Volume XVI.

Epps’
Cocoa

Epps’
Cocoa

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7,1899.

Number 820

Epps’
Cocoa

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 P PS  &  CO.,  Ltd., 

Homoeopathic  Chemists,  London, 

England.

B R E A K FA ST

SU PPER

Perrigo’s

I  Flavoring  Extracts

The  season  has  arrived  when  your  cus­
tomers  use  Flavoring  Extracts.  Have 
you  a  good  stock  on  hand? 
If  not,  it 
would  pay  you  to  investigate  our  line. 
They will

Please

your customers.  Drop  us a line for prices, 
etc., and  incidentally ask  us about 

P e r r i g o ’ s  Q u i n i n e -C a t h a r t i c   T a b l e t s  
P e r r i g o ’s  D y s p e p s i a   T a b l e t s  
P e r r i g o ’ s  H e a d a c h e   P o w d e r s  
M a n d r a k e   B i t t e r s

They are fast  sellers and  sure  remedies.

L.  PERR1G0   CO.,  Mfg.  Chemists,  Allegan,  Mich.

W ORLD’S   B E S T

Our Specialties

Root.

Tablets.

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

5 0 .  CIGAR.  ALL  J O B B E R S   AND

G   J . J O H N S O N  C I G A R  C O

© R A N D   R A PID S.  MICH.

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STICKY  FLY PAPER

ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  FOR  IT

Did  You  Hear  It?

If you did not, then you had better

Get  Your  Ear  to  the  Earth

for just as sure as you are living

Something  Will  Drop

for we are already the largest cigar dealers in the middle west, and the end  is not yet.

PHELPS, BRACE & CO., Detroit, Mich.

F. E. BUSHMAN, Manager.

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

£   WATER WHITE  HEADLIGHT OIL  IS THE 
£  

STANDARD THE  WORLD OVER

HIGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR  EMPTY  CARBON  AND  GASOLINE  BARRELS

STANDARD OIL CO.

If You Would Be a Leader

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If you are satisfied to remain  at  m 
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goods.

Good Yeast Is Indispensable.

FLEISCHMANN & CO.

U nder  T heir  YELLOW   LABEL  O ffer  the  B E ST!

Grand  Rapids  Agency,  29 Crescent Ave. 
Detroit A gency,  118 Bates S t.

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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 packages for cider 
or vinegar without first removing all traces of our brands therefrom.

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

J  ROBINSON,  nanager.

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  a 
similar guarantee? 

ROBINSON  CIDER  A N D   V IN E G A R   CO.

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A  whole  barrel  of fine  Ginger  Snaps  to  the  con­

sumer  for  25c.  Made  only  by

NATIONAL  BISCUIT  CO.

Sears  Branch,  Grand  Rapids.

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I Important Noticeli

We  have  changed  our  corporate  name  ^  
from  the  Pètoskey  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  ^  
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Bay  Shore  Lime Co., 

Bay Shore, Mich., April 1, 1899. 

S M O K E

Banquet Hall Little Giqars

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

MUSSELMAN  GROCER  GO..  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Volume XVI._________________________ QUAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAV, JUNE 7, 1899. 

Number 820

1! Yob  Hire  8m  60 Hams

Don’t write to

BARLOW  BROS.

ORAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN 

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

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

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Business in Bay,  Saginaw, Tuscola, 
Sanilac  and  Lapeer  counties  will 
receive the personal attention of our 
attorney if sent in at once.

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Of every kind and style 
for Men’s and Youths’  I" 
wear, manufactured by 
the oldest firm in U. S., 

KOLB &  SON, 
Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Closing out  balance of 
our spring goods cheap. 
Write  our  represent­
ative, William Connor,
P.  O.  Box  346,  Mar­
shall, Mich., to  call on 
you  or  meet  him June 
15  to  20,  inclusive,  at 
Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.  Pur­
chaser’s  expenses  are 
allowed.  Mail orders 
have quick attention.

The Preferred  Bankers 
Life Assurance Company

of  Detroit,  Mich.

Annual Statement,  Dec. 31,1898.

Commenced  Business 8ept.  I,  1893.

Insurance in Force....................................... $3,399,000 00
45.734 79
Ledger Assets.............................................  
Ledger Liabilities......................................  
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Losses Adjusted and Unpaid...............  
None
Total Death Losses Paid to Date......... 
51,061  00
Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
Death Losses Paid During the Y ear... 
Death Rate for the Y ear.......................  

eficiaries.............................................. 

1,030 00
11,00000
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F R A N K  E. ROBSON, President. 

TRUMAN B. GOODSPEED, Secretary.

T he  M ercantile  A gency

Established  1841.

R.  Q.  DUN  &   CO.

Widdicomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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

L. P. W1TZLEBEN,  flanager.

Prompt, Conservative, .Sale.

► J.W .C h a m p lin, Pres.  W . Frkd McB a in , S e c ..

Save  Trouble. 
Save  Money, 
Save Time.

Essential  Oils—Cassia  has  declined. 

Millers are  paying  72c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

IM P O R T A N T   F E A T U R E S .

PAGE2.  T h e  D ry  G oods  M arket.
8.  F o u rth   o f J u ly .
4.  A rou n d   th e   8 tate.
5.  Grand  R apid s  Gossip.
6.  W om an ’s  W orld .
8.  E d ito ria l.
9.  E d ito ria l.
11.  D ip lo m atie  D ram m in g.
1* .  O bservation s  by  a   G o th am   E g g   Man.
13.  G o th am   Gossip.
14.  P a ssed   In to   H istory.
15.  Shoes an d L ea th er.
17.  C o m m ercial  T ra velers.
18.  D ra g s  an d   C h em icals.
19.  D ra g   P rice  C arren t.
50.  G ro cery  P rice C arren t.
5 1 .  G ro cery  P rice  C arren t.
22.  H ard w are,
S3.  D ru ggists  an d   D octors.
34.  G. R . R e ta il G rocers’ A sso ciation . 

H ard w are  P rice   C arren t.

B usin ess  W ants.

BUSINESS  CONDITIONS.

It  is  coming  to  be  recognized  that 
tbe  undue  prolongation  of  the  dull  sea­
son  in  the  stock  market  is  owing  more 
to  the  manipulations  of  speculators than 
to any  natural  conditions  which  should 
govern.  To  the  careful  student  of  the 
financial  situation  and  of  tbe  industrial 
conditions  which  should  affect  values  it 
is  very  manifest  that  there  is an unusuai 
effectiveness  in  the  work  of the  organi­
zations  of  professional  operators 
in 
which  unusual  means  has  been  em­
ployed  to  hold  values  to  tbe  desired lev­
els.  For  instance,  there  were  quite  a 
stir  and  surprise  over  tbe  announce­
ment  of a  heavy  gold  shipment  to  Lon­
don  last  week.  The  need  for  such  a 
shipment  could  only  mean  that  there 
was  less  of  the  heavy  balance  due  from 
the  Old  World  than  bad  been  supposed. 
But  the  fact quickly  being  made  public 
that  several  houses  would  have  been 
glad  to  take  the  gold  at  tbe  present 
condition  of  exchange,  and  that  it  was 
only  for  speculative  effect that  the  deal 
was  made,  robbed  tbe  transaction  of 
any  material  effect.  It is suggestive  that 
if  such  means  is  resorted  to  it  must  be 
after the  exhaustion  of  effort  in  the con- 
troling of  reports,manipulating  of  trans­
actions  as  to  dividends,  etc. 
Indeed, 
there  was  a  prompt  advance  in  most 
lines;  but  later  trading  has  been  slow, 
with  the  renewal  of  the  downward  tend­
ency  of  many  in  the  list.

Probably  the  most  potent  factor in  the 
continued  dulness 
in  stock  trading  is 
the  natural  reaction  from the long period 
of  recapitalization 
in  the  organization 
of  trusts.  The  buying  public  has  taken 
heed  of  the  many  notes of  warning  and 
tbe  distrust  has  extended  to all  securi­
ties.  Then  the  conservatism  has  nat­
urally  been  increased  by  the  action  of 
banks  in  refusing  to  recognize  a consid­
erable  proportion  of  tbe  new 
issues. 
This  result  seems  perfectly  natural,  and 
it  is  undoubtedly  better that  tbe  new  is­
sues  should  demonstrate  their values be­
fore  being  taken  with  too  great  cre­
dulity. 
Indeed,  conservatism  of  this 
kind 
is  necessary  to  prevent  tbe  un­
healthy  consequences of unlimited activ­
ity.

Perhaps  the  most  remarkable  condi­
tions  in  tbe  industrial  field  are  found 
in tbe steel manufacture.  An iron famine 
has  been  known  before,  at a  time  when

a  suddenly-enlarging  demand  far  sur­
passed  for  a  time  tbe  slowly-rallying 
production,  but  in  this  case  tbe  produc­
tion  has  for  months  been  much  the 
greatest  ever  known 
in  this  country; 
and  yet  the  consumption  has  steadily 
exceeded  it.  Tbe addition  of  some  fur­
naces  in  May,  although  not  as  many  as 
bad  been  expected  to  complete  their 
preparations,  has  doubtless  added  to the 
weekly  output,  but  there are  still 
indi­
cations  that  the  reserve  stock  at the  fur­
naces and  in  warehouses  has  not  ceased 
to diminish.  With  something  like  half 
the  works  engaged  to  their  full  capacity 
for  many  months  ahead,  it  is  not  pos­
sible  to  determine  accurately  what  new 
orders  are  received,  and  they  presum­
ably  fall  much  below  the  consumption 
on  old  orders and  new;  but  there  is  re­
ported  each  week  a  surprising  amount 
of  new  business,  and  with  such  urgency 
of  demand  that  in  many cases premiums 
of  $5  a  ton  are  paid  to  secure  deliveries 
in  June  or July.

Conditions 

in  other  branches  of  in­
dustry  are  almost  uniformly  favorable. 
Boot  and  shoe  shipments  from  the  East 
were  17  per  cent,  greater  than  last  year, 
with 
improving  prices.  Tbe  woolen 
trade  shows  moderate  improvement and 
manufacturers  are  much  encouraged, 
although  sales  of  wool  are  mostly  gov­
erned  by  speculation.  Demand  is  also 
improving 
in  cotton  goods  in  spite  of 
the  positive  advance  in  quotations.

The  sharp  advance  in  wheat  caused 
by  damage  reports  has  been  followed 
by  a  tendency  to  reaction  this week,  ow­
ing  to  contrary 
reports.  Movement 
continues  heavy,although  less, of  course, 
than  during  the  Leiter  boom  of  last 
year.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Is  unchanged,  awaiting  the 
outcome  of  the  present  crop. 
Some 
claim  there  will  be  eight  or nine  thou­
sand  cases,  others six or  seven  thousand. 
In  either  event  there  will  be  plenty  to 
supply  the  world  and  no  higher  prices 
are  expected.

Morphine— Is  steady  at  unchanged 

prices.

Quinine— Manufacturers  are  firm  in 
their  prices  and  outside  holders  have 
advanced  their  prices  to  nearly  a  parity 
with  manufacturers.  All  are  awaiting 
the  outcome  of  the bark  sale  on  June  8.
Cincbonidia— Is  very  active  at tbe ad­
vanced  price.  The  stock  is  limited  and 
very  little  is being  manufactured.

Acids—Carbolic  is  in  better  demand, 
on  account  of  the extremely hot weather, 
and  is  very  firm.  Citric  is  still  tending 
higher,  late advances  by  manufacturers 
being  well  maintained.

Cocaine—On  account  of  scarcity  and 
the  high  price  of  coca  leaves,  an  ad­
vance  is  probable  in  the  near  future.
Cattle  Fish  Bone— The  market 

is 
further advanced  and  there  is  very  little 
offering.

Glycerine— An 

early 

advance 

is

prophesied  from  reliable quarters.

Naphthaline  Balls—Are  in  better sup­

Nitrate  Silver—The  price  has  been 

ply  and  lower.

reduced.

Cloves are  very  firm.

The  Grain Market.

Wheat  has  made  a 

lower  record  in 
price  during  the  week, without any cause 
except  the  mood  of the speculator.  The 
same  cause  which  elevated  the  price 
nearly  10c  still  exists,  only  in  a  more 
pronounced  form.  Our  winter  wheat  in 
all  tbe  belt  except  Oklahoma  has  not 
improved  and  of  the  30,000,000 acres 
sown  probably  4,000,000  have  been 
plowed  up,  and  the  crop  experts—aside 
from  those  who  prepare  the  Government 
report—claim  not  much  over  half  a 
crop.  The  crop  of  1898  was  large,  but 
there  was  not  much  left  over  from  1897, 
owing  to  tbe  prevailing  high prices dur­
ing  tbe  Leiter  deal,  and  our  exports 
were 
in  round  numbers  213,000,000 
bushels  ending  June  1,  1898,  while  we 
have  exported  to  June  1  of  this  year
210.000.  000  bushels, 
leaving  approxi­
mately  ioo.ooo.ooo  bushels on band.  Onr 
winter  wheat  crop  about  to  be  harvested 
will  not  exceed  225,000,000 bushels  and 
that  of  a  poor  quality.  While  things 
look  favorable  for  spring  wheat,  still 
with  a  decreased  acreage  the  crop  at  its 
utmost  will  barely  be  275,000,000  bush­
els,  making  500,000,000 bushels  in  all, 
against 683,000,000  bushels  in  1898.  The
100.000.  000  bushels  on  band  will  make
600.000.  000  bushels  in  all. 
It  will  take
325.000.  000  bushels  for  home  consump­
tion,  over  70,000,000  bushels  for  seed, 
besides  20,000,000  bushels  being  used 
for  other  purposes,  making  415,000,000 
bushels,  while in Russia and  other  wheat 
producing  countries  tbe  outlook 
is  not 
as  rosy  as  some  want  to  make  ns  be­
lieve,  especially  in  Russia,  where  tbe 
wheat  crop  is  nearly  as  bad  as  in  our 
winter  wheat  belt,  so  tbe  strong  condi­
tions  have  not  been  changed  in  the least 
from  what  they  were  a  week  ago,  with 
the  single  exception  that  our  visible 
increased  nearly  2,000,000  bushels. 
However,  there 
in  dilating 
It  wiil  make  itself 
on  the  situation. 
felt  before 
long 
in  a  way  that  will  as­
tonish  the  bears,  as  they  can  not  be 
made  to  believe  the  real  crop  damage. 
Farmers  throughout  the  region  where 
winter  wheat  is  raised  will  not  sell  any 
wheat  at  present,  claiming  they  will 
wait  for  the  outcome  of  harvest.

is  no  use 

Corn  holds  its  own  fairly  well,  taking 
into  consideration  the  extra  large  acre­
age  being  planted.  While  extremely 
wet  weather  has  caused  much  replant­
ing,  we  think  under  ordinarily  favor­
able  conditions  the  yield  will  be  a 
record  breaker.

Oats  shared  the  fate  of  corn,  only  in 
a  more  pronounced  way,  as  tbe  fine 
stand  and  the 
increased  acreage  will 
give  us,  barring  accidents,  a  monster 
crop  and  lower  prices  will  prevail.

Rye  is  steady  for  present  or 

immedi­
ate  sales,  while  futures  are  from  io@i5c 
lower,  owing  to  the  fine  outlook  and  no 
foreign  demand.

The  receipts  during  the  month of May 
were  236  cars  of  wheat,  70 cars  of  corn, 
40 cars  of  oats,  2  cars  of  rye  and 48  cars 
of  hay.

During  the  week  the  receipts  were  60 

cars  of  wheat,  20 cars  of  corn,  5  cars  of  . 
oats,  no  rye  and  4  cars  of  bay.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

less 
uation,  they  are  gradually  growing 
disposed  to  swap  a 
future  which,  to 
them,  shows  more  certainty  of  improve­
ment,  for  an  uncertainty  in  the  trust. 
The  average  manufacturer  is  averse  to 
losing  his  individuality.

Oil  Cloth  and  Linoleum—The price of 
oilcloth  has  been  advanced  2j£ percent, 
and  linoleum  5  per  cent,  from  May  1.

Lace  Curtains—Continue  in  good  de­
mand,  paiticulariy 
the  Nottingham 
made  by  domestic  manufacturers.  Rope 
portieres  continue 
favor,  and  are 
shown  in  a  great  variety  of  styles  and 
colorings,  with 
and  novelty 
effects.

tinsel 

in 

His  Principal  Stock  in  Trade.
Dentist—I  see  that  I  shall  have to 

kill  the  nerve.

Patient—For  heaven’s  sake  don’t!  It 
I'm  a 

would  ruin  me  in  my  business. 
life  insurance  agent.

Dry  Poods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.
Staple  Cottons—The  demand 

in  the 
staple  division  of  the  cotton  goods  mar­
ket  has  hardly  been  up  to that  of a week 
or  two  past,  but  is  still  of  good  volume 
and,  considering  the  advances  that  are 
being  made  daily, 
is  quite  steady. 
Brown  sheetings  and  drills  are  finding 
all  the  business  that  they  want,  that  is, 
the  product  of  the  mills  is  being  taken 
care  of  as  fast  as  it  is  made  ready. 
Agents  are  not  anxious  to  make engage­
ments  for  forward  delivery,  and  spot 
goods  are  few  and  far  between.  Prices 
are  not  quoted  higher,  but  are  very 
firm.  Bleached  goods  show  fair busi­
ness,  with  prices  as  advanced 
firmly 
maintained.  The  tendency  is  against 
buyers 
in  all  grades.  Wide  sheetings 
are  in  moderate  demand,  with  the  mar­
ket  firm.  Cotton  flannels  and  blankets 
are  receiving  a  good amount of re-orders 
at  full  prices.  Coarse  colored  cottons 
are  not  up  to  the  recent  standard  as  far 
as  sales  go,  but  stocks are  held  down  to 
a  good  quantity.

f - r r i r r r i n m r r i r T ^

COTTONS  |

Do you know how the cotton market stands?
Investigate.  You  had  better  buy  now 
while  the  prices  are  yet within  your  reach. 
Our  prices  have  not  yet  advanced,  com- 
pared  to  some  dealers.  We  carry  most  of 
the staple brands in Bleached, Half Bleached 
and Unbleached, in 4-4 42 in., 5-4 5°  *n*> 6-4,
7-4,  8-4,  9-4,  10-4.  Don’t  delay,  but  write 
us at once for prices.

P. S T E K E T E E  & SONS,

WHOLESALE- DRY GOODS. 
GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

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We Are in Position 

To fill all kinds of orders for  Men’s  Working  Shirts.
Our stock includes some of the very best values ever 
offered to retail at  a  Half  Dollar;  also  a  number  of 
Specials to retail at a Quarter.  Large, roomy bodies, 
large  sleeves  and  extra  length  are  features  worth 
consideration  by  any  buyer.  Our  goods  are  all 
made that way. 

VOIGT,  HERPOLSHEIMER  &  CO, 

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  Wholesale  Dry Goods. 

Grand  Rapids, Mich,

Prints  and  Ginghams—There  is  a  fair 
demand  for  light  fancy  calicoes  and  for 
certain  staples,  both  spot  and  by  mail. 
Fall  goods  are 
improving  in  demand 
and  the  enquiries  are  fairly  numerous. 
Reports  from  traveling  salesmen  show 
that  they  are  doing  fairly  well,  both 
in 
dark  fancies  and  staple  lines.  Fancy 
calicoes have  come  very  nearly  to a  stop 
in  the  advances  which  were  named  so 
freely  for a  while,  but  business  is  con­
tinuing  in  fair  shape.  Ginghams  show 
no  new  features  and  napped  fabrics  and 
fancy  cotton  dress  fabrics  are  firm  in 
all  leading  lines  and  show  a  good  busi­
ness.

Hosiery— Importers  of  hosiery  say 
that  they  have  secured  an 
excellent 
business  at  very  satisfactory  prices. 
Buyers  have  been  numerous  in  the  mar­
ket,  and  mail  orders  have  been  of  good 
size. 
In  spite  of  the  fact  that  weak 
spots  can  be  found occasionally,the mar­
ket  as  a  rule  is  quite  steady.  The  weak 
spots  are  in  dark  colored  ribbed  goods. 
It  is  the  season  now  when  agents  carry­
ing  extra  large  stocks  will  throw  these 
goods  on  the  market  at  low  prices,  and 
even  now  they  are  beginning  to  be 
found.  Some  of  the  agents  who  have 
overstocked  themselves  with  golf  ho­
siery  are  beginning  to  offer  these  goods 
at  what  they  say  is  just  half  what  they 
cost  to 
import.  Whether  this  is  so  or 
not  may  be  left  to  the  buyer  to  decide. 
Nevertheless, he  is  pretty  certain  to find 
some  good  bargains  just  now  in  the 
hosiery  market.

largest  business 

Knit  Goods— Specialties  in knit goods 
are  doing  more  business  now  than  for 
some  weeks  past,  including  sweaters, 
jerseys  and  bathing  suits. 
In  sweaters, 
the  demand  is  good  for all  grades,  from 
the  lowest  to  the  highest,  but  naturally 
is  secured  by  the 
the 
low  and 
low  medium  priced  goods. 
Some  of  the  manufacturers  are  endeav­
oring  to 
interest  buyers  in  lines  that 
contain  new  features,  such,  for  instance, 
as  collars  that  turn  down  and  are  suit­
able to  be  worn  with  ties,  out  of  place 
as  such  a  thing  is  with  this  style  of 
garment.  The  very 
idea  of  a  necktie 
being  tied  around  the  collar  of a sweater 
or guernsey  is  totally  foreign  to  the pur­
pose  of  the  garment.

Carpets—The  trust  agitation  is  not  so 
pronounced  of  late  and  the  manufac­
turers are,  in  many  instances,  contented 
to  let  well  enough  alone.  As  they  see 
prospects  brightening  in  the  carpet  sit­

WE ARE FULL

of business but can attend to your orders.
Send  them  in.  The  Latest  in  Stripes, 
Squares and Checks.

OUR
NECKW EAR 
PRODUCTIONS •  •

are unexcelled in Style,  Pattern or  Finish.
90c  to  $2.00  per  doz.;  $2.00  to  $4.50  per 
doz.  No traveling men.  Write for  sam­
ple  assortment  and  make  selection  at 
your leisure.

LEY  BROTHERS,

We want your Mali Orders.

Manufacturers of Stylish 

Neckwear for Hen and Women. 

1818 Milwaukee Ave.,

CHICAGO,  ILL.

G ood A d v ic e

I f  you  wish  to  be  up  to  date  and  give  your  custom­
ers  the  best  value  in  the  trade  buy  Northrop Spices 
and  Queen  Flake  Baking Powder.  M anufactured 
and sold only  by

N orthrop,  Robertson  &   C a rrier,

Lansing,  M ich.

I  will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel, 
Grand  Rapids, June  19,  11 
and  12, with  all  my winter 
lines,  as  follows:
J.  G.  M i l l e r   &  Co.,

Men’s  Suits and  Over­

coats.

M o r g e n t h a u   B r o s .,

Boys’  and  Children’s 

Suits and  Overcoats.

K.  B.  O l s o n   C o.,

Fine  Pants  Line. 

Expenses  allowed  all  cus­
tomers. 

S.T. BOWEN.

Before 
You  Buy

Get our prices on 
Muslin  Flags 
Bunting  Flags 
Flag  Poles 
Seat Shades 
Large  Umbrellas 
Lawn Swings
Chas.  A.  Coye,

11  Pearl Street.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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rings 

placard,  “ 1776  rang  liberty to America. 
1899 
from  high 
prices.”

your  liberty 

If  you  can  get  it,  have  a  drum  corps 
of  boys  or  a  martial  band,  dressed  in 
“ Uncle  Sam’ ’  uniform,  advertisement 
of  your  store  on  their  backs.  Let  them 
parade  the  streets,  stopping  here  and 
there.  Have  small  boys  to  carry  Ameri­
can  and  English  flags;  also  boy  to 
carry  banner  with  your advertisement 
on  it.

Have  your  plans  outlined  early,  and 
in  time  to  get 

start  your  preparations 
ahead  of  your  competitor.

And  let  the  people  know  about  it.

'  She  Shops.
She  shops!

She does not  mean to buy,
For funds are low and prices high,
So many people wonder why 

She keeps herself apprised 
Of all tne bargains advertised,
And with a gusto undisguised—

She  shops !
She  shops!

She  shops!
She  shops!

She  shops!
She  shops!

The tired assistant sighs,
For long experience makes him wise, 
He knows wherein her weakness  lies— 

She hurries to and fro,
And when the sun is setting low 
A  thousand captured samples show 

She  shops!
Words  That  Live.

“ When  a  man  pays  a  woman  a  com­
pliment  it  is  said  that  she  never  forgets 
him. “

“ That’s  not  exactly  the  way  of  it; 
she  sometimes  forgets  the  man,  but  she 
always  remembers  the  compliment.”

LARGE BIRO EIGHT BY SIXTEEN FEET.  HAVE YOU  SEEN IT IN THE CITY?

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SWEET;  RICH. 

$35  PER M. 

SEND  MAIL  ORDER.

THURLOW  W EED  CIGAR.  $70^00 per M .  TEN CENTS STRAIGHT.

A A MICmGAN "a g e n t   STANDARD  CIGAR  CO.,  CLEVELA"D;OHIO.

a e m u 's Sunshine

Sen Rising Pastry  Flour

Prepared on an entirely new formula.  Makes the best Strawberry Shortcakes, 
Biscuits,  Cakes and Pastry of all  kinds,  by  the  addition  of  Milk  or  Water. 
Put up in a and 6 lb. cartons,  two dozen in  case.  Sold  direct,  or  can  be  sup­
plied by any wholesale grocer.
We also put up Self Rising Entire Wheat and Graham Flours in 2 lb. cartons, 
two dozen in case.  We are sole manufacturers of Sunshine Flour for general
house-hold use.

I  
If Mills at Piatimeli and 6onstantlne. Mich.

J. F. Eesley Milling Go.

Said  the  Grocer

“ I'll have to get a barrel to keep the nickels in." 
“ W hat's the matter?"
“Uneeda  Biscuit l  T he  new delicacy.
Costs only 5 cents for a package.
Enough for a meal,  too.
Just look at that package for 5 cents!
Royal purple and white.
Dust proof!  M oisture proof!  Odor proof I 
Keeps in the goodness.
Keeps out the badness.
Everybody wants

Uneeda 
iscuit

FOURTH  OF  JULY.

Ideas  for  Creating  Enthusiasm  and 

Helping  Business.

Rather  early  perhaps  to  have  the 
plans  all  made  for  Fourth  of  July  pub-* 
jicity,  but  not  too  early  to  be  consider­
ing  what  you  are  going  to  do. 
If  there 
is  no  general  celebration  in  town,  the 
merchant  surely  can  make  it lively  for 
the  patriotic  and  enthusiastic.

Give  flags, 

firecrackers,  balloons,  or 
fireworks  to  such  as  patronize  your 
store.

Get  up  ball  games  or  sports  of  any 
kind  for  the  day.  Make  some  liberal 
prizes  from  your  stock. 
It  will  help  to 
make  the  success  of the  day  reflect upon 
your  establishment.

Probably  the  boys  would  appreciate 
red,  white  and  blue  bats  or  caps,  or  im­
itation  soldier  caps  would  be  attractive. 
Give  them  with  purchases  of  a  given 
amount.

If  there’s  a  celebration  at  your  town, 
be  a  leading  mover  in 
it.  Help  with 
the  prizes,  be a leader in  the  decorating, 
in  the  arranging  for  speakers  or  amuse­
ments.  Don’t  take  a  back  seat  because 
it’s  warm.  Be 
in  the  front  where  in 
the  enthusiasm  of  the  day  you’ll  forget 
all  about  the  uncomfortable  atmospheric 
conditions.

Why  not  prepare  a  barrel  of  lemonade 
If  there  is  a  celebration 
for  visitors? 
it  will  be  much  sought  after. 
If  there 
is  not  a  celebration  it  will  be  all  the 
more  appreciated  by  those  who  get  a 
chance  at  it.

For  evening  have  some  fireworks  or 

some  balloons.

A  good 

idea  would  be  to  send  up  a 
number  of  balloons  with  cards  attached 
promising  prizes  for  bringing 
them 
back  to  your  store.  Tell  about  it  in  the 
newspapers  and  have  people  looking  for 
your  balloons  to  be  sent  up.  When  the 
balloons  are  brought  back  give  your 
prizes  willingly.  Perhaps  you  can  ex 
tract  an 
the 
interesting  story  from 
finder,  and 
it  would  make a  good  item 
in  the  local  paper.  Anyway,  publish 
the  names  of  the  finders  of  your  bal­
loons.

Might  send  a  bunch  of  firecrackers  to 
each  of  your  customers,  or  publish  a 
coupon  for  which  you  would  give  fire­
crackers  or other  enthusiasm-producers 
when  the  coupon  was  presented  at  your 
store.

If  there  is  a  procession,  be 

On  a  celebration  day  you  could  pro­
vide  luncheon  for  your  out-of-town  cus­
tomers.  They  would  appreciate  it.
in 

it. 
Have  a  wagon  or  some  special  display. 
Make  it  representative.  Be  among  the 
first  to  act  rather  than  the  last  to  re­
spond.

Don’t  overlook  your  windows.  Make 
them  shine  up  with  patriotic  colors. 
Make  them  distinctive  for  their  beauty 
and  attractiveness.

If  you  have  a  regular  space  in  the 
weekly  papers,  devote a  portion  of  it to 
telling  about  the  Fourth  of  July  in  your 
town  or  at  your  store.  Help  the  com­
mittee  if  you  are  not  a  member  of  it. 
Help  make  Fourth  of  July  a  success,  as 
it  will  help  you.

Give  the  ladies  small  Cuban  flags. 
It  isn’t  necessary  to  print any advertise­
ment  on  them;  the  donor  will  be  re­
membered.

Change  the  signs  in  your  store,  and 
have  them  printed  or  painted  in  red 
and  blue  on  white,  or  black  on  red, 
white  and  blue  striped  cardboard.

It  will  be  a  good  idea  to  have dodgers 
printed  on  red,  white  and  blue  paper 
with  the  announcement  thereon :

“ Fireworks  Free  to  Customers!  On 
the  3d  and  4th  of  July,  each  person  who 
purchases  $1  to $25  worth  of  goods  f&r 
cash  will  get  pieces  of  fireworks  free.’ ’
Give  away  6-inch  pieces  of  “ punk’ ’ 
around  which 
is  wrapped  and  pasted 
on  a  slip  of  paper,  “ Compliments  of 
John  Blank,  General  Dealer.’ ’

Lay  in  a  good  supply  of  matches  and 
then  tie  up  ten  in  a  bunch ;  roll  in a slip 
which  has  something 
it: 
“ Matches  free—We match your pennies, 
dimes  and  dollars  with  the  best  goods 
sold. ’ ’

like  this  on 

Put  up  an  old  dinner  bell,  and  ring  it 
at  short  intervals.  Have  a  boy  ring  it ;

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M IC H IG A N   TRADESM AN

Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Fliut—Jos.  Lanning  has  sold  his  gro­

cery  stock  to Jos.  Boiton.

engage 

Decatur— Clement  Ball  will  shortly 
in  the  grocery  business  here.
South  Haven—T.  L.  Stults  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  J.  D.  John­
son.

Bruce's  Crossing—*W.  R.  Howlett  has 
purchased  the  general  stock  of  W.  H. 
Elliott.

Three  Oaks— Ernest  Bardelmeier  will 
shortly  remove  bis  grocery  stock  to  New 
Buffalo.

Ann  Arbor—J.  A.  Herrick  succeeds
in  the  confectionery 

A.  A.  Marshall 
business.

Battle  Creek—Beedon  &  Bostwick 
succeed  Burton  N.  Beedon  in  the  drug 
business.

Battle  Creek—Lamdes  &  Co.  have 
discontinued  their  grocery  and  bakery 
business.

Vicksburg—Henry  Day  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  his  sister,  Mrs.  Ella 
Ingerson.

Grand  Ledge— Cbas.  T.  Young  has 
opened  a  men's  clothing  and  furnishing 
goods  store.

Fennville—Cbas.  H.  Barker  has  re­
moved  bis  bazaar  stock  from  Muskegon 
to  this  place.

Stevensville—Geo.  F.  Slattery  is  suc­
ceeded  by  Geo.  F.  Slattery  &  Co.  in the 
drug  business.

Ann  Arbor—John  Fisher  has  taken 
possession  of  the  hardware  stock  of 
James  Harkins.

Mt.  Clemens—James  Quackenbusb 
continues  the  bakery  business of Morgan 
&  Quackenbush.

Scottville-----The  department 

store
project  is  in  statu  quo  and  may  not  ma­
terialize after  all.

Detroit—John  S.  Connelly  succeeds 
Connelly  &  Worthington  in  the  grocery 
and  meat  business.

Houghton—Cbas.  J.  Markham  suc­
ceeds  Markham  &  Jones  in  the  whole­
sale  candy  business.

Battle  Creek— H.  L.  Dean  has  closed 
out  his  meat  market  at  this  place  and 
discontinued  business.

Pittsford— H.  M.  Cole  is  erecting  a 
new  store  building  which  he will occupy 
with  his  grocery  stock.

Horseshoe— Burton  Blaxton  has  sold 
his  general  stock  to  A.  Sheckles,  who 
will  continue  the business.

Lansing— The  Porter  stock  of  hard­
ware  has  been  sold  by  Gillam  &  Son  to 
Paul  Dunham,  of  North  Lansing.

Houghton—John Gottstein  is succeeded 
by  Gottstein  &  Co.  in  the  men's  fur­
nishing  goods  and  boot  and  shoe  busi­
ness.

Manistee— Tony  Piotrowsky  has  pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  of  Dr.  W.  E. 
Young  and will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  location.

Houghton—W.  L.  Dunn  and  W.  A. 
Dunn  have  formed  a  copartnership  un­
der the  style  of  W.  L.  Dunn  &  Co.  and 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business.

Benton  Harbor—G.  M.  Forsyth  has 
sold  his  musical  merchandise  stock  to 
August  Peters,  of Coloma,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  the  same  location.
Montague—The  Muskegon  Circuit 
Court  has  declared  fraudulent  the  mort­
gage  uttered  by  H.  E.  Morse, the Monta­
gue druggist,  prior to  his  making  an  as­
signment to a local attorney.  The alleged 
consideration  was $1,200,  mortgagee be­
ing  a  father  of  the  mortgagor.  The  set­
ting  aside  of  the  mortgage ought  to give 
the merchandise  creditors a considerable 
proportion  of  their  claims.

Baldwin— R.  J.  Matthews,  the grocer, 
recently 
landed  a  rainbow  trout  from 
the  Pere  Marquette  River  which  was 
26 
inches  long  and  weighed  over  5 
pounds.

Kalamazoo—C.  L.  Gold  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to T.  J.  Miller,  A.  H.  Prehn 
and  C.  F.  Leech,  who  will  continue the 
business  at  735  Portage  street  under 
the  style  of  the  Model  drug  store.

Butternut— N.  W.  Daggett  has  bought 
the  A.  R.  Isham  &  Son  stock  of general 
merchandise  and  will  continue the busi­
ness.  A.  R.  Isham  &  Son  will  continue 
the  buggy  and  implement  business.

Tower—Three  new  general  stores  are 
to  be 
located  here  in  the  near  future— 
one  by  L.  D.  Goss,  of  South  Rogers; 
one by  W.  J.  White,  of  Alpena,  and  the 
third  by  Andrew  Sherman,  of  Hurst.

Detroit-----Articles  incorporating  the
Ernst  Krapp  Co.,  for  dealing 
in  mer­
chandise  pertaining  to  the  dry  goods, 
hat,  cap  and  clothing  business,  have 
been  filed  with  the  County  Clerk.  The 
capital  stock 
is  $25,000,  all  paid  in. 
Following  are  the  incorporators:  Ernst 
Krapp,  1,700  shares;  A bbieK rapp,  100; 
Gustav  Krapp,  200;  Carl  Zinzer,  200; 
Jacob  Huehnergard,  200;  Louise  Horn- 
mel,  100 shares.

Muskegon—The  charge  on  which 
Hans  Hansen  was  recently  arrested  was 
selling 
impure  cream  of  tartar.  The 
goods  were  sold  to him a s' ‘ Phosphate of 
Tartar”   by  Franklin  MacVeagh  &  Co., 
of  Chicago,  111.  Although  sold  as  a 
substitute  for cream  of  tartar,  since the 
goods  contain  sulphate  of 
lime  (being 
gypsum  in  an  anhydrous  form),  the sale 
by  them  to the  retailer  is a  violation  of 
the  Michigan  food 
laws.  Mr.  Hansen, 
however,  sold  the  goods  for  cream  of 
tartar.

Detroit— Since July  1,  1898,  when  the 
new  bankruptcy 
law  took  effect,  there 
have  been  only  about  100 applications 
in  this  district,  which  embraces  38  per 
cent,  of  the  population  of  Michigan, 
and  of  these  only  39  have  been  dis­
charged.  The  total 
liabilities  of  the 
discharged  bankrupts  amount to $1,815,- 
721.  The  assets  seldom  amount  to  more 
than  5  per cent.  Referee  Davock  says 
he  does  not  believe  a  single  application 
out  of  the  100  was  made  with  fraudulent 
intent,  and  Judge  Swan  takes  the  same 
view.

Harbor  Springs—The  Northern  Beef 
Co.  opened  to  the  public  last  Saturday 
what  is  said  to  be  the  finest  meat  mar­
ket 
in  the  State.  The  building  was 
erected  this  spring  by  the  owners,  W.  J. 
Clarke  &  Son,  south  of  and  connecting 
with  their block ;  and  the  entire fixtures 
were  built  by  Wolf,  Sayer  &  Heller,  of 
Chicago,  expressly  for them.  The  finish 
is 
in  quarter  sawed  oak  and  plenty  of 
beveled  plate  mirrors  combine  to  pro­
duce a  fine  effect.  The  equipment  for 
taking  care  of  and  manufacturing  the 
by-products  of  the  market  are  very 
complete.  A  35  horse  power  boiler 
furnishes  steam  for  rendering  lard,  cut­
ting  meats  for  sausage  and  all  other 
power  required.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Brant—W.  H.  Reid  has  purchased  the 
planing  mill  plant  of Hamilton Winters.
Maybee—J.  C.  Hasley  succeeds J.  C. 
Hasley  &  Co.  in  the  flouring  mill  busi­
ness.

Waldron— The  Waldron  Creamery  Co. 
incorporated,  with  a  capital 

has  been 
stock  of $2,500,

Detroit—The  Lee  Injector  Manufac­
turing  Co.  succeeds  the  Lee-Penberthy 
Manufacturing Co.  in the manufacture of 
steam  specialties.

Homer—The  Homer creamery  is  run­
ning  to  its  full  capacity  under the  man­
agement  of  Clark  &  Tew.

Detroit—The  Davey  &  Wool  Manu­
facturing  Co.  has  changed  its  style to 
the  Detroit  Cornucopia  Manufacturing 
Cc.,  continuing  the  manufacture  of 
paper boxes.

Cadillac—Cobbs  &  Mitchell  have 
merged  their  lumber and  manfacturing 
business 
into  a  stock  company,  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $750,000.  The corporate 
name  is  the  same  as  the  firm  name.

Saunders— E.  P.  Royce,  of  Escanaba, 
A.  R.  Hatteberg,  of  Antigo,  and  C. 
McDermott  and  John  Burt,  of 
Iron 
River,  have  formed  a  copartnership  for 
the  purpose  of  engaging  in  the  manu­
facture  of  lumber at  this  place.

Schoolcraft—Frank  J.  Fellows,  Justin 
L.  Clark  and  H.  H.  Kinney  have 
formed  a  copartnership  under  the  style 
of  Fellows,  Clark  &  Co.  to  engage  in 
the  manufacture  of  hardwood  lumber. 
The  firm  already  has  three  mills  in  op­
eration.

Telephone  Topics.

Coopersville—The  Citizens  Telephone 
Co.  of  Muskegon  has  secured  twenty 
subscribers  for a  local  exchange at  this 
place  and  will  proceed  to  put  it  in  at 
once.

Manton—The  Swaverly Telephone Co. 
has arranged  to  put  in  a  local  exchange 
at  this  place,  having  secured  twenty 
subscribers.  The  company  will  also 
build  a  copper  metallic circuit from this 
place  to  Cadillac,  thus  connecting  with 
the  Citizens  Telephone  Co.  of  Grand 
Rapids.  The  line  will  also  be  extended 
to  Sherman.

Grand  Rapids—The  Citizens  Tele­
phone  Co.  has  lately  equipped  a  local 
exchange at  Caledonia  with  twelve  con­
nections;  Middleville  with  forty  con­
nections ;  Hastings with  133  connections 
and,  in  about  fifteen  days,  it  will  have 
a  local  exchange  in  operation  at  Nash­
ville  with  about  forty  connections.  The 
Citizens  Co.  is  also  putting  in  an  ex­
change  at  Fremont  with  fifty  connec­
tions,  which  it  expects to  have  in  oper­
ation  by  July’ 1.  On  or  before  that  time 
it  will  be  connected  with  Lansing  by  a 
copper  metallic  line  of 
its  own,  via 
Charlotte and  Potterville.

Hart—The  Oceana  Telephone  Co.  is 
extending  its  line  from Hesperia to Fre­
mont,  so  that  the  patrons  of  that  system 
may  be  able  to  talk  with  the  Grand 
Rapids  system  without  connecting  with 
the  Citizens  Telebone  Co.  of Muskegon.
Grand  Rapids—The  new  directory  of 
the  Bell  Telephone  Co.  is  as  interesting 
as  a  museum  inasmuch  as  it  gives  the 
names  of  many  persons  as  being  con­
nected  with the exchange who have never 
had  a  Bell  telephone  and  never  will 
have. 
It  is  also  interesting  to note  the 
number  of  residence  phones  which have 
been  put  into  stores and  offices,  it  ap­
parently  being  the  sole  purpose  of the 
management  to secure  the  order for  the 
phone,  irrespective  of  the  manner  in 
which  the  contract  was  arranged.  For 
instance,  Dr.  Kelly  is  set down 
in  the 
book  as  residing 
in  the  Widdicomb 
building,  which  will  be  news  to  the 
owner of  the  block,  who  has  made  it  an 
ironclad  rule that  no  lodgings  shall  be 
allowed  therein.  The  book 
is  chiefly 
remarkable  for  the  lack of wholesale and 
other  large  business  houses  and  busi­
ness  offices  which  are  not  represented 
therein  and  for  the  plethora  of  saloons, 
insignificant  traders  and  suburban  resi­
dences  occupied  by  people  who  can 
afford  the  luxury  of a  free  phone.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Manistee—J.  N.  Adams,  of  Sault  Ste. 
Marie,has  taken  a  clerkship  in  the drug 
store  of  Tony  Piotrowsky.

Kalkaska— Mabin  Swafford  has  taken 
charge  of  the  new  grocery  store  of  Fred 
Rykert.

Ann  Arbor—A.  L.  Todd  has  taken  a 

position  in  the  Salsbury  drug  store.

Houghton—John  Slock  has  taken  a 
in  the  new  grocery  store of 

clerkship 
W.  L.  Dunn  &  Co.

Muskegon—W.  D.  Lyman  is  the  new 

manager  of  the  Viaduct  pharmacy.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— Lewis  Mitchell,  of 
Saginaw,  has  taken  a position  with  the 
Soo  Hardware  Co.

Charlotte-----Fred  Murray  succeeds
Wesley  Boyer  as  clerk  in  the  shoe  store 
of  Victor  Roblin  &  Co.

Dowagiac—The  proposition  which 
was  first  given  impetus  by the Dowagiac 
Society  of  Clerks,  providing  for  Sunday 
closing  and  shorter hours  for retail busi­
ness  hobses,  has  received  the  endorse­
ment  of  every  merchant 
in  the  city. 
The  new  rule  will  go  into effect  on  Sun­
day,  Jane  11.  The  hours  agreed  upon 
for  the  suspension  of  business are  as 
follows:  To  close  on  all  week  day 
nights,  excepting  Mondays  and  Satur­
days,  during  the  summer  months,  at 
8130  o’clock,  and  during  the  winter 
months at  7:30  o’clock,  excepting  the 
holiday  month  of  December,and remain 
closed  all  day  Sunday  the  year  around. 
One  week’s  time  is  to  elapse  before  the 
rule  becomes  operative,  which 
is  for 
the  benefit  of  both  country  and  city 
patrons  in  advising  them  of the change, 
and  to  this  end  the  Clerks’  Society  is 
preparing  to  have  the  matter  amply  ad­
vertised.

Lowell —Abe  Peck,  who 

is  W.  S. 
Winegar’s  drug  clerk,  had  an  experi­
ence  one  day 
last  week  which  he  can 
never  forget.  He  was  fishing  about 
three  miles  west  from  Lowell  and,  to 
his  astonishment  and  horror,  he  bad  on 
his  hook  one  of  Dante’s 
infernos.  He 
it,  got  a  part  of  a  tree,  and 
landed 
drove,  through  the  animal’s  head. 
It 
had  two  round  wings  just back  of  its 
head  about  one-fourth  as  far across  as 
the  length  of 
its  body,  with  a  sharp 
spear at  the  point  of  each  wing.  When 
Abe  had  securely  fastened  this  demon 
of the lower regions he rushed for Lowell. 
Abe  has  been  a  traveling  man 
for 
years.  He  has  crossed  the  ocean  ten 
times  during  the  past  six  years,  and 
visited  nearly  every  country 
in  the 
world,  but  never saw  a  windeg  demon 
before.

Belding— Bert  Gregg,  of  Luther,  has 
taken  a  position  in  A.  Fubrman’s  new 
shoe store.

Springport—Doak  &  Orrison  have a 
new  clerk  in  their drug store  in  the  per­
son  of  F.  J.  Brainerd,  of  Eaton  Rapids.
Bay  Mills— The  Hall  &  Munson  Co. 
has  engaged  Joseph  Booth,  of  Sault  Ste. 
Marie,  to  take charge  of  the  drug  de­
partment  of  their general  store.

St.  Ignace—Thomas  Jarvis  succeeds 
Max  Kaplan  as  clerk  in the clothing and 
shoe  store of Jacob  H.  Steinberg.

Empire— C.  N.M enold  has  taken  the 
position  of  prescription  clerk  for  Dr. 
R.  W.  Burke.

Wolverine—J.  H.  &  J.  A.  Hoak,  who 
have  carried  on  the  hardwood  lumber 
business  at  Luther  for  several  years, 
have concluded  to  make this place bead- 
quarters,  having  purchased  15,000 acres 
of hardwood  land  in  the  southern  part 
of  Cheboygan  county  and  purchased  the 
saw  mill  at  Sailors'  Encampment, 
which  will  be  immediately  removed  to 
this place.

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5

Lettuce— Both  head  and  curly  stock 
are  in  small  demand  at  8@ioc  per  lb.
Onions— Bermudas  are  in  limited  de­
mand  at $1.75  per  crate.  Louisiana  is 
in  fair  demand  at $2.50  per  sack.
in 
to-day,  commanding  $1  per  bu.  The 
price  will  probably  go  lower before  the 
end  of  the  week.

Peas—Home  grown  began  coming 

Pieplant—$1.25  per  100 pounds.
Pineapples---- Havanas  and  Floridas
fetch  $i.25@i,75  per  doz.,  according  to 
size.

Plants—Cabbage,  celery,  pepper  and 
sweet  potato  are  in  ample  supply  at  75c 
per  box  of  200  plants.  Tomato  plants 
command  ioc  more.

Potatoes— Local  dealers  are  getting 
35c  for  old  and  $1.35  per  bu.  for new 
stock  from  Missouri. 
is  expected 
that  new  stock  will  supplant  old  stock 
altogether 
in  the  course  of a  couple  of 
weeks.

It 

scarce 

Poultry— Broilers  are 

and 
readily 
command  25c  per  pound. 
Chickens  are  in  good  demand  at  8@gc 
and  fowls  are  in  fair  demand  at  7%@ 
8c.  Ducks  are  dull  at  5@6c.  Geese 
are  not  in  demand  at  all.  Turkeys  are 
limited  supply  at  8@ iic .  Receipts 
in 
are  small  and  choice  stock  brings  out­
side  prices.

Radishes— Round  8c,  long  12c.
Spinach—40@50C  per  bu.
Squash—$1  per  crate  for  summer.
Strawberries— Home grown berries are 
in  large  supply  this  week  and  the  price 
ranges  around  75c  per  16 qt.  case.  The 
shipping  quality  of  the  offerings  thus 
far  has  been  poor,  owing  to  the  large 
amount  of  rain  and  the  intensely  hot 
weather,  which  has  softened  up  the  ber­
ries  so  that  they  will  not  well  stand 
shipment. 
If  the  weather turns  cooler, 
which  seems  probable  at  this  writing, 
the  late  crop  will  be  in  excellent  ship­
ping  condition.  While  local  fruit  has 
not glutted  the  market,  there  have  been 
frequent  shipments  from  outside,  which 
have  arrived  in  such  poor condition that 
they  had  to  be  moved  at  a  nominal 
price.  A  100  case  lot  came  in  to  day 
which  had  to be  sold  at  25c  per case  on 
arrival.  Until  conditions  change grow­
ers  would  do  well  to  divert  their ship­
ments  from  this  market.

Tomatoes—$2.75  per  crate  of 6 bas­

kets.

Watermelons—The  receipt of  the first 
consignment  of  Georgia  melons  marks 
the  beginning  of  what  promises  to  be 
one  of  the  most  successful  seasons  for 
the  fruit  in  that  section  in several years. 
Advices  from  prominent  growers  to  the 
trade  here  state  that  there  is  a  larger 
acreage  of  watermelons  under  cultiva­
tion  in  Georgia  than  for  many  years. 
Last  year  the  crop  there  was  below  the 
acreage,  but  the  fact that a great  deal  of 
it  was  marketed  at  fairly  good  prices 
has  encouraged  planters  to  go  into  the 
business  more  generally  this  season. 
Quotations  are  now 60c  apiece,but lower 
prices  will  rule  soon.

Grand  Rapids  Oossip

Fred  Rykert  has  opened  a  grocery 
The  Musseiman 

store  at  Kalkaska. 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

J.  YV.  Pattison  has  engaged  in  the 
The 
grocery  business  at  Millbrook. 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.  furnished  the 
stock. 

_____________

£.  Hekman  has  embarked  in  the  gro­
cery  business  at  737  Grandville  avenue. 
The  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  fur­
nished  the  stock.

Lawrence  &  Matbeson  have leased  the 
vacant  store  at  22  Ottawa  street,  for­
merly  occupied by  Bunting  &  Co.,  and 
will  occupy  it  in  conjunction  with  their 
present  premises  at  20  Ottawa  street, 
removing  the  partition  between  the  two 
stores. 

_____________

The Hobart  Mercantile  Co.,  dealer  in 
crockery,  glassware,  books  and  station­
ery  at  Big  Rapids,  will  add  a  line of 
groceries,  occupying  an  annex 
in  the 
rear  of  the  present  location.  The  Olney 
&  Judson  Grocer  Co.  has  the  order  for 
the  stock.  _____________

The  W.  W.  Rice  Leather  Co. has con­
cluded  to  open  a  grocery  store  for  the 
convenience of  the  employes  of  its  tan­
nery,  near  Petoskey,  and  has  erected  a 
two-story  and  basement  store  building, 
26x60  feet  in  dimensions,  and  a  two- 
story  office  building,  16x34  feet  in  di­
mensions.  The  grocery  stock  was  pur­
chased 
last  week  of  the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler Company  and  will  be  managed 
by  W.  D.  Tuxbury,  who  was  formerly 
in  charge  of  the  mercantile  department 
of  the  Sullivan  Lumber  Co.  Other  lines 
of  goods  will  be  added  later on.
The  Produce  Market.

fetches 

Butter—Fancy  dairy 

Beet  Greens— Receipts  are  large  and 
is  active  on  basis of  45c  per 

Asparagus—30@35C  per  doz.  bunches.
Beans—Wax  are  in  excellent  demand 
on  the  basis of  $2.75  per  bu.  box.  The 
price  has held  up  remarkably,  but  will 
probably  decline  before  the  end  of  the 
week.
demand 
bu.
12c, 
choice  brings  11c  and  cooking  grades 
about  ioc.  Factory  creamery  is  not 
in 
demand  at  all,  owing  to  the  large  re­
ceipts  and  excellent  quality  of  dairy 
grades,  which are  meeting  the  consump­
tive  requirements  of  the  market.
Cheese— Quotations  have  declined  J4 c 
during  the  past  week  and  the  next  six 
days  will  probably  notea similar change 
in  the  market.  The  receipts  are  more 
than  sufficient  for  the  demand  at  pres­
ent  prices  and  sellers  are  willing  to 
shade  prices  to  keep  stock  moving. 
Prices  are apt  to go  lower until the mid­
dle  of  June,  when  cheese  ought  to be  of 
very  fine  quality,  and  when  the  specu­
lative  demand  for  storage  will  prevent 
the  market  from  going  lower.  Prices 
should  not go as  low  this  season  as  they 
did  last,  owing  to the high prices  which 
butter commands.

C ucum bers—Southern  stock  no  longer 
cuts  any  figure,  owing  to  the  supply  of 
hom e  grown,  w hich  com m ands  40@45c 
per  doz.

Eggs—Local  dealers  are  paying  n c  
on  track,  case  count,  but  the 
influx  of 
stock  from  the  peddlers to-night  and for 
the  remainder  of the  week  is  likely  to 
cause a  little  weakening  in  the  market. 
So  far  very  few  poor  eggs  have  ap­
peared,  owing  to the  manner  in  which 
the  farmers  have  been  chasing  up  their 
hens  to take  advantage  of  the  unusually 
high  prices  which  have  prevailed  for 
the  past  two  months.  The  cold  storage 
buyers  have  pulled  out  of  the  field.

Green  Onions— Silver  Skins  com­
mand  15c.  The  demand 
is  large and 
the  receipts  were  never better  than now.
Honey—8c  for  dark  and  ioc  for  light. 
New  crop  will  begin  to  come  in  this 
week.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— There  is  nothing  of  interest to 
note  in  the  raw  sugar  market  this  week, 
centrifugals  having  been  sold  at  the  old 
basis  of  4#$c  for  96  deg.  test  and  89 
deg.  test  muscovadoes  at  4^c  basis. 
in  refined  has  been  very  good, 
Trade 
much  better  than 
it  was  the  week  be­
fore.  The  American  Sugar  Refining  Co. 
has  withdrawn  all  concessions  on  sorts 
and  Franklin  has  entirely  withdrawn 
from  the  market.  The  Mollenhauer  re­
finery  has  started  operations  again,  but 
the  National  is  still  closed.  Very  little 
can  be  said  as  to  the growing  Cuban 
crop.  The  reports  from  some  sections 
are  favorable,  but  but  very  little  plant­
ing  has  been  done  so  far.  The  stocks  in 
Cuba  are  78,000 tons—not  a  very  large 
quantity  considering  that  much  of  it 
will  be  wanted  for 
in 
Cuba.  Holders  are  extremely  firm  and 
continue  to ask  prices  fully  %c  over our 
parity.  Reports  from  Louisiana  are to 
the  effect  that  the  continued dry weather 
is  a  source  of  some  anxiety  to the plant­
ers  there,  although  the  cane  is  standing 
the 
lack  of  moisture  remarkably  well. 
Aside  from  the  want  of  rain,  the  situa­
tion  appears  to  be  encouraging  and 
shows  a  constant  and  well-defined 
im­
provement.

consumption 

is 

Canned  Goods—Considerable  disap­
pointment 
felt  among  Baltimore 
packers  at  the  present  outlook  for  the 
pea  pack.  The  packers,  anticipating 
a  large crop,  got  everything 
in  readi­
ness  to  handle  them 
in  their  usual 
prompt  manner,  when  to  their  surprise 
they  found  that  after  being  nearly  two 
weeks  late,  the  pea  crop  has  shown  up 
so  poorly  that  the  pack  this  season  will 
be  very  short  and  some  state  that  it 
would  not  be  surprising 
if  the  pea 
packing  season of 1899 would  he  entirely 
over  within  two  weeks.  Spot  stocks  are 
well  cleaned  up  and  anything 
in  a 
standard  Early  June  or  marrowfat  is 
bard  to find.  Owing  to  the  continued 
dry  weather  in  the  East,  the  outlook  for 
the  tomato  pack  is  not quite  so  bright 
as  it  was  a  few  weeks  ago.  There  has 
been  some  injury  done  already,  but  not 
enough  to  make  any  material  difference 
in  the  yield  if  rain  comes soon.  Stocks 
are  small  and  tomatoes  are  getting  very 
scarce.  The shortage  in  pineapples  has 
caused  a  firmer feeling already and some 
packers have  advanced  their  prices 
ioc 
per  dozen.  Many  think  that  the  open­
ing  prices  will  be  the  lowest  of  the  sea­
son.  There  is a  good demand for stand­
ard  grades  of  corn  and  it  is  difficult  to 
obtain,  as 
cleaned 
up.  The  demand  for  Alaska  salmon 
continues  good  and  the  market  is  very 
is  now  entirely 
strong.  Pink  Alaska 
gone  from  the  Coast.  There  is  a 
little 
medium  and  blood  red,  upon  which 
there  has  been  no  advance  as  yet,  but 
one  is  daily  expected.  Reports  from 
the  East are  that  the  run  of  sardine  fish 
on 
the  Coast  continues  very  small. 
Since  the  opening  of  the  season,  the 
plants  of  the  two  syndicates have  not 
received  sufficient  raw  fish  to  more  than 
give  them  a  pretense  for  keeping  open. 
So  far  as  can  be  learned,  less  than 
1,000 cases have been  packed  this  sea­
son.  The quality  of  a  large  part of  the 
fish  taken  this  season 
is  very  poor. 
Packing  is  at  present  at  a  standstill  and 
at  the  prices  asked  by  the  fishermen  for 
the  raw  fish,  there  is  no  profit  in  can­
ning  the  product.  Old  stock  continues 
in  fair  demand,  with  prices firm.  Sup­
plies  of  last  season’s  pack  of  canned 
oysters  are  running  short.  The  pack, 
owing  to  the  cold  weather  of  last Febru­
ary  and'tbe difficulty  in  obtaining  sup­

is  practically 

it 

is  but 

Dried  Fruits—There 

plies,  has  been  one  of  the  smallest  in 
the  history  of  the  business.  An  advance 
of  5c  per  dozen  has  just  been  received.
little 
change  in  the  dried  fruit  market.  The 
competition  of  cheap  berries  and  other 
varieties  of  green  fruits  has  greatly 
reduced  the  consuming  demand  for  the 
dried  article.  Spot  stocks  are  small 
and  are  firmly  held  because  of  the  ex­
pectation  that  the  demand  will  increase 
later  and  prices  advance.  Prunes  are 
in  small  demand,  but  prices  are firmly 
held. 
The  same  applies  to  raisins. 
Peaches  are  firm  at  previous quotations, 
with  trade  small  because  of  high prices. 
Holders  are  not  anxious  sellers,  be­
lieving  that the  probable  shortage  will 
make  good  quality  stocks  a  profitable 
investment,  even  after  the  new  crop 
comes  in.  Apricots  are  dull.  The  green 
fruit  is  selling  above  driers’  ideas  and 
the  output  is  likely  to  be  small,  unless 
growers 
Figs 
move  slowly  at  previous  quotations. 
Dates  are  very  firm,  but  prices  are  un­
changed.  Currants  are  firm,  but  sales 
are  small.  The  demand  for  evaporated 
apples 
is  very  good,  considering  the 
season  of  the  year,  and  stocks  are  being 
cleaned  up  at  full  prices.  Other  lines 
are  unchanged.

their  figures. 

reduce 

Rice— Reports  concerning 

the  new 
crop  are  fairly  encouraging.  Caterpil­
lars  are,  however,  unusually  prevalent 
and  fields  have  to  be  frequently  flooded 
to  drown  out  these  pests. 
In  Louisiana 
many  of  those  who  planted  early  have 
been  compelled  to  replant,  owing  to  the 
appearance  of red  rice,  but  the  “ second 
seeding”   is  looking  fine.  Business  on 
the  spot  continues  very  dull  and  Java  is 
down  %c.

Tea—Teas  continue  to  sell  slowly. 
There  are,  of  course,  a  few  sales  made 
every  day,  but  they  are  small  and  most­
ly  for  low  grades.

Green  Fruits—The 

lemon  market  is 
firmer,  showing  an  advance  of  5o@75c 
per  box.  The  consuming  demand  from 
all  sections  of  the  country  increases  and 
a  further  advance  of  5oc@$i  per  box 
can  be  reasonably  expected  if  the  pres­
ent  warm  weather  continues. 
The 
banana  market 
is  a  little  weaker  and 
the  fruit  is  coming  in  very  freely  now.
Molasses— Reports  from  New  Orleans 
are to  the  effect  that  the  prospects  for 
a  good  crop  of  molasses  are  somewhat 
brighter.  However,  estimates  based  on 
previous  reports  concerning  the  cane 
crop  still  place  the  prospective  produc­
tion  of  molasses  at  from  20@30  per 
cent,  less  than  last  year's  output.  Sup­
plies 
the 
country  are  small  and 
is  believed 
they  will  be  exhausted  before  the  new 
product  can  be  put  upon  the  market. 
The  market  is  moderately  active,  with 
a  tendency  toward  higher  prices  on 
both  high  and  low  grades.

in  first  hands 

throughout 

it 

Nuts—The  market  for  Brazils  is  very 
firm  and  an  advance  is  expected.  The 
scarcity  of  peanuts  becomes  more ap­
parent  every  day.  The  supply  is  less 
than  at  any  time  since  1890,  when  the 
fancy  grade  sold  for  ioc,  and  there  are 
still  five  months  before  the  new  crop 
comes  in.  On  account  of  this  shortage, 
prices  have  again  advanced  # c  and  it 
is  predicted  that  they  will  continue  to 
advance  until  the  last bag  is  sold.

Cereals—The  rolled  oats  market 

is 
stronger,  but  there  is  as  yet  no  advance 
in  price.  The  mills  report  being  heav­
ily  oversold.

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades  and  prices,  phone Visner,  800.

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.

in 

Hides  are  some  weaker 

light 
stocks,  but  in  good  demand,  with  no 
accumulation.

Pelts  are  wanted  and  prices are  quot- 
ably  higher.  The  demand continues  for 
short  wool  skins.

Tallow^remains  quiet,  while  the  de­
mand  is  stronger.  There  is no  advance 
in  value.

Wools  are  firm,  with  no  material  ad­
vance  in  the  Eastern  markets,  although 
local  buyers 
in  the  West  are  having 
some  excitement  and  have  advanced 
prices beyond  the  seaboard  market  after 
charges are  added.  The  foreign  market 
remains  strong  and  considerable  wool  is 
being  exported. 

W m.  T.  H e ss.

Apple buyers  and  others are  making a 
somewhat  careful  examination  of  the 
prospect  for the  crop  in  different  pro­
ducing  sections,  and  while  reports  re­
ceived  are  conflicting,  the  general  tone 
indicates  a  better  crop  than  last  year, 
and  probably  better  than  in  1897,  but 
not  nearly  as  good  as  in  1896.  While 
local  conditions  vary,  and 
in  some  sec­
tions one  variety  will  probably  be  short 
and  another  somewhere  else  large,  the 
great  producing  states  as  a  whole  will 
yield  an  abundant  crop.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

W om an’s World
Mission  of the  Sweet  Girl  Graduate.
The  two  dear  little  things  had  been 
flattering  around  the  room  like  restless 
birds,  telling  us  that  they  were  about  to 
graduate 
in  all  the  ologies  and  isms, 
and  perfect  loves  of  white  organdies, 
made  with  tunics and  trimmed with real 
lace.  After  they  were  gone  the  woman 
of  the  world  and  I  looked  at  each  other, 
with  eyes  that  were  full  of  memories  of 
our own  youth,  and  then  we  smiled  and 
sighed.

“ Oh,  dear, ”  I said,  “ isn’t it pathetic? 
They  know  so  much  and  ao  very  little! 
They  have  spent  so  much  time  study­
ing  the  things  for which  they  will  never 
have any  use,  and  so  little  in  acquiring 
those  things  for  which  they  will  have 
daily,  hourly,  pressing,  heart-breaking 
necessity.  They  have  gilt-edged  certifi­
cates  for  proficiency  in  chemistry,  yet 
neither  one  could  make a  biscuit  that 
wouldn’t  be  a  menace  to  health  and 
happiness  to  save  her  life.  They  have 
taken  elaborate  courses 
in  the  higher 
mathematics,yet  they  haven’t an  idea  in 
the  world  which  is  the  business  end  of a 
check,  or  whether  when  you  buy  any­
thing 
it  ought  to  go  on  the  debit  or 
credit  side  of  the  ledger.  They feel  per­
fectly  able  to  settle the  problems  of  the 
ages,  yet  they  would  sit  down in despair 
and  tears  before  the  kitchen  range  if 
the  cook  suddenly  left  and  they  had  to 
solve  the  dinner  question.  Thousands 
of  dollars  have been  spent  on  their  edu­
cation,  yet  suppose  they  were  thrown  on 
their  own  resources  and  had  to  offer 
their  piano  playing  or  painting  or  elo­
cution  or  arithmetic  in  the  world  of  la­
bor? 
It  wouldn’t  be  worth  a  red  cent 
until  they  went  to  work  and  learned 
everything  they  know  all  over  again, 
from  a  practical  standpoint. 
I  confess 
the  question,  ‘ Does  education  educate?’ 
is  a  problem  I  always  give  up 
in  the 
face  of  the  sweet  girl  graduate.”

The  woman  of  the  world  laughed. 
“ You  are  right and  you  are wrong, ”  she 
said. 
“ I  don’t  know  bow  other  people 
feel  about  it,  but  to  me  the  most typical 
American  figure  is  the  sweet girl  grad­
uate,  and  I  hail  her  as  the  greatest  mis­
sionary  of  the  age.  It isn’t  so  much  that 
she‘ stands  with  reluctant  feet  where the 
brook and river meet, ’ uncertain whether 
to  go  in  for  expansion  and  a  career  in 
the  great  world  or  whether she  bad  bet­
ter  stick to the constitution of her mother 
and  grandmother  and  mind  her  own 
back  dooryard.  Neither  is  it  because 
she  possesses  the  National characteristic, 
quality  of  being  cocksure  she  is  the 
greatest  thing  on  earth  and  has  the 
nerve  to  back  her  judgment  and  rush  in 
where  angels  fear to  tread. 
is  be­
cause,  more  than  anything  or  anybody 
else,  she  stands as  the  representative  of 
American  progress.  Not  the  slow  gen­
eration-after-generation, 
inch-by - inch 
progress  of  the  effete  Old  World,  but 
progress  of  the  American  plan,  that  ar­
rives  by  leaps  and  bounds;  that  carries 
ready-made  towns across the  country  in 
cars  and  sets  them  up,  so  that  what one 
day  is a  blooming  prairie,  the  next 
is 
a  city  with  boulevards  and  an  opera 
house  and  a  municipal  ring  ready  to 
run  it

It 

it  for  one’s  own 

“ This  ability  to  recognize  a  good 
thing  on  sight  in  the  first  instant  and  to 
appropriate 
the 
next 
is  the  exclusive  characteristic  of 
the  American  girl.  No  other  girl  on 
earth  has 
it.  The  German  girl  is  too 
dull,  the  English  girl  is  too  slow,  even 
the  vivacious  French  girl  must  stay 
in

in 

the  strata  of  society  in  which  it  pleased 
heaven  to  place her,  but  the  American 
girl  is always  ready  for a  rise. 
I  have 
seen  her  change  the  habits of  a  lifetime 
at a  moment’s  notice. 
I  have  watched 
her  drop  rustic  manners  and  leave off 
provincial  ways as  easily as she changed 
her  home-made  frock  for a  confection 
from  Worth,  and  more  than  that,  she 
looked  as  if  she  bad  never  had  on  any­
thing  else 
in  her  life,  and  had  never 
dined  without  a  butler  in  attendance 
and  six  forks and  spoons at  her  plate.

“ Now  the  very  high  priestess  of  this 
progress,  the  factor that  makes  it  pos­
sible,  is  the  sweet  girl  graduate,  and 
the  only  reason  that  she  has  not  long 
ago  been  enshrined  as  the  patron  saint 
of  our  National  genius  is  because  the 
real  reformers  so  seldom  get  their  de­
serts  in  this  world.  Every  year  we  see 
her  coming  up  to  the  boarding  school 
from  the  settlement  in  the  backwoods, 
from  the  lonely  farmhouse  and  the  rural 
village.  Her  frock 
is  inappropriately 
chosen  and  bunglingly  made.  Her  hair 
looks  as  if  her  deadliest  enemy  had  ar­
ranged 
it  with  a  view  to  bringing  out 
every  defect  of  feature.  She  slouches 
as  she  walks  and  rubbernecks  at  the 
stores  and 
it  doesn’t need  the  written 
card  on  her  handbag  to  tell  you  that 
she 
In  ten 
brief  months  she  returns  home,  meta­
morphosed  as  to  carriage,  dress  and 
looks  and  with  a  savoir  faire 
it  would 
take  an  earthquake  to  shake,  the  tri­
umph  of  education,  the  apostle  of  an 
advanced  civilization.

is  Miss  Jay  from  Jayvilie. 

“ In  spite  of  your  argument  to  the 
contrary,  what  she  has  learned  in  the 
text  books 
is  a  very  minor  considera­
tion.  She  goes  back  to  her  home  with 
her  bead  brim  full  of  new  ideas,  and 
the  settlement, the village and  the  farm­
house  will  never again  be  just the same, 
because  of the leaven of new thoughts she 
has 
introduced.  Many  a  neighborhood 
has  been  revolutionized,  unbeknown  to 
itself,  because Luella Brown or Henrietta 
Jones  was  sent  off  to  Somebody’s  semi­
nary  for  young 
ladies.  Moreover,  this 
peculiar form  of  the  campaign of educa­
tion  is  essentially  feminine. 
is  be­
yond  men  and  boys.  A  girl  will  pick 
up  as  much  knowledge  of  the  ways  of 
the  world  and  acquire  as  much  deftness 
in  handling  the  small  change  of  life 
in 
the  way  of  dress  and  manners  in  one 
year as  a  man  will  in  fifty.

It 

“ A  Western  paper  was  humorously 
complaining,  not  long  ago,  because  a 
certain  girl  who had  gone  off to  school 
as  Mary  Jane  Smith  bad  returned  as 
It  is  a  cause  for 
M.  Jeannye  Smytbe. 
congratulation,  not  ridicule. 
It  may  be 
crude,  but 
it  means  progress all  along 
the  line,  and  it  is  just precisely  because 
she  could  change  from  Mary  Jane  to  M. 
Jeannye  that  made the  Smith  girl  such 
an  important  member  of  the  commu­
nity.  M.  Jeannye has ambitions,  aspira­
tions  and 
ideals  that  Mary Jane never 
dreamed  of.  Plain  Mary  Jane  may  have 
said  ‘ maw’  and  ‘ paw’  and  been  content

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to  eat  off  of  an  oilcloth  at her  daily 
meals,  and  to  let  her  best bean  bang 
over  the  gate  while  he  courted  her. 
Not  so  with  M.  Jeannye.  One  doesn’t 
have  to  be a  prophet  to  know  that  when 
she  got  home  she  addressed  her  parents 
as 
‘ mother, ’  that  a  table­
cloth  and  napkins  figured  in  the  subse­
quent  meals of  that  family,  and  that  the 
young  men  who  visited  her sat  deco­
rously  and  decently  in  the  parlor.

' father’  and 

“ You  may  be  very  sure  that  those 
who  fail  to  take  the  sweet  girl  graduate 
into  account  are  missing  one  of  the 
most  important  factors  in  the spread  of 
civilization,”  went  on  the  woman  of the 
“ Why,  I  have  noticed 
world. 
the 
change 
in  a  hundred  homes  after  the 
oldest  girl  got home from school.  Every­
thing  had  gotten  into  a  rut.  The  mother 
bad  drifted  into  the  inconspicuous  bon­
net  and  always-dress-in-black  habit. 
The  younger  children  were  allowed  to 
do  as  they  pleased, because  it was easier 
for  the  parents  to  obey  them  than  it  was 
to  make  the  children  obey  the  parents; 
the  parlor  was  never  opened,  because  it 
was  less  bother  to  live 
in  the  back 
rooms;  everything  was  cooked  exactly 
alike  day  after  day  and  slammed  on  the 
table  in  a  catch-as-catch-can  style. 
In­
to  this  dreary  waste  of  decadence  comes 
M.  Jeannye,  with  energy  tingling  in  her 
veins  and  progress inscribed  on her ban­
ner.  She brings a  chafing  dish  and  cut- 
paper  patterns,  as  well  as  a  blue-rib­
boned  diploma,  and  before  they  know 
what  has  happened  to  them  that  family 
is revolutionized  and  started  on  the  up 
grade.
“ It 

isn’t  altogether,  either,  in  the 
backwoods  that  we  are  indebted  to-  the 
sweet  girl  graduate  for  stirring  us  up. 
All  of  us,  as  we  get  older,  are apt  to  get 
into  the  easy  way  of  doing  things,  and 
it  is  only  when  we are  confronted  by the 
bubbling  enthusiasm  of  youth  that  we 
fully  realize  bow  far  we  are  falling  be­
hind.  A  man  once  told  me  that  be 
owed  his  greatest  success  in  life  to  bis 
daughter’s  determination  that  he  should 
wear  pointed-toed,  patent  leather  shoes. 
‘ I  bad  gotten  to  feel,  you  know,’  he 
said,  ‘ that  I  was  getting  old  and  might 
indulge  myself  in  being  a 
little  negli­
gent  in  my  clothes.  You  know  bow  that 
kind  of  thing  grows  on  you,  if  you 
let 
yourself  go,  and  I  was  fast  drifting  into 
all  the  perquisites  of  old  age. 
It  hap­
pened  at  that  time  a  man  came  to  me 
with  a  scheme  that  I  saw  promised  big 
profits,  but  I  put  him  off.  “ No,  no,  my 
boy,”   I  said,  “ I  know  there’s a  fortune 
in 
it,  but  I’m  too  old  to  go  into  new 
ventures.  My  affairs  are  settled  up  and 
I  don’t  want  to  disturb  my  invest­
ments.”   Just  then  my  daughter  came 
home  from  school.  I  saw  her  eyeing  my 
attire  with  disfavor and  pretty  soon  she 
commenced  on  me.  She  thought  my 
hat  was  out  of  date,  she  didn't  see  why 
I  didn’t  get  a  coat  to  fit  instead  of  the 
thing  I  was 
comfortable  and  baggy 
wearing. 
she 
tackled  my 
shoes—flatboats,  she  called  them,  and 
ridiculous  for a  man  of  my  age.  Well, 
the  end  of  the thing  was  that,  being  a 
good  American  father  brought  up  in 
the  fear and  admonition  of my children, 
I  allowed  her  to  escort  me to  my  tailor 
and  my  shoemaker,  and  before  I  knew 
it  I  was  all  rigged  out  like  a  young 
swell.  Will  you  believe  it,  with  my  old 
clothes  I  seemed  to  have  cast  away  my 
old  feeling. 
I  got  what  she  called,  in 
her  slangy  way,  a brace on  myself  and 
hunted  up  my  man  with the scheme, and 
decided  to  make  a  fortune  instead  of 
dying;  and  I  d id .'

Finally, 

“ That, ”   said  the  woman of the world,

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in  conclusion,  “ is  only  one  instance  of 
many,  that  any  of  us  can  recall,  of  the 
influence  of  the  sweet  girl  graduate  for 
better things.  Wherever  she  is  she  is a 
ray  of  sunshine  brightening  this  dull 
old  world  of  ours,  and  here’s  wishing 
her happiness  and  success.”

“ Amen,”   said  I,  softly.

D o r o t h y   D i x .

Does  Not  Cater  to  the  Catalogue 

Houses.

it 

The  Saranac  Local  evidently  does  not 
is  good  policy  or good 
believe  that,  it 
business to open  its  columns  to  the  an­
nouncements  of  the  catalogue  houses. 
On  the  contrary, 
is  throwing  the 
weight  of  its  influence  with  the  home 
merchants  in  the  effort  to  minimize  the 
influence  of  the  Chicago octopi.  Twelve 
inches  of  space  in  the  advertising  de­
partment 
is  devoted  to  a  statement, 
signed  by  twenty-two  merchants  of  Sar­
anac,  reading  as  follows:

We,  the  undersigned,  merchants  and 
business  men  of  Saranac,  respectfully 
invite  all  those  who  have  catalogues 
from  Montgomery  Ward  &  Co.,  John M. 
Smith  &  Co.,  Sears,  Roebuck  &  Co., 
and  others,  who  are  contemplating  the

purchasing  of  various  goods  and  mer­
chandise  from  the  aforesaid  firms  and 
department  houses,  to  bring  their  cata­
logues  and  tell  us  what  it  is  that  they 
are  in  want  of,  or are  desirous  of  pur­
chasing,  and  we  will  freely  agree  with 
them  to  duplicate  all  or  any  of  said  cat­
alogue  prices  upon  goods  of  the  same 
nature,  quality  and  conditions  there 
specified.

In  addition to the space above  referred 
to,  the  Local  vigorously  refers  to  the 
matter  editorially,  as  follows:

The  Local  takes  the  ground  that those 
who  are  dealing  with  Chicago  houses 
are  doing  so  at  their own  disadvantage. 
Suppose  everybody  sees  fit  to  buy  in 
Chicago  or  some  other  large  city,  what 
would  become  of  the  pleasant  country 
towns  that  now  dot  the 
land?  They 
would  soon  become  nothing  but  a  pic­

turesque  ruin.  Further,  we  regard  the 
department  stores  as  being  little  better 
than  the  trusts  and  monopolies  that  are 
now  springing  up  on  every  band  and we 
are  firmly  opposed  to  them  for  the  rea­
son  that  they,  as  well  as  the  trusts,  are 
concentrating  capital  for  the  interests 
of  the  few  as  against  the  many.  The 
Local  does  not  advertise  the  houses  that 
are  doing  this  business—not  because  no 
opportunity  has  been  offered,  as  only 
last  week  we  received  a  very  flattering 
proposal  for  advertising  space  from  one 
of  the 
large  catalogue  firms  which  we 
refused  to  accept,  but  because  we  be­
lieve  they  are  against  public  policy.

Cigarmakers  Wanted.

Bunch  breakers  and  rollers  are wanted 
by  the  G.  J.  Johnson  Cigar  Co.,  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.

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HANSELMAN  CANDY  CO.,

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To

H E X R Y   K O C H ,   your  o l e r l s . a t ,   attorneys,  agerL5, 
sm e sx x ie X R .  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

t t t y e r e a * ,

It  has  been  represented  to  us  jn  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of

New  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  M O R G A N 'S  S O N S   C O M P A N Y ,

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

tlo tu , ^ Ijcrcfo rf, we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
uade^^h^j>ains^in<^j}enaltie^^rhicl^^na^fal^ij)ot^£2“^£Jii^<*M^i^i2*l  *n  case  °f  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

B y  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

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

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from  in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO”  in  any 
false  or  misleading  manner.

The  honorable  M e l v il l e   W.  F u l l e r ,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
in  said  District  of  New 
Jersey,  this  16th  day  of  December,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

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E.  A   STOW E,  E d it o r .
WEDNESDAY,------JUNE 7,1899.

THE  TRUST  ISSUE.

It  was  the  saying  of a  statesman  that 
men  are  too  much  governed.  A  wise 
political 
economist,  consulted  by  a 
French  King  as  to  the  best  means  of 
promoting  tbe  prosperity  of  his  coun­
try’s  trade,  replied  simply,  “ Laissez 
fa ire."   Sometimes  it  happens, howeverf 
that  individual  freedom  is  attacked  on 
its  own  ground,  and  beyond  tbe  limits 
ordinarily  assigned  to  governmental  in­
terference  in  free countries.  What  is  the 
proper  attitude  of  the  American  citizen 
when, in  tbe  exercise  of  the  right of con­
tract,  certain  individuals  or  companies 
enter  into  combinations  which  drive 
him  out  of  business,  or,  in  effect,  de­
prive  him  of  his  freedom  to  pursue  his 
own  chosen  trade?  He  is  made to suffer; 
but  can  he  deny  to  others  that  freedom 
of  contract  which  be  claims  for  him­
self  as  an  inalienable  right?  There  may 
be  some  practical  difficulty  in  tbe  way 
of  any  attempt  to  define  the  precise 
limits  of  the  right  of  contract;  but  in 
the  case  suggested  it  is  easy  enough  to 
state  the  decisive  principle.  The  court 
will  not  enforce  an 
immoral  contract. 
It  might  be  urged,  perhaps,  that  the 
contract  which  underlies  the  formation 
of  a  trust  is  not  immoral  in  tbe  sense 
understood 
in  the  application  of  that 
rule— that  it  is  not  “ contra  bonos”   in 
the  sense  that  a  contract  to  sell  inde­
cent  pictures  or  books  would  be;  but 
hardly  any  would  deny  that  an  agree­
ment  to  any  unnecessary  thing  that 
injure  another  is  in 
would 
inevitably 
itself  essentially 
immoral.  But  even 
were  this  position  given  up  as  unten­
able,  tbe  advocates  and  defenders  of 
trusts  would  have  to  admit  the  author­
ity  of  government  to  forbid  any  act  or 
practice  which 
is  clearly  opposed  to 
sound  public  policy.

To  assume,  without 

argument  or 
proof,  that  the  formation  of  trusts  is  op­
posed  to  sound  public  policy  would  be 
to  beg  the  whole  question,  and  it  would 
be  a  serious  mistake  to  suppose  that 
the  authors  of  that  system  of  business 
organization  are  unprovided  with  a 
plausible  and  ingenious  defense. 
I.  is 
contended,  in  the  first  place,  that  this 
system  is  the  natural  and  logical  result 
of  a  long  course  of  industrial  and  com­
mercial  evolution  and  that  to  forbid  the 
formation  of  trusts  would  be  to  reject 
tbe  only  possible  means  of  escaping  the 
losses,  the  confusion  and  demoraliza­
incident  to  a  perfectly  open  com­
tion 
petition  in  business. 
In  the  next  place 
stress  is  laid  on  the  admitted  fact  that 
goods  can  be  made  and  distributed

TRADE SCHOOLS NECESSARY.
In  1870 Germany  was  a  poor  country. 
It  bad  no  large  mercantile  marine  and 
no  great  foreign  trade.  The  sudden 
transfer from  France  to  Germany  after 
tbe  war  of  that  year  of one  thousand 
million  dollars  cash  and  credits  stimu­
lated  German  finances  to  remarkable 
activity  and  started  German  commerce 
on  a  course  of  surprising  expansion.

It  was  then  that  Germany  began  to 
nourish  a  greed  for  colonial  possessions 
and  to  build  a mercantile  marine.  Al­
though  less  than  three  decades  of time 
has  elapsed,  Germany  has  become  an 
important  producing  and  exporting  na­
tion,  and 
is  competing  with  England 
and  tbe  United  States  for  foreign  trade. 
British  statesmen  and  commercial  men 
recognize  the  astonishing  activity  of 
Germany  in  tbe  struggle  for  trade,  and 
they  are  already  taking  measures  to 
meet  the  German  competition.

instruction 

In  Germany  there  are  commercial 
schools  for 
in  all  sorts  of 
matters  of  use  to  men  who are  engaged 
in  home and  foreign  trade,  as  well  as  in 
tbe  manufacture  of  textile  and  other 
fabrics.  Hon.  James  Bryce,  member 
of  the  British  Parliament,  in  an  article 
in  the  North  American  Review  for 
June,  declares  the  necessity  for  such 
commercial  schools  in  England,  for  so 
strenuous  is  commercial  competition to­
day  that  every  advantage  counts.

Mr.  Bryce  sets  forth  a  sort of schedule 
of  what  ought  to  be  taught  in  such  in­
stitutions.  He  suggests  the  following:

1.  Modern  languages.
2.  English  composition, 

including 
practice 
in  tbe  art  of  analyzing  and 
summarizing  the  contents  of  documents 
or  reports.

3.  Shorthand  and  book-keeping.
4.  Commercial  geography  and  the 
movements of  the  exchange  of  commod­
ities  in  the  world  at  large.

5.  A  general  view  of  the  industry 

and  trade of the  country.

6.  The  elements  of  business  prac­
tice,  i.  e.,  a  knowledge  of  the  chief 
operations  which  belong  to  commerce 
in  general,  including  the nature  of  the 
documents  most  commonly  used,  and 
a  comprehension,  which,  although  ele­
mentary,  need  not be  superficial,  of the 
nature  of  incorporated  companies  and 
partnerships,  and  the  use and  functions 
of  banks.

It 

7.  The  elements  of  political  econ­
omy,  especially  those  branches  of  it 
which  relate  to  exchange  and  finance.
is  seen  from  this  that  it  is  not 
enough  to  teach  young  men  a  routine 
system  of  keeping  accounts,  or  to  stand 
behind  a  counter and  sell  commodities. 
In  this  commercial  age,  when  power 
and  position  in  the  scale of  nations  are 
measured  by  commerce,  it  is  necessary 
to  have  men  who  can  take  a  command­
ing  position  in  commercial  affairs  and, 
by  mastering  the  science  and  principles 
of business,  be  able  to  recognize  and 
take  advantage  of  every  opportunity 
that  is  offered.

What  is  good  for  England  is  good  for 
the United  States,  which  is  in  position 
to  lead  the  world  in  manufactures  and 
commerce,  if only there are found  states­
men  who know  enough  to  assist  in  pre­
paring  the  American  people  for  the 
competition  they  will  have  to  meet
VICTORY  FOR  JUSTICE.

The  now  assured  revision  of  the 
Dreyfus  case,  and  possibly  tbe vindica­
tion,  after  so  long  a time,of  the  cruelly- 
used  captain,  must  be  credited  to  that 
mightiest agency  of  modern reform—tbe 
press.  And 
in  this case  it  was  largely

tbe  press of other countries than France, 
notably  that  of England and  America, 
that fixed  first  in  tbe mind  of  tbe  civi­
lized  world the conviction  that  Dreyfus 
was  tbe  victim  of a conspiracy  rather 
than that he was a conspirator.

The  French  nation’s  crime  against 
Dreyfus  was  the  fruit  not  only  of official 
rottenness 
in  the  French  general  staff, 
but  of  bitter  race  hatreds  and  the almost 
insane  fear 
in  France that  to  disclose 
any weaknesses or corruption in the army 
would  be  to  imperil  France  itself.  The 
government  must  have  known  from  the 
beginning  that  the  corrupt  staff  was 
singling  out  Dreyfus  as  a  scapegoat, 
and  so  choosing  him  because he  was  a 
Jew.  The  crazy  Jew  baiters  could  be 
depended  on  to  utilize  the  prejudice 
against  the Jews  to  the  fullest  extent  in 
making  tbe  conviction  of  the  victim 
easy.  It  is  one  of  the  most  inexplicable 
things  of  the  times  that  in  France  there 
should  be  any considerable animosity to­
ward  the  Jews.  The  representatives  of 
that  persecuted  race  have  done  more for 
French  finances,  for  charity— we  might 
almost 
tbe 
French  themselves,  and  are  entitled  to 
gratitude  rather  than  hatred.

for  progress— than 

say 

The 

impartial  observers 

in  other 
this  fierce  persecution 
countries  of 
against  the  promising  Jewish  officer 
soon  probed  to  the  bottom  the animus 
and  the  hollowness  of the  case  and  the 
untrammeled  press  of  free  nations  did 
not  hesitate  to  tell  France  that  she  was 
disgracing  her  government  and  her  civ­
in  lending  herself  to  such  an 
ilization 
unjust  and  at the  same  time 
iniquitous 
persecution. 
It  has  required  years  for 
the  reflex  influence  of  this  foreign opin­
ion  to count  practical  results  in  France, 
but  that consummation is now witnessed, 
and 
is  not  too  much  to  say  that  tbe 
world  is  to be  congratulated  that  at  last 
one of  the- first  nations  in  the  arts  and 
sciences and  the  achievements  of  mod­
ern  civilization  is  about  to  demonstrate 
that  justice  still  reigns  in  its  midst  and 
that  truth  literally  crushed  to  earth  can 
rise  again.

it 

in  setting  nations 

The  fearless  Zola  made  the  first  bold 
practical  demand  for  the  reopening  of 
this  celebrated  case  and  he  is  to-day 
demonstrating,  in  the  developments  of 
in­
the  hour,  the  mighty  weight  of  the 
dividual 
right  at 
times  and  directing  tbe  course  of  his­
tory.  The author,  Zola,  and  the  press 
can  claim  the  distinction  of  having 
forced  a  great  government  to  do  simple 
justice  to  one  of  its 
citizens,  even 
against  fancied  “ reasons  of  state”   and 
in  the  face  of  seemingly  the  most  pow­
erful  opposition.

Few cases  in  modern  times  have  ever 
attracted  more attention  than  this  Drey­
fus  affair and  the  lovers  of  fair-dealing 
everywhere  will  be  glad  to  learn  that  it 
is  likely  after all  to  furnish  as  conspic­
uous  an  example  of  the  ultimate  tri­
umph  of  justice as  it  has  heretofore  in­
dicated  the  degree  to  which 
justice 
could  be  prostituted.

It appears that  the  threatened  trouble 
with  tbe  Cheyenne  Indians  is  from  the 
same  old  cause— the  encroachments  of 
the  whites.  Give  the  Anglo-Saxon  an 
inch  and  an  ell  looks  ridiculously  small 
to him.

The  present  condition  of  the  Dewey 
home  fund  would  seem  to  indicate  that 
tbe  American  people  prefer  to  let  their 
mouths  rather  than  their  pockets  be­
speak  their enthusiasm  for  the  hero.

The genius  of  the  bar  is the  man  who 

gives a  new  name  to  an  old  drink.

cheaper  on  a  large  than  on  a  small 
scale.  Finally,  it  is  claimed  that  the 
trust,  secure  against  failure  because 
free  from  competition,  affords  a  more 
certain  employment  for  the  working­
man  and  a  more  reliable  customer  for 
tbe  producer  of  raw  material  than  could 
be  furnished  by  comparatively small  in­
dividual  traders  and  companies  which 
are  engaged  in  constant  war  with  each 
other,  and  regardless  of the  law  of  sup­
ply  and  demand,  lower prices,  over-pro­
duction  and  over-trade,  until  the  inevi­
table  collapse  ensues  and  the  country 
passes  through  all  the  ruinous  stages  of 
panic  and  depression.  This  argument 
should  be  met  with  an  admission  at  the 
outset that  there  is  something  in  it,  fol­
lowed  by  a  demonstration  that  all  the 
saving  of  time and  money,  and  all  the 
superior  convenience  that  may  be  justly 
claimed  for  the  trust,  are  not  enough  to 
offset  that  loss  of  personal  independ­
ence  and  free  individual  development 
which  is  tbe  certain  consequence of  the 
establishment  of  those  gigantic  combi­
nations  in  restraint  of  trade.

But  the  true  and  the  invincible  argu­
ment  against  trusts  is  that  their object 
is  to  monopolize  the  supplies  of  neces­
sary  articles  of  consumption  and  con­
trol  their  prices,  placing  the  people  ut­
terly  at  the  mercy  of  the  monopoly. 
Every  consideration  of  popular  protec­
tion  demands  that  laws  shall  be  made 
and  enforced 
to  protect  the  people 
against  such  despotic  conditions,  and 
if  there  is  not  enough  honesty  or  power 
in  the  government  of  nation  or state 
to give  such  protection,  then  the  people 
themselves  are  justified 
in  rising  up 
and  protecting  themselves  in  any  man­
ner that  may  be  possible.  The  tendency 
of  such  monopolies  is  to  enforce  upon 
tbe  people  commercial  and  industrial 
slavery,  and  this  should  be  resisted  by 
every  means,  legal  or otherwise.

The  other  night  Rev.  H.  H.  Baldwin, 
an  aged  preacher,  was  conducting  re­
vival  services  in  a  little church at Foun­
tain,  Dewey  county,  Okla. 
Immmedi- 
ately  after bis text  had  been  given  out 
a  severe  storm  occurred.  The  preacher 
appealed  to  his  hearers  to  lead  better 
lives  and  to  feel  a  spiritual  calm  after 
a  life  of  sin,  the  roughness  and  turbu­
lence of  which he compared with tbe vio­
lence of  the  storm  raging  out  of  doors. 
Just  then  there  came  a  blinding  flash  of 
lightning  and  a  terrific  crash  of thun­
der.  When  the  congregation  recovered 
from  the  confusion,  the  minister  was 
found  lying  dead  on  the  floor.

The  Duchess  D ’Arcos,  the  American 
wife  of  the  new  minister from  Spain  to 
this country, laughs  at the  story  that  she 
once  jilted  George  Dewey.  This  would 
seem  to  establish  the  fact  that  the  hero 
of  Manila  has  not  a  single  defeat  in  the 
past to his  discredit— in  the  absence  of 
information  from  any  other  fair  Ameri­
can. 

_____________

Senator  Depew,  although  himself  a 
graduate  of  Yale,  does  not think  a  col­
lege  education  necessary. 
“ In  these 
days,”   he  says,  “ it 
is  well  to  know 
much, but  it  is imperative  to  know some 
one thing  well. **_________

Americans  take  the  time  for  their 
pleasures  from  the  hours  of  sleep  in­
stead  of  from  the  hours  of business.  So 
they  make  an  added  burden  of  what 
should  be  not only  a  pleasure,  but  also 
a  recreation.

If  a  bad  man  could  see himself as 
others  see  him  he  might  want  to break 
the  looking-glass.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

Yankee  cuts  under  at  $200,000 a  clip 
and  does  with  his  patent  bridge-builder 
in  a  year  what  the  English  contractors 
would  do  in  three.

Satisfied  with  these  reasons,  some  of 
the  English  manufacturers  have  ac­
knowledged  the 
inevitable  and  turned 
it  to  practical  account.  Large  orders 
for  bicycle-making  machinery  have 
in  this  country  and  the 
been  placed 
American  machinery 
in 
place;  and,  in  time,  either  the  Ameri­
can  machine  will  do  the  English  work 
or  the  English  brain  will  do  what  it 
can  to 
invent  a  better  machine  of  its 
own.

is  already 

Behind  Great  Britain  stand  the  other 
countries  of  Europe.  Germany,  who 
used  to  make  fun  of  the  American  man­
ufacturer,  sees  now  nothing  amusing  in 
the  present  condition  of  things.  For 
years  German  woolens  were  the  only 
ones  fit  to  wear;  but  to-day  she  is  posi­
tively  sure  that  America  never  will  be 
able  to  excel  her  in  dyeing—a  surety 
which  only  the  German  heart  is  indul­
ging  in.  The  American  tailor no  longer 
hesitates  to  direct  the  attention  of  his 
toniest  customers  to  the  product  of  the 
American  loom;  and  when  put  to  the 
test  the  American-dyed  woolens  endure 
the  Colorado  sunshine  without  fading  as 
well  as  the  imported  article.  Gradual­
ly  these  qualities  are  becoming  known 
and  acknowledged  and  soon— it  is  not  a 
question  of  years—the  rest  of  the  civi 
lized  world  will  follow  the  example  of 
our  English  cousins  and  for  the  same 
causes  will  be  listening  to  the  same rea­
sons  why.  ____________

King  Oscar  is  the  only  sovereign  who 
bears  the  medal awarded  for saving  life. 
In  1893  a  pleasure  party  were  driving 
along  the  Riviera,  where  the  precipice 
runs  down  to  the  Mediterranean,  a sheer 
steep  of  hundreds  of  feet.  By  some  ac­
cident  the  horses  took  fright  and  tore 
madly  along  the  roadway  just  where 
it 
curved  toward  the  water.  When  the 
party  were  given  up  for  lost  a  stalwart 
figure  sprang  at  the  heads  of  the  horses 
and  stopped  the  flight. 
If  it  had  not 
been  for an  attendant  no  one  would ever 
have  known  who  the  hero  was.  The 
medal  given  for the  act  is  always  worn 
by  the  King  above  all  his  other  orders, 
and  he  has  every  great badge in Europe.

THE  REASON  WHY.
it 

While 

it.  Success, 

is  the  hardest  thing  in  the 
world  for  human  nature  to  acknowledge 
itself  beaten,  it 
is  reserved  for  Anglo- 
Saxon  human  nature to  make  the  great­
est  fuss  about 
like  the 
Divine  Right  of  Kings,  as  a  matter  of 
course  comes  down  to  that  race  first, 
and 
if  there  is  any  uncalled  for  or  left 
over  other  nationalities  may  have  a 
scramble  for  it.  Like  the  touch  of  the 
king’s  evil,  this  belief  has  grown  with 
the  growth  and  strengthened  with  the 
strength  of  the  nation  from  the  time  of 
the  promotion  of  the  woolsack ;  and  to­
day  every  Englishman  has unquestioned 
faith 
in  the  fact  that  business  thrift 
finds  its  best  development  from  the  de­
scendants  of  Edward  III.,  the  “ Father 
of  English  Commerce.”

Their  reasoning  is  cogent,  if  not  con­
vincing.  When  that  Plantagenet  prince 
began  to  reign  England  had  little,  if 
any,  influence  in  the  commercial world. 
The  western  continent  was  then  un­
known  and  the  Mediterranen  basin  was 
the  center  of  maritime 
industry.  Now 
ali  that 
is  changed,  and  the  English­
man  has  changed  it.  England  has  be­
come  the  acknowledged  money  center— ] 
as  she 
is  the  geographical  center—for 
reckoning  financial  latitude  and 
longi­
tude.  The  Atlantic  has  taken  the  place 
of  the  Mediterranean  and  the  power  of 
the  woolsack  has 
located  in  Lombard 
Street,  the clearing house  of  the  nations.
But  this  well-earned  success,  the  re­
sult  of  honest  and  persevering  effort, 
while  it  was  supposed  to  be  permanent­
ly  fixed,  is  showing  a  marked  decline. 
As 
it  may  be  supposed,  this  condition 
of  things has  not  suddenly  taken  place. 
For a  number  of  years  the  yearly  re­
turns  have  not  been  wholly  satisfactory. 
There has  been  a  growing  grumble  all 
along  the  line.  The  trader  has  found 
fault,  the  manufacturer  has  been  puz­
zled,  the  general  business  world  in  the 
British  Isles  has  been  asking  the  same 
question;  and  at 
last,  replying  to  a 
question  in  the  House  of  Commons,  the 
Secretary  of  State  for  India  gave to  the 
British  public  the  reason  why  the  place 
which  Great  Britain  has  held  so  long  in 
business 
is  slipping  away  from 
her.  Too  many  contracts  for  English 
bridges  have  been  awarded  to American 
manufacturers  and  bluff  John  Bull’s 
“ Out  with  it!”   brought  two  good  an­
swers :  Because  the  bid  was  lower  from 
the  American  firm  and  the  time shorter. 
The  English  wanted  $500,000  and  three 
years  to  do  the  work;  the  Americans 
$300,000  and  one  year.  The  Soudan 
bridge,  which  the  Tradesman  has  re­
ferred  to  before,  was  secured— if  the 
British  makers'  claim  is  to be depended 
upon—by  the  American  company  be­
cause  they  happened  to  have  on  hand 
an  old  bridge  they  wanted  to  get  rid  of 
and  which  was  suited  to  the  purpose. 
In  the  last  contract  no  such  condition 
exists  and  the  British  public  is  blankly 
staring  at  the  facts  which  give  it  the 
second  place  in  the  manufacturing  list 
of  the  world.

lines 

That  these  reasons—money  and  time 
—are  the  foundation-stones  of American 
supremacy  does  not  brighten  the  pros­
pects  of  England’s  regaining  what  she 
has  lost.  There  will  be  an  attempt 
made;  but  it  will  not  succeed.  Behind 
the  time  and  the  money  are  the  mental 
and  physical  make-up  of  the  English 
people  and  these are  not  easy to change. 
The  old  way  of  doing  things  is  good 
enough,  the  old  machine 
is  all  right. 
The business  methods  which  have  stood 
the  test  of time  are  the  only  safe  ones. 
We  will  continue  them;  and  so  the

All  tea  rejected  by  the  English  cus­
toms  officials  as  unfit  for  consumption 
is  now  readily  purchased  in  London  for 
the  manufacture  of  caffeine.  The tea  is 
ground  with 
lime  and  assafoetida  and 
delivered  from  customs  supervisions.  It 
is  then  exported  to  the  continent,  where 
the  caffeine 
is  extracted  by  means  of 
fusel  oil.  Various  drugs  are  then  pre­
pared  from  it  and  reimported  to  Eng4 
land.  The  sweepings  of  the  tea  ware­
houses  and  inferior teas  are  also  used  in 
this  trade.  The  French  chemical  trad­
ers are  now  entering  into  this  branch  of 
industry.  _____________

The  Japanese  have  adopted  a  new 
code  of  laws,  which  is  formed  so  much 
in  accordance  with  Western 
ideas  that 
Europeans  and  Americans  have no  rea­
sonable  excuses  for  refusing  to  submit 
to  Japanese  courts.  French  and  Ger­
man  law  has  chiefly  been  copied.  The 
objection  to  the  English  and  American 
systems  was  that,  as  it  is  not  codified, 
uniformity  in  the administration  of  jus­
tice  is 
impossible;  hence  the  skill  of 
the  lawyer  and  the  caprice  of a  judge 
have  often  more  to  do  with  the  shaping 
the  verdict  than  the  terms  of  the  law.

It  is  hard  to  do  anything  for  a  man 

who  is  stuck  on  himself.

A  CRUMB  OF  COMFORT.

One of  the  delights  in  beating  is  see­
ing  how  the  beaten  takes  it.  The  “ ifs”  
are  first  disposed  of.  That  task  done, 
inborn  desire  to  adapt  one’s  self  to 
the 
existing  circumstances  asserts 
itself 
and,  with  the  feeling  that  things  might 
have  been  worse,  life  under  the  new 
order  of  events  begins.  A  remarkable 
paper  has  been  lately  read  before  the 
Royal  Statistical  Society  of  England. 
Its  author  is  Sir  Robert  Giffen,  K.  C.
B.,  LL.  D .,  F.  R.  S. 
“ The  Excess  of 
Imports”   is  the  theme  and  it  takes  up 
seventy  closely-printed  pages  of  the 
Royal  Statistical  Society  Journal’s  val­
uable  space.  The  writer  confines  him­
self,  for  the  most  part,  to  the  “ if” 
period.  The  United  States  has  over­
taken  and  passed  the  United  Kingdom 
as  an  export  country  and  is  now  lead­
ing  the  world  as a  distributor  of  manu­
factures  and  natural  products. 
If  and 
if  and 
if  something  else  had  been  the 
state  of  affairs  there  would  undoubtedly 
have  been  a 
far  different  outcome. 
Still,  the  United  Kingdom  has  reason 
to  be  thankful.  After  all,  the  United 
States  is  compelled  to  turn  from  her as­
tounding  export  figures  and  admit  that 
they  would  have  been 
larger,  many 
larger,  if  her  drayage  to  other 
times 
nations  for the  carriage  of  her  goods 
in 
the  foreign  trade  had  not  been  enor­
mous.  Then,  with  the  ecstasy  of  the 
English  porter  who  finds  himself 
in 
possession  of  an  unusual  tip,  the  paper 
declares  that  the  foreign  country  which 
does  the  carrying  trade  for  the  United 
States  is  mainly  the  United  Kingdom— 
exactly,  it  might  have  added,  as  the 
mortar-carrying  of  the  Great  Republic 
is  mainly  done  by  Ireland. 
is 
that—only  a  crumb—the 
comfort 
United  Kingdom 
is  heartily  welcome 
to  it.

If  there 

in 

There 

is  little  assurance,  however, 
that  even  this  will  exist  much  longer. 
It 
is  to  be  noticed  that  business  in 
American  ship-yards  continues  active. 
It  should  be  borne 
in  mind  that  the 
same  genius  which  modeled  the  yacht 
“ America”   back  in  the  50’s  has  been 
having  marked  success 
in  the  same 
lines  since.  The  ocean  greyhounds  of 
the  American  line  are reminders of what 
has  been  done and  suggestive  of  what 
may  be  done.  The  dream  of Paul Jones 
has  been  realized  at  Manila  and  it  re­
mains  to  be  seen  whether  the  Nation 
which,  in  settling  a  private  difference 
as  this  Nation  did  in  Hampton  Roads, 
revolutionized  the  naval  warfare  of  the 
world  will  not,  by  and  by,  do  the  same 
thing  for  the  maritime  affairs  of  trade. 
Time  and  money  are  in  our  favor.  The 
American  machine,  with  the  American 
band  and  brain  behind  it,  will  be  ready 
for  the  appointed  task  when  the  time 
comes.  That  time  may  and  may  not 
be  far  away.  Until  then  the  United 
Kingdom  should  extract  from  its  crumb 
of  comfort  all  there  is  in  it,  and  with 
meek  submission  bow  to  the 
inevitable 
when  it  comes.

The  paper  referred  to  abounds 

in 
“ obvious  reasons  why  the  United  States 
should  have  an  excess  of  exports.”  
It 
is  not  the  purpose  of  the  Tradesman  to 
gainsay  one  of  them ;  but  behind  them 
all  there 
lies  the  growing  conviction 
that,  while  “ The  excess  of  imports  is 
to  be  accounted  for 
in  the  trade  of  a 
country  like  England  in  several  ways, 
principally  by  the  fact  that  England 
is 
a  ship-owning  country,  and  does  a  large 
business  all  over the  world  in  carrying 
goods  and  passengers, ”   there 
is  no 
knowing  how  long  this  will  last and that 
the  crumb  of  comfort,  sweet  as  it  is,

will  be  forgotten  by  the  holder  as  he 
watches  the  distance 
increasing  be­
tween  his  own  country  and  that  other 
one  whose  common  carrier  it  has  con­
tentedly  settled  down  to  be.

VALUABLE  STAMPS.

Stamp  collectors  of  average  means 
who  have  secured  complete  sets  of  the 
present  revenue  issues—not  an  easy  job 
in  view  of  errors  and  peculiarities  in 
printing  and  changes  of  colors— will 
learn  with  dismay  that  the  Government 
is  about  to  add  to  the  documentaries 
some  high  denominations  that  will  be 
out  of  reach  for  some  time,  even  when 
canceled. 
The  highest  denomination 
now  is  $50.  One  of  these  is  enough  for 
a  document  of  pretty  high  face  value. 
But  many  mortgages  and conveyances of 
various  sorts  drawn  up  in  these  days  of 
financial  and  commercial  reorganiza­
tion  and  consolidation have  represented 
such 
large  sums  that  the  number  of 
even  the  high  $50  stamps  necessary  to 
be  affixed  is  so  great as to encroach seri­
ously  on  the  text.  The  Bureau  of  Print­
ing  and  Engraving  therefore  is  said  to 
be  now  at  work  on  designs for $100,  $500 
latter  will 
and  $1,000  stamps. 
probably  be  the  first  finished. 
It  will 
show  the  portrait  of  Madison,  and  be 
printed  in  two  colors.  The portraits  se­
lected  for  the  $100 and  $500 stamps have 
not  yet  been  announced.  A decided  in­
novation  is  to  be  introduced  by  having 
the  new stamps numbered consecutively, 
so  that  a  record  can  be  kept  of  each 
one.  This  numbering  may  eventually 
relieve  the  anguish  of  the  collector,  as 
it  will  give  him  an  idea  of  what  the 
chances  are  of  his  getting  one  that  has 
been  used.

The 

At  the  close  of  the  war  with  Spain,  J. 
M.  Fontaine,  of  San  Juan,  who  is  now 
in  Chicago,  bought  up  all  that  were  left 
in  Puerto  Rico  of  the  Spanish  postage 
stamps  that  had  been  in use there.  They 
cost  him  $25,000,  but  as  he  has  a  cor­
ner  on  them  he  expects  to  make  a  big 
profit  by  selling  to  dealers and collectors 
at  bis  own  prices.

In  Boston  last  week  some imaginative 
individual  started  the  story  that  there 
was  a  premium  of  10  cents  on  the  new 
$1  silver  certificates,  series  A,  and  that 
for  some  unknown  reason  the  Govern­
ment  bad  called  in  the  entire  issue.  As 
a  result  credulous  people  gathered  to­
gether  ali  the  new  $1  bills  they  could 
get,  and  so  rapidly  did  the  circulation 
of  the  issue  decrease  that  the  officials 
at  the  subtreasury  felt  called  upon  to 
announce  not  only  that  the  premium 
story  was  untrue,  but  that  the  Govern­
ment  had  no  intention  of  withdrawing 
the  certificates.

The  Omaha  health  department  has 
warned  all  families  to  cease  the  use  for 
the  present  of  milk  and cream furnished 
by  local  dairymen.  The  reason  is  the 
discovery  that  preservaline 
is  being 
used  to  prevent  the  milk  from  spoiling. 
A  spoonful  will  fix  a  ten-gallon  can. 
Such 
large  quantities  of  the  fluid  have 
been  used  of  late  that  prices  have  been 
cut  by  druggists  from  $3  to  $2.90 a  gal­
The  health  officials  claim  that 
lon. 
many  deaths  of 
infants  in  Omaha  re­
cently  can  be  traced  to  the  use  of  pre­
servaline  in  milk.

People  who  think  twice  before  they 
speak  once  are  not  the  greatest  talkers.
It  takes  a  small  brain  to  be  proud  of 

feet  that  are  too  small  for  the  owner.

Cubans  demand  a  stable  government. 

That  is  a  horse  on  Spain.

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DIPLOMATIC  DRUMMING.

How  a  Clever Salesman Improved  HIs 

Opportunity.

“ Laketown!  All  out!”   shouted  the 
brakemau,  as  the  train  rolled 
into  the 
erminal  station  of  a  branch  road  in 
New  Hamsphire  a  few  minutes  after 
seven  on  a  pleasant  morning  in  July, 
1896.

The passengers slowly filed out through 
the  narrow  aisle  of  the  day  coach,  while 
from  without  came  the  cries of  the  rival 
hotel  porters:  “ This  way  to  the  Arling­
ton;  free  ’bus  and  free  baggage;”   and 
"H ere  you  are  for  the  Tontine;  car­
riage  going  right  up.”

The  crowd  rapidly  melted  away,  as 
they  were,  for the  most part,  employes— 
men  and  women—of  a  large  woolen mill 
close  by.  The  station  was  left deserted, 
except  for  the  railroad  employes,  a  few 
loungers  and  the  two 
’bus  drivers,  each 
doing  bis  best  to  persuade  a  dapper 
young  man,  unmistakably  a  drummer, 
who  stood  between  them.

After  a  few  sharp  questions, he  finally 
decided  in favor of the Arlington,  which, 
being  nearer  the  business  center,  was 
better suited to  bis  purpose.  Handing  to 
the  driver  checks  for  the  two 
large 
trunks  which  had 
the  meanwhile 
been  put  off  the baggage car, he climbed 
into  the  old-fashioned  stage,  remarking 
to  himself:  “ This  getting  up  at  5 
o’clock  is  one  of  the  delightful  features 
of  a  life  on  the  road. ”

in 

After ten  minutes’  ride  the  hotel  was 
reached.  There  be  registered,  in  a  bold 
band:  “ Robert  Littleton,  New  York.”
The  drummer  was  shown  in  to  break­
fast,  which  was  hurriedly  dispatched. 
Then,  after  a  rapid  glance  outside  to 
assure  himself  of  the  presence  of  his 
trunks,  a  “ bee-line”   was  made 
for 
“ Dennison’s  Dry  Goods  Emporium.”  
Speculation  as  to  the  probability  of 
booking  a  good  order  occupied  his 
thoughts  the  meanwhile.

Entering  the  store  with  a  cheery 
“ Good  morning”   to  the  young 
lady 
whom  he  encountered  near the  door,  he 
enquired 
if  Mr.  Brown,  the  buyer,  bad 
yet  arrived,  the  hour  being  still  early.

“ Oh,  no, 

indeed;  Mr.  Brown 

is  at 
the  lake and  will  not  return  until  even­
ing.”

Bob  had  been  on  the  road  for  several 
years  and,  having  had  his  share  of  dis­
appointments,  had  tried  to  cultivate a 
philosophical  disposition,  but  this  was 
a  poser  for  him.  He  had  risen  at  5 
o’clock 
in  order  to  take  the  only train 
“ up  the  branch,”   and  there  was  none 
down  the  line  until  8  at  night.  For this 
reason  be had  never  “ made”   this  town 
before,  and  at  this  disclosure 
inwardly 
swore  he  never  would  again.

“ Too bad,”   he  remarked  to the young 
lady. 
“ Our  line  of  cloaks  this  year  is< 
such  a  good  one that  I  am  sure  bad  he 
been  here  I  could  have  sold  him .”
“ Yes,  no  doubt,”   she  replied. 

“ I 
have  heard  him  say  that  Addleberg's 
garments  have  not  pleased  him  lately 
and  he  thinks 
it  time  to  make  a 
change. ’ ’

This  rejoinder  added  poignancy to the 
in­

salesman’s  disappointment  and 
creased  his  desire  to  see  Mr.  Brown.

Bob  was  nonplussed.  What  was  he  to 
do?  If  he  waited  over 
it  meant  two 
whole  days.  Not  such  a  terrible  matter 
if  he  succeeded.  But what  if  Brown  bad 
decided  to  go  to  the  market  for  his 
line?  Follow  Brown  to  the  lake?  No; 
that  would  not  do.  He  did  not  know 
him— in  fact,  bad  never  seen  him.

These  thoughts  and  others  were  in­
terrupted  by  the  young  lady,  who,  no­

ticing  his  chagrin,  and  seeking  to  cheer 
him  up,  exclaimed:  “ Ob!  well,  you 
won’t  find  it  so  awfully  dull  here.  You 
can  enjoy  yourself  by  spending  the  day 
at  the  lake. ’ ’

Poor girl!  Little  did  she  realize  that 
beneath  the  suave  and  pleasant  surface 
of  the  commercial  drummer  there  were 
often  much  anxiety  and  trouble.  How 
could  she know  of  the  stern  “ old  man”  
in  the  office,  of  his  contemptuous  sniffs 
over  small  orders  or  bis  anger  when 
none  were  forthcoming?  Had  she  ever 
read  one  of  those  crisp,  sharp,  bitter 
epistles,  dictated  from  a  comfortable 
office  between  puffs  of  a  “ Henry Clay,”  
to  the  unfortunate  knight  of  the grip she 
would  have  known  what  a  day  at  the 
lake  might  involve.

After  a  few  desultory  remarks  on 
matters  in  general  and  disappointment 
in  particular,  the  drummer  said  “ Good 
day.”   Stepping 
into  the  street,  he 
lighted  a  cigar  and  proceeded  toward 
the  hotel,  feeling  quite  dejected.  He 
had  not  gone  very  far  when  he  encoun­
tered  the  ’bus  porter,  who politely asked 
if  he  would  have  his  trunks  brought 
over to  the  store.

“ Guess  not,”   said  Bob  laconically. 
“ Brown  is  at  the  lake.  By  the  way,”  
he  enquired  suddenly,  “ how  far  is  this 
lake?”

" S ix   miles,”   was  the  answer. 

“ But 
train’s 

The 

you’ll  have  to  drive. 
gone. ”

“ How  much  for a  rig?”   interrogated 

Bob.

“ Four  dollars,”   replied  the  porter.
A  swift  calculation  on  the  score  of 
averages  and  a  mental  inventory  of cash 
on  hand  determined  Bob’s  course. 
Telling  the  man  to  have  a  “ rig”   at  the 
hotel  as  quickly  as  possible,  he  threw 
away  bis  cigar,  and,  hurrying  back  to 
the  store,  asked  the  young  lady  for a 
description  of  Mr.  Brown.

“ Be  sure  and  ask  which  camp  he’s 
stopping  at,”   she  called  after  him  as 
he  was  hurrying  away.  Bob  did  not 
then  realize  the  full  import  of  this  ad­
monition.  Had  be  done  so  this  story 
might  never  have  been  written.

Driving  along  the  road 

through  a 
beautiful  stretch  of  country,  his  spirits 
rapidly  rose  under  the  influence  of  bis 
surroundings,  and  when,  at  the  end  of 
an  hour  or so,  the  lake  came  into  view 
he had  begun  to  feel  himself  again.

“ Lucky  thing  the  ‘ old  man’  can’t  see 
“ H e’d  call 

me  now,”   he  soliloquized. 
me  down  in  great  shape.”

Arriving  at  the  lake,  he  turned  bis 
horse  into  the  hotel  shed,  and,  making 
for 
his  way  to  the  office,  enquired 
Brown.  The  clerk  politely 
informed 
him  that  Brown  was  at one of the camps, 
but  he really  didn’t  know  which.

Bob’s  face  fell  at  this  news,  whereat 
the  clerk  told  him  he  might  find  out  on 
the  boat,  remarking  at  the  same  time 
that  he  had  better  make  haste,  as  it 
would  leave  in  a  few  minutes.

Hurrying  down  to  the  wharf,  he 
found  the  men  on  board  in  the  act  of 
hauling  in  the  gang  plank,  and,  reali­
zing  that bis  chances  of finding  the  elu­
sive  Brown  were  better  afloat 
than 
ashore,  he  quickened  -fais  pace  and 
sprang  aboard,  landing 
in  the  arms  of 
the  burly  captain  simultaneously  with 
the  noise  of  the  falling  plank.

“ That’s  what  we  call a ‘ crash note, ’  ”  
said  the  captain  as  be  gently  released 
Bob  from  his  bear-like  embrace.

This  remark  caused  the  drummer  to 
gaze  with  considerable  curiosity  upon 
the  massive figure of  the  speaker.  He 
was  at  a 
loss  to  reconcile  the  latter's 
apparent  rusticity  with  the  expression

“ crash  note,”   which 
outside  theatrical  circles.

is  rarely  heard 

“ Pshaw! 

it  can’t  be,”   he  said  to 
himself. 
is  preposterous. 
Imagine  Richard  Harlowe—Queen  of 
1492—captain  of  a  lake  steamer!”

“ The 

idea 

At  the  very  thought  he  began  to  laugh 
so  heartily  that  the  captain  stood  and 
regarded  him  in  amazement  until  final­
ly  his  own jovial  nature  got  the  better of 
his  astonishment,  and  be,  too,  broke  in­
to  a  loud  guffaw.

“ I’ll  tell  you  what  a  funny  thought 
struck  me,”   said  Bob,  when  he  finally 
succeeded 
“ I 
was  thinking  what  a  dandy  substitute 
you  would  make  for  Harlowe  as  the 
Queen  of  Spain.”

in  controlling  himself. 

“ Not  far  out,”   quickly  responded  the 
“ I  played  the  part  during  his 

captain. 
vacation. ”

It  was  now  Bob’s  turn  to  stare  in  as­
tonishment,  and,  explanations  being  in 
order,  it  developed  that  the  lake  was  a 
favorite 
resort  for  actors  during  the 
summer  season,  and  serving  as  captain 
on  the  little  lake  steamer  was  the  way 
this  particular actor  chose  to  spend  his 
vacation.

Together  they  sat down and discoursed 
of  things  theatrical  until  the  first  land­
ing  was  reached,  and,  duties  calling 
the  captain  away,  Bob  was  left  to  recall 
that  his  chief  mission  on  earth  was  to 
sell  cloaks,  and  in  order  to  do  so  be 
must  bestir  himself  and  find  Brown,  the 
search  for  whom  bad  by  this  time  as­
sumed  the  tragic  importance  of  a  man 
hunt.

When  the  boat  was  once  more  under 
way  the  captain  rejoined  Bob,  and, 
bearing  from  him  the  object  of  bis  visit 
to  the  lake,  expressed  bis  sympathy  and 
regretted  the  fact  that  he,  too,  was  un­
acquainted  with  Brown.

“ But  hold  on,”   he  suddenly  cried. 
“ I  think  I  saw  Dennison,  the  owner of 
the  store,  on  the  rear deck.  He can help 
you,  surely.  Come  with  me  and  I’ll 
introduce  you. ”

Bob  jumped  to  bis  feet,  exclaiming : 

“ Old  man,  you’re  a  brick!”

Together  they  went  aft,  where  the 
captain,  stopping  before  an  elderly  gen­
tleman  who  was  seated  with  two  ladies, 
presented  Bob,  saying:  “ Mr.  Denni 
son, 
is  Mr.  Littleton,  of  New 
York.”   Bowing  himself  off,  he  left Bob 
standing,  hat  in  hand,  hardly  knowing 
what  to  say.

this 

“ My  wife  and  daughter,”   said  Mr. 
Dennison,  with  a  kindly  smile. 
“ Be 
seated,  sir,  and  tell  us  what  you  think 
of  our  lake.  You  know,  you  New  York­
ers  travel  so  much  that  we  prize  your 
opinions  highly. ”

Bob  drew  up  a  camp  stool  and  pro­
ceeded  to  extol  the  beauties  of  the 
lake,  thankful  for  the  opportunity  of do­
ing  a  little  preliminary  skirmishing  be­
fore  avowing  bis  real  purpose 
in  seek­
ing  the  acquaintance.

The  ladies  joined  in  the  conversation 
and,  passing  from  one  topic  to  another, 
it  soon  became  evident  from  the  tenor 
of  their  remarks  that  they  regarded  Bob 
as  a  “ tourist.”   He  felt  the  awkward­
ness  of  his  position  and  was  on  the 
point  of  declaring  himself  when  Mr. 
Dennison  arose  and,  excusing  himself, 
remarked:  “ I  expect  Mr.  Brown  and 
his  wife  to  come  aboard  at  the  next 
landing. 
leave  you  with  the 
ladies  while  I go forward to meet them. ”
“ Ye  gods!”   quoth  Bob  to  himself. 
“ Was  there  ever  such 
luck?  Brown, 
actually  Brown  in  the  flesh,  and  coming 
aboard  the  beat!”

I  will 

The  landing  was  soon  made,  and 
shortly  afterward  Mr.  Dennison returned

accompanied  by  the  interesting  and, 
to  Bob  much-sought,  Mr.  Brown,  fol­
lowed  by his wife.  The ladies exchanged 
greetings  and  Bob  was  formally  intro­
duced.  The  hearty  handshake  may  have 
surprised  Brown,  but  he  made  no  com­
ment.

in 

Disembarking, 

The  unsuspected  salesman  was  all 
smiles  now,  and,  feeling  that  no  power 
on  earth  could  remove  Brown  from  his 
sight,  he  determined  to  carry  out  the 
comedy,  trusting  to  some  lucky  chance 
to  set  him  right  in  the  end.  He  told 
really  funny  jokes  and  related  amusing 
stories,  keeping  the  party 
lively 
spirits,  the  boat  meanwhile  making  the 
circuit  of  the  lake  and 
landing  shortly 
after  one  o’clock  at  the dock  from which 
it  had  started. 
the 
party  slowly  wended  their  way  toward 
the  hotel,  Bob  placing  himself  beside 
the  ladies,  Mr.  Dennison  and  his  buyer 
strolling  00  ahead.
Arriving  at  the  bouse,  luncheon  was 
next  in  order,  and  could  the  element  of 
doubt  as  to  the  successful outcome of the 
removed  Bob 
adventure  have  been 
would  have  voted 
it  a  most  enjoyable 
affair.  Nevertheless,  the  excitement  of 
the occasion  kept bis spirits at  a buoyant 
pitch,  and  all  declared  him  a  first-rate 
entertainer.
Luncheon  over,  they  all  repaired  to 
the  porch,  and  Bob  fell  to  wondering 
what  the  next  move  would  be.  After  a 
time  Mr.  Dennison  remarked  jokingly: 
“ I  say,  Brown,  when  you  and  Mr.  Lit­
tleton  go 
in  on  the  train  this  evening 
you  must  make  a  note  of  some  of  his 
stories  and  repeat  them  to  us  when  you 
come  out  next  week.”
Bob  held  up  his  hand  deprecatingly, 
exclaiming:  “ You flatter  me,  sir;  and, 
besides,  I  am  driving  back. 
I  was  too 
late  for  the  morning train,  therefore  bad 
to  drive  over.  But,”   he  added,  with  a 
well-assumed  air  of  innocence,  “ if  Mr. 
Brown  would 
like  to  drive  back  with 
me  I’ll  try  to  entertain  him.”
“ I  should  be  delighted,”  said  Brown, 
“ and  as  soon  as  Mrs.  Brown  goes  back 
to  camp—the  boat  leaves  at  3  o’clock— 
I  propose  we  start  and  take  the  east 
road,  which  is  the  longest.”
It  was  thus  arranged,  and  at  the  ap­
pointed  time  the  party  broke up.  After 
many  urgent  invitations  to  come  again, 
Bob  at  last  found  himself  alone  with 
Brown.

After  they  had  been  driving  some 
time,  and  while  Brown  was  convulsed 
with 
laughter  over  the  last  story,  Bob 
nerved  himself  for  the  final  effort,  the 
coup  d'etat,  or,  as  it  might  be  termed, 
the  “ commercial  hold-up.”   Gently 
working  his  hand 
into  bis  pocket,  he 
swiftly  extracted  a  card  and,  before 
Brown  bad  quite  recovered  himself, 
held  it  toward  him,  squaring  around 
in 
his  seat  at  the  same  time  to  better  ob­
serve  the  effect,  and  saying:  “ Allow 
me,  Mr.  Brown.”

It  would  be  drawing  it  mildly  to  say 
that  Brown  was  astonished  when  his eye 
lighted  on

H ERKEI-M AN  &  FELSEN B IN D , 

Cloaks and Suits.

R.  L i t t l e t o n ,  Representative.

H e  w as  d u m b fo u n d ed .

“ Why,”  he  gasped,  “ I  thought  you 
were a tourist!  How do  you come to know 
Dennison,  and  wbat  were  you  doing  at 
the  lake?”

Bob  was  somewhat  startled  at  this 
outbreak,  but,  not  waiting  to  answer 
Brown's  question  directly,  be  proceeded 
at  once  to  make  a  clean  breast  of  the 
whole  affair,  the humor  of  which  tickled 
his  listener  so 
immensely  that  at  the 
end  he  shook  Bob’s  hand  heartily  and 
fully  exonerated  him.

“ The  old  man  wanted  me  to  bring 
back  some  stories!”   chuckled  Brown. 
“ Ha!  ha! 
I'll  give  him  this  one,  and 
the  joke 
is  on  him,  too,  for  be  intro­
duced  me  to  you. ”
When  Bob  said  good-bye  to  Brown  at 
the  train  that  night  be  bad,  besides  the 
renewed  assurance  of  his  friendship,  a 
nice  fat  order  in  his  inside  pocket,  the 
duplicate  of  which  was 
in  the  mail 
pouch  bound  for  New  York.

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Fruits and  Produce.
Observations  by  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
The  situation  of  the  storage  egg  deal 
has  continued  to  attract  wide  attention, 
and  coining  in  contact  witb  many  egg 
men 
in  my  daily  travels,  I  bear  a  wide 
variety  of  opinions  expressed  as  to  the 
soundness  or  unsoundness  of  the  posi­
tion. 
In  this  market,  however,  there 
are  very  few  operators  who  regard  the 
egg  situation  with  favor,  the  great  ma­
jority  being  of  opinion  that  the  relation 
of  cost  to  quantity 
is,  and  has  been 
from  the  start,  out  of  all  reasonable  pro­
portion.  Now  and  then  I  run  up  against 
an  optimist  who  thinks  values  are  all 
right  and  that  the  spring  accumulations 
will  make  money. 
‘ ‘ Why,’ ’  he  will 
say,  “ we are on a  higher  plane  of  values 
for  all  sorts  of  produce;  the  country 
is 
is  prosperous  condition  throughout;  la­
bor  is  well  employed,  and  the  purchas­
ing  power  of  our  people  is  better  than 
it  has  been  for  years;  consumption  can 
not  now  be  estimated  on  the  old  basis 
and  we  can  sell  as  many  eggs  nowa­
days  at  15c  as  we  used  to  sell  at  11c  or 
12c.  Higher  prices  must  prevail 
throughout  the  season  and  the  relative 
advance  compared  with  former  seasons 
may  be  expected  to  continue  throughout 
the  year.”   Another,  of  similar  bullish 
tendency,  may  say:  “ The  higher  prices 
are  the  natural  result  of a  late  spring, 
an  exceptionally  severe  winter,  a  lighter 
production  and  a  short  storage  season; 
the  country 
is  short  of  spring  packed 
eggs;  look  at  the  decrease  in  Eastern 
bouses  and  you  will  find  ample  justifi­
cation  for  the  higher  prices!”

*  *  *

These  arguments  cover  most  of  the 
reasons  advanced  by  those  who  regard 
the  egg  situation  as  sound  and  healthy. 
But  they  are  disputed  by  a  majority  of 
our  egg  men,  partly  as  to  the  facts  and 
partly  as  to  the  deductions  drawn  there­
from. 
It  is  geneally  admitted  that  the 
prosperity  of  our  people  is  greater  than 
for  some  years  past  and  many  consider 
that  this  difference  is  sufficient  to  give 
sound  basis  for a  slightly  higher level of 
values  under  equal  supplies.  But  that 
it  is  enough  to  warrant  speculation  up­
on  so  great  an  advance  as  has  been 
maintained 
is  seriously  disputed;  so 
also  is  the  statement that  the  late season 
will  have  resulted  in  any  large  decrease 
of  egg  holdings  when  we  shall  reach  the 
end  of  the  storing  season.  Everybody 
believes,  and  with  abundant  reason, 
that  Western  holdings  of  stored  eggs 
are  larger  than 
last  year  at  this  tim e; 
and  while  the  Eastern  shortage  was  cer­
tainly  very 
large  at  the  beginning  of 
May  it  has  been  reducing  rapidly  since 
then.  The  Boston  shortage,  which  was 
no  less  than  67  per  cent,  on  May  1,  had 
fallen  to  26  per  cent,  by  May  22,  and 
was  steadily  being  decreased;  the  New 
York  shortage, which doubtless amounted 
to  6o@ 7o  per  cent.  May  1,  is  now  esti­
mated  at  35 @40  per  cent.  ;  Buffalo, 
Syracuse  and  Albany  are  reliably  re­
ported  to  have  reached  last  year’s figure 
at  even  date;  and  the  shortage  in Phila­
delphia  and  other  Pennsylvania  bouses 
is  probably  no  greater  than 
in  New 
York.  We  have  no  doubt  that  the  total 
stored  accumulations,taking  the  country 
through,  are  now  very  nearly 
if  not 
quite  up  to  last  year  at  this  date,  and 
that  with  reasonably  favorable  weather 
the  first  of  July  will  find  an  excess  com­
pared  witb  July  1,  1898.
#  *  *

It  is  true  that  consumptive demand  in 
this  market  has  been,  apparently,  about

as  large  this  year  as  last  in  spite  of  the 
higher  prices,  and this  is  taken  by  some 
as  a  result  of  improved  business  condi­
tions  which  are  expected  to  maintain  a 
higher  level  of  values  continuously.  But 
it  must  be  remembered  that  an  advance 
of  3 or  4  cents,  starting  from  10  or  11c, 
has  very  much  less  effect  on  consump­
tion  than  an  equal advance staiting from 
15c  and  the  test  as  to  the  ability  to 
maintain  large  trade  on  a  relative 
im­
provement  compared  with  former  years 
will  come  in  the  fall. 
It  will  then  very 
likely  be  found  that  ice  bouse  eggs  at 
15c  wholesale  move  a  heap  sight better 
than  they do  at  17  or  18c.— N.  Y.  Prod­
uce  Review.

*  *  *

There 

is  no  economy  in  the  use  of  a 
thirty-six  dozen  case.  As  a  rule  eggs 
will  reach  the  market  in  better  shape 
when  packed  in  thirty  dozen  cases,  and 
will  bring 
increased  returns  to  more 
than  pay  the  extra  packing  expenses. 
Buyers  do  not  like  the  larger  case,  and 
even  on  the  butter and  egg  boards  con­
siderable  preference 
is  often  given  to 
the  smaller  size,  sales  being  frequently 
made  with  stipulations  for  thirty-dozen 
cases.  They  have  grown  in  popularity 
principally  because  they  carry  eggs  in 
better  shape,  the number  of  cracked  and 
broken  ones  being  greatly  reduced  both 
when  eggs  are  sold  at  mark  and  during 
the 
In  hot  weather 
broken  eggs  soon  decay,  and  a  few 
spoiled  ones rapidly contaminate a whole 
case.  The  thirty-dozen  case  has  the 
preference  of  the  commission  man  and 
the buyer,  and  brings better  returns  to 
the  shipper.

loss-off  season. 

Maine  Chewing  Tobacco.

Since  the  price  of  plug  tobacco  went 
up,  a  good  many  farmers  in  Maine  have 
been  making  their  own  chewing tobacco 
just  as  their  grandfathers  did.  Tobacco 
seed  is  bought  in  Virignia  or  Kentucky 
and  planted  in  hotbeds  or  boxes early  in 
the  spring.  After  danger  from 
frost 
has  passed,  the  seedlings  are  trans­
planted  to  rich  ground  and  allowed  to 
grow  until  September  1.  The stalks are 
cut  off  near  the  ground  on  a  dry day and 
the  whole  plant  with  leaves  attached 
is 
hung  in  a  loft  to  cure. 
In  May  the  dry 
leaves  are  stripped  off,  and  when  the 
leaf  ribs  are  taken  out  the  mass 
is 
wetted  witb  sweetened  water  containing 
an  infusion  of  licorice  root.  As  soon 
as  the  flow  of  maple  sap  diminishes,  the 
spigots  are  taken  from  the  trees  and  the 
auger  holes  that  held  the  spigots are 
crowded  full  of  the  prepared  tobacco 
leaves.  A  tapering  pine  ping 
is  then 
driven  into  the  hole  on  top  of  the tobac­
co,  and  sawed  off  flush  with  the  tree. 
In  midsummer,  when  the  maple  flavor­
ing  has  had  time  to  permeate  the  mass 
and  the  wad  of  leaves  has  turned  dark 
and  shrunken  to  half  its  original  bulk, 
the  plug  is  bored  out,  and  a  solid cylin- 
of  excellent  chewing  tobacco  is  found. 
Nearly  all  the  farmers  in  Northern  and 
Western  Penobscot  county  are  making 
their  own  chewing  tobacco  this  year.

No  Wet  Goods  Need  Apply.

A  meeting  of  evaporated  apple  men 
was  held  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  last  week 
and  an  agreement  was  made  not  to  ac­
cept  any  wet goods  this  season.  There 
was  a good  deal  of  touble  last  year,  ow­
ing  to  the  large  output  of  such  goods. 
This  agreement  is  intended  to  obviate 
the  difficulty.

His  Way  of Advertising.

Charles— I  don’t  see  how  Blank  can 
make  any  money  out  of that  tobacco­
nist's  business  of  bis.  He’s  always 
smoking  the  best  cigars  himself.
tising.

Fred—Oh,  that’s  bis  method  of adver­
Charles— How  so?
Fred— Puffing  his  own  goods.

Men  are  like  chickens;  they  always 

want  to get  on  the  highest  spot.

P O T T L IT Z E R  BROS.  FRUIT  CO.,

COMMISSION  MERCHANTS

IN  FRUITS OF ALL DESCRIPTION 

Also

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Our motto:  Quick sales and prompt remittance.

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WHOLESALE DEALER  IN

B U T T E R   AND  EGGS

BUFFALO.  N.  Y.

A  good many egg buyers want your eggs only during April and  May  for  storage,  but 
I have got to have them every day during tne year. 
I have a good many  orders  yet  to  be 
filled for storage, besides my regular trade, so I can use  your  receipts  to  good  advantage.
Write me, before shipping elsewhere, how many you will have.  I will buy either on track 
there or delivered in  Buffalo.

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

Dun or Bradstreet.
Michigan Tradesman.

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Paris  Green  Labels

The Paris Green season is at hand and those dealers who  break  bulk  must 
label their packages according to law.  W e are prepared  to  furnish  labels 
which meet the requirements of the law, as follows:

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13

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  June  3—The  coffee  mar­
ket  has 
its  ups  and  downs  very  fre­
quently  just  now,  for  some  reason ;  but 
at  the  close  of  the  week  there  is a stead­
ier  feeling  and  holders  are evidently de­
termined  to grant  no  concession.  For 
a  large  lot  of  Rio  No.  7 5#c was refused 
and 6%c stubbornly insisted on.  Advices 
from  abroad  up  to  this morning indicate 
a  firmer  coffee  situation 
in  the  great 
European  markets  and  this,  of  course, 
strengthens  the  faith  of  dealers  here. 
The  decrease  of  the  world’s  supply  dur­
ing  May  is  estimated  at  from  100,000 to 
130,000  bags. 
In  store  and  afloat  the 
stock  aggregates  1,233,739 bags,  against 
939,967  bags  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
The  demand  has  seemingly  been  for 
only  enough  to  keep  assortments  com­
plete  and  no  stock,  to  speak  of, 
is 
taken  for  future  use.  Mild  coffees  move 
in  about  the  usuai  manner,  with  prices 
generally  pretty  firmly  maintained,  with 
good  Cucuta  at  8@8^c.  Padang  inte­
rior,  24>6@253<c.

The  tea  market 

is  decidedly  dull. 
Prices  are  unchanged  and  purchasers 
are  taking  only  enough  to  last  until  to­
morrow.  No  invoice  sales  are  reported 
and  both  seller  and  buyer  appear  to  be 
waiting  future  developments.

The  sugar  market  shows  steady  im­
provement and  orders  are  beginning  to 
come  with  freedom  from all points,some 
jobbers  placing  orders  on  time  con­
tracts,  thus  showing  faith  in  the  future. 
Prices  are firm  and,  as  the  canning  sea­
son  is  upon  us,  increased activity  in  the 
sugar  market  may  be  confidently  ex­
pected  right  along.  Raw  sugars  are 
firm,  but  no  particular change  is to  be 
noted  in  quotations.

improvement 

Rice  dealers  generally  report  a  grow­
ing 
in  trade  and  orders 
come  with  more  freedom  than  for  some 
time.  The  call 
is  chiefly  for  Japan 
sorts,  fancy  grades  of  which  are  steady 
at  \%c.  Patna  is  steady  at  5@5%c. 
Domestic  grades  rather  lag  behind  the 
foreign.  No  changes  have  occurred  in 
quotations,  head  rice  being  worth  7@ 
7K c.
While  pepper  and  cloves  have both 
sold  with  some  freedom—although  at 
unchanged  rates—other  lines  have  been 
quiet  and  buyers  show  no  disposition  to 
make  purchases  beyond  current  wants.
While  the  demand  has  been  quiet, 
molasses  dealers  appear  to  be  satisfied 
with  the  general  situation  and,  as  it  is 
generally  thought  the  coming  crop  will 
be  light,  higher  prices  may  prevail. 
Quotations  are  practically  the  same  as 
have  prevailed  for  some  weeks.

Sicily 

Lemons  have  met  with  an 

improving 
demand,  especially  from  out-of-town 
dealers,  although quotations  as  yet  show 
no  particular  change. 
lemons 
sell  from  $2.50  through  every  fraction 
up  to  $4@4.20  for  extra  fancy  300s. 
Oranges  are  unchanged.  Californias— 
which  have  been  reported  all  gone  for 
several  days—sell  from  $3.75  up  to $4  50 
for  fancy navels.  Seedlings, $2  90(§>3. 50.
Supplies  of  dried  fruit  are  light,  but 
nevertheless  sufficient  to  meet  current 
wants.  Prices  are  about  unchanged. 
Some  exporters  are  looking  for  offers  of 
new  goods,  but  seem  to  meet  with  in­
different  success.

The  weather  has  been  very  dry  in  the 
East,  and  undoubtedly  the  effect  will 
be  felt  in  the  pack  of  early  vegetables. 
Baltimore  reports  that  only  about  one- 
third  as  many  have been  packed  to  date 
as  was  the  case  last  year.  Packers  there 
have  paid  this  season  $3  per  barrel, 
against  Si.75  in  1898.  California  pack­
ers  are  keeping  the  wires  hot  withdraw­
ing  prices,  giving  as  a  reason  that  they 
want  to  await  the  crop  developments. 
Others  think  the  “ combine”   of  fruit 
growers  may  have  something  to  do  with 
it.  Salmon  are  very  firm  and  it  is  said 
that  banks  will  make a  liberal  advance 
of  cash  to  packers  to  enable them  to 
bold  their  stocks.  This  shows  a  good 
degree of  confidence  in  the  future.  No 
matter  what  happens  it  is  certain  that 
canned  goods  are  going  to  be  good 
property  for the  dealer to have  in  stock

this  fall,  and  if  he  can  spare  the  money 
to  buy  ahead,  so  much  the  better.

The  butter  market  is  rather  quiet. 
Arrivals  are  not  very  large  and  a  good 
deal  of  stock 
is  going  into  cold  stor­
age,  as  holders  think  they  will  meet 
with  better  returns  a  little  later  in  the 
season.  Extra  Western  creamery 
is 
worth 
i8j^c;  firsts,  i7J^@i8c;  seconds, 
i6>£@i7c;  imitation  creamery  is  worth 
I3@ i6c,  as  to  grade;  Western 
from 
I2@ i4c ;  Western  factory,  I2@ 
dairy, 
I3^c.
A  good  share  of  the  cheese arriving  is 
in  rather bad  shape  and  the market gen­
erally 
full 
cream  cheese  is  hardly  quotable a t&%c, 
in  some  cases,  perhaps,  %c 
although 
more  might  be  obtained.

is  demoralized; 

Arrivals  of  eggs are quite  liberal  and 
prices  have  declined.  Western  selected, 
I4@i4j^c.  A 
large  part  of  the  stock 
coming  to  band  is  going  into  cold  stor­
age  and  the  situation  just  at  present  is 
not  especially  encouraging.
How  the Customer Caught the Gr ocer 

fact, 

in 

Napping.

From  the Philadelphia Enquirer.

“ There  are  tricks  in  all  trades  but 
ours,”  remarked  one  member  of  a group 
seated  in  the  lobby  of  a  botei  last night, 
“ and  I  might  add  there  are  a  few 
in 
ours. ’ ’

The  speaker 

is  the  head  of  a  well- 

known  firm  of  grocers.

“ Not  so  long  ago,"  he  continued, 
“ when  I  was  still  in  the  retail  trade, 
we had  a  shrewd  Irish  woman  for a  cus­
tomer.  One  day  she  ordered  a barrel  of 
a  certain  brand  of  flour.  We  happened 
to  be  out  of  the  brand,  but  I  told  her  we 
would  send  her  a  barrel  of  another 
brand  equally  as  good.

“ A  week  or  so  afterward  she  came 
into  the  store  and  declared  that  she 
didn’t  like  the  flour,  and 
insisted  on 
having  it  taken  back  and  the  brand  she 
wanted  sent  instead.  Well,  we  hauled 
the  flour  back  to  the  store,  and  being 
still  out  of  the  brand  wanted,  filled  up 
the  returned  barrel,  put  in  a  new  bead 
and  carted  it  back  to  the  woman  again.
“ We  heard  nothing  more  about  the 
matter  for  three  weeks,  when  one  day 
she  came  into  the  store  in  a  highly 
in­
dignant  frame  of  mind.

and  haul 
claimed. 

“   ‘ I  want  you  to  send  up  to  my  house 
that  flour  away,’  she  ex­
‘ I  told  you  it  was  no  good.’
‘ Why,  you 

“   *  No  good,’  I  replied. 

know  it  is  the  brand  you  ordered. ’

“ The  woman  glared  at  me.
“   'It 

is  no  such  thing!’  she  blurted 
‘ You  sent  me  back  the  same  bar­

out. 
rel  I  bad. ’

“ Of  course,  I  denied  it,  laying  par­
ticular  stress  on  her  value  to  us as  a 
customer,  and  how  we  would  not  risk 
losing  her  trade  on  account  of  a  measly 
barrel  of  flour.  ‘ Why,  madam,’  I  ejac­
ulated, 
you 
think  of  such  a  thing?  Ours is  too hon­
orable  a  house  to  cheat  its  customers  or 
to  ask  them  to  accept a  substitute  for 
something  they  liked!'

’ how  could 

eloquently, 

“ Then  the  woman  grinned  at  me.
“   ‘ Huh!’  she  retorted,  ‘ that’s  all very 
fine.  But  I  had  two  bakin’s  out  of  the 
first  barrel  before  I  sent  it  back.’

“   ‘ Yes,’  I  assented,  ‘ and  you  got  a 
return,,  Doesn’t  that 

full  barrel 
prove— ’
“   ‘ Prove  nothin’, ’  she  interrupted. 
‘ The  first  two  bakin’s  I  got  out  of  the 
barrel  the  second  time  were  all  right. 
But  I  want  you  to  know  that  I  always 
take  my  flour  out  of  the  barrel  with  a 
saucer.  When  I  got  down  to  the  third 
bakin'  out  of  that  barrel  I— ’

interposed,  weakly,  ‘ what 

“   ‘ Yes,’  I 
did  you  do?’
“ ‘ I  found  my  saucer, ’  was  the  an­
swer.  Then  she  swept  out,  and  it  was 
well  she  did,  for  I  came  near  falling  in 
a  faint. 
that 
woman  would  condescend  to  trade  with 
us again."

It  was  months  before 

in 

Does  Him  Credit.

Bramble— So  that’s  your son?  Well, 
he  looks  as  if  he  might  do  you  credit, 
some day.
Fowler— He’s  doing  my  credit  n ow - 
doing  it to  the  Queen’s  taste  every  time 
he  drops 
into  any  place  where  they 
know  me.

STRANGE  & NOKES

W HO LESALE FRUIT AND PRODUCE

CLEVELAND, OHIO.

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produce 
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PASSED  INTO  HISTORY.

Disappearance  of  the  Old-Fashioned 

Country Store.
From the Springfield Republican.

telegrams  and 

Kate  K ip ’s  description  of  a  depart­
ment  store  is  not  much  overdrawn,  and 
jt  is  amusing  to  everyone  who  is  famil­
iar  with  these  modern  Pandora  boxes, 
in which  it  is  alleged  one  may purchase 
everything  from  a  paper  of  pins to a 
pulpit.  This 
institution  had  a  close 
parallel  in  the  country  “ general”   store 
m  which  I  spent  my  boyhood  days. 
Many  men  of  my  day  and  generation 
will  recognize  the  description  as  true  to 
life.  My  father’s  “ department”   store 
was  also  the  general  postoffice  and  the 
town  telegraph  station.  The  other  de­
partments  were  many  and  small,  and 
could  not  be  strictly  classified  and  sep­
arated.  For  instance,  paint  and  hard­
ware  were  bandied  over  one  little  coun­
ter  back  in  a  dark  corner  of  the  store. 
Sugar,  crackers,  spices,  tobacco,  period­
icals, 
the  morning’s 
mail,  confectionery,  bread,  shot  and 
gunpowder,  soap  and  washing  soda  oc­
cupied  the  east  side  of  the  store.  Dry 
goods,  boots  and  shoes,  nails,  screws, 
paints  and  oils,  crockery,  kerosene,  rope 
and 
twine,  clam-rake  bandies  and 
wooden ware  occnpied  the  west  side. 
These  were  the  principal  divisions. 
On  our  grocery  counter  was  a  glass 
show-case  for  cigars,  and  on  the  dry 
goods  counter a  case  for  notions. 
In  a 
convenient  place  on  a  third  counter  was 
an  old-fashioned  cheese  case,  which 
furnished  many  free  samples  of  cream 
cheese  to  the  lounging  clammers,  fisher­
men  and  farmers,  who  regarded  the 
store  something  in  the  light  of  a  Bishop 
Potter  clubroom.  At  the  rear  of  the 
room  was  a  drug  department  inclosed 
in  glass  doors,  where  we  supplied  all 
proprietary  and  patent  medicines  and 
contained  a  complete 
drugs. 
stock  of  soothing  syrup,  cordials  and 
porous  plasters,  and  in  fact  everything 
but  a  prescription  counter.  Once  some 
advertising  matter  for a  certain  “ Ger­
man  syrup”   cough  medicine  fell 
into 
the  hands  of  a  neighboring  German 
cobbler.  He  thought  he  would  like  to 
try  some  German  syrup  on  his  buck­
wheat  cakes,  so  came  in  with  a  pail 
and  asked  for  "halluf  a  gallon”   and 
was  much  disappointed  at  finding  it  to 
be  cough  medicine.  The  space  in  the 
middle  of  the  store  was  pretty well filled 
with  barrels  of  apples  and  potatoes, 
smoked  meats,  hoes,  shovels  and  un­
packed  boxes  of  soap  and  dry  goods.

This 

The  scope  of  the  store  was  the  more 
remarkable  because  we  supplied  many 
sailing  vessels  as  well  as  the  resident 
fishermen  and  farmers  with  groceries 
and  other  commodities.  A  back  room 
contained  a 
large  stock  of  flour  and 
feed, and the  cellar  was  used  for  storing 
and  retailing  lard,  butter,  molasses, 
vinegar  and  salt  pork  and  fish.  A  fair 
specimen  order  for  ship’s  stores  might 
begin  with  sugar,  salt, 
tobacco  and 
spices,  and  wind  up  with  a  coil  of  rope 
of  marline  and  a  gallon  of  cider,  with 
a  few  articles  of  ready-made  clothing 
and  tarpaulins  or rubber goods included.
The  farmers  bought  everything,  in­
cluding  grain  and  feed,  for  in  that  part 
of  the  country— which  was  on  an  arm  of 
the  Atlantic  ocean  along  the  New  Jer­
sey  coast—they  raised  very  little  grain, 
most  of  them  raising  truck  and  produce 
for  the  New  York  market.  They  came 
from  a  radius  of  perhaps  ten  miles  to 
ship  their  vegetables and  fruit  to  mar­
ket  on  a  little  steamboat  which  was  de­
scribed  on  her time-cards  as being large 
and  commodious.  She sailed  once  a  day 
at  high  water.  The  trucks  and  fruit 
wagons  would  extend  in  several  direc­
tions,  sometimes  for  half  a  mile  from 
the  wharf,  and  from  many  of  these  we 
had  orders  to  be  put  up,  which  were 
called  for  after  the  farm  produce  had 
been  placed  aboard  the  steamer,  which 
had  a  considerable  carrying capacity for 
her  size.

In  the  vicinity  were  half a  dozen  fish- 
oil  and  fertilizer  factories,  where  many 
boatloads  of  menhaden  were  used  daily 
in  manufacturing  these  articles.  Some 
of  the  grades  of  fish-oil  are  suitable  for 
mixing  paint  for outbuildings,  and  the

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finer grades  are  sold  in  large  quantities 
for  mixing  with  linseed  oil  for medium 
grades  of  paint  oil.  The fertilizer  is  put 
up  perfectly  dry  and  clean  and  sold  to 
the  large  agricultural  goods  warehouses, 
as  well  as  to  the  farmers  in  the  neigh­
borhood.  The  process  of  manufacture 
consists  in  boiling  the  fish  to  a  pulp  by 
turning  steam 
into  the  large  wooden 
vats  containing  them.  The  cooked  fish 
is  then  subjected  to  hydraulic  pressure 
to  extract  the  oil,  and  the  mass  that 
is 
left  is  spread out on a board surface acres 
in  extent,  to  be  dried  by  the  beat  of 
the  sun.  The  oil 
is  then  secured  and 
graded  by  skimming  the  refuse  off  the 
top  and  drawing  off  the  water at  the 
bottom  of  the  tanks and  the  oil at differ­
ent  levels  for  the  various  grades  of  pu­
rity.  To  these  manufactories  we  sold 
large  quantities  of  groceries  and  ship 
stores,  and  they  supplied  the  greater 
part  of  our  telegraph  business. 
It  was 
here  I  did  my  first  work  at  the  key,  at 
the  age  of  n   years.

The  departments  of  our  store  were 
not  all  confined  to  the  store  building. 
We always  had  for  sale  good  Jersey pine 
cordwood,  baled  bay,  coal  by  the  car­
load,  and  usually  one  or two  breeds  of 
choice  pjgs. 
The  store  was  always 
brightly  lighted  at  night,  and  some  re­
markable  men  were  among  our so-called 
loungers.  One  man,  a  Scotchman,  was 
much  admired  for  his  ready  wit  and  his 
propensity  for  practical 
joking.  He 
would  sit  and  hold  a  man  in  conversa­
tion  and  at  the  same  time  be tying  a 
dinner  pail  to  the  rear  end  of  the  man's 
dog,  then  protest bis  innocence  of  hav­
ing  touched  the  canine.  This  was  only 
one  specimen  of  the  horseplay  we might 
expect  for  an  evening's  entertainment. 
A 
little  after  lamplight  one  of  the  star 
boarders,  usually  a  thrifty  Norwegian 
clam  digger  of  intelligence,  would  be­
gin  and  read  laboriously  all  the  news  of 
interest  in  the  New  York  papers.  After 
this  was  over and  the  news  had  been 
discussed,  we  might  be  entertained  by 
one  of  the  clammers  telling  of  bis  last 
trip  to  the  “ city”   to  sell  clams,  of  his 
narrow  escape  from  William  Bunco,  or 
of  an  evening  spent  in  the  then  notori­
ous  Bowery,  to  which  the  stay-at  homes 
would  listen  in  open-eyed  wonder.

_An_  Italian  fisherman  would  bring  in 
his  violin  once  or twice  a  week,  and  we 
were  sometimes  well  entertained  by 
sweet  singing  by  20  Virginia  negroes 
who  were  employed 
in  the  factories.
A  commercial  traveler  would  tell  us 
the  stories  of  the  day 
in  an  attractive 
way.  An  itinerant  dentist who  was  also 
a  ventriloquist  created  much fun by call­
ing  the  names  of  unsuspecting  loungers 
and  getting  them  to  search  for 
the 
source of  the  call.  On  one occasion  we 
bad  a  visit  from  four  New  York  news­
paper  reporters  who  bad  been  detailed 
to  look  up  a  sea-serpent  story which had 
been  coined  from  the  raw  material  by 
our  most accomplished  liar,  and  in their 
disappointment  they  wrote  up  the  store 
and  its  occupants  most  picturesquely.

This  little  market  place  was  the  cen­
ter  of  local  political  thought  and  dis­
cussion,  and  owing  to  its  telegraphic 
connection  with  the  metropolis,  we  were 
in  touch  with  the  outside  world,  and  at 
election  time  we  received  the  returns 
by  wire. 
later  years  the  postoflice 
and  telegraph  station  were  removed, 
and  with  them  the  center  of  trade,  and 
the  busy  store  has  now  passed  into  his­
tory.

In 

Was  Sold  With  the Coal.

A  new  driver  was  engaged  at  a  coal 
yard  and  he  went  off  to  deliver bis  first 
load.  He  failed  to  return,  and  a  search 
was  thereupon  instituted.  The  missing 
man  was  found  at  the bouse  where  he 
had  put  the coal  in  the  cellar,  and  had 
taken  up  his quarters  in  the  kitchen.

The  cook  said  she  could  not  get  him 
to  leave  and  the  driver  was  asked  what 
he  meant by  such  conduct.

“ Why,”   he  replied,  “ I  thought  I  was 
coal— I  was  weighed 

sold  with  the 
with  it. ”
tt If  was  an  Irishman  who  said  that, 
“ There are so many  perils between  the 
cradle  and  grave  that 
it  is a  wonder 
that  a  man  ever  gets  from  one to the 
other.

Ship your BUTTER AND  EQQS  to

R.  HIRT,  Jr.,  Detroit,  Mich.

34 and 36 Market Street,

435-437-439 Winder Street

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Our  stocks  are  still  complete.  All  seeds 
tested before sent  out,  quality  the  best  and 
prices  as  low  as  any  responsible  house  in 
the trade.
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Growers, Merchants and  Importers, 
drand Rapids. Mich.

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Shoes  and  Leather

That  Shoe  Man  Next  Door.

In  the  close  and  harassing  competi­
tion  that 
is  now  practiced  among  re­
tailers  of  shoes  and  their  so-called  ad­
versaries,  the  department  store  men, 
many  unworthy  tactics  are often resorted 
to,  in  the  effort  to  preserve  at  least  an 
equilibrium  of  patronage.

Some  of  the  most  common  of  these 
methods  are  the  announcement  that  the 
“ one-dollar-and-ninety-cent 
shoe  we 
offer  you  is  never  sold  elsewhere  for less 
than  three  dollars  a  pair,’ *  and  similar 
impossible  claims  upon  the  credulity  of 
shoe  wearers.

To  the  retailer  who  never  indulges  in 
such  statements,  the  resort  to  them  has 
no  terrors  nor  to  bis  trade.

He  naturally  gives  the  public  credit 
for  the  possession  of  sufficient  intelli- 
ence  to  reason  out  for  themselves  the 
absurdity  of  the  offer,  and  he  sells  bis 
own  stock  on  its  merits  under  truthful 
methods only.

And  yet,  that  man  next  door,  by  his 
flourishing  delusions  and  his  well- 
worded  temptations  to  the  cupidity  of 
buyers,  is  a  thorn 
in  his  side,  and  an 
annoyance  generally.

His  peace  of  mind  is  frequently  dis­
turbed  because  he  is  called  upon  to  ex­
pose  the  fallacy  of  such  announcements 
to  his  own  patrons,  who  are  naturally 
anxious  to  secure  the  best  bargains  ob­
tainable  in  this  line.

Explanations  of  this  character are al­
ways  vexatious  to  the  busy  dealer  be­
cause  they  are  based upon enquiries that 
seem  to 
imply  that  the  man  next  door 
has  been  favored  by  Providence  in some 
way  to  offer  impossible  bargains 
to 
buyers.

This  is  bad  enough;  but  if  the  enter­
prising  man  next  door  were  content  to 
go  no  farther  than  the  false  representa­
tion  of  his  own  superiority  in  the  abil­
ity  to  offer  goods  one-third  less  than  all 
competitors,  a  little  time and  patience 
might  suffice  the  other  man  to  put  him­
self  right  with  customers.

there 

however, 

Unfortunately, 

is 
sometimes  a  man  next  door  who  will 
skulkingly  reach  for  our  moral  scalp, 
and  by  nefarious  representations  at­
tempt  to  rob  us  of  our  character as  well 
as  our customers.

Success,  so-called,  built  upon  such  a 
foundation 

rotten  and  dishonorable 
can  not  be  lasting  or  worth  attaining.

The  end,  so  far  from  justifying  the 
means,  must  be,  to  any  but  the  most 
depraved  of  men,  a  bitter  and  undesir­
able  possession.

It  is  built  upon  fraud  and  deceit.
Of  course,  there  are  in  our  trade open 
wars,  where  rivals  meet  face  to  face  in 
mercantile  combat,  without  resorting  to 
buccaneer  or  privateer  methods.

Battles  for  supremacy  of  trade  where 
honest  goods  are  slaughtered  in price  by 
opposing  rivals  until  one  or  the  other 
goes  under  iq  the  fray.

Such  reckless  warfare  as  this  can 
bring  but  transient  victory,  because 
profit,  being  the  very  vitals  of  trade 
life,  must  be  preserved,  or  its  existence 
ceases.

But,  after all,  how  much 

is  there  of 
real  honest,  open  warfare  even  in  this 
ostensible cutting  of  prices?

How  much  is  really  sacrificed  by  the 
rivals  who  cry  down  the  scale  of  prices?
There  is  probably  no  article  to-day 
more  difficult  for  the  novice  to  appraise 
than  shoes.

A  live horse  is  a  staggerer  to  the  un­
initiated  would-be  buyer,  and  yet  there

are  certain  outward  points  that  we  can 
all  talk  over  and  from  them  get  some 
conception  of  his  condition  and  prob­
able  worth.

But  the  modern  shoe!
Well,  if  experts  are puzzled frequently 
about  its  comparative  value when placed 
side by  side  with  another of quite differ­
ent  cost,  where  shall  the  novice  be 
found  in  the  competitive  contest?

So  the  man  next  door  who  alleges 
that  he  has  put  his  three-dollar  shoes  on 
sale  at  two  dollars may  have  done  noth­
ing  of  the  sort.

Certainly  the  average  shoe  buyer  can 
not  decide  that  question  by  looking  at 
the  shoe.

that  there 

It  would  seem,  then, 

is 
really  no  good  reason  why  a  retailer 
should  resort  to  this  cheapening  method 
to  sell  shoes  to  people  who  can  not  tell 
within  a  dollar  or  so  the  worth  of  foot­
wear.

It  is  the  light  that  attracts  the  moth.
There  is  an  instinct  of  humanity— de­
it  though  we  may—which  ever 
plore 
keeps  people  on  the  alert  for  things  at 
reduced  prices;  and  if  they believe they 
are  getting  such  bargains  they  will  be 
tempted  to  quit  us  for  the  man  next 
door  who  is  less  scrupulous  about  the 
statements  be  makes.

Now,  if  the  man  next  door happens to 
be the  department  store  dealer  it  would 
be  well  for  the  customer  to  weigh  the 
matter  carefully  as  to  the  probability  of 
his  being  better  served  at  a  bona  fide 
shoe  store  or 
in  a  place  where  every­
thing  is  sold.

On  the  whole,  it  is  better to  buy  shoes 
at  a  regular  shoe  store  than  at  a  depart­
ment  house.

An  experienced  shoe  dealer  can  give 
a  customer  much  valuable 
information 
about  stock  and  quality  and  make,  and 
he  can  more  intelligently  fit  the  feet 
than  can  the  average  clerk  in  a  medley 
store.

In  the  latter  you  may  possibly  be 
waited  on  by  a  clerk  who  has  but  re­
cently  been  promoted  to  the  shoe  de­
partment  from  the  tinware  counter,  or 
has  been 
transferred  from  the  dry 
goods  floor.

The 

so-called 

in 
these  stores  comprise  usually  some  very 
poor bargains  in  shoes.

“ bargain  sales”  

Only  transient  custom  is  expected  in 
the  shoe  line,  and  therefore  there  is  apt 
to  be  but  little  of  that  feeling  of  after­
responsibility  which  attaches  to  the 
trade  of  the  shoe  dealer  with his  regular 
customers.

The  man  next  door  may  also  be  the 
one  who 
ticket-prices  show  window 
samples  falsely  to  diaw  customers  to 
his  net.

in  shoes 

Now,  the  ticketing  of  apparent  bar­
gains 
in  the  show  window 
which,  on  application,  the  dealer  is  un­
able  to  produce  in  the  store  is  a  fraud­
ulent  practice  which  no  reputable  deal­
er  is  ever  guilty  of.

It 

is  a  source  of  great  vexation  to 
would-be  customers  and  with  thought­
ful  buyers  it  destroys  confidence  in  the 
dealer  who  resorts to  it.

Whether this  is done  merely  for  a  bait 
to  draw  people  into  the  store,  with  the 
knowledge  on  the  part  of  the  dealer 
that  such  shoes  can  not  be  sold  at  the 
prices  marked  on  them,  or  whether  they 
are  “ last  pairs,”   to  be  sold  at  a  sacri­
fice,  the  result  is  disappointing  in  nine 
cases  out of  ten  to the  person  who  has 
been  attracted  by  the  display  to  go  in 
and  purchase  a  pair,  because  there  are 
no  other  sizes on  hand  to  select  from.

And 

it  does  not  mend  matters  with 
the  disappointed  seeker  after this  par-

f  We  are  in  the  market  with  the  best  | 

Rubbers  on  earth  and  in  water.

Wales=Goodyear

Terms  Nov  ist,  30 days.
Wales-Goodyear,  25  and  5  per cent.
Connecticuts,  25,  10 and  5  per cent.
Woonsocket  Boots,  25,  5  and  5  per cent.
We  also carry  a  full  line  of findings,  shoe store  supplies,
fixtures,  etc  Write  for catalogue.

Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co., orand Rapids.

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.  November 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  per  cent, 
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,

RINDGE, KALMBACH, LOGIE & CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

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KEYSTONES are the best seconds made;  25-5-10 per cent, from list.

We sell them and want your orders.

We also have WOONSOCKET  Rubbers;  25—5—5  per cent, from list. 
RHODE  ISLANDS 25-5-5-10 per cent, from list.

Our agents will call on you soon with rubber samples;  also a  line  of 
Fall  Leather  samples which  is  much  more  complete  than  ever before, 
and we think much superior  to  anything we  have  ever  shown  before. 
Look them over and we feel confident that you will  find  something  that 
will be to your interest to buy.  We have quite a  full  line  of  the  justly 
celebrated Snedicor & Hathaway shoes at factory prices.  We will ap­
preciate your orders.

GEO.  H.  REEDER <& CO.,

19  SOUTH  IONIA  STREET. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

ticular  kind  and  price  to  be  told  that 
“ here  is  a  shoe,  now,  just as  good  and 
just as  cheap  as  the  other  one."

Meanwhile  the  fair-dealing  shoe  man 
prices  bis  shoes  at  figures  which  they 
can  be  sold  for  according  to  samples 
exhibited.

One  of  these  dealers  who  has  much 
annoyance  to  contend  with  from  the 
questionable  methods  of  the  man  next 
door  says:

" I   keep  only  the  very  reliable  grades 
of  shoes,  and  I  have  a  first-class,  per­
manent  trade  in  such  goods.

" I   am  never  ashamed  to  see  these 

shoes  or  my  customers  again.

" I   know  that  they  have  had  their 
money’s  worth,  and  that  the  shoes  are 
representatives  of  the  best  well-known 
makers  of  footwear.

"W e  don’t  have  to  waste  any  talk 
about  the  quality;  it  is  only  a  matter  of 
kind,  fit and  price  here.

“ Shoes  are  something  that  all  must 
have  from  the  cradle  to  the  grave,  and 
a  reputable  dealer  who  means  to  build 
up  and  retain  a  business,  who  wishes 
bis  customers  to  stand  by  hi.m  always, 
will  see  to 
it  that  their  confidence  in 
him 
is  not  misplaced  by  indulging  in 
false  representations  about  goods  he 
sells.

“ You  can  make an  implacable  enemy 
of  a  man  by  selling  him  a  poor  shoe 
and  a  bad  fit;  and  you  can  make  a 
friend  and  a  permanent  customer  of 
him  by  exactly  the  opposite  course.

“ I  may  lose  some  sales  by  not  keep­
ing  worthless  footwear,  but  I  retain  the 
confidence  and  respect  of  my  patrons; 
besides,  the  more 
intelligent  among 
these  cheap  shoe  buyers  are  gradually 
getting  their  eyes  open  to  the  fact that a 
pair  of  really  good  serviceable  shoes 
is 
actually  cheaper  than  the  three  pairs  of 
low-priced  ones  they  would  have  to  buy 
to 
last  as  long  as  the  one  pair  of  good 
ones.

“ Such  converts  to  the  ranks  of  sen­
sible  shoe  wearers  are  slowly  but  stead­
ily  increasing  my business,  and  I  think 
much  good  would  accrue  to  the  general 
public  if  other  dealers  also  refused  to 
handle  shoddy  goods."

Complaints  about  trashy  footwear  are 
certainly  on  the 
increase,  and  such  a 
state  of  things  must  have  its  effect  upon 
the  sensitive,  honest  dealer.

A  reform  is  sadly  needed  in  this  mat­
ter,  but 
it  must  begin  with  the  manu­
facturer,  with  the  sanction  and  co-oper­
ation  of  the  dealer.

But  that  man  next  door won't co-oper­

ate  a  little bit.

He  wants  the  cheapest  sort  with  the 

biggest  margin  of  profit  in  them.

Anything  that  looks  nice  and  shoe­

like,  that  will  bold  together  until  the 
customer gets  home  with  them.

He  has  high  button  shoes,  shiny  and 
tipped,  for  ninety-eight  cents  for  wom­
en’s  feet;  men’s “ calf”   shoes  for  a  dol­
lar and  a  quarter;  children’s shoes  from 
eighty  cents  down,  and  fifteen-cent  rub­
bers  for  women  by  the  bushel.

He 

is  very  busy, 

too,  which  only 
proves  that  there  are  a  great  many  fool­
ish  people  among  shoe  buyers.

A  good  deal  of  his  time  is  devoted  to 
the  task  of  pacification  Among  a  host  of 
angry  and  dissatisfied  patrons  whose 
cheap  shoes  have  fallen  to  pieces  pre­
maturely;  whose  “ wonderful  bargains" 
have  tended  to  turn  the  milk  of  human 
kindness  sour  in  their  breasts.

Such 

is  a  glimpse  of  the  man  next 
door  and  his  methods  of  doing business.
His  best  stock  is  not  even  up  to  me­
dium ;  his  best dealings  with  buyers  are 
not  above  reproach.

He 

is  having  his  innings  now;  but 
when  the  honest,  upright  dealer  is  final­
ly  gathered  to  his  reward,  and  this  free­
booter  follows,  the 
latter  will  find  his 
niche  assigned  him  as  the  man  next 
door.

As  stated  before,  the  kind  of  stuff that 
man  next  door  deals  in  is  usually  the 
sort  stigmatized  as  shoddy— worthless 
and  cheap.

A  noted  writer  on  political  economy 
generally: 
is  no  such  thing  as  a  just  of 

articles 

cheap 

says  of 
“ There 
real  cheapness.

“ When  you  obtain  anything  yourself 
for  half  price,  somebody  else  must  al- 
way  have  paid  the  other  half."

And,  continuing,  he  says  severely: 
“ Whenever  we  buy,  or  try  to  buy,  cheap 
goods—goods  offered  at  a  price  which 
we  know  can  not  be  remunerative  for 
the 
in  them—we  are 
stealing  somebody’s  labor.

involved 

labor 

it 

“ Don’t  let  us  mince  the  matter.
“ I  say  in  plain  Saxon,  stealing—tak­
ing  from  him  the  proper  reward  of  his 
work,  and  putting 
into  our  own 
pocket. ’ ’

it  will  naturally 

This  will  sound  harsh  to  the  buyer  of 
goods  that  have  been  produced  through 
the  means  of  half-paid  labor;  but  there 
is  so  much  of  truth  in  the  indictment 
that 
lead  thoughtful 
buyers  to  avoid  that  type  of  dealers rep­
resented  by  the  man  next  door.— E.  A. 
Boyden  in  Boots and  Shoes  Weekly.
Week-End  Excursion  to  Detroit.
On  Saturday,  June 

io,  the  Michigan 
Central  will  run  one  of these popular ex­
cursions,  leaving  Union  Station  at  6 :y> 
a.  m.  on  special  train.  Tickets  good  to 
return  in  coaches  on  regular  trains up to 
and 
leaving 
Detroit  Monday,  June  12.  Phone " 606 
for  parlor  car  reservations.

including  morning  train 

W.  C.  B l a k e ,  Ticket  Agent.

We  have  the  Best  Leather Top 
Lumberman’s  Rubber Shoes  made

Write for  prices  and  illustrated  catalogue  and  send 
your  order  in  for  them  early,  as  our supply  will 
be  limited  on  this  one  shoe.  W e  have  a  large 
stock  of Tennis  shoes.  Order now.

STUDLEY & BARCLAY,

Jobbers in Rubber Boots and Shoes, Rubber Goods and Mill Supplies.

4 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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ioo-candle-power  5 hours  for 

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Local agents  wanted  in  every  City,  Town  and  Village  in 
the State.

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CommercialTravelers

Michigan Knights of the drip.

President,  Ch a s.  S.  Ste v en s,  Tpsllantl;  Secre­
tary, J.  C. Sa u n d e r s, Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C. 
Go u ld . Saginaw,
Michigan  Con nereis!  Travelers’  AmnclnUoq, 
President,  J am bs  E.  D a y ,  Detroit;  Secretary 

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

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

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

Grand Rapids Connell No. 131.

Senior Counselor. D. E. K e y e s ;  Secretary-Treas­
urer,  L.  P.  B a k e r .  Regular  meetings—First 
Saturday of each month in Council  Chamber  in 
McMullen block.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mataal  Acci­

dent Association.

The  pomposity of the  new  man,puffed 
up  with  self-importance  and  an  inflated 
opinion  of  his  house,  is  set  forth  in 
the  story  about  the  traveler  who  entered 
a  retail  merchant’s  office  who  was  en­
gaged 
in  finishing  an  important  letter 
for the  outgoing  mail.  The  visitor  on

President,  J.  B o yd  P a n tlin d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer,  G eo.  F.  Ow e n ,  Grand 
Rapids.

Lake  Superior Commercial Travelers’ Clnb. 
President, F. G . T r usco tt, Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  W ixson,  Marquette.

Ethics  of the  Road.

The  term  ethics  has a  broader  signifi­
cance  than  I  care  to  give  it  to-day  in 
presenting  my  subject, 
for  I  desire 
merely  to  treat  of  the  customs  of  con­
duct  as  in  use  by  commercial  travelers.
It  is  sometimes  said,  in  unreflecting 
and  superficial  mood,that the  “ old-time 
drummer"  has  passed  away  and  that  be 
has  given  place  to  the  modern  com­
mercial  traveler.

If  by  this  is  meant  that  the  nobility 
of  soul  and  great  heart  sympathy  of  the 
pioneer  commercial  traveler of  twenty- 
five  or  more  years  ago  have  gone,  never 
to  return,  that  his  honest  handshake and 
hearty  laugh,  his  indifference  to  danger 
aq|d  discomfort,  his  cheerfulness 
in  en­
during  hardships,  his  willingness 
to 
help  a  younger  or  less  experienced  or 
acquainted  craftsman  and  his  splendid 
spirit  of  comradeship,  his 
store  of 
amusing  experiences  are  departed  for­
ever,  I  am  grieved,  deeply  grieved,  to 
know  it ;  for the  world  was  better  and 
brighter  for  his  presence  in  it,  and  I 
am  moved  to  repeat,

O for th e touch of a vanished hand 
And the sound of a voice that is still.

If  the  assertion  means  that  the  grand 
and  noble  character  I  have  described 
has  been  replaced  by  the bedecked  and 
perfumed  dude,  with  cigarette  and  big­
headed  cane,  society's  curled  darling, 
the  pet  of  schoolgirls,  the  wearer of  the 
cap  and  bells  in  the  court  circle of mod­
ern  commerce,  then  in  our  affliction  I 
am  still  more  deeply  grieved  and  can 
but  sympathize  with  good  old  Job  when 
he  bemoaned  his  many  troubles.

But neither  of  these  inferences  is  cor­
rect,  for  when 
it  is  said  by  thoughtful 
and  observant  men  that  the  old-time 
drummer  is  gone and  that  he  has  been 
succeeded  by  the  modern  commercial 
traveler,  it  is as  if  one  had  said  that the 
rumbling  but  comfortable  old  stage­
coach  has  been  succeeded  by  the  ex­
press  train,  that  the  good  old  brace  of 
candles  in  brass  candlesticks  upon  the 
mantelpiece  has  been  succeeded  by  the 
incandescent  electric 
light,  that  the 
man  of  war  in  its  old-time  might  and 
majesty  has  been 
succeeded  by  the 
modern  battleship  with  all  its  grandeur 
and  power.

The  ethics  of the  road 

is  sometimes 
illustrated  by  the  anecdotes  of 

aptly 
the  road.

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

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reception 

tendering  his  card  was  asked  to  “ take 
a  seat. ”   He  did  not  like  the  uncon­
ventional 
and,  remaining 
standing,  presented  his  card  again,  and 
said:  “ I  apprehend  that  you  do  not 
realize  that  I  represent Jones  &  Brown, 
the  largest  house  of  its  kind 
in  the 
world. ’ ’

The  merchant  replied: 

“ Ah, 

in­

deed ;  take  two  seats. ”

If  one  were  to  write  a  volume  on  un­
due  self-inflation  the  lesson  could  not 
be  more  impressively  taught.

The  lesson  of  patience  and  forbear­
ance  and  the  depth  of  true  sympathy, 
when  aroused,  which  commercial  trav­
elers  are  justly  credited  with,  are  illus­
trated  by  the  old  story  of  a  sleepy  com­
mercial  traveler  who,  annoyed  by  the 
cries  of  a  young  child,  thrust  his  head 
out  of  the  Curtain  of  a  sleeping  berth 
and  said  to  the  man  who  was  trying  to 
quiet  it :

“ How  do  you  expect  any  one  to  sleep 
in  here?  Why  does  the  child’s  mother 
not  quiet  it?”

The  reply  was:  “ Tam  sorry  to  an­
noy  you,  sir;  I  am  doing  my  best  to 
quiet  the  little  one,  but  I  am  very  awk­
ward.  The  child’s  mother  is  in  the  bag­
gage car  in  her  coffin.”

Whereupon  the  commercial  traveler 
arose,  dressed  himself  and,  with  tears 
in  his  voice  and  eyes  and  pain  in  bis 
heart,  walked with  the  child  until  morn­
ing  while  its  father  got  some  rest  and 
sleep.

Some gay  young  fellows  were  seated 
around  the  office  fire of a  hotel  out  West 
and  were  disposed  to  chaff  one  of  their 
number  who appeared  to  be  in  more  se­
rious  mood.  The  porter  came  from  the 
postoffice  and  the  landlord  handed  the 
quiet  man  a  small 
letter,  written  upon 
tinted  and  scented  paper.  He  immedi­
ately  became  the center of  curiosity  and 
fun,  and  all  kinds  of  questions  were 
asked  him  as  to  “ how  his  best  girl 
was, ”   and  whether  she  bad  concluded 
to  shake  him,  and  other  jocular  en­
quiries.

He  said:  “ Yes,  boys,  the  letter 

is 
from  my  best  girl—-in  fact,  my  only 
girl,”   and,  handing  the  letter to  one  of 
the  jokers,  he  said,  "Read  the conclud­
ing  paragraph  aloud.”

He did  so  and  it  read :
I  miss  you  so  much,  dear  papa,  and 
now  that  I  have  no  mamma,  I  am  so 
lonesome  when  you  are  away  that  I  cry 
nearly  all  the  time.  I  want  you  to  come 
home  and  stay  with  me. 
I  pray  every 
night  to  God  to  keep  you  safe  and 
bring  you  back  soon  to  your  little  girl.
the  occasion 
changed,  and  every  man  there  envied 
the quiet  man  the  love  of  his  best  girl 
more than  if  it  bad  been 
learned  that 
she  was  a  belle of  society.

spirit 

And 

the 

of 

I  could  not  in  a  volume  more  impres­
sively  describe  to  you  the  trials and 
tribulations of  the  occupation  of  a  com­
mercial  traveler,  and  bis  enforced  ab­
sence  from  those  who  are  dearest  to 
him,  than  are  painted  in  that old  story.
To-day  the  conditions  of  evolution 
are applied  to the  ethics  of  the  road  as 
well  as  to all  other  conditions  of  prog­
ress.

The  man  who  formerly  expectorated 
large streams  of  tobacco  juice and swore 
resounding  oaths  because he  thought  it 
dignified  to  do  so  now  refrains  from 
both  for a  stronger  reason—because  he 
knows  it  is  dignified  to  do  so.

The  man  who  formerly  crushed  and 
crowded  up  to the  hotel  register,  eager 
to  secure  the  best  room,  no  matter 
whether  or  not  older  and  feebler  men 
might  thereby  be 
is 
yielding  to the dictates  of  public  opin­

inconvenienced, 

ion,  which  has  made  that  character­
istic  one  of  the  accepted  indications  of 
an  undesirable  acquaintance.

The  fellow  who  bases  his  qualifica­
tions  upon  an  ability  to  tell  filthy  sto­
ries  finds but few patient listeners,either 
among  customers or other salesmen,  and 
is  frequently  puzzled  to  know  why  his 
sales  are  falling  off and  his  society  is 
being  shunned.

The  clean,  bright,  neat,  moral,  cheer­
ful  man,  who  not  only  impresses  you  as 
a  gentleman  on  first  acquaintance,  but 
who  on  a  better acquaintanceship  con­
vinces  you  that  your  first  impressions 
were  correct, is the  man  who  to-day  sells 
the  goods  on  the  road  and  who  is  the 
typical  modern  commercial  traveler.

He 

is  the  type  of  business  in  motion 
in 
and  of  motion  in  business,  the  force 
the  commercial 
chronometer  which 
makes  the  wheels  go  around,  the  soul  of 
the  song  of  industry,  the  evangel  of that 
great  power  which  in  the  world’s  prog­
ress  precedes  even  the  influence  of  edu­
cation  and  religion. 

John  A.  L e e .

Four  Death  Losses  Ordered Paid.
The  regular  meeting  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of 
the  Grip  called  to order at  Hotel  Nor­
mandie,  Detroit,  Saturday  morning,  at 
8 :30.  Present— President  Stevens,  Sec­
retary  Saunders,  Treasurer  Gould,  D i­
rectors  Converse,  Scbram,  Smith,  Mills, 
Thorn  and  Randall.

were  allowed.

Printing  bills  amounting  to  $61.50 
The  following  deaths  were  reported, 
proofs  examined  and  claims  allowed; 
Hiram  Concaul,  Holly,  N.  Y.,  died 
March  8;  Julius Haefner.Grand  Rapids, 
died  April  8;  H.  S.  Seage,  Lansing, 
died  April  g,  and  Wm.  L.  Hunter,  De­
troit,  died  April  24.

The  Treasurer  reported  as  follows:

G E N E R A L   f u n d .

Balance on hand  March 2..........................$ 
Received since............................................  

Total, 
D isb u rsem en ts.......................................................$ 
Balance on  hand......................................... 

573.6!
209.00

782.61
147.17
635.44

D E A T H   F U N D .

Balance on hand  March 3  ....................  $ 
765.59
Received since............................................  2,662.00
Total,  3,427.59
Disbursements...........................................  
1,000.00
Balance in  death  fund...............................  2,427.59
Total amount of cash in bank................... 
3,092.28

The  following  bills  were  audited :

Postage for Secretary................................$ 
Salary of Secretary for past quarter........  
Salary of Treasurer for past  quarter....... 

17.46
156.60
57.42
Assessment  No.  2  was  ordered  issued 

The  Board  adjourned  to  meet  at 

July  15.
Lansing  in  September.
E x p e n s e s  o f O w o sso  board m eetin g w ere $ 
E x p e n s e s  o f D etro it  board  m eetin g  w e re  

31.75
48.2a

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Anxious  to  Cross  Bats  With  Grand 

Kalamazoo, 

Rapids.
June  3—The  traveling 
men  of  Kalamazoo  would  like  to  play  a 
game  of  base  ball  with  the  Angels  of 
Commerce  of  Grand Rapids,  and hereby 
issue  a  challenge  to  that  effect,  the 
game  to  be  played  any  Saturday  after 
June  10,  the  teams  to  be  made  up  only 
of  traveling  men.

E .  F .  Z a n d e r ,  Manager. 

Mr.  Zander  accompanies  the  above 
challenge  with  a  list  of  bis  players,  as 
follows:

B.  Aldrich,  pitcher.
Sam  Goldberg,  catcher.
H.  E.  Rice,  first  base.
L.  Verdon,  second  base.
A.  S.  Cowing,  third  base.
Carl  Ihling,  short  stop.
W.  D.  Watkins,  left  field.
F.  L.  Nixon,  right  field.
Will  Ryder,  center field.
L.  Nason,  pitcher.
Sig  Folz,  substitute.
John  Hoffman,  fan.

J.  D.  Mapes,  of  Olivet,  has  taken  a 
position  as  traveling  salesman  for  Wal­
ter  Buhl  &;Co.,  of  Detroit,

Gripsack  Brigade.

Herbert  Baker—better  known  as  Hub 
—was  recently  married  to  Miss  Olive 
Darling,  of  Fountain. 
The  happy 
couple  will  reside  at  744  Jefferson 
avenue.

Port  Huron  Tim es:  C.  M.  Rowley, 
of  this  city,  for  many  years  past  the 
traveling  representative  of  Walter  Buhl 
&  Co.,  of  Detroit,  has  taken  a  similar 
position  with  A.  L.  Bassett,  of  Cleve­
land.  Mr.  Rowley  will  still  continue  to 
reside  in  Port  Huron.

The  Michigan  Accident  Association 
of Kalamazoo,  which was recently wound 
up  by  the  State  Insurance  Commission­
er,  should  not  be  confounded  with  the 
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Mu­
tual  Accident  Association,  which  is  a 
prosperous  institution.

Kansas  City  Journal:  John  Peverly, 
a  commercial  traveler,  whose  home  is 
in  Wichita,  enjoys  the  peculiar  distinc­
tion  of  being  a  second  cousin  to  both 
Abraham  Lincoln  and  Jefferson  Davis. 
Mr.  Peverly’s  grandfather  was 
first 
cousin  to  Lincoln’s 
father,  and  his 
grandmother  was  first  cousin  to  Davis’ 
father.  Thus,  while  these  great  chief­
tains  were  in  no  wise  related,  Mr.  Pe­
verly  has blood  kinship  with  both.  He 
is  as  tall  and  angular  as  Lincoln.

L.  E.  Sage has  engaged  with  A.  B. 
Gates,  Michigan  representative  for  the 
Standard  Tobacco  and  Cigar  Co.,  of 
Cleveland,  and 
is  making  a  northern 
trip  with  his  father,  George  A.  Sage. 
Louis  has  the  energy  and  education 
and  is  showing  the  older cigar  men  how 
it  is  done.  Mr.  Gates  has  known  Mr. 
Sage  from  his  cradle  up and appreciates 
the  advantage  be  has  had 
in  having  a 
father  who  is  able  to  give  him  valuable 
pointers  on  the  inside  workings  of  the 
traveling  man’s  career.

P.  E.  Dowe,  President  of  the  Com­
mercial  Travelers’  National  League, 
writes  the  Tradesman  from  New  York 
that  be  has  been  summoned  to  appear 
before  the  Industrial  Commission  at 
Washington  next  Monday  to give  testi­
mony  as  to  the  effect  of  trusts  upon 
commercial  travelers.  He  would  like  to 
have  any  commercial  traveler  who  may 
be 
information  that 
would  fortify  bis  position  send 
it  to 
him  at  once.  He  says  he  has  already 
heard  from  3,000,  but  wishes  to  bear 
from  300,000,  so  that  he  may  voice  the 
sentiments  of  a  majority.
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MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

Drugs—Chemicals

the 

folds 

removed, 

in  some  convenient 

around  the  various  parcels  should  be 
carefully 
and 
wrinkles  all  smoothed  out,  and  placed 
away 
receptacle 
especially  reserved 
for  this  purpose. 
This  paper  can  all  be  used  again  in 
wrapping  up  the  larger  and  heavier 
packages  in  a  drug  store,  or  for the  first 
paper  in  doing  up  small parcels of Paris 
green,  extract  of  logwood,  etc.

it  up 

is  tied,  fold 

Do  not  waste  the  pieces of twine of 
different  sizes  and  colors  that  come  tied 
around  packages  of  drugs  and  patent 
medicines  that  you  receive  from  the 
jobber  or patent medicine manufacturer. 
When  you  remove  the  string  from  a 
package,  cut it near the  knot  with  which 
it 
in  a  neat  little 
bundle  and  tie  it  around  itself  and  put 
it  away  in  a  small  box  reserved  for  this 
purpose.  These  pieces  of twine  can  all 
be  used  in  different  ways.  The  stronger 
and  heavier  pieces  can  be  used  when  a 
large  package  is  being  sent  out;  for  ex­
ample,  five  or  ten  pounds  of  Epsom 
salts,  or a  half-dozen  lot  of  some  dollar 
patent  medicine. 
The  smaller  and 
thinner  pieces  can  be  used  at  your  lei­
sure  for  tying  up  any  small  parcels, such 
as  senna  leaves,  sublimed  sulphur,  etc., 
that  are  usually  kept  ready  done  up  so 
as  to  be  convenient  to  hand  out  quickly 
in  cases  of  a  "rush,”  
to  customers 
which  sometimes  does  occur 
in  drug 
stores.

In  the  cellars of  many  drug stores may 
be  found  collections  of  dirty  bottles,  of 
i all  shapes  and  sizes,  which  have  grad­
ually  accumulated  as  the  years  go by be­
cause  the  apprentice  was  not  made  to 
wash  the  dirty  bottles  as  they  came  in. 
Instead,  every  week  the  boy  would, 
perhaps,  add  a  few  more to  the  increas­
ing  collection  in  the  cellar.  These  bot­
in 
tles  can  all  be  cleaned  as  they  come 
by  various  means,  which 
it  is  not  tbe 
province of  this  article to discuss, placed 
in  some  drawer  or on  some  shelf  which 
can  be  kept  for  this  special  purpose, 
and  when  a  customer,  without  a  bottle, 
comes  for  a  small  lot  of  turpentine,  or 
wants  a  recipe  for  a liniment dispensed, 
one  of  these  second-band  bottles  can  be 
used,  and  the  new  ones  saved.  Your 
own  ingenuity  will  devise  many  ways 
to  make  use  of  such  bottles.

Id  two drug  stores  that  I  have  bought 
I  found 
in  the  cellar  of  each  a  wagon- 
load  of  dirty  bottles.  I  disposed  of them 
by  having  the  boys  clean  them  all. 
Those  that  we  could  return  to our whole­
sale  druggist  were  shipped  to  him,  and 
a  credit  note  secured  to  apply  on  future 
purchases  of drugs.  The  collection  of 
other bottles  when  cleaned  was  shown  to 
our  veterinary  surgeons  and  offered  to 
them  to  make  their  own  selection  at  the 
uniform  price  of fifteen  cents per dozen. 
We  used  as  many  as  we  could  in  the 
drug  store  and  by  degrees  disposed  of 
tbe  entire  lot.

In  most  drug  stores  I  believe  that  old 
corks  are  all  thrown  away.  By  using 
the  term  “ old,”   I  mean  corks  that  have 
been  used  one  or  more  times.  These 
once-used  corks,  in  most  cases,  can  all 
be  used  again.  A  box  can  be  kept on  a 
shelf 
in  the  back  shop  near  the  sink  in 
some  convenient  place,  or  an  unused 
drawer  may  be  reserved  for  this  special 
purpose,  and  all  corks  that  have  been 
used  and  are  not  fit  to  use again  for 
first-class  purposes  can  be  thrown  into 
this box  or  drawer,  as  the  case  may  be, 
and  preserved  for  future  use.  These 
old  corks  can  be  used  oftentimes  in 
bottles  containing  oils,  mixtures 
for 
horses  and  cattle,  or  unsightly  lini­
ments,  and  thus  save  your new  corks.

If  packing  cases  are  properly  taken

expense  of 

care  of  and  returned  to  the  wholesale 
druggist  he  will  usually  allow the  price 
charged,  less  25  per  cent,  and  the  cost 
of  freight  for  returning the empty boxes.
If  tbe  druggist  will  keep  close  watch 
on  his  stock  he  will  often  save  himself 
the  unnecessary 
small 
amounts  for freight  or  express.  Some 
druggists  might  be  more  calculating  to 
their own  advantage.  That  is,  by  keep­
ing  a  “ Want Book”   in  some  convenient 
place  and  noting  down  items  of  stock 
when 
low  or  exhausted,  the  druggist, 
knowing  tbe  demands  of  his  own  busi­
ness,  may  anticipate  bis  wants  and  thus 
buy  a  quantity  of  such  goods  to come by 
freight  that  will 
last  until  tbe  next 
quantity  order  is  ready.  But  if the drug­
gist  does  not  keep  a  “ Want  Book,”   if 
he  does  not  calculate  how  much  of  the 
different  wants  he  shoultf order  at one 
time to  last  him  until  he can  again  or­
der by  freight— if  be  does  not  antici­
pate  what  the  demands  for certain goods 
may  be  at  certain  seasons  of  the  year, 
then  he  may  often  have  extra  expenses 
to  pay  for  small  freights  or  express.

Some  druggists  say  that  they  can  not 
afford  to  pay  the  subscription  price  of 
two  or  three  drug  journals. 
I  say  that 
it 
is  not  only  an  economy,  but  also a 
paying  investmeut  to  subscribe  for  two 
or  three  of  the best  drug  journals  pub­
lished  Often  an 
idea  or hint  may  be 
obtained  from  these  periodicals  which, 
when  put 
into  practice,  may  result  in 
dollars  and  cents  enough  to  pay  tbe 
price  of  subscription  many  times  over.
is  economy  to  take  a  vacatiou  oc­
casionally,  travel  a 
learn 
wbat  tbe  world  is doing  beyond  tbe  four 
walls  of  your own  drug  store.  Call  on 
other  druggists 
in  other  places,  make 
yourself acquainted  and  also  agreeable, 
and  often  in  conversation  ideas  may  be 
dropped  which  will  prove  mutually ben­
eficial.—J.  T.  Pepper 
in  American 
Druggist.
Holding  Up  the  Hands of the National 

little,  and 

It 

Association.

Tbe  report  of  the  eighteenth  annual 
meeting  of  the  Indiana  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  which  is  just  being 
issued 
from  the  Secretary’s  office,  contains  tbe 
following :

The  National  Association  of  Retail 
Druggists  stands  for  the  principle  that 
the  business  of  selling  drugs  and  medi­
cines  to  tbe  consumer belongs exclusive­
ly  to  the  retail  drug  trade. 
Its  one  aim 
in  life  is  to  secure  for them  this  right. 
It  stands  for  the  principle,  also,  that 
the  public  owes  the  conscientious  drug­
gist  remuneration  suited  to  his  skill, 
energy  and  business  ability. 
It  be­
lieves  that  the  selling  of  proprietary 
medicines  belongs  to  tbe  retail  drug 
trade ;  that  these  goods  ought  to  be  sold 
under  such  conditions  as  will  make  the 
handling  of  them  profitable ;  that 
if 
proprietary  goods  can  not  be  sold  under 
these  conditions,  after painstaking  effort 
to  secure the  co-operation  of  the  manu­
facturers,  a  full  understanding  of  this 
fact  ought  to be  possessed  by  tbe  retail 
drug  trade  in  order  that  a  definite  pol­
icy  may  be  agreed  upon  by  it  with  ref­
erence  to these  goods.

It  is  not  claimed  that  tbe  plans  upon 
which  tbe  organization  is  now  working 
are  perfect,  but  it  is  claimed  that  the 
existence  of  the  organization  will  en­
able  druggists  to  force,  by  concert  of 
action,  compliance  with  their  just  de­
mands.  Tbe  present  plans  of tbe  As­
sociation  comprehend  the three-cornered 
‘co-operation  of  manufacturers,  jobbers 
and  retailers. 
is  assumed  that  the 
American  people  are  able to pay  reason­
able  prices  for  tbe  medicines  they  use 
and  that  there 
is  no  reason  the  three 
branches  of  tbe  drug  trade  should  not 
work  in  harmony  to give  them  the  priv 
ilege.  Under  existing  circumstances 
nobody 
is  being  adequately  compen­
sated ;  the  manufacturer loses  the  bene­

It 

it 

fit  of  his advertising;  the jobber’s  profit 
is  lessened  by  tbe  manufacturer’s  doing 
business  with  tbe  aggressive  cutter di­
rect;  and  tbe  retailer's  prospects of suc­
cess  are  ruined  because  he  is  compelled 
to  sell  proprietaries at  cost  or  else  have 
his  patrons  go  to  the  department  stores 
for  other  supplies  because  he  can  not 
adopt  the  methods  employed  by  these 
stores.

There are  good  reasons  for  believing 
the  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  are  as 
much  dissatisfied  witb  existing  condi­
tions  as  the  retailer,  but  they  lack  tbe 
moral  courage  aDd  confidence  in  each 
other  necessary  to  put  satisfactory  busi­
ness  methods  into  execution. 
It  is  be­
lieved  the  N.  A.  R.  D.  will  be  enabled 
to  bring  about  better  conditions  by 
acting  as  a  mediator ;  the  respect  and 
confidence  tbe  organization has uniform­
ly  commanded  give  promise of 
its  ac­
complishing  much 
this  direction. 
The  officers  and  the  Executive  Com­
mittee of  the  Association  can  do  noth­
ing  without  tbe  cordial,  enthusiastic 
support  of  the  retail  drug  trade  of  tbe 
country.  The  Indiana  Pharmaceutical 
Association  owes 
itself  the  duty  of 
holding  up  tbe  hands  of  the  N.  A.  R. 
D.  because 
is  working  directly  in 
their  interest.  Tbe history  of  tbe  retail 
drug  trade  proves  conclusively  that  act­
ing  independently  we  can  do  little  that 
is  worth  doing  to  improve  our condi­
tion. 
It  has  been  demonstrated  already 
by  tbe  National  Executive  Committee 
that  tbe  united  support  of  tbe  entire 
drug  trade  will  enable  them  to  accom­
plish  tbe  objects  for  which  the  organi­
zation  was  formed.

in 

There  are  many  abuses  a  national 
business  association  can  correct,  many 
benefits  its  united  effoits can secure.  Up 
to  the  present  the  Association’s  atten­
tion  has  been  directed  principally to  se­
curing  full  prices  for  proprietary  medi­
cines,  because  tbis  question,  more  than 
any  other,  has  given  concern 
to  the 
rank  and  file  of  tbe  drug  trade  in  tbe 
last  few  years.  Repeal  of  tbe  Internal 
Revenue  law,  or such  a  modification  of 
it  as  will  work  the  minimum  of  hard­
ship  to  the  retail  drug  trade,  will  be 
taken  up  at  the  next  session  of  Con­
gress,  and 
is  believed  the  political 
influence  wielded  by  the  drug  trade  of 
tbe  country  will  secure  desired  relief. 
The  status  of  pharmacists  in  the  service 
of  the  United  States,  a  modification  of 
such  provisions  of tbe  present  copyright 
and  trade-mark 
laws  as  work  needless 
hardship,  and  other  questions  of  vital 
importance  will  come  up  for  considera­
tion  at the  proper time.

The  N.  A.  R.  D.  is  a  business organ­
ization  for  business  purposes. 
It  can 
not  succeed  without  the  combined  effort 
of  the  entire  retail  drug  trade  in  its  be­
half.  From 
its  inception  tbe  I.  P.  A., 
as  a  body,  has  been  active  in supporting 
tbe  national  association ;  tbe  individual 
members  should  now  go  to  work 
to 
build  up  the  organization  and  make  its 
plans  effective. 
Its  success  will  be  in 
direct  proportion  to  the  earnestness and 
enthusiasm  of  individual  druggists.  Its 
success  means  for  you  more  satisfaction 
in  doing  business,  more  money  in  your 
pocket. 
is  deserving  of  your  best 
efforts.

It 

it 

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MICHIQAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
-  Dec. 31,1898 
Dec. 31,1900
-  Dec. 31,1901
Dec. 31,1903
Dec. 31,1803

A. C.  Sch u m ach er,  Ann  Arbor 
Gbo. Gundrtjm,  Ionia  - 
L. E. BmiOLDS, St.  Joseph 
- 
H e n r y  H im ,  Saginaw  - 
Wir t  P.  D o t t , Detroit 

- 
- 

- 
- 

Term expires

President, Gao.  G u n d r u m ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A . C. Sch u m ach er, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer,  H e n r y  He im , Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—N o t. 7 and 8.

STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.
President—J. J. Sour win e,  Escanaba. 
Secretary, C h as.  F.  Man n , Detroit. 
Treasurer—J o h n  D.  M u i r .  Grand Rapids.

Little  Economies  in  the  Drug  Store.
Great  things  are  the  aggregate  of  lit­
tle  things;  little  profits  added  together 
make  one  large  one;  little  economies 
make  little  savings  which  added  to­
gether  make  fortunes.  The  whole  busi­
ness  of  a  drug  store  is  made  up  of  a 
succession  of  small,  unimportant  sales; 
only  one  now  and  again  can  really  be 
called  great  or  large  in  itself.  Sales  so 
small  as  scarcely  to 
leave  a  remem­
brance  in  the  mind  of  the  druggist  are 
the  rule  in  the  average  drug  store,  but 
produce 
in  the  total  summing  up  a 
profitable business.

to 

is  won  by  attention 

Success,  in  all  departments  of  human 
effort, 
little 
things.  The  details  of  all  kinds  of  busi­
ness  demand  the  closest attention ;  espe­
cially  is  this  true  of  the  drug  business. 
The  cents  must  be  saved  as  well  as  the 
dollars.  Indeed,  it  is the  hundred  cents 
that  make  the  dollar.

Many  young  druggists  make  the  fatal 
mistake  at  the  beginning  of  their  busi­
ness 
life  of  not  looking  after  the  little 
things,  not believing  or  seeing  that  the 
stopping  of  a  lot  of  little  leaks  or  losses 
will  produce  a  great  saving. 
They 
practically  commit  themselves  to failure 
at  the  outset  of  their  business  career  by 
this  neglect  of  little  economies.

Did  you  ever  realize  how  many  little 
things  might  be  economized  on  in  the 
average  drug  store?  Apparently 
insig­
nificant  things  in  themselves,  and  too 
small  to  be  worthy  of  consideration, 
when  kept  track  of  for  a  year  make a 
total  which  is  no  small  item  in  the  ex­
pense  of  running  a  drug  store. 
I  need 
only  to  suggest  that  although  paper  and 
twine  are  both  cheap,  there  is  no neces­
sity  to  waste  it  or  use  more  than  is  nec­
essary. 
I  desire  to  enumerate  some  of 
the  little  economies  that  may  be  exer­
cised 
in  every  drug  store,  and  to  give 
some  practical  suggestions  on  how these 
little  economies  may  be  profitably  prac­
ticed,  and  first  I  will  mention  economy 
in  the  use  of  paper.

It 

Paper  is  a  very  important  item  in  the 
expenses  of  the  druggist. 
is  neces­
sary  that  be  use  a  good  quality,  pure 
white,  not  too  brittle,  but  just  tough 
and  pliable  enough  to  form  a  neat  par­
cel  with.  But  bow  much  of  this  paper 
may  be  wasted  thoughtlessly  by  himself 
and  his  clerks!  Every  piece  of  paper 
may  be  used  for  some  purpose;  if  a 
piece  of  paper  is  taken  too  large  for a 
bottle  or  article  to  be  wrapped,  the 
piece  that  you  tear  or cut  off  should  not 
be  thrown  carelessly  to  the  floor,  but 
should  be  placed 
in  a  drawer  or box 
kept  for the  purpose,  to  be  sorted  out at 
leisure  and  cut 
into  small  sizes  to  be 
used  for  wrapping  very  small  articles, 
such  as  single  boxes  of  pills,  single 
seidlitz  powders,  etc.

When  drugs  and  patent  medicines are 
received 
the 
white,  blue and  manila  paper  wrapped

from  your  wholesaler, 

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

19

W HOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced- 
Dec lined

&UOUUUXU.......................«
Benzolcum, German
70® 75
Boraclc....................
@ 16
29® 41
Carbolicum............
Cltrlcum.................
48® 50
Hvdrochlor............
5
3®
Nltrocum...............
8® 10
Ozallcum...............
12® 14
Phosphorium,  dll...
@ 15
Salicylicum.............
50® 60
Sulphuricum.  ........ 1M@ 5
Tannlcum.............. 1  25®  1  40
38® 40
Tartarlcum..............
Ammonia 
Aqua, 16  deg...........
Aqua, 20 deg...........
Cansonas.................
Chloridum..............
Aniline

4® 6
6®
8
12® 14
12® 14

80® 

Black.......................  8 00® 8 85
Brown....................... 
Red  ...........................   46®  50
Yellow....................  8 50® 3 00
Races.
Cubesee.......... po. 18  13®  15
0® 
Juniperus................ 
8
Xanthoxylum.........  
85®  30
BaUamam

18
18
18
30
80
18
12
18
15

Copaiba......................  50®  55
Pern.........................  @ 875
Terabln, Canada__ 
45®  50
Tolntan...................... 
50®  55
Cortez
Abies, Canadian.... 
C assia....................  
Cinchona Flava......  
Enonymus atropnrp 
Myrica Cerifera, po. 
Prunus Virgin!........ 
Quillala,  gr’d .........  
Sassafras.......po. 18 
Ulmns...po. 15,  gr’d 
Bztractum
Qlycyrrhisa Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza, po...... 
Hamatox, 15 lb boz. 
Hamatox, I s ........... 
Hamatox, Ms.........  
Hsmatoz, Ms.........  

24®  85
28®  30
11®  12
13®  14
14®  15
16®  17
Parra
15 
Piecip...
Carbonate Preci
2 25 
Citrate and Quinta..
75 
Citrate Soluble........
40 
Ferrocyanldnm Sol.
15 
Solut.  Chloride......
8
Sulphate, com’l ......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
50
bbl, per cwt.........  
Sulphate, p u re ......  
7
Arnica.................... 
18®  14
22®  85
Anthemi8................ 
Matricaria..............  30®  35

Flora

Folia

Barosma..................  25®  30
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18®  85
Cassia Acutifol,Alz.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and Ms................. 
12®  20
Ura Ural...................
8®   10
Gumml 
O  66 
Acacia,  1st picked..
@  45
Acacia, 8d  picked..
Acacia, 3d  picked..  @  35 
Acacia, sifted sorts.  @  28
Acacia, po...............   60®  80
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12®  14
Aloe, Cape ....po. 15  @  12
Aloe, SocotrL.po. 40  @  30
Ammoniac..............  66®  60
Assafcstlda__ po. 30  28®  30
Bensolnum............   50®  55
Catechu, Is..............  @  13
Catechu, Ms............ 
O   14
Catechu, M&...........  @  16
Camphors..............  55®  69
Kuphorbium..po.  35  @ 1 0
Galbanum...............  @  1  00
Gamboge  po........... 
65®  70
Gualacum...... po. 25  @  30
Kino...........po. I3.u0  @ 3 00
M astic....................   @  60
Myrrh............ po.  45  @ 4 0
Opii.. .po. 4.60@64.80 3 00® 3  10
Shellac.................... 
85®  35
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tragacanth............. 
50®  80
Herb«

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum__oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr.. oz. pkg 
Rue.............. oz. pkg 
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
flagnesla.

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
28
25

Calcined, P a t____   55®  60
Carbonate, Pat........  80®  22
Carbonate, K. A M..  80®  25
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum

Absinthium.............  4  50® 4 75
Amygdals, Dulc....  30®  50
Amygdals, Amars .  8 00® 8 85
Anisi.......................  1  85® 2 00
Auranti  Cortez......   2  40® 2 50
Bergamii.................  2  80® 2 90
Ca]fpuU...................  75®  80
Caryophylli.............  70®  80
Cedar.......................  35®  65
Chenopadll..............  @875
rinnam onli..... ....  1  40®  1  50 
Cnronella.  . . . . . __   400  45

go® 

Conium Mac........... 
35®  50
Copaiba.................,  l  15© i 25
Cubebs......................  go® 
Ezechthltos...........  1 00® 1  10
Srigeron.................  1 00®  1  10
Gaultheria..............  l  40®  1  45
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1  25®  1  35
Junípera..................  1  50® 2 00
Lavendula................  
Limonls...................  l  23® 1  35
Mentha Piper.........   1  60® 2  20
Mentha Verid.........   1  50® 1  60
Morrhus,  gal.........   1 00® 1  15
Myrcia.....................  4 00@450
Ouye. .....................  75® 3 00
Piéis  Liquida.........  
io® 
12
Picis Liquida, gal...  @  35
Ricina.................... 
92® 1 00
Rosmarlnl...............   @100
Boss,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succinl...................  40®  45
Sabina................... 
go® 1  00
Santal....................... 2 50® 7  00
Sassafras................. 
55®  60
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce.  @  65
Tiglii.......................  1 70®  1 80
Thyme....................  40®  go
Thyme,  opt......... ... 
®  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb. 
is
.............. 
ig® 
Bichromate............  
13® 
15
Bromide..................   52®  07
Carb....................... 
12®  15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®  18
Cyanide...................  35®  40
Iodide....  ..............   2 40® 2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
i5 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10® 
12
Potass Nitras........... 
io® 
11
Prussiate.................  20®  25
Sulphate po  ........... 
15® 
is

1 00

Radlz

12® 

Aconltvm...............   20®  25
A lth s...................... 
28®  25
Anchusa................. 
10® 
12
Arum po........  ........  @  25
Calamus  .................   20®  40
Gentians........po.  15 
15
Glychrrhiza... pv. 15  16®  18
Hydrastis Canaden.  @  85
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  90 
Hellebore,Alba,po.. 
18®  20
Inula, po.................  
is®  20
Ipecac, po................4 go® 4 75
Iris plox —  po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr................  25®  30
Maranta  Ms...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po....  22®  25
§ “eJ  .......................   78®  100
Bhei, cut.................  @  1 25
£ “el>jpv...................  75®  1  35
Spigella..................   35®  38
Sanguinaria... po. 15  @ 
18
Serpentaria............   40®  45
Senega....................  4o@  45
Similaz,officinalis H 
®  40
M...............  
©  25
SC“ 1®............. .po.35  10®  12
Symplocarpus, Fceti- 
©  25
dus,  po................. 
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  25 
Valeriana,  German. 
15®  20
...............  
12®  16
Zingiber j ...............   25®  27
Semen
Anisum......... no.  15 
@ 1 2
13®  15
Apium  (graveleons) 
®£d>,18.................... 
4® 
6
C»rul..............po. 18 
10® 
12
Cardamon...............   1 25®  1  75
8@ 
Gorlandrum............  
10
Cannabis  Sativa....  4*4®  5
Cvdonium............... 
75®  1  00
Chenopodium  •.......  
io® 
12
Dipterix  Odorate...  1 40®  1  50
@ 
Foenlculum......... 
10
Foenugreek, po........ 
7® 
9
.................   3M@  4M
4®  4M
Uad, 
Lobelia......... .........  go®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
3®  4
Bapa.................   ...  4M@ 
5
Sinapis Albu........... 
9® 
10
Sinapis Nigra.........  
n@ 
12
Spiritus

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. B..  2 00® 2 25
Frum enti..................1 25®  1  50
Juniperls Co. O. T..  1  65® 2 00
Juniperis Co...........  l 7g® 3 go
Saacnarum N. E ....  1  90® 2  10
Spt Vini Galli........  1  7s® 6 50
Vini Oporto............   1 25® 2 00
Vini Alba...............   1 25® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage..............2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................. 2 00© 2 25
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage...... 
®  1 25
Extra yellow sheeps’
@  1 00
wool,  carriage_ 
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
1 00
carriage.........  @ 
@  75
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  B e ef,  for 
1  40

slate  use.......   @ 

Syrups
Acacia..............  @ 
Auranti Cortes....... 
© 
Zingiber............ 
Ipecac. 
....__  
Ferri Iod........... 
© 
© 
BheiArom........ 
Smilax Officinalis... 
Senega.............. 
© 
© 
Soills)................. 

go
@ 
so
50
©  60
50
50
50®  60
50
5«

N 

1 00

2 00

10® 

niscellaneoua 

Scillae Co................. 
©  go
©  go
Tolutan................... 
Prunus vlrg............  
©  50
Tinctures
60
Aconitum NapelllsR 
50
Aconitum Napellis F 
Aloes.......................  
60
60
Aloesand Myrrh.... 
Arnica.................... 
50
go
Assafoetida............  
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
Auranti  Cortez......  
50
60
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
go
go
Barosma................. 
Cantharides........... 
75
go
Capsicum..............  
Cardamon............... 
75
Cardamon Co.........  
75
1 00
Castor...................... 
Catechu................... 
go
go
Cinchona................. 
Cinchona Co........... 
60
Colnmba................. 
50
Cubeba....................  
50
go
Cassia Acutifol......  
50
Cassia Acutifol Co.. 
Digitalis.............. 
go
go
Ergot....................... 
Ferri Chloridum 
35
Gentian................... 
50
60
Gentian Co.............. 
Guiaca.................... 
go
Guiacaammon........ 
60
go
Hyoscyamus........... 
Iodine...................... 
75
Iodine, colorless.... 
75
go
Kino......................... 
Lobelia...................  
go
Myrrh......................  
go
go
Nuz Vomica........... 
Opii......................... 
75
50
Opii, camphorated.. 
1  50
Opii,  deodorized.  .. 
Quassia................... 
go
Bhatany..................  
50
go
Bhei......................... 
Sanguinarla........... 
so
go
Serpentaria............  
60
Stramonium........... 
60
Tolutan.................... 
Valerian.................  
go
Veratrum Veride... 
50
Zingiber..................  
20
_ ,  
Æther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30®  35
Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen...................  gv@ 
3
3® 
Alumen,gro’d..po.7 
4
Annatto...................  40®  50
Antimoni,  po.........  
4® 
5
Antlmoni etPotassT  40®  50
Antipyrin.............. 
@  35
@  20
Antifebrln............  
Argent! Nitras, oz ..  @  50
Arsenicum..............  
12
Balm Gilead  Bud. .!  38®  40
Bismuth  S. N......... 1 40®  1  50
® 
Calcium Chlor.,  Is. 
9
Calcium Chlor., Ms.  @ 
10
Calcium Chlor., vs.  @ 
12
Cantharides, Rus.po  @  75
Capsid  Fructus, af.  @  15
Capsid Fructus, po.  @ 1 5  
Capsid 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
Centraria................. 
©  10
Cetaceum................   @  45
Chloroform.............   50®  53
©  1  10 
Chloroform, squibbs 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  65®  1  90
Chondrus............... 
20®  25
Cinchonidine.P.AW  32®  48 
Cinchonldlne, Germ  30®  40
Cocaine..................   3 80® 4 00
70
Corks, list, dl8.pr.ct 
Creosotum............. 
©  35
Creta............. bbl. 75  @ 
2
Creta, prep............  
© 
5
9® 
Creta, preelp........... 
11
Creta, Rubra...........  @ 
8
Crocus.................... 
is®  20
Cudbear.............. 
©  24
Cupri Sulph............   6M@ 
8
Dextrine.................. 
10® 
12
75®  90
Ether Sulph............  
Emery, all  numbers  @ 
8
Emery, po...............  
© 
6
Ergota............ po. 40  30®  35
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
Galla........................ 
©  23
Gambier.................. 
8® 
9
®  60
Gelatin, Cooper......  
Gelatin, French......   35®  60
75 &  10
Glassware, flint, boz 
Less than  boz__  
70
Glue,  brown........... 
9®  12
Glue, white............  
13®  25
Glycerina................  14®  20
Grana  Paradlsl......  @  25
Humulus.................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  90 
Hydraag Chlor Cor.  @  80
Hydraag Oz Bub’m. 
©  1 00
®  1  15 
Hydraag Ammonlati 
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........  
©  75
Ichthyobolla, Am...  65®  75
Indigo......................  75® 1 00
Iodine, Besubl........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform................. 
© 420
© 225
Lupulin................... 
Lycopodium...........  45®  50
65®  75
Mads.................... 
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarglod.............  
@  25
LiquorPotassArsinit 
10® 
12 
8® 
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
8
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
®  1M
Mannla, S. F ...........   50®  60
0  3 25
........... 
Menthol 

Morphia,S.P.AW...  2 20® 8 45 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
C. Co....................  2 10® 2 35
Mosohus Canton.... 
©  40
Myristica, No. 1...... 
65®  80
Nuz Vomica... po.20 
©  10
Os  Sepia................. 
18®  20
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co.................... 
©  1 00
Picis Liq. N.N.Mgal.
doz........................ 
© 200
Picis Liq., quarts....  ©  1  00
Picis Liq., pints.__  @  85
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80 
®  50
© 1 8
Piper Nigra... po.  28 
@  30
Piper Alba....po.  35 
Piiz  Burgun............  @ 
7
Plumb!  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1 10®  1 20
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
A P. D. Co., doz...  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv........  25®  30
Quassia..................  
8®  10
43®  43
Quinla, S. P. A  W.. 
38®  48
Quinia, S. German .. 
Quinta, N.Y............  
3®  48
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12®  14
18®  20
SaccharumLactis pv 
Saladn....................  3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconis... 
40®  50
Sapo,  W................... 
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
Sapo, G.................... 
O  15
Siedlltz  Mixture__  20  @  22

Sinapis....................  @  18
©  30
Sinapis, opt............  
Snuff, Maccaboy,De  *
Voes..................... 
©  84
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s 
©  34
Soda Boras..............  9  ©  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  ©  11
Soda et Potass Tart.  26®  28
Soda,  Carb..............  1M@ 
3
5
8® 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
4
Soda, Ash...............   3M® 
Soda, Sulphas.........  
© 
2
Spts. Cologne..........  
© 2 60
Spts. Ether Co........  50®  55
Spt.  Myrcia Dom...  @ * 00 
©
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. 
Spts. Vini Rect Mbbl 
©
©
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  30® 1  35
Sulphur,  Sub!.........   2V@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........  2M@3M
Tamarinds.................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice...  28® 
30
TheobromsB.............  46®  48
Vanilla....................  9 00® 18 00
Zlncl Sulph................ 
7©  8

Oils

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

BBL.  SAL.
70
60
45

Linseed, pure  raw..  39 
Linseed,  Dolled......  
40 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  44 

42
43
70
50

Paints  b b l . 

l b
Red Venetian.........  
lli  2  ©a
Ochre, yeuow Mars.  1|£ 2  ©4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  1£  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2V 2M®3 
Putty, strictly pure.  2M 2£©3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
Vermilion, English.  70®  75
Green, Paris...........  13MQ  17M
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13®  16
Lead, Bed...............   5M©  6m
Lead, white............   &m@  6m
©  70
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’... 
©  90
White, Pans Amer.. 
©  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
© 140
cliff...................... 
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra  Ttup............   1  60®  1  70
Coach Body............   2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp F um ....  1  00®  1  10 
Extra Turk Damar..  1 56® 1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No.lTurp  70©  75

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MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The  prices  quoted  in  this  list  are  for the trade only,  in  such  quantities  as  are usually purchased  by retail 
dealers.  T h ey  are  prepared  just  before  going to press  ana  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.

Parlna.

FARINACEOUS GOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages..............1  25
Bulk, per lOOlbs..............3 00
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Grits.

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

AXLE  GRBA5B.dos. gross
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00

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

Absolute.

lb can  dos............ . 

BAKING  POWDER.
a  'b cans doz................... 
*  lb ¿ana dot................... 

46
85
1 60
w lb can* 8 dos.................  45
K lb Cam 8 dos.................  75
lb oam l dos................... 100
Balk.................................... 
10
0 oz. Eng. Tumblers...........  85

Arctic.

A c m .

6 oz. cans, 4 doz case.........  
80
9 oz. cans, 4 doz case.........   1  20
lb. cans, 2 doz case...... 2 00
1 
2* lb. cans, 1 doz case...... 4 75
5 
lb. cans, 1 doz case...... 9 00
v  lb cans per doi.............  75
*  lb cans per dos............ 1 80
1 
lb cans per dos............ 8  00
w lb cans 4 dos case........  86
*  lb cans 4 dos case........ 
55
90
lb cans 8 dos case........ 

Bl Parity.

Ho— .

BLUINQ.HSmall, 3 doz.......................  

40
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
.40.1 Carpet.........................2 31
So. 2 Carpet.........................2  15
No. 8 Carpet........................  1 85
No. 4 Carpet........................  1 4*>
Parlor Gem......................... 2 50
Common Whisk.................   95
................  1(0
Fancy Whisk.. 
Warehouse...........................2 70
8s.......................................... 7
16s.........................................8
Paraffine................................ 8
Wlcklng...............................80
Colombia, 
pints......
Columbia, *  pints......

CANDLBS.

BROOflS.

CATSUP.

2 00
.1  25

CHEESE
Acme......................
Amboy....................
Elsie........................
Emblem..................
Gem.........................
Gold Medal.............
Ideal.......................
Jersey  ....................
Riverside.................
Brick.......................
Edam.......................
Leiden....................
Limbnrger..............
Pineapple.................50
Sap  Sago.................
Chicory.
B ulk............................... 
Red 

® 9*
© 10
© 10
© V*
© 10*
©
© 9 *
© 9*
© 10
© 12
© 70
© 17
13
©
75
©
© 17
6
7

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker A Co.’s.

German Sweet.......................23
Premium...................   ...........35
.  46
Breakfast  now*« 

z s s a

B
n
w lb cans, 4 doz case......  
*  lb cans, 4 doz case........ 

45
85
lb cans, 8 doz case........1 60
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   8 00
9 oz. cans, per dos.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per dos.............  
85
H lb canz..........................  45
H lb cans..........................  75

Jersey Cream.

Oar Leader.

lb cans...............................  1 GO

Peerless.

85

............ 3  20

Queen Flake.

BATH  BRICK.

 
CANNED GOODS.

1 lb. cans  ......................... 
5 oz., 6 doz. case.....................  2 70
6 os., 4 doz. case 
9 os., 4 doz. case.......................4 80
1 lb., 8 dos. case.......................4 00
5 lb., 1 dos. case....................... 9 00
American........  .....................7t
English.................... 
go
Tomatoes...................  80®  90
Com............................  80@1  00
Hominy......................  80
Beans, Limas..............  70®1 30
Beans, Wax................  90
Beans, String..............  85
Beans,  Baked............   75® 1 00
Beans. Red  Kidney...  75®  85
Succotash...................  95®1  20
Peas............................  50®  85
Peas, French.............. 8 85
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.................  15®  23
Peaches, P ie...............1  00
Peaches, Fancy..........1  40
Apples,  gallons.........   ©3  00
Cherries....................   90
Pears..........................   70
Pineapple, grated...... 1  75  2 4O
Pineapple, sliced....... 1 35  2 25
Pineapple,  Farren__ 1  70
Strawberries............ 1  10
Blackberries..............  80
Raspberries................  85
Oysters, 1-lb................  85
Oysters, 2-lb................1 50
Salmon, flats, key......1  70
Salmon, *  lb. flats....  90 
Salmon, Red Alaska.. 1  25 
Salmon, Pink Alaska..  90 
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 20
Lobsters, 2-lb. Star__ 3 90
Mackerel,1 lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused.1 75 
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato.l  75
Shrimps...................... 2 00
Sardines, 14s domestic  3*© 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5*®  7% 
Sardines,  French.......8c® 82

COFFEE.
Roasted.

Rio.

Java.

Mecha.

Santos.

Roasted.

Maracaibo.

F air.......................................... 9
Good....................................... 10
Prim e......................................18
Golden  ...................................13
Peabeny  ................................14
Fair  ....................................... 14
Good  ......................................15
Prim e......................................16
Peaberry  ................................18
Prim e......................................15
Milled......................................17
Interior.................................. 86
Private  Growth...................... 3)
Mandehllng............................ 35
Im itation............................... 88
Arabian  .................................28
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__29
Wells’ Mocha and Java.__ 24
Wells’ Perfection Java...... 24
Sancalbo............................. 81
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo........18*
Ideal  Blend.........................14
Leader Blend...............  
12*
Below  are  given  New  Tork 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also lie   a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
Is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   10 50
Jersey.............................   10 50
ncLaachlla’s  XXXX. 
McLaughlin’s  m l  sold  to 
retailers only.  Hail  all orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City *  gross......  
76
1  15
FOllx *  gross.................  
Hammers foil *  gross... 
85
1  48
Hummel’s tin *   gross... 
CLOTHB5 PINS.
5 gross boxes...........................40

Package.

Extract.

...

CLOTHBS LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos......... 1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dos..........1 80
Cotton, 60 ft, per  dos..........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  dos......... 1 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos......... 1  80
Jate, 60 ft.  per  dos.............  80
Jnte. 78 ft.  per dos..............  <*

COCOA.

James Epps & Co.’s.

Boxes, 7 lbs.............................40
Cases, 16 boxes........................38
COCOA SHBLLS.
801b  bags....................... 
2*
Less quantity.................  
3
Pound packages............  
4
CREAn  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Balk in sacks..........................29

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 doz in case.
Gail Borden  Bagle.............6 75
Crown................................. 6 25
Daisy...................................5 75
Champion 
......................... 4 50
Magnolia 
4 85
...  ....................8 85
Challenge 
Dime  —  
8 35

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

 

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

Credit Checks.

Superior Grade.

Universal Grade.

BcoMmlc Grade.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from olO down.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11  50
1.000 hooks, any denom— 80 00
50 books, any denom—   1 50 
100 books, any denom—   8 50 
500 books  any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom ....20 00
50 books, any denom....  150 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11 50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00
50 books, any denom—   1 50 
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom. ...20 00
500, any one denom’n ...... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
8000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch....................   TO
Can be made to represent any 
20 books  .......................   1 00
50 books.............................2 00
100 books  ...........................8 00
250 books.............................6 85
500 books............................10 00
1000 books............................17 50
DRIBD  FRUITS—DOnBSTIC 
Snndried....................... 0  7*
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  Q10* 
Apricots.....................  ®15
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................   ©
Peaches.......................10  ©11
Pears..........................   O _
Pitted Cherries........... 
7£
Prnnnelles..................
Raspberries.................
100-180 25 lb boxes.........  0  4
90-100 85 lb boxes.........  O 5
80-9085 lb boxes.........   © 5 *
70-80 25 lb boxes.........   © 6 *
60-70 25 lb boxes.........   © 6*
50-60251bboxe8.........   © 8
40-50 85 lb boxes.........  ©10
30-40251bboxe8.........   ©
*  cent less In 50 lb cases 

California Prunes.

California Pratts.

Apples.

Raisins.

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

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Peal.

Currants.

Leghorn...........................©11
Corsican...........................©18
Patras bbls...................   .-© 5*
Cleaned, bulk  ..................© 6
Cleaned, packages........... © 6*
Citron American 101b bx ©IS 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©10* 
Orange American 10 lb bx ©10* 
Ondnra 28 lb boxes......  ©
Sal tana  l Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 8 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sultana R Crown..........  ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........   ©
Sultana package........  ©

Raisins.

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1............... 5*® 6
Japan,  No. 8................4*© 5
Java, fancy head........5  © 5*
Java, No. 1...................5  ©
Table........... . 
..........  @
Packed 60 lbs. In  box. 

SALBRATUS.

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

SAL SODA

SALT

Diamond  Crystal.

Worcester.

Common Grades.

Table, cases. 24 3-lb  boxes.. 1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.8 40 
Bntter, barrels, 8801b. bnlk.2 85 
Butter, barrels, 8014 lb bags. 2 50
Batter, sacks, 88 lbs.............  25
Bntter, sacks, 56 lbs............   56
100 3-lb sacks.......................I  95
60 5-lb sacks.......................1  80
8810-lb sacks.....................1  65
50  4 
lb. cartons..............8 85
US  2*lb. sacks..................4 00
lb. sacks................. 3 75
60  5 
8214 
lb. sacks................. 3 50
3010 
lb. sacks................. 3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sack*.................  60
4 00
Bulk In barrels................... 2 50
56-lb dairy In drUl bags......   30
88-lb dairy in drill bags......   16
66-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 
56-lb  sacks..........................  81
Grannlated Fine.................   60
Medium  Fine......................   7u
Per doz.

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.
Common.

SCALES.

Warsaw.

Peiouze HousenoHL

Weighs 21 lbs.  bj  ounces.

5BBD8.

Anise  ................................  9
Canary, Smyrna................  3*
Caraway...........................  8
Cardamon,  M alabar......   60
Celery................. , ............  11
Hemp.  Russian................  4*
Mixed  Bird......................   4*
Mustard,  white................  5
Poppy  ...............................   10
Rape.................................  4*
Cattle Bone........................  80
Scotch, in bladders.............  37
Maccaboy, In jars................  F
French Rappee, In Jars......   48

SNUFF.

SOAP.

JAXON

Single box.................................8 85
5 box lots, delivered...........2 r0
10 box lots, delivered...........8 75
JAS.  S.  KIRK  S CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.........................................2 75
Cabinet..................................... 2 90
Savon........................................ 2 50
White Rnsslan......................... 2 35
White Clond, laundry........ 6 25
White Cloud,  toilet................. 3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 os....2 10 
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz. ...8 00
Bine India, 100 X lb............ 8 00
Kirkollne..................................8 50
Bos........................................... 2 50
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 d oz...... 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 8 doz........... 8 40
Boxes  .................................5*
Kegs, English....................   4|f

Sconring.

SODA.

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels..................................17
Half  bbls.............................18
1 doz. 1 gallon cans..................8 75
1  doz. *  gallon cans........ 1 65
9  doz. *  gallon c a n s...... 1 65
Fair  .................................  IS
Good.................................  89
Choice..............................  85

Pure Cano

Peas.

Saga.

Bm u .

Wheat.

Pastry.

Hominy.

RoUed  Oats.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packages...........  .1  80
100 lb. kegs........................ 2 70
200 lb. barrels.................... 5 10
Barrels  ............................2  50
Flake, 50 lb.  drams...........1 00
Dried Lima  ...................  
5 *
Medium Hand Picked 1  20® 1  25 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  101b. box........  60
Imported.  85 lb. box.........8 60
Common.............................  1 
Chester............................  2 '0
Empire 
...........................  2 50
Green, Wisconsin, bn........1 00
Green, Scotch, bn.  ..........1  10
Split, bn.............................2 50
Rolled Avena,  bbl..........4 00
Monarch,  bbl....................3 75
Monarch,  *   bbl...............2 00
Monarch, 90 lb sacks......... 1 80
Quaker, cases....................3 20
Huron, cases..................... 2 00
German............................  4
East  India.......................   3*
Eesley’s  Self Rising Flonrs. 
2 lb. cartons, 2 dz. In case..  1  80 
6 lb. cartons, 2 dz. in case..  4 80 
2 lb. cartons. 2 dz. In  case..  1 80 
2 lb. cartons, 2 dz. In case..  1  80 
Flake.............................. 
5
Pearl.............................. 
4*
Pearl, 24 i ib. pkges........ 
6\
Cracked, bulk...................  3*
24 2 lb packages............... 2 50

Graham.
Tapioca.

Entire Wheat.

SALT PISH.
Georges cured............
Georges genuine........
Georges selected........
Stripe or bricks......... 6
Holland white hoops, bbl. 
Holland white hoop *bbl 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
Holland white hoop mens
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  3 10
Bound  40 lba...................  1  40
Scaled...............................  
14
Mess 100 lbs......................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs.....................   6 80
Mess  10 lbs......................  I  66
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  35
No. 1100 lbs........................13 85
No. 1  40 lbs......................  5 60
No.l  10 lbs......................  1  48
No. 1  8 lbs......................  180
No. 2 100 lbs......................  11  50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4 90
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  30
No. 2  8 lbs......................  107
No. 1100 lba......................  6 85
No. 1  40lbs................. 
2 40
No. 1 
10 lbs
No. 1
8 lbs......................  W
Fam 
2 75 
1 40 
43 
37

No. 1 No. 2
100 lbs.... ....  7 CO 6 50
43 lbs — ....  8  10 2 90
80
10 lbs.... .... 
85
66
81bs__ ....  71
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 
Perrigo’s.Van. 
dos.
XXX, 2 oz. obert......I 25
XXX, 4 oz. taper.. ..Jt 25
XX, 2 oz. obert...... 1 00
No. 2, 2 oz. obert  ....  75 
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
XXX D D ptebr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz...

rtackerel.

WhltsMsh.

Herring.

Trent.

Cad.

Lem.
doz.
75 
1  25

Para Brand.Lem.
2 oz. Taper Panel..  75
2oz. Oval..............  75
3 oz. Taper Panel.. 1 35
4 os. Taper Panel..1 60

2 25
1 75
2 25
Van. 
1  20 
1 20 
2 00 
225

Jennings’.

D. C. Lemon 
D.C. Vanilla 
80s........   75
8 Oz........... I 20 
3 oz 
1 00
3 oz..........1  50 
4 oz 
1 40
4 oz..........2 00 
6 oz. 
2 00
60s..........3 00 
No.  8...2 40
4 00 
No.  8 
No. 10...4 00
.6 00 
No. 10. 
No.  2 T.  80
2 T.l 25 
No. 
No.  3 T.l 25
No. 
3 T.2 00 
No 
No.  4 T.l 50
4 T.2 40 
Tanglefoot, per box...........  36
Tanglefoot, per case........... 3 20
Holders, per box of 50........  75
Perrigo’s Lightning, gro— 2 50
Petrolatum, per doz............  75

PLY PAPER.

75

HBRBS.

Sage.....................................   16
Hops 
...............................   15

INDIGO.

Madras, 5  lb  boxes........... 
S.  F., 2.8 and 5 lb boxe*... 

56
50

OUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

 

Kegs  ■ 
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 85
1 lb. cabs..............................  30
*  lb. cans............................   18

M oke Bore—Dupont’s.

K egs........................................ 4 25
Half Kegs......................  ••  *£?
Quarter Kegs............................1 35
1 lb. cans..............................  34

Bagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
lib . cans..............................  45
151b pailB............................   35
80 lb palls............................  65

JELLY.

LYE.
Condensed, 8 d o s ...............1 80
Condensed. 4 doz 
............ 8 85
„
Pure.....................................   JO
Calabria..............................  85
Sloily....................................  14
Root.....................................   10

LICORICE. 

nATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’* brands.
No. 0 sulphur...........  ........ 1 66
Anohor Parlor.....................1 TO
No. 8  Home..........................1 JJ
Export  Parlor.....................4 no
Wolverine............................ 1  05
No Brand........- ................   95

riOLAASBS.
Now Orleans.

Black................................  
11
F air..................................  
14
Good................................. 
JO
Fancy  ............................. —_J4
Open Kettle...................... 25@35

Half-barrels 8c extra.
MUSTARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, No. 816.............................1 TO
Clay, T. D. full count........ 
Cob, No. 8........................... 

65
85

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

Barrels, 1,200 count..................4 00
Half bbls, 000 count................. 8 50

Barrels, 8,400 count..........  6 00
Half bbls  1,200 count..........3 00

PICKLES.
riedlam.

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   6*
Carolina  No. 1...................  6
Carolina No. 8...................  4
Broken...............................   E (

SPICES.
Wbala SlfUd.

Allspice  ..............................14
Cassia, China In mats......... 12
Cassia, Batavia in band__25
Cassia, Saigon In rolls........82
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zansibar................. 12
Mace,  Batavia.................... 55
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2...................45
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .13 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .18
Pepper,  shot........................15
Allspice  ..............................17
Cassia. Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon.................... 40
Cloves, Zansibar..................14
Ginger,  A frican................ 15
Ginger,  Cochin...................18
Ginger, Jamaica  ................28
Mace,  Batavia.....................65
Mustard......................... 12@18
Nutmegs,......................40@s0
Pepper, Sing., black  ......... 15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne  ................2u
S a g e ................................... 16

Pare around In Balk.

STARCH.

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. A P. Drag Co.’s brands.

Fortune Teller........................35 03
Our Manager....................  35  00
Quintette............................... 35 uu
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

S. C. W...............................35 00
Phelps, Brace A Co.’s Brands. 
Vincente Portuondo. .35© 70 07
Kuhe Bros.  C o ......... 25©  '0 00
The HÜ80nCo.............3ä@l10 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...... 1  © 35  00
Seidenberg & Co........55@125 00
G.  P. Sprague C.garCo.lO© 35 OJ 
The Fulton Cigar Co. .10© 35 00 
A. B  Ballard & Co....35@l  5 00 
E. M. Schwarz A Co 
.3?@110 on
San  Telmo................35© 70  01
Havana Cigar Co......18© 35  00

Klngsferd’s  Corn.

....  6
101-lb packages...........
20 1 lb packages...........
...  «4
Klngsford’s  Silver  Gloss.
40 l-lb packages...........
....  64
9-lb boxes.................
....  7
Diamond.
64 10c  packages........
....5 00
128  5c  packages.........
.  ..5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00
Common  Cora.
201 lb. packages..................  5
401 lb. packages 
...............4Ji
1-lb  packages......................4%
3-lb  packages......................  414
8-lb  packages......................  5
40 and 50 lb boxes.  ............   3
Barrels 
__ 3

Common Gloss.

STOVE POLISH.

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Halt White Wine, 80 grain..11
Pure Cider, Red Star.......... 12
Pure Cider, Robinson..........Vi'A
Pure Cider, Silver............... 1254

WICKINa.

No. 0, per gross....................  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  wire, Cable.................... 1 6 1
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1  25
Paper, Eureka.................... 2 25
Fiore....................................2 2

Tubs.

2Mnch, Standard, No. 1....5 80
18-inch, Standaid, No. 2__ 4  85
16-inch,  Standard,  No. 3....3 85
20-inch, Dowell, No. 1..........6 25
18-inch, Dowell, No. 2.  .......5 25
18-inch, Dowell, No. 3.........4 25
No. I Fibre...........................9 03
No. 2 Fibre...........................7 50
No. 3 Fibre...........................6  75

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Batter.
Seymour XXX...................  54
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family XXX  ....................   5*
Salted XXX  ......................   5*
New York XXX.................  54
Wolverine...........................  6
Boston................................  74
Soda  XXX  .......................   6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__  6%
Soda,  City............ ............   8
Long Island Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Zephyrette.........................10

Soda.

Oyster.

Sal tine Wafer....................  54
SaltineWafer, 1 lb. carton.  64
Farina Oyster......................  5*4
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.

Animals.............................  10H
Bent’s Water......................  15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   lu
Coffee Cake, Iced..............10
Cracknells.........................  15 !4
Cubans  ..............................   1114
Frosted  Cream....................   8
Ginger Gems.......................  8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  7*4
Graham Crackers................  8
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials............................  8
jumoles,  Honey.................  124
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow  Walnuts...  16
Mich.  Frosted Honey__  1214
Molasses Cakes...................  8
Newton.............................   12
Nlc Nacs..............................  8
Orange Gems.......................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8 >4
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......   7¡4
Sears’ Lunch........................  7
Sugar  Cake.........................  8
Sugar  Squares....................  9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas.............................   12%

SUGAR.

.........................5

No. 4, 3'doi in Case, gross..  4  50 
No. 6,8 dos in case, gross..  7 20 
Below  are given  New  Tork 
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, 
Deluding  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino..............................5 63
Cut  Loaf.............................6 75
Crushed.............................. 5 88
Powdered 
XXXX  Powdered...............5 63
Cubes................................. 5 50
Granulated in bbls............. 5
Granulated In  bags............5 38
Fine Granulated.................5 38
Extra Fine Granulated......5  -0
Extra Coarse Granulated.. 5 50
Mould  A.............................f  63
Diamond Confec.  A...........5 38
Confec. Standard A............ 5 w>
No.
.1 88 
.4 88 
No 
.4 88 
No.
.4 81 
No.
.4 75 
No.
.4 69 
No.
.4 63 
No.
.4 56 
NO.
.4 50
No.
No.  10....................................... 4 44
No.  11....................................... 4 38
No.  12.......................................4 81
No.  IS...................................4 2
No.  14.......................................4 25
.4 25 
N j.  IS 
No  16
.4 25

TABLB  SAUCES.
LEA & 
PERRINS* 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine 
Wor ces t e rs h ire.
Lea A Perrin’s, large...  3 75 
Lea A Perrin’s,sm all...  2 50
Halford,  large..................8 75
Halford small................... 2 25
Salad Dressing, large...... 4 56
Salad Dressing, small...... 2 75

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
Stick Candy.

Mixed Candy.

bbls. pails
Standard................. 
7  © 1%
7  © 74
Standard H. H........ 
Standard Twist......   74©  8
© S4
Cat Loaf.................  
@ 64
Jumbo, 32 lb  ..........  
Extra H. H.............. 
@  «¡4
Boston  Cream........ 
@10
Grocers...................  
© e
Competition............ 
© 64
© 7
Standard................. 
© 714
Conserve................. 
Royal...................... 
© 7%
Ribbon.................... 
© 814
Broken................... 
© 79£
Cat Loaf.................  
© 84
© 84
English Rock.........  
© 8*
Kindergarten.........  
French  Cream........ 
© 9
Dandy Pan............ 
@10
Hand Made Cream mxd  ©13
Nobby.................... 
© 8%

Fancy—In Balk.

©11
San Bias Goodies.... 
Lozenges, plain...... 
© 814
© 814
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Choc.  Drops........... 
©11
©1214
Choc.  Monumentals 
Gum  Drops............  
© 5
© 84
Moss  Drops............  
Sour Drops.............. 
© 84
©9-^
Imperials.............. 
Ital. Cream Bnbns, 35 lb pis  11 
Molasses Chews,  15 lb. pails  13 
Jelly Date Squares.. 

©10
Fancy—In g  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops.........  
©50
Sour  Drops............  
©50
Peppermint Drops.. 
©60
Chocolate Drops__ 
©<5
H.  M. Choc. Drops..  ©75
H. M.  Choc. Lt.and
@90
Dk. No. 12............. 
Gum  Drops............  
©gn
Licorice Drops........ 
©75
A. B. Licorice Drops 
©50
Lozenges,  plain__ 
©55
Lozenges,  printed..  ©55
Imperials................ 
©55
Mottoes..................  
©eo
Cream Bar.............. 
©55
Molasses B a r.........  
©55
Hand Made Creams.  80  ©  90
Cream Bnttons, Pep.
and  Want............ 
©65
String Rock............  
©60
Burnt Almonds......125  ©
Wintergreen Berries 
©55
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  .  ..............
Fruits.
Orange«.
Seedlings................. 
@3 75
Medt Sweet............. 4 00  @4 25
Lemons.
©3 7.
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s.. 
©3 75
Fancy 309s  .............. 
©4 26
Ex.Fancy 300s........ 
©4 50
Ex.Fancy 360s..__ 
©
Bananas.
Medium bunches...1 00  ©1  £5
Large bunches........1  50  ©2 25

©35
©50

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Figs.

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

©13
©12
©16
©22
©
©
© 7

Fards in 10 lb  boxes 
©10
Fards  in 60 lb cases 
©  6
Persians, P H V......  
© 6
lb cases, new........ 
© 6
Salrs,  601b cases.... 
© 5
____ Nuts.____
Almonds, Tarragona..  ©16
Almonds, Ivaca.........   ©14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   ©15
Brazils new...............   © 7
Filberts  ...................   ©10
Walnuts, Granobles..  ©13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  ©11
Walnuts,  soft shelled
Calif.......................   © u
Table Nuts,  fancy....  ©11
Table Nuts,  choice...  ©10
Pecans, Med...............  © 714
Pecans, Ex. Large__   © 9
Pecans, Jumbos........   ©12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............   ©1 00
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  ©9 50
Chestnuts per bu........  ©
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Sons.  © 7
Fancy,  H.  p.,  Flags
Boasted......... .........  © 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  © 5
holee, H. P.,  Extras 
Rn tried 
6
.......... 

Peanuts.

Wheat.

72

Wheat................................ 
Winter Wheat Floor. 

Local Brands.

Spring Wheat  Floor. 

Patents............................. 4 00
Second  Patent...................  3 50
Straight............................  3 25
Clear..................................  3 00
Graham  ............................3 50
Buckwheat.......................
R ye..................................  3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Daisy, 14s............................3 85
Daisy, 14s............................3 85
Daisy, 4 s ............................3 8>
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, 4 s ........................  3 75
Quaker, Qs........................  3 75
Quaker, 4 s......  ...............   3 75
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pill8bury’s Best 4 s ...........  4 55
Pillsbury’s Best Qs...........  4 45
Pillsbury’s Best 4 s .............4 35
Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper..  4 35 
Pillsbury’s Best Qs paper..  4 35 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.
Duluth Imperial, 4 s ...........4  40
Dulutb Imperial, Qs.  ____4  30
Duluth Imperial, 4 s.........   4 20
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal 4 s .......................  4 45
Gold Medal Qs.........................4 35
Gold Medal 4 s ........................ 4 z5
Parisian, 4 s ...........................  4 45
Parisian, %a............................. 4 35
Parisian. 4 s...........................  4 35
Ceresota, 4 s...........................  4 60
Ceresota, %a......................  45 )
Ceresota, 4 s...........................  4 43
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 4 s .........................  4  6)
Laurel, Q s.........................  4 so
Laurel, 4 s .........................4 40
Bolted....................................  1 90
Granulated............................  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__ 16 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........15 50
Unbolted Com Meal..........14 *0
Winter Wheat  Bran..........11 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 15 00
Screenings.............................. 14 00
New com, car lots............   36
Less than  car lots............   38
Car  lots..............................32
Carlots, clipped................   314
Less than car lots.............36
No. 1 Timothy carlots......   10 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  ..  12 0)
Fish  and  Oysters

Oluey A Judson’s Brand.

Feed and Mlllstoffs.

Meal.

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

Fresh Pish.
Whiteflsh................
T rout......................
Black Bass..............  8
Halibut...................
Ciscoes or Herring..
Bluefish...................
Live Lobster.........
Boiled Lobster........
Cod 
......................
Haddock.................
No.  1  Pickerel........
Pike.........................
Perch.......................
Smoked White........
Red Snapper...........
Col  River Salmon..
Mackerel 
..............
Shell  Goods. 
Oysters, per  100.........1
r\n- 100
'Mm , 

Per lb. 
©  9
©  8 
© 
10 
©  15 
©  6 
©  11 
©  16 
©  18 
©  10

©  12 
©  15
25©1  5» 
>1  r0

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene......................  ©114
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  ©10
W W Michigan...........  © 94
Diamond White.........  © 84
D., S. Gas....................  ©124
Deo. N aptha..............  ©124
Cylinder...................29  ©34
Engine  __  
11  ©{

Hides.

Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Green No.  1................  © 74
Green No. 2.............   .  © 64
Bulls....................... 
© 6
Cured No. 1..........  © 
8%
Cured No. 2.........   © 
7%
Calfskins,  green No.  1  ©  94
Calfskins, green No. 2  ©  8
Calfskins, cured No. 1  ©104
Calfskins, cured No. 3  ©  9
Pelts,  each.................  50©l  00
N o.l...........................  @ 34
No. 2...........................  © 24
Washed, flue  ............   ©16
Washed, medium.......  ©23
Unwashed, fine..........9  ©12
Unwashed, medium ..14  ©16

Pelts.
Tallow.

Wool.

Provisions.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barreled Pork.

Sausages.

Smoked Pleats.

Mess  ..............................  10 00
Baek  ..........  ..........10 50©
Clear back.............. 
©10  F0
Shortcut..........................  10 25
Pig...................................   14 00
Bean  .............................   9 CO
Family  ..........................  11  03
Dry Salt Meats.
5Ji
Bellies............................ 
Briskets  ......................... 
54
Extra shorts................... 
54
9
Hams, 12 lb  average .... 
Hams, 14lb  average  ... 
8%
Hams, 161b  average..... 
84
Hams, 20 lb  average..... 
84
Ham dried beef  ............  
124
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
54
7  @74
Bacon,  clear...........  
California bams............  
54
Boneless hams...............  
84
Cooked  bam..................10@124
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound......................  
44
Kettle.............................. 
64
55 lb Tubs.........advance 
4
80 lb Tubs.........advance 
4
50 lb T in s.........advance 
4
20 lb Pails.........advance 
4
10 lb Pails.........advance 
%
51b Palls...........advance 
1
31b Pails...........advance 
1 %
Bologna......................... 
54
64
Liver...............................  
Frankfort.......................  
74
64
P o rk ............................... 
Blood  ...............................  
6
Tongue.............................. 
9
Head  cheese................... 
64
Extra  Mess......................... 10 25
Boneless  ........................12  50
Rump.................................. 12 OC
Kits, 15 lbs........................  
70
bbls, 40 lbs..................   1 35
4  
4   bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 50
Kits. 15 lbs........................  
70
4   bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 25
4   bbls, 80 lbs....................... 2 25
Pork..................................  20
Beef  rounds...................... 
3
Beef  middles.................... 
10
Sheep.............................  
60
Rolls,  dairy................... 
Solid,  d a iry ................... 
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery  ........... 
Corned  beef,  2  l b .......2 15
lb........ 14 75
Corned  beef, 14 
Roast  beef,  2 
lb......... 2  15
Potted  bam,  4 s.........  
50
Potted  ham,  4 s.........   90
Deviled ham,  ws.........   50
Deviled ham,  4 s.........   90
Potted  tongue 4 s .........   50
Potted  tongue 4 s .........  
90

Canned Meats.

Pigs’ Poet.

Butterlne.

11
104
154
144

Casings.

Tripe.

Beel.

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Pork.

Carcass........................ 7 @ 84
Forequarters.............   6 @ 64
Hind  quarters...........  74©  94
Loins  No.  3.................12 @14
Ribs...............................9 @14
Rounds......................  @8
Chucks........................  6 @ 64
Plates  .......................   4  @ 5
Dressed.......................4  © ¿4
Loins.........................  @ 7
Shoulders...................  ©  54
Leaf Lard....................  64©
Carcass.......................84@10
Spring Lambs...........14  @16
Carcass  .................... 74© 8
Crockery  and

Mutton

Veal.

Glassware.

A*.MO*  STONEWARE.

Batten.

Chants.

4 ga: , per dot...................  <o
1 to 6 g al, per gal........... 
5
8 gal., each.......................   48
10 gal., each.......... ............   60
12 gal.,  each.......................  72
15 gal. meat-tubs, each__ 1  05
20gal. meat-tubs,each....!  40
25 gal. meat-tubs, each__2 00
30 gal. meat-tubs, each__3 40
2 to 6 gal., per gal............  
5
Churn Dashers, per dos...  84 
4  gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  40 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  44
4  gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  54 
4  gal. fireproof  ’■‘<11, dos.  86 
1 gal. flreproor, ball, dos.l  10 
4  gal., per doz..................  40
4  gal., per dos..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal............. 
8

Pine Glased Milkpans.

Stowpans.

Milkpans.

Jags.

21

Tomato Jags.

4  gal., per dos.................  50
1 gal., each......................  64
Corks for 4  gal., per dos..  30 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
4  gal., stone cover, dos...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, dos...l  00

Sealing Wax.

LAMP  BURNERS.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
No.  0 Son..........................  
34
No.  1  Sun..........................  
Ï5
No.  2  Snn..........................   50
No. 3 Sun...........................  1  00
Tubular.............................   45
Security, No. 1...................  60
Security, No. 2...................  80
Nutmeg  ........................   50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 dos.
No. 0 Sun..........................  1  £8
No.  1  Sun..........................  1  42
No. 3 Sun..........................  2  12
No. OSun...........................  1  50
No. 1 Sun...........................  1  60
No. 2 Sun................................  2 45

Common

No. 
No. 
No. 

First  Quality.
0 Sun, 
wrapped and  labeled 
  2  10
1 Snn, 
wrapped and  labeled....  2  15 
2 Sun, 
wrapped and  labeled 
  8  15

crimp  top,
crimp  top,
crimp  top,

XXX Flint.

No. 
No. 
No. 

0 Sun, 
1 Snn, 
2 Snn, 

crimp  top,
crimp  top,
crimp  top,

wrapped and labeled__2 55
wrapped and  labeled. . .   2 75 
wrapped and  labeled....  I 76
CHIMNEYS—Peerl  Top.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................a 70
No. 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled........................... 4  88
No. 2  Snn,  “Small  Bulb,” 
for Globe Lamns............  
80

La  Basils.

No. 1 Sun. plain  bnlb,  per
doz  ................................ 
f 0
No. 2 Snn,  plain bnlb,  per
doz  ................................   1  ;5
No. 1 Crimp, per dos..........1  36
No. 2 Crimp, per dos..........1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c dos)........ 3 50
No. 3, Lime  (70c dos)........ 4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c dos)........4 70

Rochester.

Blsctrtc.

 

Pump  Coos.

OIL CANS. 

No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  ...... 4 00
No.2,Flint  (8O0 dos)......  4 40
Dos.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1 4!
1 gal galv Iron with spont.  1  52
2 gal galv Iron with spont.  2 15
3 gal galv iron with spont.  3 45 
5 gal galv Iron with  spont.  4 58 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4
:
g
5 gal galv Iron with fauoet 4
R
5  gal Tilting cans............ 7
S
«
5 gal galv Iron Naoefas....  9 
8
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7 
5 gal Enreka non-overflow 10
3 gal Home Rale................10
5 gal Home Rule................12
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9
No.  OTubular side lift....  4
No.  1 B  Tubular................6
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp.14 
No.  3 Street  Lamp, each..  3
LANTERN GLOBES.
No.  OTubular,  cases 1 dos.
No. OTubular,  cases2 dos.
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls R dos.
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye,

each, box 10 cents...........  45
each, box 15 cents.........   45
each,  per bbl, bbl. 00__  1 78
ARIIP« 1 «V«*«  ARPh 
*  25

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Hardware

Competition  of  Range  Peddlers.
Among  the  many  articles  which  are 
hawked  about  over  the  country 
in 
peddling  wagons ranges occupy a promi­
nent  place.  Dealers  in  other  lines  oc­
casionally  offer  complaints  relative  to 
this  form  of  competition,  but  so  far  as 
we  know  the  retail  merchants  of  stoves 
and  ranges  have  registered  the  most 
vigorous  kicks—and  they  have  repeated 
their  protests  more  frequently.  Range 
peddlers  are  a  source  of great  annoy­
ance  to  retail  dealers 
in  this  line  of 
goods,  and  in  some states  these peddlers 
are  regarded  as being  among  the  great­
est  evils 
in  the  trade.  Nearly  all  the 
state  associations  of  retail  stove  and 
hardware  dealers  have  adopted  strong 
resolutions  at  their  annual  conventions, 
setting  forth  the  great  injury  sustained 
from  range  peddlers  and  the  vital  need 
of  legislation  that  will  prohibit  them 
from  engaging 
illegitimate 
practice.  A  few  states  have  enacted 
laws  which  have  practically  driven  the 
peddlers  outside  of  their  borders. 
In 
most  states,  however,  the  evil  remains, 
and  retail  merchants  are  devoting  much 
time to  the  study  of  methods  for  meet­
ing  this  obnoxious  competition.

in  their 

If  peddlers 

Where the  retail  trade  has  been  un­
able  to  secure the  necessary  state  legis­
lation,  there  seems  to  be  but  one  alter­
native  left  the  dealer  in  combating  the 
evil  of  range  peddling,  and  that 
is  to 
carry  in  stock  a  superior  line  of  goods 
and  understand  their  merits  better  than 
the  range  peddler. 
infest 
a  dealer’s territory,  the  fight  to  secure 
sale  will  be  won  by  the  more  skillful. 
In  other  words,  the  matter  sifts  itself 
down  to a  question  of hustle largely.  No 
one can  deny  the  fact  that  the  average 
range  peddler  understands  his  business, 
and  understands  it  thoroughly.  Even 
although  he  handles  an  inferior  line  of 
goods  and  sells  them  from  20 to  50  per 
cent,  higher than  the  dealer,  so  skillful 
is  the  peddler  in  the art of salesmanship 
that he  manages  to  make  sales.  Now  if 
the  dealer  will  devote  more  time  to  se­
lecting  a better  line  of goods  and  study 
their meritorious  features  until  he  can 
expatiate  upon  them  more  eloquently 
than  the  range  peddler,  it  is  reasonable 
to  believe  he  will  get  the  business. 
The  dealer  with  his  larger  stock  and 
established  business  would  then  have 
much  the  advantage  of  the  peddler, 
and  we  venture  to  say  there  would  be 
a  noticeable  difference  in  his  record  of 
sales  at  the  end  of  the  year. 
In  any 
is  well  worth  a 
event  the  experiment 
thorough  trial.—Stoves  and  Hardware 
Reporter.

Keep  the  Aisles  Open.

The  writer has  observed  that  there 

is 
a  great  tendency  on  the part of hardware 
dealers  to  crowd  up  their  stores and 
barely  leave  enough  room  for  people  to 
get  through  the  aisles.  This  fact  is  ac­
counted  for  partly  because  many  of  the 
dealers’  goods,  such  as  stoves,  take  up 
a  great  deal  of  room,  and  economy, 
whether  forced  or not,  causes  the  mer­
chant  to  neglect  providing  a  store  room 
for them  so  that  all  this  crowding  will 
be avoided. 
It  is a  great hinderance to 
customers  to be  obliged  to  squeeze  in 
and  out  while  passing  down  the  aisles, 
and 
in  the case of  women  brushing  up 
against  the  stoves  they  are  apt  to get 
their clothing  soiled.  Besides  causing 
a  serious  inconvenience 
in  this  way, 
there  is  also  an 
important  considera­
tion  which  must  not  be  forgotten,  and

If 

that  is goods  retain  their original  value 
much  longer  if  they  are  not  put  into 
stock  until 
it  is  absolutely  necessary, 
Goods  in  the  store  must  inevitably  be 
come  nicked,  grimy  and  worn  from  be 
ing  handled,  moved  about  and  knocked 
against  each  other. 
left  carefully 
wrapped  up  in  the  store  room  this  will 
not  occur.  Of  course  it  is  not  intimated 
by  this  that  a  sufficient  quantity  of 
goods  shall  not  be  put  in  the  stock  to 
represent  the  different  designs,  makes 
and  styles.  What  is  meant  is  that over 
loading  and  jamming  things together  in 
a  heterogeneous mass  should  be avoided 
as  far as  possible. 
It  has  been  noticed 
that  establishments  which  are consid 
ered  first-class 
in  every  respect  keep 
their aisles  free  and  clear  for  custom 
ers  to  pass  up  and  down.  Provision  is 
made  for  placing  the  reserve  stock  else­
where  rather  than  in  the  store,  so  that 
passageways  will  be  left  free  and  open. 
Anyway,  goods  can  not  be  displayed  to 
the  best  advantage  when  they  are  so 
close  together.  Give  clerks,  customers 
and  goods  all  possible  leeway.
Two  New  Diseases.

The  doctors  have  discovered  a  new 
disease.  They  call  it  the “ silk-petticoat 
w rist,"  and  with  all  kinds  of  enthusi­
its  germ.  The 
asm  are  looking  for 
attacks  only 
“ silk-petticoat  wrist’ ’ 
young  women. 
It  is  felt  as  a  stiffness 
or  cramp 
in  the  affected  part.  What 
causes  it  is  the  habit  young women have 
of  holding  up  the  skirts  of their dresses. 
Why  they  do  this  is  not  known,  for,  al­
though  the  doctors  whom  they  consult 
always  ask  them  why,  they  seem  unable 
to  give any  reason.  ' But  as  by  an  odd 
coincidence  they  are  invariably wearing 
petticoats  of  silk  when  taken  sick,  that 
garment  has  become  associated  with the 
name  of  the  malady.  Young  women 
resent this  association,  for  it 
is  sense­
less,  they  say,  and 
it  serves  in  a  man­
ner  to  reflect  on  them,  but  the  doctors 
answer  that  no  refiectioir  is  intended. 
Some  specialists  hold  that  there  is  a 
subtle kinship  between  the  “ silk-petti­
coat  wrist”   and  the  “ ankle  cold.’ ’  The 
latter  disease  confines  itself  to  young 
men. 
It  attacks  them  when,  on  sitting 
down,  they  thoughtlessly  pull  up  their 
trousers  very  high,  forgetful  of  the  fact 
that  their  extremities  are  thinly  clad  in 
low  patent-leather  shoes and  very  bril­
liant  and  expensive  silk  stockings.

Expensive  Fish.

“ How  much  did  those  fish  cost  you?" 
asked  the  friend  who  met  him  at  the 
pier.

“ They  have  cost  me  a  dollar  and  a 
half  in  boat  hire,  half  a  dollar  for  min­
nows,  half  a  dollar  for  the  fish,  a  quar 
ter for  hush-money  to  the  chap  who sold 
them  to  me,  a  suit  of  clothes,  and  prob 
ably  my  church  membership,”   replied 
the  Sunday  fisherman,  with  a  bunted 
look  in  his  eye.

BICYCLE

SUPPLIES

Dealers  of  Western,  Central  and 
Northern  Michigan  should  write 
for our catalogue  of  Sundries  and 
Fittings.
W e are selling agents  In Michigan 
for  W ORLD,  A R IE L ,  A D M I­
R A L  and SO UD AN  bicycles.
Write  us  and  we can probably in­
terest you.

B rown  &  S e h l e r

WEST BRIDGE ST.
GRAND RAPIDS.  MICH.

Manufacture a full line of

« « « «

LIOHT  AND  HEAVY  HARNESS 
FOR THE TRADE.

Jobbers  in

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

Also a full line of

CARRIAOES AND FARM IMPLErtENTS.

M A IL  ORDERS  G IVEN  
PRO M PT  ATTEN TIO N .

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Y U K O N   A N D   C H IL K O O T

The  verdict  of those  who  have  used  them:  “ That  they are the  best 
ever  offered  in  this  market.**  Write  for  Price  List.

I FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO., EXCLUSIVE AGENTS 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHa
PHILLIPS  IDEAL 

CREAM 
SEPARATOR

Dilution  Process.

Patented August 23,18 97.

For the thoroughly perfect, rapid separation of cream it  has 
no equal.  Saves time, cream  and  money.  The  milk  goes 
directly from the cow and  is  completely  diluted  and  sepa­
rated in  three  hours. 
Its  simplicity,  entire  labor  saving, 
low price,  thoroughness and  quality  of work will  commend 
itself for use to every one making  butter.  Write  for  circu­
lar and prices.  Manufactured by

Wm.  Brummeler &  Sons ,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

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ROOFING

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

ADAMS & HART,

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

J1 

H.  n .   REYNOLDS &   SON,

DETROIT, MICH. 

Established 1868. 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

(Please mention where you saw this advt.) 

Office:  8a Campau St.
Factory: 

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Hardware  Price Current.

AUGURS AND  BITS

Snell’s........................................................... 
Jennlng  genuine  ..................
Jennings  imitation.................
First Quality. S. B. Bronze........
First Quality, D. B. Bronze........
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel........
First Quality, D. B. Steel...........

to
............ 25*10
............ 60*10
............   5 50
............   9 50
...........   6 25
...........  10 50

AXES

BARROWS

CAPS

BOLTS

......  
..  .. 

BLOCKS

14 00
..  nal  sn óó

60*10
66
Bû
...........8 3 50
............ 70*10
.............70*10
70
............  
..per lb 
5

Railroad.....................................
Harden.........................................
Stove..........................................
Carriage new list.......................
Plow.....................................  ...
BUCKETS
Well, plain....................... ..........
BUTTS,  CAST
Cast Loose  Pin, figured............
Wrought Narrow.......................
Ordinary Tackle.........................
CROW  BARS
Cast Steel................................
Ely’s  1-10.....................................
Hick’s C. F ..................................
G. D.............................................
Musket......................................
CARTRIDGES
Rim Fire.....................................
Central  Fire...............................
Socket Firmer............................
Socket Framing.........................
Socket Comer............................
Socket Slicks.............................
Morse’s Bit Stocks...................
Taper and Straight Shank.........
Morse’s Taper Shank.................
Com. 4 piece, 6 In.......................
Corrugated................................
Adjustable..................................
Clark’s small, 818;  large, 826__
Ives’, 1, 818; 2, 824; 3, 830  .........
New American..........................
Nicholson’s................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27.........  
List  12 
16........ 

_40&10
20
70
70
70
70
............  
60
............ 50* 5
............ 50* 5
dos. net 
65
........ 
1 25
........dis 40*10
............ 30*10
............  
25
............ 70*10
............  
70
............ 6C*10
28
17

GALVANIZED  IRON

EXPANSIVE BITS

F1LBS—New  List

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

ELBOWS

CHISELS

DRILLS

13 

14 

Discount,  65

15
GAUGBS

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

KNOBS—New List

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ...
........60*10
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings
8C
MATTOCKS
Adze Eye............................. .
817 00, dis  60*1C
Hunt Eye.................................... 815 (JO, dis 60&1C
Hunt’s...... ................................. 818 50, dis 20*10
40
Coffee, Parkers Co.’8.................................... 
40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.. 
Coffee, Landers. Ferry & Clark’s................ 
40
Coffee, Enterprise........................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern.......................................... 60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

MOLASSBS  GATES

MILLS

NAILS

 

 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and Wire.

Steel nailB, base................................................  2 65
Wire nails, base................................................  2 75
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
05
10
8 advance....«........................  
 
6 advance............................./ ....................  
20
4 advance................  
30
3 advance...................................................  
45
70
2 advance...................................................  
50
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
25
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
35
Casing  6 advance....................................... 
Finish 10 advance....................................... 
25
35
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance........................................  
85
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   @50
Sclota Bench................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy........................   @50
Bench, first quality.......................................  @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
Common, polished.........................  
70*5
Iron and T inned........................................ 
60
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................  
45

PLANBS

RIVETS

PANS

 

DRUGGISTS  AND  DOCTORS.

The  Doctors  Do  Not  Grant  All  the 

Favors.
W ritten for the T r a d e s m a n .

I  was  standing  at  a  cigar  case  in  a 
city  drug  store,  not  long  ago,  when  a 
little  bit of a  man  came  rushing  in with 
an  air  of  great  importance  and  made 
for  the  phone.

“ Connect  me  with  my  residence,”  
be  shouted,  as  soon  as  a  gentle  voice 
from  the  central  office  assured  him  that 
he had  some  one  to talk  to.

“ What’s  that?"  he  asked,  after  a 
“ I’m  Doctor  Pulse.  Give  me 

pause. 
my  office. ’ ’

There  was  a  longer  pause,  and  then 

the  little  man  at  the  phone  asked:

“ Is my  assistant  there?”
The  answer  seemed  to  be  unsatisfac­
tory,  for  the  little  man  rung  off  in  an 
impatient  manner  and  called  up  central 
again.

“ Give  me  my  residence, ”   he  said, 

angrily.

finally. 

Another  long  wait.
“ Oh,  it's  Doctor  Pulse  again,”   he 
said, 
“ Sorry  to  bother  you. 
I’ve  got  two  telephones  and  I  should 
think  you'd  know  me  by  this  time. 
Connect  me  with  my  residence.”

A  shorter  wait  this  time.
“ Hello!  hello! 

This 

is  Doctor 

Pulse. 

Is  my  assistant  there?”

I  wish  I  could  convey  to  paper  the 
mighty  importance  the  little  man  gave 
to  the  word  “ doctor.”  
If  he  had  been 
President  of  the  United  States  he  could 
not  have  placed  greater  stress  on  the 
title  be  gave  himself.
“ Not  there,  eh?”  

little  man 
shouted,  after  half  a  minute  spent  with 
his  ear  at  the  receiver and  bis  eyes  rov­
ing  around  the  store. 
in 
directly,  tell  him  to  wait  until  I  get 
there. ’ ’

“ If  be  comes 

the 

He  hung  up  the  receiver  and  rushed 

out,  as  important as  ever.

“ That’s a new doctor, ”  said  the  drug­
gist,  “ and  he  comes  in  here  and  goes 
through  that  little  performance  about 
twice  a  day. 
I  presume  he  does  the 
same  thing  at  other drug  stores. ”

“ Do  you  have  much  of  that  sort  of 

thing?”   I  asked.

“ Lots  of  it,”   was  the  reply,  “ but  the 
physicians  send  us  a  good  deal  of  busi­
ness  and  we  do  not  like to offend  them, 
so  we  laugh  in  our  sleeves  and  remain 
silent. ”

“ The  young  doctor  seems  to  be  an 

amusing  creature,”   I  remarked.

“ It  is  not  only  the  young  physicians 
who  make  trouble  for the druggist, ”  was 
the  reply. 
“ The  old  ones  are  equally 
bad  in  this  regard.  For  instance,  there 
is  the  convivial  physician  who  has  very 
little  practice  and,  consequently,  has  to 
practice  economy  in  his  expenditures. 
We  have  one  of  that  sort  in  this  part 
of  the  city.  We  have  to  keep  whisky 
for  medicinal  purposes,  of  course,  and 
we  have  to  pay  this  kind  of a  prac­
titioner  about  four  times  what  bis  trade 
is  worth  if  we  leave him  alone  with  the 
spirits bottle  for a  minute  every time be 
comes 
It's  a  caution,  the  size  of 
that  man’s  drinks.”

in. 

“ Doesn’t  it  unfit  him  for  business?”  

I  asked.

“ Of  course  it  does,”   was  the  reply, 
“ and  he’ll  make  a  mistake  some  day 
and  get  into  serious  trouble.”

“ Are  there  many  mistakes  made?”   I 

asked.

“ Not  so  many  as  one  would  naturally 
suppose, ”   was  the  reply. 
“ Of  course, 
the  druggists  make  mistakes,  now  and 
then,  but  not nearly  so  many  as the doc­

I  saw  that 

tors.  Why,  the  other day,  I  was handed 
a  prescription  from  a  physician  who 
just  thinks  he  can’t  be  matched  any­
where. 
it  was  wrong,  and 
so,  as  is  usual  in  such  cases,  lied  to  the 
customer. 
I  told  her  that  it  would  take 
about  an  hour  to  prepare  the  prescrip­
tion  and  offered  to  deliver  it  at her resi­
dence  when  ready.  All  this  was  to 
protect  the doctor,  of course.  Well,  after 
the  departure  of  the  lady  I  went  to  the 
phone  and  called  up  the  doctor  who had 
written  the  prescription.”

“ And  he  insisted  that  it  was  correct, 

didn’t  he?”   I  asked.

"You  bet  he  did,”   was  the  reply. 
“ He  said  that  if  I  didn’t know  how  to 
put  up  a  plain  order  like  that  he’d  send 
his  patients  to  some  other  store. 
I 
like to  have  the 
asked  him  how  he’d 
prescription  I  had  just  received  shown 
around  among  the  profession.  He  said 
that  anything  he  sent  me  I  could  show 
around  and  print  in  the  newspapers  if  I 
felt  like  it.  The  telephone  poles  must 
have trembled  with  fright  as  bis  fierce 
message  passed  over  them.”

I  asked  if  it  was  a  fatal  prescription. 
“ A  deadly  poison,”   was  the  reply. 
“ He  had  ordered  two  ounces  of  Fow­
ler’s  solution 
in  a  four-ounce  bottle  of 
medicine.  That  would  have  fixed  the 
patient,  I  reckon.”

“ What  did  the  doctor  say  when  you 

told  him?”

“ He  said  be  meant  two  drachms,”  
replied  the  druggist,  “ and  asked  me  to 
keep  mum  about the  matter. ’ ’

The druggist  lighted  a  cigar,  stepped 
outside  the  door  to  smoke  it,  and  be­
gan  again.

“ Yesterday,”   he  said,  “ I  got  a  pre­
scription  that  gave  the  remedies  re­
quired,  but  did  not  give  the  quantities.
I  called  up  the  physician  and  called  his 
attention  to  the  matter.  He  said  it  was 
a  dash  dashed  no  such  a  thing  and 
hinted  that  I  had  better  go  to  night 
school  somewhere  and  learn  to  read. 
I 
didn’t  make  much  of  a  reply,  for  I  was 
too  mad,  but  in  a  short  time  the  doctor 
came  bouncing  into  the  store.”

“ Then  there  were  two  mad  ones  to­

gether,”   I  suggested.

“ Yes,  but  I  kept  my  temper.  The 
doctor  was  just  at  white  heat. 
I  kept 
him  away  from  the  back  end  of the store 
for  fear  he’d  explode  the  gasoline  or 
something.  His  first  notion  was  that  I 
ought  to  take  some  of  my  own  pills  and 
go  off  into  a  vacant  lot  somewhere  and 
die.  Then  he  changed  his  mind  and 
wanted  to  help  me  over  into  the  lake  of 
fire  and  brimstone,  where  he  assured 
me  all  druggists  eventually  brought  up. 
He  got  madder  and madder as be talked, 
and  I  began  to  fear  that  he’d  vanish  up 
the  chimney  and  float  in  a  thin  vapor 
off the  roof,  he  was  so  full  of  gas.”  

“ And  he hadn't  seen  the  prescrip­

tion?”

“ No,  he  wouldn't  look  at  it  at  first, 
but  after  be  got  done  wanting  to  break 
my  face  and  put  mourning  on  my  front 
door  be  picked 
it  up  to  show  me  how 
right  it  was.  Then  be  would  have  sold 
himself  for  a  patent  office  report and 
paid  the  postage.  He  called  himself 
everything  he  bad  called  me and wanted 
to  go  out  and  buy  something,  but,  of 
course,  I  wouldn’t go. ”

this  end  of  the 

“ Queer  doctors  in 

city,”   I  remarked.

*'Ob,  the doctors  are about  the  same 
the  world  over,”   said  the  druggist 
“ As  a  rule  they  make  few  mistakes  and 
are  common  sense  men.  The  cases  I 
have  mentioned  are  exceptions—rare 
exceptions,  I  might  say.  Doctors  could 
probably  tell  some  queer  stories about 
the  druggists,  if  they  chose,”   be  added 
with  a  laugh,  “ but 
if  there  are  such 
things  to  tell,  I  guess  I’ll  let  the  doc­
tors tell  them. ’ '  A l f r e d   B.  T o z e r .

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages Vic per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole A Co.’s, new  list...................... dls  33'*
25
Kip’s  ...................................................... dls 
Yerkes & Plumb’s................................... dl« 10*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..................Wlc list 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50* 10 

HOUSB  FURNISHING  GOODS

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

HOLLOW  WARB

ROPB8

HINGES

Pots...............................................................60*1
K ettles......................................................... 60*10
Spiders.........................................................60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,8.......................................... dls 60*10
State......................................... per doa. net  2 52
Sisal, Vi Inch and  larger.............................  
svi
Manilla.........................................................  Ujtf
Bright..........................................................  
80
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s..........................................................  
80
Gate Hooks and Byes.................................. 
80
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...........................dls 70
Steel and Ire?.  ..........................................  70*10
Try and Bevels...........................................  
60
M itre............................................................ 
50
com. smooth,  com.

LEVELS
SQUARBS

WIRB  GOODS

5HBBT  IRON

WIRB

TRAPS

SAND  PAPBR
SASH WEIGHTS

83 0)
3 00
3 20
3 30
3 40
3  50
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14................................... 13 23 
Nos. 15 to 17...................................  3 20 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................  3 3) 
Nos. 22 to 24...................................  3 40 
Nos. 25 to 26...................................  3 50 
No.  27 ......................................   3 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’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 doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................per dos 
1  25
Bright Market.................................  
-.0
Annealed  Market........................................  
'.0
Coppered Market..........................................60*10
Tinned Market..............................................   60
Coppered Spring  Steel................................. 
50
Barbed Fence, galvanized............................  3 ?5
Barbed  Fence,  painted.................................  2 75
An Sable............................................................dls 40&1C
Putnam............................................................. dls 5
Capwell..................................................... net list
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled....................  
30
40
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
Coe’B Patent Agricultural, w rought.........  
7S
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
75
40
Bird  Cages............................................. 
70
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
Screws, New List...................................  
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate............... 
50*10*10
Dampers, American............................... 
50
METALS—Zinc
600 pound casks......... .................................  9
Per pound....................................................   9 Vi
D rop............................................................  1 45
B B and Buck.............................................  1  70

MISCELLANEOUS

HORSE NAILS

WRENCHES

SHOT

 

SOLDBR

The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.............................................17 15
14x20 IC, Charcoal.......................................  7 f 0
20x14 IK, Charcoal...........................................   8 5)

TIN—Melyn Orade

Bach additional X on this grade, 11.25.

10x14 IC, Charcoal...........................................   6 2>
14x20 IC, Charcoal................. 
10x14 IX, Charcoal.................. 
14x20 IX, Charcoal.................. 

 
 
Each additional X on this grade, 11.50. 

TIN—Allaway Grade
 
 

6  2>
7  50
7  50

 

ROOFING PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  5  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  6 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean............................  11  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   6 00
20x281C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   >0 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   12  00
in
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilem, I 
14x56 IX. for No  9  Boilers, f ***' P°nna- • • 
lu

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATB 

nonnd 

Pans, black,  % gal.........3$£c each
Jars, H gal.....................each
Jars,  i to 6 gal.....................5C
Pans, black, X  gal.........4Xc each
Pans, black,  i  to 2 gal........ 5c gal
Jars, 8,  io and 12 eal.......   6c gal
Jars,  15 and 20 g a l...........7%c K51*
Pans, Peoria or white,
Churns, 2 to 6 gal............S%c
Pans,  P ’a or w., X  gal..4jsc each 
Jugs,  H g a l......................4C each
Pans, P ’a-w.,  1  to 3g a l..5Xc gal
Jugs,  1  to 5 gal.................... oc gal
F.  O.  B. factory at Akron.  No charge  for  crates  if  you  enclose  this 
advertisement.  Car  loads  to  one  or  more  merchants  in  one  town 
a specialty.

X ga l...................... 4c each

CWO POTTERY CO.. CIQII and MU SIS.. » 000. III.

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

2 4

Grand Rapids Retail  Grocers'  Associa­

tion.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  at 
the  office  of  the  Michigan 
Tradesman  Tuesday  evening,  June  6, 
President  Dyk  presided.

The  Picnic  Committee  reported  prog­
ress,  and  the  report  was  sufficiently 
satisfactory  to  justify  the  Association  in 
adopting  the  recommendation  of  the 
Committee  that  the  13th  annual  picnic 
be  held  at  Reed’s  Lake  on  the  first 
Thursday  in  August,

Fred  W.  Fuller  offered  the  following 
resolution,  which  was  unanimously 
adopted :

invited  to 

Resolved—That  the  members  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’ As­
sociation  be 
join  with  the 
members  of  this  Association  in celebrat­
ing  their  annual  picnic  at  Reed  Lake.
Resoived—That  the  retail  merchants 
of  Muskegon,  Grand  Haven  and  Hol­
land  be  urgently  requested  to  join  their 
Grand  Rapids  brethren  in  celebrating 
the  event.

H.  C.  Wendorff  moved  that  the  chair­
man  appoint  a  committee  of  three  to 
arrange  a  program,  which  was  adopted, 
and  the  chairman  named  as  such  com­
mittee,  B.  S.  Harris,  John  Witters  and 
Fred.  W.  Fuller.

Mr.  Dyk 

introduced  the  subject  of 
closing  the  grocery  stores  on  Saturday 
afternoon,  stating  that  he  would  be  sat­
isfied  with  the  adoption  of  an  agree­
ment  to  close  on  Saturday  at  8  o'clock 
in  the  evening.  He  believed  that  the 
early  closing  movement  inaugurated  by 
the  Association  some  years  ago,  which 
resulted 
in  the  stores  closing  five  days 
a  week  at  6 yo  o’clock,  was  the  most 
beneficial  result  ever  achieved  by  the 
Association.

it 

Mr.  Fuller  believed 

Mr.  Wendorff  called  attention  to  the 
fact  that  some  people  hesitated  about 
buying  berries  Saturday  morning, 
in 
the  belief  that  the  grocers  received 
fresh  supplies  in  the  afternoon. 
In  his 
opinion,  it  would  take  some  time  to 
disabuse  the  public  of  that  supposition.
in  the  idea  of  a 
half  holiday,  but  thought 
should 
come  in  the  middle  of  the  week  instead 
of  on  the afternoon  of  the  busiest  day  of 
the  week.  He  was  so  anxious  to  have 
the  subject  discusssed  at  some  length 
that  he  moved  that  it  be  made  the  spe­
cial  order  at  the  next  meeting,  which 
was  adopted.

B.  S.  Harris  called  attention  to  the 
fact  that  a  grocer  on  South  Division 
street  not  only  keeps  open  until  10 
o’clock 
the  evening,  but  seldom 
closes  his  doors  on  Sunday.

The  disposition  of  a  case  of  Rumford 
baking  powder  coming  before  the  meet­
ing,  it  was  decided  to  divide  it  equally 
between  the  Charity  Organization  So­
ciety  and  the  Woman’s  Home  and  Hos­
pital  Association.

in 

Homer  Klap related the circumstances 
connected  with  a  visit  of  a  committee 
of  Grand  Rapids  grocers  to  Muskegon 
on  Monday.  The  committee  consisted 
of  himself,  M.  A.  Tuinstra,  Chas.  W. 
Payne,  Peter  Braun,  F.  H.  Barnes  and 
V.  C.  Schriver.  Every  possible  cour­
tesy  was  shown  the  Grand  Rapids  com­
mittee,  in  the  shape  of  a  carriage  ride 
around  the  city  and  a  visit  to  the  most 
noted  educational  and  manufacturing 
institutions,  terminating 
in  a  meeting 
of  local  grocers  at  the  parlors  of  the Oc­
cidental  Hotel  in  the  afternoon.  The 
meeting  was  presided  over  by  A.  Towl, 
the  veteran  grocer,  while  D.  A.  Boel- 
kins acted  as  Secretary.  Addresses  on 
the  benefits  of  organization  were  made 
by  the  Grand  Rapids  grocers,  and  it 
is 
hoped  that  as  a  result  of  the  visit  a  lo­
cal  organization  will  be  formally  inaug­
urated  at  a  meeting  of  the  Muskegon 
grocers  to  be  held  next  Tuesday  even­
ing.
There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.
Contradictory  Statements  Regarding 
Prom the New York Commercial.

the  Southern  Peach  Crop.

A  man 

just  from  the  South,  who  has 
been  through  the  peach  growing  sec­
tions,  including  Georgia  and  some  parts

of  the  Carolinas,  contradicts  previous 
reports  regarding  the  peach  crop  this 
season.  He  says  that  the  yield  in Geor­
gia  promises  to  be one-half of last year’s 
output.  He  says  that  ice  dealers  are  ex­
pecting  to  sell  as  much  ice  as  last  year 
and  that  the  railroad  companies  are 
sending  refrigerator  cars  South  as  fast 
as  they  can  get  them  to  move  the  crop.
He  explains  the  apparent  discrepancy 
in  statements  by  the  fact  that  along 
some  of  the  railway  lines  the  trees  are 
all  dead,  while 
in  other  sections  they 
bloomed  full  and  will  bear an  average 
crop.  There  will  be  a  good  crop  in 
some  parts  of  the  Carolinas,  and  Flor­
ida 
is  reported  to  be  reasonably  well 
favored.

Oldest  Bottle  in the State.

DeWitt,  June  5—J.  E.  Jayne,  our  vil­
lage  druggist,  is  a  collector  of  curiosi­
ties  and  has  in  bis  store  one  of  the larg­
est  and  best  collections  to  be  found 
in 
the  State. 
It  would  pay  lovers  of  such 
curiosities  when  passing  through  De- 
Witt  to  call  on  Mr.  Jayne,  who  takes 
great  pleasure  in  showing  his  very  val 
uable  collection.  His  last  curiosity  to 
collect  is  a  glass  bottle  which  will  bold 
about  one  ounce  made  in  the  shape  of 
a  cross  and  has  blown  in  the  sides  the 
following : 
‘ ‘ By the king's royal patient 
granted  to  Robert  Turlington  for  his 
Vented  Balsom  of  life,  London,  Janu­
ary 26,  1754»”   which  shows  patent  med­
icines  were  made  in  the  last  century. 
Mr.  Jayne  thinks  it  is  the  oldest  bottle 
in  the  State;  if  there  is  one  older  he 
would  like  to  hear  from  it.
Excursion 

to  Detroit,  Saginaw  and 

Bay  City.

Sunday,  June  11,  train 

leaves  D.  & 
M.  depot  7  a.  m.,  arriving  at  Detroit 
11:45,  Saginaw  11  a.  m.,  Bay  City 
11 =30  a.  m.  Round  trip  to  Detroit, 
$1.85;  Saginaw  and  Bay  City,  $1.50. 
Bicycles  and  baby  carriages  carried 
free.  For  particulars  call  at  Grand 
Trunk  City Ticket office,  Morton House, 
or  at  depot.

C.  A.  J u st in ,  C.  P.  &  T.  A.

New  Hotel  at  Central  Lake.

Central  Lake,  June  4—The  Tavern 
was  opened  to  the  public  June  1  by 
Fisk  &  Carpenter.  This  bouse 
is  a 
modern  hostelry  in  all  its appointments, 
which 
include  steam  beat  and  hot  and 
cold  water.  The  building  is  well  fur­
nished  throughout, 
from  basement  to 
third  floor,  and  the  management  is  such 
that  it  ensures  a  popular  patronage.

C.  E .  R a m sey.

Salt  Fish—John  Pew  &  Son  (Glouces­
ter)  write  the  Tradesman  as  follows: 
Receipts  of  codfish  and  other ground 
fish  during  the  month  of  May  were 
7,000,000  pounds  and  103  barrels  fresh 
mackerel,  an increase of nearly  2,000,000 
pounds  over  the  preceding  month.  Cod­
fish  remains  materially  unchanged.  A 
few  grades  of  the  cheaper  fish  are a 
shade  lower.  The  stock  on  hand  of  all 
kinds  is  moderate  and  we  see  no  pros­
pect  for  lower  prices  for some  weeks  to 
come.  No  large  Cape  Shore  salt  mack­
erel  have  arrived  as  yet.  Some  lots  of 
fresh  have  been  received.  The  bulk  of 
the  American  fleet  are  off  the  Cape 
Shore,  and  our  last  accounts  report  no 
mackerel  taken  of  any  account. 
If 
none  are  caught  this  week  and  next 
week  the  Cape  Shore  catch  will  be  a 
failure  this  year.  The  first  arrival  from 
there  last  year  was  June  4.  The  new 
salt  mackerel  that  are  arriving  count 
about  220-250  to  the barrel.  Prices  are 
liable  to  fluctuate  suddenly  one  way  or 
the  other  until  something  definite  is 
known  about the catch.  Split herring are 
very  scarce  and  not  enough  have  been 
received  this  month  to  supply  the  trade. 
In  a  few  weeks  the  dearth 
is  expected 
to  be  over  so  that  selections  can  be 
made.  Smoked  herring  are  low  in  price 
and  any  change  will  he  in  the  way  of 
higher  figures.

Shifting  the  Argument.

“ Trailing  gowns  should  never  be 
worn  on  the  street,  my  dear;  they  are 
intended  for  women  who  ride 
in  car­
riages. ”

"W ell,  Jack,  you  know  very  well  that 
isn't  my  fault  that  I  haven’t  a  car­

it 
riage. ”

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 
35 cents.  Advance payment.____________

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

F o r   s a l e —c l e a n   g r o c e r y   s t o c k ,  i n -
voicing  38(i0,  at  Muskegon.  Good  trade. 
Business established five years.  Snap  for  one 
with small capital.  Will give liberal  discount. 
Correspondence  solicited.  Address  No.  970, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
970
TO RENT—TWO STORES IN NEW  CORNER 
block in  city  of  Belding—one  of  the  best 
towns  in  Michigan.  Has  eight  factories,  all 
running:  two silk  mills,  two  refrigerator  fac­
tories,  basket  factory,  shoe  factory,  furniture 
factory, box factory; planing mill and  flouring 
mill.  Stores are located  on Main street  in good 
location,  size of corner store, 85x85 feet.  Good 
basement, running water, electric lights.  Rent 
to  good  parties  reasonable.  Address  Belding 
Land & Improvement Co., Belding, Mich.  969
WANTED  A 315,000 STOCK  OF  GENERAL 
_ merchandise.  All  cash  will  be  paid  for 
the right thing.  No old  stocks  wanted.  Must 
be  a  hustling  business  in  a  hustling  town. 
Don’t wait, but write at once.  Address Box 65, 
Rives Junction, Mieh. 
I ¡'OR  SALE  FOR CASH—BEST  HARDWARE 
business in Michigan.  Will sell  the  whole 
business  or  one-half  interest  and  retain  other 
half  myself.  Want  to  be  relieved  of  active 
management.  Stock inventories  about  $13,000. 
Sales  in  1898,  41,000.  Address  No.  973,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

W ANTED—HARDWOOD  TIMBER  LANDS 

973

974

 

971

961

in Michigan in large or  small  quantities. 
Address Freeman Lathrop, Room 525,  Michigan 
Trust Building, Grand Rapids.__________ 972
IpOR  RENT—TWO  BRICK  STORE  BUILD- 
ings—one suited for men’s furnishings  and 
the  other  for  drugs  and  groceries.  Centrally 
located in thriving town in Southern  Michigan. 
Junction  two  railroads.  Address  Mrs.  L.  T. 
Long, Vicksburg, Mich. 
Ii'OR  RENT—NEW  STORE,  ROOM  22x70, 
situated  in  one  of  the  liveliest  towns in 
Southwestern Michigan.  Good location for fur­
niture  and  undertaking;  a  resort  town.  En- 
964
quire of E. Stickney, Watervliet, Mich. 
i i’OR  SALE—STORE  AND  SMALL  STOCK 
of groceries, notions, etc., in good Michigan 
town.  Address No.  965,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man________________  
965
Ii'OR  SALE—WELL-SELECTED  STOCK  OF 
heavy  and  shelf  hardware.  D.  Hancock, 
Cedar Springs. Mich.________  
907
f i'OR  SALE—WATER  POWER  AND  FLOUR- 
ing mill building on the Huron River in  the 
village of Dexter, Mich., known as the Peninsu­
lar  Mills.  For  particulars  address the  under-
signed at Dexter.  Thos. Birkett.________ 966
OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—A  60 BARREL 
full  roller  mill  with  sawmill  attached. 
Best  water  power in  Southern  Michigan.  Ad- 
dress Miller, care Michigan Tradesman. 
ANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A  RUBBER 
stamp.  Best  stamps  on  earth  at  prices 
that  are  right.  Will  J.  Weller,  Muskegon,
Mich._______________________________ 958
RUG  STORE  FOR  SALE—IN  THRIVING 
city  of over  10,000;  pleasant  competition; 
no cut prices;  modern  fixtures;  invoices  about 
$5,000.  No  better  opening  in  State.  Address 
Box 541, Grand Rapids. Mich. 
Ii'OR SALE AT A BARGAIN—CLEAN STOCK 
groceries and  crockery;  invoices  $1,000;  in 
live town;  best location  In  town.  Address  No. 
956, care Michigan Tradesman. 
ROCERY  STOCK  FOR  SALE— ON  AC- 
count of the ill health  of  owner,  he  offers 
for sale his stock of groceries in one of  the  best 
towns in Michigan.  Trade well-established and 
increasing.  Address Box 37, Carson City, Mich.
_______________________________________ 948
ANTED—BY  OWNER  OF  A  CLOTHING 
stock,  one  side  of  dry  goods,  shoe  or 
grocery store in town near Grand  Rapids.  Ad- 
dress  No. 942, care Michigan Tradesman.  942 
RUG STOCK—WILL INVENTORY ABOUT 
fixtures,  balance  drugs 
$1,000—one-third 
and sundries.  For cash, will sell for 50 per cent 
of amount it inventories.  R. E. Hardy, Lansing, 
Mich. 
944
OR  SALE—GOOD  BAZAAR  STOCK.  EN- 
quire  of  Hollon  &  Hungerford,  Albion,
Mich-_________________ _____________ 925
NY  ONE  WISHING  TO  ENGAGE  IN  THE 
grain and produce and  other lines of bus! 
ness can learn  of  good  locations  by  communi­
cating  with  H.  H.  Howe,  Land  and  Industrial 
Agent C. & W. M. and D., G. R.  &  W.  Railways,
Grand Rapids, Mich.___________________9x9
'OR  SALE —A  RARE  OPPORTUNITY—A 
flourishing  business;  clean  stock  of shoes 
and furnishing goods;  established  cash  trade; 
best store and  location  in  city;  located  among 
the best iron mines in the country.  The coming 
spring will open  up with  a  boom  for  this  city 
and prosperous  times  for years  to  come  a  cer­
tainty.  Rent  free  for  six  months,  also  a  dis­
count on stock;  use of fixtures free.  Store and 
location  admirably  adapted  for  any  line  of 
business and conducted at small  expense.  Get 
in line  before  too late.  Failing  health  reason 
for  selling.  Address  P.  O.  Box  204,  Negau- 
nee, Mich. 

956

913

957

947

W ANTED—WILL  BUY  YOUR  STORE  OR 
become your partner.  O. M. Bucklin, 6933 
Yale Ave., Chicago, 111. 
AYNE  BROS.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  have 
filed  their  counter checks  (charging  and 
crediting  on  slips  of paper)  for  three years  in 
Shaw’s  Counter  Check  File.  The  checks  are 
filed in name order.  As soon as checks are filed 
an  account  can  be  rendered—copy  or  give 
checks.  Address J. C. Shaw, Mears, Mich.  962 
Tj'OR  SALE —CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK 
X1  located at one of the best trading  points  in 
Michigan.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $5,coo 
Store and warehouse will be rented  for  $30 per 
month.  Will sell on  easy  terms.  Address  No. 
868, care Michigan Tradesman.______ 
OR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad- 

dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman.  680

868

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 
trv;  any  quantities.  Write me.  Orrin  J. 

Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 

810

MISCELLANEOUS.

ANTED—POSITION  IN  STORE  OR  OF 
flee by energetic married man.  Competent 
book-keeper  and  has  clerked  in  grocery.  Best 
of references.  Address  Box  494, Traverse City, 
Mich. 

968

.Feed >

(ora  and  Oats  I

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 
" I
to 
want  it  to  “ let  up,”   and 
your order will help along. 
Send  it  in.  W e’ll  give 
you  good  feed  at  close 
prices.

let  up.  W e  don 

f

S  Valley  City 
|   Milling Co.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

|  Sole Manufacturers of  “LILY  WHITE,” 
« 

“The flour the best cooks use.”

Dwight’s 
Cleaned 
I 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.

Travelers*  Time  Tables.
CHICAGO ""w“  TX"8'J

Chicago.

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

♦Rvery  day. 

Others week days only.

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association 

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

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

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

A.  Sto w e, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President.  C.  G.  J ew ett,  Howell;  Secretary 

He n b t C.  Min n ie,  Eaton Rapids.

DETROIT,Grand Rapids & Western.

Apr. io, 1899.

Detroit  Retail Grocers’ AssociaGoo

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

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

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........7:00am  1:35pm  5:2ápm
Ar. Detroit................... 11:40am  5:45pm  10:06pm
Lv. Detroit....................8:15am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......  1:10pm  5:20pm  10:55pm
Lv. G R 7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G R U  :45am  9:30pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

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

ODA IMO Trnnk Railway System 
Va IV/\i y IP  Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

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

President,  F b a n k   J.  D y k ;  Secretary,  H omek 

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

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

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

President. J. F b a n k  H elm er ;  Secretary, W.  H. 

P o r t e b ;  Treasurer,  L.  Pe lto n.

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Go. Ü&

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

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

D orchester,  M ass.

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T H E   LA W   O F   1 8 9 9 .

S ection  1.  T h a t  e v e ry   d ru g g ist,  gro ce r,  p ed dler or 
oth er  person  w h o   sh a ll  se ll  and  d e live r  a t  retail  any 
gasolin e ,  benzine  or  nap hth a w ith o u t  h a v in g   th e  true 
nam e  th e re o f  and  th e  w ord s,  “ ex p lo siv e  w h en   m ixed 
w ith   air,**  p la in ly  printed  upon  a  label  se cu re ly   a t­
tach ed   to th e can,  b o ttle or oth er  vesse l  con tain in g the 
sam e,  sh a ll  be  deem ed  g u ilty   o f  a   m isdem eanor  and 
upon co n viction   th ereof sh a ll  be  su b ject  to  a   fine  not 
ex ce ed in g  one  hundred  dollars  or  b y  im prisonm ent  in 
th e  co u n ty  ja il  not  ex ce ed in g   three  m onths,  or  both 
su ch  fine and im prisonm ent in th e d iscretion o f th e court.
S ection  2.  T h e  label  provided fo r  in  th is  act  sh all 
h a ve no  oth er  p rin tin g  or  w ritin g   th ereon   in  letters 
m ore than  o n e-quarter of  the size  o f  the  w o rd s  h erein ­
before specified.

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It  sh a ll be  the  duty  o f th e  S tate  O il  In ­
sp ector and  h is  deputies  to  en fo rce  th e  p rovision s  o f 
th is  a c t;  and  th eir com p ensation and  exp en ses w h ile  so 
en g a g ed  sh a ll be  paid  from   th e  fun d   derived  from   in ­
spection  o f illum in atin g  oil.

W e  are  prepared  to  furnish  labels  which  enable 
dealers  to  comply with  this  law,  as  follows:

Section  4.  A c t   num ber  one  hundred  fo r ty - s ix   o f 
th e la w s o f eigh te en   hundred and  e ig h ty -n in e   is  h e re­
b y  repealed.

10  M ......... 40c  per  M
20  M ..........35c  per  M

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Section  3. 

LIGHT  DELIVERY  OR  ORDER  WAGON

Short Turn Gear, Body 2 feet  10 inches x 7 feet 6 inches,  Axle  1  inch,  Wheel  1  inch, Shafts only,  Lettered.

Perfect in  every respect.

TH E  BELKNAP-W AGON  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association

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

l a n d :  Treasurer, Wm.  C.  K oehn.

Bay Cities  Retail Grocers’ Association

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

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

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

Owobso  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

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

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

P a r t r id g e.

Grand  Rapids RetaM Meat  Dealers’ Association 
President, L. J. K a t z ;  Secretary, Ph il ip Hi l b e b - 

Treasurer, S. J. Hu pp o b d.
S t  Johns Business  Men’s Association. 
P e b c y  ;  Treasurer, C l a r k  A .  P u t t.

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

Perry Business Men’s  Association

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

President,  H. W . W a l l a c e ;  Sec’y, T . E . He d d l e.
Grand  Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos ; Secretary, J. W, VerHoeks

Yale Basiaess Men’s Association

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

TRAVEL

VIA

F .   A   P   M .  R .  R .

AND  BTUAM8HIP  LINES 

TO  ALL  POINTS  IN  MICHIGAN

H.  F .   MOELLER,  a .  g .  p .  a .

*11 32pm
6 30am

(In effect May  1,1899.)

s o m e   ea st

Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit ANY.........t  6:45am t 9:55pm
Detroit  and  East..................+10:16am  + 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit & East........t 3:27pm  tl2:50pm
Buffalo,  N  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t’d E x ... .* 7:20pm *10:16am
GOING  WEST
Gd. Haven and Int Pts...........*  8:33am *10:00pm
Gd.  Haven  Express.............. *10:21am * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven  and Int  Pts........ tl2:58pm t 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee...t 5:12pm tl0:llam  
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee.. .tl0:00pm t  6:40am
Gd. Haven and Chicago........*  7:30pm  * 8:05am
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.

♦Daily. ' tExcept Sunday.

C. A.  J u stin,  City  Pass.  Ticket Agent,

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.

GRAND Rgpids  &  Indiana  Railway

May 14,  1899.

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack. ..t 7:45am t  5:15pm
Trav. City A Petoskey............t  1:40pm 110:15pm
Cadillac accommodation...... t 5:25pm tlO :55am
Petoskey A Mackinaw City....tit :00pm t  6:30am 
7:45am train, parlor  car;  11:00pm train, sleep-
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive

Cincinnati................................t  7:10am 
Ft. Wayne 
............................t  2:0Jpm 
Cincinnati............................... * 7:00pm 
Vicksburg  and Chicago....... *11:30pm * 9:00am
7:10  am  Main  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati 
and  parlor  car  to  Chicago;  2:00pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Wayne:  7:00pm  train  has 
sleeping car  to  Cincinnati;  11:30pm  train  has 
coach and sleeping car to  Chicago.

Chicago Trains.

FROM CHICAGO.

2 03pm  *11 30pm
6 25am

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

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

GOINS WEST.

Lv G’d Rapids............t7:35am tl :15pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon............... 9:00am  2:25pm  7:05pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon..............t 8:10am  til :45am t4:00pm
Ar G’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:56pm  5:20pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm. 
tExcept Sunday.  «Dally.

GOING BAST.

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

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

DULUTH  Soi*k Shore Md Attaotlc

W E ST  B O U E S .

 
EAST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. A L)tll:10pm  t7:45am
Lv. MacklnawClty..................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace..........................   9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.................  12:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette..........................   2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria..................... 
5:20pm  12:45am
Ax. Duluth.............................................   8:30am
t6:30pm
Lv. Duluth............................................. 
At. Nestoria............................... tll:15am  2:45am
Ar. Marquette.......... .............. 
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. M arie............... 
...........
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., GrandRapids
MÀNKTPP  * Northeastern  Ry.
Best route to Manistee.
I T l i x i l l O l  

Via C. A  W. M.  Railway.

Lv Grand Rapids.............................7:00am  ..........
Ar  Manistee.................................. 12:05pm  ..........
Lv  Manistee.................................   8:30am  4:10pm
Ar Grand  Rapids  .......................   1:00pm  0:55pm

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ALL  RECORDS  I
BROKEN-^*

2124 packages put up  in  one  day  at A.  H.  ¡|§ 
Atwood  &   Co.’s store,  48  North  St.,  Bos-  Wl 
ton,  Mass.,  on  one  Dayton  Computing  ¡3 

Scale. 

¡¡§
Seventeen  clerks  sold  the  goods  and  M 
one young lady clerk  operated  the  scale.  Wa 
(W rite  for  particulars  of  this  W eight  §1 
11
Checking System.) 
Officially  recognized  by  many  of  the  gg 
Grocers’  and  Butchers’  Associations. 
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time-saving  and  profit-making  eg 
H3

(W rite  for copies  of the Resolutions.) 
For 

scales, write 

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,  Dayton,  Ohio.

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

illustrated  catalogue  and  discounts.

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

Correspondence  Solicited.

H EM LO C K   BARK

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Bark  measured 
promptly by  ex­
perienced  men, 
no  novices  em­
ployed  to  guess 
at it.  Top prices 
paid 
in  Cash. 
Call  on  or write 
us.

This  Showcase only $4.00  per foot.

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

MICHIGAN BARK & LUMBER CO.. 

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