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.

IL L U M IN A T IN G   AND
LU B R IC A TIN G   O ILS

W A TER   W H ITE  H E A D LIG H T  O IL  IS  TH E  

S T A N D A R D   TH E   W O R LD   O V E R

HIGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR  EMPTY  CARBON  AND  GASOLINE  BARRELS

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

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D P D D i r . A   r n   Mf£*  Chemists,
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ALLEOAN,  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

WORLD’S  BEST

50.  CIGAR.  ALL  JOBBERS  AND

G  J. JOHNSON CIGAR OO.

©RAND  RAPIDS.  MIOH.

SM O K E

Banquet Ball  Little cigars

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

M USSELM AN  GR06ER  60.,  Grand  Rapids,  Midi.

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Don’t'allow any man to say  that

YOU’RE  A  LIAR

when you are telling the truth, but just say

YOU  CUBAN  VILLAIN
AND  YOU  KNOW  IT

it is a plain fact that  PH ELPS,  B R ACE & CO., of Detroit,  Mich., have the most complete line of high grade cigars in America

and with the great air-tight vault which they have just completed they are prepared to do the Largest Cigar Business in America.

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Epps’
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G R A T E F U L  

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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 P S  &  CO.,  Ltd., 

Homoeopathic  Chemists,  London, 

England.

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Detroit Agency,  118 Bates St.

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

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ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS 

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

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

J  ROBINSON,  ilanager.

(0  This is the guarantee we give with every barrel of our  vinegar.  Do  you  know  of any  other 
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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
scription  We  also  make  Folding  Box* s  for  Patent  Medicine,  Cigar 
Clippings,  Powders, etc., etc.  Gold and  Silver  Leaf work  and  Special 
Die Cutting done  to suit  Write for prices  Work guaranteed.

H as  been  recognized  for years  as  the  best  b ak ­
ing  pow der  for  the  m oney  ever  m anufactured.  A ll 
we  w ant  is  to  h ave  the  grocer  give  it  a  trial.  A fte r 
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GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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W e  offer  a  complete  line  of  FIREW ORKS  at  rock  bottom  prices  tor  the 
best quality goods,  Firecrackers,  etc.  We  make  a  specialty of City Displays.

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Kalamazoo,  Michigan.

Volume XVI.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21,  1899.

Number 822

Don’t write to 

BARLOW  BROS. 

OR AND  RAPIDS,  MICH. GAN 

II  Yon  lire  Over  SO Hants  i
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for sample sheet of their  “ PERFECTIO N   J  
TIM E  BOOK  AND P A Y  R O L L.”  
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Their  W A G E  TA B L E ,  howe ver,  fits  I  
(and pleases) firms  who  hire  from  one  to  a 
 
million  hands.  So do  their  PAT.  MANI-  T 
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*   IFOLD  SHIPPING  BLAN K S. 

Æ e s H s a s a s a ^ a s a s a s H s a s ^ s a ,
I  Of every kind and style  ji: 
for Men’s and  Youths’ 
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I  wear, manufactured by 
I  the oldest firm in U. S., 

KOLB &  SON, 
Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Closing out  balance of 
I  our spring goods cheap 
I  Write  our  represent- 
I  ative, William Connor,
!  P.  O.  Box  346,  Mar­
shall,  Mich.,  to call on 
you  or  meet  him  June 
23  to  27,  inclusive,  at 
Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.  Pur­
chaser’s  expenses  are 
allowed.  Mail orders 
have quick attention. 

asasasasasassasasasa a£

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The  Preferred  Bankers 
U fe  Assurance  Com pany

of  Detroit,  Mich. 

Annual Statement,  Dec. 31,  1898.

Commenced Business 8ept.  I,  1893.

Insurance in  Force..................................$3,299,000  00
I-edger Assets  ......................................   *  45,714  70
Ledger I .labilities 
21  OS
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Losses Adjusted and Unpaid............... 
None
51,061  00
Total  Death Losses Paid to Date......... 
Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
1,030  00
.....................................  
Death Losses  Paid  During the Year,.. 
11,000 00
Death  Rate for the Year”....................... 
3  64

eficiaries 

F R A N K   E.  ROBSON,  President. 

TRU M AN   B. GOODSPEED, S  cretary.

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We guarantee prompt pay- 
ment of all money collect- 
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T he  M ercantile  A gency

Established  1841.

R. O.  DUN & CO.

Wlddicomb Bld'g, Grand Rapids. Mich.

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

L. P. WITZLEBEN  flanager.

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Prompt, Conservative, Safe. 

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Save  Trouble. 
Save  Money 
Suva Tima.

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

5.
6. 
8. 
9.

10.11. 

The  Dry Goods  Market.
Thoughts  Suggested  by  a  Rhyme. 
Around  the  State.
Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
W oman’s  World.
Editorial.
Doomed to  Defeat.
Shoes and Leather.
Plea  for  Legible  Invoices.
New  Rules for  Handling Eggs. 
19.
Gotham  Gossip.
13.
Poor  Help.
14.
Men  of Mark.
15.
Acetylene  Lighting.
16. 
Commercial  Travelers.
17.
18.  Drugs and  Chemicals.
19.  Drug Price  Current,
80.  Grocery  Price Current.
81.  Grocery Price  Current.
88.  H ardw are.
83.  Getting  the  People.
84  G.  R.  Retail  Grocers’  Association.  • 

H ardw are  Price  Current.
Business  Wants.

BUSINESS  C O N D ITIO N S.

With  those  lines  of  trade  which  have 
long  taken  the  lead  in  the  present  un­
precedented  activity  showing  no  signs 
of  abatement,  the  slower  ones,  such  as 
textile  manufactures,  are  rapidly  falling 
into  the  line  of  record-breaking  pro­
gression.  The  change  is  most  marked 
in  the  woolen  goods  trade,  which  ap­
pears  to  have  taken  all  this  time  to  re­
cover  from  the  over  speculation  attend­
ing  the  last  tariff  legislation.  The  long- 
continued  depression 
in  cash  wool 
prices  seems  to  have  come  to  an  end 
and  so  the  general  upward  tendency  of 
the  woolen  goods  trade  is  accellerated 
by  a  heavy  and  steady  advance  in  the 
raw  material.

is 

little  change 

The  course  of  the  general  stock  mar­
ket  has  shown  but 
in 
values  and  the  most  prominent  charac­
teristic 
its  dulness.  Latest  reports 
show  a  slight  tendency  toward  higher 
prices,  but  the  average  for  the  week 
shows  a  slight  decline. 
It  is  a  great 
year 
in  railroad  earnings,  May  report­
ing  earnings  6.8  per  cent,  larger  than 
last  year,  and  24  per  cent,  larger  than 
in  1892  on  United  States  roads  only.

Prices  of  the  leading  cereals  have 
held  quite  steady  during  the  week,  in­
dicating  that  prices  are  not  far  from 
normal.  Speculators  are  predicting  a 
decided  advance,  but  holders  seem  to 
see  nothing  which  hinders  movement, 
which  is  active  at  both  primary  and  ex­
port  markets.

Another  shipment  of  gold,  with  the 
usual  statement  that  it  is  “ in  the  ordi­
nary  course  of  business,’ ’  leads  to  the 
inference  that  it is  getting  to be  quite iu 
the  ordinary  course  of  business 
for 
Americans  to  lend  money  to  Europe. 
Formerly  Americans  used,  for  the  set­
tlement  of  accounts  abroad  in  June,  ex­
change  against  crops  to  be  shipped 
later,  and  the  same  would  be  done  now 
if  this  country  were  borrowing,  but 
when  Europe 
its  banks 
bear  the  cost  of  shipping  gold.  New 
commercial 
the 
banks  are  learning  that  a  large  demand 
from  manufacturing  concerns  has  been 
cut off by  consolidations  which  borrow 
at  the  start  the floating  capital  needed 
for  ten  to  a  hundred  works  combined.

loans  are  few,  and 

is  borrowing 

Iron  production has amounted to 256, -

indicating  a 

062  tons  weekly,  which 
is  over  20,000 
tons  weekly  more  than  was  ever  pro­
duced  until  this  year,  and  10,316 tons 
more  weekly  than  was  produced  this 
year  before  April  1.  But  while  the  out­
put  is  thus  steadily  expanding,  the  ap­
parent  consumption  was  smaller  in  May 
than  in  March.  As  stocks  held  by  the 
great  steel  companies  for  their own  use 
are  never  known,  the  reckoning  based 
is  liable  to  mislead ; 
on  known  stocks 
but  these  decreased  131,718  tons 
in 
indicating  a  consumption  of 
March, 
1,208,083  tons,  and  only  70,092  tons 
in 
May, 
consumption  of 
1,190,866  tons.  As  there  is  seen  no 
in  the  demand,  which  ex­
abatement 
ceeds  the  capacity  of  works 
in  most 
lines  so  that  they  have  orders  far ahead, 
it  may  be  that  the  difference  is  due  to 
large  purchases  by  the  steel  companies 
in  May.  They are known  to  have  bought 
all  the  Bessemer  pig  the  Valleys  could 
produce  this  year,  and  since  the  first 
week  of  June  the  price  has  not  changed 
at  Pittsburg,  although  variable  at  Phil­
adelphia,  where  bars  have  advanced  $5 
a  ton  this  month  and  plates  $6.  Rails 
have  advanced  $2  at  Pittsburg,  bars  $2, 
structural  shapes  $5,  wire  nails  $5  and 
cut  nails  as  much  since  May  24.  Other 
in  capacity  exceeding  20,000 
furnaces 
tons  weekly  are  making  haste  to  go 
in­
to  blast,  which  would  meet  the  present 
demand,  but 
is  not  certain  how  far 
the  usual  midsummer  stoppage  for  re­
pairs  and  for  settlement  of  wage  scales 
may  interrupt.  The  advance  just  ftiade 
in  Eastern  puddlers'  wages  puts  them 
higher  than  they  have  been  for  many 
years,  and  the  virtual  restoration  of 
wages 
in  1893  for  rolling  mills,  said  to 
cover  25,000  hands,  is  an  advance  of 
from  11  to  15  per  cent.

it 

Word  comes  to  the  Tradesman  that  a 
man  named  Reynolds  is  calling  on  the 
merchants  who  are  using  acetylene  gas 
generators  and  demanding  a  settlement 
from  them  on  the  ground  of  alleged 
in­
fringement  of  patent,  claiming  that  bis 
patent  has  been  sustained  by  the United 
States  Court  at  Grand  Rapids.  As  a 
matter  of  fact,  no  suit  of  the  kind  was 
ever  brought  in  the  Federal  court  here, 
and  if  the  reports  are  true,  Mr.  Rey­
nolds  has  no  interest  in  any  generator 
patent  in  this  district.  He  was  former­
ly  a  joint  owner  with  Walter  L.  Powers, 
of  Nashville,  in  a  generator  patent,  but 
in  November  of  last  year,  a  dissolution 
took  place,  Mr.  Reynolds  assigning  his 
interest  in  the  patent  east  of  the  Miss­
issippi  River  to  Mr.  Powers,  in  con­
sideration  of  Mr.  Powers  assigning  him 
his  rights 
in  the  patent  west  of  the 
Mississippi  River.  Pending  an  inves­
tigation  to  determine  the  character and 
status  of  Mr.  Reynolds,  the  Tradesman 
suggests  that  those  merchants  who  are 
approached  by  him  defer  paying  him 
any  money.

Now  that  the  embalmed  beef  question 
has  retired  from  the  stage  of  action, 
the  census  pie  counter  has  taken  the 
day.  The  American  people,  regardless 
of  party,  have  sensitive  palates  and 
good smellers.

those 

PROGRESS  IN  OUR  ISLAN D S.
During  the  first  four  months  of  1899 
much  was  accomplished  in  the  way  of 
proof  of  the  claim  that  the  application 
of  United  States  administration 
in 
Puerto  Rico,  Cuba  and  the  Philippines 
would  benefit  greatly 
islands. 
The  time  was  brief,  trade  had  hardly 
recovered  from  the  check  of  war,  the 
change  of  methods  had  been  attended 
by  delays,  and  only  in  Puerto  Rico  had 
American  sovereignty  and  peace  had 
full  sway.  But  in  the  period  considered 
about  $8,000,000  was  collected  in  taxes, 
mainly  by  customs  duties,  every  dollar 
of  which  has  been  used,  or  is  held  for 
use,  in  improving  the  condition  of  the 
people  from  whom  it  was  collected  and 
in  support  of the temporary government.
The  moneys  collected  and  expended 
in  the 
islands  do  not  pass  through  the 
United  States  Treasury,  but  strict  ac­
count 
is  kept  of  them,  to  be  rendered 
when  the  scheme  of  civil  government  is 
perfected. 
In  the  case  of  Cuba,  when 
the  Cubans  take  control  of  their own 
affairs— if  that  time  ever comes—a  com­
plete  accounting  for  receipts  and  ex­
penditures  will  be  made  and  the surplus 
in  hand  will  be  turned  over  to  the 
Cuban  treasury.  Up  to  the  first  of  May 
$4,443,999  had  been  collected  in  Cuba. 
The  moneys  were  used  to  defray  the 
expenses  of  administration,  and  in  im­
proving  the  system  of  government  and 
the  sanitary  conditions  of  Havana,  San­
tiago  and  other  cities.  The  result  in 
the  latter  line  alone  vindicates  the  wis­
dom  of  the  course  pursued  and  the  effi­
ciency  of  administration.  The  death 
rate  in  Havana  is  less  than  half  what  it 
is  indeed  unpre­
was  a  year  ago. 
cedentedly  low.  The  same 
is  true  as 
to  Santiago  and  at  every  point  where 
American  sanitation  has  been  applied. 
Customs  duties  are 
lighter  for  the 
Cubans 
than  when  Spain  held  the 
island,  and  the  moneys  paid  are  not 
stolen  or  sent  out  of  the  island.  They 
are  used  to  improve  Cuba. 
In  a  brief 
time  the  benefits  of  the  change  are  so 
evident  that  Cubans  do  not  fail  to  note 
them  and  extol  the  virtues  of  the  new 
ways  and  their  administrators.

It 

In  Puerto  Rico  collections  amounted 
to $481,128  in  four  months.  There,  as in 
Cuba,  home  betterments  were  paid  for 
out  of  this  revenue. 
It  paid  wages  to 
labor,  with  the  double  benefit  of  sup­
plying  families  and  yielding  in  work 
done  better  roads,  clean  streets,  a  sys­
tem  of  sewerage  and  a  condition  of 
public  health  to  which  Puerto  Ricans 
were  strangers.

since  Jan. 

The  Collections 

In  the  Philippines,  the  state  of  war 
existing  interferes  with  the  processes  of 
American  civilization  and  administra­
1 
tion. 
amount  to  nearly  $2,250,000. 
Improve­
ments  have  been  applied  in  Manila  that 
have  added  to  the  comforts  of  life,  and 
its  longevity,  in  that  city ;  with  the  re­
establishment  of  peace,  improved  ad­
ministration  will  extend 
throughout 
Luzon  and  to  other  of  the  islands.  That 
this  is  not  mere  promise  the  good  work 
accomplished  already 
in  Cuba  and 
Puerto  Rico  is  abundant  evidence.  The 
future 
is  bright  for  our  island  posses­
sions,  and  bolds  reciprocal  benefits  in 
trade for the United  States.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Dry Poods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons—Standard  drills  are 
quiet,  with  some  fair  stocks  on  hand, 
but  three-yard  drills  are  scarce.  Ticks, 
checks,  plaids,  stripes,  cheviots  and 
other  coarse  colored  cottons  are  in quiet 
demand  without  open  change  in  prices. 
Prices  have  been  well  maintained  for 
bleached  cottons,  but  the  demand  has 
been 
light.  Cotton  flannels,  blankets 
and  wide  sheetings  are  without  change 
worthy  of  note.

Prints—Spot  business  in  printed  cal­
icoes  has  been  only  fair  during  the  past 
week,  although  there  has  been  a  little 
better business  coming  to  hand from  the 
salesmen  on  the  road.  Fall 
fancies 
figured  largely  in  the  sales.  The  busi­
ness  accomplished  so  far  is  ahead  of 
that  of 
last  year  for  the  same  time. 
Light  fancies  are  irregular  in  the  mat­
ter  of  sales,  but  firm  in  prices.  Staple 
prints  are  in  good  demand,  such  as 
in­
digo  blues, 
turkey  reds,  mournings, 
shirtings,  etc.,  and  prices  are  firm. 
The  entire  situation  is  a  strong  one.

Underwear—All  popular  brands  are 
in  demand  for  immediate  delivery,  and 
the  manufacturers  are  finding  hard work 
to  meet  all  requirements.  Jobbers  also 
have  very  smali  stocks  on  hand,  merely 
enough,  they  report,  to  meet  current 
in  the  way  of  “ sorting 
requirements 
up”   orders. 
The  orders  that  were 
placed  for  spring  delivery  were  too 
small  for  the  demand  that  has  come  to 
band,  but  it  is  rather  late  in  the  season 
to  rectify  this  mistake.  Many  of  the 
most  popular  makes  can  not  be  found 
at  all  now,  and  others  have  been  ad­
vanced  in  price  until  buyers  are  fright­
ened  at  the  prospects  of  the  next  sea­
son.  The 
importers  are  finding  busi­
ness  well  up  to  their  expectations.  For 
light-weight  ribbed  stock  the  demand  is 
fully  equal  to  the  supply,  and  there 
is 
also  an 
for  silk 
goods.  There  has  been  a  good  busi­
ness  taken  for  fall  delivery,  as  much  as 
was expected  at this  part  of the  season. 
Prices are  unchanged  and  firm.

improved  demand 

Hosiery— Importers  are  feeling  much 
gratified  at  the  way  in  which  business 
is  continuing,  for  it  has  passed  far  be­
yond  the  usual  time  for  falling  off  or 
stopping  entirely. 
It  may  be  a  week 
or  two  yet  before  the  business  is  over 
for good.  Golf  hosiery  seems  to  be 
in 
a  poorer  position than  usual.  There has 
been  a  lot  sold,  but  there  is  also a  con­
siderable  amount  that 
is  still  unsold. 
This,  to  be  sure,  is generally  of  the less 
desirable  styles,  but  this  does  not  help 
the  agent  who  has  it  on  hand.  There 
are  very  few  lots  of  fine  grades  that  are 
not  well  taken  care  of,  and  these  will 
be  used  up  in  good  time.  Fancy hosiery 
is  also  well  sold  up  now,  making  the 
prophets  who  assured  us that  they  were 
a  dead 
letter  this  season  tum  around 
and  say  otherwise. 
It  is  true,  however, 
that  only  very  quiet  and  modest  styles 
have  any  call  from  the  retailer  or  the 
jobber,  and  all 
lots  that  are  otherwise 
are considered  only  good  for the bargain 
in  *the  seamless 
counter. 
hosiery  departments  have 
improved 
considerably  of  late,  and  there  is  a  bet­
ter  feeling  throughout  the  trade.

Conditions 

Carpets—During  the  past  week  there 
has  been  a  very  noticeable improvement 
in  the  carpet  situation.  Several  large 
mills  have  already  notified  the  trade 
that  they  will  advance  prices  on  velvets 
and  tapestries and  other grades  of  car­
pets.  Some  mills  will  advance July  i, 
and  this  may  not  be  the  only advance;

as  manufacturers  find  that  general  busi­
ness  is  improving,  they  are  not  willing 
to  sell  goods  at  even  the  present  ad­
vance,  which  is  too  small to  permit  of  a 
fair  profit.  Raw  material  and  yarns 
are  growing  firmer,  in  sympathy  with 
the  goods  market.  Buyers  do  not  need 
to  go  far  to  find  the  indications  of  gen­
eral  improvement,  and  they  are  becom 
ing  more  anxious  to  place  orders  for 
carpets  earlier  than  usual,  as  they  fully 
realize  that  they  will  get 
left  if they 
delay.  With  the  improvement  in  busi­
ness  there  has  come  a  more  hopeful 
view  of  the  situation,  and  less  talk  of 
combinations.  There  is,  however,  more 
of  a  general  desire  on  the  part  of  man­
ufacturers 
in  order  to 
bring  about  advances  in  prices.  A gi­
tation  has  at  least  brought  about  this 
result,  if  no  other.  The  bitter  experi­
ences  through  which  the  carpet  manu­
facturers  have  passed  during  the  past 
six  or  seven  years  have  caused  them  to 
realize  the  importance  of  co-operation.

to  co  operate 

line  that 

Working  Off the  Back  Numbers.
Happy 

the  salesman  who  has  no 
“ back  numbers”  
in  his  stock.  That 
salesmen  are  largely  responsible  for  the 
‘ back  numbers”   among  their-  goods 
there  is  no  doubt.  It  is  the  {host  natural 
thing 
in  the  world  to  show  the  goods 
that  have  just  come  in,  to  the  exclusion 
in  stock  since 
of  those  that  have  been 
“ I  made  up  my 
the  season  opened. 
mind  when  I  saw  this 
it 
wouldn't  sell,”   is  an  expression  I  have 
frequently  heard  one  of  our oldest  dress 
goods  salesmen  use,  and  it  is  an  estab­
lished  fact  that  the  stock  under  this 
man's  charge  has more “ back numbers”  
in  it  than  any  other  portion  of  the  dress 
goods  department.  That  these  goods 
were  not  ready  sellers  was  principally 
due  to  the  fact  that  this  salesman  bad 
made  up  his  mind  that  they  would  not 
sell.  They  did  not  appear  attractive  to 
him  and  were 
left  on  the  shelves  un­
shown  and  naturally,  as  the  season  ad­
vanced,  became  “ back  numbers.”

A  first-class  salesman  always  has 

in 
mind  these  facts:  that goods,  especially 
dress  goods,  are  new  until  they  have
been  worn ;  that  the goods  in  his  stock 
may  be  old  acquaintances  to  him,  but 
they  are  new  to  the  customer  at  his 
counter.  Because  he  has  been  showing 
a  piece  of  cloth  since  the season  opened 
is  no  reason  why  he  should 
lose  confi­
dence 
it.  His  customer  does  not 
in 
know  this  and  it  is  not  his  place  to  tell 
her. 
It  is  his  place,  however,  to  do his 
best  to  dispose  of  this  slow  mover.  His 
employer’s  money  is  invested  in  it  and 
it 
is  his  duty  to  use  every  endeavor  to 
make  the  investment  a  profitable  one.

That  there  are  odd  pieces that become 
"back  numbers”   despite  the  fact  that 
they  are  constantly  shown  and  "faith ­
fully 
labored  with,”   we  can  not  deny. 
Such  odds  and  ends  are  the  bane  of 
every  conscientious  dry  goods  clerk’s 
life.  How  to  dispose  of  them  without 
too  great  a  loss  is a  problem  difficult  to 
solve.  The  fact  that  they  worry  the 
faithful  clerk 
is  a  long  stride  towards 
getting  rid  of  them.  With  this  man  no 
opportunity  will  be 
lost,  no  chance 
thrown  away  where  the  “ back  num­
bers"  are  concerned.  He  will  know 
how  many  of  them  are  in  his  stock,  he 
will  have  them 
just  where  he  can  lay 
his  band  on  them,  he  will  consult  with 
the  head  of  the  department  in  regard  to 
them  and  have a  price  put  upon  them 
as  a  helping  argument  towards  their 
sale.  To  use  an  old dry  goods  man's ex­
pression,  "H e  keeps watching, he  keeps 
pushing,  he  keeps  selling. ”  
It  is  safe 
to  say  that  the man  who does  this,  whose 
heart  is  in  bis  business,  who  makes  his 
employer’s 
interests  his  interests,  will 
have  very  few  “ back  numbers”   in  his 
stock;  and 
if  there  are  any  you  may 
safely  assume  it  is  not  bis  fault

M ac  A l l a n .

A  CLUB  NOT  NECESSARY

to  impress  upon  your  customers 
the  fact  that  you  have  the  “ right 
stuff”  
if  Ley  Bros.  Neckwear  is 
what  you  are  showing.  90  cents 
to  $2.00  per  doz.  $2.00  to  $4.50 
per doz.  Drop  a  postal for sample 
assortment.  Make  selection  at 
your  leisure and return the balance.

L E Y   BR O TH ER S,

Manufacturers  of  Neckwear

1818  Milwaukee  Avenue,

for Men and Women.

Chicago,  III.

The  balance of our  stock  of  Dimi­
ties  and  Lawns we  have reduced  in 
7 yi  and 
price  to  close  them  out. 
6c  goods we  have  reduced  to  4/^c, 
and  all  our other grades  in  propor­
tion.  W e  have  them  from  3^c  a 
yard  and  upward,  and  have a good 
assortment  left.  Be  wise  and  buy 
at once  before they are gone.

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

Qrand  Rapids, Mich.

The
Last
Oppor=
tunity.

Fans)

to retail from one to twenty-five 
cents.  We  have  the  Folding, 
Japanese and  Palm  Leafs.

If your stock  is low send us a postal card stating  quantity  and  price. 
The goods will  reach you on the next express.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer &  Co.,

WHOLESALE  DRY  GOODS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Before 
You  Buy

Get our prices on 
Muslin  Flags 
Bunting  Flags 
Flag  Poles 
Seat  Shades 
Large  Umbrellas 
Lawn  Swings

Dwight’s
Cleaned
Currants

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

Chas.  A.  Coye,

11  Pearl Street, 
Qrand Rapids, Mich.

W olverine Spice Co.,

Qrand Rapids.

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Fittings.
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ADAMS & HART,

12  W.  Bridge  St., 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Prepared on an entirely new formula. 
Makes the best Biscuits, Cakes and  Pastry 
of all  kinds,  hy  the  addition  of  Milk  or
Water.  Put up in 2 lb.  cartons and  6  and 
9 ib.  sacks  Sold direct or can be  supplied 
by any wholesale grocer.

We also  put  up  Self-Rising  Entire 
Wheat and Oraham Flours in 2 lb. cartons, 
two dozen in case.  We are  sole  manufac­
turers  of  Sunshine  Flour  for  general 
household use.

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Feed

Corn and Oats |
Our  feed  is  all  made  at  5 
one mill. 
It is all ground 
by  the  same  man.  He 
thinks  he  knows  how  to 
do 
it  right  because  he 
has  been  doing  it  for  a 
dozen years.  We believe 
he  does  it  right  or  we 
would  get  another  man. 
Our  customers  evidently 
think  he  does  it right  be­
cause  they  keep  on  or­
dering, and our feed trade 
has  been  enormous  this 
winter  and  doesn’t  seem 
to 
let  up.  W e  don’t 
want  it  to  “ let  up,”   and 
your order will help along.
Send  it  in.  W e’ll 
give
you  good  feed  at 
close
prices.

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"The flour the  best cooks use.” 

ing  one?  We  “ got 
licked”   “ many  a 
time  and  oft,”   but  my  old  heart  is  ex­
ultant  this  blessed  minute  over  the  fact 
licking—and  some  of  ’em 
that  every 
were  regular  old  wallopers—was 
less 
than  half  of  one  per  cent,  of  the  fun  we 
had.  I  turned  that  old  grindstone  under 
the  butternut  tree  until  the  sight  of 
scythe  and  ax  makes  me  groan  even 
now;  but  do  you  think  I  regret  a  single 
turn  when  I  remember  spoiling  scythe 
after  scythe  for  Old  Peters  by  a  certain 
twitch  of  the  crank  which  was  sure  to 
chip  a  piece  of  steel  from  the  edge?  He 
suspected  me  one  day  and  swore  at  me. 
My  mother  heard  him— I  turned  grind­
stone  for him  no  more.  Were  picking 
stones  and  bleeding  fingers  fun?  Not 
then;  but  when  at  night  with  tearful 
eyes  I  showed  my  bands  to  my  mother 
and  beard  from  her  what  a  shame  it was 
that  any  boy  of  hers  should  be  treated 
so—so  shameful  in  fact  that  not  another 
stone  should  my  fingers  touch— I  must 
confess  to  a  feeling  akin  to  fun,  nor 
was 
lessened  when  afterwards,  on 
rainy  days,  I  saw  the  men  go  out  with­
out  me  and  do  the  picking  which  would 
have  been  mine  if  I  bad  not  gone  home 
that  day  with  bleeding  bands. 
The 
men  did  rest,  indeed,  at  noon  when  I 
was  busiest;  but  they  never  bad  the 
piece  of  pie  nor the  cranberry  tart  nor 
the  wedge  of  cake  nor  the  glass  of  but­
termilk  I  was  sure  to  find  in  the  dark 
cool  closet  behind  the  door  after  they 
had  gone  back  to  their  hot  haying.

it 

So  I  might  go  through  the  whole  long 
list  of  grievances which once were mine. 
But  each  had  its  remedy;  and,  as  I  see 
them  now  through the intervening years, 
both  cause  and  cure,I  repeat  the  jingle, 
“ I’d 
like  to  be  a  boy  again,  without  a 
woe  or  care,  with  freckles  scattered  on 
my  face  and  hayseed 
in  my  hair,”  
meaning  heartily  and  honestly  what  I 
say,  not  because  I  want  to  live  it  all 
over  again—the  toil,  the  tears—but  be­
cause  I  want  again  to  get  under  the 
trees  where  the  bees bummed;  I want  to 
see  the  dear  home  faces,  to  tread  the 
old  paths  their feet  and  mine have  trod, 
to  feel  “ the  touch  of  a  vanished  band" 
and  to  bear “ the sound  of a voice that 
is  still."  All  these  things  come  back 
to  me  in  reading  the  rhymes,  and  I  put 
the  paper  down  thinking  only  of  the 
other  side  of  the  picture  and  believing 
that  “ I’d  like  to  be  a  boy  again—a  boy 
has  so  much  fun!—his  life 
is  just  a 
round  of  mirth  from  rise  to set  of  sun.”  

R.  M.  S t r e e t e r .

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

NORTH VILLE,  MICH. 

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Send 
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Thoughts  Suggested  by  a  Perusal  of 

“The  Farmer’s  Boy.”

Written for the T r ad esm an.

it  ail  over  again. 

The Tradesman of  May  17 brought  the 
rhymes  to  me,  and  I  have  been  repeat­
ing  them  ever since.  The humor  of  the 
thing  is  all  there,  the  freckles  and  the 
hayseed,  the  chores  and  “ the  licking 
every  day  for  breaking  some  old  rule;“  
and  yet,  as  I  look  backward  across  the 
years  to  that  wearisome  work  on  the 
stony  New  England  farm,  the  humor 
fades and  I  find  myself  wishing  that  I 
might  go  back  to  it  this  summer and 
live 
I  know  that, 
when  I  reach  the  last verse of the rhymes 
and  “ guess  there’s  nothing  pleasanter 
than  closing  stable  doors  and  herding 
hens  and  chasing  bees  and  doing  even­
ing  chores,”   I  think  and  say  that  I 
would  like  to-night  to go through the  old 
round  of  duty  and  after  the  chores  are 
done  to  take  my  tired  legs  up 
into  the 
attic  where  I  used  to  sleep  some  forty 
years  ago  and  under  the  sloping  roof  of 
the 
farmhouse  sleep  one  night  more  as 
I  haven’t  slept  since  I 
its  elm- 
guarded  door.

left 

It  was  the  19th  of  May  when  the 
Tradesman  reached  me—my  mother’s 
birthday—a  date  that  always  found  the 
lilacs  hiding  the  windows  of  the  farm­
house  with  their  numberless  purple 
plumes.  The  orchards  were  white  with 
apple blossoms,  the  tree  that  shaded  the 
wellcurb  was  bearing  blooms  that  were 
streaked  with  red.  The  tall  grass  was 
waving  in  the  meadows,  the  cattle  were 
grazing 
in  the  north  pasture,  the  bars 
were  up  and  “ that  worthless  boy—be 
isn’t  worth  his  bread!”   was  loitering 
barefooted  along  the 
lane,  whistling 
with  the quails,  piping to the  robins  and 
the  bluebirds  and  making  life  interest­
ing  to  the  chipmunks  that  from  the 
crannied  wall  saucily  “ give  *im  lief.”
That  same  boy  used  to  “ bring  the 
wood  to burn  and  stand  out  in  the  sun 
all  day  and  churn  and 
churn  and 
churn.”   He  used  to  turn  the  grindstone 
for sharpening  the  long  new  scythes and 
the  axes.  He  used  to  mow away the 
hay up  under the hot roof of  the  barn. 
He  had  to  do  the  noon  chores  in  hay­
time  when  the  hired  hands  were  re'sting 
under  the  elms.  He  picked  stones  when 
the  weather  was  rainy  until  the  blood 
oozed  through  the  thin  worn  skin.  He 
bad  his  “ stent”   in  the  cornfield  wres­
tling  with  the  weeds.  He  had  to  take 
care  of  the  garden.  He  drew  all  the 
water  for  the  kitchen.  He  rode  the 
horse  to  plow;  and  “ from  rise  to  set  of 
sun"  that  animated  piece  of  human  tan 
worked  harder—he  used  to  think—than 
any  other  three  human  beings  on  the 
farm.  The  rhymes  tell  accurately  and 
painfully  what gratitude he  received  for 
his  tireless  and  endless 
But 
they  do  not  tell  how  that  young  Ishmael 
passed  through  that  desert  of  existence 
into  a  self-reliant,  forceful,  aggressive 
manhood,  the  pride  of  his  father,  the 
joy  of  bis  mother and  “ the  torment  of 
them  a ll!”

labor. 

leave 

“ I’d  like  to  be  a  boy  again—a  boy 
has  so  much  fun I”   That  was  meant  to 
be  sarcastic,  but—and  I 
it  to 
every  one of  my  man  readers  whose hair 
is  turned  to gray— isn’t  it  true?  Didn’t 
we  get  even  with  every  man,  woman 
and  child  that  imposed  upon  us?  To 
be  sure,  we  did  “ bring  in  the  wood;”  
but  how  many  times  was  that  woodbox 
empty— “ I  forgot!” —when  the  maid 
was  cross  and  wouldn’t  do  what  we 
wanted?  Yes,  we  did  “ churn  and  churn 
and  c h u r n a n d   bow  many  of  us  are 
willing  to  tell  bow  many churnings were 
spoiled  because  the  ask  was  an  unwill­

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which prevents over-heating and consequent de­
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knock down in bundles, thus  making  a  saving 
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“ Hercules**  barrels  can  be  hauled  on  a  farm 
wagon.  The  “ Hercules’* is strong in the bilge 
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Around  the State
Movements  o f  Merchants. 

Pontiac—Alfred  Webb  &  Sons  con 
tinue  the  meat  business  of Alfred Webb 
Riley  Center— Hause  &  Oakes,  gen 

eral dealers,  have  removed  to  Memph 

Shelby—The  clothing  firm  of  Lew__ 
&  Allen  has  been  dissolved,  Mr.  Allen 
succeeding.

Saginaw—J.  L.  Fleischmann  &  Co, 
succeed  J.  L.  Fleischmann  in  the  hard 
wood  lumber  business.

Owosso—Frank  Angell,  of  Nortbville, 

has  leased  a  store  building  and  put 
a  stock  of  confectionery.

Detroit— Barnes,  Aldbous  &  Moffat, 
in  trunks,  valises  and  leather 

dealers 
goods,  have  discontinued  business.

Benton  Harbor—Gus  Amundson 

now  occupying  his  new  two-story  gro 
eery  store  building,  with  W.  C.  Horton 
in  charge.

Luther— Frederick  W.  Berner  has 
purchased  the  Crandall  &  Gregg  gro 
eery  stock  and  consolidated  it  with  h 
own  stock.

Lake  Linden—S.  C.  Pauli  intends  re 
tiring  from  the  drug  business  at  tb 
place,  to  engage  in  the  same  line  a  lit 
tie  later  on  at  Laurium.

Imlay  City— Miss  Georgia  Leonard 
and  Miss  Kate  Rutherford,  of  Port 
Huron,  have  purchased  the  millinery 
stock  of  E.  F.  &  N.  Milbourne.

Mason— Hiram  Child  has  retired from 
the  grocery  firm  of  Child  &  Co.  The 
business  will  be  continued  by  Miss  Kit- 
tie  Rice  under  the  firm  name  of  Rice & 
Co.

Fennville— P.  A.  Reed  has  sold  hi 
grocery  and  dry  goods  stock  to  Wm.  E. 
Shiffert,  who  has  been 
identified  with 
bis  father 
in  the  mercantile  business 
for  several  years.

Ann  Arbor—J.  B.  Gamble, 

formerly 
traveling  representative  for the Monarch 
Candy  Co.  (Toldeo),  has  purchased  the 
confectionery 
store  on  Main  street 
known  as  the  Sugar  Bowl.

Lake  Linden—Wm.  Trewartha,  who 
has  been 
identified  with  the  general 
store  of  the  E.  F.  Sutton  Co.  for  the 
past  seven  years,  is  undertaking  to  es 
tablish  a  co-operative  store  at 
this 
place.

Ironwood—The  R.  M.  Abel  Co.  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$S,ooo to  engage  in  the  mercantile  busi 
ness.  The  stockholders  are  F.  E.  A 1 
len,  of Oshkosh,  Wis.,  and  R.  M.  Abel 
and  Sarah  M.  Abel,  of  this  place.

Grass  Lake—The  creamery  at  Grass 
Lake,  which  was  destroyed  by  fire  three 
weeks  ago,  has  been  rebuilt  and  is  now 
in  full  operation.  It  is  somewhat  larger 
than  before and  its  facilities areconsid 
erably  increased. 
It  is  capable  now  of 
turning  out  from  600 to  1,000  pounds  of 
butter  daily.

Ionia— The  Ladies'  Library  Associa­
tion  has  undertaken  a  crusade  in  the 
interest  of  early  closing  of  the  stores. 
One  dry  goods  merchant  has  offered  to 
give  the  Association  $25  if  the  move­
ment  is  a  success,  and  this  is  supple­
mented  by  $25  raised  by  the clerks.

Luther—W.  B.  Gregg,  of  the  former 
mercantile  firm  of  Crandall  &  Gregg, 
has  been  placed  under  arrest  on  the 
charge  of  embezzlement  of the  sum  of 
$3,934  of  Ellsworth  township 
funds. 
Gregg  pleaded  guilty  before  Justice 
Robinson  and  waived  the  preliminary 
examination  and  was  bound  over  to 
the  Circuit  Court  of  Lake  county and 
placed  under bonds.

Gooding—C.  J.  Kraft,  who  has  been 
engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  for

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
SO LD   SOAP

the  past  three  years,  has  formed  a  co 
partnership  with  his  brother,  John  M 
Kraft,  and  will  continue  the  business 
under  the  name  of  Kraft  Bros.  They 
have  purchased 
formerly 
owned  by  the  late  A.  E.  Johnson,  which 
they  will  consolidate  with  their  present 
stock  of  general  merchandise.

the  stock 

Manufacturing  Matters. 

Saunders— The  Hatteberg  Veneer  and 
Panel  Co.  has  been  incorporated  with 
a  capital  stock  of  $15,000.

Detroit—The  Riverside  Chemical
Manufacturing  Co.  has  filed  notice  with 
the  County  Clerk  of  an  increase  of  cap 
ital  stock  from  $5,000 to  $10,000.

East  Saugatuck— The creamery 2t  th 
place  belonging  to  C.  J.  Lokker  &  Co 
was  burned  last  week.  The  loss  is  esti 
mated at about $2,500,  with an  insurance 
of $1,500.

Bensher— Bentley  &  Sherberne  have 
sold  their  mill  interests  at  this  place  to 
Johnson  &  Anderson,  of  Cadillac,  the 
consideration  being  $5,000.  The  former 
company  will  continue operations at an 
other  point  in  Wexford  county.

Leslie-----The  Leslie  Co-operative
Creamery  Co.  paid the patrons 17^ cents 
less  expenses  for  May. 
It  now  has  an 
offer  of  ^   cent  below  Elgin  quotations 
f.  o.  b.  Leslie  for  the  remainder  of 
the  year.  Action  will  be taken  on  this 
offer at  the  next  meeting  of  the  direct 
ors.  It  took  about $2,000 to  pay  patrons 
for  May  butter.

And  Also  Sold  the  Grocers  Who  Pat 

ronized  Him.

From the  Saginaw  Courier-Herald, June 18.

T.  Thornton  Clause,  who  parts  h. 
hair as  well  as  his  name  in  the  middle, 
was  locked  up  shortly  after  5  o’clock 
yesterday  afternoon  on  a  charge  of  false 
pretenses.

Clause  came  to  the  Everett  House 
one  day 
last  week  with  bis  wife,  i 
pietty  blonde,  and  set  out  at  once  can 
vassing  for  a  soap.  He  did  a  thorough 
job  and  nearly  every  grocery  bouse  in 
the  city  gave  him  an  order.  He  was 
slick  and  worked  the  old  dodge  of  giv 
ing  something  lor  nothing.  He  repre 
sented  that  the  soap  was  just  being 
in 
ttoduced  in  the  West,  that  it  retailed  iL 
the  East  for 10  cents  a  cake,  but that  he 
intended  to  sell  it  at  such  a  figure  that 
the  local  merchants  could  retail  it  at  5 
cents.  He  would  sell  a  box  containing 
100  cakes  for $6.50.  and  give a  second 
box,  containing 
free  of 
charge.  Grocerymen  seemed  to  fall  over 
themselves 
in  ordering.  The  sample 
Clause  showed  was  that  of  a  fine,  hard 
cocoanut  soap.

100  cakes, 

Yesterday  Clause  filled  orders.  He 
loaded  a  dray 
full  of  the  soap  and 
started  forth.  His  plan  was  to  dump  the 
soap  in  front  of  bis  customer's  store,  go 
inside,  present  his  order blank  and  col­
lect.  Most  of  the  grocers  paid  on  the 
spot,  but  when  they  came  to  examine 
the  soap  it  was  a  frost. 
Instead  of  the 
nice  cream  cocoanut  article  that  would 
lather  like  an  egg  on  the  top  of  a  curly 
bead  of  hair,  it  was  of  greasy  white 
ness,  and  of  such  texture  that  one’i, 
fingers  would  penetrate  it as  if  it  were 
mush.

Annnal  Meeting o f Michigan  Hardware 

Association.

Eaton  Rapids,  June  20—The  fourth 
annual  meeting  of the  Michigan  Hard­
ware  Association  will  be  held  at  the 
Russell  House,  Detroit,  on  Wednesday 
and  Thursday,  July  12  and  13.  A  cor­
dial  invitation  is  extended  to  all  retail 
hardware  dealers  of  Michigan  to  attend 
this  meeting.

The  Entertainment  Committee 

is 
making  a  special  effort  to  render  our 
stay 
in  Detroit  a  pleasant  one  and  we 
know  from  past  experience  that you will 
never  regret  the  time  spent  in  attending 
this  meeting.

A  specially  arranged  programme  has 
been  prepared  and 
it  is  expected  that 
much  interest  and  profit  are  in  store  for 
those  who  avail  themselves  of  the  op­
portunity  thus afforded.

Special  rates,  on  the  certificate  plan, 
will  be  granted  on  all  the  railroads  to 
those  who  desire  to attend  the  meeting. 
For  further  information  write  to

Henry  C.  M innie,  Sec’y.

Agreement  Reached  on  Early Closing.
Port  Huron,  June  19—There  was  a 
largely  attended  meeting  of  the  Mer­
chants  and  Manufacturers’  Association 
held 
last  Friday  evening.  The  com­
mittee appointed  at  a  previous  meeting 
reported  that  the  small  merchants  on 
the  outskirts  of the  town  had  agreed  to 
close  their  stores  evenings  and  on  Sun­
days.  Cards  will  be  printed  and  placed 
in  the  windows  announcing  this  fact  to 
the  public.  The question  of  taking  part 
in  the  Fourth  of  July  celebration  was 
also  discussed  at  some  length. 
It  was 
decided  to  close  all  stores  at  noon  on 
the  Fourth  and  a  committee  was  ap­
pointed  to 
invite  merchants,  butchers 
etc.,  to  turn  out  in  the  parade  and  help 
make  the  celebration  a  success.  The 
affairs  of  the  Association  are  in  first- 
class  condition  and  the  merchants  are 
once  more acting  in  harmony.

The  Tradesman  expected  to  be able 
make  a  full  and  detailed  report  on 
the  subject  of  the  Suiter  proposition  in 
this  week's  issue,  but  the  investigation 
instituted  at  Cleveland  is  not  yet  com­
pleted  and  the  matter  will  have  to  be 
deferred  until  next  week’s  issue. 
In 
the  meantime,  the  Tradesman has addi­
tional  reasons  why  the  creditors  of  the 
Suiter  family  should  hesitate  about  ac­
cepting  the compromise offered.

It  was  not  long  before the police heard 
of  it.  Several  grocerymen  reported  the 
fraud,  and  Charles  M.  Beck,  a  grocer 
3^4  North  Fittb  street,  made  a  com 
plaint  charging  false  pretenses  in  Jus 
tice  Eiler  s  court.  Then  the  police  set 
out  for  the  young  soap  dealer.  He  had 
evidently 
“ done  up”   the  east  side 
trade,  as  he could  not  be  found 
in  the 
do* D  *°wn  districts.  Captain  Walsh 
and  Officer  Cunningham  drove  out  to 
South  Saginaw.  They  found  Clause  at 
Moeller  &  DeLand’s  just  in  the  act  of 
receiving  the  usual  $6  50.  They  waited 
until  the  money  was  about  to  change 
hands,  and  then  placed  Clause  under 
arrest.  He  was  very  cool  about  the  mat­
ter,  and  a  cheery  “ all  right’ ’ was all 
he  said  when  Captain  Walsh  told  him 
complaint  had  been  made  against  him 
on  a  false  pretense  charge.

At  the  station  Clause  kicked  on  de­
livering  over his  money,  claiming  that 
•t  was  his  private  property.  He  dis- 
jorged.  however,  $175.15  jn  cash,  and  a 
gold  watch.  When  a  repoiter  called  on 
Clause  a  few  minutes  after  he  was  re- 
ceiving  3  call  from  the  drayman,  who 
wanted  bis  bill  for delivery  settled  on 
the  spot.  Clause  gave  him  an  order  for 
the  money  after  some  parley. 
The 
drayman  had  a  fistful  of  delivery  or­
ders  for  the  west  side,  which Clause  had 
not  got  around  to  deliver  before  being 
nabbed.  The  drayman  says  he  must 
have  delivered  three  tons  of  the  soap  in 
the  city.

Clause  was  -reticent  about  talking. 
He  thought  he  was going  to get  out  at 
once,  on  the  $200  bonds  that  had  been 
fixed  on  arraignment  before  Justice 
Eiler,  but  Landlord  Quinnin  failed  to 
for  him,  and  he  began  to  feel  a 
little  dubious,  but  kept  up  his  nerve 

Yes.  I've  sold  that  soap  all  over  the 
country,  he  said,  “ and  I  never  have 
in  trouble  before  over  iL  The 
been 
S°*P,,*S 
right  and  according  to  sam-

ante 

did  y°u  seU  of  it  here?”
1  don  t  know  how  much.  Quite

“ The drayman  says  there  were  three 

tons of  iL

was  as  much  as  that, ”   he  said 

“ I  don’t  think  there 
Clause  smiled. 
Clause admitted  that  he  was president 
of  the  factory  that  got  out  the  soap.  On 
the  boxes  the  title  of  the  firm  was  the 
Crown  Chemical  Soap  C o.,”   with 
offices  at  307  Cherry  street,  Philadel­
phia,  and 
factory  at  442  N.  River 
street,  New  York,  The  soap  was  en­

titled,  “ Silver  Soap."  Clause  sent  for 
J.  H.  Davitt  to  defend  him.

Over  at  the  Everett  House a  pretty 
little  blonde  woman  came  into  the  par­
lor  in  response  to  a  query  for  Mrs. 
Clause.

“ No,”  she  said,  “ this  isn’t  really  our 
honeymoon,  although  we’ve  only  been 
married  a  month.  Where  married?  At 
Buffalo.  Six  or  seven  papers  printed 
the  wedding  and  all  printed  it different; 
newspapers  never get  anything  straight.’ 
“ No,  I ’m  not  very  nervous  over  the 
arrest.  They  can’t  bold  him.  Then 
I’m  not  of  a  nervous  temperament— I’m 
from  Kansas. ’ ’

“ There’s  where  the 

from,”   suggested  the  reporter.

soldiers  come 

“ Yes,  and  I’ve  got a  brother  in  the 

Philippines,”   said  she.

The  reporter  wanted  to  know  a  little 
more,  but  Mrs.  Clause  was  chary  of 
talking,  and  while  she  was  very  much 
pleased  to  discuss  Funston  and  the  rel­
ative  importance  of  Kansas  to  the  other 
states,  especially  in  the  Philippine  war, 
she  refused  to  talk  about  her  husband’s 
affairs.

Some  of  the  grocers  claim  that  there 
were  two  of  the  canvassers  when  the 
smooth  Mr.  Clause  called  upon  them 
first,  but  one  evidently  went  to  other 
pastures  before  the  final  curtain.  Clause 
is  a  good-looking  fellow  with  dark  hair 
and  eyes,  a  blue suit,  a  puff  pink  tie, 
and  apparently  about  22  years  of  age. 
His  wife  does  not  look  over  20.  Mrs. 
Clause  says  this  was  their first  visit  to 
Midhigan.  Mr.  Clause 
intimated  that 
be  bad  successfully  sold  the  soap  in 
Michigan  before.

It  is  estimated  that  the  soap  victims 
on  the  east  side  number  at  least  a  hun­
dred.  Not  all,  however,  had  paid 
when  the  soap  was  delivered.

Clause’s  wife  visited  him  several 
times  last  evening  at  police  headquar­
ters,  and  could  have  procured  the $200 
bail  bond  for  her  young  husband’s  re­
lease,  but  found  that  he would be imme­
diately  re-arrested  on  other  complaints 
as  fast  as  bail  was  given.  About  11 
o’clock  she  gave  up  the  endeavor  and 
returned  to  her  hotel.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter. 

Paw  Paw— Frank  Seabury,  who  re­
cently  graduated 
the  School  of 
Pharmacy  at  Ann  Arbor,  has  taken  the 
position  of  prescription  clerk  for  E.  B. 
Longwell.

from 

Sault  Ste.  Marie— I.  Sandieman  has 
taken  a  clerkship  in  the  racket  store  of 
is  brother,  J.  L.  Sandieman.
Harbor  Springs— Harry  Metz 

is  now 
in  W.  J.  Clarke  & 

filling  a  position 
Son’s grocery  department.

Saugatuck— Ned  Winslow  has  secured 
the  position  of assistant  clerk  in  D.  A. 
Heath’s  drug  store.

Tecumseh— Albert  Anderson  is  clerk­

ing  in  Anderson’s  grocery.

Charlotte—A.  C.  Losee  has  returned 
this  city  and  again  accepted  a  posi­

tion  in  Dr.  Merritt’s  drug  store.

Marquette—The  Owl  drug  store  has 
secured  a  new  druggist  in  the  person 

George  H.  Felt.
Traverse  City— M.  E.  Haskell,  for 
many  years  in  the  book  and  stationery 
business  here,  has  taken  a  position  with 
Ralph  Connable  in  the  City  book  store.

Detroit,  Saginaw  and  Bay  City  Ex­

cursion.

Train  leaves  Grand  Trunk  depot  Sun­
day,  June 25,  at  7  a.  m.,  arriving  at 
Detroit  12  noon,  Saginaw  11:20  a.  m., 
Bay  City  11:50  a.  m.  Round  trip  to 
Detroit $1.85;  to  Saginaw  or  Bay  City, 
$1.50.  Tickets  on  sale at  Grand  Trunk 
City  Ticket  Office,  Morton  House,  or 
the depot.

C.  A.  Justin,  C.  P.  &  T.  A.

breakers,  strippers  and 

Wanted—Cigarmakers,  rollers,  bench 
lady  packers. 
J.  Johnson  Cigar Co.,  Grand Rapids.

For  Gillies  N.  Y.  tea,  all  kinds, 

grades and  prices,  phone Visner,  80a

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

in  the 

Grand  Rapids  Qossip
E.  A.  Davis  succeeds  L.  O.  Dablem 
in  the  grocery  business  at  129  Gutter- 
worth  avenue.

Herbert  E.  Butler  has  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  Lacey.  The  Ball-Barnbart- 
Putman  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Thos.  H.  Scott  &  Co.  have  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  Sylvester.  The  Wor­
den  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

L.  D.  Wait,  meat  dealer  at  Beulah, 
has  added  a  line of groceries.  The stock 
was  furnished  by  the Worden Grocer Co.
J.  G.  Reed  &  Co.,  grocers  at  Crapo, 
have  added  a  line  of  hardware.  The 
Clark-Rutka-Weaver  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.
G. 

F.  Haynes  has  engaged 

grocery  business  at 988  Hall  street.  The 
Musselman  Grocer  Co. 
furnished  the 
stock. 

____________

John  Keena  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  the  corner  of  Butterworth  and 
South  Lane avenues.  The Clark-Jewell- 
Wells  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

The  Grand  Rapids  Gas  Light  Co.  re­
ports  net  earnings  for  May  of  $11,851, 
increase  of  $2,246,  and  from  Jan.  1 
an 
to  May  31  of  $62,499,  an 
increase  of 
$8,056.

Barendse,  Baker &  Co.  have  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  at  the  corner  of 
South  East  street and  Oakdale  avenue. 
The  stock  was  furnished  by  the  Clark- 
Jewell-Wells  Co.

W.  F.  Rainouard  has  engaged in gen­
eral  trade  at  Bridgeton. 
The  Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co.  furnished  the  gro­
ceries,  P.  Steketee  &  Sens  supplied  the 
dry  goods  and  the  Herold-Bertsch  Shoe 
Co.  furnished  the  shoes.

grown.

The  Produce  Market.

Beans— Home  grown  wax  command 

$i.75@2  per  bu.

Beet  Greens— 4o@45c  per  bu.
Beets—20c  per  doz.
Butter— Receipts  of  dairy  are  drop­
little 
ping  off  and  the  market 
stronger,  due  to  the  activity  of  the 
process  people 
in  picking  up  stock  of 
all  kinds.  Local  dealers  find  no  diffi­
culty  in  getting  12c  for  choice  grades. 
Creamery  is  slow  sale  at  16c.

Cabbage—5o@6oc  per  doz.  for  home 

is  a 

Carrots— io@ 15c  per  doz.
Celery—25c  per  doz.  Stock  is  grad­

ually  increasing  in  size.

Cherries— Sweet  cherries  have  ad­
vanced  to  $2@2.25  per  bu.,  owing  to 
the  fact  that  the  crop 
is  found  to  be 
limited 
in  amount,  although  the  size 
and  quality are all that could be desired. 
Sour  fruit  is  finding  a  ready  sale  at 
$1.2531.50  per  bu.  The  crop  is  large 
and  the quality  is  fine.
.   Cucumbers—35@4oc  per  doz.

Eggs—The  quality  of  stock  is  grad­
ually  depreciating,  owing  to  the  re­
currence  of  hot  weather.  Dealers  pay 
track,  case  count,  bolding 
n c   on 
candled  at  12c.  The  loss 
is  about  one 
and  a  quarter  dozen  to  the  case at  pres­
ent,  but  will,  of  course,  increase  as  the 
weather becomes  warmer.

Gooseberries—75c  per  crate  of  16 qts.
Green  Onions—Silver Skins  command 

I2@I5C.

Honey— New  amber 

is  now  in  mar­
ket,  commanding  8c.  There  is  a  small 
amount  of  dark  honey  coming  in,  which 
commands  8c.

Lettuce—40®50c  per  bu.
Onions— Bermudas  are  in  limited  de­
mand  at  $1.50  per  crate.  Louisiana 
are  in  fair demand  at  $2  per  sack.

Peas— Home  grown  are  coming 

in 
freely and  finding  an  active  demand  at 
75c  per  bu.  Marrowfats  will  begin  to 
come  in  next  week,  selling  on  the  basis 
of  $1  per bu.

Pieplant—$1.20  per  100  lbs.
Pineapples—Floridas  command  $1.75 

@2  per  doz.

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  holding 
new  stock  at  7o@8oc,  with  every  prob­
ability  of  a 
lower  market  before  the 
end  of  the  week.

Poultry— Broilers  are  coming  in  free­
ly  and  find  ready  market  at  i 8@2oc  per 
lb.  A  little  later,  during  the  resort  sea­
son,  it  will  be  almost  impossible  to  se­
cure  enough  stock  to  supply  the  de­
mand.  Chickens  are 
in  good  demand 
at  8c  and  fowls  are  in  fair  demand  at 
7c.  Spring  ducks  are  so  scarce as  to be 
hardly  quotable.  Old  duexs  are  dull 
and  slow  sale  at  5@6c.  Geese  are  not 
wanted  at  any  price.  Turkeys are scarce 
and  are  grabbed  up  as  fast  as  they  ar­
rive  at 
in  good 
demand  at  $1.25  per  doz.  Pigeons  are 
in  fair  demand  at  5o@6oc  per  doz.

io@i2c.  Squabs  are 

Radishes— Round  9c,  long  10.
Spinach—4o@45c  per  bu.
Squash—90c  per  bu.  box  for  summer.
Strawberries—The  local  crop  is  prac­
tically  exhausted,  such  receipts  as  are 
coming  in  being  too  soft  to  stand  ship­
ment.

Tomatoes—$1.75  per  crate  of  4  bas­

Watermelons—Georgia  stock 

25@30C,  but 
level  in  the  course  of  a  few  days.

fetches 
likely  to  reach  a  lower 

is 

kets.

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.

The  hide  market  remains  firm  and 
stock  is  in  good  demand  for  all  grades, 
with  no  accumulation.  In  fact,  the take­
off  is  diminishing  as  warm  weather  ap­
proaches  and  the  call  will 
likely  be 
greater  than  the  supply.

Pelts  are  very  quiet  and  there  are  not 
enough  to  create  any excitement.  They 
are  wanted  by  pullers,  but  there  are 
none  to be  offered.

Tallow  is  a  little  more  enquired  for, 

but  there  is  no  change  in  value.

Wool  is  strong  at  former  prices,  with 
an  occasional  speculative  advance  in 
country  points.  All  buyers  believe  the 
advance  long  looked  for  is  near at  hand 
and  they  want  wool  when  it  comes. 
However,  previous 
lessons  are  not  for­
gotten  and,  after  a  few  flighty  moves, 
they  will  drop  back  to  present  market 
prices  as  reported  East.  Commission 
houses  in  the  East  are  sending  out  ex­
hilarating 
induce  consign­
ments,  while  actual  sales  show  little 
above  the  market  of  May.  However, 
wools  are  in  a  strong  position  and  the 
price  is  not  likely ever  to  be  any  lower.

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have  to  take  the  Tradesman,  as  it  prob­
ably  would  be  missed  more  at  our  home 
than  any  other  paper  we  take."

Plain  Business  Proposition.

Advertising 

is  not  a  “ gam ble,"  nor 
is  it  a  “ speculation."  There  is  no 
more  risk  in  it  than  in  keeping store,  or 
manufacturing  plows  or  harrows  or 
clothes,  or sending  men  on  the  road,  or 
the  thousand  and  one  other  things  that 
every  business  man  does  for  the further­
ing  of his business.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars—The 

raw  sugar  market 

is 
slightly  weaker,  saleshaving  been  made 
on the  basis  of  4 #@ 4  21-32C  for 96  deg. 
test  centrifugals  and  4^c  for 89  deg. 
test  muscovadoes.  The  demand  for  re­
fined  is  very  active,  and large  deliveries 
have  been  made  on  contracts  and  some 
grades  are  delayed  a  week  or  ten  days. 
This 
increased  demand  will  probably 
continue  during  this  month  and  July 
and  August.  The  total  stock  of  sugar 
in  the  United  States  is  279,182  tons,  as 
against  308,591  tons  a  year  ago.  Some 
softs  are  shaded  i - i 6c,  but  hards  remain 
firm.  Howell  has  advanced  his  price 
on  granulated 
it 
the  same  as  other  refiners  are  asking. 
The  American  have  temporarily  with­
drawn  their  5  pound  cartons  from  the 
market,  on  account  of  the  delay  in  pro­
curing  material  from  the  manufactu:ers 
of  cartons.

i - i6c,  which  makes 

Canned  Goods—The  uncertainty  re­
garding  some  of  the  important  vege­
tables  has  placed  canned  goods 
in  a 
peculiar  position,  but  one  likely  to  be 
productive  of  high  prices.  According 
to  the  statements  of  experienced  canned 
goods  men,  there  was  seldom  or  never 
a  season when  so  many  disappointments 
were  met  as  have  occurred  so  far  this 
season.  The  Maryland  packers  of  peas, 
pineapples  and  strawberries  have  been 
troubled  to  get  supplies  and  all  three 
packs  will  be  short, peas  probably  yield­
ing  not  more  than  one-third  of  an  aver­
age  crop.  The  pack  of  Early  June  peas 
is now  about  over  and  some  large  can- 
ners  have  not  put  up  a  single  case  this 
season.  Some  have  worked  a  day  or  two 
and  others  have  run  perhaps  a  week. 
The  pack  of  marrowfats  will  be  very 
short,  some  say  almost  nothing  at  all. 
Some  packers  have  advanced 
their 
prices 
i5@2oc  per  dozen  and  peas  that 
sold  three  weeks  ago  at  70c  are now held 
at $1 f.o.b.  Baltimore.  Spot stocks of old 
goods  are  well  cleaned  up  and  holders 
have  advanced  their  price  15  cents  per 
dozen  during  the  last  few  days. 
(Re­
ports  from  Indiana  are  to  the  effect  that 
the  pea  pack  in  that  State  will  be a  full 
one.)  The  tomato  market  seems  to  be 
in  a  little  better  condition  on spot goods 
than  for  two  or  three  weeks  past  and 
is  a  feeling  prevailing  that  the 
there 
low  prices  will  not  hold  much 
longer. 
If  the  drought  continues,  goods  are 
bound  to take a  sudden  advance.  There 
is  a  good  demand  for  spot  tomatoes 
and  stocks are  getting  low.  The  pros­
pects  for  tomatoes  in  Indiana  are  good 
and  canners  are  preparing  for  a  large 
pack.  There 
is  a  steady  demand  for 
standard  corn,  with  good  trades  bard 
to  find  and  extra  quality  is  in very  short 
supply.  The  catch  of  domestic  sardines 
on  the  Maine  coast  continues 
light. 
Prices  have  advanced  again  2j£c  per 
case  on  oils  and  5c  on  mustards.  Re­
ceipts  of  canned 
since  the 
packing  season  began  have  been  the 
smallest 
in  years.  The  total  to  date, 
according  to  a  recent  estimate,  has  not 
exceeded  4,000  cases,  against  double 
that  quantity  received 
In 
view  of  the  light  receipts  and  the  dis­
couraging  reports  concerning  the  pack, 
prices  have  been  advanced  15c  per 
dozen.  Salmon 
is  quiet  and  steady. 
The  general  conditions  remain  about 
the  same  as  previously  reported.  A 
small  run  of  fish  is  reported  so  far this 
season,  but  better  results  are  hoped  for 
in  the  next  few  weeks.  Peaches  con­
tinue  practically  unchanged,  although 
a  firm  feeling  prevails  because  of  the 
probable  shortage of  the  coming  crops.
Dried  Fruits—There  is a  firm  under-j

last  year. 

lobsters 

tone  to  the  market,  although  no  very 
large sales  are  being made.  Crop reports 
are  interesting  the  trade  more  than  any 
other  season  of  the  year.  Upon  thé 
effects  of  the  weather at  this  season  de­
pend  the  outcome  of  the  crop  and  the 
range  of  prices  at  the  opening.  The 
prospect  at  present 
is  quite  satisfac­
tory,  but  there  is  a  chance  yet  for  seri­
ous 
loss  through  unfavorable  climatic 
influences.  Some  think  that  there  may 
be  a  large  output  of  dried  peaches 
in 
California  because  of  the  fact  that  the 
crop  will  ripen  all  at  once and  that con­
siderable  drying  must  be  done  to  pre­
vent  loss. 
It  is  said  that,  notwithstand­
ing  the  lelatively  high  prices  offered  by 
canners  and  distributors  of  fresh  fruits, 
driers  will  find  no  difficulty  in  securing 
all  the  supplies  they  want,  for  this  year 
California  will  witness  for  the  first  time 
the  meaning  of  a  full  crop  of  peaches. 
Our 
latest  advices  from  Europe  are  to 
the effect  that  not  over  50  per  cent,  of  a 
prune  crop  is  expected  there,  hence  the 
outlook 
is  for  a  good  export  demand 
for  California  prunes.  The  crops  of 
Washington  and  Oregon  are  short  and 
will  cut  but  a  small  figure  this  season. 
From 
indications  at  present,  the  com­
ing  crop  of  Smyrna  figs  will  be  not 
more  than  half  the  average  size,  as 
against  one-fifth  of  a  crop 
last  year. 
Currants are  unchanged,  with  only  small 
requirements. 
sales 
Prices  on  dates  remain  as 
last  quoted, 
but  sales are  few  and  small.

immediate 

for 

Teas—The  demand  for  teas  is  a  little 
better.  Supplies 
in  the  country  are 
short  and  the  better  demand  is  expected 
to  continue  from  now  on.

Molasses  and  Syrups—The  market  for 
molasses  is  strong,  with  a  better  de­
mand.  The  strike  at  the  big  tin  can 
factory  at  Maywood,  111.,  has  caused  an 
advance  on  tin  cans  for  prompt  deliv­
ery.  Other  makers  of  cans  have  ad­
vanced  their  prices  and,  on  this  ac­
count,  corn  syrup 
in  tin  cans  has  ad­
vanced  more  in  proportion  than  in  bar­
rels,  on  which  there  has  been  an  ad­
vance  of  %c  per  gallon.

Green  Fruits—The  market  for  lemons 
if 
continues  very  firm  and  will  stay  so 
the  present  warm  weather  continues. 
Bananas  are  steady,but  with  supplies  of 
berries  decreasing,  prices  are  likely  to 
remain  firmer than  they  have  been  dur­
ing  the  past  few  weeks.

Nuts—The  peanut  market  is  very  firm 
at  unchanged  prices.  Reports  from  the 
section  where  the  nuts  are  grown  are  to 
the  effect  that  because  of the  late spring 
many  farmers  have  to  replant.  The 
nuts  planted  now  will  probably  not  ma­
ture  before  frost.  A  further general ad­
vance  is  anticipated.  The  walnut  crop 
of  California  will  be  largely  controlled 
by  the  growers'  associations. 
These 
bodies  have  decided  to  act  together and 
sell  their  output  f.  o.  b.

Cereals— Owing  to  the  stronger  grain 
market,  rolled  oats  have  advanced  20c 
per barrel.

Rice—The  demand  for Japan  rice 

is 
improving.  Stocks  of  rice  are  getting 
so  low  that  some  fear  there  will  be 
scarcely  enough  to  last  until  the  new 
crop 
in  marketable  quan­
tity.

is  received 

Fish— Codfish  continues 

in  fair  de­
mand.  Notwithstanding  the  discoura­
ging  reports,the  catch of  fresh  mackerel 
on  the  shore  to  date  is  about  five  times 
as  large  as  at  this time  last  year.

The  real  man 

is  judged  by  what  he 

earns,  and  not  by  what  be gets.

Sharpers  are  on  the  scent  of a  big 

perfumery  trust.

6

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W om an ’s  W orld
How  the  Colonel  Treasured the  Mem­

ories  of  Old.

At  the  hour  when  all  the  world  is 
gathering  about  its tea table  the Colonel 
has a  way  of  dropping  in  upon  me  for 
an  hour’s chat.  Not that he  is addicted 
to  the  cup  that  cheers  but  not  inebri­
ates.  He  belongs  to  the  old  school  and 
he  would  as  soon  think  of  drinking  a 
cup  of  tea  for  pleasure  as  he  would  of 
taking  a  dose  of  medicine,  when  he  was 
not 
ill,  for  amusement.  Both,  in  his 
mind,  are  ineradicably  associated  with 
doctor’s  bills  and  old  women  and  other 
unpleasant  facts  of  life,  to  be  ignored 
as  often  as  possible.  Therefore,  I  brew 
for  him  a  mint  julip,  made  after  the 
inviolable  recipe  banded  down  in  my 
It  is a  serious  matter—a 
own  family. 
ceremony,  a rite— with  the  Colonel  look­
ing  on  with  the  undisguised  anxiety 
with  which  an  expert  always  regards the 
efforts  of  the  amateur. 
I  line  the  long, 
thin  glass  with  fresh  mint.  The  Colonel 
smiles  approval. 
I  bunglingly  jostle 
the  ice against  it.  The  Colonel  frowns.
“ My  dear  child,”  he cries,  dismay  in 
his  tones,  “ you  are bruising  the  mint! 
It  is  a  barbarity.  Anyone  who  would 
bruise  the  mint  in  a  julip  would  brush 
the  paint  from  the  wings  of  a  butterfly, 
the  illusions  from  childhood,  the— “

I  apologize.  The  rite 

is  completed. 
lifts  the  glass,  delicately 

The  Colonel 
inhales  the  fragrance,  and  tastes.

“ My  dear,”   he  says  gallantly,  “ it  is 
worthy  of  your  grandfather,  the  finest 
gentleman  I  ever  knew. 
I  drink  to 
him. ”

It  is  a  little  scene  that  has  repeated 
itself  times  out  of  number,  and the other 
day  we  were  sitting  in  the  old  accus­
tomed  way,  silent  or  talking,  for  the 
Colonel  has  that  rare  quality  of  com­
panionship  that  can  make  words  seem 
poor  and  useless  and  fills  in  a  pause 
with  something  better  than  mere  con­
versation.  The  wind  billowed  the  cur­
tains  out  until  they  looked  like  the  sails 
of  fairy  frigates  bearing  us  on  to  un­
known  seas,  the  soft  haze  of  early  twi­
light  filled  the  room,  and  all  the  air 
was  heavy  with  the  odor of  the  flowers 
that  I  had  brought  in  from  the  garden 
and  carelessly 
left  lying  upon  the  tea 
table. 
I  noticed  that  there  was  a  look 
on  the  Colonel’s  face  new  to  me,  who 
knew  so  well  every  turn  of  bis  fine  old 
face,  and  presently  he  reached  out  and 
picked  up  one  of  the  fading  roses  and 
put  it  in  a  glass  of  water.

“ Will  any  cherishing  bring  back 

its 
freshness?”   he  asked,  with  something 
almost  like  a  quiver  in  bis  voice.

“ No,”   I  answered,  carelessly,  “ it’s 

little  day  is  over. ”

touching 

Perhaps  the  Colonel  did  not  bear  me.
“ Poor  rose,”   he  said, 
it 
with  caressing  fingers. 
“ The fierce  sun 
robbed  you  of  your  dew  and  freshness 
and  cruel  fate  plucked  you  from  your 
stem  and 
left  you  to  die.  Alas,  that 
youth  and  morning  should  be  so short!”
“ Pouf,”   I  cried,  airily.  “ They  are 
overrated  qualities,  full  of  malaria  and 
conceit.  One  gets  agues and  fever  from 
the  dews  of  early  morning,  and  does 
things 
in  one's  youth  one  spends  the 
balance  of  one’s  life  in  repenting.  Be­
lieve  me,  Colonel,  the  latter  part  of  the 
day  is  the  best. ”

The  Colonel  shook  bis  bead,and  then, 
after a  bit,  he  said,  speaking  as  shyly 
as  a  schoolgirl:

“ I— I  don’t  know 

if  you  ever  heard 
that  a  long  time  ago—oh,  a  lifetime,  as

you  count  years— I— I  was— I  had— in 
fact,  I  was  in  love?”

I  reached  my  hand  out  and  touched 
his  thin,  old  one  tenderly.  “ Tell  me,”  
I  whispered.

“ Thank  you,  my  dear,”   he  said  sim­
ply.  There  was  a  pause,  in  which  he 
got  up  and  walked  over to the  window 
and  back  again,  and  then  be  began 
abruptly:

“ I— I  had  not  thought  to  ever  speak 
of  this  again,”   he  said  brokenly,  “ but 
circumstances  have  arisen.  My  God, 
it  is  like  rolling  away  a  stone  from  be­
fore  the  sepulchre  where  you  have  bur­
ied  your  youth  and  hope  and  dreams 
and  love—all  that  was  nearest  and  dear­
est  to  you.  You  have  mourned  it  as 
dead  so  long,  and  then,  all  at  once,  you 
know  that  the 
impossible  has  hap­
pened,  and  the  heart  thrills  with  a  new 
hope  and  a  new  fear— hope  that  your 
dead  may  be  given  living  to  you  again 
and  fear  that  that  change  has  happened 
that  is  worse  than  death—that  the  eyes 
you  look  into  may  give  back  no  answer 
to  your  own,  and  that  the  fire  of  love 
may  be  out  upon  the  altar  and  you  have 
no  power  to  kindle  it  again.”

The  Colonel  stopped,  as  if  gathering 

himself together,  and then  went on:

“ When  I  was  young,  my  dear,  I  was 
betrothed  to  a  beautiful  young  girl.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  a  neighboring  mer­
chant,  and  we  bad  grown  up  together, 
and  loved  each  other  with  that  affection 
that 
is  made  up  of  a  thousand  associa­
tions  and  memories  and  dreams  and  as­
pirations  that  get  so  woven  about  the 
heartstrings  that  nothing  on  earth  can 
ever  wholly  unloose them.  With  me,”  
and  the  Colonel’s  voice  grew  bushed 
and  reverent,  “ I  gave  her  all  that  was 
best  in  a  man’s  nature—the  loyalty  and 
white  truth  and  the  poetry  and  the  ro­
mance  of  youth.  People have  sometimes 
sneered  at  me  for  being  faithful  to  an 
ideal  for  so  many  years.  As  well  might 
one  blame  the  beggar  without  a  penny 
for  not  spending.  When  I  was  done 
its  debts  to  the 
with 
utmost,  and  I  was  bankrupt 
in  heart 
and  soul.

love,  I  had  paid 

I  was  sweating  as 
ning.

if  I  had  been  run­

“ That  day  I  told  Beatrice. 

In  her 
own  way—and  God  knows  it  hurt  me 
more  than  any  trouble  that  could  come 
to  me—she  bad  to  face  the  same  bitter 
truth.  We  all  shared  alike  in  the  com­
mon  trouble.  Her  father  had  fallen  at 
Sbilob,  ber  brother was  left on the field 
at  Chickamauga.  An  old  mother and 
a  widowed  sister  and 
little  children 
clung,  too,  to  her  for  support.

“ I  must  work  or  they  will  starve,”  
she  said,  with  that  smile  that  is  more 
pitiful  than  any  tears,  and  she  set  her­
self  to  solve  the  bitter  problem  of  exist­
ence,  in  a  land  where  all  were  too  poor 
to  pay.  Heaven  knows  what  privations 
she  endured,  wbat  sufferings  she  went 
through. 
If  her  brave  heart  failed  her, 
as  it  often  must,  she  made  no  sign,  but 
turned  a  cheerful  face  to  the  weak wom­
en  who  clung  to  her  like  frightened 
children.

little  ring. 

“ I  was  offered  a  situation 

in  a  dis­
tant  city,  where  I  could  earn  a  support 
for  those  dependent  on  me,  and  when 
we  parted,  when  our  clinging  bands 
met  for  the  last  time  and  we  kissed 
each  other  with  lips  as  cold  as  death,  I 
gave  her  a 
It  was a  poor 
little  affair  that  I  had  made 
in  camp, 
out  of  a  button,  and  with  a  bit  of  gold 
rudely  hammered  on  it. 
‘ I will not bind 
you  to  my  fallen  fortunes,’  I  said,  ‘ but 
if  the  time  should  ever  come  when  fate 
is  kinder  to  us  and  the  old  love  be  not 
dead  and  any  tenderness  for  me  stirs 
within  your  heart,  send  this  to  me,  and 
I  will  come  to  you,  although  I  should 
have  to  crawl  there  on  my  knees. ’

“ People  do  not  die,”   he  said,  slow­
ly,  after a  moment,  “ because  they  have 
lost  all  that  made  the  joy  of  life. 
I 
lived  and  worked  as  only  a  desperate 
man  can  work. 
I  kept  the  roof above 
the  heads  of  my  people  and  educated 
the  children  and  saw  them  settled  in 
life.  The  dull  round  of  daily  toil  went 
on,  year  after  year,  with  no  hope  and no 
promise,  and  then  after  a  while  I  heard 
that  Beatrice  bad  married  an  Eastern

gentleman  and  that  he  was  rich  and 
kind  to  her. ”

The  Colonel  paused,  and  I  flung  out 
something  bitter  about  her  faithless­
ness,  but  he  silenced  me.

I  was 

“ Is  love  so  poor a  thing,”   he  said, 
gently,  “ that  it  must  only  seek  its  own? 
I  never  blamed  her. 
I  never  felt  one 
pang  of  bitterness. 
like  one 
standing,  bound  in  prison,  watching  the 
woman  I  love  buffeted  and  beaten  by 
the  storm  and  stress  of  life,  yet  power­
less  to  help  her,  and  I  could  even  give 
thanks  when  a  tender  band  opened  a 
door  and  drew  her 
sheltered 
warmth  and  safety.  That  was  years 
and  years  ago,  my  dear,  and  I  came  to 
think  of  it  not  sadly  nor  repiningly,  but 
as  something  beautiful,  that  was a  part 
of  my  lost  youth  and  that  made  it  sweet 
and  holy, 
incense  clinging 
about  the  altars  in  the  church.

like  the 

to 

in 

“ A  year or  two  ago  I  heard  that  Bea­
trice’s  husband  was  dead,  and  then  I 
heard  no  more  of  her  until  to-day,  when 
I  got  a  little  box,  and  in  it,  lying  on  a 
cushion  of  white  satin,  the  poor  little 
ring  I  gave  her  when  we  parted.  Tell 
me,  dear— for  women  understand  these 
things  better  than  men  and  I  am  grow­
ing  old and stupid—wbat does it mean?”
“ Ob,  Colonel! 
She 
is  calling  to  you  across  the  weary 
years!  Poor,  lonely  heart!  Go  to  ber, 
go,  go!”

"M ean?”   I  cried. 

“ Ah,  but 

it  was  so  long  ago,”   he 
murmured,  as  he arose  to  say  good-bye. 
He  hesitated  a  moment,  and  then, 
with  a  smile  of  ineffable  sweetness,  he 
lifted  the  withered  rose  and  pinned  it 
above  his  heart.

“ A las!”   he  said,  “ that  nothing  can 
ever  give  it  back  the  freshness  of  the 
early  morning.”

“ But 

its  fragrance  will  make  the 
twilight  sweet,”   I  murmured,  as  he 
bent  above  my  hand.

Dorothy  Dix.

There  never  was  a  surer  way  to get 
behind  the  bars  than  to  stand  too  much 
in  front  of  them.

“ Well,  Beatrice—that  was  her  name— 
and  I  were  to  have  been  married,  and 
we  planned  a  life  full  of  sunshine  and 
roses.  What  had  we  to  fear?  We  had 
youth  and  health  and  wealth  and  love— 
everything.  Then  came  the  war,  and  I 
went'  South  to  fight  for  my  country. 
When  it  was  over  I  came  back  to  find  a 
home  in  distress,  a  father  dead  with  a 
broken  heart,  a  widowed  sister  with  lit­
I 
tle  children  looking  to  me  for  bread. 
could  not  ask  the  woman  I 
loved  to 
share  my  beggary. 
I  could  not  turn 
away  from  the  ties  nature  and  honor 
laid  upon  me  and  not  forever  be  a  cow­
ard  and  poltroon 
in  my  own  sight. 
Never  believe,  my  dear,”   and  the Colo­
nel's  hand  shook  as  be  laid  it  on  the 
table,  “ never  believe  that  the  battles 
that  cost  men  the  most are  fought  in 
the  open  field,  with  the  call  of  the 
bugle  and  the  clank  of  arms  in  one’s 
ears  and  the  flag  floating  over  one,  and 
the  touch  of comrade,  shoulder  to  shoul 
der. 
I  know  what  it  is  to  hear the  sing 
of  the bullets  like  the  patter  of  sum­
mer  rain;  I  know  what  it  is  to 
lead  a 
forlorn  hope  where  you  do  not  even 
dare  to  pray  for  safety;  but  the  hardest 
battle  I  ever  fought  was  the  night  I 
walked  up  and  down  the  forest  pathway 
where  we  bad  so  often  walked  in  child­
hood  and  fought  with  my  love  and  my 
savage  desire  to  take  my  own  happi­
ness  at  any  cost  to  others.  The sun  was 
breaking  when  I  knew,  at  last,  it  bad 
been  given  me  not  to  be  a  coward,  and

The  new  U n e e d a   B i s c u i t   are  delivered to 
the consumer  in  moisture and dust proof  packages, 
as  fresh  and  crisp and clean as though  just from  the 
oven.  They should always  be served  from  the origi­
nal  package,  which  should be  kept carefully closed.

Uneeda
Biscuit

for  general  use.  A   perfect  every­
are  unequaled 
day  food  for  everybody.  Serve  every  day  with 
every meal.  Give  them  to  the  children  instead of 
cakes.  Sold everywhere  at  five  cents  the  package 

-never  in  bulk.

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A  Bulldozed  Editor

The  Saginaw  jobbers  put  their  heads  together  and  threat­
ened  to  boycott  the  editor  of  a  trade  weekly  if  he published
any  more  advertisements  of  The  James  Stewart  Co.  The 
bluff  won  out—the  editor  caved  and  declined  to  publish 
The  Stewart  Co.’s  advertisement.  This  cowardly  action 
on  the  part  of  the  Saginaw  jobbers  proves  conclusively 
that  they  cannot  meet  The  Stewart  Co.’s  prices,  and  desire 
all  information  that  would benefit  retailers  suppressed  at all 
hazards.  The  Stewart  Co.  offers  to  sell  5  barrels  of  Fine 
Granulated  Sugar  at  5 ^ c   f.  o.  b.  Saginaw  with  the  pur­
chase  of  one-half  chest  Japan  Tea  at  34,  35, 36, 37 or 38c, 
and  guarantees  the  Tea  equal  to  any  offered  in  Michigan 
at  prices  named  by  any  firm.  The  Stewart  Co.’s  drop 
shipment  on  Standard  Navy,  Battle  Ax,  American  Eagle,
Ice  Cream,  Three  Black  Crows  and  Out  of  Sight  Plug 
at  25c  per  pound  net  expires  June  30.  Mason  Jars, 
packed  one  dozen  in  box:  Pints,  $3.50;  Quarts,  $3.75;
Half  Gallons,  $4.75.  Orders limited to 5 gross.  This is a 
daisy  offer.  The  celebrated  Bon  Ton  Cheese  at  63^c  is 
another  dandy  offer and  is  the lowest  price  first-class cheese 
will  sell  at  this  season.  The  Stewart  Co.  sells  only  for 
spot  cash.  To  buyers  able  to  pay  cash  this  is  a  golden 
opportunity  to  make  a  profitable  investment.

The  Janies  Stewart  Co.,  Limited,

Ju n e  20,  1899.

Saginaw,  Mich.

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WEDNESDAY,------JUNE 21,1899.

T H E   DANGER  AHEAD.

When  the  trust  system  was  first inaug­
urated,  the  primary  object  in  view  was 
the  elimination  of  competition  and  the 
accumulation  of  profits,  both  by  forcing 
down  the  price  of  raw  materials  and 
correspondingly  increasing  the  price  of 
the  finished  article,  as  well  as  by  saving 
operat.ng  expenses  and  cost  of  manage­
ment,  it  being  evident  that  an  enormous 
corporation,  managed  by  one  office 
force,  could  work  more  economically 
than  a  dozen  or  more 
institutions,  each 
with  a  complete  corps  of  accountants 
and  other  help.

The  process  of  killing  off competition 
gradually  compelled  an  augmentation of 
capital  without  a corresponding increase 
in  actual  assets.  As  one  set  of  com­
peting  factories  was  absorbed  another 
set  would  crop  up,  with  the  result  that 
this  gradual  watering  of  stock  has  made 
even  the  most  powerful  organizations— 
such,  for  instance,  as  the  Sugar  T ru st- 
top-heavy.  This  enforced  watering  of 
capital  stock  has  set  a  baneful  example 
to  the  later  and  prolific  crop  of  trusts 
which  has  sprung  into  existence. 
is 
now  the  fashion  for  all  trusts  to  begin 
their  existence  by  capitalizing  the  or­
ganization  to  three  or  even  four times 
the  value  of  the  actual  assets.  By  this 
process  the  owners  of  the  absorbed 
properties  realize  a  handsome  profit, 
even  where  the  original  institutions sold 
to  the  trust  were  insolvent,  and  the 
in­
nocent  investors  are  left  to  meet  what­
ever  shrinkage  may  ultimately  ensue.

It 

involve  all  of  them 

As a  result  of  this  process  of  watering 
capital,  all  the  trusts,  without  a  single 
exception,  represent  securities  many 
times  the  actual  value  of  their  true  as­
sets.  The  struggle  to  pay  interest  and 
dividends  upon  these  securities is bound 
to 
in  difficulties 
sooner or  later.  Not  even  the  strongest 
can  bope  to  escape,  and,  unless  ail signs 
are  deceptive,  the  day  of  reckoning 
is 
not  very  far  off.  When  the  trusts  finally 
reach  the  end  of  their  respective  ropes 
and  the  collapse  comes,  there  will  be  a 
tremendous  shrinkage  of inflated values. 
It  is  this  shrinkage  that  is  to  be feared, 
because 
is  bound  to  produce  a  sym­
pathetic  effect  on  actual  values  by  un­
dermining  confidence.  The  trusts  are, 
therefore,  enemies  to  sound  finance, and 
their  harmful  influence 
in  this  respect 
warrants  every  possible 
legal  effort  to 
suppress  them.  They  should  be legis­
lated  against  not  only  as  unlawful  con­
spiracies  against  trade,  but  also  as 
menaces  to  the  country’s  finances.  The 
promoters  of trusts  are  public  enemies,

it 

because  they 
lend  their  influence  and 
efforts  to  fleece  the  public  by  floating 
vast  millions  of  securities  which  have 
no  real  value  and  are  held  out  as  baits 
to  tempt  the  unwary.  Someone  must 
sooner  or  later  suffer the loss represented 
by  the  excess in  the  capital  of  the  trusts 
over  their  assets,  and  the  general  belief 
is  that 
it  will  not  be  the  original  pro­
moters  of  these  enterprises,  but  the 
gullible  public.

The  fact that  the  masses  of  the  people 
are  beginning  to  understand  the  worth­
lessness  of  trust  securities  will  make  it 
difficult  for  new  combinations  to  organ­
ize,  and  some  of  those  already  estab­
lished  will  find 
it  more  difficult  than 
formerly  to  float  new  issues  of  stocks 
and  bonds.  The  hardest  blow  that  the 
people  can  deal  the  trusts  is  to  refuse  to 
buy  tbeir  secuiities.

T H A T   BOUNDARY  DISPU TE.

It 

It 

The  Philadelphia  Times expresses  the 
bope  that  there  may  never  be  anything 
worse  between  the  United  States  and 
Canada  than  a  boundary  line  dispute. 
All  good  citizens  will  join  the  Times  in 
this,  but 
it  would  be  far  better  if  all 
little  seeming  differences  were  settled.
is  best  to  avoid  even  the  appear­
ance  of  evil. 
is  quite  certain  that 
in  a  very  short  time  at  least the Alaskan 
boundary  line  misunderstanding  will  be 
removed  from  the  category  of  foreign 
complications.  Whatever  the  two  com­
missions  may  agree  upon,  their action 
must  be  settled  ultimately  by  a  two- 
thirds  vote  of  the  United  States  Senate. 
That  the  matter  will  not  be  fully  and 
finally  settled  without  our  interests  in 
the  matter  being  properly  cared 
for 
seems  to  be  sure.  Senator  Fairbanks, 
of  Indiana,  is  now  on  bis  way  to Alaska 
to  make  a  personal  examination  into 
every  phase  of  the  situation.  As  the 
Senator 
is  a  member  of  the  Canadian- 
American  Commission,  which  failed  to 
adjust  the  misunderstanding,  his  per­
sonal  presence  will  no  doubt  go  far  to­
wards  enabling  the  Commission to come 
to  an  agreement,  and,  being  a  Senator, 
will  surely  hasten  the “ American House 
of  Lords”   in  deliberating  over  it,  and 
add  greatly  to  that  body’s quiescence  in 
the  final  agreement  of the joint  commis­
sion.

The  next  meeting  of  the  joint  com­
mission  will  take  place  in  August,  and 
it  is  hoped  that  its  final  action  will  be 
ratified  by  both  governments.

A  German  savant  has  constructed  a 
The  supply  of 
bacillus-proof  bouse. 
air 
is  first  forced  through  a  pipe,  it  is 
then  filtered  through  cotton  wool,  and, 
lastly,  is  driven  against  a  sheet  of  plate 
glass  coated  with  glycerine.  This  is 
supposed  to  catch  all  the  bacteria  which 
have  not  been  seized  by  the  cotton wool. 
It  is  built  entirely  of  glass,  that the  heat 
of  the  sun  may  kill  any  stray  microbes 
that  have  entered  by  chance.

looks 

Richard  Croker  has  been  having  bad 
luck  with  bis  race  horses  in  England. 
It 
like  the  big  Tammany  chief 
ought  to  know  better  than  to  think  that 
an  Irishman  could  have  good  luck  at 
anything  in  England.

Spain 

is  distancing  all  powers 

in 
making  money  out  of  her  colonial  pos­
sessions.  She 
is  selling  them  for  good 
round  sums  and 
lots  of 
trouble to boot.

throwing 

in 

Little  Guatemala,  away  off  in  South 
America, 
is  determined  that  France 
shall  not  outdo  her,  and  has  given  birth 
to a  beautiful  little  “ crisis.”

KAISER  VS.  CO RSET.

In  spite  of  professions  to  the  contrary 
there  is  no  love  lost  between  Germany 
and  the  United  States.  The 
latter  has 
no  use  for a  nation  who will deliberately 
and  persistently 
insist  on  refusing  the 
best  pork  and  the  best  dried-apple  that 
sunshine  ever  blessed  and  the  former  is 
still  smarting  too  intensely  over  tbe 
affair  at  Samoa  and  Dewey's  brusque 
order  to  get  out  of  the  way  at  Manila  to 
look  kindly  upon  tbe  people  who  say 
such  things  and  stand  ready  to  back 
them  up  with  something  worse  should 
occasion  require.  Not  that  the  United 
States  has  any  grudge  against  the  Ger­
man  race;  but  as  a  people  they  are 
ready  to  enjoy  any  circumstance,  slight 
or  serious,  which  that  self-satisfied  na­
tion  may  find  not  wholly  to  its  liking.

For  some  time  now  tbe  German  em­
peror  has  been  posing  before  tbe  world 
as  tLe  Sir  Oracle  who  is  determined 
that  when  be  speaks  no  dog  shall  bark; 
and  right  in  the  very  middle,  as 
it 
were,  of  his  declaration  that  the  Divine 
Right  to  rule  has  come  straight  to  him 
from  Heaven  the  women  of  that  un­
happy  country  have  protested  strongly 
against  a  new  measure  which  the  fel­
low  with  the  Divine  Right  has  ap­
proved.  The  decree  affirms  that  * ‘ Here­
after  all  girls and  young  women  who  at­
tend  the  public  schools  shall  discard 
corsets  and  stays. ”   The  decree,  sanc­
tioned  by  Divine  Right,  is  tbe  result 
of  vigorous  agitation  from  tbe  medical 
fraternity,  who  have  been  unanimous  in 
tbeir  denunciations  of  the  alarming  in­
crease  of  tight 
lacing  in  Dresden,  in 
other  large  cities  of  Saxony  and,  pre­
sumably,  throughout  tbe  German  em­
pire.  The  practice  of  tight  lacing  has 
become  so  prevalent  that  children  io 
and  12  years  old  are  addicted  to  it  and 
it  is  feared  that  the  continuation  of  the 
custom  will  prove  fatal  to  posterity.

that—after 

The  measure  is  all  right,  there  is  no 
doubt  about 
the  solemn 
declaration  of  His  Imperial  Majesty  as 
to  the  Divine  Right  business  there  is 
no  reasonable  doubt  about  that;  but 
when  the  woman  element  of the German 
empire  reaches  the  strongly  protesting 
point  it  looks  very  much  as if  the  meas­
ure  and  tbe  powers—the  earthly  and  the 
heavenly—behind  it  will  find— we  say  it 
reverently—that  they  have  met  their 
match.  The  United  States  as  a  nation 
believes  that  in  this  advanced  period  of 
the  world 
it  understands  something  of 
the  modern  woman;  and,  without  a 
thought  that  there  was  anything  mali­
cious  in  the  old  Roman  idea  of  naming 
the  better  half  of  Roman  humanity 
“ mulier, ”   it 
is  certainly  suggestive. 
That  peculiar quality,  peculiarly  femi­
nine,  has  net  weakened  with  tbe  prog­
ress  of  the  centuries.  The  emperor  of 
the  German  empire  will  find  it  so;  and 
the  American  people,  who  have  been 
compelled  to  acknowledge  defeat  in  the 
contest between  tbe  bog  and  tbe  Divine 
Right,  are  watching  with  complacency 
the  contest  between  the  mulier  element 
and  His  Imperial  Majesty, 
together 
with  his  powerful  assistant.

In  this  fight  between  the  Kaiser  and 
the  corset  the  effect  upon  trade  must 
not  be  lost  sight  of.  In  these  precarious 
times  when  trade  is  making  the  strong­
est  efforts  for  expansion  at  home  and 
abroad  it  is  not  to  be  supposed  that  de­
fection,  much 
less  revolution,  in  the 
home  army  will  be  tolerated.  Tbe cor­
set has  been  established  in  tbe  German 
home. 
It  enters  upon  its  sphere  of  use­
fulness  with  the  child  at  io  and  contin­
ues  that  sphere  until  the  Death  Angel 
claims  his  own.  The  number  of  corsets

manufactured  in  a  single  year 
is  enor­
mous.  The  passing  of  tbe  measure  will 
stop  the  manufacture  of  the  article. 
Wheels  now  whirling  will  come  to  a 
standstill. 
The  manufactories  now 
doting  the  empire  will  crumble  into  de­
cay  and  trade  will  suffer a  correspond­
ing  loss.  From  this  aspect  alone  the 
question  goes against  the  Kaiser.

is, 

The  case  might  rest  here  did  not  a 
still  stronger  phase  of  tbe  matter  pre­
sent  itself :  The  female  German  form, 
when  left  to  itself,  does  not  at  all  meet 
with  tbe  approval  of  womenkind. 
It 
has 
little  of  the  Venus  of  Milo  or  the 
Venus  of  anywhere  else  to  commend  it. 
It 
indeed,  natural,  but  it  is  not 
comely.  The  waist,  for  instance,  is  not 
up  to  date. 
Its  outline  has  nothing 
about  it  to attract,  much less inspire,  tbe 
German  masculine  arm. 
Could  the 
arm  be  lengthened  to  equal  the  circum­
ference  of  the  waist  or  the  waist  be  re­
duced  to  tbe  length  of  tbe  German  arm 
tbe  question  of  Kaiser  vs.  Corset  would 
never  have  been  raised.  That,  how­
ever,  is 
impossible— the  failure  of  the 
German  arm  to  encompass  the  oppor­
tunity  at  Manila  and  Samoa,  and  espe­
cially  in  China,  has taken  away  all  bope 
of  tbe  encircling  of  the  home  article 
under  natural  conditions,  and  the  carry­
ing  out  of  tbe  Kaiser’s  decree  would 
prove  more  fatal  to  posterity  than  any 
fear  which  the  physicians  may  have  of 
the  corset,  a  conclusion  which  settles 
tbe  question  so  far  as  the Kaiser and his 
Divine  Right  and  the  power  behind 
it 
is  concerned.

In  common  American  parlance, 

it 
looks  as 
if  the  Kaiser  has  bitten  off 
more  than  he  can  chew.  He  may  lay 
down  the  law  in  matters  of  empire,  the 
nations  of  tbe  earth  may  heed  and  obey 
his  decrees;  but,  when  it  comes  to  the 
question  of  corset  or  no  corset,  the 
Kaiser  and  tbe  Divine  Right  and  the 
physicians  and  mankind  at  large  will 
have  no  more  influence  over  tbe  wearer 
of 
the  corset  than  she,  uncorseted, 
would  have  over  those  who  admire  her 
now.

The  Tradesman  has  always  main­
tained  that  the  fairest  method  of  re­
ducing  tbe  wage  exemption  in  garnish­
ment  process  is  to  place  it  on  a  per­
centage  basis.  Such  a  bill  passed  both 
houses  during tbe administration of Gov­
ernor  Begole,  but  was  vetoed  by  him. 
Tbe  bill  provided  that  50  per  cent,  of 
all  sums  due  for  wages,  with  a  mini­
mum  of  $5,  should  be  exempt  to  the 
debtor,  the  remainder  to  go  to  the 
creditor.  Such  a  provision  would  afford 
much  more  relief  to  tbe  creditor  class 
than  the 
illy-advised  bill  which  was 
crowded  through  tbe  present  Legisla­
ture.

Further  testimony  to  the  growth  of 
in  the  country  is  afforded  by 
business 
the  Postoffice  Department,  which  has 
just  completed  its  annual  work  of  read­
justing  salaries  of  postmasters  at  presi­
dential  offices.  Tbe  number  of  presi­
dential  offices  has  increased  from  3,821 
in  1898  to  4,014,  and  the  salaries  of 
i,7cg  postmasters  are  increased  on  ac­
count  of 
increase  of  business  at  their 
offices.  Only  211  have  been  decreased. 
Tbe 
increases  will  aggregate  $213.800, 
as  against  $185,500  last  year.

It  can  not  be  shown  that  a  man  who 
does  not  talk  is a  fool;  but there  is no 
doubt  about  tbe  man  who  talks all tbe 
time.

Hetty  Green  has  won  a  suit  in  Chi­
cago  for  $1,000,000.  Perhaps  she  can 
afford  a  new  bonnet  now.

DO O M ED  T O   DEFEAT.

Prediction  o f 

the  Tradesman  Fully 
Verified.

Six  months  ago  the  Tradesman  felt 
called  upon  to  disapprove  of  the  move­
ment  inaugurated  by  the  Detroit  Trade 
to  secure  an  amendment  to  the  wage 
exemption 
in  garnishment  cases,  be­
cause 
it  believed  that  the  movement 
was  doomed  to  defeat,  for  two  reasons— 
the 
inexperience  of  the  man  who  was 
leading  the  movement  and  the  certainty 
that  the  Governor  would  veto  any  meas­
ure  of  the  kind  which  might  be  gotten 
through  the  present  session  of the Legis­
lature.  Having  stated  its  position,  the 
Tradesman  gracefully  retired  from  the 
field  and  made  no  further  editorial  ref­
erence  to  the  matter,  pending  the  ulti­
mate  result.  The  outcome  was  reached 
last  Thursday,  when  Governor  Pingree 
vetoed  the  bill,  thus  precluding  the  pos­
sibility  of  any  further  action 
in  the 
premises  until  the  Legislature  of  1901.
In  view  of  the  fact  that  some  of  the 
Tradesman’s  readers  evidently  felt  that 
it  should  have  thrown  the  weight  of 
its 
influence  in  favor  of  the  movement,  the 
same  as  it  did  at  every  regular  session 
of  the  Legislature  from  1885  to  1897,  in­
clusive,  it 
is,  perhaps,  an  opportune 
time  to  go  over  the  whole  subject  care­
fully,  in  order  that  the  business  public 
may  be  made  thoroughly  acquainted 
with  the  situation,  so  as  to  form  an  un­
biased  conclusion  as  to  the  motives 
which  actuated  the  Tradesman  in  refus­
ing  to  lead  its  friends  to  slaughter  and 
do 
injury  to  the  cause  for 
the  future.

irreparable 

When  it  was  announced  that  the  De­
troit  Trade  was  considering  the  matter 
of  reviving  the  work  which  had  been 
carried  on  for  several  years  by  the 
Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association 
and  the  Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­
ciation  the  Tradesman  sought  an  inter­
view  with  Governor  Pingree  and  asked 
him  frankly  whether  he  would  veto  an 
amendment to  the  wage  exemption,  pro­
viding 
its  provisions  were  reasonable 
and  just  to  all  concerned.  The Governor 
demurred  to  making  a  direct  answer  to 
the  enquiry,  but  when  reminded  of  the 
manner  in  which  he  had  thrown  down 
some  of  his warmest and most  influential 
friends  by  vetoing  the  Anderson  bill,  in 
1897,  after  promising 
that  be 
would  give  that  measure  his  approval, 
he  blurted  out:  “ I’ll  be  blanked  if  I'll 
ever  get 
in  such  close  quarters  again 
as  I  did  with  that  blanked  Anderson 
bill.  Yes,  I’ll  veto  anv  measure  which 
originates  with  the  merchants  who  have 
trusted  working  men  during  the  panic 
and  now  want  to  oppress  them  because 
times  are  better. 
If  you  ever  expect  to 
get  a  law  passed  that  will  work  hard­
ship  to  the  working  men,  you'll  have  to 
wait  until  some  one  beside  the  Old  Man 
is  Governor.”

them 

In  the  light  of  this  positive 

informa­
tion  the  Tradesman  very  naturally  con­
cluded  that  any  attempt to change  exist­
ing  conditions  during  the Legislature  of 
1899 would  surely  end  in  defeat  and 
it 
therefore  declined  to  join  in  the  agita­
tion,  which  was  already  taking  the form 
of  a  popular  subscription  to  meet  the 
expense  of  prosecuting  the  movement. 
It  was  then—on  Dec.  28.  1898—that  the 
Tradesman  placed  itself  on  record  as 
opposed  to  the  ill-advised  attempt,  giv­
ing  the  following  reasons  why the  agita­
tion  was  inexpedient at that  time:

When  the  Tradesman  was  established 
nearly  sixteen  years  ago 
it  imagined 
that  the  best  and  quickest  way  to  secure 
concessions  at  the  hands  of  the  Legisla­
ture  was  to  make  a  proper  showing  as

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

that  the 

to  the  justice  of  its  cause  and  then  go 
after  the  reform  in  band  wagon  fashion. 
It  early  saw  that  one  of  the  most  un­
just  things  under  which  the  merchants 
of  Michigan  suffered  was  the  one-sided 
garnishment  and  extmption  laws,  and 
in  its  youthful  exuberance  it 
imagined 
that 
it  would  be  a  comparatively  easy 
matter  to  bring  about  a  leform 
in  this 
respect.  Actuated  by  a  sense  of  its 
duty  to  the  retail  merchants  of  Michi­
gan,  who  had  given  the  enterprise  a 
cordi.  1  welcome,  petitions  were  sent  to 
nearly  every  town  in  the  State,  resulting 
*n  the  securing  of  upwards  of  12,000 
names  of  merchants  and  other  business 
so 
men,  asking 
laws  be 
amended  as  to  protect  the  merchant 
in 
ibe  work  of  collecting  for  goods  fur­
nished  people  who  were  not  disposed  to 
pay  for  them  in  man  fashion.  Armed 
with  these  petitions,  and  backed  up  by 
a  number  of  representative  men  from 
each 
in  the  State  who  kindly 
volui.teered  to  meet  at  Lansing  for  the 
pmpose  of  fuithering  the  interests  of 
the  proposed  measures,  the  Tradesman 
presented  its  case  to  the  Legislature 
in 
the  best  possible 
light,  only  to  learn 
that  the  publicity  given  the  agitation 
prior  to  the  time  the  bill  was  presented 
to  the  Legislature  had  resulted  in stimu­
lating  action  on  the  part  of  the  trades 
unions 
in  opposition  to  any  amend­
ment  or  change  in  existing  laws.  The 
disappointment  was  keen,  but  a  lesson 
had  been 
learned  which  was  subse­
quently  utilized  to  good  advantage.

locality 

inch  by 

At the  next  session  of  the Legislature, 
another  attempt  was  made,  and  at every 
session  during  the  last  sixteen  years 
energetic  and  concerted  effort  has  been 
made  to  bring  about  the  needed  refo'm. 
At  the 
latt  session  of  the  Legislature 
this  agitation  resulted  in  the  enactment 
of  the  Anderson  bill,  which repealed  the 
1 iw  exempting  municipal 
employes 
' rom  the  garnishment  process.  This 
measure  was  fathered  by  a  Grand  Rap­
ids  legislator,  and  was  fought  step  by 
step  and 
inch  through  both 
houses  of  the  Legislature.  The  matter 
then 
lacked  but  the  approval  of  Gov­
ernor  Pingree,  who  was  appealed  to  by 
telegrams  from  every  city  in  the  State 
and  from  every  commercial organization 
in  Michigan  to  approve  the  measure.  A 
Grand  Rapids  politician  who  stood  very 
close  to  Governor  Pingree  was  impor­
tuned  to  use  his  influence  in  its  behalf, 
resulting  in  a  definite  promise  from  the 
Governor  that  he  would  approve  the 
measure  within  an  hour.  Within  half 
an  hour,  however,  he  filed  his  veto,  and 
be  has  since  stated,  plainly  and  un­
equivocally,  that  any  movement  origi­
nating  with  the  business  men  of  Mich­
igan,  having  for 
its  object  the  amend­
ment  or  repeal  of  the  present exemption 
laws,  will  meet  a  similar  fate  so  long 
as  he  occupies  the  position  of Governor. 
In  the  face  of  this  statement  by  Gov­
ernor  Pingree, 
feels 
that 
is  justified  in  the  opinion  that 
any  effort  made  at  this  time  to  amend 
laws  means  time  and 
the  exemption 
money  wasted.  The  Detroit  Trade  is 
entitled  to  credit  for  the  enthusiasm 
it1 
has  put  into  the  cause,  but  if  the  editor 
of  that  paper  had  had  sixteen years’  ex­
perience, 
instead  of  one,  he  would 
never  have  undertaken  to  secure  the 
concession  by  band  wagon  methods,  be­
cause,  by  so  doing,  be  excites  and 
foments  an  active  opposition  on  the 
pait  of  the  trades  unions  which  will 
necessarily  defeat  the  object  he  seeks 
to  attain.  The  Tradesman  does  no  pro­
pose  to  criticise  Mr.  Cozzens  for  the 
boyish  and  selfish  manner  in  which  he 
has  undertaken  to accomplish something 
which 
impossible  of  accomplish­
ment,  under  existirg  conditions,  believ­
ing  that  he  has  been  acting  in  good 
faith  and  has  simply  let  his  enthusiasm 
get  the  better  of  his  judgment.  The 
Tradesman  is  perfectly  content  to  leave 
it  to  the  business  men  of  Michigan  to 
decide  whether  it  would  not  have  been 
better  for  him  to  have  sought  the advice 
and  counsel  of  those  who  have  grown 
gray  in  the  service,  rather than  to  have 
gone  off  half  cocked  on  a  matter  in 
which  he  has  bad  practically  no  experi­
ence,  when  the  valuable  experience  of 
others  was  to  be  bad  for  the asking.  At 
the  proper  time  the  matter  can  be

the  Tradesman 

is 

it 

brought  before  a  convention  of  busi­
ness  men  representing  all  interests  and 
all  parts  of  the  State,  and  a  measure 
adopted  which  will  meet  the  require­
ments,  not  only  of  the  city  of  Detroit, 
but  of  the  most  remote  localities  in  the 
State.

The  Tradesman  does  not  wish  to  be 
understood  by  anyone  as  throwing  cold 
water  on  any  movement  having  for  its 
object  the  reform  of  present  abuses  or 
the  betterment  of  existing  trade  con­
ditions,  but  any  agitation  which 
is 
in 
originated 
selfishness  and  carried 
forward 
in 
ignorance  must  necessarily 
be  doomed  to  defeat.  Nor  is  defeat  the 
only  drawback  which  results.  Repeated 
defeats  tend  to  do  any  cause  harm,  be­
cause  of  the  apathy  and  disappointment 
which  ensue  as  the  result  of  failure.

The  Detroit  Trade,  which  was  the 
medium  through  which  the  subscrip­
tions  in  aid  of  the  movement  were  so­
licited,  insisted  that  the  Tradesman  was 
actuated  by  jealousy  because  it  was  not 
asked  to  assist  in  preparing  the  pro­
posed 
law  and  that  the  bill  would  be­
come  a  law  in  spite  of  the  opposition  or 
apathy  of  this  publication. 
It  also  as­
serted  that  it  had  the  positive  assur­
ance  of  Governor  Pingree  that  he  would 
not  veto  a  reasonable  amendment  to  the 
existing  law. 
It  is  due  the  Governor  to 
state  that  he  denies  ever  having  given 
Mr.  Cozzens  any such assurance;  in fact, 
two  of  the  most  prominent  businessmen 
of  the  State  were  informed  by  the  Gov­
ernor 
in  March  that  the  merchants 
might  as  well  save  the  money  they  were 
sending  in  to  the  Detroit  Trade,because 
be  would  make  short  work of the amend­
ment  they  proposed 
if  it  even  crossed 
the  threshold  of  the  executive  chamber.
Knowing  these  things  and  realizing 
the  utter  futility  of  misleading  its  read­
ers  with  hopes  which  would  soon  be 
blasted,  the  Tradesman  refused  to 
join 
in  the  appeal  for  funds  so  industriously 
promulgated 
among  Michigan  mer­
chants,  because  it  has  never  been  so 
foolish  and  shortsighted  as  to  ask  any­
one  to  contribute  one  cent  to  a  cause 
is  hopeless—and  trusts  it  never 
which 
in  which  the  ap­
will  The  manner 
peals  were  made  and  the  public  way 
in 
which 
it  was  announced  that  a  fund 
was  being  created  to  maintain  a  lobby 
at  Lansing— referred  to  by  the  daily 
papers  as  a  “ corruption  fund’ ’— were 
enough 
themselves  to  defeat  the 
cause.  Nor  is  defeat  the  most  unfortu­
nate  feature  of  the  crusade.  Through 
lack  of  diplomacy,  due largely  to  the in­
experience  of  Mr.  Cozzens,  the  working 
classes  have  been  aroused  as  they  have 
never been  aroused  before,  and  they  are 
now  so  thoroughly  stirred  up  on  the 
question  of  exemption  legislation  that 
they  will  prove  a  serious  stumbling 
block  in  the  way  of  securing  future con­
cessions.
The  soliciting  of  funds  to  prosecute 
work 
impossible  of  accomplishment 
was  due  to  either  craft  and  stupidity  or 
ignorance 
The 
Tradesman  dislikes  to  believe  that  any 
trade 
journal  would  pursue  such  a 
course  with  a  thorough  knowledge  of the 
fact  that  the  money  so  raised  would  be 
used  to 
injure  the  cause  of  those  con­
tributing,  preferring  to believe  that  the 
action  is  to  be  attributed  to  the 
inex­
perience  of  youth,  in  which  enthusiasm 
sometimes  supersedes  good  judgment 
Of  course,  those  who  contributed  to  the 
fund  will  be  furnished  a  detailed  state­
ment  of  the  manner  in  which  the money 
was expended.

inexperience. 

and 

in 

The  amendment  finally  passed  both 
branches  of  the  Legislature and  reached 
the  Governor  June  9.  Six  days  later  he 
vetoed  the  bill,  giving  the 
following 
reasons  for his action :

it 
is 

legislation. 

Such  a  law  would  seriously  affect  the 
small  wage-earners,  the  laborers,  the 
In  this 
workingmen  and  many  clerks. 
is  class 
sense, 
The 
in  the  hands  of  the  merchant 
power 
If  he  has  unwisely  ex­
to  refuse  credit. 
tended  credit,  or 
if  dishonest  debtors 
have  taken  unfair  advantage  of  the  ex­
emption  law,  bad  accounts  so  created 
must  be  charged  to profit  and  loss.  The 
profit  and 
loss  account  is  one  which  is 
carried  by  every  merchant,  and  every 
wise  merchant  makes  allowance  for  it.
Under this  law  it  would  be  possible 
for  the  merchant  to  collect  accounts 
which  he  has  treated  as worthless assets, 
at  a  cost  of  suffering  and  hardships 
which  can  not  be  estimated  at this time. 
The  merchant,  under  the  new  Federal 
bankruptcy  law,  enacted  to  relieve  him 
from  the  embarrassment  created  by  the 
panic,  can  commence  life  anew,  with  a 
clean  balance  sheet.  Because  of  the  ex­
pense 
involved  the  poor  man  is  prac­
tically  deprived  of  the  benefit  of  the 
bankruptcy 
law,  instead  of 
relieving  the  employe,  forces  upon  him 
the  necessity  of  providing  for  the  pay­
ment  of  debts  which  have  accumulated 
as  a  result  of  the  bard  times.

law.  This 

I  believe  there  should  be  no  garnish­
ment  laws.  The  giving  of  credit  should 
be  discouraged,  as  it  works  an  injury  to 
the  one  who  receives  it. 
It  encourages 
him  to  incur  debts. 
If  he  can  secure 
no  credit  be  will  limit  his  expenditures 
to  his  income.  Laws  should  encourage 
thrift  and  economy.

Another  objectionable  feature  is  that 
the  exemption 
is  so  small  that  a  iarge 
part  of  the  money  collected  under  it 
would  be  paid  to  justices  of  the  peace, 
constables  and  other  officers  of  the  law. 
The  cost  of  the  legal  proceedings  would 
absorb  most  of  the  proceeds.

The  proposed  law  is  a  relic  of  com­
It 
mercial  barbarism  of  a  century  ago. 
is  as  offensive  to  me  as 
imprisonment 
for  debt.  The  commercial  spirit  of  the 
times  gave  birth  to  this  measure  and 
is  the  same  as  that  which  led  our  fore­
fathers  to  throw  men  into prison because 
they  could  not  pay  their  debts.

A  careful  reading  of  the  bill as passed 
discloses  the  fact  that  the  Governor  did 
the  business  men  of  the  State  yeoman 
service 
in  refusing  to  permit  it  to  be­
come  a  law,  because  it  provides  for  a 
weekly  exemption  of  $7.50. 
In  the case 
of  debtors  who  work  by  the  month  the 
exemption  would  thus be  $32.14  instead 
of  $25,  as  provided  in  the  present 
law. 
It  is  also  asserted  by  a  lawyer  legislator 
that  the  bill  as  finally  passed  was  clear­
ly  unconstitutional,  so  that  in  the  event 
of  its  having  received  the  approval  of 
the  Executive,  it  would  have  been  nul­
lified  by  the  courts.

it. 

the  business  public 

It  has  been  represented 

The Tradesman  regrets  that  duty to it­
self  and 
it  has 
served  for  sixteen  years  compels  it  to 
speak  somewhat  harshly of a competitor, 
which  is  now  bowed  down  by  the  de­
feat  which  has  overtaken 
The 
Tradesman  made  the  same  mistake 
in 
1885—fourteen  years  ago—and  met  dis­
aster  as  the  result  of  its  inexperience. 
Instead  of  asking  the  merchants  of 
Michigan  to  undertake  the  expense  of 
the  campaign,  however,  the  Tradesman 
spent 
its  own  money  and  charged  the 
cost  of  the  crusade  to  its  own  expense 
account. 
in 
every  Legislature  since  that  time—with 
the  single  exception  of  this  year—and 
has  tasted  the  sweetness  of  victory  as 
well  as  the  bitterness  of  defeat—but  al­
ways  at  its  own  expense.  The  Trades­
man  can  point  to  several  laws  now  on 
the  statute  books  which  are  of  vital  im­
portance  to  the  best 
interests  of  the 
merchants  of  Michigan  which  owe  their 
existence  largely  to  the  influence  of  this 
publication.  On  the  other  hand,  a  pi­
geon  hole  of  meritorious measures which 
have  not  yet  been  approved  by  the  pow­
ers  that  be  suggests that the mission  of 
the  Tradesman  as a  legislative assistant 
to  the  merchant 
is  not  yet  ended and 
will  not  be  until 
it  is  as  easy  for  the 
merchant  to  collect  for  goods  as  it  is for 
him  to  trust  them  out—as  safe  to  sell 
goods as  it  is to  buy  them.

10

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Shoes and  Leather
Peculiar  Custom ers  Who  Came  to  a 

Written for the Tbadzskak.

Shoe  Store.

I 

waited 

in  a  city  shoe  store,  one 

morning  not  long  ago,  for  a bit of patch­
ing  to  be  done.  The  little  pale  cobbler 
who  sewed  and  pegged 
in  the  close­
smelling  den  at  the  rear  of  the  store 
had  a  small  order  in  advance  of  mine 
and  I  sat  in  the  salesroom  as  being 
pleasanter.

I 

had  just  taken  up  a  morning  paper 

in  front  of  the  store. 

when  my  attention  was  attracted  to  an 
lumber  wagon  which 
old-fashioned 
halted 
It  was 
lean  gray  horses 
drawn  by  a  pair  of 
and  the  harness  they  pulled 
in  was 
patched  and  pieced  out  with  ends  of 
rope  and  chain  until  it  would  have  been 
difficult  to  decide  just  how  it bad looked 
when  new.

An  old  man  and  an  old  lady,  both 
gray,  and  both  wrinkled  and  bent  with 
the  weight  of  years,  alighted  from  the 
wagon  and  entered  the  store.  The  man 
carried  many  packages  piled  high  on 
one  arm,  and  the 
lady,  with  a  well- 
filled  basket  in  one  hand,  clung  closely 
to  bis  arm  with  the  other,  as  though  di­
recting  or  supporting  his  feeble steps.

They  stopped  at  a  counter  close  to 
where  I  was  sitting  and  asked  to  see 
some  men’s  shoes.  The  young  clerk 
looked  them  over  rather 
indifferently, 
as  I  thought,  and  threw  down  a  pair  of 
heavy  stogas.

“ What  size?”   he  asked.
The 

lady  glanced  at  the  proffered 

goods  and  pushed  them  back.

“ We  want  something  good,”   she 
said,  “ the  best  you’ve  got  in  the  store. 
They’re  for  our  boy.”

“ What  size?”   repeated 
turning  to  the  shelves  again.

the  clerk, 

The 

lady  faced  her  companion  with 
anxious  eyes,  in  which  I  thought  I  de­
tected  a  suspicious  moisture.

“ He  wears  sevens,  doesn’t  be,  pa?”  

she  asked.

“ Yes,  sevens, ”  was the reply,  * * sevens 
in  shoes  and  sixteen  in  shirts.  Are  you 
sure  we  got  the  right  sized shirt?  Albert 
always  was  awfully  particular  about  his 
shirts,  you  know.”

“ I  guess  we did,”  was the reply,  “ but 

we’ll  just  open  the  bundle  and  see."

The  tanned  and  bony  fingers struggled 
patiently  with  the  encircling  cords  of 
one  of  the  packages  for  a  moment  and 
then  brought  out  a  handsome  shirt,  ex­
pensive 
in  fabric  and  make  and  laun- 
dried  to  perfection.  Slipped  in  behind 
the  bosom  were  a  pair  of  cuffs  with 
costly  gold  buttons  and  a  collar.  She 
drew  the  cuffs  forth  and  held  them  up 
for  the  inspection  of  the  clerk.

“ Are  these  the  very  best?”  she asked. 
“ The  man  I  bought  them  of  said  they 
were  the  very  latest  and  best.  Do  you 
think  they  would  please  a  young  man 
about  like  you?”

“ They  are  very  nice,”   replied  the 
“ I  can’t  afford  to  wear  such 

clerk. 
things  as  you  have  in  that  package.”

“ We  have  done  our  very  best,”   said 
lady,  pleased  at  the  commendation 
“ We  have  spent  all  our 

the 
of  the  clerk. 
savings  on  these  things.”

“ You  must  have  a  very  good  boy,  to 
be  so  fond  of  him ,”   said  the  young 
man.

The  man  and  the  woman  looked 

into 
each  other’s  faces  again  and  I  saw  her 
band  creep  timidly  down  and  rest  for a 
moment 
the  sun-browned 
hand  of  her  husband,  and  a  tear  fell 
upon  it  as  it  lay  there.

softly  on 

The  old  lady  undid  one  of  tbe 

“ There  never  was  a  better  boy,”   said 
the  old  man.  “ Mary,  suppose  you  show 
him  tbe  suit  of  clothes.  He’ll  know 
whether  they  are  the  very  best  or  not. ’ ’ 
larger 
packages  and  a  full  suit  of  broadcloth 
was  soon  displayed  on  the  counter.  The 
clerk  seemed  to  me  to  regard  tbe  aged 
couple  with  a  little  more  respect,  and  I 
became  so  interested  in  what  was  going 
on  that  I  moved  my  chair  nearer.

“ You  couldn’t  have  done  better  in 
“ Your  boy 

the  city,”   said  the  clerk. 
will  look  like  a  prince  in  this  suit.”  

Again  that  tender  glance  passed  be­
tween  tbe  couple,  and  the  lady  turned 
away  with  a  look  of  sorrow  in  her  ear­
nest  eyes. 
In  a  moment  she  lifted  the 
last  pair  of  shoes  tbe  clerk  bad  pre­
sented  and  asked  the  price.

“ Five  dollars,”   was  the  reply.
It  was  plain  that  the  sum  was  more 
than  the  couple  bad  intended  paying for 
tbe  shoes,  and  they  conferred  together 
for  a  moment,  speaking  in  whispers.

“ We’ve  got  that  much money,  haven't 

we?”   asked  the  man,  anxiously.

“ We’ve  got 

five  dollars  and  ten 
cents,”   was  tbe  slow reply,  “ but  there’s 
you.  shoes to get. ’ ’

“ Now,  Mary,”   said  the  old  man,  “ I 
left  home  that  I 
I  can  get  along 

told  you  before  we 
didn't  need  new  shoes. 
until  after  harvest.”

My  eyes  involuntarily  followed  those 
of  tbe  woman  down  to  the  floor.  Tbe 
old  man’s 
shoes  were  broken  and 
patched.  The  wife's 
lips  trembled  as 
she  turned  back  to  tbe  counter  and 
counted  out  tbe  five  dollars,  mostly  in 
small change,  as  if  its  accumulation  had 
covered  a  period  of  many  weeks.

“ You  see,”   said  the  mother,  as  the 
clerk  was  doing  up  tbe  shoes,  “ our  boy 
never  had  many  opportunities  on  the 
farm,  but  he  was  kind  and  cheerful— 
always  kind  and  cheerful,  so  we're  do­
ing  our  best  for  him  now.”

‘ ' He  ought  to  be  very  happy  to­

night, ”   said  tbe  clerk.

Once  more  that  pathetic  look and then 

the  old  woman  said :

‘ ‘ He  went  away  to the war with Spain, 
hoping  to  help  us  with  his  pay,  but  we 
saved  every  penny  of  biswages for him, 
thinking  how  glad  he’d  be  when  be  got 
home.  He  used  to  write  letters  telling 
us  what  to  do  with  it,  but  we  kept  it 
ail. 
In  almost  every  letter  he’d  write 
about  the  creek  and  tbe  elm  trees  and 
the  orchard,  just  as  if  they  were persons 
he  was  sorry  to  be  separated  from.”  

“ W ell,”   said  the  clerk,  “ it’s  all  over 
in  here  some 

now.  Tell  him  to  call 
day;  I’d  like  to  see  him .”

There  were  tears  in  the  faded  eyes  in 

front  of  the  counter  now.

“ Yes,  it’s  all  over,  the  waiting  and 
the  hoping,”   said  tbe  mother,  her  bead 
bowed  upon  her  wrinkled  hands. 
“ It’s 
all  over,  for  they  are bringing him home 
dead.  We’ve  done  just  what  we  aimed 
to  do  if  he  came  home  alive  and  well. 
It  seems  to  me  somehow  that our soldier 
boy  will  know.  When  we  bury  him  in 
these  clothes  I  almost  know  he  will  un­
derstand.  At  first  I  thought we  wouldn’t 
have  money  enough,  but  they  didn't 
charge  much.  Everybody’s  been  very 
kind  to  us.  Come,  dear.”

There  was  an  unusual  moisture  in 
the  eyes  of  the  clerk  as  be  turned  back 
and  said  a  few  words  to  the  cashier, 
and  when 
the  sorrowing  old  couple 
turned  away  He—God bless him 1— called 
them  back.

in  tbe  price  of 
“ I  made  a  mistake 
those  shoes,”   he  said. 
“ They  were 
marked  down to two dollais,  and I didn’t 
notice  it.  Here’s three dollars change. ”

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

We sell them and want your orders.

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

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

GEO.  H.  R E E D E R   &  C O .,

19  SOUTH  IO NIA  STREET. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.  M ICH.

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

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

STUDLEY & BARCLAY,

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

4 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

W e  are  in  the  market  with  the  best § 

Rubbers  on  earth  and  in  water.

Wales=Goodyear

ist,  30  days.

T erm s  N o v  
W ales-G o o d year,  25  and  5  per  cent.
Connecticuts,  25,  10  and  5  per  cent.
W oo n socket  Boots,  25,  5  and  5  per  cent.

W e   also  carry  a  full  line  of  findings,  shoe store  supplies, 
fixtures,  etc  W rite   for  catalogue.

Herold=Bertsch  Shoe  Co.,  Grand Rapids.

It  seemed  to  me  that  the  mother  un­
derstood  and  prized  the  falsehood  be­
cause  made  in  sympathy  with  her  grief, 
and  there  was  a  more  hopeful  look  on 
her  kind  old  face  as  the  clerk  respect­
fully  helped  her  into  the  wagon.

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

Catch  Phrases Gleaned from  Success­

ful  Advertisers.

Facts  not  fakes.
A  season  of  serges.
Actual  advantages.
None  quite  so good.
Not  seen  elsewhere.
Our  practical  helps.
For  summer  selling.
Sense  and  economy.
An  expansive  dollar.
A  big  dollar’s  worth.
We’ll  beat  any  price.
Money  well  invested.
Costumes  for  summer.
The  real  thing  counts.
Advantages  in  buying.
Rain-fooling  garments.
Notify  your neighbors.
Looking  costs  nothing.
Buy  to-day  and  be  sure.
For  prosperous  people.
Early  harvest  of  values.
The  pick  of  the  market.
Quality  in  every  thread.
Our  school  for  economy.
Business  building  goods.
A  pinch  of  profit  suffices.
Wearable  and  washable.
Your approval  is  certain.
Popular  because  of  merit.
What  we  suggest  is  a  test.
Our  shelves  are  up  to  date.
When  in  need—consult  us.
For  fit  and  wear and  style.
Points  worth  remembering.
If  you  pay  less  you  get  less. 
Unquestioned  first-rateness.
Excellence  a  prime  feature. 
Extravagance  is  impossible. 
Seasonable  and  fashionable.
Right!  all  the  way  through.
Goodness  that  grows  on  you.
Thoughts  that  make  dollars.
A  top  notch  of  dollar  values.
All  qualities  at  many  pi ices.
Our  interest  is  your  interest. 
Happiness  for  the  housewife.
Our  opinion !  What’s  youis?
Our  continuous  performance. 
Cheapness  proves  a  nuisance. 
Blossoming  of  spring  bargains.
Looks  best,  wears  best,  is  best. 
Footwear built  for  bard  wear.
We  have  them—you  try  them.
Trade  magnets  that  draw  now.
Goods  that  tell  their  own  story.
The  price  doesn't  tell  the  value.
Use  your  sense and  save  dollars.
See  it—buy  it—wear  it—enjoy  it.
Our  insurance  is  your  assurance.
Our  stock  argument  is  our stock. 
Pretty  patterings  at  proper  prices. 
Bargain  ta.k  that  makes  you  talk. 
Maximum  quality— minimum  cost.
An  ideal  costume  at  an  ideal  price. 
When  you  think  of  shoes  think  of  us. 
Our  prices  will  hasten  your  pur­

We’re  dividing  our  profit  with  you 
Mercantile  blossoms  gathered  for  you. 
Smoothing  away  housekeepers’  trou­

is 

simple—benefits  are 

interested 

in 

low  prices? 

chase.

bles.

great.

Imitation 

Are  you 

See  us.

Delicate,  illusive,  un-namable shades. 
Just  the  same  as  making  you  a  pres­

It’s  our  business  to  like  whatever  you 

ent.

like.

We  can  say  no  more  than  the  goods 

themselves  say.

Be  warned  by  yesterday’s  experience 

— profit  by  to-day’s  opportunity.

Question  o f  Nationality.

Pat—Oi  want  to  get  a  pair av  shoes 

foor  tb’  bye.

Clerk—Certainly,  sir.  French  kid? 
Pat—No,  soor,  he’s  an  Oirish  kid.

The  man  who  gets as  large  a  salary 
as  he  thinks  be  deserves  is  usually over­
paid.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Plea  For  Legible  Invoices.

Written for the  T r ad esm an.

A  clear,  accurate,  well-written 

in­
voice  for a  biil  of  goods  is  in  its  way  a 
thing  of  beauty,  and  to  the heart  of  the 
merchant  receiving  it 
it  is  truly  a  joy 
It would  seem  that  such  would 
forever. 
be  the  rule,  but 
in  point  of  fact  they 
are  the  exception.

In  the  mere  matter  of  arithmetical 
computation—the  multiplications  and 
footings—almost  all  invoices  are  abso­
lutely correct;  but  this  is  about  the  only 
point  in  which  the  general  run  of  bills 
are  what  they  should  be.  The  invoices 
of  every  bouse  present  distinct  charac­
teristics,  and generally  distinct  failings 
One  bouse  we  have  in  mind  sends  out 
bills  perfect 
in  every  respect  except 
that  the  really  beautiful  bandwriting  is 
in  some  way  “ blind.”   All  the  words 
are  so  much  alike  that  if  there  is  oc­
casion  to  refer  to  an  old  bill  it  is  al­
most  impossible  to  find the item wanted. 
In  some  wholesale  offices  it  would  seem 
that  a  demon  of  confusion  must  reign. 
Articles  are  charged  on  the  invoice  that 
are  not  sent  and  articles  are  sent  that 
are  not  charged.  Stock  numbers  are 
given 
incorrectly,  often  causing  trouble 
if  the  merchant  tries  to  order  more  of 
the  same  kind  of  goods.  With  other 
bouses  the  fault  is  that  the  bills  are  so 
illegibly  written,  and  so 
hastily  and 
much  abbreviation 
is  used,  that  it  is 
next  to  impossible  to  check  up  with  the 
goods.  A  given  word  may  be  “ mitts,”  
or  it  may  be  “ hair  nets,”   or  it  may  be 
"m uslin”   or  “ merino.”   Not  even  a 
skilled  Egyptologist  could  read  such  in­
voices. 
It  is  only  by  careful study  and 
comparison  with  the  goods,  and  by  long 
processes  of  reasoning  as  to  what  cer­
tain  words  must  mean,  that  the  mer­
chant  and  bis  clerks  are  able 
to 
straighten  out  some  of  these  bills.  On 
a  long  invoice  containing  a  large  num­
ber of  small  items,  a  bill  of  notions  for 
instance,  this  may  take  an  hour  or  so  of 
extra  work.

It 

is  to  be  noted  that  some  of  the 
largest  and  best  wholesale  houses  send 
out  the  worst  invoices.  The  explanation 
of  this  fact  is,  of  course,that  they  do  an 
immense  business  and  so  accuracy  and 
legibility  and  other good  things  are sac­
rificed  to  speed.  A  man  can  write 
seventy-five  or  a  hundred  bills  in  some 
kind  of  a  way  in  the  time  that  would  be 
required  to get  up  fifty  properly.  But  is 
this  good  economy?  Can  the wholesaler 
afford  to  make  so  trifling  a  saving  when 
it  will  cause  his  customers  loss  of  time 
and  consequent  irritation?

just  right 

There  are  some  houses  that  send  out 
invoices  that  are 
in  every 
way.  These  can  be  quickly  checked 
up,  and  are  easily  referred  to  at  any 
subsequent  time.  Some  of  these  are 
handwritten,  some  typewritten,  the  lat­
ter  of  course  being  preferred  by  the  re­
cipients,  but  this  is  not  a  vital  point. 
Every  merchant  gets  enough bills gotten 
up  as  they  should  be  to  know  he  is  be­
ing  imposed  upon  when  he  receives  any 
other  kind.

Now,  if  a  customer  is  dissatisfied 

in 
any  way  the  wholesale  house  does  not 
hesitate to  carry  on  correspondence  and 
if  necessary  make  considerable  sacri­
fices 
in  order  to  conciliate  him ;  and 
if  he  comes  in  to  the  city  great  pains  is 
taken  to  get  him  to  entertain  as friendly 
a  feeling  as  possible  toward  the  house 
with  which  he is dealing.  Can  this  same 
bouse  afford  to  put  him  out  of  humor, 
every  time  be  receives  a  bill  for  goods, 
for  the  sake  of a  very  paltry  saving 
in 
time  and  trouble? 

Quillo.

REMOVAL

We will occupy  our  new build­
ing,  10,  12,  14,  16,  18, 20, 22 
North  Ionia  Street, July  1st.
RINDGE, 
K A LM B AC H , 
LO G IE ¿¿CO.
G R A N D   R A P ID S .

To be  able to  prepare  effective  advertising,  a 
business  man  must  have the  time  and  the  training.
If you  lack  either of these,  you  need  our services.  We 
have the training.
Our time  is yours— if you wish.

Write  for our  booklet,  “Advertising  That  Pays”— 
it tells what we  can  do  for you  and  how  much  it costs. 
A   request  on  your letter-head  brings  it.

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

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Don’t buy something that won’t burn.

The  Sunlight 

Gas  Lamp

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

ever  known 
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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 
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S u n ligh t

One burner equals  four  kero­
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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.

Michigan  Light  Co.,

Successor to

PERKINS,  HENRY & CO.,  23 Pearl Street, Grand  Papids,  Mich.
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Fruits and  Produce.
New  Rules  Governing  the  Handling of 

Eggs.

Fur  some  time  past  the  Egg  Com­
mittee  of  the  New  York  Mercantile  E x­
change  has  been  actively  at revising  the 
egg  rules.  Many  changes  had  gradual­
ly  taken  place 
in  the  general  circum­
stances  of  the  trade  which  had  com­
bined  to  make  the  old  rules  inadequate, 
and  much  business  was  being  done 
in 
grades  and  qualities  which  were  not 
properly  specified  and  for  which  there 
were  no  definitely  prescribed  condi­
tions.

The  new  rules  were  submitted  to  the 
at  a  special 
Executive  Committee, 
meeting 
last  Friday  and,  with  some 
slight  amendments,  formally  adopted, 
to  take  effect  June  15,  as  follows:

r u l e   1—Classification  and  Grading.
1.  Eggs  shall  be  classified  as  “ Fresh 
Gathered,”   “ Held,”   “ Refrigerator,”  
and  “ Lim ed.”

2.  There  shall  be  grades  of  “ E x­
tras,”   “ Firsts,”   “ Seconds,”   “ Dirt­
ies,”   “ Checks”   and  “ Known  Marks.”

r u l e   2 .

1.  Fresh  Gathered  Extras,  Refriger­
ator  Extras,  Limed  Extras,  Dirties  and 
Checks  shall  be  sold  At  Mark.  Fresh 
Gathered  Firsts  and  Seconds,  Held 
Firsts  and  Seconds,  Refiigerator  Firsts 
and  Seconds,  Limed  Firsts  and  Sec­
onds  and  Known  Marks  shall  be sol j  In­
spector’s  Average  Loss  Off,  unless 
otherwise  specified,  excepting that,  dur 
ing  the  season  of  the  year  when  the gen­
eral  quality  of  Fresh  Gathered  Eggs  ar 
riving  on  this  market  is  at  a high stand­
ard,  the  Egg  Committee  shall  designate 
a  period  during  which  sales  of  Fresh 
Gathered  Firsts shall  be at mark  unless 
otherwise  specified.  This  period  shall 
be  known  as  the  “ Mark  Season.”
in  these  rules, 
shall  comprise  all  rotten,  broken  (leak­
ing),  heavy 
spots,  broken  yolked, 
hatched,  (blood veined)  and  sour  eggs. 
Very  small,  very  dirty,  cracked  (not 
leaking),  badly  heated, 
light  spots, 
badly  shrunken  and  salt  eggs  shall  be 
counted  as  half 
in  all  grades  ex­
cepting  Dirties  and  Checks.

“ Loss,”   as  used 

loss 

2. 

Q U A L I T I E S .

3.  Fresh  Gathered  Extras  shall  be 
free  from  small  and  dirty  eggs,  and 
shall  contain  perfectly  fresh,  reasonably 
full,  strong,  sweet  eggs  as  follows:
During  mark  season,  93  per  cent.
From  mark  season  to  October  31,  80 
November  1  to  December  31,  70  per 

per  cent.

cent.

January  1  to  mark  season,  80  per  cent.
The  balance,  other  than  the  loss,  may 
be  defective  in  strength  or  fullness,  but 
must  be  sweet.  There  may  be  a  total 
loss  of  one  dozen  per  case,  but 
average 
if  the 
loss  exceeds  this  by  not  more! 
than  50  per  cent,  eggs  shall  be  a  good 
delivery  upon  allowance  of  the  excess. 
When  sold  “ Storage  Packed,”   Extras 
must  not  contain  an  average  of  more 
than  12  cracked  or  checked  eggs  per 
case.

4.  Fresh  Gathered  Firsts—Shall  be 
reasonably  clean  and  of  good  average 
size,  and  shall  contain  perfectly  fresh, 
reasonably  full,  strong,  sweet  eggs  as 
follows:

During  mark  season,  85  per  cent.
Mark  season  to  October  31,  65  per 

cent.

cent.

cent.

November  1  to  December  31,  50  per 

January  1  to  mark  season,  65  per 

the 

The  balance,  other  than 

loss, 
may  be  defective  in strength  or fullness, 
but  must  be  sweet.  During  the  Mark 
Season,  there  may  be  a  total  average 
loss  of  one  dozen  per  case,  but  if  the 
loss  exceeds  this  by  not  more  than  50 
per  cent,  eggs  shall  be  a  good  delivery 
upon  allowance  of the excess.  When sold 
“ Storage  Packed,”   Fresh  Gathered 
Firsts  must  not  contain  an  average  of 
more  than  18  cracked  or  checked  eggs 
per  case.

5.  Fresh  Gathered  Seconds— Shall be 
reasonably  clean  and  of  fair  average

size,  and  shall  contain  fresh,  reason­
ably'full  eggs  as  follows:

During  mark  season,  70  per  cent.
Mark  season  to  October  31,  40  per

cent.

cent.

November  1  to  December  31,  30  per 

the 

January  1  to  mark  season,  40  per cent.
The  balance,  other  than  the  loss,  may 
be  defective  in  strength  or  fullness,  but 
must  be  merchantable  stock.  During 
the  mark  season  there  may  be  2  total 
average  loss  of  two  dozen  per  case.

6.  Held  Firsts—Shall  be  reasonably 
clean,  of  good  average  size  and  sweet. 
At  least  40  per  cent,  shall  be  reasonably 
full  and  strong.  The balance  may  be 
defective  in  strength  or  fullness,  but not 
badly  shrunken,  excepting 
loss, 
which  shall  not  exceed  four  dozen  per 
case.

7.  Held  Seconds— Shall  be  reason­
ably  clean  and  of  fair  average  size. 
May  he  defective  in  fullness,  strength 
and  flavor,  but  must  be  merchantable 
stock,  not  mustv;  except the  loss,  which 
must  not  exceed  eight  dozen  per  case.

8.  Refrigerator Extras— Shall  be  free 
from  dirty  or  small  eggs,  full,  strong, 
sweet  and  free  from  mildew  or  foreign 
taste  or  odor,  except  the 
loss,  which 
must  not  exceed  one  dozen  per  case. 
The  cases,  fillers  and  packing  shall  be 
as  required  for "Storage  Packed.”

9.  Refrigerator  Firsts—Shall  be  rea­
sonably  clean  and  of  fair  average  size; 
they  must  be  reasonably  full,  strong  and 
sweet,  and  free  from  mildew  or  foreign 
taste  or  odor,  excepting  the  loss,  which 
must  not  exceed  two  dozen  per  case. 
Cases,  fillers  and  packing  shall  be  as 
required  for  “ Storage  Packed.”

10.  Refrigerator  Seconds—Shall  be 
of  good  appearance  and  may  be  off-fla­
vored  to  some  extent,  but  not  musty, 
excepting  the  loss,  which  must  not  ex­
ceed  five  dozen  per  case.
11.  Limed  Extras—Shall be uniform­
ly  large  size,  well  cleaned,  strong  bod­
ied,  reasonably  full  and  sweet,  except­
ing  the  loss,  which  shall  not  exceed  one 
dozen  per  case.

12.  Limed  Firsts—Shall  be  of  good 
average  size,  well  cleaned,  of  good 
strength,  reasonably  full  and  sweet,  ex­
cepting  the  loss,  which  shall  not  exceed 
two  dozen  per  case.
13.  Limed  Seconds—Shall  comprise 
stock  which  is  rusty,  weak  or  shows  hot 
weather  defects,  but  must  contain  at 
least  60  per  cent,  of  faiily  useful  qual­
ity.

14.  Dirties  and  Checks— May  be 
offered  as  No. 
1  and  No.  2  in  the 
classes  of  Fresh  Gathered,  Held  and 
Refrigerator. 
In  quality  No.  1  must 
conform  to  the  requirements  for  Firsts, 
and  No.  2  to  the  requirements  for  Sec­
onds,  excepting  as  to  size  and  clean­
ness,  and  Dirties  must  not  contain 
more  than  10  per  cent,  of  cracked  eggs. 
Checks  may  consist  of Blind-Checks and 
Cracked  eggs  (not  leaking).  The  loss 
must  not  exceed  two  dozen  per  case  on 
No.  1,  nor  more  than  four  dozen  on  No. 
2.  During  the  Mark  Season,  only  one- 
half  of  this 
loss  shall  be  permitted. 
When  sold  “ Storage  Packed.”   Dirties 
must  not  contain  more  than  18  cracked 
or  checked  eggs  per  case.

15.  Known  Marks— Shall  comprise 
such  eggs  as  are  known  to  the  trade  un­
der  some  particular  mark  or  designa­
tion,  and must  grade as  firsts  in  the  sea­
son  in  which  they  are  offered.  Known 
Marks  to  be  offered  under  the  call  must 
previously  have  been  registered 
in  a 
book  kept  by  the  Superintendent  for 
that  purpose.

16.  All  specifications  as  to  the  case 
mentioned 
in  these  rules  refer  to  30 
dozen  cases.  For  larger  cases,  the  re­
quirements  shall  be  calculated 
in  pro­
portion.

PACKAGES  AND  PACKING.

17.  Extras,  Firsts  and  No.  1  Dirties 
or  Checks  must  be 
in  new  cases  of 
standard  sizes  and  good  quality,  smooth 
and  clean.  Fillers  shall  be  of  substan­
tial  quality,  sweet  and  dry,  with  flats 
under  bottom 
layers  and  over  tops; 
sweet,  dry  excelsior  or  other  suitable 
packing.

18.  Seconds  and  No.  2  Dirties  or 
Checks—Cases  shall  be  new,  or  good 
uniform  second  band.  Fillers  shall  be 
of  substantial  quality,  sweet  and  dry,

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oranges,  $4.5034.75.  Some  California 
navel  oranges  have  sold  from  $435-5° 
per  box,  the  latter  for  fancy  stock.  Ber­
ries  are  plentiful  and  cheap.  Water­
melons,  per  100,  $12@28.  Pineapples, 
Florida,  per  case,  $234.25.  Bananas 
are  quiet  but prices  generally  are  pretty 
well  held  and  unchanged.
Arrivals  of  butter  have  been  free  and 
there  is quite  an  accumulation  of  stock 
here.  The  demand  is  of  moderate  pro­
portions  and  altogether  the  outlook  for 
the  moment  is  not  particularly  gratify­
ing,  and  yet  matters  might  be  worse. 
Gilt  edge  Western  creamery  is  worth 
i8^c,  although  in  some  cases  this  has 
been  slightly  shaded.  Firsts  are  quite 
plentiful  and  are  offered  freely  from 
17 ^ 3  18c. 
133 
15c,  as  to  grade.  Dairy  butter  is  firm, 
13314c.

Imitation  creamery, 

The  hot  weather  is  affecting  the  egg 
tend  downward. 
supply  and  prices 
Western  stock,  14314^°.  the  latter  be­
ing  outside.

There  is,  perhaps,  a  little  better  feel­

18

ing  in  cheese,  but  the  general  market is 
not  at  all  active. 
Large  white  full 
is  worth  7&c.  Little  is  doing 
cream 
by  exporters.

A  D ifficult  Problem.

"W hat’s  the  matter?”   enquired  the 
sympathetic  friend.
" I   don’t  know,”   replied  the  man 
who  was  gazing  at  the  floor  and  bolding 
his  face  in  both  hands.

" Is   it  the  toothache?”
" I t  started  that  way,  but I  don't  know 
now  whether 
it’s  the  toothache  or  the 
things  my  friends  persuaded  me  to  do 
for  it. ”

His  W illingness.

" I   see  by  the  newspapers,”   remarked 
Reeder,  "that  the  miners  in  the  Klon­
dike  are 
for 
wives. ”
"Is   that  so!”   ejaculated  Hennypeck, 
"They  can  have 

sending  out  appeals 

in  an  eager  whisper. 
mine. ”

with  sweet,  suitable  packing.

thirty  dozen  whitewood 

19.  Storage  Packed—When  sold  as 
Storage  Packed,  all  grades  must  be  in 
new, 
cases, 
smooth,  clean  and  substantial.  Fillers 
dry,  sweet,  medium  or  No.  1.  Flats 
under  bottom 
tops; 
dry,  sweet  excelsior  or  cork  packing.
so 
which  they  were  first used.

20.  Cases  shall  be  considered  as  new 
long  as  they  contain  the  eggs  for 

layers  and  over 

The  New  Egg  Rules  Promulgated  in 

New  Y ork.

From the New York Produce Review.

classes  of  dealers. 

The  egg  trade  is  to  be  congratulated 
upon  the  excellent  work  done  by the egg 
committee  of  New  York  Mercantile  Ex­
change 
in  the  revision  of  the  trade 
rules,  and  upon  the  adoption  of  their 
work  by  the  Executive  Committee. 
Since  the  egg  rules  were first formulated 
a  good  many  changes  have  giadually 
taken  place  in  the  egg  trade both  as  to 
the  manner of packing goods  at  primary 
points  and  as  to  the  requirements  of  the 
various 
These 
changes  have  not  been  adequately  fol­
lowed  in  such  changes  as have previous­
ly,  from  time  to  time,  been  made  in 
the  trade  rules,  and  the  result  has  been 
that  much  of  the  business  of  distribu­
tion  in  this  market  has  of late been  done 
without  the  guidance  and  protection 
of  definite  specifications.  At  times  the 
minimum  requirement  of  the  highest 
grade  of  eggs  known  to  the  rules  has 
been  inferior  to  the  quality  demanded 
and  obtainable  by  first-class  trade,  and 
some  important  grades,  such  as  checks 
and  dirties,  have  had  no  specifying  de­
scription.  Moreover  the  terms  of  sale 
as  to  loss  have  undergone  considerable 
change by  a  natural  development  of  the 
trade. 
Improvements  in  the  manner  of 
holding  refrigerator  and 
limed  eggs, 
and  a  more careful  selection  of the  bulk 
of  the  stock  pul  away  for  long  bolding, 
have  resulted  in  giving  us  qualities  of 
held  eggs  in  the  fall  and  winter  which, 
although  they  may  show  some  loss,  are 
quite  uniform  in  the  extent  of  it,  facili­
tating  the  judgment  of  value  and  conse­
quently  favoring  sales  at  mark.  The 
better  qualities  of  these  have  of 
late 
been  generally  sold  at  mark,  but  the 
former  rules  did  not  recognize  the  fact. 
The  new  rules  have  prescribed  sales  at 
mark  for  the 
‘ ‘ Extra"  grade  of  both 
refrigerator  and  limed,  in  which  respect 
they  have  attacked  the  change  rather 
conservatively. 
It would  appear  that  as 
refrigerator  and  limed  eggs  which  will 
meet  the  requirements 
laid  down  for 
"F irsts”   are  now  generally  sold  in  this 
market  at  mark,  the  general  rule  of 
mark  sales  should  have  included  these; 
but  as  in  "F irsts"  and  "Seconds”   the 
extent  of  permissible  loss  has  been  re­
stricted,  the  rules  as  they  stand  will 
serve  for  case  count  business  just  as 
well  as  if  that  bad  been  made  the  gen­
eral  rule  of  sale.
The  establishment  of  an  "E xtra ”  
grade  in  fiesh gathered  is  not  an  inno­
vation;  it 
is  simply  providing  a  name 
for  a  grade  of  eggs  which  is  already 
produced  by  some  packers,  the  recogni­
tion  of  which,  under  proper  qualifica­
tions,  should  tend  to  improve  the  qual­
ity  of  our  receipts  and  lessen  the  waste­
ful 
careless 
grading  or  no  grading  at  all.

loss  which  results  from 

The  new  egg  rules  may  fairly  be  re­
garded  as  marking  a  long  step  forward 
in  the  progress  of  the  egg  trade  toward 
better  methods.

His  Mind  Was  Easy.

Mrs.  Smith  repeatedly  reminded  her 
husband  that  she  owned  the  silver,  that 
she  owned  the  furniture,  and  so  on,  un­
til  poor  Smith  almost  wished  he'd  mar­
ried  a  poor  girl  The  other  night  Mrs. 
Smith  awoke  to  hear  strange  noises 
in 
the  lower  part  of  the  bouse,  and  vigor­
ously  punching  her  husband  in  the  ribs, 
called:

"John,  get  up!  There  are  burglars  in 

" E h ? ”   enquired  Mr.  Smith,  sleep- 

"Burglars!  Downstairs!”  

howled 

"Burglars?”   said  Smith,  as  he  turned 
"W ell,  I  don’t  own  anything.”

the  house. ”

»ly.
Mrs.  Smith.
over. 

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the  M arket.

Special Correspondence.

little 

New  York,  June  17—Weather  reports 
from  Brazil  have  been  unfavorable  as 
to  the  growth  of  the coming  coffee  crop, 
but  these  reports  had  very 
influ­
ence  on  the  local  market;  in  fact,  the 
tendency  has  been  toward  a  lower  basis 
and  both  contracts  and  spot ‘delivery 
show  very  little  animation.  Out  of  town 
buyers  are  manifesting  no  anxiety  to 
purchase  beyond  current  requirements 
and  the  general situation  is about as life­
less  as  has  been  the  case  for  months. 
Rio  No.  7  is  quotable  at  5%@6c.  Lit­
tle  if.anything  has  been  done  in  an 
in­
voice  way.  The  amount  of  coffee  in 
store  and  afloat  aggregates 
1,161,356 
bags,  against  866,747  bags  at  the  same 
time  last  year.  For  mild  coffees  the 
market 
is  as flat  as  can  be,  almost,  al­
though  holders  are  not  disposed to  make 
concessions  from  present  rates.
The  market  for  refined  sugar 

is  very 
lively  and  all  refineries  are  behind 
in 
filling  orders—some of  them  as  much  as 
ten  days.  Of  course,  the  "street”   has 
been  much  interested  in  the  statements 
made  in  Washington  by  Mr.  Havemeyer 
and  the  representative  of the  Arbuckles, 
and  the  Commercial  calls  Mr  Have- 
meyer’s  talk  "hom icidal.”   Quotations 
are  firmly  maintained  for  refined  sugar, 
save for a few low  soft  grades which were 
shaded  slightly.  Raw  sugars  show  little 
animation.  Refiners  do  not  seem  in­
clined  to  take  any  stock  at  an  advance 
and  holders  seem  to  think  tbey'are 
jus­
tified 
in  keeping  hold  on  their  stocks 
for  something  better.

Some offerings  of  new  crop Japan  teas 
were  made  within  a  range  of  28332c, 
duty  paid,  but,  aside  from  this,  the  sit­
uation  is not  particularly one that calls 
for remark.  There  is no  improvement 
to  speak  of  and  the  trade  is  waiting  the 
result  of  the  auction  next  week  when 
something  over 6,000  packages  will  be 
sold.

16326c. 

to  be  rather 

The  demand  for  rice  is  quiet.  Some 
little  enquiry  exists  for  Japan,  but  up­
on  the  whole  the  situation  is  a  waiting 
¡one.  Prices  are  practically  unchanged. 
Japan,  4U@$c.  Prime  to  choice  South­
ern,  5^@6^ c.
Quite  a  fair  volume  of  business  has 
been  done 
in  a  jobbing  way  and  spice 
quotations are pretty firm,  although prac­
tically  unchanged. 
Pepper  has  been 
more  enquired  for  than  anything  else, 
but  holders  seem 
too 
"h igh ”   for  buyers  to  transact  much 
business  with  them.  Singapore,
" X  c. 
.
The  molasses  market  is  enjoying a va­
cation.  Little  business  is  reported  from 
jobbers,  save  for  some  fancy  grocery 
grades,  which  have  worked  off  with  a 
fair  degree  of  dispatch.  Good  to  prime 
in 
certrifugal, 
Syrups  are 
limited  demand  and,  with  stocks 
in­
creasing,  the  outlook 
is  not  favorable 
for  higher quotations.  Good  to  prime 
sugar  goods,  I7@2ic.
The  new  pack  of  Maryland  peas  is 
running  very 
in  quality;  in 
fact,  the  average  is  probably  below  last 
year and  the  price  is  higher.  One  of 
the  leading  packers  has  been  here  this 
week  from  Baltimore  and  says  the  pack 
will  not  be  over  25  per  cent,  of  last 
year’s. 
Insect  pests are  reported  as  do­
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together  with  drouth  have  pretty  much 
finished  the  vegetable  growth.  Prices 
on  new  pack  California  fruits  have been 
generally  withdrawn.  The  combination 
of  packers  seems  to  be  eminently 
successful,  as  a 
combination.  Ap­
ples  are 
at 
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future  delivery  is  worth  8o@8sc.  Toma­
toes  are  dull  and  steady.  Jerseys  are 
worth  85  cts.

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Dried  fruits  are  dull  and  unchanged. 
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is  not  just at  the  moment  en­
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POOR  HELP .

Some  Perplexities  Which  Beset 

the 

Average  M erchant.

W ritten for the Tradesman.

In  a  Western  city,  not  long  ago,  I 
found  the  owner  of the leading provision 
store  sitting  behind  bis  desk  in  a  fit  of 
the  dumps.  As  be  chanced  to  be  an 
old  acquaintance  of  mine,  I  did  not 
hesitate  to  joke  him  upon  his  dejected 
appearance.

“ I  am  a  trifle  discouraged,  and  that's 
the  fact,”   he  said,  in reply.  “ The truth 
is,  I  am  bothered  to  death  to  get  com­
petent  help.  There  never  was  a  time 
in  the  history  of  the  country when young 
men  stood  so  good  a  chance  to  make 
successful  business  men  of  themselves, 
aud  here  I  am  obliged  to 
look  out  for 
new  clerks  and  helpers  nearly  every 
day. ’ ’

“ You’ll  soon  find  the  men  you  are 
looking  for,"  I  said,  “ and  as  for  all 
the  young  men  of  the  country,  let  them 
figure  out  their  own  destiny.”

“ During  the  past  six  weeks, ”   said 
the merchant,  “ I  have tried half a  dozen 
young  men  who  came  to me  well  recom­
mended,  and  every  one  of  them  has 
turned  out  to  be  either a  fool  or  a shirk, 
if  not  actually  dishonest.  In  some  cases 
the  person  employed  was  the  son,  the 
brother,  the  cousin,  or  the  nephew  of  a 
good  customer,  and  so  the  result  has 
been  that  I  have  bad  my  labor  in  teach- 
ing  him  for  my  pains,  got  my  business 
fuddled  and  lost  a  good  customer.  That 
is  enough  to  make  anyone  feel  discour­
aged,  isn’t  it?”

“  Your  experience  is  simply  the  ex­
perience  of  all  business  men, ”   I  said. 
“ You’ll  have  to  keep  on  trying.”  

“ Yes,”   was  the  impatient  rejoinder,
I  suppose  I  II  have  to  keep  on trying, 
if  my business  holds  out.  I  think  some- 
times  that  the  young  imps  will  drive 
me  out  of  trade.  Now,”   he  added,  with 
a  smile,  “ competition  is  so  close  here 
that  I  find  it  necessary  to  mak“  a bouse- 
to  bouse  canvass  for  orders  every  morn­
ing,  and  the new  clerk  usually  does  that 
work. 
I  put  another  highly  recom­
mended  voung  man  on  last Monday,  and 
I  have  already  had  some  discouraging 
experiences  with  him. 
If  you  have 
little  while  and 
time,  just  sit  here  a 
hear  the  kicks. 
It  must  be  about  time 
for  them  to  come  in.”

The  merchant  bad  hardly 

ceased 
speaking  when  a  red-faced woman made 
her  appearance  before  his  desk.  Her 
eyes  flashed  angrily  and  her  red  hair 
was  flying  in  all  directions.  She  threw 
a  torn  and  bloody  paper  down  on  the 
counter  and  stood  glaring  at  the  mer­
chant  as  if  she  would 
like  to  eat  him 
whole.

“ Good  morning,  Mrs.  Lawson,”   said 
my  friend,  gently. 
“ Did  you  receive 
the  wrong package again this morning?”  
‘ The  wrong  package,”   panted  the 
woman,  “ can’t  be  worked  on  me  no 
more. 
I  got  the  package  you  sent  me, 
all  right,  and  there  it  is.  You  can  take 
our name  right  off  your  books  and  send
If  you  think  we  can’t 
afford  porterhouse  steak  when  we  have 
company,  you  needn't  send 
liver  and 
have 
it  flung  down  right  before  my 
neighbors,  who  are  just  watching  for a 
chance  to say  mean  things.”

yj Uf  bil1' 

et  me  look 

“ But  the  boy  must  have  made a  mis­
take,"  said  the  merchant,  patiently.
it  up.  Of  course,  you 
ought  to  receive  just  what  you  ordered 
and  I ’m  here  to  see  that  you  do  re­
ceive  it.”

He  ran  his  finger  down  the  page of 
the  order  book  and  passed  it over to

the  enraged  woman,  who  declined  with 
a  sniff  of  contempt  to  look  at  it.

yourself 

“ You  needn’t  trouble 

to 
show  me  the  book,”   she  said. 
“ I’ll  go 
to  Smith’s  and  get  my  meat.  There  I 
sat  this  morning,  with  my  bouse  full  of 
company—that  sneakin',  pry in’  Mrs. 
Brown  had  to  be  there,  of  course—and 
in  walks  that  boy  of  yours,  as  big  as 
liver  down  on  the 
life,  an’  slaps  that 
sittin’room  table. 
I  said  I  hadn't  or­
dered  it,  but  be  just  sassed  me and went 
away. 
I  heard  my  company  snickerin’ 
an’  talkin’  about  it  after  I  went  out  in­
to  the  kitchen,  although  they  don’t 
know  I  heard  'em.  One  said  the  boy 
probably  left  just  what  was  ordered,  an’ 
another  said  it  was  too  bad  to  put  me 
to  the  expense  of  changin’  the  family 
rations.  That  spiteful  Mandy  Brown 
said  she  had  no  idea  we  were  so  hard 
up,  an’  so  they  went  on.  How  I ’ll  ever 
dare  to  face  ’em  again 
is  more  than  I 
know.  You  just  send  in  your  b ill.”

It  was  laughable,  but  of  course  we 
both  had  to  keep  straight  faces until  the 
enraged  woman  got  out  of  the  store. 
Our  merriment  was  short-lived,  how­
ever,  for  in  a  moment  a  weak-eyed  old 
man  edged  up  to  the  desk.

“ Look  here,”   he  said,  trying  to  look 
severe,  “ if  that  order  boy  of  yours 
brings  his  white  bull  dog  to  my  house 
again, 
I’ll  kill  both  the  boy  and  the 
dog.”

" I   almost  wish  be  would,”   whispered 
“ That  would  be  an  easy 

the  merchant. 
way  of  getting  rid  of  both  of  them.”

“ That  dog  got  my  wife’s  pet  cat  by 
the  neck  this  morning,”   continued  the 
old  man,  “ an’  the  cat  got  scared  an’ 
made  a  break  for  the  buttery shelves an’ 
landed  in  a  pan  of  molasses.  Our  but­
tery 
is  a  sight  to  see.  My  wife’s  face 
is  all  clawed  up,  an’  the  dishes  are 
broke,  an’  her  new  dress  is  all  spotted 
with  that  New  Orleans  molasses,  that 
cost  me  40  cents  a  gallon. 
I’m  goin’ 
fishin’  until  things  get  quieted  down, 
an’  you’d  better  not  send  that  boy to  my 
house  again.”

The  old  man  had scarcely disappeared 
when  a  young  girl  walked  up  to  the 
counter  and  laid  down  a  package.

“ Ma  says  we  sold  our  cow 

last  win­
ter,”   she  said,  with  a  pretty  blush  of 
embarrassment  at  having  an  imperti­
nent  message  to  deliver,  “ and  so  we 
don’t  want  to  buy  any  more  hay,  and 
if  we  did  we’d  buy  it  by  the  bale.”

“ What  kind  of  tea  did  your  mother 

order?”   asked  the  merchant.

“ Sixty  cent.”
The  girl  went  away  smiling,  with  a 

fresh  package  and  some  caramels.

The  merchant  had  hardly  regained 
his  seat  when  a  wild-eyed  young  man 
rushed  into  the  store  and,  going straight 
to  the 
'phone,  called  up  the  fire  de­
partment.

“ Say,”   he  yelled,  after  the  connec­
tion  had  been  made,  “ you’d  better  send 
a  fire  engine  up  here,  quick.  This 
groceryman  sold  us  gasoline  for  kero­
sene,  an’  mother’s  face 
is  all  burned 
off,  an’  I  guess  the  house  is  most  gone 
by  this  time. ”

Hastening  to  the 

’phone,  the  mer­
chant  asked  the  firemen  to  wait  until  he 
conld  investigate and  dashed  off  to  the 
scene  of  trouble.  No  damage  had  been 
done,  save  to  the  feelings  of  the  fright­
ened  woman,  and  my  friend  came  back 
with  a  grin  on  bis  face.

“ The  woman  ordered  half  a  gallon  of 
kerosene,  instead  of  half  a  pint  of  gas­
oline,”   he  explained,  “ and  that  con­
founded  boy  got  the  order  mixed. 
I 
don’t  sell  gasoline,  but  the  quantity  was 
it  for  accommo­
so  small  that  I  gave 

dation.  She  tried  to  light  the  fire  with 
the  gasoline,  but,  fortunately,  got  the 
bottle  away  before  the  stuff  took  fire. 
She  had  a  close  call,  though.”

Just  then  the  order  boy  entered  the 
store,  smoking  a  cheap  cigar  and  play­
ing  with  a  large  bull  dog.

“ Say,”   he  called  out,  “ can  I  go  to 
I ’ve  got 

the  ball  game  this  afternoon? 
my  work  all  done. ”

“ Yes,  you’ve  got  all  the  work  done 
you’ll  ever  do  here,”   said  the  mer­
chant.  * * Get  out. ’ ’

' ‘ Pay  me,  then, ’ ’  shouted  the  boy. 
The  merchant,  harassed  beyond  even 
his  powers  of  endurance,  made  a  rush 
for  the  boy  and  the  two  went  out  of  the 
door  together.

In  a  few  moments  my  friend  was 
locomotive,  but 

like  a 

back,  puffing 
seemingly  happy.

“ There,”   he  said,  “ I  suppose  I ’ll  be 
arrested  for  assault  and  battery  now, 
but  I  did  give  him  ?  good  one.”

I  had  nothing  to  say,  but  I  booked  a 

very  small  order  there  that  morning.

Giving  a  man  advice  and  throwing 
stones  at  a  dog  have  about  the  same 
effect.

Established 1380.

Walter Baker & Go. L I

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Mann facturera of
FURE,niGH CRUDE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

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

Dorchester,  Mass.

(H  * n n n rraT rrin n m n n rra T in rra -ro ^

J.  W.  LA N S IN G . 

W HOLESALE DEALER  IN 

B U T T E R   AND  EG G S

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

A  good many egg buyers  want your eggs only during April and  May  for  storage,  but 
¿t?*ye S°* *° nave them every day during the year. 
I have a good many  orders  yet  to  be 
tor 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 buv either on track 
there or delivered  in  Buffalo.

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

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Dun or Bradstreet.
Michigan Tradesman. 

R E FE R E N CE S:

Benefit  Y O U

This book  teaches farmers to make better butter.  Every pound 
of butter that is better made  because  of  its  teaching,  benefits  the 
grocer  who  buys  it  or  takes  it in trade.  The book  is not an  adver­
tisement,  but  a  practical  treatise,  written  by  a  high  authority  on 
butter  making. 
It  is  stoutly  bound  111  oiled  linen  aud  is mailed 
free  to  any  fanner  who  sends  us  one  of  the coupons  which are 
packed in every bag of

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Butter Salt

Sell the salt that's all salt and  give  your  customers  the  means 
by which they can  learn to make gilt-edge  butter  and  furnish  them 
with the finest and most profitable salt to put  in  it.

D IA M O N D   C R Y S T A L  S A L T   CO  ,  S t.  C la ir,  M ic h

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15

from 

vision  of  the  Michigan  Central  Rail­
way,  the  plant  consisting  of  five  build­
ings  especially  constructed  for  the  pur­
pose.  A  new  brick  building,  nearing 
erected 
completion, 
carefully 
drawn  plans, 
is  the  most  modern  and 
commodious  of  any  similar  structure  in 
the State.  By  careful attention  to  detaiis 
and  thorough  devotion  to  business  Mr. 
Randall  has  built  up  an  enteiprise  that 
gives  employment  to  scores  of  men  and 
affords  a  generous 
Incidental 
to  Mr.  Randall’s  success  as  a  shipper

income. 

ical 
in  his  views  of  right  and  wrong; 
strong  in  his  friendships;  true  to  all  of 
bis  obligations  to  his  fellow citizens and 
society.  He  is  a  Republican  in politics, 
but  not  a  worshipper  of  any  party.  The 
highest  compliment  that  can  be  paid 
him  is  the  fact  that  be  has  the  full  con­
fidence  and  respect  of  his  fellow  citi­
zens.

A  man  smiles  when  you  speak  of  his 
level  bead,  but  call  it  flat  and  he  gets 
mad.

MEN  O F  M ARK.

H.  N.  Randall, 

the  Tekonsha  M er­

chant  and  Produce  Dealer.

Piominent  among  the  produce  ship­
is  Harvey  N.  Ran- 
pers  of  Michigan 
dali,  of  Tekonsha.  Mi.  Randall 
is  a 
native  of  the  State,  having  beeu  born 
on  a  farm  in  the township  where  he  now 
resides,  Sept.  7,  1859.  He  was  the 
fourth  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harvey 
Randall,  both  deceased.  His  parents 
were  pioneers  of  Michigan  and  took  a 
prominent  part 
in  the  settlement  and 
development  of  Calhoun  county.  They 
were  distinguished  for benevolence,  fru­
gality  and  the  more  sterling  qualities 
of  honesty  and  piety.  From  1867  to  1869 
the  father  was  a  member  of  the  Legis­
lature  and  was  recognized  as  one  of  the 
substantial  men  of  the  House. 
It  was 
from  his  parents  that  Harvey  Randall, 
Jr.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  received 
the  qualities  of  mi ad  and  character  that 
have 
led  to  his  success  as  a  business 
man.  His  boyhood  was  spent  on  a  farm 
and  in  the  district  and  union  school  of 
his  native  township.  His  fhsl  business 
venture  was  in  the  grocery  trade,  which 
he  followed  with  success  for  two  years 
at  Tekonsha  and  Homer.  He  was  mar­
ried  May  26,  1886,  to  Miss  Adella  War- 
boys,  of  North  Bergen,  N.  Y.  To  them 
have  been  born  three  bright  children—a 
boy  and  two  girls.  One  child,  a  girl, 
died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Randal.'s  married 
life  has  been  exceedingly 
felicitous, 
his  wife  and  children  contributing  in 
full  measure  to  lender  the  home  cheer­
ful  and  happy.  Their present  residence, 
recently  built,  is  the  finest  and  most 
attractive  in  the  village  of  Tekonsha.

As  a  business  man,  Mr.  Randall  is 
recognized  as  one  of  the  most  enter­
prising and progressive shippers of prod­
uce  in  Southern  Michigan.  He  organ­
ized  his  present  business  some  fifteen 
years  ago,  beginning  in  a  small  way  to 
ship  produce  to  Eastern  markets.  His 
business  has  steadily  increased  unlil 
it 
reached  a  total  of  $200,000 the past year. 
During  1898,  he  handled  over  1,000.000 
pounds  of  dressed  poultry,  300,000 
pounds  of  butter  and  many  thousand 
cases  of  eggs.  But one  shipper  in  Mich­
igan  is  credited  with 
larger  shipments 
during  the  same  period.  For  some  time 
Mr.  Randall  has  experienced  a  growing 
demand  for  a  special  grade  of  butter 
made  by  a  new  method,  of  which  he 
is 
the  originator,  for  Eastern  and  export 
trade.  The  “ Acme  System,”   as  it  is 
called,  for  which  patents  are  pending, 
is  an  unqualified  success  and  is  des­
tined  to  revolutionize  the  manufacture 
of  butter  gathered  from  miscellaneous 
sources.  Mr.  Randall's  business  is  lo­
cated  on  a  side  track  of  the  air  line  di­

ol  produce  may  be  mentioned  the  fact 
ihat  he 
is  the  proprietor  of  a  large 
double  store,  carrying  full  and  complete 
lines  of  groceries,  crockery,  hardware 
and  agricultural 
over 
implements, 
which  he  has  general  supervision.

Incidental  to  Mr.  Randall's  success 
as  a  business  man,  it  may  be  stated  that 
is  no  laggard  in  matters  of  public 
he 
enterprise.  He 
is  a  liberal  supporter 
of  religious  and  secular  education ;  gen­
erous  in  his  charities  to the  needy ;  rad­

their  good 

Overcapitalization  o f the  Trusts.
Trusts,  as  they  are  now  constituted, 
have 
and  objectionable 
points.  The  good  points  arise  from  the 
concentration  of  capital  under  one  man­
agement,  creating  a  saving 
in  actual 
expenses  of  millions  annually.  For  in­
stance,  suppose  there  are  ten  corpora­
tions,  all  practically  engaged 
in  the 
same  line  of  business.  Now  each  cor­
poration  must  have 
its  full  corps  of 
officers,  its  full  corps  of  salesmen  and

traveling  salesmen, 
its  full  corps  of 
clerical  workers,  its  full  corps  of  em­
ployes  and  its  ten  warehouses,  whereas 
under  one  management  it  requires  but 
one  set  of  men.  True,  it  must  be  a 
larger  set,  but  it 
is  apparent  that  the 
expenses  of  conducting the  business will 
be  reduced  at  least  60  per  cent.,  which 
will  permit the  manufactured  articles  to 
lower 
go  to  the  consumer  at  much 
prices,  leaving  ample  margin 
for  the 
stockholders,  thereby  preventing  any 
restraint  of  trade,  the  great  bugbear  of 
trusts.

Now  this  would  be  all  true 

if  the 
consolidation  were  effected  on  a  basis of 
actual  values,  but  here  the  difficulty 
In  forming  a  trust  every  corpo­
arises. 
ration 
looks  upon 
its  own  property  as 
being  immensely  valuable.  If  the  prop­
erty  is actually  worth  a  million,  it wants 
a  million  and  a  half,  or  perhaps  two 
millions,  of  trust  stock,  and,  of  course, 
each  and  every  other  member  of  the 
trust  will  insist  on  its  property  going  in 
at  the  same 
increase  above  its  actual 
value.  Then,  in  addition,  the  promoter 
must  get  from  one-eighth  to  one-fourth 
of  the whole capital stock for his  services 
in  bringing  all  these  interests  together, 
so  that  by  the  time  the  whole  matter 
is 
consummated  the  capital  of  the trust,  on 
which  dividends  must  be  earned, 
is 
more  than  double  what 
it  should  be, 
and  hence  the  consumer  pays  for  his 
goods  about  as  much  as  if  no  trust  had 
been  formed.

The  matter does  not  end  here,  for the 
excess  of  stock 
issued  is  in  almost  all 
cases  put  on  the  market,  which,  accord­
ing  to  the 
immense  amount  of  trusts 
which  have  been  formed  in  the  past  two 
years,  has  absorbed  so  much  01  the  sur­
plus  capital  of  the  country  that  it  has 
created  a  higher  rate  of  interest  and has 
the  danger  of  a  monetary 
increased 
panic,  such  as  we  had  evidence  of 
last 
week,  and  which  would  have  resulted 
disastrously  had  not  the banks and bank­
ers  immediately  come  to  the  rescue.  A 
partial  list  of  the  trusts  already  on  the 
market  and  placed  there  in  the past  two 
years  shows  the  capital  to  amount  to 
over $3,300,000,000, or  more  than  double 
the  entire  circulating  medium  of  this 
country.  And  there  are  more  forming.
Should  every  trust  be  capitalized  ac­
cording  to  its  actual  value  there  would 
be  no  danger  of  a  disturbance  in  the 
money  market,  and  they  would  doubt­
less  be  a  blessing  to  the  country.

O.  P.  D o rm a n.

Just  a  Flavor.

Doctor—Can  you  get  pure  water  at 

your  boarding  house?

Patient—N o;  not  always. 

I frequent­

ly  detect  just  a  flavor  of  coffee  in  it.

Bour’s

Beat  the  world  in  the  two  greatest  essentials  to  the 
retailer— Q U A LIT Y   and  PRO FIT.  Grocers  who  use 
them  say  that  with  our brands  it’s  once  bought— always 
used.  And  we  can  sell  them  to  pay  you  a  handsome 
profit. 
It will  pay you  to  get  our  samples  and  prices—  
that  is, 
if  you  are  in  the  business  to  make  money. 
Some  exceptional  bargains  in  Teas  just  now.  Write  or 
ask  salesman  when  he  calls.

THE J.  M.  BOUR  60.,  :129 Jefferson Avenue,  Detroit,  Mich. 

13=115-117  Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio.

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Acetylene  Lighting

Observations  Gleaned  From   Practical 

Experience.

We  all  want  acetlyene  gas  because 

it 
is  the  best  light  on  eaitb.  We  can  get 
along  with  kerosene  or  coal  gas  or  elec­
tricity  or  the  gasoline  torch  with  Wels- 
bach  burner,  but  we  use  these 
inferior 
lights  only  because  we  can  not  see  our 
way  clear to  get  the  best.

Of  the  many  machines  on  the  market, 
the  greater  number  are  the  crude  con­
ceptions  of  persons  unacquainted  with 
the  nature  of 
the  materials  to  be 
handled  and  consequently  are  unfitted 
to  meet  the  requirements  of  the  case 
and  are  wasteful  in  operation.

A  few  machines  hawked  about  by 
traveling  salesmen  are  sold  under  false 
pretenses 
the  ignorant  pur­
chaser.

to  catch 

Not  only  the  mechanism,  but  also  the 
size  of  the  machine 
is  a  point  to  be 
looked  into.  Some  makers  will  sell  for 
a  forty  or  fifty-light  machine  one  no 
larger  than  another  will  sell  as  a  twelve 
or  twenty-light.  Scarcely  anything  can 
be  determined  from  what  the  price  lists 
say.

There  are  a 

few  good  machines 
offered,  built  on  correct  principles  and 
honestly  constructed.  While  they  are 
not  as  cheap  as  the  take machines,  some 
of  the  best  can  be  obtained  at  a  price 
quite  reasonable,  as  they  avoid  the  ex­
pensive  construction  adopted  by  some 
other makers.

Some  builders  still  make  the  gener­
ating  chamber  of  boiler  iron,  which 
is 
an  utterly  useless  expense  and  even  an 
added  source  of  danger.  The  passage 
from  the  generating  chamber  to  the  gas 
holder  should  always  be  open  and  free 
(although  this  fact  is  overlooked  by  too 
many  makers).  When  it  is  so  made,  the 
pressure  in  the  generating  chamber  can 
not  possibly be materially greater  than it 
is 
in  the  gas  holder.  Then  again,  if 
there  should  be  too  much  pressure  in 
the  generator,  the  worst  thing  to  do  is 
increases 
to  try  to  hold  it,  for  that  only 
the  danger  of  explosion. 
The  more 
strongly  an  explosive  mixture  is  con­
fined,  the  greater 
is  the  destruction 
when  it  finally  breaks  away.  Both  econ­
omy  and safety  favor  the  use  of  a  gener­
ating  chamber  of  only  ordinary  thick­
ness  of  material.

Reliance  can  not  always  be  placed  on 
is  said  by  parties  using  a  partic­
what 
ular  machine. 
Purchasers  are  often 
slow  to  find  out  the  defects  of an  ap­
paratus  and  slower  yet  to  confess  them­
selves  cheated.  Then  most  dealers  sell 
an  agency  to  the  first  purchaser  in  a 
place,  so  that 
it  is  to  his  advantage  to 
get  others  into  the  same  boat  with  him­
If  the  purchaser  can  not  apply 
self. 
the 
information  given  above as  to  the 
kinds  of  generators  his  best  plan  is  to 
consult  some  one  of known  ability  and 
reliability.  I  am  doubtful  as  to  whether 
any  one  particular  kind  of  machine  is 
best  for  all  persons  and  places. 
I 
should  prefer  to  have  two  or  three  de­
signs  to  choose  from.  But  best  of  all 
would  be  to  build  the  machines 
in  va­
rious  shapes  to  meet  the  requirements 
of  the  different  premises  to  be  lighted. 
It 
is  well  also  to  employ  an  expert  in 
the  installation  of the  apparatus.  Most 
of  the  accidents  that  have  happened 
have  occurred  through  the  ignorance  or 
carelessness  of  parties  in  handling  the 
machine  when  first  set  up.  Purchasers 
have  had  much  annoyance and  loss  by 
reason  of  improper  mounting  of  the  ap­
paratus  or  want of necessary  instructions

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

X

as  to  its  management.  The  local  pipe­
fitter  can  do  the  work  most  cheaply,  and 
is,  of  course,  to  be  given  the  preference 
in  ordinary  work,  but  it  is  seldom  that 
be  has  the  necessary  toois  or  knows  how 
to  make  good  work  of  i t ;  at  least,  I 
have  never  seen  a  job  put up  in this way 
that  a 
competent  mechanic  would 
acknowledge.  The  claim  of  manufac­
turers  that  "any  one  can  set  up  the  ma­
chine’ ’  is  uot  true. 
I  have  known  good 
mechanics  to  utterly  fail  and  I  can  not 
recall  an 
instance  in  which  I  have  put 
up  an  apparatus  without  taxing  my  re­
sources  as  a  trained  machinist  to  get 
it 
into  such  working  order as  I  desired.
W.  W eaver.

P.  D.  A rm ou r’s  Q uick  W it.

into  buying 

One  day  a  man  carrying  a  fuzzy  little 
poodle  under  one  arm  entered  Mr.  Ar­
in  Chicago  and  tried  to 
mour’s  office 
talk  " P .  D. ”  
it.  The 
price  was  exorbitant—$200  for  a  useless 
toy  poodle.  Mr.  Armour  looked  at  the 
man,  then  at  the  dog,  and  back  at  the 
man  again,  and  said:  "N o.  The  saus­
age  business  must  pick  up  considerably 
before  I  can  pay  so  much  for  small 
dogs.  Bring  around  a  mastiff  and  I  will 
talk  with  you.’ ’

On  another  occasion  one  of  these  self- 
confident  young  men  who  believe  that 
all  wealthy  men  have  a  tender  spot  for 
the  man  of  nerve,  and  who  do  not  hesi­
tate  to  approach  even  the  busiest  men, 
made  Mr.  Armour  a  decidedly  bold  re­
quest,  which  was  promptly  denied. 
Summoning  up  all  the  haughtiness  at 
bis  command,  the  young  man  said,  in 
a  tone  that  was  meant  to  crush  Mr.  Ar­
mour:  "W ell,  all  I  can  say  is  that  you 
are  no  gentleman."  "Young  man” — 
with  a  cold,  enigmatical  smile— " I ’m  2 
butcher. ”

His  Help  to  Memory.

A  stranger  dropped 

into  one  of  the 
Woodward  Avenue  groceries  the  other 
day  and  enquired  of  the  clerk  if  he  had 
any  nuts.  The  clerk  answered 
in  the 
affirmative.

"What  kind  do  you  want?"  he  asked.
" I   don’t  know.  Just  name  them  over 

to  me,  will  you?”

"W ell,  we  have  hickory  nuts,  pecans, 
beech,  walnuts,  almonds,  peanuts, ”  and 
he  rattled  off  a  number  of  other  varie­
ties,  but  the  stranger  shook  his  bead.

"F ilb erts,”   suggested  the  clerk.
"N o,  something  like  that,  but  not  fil­

berts. ’ ’

you. ”

clerk.

"Butternuts?”
The stranger smiled.  "T h a t’s it,thank 

"How  many  do  you  want?”   asked  the 

" I   don’t  want  any. 

I’ve  been  trying 
to  think  of  the  name  of  that  street  for 
an  hour  and  thought  that  would  be  a 
good  scheme  to  help  me  out. 
I  want  to 
get  to  Butternut  street.  What  car  do  I 
take?”

T w o  Faced.

"Shure,  Mrs.  Mulcabey,  they  do be  a 
sayin,  ma’am,  tbot  yere  a  two-faced 
woman. ”

"Fw hat’s  thot?  Shure,  I’ll  have  ye 
loike  thot 

if  ye  say  a  thing 

arristed 
forninst  m e!”

"Faith,  Mrs.  Mulcabey,  ma’am,  I 
didn’t  say  it  at  all!  Why,  I  stood  up 
for  ye! 
I  said  it  wasn't  so,  bekase,  if 
ye  had  two  faces,  ye’d  wear  th’  other 
one  moigbty  quick.”

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TH E

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machines and you  cannot  blow  it  up.  It's  safe, 
it’s simple.  It  is sold under a guarantee.  You  put 
the carbide in and the machine does the  rest.  It  is 
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all  times  No  flickering  or  going  out  when 
charged.  Do not  buy  a  Generator  until  you  have 
seen this.  You  want  a  good  one  and  we  have 
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Also dealers in Carbide,  Fixtures,  Fittings,  Pipe.
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as the

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If  you  want  the  newest, most 
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quotations  and  full  particulars.
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CommercialTravelers

Michigan Knights of the drip.

President,  Ch ab.  S.  Ste v en s,  Ypsllanti;  Secre­
tary, J. C. Sa u n d e r s, Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C 
G o u ld. Saginaw,
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President,  J a k e s  E.  D a y ,  Detroit;  Secretary 

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

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 

Grand Counselor, J. J. E v a n s, Ann Arbor; Grand 
Secretary, G. S. V a lm o b b, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, W. S. West, Jackson.

Grand Rapids Connell  No. 131.

Senior Counselor, D. E. K e y e s ;  Secretary-Treas­
urer,  L.  P .  B a k e r .  Regular  meetings—First 
Saturday of each month in Council  Chamber in 
McMullen block.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mntnal  Acci­
President,  J.  B oyd  Pa n tlin d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer,  G eo.  P.  Ow en,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President, P. G. T b u sc o t t, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. P. W ixson,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Post  A  (Lansing),  Michigan  Knights 
of  the  Grip,  will  hold  its  annual  picnic 
at  Pine  Lake  next  Saturday.

Frank  Meyers  has  returned 

to  bis 
home  in  Lansing  from  a  three  months’ 
trip  through  Wisconsin  and  Minnesota 
in  the  interest  of  the  Hugh  Lyons  Co.

A.  B.  Gates  has  pulled  the  hair  out 
of  the  left  side  of  his  head  since  he 
read  the  LeRoy  item  last  week  and  is 
looking  for  that  feliow  who  signs  him­
self  Observer.

The  formation  of  so  many  trusts  and 
combines  has  caused 
large  corns  and 
bunions  to  form  on -the  few  remaining 
traveling  men  and are  beginning  to  be 
felt  by  the  dealers  and  public  at 
large.
Geo.  Bode,  who  has  covered  the  trade 
of  Western  Michigan  about  three  years 
for  the  Belding  Shoe  Co.,  made  Grand 
Rapids  headquarters  last  week  while  he 
worked  the  trade  of  the  surrounding 
towns.

A  question  of  veracity 

lies  between 
P.  E.  Dowe,  President  of  the  Commer­
cial  Travelers’  National  League  and 
General  Solicitor  Fuller,  of  the  Ameri­
can  Tobacco  Co.  The  former  testified 
under  oath  at  Washington  last  Saturday 
that  the  tobacco  combine  bad  thrown
3,000  salesmen  out  of  employment.  The 
latter,  in  conversation  with  a  represent­
ative  of  the  New  York  Commercial, 
recently  declared  that  the  corporation’s 
traveling  force  bad  not  been  reduced, 
but  that  on  the  contrary  it  is  greater 
in 
the  aggregate  than  it  was  under  the  old 
system.

in  during 
indicate  that  Walter 

Walter Baker (Hanselman  Candy  Co.) 
has  been  preparing  his  customers  for 
the  Glorious  Fourth.  The  orders  which 
the  past  two 
be  has  sent 
weeks  would 
is 
loaded  with  steam,  electricity,  magic, 
compressed  air  and  gunpowder.  The 
crack  of  bis  coat  tails  around  the corner 
is  but  a  signal  and  his  samples  are 
opened  and  bis  tongue  is  run  by  com­
pressed  air,  bis  right 
forefinger  by 
steam  and  his  black  eyes  by  electricity. 
June  30  Mr.  Baker  expects  to  take  a 
trip  to  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  with  his  fam­
ily  for  a  two  weeks’  vacation  and  rest 
and,  on  his  return,  be  will  again  don 
the  unseen  forces  with  renewed  energy.

Meeting  o f  Merchants  at  Mackinac 

Island.

has  asked  the  Tradesman  to  extend  a 
cordial 
invitation  to  Michigan  mer­
chants to  join  in  the  conference,  which 
request  is  very 
cheerfully  complied 
with.  The  following  selection  from  the 
last 
indicates 
one  feature  which  will  be  considered  at 
the  meeting:

issue  of  Mixed  Stocks 

The 

It  will  not  be  long  before  large  com­
binations  of  capital  will  undertake  in 
small  cities,  medium  sized  towns  and 
villages  what  the  department  stores 
have  already  done 
in  Chicago,  New 
York  and  elsewhere.
centralizing, 

trade  absorbing 
process,  as  exampled  by  Siegel,  Cooper 
&  Co.,  Marshall  Field  &  Co.,  Carson, 
Pirie,  Scott  &  Co.  and  others, 
is  too 
well  known  to  need  description.  Wbat 
these  concerns  have  found  easy  and 
done  so  well  in  a  retail  way  can  be  ap­
plied  to  the  distributing  business of  any 
town,  and  what 
is  more  to  the  point  it 
will  be  so  applied,  and  that,  too,  in  the 
near  future.  That  which  is  predicted 
will  happen 
in­
evitable.

is  logical,  therefore 

Argument  is  worse  than useless,  senti­
ment  or  opposition  will  count  for  noth­
ing.  There  is  but  one  thing  for  small 
retailers  to  do.  Thev  must  centralize. 
“ How  shall  we  begin?”   “ Hasanyone 
a  plan  to  propose?”   should  be  the  first 
two  questions;  and  having  asked  them, 
you  should  be  willing,  nay  more,  you 
should  be  filled  with  desire,  to  help 
answer  them.
If  storekeeping  is  ever  to  become  a 
public  function,  either through voluntary 
co-operation  or by  municipal  political 
action,  the  quicker  a  merchant  recog­
nizes  the  situation  the  better  it  will  be 
for  him.

such  a 

You  may  think  this 

is  a  thousand 
years  or  so  too  soon  to  be  talking  of 
this.  You  may  be  unwilling  to  think 
of  your  town  doing  its  own  storekeep­
ing,  ’cause  you  want  to  do  it  for  them. 
You  may  not  want  to  unite  with  others 
in  a  “ trust,”   or develop  your  business 
into  a  department  store  and  thus  be­
come  the  whole  thing.  You  may  think 
“ damn  the  editors  of  trade  papers  for 
conference,”   or 
arranging 
“ damn  the  bigger  trusts  for  making 
it 
necessary,”   or  “ damn  the  Government 
for  permitting  such  things  to  go  on,”  
but that  will  not  add  one  cubit  to  your 
stature.  A  few  damns,  uttered 
loud 
enough  for  vour  entire  community  to 
bear,  may  relieve  you  some  and  help  to 
clarify  your  mental  atmosphere,  but 
you  will  get  at  the  root  of  matters better 
by  thinking  about  what  you  and  other 
merchants  may  or  must  do  to  save  your 
bacon. 
If  you  are  to  be  at  all  promi­
nent  in  helping  to  find  the  best  way out, 
the  way  to  begin  will  be  to  get  the  mer­
chants  of  your 
together  for  a 
friendly  confab.  Sooner  or  later  you 
and  they  must  unite  or  they  must  com­
bine  without  you.  Shall  you  attend  the 
conference  of  merchants  at  Mackinac 
Island,  July  26,  27  and  28?  Will  you 
act  as  committee  of  one  to  notify  other 
merchants  of  the  meeting?

town 

Sunday  Opening  at  Hillsdale.

From the Hillsdale Standard.

A  number  of  our  business  men  have 
been  in  the  habit  of  opening their stores 
Sunday  mornings  and  this  practice  has 
grown  from  a  little  time  originally  for 
accommodation  until  some  of  them have 
lately  kept  open  all  day.  This  has  led 
to  considerable  comment  and  last  week 
the  Council  directed  the  Marshal  to  re­
quest  all  storekeepers  to  close  on  Sun­
day.  This  request  was  quite  generally 
observed,  much  to  the  discomfiture  of 
some  of  our  citizens  who  were  not aware 
of  the  new  arrangement  and  bad  left 
some  of  their  purchases  to  be  made  on 
Sunday  morning. 
is  probable  that 
an  arrangement  will  be  made  which 
will  allow  the  stores  to  be  open  a  short 
time  Sunday  mornings  and  closed  the 
remainder  of  the  day.

It 

The  editor  of  Mixed  Stocks  has  is­
sued  a  call  for  a  meeting  of  retail  mer­
chants  at  Mackinac  Island  July  26,  27 
and  28,  to  discuss  and  take  action  on 
some  of  the  serious  problems  which 
now  confront  the  legitimate dealer.  He

Strong  Minded.

“ Is  be  strong  minded?”
‘ * I  should  say  so ;  be  can  read  all 
the  patent  medicine  advertisements and 
never  think  be  has  any  of  the  symp­
toms. ”

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
SOAP  T R U ST.

No  Probability of the Promoters’  Plans 

Prom the Soap Gazette.

Materializing.

In  order  to  satisfy  ourselves  as  to  the 
truth  or  falsity  of  the  newspaper  reports 
relaiive  to  a  soap  trust,  we  recently 
wrote  a  personal 
letter  to  each  firm 
mentioned  as  being  absorbed  by  the 
combination.  Of  the  twelve  letters  thus 
sent,  we  received  nine  replies,  as  fol­
lows :

Five  factories  stated  that  the  infor­
mation  given  us  was  confidential,  as 
they  do  not  wish  their  names  c onnected 
with  trusts  or  combinations  in  any  way.
Four  firms  write  us  open  letters which 
if  we  desire,  but  we 
we  can  publish 
let­
have  concluded  not  to  publish  any 
ters  or  use  any  names 
in  connection 
with  the  contradiction  of  the  above  re­
ports,  and  therefore  we  give  only  ab­
stracts  from  the  letters.

One  firm  writes  as  follows:  “ We  wish 
to  say  emphatically  that  we  are  not  ab­
sorbed  by  any  trust  and  the  report  has 
no  foundation  to  it.’ ’

Another  firm  writes:  “ Not  one  of  our 
firm  or  any  representative  of  our  firm 
attended  the  reported  meeting  held  in 
St.  Louis;  we  are  not  absorbed  by  any 
combination  and  never  will  be.”

Another  firm  writes:  “ We  beg  to 
notify  you  that  there  is  no  truth  what­
ever  in  the  rumor,  and  the  report  is 
very  much  unfounded.”

Another  firm  writes:  “ Our  firm  be­
ing  absorbed  by  a  combination  is  ridic­
ulous.  We have no  use  for  promoters  or 
brokers  in  the  interest  of  trusts.  They 
are  the  only  ones  who  make  any  money 
by  the  combines; 
is  all  profit  to 
them. ’ ’

Another  firm  writes:  “ We  are  not  in 
any  way  interested  in  soap  trusts.  We 
attended  a  meeting  last  winter  of  a  firm 
of  promoters  and  [said  then  they  could 
buy  our  factory  at  our  price,  but  we 
would  not  join  any  combination.  Our 
factory  is  not  absorbed  by  the  combina­
tion ;  we  are  not  in  it.”

Another  firm  writes:  “ We  are  not 
absorbed  by  any  combination.  We  be­
lieve  the  daily  press  agitation 
is  done 
by  the  promoters  to  further  demoralize 
the  soap  business  so  they  can  gain  their 
point  and  frighten  a  few  of  the  soap 
manufacturers 
into  a  combination  of 
some  kind. ”

In  fact,  each  of  the  nine  firms  deny 
the  report  now  going  the  rounds  of  the 
daily  press.

it 

In  thus  placing  the  facts  before  our 
readers 
in  the  expressed  sentiments  of 
the  prominent  firms  whose  names  have 
been  mentioned  in  connection  with  the 
matter  we  feel  (that  it  is  hardly  neces­
sary  for  us  to  offer any  opinions  of  our 
own;  but  we  wiil  suggest  in  a  general 
way  that  no  greater  mistake  is  being 
made 
in  the  industrial  world  than  this 
universal  tendency  to  the  formation  of 
trusts  and  combinations,  and  that  no 
greater  evil  menaces  the  general  wel­
fare  and  independence  of  manufactur­
ers  of  soap  and  all  other  lines  than  that 
of  having  the  individuality  of  a  trade 
swallowed  up  in  a  great  soulless  combi­
nation  and  the  consequent  loss  of  the 
higher  personal  ambitions  of  honorable 
competition  and  keen rivalry  and  efforts 
to  surpass  iu the  excellence  of  manufac­
ture  and 
in  the  achievements  of  new 
inventions  and  discoveries.  A  trust  in­
vents  nothing,  discovers  nothing,  seeks 
for  no  higher  standard  of  excellence,  no 
worthier  code  of  industrial  morals,  but 
only  to  crush  out  competition,  and  each 
cat 
in  the  combination  always  thinks 
there  is  one  cat  too  many.

Our  advice 

is :  Keep  out  of  the  cat 

fight.

Q uit  Y our  Eating.

Man  treats  his  stomach  worse  than  as 
if 
it  belonged  to  a  dog.  He  loads  it 
with  sweets  and  sours  and  bitters,  with 
fats  and  acids  and  oils;  with  milk  and 
watermelon ;  lobster  and  cream ;  vine­
gar and  mayonnaise;  vanilla  ice  cream 
and  acidulous  strawberries ;  sour  wine 
and  fizzing  seltzer ;  the  soft-shell  crab 
and  what  the  crab  has  been  eating 
fried  ip  oil  or  butter  that  bas  never

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illness 

known  cream;  and  at  intervals  swallows 
scalding  hot  coffee  and  pours  down  the 
same  way 
ice-cold  ice  water.  And  so 
man  gets  sick.  No  animal  could  swal­
low  the  same  doses  and  keep  well. 
When  a  sane  man  gets  sick  he  sends  for 
a  doctor.  The  doctor  does  not  like  to 
apply  a  stomach  pump  to  relieve  glut­
tony,  as 
in  an  emergency  case  of 
poisoning;  but  he  works  on  the  line  of 
assisting  nature  in  unloading  the  over­
burdened  stomach,  and 
is  re­
moved.  We  pity  the  poor  people  who 
do  not  get  enough  to  eat;  but  we  can 
not  quite  bring  ourselves  up  to 
the 
standard  of  pitying  the  millions  of  men 
who are  eating  too  much.  The  power  to 
eat  less  and  be  well  is  with  them. 
It 
has  been  shown  that  the  too  fat  may  be­
come  comfortably  thin  without  courting 
death  and  destruction  through  the  Bant­
ing  system.  Go  without  eating  and  give 
your  stomach  a  chance,  and  you  are 
cured.  This  is  for  those  who  eat  and 
drink  too  much.  Those  who  need build­
ing  up  must  take  more  nourishing  food 
and  more  stimulating  drink  than  usual. 
“ Man,  know  thyself.”   Be  neither  a 
fool  nor  a  hog.  Be  a  friend  to  your 
stomach,  and  it  will  stand  by  you  while 
life 
If  you  are  a  burden  unto 
yourself  because  you  have  superfluous 
flesh,  the  surest  way  to  get  rid  of 
is 
to  eat  nothing.  That  is  the  only  pre­
scription  which  offers  a  sure  remedy.

lasts. 

it 

Good  Mottoes  fo r  Window  Cards.
Here  are  some  good  mottoes  tor  win­
dow  cards.  They  are  just  as  important 
to  the  well  dressed  window  as  are  the 
goods  you  display.  Pertinent  window 
cards  frequently  convey 
ideas  which 
stick  in  the  Lead  after  the  casual  gazer 
has  passed  on,  and  the  following  are 
calculated  to  so stick:

A  small price  and  high value are  what 

we  offer.

Damaged  goods  go  at  your  price.
Our  shelves  are  kept  up  to date.
If  you  don’t  see 

it,  tell  us.  We'll 

have  it  to-morrow.

We  cater  to  the  millionaire's  taste  at 

the  poor man's  prices.

Bargains  talk  2nd  make  you  talk.
The  store  across  the  street  is all right, 

but  we  try  to  surpass  it.

Don’t  be  suited  too  soon—we  are  in 

no  hurry.

We  would  rather  spoil  a  sale  than 

have  a  purchase  disliked.

We  can  make  mistakes,  but  we hasten 

to  unmake  them.

We  simply  won’t  be  outsold.
We  ask  for  hints  that  will  enable  us 

to  please  you.

success.

Your  pleasure  here  is  the  secret  of our 

Goods  well  made  help  our  trade.
What  profits  you  helps  us.

It  is  the biggest kind  of  an 

insult  to 
offer  a  small  sum  of  money  as  a  bribe.

T R A V E L

VIA

F.  &   P.  M.  R,  R.

AND  BTEAM8HIP  LINKS 

TO  ALL  POINTS  IN  MICHIQAN

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

Taggart,  Knappen  &  Denison,

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Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1899 
A. C. Sch u m ach er,  Ann  Arbor 
Dec. 31,1900
Ge o. Gu n d b u h ,  Ionia  - 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L. E. R e y n o l d s, St. Joseph 
He n r y  He im ,  Saginaw  - 
Dec. 31,1902
- 
Wir t  P. D o t y , Detroit 
- 
Dec. 31,1803

President, O bo.  G u h d r u h ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Sch u m ach er, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, He n r y  He im , Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.
President—J. J. Sou r w in e,  Escanaba. 
Secretary, C h a s.  P.  Man n, Detroit. 
Treasurer—J ohn D. Mu ir , Grand Rapids.

it  expresses 

Some  Ways  Not  T o  Draw  Soda.
Irrespective  of  all  that  has  been  said 
anent  careful  and  cleanly  soda  dispens­
ing,  sloppy  soda  drawing  is  still  a  real­
“ Sloppy”   sounds  like  vulgar  dic­
ity. 
tion,  bnt 
just  what  we 
mean. 
It  seems  on  the  verge  of  para­
doxical  to  say  that  it  is  mostly  among 
"experienced”   soda  dispensers  that  we 
find  this  style  of  serving  in  vogue.  We 
say  experienced,  because  this 
is  the 
term  conferred  upon  these  attendants  of 
which  we  speak.  They  are  supposed  to 
be  what  the  term 
implies,  either  be­
cause  of  their  own  assertions,  or those of 
their  employers,  or because  of  the  posi • 
tions  they  occupy  before the fountains of 
the  most  prominent  and 
influential 
stores.  Many  of  these  men  are  in  truth 
clever  and  dexterous  dispensers,  with  a 
fund  of  knowledge  relative  to  the  in­
tricacies  of  the  fountain  and  the manip­
ulation  of  appetizing  drinks;  but  some 
of  them  permit their  learning  to  cast  a 
shadow  over  their  work.  They  become 
careless  and  indifferent  in  their  adept­
ness.

These  “ experienced”   dispensers  ap­
pear  to  believe  that  all  the  appurte­
nances  of  the  fountain are  subservient to 
their  will  and  that  everything  should 
act  accordingly.  A  glass  supported 
somewhere  close  to  the  soda 
faucet 
should  catch  the  flowing  stream,  and 
the  pendant  waterfall  tossed from a glass 
should  never  fail  to  pass  entirely 
into 
another  held  in  the  opposite  hand.  But 
neither  of  these  things  always  happens. 
Some  dispensers  will  hold  three  glasses 
in  the  greeting  hand,  under  the  faucet, 
turn  on  the  flow  with  the 
left,  and, 
while  the  stream  continues,  twist  the 
glasses  about  so  that  each 
in  turn  is 
partly  or  wholly  filled  and  much  has 
run  over  the  sides  of  the  glasses  and  the 
hand  of  the  operator.  Nothing  inviting 
about  this!  Others  will  run  the  faucet 
key  with  a 
jerk  that  sends  a  rush  of 
water  into  the  glass  which,  uniting 
with  the  syrup  therein,  is  sufficient to 
foam  the  whole  over  the  brim  of  the 
glass.

Another  erring  practice  is  the  hasty 
dropping  of  a  finished  drink 
into  a 
holder.  Be  one  as  skillful  as  he  may,  in 
this  act  he  takes  grave  chances.  The 
foam  may  be  tossed 
into  the  lap  of  a 
patron  or over  his  clothes,  or  the  holder 
may  be  inadvertently  chosen  and  prove 
a  fit  for  a  larger  glass,  which  causes  the 
latter  to  strike  the  marble  slab  heavily; 
or  a  glass  may  become so tightly wedged 
in  the  holdei  as  to  cause  the  former  to 
crack  when  attempt  is  made  to  dislodge 
it.  Nothing 
in  these  acts  to  induce  a 
man  to  say,  “ I’ll  take  another!”   You 
may  indignantly  exclaim  that  these  er­
rors  only  occur  occasionally.  Well,  in 
your  store  they  m ay;  but  remember 
please  that  the  observations  from  which 
these  notes  were  taken  were  not  limited 
to one  pharmacy  nor  yet  to  those  of  one

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
How  the  D ruggist  Came 
in  Providence.
M.  Quad in American Druggist.

town.  Moreover, 
they  did  occur 
but  seldom  would  it  not  be  far  better  if 
they  never  happened  at all?  Any  reason 
why  they  should  exist?

if 

to  Believe 

As  a  remedy  for  these  fountain  blun­
ders  we  would  suggest  the  subjoined 
prescription  to  be  used  by  the  offend­
ers :

R  Attention,

Care,
Consideration,
Common  sense,  aa  q.  s.  to  pro­

duce  a  harmonious mixture.

Sig.— Dissolve  in  a  generous  quantity 
of  the  study  of  human  nature.  Drink 
copiously  of  the  draught  until  the  in­
gredients  have  become  absorbed 
into 
the  system  and  have  formed  a  quota  of 
Nature’s  gifts.

While  the  average  man  desires  to  be 
served  with  despatch  he  doesn’t  partic­
ularly  care  about  his  soda  being  hustled 
to  him  as  a  telegram  might  be.  Soda 
water  is  seldom  drunk  as  beer  is  by  the 
American.  The  straws  on  the  soda  slab 
prove  this.  A  man  doesn't  enter  the 
soda  department  with  thoughts  of  a 
whiff  and  a  toss.  Many  are  the  times 
when  soda  is  served  in  too  much  haste. 
It  may  be  prepared  well,  but  when  a 
customer  conceives  the  notion  that  cor­
rectness  is  not  consistent  with  so  much 
hurry  he  becomes  skeptical,  and  may 
even 
imagine  that  what  is  really  a  fine 
drink  is  not  up  to the  standard.  Let  a 
barber  be  too  quick in trimming a man's 
hair,  and  at  once  the  victim  begins  to 
worry  for  fear  it  doesn’t  look  well  be­
hind.

At  a  popular  fountain  it  is  of  course 
often  necessary  to serve drinks as  quick­
ly  as  possible  to  accommodate the press­
ing  wants,  but  the  opposite  is  usually 
the  case.  Speed  in  this  work  should  be 
governed  by  time  and  circumstances. 
When  soda  trade 
is  moderate—at  all 
times— it is better to be slow and deliber­
ate  in  dispensing  than  to  show  an  incli­
nation  to  dispose  of  the matter as hastily 
as  possible.  This  also  applies  to  the 
favorite  fountain  when  patrons  are  few. 
No  one  spending  money  cares  to  be 
treated  in an offhand  give-me-your-coin- 
and-go  style.  Especially  is  this  true  of 
women. 
It  might  be  better  to  allow 
some  thirsty  man  to  wait  and  give  a 
woman  her  soda  with  frills.  Regnlate 
your  manner  of  drawing  soda  by  your 
position  and  by  current  events.  And  if 
you  employ  an  "experienced”   clerk  of 
the  kind  which  we  mentioned  early 
in 
this  screed,  band  him  the  prescription 
herein  given  and  see  that  he  adminis­
ters 
it  regularly.—Joseph  Hostelley  in 
Bulletin  of  Pharmacy.

The  D rug  M arket.

Opium— Is  very  firm  and  has  ad­
in  the  primary  market,  with  a 

vanced 
small  advance  here.

Morphine—Is unchanged.
Quinine— Is  firm  at  unchanged prices.
Cincbonidia— Has  further  advanced, 

on  account  of  small  stocks.

Alcohol—Competition between  jobbers 
continues  and  retailers  are  getting  the 
benefit  of  about  cost  prices.

Cocaine—On  account  of  the  scarcity 
and  higher  price  of  cocoa 
leaves,  is 
in  a  very  firm  position  and  an  advance 
is  expected.

Menthol— Has  been  advanced  on  ac­
count  of  higher  prices  in  primary  mar­
ket.

Naphthaline  Balls— Are  again  scarce 

and  prices  have been  advanced.

Essential  Oils—Anise 

is  firm  and 
prices  are  advancing.  Cassia  is  weak 
and  lower.  Orange 
is  slightly  higher. 
Peppermint  is  very  firm  in  view of short 
crop.

I  don’t  know  that  there  is  any  partic­
ular  bond  of  sympathy between reporters 
and  druggists,  but  somehow  they  always 
find  each  other  out. 
In  other  words, 
the  reporter  who  has  a  street  assign­
ment  on  bis  paper always  takes  in  some 
one  drug  store  on  his  rounds,  the  same 
as  he  calls  at  hotels,  ferry  docks,  the 
city  ball  and  the  morgue.  In the halcyon 
days  I  used  to take  in  the People’s Drug 
the  proprietor, 
Store,  and  Mr.  Sykes, 
always  had  a  welcome  for  me. 
If items 
were  plenty  I’d  let  Mr.  Sykes  off  easy, 
but  if  there  was  nothing  doing  I’d  de­
mand  that  he  help  me  out. 
It  was  a 
dead  easy  thing,  with  the  proprietor 
back  of  me,  to  write  up  a  column  arti­
cle  about  a  frenzied  woman  rnshing 
into  the  store  and  calling  for  poison, 
owing  to  family  troubles,  and  now  and 
then  we’d  have  a  young  man  who  was 
madly 
into  the  People's 
and  swallow  a  sponge  or  a  tooth-brush 
and  dash  ont  again  to  choke  to  death  in 
some  lonely  alley. 
I  got  some  rare 
“ scoops”   around  that  drug  store,  and 
all  of  them  helped  to advertise the place 
to  its  benefit,  and  that  was  the  reason  I 
kept  quiet  on  Mr.  Sykes  He  was a man 
of  mistakes,  but  be  was  also  under  the 
special  care  of  Providence.

love  dash 

in 

I  was 

Very  early 

in  my  acquaintance  with 
Mr.  Sykes  I  found  him  to  be  an  absent- 
minded  man. 
loafing  about  the 
store  when  be  put  up  a  prescription  for 
a  farmer.  The  farmer  had  been  gone 
with  his  medicine  a  quarter  of  an  hour 
when  Mr.  Sykes  suddenly  exclaimed :

“ Say  now,  but  I  made  a  mistake  in 
that  prescription,  and  whoever  takes 
it 
will  be  dead  before  morning!  Get  out 
on  the  street,  will  you,  and  see  if  you 
can  find  the  man.”
I  searched  up  and  down  for  half  an 
hour,  bat  could  not  find  the 
farmer. 
There  was  no  saying  where  he  lived and 
a  telephone  to  the  doctor  who  wrote  the 
prescription  found  him out.  I  was  high­
ly  excited  over  the  case,  but  Mr.  Sykes 
was  otherwise.

“ Oh,well,it  can’t  be  helped,“ hesaid 
as our efforts failed.  “ Of course,  I didn’t 
mean  to  make  the  mistake,  but  as  long 
as  it  was  made  I  must  depend  on  Prov­
idence  to  see  me  through. ’ ’

Providence  took  right  hold  of  the 
business. 
In  driving  home  the  farmer 
had  to  cross  the  railroad  tracks  in  the 
suburbs  and  he  reached  them  just  in 
time  to  be  caught  up  by  the  evening 
express  and  meet  his  death  under  the 
wheels.  About  the  only  thing 
in  his 
whole  outfit  which  wasn't  broken  was 
that  bottle  of  medicine,  but  I  managed 
to bust  it  while  the  coroner  was  getting 
his  jury  together.  The  label  was  an 
“ ad.”   for  the  People’s Drug  Store,  and 
it  was  beyond  the  power of  anyone  to 
say  that  any  mistake  had  been  made. 
I 
looked  to  see  Mr.  Sykes  elated  over  the 
outcome,  but  he  wasn’t.

“ He  might  possibly  have  got  home 
and  taken  that  medicine  and  gone  dead 
of 
it,”   be  explained,  referring  to  the 
farmer,  “ but  the  chances  were  that 
Providence  would  interfere  somewhere. 
It  did,  as  you  see,  and  the  case  came 
out  all  right. ”
One  evening,  as  we  sat  talking,  a 
woman entered and asked  for  quinine. 
The  drug  was  put  up,  and  it  was  twenty 
minutes  later  when  Mr.  Sykes  quietly 
observed:

“ I  believe  I  gave  that  woman  mor­
in  place  of quinine.  Yes,  I  am 

phine 
quite  sure  I  did. ”

“ And  what  will  you  do  about 

it?”   I 

asked  as  I  jumped  up.

“ What  can Ido?  She  was  a  stranger, 
and  I  can’t  locate  her. 
I  must  simply 
depend  upon  Providence  to  help  me 
out. ’ ’
I  offered  to  go  out  on  the  street and 
race  up  and  down 
in  the  hope  that  I 
might  possibly  overtake  the  woman. 
Mr.  Sykes  said  I  could  take the  trouble 
if  I  didn’t  feel  too  tired,  and  I  went 
out. 
I  hadn’t  gone  three  blocks  down 
the  street  when  I  discovered the woman. 
She  had  fallen  on  an 
icy  corner and 
broken  her  leg,  and  a  small  crowd  was 
around  her  waiting  for  the  ambulance. 
She  bad  dropped  the 
in 
the  gutter  as  she  fell,  and  I  found  frag­

little  packet 

ments  of  the  paper  under  the heels  of  a 
policeman.  My  friend  Mr.  Sykes  was 
safe,  but  as  I  swung  my  hat in one  hand 
and  patted  him  on  the  back  with  the 
other be  calmly  remarked :

“ Yes,  it’s  a  good  thing,  but  I  wasn’t 
worrying  over  it.  You  can  always  trust 
Providence  to  do the  right  thing  at  the 
right  time. ”
I  wasn't 

in  the  store,  one  night  two 
months  later,  when  a  woman  came  in 
and  asked  for  strychnine  to  poison  rats. 
She  bad  been  gone  ten  minutes  when  I 
turned  up,  and  ten  more  had  passed 
when  Mr.  Sykes  musingly  said :

“ I  sold  a  woman  strychnine  a  few 
it  just  occurs to  me 
minutes  ago,  and 
that  she  had  no  prescription  and  that  I 
asked  her  no  questions. 
I  didn’t  even 
take  her  address.  She  said  she  wanted 
it  for  rats,  but  I  shouldn’t  wonder  if 
she  contemplated  suicide.’ ’

“ Well,  you  are  in  for  it  this  tim e,”   I 

answered.

“ Yes,  it  looks  that  way,  but  yon  can 
I  shall  depend  upon  Provi­

never  tell. 
dence  as  usual. ’ ’

I  didn’t  go  to  bed  that  night,  but 
waited  around  police  headquarters  for  a 
suicide  report  to  come 
in.  At  four 
o’clock 
in  the  morning  word  came  of  a 
death  by  accident.  A  woman  bad  been 
pushed  down  stairs  by  her  drunken  hus­
band,  and  the  fall  had  broken  her neck.
I  hurried  to  the  scene  with  the  police, 
and  the  husband  had  recovered  suffi­
ciently  to  explain:

“ I  didn’t  mean  to  push  her,  you 
know.  She  bad  a  powder  in  a  paper 
and  was  going  to  take  it,  bnt  I  got  it 
away  and  threw  it  into  the stove.  Then 
she  pitched 
in 
keeping  her  off  that  I  pushed too hard. ”  
I  was 
at  the  store  waiting  for  him  when  be 
came  down,  hut  he  cut  my  congratula­
tions  short  and  threw  ice-water  on  my 
enthusiasm  by  saying:

Mr.  Sykes  had  escaped  again. 

into  me,  and  it  was 

“ Fell  and  broke  her  neck,  did  she?  I 
bad  an  idea  that  she  might  throw  away 
the  poison  and  jump  into  the  river,  but 
she  did  just  as  well.  Providence  works 
these  things  out after  its  own  fashion.”  
In  the  six  years  I  knew  Mr.  Sykes  he 
least  a  dozen  mistakes,  and 
made  at 
in  one 
instance  did  Providence 
only 
inclined  to  desert  him.  He  put 
seem 
something 
into  a  prescription  which 
came  near  ending  a  man’s  life.  The 
man's  wife  came  rushing  down  to  the 
store  with  the  bottle  in  her  hand  to  de­
mand  an  explanation  and  Mr.  Sykes 
confessed  to  her  that  he might have sub­
stituted  something,  although,  of  course, 
be  was  very  sorry  if  he bad.  She  threat­
ened  a  suit  for  damages and  started  off 
for  the  family  doctor,  and  I  entered  the 
store  just  as  she  left.  When  the  drug­
gist  explained  what  had happened I told 
him  that  bis  career  was  ended  and  ad­
vised  him  to  jump  for  Canada.

“ Well,  I  dunno, ”   he  calmly  replied. 
“ It  looks as  if  I  was  in  a  tight  box,  but 
one  can  never  tell  what  Providence  will 
do  for  him. 
I  guess  I’ll take chances. ”  
He  was  wiser  than  I.  The  woman 
reached  the  doctor’s  house  with  the  bot­
tle,  bnt  as  she  ascended  the  steps  to 
ring  the  bell  a  hoodlum  on  the  opposite 
side  of  the  street  bit  her  in  the  head 
in  her  sudden 
with  a  cucumber,  and 
start  she  dropped  the bottle and smashed 
her  case  forever. 
I believe the doctor 
and  Mr.  Sykes bad  some sort of an  ex­
planation,  in  which  Mr.  Sykes  came 
out  ahead,  but  the  woman  never patron­
ized  the  drug  store  again ;but Mr.  Sykes 
wasn’t  half  jubilant  over  his  escape. 
I 
got 
indignant  with  him  because  he 
wasn’t,  but  he  handed  me  a  cigar  and 
replied:

“ Try  one  of  my  new  brand  of  five- 
centers.  They  beat  some  of  the  tens 
you  find  around  and,  as  I’ve  often  said 
to  you,  Providence  is  a  nice  thing. 
I 
don’t  know  how  I  could  keep store with­
out  it. ”

Roots— Ipecac  is  in  very  small  supply 
and  has  again  advanced,  with  higher 
prices  looked  for.

Seeds—Canary  has  been  again  ad­

vanced  and  is  tending  higher.
Linseed  Oil— Has  been 

advanced 
in  the  past  week,  the  latest  ad­

twice 
vance  being  2c  on  the  19th.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Morphia, S.P. A W... 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co....................
Moschus Canton__
Myristica, No. 1......
Nux Vomica... po.20
Os  Sepia.................
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co....................
Picis Liq. N.N.*4gal.
doz........................
Picis Liq., quarts__
Picis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg... po.  80 
Piper Nigra...po.  22
Piper Alba__po.  35
Pilx  Burgun...........
Plumbi  Acet...........
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
A P. D. Co., doz. ..
Pyrethrum, pv........
Quassias.................
Quinia, S. P. & W. 
Quinia, S. German
Quinia, N.Y.........
Rubia Tinctorum... 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin...................
Sanguis Draconis..
Sapo,  W.................
Sapo, M..................
Sapo, G..................
Siedlltz  Mixture...

.  2 20® 2 45
2 10® 2 35
@  40
65®  80@ 
10 
18®  20
@  1 00
@ 2 00 
@ 1 00 
@  85
@  50
®  18 
®  30
7
® 
12 
10®  
1  10®   1  20
@  1  25 
25®  30
8®  
10 
43®  43
38®  48
3®  48
12®  14
18®  20
3 00® 3  10
40®  50
12®  14
10®  
12
®  15
20  ®  22

Voes.

Slnapis....................
@  18 
Slnapis, opt............
@  30
Snuff, M&ccaboy, De 
®  34
SnuffjScotch,DeVo’s  @  34
SodaBoras..............  9  ®  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  @  11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
2
Soda,  Carb............  
1*4® 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
5
3® 
Soda, Ash...............   3i4@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether Co........  50®  55
Spt.  Myrcia Dom...  @ * 00
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.  @
Spts. Vini Rect. *4bbl  @
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  30@1  35
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2V@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........  2j!@3*4
Tamarinds
Terebenth Venice..
Theobromae.........
Vanilla..................
Zincl  Snlph...........
Oils
Whale, winter........
Lard,  extra...........
Lard, No. 1............

28® 30
46® 48
9 00@16 00
7® 8

BBL. GAL.
70
70
60
50
35
40

19

Linseed, pure raw.. 
40 
Linseed,  Dolled......  
41 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  44 

43
44
70
50

Paints  BBL. 

LB
Red Venetian.........   144  2  @8
Ochre, yeuow Mars,  144  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  144  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2M  2*4©3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  214  244@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13® 
15
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, P aris...........  13)4®  17*4
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13®  16
Lead, Red...............   544®  8*4
Lead, white............   544®  0*4
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders’...  @  10
White, Pans Amer..  @  1  00
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @140
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

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

8
S

8

3

8
S

S A L E   PR ICE  CU RR EN T.

 

 

Conlum Mac...........  35®  go
Copaiba..................   1  15®  1  25
£nbeb».................... 
go®  i  oo
Exechthitos  ...........  1 00®  1  10
Erigeron.................  i 00®  1  10
uaultheria.............   l 40®  1  45
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal..  50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1  25®  1  35
Junipera.................   l  50® 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
go® 2 00
i r o n ia ..................   1  25®  1  35
Mentha Piper.........  1  60® 2 20
Mentha Verid.........  1  50®  1  60
Morrhuse,  gal.........   1 00®  1  15
Marcia,...................   4 00® 4  50
Olive 
75® 3 00
Picis  Liquida......... 
io®  12
Picis Liquida, gal...  @  35
Riclna  ...................  
92®  1 00
Rosmarini...............   @  1  00
Rosa,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succlnl..................   40®  45
Sabina..................  
go®  1 00
Santal....................... 2 50® 7 00
Sassafras.................  55©  go
®  65
alnapiB, ess., ounce. 
Tlglfl.......................  1  70®  1  80
40®  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Tneobromas..........  
15®  20
Potassium
15®  18
Bi-Carb.................... 
Bichromate............ 
13® 
15
Bromide..................  5.’®  57
£arb. 
................. 
12®  15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®  18
Cyanide..................   35®  40
Iodide.....................   2 40® 2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
i5 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10®  12
Potass Nitras........... 
io® 
il
Pressiate.................  2u@  25
15® 
Sulphate po  ........... 
is

Radix

Aconitvm...............   20®  25
A ltha.....................   22®  25
Anchusa................. 
10®  12
Arum po..................   @  25
Calamus.................  20®  40
Gentiana........p0.  15 
12®  15
Glychrrhiza.. .py. 15  16@  18
Hydrastis Canaden .  @  85
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  90 
Hellebore, Al ba, po.. 
18®  20
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po............... 4  75® g  00
Iris plox.... po35®38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   25®  30
Maranta,  *£s...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po....  22®  25
g b e i.......................  75®  1 00
Rhel, cut................. 
®  1  25
Bbel.py..................  
75®  1  35
Spigelia...................  35®  38
Sanguinaria... po. 15  @  18
Serpentario............   40®  45
Senega....................  40®  45
Slmilax,officinalis H 
®  40
Smilax, M.............. 
®  25
Scili®.............po.35  10®  12
Symploearpus, Fosti-
............   @  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  25 
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a...............  
12® 
16
Zingiber]...............  
25®  27
Semen
Anisum......... po.  15  @ 1 2
Apium  (graveleons) 
13®  15
Bird, Is...........  ......  
4® 
6
Carni.............po. 18  10®  12
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
10
Cannabis  Sativa....  4*4®  5
Cvdonium...............   75®  1  00
io®  12
Chenopodium........ 
Dlpterix  Odorate...  1  40®  1  50
Fmniculum............   @ 
10
Fosnugreek, po........ 
7® 
9
.....   3h@  m
Lini,  grd....bbl. 3*4 
4®  4*4
Lobelia..................   35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3^@  4
Rapa.......................  4H@ 
5
SinapisAlbu........... 
9® 
10
Slnapis  Nigra......... 
11® 
12
Spirltua 

dus,po. 

8® 

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............   2 50® 2  75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............   2 00® 2 25
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage...... 
®  1 50
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__  @  1 25
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............   @  1 00
Hard, for slate use..  @  75
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............  @  1 40

-  - 

Syrups

Acacia....................  @  50
Auranti Cortes........  @  50
Zingiber..................   @  50
@  60
Ipecac. 
Ferri Iod.................  @  50
Rhei Arom..............  @  50
Smilax Officinalis...  50®  60
Senega....................  @  50
Scili*......................  

.........  

O

ä
75
16
41
50
5
10
14
15
SC5
40
40

6
8
14
14

25
00

5000

15
8
30

55
75
50
55

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
15

25
30
12
14
15
17

15
25
75
40
15
2
50
7

14
25
35

30
25
30
20
10

65
45
35
28
80
14
12
30
60
30
55
13
14
16
63
10
00
70
30
00
60
40
10
35
45
80

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

6022
25
36

75
50
25
00
50
90
80
80
65
75
50
45

niscellaneous 

Scillae Co.................  @
Tolutan...................  @
Prunus virg............   @
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafoetida...........
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin..................
Benzoin Co...........
Barosma..............
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon...............
Cardamon  Co........
Castor.................. .
Catechu................ *’
Cinchona...............
Cinchona Co__
Columba 
...........
Cubeba................... ’
Cassia  Acutifol....
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
Digitalis 
...  .
Ergot......................
Ferri Chloridum
Gentian..................
Gentian Co.........
Guiaca.................
Guiaca ammon.......
Hyoscyamus.........'
Iodine.................... ’
Iodine, colorless....
Kino....................
Lobelia.............
Myrrh...................’
Nux Vomica........
Opii........................
Opii, camphorated.
Opii, deodorized.  ..
Quassia..................
Rhatany.........
Rhei.Tf;...............;;;
Sanguinaria  .  ........
Serpentarla............
Stromonium...........
Tolutan.................. ‘
Valerian...............
Veratrum Veride.!!
Zingiber..................
.¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 3F  30® 
Either, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen..................   2*4®
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
3®
Annatto..................   40®
Antimoni,  po.........  
4®
Antimoni et PotassT  40®
@
Antipyrin.............. 
Antirebrin ........... 
a
Argent! Nitras, oz 
_
Arsenicum..............  
10®
Balm Gilead  Bud
Bismuth  S. N........
Calcium Chlor.,  is.
Calcium Chlor., *4s 
Calcium Chlor., 54s. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsicl  Fructus, af 
®  15
Capsicl Fructus, po. 
Capsici FructusB.po  @  15
12®  14 
Caryophyllus..po.  15 
@ 3 00
Carmine, No. 40.... 
Cera Alba...............  
50®  55
Cera Flava.............. 
40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus.......   @  33
Centrarla...............  
10
Cetaceum................  @  45
Chloroform............. 
50®  53
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  10 
Chloral H ydCrst...  1  65®  1  90
Chondrus................ 
20®  25
Cinchonidine.P.* W  35®  45
Cinchonldine, Germ  32®  42
Cocaine..................   3 80®  4 00
70
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct. 
Creosotum........ 
@ 3 5
@ 
Crete........ ...bbl. 75 
2
Crete, prep........... 
@ 
5
Crete, preclp........... 
9®  11
Crete, Rubra...........  @ 
8
Crocus.................... 
18®  20
Cudbear.................  @  24
Cupri Sulph............  6*4®  8
Dextrine.................. 
10®  12
Ether Sulph............ 
75®  90
Emery, all  numbers  @  8
Emery, po....... ........  @ 
6
Ergota............po. 40  30®  35
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
Galla.......................   @  23
Gambier.................. 
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper......  @  60
35®  60
Gelatin, French...... 
Glassware, flint, box 75 &  10
70
Less  than  box...: 
9®  12
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue,  white............  
13®  25
14®  20
Glycerina............... 
Grana  Paradis!  __  @  25
Humulus................. 
25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  90
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
@  80
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. @  1  00
Hydraag Ammonlati  @  1  15 
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........   @  75
Ichthyobolla, Am... 
65®  75
Indigo.....................  
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi.......   3 60® 3 70
Iodoform................   @ 4  20
Lupulin..................   @  2 25
Lycopodium..........  
45®  51
............ 
65®  75
Mac is 
Liquor  Arsen et Hy
drarg Iod.............   @  25
10®  12
LiquorPotassArslnit 
3
Magnesia, Sulph__ 
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
@  1V4
Mannla, S. F  .........  
50®  60
v  3 00
...  ___ 
Menthol. 

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

AXLE  GREA5 Bdo?,  gross
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00

Aurora.........................56 
Castor O il................... 00 
Diamond.........  ........ 50 
Fraser’s ..................... .75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
(Ilea, tin boxes........... 75 
Paragon.....................  56 

BAK1NQ  POWDER.
m 'b cans dos................... 
»  lb Jans dos................... 

45
85
lb can  dos...................  >  50

Absolute.

Acme.

75
lb cans 1 dos.................  1  <0
10

*  tb cans 8 dos.................
2  
lb cans 8 dot............ 
Bulk.................................... 
6 os. Eng. Tumblers................... 85

Arctic.

6 oz. cans, 4 doz case......... 
80
9 oz. cans, 4 doz case.........   1 20
lb. cans, 2 doz case...... 2 00
1 
214 lb. cans, 1 doz case...... 4 75
5 
lb. cans, 1 doz case...... 9 00
v  lb cans per dos............  
'75
s4 !b cans per dos  ...........  1  20
lb cans per dos............ 2  00
i 
lb cans 4 dos case  —   35
£  lb cans 4 dos case  ...... 
55
lb cans 2 dos case  ...... 
90

Bl Parity.

Homo

B E i f l a

u  lb cans, 4 doz ease........ 
45
2  lb cans, 4 doz case........  85
lb cans, 2 doz case........1 60
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 os. cans, per doz.............  1  25
6 os. cans, per dos.............  
85
4 lb oacs..........................   45
» lb  cans.......... ............... 
75
lb cans..........................  1  60

Jersey Cream.

Oar Leader.

Peerless.
Queen Flake

BATH  BRICK

CANNED OOODS

I lb. cans  .........
3 os., 6 doz. case................   2 70
6 os., 4 dos. case 
...........3 20
9 os., 4 dos. case................   4 80
1 lb., 2 dos. case................   4 00
5 lb., I dos. case.. 
..........   9 00
American........ 
...........  79
English.........
Tomatoes...................  80®  90
Com............................  80@1  00
Hominy......................  80
Beans, Limas..............  70@1 30
Beans, Wax................  90
Beans, String..............  85
Beans,  Baked............  75@l  00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  75®  85
Succotash...................  95® 1  20
Peas............................  50®  85
Peas, French............2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.................  15®
Peaches, -Pie..............1  00 
.
Peaches, Fancy......... 1  40
Apples,  gallons.........   @3 2
Cherries  ....................   90
Pears..........................   70
Pineapple, grated......1  75
Pineapple, sliced.......1 3<
Pineapple,  Farren__1  70
Strawberries.............. 1  10
Blackberries..............  80
Raspberries................  85
Oysters, 1-lb................  85
Oysters, 2-lb................1 50
Salmon, flats, key......1  70
Salmon, % lb. flats....  90 
Salmon, Red Alaska.. 1  25 
Salmon, Pink Alaska..  90 
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 20
Lobsters, 2-lb. Star__3 90
Mackerel,1 lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused. 1  75 
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato.l  75
Shrimps.......................2 00
Sardines, ms domestic  3»® 
Sardines, mstrd. dom.5»@  7» 
Sardines,  French.......8  ® 22

2 40 
2 25

22

BLUING.

C fm m ,d
g g f t e

BROOnS.

CANDLBS.

Small, 3 doz.......................   40
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
.<o. 1 Carpet.........................2 30
No. 2 Carpet.........................2  15
No. 3 Carpet.......................  1  85
No. 4 Carpet.......................  1  45
Parlor Gem......................... 2 50
Common Whisk.................   95
Fancy Whisk............................ 1 CO
Warehouse................................2 70
8s.......................................... 7
16s.........................................8
Paraffine................................ 8
Wicking............................... 20
CATSUP.
2 00
pints......
Colombia, 
1  25
Columbia  »  pints
CHEESE
© 8»
Acme......................
Amboy....................
© 8»
© 8
Butternut................
® 8
Carson City............
Elsie........................ @ 9
© 8»
Emblem..................
Gem.................... •...
© 8»
Gold Medal............. @
© 8»
Ideal.......................
© 8»
Jersey  ....................
© 8
Riverside.................
© 12
Brick.......................
© 70
Edam.......................
® 17
Leiden.....................
© 13
Limburger..............
75
Pineapple................ 50
© 17
Sap  Sago.................
Chicory-
o
Bulk 
T
Red

..........................
CHOCOLATE.
German Sweet.............
Premium.. 
Breakfast 

Walter Baker 6  Co.’s

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

23
46

COFFEE.
Roosted.

Rio.

Jam .

Macho.

Sontos.

Reastod. 

Maracaibo.

Prim e......................................Jf
Golden  ...................................J8
Peaberry  ................................M
Fair  ....................................... JJ
Good  .....................................
Prim e......................................}•
Peaberry  ................................18
Prime  ....................................
Milled..................................... W
Interior.................................. JJ
Private  Growth......................30
Mandehllng............................36
Im itation............................... *2
Arabian  ...............................
Clark-Jewell Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha... .29 
Wells’ Mocha and Java.....24
Wells’ Perfection Java...... 24
Sancalbo...................-.........21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo........18»
Ideal  Blend.........................If
Leader  Blend......................12»
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
odds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit on  the 
invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which ne purchases 
to his shipping point, Including 
weight  of  package,  also Re  a 
pound.  In  601b.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbuckie 
.1...................  10 50
Jersey.............................   10 50
’fcLsaghlta's  XXXX........
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mall  all orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City »  gross...... 
75
1  15
Felix »  gross................. 
Hummel’s foil »  gross... 
86
1  43
Hummel’s tin »   gross 
CLOTHES PINS, 
i  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........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz........ 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz........1  80
Jnte. 60 ft  per  dot.............  80
Jute  72 *!  ne»  dos.,...........   »

COCOA.

James Epps & Co.’s.

Boxes, 7 lbs............................. 40
Cases, 16 boxes........................38
COCOA 5HBLLS.
201b  bags...................... 
2»
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound  packages........... 
4
CRBAfl  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk In sacks..........................29
4 dos In case.,
Gail Borden  Eagle...........  6 75
Crown................................8 25
.............  5 75
Daisy 
Champion 
4 50
...... 
Magnolia 
4 25
—  
.......  .......  8 35
Challenge 
Dime 
............................. 3 »

CONDENSED  MILK.

........... 

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

Credit Checks.

Superior Grade.

Universal Grade.

Economic Orsde.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 910 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, snv 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 60 
500 books, any denom.. ..U  50
1.000 books, any denom... .20 00
800, any one denom’n ........8 00
1000, any one denom’n ........5 00
2000, any one denom’n .......  8 00
Steel punch......... ••• 
76
Can be made to represent any 
20books.........................  
l 2}
50 books...............................  2 00
100 books  ..........................  8 00
500 books................................}® w{
1000 books..........................  17 60
DRIBD FRUITS—DOrtBSTIC 
Snndrled...................  
Evaporated 60 lb boxes.  ®10» 
(£& 15
Apricots. 
ackberries....
Blac)
Nectarines......
Peaches............
Pears................
Pitted Cherries.
Pronnelles..................
Raspberries....... ......
100-120 25 lb boxes.........   O f
90-100 26 lb boxes.........   ® 5
80-90261bboxes.........  ® 5»
70-80 25 lb boxes.........   ® JM
60-70 25 lb boxes.........  © 6*
50 - 60 26 lb boxes.........  ® 8
40-5025 lb boxes.........  @10
80-40 25 lb boxes.........   O
M cent less In 50 lb cases 

 
California Pratts.

.10  ®11 
e 7*

California Pranas.

Apples.

  S .IH

....... 

Raisins.

1  50
London Layers 2 Crown. 
1 65
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown............
2 00
5
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
6 
7
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown
L. M., Seeded, choice......  8
L. M , Seeded, fancy........  9»

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Peel.

Currants.

Leghorn.......................... ©JJ
Corsican.......................... ©12
Patras bbls.......................@ 5»
Cleaned, balk  ................. © 6
Cleaned, packages...........© 6»
Citron American 101b bx @13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx @10» 
Orange American 10 lb bx @10» 
Ondnra 28 lb boxes......  @
Sultana  1 Crown.........   @
Saltana 2 Crown.........  @
Sultana 8 Crown.........   @
Sultana 4 Crown.........   @
Sultana 5 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........   O
Sultana package.........   ©

RnWas.

Parina.

FARINACEOUS GOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages..............1  25
Bulk, per 100 lbs..............3  00
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Grits.

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

lb. cartons, 2 dz. in case..  1  80 

Peas.

Beans.

Hominy.

Rolled  Oats.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packages.............. 1580
1001b. kegs.......................2 70
2001b. barrels...................5  10
Barrels  ............................2 50
Flake, 501b.  drams.........1  00
Dried Lima  .  .................  
5»
Medium Hand Picked 1  20® 1  25 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  101b. box........  80
Imported.  25 lb. box.......2 50
Common.............................  1 
Chester............................   2 f0
Empire 
...........................  2 50
Green, Wisconsin, bn..... 1 00
Green, Scotch, bn...........1  10
Split, bn.......................... 2 50
Rolled Avena,  bbl....... 4 00
Monarch,  bbl..................3 75
Monarch,  »   bbl.............2 00
Monarch, 90 lb sacks.......1  80
Quaker, cases..................8 20
Huron, cases................... 2 00
German................. ..........  
4
East  India................ 
3»
Eesley’s  Self Rising  Flours. 
2 
61b. sacks, 1 dz. In case....  2 40 
9 lb. sacks, 1 dz. In jute....  3 35 
2 lb. cartons. 2 dz. In  case..  1  80 
2 lb. cartons, 2 dz. in case..  1  80 
Flake..............................  
6
4»
Pearl................................ 
Pearl, 241 lb. pkges........ 
6R
Cracked, bulk...................  3»
24 2 lb packages...............2 50

Graham.
Tapioca.

Entire Wheat.

Pastry.

Wheat.

Saga.

SALT PISH.

Cod.

Herring.

nacksrel.

Georges cured............  © 5
Georges genuine........  © 5»
Georges selected........  @6
Strips or bricks.........   6  @9
Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 25 
Holland white hoop »bbl  5 25 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mens 
80
Norwegian.......................   _
Round 100 lbs...................  3 10
Round  40 lbs...................  1  40
Scaled...............................  
14
Mess 100 lbs......................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  85
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  36
No. 1100 lbs......................  13 25
No. 1  40 lbs......................  5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1  48
No. 1  8 lbs......................  120
No. 2 100 lbB......................  11  50
NO. 2  40 lbs......................  4  90
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  30
No. 2  8 lbs......................  107
No. 1100 lbs......................  5 26
No. 1  40 lb l......................  2 40
No. 1  10 lbs......................
57
No. 1  8 lbs......................
Fain 
N J. 1  No. 2
2 75 
100 lbs...........7 CO  6 50
1 40 
40 lbs  .........   8  10  2 90
43 
10 lbs........... 
80
37
8 lbs........... 
66
PLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 
Lem.
doz.
75 
1  25

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

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

Whltsflsh.

Perrigo’s.

68

Trent.

85 
71 

Jennings’ .

D. C. Lemon
2 os..  ...  75
3 oz........1 00
4 oz........1 40
Sot...... 2 00
No.  8...2 40 
No. 10...4 00 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3 T.l  25 
No.  4 T.l  50

D.C. Vanilla 
1 20
oz....... 1 50
oz....... 2 00
6 os.......3 00
No.  8  4 00
No. 10.  .6 00 
No.  2T.125 
No.  3T.2 00 
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

HBRBS.

Sage.....................................   }6
Hops 
..........  • • ■  16
Madras, 5  lb  boxes............   65
S. F., 2. * and 5 lb boxes  .. 
50

INDIGO.

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dnpont’s.

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

Choke Bore—Dnpont’s.

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

Bogie Duck—Dnpont’s.

Kegs..........................................8 00
Haft Kegs................................. f 25
Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
lib . cans..................... ••—   45
16 lb palls............................  
|5
3G lb  pails............................  65

JELLY.

Condensed, 2 dot  ...............1  20
Condensed. 4 d o s ...................2 25

LYB.

LICORICE.

Calabria.............................   *5

HATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

No. 9 sulphur...........................J 66
Anchor Parlor..........................1 70
No. 2  Home.............................. 1 JO
Export  Parlor......................... 4 oo
1  66
Wolverine............... 
No Brand...........................  95

 

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black................................  
F a ir..................................  
Good................................. 
Fancy  ........... 
 
Open Kettle.................
Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

 

11
If
20
*f

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........ 
65
Cob, No. 8..........................  
85

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

PICKLES.
riedlnm.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........  4 00
Half bbls, 600 count...........  2 50
Barrels. 2,400 count.........   6 00
Half bbls  1,200 count..........3 00

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   6»
Carolina  No. 1...................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................   3R

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1..............  5»@ 6
Japan,  No. 2 ...........  4»@ 5
Java, fancy  head........5  ®  5»
Java,  No. 1.................  5  @
T ab le..........................   ©
Packed 60 lbs. in  box. 

SALBRATUS.

Cbnrch’s Arm and Hammer.!  15
Deland’s 
...........................8 00
Dwight’s Cow............................8 15
Emblem  ..............................3 50
L. P........................................... 8 00
Sodio.........................................3 15
Wyandotte, ICO Ms...................3 00
Granulated, bbls..............  80
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  80
Lump, bbls.......................   70
Lump, 1451b kegs  ............  
f 0

SAL SODA.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Worcester.

Common Grades.

Table, cases, 24 3-lb  boxes.. 1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels.  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Batter, barrels, 2801b. bnlk.2 25 
Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.S 50
Batter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............  55
100 3 lb sacks.........................1 95
60 5-lb sacks........................ 1 80
2810-lb sacks.......................1 65
50  4 
lb. cartons...................8 25
115  2»lb. sacks........................4 00
lb. sacks.......................3 75
00  5 
2214 
lb. sacks...................... 8 50
3010 
lb. sacks.......................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  82
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk in barrels.....................2 50
56-lb dairy In drill bags......   80
28-lb dairy in drill bags......   15
56-lb dairy In linen sacks 
80
56-lb dairy in linen  sacks...  60 
56-lb  sacks..........................   21
Grannlated Fine.................   60
Medium  Fine...... ...............   70
Per doz.
Peiouze HousenoHL.

Solar Rock.
Common.

SC ALBS.

Warsaw.

Higgins.

Ashton.

Weighs 24 lbs.  bj ounces. 

SBBDS.

A nise...............................   9
Canary, Smyrna................  3»
Caraway..........................  
8
Cardamon,  M alabar......   60
Celery.................................  11
Hemp.  Russian................  4»
Mixed  Bird......................  4»
Mustard,  white.........   ...  5
Poppy  ..............................  10
Rape................................. 
4»
Cuttle Bone........................  20
Scotch, In bladders.............  87
Maccaboy, in jars................  85
French Rappee, In jars......   48

SNUFF.

SOAP.

J A X O N

 

Single box.................  
2  85
5 box lots, delivered........... 2 c0
10 box lots, delivered........... 2 75
«MS.  S.  KIRK  S CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2  66
Dome.....................................2 75
Cabinet................................. 2 20
Savon............................ ......2  50
White Russian..................... 2 35
White Cloud,  laundry.........6 25
White Cloud,  toilet............. 3 50
Dnsky Diamond, 50 6 oz.,.,2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz___3 00
Bine India, 100 R lb............. 3 00
Kirkoline..............................3 50
Eos.......................................2 50
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d o s....... 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz............2 40
Boxes  ...............................   5»
Kegs. Knelt«h 
......  4V

Scouring.

SODA.
 
Corn.

SYRUPS.

Barrels................................. 17
Half  bbls...........................  18
1 doz. 1 gallon cans............. 2 75
1  doz. »  gallon cans.........1 65
3 
doz. K gallon c a n s......1 65
Fair  .................................  16
Good.................................  20
Choice.............................   25

Pure Cone.

SPICES.
Whola Sifted.

Allspice  .............................. 14
Cassia, China In mats......... 12
Cassia, Batavia In band... .25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........32
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zansibar..................12
Mace,  Batavia.....................55
Nutmegs, fancy................... 80
Nutmegs, No.  1................... 50
Nutmegs, No.  2.........  
  45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, w hite.. .16
Pepper,  shot........................15
Allspice  .............................. 17
Cassia. Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon.....................40
Cloves, Zansibar..................14
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin................... IS
Ginger,  Jamaica..................23
Mace,  Batavia.....................65
Mustard..........................12@18
Nutmegs,...................... 40@50
Pepper, Sing., black............15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage................. 
15

Pare Qround la Balk.

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Cora.

Diamond.

101-lb packages...................  6
20 1 lb packages.................... 634
Klogsford’s  Silver  Gloss.
401-lb packages...................6M
6-lb boxes.......................... 7
64 10c  packages  ............... 5 00
128  5c  packages.................5 00
82 10c and 64 5c packages...5 00 
201 lb. packages..................5
401 lb. packages 
...............   444
1-lb  packages......................  434
3-lb  packages......................  434
6-lb  packages......................  5
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3
Barrels  ...............................  3

Common Glose.

Coosmon  Corn.

STOVE POLISH.

SUOAR.

No. 4, 3-doz 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 York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which he
irarchases to his shipping point, 
ncludlng  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino................................5 75
Cut  Loaf.............................. 6 88
Crashed......... .....................6 00
Powdered 
......................... 5  63
XXXX Powdered................ 5 75
Cubes...................................5 63
Granulated in bbls...............5 50
Granulated in  bags............. 5 50
Fine Granulated.................. 5 50
Bxtra Fine Granulated....... 5 63
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5  63
Mould  A...............................f 75
Diamond Confec.  A............5 60
Confec. Standard A..............5 38
No.  1..................................  5 00
No  2...................................5  00
No.  8...................................5  00
No.  4.................................. 4  91
No.  5.................................. 4  88
No.  6...................................4  81
No.  7..................... 
NO.  8.................................. 4  69
No.  9.................................. 4  63
No.  10.................................. 4  56
No.  11...................................4  50
No.  12.................................. 4  44
No.  18.................................. 4  88
No.  14.................................. 4  88
No.  15...................................4  38
No.  16..........................  

TABLE  SAUCBS.
L E A  &

M  P E R R IN S’ 

S A U C E

The Original and 
Genuine 
W  orcesters h ire. 
Lea A Perrin’s,  large...  3 75 
Lea A Perrin’s, small...  2 60
Halford,  large................. 3 75
Halford small...................2 25
Salad Dressing, large...... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small...... 2 75

Cigars.

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

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brands.

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

8. C. W......
.35 00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. 
Vincente Portuondo..35@ 70 0">
Ruhe Bros.  C o ......... 25@ to 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 Siahl  Co.  ..  35®  90 00
Banner Cigar Co........P® 35 00
Seidenberg & Co........56@125 00
G.P. Sprague Cigar Co. 10® 35 03 
The Fulton Cigar Co.. 10® 35 00 
A. B  Ballard & Co....35@i:5 00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co 
.36®U0 00
San  Telmo................. 35® 70 03
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............ ..12%

WICKING.

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

Palls.
2- 
hoop Standard.1 35
3- 
hoop Standard.1 50
2-wire, Cable................:___l  35
3 wire. Cable...................  .  1 60
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1  25
Paper, Eureka..................... 2 25
FiDre.....................................2 25

Tubs.

20-inch, Standard, No. 1___5 80
18-inch, Standard, No. 2___4 85
16-inch,  Standard,  No. 3___3 85
20-inch, Dowell, No. 1.......... 6 25
18-tnch, Dowell, No. 2..........5 25
16-inch, Doweli, No. 3_____ 4 25
No. 1 Fibre........................... 9 00
No. 2 Fibre...........................7 50
No. 3 Fibre............................6 75

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Batter.
Seymour Y m t..................   5 ¡4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family XXX  ....................  5*
Salted XXX ...... .................  5M
New York XXX.................  5M
Wolverine.........................  6
Boston................................  7M
Soda  XXX.........................  6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton__  6ft
Soda,  City.........................  8
Long Island Wafers.......  11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Zephyrette...................... 10

Soda.

Oyster.

Saltlne Wafer....................  5M
SaltineWafer, 1 lb. carton.  6M
Farina Oyster....................  5J%
Extra Farina OyBter.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.

4 75

Animals............................  10M
Bent’s Water.....................   15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   10
Coffee Cake, Iced..............10
Cracknells.........................  15 H
Cubans  .............................   1154
Frosted  Cream..................   8
Ginger Gems......................  8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  754
Graham Crackers..............  8
4 38
Graham Wafers...............  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................   8
Jumbles,  Honey...............   1254
Marshmallow  ..................   15
Marshmallow  Creams......  16
Marshmallow Walnuts__  16
Mich. Frosted Honey__   1254
Molasses Cakes.................  8
Newton.............................   12
Nlc Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  854
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......  754
Sears’Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................  8
Sugar  Squares.................  9
Vanilla  Wafers...............   14
Sultanas............................  1254

Candies.
Stick Candy.
, 

 

 

, 

_ 

Mixed Candy.

bbls.  palls
Standard.................  7  @ 754
Standard H.  H.......   7  ® 754
Standard Twist...... 
754® 8
®  854
Cut Loaf................. 
cases
_ 
Jumbo, 32 lb  .......... 
® 654
Extra H.H.............. 
@854
Boston  Cream.......  
@10
Grocers...................  
^   g
@  654
Competition............ 
®  7
Standard................. 
@754
Conserve................. 
Royal.....................  
@754
Ribbon.................... 
@  854
Broken..................  
@  73^
Cut Loaf................. 
@  ¿54
@854
English Rock.........  
Kindergarten......... 
@  854
French  Cream........ 
@  9
Dandy Pan.............  
@10
Hand Made Cream mxd  @13
Nobby.................... 
@ 854
San Bias Goodies....  @11
Lozenges, plain...... 
@ 854
Lozenges,  printed..  @ 854
Choc.  Drops........... 
@11
Choc.  Monumentals  @1254
Gum  Drops............  
@5
Moss  Drops............  
@ 854
Sour Drops.............. 
@854
Imperials...............  
@ 95%
Ital. Cream Bnbns, 35 lb pis  11 
Molasses Chews,  15 lb. pails  13 
Jelly Date Squares..  @10
Pancy—In g  lb.  Boxes.

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lemon Drops.........  
@50
Sour  Drops............  
@50
Peppermint Drops..  @60
Chocolate Drops....  @65
H. M. Choc. Drops..  @75
H. M.  Choc.  Lt.and
Dk. No. 12............  
@90
Gum  Drops............  
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
Lozenges,  plain__ 
@56
Lozenges,  printed..  @55
Imperials...............  
qbb
Mottoes..................  
@60
Cream Bar.............. 
@55
Molasses B a r.........  
@55
Hand Made Creams.  80  @  90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Want............ 
@65
String Rock............  
@60
Burnt Almonds...... 125  @
Wintergreen Berries  @55

Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes..................

Fruits.
Oranges.
Seedlings................
Medt Sweet.............
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300a..
Fancy 300s.............
Ex.Fancy  300s........
Ex.Fancy  360s.......
Bananas.

Figs.

Californias  Fancy..
Choice, 10lb boxes..
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............
Fancy, 12 lb boxes..
Imperial Mikados. 18
16 boxes...............
Pulled, 6 lb boxes...
Naturals,  in bags...
Dates.
Fards In 10 lb boxes
Fards  in  60 lb cases
Persians, P H Y ......
lb cases, new........
Sairs,  601b cases....

@35
@50

@4  75
@5 CO

@>  ro
@4  50
@5 0J
@5 50
@

@13
@12
@18
©22
@
@
@ 7

@10
@ 6
@ 6
@  6
@ 5

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona.. @16
Almonds, Ivaca......... @14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............ @15
Brazils new............... @ 7
Filberts  .................... @10
Walnuts, Gronobles.. @13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. @11
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif....................... @11
Table Nnts,  fancy__ @1X
Table Nuts,  choice... @10
Pecans, Med...............
® 7%
Pecans, Ex. Large__ @ 9
Pecans, Jumbos........ @12
Hickory  Nats per bu.,
Ohio, new..............
@1  60
Cocoanuts,  fall  sacks @3 50
®
Chestnuts per bu.......
Pennata.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns. @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted..................
@  7
Choice, H. p„ Extras
a  5
Choice, H. P„  Extras
6

Routed

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

21

Tomato Jags.

top.
top,
top,

LAMP  BURNERS.

54 gal., per dos..................   50
1 gal., each.....................  
85%
Corks for V4 gal., per dos .  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per do*.  30 
Preservs Jars and Covers.
54 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
.1  00 
1 gal., stone cover, doz 
Sealing Wax.
5 lbs. in package, per lb... 
2
FRUIT JARS.
Pints  ..................................  4 00
Quarts.................................  4 25
Half Gallons....................... 5 75
Covers................................   2 00
Rubbers.............................  25
31
No.  0 Sun  ........................  
No.  1  Sun  ........................  
i!5
No.  2 Sun.......................... 
50
No. 3 Sun...........................  1  00
Tabular.............................  
45
60
Security, No.  1................... 
Security, No. 2................... 
80
Nutmeg 
..........................  
50
LAMP CHIMNBYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 dot
No.  0 Sun...................... ...  1  28
No.  1  Sun..................... ..  1  42
No.  2  Sun..................... ..  2  12
Common
.................... ...  1  50
No. 0 Sun 
No. 1 Sun....................... ...  1  60
No. 2 Snn  .....................
.  2 46
First  Quality.
Vo.  0  Sun.  crimp 
wrapped and  labeled 
i  it
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
wrapped and  labeled__  2  15
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
wrapped and  labeled__  3  16
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Snn,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

top,
wrapped and  labeled__  2 65
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled  ...  S 75 
CHIMNBYS—Pearl Tod.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  ana
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 Lamps............  
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................  
f0
No. 2 Snn,  plain  bttlb,  per
doz  ................................   1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per dos.........   1  85
No. 2 Crimp, per dos...  ...  160 
No. 1, Lime  (65c dos)........8 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos).. 
..  4 0C
No. 2, Flint (80c  dos)........  4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  ......   4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c dos)........4 40
Dos. 
1 gal tin cans with  spont..  1  42
1 gal galv Iron with  spont.  1  52
2 gal galv Iron with spont.  2 65
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3 45 
5 gal galv iron with  spont.  4 58 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 50 
5 gal galv iron with  fancet 4 85
5 gal Tilting cans..............7 25
5 gal galv iron Nacefas....  9 09
5 gal Rapid Bteady stream.  7 80 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 56
3 gal Home Rule............... 10 50
5 gal Home Rule............... 12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9 59
No.  OTnbular side lift....  4 00
No.  1 B  Tubular..............6 25
No. 13 Tubular Dash. 
....  6 SO
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__  7 00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C 
No.  3 Street  Lamp, each..  3 75 
LANTERN GLOBES.
No.  OTnbular,  cases 1 dos.
each, box 10 cents........... 
46
No.  OTnbular,  cases2 dos.
each, box 15  cents.........  
45
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls 5 dos.
each,  per bbl, bbl. 00....  1  78 
No. 0 Tubular,  bail’s  eye,
ORflP« 1 
*  25

Pomp  Cans.

LANTERNS.

OIL CANS. 

La  Bastla.

Rochester.

Blectrtc.

o«l»H 

Wheat.

Wheat................................  73

Winter Wheat Floor. 

Local Brands.

Spring Wheat Flour. 

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, 54s............................ 3 85
Daisy, Ms............................ 3 85
Daisy, 54s............................ 3 85
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, 54s........................  3 65
Quaker, Ms........................  3 65
Quaker, 54s......... ..............   3  65
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Plllsbury’s Best 54s...............   4 65
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 55
Pillsbury’s Best 54s................. 4 45
Plllsbury’s Best 54s paper..  4 45 
Pillsbury’s Best ms paper..  4  45 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Duluth Imperial, 54s............... 4 60
Duluth Imperial, Ms...........4 50
Duluth Imperial, 54s..............  4 40
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal 54s.......................  4 60
Gold Medal Ms.........................4 50
Gold Medal 54s.........................4 40
Parisian, 54s...........................  4 60
Parisian, Ms............................. 4 50
Parisian. 54s...........................   4 40
Ceresota, 54s......................   4 80
Ceresota, Ms......................  4 50
Ceresota, 54s......................4 40
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 54s..............................  4 50
Laurel, Ms.............................   4 40
Laurel, 54s............................... 4 30
Bolted....................................  1 90
Granulated............................  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__ 16 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........15 50
Unbolted Com Meal..........14 10
Winter Wheat  Bran___  .14 00
Winter Wheat Middlings. .15 00
Screenings.............................. 14 00
New corn, car lots............   3654
Less than  car lots............   3854
Car  lots............................. 30
Carlots, clipped.................  3254
Less than  car lots.............34
No. 1 Timothy carlots......   10 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots__ 12 03
Fish  and  Oysters

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Feed and Mlllstaffs.

Corn.

Meal.

Oats.

Hay.

Presh Fish.

Per lb.
Whiteflsh...............   @  854
T rout......................  @  8
Black Bass..............  8  @  10
Halibut...................  @  16
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  4
Bluefish..................   @  11
Live Lobster.........   @  16
Boiled Lobster........  @  18
Cod 
......................  @  10
Haddock.................  @  7
No.  1  Pickerel........  @  8
Pike.........................  @  7
Perch.......................  @  454
Smoked White........  @  8
Red Snapper...........   @  8
Col  River Salmon..  @  12
Mackerel 
..............  @  15
Oysters, per  100.........1  25@1  50
niams. 
@1  no

Shell Goods.

ion 
Oils,
Barrels.

Eocene.......................  @1154
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt.  @10
W W Michigan...........  @954
Diamond White.........  @ 854
D., S. Gas....................   @1254
Deo. N aptha..............  @1254
Cylinder................... 29  @34
Engine  ......................11  @r

Hides.

Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Green No. 1................  @754
Green No. 2................  @654
Bulls....................... 
@6
Cured No. 1................   @
Cured No. 2................  @ 734
Calfskins,  green No. 1  @954
Calfskins, green  No. 2  @8
Calfskins, cured No. 1  @1054
Calfskins, cured No. 2  @9
Pelts, each.................  50@1  00
No. 1...........................   @354
No. 2................... 
  @254
Wool.
Washed, fine  ............   @16
Washed, medium.......  @20
Unwashed, fine..........9  @12
Unwashed, medium ..14  @16

Pelts.
Tallow.

 

Provisions,

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barreled  Pork.

 

 

Sausages.

5X
554
6M
10M

Mess  .............................   10 00
Book  ......................10 50®
Clear back..............  @10 2P
Shortcut.............................   9 75
Pig.......................................  1» 00
Bean  ........ 
9  10
Family  . . ..'.......................   11 0J
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies............................ 
Briskets  ......................... 
Extra shorts................... 
Smoked  Heats.
Hams, 121b  average...... 
Hams, 14 lb average 
Hams, 161b  average. 
Hams, 20 lb  average.
Ham dried b e e f......
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).
Bacon,  clear.................7  @754
California hams
Boneless hams................ 
854
Cooked  ham..................10@1254
Lords.  In Tierces.
Compound......................  
454
Kettle................................. 
g
%
55 lb Tubs.. .....advance 
80 lb Tubs.........advance 
m
50 lb T ins......... advance 
54
20 lb Pails.........advance 
%
10 lb Pails.........advance 
%
5 lb Palls......... advance 
1
3 lb Pails.........advance 
154
Bologna......................... 
554
Liver...............................  
854
Frankfort.......................  
754
6M
P o rk ............................... 
Blood  ...............................  
g
Tongue.............................. 
9
Head  cheese................... 
654
Extra  Mess..................... 10 25
Boneless  ........................12  50
Rump....... ........ 
12 00
Kits, 15 lbs......................  70
M  bbls, 40 lbs..................  1 35
54  bbls, 80 lbs..................  2 50
Kits, 15 lbs......................  70
M  bbls, 40 lbs..................  1 25
54  bbls, 80 lbs..................  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
Patted  ham. Ms.... ...  50
Potted  ham. Ms— ...  90
Deviled ham. Ms-.-. ...  50
Deviled ham, Ms.... ...  90
Potted  tongue Ks__ ...  50
Potted  tongue i£s__ ... 
90

Canned Moats.

11
1054
1554
1454

Pigs’ Feet.

Batterlne.

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

Fresh  M eats,

Beef.

Pork.

Carcass.........................7 @854
Forequarters..............  6 @  654
Hind  quarters...........  7J4®  954
Loins  No.  3..................12 @14
Ribs.........................  .  9  @14
Rounds......................  @8
Chucks........................   6 @654
Plates  .......................   4  @5
Dressed......................!54@ 5
Loins.........................  @7
Shoulders...........■.......  @554
Leaf Lard...................  6M@
Carcass...........  ........  854@10
Spring Lambs.............. 14 @16
Carcass  .................... ?54@ 8
Crockery  and

Mutton

Veal.

Glassware.

A t u o t   STONEWARE. 

Batters.

54 gai., per dos...................  40
1 to 6 gal., per gal...........  5
8 gal., each.......................   48
10 gal., each.......................   60
12 gal.,  each.......................  72
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 1  05 
20 gal. meat-tubs, each... .1  40 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ... 2 00
30 gal. meat-tubs, each__2 40
2 to 6 gal., per gal............   5
Churn Dashers, per dos...  84 
54 gal. flat or rd. hot., dos.  40 
1 gal. fiat or rd. hot., each
Pine Glazed Mllkpons.

Mllkpons.

Charms.

Btewpens.

54 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. fiat or rd. bot, each  554 
54 gal. fireproof  v ”11, dos.  86 
1 gal. fire prom, bail, dos.l  10 
M gal., per dos..................  40
54 gal., per dos..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal............. 
6

Jags.

22

H ardw are

Close  E arly  b u rin g   Heated Term .
There 

is  an  opportunity  now  given 
every  merchant  to  display bis generosity 
abd  mercy  at  this  time  of  the  year,  and 
that  is  by  closing  the  store  at  an  earlier 
hour  than  usual  during  the  hot  months. 
It  is  but  an  act  of  humanity  to  do it,  for 
the  amount  of  suffering  which  employes 
endure  during  the  warm  weather  is 
in­
calculable.  Besides  the  humane  point 
of  view,  there  is  the  other  consideration 
that  it  creates  a  favorable  impression  of 
the  proprietor’s  sense  of  justice  on  the 
part of  customers  to  see  that  he  is  will­
ing  to  think  of  some  one  else  besides 
himself. 
In  addition  to  this,  it  may  be 
fairly  stated  that  during  the heated  term 
but  little  purchasing  is  done  late  in  the 
afternoon. 
The  writer  believes  that 
people  would  much  prefer  to  hasten 
around  and  do  their  purchasing at an 
earlier hour when they find that the store
is  going  to  be  closed  up  sooner,  rather 
than  see  employes  overworked  and  har­
assed  by  heat  and  the many  annoyances 
incident  to  the  hot  weather.

It  is  a  great  mistake which many mer­
chants  make  in  thinking  that  customers 
will  be  offended  and  inconvenienced  by 
closing  an  hour  earlier 
than  usual. 
Many  city  stores  make  a  practice  of 
closing  earlier  in  warm  weather and  no 
one  hears  anything  about  annoyed  and 
inconvenienced  customers  because of  it. 
The  merchant  who  takes  it  upon  him­
self  to  oppose  the  early  closing  move­
ment,  simply  because  he  thinks  be  can 
secure  some  of  the  trade  which  may  be 
gleaned  from  the  other  stores  which  are 
shut  up,  does  his  own  business  much 
more  harm  than  good.  An  instance  was 
recently  cited  where  intense agitation 
in  favor of  closing  earlier 
was  excited 
on  certain  evenings 
in  the  week  on 
which 
it  had  been  the  rule  to  keep 
open.  The  hottest  opposition  was  kept 
up  by  one  of  the  largest  stores  in  the 
district.  Those  who  fought  for  shorter 
hours  won  and  they  had  so  pulled  pub­
lic  opinion  over  to  their  side  that  short­
ly  after  the  recalcitrant  merchant  had 
to  make  an  assignment.

The  magnanimity  and  consideration 
displayed  by  merchants  who  are  willing 
to  alter  their  plans  in  conformity  to  the 
weather  creates  a  favorable  impression 
upon  the  public  which  more  than makes 
amends  for  the  loss  of  a  few 
sales 
which  might  occasionally  occur. 
It 
gives  a  merchant  some  prestige  to  take 
the  lead  in  such  a  reform  as  this  in  his 
town. 
It  shows  that  he  is  keeping  up 
with  the  times  and  desires  to  do  justice 
to  his  employes. 
It  is  particularly  ad­
vantageous  to  the  merchant  to  have  a 
reputation  for  fairness  and  equity,  and 
dealers  should  not  be  slow  to  take  ad­
vantage  of  the  opportunity  which  the 
heated  term  affords  to  show  considera­
tion  to  employes.

O ld  Way  to   T e sta  Sickle.

An  old  German  called  at  a  hardware 
store  to  purchase  a  sickle  for  cutting 
grass.  He  was  shown  some  of  German 
manufacture,  such  as  he  had  used  when 
a  boy  in  the  old  country.  He  expressed 
some  doubts  as  to  the  genuineness  of 
the  article and  proceeded to  test it.  He 
took  a  piece  of  broom  straw  about  two 
it  with  saliva, 
inches 
and  placed 
it  across  the  back  of  the 
sickle.  As soon  as  he  let  go  of  the  straw 
like  the  needle  of a 
it  whirled  around 
compass,  until 
it  lay  parallel  with  the 
blade  of the  sickle,  whereupon  he  pro­
it  a  genuine  German  tool. 
nounced 
Several  persons  who  happened 
to  be 
present  were  much  astonished  at  the  re­
sult of  the  old  man’s  experiment,  and

length,  wet 

in 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

insisted  upon  his  repeating  it,  which 
he did  several  times,  with  the  same  re­
sult.  Then  the  spectators  tried 
it,  and 
whenever  the  straw  was  sufficiently  wet, 
so  that 
it  did  not  stick,  it  would  whirl 
around as surely  as  the  needle of  a  com­
pass  turns  to  the  pole.  Just  why  the 
straw  acts  thus  no  one  could  tell,  and 
whether  it  would  act  so  on  an  English 
or  an  American  sickle  is  not  known. 
Some  talked  about  the  blade  of  the 
sickle  being  magnetized,  but  it  is  not 
known  that  a  magnet  has  any  attraction 
for  a  wet  broom  straw.  Perhaps  a  wet 
straw  would  do  the  same  thing  on  the 
back  of  a  knife  or any  piece  of  iron. 
Any  one  interested  in  such  a  thing  can 
make  the  experiment.

C orks  Made o f Alum inum .

Aluminum  bottle  stoppers  for  use  in 
place  of  corks  are the  latest  novelty  in 
the  white  metal’s  rapidly  expanding 
field  of  usefulness.  Several  thousand 
pounds  of  aluminum  sheets  are  cut  up 
each  week  to  form  these  stoppers,  so 
it 
will  be  seen that the industry has already 
established 
itself.  The  blanks  are 
stamped  out  of  sheet metal,  and  when
shaped  a  rubber  gasket 
is  forced  over 
*tbem.  They  are  then  pressed 
into  a 
groove  in  the  neck  of  the  bottle  and  the 
contents 
is  then  hermetically  sealed. 
According  to  the  Aluminum  World,  ex­
periments  have  been  made  with  bottled 
effervescent 
fluids  which  have  been 
sealed 
in  this  manner  for  over  four 
years,  and  when  opened  the  liquid  was 
still  “ alive.”   The  advantages  claimed 
for the  aluminum  stopper are  that  it 
is 
cheaper  than  a  cork  stopper,  and  a  bot­
tle 
is  more  easily 
opened,  as  it  is  only necessary  to  break 
the  seal  with  a  prod  and  then  to  rip 
it 
out.  Besides  the  advantage  of  being 
readily  opened,  aluminum  stoppers  are 
self-destroying,  an  important  feature  in 
putting  up  standard  brands  of  liquors, 
and  when  removed  have  a  value  of  20 
cents  a  pound  as  old  scrap.

sealed  with  one 

Builders’  Hardware  Prices.

The  manufacturers  of  builders’  hard­
ware  have  a  committee  at  work  on  a  re­
vised  price  list,  which  is  to  classify  all 
staple  goods  and  establish  a uniform 
scale.  Additional  advances 
in  prices 
are  looked  for  as  a  result,  advances 
since  the  first  of  the  year  in  the  various 
products  of  these  concerns  having  been 
from  30  to  60  per  cent.  Prices  in  the 
raw  material  of  the  hardware  manufac­
turers  have  advanced  from  75  to  100  per 
cent,  within  three  or  four  months  past. 
Consequently  when  the  new  uniform  list 
goes  in  some  sharp  advances  are  antici­
pated  by  the  jobbers.  Heretofore  there 
had  been  a  wide  discrepancy 
in  the 
classification  of  the  various  articles by 
the  manufacturers.  All  of 
large 
concerns  of  the  country,  some  ten  or 
twelve,  as  well  as  the  retail  trade,  are 
interested  in  the  price  agreement.

the 

An  Apple  That  Doesn’t  Decay.

interested 

R.  A.  Barnes,  who  lives  near  Middle- 
town,  Mo.,  has  on  his  farm  an  apple 
tree  the  fruit  of  which  has  become  a 
study  to  those 
in  fruit  and 
fruit  growing.  Mr.  Barnes  had  on  ex­
hibition  in  Vandalia  an  apple  which  he 
picked  from  the  tree  during  the  fall  of 
1897,  and  which  still  retains  a  remark­
able  degree  of  preservation  without arti­
ficial  means.  The  apple  is  described 
as  similar  to a  russet  in  size  and  color, 
and  yet  with  distinguishing  character­
istics  which  show  it  to  be  of  an  entirely 
new  variety.  The  tree  came,  unnamed, 
from  an  Illinois  nursery.  Mr.  Barnes 
thinks  bis  discovery  will  net  him  a  for­
tune.  He  has  consulted  prominent  fruit 
men  at  Louisiana,  Mo.,  and  all  pro­
fessed  ignorance  as  to  the  apple's  vari­
ety.  The  next  meeting  of  the  Missouri 
Fruit  Growers’  Association  will  be 
asked  to  enquire  into  the  peculiarities 
of  the  apple.

The  Expansiveness  o f  English.

Monsieur  de  France— You  wind  up 

ze  clock  to  make him  go?
English  Tutor— Exactly.
Monsieur  de  France— Zen  what  for 
you  wind  up  ze  beesiness  to  make  it 
stop?

B rown  a  S ehler

W EST BRIDGE  ST.
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Manufacture a full line of

& * * *

LIGHT  AND  HEAVY  HARNESS 
FOR  THE  TRADE.

Jobbers  in

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

Also a full line of

PRO M PT  ATTENTIO N.

CARRIAOES AND FARM IMPLEI1ENTS.

REFRIGERATORST t

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

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

FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO., “ S S W

a

PHILLIPS  IDEAL 

CREAM 
SEPARATOR

Dilution  Process.

Patented August 33,1897.

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
W m .  Brum m eler &   Sons,

{ROOFING

Iff 

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

H.  H.  R EY N O LD S  &   SON,

Established 1868. 

ORANO RAPIDS, MICH.

DETROIT,  MICH. 

JlV (Please mention where you saw this advt.)

Office:  8a Campau  St.
Factory: 

ist Av. and M. C. Ry.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

Petting  the  People

Some  Good  and  Bad  Advertisements 

and  Why.

The  use  of  cuts  in  advertising  is  dis­
tinctly  of  advantage.  A  cut  helps  to 
the  understanding  of  an  advertisement. 
It  speaks  all  languages,  where  the  ad­
vertisement  speaks  only one.  B 't  a  cut 
must  be  appropriate— it  must  suggest 
the  subject  matter  of  the  advertisement 
—above  all,  it  must  be  correct  in  its 
details.

The  adveitisement  reproduced  below 
shows  how  a  poorly-drawn 
cut  can 
spoil  the  effect  of  a  fairly  good  adver­
tisement :

mind  as  well.  The  two  advertisements 
repioduced  here  are  neither  of  them 
good  on  this  account.  That  of  the  Ob- 
erver,  while 
is  attractive—indeed, 
a  most'creditable  piece  of  composition

it 

How  is  your 
Supply  of

printed Stationery
m

-Note  Heads, 
Envelopes, 
Statements, etc* ?

keep  their advertisements  so  bright  and 
newsy  that  people  would  turn  naturally 
to  them  for  bargains. 
they  are 
charging  the  cost  of  their  present  ad­
vertisement  to  advertising 
they  are 
making  a  mistake. 
It  should  go  to  the 
charity account.

If 

*  *  *

One  of  the  neatest-appearing 

local 
papers  I  have  had  the  pleasure  of  see­
ing  lately  is  the  Manistee  Daily  News. 
It 
is  well  printed,  and  the  advertise­
ments  are,  in  the  main,  not only attract- 
vely  set  up,  but  convincingly  worded 
as  well.  The  general  average  of  excel­
lence  is  so  high  that  it  is  bard  to  pick 
out  any  particular  advertisement  and 
label 
“best,”   but  here  is  one  which 
is  decidedly  attractive:

it 

The  O b s e r v e s  office  makes  a  
specialty of this class  of  work. 
Yes, we have  the  material  and
th e “ know  how.**

lacks  selling  force. 

It  asks  a  ques­
tion,  but  does  not  answer 
it.  The  ad­
vertisement  of  the  Local  Office,  is  well 
written,  but  loses 
its  force  because  it

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i j i c e  

l o t

*

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Î
*
500 Note Heads 
*
- 
500 Envelopes 
*
R00 Statements  _ 
500 Bill  Heads  ■  • 
*
<*'* 
250 Dodgers 
tue  'Know now."
*  
SOODodgers 
- 

Is a good advertisement.  A  slov­
enly job. on  the contrary. Is a poor 
advertisement.  The  Lo c a l  Job 
office  has  the  best  selection  of- 
type in this section  and  we  have 
secured our stock  at  prices  that 
will enable us  to  furnish  printed 
paper at the following prices.
SI.00
S1.00
93
$1.25
51.00
$1.40
Other  work  at  proportionate 
prices.  All work will be satisfac­
torily done  and  good  stock  will 
be  used.
Don’t pay big  prices  for  boict 
work but come to  the

.
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- 
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- 

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.

 

L o c a l   o f f i c e .

is  horribly  set  up.  The  type  in  the  top 
display  line  is  twenty  years  out  of  date. 
There  are  three  wrong  fonts  in  the  sig­
nature.  These  features  do  not  tend  to 
strengthen  the assertion  that  the  Local 
Office  is  the  place  to  go  for  “ a  nice  job 
in  printing.”  
The  Locai  advertise­
ment  needs  about  half  again  as  much 
space,  and  a  little  artistic  composition. 
The Observer advertisement needs a few 
prices. 
These  changes  would  place 
both  advertisements  beyond  criticism

L A $ B   B R O S .

C H O I C E   G R O C E R I E S

OPERA  HOUSE  BLOCK.

Advertising  is  intended  to  sell  goods, 
t  has  no  other  conceivable  purpose 
u  tbe  world.  With  this  in  mind,  it  is 
ifficult to  find  any  excuse  for an  adver 
isement such as  the  above. 
It  gives  no 
□formation  except  that  Lamb  Bros,  sell 
roceries—a  fact  that  probably  every 
ne  in  their  community  knows  already. 
Ldvertising  of  this  kind  never  has  paid 
nd  never  will  pay.  What  Lamb  Bros 
hould  do 
is  to  publish  in  each  adver 
isement  a  list  of  seasonable  groceries 
ttractively 
described,  mentioning 
irices,and possibly quoting specially low 
irices  on  half  a  dozen 
lines.  They 
bould  advertise  something  definite  and

We  have  received  an
--------- Kodak  that
takes  a  picture 
\yi  and sells for

You will make  a  mis­
take if  you  don’t  buy 
a kodak now.

W.  R.  HALL,

On  the  Corner.

It is  brief. 

It  quotes  a  price.  It  talks 
about  one  article,and  tells  enough  about 
it  to  interest  tbe  prospective  buyer. 
It 
leaves  very 
little  to  be  desired,  and  I 
have  no  doubt  that  it  sold  goods—and 
that,  after all,  is tbe final  and  conclusive 
test  of  the  excellence  of  any  advertise­
ment. 

W.  S.  H a m b u r g e r .

[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  wben  desired.  Criticism 
and  advice  will  be  given  without fear  or 
favor  and  entirely  free  of  charge.  The 
is  borne  by  tbe  Tradesman. 
expense 
Address  ail  communications  to  W.  S. 
Hamburger, 
care  of  the  Michigan 
Tradesman,  Grand  Rapids.]

DRILLS

CHISELS

Hardware  Price Current.
70
Socket Firmer............................................. 
70
Socket Framing........................................... 
Socket Comer..............................................  
70
Socket Slicks...............................................  
70
Morse’s Bit Stocks....................................... 
60
Taper and Straight Shank............................ 504  5
Morse’s Taper Shank....................................504  5
Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
65
Corrugated..............................................  
1  25
Adjustable.............................................dls 40410
Clark’s small, *18;  large, 126........................30410
Ives’, 1, *18; 2, «24; 3, «30  ...........................  
25
New American......... , ........................■........70410
Nicholson’s............................................ —  
,70
Heller's Horse Rasps....................................6C410
Nos. 16 to 20; S a n d  24; 25 and 26;  27.........  
28
List  12 
17

GALVANIZED  IRON
16 

EXPANSIVE  BITS

PILES—New  List

ELBOWS

13 

14 

Discount,  65

15 
GAUGES

MATTOCKS

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...................... 60410
KNOBS—New List
70
Door, mineral, jap, trimmings.  . 
Door, porcelain, Jan. trimmings................. 
80
Adse Bye...................................«17 00, dis  60410
Hunt Eye.....................................«15 00, dis 60410
.....................................  «18 50, dis 20410
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s...................................  
40
40
Coffee, P- S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.. 
40
Coffee, Landers. Ferry & Clark’s...............  
Coffee, Enterprise...............  
«0
 
Stebbln’s Pattern.......................................... 604X0
Stebbin's Genuine........................................60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

 
MOLASSES  OATES

MILLS

A   R O Y A L S  

«áfeáf F E A S T

CaJ)  be  enjoyed  from  one  of  our juicy 
and tender roasts of  prime beef, that has 
a  deliciousness  of flavor  that  makes  it 
thoroughly enjoyable.  We have a tempt­
ing  Stock  of  Spring  foods  in  Spring 
Lamb,  Veal,  Mutton  and  Pork.  Our 
meats  are  always  away  Up  in  quality, 
and away down in price.

H.  L .  N EW TO N ,

ASHMUN  STREET.

The  scene 

is,  apparently,  a  dining 
room,  although 
the  mantel,  with  a 
chromo  resting  on  the  shelf,  makes  it 
somewhat  doubtful.  On  the  table,  be­
side  the  cloths,  are  seven  plates,  one 
glass,  and  a  dish  (species  unknown). 
The gentleman  in  the  arm  chair,  who  is 
bolding  the  carving  knife  precariously 
near  tc  his  left  eye,  is  evidently,  from 
his  position,  going  to  hold  the  dish  of 
meat  on  his  lap  while  he  carves  it, 
while  the  young 
lady  on  the  opposite 
side  of  the  table  waves  her napkin  in 
delirious  joy  at  the  welcome  approach 
of  the  feast.  To  judge  from  the  table 
appointments,  and  from  the  table  man­
ners  of  the  diners,  the  trim  waitress 
is 
distinctly  out  of  place,  and her  sarcastic 
smile  shows  that  she  appreciates  the 
fact.

While  it  is  true  that  many  artists  are 
not  over  familiar  with  the  appearance 
of  dining  tables  and  food  in  general,  I 
would  advise the  perpetrator  of this  cut 
to obtain  some  more  accurate 
informa­
tion  on  the  subject. 
It  should  prove  of 
distinct  benefit  to  him  and  to  his  cus­
tomers.

The  reading  matter  in  the  advertise­
ment  is  fairly  good,  although  the  addi­
tion  of  a  few  prices  would  have  im­
proved 
it  greatly.  Glittering  general­
ities  are  never  as  effective as  goods  and 
prices.

*  *  *

A  job  printer’s  advertisement  should 
be  a  sample  of  good  composition. 
It 
should  be  as  artistic  as  type  abd  bor­
ders  can  make 
it  should  go 
farther:  An  advertisement  that attracts 
the  eye  is  not  enough— it must  reach  the

it.  But 

BARROWS

u  00

CARTRIDGES

Railroad..................................................  
Garden................................................  net  30 00
Rim Fire......................................................  40410
Central  Fire................................................. 
20
Fry, Acme..............................................60410410
Common, polished..................................... 
Iron and  Tinned........................................ 
Copper Rivets and Burs............................ 

RIVETS

PANS

704 5
ou
45

NAILS

 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base............................................  2 es
Wire nails, base............................................  2 75
30 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
25
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
25
Finish 10 advance......................................  
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel X advance.......................................... 
85
Ohio Tool Co. ’s, fancy................................   @50
Sciota Bench................................................ 
so
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy........................   @50
Bench, firstquality......................................   @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
‘A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
‘B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 
Broken packages He per pound  extra. 

PATENT PLANISHED  IRON 

PLANES

HAMMERS

 

ROPES

TRAPS

HINGES

LEVELS

SHEET  IRON

HOLLOW  WARB

n o u sb   puRNuniNu  goods

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

Maydole 4  Co.’s, new  list................................dis 33H
Kip’s  ...................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s...................................di« 10410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50&10 
Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 20410
Pots............................................................... 6041
K ettles......................................................... 60410
Spiders......................................................... 60410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3................................ dls 00410
State......................................... per  doz. net  2 5«
Sisal, H Inch and  larger.............................  
9H
Manilla.......................................  
u u
WIRE  GOODS
Bright.  .......................................................  
80
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s..........................................................  
80
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
Stanley Rale and Level Co.’s.................dls 
?C
com. smooth,  com.
«3 00
3 00
8 20
3 30
3 40
3 50
All Bheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14....................................13 20 
Nos. 15 to 17...................................   3 20 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................   3  30 
Nos. 22 to 24...................................   3 40 
Nos. 25 to 26...................................   3 50 
No.  27 ..........................................  3 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dls 
50
Solid Eyes........................................per ton  20 00
Steel, Game............................................. 
75410
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s.........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley 4 Norton's 70410
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................per dos 
1  2£
Bright Market............................................  
70
Annealed  Market........................................  
70
Coppered Market..........................................61410
Tinned Market............................................   60
Coppered Spring Steel................................. 
50
Barbed Fence, galvanized.............................   3 30
Barbed Fence,  painted....................................  2 80
An Sable..................................................dls4041C
Putnam...................................................dls 
5
Cap well.....................................................net list
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
40
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought.........  
75
75
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
Bird  Cages............................................  
40
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
70
Screws, New L ist.................................. 
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50410410
Dampers, American...............................  
50
600 pound casks...........................................   9
Per pound...........................................  
  9H
D rop............................................................   1 45
B B and Buck.............................................  1  70
H®H....................................................  »
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................I 7 15
14x20 IC, Charcoal........................................   7 f 0
20x14 IX, Charcoal........................................   8 50

MISCELLANEOUS

TIN—Melyn Grade

METALS—Zinc

HORSE NAILS

WRENCHES

SOLDER

Bach additional X on this grade, «1225.

WIRB

SHOT

 

TIN—Allaway Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, «1.50. 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   5  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  6 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean............................  110«
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   10 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   12  00
BOILER SIZE TIN  PLATB 
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, 1  Mnn(1 
10
14x56 IX, for No  9 Boilers, f 

P°nna- • •

2 4

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grand  Rapids  Retail  G rocers’  Associa­

tion.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  at 
the  office  of  the  Michigan 
Tradesman,  Tuesday  evening,  June  20, 
Frank  L.  Merrill  presided.

Cohn  &  Co.,  grocers  at  691  Cherry 
street,  applied  for  membership  in  the 
Association  and  were  accepted.

The  Committee  on  Oil  reported  that 
there  was  a  manifest  disposition  on  the 
part  of  the  local  oil  managers  to  post­
pone  action  in  the  matter  of  curtailing 
the  operations  of  the  oil  peddlers,  evi­
dently  fearing  that  one  or  the  other 
company  would  secure  some  temporary 
advantage  thereby. 
The  Committee 
was  continued,  with  instructions  to  ex­
pedite  the  work  of  arriving at  an  under­
standing  with  the  oil  companies  at  the 
earliest  possible  moment.

A  letter  was  read  from  Benjamin  Zev- 
to  the  bill 
alkink,  calling  attention 
passed  by  the  Missouri  Legislature  tax­
ing  department  stores.

The  following 

letter  was  read  from 
John  W.  Verhoeks,  Secretary  of  the  Re­
tail  Merchants’  Association  of  Grand 
Haven:

“ Your  kind  invitation  to  attend  your 
thirteenth  annual  picnic  to  be  held  at 
Reed’s  Lake,  Aug.  3,  has  been  received 
with  thanks. 
I  have  seen  our  Presi­
dent,  F.  DeVos,  and  he  has  instructed 
me  to  write  you  and  let  you  know  that 
we  will  call  a  meeting  of  the  merchants 
next  week  and  will  then  decide. 
1  will 
let  you  know  the  decision  as  soon  as  I 
can. ”
letter  was  read  from  D.  A.  Boel- 
A 
kins,  Secretary  of  the  Muskegon  Retail 
Grocers’  Association,  stating  that  the 
matter  of  joining  the  Grand  Rapids 
grocers  in  celebrating  the  annual picnic 
would  be  taken  up  for  discussion  at  the 
next  meeting  of  the  Association.

The  Secretary  announced  the  receipt 
of an  anonymous  letter  from  some trades 
union  crank,  sneering  at  the  defeat  of 
the  Nevins  garnishee  bill  which  was 
vetoed  by  Governor  Pingree.

A  communication  was  received 

from 
the  Secretary  of  the  Retail  Meat  Deal­
ers’  Association,  suggesting  that  the 
two  associations  join  in  getting  out  and 
distributing  caids  to  hang  in  the  gro­
cery  stores and  meat  markets of the city, 
announcing  that  the  stores  would  be 
closed  all  day  Fourth  of  July.  The  sug­
gestion  was  received  with  such  favor 
that  the  Secretary  was  instructed  to  co­
operate  with  the  Secretary  of  the  Meat 
Dealers’ Association  in  the  manner  sug­
gested.
communication,  which  was  read  by  the 
Secretary :

B. 

From  time  to  time  since  the  advent 
of  this  Association  the  question  of  do­
ing  a  strictly  cash  business,  or  selling 
for  spot  cash  only,  has  come  up  before 
us  for  discussion,  and  each  time,  after 
a  lukewarm  or  half-hearted  talk,  it  has 
been  abandoned  without  any  results : 
but,  to  use  a  street  phrase,  “ We  are  up 
against  it  again. ”
In  this  article  I  have  tried  to  give 
my  views  on  the  subject,  with  the  hope 
that  it  may  have  the  effect  of  bringing 
out  the  views  of  other  members  or  of 
anyone  else 
interested  in  this  subject, 
and  thereby  reach  some  result  on  what 
seems  to  be  the  “ white  man's  burden”  
of  the  retail  trade.

To  begin  with,  the  trouble  seems  to 
be  that  the  motions  are  usually  made 
without  any  qualification  and 
for  a 
sweeping  prohibition  of  the  credit 
system,  without any  distinction  between 
a  good,  prompt-paying  credit  customer 
and  a  slow  pay  or  dead-beat.  This 
is 
partly  the  reason,  in  my  opinion,  that 
the  subject  has  been  dropped every time 
without  issue. 
I  think  the  question  can 
not  be  settled  by  any  action  of  the  As­
sociation  as  a  whole. 
It  must  be  con­
trolled  or  governed  by  each  individual 
member,  according  to  location  and  cir­
cumstances.  For  example,  some  gro­
cers  who  have  been  doing  business  in 
one  location  for  a number  of  years  may, 
perhaps,  have  a  good  neighborhood 
trade,  a  good 
line  of  prompt-paying 
credit  customers,  whom  they  would  not 
part  with  under  any  consideration,  un­
less  compelled  to  do  so  and  certainly

S.  Harris  presented  the  following 

in 

not  by  the  action  of  an  association. 
It 
is  one  of  the  most  valuable  parts  of 
their  business  and  they  would  under  no 
circumstances  adopt 
these  sweeping 
motions  for  spot  cash  only.  Others  may 
be  situated 
just  the  opposite  posi­
tion.  They  have  a  transient  trade  and 
may  sell  a  bill  of  goods  to  a  person  and 
not  be  disappointed  or  care  much  if  be 
never  comes  to  the  store  again.  There 
are  still  other  grocers,  who  are  located 
among  people  who  draw  their  pay 
semi-monthly  or  monthly. 
weekly, 
These  conditions  would  govern  the 
in­
dividual  member  of  the  Association  in 
the  methods  of  cash  and  credit  dealing. 
Bad  debts  is  the  mainspring  that,  like 
a  jack  in  the  box,  brings  this  question 
up  before  us  from  time  to  time  for  con­
sideration,  and  I  can  not  see  any  way 
to  decide  the  matter  except  by  the 
adoption  of  the  rule  of  each  one  for 
himself.  It  there  is  a  remdey,  it  is  cau­
tion,  and  I  would  suggest  that you  clas­
sify  your  trade into three divisions— No. 
1  credit,  slow  pay  and  poor  pay.  The 
first  of  these  you  desire  and  can  afford 
to  add  to.  The  second  should  be limited 
as  to  amount  of  credit  and  held  strictly 
to  the  line,  unless  it  should  be  a  No.  1 
customer  who  becomes  slow  on  account 
of  sickness  or  some  other  trouble.  The 
last,  or  poor  pay,  you  can  not  get  rid  of 
too  quickly.

These  are  my  views  on  the  subject  of 
spot  cash  versus  credit,  and  I  wish  to 
add  that,  if  you  will  make  a  practice 
of  fully  investigating  the  standing  and 
credit  of  each  and 
every  applicant 
through  the  excellent  method  we  now 
have  for  that  purpose— the  Commercial 
Credit  Co.—and 
learn  to  say  No  on 
every  occasion  when  necessary,  it  will 
very  much  lessen  your  needs  of  asking 
an  association  to  adopt  resolutions  to 
protect  your  business.  Of  course,  there 
are  those  who  have  different  views  on 
this  subject,  and  I  think  the  question 
should  be  kept  open  long  enough  for  all 
who  wish  to  express  their  opinions  in 
the  matter,  whether  in  or out  of  the  As­
sociation.

in  an 

isolated 

Mr.  Cone  remarked  that  it  was  easy 
enough  for  a  man  to  carry  on  a  cash 
business 
locality,  but 
where  he  does  business in the vicinity of 
immediate  competitors  it  is  pretty  hard 
to  enforce  the  cash  system  unless  all  of 
the  merchants 
in  the  vicinity  join  in 
the  movement.

Mr.  Merrill  stated  that  he  undertook 
to  establish  the  cash  system  six  years 
ago,  but  had  fallen  from  grace.  He  has 
been  so  particular,  however,  in  the  mat­
ter  of  extending  credit  that  his  total 
losses  to  date  have  been  less  than  $25.

An  informal  discussion  on  the  merits 
and  demerits  of  the  cash  system  fol­
lowed,  resulting 
in  the  adoption  of  a 
resolution  to  make  the  matter  the  spe­
cial  subject  for  discussion  at  the  next 
meeting.

The  same  course  was  taken  with  the 
subject  of  a  half  holiday,  on  account  of 
the  lateness  ot  the  hour  and  the  amount 
of  detail  business  which  was  necessary 
for  the  meeting  to  accomplish.

B.  S.  Harris  brought  up  the  subject 
of  establishing  a  uniform  price  on  fruit 
jars,  which  was  discussed  at 
some 
length,  culminating 
in  the  adoption  of 
a  resolution  by  Peter  Braun  that  the 
matter  be  referred  to  a  special  com­
mittee  to  visit  the  local  jobbers  and  ask 
them  to  maintain  the  price on fruit jars. 
Tbe  chairman  appointed  as  such  com­
mittee  Peter  Braun,  B.  S.  Harris  and 
John  Witters.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjouined.

Milwaukee  Excursion June 26 and  27.
On  account  of  the  Milwaukee  carni­
val  the  Grand  Trunk  Railway  System 
will  sell  tickets  at  one 
fare  for  the 
round  trip,  good  going  June  26 and  27. 
limited  to  return  July  2.  For  particulars 
call  at  Grand  Trunk  City  Ticket  Office, 
Morton  House,  or  at  depot.

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

The  real  patriot 

is  a  man  who  does 
something 
for  his  country  without 
thought  of  reward.  The  bogus  article  is 
tbe  man  who  makes  speeches  and  talks 
about 
it,  with  the  certain  expectation 
of  personal  profit.

The  Grain  M arket.

The  past  week  has  been  a  dragging 
market  as  regards  wheat.  Several causes 
were  responsible  for 
it.  One  was  the 
fine  weather,  then  the  very  large  North­
western  receipts  (which  can  not  always 
bold  up)  and  tbe  rains  in  Russia.  How­
ever,  these  rains  came,  too  late,  as  the 
Russian  harvest  occurs  about  the  same 
time as  ours  here.  How  can  rain  make 
wheat  at  this  time?  Exports  were  not 
as  large  as  was  expected,  also  the  crop 
is  reported  as  improved 
in  Michigan 
somewhat,  but 
it  seems  to  us  that  the 
wheat  beads  stand  too  straight  to  have 
many  and  large  kernels,  but  as  harvest 
is  close  at  hand  we  will  soon  see  the 
outcome.  There  was  enough  bear news 
to  make  wheat  recede  3c 
in  futures. 
The  visible,  according  to  Board  of 
Trade  figures,  is  about 8,000,000 bushels 
more  than  one  year  ago.  One  thing 
we  should  not  lose  sight  of  is  that  our 
exports,  while  they  have  been  above 
200,000,000  bushels  for  the  two  years 
back,  will  have  to  be  nearly  that  much 
on  our  this  year’s  crop,  so  no  one  need 
to  look  for  much  lower  prices.

Corn,  while  it  sold  off  >¿c  yesterday, 
is  very  strong  and  prices  will  not  go 
down,  even  by  continuous  pounding 
in 
the  corn  pit,  and  should  tbe  least  un 
favorable 
condition  show  up  prices 
would  enhance  considerably.

Oats  are  strong  and  remain  around 
just  now,  although  tbe 

present  prices 
oat  crop  looks  tbe  best  at  present.

Rye,  as  was  expected,  sagged  off  in 
price  and  will  be  considerably  lower  as 
the  export  demand  has  stopped  and  tbe 
distilleries  have  shut  down.

Receipts  during  the  week  were  as 
follows:  63  cars  of  wheat,  12  cars  of 
corn,  11  cars  of  oats,  2  cars  of  hay  and 
2  cars  of  straw.  Tbe  mills  are  paying 
73c  for  wheat. 

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

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 
15 cents.  Advance payment.____________

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

other business;  town of 4,500.  Address  Box  M, 

987

990

Three Rivers, Mich. 

r p o   RENT—STORE  34  WEST  BRIDGE,  BE- 
X  tween Front and Court;  steam heat;  hand­
somely decorated;  counters and shelving.  Wes­
ley W. Hyde, 617  Michigan  Trust  Bldg.,  Grand 
Rapids. 

very latest style with  all  improvements,  at 
less  than  half  price;  terms  to  suit.  Address 
Albert E. Docherty, 34 Sibley St.,  Detroit,  Mich.
991

ITiOR SALE—NATIONAL  CASH  REGISTER] 
i iMJR  SALE—A CLEAN  STOCK  OF  DRUGS, 

paints, oils,  brushes,  school  books  and  sta­
tionery m a  good  small  town;  no  competition. 
Will inventory about  $1,300.  I  have  two  drug 
stocks and wish to sell  this  one  before  July  1, 
1899.  Address  Angus  Stewart,  Fenwick,  Mich.
988

nice cash business.  Must sell at once; have 

'  shoes and furnishing  goods  for 75  cents on 
the  dollar cash, if  taken  this  month.  Address 
No. 987. care Michigan Tradesqmp. 

Ij'OR SALE—$1,000 STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS, 
IpOR  SALE—DEPARTMENTSTORE  DOING 
WANTED—GENERAL  STOCK  IN  THRIV- 
M o d e r n   c ity  r e s id e n c e   a n d  la r g e
W ANTED—LUMBER YARD.  LARGE PAT- 

ing  town  in  exchange  for  50 acre  farm, 
with crops, three miles from city of Grand  Rap­
ids.  Good  buildings.  Good  soil  for fruit  and 
gardening.  Write  for  particulars  to  986,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

lot, with bam, for sale cheap on easy terms, 
or will exchange for tract of  hardwood  timber. 
Big  bargain  for  some  one.  Possession  given 
any time.  Investigation solicited.  E. A. Stowe, 
24 Kellogg street, Grand Rapids. 

ronage here and  around  us.  Good  open­
ing for  somebody.  Address  President  of  Law­
rence, Mich. 
ANTED —WILL  TRADE  FIRST-CLASS 
fruit and  stock  farm—155 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  Postoffice  Box  137,  Plainwell, 
Mich. 
977
For  sa l e—good  b a za a r  stock,  e n -
quire  of  Hollon  &  Hungerford,  Albion, 
925
Mich. 

979

985

986

993

983

976

IpOR  SALE—THE  GRANDEST,  MOST  P ic­

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
I7IOR  SALE—LUMBER  AND  COAL  YARD.
'  desirably located on  State  street,  Marshall, 
Mich.  Well  established  business  and  good, 
clean stock that will invoice (yard and material) 
at about $5,000.  Reasons  for  selling  given  on 
application to C.  S.  Hamilton,  Marshall,  Mich.
982
rpH E  SHAFTING,  HANGERS AND PULLEYS 
A  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. 

IpOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  CLEAN 

Stock  of  Groceries  or  General  Merchan­
dise—58 acres best land in  Emmet  county;  part 
timber, part improved.  Address  Box  28,  Good 
Hart, Mich. 
r p o  RENT—TWO STORES IN NEW  CORNER 
A  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. 
969
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, Mieh. 
dhO  A A A   CASH:  10  ACRES,  $1,000;  FIVE 
lots,  $600  each;  modern  home, 
$2.800,  for  stock  of  merchandise.  Address  No. 
975
975, care Michigan Tradesman. 
TT'OR SALE—WATER  POWER  AND  FLOUR 
X '  ing mill building on the Huron River in  the 
village of Dexter, Mich., known as the Peninsu­
lar  Mills.  For  particulars  address  the  under­
signed at Dexter.  Thos. Birkett. 
966
I7IOR  SALE  OR EXCHANGE—A  60 BARREL 
1  full  roller  mill  with  sawmill  attached. 
Best  water  power in  Southern  Michigan.  Ad­
961
dress Miller, care Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A  RUBBER 
stamp.  Best  stamps  on  earth  at  prices 
that  are  right.  Will  J.  Weller,  Muskegon, 
958
Mich. 
■ NY  ONE  WISHING  TO  ENGAGE  IN  THE 

grain and produce aud  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. 

If'OR  SALE —A  RARE  OPPORTUNITY—A 

1  flourishing business;  clean  stock  of shoes 
and furnishing goods;  established  cash  trade; 
best store and  location  in  city;  located  among 
the best iron mines in the country.  The coming 
spring will open  up with  a  boom  for  this  city 
and prosperous  times  for  years  to  come  a  cer­
tainty.  Rent  free  for  six  months,  also  a  dis­
count on stock;  use of fixtures free.  Store  and 
location  admirably  adapted  for  any  line  of 
business and conducted  at small  expense.  Get 
in line  before  too late.  Failing  health  reason 
for  selling.  Address  P.  O.  Box  204,  Negau- 
nee, Mich. 
913
PAYNE  BROS.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  have 
filed  their  counter  checks  (charging  and 
crediting  on  slips  of  paper)  for  three vears  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.  Addre-s J. C. Shaw, Mears, Mich. 962

f lOR  SALE —CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK 

located at one of the best trading  points  in 
Michigan.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $5,C00. 
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 le—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

919

974

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

WANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 

try;  any  quantities.  Write  me.  Orrin  J. 

Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 

810

MISCELLANEOUS.

WANTED —A  FIRST-CLASS  TINSMITH.

Must  be  capable  of  clerking  in  store. 
Single  man  preferred.  Must give  good  refer­
ences.  No drinkers  need  apply.  Address  No. 
992, care Michigan Tradesman.__________ 992
W ANTED — CIG ARM AKERS,  RO LLERS, 
bench breakers,  strippers  and  lady  pack- 
ers.  G. J, Johnson Cigar Co., Grand Rapids.  989
WANTED—POSITION  BY  COMPETENT 
WANTED — REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
WANTED—POSITION  IN  STORE  OR  OF- 

grocery  clerk.  A1  references.  Corres­
pondence solicited.  A.  T.  Cooper,  Hart,  Mich.
984

who  is  familiar  with  lines  carried  in  a 
general  store.  State  wages.  E.  E.  Lessiter, 
Grattan, Mich.________________________980

fice by energetic married man.  Competent 
book-keeper  and  has  clerked  in  grocery.  Best 
of references.  Address  Box  494, Traverse City, 
Mich. 

968

Travelers' Time  Tables.

Chicago

Chicago.

Lv.  O. Rapid*.. 7:30am  12:00nn  5:05pm  *2 t5am
Ar.  Chicago--- 1:30om  5  00pm  11:15pm  *7:25i
Lv.Chicago..  7:15am  12:00nn  4:15pm *8:45d 
Ar.G’dRapids  1:25pm 5:05pm  10:15pm  *l:50am 
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey. 
Lv. O'd  Raolds.  7:30am 2:15am  1:45pm  5:30pm 
- Ar. Trav  City.. 12:40pm 6:10am  5:35pm  10:55pm
Ar. Charlevoix..  3:15pm 7:53am  7:38pm.............
Ar. Petoskey....  3:45pm  8:15am 8:15pm..............
Ar. Bay View...  3:55pm  8:20am 8:20pm.............
Lv. O. Rapids..9:C0am  12:00nn  5:30pm..............
Ar. G. Rapids. .8:00am 
:25pm  5:05pm  10:15pm
Extra train on Saturday  leaves  at 2:15pm for 
Ottawa Beach.
Sunday  train  leaves  Bridge  street  8:40am, 
Union  depot  9:00am; 
leaves  Ottawa  Beach 
7:00pm.
Trains  arrive  from  north at ?:00am, 11:15am, 
4:45pm, and 10:05pm.
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on 
night trains to and from Chicago 
Parlor cars for Bay View.
*Bvery  day. 

Others week days only.

Ottawa Beach.

H P T D n i T   Qrand frp i*8 *  Western. 
• U C   I  I \ U 1  I   V 

June 19.1899.

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........ 7:00am  1:35pm  5:2'uw
Ar. Detroit....................11:40am  5:35pm  10:05pxr
Lv  D etroit...................8:15am  1:10pm  6:lUpv
Ar  Grand  Rapids........1:10pm  5:11pm  10:55pr
Lv. G R 7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G R 11:45am  9:49pn 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Geo.  D eH a v b n .  G eneral  Pass.  Agent

GRAND Trank Railway  System

Detroit and Milwaukee Div

(In effect May  1,1899.)

some  ba st

Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit & N Y.........t  6:45am  t  9:55pm
Detroit  and  Bast..................tl0.16am  t 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit &  Bast.......t 3:27pm  tl2i50pm
Buffalo.  N  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t’d Bx__*  7:20pm *10:16am
some  w bst
Gd. Haven and Int Pts__  
*  8:30am  *IO:OOpm
Gd.  Haven Express.............. *10:2lam * 7:<5om
Gd. Haven  and Int  Pts.........tl2:58pm t 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee. ..t 5  12pm tl0:llam  
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee  . .tlO:00pm  t 6:40am
Gd. Haven and Chicago........* 7:30pm  *  8:05am
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.

♦Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

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

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.

GRAND Rapids  &  indiana  Railway

May 14,  1899.
Northern  Div.  Leave 

.arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am  t  5:15pm
Trav. City <fc Petoskey............t   1:40pm  tl0:15pm
Cadillac accommodation........t 5:25pm tlO 55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City.. ..tl*:00pm  t   6:3  am 
7:45am train, parlor  car;  11:00pm train, sleep­
ing car.
Southern  Div.  Leave  A m y
Cincinnati..............................t  7:10am  t 9 45pm
F t Wayue 
........................... + 2:0)pm ♦  l  30^«.
Cincinnati............................. * 7 00pm * 6:30 u*
Vicksburg  and Chicago.  — *11:30pm  * 9:0 am 
7:10  am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Clucinna- 
and  parlor  car  to  Chicago;  2:00pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Wayne:  7:00pm  train  has 
sleeping car  to  Cincinnati;  11:30pm  train  has 
coach and sleeping car to Chicago.

Chicago Trains.

T O   C H IC A G O .

from Chicago.

Lv. Grand Rapids...  7  10am  2  0.1pm  *11 30pm
Ar. Chicago...... »...  2  30pm  8  45pm  6 25am
Lv. Chicago....  ....................   3  02pm 
At  Grand Rapids...................   9  45pm 
Trai-1 leaving Grand Raplds.7:10am has parlor 
car;  11:00pm, coach and sleeping car.
Train  leaving  Chicago 3:02pm  has  Pullman 
parlor car;  11:32pm sleeping car.
Muskegon Trains.

GOING WBST.
...  9:00am  2:25 run  7:05: m 
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 

LvG’d  Rapids............ t7:35am tl   15pm t5:40p.
Ar Muskegon. 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon.............f8:10am  tll:45am t4 00pn
ArG’dRapids.............9:30am  12:55pm  5:20pu
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  5:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm. 
tRxcept Sunday.  «Dally.

gome bast.

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

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

w b s t  b o u n d.

DULUTH, South  Shore gad Atlantic 

Railway.
t7:45am 
Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L )tll :10pm
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. M arquette........................  2:50pm
12:45am 
Ar. Nestorla...... '.....................  5:20pm
8:30am
Ar. Duluth,............................................
t6:30pm
Lv. Duluth............................................. 
Ar. N estorla...,...................... tll:15am  2:45am
1:30pm  4:30am
Ar. Marquette....................... 
Lv. Satin Ste. Marie..............  
.....
3:30pm 
Ar  Mackinaw City................ 
8:40pm  11:00am
G. W.  H ib b a r d , Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
K. C. Ovlatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

■ AST  BOUND.

LIGHT  DELIVERY  OR  ORDER  WAGON

*11 32pm
6 30am

M A N K T P P   R  Northeastern  Ry.
1 * l f a l  *  I  A j   1  k v  L k  Best route to Manistee.

Via  C. &  W .  M.  Railway.

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

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association 

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

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

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J .W is l e r ,  Manceloua;  Secretary,  B. 

A .  Sto w e, Grand Rapids.

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

LARGE BIRD  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.

AA»

A

Ä

  STANDARD  CIGAR  CO., 

CLEVELANDOHIO.

Michigan  Hardware  Association

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

Hb n b y  C. Min n ie,  Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 elto n.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association

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

l a n d ;  Treasurer, W m.  C.  K oehn.

Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association

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

Traverse City Badness Men’s  Association
H o l l y ;  Treasurer, C. A. Hammond.

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

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

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

P a r t r id g e.

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

Treasurer, S. J. Hu ppo r d.

SL Johns Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, T h os. B r o m le y;  Secretary,  F r a n k  A. 

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

Perry Business Men’s Association

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

Yale Business Men’s Association 

President, C h as. R o u n d s;  Sec’y, F r a n k  P u tn e y.

Ifa p s   f o f js  
¡•Waj|ii  -Weathef

§ 

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:
100......................  $ 3  00
200........  
4  50
300........................   5 75
400........................   7 00
500........................   8 00
1000.....................   15  00

 

We can  fill  orders on  two hours’ njtice, if necessary, but don’t ask us 
t> fill  an order on such short notice  if you can avoid  it.

T R A D E S M A N   C O M P A N Y ,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Price

N O .  4 0

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

Perfect in  every respect.

T H E   B E L K N A P   W AG ON  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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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?

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our  Money Weight  Computing  Scales,  and  your  policy 
matures  immediately,  in  commencing  to  save losses.

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

illustrated  catalogue  ?nd  discounts.

%

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

*

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With  Beveled  Edge  Plate Glass top $5.00 per foot.

