Volume XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  26,1899.

Number  814

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

Correspondence  Solicited.

H E M L O C K   BARK

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

MICHIGAN  BARK  &  LUMBER CO..  57 

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Grand  Rapids, Michigan

W ORLD’S   B E S T

SO.  CIGAR.  ALL  J O B B E R S   AND

G. J . J O H N S O N  C IG A R  CO.

© R A N D   R A P ID S.  MICH.

Paris  Green  Labels

The  Paris  <ireen 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:

ioo.................. 25 cents 
200...................40 cents 

500......................75 cents
1000.....................$1  00

Labels  sent  postage  prepaid where  cash  accompanies  order.  Orders  can. 
be sent through any jobbing house at the Grand Rapids market.

T R A D ESM A N   COM PANY,  Grand  Rapids.

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by  your  leaders— not  by  your  staples.
W hat  do  you  give  the  people  who  want  the  best
spices  and  baking  powder  for  their  money? 
If
you  give  them  mediocre  brands  you  get  the  rep-
utation  of  running  a  poor  store— a place to shun.
If  you  give  them  NORTHROP  SPICES  and 
QUEEN  FL A K E   BAKING  POWDER  you  give 
them  the  best  and  most  widely  known  brands 
on  the  market. 
If  you  want  the  best  trade  sell
the  best  goods.  Manufactured  and  sold  only by
NORTHROP,  ROBERTSON  &  CARRIER,  Lansing,  Mich.

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applying water to the surface—same  as  lime  mortar.  Makes  Js
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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.

9  
♦   Mill  and  Works,  200  South  Front  Street  at  G.  R. &  I  R.  R.  Crossing. 
♦   Mail  Address,  Room  20 Powers’  Opera  House  Block. 
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L.  Perrigo  Co.

Manufacturing  Chemists, 
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  fac t  that 
they 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 hut speak the word.

L.  PERRIGO CO.,  Mfg  Chemists,

Allegan,  Mich.

Our Specialties:

Root.

Tablets.

I..  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.
Bar tram %  Liver  Pills. 
Bartrain’s Veterinary Elixr. 
Sennara for Children. 
Porous  Plasters.
Flavoring  Extracts 
Druggists’ Sundries.

and  Cough  Drops. 

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T A N G L E F O O T

STICKY  FLY  PAPER

A SK  YO U R   JO B B E R   FO R   IT

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W E S T   H R I H G E   S T . .
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Mfrs. of a full line of

lobbers in

HANDMADE 
HARNESS 
FOR  THE 
WHOLESALE 
TRADE

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

Orders  by  mail  given  prompt 

attention.

S M O K E

Banquet Hall  Little Clears

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

MUSSELMflN  GROCER  GO..  Grand  Rapids.  Midi.

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*If You Would Be a Leader
handle only goods of VALUE.
If you are satisfied to remain at 
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goods.

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Good  Yeast  Is  Indispensable.
FLEISCHMANN  &  CO.

U n d e r   T h e i r   Y E L L O W   L A B E L   O f f e r   t h e   B E S T  I

Grand Rapids Agency,  39 Crescent Ave. 
Detroit Agency,  118 Bates St.

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I Important Noticeli

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

Bay  Shore  Lime  Co.,

f c   Bay Shore, Mich., April 1, 1899.
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By  E.  M.  Sly,  Secretary.

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

illustrated  catalogue  and  discounts.

This Showcase only $4.00  per foot.

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

BOUR’S
COFFEES
MAKE  BUSINESS

We  Realize

That  in  competition  more  or  less  strong

Our Coffees and  Teas

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

T h e J.  M.  B ou r Co.,

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

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Volume  XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  26,1899.

Number 814

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

The  Dry  Goods  Market. 
Business  Principles.
Around  the  State.
Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
Woman’s  World.
Editorial.
Editorial.
Clerks’  Corner.
Observations by a N. Y. Egg Man, 
Hay  Trade  of  New  York. 
Gotham  Gossip.
First  Impressions.
Shoes  and  Leather.
Commercial  Travelers.
Drugs  and  Chemicals.
Drug  Price  Current.
Grocery  Price  Current.
Grocery  Price  Current. 
Hardware.
Hardware  Price  Current. 
Women’s Advantage.
Business  Wants.

The  drummer 

is  a  power  in  many 
fields.  His  name 
is  legion  and  he  is 
lways  on  the  spot.  He  goes  every­
where,  he  meets  everybody,  he  talks  to 
everybody  and  by  the  force  of  his  elo­
quence,  the  power  of  his  magnetism 
and  the  potency  of  bis  sticktoitiveness 
makes  and  unmakes politicians,  policies 
and  powers.  He  is  a  keen-edged  blade 
that  cuts 
its  way  wherever  he  liketh. 
He  stays  not  for  the  season,  nor  time, 
nor  the  elements.  He  is  proof  against 
ghtning—cyclones  go  around him when 
in  their  path  and  earthquakes 

he 
tremble  if  be  is  about.

is 

He  is  armed  and  equipped  for  every 
emergency.  For  the  cold  weather  he 
has  snow  shoes  and  sleighs  in  abun­
dance.  For  high  water  he  has  boats  of 
every  kind,  and  so  he  makes  his  way 
over  obstacles  that  baffle  all  others. 
It 
his  business  to  reach  his  customers 
ahead  of  all  others,  and  he does  this  by 
hook  or crook ;  in  fact,  he  is  a  wonder, 
marvel,  a  revelation  of  the  Nineteenth 

Century.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Belding  Banner: 

Lewis  Sagendorf 
has  been  engaged  to  travel  for  the  Sani­
tary  Refrigerator  Co.  He  will  make 
them  a  first-class  man.

Ralph  D.  Howell,  Southern  Michigan 
representative  for  the  Sears  branch  of 
the  .National  Biscuit  Co.,  was  married 
recently  to  Miss  Grace  Hunter,  of Jones- 
ville.

Jones, 

Manley 

formerly  with  the 
Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company,  is  now  on 
the  road  for  W.  J.  Quan  &  Co.,  of  Chi­
cago,  covering  the  same  territory  as 
heretofore.

Nels  Clifton  resigned  his  clerkship 
with  Braastad  &  Co.,  of  Ishpeming,  to 
take  the  position  of  Upper  Peninsula 
traveling  salesman  for  Cohen  Bros.,  job­
bers  of  men’s  furnishings at Milwaukee.
Plainwell  Enterprise:  N.  P.  Kellogg 
will  start  this  week  on  the  road 
in  the 
nterest  of  the  Merrill  Milling  Co. 
Frank  Cotherman,  of  Kalamazoo,  will 
come  here  to  fill  Mr.  Kellogg’s  position 
n  the  mill.

SP R IN G   S U IT S   AND  f  

O VERCO ATS

Herringbones, Serges,JClays, Fancy Worst­
eds, Cassimeres.  Largest Lines;  no  bet­
ter  made;  perfect  tits;  prices  guaranteed; 
$3.50 up.  Manufacturers,

KOLB & SON

OLDEST FIRM,  ROCHESTER, N. Y.

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

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The  Preferred  Bankers 
Life Assurance Company

of  Detroit,  Mich.

Annual Statement, Dec. 31,1898.

Commenced Business Sept.  I, 1893.

Insurance in Force....................................$3,299,000 00
Ledger A ssets..........................................
Ledger Liabilities...................................
Losses Adjusted and Unpaid................
Total Death Losses Paid to Date.........
Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
eficiaries............................................
Death Losses Paid During the Y ear...
Death Rate for the Y  ear.........................

F R A N K  E . ROBSO N, President. 

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

l! Yoa Ire Over  60 Hams  I

Don’t write to

BARLOW  BROS.

GRAND RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN 

for sample sheet of their  “ P E R F E C T IO N  
T IM 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  P A T .  MANI-
IFOLD  SH IP PIN G   B L A N K S . 
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Our attorneys  are  always  ready  to 
go out  on  special  business  requlr- 
ing vigorous attention.

T he  M ercantile  A gency

Established  1841.

R.  G.  DUN &  CO.

Widdicomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

L. P. WITZLEBEN.  manager.

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Prompt, Conservative, Safe.

Save  Trouble. 
Save  Money. 
Save Time.

In 

Telling Tribute to the Tireless Traveler
the  beginning  God  made  the 

Heavens  and  the  earth,  and  all  that 
contained  therein.  Then,  after  resting 
many  days,  he  created  the  drummer, 
Then  he  rested  again.

The  drummer  was  not always  as  you 
see  him  to-day.  Once  he  was  very 
small  potatoes  and  a  few  in  a  hill,  not 
larger  than  a  book  agent  or  i 
much 
clock  peddler,  but that  was  in  the  pio 
neer  days  of  the  procession.  It  is differ 
ent  now.

The  career  of  the  drummer  has  been 
swift  and  strong  and  startling.  He  has 
covered  more  ground  and  conquered 
more  fields  than  all  other  pioneers in  all 
other  fields  combined.

it 

Formerly  Mahomet  was  forced  to  go 
to  the  mountain,  but  now 
is  the 
mountain  who  does  the  going.  The 
drummer  did  this. 
It  was  the  big 
manufacturers  and  wholesalers  that  first 
discovered  his  utility.  At  first  they  sent 
him  out slowly  and  in  small  quantities, 
He  was  looked  at  as  the  advance  agent 
of  an  innovation,  and 
innovations  are 
generally  regarded  with  distrust.  So 
was  the  drummer,  and  peradventure not 
whoily  without  reason  in  that  day.  But 
the  retailer  discovered  presently  that 
the  drummer  was  a  very  handy  man  to 
have  about  the  premises  and  began  to 
cultivate  him.  Thus  encouraged,  be 
began  rapidly  to  increase  and  multiply 
Competition  became  keener  with  the 
increase,  and  so did the drummer.  Then 
the  time  came  when  every  concern  that 
had  anything  to  sell  was  represented 
the trade  by  the  drummer  until  he  came 
to  be  recognized  as  a  permanent  and 
valuable  institution  of  an  eminently  re 
spectable  character.  To-day  there  are 
some  hundreds  of  thousands  of  them 
in 
the  United  States,  and  through  him 
trade  has  been 
revolutionized.  That 
same  keen  competition  has  resulted  in 
bringing  to  the  ranks  of  the  drummer 
some of  the  shrewdest  intellects  known 
to the  commercial  world. 
in­
stances  members  of 
firms  are  on  the 
road  in  the  interests  of  their  own  house 
and  frequently  for  others.

In  many 

Keen-witted  he  is  and  philosophical, 
with  a  judicial  mind  that  believes 
in 
fair  play.  He  is  an  ideal  of  reciprocity 
and  helps  those  who  help  him. 
If  he 
s  pleased  with  his  hotel,  its  business 
s  made,  but  God  help  the  person  who 
offends  him  by  ill  treatment.

is 

He 

is  clever  and  jolly,  with  a  good 
humor  that 
infectious,  shrewd  and 
affable,  quick,  bright,  intelligent,  gen­
erous,  always  ready  for  a  good  story,  a 
square  meal  or a  flirtation,  and  will  do 
a  good  turn  by  his  fellowman  sooner 
than  another.  You  can  tie  to  him,  for 
he  is  sincere.  He  will  divide  his  last 
dollar  with  a  friend  or  a  stranger  if 
need. 
If  he  is  silent  you  can  bet  your 
last  dime  he  is  studying  where  he  can 
sell  a  bill  of goods.  He  is  nearly  always 
worth  listening  to,  for  he  has opportuni­
ties  for  accumulating  stores  of  useful 
information  that  never  come  your  way 
and  these he  dispenses  with  a  liberal 
hand.  He 
is  up  to  date  and  familiar 
with  the 
in  short,  the 
drummer  is  a  man  of  many  accomplish 
ments  and  many  inventions.  The  earth 
is  his heritage  and  his  home  is  on what 
ever  part  of  God’s  footstool  he  happens 
to  be,  and  none  dispute  his  claim.  But 
if,  happily,  he  have  a  home  with  wife 
and 
little  ones,  who  so  happy  as  he  to 
return  to  them;  who  so  tender  and 
affectionate,  and  who  so  welcome?  And 
is  about  such  a  hearth,  humble  al­
it 
though  it  may  be  at  times,  that  the  ten­
der  grace  of  a  pure  love  finds  its  sweet­
est  expression. 

latest  styles; 

J a c o b   H a a s .

The  head  of  the  fire  department  in 
an  Eastern  city  says  that  persons  who 
perish 
in  a  burning  building  are  in­
variably  suffocated  and  that their death 
is  painless.  One  bieath  of  heated  air 
and  smoke  causes  unconsciousness  and 
the  victim  has no further sensation.

The  French  government  is  attempt­
ing  to  raise  revenue  by  letting  out  the 
backs  of  match  boxes,  which  are  a  state 
monopoly,  to  outside  advertisers.

Men  may  come  and  men  may  go,  but 

the  gas  meter  goes  on  forever.

Flint  Daily  News:  Geo.  L.  Crawford, 
of  this  city,  was  asleep  on  the  second 
floor  when  the  fire  broke  out  which  de­
stroyed  the Read  House,  at  Cheboygan. 
He  was  awakened  by  a traveling  man  in 
an  adjoining  room  smashing  open  the 
door between  the  two  rooms.  Smoke was 
pouring  into  bis  room,  and  in 
jumping 
up  in  an  effort  to  close  the  transom 
over  the  door  opening  into  the  hallway 
he 
turned  and  severely  sprained  an 
ankle.  Hastily  dressing,  be  groped  his 
way  through  the  thick  smoke 
in  the 
hallway  to  the  back  part  of  the  build­
ing, where  he  found  a  porch  with a stair­
way  leading  to  the  ground.  Remem­
bering  his  unknown  friend  who  had 
aroused  him  to  a  realization  of  his  dan­
ger,  he  went  back  through  the  hallway 
and,  finding  the  fellow  badly rattled  and 
smashing  his  bedroom  window 
in  a 
frantic  effort  to  escape,  he  took  hold 
of  him  and  piloted  him  to  safety  via 
the  back  stairway.  After  reaching  the 
ground  Mr.  Crawford  made  a  bold  dash 
into  the  hotel  office,  gathering  in  four 
overcoats  and  two  or  three  grips.  His 
own  overcoat  and  grip  happened  to  be 
among  the  lot  and,  on  stopping  to  take 
an  inventory  of  his  personal  effects,  he 
found  that  he  had  saved  everything  ex­
cepting  his  rubbers  and  a  few  other  ar­
ticles  of  minor  value.

from  the 

Emery  comes 

island  of 
Naxos,  in  the  Eastern  Mediterranean, 
whence  it  has  been  exported  for  the  last 
two  centuries  or  more.  The  beds  are  in 
the  northeast  of  the  island.  There  are 
about  300  men  engaged  in  the  trade,  all 
of  whom  have  to  be  married  before  they 
are  admitted  into  the  fraternity.  The 
material  is  much  too  bard  to  be  dug  out 
or even  blasted.  Great  fires  are  lighted 
around  the  blocks,  until  the  natural 
cracks  expand  with  the  heat,  and  levers 
are  then 
inserted  to  pry  them  apart. 
This  system 
the 
blocks  are  reduced  in  size  to  masses  of 
a  cubic  foot  or  less,  and  they  are  then 
shipped  as  if  they  were  coal.  There  is 
said  to  be  20,000,000  tons  yet  available 
at  Naxos,  and  the  last  reported  year’s 
the
export  was  3,95° tons. 
| hardest  substances  known.

is  continued  until 

It  is  one  of 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

2

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

There 

The  transactions 

Staple  Cottons--AII  leading  makes  of 
heavy  brown  sheetings  and  drills  are 
well  sold,  and  very  steady 
in  price. 
Agents  for  standard  goods  have  refused 
to  accept  large  contracts  which  might 
have  been  secured  at  a  concession  of 
is  no  pressure  to  sell  any 
lines  of  staple  goods.  Wide  sheetings 
have  been  very 
limited  in  movement, 
hut  prices  remain  unchanged.  Cotton 
flannels  and  blankets  have  resumed  a 
quiet  attitude  and  have  shown  but  a 
ligtt  business. 
in 
bleached  cottons are  up  to the average,rt 
regular  quotations.  Denims, 
ticks, 
pi ti is,  stripes,  etc.,  are  quitt  and firm.
Underwear—Is  showing  a  much stead­
ier  condition  than  the  hosiery  depart­
ments,  and  the  leading  makes  of  staple, 
flat  and  ribbed  goods  are  now  said  to 
be  pretty  well  sold  up  and  quite  steady 
in  price.  In  the  finer  specialties  of  lisle 
and  silk  mixed  goods,  a  good  business 
is  reported  as  coming  to  hand.  Regular 
woolen  and  high-grade  fleeced goods  are 
in  moderate  demand,  although  not  as 
good  as  during  the  two  weeks  previous, 
and  prices  are  quoted  as  still  slightly 
irregular.  The  knit  goods  trust,  which 
we  beard  so  much  about  a  short  time 
ago,  does  not  seem  to  prosper;  at  least, 
very 
is  said  about  it  now.  The 
very  fact  which  we  have  commented 
upon  so  many  times,  that  it  is  impos­
sible  for those  in  the  knit  goods  busi­
ness to  make  a  combination  or an agree­
ment  that  will  bind  all  parties,  is  work­
ing  against  the  latest  proposed  combi­
nation. 
if  such  a 
matter  ever  will  be  satisfactorily  car­
ried  out;  certainly  not  with  the  trade  in 
the  condition  that  it  is at  present.

is  very  doubtful 

little 

It 

Hosiery—Cotton  hosiery  in  both  fall 
and  spring  lines  is  now  quieter  and,  in 
common  with  other  lines  of  knit  goods, 
is  beginning  to  show  a  slight  upsetting 
of  prices. 
low-grade  goods  there 
are  some  stocks  to  be  found,  and  a  few 
of  the  mills  are  not  yet  sold  up  for  the 
season.  Woolen  hosiery  for  fall,  on  the 
contrary,  is  improved  both  in  regard  to 
sales  and  steadiness  of  prices.

In 

Carpets-----The  manufacturers  quite
generally  are  well  employed,  and  hurry- 
up  orders are  received  daily  from  cus­
tomers  who  are  anxious  for  deliveries. 
The  manufacturers  are quite  sure  of  the 
buyers  taking  all  the goods  ordered  this 
season,  provided  they  can  get  them,  as 
the  trade  generally  anticipate  higher 
prices  from  the  commencement  of  the 
next  season.  The  new  spring  samples 
are  now  well  under  way,  and  very  few 
manufacturers would regret cancellations 
of  some  of  their  orders  taken  early 
in 
the  season  at  the  extremely  low  prices, 
as  there  is  no  money  in  them,  and  with 
the  advance  in  raw  material  and  yarn 
which 
is  anticipated  as  business  im­
proves,  they  will  not  be  so  eager to load 
up  with  orders  at  the  opening  of  the 
new  season  until  they  know  where  they 
stand.  The  carpet  trust  is  not  likely 
to  get  under  way  this  season.  While 
many  of  the  ingrain  manufacturers  are 
willing  to  give  options  on  their  plants 
and  sell  out  for  cash,  others  appear to 
be  perfectly 
trust 
proposition,  and  they  will  not  consider 
the  matter  unless  future  developments 
require  them  to.  The  reason  for  this 
indifference on  the  part  of  some  is  the 
fact  that  general  business  in  their  line 
is 
improving  and  they  are  willing  to 
take  their  chances.  Some,  while  they 
are  willing  to  admit the  possibility  of  a 
large  saving  through  the  various  econo­
mies  proposed  in  the  buying  of  stock

indifferent  to  the 

and  dyeing  of  yarn,  designs  and  sale  of 
goods,  also  believe  that  the 
individual­
ity  of  the  manufacturer  as  well  as  the 
young  men  growing  up  in  the  business 
will  be  at  a  discount  under  a  trust,  and 
as  to  accepting  common  stock  for  a 
part  of  their  plant,  tbey  consider  that  it 
would  be  practically  woithless.  Even 
those  who are  favorable  to  a  trust  ad­
mit  that  if  there  was  no  dividend  paid 
on  common  stock,  the  trust  would  soon 
collapse.
Destroying  the  Sources  of  Rubber. 
From the New York Sun.

1892,  still 

The  consumption  ot  India  rubber  has 
grown  enormously  in  recent  years.  The 
trade  has  been  stimulated  chiefly  by  the 
use  of  pneumatic  tires  on  bicycles. 
Several  years  ago  it  began  to  be evident 
that  unless  wasteful  and  destructive 
methods  of  cc llecting  rubber  were  dis­
continued  the  supply  would  diminish 
while  the  demand  was  increasing.  Gov­
ernment  after  government  has  therefore 
prohibited  or  restricted  the  collection 
of  rubber  in  its  territory  in order to give 
the  plants  time  to  multiply  and  recu­
perate.  The  Congo  Free  State  has  now 
In  addition  to  its 
gone a  step  further. 
decree  of 
in  force,  which 
made  it  a  serious  and punishable offense 
to  kill  the  rubber  plant  or  to  gather 
rubber 
in  any  way  except  through  in­
cisions  in  the  baik,  it  is  now  made  ob­
ligatory  to  plant  at  least  150  vines  or 
trees  for  every  ton  of  rubber  collected. 
Infractions  of  the  new  decree  are  pun­
ishable  by  fine  up  to  $2,000,  or  im­
prisonment.  A  Bureau  of  Control  of 
Rubber  Forests  has  been  appointed  to 
guard  the  rubber  interests  of  the  State 
and  to  enforce  the  decrees  of  1802  and 
1899.
It 

is  necessary  to  kill  the  camphor 
tree  in  order  to  get  camphor,  but 
is 
not necessary  to  kill  any  of the  varieties 
of  trees  and  vines  that  yield  rubber  to 
collect  their  juice;  and  yet this inexcus­
ably  stupid  and  wasteful  method  has 
been  employed  in  many  countries,  with 
the  result  that  rubber  plants  have  been 
exterminated 
in  hundreds  of  thousands 
of  square  miles  oi territory.  How speed­
ily  this  result  is  achieved  is 
illustrated 
in  the  recent  case  of  South Madagascar:
1890  Fort  Dauphin,  on  the  south 
coast  of  that  island,  was  a  trade  center 
of  small importance.  Then  it  was  dis­
covered  that  rubber  was  near  at  hand 
in  fairly  abundant  quantities.  A  dozen 
firms  from  Germany,  France,  Mauritius 
and  Tamatave  appeared  on  the  scene 
and  set  all  the  natives  they  could  mus­
ter at  work  killing  the  rubber  plant  and 
collecting 
juice.  They  paid  the 
gatherers  nearly  $10  for  220  pounds  and 
sold  the  product  at  Tamatave  at  enor­
mous  profit.  They  rushed  the  business 
and  ruined  it  in  six  years. 
In  1896  the 
natives  bad  to  travel  north  for  a  week 
before  they  could  find  a  vine  to  cut. 
The  product  dropped 
1896  to  one- 
tenth  that  of  1893,  and  South  Madagas­
car  rubber  disappeared  from  the  market 
in  1897.

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it 

is  caught 

All  along  the  west  coast  of  tropical 
Africa  the  trees  and  vines  producing 
rubber  have  been  killed  for a  distance 
of  forty  to  fifty  miles  from  the  sea. 
In 
the  Amazon  basin,  the  greatest  rubber 
field,  this  useless destruction  of  a  source 
of  wealth  has  never  been  practiced. 
incisions  are  made  in  the  bark, 
Small 
the  milk 
in  hollowed-out 
lumps  of  clay  placed  beneath  the  in­
cisions,  and  each  tree  yields  a  supply 
every  year.  But  other  American  coun­
tries  are  finding  it  necessary  to  adopt 
stringent  methods  to  protect  the  indus­
try. 
it 
is  now  illegal  to  collect  rubber  except 
by  tapping  the  trees.  The  cultivation 
of  rubber  on  plantations  is  now  every­
where  encouraged.  The  exportation  of 
the  article  from  a  part  of  Nicaragua, 
unless  produced  on  plantations,  has 
been  prohibited  until  1907  on  account 
of  the  great  destruction  of  rubber  trees. 
Costa  Rica  has  also  prohibited  the  kill­
ing  of  rubber  plants.

In  British  and  French  Guiana 

These  steps  to  save  the  rubber  indus­
try  from  destruction,  both  in  America 
and  Africa,  were  taken  none  too  early, 
and  the  prospects are  that the  waste  in 
the  forests  will  now  be greatly  reduced, 
while  the  number  of  plantations  will 
gradually  be  increased.

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In this line we are showing some very nobby things 
for  little  money.  A   pretty  handle  often  sells  the 
umbrella and it  is  one  of  the  strong  points  in  our 
line.  The  Princess  and  Dresden  are  among  the 
most popular.  A s to  prices we  can  give  you  any­
thing  from  35  cents  to  $2.50  each.  Our  “ Cloud­
burst”  is just the thing for  those  desiring  a  heavy 
article.  They are packed in boxes of a dozen  each 
sizes 30 and 32 inch, at $9.00 per dozen.

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Wholesale  Dry Goods, 
Graod  Rapids,  Mich.

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in  all  styles  and  effects.  Our  prices  are  right.  ^
The  following  are  a  few  of  our  popular  brands:  ^  
Violet  Law ns,  Arabian  Dim ities,  J .  C .  Cords,  =3 
Faustine,  Camele,  Cordonets  at  from  3 ^ c   to  ^  
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Our brand of Vinegar to be an A B SO LU T E LY   P U R E  A PPLE- 
JU IC E  V IN EG A R .  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.

Robinson Cider and  Vinegar Co.,  Be.too Harbor, Mich.

J  ROBINSON,  manager.

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

RO BINSO N  C ID ER   A N D   V IN E G A R   CO.

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by experts, put  up  in  neat  packages  and 
are for sale by all dealers. 

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Inhaler  Boxes.  We  also  make  a  complete  line  of  printed  or  plain  Folding  2
Sarsaparilla, Extract  and  Condition  Powder  Cartons  and  Cartons  for  Roots,  A
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Business  Principles  Observed  by  an 

Whether 

Old  Merchant.
in  business  or  out  of  it  a 
man  should  endeavor to  keep his reputa­
tion  pure  and  spotless.  Every  question­
able  action 
in  a  man’s  life  is  recorded 
by  commeicial  agencies,  from  the  time 
he  enters  business.  Nothing  hampers  a 
man  more  than  a  lack  of  firmness  or up­
rightness  in  his  dealings.  On  the  other 
in­
hand,  honesty  and  trustworthiness 
sure  an  unlimited  credit 
time. 
Trickiness  and  unscrupuiousness  render 
a  man  an  object  of  aversion  to  all 
creditors.  Credit  is  extended  by  mer­
chants  and  bankers  according  to  their 
confidence  in  one.  Therefore  it  is  ad­
visable to  pay  bills  as  promptly  as  pos­
sible.

in 

Another  requisite  which  can  not  be 
ignored  in  mounting  the  ladder  to  suc­
cess  is  the  assistance  and  beneficent  in 
fluence  of  hope.  As  long  as  a  man  has 
hope  in  the  efficacy  of  his  efforts,  be 
is 
bound  to  work  more  conscientiously  and 
cheerfully  and  accomplish better results. 
Work  tous  engenders  an  enthusiastic 
feeling  which  makes  its  performance  a 
pleasure 
instead  of  drudgery,  for  work 
without  enthusiasm  is  like  a  harp  with­
out  strings.  Therefore  the  business  man 
should  encourage  hopefulness  and  op­
timism.  As some  one  has  well  said, 
A”   widespreading,  hopeful  disposition 
is  the  best  umbrella 
in  this  vale  of 
tears.' ’

There 

is  one  thing  that  too  few  men 
of  business  do,  and  that  is  consult  with 
their  life partner  when  deciding  to  start 
upon  some  new  venture.  The  partner 
referred  to  in  this  case  is  a  man’s  wife. 
Oftentimes  the  better  half  may  not  be 
competent  to give  valuable  advice,  but 
there are  many  cases  in  which  she could 
give  incalculable  assistance,  if  she  were 
only  appealed  to  for  it.  The  writer  has 
known  of  some  remarkable 
instances 
could  have  been 
wheie 
avoided  if  the  wife's  intuitive  powers 
had  been  consulted.  A  woman  may 
sometimes  possess  the  capacity  of  view­
ing  the  subject  from  more  sides  than 
one. 
Besides,  her  opinion  may  be 
more  unbiased  and  impartial,  and  her 
judgment  cooler  than  that  of a  man  who 
is  apt at  times  to  subordinate  his  com­
mon  sense to  his  ambition.

shipwreck 

It 

is  a  good  plan,  also,  to  foster  and 
cultivate  as  many 
ideas  as  possible. 
Where it is impossible to originate ideas, 
the  next  best  thing 
is  to  nourish  and 
improve  upon  the  ideas  of  others.  Some 
men  are 
inevitably  more  deficient  in 
imagination  than  others;  therefore these 
are  the  very  ones  who  must  be  content 
to  experiment  upon  the  ideas  of  others 
which  have  been  highly  successful. 
In­
deed,  to  be  able  to  select  well  among 
old  things  is almost  equal  to  inventing 
new  ones.  There  is  no  new  thing  un­
der the  sun,  as  Solomon  says;all  things 
are  improvements  or  variations of some­
thing  old.

Although 

it  is  by  no  means  recom­
mended  here  that  a  merchant  should 
take  his  business cares  home  with  him, 
and  carry  them  about  as  the  pilgrim 
does  his  pack,  nevertheless the problems 
of  business  life  which  are  continually 
arising  may  be debated  in  the home cir­
cle as  well  as  elsewhere.

is  also  advisable to  do all  in  your 
power to  convince the  public  that  busi­
ness  is  in  a  thriving  condition.  Main­
tain  good  spirits,  for  bad  news  spreads 
like a  prairie *fire.  When  an  opportu­
is  found  to  boom  business>do  not 
nity 
neglect  to  do 
it.  Look  cheerful,  be 
affable  and 
look  people 
in  the  face and  work  with  a  will.  Noth­

ingratiating, 

It 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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ing  pleases  people  more  than  kind,  con­
siderate  treatment.

It  has  been  intimated  that  independ­
ence,  although  a  valuable  quality  un­
der  some circumstances,  is  nothing  but 
pig  headedness  in  business.  Thus  en­
terprising  merchants  must  keep 
this 
quality  in  abeyance,  cater  to  customers’ 
whims  and  humor them  when  consistent 
with  self-respect.  This  poetic  compar­
ison  may  be  made  to  refer  to mercantile 
life : 
"T h e   same  law  governing  the sea 
applies  to  the  great  ocean  of  business; 
both  are  subject  to  ebb  and  How,  and  if 
your  transactions  lack  confidence,  your 
business  will  be  drifted  on  the  quick­
sands  of  disaster.  To  aveit  this  danger 
have  a  trusty  pilot  at  the  helm  and  an 
experienced  skipper  on  the  lookout."

Selling  Gas  Ranges  on  Commission.
About  two  years  ago  the  legitimate 
hardware  dealers  of  Chicago  and  other 
large  cities  were 
invittd  by  the  gas 
companies  to  discontinue  the  buying 
and  selling  of  gas  ranges,  but  to  handle 
them  on  commission  for  the  gas  com­
panies.  The  retail  hardware  men  at 
once  fell 
into  the  net,  gave  up  their 
birthright  and  reaped  a  benefit  more  or 
less  great  by  selling  gas  stoves  for  the 
gas  companies  at  fifty  cents  "p e rh e ad " 
—the  same  as  the  commission  men  get 
for  selling  steers  when  they  go  by  car 
lots  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye.  Many 
stove  dealers  received  as  much  as thirty 
dollars  for  their  season’s  work,  time  in 
selling  and  space  occupied—about  as 
much  as  they  would  have  made  in  sell­
ing  six  gas  ranges  under  the  old  way. 
The  dealers  yielded  so  gracefully  that 
the  gas  companies are  giving  the  screw 
another  turn  and  are  selling  gas  and 
coal  ranges  combined.  Some  think 
it 
is  time  for the  retail  men  to  resume  the 
old  methods.

Lamp  Chimney  Combine.

in 

A  $20,000,000 combine  of  lamp  chim­
ney  manufacturers  of  the  United  States 
in  the  process  of  formation,  with 
is 
every 
indication  that  the  promoters  of 
tbe  enterprise  will  carry  the  deal  to  a 
successful  termination.  Tbe  factories 
concerned 
tbe  combine  comprise 
every  manufacturer  of  lamp chimneys in 
the  United  States.  Tbe  formation  of  a 
new  company  to  acquire  the  plants  of 
these  companies  has  been  going  on  for 
some  time  and  it  is  said  that  a  meeting 
will  be  held  in  New  York  within  a  few 
days  to  hear  tbe  reports  of  the  experts 
now  at  work  ascertaining  tbe  values  of 
tbe  different  plants  and  tbe  terms  on 
which  they  can  be  secured.  The  facto­
ries  of  these  various  companies  have

learned 

been  closed  for the  past  two  weeks,  and 
it  was 
from  an  authoritative 
source  that  the  shutdown  is  to  permit 
the  taking  stock  and  the  appraisement 
of  the  value  of  the  plants.

ßiosing  Out

Protection  Needed.

from 
It  ought,  in 

There  is a  law  in  most states  to  pre­
concealed 
vent  men 
justice,  to  be 
weapons. 
amended  in  such  a  manner  as  will  pre­
vent  woman  from  carrying  a  whole 
armory  of  hat  pins.

carrying 

When  you  have  a  hair-raising  tale  to 
it  on  a  baldheidid 

tell,  always  spring 
man.

Established 1180.

Walter Baker & Go.

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

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

Dorchester,  Mass.

April  26th  to  May 4th, one week, 
I  will  be  at  Sweet’ s  Hotel,  Grand 
Rapids,  with  a  full  line  of  JOHN 
G.  M ILLER   &   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.

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ROOFING

As manufacturers we can supply goods in our line^below ‘he  jobbers’ 
prices.  We  make  Roofing  Pitch,  Tarred  Felt,  Tarred  Board,
2 and 3 ply Roofing, Gravel Roofing, Asphalt Paints.

H.  n .  REYNOLDS & SON,

Established 1868. 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

JJ 

DETROIT, MICH. 

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“It’s as good  as  Sapolio,”  when  they  try  to sell  you 
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell  —2  
you  that they are only  trying  to  get you  to  aid  their —g  
new  article. 

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W ho  urges you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

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public?  The  manufacturers,  by  constant and judi-  - 2  
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose 
very  presence creates  a  demand  for other articles.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Lowell—Clark  &  Spraker  continue the 

hardware  business  of  Clark  &  Clark.

Camden—J.  R .  Hadley  has  removed 
his  general  stock  from  Pioneer  to  this 
place.

Burlington—Amsbough & Wright  have 
opened  a  boot  and  shoe  store at  this 
place.

Saginaw—George  Rose  has  embarked 
in  the  grocery  business  on  Douglass 
street.

Monroe—Brice  Hansberger  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Moses  D.
Duvall.

Cheboygan—Dougherty  Bros,  have 
in  the  grocery  and  bazaar 

engaged 
business.

Kalkaska—The  Swaverly  Telephone 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $50,000.

Sidnaw—Geo.  H.  Hauser  has  sold  bis 
stock  of  groceries  and  meat  market  to 
Fred  Sundstrom.

Bay  City—Emma  (Mrs.  H .)  Becker 
succeeds  Horace  Becker  in  the  produce 
and  wood  business.

Barryton—J.  B.  Koch  will  remove  his 
from  Lake 

harness  and  trunk  stock 
Odessa  to  this  place.

Harbor  Springs—W.  J.  Clark  is erect­
ing  a  new  building  for  a  meat  market, 
30x55  feet  in  dimensions.

Poit  Huron—John  M.  Fisher  has  em­
in  the  grocery  business  at  the 

barked 
corner of  Eleventh  and  Wall  streets.

Union  City—O.  L.  Patterson  has  sold 
his  shoe  stock  to  Edgar  Doty,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same 
loca­
tion.

Allendale—J.  L.  Purchase  has sold bis 
general  stock  to  Ed.  Scanlon,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same 
loca­
tion.

Traverse  City—Henry  Sullivan  has 
sold  his  meat  market  to  A.  E.  Bing­
ham,  who  now  has  two  markets  to 
look 
after.

Onondaga—W.  H.  Baldwin  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  F.  E. 
Mosher  and  added 
it  to  his  grocery 
stock.

Mulliken—W.  H.  Ranger  and  F.  H. 
Shorts,  of  Lyons,  have  embarked  in  the 
general  merchandise  business  at  this 
place.

Escanaba—Gus  Nelson  and  C.  E.  An­
derson  have  formed  a  copartnership  and 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business  at  this 
place.

Muskegon—C.  J.  Westerlund  has  em­
barked  in  the  shoe business  at  the  cor­
ner  of  Washington  avenue  and  Hudson 
street.

Manistee—Will  A.  Waite  has  opened 
a  branch  grocery  store  in  the  building 
formerly  occupied  by  H,  J.  Nessen  as  a 
general  store.

Burlington—W.  A.  Dunlap  has  re­
moved  his  bazaar  stock  to  a  private  res­
idence,  pending  the  erection  of  bis  new 
store  building.

Springport—W.  H.  Broas  has  retired 
from  the 
implement  firm  of  Broas  & 
Wilder.  The  business  will  be  continued 
by  F.  C.  Wilder.

Tecumseh—L.  A.  Markham,  of  Ann 
Arbor,  has  purchased  the crockery  stock 
of  G.  H.  Tansley.  He  will  add  a  stock 
of  novelty  goods.

Detroit—Picard  &  Picard  is the  name 
of  the  new  firm  which  will  soon  open  a 
new  men's  furnishing  store at 217 Wood­
ward  avenue.  E.  S.  Picard,  the  senior 
member,  is  well  known through  his  past 
connection  with  the  firms  of  Gourlay 
Bros,  and  the C.  H.  Mitchell  Co.

Muskegon—A.  C.  Perigard,  who  was 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business  at  this 
place,  has  removed  to  Sault  Ste.  Marie 
and  opened  a  shoe store.

Adrian—Lawrence  Nagel is erecting  a 
new  store building  at  the  corner  of  To­
ledo  and  Tecumseh  streets,  which  he 
will  occupy  with  a  grocery  stock.

Traverse  City—B.  H.  Rose  &  Son 
have  sold  their  drug  stock  to  F.  C. 
Thompson,  of  Ionia,  who  will  continue 
the  business  at  the  same  location.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Dr.  L.  E.  Knopf 
has  removed  to  Brimley,  where  be  will 
do  a  general  drug  business,  but  will  not
conduct  a  prescription  department.

Plainwell—R.  A.  Deal  has  purchased 
the 
interest  of  L.  L.  Skillman  in  the 
wood  and  lumber  firm  of  Deal  &  Skill- 
man  and  will  continue  the  business.

Casnovia—J.  Hanville  has  sold  his 
agricultural 
implement  stock  to  O.  D. 
Blanchard  &  Son  and  will  devote  his 
entire  attention  to  his  harness  business.
Quincy—M.  D.  Greening  has  sold  a 
in  his  drug  and  grocery 
half  interest 
stock  to  Clinton  Joseph,  who  formerly 
occupied  the  position  of  clerk  in  the 
store.

Benton  Harbor—J.  N.  Osborne  &  Son 
have  purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  E. 
W.  Moore,  who  has  conducted  this  de­
partment  in  connection  with  bis  “ Day­
light”   store.

Negaunee—John  Mitchell,  Charles
Luoma  and  Victor  Alango  have  formed 
a  partnership  under  the  style  of  Mitch­
ell,  Luoma  &  Co.  and  embarked  in  the 
general  merchandise  business.

Sutton’s  Bay—E.  R.  Dailey  has 
merged  his  mercantile  and  timber  busi­
ness  into a stock company under the style 
of  the  E.  R.  Dailey  Co.  The  corpora­
tion  has  an  authorized  capital  stock  of 
$25,000.

Caledonia—The  clothing  firm  of  Les 
ter  &  Close  has  been  dissolved,  Mr. 
Lester  purchasing  the 
interest  of  his 
partner.  The business  will  hereafter be 
conducted  under  the  style  of  B.  H.  Les­
ter  &  Co.

Six  Lakes—E.  C.  Saxton,  formerly 
engaged  in  general  trade  at  Dutton,  has 
purchased  of  the  Worden  Grocer  Co.  the 
J. 
grocery 
stock  and  moved  his  general  stock  from 
Dutton  to  this  place.

(Mrs.  N.  C .)  Merrifield 

Barryton—The  Barryton  Mercantile 
Co.  has  recently  been  organized  and 
will  occupy  the  building  in  which A.  L. 
Hawk  is  located  as  soon  as  he  removes 
bis  stock 
into  his  new  store  building, 
which  is  nearly  completed.

Benton  Harbor—J.  D.  Prideaux  has 
purchased  the 
interest  of  Barney  E. 
Ferry  in  the  dry  goods  and  grocery  firm 
of  Ferry  &  Rapp.  The  new  firm  of 
Rapp  &  Prideaux  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location.

Traverse  City—H.  R.  Thayer  has  his 
new  store  building  at  the  corner of  Rose 
and  Washington  streets  nearly 
com­
pleted.  He  will  put  in  a  stock  of  gro­
ceries  and  notions  and  expects  to  be 
ready  for  business  about  June  1.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—The  doors  of  the 
Ferguson  Hardware  Co.,  Limited,  were 
closed  April  17.  The  discontinuance  of 
business  is  due  to  differences among the 
stockholders,  and  the  trouble  will  have 
to  be  adjusted  before  the  store  again 
opens.

Dimondale—Two  years  ago  Burnham, 
Stoepel  &  Co.,  the  Detroit  wholesale 
dry  goods  house,  levied  an  execution  on 
the  stock  of  Thomas  M.  Sloan,  of  D i­
mondale,  for $288.  Deputy  Sheriff  Van 
Osdall  levied  the  execution,  but 
it  ap­
that  afterwards  Sloan  gave  a 
pears 
mortgage  on  the  entire  stock  to  the

Michigan  State  Bank  of  Eaton  Rapids. 
The  officials  took  charge,  and  Van 
Osdall  refused  to  release  the  stock. 
Van  Osdall  commenced  suit  in  the  Cir­
cuit  Court  and  Judge  Smith  decided 
in 
favor  of  the  defendants.  The  decision 
was  reversed  by  the  Supreme  Court  and 
the  new  trial  ordered  by  it  was  finished 
Tuesday,  which  resulted  in  Van  Osdall, 
representing  the  Detroit  firm,  receiving 
$342.67,  the  full  amount  asked  for.

St.  Johns—Chas.  P.  Baker,  trustee  of 
Cbas.  W.  Loud,  druggist,  who went  into 
bankruptcy  some  time  ago,  has  sold  the 
stock  at  auction  sale  to  Frank  G. 
Theirs,  druggist  at  Mt.  Pleasant,  who 
bid 
in  the  stock  and  fixtures  for $670. 
Mr.  Theirs  will  remove  the  stock  to 
Elsie,where  he  will  make  some disposi­
tion  of  it.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Bay  City—The  Bay  City  Boiler  Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $5,000.

Fremont—The  Hesperia  creamery  is 
again 
in  operation  under  the  manage­
ment  of  J.  M.  Peterson,  of  Ridott,  111.
Maple  Rapids—The  Essex  Creamery 
Co.  has  been  converted 
into  a  cheese 
factory  and  will  begin  operations for the 
season  on  May  1.

Charlotte—L.  H.  Shepard  will  erect  a 
custom  flouring  mill,  with  a  capacity  of 
50  barrels  per  day. 
It  will  be  32x48 
feet  in  dimensions.

Saginaw—The  Saginaw  Milling  Co. 
has  undertaken  the  erection  of  a  $1,600 
storage  building  next  to  the  mill. 
It 
will  be  one  story  in  height.

Lansing—E.  D.  Voorhees  will  shortly 
engage  in  the  manufacture  of  overalls 
and 
jackets  under  the  style  of  the 
Voorhees  Manufacturing  Co.

Escanaba—L.  A.  Hague, 

formerly 
with  the  Palmerton  Woodenware Co.,  at 
Saginaw,  has  taken  a  position  with  the 
United  States  Woodenware  Co.  here.

Sturgeon  Bay—A.  B.  Klise  has
merged  his  lumber,  timber  and  mer­
chandise  business  into  a  stock  company 
with  a  capital  stock  of $50,000,  all  paid 
in.

Herrick—The  Herrick  Full  Cream 
Cheese  Co.  has  been organized to engage 
in  the  manufacture  of  cheese  under  the 
direction  of  W.  M.  Graves  as  business 
manager.

Big  Rapids—The  Parlor  Furnace  Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $25,000,  of  which  $5,000  is  paid 
in. 
The  stockholders  are  S.  J.  Herrenden, 
W.  C.  Osburn,  E.  C.  Morris  and  D.  C. 
Morrill.

Manistique—The  Hall  &  Buell  saw­
mill  at  South  Manistique  was  purchased 
by  the  Chicago  Lumber  Co.  in  1897, 
and  was  on  Monday  sold  to  the  Bay  de 
Noquet  Lumber  Co.,  of  Nahma. 
It  will 
be  removed  to  Nahma.

Marshall—Julius  Heine  &  Co.,  of 
Chicago,  manufacturers  of  ball  bearing 
hubs,  desire  to  locate  here  and  ask  the 
city  to  give  them  the  use  of  a  building, 
200x50  feet,  and  ioo-horse power, in  con­
sideration  of  the  employment  of  forty 
men  the  year  around.

Jackson—H.  A.  Christy  &  Co.  will 
transfer  their bicycle  and  saddle  manu­
facturing  business  to  Harvey,  111.  The 
vacant  buildings  here  are  owned  by  the 
city  and  will  be  occupied  by  the  Bronk- 
Buffinton  Co.,  which  recently  moved  its 
shirt  factory  out of  the  State  prison  and 
will  employ  800  people.

Dowagiac—The  Beckwith  estate  may 
soon  cease  the  manufacture  of  furnaces 
in  Dowagiac,  having  decided  to  erect  a 
factory  for  that  purpose  in  Buchanan, 
where  it owns an  enormous water power,

which  is at  present  wasting  its  energy. 
A  proposition  has  been  made  to  estab­
lish  the  works  in  Buchanan,  providing 
the  citizens  will  buy  100  village  lots  in 
English  &  Holmes’  addition,  which  is 
owned  by  the  Beckwith  estate,  at $200 
per  lot.  The  company  offers  to  erect 
two  brick  buildings  80x500  feet  and  150 
feet,  respectively.  A 
is 
hustling  to  sell  the  lots.

committee 

Detroit—The  Imperial  Cap  Co.  has 
filed  articles  of  incorporation  with  the 
County  Clerk.  The  capital  stock 
is 
in.  The  amount  was 
$10,000,  all  paid 
paid  by  the  transfer  of  fixtures,  stock 
and  accounts.  The 
incorporators  are: 
Aaron  A.  Parker,  500  shares;  Byron  W. 
Parker,  499;  Harry  E.  Dennis,  1  share.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Traverse  City—William  Johnson,  of 
Alpena,  has  taken  a  position  in  the  dry 
goods  department  of  the  Boston  store.

Plainwell—Edgar  A.  Dunwell,  regis­
tered  pharmacist,  has  taken  a  position 
with  B.  Tripp,  of  Allegan,  and  will  re­
move  to  that  place.

Otsego—Ota  D.  Avery,  of  Three 
Rivers,  has  been  engaged  as  clerk  in 
Haitman  &  Hall's  grocery  store.

Niles—Frank  Burk  is  clerking  for  the 
grocery  firm  of  Morrow  &  Stone,  at 
Benton  Harbor.

Hudson—Fred  Riddle,  the well-known 
and  popular  young  druggist,  has  re­
signed  bis  position  with  Miilard,  the 
Adrian  druggist,  to  accept  one  here  in 
the  store  of  E .  D.  Clarke  &  Co.,  which 
firm  will  soon  put 
in  a  new  stock  of 
drugs  and  druggists’  sundries.

St.  Louis—Duane  Throop  is  the  new 

clerk  at  Scriver’s  hardware  store.

Ludington—John  Gavin  is  behind  the 
counter at  the  Double Brick Store again.
Caledonia—Arthur  Kunkel  has  taken 
a  position  as  clerk  in  the  clothing  store 
of  B.  H.  Lester  &  Co.

Lowell—A.  E .  McMahon  has  taken  a 
position  with  Vinkemulder,  the  Grand 
Rapids  grocer.  His brother James takes 
his  place  at  the  grocery  store  of  Fred 
L.  Fallas.

Owosso—Edward  Curtis  has  taken  a 
in  F.  C.  Acbard’s  hardware 

position 
store.

Saginaw—Will  A.  Taylor,of  Bay City, 
has  taken  a  position  in  the  drug  store 
of  Loranger  &  Culver.

St.  Louis—Ed.  Clark  has  severed  his 
connection  with  G.  H.  Scriver  &  Son 
and  will  soon 
for  Fowlerville, 
where  he  has  secured  a  position  in  a 
hardware  store.

leave 

Schoolcraft—Will  Hardwick  is  a  new 
in  Munn  &  Munger’s  grocery 

clerk 
store.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Cbas.  Follis  has 
severed  his  connection  with  F.  W. 
Roach  &  Co.  to  accept  a  position  in  C. 
W.  Pickford’s  store.

Ionia—Fred  G.  Lauster,  Jr.,  succeeds 
to  the  position  of  prescription  clerk  for 
W.  R.  Cutler,  made  vacant  by the resig­
nation  of  F.  C.  Thompson.

ill  he  was 

Houghton—Howard  Baldwin,  for  sev­
eral  years  clerk  in  L.  M iller’s dry goods 
and  clothing  store,  died  Sunday  after  a 
few  days’  illness.  At  the  time  he  was 
taken 
in  Lake  Linden  on 
business  for  Mr.  Miller,  when  he  be­
came  totally  unconscious  of  bis  actions 
and  bad  to  be  brought  home.  After get­
ting  here  he  lay  in  a  sleep until the time 
of  his  death.  The  cause  of  his  death 
was  cerrebro  hemorrhage,  causing  a 
blood  clot  pressing  on  the  brain.  He 
was  a  native  of  Warren,  Ohio,  and  it 
was  there  the  remains  were  shipped. 
He  leaves  a  mother,  living  in  Warren, 
and  a  wife and child in Pittsburg,  Penn.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Choice  fruit  is  so  scarce  as 

to  be  hardly  quotable.

Asparagus—Home  grown 

is  now  in 
market,  commanding  75c  per  dozen 
bunches.

Bananas—High  prices  on  other  fruits 
have  called  out  an  unusualiy 
large  de­
mand,  with  the  result  that  stocks  are 
kept  to  a  low  limit.  Receipts  continue 
liberal  and  the  fruit  is  arriving 
in  ex­
cellent  shape.

in 

17c 

Bermuda  Potatoes—$2.75  per bu.  box.
Butter—Factory creamery has declined 
to 
the  New  York  market,  and 
there  is  no  reason  why  it  should  be  sold 
in Western  markets  at  over  16c.  Dairy 
is  beginning  to  come  in  very  plentifully 
and  the  quality 
is  deteriorating  very 
rapidly.  Fancy  dairy  has  declined  to 
io@ i2c,  but  a  considerable  portion  of 
the  receipts  is  not  worth  over 6@yc.
Cabbage—Home grown  is  practically 
out  of  market  and  Southern  or  Califor­
is  not  arriving  in  sufficient 
nia  stock 
volume  to  be quotable.

Cranberries— Jerseys  command  $2.50 

per  bu.

ern  stock.

Cucumbers—$ 1.50  per  doz.  for  South­

Eggs—Eggs  are  lower  in  the  Eastern 
market  and  declined  yic  in  the  Chicago 
market  yesterday.  Local  cold  storage 
buyers  are  beginning  to  receive  stock 
in  considerable  quantities  on  the  basis 
of  ioc,  although  a  little  more  is  offered 
by  some  outside  buyers.  There 
is  no 
occasion  for  anything  above  a  ioc  mar­
ket  at  this  time,  based  on  market  con­
ditions.

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

Green  Onions—io@i2c  per 

doz.

bunches.
forcing.

Lettuce—io @ i2^ c  for  Grand  Rapids 
Maple  Sugar—io@ iic   per  lb.
Maple  Svrup—90c  per  eal.
Nuts—Hickory,  $i.5o@2,  according 
to  size.  Walnuts  and  butternuts,  60c.
Onions—Home  grown  in  fair  demand 
at  60c  for  choice  and  io@2oc  less  for 
sprouted. 
Bermudas  command  $2.25 
per  crate.

Oranges—Values  rule  tirm,  with  no 
further  advance  since  two  weeks  ago. 
Navels  are  in  light  supply,  other  varie­
ties  having  almost  taken  possession  of 
the  market.  Posted  fruit  men  say  that 
values  are  likely  to  go  higher.

Parsnips—$1  per  bbl,
Pieplant—4c  per  lb.  for  home  grown.
Pineapples—$i.75@ 2  per  doz. 
for 

Floridas.

Pop  Corn—50c  per bu.
Potatoes—Dealers  are  paying  50c  and 
Poultry—Scarce.  Chickens,  n @ i2 c ; 
i i @ I2c ;  geese, 

hold  at 60c.
fowls, 
ioc;  turkeys,  I2@i4c.

io@ iic  ;  ducks, 

Radishes—Round  and  long  command 

i5@2oc  per  doz.  bunches.

Spinach--6o@75c  per  bushsel.
Strawberries—52.5o@2.75  per  crate of 

24  pints.

Sweet  Potatoes---- 'Jerseys  command

$1.25  per  bu.  or $3.75  per  bbl.

The  Grain Market.

Weather 

large  and  deliveries  from 

influenced  wheat,  especially 
as  reports  of  vast  improvement  in  the 
growing  crop  came  in.  While  exports 
were 
first 
hands  of 
rather  diminutive  size,  it 
counted  for  naught,  as  dealers  were  all 
looking  at  the  growing  weather.  That 
bad  more  influence  to  depress  the  mar­
ket  than  all  bear  news  that  could  be 
brought  to  sustain  prices.  The  visible 
also made  the  first  decrease, of one  and  a 
third  million  bushels,  and  our  exports 
1,  1898,  we  have 
show  that  since  July 
actually  exported 
193.000,000  bushels, 
which  we  think  is  somewhat  larger  than 
for  the  corresponding  time  the  year 
previous.  Price  of  future  wheat  is  3c 
lower  than  last  week.

Corn  has  weakened,  on  account  of  the

supposition  that  more  ground  will  be 
seeded  than  last  year.

Oats  is  in  the  same  predicament  as 
corn.  Both  cereals  are  weak,  and  some 
lower.

Rye  has  held  up  in  price,  owing  to 

the  foreign  demand.

Receipts  of  wheat  were  small,  only 
67  cars;  50  cars  of  corn  and  8  cars  of 
oats.

Demand  for 

flour  keeps  up,  while 

mill  feed  has  declined  $1  per  ton.

Millers  are  paying  68c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Financial  N otes.

The  Grand  Rapids  Savings  Bank  is 
quietly  picking  up  $50,000  of 
its  own 
stock  on  the  basis  of  no,  with  a  view 
to  reducing  the  capital stock to $100,000. 
It  is  expected  that  the  change  in  capi­
talization  will  enable  the  institution  to 
pay  2  per  cent,  quarterly  dividends,  in­
stead  of  3  per  cent,  semi-annually,  as 
heretofore.

Dr.  A.  B.  Dorland  now  owns  a  con­
trolling  interest  in  the  Pythian  Temple 
Co.,  Ltd.,  holding  $28,000 of the $51,000 
issued  and  $55,000  authorized  capital 
stock  of  the  corporation.

C.  A.  Hammond  has  been  compelled 
to  resign  the  casbiership  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Traverse  City  on  ac­
count  of 
ill  health.  He  is  succeeded 
by  Frank  Welton.

M.  F.  White  has  sold  his  banking 
business  to  J.  H.  Jones  and  J.  E.  Jones, 
who  will  continue  the  business at  the 
same 
location  under  the  style  of  the 
Exchange  Bank  of  Manton.  J.  E.  Jones 
has  served  a  Lima,  Ind.,  bank  as  cash­
ier  for  the  past  twelve  years  and  is 
thoroughly  acquainted  with  the  details 
of  the  banking  business.

Hides  are 

Hides,  Pelts,  Furs,  Tallow  and  Wool.
in  a  strong  position,  as 
they  are  wanted  beyond  the  supply. 
While  prices  do  not  figure  a  margin  to 
the  tanner  such  as  be  has  been  used  to, 
he  still  takes  them—and  grumbles.  The 
market  can  be  said  to  be  inactive.

Pelts  cut  no  figure  in  price  or  quan­

tity.

nominal.

Furs  are  dropping  out.  Prices  are 

Tallow  is  quiet,  with  demand  for  all 
offerings  at  firm  prices  as  high  as  have 
ruled  for  the  past  ninety  days.

Wool  has  sold  quite  freely  on  Eastern 
markets  at  a  slight  advance  over  two 
It  is  not  quotably  any  high­
weeks  ago. 
er,  while  the  cheap 
lots  . have  been 
picked  up.  The  new  clip  is  coming  on 
throughout  Michigan  at  2  cents  below 
last  year’s  basis,  with  no  excitement 
among  buyers  as  yet.  Some  buyers  have 
faith  in  coming  prices  and  pay  close  to 
Eastern  markets,  believing  the  advance 
must  come  and  that  it  will  be a  good 
purchase  later. 

W m.  T.  H e s s.

The  “ peach  scarce"  is  being  serious­
ly  punctured  by  growers  in  the  vicinity 
of  this  city  who 
insist  that  the  trees 
they  supposed  killed  by  the  frost  are 
showing  unexpected  evidences  of  life 
as  the  season  advances.  A 
local  com­
mission  merchant  became  so elated  over 
the  result  of  a  visit  to  a  half  dozen 
peach  orchards  Sunday  that  he 
is  now 
predicting  the  largest  peach  crop  West­
ern  Michigan  has  ever  witnessed.

O.  Hermansen  has  embarked 

in  the 
grocery  business  at  Big  Rapids.  The 
stock  was  furnished  by  the  Ball-Barn­
hart-Putman  Co.

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades  and  prices,  phone Visner,  800.

T h e   G ro cery  M a rk e t.

Sugar—The London  market  is  consid­
erably  higher  on  beet  sugar,  but  un­
changed  on  cane,  and  this  has  a  tend­
ency  to  stiffen  local  sentiment,  so  that 
some  importers  are  inclined  to  ask  \%c 
for  centrifugal  sugar.  The  quotations, 
however,  are  still  on  the  basis  of  4^c 
for 96 test  centrifugals  and  4  3-16C  for 
89  test  muscovadoes.  Hard  sugars  are 
firmly  held,  but  softs  are  being  shaded 
i-i6@yic.  The  market  for  refined  sugar 
is  in  a  very  uncertain  condition.  Bro­
kers  have been  and  are  still  expecting
an  advance  in  the  prices  of  refined,  but 
there  is  no  telling  what  is  in  the  minds 
of  the  refiners.  It  is  said  that the  Cuban 
crop  will  be  smaller  next  season  than 
even  the  small  crop  of  this  season,  ow­
ing  to  the  difficulty  in  hauling  the canes 
in  consequence  of  the  use  of  untrained 
cattle,  together  with  fires 
in  the  cane 
fields.

Tea—The  tea  market  during  the  past 
week  has  shown  only  a  fair  degree  of 
activity,  although  full  prices  are  being 
gotten  for  everything.  The  market  for 
India  teas  is  strong,  and  practically  all 
exports  from  this  country  to  London 
have  ceased  on account of the exhaustion 
of  the  available  grades.

it 

Canned  Goods—Stocks  of 

canned 
goods  are  very 
light,  a  good  many  of 
the  articles  being  entirely  sold  out.  The 
trade  in  this  line  appears  to  be  limited 
to  the 
immediate  wants  of  consumers. 
It  is  said  that  good  corn  was  never  as 
scarce  as 
is  to-day.  There  is  little 
Maine  corn  left  and  New  York  packing 
is  about  exhausted.  Futures  are  quiet 
at  unchanged  prices.  There  are  a  few 
sales,  but  none  are  large,  and  apparent­
ly  packers  do  not  care  to  make  larger 
ones  at  present.  There  appears  to be 
quite  a  demand  for  canned  fruits  in 
small  lots  and  trade  on  this  line  is  very 
good.  Reports  from  the  pineapple  dis­
tricts  are  that  the  crop  is  in  excellent 
condition  and  that  the  fruit  is  far  su­
perior to  last  year’s.  Some  of  the  lower 
grades  of  medium  red  Alaska  salmon 
are  meeting  with  an  unexpected  de­
mand.  Quotations,  however, 
remain 
unchanged.  Prices  on  new  pack  Co­
lumbia  River  salmon  have 
just  been 
made,  opening  at  20c  per  doz.  on  1 
pound  tails  and  flats  and  i2%c  on  y2 
pound  flats  higher  than  last  year,  with 
a  large  proportion  of  the  pack  already 
sold.  This  advance 
is  due  to  the  in­
creased  cost  of  tin  cans,  the  higher 
prices  paid  for  the  fresh  fish  and  the 
general  cleaning  up  of  old  fish,  there 
being  no  Chinook  salmon  to  be  had 
from  first  hands  at any price;  also large­
ly  because  so  much  of  the  fresh  fish 
is 
being  exported  to  England  frozen.  The 
jobbers  generally  realize  the 
justice  of 
the  advance  in  price  and  many  favorite 
brands  are  entirely  sold  up.

Lima  Beans—The  price of  lima  beans 
has  advanced  very materially  during  the 
past  week  and  with  very  few  to  be  had. 
It 
is  quite  sure  that  the  coming  crop 
will  be  very  small,  not  only  on  account 
of  unfavorable  weather  conditions,  but 
because  the  beans  are not being planted, 
a  large  amount  of  the  acreage 
intended 
for  lima  beans  having  been  given  up  to 
sugar  beets.  We  think  that  there  is  no 
question  but  that  from  now  on  we  shall 
have  a  gradually  advancing  market  and 
think  the  retail  dealer  will  do  well  to 
place  his  orders  at  present  figures.

Dried  Fruits—The  situation  in  dried 
fruits  shows  practically  no  change  since 
last  week.  Raisins  continue  as the  best 
sellers,  with  a  good  demand  in  a  small 
way.  They  are  firm  at  present  prices, 
with  a  disposition  to  advance  figures on

stronger, 

is  expected 

the  statement  that  the  disagreement  on 
the  coast  is  ended  and  that there  will  be 
no  further  difficulty  with  packers  and 
growers.  Peaches  and  apricots  are  mov­
ing  out 
in  a  small  way  and  at  high 
prices.  The  market  on  these  lines  is 
firm,  with  small  stocks,  particularly  of 
apricots.  Currants  are 
in 
sympathy  with  the  Greek  market,  and 
an  advance  on  the  cleaned  article  is  ex­
pected.  Evaporated  apples are  quitt  at 
about  previous  range.  Holders  are  not 
urgent  sellers  and  trade  is  confined  to 
relatively  small  quantities  for  imme­
diate  consumption.  No  particular  ac­
in  the  m arket  at 
tivity 
present.  The  strong  position  of  the 
prune  market  warrants  us  in  feeling 
sure  of  a  decided  advance  in  this  arti­
cle.  As  prunes  are  about  the  only  cured 
fruit  with  which  to  supply  the  trade  for 
the  next  few  months,  they  should  go  out 
clean  before  the  new  crop  comes  in. 
The  present  outlook  is  for  a  large  fine 
crop  this  fall.  The  German  demand 
for  prunes  is  an  interesting  feature  this 
week,  but  has  as  vet  made  no  difference 
in  prices.  There  has  been  considerable 
shortage  in  various  fruit  crops 
in  Ger­
many,  and  this  fact,  together  with  a 
modification  of  the  exclusion  decree, 
has  caused  an  increased  demand  from 
there.  Sales 
in  the  past  few  days  have 
reached  several  thousand  boxes,  includ­
ing  all  sizes,  at  about  full  price.

R ice—The  rice  market 

is  quiet  but 
firm  and  stocks  are  light.  A well-known 
authority  says  that  work  on  the new crop 
is  going  forward  slowly.  Planting  is 
later  than  usual,  on  account  of  the  cold 
spring.  Georgia  will  undertake less than 
last  year;  South  Carolina  and  Louisiana 
more. 
In  the  latter  State  the  freeze-out 
of  sugar  cane  and  the  difficulties  en­
countered  by  planters 
in  securing  ad­
vances  wherewith  to  start  anew  may 
compel  many  of  them  to  turn  to  the 
next  best  and  cheapest  crop,  rice,  and, 
as  a  result,  there  may  be  a  radical  ex­
tension  of  the culture.  Cables  and  cor­
respondence  from  abroad  note  steady 
movement 
features  un­
changed.

and  market 

Fish—Fresh  fish  still  has  the  call,  but 
there  has  been  a  good  demand 
for 
mackerel  during  the  past  week,  and  it 
has  seemed  to  be  purely  consumptive. 
Prices  are  unchanged.  Cod  is  dull,  but 
is  very  dull  at  un­
steady.  Lake  fish 
changed  prices. 
Sardines  are  quiet, 
with  prices  still  firm.  Salmon  is  mov­
ing  very  well  and  prices  are  stiff,  with 
the possibility  of  going  higher,  although 
hardly  this  month.

Cheese—The  receipts  of  new  cheese 
are  very  small  and  the  quality  is  in­
ferior.  Holders  are  forced  to  sell  for 
less  than  the  price  prevailing  for  fine 
old  cheese.  The  trade  do  not  look  for 
fine  new  cheese  until  June  1,  at  least, 
and  no  grass  cheese  will be offered much 
before  that  time.  Stocks  of  fine  old 
cheese  will  hardly 
last  until  there  is 
sufficient  new  to  supply  the  demand.
Provisions—Packers  are  very  firm 

in 
their  ideas  and  are  asking  more  money 
daily.  The  demand  for  smoked  meats 
has  been  fairly  good,  probably 
in  ex­
cess  of  the  usual  demand  at  this  sea­
son.

Syrups  and  Molasses—There  is  little 
demand  for  sugar  syrup  except  for  ex­
port,  and  prices  are  unchanged.  Mo­
lasses  is  in  small  demand,  at  unchanged 
prices.  Prices  seem 
likely  to  hold  on 
the  present  basis for  some time to come.
is  dull 
with  the  exception  of  tapioca,  which 
is 
in  strong  demand,  and  which,  as  was 
stated some time  ago,  is practically  con­
trolled  by  an English  syndicate.  An  ad­
vance  in  all  giades  of  tapioca  occurred 
last  week.

Spices—The  spice  situation 

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W o m a n ’s  W o rld

shoulders  and  forces  her  to look long and 
tearfully  into bis  gaunt  eyes.

Looking  Things  in  the  Face.

Clever  people,  given  to  Darwinian 
theories,  who amuse themselves  by  tra­
cing  the  likeness  between  human beings 
and  animals,  have  said that women most 
resemble  cats. 
It  is  a  mistake.  Some­
in  the  course  of  our  evolution 
where 
women  must  have  been  ostriches. 
It  is 
said  that  that sagacious  bird,  when  it 
wishes  to  evade  pursuit  or  escape  its 
enemies,  merely  hides  its  head  in  the 
sand  and  fancies  itself  unseen.  Women 
possess  this  peculiar  ostrich  trait  in 
its 
highest  form  of  development. 
It  is  our 
favorite  way  of  meeting  a  difficulty. 
When  anything  unpleasant  threatens  us, 
we  simply  shut  our  eyes  to  it,  with  a 
kind  of  fatalistic  conviction  that  if  we 
don’t  see  it  it  will  pass  us  by.

It  is  one  of  the  queerest  anomalies  in 
the  world  that,  as a  sex,  we  spend  our 
lives 
in  dodging  the  truth  and  trying 
not  to  see  the  things  right  under  our 
noses  that  we  ought  to  see.  That  we 
should  attempt  to  make  others  think  we 
are  prettier  or  younger  or  wiser  or 
richer  than  we  are,  that  we  should  try 
to  pass  ourselves  off  for  pure  gold  when 
we  are  nothing  but  pinchbeck,  is  not 
strange,  but  it  is  inconceivable  that  we 
should  want  to  palm  the  fraud  off  on 
ourselves.  But  we  do.  We  are  like 
children  who  cry  out:  “ Let’s  play  that 
we are  queens  and  that  these  berries  are 
jewels  and  that  this  shawl 
is  a  court 
mantle,”   and  we  go  on  with  our  make- 
believe  as 
if  we  did  not  know  that 
all  the  foolish  pretense  in  the  world 
could  not  alter  the  stony  face  of  fact. 
It 
is  the  ostrich  with  its  silly  head  in 
the  sand  all  over  again.

No  logical  defense  can  be  offered 

for 
it.  The  battle  with  an  unseen foe, fought 
in  the  dark,  is always  the  most demoral­
izing  one  to  the  soldier,  because  he  can 
not  estimate  the  danger  or  the  odds 
against  him.  Every  dictate  of  common 
sense  teaches  us  that  the  difficulty  that 
we  can  see and  measure  and  “ size  up”  
is  the  one  with  which  we  are  best  able 
to  cope,  yet 
in  spite  of  all  that  women 
resolutely  refuse  to  face  the  conditions 
that  confront  them.  Blind-folded,  they 
make  futile  little  jabs  at  fate,  and  when 
they  do  occasionally  hit  the  bull’s-eye 
it  is  more  luck  than  good  aim.

In  reality  women  have  no  greater 
weakness  than  this  horror  of  looking 
things  fairly  and  squarely  in  the  face, 
and  it  is  the  cause  of  untold  sorrow  to 
them,  for  sooner  or  later  the  time  is 
bound  to  come  when  we  can  no  longer 
blink  at  the  inevitable,  no  matter  how 
unpleasant  it  may  be.  Then  that  road is 
paved  with  bitter  regrets  for  the  things 
we  might  have  helped  and  didn’t.  Only 
take,  for  instance,  the  money  troubles 
of  women.  We  all  know  dozens  of 
women  who  were  left  modest  competen­
cies  by  husband  or  father,  which  ought 
to  have  rendered  them  comfortable  for 
life.

Madame,  however,  was  extravagant. 
She  spent  all  the 
interest  and  en­
croached  on  the  principal  every  year, 
resolutely  shutting  her  eyes  to  what  the 
end  must  be.  One  would  think  that 
only  an  imbecile  could  be  so  foolish. 
“ What  does  she  expect?”   we  ask. 
“ Is 
she  looking  for  a  miracle  to  happen? 
What  will  become  of  her  when  all  her 
money  is  gone?  Doesn’t  she  ever  think 
that  one  can’t  have  their  money  and 
spend  it,  too?”   Certainly  she  doesn’t 
think. 
It  is  entirely  too  unpleasant  to 
face  the  prospect  of  want,  until  one  day 
poverty  comes  and  takes  her  by  the

Is 

in  her  eyes. 

irregular  hours. 

is  “ at”   who  fails?  Never. 

The  same  explanation  may  be  offered 
for  so  many  women’s  failures  in  busi­
ness. 
it  the  woman  who  calmly  and 
resolutely  confronts  the difficulties of the 
situation  and  who knows precisely where 
she 
It  is 
the  woman  who  needs  to  work  and  earn 
money,  but  who  glosses  it  over  with 
some  kind  of  veneer  that  makes  it  more 
attractive 
If  she  starts a 
boarding-house,  she  “ is  taking  a  few 
guests  for  company,”  and  she  is  so  des­
perately  afraid  that  somebody  will know 
the  truth  that  she  sits  in  the  parlor all 
day  and  reads  novels,  while  the  servants 
steal  and  half-cooked  meals  come on the 
table  at 
If  she  sings 
for  money  or  has  a  job  on  a  newspaper 
or  is  a  typewriter  in  an  office,  she  in­
sists  on  keeping  up  the  fiction  that  she 
does  these  things  only  for  recreation 
and  because  time  bung  heavily  on  her 
hands.  Ninety-nine  times  out of  a hun­
dred  such  women  fail.  The  hundredth 
time  when  they  succeed 
is  when  they 
have  the  courage  to  say,  “ I  am  going 
out  of  the  world  of  society into the world 
of  workers. 
I  need  money  and  I  am 
not  in  business  for  my  health.  The  peo­
ple  who  pay  me  for board  or  music  or 
writing  or  typewriting  don't  care  one 
rap  about  whether  I  belong  to  the  four 
hundred  or  the  forty  million,  but  they 
want  value  received  for  what  they  give 
me,  and  my  success  is  just  going  to  be 
absolutely 
in  proportion  to  what  I  can 
give  them. ”

As  a  matter  of  fact  it  is  very  much 
more  comfortable  to  face  the  truth  and 
saves  us  a  deal  of  worrying.  When  we 
can  come  to  the  point  of  saying:  “ I 
will  no  longer  delude  myself  with 
idle 
hopes,  illusions  and  visions,  I  will  sit 
down  and  look  truth  in  the  face  and  see 
what  I  am  and  can  do  and  be,  we  are 
like  people  standing  on  a  mountain  top 
watching  the  mists  that  have  obscured 
things  clearing  away.  Think,  for  one 
thing,  how  restful  it  would  be  to  give 
up  the  pretense  of  belonging  to  fashion­
look 
able  society.  Suppose  you  should 
the  thing  in  the  face  and  say: 
“ I  am 
poor,  and  I  am  hanging  onto  it  by  my 
eyelids,  as  every  poor  person  must  who 
tries  to  keep  up  with  people  who  have 
income. 
triple  and  quadruple  their 
What  do  I  get  out of  it? 
I  scheme  for 
invitations  and  am  in  a  cold  perspira­
tion  of  agony  and  anxiety  until  I  get 
them. 
I  have  to  slave  myself  to  death 
and  turn  and  twist  and  contrive  for 
gowns  that  will  pass  muster. 
I  half 
starve  my  family  to  give  entertainments 
for  people  who  must  be  fed  on  cham­
pagne  and  truffles,  and 
I  bear  their 
whispered  sneers  as  reward  for  my  sac­
rifices.  There  is  nothing  but  envy  and 
heartburning  and  jealousy  in 
it,  and  I 
am  going  to give  it  up,”   wouldn't  that 
be  the  peace  that  passes  understanding 
and  wouldn’t  you  add  to  your  own  hap­
piness  and  of  those about  you?  And,  be­
lieve  me,  dear  madame, 
it  is  much 
better  to  be  a  real  woman  than  a  make- 
believe  princess.

lady. 

“ An’ 

An  old  darky  mammy of my acquaint­
ance once  asked a woman friend  of  mine 
“ No,”   replied 
if  she  was  married. 
is  you  contented?”  
the 
pursued  the  darky. 
"O h,  quite,”   re­
turned 
the  woman,  with  a  smile. 
“ Well,”   said  the  old  woman,  thought­
fully,  “ I  believe  old  maids  is  de  hap- 
pies’ dey is—after dey quits strugglin'. ”
I  often  think  the  same  way  about  age. 
It 
is  the  happiest  and  serenest  time 
there  is  after  we  face  the  facts and  give 
up  trying  to  color our hair,  and  recon­

cile  ourselves  to  a  comfortable  waist 
measure,  and  quit  struggling.  There 
isn’t any  manner of doubt that we should 
avoid  making  ourselves  ridiculous  if  we 
bad  the  courage  to  sooner accept  this 
and  take  a  good,  honest 
in  our 
mirrors  Then  we should  be  spared  the 
elderly  ladies  we  see  dressed  up 
like 
young  girls,  with  rouge  on  their  faded 
old  cheeks,  false  hair  over  their  gray 
locks,  who  are  simpering  and  oggling 
and  building  up  castles  of  romance 
in 
their  weak  brains.

look 

Sometimes  life  gives  us  a  rough  jar 
that  wakes  us  up  out  of  our  foolish 
dreaming  and  forces  us  to  look  things 
plainly  in  the  face.  I  remember  a  little 
story  that a  woman  once  told  me  about 
her  experience  along  this 
line.  She 
had  married  a  man  who  was  very  hand­
some  and  attractive, 
fond  of  gayety 
and  brightness,  and  their home bad been 
an 
ideally  happy  one  until  after  the 
death  of  their first child.  The little thing 
had  only  lived  a  few  months,  but  it 
seemed  to  the  mother  that  when 
it  was 
buried  all the  sunshine of the  earth  went 
into  that  little  grave.  She  wept  and 
wept  and  grieved  and  pined,  until  she 
seemed  to grow  old  and  ugly  and  hol­
low-eyed  and  gaunt.  For a  while  her 
husband  tried  to  comfort  her,  but  by 
and  by  he  grew  tired  of  a  house  where 
there  was  nothing  but  grief  and  dark­
ness  and  a  wife 
in  somber  garments, 
with  untidy  hair,  who  was  too  listless  to 
talk  and  who  shuddered  at  the  very 
thought of  going  out  anywhere,  and  by 
into  the  way  of  going 
degrees  he  got 
away  in  the  evenings.  At  first 
it  was 
the  office,  then  no  excuse  was  offered, 
and  it  was  an  accepted  thing  for  him  to 
go  down  town  as  soon  as  he got  through 
dinner. 
“ I  don’t  know  where  it  might 
have  ended,”   said  the  woman,  “ except 
that a  plain-spoken  old  woman  came  to 
see  me,  who  had  been  a  friend  of  my 
mother’s,  and  one  day  she  turned  on  me 
and  asked  me  if  I  thought  the  memory 
of  a  dead  baby  was  worth  a  living  hus­
band’s  love? 
I  thought  her  brutal,  but 
after she  went away  I  sat  down  and  did 
some of  the  hardest  thinking  I  ever  did 
in  my  life. 
I 
saw 
just  exactly  what  I  was  doing  and 
where  it  was  bound  to  end  and  I  right­
about  faced. 
I  went  upstairs  and  took 
off  my  black  gown,  and  I  opened  up  the 
house,  and” —with  a  little  break  in  her 
voice—“ he  never  saw  me  shed  another 
tear. 
I  faced  the  facts  that  bis  was  a 
pleasure-loving  nature  and  that  I  could 
drive  him  from  me  with  gloom  or  hold 
him  with  cheerfulness  and  brightness, 
and  that  was  all  there  was  to  it.  But  it 
makes  me  shudder  now  to  see  how  near 
I  came  to  ruining  my  own  life  and  how 
many  other  women  are  laying  up misery 
for themselves  by  their  unwillingness  to 
look  at  conditions  instead  of  theories.”  
is  no  other 
more  essential  art  in  life  than 
learning 
to  face  the  facts.  When  we do  that  we 
no  longer  waste  the  years  in  fruitless 
endeavor,  because  we find  what  we  can 
do,  and  do  it.  We  know  our  penny 
rushlight  of  talent  is not  the  great  sun 
of  genius,  and  by  singing  our ballad 
when  we could  never  sing  an  aria  from 
grand  opera,  by  painting  our Christmas 
card  when  we  should  fail  miserably  if 
we  attempted  the  work  of  a  Sir  Joshua 
Reynolds,  we  fill  our  little  places  ac­
ceptably in  the  world  and  add  to  the  joy 
and  happiness  of  it.  More  than  that, 
as  in  the'  fable  the  fierce  lion  is  cowed 
by  the  power of  the  human  eye,  the  lit­
tle  black  beasts  of  trouble  that  sit  on 
every  shoulder have  but  to  be  fearlessly 
faced,  when  they  slink  away.

In  all  good  truth  there 

I  didn't  theorize  then. 

Dorothy  Dix.

A  Woman’s  Touch.

One  of  the  truths  that  women  never 
its  full  valuation  is  the  fact 
take  at 
that  no  other  charm  is  so attractive  to 
men  as  mere  femininity.  Deep  down  in 
the  masculine  heart  the  clinging  and 
helpless  vine 
is  still  the  ineradicable 
ideal  of  womanhood,  and  when  a  man 
likes  a  clever  woman  or  a  capable  one 
it  is  not  because  of  those  qualities,  but 
in  spite  of  them.  No  experienced  per­
son  would  back  a  woman  of  brains to 
marry  well.  Nine  times  out  of  ten  she 
has  to  take  what  she  can  get  in  the  hus­
It 
band 
is  her  .adle-pated  and 
rosy-cheeked 
little  sister  who  has  the 
picking  and  choosing  among  the  good 
catches  of  the  season.

line. 

something 

to  make  our 

Nor  is  this  so  strange  as  it  may  seem 
at  first  glance.  When  we marry,  whether 
it  because  we 
men  or  women,  we  do 
lack 
lives 
rounded  and  complete,  not  to  get  more 
of  the  thing  we  already  possess.  This 
explains  the  contempt  that  every woman 
feels 
in  her  inmost  soul  for  a  man  who 
is  weaker  than  she  is,  and  why  we  so 
often  see  a  clever  man 
infatuated  with 
the  pink  and  white  loveliness  of  some 
silly  girl,  who  can  no  more  sound  the 
depths  of  bis  soul  or  rise  to  the  heights 
of  his  nature  than  she  can  span  the 
universe  with  her  little  hands.

from 

To  him  her  prettiness,  her  fripperies, 
her  very  vanities,  represent  the  grace of 
life  as  disassociated 
its  sordid 
work ;  and  it  is  one  of  the  reasons  why 
any  rational  dress  for  women  must  al­
ways  be  a  theory  instead  of  a  fact.  Men 
may  approve  of 
it  on  general  princi­
ples,  and  for  others,  but  the  woman 
who  fills  his  dream 
is  never  the  fiat- 
heeled,  short-skirted,  man-hatted  Ama­
zon. 
is 
altogether  and  wholly  womanly,  and 
whom  he  can  never think  of  without  re­
membering  the  click  of  the  high-heeled 
slippers,  and  the  swish  of  silken  skirts, 
and  the  faint,  vague  odor  of  violets.

It  is  the  gentle  creature  who 

It 

None  of  us  are  insensible to the charm 
of  the  peculiarly  feminine.  We  see 
it 
in  houses  as  well  as  dress.  There  are 
women  who  have  this  grace  of  touch  so 
if  they  but  pass  through  a  room 
that 
they 
leave  their  trace  behind  them,  in 
added  comfort  and  grace. 
It  is  as  in­
tangible,  as  subtle  as  the  touch  of 
genius 
in  a  poem  or  a  painting.  A 
chair  has  been  moved,  a  curtain 
dropped,  a  book 
left  face-open  on  a 
is  something,  nothing,  but 
couch. 
the  room  that  was  as  unhomelike  as  a 
furniture  store  has  had  breathed  into 
it 
the  soul  of  human  occupation.  Not one 
man  in  a  thousand  can  impart  that  look 
to  a  room.  Not  one  servant  in  a  mil­
lion. 
It  is  just  the  touch  of  a  woman's 
hand.

In  the  sickroom  there  is healing  in 
the  gentle  touch  of  the  woman  we  love. 
Not  all  the theories  on  earth  could  con­
vince  us that any  trained  nurse,  no  mat­
ter bow  skillful,  could  touch  the  suffer­
ing  body,  or  move the  pillow  to  just the 
exact  angle  demanded  by  the  weary 
bead,  like  the  mother,  or  wife,  or  sister 
is  guided  by  love and 
whose  ministry 
not  hired  for  money. 
In  sorrow,  too,  it 
is  the  woman's  touch  that  we  can  first 
bear  on  our  broken  and  bruised  hearts. 
A  man’s  sympathy  is  dumb  and  help­
less  in  the  presence  of  a  great affliction, 
but  now  and  then  we  find  some  woman 
so  divinely  gifted  with 
intuition  and 
pity  she  has  but to  enter  the  darkened 
chamber  of  our grief  to  bear an  angel's 
message  of  hope  and  healing.

It  is  this  essentially  feminine  quality 
of  lightness,  of grace,  of  sympathy,  that 
is  quite  apart  from  cleverness  or  bril­
liance  that  men  have  been  the  first  to 
recognize  and  value  at  its  true  worth  as 
one  of  the  finest  flowers  of  life,  and  if 
in  their desire and  ambition  for  higher 
things  the  coming  women  neglect  to 
cultivate  it  the  world  will  be  poorer  for 
its loss. 

Cora  Stowell.

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is 

In 

In 

increased 

CHANGES  IN  TH E   GRAIN  TRADE.
While  the  primary  object  in  view  in 
constructing  the  great  Siberian  R ail­
road  was  the  transportation  of  soldiers 
and  war  materials  the  entire  length  of 
the  Russian  empire, 
the  commercial 
possibilities  of  the  undertaking  appear 
to  be  of  the  greatest  importance.  Upon 
that  portion  of  the  road  already  com­
increasing  at  a  great 
pleted  traffic 
rate. 
1896  there  were  175,000  pas­
1897  the  number 
sengers  carried. 
increased  to  413,000,  and 
last  year  it 
was  fully  650,000.  The present  year  it  is 
it  will  reach  1,000,000. 
expected  that 
The 
freight 
traffic 
from 
405,000,000  pounds  in  1896101,475,000,- 
000  pounds  in 
1898.  Vast  areas  which 
ten  years  ago  were  mere  wilderness  are 
now  settled  and  cultivated  and  are  con­
tributing  a  great  volume  of  products 
in 
the  markets  of  tbe  world.  Of  the  freight 
carried 
last  year  about  two-thirds  con 
sisted  of  wheat.  The  surplus  of  the 
Siberian  crop,  about  12,000,000 bushels, 
came  westward  over  the 
line.  Com­
pared  with the  great  American  crop this 
amount  is  small,  but  it  is  an  indication 
of  a  much  larger  surplus  when  tbe  S i­
berian  road 
is  completed  and  great 
areas  of  virgin  plains are put  under cul 
tivation.  And  not  only  in  Siberia  but 
elsewhere  in  the  empire  Russia  is  ex­
tending  and  perfecting  its  railway  sys 
tem. 
is  devoting  about  $17,000,000 
to  the  building  of  new  roads  and  the 
better  equipment  of  old  ones  in  Euro 
pean  Russia. 
In  that  wav  it  will  facil 
itate  the  export  of  all  kinds  of  agricul 
tural  products. 
It  is  also  making  great 
ports  on  its  European  coast,  especially 
on  tbe  Murman,  and  is  connecting  them 
It  will  thus  be 
with  the  Siberian  road. 
able  to  send  Siberian  wheat 
across 
Northern  Russia  for  export  by  way  of 
North  Sea  routes.  The  Black  Sea  and 
Mediterranean  trade  will  thus  be  re 
served  for  Southern  Russia.  The  latter 
portion  of  the  empire  is  already  com 
plaining  about  Siberian  competition. 
Although  this  is  not  very  heavy  as  yet, 
it  is  causing  demoralization  of  the  mar 
ket  in  a  section  where  grain  constitutes 
about  three-fourths  of  the  exports.

It 

When  all  the  railways  projected  and 
in  course  of  construction  are completed, 
and 
in  operation,  tbe  Siberian  wheat 
will  pass  by  to  the  north  to  compete  in 
the  markets  of  Western  Europe  with 
American  wheat,  instead  of  with  that of 
Southern  Russia 
tbe  markets  of 
Southern  Europe.  The  general  trade 
conditions  of  the  empire  will  thus  be 
improved  by  providing
equalized  and 

in 

TRADE  W ITH   S O U TH   AM ERICA.
It  is  a  strange  fact  that,  while  we  are 
increasing  our  trade  with 
constantly 
Europe,  the  Far  East,  and,  in  fact, 
with  many  parts  of  the  world,  East  and 
West,  as  well  as  North,  we  are  making 
no  progress  whatever 
in  a  field  which 
should  be  ours  almost  exclusively.  R ef­
erence  is  made  to  South  America.  Our 
trade  with  that  part  of  tbe  world  has 
been  practically  at  a  standstill for years, 
and,  from  all  appearances,  no  serious 
effort  is being  made  to  increase  it.

At  about  the time  of  the  Blaine  reci­
procity  movement  an  impetus was given 
to  South  American  trade  and  general 
attention  was  turned  in  that  direction. 
The  movement  was  not  lasting,  how­
ever,  and,  with  the  abandonment  of  the 
reciprocity  treaties, 
in  South 
American  trade  matters  died  out.

interest 

The  following  table,  showing  tbe  ex­
ports  of  merchandise  from  the  United 
States  to  South  America  in  each  year 
from  1890 to  1898,  indicates  very  clear­
ly  the  unprogressive  character  of  this 
trade:
890 
891 
892 
893 
894 
895 
896 
897 
898 

...............................................................S38.752,648
................................................................ 33,708,39°
.................................................................33.M7.6i4
.................................................................32.639.077
................................................................ 33.2,2.3'o
...........................................................  •  33.525.935
................................................................ 36,297.67*
................................................................ 33.76S.646
................................................................ 33.021,701
It  would  be  wrong  to  assert  that  the 
South  American  states  have  not  pro­
gressed  during  tbe  past  nine  years,  as 
there  is  ample  evidence  to  the  contrary 
Germany  alone 
increased  her  trade  in 
Argentina  during  that  period  fully  33 
per  cent.,  and  other  European  countries 
have  done quite as  well  in  that  republic 
and  in  other  South  American  common­
wealths.

and  laborers  in  every  industry,  but  con­
servative  business  men  as  well.  This 
large  crop of trusts and combinations can 
not  fail  to  greatly  demoralize  existing 
business  conditions,  and,  while  bring­
ing  immense  profits  to  a  few,  will  work 
loss and  hardship  to  many.

The  first  fruits  of  this  great  move­
ment  of  monopoly  are  the  radical  ad­
verse  legislative  measures  proposed  to 
combat  the  trusts.  As  always  happens 
in  such  cases,  tbe  corrective  measures 
proposed  are  quite as  drastic  as  the  evil 
they  are  meant  to  eliminate.  Take  the 
Arkansas  anti-trust 
law,  for  instance; 
while  seeking  to  crush  the  trusts and 
combinations,  it  places  restrictions  up­
on 
legitimate  business.  The  proposed 
Texas  measure  would  do tbe same thing. 
These  two 
instances  should  serve  to 
warn  the  combinations  that  they  are 
sowing  the  wind,  and  will  as  surely 
reap  the  whirlwind  of  repressive  leg- 
slative measures  which  will  be 
intro­
duced.

Aside  from  the  social  features  of  the 
trust  craze  there  are  economic  and 
financial  features  which  are  also  worth 
notice. 
In  tbe  first  place,  many  of  tbe 
combinations  are  not honest,  bona  fide 
corporations.  Tbe  promoters  aim  at 
concealment,  not  only  of  the business 
methods  and  arrangements  of  the organ­
ization,  but  of  the  individuals  who  are 
tbe  prime  movers 
in  tbe  enterprises. 
Tbe  combinations  are,  moreover,  a 
snare  to  the  unwary,  because  they  are 
always  capitalized 
in  excess  of  their 
actual  assets,  with  tbe  result  that  the 
general  public  is  victimized  ¿ntbefloat- 
ng  of  their  securities.  While  the  pro­
moters  will,  no  doubt,  make  large  sums 
of  money,  there  must  be  ultimate  dis­
aster to  a  great  many  people.

Tbe  trouble  with  American  products 
in  South  America  is  not that  tbe  prod­
ucts  themselves  are  unfavorably  re­
ceived,  but  that  American  manufactur­
ers  fail  to  make  special  efforts  to  cater 
to  tbe  South  American  trade.  We 
deavor  to  sell  just  such  styles as  we  sell 
at  home,  and  we  make  no  effort  to  put 
up  our  wares  in  just  such  packages  as 
the  people  of  South  America desire.  We 
do  not  study  the  tastes  and  peculiarities 
of  tbe  people  with  whom  we  would 
trade;  hence 
is  not  surprising  that 
the  business  goes  to  European  mer 
chants  who  do  study  how  to  please  their 
customers  and  who  do  offer  the  facili 
ties,  both  as  to  packages  and  credits, 
which  South  American  merchants  de 
sire.

it 

The  requisites  for  success 

in  trade 
ventures 
in  South  America  are,  firstly, 
a  knowledge  of  the  wants  of  the  coun 
tries  with  which  we  would  trade;  sec 
ondly,  care 
in  packing  and  in  offering 
such  patterns  as  our  customers  want 
and,  thirdly,  a  system  of  credits  more 
after  the  European  plan  than  the  one  in 
vogue  with  us.  We  must  emulate  our 
European  competitors  by  employing 
careful  agents 
in  South  America,  men 
familiar  with  the  country  and  with  its 
people.  Unless  these  precautions  are 
taken,  and  tbe  people  of  South  America 
are  convinced  that  we  really  desire  to 
cater  to  their  wants  and  tastes,  there 
little  prospect  that  European  products 
will  be  driven  out  of  South  American 
markets.

T H E   TR U S T  PROBLEM .

Tbe  very 

large  number  of  combina 
tions  and  trusts  organized  within  the 
past  five  or  six  months,  the  manifest 
purpose of  which  is  to  restrict  competi 
tion  and  control  trade,  has  undoubtedly 
alarmed  the  masses  of  the  people,  in 
eluding  not only  the agricultural  classes

There  is  another  question  connected 
with  the  growth  of  the  trusts  which 
merits consideration ;  The great suprem­
acy  of  Americans  in  tbe  industiral  and 
mechanical  arts  is  due  to tbe  keen  com­
petition  which  has  prevailed  among 
manufacturers.  When  this  competition 
is  eliminated  by  the  trusts,there  will  be 
less 
incentive  to  inventive  genius  and 
less  desire  to  adopt  constantly  new  ma­
chinery  and  new  ideas.  Such  a  result 
would  promptly  check  the  headway  we 
are  now  beginning  to  make  in  compe­
tition  with  the  great  commercial nations 
of  the  world.

It 

The  whole  system  underlying  tbe 
trusts  is  so  un-American  and  so  damag­
ing  to  the  masses  of  the  people  that  the 
agitation  against  tbe  monopolies  must 
soon  become  enormous. 
is  already 
apparent  that  opposition  to  the  trusts 
will  be  one  of  the  campaign  cries 
in 
the  next  presidential  canvass,  and  un­
less  the  organization  of  new  combina­
tions  soon  ceases,  all  political  parties 
will  be  compelled  by  popular  agitation 
to adopt  anti-trust  planks  in  their  party 
platforms.

It  will  no  longer  be  necessary  to  kiss 
the  Bible  in  taking  a  legal  oath  in  New 
York.  Governor  Roosevelt  has  signed a 
bill  to  abolish  the  old  custom,  which 
has  obtained  as  long  as  the  country  it­
self.  The  practice  was  considered  dan­
gerous  to  health,  although  Magistrate 
Wentworth  says  that  be  never beard  of 
a  well-authenticated  case  of  a  person 
catching  a  fatal  disease  from  kissing 
the  Bible  in  taking  an  oath.

Damages  of  $1,000 have been  assessed 
in  a  North 
on  a  telegraph  company 
Carolina 
suit  for  "mental  anguish" 
for  non-delivery  of  a  telegram  announ-

adequate  railway  facilities.  Moreover, 
when  sections  now 
isolated  are  con­
nected  by  rail,  the  failure  of  the  crops 
n one  can  Tapidly  be  met  by  imports  of 
grain  from  more  favored  sections,  thus 
averting  those  periodical  famines,  one 
of  which  is  even  now  affecting  an  area 
stretching  from  Moscow  to  the Urals, 
and  forcing  a  population  of  25,000,000 
to 
largely  on  roots,  weeds, 
acorns,  chopped  straw,  bran  and  the 
ike. 
If,  therefore,  by  opening  up 
Siberia  and  extending  its  railway  sys­
tem  generally,  Russia  shall  be  able to 
make 
famines 
things  of  the  past,  America  will  accept 
the  change  with  gratification,  even  if 
there  be at  times  competition  from  S i­
beria  in  the  grain  markets  of  the  world.

frequently  recurring 

subsist 

At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Merchants 
and  Manufacturers’  Association  of  Port 
Huron,  A.  H.  Nern  registered  a  timely 
warning  against  the  establishment  of  a 
in  that  city,  taking 
department  store 
the  ground  that 
it  would  not  increase 
the  number  of  clerks  employed  and 
that  it  would  inevitably  result  in  a great 
many  empty  stores  in  the  suburban  por 
ions of  the  city.  The  Tradesman  has 
no  knowledge  as  to  the  effect  the  wani­
ng  had  on  the  members  of  the  organi­
zation,  but 
in  the  event  of  the  warning 
being  disregarded,  the  retail  dealers  of 
Port  Huron  will  ultimately  realize  that 
Mr.  Nern's  utterance  was  prophetic 
character.  The  department  store  em­
ploys  only  the  cheapest  help,  with  the 
exception  of  the  beads  of  the  depart 
ments,  and  it  is  the  universal  experi­
ence  of  all  cities  where  department 
stores  have  been  established  that  real 
estate  values  depreciate  outside  of  the 
business  portions  of  the  city. 
In  Chi­
cago  tbe  retail  trade  of  the  town  is  so 
centralized 
in  the  department  stores 
¡thin  a  radius  of  three  or  four  blocks 
along  State  street  that  there  are  7,000 
vacant  stores 
in  the  suburban  portions 
of  the  city.  The  result  is  that  real  es 
tate  values are greatly  depressed,  except 
in  the  down  town  district,  where  values 
are  so  inflated  that  rents  have  advanced 
to  almost  fabulous  figures.

in 

Colonel  M.  C.  Wetmore.  President  of 
the  Liggett  &  Myers  Tobacco  Co. 
which  was  recently  transferred  to  the 
trust,  forcing  him  to  sell  out  and  resign 
his  position,  called  the  3,000  employes 
of  the  company  together  in  the  street  in 
front  of  the  factory  the  other  day  at  the 
close  of  business  and  made  a  farewell 
speech.  He  denounced  trusts  and  trade 
combinations 
tbe  most  vehement 
language  and  declared  that  had  he  been 
in  power  the  Liggett  &  Myers  plant 
never  would  have  been  sold  out  to 
trust.  He  had  fought  the  scheme  for 
twelve  years,  he  said,  but  was  at  last 
forced  to  yield.  Colonel  Wetmore’s  re 
marks  created  a  sensation.  They  were 
not  anticipated,  nevertheless  they  met 
with  prolonged  cheering  from every man 
and  woman,  for  the  company  employed 
many  women,  in  tbe  vast  crowd.  He 
shook  hands  with  all  the  factory  em 
ployes  until  his  palms  were  actually 
blistered.

imported 

Of  a  large  number  of  camphor  trees 
recently 
from  Japan  by  tbe 
Department  of  Agriculture  nearly  all 
were  found  to  be  diseased.  Although 
tbe  trees  appeared  on  cursory  examina 
tion  to  be  fairly healthy,close inspection 
revealed  the  fact  that  they  were  ruined 
by  mildew  and  scale  insects.

Some  men  who  are  popular  owe  their 
success  to  tbe  ability  to  put  mistakes 
made  on  tbe  shoulders  of .other  people.

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e

SAXON  VS.  T E U T O N .

For a  number of years the  Saxon  and 
the  German  have  not  looked  upon  each 
other witlr affection.  From  the  days of 
Baron  Steuben  the German  has  regarded 
the  American  branch  of  the  Saxon  fam­
ily  sometimes  with  pity,  sometimes with 
endurance  and  always  with  toleration 
mingled  with  contempt. 
In  the  cata­
logue  the  Americans  rank  as  men,  but 
as a  nation  they  are  only  numerous  and 
possess  an  extensive  territory,  which has 
clambered  into prominence on account of 
the  German  element  permeating  it.  Re­
move  that,  and  what that  German  ele­
ment  has  done  for  the  United  States, 
and  the  result  will  be  found  what  it  was 
a  century  ago—Hat, 
stale  and  not 
profitable.  That 
is  a  characteristic  of 
the  whole  nation  and  that,  as  the  years 
advance,  is  proving  to  be  the  cause  of 
the  evident  disaffection.

The  fatal  clash  at  Samoa  seems  to 
have  brought  matters  to  a  crisis;  but 
it 
is  a  condition  which  long  has  been 
expected.  To  a  looker-on  the  attitude 
of  Germany  has  been  suggestive  of  the 
idea  that  one  of  these  days,  when  she 
has  a  little  leisure,  she  will  take  the 
thing 
in  hand  and  settle  it.  A  little 
firmness  is  all  that  is  needed.  A  Ger­
man  No  will  take  care  of  it. 
In  the 
meantime 
if  the  Yankee  becomes  too 
numerous  and  too  aggressive  and  too 
presuming  a  grunt  of  German  dissatis­
faction  will  be  enough  to  put  an  end  to 
the  presumption. 
It  is  a  relic  of  the 
divine  right  of  kings  on  one side and an 
extreme  development  of  the  third  estate 
of  Louis  X IV .  on  the  other,  the king 
forgetful  of  the  thud  made  by  the  head 
of  the  English  Charles  when  it  struck 
the  bottom  of  the  basket  and  the  grand­
son  of  the  third  estate  not only  mindful 
of  the  thud,  but  ready,  if  need  be,  to 
see  that  that  episode  of  history 
is  re­
peated.

Recent  events  have  made  the  divine 
in  Germany  both  cautious 
right  party 
and  cunning.  The  American  octopus 
must  be  annihilated  arm  by  arm.  A l­
ready  the  sucker  prehensile  of  Ameri­
can  trade  has  been  paralyzed,  if  not  cut 
off,  at  the  German  boundary.  Out 
among  the  Philippines 
the  German 
warships  moved  in  majesty  to  see  that 
the  German  interests were  not interfered 
with,  until  the  American  Admiral  sug 
gested  it  would  be  unsafe  for  a  warship 
to  get  between  him  and  his  target;  and 
now  Samoa  centralizes  the  fact  that  the 
German  policy  of  loosening there  anoth­
er  arm  of  the  stupendous  American 
jellyfish  has  been  suddenly  brought  to 
light.  That  Germany  wants  the  islands 
is  an  open  fact,  that  England  and  the 
United  States  do  not  want  them 
is 
plainly  understood ;  but  the  Saxon  there 
has  determined  that  the  Teuton  shall 
not  have  them,  and  the  Teuton,  trusting 
to  his  dogged  determination  and  un­
ending  power  of  endurance,  has  been 
hoping  to  wear out the  patience  of  the 
Saxon  and  so to  gain  possession  of  the 
islands.  Here  it  seems  that  the  German 
with  the  divine  right  behind  him  has 
gone  too  far.  The  killing  of  English 
and  American 
soldiers  on  Samoan 
soil  has  awakened  an 
interest  before 
unknown,  and  the  same  race  that has 
banished  the  -monarchical  power  from 
the  Western  Continent  may  remove from 
Samoa  the  shadow  of the German crown.
There  is  little  doubt  that  the  trouble 
will  be  amicably  settled.  The  Teuton 
has  found  that the  octopus  is  not  con­
fined  to  a  single  species,  he  has  found 
that  the  German  method  of  removing 
the  far-reaching  tentacles  is  known  by 
the  Saxon  and  has been  put  in  practice

idea  of  neutrality 

at  Samoa.  He  has  found  that  the  Teu­
ton 
is  not  popular; 
that  German  guns  and  German  war  ma­
terials 
in  the  hands  of  the  natives  are 
not proofs  of  that  friendliness which  has 
been  the  leading • idea  of  German  di­
plomacy,  and  that  even  in  Samoa  there 
is  danger that  the  divine  right  of  kings 
may  receive  another  object  lesson  from 
the  Saxon  not  at  all  in  harmony  with 
the  up-to-date  expressions  of  good  will 
which  have  so 
far  characterized  the 
Teuton's  distinguished  consideration.

A  FUNDAM ENTAL  PRINCIPLE.
The  Tradesman  feels  called  upon  to 
commend  the  story  of  Mr.  Strong,  pub­
lished  under  the  heading  of  Clerk’s 
issue,  practical 
Column  in  this  week’s 
experience  having  demonstrated 
that 
much  of  the  trouble  existing  between 
the  employer  and  the  employed  can  be 
obviated  by  a  little  forethought  on  the 
part  of  the  employer.  He  knows  what 
sort  of  an  establishment  he  intends  to 
manage,  and 
is  governed  entirely  by 
that  knowledge. 
If  be  is  indifferent  to 
the  class  of  people  whom  he  employs, 
if  a  sinner  is  engaged  as  readily  as  a 
saint,  if immorality  among  bis  workmen 
is  a  matter  of  unconcern,  the  course  of 
that  establishment  will  be  a 
stormy 
one,  if  not  shortlived.

The  Tradesman  knows  that  the  firm 
mentioned  in  the  story  under a  fictitious 
name  is  carrying  on  a  prosperous  busi­
ness  in  Grand  Rapids to-day. 
It  knows 
that  no  workman  is  hired  by  that  house 
without  the  most  careful  enquiry  as  to 
his  character  and  his  habits.  Once  the 
senior  member  of  the  house,  in  the 
midst  of  the  most  pressing  cares,  went 
to  a  neighboring  state  to  ascertain  by 
personal  investigation  the  status,  men­
tal  and  moral,  of  a  man  asking  for  a 
responsible  position  be  had  to  offer; 
and  within  the  twelvemonth  careful  en­
quiry 
in  a  distant  part  of  the  country 
has  supplied  the  needed 
information 
in  regard  to  another  applicant.  First- 
class  workmen  only  can  do  first-class 
work;  and  the  firm 
is  a 
notable  proof  of  the  fact.

in  question 

If 

The  statement,  that  a  house  can regu­
late  the  personal  habits  of  a  large  force 
and  make  that  force 
in  every  sense 
respectable 
is  only  a  beautiful  theory, 
is  a  false  one.  That feature of  the  story 
is  also  founded  on  fact. 
it  be  true 
that  the  stream  can  not  rise  higher  than 
its  source  it  is  also  true  that the water of 
that  stream  can  remain  pure  only  so 
long  as  the  fountain  head  is  pure  and 
care be  taken  that  the  water  receive  no 
polution.  To 
insist  that  a  house  can 
not  control  this  essential  feature  of  its 
business,  which  for  purely  business  rea­
it  should  control,  is  a  statement 
sons 
as  untruthful  as  it 
is  senseless.  Much 
of  the  warfare  going  on  to-day  between 
labor  and  capital  is  due  to  the  indiffer­
ence  of  capital  in  regard  to  its workmen 
and  to  the  refusal  of  capital  to  assume 
the  responsibility  belonging  to it.  True, 
the  employer  is  out  after  the  Almighty 
Dollar;  but  that  employer 
foolish 
who  fails  to  make  the  one  dollar  two  by 
methods  which  all  classes  commend.

is 

What  one  of  those  methods  is the story 
brings  out  by  the  fact  upon  which  it 
is 
based;  and  the  Tradesman  can  do  its 
practical  readers  no  better  service  than 
to ask  them  to  put  into  practice the fun­
damental  principle  which  the  story  il­
lustrates.

The  Czar’s  universal  peace  leaven 

is 
working.  Sweden’s  Riksdag  has  voted 
over  $1,000,000  for  rifles and  fortifica­
tions.

OUR  FOREIGN  TRADE.

The  figures  furnished  by  the  Treasury 
Department, 
showing  the  volume  of 
foreign  commerce  of  the  country  during 
the  month  of  March,  afford  food  for  re­
flection.  The  total  value  of  exports  dur­
ing  March  was  $104,463,969,  against 
$112,620,496 
loss  of 
more  than  $8,000,000  compared  with 
last  year.  The  loss  was  entirely  due  to 
the  decrease  in  the  exports  of  staples, 
principally  cotton  and  grain.  This  loss, 
although  heavy,  was 
largely  made  up 
by  the  phenomenal  increase  in  the  ex­
ports of  minor  domestic  products.

in  March,  1898,  a 

The  actual  gain  in  minor exports  over 
last  year  was  $9,557,000,  compensating 
for  more  than  half  the  decrease 
in  cot­
ton  and  other  staples.  The  loss  in  these 
was  remarkably  heavy—$12,600,000 
in 
cotton,  $4,500,000  in  breadstuffs,  and 
$2,000,000  in  provisions and cattle—with 
increase  only 
in  oil  of  $1,000,000,  so 
that the  aggregate  value  of  these  prod­
ucts  exported  was  only  $53,365,427  in 
March,  against  $71,509,644 
last  year. 
But  the  minor  domestic  exports  were 
in  value $48,798,605,  against  $39,241,217 
last  year,  and  there  was  also  an 
in­
crease  of  $430,000  in  foreign  exports.

The  shrinkage  of  $12,000,000  in  the 
is  quite  ex­
cotton  exports  for  March 
is  undoubtedly  due  to 
traordinary,  and 
the  sudden  falling  off 
in  the  demand 
due  to  the  policy  pursued  by  foreign 
consumers  in  holding  off  under  the  be­
lief  that  the  American  crop  would reach 
12,000,000 bales,  and  that, consequently, 
prices  would  go 
loss  of 
$4,500,000  in  breadstuffs  was  due  prin­
cipally  to  the  lower  prices  compared 
with 
increase 
among  the  staple  products  was  in  min­
eral  oils,  which  gained  $1,000,000.

lower.  The 

The  only 

last  year. 

Commenting  upon  the  showing  made 
by  these  figures,  the  New  York  Tribune 
says  that  the  movement  of  breadstuffs 
will  no  doubt  soon  increase  with  the  re­
opening  of  navigation ;  but  it  does  not 
look  for  large  cotton  exports  until  next 
fall,  owing  to  the  large  stocks  carried 
abroad.  The  imports  were  larger  dur­
ing 
last  March  than  during  March  a 
year ago,  and were  in  fact  quite  as  large 
as  during  any  month  since  the  present 
tariff  went  into  effect.  Thanks,  how­
ever,  to  the 
large  exports  of  minor 
products,  there  is  still  a  good  trade  bal­
ance  maintained 
in  our  favor,  so  that 
there  is  no  fear  that  we  will  be  called to 
pay  any  balance  in  gold. 
is 
known  that  Europe  still  owes  us  a  con­
siderable  balance  on  merchandise  ac­
count,  so  that  there  is  little  prospect 
that  the  exchange  market  will  feel  the 
influence  of  smaller  exports  of  staples 
until  the  new  crops  commence  to  move 
in  the  fall.

In  fact,  it 

is  never  found 

C O N SU M P TIO N   OF  COPPER.
Iron  did  not  count  for  much  in  the 
ancient  world,  that  is  from  the  earliest 
times  to  the  fall  of  the  Roman  Empire. 
Beyond  its  use  for  weapons,  it  was  lit­
tle  employed.
The  reason 

for  this  was  that  iron, 
which 
in  the  metallic 
state  except  occasionally 
in  meteors 
that  have  fallen  from  the  sky,  must  be 
extracted  from  ores  by  a  process  which 
was  too  difficult  to  be  in  common  use, 
and,  therefore,  the  supply was consumed 
in  the  manufacture  of  swords,  axes  and 
other  weapons.  The  extensive  produc­
tion  of  iron  and  steel  dates  but  a  few 
centuries  back,  and,  as  cheapness  and 
abundance  increased,  it  became  avail­
able  for  the  multifarious  purposes  to 
which  it  is  put  to-day,  when  the  degree 
of  a  people’s  civilization is measured  by

the quantity  of  iron  and  steel  they  con­
sume.

Copper,  however,  is  also  coming  to 
occupy  a  position  of  great  importance 
in  modern  progress,  for,  while  iron  is 
the  metal  above  all  others  of  war and  of 
material  construction,  copper  is  most 
distinctively  the  metal  of  science.  Cop­
per  was  known  and  used  in  the  earliest 
in  countries  where  it  was  found 
times 
naturally  in  the  metallic  state. 
It  was 
so  obviously  adapted  to  the  uses  of  the 
rudest  peoples  that  they  readily  em­
ployed  it  for  many  purposes,  but  chiefly 
for  weapons  and tools and  for  ornament. 
In  later  periods  it  was  chiefly  used,  by 
melting  it  with  tin,  zinc  and  silver,  for 
making  various  sorts  of  bronze  or  brass 
for  armor,  bells,  statuary,'money  and 
many  other  articles.

Copper  was  confined  to  such  needs 
until,  in  a  very  recent  period,  the  eco­
nomic  use  and  value  of  electricity  and 
magnetism  were  ascertained,  when  the 
consumption  of  this  metal  was  rapidly 
and  ‘enormously  increased.  According 
to  the  reports  made  to  the  Bureau  of 
Foreign  Commerce  of  the  Department 
of  State  at  Washington,  the  world’s 
total  copper  production  amounted  to 
396,728  tons  in  1897,  and  is  estimated  at 
420,000  tons  for  1898.  By  far  the  greater 
part  of  this  increase  in  production  is  to 
be  looked  for 
in  the  United  States, 
whose  output  was  216,000  tons  in  1897 
and  234,272  tons  in  1898.

It  is  particularly  interesting  to  note, 
as  showing  the immense  development  of 
our electrical  industry,  that  the  copper 
consumption  of  the United States in  1898 
has  been  more  than  one-fourth  of  the 
copper  production  of  the  whole  world— 
115,935  tons—and  that  our  country  has 
the 
outstripped 
leading  nations  of 
Europe  in 
industries  employing  this 
material.

United  States  Commercial  Agent  At­
well,  of  Roubaix,  France,  under  date  of 
March  22,  1899,  presents  a  compilation 
showing  that  the  production  of  copper 
increased 
from  334,562  tons  in  1895  t0 
424,126 tons  in  1898.  During  the  same 
period  the  price  per  ton  advanced  from 
$208.40 to $250.08.

Already  rich  copper  mines  are sources 
of  immense  wealth,  and  there  promises 
to  be  no  let-up  in  the  demand  for  the 
metal  until  the  economic  uses  of  elec­
tricity  shall  have  reached  their  full  de­
velopment. 
Just  now  it  is  impossible  to 
see  the  end  of a scientific industry which 
seems  to  be  scarcely  more  than  in  its 
infancy,  vast  as  has  already  been  its 
growth.  The  consumption  of  iron  and 
copper  to-day  is  the  real  test  of  a  coun­
try's  civilization  and 
industrial  prog­
ress. 

_________________

More  goats  are  raised  for  their  hair 
in  this 
in  California  than  elsewhere 
country,  and  the  experiments 
in  this 
line  of  industry  are  meeting  with  a  fair 
degree  of  success.  The  Angora  goat 
yields  on  an  average 
four  pounds  of 
mohair  at  a  shearing,  the  product  sell­
ing  for  from  32  to  37  cents  a  pound. 
C.  P.  Bailey,  of  San  Jose,  sold  last  year 
a  trifle  more  than  $8,000  worth  of  mo­
hair  from  his  flock.

A  singular  objection  to  good  times 
and  civilization  has  been  found  by  the 
citizens  of  London,  who  complain  that 
the  prosperity  of  the  people  has  had  the 
effect  to  multiply  the  classes  who  em­
ploy  domestic  servants  and  to  decrease 
the  classes  from  which  the  servants  are 
ordinarily  recruited.

Contentment  may  be  better  than 
money—but  most  men  are  willing  to 
take  chances  with  the  money.

10

C lerks’  C orner.

Employers  Should  Know  How Clerks 

Spend  Their  Evenings.

Written for th e T r a d e sm a n .

Chance  threw  the  two  merchants  to­

gether  on  their  ride  down  town.

“ Yes, 

that’s  comfoiting;  but 

‘ 'Hello,  Courtwright,  sit  down  by  me 
here  and  give  an  account  of  yourself. 
Business  picking  up  with  you  as  it  is 
with  everybody  tlse?  Seems  a 
little 
more  like  living,  doesn't  it,  to  have  the 
sales  promising  expenses  once  more?"
I ’m 
having  my  life  bothered  out  of  me  with 
this  everlasting  question of clerks.  The 
whole  pack  of  them are nuisances.  They 
quarrel  and  fight  among  themselves  like 
so many cats and dogs,but the minute one 
of  them  clashes  with  the  office  they 
hang  together  iike  swarming  bees  and 
you  can’t  touch  one  of  ’em  without  the 
whole  swarm’s  settling down on  you  and 
stinging  you  to  death. 
I  don't  bear  of 
your  having  any  such  rumpuses  with 
your  clerks—how  do  you  manage  it?"

"1  don’t  manage. 

It  seems  to  take 
care  of 
itself.  Brinsmade  seems  to 
know  how—that's  bow  I  happen  to  have 
him  We bad  some  trouble  for  a while. 
When  we  put  the  matter 
into  Brins- 
made's  hands  I  said  to  him  that  1  bad 
two  ideas  that  I  thought  lay  at  the  bot­
tom  of  the  whole  thing  and  be  might 
take  bis  own  way  of  carrying  them  out: 
I  wouldn’t  have  any  clerks  in  the  bouse 
who  were  not  first  class  salespeople,  to 
begin  with,  and  after  that  I  wanted  him 
to  keep  track  of  them  closely  enough  to 
know  how  they  spent  their  spare  time 
after  closing  up  time.  The  women  are 
better  than  the  men ;  but 
it's  a  tryiug 
time  for  everybody 
in  the  office  and 
out  of  it  between  supper  time  and  mid­
night,  and  I  told  Brinsmade  that  if  be 
couldn’t  manage  that  part  of  the  day 
with  the  clerks  under  him  I  hadn't  any 
use  for him.  As  I  said,  be  knows  bow, 
and  that's all  there  is  to  it ."

"Y o u   don’t  pretend  to  tell  me  that 
you  keep  tab  on  that  army  of  clerks  so 
that  you  know  where  every  one  of 
’em 
is  night  and  day?"

"Brinsm ade  does,  or  we  wouldn’t 

have him. ”

"T h at  knocks  me. 

It  looks  plausible 
enough  after  you  get  the  thing  started, 
but  I  should  think  there  would  be  no 
end  of  kicking. 
I ’ve  a  case  on  hand 
that  worries  me  a  good  deal.  The fellow 
is  the  son  of  an  old  schoolmate  of  mine 
and  he  has  come  out  here  to  build  up 
his  health  a  little  and  see  something  of 
the country.  For a  time  things  went on 
all  right,  but  lately  be  seems  to  be  de­
veloping  more  of  the  Old  Harry  than 
anybody  would  give  him  credit  for. 
I 
hate  to  send  him  home,  but  I  can’t  have 
him  in  the  store  if  he  doesn’t  brace  np. 
I ’m  feeling  under  great  obligations  to 
bis  father  in  a  good  many  ways,  and 
what 
in  thunder  to  do  with  the  boy,  I 
don’t  know."

"H ow   long  has  be  been  with  vou?"
" S ix   months,  I  should  guess."
"W here  does  he  live?”
“ How  should  I  know?"
"W hat’s  the  trouble  with  him ?"
"O h,  I  guess  it's  just  that  sort of gen­
eral  loosening  up  which always comes  to 
a  boy  when  he  gets  away  from  the 
Puritan  training.  The  pendulum  has 
to  swing  back  and  when  the  hand  of 
home  lets go  the  law  of  gravity  takes  it 
at  the  first  swing  and  sends  it  to  a  point 
equally  distant  on  the  other  side  of  the 
center.”

"H a s  the  young  fellow  reached  that 

point yet?”

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

" I   don't  think  he  has;  if  he  had  I'd 

drop  him. ”

"T hen  why  don’t  you  stop  him  be­
fore  he  goes  any  farther,  if  he’s  worth 
stopping. 

Is  he?"

"W hy,  yes.  The 

ftllow  has  good 
blood  in him ;  but I don't feel as if I want 
to  be  responsible  for  every  man,  woman 
and  child  in  the  establishment."

"Y o u   may  not  want to  be,  but,  as  I 
it,  the  success  of  the  business 
it,  to  say  nothing  about 

look  at 
depends  upon 
the  moral  obligation."

"W ell  now,  wbat  would  you  do  if  the 

clerk  were  in  your  employ  to-day?"

" I ’ve  an  idea  I  should  take him home 
to  dinner,  to  start  with. 
I  believe  I 
should  find  some  good  excuse  for  not 
having  done  it  before,  and  let  him  infer 
that  I ’d 
liked  him  all  along.  There 
must  be  any  number  of  things  about  the 
fellow’s  family  that  you are interested to 
know,  and  when  you  get  him  down  into 
your  den  after  dinner  testing  your  best 
cigars  you  can  find  out  where  he's  liv­
ing  and  wbat  he's  doing  with  bis  spare 
time.  I  guess  you  don’t  even know  what 
church  he  goes  to,  and 
I  guess  you 
haven’t  made  any  effort  to  see  whether 
he’s  got 
ii to  the  social  life  that  would 
find  favor  with  the  folks  at  home.  If his 
father  and  you  were  schoolmates,  from 
the  way  you  speak  of  him  I  should 
judge  your  social  positions  are about the 
same;  in  that  case  it  wouldn't  be  a  bad 
idea  to  engineer  bis  way  among  the 
people  of  your  own  set.  All  he  wants 
or  needs  is  a  start,  and you  are  to blame 
if  you  haven’t  given  it  to  him  already. 
Wbat  kind  of  a  looking  chap  is  be^’ ’

"Handsome  as  a  picture.  Dresses 
well  and 
talks  well—I  wouldn’ t  be 
ashamed  of  him  anywhere.  He’s  all 
well  enough;  but  I  don't  like the idea of 
playing  oil  hen  to  a  brood  of  young 
roosters  just  beginning  to  crow.  Good 
morning. ’ ’

For  all  that,  when  John  Rogers  left 
the  car  and  entered  the  store  he  found 
it  convenieit  to  go  past  the  counter 
where  young  Kaiser  was  at  work.  The 
face  was  too  pale  and  the  eyes  too  dull 
to  tell  a  pleasing  story  and  in  spite  of 
himself  be  could  not  help  feeling  that 
somehow  be  was  responsible  for both. 
His  "Good  morning,  C arl,"  was  full  of 
hearty  cheer;  but  the  boy’s  evident  sur­
prise  at  being  spoken  to  did  not give 
comfort  to  his  employer. 
If  his  boy 
had  gone 
into  Jerry  Kaiser’s  store  as 
Carl  had  come  into his,  and  Jerry  had 
shown  as  little  interest  as  be  bad  shown 
towards  Carl,  would  he,  John  Rogeis, 
be  satisfied?  Would  he,  now,  would  he? 
was  the question  that  kept  sounding 
in 
his  ears  whatever  be  tried  to  do,  until 
he  wished  Kaiser  and  Courtwright,  with 
his  paragon,  Brinsmade,  bad  never 
been  heard  of.

If 

idea  troubled  him. 

Behind  it  ail  Courtwright’s  "respon­
sib le" 
it  was 
practicable  in  one  instance  it  could  be 
made  so  in  another  and  as  a  mere  mat­
ter  of  business  it  would  pay  to  carry 
it 
idea  struck  him — 
through.  Then  an 
why  couldn't  Kaiser  be  made 
into a 
Brinsmade?  He  didn’t  believe  the 
young  fellow  could  be  at  heart  bad.  He 
knew  of  bis  ancestors  for  four  genera­
tions;  there  wasn’t  a  scamp  among 
them,  and  if  Carl  bad  gone  to  the  dogs 
since  he  had  been  out  here,  why,  he, 
John  Rogers,  was  to  blame  for  it.

He  pushed  the  pile  of  unopened  let­
ters  from  him  and  went  into  the  store. 
He  went  straight  to  Carl  Kaiser’s  coun­
ter.

"When  did  you  hear  from  home, 

Carl?”

"Y esterday.”

"H ow   are  they  all?”
"V ery  well,  sir,  thank  you.”
"R ead   the  letter  over once  or  twice 
and  go  home  to  dinner  with  me  this 
evening—I  want  to  hear  about  them. 
Can  you  do  it?”  

"Y e s,  sir;  I  have  no  engagement  for 

*

this  evening."

" I ’m  glad  of 

it.  The  team  comes 
down  at  half  past  five  and  I ’ll  tell  K in­
ney  to  let  you  off. ’ ’

"Thank  you.”
A  few  minutes  later  the  phone  an­
nounced  to  Mrs.  Rogers  that  she  was 
to  have  a  fine  dinner  and  be 
in  her 
best  bib  and  tucker  to  entertain  the  son 
of  an  old  schoolmate  of  his  from  bis  old 
home  in  the  East,  young  Kaiser.  There 
was  a  possibility  of  his  taking a  respon­
sible  place  in  the  store  and  she  was  to 
help  find  out  if  the  young  man  was  all 
right.  She’d  better  look  the  paper  over 
and  see  what  was  going  on  at  the  opera 
bouse;  if  there  was  a  good  play  get 
some  tickets  and  they’d  all  go.

When  John  Rogers  called  for his  clerk 
at  half  past  five  he  hardly  knew  him. 
"Costly  thy  habit  as  thy  purse  can 
buy,"  was  the  rule  young  Kaiser bad 
strictly  and  conscientiously 
followed. 
Heaven  had  taught  him  how  to  wear bis 
clothes  after  he  had  bought  them  and 
the  employer  was  altogether  pleased 
with  his  dinner  guest.  The  dinner  was 
a  success;  and  the  young  lady  whom 
Mrs.  Rogers  had  invited  as  an  offset  to 
the  old-folks  element,  otherwise  pre­
dominating,  added  to  the  pleasure  of 
the  occasion.

After  dinner  the  program  laid  down 
for  the  dtn  was  faithfully  carried  out. 
The  best  cigars  were  made  the  most  of 
and  before  they  were  finished  enough  of 
Kaiser’s  night-life  had  been  bare  to | 
show  that  he  hadn’t  been  a  bad  fellow 
after all.  He  liked  good  cigars  and  he 
liked  the  theatre.  The  only  objection 
to  the 
last  was  that  it  kept  one  awake 
too  much.  It  made  him hollow-eyed  and 
good  for  nothing  the  next  day,  but  what 
could  a  fellow  do between  supper and 
bedtime 
in  a  city  like  that—unless  he 
got  into  something  worse?—and  that  he 
told  bis  mother  he  wouldn’t  do,  and  he 
hadn’t  broken  his  promise  yet.

He  rose  to  go;  but  Rogers  wouldn’t 
listen  to  such  a  thing. 
" S it   down—be 
wanted  to  tell  him  something.”   Then 
came  the  condition  of  things  at  Court­
wright  &  Graham's and what Brinsmade 
was  doing  for  the  firm.  There  wasn’t 
any  reason  why  Rogers  &  Rice  couldn’t 
do  the  same.  How  would 
it  do  for 
him,  Kaiser,  to  tackle  that  problem  and 
solve  it  for  them?

freer 

He  did. 

It  is  solved  to-day;  and 
there 
isn’t  a  more  prosperous  firm  in 
the  West  than  Rogers  &  Rice.  There 
isn’t  a  house  anywhere 
from 
"k ic k s "   on  the  part of  its  employes, 
and  none  where  the 
firm  are  more 
thoroughly  liked  by  them;  and  those 
same  employes  are  not  backward 
in 
saying  that  the  good  times  began  when 
Carl  Kaiser was promoted  to his  present 
position.  Carl  Kaiser himself says  that 
all  he  had  to  do  was  to  employ  only 
first-class  clerks, 
to  begin  with,  and 
give  them  to  understand  that  the  house 
did  really  care  whether  they  lived  or 
died,  and  would  hold them  responsible 
for  what they  did  between  supper  time 
and  bedtime.

R ic h a r d   M a lc o lm   S t r o n g.

Sure  of  It.

Williamson—Do  you  believe 

hanging  prevents  murder?

Henderson—Of  course.  Why,  there 
have  been  lots  of  men  who  would  have 
been  killed  if  they  hadn’t got bung.

that 

Educating  Employes.

There  are  a  good  many  reasons  why 
so  much  inefficient  help  is  to  be  found 
in  stores.  For that they  may  be observed 
almost  everywhere,  there  is  no  gainsay­
ing.  A  good  cause  was  given  for  this 
by  a  well-known  contemporary  when 
it 
said  that  corporations  and  private  firms 
are  too  much  burdened  with  the  large 
salaries  drawn  by  their  leading  men  to 
be  able to  employ  competent  help  in  the 
salesroom.  There 
is  no  doubt  that  the 
keen  competition  of  the  age  runs  down 
profits  to  no inconsiderable extent.  Nor 
is  this  all.  The  system  upon  which 
large  establishments  are  now  run  tends 
to  open  the  doors  to  incompetency  and 
to  close  them  against  real  ability  and 
experience.  No accusation  or criticism 
is  being  made  of  high-class  establish­
ments  which  make  it  a  point  to  employ 
efficient  help,  but  of  other  houses  where 
little  effort 
is  made  to  maintain  this 
high  standard  of  excellence,  and  where 
an  attempt 
is  made  to  economize  so 
stringently  on  clerks’  salaries  that  no 
one  can  wonder that  their  work  is  about 
on  a  par  with  their 
incomes.  The 
trouble  is  no  systematic  regime  is  gone 
through  with  by  which  the  man  or wom­
an  can  be  best  fitted  for  the  position 
which  be  or  she  is  to  occupy. 
It  is  a 
mere  chance  if  the  clerk  possesses  any 
accurate  or  satisfactory knowledge what­
ever  about  the goods  or  the  manner  in 
which  they  should  be  taken  care  of or 
handled.  Too  much  of  the  clerk’s  train­
ing  is  left  to  chance.  Ability  and  nat­
ural 
intelligence  unfortunately  are  not 
such  a  drug  on  the  market  that the aver­
age  merchant  can  expect  to  pick  them 
up  every  day  in  the week for  a  song  and 
keep  them  behind  bis  counter  until  he 
chooses  to  show  his  favor and  approval 
by  a  raise  in  their  salaries. 
Inexperi­
is  frequently  put  behind  a 
enced  help 
prominent  counter 
in  the  store  where 
most  of  the  purchasers  congregate and 
consequently  a  bad  opinion  is  engen­
dered  of  the  store’s  salesforce,  of  the 
intelligence and  everything 
employer's 
about  the  store  in  general.  An 
incom­
petent  clerk  may  accidentally  make  a 
good  sale  when  chance  brings  it  in  his 
way  and  it  is  unavoidable;  but as a  rule 
for one  such  sale  there  will  be  myriads 
of  others  lost  irretrievably.  There  are 
a  thousand  and  one  objectionable things 
which  a  stupid  clerk  can  do.  He  gives 
over or  under measure,  allows  the  goods 
to  get  out  of  order,  and  neglects  his 
duties  generally.  With  such  clerks  as 
this 
in  charge of  departments  it  is  un­
reasonable  to  suppose  that  tbe  store  will 
progress  very  rapidly.

Wanted—A  Pencil  Sharpener.

The  sharpening  of  a  pencil,  at  .its 
worst,  is,  with  the  aid  of  a  good  pen­
knife,  a  simple  operation.  Many  ma­
chines  have  been  invented  and  placed 
upon  the  market,  each  one  claiming 
many  points  of  superiority over its sharp 
little  competitor,  the  pocket  knife.  No 
less  than  three  hundred  American  pat­
ents  have  been  ^granted  upon  such  de­
vices,  and  there  is  yet  to  be  found  one 
of'these  machines  which  has  not  been 
rejected  by  one  or another  pencil-user 
after a  fair  trial.

Judging  from  all 

indications,  how­
ever,' it  would  seem  that there  is  a  good 
opening  in  this  field  for  the  right  »arti­
cle,  and  sooner  or 
it  will  be 
brought  out.  To  be  a  permanent  suc­
cess,  a  pencil  sharpener  must  do  better 
work  than  can  be  done by  band  with  a 
knife.  The  sharpening  must  be  ac­
complished  in  less_time,  and  that,  too, 
without  soiling  the  fingers  or  tbe  desk. 
Further,  the  machine  must  be  simple 
and  durable. 
If  it  is  complicated  and 
liable  to  get  out  of order,  it  is  doomed 
to  failure,  irrespective  of  its  merits  in 
other directions.

later 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

LYON  BROTHERS, 246,  248,  250  and  252 

E.  Madison  St.,  Chicago,  III.

Blizzard  Refrigerators

„ 
stnmtion  Of 

haf 'i ling of ««ge™ *0™ has convinced mi that next to  perfect construction and  insulation  the  most important  point  to be observed is to so construct
Jw * pe,rfect, and. free circulation of air can  be secured.  Nature’s law that warm  air will rise  and  cold  air will fall  is  simple^ and  is  to  be  observed  in  the  con- 
'1 his requirement is observed in all refrigerators  we 
rises,  passes up through  the end flue and  directly  across the  ice  com partment,Scaping  to  ^ p ro v is io n   Chamber  at  the

^  refrlgerators by giving  large and  free  flue capacity between  the provision  compartments and  the ice chamber. 
.T   e Wa™   “

oa" 
lowest point,  unobstructed  by ice  or ice rack,  thus constantly supplying the provision chamber with pure,  dry,  cold air. 

t he  provls'on 

"

best f i f f  s h S S Eco ThFEA THURfE S   ° F  PUR  BL,Z2ARP  REFRIGERATORS  are  carved  panels and  moldings,  made of kiln-dried  hard-wood,  antique  finish of 
hfnle*.  hi  th  . 
,  d. coach  varn|sh ;  fancy overlapping doors;  special door clamp for double doors;  inodorous charcoal sheathing;  genuine solid  brass  and  bronze  locks  and 
i t X L K   steel-spring  self-retain.ng  casters,  with  applewood  wheel,  readily  removed  or  replaced  at will;  patent steel  Hoof plate,  preventing » l X e o f W s-  full  zinc 
lined  (soldered  perfectly  air and  water  tight);  metallic shelves,  no inside wood  exposed;  removable galvanized  ice rack;  waste  pipewith  detachable trap.  ?

1 

’  " v   h® 

ar„ S S E F F t t f S j *  SeaS?,ned’  kj ln  dr!ed* hard-wood  lumber,  possessing the beautiful  grain  lor which Wisconsin  hard-wood  is  so  justly  celebrated-  all  goods 
nine  hro 
s.hella.c and coach varnish.  Nothing but  first-class material  is used,  with  a view of getting  the  best  possible ^esidts-  only  the  bestfeen-
ume  bronze  and  brass hinges and  locks,  of special design,  the locking device and style of which are not excelled  by  any  refrigerator on  the  market-  the best steel-sDrimr felf 
thlvna?egpC^ l ? rS’ fW,i h applewood «’hvel,  readily removed  at will;  patent steel floor plate,  preventing the splitting of legs.  To further contribute  to securing  favorable  results 
i  A 
they are cons ructed so as to consist of six walls,  viz.: 
dead  air space.  4.  A second  wall  of charcoal sheathing.  5.  A wall of matched lumber.  6.  A wall of zinc,  soldered  perfectly airland  water tight. 
*

2.  A wall  of  charcoal  sheathing  made  esoe -iallv  for our  work 

I.  Outside case of hard-wood  panel work. 

BLIZZARn  HARD-WOOD  CHESTS.

BLIZZARD  HARD-WOOD  REFRIGERATORS.

Chests.

Width  Depth  Height  Shipping 

Antique finish, full zinc lined, metallic shelves. 
wt.,  ll>s.  Price
................1S.25.  So.3 00
4  00
-4 75
.125........... 600

........................26 
........................  30 18 25.......  S5  
....................3 4 .a«.27....no 

Style 
217 
218 
219 
220 

..........22 

......... 36 

in. 

in. 

in. 

31 

Outside Measure.

Single Door, without Coolers. 

Dimensions 

Shipping 
wt., lbs.

in. 
Price
........................24x16x38....... 100.
• 5  as 
........................26x17x40....... 115 .
. 6  00
7  50 
........................28x19x42....... 133.
........................30x20x44....... 165.
. 8  00
........................32x20x46....... 185.
• 9 75

Single Door, with Coolers.

Style 
6 0 0  
601 
602 
603 
604 

1601 
1602 
160 3 
1604  ........34x20x46...............195.......

........................26x17x40....... 125.
7  75
........................aSx 19x42....... 1 4 5 .......
9 00
........................30x20x44....... 175 . . . . . .
10 00
11  7s

Double Door, without Coolers. 

Dimensions 

Shipping 
w t, lbs. 

in. 

Style 
621.............32x20x46...............200..................11 75
62a............. 34x21x48............... 215..................12 50
6 2 3 ....___40x22x50............230 ...................16 50

Price

Double Door, with Coolers

1621  ..........32x20x46................215..................13 50
1622 
.34x21x4s...........230................. 14 25
«623.......   .40x22x50...  ....... 255............iS  25

IflPERIAL  CHESTS.

IMPERIAL SINGLE  DOOR

Single Door, without Cooler. 

Dimensions 

in. 

Style 
A ...............24x17x39................100 
B ...............27x18x41............ 1 15 
C ...............30* 19*43................135  
D ...............33x21x45 

Price
4  50
..............5  50
7 00
150................8 00

 

 

Shipping 
wt., lhs. 
 

Single Door, with Cooler. 
Shipping1 
Dimensions 
wt., lbs. 

in. 

Style 
Price
X A ........... 24x17x39...............106............... 5 50
X B ...........27x18x41...............12 1...............6 50
X C .............30x19x43...............142...............8 00
X D ...........33x21x45..............15 9 ..............9 00

Four Door, without Coolers. 

Dimensions 

Shipping 
wt., lbs.

Style 
6 39 .......... 34x22x52...............220 ..........
fH3............47*27x58............... 330............

in. 

Price  HK 
17  00  Bj|

THE  HOST  DESIRABLE  FOR 

FAMILY  USE.

IMPERIAL  SOFT-WOOD 

REFRIGERATORS.

To  the  Trade— -The  Imperial  soft­
wood  refrigerator  is  presented  to  meet 
the demand of  that  class  of  buyers  that 
want  a  refrigerator  that  will  give  good 
refrigerating  results  at  a  minimum cost. 
The  Imperial  is  the  best  low-priced  re­
frigerator e»er presented  to the trade.
The  Imperial  line  of  refrigerators  are 
made  from  soft  wood,  thoroughly  kiln- 
dried,  painted and grained  in  imitation of 
quartered oak  (that challenges comparison 
with  the  genuine),  with  fancy  embossed 
panels,  Berlin  bronze  lock  and  hinges, 
self retaining  maple  wheel  casters,  full 
zinc lined,  with  galvanized-iron  ice  com­
partment  bottom. 
Illustrations  and  de­
scriptions cannot do this  line  justice, and 
we  therefore  request  that  you  favor  us 
with a sample order.

Double Door, without Cooler. 

Dimensions 

Shipping 
wt., lbs. 

Style 
Price
E ............. 33* 21*45  ..............l6° .............8 75

in. 

Double Door, with Cooler.

X E ...........33x21x45 

...169............10  25

Style
Q----
R .... 
S .......

in.

Dimensions
Price
..25x18x24......... .............7°   • • •• ..  2  50
..27x19x27......... ............ So........ ... 3  00
. .30x21x28......... ..........-95......... ... 4  00

Shipping
wt., lbs.

NOTE —If you have not received our 608-page complete spring and summer catalogue for season  1899,  write for one.  We send it to merchants upon application only.

LYON  B R O T H E R S,  W h o le sa le   G eneral  M erch an d ise,

246-252  East  Madison  Street,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

1 2

Observations  by  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
is  a  big  bone  of  contention 
There 
between 
egg  shippers  and  receivers 
which,  before  iong,  will  be  up  for  its 
regular  annual  picking. 
I  refer  to  the 
“ loss  off”   question,  which  offers  so 
many  difficulties  of  solution  that  no 
means has  ever  yet  been  found  to  set­
tle 
it  satisfactorily  to  all  concerned. 
The  system  of  selling  eggs  loss  off  in 
distributing  markets  is  subject  to  abuse 
and,  no  doubt,  is  abused  to  consider­
able  extent.  It leads to constant wrangles 
between  receivers  and  their  customers 
and  between  receivers  and  shippers 
also;  it  would  certainly  be  a  god-send 
if  case  count  sales  at  all  seasons  could 
be 
inaugurated  without  doing  as  much 
injustice  in  one  direction  as  the  loss  off 
system  causes  in  another. 
In  the  New 
late 
York  market  there  has  been,  of 
years,  an  evident  drift  toward 
case 
count  selling  and  a  larger  part  of  the 
business  was  done  on  that  basis  last 
year  than  ever  before.  Case  count  sell­
ing  first  began  to  spread  in  the  under 
grades  of  fresh  stock.  As  the  demand 
for  loss  off  selling  comes  by  reason  of  a 
deterioration  of  quality  it  is  rather  sin­
gular  that  the  poorest  eggs  are  the 
most  easily  sold  case  count  But  this 
seems  to  be  because  of  the  different 
classes  of  trade  in  which  the  goods  are 
place!  and  the  relatively 
large  outlet 
enjoyed  here  for  cheap  eggs  Last  sum 
mer  receivers  were  abie  to sell on  a  case 
cojnt  basis  nearly  all  of  tie  eggs  wbici 
were  tjo  poor  to  satisfy  what  is  general 
ly  termed  the  “ regular  trade.”   And 
later,  the  method  was  ext-nded  to  the 
uni lading  of  refrigerator  eggs  also,w  ta 
satisfaction  to  both  buyers  and  sellers. 
These  goods  went 
largely  to  regular 
trade,  but  it  was  possible  to  inaugurate 
the  case  count  system  of  sale  because 
the  quality  of  the  refrigerators  was  gen­
erally  uniform;  that  is,  the examination 
of  a  few  cases  would  fairly  indicate  the 
quality  of  the  whole  line  and  the  aver­
age  loss  per  case.  While  the  system  of 
loss  off  selling  still  prevails  in  this mar 
ket  on  perhaps the bulk of the fresh gatb 
ered  eggs  after  warm  weather  sets  in,  it 
is  now  pretty  closely  limited  to  those 
average  good  grades  which  regular 
dealers  buy  for  the  middle  and  better 
class  of  retail'trade.  Certain  brands  of 
eggs  which  are  graded and  candled  with 
unusual  care  before  shipping  are  sold 
at  mark  or  with  a  fixed 
loss  allowance 
—which  amounts  to  the  same  thing  in 
principle—all  summer;  inferior  quali­
ties—too  poor to  warrant candling out by 
the  better  class  of  buyers—go  to  cheap 
trade 
case  count;  refrigerators  and 
limed  eggs  may  also  now  be  placed 
in 
the  case  count  column.  But  during  the 
summer  the  average  good  grades  of 
fresh  collections  furnish  the  bulk  of  the 
It  is 
supply  and  these  still  go  loss  off. 
my  humble  opinion  that 
if  receivers 
should  insist  upon  selling  these  also  at 
it  would  very  soon  lead  to a  vast 
mark 
improvement 
in  the  quality  of  our  re­
ceipts  and  eliminate  a  heavy  loss  which 
the  egg  trade  now  bears  in  the  transpor­
tation  of  worthless  eggs.  Under  the 
present  system  shippers  claim,  and  with 
considerable  weight  of  argument,  that 
it  does  not  pay  to grade  closely 
loss 
off  season.  But  if  the  goods  were  sold 
case  count  the  ungraded  eggs  would  sell 
so  low  compared  with  the graded  that 
careful  selection  would  become  profit­
able  and  consequently would be adopted. 
I  know  scarcely  an  egg  receiver  who 
would  not  be  glad  to  see case count sales 
at  all  seasons  and  there 
is  a  way  in 
which  I  think  the  wedge  could  be  en­
If  our  Exchange would  establish
tered. 

in 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

a  grade  of  extra  eggs,  defining  the  re­
quirements  of  quality  closely,  limiting 
the  loss  to  say  i  or  i y2  dozen to  the  case 
and  providing  that  this  grade  should  be 
sold  case  count  at  all  seasons,I  am quite 
confident  that  some  packers  could  regu­
larly  comply  with  the  requirements  and 
establish  a  regular  market  value  for 
such  goods  on  a  case  count basis  at  all 
seasons. 
It  is  a  matter  worthy  of  care­
ful  consideration  by  the  egg  committee.

BEANS

W e  are  in  the  market
every  day  in  the  year  ®
for  beans:  car  loads  $
9
or  less,  good  or  poor,  w 
W rite  us  for  prices,  your  track.  The  best  equipped  elevators  #  
in  Michigan. 

c   E   BU R N S,  Howell,  Mich,  i

*  

*  

*

During  the  past  week  we have  bad  a 
peculiar  condition  of  affairs  in  the  egg 
market  as  to  the  narrowness  of the range 
of  values  covering  various  qualities. 
This  condition  often  arises  when  the 
eggs  are  all  fresh,  unaffected  by  heat, 
and  when  the  demand  from  regular  con­
sumptive  channels 
is  sufficient  to  ab­
sorb  the  receipts  promptly;  but  it  does 
not  often  occur that  prices  are  crowded 
together  so  closely  as  they  have  been 
of  late.  On  several  days  the  prices 
obtainable  for  Western  eggs,  from  the 
finest  Northern  selections  for  storage 
down  to  the  ungraded  Southwestern  re­
ceipts,  have  been  only  # c   apart  and  a 
range  of 
i j£c  has,  most  of  the  time, 
covered  the  variation  in  value  of  all  the 
eggs  in  market,  including  the  culls.

*  

*  

*

Talking  with  some  of  the  egg  receiv­
ers  about  the  narrow  range  of  values 
and  the  comparatively high rates obtain- 
ab  e  for  seconds  in  relation  to selections 
of  finest  goods,  I  was  curious  to  ascer­
tain  what  the  actual  difference might  be 
in  the  weight  of  the  two  grades. 
I 
found  it  to  be  less  than  might  be  sup­
posed. 
In  a  mark  of  fancy  Indiana 
graded  eggs  the  firsts  weighed 56 pounds 
gross  to  the  30  dozen  case;  the  seconds 
—including  the  small  and  dirty,  and 
in  the  same  style  of  case— 
packed 
weighed  51 @52  pounds. 
is  a 
difference  of  about  8  per  cent,  in weight 
of  eggs  and  the  difference  in  price  was 
a  little  over  g  per  cent. 
I  found  other 
lots 
in  which  the  seconds  weighed  al­
most  as  much  as  the  firsts;  this  is  the 
case  where  the  culls are made up of dirty 
eggs  only,  the  clean  eggs  being  packed 
with  the  firsts  whether  small  or  large. 
But  this  method  of  selection  is  not  ad­
visable,  as the firsts,  when  not  cleared  of 
the  small  eggs,  will  not  pass 
in  best 
trade  nor bring  the  highest  price.

This 

While  looking  up  this  matter  I  ran 
across  an  odd  thing :  A  lot  of  eggs  was 
shown  to  me  as  being  graded  eggs  and 
upon  weighing  several  cases  of  each 
grade  the  seconds  were  found  to  weigh 
more  than  the  firsts  by  two  or  three 
pounds  to  the  case.  This 
led  to  closer 
examination  and  it  was  nrticed  that  the 
seconds  were  all  dirty and  the  firsts  con 
tained  all  the  clean  small  eggs;  such 
large  eggs  as  were 
in  the  firsts  were 
all  slightly  stained.  When  the  receiver 
told  me  that  the  packer  was  putting  up 
eggs  for  cold  storage  the  matter  was  ex­
plained ;  be was  packing  the  small clean 
eggs  and  the  slightly  stained  large  ones 
and  sending  them  here 
for  “ firsts,”  
while  all  the  dirty  were  sent  with  them 
as  seconds.  On  these  goods  the  selling 
values  were 
for  the  so called 
“ firsts”  and  I2 ^ c  for  the  dirty seconds. 
At  the  time  finest  Western  selections 
were  worth  I3%c.  This 
illustrates  the 
that  cleanness  and  appearance 
fact 
count  for  more  than  size 
in  selling 
value.

13c 

♦  

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That  systematic  and  careful  grading 
and  packing  may  soon  establish  a  valu­
able  reputation  for  a  mark  of  eggs  has 
been  clearly  demonstrated  in  this  mar­
In  a  large  egg  terri-
ket  this  spring. 

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tory  in  the  southern  part  of  Indiana  an 
old,  experienced  egg  man  took  bold  of 
a 
large  business  which  had  formerly 
been  under different management.  From 
the  start  he  evidently  took  particular 
care  to  have  bis  goods  as  fíne  as  they 
could  be  made,  and  his  brand  very  soon 
acquired  a  reputation  among  buyers 
which  has  made  a  ready  sale  for  it  at 
the  highest  market  price  for  any  eggs 
coming  to  this  market  from  the  West. 
The  readiness  with  which  such a  brand 
can  be  sold 
is  a  material  advantage 
whenever weakness  and  downward  tend­
ency  carry  slow  selling  goods  to  a 
lower  level  of  value  before  a  buyer  can 
be  found.—New  York  Produce  Review.

Magnitude  of 

the  Hay  Trade  of 

Gotham.

From the New York Commercial.

The  yearly  transactions  in  bay  at  the 
various  terminals  in  this  city  are  tre­
mendous,  running  up  into  the  millions, 
a  conservative  estimate  made  by  those 
best  able  to 
judge  placing  it  between 
$4,500,000 and  $5,000,000 annually, while 
the  amount  bandied  will  average  from 
350,000  tons  to  400,000  tons,  the  past 
year’s  business  aggregating  the  largest 
in  the  history  of  the  trade.

While  nearly  all  the  more  important 
bay producing states of the West  contrib­
ute  their  share  to  supplying  the  wants 
of  consumers,  the  bulk  of  bay  reaching 
in  from  New 
this  market 
is  shipped 
York,  Ohio  and  Michigan 
It  has  been 
comparatively  hut  a  few  years ago when 
most  of  the  hay  consumed  in  this  mar­
ket  was  State  hav  of  the  finest  quality 
produced,  no  other  sttte  in  the  country 
equaling 
it  Hit  this  has  changed, 
and  now  at  d  ffere.it  seasons  of  the  year 
states  as  far  West  as  Wisconsin,  In 
diana,  Illinois  and  Missouri  and  even 
Kansas  contribute  to  the general supply.
The  center  of  the  hay  trade  in  this 
market 
is  that  territory  bounded  by 
Eleventh  avenue  and  the  North  River, 
between  Thirty-third  and  Thirty-eighth 
streets.  Here  are  centered  the  terminals 
of  the  New  York  Central,  West  Shore 
and  Pennsylvania  railroads,  while  in 
the  Hay  Exchange  at Thirty-third  street 
and  Eleventh  avenue,and the  immediate 
vicinity,  are  located  most  of  the  more 
prominent hay,  grain  and  feed  commis­
sion  merchants  in  the  city.

Another  important  center  of  bay  dis­
tribution 
is  the  Erie  sheds,  in  Jersey 
City.  Here  the  Erie  Railroad  Co.  has 
erected  and  maintains  two  of  the  best 
equipped  terminal  bay  warehouses  in 
the  country,  equal  to,  but  not  excelled 
by, the  New  York  Central  sheds  on  West 
Thirty-third  street,  while  the  third,  but 
more  or  less  important,market is located 
at  Palmer’s  dock,  Brooklyn.  Exclusive 
of  these  terminals,  however,  there  are 
located 
in  various  parts  of  the  city 
markets  of  minor  impoitance,  but  all  of 
which  tend  to  make  up  a  market  of 
magnificent  proportions,  such  as  can  be 
found  nowhere  else  in  the  world.
All  grades  and  qualities  of  bay  are 
sold  in  this  market,  and  for  all  kinds  of 
purposes,  for  local  consumption  and  for 
export.  As  regards  prices,  it  is  safe  to 
sav  that  there 
is  no  other  city  in  the 
country,  ali  things  considered,  where  so 
large  and  satisfactory  values  can  be 
realized.

Made  Foolish  To  Match  the  Men.
He  1 inked  up  from  the  article  be  was 
reading  with  the  superior  air  that  man 
invariably  assumes  when  be  has  dis­
covered  something  that  seems  to  reflect 
judgment  or  common  sense  of 
on  the 
woman.
“ An  authority  of  your  own  sex,’ ’  be 
said,  “ asserts  that  woman’s  arms  are 
crooked  and  she  is  generally  misshapen 
in  this  day  and  generation  because  of 
the  outlandish  way  she  dresses,  and  she 
hasn't  sense  enough  to  know  it.’ ’

“ Naturallv,’ ’  she  replied.
“ Why,  naturally?"  be  demanded.
“ Because,"  she  explained, 

“ there 
never  was  one  so  misshapen  yet  that 
some  fool  man  wouldn’t  call  her an  an­
gel  and 
in  other  ways  warp  her  judg­
ment. ’ ’

Following 

The New York Law on  Process  Butter.
is  the  full  text  of  the  law 
recently  enacted  by  the  New  York  Leg­
islature,  relating  to  renovated  or  process 
butter:

No  person  by  himself,  bis  ager ts  or 
employes  shall  manufacture,  sell, offer  or 
expose  for  sale,  butter  that  is  produced 
by  taking  original  packing  stock  or 
other  butter  or  both  and  melting  the 
same,  so that the butter  fat  can  be  drawn 
off,  then  mixing  the  said  butter 
fat 
with  skimmed  milk  or  milk  or  cream 
or  other  milk  product  and  recburning 
the  said  mixture,  or that  is  produced  by 
any  similar  process  and  is  commonly 
known  as  boiled  or  process  butter,  un­
less  be  shall  plainly  brand  or  mark  the 
package  or tub  or  wrapper  in  which  the 
same  is  put  up,  in  a  conspicuous  place 
with  the  words  “ renovated  butter.”  
If 
the  same  shall  be  put  up,  sold,  offered 
or  exposed  for  sale  in  prints  or  rolls, 
then  the  said  prints  or  rolls  shall  be 
labeled  plainly  with  printed  letters  in 
a  conspicuous  place on the  wrapper  with 
the  words  “ renovated  butter." 
If  the 
same  is  packed  in  tubs  or  boxes or pails 
or other  kind  of  a  case  or  package  the 
words 
shall  be 
printed  on  the  top  and  side  of  the  same 
in 
least  one  inch  in  length, 
so  as  to  be  pljinly  seen  by  the  nurchas 
If  such  butter  is  exposed  for  sale, 
er. 
uncovered,  not 
in  a  package  or  case,  a 
placard  containing  the  label  so  printed 
shall  be  attached  to  the  mass  of  butter 
in  such  a  manner as  to  easily  be  seen 
and  read  by  the  purchaser.  No  person 
shall  sell,  offer  or  expose  for  sale,  any 
butter  or  other  dairy  product  contain me 
a  preservative,  but  this  shall  nrt  be 
construed  to  prohibit  the  use  of  salt  in 
butter  or cheese,  or  spirituous  liquors  in 
club  or  other  fancy  cheese  or  sugar  in 
condensed  milk.

"renovated  butter”  

letters  at 

Violation  of  the  act  is  puu:sbable  by 

both  fine  and  penalty.
Western  Egg  Shippers  to  Own  Stor­

age  Eggs.
From the Kansas  City Packer.

From  developments  so far  it looks like 
the  Western  man  is  going  to  be a  prom­
inent  figure  in  the  egg  deal  the  coming 
fall  and  winter. 
It  is  said  here  that  a 
big  share  of  the  eggs  going  in  storage, 
both  here  and 
in  the  East,  is  for  the 
account  of  the  big  Western  shippers. 
There has at  times  been  big  money 
in 
storage  eggs.  The  past  few  years  of 
good  times  among  the  people  of  the 
West  have  led  shippers,  who  have  here 
tofore  sold  their  eggs  at  all  times  of  the 
year,  to  take  an  interest  in  the  storage 
deal,  and  as  a  result,  a  good  share  of 
the  Western  eggs  put  in  Stonge  this 
year  will  be  held  by  the  shipper.  The 
change  will  be  more  noticeable 
in  the 
East  than  here,  but  it  will  also  cut  con­
siderable  figure  here.  One of  the  prom­
inent  things  that  has  brought  about  this 
condition  of  affairs  up  to  the  present 
time  has  been  the  high  price  of  eggs. 
Many  big  Eastern  bouses  that  store 
heavily  each  season  are  now  beginning 
to  hedge  and 
looks  as  though  the 
enormous  storage  anticipated  on 
the 
part  of  Easterners  will  dwindle  down  to 
moderate  proportions. 
If  the  Western 
shippers  bold  to  their  present  plans they 
will  control  much  more  of  the  storage 
stock  than  ever  before.  A  good  share 
of  the  eggs  reaching  the  markets  now  is 
for  direct  storage  account. 
Shippers 
can  borrow  as  much  as  three  fourths  of 
the  current  value  on  eggs  put  in  stor­
age,  so  the  actual  outliy  of  money  need 
not  be  heavy.  If  this  condition  prevails 
through  the  season  of  this  month  and 
next  it  will  be  interesting  to  watch  the 
outcome  next  fall  and  winter.

it 

Discovered  His  Mistake.

Mrs.  Woodbury—And  yet  you  once 

called  me  the  salt  of  the  earth !
Mr.  Woodbury—Nor  am  I  the  only 
man  who  has  found  he  had  the  pepper 
when  he  thought he  had  the  salt.

Unexpectedly  Interfered  With.

Prisoner—I  was  quietly  attending  to 

my  work  when  this  man  arrested  me.
Magistrate—What  is  your  business?
Prisoner—I  am  a  burglar.

B EA N S,  HONEY  AND  POPCORN

PO ULTRY,  V E A L   AND  GAM E

Consignments  Solicited.

Quotations  on  Application.

98  S o u th   D ivision   S t.,  G rand  R apids
GRAND RAPIDS GOLD STORAGE GO.  I

Takes  pleasure  in  announcing  to  the  fruit  and  produce  ship-  7? 
pers  of  Michigan  that  its  new  plant,  on  the  corner  of  South 
Front Street  and  G.  R.  &   1.  R.  R .,  is  rapidly  nearing  com- 
f  i 
pletion  and  that  it  will  be  prepared  to  receive  shipments  or  gt 
consignments  of  all  kinds  of  perishable  goods  by  May  i.  The 
plant  is  thoroughly  modern  and  up-to  date  in  every  respect,  Y? 
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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C.  M.  DRAKE g

W.  R.  BRICE

E S T A B L I S H E D   IN 
P H I L A D E L P H I A   1 8 5 2

W .  R.  Brice  &   Co.

Produce Commission Merchants

Butter,  Eggs  and  Poultry

500 Cars  of  Fine  Fresh 

Eggs  Wanted

We 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.  We  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.  B R IC E   &  CO. 

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G O TH A M   GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 

Special Correspondenee.

the  Market.

New  York,  April  22—There 

is  very 
little  interest  to  note  in  the  coffee  mar­
ket.  The  demand  has  been  of  moderate 
proportions  and,  as  the  supply  was  in­
creased  on  Thursday  by  the  arrival  of 
17,000  bags  per  steamer,  the  situation  is 
one  that  can  hardly  be  called  strong. 
Rio  No.  7 
is  quotable  at  6 # c  for  spot 
goods  and  6 ^ c   tor  No.  4.  The  specu­
lative  market  has  been  perfectly  flat, 
neither  buyer  nor  seller  seeming  to  be 
anxious  to  do  anything  beyond  routine 
work.  Reports  from  abroad  all  tend  to 
an  easier  market. 
In  store  and  afloat 
there  are  1,286,279  bags,  against  1,064,- 
604  bags  at  the  same  time  last  year.

Raw sugars  are  firm  and  refiners  seem 
-eady  to  take  all  that  is  offered  and  are 
not  complaining  of  the  price;  in  fact, 
they  can  not  obtain  all  they  want  and 
the  supply  continues  very  moderate. 
Refined  sugar  has  been 
firm  all  the 
week,but  orders  have  not  in  many  cases 
been  for  larger  amounts  than  are  usual­
ly  taken.  Guarantees  have  been  dis­
continued  and 
jobbers  generally  have 
abundant  supplies  due  them,which  they 
are  not  disposed  to  sell  at  any  conces­
sion. 
remain  without 
change.

List  prices 

it 

At  a  supplemental  auction  sale,  held 
Thursday,  Japan  teas  sold  for about  i@ 
2c  below  the  regular  private  market. 
On  the  street  matters  have  been  quiet 
and  transactions  of  an  everyday  charac­
ter.  Oolongs,  if  anything,  are  a 
little 
weaker.
Daring  the  week  only  trading  of  an 
ordinary  character  has  prevailed  in  the 
rice  market  and  buyers  are  taking  but 
everyday  supplies.  Most  of  the  call 
is 
is  rel  tivelv  cheaper 
for  Japan,  as 
than  domestic.  OaoUt  mis  for  Japan, 
Some  call  bas  prevailed 
for  Javas,  but  the  supply 
is  limited. 
They  are worth  about  the same as Japan. 
Domestic  soits  seem  to  be  rather neg­
lected  and,  while  no  change  bas  taken 
place,  quotations  are  about  nominal. 
Prime  to  choice,  5J£@ 6^c.

Dullness  and 

inactivity  have  pre­
vailed  all  the  week  in  the  spice  market. 
While  there 
is  rather  more  strength  to 
the  pepper  market  than  for  other goods, 
there  is  little  to  note  of  interest.  Singa­
pore  black,  ioJ^@io|^c 
in  an  invoice 
way.  West  Coast,  ioX@ ioj£c.

Grocery  grades  of  molasses  have  been 
in  about  the  usual  request,  but  as  sup­
plies  are  rather  short,  the  tone  of  the 
market  has  taken  on  some  strength  and 
quotations  are  steady  and  firm  if  no 
higher.  Low  grades  are 
in  sufficient 
supply  to  rather  more  than  meet  the  de­
mand  and  prices  sag.  Syrups  are  quiet, 
both  exporters  and  home  dealers  seem­
ing  to  be  waiting  for  future  develop­
ments.

Dried 

In  canned  goods  there  is  a  lull,  as  is 
usual  between  seasons,  and  dealers  are 
making  ready 
for  the  coming  pack. 
Business  is  not  dull,  however,  and  is  in 
a  fairly  satisfactory  condition.  Corn 
is  worth  6s@7oc  for  No.  2  standard, 
as  to brand  and  quality.  This  for  New 
York  pack.  Future  N.  Y .,  70c;  future 
Maine,  8o@8sc  f.  o.  b.  Portland.  To­
matoes  are  duller  than  any  other  staple 
in  the  canned  goods  line  just  now and 
work  out  from  7o@72j£c.
fruits  are  steady.  Apricots, 
prunes and  peaches  are  in  light  supply 
and  are  very  strongly  held.  Domestic 
dried  fruits  are  working  out  fairly  well 
and  the  demand 
for  fancy  evaporated 
apples  has  been  quite  gratifying.

Lemons  and  oranges  have  both  been 
in  pretty  good  demand  and  prices  are 
steady.  Sicily lemons  are  worth  $2. io@ 
2.90.  California  oranges  are  worth  $4.70 
for  fancy  navels;  choice,  $4.  Bananas 
are  quiet,  within  a  range  of  $i.i5@ i.25 
for  firsts,  per  bunch.
lessened  demand 
Freer  arrivals  and 
have  combined  to  cause  a  weaker  but­
ter  market  and  prices  have  dropped  i@ 
2c  all  round.  Best  Western  creamery  is 
worth. 18c  and  seems  to  be  quite  freely 
offered  at  that.  Firsts,  I7@ I7K c ;  sec­
onds, i6@ i6)£c ;  fancy  imitation  cream­
ery  is  in  very  moderate  demand  at  i6@ 
fancy  Western  dairy,  1 3 ®
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worth  from  I4@i4j^c  and  factory  from 
I3^ @ I4C.

Old  cheese has been  in  pretty  active 
demand  and  the  market 
is  firm.  Full 
cream,  fall  made,  large  size,  colored, 
I2@i2j^c.  Fancy  full  cream,  small  size, 
I2J^@I3C.  New  cheese 
is  net  wanted 
and  the  situation  is  not  one  containing 
much  encouragement  for  dealers  at  the 
moment.  The  weather 
is  t >o  cold  for 
active  transactions.
Eggs  are  dull.  Receipts  have  been 
quite 
large  afid 
the  demand  rather 
is  woitb 
limited.  Best  Western  stock 
14&C  and  average  grades  a  cent  less.
The  bean  market  is  dull  and  general­
ly  rather  unsettled. 
Choice  marrow, 
$i.45@ i  47j&. 
$1  3o@ 
1.32JÎ.  Red  kidney,  choice,  $1.72% 
@1  75-
Potatoes  are  worth  $2. i2j£@2.25  for 
Western  The  supply  seems  to  be  am­
ple  of  all  sorts.

Pea,  choice, 

Strawberries  are  quite  plenty  and  are 

worth  i5@3oc  per  quart.

Status  of the St.  Louis  Potato Market.
St.  Louis,  April  25—Trade  has  been 
dull  and  the  movement  of potatoes light. 
The  market  has  been  undergoing a com­
plete change.  Owing  to  the 
increased 
receipts  of  Southern  and  home-grown 
green  stuff,  which  is  now  quite abundant 
and  getting  cheap,  peddlers,  grocers and 
market  men  are  buying  this  green  stuff 
and  neglecting  potatoes.  Consumers, 
too,  are  using  it,  which  cuts  off the  con­
sumption  of  potatoes;  so,  altogether, 
the  potato  trade  has  been  dull.  Most 
of  the  offerings 
fact 
nearly  all  of  the  receipts—have  been 
poor  quality.  Choice  or  fancy  white 
potatoes  have  been  scarce and  are  still 
scarce.  For  such,  there  has  been  a  right 
good  trade  and  considerable  enquiry  for 
next  week.  We  believe  shippers  will 
do  well  on  any  shipments  of  this kind 
of  stock.  There 
is  a  strong  undertone 
to the  market,  while  trade  is  dull.

in  potatoes—in 

limited  trade 

Seed  trade  is  almost  over.  Dealers 
are  having  but  a 
for 
Obios,  but  better  for  Rose.  The  trade 
for  Rose  will  last  longer,  but  it,  too,  is 
nearly  over.  We  rather  look  for higher 
prices  on  fancy  Burbanks  and  Rurals, 
with  rather slow trade for common stock, 
and  we  believe  the  trade  will  make  a 
wider  distinction  between  fine stock  and 
poor.  Load  and  ship  your  potatoes; 
don’t  wait  until  the  last  horn  blows  and 
hot  weather  comes. 
If  you  do,  it  means 
losses.

Cabbage  and  onions  are  about  over 
in. 
here  for  this  season  until  new  come 
New  potatoes  are  arriving 
in  small 
quantities  from  the  South  and  selling 
well.  Receipts  will 
increase  steadily 
from  this  out,  although  no  carlots  are 
expected  until  the 
latter  part  of  May. 
They  are  much  later  than  usual.

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 $5.00 we will send you the  full  secret  process  and 
a box of Lactobutu sufficient to treat 500 pounds.  With future orders for Lactobutu to 
those who have purchased  the process we will send enough to treat 500 pounds for  $2. 

Write for Testimonials. 

riention this Paper.

The Lacio 
Butter 60., 
145  L>a Salle St..
Chicago.  III. 

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J.  W.  LANSING.

WHOLESALE  DEALER  IN

BUTTER  AND  EGGS

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. 
I will give  I2}£c,  delivered in Buffalo, for all you can send me on commission.

REFERENCES:

Buffalo Cold Storage Co., Buffalo, N. Y . 
Peoples Bank, Buffalo,  N. Y .

Dun or Bradstreet. 
Michigan Tradesman.

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Sharp  Butter  Fight  in  Illinois.

The  dairymen  and  the  oleomargarine 
men  of  Illinois  fought  a  draw  in  the 
lower  branch  of  the  Legislature  the 
other day.  Each  faction  had  a  bill  up 
for  passage,  and  each  succeeded  in  de­
feating the  other’s  bill.  The  bill  allow­
ing  the  makers  of  oleo  to  color  their 
product  and  specifying  that  the  pack­
age  containing  the  oleo  shall be branded 
as  such,  and  that  any  oleo  sold  out  ot 
the  package  shall  be  marked  with  a 
stamp,  came  up  first,  but  the  butter- 
makers  arose  and  promptly  defeated  it. 
Next  came  up  the  buttermakers'  meas­
ure,  known  as  the  bi ttle  hill,  which 
proposed  to  punish  anyone  having a bot 
tie  with  the  name  of  the  owner  blown  in 
the  glass  or a  stamped  beer  keg  or  milk 
can,  as  the  possession  of  a  bottle,  keg 
or  can.  under  such  circumstances, 
is 
deemed  prima  facie  evidence  of  guilt, 
and  the  milk  dealers  urged  the  passage 
of  the  bill,  claiming  their  cans  are  he- 
ing  stolen.  The  oleo  people  hit  at  the 
milk  dealers  by  killing  their  bill,  so  up 
to  this  time  honors are  even.

Enjoyment 

is  the  sweet  satisfaction 
of  knowing  that  your  income  is  more 
than  you can  possibly  spend.

The  business  in  which  you  know  you 
is  always 

could  make the  most  money 
monopolized  by  others.

Extra Fancy Navel Oranges

Car  lots  or  less.  Prices  lowest.

Maynard  &  Reed,

54  South  Ionia  Street, 

Grand  Rapids.  Michigan.

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

G em  F ibre P ackage C o.,  Detroit.
S p ecia l  B la n k s  for  P rod u ce  D ealers

We make a specialty of this class of work and soUcit  correspondence 
with those who need anything In thin line.

T R A D ESM A N   CO M PANY, 

-   Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

First  Impressions  Should  be  Heeded. 
Written for the Tradesman.

About  six  mouths  ago  a  well-dressed,
genteel-looking  young  man  applied  lor 
and  secured  a  room  in  the  house  where 
I  live.

I 

was  introduced  to  Mr.  Louker,  the 

new  lodger,  shortly  after  his  arrival  and 
I  must  say  that  my  first 
impression  of 
him  was  not  a  pleasant  one.  As  time 
went  by,  I  met  him  frequently  in  the 
parlor  of  an  evening,  where  it  was  cus­
tomary  for  the  lodgers  to  gather. 
I  am 
a  firm  believer  in  “ first  impressions;“  
but  as  I  became  better  acquainted  with 
this  young  man  I  came  to the conclusion 
that, 
impressions  had 
been  at  fault.

for  once, 

first 

in  a 

Louker  had  been  in  the  bouse  about 
five  months  when,  one  evening,  he came 
to  my  room  evidently  gieatly  disturbed. 
He  entered  at  once  upon  the  subject  of 
his  errand  by  saying:  “ Mac,  I  want  to 
ask  a  great  favor of  you.  Will  you  lend 
me $10  for  about  two  weeks?  You  have 
no  idea  how  I  dislike  to  ask  a  favor  of 
this  kind,  but  I  have  been  obliged  to 
engage 
lawsuit  for  the  recovery 
of  a  note  which  was  forcibly  taken  from 
me  the  other  day.  This  seems 
like  a 
rather  queer  statement,”   he  continued, 
“ but  I  may  as  well  tell  you  the  facts  in 
the  case: 
Just  before  I  came  here  to 
live  I  loaned  a  friend  of  mine $200,  tak­
ing  his  note  payable  in  six  months  as 
security. 
I  was  in  much  better  circum­
stances  then,  as  I  had  a  monthly  allow­
ance  from  my  father,  aside  from  my 
wages here.  The  allowance  from  home 
stopped  two  months ago.  on  account  of 
in  business,  and  I 
my  father’s  failure 
have  since  been 
somewhat  short  of 
funds,  as  my  salary  is  not  large.  The 
other  day  I  received  a  letter  from  my 
friend  to  whom  I  had  loaned  the  money 
requesting  me  to  call  at  his  house,  as 
be  wished  to  settle  his  debt.  You  may 
be  sure  I  called;  but 
instead  of  my 
friend  it  was  his  wife  who  met  me.  She 
explained  that  her  husband  had  been 
unexpectedly  called  away,  but  that  she 
would  attend  to  the  business 
in  hand. 
She  requested  to  see the note  and,  upon 
my  handing  it  to  her,  deliberately  tore 
it  to  pieces  before  my  eyes  and  left  the 
rage  and 
room. 
amazement.  But  what  could  I  do? 
I 
at  once  determined  to  institute  a  suit 
to  compel  the  payment  of  the  debt;  and 
it  is  for the purpose of  securing  a  lawyer 
that  I  ask  this  favor of  you,  M ac.”

I  was  dumb  with 

I  had  no  reason  to  doubt  the  truth  of 
Louker's  story  and  so  loaned  him  the 
$io,  taking  as  security  merely  his  writ­
ten  promise  to  pay  within  a  certain 
time.

The  two  weeks  went  by  and  Louker 
came  to  me  again,  saying  that  he  could 
not  pay  me,  as he  had  expected  to  be 
able  to  do.  His  suit had  been  post­
poned,  but  as  soon  as 
it  was  called 
again  and  be  had  recovered  the  money 
he  would  square  bis  account  with  me. 
“ By  the  way,”   he  continued, 
“ you 
must  come  over  and  see  me—I ’ve 
moved. ’ ’
“ No! 

I  wasn’t  aware  of 

Is  that  so? 

it.  Where did  you  move  to?’ ’

“ Just  around  the  corner—1720  Grant 
avenue.  A  friend  of  mine  rents  a  suite 
of  rooms  there  and  I ’m living with  him, 
so  my  room  doesn’t  cost  me  a  cent.  It’s 
a  big  help  just  now,  I  can  tell  you.’ ’

“ I  know  a  young  man  by  the  name  of 
Karl  who  lives  at  that  number,’ ’  I  re­
marked.

“ Do  you,  indeed?  Why, he’s  the one 
I ’m  rooming  with.  That  will  make 
it 
still  more  pleasant  when  you  come  and 
see me.  Well,  I  must be  going—don’t

forget  to  give  us  a  call  whenever  you
can.”

After  Louker had  gone  I  found myself 
wondering  bow 
it  happened  that  Gus 
Karl  was  renting  a  suite  of  rooms  and 
paying  the  entire  rent.  During  the  fol­
lowing  noon  I  called  around  where  Karl 
worked,  and  was  informed  by  him  that 
bis  new  room-mate  paid  half  the  rent! 
Louker  had 
lied  to  me,  and  I  at  once 
made  up  my  mind  that  there  was  some­
thing  wrong. 
If  there  was I  had  a  right 
to  know  it.

I  had  an  interview  with  my  landlord, 
who  told  me  that  Louker  owed  him  for 
three  months’  room-rent,  and  that  he 
bad  kept  bis  trunk  and  other  effects  as 
security  for  the  same.  From  there  I 
went  to  the  courthouse  to  find  out  bow 
much  truth  there  was  in  the  story  about 
the  lawsuit.  There  was  such  a  suit;  but 
it  had,  at  the  request  of  the  prosecutor, 
been  twice  postponed,  and  finally  with­
drawn  entirely. 
I  also  discovered  that 
the  withdrawal  was  due  to  the  fact  that 
the  defendants  in  the  case  had  brought 
a  countercharge against  Louker. 
It was 
stipulated  that  if  Louker  withdrew  bis 
suit  the  countercharge  would  also  be 
withdrawn.

The  party  who  had  given  the  note 
was  a  prominent  clergyman.  He  had 
been  discovered  by  Louker  in  an  intox­
icated  condition,  which  he  did  not  wish 
to  become  known  to  any one else.  Lou­
ker  saw  a  chance,  as  he  thought, to make 
some  money  and  by  threatening  expo­
sure  had  frightened  the  preacher  into 
giving  him  a  note  for $200.

But,  like  many  another  rascal,  he 
overstepped  the  mark.  When  the  note 
became  due  Louker  wrote  to  the  clergy­
man  requesting  a  settlement.  No atten­
tion  was  paid  to  his  letter.  He  wrote 
a  second  time,  threatening  exposure 
if 
the  note  was  not  paid.  This  second 
letter  met  with  no  better  success  than 
the  first.  Then  Louker  called 
in  per­
Instead  of  meeting  his  victim,  as 
son. 
he  had  expected,  he encountered a  much 
in  the  shape  of 
more  capable  person 
the  clergyman's  doughty 
little  wife. 
The  result  of  this  encounter  we  have  al­
ready  stated.

When  Louker  brought  his  suit  he 
found  a  countercharge  of  blackmail 
against  himself,  with  the  letters  which 
he  bad  written  as  conclusive  evidence. 
It  was  now  bis  turn  to  feel  apprhen- 
sion.  He  gladly  withdrew  his  suit  and 
dropped  the  matter  entirely.

Five  years 

in  the  penitentiary  is  a 
long,  long  time,  and  be  narrowly  es­
caped  it.  He  redeemed  bis  trunk  from 
the  landlord,  as  he  needed  the  clothes  it 
contained.  But  I  still  have  his  I.  O.  U. 
for $10. 

Ma c  A l l a n .

Profits  and  Discounts.

The  following  should  be  posted  on 
It  means,  dis­

every  merchant’s  desk. 
count  your b ills:

1.  One-half  per  cent,  on  a  thirty-day 
bill,  paid  in  ten  days,  is  equal  to  inter­
est  at  the  rate  of  8  per cent,  per  annum.
2.  One  and  one-half  per  cent,  on  a 
sixty-day  bill,  paid  in  ten days,  is  equal 
to  interest  at  the  rate  of  11  percent,  per 
annum.

3.  Four  per  cent,  off  on a four months’ 
bill,  paid 
in  thirty  days  with  a  3  per 
cent,  discount,  is  interest  at  the  rate  of 
12  per  cent,  per annum.

4.  Five  per  cent,  discount  off  on  a 
four  months’  bill  is  interest  at  the  rate 
of  15  per  cent,  per annum ;  or if paid  in 
thirty  days,  less  4  per  cent.,  it  is  16 per 
cent,  per annum.
Bills  paid  are  safer than money in  any 
bank,  however  strong.  Cash  discounts 
are  the  dealers’  first  profit,  and  one  be 
is sure of.

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Well,  I  should  say  so!  Even
the  cash  register  is  working 
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

y  U needa 
*■  Biscuit

Dwight’s
Cleaned
Currants

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

Wolverine Spice  Co.,

Grand Rapids.

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Feed

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

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Shoes  and  Leather
Value  of  Window  Display  to  the Shoe

Dealer.

The  show  window  can  be  made  one 
of  the  most  ^effective  of  the  advertise­
ments  employed  by  the  shoe dealer.  To 
do that  much  attention  should  be  given 
to  the  changing  of  the  displays  from 
time  to  time  so  that  the  samples  shown 
may  be  bright  and  clean  and  appropri­
ate  to  the  season  or  the  weather.  The 
shoe  window  that  is  the  most  attractive 
drawing  card 
is  the  one  arranged  by 
the  man  who  follows  the  changes  of  the 
weather,  or  who  takes  advantage  of  such 
passing  opportunities  for  catching  the 
attention  of  the  passing  throngs  as  the 
season  may  present.  A  window  which 
is  being  frequently  changed  will  soon 
become  notable  on  that  account  and 
people  will  stop  to  look  at  it  knowing 
that  they  will  see  something  worth  stop­
ping  for  from  time  to  time.  After draw­
ing  attention  the  thing  to  do  is  to  rivet 
it  so  that  a  customer  may  be  nailed. 
Well  designed  price  cards  will  do  that 
and  they  are  necessary  for  the  purpose 
desired.  Frequently  some  one  will  see 
a  shoe  that  strikes  the  fancy,  but  will 
pass  on 
in  the  fear  that  the  price  is 
prohibitive  unless  the  cost  of  the  shoe 
accompanies  it. 
In  cases  where  goods 
are  lowered  in  value,  or  where  a  special 
bargain  is  to  be  announced,  or  if  a  spe­
cial  reduction  is  to  be  made  for  a  time, 
the  window  display  can  be  made  the 
best  advertising  medium.  Many  good 
advertisers  who  seek  to  reach 
the  pur­
chasing  public  through  the  daily  press 
or by  sending  cards  through  the  mails 
find  that  their  main  dependence 
for 
effective  advertising  comes  through  the 
show  window.

*  

*  

*

Ind. 

A  good  idea  for  a  show  window  comes 
from  Rochester, 
The  Hoosier 
Shoe  Store,  of  that  city,  is  using  bar­
rel  hoops  in  a  very  effective  way  in  the 
rear  of  a  window.  These  hoops  are  set 
on  edge,  in  a  pyramidical  form,  in  the 
background  and  within  each  hoop  is 
suspended  a  shoe.  Starting  with  five 
hoops  as  a  bottom  row,  using  four  hoops 
in  the  second  row  and  decreasing  to­
ward  the  top  until  only  one  hoop  crowns 
the  summit,  an  opportunity  is  given  to 
make  a  good  display  of  fifteen  different 
patterns.  The  hoops  can  be  covered 
with  white  cheese  cloth  or  with  colored 
crepe  paper and  each  hoop  can  contain 
such  a  shoe  as  is  desirable  to  show  at 
any  season. 
In  placing  these  hoops  the 
background  of  the  window  is  used,  but 
the  display 
is  set  out  such  a  distance 
from  the  rear  wall  that  the  decorations 
there  used  are  not obscured.  The  meth­
od  of  fastening  the  hoops  is  to  nail  the 
bottom  row  to  the  window  and  then  to 
wire  the  other  rows  to  those  below.  A 
number  of  hoops  can  be  used,  either 
more  or  less  than  here  given,  according 
to  the  size  of  the  window.  The  enter­
prising  shoe  window  dresser  can  also 
suggest  other  designs  to  be  made  from 
the  same  application  and  they  may  be 
arranged  to  suit  the  size  and  shape  of 
the  window  as  circumstances  may  dic­
tate. 
in 
the  hoops  it  is desirable that the  heavier 
men's  goods  should  be  used  in  the  bot­
tom  row  and  the  lighter  goods  may  be 
shown  as  the  height  increases,  the  top 
hoop  being  used  for  a  dainty  pair  of 
baby  shoes.

In  arranging  the  shoe  display 

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The  present  season  is  peculiarly  that 
one  in  which  the  most  effective  window 
display  can  be  made.  Spring  usually

opens  with  an  early  in-rush  of  warm  air 
and  swelling  buds  and  the  season is typ­
ical  of  the  birth  of  new  things;  of  that 
time  when  all  things  become  new  and 
the  old  things  are  passing away.  People 
are  looking  about  for  something  new  to 
wear  at  this  season,  and  the  various 
window  displays  are  closely  watched 
for  new  styles,  new  patterns  and  new 
shapes  in  footwear.  They  are  looking 
also  for  bargains  and  the  show  window 
can  be  made  a  more  effective  salesman 
than  any  employed  on  salary 
in  the 
house.  The  poet  sings,  “ In  the  spring 
the  young  man  lightly  turns  to  thoughts 
of 
love,"  or  some  such  idea,  but  it  is 
not  alone  of  love that he thinks.  He  also 
wants  to  know  what  he  can  buy  to  make 
his  love  affairs  turn  out  to  his  advan­
tage  and  he  watches  closely  the  window 
displays  for  the  most  fetching  ideas 
in 
shoes  with  which  to  complete  his  rai­
ment  so  that  be  will  make  a  good  im­
pression  on  the  object  of  bis  love  and 
will  knock  out  the  other  fellow.  Simi- 
laily  the  young  and  pretty  girl  is 
look­
ing  for  dainty  shoes  that  will  peep  out 
in  the  most  enticing  manner  from  be­
neath  her  new  spring  skirt.  The  mid 
die  aged  who  buy  for  comfort  and  style 
combined,  and  the  elderly  people  who 
buy  for  comfort  alone,  are  also 
looking 
in  the  show  window  for  shoes  to  wear. 
More  people  see  the  contents  of  a  win­
dow  than  the  interior  of  the  store.  The 
habit  of  watching  the  windows for  styles 
and  prices 
is  a  growing  one  and  very 
frequently  the  quality  of  the  stock  for 
sale  in  the  store  is  judged  by  the  sam­
ples  displayed  in  the  window.

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Too  often  the  mistake 

is  made  of 
is  desired  is  not 
imagining  that  what 
in  stock  because  no  display  is 
carried 
made  of 
it  in  the  window.  One  show 
window  after  another  is  looked  at  and
the  would-be purchaser compares values, 
qualities  and  designs  before  buying. 
This  requires  iess  time,  and 
is  much 
less  trouble,  than  to  make  enquiries 
from  the  clerks  in  the  store.  It  then  be­
comes  a  matter  of  policy  for  the  enter­
prising  merchant  to  display  in  his  win­
dows  his  most  seasonable  stocks.  When 
these  are  arranged  in  an  attractive  way, 
and  are  accompanied  by  appropriately 
worded  price  cards,  the  stream  of  travel 
past  the  window  will  be  arrested  and 
some  little  portion  of  the  crowd  will 
filter  through  into  the  store.  When  the 
window  display  is  brightened  with novel 
arrangements  or  by  the  application  of 
new 
ideas  the  tide  of  travel  will  be 
more  effectively stemmed  and  the  goods 
will  sell  themselves  by  reason  of  their 
attractiveness.  While  the  window  dis­
play 
is  not  everything  in  a  shoe  store, 
it 
is  of  very  great  importance,  some­
times,  in  securing  the  customer  and  it 
should  be  looked  after  as  carefully  as 
is  any  other  department  of  the  success­
ful  bouse. —Shoe  and  Leather Gazette.

Geo.  H.  Reeder & Co.,

19 South  Ionia Street, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Agents  for  LYCOMING  and 
K E Y ST O N E   R U B B E R S .  Our 
stock  is  complete  so we  can  fill 
your orders at once.  Also a line 
of U.  S.  R u b b e r  Co.  Co m bin a­
Send  us  your  orders 
t io n s. 
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.

Now  is  the  time

to  send  your  orders  in  for  Mackin­
tosh  Wading  Pants for  trout  fishing; 
also  Lawn  Tennis,  Outing  and  Yacht­
ing Shoes.  W e  carry a large stock.
Also  a  full  line  of  Base  Balls and 
other Sporting Goods.

STUDLEY &  BARCLAY,

4  Monroe street, 

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Grand Ralpds, Mich.

Herold-Bertsch 
Shoe Co. JS J4

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Manufacturers 
and  Jobbers

Rindge, Kalmbach,  Logie & Co.,

12,14 and  16  Pearl Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Mannfactarera aid 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 

prompt attention.

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Sporting  Boots.
Also  Duck 
Boots  for 
H ard  W ear. 
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HIRTH,
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GRAND
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CommercialTravelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President,  Ch a s.  S.  St e v e n s,  Tpsilanti;  Secre­
tary, J. C. S a u n d e r s, Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C. 
G o uld. Saginaw,
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers'  Association. 
President,  J a k e s   E.  S a t ,  Detroit;  Secretary 

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

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

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

Grand Rapids Council No. 131.

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

dent Association.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President, F . G. T r u sco tt, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A . F .  Wix so n,  Marquette.

STARTING  RIGHT.

Candid  Advice  to  the  Embryo  Travel­

ing  Salesman.

Written for the T r a d e sm a n .

Traveling  for  a  wholesale house  is  not 
merely a business;  in  these days  it  has 
arisen  almost to the dignity  of a  profes­
sion.  To  honestly  represent  a  leading 
wholesale  house  is a calling  of  which  no 
one  need  be  ashamed,  and 
in  which 
many  distinguished  men—statesmen, 
lawyers  and  clergymen—have  at  one 
time  or another  been  engaged.  F ix  this 
point  in  your  mind  so  firmly  that  noth­
ing  can  dislodge  it,  even  for a  moment; 
it  will  give  you  the  self-possession  and 
assurance  that  you  will  find  among  the 
essential  elements  of  success.  Having 
settled  the  fact  that  your  calling  is  an 
honorable  one,  see  that  you  confer  upon 
that  calling  honor  and  credit  by  master­
ing 
its  details.  No  one  can  attain  a 
large  measure  of  success  who  does  not 
understand  thoroughly  the  details  of  his 
business.  These  details  can  not  be 
learned  at  once.  Learn  as  you  go  along; 
but  first,  and  above  all  other  things, 
learn  about  your  own  company  and  the 
goods  it handles.  That,  at a glance,  may 
seem  to  be  a  large  undertaking,  but 
it 
is  not.  A man  of  reasonable  intelligence 
will  master  it  quickly,  if  he  undertakes 
it  systematically  and  pursues  it  dili­
gently.  Perhaps  the  very  best  starting 
point  on  your  round  to  discovery  is  the 
literature  of  your  company.  Take  sev­
eral  of  the  price  lists  issued  by  your 
company,  read  and  re-read  them;  study 
them  hafd  and  patiently,  as  you  studied 
your  lessons 
in  grammar  and  mathe­
matics,  and  before  you  are  aware  of 
it 
your  mind  will  have  become  a  store­
house  of  information  as  to  the  details 
of  prices  and  lines  of  goods  carried.

Supposing  yourself  to  be  alone,  im­
agine  a  buyer  before  you,  and  hammer 
away  at  the  imaginary  person  until  you 
find  yourself  able  to "present  to  him  a 
logical  and  convincing  course of reason­
ing. 
It  will  give  you  practice  and  the 
confidence  in  yout  ability  to“ talk” tbat 
you  will  need  in  actual  experience when 
on  the  road.  With  close  application, 
two  or three days  will  have  fitted  the be­
ginner  for  the  serious  business  of taking 
orders.  Don’t  defer  your first attempt 
at  soliciting. 
Idling  is  to  be  deplored 
in  any  vocation,  but  it  is  especially  de­
in  the  grocery  business,  where 
plorable 
is  dependent 
the  measure  of  success 
wholly  on  the  time,  energy  and 
intelli­
gence  employed.  A  first  attempt  may 
be 
likened  to  a  cold  plunge bath  on  a 
frosty  morning;  it  is  dreaded  until  the

is 

plunge 
taken,  after  which  come 
added  strength  and exhilaration.  There­
fore,  take  your  first  plunge  quickly,  lest 
the  dread  prove  too  strong  for  you.

Before  making  your  maiden  venture 
map  out  your  plans  carefully.  Don't 
rush  out  aimlessly,  without  definite 
preparation,  hoping  for  some  favorable 
opportunity  to  present  itself.  Seek  for 
and  make  your  opportunities;  prepare a 
list  of  dealers  that  you  propose  to  see 
and  then  follow 
it  up  by  seeing  all  of 
those  that  you  can  reach.  Do  not  count 
too  strongly  on  closing  a  good  trade  the 
first  day ;  perhaps  you may not  close  one 
good  one  in  a  week;  older  agents  have 
gone  longer  without  definite  results,  but 
they  are  accustomed  to  looking  philo­
sophically  on  apparent  defeat,  and  the 
agent  of  experience  knows  that ultimate 
victory  comes  of  apparent  defeat  often 
and  that  steady  and  determined  effort 
will  win  the  battle  eventually.  An  ex­
cellent  idea,  in the opinion of the  writer, 
is  to  spend  a  few  days  in prospecting  or 
“ pioneering,”   selecting  with  discrim­
ination  the  buyers  that  seem  promising, 
and  then  calling  to  his  aid  the  assist­
ance  of  a  really  first-class  man  to  help 
him  “ close.”   By  a  careful  observance 
of  the  man's  manner  of  presenting  bis 
arguments  and  his  methods  of  work  the 
beginner  obtains  in  a  few  days  a  prac­
tical  knowledge  of  the 
little  details  of 
the  canvassing  art  that  are  so  impos­
sible  to  describe,  yet  so  essential  to 
success.  He  receives  a  series  of  object 
lessons  in  that  combination  of  finesse 
and  tact  that  practically constitutes skill 
in  soliciting  orders  for  one’s house.  The 
writer has  been  convinced  so  firmly  that 
the  help  of  an  experienced  salesman  at 
the  outset  of  a  beginner’s  career 
in­
dispensable  to  his  early  and  pronounced 
success  that,  were  be  limited  to a  single 
suggestion,  all  others  would  be  sacri­
ficed  to  this  one  idea.

is 

One would  think,  from  the jokers’  ref­
erences,  that  the  new  man  was  general­
ly  a  gigantic  failure  on  his  first trip ; 
but the truth  is that  many  of  our  most 
successful  salesmen  speak  of  their  first 
trip  as  one  of  the  very  best  they  ever 
bad.  The  new  man  looks  back  and  ac­
knowledges  the  truth  of  the  old  saying, 
“ Where  ignorance  is  bliss,  ’tis  folly  to 
be  wise. ”  
In  the blissful  ignorance  of 
his  inexperience  he  called on men whom 
older  travelers  looked  upon  as  order 
proof.  The  very  audacity  of  the  thing 
pleased  the  tough  customers  whom  old 
travelers  avoided,  and  he  conquered.

The  new  man  is  not  half  so  much  an 
object  of  sympathy  on  his  first trip as on 
his  second.  He  sells everybody  the  first 
time  around  and he  sells  good b ills;  but 
when  he  calls  again  he 
is  met  with, 
“ We bought  too  many  goods  of  you  on 
the  other trip;  will  not need  any  more 
for  some time. ”  
is  then  he  wishes 
his  first  trip  had  not been  quite  such  a 
good  one,  and  that  he  bad  something 
for  the  next.

It 

The  busy  buyer  is  an  extremely  busy 
man.  He 
is  first  to  arrive  and  last  to 
leave  and  from  the  moment  he  pushes 
up  the  top  of  his  de?k  and  calls  his 
stenographer until  he  slams  it  down  and 
starts  out  he  is  hard  at  work. 
Indeed, 
his  absorption  and  the  way  in  which  he 
sinks  his  personality  out  of  sight  and 
puts  on  a  buyer’s 
inscrutability  have 
earned  for him  the title of 
among the  other  men  in  the  house.  By 
the  time  he  has  finished  his  morning 
dictation 
is  usually  some  one 
waiting  to  see  him  and  occasionally  two 
or three  men  are  lined  up  watching  for 
a  chance  to  get  at him. 
I  have  seen 
him  spend  the  entire  forenoon with trav­

the Sphinx 

there 

elers,  working  them  through  as  quickly 
as  possible  and  doing bis  work  well,find 
others waiting for  him  when  he  returned 
from  lunch,  and finally  have  to  turn  men 
away  with :  “ Come  in  the  morning. 
I 
listen  to  you  to-night,”   in  order 
can’t 
to  get  his  mail  signed  in  time  to  get 
it 
dispatched.  Buyers,  as  a  rule,  are  busy 
men,  and  to  such  a  conversational  bore 
becomes  a  thing  of  terror.

It 

is  difficult  to  make  a  good  road 
salesman  out  of  a  woman. 
In  a  dry 
goods  store,  in  a  retail  way,  where  the 
goods  are  sold  to  the  user,  she  does  ex­
cellently.  her tact,  quickness  of  percep­
tion  and  deftness  of  touch  making  her 
valuable. 
She  can  even  successfully 
manage  a  department ‘  in  which  the 
same  faculties  are  employed  on  a  larger 
scale,  but  the  experience,  training  and 
method  of  thought  necessary  to  a  road 
salesman  are  entirely  foreign  to  any­
thing 
in  her  knowledge.  Freight  and 
time,  equalization  and  exclusive  terri­
tory,  cash  discounts  and  future  datings, 
competitors’  prices  and  the  quality  of 
their  goods,  the  relative  value  of  the 
trade  of  different  houses  and  the  judg­
ment  as  to  when  to  grant  the  “ extra 
five”   and  when  to  withhold  it—these 
are  Greek  to  her.  Give  her  samples  and 
uniform  prices  from  which  there 
is  no 
deviation,  let  her  quote  her  one  price 
and  praise  the  goods  all  she  wishes,  and 
if  that  were  all  she  would  do  w ell;  but 
it  is  not  all.

“ We  want  orders,”   writes 

The  salesman  is  a  natural  expansion­
ist. 
the 
house,  and  he  counts  that  day  as  lost 
whose  low  descending  sun  sees no requi­
sition  for  goods  mailed  in.  With  all 
his  desire  to  work  for  the  house’s  best 
interest  and  to  do  what  he  knows  will 
please  the  men  at  home,  he  occasionally 
allows  himself  to  be  overpersuaded  and 
falls  back  upon  the  plea  of  expediency 
in  explaining  to  his  house  why  he  de­
viated  from  instructions.

The  office  man,  on  the  contrary,  is  a 
born  “ detailist,”   if  I  may  coin  a  word, 
whose life 
is  spent  in  working  out  the 
sum  of  2  multiplied  by  2  makes  4,  and 
who  sees  no  sense  nor  reason  in altering 
either  the  factors  or  the  result.  A  loss 
through  a  bad  account  or any  reduction 
from  the  maximum  profit 
the  order 
should  yield,  he  feels  as  a  personal  re­
proach,  and  so  he  anxiously  guards 
against  any  tendency  toward 
looseness 
of  method  or  a  generosity  that  may 
diminish  the  total  footings.  While  the 
salesman 
is  an  optimist  working  in  a 
hail-fellow-well-met  spirit  of  brotherly 
love,  the 
is  a  cold­
blooded  duffer  with  a  diseased  liver and 
a  memory  that refuses to take cognizance 
of  any  claims  of  love,  kinship or  friend­
ship,  expediency  or 
large  profit,  that 
might  change  the  footings  of  the ledgers 
to  the  firm’s  detriment.

ideal  credit  man 

The  book-keeper,  as  well  as  the  office 
manager,  comes  in  for  a  share  of  the 
average  salesman’s 
for  he 
holds him  accountable  for  many  of  the

ill-regard, 

troubles  with  customers  that  arise  from 
disputes  over  payments.  A  trifling  dis­
crepancy,  or  a  series  of  them, 
that 
amount  to  very  little 
in  dollars  and 
cents  will  disturb  bis  balance  and  cause 
lengthening  column  of  figures  on  the 
a 
ledger  without  the  red 
line  across  it 
which  it  seems  the  book-keeper’s  pas­
sion  to  draw.  It  causes  him  trouble  and 
extra  work 
in  his  statements  and  trial 
balances,  and as  it  is  usually  left  to  him 
in  the  office  to keep all tag ends straight­
ened  out,  or,  at  least,  to  see  that  they 
are  not  forgotten,  it  is  small  wonder  if 
they  form  a  constant  source  of  irritation 
and  are  magnified 
into  undue  propor­
tion. 
It  is  very  easy  for  him  to  call  the 
attention  of  the  office  manager  to  irreg­
in  such  a  manner  as  will  put 
ularities 
them 
in  their  worst  light  and  by  his 
prompting  infuse  a  tone  into the  corres­
pondence  that  will  work  more harm than 
the  loss  of  many  times  the  amount 
in­
volved.

I  am  very  sure  I  am  not  alone  in  the 
trade  in  looking  upon  the  young  man 
with  kindly  feelings  when  he  opens  the 
door  and  wishing  him  success  in  his 
work.  He 
is  the  merchant  of  the  fu­
ture.  Out  of  his  ranks  came  the  men 
who  are at  the  helm  of  affairs  to-day, 
and  he  and  his  successful  companions 
will  take  our  places  in  the  not  distant 
future.  We  have  made  many 
improve­
ments  on  the  ways  of  our  predecessors ; 
he  will  be  a  distinct  improvement  upon 
us  older  men.  All  the  advice  on  meth­
ods  of  work  will  be  thrown  away  unless 
the  young  drummer  realizes  and  puts 
into  practice  the  idea  that  success  can 
not  come  to  him  without  the  constant 
exercise  of  bard  work,  perseverance 
and  never-failing  courage.  Throw  your 
personality  and  your  peifect  enthusiasm 
into  your  efforts;  use  your  brain  as  well 
as  your  tongue;  value  your  time,  and 
take  advantage  of  your  opportunities.
G eo.  D.  R ic e .

Never  marry  for  money,  but  always 
If  a  girl  has  money  though, 
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in  which  a 

Fire  Insurance  Pointers  For Druggists.
In  “ placing  a  risk”   the  insurer  will 
in  some  localities  be  met  at  the  outset 
with  the  question  of  cost  as  presented 
by  “ mutual’ ’  companies,  in  which  the 
members  assess  themselves  according  to 
the  amount  of  losses,and  the  stock  com­
panies 
fixed  premium  is 
paid,  regardless  of  the  outcome  in  that 
respect  The  “ mutual’ ’  plans  may  ap­
pear  cheaper,  but 
it  must  be  remem­
bered  that  this  appearance  may  prove 
fallacious.  The  operations  of  such  com­
panies  are  circumscribed,  and  an  ex­
tended  conflagration  might  destroy  the 
company. 
In  a  stock  company  with 
ample  capital,  and  doing  business  over 
an  extended  area,  this  risk 
is  very 
insured  knows  always 
small,  and  the 
exactly  what bis  insurance  will  cost.

should 

in  relation 
insurer 

The  old  admonition  against  carrying 
all  one’s  eggs  in  one  basket  should  be 
to  placing  the 
considered 
risk. 
The 
consider 
whether  two  policies  in  two  first-class 
companies would  not  be  a  still better as­
surance  than  one  carrying  the  same 
property  in  one  company.  The  risk  in 
either  case 
is  very  slight  indeed  "-hen 
the  companies  are  really  sound  to  begin 
with.

When  one  pays  the  premium  required 
and  comes  into  possession  of  his policy, 
he  finds  it  a  thing  of  many  “ ‘ condi­
tions.’ ’  These  are  usually  so  numerous 
that  they  are  printed  in  rather  small 
type,  and  the  task  of  reading  them  un 
derstandingly  is  a  somewhat  formidable 
one.  But  this  task  should  be  faithfully 
accomplished, 
is  important  to 
find  out  exactly  what  one  must  not  do— 
under  what  conditions  this  policy  may 
become  of  no  effect.

for 

it 

Among  these  conditions  will  be  found 
generally,  if  not  always,  a  clause  pro­
hibiting  the  having  of  benzine  on  the 
premises.  A  druggist  may  very  nat­
urally  contend  that  benzine  is  a  proper 
part  of  a  druggist’s  stock,  and  that  a 
policy  covering  such  stock  should  in­
clude  benzine;  but  unless  some  express 
permission  be  given  in  writing  on  the 
policy  to  keep  this  article 
in  stock, 
there  is  room  for  a  lawsuit.  We  would 
remark  in  passing  that  the  fear  of  ben­
zine  existing  in  the  insurance  mind 
is 
not  without  good  foundation.  We  have 
known  it  to  be  ignited  in  drawing  from 
a  barrel  by  a 
lantern  probably  eight 
feet  distant,  the  flame  communicating, 
of  course,  by  means  of  the  vapor  aris­
ing  from  the  liquid.

If  two  or  more  policies  are  obtained 
on  the  same  stock  of  goods,  it  is  very 
important  to  have  the  specification  of 
what  is  insured,  and  its  location,  exact­
ly  alike  in  all. 
loss  the 
payment  to  be  made  by  each  company 
is,  of  course,  adjusted  pro  rata,  and  un­
less  the  policies are concurrent in terms, 
complication  ensues.  We  know  of  a

In  case  of  a 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

in  which 

case 
in  one  policy  the  stock 
was  described  as  being  contained  in  a 
certain  room,  and  in  another  as  in  the 
store-room  and  cellar.  A  fire  ensued, 
and 
it  thus  became  manifest  that  one 
company  was  insuring  things  which  an­
other  was  not.  The  adjuster of  one com­
pany  calculated 
its  proportion  of  the 
loss,  which  calculation  was  accepted  by 
the  insured ;  the  other company  refused 
to  accept  the  adjustment,  claiming  that 
its  proportion  was  made  too  high ;  an 
arbitration  was  bad,  and  a  compromise 
made  by  the  arbitrators,  which  caused a 
loss  to  the  person  insured.

Of  late  years  there  has  been  an  agree­
ment  between  insurance companies  gen­
erally  to  add  to  their  policies  a  new 
condition  known  as  the  “ coinsurance 
clause.”   This  provides  that  to  obtain 
the  full  benefit  of  a  contract  the 
insur­
ance  carried  must  either be  equal  to the 
entire  value  of  the  property,  or,  what 
is  generally  customary,  to  8o  per  cent, 
of  such  value.

In  case  of  a  total  loss,  this  provision 
becomes  inoperative,  for  reasons  which 
will  be  seen,  but 
in  a  case  of  partial 
loss,  where  the  sum  total  of  insurance 
does  not  reach  the  required  amount,  the 
policy-holder  will  only  receive  payment 
for a  part  of  this  loss.

An 

illustration  by  Ainslie  will  show 
how  this  sum  is  arrived  at.  Assume that 
the  total  value  of  the  property  insured 
is $40,000;  then  8o  per  cent,  of its  value 
will  be $32,000,  which  is  the amount  of 
insurance  that  should  be  carried.  As­
sume  that  the  amount  of  insurance  that 
is  actually  placed  amounts  to  only 
$25,000.  This,  it  will  be  seen,is  $7,000 
short  of  the  proper amount.  Suppose 
that  a  fire  occurs,  resulting  in  a  loss  of 
$10,000.  The 
insurance  being  $7,000 
short,  the  $32,000  proper  insurance  has 
to  pay  the  $10,000  loss,  figuring  $312.50 
to  each  $1,000—that  is  to  say,  the  insur­
ance  companies  pay  on  $25,000,  which 
is  the  amount  of  their  policies,  to  the 
extent  of  $7,812.50,  and  the  merchant, 
is  a  coinsurer  on  the  $7,000 short 
who 
insurance, 
basis 
$2,187.50.  Thus  the  merchant  receives 
loss  the  sum  of 
out  of  bis  $19,000 
$7,812.50.  He 
is  obliged  to  count  as 
additional  loss  the  $2,187.50  on  account 
of  not  being  insured  up  to  80  per  cent, 
of  the  value  of  bis  stock.

upon 

pays 

that 

is  evident  that  these  facts  should 
be  carefully  considered  in  determining 
what  amount  of 
insurance  should  be 
paid  for.

It 

It 

is  also  evident  that  in  order to  set 
about  this  properly,  one  should  know 
the  value  of  his  stock  as  fully  as  pos­
sible,  and  this 
is  equally  as  necessary 
in  case  a 
loss  occurs.  To  have  such 
knowledge  requires  more  labor of inven­
torying  and  book-keeping  than  most 
druggists  are  willing  to  expend,  but  the 
labor 
is  a  paying  one,  from  several 
points  of  view.  The  results  achieved 
by 
if  a  time 
comes  when 
is  necessary  to  make  a 
claim.

it  are  especially  useful 

it 

Coating  for  Enteric  Pills.

Pills  coated  with  keratin are insoluble 
in  the  fluids  of  the  stomach,  and  are 
very  likely  to  prove  insoluble  also in the 
intestines.  We  may  say  that  an  ideal 
enteric-coated  pill has yet to be attained. 
The  most  successful  coating,  and  the 
one  used,  we believe,  by  manufacturers, 
is  composed  of  fatty  acids.  Salol  has 
been  used  to  a  limited  extent,  but  it  is 
more  expensive,  as  a  thick 
investment 
is  required.

The  railroad  engineer  may  not be  a 
leader,  but  wealth  and  fortune 

society 
frequently  follow  bis  train.

in 

liquors  of  any  sort.  He 

A  Druggist’s  Successful  Experiment.
There  is  a  druggist  in  Indiana  who, 
a  year ago,  concluded  that  he  would  no 
longer  carry  whiskies  and  wines,  nor 
handle 
is 
thought  to  be about  the only  druggist  in 
the  Stite  who  has  adopted  this  policy. 
As  the  result  of  his  experiment,  he  re­
ports  that  his  trade  has  not  only  not 
suffered,  but  has  materially  improved. 
If  druggists  generally  would  follow  his 
example  they  would  not  only  remove  a 
curse  from  the  trade,  but,  we  believe, 
increase  of 
would  profit  similarly 
business.  There  is  no  profit  in 
liquors 
to  the  druggist  who  observes  the 
letter 
and  the  spirit  of  the  law.  He  does  not 
sell  enough  legitimately  to  pay  the  gov­
ernment  license,  to say  nothing of  what­
ever 
local  license  may  be  in 
state  or 
force. 
If  he  wants  to make  money  he 
must  be a  law-breaker,  or  run  bis  store 
as a  saloon  under  saloon  license.  Either 
alternative  discredits  the  profession. 
What 
is  the  use,  anyway,  in  handling 
liquors?  Emergency  calls  can easily  be 
supplied  from  a  near-by  liquor  store. 
The  drug  business  can  be  run  at  better 
profit,  and  without  sacrifice  of  self-re­
spect,  without  liquors.  The  majority  of 
druggists  regard  the  liquor  feature  as  a 
nuisance  rather  than  a blessing,  but lack 
the  courage  to  cast  it  cff,  fearing,  mis- 
t ikenly,  we  are  sure,  injury  to  their 
business  in  general.  The few  who  have 
tried  the  experiment  seem  to  be  well 
satisfied  w  th  the  result.

How  to  Keep  Plasters.

In  a  paper  read  at  the 

list  meeting 
of  the  Michigan  Pharmaceutical  Asso­
ciation  H.  C.  Kni 11,  Jr  ,  said  that  plas­
ters  should  be  kept  at  an  ordinary  tem­
perature 
in  a  dry  place.  Never  keep 
them  in the  cellar  or  in  any  place where 
they  are  likely  to  gather  moisture,  and 
exclude  them 
from  the  air  as  much  as 
possible 
in  tin,  wood,  or  very  heavy 
cardboard  boxes.  The  only  way  of  dis­
playing  spread  plasters  is  in  a  show­
case,  and  then  always  in  their  original 
package  only.  Never  put  them 
in  the 
window,  for  they  are  affected  by  the 
heat  and  would  be  spoiled  by  the  sun. 
Never  dispense  or  sell  any  but  the  very 
best  made,  and  those  which  are  up  to 
strength  and  properly  medicated ;  there 
is  no  money  in  buying  cheap  plasters, 
for they  will  spoil  and  will  not  give  sat­
isfaction  to  customers;  and  then  again, 
when  the  pharmacist  gets a  prescription 
from  a  doctor  he  should  know  that  the 
plaster  dispensed  is  up  to  the  standard 
of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia, 
for  the  doctor  always  expects  to get  the 
physiological  effect  of  the  plaster,  and 
he  should  not be  disappointed.

When  selling  plasters  always  tell  cus­
tomers  to  wash  and  dry  thoroughly  the 
parts  where  the  plaster  is  to  be  applied. 
Equal  parts  of  ether  and  alcohol,  ap­
plied  to  the  parts  by  rubbing  with  the 
hands  before  applying  the  plaster,  will 
open  up  the  pores  of  the  skin  and  allow 
the  plaster  to  take  immediate  effect.

Path  o f the  Drug  Cutter  Not  Strewn 

With  Roses.

The  authorities  in  Germany  have  de­
cided  to  condemn  a  trader as  guilty  of 
unfair  competition 
in  trade  who  offers 
goods  for  sale  under cost  price  in  order 
to  attract  custom ;  and,  in  order that  no 
mistake  shall  be  made  about  what  is 
cost  price,  this  is defined  as  being  the 
price  which  the  seller has  paid  the  fac­
tory,  so that  no  ingenious  manipulation 
of  figures  by  adding  on 
rent,  staff 
charges,  etc.,  can  be  effected.  Again, 
the  proprietor of the  drug  store who puts 
in  bis  window  catch 
lines  offering 
drugs  at  unremunerative  prices  might

not  welcome  being  compelled  to sell any 
quantity  of  such  goods  at  the  price 
in­
dicated  to any  customer.  These regula­
tions,  however,  although  drastic,  admit 
of  no  quibbling.  But  a  doubt  comes  in 
when  the  making  of  such  a  statement 
as  small  profits  and  quick 
retuins 
are  the  order of  business  has  to  be  jus­
tified  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  authori­
ties,  and  we  appear  to  be  trespassing 
on  the  traditional  rights  of  even  some 
of  the  most  “ legitimate”  manufacturers 
when 
is  required  that  views  of  their 
premises,given  on  their  business  paper, 
shall 
actual  appearances. 
Verily  the  ways  of  the  "cutter”   in  Ger­
many  are hard.

represent 

it 

The  Drug  Market.

Articles  in  this  line are  steady  at  un­

changed  prices.

Opium—Reports  from  primary  mar­
ket  are  of  a  quiet  tone,  with  very  few 
sales.  Stocks  are  low,  but  crop  reports 
are  favorable.

Morphine—Is  unchanged.
Quinine—Is 

reported  advanced 

London,  but  no  advance  has 
place  here.

in 
taken 

Alcohol—Competition  on  this article 
has  brought  the  price  down  to  cost  and 
less,  with  no  prospect  of  any  profit  for 
some  time  to  come.

Essential  Oils—Are  all  steady,  with 
the  exception  of  anise,  which  is  slightly 
lower.

Never  wear  tight  corsets.  If  you  must 

be  squeezed,  let  some  man  do  it.

Does Your Stock 
of Wall Taper 
Need Sorting Up?

Perhaps  with  the  opening  of 
spring trade  you  have  discov­
ered  that  you  are  short  on 
some  grades  or  colors. 
If  so 
send  for  our  line  of samples; 
we  will  send  them  express 
prepaid.  Our prices we guar­
antee 
identically  the 
same as  manufacturers’.
We  guarantee  prompt  ship­
ment.  Write us.

to  be 

The Wall Paper Jabbers.

Heystek & Canfield,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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 stops all leaks, keeps ones 
business standing prominently In mind, saves time, 
labor and  money,  thus  continually  piling  up  the 
ingredients of all fortunes.

NOW  YOU  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.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

19

W H O L E S A L E   PR IC E  CU R R EN T.

Advaaced-
Declined

4® 6
6® 8
12® 14
12® 14

Acidan
AUUUUUIU.................1
70® 75
Benzolcum, German
Boracic....................
@ 16
29® 41
Carbolicum............
Cltrlcum.................
48® 50
Hydrochlor............
3® 5
Nltrocum...............
8® 10
12® 14
Oxalicum...............
Phosphor!urn,  dii...
@ 15
50® 60
Salicyllcum.............
Sulphuricum...........
1M@ 5
Tannicum.............. 1  25®  1  40
Tartari cum..............
38® 40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg...........
Aqua, 20 deg...........
Carbon as.................
Chloridum..............
Aniline
Black.......................  8 00® 2 25
Brown.................... 
80® 1  00
B ed......................... 
45®  50
Tellow....................  2 50® 3 00
Baccie.
Cubesee...........po. 18  13®  15
JnnlpernB...............  
8
Xantnoxylum.........   25®  30
Balsamum
Copaiba...................   50®  55
Pern........................  
© 2 75
Terabln, Canada__ 
45®  50
Tolntan...................   50®  55
Cortex
Abies, Canadian.... 
C assis....................  
Cinchona Flava...... 
Bnonymus atropnrp 
Myrica Cerifera, po. 
Prunes Virgin!........ 
Quillala,  gr’d .........  
Sassafras........po. 18 
Ulmus.. .po. 15,  gr’d 
Bxtractum
Glycyrrhlza Glabra.  24®  25
Glycyrrhlza, po...... 
28®  30
Hsmatox, 15 lb box. 
11®  12
Hsmatox, I s ........... 
13®  14
Hsmatox, Ms.........  
14®  15
Hsmatox, Ms.........  
'6®  17

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
15

6® 

Perm

Carbonate Precip... 
Citrate and Quima.. 
Citrate Soluble........ 
Perrocyanidum Sol. 
Solut.  Chloride...... 
Sulphate, com !......  
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........  
Sulphate, p u re ......  

Flore

15
2 25
75
40
15
2
50
7

Arnica.................... 
12®  14
92@  25
Anthemls................ 
Matricaria..............  30®  35

Folia

Barosma..................  25®  30
Cassia Acntifol, Tin-
nevelly...........—  
18®  25
Cassia Acntifol,Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis, Mb
and Ms.................  
12®  20
Ura Ursi................... 
8®  10
Gamml
®  65
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
®  45
Acacia, 2d  picked.. 
®  35
Acacia, 3d  picked.. 
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
®  28
Acacia, po...............  
60®  80
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20  12®  14
Aloe, Cape__ po. 15 
®  12
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40 
®  30
Ammoniac.............. 
55®  60
Assafcstida__po. 30 
25®  28
50®  55
Bensolnum............  
Catechu, Is.............. 
®  13
®  14
Catechu, Ms............  
Catechu, M&...........  @  16
Camphor».............. 
53®  59
Buphorblum..po.  35 
®  10
Galbanum...............   @  1  00
Gamboge  po........... 
66®  70
Guaiacum...... po. 25 
®  30
Kino...........po. I3.u0  @ 3 00
Mastic....................   @  60
®  40
Myrrh............ po.  45 
Opli...po. 4.80®65.00 3 35® 3 45
Shellac.................... 
25®  35
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tragacanth............  
50®  80
Herb*

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Enpatorium .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorom__oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip. .oz. pkg 
Mentha Vtr..oz. pkg 
Rue.............. oz. pkg 
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
riagnesia.
Calcined, Pat........... 
55®  60
Carbonate, Pat........ 
20®  22
Carbonate, K. A M..  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum
Absinthium............   4 50® 4 75
Amygdal», Dulc__ 
30®  50
Amygdal», Amarae .  8 00® 8 25
Anisi.......................  1  85® 2 00
Auranti  Cortex......   2 40® 2 50
Bergamil.................  2  80® 2 90
75®  80
Cajlputl................... 
Caryophylll............   80®  90
neaar....................... 
35®  65
Chenopadli.............. 
® 275
Clnnamonli.............  1  60® 1 70
Chzronella.............. 
45®  50

15®

10® 

go® 

75® 

Radix

Conium  Mac........... 
35®  50
Copaiba...................  1  15® 1  25
Cnbebs......................  90® 
Exechthit08  ...........  1 00® 1 10
Erlgeron.................  1 00® 1 10
Gaultheria..............  l 50® 1 60
Geranium,  ounce...  ® 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1  20®  1 30
Junípera..................  1  50® 2 00
Lavendula.......  
2 00
Limonls...................  1  30@  1 40
Mentha Piper.........   1  60® 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1 50®  1 60
Morrhua,  gal.........   1  00®  1 15
Myrcia,....................  4 00® 4 50
Olive...............  
3 00
Piéis  Liquida.  ......  
12
Plcis Liquida, gal... 
@ 35
B iclna.............  
1 00
92® 
1 00
Rosmarini.........  @ 
Ros»,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
40® 
Succini............ 
45
Sabina............. 
1 00
go® 
Santal......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras..........  
eo
55® 
@ 65
Sinapls, ess., ounce. 
Tigln.......................  1 70®  1 80
Thyme.............  
40® 
50
Thyme,  opt......  @ 
1  60
Theobromas.......... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb............. 
13®
Bichromate............ 
Bromide............... 
saa
Carb. 
-
Chlorate., po. 17®19c  16® 
pyanide..................  
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
Potass Nltras, opt... 
Potass Nitras........... 
Prussiate................. 
Sulphate po  ...........  

18 
15 
57
............................. 15
18
35©  40
::•••••  2 40® 2 50
15 
12 
ll 
25 
18

10®
io@
2u@
15®
20®
Aconitvm
Althae__
10®
22®
Anchusa .
Arum po..
Calamus................. 
20®
Gentians........po.  15 
12®
Glychrrhiza... pv. 15  16® 
®
Hydrastis Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
®
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
18®
Inula, po................. 
ig®  w
Ipecac, po............... 3 90® 4 00
Iris plox.... po35®38 
35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
25®  30
Maranta,  Us...........  @ 
35
Podophyllum, po.... 
22®  25
52®}  .......................  
75®  1  00
55®}’cnt.................  @125
75®  1  35
555b 
 
Spigelia. 
35® 
 
38
Sanguinaria...po. 15  @ 
18
Serpentaria............  
30® 
35
Senega.................... 
40®  45
Similax,officinalis H  @ 4 0
Smllax, M...............  
®  05
| cln®..............po.35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Feet i-
®
dus,  po................. 
Valeriana, Eng.po. 30  @
15®
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a.............. 
12®
Zingiber j ................ 
25®
Semen
Anlsum......... po.  15
®13®
Apium  (graveleons)
Bfrd, is...................  
  4®
„
Carni..............po. 18  10® 
Cardamon...............   1  25® 1  75
Coriandrum............ 
¡q
Cannabis  Satlva__  4M®  5
Cydonium.......... 
75®  1 00
io@ 
Chenopodium........ 
12
Dipterix  Odorate...  1 40®  1  50
Fosniculum........... 
® 
10
Foenugreek, po........ 
7® 
9
L ini.........................  3M@  4M
4®  4M
Linl,  grd....bbl. 3m 
Lobelia..................  
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4®  4M
5*1» 
4M® 
5
Sinapls Albu........... 
9® 
10
Slnapis Nigra.........  
11®  
12
Spiritus

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage............... 2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................  2 00® 2 25
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
@  1  25 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__
®  1 00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............
@  1 00 
Hard, for slate use..
®  75
Yellow  R e ef,  for 
slate  use..............
©  1  40
Syrups
Acacia....................   @  50
Auranti Cortes........ 
©  50
©  50
Zingiber.................. 
Ipecac. 
.......... 
@  60
Ferri Iod................. 
©  50
Rhei Arom..............  @  50
Smilax Officinalis... 
50®  60
Senega....................   @  50
.. 
Belli».............   . 
•   50

1  oo

niscellaneous 

ScillæCo.................  @
50
Tolutan...................  @
50
Prunus vtrg............   @
50
Tinctures 
Aconltum N apellls R 
60 
Aconi turn Napellis F
50 
Aloes.......................
60 
Aloes and Myrrb__
60 
Arnica....................
50 
Assafoetlda............
50 
Atrope  Belladonna.
60 
Auranti  Cortex......
50 
Benzoin..................
60 
Benzoin Co..............
50 
Barosma.................
50 
Cantharides...........
75 
Capsicum..............
50 
Cardamon...............
75 
Cardamon  Co.........
75 
Castor......................
1  00 
Catechu...................
50 
Cinchona.................
50 
Cinchona Co...........
60 
Columba.................
50 
Cu beba...................
50 
Cassia Acutlfol......
50 
Cassia Acutifol Co..
50 
Digitalis..............
50 
Ergot.......................
50 
Ferri Chloridum
35 
Gentian...................
50 
Gentian Co............
60 
Guiaea...................
50 
Gniaca ammon........
60 
Hyoscyamus.........
50 
Iodine......................
75 
Iodine, colorless....
75 
Kino........................
50 
Lobelia.................   ’
50 
Myrrh................ .....
50 
Nux Vomica...........
50 
Opii.........................
75 
Opli, camphorated.
50 
Opii, deodorized.  ..
1  50 
Quassia..................
50 
Rhatany.  .........
50 
Rhei........................;
50 
Sanguinaria...........
50 •50 
Serpentaria............
Stromonium...........
60 60 
Tolutan...................‘
Valerian.................
50 
Veratrum Veride. !.
50 
Zingiber..................
20
Æther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
35
Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  ?4@
38
Alumen...................  2M@
3
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
3®
4 
Annatto................. 
40®
50
Antimoni,  po.........  
4®
5 
40®
Antimoni et PotassT
50 
AnHpyrin..............
35 
Antifebrin...........
20 50 
Argent! Nitras, oz !
Arsenicum.............
12 
Balm Gilead  Bud
40
Bismuth  S. N........
1  40®  1  50 
Calcium Cblor.,  is!
9
@ 
Calcium Chlor., Ms 
10 
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms 
@ 
12 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
@  75
Capsici  Fructus, af 
®  15
Capsici Fructus, po.
@  15
Capsici FructusB.po 
@  15
12®  14
Caryophyllus..po.  15 
Carmine, No. 40..
@ 3 00 
50®
Cera Alba........... 
~ 
55
Cera Flava__
42 
Coccus...........
40 
Cassia Fructus
33 
Centrarla................. 
10 
Cetaceum............@
45 
Chloroform.............  
53 
Chloroform, squibbs  @ __
1  10
Chloral HydCrst....  1  65®  1  90
Chondrus................ 
20®  25
Cinchonidine,P.& W  28®  38 
Cinchonldine, Germ  23®  38
Cocaine..................   3 80® -4 TO
70
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 
@ 3 5
Creosotum........ 
2
Creta.............bbi.TS  @ 
Creta, prep..............  @
5
9®
Creta, precip......... 
11 
Creta, Rubra.........  
@
8
Crocus.................... 
18®
20 
Cudbear.................  @
24 
Cupri Sulph............   6M®
8
Dextrine.................. 
10®
12 
Ether Sulph............  
75®
90
Emery, ail  numbers  @
8
Emery, po....... ........  @
6 
30®
Ergota............ po. 40 
35 
Flake  White........... 
12®
15 
Galla........................ 
a
23
Gambler.
9
8®
Gelatin, Cooper__
______ 
_   60
_@
Gelatin, French...... 
35®  60
75 &  10
Glassware, flint, box 
Less  than  box__
70 
_
Glue,  brown........... 
9®
12 
Glue,  white............  
13®
25 
Glycerina...............  
14®
30 
Grana  Paradis!  __ 
®
25 
Humulus................. 
25®
55 
90 
® 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
@  80 
ffl 
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
@  1  00 
Hydraag Ammoniatl 
®  1  15 
45®  55
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
@  75
65®  75
Icnthyobolla, Am...
75®  1  00
Indigo.....................  
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................  @420
Lupulin...................   @ 2 25
Lycopodium...........  45®  50
65®  75
Macis.................... 
Liquor Arsen et Hy -
25 
drarg Iod.............
d
10®
LiquorPotassArsinit
12 
Magnesia, Sulph__
3 
2 ®
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
1M 
©   60 
Mannla, S. F ...........
0 3  25
Menthol......................

®
__
50®

10®
38®

Morphia,S.P.4W...  2 20® 2 45 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co....................   2 10® 2 35
Moschus Canton__   @  40
Myristica, No. 1...... 
65®  80
Nnx Vomica.. .po. 20 
@  10
Os  Sepia................. 
15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co....................  @  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.Mgal.
doz........................  @200
Plcis Liq., quarts__  @  1  00
Plcis Liq., pints......  @  85
®  50
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80 
Piper Nigra...po.  22  @ 1 8
@  30
Piper Alba....po.  35 
Pilx  Burgun...........  @ 
7
Plumbl  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1  10®  1  20
Py rethrum, boxes H.
@ 1 25
A P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv........  25®  30
8®  10
Quassis................. 
43®  43
Quinta, S. P. A W.. 
38®  48
Quinia, S. German.. 
Qulnia, N.Y............  
-'3®  48
RubiaTinctorum... 
12®  14
18®  20
SaccharumLactis pv 
Salacin....................  3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconls... 
40®  50
Sapo,  W................... 
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
Sapo, G....................   @  15
Siedlitz  Mixture__  20  @  22

Slnapis........................   @ 18
Sinapls, opt............   @ 
30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes..........................  @ 34
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s  @  34
Soda Boras..............  9  @  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  @  11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
2
Soda,  Carb..............  1M@ 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
5
3® 
Soda, Ash...............   8M@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2  60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
Spt.  MyrciaDom...  @ 9  00
Spts. Vlni Rect. bbl.  @
Spts. ViniRect.Mbbl  @
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  30® 1  35
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2M@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2M@3M
Tamarinds.............. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobrom».........   .  46®  48
Vanilla....................  9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph............  
8

7® 

Oils

Whale, winter......... 
Lard,  extra............. 
Lard, No. 1.............. 

BBL.  SAL.
70
70 
55 
60
40 
45

49
50
65
48

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

52
53
70
55
Paints BBL. LB
Red Venetian.........
IK  2 ©a
Ochre, yellow Mars.
IK  3 @4
Ochre, yellow  Ber..
IK  2 @3
Putty, commercial.. 2M  2M@3
Putty, strictly pure. 
Vermilion,  P rim e 2M 2K@3
American.............
is 
13® 
Vermilion, English.
70®  75
Green, P aris...........
13M®  I'M 
Green,  Peninsular..
13®  16
Lead, Red.........
5K@ 
8M 
5M@
Lead, white.
6M @  70
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’...
@  TO 
White, Paris Amer..
@  1 00
Whiting, Paris  Bng.
cliff......................  @140
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

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

PAINT AND 
ARTIST’S
BRUSHES

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

P la t  W a ll  bound  in  rubber, 

b ra ss  an d   lea th er 

O val  P a in t  R ound  P a in t 

O val  C h isel  V a rn ish

O val  C h isel  S a sh

R ound  S a sh  

W h ite  W a sh   H ead s 

K a lso m in e

F la t V a rn ish  

S q u a re  an d   C hisel

All  qualities  at  satisfactory  prices.
C am el  H air V a rn ish  

F lo w in g

M ottlers 

Color
B a d g er  F low ing,

s in g le  or double 

C.  H.  P en cils, etc.

HAZELTINE  &  PERKINS 

DRUG  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

20

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The  prices  quoted  in  this  list  are  for the trade  only,  in  such  quantities  as  are usually purchased  by  retail 
dealers.  They  are prepared  just  before  going: to  press  and  are  an  accurate index  of the  local  market. 
It  is im­
possible  to  give quotations  suitable  for  all  conditions  of  purchase,  and those below are  given as representing av­
erage prices  for  average  conditions  of purchase.  Cash  buyers  or those  of strong credit usually  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.

doz. gross
6 00
Aurora....................
.55
7 00
Castor Oil...............
no
4 00
50
Diamond......... .......
9 00
Fraser’s .................. ...75
9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
9 00
.75
nica, tin boxes........
Paragon................... ..55
6 00

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.
m 'b cans doz........
¡4 lb cans doz........
lb can  dos........
A «*.
«  ib cans 8 dos.__
14 It cans3 doz
lb cans 1 dot......
Rnl¥......... 
...........
Arctic.
6 01. Eng. Tumblers.

45
85
..  1  50
40
75
..  1  00
10
85

E l P a rity .

6 oz. cans, 4 doz case........   80
9 oz. cans, 4 doz case.........   1  20
1 
lb. cans, 2  doz case.....2 00
2H lb. cans, 1  doz case.....4 75
5 
lb. cans, 1  doz case....   9 00
w lb cans per do*............  75
£  lb cans per dos............   1  20
1 
lb cans per doi...........   2  00
u lb cans 4 do* case.......  %
¡4 lb cans 4 dos case.......  55
90

lb cans 2 doz case  ......  

tlO M .

 

 

Peerless.

Oar Leader.

Queen Plaice.

Jersey Cream.

CANNED  GOODS.

BATH  BRICK.
 

w lb cans, 4 doz case......  
45
K lb cans, 4 doz case......  85
lb cans. 2 doz case........1  60
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per dos.............  
85
M lb cans..........................  
45
i{ lb cans..........................   75
lb cans..........................  1  60
I lb. cans  ......................... 
85
3 oz., 0 doz. case................   2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case 
...........3 20
9 os., 4 doz. case................ 4 80
1 lb., 2 dos. case................ 4 00
51b., 1 dos. case...............  9 00
TV
American........ 
English......... 
80
Tomatoes..................   80®  90
Com.................... . 
80@1  00
Hominy......................  80
Beans, Limas..............  70@1  30
Beans, Wax................  90
Beans, String..............  85
Beans,  Baked............   75® 1  00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  75®  85
Succotash...................  95® 1  20
Peas............................  50®  85
Peas, French..............2 25
Pnmpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.................  15®  23
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@1  60
Salmon,  Alaska......... 1 25
Salmon, Klondike......  90
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3  20
Lobsters, 2-lb. Star__3 90
Mackerel,1 lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused.l 75 
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato. 1  75
Shrimps.......................2 00
Sardines, %a domestic  3tt® 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5^4®  7% 
Sardines,  French.......8  ® 32

BLUING.

CONDENSED
S g i i

Small, 3 doz.......................  
40
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
io. 1 Carpet.......................  2 31
<0.2 Carpet.......................2  15
No. 3 Carpet.......................  1  85
No. 4 Carpet.......................   1  45
Parlor Oem....................... 2 50
Common Whisk.................   93
Fancy Whisk...................... 
95
Warehouse.........................2 70
8s.......................................... 7
16s.........................................8
Paraffine................................ 8
Wicklng...............................20

CANDLES.

BROOriS.

CATSUP.

Columbia, 
pint!.............2 00
Columbia, Mi pints............ 1  85

CHEESE

Acme.........................   ® 
Amboy..............  ...  O  1354
Elsie............................  ® 
Emblem......................  @
Gem............................  @ 
Gold Medal................   ®
Ideal...........................  ®
Jersey........................  ® 
Riverside....................   ® 
Brick..........................   ® 
Edam..........................   ® 
Leiden......................  
  @ 
Limbureer 
  @ 
........... 
Pineapple.......... ....50  ®  75
Sap  Sago.....................  ® 
Sulk 
Red 

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

Ch leery.

Walter Baker A Co.'s.

German Sweet..  ..................23
Premium................................ 35
.  ..  .  46
Breakfast  Ontmt 

6
7

COFFEE.
Roasted.

Rio.

Java.

Mocha.

Santos.

Roasted.

Maracalbe.

F air.......................................... 9
Good........................................10
Prim e......................................12
Golden  ...................................13
Peaberry  ................................14
Fair  ........................................14
Good  .........*........................... 15
Prim e......................................16
Peaberry  ................................18
Prim e........  .........................   15
Milled......................................17
Interior................................   26
Private  Growth...................... 31
Mandehllng............................ 35
Im itation............................... 22
Arabian  ................................. 28
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue...................... 29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha— 29
Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24
Wells’ Perfection  Java......24
Sancalbo................  ........... 21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Mareealbo 
... 18H
Ideal  Blend..........................14
Leader Blend.......................1314
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also 4£c  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
Is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbnckle.......................  10  R0
Jersey.............................   10 50
flcLaaghlln’s  XJCXX.
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City VI gross...... 
Felix K gross.................  
Hummel's foil ¡4 gross... 
Hummel’s tin M  gross... 
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxes...............  

75
1  15
85
1  43
..40

Package.

Extract.

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos...........1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dos...........1 20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz...........1 40
Cotton, 70 ft. per  dos...........i 60
Cotton, 80 ft. per  dos...........1 80
Jnte, 60 ft.  per  dos.............  80
Jote. 72 ft.  per dos..............  96

COCOA.

James Epps & Co.’s*

Boxes, 7 lbs............................. 40
Cases, 16 boxes........................38
COCOA SHBLL8.
214
201b  bagB.......................  
Less quantity................. . 
3
Pound  packages............  
4
CRB AIT TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk In sacks..........................29

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 dos In case.
Gall Borden  Eagle............. 6 75
Crown................................. 6 25
Daisy...................................5 75
Champion  ...........................4  50
Magnolia............................ 4 25
Challenge.............. - ........... 8 35
..! 35
Dime..................... 

 

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

Universal Grade.

Credit Checks.

Superior Grade.

Bconomlc Grade.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 610 down.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
13
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books, any denom....11 50
13 V4
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00
14
50 books, any denom—   1  60
100 books, any denom__2 50
500 books  any denom.... 11  50
13
1.000 books, any denom....20 00
13V2
12
50 books, any denom....  1 50 
70
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
17
500 books, any denom--- 11 50
13
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
17
50 books, any denom....  150
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
Steel punch.......................   75
Can be made to represent any 
SObooks  .......................   1  00
50book8..........................   2 00
100 books  ...........................8 00
250 books...............................  6 25
500 books................................10 00
1000 books...........................17 60
DRIED FRUITS—DOrtBSTIC 
Sondried......................  ©7V4
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ®914 
Apricots.....................   ©15
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................  ©
Peaches.......................10  ©11
Pao.c 
®
Pitted Cherries
7*
PrunneUes..................
Raspberries................
100-120 25 lb boxes.........   © 4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   © 5
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  © 514
70-80 25 lb boxes.........  ©  6}<
60-70 25 lb boxes.........  ® 6R
50-60 25 lb boxes.........  © 3
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  ©10
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........   ©
M cent less In 50 lb cases 

California Prunes.

California Pratts.

Apples.

...... . 

Raisins.

London Layers 2 Crown. 
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... ...  9V4

1  50
1  65
2  00
5
6 
7
8

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Patina.

FARINACEOUS GOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages......... ...1  50
Bulk, per 100 lbs..............3  50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.'s Brand.

Qrtts.

Peas.

Beans.

Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packages........... 
.1  80
ion lb.  kegs........................2 70
200 lb. barrels....................5610
Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 501b.  drums..........1  00
Dried Lima  ..................... 
554
Medium Hand Picked 1  25@1  ro 
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported.  25 lb. box........ 2 50
Common...........................  2  0
Chester............................  2  25
Empire 
...........................  2  75
Green, Wisconsin, bu.......1  00
Green. Scotch, bn...........1  10
Split, bn.................. 
2 50
Rolled Avena,  bbl.........4  00
Monarch,  bbl........................3 75
Monarch,  54  bbl...................2 uO
Monarch, 90 lb sacks........ 1  80
Quaker, cases........................3 20
Huron, cases......................... 2 00
German............................   4
East  India........................ 
Flake..............................  
Pearl................................  
Pearl, 241 lb. pkges........ 
Cracked, balk................... 
24 2 lb packages...............2 50

354
6
454
614
354

Rolled  Oats.

Tapioca.

Wheat.

Sago.

SALT FISH.

Cod.

Herring.

nackerel.

Georges cured............  © 4
Georges genuine........  © 5
Georges selected........  © 554
3trlps or bricks......... 6  © 9
Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 25 
Holland white hoop 54 bbl  5 25 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mens 
80
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  3  10
Round  40 lbs...................  1  40
Scaled................................ 
14
Mess 100 lbs......................  15  00
Mess  40 lbs......................  8 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  65
Mess  8 lbs......................  1 35
No. 1100 lbs...............  
  13 25
No. 1  40 lbs......................  5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1 48
No. 1  8 lbs......................   120
No. 2 100 lbs......................  11 50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4  90
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  30
No. 2  8 lbs......................   1  07
No. 1 100 lbs......................  5 25
No. 1  40 lbs......................  2 40
No. 1  10 lbs...................... 
68
No.l  8 lbs 
67
 
No. 1  No  2  Fam
100 lbs...........7 CO  6 50  2 75
........  3  10  2 90  1  40
40 lbs 
10 lbs........... 
43
8 lbs........... 
37
FLAVORINO EXTRACTS.

Whttetish.

Trout.

80 
66 

85 
71 

 

Perrigo's.

2 25
1  75
2 25

Van.  Lem. 
doz.
dos. 
XXX, 2 oz. obert......1  25 
75
XXX, 4 oz. taper.. ..St 25 
1  25
XX, 2 oz. obert......   1 00
No. 2,2oz. obert  ....  75 
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz... 
Pure Brand.
2 oz. Taper Panel..  75 
2oz. Oval..............  75 
3 oz. Taper Panel.. 1  35 
4 oz. Taper Panel.. 1  60 
FLY  PAPER.

Lem.  Van.
1  20
120
2 00
2.25

Tanglefoot, per box...........  36
Tanglefoot, per case...........3 20
Holders, per box of 60........   75
Perrigo’s Lightning, gro— 2 50
Petrolatum, per doz............  75

HBRBS.
Sage.....................................   16
...........................  16
Hope 
INDIOO.

Madras, 6  lb  boxes............   66
S.  F.. 2.3 and 5 lb  boxes  ...  50

OUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs 
............................ 4 00
Half Kegs............................ 2  25
Quarter Kegs....................... 1  85
1 lb. cahs..............................  30
>4 lb. cans............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Eagle Dock—Dupont’s.

Kegs.....................................8  00
Half Kegs............................ 4  25
Quarter Kegs...................... 2  25
fib. cans..............................  46

lb ju  palls............................   35
30 lb pails............................   65

JBLLY.

LYE.

Condensed, 2 dos  .  ............1 20
Condensed. 4 dos............... 2  25

LICORICE.

Pure......................................  20
Calabria..............................  26
Sicily....................................  14
Root......................................  10

MINCB MEAT.

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

nATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur...... ............... 1  66
Anchor Parlor..........................1 70
No. 2  Home.............................. 1 10
Export  Parlor......................... 4 00

ITOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black................................  
11
14
F air..................................  
Good................................. 
20
*4
Fancy  .............................. 
Open Kettle...................... 25®35
Half-barrels 2c extra.
MU5TARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, No. 216...........................  1 70
Clay, T. D. full count........ 
Cob, No. 8..........................  

65
86

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s...................................4 00
Penns Salt  Co.’s............  8 00

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1............... 5*® 6
Japan,  No. 8..............4 *@ 5
Java, fancy  head........5 @  5H
Java,  No. Í ...................5 ®
Table............................
SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church’s Arm and Hammer.8  15
Deland’s ......................... ...3 00
Dwight’s Cow.................. ...3  15
Emblem  ......................... ...3 50
L. P.................................. ...3 00
Sodlo.............................
...3  15
Wyandotte, ICO Ms......... ...3 00

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls............. .  75
Granulated,  100 lb cases. .  90
Lamp, bbls...................... .  75
Lamp, 1461b 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, 280lb. bnlk.2 25 
Butter, barrels,2014 lbbags.2 SO
Batter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Batter, sacks, 56 lbs..............  55

Common Orndoo.

100 3-lb sa c k s.......................1 95
60 5-lbsack8.........................1 80
2810-lb sacks.......................1 65

Worcester.

lb. cartons................8 21.
50  4 
115  2Klb.  sacks...................4 Ot
lb. sacks...................3 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks...................3 50
3010 
lb. sacks................... 3 50
28 lb. linen sacks..................   32
56 lb. linen sacks...................  60
Bulk in barrels.................... 2 50
56-lb dairy In drill bags......   SO
28-lb dairy in drill bags......   16

Warsaw.

Aahton.

56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 
56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  6b 
56-lb  sacks...........................  21

Higgins.
Solar Rock.

Common.

Granulated Fine.................   6t
Medium  Fine......................   75

SAUERKRAUT.

Barrels..............................  4 75
¡^-Barrels..........................  2 60

SCALES.

Per doz.
Pelonze Household..............12 TO

Weighs 24 lbs by ounces.

SEEDS.

3ft

A nise...............................   9
Canary, Smyrna..................  
Caraway........................... 
8
Cardamon, M alabar........   60
Celery.................................  11
Hemp.  Russian..................   414
Mixed  Bird........................  
41%
Mustard,  white................  5
Poppy  ................................  10
Rape...................................  
Cuttle Bone.
20

title f

4H

SNUFF.

SOAP.

Scotch, In bladders............   87
Maceaboy, in Jars................  **
French Rappee, In Jars......   48
J A X O N
Single box............................ 2  85
5  box lots, delivered.....2  r0
10 box lots, delivered..........2 75
JUS.  8.  KIRK  8 CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d... .2 66
Dome.................................... 2 75
Cabinet.................................2 80
Savon...............................  ..2 50
White Russian......... ..........2 35
White Cloud,  laundry...  ..6  25
White Cloud,  toilet.............3  50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6  0Z....2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__8 00
Blue India, 100 % lb............3 00
Kirkollne............................. 3 50
Eos.......................................2 60

Scouring.

Sapollo, kltcben, 8 d o s...... 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 8 d o s...........2 40

SODA.

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

Pet!«

Currants.

Leghorn......................-.. .a n
Corsican.........................  @12
.©  5V4
Patras bbls...................
Cleaned, bulk  ............. ...@ 6
Cleaned, packages...... ...@  6V4
Citron American 10 lb  bx  ©13
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©10*
Orange American 10 lb bx ©10* D.C. Vanilla" 
.1 20
2 oz.
Ondare 28 lb boxes...... ©
..1 50
3oz.
Saltana  1 Crown......... ©
.2 00
4 oz.
Sultana 2 Crow n........ ©
.3 00
60s.
Saltana 3 Crown......... ©
No. 8
4 00
Sultana 4 Crown......... ©
.6 00
No. 10.
Sultana 5 Crown......... ©
No. 2 T.1 25
Saltana 6 Crown......... ©
No. 3T.2 00
Saltana package......... ©
No 4 ’rj2 40

Raisins.

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

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

PICK LBS.
{Tedium.

Small.

RICE.

Dooms tic.

Carolina head....................   6H
Carolina  No. 1...................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................   SR

D. C Lemon
75
2 os.
...1 00
3 ox.
...1 40
4 oz.
..2 00
60s.
No. 8 .2 40
No. 0 ..4 00
No. 2 T. 80
No. 3 T.l 85
No. 4 T.l 50

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pare Oround In Balk.

Allspice  ..............................14
Cassia, China In mats..........12
Cassia, Batavia in band__ 25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........ 32
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zansibar..................12
Mace,  Batavia.....................55
Nutmegs, fancy.................  .60
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2................... 45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, white... 16
Pepper,  shot........................15
Allspice  .............................. 17
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon..............  ...40
Cloves, Zansibar..................14
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 23
Mace,  Batavia.....................65
Mustard........................12@18
Nutmegs,.....................40@50
Pepper, Sing., black...........15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne................. 20
Sage......................................15

SYRUPS.

Cora.

Barrels................................. 16
Half  bbls...........................  17
1 doz. 1 gallon cans................. 2 90
1  doz. hi gallon cans........ 1 70
2  doz. hi gallon  c a n s.......1 75
Pair  ..................................   16
Good..................................   20
Choice...............................   25

Pure Cone.

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Cora.

Diamond.

401-lb packages...................6
201 lb packages...................6hi
Klngsford’s Silver Gloss.
401-lb packages...................04
6-lb boxes.......................... 7
6410c  packages  ................5 00
128  5c  packages.................5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 
201 lb. packages..................5
401 lb. packages..................  4g
l-lb  packages......................ihi
3-lb  packages......................  4 hi
6-lb  packages....................5
40 and 50 lb boxes.............. 3
Barrels............................ 3

Common Cora.
Common Gloss.

STOVE P0LI5H.

SUGAR.

No. 4,3'doz in case, gross..  4  50 
No. 6,3 dos in case, gross..  7 20 
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
Cut  Loaf.............................. 5 75
Crushed................................5 75
Powdered 
......................... 5  38
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 39
Diamond  Confec.  A............5 25
Confec. Standard A............. 5 13
No.  1....................................... 4 75
No  2....................................... 4 75
No.  8....................................... 4 75
No.  4.......................................4 69
No.  5....................................... 4 63
No.  6....................................... 4 56
No.  7.......................................4 50
No.  8....................................... 4 44
No.  9....................................... 4 38
No.  10.......................................4 31
No.  11....................................... 4 25
No.  12.......................................4 19
4  13
No.  13............ 
No.  14.......................................4 13
................................4  13
NO.  15 
No.  16 
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, small...... 2 75

TABLB  SAUCES.

 

 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

Clark-Jewell-Well8 Co.’s brand.
New  Brick..........................33 00

H. A P. Drug Co.’s orands.

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

VINEGAR.

35  00
S. C. W.................. 
Malt White Wine, 40 grain.,..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain... .11
Pure Cider, Bed Star..............12
Pure Cider, Robinson............ 11
Pure Cider, Silver...................n
No. 0, per gross....................   20
No. 1, per gross....................  25
No. 2, per gross....................   36
No. 3, per gross....................   55

WICKINa.

WOODENWARE.

Pails.
hoop Standard.l  35
2- 
3- 
hoop Standard.1  50
2- 
wire, Cable......1 35
3- wire, Cable...................  .  1 61
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1  25
Paper, E ureka.................... 2 25
Fibre......... ..........................2 25
2Mnch, Standard,"No. 1 __ 5  80
18-inch, Standard,‘No. 2__ 4 85
16-inch,  Standard,  No. 3....3  85
20-Inch, Dowell,' No. 1......... 6 25
18-inch, Dowell, No. 2......... 5  25
16-inch, Dowell, No. 3.  __ 4 25
No.  I Fibre...........................9 0)
No. 2 Fibre............................ 50
No. 3 Fibre...........................g 75

Tubs.

Crackers,

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
B'ittsr.
Seymour XXX...................  514
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family X X X .................  
514
Salted XXX...............  
514
New York XXX.............."  e
Wolverine...........................  g
Boston..........................
Soda  XXX  .........................   g
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton....  gu
Soda,  City.........................  g
Long Island Wafers.........   11
L. L Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Zephyrette...........................10

Soda.

Oyster.

Saltine Wafer....................  5^4
SaltineWafer, 1 lb. carton.  6W
Farina Oyster....................   514
Extra Farina Oyster.........   g
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals.............................  iou
Bent’s W ater....  ..............   15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java..............  10
Coffee Cake, Iced..............  10
Cracknells..........................  15^4
Cubans  ...............................  g u
Frosted  Cream..................   8
Ginger Gems......................  8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  7hi
Graham Crackers  ............   8
Graham Wafers.................   io
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................   8
Jumoles,  Honey.................  11^4
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts__  16
Mich.  Frosted Honey__  124
Molasses  Cakes.................  §
Newton....  ......................  12
Nlc Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  Shi
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......   7V4
Sears’ Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sugar  Squares................. 
9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas.............................  12^4
_____Nuts,_____
Almonds, T&r ragona..  ©16
Almonds, Ivaca.........   ©14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   ©15
Brazils new...............   © 7
Filberts  ....................  ©10
Walnnts, Granobles..  ©IS
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  ©lx
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................   ©11
Table Nuts,  fancy__  ©11
Table Nuts,  choice...  ©10
Pecans, Med...............  © 7 4
Pecans, Ex. Large....  © 9
Pecans, Jumbos........   ©12
Hickory  Nnts per bn.,
Ohio, new...............   ©1  60
Cocoannts,  fnll  Backs  ©? 50
Chestnuts per bn........  ©
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  © 7
Fancy,  H.  P„  Flags
Roasted...................  © 7
Choice, H. P„ Extras.  © 4* 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
B oasted.................  
5£

Peanuts.

Candies.
Stick Candy.

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

bbls.  pails
64©  7
64©  7
74© 8
©  8
cases
© 614
© 814
©10

Mixed Candy.

Grocers...................  
© g
©  6 hi
Competition............ 
Standard................. 
© 7
© 714
Conserve................. 
© 714
i? y a l...................... 
© 8*4
Ribbon.................... 
B roken..................  
© 75£
© 8
Cut Loaf................. 
© 8
English Rock.........  
© 814
Kindergarten.........  
French  Cream........ 
© 9
Dandy Pan.............. 
@10
Hand Made Cream mxd  @13

Fancy—In Bulk.

San Bias Goodies.... 
@11
Lozenges, plain......  
© 814
© 814
Lozenges,  printed.. 
©1014
Choc.  Drops........... 
Choc.  Monumentals 
©12
Gum  Drops............  
© 5
© g
Moss  Drops............  
© 84
Sour Drops.............. 
Imperials...............  
a g
Ital. Cream Bnbns, 35 lb pis  11 
Molasses Chews,  15 lb. pails  13 
Jelly Date Squares.. 

@10
Fancy—In  g  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops.........  
©50
Sour  Drops............  
©an
Peppermint Drops.. 
©go
Chocolate Drops.... 
©go
H. M. Choc. Drops. 
@75
H. M.  Choc.  Lt.and
Dk. No. 12............  
@90
Gum  Drops............  
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
©75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
Lozenges,  plain__ 
©50
Lozenges,  printed.. 
@50
Imperials...............  
©go
@gg
Mottoes................... 
Cream Bar.............. 
@50
Molasses B a r.........  
@sp
Hand Made Creams.  80  @  90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Want............  
@55
String Rock............  
@go
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25  @
Wintergreen Berries  @50

Caramel«.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes......   .........  
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes..................

©35
@50

Fruits.
Oranges.

Seedlings................   3 0D@3 25
©3 75
Meat Sweet............  
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. 
©3 00
Strictly choice 300s..  @3 50
Fancy 303s.............  
©3 75
@4 00
Ex.Fancy 300s........ 
Ex.Fancy 360s........ 
@
Bananas.

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

Foreign Dried Fruits. 

Figs.

Callfornias  Fancy.. 
Choice, lOlbboxes.. 
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............  
Faucy, 12 lb boxes.. 
imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............  
Pulled, 6lb boxes... 
Naturals,  in bags... 
Date«.

@13
@12
@18
@22
@
@
© 7

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

Oils.
Barrel«.

Eocene.......................  @1154
XXX W. W.Mich.Hdlt.  @10
W W Michigan...........  @ 944
Diamond White.........  @ 844
D„ S. Gas....................  @1214
Deo. N aptha..............  @1314
Cylinder....................29  ©34
Engine.......................11  021
Black, winter.............  @3

Provisions.

Wheat.

68

Wheat................................ 
Winter  Wheat  Flour. 

Local Brands.

P atents.............................   4 00
Second  Patent..................   s 50
Straight............................  3 25
Clear..................................  3 00
Graham  ............................3 50
Buckwheat.......................
R ye..................................  3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Daisy, 14s.............................3 75
Daisy, )4s.............................3 75
Daisy, 14s.............................3 75
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  14s........................  3 50
Quaker, 14s ........................  3 50
Quaker, 14s........................   3 50
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best 14s...........  4  45
Pillsbury’s Best his...........  4 35
Pillsbury’s Best 4 s ...........  4 25
Pillsbury’s Best 4 s paper..  4  25 
Pillsbury’s Best 4 s paper..  4 25 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

Spring  Wheat Flour. 

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barreled Perk.

Mess  .............................  
10 00
Back  ..................   .10 50©
Clear  back..............  @10.75
10 25
Shortcut......................... 
Pig..................................   14  00
Bean  .............................  
910
Family  .......................... 
11  00
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies............................ 
Briskets  ......................... 
Extra shorts................... 

54
54
54

Smoked ileat«.

84
Hams, 12 lb  average  .... 
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
84
Hams, 16 lb  average......  
8
Hams, 20 lb average......  
7%
Ham dried beef  ............  
12
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
54
Bacon,  clear.................7  @74
California hams............  
54
Boneless hams................ 
84
Cooked  ham..................10@124

Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound................ 
4v
Kettle.............................
55 lb Tubs......... advance 
80 lb Tubs......... advance 
50 lb T ins......... advance 
20 lb Pails......... advance 
10 lb Pails......... advance 
5 1 b Pal 1 s......... advance 
3 lb Pails......... advance 

Sausage«.
Bologna..................  
Liver.....................  
Frankfort.............. 
p o rk .......................... ;;;
Blood  ..........................  
Tongue..........................  
Head  cheese...........94

54
«4

%
4
4
4
%
1
14

74
e
g

Beef.

Tripe.

Pig«’ Feet.

Extra  Mess......................to 23
Boneless  ........................12 50
Rump............................. .12 25
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
70
hi  bbls, 40 lbs..................   1 35
4   bbls, 80 lbs..................  2 50
Kits, 15 lbs........................  
70
4   bbls, 40 lbs..................  1 25
4   bbls, 80 lbs..................  2 25
P ork.................................. 
Beef  rounds................... 
Beef  middles..................  
Sheep....................... 
Butterlne.
Rolls,  dairy................... 
Solid,  dairy.................... 
Rolls,  creamery............  
Stolid,  creamery............  

11
104
154
144

Casings.

60

20
3
10

Canned  Meats.

Corned beef,  2 l b ........2 
15
Corned beef, 11  lb........   14 75
Roast  beef,  2 lb............2 15
Potted  ham,  4 s.........  
50
Potted  ham,  4 s.........   90
Deviled ham,  4 s.........   50
Deviled ham,  4 s.........   90
Potted  tongue v s .........  
50
Potted  tongue 4 s .........  
90

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass......................64©  8
Forequarters............ 54© 84
Hind  quarters...........  74©  94
Loins  No.  3................ 10 @14
Ribs  --........................  9 @14
Rounds......................  @ 7 4
Chucks........................  6 @0
Plates  .......................  4  @ 5
Dressed......................5  @ 5 4
Loins  ..  ....................   © 74
Shoulders...................  @ 54
Leaf Lard...................  64©
Carcass......................  8 @ 8 4
Spring Lambs...............9 @10
Carcass  ...  ..............7  @ 7 4

Mutton

Pork.

Veal.

@ 6

Hides.

Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Green No.  1..............   @ 74
Green No.  2............. 
  @ 6 4
Bulls....................... 
Cured No.  1..............   @ 8 4
Cured No.  2...............  @ 74
Calfskins,  green No.  1  ©  94
Calfskins, green No. 2  © 8
Calfskins, cured No.  1  @104
Calfskins, cured No.  9  @9
Pelts,  each.................  50@1  00
No. 1.....................  © 34
No. 2.....................  @ 24
Washed, fine  ............   @15
Washed, medium.........  @18
Unwashed,fine......  8  @10
Unwashed, medium  ..13 ©15

Pelts.
Tallow.

Wool.

Meal.

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Duluth Imperial, 4 s............4 35
Duluth Imperial, 4 s.  ____4  25
Duluth Imperial, 4 s..........   4 15
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal 4 s ...................  4 40
Gold Medal 54s.....................4 30
Gold Medal 4 s .....................4 20
Parisian,  4 s .......................  4 40
Parisian, 4 s......................... 4 30
Parisian. 4 s.......................   4 20
Ceresota, 4 s .........................4 40
Ceresota, 4 s .........................4 30
Ceresota, 4 s.......................  4 20
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 4 s .........................  4  50
Laurel, 4 s .........................  4 40
Laurel, 4 s .........................  4 30
Bolted..................... 
1  90
Granulated........................  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened___17 00
No. 1 Com and  Oats...........16 50
Unbolted Com Meal...........15 fO
Winter Wheat  Bran...........14 50
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 15 50
Screenings.......................... 14 00
New com, car lots...............374
Less than  car lots............   394
Car  lots............................. 324
Carlots, clipped................   35
Less than  car lots............   36
No. 1 Timothy carlots......   11  00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots___12 50
Fish  and  Oysters

 
Peed and Millstuffs.

Corn.

Onts.

Hay.

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
Whitefish...................  @ 10
T rout.........................  © 10
Black Bass..............  8  @  11
Halibut......................  © 15
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  5
Bluefish......................  @ 11
Live Lobster.........   @  23
Boiled Lobster........  @  25
Cod 
.........................  © 10
Haddock....................   @ 8
No.  1  Pickerel........  ©  8
Pike............................   @ 8
Perch..........................  © 5
Smoked White........  ©  8
Red Snapper...........  @  8
Col  River Salmon..  @  12
.................   @ 16
Mackerel 
F. H. Counts...........  ©  40
F. J   D. Selects.......   @  30
Selects....................... 
© 27
F. J. D. Standards... 
22
Anchors......................  @ 20
Standards...................  @ 18
Favorites....................  @
gal.
Counts  .............................   2 00
X  Selects............................   1 85
Selects.................. .............
Anchor Standards..............  1 10
Standards........................ .
Clams..................................   1 25
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  5->
Clams,  per 100..........  @1  0»

Oysters in Cans.

Shell Goods.

Bulk. 

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON STONEWARE. 

Button.

Churn«.

4  gal., per dos.................  45
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
54
8 gal., each......................  52
10 gal., each.....................   65
12 gal.,  each.....................  78
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 1  05
20 gal. meat-tubs, each__ 1  40
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  .. .2 00
30 gal. meat-tubs, each__3 40
2 to 6 gal., per gal............  
6
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 
4  gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  45 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each 
54
Fine Glazed Mllkpans.
4  gal. fiat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot, each 
4  gal. fireproof  ‘-nil, doz.  85 
1 gal. flreprooi, ball, doz.l  10
hi gal., per doz...................   40
4  gal., per doz...................   50
1 to 5 gal., per gal............  
64

Stawpans.

MUkpanz.

Jngs.

Tomato Jngs.

4  gal., per dos...................  50
1 gal., each......................  64
Corks for 4  gal., per dot..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  30
Preserve Jars and Coven. 
hi gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00

54 

Sealing Wax.

LAMP  BURNBRS.

5 lbs. In package, per lb...  2
No.  0 Sun............................. 
33
No.  1  Sun............................. 
34
No.  2  Sun............................ 
  48
No. 3 Sun............................   1 00
Tubular................................ 
50
Security, No. 1 .................1 
60
Security, No. 2.....................  
so
Nutmeg  ..............................  
50
LAMP CHIMNBY5—Seconds. 
„  
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun...........................   j 39
No.  1  Sun........................... 
j 4g
No.  2  Sun..........................   2 18
No. OSun...........................  1 50
No. 1 Sun............................   1 60
No. 2 Sun..................... 
.  2 45
Plrat  Quality.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
wrapped and  labeled 
..  r  ic 
No. 
1  Sun,  crimp 
wrapped and  labeled....  2  15 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
wrapped and  labeled....  8  15

up,
top,
top,

Common

La  Baatla.

top,
top,
top,

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

wrapped and  labeled....  2 55 
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2  75 
wrapped and  labeled  ...  3 75
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Ton.
No. 1  8un,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................3  70
No. 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled.  ..........................  4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled..............................4  88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,” 
for Globe Lamns............  
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bnlb,  per
doz  ................................  
g
No. 2  Son,  plain  bnlb,  per
doz  ..................................  1 15
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per dos......... 1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c dos)........3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)........  4  00
No. 2, Flint (80c doz)........4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  ........ 4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c dos)......  4 40
Doa. 
1 gal tin cans with  spont..  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 fancet 4  17 
5 gal galv iron with  fancet 4 67
5 gal Tilting cans.............. 7 25
5 gal galv Iron Nacefas....  9 09

OIL CANS. 

Rochester.

Electric.

Pomp  Can«.

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 59

LANTERNS.

No.  OTubnlar side lift....  4  00
No.  1B  Tubular......... 
6 25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 50
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__ 7 00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  00
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........8 75
LANTERN GLOBBS.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 dos.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 2 dos.
45
each, box 15  cents.......... 
No.  0 Tabular,  bblB 5 dos.
each, bbl 36J...*................. 
t
No. 0 Tubular,  bull's  eye, 
oases 1 do«. eaeh...~~~.  1  25

22

H a rd w a re

Net  Prices  in  the  Jobbing  Business.
One  generation  passes  away,  and  with 
it  disappear  many  of  its  time-honored 
methods  and  customs.  The  young  men 
of  to-day  will  be  the  old  men  of  to-mor­
row,  and  when  they  give  place  to  the 
they  will,  no 
succeeding  generation, 
doubt,  shrug  their  shoulders, 
just  as 
their  fathers  are  doing  now,  at  the  in­
novations  brought  forth  by  the  rising 
generation.

large 

Each  generation  feels  that the “ boys”  
will  not  be  able  to  carry  on  successfully 
the 
interests  which  will  descend 
to  them,  and  so hold  on  as  long  as  they 
can  themselves,  forgetting  that,with  the 
business,  the  sons  may  also 
inherit  the 
fathers'  shrewd  business  ability.

The  world  moves  and  business  condi­
tions  greatly  change. 
If  the  young 
blood  brings  with  it  a  thorough  knowl­
edge  of  the  times,  and  an  insight  that 
enables 
it  to  grasp  the  needs  of  the 
times,  then  the  future  is  assured.  A 
few  years  of  success,  and  the  elderly 
doubters  are  heard  to  remark,  The 
business  still  moves  on,  after  a li,”   and 
it 
is  then  that  they  begin  to  realize 
bow  a  man's  work 
lives  after  him. 
The  undertakings  to  which  they  have 
given  many  years  of  study  and  the  best 
part  of  their 
lives  will  continue  to 
"m ove  on**  because  of  the  momentum 
which  their  own  thrift  and  energy  have 
given  the  business.  They  should  be 
thankful  that the  success  of any business 
does  not  hinge  upon  the  life  or death  of 
any  one  man;  that  there 
is  a  higher 
power that controls not only  the  destinies 
of  men,  but  the  success  of any business.
It  is  not  hard  to  understand  why  the 
older  business  men  shake  their  heads 
doubtfully  as  they  see  the  lists  and  dis­
counts  of  yesterday  give  place  to  the net 
prices  of  to-day.

is 

At  the  present  time  there  are  more 
goods  sold  at  net  prices  than ever before 
in  the  history  of  the  hardware  business, 
and  this  tendency 
increasing  year 
by  year.

In  the  hurry  and  rush  incident  to  the 
retail  and  jobbing  business  of  to-day, 
net  prices  are  a  necessity.

Both  retailer  and 

jobber  know  what 
they  can  get  for  certain  goods,  and want 
to know  from  the  seller,  not the  list  and 
discount  price,  but  just  what the  goods 
will  net  them  on  board  the  cars 
in  the 
seller’s  city.
*  Often  do  we  hear the  retailer  say  to 
the  salesman,  “ Life  is  too  short  to  fig­
ure  out  that  loflg  discount.  What  will 
that  size  cost  me  net?”   Another  com­
mon  expression  heard  by  the  traveling 
salesman  from  the  retailer  when  he 
quotes  him  a  discount  selling  price, 
is :  “ Oh,  pshaw,  what  does  that  make 
it  net?”   and 
is  becoming  a  habit 
with  the  jobber’s  buyer to  say,  “ Let  us 
see,  what does  that  make  it  net?”

it 

The  successful  salesman  must be  in  a 
position  where  he  can  quote  both  list 
and  discount,  or  a  net  price,  as  the 
buyer  desires,  but  he  will  find  the  aver­
age  jobber  demanding  net  prices  of  the 
manufacturer,  and  the  retailer  in  turn 
wanting  his quotations  equally  simple, 
thus  proving  the  assertion  that  net 
prices  are  the  up-to-date  basis  for  mer­
chandising  and  are  used  because  of  the 
demand  for  them.

These  assertions  particularly  apply  to 
certain 
lines  of  goods  which,  in  late 
years,  were  sold  by  manufacturers  to 
jobbers,  and,  in  turn,  to  retailers  at  list 
and  discount,  and  are  now  sold  almost 
entirely  at  net  prices.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

To  this  class  belong  lines  made  up of 
the  great  varieties  of  patterns  and sizes; 
articles  where  a  new  manufacturer  has 
come 
into  the  field  making  only  the 
staple  sizes,  which  necessitated  the 
older  maker  selling  part  of  the  lines  at 
one  discount,  and  part  at  another;  arti­
cles  made  of  raw  material  in  which  the 
price  is  constantly  fluctuating,  and those 
in  which  the  raw  material  makes  up  a 
large  percentage  of  the  goods,  the  cost 
of  labor  to  produce  them  being  only 
nominal. 
is  not  necessary  to  enum­
erate  these  goods,  as  they  will  readily 
occur  to  the  mind  of  the  reader.

It 

it 

It  is  very  apparent  to  anyone  in  touch 
with  the  hardware  business  that  net 
prices  are  rapidly  displacing 
lists  and 
discount,  and 
is  but  a  question  of 
time  when  increasing  competition  will 
force  manufacturers  and  jobbers  alike 
to  do  business  on  such  a  slender  margin 
that  the  broad  and  generous  all-round 
list,  used  so  largely  by 
discount  from 
our  forefathers 
in  amassing  their  for­
tunes,  will  be  a  thing  of  the  past.

Business  will.be  done on  such  a  slen­
der  margin  that  a  few  odd  cents  per 
dozen  on  a  certain  size,  owing  to  the 
increasing  quantities  sold,  will  mark 
the  difference  between  a  reasonable 
profit  and  a 
losing  business.—Charles 
W.  Emery  in  Hardware.

How  Gen.  Wood  Reduced  the  Price 

of  Meat.

When  Gen.  Wood  assumed  charge  of 
Santiago  de  Cuba  the  conditions  of  the 
place  were  about  as  bad  as  they  could 
be.  The  city  was  Americanized  from  a 
sanitary  point  of  view.  Then  the  ques­
tion  of  food  became  uppermost.  Meat 
had  gone  up  to  90  cents  a  pound  and 
was  scarce  at  that.  Bread  sold  for  fab­
ulous  prices.  Very  soon  there  came  a 
change;  provisions  began  to  come  from 
the  ordinary  sources.  As  the  supply 
increased,  however,  there  was  no  dim i­
nution  of  prices.  Gen.  Wood  sent  for 
the  aldermen  representing  the  different 
wards  of  the  city  and  he  also  summoned 
in 
the  butchers.  When  they  assembled 
his  office  be  arranged  them 
in  two 
lines,  facing  one another.  Then,  through 
an  interpreter,  he  asked  the  butchers: 

“ How  much  do  you  charge  for  your 

meat?”

“ Ninety  cents  a  pound,  Senor.”  
“ What  does  it  cost  you?”
There  was  a  hesitation  and  a shuffling 
of  feet;  then  one  of  the  men  said  in  a 
whining  voice:
is  very,  very  dear,  Your  E x ­

“ Meat 
cellency. ”

“ How  much  a pound?”
“ It  costs  us  very  much,  and” —
“ How  much  a  pound?"
“ Fifteen  cents,  Your  Excellency;  but 
we  have  lost  much  money  during  the 
war.  We  need  the  money.”
“ So  have  your  customers.  Now  meat 
will  be  sold  at  25  cents  a  pound  and  not 
one  cent  more.  Do you  understand?”  

Then,  turning  to  the  aldermen,  he 
charged  them  to  see  that  his  order  was 
carried  out  to  the  letter,  unless  they 
wanted  to  be  expelled  from  office.
Thenceforward  meat  was  sold  in  the 
markets  at  25  cents.  A  similar  reduc­
in  the  price  of  bread, 
tion  was  made 
It 
vegetables  and  all  food  products. 
was  the  first  showing of  the  master hand 
to  the  public,  and  confidence 
in  the 
American  methods  of  administration 
strengthened  rapidly.

Convicts  to  Maks  Binder  Twine.
The  Iowa  Board  of  Control  of  State 
Institutions  has  determined  to  establish 
in 
a  factory  for  making  binder  twine 
one  of  the  penitentiaries.  About 
1,-100 
convicts  are  in  the  Anamosa  and  Fort 
Madison 
institutions.  At  Anamosa  it 
has  been  almost  impossible  to  find  em­
ployment  for  them,  hence  the  board  de­
cided  to  try  the  twine  factory.

Never  turn  over  a  new  leaf  until  you 
have  something  sensible  to  write  on  the 
page.

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

Wm.  Brummeler  &  Sons,

buying elsewhere.

SPRAYERS

of  all  kinds.

Brass,

Gönner

and Tin
Write  forflprices.

foster. Stevens & go.

Grand  Rapids.  Midi.

World
Bicycles

$40  a n d   $50

W e  also  have  other  makes 
of wheels  to  retail  at

$ 2 5  

$3 0  

$ 3 5

W e  can  take  care  of  a  few 
more  good  dealers.  W rite 
for  our  Sundry  catalogue.
A d a m s &  H art,

12  W .  Bridge  S t., 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Wholesale Bicycles and Sundries.

Tradesman  Company 

Grand  Rapids.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

Dealers  Should  Ask  More  for Stoves.
When  The  Metal Worker last June look 
up  the  subject  of  the  extreme  low prices 
of  stoves  and  furnaces  then  prevailing 
and  suggested  that  there  was  no  reason 
why  such  a  state of  affairs  should  con­
tinue,  we  did  not  think  then  that  much 
could  be accomplished  toward 
improv­
ing  the  situation  by  concerted  action 
owing  to  the  many  differences  of  opin­
ion  among  the  manufacturers  regarding 
each  other’s  business  methods,  and  the 
antipathy  to  doing  anything  conjointly 
that might  be advantageous to individual 
concerns.  We  do nof mean  to  say  we 
discovered  all  these  troubles;  they  were 
too  well  known,  but  no  effort  was  made 
by  any  one  to  change  the  situation.  The 
trade  had  settled  down  and  accepted the 
matter  as  Kismet,  which  could  not  be 
changed.  It  is  not necessary  to  dwell  on 
this  part,  for  it  is  irrevocable,  but  there 
is  much 
in  the  situation  of  the  makers 
to-day  that  is  surprising,  if not  to  them­
selves,  at  least  to  the  outsiders. 
It  can 
be  fairly  stated  that  the  manufacturers 
are  in  better  situation  to-day  to  help 
themselves  to  a  share  of  the  general 
in  sight  than  for 
prosperity  which 
many  years  past,  and 
it  has all  come 
about  by  a  little  consultation,  which  has 
brought  the  trade  somewhat  nearer to­
gether.  Look  at  the  situation  of  the 
trade  last  year.  Was  there any  one  wise 
enough  to  predict  the  rise  of  iron,  not 
to  speak  of  other  enormous  advances  in 
everything  that enters into a stove?  If  he 
had  done  so he  would  have  been  slated 
is  too  much 
for  the  asylum. 
competition,  prices  must  be 
lower,”  
etc.,  was  the  common  prediction.  Now 
all 
is  changed,  and  the  stove and  fur­
nace  makers  are  in  line  to  take  advan­
tage  of  the  situation.  But  in  what  has 
been  done  the  labor has  been  heavy  for 
the  committees and secretary of the asso­
ciation, 
perplexing 
amount  of  work  was  required  to get  a 
basis  to  work  on  for  prices,  and  a  great 
deal  of  time  was consumed  in  the  task. 
To  get  the  various  kinds of stoves equal­
ized  on  an  even  basis  was  a  hard  prob­
lem,and  while  the  committee  do  not  as­
sume  that  they  have  the  perfect  thing, 
they  have  made  great  progress  toward 
perfection,  and  the  result  should  prove 
beneficial  to  all  in  the  trade.

as  a  vast  and 

“ There 

is 

The  preliminary  work  on  organizing 
the  New  York  and  Pennsylvania  manu­
facturers  has  been  done,  and  now  the 
general  business  situation 
is  helping 
them  on  to  the  very goal  they  are  striv­
ing  for—a  combination  that  does  not 
often  occur.  Now 
if  this  is going  to 
prove  such  a  good  move  for  the makers, 
why  could  not  the dealers  in  the  cities 
and  towns  get  together and  endeavor  to 
regulate  their  prices  for  the  better? 
It 
is  a  much  easier  problem  for the dealers 
to  fix  prices  on  stoves  and  furnaces 
than  it  was  for the  makers  to  reach  an 
agreement.  And  retail  prices  that would 
be  reasonable  could  easily  be  made. 
At  the  prices  prevailing  in  1898  neither 
maker  nor  dealer  profited  by  them,  as 
all  were  engaged  in  seeing  how  much 
they  could  give  away,  and  judging  by 
results,  they  were  liberal  to a  fault.  But 
now  things  are  changed;  you  can  ask  a 
price  for  an  article  and  you  need  not 
fear that  you  will  lose your customer be­
cause  he  bought  so  much  cheaper  last 
year.  The  retailer  and  manufacturer 
both  will  have  to  pay  higher  prices  for 
their  goods  this  year,  and  all  those  who 
did  not  make  contracts  in  1898  are  al­
ready  doing  it.  The retailer  can  get  his 
share  of  the  profit  if  he  will  ask  it,  but 
if  he  attempts  to  measure  up  the old 
prices  and  argue  with  the  customer

about 
it  he  will  not  be  any  better  off 
than he is now.  No  ironmaker  pays  any 
attention  to  the  old  prices.  He  makes 
his  price  to-day  and  you  must  pay 
it. 
It 
is  precisely  this  way  that  stoves  and 
furnaces  should  be  sold, and  good prices 
will  be  paid  at  the  proper  season  even 
if  they  are  very  much  higher  than  they 
were  last  year.—The  Metal  Woiker.

The  Hardware  Market.

The  most  important  thing  relating  at 
the  present  time  to  the  condition  of  the 
hardware  .market 
is  the  keeping  track 
of  advances  as  they  occur and  keeping 
the  retail  trade  posted  on  such  changes. 
No  matter how  careful  a  person  may  be 
in 
investigating  all  the  trade  journals 
that  he  comes  in  contact  with,  changes 
in  prices  are  made  on  so  many  things 
that  it  is  impossible  not to  make  some 
errors  in  the  selling  of  goods.

Wire  and  Nails—The  recent  advance 
on  wire  and  nails  makes  the  price  as 
follows:  shipments  from mill to retailers 
in  carlots,  $2.20;  less  than  carlots,  $2.30 
—everything  based  on  Pittsburg freight. 
Jobbers  from  stock  are asking from $2.40 
@2.50.

Barbed  and  Plain  Wire—These  arti­
cles  are  affected  the  same  as  nails in the 
recent  advance,  and  the  price  quoted  in 
less  than  carlots  on  painted  barbed  is 
$2.40;  galvanized  barbed, 
$2.90—all 
subject  to  Pittsburg  freight.  Owing  to 
the  high  price  of  spelter,  which  enters 
largely  in  the  mixture  used  for  galvan­
izing,  the  advances  for galvanizing  have 
been  adopted  as  follows:  50c  advance 
on  galvanized  barbed  over  painted; 
plain  wire,  Nos.  9  to  14  galvanized,  ad­
vances  50c;  Nos. 
16,  85c  and 
Nos.  17  and  18,  Si. 10.

15  and 

Miscellaneous-----Among 

the  many
items  on  which  the  price  has  changed, 
we  note the  following :  Horse shoes have 
advanced  35c  a  keg ;  wrought iron goods 
have  been  advanced  10  per  cent.  ;  crow­
bars,  }4c  per  pound;  stone  hammers, 
hatchet  and  edge  tools  of  all  kinds,  10 
per  cent.  ;  jack  screws,  15  percent.  ;  all 
grades  of  chain, 
per  pound ;  shingle 
bands,  both  black  and  galvanized, 
per  pound;  brass  and  copper  wire,  5 
per  cent.  ;  window  glass,  10  per  cent.  ; 
gas  pipe,  10  per  cent.  ;  malleable  iron 
goods  and  pipe  fittings,  15  per  cent.  ; 
both  common  sheet 
and  wood 
smooth  have  been  advanced  20c per cwt. 
Galvanized 
iron  is  firm  at  70  per  cent, 
off and  the  prospects  are  that  it  may  go 
higher.  The  recent  advance 
in  sheet 
zinc  necessitates  the  jobber asking  from 
9@9>^c  per  pound,  according  to  quan­
tity.  Lead  of  all  kinds,  it  is  believed, 
will  move  upward,  which  will  have  its 
effect  upon  shot.  The  demand  for  tin 
plate  is  far  beyond  the  capacity  of  the 
mills  and  they  are  refusing  orders  for 
immediate  shipments,  not  agreeing  to 
ship  until  after  July  1.

iron 

Saw-Edged  Scissors.

Saw-edged  scissors  is  one of  the  new­
est  novelties,  says  the  Boston  Journal  of 
In  general  design  they  are 
Commerce. 
identical  with  the  scissors  we  know  so 
well,  but 
instead  of  a  smooth  cutting 
surface,  each  blade  has  an  edge like  the 
carpenter's  saw.  The  sides  of  these 
teeth  are  shaped  at  an  angle  to  the 
plane  of  movement  of  the  blades,  and 
also  toward  the  end,  the advantage  be­
ing  that  the  operation  of cutting is made 
easier,  an  important  item 
in  handling 
heavy  goods,  and  also  that  a  clean, 
smooth  cut  is  made  at  every  operation. 
These  blades  are  said  to  bold  their 
edges  much longer than  the  old  straight­
edge  style.

We never know  the  full  value  of  our 
in  a  railway 

property  until  we  lose  it 
wreck.

Hardware  Price  Current.

AXES

AUQURS  AND  BITS

8ner
Jenniug  genuine..............................  
25*10
Jennings  Imitation...............................  ..60*10

BOLTS

14 00 
net  30 00

BARROWS

First quality, S. B. Bronze.............. 
5  50
First Quality, D. B. Bronze............................ 950
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel...............  
« 25
First Quality, D. B. Steel...........................  10 50
Railroad.....................................
Garden.......................
Stove ...................
Carriage new list. 
Plow...................
Well,  plain.................................................. ..
BUTTS.  CAST
Cast Loose  Pin, figured............  
70&10
Wrought Narrow..............................  . . . . . . . 70*10
„  ^  
Ordinary Tackle...........................  
 
70
„  
5
Cast Steel............................................ per lb 

CROW  BARS

BUCKETS

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

BLOCKS

50

„ 

„ 

 

 

 

 

CAPS

uick s u   * ......................................... per m 

55

„ 

CARTRIDGES

 

DRILLS

CHISELS

£■***%.•....................................................40*10
Central  Fire.................................................  
¿0
Socket Firmer............................................. 
70
Socket Framing..................................................70
Socket Comer............................. 
70
Socket  Slicks...................................................... 70
Morse’s Bit Stocks............................ 
go
Taper and Straight Shank............... . 
50*  5
Morse’s Taper Shank...............................  
. 
Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
60
j  35
Corrugated..............................................  
Adjustable...............................................dis 40*10
30*10
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26............. 
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30......................... 
25
New American............................... 
70*10
Nicholson’s............................................ 
.".  70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................6C&10
28
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27. 
List  12 
17

GALVANIZED  IRON 

EXPANSIVE  BITS

PILES—New  List

ELBOWS

16......... 

14 

13 

 

Discount,  70

15 
QAUOBS

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

MATTOCKS

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...............  
60*10
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings... 
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.............. 
so
Adze Bye.....................................$17 00, dis 60*10
Hunt Eye.................................... $15 00, dis 60*10
Hunt’s......................................... $18 50, dis 20*10
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
40
40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.. 
Coffee, Landers. Ferry *  Clark’s...............  
40
Coffee, Enterprise........................................ 
30
Stebbin’s Pattern................. 
60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

MOLASSES  OATES

MILLS

 

NAILS

 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.
Steel nails, base....................................... 
 
Wire nails, base................................................  2 45
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
05
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
8 advance.................................................... 
10
advance...............................................  
6 
20
4 advance.................................................... 
30
3 advance................................................... 
45
2 advance...................................................  
70
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
50
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance.................................   .. 
25
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel X advance.......................................... 
85
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   @50
Sciota Bench................................................ 
60
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
Iron and  Tinned.................
Copper Klvet8 and Bars........

PLANES

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 54c per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole *  Co.’s, new  list......................dis  33*
Yerkes *  Plumb’s................................... 
26
di« 10*10 
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.
«V Hai 
70 
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand
30c list 50& 10
Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware................  
20*10

HOUSB  FURNISHING  GOODS

 

HOLLOW  WARE

 

ROPES

TRAPS

HINOBS

SHEET  IRON

LBVELS
SQUARES

 
WIRB  GOODS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

$2 50
2 50
2 60
2 70
2 80
2 90
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

£?*■;............................................................. 60*1
Spiders......................................................... 60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,3................................dis 60*10
’tate......................................... per dos. net  2 5$
Sisal, 54 Inch and  larger................. 
giz
"  u g
Manilla.................... 
Bright..........................................................  
go
80
Screw Byes................................................... 
Hook’s.........................................................."  .  go
Gate Hooks and Byes...............  
80
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .................. dis 
70
Steel and Irrn ............................................   70*10
Try and Bevels..................................... 
60
Mitre...........................................................; 
50
com. smooth,  com.
„  
Nos. 10 to 14................................... $2 70 
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................2 70 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................  2 80 
Nos. 22 to 24............ 
3  00 
Nos. 25 to 26.....................................3 10 
HO-  27 ......................................... 320 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86........................................ dis  50
.50*  5
Solid Eyes...................................... .per ton 20 00
Steel, Game............................................. 
75*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion.........................per dos 
1  2£
Bright Market............................................. 
-,o
Annealed  Market........................................  
70
Coppered Market.......................................   69*10
Tinned Market...........................................  
eo
50
ed Fence, galvanized  ........................   3(0
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................  2  50
Au Sable.................................................dis 40&1C
Putnam......................................... .........ells 
5
Capwell................................................. ..net list
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
40
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought  .........  
75
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
75
MISCELLANEOUS
4, 
Bird  Cages.....................................
Pumps, Cistern.................................
70 
Screws, New List...............................
85
Casters, Bed and Plate.....................
50*10*10
Dampers, American..........................
50
600 pound casks............................
854 
9
Per pound..........................................
D rop.................................................
2 40
B B and Buck..................................
54@54..............................................
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  composition.
TIN—Melyn Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................ $ 7 55
14x20 IC, Charcoal......................... 
7 f 0
20x14 IX, Charcoal.......................................  8 59

a ered Spring Steel................................  

 
Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

.......   1  70
......  17

METALS—Zinc

HORSE NAILS

WRBNCHBS

SOLDER

SHOT

WIRB

.  ... 

 

TIN—Allaway Orada

10x14 IC, Charcoal......................................   6 25
14x20 IC, Chdrcoal......................................   6 25
10x14 IX, Charcoal......................................   7  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal......................................   7 5Q

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. 

ROOF1NO  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  5 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  6 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  11  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   10 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   12 00
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
14x56 IX, for No  9  Boilers, f P01 pound-

BOILER SIZB TIN PLATE 

Jars, yt gal..................3%c each
Pans, black, 54 gal....... 3J£c each
Pans, black, % gal......... 4j£c each
Jars,  1 to 6 g al...................... 5c gal
Jars, 8, 10 and  12 gal. 
,6c gal
Pans, black,  1 to 2 gal.........5c gal
Jars,  15 and 20 g a l............714.c gal
Pans,  Peoria or white,
Churns, 2 to 6 g al.............gal
Jugs, 14 g a l.........................4c each
Pans, P ’a or w., % gal..454c each 
Jugs,  i to s g al......................6c gal
Pans, P ’a-w.,  1  to 2gal..5J£c gal
F .  O. B. factory at Akron.  No charge  for  crates  If  you  enclose  this 
advertisement.  Car  loads  to  one  or  more  merchants  in  one  town 
a specialty.

54 g al........................4c each

CHICAGO  POnERY  GO..  CIOIK  ODD  m

i

  SIS.,  Glllcogo.  III.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

meekly  submit.  Finally,  there 
is  the 
inestimable  advantage  in  being  a  wom­
an  of  always  having  the  last  word,  and 
the  most  words,  for  no  gentleman  can 
talk  back  to  a  lady,  and  that  in  itself 
ought to  go  a  long  way  towards squaring 
whatever  grievance  women  have  with 
fate  for having  made  them  women.
The  Big  Village  of the  Upper  Penin­

sula.

A  new  hotel 

Laurium,  April  24—It  is  safe  to  say 
that  no  village  on  the  peninsula  has  a 
greater  number  of  enterprising  citizens 
than  Laurium.  And  the  bright  feature 
is  that  they  are  all  united  in  advancing 
the  best  interests  of  the  town.
is  contemplated, to  be 
erected  almost  opposite  Bray’s  m ill;  it 
is  to  cover  a  space  of  four  lots.
Manier  &  Hunt  are  about  to  erect  a 
large  block  on  the  corner  of  Lake  Lin­
den  avenue  and  Hecla  street,  for  which 
the  stone  is  already  on  the  ground.  The 
old  buildings  on  this  property  are  being 
torn  down.
It  is  expected  there  will  be  300houses 
erected  at  Laurium  this  season,  and  all 
will  rent  to  good  tenants  at  good  rentals 
when  completed.

An  opera  house  is  in  course  of  com­
pletion. 
In  this  building  will  also  be 
the  city  hall  and  offices  of  the  various 
village  officers,  also headquarters  for  the 
fire  department.
There  is  some  talk  of  the  Florida  and 
Bollman  additions  becoming  part  of 
Laurium,  and  also  of  a  city  charter  be 
ng  applied  for.  Contracts  have  been 
let  for  a  sewer  system  and  the  extension 
the  village  water  mains.  This village 
had  no  corporate  existence  until  a  few 
years  ago  and  to-day  it  is  probably  the 
largest 
in  the  State,  with  a  population 
‘  fully  5,000.  The  acquisition  of  the 
Florida  and  Bollman  additions  to  the 
llage  would  increase  its population  by 

_____ ______

fully  5,000. 
Excursion  to  Detroit  Sunday, April 30 
The  Grand  Trunk  Railway  System 
ill  run  the  first  excursion  of  the  season 
Detroit  on  the  above  date.  Fare 
$1.85  for  the  round  trip.  Train  will 
leave  D.  &  M.  depot  at  7  a.  m.,  arriv 
ng  in  Detroit  at  11:45  a* 
Returq 
ng,  leave  Detroit at  6:45  p.  m.,  giving 
seven  hours  in  the  City  of  the  Straits. 
Tickets  on  sale  at  City  Ticket  Office  or 
at  depot.

C.  A.  J u s t i n ,  C.  P.  &  T. A.

What  Kind  of  Boys  Are  Preferred  in 

Stores.

VnTn the New York  Sun.
“ What  general  principle  do  you  go 
1  in  hiring  boys?’ ’  the  reporter  asked. 
“ Appearance  goes  a  great  way  in  de­
ciding  whether  a  boy’s  application  is 
accepted  or  not. 
If  a  boy  is  neat-look- 
ng,  has  a  keen,  bright  eye,  is  quick  in 
s  movements  and  polite,  not  having  a 
reference  will  not  stand  in  his  way  of 
getting  a  trial.  The  trouble  with  New 
York  boys  is  that  they  don’t  stick;  they 
don’t  get  down  to  business  and  work 
th  an  eye  to  the  future.  They  are a 
restless  set,  and  are  impatient  for  pro­
in  the 
motion,  which  comes  as  slowly 
career of  the  working  child  as 
it  does 
■ ■ th e  career  of  a  man.  But  when  we 
get a  boy  who  does  knuckle  down  as 
if  he  wanted  to  own  the  store  in  the 
end,  be  goes  right  ahead.
‘ When  a  boy  who  intends  to  go  to 
work 
leaves  school  he  should  get  a 
recommendation  from  his  teacher.  My 
experience  has  been  that  a teacher’s ref­
erence 
is  worth  more  than  all  other 
references  put  together.  Teachers  are 
just,  as  a  rule,  iu  recom­
honest  and 
mending  a  boy. 
I  have  in  mind  now 
one  of  the  very  best  cash  boys  in  this 
store,  who  came  here  with  a  letter  from 
is  teacher,  who  said,  alter  giving  him 
an  excellent  character,  that,  while  not 
as  bright  as  some  others, when told  to  do 
it  to  the  very 
oest  of  his  ability.  She  lowered  that 
boy’s  standard 
in  one  way,  but  she 
raised 
in  another,  and  her  honesty 
enabled  me  to  place  him  in  a  situation 
that  he  was  fitted  to  fill,  and  he  is filling 
it  admirably.  When  he  is  told  to  do 
thing  we  think  no  more  about  it,  for  we 
know  that  boy  will  do  his  work  w ell.”  
serious 
full  of  life  and 

“ Do  you  want  a  solemn, 

thing  he  always  did 

it 

lad 

youngster,  or  a 
pranks?”
One  of  the  solemn,  serious  kind 
seldom  pans  out  well.  There’s  some 
thing  wrong  about  the  average  boy  if 
the  boyish  spirit  is  absent.  We  don’ 
expect boys  to  be  saints,  and  so  if  they 
are  somewhat  mischievous,  that  does 
not  necessarily  hurt  their  standing. 
In 
deed,  the  very  boys  who  are  up  to  the 
most  pranks  are,  as  a  rule,  the  quickest 
and  most accurate  about  their  work.  I ’J  
rather  have  a  thief  in  the  shape  of 
boy  than  a  liar.  You  can  detect  a  thief 
and  get  rid  of  him ;  you  can  have  him 
locked  up  or  send  him  home  to  his  par 
ents.  But  when  a  boy  lies  once  you 
never  know  when  to  believe  him  again 
A  boy  who  will  do  a  thing  and lie  about 
it  is  the  very  worst  sort of  a  boy.  These 
boys  who  own  up  to  their  mischievous, 
annoying  jokes  and  tricks  always  come 
out  all  right,  but  the  liar  never.”

2 4

Wherein  Women  Have  the  Advantage 

of  Men.

It 

To the  average  woman  it always seems 
that  men  have  drawn  all  the  capital 
prizes 
in  the  lottery  of  life  and  left  the 
blanks  for  her.  She  feels  that  if  she 
were  only  a  man  somehow  the  snarls  of 
fate  would  be  untangled  for  her  and  the 
way  made  easy.  As  a matter  of  fact,  the 
kicks  and  ha’pence  of  life  are  a  good 
deal  more  evenly  divided  than  we 
im­
agine,  and  women  are  far  from  appre­
ciating  their  perquisites  at  their  true 
value.  Take  the  mere  matter  of  clothes, 
for  instance,  when,  on  rainy  and muddy 
days,  women  are  given  to  envying  their 
brothers. 
In  her  dress  a  woman  may 
gratify  her  highest  artistic  taste  in  har­
mony  of  beautiful  colors  and  grace  of 
flowing  lines.  A  man  may  have  just  as 
keen  an  aesthetic  sense,  but  the  mo­
ment  he  tries  to  break  away  from  the 
hideous  conventions  of  masculine  attire 
people  begin  to  question  his  sanity.  No 
man  could  do  a  retail  grocery  business 
in  a  pink  em­
for  more  than  two  days 
broidered  toga  without 
ruining  his 
credit  at  the  bank.  Then  there is  wom­
an’s  immemorial  privilege to  sit  down 
and  weep  when  things  don’t  go  to  suit 
her. 
is  a  spectacle  that  invariably 
fills  the beholder  with  tender  sympathy 
and  a  desire  to  help  her.  Not  so  with 
a  man.  There  are  plenty  of  times when, 
in  sheer  despair  over  plans  gone  awry 
and  blasted  hopes,  he  would like  to  take 
a  good  cry  if  only  public  opinion  would 
admit  of 
it.  But  it  doesn’t.  Nobody 
would  be  sorry  for him.  They  would 
simply  say  in  a  disgusted  tone  of  voice 
that  be  was  whining  and  go  off  and 
leave  him.  Men’s  strength 
is  another 
object  of  envy  to  women.  This  has 
been  so  overrated  that  a  theory  has 
sprung  up  that  men  never  tire,  and  that 
the  poor  clerk,  who  has  been  on  his 
feet  all  day  and  made  as  many  miles 
and  laps  as  a  professional  pedestrian up 
and  down  a  store  aisle,  is  overjoyed  to 
get  up  in  a  street  car  and  give  his  seat 
to  a  woman  who  has  been  engaged 
in 
nothing  more  exhausting  than  reading  a 
novel  on  a  sofa. 
In  business,  too,  little 
as  they  think  it,  women  have  one  great 
advantage  over  men.  In  reality  we have 
no  more  right  to  expect  every  man  to 
have  great  financial  talent  than  to  have 
great  talent  for  music  or art  or litera 
ture. 
It  is  unreasonable,  but  while  we 
don’t  dream  of  demanding  that  every 
Tom,  Dick  and  Harry  of  our  acquaint 
ance  shall  be  able  to  turn  off  a  sonnet 
at  a  moment’s  notice  or  be able  to  war 
ble  an  aria  from  an  opera,  we  do  de 
mand  that  he  shall  be  able  to  make 
money,  and 
if  he  can’t  do  it  we  call 
him  a  failure.  With  woman  it  is  differ 
if  she  doesn’t  land  in  bank 
ent,  and 
ruptcy  we  print  her  picture 
the 
papers  and  herald  her  as  a  wonder.  But 
probably  the  chief  advantage  of  being 
woman 
gives  one 
for  rank  selfishness.  The 
privileges  this  entitles  her  to  without 
calling  down  on  her head  any  especia 
notice  makes  the  masculine  hog  sim 
ply  turn  green  with  envy.  The  man 
who  takes  up  two  seats  on  a crowded car 
is  forced  to’move  u p ;  if  he  stops  in  the 
middle  of  the  pavement  and  blocks  the 
thoroughfare  while  he  talks  with 
friend,  he  is  requested  to  move  on ; 
insists  on  having  every  window  up 
he 
in  the  sleeping  car  be 
in  the  winter 
cause  be 
is  asthmatic  and  short  of 
breath,  or  down  in  the  summer because 
he  is  consumptive  and  has  a  cough 
everybody  grumbles  and 
that 
they  have  equal  rights  under  the  law.
But  if  the offender  is a woman,  people | stock.

is  the  unlimited 

freedom 

insists 

in 

10R  SALE—OLD-ESTABLISHED,  FIRST- 
class meat market:  best location  in  city  of 
,000;  doing good business;  have  best  class  of 
trade in  city;  bargain  for  some  one.  Address 
No. 928, care Michigan Tradesman._______928
;>OR SALE—SECONDHAND HUNTER  SIFT- 
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.  _________________ 924

Mich. 

______925

OR  SALE—GOOD  BAZAAR  STOCK.  EN- 
quire  of  Hollon  &  Hungerford,  Albion, 
XAMINE—IF YOU  ARE  LOOKING  FOR  A
__  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 p’ace in which 
to live;  a town of l.oOO  inhabitants  in  the  cen­
ter of as fine agricultural lands as can be  found 
anywhere.  Address R. Baker, Vicksburg, Mich.
RUG AND NOTION STOCK FOR SALE IN
__  nice town for $1,500.  Address T.  P.  Stiles,
Millersburg, Elkhart Co.. Indiana._______ 90S
A MY  ONE  WISHING TO  e n g a g e  in   t h e 
grain and produce and  other lineB  of busi­
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
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._______________ 917
YET ANTED—I AM LOOKING FOR LOCATION 
W   in good town of 2,500 to 10,000 to  open  per­
manent first-class dry goods store.  Address  A. 
Z., care Michigan Tradesman._________ 916
I7IOR  SALE—HARDWARE  STOCK  OF  THE 
’  late A.  A.  Tyler at 641  South  Division  St., 
Grand  Rapids.  Fine  location  and  well estab- 
909
lished trade.  Address Mrs. A. A. Tyler. 
I7IOR  SALE —A  RARE  OPPORTUNITY —A 
’  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. 
___________ 913
______   PARTNER TO TAKE  HALF IN-
•^¡yANTED-
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.______________________ 914
_______ __   SHINGLE  AND  SAW  MILL
jpiOR  SALE—A
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. 
____________   ______ 012
Mo n ey to pa t e n t y o u r id e a s m ay b e
Patent Record, 
885
Baltimore, Md.
Ï M>R  SALE -  ______  _
CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK 
ts  in
located at one of the best trading  points  in
Michigan.  Stock  will  inventory  about  *5,(00. 
Store and warehouse will be rented  for  *30  per 
month.  Will sell on  easy  terms.  Address  No. 
868, care Michigan Tradesman. 
OR  SALE — WELL-ESTABLISHED  AND 
good-paying  implement  and  harness  busi­
ness, located  in  small  town  surrounded  with 
good farming country.  Store  has  no  competi­
tion within radius of eight miles.  Address  No. 
806, care Michigan Tradesman. 

obtained through our aid.

IriOR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 

’  splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad­
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman.  680

868

806

A  novel  idea  in  insurance  is  about 

be  put  to  a  practical  test  in  San  Fran 
It  is  against  unavoidable  loss  of 
cisco. 
employment,  the  policyholder 
to  be 
paid  three-quarters  of  the  amount  of  h 
salary  for  a  month  should  that  time  be 
required 
in  which  to  find  a  new  posi 
ion. 
In  case  he  should  be  offered  one 
on  trial  at  a  less  amount  than bis former 
salary,  the  difference  will  be  made  up 
by  the  company.  The  company  has  the 
authorization  of  the  Insurance  Commi 
sioner  to  do  business  in  California.

Fremont—Charlie  Baker  has  severed 

his  connection  with  Pearson  Bros.
Co.  to  go  to  Rapid  City  to  run  a  gro 
eery  and  feed  store  for  Fred  Holt.

Willis 

J.  Mills,  who  recently  pur 
chased  the  Mahan  drug  stock,  at  Elk 
Rapids,  was  a  buyer  in  the  Grand  Rap 
ids  market  Monday  and  Tuesday.

Walter  Zylstra  has  engaged 

in  the 
grocery  business  at  Holland.  The  stock 
was  furnished  by  the  Musselman  Gro­
cer  Co. 

_______

L.  Vander  Jagt has  opened  a  grocery 
The  Ball- 
furnished  the 

store  on  Alpine  avenue. 
Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
stock. 

_____ _____ _____

E.  L.  Smith  has  embarked  in  the gro­
cery  business at  57  Fourth  street.  The 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.  furnished  the

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

930

R a r e  o p p o r t u n it y   (g r a n d   r a p id s,
Mich )—'1 wo light double stores in business 
center;  one store especially adapted for grocery 
aud meat business;  so occupied ten  years;  rent 
931
low.  Address 316 Fountain St. 
w ANAGER—WANT  TO  OPEN  CORRES-
___  pondence with reliable  man  who  has  had
experience in pickle business  and  can  manage 
plant.  W. H. Kiefer, President Iowa Grocer Co., 
Independence, Iowa. 

1JVJR  SALE—STOCK  OF  DRUGS  IN  GOOD 
‘  live town of 2,000 inhabitants.  Best of rea­
sons for selling.  Lock Box 35, Lowell, Mich.
CHARGING AND CREDITING ON COUNTER 
checks  (slips»)  and  filing  them  in  Shaw’s 
Counter  Check  File  does  away  with  slavish 
book-keeping.  Mr. Emmet T. O’Hara, boot  and 
shoe dealer at 71 Canal  street, will  explain how 
easy it is.  Call on him.________________ 934
W ANTED—A GOOD  MAN. AND  SHINGLE 
mill capable of cutting from 25,000 to30,000 
shingles per day, to cut cedar  shingles  on  con­
tract.  Address No. 929, care  Michigan  Trades­
929
man 
WANTED—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
C'lALLERYFOR  SALE;  GOOD  LOCATION;
T   cheap rent;  fitted up in good shape to 8x10. 
A bargain if taken soon.  J.  Daily,  Elsie,  Mich.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

WANTED—BUTTER, 
try;  any  quart title 
Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich

EGGS  AND  POUL- 
any  quantities  Write  me.  Orrin  J.

MISCELLANEOUS.

POSITION  WANTED  BY  REGISTERED  As­
sistant  pharmacist  who  understands  dry
Address  No.  932,  care 
goods  and  groceries. 
932
Michigan Tradesman.
POSITION  BY  YOUNG  MAN 
YY  with six  years’  experience  as  clerk.  Ad­
dress Lock Box O, Maple Rapids, Mich. 

918

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

B U F F A L O , N.  Y ., April  10,1899. 

M ARKET.

Eggs—Quick  and  firm. 

consumptive  trade.  Rush  along 
steadily.

13HC  mostly.  Big 
liberally  and 

Poultry—Scarcer dally.  Live young chickens, 
12 and  13c.  Dressed,  13  and  14c.  Fowls,  11  and 
12c.  Dressed,  12 and  1214c.  A il kinds wanted. 

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

Very respectfully,

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

KMFONSIBLB.  HILIAItl. 

PROMPT.

Travelers*  Tim e  Tables.
CHICAGO

Chicago.

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

*Rvery  day. 

Others week days only.

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association 

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

retary, E .   A .  S t o w e, Grand Rapids.

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

A. S to w e, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  C.  G.  J b w ett,  Howell;  Secretary 

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

n P T D f llT  
U L 4 1  1 \ U I   1  9 

Rapids & Western.  President, J o seph K n ig h t ;  Secretary, E .  Ma r k s ,
Apr. 10, 1809. 

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

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

Acetylene Gas

B y ,the

Kopf
Double
Generator

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

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

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

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

Send  to  the  manufacturers  for  booklet 

and  prices.

M.  B.  Wheeler  Electric  Co.,

99  Ottawa  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

THE  M OST  SIM PLE  AND 

COM PLETE  DEVICE  FOR  GENERATING 

ACETYLENE  GAS  IN  THE  MARKET. 

A B S O L U T E L Y   A U T O M A T I C .

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

Write for Catalogue and particulars to

G E O .  F .  O W EN  <&  C O .,

C O R .  LOUIS A N D   CA M PA U   S T S .,

G R A N D   R A P I D S ,   M IC H .

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

W A IT   F O R   T H E   W IN N E R

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

TURNER
GENERATOR

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

TURNER  &  HAUSER,

121  OTTAWA  ST.,
GRAND RAPIDS.

"Household“  Scale

2 4   L B S .  BY  O Z S .

Acknowledged to be the  B E S T  on the market

P R I C E   $ 1 . 5 0  

O N L Y   $ 1 2 . 0 0   P E R   D O Z .  

N et to the trade.

Made of  cold rolled steel  throughout. 
Beautifully  japanned  and  striped. 
Large white enameled  dial,  very  ser­
Enameled  steel  top  plate, absolutely 

viceable  and  distinct.
unbreakable.

Occupies less space than other scales. 
Can be instantly adjusted for scoop. 
Weight, boxed, only 4%  lbs.

EVERY  SCALE  WARRANTED.

PELOUZE  SCALE  &  MEG.  CO.,

CHICAGO,  ILL.,

Mfrs. Reliable Postal. Counter,  Confectionery, 
Ice a n d M arket Scales,  Spring Balances, etc.

Detroit.

Ly. Grand  Rapids.........7:00am  1:35pm 5:25pm
Ar. Detroit....................11:40am  5:45pm 10:05pm
Ly. Detroit.................... 8:15am 
1 :10pm 6:I0pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......  1:10pm  5:20pm 10:55pm
Lv. G R 7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. GRll:45am  0:30pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Geo.  DxHaveh.  General Pass. Asrent.

S i n   A v m   Trank Railway System

1 U   Detroit and Milwaukee Div
(In effect Feb. 5,1899.)

GOIKQ  B A ST

Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit & N Y.........t 6:45am t  9:55pm
Detroit  and  East..................110:16am  t 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit &  East.. 
t 3:27pm 112:50pm
Buffalo,  N  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal A Boston, L’t’d Ex__ *  7:20pm *10:16am
GOING  W EST
Gd. Haven Express...............*10:21am * 7:15pm
6d. Haven  and Int. Pts.........tl2:58pm t  3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee. ..t 5:12pm  tl0:llam  
East bound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.

*Dally.  tExcept Sunday.

C.  A.  J u s t i n ,  City  Pass.  Ticket Agent,

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.

GRAND Rgplds  ft  Indiana Railway

Feb. 8 , 1899.

Northern Div.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am t 5:15pm
Trav. City St Petoskey............t   1:50pm  110:45pm
Cadillac accommodation........15:25pm tl0:55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City....til :00pm  t  6:35am 
7:45am train, parlor  car;  11:00pm train, sleep­
ing car.
Southern  Div.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati................................t  7:10am 
F t Wayne 
............................t  2:00pm 
Cincinnati............................... * 7:00pm 
Vicksburg  and Chicago........*11:30pm  *  9:0Cam
7:10  am  train  has  parlor  oar  to  Cincinnati 
and  parlor  car  to  Chicago;  2:00pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Wayne;  7:00pm  train  has 
sleeping car  to  Cincinnati:  11:30pm  train  has 
coach and sleeping car to Chicago.

Chicago Trains.

TO CHICAGO.

FROM  CHICAGO.

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

.

LvG’d Rapids............ t7:35am  tl:0Cpm ta :40pm
Ar Muskegon.....  ........  9:00am  2:lCpm  7:05pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon.........   ,.t8:10am  tll:45am t4:00pn>
Ar G’d R apids...............9:30am  12:56pm  5:20pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm. 
tExcept Sunday.  «Daily.

going EAST.

O O H ie ’WB8T*

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

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

DULUTH  8011111 ShoFcaiMiAtlaiitic

W E ST   BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L )tll :10pm  t7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City.................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. S t Ignace...... ..................  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sanlt Ste. Marie..............   12:90pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette.........................  2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Restarla............................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Dtünth.............................................   8:30am
t6:30pm
Lv. Dnlnth............................................. 
2:45am
Ar. Mestarla...........................t u  :15am 
Ar. Marquette.......................  
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sanlt 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. Ovtatt. Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

BAIT  BOUND.

MANISTEE ft  Northeastern  Ry.

Best route to Manistee.

Via C. &  W. M.  Railway.

Lv Grand Rapids.
Ar  Manistee........
Lv  Manistee......
Ar Grand  Rapids

.........
.  7:00am  
...........
13:05pm 
8:30am   4.10pm 
1 :00pm  q:55pm

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

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

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

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

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

Bay Cities  Retail  Grocers’ Association

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

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

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

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

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

P a r t r id g e .

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

Treasurer, S. J.  Hu f p o r d .

St. Johns Business  Men’s Association. 

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

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

Perry Business Men’s Association

President,  H. W, Wa l l a c e ;  Sec’y, T. E. He d d l e .

Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos ; Secretary, J. W, V e b II o e k s.

Yale Business Men’s Association

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

T R A V E L

VIA

F.  &  P.  M.  R.  R.

AND  STEAM SH IP  LINE8 

TO   A LL PO IN TS  IN  MICHIGAN

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

t 9:45pm
t  1:30pm
* 6:30am

Surcesson to the Michigan & Ohio Acetylene Gas  Co.’s 

Carbide  Business.
Jobbers of

C alciu m  

- C arbide

and all kinds of

Acetylene G as  Burners

O rders  prom p tly  filled.

JACKSON,  MICH.

Re c o r d   o f

WOOL  PU R C H A SES
Wool  dealers  should  provide  themselves  with 
onq of the  Tradesman  Company’s Improved Wool 
Records, by means of which an accurate  and  com­
pact account of every  purchase  can  be  kept.  Sent 
postpaid on receipt of $1.

Tradesman Company,
3J  U

Grand Rapids.  — 

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TH E  C O M PU T IN G   S C A L E   C O . ,

Dayton,  Ohio.

G E N T L E M E N :

It  took a good  agent  to 
sell  me one of  your  scales 
It would  take  a 
better one  to purchase  it  from me.  It  is not 
for  sale-.

I  kept  a memorandum of  the actual  saving 
made by  its use,  and  in a special  money Box  I 
found at  the end of  the  first month,  $7.03; 
the second month,  $8.30,  and  the  third,  $8.04. 
You  can see  that  it  paid  for  itself.

My. customers  do not  complain of  paying 
for  actual  value  received,  and  I  think  in my 
purchase  from you  I  did better  than  that.
Respectfully yours,

l

MICA 

AXLE 

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Mica because their customers want the best  axle grease they can get  U>r 
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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Sold  in  H alf-Pound  Tins  Only.

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