition  grind.”   She 
is  forever  ordering  meals  that  are  eaten 
up  at  once,  and  cleaning  rooms  that 
seem  to  accumulate  dirt  again  as 
if  by 
magic,  and  making  garments  that  are 
no  sooner  made  than  torn. 
is  an 
endless  chain  of work,  with  no  apparent 
result,  and  she 
it  all  and 
would  like to  throw  the  whole  thing  up 
and  run  away.  Or,  perhaps,  it 
is the 
mother  of  little  children.  Her  days  are 
spent  in  a  weary  round  of  trivial  duties 
—binding  up  little  fingers,  singing tired 
babies  to  sleep,  bearing 
little  prayers 
and  answering  anever-ceasing  call  for 
mother.  There  is  never  an  hour  of  the 
day  when  she  can  sit down  for the  quiet 
reading  of  a  new  book.  Her  accom­
plishments  are  rusting  out  for  want  of 
practice,  for bow  is  one  to  interpret  the 
poetry  of  a  moonlight  sonata  when 
Johnny  is  making  a  trolley  car out of the 
best  parlor  chairs  and  giving  only  too

realistic  imitation  of  the  gong  in  one’s 
ear?  Or  what  encouragement  is  there  in 
trying  to  keep  up  one’s  painting  when 
the  baby  must  be  watched  continually to 
keep  her  from  sampling  the paint tubes? 
What  chance,  asks  such  a  woman,  have 
I  to  enjoy  or 
I  am 
chained,  like  a  slave  to  the  galleys,  to 
my  home.

improve  myself? 

It 

is  no  wonder that  a  woman  whose 
life  is  so  full  of  little  duties  should  now 
and  then  grow  weary  and  discouraged 
and  complain.  But 
in  reality  she  is 
never  the  one  to  be  pitied.  It  is  the  full 
life  that 
is  the  happy  one—not  the 
empty  one.  There  is  no  more  dissatis­
fied  figure  in  the  world  than  the  woman 
we  see  so  often  in  boarding-houses  and 
hotels,  whose  life  is  absolutely  idle  and 
whose  one  pursuit  is  killing  time.  She 
has  nothing  to  do,  and  the  days  drag 
themselves  wearisomely  out,  a  gray 
vista  of  endless  monotony.  More  than 
that,  robbed  of  the  stimulus of interested 
action,  of  work  that  keeps  the  body  and 
the  mind  alert  and  active,  she  ages 
sooner  than  her  toiling  sister,  and  loses 
health  and  looks.

In  a  finer  and  better  sense  the  full life
is  the  happy  life,  and  there 
is  nothing 
more  pathetic  than  the  lives  of  women 
who  are  saved  from  toil  because  there 
are  none  to  work  for,  no  helpless  hands 
of  little  children  reaching  up  to them  in 
the  ‘dark,  no  old  and  feeble  ones  who 
have  upon  them  the  divine  claim  of  a 
daughter’s  tender  ministry.  Even  the 
freedom  that  gives  a  woman  liberty  to 
journey  to  far-off  countries  and  linger 
in  the  pleasant  spots  of  the  world  must 
be  bought  with  a  heavy  price, 
for  it 
means  that 
there  are  none  watching 
and  waiting  for  her,  no  tender  ties  of 
wifehood  and  motherhood—that 
in  all 
the  wide  world  she  is  essential  to  no­
body's happiness. 
It  is  this  side  of  the 
question  that  the  busy  woman  fails  too 
often  to  see,  when  she  complains  of  her 
life  being  too  full  of  little  duties.

Cora  Stowell.

World  Not  Ruled  By  Men  of  Genius-
It  cannot  be  too  often  repeated  that  it 
is  not  men  of  genius  who  move  the 
world  and  take the  lead  in  it,  so  much 
as  men  of  steadfastness,  purpose,  and 
indefatigable 
industry.  Notwithstand­
ing  the  many  undeniable  instances  of 
the  precocity  of  men  of  genius,  it  Is 
nevertheless  true  that  early  cleverness 
gives  no 
indication  of  the  height  to 
which  the  grown  man  will  reach.  Pre­
cocity  is  sometimes  a  symptom  of  dis­
ease  rather  than  of  intellectual  vigor. 
What  becomes  of  all  the  remarkably 
clever  children?  Where  are  the  prize 
boys?  Trace  them  through  life  and 
it 
will  frequently  be  found  that  the  dull 
boys,  who  were  beaten  at  school,  have 
shot  ahead  of  them.  The  clever boys 
are  rewarded,  but  the  prizes  which  they 
gain  by  their  greater  quickness  and  fa­
cility  do  not  always  prove  of  use  to 
them.  What  ought rather to  be  rewarded 
is  the  endeavor,  the  struggle,  and  the 
obedience;  for  it  is  the  man  wbo  does 
his best,  although  endowed  with  an 
in­
feriority  of  natural  powers,  that  ought 
above  all  others  to  be  encouraged.
Failed  to  Obey  Orders.

The  patron  of  a  Paris  restaurant  re­
cently  complained  to  the  proprietor  that 
he  had  found  a  shoestring  in  his  soup, 
whereupon  the  proprietor  called 
the 
waiter  and  addressed  him  as  follows: 

“ Fill  the  soup  plate  of  the  gentleman 
again  and  tell  the  cook  to  quit.  He 
had  a  formal  order  from  me  always  to 
use  a  sieve;  unfortunately  he  forgets 
it 
sometimes. ”

The  fortunate  man 

is  he  who,  born 
poor  or  nobody,  works  gradually  up  to 
wealth  and  consideration,  and,  having 
got them,  dies  before  he  finds  they  were 
not  worth  so  much 
trouble.—Charles 
Reade.

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WEDNESDAY,-----APRIL 19, 1899.

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
With  a  steady  recovery  of stock values 
from  the  reaction  of  two  weeks  ago  the 
report  of  general  conditions  sho*s  the 
greatest  activity  and  volume  of  trade 
ever  known  in  the  corresponding  weeks 
of  April— if,  indeed,  they  were  ever ex­
ceeded.  The  advance 
in  stocks  was 
quite  general  all  along the line,  although 
the  greatest  differences  are  shown  by 
such  trust  and  common  stock  as suffered 
most  severely 
The 
promptness  and  steadiness  with  which 
the  advance  was  taken  up  show  that 
the  reaction  was  speculative  and  that 
the  conditions  warrant  an  apparently 
indefinite  increase  of  values.

the  decline. 

in 

A  notable  feature  of  the  situation  is 
the  universality  of  the 
improvement, 
really  no  important  lines  proving  an 
exception.  Advancing  prices  in  some 
manufactures  seem  to  have  cut  off  cer­
tain  foreign  orders,  and  yet  the  num­
ber  of  those  offered  and  accepted is only 
limited  by  the  capacity  of  works.  A 
significant  instance  of 
is 
in  the  importation  of  raw  silk,  which  is 
87  per  cent,  larger  for  eight  months  of 
the  fiscal  year  than  for  the  correspond­
ing  period  of  any  previous  year.

improvement 

The  loss  of  some  foreign  contracts  on 
account  of  higher  prices  still 
leaves 
enough  to  fully  warrant  the advance  and 
keep  works  crowded  to  their  utmost. 
The  Maryland  Steel  Company  has  an 
order  for  75,000  tons  of  rails  for  the 
Chinese  Eastern,  and  the  locomotive 
and  machine  companies  report  others. 
The  domestic  demands,  including  6,000 
tons  bridge  work  at  Chicago  and  5,000 
tons  structural  at  Pittsburg,  with  many 
others,  are  crowding  the  works,  which 
are  obliged  to  refuse  much  of  the  busi­
ness  offered.  Actual  consumption  of 
pig  in  manufacture  was  about  1,056,043 
tons  in  March,  reducing  warrant  stocks 
16,600  tons  and  other  unsold  stocks 
115,118  tons,  although  the  output  of  fur­
naces  was  increased  in  that  month  over 
17,000  tons  to  245,746  tons  weekly  April 
1.  Prices  of  pig  have  been about steady, 
with  prices  of  finished  products  gener­
ally  higher  for  anything  like  early  de­
is  also  stronger  and 
livery.  Copper 
scarce  at  18 
cents  for  Lake,  and  tin  a 
shade  stronger at  25^  cents.

The  accounts  as  to  wheat  crop  dam­
age  are  more  unanimous  and  more posi­
tive  and  vociferous  than  in  any  other 
long  time,  and  yet  they 
spring  for  a 
little  as  yet, 
affect  prices  remarkably 
for  cash  wheat  is  scarcely  as  high  as 
it 
was  two  weeks  ago  and  May  wheat  has 
exactly  the  same  quotation,  both  hav­

ing  advanced  last  week  a  little  over  one 
cent,  as  they  declined  the  week  before. 
There 
is  a  still  stronger  tendency  up­
ward  this  week.  Bad  reports  are  neces­
sarily  received  with  distrust when actual 
receipts  at  Western  ports  in  two  weeks 
have  been  5,863,665 bushels in two weeks 
of  April  against  3,307,687  last  year,  and 
in  March  12,949,875  against  9,968,373. 
Farmers  do  not  hurry  forward  grain  at 
that  rate  with 
low  prices  prevailing 
when  their  own  losses  by  winter  storms 
large  enough  to  threaten  a 
have  been 
short  yield. 
If  the  statements  of  injury 
are  truthful  there 
is  first  the  fact  that 
the  acreage  sown  was  nearly  a  tenth 
larger  than 
last  year,  and  second  the 
fact  that  resowing  of  the  same fields and 
increased  sowing  of  spring  wheat  make 
up  for  much  loss  when  it  is  widely  re­
ported  so  early  as  this.  Exports  of 
wheat  and  corn  have been comparatively 
small  this  month,  although  some  recent 
buying  has  been  prompted  by  gloomy 
reports.

No  other  event  ought  to influence gen­
eral  business  more  than  the  marked  ex­
cess  of  exports  over  imports,  $31,670,- 
769,  in  spite  of  a  decrease  of  $12,600,- 
000 
in  cotton  and  $4,500,000  in  bread- 
stuffs,  the  minor  exports,  mostly  of 
manufactures,  having  increased $9,550, - 
In  April  thus  far  imports  at  New 
000. 
York  .  have 
increased  $4,900,000  over 
last  year,  which  is  less  than  in  the  first 
half  of  March,  while  exports  slightly 
exceed  those  of  last  year,  against  a  de­
crease  of  15  per  cent,  in  March.

in 

The  Tradesman  commends  the rebuke 
administered  to  that  portion  of 
the 
country  press  of  Michigan  which carries 
the  announcements  of  catalogue  houses, 
as  set  forth  in  the  contribution  on  that 
subject  by  Mr.  Welton  in  another  por­
tion  of  this  week’s  paper.  The  rebuke 
is  timely,  and  should  be  given  due  con­
sideration  because  a  continuance of  the 
obnoxious  announcements 
the  col­
umns  of  the  country  press  will  serve  to 
array  the  legitimate  merchant  against 
his  local  paper  and  ultimately  cause  an 
estrangement which will be to the perma­
nent  detriment  of  both  parties.  In  most 
cases  the  foreign  advertisements  have 
been  accepted  without  proper  consid­
eration  of  the  consequences  on  the  part 
of  the  country  press,  and  it  is  possible 
that  a  reminder  of  this  kind  will  result 
in  a  reconsideration  of  the  matter on the 
part  of  many  of  the  papers  which  are 
now  carrying  the  cards  of  the  guerrilla 
institutions.

It  is  related  that  a  native  merchant  of 
Manila,  while  undergoing  his  last  ill­
ness,  expressed  a  desire  to  have “ one of 
those  beautiful  American  tunes’ ’  played 
at  his  funeral.  He  could  not  give  its 
name,  but  a  friend  knew  the  tune  be 
meant,  and  so  the  funeral  passed  on  to 
the  cemetery,  the  band  playing  “ The 
Star  Spangled  Banner.”

The  new  “ Lexowing”   of  New  York 
will  furnish  the  public  with  some  good 
reading  if  it  does  fail  to  work  any prac­
tical  reform.  The  next  best  thing  to 
being  benefited  is  to  be  entertained.

The  Supreme  Court  of  Connecticut 
has  affirmed  a  judgment  for  damages  in 
favor  of  a  man  who  claimed  to  be 
in­
jured  by  the  noise  from  an  adjacent 
factory. 

_____________

The  Boston  Globe  poetically  observes 
that  New  Jersey  counts  that  day  lost 
whose  low  descending  sun  beholds  no 
new  trust  formed,  no  corporate  deal  be­
gun!

THE  NEW  EDUCATION.

In  an 

interview,  published 

in  a  re­
cent  number  of  the  Coming  Age,  Sam­
uel  T.  Dutton,  a  prominent  advocate 
and  exponent  of  “ The  New  Educa­
tion,”   remarks  that  the  old  education 
was  adapted  to  the  simpler  life  of  an 
earlier  age,  when  the  knowledge  of  the 
mind  and 
its  methods  of  growth  was 
much  less  than  it  is  at  present.  If  it be 
enquired 
in  what  the  demand  for  an 
altered  system  of  education  consists, 
the  answer  is  that  it  grows  out of the  in­
creased  complexity  of  modern  life,  with 
a  corresponding  increase  in competition 
and  concentration  of  effort.  Moreover, 
Mr.  Dutton  remarks,  the  new  education 
provides  a  larger  freedom  than  that  se­
cured  by  the  education  of  fifty  years 
ago.  He  does  not  show  precisely  in 
what  way  this  greater  freedom  is  man­
ifested,  but  he  adds  that  the  older  edu­
cation  “ proceeded  upon  false  ideas  of 
what  the  human  mind 
is,  and  bow  it 
should  be  treated ;  it  assumed  that  the 
intellect  had  certain  distinct  faculties 
which  were  to  be  treated  separately. 
Memory  was  generally  made  the  subject 
of  training.  More  than  that,  the  ends 
of  education  were  not  viewed  in  any 
broad  or  compjebensive  way.”

is  upon  very 

Generalizations  of  this  sort  may  pos­
sess  a  certain  value,  but  the  impression 
they  make 
is  that  they  are  rather  too 
vague  to  be  of  much  practical  helpful­
It 
ness. 
is  all  very  well  to  insist  that 
is  a  unit  and  not  a  mere  ag­
the  mind 
gregate  of  separate  faculties,  and 
it 
may  be  quite  true  that  there  is  some­
thing  necessarily  harmful  in  the attempt 
to  give  a  special  training  to  any  par­
ticular  power  of  the  mind  to  the  neglect 
of  others;  but  when  Mr.  Dutton  under­
takes  to  illustrate  this  view  by  a  refer­
ence  to  the  disproportionate  attention 
which  he  thinks  was  given  in  other days 
to  the  education  of  the  memory,  one 
feels  that  he 
familiar 
ground  and  wonders  whether Mr.  Dutton 
is  really  ignorant  of  the  fact  that  be  is 
merely  repeating  a  complaint  that  was 
current  thirty,  and  even  forty,  years 
ago.  But  the  most  impressive  sugges­
tion  of  Mr.  Dutton’s  talk  on this subject 
is  his  own  apparently  profound  convic­
tion  that  the  world  is  changing  and  that 
the  mind  must  change,  too,  at 
in 
its  way  of  looking  at  things  and  deal­
ing  with  them  in  its  thought.  After  re­
marking  that  strong  characters  devel­
oped  under  the  old  system—the  system 
of  half  a  century  ago— were  indebted 
for  their  growth  not  so  much  to  the 
training  received  in  the  schoolroom  as 
to  the  hard  conditions  of  life  which 
made  self-reliance  and  energy  pre-emi­
nently  necessary,  he  says:

least 

They  were  successful,  not  by  reason 
of  school  advantages,but  rather  in  spite 
of  them.  At  the  same  time,  the  ordi 
narv  man  of  fifty  years  ago,  if  set  down 
to-day 
in  the  city  of  Chicago  or  New 
York,  would  be  almost  as  much  lost  as 
would  the  Eskimo  or  the  Indian.  He 
would  find  new  conditions  surrounding 
every  department  of  human  activity; 
he  would  see  business done  by  means  of 
the  telegraph,  the  telephone and through 
various  combinations  securing  swiftness 
and  efficiency,  which  would  be  a  source 
of  astonishment  to  him. 
If  he  went 
into  a  commercial  office  he  would  see  a 
single  man  doing  as  much  business 
in 
one  day,  between  the  hours  of  10  m  the 
morning  and  3  in  the afternoon,  as  the 
old-time  merchant  would  have  accom­
plished  in  a  month,  working  ten  hours 
a  day. 
It  would  take  him  a  long  time 
to  discover  that,  in  the  hurry  and  bustle 
and  rush  of  modern  life,there are,never­
theless,  plan  and  organization,  and  that 
those  who  are  apparently  pressed  and 
driven  by  the  stress  of  affairs  still  have 
time  for  recreation  and  the  pursuit  of

culture.  Such  a  person,  if  we  may  con­
ceive  of  a  Rip  Van  Winkle  who  has 
slept  for  fifty  years,  would  to-day  need 
to  be  educated  not  only  in  the  schools, 
but 
in  the  methods  of  modern  life,  in 
order  to  find  a  place  of  usefulness  for 
himself.

Probably  no  age  has  ever  failed  to 
note  and  proclaim 
its  own  advance, 
and  Mr.  Dutton’s  panegyric  of the  pres­
ent  day 
is  not  more  jubilant  than  the 
•chorus  in  the  Antigone  of  Sophocles de­
claring  that 
inventive  and  resourceful 
man  who  has  tamed  the  wild  mountain 
bulis,  caught  the  finny  tribes  in  the  in­
terwoven  meshes  of  his  nest,  and  dared 
the  buffeting  waves  of  the  wintry  sea  in 
bis  boats,  established  cities,  laws  and 
money,  has  come  upon  nothing  unpro­
vided  but  death 
itself.  The  question, 
so  far  as  true  culture  is  concerned,  is 
not  what  system  of  education  will  best 
fit  a  man  to  earn  his  bread  or  make  a 
fortune,  under  the  present  organization 
of  the  business  world,  but  rather  what 
course  of  training  will  secure  the  most 
complete  and  symmetrical  development 
of  all  the  powers  of  the  human  mind 
and  body.  There 
is  a  way  to  become 
rich. 
It  lies  along  the  road  of  constant 
industry  and  self-denial;  but,  after  all, 
only  a  few  men  can  amass  great  wealth, 
and  it  is  better  for  the  majority  to  look 
to  some  other  end,  as,  for  instance,  the 
enjoyment  of  plain 
living  and  high 
thinking.  Men  are  not  greater  to-day 
than  they  were  two  hundred,  ten  hun­
dred  or  twenty  hundred  years ago.  And, 
indeed, 
strong  arguments  might  be 
made  to  support  the  claim  that  the  best 
thing about  the  new  education  is  its  ap­
proach  to  the  old  Greek  education. 
In 
the  latest  issue  of  the  New  York  Nation 
appears  a 
letter  from  some  one  who 
writes  to  make  a  very  interesting  com­
parison  between  a  passage  from  Cardi­
nal  Newman’s  “ Grammar  of  Assent”  
and  one  from  Robert  Louis  Stevenson’s 
“ Ebb  T id e.”   The  main  point  in  both 
passages 
is  the  enduring  vitality  of  the 
ancient  classics  and  the  way  in  which 
they  are  associated 
the  student's 
mind  with  his  most  beautiful and tender 
memories.  “ For  it  is  the destiny,”  says 
Stevenson,  “ of  these  grave,  restrained 
and  classic  writers,  with  whom we  make 
enforced  and  often  painful acquaintance 
at  school,  to  pass  into  the  blood  and  be­
come  native 
in  the  memory;  so  that  a 
phrase  of  Virgil  speaks  not  so  much  of 
Mantua,  or  Augustus,  but  of  English 
places  and  the  student’s  own 
irrevo­
cable  union.”   Here  a  part  of  the  pas­
sage  from  the  Cardinal  may  be  intro­
duced,  as 
to  continue  and 
further  illustrate  the thought:  “ Then he 
comes  to  understand  how  it is that lines, 
the  birth  of  some  chance  morning  or 
evening  at  an  Ionian  festival,  or  among 
the  Sabine  hills,  have  lasted  generation 
after  generation  for  thousands  of  years, 
with  a  power  over  the  mind  and  a 
charm  which  the  current  literature  of 
his  own  day,  with  all  its  obvious  advan­
tages,  is  utterly  unable  to  rival.  Per­
haps  this  is  the  reason  of  the  mediaeval 
opinion  about  Virgil,  as  of  a  prophet 
or  magician,  his  single  words  and 
phrases,  his  pathetic  half-lines,  giving 
utterance  as  the  voice  of  Nature  herself 
to  that  pain  and  weariness,  yet  hope  of 
better  things,  which  are  the  experience 
of  her  children  in  every  tim e.”

it  were, 

in 

The  flirting  girl  who  boasts  of  having 
three  or  four  beaux  on  a  string  at  the 
same  time  will  find  herself  all  alone 
when  her  string  breaks.

A  great  many  people  do  not  succeed 
because  they  are  not  willing  to  work  as 
hard  as  success  requires.

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e

work  at  higher  wages  which  come  di­
rectly  and  indirectly  from  capital,  de­
nounced  as  stony-beaited  but  found  to 
be  so  only  as  the  exigencies  ol the times 
compelled  him  to  be.

longer. 

Under  these  circumstances  the  labor 
unionist  finds  the  ground  under  bis  feet 
giving  way.  The  general  prosperity  has 
undermined  him.  Once  be  pointed 
with  pride  at  the  army  of  a  million 
tramps  who  pointed  the  moral  and 
adorned  the  tale  he  told.  He  points  to 
them  no 
Like  Macbeth's 
witches,  they have  vanished  not  into  air 
but 
into  a  million  happy  homes  where 
the  wage  earner  with  wages increased  is 
living  comfortably,  educating  bis  chil­
dren  and 
laying  by  something  for  the 
rainy  day  which  may  come  again.  The 
million  men  and  women  that  are  draw­
ing  wages  larger  than  they  were  a  year 
ago,  larger,  in  tact,  than  they  have  been 
at  any  time  during  the  past  six  or seven 
years,  are  no 
longer  the  stock  in  trade 
for  the  calamity,  bowler  but  serve  in­
stead  as  a  rebuke  to  his  questionable 
calling  and  a  living  proof  of  the  false­
hood  that  capital  has  been,  is  and  al 
ways  will  be  selfish  and stony-hearted.

There 

is  no  falling 

is  said  to  be  increasing. 

in  the  price  of 
rare  postage  stamps,  and  the  number  of 
collectors 
It 
is  not  too  much  to  say  that  any  ordinar­
ily  good  stamp  collection  will now bring 
more  money  than  an  ordinary  library  of 
bocks.  The  number  of  stamps  which 
bring  high  prices 
is  being  increased 
yearly,  and  values  advance  almost  con­
stantly. 
It  is  estimated  that  the  collec­
tion  of  a  German  gentleman  living  in 
Paris  is  worth  $1,250,000.  In  the  collec­
tion  are  two  stamps  roughly  valued  at 
$5,000  each.  The  Tapling  collection 
in  England,  which  it  has  taken  seven 
years  to  sort  and  arrange,  is  valued  at 
$375,000,  and  it  has  nearly  doubled 
in 
price,  it  is  said,  since  the  death  of  Mr. 
Tapling  in  1892.  There  are  three  or 
four  very  fine  collections  of  stamps  in 
this  country.

SOCIALISM  FOR  MILLIONAIRES.
Thomas  L.  Johnson,  who  has  the  rep­
utation  of  being  a  multi-millionaire, 
with 
in  street 
railway  companies,  recently  uttered  the 
following  remarkable  statement:

investments 

immense 

The  time  is  coming  when  the  people 
will  ride  free  upon  the  street  cars  run 
and  operated  by  a  municipality,  the 
same  as  they  now  get  their  letters  de­
livered  to  them  by  the  postal  system.

it. 

In  the  first  place, 

This,  like  many  other socialistic prop­
ositions,  has  a  seductive  sound;  but, 
like  them,  it  will  not  bear  the  light  of 
examination. 
the 
people  do  not  enjoy  a  free  postal  sys­
tem,  since  every  letter and  ounce  of  the 
other  mail  must  be  paid  for  before  the 
Government  will  carry 
If  the  re­
ceiver  of  a  letter  does  not  pay,  it  is  be­
cause  the  sender  has  already  paid  the 
postage;  but  just as  soon  as  the receiver 
posts  a  reply,  be  becomes  a  sender  and 
he  pays  for  the  carrying  of  his  letter. 
So  far  from  the  postal  system  being 
free,  it  cost  the  people  in  1898, in  actual 
this 
postage,  neatly  $90,000,000,  and 
postage,  like  street-car  fare, 
is  paid, 
net  by  the  population  at  large,  but  by 
the  people  who  use  the  postoffice  serv­
ice. 
is  true  that  the  receipts  from 
postage  are  not  enough  to  support  the 
postal  service,  so  that  Congress is forced 
each  year to  appropriate  enough  money 
to  make  up  the  deficiency,  which  last 
year  was  about $9,000,000.  That  had  to 
be  paid  by  the  people  at  large.

It 

in 

Let  it  be  understood  that  there  is  no 
such  thing 
the  entire  system  of 
human  government  as  free  public  serv­
ice. 
It  is  an  impossibility.  Somebody 
must  pay.  The  expenses  of  government 
mean  taxes,  and  the  more  the  Govern­
ment  gives  away  the  higher  must  go  the 
taxes.  It  must  be taken  at  the  very  start 
of  any  political  system  that  there  are  to 
be  expenses,  and  the  money  for  these 
expenses  must  be  raised  by  taxing  the 
people.

it 

There  is  a  common  notion  among 
people  who  do  not  think  very  deeply,  or 
do  not  think  at  all,  that 
is  possible 
for governments  to  furnish  everything 
The  Dewey  family  continues  to  dem­
,  free  to  the  people,  including  public  and 
is 
onstrate  that  the  Admiral  of  that  ilk 
private  service  and  all  sorts  of  bene­
not  the  only  member  of  the  clan  who 
fits. 
If a  government  could  create  such 
deserves  well  of  the  country. 
The 
things  by  magic,  the  notion  would  be 
is  blessed  with  modesty 
Dewey  family 
well-founded;  but  in  this  practical  age 
and  common  sense. 
The  Admiral’s 
the  only  magic  available  is  that  which 
brother,  President  of  an  insurance  com 
is  the  result  of  paying  for  all  that  is 
pany,  declines  with  considerable  heat 
got.  Governments  can  not  get  any  serv­
all  propositions 
involving  the  use  of 
ice  performed  without  paying for it,  and 
the  Admiral’s  fame  as  an  adjunct to  the 
they  have  no  way  of  getting  money  to 
insurance  business.  The  Admiral’s  son 
pay  with  except  by  taxing  the people.^
and  namesake,  being  appointed  on  a 
public  reception  committee,  declines  to 
pose  as  a  national  hero. 
“ I  have  no 
in  demon­
right,”   he  says,  “ to  figure 
strations. 
I 
haven’t  done  anything  for  the country. ”

I  ought  to  keep  quiet 

STONY-HEARTED  CAPITAL.

toiling  with  his 

The  walking  delegate 

is  becoming 
disturbed.  Like  Othello  his  occupation 
is  gone,  or  so  nearly  so  as  to  fill  him 
with  alarm.  His  tale  of  woe,  which  he 
has  wailed  from  one  end  of  the  country 
to  the  other  until  he  is  almost 
inclined 
to  believe  it  himself,  has  taken  the  at­
titude  of  the  boomerang  and  come  back 
to  him  with  unexpected  force.  The star­
vation  which  to  bis  would  be  prophetic 
eye  has  hovered  lo,  these  many  years, 
over  the  down-trodden  poor 
is  settling 
down  upon  his  own  head  and  unless  he 
gives  up 
feet  and 
tongue,  and, 
like  common  mortals, 
learns  to  do  something  with  his  hands 
there  will  be  another death to be charged 
to  the  account  of  stony-hearted  capital.
With  the  marvelous  gift  of  second- 
sightedutss,  so  peculiar  to  his  class,  in 
the  midst  ut  chaotic  confusion  be  clear­
ly  saw  that  the  only  way  of  righting  the 
poor  man’s  wrongs  was  through  the  all- 
powertul  baliot.and  with  the  doctrine  of 
the  tin  pail  for  his  text,  be  preached the 
first  crusade  against  existing  law  and 
order  and  swept  the  country  with  the 
ominous  t  de  of  the  Coxyites  until 
its 
waves  broke  harmlessly  against the steps 
of  the  National  Capitol,  the  political 
bulwark  of  the  capitalist  behind  whose 
iuvincihle  walls  bis  stony  heart  plotted 
and  carried  out  the  wretchedness  and 
ruin  of  the  working  man.  For  weari­
some  years  the  labor  unionist  has  har­
angued  this  nonsense  into  the  too  eager 
ears  of  bis  followers  and  to-day,  instead 
of  the  downfall  of  the  poor  man's  gov­
ernment,  honey-combed,  as  the  labor 
union  has  declared  it  to  be,  by  the  sor­
did  selfishness  of  the  money  power, 
prosperity 
in  the  land,  the 
country  is  known  and  honored  as  it  has 
never  been  before  and  the  poor  man 
whose  son  has  fought  and  bled  and  died 
with  the  son  of  the  capitalist  stands 
with  him  at  the  grave  of  their  common 
dead  and  sees  at  last  how  utterly  foun­
dationless  the  charges  of  the  walking 
delegate  have  been.

is  abroad 

In  the  midst  of  this  returned  prosper­
ity  the 
inciter  of  the  strike  stands 
speechless.  The  heartless employer  who 
is  happy  only  when  be  is  grinding  the 
faces  of  the  poor;  who  seizes  the  first 
opportunity 
to  cut  the  hard-earned 
wages  to  starvation  prices,  that  his  own 
luxurious  life  may  go  on  with  not  a 
whim  unsatisfied;  who  rides  rough  shod 
over  the  toiling  millions,  whose  skinny 
bands  are  grimy  and  whose  brows  are 
beaded  with  sweat  to  add  to  bis  over 
flowing  coffers  has,  in  the  face  of  these 
charges,  of  his  own  accord,  advanced 
the  wages  of  his  workmen  until they  are 
equal  to  the  old  ratio  of  the  golden 
age  of  labor,  which  they  never  expected 
to  see again.

What 

is  worse  for  the  lying  dema­
gogue,this condition of things  is  univer­
sal.  The  mill  owners  of  New  England 
have  startled  their  employes  with  an 
unexpected  advance  of  wages  from  io 
to  20  per  cent.  The coal  operators  from 
Pennsylvania  to  Alabama  have  done the 
same  thing.  The  faces  of  the  men  in 
the 
iron  mills  the  country  over  are  as 
bright  as  their  furnace  fires  with  the 
gladness  that  the  lifted  wage-schedule 
has  given  them.  Railroad  men,  “ the 
slaves  of 
incorporated  capital,”   from 
Cape  Cod  to  the  Golden  Gate  are 
girdling  the  continent  with  the .song  of 
higher  wages.  The  clerk  behind  the 
counter  and  the  cash  boy  who  comes  at 
his  bidding;  the  man  with  the  pick 
and  the  kitchen  girl  with  her broom; 
the  farmer  behind  the  plow  and  the  lad 
“ calling  the  cattle  home,”   are  all  at

it 

that 

is  easily  seen 

service  ought  to  be  rendered  free  to  the 
people, 
such 
branches  of  the  public  service  as  are 
used  by  all  should  be  paid  for  out  of  a 
general  tax;  but  when  such  public  serv­
ice 
is  only  used  by  some  and  is  not 
necessary  to  all,  it  is  plain  that  in  such 
a  case  only  those  who  use  should  pay. 
To 
illustrate  this  principle,  take  the 
service  of  lighting.

lighting 

The  lights  which  are  used  to 

illumi­
nate  the  streets  and  puhlic  places  are 
necessary  to  the entire  population  of  the 
city;  but  not  so  with  the  lights  for  pri­
vate  premises. 
It  the  city  should  un­
dertake  to  operate  all  the  electric  and 
gas 
in  the  municipal  limits, 
would  there  be  any  justice  in  lighting 
private  houses  free  and  taxing the whole 
people  to  pay  for  it  ?  Why  should  the 
people  be  taxed  to  pay  fot  one  hundred 
lights  in  the  house  of  a  neb  man  and 
for  three 
lights  in  the  bouse  of  a  poor 
man?

The  same  rule  would  bold  with  pub­
lic  water.  That  which  is  used  to  wash 
the  streets  and  extinguish fires should be 
paid  for  by  a  tax  on  all  the  people;  but 
should  a  rich  man,  with  baths,  foun­
tains,  fish  ponds  and  the  like,  be  given 
free  water  at  the  cost  of  the  entire  pop­
ulation?

Thus  it  is  that  Mr.  Johnson’s  free-car 
system  would  work  great  injustice  upou 
the  entire  population  for  the  benefit  of 
those  who  want  to  ride. 
It  would  be 
just  the  same  sort  of  injustice  to tax  the 
people,  in  order  to  furnish  to  those  who 
need  them,  in  such  amount  as  each 
might  desire,  free  light  and  free  water. 
The  simple  fact 
is  that  Mr.  Johnson’s 
socialism  is  more  suited  to  the  notions 
of  a  millionaire.  The  city  would  buy 
his  railroads  at  a  high  price  and  pay 
him  for  them.  He  would  then  enjoy 
not  merely  free  rides,  but  free  water, 
lights  and  other  matters  for  which  he 
now  has  to  pay  heavily.  Under  such  a 
system,  the  rich  would  get  everything 
and  the  poor  little  or  nothing.

indorse 

The  sort  of  socialism  which  he  would 
not 
is  the  radical  kind  which 
means  an  equal  division  of  all the  prop­
erty,  and  all  government  run  on  that 
basis.  That 
is  real  socialism,  and  is 
diametrically  different  from  the  imperi­
alistic  variety  which  means  a  paternal 
government  owning 
and  controlling 
everything  for the benefit of its favorites.

Nearly  all  the  historic  wars  that  have 
taken  place  in  Europe  since  the  days  of 
the  first  crusade  may  be  attributed  to 
the  existence  of  the  Salic  law,  at d  even 
in  the  present  century  sanguinary strug­
gles  have  taken  place  on  its  account. 
Great  Britain  and  Russia  are  the  only 
two  countries  where 
it  has  never  se­
cured  any  foothold,  and  neither  the  one 
nor  the  other  has  ever  had  any  reason  to 
regret,  since  the  sovereigns  who  have 
contributed  most  largely  to  the  glory  of 
the  country  have  been  women.

Under  the  laws  of  California  a  stock­
holder  of  a  corporation  becomes 
indi­
vidually  liable  to  each  and  every credit­
or  of  the  company  in  an  amount  to  be 
determined  taking  such  a  part  of  each 
claim  as  each  stockholder  s  stock  is  a 
part  of  the  stock  of  the  company,  and 
an  action  may  be  brought  against  any 
stockholder,  in  the  courts  of  any  state 
where  service  may  be  bad,  to  recover 
the  amount  due  the  creditor.

A  man  who  has  a  good  thing  in  office 
can  not  be  expected  to  be  simpleton 
enough  to  resign  for  the  purpose  of 
simplifying  matters  that  are  mixed.

Thus  it  is  that,  talk as  we  may  of  free 
cars  or  free  public  service,  the  people 
get  nothing  unless  they  pay 
for  it. 
Taxes  carried  to  excess  become  rob­
bery,  and  excessive  taxation  has  been 
the  cause  of  more  bloody  revolutions 
and  of  the  overthrow  of  more  govern 
ments  than  have  all  other  causes  put  to­
gether.  Taxes  in  the  United  States  are 
already  enormous,  and  any  talk  of  free 
public  service  proposes,  as  a  necessity, 
higher  taxation.

Coming  back to the  proposition  to  run 
street  cars  free,  it  will  be  seen  that  the 
cost  of  operating  the  lines  will  have  to 
be  paid  by  the  people  at  large.  And 
why  should  this  be?  Under  the  present 
system,  those  who  ride  pay  the  costs  of 
running  the  cars,  while  no  tax  in  the 
premises  falls  on  those  who  do  not  ride. 
This  seems  to be  in  entire  conformity 
with  right  and  justice,  since  those  who 
want to  send  letters  and  those  who  want 
to  ride  in  the  cars  certainly  should  pay 
for the  luxury.

To  go  back  to  Mr.  Johnson’s  notion 
that  all  national,  state  and  municipal

The  largest  frozen  meat  factory  in  the 
is  at  Barracks,  a  suburb  of 
world 
Buenos  Ayres,  and  belongs  to  the  San- 
sinena  famdy.  The  establishment 
is 
capable  of  an  output  of  3,500  sheep  per 
diem,  or  100,000  mutton  carcasses  per 
month.  The  freezing  rooms  have  a 
capacity  of  nearly  too 000  cubic  feet, 
and  have  banging  room  for 6,000  sheep. 
The  storerooms  in  which  the  sheep  are 
stored  after  freezing  to  await  shipment 
have  a  capacity  of  ifo,ooo  cubic  feet, 
and  can  contain  upward  of 50,000 sheep.

In  all  parts  of  Cuba  two  crops  of  to­
bacco  are  raised  every  year.  Spain  will 
not  put  that  in  her  pipe  and  smoke 
it.

By  erecting  a  monument  to  Admiral 
Dewey  while he  lives,  Vermont  is  pre­
paring  to  forget him  when  he  is dead.

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Fruits and Produce.

indications 

The  previous 

Observations  by  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
that  egg 
values  would  be  maintained  on  an  un­
usually  high 
level  by  April  storage 
operations  have,  so  far,  been  verified. 
The  willingness  to  accumulate  stock  on 
the  basis  of  present  values  has,  how­
ever,  been  much  greater 
in  the  West 
than 
in  the  East.  Chicago  has  been 
bidding  12c  for  storage  packings  pretty 
freely  and  other  Western  storage  points 
have  shown  a  disposition  to  accumulate 
considerable  stock  on  about  the  same 
basis.  Freight  rates  to  the  East  have 
so  far  been  pretty  firmly  maintained,  so 
that  12c  Chicago  is  now  alout  even w  th 
¡3%c  New  York,  and  this  price  seems 
so  high  that  operators  in  tms  vicinity 
are  inclined  to  boll  off.  borne  orders 
for  April  goods  from  Eastern  dealers 
in  band  at  a  range  ot  *3@ 
have  been 
ly/zC,  but,  as  a  rule,  Eastern  dealers 
who  usually  put  away  April  packings 
are  disposed  to  await 
later  develop­
ments  before  accumulating  stock  on  so 
dangerous  a  basis. 
It  would  seem  that 
the 
later  course  of  values  for  storage 
packings  must  depend  chiefly  upon  the 
disposition  ot  Western  operators  and 
the  extent  to  which  they  wiil  continue 
storing  on  the  present  extreme  basis. 
A  production  of  at  least  the  usual  ex­
tent  seems  to  be  pretty  well  assured. 
So  far  the  Northwest  has  not  opened  up 
ti  any  great  extent  and  yet  there  have 
been  enough  eggs  produced  to  give  rel­
atively  heavy  receipts  in all distributing 
markets.  These  have  met  with remark­
ably active consumptive demand,  but the 
maintenance  of  prices  above  the  usual 
level  mu  t  be  laid  to  speculative  opera­
tions  and  there  is  room  for  reasonable 
doubt  whether  these  will  continue  large 
enough  on  present  basis  of  cost  to  ab­
sorb  the  surplus  production  during  the 
remainder  of  the  storage  season, 
judg­
ing  from  the  results  of  spring  storage 
operations  for  a few  years  past,  it  would 
seem  that  accumulations  of  large  quan­
tities  on  the  basis  of  cost  now  prevail­
ing  would  be  very  likely  to  lead  to  un­
healthy  conditions  and  unfavorable  re­
sults  and  unless  there  is  good  reason  to 
anticipate  a 
lighter  spring  production 
than  usual  it  is  altogether  probable  that 
the 
later  storage  operations  will  prove 
to  he  on  more  favorable  terms  unless 
weather  conditions  should  become  so 
unfavorable  as  to  make  a  material  dif­
ference  in  quality.  As  to  the  probable 
extent  of  spring  production  the 
indica­
tions  favor  a  very  large  yield.  The  re­
ceipts  of 
fowls  this  year  have  been 
lighter,  but  this  is  generally  ascribed  to 
the  high  prices  for  eggs  rather  than  to 
any  shortage 
in  the  supply  of  poultry. 
This  is  of  course  only  a  surmise,  but 
it  seems  to  be  borne  out  by  the  compar­
atively  heavy  receipts  of  eggs  since 
weather  conditions  have  become  reason­
ably  favorable  to  production.

in  which 

We  have  had  some  enquiries  in  re­
gard  to  proper  methods  of  storing  eggs 
for long holding. A correspondent,  among 
others,  enquires:  “ What 
is  the  best 
method  of  cold  storing  eggs,  as  to  best 
temperature,  best  time 
to 
store,  frequency  with  which  eggs should 
be  turned,  etc.”   The  subject  is  a  big 
one  t?  be  treated  briefly,  and,  in  fact, 
the  methods  of  handling  eggs 
in  cold 
storage,  and  arranging  the  facilities  as 
well,  are  not  yet  fully  developed.  Many 
improvements  have  been  made  of  late 
years  which  have  enhanced  the  value 
of  storage  eggs,  but  there  is  room  for

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

it 

If 

more,  both 
in  the  methods  of  carrying 
and  delivery.  Taking  up  our  corres­
pondent’s  questions  in  order,  we  should 
say  that  as  to  temperature  no  cold  stor­
age  room  has  yet  been  devised  which 
will  give  an  absolutely  uniform  temper­
ature  in  all  of  its  parts.  Some  variation 
has  always  been  observed  between  the 
temperature  of  the  upper  and  lower  air 
—generally  one  degree  and  sometimes 
more.  The  temperatures  usually  sought 
to  be  attained  are  30  to  31  deg.  Fahren­
heit,  but  we  know  of  storage  men  who 
carry  goods  as  low  as  29  deg.  and  claim 
better  results  thereby.  Wnen  so  low  a 
temperature  is employed,  however,  very 
strict  watchfulness  is  essential;  in prac­
tice  it  will  be  found  that  when  29  deg. 
is  attained 
in  some  parts  of  the  room 
other  parts  will  show  a  variation of lu  ly 
one  degree 
is  designed  to  carry 
as  low  as  29  deg.  it  should  be  Cirefully 
guarded  that  this  is  the  minimum  tem­
perature 
in  the  room.  As  to  the  best 
time  to  store,  this  depends  largely  upon 
in  connection 
market  conditions  taken 
with  the  quality  of  eggs  obtainable. 
It 
used  to  be  believed  that  eggs  produced 
in  cold  weatber  were  net  so  good  for 
storage  as  those  which  came  later,  but 
tbis  theory  has  1 u  ly  been  largely  dis­
carded.  The  first  spring  flush  of  pro­
duction  probably  furnishes  as 
fine  a 
quality  of  eggs  for  bolding  as  any  so 
long  as  they  are  not  subjected  to a freez­
ing  temperature.  In  average  seasons  the 
production  from  March  15  to  May  1  is 
now  generally  regarded  as  the  best  for 
long  holding,  bet  as  defects  are  caused 
later  only  by  beat  it  is  evident  that  the 
best period,  an<1  its  extent,  depends upon 
weatber  conditions.  Profits  in  egg  bold­
ing  depend 
la  gely  upon  the  extent  of 
fall  and  winter  production, 
summer, 
is  chiefly  determined  by 
and  as  tbis 
weatber  conditions,  the  business 
is  a 
good  deal  of  a  gamble.  We  have  seen 
seasons  wbei  more  money  was  made  by 
storing  cheap  summer  eggs  than  could 
be  made 01  the  finer  qualities  put  away 
earlier.  As  a  rule  profits  are  more  cer­
tain  on  the  finest  goods,  but  when  the 
competition 
is  so  great  as  it 
is  now,  causing  an  unusually  high  first 
cost,  the  outcone 
is  alwavs  doubtful 
and  there  are  a  good  many  shrewd oper­
ators  who  would  rather  pass  them  and 
take  their  chances  on  cheaper  goods 
later,  even  considering  the  difference 
in  quality. 
In  regard  to  turning  eggs 
in  cold  storage  this 
is  not  generally 
done  at  all.  When  eggs  remain  in  one 
position  for  a  while  the  yolk,  being 
lighter  than  the  white,  rises  toward  the 
top  side  of  the  egg. 
If  the  eggs  are 
turned  frequently  this  might be avoided, 
but  in  general  practice  the matter  is  not 
considered  of  sufficient  importance  to 
warrant  the  labor  involved  in  correcting 
it.  We  understand  that  there  are  same 
private  store  rooms  constructed  so  as  to 
permit  the  bolding  of  eggs  in  bulk  with 
facilities  for  economical  turning,  and 
some  who  hold  in  cases  may  also  turn 
them  from  time  to  time.  But  where 
eggs  are  held  in  cases,  or  in  trays  with­
out  some  special  contrivance,  turning 
is  unusual.  As  to  ventilation  of  egg 
storage  rooms  we  think  there  is  room 
for  general 
improvement.  We  are  of 
opinion that storage egg  packages should 
be  so  construi ted,  both  as  to  cases  and 
fillers,  as  to  permit  a  free  circulation  of 
air.  Also  that  egg  rooms  should  be  ar­
ranged  to  afford  ventilation.  But  be­
fore  fresh  air  is  admitted  to  a  cold  stor­
age  room  it  should  be  refrigerated  a few 
degrees  below  the  temperature  of the 
air  in  the  room  and  thus  deprived  of  its 
excess  of  moisture.  The  details  of  such

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WHOLESALE DEALER  IN 

B U T T E R   AND  EG G S 

B U F F A L O .  N.  Y . 

The time of the year for storing eggs is now at hand.  I have orders for  several  thou- 
sand cases of eggs from people who store them so I can use  an  unlimited  amount  of  eggs 
for the next sixty days.  Small or  large  shipments  matter  not,  but  the  larger  the  better.
Write me how many you are getting per week  and  I  will  make  you  a  price  delivered  in 
Buffalo.  Let me have your  shipments.

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dainty, tilling and satisfying in  the line  of fruits and  vegetables,  and we are de­
termined to do a larger business with you this year than last.  Let us know your 
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THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY,

14 OTTAWA  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

MILLER & TEASDALE
POTATOES
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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  G.  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  shippers.  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  W est.

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

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an  arrangement  are  subject  to  a  variety 
of  methods, and  should only  be  installed 
by  an  expert  who  is  familiar  with  the 
subject  from  actual  experience.  Steril­
ization  of  air  in  egg  rooms  is  1  kely  to 
be  developed  also,  to  the  great  improve­
ment  in  the  quality  of  the  held  goods. 
There  are  possibilities  of  treating  stor- 
age  eggs  so  as  to  prevent  the  damaging 
condensation  of  moisture  upon 
them 
when  taken  out,  from  which  we  expect 
to  see  a  practical method  devised  which 
will  add  materially  to  the  value  of  the 
goods 
in  comparison  with  competing 
fresh  production;  but  so  far  as  we know 
these  possibilities  have  not  yet  been 
put 
In  general  we 
should  say  to  our  correspondents  that 
carrying  eggs  is  done  best  by  those  who 
have  long  experience  and  ample  facili­
it  is  designed  to 
ties  and  that  unless 
carry  very  large  quantities 
it  would 
probably  be  cheaper  and  safer to patron­
ize  the  larger  plants  already 
in  good 
working  order  rather  than  attempt  hold­
ing  in  a  smaller  way  in  private  plants. 

into  practical  use. 

*  *  *

I  have  picked  up  some  more  points 
about  duck  eggs  during  the  past  week 
which  ought  to  be  cousidered  by  pack­
ers  who  get  moderate  quantities  of these 
goods,  but  not  enough  to  make  them  a 
specialty.  A  receiver  called  mv  atten­
tion  the  other  day  to  a  shipment  from 
the  Southwest 
in  which  duck  and  hen 
eggs  were  packed  together  in  hen  egg 
cases  and  fillers,  the  two  kinds  being 
alternated 
is  quite 
common  to  find  duck  and  ben  eggs 
packed  in  the  same  cases,  and  quite  ob­
jectionable  to  have  them  so  mixed  to­
gether ;  as  a  rule  prices  for  mixed 
packages  are  fully 
ic  per  doz.  lower 
than  for  goods  packed  separately.  I also 
saw  a 
lot  of  duck  eggs  packed  30 doz. 
in  a  30 doz.  hen  egg  case;  these  were 
so  crowded  that they were badly smashed 
and  made  a  heavy  loss.

in  each 

layer. 

It 

Duck  eggs  should  always  be  packed 
by  themselves.  When  enough  are  ob­
tained  to  make 
it  an  object  special 
duck  egg  cases  should  be  obtained  for 
them ;  if  there  are  too  few  to  warrant 
this  they  should  be  packed 
in  heavy 
egg  cases  without  fillers,  using  chaff  or 
but  straw  for  packing.  They  should 
never  be  crowded  into  hen  egg  fillers.— 
New  York  Produce  Review.
Few  Frozen  Potatoes— Good  Apple 

Crop  Probable.

Traverse  City,  April  18—Our  farmers 
are  reaping  a  golden  harvest  in  the  way 
of  potato  sales.  Our  streets  yesterday 
were  almost  blocked  with wagons loaded 
with  potatoes.  A  fair  estimate  by  those 
who  have  made 
it  a  study  is  that  not 
over  3  per  cent,  of  the  potatoes  in  this 
section  were  damaged  by  frost  during 
the  cold  winter.  Our  farmers  have  been 
especially  benefited  the  last  two  years 
with  good  prices  for  potatoes,  and  a 
wonderful  amount  of  notes,  accounts 
and  oid  mortgages  has  been  paid  off; 
and  they  are  now,  as  a  rule,  fixing  up 
their  places,  buying  furniture,  new  har­
nesses,  wagons,  carriages,  new  farming 
tools.  We  have  a  very  encouraging out­
look. 
I  know  of  no  section  of  country 
more  favored  than  ours  Of  course,  we 
expect  we  are  hard  hit  on  account  of 
the  fruit being  killed ;  still  I  believe  it 
is  not  as  bad  as  some  would try  to  make 
out.  As  far as  we  are  able  to  tell  now, 
we  will  have  a  large  apple  crop,  and 
probably  will  unless 
something  else 
should  turn  up  to  interfere.

H.  Mon tague.

The  milk  of  human  kindness  dis­
tastes  very 

pensed  by  some  people 
strongly  of  the  can.

Cleanliness  may  be  next  to  godliness; 
lots  of  advertising  to  sell 

it  takes 

but 
soap  nevertheless.

How to  Keep  Cheese  After  it  Leaves 

the  Maker.

it 

let  a 

Swiss  cheese  should  be  kept  in  a  cool 
cellar,  not  exposed  to  a  draught;  when 
cut,  cover  the  same  with  a  salt  sack 
saturated  with  water and  kept moist;  in 
is  better  than  salt 
fly  time,  vinegar 
water.  Never 
loaf  stand  on  its 
edge,  as 
is  apt  to  break  or  crack on 
the  inside.  Do  not  lay  more  than  two 
cheese  together,  as  there  is  danger  of 
injuring  the  one  underneath.  Parties 
retailing  Swiss  should  keep  the  part  ex­
posed  covered  with  a  glass  glob e;  this 
in  drying  out,  and  sells 
prevents  loss 
better. 
is  not  safe  to  carry  stock 
longer  than  three  months,  as  it  is  apt  to 
get  bard  and  brittle.

It 

to 

Sap  Sago  and  Parmesan  cheese  are 
good  one  year,  and  sometimes  longer  if 
a  little  care  is  taken  to  keep  them  cool 
insects,  light  or 
and  not  exposed 
It is a  very  good  plan  to  wrap 
draught. 
Sap  Sago  cheese 
in  tinfoil  when  ex­
posed  for  sale,  hut  the  best  plan  is  to 
place  them  under  a  glass  globe. 
If 
neither  of  these  is done,  they  will  crack 
and  break  and  be  worthless  in  a  short 
tim e;  it  is  much  the  same  with  Par­
mesan  cheese.

Roquefort  and  Gorgonzola— It 

is  a 
well-known  fact  that  these  cheese  are 
very  brittle  and  break  easily,  and  great 
in  handling.  Care 
care  must  be  taken 
must  be  used 
in  removing  them  from 
the  packages,  and  when  once  removed 
do  not  place  them  more  than  two  high, 
as  the  weight  of  the  upper ones  cracks 
those  underneath 
It  is  very  important 
to  keep  these  articles,  as  well  as  the 
others  mentioned,  free  from draught  and 
as  cool  as  possible,  not  allowing  them 
to  freeze.  The  best  way  to  retail  a 
Roquefort  or  Gorgonzola  cheese  is  to 
take  and  cut  them 
in  quarters  and 
eighths,  and  wrap  each  piece  in  tinfoil 
and  mark  the  price  on  the  piece;  this 
can  be  done  at  any  slack  time,  and 
when  busy  with  customers  they'will  not 
have to  wait  while  you  cut,  weigh  and 
wrap  the  cheese.  This  plan  has  been 
tried  by  many  of  the  largest  stores as 
well  as  the  small  ones,  and  it  works  ad­
mirably.  Glass  covers  should  also  be 
used.

Camembert  should  be  kept  in  a  cool 
place;  if  not  very  soft,  keep  them  from 
air;  but  if  soft,  they  will  harden  by  be­
ing  exposed;  if  they  become  too  hard, 
they  will  soften  by  being  placed  under 
a  glass  globe.  Do  not  buy  more  than  a 
week's  or  ten  days’  supply,  as  they  do 
not  improve  by  age.  They  are  received 
by  every  French  steamer.

Limburger  cheese  made 

in  summer 
should  be  used  before  January  1;  the 
September  and  October  cheese will keep 
all  winter.  Keep  in  a  cool  cellar,  turn 
the  boxes  over  every  two  or three weeks. 
We  recommend  wrapping  in  parchment 
paper,  as  the  foil  is  heavy  and  will  turn 
the  cheese  blick  in  two  or  three  weeks' 
time. 
If  the  cheese  are  inclined  to  get 
too  soft,  put  sticks  between  the  boxes 
to  keep  them  from  beating.  Those  ex­
posed  for  sale  should  be  kept  under a 
glass  cover.

laying 

Munster cheese  are  dangerous  to  keep 
length  of  time.  We  would  recom­
any 
mend  not 
in  more  than  four  or 
six  weeks’  supply.  They  may  be  kept 
a 
long  time  by  taking  them  from  the 
box  every  two  or  three  weeks  and 
rubbing  with  the  hands  until  grease ap 
pears  on  the  outside.  Glass  globes  are 
very  necessary  when  exposed  on  the 
counter.

Hand  Kase  should  be  left  in  the  orig­
inal  boxes;  turn  the  boxes  every  few 
days,  and  when  retailing  remove  only  a

few  from  the  box  and  keep  under  a 
glass  cover;  never  get  more  than  two 
weeks'  supply  at  one  time.

Neufchatel  and  Philadelphia  cream 
keep  best  exposed  to  the  air;  do  not 
cover  them,  as  they  are  apt  to  mould. 
Do  not  get  more  than  one  week’s  sup­
ply  as  they  are  better  fresh.

Fromage  de  Brie  keep  well  in  the 
original  boxes. 
If  they  should  get  soft, 
will  harden  by  being  exposed  to  the  air 
by  removing  the  co1 er from  the  box and 
putting  them 
If  too 
hard,  can  be  made  soft  by  putting  them 
under  a  glass  cover. 
If  the  wrappers 
become  soiled  or  moulded,  it  is  well  to 
re-wrap  them  in  fresh  paper.

in  a  cool  place. 

Dairy or storecheese--If bought in bulk, 
the  boxes  should  be  turned  over  every 
two  or three  weeks.  When  exposed  for 
sale,  a  glass  cover  is  good  to  keep 
it 
moist  and  free  from  dust.  Sometimes  a

little  butter  spread  on  the  side  of  the 
cheese  not  used  keeps  the  same  from 
wasting  and  drying.
English  dairy  cheese should be treated 
the  same  as  store  cheese,  except  that 
the  cheese  should  be  greased  occasion­
ally.  Greasing  will  improve  them  very 
much,  and  they  will  cut  better.  The 
older  an  English  cheese  becomes  the 
finer  it  is  considered  to  be,  although 
it 
will  crumble  when  cut.  This  is  to  be 
expected.

in  foil,  it 

Edams  are  better 

in  fo il;  this  pre­
vents,  to  a  great  extent,  drying out;  but 
when  not 
is  well  to  grease 
them  occasionally.  We  have  known 
them  and  pineapples  to  keep  well  all 
summer  by  being  well  oiled  and 
wrapped 
in  brown  paper,  then  placed 
in  paper  bags,  separate,  with 
insect 
powder,  and  hung  up  in  an  ice-house 
or  a  cool  cellar.  This  plan  we  have 
known  to  work  well,  and  the  idea  was 
given  us  by  one  of  the  oldest  grocers  in 
this  city  several  years  ago.—Alvah  L. 
Reynolds  in  American  Grocer.

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  April  15—Coffee is  steady. 
Lower  grades  are,  perhaps,  in  less  ac­
tive  demand,  but  are  held  with  a  good 
degree  of  firmness  and  are  not  in  over­
abundant  supply. 
Importers  hold  firm­
ly  to  rates  and  make  no  concession. 
Advices  from  Rio  and  Santos 
show 
quite  a  falling  off  in  receipts  and  mar­
kets  there  are  firm. 
In  store  and  afloat 
there  are  1,234,637  bags,  against  1,054.- 
537  bags  at  the  same  time last year.  No.
7  is  quotable  here  at 6  5-i6@6f$c.  Mild 
coffees  are  firm  and  a  pretty  good  en­
quiry  has  prevailed 
for  West  India 
growths,  although  there  is  still  rocm  for 
improvement.  Good  Cucuta  remains  at 
8j^c. 
little 
has  been  done  and  neither  side  shows 
anxiety  to  do  much  in  the  way  of  deal­
ing  in  futures.

In  the  speculative  market 

Raw  sugars  have  been  rather  quiet, 
but  at  the  same  time  the  market  has 
been  characterized  by  a  good  degree  of 
firmness  as  to  prices.  Centrifugal,  96 
deg.  test,  4  9  16c ;  Muscovado,  89  deg. 
test,  4  1-6c;  molasses,  89  deg. 
test,
3  15-i6c.  Refined  sugars  are  firm,  but 
the  demand  has  been  rather  for  sorting 
up  purposes  than  for  supplying  future 
wants.  Refined  sugars  have  been 
in 
fair  request.  Granulated  remains  un­
changed  at  last  quotation  of  5.25— 12  m. 
Saturday.

The  tea  sale  on  Wednesday  was  the 
second  largest  ever  made  in this country 
and  prices  showed  very  satisfactorily ; 
in  fact,  better  rates  were  obtained  for 
many  of  the  medium  and  lower  grades 
than  were  anticipated.  The  sale  has 
made  subsequent  transactions  on  the 
street  rather  tame  and  no  great  amount 
of  tea  has  changed bands.  Prices,  how­
ever,  are  firm  and  holders  are  disposed 
to  make  no  concession whatever.  Lines 
of  Formosas  are  steady  at  about  25c  as 
the  lowest  figure.

A  better  demand  is  reported  by  rice 
dealer^,  the  principal  call  being 
for 
Japan,  as  it  is  comparatively  the  cheap­
est  on  the  market.  Quotations  are  for 
this  sort  4|^@4^c.  Domestic  rice 
is 
well  held  and  the  demand 
is  probably 
all  that  could  be  expected.  Prime  to 
choice,  5%@6%c.  Head  rice  is  worth 
7@8c.  The 
indications  are  said  to  be 
favorable  for  a  huge  crop  of  rice  this 
year  in  this  country.

little 

Trading 

Mast  sales  of  spices  are  of 

lots 
for  sorting  up  purposes  and  the  market 
presents  few  features  of  interest.  Pep­
per  is  firm  at  ioj£c.  Stocks  are  so  well 
under  control  that  holders  have  their 
own  way  pretty  much.
in  molasses  is  of  moderate 
proportions  and  quietude  characterizes 
the  market.  A  little  call  prevails  for 
grocery  grades,  but  small  lots  only  are 
changing  hands.  Good  to  prime  cen­
trifugal,  i6@26c.  Open  kettle,  32@38c.
is 
being  done  in a distributing way.  Prime 
to  fancy  sugar  goods  are  quotable  at  20
@2CC.

The  syrup  market  is  quiet.  Little 

For  the  past  few  weeks  people  who 
have  wanted  canned  goods  have  been 
told  that  every  case  of  such  and  such 
bad  been  sold.  Now  prices  have  ad­
vanced  to  a  point  satisfactory  to  holders 
and 
they  have  discovered  a  “ few  iso­
lated  cases"  that  they  are  willing  to 
dispose  of;  in  fact,  it  may  be  said  that 
aim r-t  full  lines  of  California  goods  are 
on  off  r.  New  York  State  string  beans, 
which  were  all  gone  a  fortnight ago,  can 
now  be  purchased  at  $1.20—formerly 
qoc.  Salmon 
is  undoubtedly  in  rather 
lignt  s loply  and  it  is  anticipated  that 
we  shall  see  $1.25  for  No.  1  tails  Peas, 
on  the  spot,  are  8o@go~  for  Early  June; 
Marrowfats,  75@8sc.  Tomatoes are  firm 
and  steady,  out  hardly  as  active  as  a 
foitmeht  ago.  No.  3  standard  New Jer­
seys,  85c;  futures,  8o@85c  here.

Toe  warmer  weather  has  caused  some 
increase 
in  the  demand  for  fruit  and 
prices  are  firm.  California  oranges  are 
selling  freely  even  at  the  rates  de­
manded,  which  certainly  seem  pretty 
high—seedlings,  $2850315;  navels. 
S3  75@5—latter  for  fancy.  Floridas  are 
Lemons  have
almost  entirely  gone. 

sold  with  some  freedom  within  the 
range  of  $2.253325. 
Bananas  are 
steady  from  90c@S1.25  per  bunch  for 
firsts.  Apples  are  in  light  receipt  and 
arrivals  are quickly taken  from $3.5035, 
as to  kind.  Jersey  cranberries are  worth 
$6.2507.50

iruits  of  all  kinds  are  moving 
with  about  the  usual  freedom  and 
little 
if  any  change  has  taken  place  in  quota­
tions. 

Dried 

____

_ 

First  in  Peace,  as  in  War.

Every  story  that  travels  across  the 
Pacific  about  Admiral  Dewey  presents 
the  hero of  Manila  in  a  more  attractive 
guise  and  heightens  the 
interest  of 
Americans  in  their beloved  idol.

The  Oriental  Hotel,  in  Manila,  has 
long  been  the  favorite  abiding  place  of 
the  wives  of  the  army  and  navy  officers 
stationed  there.  Naturally  they  have 
their  Lttle,  all-important  "s e t,”  
in 
their  eyes  the  cream  of  aristocracy. 
This  set  has  a  rigid  outside;  it does  not 
include  any  woman  of 
less  aristocratic 
position  than  theirs,  any  woman  whose 
money  is  the  result  of  her own honorable 
labors.  There  was  one  of  the  latter  class 
of  women  staying  at the  Oriental  Hotel 
during  the  months  of  the  war  excite­
ment,  a  Miss  Thompson,  who  was  the 
correspondent  of  a  syndicate  of  Ameri­
can  newspapers.  She  was  a  woman  of 
ability.  She  did  her work  well and  won 
the  respect  and  esteem  of  everyone  who 
knew  her;  she  was  universally  liked, 
except  by  the  officers’  wives,  who  could 
not  condescend  to  know her.  They made 
their  attitude  pronounced;  they  drew 
the  social 
line,  on  whose  safe  inside 
they 
congratulated  themselves  upon 
being.

Admiral  Dewey  undoubtedly  has  a 
sense  of  humor  as  well  as  many  other 
things  that  go  to  make  up  a  capable 
officer  and  charming  man.  He  evident­
ly  smiled,  perhaps,  in  an  amused  way 
at  first,  then  a  little  grimly  and 
ironic­
ally,  when  it  came  to  his  ears  that  the 
wives  of  his  subordinates had  entered 
into  a  crushing  social  ring  to  ostracize 
and  persecute  the  newspaper  woman.

interesting  to  talk  about. 

Miss  Thompson  had  an  unexpected 
visitor  one  day.  Admiral  Dewey  sent 
up  his  card.  He  paid  a  long  call.  He 
and  Miss  Thompson  found  much  that 
was 
In  the 
enjoyment  of  their  talk  they were appar­
ently oblivious that the rest of  the  Orien­
tal  Hotel  bad  gone  mad.  The  world  had 
quite  come  to  an  end  in  the  teapot  dis­
trict,  with  its  self-righteous ideas  of  the 
fitness  of  things.  The  Admiral  had 
called  on  a  working  woman!  They  were 
made  to  appear  in  the  wrong.  Perhaps 
it  is  better  to  draw  a  veil  over  the  sub­
sequent  wailing  and  gnashing  of  teeth, 
the  tears  and  rage  of  the  would-be  lead­
ers  of  Manila  society.  But  Dewey  was 
characteristically  relentless.  He  rubbed 
in  the  lesson  he  bad  given.  He  asked 
Miss  Thompson  if  he  might  lunch  with 
her  the  next  day,  and  again  the  whole 
Oriental  Hotel  knew  it  and  was  aflame. 
The  woman  who  had  been  humiliated 
by  the  pettiness  of  petty  people  was 
honored  by  a  great  man.  And  no  one 
can  doubt  that  behind  the  iron  com­
mander,  with  the  eye  of  an  eagle,  the 
brain  of  lightning  and  the  will  of  steel, 
there  exists  the  very  tender  heart  of  a 
gentleman  of  the  old  school.

The  Husband Became Thoughtful.
“ I  don't  see why  you  are so particular 
about  your  hair,”   said  a  churlish  bus- 
band.  “ I  don't  suppose  Eve  ever  wore 
bangs.' ’

" I   don’t  suppose  she  ever  did,”   re­
plied  the  wife  with  a  quiet  smile,  "but 
then  there  was  nobody  in  the  world  but 
her  husband  to  admire her.”

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

Thirty  Dozen  Cases  Preferred. 

From the New York Produce Review.

The  objections  to  the  36  dozen  egg 
case  which  were  commented  upon  by 
our  egg  man  in  last  week’s  "observa­
tions”   appear  to  be  very  generally  ap­
preciated  among  the  egg  trade  in  New 
York.  VVe  have  heard  a  good  many  of 
our  larger  egg  receivers  speak  of  the 
matter  of 
late  and  all  have  stated  as 
their  experience  that  30-doz.  cases  are 
receiving  more  and  more  preference 
among  large  buyers— so  much  so  that  it 
is  now  decidedly  easier  to  sell  lines  of 
these  than  of  36 doz.  cases  or  of  mixed 
lots  containing  both  sizes.  During  the 
past  week  some  of  the  bids  on  ’Change 
for  long 
lines  of  eggs  have  stipulated 
for 30-dozen  cases  and  there  are  now  a 
number  of  important  outlets  tor  eggs  in 
which  the  larger  packages  can  not  be 
used  at  all.
inst  tuted 
at  a  time  when  freight  charges  were 
figured  on  the  number  of  packages 
shipped;  they  then  effected  a  consider­

The  36-dozen  egg  case  was 

in  freight;  but  now  that 
able  saving 
gross  weight 
is  the  basis  of 
freight 
charges  there  is  scarcely  any  difference 
in  the  cost  of  transportation  for  a  given 
quantity  of  eggs,  whether  they  are 
packed 
in  30-di zen  or  36-dozen  cases, 
and  the  disadvantages  of  the  latter  in 
producing  a  greater  breakage  are  such 
as  to  make  their  use  decideoly  objec­
tionable.  Wnen  hot  weather stts in these 
disadvantages  will  be  considerably  in­
creased,  as  the  effects  of  heat  become 
much  more  serious  when  the  propor­
tion  of  cracked  and  bioken  eggs  in  the 
packages  is  larger.

Receivers  here  are  very  generally  of 
opinion  that  the  36-doz.  egg  case  should 
be  abandoned  and  the  reasons  advanced 
are  such  as  apply  directly  to  the 
inter­
ests  of  shippers  themselves.
Quite  Likely.

Boy— Papa,  who  was  the  first  weather 

prophet?

Papa—Ananias.

W.  R.  BRICE

E S T A B L IS H E D   IN 
P H ILA D E LP H IA   1852

C.  M.  DRAKE

W.  R.  Brice  &  Co.

Produce Commission Merchants

Butter,  Eggs  and  Poultry

500 Cars  of  Fine  Fresh 

Eggs  Wanted

W e are in the  market  for five  hundred 
(500)  cars  of  fine  eggs  suitable  for 
cold  storage.  Write  for  prices  either 
to  our branch  house  in  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.,  or  Manchester,  Mich.  W e  will 
take  your  eggs  f.  o.  b.  cars  your  sta­
tion,  and  pay  you  all  we  can  afford 
consistent with  Eastern  markets.

Our Main House in Philadelphia  wants  all  the  Creamery  and  Dairy 
Butter you can ship.  We have an unlimited outlet, can  realize  you  outside 
prices  and  make  you  prompt  satisfactory  sales.  Let  your  shipments 
come freely. 

Yours very truly,

W.  R.  BRICE  &  CO.

HEE5IIME Tl UIE «11115

Our  new  Parchment-Lined,  Odorless 
Butter  Packages.  L ight  as  paper.
The  only way  to  deliver  Butter 
to  your  customers.

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Extra Fancy Navel Oranges

C a r  lots  or  less. 

Prices  lowest.

Maynard  &  Reed,

54 South Ionia Street, 

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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

1 3

The Trusts  and  Their  Cure.

George G.  Small in N. Y.  Merchants’  Review 
The  shaky  condition  of  the  pottery 
trust, 
following  upon  similar  failures 
during  the  past  two  years,  suggests  that 
consolidation  may  prove  a  more  doubt­
ful  means  of  business  success  than 
in­
dividual  effort.  A  few  more  cases  of 
over-capitalization  of  consolidated  con­
cerns  and  the  public will perhaps realize 
that  a  trust  can  be  more  dangerous  to 
the  investors  in  its  securities  than to the 
consuming  public.  There  has  been  such 
a  rush  of  late  years  to take  advantage  of 
the  liberal  corporation  laws  of  some  of 
the  states  that  the thing  has undoubtedly 
been  overdone,  and  as  competition  is 
continually  invited  by  the  liberal  mar­
gin  of  profit  in  the  trusted 
industries, 
there  are  likely  to be  some  very  unsatis­
factory  developments  before  the  world 
is  much  older,  especially as  money  is  so 
abundant  and 
its  earning  power  is  so 
low.

competition 

Competition, 

indeed,  can  never  be 
entirely  eliminated  from  any  branch  of 
trade  however  strong  the  combination 
controlling  that  branch,  and  notwith­
standing  that  the  tariff  acts  as  a  bul­
wark  against  free 
from 
without.  An 
instance  of  bow  natural 
laws  will  make  their  presence felt in  the 
business  world  is  to  be  seen  in the sugar 
refining  business,  which 
is  barred  to 
individuals  of  small  capital  and  there­
fore  offers superior opportunities to large 
combinations  of  capital  and  ei terprise. 
The  present  struggle  between  the  com­
peting  refiners 
is  regarded  by  a  good 
many  people  as  a  passing  condition, 
which  must  sooner  or  later  result  in  a 
surrender  of  the  weaker  elements  to  the 
stronger  and  a  return  to  the  former 
regime,  when  sugar  prices  were  fixed 
by  a  central  authority  for  the  govern­
ment  of  the  entire  trade.  But  the  fight 
may  and  probably  will  last  long  enough 
to  prove  that  the  day  of 
individual 
enterprise  has  by  no means ended,  for  if 
some  of  the  competing  refineries  should 
be  absorbed  by  the  others,  there  would 
be  a  strong  inducement  for  fresh  capi­
tal  to  enter  the  field  and  build  inde­
pendent  refineries.
Much  of  the  abuse  leveled  at  trusts  is 
unwarranted,  because  it  is  based  upon 
a  misconception  of  their  power  and 
their  vulnerability  to  attack.  A  great 
deal 
is  heard  of  their  arbitrary  control 
of  prices,  but  the  danger to  the  public 
does  not  lie  in  that  direction  so  much 
as  in  regard  to  the  imperfection  of their 
service.  Competition  may  be  in  abey­
ance  for  a  time,  and  meanwhile  the 
managers  of  the  trusts,  although  too 
shrewd  to 
invite  competition  by  exor­
bitant  charges,  will  have  small 
induce­
ment  to  maintain  the  quality  of  their 
output,  or,  if  it  is  a  transportation  com­
pany,  will  lack  the  ordinary  stimulus  to 
maintain  a  good  service.

An  instance  of  corporate  delinquency 
during  the  late  blizzard  will  illustrate 
our  meaning  in  regard  to  bow  a  trans­
portation  service  may  suffer  from  want 
of  competition.  During  the  snowstorm 
independent  sur­
of  a  fortnight  ago  an 
face  street  railway  had 
its  lines  all 
cleared  of  snow  and  in  working  order 
long  before  the  combined 
lines  suc­
ceeded  in  the  same  task,  except on their 
branches  competing  with  the  independ­
ent  company.  The  other  branches  were 
neglected  because  there  were  no  com­
peting  roads  to  spur  the  combination  to 
active  exertions.
Inventors  of  new  processes  that  im­
prove  quality  without  lowering  prices 
find  a  poor  market  in  a trusted industry, 
as  a  rule. 
If  there  is  a  possibility  of 
invention  being  bought  up  by  out­
an 
side  capitalists  and  made  the  nucleus 
of  a  dangerous  competition,  it  may  be 
purchased  by  the  trust  and  never  used 
Or  if  it  promises  to  save  money,  it  will 
be  bought  and  used,  without  benefit  to 
the  consumer,until  competition  resumes 
its  former  beneficent  power  and  forces 
the  monopoly  to  exert  all  its  efforts  for 
self-preservation.

Thus  it  appeals that,  generally  speak­
ing,  the  public  has  good  reasons  for 
its 
distrust  of  the  trust  in  any  branch  of 
trade,  but 
it  has  no  clear  idea  of  bow 
the  shoe  really  pinches  the  consumer.
Legislation,  except  of  a  very  simple 
character,  which  the  public  does  not

appear  willing  to  resort  to,  is  utterly 
useless  as  a  remedy  for  the  “ trusting”  
of  industries;  it  is  even  liable  to  be  in­
jurious  to  those  for  whose  behoof 
it  is 
often 
invoked,  but  even  protected  as 
they  are  from  foreign  assault,  the  trusts 
can  not  permanently  obstruct  the  cur­
rent  of  competition,  which  ultimately 
provides  a  cure  for  every  evil  which  the 
people  mav  rightfully  pay  at  the  doors 
of  tUe  would-be  monopolies.

She  Is  Full  of  Business 

things  commenced  to 

“ While  you  are  speaking  about  busi­
ness  men,”   said  the  St.  Louis  drum­
mer,  as  he  lighted  a  fresh cheroot,  “ you 
don’t  want  to  forget  that  there  are  sev­
eral  business  women  out  here 
in  the 
bounding  bully  West. 
I  ran  across  one 
out 
in  the  western  part  of  the  State  in 
the  course  of  my  travels  not  long  ago. 
She  went  out there  some  years  ago  with 
a  worthless  husband,who  wasn't  of  suffi­
cient  intrinsic  value  to  pav  for  killing. 
The  expense  of  the  powder  necessary  to 
finish  his  earthly  career  would  have  cost 
more  than  anybody  would  have  been 
willing  to  spend  on  him.  They  lived 
along  out 
in  a  dug  out  in  some  sort  of 
fashion  for  several  years.  The  woman 
did  all  the  work  and  the  man  spent  all 
the  money  she  could  make.  Finally the 
Lord  saw  fit  to  take  the  man  away. 
I 
don't  think  be  took  him  to  himself,  b e­
cause  I  can't  think  what  particular  use 
the  Lord  would  have  for  a  man  of  that 
kind, 
lbe  Lord  may  have  thought  that 
it  was about  time  to  give  the  woman  a 
chance.  Well,  gentlemen,  after  that 
woman  had  seen  the  old  man  planted, 
and  actually  shed  a  lew  tears  over  him, 
although  I  couldn’t  see  for  the  life  of 
me  what  she  had  to  mourn  over,  she  be­
gan  to  get  down  to business.  She bad  a 
couple  of  boys, one of  them about  fifteen 
and  the  other  twelve,  who  for  a  wonder 
didn’t  seem  to  take  after  their  paternal 
ancestor.  They  were  good  boys  to  work, 
and  when  their  mother got  to  be  com- 
mander-in-chief,  with  the  help  of  the 
boys 
look  up 
around  that  dug-out.  There  were  a  lot 
of  wolves  in  that locality,  and the county 
commissioners  were  offering  a  bounty 
on  scalps  of  from  a  dollar  and  a  half  to 
three  dollars.  That  woman  and  her  boys 
got  a  pound  or  two  of  poison  and  went 
into  the  wolf  business.  They  took  in  a 
hundred  scalps  in  the  course  of  the  sea­
son,  and  sold  the  pelts  for  as  much  as 
they  got  for  the  scalps.  They  picked 
up  two  or  three  cows,  and  an  occasional 
call  here and  there.  The  family  man­
aged  to  get  in  fifty  acres  of wheat, which 
turned  out  twenty  bushels  to  the  acre, 
and  they  raised  a  lot  of  Kaffir  corn  and 
sorghum. 
In  a  couple  of  years  that 
woman  had  paid  for a  couple  of  teams 
and  built  a  decent  house  to  live  in  in­
stead  of  the  dug-out. 
In  a  couple  more 
they  had  paid  off  the  mortgage  that  the 
old  man  bad  put  on  the  place  and  let 
stay  there  while  be  loafed  around  town. 
In  five  years  the  woman  bad  stock  at d 
land  worth  ten  thousand  dollars,  and  she 
didn’t  owe  a  cent.  Then  a  man  who 
never  made a  cent  concluded  that  there 
would  be  a  speculation  in  marrying that 
widow,  but  she  had  had. one  experience 
with  a  worthless  man,  which was enough 
for her.  She  told  the  man  no,  but  he 
concluded  that  if  he  would only  hang  on 
she  would  change  her  mind.  He  per­
sisted,  and  after  a  while  she  turned 
loose  a  large  low-browed bull dog.  Then 
the  suitor  went  away,  and  tbe  dog  came 
back  to  the  bouse  carrying  a  piece  of 
pant  stuff  and  a  bit  of  human  round 
steak 
in  bis  mouth  as  a  trophy  of  the 
chase.  But the  widow  wasn’t  bothered 
by  any  more  worthless  men  asking  for 
her hand.  Unless  some  bad  lurk  strikes 
her,  that  woman  will  be  rich  some  of 
these  days.”

Getting  His  Eyes  Opened.

Jim  Doolittle,  a  Texas  man,  has  not 
been  married  very long,  but  there are al­
ready  some  rumors  of  an  impending 
divorce.  He  complains  that  bis  wife 
has  a  very  bad  temper.

“ When  did  you  first  get  acquainted 

with  your  wife?”   asked  a  friend.
“ I  have  known  her  for a  good  while, 
but  I  didn’t  get  acquainted with  her  un­
til  after  we  were  married,”  replied Jim, 
with  a  sigh,

How  To  Manage  the Human Hog.
The  best  way  to  manage  a  hog  is  to 
flatter  him. 
If  the  hog  comes  in  late  at 
night  with  a  breath  like  a  beer  garden 
or  a  sewer,  get  the  door  mat  and  wipe 
tbe  sawdust  off  his  shoes.  Then  remove 
his  shoes,  bang  his  pants  on  a  ten- 
penny  nail  and  put  him  to  bed.  The 
bog  will  not  appreciate this.  He  would 
much  rather  prefer  to  go  to  bed  with 
his  boots  on,  and  be  may  kick  your 
apron  off  in  tbe  morning  for  your  kind­
ness.  A  bog  can  stand  much  flattery. 
Flattery  will  make  a  hog  do  most  any­
thing  except  pay  his  debts. 
I  have 
known  a  bog  to  be  flattered  until  be 
would  stand  tbe  silver  question  against 
the  gatepost  long  enough  to  carry 
in  a 
load  of  stove  wood  for  his  wife.  You 
can’t  drive  a  bog,  but  you  can  scratch 
bis  back  and  coax  him. 
If  a  hog  com­
plains  too  much  of  soda  in  his  biscuit, 
flatter  him  with 
the  potato  masher. 
Hogs  all  want  to  drink  in  the  same  end 
of  the  trough  at  the  same  time.  A  bed 
slat  or  a  croquet  mallet  is  the  best thing 
to  flatter  a  hog  with,  if  he  is  rough,  un­
civilized  or abusive  around  home.  I  be­
lieve  the  hog  market  is  looking  up. 
Choice,  well-fatted  Polands  will  bring 
5Yz  cents  a  pound,  while  many  equally 
well  fatted  Caucasians  are  not  worth  3 
cents  for  all  you  could  crowd  into a con­
gressional  district. 
In  selecting  my 
breed  of  hogs  I  prefer  even  the  hazel 
splitter  to  tbe  Caucasian.  A  bog  that 
whittles  dry  goods  boxes  while  his  wife 
takes  in  washing  to  pay  the  rent  is  hard 
to  manage.  That  hog 
the 
soothing  influence  of  flattery.  To  intro­
duce  this  species  of  swine  family  to  a 
constable  and  rock pile is about  my  idea 
of  horticulture  and  hog  raising.  As  a 
practical  agriculturist,  if  I  had  a  hog 
that  spent $7.50 a  week  in  saloons,  and

is  beyond 

kicked  like  a  2-year-old  mule  against  a 
barn  door  when  I  asked  for  15  cents’ 
worth  of  stove  polish,  I  would  flatter 
him  across  tbe  hat  band  with  a  skillet. 
Everyone  can’t  sing,  but  any  one  can 
sell  hogs.  Yes,  there  are  various  ways 
of  managing  bogs,  but  I  prefer  arti­
chokes  when  I  want  to  rid  the  commu­
nity  of  a real  offensive grunter.  In  feed­
ing  hogs  never  cast  your  “ pearls  before 
them.”  
If  you  do  they  will  trample 
them  under  their  feet  and  chase  you  for 
your  overcoat. 
If  you  visit  an  old  hog 
that  has  a  nest  of  little  ones,  don’t  take 
your  favorite  dog  with  you. 
If  you  do 
you  have  got  to  climb  a  fence,  or  she 
will  bow  your  legs  with  the  dog.  The 
prodigal  son  wouldn’t  even  feed  hogs 
until  he  was  entirely  busted.  Then  he 
threw  up  the  job  and  swore  he  would 
rather  go  home  and  eat  with  tbe  hired 
girl,  even  if  be  had  to  eat  her  cooking. 
The  prodigal  and  Bismarck  had  very 
much  the  same  ideal  of  the  American 
hog.  While  a  burnt  child  dreads  a  fire, 
a  washed  swine  will  readily  return  to 
its  wallow.  A  politician  will  do  the 
same  thing.  That  shows  the  difference 
between  children, 
swine  and  politi­
cians.  The  chalk  marks  on  the  latter 
two  are  the  same,  and  they  don’t  fade 
in  the  sun.  If  your  hog  roots,  ring  him. 
If  he  has  bugs  on  him,  grease  him  and 
turn  him  over  to  a  Fourth  of  July  cele­
If  a  hog  squeals  under  a  gate, 
bration. 
remove  the  gate;  if  he  squeals 
in  a 
trade,  boycott  him.  The  way  to  man­
age  a  bog  is  to  manage  him.  The  best 
way  to  raise  a  bog  is  to  stand  straddle 
and  take  him  by  the  ears,  but  I  prefer 
to  put  the  ring 
in  his  nose  while  you 
raise  him.

It 

is  the  early  fish  that  catches  the 

worm—hook  and  all.

What Do You Do 
with your Ban Butter

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

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 85.00 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 500 pounds for  $2. 

Write for Testimonials. 

Hention this Paper.

145 L>a Salle St.. 

IThe Latto 
Butter Go.,
Chicago. III.

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S U C C E S S   A S   A   C L E R K .

Suggestions  Which  Ambitious  Em­

ployes  Will  Appreciate.

light 

A  man  must  love  bis  occupation  in 
order  to  make  a  success  of  it. 
It  must 
be  something  more  than  a  means  of 
making  a  living,  more  than  something 
in  which  his  time  is  invested.  A  man 
must  have  a  liking  for  the  department 
in  which  he  works.  Suppose  the  linen 
man  should  say,  ‘ ‘ I  know  I  could do  far 
better  in  the  drapery  department;”   or 
the  carpet  man  feels  disgruntled  be­
cause  he  could  not  sell  dress  goods;  or 
the  one  selling  hosiery  felt  be  could  be 
a  shining 
in  the  cloak  depart­
ment— possibly  in  some  cases  they  may 
be  right;  they  may  have  gone  into  the 
wrong  department,  but  through  lack  of 
interest  and  application  have  made  a 
partial  failure  where  they  are  and  feel 
that  they  could  do  much  better  in  an­
other department.  ‘ * Distance often lends 
enchantment  to  the  view ,”   but  one 
should  try  to  cultivate  a  liking  for  the 
goods  put  into  his  hands  to  sell.  Learn 
all  about  them.  Make  yourself  master 
of  the  position  you  are  placed  in.  Take 
your  business  home  with  you,  to  bed 
with  you,  if  you  wish.  Keep  it  close  to 
you.  Remember,  what  you  do  out  of 
the  store  has  often  more  to  do  with  your 
success  than  what  you  do  in  the  light  of 
business.  You  are  working  out  your 
destiny  while  off  duty 
just  as  well  as 
when  engaged.  You  can  at  least  think 
shop,  even  if  you  do  not  talk  it.

Make  a study of everything concerning 
your  business.  An 
incompetent  clerk 
is  sure  to  set  business  back.  A  clerk  is 
in  a  sense  a  business  man's  partner. 
Be  loyal  to  the  store  in  which  you work. 
Never  be  ashamed  to  say  “ our  store. ”  
You  all  well  know  a  man  who  bolds  a 
prominent  position 
in  a  store  here  in 
Fitchburg  who,  when  a  small  cash  boy, 
one  day  spoke somewhat grandly of ‘ ‘ our 
store.”   The  clerks  guyed  him until  he 
felt  as  though  he  bad  committed  a  mis­
demeanor. 
But  an  elderly  business 
man,  standing near,  said,  “ My  lad,  you 
are  quite  right;  always  say  ‘ our  store' 
and  feel  that  you  are  a  part  of  it  The 
success  or  failure  of  this  house  lies  in  a 
degree  on  your  shoulders.”

is 

Why 

it  that  some  clerks  always 
have  customers  about  them  waiting  to 
be  served?  Always  you  will  find  that 
such  clerks  meet  their  patrons  with 
pleasant  looks  and  salutations;  they will 
know  their  stock  thoroughly,  not  being 
obliged  to  hunt  for  the  article  called 
for,  and  will  know  all 
the  points 
about  it.

It  is  true  that  kind  treatment  rules  in 
the  realm  of  shopping.  If  a  clerk  snaps 
up  customers  the  customers  will  be  very 
apt  to  answer  back  in  the  same  way.  It 
is  much  a  question  of  give  and take.  If, 
on  the  other  hand,  the  clerk  is  always 
unruffled  and  pleasant  be  will  surely 
win  his  customers’  favors,  and  very 
likely 
for  permanent 
patrons. 
Affability  often  wins  when 
any  amount  of  argument  would  lose  the 
sale.

retain 

them 

A  salesman  with  a  pleasing  address 
and  bearing,  the  ability  to  control  him­
self  under  any  conditions  and  to  look 
upon  his  employer’s  business  as  his 
business,  is  a  good  candidate  for  pro­
motion.

Be  affable,  willing,  courteous  and 
pleasant.  Know  your  stock  and cater  to 
the  wants  of  your  customers.  We some­
times  speak  of  a  cranky  customer;  pos­
sibly 
it  was  a  cranky  salesman  that 
made  her  so.

It 

is  said  that  people  dearly  love  a

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

bargain,  but  they  also  love  a  willing, 
obliging  clerk.  People  are  differently 
constituted ;  some  can  make  a  selection 
at  a  glance,  while  others  require  more 
time  and  need  explanations  and  assist­
ance.  Keep  your  eyes  open  and  see  if 
there  is  not  some  little  service  you  can 
render. 
If a  customer  has  several  small 
parcels  put  them 
into  one  large  one. 
See  that  a  tired  and  weary  lady  has  a 
seat  at  your  counter.  In  many  ways  you 
can  become  a  good  advertisement  for 
your  store.  These 
little  attentions  are 
never  forgotten.

Look  at  your business from both sides; 
for  a  time  be  your  customer,  and  see  if 
you  are  serving  her  just  in  the  manner 
you  would  wish  to  be  served.

Study  well  the  science  of  selling. 
Wait  upon  all  customers  with  equal 
promptness  and  politeness,  be  the  sale 
large  or  small.  Don’t  be  afraid  to show 
goods. 
If  you  do  not  make  a  sale  at 
first you  may  have  furnished  an  idea  for 
a  future  purchase.  Be  wide-awake  and 
ambitious  to  make  sales,  but  never  mis­
represent  an  article 
in  any  way.  Al­
ways  give  sixteen  ounces  to  the  pound 
and  thirty-six  inches  for  a  yard.  Sales­
people  are 
important.  They  can  add 
to  or  undo  any  amount  of  advertising. 
They  can  virtually  make  or  unmake  a 
store.

A  store  life  is  in  the  main  a  pleasant 
one—you  are  constantly  meeting  refined 
and  educated  people—and,  like  travel, 
is  a  good  instructor.  No  modern  store 
would  think  of  doing  business  without  a 
reasonable  amount  of  advertising ;  and 
here 
let  me  sav  I  consider  newspapers 
the  best  and  most  reliable  medium  for 
bringing  the  goods  to  the  attention  of 
the  masses.  But  advertising  merely  in­
troduces  the  goods  to  the  public,  the 
salesman  must  do  the  rest.

Keep  your  eyes  open ;  there  are  many 
useful  ideas  to  be  gained  in  that  way. 
Many  of  our  most  successful  men  are 
those  who  watch  and  make  use  of  what 
they  learn  from  observation.  The 
late 
A.  T.  Stewart's capital  was  in  bis  bead. 
Without  his 
indomitable  ambition, 
genius  for  detiil,  talent  to  direct,  to 
organize,  nourish  and  control  the  busi­
ness  he  created,  what good  would  money 
have  been?  Stewart  was  not  a  creature 
of  fortune.  He had  little  money  to  start 
with.  Tradition  has  it  that  be  had  less 
than  $5,000  when  he  began.  But  he  had 
brains.  He  took  the 
little  handful  of 
gray  matter  that  Providence  gave  him 
and  made  the  most  of  it.  What’s  the 
use  of  brains  to  men  who  won't  use 
them?  What’s  the  good  of  understand­
ing  to  men  who  refuse  to  think?  Men 
might  as  well  be  blind  as  to  wilfully 
close  their  eyes  to  their  opportunities. 
There  isn’t  a  clerk  but  has  an  oppnr-

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.  Rubber Co.  Combina­
tions 
Send  us  your  orders 
and  get  the  best  goods  made.
Our line of Spring  Shoes are now 
on  the  road  with  our  travelers.
Be  sure  and  see  them  before 
placing your  orders  as we  have 
some “hot stuff” in them.

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

STUDLEY  &  BARCLAY,  ’„ Z S o .  _

Herold=Bertsch 
Shoe  Co. Ji- M-

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Manufacturers 
and  Jobbers

Rindge, Kalmbach,  Logie  & Co.,

12,14 and 16 Pearl Street,

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Manufacturers a id   Jobbers of

Boots and Shoes

Agents  for  the  Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Company.

Our styles  are up to date.

Send  us  your  orders  and  we  will  give  them 

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tuaity  to  do  better  if  he  would  only  try.
Some  go  out  and  others  go  up  to  bet­
ter  positions.  Sooner  or 
later  all  get 
what  is  due  them.  Merchants  are  sure 
in  anyone.  The  man 
to  notice  merit 
behind  the  counter  who 
is  content  to 
dawdle  bis  time,  or  plays  to  the  eye  of 
authority  and  makes  bluster  take  the 
place  of  quiet  work,  will  sooner  or  later 
lose  his  position.  But  an  honest,  earn­
est  man  who  does  bis  best  and  makes 
bis  brains  count,  studies  bis  position, 
thinks  and  tries,  will  in  the  end  be  the 
winner.

Commonplace  men  are  not  wanted. 
Learn  something  outside  your  depart­
ment. 
I  know  a  man  in  this  city  who 
was  once  an  applicant,  with  a  dozen 
others,  for  a  position  as  salesman  in  a 
store  2,000  miles  from  here.  He got  the 
situation  because  be  was  able  to  make 
a  good,  clean  and  attractive  sign  card. 
Quite 
likely  many  of  the  others  were 
just  as  capable  salesmen  as  be,  but  be 
bad  more  than  one  string  to  pull.  No 
one  man  holds  a  patent  on  ideas.

There  are  so  many  don’ts  connected 
with  a  store  that  I  am  forced  to  give  a 
few :

Don't  come  too  late  to  work  in  the 

morning. 

It  pays  to  be  early.

Don’t  be  disloyal  to  your  employer.
Don’t  visit  during  business  hours; 
the  evening  is  the  proper  time  to  make 
friendly  calls.

Don’t  criticise  the  appearance  or 
dress  of  customers,  or  make  remarks 
about  them 
in  a  stage  whisper  to  an­
other  employe.

Don’t  be  idle.  It's  a  rust that attaches 

to  and  ruins  the  brightest  metal.
Don't  sing,  hum  or  whistle 

in  the 
store;  it 
is  no  conservatory  of  music, 
and  no  doubt  customers  would  prefer  to 
pay  for an  opera  chair  for  an  evening ; 
besides,  they  scarcely  expect  a  song  re­
cital  thrown  in  with  a  small purchase.

Don’t  have  a  don’t-care-whether-1- 

sell-or-not  expression  on  your  face.

Don't  chew  gum.
Don't  toss  your  head  and  say,  “ I 
dunno, ”   when  a  customer  asks  a  civil 
question.

Don’t  hang  around  in  bunches  to  talk 
over  the  news  of  yesterday.  Customers 
dislike  to  disturb  such  a  company. 
“ Ever  on  the  alert’ ’  should  be  your 
motto.

Don’t  be  superior  to  things  about  you 
in  general  more  than  you  are  obliged 
Imagine  the  humiliation  you in­
to  be. 
innocent  woman  who  asks 
flict  on  an 
lace  by 
you  to  show  her  real  thread 
your  sarcastic  reply,  “ We  have  no 
lace 
made  of  real  threads.”

Don’t  overestimate  the  value  of  your 
position  by  allowing  someone  else  to  do 
the  work  that  you  yourself  should  do.

to  use 

Don’t  use  ridiculous  expressions.  Do 
you  find  yourself  giving  way  to  a  pro­
pensity 
indignant  words  and 
phrases?  Are  you  a  victim  of  the  habit 
of  using  slang? 
If  so,  study  the  origin 
of  our  common  English  phrases,  tbeir 
different  shades  of  meaning,  then  try  to 
use  them  intelligently  in  your  conversa­
tion.

Show  a  thoughtful  courtesy  to  custom­
ers.  Customers  complain  of  the  lack  of 
it—want  of  interest  and  a  general know- 
nothing  and  careless  style  on  the part  of 
clerks.  The  recognition  of  courtesy  is 
one  of  the  things  that  mark  the  differ­
ence  between  a  boor and  a  gentleman 
The  manners  of  some  men  are  worth  a 
good  deal  in  reckoning  tbeir  salary.

There 

is  a  great  difference  between 
what  a  clerk  may  do and  what  he  can 
do. 
In  building  up  a  reputation,  don't 
forget  to  introduce  a  little ginger,  for

without 
it  you  have  no  business  to  be 
behind  the  counter.  Look  over  the  list 
of  successful  business  men  of  to-day. 
Nearly  all  of  them  came  from  positions 
no  more  promising  than  that  of  a  sales­
man.  Be  true,  be  square,  be  unfalter­
ingly  faithful  to  the  place  you  fill  and 
to  the  firm  who  employ  you,  in  every­
thing  consistent  with  honor.  Give  your 
tongue  a  rest  when  tempted  to  say sharp 
or  unpleasant  things  of  anybody. 
It 
pays  to  make  friends.  Many a  man  goes 
down  and  never  rises  simply  because 
he  hasn't  a  friendly  band  to  hold  the 
stirrup  while  be  mounts  again.  Some 
have  tripped  again  and  again  and  still 
kept  on  because  they  found  a  friendly 
hand  ready  to  steady  them  at  the  cli­
max.  Friends  are  often  capital.

Again,  if  you  make  a  choice  of  store 
life  for  your  future  career,  educate your­
self  for  it.  The  draughtsman,  electric­
ian,  druggist,  plumber  or  the  builder  all 
study  with  that  end 
in  view.  Would 
you  think  of  engaging  a  physician  or  a 
lawyer  who  never  opened  a  book?

Every  day 

in  the  great  stores  it  is 
possible  to  see  men  and  women  who 
know  as  little  about salesmanship as one 
of  our  new  Malay  brothers  does  of  run­
ning  a  Putnam  engine.  How  many 
salesmen  know  how  much  material  it 
takes  to  make  an  apron,  shiit,  jumper, 
table  cover,  pillowcase,  dress  waist  or 
dress  complete?  Do  you  know  the  size 
of  hose  one  should  purchase  by knowing 
the  size  of  shoe  he  wears,  or  the  size  of 
underwear a  child  requires  by  knowing 
his  age?

With  all  the  rest,  a  good  memory  is  a 
valuable  adjunct  to  every  clerk.  Of 
course,  he  can  not  be  expected  to  re­
member  everything,  yet  he  ought 
to 
know  nearly all  bis department contains. 
is  said  that  the  best  substitute  for 
It 
knowledge 
is  the  ability  to  lay  your 
hand  on  the  desired  information  when 
wanted.  So  the  best  substitute  for  a 
good  memory  as  to  what  the  nooks  and 
list  of  their  con­
corners  contain 
it  may  be 
tents  close  at  hand,  where 
referred  to  at  any  moment. 
In that  way 
you  will  net  be  likejy  to  tell  a  customer 
you  haven't  a  certain  article  when,  in 
reality,  the  very  thing  is  tucked  away 
in  some  spare  corner.

is  a 

I  once  knew  of  a  man  employed  in  a 
store  in  one  of  our  large  cities  at  a good 
salary,  who  possessed  no qualities  as  a 
salesman,  but  be  had  a  phenomenal 
memory  for  locating  every  article in  the 
building  from  basement  to  attic.

Remember  the  names  of  your patrons. 
All  but  rogues  like  to  be  addressed  by 
tbeir names.

I  am  not  going  to  sermonize  or moral­
ize,  but  this  much  I  wish  I  could  in­
still 
into  the  mind  of  every  clerk  in 
Fitchburg:  Be  unswervingly  honest
with  the  money,  goods  and  time  in­
trusted  to  your  care.  You 
little  think 
bow  you  are  character-building  every 
day.  The  people  of  Fitchburg  and 
vicinity  know  you  far  better  than  you 
think.  Never  stoop  to  the  “ tricks  of 
trade”   you  hear  so  much  of.  They  are 
all  beneath  you.  Have  a  patient  deter­
mination  to  stand  with  those  that  pull 
forward  and  not  backward.  Our  modern 
business  methods  respect  only  honesty, 
ability  and  brains.

J.  M.  Hubbard.

At  Batavia,  N.  Y.,  a  man  dislocated 
bis  jaw  by  yawning.  The  ladies  of  the 
neighborhood  were  in,  talking  bonnet  to 
his  wife  and  the  man  got  tired.

A  Baltimore  woman  by  the  name  of 
Charity  struck  her  husband  over  the 
head  with  a  boot  and  came  near  killing 
him.  Charity begins at  home.

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

Clerks’  Corner.

How  the  Dry  Goods  Clerk  Lost  His 

Position.
Written for the  Tradesman.

It  was 6 o'clock  on  a  cold  stormy  Sat­
urday  evening.  The  closing  bell  in  Jay 
&  Judkins'  big  dry  goods  store  bad  just 
rung  and.the  men  employes  were  pass­
ing  in  single  file  before  the  office  win­
dow,  where  each  received  an  envelope 
containing  his  week's  wages.  There 
was  a  good  deal  of  joking  along  the line 
and  now  and  then  a  man  at  the  rear  of 
the  line  would  try  for  a  place  nearer  the 
front,  always  without  success,  however, 
as  those  who  had  places  of vantage  were 
anxious  to  keep  them.

Alex  Craig  was  the 

last  man  to  re­
ceive  his  envelope.  He  was  a  tall, 
slender  young 
fellow  of  perhaps  23. 
Young  as  he  was,  there  were  signs of 
dissipation  plainly  visible  in  his  face. 
He  opened  the  envelope which the book­
keeper  handed  him  and  his  pale  face 
grew  a  shade  paler  and  bis  hand 
trembled  as  his  eyes  rested  upon  a  little 
blue  note  which  the  envelope  contained 
and  which  read,  “ Your  services  are  no 
longer  required.’ ’ 
“ My  God,  what 
shall  I  do!”   he  exclaimed  in  a  voice  of 
despair,  and  with  bent  head  be  made 
his  way  out  into  the  night.

The  snow,  which  had  been  falling  all 
day,  now  lay  in  great  drifts  against  the 
curb  and  at  exposed  corners.  Happy 
people,  their  week’s  work  done  were 
hastening  homeward  forgetful  of  the 
driving  storm  and  biting  cold.  Young 
Craig, with  faltering  and  unsteady steps, 
made  his  way  down  the  street  for  sev­
eral  blocks.  He  then  stood  irresolute 
for  several  minutes.  Finally  he  turned 
and  retraced  his  steps.  Upon  reaching 
the  entrance  to  Jay  &  Judkins'  store  he 
stopped and stood for  some  time as if un­
able  to  determine  what  to  do.  While  he 
debated  with  himself a key was turned  in 
the  store  door  and  he  had  just  time  to 
step  back  out  of  sight  as  two  men  came 
out  and  proceeded  up  the  street.

“ It's  no  use,  Judkins,”   one  of  them 
was  saying;  “ we  have  put  up  with  too 
much  of  Craig’s  nonsense 
already. 
He’s  a  bright,  smart  fellow,  I  admit, 
but  he’s  altogether  too  fast  for a  posi­
tion  of  trust  and  responsibility.  He  lied 
this  morning,  when  he  told  us  that  be 
was  away  yesterday  because be was sick.
I  know  he  bad  been  drunk,  for  his 
breath  smelled  of 
liquor.  No,  I  feel 
satisfied  that  we  have  done  right  to  let 
him  go. ”

“ Well,  Jay,  I  suppose  we  have,”   re­
plied  Mr.  Judkins;  “ but  I  can’t  help 
feeling  sorry  for  the  young  fellow.  He 
might  have  done  better  if  we  bad talked 
it  over  with  him  and  given  him  one 
more  chance— we  were  both  young  our­
selves  once,  you  know—and  somehow  I 
had  set  my  heart  on  him.  He’s  been 
with  us  since  he  was  14—sort  of  grown 
up  with  us—and  I can’t  get  over  feeling 
that  it  was  a  heartless  thing  to  give him 
his  discharge  as  we  did,  without  a  mo­
ment’s  warning ;  but  I  just  couldn’t tell 
him  myself.  Poor  boy!  be  didn’t  ex­
pect  that  sort  of  treatment  from  us.

Here  the  partners’  ways  separated. 
Standing  in  the  darknesss  close  to  the 
building,  Craig  overheard  only  apart  of 
what  Mr.  Jay  said  as  he  passed  him ; 
but  that  was  enough  to  destroy  the  lin­
gering  hope  that  had  brought  him  back 
to the  store  door.  He  looked  after the 
two  until  they  disappeared,  then walked 
slowly  and  hopelessly  away  through  the 
storm.

Rough  as  the  night  was,  “ The  Pal­

ace”   was  doing  a  rushing  business.  A 
glare  of  bright  light  was  thrown  clear 
across  the  street  from  this  mirrored  and 
gilded  saloon. 
The  sound  of  music 
mingled  with  the  clink  of  glasses  and 
loud-voiced  laughter  could  be  beard  as 
the  plate  glass  door  swung  to  and  fro  to 
let  out  or  in  the  patrons  of  the  place.

Just  as  Redney  Howard  on  his  way 
home 
from  the  gymnasium  where  be 
had  spent  the  evening was passing “ The 
Palace”   the  door  swung  open and a man 
staggered  out  and  fell 
in  a  helpless 
heap  almost  at  his  feet.  A  feeling  of 
disgust  came  over  Howard  as  be  looked 
down  upon  the  drunken  fellow;  but  be 
stooped  and  raised  him  to  a  sitting 
posture.  As  he  did  so  he  discovered 
that  the  man  was  Alex  Craig  his  fellow 
clerk.

“ Why  Alex!  how  comes 

it  that  you 
are 
in  such  a  condition?  This  will 
never  do—you  will  freeze  to  death  if 
you  remain  here,  or  almost  as  bad,  you 
will be  run  in by the police.  Here! brace 
let  me  help  you  get 
up  old  man  and 
home.  No  use,  hey? 
The  sidewalk 
won't  stand  still?  Just  try  it  as  far  as 
the  next  corner.  There’s  a  cab  there 
and  it  will  soon  take  you  home.”

Redney  finally  got  his  charge  into  the 
cab  at  the  corner;  but  instead  of  taking 
Craig  to  his  boarding  bouse  he  directed 
the  cabman  to  drive  to  a  small  but  re­
spectable  hotel  up  town.  Here  with  the 
help  of  a  bellboy  be  got  Craig  to  bed. 
After  paying  for  the  room  he  walked 
home  to  his own  quarters.

The  streets  were  for  the  most  part  de­
serted  except  for  the  storm  which  still 
held  high  carnival  with  no  signs  of 
abatement.  Redney  gave  no  heed  to  the 
storm  as  he  made  his  way  homeward. 
His  mind  was  busy  with  thoughts  of 
the  young  man  he  had  just  left.  He  bad 
known  for  some  time  that  Craig  was 
leading  a  fast  life  and  that  he  drank  a 
little,  but  he  bad  never  known  that  be 
drank  to  excess.

Bright,  smart  Alex  Craig  a  drunkard! 
Something  must  be  done  for  him  at 
once.  Why,  if  Mr.  Jay  were  to  find  this 
out  Craig,  poor  fellow,  would  lose  his 
position.  I'll  talk  it  over  with  Weisley. 
He’s  sure  to  have  some  plan  to  offer 
that  will  help  matters.”

The  following  Monday morning  it  was 
known by the clerks in Jay & Judkins'that 
Alex  Craig had  been  discharged.  Many 
of  them  declared  that 
it  served  him 
right as he  bad  brought  it upon himself ; 
but  there  were  several,  among  them 
Redney  Howard,  who  felt  only  pity  for 
Craig.  Redney  had  talked  the  matter 
over  with  his  friend  Weisley,  but  some­
how  none  of  his  suggestions  seemed  to 
fit  the  case,  and he  had  gone  to  the  store 
feeling  that  he  was  powerless  to  do any­
thing  for  the  fellow.

It  was  about  10 o'clock  when  a  cash 
boy  brought  a  message  to  Redney  re­
questing  him  to  come  to  Mr.  Judkins’ 
office.  Upon  entering  the  office he  was 
greeted  pleasantly  by  his  employer  and 
invited  to  take  a  seat.  Mr.  Judkins 
finished  the  letter  be  was  writing,  then 
turned  to  the  young  man  with,  “ Well, 
Howard,  I  want  to  talk  business  with 
you.  Mr.  Burk,  the  manager  of  our 
Pittston  store,  has  resigned  and 
it  is 
necessary  that  his  place  be  filled  at 
once.  We  have  decided  to  give  you  the 
place.  Your  salary  will  be  double  what 
I  will  say  to  you 
you  now  receive. 
now,  however,  that  we  had 
intended  to 
give  this  place  to  Craig;  but,  unfortu­
nately for  him,  his  habits  for  some  time 
have been  such  that  we  were  obliged  to 
discharge him.  Craig  out of  the  ques­
tion,  we  decided  upon  you,  you  having

been  with  us  next  longest.  There are 
several  older  men  who  have  been  in  our 
employ  almost  as  long  as  you  have,  but 
we  give  you  the  preference  because  of 
the  ability  you  have shown,  and  also  be­
cause of your excellent  reputation.  Now, 
don’t  try  to  thank  us,  for  we  know  by 
experience  how  difficult  it  is  to  do  that 
gracefully.  Just  take  the  balance of  the 
day  off  and  arrange  your  affairs  here 
¡and  be  in  Pittston  day  after  to-morrow 
morning  to  begin  your  new  duties,  con­
cerning  which  we  shall instruct you fully 
to-morrow. ’ ’

Redney  Howard  left  the  office  of  Jay 
&  Judkins  with  the  feeling  that  he  was 
walking  on  air.  Such  good  fortune  be 
had  never  imagined  even  in  his  wildest 
castle-building.  He  was  soon  busy  dis­
mantling  the  room  which bad been borne 
to  him  for  several  years.  This done,  he 
took  a  car  to  the  part  of  town  where 
Alex  Craig 
fortunate 
enough  to  find  him  at  home.  Craig  was 
more than  pleased  to  hear  of  Redney’s 
promotion.  He 
congratulated  him 
heartily,  although  he  was  himself  under 
a  cloud  and  not  fully  recovered  from 
the  effects  of  his  recent  spree.

lived  and  was 

“ But,  Alex,  it  is  not  for  congratula­
tions  that  I  came  to  see  you,”   said 
Redney,  “ but  because  I  wanted  you  to 
know  that  I  am  your  friend. 
If  you 
will  leave  liquor  alone,  Alex,  I  feel  sure 
that,  in  my  new  position,  I shall  be able 
to  do  something  for  you. 
I  am  not  go­
ing  to  ask  you  to  sign  a  pledge,  nor 
even  to  promise  me  that  you  won’t 
drink,  for  a  broken  promise  estranges 
friends;  but,  Alex  if  you  will  oniy  keep 
straight  everything  will  come  out  all 
right.”

Redney’s  earnest  words  and the  sound 
of  his  friendly  voice 
in  Alex 
Craig’s  ears  long  after  he  had  gone: 
“ Alex,  if  you  will  only  keep  straight 
everything  will  come  out  all  right.”

rang 

“ Oh,  if  I  bad  never gone  crooked!  I 
should  have  listened  to  Redney  long ago 
when  be  did  his  best  to  straighten  me 
up.  How  different  things  would  be  now 
— I  should  be  taking  the  position  which 
is  given  to  him,  for  I  know  both  Jay 
I  should  be  re­
and  Judkins  liked  me. 
spected,  as  he 
is;  but  now  I  am  dis­
charged  without a  recommendation,  and 
without  a  cent  to  my  name  except  this 
ten  dollar  bill  which  Redney  put  into 
my  hand  when  he  left  me  and  the  bal­
I  am
ance  of  my 

last  week’s  wages. 

glad  my  poor old  mother  is  not  alive  to 
know  this.  How  her  dear  old  heart 
would  have ached  to  see  the  downfall  of 
the  boy  of  whom  she  was  so  proud, ’ ’ 
and  poor  Craig,  overcome  by  the„ bur­
den  of  remorse,  dropped  upon  his knees 
at  his bedside  and  sobbed  like a  child.
Redney’s  position  as  manager  of  Jay 
im­
&  Judkins’  Pittston  store  was  an 
portant  and  responsible  one. 
It  also 
opened  for  him  social  advantages  such 
as  he  had  never  had  as  a  clerk  in  the 
main  store.  He  at  once  took  his  place 
as  an  up-to-date,  progressive  business 
man  among  the  business  men  of  the 
town,  and  was  soon  regarded  by  many 
of  them  as  a  more than formidable rival.
Howard  had  been  in  his  new  position 
only about  two  weeks  when  the  resigna­
tion  of  his  chief  dress  goods  clerk  gave 
him  the  opportunity  to  help  Craig.  Be­
fore  offering  the  position  to  him  he 
visited  the  main  store  and  talked  the 
matter  over  with  bis  employers.  Mr. 
Judkins  was  very  much  in  favor  of  the 
plan;  but  Mr.  Jay  did  not approve  of  it 
at  all.  After  discussing  the  case  for 
some  time  Jay  finally  gave  in by saying, 
“ Well, go ahead  and  give  him  a  chance, 
for,  although  I  don’t  consider  it  a  wise 
step  to  take  Craig  on  again,  I  can’t  be 
forever  opposing  Judkins’  good  na­
ture. ’ ’

Redney  put  his  plan  into  instant  exe­
cution  and  upon  the 
following  day 
Craig  took  his  place  as head dress-goods 
salesman  in  the  Pittston  store.

Whether  Redney  Howard’s  plan  was 
a  wise  one  or  not  will  have  to be  seen 
at  some  future time. 

Mac  A l l a n .

Ingenious  Advertising Scheme.

Open  all  your  letters by  cutting  one 
end  of  the  envelope  so  carefully  with  a 
sharp  pair  of  scissors  that  no  rough 
edges  are  visible.  Save  all  these  en­
velopes.  In  the  course  of a  month  you 
will  have quite a  lot.  Give  them  to a 
clerk,  send  him  out  in  a  wagon  or  on  a 
bicycle,  with  instructions to  drop  one in 
the  middle  of  the  road  every  few  hun­
dred  yards  or so.  With  bis five  hundred 
envelopes  he  can  cover  a  great  deal  of 
country.

The  effect  will  be  so  magical  that  you 
it.  No­
will  at  once  feel  the  effects  of 
body  can  pass  an  envelope  that  looks 
like  a  letter  without  stopping  to  see 
whose 
it,  and  all 
about  i t ;  and  when  it  is  thus  picked  up 
and  the  druggist's  address  and  business 
carefully  read,  an  impression 
is  made 
on  the  reader’s  mind  that  is  very  hard 
to  forget.

is,  who  dropped 

it 

World 
Bicycles

$40  and  $50

W e  also  have  other  makes 
of wheels  to  retail  at

$25  $30  $35

W e  can  take  care  of  a  few 
more  good  dealers.  W rite 
for  our  Sundry  catalogue.

Adams &   Hart,

12  W .  Bridge St., 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich 

Wholesale Bicycles and Sundries.

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The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.
Cold water— Kerr  Bros,  have  a  new 
clerk  in  their  hardware  store  in  the  per­
son  of  Chas.  Phillips,  of  Owosso.

Hastings—Albert  Carveth  has  taken  a 
clerkship  in  the  drug  store  of  Fred  L. 
Heath.

Port  Huron— Adolph  Dryer  has  taken 

tbe  management of  K nill’s  drugstore.

St.  Louis— H.  L.  Cleveland  has  sev­
ered  bis  connections  with  J.  Tuger  & 
Son  and  gone  to  Saginaw,  where  he  has 
taken  a  position  with  Wm.  Barie  & 
Son.

Marquette— William  Tietz,  who  for 
four  years  had  charge  of  the  carpet  de­
partment  of  tbe  Peabody-Pettibone  Dry 
Goods  Co.,  of  Appleton,  Wis.,  but  more 
recently  with  Alex.  H.  Revell  &  Co., 
of  Chicago,  has  taken  the  management 
of  tbe  carpet  department  of  the  Van 
Alstyn  Opera  Block  dry  goods  bouse.

Nashville—Len  Miller  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  Ann Arbor furniture  store 
and  has  taken  a  position  at  Port  Huron 
as  general  manager  of  a  new  furniture 
store  which  will  be  put 
in  by  C.  F. 
Taylor.

Port  Huron—Walter  H.  Blome  has 
in  the  drug  store  of 

taken  a  position 
Geo.  Williamson.

Hopkins  Station—C.  L.  Randall,  who 
has  been  head  clerk  in  the  general  store 
of  F.  B.  Watkins  for  some  time  past, 
has  taken  a  position 
in  the  Wurzburg 
department  store  at  Grand  Rapids.

Manistique— Louis  Danto,  bead  clerk 
in  the  general  store  of  Blumrosen  Bros, 
for  several  years  past,  has  taken  a  sim­
ilar  position  in  the general store  of  Rose 
Bros.,  at  Marshfield,  Wis.

Saginaw—E.  D.  Smith,  formerly  with 
D.  McCarthey  &  Son’s  wholesale  dry 
goods  house,  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  is  now 
in  the  employ  of  Wm.  Barie  &  Son.

Grand  Ledge— Blaine Little  has  taken 
in  the  store  of  the  Clarke 

a  position 
Hardware  Co.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— R.  J.  Allison,  of 
Chicago,  has  taken  charge  of  the  dry 
goods  department  of  B.  Blumrosen.

Port  Huron—Ira  Dunlap,  for  several 
years  dispensing  clerk  in  the  prescrip­
tion  department  of  Brown’s  pharmacy, 
Detroit,  is  now  employed  in  the  phar­
macy  of  C.  E.  Bricker.

Olivet—Roy  Stevens  has  taken  a  po­
in  the  McGrath  grocery  store  at 

sition 
Charlotte.

Mulliken—John  Warner  has  engaged 
for  McCarger 

as  prescription  clerk 
Bros.

Big  Rapids—Mrs.  T.  D.  Mulberry 
has  been  compelled  to  relinquish  her 
position  in  the  drug  store  of  Geo.  F. 
Fairman  by  reason  of  ill  bealtb.  Tbe 
position  has  been  filled  by  the  engage­
ment  of  Chester  N.  Woodworth,  for  five 
years  past  in  the  employ  of  Peck  Bros., 
Grand  Rapids.

Hillsdale—O.  Hancock,  wbo  has been 
identified  with  tbe  grocery  trade  of  this 
city  for  over  forty  years,  has  decided 
to  remove  to  Buffalo.

Coldwater—Edward  C.  Allen,  drug 
clerk  in  the  store  of  Clarke  &  Co.,  was 
recently  married  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Fry.
Homer—Harry  L.  Cook  has  taken  a 
in  the  grocery  and  crockery 

position 
store  of  Wait  &  Co.

Cadillac—A.  R.  Labbe,  who  was  for­
in  the  employ  of  S.  W.  Kramer, 
merly 
and  for  tbe  past  two  years  has  been 
acting  as  salesman  in  a  dry  goods  store 
at  St.  Ignace,  has  returned  to  this  city 
and  accepted  a  position  with  Leslie  & 
Co.  as  manager  of  their  dry  goods  de­
partment.
Hides,  Pelts,  Furs,  Tallow and  Wool.
Hides  are  firm  at  tbe late  advance and 
in  demand,  although  margins  are  small 
to  tanners.  Prices  are  too  high  for  a 
healthy  trade.

Pelts  are  so  few  and  at  such  high 
values  that  pullers  hesitate  in  purchas­
ing.

Furs  are  becoming  a  thing  of  the 
past.  Values  on  good  stock  have  been 
well  up,  while  the  late  spring  catch  is 
not  desirable.

Tallow  has  eased  off  on  price,  as  tbe 
advance  brought 
large  offerings  to  tbe 
surface,  and  wants  are  readily supplied. 
Trusts  or  combines  are  freely  talked  of 
among  soapers,  probably  for  tbe  pur­
pose  of  advancing  tallow.

Wools  bave  revived.  Cheap  lots  are 
sold.  Manufacturers  have  bought  freely, 
taking  all  offerings  at  the  low  price  and 
leaving 
tbe  balance  held  at  higher 
values, which are being  obtained  to quite 
an  extent.  Tbe  situation  for  wool  has 
much 
it  now  begins  to 
look  as  though  this  staple  will  have  a 
value  among  other  commodities.

improved  and 

W m.  T.  Hess.

Adrian—The  creamery  at  this  place 
leased  by  Ira  Z.  Mason  and 
has  been 
is  already  in  operation. 
It is  the  inten­
tion  to  manufacture  both  butter  and 
cheese.

Strawberries  are  on  sale,  with  the 
bottoms  of  the  boxes  and  the  prices 
well  up.
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T H E  C H A R LE S T O N

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thing new.  Every room heated.  Large and well- 
lighted sample rooms.  Send your mall care  of  the 
Charleston, where the boys stop.  CH ARI.ES  A . 
CA LD W E L L, formerly of Donnelly  House,  Prop.

Taggart,  Knappen  &  Denison,

PATENT  ATTORNEYS

811-817 Mich. Trust Bldg., 

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A. VINCBNT, Prop.

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President,  Chab.  S.  Stevens,  Ypsilanti;  Secre­
tary, J. C. Saunders, Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C. 
Gould. Saginaw,
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  J ames  E.  Day,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W. Allkn  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 

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

Grand Rapids Council No. 131.

Senior Counselor, D. E. Keyes;  Secretary-Treas­
urer,  L  F.  Baker.  Regular  meetings—First 
Saturday of each month in Council  Chamber  in 
McMullen block.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  Boyd  Panti,ind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owen,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Clnb. 
President, F. G. T bubco tt, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer. A. F, W esson.  Marquette.______
Advantages  of  the  Weekly  Expense 

Book.

The  most  satisfactory  method  of  re­
munerating  salesmen  for  their  expendi­
tures 
is  the  use  of  weekly  expense 
books.  They  avoid  a  running  account 
with  each  salesman,  save  the  salesman 
and  the  bouse  much  annoyance  and 
la­
bor,  and  tend  to  make  tbe  salesman 
more businesslike.  Experience has dem­
onstrated  tbe  value  of  this  method  to 
the  salesman  over  tbe  old  way  of  allow­
ing  him  to  draw  on  tbe  bouse  for  a hun­
dred  dollars  at  will  or  having  him  an­
ticipate  bis  needs  by  making  a  requisi­
tion  for  this  amount  or  expecting  him 
to  depend  upon  or  use  his  collections 
for  this  purpose.
in 

tbe  past,  with  more 
money 
in  bis  possession  than  is  usual 
to  day, when  desiring  a  little  excitement 
to  relieve the monotony of his life.he was 
easily 
into  gambling  and  other 
vices.  This  has  frequently  resulted  in 
the  salesman,  when  pushed  for  settle­
ment,  being  discharged  for  embezzle­
ment  or  falsifying  his  expense  account 
so  that  tbe  house  paid  for  a  large  part 
of  the  fun  or  being  called  upon  by  tbe 
house  to  make  good  the  discrepancy 
from  bis  future  salary.

Too  often 

led 

If 

tbe  salesmen  make  collections, 
which  are  sometimes  unavoidable  or 
are  forced  upon them  by  certain custom­
ers,  they  should  have  instructions  to  re­
mit  the  amount 
immediately  to  tbe 
house,  less  tbe  cost  of  tbe  exchange, 
and  it  should  be  credited  as  if  received 
from  the  customer  direct.  Enough  have 
tried,  without  success,  to  make  a  good 
salesman  and  a  good  collector  out  of 
tbe  same  person  that  it  should  be  con­
sidered  as  firmly  settled  in tbe negative.
To  get  all  the  returns  possible  from 
salesmen’s  salaries  and  expenses,  they 
should  not  be hampered with collections. 
Let  them  sell  goods  and  allow  nothing 
interfere  with  or  deter  them  from 
to 
their  efforts  to  secure  orders. 
If  they 
undertake  to  collect  for  a  bill  now  past 
due,  before  soliciting  a  customei’s  or­
ders,  the  customer  is  very  liable  to  say, 
“ Trade  is  dull;  I  don’t  need  much any­
how;  I  guess  I’ll  not  buy  anything  to­
day. 
I'll  wait  until  your  next  trip. ’ ’ 
He  really  means  be  will  save  bis  wants 
for  tbe  salesman  who  is  not  a  collector. 
If  tbe  salesmen  pursue  tbe  opposite 
course,  for  fear  of  vexing  or  irritating 
tbeir  customer,  and  say  nothing  about 
tbe  past  due  account  tbe  bouse  wants 
them  to collect,  until after they have  sold 
him  all  the  goods  they  can  force  upon 
him 
increase  their  sales, 
then  the  customer  will  very  often  say,

in  order  to 

“ You  had  better  just  cancel  this  order.
I  know  my  credit 
is  good  with  your 
bouse,  but  they  evidently  want 
tbeir 
money  or  they  would  not  bave  asked 
you  to  collect 
it.  You  know  this  is  a 
season  of  the  year  when  it  takes  all  I 
can  scrape  together  to pay freights,  etc., 
and  my  customers  can  not  pay  me  until 
they  have  realized  on  their  crop.  I  have 
to  be  lenient  with  them,  and  I  am  a  lit­
tle  surprised,  in  view  of  what  I  wrote 
the  house,  that  they  should  give  you  the 
statement  ’ ’

These  customers,  while  they  may 
afterwards  take  a  more  sensible  view  of 
tbe  situation,  and  realize  a 
jobber  or 
manufacturer  can  not  pay  all  his  bills 
with  promises,  and  that  be  is  not  in  the 
banking  business,  will  gradually  give 
their  business  to  tbe  house  which  does 
its  owu  collecting.

Each  Saturday  night  the  salesman 
should  foot  up  their  expense  books,  in 
wbicb  they  bave  entered  the  cost of each 
item  of  expense,  and  send  them  along 
with  their  orders.  The  best  time,  and 
tbe  safest  for  all  concerned,  to  make  tbe 
entries  of  expenditures  is  on  the  spot. 
They  can  not  be  deferred  longer  than 
twenty-four  hours  without  errors  being 
made,  which  may  cause  tbe  salesmen 
trouble.  Tbe  expense  books  will  be 
paid  by  tbe  cashier  promptly,  and 
charged  to  trave’ers’  expense.  By  the 
following  Wednesday  the  drafts  for  the 
preceding  week’s  expenses  will  be 
in 
the  hands  of  the  majority  of  the  sales­
men.  After  the  middle  of  tbe  week, 
when  all  the  books  covering  the  pre­
ceding  week’s  expenses  have  been  paid 
and  turned  over  to  him,  tbe  manager 
should  scrutinize  them  carefully,  calling 
the  salesmen's  attention  to  any 
incon­
sistencies,  and  instruct  the  cashier to de 
duct  the  amount  from  the  salesmen’s 
next  book.

The  salesmen  who  always  makes  all 
charges  plainly,  do the  work  neatly  and 
seem  to  try  to  make  their  expenses  as 
light  as  possible,  without  detriment  to 
their  sales,  bave  a  warm  place  in  tbe 
manager’s  admiration.  The  manager 
does  not  forget  to  tell  the  salesmen  so 
occasionally,  nor  to  mention 
it  to  the 
president  some  time  when  the  matter  of 
salesmen’s  expenses 
is  under  discus­
sion.  The  manager  should  insist  upon 
the  salesmen  putting  all 
items  under 
their  proper  head,  and  inform  the sales­
men  that  the  words  which  cover  a  mul­
titude  of 
inci­
dentals  and  sundries,  don’t  go  with  this 
department  He  is  glad  and  willing  to 
depend  upon  their  good 
in 
investing  a  dollar  occasionally^  where 
the  bouse  will  get  two  dollars  in  return, 
but  they  must  specify  what  it  was  spent 
for  and  with  whom.  The  jobber  and 
manufacturer  like  to  know  wbo  of  tbeir 
customers  are  approachable  by 
this 
method  and  whose  trade  is  easier  pur­
chased  with  these  things  than  with 
low 
prices.

indiscretions,  namely, 

judgments 

The  salesmen  who  have  traveled  tbe 
same  route  for  a  number  of  years should 
be  allowed  a  stated  amount  for each  day 
they  are  at  work  away 
from  home, 
based  on  their  average  expenses  per day 
in  the  past  They  should  be  instructed 
to  use  a  weekly  report,  in  which  thev 
advise  the  house  at  the  close  of  each 
week  of  the  number  of  days  traveled, 
which  will  be  paid  the  same  as  expense 
books.  This  method  will  please  tbe 
older  salesmen’and  nothing  will  be  lost 
in  adopting 
it.—Charles  W.  Emery  in 
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Use  and  Abuse  of  Hypnotics  in  In­

somnia.

The  use  of  hypnotics  in  insomnia  is 
imply  the  use  of  symptom  remedies; 
insomnia 
is  a  symptom,  not  a  cause  of 
lsease  nor  a  disease.  The  use  of  hyp­
notics,  therefore,  should  be  temporary 
while  the  underlying  cause  of  the  in­
somnia  is  being  removed  or  palliated. 
Nor,  indeed,  is  it  well  at  the  outset  to 
employ  hypnotics  without  trial  of  other 
measures.  Aside  from  the  removal  of 
somatic  causes  for sleeplessness,  various 
general  methods  may  be  employed.  One 
of  the  best  is  a  bath  at  104  deg.  Fahren­
heit  for  five  minutes.  The  general  cu­
taneous  vascular  dilatation, 
increased 
by  rubbing  with  a  coarse  towel,  is  fre­
quently  followed  by  a  good  night’s  rest. 
Warm 
liquid  food,  as  a  glass  of  hot 
milk,  or  a  bowl  of  soup,  will  often  give 
satisfactory  resul.s. 
In  fact,  some  of 
the  hypnotics  which,  on account  of  their 
insolubility,  must  be  given  in  consider­
able  quantities  of  hot  liquids,  owe  not a 
little  of  their  reputation  to  the  vehicle 
n  which  they  are administered. 
In  de­
bilitated  individuals,  a  glass  of  stout  or 
whisky  in  hot  water  (hot  Scotch)  may 
work  wonders.  In  tired  subjetts.  strych- 
nne  sulphate  in  moderate  doses  acts  as 
.  hypnotic,  not  because  ¡t  makes  a  too 
ired 
just  tired  enough  to 
sleep,  as  a  distinguished  professor  of 
medicine  would  have  it,  but  because 
strychnine  dilates  a'terioles. 
Some- 
imes  stimulation  of  the  emunctones, 
as  by  sodium  sulphate,  again 
in  hot 
water,  taken  at  night,  will  be  followed 
by  sleep,  particularly  in  gouty  subjects, 
is  hypnotic,  hut  on  ac 
not  because 
count  of  its  action  on 
liver,  intestines, 
and  kidneys.  Methods  which  relieve 
pain— position, 
topical  applications— 
are  hypnotic.

individual 

it 

Sleep 

is  accompanied  by  cerebral 
anemia  and  systematic  cutaneous  vas­
cular  dilatation.  Any  method  which 
produces  these  effects  will  tend  to the 
production  of  sleep.  When these all  fail, 
and  often  they  do,  bynotics  must  be  re 
sorted  to,  and  not  until  then.

insomnia, 

The  careless  physician  prescribes  for 
the  symptom 
litt.e  caring 
whether  it  be  due  to  cerebral  degenera­
tion,  organic  cardiac  disease,  obst  uc- 
tive  pulmonary  disease,  latent  gout,  or 
intestinal  derangements  or 
functional 
hysteria  The 
ignorant  physician  uses 
opium  or 
its  alkaloids,  not  knowing 
that  these  are  narcotics,  clubs  a  patient 
into 
it  sleep. 
Here  commences  the  opium  habit.  Or, 
not  believing  in  “ new  fangled”   reme 
dies,  he  keeps  closely  to  chloral,  and 
either  adds  to  the  list  of  cloral  fiends 
or  terminates  the  life  of  one  who  is  suf­

insensibility,  and  calls 

Drugs—Chemicals

MICHIGAN  STATB  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
Dec. 31,1899 
Dec. 31,1900 
Dec. 31,1901 
Dec. 31,1902 
Dec. 31,1803

A. C. Schu* ach*b,  Ann  Arbor 
Gbo. Gundruk,  Ionia  - 
L. E.  Reynolds, St.  Joseph 
Hknhy Heim, Saginaw  - 
Wibt P. Doty, Detroit 

President, Gbo.  Gubdbdm, lonla.
Secretary, A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, Hbnby  Hbim, 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. Sour win e,  Escanaba 
Secretary, C hab.  P. Man n, Detroit. 
Treasurer- John D. Mu ib , Grand Rapids.

Who  Is  the  Owner  of  the  Prescrip­

tion?

Much  has  been  said  and  written  as  to 
whether  a  copy  of  the  prescription 
should  be  given  the  patient,and whether 
the  prescription should be repeated with­
out  the  order  of  the  physician.  It  seems 
is  a  question  of  great 
to  me  that  this 
importance.  What 
is  a  prescription? 
It  is  a  list  of  remedies  for a  disease and 
the  manner  of  using  them.  The  patient 
has  called 
in  a  physician,  who  makes 
an  examination,  and  either  dispenses 
the  medicine  himself  or  writes  a  pre­
scription  for  it.  Now 
is  that  prescrip­
tion  for 
immediate  use,  or  is  it  for a 
disease  the  man  may  have  six  months 
hence?  This  is  the  point. 
It  may  take 
me  some  time  to  explain  why  I  think 
the  prescription  should  not  be  repeated 
without  the  order  of  the  physician,  and 
why  a  copy  should  not be given.  And  I 
suppose  much  objection  will  be  raised 
among  some  readers  from  a  pecuniary 
standpoint;  but  I  shall  try  to  show  that 
such  objection  is  not  well  taken.

One  reason  the  prescription  should 
not  be  repeated  without  an  order  is  that 
it  takes  a  fee  from 
the  physician’s 
pocket.  A  second  reason 
is  that  the 
disease  may  be  different  than  that  for 
which  the  medicine  was  originally  pre­
scribed,  and  that  another  medicine  is 
required  to  suit  the  occasion.  A  third 
reason 
is  that  it  avoids  the  lending  of 
bottles  and  boxes  to  friends  who  have 
the  “ same  thing,”   a  custom  which 
cheats  the  doctor  out  of  a  fee.  Still  a 
fourth  reason 
is  that  the  prescription 
may  contain  an  opiate  or  narcotic,  the 
prolonged  use  of  which  would  be  in 
jurious,  and  a  single  dose  of  which,  i 
given  to  children,  would  be  dangerous 
Take  for  an  example  a  cough  mixture 
prescribed  for  an  adult,  containing one 
fourth  to  one-half  grain  of  codeine  to 
the  teaspoonful.  This  allays  and  checks 
the  cough  and  eases  the  pain.  Now 
in 
two  or  three  weeks,  or  months  for that 
matter,  some  of  the  family,  a  child  say 
has  a  cough,  and 
is  remembered 
that  this  prescription  did  good.  The 
father  sets  off  for  the  drug  store  and  has 
it  refilled  and  gives  it  to  the  child 
What 
is  the  result?  Moreover,  many 
cases  of  confirmed  habitues  can  be 
traced  back  to  the  refilling  of  prescrip 
tions.  A  prescription  given  to-day  for 
one  condition  will  not  suit  next  week 
for  some  other  condition.  So  I  could 
go  on  reciting  case  after  case.

it 

Then  as  to  the  copy.  If  the  physician 
wanted  the  patient  to  have  a  copy  he 
would  have  given  him  one  or  would 
have  ordered 
it  with  the  prescription 
He  may  have  instructed  the druggist not 
if  the 
to  refill  the  prescription;  but 
patient  be  given  a  copy  he  can  take 
i 
to  some  other  store  and  have  it  filled 
Is  this  treating  the  physician  right? 
If 
the
the  physician  should  compound 

medicine  himself,  could  the  patient 
then  have  it  refilled,  or  could  he  get  a 
copy  without  first  seeing  the  physician? 
Why  should  a  prescription  when  dis 
pensed  by  the  druggist  be  considered 

11 

is 

leaves 

s  hands;  whose  property 

ifferently?
If  the  patient  refuses to  have  a  pre 
scription  filled  it  is  his  property  so  long 
as  he  retains  it.  After  he  has 
it  filled 
t  becomes  the  property  of  the  druggist. 
Suppose'  a  doctor  writes  a  prescription 
and 
it  at  a  drug  st ire,  and  the 
patient  never  sees it  and  never  has  it  in 
it  then? 
It  can  not  be  the  patient's.  Did  the 
patient  call  on  the  doctor  for the  pre 
If  so,  the  doctor  might  give 
scription? 
im  one  as  soon  as  be  comes  into  the 
office  and  not  stop  to  examine  or 
diagnose  the  case.  He  may  telephone 
the  druggist  to  prepare  ‘so  and  so  for 
Mr.  Blank  and not  make  any  note  of  it; 
how,  then,  can  the  patient  demand  a 
copy  of 
it?  The  druggist  may  say, 
‘ Well,  I  don’t  see  why  I  can’t  repeat 
that  without  an  order  from  the  doctor;
lose  that  much.”   But,  even  from 
this  financial  and  selfish  point  of  view, 
s 
it  not  better  to  put  up  a  new  pre­
scription  at  thirty-five  cents  than  to  re­
peat  an  old  one  for  twenty-five  or  thirty 
cents?  A  physician  may  write  a  pre­
scription  and  send  it  to  the  drug  store, 
and  then  the  next  time  write  for  the 
same  thing.  The  druggist  can  get  as 
much 
if  not  more  for  putting  up  a  new 
prescription  than  repeating  an  old  one. 
The  physician  should  have  a  complete 
and  thorough  understanding  with  the 
druggist  that  no  copies  are  to  be  given 
and  no  prescriptions  refilled  without  an 
order  from  him 
If  these  copies  are 
given  and  refilling  done,  the  pbvsician 
should  go  to  some  druggist  who respect* 
the  doctor’s  wishes  and  will  work  in 
harmony  with  him.  Druggist  and  doc 
tor  should  work  in  harmony.  So  long 
as  either  persists  in  practices  which  are 
inimical  to  the  other,  he 
is  sending 
forth  a  boomerang  which  comes  back 
and  wounds  bimseif. —Wm.  R.  Neville 
n  Bulletin  of  Pharmacy.

The  Drug  Market.

There  are  few  changes  to  note  this 

week.

Opium— Is  steady  at  the  advance.
Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Has  declined  4c  per  ounce 
Both  foreign  and  domestic  brands  are 
now  quoted  at  the  same  price.

Alcohol—Competition  still  bolds  thi 

article  down  to  about  first  cost.

Lycopodium— Has  been  advanced,  on 

account  of  large  demand.

Sugar  Milk—The  very  large  demand 
for  export  and  home  consumption  has 
brought  about  another  advance  in  price 
and  it  is  tending  higher.

Essential  Oils---- Wmtergreen  and
tending 

scarce  and 

wormwood  are 
higher.

Linseed  Oil— Has  advanced  2c  per 

gallon.
New  Method  for  Making  Resinous 

Tinctures.

Mischel  recommends  the 

following 
rapid  process  for  preparing  tinctures  of 
resinous  drugs.  The  drug  is  macerated 
for a  time  with  the  menstruum 
in  the 
cold,  and  the  mixture  then  placed  on 
steam-bath  until  as  much  as  possible 
has  been  brought  into  solution.  The res 
idue 
is  separated  from  the  liquid  by 
passing  through  a  sieve,  and is again di 
gested  with  a  fresh  portion  of  solvent 
The  several 
liquid  are 
mixed  and  the  product  made  up  to  the 
requisite  volume  by  the  addition  of 
menstruum.

fractions  of 

fering from an unrecognized heart lesion, 
the  cause  of  the  insomnia.  Or,  again, 
he  may  be  a  therapeutic  nihilist—a  po­
lite  name  for  the  therapeutic  ignoramus 
—and  finding  that  drugs  when  adminis­
tered  by  him  have  but  slight  beneficial 
effect,  concludes  that  they  have  none  at 
all,  launches  out  with  a  combination  of 
drugs,  and  succeeds  in  making  his  pa­
tient  sleep  because,  with  all  functions 
overwhelmed,  be  can  do  nothing  else. 
The dangers  of  hypnotics  are 
immedi­
ate  (death)  or  remote (interference  with 
nutrition).  The  possibility  of  habit  is 
always  to  be  borne  in  mind. 
Some 
druggists,  too,  are  responsible  for  a 
large  share  of  the  abuse  of  hypnotics. 
In  some  instances  they  openly  prescribe 
hypnotics  in  doses  far  exceeding  those 
considered  safe,  and 
further,  repeat 
prescriptions  containing hypnotic drugs. 
In  England  sulpbonal  is  sold  as  openly 
and  carelessly  as  are  the ordinary neces­
saries  of  life.  With  equal  ease  coffee 
for  breakfast  and 
can  be  purchased 
sulpbonal  for  bedtime.  The  same 
is 
true  in  this  country.

The  only  remedy  lies  with  the  physi­
cian.  Let  him  study  his  materia  med 
ica,  learn  his  therapeutics,  and  apply 
intelligently  what  he  has 
learned. 
Then,  and  then  only,  may  we  get  the 
best  results  with  the  fewest  disadvan­
tageous  symptoms,  do  the  most  for  our 
patients,  and,  after all,  rest  with  a  con­
sciousness  of  duty  well  performed.— 
Post-Graduate  in  Therapeutic  Gazette.

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced
Declined—

Morphia, S.P.&W... 2 20® 2 45 Slnapis....................
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
Sinapls, opt............
C. Co.................... 2 10® 2 35 Snuff, Maccaboy.De
Moschus Canton__
® 40 Voes.....................
Myristica, No. 1......
65® 80 Snuff,Sco tch.DeVo’s
Nux Vomica... po.20
® 10 Soda Boras..............
Os  Sepia.... ............
15® 18 Soda Boras, po........
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
Soda et Potass Tart.
®  1  00 Soda,  Carb..............
D. Co....................
Picis Llq. N.N.X gal.
Soda, Bi-Carb.........
doz........................
@ 2 00 Soda,  Ash...............
Picis Llq., quarts__
®  1 00 Soda, Sulphas.........
Picis Liq., pints......
® 85 Spts. Cologne...........
® 50 Spts. Ether  Co........
Pil Hydrant.. .po.  80
® 18 Spt.  Myrcia Dom...
Piper Nigra... po.  22
Piper Alba__po.  35
® 30 Spts. Vlni Reet. bbl.
@ 7 Spts. VinlRect.V4bbl
Pilx  Burgun  ..........
Plnmbi  Acet...........
10® 12 Spts. Vlni Rect.lOgal
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1  10®  1  20 Spts. Vlni Rect.  5gal
Pyrethrum, boxesH.
@  1  25 Strychnia, Crystal...
& P. D. Co., doz...
25® 30 Sulphur,  Subl.........
Pyrethrum,  pv........
8® 10 Sulphur,  Roll........
Qu assise.................
43® 43 Tamarinds..............
Quinia, S. P. &  W..
38® 43 Terebenth Venice...
Q.uinia, S. German..
3® 48 Theobrom»............
Qulnia, N.Y............
12® 14 Vanilla..................
Rubla Tinctorum...
18® 20 Zinc!  Sulph............
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin.................... 3 00®  3  10
Sanguis Draconls..
40® 50
12® 14
Sapo,  W..................
10® 12 Whale, winter.........
Sapo, M....................
® 15 Lard,  extra............
Sapo, G....................
Sledlltz  Mixture__ 20  ® 22 Lard, No. 1..............

Oil«

19

® 18
® 30
® 34
® 34
9  ® 11
9  @ 11
26® 28
IX® 2
3® 5
3X@ 4
2
®
® 2  60
50® 55
® 9 00
®
®
®
©

1  30@1  35
2X@ 4
2X@3X
8® 10
28® 30
46® 48
9  00©16 00
7® 8

BBL. GAL.
70
70
60
40
45

Linseed,pure raw.. 
49 
Linseed, boiled......   50 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
48 

52
53
70
55

Paints  BBL. 

LB
Red Venetian.........  
IX  2  ©8
Ochre, yellow Mars. 
IX  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
IX  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2X  2X®3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2V4  2X®3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, P aris...........  13X®  17X
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13® 
16
Lead, Red...............   5X®  6x
Lead, white............  5X@  6X
®  70
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders4. ..  @  TO
White, Paris Amer.. 
®  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @  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 F um ....  1  00®  1  10 
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No. lTurp  70®  75

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PAINT AND 
ARTIST’S
BRUSHES

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

Flat  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.

6 ® l
70®

Acidnm
Acetlcum.................I
Benzoicum, German
Boraclc....................
Carbollcum............
Citrlcum.................
3®
Hydrochlor............
NItrocum...............
12®
Oxallcum...............  
Phosphorlum,  dll...  @
Sallcylicum.............
IX®
Sulphuricum........... 
Tannlcum..............  1  25®  1  40
Tartaricum.............. 
38®  40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg
Carbonas.................... 
Chlorldum................. 

4®
6®
12®  14
12®  U

Aniline
Black.......................2 00® 2 25
Brown.................... 
80® 1  00
R ed.........................  45®  50
Yellow....................   2 50® 3 00
15 
8 
30

13®
6®
25®

55 
50®
2 75 
45®  50
55
50®

18 
12 
18 
30 
20 
12 
12 
12 
15

24®  25
—  
30
28®
11®
12
_  14
14®  15
16®

Baccze.
Cubesee...........po. 18 
Juniperus...............  
Xanthoxylum.........  
Balaamum
Copaiba...................... 
Peru........................
Terabln, Canada—
Tolutan...................... 
Cortex 
Abies, Canadian —
C assia....................
Cinchona Plava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini.......
Quill ala,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
Ulinus...po.  15,  gr’d
Extractum 
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.
Glycyrrhlza, po...... 
Htcmatox, 15 lb box. 
H»matox,ls.
Hssmatox, Vis 
Hsbmatox, Xs

Ferru
Carbonate Precip..
Citrate and Qulnia.
Citrate Soluble.......
Ferrocyanldum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride......
Sulphate, com’l ......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate, pure  ......
Flora

Folia

Arnica  ..................  
Anthemis......... 
Matricaria....... 

°2@
30®

12®

25®
18@

Barosma...........  
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly.......... 
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25®
Salvia officinalis, Xs
and Vis..........  
Ora Ursi............ 

12®
8®

®

25®

55®
50®
®

®
®
®
®
12®
o

Qumml
65 
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
45 
Acacia, 2d  picked.. 
35 
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
28 
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
80 
Acacia, po...............
14 
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20 
12 
Aloe, Cape —  po. 15 
30 
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40
60 
Ammoniac....... 
28 
Assafcetida— po. 30 
55
Benxolnum..... 
13
Catechu, Is....... 
14 
Catechu, Ks..  ........ 
®
16 
@
Catechu, X&.........  
59
53®
Camphor»  . 
... 
®
Bupnorbium.. po. 36 
10@  1  00
_  
Galbannm........ 
®   70
Gamboge  po.........  
65®
®  30
Guaiacum......po. 25
@ 3 00
Kino...........po. 83.u0
®  60
Mastic....................
®  40
Myrrh............ po.  45
Opii.. .po. 4.80®15.00 3 35®  3 45
Shellac.................... 
25®  35
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tr&gacanth............  
50®  80
Herbs
25
Absinthium..oz.  pkg 
20
Eupatorium  oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
25
28
Majorum  . .. oz. pkg 
23
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
25
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 
39
Rue...............oz. pkg 
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
22
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
25
/lagnesia.
Calcined, Pat..........  
55®  60
Carbonate, Pat........ 
20®  22
Carbonate, K. & M..  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Qleum
Ybsintbium.............  4 50® 4  75
Amygdal», Dulc__ 
30®  50
Amygdal», Amarse .  8 00®  8 25
Anisf......... ................1 85®  2 00
Auranti  Cortex......  2 40®  2  50
Bergamtl..................  2  80® 
75®  80
Cajfputl..................  
Caryophylli.........  .  8u@  90
'’eaar....................... 
35®  65
Chenopadli.............. 
® 2 75
''innamonli..............  1  60® 
450  50
C*tmneHs...............  

90® 

35®  50
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba........  ........  1  15®  1  25
Cubeb»......................  
90® 
Exechthitos 
..........   1 00® 1 10
Erigeron..................  1 00® 1 10
Gaultheria...............  1 50®  1 60
Geranium,  ounce...  ® 
75
Gossippil, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma..................  1 20® 1 30
Junlpera...................  1 50® 2 00
Lavendula................  
Limoni8...................  1  30®  1  40
Mentha Piper........  1  60®  2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1  5o@  1  60
Morrhu»,  gal.........   1  00®  1  15
Myrcia,...................   4 00® 4 50
Olive....................... 
75® 3 00
10®  12
Picis  Liquida......... 
Plcls Liquida, gal...  @  35
R iclna.................... 
92® 1  00
®  1  00
Rosmarin!...............  
Ros»,  ounce_____   6 50® 8 50
Succini................... 
40®  45
Sabina................... 
go®  l  00
Santal......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras................. 
55®  60
Sinapls, ess., ounce.  @  65
Tlglfi.......................  1  70®  1  80
40®  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.................... 
15®  18
Bichromate............  
13® 
15
Bromide..................   5?@  57
Carb....................... 
12®  15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®  18
Cyanide..................  
35®  40
Iodide......................2 40® 2 5n
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
]5
Potass Nitras, opt... 
!0@ 
12
Potass Nitras........... 
10® 
1
Prussiate.................  2nia  as
Sulphate p o .........
15®  18
Radix
20®
Aconitvm...............  
A lth»...................... 
22®
Anchusa................. 
io@
Arum po...................  @
Calamus................. 
anesi
Gentiana........po  15
12®
Glychrrhiza... pv. 15 
16®
Hydrastis Canaden.
Hydrastis Can., po..
@
Hellebore, Alba, po..
8®
Inula, po................. 
__ 
_
15®
Ipecac, po...............  3 90@ 4  Ö0
Iris plox  ... po35®38  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...............  
25®  30
Maranta,  Xs...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po... 
22®  25
R hei....................... 
75®  1  00
Rhei, cut.................  @125
Rhei.pv..................  
75®  1  35
Spigelia...................  35®  38
Sanguinaria.  po. 15  @ 
18
Serpentaria............   30®
Senega.................... 
40®
Similax, officinalis H  @
Smilax, M.............. 
@
Sdll®............ . po.35  10®
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................  @
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @
15®
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ...............  
12®
Zingiber j ...............  
25®
5emen
An is um.........po.  15
13® 
Apium  (graveleons) 
Bird, Is...........  ....... 
4®
Carni..............po. 18 
10®  12
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
8® 
10
Cannabis  Satlva....  4V4®  5
Cydonium.................. 
75® 
Cbenopodium  ........ 
10®  12
Dipterix  Odorate...  1  40®  1  50
Foenlculum
‘
10 
Foenugreek, po........
9 
7® 
Lini.........................
4X 
3 X®
Lini,  grd__bbl. 3x
4X 40 
35®
Lobelia................... 
4®
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4X 5 
Rapa.......................  4X@
Slnapis Albu........... 
9®
10 
Slnapis  Nigra.........  
11®
12
Splritus

le

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
Juniperis Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum N. E __  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli........  1  75® 6 50
Vini Oporto............   1  25® 2 00
Vini Alba...............   1  25® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............   2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool 
carriage
2 00@ 2 25 
velvet extra  sheeps’
1  25
wool, carriage......
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__
®  1  00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
®  1  00 
carriage...............
Hard, for slate use..
®  75
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............
®  1  40
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
90
Ipecac 
..........
Ferri Iod.................
Rbei Aram..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega....................
Sdll«*.......................

®50®

70

2 

1 

1 00

2 00

®
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niecellaneoua 

5(1
50
50
60 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
50 
75 
50 
75 
75 
I  00 
50 
50 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50 
50 
50 
50 
75 
50 
I  50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
'« 
60 
60 
50 
50 
20
35 
38
3
4 
50
5 
50 
35 
20 
50 
12 
40
I  40®  1  50 
9

ScilUeCo  ...........
Tolutan............
Prunus virg. 
.  .
Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellls R 
Aconltum NapellisF
Aloes.................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafcetida............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin..................
Benzoin Co............
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum.........
Cardamon........
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor......................
Catechu..................
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co...........
Columba 
............
Cubeba....................
Cassia  Acutifol......
Cassia Aoutifol Co 
Digitalis 
.
.. 
Ergot.........
Ferri Chlorldum
Gentian.........
Gentian Co............
Guiaca....  ...........
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoseyamus...........
Iodine......................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino.......................
Lobelia..................
Myrrh.....................
Nux Vomica..........
Opii.........................
Opii, camphorated.
Opii,  deodorized.
Q uanta..................
Kbatany..................
Rhei........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria...........
Stramonium.........
Tolutan..................
Valerian...............
Veratrnm Veride ...
Zingiber..................
.¡Ether, Spts.  Nit. 3 F  3U© 
.¡Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F 
Alumen..................   2X®
3®
Alumen, gro’d  . po. 7
Annatto.................
40®
Antimoni,  po........
40®
Antimon! et PotassT
Antipyrin..............
Autifebrin 
...........
Argent! Nitras, oz .
Arsenicum..............
Balm Gilead  Bud
Bismuth  8. N.........
Calcium Chlor.,  Is.
Calcium Chlor., Xs.
Calcium Chlor.,  xs 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici  Fructus. af.
Capsid Fructus, po.
Capsici FructusB.po 
@
12®
Caryophyllus..po.  15
@ 3 00 
Carmine, No. 40__
_
Cera Alba...............  
50®  55
Cera Flava.............. 
40®
“ 
42
Coccus.................... 
®
40 
33 
®
Cassia Fructus.......  
Centrarla.................  @
10 
45 
®
Cetaceum................  
53 
Chloroform............. 
50®
Chloroform, squibbs 
®
1  10
Chloral Hyd Crst__  1  65®  1  90
Chondrus................ 
20®  25
Cinchonidine,P.& W  28®  38 
Cinchonidine, Germ  28®  38
Cocaine..................  3 80®  4 00
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct
Creosotum.............
Creta.............bbl. 71
®
Creta, prep.............
®9®
Creta, precip..........
Creta, Rubra......... .
®18®
Crocus.................. .
Cudbear.................
®
Cuprl Sulph............   6X@
10®
Dextrine.................. 
Ether Sulph............ 
75®
Emery, all  numbers 
®
Emery, po...............   @
Ergota............ po. 40 
30®  35
12®  15
Flake  White........... 
©  23
Galla........................ 
Gambler.  ...........
Gelatin, Cooper......  @  60
Gelatin, French...... 
35®  60
75 3 
Glassware, flint, box 
Less  than  box...
9®
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue, white............  
13®
14®
Glyceriua................ 
Graua  Paradisl  __  @  25
Humuius................. 
25®
®  90
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
@  80
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
®  1  00 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
®  ■ 
Hydraag Ammoniatl 
(5®
HydraagUngueutum 
® 75
Hydrargyrum.........
65® 75
Ichthyobolla, Am...
75®  1  UU
Indigo......................
60® 3 70
Iodine, Resubl........  3 60® 3
@ 4 20 
Iodoform.........
© 2 25
Lupulin............
45® 50
re
Mads....................
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
® 25
drarglod.............
10® 12
LiquorPotassArsinit 
2® 3
Magnesia, Sulph....
®  m  
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Manilla, S. F .... 
50®  60
Menthol........ 
® 3 25 I

® 
®

10®

1 00

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

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

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

AXLE  OREASE.
Aurora................. ..... 55
Castor Oil........... ......60
Diamond............ ...... 50
Frazer’s ..............
..  .75
IX L Golden, tin boxes 75
nica, tin boxes... ......75
Paragon.............. .  ...55

doz. grosb
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00

Acm.

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
W ' b cans doz........  ........ 
*4 lb cans do*.................  

45
85
lb can  dos.................  1  50
V lb oar.8 8 dog.................   45
H lb cam 8 dos................  
75
lb cans! dos.................   t 00
10
Bulk.................................... 
oz. Eng. Tumblers......  
85
8 
u  lb cans per dos............  
75
H lb cans per dos  ...........  1  20
1 
lb can* per dos............ 2  00
35
u  lb cans 4 dos case........ 
V( lb cans 4 dos case........ 
55
lb cans 2 dos case  ......  
90

El Parity.

Arctic.

Home.

Oar Leader.

Jersey Cream.

U lb cans, 4 dos case___ 
U lb cans, 4 dos case___ 
% lb cans, 4 dos case........ 

45
45
85
lb cans, 2 dos case........  1  60
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 
oz. cans, per doz.........  1  25
6 os. cans, per doz.............   %
45
•4 lb cans..........................  
14 lb cans..........................  
75
lb cans..........................   1  50
1 lb. cans  ......................... 
85
3 
oz., 6 doz. case............  2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case 
...........3  20
9 oz., 4 doz. case.................4  80
1 lb., 2 dos. case.................4  00
5 lb., 1 dos. case.................  9 00
American........ 
70
English.........  
SO

BATE  BRICK.
 
 

Queen Plaice.

Peerless.

 
 

BLUINO.

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BROOflS.

â  L u i  m i

CANNED  GOODS.

Small, 3 doz....................... 
Large, 2 doz.......................
So. 1 Carpet......................  2 31
No. 2 Carpet.........................2  15
No. 3 Carpet.......................   1  85
No. 4 Carpet.......................  1  45
Parlor Gem.......................  2 50
Common Whisk...............  
91
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©l  00
Beans, Red  Kidney.  .  75©  85
Succotash..................   95© l  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  50
Salmon, Warren’s __1  40@l  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
Shrimps.......................2 00
Sardines, 14s domestic  354® 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.554®  754 
Sardines,  French.......8  ® 22

CANDLBS.

8s .......................................... 7
16s  ..................................8
Paraffine................................ 8
Wi eking.............................. 80
Colombia, 
pints............. 2  00
Colombia, % pin .8.............l  25

CATSUP.

CHEESE
Amboy................... 

®  1354

Gold Medal.............   @

Riverside.................  ®  1354

Limburger..............  ®  13
Pineapple................ 50  ®  75
Sap  Sago.................   ®  17
Balk 
6
Red 
7

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

Chicory

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’s. 

CLOTHES LINES.

..23
German Sweet.. 
Premium..................................35
Break’a»’  Coco* 
.  46
Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz.........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  d o s ........I  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz 
. . .  1  40 
Cotton. 70 ft, per  dos 
.  .1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos  ------1  80
Jute, 60 ft.  per  dos............   30
Jme. 72 ft.  rv-  d< 1...  ........  »

COCOA.

James Epps & Co.’s,

Boxes, 7 lbs............................. 40
Cases, 16 boxes........................38
COCOA SHELLS.
254
201b  bags....................... 
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound  packager............. 
4
CREAfl  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk In sacks..........................29

 

 

Kfe.

Java.

Santos.

Maracaifee.

COFFEE.
Roasted.
F a ir......................... 
......   .  9
Good..................................   • • :0
Prim e......................................12
Golden  ...................................13
Peaberrv  ..........  
14
Fair  ....... 
14
Good  ...........................  
15
Prim e......................................16
Peaberry  ................................18
Prim e................................  
15
Milled..............................  .  .  17
Interior................................   26
Private  Growth...................  33
Mandehling..........................   35
Mochti.
Imitation 
..............................22
Arabian 
..............................28
Roasted.
Clark-Jewell-Wel’sCo.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue.....................29
JewelPs«Arabian Mocha —  29
Wells’ Mocha and Java.__24
Wells’ Perfection  Java..... 24
Sancaibo............................ 21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valiev City Maracaibo 
1854
Ideal  Blend........................14
Leader Blend...................... 1254
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  yonr  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice  for 
the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  parchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  or  package,  also \ c   a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
Is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckie.......................  10 50
Jersey.............................  10 50
rtcLaaghltn’s  X>. XX.
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 54 gross...... 
75
1  16
Felix 54 gross................. 
Hummel’s foil 54 gross... 
86
1  48
Hnmmel’s tin 54  gross... 
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxea.....  ...............40

Package.

.... 

CONDENSED  A llU .

4  dos in case.
6 25

Gall Borden  Eagle  __  
Crown 
Daisy 
Cnamplon 
Magnolia 
Challenge............... 
Dime.........................................8 85

6  75
...............................  6 75
........................4  60
4 25
8 35

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Orade.

Superior Orade.

Universal Grade.

Economic Orade.

Coupon Pass Books.

denomination from 510 down.

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
50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books  any denom__ 11  50
t.OOO books, any denom__ 20 00
50 books, any denom....  150 
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
lOObooks  .........................  8 00
250 books...............................  C 25
500 books.........................  10 00
1000 bonks...... 
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 ........ 8 00
1000, any one denom’n ........ 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ........ 8 00
Stael  punch.......................  
76
DRIED  FRUITS—DONBSTIC 
Snudried......................  ®7S4
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  0944 
Apricots.....................   ©I5
Blackberries...............
Nectarines  ................
Peacnes.......................10  ®11
Pears..........................   ©
Pitted Cherries.......... 
Prnnnelles...............
Raspberries................
100-120») iu iA,xes. 
® 4
90-10U 25 lb boxes.  ......  © "
80 - 90® lb boxes.........  @ 5*4
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........  ® 644
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........   ® 6*
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........  ®  8
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  ®10
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  ®
44  • ent less In 50 lb cases 

California Prunes. 

California  Fruits.

Credit Checks.

Apples.

7*

Raisins.

London Layers 2 CrowD. 
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............ 
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, choice......  
L. M , Seeded, fancy........  944

150
1  65
2 00
5
6
7
8

FORE ION.
Citron.

Peel.

Raisins.

Currants.

Leghorn..........................©13
Corsican.......................... @1®
Patras bbls.......................@544
Cleaned, bulk  ................. ® 6
Cleaned, packages.......... ®  644
Citron American 10 lb bx  ®13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ®1044 
Orange American 10 lb bx  ®1044
Ondura 28 lb boxes......  ®
Saltana  1 Crown.........   ®
Sultana 2 Crown  --------  ®
Sultana 3 Crown.........   ®
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ®
Sultana R Crown.........   ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........   ®
Sultana package.........   ®
FARINACEOUS  GOODS,
24 1 lb.  packages.........   .. 1  50
Bulk, per 100 lbs..............3 50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Parina.

Grits.

24 2 lb. packages.............. 1  80
100 lb. kegs.......................2 70
200jlb. barrels.................. 5jl0

Hominy.

Peas.

Beans.

Pearl Barley.

Barrels  ............................2 50
Flake, 501b.  drams......... 1 00
Dried L im a....................  
544
Medium Hand Picked 1  25©l  ?0 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box____  60
Imported.  25 lb. box........2 50
Common...........................  2 0
Chester..............................  2 25
Empire 
..........................   2 75
Green, Wisconsin, bn...... 1 00
Green, Scotch, bu...........1  10
Split, bn..........................2  50
Rolled Avena,  bbl........4 00
Monarch,  bbl...................3 75
Monarch,  44  bbl..............2 uO
Monarch, 90 lb sacks....... 1  80
uron, cases....................2 00
4
344
5
444
«34
3J4

German..........................  
East  India....................  
Flake.............................. 
Pearl................................ 
Pearl.  24 1 lb. pkges........ 
Cracked, bulk................... 
24 2 lb packages............... 2  50

Snaker, cases.................. 3 20

Rolled  Oats.

Tapioca

Wheat.

Sago.

SALT  FISH.

Cod.

flackere!.

H drring.

Georges cured............  ®  4
Georges  genuine........  ®  5
Georges selected........  ®  544
Strip8or bricks......... 6  ® 9
Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 25 
Holland white hoop 44 bbl  5  25 
Holland white hoop. keg. 
70
Holland white hoop mchs  80
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  3  10
Round  40 lbs...................  1  40
scaled............................... 
14
15 00
Mess 100 lbs...........
6 30
Mess  40 lbs...........
1  66
Mess  10 lbs.........
1  35
Mess  8 lbs...........
13  25
No. 1 100 lbs...........
5 60
No. 1  40 lbs...........
1  48
h 0.1  10 lbs.  . . . . .
1  20
No. 1  8 lbs...........
11  50
No. 2 100 lbs...........
4  9)
No. 2  40 lbs  .. 
. ■
1  30
No. 2  10 lbs...........
1  07
No. 2  8 lbs...........
Trout.
5 25
No. 11001b*.
2 40
No. 1  401bz.........
68
No. 1  ¡9 lbs...
57
No. 1  & ibs  . . .
No. 1 No. « Fam
2 75
1  40
43
37

100 lbs...........  7 CO 6 50
2  90
40 lbs 
80
10 lbs........... 
66
8 lbs........... 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

........3  10
85
71

Whfteilsb

Jennings’.

Perrigo’s.

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

D. C. Lemon
2 os.......   75
3 oz.  . ..1  00
..1  40
4 oz ...
6 oz.... ..2 00
No.  8. .  2 40
No.  10. .  4 00
No.  2T.  80
No  3 T.l  25
No.  4 T.l  50
Van. Lem.
doz.
doz.
75
XXX, 2 oz. obert.. ..1  25
1  25
..2  25
XXX, 4 oz. taper.
XX, 2 oz. obert__ .  1 00
No. 2, 2 oz. obert  .. ..  75
XXX D D ptchr. 6 oz
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz.

2 25
1  75
2 25
Pure Brand.
Lem. Van.
1  20
.  75
2 oz. Taper Panel
1  20
2 oz. Oval............ .  75
2 00
3 oz. Taper Panel 1  35
2*25
4 oz. Taper Panel. .1  60

FLY  PAPER.

Tanglefoot, per box........  36
Tanglefoot, per case...........3 20
Holders, per box of 50......  75
Perrigo’s Lightning, gro__2  50
Petrolatum, per doz........   75
Sage..................................  15
Hops 

...............................   15

HERBS.

INDIGO.

Madras, 5  1b  boxes........... 
S.  F.. 2. 3 and 5 lb boxes_  50

55

GUNPOWDER. 
Rifle—Dupont’s.

..............................4 00

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

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

 
Bogie Dock—Dupont’s.

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

Kegs 
Half Kegs................................. 4 25
Quarter Kegs 
1 lb. cans 

8 00
.................. 2 25
46

 
JELLY.
•b Jti  polls  ............  
SO lh  p a ils......................... 

..  35
65

. 

 

s' 2b

L1CORICP.

t.YE.
condensed, 2 do*  ...............1  20
Condensed.  4  <fos 
Pure.................................  SO
0*116):  a 
.......................   2o
Sicily 
...........................  14
..................................   10
Root 
ftiINCB MEAT.

Ideal. 3 doz. in case. 
HATCHES.

.  . .  2 25

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
. .1  66
..1  70
..1  10
..4 (X)

No. 9 sulphur..............
Anchor Parlor.............
No. 2  Home....................
Export  Parlor...............

nOLASSBS.
New Orlta 1*.

Black...............
11
14
Pair  ...............................
Good...............................
20
Fancy  ............ ...............
Open Kettle..............— 25@35
Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, No. 216...............
Clay, T. D. full count—
Cob, No. 3...................

POTASH.

48 cans in case.
Babbitt’s ............... ..
Penna 8slt  Co.’s .......   .

.  1  70
85

1  OC
3 0t

PICKLES
riedium.

Barrels, 1,200 count......
Half bbls. 600 count......

.  3  75
.  2 38

Small.

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

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head..............
Carolina  No. 1  ..............
Carolina  No. 2..............
Broken.................. .........

- 
ibi
.  5
.  4

3X

Imported.
. 

Japan,  No. 1 
Svi®  6
Japan.  No. 2 
4y,@ 5
Java, fancy  head........5 ®  SVi
Java,  So. i ...............   5 @
Table............................
SALBRATUS.

Packed 60 lbs  in  bo2.

Church’s Arm and Hammer. -  15
Deland’s 
.................... ...3 00
Dwight’s Cow..................
.3   15
Emblem  ......................... ...3 50
3*0
L. P..................................
Sodio............................... ...3  15
Wyandotte, 100 3ís..............3 00

SAL SODA.

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

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Table, cases. 24 3-lb  boxes. .1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bnlk.2 25 
Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags .3 50
B utter, sacks, 28 lbs............   25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............  55

Common Grades.

100 3-lb sacks.......................1  95
60 5-lb sacks.......................1  go
28 10-lb sacks..................... 1  65

Worcester.

lb. cartons..............i f .
50  4 
115  2441b. sacks.................. 4  GO
60  5 
lb. sacks................. 3  75
2214 
lb. sacks.................8  50
lb. sacks................. 3  50
3010 
28 lb. linen sacks................   32
56 lb. linen sacks.................  6 >
Bulk In barrels................... 2  50

Warsaw.

56-lb dairy In drill bags.......  81-
28-lb dairy In drill bags......  15

Ashton.

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  ft.

Higgins.

56-ib dairy in linen sacks.  . 0 6t 

Solar  Rock.

56-lb  sacks...........................  £1

Common.

Granulated Fine.................  6'
Medium  Fine......................  75

SAUERKRAUT.

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

SCALES.

Per doz.
Pelouze Household...........12 ' 0

Weighs 24 lbs by ounces.

SEEDS.

9
A nise.................................. 
344
Canary. Smyrna................ 
O new ay 
8
............................  
i  araamoii,  Malabar  ........  60
Ceiery.................................  11
Hemp,  Russian.............. 
444
Mixed  Bird......................
Mustard,  white.................. 
5
Poppy  ...............................   10
Rape..................... 
»44
Cattle Bone........................  as

 

.  SNUFF.

Scotch, In bladders.  ......... 
' .
Maccaboy, in jars................  3c
French Rappee, In  jar»__  
48

SOAP.

Single box............................ 2  °5
5 
box lots, delivered......2  0
10 
box lots, delivered....   2 75

tiAS.  $.  KIRK  8 CO.’S  BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.................................... 2 75
Cabinet.................................2 20
Savon................................... 2 50
White Russian.................... 2 35
White Cloud,  laundry__..6 25
White Cloud,  toilet.............3 50
Dusky Diamond. 50 6  oz__2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8  oz__3 00
Blue India, 100 K lb.............3  00
Kirkoline............................. 3 50
Eos.......................................2 50

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  ..2  75
Good Cheer. 60 1-lb- bars__3  75
Uno, 100 5£-lb. bars.............. 2 50
Doll, 10010-oz.  bars.............8  06

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d o z......2 40
Sapolio. hand, 3 doz...........2 40

SODA.

Boxes  .................................644
Kegs, English......................  4^

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N
Grains and Feedstuff s

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

spices.
Whole Sifted.
Al’«pi-;e 
.............................14
Cassia,  Jhtaa in mats......... 12
>. »•« a, a*;avla 111  bund....25
('»«*%, Sa'gon in rolls........
Cloves,  Auiboyna  ...............14
Cloves.. Snoslb&r................. 12
Mace,  Batavia  ....................55
Nutmegs, fancy...................fiu
Nutmegs, No.  1................... 50
Nutmegs, No.  2...................45
Pepper, Singapore, blaei... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .16
Pepper,  shot........................15
A.  spice  ..............................17
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon.................... 40
Cloves, Zanzibar..................14
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  CocJin................... 18
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 23
Mace,  Batavia.....................65
Mustard  ........................12@18
Nutmegs,......................40@s0
Pepper, Sing , black............15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne................. 20
Sage......................................16

Pure Ground In Bulk.

SYRUPS
Cora.
Btrreis 
..........................   18
R*'f  hols 
....................  20
1 doz  1 gallon cans............ 2  90
1  doz. H gallon cans........ 1  70
2  doz.  % gallon  cans  .......1  75
Pair 
Good 
Choice.............. 

16
.......  
..............................  20
25

Pure Cane.
 
 
STARCH.

 

Kingston!’*  Corn.

Diamond.

1C 1-lb packages...................  6
201 lb packages.....................6H
Kingsford’s Sliver  Oloss.
40 1-lb packages...................  6H
6-lb boxes.........................  7
64 10c  packages  ............... 5 00
128  5c  packages.................5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 
231 lb. packages.................   5
40 1 lb. packages.  ...............  4&
I-lb  packages......................  4H
3-lb  packages......................  4h
6-lb  packages......................  5
10 and 50 lb boxes.................  3
Barrels 
3

Common Oloss.

Common  Corn.

......................... 
STOVE POLISH.

No. 4, 3-doz In Case, gross.
No  6, 3 doz in case, gross.

SUOAR.

..........................5  75
......................... 5  38

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  Invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino....................................5 50
Cat  Loaf.................................. 5 75
Crushed.. 
Powdered 
XXXX  Powdered.................... 5 50
Cubes.......................................5 38
Granulated in bbls...................5 25
Granulated in  bags.................5 25
Fine Granulated...................... 5 25
Extra Fine Granulated.......5  38
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 38
Mould  A...................................f »
Diamond Confec.  A................5 20
Confec. Standard A..................5 13
.4  75 
No.
.4 75 
No 
.4 75 
No.
.4 69 
No.
.4  63 
No.
.4  56 
No.
.4 50 
No.
.4 44 
No.
.4
No.
No.  10...................................4 31
No.  11................................... 4 25
No.  12...................................4 19
No.  I S ..................................4 13
No.  14 
................................4  13
No.  15 
4  13
 
No.  *« 
...4 13
Lea A Perrin’s,  large...  4 75 
Lea A Perrin’s, small...  2 75
Halford,  large...............   3 75
Halford small................... 2 25
Salad Dressing, large...... 4 55
Salad Dressing, Bmall..... 2 75

TABLE  SAUCBS.

TOBACCOS.

Cigare.

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

H. & P. Drag Co.’s brands.

Fortune Teller....................35 0D
Our Manager......................35 00
Quintette........................... 35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

VINeOAR.

8. C. W...............................35 00
Malt White Wine, 40 grain....  S
Malt White Wine, 80 grain__ 11
Pure Cider, Bed Star..............12
Pure Cider. Robinson.............is
Pure Cider, Silver...................11
No. 0, per gross....................  20
No. 1, per gross....................  25
No. 2, per gross....................  35
No. 3, per gross....................   55

W1CKINO.

WOODENWARE.

Palls.
2- 
hoop Standard.....1 35
3- 
hoop Standard.....1 50
2-wire, Cable............................ l  35
3 wire. Cable........................l  6T
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1  25
Paper, E ureka.........................2 25
FiDre..................................... 2 25
2Mnch, Standard, No. 1___5 80
18-Iuch, Standard, No. 2___4 85
16-inch,  Standard,  No. 3___3 85
20-inch, Dowell, No  1.......... 6 25
18-inth, Dowell, No. 2.......... 5 25
16-inch, Dowell, No. 3.  __ 4 25
No. 1 Fibre........................... 9 03
No.2 Fibre...........................7 50
No. 3 Fibre....... ...................6 75

Tubs.

Crackers.

.Soda.

Oyster.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Butter.
Seymour XXX...................
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family XXX  ....................   5W
Salted XXX.......................  514
New York XXX...................  g
Wolverine...........................  g
Boston................................
Soda  XXX  .......................   g
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__  6H
Soda,  City.........................  8
Long Island Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Zephyrette.........................10
Sal tine Wafer....................  5^4
SaltineWafer, 1 lb. carton.  6)4
Farina Oyster....................  514
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  OOODS—Boxes.
Animals.............................  loyj
Bent’s Water......................  15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java..............  10
Coffee Cake,  Iced..............  10
Cracknells.........................  1514
Cubans  .............................   u jj
Frosted  Cream...................  8
Ginger Gems......................  8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  7%
Graham Crackers,............   8
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................   8
Jumbles,  Honey................  h h
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......  16
Marshmallow  Walnuts__  16
Mich. Frosted Honey__  12)4
Molasses Cakes.................  8
Newton..............................  12
Nic Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................   8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8)4
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......   7)4
Sears’ Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sugar  Squares................. 
9
Vanilla  Wafers...............   14
Sultanas............................  12)4

©11©11

@16
©14
@15
a 7 
@10
©13

Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
Almonds, Ivaca.........
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled.............
Brazils new................
Filberts  ....................
Walnuts, Granobles.. 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
Table Nuts,  fancy__
©11
Table Nuts,  choice.
@10
Pecans, Med...............  @7)4
Pecans, Ex. Large__   ©  9
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............   @1  60
Cocoanuts,  fall  sacks  Q2 50
Chestnuts per bu.......   @
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................  @7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  Q 4)4
Choice, H. P„  Extras 
5)4
................ 

Roasted 

Peanuts.

@ 8 

bbls.  palls

standard........ ........  6*®  7
Standard H. H.......  
6ft® 7
Standard Twist......  
?H@ 8
Cut Loaf.
Jumbo, 321b  ...
Extra H. H......
Boston  Cream.

cases 
@ 6)4 
@ 8* @10

Mixed Candy.

Grocers...................
®   6 
Competition............
@ 6H 
Standard.................
@ 7
Conserve.................
@ m
Royal......................
@ 7K 
Ribbon....................
®  « H 
Broken...................
® 7% 
Cat Loaf.................
® 8 
English Rock.........
@ 8 
Kindergarten.........
@ 8* ® 9 
French  Cream........
Dandy Pan..............
© 1 0  @13
Hand Made Cream mxd  w_
Itai. Cream Bnbns, 35 lb pis  11 
Molasses Chews,  15 lb. palls  13 
5 lb. pails  12
“Alla Samee,” 

Fancy—In Bulk.

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

@ 8J4
© 8W
Slow
@12
a  5
@ 8
© 8H
@9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

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

@50
@50
@60
@60
@75

@30
@75
@50
aio
@50
@50
@56
@50
@50

@60
9@50

@35
@50

80  @  90

Fruits.
Oranges.

@1  00

Fancy Navels. 
Choice.
Seedlings............  3 oo@3 25
Meat Sweet
@3 50

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

@3 00
@3 25
@3 50
@3 75
<@

Bananas.

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Figs.

Californias  Fancy.. 
Choice, 101b boxes.. 
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............
Fancy, 12 lb boxes.. 
Imperial Mikados, 18
Id boxes...............
Pulled, 6 lb boxes... 
Naturals,  in bags...
Dates.

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

@13
@12
@18
@22
© 
@ @ 7

@10

@  6 
© 5

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene......................  @11H
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @10
W W Michigan...........  @ 9H
Diamond White.........  @ 8H
D„ S. Gas....................  @12H
Deo. N aptha..............  @12H
Cylinder............ .......29  @34
Engine...................11  @21
Black, winter............  
0  8

21

Crockery  and

Glassware
AKRON  0TONBWARE. 

Batters.

H gal., per dos  .........   ...  45
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5H
8 gal., each.....................   52
10 gal., each.......... ...........  «5 (j
12 gal.,  each.....................   78
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 1  05
20 gal. meat-tubs, each__ 1  40
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ...2 00
30 gal. meat-tubs, each__2 40
2 to 6 gal., per gal...... .....  
6
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 
H gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5H

Milkpans.

Churns.

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

H gal. flat or rd. bot., aoz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5H 
H gal. fireproof  - «11, dos.  85 
1 gal. flreprooi, bail, doz.l  10

Stewpans

Jugs.

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

Tomato Jugs.

H gal., per dos.................   50
1 gal., each...................... 
6H
Corks for H gal., per do*..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  30
- Preserve Jars end Covers.
H gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00

2

Seeling Wax.

5 lbs. in package, per lb... 
LAMP  BURNERS.

. 2   46

Common

No.  0 Sun..........................  
33
No.  1  Sun..........................   34
No.  2  Sun..........................  46
No. 8 Sun................................  1 00
Tubular.............................  
50
Security, No. 1...................  60
Security, No. 2.............        80
Nutmeg  ............................   50
LAMP CHIMNBYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 dos.
No.  0 Sun...............................  1 32
No.  1  Snn.............................   1 45
No.  2 Sun..............................   2 is
No. 0 Sun................................  1 50
No. 1 Snn................................  1 60
No. 2 Sun.................. 
Plrst  Quality.
No.  0  Snn,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Snn,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

wrapped and  iabe.eu  .  .  ¡ ¡ i  
wrapped and  labeled__  2  15
wrapped and  labeled__  8  15

wrapped and  labeled...  2 55 
wrapped and  labeled 
2 75
wrapped and  labeled__  8  75
CHIMNBYS—Pearl  Top.
No.  1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................3  70
No.  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled..............................4  85
No. 2  Snn,  “Small  Bulb,” 
for Globe Lamos............  
80

too.
top,
top,

top,
ton.
top,

La  Baatle.

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  .................................  9
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  16
No. 1 Crimp, per dos.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz......... 1  60

Rochester.

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

Electric.

OIL CANS. 

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

Pump  Cans.

LANTBRNS.

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  56
No.  0 Tubular side lift....  4 00
No.  1 B  Tubular........  ...  6  25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 50
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp.14  0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........8 75
LANTERN flLOBBS.
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 1 dos.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 2 dos.
each, box 15  cents.........  
45
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5 dos.
each, bbl 351....................   S
No. 0 Tabular,  ball’s  eye, 
oases 1 dos. each...... . 
116

Whaat.

Wheat............................  £9

Winter  Wheat  Flour. 

Local Brands.

Patents.............................  4  00
Second  Patent..................   3 50
Straight  ..........................   3 25
Clear..............................  3 00
Graham  ........................  3 50
Buckwheat....................
R ye..................................  3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flonr In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Daisy, %a.............................3 75
Daisy, Hs.............................3 75
Daisy, Hs.............................3 75
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  Hs........................  3 50
Quaker, Hs........................  3 50
Quaker, Hs........................   3 50
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pill8bury’s Best Hs...........  4  45
Pillsbury’s Best Hs...........  4 35
Plllsbury’s Best Hs...........  4 25
Pillsbury’s Best Hs paper..  4 25 
Pillsbury’s Best Hs paper..  4 25 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

Spring Wheat Flour. 

Meal.

Olney A Jndson’s Brand.

Duluth Imperial, Hs...........4 35
Dnlntb Imperial, Hs.  ___4 25
Duluth Imperial, Hs.........   4  15
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Hs..................  4  30
Gold Medal Hs.................... 4 20
Gold Medal Hs.........................4 10
Parisian, Hs...........................  4 30
Parisian, Hs............................. 4 20
Parisian. Hs...........................   4 10
Ceresota, Hs......................  4 40
Ceresota, Hs......................  4 30
Ceresota, Hs................ .....   4  20
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Hs..............................  4 50
Laurel, H s................................4 40
Laurel, Hs................................4 30
Bolted..........................   ..  190
Granulated............................  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__ 17 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........16 50
Unbolted Corn Meal..........15 F0
Winter Wheat  Bran..........14 50
Winter Wheat Middlings..15 50
Screenings.............................. 14 00
New com, car lots.............  37H
Less than  car lots.............  39H
Car  lots..............................33
Carlote, clipped.................  35
Less than  car lots............ 36
No. 1 Timothy carlots__  12 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots__ 13 50
Fish and Oysters

Feed and Mlllstuffe.

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

Provisions.

Swift  A 

follows:

Company  quote  as

Bar rated Pork.
Mess 
10 00
............................. 
Back  ......................10 5o©
Clear  back.... .........  @10,75
Shortcut.............................   10 25
14  00 
Pig.......................
Bean  .......................
9 10
Family  ..........................  11  03

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

5h
5H

5H

Smoked  Heats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  __ 
8H
8H
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
Hams, 161o  average...... 
8
Hams, 20 lb  average...... 
7%
Ham dried b e e f............  
12
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
5X
Bacon,  clear................. 7  @7H
California hams....... 
Boneless hams 
----------------- 
8H
Cooked  ham.................10@12H

5H

Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound......................
Kettle.............................
55 lb Tubs..........advance
80 lb Tubs..........advance
50 lb T ins..........advance
20 lb Palls..........advance
10 lb Pails..........advance
5 lb Palls..........advance
3 lb Pails..........advance

Sausages.

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

Beef.

Extra  Mess. 
Boneless
Rump.................................. 12 25

........10 25
........12 50

Pigs’ Feet.

Kits. 15 lbs...................... 
70
H  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 35
H  bbls, 80 lbs..................  2 50
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
H  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 25
H  bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 25

Tripe.

70

Casings.

P ork............................... 
Beef  rounds................... 
Beef  middles................... 
Sheep.............................  

Butterlne.

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

20
3
10
60

11
10H
15H
14H

Canned  Meats.

Corned beef,  2 l b ........2  15
Corned beef, 14  lb..........14  75
Roast  beef,  2 lb........... 2  15
50
Potted  ham,  H&.........  
Potted  ham,  Hs.........  
90
50
Deviled bam,  Hs.........  
Deviled ham,  Hs.........   90
Potted  tongue h s.........  
50
Potted  tongue Hs.........  
90

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass......................  6H@

Ribs___
Rounds

5to5H

5H@ 6H
7H@ UH
9 ©12
7 @12
7 © 7H
6 to 6

Fresh Fiali.

Per lb.
Whitefish..............
© 10
© 10
T rout....................
Black Bass............
8  © u
© 15
Halibut.................
© 5
Ciscoes or Herring.
Bluefish.................
© 11
Live Lobster.........
© 23
Boiled Lobster......
© 25
@ 10
Cod 
....................
Haddock...............
© 8
No.  1  Pickerel......
© 8
© 8
Pike.......................
© 5
Perch.....................
Smoked White......
© 8
Red Snapper.........
© 8
© 12
Col  River Salmon.
Mackerel 
© 16
............
40
F. H. Counts...........
30
F. J   D. Selects.......
27
Selects...................
22
F. J. D. Standards.  .
20
A nchors.................
Standards...............
18
Favorites................
gal.
Bulk.
Counts  .............................   2 00
X  Selects...........................   1  85
Selects................................
Anchor Standards..................  1 10
Standards..........................
Clams......................................  1 25
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25© 1  5-
Clame,  per 100.............  @10^

Oysters in Cans,

Shell floods.

Pork.

Mutton

Veal.
...............

5 © 5H
© 8
Shoulders...................  @  5H
Leaf Lard..................   6H@
Carcass.....................   8  © 8H
Spring Lambs............ 9  ©10
Carcass 
7H© 8
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertscb Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Hides.
Green No.  I................
Green No. 2........... 
.
Bulls.......................
Cured No. 1................
Cured No. 2................
Calfskins,  green No. 1 
Calfskins, green No. 2 
Calfskins, cured No. 1 
Calfskins, cured No. 2 
Pelts.
Pelts,  each.................  50© 1  00
Tallow
No. 1.......................
® 3H 
No. 2......................
© 2H
Wool.
Washed, fine  ........
©15
Washed, medium...
@18
8
Unwashed, fine.
@10
Unwashed, medium „13
@15

© «H 
© 7H 
@ 9H 
© 8 
©10H 
©  9

@  6H @ 6 

© 7H 

22

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

Hardware

Logical  Consequences  of  Patronizing 

Catalogue  Houses.

A  hundred  years  ago  bad  any  man 
brought  forth  a  scheme  or  plan  that  bad 
for  its  object  the  absolute  control  of  any 
of  our  great  commodities  over  the  en­
tire  United  States  be  would  certainly 
have  been 
looked  upon  as  a  man  un­
worthy  of  the  confidence  of  the  business 
world.  Had  be  been  so  bold  as  to  say 
that  he  proposed  to  take  the  entire 
civilized  world  for  bis  field  of  action 
his  sanity  would  not  only  have  been  se­
riously  questioned,  but  he  would  have 
been  in  danger  of  being  incarcerated  in 
a 
lunatic  asylum  without  further  evi­
dence;  but  the  new  order  of  things  has 
so  changed  business  methods  and  sen­
timents  that  to-day  such  plans 
are 
looked  upon  as  perfec'ly  feasible,  and 
why  should  they  not  be?  Have  we  not 
already  in  successful  operation  a  gigan­
tic  organization  that  so  far  as  the  com­
modity  in  which  it  deals  is concerned  is 
absolute  dictator to  the  world?  We  have 
several  other  similar  organizations  that 
to-day  practically  own  and  control  the 
business 
in  the  United  States  in  their 
respective  lines.  Such  trusts,  pools  and 
combinations  can  not  be  looked  upon  as 
anything  but  mitigated  evils.  They not 
only  concentrate  business,  but  through 
their  ability  to  wipe  out  all 
legitimate 
competition  some  become  dictators  to 
the  people  and  the  inevitable  result 
is 
an  enormous  concentration  of  wealth, 
which 
is  seldom,  if  ever,  in  the  inter­
ests  of  the  masses.

in 

One  of  the  greatest  of  these  evils  is 
yet 
its  infancy,  but  it  is  one  of  the 
most  serious  yet  attempted.  First,  be­
cause  of  its  scope,  and,  second,  because 
it  comes  to  the  people  like  a  wolf  in 
a  lamb's  clothing,  witn  the  outward  ap­
pearance  of  a  philanthropic  missionary 
that  promises  peace  and  prosperity  to 
all  who  follow  his  advice,  but  with  the 
heart  of  a  Shylock,  and  when  once  the 
people  are  in  its  power,  it  will  not  fail 
to  demand  the  pound  of  flesh.  This  in­
stitution  is  what  is  generally  known  as 
the  catalogue  house. 
It  is  impossible 
to  realize  the  consequences  of  this  busi­
ness  method  except  by  taking  a  look 
forward  as  Bellamy 
looked  backward 
and  thus  follow  this  principle  to  its log­
ical 
theory  upon 
which  the  catalogue  bouse 
is 
that  the  retailers  and  the  jobbers  de­
pendent  on  them  are  not  a  necessity; 
that  the  catalogue  bouses  can  supersede 
these  with  great  profit  to  themselves and
benefit  to  the  people.  That  these  houses 
can  reap  great  profits,  there  is  no  ques­
tion,  but  can  they,  and  will  they  benefit 
the  people?  That 
is  the  question,  that 
can  only  be  answered  intelligently  when 
we  have  noted  the  changes  that  have 
been  wrought  when  these  concerns  are 
in  full  possession  of  the  mercantile 
business  of  the  world.

conclusion. 

is  built 

The 

If 

The  only  way  by  which  this  country 
can  attain  the  highest  possible  degree 
of  prosperity  is  by  so  dividing  its  pop­
ulation 
into  producers  and  consumers 
that  what  one  class  produces  the  other 
in  any  industry  we 
will  consume. 
shall  find  it  impossible  to  so  arrange 
it 
that 
its  entire  product  would  be  con­
sumed  at  home,  the  prosperity  of  that 
industry  would  still  depend  on bow  near 
I  say 
we  could  bring  it  to  this  ideal. 
high 
intelligent 
person  knows  that  there  is  no  market  in 
the  world  that  is  worth  as  much  to  the 
seller  of  any  product  as  the  American 
that
market. 

Therefore,  any  cause 

ideal,  because  every 

tends  to  destroy,  or  even  decrease,  the 
American  market  for  any  of  our  prod­
ucts  is  a  positive  detriment  and 
injury 
to  every  person  engaged 
in­
dustry. 
If  the  same  cause  not  only  de­
crease  the  market,  but  at  the  same  time 
increase  production  in  that line, it would 
be  a  twofold  injury,  under  which  few, 
if  any,  of  our  industries  could  success­
fully  operate.

in  that 

If  the  catalogue  house  successfully 
its  avowed  plan  of  driving 
carries  out 
out  of  business  every  retailer 
in  the 
world  it  will  have  turned  down  and  out 
of  employment  an  army  of  men,  women 
and  children,  the  number  of  which 
is 
so  great  as  scarcely  to  be  comprehended 
by  the  ordinary  individual.  This  vast 
army,being  deprived  of  the  privilege  of 
earning  a  livelihood  through  the  legiti­
mate  channels  of  trade,  will  necessarily 
have  to  be  absorbed  by  t.he  other  lawful 
occupations.  The  ranks  of  the  labor­
ers,  mechanics,  artisans,  miners  and 
mill  hands  are  already  so  crowded  as  to 
seriously  threaten  the  future  prosperity 
of  these  callings.  But  in  order  to  earn 
living  this  new  army  of  un­
an  honest 
employed  will  have  to 
invade  their 
ranks  in  large  numbers,  the  result  of 
which  will  undoubtedly  be  to  force  the 
price  of  all  kinds  of  labor  down  to  the 
lowest  living  rate.  After  filling  all  other 
legitimate  callings  to  overflowing  there 
will  still  remain  a  large majority  of  this 
vast  army  to  be  provided  with  employ­
ment  and  they  will  have  to  become  till­
ers  of  the  soil.  The  retailers  and  the 
jobbers  of  the  world  can  be  depended 
on  to  give  good  account  of  themselves 
wherever  they  may 
land  under  these 
new 
conditions;  for  intelligence  and 
keen  business  sagacity  and  judgment 
they  are  the  equal,  if  not  the  superior, 
of  any  other  class  in  the  world.

Having  forced  these  people  out  of 
their  legitimate  calling  and  distributed 
them 
in  the  other  industries,  what  will 
be  the  new  condition  of  things?

1.  The  number  of  farmers  will  be 
in 
in  the  products  of 

largely  increased,  which  will  result 
enormous 
the  farm.

increase 

2.  The  demand  for  farm  products 
will  be  lessened  only  by  decreasing  the 
consuming  population, .but  far  more  by 
reducing  wages  to  a  point  that  will  pre­
clude  the  masses from  buying  more than 
the  absolute  necessities  of  life.

3. 

The  demand  for  the  products  of 

the  factory  will  suffer  just  as  much  by 
reducing  the  annual  wages  of  the world. 
The  world's  market  will  be  reduced 
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ways  done.  But  be  fails  to  take  into 
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into  a  de­
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himself,  always  reminds  me  of  the  con­
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£limate  to  regain  bis health,  but  he  dis­
covers  that  the  yellow  fever  is  just  as 
deadly  as  consumption.  The  modern 
concentration  of  business  is  like  death, 
in  that  it  is  no  respecter  of  persons  and 
its  rnttht di  are  so  crushing  and destruc­
tive  that  the  smaller  department  store, 
like  the  consumptive,  can  only  hope  to 
prolong 
life.  For  only  such  con­
cerns  as  John  Wanamaker and  Siegel, 
Cooper  &  Co.  can  hope  to  weather  the 
storm.  When  the  mercantile  business  of 
the  country  has  been  narrowed  down  to 
a  few  such  concerns  it  will  be  an  easy 
step  to  form  them  into  one  great  trust, 
and  the  men  who  control  that  trust  will 
be  the  uncrowned  kings,  the  rulers  of 
the  masses.

its 

There  is  not  to-dav  a farmers’ conven­
tion,  and  but  few  political  conventions, 
where  speeches  are  not  made  and  reso­
lutions  adopted  against  the  trusts,  and 
yet  the  men  who  do  the  hardest  talking 
are  the  ones  who  will  sit  down  at  their 
desks  and  order  a  bill  of  goods  from 
some  catalogue  house  that  they  could 
have  obtained  fiom  their  nearest  mer­
chant;  they  never  think  that  they  are 
building  up  trusts  compared  to  which 
those  now  in  the  field  are  pigmies  and 
never  think  that  every  dollar  thus  spent 
link  to  the  chain  that  will 
will  add  a 
bind  the  masses  in  slavery. 
‘ ‘ Consist 
ency,  thou  art  a  jewel,”   but  thou  hast 
no  abiding  place 
in  the  mind  of  the 
modern  reformer.

If  the  trusts  confining  themselves  to 
a  single  commodity  can  levy  a  tribute 
upon  the  people  amounting  to  millions 
of  dollars  and  in  a  few  years  become  so 
powerful  as  to  menace  the  Government, 
what  can  we  expect  from  the  catalogue 
house  trust 
if  allowed  to  carry  out  its 
purpose,  a  trust  that  will  have  in  its 
po-er  to  dictate  the  price  of  every 
mouthful  eaten  and  every  thread  worn 
by  the  masses?  One of the  worst features 
of  these  modern  methods  is that with the 
seal  of 
legality  placed  upon  them  it 
seems  that  the  ambition  of  thousands  of 
our  brightest  and  ablest  young  men  is 
not  to  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  their 
fathers,  but  to  aspire  to  that  higher 
financial 
level  where  they  will  be  able 
to  wipe  out  competition  in  some  partic­
ular  line  of  business. 
It  seems  to  me 
that  the  welfare of  the  nation  depends 
on  the  purity  of  purpose  and  the  height 
of  the  ideal  towards  which  they  are 
working.  Remember  that  every  indi­
vidual  has  rights  that  can  not  be  tam­
pered  with  nor taken  from  him.

The  business  world  of  to-day is adopt­
ing  the  doctrine  that everything  is right, 
but  such  a  doctrine  that  sets  at  naught 
all  moral  rights  and  obligations  will 
lead  to  disaster.  Our  forefathers  de 
dared  that  every  individual  possesses 
an  unalienable  right  to  life,  liberty  and 
the  pursuit  of  happiness,  but  under  the 
new  method  our  forefathers  were  old 
fogies  or  they would  have  made  adecla 
ration  which  would  have  read,  “ Every 
individual  has  an  unalienable  right to 
life  and  to  as  much  liberty  as his  finan­
cial  standing  and  organizing ability  can 
secure  for him. ”   If we  teach  our  youths 
by  example  that  there  is  no  right  but 
might,  then  what  can  we  expect  of  the 
rising  generation?  Surely  such  a  doc 
trine  will  bring  us  to  a  crisis.  Every 
epoch  making  crisis  through  which  the 
world  has  passed  has  become  possible 
simply  because  the  people  have  blindly 
ignored  the  danger  until  it  gained  such 
force  that  nothing  could  stop  it,  as  they 
were  so  ignorant  that  they  could  not  see 
the  danger,  and  others  failed  to  raise 
warning  cry.  The  world  has  grown

wonderfully 
human  selfishness.

in 

I  am  very  much afraid history  will  re­
peat  itself  first  upon  those  whose  igno­
rance  prevents  them 
from  seeing  the 
danger  caused,  and,  second,  by  those 
who  see  the  danger,  but  refuse  to  take 
active  part  to stop  it.and even  patronize 
it  because 
it  puts a  few  paltry  dollars 
nto  their  pockets.  The  farmer  seems 
willing  to  sacrifice  the  market  for the 
product  of  bis  toil  and  to  court 
in­
creased  competition  in  bis  business. 
The  people  of  every  class  who earn their 
bread  seem  willing  to  sacrifice  their 
prosperity  simply  because  they can  save 
a  few  cents  on  their  purchases.  These 
people  shout  against  trusts  and  patron­
ize  catalogue houses and  thus  do more to 
concentrate  business  than  all  the  other 
causes  combined.  How  long  will  this 
last?  Will  the  people  realize  their  dan­
ger  in  time  and  see  that  they  are selling 
their  birthright  for  a  mess  of  pottage, 
or  will  they  permit  their  manhood  and 
rights  to  be  crucified  for  a  few  pieces 
of  silver?

It 

is  easy  to  talk. of  reforms,  but 
they  do  not  come  from  finespun theories 
enunciated  in  scorching  resolutions  or 
burning  eloquence,  but  from  manfully 
living  out the  true  theory  of reciprocity 
Reciprocity  should  be  the  watchword  of 
every  business  man,  wage  earner  and 
farmer.  Labor 
is  the  one  commodity 
that  never  can  be  formed  into  a  trust 
The  wage  earner  and  the  farmer have 
had  to  dispose  of  their  commodities 

competitive  market  and  therefore  it 
seems  to  me  that  these people  should  be 
in  favor  of  reciprocity  and  be  opposed 
to  business  concentration,  for,  as  con 
increases,  competition  de 
centration 
creases,  and  competition 
is  the  only 
safety  valve  of  the  business  principl 
that  rests  on  a  reciprocal  basis.  A  trust 
n  a  commodity  or  number  of  them,  in 
the  purchase  and  sale  of  which  compe 
tition  has  been  destroyed,  can  be  ob 
tained  by  a  few.  The  wage  workers  and 
farmers  know  that  trusts  and  monopo 
ies  are  an  evil,  but  do  not  understand 
that  when  they  fail  to  practice  reciproc 
ty  with  their  merchants  and  neighbor 
ing  towns  they  are  building  up  these 
trusts, for  whom  sooner  or  later they  w '" 
become  “ hewers  of  wood  and  drawers 
of  water.”

The  capitalists  of  the  world  are  so 
mbued with the  idea of concentration  of 
business  that  they  are  taxing  their  in 
genuity  to  put  up  this  medicine  in  so 
palatable  a  form  that  the  masses  w 
take  it  like  an  opium eater takes opium 
but  the  time  will  come  when  he  will  be 
a  slave  and  can  not  resist,  and  will  find 
that  the  dens  are  not  public  benefactors 
and  that  Hell  as  pictured  in  Dante 
Inferno  is  nothing  compared  with  the 
penalty  they  will  have  to  pay  for  the' 
folly.  The  masses  are to-day  patron iz 
ing  all  kinds  of  trusts and  forging  the 
chains  that  will  put  them  helplessly  ’ 
the  power  of  the  people  that  they  now 
look  upon  as  their  friends.  Perhaps 
this  disease  has  gone  so  far that  it  can 
not  be  checked,  but  as  sensible  men 
and  citizens  it  is  our  duty  to  raise 
warning  and  combat  the  evil.

H.  T.  H e l g e so n .

It  Killed  Her.

“ Miss  Teeter’s death  was  a  very  sud 
it?”   asked  Mrs.  Me 

den  one,  wasn’t 
Bride.

indeed,”  

“ It  was, 

replied  Mrs 
Cumso. 
“ The  milliner  sent  her  new 
Easter  hat  home  just  when  she  said  she 
would,  and  the  shock  was  so  great  that 
Miss  Teeter  collapsed.”

Snell's. 
Jenrnug 
Jennugs

AUGURS  AND  BITS
................................................ 
70
.................................25*10
genuine 
•nutation .  ................................. 80*10
AXES

 

 

 

00*10

CAPS

BOLTS

BUCKETS

CROW  BARS

BUTTS,  CAST

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

BARROWS
.............................................  14 00
...............................  net  30 00

First quality, S. B. Bronze........................   5  50
First Quality, D. B. Bronze........................   9  50
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel.........................  6 25
First Quality^ D. B. Steel............................  10 50
Railroad
Garden...
Stove ..................
Carriage new list. 
Plow...................
Well,  plain....................... ...........................I 3 50
Cast Loose  Pin, figured........  .....................70*10
Wrought Narrow.......................................... 70*10
BLOCKS
70
Ordinary Tackle....................  
Cast Steel..............................................per lb 
5
Ely’s  1-10...................................  
65
per m 
55
Hick’s C.  P........................................... per m 
D...................................................... per m 
45
Musket......................................  
  per m 
75
CARTRIDGES
Rim F ire ......................................................40*10
Central Fire.................................................. 
20
70
Socket Firmer............................................. 
Socket Framing..........................   — .... 
70
Socket Comer..............................................  
70
Socket Slicks......................................... 
70
 
Morse’s Bit Stocks.....................................  
60
Taper and Straight Shank............................... 50* 5
Morse’s Taper Shank...................................   50* 5
Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
61
Corrugated................................................... 
1 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....................................60*10
28
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27......... 
List  12 
16........ 
17

GALVANIZED  IRON

BXPANSIVE  BITS

PILES—New  List

ELBOWS

CHISELS

DRILLS

13 

14 

Discount,  70

15 
OAUGBS

MATTOCKS

KNOBS—New List

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...................... 60*10
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
80
Adze Eye.....................................#16 00, dis  60*10
Hunt Eye.....................................#15 00, dls 60*10
Hunt’s........................................  #18 50, dls 20*10
MILLS
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s........... 
 
40
Coffee, P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables. 
40
Coffee, Landers. Ferry & Clark’s...............  
40
Coffee, Enterprise........................................ 
30
60*10
Stebbin’s Pattern...................... 
Stebbin’s Genuine.................................... .60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

MOLASSES  GATES

 

 

NAILS

 

 

 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...........................................   340
Wire nails, base...........................................   2 45
30 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
05
10 to 16 advance............... 
10
8 advance.................................................... 
20
6 advance.................................................... 
4 advance.................................................... 
30
3 advance................................................... 
45
2 advance...................................................  
70
50
Fine 3 advance............. 
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
25
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
35
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
Finish 10 advance.................................   • • 
»
35
Finish  8 advance......................................  
Finish  ¿advance......................................  
45
Barrel % advance..................................... 
85
Ohio Tool Co.’s.  fancy................................   @50
Sclota Bench................................................  _*}
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, first quality......................................   @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme............................. 
..60*10*10
Common,polished............................— 
70* 5
RIVETS
60
Iron and T inned...................... 
 
Copper Rivets and Burs..........................  
4o

PLANBS

PANS

 

 

 

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

Broken packages He per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Mavdole & Co.’s, new  list..................... dls  *3?*
25
Kip’s  ..................................................... dit 
Yerkes & Plumb’s.............   ... 
...........dl«  tO&lO
VugOD’S 
70
Blacksmith's Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50&10 

*KV- 
HOUSE  »URNISriNCI  GOODS 

Stamped Tin Ware  .......  
Japanned Tin Ware............

ROPES

HINGES

HOLLOW  WARE
Pots...............   ..............................
Kettles  ........................................
S p id ers.....................  
......
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3......
w1'
State......................... 
Sisal, H inch and  larger...............
Manilla.................
Bright............................................
Screw Eyes..  ................................
Gate Hooks and R yes...............
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 
SQUARES
Steel and Ircr
Try and Bevels
M itre................

WIRE  GOODS

new list 75<bl>>
20*10

.........60*1
.........   60*10
...........60*10
dls 60*10

iiOl- Tlflt  9

..........  

«V4
10*

8f

.........dls

TRAPS

WIRE

SHEET  IRON

•2 70
.  2 70
2 80
3 00
3  10
3 20

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

70*10
60
50
com. smooth. com.
12 50
2 5
2 60
2 70
2 80
2 90
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  tnchei 

Nos. 10 to 14 —
Nos. 15 to 17.  ...
Nos. 18 to 21......
Nos. 22 to 24......
Nos. 25 to 26___
No.  27............
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dis 
50
Solid EyeB........................................per ton 20 00
Steel, Game............................................. 
75*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton's 70*10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
if
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
i  "
Bright Market........................................... 
Annealed  Market...................................  
Coppered Market................................... 
Tinned Market.................................. 
Coppered Spring  Steel.............................. 
Barbed  Fence, galvanized 
.................  
Barbed Fence,  painted........................ 
HORSE  NAII «
An Sable................................  
<5 s 4i>*li
dls
Putnam..................................... 
Capwell....................................................net list
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled 
Coe’s Genuine........................................  
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought 
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages.................................... 
Pumps,Cistern...  ................................  
Screws, New List 
Casters, Bed and  t’late. 
Dampers, Amerlcnn 
600 pound casks........... 
Per pound..............................................  
D rop............................
B B and Buck............

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

MET ALS—Zinc

70
 
bp
..  . 50&10*H
w
—  
HV4
9
1  45 
1  70
17

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SOLDER

SHOT

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75

 
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TIN—Melyn Grade

The prices of the many other qualities of soldc 
In the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................• 7 65
14x20 IC, Charcoal........................................   7 10
20x14 IX, Charcoal........................................   8 51

TIN—Allaway Grade

Each additional X on this grade, #1.25.
10x14 IC, Charcoal...................................   6 25
14x20 IC, Charcoal..................................   6 25
10x14 IX, Charcoal............................  
14x20 EX, Charcoal...........*..........................  7  50
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14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean........  ...................  5  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  6 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean............................  11
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   6
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   6
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   ’ 0
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Alla way Grade............   12
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers,
14x56 IX.  for  No  9  Boilers. . per pound.

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

NUMBER  10.

How  She  Rose  From  Cash  Girl  to 
Affluence.
Written for the T r a d e s m a n .

Ethel  May  Quimby  was  only  a  little 
Slip  of  a  girl,  but  she  answered to Num­
ber 
io  in  the  trimmings  department  of 
Crossman  &  Hayden's  dry  goods  store 
in  Newton.  She  bad  been  at  her  post 
winter  and  summer,  rain  or  shine,  for 
the  past  three  years.  She  did  not  frater­
nize  much  with  the  other  clerks,  yet  she 
did  not  seem  to  bold  herself  aloof.  But 
no  one  knew  anything  about  her  outside 
of  the  store.  She  never  shirked  her 
work  and  she  attended  to  business  with 
as  much  care  as  though  she  were  one 
of  the  proprietors.  Nobody  had  ever 
seen  a  scowl  on  her  face  or  heard  her 
make  a  complaint.  Some  oi  the  clerks 
declared  that  she  could  not  be  as  sensi­
tive  or  highly  strung,  hence  there  was 
no  special  virtue 
in  her  being  always 
the  same.

She  was  not  exactly  pretty,  if  her  fea­
tures  were  closely  analyzed,but  nine  out 
of  ten  would  have  call  her  a  beautiful 
girl.  She  was  really  only  a  conventional 
blonde  with  the  fairest  of  skins  and  the 
pinkest  of  cheeks;  but  her  face  was 
radiant  with  brightness  and  good  nature 
and  unconsciously  she  bad 
lifted  the 
spirits  of  many  a  tired,  disheartened 
passer-by.

The  head  clerk 

in  the  department 
was  an  authority  on  trimmings,  yet  she 
was  not  popular,  and  it  was  Ethel  May 
who  drew  all  the  trade  and  oftentimes 
her  bands  were  more  than  full.  To  her 
nothing  was too  much  trouble.  She  was 
there  to  please  and  so  the  humblest 
patron  was  treated  with  as  much respect 
and  attention  as  the  richest.  Some  peo­
ple  even  took  pains  to  say  a  good  word 
for  her  to  the  proprietors.  And  so  her 
wages  had  been  increased.  No one knew 
how  the  other  clerks  had  learned  about 
it,  for  Ethel  May  was  the  last  to  speak 
of  her  affairs.  When they knew that Miss 
Quimby  had  had  “ a  raise"  they  de­
clared  she  was  a  lucky  girl—everything 
came  her  way;  yet  who  knew  her  life?
Ethel  May  was the  eleventh  child  in 
the  Quimby.  family.  Her  arrival  was 
joy  nor  was  she 
not  anticipated  with 
greeted  with  enthusiasm.  The 
little 
farmhouse  was  already  full  to  overflow­
ing  and  another child  meant more work, 
one  more  mouth  to  feed  and  a  little  less 
breathing  space.  Mrs.  Quimby  was 
weakened  by  overwork  and 
fighting 
poverty  and  had 
lost  all  her  strength 
and  courage.  She  did  not  rally  and left 
the  little  one  to  its  fate.  And  so  the 
nowcomer,  left  to  her  own  sweet  will, 
grew  like  Topsy."

No  one  even  took  the  trouble  to  name 
her  until  a  summer  boarder at  the  next 
farm  took  pity  on  her  unidentified  state 
and  promised  a  silver  spoon 
if  she 
should  be  called  "Ethel  May.”   So  the 
baby  was  named.  But  it made no differ­
ence  to  her,  for  from  the  first  she  found 
this  a  beautiful  world  and  everybody 
her  friend.  She  might  be  ragged,  she 
might  be  dirty,  but  she  attracted  people 
by  her  dimpled  smile.  Almost  her  first 
sentence  was,  * * Me  love  everybody. ’ ’ 
Some  of  the  city  people  wished  to  adopt 
her;  but  her  father  would  not  listen  to 
that.  Her sweet,  loving  ways  had  won 
bis  heart  and  she  was  the  last  bit  of 
sunshine  left  him.  He  was  lazy  and 
shiftless,  but  be  loved  his  family.  He 
had  never  recovered  from  his  wife’s 
death.

The  mortgage  on  the  farm  bad  been 
increased  from  time  to  time  until  it 
covered 
its  full  value  and  the  place

would  have  to  go.  That  was  the  last 
straw  and  John  Quimby  took  his  own 
life  the  night  before  the  public  sale.

Most  of  the  children  were  married 
and  settled.  There  were  only  Ethel 
May,  now  9  years  old,  and  her  next 
older  sister,  Henrietta,  needing  care 
and  so  it  was  arranged  among the broth­
ers  and  sisters  that  the  two  children,  as 
necessary  evils,  should  be  passed  from 
in 
one  to  another 
turn.  Ethel  May 
seemed  to  revel 
in  such  a  state  of 
affairs,  but  poor  Henrietta  took  the 
matter  to  heart.  Poor  child !  she  had 
fallen  from  her  high-chair  when  a  baby 
and  she  had  a  crooked  spine.  She  bad 
suffered  much  pain  and  she  was  serious 
and  old  beyond  her  years.  She  was  al­
most  too  sensitive,  for  she  made  herself 
sick  over  being  such  a  burden  in  the 
poverty-stricken  homes. 
It  was  Ethel 
May  who  cheered  her, 
it  was  Ethel 
May  who  brought  sunshine  to  every­
body. 
"D o n ’t  mind,  Hennie,”   she 
would  say;  " I ’m  getting  bigger  and 
bigger  every  day  and  before  long I  shall 
be  going  to  work  and  then  we’ll  have  a 
home all  by  ourselves  and  you’ll  be  my 
comfort. ’ ’

Ethel  May  did  begin  work  at  15. 
Four  years 
later  she  went  to  the  city, 
and  secured  the  position  which  she  still 
held  at  Crossman  &  Hayden’s.  A  year 
later  Henrietta  came  to  her,  and  then 
they  had  their  home  together. 
It  was 
only  one  room  in  the  top  of  a  tenement 
house,  and  bad  to  serve  for  kitchen, 
diningroom,  bedroom  and  parlor.  But 
then,  Ethel  May  had  furnished  it— very 
meagerly,  to  be  sure—and 
it  was  full 
of  her  brightness  and  cheer.  And  then 
Ethel  May  had  the  open  vision.  When 
the  days  and  nights  were  scorching  in 
summer  it  was  Ethel May who suggested 
reading  about  polar  expeditions;  and 
in  winter  when  the  coal  was  low  she 
brought  home 
jungle  books.  When 
Henrietta  was  nervous  and  disheartened 
it  was  Ethel  May who planned  "their 
house”   which  should  come  some  day, 
somehow,  somewhere.

There  were  times  when  Henrietta  was 
very  sick.  Then  she  was  taken  to  St. 
Mary’s  Hospital  for  a  rest  and  change. 
Although  there  she  could  have  more 
comforts  and  be  taken  care  of,  she  was 
always 
impatient  to  get  back  home  to 
Ethel  May.  At  the  Hospital,  however, 
she  learned  to  embroider  and  was  thus 
better able  to  pass  the  long  weary  hours 
alone,  and  she  laid  aside  a  pittance 
from  time  to  time  for  "their  house.”

One  day  Ethel  May  came  home  from 
the  store  so  tired,  and  she  had  a  severe 
headache.  She  had  a  high  fever  all 
night  and  the  next  morning  when  she 
tried  to  dress  she  fainted.  Mrs.  John­
son,  in  the  next  room,  heard  a  fall  and 
Henrietta’s  cry  and  rushed  in.  She  soon 
had  a  doctor  there.  He  pronounced  it 
a  case  of  typhoid 
lever  and  hurried 
Ethel  May off  to  the  City  Hospital.  For 
several  weeks  she  lay  between  life  and 
death.  Finally  she  began  slowly  to  re­
cover.  Henrietta  was  by  her  bedside 
and  hers  was  the  face  which  Ethel  May 
first  saw  when  she  came  to conscious­
ness.  And  then  she  was  fairly  deluged 
with  flowers.  Every  clerk  in  Crossman 
&  Hayden’s must  have remembered  her. 
She  was  too  weak  to question  the  long 
visits  which  Doctor Crossman made her. 
At  last  he  was  willing  to  set a  day  for 
her  return  home.

When  the  time  came  be  and  one  of 
the  nurses  helped  her  down  the stairs  to 
the  carriage.  Henrietta  followed  close 
behind.  Ethel  May  tried  tq thank  the 
doctor and  the  nurse  for  their  kindness, 
but her  eyes filled  with  tears.  She  was

not  allowed  to  say  a  word.  Doctor 
Crossman  took  the  seat  opposite  them 
in  the  carriage.  Soon  the  horse  stopped 
before  a  large  house  with  a  stone  front, 
and  who  should  come  out  to  the  curb 
but  Mr.  Crossman,  of  Crossman  &  Hay­
den,  who 
insisted  on  her  going  in  the 
bouse  to  rest  and  meet  Mrs.  Crossman. 
But  then  it  was  all  a  preconceived plan, 
and  things  worked, very  much  as 
in  a 
fairy  story.  Doctor  Crossman  was  no 
other  than  the  eldest  son  of  the  dry 
goods  merchant.  Yes,  and 
it  was  a 
case  of 
love  at  first  sight;  and  when 
Ethel  May  had  recovered  she  became 
Mrs.  Doctor  Crossman.  Then  the  little 
house  materialized,  only  it  was  so  large 
and  so  fine  it  never  would  fit  the  one  of 
her  dreams.

The  story  would  not  be  complete 
without  telling  how  a  noted  spine  spe­
cialist  performed  a  wonderful  surgical 
operation  and  made  Henrietta  as  strong 
and  straight  as  anybody.  But  then,  that 
is  not  true.  She  shares  Ethel  May's 
home,and  fills  almost  as  large  a place as 
Ethel  May  herself.  The  children  wor­
ship  "Aunt  Etta”   and  look  to  her al­
most  as  to  their  mother. 
Movements of Lake Superior T ravelers.
Marquette,  April  17— A.  F.  Wixson 
has  retired  from  the  road  and  will  wel­
come  his  friends  at  Laurium,  where  be 
has  entered  the  retail  hardware  busi­
ness. 
It  is  more  than  an  ordinary  mat­
ter  for  any  traveler to  leave the road and 
settle  himself  in  a  local  business.  He 
not  only  severs  business  connections 
with  bis  house  and  customers,  but  be 
buries  a  lot  of  friends  at  once. 
It  is 
like  attending  a  large  funeral.

Z.  E.  U.

E.  B.  Baldwin  (Marshall-Wells Hard­
ware  Co.,  Duluth)  has  severed  his  con­
nection  with  Duluth  and  engaged  to 
represent  the  Fletcher  Hardware  Co., 
Detroit,  in  the  territory  vacated  by  A. 
F.  Wixson.  Mr.  Baldwin  resides  at 
Ashland,  Wis.

H.  O.  McMain 

is  well  established 
in  his  new  quarters  (Reed,  Murdock 
&  Co.)

H.  I.  Telling  (Guthman,  Carpenter 
&  Telling)  has  finished  his  spring  trip 
and  gone  to  Chicago.  Mr.  T.  has  bad 
about forty Wisconsin  towns added to his 
territory this year.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

922

928

ANTED—A GOOD  MAN, AND  SHINGLE 
mill capable of cutting from 25,COO to 30,000 
shingles per day, to cut cedar  shingles  on  con­
tract.  Address No. 929, care  Michigan  Trades­
man___________________ ____________ 929

17»OR  SALE—OLD-ES1ABL1SHKD,  FIRST 

1  class meat market;  best  location  in  city  of 
fO.POO;  doing good business;  have  best  class  of 
trade in  city;  bargain  for  some  one.  Address 
No. 928, care-Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—SALESMEN  WHO  VISIT  THE 
grocery trade to  handle  a  good  seller, on 
commission.  Good money  in  it.  Address  Kal­
amazoo Pure Food Co.. Kalamazoo, Mich.  921
D r u g  s t o r e  f o r  s a l e  c h e a p .  1  h a v e
other business.  City of 3,000.  Address No 
922, care Michigan Tradesman. 
Ct  ALLERY FOR  SALE;  GOOD  LOCATION;
T  ch  ap rent;  fitted up in good shape to 8x10. 
A r argain if taken soon.  J.  Daily,  Elsie,  Mich.
923
Tj’ OR SALE—SECONDHAND HUNTER SIFT- 
r   er in good order.  Cheap  for cash.  Can  be 
seen  at  office  of  Tradesman  Company.  Henry 
Idema,  Vice  President  Kent  County  Savings 
Bank. Grand  Rapids. 

I  ¡»OR  SALE—GOOD  BAZAAR  STOCK.  EN- 
WANTED TO EXCHANGE  SOME  A1  PROP- 

1  quire  of  Hollon  &  Hungerford,  Albion, 
Mich. 
925
erty and cash for a  good  hardware  stock. 
State amount business you  are  doing.  Address
L, Carrier 21, Grand Rapids, Mice______   926
¡»XAMINE—IF YOU  ARE  LOOKING  FOR  A 
J  location  in  which  to  engage  in  business, 
please correspond with the undersigned.  I can 
offer inducements that will warrant close inves­
tigation:  Two  good  railroads,  union  depot, 
good schools, churches and a fine place in which 
to live;  a town of l,a00  inhabitants  in  the  cen­
ter of as fine agricultural lands as can be  found 
any where.  Address R. Baker, Vicksburg, Mich. 
_______ ________________________  
927
Dr u g a n d  n o t io n  stock fo r sa l e  in
nice town for *1,500.  Address T.  P.  Stiles, 
906
Millersburg, Elkhart Co., Indiana. 

924

An y o n e  w ish in g  t o   e n g a g e  in   t h e 
grain and produce and other lines  of bust* 
ness can  learn of  good  locations  by  communi­
cating  with  H.  H.  Howe,  Land  and  Industrial 
Agent C. & W. M. and D., G. R.  &  W.  Railways, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
919
ANTED—BAKEkY;  MICHIGAN  TOWN,
2,000  or more.  Baker, care Tradesman.  920
WA T ER M E LO N S, CANTALOUPES AND 
new potatoes.  The Johnson-Brown Co.,  of 
Albany,  Ga.,  perhaps  the  largest  individual 
growers of melons  in  the  State,  invite  all  reli­
able  dealers,  who  desire  to  do  business  with 
shippers  who  are  reliable  and  will  ship  what 
they sell, to open  correspondence  with  them in 
reference  to  purchase  of  watermelons,  canta­
loupes a”d new potatoes. 
W ANTED—I AM LOOKING FOR LOCATION 
in good town of 2,500 to 10,000 to  open  per­
manent first-class dry goods store.  Address  A. 
F. Z., care Michigan Tradesman. 
17»OB  SALE—HARDWARE  STOCK  OF  THE 
I7»OR  SALE —A  RARE  OPPORTUNITY —A 

1  late A.  A.  Tyler at 641  South  Division  St., 
Grand  Rapids.  Fine  location  and  well estab­
lished trade.  Address Mrs. A. A. Tyler. 

909

916

917

913

flourishing business;  clean  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  adapted  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. 
IjV>R  L IT E R A T U R E ,  STATISTICAL  RB- 
' ports,  and  information  generally  about  the 
gulf coast and  south  Mississippi,  the  center  of 
the “Yellow Pine  Belt,”  write  the  “Pascagoula 
Commercial Club," Scranton, Miss.______ 910
FOR SALE—A  40-ACRE  PECAN  ORCHARD, 
partial bearing,  also  two  beautiful  homes, 
all  on  Mississippi  gulf  coast;  also  pine  lands. 
For  particulars  write  F,  H.  Lewis,  Scranton, 
Miss.______________________________   911
W ANTED—PARTNER TO TAKE  HALF IN- 

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. 
FOR SALE—NEW,  CLEAN  STOCK  OF GEN- 
eral merchandise in small town in Southern 
Michigan  on  Michigan  Central  Railroad;  ele­
gant farming country;  no competition within  a 
radius  of twelve  miles;  stock  invoices  about 
$3,000.  This is a good  business  and  good  loca­
tion and must be sold for cash;  no trades.  Ad- 
dress F. N., care Michigan Tradesman. 
904
I7»OR  SALE—A  SHINGLE  AND  SAW  MILL 
1  with 30 horse  power  engine  and  boiler,  all 
in good order.  Would  trade  for general  mer­
chandise.  For particulars,  address Box 7. Mt. 
Pleasant, Mich. 
Mo n ey t o p a t e n t y our id e a s m ay b e
obtained through our aid.  Patent Record, 
885
Baltimore, Md. 
FOR SALE—IMPROVED FARM: GOOD gEN- 
eral cropping, gardening and  fruit raising; 
near market.  Address  Albert  Baxter,  Muske­
887
gon, Mich. 
FOR >ALE—GROCERY STOCK IN CENTRAL 
Michigan in city of 3,000 inhabitants.  Sales 
last  year,  Sio.000;  stock  invoices  about  $1,200. 
Address No. 879, care Michigan Tradesman.  879
I7»OR  SALE —CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK 
located at one of the best trading  points  in 
Michigan.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $5,000. 
Store and warehouse will be rented  for  *30 per 
month.  Will sell on  easy terms.  Address  No. 
868, care Michigan Tradesman.__________ 868

914

912

F OR  SALE — WELL-ESTABLISHED  AND 

good-paving  implement  and  harness  busi­
ness, located  in  small  town  surrounded  with 
good farming country.  Store  has  no  competi­
tion within radius of eight miles.  Address  No. 
806, care Michigan Tradesman. 
806
I7»OR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad- 
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman.  680

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 
try;  any qua: titles  Write  me.  Orriu  J. 

Stone, Ka’amazoo,  Mich. 

8.0

MISCELLANEOUS.

ANTED—PORTION.  HAVE  HAD  TWO 
years’ experience in gene- al store.  Best of 
references.  Address  Loc’r  Box  95,  Mantnn. 
Mich.___________ _ __________________915

with six  years’  experience  as  clerk.  Ad­

W a n t e d —po sitio n  by  young  m a n
dress Lock Box O, Maple Rapids, Mich. 
918
B A T T ER S O N   &   CO .

B U F F A LO ,  N.  Y ., April  io, 1899.
MARKET.

Eggs—Quick  and  firm. 

consumptive  trade.  Rush  along 
steadily.

' 13 %c  mostly.  Big 
liberally  and 

Poultry—Scarcer daily.  Live young chickens, 
12 and  13c.  Dressed,  13  and  14c.  Fowls,  11  and 
12c.  Dressed,  12 and  i2%c.  A ll kinds wanted. 

Potutocs—65 and 70c.  Write us.
Very full  quotations  in  our  produce  exchange 
price current  on  demand.  Satisfactory  references 
anywhere. 

Very respectfully,

BATTERSON  A  CO.

R n r o N S IB L I. 

RILIABLK. 

PROMPT.

Travelers’ Time  Tables.
CHICAGO

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association 

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

retary, E. A. Stowe, GrandRaplds.

Chicago.

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

•Every  day. 

Others week days only.

n P T D H I T   Grand Rapids & Western.
U C   I   K v l   1 o 

Apr. to. 1899.

Detroit.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Lv  Grand  Rapids..........7:00am 1:35pm  5:25pn
Ar  Detroit.................... 11:40am 5:45pm  10:05pzr
Lt. Detroit..................... 8:15am 
6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......   1:10pm 6:20pm  10:56pir
Lv  G R7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. GRll:45am  9:30pr- 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

U l v A l i  1/  Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

f i n   a  v jr v   Trank Railway System 

Gao.  DeHaven,  General Pass. Agent

(In effect Feb. 5,1899.)

GOING  EAST

Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit & N Y.........t 6:45am t  9:55pm
Detroit  and  Bast..................tl0:16am  t 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit A  East........t  3:27pm tl2:50pm
Buffalo,  N  T,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t’d Ex__ * 7:20pm *10:16am
GOING  W EST
Gd. Haven Express...............*10:21am * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven  and Int  Pts.........tl2:58pm t 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee...t 512pm tt0:li»m 
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.

*Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

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

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.

n D  A IM fl 
v J i v A i 1 U  

*  Indiana Railway
Peb. 8.1899.

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrlvt 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack. ..t 7:45am  t  5:15pm
Trav- City A Petoskey............t  1:50pm  110:45pm
Cadillac accommodation........t 5:25pm tlO 55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City. ...tl' :00pm  4  6:35am 
7:45am train, parlor  car;  11:00pm train, sleep­
ing car.
Cincinnati....................  
F t Wayne 
Cincinnati...............   ........... * 7 00pm  * 6:30
....*U:3Jpm  * 9:0 am 
Vicksburg  andChicago 
and  parlor  car  to  Chicago;  2:00pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Wayne:  7:00pm  train  has 
Bleeping car  to  Cincinnati;  11:30pm  train  has 
coach and sleeping car to Cnicago.

Sonthern  Dlv.  Leave  A it"
........................... ♦ 2 0ipm  +  1  30 .

7:10  am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Olncmio 

-t 7:10am  1  9 45pm

• 

Chicago Trains.

FROM CHICAGO.

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

9:00am  l:10]im  7:05  m
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 

LvG’d  Rapids............t7:36am tl:00pm ti:4Up
Ar Muskegon......... . 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon............. 18:10am  til :45am  t4.0u,.>
Ar G’d Rapids.............0:30am  12:56pm  5:20;>
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm 
tExcept Sunday.  * Dally

eome EAST.

flflXTJfl  W EST.

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

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

DULUTH, Sratk Shore aid Atlantic 

Railway.

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L)tll:10pm  t7:45am
Lv. MackinawCity..................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St  Ignace..........................  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sanlt 8te. Marie..............   12:20pm  9:50pm
  2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. M arquette.................... 
Ar. Nestoria.............................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth................... 
8:30am
EAST  BOUND.
Lv. Dnlnth.............................  
...........   +6:30pm
Ar  Nestoria.............................tU:15am  2:4 .am
Ar. Marquette.......................  
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............  
..
3:30pm 
Ar.  Mackinaw City................ 
8:40pm  11:00am
G. W  H i b b a r d .  Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Ovlatt. Trav. Pass.  Agt.. GrandRaplds

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

M A N K T FF

i T l i a l l l O  1  Jm  L i   Best route to Manistee.

Via C. &  W. M.  Railway.

Lv Grand Rapids..................... . . . . 7:00am ...........
Ar Manistee...................................13:05pm ...........
Lv  Manistee........................... 
  8:30am 4:10pm
Ar Grand  Rapids  ..... ...........  1:00pm  0:55pm

Michigan Retail Grocera’ Association 

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

A. Stowe, Grand Rapids,

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

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

Hbkbt C. Minnie, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J oseph Knight;  Secretary, E. Masks, 

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

Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association
Klap;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  Lehman.

President,  F rank  J.  Dyk;  Secretary,  Homer 

Saginaw Mercantile Association 
McBbatnie;  Secretary,  W.  H. Lewis.

President, P.F. Tbeanob;  Vice-President, J ohn 

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J. F rank H elmer;  Secretary, W.  H. 

Porter;  Treasurer,  L. Pelton.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association

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

land;  Treasurer, Wm. C. Koehn.

Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association

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

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

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s   Association 

President, A. D.  Whipple ; Secretary, G. T. Camp 

bell;  Treasurer, W. E. Collins.

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

President,  F.  W.  Gilchrist;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

Partridge.

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association 
President, L. J. Katz;  Secretary, Philip Hilbeb: 

Treasurer. S. J. Hufpord.

St. Johns Business  Men’s Association. 

President, Thos  Bromley;  Secretary, F rank A. 

Percy;  Treasurer, Clark A.'Putt.

Perry Business Men’s Association

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

Yale Business Men’s Association

President. Chas. Rounds; Sec’y. F rank Putney.

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If you want nice, fresh, new 
stock,  buy  Dwight’s. 
If 
you want cheap trash, don’t 
look  for  it  in  our  pack­
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Our  feed  is  all  made  at 
one mill. 
It is all ground 
by  the  same  man.  He 
thinks  he  knows  how  to 
do 
it  right  because  he 
has  been  doing  it  for  a 
dozen years.  W e believe 
he  does  it  right  or  we 
would  get  another  man. 
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Manufacturers  and  Dealers  in  all  the  various  products  of 
Gypsum,  including  “Eclipse”  Wall  Plaster,  Calcined  Plaster, 
Land  Plaster and the best Bug Compound  made.

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Because  the  goods which  he  has 
in  stock  are  not such well-known 
brands  as

Queen Flake Baking Powder 
Northrop Spices

Dealers  find  no  trouble in selling 
these  goods  of  highest  quality. 
Manufactured and  sold only  by
Northrop, Robertson 
& Carrier,

Lansing, Michigan.

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your profits  every time  a  customer  comes  into  your  store  to  make 
a purchase.  You  say you  don’t give  away  a  large  amount?  Well, 
then  call  it a small  amount,  if you  like,  but it’s just  as  certain  to  eat

the very heart  out of  your  business  as  if  you  gave  it  all  away  at 
once.  Stop  this  leak  before  it  stops  you.  Write  to  us  about  the 
M O N E Y   W E IG H T   S Y S T E M   and  remember  our  scales  are  sold 
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