Volume XVI.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14,1899.

Number 821

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Results  have  demonstrated  what  we  say  regarding  the 
good qualities of our products—

NORTHROP SPICES 

QUEEN FLAKE  BAKING  POWDER

We feel that the case has  been  sufficiently  argued  from  our 
standpoint, and merely desire the  trade  to  look  around  and 
see  for  themselves  what  a  positive  hit  has  been  made  by 
our goods.  Manufactured and sold only by

-!  NORTHROP,  ROBERTSON  &  CARRIER, Lansing, Michigan

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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.,  Benton Harbor, Mich.

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L   This is the guarantee we give with every barrel of our  vinegar.  Do  you  know  of any  other 
C*  manufacturer who has sufficient confidence in  his output to stand back  of  his  P^di^t  with  a 
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LARGE BIRO  EIGHT BY SIXTEEN  FEET.  HAVE YOU  SEEN IT IN THE CITY?

SWEET;  RICH. 

$35  PER M. 

SEND MAIL ORDER.

THURLOW  WEED  CIGAR.  $70.00 per M.  TEN CENTS STRAIGHT.
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L.  PERRIGO CO.,  S   ALLEGAN,  MICH.

Perrigo’s Headache Powders,  Perrigo’s Mandrake Bitters, Perrigo’s 
Dyspepsia  Tablets  and  Perrigo’s  Quinine  Cathartic  Tablets  are 
gaining new friends every day.  If you  haven’t already  a  good  sup­
ply on, write us for prices.

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS  AND  DRUGGISTS’  SUNDRIES

CIGARS

ARE  THE  BEST  ON  EARTH
Phelps,  Brace  &  Co., DISTRIBUTORS, 

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F. E. BUSHMAN, Manager.

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Biscuits,  Cakes and  Pastry of all  kinds,  by  the  addition  of  Milk  or  Water. 
Put up in 2 and 0 lb. cartons,  two dozen in  case.  Sold.direct,  or  can  be  sup- 
plied by any wholesale grocer. 
We also put up Self Rising Entire Wheatand Graham Flours in 2 lb. cartons, 
two dozen in case.  We are sole manufacturers of Sunshine Flour for general 
house-hold use. 

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

illustrated  catalogue  and  discounts. 

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{Important Notice!

We  have  changed  our  corporate  name 
from  the  Petoskey  Lime  Company  to 
the  Bay Shore Lime Company, and the name 
of our  lime  from  Petoskey  Standard  to 
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the vest pocket, 
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MUSSELMflN  GROCER GO., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Bark  measured 
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stock,  buy  Dwight’s. 
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jobbers sell them.

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Annual Statement,  Dec. 31,  1898.

Commenced Business 8ept.  I,  1893.

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IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

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2.  How to  Increase  Dry  Goods  Trade.
3.  The  Dry  Goods  Market.
4.  Around  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  W oman’s  World.
7.  The Value  of Brass.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Observations by a   Gotham  Egg  Man.
11.  Gotham   Gossip.
12  Clerks’  Corner.
IS.  Men  of Mark.
14.  Shoes and Leather.
15.  Fancy  Goods.
16.  Getting  the  People.
17.  Commercial Travelers.
18.  Drugs and  Chemicals.
19.  D rug Price  Current.
20.  Grocery  Price Current.
21.  Grocery Price  Current.
22.  H ardw are.
23.  H ardw are  M arket.
24.  Push  Your  Collections.

H ardw are Price  Current.
Business  Wants.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars— Raw  sugars  have  advanced 
i-i6c  and  sales  this  week  have  been 
made  on  the  basis  of  4  n -i6 cfo rg6  
deg.  test  centrifugals  and  4  3-160  for  89 
deg.  test  muscovadoes.  This  advance 
in  the  raw  sugar  market  caused  an  ad­
vance  in  the  refined  sugars  of  %c  on 
all  grades and  the  market  is  very  strong 
at  the  advance.  On  Friday  Howell 
shaded  his  price  on  granulated  i - i 6c  on 
sugar  bought 
shipment 
from  the  refinery,  bnt  none  of  the  other 
refiners  made  any  changes  in  price.

for  prompt 

Canned  Goods—The new  packing  sea­
son  so  far  has  proved  to  be  one of  an 
exceptionally 
unsatisfactory  nature. 
Not  only  was  the  pea  crop  two  weeks 
late and  the  crop  very  poor,  but  now  in­
sects  are  destroying  the  vines  in  Mary­
land  and  are  gradually  working  their 
way  northward  toward  the  pea  section 
of  New  York  State.  This  insect  is  a 
new  one  and  has  puzzled 
the  most 
It 
learned  professors. 
is  exceedingly 
destructive  and,  as 
its  origin  is  yet  a 
mystery,  the  farmers  have  not  learned 
to  cope  with 
it.  There  will  probably 
be  only  about  half  an  average  crop  of 
peas  and  it  will  be  tbe  lightest  crop 
in 
that  section  for  years.  This  state  of 
affairs  has  been  a  great  blow  to  the 
Maryland  packers  and  growers  and 
prices  have  advanced  5c  per  dozen  and 
there  will  probably  be  farther  advances 
soon.  Pineapples  are  the  most  active 
article  in  tbe  canned  goods  line.  Prices 
are strong with the tendency upward.  All 
grades  and  sizes  are 
in  good  demand 
and  the  trade  is  constantly  increasing. 
Unless  there  is  an  increase 
in  receipts 
of  the  green  fruit  within  the  next  two 
weeks,  an  advance  will  be  necessary. 
The  United  States  agents  for  Johnson's 
pineapple  have  sold  the  entire  pack and 
orders  are  turned  down  every  day  be­
cause  they  are  afraid  that  they  will  not 
be  able  to  fill  them.  Tbe  pineapple 
pack  is quite  likely  to  end  very  abrupt­
ly  because  of  tbe  impossibility  of  se­
curing  fresh  fruit.  Everything 
looks 
favorable  now  for a  large  pack  of  corn 
this  year. 
commission 
men  are  looking  toward  the  corn  pack 
with  a  view  of  making  up the deficiency 
In  New
in  the  supply  of  canned  peas. 

Jobbers  and 

York  State the  acreage  of  corn  planted 
in  excess  of  last  year  and,  so  far  as 
is 
can  be 
learned,  the  drought  that  has 
affected  the  eastern  part  of  the  country 
during  the  past  few  weeks  has  not  in­
jured  the  corn  crop  and,  on  account  of 
the  shortage 
in  the  pea  pack,  most 
packers  will  increase  their pack of corn. 
Canned  beets  are  coming 
into  more 
general  use  and  tbe  pack  will  be 
larger 
this  year  than  ever  before.  The  1898 
pack 
is  entirely  cleaned  up  and  has 
been  for  some  months.  Packing  of 
string  beans  is  just  beginning.  Future 
sales  of  this  article  were  large  this  sea­
son  and  so  far  the  crop outlook promises 
a  satisfactory  yield.  Very  few  of  last 
season’s  output  are  left  and  prices  are 
held  firm  on  substantially  all  varieties. 
California  will  produce  the  bulk  of  the 
peaches  grown  in  this  country  this  sea­
son,  according  to  the  present  outlook. 
Tbe  Maryland,  Delaware,  New  Jersey 
and  Michigan  crops  will  be  small.  As 
tbe  California  packers  are offering much 
better  prices  than  tbe  driers,  it  is  prob­
able  that  there  will  be  a  large  pack  this 
year.  The  tomato  crop  in  some  of  the 
Eastern  States  is  in  danger  of  being 
ruined  by  tbe  continued  warm  weather 
and  the  ravages  of  insects.  Spot  stocks 
of  tomatoes  are getting very well cleaned 
up  and  good  trades are bard to find.  The 
apple  crop 
in  some  sections  of  the 
country  promises  to  be  large  and,  in 
order to  make  up  for  the  deficiency 
in 
other  fruits,  the  pack  will  probably  be 
large.  However,  reports  from  Indiana 
are  that  tbe  crop  will  be  smaller  than 
last  year  and 
in  New  York  State  tbe 
crop  of  Baldwin  apples  will  be  very 
small,  and  tbisone  variety  forms  a large 
part  of  tbe  average  crop.  Tbe  lobster 
market  remains  very  stiff indeed.  There 
are  no  spot  goods  and  the  new  pack 
is 
coming  in  lighter  than  last  year.  Sar­
dines  are slightly higher,  an  advance  of 
5@ioc  per  case  having  taken  place.

Dried  Fruit—The dried  fruit  business 
is  exceedingly  dull.  Most  crop  reports 
are  favorable,  which  has  a  tendency  to 
weaken  the  market  somewhat.  Raisins 
are  quiet  and  tbe  demand  is  limited. 
The  quantity  left  on  tbe  Coast  is  only 
about  300 cars,  as  compared  with  1,000 
to  1,200  cars 
last  year.  There  are  no 
cheap  raisins,  the  nearest  approach  be­
ing  Pacific  three  crowns.  Advices  just 
received  from  California  are  to  the 
effect  that,  although  there  has  been  a 
good  deal  of  talk  about  damage  by  frost 
and  rain,  there  will  probably  be  about 
the  same  sized  crop  as last year.  Seeded 
raisins  are  fast  growing  in  popularity 
and 
it  is  estimated  that  the  output  this 
year  will  be  fully  three  times that of  last 
and  seeders  find 
it  difficult  to  supply 
the  increasing  demand.  There  will  be 
nine  plants  in  operation  in  Fresno  this 
season,  as  against  three 
last  year,  and 
the  number  of  seeders  in  other  sections 
of  the  State  will  be  increased  also.  The 
total  yield  of  apricots  will  be  larger 
than 
last  year,  but,  owing  to  tbe  in­
creased  demand,  prices  are  likely  to 
rule  higher.  Stocks  of  prunes  are  larger 
than  of  any  other dried  fruit,  but  prices 
remain  unchanged,  as 
is  expected 
that  these  stocks  will  be  disposed  of  at 
full  prices  before  the  new  crop  comes

it 

in.  Recent  reports  from  Oregon 
indi­
cate  that  the  Italian  prune  crop  in  that 
State  will  be  unusually  short  this  sea­
son. 
The  California  crop  promises 
well,  but  until  after  the  June  drop  is 
over  it  will  be  impossible  to  determine 
what  tbe  season’s  yield  will be.  Peaches 
are  unchanged.  There  is  still  quite  an 
active  demand  for  evaporated  apples 
and  prices  are  unchanged. 
Reports 
from  Greece  are  that  the  growing  crop 
of  currants  is  doing well.  Expectations 
based  on  the  present  outlook  are  favor­
able  to  an  average  crop.  Tbe  demand 
is  fair,  with  no  change  in prices.  Dates 
are  steady,  but  trading  is  small.  Figs 
are  easy  at  about  previous  range  of 
prices.

from 

Fish— Reports 

the  domestic 
mackerel  fisheries  continue  to  be  dis­
couraging  and,  while  a  few  fish  are  be­
ing  caught,  the  demand  for  the  fresh 
fish  absorbs  most  of  the  supplies. 
It  is 
claimed  that  tbe  ill  success  which  has 
attended  the  domestic  fishery this season 
places  it  among  the  least  productive  of 
any  in  the  history  of  tbe  business.

Lima  Beans—Careful  estimates  as  to 
the  output  this  year,  based  upon  reports 
from  the  various  sections  of  California, 
place  the  yield  at  about  100  carloads,  or 
250  carloads  short  of  the  normal  crop. 
Jobbers  state  that  one  cause 
for  the 
shortage  this  season  is  found  in  tbe  fact 
that  packers  of  beans  on  tbe  Coast  are 
canning  more  of  tbe  product  than  here­
tofore,  although  a  considerable  portion 
of  the  shortage 
is  due  to  the  smaller 
yield  and short  crop  acreage.  There  has 
been  no  disposition  yet  to  advance 
prices  in  this  market,  although tbe mar­
ket  is  firm.

Rice— The  situation 

Nuts—There  are  no  new developments 
in  nuts.  Prices  on  most  varieties  re­
main  steady,  but  tbe  demand  is  weak 
and  business  confined  to  small  orders. 
The  peanut  market  shows  no  change 
in 
prices,  but  is  hardening  steadily.
in  rice 
The  demand 

is  not 
materially  changed. 
is 
small,  but  all  sales  are  at  full  prices 
and  stocks  are  being  gradually  reduced.
Green  Fruits—There  appears  to  be  a 
decreasing  demand  for  bananas,  due  to 
tbe  active  competition  of  berries.  The 
war  between  the  banana 
importers  is 
now  on  in  earnest  and  local  dealers  will 
probably  be  benefited  by  the  cutting  of 
prices.  The  demand  for  lemons  con­
tinues  good  and  prices  have  advanced 
50c  per  box.

Vinegar—The  cider  vinegar  market 
is  very  strong  and  has  advanced another 
j£c  per  gallon.

One  of  tbe  toasts  at  the  class  supper 
of  the  Mount  Holyoke  College  seniors 
the  other  evening  was:  “ The  Recog­
nition  of  tbe  Divine  in  Man.”   That 
comes  easier  to  a  girl  graduate  than 
it 
does  after  she  has  bad  a  few  years’  ex­
perience  with  a  hard,  cold  world.

is  a  man’s  bad 
luck  that  makes 
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him 
lose  bis  appetite  at  a  fine  table 
d’hote  dinner  and  makes  him  ravenous 
for  food  when  be  is  in  an  expensive 
place and  must  order  by  the  card.

The  trouble  about  licking  Aguinaldo 

is  in  catching  him.

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Dry  Goods

How  to  Increase  Trade  During  the 

W ritten for the T radesman.

Dull  Season.

Special  sales  in  dry  goods  stores  will 
do  much  to help  out  dull  seasons.  They 
attract  trade  which  otherwise  would  not 
be  received  at  such  times.  These  spe­
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pays  to  advertise  them. 
In  fact,  good 
advertising 
is  the  one  thing  which  can 
make  them  successful  after  arrange­
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inside  the  store  have  been  cor­
rectly  completed.  Many dry  goods  peo­
ple  are  careless  about  their  advertising. 
is  often  the  last  thing 
The  advertising 
thought  of. 
It  is  then  dashed  off  hur­
riedly  and  very  poorly done.  Right  here 
is  a  lesson  to'be  learned  from  the  larger 
retailers 
in  other  lines.  They  employ 
persons  to  give  their  whole  time  to  ad­
vertising.  The  advertising  receives  as 
careful  attention  as  any  other branch  of 
the  business.  While  the  average  dry 
goods  merchant  can  not  afford  to  em­
ploy  a  person  solely  for  this  work,  he 
can  profit  by  adopting  a  part  of  the 
plan.  He  can  set  aside  certain  hours to 
attend  to  this  work.  He  can  insist  up­
on  doing  the  work  at  this  time. 
If  he 
has  a  clerk  who  is  trusted  to  do  it,  that 
clerk  should  make  some  such  arrange­
ment  and  he  should  not  be  interrupted. 
Good  advertising  is  news. 
It  should  be 
good  news,  well  written  and  edited. 
The  fact  is,  people read  other  news  dur­
ing  times  of  excitement,  but  many  of 
them  do  not  read  it  so  carefully.  It  will 
be  seen,  then,  that 
it  pays  to  keep  on 
advertising.  At  such  times advertising 
should  be  plainer and  straighter  to  the 
point  than  ever,  if  it  is  possible to make 
it  so. 
People  must  live;  they  must 
have  many  articles  of  merchandise 
greatly  varying  in  nature.  This  is  so, 
no  matter whether  the  times  are  excit­
ing  ones  or  otherwise.  The  man  who 
advertises  best  is going  to  fill  the  most 
of  these  wants  in  his  line,  other things 
being  equal.

The  public  should  be  told  all  about 
the  goods  and  the  prices. 
If  the  goods 
are  shopworn,  say  so,  and  let  the  public 
know  that  otherwise  they  are  exactly  as 
useful  as  they  ever  were.  Let  people 
know  what  can  be  saved  by  buying 
them. 
If  a  job  lot  has  been  purchased 
at a  low  figure,  the  public  should  know 
that 
it  was  done  for the  benefit  of the 
people.  If  a  broken  line  is  being  closed 
out,  tell  that  and  explain  why  it  is to 
the  advantage  of  the  store to  close  it 
out  at  reduced  prices.  People  can  see 
by  the  prices  that  it  is  to their advan­
tage  to  buy.  Honest  reasons  should  al­
ways  be  given  for  reduced  prices.  The 
public  have  faith  in  honest  advertising. 
People  will  respond  to  it.  Price  reduc­
tions  without  apparent  reasons  may  be 
honest  enough  so  far as  the  merchant  is 
concerned,  but  the  public  is  skeptical. 
People  have  very  often  been  deceived 
by  low  prices.

Business  during  dull  times  can also be 
improved  by  window  displays,  card 
signs,  etc.  To  lay  gold 
leaf  success­
fully  on  attractive  tickets  for  window 
use  requires  skill.  A  good  mordant  is 
necessary  and  next  to  it  is  the  prepara­
tion  of  the  surface  to  be  gilded,  so  that 
the  gold  will  not  “ bang’ ’  to  parts where 
they  have  not  been  sized.  To  prevent 
this  the  surface  should  be  covered  with 
a  very  thin  coat  of  whiting  dabbed  on 
by  a  brush  or  with  a  pouncebal!  or  pad. 
If  the  surface  to  be  pounced  is  of  a 
light  color the  whiting  should be colored 
before  being  put  into  the  pounce  bag,

by  mixing  some dry,fine  colored  powder 
with  the  whiting.  After pouncing,  dust 
off  lightly  with  a  feather duster.

A  fall  for  window  purposes  is made of 
a  piece  of  duck  canvas  with  one  ply  of 
buckram  pasted  well  together. 
The 
space  for  the  broad  lace  must  be  care­
fully  marked  on  the  rough  lining  for  a 
guide  to  fit  the  carpet  to  between  the 
lace  lines;  after  the  carpet  has  been 
correctly  fitted  to  the  lace  lines  shave 
the  edge  off  evenly  and  paste  the  carpet 
firmly  onto  the  rough 
lining.  When 
the  paste  becomes  dry  the  edge  of  the 
carpet  is  neatly  bound  with  cloth.  Take 
a strip of  cloth 
inches  wide and  sew 
it  onto  the  carpet  by  hand  X  inch  from 
the  edge  with  a  light thread,  keeping  a 
straight  line  with  the  stitches,  apply 
paste  to  the  cloth  and  turn  the  binding 
over  the  edge  of  the  carpet  onto  the 
rough  lining  and  carefully  work  the 
cloth  down  along  the  edge  of  the  car­
pet.  Bind  the  out  edge  of  the  rough 
lining  with  cloth.  Be  very  particular  in 
mitering  the  -broad 
lace  so  it  will  fit 
close  to  the  binding  edge of  the  carpet. 
Apply  paste  to  the  lace  and  work  the 
edge  down  evenly  along  the  binding 
edge  of  the  carpet.  When  the  paste 
is 
dry  first  stitch  the  edges  of  lace  on  the 
machine,  and  then  the  folded  edge  of 
the  cloth  binding.

In window  ticket  work  for  advertising 
purposes,  maroon  lake  used  over  an  In­
dian  red  ground 
iS  a  beautiful  lake, 
showing  to  good  effect  under  the  ordi­
nary  dressing  of  ornamental  work,  bar­
ring  aluminum 
leaf  and  white.  For 
real  elegance  in  coloring  for  these  tick­
ets, claret lake  of  the  best  quality  should 
not be  overlooked.  A  deep  Tuscan  red 
gives  a  good  ground  for  claret  lake. 
Coming  to  such  reds  as  crimson,  ver­
milion  red,  and  other  variously  titled 
reds,  including,  as  a  matter  of  course, 
the  vermilions,  we  find  panel  and  card 
colors  in  such  variety  that  the  clerk  can 
not  well  go  amiss 
in  his  search  for 
something  vivid and sprightly.  Ground 
colors  for  these  reds  are  now  regularly 
supplied  ready  prepared  by  the  manu­
facturer.  The  permanency of lakes and 
reds depends  in  large  measure  upon  the 
preparation  of  the  ground  color and  the 
foundation  coats  leading  up  to  it.  First 
there  should  be  a  fine  degree  of  surfa­
cing,  with  absolute  freedom  from  gritty 
substances,  foreign  matter,  etc.  Make 
the ground  coat  smooth  and  clean,  and, 
so  far  as  possible,  flawless;  and  use 
enough  varnish  in  it  to  prevent  it  from 
drying  “ dead.”   For  a  dark,  rich  and 
smoothly  brilliant  lake,  glaze  Munich 
lake  over  a  deep  shade  of  Tuscan  red ; 
gold  or aluminum  leaf  for  the  striping 
and  ornamental effects gives particularly 
rich  and  aristocratic  looks  over  Munich 
lake.  Cramoisie  and  crimson  lakes ap­
plied  as  glazing  coats  over  deep  Indian 
red  grounds,  offer  dark  and  engaging 
colors  for  panel  work.  Aluminum  leaf, 
however,  does  not  show  as  effectively 
over  these  as  over  the  lighter and  more 
reddish 
lakes.  A  decidedly  pleasing 
panel  color to  be  used  now  and  then  as 
a  novelty  is  English  Tuscan  red.  This 
color  takes  kindly  to  aluminum 
leaf 
decoration.  Black  lines  also  show  hand­
somely  upon  this  color.  Some  very  bril­
liant  wine  colors,  served in three shades, 
in  vogue.  Gold  and 
are  at  present 
aluminum 
leaf  are  very  showily  dis­
played  upon  the  wine  colors.  Gold 
bronze  striping,  as a  substitute  for  leaf 
work,  gives  tasty,  dressy  effects.  High 
grade  wine  colors  bought  of  reliable 
manufacturers  have a  lasting  brilliancy 
and  permanence  highly  desirable. 
If 
the  tickets  are  to  be  used  at  night.

to  impress  upon  your  customers 
the  fact  that  you  have  the  “ right 
stuff”  
if  Ley  Bros.  Neckwear  is 
what  you  are  showing,  go  cents 
to  $2.oo  per  doz.  $2.00  to  $450 
per doz.  Drop  a  postal for sample 
assortment.  Make  selection  at 
your leisure and return the balance.

LEY  BROTHERS,

Manufacturers  of  Neckwear

1818  Milwaukee  Avenue,

for Men and Women.

Chicago,  III.

WRAPPERS

W e  have  just  re­
ceived  a  new line  of 
light  and  medium 
shade  wrappers,  and 
have also a complete 
line of dark  colors in 
stock.  Also 
fresh 
line of light blues just 
received.

They  are  bright 
patterns  and  good 
sellers.

The  original  price 
of  these  goods  was 
$13.50.  Our  price 
now $9.00.

P.  Steketee 
&  Sons,

Wholesale  Dry  Goods, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

obviously  your  colors  must be  tried  by 
artificial 
light,  and  make  your  experi­
ments by  that  kind  of  light  which  is  to 
be  adopted. 
If  for day  and  night  use, 
you  must  use  those  colors  which  look 
well  by  day  and  night.  The  design 
thought out,  you  must  first  try  the  colors 
you  are  proposing  to  use.  This  trial  of 
colors  upon  the  spot  is  of  the  first 
im­
portance,  as  many  are the  changes  that 
take  place,  and  what  looks  well 
in  one 
place  looks  bad 
in  another.  The  ex­
periments  may  be  in  color  only,  without 
any  design  upon  them,  or  you  may, 
better  still,  put  up  full-sized,  colored 
tickets,  and  judge  of  the  effect. 
It  is  a 
good  plan  to  leave  them  up  for a  day  or 
two;  frequently  it  happens  that  after an 
interval  you  come  upon  the designs with 
fresh  mind,  and  can  form  a  better  judg­
ment  than  at  first,  and  decide  in  what 
points  you  think  they  need  amendment, 
and  whether,  as 
is  very  probably  the 
case,  you  may  omit  some  of  the  detail, 
strengthen  and  accentuate  those  parts 
which  require 
it,  and  send  back  or 
bring  forward others. 

B.  F.  F e l l s .

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons—Are  quiet,  principal­
ly  because there  is  nothing  to be  found 
at  anything 
like  near-by  delivery. 
Some  fair business  has  come  to  hand  by 
mail,  but  not  enough  to  have  any  influ­
ence  on  the  market  one  way  or  another. 
Heavy  brown  sheetings  are  quiet,  as 
far  as  home  consumption  is  concerned, 
but  for  export  it  has  been  a  little  bet­
ter.  However,  with  the  well  sold  up 
condition  of  the  market  this  is  of  little 
consequence.  Lightweight  brown  and 
gray  goods  are  in  the  same  condition. 
Prices are  all  firm.  Bleached cottons  are 
finding  a  moderate  business 
in  nearly 
all  grades,  and  the  advanced  prices  ap­
impediment.  Ducks, 
pear  to  be  no 
brown  osnaburgs  and  cotton 
flannels 
show  a  moderate  business.

Hosiery—There  has been  a most satis­
factory  and  steady  business  accom­
plished  by  the  prominent  importers  of 
hosiery,  and  this  business 
is  continu­
in  a  way  that  has  surprised  the 
ing 
agents. 
It  was  expected  a  couple  of 
weeks  ago  that  their  business  was  at 
an  end,  but  it  has  continued  in  a  most 
remarkable  manner,  and  fancies  are  not 
the  least 
important  part  of  the  busi­
ness.  The  reason  for  the  latter  lines 
being  good 
is  because  the  importers 
used  a  great  deal  of  care 
in  making 
their  selections  for  this  season,  and 
brought  over  only  what  was  really.good, 
discarding  all  else.  All  fine  lines  are 
very  short  now,  and  prices are  excep­
tionally  strong.  Extracted  goods,  par­
ticularly 
in  blue and  black,  have  been 
received  very  favorably,  although  the 
selling 
is  largely  confined  to  the  small 
polka  dot  effects.

Dress  Goods— Activity  is  lacking 

in 
the  woolen  and  worsted  dress  goods 
lines,  yet  the  aggregate  of business done 
since  last  writing  shows  an  improve­
ment  over  the  past  few  weeks.  Buyers 
instances  supplemented 
have  in  some 
their  early  purchases,  but  only 
in  a 
moderate  way.  With  buyers  not  ready 
as  yet  to  come  forward  and  make  their 
supplementary  selections,  and  sellers 
not 
force 
things,  the  market  must  of  necessity 
show  a  rather  dull  exterior.  The  buyer 
who  is  looking  for  concessions  on  de­
sirable  goods  may  as  well  save  himself 
the  trouble,  for  agents  are  not  taking 
that  kind  of  a  view  of  the  situation 
where  concessions are  under  considera­
tion.  On  the  contrary,  agents  are bask­
ing  in  a  feeling  of  confidence  which

inclined  to 

least 

in 

the 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

promises  weli  for  sustained  values,  and 
indicates a  settled  belief  in  a  satisfac­
tory  run  of  supplementary  purchases. 
There appears  to  be  a  growing  belief 
that  the  rough  faced  wool  fancy,  such 
as  the  zibeline  plaid,  etc.,  will  become 
more  prominent as the season progresses, 
and  late  orders  have  embraced this  class 
of  goods,  including  mohair  and  camel’s 
hair stripes,  plaids,  etc.,  to  a  very  fair 
degree.  Homespuns  are  also  attracting 
a  very  fair  proportion  of  the 
incoming 
business,  and  look  well  for  the  balance 
of  the  season.  The  hold  attained  on 
the  market  by  the  crepon  is  very  strong 
indeed,  and  agents  are  confident  of  a 
large  business  yet  to  come.

Carpets— Agents  for  large  carpet mills 
in  the  Midlde  States  have  notified  the 
trade  of  an  advance of  2j£c  per  yard  on 
tapestries,  to  go  into effect July  i.  From 
all  over  the  country  reports  are  coming 
in  of  a  very  favorable  condition  of  the 
carpet  business.  Large  jobbers  in  the 
West  who  ordered  early  have  found such 
a 
large  demand  for  carpets  that  their 
stocks  were  quickly  taken  up,  which 
shows  that  the  retailers  in  that  section 
have  sold  out  old  stocks,  and  are  also 
willing  to  anticipate  future 
require­
ments, as  the  demand  at  the close  of  last 
season  plainly  indicated  that  delays 
in 
placing  orders  would  cause  a  loss  of 
business.  As  the  manufacturers became 
more  generally  employed,  they  would 
have  their  entire  season’s  production 
booked 
late  buyers 
would  run  a  great  risk  in  obtaining  de­
liveries.  Even  at  the  present time  some 
manufacturers have  duplicate  orders  for 
spring  goods  uncompleted.  The  new 
goods are  very  attractive,  which  shows

in  advance,  and 

that  the  manufacturers  have  bad  the 
courage  (on  account  of 
improved  busi­
ness  conditions 
in  general)  to  make  a 
stronger  effort  than  for  some  seasons 
preceding  to  make  a  better and  more 
attractive  fabric,  believing  that  with 
the 
increased  demand  for goods  would 
come  the  opportunity  to advance prices. 
With  raw  material  and  yarn  higher  than 
last  season, 
is  certainly  some 
foundation  to  work  on.

there 

Lace  Curtains—The  Nottingham  lace 
curtain  manufacturers  report  the  spring 
season  as  having  been  a  good  one,  and 
while 
it  is  a  little  early  yet  to  consider 
the  fall  season,  there  has  already  been 
quite  a  general  opening  of  samples,  in-

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cluding  the  popular  bobbinet  curtain, 
which  has  had  such  a  favorable  recep­
tion  in  the  past.  Velours  and corduroys 
are  still  popular  with  a  certain 
line  of 
trade,  although some  jobbers  have  found 
the  better class  of  goods  receiving  more 
attention  as  business  improves.  Cotton 
tapestry  curtains  and  covers  continue 
in  favor,  and  the  designer  has  utilized 
the  mercerized  yarn  with  good  effect  in 
setting  off  the  new designs.  Mercerized 
yarn,  it 
is  claimed  by  some  manufac­
turers,  has  come  to  stay  as  long  as  the 
price  is  placed  within  the  reach of man­
ufacturers  so  that  they  can  produce  a 
fabric  at  prices  sufficiently  below  the 
price  of  silk  to  attract  buyers.

W e can  make your advertising effective— make  it 
different  from the  every-day  run  of  advertising  matter. 
W e can write ads,  booklets, folders,  circulars,  mailing 
cards— anything in  the  line of advertising literature— 
that will  help you to  increase your trade.

W e  have issued a little  booklet,  “Advertising 

That  Pays,”  that tells what we  do and what  it  costs. 
W e’ll  send  it to every business  man who  asks  for it on 
his business letter-head.  Write  for it to-day.

TH E  ROBT.  N.  SHAW 
ADVERTISIN G AGENCY 
Copy Department 
Grand  Rapids 
Michigan

Do You Know

Uneeda  Biscuit?
It's  time  you  got  acquainted*
It'll  be  a  tie  of  friendship  that  dyspepsia will 

never  sever*Uneeda  Biscuit will  agree  with  you  and 

you'll  agree  with  them*

Y ou   will  find  them  as  good  to-morrow  as 
they  are  to-day,  as  good  next  week  as  they  are 
to-morrow*

Royal  purple  and white*  T hat's the package* 
Five  cents*  T h at's  the  price*

Y o u   should  knowUneeda
Biscuit

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Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Bellevue— Ray  E.  Stevens  has  opened 

a  new  grocery  store  here.

Centerville— Bryant  Weed  has  sold his 

drug  stock  to  Frank  E.  Lehr.

Delta  Mills—W.  Lazelle has  engaged 

in  general  trade at  this  place.

St.  Johns— Samuel  Heller  has  sold  bis 

bazaar  stock  to  Aaron  Rosenthal.

Decatur—Roberts  &  Ball  continue  the 

meat  business  of  Orris  A.  Roberts.

Saranac— M.  B.  Wilkinson  has  sold 
his meat  market  to  A.  P.  Lowrey  &  Co.
Downington— Mercer  &  Welch  suc­
ceed  Henry  A.  Welch  in  general  trade.
Marshall—Arthur  C.  Jandell,  meat 
dealer,  has  sold  out  to  Ford  &  Green- 
man.

Pontiac— Edward  P.  Fisher  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  A.  B.  Her­
rick.

Cassopolis—Geo.  McCabe  succeeds 
McCabe  &  Hayden  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Clio—Romain  Putnam  succeeds  Put­
nam  &  Mauk  in  the  produce  and  eleva­
tor business.

Detroit—Albert  W.  Schultz  has  pur­
chased  the  hardware  stock  of  Herman 
W.  Meinke.

Willis—John  Rosenwirth  has  pur­
chased  the  hardware  stock  of  Jos.  H. 
Rosenwirth.

Detroit— Quimby  Bros,  have sold their 
to 

grocery  stock  and  meat  business 
Chas.  Frankel.

Kalamazoo— Buurma  &  Vandenberg 
succeed  Samuel  Buurma  in  the  coal and 
wood  business.

Detour—T.  H.  Watson  has  opened  a 
new  store  here,  carrying  lines  of gen­
eral  merchandise.

Woodmere—Jos.  S.  Flammer  has  dis­
posed  of  his  grocery  and  crockery  stock 
to  Chas.  M.  Smith.

Cedarville—C.  Y.  Bennett,  dealer 

in 
genera]  merchandise  and  cedar,  has  re­
moved  to  St.  Ignace.

Lansing—The  Lansing  State  Savings 
from 

its  capital 

Bank  has  reduced 
$200,000  to $150,000.

Berrien  Center— Rutter,  Miller  &  Pat­
terson  succeed  Ford  &  Patterson  in  the 
shoe  and  implement  business.

Detroit—The  style  of  the  merchant 
tailoring  firm  of  Fred  Wettlaufer  & 
Sons  has  been  changed  to  Wettlaufer 
Bros.

Ovid—Chas.  Farmer, 

formerly  en­
gaged 
in  general  trade  here,  has  re­
turned  to  Ovid  and  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery  business.

Ann  Arbor— Homer  C.  Cady  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stocks  of  Herman 
Walters  and  John  H.  Maynard  and  con­
solidated  them.

Sturgis—S.  Holiday  has  sold  his  stock 
of  boots  and  shoes  to  the  Billings  Mer­
cantile  Co.,  of  Bronson,  which  will  re­
move  the  stock  to  that  place.

Lansing— B.  S.  Taylor  &  Co.  have 
embarked  in  the  grocery  business  at  513 
Ionia  street,  West,  having  purchased 
the  stock  of  W.  S.  Wright  &  Son.

Carson  City— Fred  Holmden  has  sold 
his  bakery  business  to  Mrs.  M.  H. 
Jenner,  of  Howard  City,  and  will  re­
engage  in  the  same  business  at  Petos- 
key.

Montague---- The  Muskegon  Circuit
Court  having  set  aside  the  mortgage  on 
the  Morse  drug  stock,  uttered  to  the 
father  of  the  assignor,  Mr.  Morse  was 
permitted  to  select  bis 
exemptions, 
after  which  the  remainder  of  the  assets 
were  sold  to  Paul  Kling,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  the  same  location.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Union  City—The  dry  goods  firm  of 
Rowley  &  Snyder  has  been  dissolved, 
M.  J.  Rowley  having  purchased  the  in­
terest  of  his  partner,  W.  W.  Snyder.

Macatawa—John  Louckes  is  erecting 
a  new  store building,  25x50  feet 
in  di­
mensions,  with  a  10  foot  verandah  on 
each  side.  Mr.  Louckes  will  carry  lines 
of  meats  and  groceries.

Jackson— The  John  B.  Gilson  shoe 
stock  was  bid 
in  at  chattel  mortgage 
sale  by  Paxton,  Layton & Williams,  who 
have  consolidated  the  stock  with  their 
wholesale  stock  at  Detroit.

Fennv.'lle— W.  E.  Shiffert,  who  has 
been 
indentified  with  the  general  store 
of  bis  father  for  several  years,  will  em­
bark  in  the  dry  goods  and  grocery  busi­
ness  here  on  bis  own  account  about 
July  I.

Ovid— G.  D.  Beebe  has  sold  his  drug 
stock  to  Angus  Stewart,  the  Fenwick 
druggist,  and  Chas.  W.  Hurd,  traveling 
representative  for  the  Hazeltine  &  Per­
kins  Drug  Co.,  who have  formed  a  co­
partnership  for  the  purpose  of  continu­
ing  the  business  at  the  same  location, 
under  the  management  of  Mr.  Stewart.
Chelsea—Alton  Fletcher  has  severed 
bis  connection  with  the  dry  goods  and 
clothing  firm  of  W.  P.  Schenk  &  Co. 
and purchased  the  interest  of  Mrs.  Wm. 
Chadwick 
firm  of 
Chadwick  &  Hall,  at  Stockbridge, 
which  will  hereafter  be  known  as 
Fletcher,  Hall  &  Co.  Mr.  Fletcher 
will  assume  the  active  management  of 
the  business.

in  the  mercantile 

Vernon— A very slick  confidence  game 
on  a  small  scale  has  been  worked  very 
successfully  on  a  number  of  merchants 
at  this  piace and  the  neighboring  towns 
in  Shiawassee  county.  The  game 
is 
played  by  a  man  about  60  years  old, 
who  first  secures  the  names  of the differ­
ent  storekeepers  of  the  towns  he  wishes 
to  work,  and  then  greets  them  with  a 
hearty  handshake  and  a  reminder that 
he  was  formerly  one  of  their old  cus­
tomers,  but  adverse  circumstances  had 
compelled  him  to  request  a  small  loan. 
In  most  cases  he 
is 
reaping  a  good  harvest  from  the  unsus­
pecting  ones.

is  successful  and 

Coldwater—E.  R.  Root,  manufacturer 
of  cigar  boxes,  has  sold  out  to  Newton 
Thompson.

Hastings—W.  H.  Johnson,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  has  purchased  an 
interest  in 
the  foundry  and  machinery  business  of 
Green  &  King,  the  style of  the  firm  be­
ing  changed  to  Green,  King  &  Johnson.
Detroit—The  United  States  Potash 
Co.,  Limited,  has  been 
incorporated, 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $100,000,  of 
which  $45,600  is  paid  in.  The direc­
tors  are  Wm.  T.  Degraff,  President; 
Wm.  M.  Courtis,  Secretary;  Stewart  A. 
Curtis,  Treasurer;  H.  Green,  Jr.,  James 
Stringham,  Jr.,  and  Robert  McMillan.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Benton  Harbor—Shearer  Bros,  have  a 
in  the  person  of 

new  clothing  clerk 
Chas.  Francis.

Grand  Ledge—Wm.  Hall  succeeds  B. 
W.  Courts  as  clerk  in  the  drug  and  gro­
cery  store  of  A.  B.  Scbumaker.

Marshall— Otto  Escbe,  who  has  been 
manager of  the  grocery  department 
in 
S.  E.  Cronin’s  store  for  several  years 
past,  has  resigned.  Mr.  Escbe  contem­
plates  going  into  business  for  himself.
Saginaw—Ed.  Potter  has  entered  the 
employ  of  L.  J.  Richter,  the  Gratiot 
street  druggist.

Flint—Jacob  Zimmerman,  who  has 
clerked  in  the  drug  store  of  C.  L.  Bart­
lett  for nearly  twenty  years,  was married 
recently  to  Mrs.  Emma  Burlingame,  of 
Corunna.

St.  Johns—Spaulding  &  Co.  have  en­
gaged  Allie  Butler,  of  Grand  Ledge,  to 
clerk  in  their drug  store.

Saugatuck— D.  C.  Heath  has  engaged 
a  new  prescription  clerk  in  the  person 
of  Ed.  Follett,  who  has  lately  been  em­
ployed 
in  the  drug  store  of  H.  M. 
Gibbs,  of  Howard  City.

Owosso—Arthur  J.  Tillson, 

formerly 
clerk 
in  J.  S.  Haggart’s  drug  store  in 
this  city,  now  dispensing  clerk  at  the 
Pontiac  asylum,  was  married  last  week 
to  Miss  Effie  Ricker,  of  Pontiac.

Ionia—A.  M.  Wright  has  a  new  gro­
in  the  person  of  B.  W. 

cery  clerk 
Courts,  of  Grand  Ledge.

Montague-----Nicholas  Mindrop  has
taken  a  clerkship  in  the  drug  store  of 
Paul  Kling.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Detroit—The  Hicks  Gas  Engine  Co. 
has  removed  its  plant  to  Buffalo,  N.  Y.
Onaway—The Barry &  Finnan Lumber 
Co.  has  been  incorporated, with  a  capi­
tal  stock  of  $10,500.

Detroit—The  Hamilton Acetylene Gas 
Co.  has  been  incorporated,  with  a  cap­
ital  stock  of  $25,000.

Perry—The  style  of the  Lamb  Globe 
&  Mitten  Co.  has  been  changed  to  the 
Perry  Glove  &  Mitten  Co.

Saginaw— The Palmerton  Woodenware 
Co.,  whose  factory  was  destroyed  by fire 
April  28,  has  resumed  operations  in 
its 
new  factory.

Detroit—The  Commercial  Adding 
incorporated, 
Machine  Co.  has  been 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $100,000.  The 
incorporators  are  all  Cleveland  gentle­
men.

Saranac— Arnold  &  Stebbins  have 
opened  a  harness  shop 
in  connection 
with  their carriage and  agricultural  im­
plement  business. 
This  department 
will  be  in  charge  of C.  A.  Brown.

Bay  City— The  alterations  and 

im­
provements  now  being  made  on  the 
Michigan  sugar  factory  will  increase  its 
capacity  from  350  to  450 tons  of beets 
every  twenty-four  hours.  The  cutting 
capacity  of  the  mill  has  been  greater 
than  the  other  machinery.  Automatic 
labor-saving  devices  will  be  installed 
in  time  for  the  next campaign.

Middleville—Cornelius  Crawford  has 
changed  drug  clerks  with  Wm.  J.  Hen- 
wood,  of  South  Haven—C.  G.  Putnam 
coming  to  Middleville  and  Wm.  J. 
Remus  going  to  South  Haven.

Harbor  Springs— Foster  &  Burke have 
engaged  G.  W.  Washburn,  of  Eaton 
Rapids,  to  take  charge  of  their shoe  de­
partment.

Ann  Arbor— M.  D.  Duke  has  resigned 
bis  position  at  Schairer  &  Millen’s  and 
taken  a  clerkship  in the Steinberg cloth­
ing  bouse at  Traverse  City.

Marriage  of  a  Lake  City  Merchant.
Lake  City,  June  12—James  Berry  and 
Miss  Anna  Cotter,  both  of  Lake City, 
were  married  in  Grand  Rapids June 7. 
Mr.  Berry  established  a  general  store 
here  in  1896 and,  in  spite  of  the general 
business  depression  and  the  fact  that 
the town  was  at  that  time  thought  to  be 
already  overstocked with business bouses 
of  all  kinds,  the  enterprise  was  a  sue- 
cess  from  the  start.  Miss  Cotter  is  a 
popular and  much  respected young lady. 
She  was  Deputy  County  Clerk  of  Mis­
saukee  county  two  terms.  Both  have 
wide 
circles  of  acquaintances  and 
friends  in  different  parts  of  the  State.

The  Tradesman  offers  for  sale  the 
shafting,  bangers  and  pulleys  which 
were  formerly  used  to  drive  its  presses. 
These  are 
in  good  condition  and  are 
suitable  for  printing  office  work  or  for 
any  light  machinery  requiring  variable 
speed  and  moderate  power.  Tradesman 
Company,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Failure to Pass the Township  Peddling 

Act.

The  general  peddling  law,  which  has 
not  been  of  any  particular  credit  to  the 
State  for  the  past  quarter  of  a  century, 
will  remain  a  law  for  two  years,  unless 
a  special  session  of  the  Legislature 
is 
called  by  Governor  Pingree  and  the 
effort  to  secure  the  enactment  of  a  new 
law  meets  with  more  success  than  was 
the  case  at  the  present  session  of  the 
Legislature.

It  will  be  remembered that  the  statute 
was  amended  by  the  adoption  of  the  so- 
called  township  peddling  act  four  years 
ago,  but  a  defect  in  the  title  rendered 
the  law  inoperative.  Two  years  ago,  a 
similar  measure  was  espoused  by  Rep­
resentative  Mayer,  of  Holt,  but  while 
the  bill  was 
in  the  House  some  of  the 
farmer  members  injected  into  the  draft 
prepared  by  the  attorney  of  the  Michi­
gan  Retail  Grocers’  Association  several 
features  which  caused 
the  Supreme 
Court  to  declare  the  measure  class legis­
lation,  which  necessarily  rendered 
it 
null  and  void.

Careful  preparation  was  made  to  pre­
vent  a  recurrence of  the former mistakes 
at  this  session  of  the  Legislature.  A 
measure  was carefully prepared  by Judge 
Hatch  and  passed  upon  by  the  Legisla­
tive  Committee  of  the  Michigan  Retail 
Grocers’  Association,  after  which  it  was 
placed  in  the  hands  of  Representative 
Wheeler,  who  introduced  it  in  due  sea­
son  and  did  all  in  his  power to  secure 
a  favorable  report  thereon 
from  the 
House  Committee  on  Judiciary,  whose 
is  Judge  Shepherd,  of  Che­
chairman 
boygan.  The  Tradesman 
is  informed 
that  the  chairman  refused  to  permit  the 
bill  to  be  reported  out  as  drafted,  but 
was  subsequently  prevailed  upon  to  re­
port  a  substitute  measure,  which  em­
bodied  the  identical  features  which  had 
been  declared  unconstitutional  by  the 
Supreme  Court.  Every  effort  was  put 
forth  to  induce  Judge  Shepherd  to  elim­
inate  the  illegal  provisions,  but  for  rea­
sons  which  the  Tradesman  is  unable  to 
understand  he  refused  to  take  the  mat­
ter  up  a  second  time.  Under  the  cir­
cumstances,  there  was  nothing  for  Rep­
resentative  Wheeler  to  do  but  to  ask  the 
House to  strike  out  the  enacting  clause, 
which  was  done,  and  the  measure  died 
a  natural  death.

Judge  Shepherd 

is  a  gentleman  of 
wide  experience  and  great  legal  ability, 
and  the  Tradesman  believes  that  if  the 
matter  is  presented  to  him  in  the proper 
light,  in  the  event  of  a  special  session 
of  the  Legislature,  he  will  not  only  un­
dertake  to  undo  the  wrong  be  has  done 
the  merchants  of  Michigan  at  the  pres­
ent  session  of  the  Legislature,  but  that 
he  will  give  the  measure  the  weight  of 
his  influence  in  the  work  of accomplish­
ing  its  enactment.

It 

is  greatly  to  be  regretted  that  the 
old  law  must  stand  for  the  present,  be­
cause  it  is  equivalent to  no  law  at  all  on 
account  of  the  non-enforcement  of  the 
statute.  The  proposed 
law  would  un­
doubtedly  be  an  advantage  to  all  con­
cerned,  because 
it  would  be  enforced, 
thus  placing  every  peddler on  an  equal­
ity  with  every  other  peddler.

In  Warsaw,  Mo.,  a  business  man 
named  Green  has  a  book-keeper  named 
Simmons.  During  his  employer’s  ab­
sence  not  long  ago  he  signed  a  letter 
“ Green,  per  Simmons.’ ’  The  result  has 
been  an  unexpected 
in  Mr. 
Green’s  business,  owing  to  newspaper 
comment  on  the  odd  signature.

increase 

For  Gillies  N.  Y.  tea,  all  kinds, 

grades and  prices,  phone Visner,  80a

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
H.  E.  Storms  has  purchased  the  gro­
cery  stock  of  the  estate  of  the  late  John 
H.  Vandermade  at  700  Cherry  street.

G.  E.  DeGolia,  grocer  at  3  Robinson 
avenue,  has  sold  out  to  Noel  Jubin- 
vilie,  late  of  Butte  City,  Mont.

A.  McDonald  &  Son  have  embarked 
in  the  grocery  business  at  Newaygo. 
The  stock  was  furnished  by  the  Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co.

Thomas  Whalen  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  the  corner of Butterworth avenue 
and  Straight  street. 
The  stock  was 
furnished  by  the  Lemon  &  Wheeler 
Company.

Eugene  Turner  has  removed  his  saw 
and  shingle  mill  from  Lake  City  to 
Strong  Siding,  Upper  Peninsula,  where 
he  has  sufficient  timber  in  sight  to  last 
him  several  years.  He  has  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  his mill,  purchasing  the 
stock  of  the  Lemon  &  Wheeler  Com­
pany.

fortnight’s 

O.  A.  Ball,  who  probably  devotes  as 
many  hours  a  day  and  as  many  days 
each  year to  his  business  as  any  man  in 
the  wholesale  grocery  trade,  is  taking 
a 
respite  from  business 
cares  and  responsibilities  as  a  guest  at 
the  Greenwood  Inn,  at  Evanston,  111. 
Mr.  Ball 
is  accompanied  by  bis  wife 
and  had  bis  bicycle  sent  over  a  day  or 
two ago.

formerly 

Jas.  E.  Granger, 

identified 
with  the  wholesale  grocery  trade  here, 
but  for  the  past  dozen  years  buyer  for 
the  Stone  Ordean-Wells  Co.,  at  Duluth, 
is  the  leading  spirit  in  a  new  wholesale 
dry  goods  bouse  at  the  Zenith  City, 
which  will  be  known  as  the  Patrick  & 
Granger  Co.  Mr.  Granger  is  a  gentle­
man  of  unusual  business  ability  and 
will  undoubtedly  achieve 
same 
measure  of  success 
in  the  dry  goods 
business  that  he  scored  in  the  wholesale 
grocery  trade.

the 

No  action  has  yet  been  taken  by 
Michigan  bankers 
in  the  direction  of 
adopting  a  rule  regarding  charges  to  be 
made  for  the  collection  of  out-of-town 
items,  similar  to  that  put  in  force  in 
New  York  some  time  ago.  There  is  a 
wide  difference  of  opinion  as  to  the  ad­
visability  of  any  such  move.  Quite a 
number  of  bankers are  in  favor  of  fol­
lowing  the  example  set  by  New  York, 
but  the  opposition  to  it  is  still  so  strong 
as  to  make any  agreement  at  this  time 
highly 
improbable.  At  the  convention 
of  the  Michigan  State  Bankers’  Asso­
ciation,  to  be held  in  Port  Huron  next 
month, there will  be  a  discussion  of  this 
matter by  bankers  representing  several 
sections  of  the  country.  The  Detroit 
Clearing  House  seems  to  be  responsible 
for  this  feature  of  the  proceedings.  The 
bankers  there  are  anxious  to  put  the 
New  York  plan  in  force,  provided  they 
can  get  the  co-operation  of several  other 
important  cities,  and  with  this  end  in 
view  they  have  extended  invitations  to 
bankers  in  various  parts  of  the  United 
States  to  be  present  and take  part  in  the 
discussion. 
Among  those  who  have 
agreed  to  be  present  is  Isaac  G.  Lom­
bard,  of  Chicago,  who  is  said  to  favor 
strongly  the  collection  scheme  designed 
by  Frank  Brown  of  the  First  National 
Bank,  of  Chicago,  and 
is  possible 
that  at  the  Port  Huron  convention  this 
will  be  put  forward  as  a  substitute  for 
the  New  York  plan.  Mr.  Brown’s  idea 
is  for  each  clearing  bouse  city  in  the 
country  to  make  itself  the  center  of  a

it 

series  of  circles  taking 
in  the  entire 
territory  of  the  United  States.  The first 
circle  is  to  extend  out  a  distance  of  say 
fifty  miles,  the  next  100,  the  next  150, 
and  so  on.  The  collection  charges  are 
then  to  be  graded  according  to  these 
circles.  For  instance,  the  banks  in  the 
city  forming  the  center  will  make all 
collections  embraced 
in  the  territory 
covered  by  the  first  circle  at  par,  in  the 
next  at  50  cents  per  $1,000,  in  the  next 
at  75  cents,  in  the  next  at  $1,  and  so 
on.  This  scheme 
is  a  simple  one  and 
is based  on  the  principle  that  the  man 
living  100 miles  from  a  city  on  which  a 
check  is  drawn  should  pay  a  higher 
rate  of  exchange  than  the  one  living 
only  fifty  miles  away.  Furthermore,  the 
collection  charge  would  be  placed  just 
where 
it  belongs,  on  the  maker  of  the 
exchange.  A  wholesale  merchant 
in 
Grand  Rapids  selling  goods  in  territory 
150  miles  north  of  here  would  simply 
require  the  purchaser  to  add  the  collec­
tion  charge  fixed  by  the  banks  for  the 
circle 
in  which  he  lives,  a  requirement 
to  which  there  should  be  no  more  ob­
jection  than  there  is  to  the  making  of 
a  greater  charge  by  the  railroads  for 
carrying  goods  100  miles  than  for  carry­
ing  them  fifty  miles.  The  principle  in 
both  cases  is  exactly  the  same.  To  say 
that  a  bank  is  not  entitled  to  some com­
pensation  for  the  trouble  and  loss  of  in­
terest  attaching  to  the  collection  of 
items  on  distant  points  is  absurd,  but 
one  of  the  troubles heretofore  has  been 
in  making  the  collection  charges  equi­
table  for  all  parts  of  the  country.  The 
New  York  plan  does  not  do  it,  the 
charge  for  Iowa  points,  for  instance, 
being  greater  than  that  made  for  Mis­
souri,  although  Missouri  is  farther  away 
from  New  York  than Iowa,  and the  sales 
of  merchandise  in  the  former  State  are 
much  below  those  made  in  the  Hawk- 
eye  State.

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.

Hides  are firm,  with  little  fluctuation. 
The  demand  is  fully  up  to  the  supply, 
with  no  speculation  entering  into  price 
or deals.

Pelts  are 

in  good  demand 

for  all 
grades—the  short  wool  skins  for  Klon­
dike goods  and  the  long  wool  for  pull­
ers'  use.  Tanners  are  now  making  fine 
kid  from  sheep's  skin.

Tallow 

is  extremely  quiet,  with  no 

extra  demand.

Wools  are  firm  at  seaboard,  with  con­
siderable  looking  around.  Our  manu­
facturers  are  wondering  where  supplies 
are  to  come  from,  if  desired,  and  what 
price  must  be  paid.  Country  buyers  in 
the  West  believe  in  that  long-looked-for 
advance  and  are  paying  accordingly. 
There are as  many  beliefs  in  wool  fu­
tures as  there  are  buyers.  The  outlook 
is  strong  for  a  dealer’s  market.

W m.  T .  H ess. 

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Although  the  three  promoters  who  are 
at  work  on  the  proposed  soap  trust 
in­
sist  that  the  deal  will  be  consummated 
in  the  course  of  a  couple  of  months, 
the  Tradesman  has  good  reasons  for  be­
lieving  that 
it  is  farther off  than  some 
of  those  who are  anxious  to  see  the  deal 
go  through  are  willing  to  admit.  While 
it  is  claimed  that  the  Proctor  &  Gam­
ble  people  are  leaders  in  the movement, 
the  Tradesman  has  the  assurance  of  a 
gentleman  who  is  very  near  to  the  man­
agement  of  that  establishment  that  the 
Cincinnati  soapmakers  have  no  idea  of 
turning  their  plant  over  to  a  trust;  in 
fact,  that 
impossible  for 
them  to  do  so  because  of  the  manner 
in  which  the  preferred  stock  of the com­
pany 
is  widely  scattered  all  over  the 
country.

it  would  be 

The  Produce  Market.

Beans— Wax  beans  have  declined  to 
$1.75  per  bu.  box.  Home  grown  will 
begin  to  come  in  next  week,  probably 
fetching  $2  per  bu.
Beet  Greens— Receipts  are  large  and 
is  active  on  basis  of  40c 

demand 
per  bu.

10c. 

Butter— Receipts  are  large  and  goods 
which  do  cot  go  into  immediate  con­
sumption  are  placed  in  storage.  Fancy 
dairy  fetches  12c,  choice  brings  11c  and 
cooking  grades  about 
Factory 
creamery  is not  in  demand  at  all,  owing 
to  the  large  receipts  and  excellent  qual­
ity  of  dairy  grades,  which  are  meeting 
the  consumptive  requirements  of  the 
market 
The  consumption  of  butter 
this  season  has  increased  much  in  the 
Eastern  markets  on  account  of  the  fact 
that  butter  is at  present  about  as  cheap 
as  oleo,  which  gives  to  butter  much  of 
the  trade  which  would  otherwise  go  to 
oleo.  Besides  this,  oleo  has  very  poor 
keeping  qualities  in  the summer season, 
and  this,  too,  diverts  the  demand  to 
butter.

Carrots—2o@25c  per  doz.
Celery— New  crop  has  begun  to  ar­
rive,  commanding  2o@25c  per doz.  The 
receipts  so  far  have  been  small  in  size.
Cheese— Prices  have  declined  fully  ic 
since  a  week  ago  and  have  apparently 
not  reached  bottom  yet.  So  long  as  the 
rains  continue  and  grass  continues  to 
grow  rank,  the  supply  of  milk  and 
the  yield  of  cheese  will  be  large.

Cherries— Sweet  command  $150132 
per  bu.  Sour  fruit  is  coming  in  freely, 
commanding  $i.25@i.5o  per  bu.  The 
crop  is  large  and  the quality  of the  fruit 
is  fine.
Cucumbers—Homegrown  now  supply 
the  demand  on  the  basis  of  4o@5oc  per 
doz.
Eggs—Local  dealers  have  not reduced 
their  nominal  quotations,  but  are  pay­
ing 
lie   delivered,  instead  of  11c  on 
track.  The  four  hot  days  last  week— 
June  4  to  7—bad  a  demoralizing  effect 
on  eggs,  in  consequence  of  which  the 
loss  is  about  one  dozen  to the case.  Con­
sidering  the  large  number  of  eggs  in 
storage,  the  market  is  likely  to  have  a 
weak  tone  during  the  summer  months. 
The trade  do  not  look  for  much advance 
before  July.

Gooseberries—75@85c  per  crate  of  16 

qts.
Green  Onions—Silver  Skins  command 
15c.  The  demand  is  large  and  the  re­
ceipts  were  never  better  than  now.

Honey—8c  for  dark  and  10  for  light. 
New  crop  was  expected  last  week,  but 
has  not  yet  put  in  an  appearance.  The 
crop  is  said  to  be  large  and  fine in qual­
ity,  owing  to  the  effect  the  rain  has  had 
on  the  flowers  and  the  clover.

Lettuce—5o@6oc  per  bu  for both head 

and  curly  stock.
Onions—Bermudas  are  in  limited  de­
mand  at $1.60  per  crate.  ¿Louisiana  are 
in  fair demand  at $2.25  per  sack.

Peas— Home  grown  are  coming 

in 
freely  and  finding  an  active  demand  at 
75  per bu.  The  quality  is  fine.  There 
is  some  likelihood  of  the  price  going 
lower.

Pieplant—$1.25  per  100 lbs.
Pineapples— Floridas  have  advanced 
to  $2  per  doz.  Havanas  are  entirely  out 
of  market.

Plants—Cabbage,  celery,  pepper  and 
sweet  potato are  in  ample  supply  at  75c 
per  box  of  200  plants.  Tomato  plants 
command  10c  more.
Potatoes— Local  dealers  are  getting 
40c  for  old  and  $1.10  per  bu.  for  new 
stock  from  Missouri,  with  the  proba­
bility  of  a  $1  market  before  the  end  of 
the  week.
Poultry— Broilers  are  more  plentiful 
and  have  declined  to  22c  per  lb.  Chick­
ens  are  in  good  demand  at  8@qc  and 
fowls  are  in  fair  demand  at  7^@8c. 
Ducks  are  dull  at  5@6c.  Geese  are  not 
in  demand  at  all. 
in 
limited  supply  and  have  advanced  to 
I0 @ I2C.

Turkeys  are 

Radishes— Round  10c,  long  12c.
Spinach— 4o@5oc  per  bu.
Squash—75c  per  bu.  box  for  summer.
Strawberries— Home  grown  are 
in 
their  glory  this  week,  commanding  an 
average  of  75c  per  crate.  With  cooler 
weather—which  is  foreshadowed  at  this 
writing—the  crop 
is  likely  to  last  a

5

couple  of  weeks  yet.  The  crop  is  large 
in  size  and  is  standing  shipment  better 
than  it  did  a  week  ago.

Tomatoes—1.75  per  crate  of 4 baskets.
Watermelons— As predicted  last  week, 
quotations  have  declined  nearly  50  per 
cent.,  locai  dealers  holding  at  35c.  All 
reports  from  Georgia  and  Indiana  indi­
cate  a  larger  acreage  than  ever  before 
and  in  the  event  of  the  Michigan peach 
crop  proving  a  failure,  the  watermelon 
growers  will  be 
likely  to  reap  a  rich 
harvest.

The  Grain  Market.

Wheat  has  been  rather  quiet  during 
the  week,  no  special  fire  rocket  dis­
plays,  neither any  startling  slumps.  The 
Government  Crop  Report  came  out  on 
the  10th  inst.,  which  gave  wheat  at  67.3 
per  cent.,  against  76.2  per  cent.  May  1 
and  77.9  per  cent,  for  April  1,  and  90.8 
per  cent,  for  June  1,  86.5  per  cent.  May 
1  and  86.2  per  cent.  April  1,  1898. 
Spring  wheat  showed  up  91.4  per  cent. 
June  1,  against  100.9  per  cent,  for  cor­
responding  time  1898,  which  was  con­
sidered  very  strong,  and  the  market 
gained 
on  this  report,  but  extraor­
dinarily  large  receipts  in the Northwest, 
amounting  to  986  cars  in  Minneapolis 
and  Duluth,  against  180  cars  same  day 
last  year,  also  the  visible  increasing
1.416.000  bushels  and  amount  in  sight 
being 
against
19.682.000  bushels  last  year,  rather  put 
a  quietus  on  the  bullish  sentiment  and 
markets  closed  rather  tame.  The  fact 
remains  undisputed 
that  the  winter 
wheat 
the  spring 
wheat  with  less  acreage  and  conditions 
not  up  to 
last  year,  the  shortage  will 
amount  to  what  has  been  stated  before 
in  these  reports.  We  may  say  that  our 
exports  from  the  United  States  will  be 
220.000,000 bushels  for  the  current year; 
while  the  continent  will  not  need  as 
much  of  our  wheat,  they  will  need  more 
than  we  can  spare,  especially  at  present 
low  prices.

is  short  and,  with 

27,600.000 

bushels, 

Corn  remains  very  steady;  would 
large  acreage 
probably  decline  on  the 
planted  were 
it  not  that  the  weather  is 
rather  too  damp  for  it  at  present.  Much 
replanting  has  to  be  done  because  the 
seed  rotted  in  the  ground  and  prospects 
for  a  large  crop  are  not  the  best  at pres­
ent.

Oats  are  weak,  owing  to  fine  stand, 
which  assures,  barring  accidents,  a 
good  full  crop.

Rye  is  in  good  shape  and  futures  are 

selling  15c  below  cash.

Flour  trade 

is  good,  owing  to  the 
small  stocks  on  hand  among  the  deal­
ers,  both  local  and  domestic,  while  for­
eign  bids  are  coming  in  higher,  as  they 
begin  to  realize that they underestimated 
our  damage  in  wheat.

Mili  feed  keeps  up  very  well,  taking 
the  fine  pasturage 
into  consideration. 
The  fact  is  we  are  having  quite  a  large 
number  of  dairies  around  Grand Rapids 
and  they  must  be  fed  something  besides 
pasturage  to  keep  up.

Receipts  for  the  week  were  70 cars  of 
wheat,  25  cars  of  corn,  12  cars  of  oats 
and  6  cars  of  hay.

Mills  pay  72c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t.

About  thirty-five  years  ago  Chauncey 
Depew  deposited  $100  in  a  Peekskill 
savings  bank.  The  President  of  that 
institution  joked  Senator  Depew  about 
having  forgotten  this  small account,  and 
was  astonished  to  hear  Mr.  Depew  re­
ply:  “ Forgotten  it?  Well,  I  guess  not. 
It  amounts  to  about  $400  with 
interest 
now,  and 
it’s  going  to  keep  right  on 
growing.  That  was  the  first $100  I  ever 
owned  and  I’ve  kept  my  eye  on  it.’ ’

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W om an’s World
Drawbacks  Incident  to  a  Summer 

Vacation.

When  you  meet  a  woman  nowadays 
who  looks  worn  and  weary,  yon  know 
without  being  told  that  she  is going 
through  the  trying  ordeal  of  getting 
ready  for  her  summer outing,  and  you 
wonder  if  the  game  is  worth  the  candle 
and  if  any  subsequent  pleasure  can  pay 
for  so  much  present  trouble.

isn’t 

“ Ob,  dear, 

“ Oh,  dear,”   said  one  of  these  vic­
tims  recently  to  a  group  of  women  who 
the  summer  exodus 
were  discussing 
question. 
it  awful? 
Every  year  it  drives  me  into  a  spell  of 
nervous  prostration. 
I  think  I  might 
have health  and  strength  to  stand  going 
off  for  the  summer  if  I  didn't  have to 
get  ready,  or I might  be able to get ready 
if  I  didn’t  have  to  go  and  could  stay 
at  home and  rest  up  after  the  labors  of 
preparation,  but  the  two  combined  are 
too  much  for  me.  And  what  do  we  get 
out  of  it? 
It’s like  going  through  death 
on  the  hopes  of  heaven,  and  then,  nine 
times  out of  ten,  finding  we  have  struck 
the  other  place.

“ To  begin  with,  there  is  the agony  of 
making  up  one's  mind  where  to go, 
and  trying  to  decide  between  a  quiet 
farm  house,  with  freedom  and  flies,  and 
the  regulation  summer hotel,  where  you 
sleep  in  a  closet  and  display your gowns 
for  the  criticism  of  your  sex.  And 
whichever  you  choose,  you  will  be  dead 
sure  to  wish  you  had  taken  the  other. 
Then  there  are  weeks  of  misery,  in 
which  you  haunt  dressmakers  and  pros­
trate  yourself  before  them  and  when 
seamstresses  harry  the 
life  out  of  you 
by  doing  those  things  to  the  children’s 
clothes  that  should  not  be  done  and 
leaving  undone  the  things  that  should 
have  been  done. 
In  addition,  your 
house  has  to  be  gotten  in  order  to  sh ut 
up,  and  you  lie  awake  at  night  wonder­
ing  what  on  earth  you  can  do  with  the 
cat  and  are  haunted  by  a  conviction 
that  your  husband  will  leave  the  win­
dows  open  so  it  can  rain  in  on  the  new 
wall  paper  and  ruin  the  mattings.  So 
you  worry  along  until  finally,  in  sheer 
despair,  you  commend  your  house  to 
the  protection  of  fate  and  your  husband 
to  the  mercy  of  Providence  and  pack 
your  trunk  and 
leave  without  being 
ready.

"O f  course,  we  always  say  we  don’t 
like  to  keep  the  children  in  town  in  hot 
weather  and  go  away  for  their  sake. 
If 
one  has  a  summer  cottage  of one’s  own 
that  may  be  well  enough,  but 
if one 
hasn’t,  it  seems  to  me  that  it  is time  to1 
be  honest  with  ourselves  and admit what 
we  all  know,  and  that  is  that  there  is 
no  other spot on  earth  worse  for a  child 
than  a  summer hotel.  Just  recall  what 
we  have  all  seen  a  thousand  times: 
Pert  little  girls  hanging  around  a  group 
of gossiping  and  scandal-talking women 
and  bearing  things  that  blast  their 
white  innocence  like a hot wind scorches 
up  the  petals  of  a  lily.  Don’t  you  re­
call  mere girl  babies  who  were  already 
making  eyes  at  men  and  who  were  piti­
less  little  snobs,  valuing  and  estimating 
other children  by  their  clothes?  Think 
of  how  it  made  you  shudder  and  won­
der  what  their  mothers  could  be  think­
ing  about,  when you  saw  the  persistence 
with  which  the  little  boys  bung  around 
the  bar-room  and  pool-room  and  you 
imagined  the  coarse  stories  and  jokes 
they  must  be  hearing? 
is  just  as 
possible  to  touch  pitch  and  not  be  de­
filed  as  it  is  to  keep  a child uncorrupted 
in  such  an  atmosphere.'*

It 

in 

“ W ell,”   put 

another  woman, 
“ having  a  cottage of  your  own 
is  an­
other  fallacy,  as  far  as  any  pleasure 
and  rest  to  the  woman  is concerned.  Of 
course,  it  sounds attractive,  but  in  real­
ity  it  means  that  the  mistress has  to  in­
stall  a  new  home  and  get  it  cleaned  and 
furnished  and  furbished  up.  She  has 
to  bribe  and  cajole  her  old  servants into 
going  with  her  and  be  down  on  her 
knees 
in  gratitude  to  them  or  else  she 
has  all  the  agony  of  breaking  in  new 
ones.  Heaven  knows  housekeeping  is 
trying  enough  in  town,  where  you  have 
all  sorts  of  conveniences  and  markets 
and  corner groceries  on  every  block,  but 
it has a million unforeseen complications 
when  you  are  ten  miles  from  a  lemon 
and  have  to  think  ahead  and  provide 
like  the  commissary  of an  army;  and 
then  things  always give out at the critic­
al  moment.  In  town  you  entertain  when 
you  want  and  whom  you  want 
In  your 
summer  home  visitors  come  down  like 
the  wolf  on  the  fold  and  people  rise  up 
from  the dead  to come  to  see you. 
It  is 
a  season  of  work  and  worry,  and  the 
idea  of  regarding  it  as  a  ‘ vacation’  for 
the  mistress  is  an  exquisite and delight­
ful  piece of  sarcasm.’ ’

“ You  don’t  go  away  in  the  summer 
often,  do  you,  Mrs.  Blank?’ ’  asked  one 
of  the  women,  turning  to  the  matron  of 
the  party.

I  bad  always  been 

“ N o,”   she  replied,  “ I  got  a 

little 
lesson  on  the  subject  once that  I  have 
never  forgotten. 
in 
the  habit  of  going,  you  know,  and,  like 
the  rest  at the  beginning  of  summer,  I 
proceeded  to  get  the  house  into  the 
proper  shape  for  leaving. 
I  stripped  it 
of  carpets,  and  rugs and  draperies  and 
curtains,  I  pinned  sheets  over  the  pic­
tures  and  tissue  paper over the  chande­
liers,  and  put  covers  over  the  furniture, 
until  everything  looked  as  hideous  and 
awful  and  unhomelike as a  funeral. 
It 
positively  never  struck  me  bow  unutter­
ably  selfish  it  was  not  to  leave  a  single 
comfort  or  thing  of beauty  for  my  hus­
band  to  enjoy  while  I  was  disporting 
myself at  summer  resorts,  and  that,  in 
effect,  I  was  making  his  stay  at  home 
just  as  miserable  as  was  in  my  power. 
Being  a  man,  John  never complained  of 
what  he  endured,  and  year after year  11 
went  light-heartedly  off,  leaving  him  to 
live  in  one  room  and  eat  what  the  cook 
chose  to give  him.

“ It  might  have  gone  on  that  way  to 
the  end  of  the  chapter,  except  that  one 
day  I  bad  a  warning—nothing  tangible, 
but  just  that  ‘ feeling’  that  a  woman  has 
and  that  tells  you  something 
is  wrong.
I  wrestled  with 
it  through  one  long 
night  and  then  I  took  the  next  train  for 
home. 
I  got  in  early  one  morning  and 
John  was  pathetically  glad  to  see  me. 
He  was  worn  and  thin  and  said  he  was 
well,  but  hadn’t  seemed  to  have  much 
appetite.  Pretty  soon  we  went 
in  to 
breakfast.  A  soiled  cloth,  greasy  chops, 
muddy  coffee— enough  to  take  the  ap­
petite  of  a  Comanche.  No  fruit,  no 
ice,  nothing  that ought  to  have gone  in­
to  a  Christian  stomach  in  hot  weather.
I  choked  right  up.  ‘ John,’  said  I,  ‘ have 
you  been  eating  stuff  like  this all  these 
summers  when  I  was  away?’ 
‘ Nothing 
tastes  good  unless  you  are  across  the 
table  from  me, ’  he  said  gallantly,  and  I 
replied :  ‘ Well,  it  won’t  have  to again.’ 
After he  was  gone  I  sent  for  a  man  and 
I overhauled  that  house and did penance 
for  my  selfishness.  More  than  that,  I 
made  it  into  a summer bouse, with filmy 
draperies  that  swayed  in the wind every­
where  and  suggested  coolness,  and  I  in­
stituted  a  summer  menu  that  brought 
back  John’s  appetite  and  strength,  and,

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

as  if  virtue  is  its  own  reward,  the  bal­
ance  of  that  summer was  the happiest 
and  most  comfortable  I  ever spent.’ ’ 

story: 

“ I  did. 

The  young  girl  who  bad been thought­
fully  fingering the  bangles  on  her brace­
let  broke  in :  “ Well,  let  me tell  you  one 
thing,”   she said:  “ the  girls  who  leave 
home  in  the  summer are regular chumps 
who  don’t know  a  good  thing  when  they 
see  it.  Mama  used  always  to  take  me 
somewhere  and  it  was  always  the  same 
old 
forty-’leven  dozen  girls 
wearing  out  their  pretty  clothes,  sitting 
around  hotel  verandahs  and 
fighting 
over  the  poor,  miserable  little counter- 
jumper  man  who  was  taking  his  vaca­
tion.  Why,  I  have  seen  girls  almost 
come  to  hair  pulling  over  a  thing  they 
wouldn’t  have  looked  at  at  home.  At 
night  the  only  amusement  was  wabbling 
round  the  ballroom  with  some other girl, 
and  if  there’s anything  more forlorn and 
ghastly  than  two  girls  dancing  together 
I  hope  and-  pray  I  may  be  spared  the 
sight  of  it.  Finally,  papa  gave  me 
what  he  called  a  dead  straight  tip.  ‘ My 
child,’  he  said,  ‘ even the best sportsman 
must  pick  his  location  if  he  expects  to 
bag  anything.  There’s no  use  in  fish­
ing  for  deep-sea  trout  on  the  top  of  a 
mountain. 
If  you  want  beaux,  stay 
where  they  stay.  All  the  men  who are 
worth  marrying  are holding  down  good 
positions  in  town,  and  they  haven’t  got 
any  time  to be gallivanting around sum­
mer  resorts.  Here’s  a  check  for  your 
summer  outing,  but  I  advise  you  to  in­
vest  it  in  white frocks and  cold  drinks.’ 
I  got  me a  lot  of fluffy  mus­
lins  and  the  girl  who  can’t  look  sweet 
in  them  in  the moonlight  ought to  make 
an  assignment  and  retire  to a  convent.
I  fixed  up  the  side  porch  with  com­
fortable  wicker  chairs  and  hammocks 
piled  full  of  cotton-covered  cushions 
and  I  served  an  apprenticeship 
in  the 
concoction  of  cooling  beverages  and 
savory  sandwiches.  A  lot  of  bouses  at 
which  men  usually  call  are  closed  in 
the  summer,  and 
in  consequence,  as 
papa  says,  the  market  is  long  on  beaux 
and  I  played  to  standing  room  only 
from  the  start.  Anybody  who  called 
was  sure  of  finding  a  cool  seat  on  our 
side  porch  and  a  glass  of  something 
iced,  and  it  was  all  jolly  and  easy  and 
comfortable,  and  I  put  in  the  best  time 
of  my  life.  We  made  up  parties  and 
went  trolley  riding,  and  to  the  lake,  and 
the  park,  and  up  and  down  the  river, 
and  where  there  was one  thing at a sum­
mer  resort  to  amuse  you,  there  were 
forty  at borne.  Thanks,  no  more  leav­
ing  home  for  me  in  the  summer.  The 
summer  girl  who  knows  her  business 
stays  at  home  now.  She  has a  cinch. ”  
"T h e  vacation  theory  is  all  right,”  
said  the  first  speaker,  “ we  all  need 
rest,  and  change,  and  pleasure,  but  we 
want  to  learn  how  to do  it  more  ration­
ally.  We  have  been  committed  too  long 
to  the  idea  that  pleasure  was  only  to  be 
found  in  gadding  about, and  I  trust  that 
the  time  will  soon  come  when  we  will 
know  enough  to  know  that the  breaking 
up  of a  home  and  nervous  prostration 
are  not  necessary  forerunners  of  a  suc­
cessful  summer  vacation.”

D o r o th y  D ix .

Kindness  Which  Is  Cruel.

No thoughtful  person  can  have  failed 
to  observe  that  much  of  the  injustice 
under  which  women  suffer  is  merely  the 
result  of  injudicious  kindness,  and  this 
never  has  a  more  forcible  illustration 
than 
in  the  attitude  which  parents  as­
sume  towards  their  children  who  are 
about  to  leave  the  schoolroom.  Hav­
ing,  as  we  humorously  put  it,  “ finished

their  education,”   the  father’s  first  care 
is to have his  son  taught  some  business 
or profession,  by  which  he  may  secure 
for himself  the  comforts  of  life  and  be 
independent.  No  one,  though,  thinks  of 
giving  the  girl  an  equal  chance,  and 
providing  her  with  a  way  in  which  she 
can  earn  her  bread  and  butter should oc­
casion  require  it.  Her  future,  surely  as 
important  as  her  brother’s,  is  left  en­
tirely  to  chance.

Of  course, this  is  intended  in all kind* 
ness,  but  it  does  look  like  the  united 
experience  of  the  ages  would  have 
taught  us  some  better  way  of  showing 
our  love  for a  girl  than  by  making  her 
helpless. 
It  might  be  justifiable  if  we 
knew  that  we  would  always  be  by  her 
side  to  shield  and  protect  her,  to  ward 
off  from  her  the  blows  of  fate.  Un­
happily  this  is 
impossible.  She  must 
walk  the  path  of  destiny  alone.  She 
must succeed  or  fail,  stand or  fall  as  her 
is,  just  as  in  the  case  of 
own  strength 
a  man.  Misfortune 
is  no  respecter of 
sex.

Our  excuse  is always  that  we  expect 
girls to  marry.  We  speak  of  matrimony 
as  a  kind  of  haven  in  which  a  woman 
drops anchor and  rides  at  ease  the  bal­
ance  of  her  life. 
In  reality,  it  is a  ca­
reer  requiring  the  most  complicated 
training,  and  the  fact  that  girls  rush 
into  it 
illy  fitted  for  its  duties  and  re­
sponsibilities  explains  why  there  are  so 
many  unhappy  marriages,  just  as  lack 
of  knowledge  and  training  explains why 
many  men  fall  in  business.

It  is  not argued,  of  course,  that  every 
girl  should  study  law,  or  medicine,  or 
typewriting,  or  trained  nursibg.  Still 
less  that  any  one  who  does  not  need  the 
money  should  enter  the  ranks  of  women 
bread-winners,  but  it  is  certainly  every 
father’s  duty  to  teach  his  daughter  the 
rudiments of book-keeping,  and  enough 
about  investments  and  securities  to  en­
able  her  to  know  how  to  care  for the 
money  he  is  to  leave  her  some  day. 
It 
is  this  ignorance  of  money  that accounts 
for  much  of 
the  extravagance  of 
women,  and  it  is  what  makes  them  the 
victims  of  sharpers  and  people  with 
gold  bricks and  wild-cat  mines.

So  far  as  a  profession  for  women  is 
concerned,  we  come  back  at  last  to  the 
fact,  strange as  most  women  regard 
it, 
that  women’s  success  has been  greatest 
along  eternally  feminine  lines.  No girl 
can  be taught  a  better trade  than  house­
keeping  or  sewing.  Every  year  the 
price  of  plain  sewing  gets  fancier  and 
fancier,  and  dressmaking  climbs up into 
the  clouds.  The  world  is  hungry  three 
times  a  day  three  hundred  and  sixty- 
five  days  a  year,  and  has  to  be fed.  The 
whole  human  race  is  on  a  still  bunt  for 
a  good  cook  and  a  good  place  to  board. 
These  professions,  carried  on 
intelli­
gently,  are  never  over  crowded.  “ A h,”  
but  you  say,  “ look  at  the  poor  sewing 
women  crying  for  work?  Look  at  the 
boarding-house  keepers  being  sold  out 
by  the  sheriff?”   True,  but  how  did 
they  do  their  work?  Didn’t  you  have 
to take  your  frock  back  time  after  time 
to  get  it  fixed  so  you  could  wear  it? 
Was there  ever anything  fit to eat on  the 
other  woman's  table? 
Incompetent,  in­
competent,  no  wonder  they  failed.

As  a  matter  of  fact—and  the  sooner 
they  recognize  it  the better— inefficiency 
or  lacking  of training  is  at  the  bottom 
of  every  woman’s  failure,  and  this, 
more  often  than  not,  is  simply  the  re­
sult of  the  cruel  kindness  that,  in  seek- 
ing  to  shield  them,  deprives them  of  the 
means  by  which  they  might  win  their 
way  to happiness and  prosperity.

Cora  Stowell.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

7

The  Value  of  Brass.

W ritten for the Tradksmah.

I  ain't  much  band  to  moralize,  but  I 
was  just  thinking  the  other  day  what 
hypocrites  some  of  us  mortals  are  any­
way. 
I  was  looking  over  a  box  of  old 
books  and  I  came  across  a  paper  copy 
of  the  "Gospel  Hymns."  One  cover 
was gone  and  the  back  had  been  double 
stitched  with  black  to keep  the  worn, 
begrimed,  dog-eared  pages  in  place.  It 
brought back  precious  memories.  Not 
a  score  of  years  ago  we  never  thought 
of  singing  out of  any  other  book  at  Sun­
day  School.  Every  summer,  when  we 
went  on  the  annual  picnics,  we beguiled 
the  tedious  long  drives  of  a  dozen  miles 
or  so  by  delivering  “ Hold  the  Fort”  
and  "P u ll  for  the  Shore"  so 
lustily  as 
to  make  the  natives hold  their  ears,  and 
I  believe 
if  young  America  had  been 
present  she  would  have  been  shocked 
beyond  redemption.  Yes,  and 
in  the 
twilight  just  as  it  was  time  to  put  the 
little  ones  to  bed,  Mother  used  to  sit 
down  at  the  parlor  organ  and  play  the 
chords  while  we  did  the  concert  act. 
I 
remember  we  used  to  take  turns  in 
choosing  the  hymns  for  the  evening. 
Why,  even  the  lisping  baby  would  try 
to  join  in  the  chorus  and  grandfather  in 
the  chimney  corner  would  put  in  his 
oar,  although  not  always  on  time  nor  in 
tune.

But  what  I  was  going  to  say  was  with 
regard  to  one  particular  hymn.  You 
all  know 
it  and  remember  what  a  fa­
vorite  it  was  in  those  days. 
it 
runs  thus:

I  think 

O to be nothing, nothing,
A  broken and emptied vessel,  etc.

Only to lie at his feet

Now  I  call  that  doctrine  pernicious. 
Do  you  suppose  we  youngsters  believed 
at heart  a  word  we  were singing?  Why, 
such  sentiment  is  fit only  for  the  beg­
gar,  the  tramp  or  the  paralytic,  who 
can  not  manage  to  turn  up  trumps  if 
they  try.  Now  if  I  had  been  consulted 
about  the  words  I  would  have  suggested 
something  like  this:

O to be something,  something,

With vim to work and achieve.

Most  of  us  human  creatures  are  not 
so  exhausted  with  ambition  that  we 
need  to be  encouraged  to  be  passive.

life. 

Did  you  ever  stop  to  consider who  are 
the  people  who go  ahead  in  the  world? 
Is  it  the  timid  child,  the bashful  youth, 
the  retiring  man?  It 
is  all  very  well 
after  one  has  won  the  Battle of  Manila 
to  be  modest,  but  success  seldom  comes 
to those  who  are  always  willing  to  take 
a  back  seat.  There  never  was  a  hero 
who  did  not  dare  to  grasp  more  than  he 
could  hold,  to  try  to  bear  more  than  he 
could  carry.  You  know  who  learns  to 
ride  the  bicycle  the  quickest,  and  that 
is  a  simple  example  of  all  undertakings 
in 
It  is  a  verified  fact  that  coun­
try  children  make  the  best  scholars. 
Why,  our  greatest  people  began  life  on 
a  farm,  and  the  clerkships  and  other 
from  the 
routine  positions  are  filled 
ranks  of  our  city  chaps. 
Is  it  because 
the  first have  natural  ability,  or because 
they  have  self-assurance  enough  to  un­
dertake  whatever  anybody  else  has  ever 
attempted?  Think  of  the  army  of  raw 
country  boys  and  girls  who  press  to  the 
city,  and  they  seldom  fail  to  make their 
way.  If  there  are  any  plums  on  the  tree 
they  get  hold  of them  every time.  Their 
modesty  does  not  keep  them  from  push­
ing  and  making  their  claims  felt.

It  reminds  me  of a  country  fledgeling 
I  once  met.  His  father  was  a  small 
farmer  who  was  always  digging.  His 
mother  was  the  simplest  of  the  simple 
rural  folk.  He  himself  was  tall,  raw- 
boned,  uncouth  and  awkward  and  silent 
among  strangers as  a  mute.  He worked

on  the  farm  from  dawn  to  twilight  and 
then  burned  the  midnight  oil  over  his 
books.  Winters  he taught district school. 
But  be  would  be  a  minister;  and  be 
managed  some  way  to  go  to  divinity 
school  and  to-day,  a  man  under  30,  be 
has a  large  and  flourishing  church  and 
is  the  pet  of  the  congregation.  Yet  his 
preparation  was  of  the  meagerest  and 
gained  by  the  hardest,  and 
if  he  had 
consulted  anybody  he  would  probably 
have  been  told  to  stick  to  the  farm,  for 
which  he  seemed  especially  fitted.

Yes,  and  there  is  our own  Hon.  Wil­
liam,  our  member  of  Congress  who  used 
to be  “ Billy,  the popcorn  boy.”   Do  you 
suppose he  was  perfectly  prepared  for 
the  positions  be  has  sought  to  fill?  Or 
do  you  suppose  any  of  the  numerous 
positions  came  to  him  unsolicited?  He 
bad  to  learn  as  be  went  ahead,  he  bad 
to  make  grievous  mistakes  before  he 
learned,  but  he  bad  the  nerve,  or brass, 
or  whatever  you  wish  to  call  it,  to  push 
and  make  other  people  get  out  of his 
way.  How  far  would  he  have gotten  on 
the  road  if  he  had  been  diffident  and 
required  encouragement  to  put each foot 
forward?

In  the  business  world  the  same  rule 
bolds.  Only  the  born  genius  can  dare 
to  be  modest.  Few  people  are  born 
with  genius,  but  must  acquire 
it  by 
bard  work  and  the  audacity  to  seek  the 
seeming  unattainable.  There  is  noth­
ing  that  succeeds  like  success,  and  few 
people  stop  to  question  the  methods.

Did  Not  Prosecute.

One  of  Detroit’s  citizens,  who  has 
plenty  of  this  world’s  goods  and 
likes 
to  cut  just  as  wide  a  swath  as  be can 
while  going  through  the  world,  spends 
a  part  of  every  summer  up  in the North­
ern  Michigan  village  where  bis  wife 
used  to  live.  He  dazzles  the  eyes  of the 
natives  with  his  magnificence  and  is  a 
big-voiced  oracle  on  every  subject  re­
ceiving  attention  from  the  townspeople. 
Last  summer,  while  up  there,  be  had  a 
suit  of  clothes  badly  damaged 
in  a 
swamp  he  foolishly  attempted  to  cross, 
and  ordered  a  new  outfit  from  the  vil­
lage  tailor.  The  citizen  found  cloth  to 
his  liking,  gave the  tailor  measurements 
as  taken  by  a  Detroit  artist  in  this  line, 
went  over  fashion  plates  with  him,  and 
was  so  generally  fussy  over  the  whole 
affair  that  every  man,  woman  and  child 
in  the  place knew  that  the Detroiter was 
having  a  mighty  particular  piece  of 
work  done  by  the 
local  knight  of  the 
goose.  The  suit  completed  was  so  tight 
that  the  wearer  couldn’t  wink  without 
parting  a  seam.  He hurried  to  the  tail­
or’s  with  blood  in  his  eye,  and  talked 
so  loud  that  be  soon  had  half  the  town 
for  an  audience.  He  demanded  dam­
ages,  that  were 
refused. 
Then  he  fumed  the  more  ferociously 
and  wound  up  by  announcing  that he 
would  commence 
"G o 
ahead,”   shouted  the  angry  tailor.  “ Sue 
away. 
You  give  me  them  Detroit 
measurements,  didn’t you?”   "O f course 
I  did,  but  you're  too  much  of  a  farmer 
to  understand.”   "F ireaw ay ," whooped 
the  tailor.  " A ll  I’m  achin’  for  is  to  git 
you 
into  court.  I  kin  bring  a  hundred 
witnesses  to  prove  that  you’re a  durned 
sight  bigger  man  up  here  than  you  ever 
was  in  Detroit.”   There was  no  lawsuit, 
and  the  citizen  has been  in  a  compara­
tively  suppressed  state  ever  since.

suit  at  once. 

indignantly 

Wanted  an  Antidote.

Johnny— I’d 

like 

to  be  a  doctor, 

mama.

Mama—Why?
Johnny—I  might  find  out  something 
you  could  take  to  keep  candy  from hurt­
ing  your  teeth.

faps fo fjí- 
•Wann  -Weather

Nothing  is  more  appre­
ciated on a  hot  day  than 
a substantial fan.  Espe­
cially is this true of coun­
try  customers  who  come 
to  town  without  provid­
ing  themselves  with  this 
necessary adjunct to com­
fort.  We  have  a 
large 
line  of  these  goods  in 
fancy shapes  and  unique 
designs,  which  we  fur­
nish printed and handled 
as follows:
IOO........... ......... $  3  00
200........... ...........   4  50
3OO........... ...........  5  75
.........   7  00
40O...........
500........... ...........  8  00
IOOO........... ...........  15  00

to fill an order on such short notice  if you can avoid  it.

necessary, but don’t ask us

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WEDNESDAY,-----JUNE 14. 1899.

EVIDENCES  OF  INSINCERITY.
Nobody  will  be  surprised  to  learn 
that  the  Peace  Conference,  now  sitting 
at  The  Hague,  Holland,  has  refused  to
assent to  naval  disarmament.  This  was 
one  of  Russia’s  proposals,  that  power 
not  only  advising  the  abandonment  of 
improvements 
in  naval  ordnance,  but 
the  retiring  of  all  vessels  now  in  com­
mission,  with  a  few  exceptions.  The 
proposition  included  the  prohibition  of 
the  ram,  the  abolition  of  submarine 
boats,  and  other  equally  drastic  re­
trenchments  in  naval  armaments.

It 

One  can  readily  understand  that  Rus­
sia  should desire the  disarmament  of  the 
navies  of  the  world,  because  such  an  ar­
rangement  would .reduce  to harmlessness 
her  leading  rival,  namely,  Great  Brit­
ain. 
is  the  British  navy  that  is  the 
stumbling-block  in  Russia’s  path,  and 
it 
is  this  power  of  restraint  that  the 
Czar  is  anxious  to  remove.  The  provi­
sion  against  submarine  boats  earned 
France’s  enmity  to  the  whole  proposi­
tion,  as  that  country  looks  for  great  re­
sults  from  the  submarine  vessels  recent­
ly  constructed.

It 

is  difficult  to  believe  that  naval 
disarmament  was  ever  seriously  con­
templated  by  any  of  the  powers.  No 
one  but  an  extreme  enthusiast  believes 
that  the  time  of  universal  peace  has  ar­
rived,  and  naval  warfare  has  come  to  be 
considered  as  the  most  effective  and 
economical  method  of  settling 
inter 
national  disputes.  Owing  to  the  ex­
pansion  of  the  colonial  possessions  of 
the  principal  European  powers,  arma­
ment  on  the  high  seas has become vastly 
more 
important  than  was  formerly  the 
case.  The  control  of  the  sea  is  now  the 
deciding factor  in  modern  wars. 
It  was 
the  sea  victories  of  Japan  over  China 
that  caused  the  overwhelming  defeat  of 
the  latter  country,  and  in  our  own  war 
with  Spain  it  was  the  famous  victories 
in  Manila  Bay  and  off  Santiago  that  so 
quickly  decided  the  conflict.  The  easy 
victories  achieved  by  our  fleets  con­
vinced  the  Spaniards  of  the  hopeless­
ness  of  the  struggle,  for  it  must  be  ad­
mitted  that  our  achievements  on  land 
were  not  on  a  parity  with  our  victories 
at  sea.

Warfare  on  the  sea  is  undoubtedly  not 
only  more  economical,  but  also  more 
humane.  Our  great  victories  over  Spain 
were  achieved  with  a  small  loss  of  life 
as  far  as  our  own  service  was  con­
cerned,  and  the  Spanish  loss  was  com­
paratively  small  when  contrasted  with 
the  average 
land  engagements.  The 
same  is  true  of all  great  naval  engage-

ments  of  the  past.  The  results  have 
been  of  momentous  importance,  out  of 
all  proportion  to  the  loss  of  life  and 
property.  More  was  accomplished  by 
Nelson’s  victory  at  Trafalgar  than  was 
achieved  in  the  whole  peninsular  cam­
paign.

The  Peace  Conference, 

therefore, 
acted  wisely 
in  refusing  to  assent  to 
naval  disarmament.  Not  even  this 
country  could  have  agreed  to  such  a 
proposition,  because  nowhere  is  the  be­
lief  stronger  that  a  large  navy  is  con­
ducive  to  peace  than 
in  the  United 
States. 

_____________

It 

THE  COMING  CONFLICT.
is  difficult  to  see  how  the  British 
government  can  longer  refrain  from  en­
forcing  the  reforms  which  President 
Kruger  refuses  to  grant 
It  would  no 
doubt 
lead  to  a  sharp  conflict,  as  the 
Boers  are  no  mean  fighters;  but it is  not 
probable  that  the  British  government 
will  again  repeat  the  blunder  of  fifteen 
years  ago  and  send  a  small force against 
the  Transvaal.  This  time  a  large  army 
wiil  be  used,  which,  aided  by  the  large 
number  of  Englishmen  in  the Rand  dis­
trict,  can  not  fail  to  bring  the  stubborn 
Boers  to  terms,  although  the  contest will 
probably  cost  considerable  in  blood  and 
treasure.

The  obstinacy  and  conservatism  of 
the  Boers  have  proved  serious  stum­
bling  blocks  in  the  path  of  British  de­
velopment  and  enterprise  in  South  Af­
rica.  and  this  obstacle  must  be  brushed 
aside,  sooner or later.  The  Boers  them­
selves,  by  their  unbending  and  unyield­
ing  att  tude,  have  courted  the  disaster 
which  must  surely  oveitake  them,  and, 
although  they  will  probably  make  a 
hard  fight,  they  can  not  hope  to  prevail 
against  the  power  and  wealth  of  a 
mighty  empire  with its present facilities 
for  concentrating  men  and  supplies. 
The  British  plan  contemplates  sending 
an  army  of  fully  fifty  thousand  men  into 
the  Transvaal 
should  circumstances 
make  hostilities 
inevitable.  Against 
such  a  force  President  Kruger could  not 
hope  to  make  a  successful  stand.  De­
feat  would  mean  the  loss  of  independ­
ence  for  the  Transvaal,  as  it  is  not  like­
ly  that  the  British  will  again  permit  the 
erection  of  such  a  barrier  to  progress 
as  the  Boer  republic  has  proven.

Those  of  the  Tradesman’s 

readers 
who  were  so  unfortunate as  to  be  vic­
timized  by  the  Suiter  failure,  which 
occurred  at  Cleveland  about  a  year ago, 
will  be  interested  to  note  the  effort  now 
being  made  by  the  family  of  the  as­
signor  to  secure  an  assignment  of  the 
claims  held  by  the  creditors.  Consider­
ing  the  fact  that  within  a  few  months 
after  the  elder  Suiter  failed  the  sons 
were able  to  organize a  stock  company 
with  an  alleged  capital  of  $1.000,000,  it 
would  appear as  though  an  offer  of 33^ 
per  cent,  in  yeast  is  somewhat  meager, 
especially 
in  view  of  the  fact  that  the 
yeast  is  a  new  article,  totally  unknown 
to  the  buying  public,  thus  compelling 
the  dealer  to  create  the  demand  for an 
article  which  is  pretty  likely  to  deterio­
rate  on  bis  hands  while  the  demand 
is 
being  created.  Perhaps  there  are  mer­
chants 
in  Michigan  who  would  be at­
tracted  by  such  a  proposition,  but  the 
Tradesman  very  much  doubts  whether 
any  considerable  number  will  be  found 
willing  to accept  cats  and  dogs  in 
lieu 
of  cold  cash.

Cuba  is  becoming  Americanized  fast 
enough.  Santiago has  a  longshoremen’s 
strike,  and  Havana  has  a  cabmen’s 
strike.

is  to 

WHY  TRUSTS  ARE  DANGEROUS.
The  existence of  monopoly  has always 
been  odious  to  a  free  people,  because 
the  system  seeks  to  restrict  the  profits 
arising  from  the  people’s  necessities  or 
luxuries  to  a  privileged  few  who,  by 
the  use  of  accumulated  wealth,  have 
succeeded  in  crushing  out  less  fortunate 
competitors.  The  whole  tendency  of 
monopoly 
increase  the  cost  of 
products  to  the  masses,  diminish  at  the 
same  time  the  earning  capacity  of  the 
people,  while  excluding  all  but  a  fa­
vored  few  from  participation 
in  the 
gains.  Trusts,  which  represent  modern 
monopolies,  have  been  very  properly 
described  as  “ conspiracies  in  restraint 
of  trade,*'  because  their  general  effects, 
is  to hamper  a  country's  industries,  dis­
courage  its  producers  by  restricting  the 
number  of  buyers,  and eliminating  com­
petition,  which  is the  real  life  and  vigor 
of  commerce.

The  success  of  the  trusts  must  even­
tually  have  a  most  harmful  effect  upon 
the  political 
future  of  the  country. 
Their  existence  is  a  direct  encourage­
ment  to  socialism  and  anarchy,  and  the 
truckling  of  officials  and  legislators  to 
these  monopolies  is  calculated  to  arouse
the  temper  of  the  people  to  a  degree 
which  must  eventually 
lead  to  drastic 
legislation.

it 

There 

is  another  danger  inherent  to 
the  trust  system  which  claims  less at­
tention  than 
is  entitled  to.-  The 
Tradesman  refers  to  the  financial  work­
ings  of  these  vast  monopolies.  The 
trusts,  unlike  ordinary  corporations, 
are  not  capitalized  in  a  way  to  repre­
sent  the  actual  value  of  their assets. 
Every  dollar  of  actual  value  owned  by  a 
trust 
is  represented  by  three,  four  or 
more  dollars  of  securities  which  the 
credulous  public  are  expected  to  pur­
chase.  Their  capital  not  being  repre­
sented  by  actual  property  and cash,  they 
can  not  be  expected  to  pay  dividends 
and 
legitimate  basis. 
The  time  must  come  when  the  trusts 
will  no longer  be able  to  squeeze  enough 
out  of  the  people  to  meet  the  dividends 
and  interests  on  their  stocks  and  bonds. 
When  that  time  comes,  and  hundreds  of 
millions  of  inflated  capital shrinks to its 
proper  proportions,  there  is  likely  to  be 
an  upheaval  which  will  shake  the  finan­
cial  world,  honest  and  legitimate  enter­
prises  being  adversely  affected  in  the 
general  upset. 
The  trusts  are,  there­
fore,  a  menace to  the  general  financial 
stability  of  the  country  because  they 
are  dishonest,  their  securities  never  at 
any  time  representing  actual  values.

interest  on  any 

The  campaign  against  the  trusts  is 
sure  to  bring  some  of  the  weaker among 
them  to  grief,  thus  exposing  the  whole 
juggling  on  which 
system  of  financial 
the  fabric 
If  the  agitation 
does  nothing  more  than  this,  it  will 
have  done  good,  as  it  will  have  warned 
the  unsuspecting  public  against 
in­
vesting  in  the  watered  stocks  and  bonds 
of  these  combinations.

is  based. 

way still  excites  comment;  but,  when  it 
is  considered  that  the  accumulation  in 
this  country  has  been  going  on  until the 
quantity  of  the  metal 
its  various 
forms  exceeds  any  known  in  history 
in 
any  country,  it 
is  perhaps  not  strange 
that  at  the  season  of  its  usual  outflow 
there  should  be  such  a  movement.

in 

While  the  approach  of  midsummer 
brings  a  slight  lessening  of  the  volume 
of  business 
in  April  and  May,  it  ex­
ceeds  that  of  last  year,  which  was  con­
sidered  very 
large,  by  36.6  per  cent, 
and  that  of  the  high  tide  year preceding 
the  panic  by  54.2  per  cent.  Railway 
earnings  were  especially  satisfactory 
during  the  latter  part  of  May  and  for 
the  month  thus  far  on  United  States 
roads  show  a  gain  of  7.4  per  cent,  over 
last  year,  and  24.8  per  cent,  over  1892. 
The  returns  of  tonnage  at  some  impor­
indicate  that  an  unusual 
tant  points 
is  still  in  west­
share  of  the  business 
bound 
somewhat 
smaller  in  such  high-class  freights  than 
in  past  weeks.

although 

freight, 

it 

It  is  a  surprise  that  the  export  of 
wheat  for  the  season  thus  far  exceeds 
the  phenomenal  outgo  for  the  corres­
ponding  portion  of 
last  year,  213,139,- 
951  bushels,  against  207,129,787.  The 
present  movement,  however, 
is  much 
less  than  for  the  corresponding  week  of 
is  not  probable  that 
last  year;  but 
the  decline 
in  outgo  will  prevent  the 
breaking  of  last  year’s  record.  There 
was a  slight  decline  in  price  last  week, 
but  the  latest  change  is  again  upward.
industries 
the  general  tendency  of  prices  has  been 
toward 
improvement,  with  continued 
activity.  The  change  has  been  most 
marked  in  cotton  products,  and although 
less  in  woolens  there  is yet a pronounced 
upward  tendency.  The  recent  advance 
in  boot  and  shoe  prices  seems  to  exert 
a  restraining  tendency  on  sales,  espe­
cially  in  view  of  the  weakening 
in  the 
prices  of  both  hides  and  leather.

In  the  clothing  and  allied 

in  price  changes 

The  iron  industry eclipsed all previous 
performances 
last 
week,  and,  while  75  to  85  cents  was 
added  to  prices  of  anthracite,  Grey 
Forge,  Bessemer  and  Western  pig,  the 
advance 
in  finished  products  was $1  on 
rails,  $2  on  bars  and  sheets, $5  on  struc­
tural  forms  and  wire nails,  and  15  cents 
a  keg  on  cut  nails,  with  important  ad­
in  various  products  quoted  by 
vances 
discounts  from  price  lists. 
It  is  stated 
that  the  average  advance  for  this  sin­
gle  week  was  8.82  per cent,  on  products 
of  iron,  and  4.8  per  cent,  on  pig 
iron, 
and  after  the  notable  rise  in  May  such 
changes  would  warrant  a  suspicion  that 
a  turn  could  not  be  far  off,  if  the  mar­
kets  were  subject  to  normal  influences. 
Several  more  furnaces  are  about  to  go 
into  blast,  but  their  output  has  been 
largely  covered  by  contracts  before  they 
are  ready  to  work,  and  the  entire  out­
put  of  the  Mahoning  and  Shenango 
Valleys  is  said  to  have  been  covered  by 
contracts  for  the  rest  of  this  year.

BUSINESS  CONDITIONS.

The  prospect for  a  continued  recovery 
in  the  prices  of  stocks  has  so  far  been 
realized,  although  the  changes  have  not 
been  radical  in  any  lines.  The  average 
of  the  transportation  list  for  last  week 
rose $1.57 and trusts $2.31 and  the  move­
ment  still  continues  upward.  The  fact 
that  changes  are  slow  tends  to  confirm 
the  conclusion  that  the  movement  is 
based  on  the  average  improvement  of 
industrial  conditions  everywhere.  The 
continued  movement  of  gold  to  Europe 
in  the  face  of  conditions  which  would 
seem  to  warrant  its  coming  the  other

The  Tradesman  resumes  this week the 
publication  of  a  regular advertising  de­
partment,  which  will  appear  under  the 
former  caption  of  Getting  the  People. 
The  subject  matter  will  be  prepared  by 
W.  S.  Hamburger,  who  was  formerly 
identified  with  the  advertising  agency 
of  N.  W.  Ayer  &  Son  and  has  had  am­
ple  experience  to  render  such  a  depart­
ment 
interesting  and  profitable  to  the 
readers  of  the  Tradesman.

It  is  not  necessary  to  believe  all  one 
hears,  and  it  is  not  necessary  to  be  al­
ways  hearing  about  what  one already be­
lieves.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

THE  MISUSE  OF CHARITY.

From  time to time  stories  are  told  of 
street  beggars  who  are  owners  of  prop­
erty  and  of  others  who  die  leaving  for­
tunes.  There are  very  many  more  who, 
while  accumulating  nothing, 
live 
in 
idleness  on  the  people  who  do  work.

Hon.  Bird  S.  Coler,  Comptroller  of 
the  City  of  New  York,  declares,  in  an 
article  in  the  June  Popular  Science 
Monthly,  that  io  per  cent,  of  all  the hu­
man  beings  who  die  in  New  York  City 
are  buried  in  the  potter’s  field  at  public 
expense, 
although  the  record  shows 
that  less  than  i  per  cent,  of  the 
living 
are  paupers  or  dependents.

The  i  per  cent,  of  paupers  and  de­
pendents  are  those  in  public  asylums. 
The other 9  per  cent,  who  fill  paupers’ 
graves  are,  during  life,  idlers and  loaf­
ers  of  every  sort,  who  subsist  on  the 
body  politic 
in  one  way  or  another. 
They  are  mostly  utterly  unworthy  of 
any  consideration  or  pity,  for they  do 
not  make  the  slightest  exertion  to  sup­
port  themselves  in  any  honest  manner, 
but  consume  the  earnings  of  those  who 
work  for  a  living.  Some  of  them  have 
started  at  the  top  of  the  social  scale, 
bat  by  evil  practices and  intemperate 
indulgences  they  descend  to  the  bottom 
and  become  a  part  of  the  10  per  cent,  of 
the  population  that  fill  paupers’  graves.
Mr.  Coler  says  New  York  has  become 
the  Mecca  of  the  chronic 
idlers  and 
tramps  of  the  entire  country.  They  go 
there  because 
it  is  easier  for  a  shrewd 
professional  beggar to  live  in  luxury  in 
New  York  than  to  barely  exist 
in  any 
other  city  in  the  world.

The  City  of  New  York  gives  annually 
to  public  charity  more  than  $5,000,000, 
and  contributes 
indirectly  $2,000,000 
more.

The  New  York  Department  of  Public 
Charities,  for  the  maintenance  of  which 
the  sum  of  $1,941,215  is  appropriated 
for  the  year  1899,  is  controlled  entirely 
by  the  city. 
The  balance  of  the 
$5,000,000 appropriated annually  for  the 
same  general  purpose  is  divided  among 
more  than  two  hundred  societies  and in­
stitutions  managed  by  corporations  or 
private  individuals.

The  city  pays  for  the  support  of  a 
child  in  a  private  institution  the  sum  of 
$110 a  year,  and  the  average  allowance 
for  the  maintenance  of  an  adult  is $150. 
The  percentage  of  children  among  the 
dependent  persons  is  almost  three  to 
one,  so  the  $5,000,000  public  charity 
fund  would  feed  and  clothe  more  than 
forty  thousand  persons  each  year  if  ap­
plied  directly  to that  purpose. 
In  the 
distribution  of  this  great  sum  of  public 
money,  however,  fully  $2,000,000  of the 
amount  is  absorbed  in  the  payment  of 
salaries  and  expenses.

If  the  City  of  New  York  spends  of 
public  money  the  enormous  sum  of 
seven  million  dollars 
in  charity,  bow 
much 
is  given  by  the  people  to  worthy 
and  unworthy  objects  which  never  finds 
its  vast  aggregate  stated  in  any  account 
book.  There  must  be  many  millions 
more  money  spent  in  so-called  charity, 
and 
it  is  extremely  doubtful  if  it  ac­
complishes  any  good.  Much  of  it  goes 
to  maintain  people  in  idleness and vice.
What  is  true  in  these  matters  in  New 
York 
is  true  in  a  way  in  every  other 
city  of  the  Union,  and  there  is  good 
reason  to  believe  that  a  very  great  part 
of  the  money  spent  in  so-called  charity 
is  wasted  or  worse,  and  encourages 
idleness  and  vice.  The  only  true  and 
wise  charity  is  that  which  enables  peo­
ple  to  support  themselves  by  giving 
them  opportunities to  work  and  thereby 
maintain  their  self-respect.  Any  dis­

bursement  of  money  that  makes  con­
firmed  beggars  of  people  who  could 
work  if they  would  is  little  less than  en­
couraging  crime  and  worthlessness.

Mr.  Coler  does  not  blame  the  city 
officers  for  the  money  wasted  in  such 
societies,  but  declares  “ the  fault  seems 
to  rest  primarily  upon  that  condition  of 
public  opinion  that  is cheerfully tolerant 
of  any  fraud  committed  in  the  name  of 
charity.”   “ The  chief  abuses  of  the 
present  system  of  public  charity,”   be 
adds,  “ are  the  expenditures  for  salaries 
and  the  steady  increase  of  pauperism, 
due  to the  misdirected  efforts  of  the  in­
experienced  persons  who  control  so 
many  of  the  smaller  societies  that  re­
ceive  city  money. ”

As  to  the  remedy  for  existing  condi­
tions,  Mr.  Coler is  as  much  at  sea  as  are 
those  who  are  engaged 
in  charitable 
work 
elsewhere.  He  knows  of  the 
abuses,  and  he  looks  for  a  remedy  only 
when  charity  will  cease  to  be  a  valid 
excuse at  the  bar  of  public  opinion  for 
the  reckless  expenditure  of  money.  As 
the  case  stands,  charity  is  regarded  as 
the  pastime  of  the  rich  and  not  as  a 
business  matter.

it 

FIGHT  AGAINST THE  TRUSTS.
The  very  active  campaign  which  is 
being  waged  against  trusts and  combi­
nations  all  over  the  country  is  begin­
ning  to  produce  satisfactory  results. 
It 
is  true  that  the  great  trusts  have  not 
been  destroyed,  nor  even  materially 
crippled;  but 
is  equally  true  that 
their  stocks  and  securities  have  depre­
ciated  in  value,  and  the  smaller  combi­
nations  have  met  with  serious  difficul­
ties 
transactions. 
Some  very  promising  combinations 
have  failed  of  success  simply  because 
the  hue  and  cry  raised  against  them 
prevented  the  successful  financing of the 
enterprises. 
In  a  word,  the  alarming 
tendency  to  an  unlimited  multiplication 
of  trusts  which  prevailed  some  time 
since  has  been  checked.

in  their  financial 

The  floating  of  so  many  large  indus­
trial  combinations  was  made  possible 
only  by  the avidity  with  which  the 
in­
vesting  public  recently  absorbed  all  se­
curities  placed  on  the  market. 
In­
vestors  have  now  been  turned  against 
the  combinations,  and  the  trust  promot­
ers  are  no  longer  able  to  float  stocks and 
bonds  with  ease.  This  defection  of  the 
investing  public  has  put  a  stop  to  the 
new  trusts,  and  has  made  the  success  of 
many  of  those  recently  organized  prob­
lematical  in  the  extreme.

The  fear  of  adverse  legislation  in  the 
various  states,  as  well  as  by  the  Na­
tional  Government,  has  discouraged  the 
trust  promoters.  The  adoption  of  anti­
trust  legislation 
in  several  states,  and 
the  certainty  that  similar  laws  will  be 
adopted  by  other  states  when  their  re­
spective 
legislatures  meet,  have  made 
the  holders  of  trust  securities  uneasy, 
and  their  value  has  declined  consider­
ably  in  the  great market  for  such securi­
ties,  namely  Wall  Street.

The  stoppage  of  the  development  of 
new  trusts,and  the  decline  in  the  shares 
of  the  older  monopolies,  should  greatly 
encourage  the  anti-trust  agitation  which 
has  become  so  formidable  throughout 
the  country. 
In  Michigan  there  has 
arisen  quite  a  pronounced  sentiment 
against  the  trusts,  and  the  most  ardent 
opponents  of  the  monopolies  are  to  be 
found  among  the  business  men  who 
have  felt  the  effects  of  the  repressive 
tactics adopted  by  the  monopolies,  and 
have  been  compelled  in  self-protection 
to  inaugurate a  stout  fight  against them.

MORE  SHIPS  NEEDED.

Admiral  Sampson  has  an  article  in 
the  New  York  Independent,  in  which 
he  declares  that  it  is  a  more  powerful 
navy,  and  not  a 
larger  army,  that  the 
country  needs.  He  points  out  with 
much  force  that,  unless  this  country 
determines  to  enter  upon  wars  of  ag­
gression  against  foreign  powers,  there 
is  no  necessity  for  maintaining  a  large 
standing  army;  whereas  a  large  navy  is 
needed  as  a  purely  defensive  measure 
to  protect  our  extensive  coast  line  and 
properly  look  after  our  growing  com­
merce and  widely  scattered  possessions. 
He  also  holds  that  land  batteries  and 
torpedoes  at  the  leading  ports  are  also 
very  essential  to a  scheme  of  defense.

it 

increase 

The  country  will  be  disposed  to  agree 
is  a 
with  Admiral  Sampson  that 
iarge  navy,  and  not  a 
large  standing 
army, that  is  needed.  There  is  a  strong 
popular  undercurrent  against  any  mate­
rial 
in  the  regular  army;  but 
there  is  no  opposition  whatever  to  any 
increase 
the  naval  establishment 
which  the  requirements  of  the  country 
demand.  The  question  is :  What  addi­
tions  are  needed  to  fully  meet  all  re­
quirements?

in 

Admiral  Sampson  claims  that 

just 
twice as  many  ships  as  we  now  possess 
are  required  to  place  the  navy  on  a 
proper footing  to  meet  the country’s  ac­
tual  needs.  He holds  that  our  easy  vic­
tories  over  Spain’s fleets  will  prove  ver­
itable  disasters  to  us  if  they  should  per­
suade  our  people  that  our existing  naval 
strength 
is  sufficient  to  cope  with  a 
really  important  power.  The  Admiral 
holds  that  we  especially  need  a  num­
ber  of  swift  armored cruisers  of the  type 
of  the  New  York  and  Brooklyn.

Admiral  Sampson's  views  will  be 
generally  indorsed  by  all  thinking  peo­
ple,  who  will  at  the  same  time  realize 
the  difficulty  of  securing  from  Congress 
the  authorization  of  all  the  vessels  that 
seem  to  be  needed.  There 
is  another 
thing  which  Admiral  Sampson  has  ap­
parently  overlooked,  but  which  is  quite 
as  necessary  as  a  larger  number  of 
ships,  and  that 
is  an  increase  in  the 
personnel,  both  officers  and  men.  The 
Navy  Department  is  at  the  present  mo­
ment  embarrassed  to  find  sufficient  offi­
cers  to  man  vessels  now  in  service  and 
at  the  same  time  supply  the  absolutely 
necessary 
requirements  of  the  shore 
stations.  There  is  not  a  ship  in  the 
service  but  what  is  under-manned,  as 
well  as  under-officered.  It  is,  therefore, 
necessary,  in  calculating  upon  doubling 
our  present  force  of  fighting  ships,  to 
make  provision  for a  proportionate  in­
crease  of  officers  and  men.  This 
is 
quite  as  serious  a  problem  as  the  in­
in  the  number  of  ships;  but  it 
crease 
must  be  ultimately  faced 
if  we  are  to 
have a  really  powerful  navy.

REGAINING  ITS  EQUILIBRIUM.
Notwithstanding  the  special  war taxes 
levied  by  Congress,  the  country’s  ex­
penditures  for  the  present  fiscal  year 
have  greatly  exceeded  the  receipts,  the 
demands  of  the  war  with  Spain  and  the 
resulting  occupation  of  Spain’s  former 
possessions having  exerted a great strain 
upon  the  Treasury.

Some 

idea  of  the  extent  of  the  drain 
upon  the  country’s  resources  caused  by 
the  war  can  be  had  by  an  examination 
of 
the  Treasury’s  statistics  for  the 
eleven  months  of  the  fiscal  year  ending 
May  31  ultimo.  The  expenditures  for 
the  eleven  months  amounted  to  $573, - 
709,972,  which  represented  an 
increase 
of  over  $178,000,000  as  compared  with 
the  disbursements  for  the  like  period

of  the  fiscal  year  preceding.  The  rea­
sons  for  this  large  increase,  of  course, 
lie  upon  the  surface.  They  are  strik­
ingly  reflected  in  a  single  item,  the  ex­
penditures  on  account  of  the  war de­
partment  alone  showing  an  increase  of 
not  far  from  $150,000,000.

It  should  be  remembered  that  this  in­
crease 
in  expenditures  over  receipts 
does  not  represent  an  increase  merely 
over  the  same  receipts  which  could  be 
counted  on  during  the  preceding  year, 
but  over  and  above  receipts  which  rep­
resented  a  gain  of  not  far  from  $100, - 
000,000 over  the  receipts  of  the  same 
period  in  the  preceding  fiscal  year.

Notwithstanding  this  showing  of  ex­
cess  of  expenditures  over  receipts,  there 
indications  that  from  now  on  the 
are 
two  sides  of  the 
ledger  will  balance 
more  evenly.  For  the  first  time 
in  a 
long  while  the  receipts  exceeded  the 
disbursements  during  the  month  of  May 
just  closed.  The  receipts  for  the  month 
amounted  to  $44,786,014,  which  repre­
sented  an  increase  of  over $3,100,000  as 
compared  with  the  preceding  month 
and  of  over  $14,700,000  as  compared 
with  the  corresponding  date  last  year. 
The  expenditures,  on  the  other  hand, 
amounted  to  $40,513,005,  which  repre­
sented  a  decrease  of  over $25,400,000  as 
compared  with  those  for  the  preceding 
month,  although  it  should  not  be forgot­
ten  that  the  $20,000,000  payment  for 
the  Philippines  was  included  in  the  ex­
penditures  for  April.  As  will  be  seen 
by  comparing  the  figures  on  both  sides 
of  the  account  for  the  month,  the  re­
ceipts  exceeded 
the  expenditures  by 
over $4,200,000.

This  is a most  gratifying  showing  and 
is  to  be  hoped  that  it  may  be  ac­
it 
cepted  as  an  indication  that  affairs  are 
rapidly  returning  to  a  normal basis,  and 
that  from  now  on  the  Government  may 
be  able  to  get  along  on  its  present 
in­
come  without  the  necessity  for  addi­
tional  taxation.  While  the  continuation 
of  the  war 
in  the  Philippines  absorbs 
considerable  money,  and  must  continue 
to  be  an  expense  for  some  time to come, 
it  must  be  remembered  that  the  islands 
are  beginning  to  produce  some  revenue, 
and  will  soon  bring  in  more  as  affairs 
become  more  settled.

The  great  State  of  New  York,  expect­
ing  to  make  a  million  dollars  on  the 
Dewey  reception  exhibition  which  the 
United  States  navy  will  give  for  New 
York  City,  has  subscribed only $2,422.75 
for  the  Dewey  Home  Fund,  evidently 
believing  that  Dewey  is  able  to  buy  his 
own  home,  and  that 
it  will  not  be  in 
New  York  when  he  buys  it.

Child  abductors  must  feel  disgusted 
when  they  find  they  have  stolen  the 
child  of  poor  people  instead  of  an  off­
spring  of  millionaires;  but  so  many 
poor  people  dress  their  children  expen­
sively  that  child  stealers  are  liable  to 
make  mistakes  and  take  property  that 
will  bring  no  ransom.

Working  for  a  living  is  a  continuous 
performance,  and  the  actors  sometimes 
get  tired  of  the  grind.

A  baldheaded  man  is  not straining his 
intellect  over  the  problem  of  parting 
his  hair.

If  it  is  true  that  the  clothes  make  the 
man,  some  men  ought  to  change  their 
clothes.

The  man  who  thinks  he  owns  a  polit­
ical  party  should  pay  for bringing it up.
A  real  man  is  much  better  than  a  real 

king.

10

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Fruits  and  Produce.
Observations  by  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
There  has  been  a  good  deal  of  talk 
about  keeping  more of  the  sales  of  eggs 
at  mark 
in  this  market  this  spring. 
Some  shippers  have  been  very  insistent 
upon  having  their  stock  sold  on  that 
basis,  regardless  of  the general rule,  and 
we  have  heard  several  receivers say  that 
they  were  going  to  sell  their  receipts 
at  mark,  some  qualifying  their 
inten- 
tion,  however,  by  adding  “ as  long  as 
possible.”   Up  to  the  beginning  of  last 
week  the  general  situation  of  the  mar­
ket  was  such  as  to  give  sellers  some 
advantage  on  fine  grades  of  eggs  and  it 
was  not  very  difficult,  even  after  the 
Exchange  loss  off  rule  went  into  effect, 
to  move  really  fancy  grades  of  eggs  at 
mark  or  with  a  light  fixed  allowance. 
But  of  late  the  general  position  of  the 
egg  market  has  been  generally  less  fa­
vorable, 
in 
prices,  and  as  buyers  have  had  the  ad­
vantage  it  has  shown  itself  in  the  fixing 
of  loss  terms  as  well  as  in  prices,  and 
the 
insistence  upon  sales  at  mark  has 
become  altogether  a  difficult  matter.

leading  to  some  decline 

*  *  *

it 

for 

improvement 

We  are  strongly  in  favor  of  Exchange 
rules  being  made  to give  a  distinctive 
name— “ extras”  
instance— to  a 
grade  of  eggs  worthy  of  sale  at  all  sea­
sons  on  a  case  count  basis.  And 
is 
to  be  hoped  that  the  establishment  of 
such  a  grade,  and  recognition  of 
its 
market  value  at  all  seasons,  may  lead 
to  an 
in  the  quality  of 
many  packings  so  as  to  meet  the  re­
quirements.  But  while  it  is  desirable 
that  eggs  should  be  sold  at  mark  as 
largely  as  possible,  it  would  seem  un­
wise  for any  egg  seller  to  take  the  stand 
at  present  that  he  would  sell  his  egg 
in  spite  of 
receipts  “ at  mark,”   only 
market  conditions, 
it  would  un­
doubtedly  result 
in  a  sacrifice  of  value 
in  some  instances.  It  takes  two  to  make 
a  bargain  and  when  buyers  can  get 
more  eggs  than  they  need  and  ho'ders 
are  seeking  for  outlets  the question  of 
loss  must  be  decided 
in  favor  of the 
party  who,  by  reason  of  existing  mar­
ket  conditions,  has  the  advantage  of 
fixing  the  terms  of  ihe  saie.

for 

*  *  *

As  a  matter  of  fact  there  are  some 
grades  of  eggs  which  can  be  sold  to bet­
ter advantage  loss  off than  at mark—and 
vice  versa.  Stock  which  shows  moder­
ate  loss,  but  of  which  the  quality  is  fine 
otherwise,  will  generally  realize  more 
if  sold  loss  off  to  a  good  buyer 
money 
than 
if  sold  at  mark;  but  eggs  which 
lose  heavily  or  in  which  the  stock is  de­
fective  realize  more  money  when  sold 
at  mark  to  cheap  trade  than  when  sold 
to  a  better  class  of  customers  loss  off. 
In  order  to  secure  favorable  results  by 
case  count  sales  to  regular  egg  dealers 
it  is  necessary  that  the  conditions of  the 
sale  shall  be  in  sellers’  favor.  There  is 
one  grade  of  eggs  which 
is  nearly  al­
ways  in  this  condition,  but  it  has  never 
been  plenty  enough  during  the  summer 
season  to be  a  ruling  factor  in  the  mar­
ket ;  we  refer  to  that  superlative quality 
is  always  sought  for— 
of  stock  which 
large,  fresh, 
full,  strong  meated  and 
showing  very  littie  defect  of  any  kind. 
For  eggs  of  this  character  the  terms  of 
sale  are  nearly  always  in  sellers’  favor 
and  for  them  only  can  full  prices  be 
realized  “ case  count.”
*  *  *

Speaking  of  case  count  egg  business, 
attention  has  heretofore  been  called  to 
the  fact  that,  under  the  New  York  Mer­

cantile  Exchange  egg  rules,  storage 
packed  eggs  must  be  of  quality  to  pass 
as  fresh  gathered  firsts  at  mark.  Since 
buyers  have  gained  the  advantage in our 
egg  market  they  have  been  able  to  buy 
so  many  goods  loss  off  that  they  are  re­
fusing  to  take  eggs  as storage  packed on 
a  case  count  basis  unless  they  come 
fully  up  to  requirements.  Comparative­
ly  few  of  the  so-called  storage  packings 
will  really  pass  inspection  to  be  sold  at 
mark. 
It  takes  more  than  clean  new 
cases  and  a  few  cork  shavings  to  make 
storage  packed  eggs  in  the  meaning  of 
the  rule;  the  eggs  must  be  large  and 
clean,  free  from  heat,  and  must  not  lose 
to  exceed 
to  the  30 doz.  case, 
counting  checks  as  half  loss.

i  doz. 

*  *  *

One  sees  some  funny  things  in  the 
egg  market  at  times.  Last  week  a  re­
ceiver here  had  a  lot  of  eggs 
inspected 
which  promised  to  grade  high  from  all 
outward  appearances.  The 
first  case 
opened  by  the  inspector  was  as  fine  a 
looking  case  of  eggs  as  one  might  find 
in  a  day’s  journey—big  brown  eggs,  as 
clean  as  a  new  dollar and  handsomely 
packed;  but  they  showed  queer before 
the  candle  and  all  of  these big  brown 
eggs  were 
to  be  par-boiled. 
Searching  for  an  explanation,  the  re­
ceiver  ventured  the  opinion  that  these 
handsome  eggs  came  from  some  poultry 
fancier  who  raised  fancy  eggs  for  set­
ting  purposes. 
It  seems  that  some  of 
these  breeders,  when  they have a surplus 
to  sell  to  local  storekeepers,  dip  them 
in  hot  water  so  they  can  not be  sold  for 
hatching  in  competition  with  those  soid 
by  the  breeder  himself.  Btit  this  genius 
left  the  eggs  in  a  little  too  long.— N.  Y. 
Produce  Review.
Effect  of  High  Cost  on  Canadian  Egg 

found 

Exports.

From the Montreal Trade-Bulletin.

Very 

to  admit  of 

information  we 

The  prospects  for  our  export egg trade 
are  not  as  bright  as  they  might  be,  and 
our  exporters  are beginning  to  wonder 
where  the  profits  are  to  be  made  on  the 
surplus  stock,  which  will  have  to  find  a 
foreign  market. 
few  sales  of 
pickles  have  as  yet been  made  for  fall 
shipment,  for  the  reason  that  they  cost 
too  much 
their  being 
placed  at  a  profit.  There  is  quite  a  lot 
of  eggs  in  this  city  that  cost  12c  in  the 
vats,  and  some  even  above  that  figure, 
which  means 
to 2c above what parties 
on  the  other  side  are  prepared  to  bid 
for  future  delivery.  From  very  reliable 
sources  of 
learn  that 
Liverpool,  Bristol  and  Glasgow  are 
willing  to  give  Canadian  pickles  the 
preference  over  other foreign  stock  with 
the  exception  of  Danish. 
Canadian 
cold  storage  eggs  did  very  badly  last 
season 
in  England,  a  number of  ship­
ments  meeting  with  most  disastrous  re­
sults,  and  we  have  been  asked  to  cau­
tion  our  shippers  against  exporting  this 
class  of  eggs  to  Great  Britain,  as  they 
are not  wanted  there.  Sales of  Canadian 
cold  storage  eggs  were  made  on  the 
other  side  at  2s.  to  2s.  6d.  per long hun­
dred.  One  firm 
is  said  to  have  lost 
£ 1,000  on  this  class  of  eggs,  and  an­
other house  lost  £$o on  100 cases.  Amer­
ican  cold  storage  eggs  also  lost  heavily 
last  season  in  England.  A  Philadelphia 
firm  had  1,800  cases  shipped  back  to  it 
from  England  rather  than  accept  the 
low  prices  offered.  What  the  English 
market  requires  is  either  choice,  large, 
fresh  eggs  or good  pickled.  Regarding 
fresh eggs,  large quantities  of  Irish  have 
recently  been  received  in  Liverpool  and 
Glasgow,  and  have  sold  as low as 4s.  2d. 
and  4s.  4d.  per  long  hundred,  or  about 
$1  per  10  dozen.  At  present  there 
is 
no  encouragement  to  ship  Canadian 
stock  to the  other  side,  but  should  the 
Continental supply fall off there might be 
a  chance  for  our  eggs  yet.  Some  of  our 
large  Western  firms  never  sell  their 
pickles  to  arrive,  but  ship  them  as  they 
are  wanted  to  their  English  agents.  At 
the  present  the  export  egg  trade  is 
awaiting  developments.

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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 the 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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The Pans 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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News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  June  io—The  heat  has 
been  simply  unbearable  during  nearly 
all  the  week.  Buyers  who  have  arrived 
after  traveling  from  twelve  to  thirty-six 
hours  have  entered  an  oven  and  have 
not  sufficient  vitality 
left  to  take  any 
interest  in  business,  so have  sought  the 
seashore  or  mountains.  The  weather  is 
also having  its  effect  on  vegetation  and 
must 
the  pack  of 
many  things.  We  have  not  bad  a  good 
rain  for  three  months  and,  of  course, 
this  sort  of  thing 
is  going  to  count 
pretty  soon.

inevitably  shorten 

The  coffee  market  is  very  quiet  in­
deed.  There  seems  to be  no  stability  to 
the  market  and  both  buyer  and  seller 
are  apparently  waiting  to  see  what  will 
turn  up.  Rio  No.  7  is quotable  at 6^c. 
The  total  amount  of  coffee  here  in  store 
and  afloat  aggregates  1,213.550  bags, 
against  914.316  bags  at  the  same  time 
last  year.  Mild  coffees  continue  very
?[uiet,  neither  jobbers  nor roasters mani- 
esting  a  disposition  to  take stock ahead 
of  current  requirements.  Good  Cucuta 
is  worth  8c.  East  India  sorts  are  as 
quiet  as  other  grades.  Padang  Interior, 
24^@25c,  with 
higher.
Mochas,  i6@igc.
The  auction  sale  of  teas  on  Thursday 
gave  a  fair  indication  of  the  market, 
prices  generally  being  steady.  Formosa 
teas  of  the  better  grades  went  freely, 
but  grades  not  really  up  to  standard 
were  not  much  sought  for  and  went  off 
at  a  decline.  Oolongs  generally  were 
sold  on  a  lower  basis.  The  next  sale 
will  be  quite  large  and  the  “ street”  
will  be  quiet  until  then.  Little  has 
been  done  in  a  private  way,  prices  re­
maining  practically  without  change.

fancy 

There  has  been  an  active  trade  in 
sugars,  comparatively  speaking,  all  the 
week.  An  advance  to  5^c  was  made 
on  the  list  card  for  granulated,  due 
rather  to  the  better  demand  than  from 
any  apparent  scarcity  of  stock.  The 
Howell  shop  announce  the  selling  of 
granulated  at  5.44c,  but  they  are  alone, 
as  all  others  made  the  same  rate  as  the 
American.  Raw  sugar  is  firm  and  the 
American  Co.  is  taking  about  all  the 
supplies  they  can  find.

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The  call  for  rice  has  been  mostly  for 
foreign  sorts  and  the  market  generally 
is  firm. 
Prices  are  practically  un­
changed.  Fancy  Japan  stock  is  held  at 
4&@5C— the  latter  for  a  fancy  article. 
There  is  little  movement  of  domestics.
Spices  are  dull.  Buyers  want  sup­
plies  at  figures  which  seem  to  offer  no 
attraction  to  sellers  and  altogether  the 
outlook 
“ tediousness.”  
Cloves,  7#@ 7^ c  for  Zanzibar.
Prices  for  molasses  are practically un­
changed.  There  has  been  very  little 
business  going  forward,  owing  to  the 
extremely  hot  weather,  which  has  made 
molasses  a  difficult  article  to  handle. 
Some  few  sales  of  grocery  grades  were 
reported  at  prices  which  show  practi­
cally  no  change.  Syrups  have  met  with 
little  enquiry  from  exporters,  but,  as 
a 
a  rule, 
this  article  sympathizes  this 
week  with  molasses  and  there  is  very 
little  call  from  the  home  trade.

The canned  goods  market  is  firm  and 
the  outlook  for  the  coming  pack  is  all 
that  could  be  desired  in  nearly  every­
thing.  Canned  beets  seem  to  be  the 
latest aspirant  for  honors  and large sales 
of  the same  have  been  reported.  Fu­
ture  New  York  corn  is  worth  6o@70C,  as 
to quality  and  brand.  While  the  Mary 
land  pack  of  peas  is  promising  to be 
short,  it  is said there will likely be a very 
good  yield 
in  New  York.  Champion 
of  England  are  offered  at  85c.  Toma­
toes  are suffering—as  they  do  every year 
—and  the  crop  will  be— well,  good,  bad 
or  indifferent.  No.  3  Maryland  stand­
ards  are  worth  6o@67j£c  here.
The  dried  fruit  market  is  somewhat 
unsettled.  Holders  profess  no  great 
anxiety  to  dispose  of  holdings  on  pres­
ent basis,  nor  do  buyers  seem  to  care 
for  more  than  enough  to  sort  up  with. 
Future  prices  as  given  out  seem  to  be 
rather high  for  the buyer  of  to-day,  and 
not  much  is  doing. 

Lemons  have  been  “ booming, 

of

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course,  and  the  demand  has  been  suffi­
cient  to  keep  the  market  well  cleaned 
up;  in  fact,  some have  found 
it  diffi­
cult  to  fill  orders.  At  the  sales  prices 
advanced  at  least  50c  a  box  and  extra 
fancy  Sicily  are  worth  $4.5o@5  per  box 
for  300s.  Oranges  have  met  with  fair 
demand  within  a  range  of  $4@6  per 
box— latter  for  fancy  Rodis.

Choice  marrow  beans,  $1.45;  me­
dium,  $1.30;  pea,  $i.25@i.27J^.  Red 
kidney,  $1.75.  Market  barely  steady.

The  butter  market  is  steady.  A  good 
deal  of  stock  is  going  into  cold  storage 
and  holders  seem  to  feel  confident  that 
the  future  will  soon  bring  an  advance. 
Extra  Western  creamery  will  fetch  18% 
@igc,  although  the  latter  is  rather  ex­
treme.  Grades  other  than  extra  are  not 
so  much  sought  for,  although  the  gen­
eral  situation  is  not  discouraging.  E x­
tra  Western  imitation  creamery,  i5^@ 
16c;  firsts,  14^150;  Western  factory, 
I3@I4C  and  firm.

Tbe  hot  weather has  Seriously  affected 
the  cheese  market and  a  good  share  of 
tbe  arrivals  show  tbe  effects  of  the  sun. 
The  market  exhibits  a  lifeless  appear­
ance  and  altogether  the  situation  is  not 
encouraging. 
Large  size  full  cream 
State  cheese  is  worth  7@7^c.

Fancy  Western  eggs  will  bring  I4@ 
15c.  There  is  a  good  demand  and  de­
sirable stock is pretty  closely cleaned up.

SULTER’S  SON

Makes  a  Proposition  to  the  Creditors 

of  His  Father.

Tbe  Tradesman  is  in  receipt  of  sev­
eral  letters  from  its  Michigan  and  In­
diana  patrons,  enclosing  a  proposition 
recently 
received  from  the  Noonday 
Yeast  Co  ,  of  Cleveland,  which  purports 
to  have  a  capital  stock  of  $1,000,000, 
with  an  office  in  one  part  of  the  city 
and  a  factory  in  another.  All  of  the  let­
ters  are  substantially  alike,  as  follows: 
Mr.  R.  B.  Suiter,  who  is  a  son  of  the 
late  A.  Suiter  who,  until  his  death,  was 
in  tbe  commission  business  in  this  city, 
is  the  discoverer  of  a  yeast  made  by  a 
process  entirely  new,  and  he  has  often 
expressed  to  me,- as  bis  attorney,  a  de­
sire  to  pay  off his  father’s  debts,  if  he 
ever  oecame  able  to  do  so.

The  estate  has  been  mostly  consumed 
litigation  and  will,  I  believe,  pay 

in 
nothing  to  creditors.
Mr.  Suiter  offers  you  the  following 
proposition  which  he  thinks  will  enable 
you  to  realize  40 or  50  per  cent,  of  your 
claim  and,  at  the  same  time,  gratify 
his  desire  to  discharge  his  father’s 
debts,  and  also  assist 
in  putting  this 
yeast  on  the  market.

The  company  will  ship  you  enough 
yeast  to  equal  33^  per  cent,  of  your 
claim,  or as  near  that  amount  as  can  be 
obtained  without  dividing  a  box  of  tbe 
yeast,  you  to  assign  to  him  your  claim 
against  tbe  estate  of  A.  Suiter.

The  yeast 

is  put  up  in  boxes  of  36 
cans  to  the  box,  and  the  price  to  the 
trade  is $3  per box.
Kindly  let  me  hear  from  you  at  an 
early  date. 

J.  C.  He a ld.

The  Tradesman  has  taken  steps  to 
ascertain  why  the  son  of  Mr.  Suiter  is 
so  anxious  to  secure  an  assignment 
of  the  claims  against  the  estate  of  his 
late  father  and  hopes  to be  able  to  give 
its  readers  some  light  on  the  subject  in 
the  course  of  a  week  or two. 
It  is  pos­
sible  that  some  of  the  investments  in 
timber  and  mineral  lands  which  it  was 
claimed  the  elder  Suiter  held  at  the 
time  of  his  death  have  turned  out  well, 
so  that  the  Suiter  family  find  it  desir­
able  to  secure  an  adjustment  of  claims 
against  the  estate.  A  peculiarity  of 
is  that  it  is  signed  by 
the  proposition 
J.  C.  Heald,  who  states  that  he 
is  tbe 
attorney  of  the  younger Suiter,  while  his 
name  also appears  on  the  letter head  as 
tbe  Vice-President  of  tbe  Noonday 
Yeast  Co.,  showing  that  tbe  entire  deal 
is  a  family  affair.

More  men  have  been  self-undone  than 

have  been  self-made.

Ready  for  Business

We  take  pleasure  in  announcing  to  the  shippers  and  retail 
merchants  of  Michigan  that  our  new  cold  storage  warehouse 
is  now  fully  completed  and  ready  for  business.  We  espe­
cially call  attention  to  our  facilities  for  storing

EGOS, BUTTER AND POULTRY

which  are  unsurpassed  by  any  cold  storage  establishment  in 
the  country.  We  also  store  seeds,  beans  and  all  kinds  of 
produce 
furnished. 
Correspondence  solicited. 

in  dry  storage.  Warehouse  receipts 

Inspection  invited.

Grand Rapids Cold Storage Co.

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the  assistance of  the  clerk.  My  friend 
then  realized  why  Mr.  Rosenthal  bad 
declined  to  purchase  the  lot  that  would 
place  a  portion  of  stock  where he  could 
not  see  all  that  was  going  on 
in  every 
department  of  his  store.  To  such  mi­
nute  supervision  of  the business  and  its 
clerks  and  customers,  Mr.  Rosenthal 
undoubtedly  owes  much  of  the  remark­
able  success  which  has  come  to  him 
during 
the  years  of  his  mercantile 
career  in  Petoskey.

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Another  man  who  has  achieved  suc­
cess  along  certain  well-defined  lines  is 
Win.  J.  Clarke,  the  Harbor  Springs 
general  dealer. 
I  hear  through  mutual 
friends  that  it  is  a  very  unusual  thing 
for  Mr.  Clarke  to  be  absent  from  his 
store  after  5  o’clock 
in  the  morning 
during  the  summer and  that  it  is a  very 
usual  thing  for  him  to  be  at  his  store 
until  10 o’clock  in  the  evening.  He 
is 
not  simply  staying  there,  either.  He  is 
at  work  every  moment  of  the  time,  en­
couraging  his  sons  to  form  the  work 
habit  which  has  rendered  the  father  so 
successful  and  influencing  the  clerks  in 
his  employ  to  form  habits  of  usefulness 
which  will  serve  them  to  good  purpose 
later  on.  Mr.  Clarke  learned  his  trade 
on  the  other side  of  the  water,  serving 
faithful  apprenticeship  to  a  mercan­
tile  establishment  in  the  North  of  Ire­
land,  and  to  the  habits  thus  acquired 
and  the  methods  thus  established  be  at­
tributes 
in  great  part  bis  subsequent 
success.

It’s  according  to  the  dog. 

"Can  dogs  find  their  way  home  from 
a  distance?”   is  a  question  frequently 
asked. 
If 
it’s  one  you  want  to  get  rid  of  he  can 
find  his  way  back  from  Africa. 
it’s 
a  good  one he’s apt to get  lost  if he goes 
around  the  corner.

If 

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Clerks’  Corner.

Unfortunate  Experience  With  Nosey 

Clerks.

“ I  have  just  got  through  with  one 

week’s  experience  with  a  nosey  clerk, 
said  Young  Proprietor  when  Mr.  Old 
Timer  sauntered  into  bis  market,  "and 
for  a  downright  nuisance  and trade loser 
I  think  the  clerk  who  endeavors  to  pry 
into  other  people’s  affairs  takes  the 
palm.”   With  that  he  gave  bis  head 
firm  nod  which  the  old  gentleman 
i 
terpreted  to  mean  that  there  was  no 
question  about  the  correctness  of  the 
decision  at  which  be  had  arrived.

" I   quite  agree  with  you  in  that,”   as 
sented  Mr.  Old  Timer. 
" I   had  an  ex 
perience  myself  with  one  of  them  when 
I  was  in  business,  and  before  I  became 
aware  of  what  was  the  cause  of  it  I  had 
lost  two  good  customers  and  several  fai 
ones.  He was  the  sleekest,  pleasantest 
looking  chap  I  ever  saw,  but  for  seek 
ing  to  gather  information  which  should 
not 
interest  him  I  never saw  his  equal 
And  his  tongue!  You  know  those  pry 
ing  fellows  have  awfully  long  tongues 
and  get  themselves  and  everyone  else 
in  trouble. 
I  got  rid  of  him  so  quickly 
‘ got  onto  bis  curves, ’  as  they 
when  I 
say,  that  he  was  staggered,  and  threat 
ened  to  make  public  all  be  kneW^about 
me.  Then  I  fired  him  out,  and  learned 
afterward  that  he  had  actually  been 
making  a  close  investigation  of my  life 
For  what  reason  I  don’t  know—but 
never  heard  from  him  again  and  never 
w ill."

"W ere  it not  for  the  fact  that  by  this 
time  your  nosey  clerk  must  have  lost 
his  nice  appearance,  for  age  is no  re 
specter  of  persons,”   pursued  Young 
Proprietor,  " I   would  think  I  bad  been 
under  the  same  man’s  watch  for  the 
past  week.  He  came  to  me  one  morn 
ing  early  and  asked  for  work.  His  ap 
pearance  made  me  favor  him,  and  I 
said  he  could  start  right  in  on trial.  Be­
fore  the  first  day  ended  I  thought  I  had 
a  jewel—a  better  butcher  I  never  saw.  I 
noticed,  though,  that  he  was  very  com 
municative  with  my  customers,  espe 
daily  the  ladies,  and  thought  of  speak­
ing  to  him  about  it,  but  they  seemed  to 
like  his  attentions  from  the  way  they 
smiled,  so  I  kept  silent.  At  the  end  of 
the  third  day  one  of  my  regular  daily 
customers  failed  to  visit  the  market, 
and  as  it  was  her  first  non-appearance 
since  I  opened  the  place,  I  enquired 
if 
she  was  sick.  No  one  knew.  Then  I 
was  informed  by  a  grocer  friend  that  he 
had  seen  her  going  into  another shop. 
That  made  me  blue—not  so  much  be­
cause  I  had  lost  her  trade,  as  because 
she  had  never  said  anything  about  be­
ing  dissatisfied.  Two  days later I missed 
three  other  customers  the  same  way. 
Where  there  was  this  effect,  I  reasoned, 
there  must  be  some  cause.  Then  I 
started  a  little  investigation. 
I  called 
on  the  lady  whom  I  had  heard  was  buy­
ing  at  another shop.  * Madam, ’  I  said, 
'as  we  have always  got  along  so  well  to­
gether,  and  as  I  have  never  failed  to 
give  you  satisfaction  so  far  as  I  know,  I 
am  somewhat  anxious  to  learn  why  you 
have  left  me.  If  there  is anything wrong 
I  will  try  to  make  it  right. ’  The  way 
that  woman  blushed  made  me  sorry  I 
bad  asked  her  the  question.  She  told 
me,  in  explanation,  that  someone  in  my 
shop  had  taken  an  interest in her affairs, 
which  was  obnoxious  to  her,  and  bad 
gained  knowledge  respecting  her  that 
could  not  have  been  acquired  without 
some  effort,  and  that  inasmuch  as  she 
did  not  wish  those  things  to  be  known

I 

and  did  not  desire to  come  in  contact 
with  strangers  having  such  knowledge, 
she  bad  decided  to  absent  herself  from 
the  place  where  she would  be  compelled 
to  see  or  speak  to  such  persons.  There 
was  a  decided  air  of  mystery  about  all 
this,  for  I  knew  nothing  about  the  worn 
an,  bad  never  tried  to,  didn’t  want  to 
and  supposed  she  was  hitting  at  me. 
disclaimed  any  guilt,  and  said  she  was 
evidently laboring under a mistake.  Then 
she  told  me  the  person  she  referred  to 
was  the  new  clerk,  who,  she  said,  had 
had  the  nerve  to  mention  to  her  certain 
instances  of  which  she  thought  only her 
self  and  a  few 
intimate  friends  were 
aware. 
learned  afterward  that  she 
was  a  divorced  woman,  and  it  was  on 
this  ticklish  subject  the  nosey  clerk  had 
spoken  to  her.  How  be  found  it  out 
never  learned.  Well,  to  make  a  long 
story  short,  he  had 
insulted  the  other 
customers  by  becoming  confidential  and 
letting  them  know  he  knew  a  few things 
about  their  private  affairs.  When  I  re 
turned  to  the  market  I  discharged  him, 
and  told  him  why.  At  first  he claimed 
I  was  mistaken,  but  when  I  confronted 
him  with 
indisputable  evidence  he 
wilted  and  confessed.  He  went  away 
in  a  huff  and  threatened  to  make  things 
interesting  for  me.  From  the  other 
clerks  I 
fellow  had 
actually  been  making  enquiries  about 
me  and  had  told  them  about  my  foolish 
elopement.  How  he  became  possessed 
of  that  piece  of  ancient  history  I  don’t 
know  nor  care.  But my  first  experience 
with  a  nosey  clerk  has  been  profitable 
in  one  w ay:  I  never  had  much  busi­
ness  fear  of  that  class  of  freaks  before, 
but  hereafter  I  will  look  out  for  them.”  
— Butchers’  Advocate.

found  that  the 

Personal  Peculiarities  of  Prominent 

People.

Wm.  M.  Robinson,  who  has  been  tak­
ing 
life  easy  for  the  past  half  dozen 
years,  collecting  rents  and  delving  in 
old  books  and  ancestral  records 
in 
search  of  information  pertaining  to  the 
early  history  of  the  Robinson  family  in 
this  country,  once  hung  a  sign  in  his 
office 
in  the  Houseman  building,  a n 
nouncing  that  his  office  hours  were 
from 
io  to  ii  o’clock  a.  m.  The  sign 
happened  to  be  brought  to  the  attention 
of  Fred  Aldrich,  who  takes  as  much  de- 
ight 
in  playing  pranks  on  his  friends 
now  as  he  did  when  a  schoolboy,  a 
dozen  years  ago,  and  those  who  had 
occasion  to  visit  Mr.  Robinson's  office 
about  that  time  noted  that  underneath 
lettering  on  the  sign  referred  to 
the 
some  one  had 
ingeniously  added: 
‘ Every  other  Wednesday.”

*  *  *

In  talking  with  a  friend  the  other day 
he  threw  a  side  light  on  the  character 
of  Samuel  Rosenthal,  the  veteran  Petos- 
key  clothier,  which  I  am  delighted  to 
relate.  Mr.  Rosenthal,  it appears,  came 
to  Petoskey  with  a  pack  on  his  back. 
He  established  himself  in  the  clothing 
in  a  small  way  and  made 
business 
It  so  happened 
money  from  the  start. 
that  my  friend  owned  a 
lot  which  ad­
joined  Mr.  Rosenthal’s  store  buildings 
at  right  angles,  which  would  enable 
him  to  secure  an  entrance  to  his  prem- 
ses  from  the  main  street.  He  was  im­
portuned  to  purchase  the  property,  but 
steadily  declined  to do  so.  My  friend 
happened  to  be  in  bis store  a  little  later 
and  noted  that  Mr.  Rosenthal  kept  tab 
on  every  sale  that  was  being  made  and 
that,  whenever the  circumstances  indi­
cated  that  a  clerk  was  losing  ground 
with  a  customer,  the  proprietor  would 
excuse  himself  for a  moment  and  go to

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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 
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Send  it  in.  W e’ll  give 
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assumed  such  proportions  that  it  was 
decided  to  separate  this  from  the  other 
business  of  the  firm.  This  department 
was  placed  under  the  management  of 
Mr.  Green,  he  discontinuing  his  rela­
tions  with  the  sundry  department.  By 
enterprise,  push  and  free  use  of  print­
ers’  ink,  a  large  perfume  business  was 
built  up  in  a  short  time.

Owing  to  the  depression  in  general 
business,  the  demand  for  more  econom­
ical  business  management  and  a  con­
templated 
consolidation—which  took 
place  soon  after—the  position  made  so 
valuable  by  Mr.  Green  was  needed  by 
one  of  the  firm  and  in  the  spring of 1897 
he  severed  his  connections  with  that 
house.

Attracted  by  the  wonderful  develop­
ment  of  the  soda  industry  in  and  about 
Detroit,  Mr.  Green  organized  the  Mich­
igan  Chemical  Co.,  of  which  he  is  Gen­
eral  Manager.  The  name  of  this  com­
pany  is  familiar  to  nearly  every  reader 
of  the  Tradesman  as  proprietor  of 
Sodio.  The  superior  quality  of  goods, 
original  name  and  package,  together 
with  that  push  and  energy  so  visible 
in’ 
his  every  undertaking,  have  placed  the 
business  of  this  company  on  the  royal 
road  to  success.

Mr.  Green 

is  a  thorough  believer  in 
advertising,  and  that  “ only  live  fish 
swim  up  stream,”   a  characteristic  eas­
ily  detected  by  the success  of this  busi­
ness.  He  is  well  known  to  the  drug 
trade  of  the  country and is  rapidly  mak­
ing  the  acquaintance  of  the  grocery 
trade through  the  medium  of  bis  prod­
uct.  He  is  a  veteran  of  the  Detroit 
Light  Guard,  Company  A,  Fourth  Reg­
iment,  M.  S.  T .,  and  a  member  of  the 
Michigan  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
He  is  married  and  has  two  boys.  Gen­
ial  in  disposition,  upright  in  his  deal­
ings,  original  in bis  methods  and  enter­
prising  in  whatever  he  undertakes,  Mr. 
Green  has  every  reason  to  look  forward 
to  a  long  and  successful  career.

His  Brief  History.

Full  of  the  enthusiasm  of  youth,  be 

started  out  to  see  the  world.
hunt  for  work.

But  his  cash  gave  out,  and  he  had  to 

The  only  opening  he  could  find  was  a 

coal  mine.

world  gave  it  up.

So  he  who  had  started  out  to  see  the 
And  started  in  to  see  it.

Division  of  Labor.

Close-Fisted  Parent— I  tell  you,  my 
son,  it  is  a  great deal  harder  to  spend 
money  with  good  judgment  than  it  is  to 
make  it.

The  Young  Man  (not so close-fisted)— 
Well,  father,  let  me  take  half  the  bur­
den  off  your  hands.  You  make 
it  and 
I’ll  spend  it.

Hercules
Ventilated Barrels  :
The very best barrel in which to ship  Apples,  Po­

tatoes, Pears and all kinds of Produce,

Because the contents  will  be  properly  ventilated, 
which prevents over-heating and consequent de­
cay and loss.  The “ Hercules” can  be  shipped 
knock down in bundles, thus  making  a  saving 
in freight.

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

For catalogue and prices write

Hercules Woodenware Co.,

290 W. 20th Place, Chicago, III.

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Lamps  to  Burn!

Don’t buy something that wont burn.

The  Sunlight 

Gas  Lamp

Makes it own gas.
The strongest light  for  the  weakest  price 
ioo-candle-power  5 hours  for 

ever  known, 
1  cent.

No  torches  to  hold  in  lighting.  Turn  it 
down  and  it  burns  all  day,  consuming  one 
tablespoonful  of  oil;  turn  it  up  and  your 
room is flooded with light.

No  escaping  gas  to  scent  the  room  and 
make you sick.  No flicker.  No smoke.  A 
pure, white light like

Sunlight

One burner equals  four  kero­
sene lamps at one-fifth the cost.

This Lamp Has Been Approved  by  the  Board  of 

Underwriters.

Specially  adapted  for  Stores,  Churches  and  Residences.
Local agents  wanted  in  every  City,  Town  and  Village  in 
the State.

PERKINS,  HENRY  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids  .

MEN  OF  MARK.

C.  H.  Green,  Manager  of  the  Mich­

igan  Chemical  Co.

Charles  H.  Green  was  born  at Albion, 
in  1867,  whence  he  removed  with  his 
parents  to  Homer,  attending  school  un­
til  14  years  old,  and  learning  the  shoe­
maker's  trade,  at which  he  worked  until 
16.  He  had 
long  wished  to  enter  the 
drug  business,  but  no  opportunity  pre­
sented  itself  until  1883,  wt)en  he  entered 
the  drug  store  of  C.  M.  White,  of 
Homer.  He  remained  but  a  short  time, 
when  he  went  to  Chicago  and  secured 
a  position  with  Thos.  Whitfield  &  Co., 
with  whom  he  remained  for  three years, 
working  up  through  the  various  posi­
tions  until  be  became  head  prescription 
clerk.  After  passing  the  examination

their  goods 

required  for  registration  to  practice 
pharmacy  in  Michigan,  be  made  an  en­
gagement  with  A.  S.  Parker,  druggist 
at  747  Woodward  avenue,  Detroit,  with 
whom  he  remained  for  some  time.  He 
then  accepted  a  position  with  Foote  & 
Jenks,  manufacturers  of  perfumes,  and 
introduced 
through  the 
West.  After  a  year’s  travel  with  them 
he  made  an  engagement  with  the  old 
and  well-known  perfumery  bouse  of 
Lazell,  Dailey  &  Co.,  with  whom  be 
continued  for  three  years.  January  1, 
1893,  he accepted  a  position  as  manager 
of  the  sundry  department  of  Williams, 
Davis,  Brooks  &  Co.,  Detroit. 
It  was 
during  this  year that  Mr.  Green’s  serv­
ices  were  found  exceptionally  valuable, 
as  through  his  efforts  Dabrooks’  per­
fumes  were  put  on  the  market.  By  Jan­
uary  1,  1894,  the  perfume  business  had

COFFEES
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MAKE  BUSINESS

Liquid  Air

This  is  the  next  candidate for  favor  in  the  evolution  of  power. 
It  is  ex­
pected  to  demolish  steam,  put  even  electricity  to  flight,  and  let  water 
power  run  to  waste. 
In  fact,  such  decisive  results  are  predicted  that  it 
will  be like  the  introduction  of

Our  Coffees  and  Teas

among  miscellaneous  coffees  and  teas  in  a  grocery  store.  The  others 
“ won’t be  in  it.”  All our  coffees  roasted  on  day of shipment.
THE  J.  M.  BOUR  CO.,  .

129 Jefferson  Avenue,  Detroit,  Mich. 
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Shoes  and  Leather
Value  o f  Window  Display  in  the  Shoe

Store.

Some  of  the  larger cities  in  the  coun­
try  are  reporting  a  more  common  use  of 
the  sandal,  and  in  some  places  this  use 
is  approaching  the  nature  of  a 
fad. 
These  sandals  are  somewhat  similar  to 
those  spoken  of  in  Bible  history.  They 
have  become  quite  popular  among  a 
number  of  ladies,  especially  those  who 
have  much  inside  or home  work  to  do. 
Those  who  court  the  muses  or  the  arts 
are  said  to  be  falling 
into  the  fancy 
quite  rapidly.  It  is  a  great  rest  to  tired 
and  sore  feet  to  slip  on  a  pair  of  san­
dals,  which  allow  freedom  to  the  feet 
and  at  the  same  time  protect  the  sole. 
In  localities  in  which  this  fad has  taken 
hold,  or  even  in  places  in  which  it  has 
not,  a  few  sandals  in  the  window  will 
attract  a  great  deal  of  attention  from 
their novelty.  An  appropriately  worded 
window  card,  calling  attention  to  them 
and  making  some  kind  of  reference  to 
their  use  in  Biblical  days,  might  serve 
to  popularize  them  in  the  public  favor. 
They  are  said  to  retail  for an average  of 
a  dollar  and  a  half  a  pair.

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*  

*

Not  less  important  than  a  good  win­
dow  display  is  to  have the window panes 
always  spotlessly  clean. 
In  these  days, 
when  the  festive fly  is  crawling  over  the 
window  and  spotting 
it  until  it  looks 
like  a  railroad  map  of  the  state  with 
all  the  stations  picked  out,  the  cleanli­
ness  of  the  window  must  be  closely 
looked  after.  Professional workmen  who 
wash  the  windows  of  stores  and  public 
buildings  use  a  muslin  bag  filled  with 
whiting  and  two  chamois  skins  for the 
purpose.  The  glass  is  first  wiped  with 
a  dry  cloth  to  free  it  from  dust.  Then 
the  whiting 
is  dusted  thickly  over  the 
window  pane.  After that  the  whiting  is 
wiped  off  with  one  of 
the  chamois 
skins,  which  is  dampened  but  not  wet. 
Then  the  dry  chamois  skin  is  used  for 
polishing.  Another  excellent method  is 
to take  a  sponge  and  dip  it  in  alcohol, 
rub  the  glass  over  quickly  with  this, 
wipe  with  a  newspaper and  then  polish 
with  a  chamois  skin.  Wood  alcohol  can 
be  used 
It  is 
cheaper  and  it  answers  the  purpose  just 
as  well.  A 
little  turpentine  dissolved 
in  warm  water  is  also  excellent  for 
washing  windows,  mirrors  or  glass 
globes.

instead  of  pure  alcohol. 

*   *   *

for 

Good  reasons  are  had  in  abundance 
for  the  use  of  show  cards,  both  in  the 
window  and 
interior  displays. 
Many  persons  will  stop  to  look  at a 
neatly 
trimmed  window  and  admire 
the  goods  shown  without  any  thought  of 
buying,  but  the  show  card  will  call 
their  attention  to  some  particularly  at­
tractive  quality  of  the  goods  or  make 
some  well  worded  comment on them that 
they  can  not  forget.  Then  the  price 
cards,  which  are generally  used  in  con­
nection  with  the  show  cards,  will  clinch 
the  argument  with  a  statement  of the 
price  for  which  the  goods  can  be 
bought.  A  salesman  would  be  con­
simply 
sidered  worthless  who  would 
hold  up  goods  for  the  customer  to 
look 
at  and  say  nothing  about  them.  The 
show  window  and  the  interior  display 
do  not  serve  their  purpose  unless  they 
are  salesmen. 
idea  to 
have  the  store  look  well,  but  it  is  a  bet­
ter  idea  to  cause  people  to  buy  the 
goods  which  are  used  for  beautifying 
the  place  of business.  After  you  have 
succeeded 
in  getting  the  attention  of

is  a  good 

It 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

the  people  by  means  of  a  salesman  or  a 
window  display  you  must  make  the 
most of  your  time  and  tell  all  the  at­
tractive  things  about  your  goods  and 
your  prices.  Make  your  displays  en­
thusiastic,  cause  them  to  talk in a pleas­
ing  and  convincing  manner about  the 
superiority  of  your  store.  Have good 
goods,  show  them  well  and  then  tell  the 
people  about  them. 
If  you  are  not  al­
ready  using  show  cards  try  them  and 
watch  the  effect  they  have  on  your  pos­
sible  customers.  Even 
if  they  do  no 
good  at  all,  and  that  is  a  hardly  pos­
sible  supposition,  the  cost  of  them  is  so 
slight  that  no  harm  can  be  done  by 
their general  use.
*  

*  

*

Many  merchants  do  not  seem  to  ap­
preciate  the  advantages  to  be  derived 
from  the  use  of  window  cards.  The 
time  was  when  an  equal  number  of mer­
chants  paid  no  attention  to  window dec­
oration  of  any  sort,  but  keener  compe­
tition  and  the  prevalence of  more  up-to- 
date  methods  have  forced 
them  into 
line.  The  use  of  show  cards  and  neat 
price  tickets  has  not  been  forced  on 
them  yet,  but  they  probably soon will be, 
and  they  will  accept  them,  as  they  have 
accepted  other  changes 
in  business 
methods,  with  a  protest,  and  will  then 
tell  about  the  good  old  times  when  they 
were  not  compelled  to  put  forth so much 
effort  and  when  they  could  double  their 
money  on  all  the  goods  they  sold.  This 
is  all  true,  but  we  must  accept  things 
as  we  find  them,  and  the  man  who  is 
hanging  back,  trying  to  stop  the  onward 
march  of  the  times,  will  never  get  the 
good  things  that  those  do who are always 
in  the  lead.  People  like  progress,  they 
want  to  be  going  ahead  even  although 
they  travel  in  a  circle,and  the  merchant 
who  appreciates  this  fact  and  is  always 
seeking  to  gratify  that  desire  will  get 
the  cream,  while  the  laggard  must  be 
content  with  the  skimmed  milk.—Shoe 
and  Leather  Gazette.

The  Sign  of  the  Boot.

in  some  bright  color. 

The  sign  of  the  boot  seen  hanging  in 
front  of  the  shoemaker’s  shop  may  be 
made  of  wood,  zinc  or  copper.  Of  these 
three  the  wooden  boot  is  the  cheapest, 
copper  the  dearest.  Such  boots  have 
been  made  also  of  chalk  and  of  iron. 
Sign  boots  are  made 
in  two  or  three 
standard  sizes.  They  are  most  com­
monly  seen  gilded,  but  are  occasionally 
finished 
The 
boot  signs  may  be  bought  in  the  estab- 
lisment  of  the  dealers  in  emblem  signs, 
and  they  may  also  be  bought  of  the 
dealers 
leather  and  findings  who 
make  a  specialty  of  shoemakers’  sup­
plies.  Besides  these  gilded  or  painted 
smaller  boots  there  is  occasionally  seen 
a  giant  boot,  with  the  foot  part  perhaps 
three  or  four  feet  in  length  and  the 
leg 
in  proportion,  four  or  five  or  six  feet 
tall.  These  great  boots,  of  which  the 
number  used 
is  limited,  are  made  of 
sheet  iron  or  tin  and  painted.  They  are 
not  kept 
in  stock.  The  dealer  who 
wants  a  boot  of  this  kind  gets 
it  made 
to  order.

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interest 

Trading  Stamp  Muddle  in  Utica. 
Seldom  has  any  catch  penny  scheme 
run 
its  course  so  speedily  and  so  cer­
tainly  as  has  the  trading  stamp.  When 
it  was  first  introduced  it  was  talked  up 
by  a  lot  of  glib-tongued  people,  whose 
only 
in  the  matter  lay  in  the 
it 
amount  of  their  rake-off.  Finally 
enetrated 
into  the  craniums  of  the 
usiness  men  using  these  stamps  that 
they  were  paying  some  one  else  for  the 
privilege  of  conducting  their own  busi­
ness and  the  trading  stamp was doomed. 
Within  the  past  few  months  reports 
from  all  sections  of  the  country  have in­
dicated  the  waning  popularity  of  this 
scheme.  The  latest  report  of  this  sort 
comes  from  Utica,  N.  Y.,  where  five  of 
the 
seven 
trading  stamp  companies 
operating  there  are  preparing  to go  out 
of  business.

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too  discouraged  to  do  much  cleaning 
up,"  he added  in  an  aside to me.  " I  try 
to  use  everybody  white,  but  I’ve  lost 
my  best  trade. 
I  really  can’t  under­
stand 
it.  Where  did  you  say  you  got 
that  big  bass,  H i?" he  called  out  to  one 
of  the  men  at  the  stove.

"R igh t  there  at  the  bend,”   was  the 
drawling  reply,  and  then  the 
fellow 
went  on  to  explain  the  details  of  the 
capture,  the  size  of  the  fish  and  what 
the  neighbors  said  when  he  took 
it 
home.  And  all  this  time  two  lady  cus­
tomers  were  waiting  at  the  front  end  of 
the  store.

I 

called  the  grocer’s  attention  to  the 

fact  and  he  finally  went  forward,  light­
ing  the  stub  of  a  cheap  cigar  as  he 
walked  and 
looking  back  over  bis 
shoulder at  the  fisherman  sitting  by  the 
stove.  One  of  the  ladies  wanted  a  peck 
of  potatoes  and  the  merchant  opened 
the  cellar door  to  get  them.  As  he  did 
so  the  odor  of  decaying  vegetables 
swept  out  of  the  cellar  on  a  gust  of 
damp  and  musty  air.

lighted  match 

" I   must  get at  it  some  day  and  clean 
out  this  cellar,"  he  said,  putting  an­
other 
to  his  cigar. 
" N o ,"   be  added,  turning  back  from  the 
top  step,  " I   don’t  think  I’ll  order  any 
of  the  fancy  stuff  this  time.  There don’t 
seem  to  be  any  sale  for  it  in  this  pov­
I  don’t 
erty-stricken  town  any  more. 
know  what’s  got 
I 
can’t  understand  it  at  a ll."

into  the  people. 

I 

think  I  could  have  explained  the 

matter,  but,  fearful  of  giving  'offense,  I 
remained  silent.  And  I  think  a  good 
many  readers  of  the  Tradesman  might 
give  him  a  hint  regarding  his  loss  of 
trade.  The  class  of  grocers  here  re­
ferred  to  are  dying  out,  being  crowded 
out  of  the  ranks  by  more  competent 
business  men  who  realize  that  neatness 
and  courteous  attention  are  demanded 
by  modern  buyers,  but  there  aré,  I  am 
sorry  to  say,  a  few  of  the  old  kind  left.

A  man's  body  may  be  an  earthly  ten­
ement,  but  he  objects  to  being  called  a 
flat.

W e  are  in  the  market  with  the  best 

Rubbers  on  earth  and  in  water.

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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.

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The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

Manufacture

Solid  Boxes for Shoes, Gloves,  Shirts and  Caps,  Pigeon  Hole  Files  for 
Desks, plain  and fancy  Candy  Boxes,  and  Shelf  Boxes  of  every  de- 
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solved 
expressive  face of  the  customer.

it  then,  with  one  glance at  the 

Leaving  the  merchant  to  attend  to  a 
number of  children  who  wanted  candy 
and  small  school  supplies,  I  walked 
about  the  store.  One  of  the  first  things 
to  attract  my  attention  was  a  haze  of 
tobacco  smoke 
in  the  vicinity  of  the 
stove. 
I  walked  back  there  and  found 
two  roughly  clad  men  sitting  tipped 
back 
in  rickety  chairs  with  their  feet 
perched  high  on  the  heater,  which  con­
tained  no  fire,  the  day  being  warm  and 
pleasant.  They  were  planning a  fishing 
trip  and  at  the  same  time  filling  the 
store  with  the  fumes  of  very  bad  to­
bacco.  And  all  about  them  were  open 
barrels  of  crackers,  uncovered  crocks 
of  butter,  and  unprotected  boxes  of 
raisins,  figs  and  dates.  The  flavoring 
these  goods  were  receiving  was  certain­
ly  not  conducive  to  their  consumption 
as articles  of  food.

" N o ,”   said  the grocer  coming  back 
to  the  stove,  " I   can’t  for  the  life  of  me 
understand  why  I 
lost  that  gilt-edge 
trade  I  had  a  year  or  so ago. 
I  sell  the 
same  grade  of  goods,  and  do  business 
just  as  I  used  to.  No,  I  can’t  under­
stand  it."

"B y   the  way,”   I  said,  noting  the  ab­
sence  of  a  bright-faced  young clerk  who 
bad been quite a favorite of mine,  ,,wbat 
has  become  of  Charley? 
I  don’t  see 
him  here to-day. ’ ’

"H e   got a  job  in  a  Chicago  wholesale 
house  and  went  away,"  was  the  reply. 
" I   miss  him  a  good deal,too,for he  used 
to  keep  things  looking  ship-shape. 
I 
must  get  at 
it  before  long  and  clean 
up.”

"O f  course  I  hope  the boy will do well 
in  Chicago,”   broke  in  one  of  the  men 
at  the  stove,  "but  he’s  got  to  get  rid  of 
some  of  his  hifalutin’  notions 
if  he 
does."

"T h at’s  so ,"  said  the  other  chair- 
warmer. '*fer he  got too big fer th is town. 
It  got  so  we  couldn’t  take  no  comfort 
sittin’  here  a-smokin’  when  we  just 
in,  he  kep’  hus'lin’  things 
dropped 
about  so. 
1  just  took  my  trade  away 
until  be  left. ”

justified 

I  thought  that  Charley  would  have 
in  turning  the  hose  on 
been 
his  critics by  the  stove,  but,  of  course, 
I  could  not  say  so.

“ Charley had his faults,"  said the gro- 
er,  "but be  was  a  good  boy.  The  store 
didn’t  look  so  when  he  was  here.  I’m

FANCY  GOODS.

Why  the  Merchant  Lost  Faith  in  the 

Written for the Tradesman.

Community.

A  few  days  ago,  in  a  small  city  in 
Michigan,  I  entered  a  grocery  where  I 
used  to  sell  high  grade  goods  in  quite 
large  quantities,  but  where  trade 
in 
these  lines had  been  rather slack  for the 
last  few  trips.  Having  learned  by  en­
quiry  that  the  merchant  was  not  buy­
ing  these  goods  of  some  other  bouse,  I 
set  out  to  learn  the  reason  for  his  sud­
den  change  from  the  best  goods to cheap 
goods.

"You  must  be  pretty  well  out of fancy 
groceries,"  I  said,  after  booking  a 
small  order  for  sugar  and  the  cheaper 
grades  of  tea  and  coffee.  "You  haven't 
bought  anything  fine  in  several  months, 
and  I  know  that  you  have  a  gilt-edge 
trade.' ’

" I ’ve  got  a  lot  of that  stuff  on  hand 
now,"  said  the  grocer,  pointing  to  a 
row  of  dusty,  sagging  shelves  at the rear 
end  of  the  store. 
"Somehow  it  doesn't 
go  off as  it  used  to. ”

"What  seems  to  be  the  trouble?"  I 
asked,  making  a  mental  note  that  my 
old  customer  didn't  look  as  prosperous 
as  formerly.  He  was  not  well  dressed, 
and  his  general  appearance  was  not  as 
neat  and  tasty  as  in  the  days of  larger 
orders.  The store,  too,  needed sweeping, 
and  the  goods 
in  the  cracked  show­
cases  were  in  a  mixed  and tumbled con­
dition.

"M y  customers  don’t  want  that  kind 
of  stuff  any  more,"  he replied.  "Tim es 
are  too  hard,  I  guess,  or  something  of 
that  kind.  Anyway,  I  don't have  much 
call  for  fancy  goods."

Just  then  a  neatly. dressed  lady  en­
tered  the  store and  be  stepped  forward 
to  wait  upon  her,  leaving  the  marks  of 
greasy  fingers  on  the order book  as he 
wrote  down  the  items  of  her  order. 
I 
saw  that  the  lady  noticed  this  and  aiso 
that  she  glanced  disdainfully  at  his 
soiled  liuen  and  untidy  neckwear.

"T h e  people  of  your  city  must  buy 
fancy  groceries  somewhere, ”   I  began, 
as  the  grocer  came  back  to  where  I 
stood,  "and  they  used  to  buy  them  of 
If  you  will  tell  me  what  the 
you. 
trouble 
is,  I  may  be  able  to  suggest  a 
remedy. ’ ’

"O h,  I  don’t  think  there’s  anything 
wrong  with  the  goods,"  was  the  reply. 
" I   never  bear  any  kicks.  They  just 
don’t  come  here  to buy  them,  and  that’s 
all  there  is  of  it. ”
“   " Y e s ,”   I  said,  "but the  sort  of  peo­
ple  who  buy  fancy  groceries  do  not 
kick.  When  they  become  dissatisfied, 
they  go  to  some  other  store  for  their 
goods.”

" I   guess  you’re about  right,"  replied 
the  grocer,  with  an  embarrassed  smile. 
" I   don’t  talk  much  about  it,  but  the 
fact  is  that  the  kind  of  people  we  are 
talking  about  are buying  their goods  at 
some other  store, and  it  makes  me blue, 
I  can  tell  you. ’ '

"  But  there  must be  some  reason  for 
the  change,"  I  said,  "fo r  you  had  the 
finest  people  in  the  town on  your  books 
a  year ago. * ’

" I ’ve  studied  and  studied  over 

it,"  
was  the gloomy  reply,  "and  I  can't  fig­
ure out  why  they  left  m e."

He  turned  away  to  wait on  a customer 
who  wanted  some  cheese and  I  noticed 
that  his  fingers  were  stained  with tobac­
co  when  he carried  the  slice  from  the 
cheese  safe  to  the  scales—and  the  cus­
tomer noticed  it,  too.  The  mystery  the 
grocer  had  talked  about  was  to  me a 
mystery  no  longer.  A child  might have

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Petting the  People

Some  Underlying  Principles  of  Good 

Advertising.

W ritten for the T radesman.

Advertising  has  grown  to  be  such  a 
factor 
in  the  development  of  modern 
business  success  that  no  live  business 
man  can  afford  to  overlook 
its  im­
portance. 
“ Of  the  making  of  books 
there  is  no  end,”   and  advertising  is  no 
exception.  The  amount  of  matter  that 
has  been  written  and 
is  still  being 
written  about  advertising  is  something 
inconceivable,  but  its  chief  drawback 
is  that  the  majority  of  it  is  theory.

in 

subject 

Theory  is  a  good  thing in  some places 
is 
— it  is  useless  so  far  as  advertising 
is  the  most 
concerned.  Advertising 
the 
thoroughly  practical 
world. 
It  is  the  study  of  human  nature 
in  the  mass— it  is  the  science  of  sales­
manship—only  the  salesmanship  is done 
by  means  of  paper,  type  and  ink,  in­
stead  of  by  spoken  words.  No  one  can 
be  taught  salesmanship,  unless  be  has 
certain  necessary  qualities—a  keen  in­
sight 
into  human  nature,  the  ability 
to  point  out  the  strong  features  of  his 
goods,  untiring patience,  unfailing cour­
tesy,  and  a  good  presence.  No  mer­
chant  can  become  a  successful  adver­
tiser  unless,  in  addition  to  these  quali­
ties,  he  is  able  to  write  good,  forcible, 
clear  English,  unless  he  knows  the 
principles  underlying  the  use  of  type, 
paper  and  ink,  and  unless  be  has  suffi­
cient  capital  to  advertise  persistently 
and  continuously.

So  far  as  possible,  this  department 
will  be  kept  clear of  theorizing.  The 
advertising 
literature  and  advertising 
plans  that  come  in  for  criticism  will  be 
judged  in  comparison  with  other  litera­
ture  and  other  plans  which  the  writer 
knows  from  experience  to  have  been 
successful.  Where  a  principle  is  an­
nounced 
it  will  be  on  the  strength  of 
this  experience.

An  ounce  of  practice  is  worth  a  ton 

of  theory.

*  *  *

increase. 

Many  business  men  who  are  doing  in­
telligent  advertising  are  not  reaping  re­
it.  The  reason  does  not  lie 
sults  from 
in  the  advertising,  but  in  the  store 
it­
self.  An  inattentive  salesperson  can  do 
more  to  neutralize  the  effect  of  good  ad­
vertising  than  any  other  means  in  the 
world.  I  know  of  one  store  in  particular 
whose  trade  the  best  advertising  in  the 
world  can  not 
It  is  a  large 
store,  nicely  arranged,  its  windows  are 
trimmed  several  times  a  week, 
its 
goods  are  attractive  and  its  prices are 
right,  but  it  is  hard  work  to  get  waited 
on. 
I  happened  to  be  in  that  store  one 
day  when  a  lady  entered.  She  walked 
up  to  a  counter  where  two  or three sales­
people  were  standing,  engaged,  appar­
ently  in  the  most  engrossing  of  conver­
sations.  Nobody  paid  the  slightest  at­
tention  to  her.  The  floor  manager  was 
nowhere  in  sight.  She  waited  patiently 
enough  for  several  minutes,  and  then 
asked  oDe  of  the  salespeople  where  the 
ribbon  counter  was.  An  indignant  stare 
was  the  only  reply  she  received  and  she 
turned  and 
left  the  store,  undoubtedly 
with  a  mental  resolution  never  to  re­
turn. 
lady  who 
waited  over  three-quarters  of  an  hour 
while  a  saleswoman  was  finding  out  if  a 
certain  article  was  ready  to  be  tried  on. 
In  cases  like  these  advertising 
is  pow­
It  can  bring  people  to  the  store 
erless. 
— it  can  not  sell  them  goods,  nor  can 
it 
offset  the  impression  created  by inatten­
tive  and  discourteous  salespeople.

I  know  of  another 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

it 

Honesty  is  all-important  in  advertis­
ing.  Glowing  statements  in  advertise­
ments  which  are  not  borne  out  by  facts 
when  the  people  come  to  the  store  will, 
in  time,  react  most  injuriously.  Two 
things 
is  well  to  bear  in  mind  are 
that  you  can  rarely  deceive  the  same 
person  twice,  and  that  one  disappointed 
customer  can  keep  away  at  least  five 
possible  purchasers.  Tell  the  truth  and 
the  whole  truth 
in  your  advertising. 
When  the  people  come  to  know  that 
they  can  rely  upon  every  statement  you 
make  in  your  advertising  you  will  have 
built  up  a  foundation  of  good  will  for 
your  business  that  all  the  assaults  of 
competition  can  not  shake.  The  man 
who  advertises  shoes  at  98  cents,  re­
duced  from  $4,  while he  may  apparently 
thrive  for  a  while,  will  soon  reach  the 
end  of  his  tether.  After  he  has  fooled 
everybody  once  the  limit 
is  reached, 
and  be  must  either  close  bis  store  or  let 
the  sheriff  do  it  for  him.

Honesty,  absolute  and  unvarying,  is 
the  only  method  yet  discovered  for  the 
making  of  a  successful  business—and 
successful  business  depends  upon  suc­
cessful  advertising.

*  *  *

Don’t  attempt  to  write  advertising 
matter at  the  end  of  the  day  or  late  at 
night,  when  you  are  tired  out.  Make  it 
a  point  to  set  aside  a  time  near  the  be­
ginning  of  the  day’s  work,  when  you 
are  fresh  and  your  brain 
is  unclouded. 
It  requires  a  clear  head  to  write  suc­
cessful  advertising—to make  it  interest­
ing  and  chatty  and  forcible.  How  can 
you  expect  to  do  this  when  you  are dead 
tired  and  feei  like  a  wilted  collar?

If  business  men  would  only  come  to  a 
realization  of  the 
importance  of  good 
advertising  and  the  necessity  of  giving 
it  their  best  thought,  the  papers  would 
contain  fewer  poorly-worded,  ineffect­
ive  advertisements.  Not  every  man 
can  write  first-class  advertising,  but 
nine-tenths  of  the  advertisers  could  do 
better  than  they  are  doing  if  they  gave 
the  matter  more  serious  thought.

W .  S .  H a m b u r g e r .
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(Readers  of  the  Michigan  Tradesman 
are  invited  to  send  to  this  department 
samples  of  their  advertising  matter,  de­
tails  of their  plans  for  advertising,  and 
enquiries  regarding  same,  for  criticism 
and  comment.  Names  and  places  will 
be  omitted  when  desired.  Criticism 
and  advice  will  be  given  without fear or 
favor  and  entirely  free  of  charge.  The 
expense 
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Where  Man  Would  Be.

“ Where,”   asked  the  female  suffrage 
it 
orator,  “ would  man  be  to-day  were 
not  for  woman?”   She  paused  a  moment 
and  looked  around  the ball.  “ I repeat,”  
she  said;  “ where  would  man  be  to-day 
were  it  not  for  woman?”   “ He’d  be  in 
the  Garden  of  Eden  eating  strawber­
ries, ”   answered  a  voice  from  the  gal­
lery.

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CommercialTravelers

Michigan Knights of the drip.

President,  Chas.  S.  Stevens,  Ypsilanti;  Secre­
tary, J. C. Saunders, Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C. 
Gould. Saginaw,
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  Jakes  E.  Da y,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W.  Allen  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 

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

Grand Rapids Council No. 131.

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

dent Association.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President, F. G. T ruscott, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F. Wixson,  Marquette.

Grades  in  Lying.

liar,  is  the  man  who  ro­
men  of  the 
mances  for  mere 
love  of  it.  To  this 
type  belong  the  fish  liar  and  the  won­
derful  shot  liar and  the  traveled liar and 
the  men  who  have  met  with  strange 
adventures,  and 
last,  but  not  least,  the 
parental  liar  whose  children  say and  do 
phenomenal  things.  Anyone  can  see  at 
a  glance  what  a  blessing  these  people 
are  to  bored  humanity.  Suppose  all 
stories  were  related  exactly  as  they  oc­
curred,  without  any  doctoring  up  and 
the  addition  of  any 
little  effective 
in  the  way  of  denouement; 
touches 
suppose  there  were  no  witticisms  of 
children  related  except  the bonmots they 
really  perpetrated ;  suppose  that  all  fish 
stories  and  hunting  stories  were  cen­
sored  until  merely  the  bare  truth  re­
mained,  wouldn't  we  be  deprived  of  a 
great  deal  of  innocent  pleasure? 
is 
the  cheerful 
liar  to  whom  we  look  to 
furnish  us  with  the  spice  of  existence, 
and  throw  the halo of  romance  over  the 
commonplace.

It 

Among  the  prejudices  which  a  fair- 
minded  man  would  like  to  see  modified 
is  the  sweeping  condemnation  under 
which  all  liars  exist  and  ply  their  vo­
cation. 
In  the  public  mind  every  vari­
ety  of  lie  is  lumped  in  the  same  cate­
gory  and  all  are  classed  as  unequivocal­
ly  bad.  Nothing  could  be  more  unjust 
or  a  greater  mistake.  There 
is,  of 
course,  the  cruel  and  malicious  liar  who 
makes  mischief  in  families  and  who 
is 
one  of  the  greatest  curses  of  society, 
and  there  is  the  man  who  willfully  mis­
represents  his  wares  and  lies  for  profit, 
who  is  equally  obnoxious;  but  between 
these  and  the  white  light  of  perfect 
truth  there  are  a  vast  number  of  well- 
meaning  and  agreeable  liars  who  add 
enormously  to  the  ease  and  pleasure  of 
life.  Diatribes have  been  written  about 
the  white  lies  of  society;  but  where 
would  we  be  without  them?  Who would 
like  to  be  told,  when  she  called,  that 
Mrs.  White  was  in  the  house,  but  didn’t 
want  to  see her,  instead  of  the  pleasant 
euphemism,  “ not at home?”   Who would 
enjoy  the  candor  of  a  host  who  yawned 
in  his  face  and  said,  “ You  are  boring 
me  to  death  and  I  feel  like  you  had 
been  here  a  year;  won’t  you  ever 
leave?”   As  a  matter  of  fact,  white  lies 
are  the  polite  subterfuge  of  civilized 
people  who  prefer  to  risk their own souls 
rather  than  needlessly  wound  a  fellow- 
creature.  Then  there 
is  the  compli­
mentary  liar.  Consider  what  a  boon  he 
is  and  how  much 
indebted  we  are  to 
him  for  cheering  words  of  praise.  How 
invigorating  is  his  declaration  that  we 
are  looking  splendid,  when  we  crawl 
out  into  the  sun  for  the  first  time  after 
an  illness.  How 
inspiring  his  always 
expressed  opinion  that  he  has  just  read 
our  last  article  and  that  it  is  the  best 
thing  we  have  ever done.  What  a  sweet 
morsel  to  roll  under  our  tongue 
is  his 
cheerful  prophecy  that  fame  and  for­
tune  are  waiting  for  us  just  around  the 
corner. 
It  has  been  said  that  the  best 
loved  youth  or  maiden  in  a  community 
would  die  with  chagrin  if  they  could 
know  the  secret  opinion  their  friends 
entertained  of  them.  Nothing  but  the 
presence  of  the  complimentary  liar  pre­
vents  us  from  arriving  accurately  and 
definitely  at  this 
information.  He  is 
the  buffer  that  stands  between  us and 
the  painful  truth.  The  bragging  liar  is 
another 
interesting  type.  There  isn’t 
an  atom  of  barm  in  him,  since  he  is  as 
transparent  as  a  bit  of  crystal  and  asks 
nothing  of  you  except  to  listen  to  his 
own  stories  of  his  own  achievements. 
Still  another,  and  a  delightful  speci­

Gripsack  Brigade.

Barney  E.  Stratton,  who  has  acted  as 
house  salesman  for  the  Ball-Barnhart - 
Putman  Co.  for  the  past  six  months, 
succeeds  to  the  territory  relinquished 
by  Samuel  R.  Evans.

Don  P.  Cushman  now  has  a  monopoly 
on  the  hotel  business  at  Union  City, 
having  obtained  control  of  both  hotels— 
the  Union  City  House  and  Brown’s 
hotel.  The  new  combination  has been 
appropriately  christened  “ The  Union.”
During  the  rush  at  the  Kent  Hotel 
the  other  day,  H.  C.  Booth  undertook 
to hurry  up  some  of  his  girls  who  were 
late  in  getting  down  to  the  dining  room 
and  accidentally  fell  downstairs.  Then 
it  was  known  that  he  is  no  Sunday 
school  superintendent.

Samuel R.  Evans has engaged to  cover 
Central  Michigan  for  W.  F.  McLaugh­
lin  &  Co.,  of  Chicago,  succeeding  Judd 
E.  Houghton,  who  retires  of  his  own 
volition,  to devote  his  entire  time  to  bis 
wife,  who  has  become  a  confirmed  in­
valid.  Mr.  Houghton’s  employers  speak 
in  the highest  terms  of  bis  success  as  a 
salesman  and  bis  fidelity  to  his  bouse 
and  deplore  the  circumstances  which 
necessitate  their  parting  company.

Phelps,  Brace  &  Co.  have  changed 
Sol  Berger  from  the  city  (Detroit) trade 
to  Ohio  territory,  where  he  will  repre­
sent  the  cigar  department  exclusively. 
Two  gentlemen  have  been  engaged  to 
take  his  place  in  the  city— Daniel  Mc- 
Kercher,  who  was  formerly  salesman 
for  Geo.  T.  Warren,  and  F.  A.  Rem­
ington,  formerly  on  the  road  for  John 
P.  Hemmeter  and  Wells,  Stone  &  Co.

A.  H.  Saur,  of  Kent  City,  donned  the 
traveling  man’s  air  and  dignity  and 
started  out  last  Monday  to  sell  A.  H. 
Saur  &  Co.’s  full  cream  cheese.  This 
factory  turns  out  about  700  pounds  each 
day  of  the  finest  grade  and  Eugene 
O'Connor  is  the  man  who  squeezes  the 
curd  and  “ comes  back  from  the  South 
with  a  black  vest  front.”   Mr.  Saur  was 
out  four days  and  will  send  another man 
next  time.  He  says  the  road  work  is 
not  what  it  is  cracked  up  to  be  and  that 
in  the  future  be  will  attend  to  business 
at  home.

Have the Grand  Rapids  Boys No Sand?
Kalamazoo,  June  13—We  wish  you 
would  notify  some  of  the  boys  at  Grand 
Rapids  who  are  interested  in  baseball 
that  the  traveling  men  here  are  quite 
anxious  to  get  up  a  game  and  will  play 
either  in  Grand  Rapids  or here. 
If  you 
will  please  put  the  matter  in  the  proper 
hands  you  will  oblige  your  many  Kala­
mazoo  friends. 

E.  F. Zander.

to 

trusts  and 

It’s  called  the 

Mutual  Protective  Anti-Flirt Society. 
"A s   a  general  thing,”   said  Cholly, 
thoughtfully  contemplating  bis  white 
duck  trousers  and  shoes,  “ I  am  op­
posed 
combines,  but 
there's  one been organized lately down in 
Illinois  that  I  hope  will  have  an  office 
in  every  town  in  the  land,  and  a  billion 
dollars  capital. 
‘ Anti- 
Coquette  Trust,’  and 
its  object  is  to 
protect  the  helpless  and  guileless  youth 
of  the  country  against  the  machinations 
of  the  gills,  and  to  insure  them  against 
the  inconstancy  of  woman.  You  don’t 
understand?  Well,  it’s  like  this.  When 
a  fellow  is  in  love  with  a  girl  he  wants 
to  do  something  to  please  her,  doesn’t 
it  has  always 
be?  That’s  right,  and 
been  that  way.  But  anybody 
that’s 
been  along  the  path  of  courtship  knows 
that  it’s a  mighty  hard  road  to  travel, 
and  full  of  pitfalls and  dangers.  Wom­
an  is  uncertain,  coy  and  bard  to  please; 
and  never  more  so  than  during  the  days 
when  she  halts  between  ‘ I  will’  and  'I 
won’t.’  Adam 
is  probably  the  only 
man  who  had  a  dead  sure  thing  from 
the  start,  with  no  other  entries  in  the 
race.  With  Eve  it  was  he  or  nothing, 
and  she  took  him;  but  from  that  time 
on  down,  every  mother’s  son  of  us  have 
lain  awake  nights  wondering  what  we 
could  do  to  make  ourselves  solid  with 
some  girl. 
In  the  old  romantic  days  of 
chivalry  a  fellow  used  to  pin  bis  sweet­
heart’s  colors  on  his  arm,  put  on  his  ar­
mor and  go  out  and  fight some other  tin- 
clad,  the  gate  receipts  and  the  lady  go­
ing  to  the  winner.  At  another  time, 
before  the  laws  against public nuisances 
were  so  stringent,  it  was  the  correct 
thing  to  get  your  light  guitar,  and  go 
out  and  serenade  your  girl  until  they 
scatted  you  away.  Now  we  lay  siege 
to  a  girl’s  heart  by  means  of  presents. 
It  isn’t  so  romantic  as  the  other  ways; 
but 
it  works.  We  begin  by  a  bunch  of 
violets.  Angelina  smiles.  We  follow  it 
up  with  chocolate  creams.  Angelina's 
smile  contains  40  degrees  of  warmth. 
Then  we  reach  the  sentimental  book 
passage.  Angelina’s  smile  chases  the 
thermometer  for warmth  and  wins.  The 
days  go  by,  and the  courtship  is  marked 
by  silver  trifles  for  her  dressing  table, 
bangles  for  her  bracelet,  theater  tickets, 
ice  cream,  little  suppers,  not  to  men­
tion  the  heavy  tragedy  part,where  it  be­
gins  to  call  for  engagement  rings  and 
subsequent  tokens  of  affection that mean 
good  bard  dollars,  for  'I  don’t  want  no 
cheap  man’  is  the  burden  of  the  mod­
ern  Juliet’s  song. 
If  the  engagement 
in  matrimony,  no  man  would,  of 
ends 
course,  regret  the  outlay. 
It's  been  in 
the  line  of  business;  but  every  sympa­
thetic  soul  must  see  that  it’s pretty  hard 
to blow  in  your  salary,  as  happens  nine 
times  out  of  ten,  on  a  girl  who  hasn’t 
had  at  any  time  the  slightest  idea  ot 
doing  anything  but  amusing  herself 
with  you,  and  finally  gives  herself  to 
‘ another.’ 
It  is  to  reimburse  those  of 
us  who  have  spent  money  on  girls,  and 
then  gotten  left,  that  the ‘ Anti-Coquette 
Trust’  has  been  formed.  You  pay  in  a 
fee  for  membership,  and then when your 
girl  gives  you  the  throw-down  you  go 
around  and  collect  back  the  price  of 
your  ice  cieam  sodas  and  Christmas 
gifts.  It’s a  great  scheme,  and,  coming 
right  at  the  beginning  of  summer,  it  is 
nothing  short  of  providential.  So  long. 
I’m  going  down  the  street  to  organize  a 
Grand  Rapids  branch.”

Episode  Omitted  From the  Biography.
LeRoy,  June  12— In  writing  up  A.  B. 
Gates’  biography  in  your  issue  of  May 
17  you  left  out  some  very  important

parts.  Some  years  ago  he  dressed  him­
self 
in  his  new  suit  of  light  clothes, 
light  Fedora  hat  and  new  tan  shoes  and 
hired  a  rig  of  Frank  Smith  to  drive  to 
Luther  and  back.  On  bis  return  trip 
he  got  a  late  start  and,  when  he  reached 
the  pine  slashing,  the  shades  of  inky 
darkness  had  covered  the  black  and 
burned 
logs  and  roots,  ashes  and  dirt 
and  the  horse  got  lost.  Mr.  Gates  was 
not  lost.  He  was 
in  the  buggy.  He 
bad  sympathy  for  the  horse  and  got  out 
to  sell  a  bill  of  cigars  and  help  the 
horse,  which  he  led  until  the  small 
hours  of  the  night. 
In  the  course  of 
time  he  reached  LeRoy,  changed  his 
clothes,  but he  never  said  a  word.  Ask 
him  about 
it  and  he  wiil  blush,  as  be 
is  very  bashful,  and  you  will  doubtless 
get  a  Thurlow  Weed  or  a  Night  Hawk.

O b s e r v e r .

Expert  Estimate  of  the  Peach  Crop.
Edwy  C.  Reid,  editor  of  the  Allegan 
Gazette,  who  as  Secretary  of  the  Mich­
igan  Horticultural  Society  is  in  a  posi­
tion  to  form  accurate  and  expert  con­
clusions  as  to  the  condition  of  growing 
fruits,  thus  refers  to  the  prospective 
peach  ciop 
in  the  current  issue  of  his 
newspaper:

Edward  Hutchins,  whose  fruit  farm 
is  in  the  northeastern  portion  of  Ganges 
township,  brought  to  the  Gazette  office 
this  week  branches  of  three  varieties 
of  peaches,  all  heavily 
loaded  with 
healthy  young  fruit.  He  expects  to  have 
about  a  quarter  of  a  full  crop,  and a  few 
of  bis  neighbors  will  have  more  or  less. 
The  fruit 
is  mainly  in  the  tops  of  the 
trees.  Mr.  Hutchins  says,  however, 
that  there  will  not  be  a  thousand  bush­
els  of  peaches  in  all  Ganges  township, 
which 
is  capable  of  yielding  at  Hast 
250,000 bushels  in  favorable  seasons.  In 
Casco,  the  next  township  south,  there 
are  a  few  orchards  in  condition  similar 
to  that  of  Mr.  Hutchins,  but  the 
in­
stances  are  rare.  Practically,  the peach 
crop  of  Allegan  county  was  entirely  de­
stroyed,  and  the  same  is  true  of  all  the 
State  to  the  northward,  but  Berrien 
county  and  a  part  of  Van  Buren  will 
have  a  fractional  crop.

B.  P.  O.  E.  Convention  at  St.  Louis.
Grand  Rapids  Lodge,  No.  48,  will 
attend  the  reunion  and  grand 
lodge 
meeting  at  St.  Louis,  June  20  to  23, 
leaving  Grand  Rapids  at  2  o'clock 
p.m.,  Monday,  June  19,  going via G.  R. 
&  I.  and  Wabash  Railroad,  arriving  at 
St.  Louis  at  7:15  a.  m.,  Tuesday. 
Through  chair  cars  will  be  provided 
free  and  sleeping  car  service  can  be  re­
served  on  application  to  G.  R.  &  I. 
ticket  agent  at  Union  station.  Other 
lodges  and  friends  of  the  order  are  in­
vited  to  accompany  our  lodge.  Rate, 
$11.50  for  the  round  trip.  Tickets  good 
returning  on  all  regular  trains  until 
June  25.  For  further  information  apply 
to 

E.  M.  Ba r n a r d,

Chairman  Committee;

An  Arkansas  printer,  in  making  up 
the  forms  in  a  hurty,  the  other  day,  got 
a  marriage  notice  and  a  grocer’s  adver­
tisement  mixed  up  so  that  it  read  as 
follows:  “ John  Brown  and  Ida  Gray 
were  united  in  the  holy  sauer  kraut  by 
the  quart  or barrel.  Mr.  Biown  is a  well 
known  young  codfish  at  10c  per  pound, 
while  the  bride,  Miss  Gray,  has  some 
nice  pigs’  feet  which  will  be  sold 
cheaper  than  at  any  store  in  town.”
R E M O D E L E D   H O T E L   B U T L E R
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Rates, $1. 

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

HOTEL WHITCOMB

ST. JOSEPH,  MICH.

A. VINCENT. Prop.

Taggart,  Knappen  &  Denison,

PATENT ATTORNEYS

811-817 Mich. Trust Bldg., 

•  Grand Rapids 

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

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Drugs—Chemicals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.

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Term expires

A. C. Schumacher,  Ann  Arbor 
Geo. OuKDBim,  Ionia  - 
L. B. Reynolds, St.  Joseph 
- 
H u n t Heim,  Saginaw  - 
Wibt P. Doty, Detroit 
• 

•  Dec. 31,1899 
Dec. 31,1900
•  Dec. 31,1901
Dec. 31,1908
•  Dec. 31,1803

President, Gao.  G u n d b u m ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, Hsnry  Hbim, Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

STATE PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.
President—J. J. Souswun, Bscanaba. 
Secretary, Cbas.  P.  Mann, Detroit. 
Treasurer—John D.  Muir, Grand Rapids.

Unpleasant  Features  Incident  to  the 

Drug  Business- 

Written for the Tradesman.

When 

I  entered  a  Michigan  drug 
store,  the  other  morning,  I  found  the 
proprietor  making  a  close  examination 
of  the  morning  paper.

“ Have  yon  kept  track  of  the  bill  re­
quiring  druggists  to  pay  a  $500  tax,  the 
same  as  retail 
liquor  dealers?'*  be 
asked.

it 

I  told  him  that  I  bad  not.
“ I  wish  the  law  would pass, ”  he said. 
“ Then  we  would  have  a  good  excuse 
for  dropping  whisky out  of stock.  There 
is  no  money 
it’s  an  awful 
nuisance. ”

it  and 

in 

“ There  is  a  popular  notion  that  it 

is 
the  best  paying  part of  the  drug  busi­
ness, ”   I  said.

“ Well,  it  is  not  true,”   said  the  drug­
gist. 
“ We  have  to  keep  the  stuff  to 
accommodate  people  who  are  customers 
in  other  lines,  and 
is  a  continual 
source  of  annoyance.  Just  as  sore  as 
we  get  a  store  full  of  lady  customers, 
some  old  soak  who  has  been  here  be­
fore  trots  in  and  darts  behind  the  pre­
scription  case.  Sometimes  he  makes 
some  thin  excuse,  but  be  usually  goes 
right  along  as 
if  be  owned  the  place. 
We  might  just  as  well hand  him  a  drink 
over  the  counter,  for  the  ladies  all  know 
what  he  goes  back  there  for,  and  the 
way  they  turn  up  their  pretty  noses  is 
I  think  I’ll  set  the  dog  on 
a  caution. 
the  next  man  that  tries 
If  they 
in  wobbling  like  a  rail 
wouldn’t  come 
fence  it  wouldn't  be  so  bad. 
I  wonder 
how  it  would  do  to  doctor  the  whisky  in 
that  bottle  back  there,  just  as  a  mild 
sort of  protest  against  the  practice?”

“ Yon’d  probably  have  a  sick  man 
here,  and  perhaps  the  patrol  wagon,”  
said  I.

it. 

in 

it,”   said 

“ I  might  put  a  couple  of  stuffed 
the  druggist, 
snakes 
“ only  some  frightened 
thoughtfully, 
bloat  might  raise  the  shingles  off  the 
roof  some  morning.”

The  merchant  pondered  a  moment 

and  then  resumed.

“ There’s  another  kind  of  customer 
I’d  like  to get  rid  o f,”   he  said.  “ That 
is the  man  who  knows  all  about  drags. 
I  think  he’d  look  well  with  a  harp  and 
a  damp  cloud,  don't  yon? 
I  believe  I 
will  let  him  have  his  way  some  day  and 
give  the  undertaker  a  chance.  This 
morning  a  fellow  came 
in  here  and 
asked  for an  ounce  each  of  nitric  and 
muriatic  acid,  mixed.  The  thing  being 
a  rank  poison,  I  asked  him  what he 
wanted  of  it.  He  said  his  stomach  felt 
bad  and  he  wanted  to  take half a  tea­
spoonful  of  it.  I explained,  in  my  weak 
and  timid  way,  that  we  didn’t  care  to 
have  customers  drop  dead  in  the  store, 
and  suggested  that  if be  wanted  to  end 
his  worthless  life  he’d  better  go  to 
Manila  and  give  the  natives  a  chance.
“ He  insisted  that  the  remedy  was

harmless,  and  that  he  knew  all  about 
drugs.  Said  he  put  up  his  own  pre­
scriptions  at  his  home  town.  What  he 
wanted,  of  course,  was  diluted  nitro- 
muriatic  acid,  a drop  or  two  of  which  is 
good  for  a  weak  stomach. 
I  couldn’t 
make  him  understand  the difference and 
he  went  away  mad.

“ Only  a  week  or  two  ago,”  continued 
the  druggist,  “ a  stranger  walked 
in 
here  and  stepped  back  to  the  prescrip­
tion  counter.  We  were  all  busy  at the 
time,  but  I  watched  him,  perhaps be­
cause of  the  nerve  he  exhibited.  When 
I  got  hack  there,  he  bad  a  lot  of sul­
phate  of  zinc  in  a  glass  and  explained 
that  be  wanted  to  take  a  dose  of  epsom 
salts. 
I  almost  wish  I  had  let  him  take 
it  ”

"Would 

it  have  killed  him?”  

I 

asked.

“ It  might,”   was  the  reply,  “ and  it 
might  have  made  him  mighty  sick  for 
a  few  hours.  Such  fools  ought  to  be 
taught  a  thing  or  two.  Even 
if  he 
knew  all  about  drugs,  he  had  no  busi­
ness  trying  to  wait  on  himself. 
If  it 
wouldn’t  muss  up  things  in  the  store, 
I’d  turn  tbe  bose  on  such  chaps.  Some­
times  good  customers  do  such  things, 
bnt  I  can  overlook  it  in  them.

“ I  cured  one  customer  of  being  gay 
last  spring,”   he  added,  with  a  smile. 
“ He  was  one  of our  regular  whisky cus­
tomers.  There  being  people  be  knew 
in  the  store,  he  hated  to  ask  for  the  real 
thing.  The  bottle  had  been  hidden 
that  day.  After  waiting  around  a  little 
while,  be  asked  for  a  dose  of  whisky 
and  quinine.  He  said  he  knew  where 
the  quinine  was,  and  he’d  get  it  him­
self.  The  ladies 
in  the  store  began  to 
smile  and  it  made  me angry,  so  I  went 
back  and  put  it  up  for  him. 
I  put  up 
one  ounce  of  whisky  and  five  grains  of 
quinine. ”

“ And  he  drank 

it 

in  the  store?”   I 

asked.

“ Oh,  no,  I  pot  it  up  in  a  bottle  in  the 
regular  way,  and  he  went  off  with it.  In 
about  half an  hour  he  came  back.  He 
was  too  good-natured  a  man  to  roar 
about  it, but he  said  that  when  I  wanted 
a  fresh  cargo  of  quinine  I  might  jnst 
put  him 
in  a  water  tank  and  dilute 
him.  He  said  he’d  been  trying  to  make 
arrangements  to  go  over  to  Cuba  as  a 
sort  of  portable  medical  department; 
but tbe  sons  of  statesmen  had  all  tbe de­
sirable  jobs  and  so  be had  been  turned 
down.  He  said  he didn’t  object  to tak­
ing  the  quinine,  but be  wanted  the  next 
dose  extended  over about  a  month,  so  it 
wouldn’t take  the flavor  of  the  whisky 
away.”

Just then  a  little girl  entered  the store 
and  asked  for  a  postage  stamp.  Tbe 
druggist  waited  on  her  and  came  back 
to  where  I  stood.

“ That  business  transaction  reminds 
me of  a  thing  that  took  place  here  last 
summer,”   he  said. 
“ I  had  a  lot  of 
stuff  on  hand,  sncb  as  toilet  articles, 
that  I  wanted  to  get  rid  of,  and  I  ad­
vertised  that  I  would  give  a  glass  of 
soda  water  to  every  person  whose  pur­
chases  at  one  time amounted  to  a  dollar 
or  more. 
It  worked  all  right  for a time, 
bat  one day  a  lady  came  in  and  bought 
a  dollar’s  worth  of  postage  stamps.  She 
asked  me  for  an  envelope  to  put  them 
in  and  then  demanded  a  glass  of  soda 
water.  Yon  could  have  knocked  me over 
with  a  two-for-a-cent  sponge.”

“ Did  you  give  it  to  her?”   I  asked.
“ I  told  her  that  there  was  a  law 
against  selling  postage  stamps at bar­
gain  rates  or  giving  premiums  with 
them,  but  she  wouldn’t  leave  the  store. 
She  said  she  always  thought  I  was  a

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

fraud  and  that  my  wife  was  the  shab­
biest  woman  that  came  to  the  Baptist 
church  and  that  if  I  didn’t give her  the 
soda  water  I’d  regret  it  to  the  last day 
of  my  life.  What  can  you  do  when  you 
strike a  female cyclone  like that  in  fall 
blast  and  ready  to  do business  regard­
less  of  results?  I told  her that  I  bad  just 
been 
joking  and  gave  her  the  nicest 
drink  I  could  manufacture.  I  suppose  I 
ought  to  have  poisoned  her,  but  her 
nerve  was  too  elaborate a  thing,  frills 
and  all,  to  lose. ’ '

“ And  you  kept  her  trade,  of  course?”
"Indeed  I  did  not,”   was  the  dis­
gusted  reply. 
"She  told  all  about  the 
neighborhood  that  I  tried  to cheat  her, 
and  that  I  never  did  as  I  agreed.  Ob, 
we  have  a  few  nice,  cheerful  things  to 
contend  with.”

And  the.druggist  went  forward  to wait 
on  a  woman  who  wanted  2  cents’  worth 
of  mustard.

The  Prices  Didn’t  Agree.

A  dudish  specimen  of  humanity  pre­
sented 
last  week  to  tbe clerk  of a  cer­
tain  St.  Louis  drug  store  a  prescription 
reading  as  follows :

Sodii  chloridum..................... i ounce.
Aqua pura............ ...................4 ounces.

The  weights  were  written  in  the  or­
dinary  conventional  style.  The  clerk 
looked  smilingly  at  the  prescription  for 
salt  and  water  and  asked  the  customer 
what he  wanted  to  use  tbe medicine  for.
“ I  am  afraid  that  every  hair  will  fall 
out,  and  my  doctor  gave  me  that  as  a 
prescription,”   was  the  answer.  The 
clerk  filled  tbe  prescription  and charged 
75  cents.  He  put  on  the  bottle a  red 
label  with  tbe  word  "Poison!” and  told 
tbe  dude  to  be  careful,  as  the  “ sodii 
chloridum”   was  particuarly  dangerous.
Two  days  later  Mr.  Dude  brought 
back  the  bottle  to  be  refilled.  The 
clerk  was  absent,  and  tbe druggist  him­
self  waited  on  him.  This  gentleman 
found  tbe  prescription  on  file,  but  tbe 
price  bad  been  omitted.  He  knew  be 
bad  to  deal  with  a  fool.  Therefore  be 
fixed  tbe  salted  water  and  thought  that 
25  cents  would  be an  honest  compensa­
tion.

“ How  is  that?”   asked  tbe  customer. 

“ Last  time  I  paid  75  cents.”

Tbe  druggist  went  back  to  the  pre­
scription  enclosure  to  investigate. 
In 
a  few  minutes  be  returned  and  ex­
plained  tbat  tbe  dnty  on  “ sodii  cblori- 
dum,"   which  was  enormous,  bad  been 
declared  unconstitutional  by  the  Su­
preme  Court  of  tbe  United  States.  As 
to  “ aqua  pura,”   the  price  bad  fallen 
100  per cent,  on  account  of  the  absence 
of  yellow  fever  this  year  in  Central  and 
South  America.

The  dude  went  away  satisfied  with 
bis  hair  restorer,  bnt  the  clerk  will  be 
discharged  if  he  fails  to  write  prices  on 
the  prescriptions  in  the  future.

A  Rich  Lemon-Soda  Syrup

One  of  the  best  drinks  at  the  fountain 
is  a  fresh  lemon  soda,  and  it  is  very  re­
freshing  when  made  with the fresh fruit.
lemon  syrup  flavored  from  fresh 
fruit  without  tbe  use  of alcohol  or  ex­
tract  makes  a  much  better  drink  with

A 

soda  than  a  syrup  flavored  with 
lemon 
extract.  The  oil  of  lemon  from  tbe  rind 
is  fresh  and  rich  and  the  juice  is ap­
petizing.

To  make  a  rich  lemon  syrup  select 
eight  or  ten  bright  yellow,  ripe,  juicy 
lemons  and  grate  off  into  a  large  mortar 
tbe  yellow  part  only.  Cover tbe  grating 
with  about  a  half-pound  of granulated 
sugar,  and  with  tbe  pestle  rub  thorough­
If  the  mixture  is  allowed 
ly  together. 
to  stand 
for  three  or  four  hours  the 
result  is better,but this  is not  necessary. 
When  ready  to  finish,  cut  tbe  lemons 
and  extract  the  juice.  Add  the  juice 
to  tbe  grated  rind  and  sugar  and  stir 
until  it  is  all,  or  nearly  all,  dissolved. 
Now  take a  one-gallon  bottle  and  with 
a  funnel  and  piece of cheese-cloth strain 
tbe  liquid  into tbe  bottle,  agitating with 
a  spoon  until  all  the  syrup  has  passed 
through.  Now  pour  over  the  residue 
about  eight ounces  of  boiling  hot  water. 
This  will  carry  through  any  surplus  of 
sugar  and  will  soften  the  rind,  which 
should  now  be  thoroughly  squeezed  to 
extract  the  oil  and  yellow  color  as  much 
as  possible.  Add  a  good  heavy  syrup 
to  nearly  fill  tbe  bottle  and  shake  op 
thoroughly.  The syrup  should  be a  rich 
lemon  color and  of  fine  flavor.  No color­
ing,  acid,  or  foam  extract  should  be 
added. 
It  is  a  good  idea  to  set  tbe  bot­
tle  on  the  counter  where  customers  can 
see 
it,  and  paste  on  one  side  a  label 
marked,  “ Fresh  Lemon  Syrnp.”   If  the 
syrup 
in  a  small  bottle,  the 
label  may  be  used  on  this,  or  if  from  a 
in  tbe  apparatus,  paste  the  label 
tank 
on  the  name-plate. 
It  attracts  atten­
tion.

is  served 

This  syrup  should  be  used  up  inside 
of  two days  if  possible,  and  it  is  better 
to  make  it  every  day. 
It  can  be  used 
in  a  number  of  drinks,  and  will  go 
quickly.  Use  this  lemon  syrup  in sweet­
ening  your  lemonades  and  see  bow  it 
will  improve  tbeir flavor.

_____ 
The  Drug  Market.

R ic h a r d   F o y.

There  are  very  few  changes  to  note 

this  week.

Opium— Is  a 

little  firmer,  but  not 

quotably  changed.

Morphine—-Is  steady.
Quinine— Is  unchanged.
Cincbonidia— Is  very  firm  at  the  ad­
vance  noted.  The article  is  very  scarce 
and  higher  prices  are  looked  for.

Cocoa  Butter— Has  advanced.
Ipecac  Root—Continues  scarce  and 

another advance  has  taken  place.

Canary  Seed— Is  higher,  on account of 

reports of  damage  to  growing  crop.

When We  Plant  the  Tree.

What do we plant when we plant the tree ?
We plant the  ship which  will eross the sea;
We plant the masts to carry the sails,
W e plant the plank to withstand the gales,
The keel, the keelson, and  beam and knee;
We plant the ship when we plant the tree.
What do we plant when we plant the  tree?
We plant the houses for you and me;
W e plant the rafters, the shingles, the floors, 
We plant the studding, the laths, the doors, 
The beams, the siding, all parts that be;
We plant the house when we plant the tree.
What do we plant when we plant the tree ?
A  thousand things that we daily  see;
W e plant the spire that out-towers the crag, 
W e plant the staff for our country’s flag.
W e plant the shade, from the hot snn free;
We plant all these when we plant the tree.

H e n r y   A b b e y .

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Morphia,S.P.AW ...  2 20® 2 46 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
C. Co....................  2 10® 2 35
Mosehns Canton__  
®  40
Myristica, No. 1......   66®  80
Nux Vomica...po.20 
®  10
Os  Sepia................. 
18®  20
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co.................... 
©  1  00
Plcis Llq. N.N.M gal.
© 2 00
i  doz........................ 
Plcis Llq., qnarts__ 
©  1  00
Plcis Llq., pints...... 
©  85
®  50
Pll Hydrarg.. .po.  80 
©  18
Piper Nigra... po. 22 
Piper Alba__ po.  35 
©  30
Pllx  Burgun........... 
© 
7
Plnmbl  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pnlyls Ipecac et Opll  1  10®  1  20 
Pyrethrnm, boxesH.
© 125
A P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyretbrnm,  pv........  25®  30
'Ju assise................. 
8® 
10
juinia, S. P. A W.. 
43®  43
Juinla, S. German
iuinia, N.Y.........
iubla Tinctorum. 
SaccharumLactis pv
Saladn..................
Sanguis Draconls..
Sapo,  W.................
Sapo, M...................
Sapo, G...................
Siedlits  Mixture...

Sinapls........................ 
© 18
Sinapls, opt................  
© 30
Snnff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.......................... 
© 34
34
Snnff, Scotch, DeVo’s  © 
SodaBoTas..............  9  ©  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  © 
11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
2
Soda,  Carb.............. 
lVi© 
Soda, Bl-Carb.........  
5
3® 
4
Soda, Asb...............   3 ¡4® 
Soda, Snlphas.........  
© 
2
Spts. Cologne........... 
® 2 80
50®  55
Spts. Ether Co........ 
Spt.  Myrcla Dom... 
©  0 00
®
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. 
Spts. Vinl Rectftbbl  @
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
©
Spts. Vinl Rect.  5gal  ®
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  30® 1  35
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2M@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2M®3M
Tamarinds.................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobromse............   46®  48
Vanilla....................  9 00®16 00
Zincl  Snlph................ 
7©  8

Oils

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

B B L .  SA L.
70
60
45

19

42
43
70
50

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

LB
Red Venetian.........   1M  2  ©a
Ochre, yeiiow Mars.  1M  2  ©4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  1M  2  ©3 
Putty, commercial..  2M 2M®3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2% 2M©3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, P aris...........  13H®  n%
Green, Peninsular.. 
13®  16
Lead, Red...............   5M©  6m
Lead, white............  5K©  6m
®  70
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’... 
®  10
White, Paris Amer.. 
©  1  00
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
®  1  40
cliff...................... 
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  16

Varnishes

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

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced-
Dscllned-

Atidum
AceOcum................ |
Benzoicum, German
Boraclc....................
Carbollcnm............
Citrlenm.................
Hvdrochlor............
Nltrocum...............
Oxalicum...............
©  15
Phosphorlum,  dll... 
SAlicylicum.......   so®  oo
sulpfiurtcum........... 
5
Tatmieuin..............  1 
Sc®  1 40
Tartaricum.............   88®  40

l v a  

Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg..'.......  
Aqua, 90 deg........... 
Carbonas................. 
Chloridum.............. 
Aniline

4® 
6
6® 
8
19®  14
19®  14

00® 9 95

Black.......................  9 
Brown....................  80® 1 00
B ed.........................  46®  50
Yellow......................2 

Bocca.
Cubesee..........po. 18  18®  15
Junlperui...............  
8
Xantnoxylum.........   95®  30
Balaam mn

6® 

50® 3 00

Copaiba...................  90®  86
' POfUi............ .
Terabln, Canada.
Tolut&h....

â

Cortot
Abies, Canadifth__ 
18
18
Cassia....................  
Clncbona Flaya...... 
|s
30
Euonymus atropurp 
90
Hyrica Cerlfera, po. 
Prunus Vtrgini.......  
12
Qnlllala,  gr’d .........  
12
Sassafras.......po. 18
Ulmus...po. 15,  gr’d 
15
Bxtractnm
Glycyrrhlza Glabra.  94®  95
GlycyTrhlsa, po......   28®  30
Htsmatox, 15 fb box. 
11®  12
Hnmatoz, I s ........... 
13®  14
Hnmatox, V4s.........  
14®  16
Hnmatox, ¿ s ......... 
16®  17

Perm

Carbonate Preclp... 
Citrate and Qulnla.. 
Citrate Soluble........ 
Ferrocyanldum Sol. 
(joint.  Chloride......  
Sulphate, com'l......  
Sulphate,  com'l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........  
Sulphate, p u re ......  
Flora

15
2 25
TO
40
15
2
50
7

Pella

Arnica. ................... 
M
Anthemls................  22®  *5
Matricaria..............  30®  35

and Ms.................•  12® 
8® 

Barosma..................   25®  30
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18®  25
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25®  30
^
8&lvla officinalis, >4* 
20
OraXJrsi................... 
10
Gam m l
O  66
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
®  45
Acacia, 2d  picked.. 
®  35
Acacia, 3d  picked.. 
Acacia, gifted sorts. 
©  28
Acacia, po............. 
  60®  80
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20  12®  14
Aloe, Cape ....po. 15  @ 
12
Aloe, Socotrl.. po. 40  @  30
Ammoniac___ ___  
56®  60
Assafostlda— po. 80  28®  30
Bensoinum.............  50®  55
Catechu, Is.............  
O   13
Catechu, Ms..  ........ 
®  14
Cateohu, Ms............
Camphor»  ... 
....
Buphorblum.po.  35
Galbanum...............
Gamboge  po...........
Guaiacum..... po. 25
Kino...........po. I3.u0
M astic....................
Myrrh............po.  45
Opll.  .po. 4.60®»4.80 3
Shellac, bleached...
Tragacanth ............
Herba  . 
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Sanatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majoram — oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Yir..oz. pkg
Bne.............. os. pkg
TanacetumV os. pkg 
Thymus,  V. .os. pkg 
riagnesla.
Calcined, P a t.........
Carbonate, Pat........
Carbonate, K. A M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum
Absinthium.............. 4 !
Amygdala, Dulc.... 
Amygdala, Amara .  8 i
AnisF.......................  1
Aurantl  Cortex...... 2
Bergamii...................2 :
Cajlputi...................
Caryophylli.............
Chenopâdll..............
cinnamonl!.............  1
Chtronella...............  

25®

35®

4T|

50 
I 25 
1 00 
1  10 
1  10 
1 45 
75 
60
1  35

2  00 
2  00

1  35
2  20 
1  60 
1  15 
4 50 
8 00
12 
35 
1 00 
1 00 
850 
45 
1 00 
7 00 
60 
66 
1  80 
50 
1  60 
20

Conium Mae........
Copaiba............ .
Cubeba................
Bxechthitos........
Erigeron..............
Gaultheria...........
Geranium,  ounce.
Gos8lppii, Sem. gal..  50®
Hedeoma...... ..........  l
Junipera.................  l
Lavendula..............
Llmonls...................  l
Mentha Piper.........   l
Mentha Verid......... l
Morrhua,  gal.........   l
Myrcla,......... . 
4
OliVO..............................
Picis  Liquids.........  
ii
Plcis Llqulda, gal...
Biclna  ....T7.........
Rosmarini...............
Rosa,  ounce...........  o
Sncclnl...................
Sabina...................
Santal....................... 2
Sassafras................. 
55
Sinapls, ess.,  ounce.
Tlglfi.......................  1  70
Thyme....................  40
Thyme,  opt............  
1
Theobromas........... 
15
Potassium
Bl-Carb.................... 
is
13
Bichromate  ........... 
Bromide..................   52
Carb.......................  
12
Chlorate..po. 17®l9c  16
Cyanide...................
Iodide........................2
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
Potass Nitras, o p t..
Potass Nitras...........
Prussiate.................
Sulphate p o ...........
Radix
Aconitym...............
A ltha......................
Anchusa.................
Arum po..................
Calamus.................
Gentiana........po.  15
Glychrrhiza.  pv. 15 
Hydrastis Canaden.
Hydrastis Can., po..
Hellebore,Alba, po..
Inula, po.................
Ipecac, po............... 4
Iris plox —  po35@38
Jalapa. pr................
Maranta,  Mb...........
Podophyllum, no....
R h e i............
Rhel, cut.................
Rhel,pv..........   ....
Spigelia.................
Sangutnarla. ..po. 15
Serpentaria............
Senega....................
Similax,officinalis H
Smilax, M...............
Scillse..............po.35
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dns,  po.................
Valeriana, Eng. po. 30 
i
Valeriana,  German. 
1_
Zingiber a ...............  
12®
Zingiber]................  25®
Semen
Anlsnm......... po.  15 
®
Ajpinm  (gravefeons)  13®
Caru’l ........"...!po. 18  10®
Cardamon...........
Corlandrnm........
Cannabis  Satlva.
Cydonlum......................
Cnenopodium........ 
ii
Diptenx  Odorate...  1  '
Pcenlculum............
Foenugreek, po........
L lnl...........W .........   1
Llnl,  grd__bbl. 3w
Lobelia...................
Pharlaris  Canarian.  1
Rapa.......................   ^
Sinapls Albn...........
Sinapls Nigra.........
Spirit us

Frumentl, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frnmenti,  D. F.  R ..  2 00® 2 25
Frum entl..................1 25® 1  50
Jnniperls Co. O. T..  1  65® 2 00
Jnnlperis Co...........  1
Saacnarum N.  E__  1
Spt. Vinl Galli........  1
Vini Oporto.............  1
Vinl Alba................  1

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............   2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................  2 00® 2 25
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
®  1  50 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__
®  1 25
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................
®  1 00 
Hard, for slate use..
®  75
Yellow  R e ef,  for 
slate  use..............
®  1  40
Syrups
Acacia.................... 
®  50
®  50
Anranti Cortes........ 
®  50
Zingiber.................. 
®  60
Ipecac....................  
Ferrilod................. 
®  60
®  50
Rhei Arom...... ....... 
Smilax Officinalis...  50®  60
Senega....................  
®  60
80111*...................  ©  50

Scillse Co.....................   ®
Tolutan................... 
®
Prunus ylrg............  
®
Tinctures 
Aoonltum Napellls R 
Aconi turn N apellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafostlda............
At rope  Belladonna.
Aurauti  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Cantharldes...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon...............
Cardamon Co.........
Castor......................
Catechu...................
Cinchona................
Cinchona Co...........
Columba.................
Cubeba. 
................
Cassia Acutifol......
Cassia Acutifol Co..
Digitalis.................
Ergot............
Ferrl Chloridum
Gentian...................
Gentian Co..............
Gulaca....................
Guinea ammon........
Hyoscyamus...........
Iodine......................
Iodine, colorleu....
Kino.........................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh......................
Nux Vomica...........
Opll.........................
Opii, camphorated..
Opll,  deodorised.  ..
Quassia...................
Rhatany..................
Rhei.........................
Sangutnarla...........
Serpentaria............
Stramonium...........
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride...
Zingiber..................
niscellaneous 
•dither, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
dither, Spts. NIL 4 F  3
Alumen...................  2 \
Alnmen, gro’d .. po. 7
Annatto...................
Antimoni,  po.........
Antlmoni etPotassT
Antipyrin..............
Antirebrin..............
Argent! Nitras, oz ..
Arsenicum..............
Balm Gilead  Bud...
Bismuth  S. N......... 1
CalciumChlor.,  Is.. 
Calcium Chlor., Ms. 
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms 
Cantharldes, Rus.po 
Capslci  Fructus, af. 
Capsid Fructus, po. 
Capslci FructusB,po 
Cary ophy llus.. po. 15
Carmine, No. 40......
Cera Alba...............
Cera Flaya..............
Coccus....................
Cassia Fructus........
Centraria................
Cetaceum................
Chloroform.............
Chloroform, squibbs
Chloral HydCrst__   1  Of*
Chondrus................   20i
Cinchonidine.P.A W  32 
Clnchonldlne, Germ  30
Cocaine..................   3 80
Corks, list, dls.pr.et
Creosotum..............  
1
Creta.............bbl. 75
Creta, prep..............
9
Creta, predp........... 
Creta, Rubra........... 
j
Crocus.................... 
18
Cudbear.................
Cupri Sulph............   6M
Dextrine.................. 
10
Etber Sulph............  
75
Emery, all  numbers
Emery, po................
Ergota.......... po. 40  30
Flake  White........... 
Galla.......................
Gambler.................. 
Gelatin, Cooper......
Gelatin, French......  
Glassware, flint, box 
Less than box....
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue, white............  
Glycerine................
Grana  Paradlsl  __
Humulus.................
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
Hydraag Ammonlatl 
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
Icnthyobolla, Am...
Indigo.  ...................
Iodine, Resubi........3 1
Iodoform.................
Lupulin...................
Lycopodium...........
Macis 
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarglod.............
LlquorPotassAralnlt 
Magnesia, Snlph.... 
Magnesia, Snlph,bbl
Mannla, S. F ...........
. . . . .
Menthol 

12
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

QROCBRY PRICE CURRENT.

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

AXLE ORBASB.

do*,  gross
6 00
Aurora..........................55 
7 00
Castor Oil.....................00 
Diamond......................50 
4 00
Fraser’s ...................... .75 
9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
9 00
9 00
rtica, tin boxes............ 75 
Paragon........................55  6 00

Absolute.

lb can  doi......... 

BAKING  POWDER.
m 'b cans doz ................... 
iflD jansdos...................  

45
85
....  1 50
45
75
lb cans 1 dos.................  1  00
10

4  lb cans 8 dos................. 
it lb oans 8 dos................. 
Bulk...................................  
6 os. Eng. Tumblers...................  85

Arctic.

Ac m .

El Parity.

6 oz. cans, 4 doz case......... 
80
9 oz. cans, 4 doz case.........   1 20
1 
lb. cans, 2 doz  case..... 2  00
2% lb. cans, 1 doz  case.....4  75
5 
lb. cans, 1 doz  case.....9  00
4  lb cans per dos.............  75
4  lb cans per d o s ........... 1  20
lb cans per dos............ 2  00
1 
4  lb cans 4 dos case........ 
85
4  lb cans 4 dos case........ 
55
lb cans 2 dos case........  
90

Horn.

Peerless.

Oar Loader.

Queen Flake,

Jersey Cream.

BATH  BRICK.

CANNBD  GOODS.

4  lb cans, 4 doz case...... . 
45
4  lb cans, 4 doz case........  86
lb cans, 2 doz case..........1 60
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 os. cans, per dos.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per dos....... .....  
85
4  lb cans..........................  45
£  lb cans.......................... 
75
lb cans..........................  1 50
1 lb. cans  ......................... 
85
3 os., 6 doz. case................   2 70
6 oz., 4 dos. case 
............ 3 20
9 os., 4 dos. case.................. 4 80
l lb., 2 dos. case.................. 4 00
5 lb., I dos. case.................. 9 00
American.............................. 70
English......... 
......... 80
Tomatoes...................  80@  90
Corn............................  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...................  9o@i  so
Peas............................  50®  85
Peas, French...... -....2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.................  15®  22
Peaches, P ie...............1  00
Peaches, Fancy..........1  40
Apples,  gallons.........   @3 25
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, 4  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. 1  75
Shrimps...................... 2 00
Sardines, 4 s domestic  34© 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5/,@  74 
Sardines.  French....... 8 
22

comm631s

BLum a.

BROOflS.

CANDLES.

40
Small, 3 doz.......................  
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
.40.1 Carpet.......................  2 3.
4o. 2 Carpet...................... 2  U
So. 3 Carpet.......................  1  85
No. 4 Carpet......................   1 45
Parlor Gem.......................  2 50
Common Whisk.................   95
Fancy Whisk.....................1  ( 0
Warehouse.........................2  70
88...................................... 7
16s..................................... 8
Paraffine............................ 8
Wlcking.............................20
CATSUP.
pints............2  00
Colombia, 
Columbia. 4  pints 
......... 1  25
CHEESE
Acme.........................   @ 84
©  9
Amboy.............. 
. 
Carson City................  © 9
Elsie............................ 
a  10
Emblem......................  @  84
Gem............................  © 94
Gold Medal.................  ©
Ideal...........................  B
84
Jersey  ........................  ©
849
Riverside....................   &
Brick .........................   ©
12
Edam..........................  @
70
17
Leiden........................  @
13
Limbnrger.
©
Pineapple................ 50  ©
75
17
Sap  Sago.................  
a
Chicory.
Bulk 
.............................. 
6
Bed 
7

CHOCOLATE.

Welter Baker A Co.’s.

German Sweet........................28
Premium...............................  .35
46
Breakfast one**« 

COFFEE.
Roasted.

Rle.

Java.

Mocha.

Sen tea.

Roasted.

Maracaibo.

F air.......................................... »
Good....................................... 10
Prim e......................................18
Golden  ...................................13
Peaberry  ................................14
Fair  ....................................... 14
Good  ......................................15
Prim e......................................16
Peaberry  ................................18
Prim e........  ........................... 15
Milled......................................17
Interior.................................. 26
Private  Growth...................... 35
Mandehllng............................ 35
Im itation................................22
Arabian  .................................28
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.'s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha— 29
Wells’ Mocha and Java.__24
Wells’ Perfection  Java...... 24
Saneaibo............................. 21
Breakfast Blend...............   18
Valley City Maracaibo........184
Ideal  Blend.........................14
Leader  Blend...............  
124
Below  are  given  New  Tork 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  yonr  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
Invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also 4  c  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   10  50
Jersey..............................  10 50
ncLaughlta’s  XXXX.......
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail  all orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 4  gross......  
75
Felix 4  gross................. 
1  15
85 
Hummel’sfoll 4  gross... 
148 
Hummel'sUn 4   gross... 
CLOTHES PINE.
5 gross boxes...........................40

Package.

Extract.

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos......... 1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dos......... 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  dos......... I 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  dos......... 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos......... 1 80
Jnte. 60 ft.  per  dos.............  80
Jnte. 78 ft.  dot  flos.............   w

COCOA.

Janies Epps & Co.’s-

Boxes, 7 lbs............................. 40
Cases, 16 boxes........................38
COCOA 5HELLS.
20 lb  bags.......................  
2*
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound  packages............  
4
CRBAft TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes___30
Bnlk In sacks..........................29

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 dos In ease.
Gall Borden  Eagle............. 6 75
Crown................................. 6 25
Daisy...................................5 75
Champion 
4 50
....... 
Magnolia 
4 25
................... 
...........- ........... 3 35
Challenge 
 
Dime 
8 35

.... 

 

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

Credit Checks.

Superior Grade.

Universal Grade.

Economic Grade.

Coapon Paaa Beaks.

denomination from $10 down.

50 books, any denom__   1 50
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00
50 books, any denom__   1  50
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books  any denom— 11  50
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
50 books, any denom....  1 50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00
500, any one denom’n ...... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.......................   75
Can be made to represent any 
20 books  .......................   1  00
50 books...........................  2 00
100 books  ...........................$ 29
250 books........................... .2 *5
500 books............................10 00
1000 books........  ................ 17 50
DRIBD FRUITS—DOnESTIC 
Sun dried....................... © 7 4
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©104 
Apricots.....................  ©1*
Blackberries...............
Nectarines................   „  ©
Peaches......................10  ©11
Pears......   .................   ©
Pitted Cherries..........
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries....... -•—
100-120 25 lb boxee.........  © 4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  © 5
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  © 8 4
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.  ......  © 64
60-70 25 lb boxes.........  © 6X
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........   © 9
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  ©10
80-40 25 lb boxes.........  ©
4  cent less In 50 lb cases 

California Praam .

California Pratts.

Apples.

Raisins.

1  50
London Layers 2 Crown. 
165
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............ 
2 00
5
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
6
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
7
L. M., Seeded, choice......   8
L. M , Seeded, fancy........  94

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Paai.

Currants.

Leghorn..........................©11
Corsican..........................©18
Patras bbls...................... © 0 4
Cleaned, bulk  ................. © 6
Cleaned, packages..........© 64
Citron American 101b bx ©18 
Lemon American 101b bx ©104 
Orange American 10 lb bx ©104 
Ondnra 28 lb boxes----   ©
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown  ........  ©
Sultana 8 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sultana E Crown..........  ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........   ©
Sultana package.........   ©

RnMas.

Parten.

FARINACEOUS  OOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages..............1  25
Bulk, per 100 lbe..............3 00
Walsh-DeRno  Co.’s Brand.

Grits.

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Pena.

Beans.

Hominy.

Rolled  Onto.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packages............  .1  80
100 lb. kegs............................ 2 70
2001b. barrels...................... ..5 10
Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 50 lb.  drams..........1 00
Dried Lima  ...................  
54
Medinm Hand Picked 1  20©1  25 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported.  25 lb. box........2 50
Common.............................  1 
Chester............................  2 '0
Empire 
...........................  2 60
Green, Wisconsin, bn.......1 00
Green, Scotch, bn.  ........  1  10
Split, bn.................................2 50
Rolled Avena,  bbl.........4 00
Monarch,  bbl........................3 75
Monarch,  4   bbl................... 2 00
Monarch, 901b sacks........ 1  80
Quaker, cases........................3 20
Enron, cases......................... 8 00
German............................  4
East  India...................... 
84
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
4^
Pc&fI  •• •••• •••• 
«»■••• 
Pearl, 24 1 lb. pkges........ 
64
Cracked, bulk...................  84
24 2 lb packages.............. 2 50

Graham
Tapioca.

Entire Wheat.

Pantry.

Wheat.

lag s

SALT  PISH.

Cad.

Herring.

flackaral.

Georges cured............  © 5
Georges genuine........  © 54
Georges selected........  © 6
Strips or bricks......... 6  © 9
Holland white hoops, bbL  9 25 
Holland white hoop 4 bbl  5  25 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mens 
80
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  3 10
Bound  40 lbs...................  1  40
8caled...............................  
14
Mess 100 lbs......................  16 00
Mess  40 lbs.  ...................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  66
Mess  8 lbs......................  1 35
No. 1100 lbs......................  18 26
No. I  40 lbs......................  5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1 48
No. I  8 lbs......................  1 »
No. 2 100 lbs......................  11  50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4 90
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  30
No. 2  8 lbs......................  1  07
No. 1100 lbs......................  5 25
N o.l  40 lbs......................  2 40
No. 1  10 lbs.
N o.l  8 lbs.

Trent.

W httsflsh.

Perrigo’s.

No. 1 No. 8
100 lb«.... ....  7 CO 6 50
2  90
41 lbs — ....  3  10
80
10 lbe.... .... 
86
66
8 lbs— .... 
71
FLAVORINa  EXTRACTS. 

2 75 
1  40 
43 
87

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

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

Jennings’.

D.C. Lemon
D.C. Vanilla
2 os.___  75
2 os.... ..1 20
3 os. ......1  00
3 os.... ..1  50
4 oz. ......1 40
4 oz..  ...2 00
60s.......2 00
6 os__ ..3 00
No. 8...2 40
No.  8 4 00
No. 10...4 00
No. 10.
.6 00
No. 2T.  80
No.  2 T.1 25
No. 3T.1  25
No.  3T.2 00
No. 4T.1 50
No  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

FLY  PAPER.

75

HBRB8.

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

INDIOO.

. 

Madras, 5  lb  boxes............   66
S. F., 2. 3 and 5 1b boxes 
50
OUNPOWDBR.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
Kegs 
.................................. 4 00
Half Kegs.............................8 »
Quarter Kegs........................1 85
1 lb. cahs..............................  80
4  lb. cans............................   18

Choke Bora—Dupont’».

Kegs  ....................................* *
Half Kegs...................... 
-  8 40
Quarter Kegs........................1 35
1 lb. cans..............................  34

Eagle Duck—Dupont’».

Haff kegä.V.y.’ 7.7.7"".7-74 25
Quarter Kegs....................... 2 25
lib. cans..............................  45
16 lb  palls............................   35
30 lb  pails  ..........................   65

JELLY.

LYE.
Condensed, 2 d o s ............... 1 20
Condensed. 4 do* 
........... 2 25

LICORICE.

Pare.....................................   JO
Sicily....................................  M
Boot.....................................   »

HATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.......................1 66
Anchor Parlor..................... 1 70
No. 2  Home..........................1 10
Bxnort  Parlor..................... 4 no
Wolverine.............................1 05
No Brand...........................   95

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black................................  
11
F air..................................   M
Good................................. 
80
Fancy  .............................. 
$4
Open Kettle...................... 25©36

Half-barrels 2o extra.
MUSTARD.

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

PIPES.

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

65
85

POTASH.

48 cans in ease.

Babbitt’s ...................................4 00
Penna Salt  Co.’s......................3 00

PICK LBS.
Hedtem.

Barrels, 1,200 count.............4 00
Half bbls, 600 count.............2 50

Barrels. 8,400 count.........   5 00
Half bbls  1,200 count........  3 00

RICE.

D om estic.

Carolina head....................  64
Carolina  No. 1...................  6
Carolina  No. 3...................  4
Broken...............................   8g

Imported.

Japan,  N o .!.............64©  6
Japan,  No. 2................44© 5
Java, fancy  head....... 5  ©  54
Java,  No. 1.................. 5  ©
Table............................  ©
Packed 60  lbs  In  box. 

SALBRATUS.

Church’s Arm and Hammer.  15
Deland’s 
........  ......... ¿00
Dwight’s Cow......................8  15
Emblem  ..............................3 50
L. P......................................3 00
Sodio...................................3  15
Wyandotte, K0 
..............3 00
Granulated, bbls..........  .  75
Granulated,  1001bcases..  9u
Lump, bbls.......................   75
Lump, 1461b kegs..............  85

SAL SODA

SALT

Diamond  Crystal.

Worcester.

Common Oradas.

Table, cases, 24 3-lb  boxes.. 1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Butter, barrels, 2801b. bulk.2 25 
Butter, barrels,2014 lbbags.2 50
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   55
100 81b sacks............................. 1 95
605-lb sacks.............................1 80
28 10-lb sacks...........................1 (¡5
50  4 
lb. cartons...................8 25
115  841b. sacks....................... 4 00
lb. sacks...................... 8 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks...................... 8 50
30 10 
lb. sacks.......................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bnlk in barrels.........................2 50
56-lb dairy In drill bags......   SO
28-lb dairy In drill bags......   15
56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 
66-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 
66-lb  sacks......................... 
21
Granulated Fine.................   60
Medium  Fine......................   70
Per doz.

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rack.
Common.

SCALES.

Warsaw.

Peiouze Household. . . . 1200
Weight 24  lbs.  bj ounces. 

5BBDS.

Anise  ..............................  9
Canary, Smyrna..................   34
Caraway...........................  8
Cardamon,  M alabar......   60
Celery...............................   11
Hemp.  Russian..................   44
Mixed  Bird........................  
44
5
Mustard,  white..........—  
Poppy  ..............................  10
Rape...................................   44
Guttle Bone......................  20
Scotch, In bladders.............  37
Maccaboy, in jars..................  *
French Rappee. In  Ja rs.....  43 

SNUFF.

SOAP.

JA X O N
JUS.  8.  KIRK  S CO.’S BRANDS.

Single box...........................2  85
5 box lots, delivered......... 2  '0
10 box lots, delivered......... 2  75

American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome__ :............................. 2 75
Cabinet.................................2 80
Savon....................................2 50
White Russian.....................2 35
White Cloud,  laundry........6 25
White Clond, toilet............ 3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 os....2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 os__3 00
Bine India, 100 £  lb.............3 00
Kirkollne................. ••..........3 50
Eos.......................................2 50
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 a o s...... 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 d o s...........8 40
Boxes  ...............................  54
Keen. Ensritsh 
......   4if

Sconring.

SODA.
 
Cent.

SYRUPS.

Barrels..................................17
Half  bbls...........................  18
1 doz. 1 gallon cans.............2 75
1  dos. 4  gallon cans........1 65
2  dos. 4  gallon  c a n s...... 1  65
Fair  .................................  1«
Good.................................  80
Choice..............................  «

Pare Cane.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

follows:

72

21

Tomato Jugs.

M gal., per doz.................  50
1 gal., each......................  6M
Corks for M gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30
Preserve Jar* and Cover*.
M gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00

Sealing Wax.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2

LAMP  BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun..........................  
34
No.  1  Sun..........................   35
50
No. 2  Sun.................... .*... 
No. 3 Sun...........................   1  00
45
Tubular.............................  
Security, No. 1...................  60
Security, No. 2................... 
80
Nutmeg  ............................  50
LAMP CHIMNBY5—Seconds.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................   1  28
No.  1  Sun..........................  1  42
No.  2 Sun.......................... 2  12
No. 0 Sun...........................   1  50
No. 1 Sun...........................  1  60
No. 2 Sun...........................   2 45

Common

Plrst  Quality.

top,
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No.
crimp
top,
No.  2  Sun,  crimp  top,

wrapped and  labeled__ 2  10
1.  1  Sun,
appea and  labeler 
wrapped and  labeled....  2  15
wrapped and  labeled....  3  15

XXX Flint.

No.  0  Sun,  crimp  top,
crimp  top,
No.'-  1  Sun, 
No.  2  Sun, 
crimp  top,

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

La  Bastlo.
 

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................  
'0
 
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  5
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  '5
No. 2 Crimp, per dos......... 1  60

Roches tor.

No. 1, Lime  (65c dos)........8 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)........  4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  dos)........4 70

Electric.

 

:
S
i
f
S
S

OIL CANE. 

Pump  Cans.

No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  ......   4 00
No. 2, Flint  (800 dos)...... .  4 40
Dos. 
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  4!
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1  12
2 gal galv iron with spout.  2 15
3 gal galv iron with spont.  3 45 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  4  58 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 50 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 4
5 gal Tilting cans................7
5 gal galv iron Nacefas....  9
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10
3  gal Home Rule__  ...  .10
5 gal Home Rule............12
5 gal Pirate  King..........  9
No.  0Tubular side lift....  4
No.  IB   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 75 
LANTERN GLOBB5.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 2 doz.
each, box 15  cents.........  
45
No.  0 Tubular,  bbl«  a dos.
each,  per bbl, bbl. 00....  1  78 
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
muiAi 1 doi. 
*  25

LANTERNS.

8
»
S
g
g
¡

g
g
g
g
g

... 

 

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  ..............................u
Cassia, China inmate......... IS
Cassia, Batavia in bond... .SB
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........SI
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Z amt bar..................12
Maoe,  Batavia.....................55
Nutmegs, fancy...................60
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2...................45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .16
Pepper,  shot........................15
Allspice  ..............................17
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon.................... 40
Cloves, Zansibar..................14
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger,  Jamaica.................28
Mace,  Batavia.................... 65
Mustard.........................12® 18
Nutmegs,......................40@50
Pepper, Sing., black............15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne................. 20
Sage......................................15

Pare Qround la Balk.

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Cera.

Diamond.

401-lb packages...................6
20 1 lb packages...................6)4
Klngsford’s Silver  Gloss.
401-lb packages...................6)4
6-lb boxes.........................7
64 10c  packages  ................5  00
128  5c  packages................. 5 00
8210c and645c packages...5 00 
201 lb. packages..................5
401 lb. packages..................4M
t-lb  packages......................4M
3-lb  packages......................  4M
6-lb  packages......................5
40 and 50 lb boxes............... 3
Barrels 
............................3

Common Gloss.

Common  Cora.

STOVE POLISH.

SUGAR.

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

imrchases to his shipping poi 

No. 4,3-dos in case, gross..  4  50 
No. 6,3 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 Tork to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he
ncluding  20  pounds  for  thé 
weight of the barrel.
Domino..............................5 75
Cut  Loaf............................ 5 88
Crushed.............................. 6 00
Powdered 
XXXX  Powdered...............5  75
Cubes................................. 5 63
Granulated in bbls............. 5  "0
Granulated in bags............5 50
Fine Granulated................ 5 50
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 63
Mould  A.............................F  75
Diamond Confec.  A.......... 5 50
Confec. Standard A............5 38
No.  1................................  5 00
No 
2.................................5 00
No.  8.................................5 00
No.  4.................................4 01
No.  5.................................4 88
No.  6.................................4 81
No.  7....  ..........................4 75
No.  8.................................4 69
No.  9.................................4 63
No.  10................................. 4 66
No.  11................................. 4 50
No.  12................................. 4 44
No.  18................................. 4 88
No.  14................................. 4 88
No.  15................................. 4 38
No.  16... 
......................4 88

TABLE  SAUCES.
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine 
W orces tershire. 
Lea A Perrin’s,  large...  3 75 
Lea A Perrin’s, small...  2 50
Halford,  large................. 3 75
Halford small...................2 25
Salad Dressing, large...... 4 56
Salad Dressing, small...... 2 75

Cigar*.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. 
New Brick.......................... 88 00

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Fortune Teller....................35 00
Our Manager...................... 35 00
Quintette............................36 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

S. C. W...............................35 00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. 
Vincente Portuondo..35@ 70 00
Ruhe Bros.  C o .........25®  '0 00
The HilsonCo............35@110  00
T. J. Dunn &  Co.......35® 70 00
McCoy & 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 Cigar Co. 10® 35 01 
The Fulton Cigar Co..10® 35 00 
A. B. Ballard & Co....35@l'5 00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co 
..¥@110 00
San  Telmj................35® 70 0J
Havana Cigar Co......18® 35 00

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8
Pure Cider, Red Star....... ..12
Pure Cider, Robinson...... ■ 12%
Pure Cider, Silver............ ..12M

WICKING.

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

Pails.

2-hoop Standard.............
..1  35
3-hoop Standard............
..1  50
2-wire, Cable...................
..1 35
8-wire, Cable...................
.  1  60
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1  25
Paper, Eureka...............
..2 25
Fibre......... .....................
..2 25

Tubs.

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Batter.
Seymour XXX...................  5M
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6

W olverine...'....................  6

.Soda.

Soda  XXX
6
Soda,  City.........................  8
Long Island Wafers........... 11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Zephyiette...........................10

Oyster.

Saltine Wafer....................  5M
Saltine Wafer, 1 lb. carton.  6M
Farina Oyster....................  5m
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.

 

11M

Animals............................  10M
Bent’s Water.....................   15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   lu
Coffee Cake, Iced................10
Cracknells............................  15 M
Cubans  ............... 
Frosted  Cream...................  8
Ginger Gems......................  8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  7M
Graham Crackers..............  8
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................   8
JumDles,  Honey................  12%
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts__  16
Mich. Frosted Honey__   12%
Molasses  Cakes.................  8
Newton......... ...................   12
Nie Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................   8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8ft
Pretzels,  hand m ad e......   7%
Sears’Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sugar  Squares.................   9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas...............................  12 M

C a n d i e s .
5tlck  Candy.

Standard................. 
Standard H. H........ 
Standard Twist......  
Cut Loaf.................
Jumbo, 321b  ..........
Extra fi. H..............
Boston  Cream........

bbls pails
7 ©  7H
7 ® 7M
7M® 8
@ 8Mcases
© 6M
© 8M
©10

Mixed Candy.

Grocers...................
© 6
Competition............
© 6M
Standard.................
© 7
Conserve.................
© 7M
Royal..  .................
© 7H
Ribbon....................
© 8M
Broken...................
© 7&
Cut Loaf.................
© 8M
English Rock.........
© 8M
Kindergarten.........
© 8M
French  Cream........
© 9
Dandy Pan.............
©10
Hand Made Cream mxd @13
Nobby....................
© 8»/*

Fancy—In Bulk.

San Bias Goodies__
@11
Lozenges, plain......
© 8M
Lozenges,  printed..
© SM
Choc.  Drops...........
@11
Choc.  Monumentals
©I2M
Gum  Drops............
@ 5
Moss  Drops............
@ 8n
Sour Drops..............
©  8M
Imperials...............
@ 9-
Ital. Cream Bnbns, 35 lb pis  11
Molasses Chews,  15 lb. pails  13
Jelly Date Squares..

@10

Fancy—In  g  lb.  Boxes.

©50
©50
©60
@65
@75
@90
©30
@75
©50
@55
©55
©55
@60
©55
©55

Lemon  Drops.........
Sour  Drops............
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate Drops'....
H. M. Choc. Drops..
H. M.  Choc.  Lt.and
Dk. No. 12............
Gum  Drops............
Licorice Drops........
A. B. Licorice Drops
Lozenges,  plain__
Lozenges,  printed..
Imperials...............
Mottoes...................
Cream Bar..............
Molasses Bar  .........
Hand Made Creams.  80 ©  90
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  W ant...........
String Rock............
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25 ©
Wintergreen Berries
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes..................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes..................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb.
bOX68  .................

©35
©50

©60
©55

F r u i t s .
Oranges.
Seedlings................
@4 25
Medt Sweet............. 4 00 ©4 50
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 300s.............
Ex.Fancy  300s........
Ex. Fancy 360s........
Bananas.

@1 10
@4 50
@5 03
@5 50
©

Medium bunches...1  00 @1  25
Large bunches........1  50 ©2 CO

Foreign Dried  Prnita.

Figs.

Californias  Fancy..
@13
Choice, 101b boxes..
@12
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............
@18
Fancy, 121b boxes..
©22
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............
©
Pulled, 6 lb boxes...
©
Naturals,  in bags...
© 7
Dates.
Fards in 10 lb  boxes
Fards  in  60 ib cases © 6
@10
Persians, P H V......
©  6
© 6
lb cases, new........
Salrs,  601b cases....
© 5
Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona.
Almonds, Ivaca........
Almonds,  California
soft shelled...........
Brazils new..............
Filberts  ..................
Walnuts, Gronobles. 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1 
Walnuts,  soft shelie<
Calif......................
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
Table Nuts,  choice..
Pecans, Med.............
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos.......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new...............
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks
Chestnuts per bu......
Peanuts. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted.................
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras 
............

@16
@14
@15 
@ 7 
@10 
@18 
@li
®11
@11
@10
@?K@ 9
@12
@1 60 
@8 50 
©

Roasted 

@7
@s

Wheat.

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

Local Brands.

Spring Wheat Flour. 

Olney A Judson's Brand.

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, Ms............................3 85
Daisy, Ms............................3 85
Daisy, Ms............................ 3 85
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  Ms........................  3 65
Quaker, Ms........................  3 65
Quaker, Ms........................   3 65
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best Ms.............4  65
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 55
Pillsbury’s Best Ms.............4 45
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4 45 
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4  15 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.
Duluth Imperial, Ms...........4 40
Dulutb Imperial, Ms...........4  30
Duluth Imperial, Ms.........   4  20
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Ms.......................  4 60
Gold Medal Ms.........................4 50
Gold Medal Ms.........................4 40
Parisian, Ms...........................  4 eo
Parisian, Ms............................. 4 50
Parisian. Ms............................  4 40
Ceresota, Ms......................  4 50
Ceresota, ms......................  4 40
Ceresota, Ms......................  4 3)
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel,  Ms.........................  4  7*
Laurel, Ms.........................  4  65
Laurel, Ms...........................4 5 ,
Bolted......................  
1 90
Granulated............................  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__ 16 00
No. 1 Com and  Oats..........15 50
Unbolted Com Meal..........14 f 0
Winter Wheat  Bran..........it  00
Winter Wheat Middlings..15 00
Screenings.............................. 14 00
New corn, car lots............   35M
Less than  car lots............   37m
Car  lots............................. 30
Carlots, clipped................   32
Less than  car lots.............34
No. 1 Timothy carlots__ 
lo 03
No, I Timothy, ton lots 
12 01
Fish and Oysters
Per lb.
Whiteflsh................  @  9
T rout......................  @ 
s
Black Bass..............  8  @  10
Halibut...................  @  15
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  4
Bluefish...................  @  n
Live Lobster.........   @ 
ie
Boiled Lobster.......   @  13
......................  @  10
Cod 
Haddock.................  @ 
No.  1  Pickerel........  @ 
s
Pike.........................  @  7
Perch.......................  @  4
Smoked White........  @ 
a
Red Snapper....... 
@  8
Col  River Salmon..  @  12
Mackerel 
..............  @  15
Oysters, per  100.........1  25® 1  50
________ *1  ”0

Feed and Mlllstuffs.

Shell Goods.

Fresh Fish.

Corn.

Meal.

Oat*.

Hay.

7 m

Oils.
Barrels.

Hldos.

Eocene  ......................  @UM
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @10
WW Michigan...........  @ 9M
Diamond White.........  @ 8M
D., S. Gas....................  @12M
Deo. Naptha..............  @12M
Cylinder....................29  @34
Engine  ......................11  @21
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Green No. 1................  @  7%
Green No. 2................   @ 6M
Bulls....................... 
Cured No. 1................   @ t<M
Cured No. 2.............. .  @ 7M
Calfskins, green No. 1  @ 9M
Calfskins, green No. 2  @8
Calfskins, cured No. 1  @10M
Calfskins, cured No. 2  @9
Felts, each.................  50® 1  00
go- i-..........................  © 3M
No. 2...........................  © 2m
Washed, fine  ............   @18
Washed, medium.......  @23
Unwashed, fine_____  9  @12
Unwashed, medium ..14  @16

Pelts.
Tallow.

Wool.

@6

Provisions.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

Barra lad Pork.

 

Sausages.

Mess  ..............................  10 00
Baok  ......................10 50®
Clear back..............  @10  25
9 75
Shortcut.........................  
Pig......................  
14  00
Bean  .............................  
9  CO
Family  ..........................  11  03
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies............................ 
55£
Briskets  ......................... 
5M
5M
Extra shorts................... 
Smoked neats.
Hams, 12 lb  average.... 
2%
Hams, 14 lb average 
... 
9M
Hams, 161b  average....  
9M
Hams, 20 lb  average..... 
9
Ham dried b e e f............  
13M
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  .
Bacon,  clear.................7  @7M
California hams............. 
5M
Boneless hams................ 
8M
Cooked  ham..................10@12M
Lards.  In Tierces.
4%
Compound...................... 
¿M
Kettle.............................. 
%
55 lb Tubs.........advance 
80 lb Tubs.........advance 
M
M
50 lb T ins.........advance 
20 lb Pails.........advance 
%
10 lb Pails.........advance 
%
51b Palls......... advance 
1
1M
3 lb Pails.........advance 
Bologna......................... 
5M
6M
Liver............................... 
Frankfort....................... 
7M
6M
P ork............................... 
Blood  ............................ 
6
Tongue..........................  
9
Head  cheese................... 
6M
Extra  Mess......................... 10 25
Boneless  ........................12 50
Rump.................................. 12 OC
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
M  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 35
M  bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 50
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
M  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 25
M  bbls, SOlbs.....................   2 25
P ork...............................  20
Beef  rounds................... 
3
Beef  middles................. 
10
Sheep.............................  
60
Rolls, dairy..................  
Solid, dairy  ................... 
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery  ___  .. 
Corned  beef,  2 lb  ..........2  15
Corned  beef, 14 lb..........14  75
Roast  beef,  2 lb........... 2  15
Potted  ham,  Ms.........  
50
Potted  ham,  Ms.........   90
Deviled ham,  M8.........   50
Deviled ham,  Ms.........  
90
Potted  tongue M8.........   50
Potted  tongue Ms.........   90
Fresh  Meats.

Canned Meats.

Pigs’ Feet.

Butterlne.

11
iom
)5M
14m

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

70

70

Beef.

Pork.

Carcass........................ 7 @ 8M
Forequarters.............   6 @  6M
Hind  quarters...........  7M©  WM
Loins  No.  3.................12 @14
Ribs..................................9 @14
Rounds......................  @8
Chucks........................  6 @ 6M
Plates  .......................   4  @5
Dressed........................4M@ 5
L oins.........................  @  7
Shoulders.........................  @ 5M
Leaf Lard...................  6M@
Carcass.....................   8M@10
Spring Lambs...........14  @16
Carcass  ......................?M@ 8
Crockery and

Mutton

Veal.

Glassware.

AK.*on>  ETONBW ARB. 

Button.

M gal., per dot.................   40
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5
8 gal., each......................  48
10 gal., each......................  60
12 gal.,  e a c h ....................  72
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 1  05 
20gal. meat-tubs,each....1  40 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ...2 00 
30 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 2 40 
2 
to 6 gal., per gal........   5
Churn Dashers, per doz...  84 
M gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  40 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  43£

Milkpans.

Churns.

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

Stowpans.

M gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot, each  5M 
M gal. fireproof  *■ <11, doz.  86 
I gal. fireprooi, bail, doz.l  10 
M gal., per dos..................  40
M gal., per doz....  ......... .  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal............. 
6

Jugs.

22

Hardware

Two-Story  Carpet  Tack— Misapplied 

Door  Spring.

Written for the  Tradesman.

I  went  into  a  hardware store,  the other 
day,  to  make  a  small  purchase,  and, 
recognizing  an  old  traveling  man  in  the 
proprietor,  I  sat  down  by  the  stove  for 
a  chat.  We  were  busy  telling  old-time 
stories  of  life  on  the  road  when  a  pale, 
nervous-looking man  came  ir  and  asked 
for  carpet  tacks.

“ Cleaning  house?"  asked  the  dealer, 
handing  out  a  package  of  the  best  tacks 
in  stock.

“ That’s  what  the  women  folks  up  at 
my  place  call  it,”   was  the  reply,  “ but 
it  appears  to  me  that  I am the one that’s 
bein’ 
out  of
pocket. ’ ’

cleaned—all 

cleaned 

He  glanced  at  the  tacks  on  the  coun­
ter,  but  did  not  seem  satisfied  with 
them.

“ This  all  the  kind  you’ve got?”   he 

asked. 

—

“ We  have  several  kinds,”   was  the 
“ What  kind  do  you  want? 

reply. 
Those  with  leathers  on?”

“ I ’ve  used  them,”  said  the pale man, 
"and  I  can’t  say  that  I 
like  them. 
Have  you  got  any  two-story  carpet 
tacks?"

“ Any  what?”
“ Two-story  carpet  tacks,”   repeated 

the  customer.

“ I  don't  know  what  you  mean,”   said 
“ I  never  heard  of  such  a 

the  dealer. 
thing  as  a  two-story  carpet  tack.”

“ I  never  did,  either,”   said  the  pale 
man,  “ but I  had  an  idea  there  might  be 
such  a  thing 
in  the  market.  A  two- 
story  tack  would  come  mighty  bandy  up 
at  my  place  just  now.”

“ It's 

“ It  might  be  a  seller,”   said  the  mer­
chant,  with  an  encouraging  smile.  “ If 
you  aren’t  going  to  patent  your  idea, 
you  might  explain  the  scheme  to  me.”
just  this  w ay,"  explained  the 
customer. 
“ My  wife  takes  up  the  car­
pets and  I  put  them  down.  Fair  divi­
sion  of  labor,  eh?  See  what  I’m  get­
ting  at?  Well,  by  the  time  I’ve  lugged 
the  coal  stove  and  the  piano  and  all  the 
heavier  articles  of  furniture about  the 
house  for a  week,  and  come  to  nailing 
down  the  carpets  I’m  strong  enough  to 
pull  down  the  gates  of  a  city,  like  Sol­
omon,  or  Joseph,  or  whoever  it  was  that 
went after things  over  at  Gaza,  and  I’m 
mad,  too. ’ ’

“ I  don’t  doubt 

it,”   said  the  mer­

chant.

“ And  the  consequence  is  that  I  land 
right and  left  when  I  get  an  opening  on 
a  tack-head.  And  my  wife  stands  be­
hind  me  and  encourages  my  efforts  by 
telling  me  what  a  gentle  disposition  I 
used  to  have  and  how  brutal  some  men 
become  when  things  begin  to  go  a  little 
bard. 
'Cause,  you  see,  she’s  got  to  go 
tunneling  into  the  floor  after  them  tacks 
when 
it  comes  time  to  clean  house 
again,  and  she's  got  to  sew  up  the  little 
three-cornered  holes  in  the  carpet  made 
by  the  tack-hammer  when  it  up  and 
slid  around  through  the  fabric.”

“ Why  doesn't  she  get  you  to  take  up 
the 
carpets?"  suggested  the  dealer. 
“ You  ought  to  know  the  combination, 
you  see. ’ '

" I f   she  waited  for  me  to  take  up  the 
carpets,  they’d  never  come  up—not in a 
hundred  years,”   was  the  reply. 
“ I’m 
too  foxy  for  that.  But  about  these two- 
story  tacks.  My 
is  to  have  a 
double-decker—a  tack  with  a  coarse, 
ignorant  bead  to  pound  on,  and  a  lower 
deck,  as  it  were,  to keep  the  tack  from

idea 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

getting  too  enthusiastic  and  going 
into 
the floor  too  far.  Catch  on?  Wouldn’t 
that  be a  winner?”

My  friend  admitted  that  it  might be a 

winner,  if  properly  worked.

“ Then.”   continued  the  customer,  “ I 
could  whack  away  on  the  upper deck 
until  I  got  relief  and  felt  that  I  bad 
done  my  duty,  and  filed  a  protest,  so  to 
speak,  and  Ibe  blooming  tack  wouldn't 
be  dropping  into  the  basement”  

“ Quite  an  idea,”   ventured  the  mer­

chant.

“ You  bet  it  is,”   was  the  reply,  “ for 
there  would  be  the  upper  deck  all  free 
and  clear  to  meet  the  embrace  of  the 
hammer  when  you  wanted  to  pull  it  up. 
I  think  I ’ll  get  the  thing  patented— so 
you  needn’t  mention  this  talk.”

“ Not  a  bit  of  it,”   said  the  dealer. 
“ When  you  get  the  patent  through.  I’ll 
handle  the  tacks  for  you.”

The  pale  man  bought  a  dime's  worth 
of  common  tacks  and  went  away  with  a 
thoughtful  look  on  his  face.

“ Do  you  often  have  experiences  of 
that  kind?”   I  asked,  as  my  friend  sat 
down  again.

“ Not  exactly 

like  that,”   was  the 
reply,  ‘ * but  I  have  queer customers  now 
and  then;  and  I  guess  there’s  one  com­
ing 
I  sold  him  a  door 
spring  this  morning.”

in  right  now. 

The  man  referred  to  stalked  into  the 
store  and  threw  a  broken  door  spring 
down  on  the  counter.

“ Where’s  your  machinery?”   he  de­
manded. 
“ Don’t  you  give  a  ten-horse 
power  engine  or  a  yoke  of  oxen  with 
these  door  springs?”

“ What’s  the  matter?”   asked  the  mer­

chant.

repeated 

“ Matter!”  

the  man. 
“ That’s  a  nice question  to  ask  me. 
I 
worked  an  hour  getting  that  thing  on 
the  door  this  morning,  and  a  sweet 
mess  I  got  into.  You  ought  to  send  that 
over  to  Manila  to  keep  the  natives  in 
subjection.”

“ Won’t 

it  keep  the  door  closed?”  

asked  the  merchant.

“ Yes,  as  a  door-closer  it  is  a  howling 
success,”   said  the  man  angrily.  “ After 
I  got  it  on,  my  wife  wanted  to  go  out 
to  the  well,  and  she  had  to  pry  the  door 
open  with  a  stick  of  wood.  When  she 
got  half  way  through,  it  shut  up  on  her 
like  a  steel  trap.  Yes,  sir,  shut  up  on 
her,  right  on  her back.  On  my  wife’s 
back,  understand.  You  ought  to  give  a 
span  of  mules  as  a  premium  with  that 
door  spring.  Give  me  back my money. ”  
“ I  guess  you  didn't  know  bow  to  put 

it  on,”   suggested  the  dealer.

“ I  followed  directions,”   was  the  re­
“ See  here:  This  end  goes on  the 

ply. 
casing,  doesn’t  it?"

“ Certainly. ”

BI6Y6LE 

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  WORLD,  A R IE L ,  A D M I­
R A L  and SO U D AN  bicycles.
Write  us  and  we ran  probably in­
terest yon.

ADAMS & HART,

12 W. Bridge  St, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

REFRIGERATORSn

YU KO N   AN 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.

FOSTER,  STEVENS &  CO., "SSStSStmM. 1
PHILLIPS  IDEAL 

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lit

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Philip’s
» p P A T f i/
Irfäan» Sei

CREAM 
SEPARATOR

Dilution  Process.

Patented August 23,1897.

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,  a6oSo,“,,,,>,,'*s,~
Grand Rapids, Mich.

f .ROOFING

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

H. fl.  REYNOLDS & SON,

DETROIT, MICH. 

Established 1868. 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

¿IV (Please mention where you saw this advt.)

Office:  8a Campau S t 
Factory: 

ist  Av. and  M. C. Ry.

B rown a S e h l e r

W E S T  B R ID G E  8 T .
G RA N D   R A P ID 8 .  M ICH.

Manufacture a full line of

*  LIGHT  AND  HEAVY  HARNESS 

FOR THE TRADB.

Jobbers  in

SADDLERY  HARDWARB,  ROBBS, 
BLANKETS. COLLARS, WHIPS, BTC.

MAIL ORDERS  GIVEN 
PROMPT  ATTENTION.

Also a full line of

CARRIAQBS AND FARM IMPLEHENTS.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

PATBNT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages Vic per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole 6  Co.’s, new  list............................... dig SSVi
Kip’s  ...................................................... dls 
25
Yerkes 6  Plumb’s............................................. dl« 10610
70
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50&10 

HOUSE  PURN13HINQ  QOODS

Stamped Tin Ware.........   .............new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 20610

HOLLOW  WARB

ROPB8

H1NOBS

Pots...............................................................8061
K ettles......................................................... 60610
Spiders......................................................... 60610
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,8................................ dls 60610
State.........................................perdoa.net  2 58
Sisal, Vi Inch and larger.............................   9ti
Manilla.........................................................  hjJ
Bright..........................................................  
80
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s..........................................................  
80
Gate Hooks and Byes.................................. 
80
Stanley Buie and Level Co.’s.................dls 
70
Steel and Iren...............................................70610
Try and Bevels...........................................  
60
Mitre............................................................ 
50
com. smooth,  cnm.

LEVELS
SQUARES

WIRB  OOODS

5HBBT  IRON

WIRB

TRAPS

83 00
3 00
8 20
3 30
3 40

SAND  PAPER
SASH WBIOHTS

3  50
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  80  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14...................................13  20 
Noe. 15 to 17...................................  3  20 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................  3 30 
Noe. 22 to 24...................................  3  40 
Nos. 25 to 26...................................  3  ?0 
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............................................  
75610
50
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s .........  
Oneida Community, Hawley 6  Norton’s 70610  m
15
Mouse, choker........................... per dos 
Mouse, delusion........................ per dos 
1  -¿6
Bright Market............................................. 
0
Annealed  Market........................................  
to
Coppered Market..........................................61610
Tinned Market............................................   60
Coppered Spring Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.............................   3 ?0
Barbed Fence,  painted....................................  2 80
An Sable..................................................dls 4061C
Putnam............................................................. dls 5
CapweU..................................................... net list
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
40
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought.........  
7»
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
75
Bird  Cages............................................  
40
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
70
Screws, New List...................................  
»5
Casters, Bed and Plate...........................50610610
60
Dampers, American............................... 
600 pound casks.................................  
9
 
Per pound................................................... 
9 Vi
D rop............................................................  145
l  70
B B and Buck............................................. 
 

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

MISCELLANEOUS

METALS—Zinc

HORSB NAILS

WRBNCHBS

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

TIN—Melyn Grade

SOLDER

Bach additional X on this grade, 31X5.

SHOT

 

 

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................   6 2>
14x20 IC, Charcoal..............................  
 
10x14 IX, Charcoal........................................   7 60
14x20 IX, Charcoal........................................   7 50

Bach additional X on this grade, 11.50.

 

ROOPINO  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  5 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  8 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean............................  11  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   6  00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   ’ 0 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   12  00
i0
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
14x56 IX. for No  9  Boilers, 1 P®r P°nna- • • 
10

BOILBR SIZE TIN PLATE 

.....  17

6 

2 >

netting  at  80 and  10  per  cent,  discount.
Steel  and  Iron  Squares— The  manu­
facturers  of  these  goods  have been  com­
pelled  to  advance  their  prices.  The 
discount  now  is  70 and  10 per cent,  from 
list

Shovels  and  Spades—A  further  ad­
vance  of  60c  a  dozen  has  been  made  on 
all  lines of  shovels  and  spades,  which 
makes  the 
jobbing  price  as  follows: 
common  grade,  $7.50  per  dozen ;  socket 
strap,  $8.10 per  dozen.

Wrought  Iron  Gas  Pipe—The  market 
iron  pipe  continues  very 
on  wrought 
strong  and  the  price  at  present,  as 
jobbers,  is  50  and  10  per 
quoted  by 
cent,  discount  from  the  revised 
list. 
This  is an  advance of  some  30  per  cent, 
over  the  price  ruling  some  few  days ago 
and  is  firmly  held by manufacturers,  but 
in  some  instances  jobbers  are  deviating 
from  this  price,  especially  where  they 
had  large  stocks  on  band.

the 

the 

Miscellaneous— We  call  the  attention 
of  the  retail  trade  to  the  market  price 
on 
following  goods  and  desire 
again  to  caution  them  against  selling 
their  stocks on  band  at  less  prices  than 
they  can  be  replaced,  as  there 
is  no 
prospect  that  prices  will  be  lower dur­
ing  the  coming  year,  but  in  many  in­
stances  there  will  be  still  higher  prices. 
The  prices  quoted  below  are  such  as 
are  generally  asked  by 
jobbing 
trade:  Steel  crowbars,  $4.25;  picks 
and  mattocks,  60  and  10  per  cent.  ; 
stone  hammers,  70  and  10  per  cent.; 
harrow  teeth,  3>£c;  No.  27  sheet 
iron, 
$3.50  per  cw t.;  No.  27  Wood’s  smooth 
ron,  $3.60  per  cwt.  ;  common  side  lift 
lanterns,  $4.50  per  dozen ;  y%  inch  com­
mon  chain,  $4.60;  sleigh shoe  steel,  3c; 
toe  calk  steel,  3 ^ c;  Truckee  wedges, 
4 ^ c;  machine  bolts,  60  and  10  per 
cent.;  carriage  bolts,  60  and  10  per 
cent.  ;  Heller’s  horse  rasps  (from  new 
list)  60 and  10 per  cent.  ;  grass  scythes, 
50  per  cent.  ;  grain  scythes,  40  per  cent.

The  world  may  owe  every  man  a  liv­
ing,  but  the  majority  of  them  are  too 
lazy  to bustle around  and  collect  it.

NOW  YOU 
SEE  IT

all  about  you  and 
everywhere that 
the  merchant 

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

THE  EGRY  AUTOGRAPHIC  REGISTER 

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

NOW  YOU  DON’T

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

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

H a r d w a r e   P r i c e   C u r r e n t .

55

........ 

CAPS

AXBS

perm 

BUTTS, CAST

14 00
net  30 00

65
50
........• 3 50
........70610
........70610
70
........ 
per lb 
5

AUOURS AND  BITS
Snell’s..............................................
70
Jenning  genuine............................
........25610
Jennings  Imitation.........................
........60610
First Quality, S. B. Bronze............... ........  6 CO
First Quality, D. B. Bronze..............
........  10 00
First Quality. 8. B. S. Steel............... ........  6 50
First Quality, D. B. Steel.................. ........  11  50
BARR0W5
Railroad.....................................
Garden.......................................
BOLTS
Stove..................................
Carriage new list.............................
Plow...................................... ..........
BUCKETS
Well,  plain.............................
Cast Loose  Pin. figured........
Wrought Narrow............................
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle..................
Cast Steel................................
Ely’s  1-10..................................
Hick’s C. F ...............................
G. D.........................................
Musket..................................
CARTRIDGES
Kim  Fire...............................
Central  Fire.............................
CHISELS
Socket Firmer..........................
Socket Framing..........................
Socket Comer............................
Socket  Slicks............................. 
Morse’s Bit Stocks...................
Taper and Straight Shank........
Morse’s Taper Shank....................
ELBOWS
Com. 4 piece. 6 in............................do*, net 
Corrugated........................................
EXPANSIVE  BITS

40A10
?n
70
70
70
to
........ 
60
......... 50 ài  5
......... 506 5
65
1  25

CROW  BARS

FILES—New  List

15 
QAUGBS

Clark’s small, S18;  large, (26............ ......... 30610
Ives’, 1, *18; 2, (24: 3, «30  .................
25
New American..................................
Tn^io
Nicholson’s ....... ................................
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps......................... ......... 6C610
GALVANIZED  IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27.........  
28
List  12 
1C........ 
17

Discount,  65
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’8........... ......... 60610
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings......... .........  
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings...... .........  
80
Adze Bye............................. .......*17 00, dis 60610
Hunt Eye.....................................*15 00, dis 60610
Hunt’s...... .................................   118 50, dls 20610
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.........................
40
Coffee, P. S. 6  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malléables.. 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry 6  Clark’s...... ........ 
40
Coffee, Enterprise............................. .........  
80
Stebbln’B Pattern............................... ......... 60610
Stebbin’s Genuine............................. ......... 60610
Enterprise, self-measuring.........
30

MOLASSES  OATBS

KNOBS—New List

MATTOCKS

DRILLS

MILLS

........ 

........ 

14 

13 

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both Steel and Wire.

Steel nails, base...............................
........  2 65
Wire nails, base................................ .........   2 75
20 to 60 advance................................ ......... Base
10 to 16 advance................................ ........ 
05
8 advance......................................... .......... 
10
6 advance.........................................
........ 
20
4 advance......................................... .........  
30
3 advance........................................ .........  
45
2 advance........................................ .........  
70
Fine 3 advance.................................
50
........ 
Casing 10 advance............................ .........  
15
Casing  8 advance............................. .........  
25
Casing  6 advance............................. .........  
35
Finish 10 advance............................. ____ 
25
Finish  8 advance............................. .........  
35
Finish  6 advance............................. .........  
45
Barrel % advance............................. ........... 
85
Ohio Tool Co.’8,  fancy...................... .........   @50
Sciota Bench..................................... ......... 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.............. .........   @50
Bench, firstqnality............................ .........  @50
Stanley Rule and level Co.’s wood.
.........  
60
Fry, Acme........................................
...60610610
Common, polished............................
706 5
Iron and  Tinned  ............................. .........  
60
Copper Rivets and Burs..................
45

PLANES

RIVETS

PANS

the  door?"

“ And  this  end  goes  on 
“ Of  course."
“ And  yon  tighten  it  up  with  this  lit­
tle  bar,  and  drop  this  little nail  in  here 
to  keep 
it  from  springing  back?  Just 
so.  Oh,  I  know  how  to  work  it  all  right, 
but  I  don’t  propose  to  put  water  power 
into  my  residence  just  to  make  things 
easy  for this  old  door spring."

“ Was  your  wife  injured?"  asked  the 

merchant.

“ No;  I  got  a  sledge-hammer  and 
pounded  the  thing  until  it  reluctantly 
let go;  and  when  it  did  yield  to  supe­
rior  force  it  made a  jump  at a  window 
and  smashed  a  two-dollar  pane  of  glass. 
But  you  needn’t  pay  for  the  glass.  Just 
give  me  my  15  cents  and  I’ll  go  and  tie 
that  door  up  with  a  rope."

“ Where  did  you  attach  this  spring?" 

asked  the  merchant.

“ On  top  of the  door,  where  the  other 
one  was,"replied  thecustomer.  “ Don’t 
think  I  put 
it  on  the  chicken  house, 
do  you?”

“ W ell,"  said  the  dealer,  “ this  spring 
goes  on  the  side,  like  that  one  there," 
pointing  to a  similar  spring  on  one  of 
the  store  doors.  ' * If you  try  it  that  way, 
you  won’t  have any  trouble  with  it."

The  man 

looked  puzzled  for  a  mo­
ment,  and  then  burst  into a  loud  laugh.
“ I  guess  I’m  getting  daffy,"  be  said. 
“ Come  out  and  have  something?  This 
is  on  m e."

The dealer  shook  his  head.
“ Well,  here’s  15  cents  for  a  new 
spring,"  said  the  fellow,  “ and  you 
needn’t  send  any  mule  out  to  work  it."
* ‘ It  takes  all  sorts of  people  to  make 
a  world,"  said  my  friend,  as  the  cus­
tomer  went  out,  and  then  we  went  back 
to  our  stories  of  road  life.

A l f r e d   B .  T o z e r .

The  Hardware  Market.

The  market 

is  in  such  a  state  that 
advances  are  being  constantly  made,  as 
one  line  after  another  responds  to the 
general  upward  tendency,  in  sympathy 
with  the  course of  iron  and  metals  and 
the  heavy  demand. 
In  a  good  many 
lines,  manufacturers  are  revising  costs 
and  preparing  for the  announcement of 
new  prices.  The  greatest  trouble  ex­
perienced  with  dealers  at  the  present 
time  is  their  inability  to  get  orders 
filled  for goods  placed  many  weeks ago. 
It  seems 
in  some  cases  to 
get  goods  without  waiting  at  least  one 
or  two  months.  Advances  are  being 
made  on  nearly  everything,  and 
it  is 
not  believed  by  those  who  are  familiar 
with  the  markets  that  any  declines  may 
be  looked  for this  year.

impossible 

Wire  Nails—June  1  an  advance  of  25c 
per  cwt.  was  made,  which  brings  the 
price  as  follows:  t.  o.  b.  mill,  in  car- 
lots,  $2.45; 
less  than  carlots,  $2.55; 
from  stock,  $2 65.

Barbed  Wire— Was advanced  25c  per 
cwt.  at  the  same  time  the advance  was 
made  on  wire  nails,  which  brings  the 
price  as  follows:  f.  o.  b.  mill,  painted 
barbed,  carlots,  $2.55;  painted  barbed, 
less  than  carlots, $2.65;  painted  barbed, 
from  stock,$2.80;  galvanized  barbed 50c 
advance  on  these  prices.  Plain  wire 
was  also advanced  25c per  cwt.,  making 
the  price  in  carlots $2.35  for  No.  9,  less 
than  carlots $2.45  and  from  stock  $2.60, 
with  the  regular  advdnces for the smaller 
sizes of  wire.

Wire  Cloth  and  Poultry  Netting— 
There  continues  to be  a  serious  scarcity 
on  these  goods  and 
jobbers  are  com­
pelled  to  pay  much  higher  prices  in  or­
der  to  keep  their  stocks  well  assorted 
and  then  find  it  difficult  to do so.  Wire 
cloth  is  now quoted  at $1.75  and  poultry

V a r n a l l   I n s t it u t e

NORTHVILLE,  MICH.

FOR THE 
CURE  OP

Established  over  seven  years. 
Permanent  and  reliable.  Rem­
edies positively harmless.  Cures 
positive  and  permanent. 
Send 
for pamphlet and terms to

DR.  W.  H. YARNALL, Manager

NORTHVILLE,  MICH.

Jars,  Vi gal.....................3
Pans,  black,  Vi gal.........3%c each
each
Pans, black, % gal.........4Vic each
Jars,  i  to 6 gal.......... ......... 5c gal
Pans, black,  1  to 2 gal.........5c gal
Jars, 8,  10 and  12 g a l......  6c gal
Jars,  15 and 20 g a l...........7%c gal
Pans,  Peoria or white,
Churns,  2 to 6 gal............Slic gal
Pans,  P’a or w., % gal..454c each 
J“ gs,  54 g a l.......................4c each
Pans, P ’a-w.,  1  to 2 gal. -SVic gal
Jugs,  1  to 5 ga l.................... 6c 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.

Vi gal...................... 4c each

CHICAGO  POTTERY  CO..  Clark  QUO  Tweillh  SIS.,  C M ,   III.

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Push  Your  Collections.

Those  who  give  credit  ought  to  know 
that  they  injure  both  themselves  and the 
debtors  by  undue  leniency.  Exact  ful­
fillment  of  the  contract  is  essential  to 
the  well-being  of  both  parties.  The 
creditor  is  injured  by  delay,  for it keeps 
him  short  of  cash,  and  makes  it  neces­
sary  to  pay  more  for 
interest,  for  it 
causes  the  loss  of  what  could  be  made 
by  discounting  bills.  He 
is  also  in­
jured  by  the 
increased  and  constantly 
growing  risk  which  delay  brings,  and 
further  by  the  certain  and  costly  de­
moralization  which  follows  as  the conse­
quence  of  all  wrong  methods.  Business 
demoralization  is  nowhere  more  appar­
ent  than  in  connection  with  this  cause.
is  injured  by  the  false 
feeling  of  restfulness  and  confidence 
which  the  leniency  of  his  creditor  en­
genders.  By  this  leniency  he  is  taught 
to  rely  upon  using  what  really  belongs 
to  another,  but  which  has  been 
in 
his  bands  through  a  mistaken  desire  to 
accommodate.  He  is  wronged  by  the 
demoralization  which  comes 
to  him 
through  false  training.  Further,  he  is 
injured  by  the  temptation  which  is  thus 
in  pressing  his 
presented  to  be  slack 
own  collections. 
Leniency  upon  his 
part  toward  debtors  increases  his  busi­
ness  losses.

The  debtor 

left 

Many 

instances  are 

in  mind  where 
loans  and  discounts  have  been  refused 
«imply  because  the  banker  has  per­
ceived  that  the  applicant,  instead  of 
borrowing  money,  should  push  |bis  col­
lections. 
In  some  instances  the  would- 
be  borrower  has  subsequently  expressed 
bis  gratitude  for  the  refusal,  because the 
lesson  thereby  taught  resulted  in  saving 
of  money. 
I  recall  an  instance  of  too 
easy 
loaning  by  a  bank  to  a  retail 
butcher,  which  resulted  in  the  borrower 
deliberately  permitting  customers’  bills 
to  grow  until  they  became  so  large  that 
in  many 
instances  the  temptation  to 
default  was  too  great  to  be  resisted. 
The  end  was  what  might  have  been  ex­
pected.  The  butcher  lost heavily  and 
finally  failed.  The  bank  lost  its  claim. 
It  had  loaned  thousands  where  hundreds 
would  have  been  a  reasonable  limit. 
Had  it  'oaned  only  so  much  as  was  ap­
propriate  there  would  have  been  no 
failure  upon  the  part  of  the  butcher and 
no  loss  to  the  bank.  A  strong  and  firm 
adherence  to  contracts  is  essential  to 
safety.  Extreme leniency always  means 
loss  and  often  absolute  ruin.

E.  S.  C a m p b e l l .

Bermuda  Onion  Season  Closing. 

Correspondence New York Commercial.

This  season’s  crop  of  Bermuda onions 
has  been  one  of  the  largest  in  the  his­
tory  of  shipments  from  the island.  The 
total  to  date,  not  including  the  quantity 
now  on  the  way  here  and  in  the  hands 
of  shippers,  aggregates  402,237  crates, 
against  a  total  last  year  to  date of  300,- 
000  crates.  The  season  has  yet  about 
three  weeks  to  run,  but  it  is  not  antici­
pated  that  later shipments  will  be  large, 
owing  to  the  low  prices  and  the  fact 
that  Southern  and  Egyptian  onions  are 
competing  factors  in  the  trade.  Early 
shipments  from  Bermuda,  both  of  stock 
sold  by  the  auction  system  and  through 
the  regular  commission  dealers,  brought 
fairly  good  prices. 
In  some  cases  the 
auction  sales  gave  much  better  returns 
than  did  the  commission  offerings,  but 
when  shipments  became  heavy,  as  they 
did  during  May,  the  drop  in  prices  was 
rapid  and  steady.  Late sales  have  been 
from  55c  to  $1  per  crate,  according  to 
condition.  The  quality  of  the  late-ar­
riving  stock 
is  said  to  be  uniformly 
poor,  owing  to  delay  in  shipment  and 
the  extremely  hot  weather. 
is  re 
ported  that  considerable  stock  spoiled 
in  transit  and  that  shippers  in  Bermuda 
have  been  prevented  from  making  reg­

It 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ular  shipments  owing  to  the  difficulty 
in  procuring  crates.  The  early  crop  of 
onions  in  the  Florida  and  Georgia  sec­
tions 
is  coming  along  finely  and  large 
shipments  may  be  expected 
in  about 
ten  days.
Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association  Gain­

ing  Ground.

Grand  Rapids,  June  13— Last  week 
we  had  election  of  officers.  We  are  now 
in  shape  to  do  business.  All  indica­
tions  point  to  smooth  sailing.  Attend­
ance  was  good  and  everyone  took  an 
active  part  in  what  was  doing.  Here 
is 
the  roster:

John  Sluvter.
J.  A.  Van  Zouren.
C.  A.  Bouman.
Wykes  Market  Co.,  Ltd.
C.  C.  Wagle.
C.  Wagle.
Payne  Bros.
A.  Schuchardt.
D.  J.  Everett.
A  Danbee.
Leon  Centille.
Phil.  Graham.
L.  M.  Wilson.
J.  DenHerder.
Gil  Vogle.  .
J.  DeHoop.
James  McCool.
E.  Laubengaver.
Adam  Her.
Garet  Demmink.
C.  Bartel.
H.  Meyering.
B.  E.  Kinney.
Sikkema  &  Mohrbardt.
Frank  Padelt.
Frank  Kliber.
John  Rottier.
Lewis  Hoelzley.
C.  B.  Dressier.
Frank  Hoizer.
Henry  Erbrodk.
Arthur  Watkins.
L.  J.  Katz.
Albert  Stein.
Hilber  &  Goetz.
Hufford  &  Geibe.
H.  Schlicbtig  &  Son.
James  Wickham.
Braun  &  Hesse.
John  Rauser.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler.
Thomasma  Bros.
H.  G.  Hunderman.
Peter  Salm.
Frank  Vidro.
August  Kischel.
Fred  Conzelmann.
P.  D.  Mohrbardt.
C.  Oosterveer.
Does  your  name  appear  on  it? 

If 
not,  don’t  miss  the  next  meeting, 
Thursday,  June  15. 
It  will  surely  in­
terest  you.  This  will  be  the  last  open 
meeting.  None  but  members  will  be 
entitled  to  a  seat  after  Thursday.  Be 
sure  and  came.  All  the  members,  in­
cluding  those  who  join 
this  coming 
meeting,  are  expected  to  bring  "one 
plunk’ ’ as  dues  for  one  year.  Surely 
a  small  sum.  We  need  the  where­
withal,  so  bring  the  dollar  along  and 
settle  up  with  the  Secretary.

Committee  are  working  bard  to  make 
this  Association  a  success. 
Just  re­
ceived  notice  that  we  will  be  incorpo­
rated  at  our  next  meeting,  therefore  we 
expect  every  member  to  be  present,  and 
those  who  are  not  members  should 
join 
at  this  very  meeting.  You  will  feel 
better.  Try  it.  P h i l   H i l b e r ,  Sec’y.

Their  estates 

Among  those  who  perished  when  the 
French  steamer  Bourgogne  sank  in  col­
lision  last  July  were  Mrs.  Pauline  Costa 
Langles,  of  New  Orleans,  and  her 
daughter. 
represented 
about  $200,000.  Both 
left  wills,  but 
the  legatees  of  the  mother  were  not  the 
legatees  of  the  daughter.  In  settling  the 
estate  the  question  arose  as  to  which 
died  first.  A 
jury  was  unable  to  de­
cide,  as  there  were  no  witnesses  who 
could  tell.  The  matter  was  therefore 
left  in  the  hands  of  Judge  Righton.  He 
has  just  decided  that  the  younger  wom­
an,  being  the  stronger,  would  naturally 
live  longer,  the  presumption  being  that 
both  were  thrown  into  the  water  at  the 
same  time. 

_ 

.

in 

Consul  General  Mason,  who 

is  sta­
tioned  at  Berlin,  has  made  an 
interest­
ing  report  to  the  State  Department  rel­
ative to  the  department  store  evil.  He 
shows  that  a  movement  against  depart­
ment  stores  began  in  Germany  in  1896, 
and  he  describes  in  detail  the  various 
measures  that  were  proposed 
the 
Reichstag  and  elsewhere  to  restrict  the 
growth  of  these  octopi.  A  progressive 
tax  was  the  basis  of  most  of  the  sugges­
tions,  but  the  German  government  has 
been  unable  thus  far to  find  any  meas­
ure  that  does  not  violate  the  higher  law 
of  the  empire.  Incidentally,  Mr.  Mason 
gives a  short  history  of  French 
legisla­
tion  on  the  subject.  Reference  is  made 
to  the  organization  of  a  retail  league  of 
40,000 merchants  to  oppose  the  depart- 
ent  stores.  The  founder  of  one  of 
is  authority  for  the  state­
these  stores 
ment  that 
it  soon  extinguished  about 
goo  small  retail  shops  and  that  it  now 
does  an  annual  business  sufficient  to 
maintain  nearly  2,000  small  stores.

If you'd sell it, talk it up;
If you'd buy it, talk it down. 

And if from day to day 
You continue in this way, 

You may sometime own a town.

Every  man  is  supposed  to  know  his 
own  business,  but  it  is  hard  to  convince 
some  of  his  friends  that  be  does.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

__________ 

FOR  SALE—THE  GRANDEST,  MOST  Pic­
turesque, and  greatest money-making  sum­
mer resort in Michigan.  Owing to failing health 
the owner has been obliged to place the famous 
Seven Islands resort  on  the  market,  including 
furniture, 75 new row boats, fine steamer carrying 
150 passengers and making a 3-mile trip through 
the most lovely  scenery  beautifully  shaded  by 
forest trees  growing  upon  the  ledges  of  rocks 
70 and 80 feet above the water.  Must be seen  to 
be appreciated.  The  grounds  are well lighted 
by  electricity;  hotel  and all  buildings  are  of 
modern style;  bowling alley 20 by  116 feet;  ar­
tesian  wells,  city  water,  and  everything  nice. 
For particulars,  address  Townsend  &  Johnson 
or J. D. Derby, Lansing, Mich.___________981
FOR  SALE-LUMBER  AND  COAL  YARD.
desirably located on  State  street,  Marshall, 
Mich.  Well  established  business  and  good, 
dean stock that will invoice (yard and material) 
at about $5,000.  Reasons  for  selling  given  on 
application to C.  S.  Hamilton,  Marshall,  Mich.
982
S HE SHAFTING. HANGERS AND PULLEYS 
formerly used to  drive  the  Presses  of  the 
Tradesman  are  for  sale  at  a  nominal  price. 
Power users making additions or  changes  will 
do well  to  investigate.  Tradesman  Company, 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.__________________983
Fo r  sa l e  o r  e x c h a n g e  f o r   c le a n
Stock  of  Groceries  or  General  Merchan­
dise—58 acres best land in  Emmet county;  part 
timber, part improved.  Address  Box  28,  Good 
Hart, Mich.__________________________976
rp o  RENT-TWO STORES IN NEW  CORNER 
X   block In  city  of  Belding—one  of  the  best 
towns  in  Michigan.  Has  eight  factories,  all 
running,  comprising  the  following:  Two  silk 
mills,  two  refrigerator  factories,  basket  fac­
tory,  shoe  factory,  furniture factory,  box  fac­
tory; planing mill and flouring mill.  Stores are 
located  on Main  street in  good  location.  Size 
of corner store, 35x85 feet  Good basement, run­
ning water, electric  lights.  Rent  to  good  par­
ties  reasonable.  Address Belding Land &  Im- 
provement Co., Belding, Mich.__________ 9C9
W ANTED  A $1,500  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, Mich._________________ 974
A A A  CASH:  10  ACRES,  $1,000;  FIVE 
i w V  lots,  $630  each;  modern  home, 
$¿,800,  for stock  of  merchandise.  Address  No. 
975, care Michigan Tradesman.__________ 975
W ANTED-LUMBER YARD.  LARGE PAT- 
ronage here and  around  us.  Good  open­
ing for  somebody.  Address  President of  Law­
979
rence,  Mich. 
W ANTED-WILL  TRADE  FIRST-CLASS 
fruit and  stock  farm—165 acres;  one-half 
mile from depot;  60 rods from  creamery, 20 rods 
from three stores;  well watered, good buildings; 
4.500  peach  trees;  3,500  living  bearing  trees. 
The  best  location  in  Michigan.  Never fails. 
Trade  for  mercantile  stock  in  any  good  live 
town.  Address  Postofflce  Box  137,  PlainweU, 
Mich. 
977
FOR  SALE-GOOD  BAZAAR  STOCK.  EN- 
quire  of  HoUon  &  Hungerford,  Albion, 
925
Mich. 

970

Fo r sa le—c l e a n   g r o c ery  stock,  in -
volcing  $800,  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. 
OR  SALE  FOR CASH—BEST  HARDWARE 
business in Michigan.  Will sell  the  wholf 
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,  47,000.  Address  No.  973,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
973
W ANTED—HARDWOOD  TIMBER  LANDS 
in Michigan in large  or  small  quantities. 
Address Freeman Lathrop, Room 525,  Michigan 
972
Trust Building, <->rand Rapids. 
IfiOR  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. 

971

965

966

of groceries, notions, etc., in good Michigan 
town.  Address No.  965,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man 

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. 

t iHJR  SALE—STORE  AND  SMALL  STOCK 
I ¡'OR SALE—WATER  POWER  AND  FLOUR- 
I ¡'OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—A  50 BARREL 
.  full  roller  mill  with  sawmill  attached. 
Best  water  power in  Southern  Michigan.  Ad­
dress Miller, care Michigan Tradesman. 
961
W ANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A  RUBBER 
stamp.  Best  stamps  on  earth  at  prices 
that  are  right.  Will  J.  Weller,  Muskegon, 
958
Mich. 
Dr u g  s t o r e  f o r   sa l e—in   t h r iv in g  
city  of  over  10,000;  pleasant  competition; 
no cat prices;  modem  fixtures;  invoices  about 
$5,000.  No  better  opening  in  State.  Address 
957
Box 541, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
W 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
Dr u g sto ck—w il l in v e n t o r y  a bou t
fixtures,  balance  drugs 
and sundries.  For cash, will sell for 50 percent, 
of amount it inventories.  R. E. Hardy, Lansing, 
944
Mich. 

$1,000—one-third 

■ NY  ONE  WISHING  TO  ENGAGE  IN  THE 

grain and produce and  other  lines  of busi­
ness can  learn  of  good  locations  by  communi­
cating  with  H.  H.  Howe,  Land  and  Industrial 
Agent C. & W. M. and D., G. R.  &  W.  Railways, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
919
For  s a l e —a   r a r e  o p p o r t u n it y —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  »dapted  for  any  line  of 
business and conducted  at small  expense.  Get 
in line  before  too late.  Failing  health  reason 
for  selling.  Address  P.  O.  Box  304,  Negau- 
nee, Mich. 
913
PAYNE  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

f 'OR  SALE —CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK 

located at one of the best trading  points  in 
Michigan.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $5,100. 
Store and warehouse will be rented  for  $30 per 
month.  Will sell on  easy  terms.  Address  No. 
868, care Michigan Tradesman.__________ 868
Fo r  sa l e—n e w   g e n e r a l  stock,  a
splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad- 
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman.  680

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

WANTED-BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 

trv;  any quantities.  Write me.  Orrin J. 

Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 

810

MISCELLANEOUS.

WANTED — REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 

who  is  familiar  with  lines  carried  in  a 
general  store.  State  wages.  E.  E.  Lessiter, 
Grattan, Mich. 
ANTED-ACTIVE  YOUNG  MAN  FAMIL- 
iar with  school  furniture  business  as  as­
sistant  manager.  State experience  and  salary. 
Address No. 978, care Michigan Tradesman. 978
W ANTED—POSITION  IN  STORE  OR  OF- 
flce by energetic married man.  Competent 
book-keeper  and  has  clerked  in  grocery.  Best 
of references.  Address  Box  494, Traverse City, 
968
Mich. 

980

Aluminum  Money

Will Increase Your Business.

Cheap and Effective.

Send for samples and prices.

C.  H.  HANSON,

44  5 .  Clark  St.,  Chicago,  111.

Travelers* Time  Tables.
CHICAGO
Lv. G. Rapids............   7:30am  12:00nn  *11:45pm
At.  Chicago............... 2:10pm  5:15pm 
7:20am
Lv.Chicago...11:45am 6:50am  4:15pm *ll:50pm 
Ar. 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

Chicago.

Others week days only.

♦Bvery  day. 

" C   I  1\ U 1 1  9 

H P T D n i T   Grand Rapids & Western.

Apr. to,  1899-

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........ 7:00am  1:35pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit....................11:40am  5:45pm 10:05pm
Lv. Detroit....................8:15am  1:10pm  0:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......  1:10pm  5:20pm  l0:55pm
Lv. G R 7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G R 11:45am  9:30pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Qreenville.

Gxo.  D eHa v e n .  General Pass. Agent

/ in   A  VTF\  Trunk Railway  System
v J I v A l  1 U   Detroit and Milwaukee Div

(In effect May  1, 1899.)

going  BAST

Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit 4 N T .........t 6:45am t  9:55pm
Detroit  and  Bast..................+10 :16am  t 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit &  Bast........t  3:27pm tl2:50pm
Buffalo,  N  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t’d E x ... .* 7:20pm *10:16am 
some  west
Gd. Haven and Int Pts......... *  8:30am *10:00pm
Gd.  Haven  Express............... *10:21am * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven  and Int  Pts......... tl2:58pm t 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee...+ 5:12pm tl0:llam  
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee... +10:00pm 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.  Justin,  City  Pass.  Ticket Agent,

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.
AD A MR  Rapidi  *   Indiana Railway
U K ™ ' 11/  

May 14,  1899.

Northern  Div.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am t  5:15pm
Trav. City & Petoskey............t   1:40pm 1i0:l5pm
Cadillac accommodation........t  5:25pm tlO :55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City....+11:00pm  t   6:30am 
7:45am train, parlor  car;  11:00pm train, sleep­
ing car.
Southern  Div.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati...............................t  7:10am t  9:45pm
............................t 2:00pm t   1:30pm
Ft. Wayne 
Cincinnati...............  ...........* 7:00pm * 6:30am
Vicksburg  and Chicago........*11:30pm * 9:00am
7:10  am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati 
and  parlor  car  10  Chicago;  2:00pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Wayne:  7:00pm  train  has 
sleeping car  to  Cincinnati;  11:30pm  train  has 
coach and sleeping car to Chicago.

Chicago Trains.

TO  CHICAGO.

FROM  CHICAGO.

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

GOING WBST.

GOING BAST.

LvG’d  Rapids......... ,.t7:36am tl  15pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon..............9:00am  2:25nm  7:05pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon.........   ,.t8:10am  +11:45am  t4:00pm
Ar G’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:56pm  5:20pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm. 
tBxcept Sunday.  «Daily

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

Gen'l Passr. and Ticket Agent. 
Ticket Agent Union Station.
DULUTH, Soflth  Shore and Atlantic 
Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L)+11:10pm  +7:45am
4:20pm
Lv. Mackinaw City........... 7:35am
5:20pm
Ar. St.  Ignace.........................  9:00am
9:50pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.............  12:20pm
10:40pm
Ar. Marquette  .......................   2:50pm
12:45am
Ar. Nestoria............................  5:20pm
8:30am
Ar. Duluth  ...........  —  
...................
Lv. Duluth.............................................  +6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria............................ tll:15am  2:45am
Ar. Marquette....................... 
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie.............. 
..
3:30pm 
Ar. Mackinaw City................ 
8:40pm  11:00am
G. W  H ib b a r d , Gen. PasR. Agt. Marquette. 
K  C.  O v la tt  T r a v   P«s«  A c t.  G ra n d  R a p id s

WEST  b o u n d.

BAST  b ou nd.

Railway.

MANISTEE &  Northeastern  Ry.

Best route to Manistee.

Via  C. &  W .  M.  Railway.

Lv Grand R ap id s............................7:00am
A r  M anistee................................. 12:05pm
Lv  Manistee...................... .............  S :30am
A r Grand  Rapids  .........................   1:00pm

4:10pm9:4Spm

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan  Business Men’s Association 

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

retary, B. A.  Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Retail Qracers’ Association 

President, J.WisiiER, Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 

A.  Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association

President,  C.  G.  J k w e t t ,  Howell;  Secretary 

H e n r t  C. M in n ie ,  Eaton Rapids.

Detroit  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J oseph Knight;  Secretary, E. M a r k s . 

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

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association 
K l a p  ;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  L ehman.

President,  F rank  J.  Dy k ;  Secretary,  Homed 

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

President, P. F. T reanor;  Vice-President, John 

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

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

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

land;  Treasurer, Wm.  C.  Koehn.

Bay Cities  Retail Grocers’ Association

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

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

President,  T hos.  T.  Ba tes;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

Owosso  Business  Men’s   Association 

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

bell;  Treasurer, W. E.  Collins.

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

Partridge.

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

Treasurer. S. J.  Hupfobd.

St. Johns Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, T hos  Bromley;  Secretary,  Frank A. 

Percy ;  Treasurer, Clark A.  Putt.

MONEY IN  IT

It  pays  any  dealer  to  have  the  reputation  of 
It  pays  any  dealer  to  keep 

keeping pure goods. 
the  Seymour  Cracker.

There’s  a  large  and  growing  section  of  the 
public who  will  have  the  best,  and  with  whom  the 
matter of a cent or so a pound makes no impression. 
It’s not  “ How cheap” with them;  it’s “ How good.” 
For this  class  of  people  the  Seymour  Cracker  is 
made.  Discriminating  housewives  recognize  its 
superior  Flavor,  Purity,  Deliciousness,  and  will 
have  it

If you,  Mr.  Dealer,  want the trade  of  particu­
lar people,  keep the  Seymour  Cracker.  Made  by

NATIONAL  BISCUIT  COM PANY,

G RA N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICH.

Perry Business Men’s Association

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

W O R L D ’S   B E S T

VIA

Yale  Bnsiness Men’s Association

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

T R A V E L

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

TO   A LL  PO IN TS  IN  MICHIGAN

AND  8TEA M 8H IP   LIN ES 

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G J. JOHNSON CIGAR OO.

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

% X hey  all  say r  

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

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W ho  urges  you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

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Is  it  not  the 
public?  The  manufacturers,  by  constant and  judi­
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose 
very  presence  creates  a  demand  for  other  articles.

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MICA

AXLE

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

ILLUMINATING  AND 
LUBRICATING OILS

Epps’
Cocoa

Epps’
Cocoa

G R A T E F U L  

COM FORTIN G

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

JAM ES  E P PS  &  CO.,  Ltd., 

Homoeopathic  Chemists,  London, 

England.

B R E A K FA ST

SU PPE R

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Epps’
Cocoa

Epps’
Cocoa

60.000 IIIIOMMil Scales

In  use  in  the  United  States  and  Canada.  The  Money 
Weight  System  embodied  in  our  scales  insures  the  mer­
chant  who  will  use  them  and  abandon  the  old  pound 
and  ounce  method  of  handling  goods  a  sure  and  just 
profit  on  every  ounce  of  goods  sold  by  weight.  The 
profit  on  groceries  is  small  enough,  and  if you  are  going 
to  lose  it,  how  do  you  hope  to  hold  out?

We  are  a  good-sized  insurance  company  all  by  our­
selves.  Your  insurance  begins  when  you  begin  to  use 
our  Money  Weight  Computing  Scales,  and  your  policy 
matures  immediately,  in  commencing  to  save  losses.

For full  information  write  to

The compound scale  go.,

Dayton, Ohio,  U. S.  fl.

