Volume XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  10,1899.

Number  816

L.  Perrigo  Co.

Manufacturing  Chemists, 
Allegan,  Mich.

They are Trade Winners

Our  Mandrake  Bitters, 
Headache  Powders, 
Catarrh Cure, e t c ,
and  they merit  the floods of  praise  we  are  receiving  by  users 
everywhere, they are  put  up orf honor and  sold under a guaran­
tee.  Have you  written  us about  prices  on  our  specialties  and 
druggist’s sundries?  If .you  haven’t, a  postal card  is all  that is 
needed to get them.  Our  V e te r in a r y  E l ix ir ,  (a  liquid) is a 
fast  seller and a good medicine; ask  about it also.
L   PERRIGO  CO.,  Manufacturing Chemists, Allegan, Mich.

W O R L D ’S   B E S T

Our Specialties:

L .  P.  Brand  Soda.
Perrigo’s  Headache  Pwds. 
Mandrake  Bitters.
Perrigo’s Quinine  Cathartic 

Tablets.

Perrigo’s  Dyspepsia Tbits. 
Perrigo’s Catarrh  Cure. 
Perrigo’s  Cough  Cure. 
Perrigo’s  Magic  Relief. 
Perrigo’s  Sar>aparilla. 
Perrigo*-*  Sure  Liniment. 
Perrigo's  Ex. ol Blackberry 

Root.

Perrigo’s  Insect  Powder. 
Perrigo’s Poison F ly Paper. 
Perrig»»’s  Poultry  Powder. 
Perrigo’s Stock  Powder. 
Perrigo’s  Hog  Powder. 
Marshmallow  Cream. 
Bartram’s  Liver  Pills. 
Bartram’s Veterinary Elixir 
Sennara for Children. 
Porous  Plasters.
Cough  Drops.
Flavoring  Extracts. 
Druggists*  Sundries.

GARDEN SEEDS ¡U

The Seeds •_ ffered by us are  largely  our  own  pro­
duction  and  all  carefully  tested  before  sent  out.
Quality the  Best,  Prices the  Lowest.

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ply on short notice the popular varieties 
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for sugar making:  such as  Klein Wauzleben, Vilmorines  Improved, as well 
as the best varieties for stock feeding.

All orders filled and shipped  the day received.  “H33

ALFRED J.  BROWN  SEED CO.,

GROWERS,  MERCHANTS AND IMPORTERS, 
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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G R A N D   R A P I D S .   M I C H .

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STICKY  FLY  PAPER

ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  FOR  IT

For the Groceryman:

To  meet  the  demands  of  the  people,  raisins,  currants,  mincemeat, starch,  crackers 
and cereals  must be  put  up in  neat  packages.  ,\Ve  make  a  specialty  of  this class of 
work.  We also make cartons for bottles,  cans and  powders.  Mailing  tubes  to order 
on  short  notice.  Work guaranteed.  Write for prices.

Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

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INCORPORATED  1896

ESTABLISHED  1836. 

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PHELPS,  BRACE  &  CO.,

LARGEST  CIGAR  DEALERS

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THE  FULTON  CIGAR CO.,  Lancaster,  Pa.
A.  B. BALLARD  &  CO., Tampa,  Florida.
E.  M. SCHW ARZ  &  CO.,  New  York.
WHITE  BEAUTY  CIGAR  CO  ,  Detroit,  Mich. 
TH E  HAVANA CIGAR  CO., Coshocton, Ohio. 
And several other well  known  manufacturers.

VINCENTE  PORTUONDO,  Philadelphia,  Pa 
RUHE  BROS  CO., Allentown,  Pa.
THE  HILSON  CO.,  New York.
T.  J.  DUNN  &  CO.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.
McCOY  &  CO.,  New York.
THE  COLLINS CIGAR CO.,  Pittsburg,  Pa.

BROWN  BROS.,  Detroit,  Mich.
THE  BANNER  CIGAR  CO., Detroit,  Mich. 
BERNARD STAHL  CO.,  New York. 
BANNER  CIGAR CO  ,  Lancaster,  Pa. 
SEIDENBERG  &  CO  ,  New York.
G.  P.  SPRAGUE  CIGAR  CO., Columbus, O.

DETROIT,  MICH.,  U. S. A.

F.  E.  BUSHMAN,  Manager  Cigar  Department.

IN  THE  MIDDLE  W E ST

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

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

ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS

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

Robinson  Cider and  Vinegar Co.,  Beaton  Harbor, Mich.

J  ROBINSON, fUnager.

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

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Volume XVI

The Preferred  Bankers 
Life Assurance Company

of  Detroit,  Mich.

Annual Statement, Dec. 31,1898.

Commenced Business 8ept.  I, 1893. 

Insurance in  Force................................. $3,299,000  00
45,734  79
2168
None
51,061  00

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Ledger  Liabilities..................................  
Losses Adjusted and Unpaid...............  
Total Death Losses Paid to Date......... 
Total  Guaiantee  Deposits Paid to Ben­
eficiaries  .......................................  
Death  Losses  Paid  During the Y ear... 
Death  Rate for the Y ear.......................  

1,030  00
11,00000
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F R A N K  E .  R O B S O N ,  President.

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

If You Hire  Over SO Heeds  if

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(and pleases) firms  who  hire  from  one  to  a 
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Herringbones, Serges,¡Clays, Fancy Worst­
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la r g e st  Lines;  no  bet­
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$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,  M ay  6th  to  9th.  Fu ll  line  winter 
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Established  1841.

R.  G.  DUN &   CO.

Widdicomb Bid’s, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

L. P. WITZLEBEN.  manager.

Prompt, Conservative, Safe.

> J.W.Champlin, Pres.  W. F b id McBaix, Sec. <

Save  Trouble. 
Save  Money. 
Sava Time.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  10,1899.

Number 816

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

PAGES.  The Dry Goods  M arket.
3.  Book-keeping for a  Retail  Store.
4.  Around th e  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids Gossip.
6.  W oman’s W orld.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Observations by a   Gotham   Egg  Man.
11.  Gotham  Gossip.
15.  Bluff and  Blnster.
14.  Shoes and L eather.
18.  Clerks’  Corner.
16.  Cheap Men.
17.  Commercial  Travelers.
18.  Drugs and Chemicals.
19.  D rag Price  Current.
50.  Grocery  Price Current.
51.  Grocery Price Current.
SS.  Regarding the  Bankruptcy Law.
S3.  H ardw are  Price  Carrent.
34.  Ideal Manager.
Business  W ants.

The  Heathenism  of  Lying.

Lying 

is  a  thing  so  palpably  gross 
and  evil  that  no  exhortation  against  it 
ought  to  be  necessary  in  this  Christian 
and  enlightened  land.  Nevertheless 
it 
grows  and  thrives 
in  the  soil  of  our 
country  as  pasley  thrives  m a strawberry 
bed. 
It  is  a  most  universal  weed,  for 
no  land  on  the  face  of  the  earth  does 
not  present  a  fertile  soil  and  a  fair  cli­
mate  for  its  growing.  The  more  de­
based  the  nation  the  more  general  the 
lying.  The  Chinese  people 
lie  most 
commonly  and 
freely  as  a  business 
proposition.  A  Chinese  merchant  when 
asked  what  he  gets  for his  hsh,  for  in­
stance,  will  say  in  a  matter-of-fact  way : 
“ When  I  lie  I  get  twenty  cash;  when  I 
tell  the  truth  I  get  five  cash."  Other 
heathen  and  half  heathen  nations,  like 
the  Spanish  and 
Spanish-American 
countries,  make  the  lie  an  essential  ele­
ment  of  the  warp  and  woof  of  trade.  To 
lie  does  not  necessarily  make 
these 
heathen  think  less  of  each  other,  which 
shows  how  little  they  think  of each other 
in  the  hist  place;  their  children 
lie 
without  much  chiding  from  their  par­
ents,  and  to  say  they 
lie  artistically 
when  very  young  is  to tell  a  fact  of  very 
common  knowledge  among  them.

Emerson,  who  has  said  many  things 
better  than  many  others  have  said them, 
has  said  this:  “ The  world  is  upheld  by 
the  veracity  of  good  men;  they  make 
the  earth  wholesome.  They  who  live 
with  them  find  life  glad  and  nutritious. 
Life  is  tolerable  and  sweet  only  in  our 
belief  in  such  society.”

The  lie  and  the  lying  spirit,  then,  if 
we  would  believe  Emerson,  bring  wreck 
and  disease  to  the  world.  They  make 
life  intolerable,  poisonous,  bitter.  Tbe 
average  American  merchant  wiil  ad­
mit  the  truth  of  Emerson’s  proposition, 
and  the  truth  of  my  corollary,  and  still 
harbor  a  sneaking  notion  that  a  little 
trade  lie  now  and  then  helps  things 
along  in  a business  way.

This  is  an  age  of  trade  combinations. 
Our  trade  has  its  secrets.  Our  compet­
itors have  their trade  secrets.  Our  cus 
tomers  must  not  know  our  secrets; 
neither  must  our  competitors,  else  we 
lose trade  and  so  lose  our  fortunes.  To 
keep  these  secrets 
it  seems  necessary 
that  we  lie,  at  least  it  is an  easy  thing 
to  cover  our  secrets  with  a  .lie.  To

is  necessary 

satisfy  our  conscience  we  reason  that 
strategy 
in  warfare  and 
therefore  permissible.  Modern  trade  is 
commercial  warfare;  therefore  trade 
lies  are  strategy  and  consequently  per­
missible.  Such  a  syllogism,  although 
fair  to  view  casually,  is  fairly  reeking 
with  tbe  rottenness  of  error. 
is  a 
passage  from  tbe  devil’s  own  gospel.  It 
is  an  argument  fit  only  for  the  mind  of 
a  Spaniard  or  a  Chinaman.

It 

1  know  merchants  of  high  standing  in 
this  city  who  speak  with  the  utmost 
complacency  of  trade  lying  as  a  neces­
sity.  They  do  not  seem  to  know  that 
this  America  of  ours  is  fitter  and  safer 
and  more  wholesome  to 
in  than 
China  or  Hindoostan  or South  America, 
because  our  civilization  has  been  domi­
nated  by  generations  of  men  and women 
who  have  dared  to  tell  the  truth,  have 
bad  tbe  fortitude  to 
live  the  truth,  to 
suffer  the  truth  and  if  necessary  to  face 
destitution  and  death  for  the  truth.

live 

Lying,  whether  trade  lying  or  wilful, 
malicious  lying  is  a  vicious,  self-indul­
gent  frittering  away  of  the  heritage  left 
us  by  a  race  of  better  men  than  we. 
It 
is  a  retrograding  of  America  to  China, 
a  return  of  civilization  to  heathendom. 
— Deacon  in  Furniture  News.
Flour and Feed.

During  the  past  two  weeks  the  flour 
market  has  been  quiet,  with  prices  well 
maintained.  Holders  are  very  Arm  in 
their  vi^ws,  while many buyers  are  bold­
ing  off,  expecting  to  buy  for  less  money 
as  we approach  another  harvest.  As  a 
rule,  this  may  be  said  to be good policy, 
but  a  careful  study  of  the  situation 
would  seem  to  indicate  that  this  year  is 
more  than 
likely  to  be  an  exception. 
Evidence  is  fast accumulating  to  prove 
conclusively  that  the  out-turn  of  winter 
wheat  this  year  will  be  from  75,000,000 
to  100,000,000 bushels  less  than last  year 
and,  without  doubt,  a 
large  amount  of 
the  grain  harvested  will  be badly shrunk 
and  of  poor  quality,  on  account  of  the 
enfeebled  condition  of  tbe  plant,  which 
will  further  reduce  the  yield  of  flour  to 
be  obtained  from  it.  When  the  exact 
conditions  become  well  known, 
flour 
buyers  will  be  more  acitve,  and  those 
who  are  keen  enough  to  realize  tbe  situ­
ation  soon  and  purchase  a  supply  of 
choice  old  wheat  flour  for  July  and 
August  business,  will  be  most  likely  to 
secure  a  good  margin  of  profit  and,  be­
sides,  avoid  the  risk  of using  new wheat 
flour.

The  city  mills  are  running  steadily, 
with  sufficient  orders  booked  for  May 
business.

Feed  and  meal  are  selling  fairly  well, 
with  prices  unchanged.  Miilstuffs  are 
in  good  demand  and  prices  are  main­
tained  at  a  higher  level  than  is  usual  at 
this  season  of  tbe  year.

W m.  N.  R owe.

Adrian  Brink has  sold  a  third  interest 
in  bis  grocery  stock  at  34  Grandville 
avenue  to  bis  son,  John  A.,  and  another 
third  to  his  son,  Henry,  and  the  busi­
ness  will  hereafter  be  conducted  under 
tbe  style  of  A. Brink  &  Sons.  John  A. 
Brink  will remain  in  the  store,  the  same 
as  heretofore,  but  Henry  will  continue 
in  the  employ of  the  Worden Grocer  Co.

The  Grain Market.

Wheat  has  remained  very  steady,  not 
much  fluctuation,  although  the  general 
news  pointed  to  better  prices,  as  reports 
from  the  growing  crop  certainly  are  not 
as  encouraging  as  they  were  one  week 
ago,  as  the  general  cry  is  that  wheat 
is 
going  back,  owing  to  tbe  dry  and  hot 
weather,  also  that  tbe  wheat 
is  very 
weedy.  At  the  present  outlook  we  will 
not  get  two-thirds  of  a  crop,  probably 
not  over  22,000,000  bushels,  against 
the  harvest  of 
34,000,000  bushels 
1898.  The  fact 
is  wheat  in  this  State 
has  been  damaged  more  than  anyone 
thought  of.

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Exports  are  of  good  size,  but  the  way 
things 
look  we  can  not  spare  much 
more  or  else  we  shall  sell  ourselves 
short.  The  visible  made only  a  fair  de­
crease.  However,  this  can  not  be  taken 
into  account,  as  the  strike  at  Buffalo 
interfered  with  wheat  shipments  East. 
As  soon  as  that  is  settled  wheat  will  go 
out  of  the  State  at  a  faster  rate  than 
now.

Corn  is  being  badly  raided,  owing  to 
the  large  acreage  being  put  in,  and  fine 
corn  weather  has  caused  a  decline  of 
fully  2c  per  bushel,  and  the  large  de­
crease  of  3,768,000  bushels  could  not 
stop  the  decline.

Oats  also  made a decrease  of  1,622,000 
bushels,  but  price  followed  corn  on  the 
down  grade;  we  note  a  decline  of  %c 
per  bushel.  The  only  thing  strong  on 
the  list  was  rye.

Owing  to  wheat  remaining  so  steady, 
flour  received  a  strong  tone.  Outside 
orders  are  coming 
in  and  quotations 
are  asked  for  more  liberally.

Mill  feed 

is  very  much  enquired  for 
yet,  mostly  from  dairies.  The  mills  are 
all  behind  on  their  orders.

Receipts  for  the  week  were:  57  cars 
of  wheat,  12  cars  of  corn,  11  cars  of 
oats,  30  cars  of  hay.

We  may  also  mention that  hay  has  ad­

vanced  to $12  and  $13  per  ton.

Millers  are  paying  68c  per  bushel  for 

wheat. 

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool-
Hides  remain 

firm,  but  at  no  ad­
vance.  The  supply 
is  not  large  and 
there  is  a  full  demand  for  all  offerings. 
Good  stock  is  wanted  and  prices  are  as 
high  or  higher  than  tbe  leather  market 
will  warrant.

Pelts  are  not  offered  in  any  quantity, 
nor  are  they  eagerly  taken  at  prices 
asked.

Tallow  is  slow  and  sluggish.  Soapers 
are  not  anxious  buyers,  as  the  soap  out­
put  has  been  iarge  during  tbe  past  few 
weeks  and 
tbe  trade  has  slackened. 
There  is  but  little  demand  for  export.

firmed  up 

Wools  have 

i@2c  per 
pound,  with  light  sales.  All  low  priced 
wools  have  been  well  cleaned  np.  Tbe 
new  wools  come  forward  slowly,  with 
buyers  offering  about  ic  advance  over 
the  opening  prices.  Local  buyers  are 
still 
inclined  to  pay  last  year’s  prices, 
which  are-fully  up  to  the  Eastern  mar­
kets,  although  they  will  yield  no  profit. 
The  outlook  is  stong,  as  London has  ad­
vanced  prices 
io@20  per  cent.,  which 
shuts  out  importations  here.  Much  wool 
held  in  bond  on  this  side  has  been  sold 
to  Germany  and  re-exported.

W m.  T.  Hess.

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

Pry Poods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons—The  strength  of  the 
bleached  cotton division,  and  also of  the 
leading  makes  of  brown  cottons,  has 
been  extremely  gratifying  to  the  manu­
facturers 
in  the  face  of  the  effoits  that 
have  been  made  to  reduce  prices,  and 
the  condition  of  some  of  the  less  known 
lines. 
latter  have  strengthened 
considerably  on  account  of  the  position 
of  the  others.  Buyers  seem  to  begetting 
the  impression  that  further advances  are 
likely  rather  than  any  reductions.

The 

Prints 

and  Ginghams—While 

the 
print  market  has  been  rather quiet  for 
spot  goods,  there  has  been  a  little  busi­
ness  accomplished,  and  a  good  number 
of  reorders  have  been  received  through 
the  mails.  The  market  throughout  is 
very  firm  and  many  lines  of  especially 
desirable  goods  are  entirely  cleaned  up. 
Fine  specialties  are  reported  as  pretty 
well  cleaned  up  and 
in  good  shape. 
There  has  only  been a  quiet  demand  re­
ported  for  dark  printed  flannels,  but 
prices  are  firm,  and  the  situation  is  ex­
cellent.  Dress  styles  of  ginghams  are 
hard  to  find,  and  suitable  ginghams  are 
also  very  few.  Prices  on  both  show  a 
hardening  tendency.

increased  demand 

Carpets—The  very  mild  weather  dur­
ing  the  past  two  weeks  has  stimulated 
the  consumers  to  greater activity.  Coun­
try  merchants  who  have  received  a 
larger  share  of  attention  have  come  to 
the  market  to  order  more  goods  to  meet 
the  demands  of  their  customers.  The 
department  stores,  as  well  as  the  city 
retailers,  have  been  doing  a  very  good 
business.  There 
is  a  large  amount  of 
cutting  up  reported  by  the  cut  order 
stores,  who  are  well  pleased  with  the 
outlook  for  next  season.  Duplicate  or­
ders  have  been  more  frequent  and  can­
cellations  are  very  few.  The  manufac­
turers  of  ingrains,  tapestries and  velvets 
and  other  lines,  including  art  squares, 
continue  well  employed,  and  this  season 
will  last  much  longer  than  was  antici­
pated  at  the  opening.  The  new  samples 
are  now  well  under  way,  and  while 
some  have  been  obliged  to  delay  their 
preparation  for  the  next  season,  the 
month  of  May  will  find  all  the manufac­
turers  with  a  full  line  of  samples,  and 
many  of  them  more  attractive than ever. 
With  the 
for  car­
pets,  some  are  preparing  a  line  made 
of  better  material  and  fabrication  than 
last  season  in  anticipation  of  a  call  for 
goods  at  higher  values. 
It  has been one 
of  the  most  encouraging  features  thus 
far  this  season  that  no  auction  sales  of 
carpets  have  been  announced  up  to  this 
time.  One  year  previous  the  ruinous 
auction  sales  were  held,  which  resulted 
in  the  complete  demoralization  of  the 
carpet  industry,  just  as  they  were  pre­
pared  to  show  their  new  samples.  This 
year  the  proposed  carpet 
trust  was 
sprung  upon  the  carpet  manufacturers, 
who,  having  suffered  so  severely  from 
the  auctions,  were  expected  to quickly 
respond  to the  solicitations  of  promot­
ers.  While  it 
is  true  that  some  were 
induced  to  listen  to  the  proposition,  the 
larger  number do  not  take  kindly  to  the 
idea.  As  there  are  so  many  conflicting 
interests,  it  will  be a  difficult  matter  to 
induce  the  tapestry  and  velvet manufac­
turers  to  unite  with  ingrain  manufac­
turers.  Already  some  of  ths 
ingrain 
manufacturers  have  sent  circulars  out  to 
their  trade  notifying  them  that  they will 
continue  to  sell  their  goods  direct,  as 
they  are  not  connected  with  any  trust.

Upholstery  Goods—Another  meeting

of  manufacturers  outside  of  the  former 
meeting  which  was  promoted  by  Stro­
heim  &  Ronan,  wholesale  upholstery 
jobbers,  and  others  from  New York,  was 
held  in  Philadelphia  early  last  week.  It 
was  called  by  a  Philadelphia  manufac­
turer,  and  it  is  proposed  to  organize the 
various  concerns  under  one  head.  F if­
teen  concerns,  some  of  them  not  con­
nected  with  the  previous  movement, 
were  reported  as  present,  and  some 
speak  very  confidently  of  this  latter 
movement  being  a  success.  As  tVe 
meeting  was  held  with  closed  doors, 
there  was  very  little  information  given 
to  the  public.

Unnecessary  Burdens.

We  have  the  best  of  all  good authority 
for  bearing  one  another’s  burdens,  and 
among  women  in  whom  the  gift  of  sym­
is  generally  an  abnormally  de­
pathy 
veloped  virtue,  it 
is  seldom  that  the 
hand  of  help  or  the  dole  of  tears  is 
withheld  when  asked.  But  surely  there 
is  also  another  side  to  this question, and 
however  willing  we  may  be  to  help  bear 
others’  burdens  in 
times  of  genuine 
need,  it 
is  an  unnecessary  hardship  to 
have  to  be  the  repository  of  all  the  pin­
pricks  of  fate  with  which  our  acquaint­
ances  are  afflicted,  and to  be  continually 
overwhelmed  with  their complaints  and 
whining.

Just  how  much  this  takes  out  of  us  we 
fail  to  notice  because  we  are  so  accus­
tomed  to 
it.  To  meet  a  friend  is  as  a 
matter  of  course  to be  deluged  with  a 
flood  of  woe.  Servants’  shortcomings, 
tradesmen’s  exactions,  dressmakers’  in­
competence,  children's  misdeeds, 
in 
general,  and  a  detailed  account  of  her 
own  aches  and  pains  in  particular,  for 
the  depressing  topics  of  conversation. 
We  respond 
in  the  same  exhilarating 
strain,  and  we  part  and  go  our  several 
ways  each  a  little  more  cast  down,  a  lit­
tle  less  courageous  than  we  wefle  before, 
and  a 
little  more  certain  that  life  is 
nothing  but  dust  and  ashes.

If  this  is  terrible  in  conversation,  in 
letters  it  is  even  worse.  When  we  talk 
with  a  person  the  appearance  of her 
bounding  health,  even  her  smart  and 
becoming  frock,  may counteract  the  tale 
of  woe,  and  make  us  set  it  down  where 
it  properly  belongs— in  the  category  of 
chronic  grumbling—but  in  letters  there 
is  no  such  resource.  We  must  accept 
the  gloom  as  it  is  written,  with  no  ex­
tenuating  circumstances,  and  go  about 
with  the  sorrow  and 
anxiety  for  a 
trouble  we  can  not  help  gnawing  at  our 
hearts.  None  of  us  but  know  what  it  is 
to  get  such 
letters,  and  blister  them 
with  our  tear,  when,  perhaps,  if  we 
could  only  have  known  it,  they  merely 
represented  a  minute’s  whim  of  the 
writer,  who  wasn’t  really  unhappy  after 
all.

It  is  a  poor  excuse  to  offer  for  these 
burdens  that  we 
lay  upon  each  other 
that  we  do  it  through  sheer  thoughtless­
ness.  We  have  no  right  not  to  think, 
and  we  never  realize  how  grievous  are 
our  sins 
in  this  line  until  we  come 
across  one  of  those  rare  natures  who 
diffuse  brightness  and  cheerfulness  as 
the  sun  does  light  and  warmth.  How 
invigorated 
it  makes  us  feel,  how  our 
own  miasms  melt  away  before  it,  with 
what  renewed  hope  and  courage  we 
take  up  the  burden  of  our  own  troubles 
that  we  weTe  tempted  to  lay  down.

When  one  realizes  what  creatures  of 
moods  we  are,  and  bow  easily  affected 
by  a  chance  word,  it  seems  a  pity  that 
we  cannot  use  a  little  more  discretion 
in  what  we  say  to  one  another.  There 
ought  to  be  some  kind  of  a  social  quar­
antine  to  which  the  chronic  complainer 
could  be  subjected,  so  that  we  might 
not  be  infected  by  her  moods,  and  only 
those  permitted  at  large  who  could  tie 
depended  on  to speed us on our  way  with 
a cheerful  and  helpful  thought.

Co r a  St o w e l l.

SUM M ER  C O R S E T S
Are  in  great  demand  at  present. 
A  good one  can  be  sold  at  a  quar­
ter.  The  best  at  half  a  dollar. 
Do  you  wish  to  see  samples!* 
If 
so,  write  us.

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Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.,

Wholesale  Dry  Goods,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

H A T S

W e  have' a  large  assortment  of 
Rush  Hats,  Straw  Hats,  Crash 
Hats,  Wool  Hats,  Fur Hats.  We 
can  fill  your  orders  promptly  and 
satisfactorily.  Send sample  order 
and  be  convinced.

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P.  S T E K E T E E  Su S O N S

W HOLESALE  DRY GOODS,
GRAND RAPIDS* M IC H .

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Chas.  A.  Coye,

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Grand Rapids.

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THREE COLUMNS.

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5  Quires, 400  pages...........   3  50
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INVOICE RECORD  OR  BILL  BOOK

80 double  pages,  registers  2,880 
invoices  ............................ $2  00

Tradesman  Company

Grand Rapida, Mick.

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,  w ill  see  his  business 
get away from and final ruin swamp  him.

THE  EGRY  AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER 

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

NOW  YOU  DONT

think for a minute  that  our  entire working  force, 
planning  for years  a  perfect  system,  can  fail  in 
showing advantages  to  you,  by which  your  busi­
ness would  be  benefited.  We  have  practical  sys­
tems adapted to nearly all kinds of  retail  merchan­
dising,  and would be  pleased  to aid  you  in  placing 
your 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 . Holies, 39 Monroe St. 3d floor.

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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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As manufacturers we can supply goods in our  line  at  extremely  low
prices.  We  make  Roofing  Pitch,  Tarred  Felt,  Tarred  Board,
2 and 3  ply  Roofing, Gravel Roofing,  Asphalt Paints.

H.  n .  REYNOLDS  &  SON,

Established .868. 

GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Office:  82 Cainpau  St. 
Factory: 

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AMERICAN  BEAUTY
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ent  of  the  double-entry  books.  A  sale 
is  not  to  be  credited  to  merchandise  ac­
count  until  it  is  paid.  This  ledger  has 
drawn  off  upon 
items  from  the 
salesmen's  credit  sale  checks.  An  extra 
space  gives  salesman’s  number,  other­
wise  the  ruling  is  the regular ledger pat­
tern.  The checks  are  net  destroyed,  but 
are  strung  on  a  wire after  the  entry  is 
made  on  the  ledger. 
If  for  any  reason 
the  original  credit  sale  check  is  needed 
for  reference,  it  is  easily  found,  for  the 
checks  are  strung  on  in  the  order  oi 
their  being  posted,  with  each  day’s 
checks  dated  by  adding  a  larger  slip  or 
check  having  on  it  the  date of  the  day 
they  are  made  out.  When  an  article  is 
returned  it  should  be  credited  opposite 
the  item  charged.  Thus  in  drawing  up 
an  itemized  statement  there  is  a  saving 
of  labor  by  omitting  this  item. 
In  the 
folio  column  are  placed  the  salesmen’s 
numbers.  At  the  end  of  the  business 
in 
year the  accounts  in  this  ledger  are 
ventoried—making 
i. 
e., 
O.  K. 
list  and  a  doubtful  list.  The 
doubtful  list  is  not  considered  in  the re 
sources  when  balancing  the  books.  The 
doubtful 
is  balanced  into  a  “ sus­
pended”   ledger.  For  accounts  kept  in 
this  form  a  perpetual  ledger  would  be  a 
great  convenience.

lists, 

two 

list 

A  book  termed  the  daily  journal  is 
kept,  in  which  bills  to  be  paid  or  other 
business  reminders  are  entered. 
It  has 
page  twelve  inches  long  for  each  day 
of  the  year.  Bills  for  payment  are  en­
tered  on  the  page,  bearing  a  date  a  day 
or  two  previous  to  which  they  are  to  be 
paid.  The  discount  to  be  taken 
iven,  and  when  the  ledger  is  to  be  1 
ferred  to  for  goods  returned,  etc., 
cross  check 
is  made.  Statements  are 
made  up  for  payments  from  this  book 
checks  drawn 
statements, 
which,  if  desired,  may  have  a  receipt 
attached,  to  be  signed  and  returned.

from  the 

F red  W.  Da vis,

Altogether Too  Slow.

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President  of  the  Company—I 

you’d  better  discharge  that  boy.

Manager—Why?  He  seems  to  be  : 
quiet  kind  of  a  boy,  and  I  haven’t  no 
ticed  that  be has  neglected  bis  work.

President—That’s  all  very  true,  but 
don't  think  he  has  the  making  of  : 
financial  genius 
in  him.  He’s  been 
around  here  for  more  than  three  weeks 
w  and  hasn't  given  either  you or  n.i 
to  understand  that  be  knows  more  abou 
the  business  than  we  do.

Book-keeping  For  a  Retail  Store.
1  believe  a  cash  railway  or  carrier 
will  pay  for  itself  in  a  very  short  time. 
Where  some  of  the  departments  of  a 
store  are  on  different  floors,  some  sys­
tem  which  will  bring  the  cash  from 
each  floor  to  the  cashier’s  desk is better, 
and  thus  have  the  whole  book-keeping 
and  cash  department  in  one  place.  The 
system  I  am  advising  may,  at  the  out­
set,  seem  complicated,  but  if  the  reader 
will  examine 
it  over,  and 
thoroughly  consider  it,  he  will  find  that 
it  is exceedingly simple,  and so thorough 
that  the  books  can  easily  be  kept  by  the 
cashier,  who  can  readily  balance  them 
every  night  and  get  a  complete  account 
of  the  day's  business  in  a  few  items.

it,  think 

There  should  be  sales  checks  for  cash 
sales  and  others  for  credit  sales.  Each 
salesman  should  have a  package  or  book 
of  each  kind  of  these  checks.  These 
checks  should  be  simple,  but  either  of 
different  form  or  color,  and  should  be 
printed  "cash  sale”   or  “ credit  sale.”  
The  cash  sale  check  should  read  some­
thing  like  this,  when  made  out  by  the 
clerk:

Cash  Sale:

Salesman  No.  6,

One  Pound  Coffee,  28c.

This  check,  with  the  money,  should 
go  to  the  cashier,  who  sends  back  the 
change,  if  any,  and  places  the  check  on 
the  spindle  corresponding  to  the  sales­
man’s  number. 
In  making  up  the 
cash,  each  salesman’s  sales  are  footed 
up  separately,  and  the  total  is  entered 
under cash  sales  for  the  day.  If  a  credit 
sale  is  made,  the  salesman  makes  out  a 
check which  is  headed  credit  sale.  This 
might  read:

Credit  Sale:

Salesman  No.  8,

James  K.  Lane,  12  Main  St., 

One.Suit Clothes,  $8.75.

These  credit  sales  slips  are  used  by 
which  to  charge  to  the  accounts  of  the 
debtors,  but  no  account  is  to  be kept  of 
credit  sales  by 
individual  salesmen 
When  the  bills  are  paid,  cash  sale  slips 
are to  be  made by  the  cashier  for  each 
salesman  for  the goods  sold  by  him,  and 
the  same  credited  as  his  sales  of the day 
on  which  they  are  paid.  Only  the 
amount,  the  salesman’s  number,  and 
amount  of  sale  is  necessary  on  such  < 
slip.

If  you  accept  produce  as  part  pay 
ment,  have a  check  for  that  purpose 
Have  it  filled  out  to  tell the  name  of  the 
seller,  the  goods and  price,  and  amount 
credited.  This  check  may  be  handed  to 
the  clerk  as  cash  paymer t,  and  he 
places  with  it  his  cash  sale  checks  until 
the  amount 
is  traded  out.  Sometimes 
the  check  may  go  from  one  salesman  to 
another  in  a  department  store,  the  sales 
men’s  checks being  pinned  with  it,  un 
til  all  go  together  to  the  cashier  for  bal 
ancing.  Then  the  various  salesmen’ 
checks go  to their  proper  spindles,  and 
the  produce  check  is  counted  as  “ cash 
paid  for  merchandise.”

It  is  well  to  have  a  book  specially 
ruled  to  show  the  daily  sales  of  each 
salesman.  This  should  have  thirty-one 
lines  from  top  to bottom,  and  should  be 
made  so that  (in  a  moderate-sized store, 
at  least)  one opening (two pages) should 
be  wide  enough  in  which  to allow  space 
for the  entry  of  the  day’s  sales  of  each 
clerk.  This  gives  a  bird’s-eye  view  of 
the  month’s business,both  of  each  sales 
man  and  the  total  sales.

A  set  of  double-entry  books  should  be 
kept,  consisting  of 
journal,  cashbook 
and  ledger.  Everything  is  posted  from 
the  journal  to  the  ledger.  Besides these, 
a  ledger  is to be  kept  for accounts  with 
customers.  This 

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new  article. 

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

Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Holland—Con  DePree has  opened  his 

new  drug  store.

Wyandotte—Benj.  Loranger,  grocer, 

has  removed  to  Detroit.

Brant—Geo.  Ward  has  purchased  the 

general  stock  of  £.  P.  Whaley.

Brice— Fockler  &  Manning  have  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  P.  Sowers.
Detroit— Anthony  T.  Asam  succeeds 
Asam  &  Martin  in  the  grocery business.
Brighton—Chas.  H.  Newman,  meat 
dealer,  has  sold  out  to  Parks  &  Wesley.
Cedarville— Alvin  U.  Abbott  is  clos­
ing  out  his  stock  of  general  merchan­
dise.

Meridian—C.  M.  Hallett  has 

en­
in  the  grocery  business  at  this 

gaged 
place.

Carleton—C.  F.  Thaver  has  sold  his 
grocery  and  notion  stock  to  W.  H. 
Maurer.

Negaunee—Baraba  &  Sorensen,  gro­
cers,  have  dissolved,  Joseph Baraba suc­
ceeding.

Iron  Mountain— Edward  Eaton  &  Co. 
the  meat 

succeed  Edward  Eaton 
business.

Breckenridge— L.  Waggoner  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  Aldrich  & 
Manning.

in 

Galesburg— Norman  J.  Elsey  has 
closed  out  his  grocery  stock  and  retired 
from  trade.

Kalkaska— W.  J.  Hubble  has  pur­
the  meat  market  of  Nelson 

chased 
Cummings.

Kalamazoo—C.  Meisterbeim  has  em­
in  the  grocery  business  at  113 

barked 
Poitage  street.

Benton  Harbor— Rapp  &  Prideau suc­
ceed  Ferry  &  Rapp  in the dry goods and 
grocery  business.

Dundee— Drs.  J.  B.  Haynes  and  A. 
R.  Lusty  have  opened  a  drug  store  and 
office  at  this  place.

Milford— Burch  &  Skinner have  pur­
chased  the  crockery  and  grocery  stock 
of  Babcock  &  Son.

Greenville— B.  Haskel  has  sold  bis 
dry  goods,  clothing  and  boot  and  shoe 
stock  to  M.  Lightstone.

Allegan—The  B.  B.  Sutpbin  Co.  suc­
ceeds  B.  B.  Sutphin & Co.  in  the grain, 
seed  and  wool  business.

Port  Huron—S.  B.  Shaw  has opened  a 
drug  store  at  the  corner  of  Lapeer 
avenue  and  Tenth  street.

Ionia— Lauster  Bros.,  (Fred  G.  and 
to  the  grocery 

Charles  F .),  succeed 
business  of  Lauster  &  Son.

Perry— R.  S.  Olcott  &  Son,  who  con­
duct  hardware  stores  here  and  at  Wil- 
liamston,  have  discontinued  business  at 
the  latter  place.

Ithaca—John  Botroff  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  Chas.  Frost  in  the  gro­
cer  business  and  will  hereafter  conduct
the business  alone.

Downington—A.  R.  Conrad,  who  has 
conducted  a  general  store  in  connection 
with  bis  hotel,  has  discontinued  the 
mercantile  business.

Coleman— R.  M.  Swigart, 

formerly 
engaged 
in  the grocer  business  at  Du­
rand,  has  embarked  in  the  agricultural 
implement  business  at  this  place.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— Pare  Bros,  have 
sold  their  grocery  stock  to  Alex  C. 
Perigard,  of  Muskegon.  They  will  con­
tinue  the  flour  and  feed  business  as 
heretofore.

Evart— Davy  &  Co  have  opened  a 
branch  general  store  at  Leota,  Clare 
county, 
the  management  of 
Eugene  Boughton,  who  has  long  been 
identified  with  the  store at  this  place.

under 

Boon— N.  D.  Palmeter  and  P.  Fess­
enden  have  formed  a  copartnership  un­
der  the  style  of  Palmeter  &  Fessenden 
and  purchased  the  general stock  of  Wm. 
Haskin.  They  will  also  buy  hay  and 
grain  and  manufacture  all  kinds  of 
lumber.

Bay  Mills— Sam  Sarasohn,  who  has 
managed  the  branch  general  store  of 
D.  K.  Moses  &  Co.  at  this  place  for the 
past  three  years,  has  been  taken  into 
partnership  in  this  branch  of  the  firm's 
business.  The  firm  name  will  remain 
unchanged.

Detroit— The  Enterprise  Stove  Co. 
has  been 
incorporated,  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $25,000,  all  paid  in.  The  in­
corporators  are  Alonzo  Auscomb,  John 
G.  Hasking,  both  of  Detroit;  T.  G. 
Rakestraw,  Hamilton,  Ont.  ;  Frank 
Smith,  Detroit.

Sturgis—C.  B.  Munger  has  leased  the 
store  in  Union  Hall  block,  formerly  oc­
cupied  by  Rehm  Bros.,  where  he  will 
open  bis  shoe  store  as  soon as he can  get 
his  stock  in.  The goods  saved  from  the 
fire  inventoried  $744  and  he receives  the 
full  amount  of  his  insurance,  amounting 
to $2,000.

Middleville— The  Nelson  Abbott drug 
stock,  which  was  recently  appraised  at 
about  $1,800,  was  sold  under  the  bank­
ruptcy  act  Monday  for  $825,  being  bid 
in  by  Cornelius  Crawford,  traveling rep­
resentative  of  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug  Co.,  who  has 
leased  the  store 
building  for  four  years  from  June  t  and 
will  continue  the  business  as  soon  as  be 
can  get  possession  of  the  building.  The 
sale  was  devoid  of  sensational  features, 
although  the  matter  was  held  open  an 
hour  and  a  half  before  the  sale  was 
closed.  The  amount  realized  from  the 
sale  of  the  stock  will  liquidate  the  two 
mortgages  on  the  stock,  amounting  to 
$650,  and  pay  the  court  fees,  leaving 
the  merchandise creditors  without a  div­
idend.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Ewen—John  McRae  continues  the 
lumber  and  shingle  mill  business  of 
John  McRae  &  Co.

Owosso— M.  C.  Darling  succeeds 
Darling  &  Reynolds  as  proprietor  of 
the  Owosso  shoe  factory.

Detroit— John  H.  Harrington  suc­
ceeds  J.  H.  Harrington  &  Co.  in  the 
cigar  manufacturing  business.

Saginaw—C.  L.  Buckheit  succeeds 
Buchheit  &  Grobmann  in  the  office  fur­
niture  manufacturing  business.

Lansing—Wallace  S.  Olds  and  D.  M. 
Hough  have  purchased  a  machine  shop 
at  St.  Louis,  and  will  do general  ma­
chinists’  work  and manufacture gasoline 
engines.

Lowell— The  administrators  of  the  es­
tate  of  A.  P.  Hunter  have  sold  the  drug 
stock  formerly  conducted  by  the  de­
ceased  to  Lyman  A.  Taft,  who  formerly 
clerked 
the  drug  store  of  W.  S.
Winegar.

in 

Grand  Ledge— The  Monitor  flouring 
mills  have  been  sold  by  Hoffer  & 
Hoover  to  W.  S.  Perkins,  of  Saginaw. 
The  present  managers,  W.  J.  Hoffer  & 
Co.,  will  remain  for  a  time  with  the 
new  proprietor.

Ludington— Three  well-known  busi­
ness  men  of  this city  have  formed  a  co­
partnership, the  firm  name  being Meyer, 
Beach  &  Flannelly.  The  members  are 
G.  A.  Meyer,  S.  H.  Beach  and  M.  J. 
Flannelly.  The  firm  has already  entered 
the  hardware  business in Antrim county. 
One  store  at  Bellaire  has  been under the 
management  of  Mr.  Meyer for about  two 
years.  Another  store  has 
just  been 
opened  at  Elk  Rapids.

Onaway— Gardner  &  Peterman  have 

begun  the  erection  of  a  stave  mill.

Saginaw—James  H.  Malcolm,  of  the 
firm  of  Green,  Ring  &  Co.,  has  pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  two  of his  pait- 
ners  and  will  probably  secure  the  con­
trol  of  the  plant.  The  Green,  Ring  & 
Co.  sawmill  was  built  some  thirty  years 
ago  and  was  run  until  the  supply  of logs 
here  was  exhausted.  The  mill  has  never 
been  dismantled  and  the  salt  blocks  are 
in  good  condition  and  have  been  oper­
ated  to  some  extent,  using  coal  as  fuel.
Saginaw—The  Welsh  &  Kerry  Manu­
facturing  Co.  will  net  rebuild  its  plant 
in  this  city  which  was  burned  some 
weeks  ago  The  site,  t »getber  with  the 
large  store  house,  boiler  and  engine 
bouse,  blacksmith  shop  and  the  remains 
of  the  big  main  building  with  all  of 
its  machinery,  has  been  purchased  by 
Wickes  Bros.  The  foundation  of  the 
burned  structure  has  been  found  to be in 
good  condition  for  the  erection  of  an­
other  building,  and  with the other build­
ings  and  fine  site  it  is  hoped  that  the 
property  will  again  be  used  for  manu 
facturing  purposes.  The  machinery  was 
much  of  it  badly  damaged  so that  it  can 
not  be  used,  but  there  are  some  ma­
chines  which  can  probably  be  saved. 
The  business  of  the  firm  is  at  present 
being  handled  as  best  it  can  be  by  its 
Reed  City  factory,  until  a  desirable  lo­
cation  can  be  found  by  purchase,  the 
company  preferring  to  buy  rather  than 
to  build.

Houghton—The  Calumet  &  Hecla  is 
now  running  twenty  of  the  twenty-two 
steam  stamps  contained  in  its two stamp 
mills,  as  compared  with  sixteen  stamps 
one  year  ago,  an 
increase  of  25  per 
cent,  in  production  and  calling  for  the 
mining  and  stamping  of  5,500  tons  of 
rock  daily  and  yielding  fully  175  tons 
refined  copper  every  working  day.  This 
is  practically  the  same  rate  of  produc­
tion  as  that  of  Anaconda  last  year.  As 
the  Calumet  &  Hecla  is  sold  ahead  for 
some  months  at  18 cents,  and  the  cost  of 
production 
is  rather  under  than  over 
seven  cents  per  pound,  the  actual  net 
profits  of  the  mine on  the  present  basis 
of  production  exceed  $1,000,000  per 
month.  With the  exception  of  the  com­
bined  mines  of the  Comstock  lode in the 
middle  seventies,  no  such  profit  has 
ever  been  earned  by  any  mine 
in  the 
world.

Builders’  Hardware  Prices.

An  advance  of  about  10  per  cent,  in 
builders'  hardware  was  announced 
last 
week.  This  was  the  result  of  a  confer­
ence  held  in  the  East  recently  between 
representatives  of  the  various  manufac­
turing  concerns 
in  the  country  and  is 
the  second  advance  made  since  the  be 
ginning  of  the  year.  At  the  same  time 
the  report  was  deuied  that  a  combina 
tion  of  the  hardware  manufacturers  was 
contemplated.  Cutting  of  prices,  it  is 
said,  has  been  going  on  for  some  time 
and  goods  have  necessarily  been  sold  on 
small  margin  of  profit,  especially 
a 
since copper  values  have  ruled  so  high. 
There 
is,  however,  a  disposition  now 
to  make  prices  more 
in  keeping  with 
general  business  conditions and  a  hope­
ful  sign 
is  that  the  list  agreed  on  last 
February  has  been  maintained.
Mutual  Insurance  for  Hardware  Deal­

ers.

A  meeting  of  the  executive committee 
of  the  Minnesota  Retail  Hardware 
Dealers’  Association  was  held  at  Min­
neapolis  last  week  for  the  purpose  of 
perfecting  arrangements  to  organize a 
mutual  insurance  company.  The  asso­
ciation  paved  the  way  for this  organiza­
tion  by  getting  a  bill  through  the Legis­
lature,  during  the  last  session,  allowing 
the  organization  of  mutual  hardware 
dealers 
insurance  companies  with  a 
capital  stock  of $500,000,

Kalamazoo  Grocers  Join  Hands  For 

Mutual  Protection.

Kalamazoo,  May  8—Fifty-four of  the 
too grocers  doing  business  in  this  city 
have  organized  under  the  name  of  the 
Kalamazoo  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
which  will  be  officered  as  follows:
„  President—W.  H.  Johnson.
^  Secretary—Charles  Hyman.

'Treasurer— E.  L.  Harris.
~ Executive Committee—Sam Hoekstra. 
D.  Allen,  M.  S.  Scoville.
While  the  regular time  of meeting  has 
not  yet  been  decided upon,  it  is  thought 
that  once  a  month  will  be  as  often  as 
will  be  necessary  after the  organization 
is  perfected  and  moving  along  in  good 
shape.  The  next  meeting  will  be  on 
next  Thursday  evening,  at  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  rooms.

A  number  of  questions  were  brougtt 
up  and  discussed  with  interest.  The 
matter of  membership  was  touched  on, 
and 
it  was  decided  that  grocers  and 
those  who  handle  goods  in  that  line  will 
alone  be  admitted  to  membership.  As 
one  member  expressed  it,  “ If dry  goods 
men  want  an  association,  they  can  form 
one.  There  are  over a  hundred  groceis 
in  the  city,  and  that’s  enough  to  form  a 
strong  association.  We  will  have  all 
we  want  to  do  to  look  after  our  own 
in­
terests,  and  our  inspector  will  be  kept 
busy  looking  after  our  business.”

The  matter  of  a  city  market,  where 
farmers  and  produce  raisers  can  be 
centered  for  the convenience  of  the gro­
cers,  was  brought  up.  The  idea  seemed 
to  meet  with  general  favor,  although 
there  were  some  objections.  The  ma­
jority  favored  the 
idea,  however,  and 
the  chair  was  authorized  to  appoint  a 
committee  of  three,  which  committee 
is  to  see  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
urge  the  work  of  that  body  with  the 
Council for the establishment of a market 
place.  The  chairman  appointed  J.  B. 
Balcb,  Frank  Toonder and  Charles  H. 
Ashby.

The question  arose  as  to  when  the  or­
dinance  against  peddlers  and  hawkers 
is  to  take  effect,  and  it  was  stated  that 
the  peddlers  have  until  the  15th  of  this 
month 
in  which  to  procure  licenses. 
Each  peddler  is  numbered,  and 
if  he 
drives  a  wagon  his  number  must ap­
pear  on  each  side  of  his  wagon.

The  dues  of  members  in  the  Associa­
tion  was  fixed  at  $1,  as an  entrance  fee, 
and 
if  there  are  additional  expenses 
which  the  first  assessment  does  not 
cover, 
the  Executive  Committee  has 
power to assess.  An  inspector  will  be 
employed  whose  duty  it  will  be  to  scour 
the  streets  in  the  early  morning hours  to 
see  that  no  peddlers  are  operating  with­
out  a 
license  and  to  report  any  such 
cases  promptly.  He  will  be  expected  to 
be  out  in  the  summer  at  an  early  hour, 
and  report  at  the  Chamber of Commerce 
at  11  o’clock  each  day,  where  he  may 
be  found  until  12  o’clock.  He  will  also 
be 
in  the  office  from  5  to 6 o’clock  in 
the  evening.  A  daily  report  will  be 
made  to  the  Secretary,  who has  power 
to  call  the  Executive  Committee  to­
gether at  any  time  he  may  deem  it  nec­
essary.

Cuba’s  Reason  for  Thankfulness. 

From the Lewiston Evening Journal.

Cuba  has  reason  to  thank  Sampson  as 
the  Philippines  will  have  reason 
to 
thank  Dewey.  Business  appears  to  be 
picking  up  throughout  Cuba,the  custom 
revenue  alone  reaching  an  aggregate  of 
more  than  $3,000,000  in  the  first  quarter 
of  the  year.  The great  point  of  differ­
ence  between  our  regime and  the  Span­
ish is  that the  revenue  of  Cuba  is turned 
over  to  the  Island’s  treasury  without  be­
ing  tapped  in_ transit.  With  the  revival 
of  business  will  come  a  revival  of  op­
portunity  for  work  for  such  Cubans  as 
care  to  labor.

Large  Apple  Crop  in  Kansas.

Fred  Wellhouse,  the  “ apple  king  of 
Kansas,’ ’ says  his  orchard  will  yield 
10,000 bushels  of  apples this  year.  He 
lately  made  a  tour  of  the  apple  belt, 
and  gives  it as bis opinion  that the crop 
this  year  will  be  the  largest 
in  the 
State’s  history.

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

grades and prices,  phone Visner,  80a

tea,  all  kinds,

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Grand  Rapids  Qossip

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars—The  market  for  raw  sugars 
is  very  strong  and  has  advanced  again, 
sales  of  96 deg.  test  centrifugals  having 
been  made  at  \%c  and  89  deg.  test 
muscovadoes  at  4#c.  Prices  on  all 
grades  of  refined  have  advanced  %c. 
Some  concessions  of 
on-large  lots 
of  softs  are  still  being  made.  The  out­
look  for  this  year’s  Philippine  Islands 
sugar  crop  is  said  to  be  even worse  than 
has been  reported  and 
is  now  ex­
pected  that  the  production  will  not 
amount  to  more  than  50,000  or 60,000 
tons.  The  crop  under  normal  condi­
tions,  it 
is  said,  should  show  240,000 
tons.  Willett  &  Gray’s  latest  estimates 
of  the  sugar  crops  of  the  world  show 
only  38,601  tons  increase  over  last  year, 
so  that  no  provision 
is  made  for  the 
normal  increase  of  consumption.

it 

is  doing 

Canned  Goods—There  is  little  change 
in  the  market  for any  variety  of  canned 
goods.  A  small  but  steady  consuming 
demand  for  most  descriptions  prevails, 
but  no  large  orders  are  being  placed 
and  trade  in  the  main  is quiet.  Peas are 
steady  at  previous  prices.  There 
is 
only  a  comparatively  small  demand 
from  outside  dealers,  but  holders  con­
sider  the  outlook  for  sustained  prices 
good  and  the  impression  prevails  that 
the  old  pack  will  be  practically  cleaned 
up  before  the  new  ones  come  in.  There 
is  a  fair demand  for  corn  and prices  are 
firm  at  quotations. 
Conditions  are 
practically  the  same  as  heretofore  and 
there  is  little  probability  of  a  change  at 
present.  Packers  are  well  sold  up  and 
little 
in  futures.  Tomatoes 
have  developed  an  additional  weakness 
the  past  week.  The  weakness,  which 
has  been  referred  to  previously,  is  due 
to  the  desire  of  holders  to  dispose  of 
their  stocks.  The  outlook  for  the  com­
ing  pack  undoubtedly  has  had  much  to 
do  with It.  Sales  are  reported  small, 
even  at  present  low figures.  New Jersey 
growers  are  making  preparations  for an 
enlarged  crop  of tomatoes this year.  The 
impression  prevails  that  the  demand  for 
canned  tomatoes  will  be 
larger  than 
even  future  sales  indicate  and  growers 
are  planning  to  take  advantage  of  the 
opportunity  offered.  Pineapples  attract 
attention,  because  the  new packing  sea­
son  is  just  beginning.  So  far  the  pros­
pects  favor a  short  crop  and  the  prob­
ability  is  that  packers  will  have  to  pay 
a  good  sum 
for  their  green  supplies. 
Spot  goods  are  steady  at  quotations, 
however,  and  there 
is  little  possibility 
of  any  important  change  at  present. 
Sales  of  salmon  have  been  very  heavy 
during  the  past 
few  days  and  some 
packers  are  virtually  cleaned  up.  Deal­
ers  say  they  can’t  remember  a  time 
when  futures  sold  so  rapidly  as  this 
season.  Not  for  some  years  has  there 
been  an  opening  season  without  a  heavy 
carry-over 
from  the  previous  year's 
pack,  but  the  extraordinary demand  last 
year,  caused  by  the  addition  of  salmon 
to  the  list  of  army  and  navy  rations  of 
three  different  nations,  consumed  about 
everything  obtainable,  and  packers  and 
dealers  enter  upon  the  new  season  with 
practically  bare  shelves. 
Prices  are 
well  maintained  at  opening  figures  and 
the  market  continues  firm.  Preparations 
are  being  made  for  a 
large  run  and 
heavy  pack  of  salmon. 
It  is  said  that 
the  expected  run  promises  to  be  larger 
in  1898,  owing  to  higher  water, 
than 
which 
in  large-sized 
fish.  Reports  from  Eastport,  Me.,  state 
that  there  is  every  prospect  of  a big  run

invariably  draws 

of  sardines  in  the  water along the Maine 
coast,  and  preparations  have  been  made 
to  begin  packing  promptly  on  the  open­
ing  of  the  season,  May  10.  Twenty- 
eight  out  of  the  forty-seven  factories  in 
the  combine  will  start  as  soon as the fish 
begin  to  run.  Stocks 
in  the  bands  of 
dealers  and  commission  men  are  said 
to  be  small  and,  while  there  is  no  dis­
position  to  advance  quotations,  there 
is  little  prospect  of  a  reduction  in  price 
before  new  fish  arrive.  While  it  is  not 
positively  asserted,  it  is  believed  that 
the  prices  on  new  sardines  issued  by 
the  combine  will  be  lower  than  those 
at  the  opening  of  last  year.

stocks  move 

is  expected,  supplies 

Dried  Fruits—There  is  little  change 
in  the general  situation.  Trade  is  mak­
ing  progress  slowly.  Orders  are  small, 
apparently  being  placed  to  cover  only 
immediate  requirements. 
Prunes  are 
nearly  gone  from  first  hands  and  the 
disquieting  reports  regarding  the  heavy 
drop  caused  a  firmer  feeling  in the mar­
ket.  How  serious  the  drop  will  be  re­
mains  to  be  determined,  but  it 
is  cer­
tain  that  it  is  large.  The  reports  have 
a  strengthening  influence  on  the  mar­
ket  and  it  is  thought  may  cause  an  ad­
vance.  A  general  belief  that  supplies 
will  be  exhausted  before new crop comes 
tends  to  make  the  market  firmer and 
prevent  reductions.  It  is  said  that  some 
holders  have  refused 
large  orders at  a 
slight  reduction,  believing  that  supplies 
are  so  small  that  prices  will  advance 
and 
into  consumption. 
Some  further  export  demand  from  Ger­
in  that 
many 
country  being  very  low  and  the embargo 
on  American  dried 
fruits  removed. 
Peaches have  been  gone  from first hands 
for some time.  The  gloomy  outlook  for 
the  coming  crop  increases  the  firmness. 
All  dried  peaches  must  come  from  Cal­
ifornia  this  year,  but  the  demand  for 
the  green  fruit  will  be  so  strong  that 
few  are  likely  to  be  left  to  dry.  With 
the  reassuring  news  regarding  the  com­
pletion  of  the  California  Raisin  Grow­
ers’  Association’s deal  to  secure  the  re­
quired  acreage  to  maintain  the  Associa­
tion  another  year,  the  market  on  raisins 
has  become  firmer  and  may  advance. 
The  Association has secured  over 90  per 
cent,  of the  crop  and  will  undertake  to 
distribute  same.  This  estimate  is  based 
on  an  acreage  of  46,315  acres  of  vine­
yard.  The  statistical  position  of  raisins 
is  stronger  than 
is  usual  at  this  sea­
It  is  said  that  the  entire  available 
son. 
supply  on  the  coast  will  scarcely  reach 
700  cars,  of  which  the  bulk  are  graded. 
Currants  appear to  be  firm.  The  mar­
ket  shows  comparatively 
little  change 
from  day  to  day,  but  there  is an  upward 
tendency  to  the  movement  which  will 
probably  develop 
into  better  prices. 
Figs  are  easy  at  quotations.  There  is 
a  small  consuming  trade,  but  no  large 
orders  are  placed.  Advices  from  grow­
ing  sections  are  to  the  effect  that  the 
crop  will  be  much  better  than  last  year. 
Dates  are  unchanged.

Nuts—It  is  reported  from  Tarragona 
that all  old  almonds  have  been  with­
drawn  from  the  market,  on  account  of 
the  poor  prospects  for 
this  season’s 
crop. 
It  is  also  stated  that  the  entire 
crop  of  Princess  paper  shells  has  been 
lost.  The  movement  to  consolidate  the 
peanut  interests  of  the  country  is  prac­
tically  completed.  A  single  company, 
capitalized  at  $5,000,000,  will  control 
the  entire  business.  The  peanut  crop  of 
the  United  States  is  raised  almost  en­
tirely  in  Virginia,  North  Carolina  and 
Tennessee  and  hereafter 
shipments 
made  by  the  new  combine  will  be  from 
Norfolk,  Va.,  where  the  warehouses and

located. 

The  peanut 
is  considerably  stronger  this 

offices  will  be 
market 
week  and  prices  have  advanced  %c.
Molasses—The  molasses  market 

is 
quiet,  but  steady.  Mail  reports  from 
Louisiana  say  that  favorable  weather 
continues  and  that  the  crop  is  develop­
ing  in  a  very  satisfactory  manner.  The 
crop  growth  is  from  three  to  four  weeks 
later  than  usual.

Rice—The  rice  market  is  weak.  Rice 
is  not  moving  out  as  briskly  as  was  ex­
pected  and  dealers  can  nut  account  for 
the  falling  off  in  the  demand,  as  usually 
at  this  time  of  the  year  there  is  a  large 
demand  for  all  kinds  of  cereals.

The  Produce  Market.

Asparagus—The  maiket  on  home 
grown  stock  has  advanced  5c  per  doz. 
bunches,  owing  to  the  cool  weather, 
and  dealers  have  marked  their  prices 
up  to  25c.

Bananas— The  trust 

is  beginning  to 
show  its  hand  bv  curtaiiing  the  supply 
for  the  purpose  of  advancing  the  price.
Beans—Wax,  $i.75@2  per  %  bu.  box.
Cabbage—California  stock  is  arriving 
in 
limited  quantities  and  finds  ready 
sale  on  the  basis  of  $7@8  per  crate. 
Home  grown stock  is  entirely  exhausted 
and  Southern  will  not  begin  to  arrive  in 
any  considerable  amount  for a  week  or 
ten  days  yet.
Cucumbers---- Home  grown,  6o@75c
per  doz.  ;  Southern,  5o@6oc.
Honey— Dark  is  in  fair demand  at  8c. 
is 

Light  amber  is  active  at  10c.  White 
practically  out  of  market.

Lettuce—Growers  of  forcing 

Green  Onions— Common  command  8 
@9C  per  doz.  bunches.  Silver  Skins 
are  beginning  to  come ¡in,  commanding 
I2@ I 5C.
lettuce 
report  that  their  stocks  are  nearly  de­
pleted,  in  consequence  of  which 
the 
price  has  advanced  to  I2@i4c.  Head 
lettuce 
is  beginning  to  come  in,  com­
manding  15c,  but  will  go  lower  before 
the  end  of  the  week.

Maple  Sugar— Ii@i2c  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup—90c  per  gal.
Onions— Home  grown  are  practically 
out  of  market.  Bermudas have advanced 
to  $1.85  per  crate.  Egyptians  are  now 
in  market,  commanding  $3  per  sack.

Pieplant— In  large  supply  and  active 

demand  at  ic  per  lb.

Pineapples—Bahamas  and  Havanas 
have  advanced  to  $i.75@2  per  doz. 
Floridas  are  also  higher,  having  been 
marked  up  to $5  per  crate  of  afout  40.
Potatoes—Home  grown  are  lower,  and 
the  market  is  unsetlted  and  unsatisfac­
tory,  owing  to  the  uncertcinty which ap­
pears  to  have  taken  possession  of  every­
one  identified  with  the  business.  A  de­
moralizing  feature  of  the  situation  is 
the  knowledge  that  Southern  stock  will 
be  in  market  earlier  than  was  expected. 
Locally,  dealers  pay  3o@35c  and  bold 
at  40c,  but  carload  lot  are  freely  offered 
at  35c.  New  Triumphs  from  Texas  are 
now  in  market,  commanding $6  per  bbl. 
or $2  per  bu.  and  Bermudas  have  de­
clined  to  $2  per  bu.  box.

Radishes— Round,  15c;  long,  20c.
Spinach— Has  advanced  to  70c perbu.
Strawberries— The best  stock  received 
thus far is from Arkansas, which comes in 
bright  and 
firm  and  finds  ready  sale 
at  $2@ 2  50  per  24  qt.  case.

Sweet  Potatoes— Jerseys  are 

in  mod­
erate  request  at  $3.75  per  bbl.  or  $1.40 
per  bu.
Bu’ter— Receipts  of  grass  butter  are 
heavy,  but  none  t -o  heavy  to  meet  the 
consumpitve  requirements  of  the  mar­
ket.  which 
is  kept  closely  cleaned  up. 
Dairy  grades  command  I2@i3c  and fac­
tory  creamery 
in  good  demand  at 
i6^c.
Eggs—Local  dealers  pay  10c  for all 
receipts  of  stricrly  fresh 
stock,  but 
country  and  cold  storage  buyers  else­
where  are  paying 
i i @I2c,  in  order  to 
secure  shipments. 
the 
Condsidering 
narrow  margin  on  which  some  buyers 
are  undertaking  to  do  business,  it would 
not  be  at  all  surprising  if  some  one  was 
hurt  before  the  end  of  the  season.

Peas—Green,  $i.5o@i.75  per  bu. 

is 

The  price  will  be  lower  soon.

Increase  of the  Peddling  License.
At  a  meeting  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Retail  Grocers’  Association,  held  April 
18,  the  following  resolution  was  unani­
mously  adopted:

Whereas,  The  general  improvement in 
business  warrants  a  return  to  the license 
fees  formerly  exacted  of  peddlers  and 
hucksters;  therefore

Resolved,  That  we  place  ourselves  on 
record  as  advocating  an  increase  in  the 
license  fee  to $30  per  year;  also

Resolved,  That  we  use  our best  en­
deavors  to  secure  such  an  increase  in 
the  license  fee  and  support  our  Special 
Committee  on  Licenses 
in  every  pos­
sible  manner  in  the  work  entrusted to it.
Acting  on  the  advice  of  those  who 
have  made  a  study  of  the peddling ques­
tion,  it  was  decided  not  to  print  the 
resolution 
in  the  official  report  of  the 
meeting  and  to  keep  the  matter  out  of 
the  newspapers, 
to  the  end  that  the 
peddlers  might  not  be  alarmed  in  time 
to  organize  an  opposing  campaign.  A 
committee  was  appointed  to  carry  out 
the  spirit  of  the  resolution,  composed of 
the  following:  H.  Klap,  A.  Brink, 
John  Witters,  Cbas.  Payne,  J.  J.  Wag­
ner,  D.  S.  Gray,  Richard  Rademacher, 
J.  Geo.  Lehman,  B.  S.  Harris,  F.  L. 
Merrill,  E.  C.  Jenkins,  H.  C.  Wendorf, 
M.  H.  Barber.

This  Committee  met  with  the License 
Committee  of  the  Common  Council  last 
Thursday  evening  and,  as  the  result  of 
such  action,  the  Common  Council  on 
Monday  evening  adopted  a  resolution 
increasing  the  license  fee  for  peddlers 
and  hucksters  from  $25  to $30 a  year.

The  outcome  of  the  matter  shows  how 
much  can  be  accomplished  where  the 
work  is  undertaken  quietly  and  carried 
forward  secretly,  instead  of  being  pur­
sued  in  bandwagon  fashion. 
If  it  had 
gone  out  in  the  public  prints  that  the 
grocers  were  advocating  an  advance 
in 
the  schedule,  the  peddlers  would  have 
taken  the  alarm  and  the  result  would 
have  been  several  stormy  sessions of  the 
License  Committee,  probably  ending  in 
a  compromise  or  possibly  a  defeat  for 
the  grocers. 
Instead  of  defeat,  victory 
is  perched  on  their  banners,  and  the 
manner  in  which  that  victory  was  se­
cured  gives  ground  for  the  belief  that 
further concessions  along  the  same  line 
may  be  secured  later  on.

as 

inasmuch 

The  sale  of  the  Nelson  Abbott  drug 
stock  at  Middleville  Monday  satisfied 
every  creditor  of  Mr.  Abbott  that  the 
new  bankruptcy  law 
is  not  adapted  to 
meet  the  requirements  of  merchandise 
creditors, 
the  amount 
realized  from  the  stock  was  only  enough 
to  pay  the  two  secured  claims,  amount­
ing  to  $650,  leaving  $2,600  in  merchan­
dise  claims  totally  unprotected.  Re­
ports  were  current  at  an  early  stage  of 
the  proceedings 
that  a  considerable 
portion  of  the  drug  stock  bad  been 
spirited  away  from  the  store,  but  the 
evidence  presented  at  the  bearing  was 
not  of  a  character  to justify the creditors 
in  insisting  on  the  other  stock  being  in­
cluded 
in  the  bankruptcy  proceedings. 
Criminal  proceedings  are  hinted  at  and 
may  be  resorted  to  later  on  to  enforce 
the  rights  of  the  creditors,  but  in  the 
light  of  present  information,  based  on 
the  facts  as  they  were  brought  out by the 
bankruptcy  proceedings,  the  operations 
of  the  present  Federal  law  are  anything 
but  satisfactory  to  the  creditor  class.

Ira  O.  Johnson,  who  has  made  his 
headquarters  at  the  grocery  store  of  E. 
J.  Herrick  for  several  years  past,  has 
leased  the  store  at  240  East Fulton street 
and  will  occupy 
it  as  a  milk  depot, 
carrying  a 
line  of  domestic  cheeses  as 
well  as  milk,  cream  and  buttermilk.

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Woman’s World
Parisian  Custom  Not  Adapted  to This 

Country.

For  the  past  forty  years  there  has 
been  a  crying  demand  for  the  emanci­
pation  of  woman.  As a  result  the  doors 
of  the  college  and  university  have  been 
opened  to  her,numerous  trades  and  pro­
fessions  count  her  in  the  list  of  active 
members,  the  laws  in  the  various  states 
have  been  amended  to  accommodate her 
needs,  and  yet  to-day  when  the  whole 
world  seems  hers  she  is  a willing martyr 
to  dress.  Moreover,  her  physical  im­
provement has  kept  pace  with  her  men­
tal  development.  She  shares  with  her 
brother  the  pleasures  of  the gymnasium, 
tennis,  golf  and  the  bicycle.  She  knows 
what  comfort  and  ease  mean  and  yet the 
short  sensible  bicycle  skirt,  fit  for  all 
sorts  of  weather, has  been  supplanted  in 
popular  favor  by  the  trained  skirt  of the 
tailor-made  suit.

lady?—of  1899 

And  what  a  sight  is  ever  before  our 
eyes!  The  woman—or  shall  we  call  her 
the 
is  too  independent 
to  be  bothered  with  holding  up  her 
skirts,  so  she  kindly  brushes  up  the 
dirt  and  takes  it  home  with  her.  She 
must  have  mixed  herself  with  munici­
pal  politics  and  gotten  the 
contract 
away  from  the  street-sweepers.  Then, 
too,  she  wishes  to  be  a  consistent  crea­
ture, 
the 
microbe  fad  now—what  are  a  few  more 
or  less  bacteria  in  the  city  water  when 
she  is  fairly  enveloped  in  them?

so  she  will  have  to  drop 

Recently  we  made  a  trip  to  Chicago, 
and  registered  at  the  Great  Northern. 
Sitting  in  the  famous  picture  gallery, 
we  spent  a  little  time  gazing  upon  the 
scene  in  the  lobby.  And such  a  vision ! 
Members  of  the  sterner  sex  were  there 
galore,  sitting  or  standing  or  walking 
around.  Cigars  were  in  every  mouth. 
The  beautiful  tiled  floor  was  too  nasty 
an  affair to  contemplate,  or  even  men­
tion,  yet  grace,  beauty  and 
trained 
skirts  of  material  rich  enough  for  a 
duchess  swept  through  all  the  slime  and 
other  filth,  the  ladies  seemingly  entirely 
oblivious  of  the  condition  of  affairs  at 
their  pedal  extremities.  But  then  what 
does  that matter?  The  ladies,  no  doubt, 
were  glad  of  an  excuse  to  buy  other 
gowns,  and  their  pocket  books  would 
not  be  materially  affected  by  their  pur­
chases.  They  had  their  carriages,  they 
had  their  maids,  they  brought  work  to 
many  a  needy  soul,  but  it  looked  as  if 
the  scrubmen  would  be  minus 
their 
jobs.

If  the  foolish  style  stopped  at  the  feet 
of  the  rich  dames  little  harm  might  be 
done;  but  the  United  States  is  a  Re­
public  and  all  are  free  and  equal,  so the 
cheap  office  girl  and  the $3  clerk  ape 
Mrs.  Millionaire  and  have a tawdry imi­
tation  of  her  gowns.  They  have  no 
maids,  they  have  no  carriages, 
their 
purses  are  generally  in  a  wilted  condi­
tion ;  but  they  have  just  as  splendid  an 
opportunity  to  sweep  the  streets  and 
the  floors  of  the  stores.  Either 
clean 
they  must  spend 
few  precious 
leisure  in  keeping  their  long 
hours  of 
skirts  in  order  or  else  the  task  devolves 
on  some  other  overtaxed  member  of  the 
family.  And  when  the  skirt,  overloaded 
with  foulness,  becomes  too  shabby  what 
happens?  There  is  no  money  to  buy 
another,  and  so the  scavenger  may 
in­
troduce  a  physician  to  the  family.

their 

But  there  are  other  evils  under  which 
the  feminine  world  is  groaning,  not  the 
least  of  which 
is  the  high  collar  or 
“ choker.”   The  collars  have  crept  up 
and  up  until  a  woman  no  longer has  a

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

neck  or  even  a  throat.  Her  head  is  in 
a  vise,  and  looks  like  the  wired  flowers 
on  a  funeral  emblem.  She  is  as  help­
less  as  a  horse  with  blinders  and  too 
tight  check-rein;  but  then  she 
in 
style.

is 

And  now  come  the  white  dresses  and 
white  shirt  waists.  This  is  a  season  of 
white.  There 
is  something  so  simple 
and  modest  about  white,  and  then  it 
is 
so  sure  not  to  fade,  so  everybody  can 
indulge.  One 
lady  declared  that  she 
should  wear  white  from  April  to  Octo­
ber.  As  she  is  a  person  of  wealth  who 
does  just  as  she  pleases,  she  has  made  a 
sensible  resolution;  and  we  trust  that 
she  will  keep  it,  for  she  can  be  a  real 
benefactor  to  many  of  her  sex.  Think 
of  the  rich  harvest  her  dressmaker  and 
laundress  will  reap.  But  then  she 
hasn't  a  cinch  on  white—everybody  else 
is  going  to  wear  it,  too.  The  poor girls 
and  the  jaded  women  will  have  to spend 
many  weary  hours  at  the  wasbtub  and 
the 
ironing  board ;  but  they  will  have 
their  days  of  looking  as  pure  and  white 
as  a  lily,  so  what  matters  it  if  they  sac­
rifice  their  leisure  for  higher thoughts 
and  nobler  deeds?

Not  far  from  us  is  a  lady  who  is  not 
rich 
in  the  world's  goods.  True,  her 
husband  has  a  good  start,  but  he  has  his 
way  to  make.  Of  course  Mrs.  Conven­
tional  wishes  to  do  the  proper  thing,  so 
she  dresses  her  children  in  white  “ from 
morn  till  dewy  eve,”   just  as  the  rich 
people  do.  She  spends  weeks  and  weeks 
making  the 
innumerable  little  dresses 
and  waists.  She  is  always tired  and 
is 
wrinkled  beyond  her  age.  She  has  no 
time  to  read  or  develop  any 
interest 
outside  of  tucks,  ruffles and gathers,  and 
her  mind  seems  to  be  getting  all  puck­
ered  up,  too.  Until  recently  her  one 
pair  of  hands  bad  to  do  everything  in 
the  household,  but  now  she  has  a  maid 
of  all  work.  The  girl  irons  until  mid­
night  time  after  time  until  she  is  tired 
and  disgusted  and  she  leaves.  She  is 
succeeded  by  some  one  else,  who  under­
goes  the  ordeal  a 
longer  or  a  shorter 
time  when  she,  too,  gives  notice.  And 
so  the  rotation  of  servants  continues.

it 

And  that  brings  us  to  mourning,  for 
black  and  white  have  a  close  affinity 
for  each  other  this  season.  Our  customs 
with  relation  to  death  are  barbarous 
in 
the  extreme.  The  most  autocratic  rules 
as  to  the  wearing  of  mourning  have 
been  laid  down.  A  newly-made  widow 
must  encase  herself  in  the  blackest  of 
inky  robes  whether  or  not  black  is  be­
coming  to  her  complexion  or  accen­
tuates  the  ravages  of  Time.  At  heart 
she  may  wish  soon  to  be  freed  from  her 
gloomy  habiliments  and  would  like  to 
devote  herself  to  having  a  good  tim e; 
bnt 
is  her duty(?)  to  “ show  respect 
to  her  dead  husband.”   After  a  certain 
length  of  time  has elapsed,  Fashion says 
she  may  “ go  into  second  mourning.”  
And  what  could  be  more  conspicuous 
than  this  same  “ mourning?"  A  person 
is  singled  out  at  once  and  is  stared  at 
by  the  thoughtless  or  ignorant  passer­
by,  so  at  first  there  is  always  the  veil  to 
conceal  the  signs  of  grief  or  looks  of 
embarrassment.  For the  rich  the  cus­
tom  is  well  enough,  perhaps,  but  when 
Sarah  Jane  earning  $2  a  week  and  Mrs. 
O’Flaherty  almost  on  the  town  are  com­
pelled  to  starve  themselves  in  order  to 
publish  their  woe  it  is  time  there  was  a 
change  in  public  sentiment.  After  all, 
people are trying  to  be  more sensible  on 
the  subject  of  mourning.  They  begin 
to  realize  that  the  deepest  sorrows  are 
often  the  most  hidden,  and  that  a  smile 
often  hides  a  broken  heart.  There  are 
just  as  sacred  duties  to  the  living,  and

most  people  realize  the  cheering  effect 
of  color.

And  the  reaction  has  set  in.  The  long 
dark  cold  winter  has  been  followed  by 
a  few  bright  spring  days.  Never  has 
Grand  Rapids  seen  such  a  bewilder­
ment  of  color.  The  hats  are  too  gor­
geous  to  describe.  They show  that  peo­
ple’s  spirits  are  rising.  Color is  always 
associated  with  sunshine.  Note  bow 
much  more  color  the  Southern  ladies 
wear  than  the  Northern  and,  as  a  rule, 
they  have  happier  dispositions  and 
wear  care  more  lightly.  But  it  is  in 
Paris  that  the  color  combinations  reach 
their  highest  development.  The  rain­
bow  tints  are  ever  present,  and 
the 
spirits  of  the  people  are  high-pitched 
and  composite  to  match.

And  Paris originates  the  styles.  They 
are  designed  especially  for  the  demi­
monde,  who  form  such  an  important 
class  in  France.  Yet  the  virtuous,  sen­
sible,  brainy  women  all  over  the  world 
eagerly  adopt  these  same  outrageous 
styles.  But  then  the  only alternative is 
the  styles  of the  dress-reformers,  which 
are  tasteless  and  ugly.  To-day  there 
is  a  grand  field  for  American  designers 
to  originate  styles  suitable  to the  needs 
and  tastes  of  the  American  women ;  but 
beauty  and  artistic  effect  must  be  sus­
tained  or  else  their  attempts  will  be 
dead  failures.

Lacked Judgment.

“ I  had  to  call  my  son  off,”   sighed  a 
wealthy  wholesaler,  who  believes  that 
young  men  should  strike  out  for  them­
selves 
in  order  to  gain  experience  and 
confidence.

“ Hasn’t  he  a  business head?”
“ Possibly,  if  his 

judgment  can  be 
straightened  out. 
in 
time  that  he  was  going  to  ship  a  cargo 
of  horse  blankets and  sealskin  sacques 
to  Manila. ”

I  discovered  just 

When  the  Custom  Is  Reversed. 
“ They  say  marriage  is  a  failure.”  
“ There’s  a  great  difference. ”  
“ Why?”
“ In  marriage  the  wife  take  the  hus­
band’s name,  and  in  a  failure  the  bus- 
band  takes  the  wife's  name.”

10,000
Sweets

For  Grocers

Who  want  convenience  and 
big profits in their Candy De­
partment.
Drop  postal for particulars. 
Established  1845.
The  Darby 
Manufacturing  Co.
Baltimore,  Md.

»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.

Ï  Valley  City 
I  Milling  Co.,

I

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Sole Manufacturers of  “LILY WHITE,” 

“The floor the best cooks nse.”

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Go. Ü&

Dorchester, Mass. 

The Oldest and

Largest Manufacturers of

WISH (HUE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on thin Continent.

their manufactures.

No  Chemicals  are  used  In 
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious, nutritions, and costs less than one 
cent a cap.
Their Premium  No.  1  Chocolate, pat np in 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best 
plain chocolate In the market for family nse.
Their  German  Sweet  Chocolate is  good  to 
eat and good to drink.  It is palatable, nntri- 
tious, and  healthful;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.
Buyers should ask for and he sore that they 
get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
is on every package.
W alter Baker &  Co.  Ltd.

Dorchester,  Mass.

B h o w n   &  S e h l e r

WEST BRIDGE ST.
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

* * * 4k

Manufacture a full  line of

LIGHT  AND  HEAVY  HARNESS 
FOR THE TRADE.

Jobbers  in

SADDLERY  HARDWARE, ROBBS. 
BLANKETS, COLLARS, WHIPS, ETC.

M A IL   O R D E R S   G IV E N  
P R O M P T   A T T E N T IO N .

Also a full line of

CARRIAGES AND FARM IMPLEflENTS.

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

7

You  Will  flake  No  flistake  if you  Order 
Emblem  Goods.  The Following  are 
Some of the  Lines We  Carry.
Standard  Sifted

Early J une  Peas,

|§  Telephone  Peas,
%  Petit  Pois,

Succotash,
T  omatoes,
Corn.
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PROTECTION  OF COMMERCE.
Although  it  is  generally  accepted  as 
certain  that  the  disarmament  congress, 
to  be  assembled  shortly  at  The  Hague, 
Holland,  on  the 
invitation  of  the  Czar 
of  Russia,  will  not  lead  to  any  general 
movement 
in  favor  of  disarmament,  it 
is,  nevertheless,  hoped  that  some  prac­
tical  agreements  may  be  reached  upon 
the  subject  of  international  arbitration 
of  certain  classes  of  disputes  and  the 
better  protection  of  private  property 
in 
time  of  war.

The  practical  abandonment  of  priva­
teering has in  a  measure  diminished  the 
loss  of  private  property  at  sea  during 
war;  but  the  still  existing  practice  of 
permitting  national  ships  to  capture  the 
enemy’s  merchantmen  and  cripple  bis 
resources  by  destroying  the  ships and 
cargoes  of  private  citizens  is  tremen­
dously  damaging  to  commerce  and  a 
great  loss  to  private  persons,  generally 
non-combatants. 
It  has  been  proposed 
that  the  peace  conference  favor a gen­
eral  agreement  not  to  capture or  destroy 
merchant  ships,  nor  to  confiscate private 
property  on  the  high  seas  when  not 
contraband  of  war.  Private  property 
has  been  protected  from  destruction  on 
land  for  many  years  by  the  custom  o! 
civilized  nations  and  there  is  no good 
reason  why  it  should  not  be  equally pro­
tected  at  sea.

The 

immunity  of  private  property 
from  seizure  would,  of  course,  imply  no 
right  to  disregard  blockades,  nor  the 
right  of  a  belligerent  to  prevent  the 
into  an  enemy's 
shipping  of  supplies 
ports.  Blockades  are  essential 
to  a 
speedy  termination  of  a  state  of  war, 
and,  as  long  as  war  is  acknowledged  as 
a  necessary  last  resort 
international 
disputes,  it  would  be  foolish  to  talk  of 
the  abolition  of  the  right  of blockade.

in 

There  is  no  good  reason  why  hostili­
ties  at  sea,  as  well  as  on  land,  should 
not  be  limited  to  ships  actually  belong­
ing  to  the  armed  forces  of  the  belliger­
ents  and  used  as  ships  of  war,  colliers, 
navy  supply  vessels  or  transports.  The 
United  States  has  already  inserted  the 
entering  wedge  by  abolishing  prize 
money  in  the  navy,  thus  catting  off  all 
especial 
inducement  on  the  part  of  the 
naval  forces  to  strive  to  capture  mer­
chantmen. 
of  an 
enemy's  commerce  involved  in  the  cap­
ture of  merchant  ships  on  the  high  seas 
means  the  ruin  of  private  individuals, 
and  probably  does  not  inflict  any  actual 
loss  upon  the  enemy’s  government  nor 
cripple his  resources.  A  general agree­
ment  to  respect  private  property  at  sea

The  destruction 

would  be  perfectly  fair  to  all  nations 
alike.

If the  peace  conference  accomplishes 
nothing  more  than  an  agreement  to 
protect  private  property  at  sea  in  time 
of  war,  the  gathering  wiil  not  have  been 
without  practical  result.

Up  to the  present  writing  Brigadier 
General  Funston,  the  new  hero  of  the 
Philippine  campaign,  has  been  nomi­
nated  for  Governor  of  Kansas,  United 
States  Senator  and  President  of 
the 
United  States,  but  the  returns  are  not 
yet  all  in.  Funston  embarked  for  the 
Philippines  as  an  ordinary  colonel,  but 
if  the  pace  does  not  slacken  he  is  liable 
to  come  back  wearing  as many shoulder- 
straps  as  the  military  regulations,  in­
dorsed  by  bis admiring countrymen,  will 
permit.  The  Funston  star  blinks  re- 
fulgently  for  the  time  being,  and  if  the 
Kansas  hero 
is  as  modest  as  his  ad­
mirers  claim  he  will  not  allow  his 
friends  to  nominate  him for more  than  a 
dozen  high  offices  at  once.  Incidentally, 
he  might  as  well  sharpen  his  pencil  for 
the 
inevitable  onslaught  of  magazine 
editors  and  sign  a  contract  with  his 
photographer  for  delivery  by  the  gross.

The  rapidity  with  which  Havana  is 
becoming  Americanized  was  shown on  a 
recent  Sunday,  when  there  was  a  base 
ball  game 
in  place  of  tbe  customary 
bull  fight.  As  there  came  near  being  a 
riot 
in  the  eighth  inning,  owing  to  a 
close  decision  by  the  umpire,  necessi­
tating  the  interference  of  a  detachment 
of  cavalry  to  prevent  bloodshed,  there  is 
marked  evidence  that  the  transplanting 
of  American  customs 
is  accompanied 
with  all  the  realistic  accessories  of  the 
original.  Of  course,  it 
is  our duty,  in 
the  work  of  evangelizing  tbe  Cubans, 
to  abolish  such  heathen  sports  as  bull 
fights.  We  must  give  them  something 
much  milder  and  more  in  touch  with 
modern  humane  sentiments. 
It  is  bet­
ter  for tbe  bull,  and  the  umpire  can take 
his  chances.

Tbe  question  of  a  woman's  right  to 
improve  her  appearance by artificial  aid 
has  been  officially  settled. 
In  Cincin­
nati,  Judge  Jelka  recently  granted  a  di­
vorce  and  alimony  to  Catherine  Kraus 
from  Charles  Kraus.  When  Mrs.  Kraus 
sued  for  divorce  her  husband’s  attorney 
filed  an  answer,  setting  forth  that  bis 
wife  bad  a  glass  eye,  and  had  deceived 
him,  as  he  did  not  know  of the glass eye 
until  after  their  marriage.  Judge  [elka 
held  that  facial  or  other  physical  blem­
ishes  can  not  be  cited  as  proof  of  fraud 
in  marriage  contracts.

One of  tbe  humors  of  industrial  incor­
porations  appeared  in  the  recent  annual 
meeting  of  the  shareholders  in  a  m illi­
nery  establishment  well  known  both  in 
London  and  in New York.  The directors 
have  had  to  raise  a  loan,  and  tbe  chair­
man  complained  to  the  meeting  that  of 
the  2,500  stockholders  not  5  per  cent, 
did  any  business  with  tbe  concern. 
If, 
be  said,  each  shareholder  would  spend 
¿10  a  year  there,  the  stock  would  be 
four  times  as  valuable  as  it  now  is.

Ten  yfears  ago  Charlotte,  N.  C.,  had  a 
population  of  about  10,000 and  one  cot­
ton  mill.  To-day  its  population  is  more 
than  28,000  and  its  twelve  cotton  mills 
are  running  day  and  night  in  tbe  manu­
facturing  of  cotton  yarns,  gray  cloths, 
ginghams, 
towelingsp  webbing,  sash 
cord,  hosiery,  batting  and  wadding, 
and  its  five  clothing  factories  are  utiliz­
ing  every  hour  of  daylight  to  keep  up 
with  orders.

THE  NEW  PATERNALISM.

The  present tendency  to  concentrate 
public attention  upon  the growing power 
of  the  combinations  known  in  business 
as  “ trusts”   is  not  exclusively  due  to 
local  causes. 
It  has  not  as  yet  got  into 
practical  politics  in  Europe— that  is  to 
say,  it  has  not  so  far  been  made  a  party 
question  even  in  those  European  coun­
tries  in  which  government  is  most  near­
ly  representative;  but  the  establishment 
of trusts  to  avoid  certain  consequences 
is  by  no 
of  unhindered  competition 
means  a  new  expedient 
in  the  Old 
World.  Discussing  this  subject,  “ Trusts 
in  Europe,"  Wilhelm  Berdrowremarks, 
in  tbe  May  Forum,  that  there  is  some­
thing  so  natural  in  the  attempt  and  so 
clearly  suggested  by  inevitable  bnsiness 
developments  that  "  its early adoption  in 
matters  of  industry, commerce and trans­
portation  can  be  readily  understood.”  
“ A  hundred  years  ago,”  be  reminds  us, 
“ there  existed  in  England  penal  ordi­
nances  against  unions  which,  like  our 
modern  trusts,  sought  to  fix  prices  or 
the  monopoly  of  certain 
to 
branches  of  industry. 
In  Austria,  the 
penal  code  of  1852  (some  of  tbe  provi­
sions  of  which  are  still  in  operation) 
declared  industrial  combinations  equal­
ly  punishable  with 
If, 
therefore,  such 
legal  measures  were  so 
early  instituted  against  trusts,  we  must 
assume  that  the 
latter  were  not  only 
in  existence,  but  bad  already 
actually 
begun  to  exercise  an  unfavorable 
influ­
ence. "   On  the  other  band,  the  extent 
of  this  evil  is not  so  great 
in  Europe 
as  it  is  in  America  to-day.  As  a  rule, 
over there,  commercial  combinations  in 
restraint  of  trade  are  comparatively 
small  and  powerless.  But  it  is  in  Ger­
many—not,  as  might  have  been  ex­
pected,  in  England—“ of  all  European 
countries,  that  trusts  have  spread  most 
extensively  and  have  been  most  suc­
cessful.”

labor  unions. 

secure 

resemblance 

Mr.  Berdrow  attributes  the more rapid 
advance  of  the  German  states  in  this 
direction  to  the  fact  that,  in  several  im­
portant  respects,  they  bear  the  most 
striking 
to  the  United 
States  and  furnish  the  most  fruitful  soil 
for the  development  of  industrial  com­
binations. 
In  the  last analysis,  tbe  es­
sential  conditions,  or  true  ground,  are 
found  to  be  overproduction  and  ruinous 
competition.  The  total  number  of  trusts 
in  Germany,  according  to  the  enumera­
tion  of  the  technical  journals,  was  one 
hundred  and  eighty  only two  years ago; 
but  few  of these  would  correspond  with 
American  ideas.  This  number  is dimin­
ishing ;  but  it  would be  a  mistake  to  in­
fer  that  this  is  due  to  the  failure  of  the 
system,  judged  from  the  financial  point 
of  view. 
It  is  the  consequence  rather 
of  the  continued  application  of  the  one 
central 
combinations 
uniting  to  form  large  units,  in  order  to 
increase  their  financial  power  and  to 
extend  their  sphere  of  influence.”   The 
successful  development  of  the  trust  sys­
tem  involves,  first  of  all,  the  elimina­
tion  of  small  individual  capitalists,  in­
vestors  or speculators,  then of the weaker 
companies  and  corporations,  until  at 
last  tbe  whole  world  of  business  has 
fallen  under  the  absolute  control  of  a 
very  small  number of  monster  commer­
cial  organizations.  But  the most obvious 
and  most 
important  suggestion  of  tbe 
history  of  the  origin  and  growth  of  the 
trust system  in  Europe  is  that  its  inspi­
its  motive, 
ration, 
is  precisely  there 
what 
is  here  in  the  United  States. 
The  trust  system  recommended  itself, 
in  the  first  place,  as  a  means  of  escape 
from  the  confusion,uncertainty  and  des­

idea,  “ smaller 

it 

on 

competition 

perate  warfare  of excessive competition. 
Then  experience  soon  made  it  evident 
that  the  new  system  of  enforced  combi­
nation  or  surrender  in  business  is  supe­
rior  to  the  old  system  of  absolute  free­
in  trade  at  home,  and  a  free  fight 
dom 
all  around, 
in  point  of  economy.  So 
much  must  be  admitted;  but  the  great 
question  to  be  considered  by  the  people 
here  and  everywhere  is  whether any  ad­
vantage  that  can  be  claimed  for  the 
“ trust”   can  be  accepted  by  them  as  a 
fair  equivalent  for  tbe  personal  liberty 
and  tbe  opportunities  of  individual  en­
terprise  and  advancement  of  which  it 
has  deprived  them.  It  is  true that  com­
petition 
is  frequently  a  source  of  loss 
and  sometimes  of  overwhelming  dis­
aster ;  but  a  mere  loss  of  money,  or  of 
any  form  of  material  wealth,  is  not  tbe 
most  serious 
loss  that  men  may  suffer. 
Considering  the  history  of  this  country, 
reckoning  up  the  sacrifices  made  and 
the 
ills  endured  by  the  founders  of  its 
Government  that  their  posterity  might 
remain  forever  free,  one  would  say  that 
there 
is  really  no  comparison,  no  con­
ceivable  scale  of  comparison,  between 
tbe  value  of  personal  liberty  and 
indi­
vidual  right  on  the  one  hand,  and  tbe 
value  of  the  security  and  peace  of  trade 
without 
the  other. 
Nevertheless 
the  question  has  been 
raised,  and  able  men  ¿ire  openly  con­
tending  in  the  pages  of  great  and  influ­
ential  periodicals,that  the  people  would 
do  well  to  accept  a  system  which  would 
utterly  divest  them  and  their  children 
after  them  of  the  right  of  individual 
initiative  and  private  enterprise 
in 
business. 
3
The  small  manufacturer  and  the 

in­
dependent  artisan  are  gone,  and  some­
times 
it  seems  hardly  too  much  to  say 
that  tbe  small  merchant  is  going.  “ Let 
him  go ,"  say  the  exponents  of tbe latest 
school  of  political  economy. 
“ Here­
after  he  will  work  for  others;  but  he 
will  be  well  paid  and  will  have  no  oc­
casion  to  suffer  from  that  worry  over 
business  complications  and  that  feeling 
of  uncertainty  and  anxiety  which  have 
made  him  prematurely  old ."  At  tbe 
bottom  it is  tbe  old  plea  for  paternalism 
over  again.  The  paternal  monarchy 
is 
an  abandoned  ideal,  and  men  are asked 
to  accept  in  lieu  thereof  a paternal com­
mercial  organization,  or  set  of  commer­
cial  organizations,  which  shall  do  their 
thinking  for  them  and  deprive  them  of 
the  chance  to  feel  themselves alive.  But 
if 
it  comes  to  that,  why  not  go  a  step 
further?  Why  not  have  the  title  to  these 
vast  estates  made  out  in  tbe  name of  the 
people?  Certainly  that 
is  tbe  logical 
goal  of  tbe  whole  tendency,  of  the whole 
movement,  that  begins  with  the  denial 
of  personal  liberty  and  the  right  of  pri­
vate  individual  enterprise.

The  value  of a  laborer’s  backbone has 
been  fixed  by  the  superior  court  of Mas­
sachusetts  at  $10,000  This  sum  has 
just  been  awarded  to  Antonio  Barto­
lomeo,  who  won  bis  suit  on  the ground 
that  through  the  negligence  of  a  con­
tractor  a  cave-in  bad  occurred  while  he 
was  at  work  in  a  trench,  resulting  in  an 
injury  to  the  laborer’s  spine.

Spain  ought  to  invest  her  $20,000,000 
in  United  States  bonds,  instead  of  risk­
ing  tbe  amount  in  Fiench  securities  or 
wasting  it  in .building  warships.

It 

is  a  dull  day 

in  the  Philippines 
when  the  United  States  troops  do  not 
take  a  capital  or  two  from  the  insur­
gents.

The oyster  is  off  on  its  summer  vaca­

tion.

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CONTAGION  OF  PROSPERITY.
Not  many  moons ago,  when  the  world 
was  laughing  at  the  jester  who could 
not understand why health is not as catch* 
ing  as  disease,  it  was  not  thought  pos­
sible  that  such  a  condition  could  exist 
outside  of  a  joke.  To-day that  idea  has 
passed  from  the  realm  of  the  impossible 
into  actual  fact  and  the  country  has 
broken  out  like  the  measles with  unmis­
takable  prosperity.  No  part  of  the 
country  has  escaped  the  contagion.  No 
insignificant,  has 
industry,  however 
failed  to  be  infected. 
It  is  everywhere, 
and  discounts  the  infection  in  this,  that 
it  has  come  to  stay.

With  this  established  as  a  fact,  the 
Treasury  bureau  of  statistics  kindly fur­
nishes  the  needed  proof.  The  manufac­
tures  fairly  show  the  rapid  spread  of in­
creasing  industry.  March  exported  25 
per  cent,  more  manufactured  goods than 
any  preceding  month  and  50  per  cent, 
more  than  February.  Before  1897  the 
exports 
averaged 
$1,000,000  for  each  business  day. 
In 
March,  this  year,  they  averaged $1,400, - 
000  for  each  business  day,  a  sure  sign 
that  the  manufactures  are  “ having  it 
good.”

of  manufactures 

Too 

long  has 

implement. 

One  form  of  manufacture  which  tells 
a  pleasing  condition  of  things  to  the 
man  behind  the  machine  is  the  agricul­
the 
tural 
country  been  obliged  to 
listen  to  the 
complaint  of  the  farmer and  when  it  is 
seen  that  during  the  past  year  $909,347 
marks  the  excess  of  exports  in  the  man­
ufacture  of  agricultural  implements it  is 
easy  to  infer that  the  spread  of  the pros­
perity  germ  has  reached  the  lural  dis­
tricts  in  the  most  pronounced 
form. 
With  that  for  a  foundation  fact  the  in­
fecting  of  other  industries and localities 
follows as  a  matter  of  course.  The  cot­
ton  mill  exports  15,236,562  more  yards 
of  cloth  this  year  than  it  did  last,  China 
alone  taking  8,685,722  more  yards  than 
formerly,  a  showing  all  the  more  re­
markable  from  the  fact  that  the  United 
States 
is  looked  upon  as  holding  a  sec­
ondary  place  in  the  foreign  trade  going 
on  in  China.

As  a  swift  specific  for  recovery  from 
recent  financial  depression,  it  may  be 
well  enough  to  state  that  during the past 
year  from  March  to  March  the  exports 
of 
instruments  for  scientific  purposes 
show  an  increase  of  more  than  100  per 
cent.,  a  fact  not  to  be  lightly  passed 
over.  It has  been  asserted,  and  as  read­
ily  admitted,  that  the  accuracy  needed 
in  the  scientific 
instrument  could  not 
be  found  in  America.  France,  with  her 
expressive  shrug,  has  put  down 
the 
American  attempt  at  the  impossible and 
turned  with  pride  to  her  own  instru­
ments  of acknowledged excellence.  Ger­
many,  the  land  of  plodding,  painstak­
ing  accuracy,  with  the  same  impatient 
“ ungeschickt, ”  has anathematized  alike 
the  American  instrument  and  the Amer­
ican  hog;  and  Switzerland, 
from  the 
foundation  of  the  world,  has  pointed 
with an exultant “ See there!“  to the only 
watch  worth  carrying,  and  yet the Amer­
ican  instrument  is  exported  to-day  at an 
annual  increase  of  100  per cent.  !

increased 

In  other  directions  there  is  the  same 
gratifying  showing.  Builders'  hard­
ware  has 
its  export  33  per 
cent.  ;  sewing  machines  almost  30  per 
cent.  ;  typewriters,  50  percent.  ;  leather 
and  vegetable  oils  nearly  40  per  cent.  ; 
naval  stores,  60  per  cent., and boots and 
shoes  80  per  cent.  Think  of  footwear 
going  to  Europe  at  all,  where  it  was 
once  supposed  that  only  perfection  had 
been  reached  in  quality  and  fit.  It  is  in 
the  United  States  that  the  “ know  how"

has  been  attained  and  the  human  foot, 
the  world  over,  is  testifying  to  that  fact 
at  the  increased  rate  of  80  per  cent.  !

cent,  during 

During  the  nine  months  ending  with 
March  the  exports  of  manufactures 
amounted  to $242,883,645,  against $208,- 
788,036  last  year,  forming  more  than  26 
per  cent,  of  the total  exports,  against  23 
the  corresponding 
per 
months  of  the  preceding  fiscal  year. 
In 
this  connection 
it  wouid  be  at  once 
pleasant  and  pertinent  to  give  other sta­
tistics  to  show  that  prosperity  is  catch­
ing.  A  single  additional one will suffice: 
Domestic  exports  for  last  year  reached 
the  enormous  sum  of  $1,210,291,913, 
exceeding  the record-breaking  figures of 
the  year  before  by  $178,284,310,  an 
amount  carrying  with 
it  convincing 
proof  that  the  joker's  joke  has  lost 
its 
point.  The  business  that  was  dead  is 
alive  again.  Sorrow  verily  has  turned 
to  joy  and  the  Golden  Age  has  again 
returned.  _____________

FIGHT  AGAINST THE TRUSTS.
The  great  crop  of  combinations  and 
trusts  which  has  grown  up  during  the 
past  few  months  has  so  startled 
the 
country  that anti-trust  legislation  is  now 
on  everybody’s  programme.  Undis­
mayed  by  some  legal  setbacks  and  some 
real  injustice  in  the  Arkansas  anti-trust 
is  bent  upon  enacting  a 
law,  Texas 
similar  statute,  notwithstanding 
the 
pleadings  of  many  business  men  and 
the  extremely  sweeping  character  of  the 
legislation  proposed.  Missouri  is  also 
on  the  eve  of  providing  new  anti  trust 
legislation,  while  the  demand  for  simi 
lar  enactments  in  other  states  is  becom 
ing  widespread.

Although  some  of  the  remedies  pro­
posed  to  offset  the  trust  evil  are  entirely 
too  radical  and  even  grotesque,  there  is 
no  mistaking  the  earnestness  of  the 
masses  of  the  people  in  their hostility 
to  the  combinations  and  their  determi 
nation  to  regulate  them  in  one  way  or 
another. 
legislation  does  not 
suffice,  Congress  will  surely  be  appealed 
to,  and  it  is  difficult  to  see  bow  the  Na­
tional  Legislature  can  resist  so  over­
whelming  a  popular  demand.

If  local 

The  whole  tendency  of  the  swarm  of 
combinations  which  has  been  foisted 
upon  the  country 
is  to  restrict  trade 
competition,  reduce  the  number  of  in­
dustrial  establishments  and  exact higher 
profits  upon  the  manufacture  of  the  ne­
cessities  and  comforts  of  the  people. 
Moreover,  most  of  the  trusts  are  not 
open  and  above-board  organizations. 
They  represent  millions  of  dollars  of 
alleged  capital  which  was  never  sub­
scribed  and,  by  concealing  the  extent of 
their  business  and  other  transactions, 
deceive  people  as  to  the  real  value  of 
their  shares.

That  the  trust  evil 

is  a  serious  one 
must  be  apparent  to  everybody;  but  it 
is  equally  apparent  that 
it  is  an  evil 
which  can  not  be  overcome by hysterical 
legislation.  Anti-trust  laws  are  badly 
needed,  but  they  must  be  such  laws  as 
will  stand  the  test of  constitutionality 
and  leave no  loophole  for  escape  from 
their  penalties.  The  Arkansas 
is 
scarcely  a 
law  of  this  character,  al­
though  it  certainly  serves to demonstrate 
the  earnestness  of  the  masses  in  fight­
ing  the  trusts.

law 

Some  of  the  Long  Island  farmers  are 
selling  their  potato  crops  before  the 
tubers  are  planted,  the  purchaser  pay­
ing  65  cents  a  bushel  for  the  estimated 
product  and  taking  all  risks.  Now  that 
the speculative  spirit  has  invaded  even 
potato-raising,  there 
little  left 
for  it  to  conquer.

is  very 

WEAKNESS  OF  THE  TRUSTS.
People  who  carefully  study  the  facts 
connected  with  the  recent  organization 
of  hundreds  of  combinations  and  trusts 
are  beginning  to  perceive  that  while 
such  organizations  may  tend  to  create 
for a  brief  period  a  monopoly  in  the  in­
dustries  they  profess  to  control,  this mo­
nopoly  can  not  last  very 
long.  The 
process  of  organizing  the  trusts  includes 
the  buying  out  of  opposition  at  fancy 
prices.  This  involves  the  overcapitali­
zation  of  the  entire  enterprise. 
It  is 
quite  common  to  see  recently  organized 
combinations  capitalized  two  or  three 
times  as  high  as  the  aggregate  value  of 
their  plants. 
In  order  to  make  a  profit 
on  the  entire  capital,  high  prices  must 
be  maintained.

The  maintenance  of  high  prices  in 
any  line  of  business  or  industry  is  sure 
to  bring 
increased  competition.  The 
trusts,  being  overcapitalized,  can  not 
work  on  as  close  a  margin  as  a  private 
competitor,  who  has  to  earn  only  on 
capital  actually 
is 
probably  provided  with  the  latest  and 
best  machinery.  This  sort  of  competi­
tion,  which  can  only  be  overcome  by 
buying  out  each  succeeding  competitor 
at  the  expense  of more and more watered 
capital,  can  have  but  one  result,  name­
ly,  financial  disaster  for  the  combina­
tion.

invested,  and  who 

Even  the  Sugar  Trust,  the  greatest 
and  most  successful  of  all  the  great  mo­
nopolies,  has never been  able  to  entirely 
overcome  opposition  and  is  being  con­
stantly  forced  to  increase  its  burdens  by 
buying  out  new  competitors.  For  some 
time  past  it  has  been  engaged  in  a  war 
which  has  undoubtedly  damaged  it. 
If 
it  succeeds  in  overcoming  this  formid­
able  opposition  it  will  only  be  by  buy­
ing  out  the  opposition  refineries  at  very 
steep  prices.  The  great  combination 
might  be  able  to  stand  even  such  a 
drain,  but  a  consummation  of  that  sort 
would  only  be  the  forerunner of  new  op­
position  refineries,  built  probably  with 
a  view  to  ultimately  selling  out,  and  so 
it  will  go  on  until  the  trust  will  no 
longer  be  able  to  pay  dividends  on  its 
enormous  capital.

If  such  has  been  the  experience  of 
the  great  Sugar  Trust,  with  bow  much 
greater  reason  will  it  be  the  fate  of  the 
many  minor  combinations  recently  or­
ganized  where  competition  does  not 
in­
volve  so  tremendous  an  outlay  as  does 
the  building  of  sugar  refineries.  De­
spite  all  that  the  trusts  can  do,  there 
will  still  be  competition,  and  the  longer 
the  trusts  endure  the  stronger  will  be 
the  competition.

THE  TAXING OF  FRANCHISES.
The  passage  through  the  New  York 
Legislature,  in  the  closing  hours  of 
its 
session,  of  a measure  known  as  the  Ford 
franchise  tax  bill  has  created  consider­
able  of  a  stir  in  the  Empire State.  That 
the  bill  will  meet  executive  approval 
and  become  law  is  certain,  as  Governor 
Roosevelt  himself  was  a  strong advocate 
of  the  measure,  and  it  was  through  his 
influence  that 
it  was  taken  up  and 
passed.

The  passage  of  the  bill  has  been  a 
great  surprise  to  the  large  corporations 
controlling  important  public  franchises, 
as 
it  had  been  generally  believed  by 
them  that  the  Ford  bill  was  as  good  as 
killed,  owing  to  its  failure  to  command 
attention  earlier  in  the  session.  These 
corporations  are 
loudly  complaining, 
and  threaten  to  at  once  test  the  consti­
tutionality  of  the  law.  The  great  mass 
of  influential  New  Yorkers  indorse  the 
measure,  although  it  is  recognized  that,

in  advocating 
it,  Governor  Roosevelt 
struck  at  the  interests  of  many  of  his 
political  friends  and  associates.

The  Ford  bill  proposes  to  tax  the 

in­
comes  of  corporations  operating  public 
franchises,  such  as  public 
lighting, 
street  railway  transportation  and  the 
like.  The  bill  will  make  them  pay taxes 
on 
income,  less  the  real  estate 
taxes  they  already  pay.  The  corpora­
tions  claim  that  this  will  be  double  tax­
ation,  although  the  facts  do  not  bear  out 
this  contention.

their 

It 

Should  the  law  be  sustained  by  the 
courts,  it  will  be  of  the  greatest  im ­
portance  both  to  the  State  and  to  the 
cities. 
is  estimated  that  it  will  in­
crease  the  revenues  of  the  City  of  New 
York  fully  $25,000,000.  Other  cities  in 
the  Empire  State  will  find their incomes 
proportionately  increased,  and  it  is  ex­
pected  that  real  estate  taxpayers  will  be 
correspondingly  benefited.

The  enormous  profits  which  the  cor­
porations  controlling  franchises  in  New 
York  realize  show  clearly  the  benefit 
they  have  enjoyed  through 
escaping 
equitable  taxation.  Why  they  should 
claim  exemption  from  the  public  dues 
which  other  interests  are  made  to  pay 
is  not  apparent,  and  that  they have been 
able  to  escape  up  to  the  present  time  is 
no  doubt  due  to  the  strong  political  pull 
they  have  been  able  to  exert  by  means 
of  coriuption  funds  and  the 
like.  Ex- 
Governor  Flower,  of  New  York,  makes 
the  rather  suggestive  statement  that  the 
proper  way to  assess  the valuation  of  the 
franchises  is  to  take  the  gross  receipts 
of  the  companies,  and  not  their  earn­
ing,  as,  if  the  latter  were  taken  as  a 
basis,  the  corporations  would  have  little 
difficulty 
in  so  shaping  their accounts 
as  to  show  small  profits.  This is  a  time­
ly  warning  to  the  New  York  assessors 
from  a  source  likely  to  be  well  posted.

A  curious  condition  of  affairs  has 
arisen  in  Puerto  Rico.  A resident  of  the 
island,  desiring  to  go  to  Europe,  asked 
the  State  Department  at  Washington  for 
a  passport,  and  was  informed  that  the 
request  could  not  be  granted,  because, 
until  Congress  takes  action  in  reference 
to  the  annexation  of  Puerto  Rico,  the 
inhabitants  of  that  island  can  not  be  re­
garded  as  American  citizens.  As  their 
allegiance  to  Spain  was  terminated  by 
the  signing  of  the  peace  protocol,  the 
people  of  Puerto  Rico  are  wondering 
if  they  are  without  a  country. 
It  would 
seem  as  if  some  method  of  offering 
them  the  protection  of  our flag  might be 
devised,  and  that  speedily.

The  American  people  are  just  getting 
around  to  the  anniversaries of  the  Span­
ish  war.  The  declaration  of  war  has 
slipped  quietly  by,  but  last  Monday  we 
flew  flags  in  honor  of  the  greatest  naval 
fight  of  the  generation,  and  there  will 
be  days  to  celebrate  here  and  there  all 
through  the  summer.  This  advent  of  a 
new  set  of  anniversaries  relegates  those 
of  the  revolutionary  war  to  the region  of 
tradition,  and  those  of  the  civil  war  to 
ancient  history.

The  Missouri  Senate  has  passed  the 
house  anti-department-store  bill,  to  tax 
each  line  of  goods  sold  over  one,  with 
amendments  limiting  the  operation  of 
the  act  to  cities  of  more  than  50,000 
population,  exempting  stores  that  em­
ploy  less  than  fifteen  persons,  and  mak­
ing  the  maximum  tax  for  each  line  of 
goods  $500.

The  tramp  is  looking for^sometbing  to 
do;  but  he  would  sooner  move  on  than 
do  a  cord  of  wood  for  you.

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Fruits and  Produce.
Observations  by  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
“ I  wish  you  would  keep  on  hammer­
ing  away  at  the 36 dozen  egg case, ”  said 
a  prominent  egg  receiver  to  me  the 
other  day. 
“ Every  day  we  are  feeling 
increasing  preference  of  buyers  for 
the 
the  30  dozen  size.”  
I  had  noticed  that 
bids  on  'Change  were  more  frequently 
made  stipulating for  30 dozen  cases,  and 
asked  whether  there  were  any  new  rea­
sons  to  advance  for  the  discontinuance 
of  the  larger  package. 
“ No  new  rea­
sons,"  answered  the  receiver,  “ but  the 
old  ones  are  good  enough  if  packers 
will  only  appreciate  them ;  you  see  the 
principal  trouble  with  the  36s  is  that 
they  do  not  carry  the  eggs  in  as  good 
condition  and  there  is  generally  found 
in  them  a  larger  proportion  of  broken 
eggs.  When  eggs  are  selling  at  mark 
this  makes  them  objectionable  to  deal­
ers  and  they  will  not  take  them  when 
they  can  get  30s  of  equal  quality;  con­
sequently  they  hang  fire  and  often  we 
g e t‘ stuck’  with  them  on  declining  mar­
kets.  Then 
loss  off  season  the 
loss  on  36s  is  relatively  greater  than  on 
30s,  both  because  of  the  greater number 
of  cracked  and  the  fact  that  these  spoil 
quickly  and  contaminate 
the  whole 
package."  The  claim  of  this  receiver 
is  voiced  by  about  all  of  the  egg  re­
ceivers  and  seems  to  be  well  founded. 
There  is  no  economy  in  the  use  of  36 
dozen  cases  to  offset  these  manifest  dis­
advantages  and  they  should be  relegated 
to  the  shelf  among  the  barrels,  return 
cases,  and  other  antiquities  of  the  egg 
trade.

in  the 

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*

“ How  did 

“ Would  you  like  to  see  some  black 
eggs?"  asked  a  Southern  egg  salesman 
as  I  was  about  leaving  him  after  an  in­
terview  in  regard  to  egg  sales.  Point­
ing  to  a  pile  of  grimy  looking  cases  be 
called  my  attention  to  a  thing  1  had 
never  before  noticed.  The  cases— wher­
ever  they  had  been exposed to  the  air  in 
transit— were  covered  with  soot and  up­
on 
lifting  the  covers  the  top  layers  of 
the  eggs  were  as  black  as  the  ace  of 
spades. 
it  happen?"  I  en­
quired.  “ Why,  you  see, ”  answered  Mr. 
B.,  "these  are  Southern  eggs  which  are 
sent  up  here  in  live poultry  cars;  as you 
know,  these  cars  are  not  closed  tightly, 
but  are  walled 
in  with  slats,  between 
which  the  air  whistles  as  the train  pro­
ceeds.  Now as  the  freight  engines  burn 
soft  coal  and  make  a  smoke  like an 
ocean  steamer,  and  this  smoke  general­
ly  envelops  the  train  behind  it,  I  sup­
pose the  fact  gives  an  explanation  of 
the  condition  of  these  eggs.  The  soot 
has  not  only  stuck  to  the  cases,  but  has 
penetrated  the  packing  and  sifted  down 
upon  the  eggs,  sticking  fast  from  its 
oily  consistency  and  giving  them  the 
appearance  of  a  Chicago  white  shirt 
after  two  days’  wear."  It struck me that 
poultry  cars  were  not  suitable  for  han­
dling  eggs  anyway  and  that  their  dirti­
ness  would  very  soon  be  supplemented 
by  their heat,  causing  still  greater  dam­
age.  On  the  whole  a  good  refrigerator 
car  is  plenty  good  enough  for  general 
patronage.  Eggs  are  no  fresher  for  rid­
in  company  with  the 
ing  to  market 
laid  them  and  even  if  the 
fowls  which 
refrigerator  costs  a 
little  more  good 
clean  eggs  are  worth  enough  more  than 
stale and  dirty  ones  to  pay  the  differ­
ence.

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trade.  Alter  a  little  talk  about  toe  un­
usually  high  prices  for  eggs  this  spring 
I  asked  him  whether he  was  laying 
in 
“  Not  a  case  have  I 
his  usual  supply. 
put  away,"  be  answered. 
“ I  can  see 
nothing 
in  carrying  spring  eggs  at  the 
recent  cost,"  he  continued,  “ and  ex­
pect  there  will  be  later  opportunities  to 
use  my  storage  facilities  more  profit­
ably.  There  are  usually  chances  to 
make  pretty  good  deals  in  eggs  during 
the  later  spring  and summer  months and 
heretofore  I  have  bad  to  let  these  pass 
owing  to  a  crowded  condition  of  my 
refrigerator  and  a  reversed  state  of 
affairs 
in  my  bank  account.  But  this 
year  I  shall  be  in  shape  to  take  thes^ 
later  opportunities  if  they  come,  and  if 
they  do  not  I  would  rather  take  my 
chances  of  buying  spring  storage  goods 
next  fall  than  to  take  them  now  at  the 
prevailing  rates.”  
I  mention  this  con­
versation  because  it represents  the  posi­
tion  of  a  great  many  of  the  Eastern  egg 
men  who  usually  store  spring  goods  and 
because  their  policy  as  outlined  above 
may  have  some  bearing  upon  the  course 
of  egg  values  in  the  near  future.

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*

Last  week,  for  the  first  time  this  sea­
son,  one  could  see  a  considerable  num­
ber  of  egg  trucks  backing  up  to  the  re­
frigerator  doors.  When  most  of  these 
goods  were  staited  from  the  West our 
market  was  up  to  I4X@I4K c  for  fancy 
storage  packings,  but  when  they arrived 
it  bad  settled  down  to  13&C  as  a  selling 
basis.  Some  of  the  receivers 
informed 
me  that  they  had  been  instructed  to  ac­
cept  the  prevailing  price  although  it 
was  beiow  a  parity  with  first  cost  at 
primary  points;  most  of  them,  however, 
while  willing  to  accept  14c  on  dock, 
were 
if  that  figure 
was  not  obtainable  and  the  result  was 
that  a  good  many  carloads  were  put 
away.  During  the  last  half  of  the  week 
the  storage  men  were  quite  busy  and 
several  thousand  cases  found  a  summer 
resting  place  in  the  cold  rooms.

instructed  to  store 

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*

Calling  at  the  store  of  the  chairman 
of  the  egg  committee  the  other  day  I 
found  him  mulling  over  the  egg  rules. 
I  was  glad  to  see 
it because there  is 
room  for  a  good  deal  of  improvement 
in  this  department  of  the  Exchange 
literature,  and  I  knew  that .when  F.  C. 
Barger got  his  head  at  work  on  the rules 
the  result  would  be  likely  to be  worth 
something.  The  egg  man was privileged 
to  look  over  some  of  the  revision  thus 
far  accomplished  and  can  throw  out  a 
hint  that  when  the  committee  gets 
through  with  the  work  the  egg rules  will 
be  in  tiptop  condition.— N.  Y.  Prod­
uce  Review.
Creamery Checks Need Not Be Taxed.
The  Commissioner  of  Internal  Rev­
enue  has  decided  that  creamery  checks 
can  be  paid  or  cashed  by  regular  em­
ployes  of  the  company  without stamping 
the  same;  that  is  to  say,  if the  secretary 
draws  checks  on  the  treasurer  for  the 
payment  of  milk  or  whatever  it  may  be, 
the  treasurer  can  pay  them  without  hav­
ing  affixed  stamps,  provided  he  is a 
regular  employe  of  the  company  or  is 
financially  interested  as  a  stockholder; 
otherwise  an  unstamped  check is not ne­
gotiable and  can  only  be  cashed  by  the 
treasurer  or  employe of  the  company  is­
suing  the  same  directly  to the  party 
in 
whose  favor  it  is  drawn.

The  Usual  Way.

I  met an  Eastern  jobber  on  the  street 
the  other  day,  a  man  who  usually  puts 
away  several  thousand  cases  of  April 
in  his  own  refrigerator  for  fall
eggs 

‘ There  are  sermons  in  stones.' ’
“ Yes,  a  widow  generally  gives  her 
second  husband  a bigger monument than 
she does her  first.”

WE  WILL  PAY  YOU  MARKET  PRICES 
FOR ALL THE  FRESH  EGGS  YOU  CAN 
FURNISH.  CASH  ON  DELIVERY.

WE  MAKE A 

SPECIALTY  OF FIELD SEEDS LOWEST

VALUES

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WHOLESALE DEALER  IN 

B U T T E R   AND  EG G S 

BUFFALO.  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.

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

Dun or  Bradstreet.
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Eggs  Wanted

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

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

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

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News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  May  6—The  grocery  trade 
here  during  the  week  has  been  one  of 
activity.  Numbers  of buyers  have been 
here,  some  from  far-off  points,  and  they 
all  bring  good  tidings  of  general  pros­
perity.  Prospects,  they  tell  us,  are  fa­
vorable  for  good  crops,  and  they  buy  as 
if  they  had  the  utmost  confidence  in  the 
future.  Prices are  generally  well  held 
and  refined  sugar  on  Wednesday  took  a 
turn  upward.

While  the  amount  of  coffee  changing 
hands 
is  not  large,  and  there  is  still 
room  for  improvement  in  the  general 
condition,  matters,  however,  are  in  a 
more  satisfactory  condition  than  a  fort­
night ago  and  dealers  generally  express 
themselves  as  pretty  well  satisfied  with 
the  outlook.  Rio  No.7  is  steady  at 6f£c. 
In  store and  afloat  the  stock  aggregates 
1,201,752  bags,  against  1,050,852  bags  at 
the  same  time  last  year.  Little was done 
at any  time  in  the  way  of  future  busi­
ness  and  dealers  seem  disposed  to  let 
to-morrow  take  care  of 
itself.  Mild 
coffees  have  sold  moderately  well  at 
prices  showing  no  practical  change. 
Good  Cucuta  has  been  most  in  request, 
with  a  rate  of  8#c  pretty  well  estab­
lished.

As  stated  above,  granulated  advanced 
Wednesday  to  5He.  The  demand  has 
been  fairly  active  and  last  quotations 
seem  to  be  substantial.  Refiners  have 
again  undertaken  to  guarantee  prices 
and  altogether  it  is  not  likely  we  shall 
have  a  lower  rate  unless  the  trust  war 
again  breaks  out.  Raw  sugars  are  very 
firm.

The auction  sale  of  teas  showed  a  de­
cline  in  general  lines and  this  has  been 
reflected  on 
the  street  market  since 
Wednesday.  Trading  has  been  only  of 
an  everyday  character  and  for  lots to  fill 
out  broken  stocks.  Those  well  informed 
seem  to  think 
it  a  favorable  time  to 
make  purchases,  although  just  why  it  is 
any  better  time  now  than  it  is  likely  to 
be 
later  is  not  stated.  Little  invoice 
trading  has  been  done  during  the  week.
Hardly  as  much  life  in  the  rice  mar­
ket  as 
last  week  and,  while  matters 
might  be  worse,  there  is  not  much  to 
brag  of  in  the  way  of  new  business. 
Prices  show  some  irregularity.  Piime 
to  choice  Southern  rice  is  worth 
6%c  for  prime  to  choice.  Japan,
5c,  showing  little  if  any  change.
“ Four hundred  bales  of  Zanzibar cloves 
have  been  sold  during  the  week  at  a 
price  said  to  be 6%c.  This  is  certainly 
the  bottom  rate  and  even  8c  is  probably 
nearer  a  correct  figure.  With  the  ex 
ception  of  this  sale  there  has  been hard­
ly  anything  doing,  although  prices  show 
no  particular  weakness  anywhere.  Sing­
apore black  pepper  is  worth 
io^ c  and 
is  firm  at  this  figure.

Grocery  grades  of  molasses  are  firmly 
held.  The  demand  has  been  quite  sat­
isfactory  and  the  situation  encouragiug. 
Sales  are  not  large  in  any  one  instance, 
but  they  are  numerous  and  foot  a  good 
aggregate.  Offerings  are  not  excessive 
and  it  is  probably  a  favorable  time  to 
purchase. 
Foreign  grades  are  firm. 
Good to prime domestic grades  are worth 
i6@26c.  Open  kettle,  320330.  Syrups 
are  firm.  There  seems  to  be  a  real 
scarcity  of  desirable  goods  and  the  de­
mand 
is  better  than  for  some  time. 
Prime  to  fancy  sugar  in  round  lots  is 
quotable  from  2o@23c.
Talk  of  a  combination  of  the  New 
York  State  canners  is  heard  again  and 
it seems to  be  the  general  opinion  that 
such  a  combine  will  be  formed  for  the 
economies  there  are  in  it  As  to  the 
general  market,  most 
interest  is  dis­
played  for  salmon,  the  sales  of  which 
have  been  very  large  for  future  deliver­
It  is  said  that  several  of  the  lead­
ies. 
ing  packers—outside 
the  trust—have 
sold  out  their stocks completely.  There 
is  a  good  demand  for  corn.  Lima  beans 
are  quiet.  Peas  are  rather  dull  and 
standard  marrowfats  and  Early  Junes 
can  be  bought  from  8o@85c.  Tomatoes 
are  weak  and  prices  nominal.
Lemons  and  oranges  are  fairly  active 
and  lemons  show  quite  an improvement,

fruit 

owing,  probably,  to the  warmer|weather. 
Sicily 
is  quotable  from  $2.25 
@3-75- 
California  oranges  sell  well 
from  $3.25@4,75,  the  latter  for  fancy 
stock.  Bananas  are  quiet,  within  a 
range  of  90c  to  $1.15  per  bunch  for 
firsts.

Dried  fruits  are  quiet.  Evaporated 

apples  are  dull  and  sell  from 
as  to  quality.  Raisins  are  firm,  but the 
remainder  of  the  line  moves  only  in  a 
listless  sort  of  way.

In  beans, there  is some  little  improve­
ment 
in  the  general  market.  Choice 
marrow  are  worth  $1.50® 1.5234.  Choice 
medium,  $1.37)4.

firmly  maintained. 

The  offerings  of  fancy Western cream­
ery  butter  are  light and,  as  the  demand 
has  been  fairly  active,  the  price  has 
been 
Seventeen 
cents  seems  to  be  readily  enough  ob­
tained  for  goods  which  will  stand  in­
spection.  Firsts, 
i6@i6K c ;  seconds, 
i5@ i5Kc ;  imitation  creamery,  13015c, 
as  to quality,  with  rather  light  demand ; 
Western  dairy, 
I2j£@i3j^c;  Western 
factory,  I2@i3c.

New  cheese has  been  in  pretty  active 
demand  from  exporters. 
Large  size 
choice,  full  cream  cheese  is  worth  9% 
@ioc;  old,  12c.
The  egg  market  is  firm,  with  quota­
tions  for  Western  stock  ranging  from
!3@I4C.

Old  potatoes  are  worth  $2@2.25  per 
180 lbs.  New  stock  is  in  good  demand 
and  selling  from  $3@6  per  bbl.— more 
for  No.  1  Bermudas.
Increase  in  Shipments  of Texas Vege­

tables.

Corpus  Christi,  Tex.,  May  5— Never 
in  the  past  few  years have the shipments 
of vegetables  from  this  immediate  sec­
tion  compared  with  the  enormous  con­
signments  that  are  being transported out 
of  Corpus  Christi  daily  now.  A  ship­
ment  of  two cars,  consisting  exclusively 
of  beans  and  potatoes,  has  just  been 
made 
from  here  by  express  to  Fort 
Worth,  Sherman  and  other  North  Texas 
markets,  and  two  cars,  crowded  to  their 
utmost  capacity  with  beans,  potatoes, 
cabbage  and 
other  produce,  were 
shipped  from  here  to  Kansas  City, 
Denver,  Minneapolis,  St.  Louis  and 
points  in  Central  and  Northern Texas.

The  present 

facilities  for  express 
transportation  are  inadequate  for the de­
mand,  and  more  cars  are  needed.  Prod­
uce  buyers  are  shipping  exclusively 
by  express,  as  the  transportation  af­
forded  by  freight  is  practically  too  low 
for  these  perishable  goods.  Gardeners 
are  receiving  exceedingly  high  prices 
for  their  produce  at  present,  especially 
cabbage,which is  purchased  by  the  buy­
ers  at  $2.50  per  100  pounds.

Although  the  country  is  in  excellent 
condition  and  the  yield  will  bean abun­
dant  one,  the  demand  for  the  diversified 
crops  just  now  exceeds  the  supply.  The 
gardeners  of  this  section  realize  that 
high  prices  prevail  only  temporarily, 
and 
in  consequence  are  rushing  their 
produce  to  market,  and  the  result  will 
be  that  the  success  of  this  season’s yield 
will  be  especially  remunerative.
Competition From  New Zealand Apple 

Growers.

American  apple  growers  and  shippers 
have  a  formidable  rival  for  trade  in 
some  parts  of  Europe  in  New  Zealand, 
which  has  shipped  considerable  quanti­
ties  of  apples  this  year,  and  will  ship 
more  during coming  seasons.  The  qual­
ity  of  New  Zealand  apples  is  said  to  be 
beyond  criticism,  and  the  capacity  of 
the  production  unlimited.

Shipment  was  made  in  cold  storage, 
and  it  is  reported  that  the  fruit  arrived 
in 
the  best  possible  condition  and 
brought  full  prices.  The  danger  to 
American  shippers  lies  in  the  fact  that 
the  price  is  lower,  reported  better  ship­
ping  facilities  making  a  considerable 
difference.  Apples  can  be  grown  cheap­
er  in  New  Zealand  than  here,  which 
is 
an  important  consideration  with  Euro­
pean  buyers.

Chance  For  Dewey.

When  the  moon 

is  brought  within 
forty  miles  of  the  earth  by  that  Paris 
telescope  we  may  send  Dewey  over  to 
annex  her.

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which prevents over-heating and consequent de­
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knock  down  in bundles,  thus  m ak in g  a  saving 
in freight.

To set  up the  “ Hercules”   no skill is required.  You 
can be your own  cooper  and  save  money.  300 
“ H e rcu le s”   barrels  can  be  hauled  on  a  farm 
wagon.  The  “ Hercules”   is strong in the  bilge 
and  has  no inside lining hoops.

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We  take  pleasure  in  announcing  to  the  shippers  and  retail 
merchants  of  Michigan  that  our  new  cold  storage  warehouse 
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

BLUFF  AND  BLUSTER.

Able  Opinion  on  the  Cash  Carrier 

Situation.

The  Dry'Goods  Economist  has  done 
the  retail  merchants  of  America 
a 
great  service  by  obtaining  from  Albert 
H.  Walker  an  opinion  as  to  bow  to  deal 
with  the  demands  and  threats  of  the 
Consolidated  Store  Service  Co.  Mr. 
Walker 
is  the  author  of  “ Walker  on 
Patents, “  which  is  generally  recognized 
among  lawyers  as  the  standard authority 
on  American  patent  law,  and  be 
is, 
moreover,  an  active  practicing 
lawyer, 
unusually  successful  in  winning  cases. 
While,  therefore,  no  one’s  views  save 
those  of  the  United  States  Circuit  Court 
of  Appeals  are  absolutely  conclusive  on 
patent  questions,  it  is  safe  to  say  that 
Mr.  Walker’s  judgment  on  matters  of 
patentability  and 
infringement  ranks 
next  in  authority  to  that  of  that  tribu­
nal.

With  the  following  opinion  before 
them  retailers  who  are  in  receipt  of  de­
mands  for  money  or  threats  of  suits 
from  the  owners  of  the  patents  here  dis­
cussed  can  form  their  own  judgment  as 
to  whether  they  should  yield  to  such  de­
mands  or  resist  them:

The  Consolidated  Store  Service  Com­
pany,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  claims  to  own 
three  cash-carrier  patents,  under  which 
it  is  seeking  to  lew   tribute  upon  mer­
chants  throughout  the  United  States who 
are  using  any  cash-carrier  apparatus 
consisting  of  a  wire  stretched  between 
fixed  supports  at  each  end,  in  combina­
tion  with  a  freely  moving car,  supported 
by  one  or  two  wheels  running  on  the 
wire,  if the  moving  structure  is  adapted 
to  be  impelled  as  a  solid  body  from  one 
end  of  the  wire  to  the  other  in  either 
direction  by  the  momentum  imparted by 
a  single  impulse  or  push.

The  claims  upon  which these demands 
for  tribute  are  based  are  the  following, 
stated  in  the  order of  their  dates  in  the 
cash-carrier art:

Claim  1, 

of  letters  patent  of  the
United  States,  No.  357.851,  granted  to 
Edwin  P.  Osgood,  February  15,  1887, 
upon  an  application  filed  June  7,  1883, 
invention  claimed  to  have  been 
for  an 
produced  by  Mr.  Osgood 
in  August, 
1881.

Claim  2, 

of  letters  patent  of  the
United  States,  No.  293,192,  granted  to 
B.  A.  &  E.  P.  Osgood,  February  5, 
1884,  on  an  application  filed  May  7, 
1883,  for  an  invention  claimed  to  have 
been  made  by  the  patentees  in  the  fall 
of  1881.

Letters  patent  No.  560,344,  granted 
May  19,  1896,  to  James  W.  Clark,  upon 
an  application  Hied  September 25,  1895.
The  first  claim  of  patent  No.  357,851 

reads  as  follows:

In  a 

cash-car  apparatus,  a  wire 
stretched  horizontally  between fixed sup­
ports  at  each  end,  and  in  the  described 
relation  to  the  cashier's  desk ;  in  com­
bination  with  a  freely  moving  car  held 
below  the  wire  on  wheels-hangers,  to 
which  it  is  rigidly connected,the  wheels 
thereof  being  fitted  to  run  one  behind 
the  other  on  the  wire,  whereby  the  car 
is  held  rigidly  against  oscillation  longi­
tudinally  of  the  way;  the  whole  moving 
structure  being  thus  adapted  to  be 
im­
pelled  as  a  solid  body  from  one  end  of 
the  way  to  the  other,  in  either  direc­
tion,  by  the  momentum  imparted  by  a 
single  impulse  or  push,  substantially  as 
described.

In  my  judgment  this  claim  is  clearly 
void  tor  want  of  invention,  in  view  of 
the  following  prior  patents:

Letters  patent  No.  3,428,  granted  to 
William  Forsyth,  February  12,  1844; 
letters  patent  No.  221,488,  granted  to 
Joseph  C.  White.  November  11,  1879, 
and  letters  patent No.  241,008,granted  to 
Harris  H.  Hayden,  May  3.  1881.

The  Forsyth  patent  describes a  sus­
pended  door,  moving  from  one  end  to 
in  either  direction  under  a 
the  other 
horizontal  rail,  from  which 
it  is  sus­
pended  and  upon  which  it  moves  by 
means  of  two  wheels  running  on  the  top

It  is'evident  on  examining 
of  the  rail. 
the  Forsyth  patent,  that  the  door 
is 
adapted  to  be  impelled  as  solid  body 
from  one  end  of  the  rail  to  the  other, 
in  either  direction,  by  the  momentum 
imparted  by  a  single  impulse  or  push, 
and 
it  is  well  known,  and  has  been 
proved,  that  such  doors  were  thus 
im­
pelled 
long  before  1881.  There  is  no 
difference  between  the  contrivance  of 
the  Forsyth  patent of  1844  and  the  con­
trivance  of  the  first  claim  of the  Osgood 
patent  of  1887,  except  that  the  Forsyth 
door  runs  upon  a  horizontal  rail,  while 
the  Osgood  cash  car  runs  upon  a  hori­
zontal  wire,  and  except  that  the  “ solid 
body"  impelled  from  one  end  of  the 
way  to  the  other  in  the  case  of  Forsyth 
was a  rectangular  door,  while  the  solid 
body  impelled from one end of the way to 
the  other 
in  the  case  of  Osgood  was  a 
rectangular  box.

But the substitution by Osgood of a hor­
izontal  wire  for  the  horizontal  rail  of 
Forsyth  was  not  invention,  because  it 
was  only  the  substitution  of  one  me­
chanical  equivalent  for  another,  and  the 
use  by  Osgood  of  the  plan  and  mode  of 
operation  of  Forsyth  for  impelling  a 
box,  instead  of  a  door,  from  one  end  of 
the  way  to  the  other,  in  either  direc­
tion,  was  not  invention,  because  it  was, 
at  most,  the  use  of  the  Forsyth  contriv­
ance  for  a  new  purpose. 
Indeed,  the 
claim  of  the  Forsyth  patent  was  not 
limited 
to  a  door,  but  expressly  in­
cluded  “ doors,  etc.,”   and  was,  there­
fore,  broad  enough  to  include  the  rec­
tangular  cash  box  of  claim  1  of  the  Os­
good  patent  No.  357,851.

It  is  our  iaw  that  an  inventor  is  en­
titled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  his  inven­
tion  for  all  purposes,  whether  he  sets 
them  forth 
in  his  specification  or not. 
Roberts  vs.  Ryer,  91  U.  S.,  157,  1875. 
According  to  that  point  of  law  the  com­
bination  specified  in  Claim  1  of  the  Os­
good  patent  No.  357,851  would  have  in­
fringed  the  Forsyth  patent  at  any  time 
before  February  12,  1858,  which  was the 
day  upon  which  that  patent  expired. 
Ever  since  February  12,  1858, 
that
Forsyth  contrivance  has  been  free  to  all 
the  people  of  the  United  States,  whether 
it  was  embodied 
in  an  apparatus  for 
impelling  a  door,  from  one  end  of  a 
horizontal  way  to  the  other,  in either  d i­
rection,  by  the  momentum  imparted  by 
impulse  or  push,  or  was  em­
a  single 
bodied 
in  an  apparatus  for  impelling 
a  box  from  one  end  of  a  horizontal  way 
10  the  other  in  either  direction,  by  such 
a  push.  For  these  reasons  it  seems  to 
be  plain  enough  that  the  first  claim  of 
the  Osgood  patent  357,851  was  simply 
an  attempt  by  Osgood  to  patent  in  1887 
an  invention  that  had  been  patented  to 
Forsyth 
in  1844,  and  that  had  become 
free  to  all  the  people  of  the  United 
States  in  1858.

So,  also,  quite 

independent  of  the 
prior  Forsyth  patent,  the  first  claim  of 
the  Osgood  patent  No.  357,851  is  void 
for  want  of  invention,  on  account  of the 
prior  patent  of  221.488,  of  November 11, 
1879,  10  Joseph  C.  White,  on  a  cash- 
carrier  apparatus.  For  the  only  essen­
tial  difference  between  the  White  ap 
paratus  and  the  Osgood  apparatus 
is 
the  fact  that  the  “ way"  of  the  White 
apparatus  is  a  rail,  inclined  3^ degrees 
from  the  horizontal,  instead  ot  being  a 
horizontal  wire, 
for  the  two  wheels 
above  the  way  and  the  car  below  it  are 
substantially  alike  in  both  pater ts.  Of 
course,  to  substitute  a  wire  for  a  rail 
was  only  to  substitute  one  mechanical 
equivalent  for  another.  And  to  make 
the  wire  horizontal,instead  of  making  it 
deviate  3^  degrees  from  the  horizontal, 
did  not  constitute  invention,  because  a 
deviation  of  3^  degrees  is  not  even  ap­
proximately  sufficient  to  prevent the  car 
from  being 
impelled  as  a  solid  body 
from  one  end  of  the  way  to  the  ether,  in 
either  direction,  by  the  momentum  im­
parted  by  a  single  impulse  or  push.  In­
is  necessary  to give  the  wire, 
deed,  it 
or  way,  some 
inclination  downward 
from  the  cashier’s  station  to  the  clerk’s 
station,  in  order  to  make  sure  that  the 
car  shall  never  stop  between  the  two 
stations,  and 
in  order  to  enable  the 
cashier  to  despatch  promptly  and  with­
out  excessive  effort  the  numerous  cars 
in  every  direction 
from  her  station 
which  she  must  despatch  to  the separate

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salesmen  who  are  connected  with  the 
particular  system  over  which  she  pre­
sides.  And  many  such  systems  have 
their  wires  inclined  more  than  3%  de­
grees  for  those  important  reasons. 
In 
this  view  of  the  case,  all  that  Osgood 
did,  as  compared  with  White,  was  to 
introduce  a  fault  into  White*  system,  by 
making  the  way  horizontal,  instead  of 
leaving  it  somewhat  inclined.
“  Moreover,  quite  independent  of  both 
Forsyth  and  White,  the  first  claim  of 
the  Osgood  patent  No.  357,851  is void on 
account  of  the  prior  patent  of  Harris H. 
Hayden,  241,008,  of  May  3,  1881,  on  a 
store-service  apparatus.  For  the  only 
difference  between  what  is  particularly 
in  that  Osgood  claim  and 
pointed  out 
what  is  plainly  described  and  shown 
in 
the  specification  and  drawings  of  that 
Hayden  patent  consists  in  the  fact  that 
instead 
Hayden  shows  a  horizontal  rail 
of  a  horizontal  wire,  and  shows  a  basket 
instead  of  a  box  for  a  carrier. 
It  is 
plain,  on  the  face of  the  Hayden  patent, 
that  his  basket  frame  and  its  two wheels 
are  to  be  impelled  as  a  solid  body  from 
one  end  of  the  way  to  the  other,  in 
either  direction,  by  the  momentum  im­
parted  by  a  single 
impulse  or  push, 
because  Fig.  1  of  the  Hayden  drawings 
shows  a  convenient  knob  at  each  end  of 
the bar  E, which  composes  a part  of  that 
frame,  which  knobs  were  evidently 
made  to  alternately  receive  such  a  sin­
gle  push  or  impulse,  and  have  no  other 
unction.

In  the  cases  in  which  the  first  claim 
of  the  Osgood  patent  No.  357,851  has 
heretofore  been  sustained,  it  does  not 
appear  that  the  Forsyth  patent  was  ever 
before  the  court  rendering  either  of 
those  decisions;  and  it  does  appear  that 
the  White  patent  and  the  Hayden patent 
were  not  fully  understood  by  either  of 
the  judges  who  decided  those  cases. 
That  is  to  sav,  those  judges  were  ap­
parently  not  informed  that  an 
inclina­
tion  of 
degrees,  like  that  of  White, 
for  a  single  rail  or  wire,  is  not  enough 
to  prevent 
it  from  being  easily  trav­
ersed,  in  either  direction,  by  a  cash car 
impelled  by  the  momentum  imparted  by 
impulse  or  push.  And  those 
a  single 
judges  were  somehow  misled 
into  sup­
posing  that  the  Hayden  patent  contem­
plates a  car  running  down  an 
inclined 
rail  by  gravity,  and  never  running  in 
the  other direction  along  that  rail,  al­
though  the  drawings  show  the  rail  to  be 
horizontal,  and  show  knobs  at  opposite 
ends  of  the  basket  frame  for 
impelling 
the  car 
in  either  direction  along  that 
rail.

The  second  claim  of  the  Osgood  pat­

ent  No.  293,192  is  as  follows:

In combination with the wires and sup­
porting  bar  or  ring,  of  a  cash-car  sys­
tem,  an  arresting-stop ora spring-buffer, 
adapted  to  receive  and  hold  the  car.

This  claim  is  void  because  of  want  of 
invention,  because  it  is  confined  to  a 
U-shaped  spring,  fixed  at  each  end  of 
the  wire  or  rail  of  a  cash-car  system, 
for  the  purpose  of  receiving  the  car  be­
tween  its  sides,  so  as  to  gradually  stop 
the  car  by  the  tension  thereof,  and  to 
hold  it  in  place  until  it is despatched  in 
the  oppos'te  direction  by  the  cashier  or 
clerk ;  and  because  a  substantially iden­

tical  U  shaped  spring  is  shown  in letters 
patent  No.  169,995,  granted  to  S.  T. 
Hurd,  Nov.  16,  1875,  on  a  loom  shuttle 
check  and  binder,  the  function  of  the 
Hurd  U-sbaped  spring  being  to  receive 
a  shuttle  between  its  sides  and  to  grad­
ually  stop  the  shuttle  and  then  hold  it 
it  is  despatched  in  the 
in  place  until 
opposite  direction. 
The  analogy  be­
tween  the  cash  car  of  Osgood  and  the 
shuttle  of  a  loom  is  very  close;  and  the 
mode  of  operation  of  the  U-sbaped 
spring  of  Hurd  in  buffing  and  bolding 
bis  shuttle  is  identical  with  the  mode of 
operation  of  the  U-shaped  spring  of  the 
Osgoods 
in  buffing  and  holding  their 
cash  car.

This  second  claim  of  the  Osgood  pat­
ent  No.  293,192  thus  presents  nothing 
but  a  case  of  a  slightly  new  but  essen­
tially  unchanged  use  of the old U-sbaped 
spring  of  Hurd ;  and  therefore  the 
in­
validity  of  the  second  claim  of  this 
Osgood  patent  No.  293,192 
is  entirely 
undeniable.

It  does  not  appear  that  this  Hurd  pat­
ent  was  ever  before  either  of  the  courts 
which  have heretofore  sustained  the sec­
ond  claim  of  this  Osgood  patent,  or  was 
known  to  either  of  the  lawyers  for  the 
defendant  in  either  of  those  cases. 
In­
deed,  I  suppose  it  was  never  known  to 
any  one  connected  with  the  defendants 
in  any  of  the  cash  carrier litigations un­
til  it  was  discovered  by  myself  during  a 
personal  search 
the  Patent  Office 
since  the  beginning  of  the  present  year.
The  claims  of  the  Clark  patent  No. 

in 

560,344  are  as  follows:

1. 

2. 

In  a  store-service  apparatus,  the 
combination  of  a  wheeled  carrier,  with 
a  dash-pot  secured  to  said  carrier,  so 
as to  be  adjustable  to  the  inclination  of 
the  wire,  on  which  the  carrier  travels, 
substantially  as  described.

In  a  store-service  apparatus,  the 
combination  with  a  carrier  having  a 
single  wheel,  of  a  dash-pot  adjustably 
secured  to  said  carrier  and  provided 
with  means  to  prevent  oscillation  as  the 
carrier  travels  on  the  way,  substantially 
as  described.

The  distinguishing  characteristic  of 
this  patent  is  not  the  fact  that  it  has 
only  one  wheel,  instead  of  having  two 
wheels,  like  the  Osgood  patent No.  357,- 
851,  for  letters  patent  of  the  United 
States,  No.  84,951,  granted  to  J.  H. 
Kuttner,  December  15,  1868,  show  a
one-wheeled  carrier  running  on  a  hori­
zontal  wire.  The  distinguishing  char­
acteristic  of  the  Clark  patent  is  a  dash- 
pot,  which  is  intended  to  be  a  buffer to 
stop  the  car  when  it  reaches  its  destina­
tion  at  either  end  of  the  wire.

I  have  not  particularly  investigated 
the  question  whether  this  Clark  patent 
is  void  or  valid;  and 
it  is  probably 
void.  But  even 
if  it  is  valid  it  is  not 
valuable,  for  it  is  an  invariable  rule  of 
patent  law  that  omission  of  any  one  in­
gredient,  of  a  combination  covered  by 
any  claim  of  a  patent,  averts any  charge 
of  infringement  of  that  claim.  And I  do 
not  understand  that anybody  uses  or will 
ever  want  to  use  any  dash-pet  or  any 
equivalent  thereof  in  any  cash-carrier 
system.

All  these  reasons  conduct  to  the  clear 
conclusion  that  the  claims  of  the  Con­

solidated  Store  Service  Company  that 
the  merchants  of  the  United  States 
ought  to  pay  them  tribute  under  the  Os­
good  patents  and  the  Clark  patent  are 
claims  which  are  without  any  bottom 
foundation,  and  which  can  never  again 
be  sustained  in  any  court,  as  against 
the  facts  which  are  now  known,  and  the 
rules  of  law  which  are  now  established.

A lbert  H.  Wa lk e r.

Year’s  Savings  in  Discounts.

In  a  contemporary  devoted 

to  the 
grocery  trade  a  convert  to  the  cash  dis­
count  plan  of  business-doing  tells  his 
experience 
in  the  past  year.  The  les­
son  taught 
is  just  as  applicable  to  the 
shoe  dealers  as  to  his  brother  grocers. 
He  says:

How  few  retailers  realize  the  signifi­
cance  of  this  word—discount.  Men  who 
are  bright  on  any  subject  seem  not  to 
realize  what  1  per  cent.,  2  per  cent.,  4, 
5  and  6  per  cent,  means.  These  go  to 
make  up  the  allowed  ten-day  discounts 
in  a  general  store  business. 
I  am  only 
a  one-year-old  convert,  and  will  give 
you  my  own  experience  to  go by.

If  you  are  doing  a  business  of,  say, 
$2,000  per  month,  and  you find about the 
loth  of  the  month,  after  the  best  days 
are 
in  (this  applies  where  pays  are 
monthly  and  made  about  the  first  ten 
days  of  the  month),  that  vou  are  about 
$800 short  of  having  enough  to  pay  your 
jobber  up  to  within  three  or  four  days, 
by  all  means  borrow  $1,000,  pay  6  per 
cent, 
interest,  and  you  have  lifted  a 
great  load  off  your  mind. 
Immediately 
after  getting  the 
loan  pay  all  bills  in 
full  up  to  such  a  time  of  the  month  as 
you  can  make  average  ten  days.  Then 
pay  those  who  will  come  in  the  ten-day 
average  and  take  off  your  discounts.

Now,  the  next  thing  to  do  is  to  start 
a  separate  bank  account  for  your  dis­
counts.  Pay  your  bills  punctually;  keep 
strict  account  of  your  discounts,  and 
make  a  separate  deposit of them.  When­
ever  you  buy  some  special  line  ask wbat 
discount  they  will  allow  for  cash.  Very 
often  I’ve  been  allowed  5  per  cent., 
where  I  was  only  entitled  to  1.  You 
will,  by  following  this  up  closely,  by 
and  by  change  in  your  mind  the  old 
saying  of  the  almighty  dollar,  and  pay 
more  attention  to  the  almighty  cent.  In 
six  months,  if  you  work  the  business 
properly,  your  discounts  ought  to  reach 
$150.  By  that  time  you  will  become 
known  as  a  man  who  discounts  his bills. 
Then  you  should  also  carefully put down 
the  extra  cash  concessions  you  get,  ex­
clusive  of  your  discounts. 
I  am  not 
putting  it  at  the  top  notch  when  I  say it 
will  reach  $400  per  year  on  a  business

of  $2,000  per  month.  Nor  am  I  telling 
an  untruth  when  I  say  that  in  three 
years  you  can  pay  back  your  thousand, 
interest  and  all.
Don’t  say  it  isn’t  true,  because  it  is. 
I’ve  tried  it. 
I  know  it's  just  as  I  say.
You  will  say,  I  don’t  like  to  borrow 
the  money.  To  this  I  say,  what's  the 
difference  whether  you  owe 
it  to  one 
man  or  to  a  dozen?  You won’t  feel  that 
note  of  $1,000  hanging  over  you  when 
you  see  the  rivalry  there  will  be  be­
tween  the  jobbers  to  sell  you  at  5  per 
cent,  or  10  per  cent,  margin,  where  for­
merly  when  you  paid  in  thirty,  sixty,  or 
ninety  days  they  required  (and  justly, 
too)  twice  and  thrice  that  margin.

You  who  pay  bills 

in  sixty  days  or 
ninety  days,  when  you  should  have  paid 
them  in  thirty  days,  and  think  vou  are 
the  proper  thing,  and  that  jobbers  are 
glad  to  sell  you,  and  that  you  are  get­
ting  inside  prices,  undeceive  yourself 
at  once.  There  are  but  two  grades  be­
low  you.  One  of  these  pays  about  once 
or  twice  a  year,  and  the  other  never. 
And 
if  you  should  get  up  a  few  steps 
higher  and  pay  promptly  in  thirty  days, 
just  study  the  old motto of ’ ’ Untarnished 
credit  is  good,  but  gold  is  hetter,"   and 
then  practice  what  I  preach.
Brought  a  Claim  Against  the  Railway 

Company.

Not  long  ago  a  freight  train  was  de­
railed  in  a  certain  Kansas  town  and  the 
cars  caught fire.  A  large  portion  of  the 
population  made  energetic  efforts  to  ex­
tinguish  the flames  and  protect the prop­
erty,  but  another  class  gave  themselves 
up  to  plunder,  and  worked  quite  as hard 
to  get  anything  and  as  much  of  it  as 
possible  from  the  burning  cars.  One 
well-known  citizen,  who  likes  to  talk 
better than  to  work,  an  active  politician 
of  the  populist variety,  familiarly known 
as  ” Windy  Wilson,”   came  upon  the 
scene  too  late  to  get  any  booty  of  value, 
but  managed  to  sneak  away  with  one  of 
the 
leather-covered  cushions  of  the 
caboose.  He  bid  it  under  the  straw  of 
his  wagon,  and  as  soon  as  the  excite 
ment  was  over  drove  home.  That  night 
his  barn  and  all  its  contents,  including 
his  horses  and  the  wagon  in  which  be 
had  driven  home  from  the  fire,  were 
burned,  and  in  seeking  for  the  cause  of 
the  conflagration  he  accurately  deter­
mined  that  a  fire  had  been  smoldering 
in  the  stuffing  of  the  cushion  be  bad 
stolen,  and  had  broken  out  after  be  had 
taken  it  into  bis  barn.  The  next  morn­
ing  he  went  to  town  to lament his losses, 
and  actually  brought  a  claim  against 
the  railroad  company  for  the  value  of 
the  property  destroyed.

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

Shoes  and  Leather
Why  the  Shoe  Dealer  Was  Mad.
The  Friendly  Young  Rival  from down 
the  street  opened  the  door  wide  enough 
to  stick  his  head  inside,  and  called  out, 
“ Why  don’t  you  go  home, 
late 
enough?”

it’s 

The  Old  Established  Dealer  slapped 
a  cover  on  a  box  and  sent  it  sliding 
along  down  the  ledge,  and  without  turn­
ing  around  answered  sharply,  “ Come  in 
and  shut  that  door. 
It’s  cold  enough 
here  now. 
I’m  mad.”

The  Friendly  Young  Rival  smiled 
and  stepped 
inside.  He  had  seen  his 
old  friend  mad  before  and  knew  that 
something  was  coming  that  would  be 
worth  listening  to.

“ Jiminy, ”   he  said,  as  be  looked  at 
the  stock  spread  along  the  ledge,  “ but 
you  must  have  been  having  a  rush  this 
afternoon.  Where  are  the  boys?”

“ Oh,  I  told 

the  boys  to  get  out. 
They’re  going  to  a  party,  or  something.
I  was  a  young  fellow  once,  and  I  know 
it  takes  a  pile  of  fixing.  Just  as  I  got 
ready  to  close  a  chronic  kicker  came  in 
to  look  at  shoes.  He  made  me  mad.”
“ Didn’t he  buy?”   asked  the  Friendly 

Young  Rival.

“ Yes,  I  sold  him  a  pair  after awhile. 
That  was  easy  enough.  But  that  ain’t 
what  I’m  mad  at.’ ’  He  slapped  the 
covers  on  a  couple  more boxes  and  gave 
them  a  shove  that  sent  them  clear  back 
to  the  wall.
The  Friendly  Young  Rival  kept  quiet 
and  waited  for  his  old  friend  to  get 
started.  Nothing  was  offered  until  the 
last box  was  on  the  shelf.

“ Why  don’t  you  sit  down? 

I  want  to 
talk  to  you,’ ’  said  the Old  Established 
Dealer,  as  he 
swung  a  fitting-stool 
around  and  sat  down  himself.
“ These  chronic  kickers  make  me 
tired.  They’re  like  Maine  lumbermen, 
if  you  don’t  watch  out their spiked shoes 
are  pricking  your  ankles.  What’s  the 
use  of  a  man  being  so  confounded  pes­
simistic,  never  satisfied  with  existing 
conditions,  always  looking  for  trouble 
and  seeing  the  awful  destruction  of  so­
ciety  in  every  innovation  that  appears? 
If  a  man  doesn’t  like  a  thing  why  not 
go  at 
it  with  all  his  might  to  have  it 
changed 
instead  of  making  everybody 
miserable,  like  himself,  with  his  fault­
finding? 
If  there’s  anything  on  earth 
that  will  make  a  man  disgusted  it’s  the 
fellow  who  can’t  see  any  good 
in  any­
thing,  and  always  howls  because  he 
wants  the  other  thing.  When 
it  rains 
he  wants  sunshine;  when  it’s  summer 
he  wants  winter;  when 
it’s  cold  be 
wants  it  warmer;  when  there’s  peace he 
wants  war,  but  when  war  comes,  mind 
you,  he  has  urgent  business  at  home. 
He  always  sees  the  shady  side  of  every­
thing,  and 
instead  of  moving  around 
into  the  sunshine  he  wants  everybody  to 
come  into  the  shadow  with  him.
“ Now,  this  fellow  who  was 

just  in 
here  was  a  mighty  nice-looking  man, 
and  seemed  to  have an  average  supply 
of  brains,  but  he  was  carrying  a  whole 
basket  of  chips  on  his  shoulder.  He 
wanted  to  fight,  but  I’ll  be  durned if I’ll 
scrap  with  a  customer. 
just  said, 
‘ Yes’  to  everything,  and  that’s  what 
roiled  me  so. 
’Twas  as  good  as  a  lie 
to  do  it,  but  I  wanted  to  get  rid  of  him 
before  I  boiled  over.  Trusts  are  bor­
ing  him  now,  and  he  fears  the  devil 
is 
going  to  walk  off  with  the  whole  bunch 
leave  toe  rich 
of  common 
ones 
If  he 
was  the  only  man  who  thought  so  I ’d 
laugh  at  him,  but  he's  a  part  of a  crowd 
that  look  for  trouble  and  always  find  it.
" I ’ve been  on  this  earth  pretty  nearly 
sixty  years,  and more  than  forty  of them 
have  been  spent  rubbing  against  the 
rough  edges  of  business. 
In  my  day 
there  has  never  been  a  scheme,  big  or 
little,  which  didn’t  have,  in  the  minds 
of  some  people,  the  destruction  of  hu­
man  society  at  its  end.  But  somehow 
I’ve  noticed  we’re  all  better  off  than 
when  I  learned  to  peg  boots,  and  if  we 
all  just  keep  pegging  at  our  end  of  the 
bench  we  won’t  miss  much  in  the  long 
run.

in  possession  of  the  earth. 

folks  and 

“ Trusts!  Why,  just tell me when  there 
wasn’t  one.  There  was  Mr.  Adam  and

I 

Mrs.  Eve,  the  biggest  combination  that 
was  ever  made.  They  formed  a  trust 
and  had  a  monopoly  of  the  whole  earth 
—a  bigger  scheme  than  Cecil  Rhodes 
ever 
thought  out.  Then  there  was 
Moses.  He  formed  a trust  and  beat  out 
Pharaoh.  And  Alexander  the  Great  and 
Caesar  and  Napoleon.  Maybe  you  don’t 
it,  but  George  Washington  was 
think 
chief  promoter 
in  a  trust  of  thirteen 
partners  that  beat  old  England  out of 
the  best  thing  on  earth.

“ Thomas  Jefferson  promoted  another 
trust  and  bought  out  Napoleon.  There 
was  Andrew Jackson  and  Abe  Lincoln— 
just  simply  put  on  the  thumbscrews  and 
made  the  other  fellows  come  around.

“ Kicks!  Why,  I  suppose  Pharaoh 
and  bis  crowd  raised  merry  Ned,  but 
they  had  to  come  to  terms,  and  it  turned 
out  a  pretty  good  thing  after  all.

“ It  was  a  pretty  tough  time  that  Lin­
coln  had,  and  be  bad  to  stand  the  kicks 
from  his  own  side  as  well  as  the  other. 
Maybe  we’re  not  all  of  us  mighty  glad 
that  he  won  out.

“ Now  they’re  kicking  McKinley  be­
cause  he’s  forcing  his  big  combination 
of  colonies.

“ Mind  what  I  tell  you,  the  very  fel­
lows  who  are  howling  loudest  now  will 
be  the  ones  to  make  the  most  noise 
when  any  kind  of  proposition  is  made 
to  dispose  of  any  of  those 
islands. 
They’ll  always  kick.

industrial 

“ This  fellow  that  made  me  so hot  was 
kicking  hardest  on 
trusts. 
‘ Curses  of  the  rich,’  be  called  ’em. 
Well,  maybe  so.  But  I’d 
just  like  to 
know  when  the  human  race  ever bought 
sugar  cheaper,  or  kerosene,  or  nails,  or 
rope,  or  wallpaper,  or  any  other  of  the 
numerous  articles  of  common  consump­
tion?  And  as  for  quality,  now  I  say 
that  altogether  the  manufactured  mer­
chandise 
is  better  and  grows  better 
every  day.

“ Forces  the  middleman  and  the small 
manufacturer out,  does  it?  Well,  those 
fellows  who  have  got  spunk  and  back­
bone  don’t  stay  out  very  long.  They 
find  something  to  do  every  time,  and 
they  don’t  worse  themselves,  either. 
You  know  what  Horace  Greeley  said : 
‘ Throw  a  man  overboard,  and 
if  he  is 
worth  saving  he’ll  come  to the  surface.’
“ Ruin  ’em?  Well,  not  if  they’re rea­
sonable.  You  know  the  story  of  the  old 
woman  who  attempted  to  sweep  back 
the  sea  with  her  broom.  She  was  an  old 
fool.  So  is  the  small  man  who  attempts 
to  fight  a  trust.  When  a  man  acknowl­
edges  the  superiority  of  another he  is 
on  the  way  to  a  superiority  of  bis  own. 
I  remember  the  days  when  the  sewing 
machine  was  going  to  send  all  the  tail­
ors  and  tailoresses to the poorhouse ;  and 
the  days  that  the  mowing machine made 
paupers  of  the  farm  laborers ;  and  the 
days  when  the  shoe  factory,  with  its  ma­
chines,  sent  the  cobblers  begging  tor 
bread ;  and  now  I  have come  to  the  day 
when  the  trusts  are  going  to ruin  the  so­
cial  fabric  and  punch  it  full  of  boles.

“ You 

just  bear  this 

in  mind—the 
problems  that  we  have  to  contend  with 
in  our  social  and  economic  existence 
are  only  the  outcome  of  what  we  are 
searching  for.  We  get  them  simply  be­
cause  we  have  been  reaching  for  them. 
The  trusts  are  results  of  business  con­
ditions  and  business  necessities 
to 
which  all mankind has  contributed.  By 
and  by  when  they  are  balanced  and  set­
tled  down  to  thé  workings  where experi­
ence  will  bring  them  you’ll  bear  these 
kickers  wondering  why  such 
things 
didn't  come  before. 
It’s  all  fashion, 
too,  do  you  know?  Just  like  everything 
else,  from  steamships  to  stone  side­
walks.

“ Two  years  ago  you couldn’t sell  any­
thing  but  razor-toes,  and  now  you—
“ Great  Scott,  do  you  know  what  time 
it  is?  Half-past  seven.  You  can’t  get 
anything  to  eat  at  that  boarding  house, 
so  come  along  with  me  and  help  pacify 
my  wife—she’s  been  waiting  an  hour. 
I  want  to  finish  that  game  of  chess  with 
you,  too. ’ ’
The  Old  Established  Dealer  hurried 
on  bis  coat  and  left  the  Friendly  Young 
Rival  to  lock  the  door  while  he  bought 
three  papers  of  a  newsboy,  because  it 
was  all  the  boy  had,  “ and  it’s  time  be 
went  home. ’ ’— Boots  and  Shoes  Weekly.

Until  October 31st:

After October 31st:

Federal Brand, 25,  10 and  5 per cent. 
Woonsocket Brand, 25, 5 and  5 per cent.
Candee Brand, 25 and  5 per cent.

Federal Brand, 25 and  10 per cent. 
Woonsocket Brand, 25 and 5 per cent.
Candee Brand, 25  per cent.

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’99 will be as follows:

Terms  November  ist, net 30 days 

If paid prior to  November  10th 
7 per cent,  per annum and  1  per cent,  extra  discount 
allowed 
Goods shipped and billed after November 
ist are net 30 days. 

Our stock of Tennis Shoes is very complete.

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Manufacturers 
and  Jobbers

Rubber Goods  1899=1900

We are selling Agents for Boston and  Bay State  Rubbers.

Discounts for This Season.  From May  ist to October 31st,  1899.  in­
clusive,  Boston  Rubber Shoe Co. ’s goods, 25 and 5  per cent.  Bay State 
Rubber Co.’s goods, 25,  10 and  5  per cent.  NovemDer ist,  1899, to March 
31st,  1900,  Boston  Rubber Shoe Co.’s goods, 25  per cent.,  and  Bay  State 
goods, 25 and  10 per cent.

Terms  Bills to date November 1st, due December ist. 
1  percent, 
off cash in  10 days.  For prepayment, 7 per cent,  per annum to  Novem­
ber  10th, and above mentioned  1  per cent,  will be allowed.

Freight.  Actual  railroad and steamboat freight will be allowed.
On account of advance in crude gum and lining fabrics  it  has  become 
necessary  to advance the  price  list.  New  lists  will  be  mailed  you  on 
application.  We hope to receive your  valuable  orders  for  the  best  line 
of  Rubber Goods made. 

Yours respectfully, 

RINDÜE,  KALMBACH,  LOGIE & CO, 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. 

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Clerks’  Corner.

How  the  Dry  Goods  Clerk  Lost  His 

Position.
Written for the T radesman.

The  friendly  interest  which  Redney 
Howard  had  shown  m  Alex  Craig's 
welfare  had  not  been  without  results. 
From  the  moment  that  Redney  had 
said,  "A lex, 
if  you  will  only  keep 
straight  everything  will  come  out  all 
right,"  a  new  courage  came  to  Alex 
Craig.  His  manhood  asserted  itself  and 
in  the  solitude  of  bis  own  room  he  re­
solved  that  be  would  do  his best to prove 
himself  worthy  of  the  friendship.

It  was  not  an  easy  thing  to  keep 
straight.  The appetite  for  liquor  was 
strong  within  him  and  was  not  to  be 
downed  without  a  struggle.  More  than 
once  he  found  himself  at  the  bar  of  a 
saloon,  without  the  power  to  resist, 
when  Redney's  words  would  come  back 
to  him,  giving  him  strength  to  come 
away  and 
leave  the  deadly  stuff  un­
touched.

Day  after  day  he  walked  the  city  over 
seeking  employment  and  finding  none. 
Wherever  he  applied  the  same questions 
were asked :  Where  were  you  last  em­
ployed?  Why  did  you  leave?  No  one 
wanted  to  employ  a  man  who  had  been 
discharged. 
The  $10  which  Redney 
bad  given  him  was  dwindling  fast  and 
starvation  would  soon  stare  him 
in  the 
face.

Was 

it  worth  the  fight?  A  craving 
demon  within  him  to  struggle  against 
day  and  night.  No  man  willing  to  give 
him  work  or  even  a  word  of  encourage­
ment  or  sympathy.  Why  not drown  his 
misery  for  a  time  at  least?  Then  the 
words  of  his  friend  would  come  back  to 
him  to  comfort  and  to  save.

After  a  day  spent  in  fruitless  search 
for  work  Craig,  discouraged  and  de­
spondent, was making  his  way homeward 
when  the  voice  that  had  been  his  one 
support  sounded  in  his  ears  with  a 
hearty,  "Hello,  Alex I”   and  his  hand 
was  seized  in  a  friendly grasp.  "Y o u ’re 
just  the  fellow  I’m  looking  fo r,"  con­
tinued  Redney. 
" I ’ve been  up  to  your 
boarding  house  and  they  told  me  you 
bad  gone  out  early  in  the  morning  and 
that  they  couldn't  say  when  you  would 
be  back. 
I  left  a  note  for  you  as  I 
didn’t  have  time  to  wait.  This  is great 
luck  to  run  across  you here,  for I wanted 
to  tell  you  myself.  Now 
listen,  Alex— 
you  are  to  be  my  head  dress  goods 
salesman,  at a  salary  of  twenty-five dol­
lars  a  week.’ ’

lively, 

Redney  Howard  had thought that Alex 
might  hurrah  or  throw  bis  hat  up  in  the 
air  or  do  some  other 
joyous 
thing  at  this  announcement.  He  was 
surprised,  therefore,  but  none  the  less 
gratified,  as  he  looked into  Craig’s  face, 
to  see  his  lips  tremble  and  the  tears 
gather  in  his  eyes. 
For  a  moment 
Craig's  feelings  got  the  better  of  him 
and  bis  tongue  refused  to  speak ;  but 
be  grasped  Redney’s  band,  and  the 
handclasp  told  its  own  story.

"N ever  mind,  old  fellow,”   said Red­
ney,  as  be  placed  bis hand  on  Craig’s 
shoulder. 
" I t   has  been  a  hard  fight 
for  you,  I  know,  but  it  will  come  out all 
right,  just  as  I  said."

The  young  men  walked  together  until 
they  reached  Mr.  Judkins'  house,  where 
they  separated,  Redney  to  dine  with  his 
employer  and  Craig  to  hasten  to  bis 
lodgings  and  pack  his  trunk  for  the 
move  upon  the  morrow.

Craig  was  a  first-class  salesman  and 
department  manager  and  with  his  effi­
cient supervision  of the  dress  goods de­

partment  it  required  little  of  Howard’s 
attention.  He  was  thus  enabled  to  de­
vote  more  of  bis  time  to  the  other  de­
partments  and  with  his aggressive busi­
ness  methods  the  Pittston  store  soon  be­
gan  to  outrival  its  competitors.

Redney  exerted  himself  in  every  pos­
sible  way  to  help  Craig  in  his  fight 
against  the  liquor  habit.  Together  they 
rented  a  suite  of  three  rooms,  which, 
ideas  and  tastes, 
with  their  combined 
they  converted 
into  as  handsome  a 
bachelor  den  as any  masculine  heart 
could  wish.  Redney  believed  that  if 
things  at  home  were  comfortable  and 
cosy  Craig  would  be  less  apt  to  fall 
back  into his  old  ways.  He took  Craig 
to  church  and  he  introduced  him among 
the  best  people  in  the  town.  Alex  re­
sponded  nobly  to these  efforts  in  bis  be­
half  until  at  last  be  reached  the  point 
where  he  could  stand  alone.  Redney 
had  kept  Mr.  Jay  and  Mr.  Judkins  in­
formed  as  to  Craig’s  improved  conduct 
and  upon  their  visits  to  the  branch store 
they  would  take  occasion  to  show  him 
that  they  were  interested  in  his  success.
Three  years  went  by  and  during  that 
time  the  Pittston  store  had  more  than 
doubled  its  business.  It  had  come  to  be 
regarded  as  the  foremost  dry  goods store 
in  the  town.  Just  about  this  time  the 
firm  of  Jay  &  Judkins  decided  upon  a 
change.  They  never  had  had  a  manager 
in  the  main  store,  but  had  shared  that 
labor  between  them.  Both  men  now  be­
gan  to  feel  that  it  would  be  a  good  plan 
to  lighten  their own  labors  by  placing 
the  management of  the  store  upon  other 
shoulders.  This  they  did  by  recalling 
Redney  Howard  and  placing  him  in 
charge  of  the  main  store and  giving  to 
Craig  the  vacant  place  at  Pittston.  By 
interested  were 
this  move  all  parties 
greatly  benefited : 
the  two  members  of 
the  firm  by  having  more  leisure and lib­
in  charge  of  a 
erty,  Redney  by  being 
larger  establishment  at  an 
increased 
salary  and  Craig  by  being  advanced 
from  salesman  to  manager  with  the 
greater  remuneration  that  attended  the 
change.  The  main  store  was  especially 
benefited.  The  bolder  and  more  pro­
gressive 
ideas  of  the  younger  man, 
backed  by  the  years  of  experience  of 
the  two  older  ones,  made  a  combination 
hard  to  beat,  as  many  of  their  competi­
tors  can  testify.

Redney,  who  had  for  some  time  been 
an  occasional  visitor  at  Mr.  Judkins’ 
home,  was  now  to  be  found  there  upon 
more  than  one  evening  of  the  week. 
The  clerks 
in  the  store  declared  that 
the  new  manager  was  engaged  to  Mr. 
Judkins'  daughter,  for  she  wore  a  very 
beautiful  diamond  ring. 
The  clerks 
must have been  right,  for  the  last  time 
I  saw  Redney  he took  me  home  to  din­
ner  with  him,  where  I  had  the  pleasure 
of  meeting  Mrs.  Howard.  Their  boy, 
then  a  bright  little  chap  of  5  years,  told 
me,  as  he  sat  upon  my  knee,  that  his 
name  was  Jay  Judkins  Howard  and  that 
his  Grandpa  Judkins  was  the  dearest 
Grandpa  a  little  boy  ever  had,  because 
be  always  gave  him  candy  and  nickels.
The  firm  name  of  Jay  &  Judkins  had 
undergone  a  curious 
transformation: 
Howard,  Craig  &  Co.  was  the  statement 
upon  the  big  brass  plates  at  the  sides 
of  the  door.  It  doesn’t  read  as  smoothly 
as  the  old  firm  name,  perhaps,  but  it 
tells 
its  own  story,  and  that  Redney 
Howard’s  plan  was  most  surely  a  wise 
one. 

Mac  A llan.

Why  She  Smiles.

"What  a  happy,  good-natured,  jolly 
girl  Maud  is.  She’s  always  smiling  and 
laughing. ”

,fY es;  she  has  pretty  teeth  and  dim­

ples. ’ ’

Names  and  Faces  of  Customers.
A  well-known  merchant  once  re­
marked  that  his  early  success  in  trade 
was  largely  due  to  making  it  a  point  to 
remember  the  names  and  faces  of  his 
customers. 
" I   was  aiways  at  my  front 
door  during  the  busy  season,”   said  he, 
“ and  whenever  a  customer  entered 
whom  I  had  met  before,  I  was  quick  to 
recognize  and  greet  him  by  name. 
It 
always  had  a  good  effect  and  placed 
him  at  his  ease.  No  matter  bow  sen­
sible  we  may  consider  ourselves  to  be, 
we  are  always  a  trifle  chagrined  when 
we  meet  those  who  should  remember  us 
but  do  not,  and  say  to  us,  ‘ Beg  par­
don,  sir,  but  1  have  forgotten  your 
name, ’ or,  ‘ I  can  not  remember  you. ’  I 
have  found  that  it  makes  a  very  agree­
able 
impression  upon  those  who  have 
seen  us  but  once  or  twice  to  be  met  at 
the  door  and  be  called  by  name.  In  that 
manner  you  touch  the  chord  of  mutual 
sympathy  and  show  him  that  he  has  oc­
cupied  a  niche  in  your  thoughts,  and 
my  experience  is  that  he  does  not  read­
ily  forget  it. 
It  may  seem  a  small  mat­
ter,  but  life  and  trade  are  made  up  of 
small  things;  and  it  is  the  little streams 
that  make  the  great  rivers. 
It  pays  to 
know  your  trade.  The  average  person 
remembers  the  merchant  who  has  given 
evidence  of  having  remembered  him .”
The  best  salesmen  understand  the 
value  of  remembering  names  and  faces, 
in  turn  are  pleased  when  the 
and  they 
customers  whose  acquaintance 
they 
have  formed  are  met,  recognized  and 
welcomed  by  their  employers.  The  re­
tailer  should  appreciate  the  truth  of this 
matter,  especially  the  young  man  who 
has  a  permanent  trade  yet  to  establish.

Gives  One  Day’s  Proceeds.

A  Boston  grocer  has  hit  on  a  second 
sensible  way  of  increasing  trade.  He 
donates  the  cash  proceeds  of  one  day’s 
business  to  his  patrons.  Every  buyer 
receives  a  check  with  each  purchase 
every  day,  numbered  and  dated,  with 
amount  of  purchase.  At  the  end  of  the 
month  the  grocer  names  the  date,  and

every  check  bearing  that  date,  no  mat­
ter  for  what  amount,  is  redeemed  in 
cash.

This  is  something  on  the  line  of  a  re­
tail  shoe  dealer  in  St.  Louis,  who  has 
a  bargain  day  at  frequent  intervals  and 
advertises  that  the  money  paid  for shoes 
will  be  refunded  on  every  tenth  pur­
chase  on  that  particular  day. 
It  seems 
to  be a  trade  bringer,  but  the purchasers 
who  fail  to  get 
in  on  the  tenth  pur­
chase are  sometimes  inclined  to  believe 
that  the  thing 
is  not  fairly  conducted 
and 
in  that  way  to  become  prejudiced 
against  the  store.  There  are  objections, 
however,  to  any  such  plan  that  can  be 
devised  and  it  is  probable  that  either 
one  of  the  above  ideas,  consistently  and 
honestly  carried  out,  will  more  than 
make  up  for  the  apparent  loss  by  the 
largely  increased  trade.

Times  are  hard  for a walking delegate 
when  a  working  man  takes  his  wages 
home,  instead  of  treating  an  agitator  in 
a  saloon.

Geo.  H.  Reeder  & Co.,

19 South  Ionia  Street, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

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with  the advertising  matter you 
are  now  using?  Does  it  have 
that  boldness  o f  character,  that 
snap and  sparkle  which  pleases 
the  eye  and  opens  the  purse? 
I f  not, 
Does it produce results? 
it may be that a  redressing o f it 
w ill cross the border line o f fa il­
ure into pastures o f success.

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Something New |

A  show  card,  fo r   example,  to 
hang in your store window,  with 
a bright,  catchy design  in  colors 
— a bright, eye-arresting  scheme 
which  will  leave  an  impression' 
upon those who see it  and  cause 
them to  think  o f you  and your 
goods.  No  matter  what  you 
want in  the  advertising  line, it 
will pay you to have a little talk, 
either by mail or in person, with

Tradesman  Company

Grand Rapids.

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CHEAP  MEN.

Why  They  Are  the Dearest in the End. 
Stroller in Grocery  World.

Cheap  men!  They  are  the  curse  of 
the  world!  They  are  the  greatest  de­
pressors  of  the  labor  market  on  earth. 
They  rattle  around 
in  positions  that 
could  be  and  ought  to  be  tilled  by  com­
petent  men,  while  the  competent  men 
starve.  And  the  most of  the  bad  breaks 
on  the  part  of  merchants  that  vex  and 
exasperate  consumers  can  be  laid  di­
rectly  at  their  door— indirectly  at  the 
door  of 
employ 
them.

the  merchants  who 

About  three  weeks  ago  I  visited  a 
grocer  who  at  the  time  I  got  there  was 
in  a  white  heat.  He  stood  at  the  desk 
beside  a  girl  about  19  years  old,  who 
looked  half-scared  to  death. 
It  seemed 
that  she  was  the  book-keeper and  bad 
made  some  bad  break.  The  grocer  was 
laying  her  out  in  great  shape,  and  the 
girl  looked  ready  to  cry.

“ I  thought  Mrs.  Jones  had  bought 
more  goods  than  that  in  a  month!"  be 
said,  sharply. 
" Here  you’ve  gone  and 
sent  her  a  bill  for $26.25,  when  she  got 
$38.05  worth  of  goods!  There’s  no  ex­
cuse  for  such  carelessness  as  that,  and 
it’s  got  to  be  stopped !”

Just  then  a  lady  entered.
"Oh,  there’s  Mrs.  Jones  now,"  said 
the  grocer,  doing  his  best  to  speak 
"M rs.  Jones,  we’ve  found  a 
affably. 
mistake  in  your  bill  of  about  $12. 
In­
stead  of  $26.25  it  ought  to  have  been 
$38.05. 
The  book-keeper  made  the 
mistake. ”

"In deed,"  said 

lady,  acidlv. 
"And  why  do  you  have  a  book  keeper 
that  makes  such  mistakes?  For  your 
own 
information,  I  will  tell  you  that 
several  times lately  your  bills  have  been 
less  than  I  thought  they  ought  to  be,  but 
it 
isn't  my  business  to  correct  your 
mistakes. ”

Then  she  paid  the  $38.05  bill  and 

the 

went  out.

The  grocer  was  so  mad  at  the  thought 
that  his  book-keeper’s  bad  breaks  had 
been  robbing  him  month  after  month 
that  be  couldn’t  speak.  The  girl  shrunk 
into  herself,  but  her  employer said noth­
ing  more  to  her.

I  know  tbe  man  pretty  well,  so  I  said 

to  him  privately:

"W hy  do  you  have  a  book-keeper like 

thafa?"

"Oh,  because  I  don't  have  to  pay  her 
much  money,”   he  said. 
" I   only  give 
her $5,  where  I’d  have  to  give  a  regular 
book-keeper  $8  or $10."

And  do  you  know  that  that  grocer 
actually  regained  his  amiability  as  he 
discussed  the  big  bargain  he  had 
in 
that  book-keeper—how  much  money  he 
saved  on  her,  and  so  on?  And  that  be­
fore  the  Mrs.  Jones 
incident  was  half 
an  hour old!

He  got  her  because  she  was  cheap, 

but  she  did  expensive  work.

A  clerk  in  a  store  where  I  buy  some 
of  my  groceries, when  I  have  the money, 
wrapped  up  five  pounds  of  sugar  that  I 
went  to  get  tbe  other  day,  and  when  he 
got  through  with  it  it  looked  as  if  he'd 
wrapped  it  with  his  feet. 
I’m  not  han­
kering  to  carry  any  package through  the 
streets,  but  if  anything  makes  me  hot 
it’s  to  carry  a  foot-wrapped  package, 
so  I  kicked.

"C an ’t  you  do that  bag  up  any  better 
than  that?"  I  asked  the  clerk ;  " it  looks 
like  cold  victuals."

" A in ’t  that  good  enough?"  snarled 

the  clerk.

“ Haven’t  I 

just  said 
asked,  with  some  asperity.

it  wasn’t?"  I 

Just  then  the  proprietor  came  around, 
and  with  perfect  equanimity  took  the 
bag  out  of  the  clerk's  bands  and  tied 
it  himself.  The  clerk  went  down  the 
cellar  for  something.

"Jim   is a  good  boy,”   said  the  gro­
cer,  "but  I  don’t  expect  everything  of 
him. 

I  don’t  pay  him  very  much."

And  there  it  is  again.  Here  is  a  gro­
cer  saving  $2  or $3  a week  in  the  wages 
of  his  clerk,  but  wasting  $5  worth  of 
his  own  time  every  week  in  doing  over 
the  clerk’s  work.

Cheap  men !  Cheap  men !
I  knew  a  grocer  once  who actually 
employed  a  half-witted 
fellow  to  do 
chores  around  the store because he would

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

It 

work  for a  few  cakes  or  crackers.  Tbe 
poor  idiot  upset  things and  mixed goods 
up, but he  was  kept  because he cost noth­
ing. 
I’d  be  willing  to  wager  that  he 
cost  the  other  employes  of  the  place,  in­
cluding  the  proprietor,  at  least  $3  worth 
of  bother  every  week,  but  still  I’ve  no 
doubt  he  was  considered  a  bargain.

Merchants  with  cheap  help  are  a good 
deal  like  women  with  the  bargains  they 
pick  up  around  the  department  stores. 
Even  although  you  can  show  a  woman 
that  her  bargain  wasn’t  needed  and  is 
no  manner  of  use,  she’ll  still  cling  to  it 
and  love  it  because  she  got  it  cheap.

is  the  same  way  with  the  grocer. 
Let  him  get  some  chump  in  his  employ 
at  a  somewhat  less  salary  than  he  has 
been  paying,  and  he’ll  think  he  has  a 
bargain,  regardless  of  the  fellow’s qual­
ity,  and  regardless  of  tbe  fact  that  his 
bad  work  is  actually  costing  every  week 
more  than  the  difference  between  his 
salary  and  a  decent  clerk’s  salary.

I  had  a  personal  experience  with 
cheap  help  that  I  don’t want again.  One 
dav  my  wife  said  to  me  that  we  were 
paying  too  much  for  a  servant,  consid­
ering  our  small  family—we  only  have 
five  children—and  added  that  she  had 
decided  to  get  a  girl  for  less.

We  were  then  paying  $3.50  a  week, 
and  my  wife  thought  she  could  get  one 
for  $2.50,  and  she  did,  worse  luck  to 
her!

Tbe $2.50  individual  which  my  wife 
imported 
into  our  previously  happy 
home  ought  to  have  been  put  in  jail and 
kept  there  until  she  died.  She wasn’t  fit 
to  bang  around  and  get  in  people's way.
Her  name  was  Miranda— Mirandy  to 
her  friends—and  she  was  without excep­
tion  tbe  sloppiest  cat  I  ever  saw— one 
of  these  pimply,  untidy,  matted-hair 
women,  when  she  brought  a  dish  of 
stewed  tomatoes,  her  old  worm-eaten 
thumb  would be  tucked  comfortably way 
in  the  very  bottom.  One  night 
down 
my  wife  was  sick,  and 
this  slave 
"cooked"  me  a  chop.  One  side  was 
burned  to  a  crisp  and  tbe  other  side 
ran  blood.

One  day  I  overheard  my  wife  telling 
some  friends  about  the  "perfect  jewel" 
of  a  girl  we  had— "and  we  only  pay 
her $2.50 a  week!’ ’

All  the  same,  the  perfect  jewel  got 
out,  bag  and  baggage,  the  next  week, 
I  pick 
and  by  your  uncle’s  orders,  too. 
the  thumbs  I  allow 
in  my 
stewed 
tomats.
help,  and  I'm  done. 
socks  before  I'll  do  it  again.

That  was  my  experience  with  cheap 
I’ll  go  without 

Give  me  a  clerk  who  is  really  worth 
something,  and  who  realizes 
it  well 
enough  to  put  a  fair  wage  on  bis  serv­
ices.

True  to  Life.

From the New York Sun.

We  heard  a  pretty  good  story  of  a 
woman  who  spent  nearly  all  of  last  Sun­
day  in  reading  the  department  store  ad­
vertisements  and  on  Monday  went  in  to 
see  what  bargains  she  could  get.  She 
hired  a  gril  to  come  in  and  tend  her 
baby,  and  started  off  for  down  town. 
She  spent  all  the 
looking 
'round,  and  when  she  was  quite tired 
out  went  home.  She  found  the  baby 
had  been  about  choked  during  her  ab­
sence  and  that  the  cat  had  eaten  up  her 
valuable  canary.  But she brought  home 
her  bargain,  a  two-cent  bunch  of  en­
velopes!  This  is  a  fair  sample of  what 
tbe  women  frequently  accomplish  when 
they  start  out  bargain  bunting.

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CommercialTravelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President,  Chas.  8.  Stevens,  Ypsllantl; Secre­
tary, J. C. Saunders, Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C. 
Gould. Saginaw,
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’ Association. 
President,  J ambs  E.  Dat,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W. Allen  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 
Grand Counselor, J. J. E vans, Ann Arbor; Grand 
Secretary, G. S. Valmorb , Detroit ;  Grand Treas­
urer, W. S. West, Jackson.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131.

Senior Counselor. D. E. Keyes;  Secretary-Treas­
urer,  h.  F.  Baker.  Regular  meetings—First 
Saturday of each month in Council  Chamber  in 
McMullen block.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mataal Acci­
President,  J.  Boyd  Pantund,  Grand  Hapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Gbo.  F.  Owen,  Grand 
Rapids.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President, F. G. Truscott, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  Wixson, Marquette.

dent Association.

The  School  of Travel  the  Best  Edu­

cator.

3wWhen  we  speak  of  an  educated  man 
to-day  we  refer  usually  to  a  man  who 
has  had  the  benefits  of  a  thorough 
scholastic  training ;  who  has  spent  some 
of  the  best  years  of  bis  life  at  some  one 
or  more  of  the  numerous  seats  of  higher 
learning.  And  this  is  well.  We  are  in 
no  mood  to  decry  this higher  education, 
which  year by  year  is  getting  nearer  to 
the  masses.  But  there  are  schools,  other 
than  the colleges and universities,  whose 
teachings  are  just  as  finished  and  cul­
tured  and  beneficial  as  are  theirs.  Some 
of these  we  must  pass  by  to write briefly 
of  one  which  we  think  has a  place  in 
our columns—the  school  of  travel.

After  all  is  said  and  done  the  book­
worm  of the  college  is  only a bookworm. 
Place  him  in  a  community,  and  be  that 
community  ever  so  ignorant,  they  will 
soon  discover there  is  something  lack­
ing  in  that  man  of  letters.  He  may  dis­
course  learnedly,  both  from  the  forum 
and  with  the  pen,on  the sciences and the 
classics,  but  usually  his  discourse,  as' 
his themes,  lacks  vitality and  life.  Both 
be  and  bis  subject  seem  to  need  the 
dynamic  force  of  a  galvanic  battery 
turned 
into  them.  Give  to  this  book 
scholar  one  year’s  travel  and  then  the 
same  subject  for  his  dissertations  and 
you  will  find  that  the  electricity  has 
been  supplied.  In  other  words,  travel  is 
the  electricity.

If  the  choice  is  given  a  young  man 
to-day  between a four-year college course 
or  four  years  in  the  school  of  travel, 
without  hesitation  we  advise,  select  the 
latter.  The question  of  to-day is,  “ What 
is  the  best  preparation  to  meet  tbe 
forces  that  are active  in  the  world at  the 
present  time?”   We  answer  the  question 
in  a  single  word,  “ R ub."  Rub against 
locality;  rub  against  nationality;  rub 
against  humanity  in  all  its  phases.  You 
can  do  this  only  in  the  school  of  travel. 
The  school  of  classics  is  too  seclusive; 
the  school  of  church  is  too  bigoted ;  the 
school  of  business  is  too  limited.  But 
where  find  such  a  teacher  as  humanity, 
as  you  rub.  against 
it  on  tbe  railway 
trains,  in  the  hotels  and  on the street* of 
a  great  city?  Where  find  such  teache  s 
as  localities,  as  you  rub  against  them  in 
the  rural  districts,  in  the  Western  fron­
tier  camps,  or  on  tbe  boweries  and 
levees  of  a  crowded  metropolis?  Where 
find  such  teachers  of nationalities as  you 
rub  against  them  in  Paris,  Berlin  and 
Rome?

The traveling  salesman,  whose  scope 
is  necessarily  limited  by  his 
of  travel 
business,  shows  the  effects of  the  school

he  is  educated  in.  No  class  of  men  is 
better  trained  to  meet  tbe  requirements 
of  tbe  world  to-day  than  he.  No  class 
of  men  exerts  a  greater  influence  in  tbe 
world  to-day  than  he.  Ask  him  why 
and  he  will  tell  you  that  he  has  been 
educated 
in  the  school  of  travel,  where 
he  has had  to  rub  and  rub hard.  It takes 
rubbing  to  polish  a  diamond. 
The 
school  of  travel  turns  you  out  a  polished 
man  only  in  the  ratio that  you rub  bard 
It 
against 
its  teachers. 
is  like  every 
other  school:  Drones 
in  it  will  derive 
little  value,  but  given  a  man  with  a  de­
sire  for  learning  and  willing  to  work  to 
learn,  and  the  school  of  travel  will  do 
more  for  him 
in  the  way  of  practical 
education  and  polish  than  all  the  other 
schools  combined. 
Such  teachers  as 
we  have  mentioned  will  do  more  to 
bring  out all  that  is  best  in  a  man  than 
all  other  influences  combined.
Gripsack  Brigade.

S.  T.  Bowen  (John  G.  Miller  &  Co.) 
started  out  Monday  on  his  fall  and  win­
ter  campaign.

The  Vinkemulder  Co.  has  placed  two 
in  the  field— H.  T.  Wight  in 

salesmen 
the  city  and  Geo.  Craw  outside.

Some  are  born  to  fail,  no  matter  what 
they  undertake,  and  some  men  are  cer­
tain  to  succeed  no  matter  what obstacles 
they  encounter.—Wm.  E.  Curtis.

F.  D.  Green,  who  formerly  made  the 
city  trade  for tbe  Grand  Rapids  Candy 
Co., has  bought  out  F.  E.  Bangs  &  Co., 
brokers  and  manufacturers'  agents  at 
Toledo,  Ohio.

N.  A.  Goodwin,  Michigan  represent­
ative  for  Eli  Lilly  &  Co.,  of  Indian­
apolis,  recently  brought  down  the  house 
at a  Greenville hotel  by  pouring  vine­
gar  on  his  cakes  under  the  supposition 
that  he  was applying  maple  syrup.

E.  P  Deming,  formerly  on  the  road 
for  the  lumber firm  of A.  R.  Colburn  & 
Co.,  of  Michigan  City,  has  engaged  to 
cover  tbe  yard  trade  of  Indiana  for  the 
Kelley  Shingle  Co.  Mr.  Deming  will 
make bis  headquarters  at  Indianapolis.
F.  E.  Bushman,  manager of  the cigar 
department  of  Phelps,  Brace  &  Co., 
Detroit,  was  in  town  Monday  on  busi­
ness  connected  with  the  Nelson  Abbott 
bankruptcy  matter  at  Middleville.  He 
is  highly  elated  over the  success  of  his 
department,  having  increased  the  sales 
nearly  fifteen  fold  since  he  took  charge, 
and  expects  to  score  a  still  further  in­
crease as  his  salesmen  become  more  fa­
miliar  with  their  lines  and  territory.

Reason  For  Doubt.

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

The  man  out  of  a  job  gaxe  a  few 

minutes  to thought  before  answering.

“ I’m  a  little  uncertain  about  that,’ ’ 

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

Taring  It Out  In  Trad;.

“ Why  don’t  you  discharge  your  pres­
if  somebodt  else 
ent  doctor  and  see 
can’t  help  you?  Here  he’s  bad  you 
in 
bed  for three  weeks  now,  and  you  seem- 
to  be  getting  worse  all  the  tim e.”

“ I  would  make  a  change,  but  this 
fellow  owes  me  $6o,  and  bis  bill  foots 
up  only  $49 to  date. 
I’ve  got  to  work 
it  out  of  him  somehow.”

The physician  is the man  who recom­
mends a change—and then takes all you 
have.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Cheboygan— H.  Chambers,  formerly  a 
leading  merchant  of  this  city,  has taken 
a  clerkship 
in  the  dry  goods  store  of 
Geo.  E.  Frost.  Mr.  Chambers  has 
been  employed  in  the  office  of  the  Sec­
retary  of  State  at  Lansing  for  several 
years.

Whitehall—Ray  Osborne  has  taken  a 
in  George  Moog’s  furniture 

position 
store.

Edmore— N.  B.  Johnston,  who  was 
seven  years  in  a  general  store  at  Gowen 
and  one  year  with  C.  H.  Laflamboy,  at 
McBride’s,  has  severed  his  connection 
with  the  latter  and  taken  a position  with 
Frank  Dreese  here.

Charlotte— Ernest  Krebs  has  resumed 
bis  former  position  in  tbe  drug  store  of 
H.  H.  Gage.

Sherman—G.  A.  Johnson, who  has  had 
charge  of  the  M.  Rose  drug  stock,  has 
secured  a  clerkship  in  the  drug  store  of 
F.  L.  Thompson,  at  Traverse  City,  and 
will  take  up  bis  residence  at  tljat  place.
Sault  Ste.  Marie—Chris.  Raaen,  for­
merly  with  A.  H.  Eddy,  has  taken  a 
position 
in  J.  F.  Moloney’s  grocery 
store.

Saginaw—J.  Major  Lemen  has  re­
signed  his  clerkship  in  Alsdorf’s branch 
drug  store,  at  Lansing,  to  take  a  more 
lucrative  position 
in  the  Tower drug 
store  here.

Clio—Thomas  E.  Tagett,  druggist  in 
John  K.  Frost’s  store,  met  with  a  seri­
ous  accident  last  Thursday.  He  went 
to  step  on  the  elevator, which  he thought 
was  up,  but  which  was at  tbe  bottom. 
He  fell  to  the  bottom  and  was  picked 
up  unconscious  with  a  large  cut 
in  his 
head  and  otherwise  hurt.

Zeeland—J.  Bouwens,  Jr.,  has  taken a 
position  in  the  furniture  store  of  Van 
Hees  &  Sod.

Three  Oaks—Corydon  McKee,  who 
has  been  pursuing  studies  in  pharmacy 
during  the  past  year,  has  resumed  his 
former  position  in  tbe  drug  store  of  D. 
H.  Beeson.

Albion—John  Reidy,  of  Jackson,  has 
taken  a  clerkship  in  the  dry  goods  store 
of  Austin  &  Tucker.

Charlotte—Joy  McCormack  is  now  be­
hind  tbe  counter  in  the  confectionery 
establishment  of  Frank  D.  Marple.

Flint— Harry  Phelps,  of  West  Bay 
City,  has  taken  charge  of  tbe  drug  store 
of  Clement  F.  Teeporten,  pending  the 
recovery  of  the  latter  from  injuries  re­
ceived  by  the  explosion  of  a  soda  foun­
tain.

Sparta—C.  H.  Loomis  has a new clerk 
in  his  hardware  store  in  the  person  of 
Wm.  Empy.

Saginaw—Frank  Stewart  has  taken  a 
position  with  the Saginaw Hardware Co.
Benzonia— J.  E.  Koon  has  been  en­
gaged  to  clerk  in  tbe  general store of the 
Case  Mercantile  Co.

Scottville—Ed.  Morris  has  gone  to 
Custer to  take  the  management  of  Wm. 
Fisher  &  Caplin’s  branch  general  store 
at  that  place.

Grand  Ledge—Fred  Wareham  has  re­
sumed  his  former  position  in  the  gro­
cery  store  of  Hixson  &  Bromley.

Plainwell—A.  Flaitz  has  taken  a  posi­
tion 
in  the  hardware  store  of  F.  M. 
Storms,  succeeding  Frank  DeClark,  who 
resigns  after  seven  years’  service  to  be­
come  district  deputy  of 
the  Modern 
Woodmen.

Transaction Between Guest and Clerk.
The  night  clerk  at  the  Eagle  Hotel 
was  a  party  to  a  deal  the  other  night 
which  made  him  $3  richer and  which he 
is  still  studying  about. 
It  was  getting 
along  toward  the  theatre  hour  when  one 
of  the  guests  of  the  hotel  came  down 
stairs  with  his  valise,  and,  after  paying 
his  bill,  requested  that  the  clerk  keep 
his  valise  until  he  came  back  from  the 
show,  as  he  was  going  out  on  a  late 
train.  He  also  pulled  a  $5  bill  out  of 
bis  pocket  and  asked  the  clerk 
to 
change  it.  The  clerk  looked  in  his  cash 
drawer,  but  found  be  did  not  have  it.

“ W ell,’ ’ said  the  guest,  "just  keep 
the  $5  for  security  and  lend  me  a  dol­
lar. ”

The  clerk  did  so  and  the  guest  de­
parted.  He  came  back  about  11 o'clock, 
and,  being  in  a  hurry  to  catch  the train, 
rushed  up  to  the  desk.  He  threw  down 
four  silver  dollars  and  the  clerk  gave 
him  the  $5. 
It  appeared  all  right. 
When  the  guest  bad  gone  the  clerk 
looked  over  bis  cash  and  found  himself 
$3  ahead.

“ W ell,”   said  the  clerk,  after  he  had 
puzzled  bis  head  for  a  while  to  see  how 
it  had  happened,  “ that  man  needs  a 
book-keeper. 
It  was  lucky  for  me  he 
didn’t  make  a  mistake  the  other  way.”

Valuable  Drug  Clerk.

“ I  am  looking  for  something real nice 
for a  young  man,”   said  the  young  and 
pretty  shopper.

“ Why  don’t  you  look  in  the  mirror?”  
asked  tbe  gallant  drug  clerk,  and  she 
was  so  flustered  that  he  managed  to  sell 
her  four  different  things  that she did  not 
want before  she  knew  what  she  was  do­
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MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
-  Deo. SI, 1899 
A. C. Schuxachsb,  Ann  Arbor 
Geo. Ginn)bum,  Ionia  - 
Dec. SI, 1900
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L. E.  R eynolds, St.  Joseph 
-  Dec. 31,1902
Hen b y Heim, Saginaw  - 
- 
Wib t P. Doty, Detroit 
- 
Dec. 31,1803

President, Geo.  Gundbum,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. G. Schumacheb, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, Henby  Heim, Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.
Star Island—June 36 and 27.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—N ot. 7 and 8.

STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATON.
President—J. J. Soubwlne, Escanaba. 
Secretary, Chas. F. Mann, Detroit. 
Treasurer—J ohn D. Hum, Grand Rapids.

How  to 

Increase  Your  Prescription 

T rade.

It 

isn't  every  pharmacy  that  can  in­
crease  its  prescription  business  percep­
tibly  unless  radical  changes  are  made 
in  its  management.

It  would  be  absurd  to  expect  worn, 
ill-adjusted,  and 
imperfect  machinery 
to  turn  out as  accurate,  as  fine,  as  satis­
factory  work  as  machinery  that  is  kept 
in  perfect  repair,  is  finely  adjusted,  and 
in  charge  of  a  person  who  thoroughly 
understands  how  to  run  it.

You  see  the  point.
Poor  service  and 

inaccurate  work 
won’t  increase  the  prescription  business 
of  any  pharmacy.  Merit  and  honest 
service  will  win  every  time.  Be  sure 
that  the  prescription  work  that  you  do 
is  good  and  right—just  right—then  go 
ahead  and  tell  the  public  about  it  and 
tell  the  physicians  about  it.

Confidence  is  the  basis  of  a  good  pre­
Your  pharmacy 
scription  business. 
must  be  conducted  along  such  lines  as 
inspire  confidence  on  the  part  of 
will 
If  you 
the  public  and  the  physicians. 
haven’t  already  this  confidence 
you 
must  make  such  changes  in  your  busi­
ness  and 
in  the  conduct  of  it  as  will 
frank  about  these 
secure  this. 
changes,  announce  them 
in  the  news­
papers,  and  if  you  are  really  in  earnest 
about  it  your business  will  show 
it,  the 
people  will  find  it  out,  and—you’ll  have 
their  confidence.

Be 

It  is  only  in  the  larger  cities that  the 
physicians  can  send  their  prescriptions 
to  any drug  store  that  they  wish. 
In the 
towns  and  smaller  cities  every  one  has 
his  druggist,  and 
it  matters  not  where 
the  prescriber  directs,  the  patient  goes 
to  his  druggist.  So  in  these  cases  it 
is 
necessary  to  get  the  public  on  your  side 
as  well  as  the  physicians.  The  lesson  to 
be  learned  then  is,  in  whatever  manner 
you  make  an  appeal  to  the  public  for 
business,  emphasize  your  prescription 
superiorities.  Suppose  that  you  start  a 
prescription  advertising  campaign. 
It 
seems to  me  that  this  would  be  the  best 
way  to  get  quick,  certain  and  direct  re­
sults. 
Concentrate  your  advertising 
efforts,  then,  on  getting  more  prescrip­
tion  work.  Use  your  newspaper  space 
for  this  purpose.  Concerning  the  nature 
of  the  announcements,  it  may  be  said 
that  they  must  be  governed  by  the  local 
trade  conditions.  Make  these  announce­
ments  terse and  to  the  point,  convincing 
interesting,  and  have  them  speak 
and 
well  of  your  prescription  work. 
In 
them  state:

Your  prescription  facilities.
The  purity  of  your  drugs.
Your knowledge  of  compounding.
Your  prescription  clerks  and 

their 

Your  prescription  system.
The  impossibility  of  your  making  an 

fitness.

error.

and  the  label  besides  will  be  firmly 
fixed.  Some,  perhaps  many,  operators 
take  the  shorter  way  of  simply  applying 
the  label  and  then  rolling  or  folding  the 
bottle  in  the  paper  in  which  it  is  to  be 
sent  out.  As  the  dispenser  does  not 
usually  open  packages  after  he  does 
them  up,  he  is  not  so  likely  to  find  out 
as  are  his  customers  that  labels  this 
treated  often  go  awry,  and that the wrap­
per  adheres  alongside, 
little 
portions  of  itself  as  disfigurements when 
its  removal  is  attempted.

leaving 

These  may  seem  small  matters  to 
those  who  have  not  thought  much  of 
them;  but 
it  must  be  remembered  that 
the  difference between  being  ill  or  well 
dressed  depends,  with  bottles,  as  with 
men,  on  comparatively  slight conditions 
of  negligence  or  care.

To  Preserve  Drugs  From  Insects.
Professor  Wulling reported to the Min­
nesota  Pharmaceutical  Association  that 
he bad  for  some  time  past  used  metallic 
mercury  as  a  means  to  prevent  the  at­
tack  of  insects  upon  drugs.  A  few drops 
of  mercury  is  introduced  into  the  bottle 
containing  the  drug. 
It  does  not  work 
satisfactorily 
in  all  cases,  but  does  in 
most.  Of  course  the  mercury  must  not 
be  put  into  vessels  made  of  metal.  A 
few  drops  of  chloroform or ether,  or pure 
carbon  disulphide,  poured  into  the  drug 
container  quickly  kills  the 
insects. 
Where  camphor 
is  not  objectionable  it 
will  be  found  useful  in  preserving drugs 
from  the  attacks  of  insects.  The  odor 
of  camphor  may  be  overcome  by  ex­
posing  the  drug  to  the  air  for  a  time,  or 
heating  it  gently  in  an  oven  or  in  any 
suitable  manner.

Simple  Method  for  Making  Camphor 

Water.

At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Philadel­
phia  College  of  Pharmacy,  F.  W.  E. 
Stedem  gave  a  new  process 
for  the 
preparation  of  this  water.  Weigh  sev­
eral  pieces  of  camphor  with  fragments 
of  glass  rod  or selected clean stones,  and 
immerse  them  in  a  suitable  quantity  of 
distilled  water.  The  process  is  that  of 
circulatory displacement,and  after a  few 
days  the  water  will  be  found  to  be  satu­
rated  with  the  camphor.  A  constant 
supply  may  be  kept  by  adding  fresh 
portions  of  distilled  water  as  the  prepa­
ration  is  used.

Does Your Stock 
of Wall Paper 
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 Jobbers.

Heystek & Canfield,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich
M H M M i a M M i a H i a i a H

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Here  is material sufficient to thorough­
ly  popularize your  prescription  depart­
ment.  Make  a  separate  advertisement 
of  every  one  of  these  points.  Make  the 
headings  as  indicative  as  possible of the 
matter  which  follows. 
In  the  descrip­
tive  matter  go  into  details.  Take  care 
to  avoid  too  much  technicality,  but, 
rather,  make them  interesting  and 
in­
structive  of  prescription  matters.

While  you  are  using  your  newspaper 
space  to  its  utmost  capacity,  remind the 
public, 
further,  of  your  prescription 
business  by  getting  out a  booklet  telling 
more  fully  of  its  features.  The  points 
enumerated  above  will  answer  as  a 
groundwork  for  a  booklet  of  this  kind. 
Go  into  the  subject  in  a  more  finished 
and  connected  manner than  is  possible 
in  your  newspaper  advertising.  Clear 
up  every point  which  seems  to  be a  rea­
son  why  your  store  hasn’t  had  a  good 
prescription  business  in  the  past.  Make 
the  booklet  as 
interesting  as  you  can ; 
make  it  finished  and  complete,but don’t 
forget  thqt  you  are  talking  business. 
Make the  reading  matter  forceful,  com­
prehensive,  and  bright.  Mail  the book­
let  in  a  sealed  envelope  to  every  family 
and  to  every  physician 
in  town,  and 
wrap  a  copy  up  with  every  parcel  that 
goes  out  of  your  store.

All  this  may  sound  expensive,  but  it 
isn’t,  because  you’ll  be doing  just  what 
you  set  out to  do— increasing  your  pre­
scription  trade.  You  can't  do this any 
cheaper,  because  you  couldn’t  accom­
plish  your  object  adequately  in  any  less 
I  believe  that  the 
expensive  manner. 
cost 
in  proportion  to  the  re­
sults likely  to be  secured.

is  small 

While you  are  informing  the public of 
the  activity 
in  your  prescription  de­
partment,  you  might  be  arousing  the 
physicians at  the same time.  You'd then 
stir  up  the  cause and  effect  of  the  pre­
scription  business,  and the climax  would 
be  what  you  are  striving  for,  viz.,  to 
turn  the  attention  of  every  one  inter­
ested 
in  having  the  best  prescription 
work  to  your  store.

The  best  way  to  make  an 

impression 
on  the  physicians  is  to  send  them  every 
week  a  circular  letter,  telling  of  the  im­
provements  in  your  prescription  depart­
ment  and  the  reason  why  any  prescrip­
tions  they  may  send  to  your  store  will 
be  properly  compounded.  Keep  this  up 
for  six  or  seven  successive  weeks.  The 
effort  you  are  making  will  cause  the 
physicians  to  give  you  a  call  perhaps. 
That’s  your  opportunity.  Tell  the  phy­
sician  who  calls  frankly  what  you  are 
endeavoring  to  do.  He’ll  listen  to  you, 
anyway.  Follow  up  the  acquaintance 
thus  made,  be  a  diplomat,  and  you’ll 
get  prescription  business.

Any  druggist  who  sets  out  to  try  this 
plan  wants  to  have  his  whole  heart  and 
soul  in  it  and  follow  out,as nearly as the 
local  conditions  will  allow,  the  lines 
laid  down  above.— Harry  M.  Graves  in 
Bulletin  of  Pharmacy.
To Remove Vaseline Spots from Cloth­

ing.

The  Pharmaceutische  Post  says  thij 
may  be accompl  shed  by  the application 
of  a  liquid  prepared  from  one  part  each 
of  aniline  oil  and  powdered  soap,  and 
ten  parts  of  distilled  water.  The  spots 
are  moistened  with  the  liquid,  and  the 
cloth  is  then folded  together.  After five 
to  ten  minutes  the  cloth  is  washed  with 
clear  water. 
If  the  spots  do  not  disap­
pear  after one  treatment,  it  must  be  re­
peated.

Never  judge by  appearances;  the girl 
with  a  sailor hat  probably  never saw  a 
row-boat.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium—Continues  to  decline,  both  in 
the  United  States  and  foreign  markets, 
on  account  of  favorable  crop  prospects.
Morphine— Is as  yet unchanged,  but  a 
reduction  by  manufacturers  is  looked 
for  daily.

Codeine—Is  firm  at  the  advance noted 

last  week.

Quinine— Is  fairly  steady  and  manu­
facturers  have  not  yet  reduced  prices, 
although  bark  is  cheaper.

Cinchonidia—Is  firm  at  the  advanced 

price.

Ergot—Is  excited  abroad  and  has 
been  advanced  by  holders  in  this  coun­
try.  There  is  a  strong  upward tendency.
Quicksilver— Has  been  advanced  ic 

per  pound.

Napthaline  or  Moth  Balls—Manufac­
turers  are  oversold  and  prices  have been 
advanced  and  the  article  is  very  firm.

Essential  Oils— Anise  has  declined. 
Cloves are  firm,  on  account  of  the  ad­
in  spice,  and  higher  prices  are 
vance 
looked  for.  Peppermint 
is  firm,  but 
unchanged.  Wintergreen 
is  scarce  and 
firm.

Roots—Goldenseal  is  very  scarce  and 
high.  The  best  information  we  can  get 
is  that  this  article  will  rule  high  during 
the  coming  year.  Powdered  hellebore 
has  advanced  and  very  little  is  offering 
at  the  advanced  price.

Cloves—Are  very  firm  and advancing.
Linseed  O il—The  market  seems  de­
moralized,  on  account  of  competition  of 
outside  mills,  and  the  price  has  de­
clined.

Extracts—Jobbers  have  frequent  or­
ders  for  flavoring  extracts  of  pineap-. 
pie,  strawberry  and  raspberry,  but,  as 
these  are  manufactured  from  synthetic 
ether,  they  are  not  salable  under  our 
pure  food  laws.

Putting  the  Label  in  Place.

In  much  of  the  labeling  the  pharma­
cist  is  called  on  to  do,  there  is  no  fixed 
relationship  between  the  size  of  the  la­
bel  and  the  surface  to  which  it  is  to  be 
applied—that 
is  to  say,  he  may  be 
called  on  to  use  a  label  of  a  given  size 
on  three  or  four  different  sizes  of  bot­
tles,  of  as  many  different  shapes. 
In 
this  a  certain  amount  of  skill  is  re­
quired ;  either  from 
innate  perception 
or  continued  usage,  the  eye  is  best  sat­
isfied  when  the  label  which  is distinctly 
smaller  than  the  surface  appears  in  cer­
tain  definite  positions  on  that  surface. 
Given  a  round  bottle  six  inches  tall  and 
a 
inches  deep,  one  would 
scarcely  think  it  correct  to  place the 
label  either at  the  extreme  top  or  bot­
tom,  nor  yet  exactly 
in  the  middle  of 
the  space;  a  certain  point  somewhat 
above  the  middle  is  generally  selected 
as  the  proper  one.  Position  then  is  one 
artistic  point.

label  two 

In  placing  the 

label  in  the  position 
determined,  rectangularity  (if  we  may 
use  an  uncommon  yet  here  suitable 
word)  must  be  thought  of.  A  label  that 
is  not  on  “ straight”   must  be  an  “ eye­
sore”   to  every  observer  possessed  of 
normal  eyes.

it 

The 

labei  may  be  well  and  squarely 
in 
located  and  yet  the  effect  be  marred 
the  pasting. 
If  the  ¿label,  after being 
coated  with  paste  and  laid  on  the  sur­
face  to  which 
is  to  be  affixed,  be 
firmly  pressed  down,  some  of  the  ad­
hesive  liquid  is  apt  to be  squeezed  out 
at  the  edges.  When  this  pressing  is 
properly  done,  a  piece  of  clean  paper 
is  interposed  between  the  fingers  and 
the  label  to  avoid  soiling  the  latter, 
and  if  larger than  the  label,  as  it  should 
be,  it will take  up  the  superfluous  paste,

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Slnapls, opt............
Morphia,  S.N.T.Q.A
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
2 10® 2 35 
Moschus Canton....
Voes.....................
@  40
Myristica, No. 1......
65®  80
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s
@  10 
Nux Vomica.. .po.20
Soda Boras..............
Os  Sepia.................
15®  18
Soda Boras, po........
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
Soda et Potass Tart.
@ 1 00
Soda,  Carb..............
dTco.................
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Soda, Bi-Carb.........
@ 2 00
doz........................
Soda, Ash.
Picis Llq., quarts__
@  1  00 Sodaj Sulphas.........
Picis Llq., pints......
@ 85 Spts. Cologne...........
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Piper Nigra... j».  22
@ 18 Spt.  Myrcia Dorn... 
Piper Alba__po.  35
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Plumbi  Acet...........
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Pul vis Ipecac et Opil 
Py rethrum, boxesH.
1  SO® 1  35 
Strychnia, Crystal... 
AP. D. Co., doz... 
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Sulphur,  Subì.........
25®  30
Pyrethram,  pv........
234®  4
8® 10 Sulphur,  Roll........
Quassia.................
2!4@3)4
43® 43 Tamarinds..............
8® 10
Quinia, S. P. A W..
38® 48 Terebenth Venice...
28® 30
Quinla, S. German..
«3® 48 Theobronne............
46® 48
Quinta, N.Y............
12® 14 Vanilla.................... 9 00@16 00
Rubla Tinctorum...
18® 20 Zlnci  Sulph............
7® 8
SaccharamLactis pv
Salacin
3 00® 3  10 
Sanguis Draconls..
40®  50
12®  14
Sapo,  W.................
Sapo, M...................
10®  
12
Sapo, G...................
20  @
Sledlltz  Mixture...

Whale, winter.........   70
Lard,  extra.............  55
Lard, No. 1.............. 
40

BBL.  SAL.

19

50
51
70
55

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
47 
Linseed,  boiled......   48 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  48 
Paints  BBL. 

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Ochre, yellow Mars.  134  2  ®4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  1342  ®3 
Putty, commercial..  2M 2)4@3 
Putty, strictly pure.  2)4  234®3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
Vermilion, English. 
70®  75
Green, Paris...........  13)4®  17)4
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13®  16
Lead, Red...............   534®  6m
Lead, white............  5M®  6m
®  70
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’... 
®  10
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 Fnrn__1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1 56®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer, No.lTurp  70®  75

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3opalba...................  1  15® 1  25
lubeba....................  90® 1 00
Sxechthltos...........  1 00®  1 10
Brlgeron.................  1 00®  1 10
lanltheria..............  1 50®  1 60
Geranium,  ounce... 
® 75
losslppll, Sem. gal..  50®  60
Sedeoma.................  1 20®  1 30
runlpera..................  1  50®  2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90®  2 00
Limonis...................  1  2:©  1 33
Mentha Piper.........  1  60®  2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1 50®  1 60
Morrhua,  gal.........   1 00®  1 15
Mvrcla,....................  4 00®  4 50
Wive.......................  
75® 3 00
10®  12
Picis  Liquida.........  
®  35
Picis Liquida, gal... 
EUclna.................... 
92®  1 00
Etosmarini...............  
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Rosa,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succlni...................  40©  45
Sabina................... 
90®  1 00
Santal......................  2 50®  7 00
Sassafras.................  55®  60
®  65
Slnapls, ess., ounce. 
riglll.......................  l 70®  1 80
rhym e.................... 
40®  50
rhyme,  opt............. 
®  1  60
rheobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bl-Carb.................  . 
15®  18
Bichromate............  
13®  15
Bromide..................   52®  57
Oarb.......................  
12®  15
Chlorate..po. 17®19c 
16® 
18
Cyanide................... 
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Iodide......................  2 40® 2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30 
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Potassa, Bitart,  com 
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Potass Nltras, opt... 
10® 
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Potass Nltras........... 
io@ 
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Prusslate.................  20®  25
15®  18
Sulphate po  ........... 

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A.conitvm...............  
Altha.....................   22®  26
&nchusa................. 
io@  12
i i p p o . ................. 
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Calamus.................  20®  40
Sentlana........po.  15 
12®  15
ie@  18 
Slychrrhiza.. .py. 15 
®  85
Hydrastis Canaden. 
®  90
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
18®  20
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po............... 4 50® 4  75
Iris plox—  po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   25®  30
Maranta,  Ms...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po....  22®  25
B hel.......................  75®  1 00
Rhel, cut.................  
® 125
Rlwl.PV..................   75®  1 35
Spigelia..................  35®  38
Sanguinaria... po. 15  @  18
Serpentaria............   30®  35
Senega.................... 
40®  45
Similax,officinalis H  @ 4 0
Smilax, M...............   @  25
ScilltB............ . po.35  10®  12
Symplocarpns, Foeti- 
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dns,  po................. 
Valeriana,Bng.po.30  @  25 
Valeriana,  German. 
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Zingiber a ...............  
ia@  16
Zingiber j ...............   25®  27
Semen
Anisum......... po.  15  @ 1 2
Apium  (graveleons) 
13®  15
Bird, Is.................... 
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Cardamon...............   j 
Corlandram............ 
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Cannabis  Sativa__   4)4®  5
Cydonium...............   75®  1  00
Chenopodlnm  ........ 
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Diptertx  Odorate...  1 40®  1  50
Fosnlcnlnm............   @ 
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Foenugreek, po........ 
7® 
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Linl.........................  3^4®  4)4
4®  4)4
Linl,  grd....bbl. 3m 
36®  40
Lobelia................... 
3®  4
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
Rapa.......................   4)4® 
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SlnapisAlbn........... 
9® 
10
Slnapls Nigra.........  
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Frumenti,  D. F. R ..  2 00® 2 25
Fram enti........  ....  1  25®  1 50
Juniperis Co. O. T..  1  66® 2 00
Junlperis Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharam N. E__  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vlnl Galli........  1  75® 6 50
Vinl Oporto............   1 
Vini Alba...............   1 

Sponges
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............   2 
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............   2 
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......  @  1 25
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__  @  1  00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................  @  1 00
Hard, for slate nse..  @  75
Tellow  B e ef,  for 
slate  use..............  @  1  40

Syrups

Acacia....................  @  50
Auranti Cortes........  @  50
Zingiber....... .  ......   @  50
Ipecac. 
@  60
Ferrl Iod.................  @  50
RheiArom..............  @  50
50®  60
Smilax Officinalis... 
Senega....................   @  50
80111» ............ 
.. 
O  60

.......... 

fllscellaneous 

ScilltB Co.................  @  50
Tolntan...................  @  50
Prunns virg............   @  50
Tinctures 
60
Aconitum NapellisR 
Aconitum N apellis F 
50
Aloes.......................  
60
Aloes and Myrrh__  
60
50
Arnica.................... 
Assafoetlda............  
50
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
Auranti  Cortex__ _ 
50
60
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma................. 
50
Cantharldes........... 
75
Capsicum.............. 
50
Cardamon............... 
75
Cardamon  Co.........  
75
1  00
Castor...................... 
Catechu................... 
50
Cinchona................. 
50
60
Cinchona Co........... 
Columba ..  ............. 
50
Cubeba....................  
50
Cassia  Acutlfol...... 
50
50
Cassia Acutlfol Co.. 
Digitalis........... 
50
50
Ergot....................... 
35
Ferrl Chloridum 
Gentian................... 
50
Gentian Co.............. 
60
Gulaca....................  
go
Guiacaammon........ 
60
Hyoscyamus........... 
50
Iodine...................... 
75
75
Iodine, colorless.... 
50
Kino......................... 
Lobelia...................  
50
Myrrh......................  
50
Nux Vomica........... 
50
Opli......................... 
75
Opil, camphorated. 
50
Opli,  deodorized.  .. 
I  50
50
Quassia................... 
Rhatany.................. 
go
go
Rhel......................... 
Sanguinaria........... 
go
Serpentaria............  
50
60
Stramonium........... 
Tolntan...................  
60
Valerian................. 
go
Veratrnm Veride... 
50
Zingiber..................  
20
./Ether, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30®  35
./Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen...................  2H@ 
3
4
3® 
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
Annatto...................  40®  50
Antimoni,  po.........  
4® 
5
Antimon! et PotassT  40®  50
Antipyrin.............. 
@  35
Antlfebrln..............  @  20
Argentl Nltras, oz ..  @ 5 0
Arsenicum.......... 
io@  12
38®  40
Balm GUead  Bud 
Bismuth  S. N......... 1  40®  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  Is..  @ 
9
Calcium Chlor., )4s.  @ 1 0
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms.  @  12
Cantharldes, Rus.po  @  75
Capsicl  Fructus, a f. 
®  15
Capsid Fructus, po.  @  15
Capsicl FructusB,po  @  15 
Caryophyllus.-po.  15  12®  14
Carmine, No. 40......   @ 3 00
Cera Alba...............  
50®  55
Cera Flava.............. 
40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus........  @  33
Centrarla................   @ 
10
Cetaceum................   @  45
Chloroform.............  
50®  53
®  1  10 
Chloroform, squibbs 
Chloral Hyd Cist....  1  65®  1  90 
Chondros................ 
20®  25
Cinchonldlne.P.AW  28®  38 
Cinchonidine, Germ  23®  38
Cocaine..................   3 80®  4 00
Corks, list, dls.pr.et
Creosotum.............
Crete.............bbl. 75
Crete, prep.
Crete, preclp.
Crete, Rubra. 
_
Crocus.................... 
18®
Cudbear.................  @
CupriSulph............   6)4®
Dextrine.................. 
10®
Ether Sulph............  
75®
Emery, all  numbers  @
Emery, po................  @
Ergota............ po. 40 
30®
Flake  White........... 
12®
Galla........................  @
9
Gambier.................. 
8® 
®  60
Gelatin, Cooper......  
Gelatin, French......  35®  60
75 A  10
Glassware, flint, box 
70
 
Glne,  brown........... 
9®  12
Glne, white............  
13®  25
14®  20
Glycerlna...............  
Grana  Paradisi  __ 
©  25
Humnlus................. 
25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  90
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
®  80 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.  @  1  00 
Hydraag Ammoniati  @  1  15 
HydraagU nguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........   @  75
IchthyoboUa, Am...  66®  75
Indigo...................... 
75®  1 00
Iodine, Resubl........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................  @ 420
Lupulin...................  @ 2 25
Lycopodium...........  45®  50
Macls.................... 
65®  75
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarglod.............   @  25
LlquorPotassArslnlt  10®  121
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
3
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  1)4
Mannla, S, F ........... 
50®  60
Menthol..............  
  O 8 261

Less  than  box 

25® 2 00
25® 2 00

50® 2 75
00® 2 25

25®  1 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

Flat Wall  bound  in  rubber, 

brass and  leather 

Oval  Paint  Round  Paint 

Oval  Chisel  Varnish

Oval  Chisel  Sash

Round Sash 

White Wash  Heads 

Kalsomine

Flat Varnish 
Square and  Chisel

All  qualities  at  satisfactory  prices.
Camel  Hair Varnish 

Flowing

Mottlers 

Color
Badger  Flowing,

single or double 

C.  H.  Pencils, etc.

HAZELTINE  &• PERKINS 

DRUG  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

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.

BLUING.

Parlna.

FARINACEOUS OOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages..............1  50
Bulk, per 100 lbB..............3  50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Qrtta.

Perrigo’s.

Van.  Lem. 
dos.
dos. 
XXX, 2 oz. obert......1 25 
75
XXX,4 oz. taper....2  25 
1  25
XX, 2 oz. obert...... 1 00
H a 2,2oz. obert  ....  75 
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz... 
Pare Brand.
2 oz. Taper Panel. .7 5  
2oz. Oval..............  75 
3 oz. Taper Panel.. 1  35 
4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 
FLY PAPBR.

Lem.  Van.
1 20
120
2 00
2 25

2 25
1 75
2 25

Tanglefoot, per box.......
Tanglefoot, per case......
Holders, per box of 50.... 
Perrigo’s Lightning, gro.
Petrolatum, per doz........

..  36 
..3 20 
..  75 
..2 50 
..  75

HERBS.

8age................................
........................
Hops 
INDIOO.

Madras, 5  lb  boxes........
8.  F.. 2. 3 and 5 lb boxes.
OUNPOWDBR.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
Kegs 
.................................4 00
Half Kegs............................2 25
Quarter Kegs.......................1  25
11b. cahs..............................  30
% lb. cans............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Bogle Duck—Dupont’s.

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

JELLY.

15 lb  palls............................   85
SG lb  pails............................  65

LYB.

Condensed, 2 dos  ..............1  30
Condensed, 4 dos................3 35

LKORKB.

Pure...................................   80
Calabria...........................   35
Molly..................................  M
Boot...................................   10

MINCE MBAT.

Ideal, 3 dos. In case. '.......... 2 35

flATCHBS.

Diamond Match Ca’s brands.
Ho. 9 sulphur...................... 1 06
Anchor Parlor.....................1 70
No. 3  Home.......................110
Export  Parlor....................4 00

riOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black................................  U
F a ir.................................   M
Good................................ 
30
Fancy  .............................. 
84
Open Kettle..................... 26©36
Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, Ho.  216......................1  70
Clay, T. D. full count........  66
Cob, Ho. 8.........................  
85

POTASH.

48 cans In oaae.

Babbitt’s..............  ........... 4  0C
Fenna Salt  Co.’s ................8  01

Barrels, 1,200 count...........4  TO
Half bbls, 600 count...........  2 50

Barrels, 2,400 count.........   0 00
Half bbls  1,200 count........3  00

PICKLES.
rtadlnm.

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   6)4
Carolina  Ho. 1...................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...........1..................  8%

Imported.

Japan,  Ho. 1............... 6)4®  6
Japan,  No. 2............... i%®  5
Java, fancy  head........5  ©  5%
Java, H a 1...................5  ©
Table............................   ©

SALBRATU5.

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church's Ann and Hammer.8  15
Deland’s .................................. 8 00
Dwight’s Cow............................8 15
Emblem  ..............................3 50
L. P............................................8 00
Sodio.........................................3 15
Wyandotte, 100 J£s...................3 00

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls..............   75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  90
Lump, bbls.......................   75
Lump, 1461b keg»..............  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, 2801b. bmk.2 25 
Butter, barrels,20141bbags.2 50
Bntter, sacks, 28 lbs..............   25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs..............  55

Common Oradm.

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

Worcester.
50  4 
lb. cartons..................8 25
115  2)41b. sacks........................4 00
60  5 lb. sacks.......................... 8 75
2214 lb. sacks...........................8 50
8010 lb. sacks...........................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks..................   82
56 lb. linen sacks...................  60
Bulk In barrels.........................2 50

Warsaw.

Ashten.

Higgins.

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

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 

56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 

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

  21

Solar Rock.

Common.

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

SAUERKRAUT.

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

SCALBS.

Per doz.
Pelouze Household...........12 f0

Weighs 24 lbs by ounces.

5BBDS.

Q
A I’ll BA 
Canary, Smyrna................  3%
Caraway.............................  8
Cardamon,  M alabar......   60
Celery.................................  11
Hemp,  Russian................  4%
Mixed  Bird......................  4M
Mustard,  white............ 
5
Poppy  ................................  10
Rape................................. 
4%
Cuttle Bone........................  30

SNUFF.

SOAP.

¡Scotch, in bladders..............   87
Maccaboy, In jars.................   86
French Rappee, In Jars......   48
JA X O N
Single box.............................2 85
5 box lots, delivered........... 2 c0
10 box lots, delivered........... 2 75
JUS. 3.  KIRK 8 CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.....................................2 75
Cabinet................................. 2 20
Savon.................................... 2 50
White Russian..................... 2 35
White Cloud,  lanndry.........6 25
White Cloud, toilet............. 3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz___2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz___3 00
Bine India, 100 M lb............. 8 00
Kirkollne..............................8 50
Bos....................................... 2 60

Scon ring.

Sapollo, kitchen, 3 d o s....... 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 8 d os............2 40

SODA.

Boxes  .................................5M
Kegs, English......................4jg

dos.
Aurora....................
...55
Castor Oil................ ..60
Diamond................. ..50
Fraser’s ......................75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
nica, tin boxes........ ..76
Paragon................... ..56

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

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.
»  1b cans doz........
& lb ¿ans dos........
lb can  dos........
Acs«.
K lb oans 8 dos. —
% lb oans S dos.__
lb cans 1 dos......
Bulk.........................
Arctic.
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers.

45
85 
.  1  50
.. 
45
76
.. 
..  I 0C
10
85

Horn.

Peerless.

Bl Parity.

Oar Leader.

Queen Flake.

Jersey Cream.

BATH  BRICK.

6 oz. cans, 4 doz case......... 
80
9 oz. cans, 4 doz case.........   1  20
lb. cans, 2 doz case...... 2  00
1 
2)4 lb. cans, 1 doz case...... 4  75
5 
lb. cans, 1 doz case...... 9  00
>4 lb cans per dos............  
75
% lb cans per dos............   1  2G
lb cans per dos............   2  00
1 
85
H lb cans 4 dos case........ 
Ü lb cans 4 dos case........ 
55
lb cans 2 dos case  ......  
90
JA X O N
'  W lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
45
% lb cans, 4 doz case........  85
lb cans, 2 dos case........1 60
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 os. cans, per dos.............  1  25
6 os. cans, per dos............. 
85
ii lb cans..........................  45
lilbeana..........................   75
lb cans..........................  1  50
lib.cans  ......................... 
85
8 os., 6 doz. case................ 2 70
6 os., 4 doz. case 
...........8 20
9 os., 4 dos. case.................4 80
1 lb., 2 dos. case.................4 00
6 lb., 1 dos. case.................9 00
American........  ..................   70
English......... 
  80
 
CANNED  OOODS.
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, Bed  Kidney...  75®  85
Succotash.............   95®1 
20
Peas.......................  50® 
85
Peas, French...... .......2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom............  15® 
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....l  70
Strawberries...............1  10
Blaokberries...........  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
Mackerei,l lb Mustard  10
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused. 1 75 
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato.l 75
Shrimps...................... 2 00
Sardines, 34s domestic  3)4® 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5%®  7)4 
Sardines,  French.......8  ® 22

22

C O P I E D
&Luitf(x

BROOriS.

Small, 3 doz.......................  
40
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
.4o. l Carpet.......................  2 31
.40.2 Carpet.........................2  15
So. 3 Carpet.......................  I  85
No. 4 Carpet.......................  l  45
Parlor Gem......................... 2 50
Common Whisk.................   90
Fancy Whisk.. 
96
Warehouse................................8 70
......................................7
8s 
168 
.......................................8
Paraffine................................ 8
Wlcking...............................20
Columbia, 
pints  ...........  2 00
Columbia, H pints  .............1  25

CANDLES.

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

CATSUP.

® 

CHEESE
Acme.........................   ® 
Amboy..................... 
Elsie............................  ® 
Emblem......................  ® 
Gem............................  
©  
Gold Medal.................  ©
Ideal...........................  © 
Jersey  ........................  © 
Riverside....................   © 
Brick..........................   @ 
Edam..........................   ® 
Leiden........................  ® 
Llmburger.................   © 
Pineapple................ 50  ®  75
Sap  Sago.................   ©  17
Bulk 
5
Bed 
7

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

Chicary.

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Dakar A Ca.’a.
German Sweet................. 
Premium.......... 
Breakfast Cow* 

..28
.  ------35
.  46

COFFEE.
Roasted.

Rle.

Java.

Mocha.

Santas.

ftm tid i

Maracaibo.

F air.......................................... 9
Good........................................10
Prim e......................................12
Golden  ................................... 13
Peaberry  ................................14
F a ir ........................................14
Good  ......................................15
Prim e......................................16
Peaberry  ................................18
Prim e......... ..........................  15
Milled......................................17
Interior...................................26
Private  Growth...................... 80
Mandehllng............................ 85
Im itation............................... 22
Arabian  ................................. 28
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__29
Weils’ Mocha and Java.....24
Wells’ Perfection  Java...... 24
Saneatbo............................. 21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo. 
...18)4
Ideal  Blend.........................14
Leader Blend.......................12)4
Below  are  given  Hew  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
Hew  Vork  to  yonr  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market in which he purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also He  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbnckle.......................   10 50
Jersey.............................   10 50
IcLaaghlla’s  TtXXX.
McLaughlin’s XXX X  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mall  all orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City ft gross......  
15
1  16
Felix K gross.................  
Hummel’s foil % gross... 
86
Hummel's tin %  gross... 
l  48 
CLQTHBS PINS.
5 grow boxes...........................40

Package.

Extract.

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos..........1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dos......... 1 20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  dos..........1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  dos..........I 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos..........1 80
Jute, 60 ft.  per  dos.............  80
Jnte. 72 ft.  per d o t...........  96

COCOA.

James Epps & Co.’s.

Boxes, 7 lbs.......................... 40
Cases, 16 boxes......................38
COCOA SHBLLS.
2*
201b  bags.......................  
Less quantity.................  
3
Pound  packages............. 
4
CRB An 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............. 
2 35
Dime 
................. 8 35

...... 

 

COUPON  BOOKS.
Tradesman Orade.

Credit Checks.

Saperior Grade.

Universal Orade.

Economic Orade.

Cenpon Pasg Books,

denomination from 110 down.

50books, any denom....  150
12
100 books, any denom__ 2 50
12
500 books, any denom....11 50
12
1.000 books, any denom....20 00
11)4
12%
50 books, any denom....  150 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
11%
500 books  any denom__ 11 50
12
1.000 books, any denom....20 00
12
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
50 books, any denom....  150
100 books, any denom__ 2 50
500 books, any denom— 11 50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00
GOO, 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 madeto represent any 
20 books  ........................  1 00
50 books.................................2 00
100 books................................8 00
250 books.................................6 25
500 books................................10 00
1000 books................................17 50
DRIED FRUITS—DOMB8TIC 
Sun dried.......................   ©754
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©9)4 
©15
Apricots..—
Blackberries..
WÊ__  
Nectarines.
O  ,
Peaches.......................10  ©11
Pears
7*
Pitted Cherries
Prannelles..................
Raspberries...............
100-120 26 lb boxes........  © 4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   © 5
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........   © 6)4
70-80 25 lb boxes.........   ©6)4
60-70 25 lb boxes.........   © 6R
50-60 85 lb boxes.........   ©8
40-5025 lb boxes.........   ©10
80-40 25 lb boxes.........   ©
54 cent less In 50 lb cases

California Pranas.

California Pratts. 

Apples.

RdMas.

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... 

1 50
1 65
2 00
5
6 7
...  8 
...  9K

PORBION. 

Citron.

Peel.

Currants.

.. .©11
Corsican....................... ..©12
Patras bbls................... .  •© 5)4
Cleaned, b u lk ............. ...®  6
Cleaned, packages...... ...@ 6)4
Citron American 10 lb bx ©IS 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©10)4 
Orange American 10 lb bx ©10H 
Ondnra 28 lb boxes......  ©
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2Crown  ......  ©
Sultana 8 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 5 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........   ©
Sultana package......... J  ©

Raisins.

Peas.

Beans.

Hominy.

Pearl Barley. 

24 2 lb. packages...............1 80 ■
100 lb. kegs....................... 2 70
200 lb. bareels................... 5g10
Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 501b.  drams......... 1 00
Dried Lima  .  .................  
5)4
Medium Hand Picked 1  25® 1  70 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  00
Imported. 25 lb. box........2 50
1 
1
Common...........................  2-00
Chester............................   2 25
Empire 
....  .................   2 75
Green, Wisconsin, bn...... 1 00
Green, Scotch, bn.  ........1  10
Split, du.......................... 2  50
Boiled Avena,  bbl........ 4 00
Monarch,  bbl...................3 75
Monarch,  %  bbl..............2 00
Monarch, 9b lb sacks........1 80
Quaker, cases.................. 8 20
Huron, cases....................2 00
German............................  4
East  India.......................  
Flake.............................. 
p e a r l 
Pearl, 24 1 lb. pkges........
Cracked, bulk...................  3)4
24 2 lb packages............... 2  50

Rolled  Oats.

Tapioca.

Wheat.

3)4
5

Sage.

^  *«« . . . .

SALT FISH.

Cad.

Herring.

flackeral.

Georges cured............  © 5
Georges genuine........  © 5)4
Georges selected........  © 6
Strips or bricks......... 6  © 9
Holland white hoops, bbL  9 25 
Holland white hoop Hbbl  5 25 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mens 
80
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  3 10
Bound  40 lbs...................  1  40
Scaled...............................  
14
Mess 100 lbs......................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  65
Mess  8 lbs......................  1 35
Ho. 1 100 lbs...............  
  13 25
Ho. 1  40 lbs......................  5 60
Ho. 1  10 lbs......................  1  48
Ho. 1  8 lbs.....................   120
Ho. 2 100 lbs......................  11  50
Ho. 2  40 lbs......................  4  90
Ho. 2  10 lbs......................  1 30
Ho. 2  8 lbs.....................   107
No. 1100 lbs......................  5 25
  2 40
No. 1  40 lbs................. 
No. 1  10 lbs..................... 
68
Ho. 1 
 
 
57
No. 1  Ho. 2  Pam
100 lbs...........7 CO  6 50  2 75
40 lbs 
........  3  10  2 90  1  40
85 
10 lbs........... 
43
8 lbs...........  71 
87
FLAVORINO  EXTRACTS.

WhltHUh.

Treat.

81b« 

80 
66 

Jennings’.

D.C. Vanilla 
20s.......1 20 
8 os.......I 50 
4 os.......2 00 
60s.......8 00 
Ho.  8  4 00 
N0.IO.  .6 00 
Ho.  2T.125 
Ho.  3 T.2 00 
No  4TJS40 

D. C. Lemon
2os......  75
3 os........1  00
4 os.........1 40
60s........ 2 00
No.  8...2 40
N0.IO...4 OO
Ho.  2T.  80
No.  8T.126
No.  4T.1S0

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21

SPICES.
Whole SUM.

Allspice  ............................. i4
Cassia, China In mats..........12
Cassia, Batavia in bond. ...25
Cassia, Saigon In rolls........ 22
Cloves, Amboyna................ m
Cloves, Zanslbar..................12
Mace,  Batavia................... 55
Nutmegs, fancy..................go
Nutmegs, No.  1..................50
Nutmegs, No.  2..................45
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .13 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .16 
Pepper,  shot...................... 15

Pare Ground la Balk.

Allspice  ............................. 17
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon.................... 40
Cloves, Zanslbar..................14
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 28
Mace,  Batavia................... 65
Mustard.........................12@18
Nutmegs,......................40@50
Pepper, Sing., black............15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne................. 20
Sage.....................................15

SYRUPS.

Cera.

Barrels................................16
Half  bbls........................... 17
1 doz. 1 gallon cans............3 90
1  doz. H gallon cans........1 70
3  doz. H gallon c a n s...... 1 75

Pure Cane.

Pair  ................................   16
Good................................   20
Choice.............................   35

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Corn.

401-lb packages...................6
201 lb packages.....................644

Klngsford’s Silver does.
401-lb packages.....................6)4
6-lb boxes..........................   7

Diamond.

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

Common  Corn.

201 lb. packages..................5
4011b. packages...................4ff

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages......................  454
8-lb  packages......................  434
6-lb  packages......................  5
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3
Barrels  ...............................  3

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUGAR.

......................... 5 38

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  In  which he
imrchases to his shipping point, 
ncluding  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Dom ino ....................................5 50
Cut  Loaf.................................. 5 75
Crushed....................................5 75
Powdered 
XXXX Powdered.................... 5 50
Cubes.......................................5 38
Granulated In bbls...................5 25
Granulated In  bags.............5 25
Fine Granulated......................5 25
Extra Fine Granulated...... 5 38
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 38
Mould  A...................................f 59
Diamond  Confec.  A..........5 25
Oonfee. Standard A.............5 18
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 10
NO.  18....................................... 4 13
No.  14.......................................4 13
NO.  15.......................................4 13
NO.  16.......................................4 18

TABLB  SAUCES.

Lea A Perrin’s,  large...  3 75 
Lea A Perrin’s, small...  250
Halford,  large............... 3 75
Halford small...................2 25
Salad Dressing, large...... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small...... 2 75

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brands

Fortune Teller........................35 00
Our Manager.......................... 35 00
Quintette................................85 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

8. C. W...............................35 00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. 
Vincente Portuondo. .35® 70 00
Huhe Bros.  C o ......... 25® 70 00
The HilsonCo.............3a®110 00
T. J. Dunn & Co........35® 70 00
McCoy A Co...............35® 70 00
The Collins Cigar Co.,10® 35 00
Brown Bros................15® 70 00
Banner Cigar Co........30® 70 00
Bernard Stahl  Co......35®  90 00
Banner Cigar Co........10® 35 00
Seidenberg & Co........55®125 00
G.P. Sprague Cigar Co. 10® 35 03 
The Fulton Cigar Co. .10® 35 00 
A. B. Ballard & Co....35®175 00 
E. M. Schwarz A Co 
.35® 110 00
San  Telmo.................35® 70 0J
Havana Cigar Co.......18® 35 00

VINEGAR.

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

WICK1NG.

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

WOODENWARB.

Pails.

2- hoop Standard...................... 1 35
3- hoop Standard...................... 1 50
2- 
wire, Cable.......... 1 35
3- wlre. Cable..................   .  1 69
Cedar, all red, brass bound.1  25 
Paper, E ureka.........................2 25
FiDre........................................ 2 25

Tabs.

29-inch, Standard, No. 1_____5 80
18-inch, Standard, No. 2_____4 85
16-lnch, 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. 1 Fibre............................... 9 00
No. 2 Fibre............................... 7 50
No. 3 Fibre............................... 6 75

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Batter.
Seymour XXX...................  5$$
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family XXX  ....................   514
Salted XXX.......................   544
New York XXX.................  6
Wolverine.........................  6
Boston................................  744
Soda  XYX.........................  e
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton__   644
Soda,  City.........................  8
Long Island Wafers.......  11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton...  12
Zephyrette....................... 10

Soda.

Oyster.

Saltine Wafer....................  54
Saltine Wafer, 1 lb. carton.  6)4
Farina Oyster....................   5%
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Anima ls ............................  10)1
Bent’s Water...................   15
Cocoanut Taffy..............   10
Coffee Cake, Java...........  10
Coffee Cake, Iced............ 10
Cracknells.........................  15$$
Cubans  ...........................     1144
Frosted  Cream...................  8
Ginger Gems......................  8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  74
Graham Crackers..............  8
Graham Wafers...............  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................   8
Jumoles,  Honey................  1144
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts__  16
Mich. Frosted Honey__  1244
Molasses Cakes.................  8
Newton...........................   12
Nlc Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8ft
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......   744
Sears’Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sugar  Squares.................  9
Vanilla  Wafers.............   14
Sultanas............................   12)4

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

,  __ 

Mixed Candy.

bbls.  palls
Standard.................  644® 7
Standard H. H........  6ft® 7
Standard Twist......   744® 8
Cut Loaf................. 
® 8
_ 
cases
Jumbo. 32 lb  ..........  
® 644
Extra H.H.............. 
@844
Boston  Cream........ 
@10
Grocers...................  
@ 6
@ 644
Competition............ 
Standard................. 
@ 7
Conserve................. 
@744
@ 844
Ribbon.................... 
@ 7M
Broken................... 
Cat Loaf................. 
@ 8
@ 8
English Rock.........  
@ 844
Kindergarten.........  
French  Cream........ 
@ 9
Dandy Pan.............. 
@10
Hand Made Cream mxd  @13 

Fancy—In Balk.

San Bias Goodies....  @11
Lozenges, plain......  
@ 844
Lozenges,  printed..  @ 844
Choc.  Drops........... 
©10J4
Choc.  Monnmentals  @12
Gum  Drops............  
@ 5
@ 8
Moss  Drops............  
Sour Drops.............. 
@  844
Imperials................ 
@9
Ital. Cream Bnbns, 35 lb pis  11 
Molasses Chews,  15 lb. palls  13 
Jelly Date Squares..  @10
Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops.........  
@50
am ..
Sour  Drops............  
Peppermint Drops..  @60 J
Chocolate Drops.... 
@60
H. M. Choc. Drops..  @75
H. M.  Choc.  Lt.and
Dk. No. 12............. 
@90
Gum  Drops............  
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
Lozenges,  plain__ 
@an
Lozenges,  printed.. 
@50
Imperials................ 
g n i
Mottoes................... 
@56
Cream Bar.............. 
@50
Molasses B a r.........  
a m
Hand Made Creams.  80  @  90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Want............ 
@85
String Rock............  
@60
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25  @
Wintergreen Berries  @50

@35
@60

Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes...................
Fruits.
Oranges.
Seedlings................  
@3 50
Medt Sweet............. 3 75  @4 00

Lemons.

Strictly choice 360s..  @3 25
Strictly choice 300s..  @3 50
Fancy 300s.............  
@3 76
Ex.Fancy 300s........ 
@4 00
Ex.Faney 360s........ 
@
Bananas.

Medium bnnches.,.1 25  @150 
Large bunches........l  75  @2 25

Foreign Dried  Pratts. 

Figs.

Californias  Fancy..  @13
Choice, 10 lb boxes..  @12
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............ 
@16
Fancy. 12 lb boxes..  @22
Imperial Mikados, 18
Id boxes...............  
@
Pulled,61b boxes... 
@
Naturals,  in bags...  @7

Dates.

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

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @16
Almonds, Ivaea.........   @14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled.............  @15
Brazils new................  @ 7
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Gronobles..  @18
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @11
Walnuts,  soft shelled
Calif.......................  @11
Table Nuts,  fancy__  @11
Table Nuts,  choice...  @10
Pecans, Med.......... . 
@744
Pecans, Ex. Large....  @ 9
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............   @1  60
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @3 50 
Chestnuts per bu........  @

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  @ 7
Fancy,  H.  p.,  Flags
Roasted...................  @ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  Q 444 
Choice, H. p.,  Extras,
544
.......................  

B o a s t e d  

Tomato Jags.

Sealing Wax.

LAMP BURNBRS.

)4 gal., per dos.................  50
1 gal., each......................  6i*
Corks for )4 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
H gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00
5 lbs. In package, per lb...  2
No.  0 Sun.............................  33
No.  1  Sun.............................  34
No. 2 Sun............................ 
46
No. 8 Sun....................... 
1  00
Tubular.................................. 50
Security, No. 1................... 
Security, No. 2.................. 
Nutmeg  .........................,* 
60
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun.........................  1  39
No.  1  Sun.........................  1  48
No.  2 Sun........................  2  18
No. 0 Sun...........................   x 60
No. 1 Sun...........................  1  «0
No. 2 Sun...........................   2 45

Common

60
80

First  Quality.
No.  0  Snn,  crimp 
  2  10
wrapped and  labeled 
No.  1  Son,  crimp 
wrapped and  labeled 
  2  16
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
wrapped and  labeled....  1 16

top,
top,
top,

top,
top,
top,

XXX Pllnt.
No.  0  Son,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
6

wrapped and labeled....  2 56 
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
wrapped and labeled....  I 75
CHIMNEYS—Pearl Ton.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................... 70
No. 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled............................4 88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,” 
for Globe Lamps............. 
80

La  Bastia.

No. 1 San. plain  bolb,  per
doz  ................................  
g
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   i  16
No. 1 Crimp, per dos.........   x  35
No. 2 Crimp, x>er dos......... 1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........8 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)........4 00
No. 2, Flint (80o  dos)........4  70

Rochester.

Electric.

OIL CANS. 

No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ......  4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)........  4 40
Dos.
1 gal tin cans with  spont..  1  25
1 gal galv Iron with spout.  1  48
2 gal galv Iron with spout.  2 48
3 gal galv Iron with sixrat.  3 32 
5 gal galv Iron with  spout.  4 28 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4  17 
5 gal galv Iron with  fauoet 4 67
5 gal Tilting cans..............7 25
5 gal galv Iron Naoefas....  9 09

Pump  Cans.

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

LANTERNS.

No.  OTubnlar side lift....  4  00
No.  1 B  Tubular..............£  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........... 
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 2 dos.
each, box 15 cents.......... 
No. 0 Tabular,  bbls 5 dos.
each, bbl 851....................... 
No. 0 Tabular,  bull’s  eye, 
cases 1 do», web  . . . .  

46
45
I

1  ■'

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

Wheat.

68

Wheat................................ 
Winter Wheat Ploar. 

Local Brands.

Patents............................. 4  00
Second  Patent..................   3  50
Straight............................  3  25
Clear.................................. 3  00
Graham  ............................3  50
Buckwheat.......................
B ye..................................   3 25
Subject 
to usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Daisy, 44s..............................3 85
Daisy, 44s..............................3 85
Daisy, 44s..............................3 85
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, 44s.........................  3 50
Quaker, 44 s........................   3 50
Quaker, 44s........................   3 50

Spring Wheat Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Plllsbnry’s Best 44s............  4 35
Pillsbury’s Best Ha...........   4 25
Plllsbury’s Best 44s..............4 15
Pillsbury’s Best 44s paper..  4  15
Plllsbnry’s Best Ms paper..  4  15
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Gold Medal 44s...................  4 30
Gold Medal 44s.....................4 20
Gold Medal 44s.....................4 10
Parisian, 44s.......................  4 30
Parisian, 44s......................... 4 20
Parisian. 44s.......................   4 10
Ceresota, 44s.......................  4 40
Ceresota, 44s.......................  4 30
Ceresota, 44s.......................  4 20
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 44s ..........................  4 40
Laurel, 44s ..........................  4 30
Laurel, 44s............................4 20
Bolted.............................  
j  90
Granulated........................  2 10

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Meal.

Feed and MUIstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened  .... 16 50
No. 1 Com and  Oats.......... 15 50
Unbolted Com Meal.......... 14 fo
Winter Wheat  Bran.......... 14 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 15 00
Screenings.......................... 14 00

Corn.

Oats.

New corn, car lots............ 3644
Less than  car lots............   3844
Car  lots............................. 3244
Carlots, clipped.................  35
Less than  car lots............ 36
No. 1 Timothy carlots.........10 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots....12 50
Fish and  Oysters

Hay.

Fresh Fish.

__ 
Per lb.
Whiteflsh................  @  9
T rout......................  @  844
Black Bass..............  8  @  10
H alibut...................  @  16
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  &
Blnefish...... ...........   @  u
Live Lobster.........   @  is
Boiled Lobster........  @  20
Cod 
......................  @  10
Haddock.................  @  8
No.  1  Pickerel........  @  6
Pike.........................  @  644
Perch.......................  @  &
Smoked White........  @  8
Red Snapper...........   @  8
Col  River Salmon..  @  12
Mackerel...............   @  ie
Oysters, per 100.........l  25@1  50
Clams,  per 100.........   @1  ro

Shell Goods.

Oils.
Barrel«.

Eocene.......................   @1144
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt.  @10
W WMichigan.»........  @ 944
Diamond White.........  @ 844
D., S. Gas....................   @1244
Deo. N aptha..............  @1244
Cylinder....................29  @34
Engine.......................11  @21
B'3»V 
2TV,
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Green No.  1................  @744
Green No. 2................   @644
Bulls....................... 
Cured No. 1................   @844
Cured No. 2................  @744
Calfskins, green No. 1  @944
Calfskins, green No. 2  @8
Calfskins, cored No. 1  @1044
Calfskins, cured No. 2  @9
Pelts,  each.................  50@l  00
No. 1...........................  @ 344
No. 2......................  © 2*
Washed, flu e............   @15
Washed, medium.......  @18
Unwashed, flue..........8  @10
Unwashed, medium ..13  @15

Pelts.
Tallow.

Hldea.

Wool.

@6

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barreled Pork.

514

5v
654

Sausages.

Smoked neats.

Lards.  In Tierces.

Moss  .............................   10 00
Back  ......................10 50®
Clear back..............  @to ?o
Short out.............................   10 25
I 1« .......................................  14 00
Bean  .............................   9  CO
Family  ..........................  a   00
„  
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies...................... 
Briskets  ......................... 
Extra shorts............. 
Hams, 12 lb average...... 
844
Hams, 14 lb average 
... 
844
Hams, 161b  average...... 
844
Hams, 201b average...... 
8
Ham dried b e e f............ 
1244
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
534
Bacon,  clear................. 7  @744
California hams............ 
554
Boneless hams.......... 
844
Cooked ham............ 10@1244
Compound................. 
4«
Kettle........................ 
634
55 lb Tubs.........advance 
34
80 lb Tubs.........advance 
h
60 lb T ins.........advance 
%
80 lb Palls.........advance 
34
10 lb Pails.........advance 
34
5 lb Palls.........advance 
1
3 lb Palls.........advance 
144
„  
Bologna...................... 
644
«2
Liver............................... 
Frankfort................
P ork............................ 
644
 
Blood  ............................ 
Tongue.................................g
Head  cheese................... 
644
Extra  Mess......................10 25
Boneless  ....................   12 50
» im p ......   .....................12 25
Kits, 15 lbs......................  70
44  bbls, 40 lbs..................  x 35
44  bbls, 80 lbs..................  2 50
Kits. 15 lbs...  ................ 
70
H  bbls, 40 lbs..................  1 25
44  bbls, 80 lbs..................  2 25
P ork...............................  20
Beef  rounds................... 
3
Beef  middles.................... 
10
Sheep.........•...................  
60
Rolls,  dairy................... 
Solid, dairy.................... 
Rolls,  creamery...........’ 
Solid,  creamery............  
Canned Meats.
Corned beef,  2 l b .......2  15
Corned beef, 14 lb........  14 75
Roast  beef,  2 lb..........2 15
Potted  ham,  44s..........  50
Potted  ham,  44s.........   90
Deviled ham,  Ha.........   50
Deviled ham,  44s.........   90
Potted  tongne Ms.........   50
Potted  tongue 44s..........  go

Pigs’ Past.

Butte fine.

jj
1044
1544
1444

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Pork.

Carcass......................   7 @8
Forequarters.............   6 @  644
Hind  quarters...........  7J4@  944
Loins  No.  3.................10 @14
g ib s.............................9 @14
Rounds......................  @8
C h ucks........................  6 @6
Plates  .......................  4  @5
Dressed...................... 6  @  5h
Loins  .........................   @  744
Shoulders...................  @5)4
Leaf Lard...................  6)4®
Carcass......................   8 @844
Spring Lambs...............9 @10
Carcass  .................... 7  @744
Crockery  and

Mutton

Veal.

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Batters.

A gal., per dos.................  45
1 to 6 gal., per gal...........  544
8 gal., each......................  52
10 gal., each.....................   65 <
12 gal.,  e a c h ....................  78
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.  . 105
20 gal. meat-tubs, each__ l  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 
44 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  45 
1 gal. fiat or rd. bot., each  544

Milkpans.

Chnrns.

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

H gal. flat or rd. bot, doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  544 
M gal. fireproof  - nil, doz.  85 
1 gal. flreprooi, ball, doz.l  10

Stswpans.

J a g s .

H gal., per dos..................  40
H gal., per doz..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal.............  6)4

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

22

PRO  AND  CON.

Advantages  and  Disadvantages  of the

Bankruptcy  Law.

M O R A L L Y   C O N S ID E R E D .

With  the  moral  features  of  this  law 
we  are  doubtless  all  agreed,  that  it  does 
not  improve  men  morally.  Those  who 
take 
it  once  do  not  seem  to  fear  it a 
second  or  even  a  third  time,  should 
they  live  long  enough  to  take  its  advan­
tages. 
It  is  a  sort  of  disease  that  may 
be  taken,  like  the  grip,  every  time  it 
comes  around,  and  I  am  told  that  the 
oftener  you  take  it,  the  better  you  are 
off,  financially,  but  I  do  not  think  it 
is 
so,  morally. 
It  is  my  humble  judgment 
that  bankruptcy  lessens  one’s  appreci­
ation  for  the  payment  of  his  honest 
debts,  and  that,  after  one  has  taken  the 
benefits  of  this  law,  he  does  not  there­
after  feel  the  high  moral  sense  of  honor 
about  the  payment  of  his  debts  that  he 
did  before.

I  do  not  mean  that  this  is  an 

invari­
able  rule.  There  are  honorable  excep­
tions  to  it.  Much,  of  course,  depends 
upon  the  man.

The  man  who goes through bankruptcy 
more  than  once  does  not  need  to  apolo­
gize  to  his  creditors  for  doing  so,  for, 
with  the  perfect  system  of  checks  and 
balances  which  they  have  existing  to­
day,  and  of  the  means  of  knowing  who 
a  man 
is,  and  what  he  has  been,  only 
his  creditors  are  to  blame  if  he  fails 
with  their  money.  Therefore,  the.  wise 
exercise  of  your  privilege  will  better 
not  only  the  morals  of  men,  but  finance 
of  the  country  as  well.

and  creditor, 
for,  with  prosperous 
times,  those  who  have  been  and  are 
upon  the  danger  line  may  be  given  the 
benefit  of  the  doubt,  and  thus  pull 
through  and  pay  their  debts 
in  full. 
The  honest  creditor  will  certainly  profit 
by  i t ;  the  dishonest  one  may  also.

in  going 

The  method  adopted  by  many  of 
these  bankrupts 
into  bank­
ruptcy  and  taking  their exemptions  and 
claiming  everything  in  sight  and  out  of 
sight,  and  praying  the  court  to  be  dis­
charged  from  all liability for their debts, 
reminds  me  very  much  of  the  story  of  a 
colored  preacher  of  the  South  who  fer­
vently  prayed  to  the  Lord  for  the  ben­
efits  of  a  good  turkey  dinner,  but  hadn’t 
a  turkey  upon  his  own  roost,  and  while 
be  was  praying  most  fervently  to  the 
Lord  for a  good  turkey  dinner,  he  said, 
“ I 
jus’ done  quietly  stole  down  to  de 
roost  of  my  neighbor  Jones,  and  while 
in  da  on  my  knees pray in’to  de  Lord for 
the  benefits  of  a  good  turkey  dinner,  I 
stole  de  last  turkey  dat  Jones  bad  left.
So  with  many  of  these  bankrupts,  who 
claim  their  exemptions  and  everything 
else  in  sight,  even to  diamonds  and  gold 
shirt  buttons,  as  a  fellow  did  in  New 
York  the  other  day,  who  claimed  that 
they  were  necessary  for  his  wearing  ap­
parel,  and  all  paid  for  with  the  money 
of  his  creditors,  and  prayed  to  the  court 
to  be  discharged  from  all  of  his  debts; 
certainly this is  very  like  taking  the  last 
turkey  that  Jones  bad  left.

W H AT  A C T S   M A K E  O N E  B A N K R U PT. 
The  acts  which  legally  constitute  one 

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WHO  IS  A   B A N K R U PT .

The  bankrupt  law  defines  who  a bank­
rupt  is.  The  general  idea,  however,  is 
that  a  bankrupt  is  a  person  who  is  un­
able  to  pay  his  debts,  as  they  mature  in 
the  usual  and  ordinary  course  of  his 
business,  as  persons  in  trade  usually  do. 
Those  who  are  familiar  with  the  bank­
rupt  act  of  1867  know  that  that  law  de­
fined  such  a  person  to  be  a  bankrupt. 
The  present  law,  however, 
is  not  so 
liberal  in  its  construction ;  it is,  in fact, 
more  liberal  to  the  bankrupt.
53  The  present  law,  Section  1  (Clause 
15),  declares  that  a  person  shall  be 
deemed  “ insolvent,”   within  the  pro­
visions  of  the  act,  when  the  aggregate 
of  his  property  (excluding  such  as  he 
may  have fraudulently conveyed or trans­
ferred  or  concealed  or  removed)  shall 
not  be  sufficient,  at  a  fair  valuation,  to 
pay  his  debts.

The  failure  to  pay  a  single  debt  when 
due  is  not,  therefore,  sufficient  to  estab­
lish  the  fact  of  insolvency.  Under  the 
old  law  the  creditor  ran  no  risk  in  pla­
cing  his  debtor 
in  bankruptcy,  if  he 
could  not  pay  his  debts  as  they  matured 
in  the  usual  and  ordinary  course  of 
trade,  but  now  the  creditor  must  first 
decide  whether  the  debtor’s  property, 
all  taken  together  (exclusive  of  his  ex­
emptions  under  the  laws  of  the  state 
in 
which  the  debtor  resides),  will,  at  its 
actual  cash  value,  pay  all  his  debts;  if 
it  will,  be  can  not  be  adjudged  a  bank­
rupt;  if  it  will  not,  he  can  be  adjudged 
a  bankrupt.  These  points  must  be  de­
cided  by  the  creditor  at  his  peril.

The  few  bankrupt  cases  which  have 
found  their  way  into  the bankrupt couits 
since  the  act  went  into  effect  July  last 
may  be  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that 
responsible  creditors  hesitate  about  as­
suming  the  responsibility  of  moving  to 
place  debtors  in  bankruptcy  when  they 
are  not  certain  that  there  remains  no 
question  as  to  their  insolvency.  This 
feature  may,  however,  ultimately  prove 
a  blessing 
in  disguise  to  both  debtor

a  bankrupt  are:

conveyed, 

1.  Having 

transferred, 
concealed,  removed,  or  permitted  to  be 
concealed  or  removed,  any  part  of  his 
property,  with  intent  to  hinder,  delay, 
or  defraud  his  creditors,  or  any  of 
them ;  or,

2.  Transferred  while  insolvent  any 
portion  of  his  property to  one  or more  of 
his  creditors,  with  intent  to  prefer  such 
creditors  over  bis  other  creditors;  or,

3.  Suffered  or  permitted,  while insol­
vent,  any creditor to  obtain  a  preference 
through  legal  proceedings,  and  not  hav­
ing  at  least  five  days  before  a  sale  or 
final  disposal  of  any  property  affected 
by 
such  preference,  vacated  or  dis­
charged  such  preference;  of,

4.  Made  a  general  assignment  for 

the  benefit  of  his  creditors;  or,

5.  Admitted  in  writing  bis  inability 
to  pay  his  debts,  and  his  willingness  t* 
be  adjudged  a  bankrupt  on  that  ground.
At  any  time  within  four  months  fron 
the  recording  of  the  instrument  convey­
ing  the  property  by  the  bankrupt  (if  re­
cording 
is  required  by  law),  or  within 
four  months  from  the  time  the  benefi­
ciary  takes  open  and  notorious  posses­
sion  of  the  property  (except  such  as  are 
exempt  by  law),  including  that  illegally 
transferred,  the property may  be brought 
into  the  possession  of  the  law  for the 
benefit  of  all  of  his  creditors.

P R A C T IC A L   IN   COURTS.

Any  natural  person,  except  a  wage- 
earner getting  less  than  $1,500  per  year

m m   E0 0   Bicycles  are  rapidly 
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favor.  We  are selling
agents in  Michigan  for  the  "A riel”  line 
of  Chainless  and  Chain  wheels  and  are 
having no difficulty  in  placing  Agencies 
wherever  we 
show  these  handsome 
wheels.  Write for Catalogue  and  prices 
to dealers.

ADAMS &  HART,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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or ajperson  engaged  chiefly  in  farming 
or  the  tillage  of  the  soil,  any  unincor­
porated  company,  and  any  corporation 
engaged  principally  in  manufacturing, 
trading,  printing,  publishing,  or  mer­
cantile  pursuits,  owing  debts  to  the 
amount  of  one  thousand  dollars  or 
over,  may  be  adjudged  an 
involuntary 
bankrupt,  upon  default  or an 
impartial 
trial,  and  shall  be  subject  to  the  pro­
visions  and  entitled  to  the  benefits of 
this act.  Private  bankers  (but  not  Na­
tional  banks)  or banks  incorporated  un­
der  state  or  territorial  laws  may  be ad­
judged  involuntary  bankrupts.

The  debtor  must  owe $1,000  or  more 
to  be  adjudged  an involuntary bankrupt, 
and  must  owe  $500  or  over  to  three 
creditors  who  are  unsecured,  to  be  ad­
judged  a  bankrupt  upon  his  own  peti­
tion.  The  majority  in  amount  of  all 
creditors  selects  a  trustee,  who  takes  the 
title  to  the  assets.  All  real  and  personal 
estate  must  be  sold  for  not  less  than  75 
per  cent,  of 
its  appraised  value.  A 
bankrupt  may  make  composition  with 
his  creditors  if a  majority  of  his  credit­
ors  agree.  After one  month  and  within 
-twelve  months  a  bankrupt  may  apply 
for and  be  discharged ;  eighteen  months 
may  be  given  him,  however, 
for 
good  reasons,  he  has  been  prevented 
from  applying  within  twelve  months. 
He  may  be  discharged  if  he  has  fully 
and  honestly  complied  with  the  law ;  if 
fraud  is  shown  and  the  discharge  is  op 
posed,  it  will  be denied  by  the  court.

if, 

Appeals  may  be  taken  to  the Appelate 

Court  from:

1.  The adjudging  or  refusing  to  ad­

judge  one  a  bankrupt.

2.  To  granting  or  denying discharge.
3.  Allowing  or  rejecting  a  claim 

amounting  to $500.

Appeals  to  the  United  States Supreme 
Court  may  be  taken  where  the  amount 
in  controversy  exceeds $2,000.  .

SPONSORS  F O R   TH E   LAW .

It  may  safely  be said  that  the  trade  of 
the  East  and  West  is  responsible  for the 
passage  of  the  bankrupt  act.  The  East 
vigorously  urged  its  passage,  and  por­
tions  of  the  West  at  first  opposed  it,  but 
later  all  united  for  it.  The  inordinate 
ambition  of  the  East  to  compete  in  the 
West  and  get  the  lion’s  share  of  the 
trade  may  be  the  cause  fot  the  finan­
cial  condition  of  some  of  the  bankrupts 
of  to-day.  Certain 
is  that  the  East 
has  been  less  fortunate  than  the  West 
in  its  selection  of  those  to  whom  to  ex­
tend  credit.

it 

ITS  M A T E R IA L   B E N E F IT S .

in  misfortune, 

This  law  is  withal  not  without  its ma­
terial  benefits  regardless  of what  may  be 
said  in  favor  of or against the  policy  of 
it.  The 
incentive  of  the  mercantile 
trade  to  take  undue  advantage of  each 
other,  if  such  existed,  is  entirely  re­
moved,  for, 
they  will 
now  all  share  alike.  The  debtor  is  like­
wise  without 
incentive  to  prefer  one 
creditor  to  another,  for,  if  done,  invol­
untary  bankruptcy,  with  its  long  train 
of  evils  and  expense,  is  sure to  result. 
The  benefits  of  this  act  will  be  to  un­
deceive  creditors  who  are  carrying  on 
their  books  as  live assets  claims  against 
those  who  are  in  fact  legally  insolvent; 
the  insolvent  is also  afforded  an  oppor­
tunity  to  take  the  benefits  of  the  act, 
and  thus  undeceive  his  creditors,  and 
wipe  bis  slate  clean  and  start  anew.

Locally,  I  believe  we  are  realizing  a 
direct  benefit  from  this  law. 
In  many 
instances  now,  the  person  who  is  ripe 
for  bankruptcy,  either  at  his  own  in­
stance  or that  of his  creditors,  makes  a 
transfer  of  ali  of  his  property  to  a  par­
ticular  person  as  trustee  for  the  benefit

of  all  of  his  creditors,  to  share  pro  rata 
in  his  estate.  The  property  is  thus  at 
once  placed  in  the  hands  of  persons who 
are  particularly  well  qualified  to  handle 
it  with  the  smallest  expense, 
in  the 
shortest  period,  and  to  the  best  advan­
tage  of  all  of  his  creditors,  and  of  the 
debtor  as  well.  The  debtor’s  business 
reputation  is  thus  saved  to  him,  and  he 
is  thereafter,  if  an  honest  man,  able  to 
obtain  a  line  of  credit  and  continue  in 
business  as  before.

R ECO M M EN D A T IO N S.

If  permitted  to  recommend,  it  would 
be  my  judgment  that,  after a  period  of 
a  few  years  at  farthest,  the  present 
bankrupt  law  should  be  repealed.  The 
assignment  laws  of  the  various  states 
should  be  made  as  nearly  uniform  in 
their  provisions  and  operations  as  it  is 
possible  to have  them  made,  to  the  end 
that  the  decisions  of  the  courts  when 
made  upon  questions  arising 
in  one 
state  would  serve  as  guide  to  the  con­
struction  that  should  and probably would 
be  placed  upon  the  assignment  law  of 
another  state.  This  uniformity  in  the 
assignment  laws  would  obviate  much  of 
the  difficulty  that  now  obtains  in  regard 
to  being  able  to  teil  from  the  adjudi­
cations  of  the  courts  (being  so  conflict­
ing)  what  the  weight  of  authority  is, 
touching  a  question  arising  under  the 
assignment  laws  of  a  particular  state.
A.  H.  Brow n.

ft 

Remind  Customers  of  Needs, 
is  observed  that  many  hardware 
stores are  making  it a  point  to  send  out 
catalogues  and  circulars  advertising 
many of  the  things  which  are  commonly 
used  in  the  spring  and  summer  season. 
This  is  a  good 
idea,  for  it  brings  to 
people’s  minds  more  forcibly  the  things 
they  ought  to have— if  it  were  possible 
for any  one  to  need  a  reminder  of  what 
be  needs.  Most  of  us  find  our  wants  so 
boldly 
insistent  that  we  do  not  need 
anything  to  remind  us  of  what  we  ought 
to  have.  These  circulars,  however,  give 
prospective  purchasers  an 
inkling  of 
what  they  can  get,  how  much  they  have 
to  pay  for  it,  etc.  Many  of  the  charac­
teristics  of  such  articles  can  be graphic­
ally  described  so  as  to  draw  attention  to 
special  makes  and  styles.  For  instance, 
in  lawn  mowers—machines  which  every 
one  should  have  at  this  time  of  year, 
and  keep  them 
in  active  use,  too— 
action,  construction,  price,  lightness  of 
draft,  widths  of  grass  which  they  will 
cut,  number  of  knives,  etc.,  can  all  be 
accurately  and  satisfactorily  set  forth  in 
circulars.  Let  the  descriptions  be  terse, 
brief  and  to  the  point,  without  waste  of 
words  or  unnecessary  verbiage.  Besides 
this,  there are sharpeners,  oils,  lawn roll­
ers,  grass  hooks,  grass  shears,  scythe 
stones,  garden  hose,  reels,  sprinklers, 
wheelbarrows,  rakes  and  pruning  shears 
which  are  indispensable.  Almost  every 
one  is annoyed  by  having  his  yard  torn 
up  by  moles;  they  are  pests  on  the  face 
of  the  earth  and  can  spoil  any  yard  in 
a  very  short  time.  All  hardware  mer-
chants  should  keep  mole  traps  and  ex 
ploit  them  energetically  at  this  time  of 
the  year.  Screening and  screens  should 
also  be  prominently  shown.

Rather  Close.

“ The  stingiest  man  I  ever  knew  was 
a  fellow  who  in  going  upstairs  always 
skipped  a  step  in  order  to  save  his  shoe 
leather. ’ ’

“ That’s  nothing!  I once knew  a  man 
who  was  so  stingy  that  he  wouldn’t 
trim  his  finger  nails  except  when  he 
could  borrow  a  jack-knife,  because  he 
didn’t  want  to  wear  out  his  own. ”

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS AND  BITS
Snell’s................................
Jenning  genuine.......................
Jennings  Imitation....................

AXES

First Quality. S. B. Bronze.........
First Quality,  D.  B. Bronze.........
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel...........
First Quality, D. B. Steel............
BARROWS
Bailroad..........................
Garden....................................
BOLTS

............  
70
............ 25*10
............ 60*10

............   5 50
............   9 50
...........  6 25
............   10 50
14 00

 

 

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CAPS

BLOCKS

CROW  BARS

BUTTS,  CAST

 
CARTRIDGES

Stove........... 
60*10
Carriage new list.................................... 
65
Plow.......................................  
 
50
„   „ 
BUCKETS
Well, plain..................................................... 3 50
Cast Loose  Pin, figured............................  70*10
Wrought Narrow.......................................... 70A10
Ordinary Tackle........................................... 
70
„  
Cast Steel............................................per lb 
5
1'1° - ..........................................per m 
66
  m  55
Hick s C. F...................................... 
............................................................. perm 
45
Musket........................... 
75
perm 
Rim Fire.  ....................................................40*10
Central Fire.................................................  
20
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................................... 50&  5
Com. 4 piece, 6 In............................do*, net 
65
Corrugated..............................................  
1  gg
Adjustable..............................................dls 40*10
Clark’s small, 118;  large, 626....................  30*10
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $34; 3, $30.............................  
25
New American............................................. 7D&10
Nicholson’s................................................... 
70
Heller’s Horse Hasps....................................60&10
28
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27.........  
List  12 
16.........  
17

GALVANIZED  IRON

EXPANSIVE  BITS

FILES—New  List

ELBOWS

CHISELS

DRILLS

13 

14 
Discount,  '5—10

15 
GAUGES

MATTOCKS

KNOBS—New List

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’8...................... 00*10
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
80
Adae Eye.....................................$17 00, dls  60*10
Hunt Bye.................................... $15 00, dls 60*10
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50, dls 20*10
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
40
40
Coffee, P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables... 
Coffee, Landers. Ferry & Clark’s................  
  40
Coffee, Enterprise........................................  
so
Stebbln’s Pattern.......................................... 60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

MOLASSES  OATBS

MILLS

NAILS

 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.
 

Steel nails, base......................................... 
2 40
Wire nails, base................................................  2 45
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
06
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
8 advance.................................................... 
10
6 advance.................................................... 
20
4 advance.................................................... 
30
3 advance.................................... 
 
45
2 advance...................................................  
70
50
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
35
Casing  6 advance........................................ 
Finish 10 advance......................................  
25
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance..........................................  85
Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy................................   @50
Sclota Bench................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’8,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, firstquallty.......................................  @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
Common, polished..................................... 
70* 5
60
Iron and Tinned........................................  
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
45

PLANBS

RIVETS

PANS

PATENT PLANISHED IRON 

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20  ’ 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  0 20 

Broken packages He per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole *  Co.’s, new  list............................... dls 83*,
25
Kip’s  ...................................................... di& 
Terkes & Plumb’s............................................. di« 10&10
70
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................  80c list 
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50*10

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Stamped Tin Ware  .......................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20*10

.... 

ROPBS

TRAPS

HINGES

LBVBLS
SQUARES

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

HOLLOW  WARE
Pots................................................
.60*1
K ettles.........................................
60*10
Spiders.........................................
60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 8................................dls 60*10
State..............;......................... per do*, net  2 5$
Sisal, H Inch and  larger............
...  9*4
Manilla ...........................................
—   11*4
WIRB  GOODS
Bright.........................................
80
Screw Eyes................................ .
80 
Hook’s.................„......................
80 
Gate Hooks and Eyes...............
80
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s....
dls 
70
Steel and I r r r ............................
....70*10
Try and Bevels  ..........................
60
M itre......................................... .
.... 
50
SHEBT IRON
com. smooth,  com.
$2 50
2 50
2 60
2 70
2 80
200
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches

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 
No.  27..........................................  320 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 10, ’86...................................... dls 
50
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 do* 
15
Mouse, delusion.........................per do* 
1  25
Bright Market............................................. 
co
Annealed  Market....................................... 
to
Coppered Market........................................  69*10
Tinned Market...........................................   60
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ........................   3(0
Barbed Fence,  painted...............................  2 50
An Sable........................................... .*... dls 40A1C
Putnam...................................................dls 
5
Capwell..................................................... net list
30
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
40
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought  .........  
75
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
75
Bird  Cages.............  
40
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
70
Screws, New List...................................  
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50*10*10
Dampers, American................. 
60
 
MBTALS—Zinc
600 pound casks................................   ......  
9
Per pound................................................... 
9*4
D rop............................................................   1 45
B B and Buck.............................................  1  70
a&H....................................................  17
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................$ 7 15
14x20 IC, Charcoal........................................   7 10
20x14 IX, Charcoal........................................   8 50

MISCELLANEOUS
 

TIN—Melyn Grade

HORSB NAILS

WRBNCHBS

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

SOLDER

WIRB

SHOT

TIN—Allaway Orada

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. 

ROOFING PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  5  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  6 60
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 
10
14x56 IX, for No  9  Boilers, f P®r pouna- • • 
10

BOILBR SIZB TIN PLATB 

nound 

Jars,  H  g a l.....................3Xc each
Jars,  i  to 6 g a l.....................5c gal
Jars,  S,  10 and  12 g a l.......   6c gal
Jars,  15 and  20 g a l...........7J^c gal
Churns,  2 to 6 g a l........... SlA c gal
Jugs, 
g a l......................4c each
Jugs,  1  to 5 g a l..............  ...6 c gal

Pans,  black,  %   g a l.........3J£c each
Pans,  black,  ^   gal.........4¿¿c each
Pans,  black,  1  to 2 gal.........5c gal
Pans,  Peoria or  white,

%   g a l...................... 4c each

Pans,  P*a or w., 
gal..4^ c  each 
Pans,  P*a-w.,  1  to 2 g a l..5 ^ c  gal

F .  O.  B.  factory  at  Akron.  N o charge  for  crates  if  you  enclose  this 
advertisement.  Car  loads  to  one  or  more  merchants  in  one  town 
a specialty. 

*

Chicago P O M  co.,  Clark  and M in i sit. Chicago,  m.

24

IDEAL  MANAGER.

Must  Have  Character,  Brains and Am­

bition.

H. M.  Mays  in Dry  Goods  Economist.

The 

ideal  manager,  as  I  view  him, 
must  have  the  following  qualifications: 
Character,  brains,  ambition.  He  will 
answer  my  purpose  better  if  he  be  a  re­
ligious  man,  because 
it  has  been  my 
observation  through  life  that  of  two men 
with  equal  talents  the  one  who  is  a  be­
liever 
in  some  one  religion  is  the  one 
who  commands  the  most  respect  from 
employe,  customer  and  the  public  at 
large.

Being  of  high  character,  his  employer 
will  not  have  to  apologize  for  him  at 
any  time  to  any  person.  His  influence 
will  be  always  for  good  and  will  be  far 
reaching.  He  will  be  a  man  among 
men, 
identifying  himself  with  move­
ments  promoting  public  welfare.

When  Mrs.  Westside  is  out  driving 
with  a  friend  and  meets  my  manager, 
she  will  bow  very  politely  and  say,
*' There  goes  Mr.  C— ,  the  manager  for 
H.  M.  &  Co.  at  the  ‘ safety’  corner  for 
‘ merchandising?’  I  want  you  to  meet 
him,  as  he 
is  one  of  our  popular  citi­
zens. ”   Later,  as  he  turns  down  a  side 
street,  the  workmen  on  the  new  public 
library  salute  him,  and  he  returns  the 
greeting  with  a  hearty  “ Good-day!”

When  he  arrives  at  the  store,  all  eyes 
are  on  him,  and  as  he  passes  into  his 
office  be  nods  a  pleasant  “ Good  morn­
ing"  to  all.  On  looking  over  his  mail 
he  finds  a  complaint  about  the  delivery 
of  a  parcel,  of  “ cool  treatment”   on  the 
part  of  a  clerk,  an  application  for  a  po­
sition  by  a  mother  for  her  boy,  and 
other  details.  Prompt  attention  is  given 
to  all,  each  answer  being  dictated  in 
diplomatic 
(What  emphasis 
should  be  put  on  the  matter  of  letter- 
writing !  The  loss  of  thousands  of  dol­
lars  each  year  can  be  attributed  to  this 
failing.)

terms. 

After  consulting  the  firm  about  the 
contents  of  the  mail  the  ideal  manager 
will  immediately  send  to  each  depart­
ment  head  the  mail  intended  for  him. 
Then  he  will  start  in  at  the  basement, 
giving  careful  inspection  to  the  receiv­
ing  and  delivery  departments.  He  is 
interested 
in  watching  the  start-off  of 
the  “ semi-annual  sale  of  domestics.”  
He  meets  Mr.  Cotton,  the  buyer,  and  in 
a  diplomatic  way  drops  a  few  compli­
mentary  remarks  which  end  with  a  sug­
gestion. 
This  method 
is  pursued 
throughout  the  entire  store.

When  on  his  tour  of  inspection  be  has 
made  several  memorandums  for  the  im 
provement  of  stocks,  etc.  Returning  to 
his  office,  be  sends  for  Miss  Ribbon, 
who  hears  with  shame  her  reprimand 
for laughing  and  talking  across  the aisle 
when  serving  a  customer.

Several  others  from  the  cash  boys  to 
the  silk  buyer  (the  highest-salaried 
man)  then  have  their  instructions  from 
him ;  but,  please  notice, 
it  is  always 
done  in  his  office  and  not  on  the  floor.
This  man  is  the  arbiter  of  all  differ­
ences  between  employes  and  between 
customers  and  the  firm.  The  copy  of 
the  advertisement  for  the  evening  paper 
is  laid  on  his  desk  for  careful  inspec­
tion.  The  advertisement  is  seldom  cor­
rected  if  the  firm  has a  first-class  adver­
tising  man  who  tells  the  public 
in  a 
straightforward  and  entertaining  way 
the  store  news.

In  the  afternoon  the  manager  calls a 
meeting  of  the  buyers  and  beads  of  de­
partments.  He  tells  them  in  an  inter­
esting  manner  of  his  observations  when 
on  his  tour  of  three  or  four  of  the  larger 
cities,  also  how  the  store  is  progressing 
and  whose  department  is  in  the  lead  for 
the  prize  to  be  given  to  the  one showing 
the  largest  percentage  of  increase.

Collections  have  been  good  and  the 
balance  in  bank  is  growing  too  large; 
a  sale  is  planned  and  each  man  is  al­
lotted  his  amount  to  go  and  invest.  The 
early  closing  movement  is  up  for  dis­
cussion  ana  the  manager  opens  with  a 
ringing  speech  in  favor  of 
it,  competi­
tors'  opposition  to  the  contrary notwith­
standing.

The  balance  of  the  afternoon  is  spent 
on  the  main  floor,  where  the  manager 
meets  all  with  a  cordial  bow  and  de­
votes  his  time  to  making  new  friends.

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

At  five he  returns  to  his  office,  signs  his 
correspondence  and  receives  a  few  in­
structions  from  the  firm.

A  bulletin  posted  up  in  the  lavatories 
announces  a  ten-minute  meeting  of  all 
employes  in  the  carpet  hall immediately 
after  six.  Here  a  general  talk  on  rules 
is  given.  Some  actual  experiences  are 
related  showing  how  a  careless  clerk 
lost  a  sale  and,  what was worse,  offended 
a  customer.  The  manager  tells  of  the 
good  things  he  bears  about  the employes 
of  the  store,  and 
in  almost  . the  same 
breath  says  that  when an employe has ar­
rived  at  that  point  where  he  believes 
himself  to  be  indispensable  he  has  out­
lived  his  usefulness.  The  talk  closes 
with  an  amusing  story  that  has  a  moral.
It  is  understood,  of  course,  that  from 
the  manager  emanate  all  store  systems, 
rules,  etc.  No  need  to  go  into  detail, 
suffice 
just 
enough  of  such  things  to protect custom­
er,  salesperson  and  firm  alike.

it  to  say  he  believes 

in 

This 

is  one  day's  experience  of  my 
ideal  manager;  it  would  be  the  same  if 
I  told  of  a  dozen days.  Briefly, the  duty 
of  a  manager  is  to  serve  the  interest  of 
firm  and  public. 
In  doing  this  he  can 
not  follow  any  set  of  rules,  but  must 
adapt  himself  to  the  conditions  of  the 
ever  changing  demand.
Status  of the St.  Louis Potato Market.
St.  Louis,  May  8—St.  Louis  dealers 
are  just  closing  the  most  successful  sea­
son  they  have  bad  in  handling  old  pota­
toes  and  are  turning  their  attention 
South.  They  expect  to  handle 
large 
quantities  of  new  potatoes  this  season. 
Early  reports  led  us  to  believe  that  the 
crop  of  potatoes  in  the  South  was  very 
late.  However,  all  reports  say  that  the 
crop 
is  heavy  and  that  it  is  maturing 
more  rapidly  than  was  expected;  in 
fact,  Texas  offers  carlots  for  shipment 
next  week,  Early  Bliss  Triumph  vari­
ety.  We  understand  the  prices  being 
mentioned  are  85c  per  bu.,  f.  o.  b. 
Texas  common  points,  and  that  the  rate 
of  freight  to  St.  Louis  is  35c  per  hun­
dred.  These  prices  are  all  on  a  specu­
lative  basis,  as  no  one  can  tell  what  the 
market  will  be  when  the  potatoes  are 
is  certain : 
ready  to  ship.  One  thing 
New  potatoes  are  going 
to  be  more 
plentiful  and  come  in earlier than usual. 
There  will  be  a  great  many  more  new 
potatoes  throughout  the  entire  South 
than  ever  before,  as  the  acreage  and 
planting  is  much  increased  and  every­
thing  has  been  very  favorable  ever since 
planting.  For  this  reason  we  say,  sell 
your  old  potatoes  and  sell  them  at  once.
Our  advice  is  to  move  what  old  pota­
toes  you  have  on  hand  and  move  them 
quickly.  We  will  have  a  good  outlet 
here  for  old  potatoes  for  three  weeks  or 
more  in  St.  Louis.  We  do  not  look  for 
heavy  shipments  of  new  potatoes  until 
after  May  15.  The  shipments  will  be 
rather  light  from  May  15  to June  1,  after 
which  time  they  will  be  heavy.

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

New  America.

Her eyes are full of noble hope,

A   quiet strength  is  In  her hands;

She sees  the years of splendid scope 

That brighten in  the morning lands;
The  seas are shadowed  with her sails, 

Through wider fields her plow is  sped;

Her cup of plenty never fails,

She feeds the nations with  her bread.

She throws o*er many an alien race 

The shield of equal posing law;

The weak are sheltered in  her grace,

She keeps the violent in awe;

Around  the  world  her eagle  flies,
The  people gather at her knees;

Her peaceful empire arches rise 

Above strange lands  in far-off seas.
Suspicious  Circumstances.

“ It  looks  kinder  queer,  Malindy,”  
said  the  new  millionaire  to  his  wife 
after  the  guest  had  departed,  “ that  the 
count  would  not  take  his  coat  off  at din­
ner 
like  the  rest  of  us,  don’t  it?”  
“ Maybe  he  didn't  have  no  shirt,”   sug­
gested  the  lady.  “ I’ve  seen  fellers fixed 
up  that  way  in  the  shows.”

A  stranger  in  Chicago  strayed  into  a 
shoe  store  the  other  day  enquiring  for 
“ We  handle  stockings  right 
hosiery. 
along,  but  haven’t  any  in  stock 
just  at 
present, ”   replied  the  jolly  shoe  clerk, 
f‘ but  we  can  sell  you  the  next  thing  to 
them. ”

Equality  in  Jeopardy  in  Ohio.

While  Ohio 

is  said  to  have  the  best 
organized  wholesale  grocers’  association 
in  the  United  States,  there  has  been 
trouble 
in  the  State  recently.  Price 
cutting  has  been  rampant  to  such  an 
exteLt  that  the  equality  system  of  sell­
ing  sugar  has  been  entirely  wiped  out, 
and  most  wholesalers  are  repoited  as 
losing  from  50  cents  to 60  cents  per  bar 
rel,  instead  of  making  that  amount,  as 
was  possible  under  the  conditions  exist­
ing  before  cutting,  offensive  and  de­
fensive,  altered  the  conditions.

in  a 

Secretary  Thacker, 

lttter  ad­
dressed  to  the  trade,  requests  all  whole­
salers  not  now  members  to  join  the  or­
ganization  and  assist 
in  maintaining 
prices,  and  he  calls  upon  those  inside 
the  association  who  have  seen 
fit  to 
meet  cutters  on  their  own  ground  to  re­
store  the  limited price  on  miscellaneous 
groceries  and  the  equality  plan  of  sell­
ing  sugar.  He  points  out  strongly  the 
demoralizing  effect  of  the  present  situa­
tion,  and  asserts  that,  if 
it  continues 
much  longer,  manufacturers  will  sell  di­
rectly  to  retailers,  thus  eliminating  job­
bers  entirely.

Mr.  Thacker  says  that  manufacturers 
prefer  jobbers  and  the  equality  plan  of 
selling,  and  points  to  an  instance  where 
retailers  called  upon  wholesalers  and 
asked  for a  restoration  of  limited  prices 
in  certain  territory  where  price  cutting 
had  demoralized  the  business and cut  off 
practically  all  the  jobbers'  legitimate 
profits.

The  letter  strongly urges that demoral­
ization  means  disintegration  and  a 
chaotic  condition  which  would  probably 
result  in  the  substantial  ruin  of  every 
wholesale  grocer  who  undertakes  to  do 
business  on the “ hit-or-miss”  principle.
The  national  organization  will  take  a 
hand  in  the  effort  to  adjust  matters,  be­
cause  it  is  feared  that  all  of  the  whole­
sale  grocery  associations  will  go  to 
pieces 
if  the  Ohio  organization  is  al­
lowed  to  fall.

George  Huff,  of  Portland,  Indiana, 
claims  to  have  discovered  a  new  gas 
which  is  suitable  for  use  as  fuel  or  for 
illuminating  purposes,  and  which  costs 
very  little  to  manufacture.  He  says  that 
water  and  air  are  the  only  ingredients 
used,  and  that  the  results  are  obtained 
by  compressing  the  air  and  forcing  it 
through  water.

Senator  Carter,  of  Montana,  says  tha 
in  ten  years  Montana  will  be  producing 
annunlly  more  wheat  and  flour  than  any 
two  states 
It  will  be 
shipped,  he  adds,  to  Asiatic  markets.

the  union. 

in 

If  some  clergymen  practiced  what 
they  preach  they  would  be  kept  so  busy 
they  would  have  but 
little  time  to 
preach.

Burns  &  Co.,  meat  dealers  at  253 
Jefferson  a-enue,  are  succeeded  by 
Clement  &  Jackson.

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 
>S cents.  Advance payment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

IT» JR SALE AT A VERY LIBERAL DISCOUNT 
1  —a new staple stock of dry goods;  location 
the very  best  in  town;  rent  very  reasonable. 
Reason  for  selling,  I  wish  to  go West.  Good 
Inducements  will  be  given  to  the  person  who 
means  business  and  will  come  to  look  at  the 
stock, as I will  pay  no  attention  to  inquisitive 
enquirers.  Address  L.  A.,  Postoffice  Box  84, 
Lowell, Mich. 

946

81,090—one-third 

W ANTED—30 CARS  EACH  TIMOTHY HAY 
and graded white corn.  Richard J.  Biggs 
Co.. Baltimore. Md.___________________ 936
I DOR  SALE—A  SELF-ADDING  NATIONAL 
'  cash regi-ter. good as new.  Cost $¡25.  Will 
sell less than half cost on  easy  terms. 
Jas.  A. 
945
Campbell, 252 Woodward Ave.. Detroit. 
ANTED—BY  OWNER  OF  A  CLOTHING 
stock,  one  side  of  dry  goods  or  grocery 
store in town near Grand Rapids.  Address  No. 
942, care Michigan Tradesman.__________942
\\ T ANTED—HARDWARE,  GROCERY, JEW- 
v *  elry and bazaar trade.  A  new  side  line 
for  the  above.  Do  you  wish  to  handle  it? 
Write us.  J. D. McFarlin Co., Northville, Mich.
943
Dru g sto ck—w il l in v e n t o r y  a bou t
fixtures,  balance  drugs 
and sundries.  For cash, will sell for 50 percent, 
of amount it inventories.  R. E. Hardy, Lansing, 
Mich._______________________________ 944
WANTED—WILL  BUY  YOUR  STORE  OR 
become your partner.  O. M. Bucklin, 6933 
Yale Ave., Chicago, 111._________________947
I DOR SALE—CHOICE AND CAREFULLY  SE- 
1  lected stock of drugs  and  groceries  in  best 
business  town  in  Michigan.  Rent  of  brick 
store,  reasonable.  Business  well  established 
and  always  profitable.  Reason  for  selling,  ill 
health of owner.  Address  No.  941,  care  Mich-
941
igan Tradesman. 
|DOR  SALE---- STORE  BUILDING  AND
P   dwelling combined at Levering, Mich.  The 
best place in the State  for  general store.  A. M. 
LeBaron, Grand Rapids, Mich,__________ 940
A  GOOD BUSINESS  OPENING  FOR A  TAI- 
lor  Established tailor  shop  in  one  of  the 
best towns in Northern Michigan. The business, 
with stock and  tools complete,  for  sale,  on  ac­
count  of  proprietor’s  decease.  Address  A.  D. 
Marshall, Gaylord, Mich. 
939
I DOR SALE  FOR  SPOT CASH—A twelve light 
"  Kopf  acetylene  gas  plant. Brand  new.
Used only four months.  Price $50.  Reason  for 
selling, going out of  trade.  Address  Lock  Box 
33, McBride’s, Mich. 
937
IDOR  SALE  OR EXCHANGE  FOR  FARM OR 
1  merchandise—A 20 acre  farm  on  the  Lake 
Shore,-five miles north of Benton Harbor.  Good 
buildings and improvements on  same.  Address 
M a n a g e r—w a n t  to  o p e n   c o r r es-
J. W. Lundy. Benton Harbor, Mich. 
pondence with reliable  man  who  has  had 
experience in pickle business  and  can  manage 
plant.  W. H. Kiefer, President Iowa Grocer Co., 
independence, Iowa. 
930
C HARGING 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
IDOR  SALE—OLD-ESTABLISHED,  FIRST- 
class meat market;  best  location  in  city  of 
0,000;  doing good business;  have  best  class  of 
trade in  city;  bargain  for  some  one.  Address 
928
No. 928, care Michigan Tradesman. 
IDOR  SALE—GOOD  BAZAAR  STOCK.  EN- 
quire  of  Hollon  &  Hungerford,  Albion, 
925
Mich. 
S NY  ONE  WISHING  TO  ENGAGE  IN  THE 
grain and produce and  oiher Hues of busi­
ness can  learn  of  good  locations  by  communi­
cating  with  H.  H.  Howe,  Laud  and  Industrial 
Agent C. & W. M. and D., G. R.  &  W.  Railways, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
919
IDOR  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 tree.  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. 

M oney t o  pa t e n t y our id e a s m ay b e

obtained through our aid.  Patent Record, 
Baltimore, Md. 
IDOR  SALE —CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK 
located at one of the best trading  points  iu 
X1 
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. 
I DOR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
.  splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad- 
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman.  680

913

885

868

945

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

W ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 
try;  any  quantities  Write  me.  Orrin J. 
Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich._______________ 810
B A T T E R S O N   &   C O .

P R O D U C E  C O M M IS S IO N  M E R C H A N T S  
B U F F A L O ,  N .  Y .,  May  i, 1899. 
The  warmer  weather  Is  bringing  the  price  of 
E g g s down somewhat,  on  account  of  the  quality 
not  being quite as  good  as  it  was  during  April; 
however,  we have  a  good  many  orders  for  May 
eggs yet to be filled and  can  use  your  receipts  to 
good  advantage.  Write  us  how  many  you  have 
and  we  will buy them either  on  track  your  station 
or delivered  in  Buffalo.

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

V ery respectfully,

BATTERSO N  &   CO.

RESPON SIBLE. 

RELIABLE. 

PROM PT.

Travelers* Tim e  Tables.
CHICAGO
Lv.  G. Rapids.............  7:30am  12:00nn  »11:45pm
Ar.  Chicago................2:10pm  5:15pm  7:20im
Ly.Chicago...11:45am  6:50am  4:15pm *11 50pm 
Ar.G’dRapids 5:00pm  1:25pm  10:15pm * 6:20am 
Treverse  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

Chicago.

»Kvery  day. 

Others week days only.

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association

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

retary, R. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association

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

Henry C.  Minnie, Eaton Rapids.

n P T D H I T   Grand Rapids & Western.
" C  1  l y V / 1  1  9 

Apr. io. 1899. 

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J oseph Knight;  Secretary, E. Marks. 
221 Greenwood ave :  Treasurer, u. H. F rink.

Detroit.

Ly. Grand  Rapids..........7:00am 1:35pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit.....................11:40am 5:45pm  10:05pm
Ly. Detroit......................8:15am 1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids........  1:10pm 5:20pm  10:55pm
Ly. G R7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G R 11:45am  0:30pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Gao.  D e Ha v s n ,  General Pass. Agent.

f i n   A  |U |\  Trank Railway System

v \3  Detroit and Milwaukee D1y
(In effect May  1,1899.)

G O IN G   E A S T

Leave  Arrive
Saginaw, Detroit & N Y.........t 6:45am + 9:55pm
Detroit  and  East.......   ........+10: 16am + 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit &  East........+ 3:27pm  tl2:50pm
Buffalo,  N  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t'd Ex__*  7:20pm *10:16am
Gd. Haven and Int Pts......... *  8:39am * 8:05am
Gd.  Haven  Express..............*10:21am  * 7:>5i>m
Gd. Haven  and Int  Pts.........112:58pm  t 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee... + 5  12pm  +10: llum 
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee  . .tlo-.OOpm  *10:00pm
Gd. Haven and Chicago........*  7:30pm  + 6:40am
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.

G O IN G   W E S T

*Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

C.  A.  Jusnx,  City  Pass.  Ticket Agent,

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.

/ i n   A  lk jr v   Rapids  &  Indiana  Railway
U K A i '  b  

Peb. 8, 1899.

Northern Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack. ..t 7:45am t  5:15pm
Trav. City & Petoskey............t  1:50pm  tl0:45pm
Cadillac accommodation........t  5:25pm +10:55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City....+1* :00pm  t   6:35am 
7:45am train, parlor  car;  11:00pmtrain, sleep­
ing car.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati...............................t 7:10am  +  9:45pm
F t Wayne 
............................+ 2:09pm ♦  1:30^n.
Cincinnati............................... * 7 00pm  * 6:30air
Vicksburg  and Chicago........*11:39pm  *  9:00am
7:10  am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Clncinnai 
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.

*11 32pm
6 30am

F R O M   C H IC A G O .

TO CHICAGO.
Lv. Grand Rapids...  7  10am 
2  0.9pm  *11 30pm
Ar. Chicago............   2  30pm  8  45pm  6 25am
Lv. Chicago............................   3  02pm 
Ar. Grand Rapids...................  9  45pm 
car;  11:00pm, coach and sleeping car.
parlor  car;  11:32pm sleeping car.
Muskegon Trains.

Trait leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor 
Train  leaving  Chicago 3:02pm  has  Pullman 

GOING WEST.

Lv G’d Rapids............ +7:35am +1:00pm to:40pn>
Ar Muskegon............... 9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon............. +8:10am  +11:45am t4:00pn>
Ar G’d Rapids.............9:80am  12:55pm  5:20pir
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm. 
tExcept 8unday.  »Dally.

GOING BAST.

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

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

W E S T   B O D E D .

DULUTH,
Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. A L)+ll :10pm  +7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City..............'..  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. S t Ignace..........................   9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie..............  18:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette  .......................   2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria.............................   5:20pm  12:45am
8:30am
Ar. Dnluth.................... ........................ 
Lv. Duluth...................................... . 
+6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria..........................  +11:15am  2:45am
Ar. Marquette....................... 
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............  3:30pm 
.........
Ar. Mackinaw City................ 
8:40pm  11:00am
G. W. Hib b a b d , Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Oviatt Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids
MANKTFF  &  Northeastern Ry.

BAST  BOUND.

l i l A l l l t l l  

Best route to Manistee.

V ia  C. &  W .  M.  Railway.

L v  Grand Rapids...............................7:00am  ............
A r  Manistee...*................................ 12:05pm  ............
L v   Manistee-............................  
A r Grand  Rapids  .........................   1:00pm  0:45pm

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MICA 

AXLE

has become known on account of its  good  qualities.  Merchants  handle 
Mica because their customers want the best  axle grease they can get for 
their money.  Mica  is the best because  it  is  made  especially  to  reduce 
friction,  and friction  is  the  greatest  destroyer  of  axles  and  axle  boxes. 
It is becoming a  common  saying  that  “Only  one-half  as  much  Mica  is 
required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle  grease,” so  that 
Mica  is not only the best  axle  grease  on  the  market  but  the  most  eco­
nomical as well.  Ask  your  dealer  to  show you  Mica  in  the  new white 
and blue tin packages.

ILLUMINATING  AND 
LUBRICATING  OILS

W A T E R   W H IT E   H E A D L IG H T   O IL   IS  T H E  

S T A N D A R D   T H E   W O R L D   O V E R

H IG H E S T   P R IO E   PAID  F O R   EM PTY   C A R B O N   AND  G A SO L IN E   B A R R ELS

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ Association 

President,  Fbank  J 
Klap;  Treasurer, J

Dyk;  Secretary,  Hohes 
Geo.  Lehman.

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

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

Jackson  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Porter ;  Treasurer,  L. Pblton.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

land;  Treasurer, Wm. C. Koehn.

Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association

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

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

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

bell;  Treasurer, W. E. Collins.

Alpena Bnsiaess Men’s  Association 

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

Partridge.

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

Treasurer. S. J. Hufford.

S T A N D A R D   O IL   C O .

S t  Johns  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Thos  Bromley;  Secretary, Frank A. 

Percy ;  Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Perry Business Men’s Association

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

Yale  Bnsiness Men’s Association

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

Epps’
Cocoa

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Cocoa

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Simple 
Account  Pile

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

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

File and  1,000 specially

printed bill heads.........  3  25

Printed blank bill  heads,
per thousand............ 

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

1  25

1  75

4:10pm

Grand  Rapids. 

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G R A T E F U L  

COM FORTING

Distinguished  Everywhere 

for

Delicacy of  Flavor, 
Superior  Quality 

and

Nutritive  Properties. 
Specially  Grateful  and 

Comforting  to  the 

Nervous  and  Dyspeptic.

Sold  in  Half-Pound  Tins  Only. 

Prepared  by

JAMES  E PPS  &  CO.,  Ltd., 

Homoeopathic  Chemists,  London, 

England.

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Marietta,  Ohio,  April  19,  1897.

THE COMPUTING SCALE CO.,

Dayton,  Ohio.

GENTLEMEN:

sell me one of your scales 
better  one  to  purchase  it  from me. 
for sale.

It  took a good agent  to 
It would take a 
It  is  not 

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.
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Respectfully yours,

CHAS.  W.  RIFE.

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Banquet Han  Little Cigars

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

MUSSELMflN  GROCER  GO..  Grand  Rapids.  Midi.

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handle  only  goods of  V A L U E .
If you are satisfied  to remain  at  uj 
the tail  end,  buy cheap  unreliable  ^ 
goods.

Good  Yeast  Is  Indispensable.

FLEISCHMANN  &  CO.

U n d e r   T h e i r   YELLOW   LABEL  O f f e r   t h e   B E ST!

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

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What  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  FLAKE  BAKING  POWDER  you  give  •§• 
them  the  best  and  most  widely  known  brands 
on  the  market. 
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NORTHROP,  ROBERTSON  &  CARRIER,  Lansing,  Mich.

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

Send for catalogue.

Gypsum  Products Manufacturing Co.,

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

Mill and Works, 200 South  Front Street at G.  R. &  1  R.  R. Crossing.
Mail Address, Room 20 Powers’ Opera House Block.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.  j

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