Volume XVI.

Bohemian
Glass
Flower
vases

Nice variety of 
shades  and 
decorations and 
a splendid 
range of  prices.

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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 
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nomical as well.  Ask  your  dealer  to  show you  Mica  in  the  new white 
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keeping pure goods. 
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public who will  have the  best,  and with whom the 
matter of a cent or so a pound makes no impression. 
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made.  Discriminating  housewives  recognize  its 
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have it.

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Volume  XVI.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JULY 5,1899.

Number 824

DESMAN

The  M e r c a n t il e  A g ency

Established 1841.

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2.  Troubles  of a Dry  Goods  M erchant.
3.  The  Dry  Goods  M arket.
4.  Around th e State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  W oman’s  World.
7.  Women and  W ork.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
10,  G etting the  People.
19.  P rem ature  Celebration.
13.  A   Woman’s  Rank  Account.
14.  Observations  by  a  Gotham  E gg  Man.
15.  Gotham   Gossip.
16.  Cultivation  of the  Mexican  Olive.
17.  Commercial  Travelers.
18.  Drugs  and  Chemicals.
19.  Drug  Price  Current,
30.  Grocery  Price Current.
31.  Grocery  Price  Current.
33.  Hardware.
33.  Thrown  Down.

Hardware  Price  Current.

34.  Gripsack  Brigade 

Business  Wants.

BUSINESS  CONDITIONS.

leading 

The  seasonable slackening  of  business 
activity  on  the  approach  of  midsummer 
causes  a  lessening  in the general volume 
of  transactions,  but  tbe  influence  is  less 
felt  than  usual  in  most  lines. 
In  some 
of  the 
industries  there  is  the 
annually-recurring  question  of  wage  ad­
justments  and  some  are  tbieatened  with 
serious  stoppages.  Many works  had  an­
ticipated  tbe  demands  of  the  workmen 
by  making  such  advances  as  the  con­
ditions  would  warrant,  but  there  are 
enough  who  have  failed  to  do  this  to 
bring  the  wage question into prominence 
as  a  factor  in  the  situation.  Naturally 
the  demands  of  the  workmen  are  for  a 
liberal  advance,  from  20  to  25  per  cent, 
in  some  cases.  Such  works  as  can  use 
the 
for  needed  re­
pairs  will  leave  the  wage question open, 
with  the  men  nominally  on  strike  until 
the  time  comes  for  starting  up  again.

interval  profitably 

The  change 

in  tbe  average  of  stock 
values  has  been  upward  by  force  of  the 
generally  favorable  conditions  which 
have  caused  tbe  transportation  lists  to 
advance  enough  to  more  than  offset  tbe 
decline 
in  tbe  manipulated  industrials. 
Distrust  of  the  latter  has  made  trans­
actions  small  and  prices  have  sagged 
accordingly.  But  tbe  continued  pressure 
for  assured 
investment  has  kept  tbe 
railway  stocks  active,  and  the  advance 
has  been  quite  general.  This  week’s 
operations  are  badly  interfered  with  by 
the  closiug  of  exchanges  over  Monday 
and  the  holiday.  But  foreign  demand 
has  advanced  American  quotations  and 
tbe  resumption  of  business  is with every 
prospect  of  strength  and  activity.  Tbe 
clearing  house  totals  for  the  month  of 
June  show 
its  business  to  be  36.3  per 
cent,  larger  than  last  year  and  51.4  per 
cent,  larger than  in  1892.

The  close  of  the  crop  year  has  wit­
nessed  an  astonishing  movement  of 
wheat  from  tbe  farms.  Western  receipts 
in  June  have  been  23,104,756 bushels, 
against  about  4,300,000  last  year,  and 
less  than  11,000,00 bushels  in  1896,  tbe 
largest  June  record  since  1892,  when  re­
ceipts  were  17,200,000,  and  in  January 
last  only  19,300,000;  and,  excepting  the 
its  corner last 
phenomenal  May  with 
year,  there  has been  no  other  month 
in 
the first half  of  eight  years  with  so large

larger  than 

a  movement  of  wheat  as  that  of  June. 
Exports  for  the  year  have  been  about 
222,000,000  bushels, 
last 
year,  but  slightly  below  tbe  highest  ever 
known.  The  price has  held quite steady.
In  spite  of  threatened  strikes  the  iron 
and  steel  industry  still  maintains  most 
favorable  conditions.  Tbe  works  are 
engaged  for  months  ahead,  many  for 
the  rest  of  tbe  year,  and  are disposed  to 
take  no  more  orders  at  present.  A  few 
important  contracts  for  future  delivery 
are  announced,  including one  from  Rus­
sia  for  180,000  tons  of  rails  and  some 
large  building 
in  Eastern 
cities.  The  change  in  prices  has  been 
mainly 
iron,  which  has  again 
scored  a  remarkable  advance.

contracts 

in  pig 

In  textiles  there  is  much  more  busi­
ness  than  is  usual  at  this  season,  facto­
ries  having  large  orders  ahead  and  be­
ing  impatiently  pressed  for  delivery  of 
some  grades.  A  fall  in  cotton  does  not 
at  this  time  cause  hesitation  in  buyiDg 
goods,  as  so  often  happens,  presumably 
because  tbe  consuming  demand 
is  so 
strong  and  presses  so closely upon stocks 
of  goods. 
It  is  the  general  impression 
that  unsold  textile  stocks  are  decidedly 
smaller  than  usual  and  further  advances 
in  woolens  are  expected  if  speculation 
continues  to  raise  tbe  cost  of  wool. 
Sales  at  the  three  chief  markets  have 
been  36,179,900  pounds  in  four  weeks, 
which  is  far  beyond  the  consumption  in 
Eastern mills,and  it does not appear that 
a  large  proportion  of  tbe  buying 
is  by 
manufacturers.  The  shoe  shops  are  also 
generally  crowded  with  orders  so  far 
ahead  that  owners  hesitate  to  engage 
lest  prices  may 
tbemseives 
change  to  their  disadvantage. 
Last 
week’s  shipments,  108,040  cases,  were 
the  largest  ever  made  in  a  week,  and  in 
four  week’s  shipments—of  400,875  cases 
—have  also  been  the  largest  ever  made 
in  any  month.  Prices  have  not  changed 
for  shoes  or  leather.
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’ 

further, 

Association.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Meat  Dealers’  Association  last 
Thursday  evening  the  Committee  sent 
by  the  Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association  to  bring  the  matter  of  clcs 
mg  tbe  grocery stores  and  meat  markets 
on 
each  Thursday  afternoon  during 
August  was  received  with  open  arms 
and,  at  tbe  conclusion  of  the  discussion 
which  followed  tbe  presentation  of  the 
subject by  the  Committe,  it  was  unan­
imously  decided  to  join  the  grocers 
in 
establishing  a  half  holiday  during  tbe 
time  stated,  providing  tbe  Retail  Gro­
cers’  Association  voted  to  do  the  same 
thing.
Tbe  several  Picnic  Committees  made 
reports,  noting  progress  in  the  work,  all 
of  which  were  accepted.

P.  H il b e r ,  Sec’y.

THE  ADVANCE  IN  IRON.

The  iron  industry  of  the  country  has 
probably  experienced  tbe  most  remark­
able  period  of its  history  during tbe  first 
half  of  tbe  present  year.  Since  Jan.  1 
there  has  been  a  constant  increase  in 
production,  except  that  special  condi­
tions  reduced  the  pig  iron  output  for  a 
few  weeks  in  the  winter.  On  June  1  the 
furnace capacity  was  13,000  tons a week 
greater  than  on  Jan.  1,  but  manufac­
turers’  stocks  and  warrant  stocks  bad 
been  diminished  356,000  tons during  the 
five  months.  An 
increase  in  capacity 
will  probably  be  shown  for  June.

Despite  the  large  increase  in  ihe  fur­
nace  product 
it  has  not  been  equal  to 
tbe  demand,  and  stocks  on  hand  have 
been  drawn  down  to  almost  nothing. 
During  tbe  early  months  of  tbe  year 
there  was  a  slow  advance  in  prices,  but 
in  tbe  spring  they  started  up  violently, 
and  during  tbe  past  six  weeks manufac­
turers  have  sent  them  higher  by  greater 
jumps,  as  the  furnace  capacity  became 
sold  further  into  the  future  and  the  ne­
cessities  of  consumers  appeared  to  in­
crease.  The  most  substantial  advance 
has  occurred  during  the  past  month.

A  special  meeting  of  members  of  the 
New  York  Mercantile  Exchange  was 
held  last  Wednesday  to  direct  attention 
to  tbe  efforts  of  the  National  Dairy 
Union  to  secure  a  revenue  tax  of  10 
cents  a pound  on  oleomargarine,  instead 
of  tbe  present  tax  of  2  cents.  W.  K. 
Boardman,  Vice-President of the  Union, 
in  an  address  tp  the  meeting,  said  that 
thirty-three  states  now  have  laws  pro­
hibiting  the  manufacture  and  sale  of 
oleomargarine  when  it  is coloied yellow, 
but  despite  these  statutes  tbe  manufac­
ture  of  the  article  is  still  growing,  and 
this  year  the  output  will  be  doubled.  In 
some  states  it  is  impossible  to  enforce 
the  prohibitory  law.  Congress  has  no 
power  to  pass  a  national  act  similar  to 
the  state  prohibitory  acts. 
It  can,  how­
ever,  impose  a  tax  on  oleomargarine, 
and 
is  put  up  to  10  cents  a 
pound  it  will  make  the  cost  of  manufac­
turing  oleomargarine  equal  to  the  cost 
of  butter,  and  there  could  then  be  no 
inducement to  sell  the  bogus  product  for 
the  genuine.  The  meeting  adopted  a 
resolution  endorsing  the  objects  of  the 
National  Dairy  Union,  and  recommend­
ing  that  tbe  Representatives in Congress 
from  New  York  State  make  every  effort 
to have  the  federal  tax on oleomargarine 
increased  to  10  cents  a  pound.

if  the  tax 

"G ive  me  liberty  or  give  me death,”  
is  not  the  cry  of  a  woman  seek ing  sepa­
ration  from  her  lord  and  master.  Her 
watchword  is:  “ Give  me  liberty  and 
give  me  alimony!”

A  Cure  For  Blues.

“ When  1  get  utterly  low  spirited,”  
said  the  nervous  man,  “ I  find  a spin  on 
my  wheel  does  me  a  world  of  good.”

“ It  is  the  exercise,”   said  his  friend.
“ I  think  not. 
I  am  so  glad  to  get 
home  alive  that  I  feel  good  all  the  rest 
of  the day. ’ *

There  are  said  to  be  sixty-four  varie­
ties  of  sandwiches—not  counting  the 
railroad-station kind,  some  of  which  are 
edible.

There  are  old  sinners  who  feel  so 
much  at  home  when  they  stray  from 
the  paths  of  virtue  that  they  scarcely
realize  their  transgression.

......—

It  is  hope  that  helps  a  man  to  live  on 
nothing  a  day  while  awaiting  the  un­
remitting  unkindness  of 
friends  who 
have  been  written  to.

If  some  men  would  remember  the 
answers  to  half  the  questions  they  ask, 
they  would  have a  liberal  education.

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2

Dry Poods

Troubles  o f  a  Merchant  Who  Tried 

Farming.
Written for the Tbadesxan.

A  dry  goods  merchant  who  rather 
leads 
in  bis  line  in  the  city  where  be 
does  business  called  me  into  his  office 
one  day  last  week  and  asked  about 
camping  possibilities  at  a  well-known 
resort  many  miles  away.

I  knew  of  a  cottage  which  could  be 
leased  for  a  short  time,  and  so  asked 
him  bow  long  he  wanted  to  remain 
away.

“ Unless  I  change  my  mind,”  was  the 
reply,  “ I ’m going to  stay  until  the  snow 
is  a  rod  deep  on  the  level.”

As he  threw  out  his  arms  in  gestures 
of  disgust,  I  noticed  that  the  palms  of 
his  hands  were  red  and  blistered,  and 
that  his  usually  well-kept  nails  were 
black  and  broken. 
The  end  of  his 
aristocratic  nose  was  also  red  and  in­
flamed,  and  one  eye  was  swollen  half 
shut.

“ What  have  you  been  doing  to  your­
self?”   I  asked,  with  the  freedom  of  an 
old  acquaintance. 
“ You  look  as  if  you 
bad  had  camping  and  fishing  enough 
for  one  season. “

“ Well,  I  haven't  been  out  at  a ll,"  
said  the  meichant,  “ but  I'm  going, 
and  I’m  going  to  stay  until  the  ground 
is  frozen  to  the  depth  of  half  a  mile. 
Yes,  sir,  I'm  going  to  fly  for  my 
life! 
Going  to  disappear  from  the  haunts  of 
men  to  get  out  of  the  sight  of  a  little 
old  acre  of  land—a  stony  acre,  with 
tall  weeds  all  around  the  edges  and  a 
soil  of  clay  bard  enough  to  armor a  bat­
tle  chip.  And I’m not coming  back  un­
til  the  beautiful  snow  is a  rod  deep  on 
the  scene  of  my  sufferings.’ ’

I  thought  for a  moment  that my friend 
had  been  drinking,  but  a  closer  view 
convinced  me  that  be  was  entirely sober 
and  very  much  in  earnest.

“ What’s  up?”   I  asked.'  “ Been 

into 

another  of  your  schemes?”

“ See  here. 

“ I’ve  been  in  search  of  health,"  was 
the  reply,  “ and  the  daily  dose  has  been 
an  acre  of 
land,  taken  three  times  a 
day  with  a  hoe,  with striped  potato  bugs 
on  the  side.  Don’t  I  look  it?”   he  de­
manded,  holding  out  bis  hands  for  my 
inspection. 
I  wore  this 
bide  off  because  I  thought  I  could  im­
prove  on  the  Creator’s  idea  of  an  acre 
lot.  He  left  it  hard,  with  green  stuff  of 
one  sort  scattered  around  on  it,  and  I 
took  a  notion  that  I  wanted  it  soft,  with 
another  kind  of  green  stuff  growing  on 
it  in  rows.  What  does  a  man  get  when 
he goes  up  against  one  of  the great facts 
of  Nature?  Gets  left,  doesn't  he?  Well, 
I  went  up  against  a  sun-browned,  bug- 
haunted,  stone-infested  acre  of  ground, 
and  I  got  left. 
I  wish  I  could  get  a 
large,  coarse  saw  somewhere  and  cut  a 
smooth  trench  all  around  that  acre  and 
grease  it  and push  it  down  into  the eter­
nal  fires  “

“ So  you  went  to  gardening 

last 
spring?’ ’  I  asked  with  a  smile, 
for  I 
have  myself  had  experiences  of  that 
sort.

“ Yes,”   was  the  sad  reply,  " I   got  en­
thusiastic  on  the  subject  of  real  air  and 
fresh  vegetables.  I  have  been  a  haunted 
man  ever  since.  You  see,  I  had  a  hard 
winter  of 
in  the  store  and  my  wife 
got  anxious  about  my health.  Long  be­
fore  the  frost  was  out  of  the  earth  she 
began  talking  about  the  sweet  breath  of 
growing  grass,  the  restorative  proper­
ties  of  golden  sunshine  and  the  healing 
aroma  of  the  damp,  sweet  soil.  She 
talked  and  talked  and  talked  until  I  fell

it 

a  victim, aud  even  became enthusiastic, 
as  I  mentioned  before.  We  figured  on 
selling  enough  early  vegetables  to  pay 
for  the  plowing  and  the  seed,  so  that 
what  we  consumed  wouldn't  cost  us  a 
cent.  See?”

“ And  you  did,  of course?”   I  asked.
“ Say,”   was  the  wrathful  reply,  “ if 
I’d  put 
in  my  time  far  up  in  the  blue 
vaults  of  heaven  pushing  snow  clouds 
over  South  Africa  at  a  cent  a  month 
I 'd  made better  wages.  When  I  bought 
the  land,  the  owner  said  a  little  clay 
bad  been  mixed  with  the  soil  to  give  it 
staying  qualities  and  talked  just  as  if 
he’d  bad  that  part  of  the  earth’s  sur­
face  made  to  order. 
I  found  this  clay 
story  to  be  the  only  true  story  he  tolJ, 
is  there,  and  it  possesses 
for  the  clay 
staying  properties.  When 
the  sweet 
corn  came  up,  or  started  to  come  up, 
rather,  I  had  to  take  sections  of  railway 
iron  and  wedge 
into  the  openings  I 
made  with  an  ax  around  the  tender 
blades.  Otherwise  the  staying  quali­
ties 
in  the  soil  would  have  held  them 
so  fast at the  surface  that  the  ears would 
have  developed  about  six  feet  under 
ground. ”

“ Remarkably  hard  soil,"  I  observed.
“ Hard!”   echoed  the  merchant. 
“ I 
took  my  hoe  down  to  the  barber  shop 
it  boned,  so  I  could  shave  the 
and  got 
weeds  off  the  surface. 
I  tried  to  dig  it 
first,  but  the  land  was  so  hard  that  the 
hoe  doubled  up  like  a  church  in  a  cy­
clone  and  never  made  a  dent  in  the 
ground.  This  was 
in  dry  weather,  of 
course.  When  it  rained  I  went over my 
shoetops 
in  the  healing  aroma  of  the 
damp,  sweet  soil  my  wife  bad  been 
talking  about all the spring,  and  one day 
they  had  to  get  a  stump  pulling  ma­
chine to  lift  me  out, and  I  left  my  shoes 
there  at  that.  If  the  former owner didn’t 
lie  about  the  fertility  of  the  soil,  I’ll 
find  a  stock  of  men's  tan  colored  shoes 
there  next  year. 
I  mean  to  examine 
the agricultural and  patent  office  reports 
this  winter  and  find  out  what  to  use 
in 
fertilizing  a  growing  crop  of  number 
eight  shoes. ’ ’

*1 That  sort of  land  raises good crops, ”  

I  ventured.

“ That  depends,”   was  the  reply,  “ on 
whether the  business  manager  is  next  to 
his  job  and  whether  bis  wife  wants  to 
be  at  the  top  of  the  column  and  next  to 
pure  reading  matter all  the  time.  You 
see,  at  first  my  wife  worked  up  there  to 
encourage  me;  then  she got  interested. 
She  planted  funny  little  rows  of  carrots 
and  beets all  around  in  the  potatoes and 
had  her  own 
ideas  about  raising  pop­
corn.  After  we’d  pried  the  first  tender 
shoots  of  the  corn  out  of  the  earth’s 
adamantine  crust,  I  took  a  man  and  a 
four  horse  team  up  there  to  cultivate  it. 
The  fellow  sat  on  the  fence  a  while and 
made  faces  and  laughed  and  wanted  to 
know  where  my  balloon  was.  He  said 
tbe  horses  would  have  to  be  kept  in  the 
air  most  of  the  time,  being  as  they 
couldn’t  work  all  the  right,  acute and 
obtuse  angles  in  those  rows  without  be­
ing  cut  in  two and  rigged  up  with  two 
I  sent  him  away, 
heads  and  two  tails. 
and  we've  been 
those 
crooked  rows  ever  since. 
I ’ve broken 
my  back  and  the  fourth  commandment 
picking 
blistered  my 
bands  planting  potatoes  and  filled  my 
eyes  with  bugs  and  dust  pulling  weeds, 
and  now  I’m  going  camping.”

toying  with 

strawberries, 

“ Why  don’t  you  give  up the garden?”  

I  asked.

" I   can’t ,”   was  the  reply. 

“ My  wife 
won’t  let  me.  She  says  she ain’t  going 
to  let  any  old  acre  of  ground  triumph 
over her,  and she  goes  up  there  in  a  last

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What you  charge  fills  big  books;  but  what  you 
forget to charge represents a constant loss  and can 
never  fill  one  Dook,  your  pocketbook.  Therefore, 
we ask you to investigate

The  Egry  Autographic 

Register  Systerns,

by which,  through a  manifolding  system,  you  can 
not  forget  to  charge  things  sold.  Satisfactory 
Store  and  Time-saving  Systems  for  store  checks, 
factory orders, requisitions,  shipping  bills,  or  any 
business  requiring  a  copy.  Enquiries  and  orders 
attended to by 

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BAGS

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Crescent 

Atlanta

Now  is  the time  to  buy.  Bags  are scarce  and very firm 
in  price.  They  may  be  higher  in  a  very  few  weeks.

P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS,  Graud  Rapids,  Mich

Suppose

A lady should come into your store and ask if  yo 
had  any  good  spices;  could  you  let  her  hav 
them?  You certainly could if you handled

Northrop Brand Spices

which are  the  best  and  purest  spices  ever  man 
ufactured.  Ask your  jobber  or  any  one  who  ha 
ever handled them.  Manufactured by

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Send 
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3

MUSKEGON
AND RETURN
Every  Sunday
VIA
G .  R.  &   I.
Train leaves Union 
Station at 9.15 a.  m. 
Bridge Street 9.33 a. m. 
Returning leaves 
Muskegon  7.15  p.  m.

year’s  hat  aud  a  grim  smile  and  hoes 
and  pulls  weeds  until  all  the  neighbors 
are  talking  about  what  a  brute  I  am  to 
make  my  wife  work  in  the  field  like  a 
horse. 
I  feel  obliged  to  go  out with 
her  occasionally to keep up appearances, 
and  I’ve  lost  more  than  a  thousand  dol­
lars’  worth  of  trade  this  summer by  be­
ing  away  from  my  place  of  busiuess  so 
much.”

"Is   your  wife  going  camping  with 

you?’ ’  I  asked.

"You  bet  she 

is ,"   was  the  reply. 
"S h e’s  going 
if  I  have  to  put  her  in  a 
packing  case  and  send  her  by  express. 
She’s  got  the  children all worn out work­
ing  in  the  hot  sun,  and  one  of  the  boys 
toljl  me  confidentially  last  night  that  he 
was  going  away  to'be  a  pirate.  As  a 
health  producer  the  land  is  not  a  sue 
cess,  and  when  I  get  back  I'm  going  to 
give  it  away  to  a  man  that  got  me  into 
the  newspaper  business  once. 
I’ve  al­
ways  wanted  to  get  even  with  him. 
Talk  about  your  ambient  air  and  the 
breath  of  new-mown  hay! 
It’s  more 
like  arnica  and  paris  green. 
I  dream 
of  cut  worms  and  potato  bugs,  and when 
I  awake 
in  the  morning  I  feel  as  if  I 
had  been  on  a  bender  for  a  month. 
You’ll  never  catch  me  trying  to  im 
prove  on  the  works of  the Creator  again, 
If  He  wants  that  acre  to  grow  to  weeds, 
it  can  do  so,  for all  me.’ ’

When  I 

left  the  store  he  was  busy 
with  railway  maps  and  guides,  and  the 
next  time  I  called  be  bad  taken  bis  de 
parture,  family  and  all.

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

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

The  demand  for  staple  cottons 

about  the  same  day  after  day,  with 
practically  no  variation  whatever.  Job 
bers  are  buying  a  little,  and  converters 
and  manufacturers,  while  not  heavy 
operators  in  any  sense  of  the  word,  are 
buying  a 
little  more.  Prices  are  ac 
cepted  as  quoted,  and  no questions  are 
now  asked.  Exporters  are  having  ; 
hard  time  to  find  supplies  for their busi 
ness,  and  are  scouring  the  market  for 
goods.  Heavy  brown  sheetings  and 
drills  are  firm 
in  all  makes,  and  light 
weights  share  this  condition.  There  is, 
however,  a 
little  tendency  in  the  buy 
ers’  favor  in  fine  gray  goods,  i-i6c  less 
being  accepted  than  a  week  ago.  Fine 
and  medium  bleached  goods  are  firm 
and  a  moderately  good  business 
is  be 
ing  accomplished.

Prints  and  Ginghams—There  is  a  fai 
business  coming  forward  for  fall  prints 
and  dark  fancy  calicoes.  The  call  i 
for the  several  grades,  giving preference 
to  no  one  apparently.  There  has  been 
particularly  good  demand  for  whites  in 
all  fabrics,  but  particularly  for  white 
lawns,  and  it  is  reported  that  all  of  the 
leading  white  goods  departments  have 
more  orders  than  they  can  possibly hope 
to  fill.  The  jobbers  are  now  beginning 
their annual  clearing  out  sales,  and  th 
week  and  next  are  likely  to be  the  busi 
est  of  the  season.  Domestic  agents  do 
not  expect  to  receive  duplicate orders 
quite  as  early  as  this,  but  are  turning 
their  attention  to  the  preparation 
styles  for  1900. 
It  is  expected  that  the 
various  fabrics  known  collectively  as 
outing  flannels  will  be  used  extensively 
for  suits  and 
jackets  for  the  spring  of 
1900.

Dress  Goods—With  the  exception  of 
a  few  of  the  large  operators  who  have 
made  very  fair  provision 
their 
wants,  buyers  have  yet  to  purchase  a 
very  considerable  proportion  of 
the 
goods  they  will  require.  As  a  rule  the 
mills,  both  at  home  and  abroad,  are

for 

quite  well  engaged,  and  manufacturers 
are  making  the  most  of  the  respite 
given  them  by  buyers  to  prepare  them­
selves  for  the  supplementary  orders  yet 
to  come  forward.  The  distribution  of 
homespuns,  plaids, 
crepons,  serges, 
cashmeres,  Venetian  and  kersey  cloak­
ings  goes  forward  in  a  fair  way,  prices 
everywhere  being  very  strong.  The  out­
ing  flannel  is  a  fabric  that  is  receiving 
some  consideration,  and 
looks  as 
though  this  class  of  goods  will  come  in­
to  use  during  the  present  summer  sea­
son  for  tailored  stfits  for  the  fair  sex, 
and  houses 
in  a  position  to  furnish 
handsome  lines  immediately  should  be 
able to  work  off  a  good  sized  yardage  of 
these  attractive,  hot-weather goods.  It  is 
said  that  the  coming  spring  season  will 
see  some handsome  lines  of  outing  flan­
nels brought  out.

it 

Underwear— There  has  been  no differ­
ence 
in  the  demand  for  duplicates  of 
low  grade  fleeced  underwear,  even  al 
though  the  first  deliveries  were  not  up 
to  the  samples  sold  from.  There  has 
been  quite a  lively  time,however,among 
the agents trying  to  get  the mills  to sup­
ply  goods  that  were  up  to  standard. 
This  is  the  only  way  in  which  they  can 
hope  to  secure  good  orders  next  season 
for  this  or  any  other  lines  they  may 
make. 
If  the  buyers  are  given  stuff  so 
nferior  that  they  can  not  use  it  they 
will  not  attempt  to  do  business  with  the 
same house another  season.
Carpets— Ingrains  are 

receiving 

larger  share  of  attention,  and 
much 
some of  the  best  makes  are  likely  to  be 
advanced  soon. 
It  looks  now  as  though 
many  of  the  carpet  mills  bad  already 
booked  sufficient  business  to  keep  them 
busy  for  several  weeks.  The average 
manufacturer,  while  he  might  have 
wished  for  higher  prices  for  the  initial 
orders,  begins  to  realize  that  the  wave 
of  real  improvement  has  at  last  struck 
the  carpet 
it  will  be 
more  difficult  for  the  buyers  to  obtain 
goods  at  opening  prices.  Ail  material 
is  advancing,  and  with  the  demand  for 
goods  constantly increasing  it  is a favor 
able time  for  all  lines  to hold for  higher 
prices.

industries,  and 

Lace Curtains—Lace curtains continue 
to  receive  a  very  fair  share  of  attention 
for this  season  of  the  year,  and  later  on 
the  trade  anticipate  the  largest  business 
since  this  line  became  a  feature  among 
American  manufacturers.

The  Carpet  Trust.

We  are  informed  by  parties  in  a  posi 
tion  to  know  that  efforts  to  complete  the 
organization  of  a  carpet  trust  have  been 
deferred  until 
later  in  the  season,  as 
Messrs.  Flint  &  Co.,  the  promoters,  do 
not  consider  the  present  time  as  favor 
able  as  a  later  one. 
It  is  claimed  that 
the  organization  can  easily  obtain  con 
trol  of  a  sufficient  number  of  the  larger 
mills,  who  have  previously  given  op 
tions,  and  when  the  effort  is  renewed 
later,  it  will  be  carried  through  to 
complete  success,  notwithstanding  the 
many 
criticisms  of  the  promoters' 
efforts.

It  is  intended  eventually  to  organize 
the  rug  manufacturers  into  a  trust,  first 
as  a  separate  organization  and  later  ab 
sorb  it  with  the  general  carpet  trust, 
is  claimed  that  ample  capital  stands 
ready  for  the  underwriting  of  the  trust 
when  Messrs.  Flint  &  Co.  are  prepared 
to  push  it.

is  the  opinion  of  several  carpet 
manufacturers,  however,  that  the  trust 
is  a  long  way  off  in  the  future.  They 
believe  that  with  increasing  prosperity 
there  is  less  occasion  for  trusts,  and that 
the  manufacturers  generally  are  work 
ing  more 
in  harmony  for  advanced 
prices,  which  will  permit  of  a  living 
profit  to the  individual  manufacturer.

It 

IT’S  A  TROTTER,  STANDARD  BRED  AND  REGISTERED

SWEET;  RICH. 

$35  PER M. 

SEND MAIL ORDER.

THURLOW  W EED  CIGAR.  $70.00 per M .  TEN CENTS STRAIGHT.
CLEVELAND,*

AAS ò A aNATA^éNT  STANDARD  CIGAR  CO.,

OHIO.

Vinkemulder  Company

Jobbers of

Fruits  and  Vegetables

This represents a small comer of our establishment, as it appears twice 
a day— morning and afternoon—after receiving our fresh supplies  from  the 
market gardeners and  fruit growers, to meet the requirements of our numer­
ous customers. 
If you are not on our  list  of  patrons, and  wish  to  do  busi­
ness with the leading house in the fruit  and  produce  line,  we  invite  you 
to write for our weekly price list and give us  your  standing  order  for  daily 
or weekly shipments.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Belding—John  Rek,  of  Lansing,  has 
in  Fisk 

taken  a  position  as  clerk 
Bangs’  drug  store.

Ann  Arbor— Dewitt  C.  Hathaway, 
who  is  employed  at  the  Forest  avenue 
grocery,  and  Miss  Lizzie  Goodrich,  of 
Caro,  were  recently  married  at  the  par­
sonage  of  the  Methodist  church,  by  the 
pastor.

Alma—Arthur  W.  Brock,  Jr.,  has  en­
tered  the  drug  store  of  Sharrar  &  Mul- 
holland  and  will  endeavor  to acquire  the 
art  of  mixing  and  dispensing  drugs.
Sparta—Arthur  Gillett  has  taken  a 
in  the  drug  store  of  Allen  B. 

position 
Way.

Three  Oaks— Martin  Reenders  has  re­
in  the 

signed  his  position  as  clerk 
general  store  of  H.  L.  Hess.

Benton  Harbor—Chas.  Francis  has 
taken  a  clerkship  in  the  wholesale  gro­
cery  house  of  Kidd,  Dater  &  Co.

Petoskey— B.  C.  Levinson  has  a  new 
clerk  in  her  clothing  department  in  the 
person  of  W.  J.  Woodin,  of  St.  Louis.
Ironwood— F. ,P.  Rutherford,  of  Hur­
ley,  has  taken  a  position  with  the  Iron- 
wood  Cash  Grocery  Co.

Saline—Otto  Bliss 

is  now  clerk  at 
Unterkircher’s  pharmacy,  Fred  Koch 
having  accepted  a  position  with  C.  A. 
Sauer,  at  Ann  Arbor.

Allegan— Frank  Auer  has  taken  a 

position  with  J.  G.  Stein,  the  grocer.

Mancelona— Roy  Louden,  of  Traverse 
City,  is  now  employed  behind  the  coun­
ter  at  P.  Medalie’s  general  store.

St.  Joseph—Harry  Dobberthein, 

the 
genial  clerk 
in  Zekind’s  dry  goods 
store,  and  Miss  Katharine  Morelock, 
both  estimable  young  people  of  St.  Jos­
eph,  were mayied  last  Wednesday  even­
ing.

Bronson—W.  H.  McKinney  has  taken 
in  A.  J.  Ashbreck's  diug 

a  position 
store.

Plausible.

Tommy— Paw,  what  do  they  put  water 

Mr.  Figg— To  soak the investors with, 

in  stock  for?

my  son.

When  a  man 

should  never  place  much  confidence 
bis  companion.

is  beside  himself,  he 
in 

4

MICHIGAN  T R A D E S M A N

Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Saginaw— N.  J.  Fuebr,  grocei,  has 

removed  to  Turner.

Saginaw—T.  W.  Denton  has  sold  his 

grocery  stock  to  Smith  Bros.

Ann  Arbor— Miller  &  Pray  have  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Miller  & 
Smith.

Traverse  City— M.  E.  Ellis  succeeds 
in  the  confectionery 

Nelson  Spichiger 
business.

Cassopolis—The  meat  firm  of  Tase  & 
Black  has  been  dissolved,  Mr.  Tase 
succeeding.

Hemlock—Frank  A.  Schulte  &  Co. 
in  the  drug  and 

succeed  Wm.  Pohl 
grocery  business.

Delton— H.  O.  Lester  &  Co.  are clos­
ing  out  tbeir  grocery  stock  and  will  re­
tire  from  business.

Clarksville—Will  M.  Clark,  of  Sara­
in  the  drug 

nac,  will  shortly  engage 
business  at  this  place.

Ovid—Hurd  &  Stewart  have  taken 
possession  of  the  drug  stock  recently 
purchased  of  Ed.  Beebe.

West  Millbrook— Pattison  &  Harrison 
have  engaged  in  the  general  merchan­
dise business  at  this  place.

Ann  Arbor— M.  S.  Freeman  & Co.  are 
closing  their  bazaar  store  at  this  place, 
shipping  the  stock  to  Central  Lake.

Clio— C.  H.  May  &  Co.  have  pur­
chased  the  private  bank  of  J.  L.  Cunv 
&  Co.  and  consolidated 
it  with  their 
own  bank.

McBain—S.  A.  Howey  has  sold  his 
furnituie  and  hardware  stock  to  Slocum 
Bros.,  of  Shepherd.  The  purchase  also 
included  store  buildings.

Hudson— F.  G.  Stowell  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  Frank  Horton  in  the  shoe 
stock  of  Stowell  &  Hor:on  and  will 
continue  the  business  in  his  own  name.
Parshallville— L.  E.  Smith  &  Co. 
have  sold  their  general  merchandise 
stock  to  Glaspie  &  Bravener,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same 
loca­
tion.

Ypsilanti—Wm.  H.  Smith  has  re­
signed  bis  position  as  instructor  in  the 
Pontiac  high  school  to  engage  in  the 
drug  business  with  his 
father,  John 
Frank  Smith.

Dowagiac— L.  N.  Smith  has  sold  his 
hardware  stock 
to  F.  B.  Clark,  of 
Lowell,  who  will  continue  the  business 
under  the  style  of  the  Clark  Hardware 
Co.,  Limited.

Benton  Harbor— Henry  Siles,  of  Chi­
cago,  has  purchased  three  lots  on  Mc­
Allister  avenue  of  E.  D.  Moore  and will 
erect  a  meat  market  and  grocery  store 
on  the  property.

Ionia—Geo.  B.  Fleming, 

for  many 
years  employed  in  the  grocery  store  of 
W.  C.  Snell,  has  purchased  the  interest 
of  his  partner  and  will  continue  the 
business  in  his  own  name.

Bad  Axe—F.  W.  Hubbard  & Co.  have 
about  completed  arrangements  for open­
ing  a  new  bank  in  Kinde.  Plans  have 
been  prepared  for  a  new  building  and 
the  work  of  construction  will  soon  be 
commenced.

Traverse  City—James  Sullivan,  who 
recently  sold  his  meat  market  on  Front 
street to  A.  E.  Bingham,  has  purchased 
the  South  Side  meat  market  of  George 
Childs  and  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  location.

Albion—A.  E.  Richter  and  John  A. 
Wilson  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under  the  style  of  Richter  &  Wilson  to 
in  the  dry  goods  business  as 
engage 
soon  as  the  store  building 
leased  by 
them  can  be  remodeled.

Manton—W.  Elevier has  sold  bis gen­
eral  stock  to  Geo.  M.  Brooks,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same  loca­
tion.  Mr.  Elevier  has  leased  a  store 
building  at  Pontiac  and  will  engage  in 
general  trade  there  about  July  15.

Calumet— C.  J.  Wickstrom,  J.  A. 
Larson,  H.  Erickson  and  I.  Niemi 
have  organized  a  slock  company,  with 
a  capital  stock  of  $25,000,  to  engage 
in 
the  general  merchandise  business  under 
the  style  of  Wickstrom,  Niemi  &  Co.

Howell—Winton  B.  Fisbbeck  closed 
bis  clerkship  last  Saturday  night  at  C. 
A.  Goodnow’s and  is  now  doing  busi­
ness  for  himself  as  Fishbeck  &  Son’s. 
Mr.  Fishbeck has  been  employed  by  the 
general  merchandise  firm  of  Hickey  & 
Goodnow  ten years and was an active and 
efficient  clerk.

interest 

Holland—A.  VanPutten has  purchased 
the 
in  the  tub  factory  of  A. 
VanPutten  &  Co.,  formerly  owned  by 
John  VanDort  and  William  Venhuizen. 
The  members  of  the  new  firm  are  A. 
VanPutten  and  James  DeYoung,  who 
will  continue  the  business  under  the 
same  style  as  before.

Barryton—J.  E.  Geiger,  of  the  furni­
ture  and  hardware  firm  of  Wilson,  Gei­
ger  &  Co.,  was  married 
last  week  to 
Miss  Jeanette  Edgar,  of"  Lakeview, 
who  for  the  past two  years  has  occupied 
the  position  of  book-keeper  and  ste­
nographer  for  the  general  merchandise 
and 
lumbering  firm  of  Plato,  Renwick 
&  Co.

stock  has  been 

Saginaw—The  corporate  style  of  the 
wholesale  grocery  corporation  known 
as  Melze,  Smart & Co.  has been changed 
to  the  Smart  &  Fox  Co.,  and  the  capi­
tal 
from 
$50,000 to $100,000.  The  jobbing  drug 
business  which  was  established  in  con­
nection  with  the  house  about  a  year  ago 
will  be  continued  under the name  of  the 
Saginaw  Valley  Drug  Co.

increased 

Alden—The  general  store  heretofore 
conducted  under  the  style  of the  R.  W. 
Coy  Estate  will  hereafter  be  known  as 
the  Coy  Mercantile  Co.,  Limited.  The 
new  company  was  organized  July  1, 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $8,181,  all  paid 
in,  and  the  business  w ill4>e  managed 
by  Cbas.  H.  Coy.  The  business  was  es­
tablished 
in  1870  by  the  late  R.  W. 
Coy,  who  carried  it  on  in  bis  own  name 
until  his  death  in  1896.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—The  Chippewa 
Hardware  Co.,  Limited,  is  the  succes­
sor to  the  old  Ferguson  Hardware  Co., 
Limited.  The  capital  stock  of  the  new 
company 
is  $25,000,  all  paid  in.  The 
officers  and  directors  are:  Chairman, 
F.  B.  Chesbrough;  Treasurer,  Geo.  E. 
C.  Seaman ;  Secretary,  C.  W.  Given ; 
Business  Manager,  F.  M.  VanLiew. 
All  of  the  gentlemen  were  identified 
with  the  old  company,  and  are  well  and 
favorably  known  and  responsible  busi­
ness  men.

Benton  Harbor—The premium,  stamp 
and  coupon  business  will  be  ended  in 
this  city  after  August  1.  The  merchants 
of  Benton  Harbor  so decided  at a  large­
ly  attended  meeting  last  Friday  even­
ing.  An  agreement  was  drawn  up  pro­
viding  that  no  trading  stamps,  silver 
checks  or  any  other  gift  enterprises 
should  be  used  for  a  period  of  one  year 
from  August  1,  1899.  The  merchants 
who  were  present  signed  the  paper  and 
the  chairman  appointed  a  committee  of 
C.  L.  Young,  C.  J.  Peck,  and  J.  T. 
Owens  to  wait on  the  remainder  of  the 
city  merchants.  The  gentlemen  present 
were  heartily  in  favor of  the  new  plan 
of  abandoning  a  useless business and the 
local  papers  were  complimented  for  the 
stand  they  had  taken  in  the  matter.  A

meeting  will  no doubt  be  called later for 
the  purpose  of  forming  a  permanent 
business  men’s  organization.  All  of 
the  names  of  the  business  men  who 
signed  the  agreement  will  be  published 
when  the  list  is  completed.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Bay  City—Chas.  Schweikle  succeeds 
Scbweikle  Bros,  as manufacturers of  and 
wholesale  and detail  dealers  in  tobacco 
and  cigars.

Ithaca—The  Ithaca  Roller  Mills  Co. 
has  been 
incorporated  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $20,000  by  W.  F.  Thompson,
E.  W.  Kellogg,  J.  B.  Crawford  and  A,
E.  Pinney.

Detroit—A.  Posselius  & Co.,  furniture 
manufacturers  on  Gratiot  avenue,  are 
figuring  with  the  citizens of  Plymouth 
to  remove  tbeir  factory  to  that  place. 
The  firm  employs  about  200  men  and 
asks  for  a  bonus  of  $25,000  from  the 
village.

Detroit—The  Royal  Separator  Co.  has 
been  incorporated  with  $25,000  capital, 
all  paid 
in,  to  manufacture  and  sell 
cream  separators.  The stockholders  are 
George  H.  Paine,  1,999  shares;  Fred  J. 
Blakely,  50  shares;  Richard  C.  Rich­
ards,  1  share.

Detroit—The  Steel  Bath  Manufactur­
ing  Co.  has  filed  renewed  articles  of  as­
sociation.  The capital stock  is  $100,000, 
of  which  $67,000  is  paid  in.  The  in­
corporators  are  George  Booth,  A.  D. 
Benjamin  and  F.  D.  Benjamin,  of  To­
ronto,  and  W.  E.  Booth  and  C.  H. 
Booth,  of  Detroit.

Detroit-----The  Rainbow  Color  &
Chemical  Co.  has  filed  articles  of  asso­
ciation  with  the  County  Clerk. 
Its  ob­
ject  is  to  manufacture,  purchase  and 
sell  acids,  chemicals,  colors  and  dye 
stuffs.  The  capital  stock 
is  $10,000. 
The 
incorporators  are  Theodore  H. 
Eaton,  Benjamin  F.  Geiger,  David  T. 
Gray  and  Rufus  W.  Clark,  Jr.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium—The  advance  reported 

last 
week  is  well  maintained  and  the  article 
may  be  called  firm,  on account of higher 
prices  in  primary  market.

Morphine— An  advance  is  looked  for, 
but  has  not  yet been  announced by man­
ufacturers.

Quinine— Outside holders  are  selling 

under  manufacturers’  prices.

Cinchonidia— Has 

again  advanced 

and  now  costs  the  same  as  quinine.

Carbonate  Ammonia— Has  been  ad­

vanced  by  manufacturers.

Aqua  Ammonia— Is  also  higher.
Glycerine—One  manufacturer has  ad­
vanced  his  price  %c  per pound.  Others 
are  likely  to  follow.

Oil  Pepermint— Has  advanced  under 
good  demand  and  the  prospects  of  a 
light crop.

Roots— Golden  seal 

is  lower,  on  ac­
count  of  the new  crop  coming  into  mar­
ket. 

Ipecac  has  declined.

Linseed  Oil—has  declined  ic  per  gal­

lon.
Through  Sleeping  Car  Detroit 

to 

Montreal.

On  June  19 the  Grand  Trunk  Railway 
System  placed  in  service  a  new  line  of 
Pullman  wide  vestibule  sleeping  cars 
between  Detroit  and  Montreal,  leaving 
Detroit  at  12  noon,  reaching  Montreal 
7:20 a.  m.  next  morning.

His  Heavy  Load.

Little  Johnnie—You  don’t  look  like 

a  strong  man.

Mr.  Billings— I’m  not;  why?
Little  Johnnie— Papa  said  the  other 
day  that  you  were  carrying  half  the 
town  on  your  books.

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5

Grand  Rapids  Qossip

The  Produce  Market.
in 

Apples—Southern 

stock 

crates  commands  50c.

l/i  bu. 

Beet  Greens—35c  per bu.
Beets— 15c  per  doz.
Butter—Receipts continue to decrease, 
in  consequence  of  which  dairy  grades 
have  moved  upward  a notch  during  the 
past  week.  Dealers find  no  difficulty  in 
obtaining  14c  for  fancy  dairy  and  fac­
tory  creamery  at  17c 
is  in  better  de­
mand.

Cabbage— 5o@6oc  per  doz.,  according 

to  size.

Carrots— ioc  per  doz.
Celery—20c  per  doz.
Cherries—On  account  of  the  scarcity 
of  other  fruits,  the  demand  for  cherries 
is  strong,  sour  varieties  having  ad­
vanced  to  $i.75@2.

Cucumbers— 3o@35c  per  doz.
Currants—6o@75c  for  16  qt.  crate, 

either  red  or  white.

Eggs—Candled  stock  fetches  I2}^@ 
13c,  while  case  count  stock  is  handled 
on  the  basis  of  lie.  Not  nearly  enough 
eggs  are  coming  in  to  meet  the  con­
sumptive  demands  of  the  market. 

Gooseberries—75c  per  16 qt.  crate. 
Green  Onions— io@i5c 

for  Silver 

Skins.
Honey— Amber  stock  is  in  fair  supply 
and  demand  at  ioc.  Dark  honey  is  in 
rather  limited  demand  at  8c.

Lettuce—40c  per  bu.  for  curly;  50c 

per  bu.  for  bead.

Muskmelons—$1  per  doz.  for  Little 

Gems.
Louisiana,  $2  per  sack. 
$1.25  per  crate.

Onions—Californias,  $2  40  per  sack. 
Bermudas, 

Peas— Marrowfats  command  60c  per 
bu.  The  crop  is  large  and  the  quality 
fine.

Pieplant—60c  for basket  of  50  lbs. 
Potatoes—Early Ohios are now in  mai- 

Poultry—Broilers  are 

ket,  commanding  55@6$c  per  bu.
lower, 

local 
dealers  having  reduced  their  paying 
I4@ i 8c.  Fowls  are  higher, 
prices  to 
Spring  ducks  are 
commanding  8c. 
higher  and 
in  ac*ive  demand  at  11c. 
Old  ducks  are  stronger  and  in  better 
demand  at  7@8c.  Geese  are not wanted 
at  any  price.  Turkeys  are  lower,  find­
ing  an  outlet  at  8@qc.  Squabs  are  in 
good  demand  at  $1.50  per  doz.  Pigeons 
are  in  fair  demand  at  60c  per  doz. 
Radishes— ioc  per  doz.  bunches. 
Raspberries—Owing  to  the  large  de­
mand  and  the  unfavorable  weather, 
prices  have  advanced  very  materially 
during  the  past  week.  Red  berries 
command  $i.25@i-4<>  per  12  qt.  case 
and  black  fetch  $1. io@i.25  per  16 qt. 
case.

Spinach—40c  per  bu.
Squash—75c  per  bu.  box.
Tomatoes—$1  per  4  basket  crate. 
Turnips—5c  per  doz.
Watermelons— Dealers  are  meeting 
with  an  unprecedented  demand for stock 
on  the  basis  of  15c  for  dinkys  and 
i8@ 
20c  for 22s  and  24s.  The  scarcity  and 
high  prices  of  small  fruits  naturally 
tend  to  stimulate  the  demand.

Wax  Beans—$1 @1.25  per  bu.  The 
crop  is  not  so  large  as  was  anticipated, 
but  the  quality  of  receipts  is  fine.

Whortleberries-----Receipts  thus  far
have  been  fine  in  quality,  both  size  and 
flavor  being  above  the  average.  Deal­
ers  look  forward  to  a  profitable  season 
on  the  basis  of  $2@3  per  bu.,  the  ruling 
price  being  $2.75  per  bu.  or $i.35@i.5° 
per  16  qt.  crate.

The  Grain Market.

Harvest  has  begun 

in  the  Southern 
States  and  has  progressed  as  far  as 
Ohio,  middle  of  Indiana,  etc.  The 
quality,  as  predicted,  is  excellent.  We 
received  a  sample  of  new  red  wheat 
which  was  fine.  As  stated,  the  quality 
is  good,  but  the  quantity  is  deficient. 
While  in  some  sections advices  come of 
wheat  having  gained 
in  the  last two 
weeks,  other  sections  claim  a  deteriora­
tion,  so  the  fact  remains  that  the  win­
ter  wheat  crop  will  be  deficient  150,- 
000,000  bushels 
in  the  United  States.

France  will  fall  short  20,000,000 bush­
els,  Russia  is  almost  an  entire  failure, 
while  Hungary  is  also  short.

The  last  reports  from  our own  State 
are  not  any  better.  In  the  Southern  four 
tiers  of  counties,  where  we  harvest  85 
per cent,  of  the  crop,  the  State  report  is 
only  49  per  cent,  of  a  crop.  In the  great 
Northwest  they  are  having  rather  damp 
weather  for  the growing  crop  and with a 
smaller acreage  in the  spring  wheat  belt 
the  shortage  will  be  another  125,000,000 
bushels.  St'U  wheat  keeps 
low.  The 
influence  is  the  large  receipts. 
bearish 
The  visible  in  wheat  made  an 
increase 
of  4  500,000  bushels.  However,  this 
is 
not  all  an 
increase,  as  there  are  three 
points  added  to  the  list  of  grain  centers 
— New  Orleaus,  Port  Arthur  and  a  point 
in  Manitoba.  If  we  take  only  the  places 
of 
increase 
would  be  only  1,700,000  bushels. 
So 
the  increase  to-day  for  ten  days  instead 
of  seven  days  is  net  extraordinary;  still 
it  was  enough  to  start  the  bulls  on  a  run 
while  the  bears  improved  their  oppor­
tunity and forced prices down  However, 
we  may  state  that  cash  as  well as futures 
is  about  the  same  as  last  week.

last  week’s  report, 

the 

Corn,  owing  to the  unfavorable  weath­
er,  keeps  strong  and 
it  wouli  not  be 
surprising  to  see  some  rallying  from 
present  low  level.  We  might  add  that 
in  our  report  of  last  week  we  made  an 
error  by dropping  a  cipher;  we  said  the 
corn  crop  woul i  be  2,000,000.000  bush­
els,  while  it  read  200,000,000  bushels— 
quite  a  difference.

Oats  are  rather  weak,  owing  to the 
large 

fine  stand  and  the  anticipated 
crop.

Rye 

is  weakening,  as  was  expected. 
However,  it  is  higher and  stronger  to­
day  than  we  thought  it  would  be.

Local  and  domestic  demand  for  flour 
has  been  very  good,  while  foreign  bids, 
owing  to  the  very  low  freight  rates  the 
exporters  get  on  wheat  against  flour, 
had  to  be  declined.  Here  is  a  nice 
thing—flour  has  to  pay  about  7c  per  100 
pounds  more  than  wheat  and  our  Inter­
state  Commerce  Commission  stands  by 
and  claims  it  can  not  correct  this  evil. 
Why  the  wheat  should  have  this  advan­
tage  is  more  than  I  am  able  to  explain. 
Could  the^ytpiller  get  the  same  rate  on 
flour  as  the-  grain  dealer  gets  on  his 
wheat,  the  mills  could  run  almost  full 
capacity  throughout  the  United  States.
Mill  feed,  although  there  is  plenty  of 
good  pasturage,  still  keeps  up  and  or­
ders  have  to  be  turned  down because the 
mills  can  not  turn  out  enough  to  supply 
the  demand.

Receipts  during  June  were  293 cars  of 
wheat,  65  cars of  corn,  39 cars  of  oats, 
2  cars  of  rye  and  16 cars  of  hay.

Receipts  during  the  week  were  83 
cars  of  wheat,  12  cars of  corn,  6 cars  of 
oats,  1  car  of  rye  and  4  cars  of  bay.

The  mills are  paying  70c  for  wheat.
C.  G.  A.  V o ig t.

L.  W.  Wolcott,  as  attorney  for  the 
Kent  Furniture Co  ,  has  offered  the  un­
secured  creditors  of  that  institution  40 
per  cent,  cash  in  full  of  their  claims. 
The  offer  is  conditional  on  all  of  the 
creditors accepting  the  compromise. 
It 
is  understood  that 
in  the  event  of  the 
offer  being  accepted,  the  company  will 
be  reorganized.

Shields,  Peabody  &  Co.  have  en­
gaged  in  the  gorcery  business  at  Leroy, 
purchasing  their  stock  from  the  Ball- 
Barnbart-Putman  Co.

L.  D.  Randall  succeeds  C.  W.  Bacon 
in  the  confectionery  business  at  5^3 
South  Division  street.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars— Raw  sugars  are  weaker  and 
have  declined  yic.  This  makes  the 
price  of  96  deg.  test  centrifugals  4>^c 
and  89  deg.  test  muscovadoes  4c.  There 
has been  no  change  in  the  price  of  re­
fined  since  the  reduction  of last Wednes­
day,  which  was  a  great  surprise  and 
caused  quite  an  unsettled  feeling,  some 
claiming  that  there 
likelihood  of 
there being  a  reduction  on  hard  sugars, 
but  others  say  that  there  will  not  be  any 
break 
in  values  of  hard  grades.  The 
total  stock  of  sugar  in  the  United  States 
is  281,263  tons,  as  against  317,722  tons  a 
year  ago.

is 

Canned  Goods—There  is  an  unusually 
brisk  demand  for  about  all  varieties  of 
staple  canned  goods.  Sales  for  future 
delivery  of  all  varieties  have  been  far 
in  excess  of  any  previous  season  in  the 
history  of  the  trade 
Spot  trading  is 
limited  to  small  orders  to  fill  broken 
assortments.  The  supply  of  all  standard 
grades  is  small,  as  compared  with  pre­
vious  seasons  at  this time,  and the pros­
pect  for  an  advance  in  price  on  many 
varieties  is  encouraging.  According  to 
the  present  outlook,  tomatoes,  corn  and 
fruits  will  be  the  leaders  in  the  canned 
goods  market  during  the  next  thirty 
davs.  There  is  a 
larger  demand  for 
California  canned  fruits  in  this  market 
than  for  several  years.  This 
is  largely 
due to  the  shortage  of  the  peach  crop  in 
this  section.  There 
is  no  change  in 
price  of  either  corn  or  tomatoes,  but  the 
markets  are  very  firm  and  stocks  are 
well  cleaned  up.  Peas  are  very  firm, 
with  practically  no  old  stock  to  be  had.
It  is  now  claimed  that  the  pack  in  the 
Western  States  will  be  an  average  one 
and  will  partially  make  up  for the short­
age 
in  the  East.  With  the  closing  of 
the  pineapple  season  dealers  report  an 
increasing 
in 
prices on  the  canned  product.  Packers 
are  disposed  to advance quotations  and 
a  few  will  be  unable  to  meet  their or­
ders.  Since  packing  began,  the  price 
has  been  raised  fully  25  per  cent,  over 
the  opening  prices.  The  market  on 
string  beans 
is  firm,  with  an  advance 
of  ioc  per  dozen  and  the  probability  of 
a  further  advance.  The  sardine  mar­
ket  is  very  firm.  Packers  say  the  actual 
cost  of  packing  is $3  per  case  for  either 
oils or  mustards,  on  account  of  the  ad­
vance  in  the  price  of  all  raw  material. 
The  market 
is  very  firm,  with  an  ad­
vance  expected  daily.  The  demand  is 
very  good.

to  firmness 

tendency 

Dried  Fruit—The  dried  fruit  market 
has  been  generally  quiet  during the  past 
week.  There  has been,  however,  quite 
a  little  enquiry  for apricots.  As  a  large 
share  of  the  ’cots  are  cured  and  ready 
for  the  market  during  the  latter  part  of 
July  and  from  then  on  through  August 
and  September,  comparatively  few  are 
now  to  be  had,  and the  effort  to  fill  early 
orders  has  had  a  tendency  to  stiffen 
prices and  some  very  high  prices  have 
been  named,  but  until  driers  see  fit  to 
modify  their  quotations  probably  no 
business  will  be  done.  Exporters  are 
sending  in  numerous  enquiries,  but  so 
far no  business has  resulted.  The  de­
mand  from  canners  has  ceased  and  the 
growers  must  either  dry  their  fruit  or 
lose  it.  The  tendency 
is  to  create  a 
slight  weakness  and  will  probably  cause 
driers  to  modify  their  views  regarding 
prices.  Prunes  continue  quiet.  Trade 
at  this  time  seldom  or  never  amounts  to 
much,  but  will  probably  increase before 
the  middle  of  July.  The  prospect  for  a 
liberal  crop  continues  encouraging,  so 
far  as  California 
is  concerned.  The 
raisin  situation  is  unchanged,  trade  be­

ing  quiet  at  previously  announced 
prices.  Advices  from  Europe  state that 
the  Sultana  crop  will be  probably  30,000 
tons,  somewhat  larger  than  last  year, 
and,  according  to  present  indications, 
of  considerably  better quality.  Recent­
ly  much  has  been  said  about  the  reten­
tion  bill  which  has  just  become  a  law 
i in  Greece.  Under  this  law  the  govern­
ment  is  empowered  to  retain  from  10  to 
25  per  cent,  of  the  currant  crop  of  the 
country.  This 
is  done  with  an  idea  of 
preventing  a  demoralization  of  prices 
during  an  unusually 
large  crop  year. 
The  surplus  stock  thus  retained  is  sold 
by  the  government 
for  winemaking 
purposes  and  the  farmers  who  have  fur­
nished  the  surplus  share,  pro  rata,  in 
the  proceeds.  Under  the  old  system  the 
government  could  retain  but 
15  per 
cent,  of  the  entire  crop.  The  crop  this 
year 
is  estimated  to  be  a  large  one, 
about  equal  to  the  present  crop  of  160,- 
000 tons.  The  world’s  consumption  of 
this  article  has  increased quite material­
ly  the  past two  or  three  years. 
In  other 
is  no  change  of  moment. 
lines  there 
Dealers  expect  but 
little  trade  during 
the  next  two  weeks,  as  it  will  be  light 
until  the  present  receipts  of  fresh  fruits 
are  gone.

Molasses  and Syrups—The demand  for 
is  fair,  with 

both  molasses  and  syrups 
no  change  in  prices.

Nuts—Late  advices  indicate  that  fil­
berts are  quite  likely  to  rule  high.  The 
estimated  stocks  remaining 
in  Sicily 
are 
less  than  6.000  bags  The  coming 
crop 
is  estimated  at  about  two-thirds 
that  of  last  year.  The  peanut  trust  is 
now  perfected  and  a  cbaiter  has  been 
applied  for. 
is  expected  the  trust 
will  take  possession of the various plants 
July  20.  The  demand  is  very  good  and 
the  market 
is  very  firm,  some  grades 
showing  an  advance  of  %c.

It 

Green Fruits—The demand  for  lemons 
continues  very  good,  but  some  dulness 
is  expected  after  this  week’s  holiday. 
The  demand  for  bananas  is  slightly  im- 
pioved,  but  no  change  in  prices 
is  re­
ported.

Rice—Japan  rice  has  advanced  J^c, 

with  the  demand  good  at  the  advance.
Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.

Hides  do  not  materially  change. 
There 
is  no  extra  demand  or  supply. 
As  hot  weather  comes  on  the supply will 
probably  decrease.

Pelts  are 

in  good  demand  at  an  in­
lim­

creased  value,  while  the  supply  is 
ited.

Tallow  is  quiet  and  in  light  demand, 

with  no  change  in  the  market.

Wool 

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West.  Manufacturers  and  speculators 
are 
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stronger  and  higher.  The  London  mar­
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its  open­
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wools  here  are  in  low  supply.  The  wool 
market  shows  more  genuine  activity 
than  for  the  past  seven  years  and  the 
advance  in  price  has  evidently  come  to 
stay. 

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store  at  the  Soldiers’  Home.  The  Ball- 
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Thing.

She  is  a  stenographer  in  a  down-town 
office,  and  is  as  fine  a  specimen  of  the 
modern  business  woman  as  one could 
wish  to  see.  Young,  strong,  handsome, 
there  is  a  joyous 
independence  about 
her  that  makes  the very  meeting  with 
her  a  pleasure  as  she  swings  briskly 
along  to  her  work.  The  other day,  how­
ever,  I  ran  across  her  in  a  drug  store, 
weary  and  worn-looking  and  a  mere 
shadow  of  her  former  self.

“ Good  gracious!"  I  exclaimed,  with 
that  disgusting 
candor  that  always 
prompts  us  to  tell  people  what  they 
don’t  want  to  hear. 
“ You  are  nothing 
but  a  rag,  and  a  bone,  and  a  hank  of 
hair.  Have  you  been  ill?  What’s the 
matter  with  you?’ ’

“ Shirt-waists,"  she answered  shortly 
and  succinctly,  as  she  paid  for  a  bottle 
of  nerve  tonic,  and,  as  we  went  up  the 
street  together  she  explained. 
“ You 
see,"  she  said,  “ it  is  like  this:  I  sup­
pose,  in  a  way,  I  have  always  up  to this 
lived  pretty  much  like  a  man,  so  far  as 
making  myself  comfortable 
is  con­
I  work  hard  all  day  and  at 
cerned. 
night  when  I  went  home  I  never  tried 
to  do  anything  but  reit  or amuse  my­
self ;  but  this  spring  I  got  the  economy 
fever. 
In  the  bouse  in  which  I  board 
there  are  a  number  of  delightful  and 
clever  women  who  have  the  loveliest 
clothes  that  don't  cost  them  anything  at 
all,  hardly.  They  go  down  town  and 
pick  up  something  for  50 or 60 cents 
and  convert 
into  the  most  stunning 
shirt-waist  or  tea-gown  or  fichu—things 
that  would  cost  a  dozen  times  as  much 
almost  if  you  bought  them.  Can’t  you 
see  how  demoralizing  that  is  to  another 
woman? 
I  stood  it  as  long  as  I  could, 
but  when  I  would  see  their  smart  shirt­
waists  that  only  cost  30 cents,  and  com­
pared  them with  mine that were too  long 
in  the  sleeves  and  hiked  up in  the back, 
and  for  which  I  paid  $3,  I  gave  in  and 
began  to  ask  myself  why  I  couldn’t  do 
I  figured  it  all  out  on  paper 
that,  too. 
and  saw  myself  saving 
enough  on 
clothes to go to  Europe on, and  the mis­
chief  was  done,  and 
I  succumbed  to 
the  temptation.

it 

I 

“ Of  course,  I  didn’t  tackle  the  sub­
ject  without  trepidation.  Neither  would 
a  landsman  undertake  to  navigate a ship 
I  bad  never 
without  some  misgivings. 
constructed  a  shirt-waist  and 
felt 
myself  just  as  competent  to  build  a 
house  as  to  make  one,  but  I  consulted 
the  ladies  of  the  house  and  they  all  as­
sured  me  that  any  one  with  a  grain  of 
sense wouldn’t have the slightest trouble, 
and,  thus adjured,  I  rushed  to  my  doom. 
I  bought  some  silk  and  a  cut-paper  pat­
tern  and  sat  down  to  work  out  the  puz­
zle.  Did  you  ever  read  the  directions 
on  one  of  those  iniquitous  things?  The 
riddle  of  the  Sphinx  is  simple and lucid 
compared  to  it, and deciphering  ancient 
hieroglyphics  becomes  mere  child's 
play.  For two  solid  weeks  I  moiled  and 
toiled  and  perspired  and  wept  and 
prayed  over  that  beastly  thing. 
I  tried 
to  fit  notches  with  other  notches  that 
never  by  chance  matched. 
I  sewed  up 
seams  and  ripped  them  out  until  I  wore 
holes  in  the  goods. 
I  couldn’t  eat  and 
I  got  so  I  would  wake  up  in  the  night 
repeating  over  and  over  in  my  sleep, 
‘ Cut  the  cloth  according  to  the  grain, 
work  from  right,  notches  out. ’  Finally,
I  realized  I  was  on  the  verge  of a  nerv­
ous  collapse  and  I  finished  the  waist 
by  pitching  it out  of  the  window.  The

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

doctor  thinks that  with  rest and  quiet  I 
shall  recover,  but  it  makes  me  shudder 
to  think  how  close  I  have been to a luna­
tic  asylum. ’ ’

It  happened  that  just at  the  moment 
we  were  passing  some 
street 
gamins,  and  one  of  them  called  out 
derisively  to  his  mate,  “ Aw,  I  don’t 
know.  You’re  not  de  whole ting.  Dere's 
other  pies  in  de bakery."

little 

“ That’s 

it,"   I  said,  with  a  smile, 
“ that's  the  whole  philosophy  of  life 
in 
a  nutshell,  if  only  we had  sense  enough 
to  see  it,  but  the  trouble  is  we  all  want 
to  be  the  whole  thing  and  we  honestly 
believe  that  we  are.  We  can't  be  con­
tent  to  do  our  own  particular  little  job 
in  the  world  well,  although  goodness 
knows  that  is  as  much  as  we  have any 
right  to expect of ourselves,  but  must be 
forever  jumping 
into  somebody  else’s 
province  and  doing their work  too.

“ One  might  think,  for 

instance,  that 
any  department  of  women's  work  offers 
sufficient  opportunities,  and  that  to  be 
a  good  mother and  wife  and  housekeep­
er or a  satisfactory  clerk  or  newspaper 
reporter  or  teacher  would  about  keep 
any  woman’s bands  full.  But  it  doesn’t 
satisfy  her.  The  woman  who  has the 
care of  a  house and  children 
imagines 
that  she 
isn’t  doing  her  duty  in  the 
world,  and  living  up  to  her  privileges, 
unless  she  is  tearing  around  the  country 
lecturing  on  the  advisability  of  opening 
up  new  fields  of  labor  to  her  sex  or  un­
less  she  belongs  to  a  dozen  different 
classes  for  the  study  of  the  recondite 
and  unknowable.  The business  woman, 
on  her part,  feels  that  she  must  be  a 
housekeeper  and  seamstress  and  teach 
in  the  Sunday  school  and  fill 
in  her 
spare  hours by  chasing  around  after  the 
poor  and  afflicted.  Here  we  have  the 
real  reason  of  so  many  breakdowns  and 
so  much  nervous  prostration. 
Each 
woman  is  trying  to  represent  in  herself 
every  variety  of  feminine enterprise and 
energy  and  to  personally  illustrate  in 
herself  every  virtue.  She  might  be  any 
one  or  two  or  three  of  these  things  suc­
cessfully,  but  when  she  tries  to  com­
bine  typewriting  and  pink  teas  and 
philanthropy  and  domesticity  and  pol­
itics  sbe  collapses.  No woman  can  be 
the  whole  thing  and  keep  out  of  the 
cemetery.

“ This  peculiarity 

isn’t  confined  to 
women  either,  and  it  explains  why  the 
shrewd,  hard-headed  business  man  so 
often,  and  so  strangely,  we  think,  be­
comes  the  easy  victim  of  the  sharper. 
He  has  been  a  success  as  a  doctor  or 
groc- r  and  he  jumps  to  the  conclusion 
that  because  he  knows his  own  trade,  he 
knows  everything.  He’s  just  as  good 
a  judge  of  a  horse  as  a  jockey  and  he 
pays  a  fancy  price  for  a  spavined  and 
wind-broken  old  roadster.  He  knows 
just  as  much  about  mines  as  anybody 
and  a  simple  and  honest  miner  sells 
him  a  salted  hole  in  the  ground.  All  of 
us  know  professional  men  whose  earn­
ings  have  gone  in  a  steady  stream  for 
idiotic  speculation, 
years 
because  they 
imagined  themselves  as 
good  financiers as  the  men  who manipu­
late  stocks  and  bonds.  We  bave  con­
doled  with  bis  brother  who  found  out 
too  late  that  bis  contract wasn't binding 
or  that  bis  deed  was  faulty,  simply  be­
cause  be  thought  be  knew  just  as  well 
how  to  draw  up  a  legal  paper as  a  law­
yer,  and  we  have attended  the  funeral 
of  the  man  who dosed  himself  to  death 
under  the 
impression  that  because  be 
understood  how  to  run  a  sawmill,  be 
must,  of couise,  be  perfectly  competent 
to  treat a  case of  sickness.  They  were

in  wild  and 

sacrifices  offered  up  on  the  whole-thing 
theory.

itself  in. 

“ After  all,  what  a  ridiculous  vanity 
it  is,  and  how  many  absurd  forms  it 
manifests 
I  bave heard  peo­
ple  who  claimed  to be  literary  who  al­
ways  pretended  to  have  read  every­
thing. 
‘ Have  you  seen  so  and  so  in 
such  and  such  a  magazine  or  such  and 
such  a new book?’  ‘ Oh,  yes,’ they  would 
say. 
‘ I  always  read  everything  new,’ 
although  the  slightest  subsequent  con­
versation was sufficient  to  show  their  ut­
ter  unfamiliarity  of  the  thing  in  ques­
tion.  Sometimes  the  vanity  takes the 
form  of  pretending  to  know  every  one 
of  consequence,  and  they  refer  glibly  to 
what  the  President  said  when  they  saw 
him 
last  in  Washington  or that  little 
witticism  of  Mr.  Depew’s  ‘ when  we 
crossed  together on  the  Kaiser  Wilhelm 
der  Grosse’  or  the  story  that  Mr.  Jeffer­
son  or  Nat  Goodwin  told  one  night at  ‘ a 
little  supper  I  was  giving  him .’ 
‘ Did 
you  see  the  Dardanelles  when  you  were 
in  Europe?’  a  friend  asked  of  the  Par- 
venues. 
‘ Ob,  yes,’  responds  Mrs.  P.  ; 
‘ they  invited  us  to dinner, ’ and the story 
has a  cynical  application  to the  army  of 
snobs  one  meets  everywhere,  and  par­
ticularly  at  the  summer  resorts,  who 
claim  acquaintance  and  intimacy  with 
all  rich  and  influential people and whose 
names they  only  know  through  the  so­
ciety  columns. 
‘ Ob,  yes,' they  say,  ‘ we 
know  Mrs.  Croesus  intimately  and  dear 
Mrs.  Bullion  is  our dearest  friend,’  and 
they  go  on  cheerfully  supplying  those 
ladies  with  fictitious  biographies  and 
imaginary  plans  until  they  find  out  you 
know better.  Then they  hedge  with  the 
assertion, 
last  winter  I 
didn’t  see  as  much  of  them  as  usual. 
My  health  was  so  poor  the  doctor  abso­
lutely  forbade  my going out and I  bad to 
decline  invitations  to their dinners  and 
balls,  although  dear  Mrs.  Bullion  in­
sisted  and  said,  “ Mary,  without  you," 
etc.  Can 
idiotic  vanity  and  snobbery 
go  any  further  than  that?  Yet  it  is  a 
thing  we  run  acioss  every  day  of  our 
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short 
interval,  during  the  blissful  days 
of  courtship,  every  woman  believes  she

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the  world  and  for  which  it  is  willing  to 
reward  her.  Shall  she  sit  with  folded 
hands,  idle,  just  because  she  is a woman 
and  a  woman’s  work  has  no  right  to 
come 
into  competition  with  a  man's? 
The  right  of  every  human being to make 
the  most  of  bis  capabilities  is  as  in­
disputable as  the  right  to  breathe.

No  one,  not  even  Mr.  Peck,  would 
want  to  deprive  the  world  of  the  work 
of  a  George  Eliot,  or a  George  Sand,  or 
a  Sara  Bernhardt.or  a  Julia  Marlowe,or 
Rosa  Bonheur because they  are  worn 
en.  Still  less  right  have  we  to  deprive 
the  women  themselves  of  the  riches  and 
fame  they  have  won;  but  beyond  all 
is  the  great,  pitiful,  toiling  army 
these 
of  women  who  are  not  working 
for 
fame,  who  never  hope  to  achieve  even 
competence,  but  who  work  for  daily 
bread,  and  for  “ the  glorious  privilege 
of  being  independent. ”   What  women, 
proud  and  high-spirited,  suffered  from 
enforced  dependence  in  the  days  before 
so  many  avenues  of  work  were  opened 
up  to  them  is  among  the  tragedies  that 
we  hardly  appreciate  now  at  their  full 
value  of  wretchedness.  We  have  to  put 
ourselves  in  the  place  of  tfcose  who  had

to  eat,  year after  year,  the  bitter  bread 
of  dependence,  who  knew  themselves 
as  burdens,  and  who  bad  to  endure 
slights  and  humiliations  because  in  the 
whole  of  God’s  great  world  there  was 
no  one  willing  to  pay  for  their  work. 
Contrast  that  with  to  day,  where  the 
woman  of  good  sense  has  only  to  look 
about  her  and  see  what  she  shall  do 
that  is  most  congenial  and,  doing  that, 
with  her earnings  achieve  an  independ­
ence that  is  as honest and respectable as 
her  brother’s  and  that  is  measured  onlv 
by  her  ability. 
is  what  work 
means  for  working  women,  and  to  try 
to  represent  it  as  the  frantic  raving  of  a 
restless  and  discontented  sisterhood 
is 
the  grossest  injustice.

That 

Co ra  St o w e l l.

Chauncey  Depew  was  recently'  asked : 
‘ ‘ How  the  deuce  do  you  escape  indi­
gestion  while  attending  so  many  public 
dinners?”   The  senator  replied:  ” 1 
never  drink  more  than  cne  kind  of 
wine,  I  smoke  only  two  cigars. 
I  don’t 
eat  sweets  and  confine  myself  to  the 
plain dishes and  eat  sparingly  of  these. 
My  breakfast  is  a  boiled  egg,  a  glass  of 
hot  water,  some  dry  toast and  a  cup  of 
tea. ”

is  the  whole  thing  to her  sweetheart, 
and  imagines  that  she  is going  to  con­
tradict  the  history  of  the  world  and  be 
the  one  eternal  exception  to the  rale. 
After  marriage  she  finds  out  her  mis­
take  and  that  there  must  be  other  inter­
ests,  other  friendships,  other  loves. 
If 
she 
is  a  wise  woman  she  accepts  the 
inevitable.  If she is foolish  and  narrow­
minded  and  jealous,  she  rebels  against 
it  and  makes  her  love  a  tyranny  that  in 
time  her  husband  comes  to  dread  and 
fear. 
It  is  a  common  observation  that 
the  new  wife  generally  extends  a  frosty 
welcome  to  John’s  old  friends  and  that 
she  seems  to  have  a  latent  smoldering 
jealousy  of  his  family  that  a breath  fans 
into  flame.  Women,  too,  are  seldom  in 
sympathy  with  a  man’s  hobbies. 
is 
her  way  of  resenting  the  fart  that  she  is 
not  the  whole  thing  to  him,  that  there 
are  other  ties  that  bind  except  the  one 
that  binds  him  to  her.  Much of  the  un­
happiness  of  married 
life  comes  from 
this,  while  many  of  the  estrangements 
between  parents  and  children  may  be 
traced  to  the  mother’s  selfish  desire  to 
keep  her  children  to  herself and  shut 
them  out  from  the  friendships  and  in­
terests  natural  to  their  young 
lives, 
Sooner  or  later  we  must  all  realize  that 
we  can  never be  the  whole  thing  or  do 
the  whole  thing,  and  we  should  save 
ourselves  an  infinitude  of  trouble  and 
regret  if  we  accepted  the  fact and,  do­
ing  the best  we  could  in  the  little  role 
assigned  us  in  life,  left  the  rest  of  the 
stage  for  the  other players.”

It 

D o roth y  D ix .

.Women  and  Work.

That  Mr.  Peck’s 

recent  article  in 
the  current  number  of  the  Cosmopolitan 
Magazine  should  have  attracted so much 
attention  can  be  explained  only  by  the 
fact  that  the  subject  is  one  of  eternal 
interest,  for  certainly  the  essayist  only 
threshes  over old  straw,  and brings  forth 
no  new  arguments  to  support  his  posi 
tion. 
In  a  previous  article  the  same 
author  entered  a  strong  protest  against 
the  higher  education  of  women,  and  the 
opening  of  college  and  university  doors 
In  this he  equally  deprecates 
to  them. 
their  entrance 
into  the  business  and 
professional  world, and  would,  if  be  bad 
bis  way,  relegate  them  all  to  a  strictly 
feminine  sphere,  which  he  holds  to  be 
the  nursery  and  the kitchen.

loving 

To  any  one  at  all  familiar  with  work 
ing  women,  nothing 
is  more  absurd 
than  the  position  that  Mr.  Peck  as­
sumes,  that  women  rush  into  typewrit­
ing,  and  clerking,  and  book-keeping 
for  the  mere  love  of  excitement and sen­
sation,  instead  of  staying  at home,  and 
being  supported 
in  luxury  by  a  kind 
and 
father  or  brother.  One 
would  like to  ask  him  how  many women 
he has  ever  personally  known  who  have 
left comfortable  homes  to  go and drudge 
in  an  office,  and  live  on  the  miserable 
pittance  that  they  received 
long 
hours over  a  typewriter or  standing  be­
hind  a  counter?  Isn’t  it  an  insult  to  the 
understanding  of  anybody  to  even  claim 
that  the  woman  who  does  that  does 
it 
for  any  other  reason  than  because  the 
most  grinding  poverty  compels  her  to 
do  it?

for 

But,  to  go  farther  than  that,  the 

idea 
of  combating  a  woman’s  right  to  offer 
her  labor  in  the  market  of  the  world, 
and  to  earn  hy  her  head  or her hands 
what  it  is  willing  to  pay,  is  to  strike  at 
the  very  root  of human  independence, 
She  knows  how  to  render  service  for 
which  others  are  willing  to  pay.  She 
ran  paint  a  pictuie,  or  write  a  story,  or 
make  music  that  add  to  the  delight  of

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Your 
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A  man 

is  always  wanting  something 
he  can’t  get  and  is always  getting some­
thing  be  does  not  want.

t|)t tlniteir States of Slmeric^
Ä  imutent
xREEUNGtUlljercas, it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of
Hott), fttjertforr, we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

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

H B J N H Y   B O O H ,   your  o l e r h . < 4,   attorneys,  ager.j, 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

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

To

KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
under  the  pains  and  penalties  which  may  fall  upon  you  and  each  of  you  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

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

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

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

W ith * * * ,

[seal]

The  h«TK»rah1«  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  erf  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
in  said  District  of  New 
Jersey,  this  16th  day  of  December,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand, 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

[signed]
L 
J 

s.  D.  ©LIPHANT.

Ckrk

ROWLAND  COX.

Con%f>Iaintmt s  Solicitor.

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THE  MILLENNIAL CEN SU S.

Those  hopefbl  persons  who believe  in 
the  near  approach  of  that  golden  age,  or 
millennial  period  of  peace  and  happi­
ness  for  all  nations  and  all  men,  see a 
realization  of  their  earnest anticipations 
in  the  universal  peace  conference called 
by  the  Czar  of  all  the  Russias,  and  at 
this  moment 
in  the  little 
kingdom of  Belgium,  attended  by  repre­
sentatives  of  the  great  powers  of  the 
earth.

in  session 

The  dawn  of  the  Twentieth  Century 
has  been  held  by  fanciful  theorists,  who 
have by  means of ingenious arithmetical 
calculation  come to  that  conclusion,  to 
be  the  closing  up  of  the  world’s  week of 
work  and  the  beginning  of  its  Sabbath 
of  rest  and  righteousness. 
It  has  been 
stated  by  the  ancient  sacred  seers  that 
“ a  day  with  the  Lord 
is  a  thousand 
years,  and  a  thousand years is one day, ”  
and,  therefore,  after  six  thousand  years 
of  turmoil,  travail  and  trouble,  the  mil­
lennium  of  peace  and  rest  will  follow.

The  Nineteen!)  Century  wili  close 
with  the  year  1900,  but  another hundred 
years  must  elapse  before  the  six  days 
of  one  thousand  years  each  of the  week 
of  toil  and  tribulation  of  the  whole  of 
human  history  will  have  come  to an 
end ;  therefore  the  world  is  in  the  last 
moments  of  its  sixth  day,  and  soon  the 
millennial  Sabbath,  according  to  the 
reckonings  of  the  chiliasts  or  mille- 
narians  will  have  dawned.

Whether or  not  we  give  any  consider­
ation  to  the  fanciful  and daring  theories 
that  have  been  put  forth  on this subject, 
they  are  more  or  less attractive  to  the 
imagination,  and 
it  may  not  be out  of 
place  to  take  stock  of  the  human  situa­
tion  at  what  seems  to  be  a  most  signifi­
cant  era  in  the  world's  affairs.

In  all  the  six  thousand  years  of  man’s 
authentic  annals  there  has  been  little 
change  in  human  nature.  History  be­
gins  almost  with  a  murder,  homicidal 
bloodshed  is  reported  daily  in these  last 
months  of  the  century  that  is  almost 
ready  to  close.  Despite the  peace  con­
ference  now  in  progress  at  The  Hague, 
wars  by  the  most  civilized  nations  are 
still  in  progress,  and  although  the  pre­
texts  upon  which  they  are  waged  are 
framed  to  veil  or  conceal  their charac­
ter,  they  are  just  as  ruthless  and  violent 
as  ever 
in  their  methods  and  quite  as 
destructive  and  demoralizing 
in  their 
results.

Never before  was  the  thirst  for  wealth 
more 
consuming  or  more  generally 
prevalent.  Men  are  just  as  recklessly 
and  daringly  ambitious  as  in  any  pre­

vious  age  and  as  unscrupulous  in  prose­
cuting 
their  pursuit  of  wealth  and 
power.  All  the  crimes  against  which 
codes  of  laws  have  been  framed  and 
punishments  pronounced  in  any  age  are 
quite  well  known  to  the  courts of to-day, 
showing  how  human  nature  has  clung  to 
depravity and  evil.

What  is  there  in  the  invoice of  the 
human  situation  which 
fits  mankind 
properly  to  participate  in  a  state of hap­
piness  and  harmony,  a  heaven  on  earth? 
Does  it  not  appear that  there  will  have 
to  be  a  vast  deal  of  purging,  of  purifi­
cation,  before  our  race  can  reach  that 
state  which 
is  meet  in  order  that  it 
should  harmonize  with  the  requirements 
of  divinity?

It 

It 

is  claimed  that  man  to-day  pos­
sesses 9  vast  superiority  over  his  fellows 
of  every  other  age  in  the  possession  of 
the  light  of  knowledge,  in  science,  and 
in  the  power to  use  the  most  potential 
natural  forces  and  control  them  to  his 
will. 
is  much  to  be  doubted,  how­
ever,  if  such  claims  are  entirely  valid. 
In  the  accounts  of  occult 
learning  and 
magical  powers  possessed  by men  in  the 
early  ages 
it  is  possible  that  a  knowl­
edge  and  mastery  of  the  forces  of  na­
ture  by  the  men  of that  period  are  re­
ferred  to,  and  that  their  descendants  of 
to-day  have  only  rediscovered 
informa­
tion  known  to  men  of  the  earliest  ages.
In  the  hazy  traditions  of  a  most an­
cient  past  it  is related  that  men  enjoyed 
the  favor  and  held  special  gifts  from 
the  celestial  deities,  but  that  these  were 
finally  forfeited  and  lost  by  human  mis­
conduct,  and  so  men  fell  from  the  high 
estate  of  the  Golden  Age  to  the  lowest 
point  Divine  mercy  would  permit,  and 
then  commenced  the  upward  struggle  to 
reach  that  blessed  condition  which  is 
characterized  as  a  redemption,  a  resto­
ration,  a  salvation.  There  is  little 
in 
indicate  that 
the  present  situation  to 
the  period 
is 
nigh;  but  since  Divine  goodness  and 
mercy  are  illimitable,  it  is  possible  that 
in  a  moment,  in  the  twinkling  of  an 
eye,  poor human  nature  may  be  made 
fit  to  realize and  enjoy  celestial  glory.

of  millennial  grace 

According  to  the  Chicago  Chronicle 
the  most  gentlemanly  cabman  in Evans­
ton  will  be  presented  with  a  $25  gold 
medal  on  July  1,  1900.  This  announce­
ment  was  made  by  Mayor  Bates  at  the 
meeting  of  the  Evanston  council.  The 
mayor  said  that  the  medal  would  be 
given  by  one  of  Evanston’s  prominent 
residents,  who  did  not  care  to  make  his 
name  public.  Mayor  Bates  and  Chief  of 
Police  Bartram  are to  be  the  judges  of 
the  gentlemanly  actions of  the  cabmen. 
For  some time  much complaint has been 
made  of  the  actions of  the  cab  drivers 
at  the  depots  when  they  are  soliciting 
patronage. 
is  said  the  names  of 
prominent  residents  would  be  called  by 
the  cabmen  and  that  there  is  always  a 
scramble  for  passengers.  Mayor  Bates 
said  that  many  plans  bad  been  tried  to 
remedy  the  evil,  but  that  none  bad been 
It  is  now  proposed 
entirely  successful. 
to  put  the  drivers  on  their  honor and 
it 
is  hoped  that  good  results  will  follow. 
The actions  of  the  jehus  will  be  closely 
watched  and  the  medal  will  be  awarded 
to  the  one  who  is  considered  the  most 
gentlemanly.

It 

The  Paris  fire  department  has  been 
provided  with  an  electric  wagon,  which 
will  carry  eleven  persons  in  addition  to 
a  supply  of  ropes  and  ladders.  The 
vehicle  was  recently  tested  with  a  load 
of  passengers  and  equipment  and  suc­
ceeded  in  maintaining a  speed  of fifteen 
miles  per  hour.

THE  ONE  ELEMENT  OF  TRADE.
In  spite  of the  often  repeated  maxim 
that  it  takes  two  to  make  a  bargain,  it 
will  be  readily  granted  that  the  buyer  is 
usually  the  one  to  clinch  it.  His  is  the 
want  to  be  gratified,  his  the  demand  to 
be  supplied ;  and  whether  the  customer 
at  the  counter  is  to  be  considered  or  the 
order  upon  the  manufacturer,  the  con­
sumer  is  the  one  whose  wishes  are  to be 
consulted  all  aiong  the  line.

It  must  be  conceded,  however,  that 
the  maxim  and  the  law  behind  it  are 
often  lost  sight  of.  The  clerk  who 
in­
sists  that  he  and  not  the customer knows 
what the  latter only  can  know  aud  who 
acts  upon  that 
idea  not  only  loses  the 
sale  and  a  customer, but  violates a prin­
ciple  as  deeply  seated  as  the everlasting 
hills.  The  jobber  who  “ works  off"  his 
“ job  lots”   upon  the  retailer  who  can’t 
sell  them  soon  comes  to grief and  the 
manufacturer  who  listens  to  the  wants 
of  his  patron  and  makes  him  take what 
he,  the  manufacturer,  thinks  he  ought 
to  have  will  find  sooner than  be  thinks 
that  be has  made a  mistake.

The  Tradesman  on  more  than  one  oc­
casion  has  commented  upon  this,  and 
pointed  its  comments  with  modern 
in­
stances.  England  has  admitted  that 
her  loss  of  commercial  supremacy  is 
due,  among  other  things,  to  the  fact 
that  she  knew  better  than  her  customer 
what  he  needed  and  insisted  on  settling 
the  question  herself.  Germany  has  al­
ways  bee» troubled  with  the  same  com­
plaint  and 
it  begins  to  look  as  if  the 
United  States  is having  symptoms of the 
disease. 
It  is  comforting  to  know,  for 
example,  that  the  American  shoe,  be­
cause it  meets  with  the  wants  of the cus­
tomer,  is  crowding  out  the  clumsy and 
often  undesirable  article  furnished  by 
the  English  and  the  German  manufac­
turers ;  but 
it  does  not  make  pleasant 
reading to see that the French shoemaker 
is  keeping  out  the  American  shoe 
in 
Hayti  because  the  Frenchman  sends 
agents  to  find  out  what  the  peculiarities 
of  the  Haytiun  feet are. 
It  is  pleasing 
to 
learn  that  all  sorts  of  cotton  tissues 
from  the  United  States  are  much  more 
in  demand 
in  Hayti  than  European 
goods  of  the  same  kind;  but  it  is  also 
provoking  to  be  informed  that  Ameri­
can  manufacturers  do  not  consider  the 
peculiar  tastes  and  preferences  of  the 
natives  as  thoroughly  as  they  might.  A 
class of  goods  known  as  “ Indiennes”  
is  taking  the  lead  in  the  same  market. 
The  consumer objects  to  the color.  Re­
move  the  objection  and  the  sale  of  the 
article  would  materially  increase;  but 
so  far  the  self-satisfied  American  man­
ufacturer,  like  his  English  cousin,  takes 
no  heed  of  his  customer’s  wishes.  South 
Africa  is  improving  her  taste  in  music. 
She 
is  calling  for  pianos  and  organs. 
The  United  States  has  entered into com­
petition  with  Germany  and  England  to 
answer the  call.  It  is  found  that  greater 
pains  must be  taken  to  adapt  the  wood­
work  of  the 
instrument  to  the  great 
changes  in  humidity,  a  characteristic 
of  that  climate.  The  German  and  Eng­
lish  pianomakers  are  taking  advantage 
of  the  requirement;  but  the  comment 
made  in  regard  to  the  American  trade 
is  that  the  United  States  could  dispose 
of  more  pianos  than  she  does 
if  she 
wouid  take  the  trouble  to  furnish  what 
the  customer  wants.

to-day. 

These  are a  few  of  the many instances 
Almost  every 
which  exist 
branch  of  manufacturing 
interest  can 
furnish  similar  examples.  They  all  il­
lustrate  the  same  fact:  that  the  custom­
er  is  a  secondary  object  of 
interest 
when  he  should  be  first.  He decides the

question  of  trade,  and  that manufacturer 
and  that  nation  who  give  due  consider­
ation  to  his  decisions  will  be  the  ones 
who  thrive  most  in  the  commercial  in­
terests  of «the  world. 

*

A  TIMELY  SUGGESTION.

The  people  of  the  United  States  are 
greatly concerned  about  the  adulteration 
of  food.  Ninety  per  cent,  of  what  they 
eat  and  drink  has  been  found  to  be 
everything  but  what  it  should  be.  No 
calling  having  anything  to  do  with  the 
physical  support  of  the  body  is  above 
reproach.  Acknowledging this ourselves, 
it  is  no  wonder  that  the  other  nations 
of  the  earth,  taking  ts  at  our  own  esti­
mation,  are  pointing  at  us  with  the 
withering  finger  of  scorn. 
Self-con­
demned,  a  little  of  this  outside  reproof 
goes  a  great  w ay;  and  when  a  certain 
limit  has  been  reached 
the  country 
wonders 
if  she  is  the  only  guilty  party 
in  this  underhanded  method  of  getting 
gain.  The  wonder has  led  to  investiga­
tion  and  the  outcome  shows  that  the 
cheating  is  not  confined  to  the  United 
States.  England,  for  instance,  is  con­
sidering  the  matter,  first-class  restau­
rants  in  France  have  been  found  mak­
ing  use  of  something  resembling  em­
balmed  beef  and  even  Germany,  whose 
morbid  fear  of  being  poisoned by Amer­
ican  pork  has  excited  the  ridicule of the 
civilized  world,  finds  that  now  and  then 
a  German  pocketbook  is  waxing  fat  at 
the  expense  of  the  over confident  Ger­
man  stomach.

To  state  it  broadly,  the  evil  is  univer­
sal,  and  the consequences are equally so. 
First-class  American  manhood—and  the 
world  knows  nothing  better—can  not  be 
produced  and  maintained  on  90  per 
cent,  of  adulteration.  The  American 
constitution,  vigorous  as  it  is,  can  not 
remain  vigorous  if  the  chances  against 
it  are  as  9  to  1.  The  physical  first 
gives  w ay;  the  moral  follows,  stepping 
on  its  heels,  and  no  argument  is  needed 
to  prove  that  the  healthiest  brain  in  a 
body  nine-tenths  adulterated  and  fed 
with  food  equally  bad  will  not  continue 
to  do  the  first-class  work  demanded  of 
first-class  American  citizenship. 
If  the 
American,  through 
this  adulteration, 
becomes  a  degenerate,  nothing  better 
can  be  expected  from  the  rest  of  man­
kind,  and it  becomes  a  question  of  some 
moment  whether  it  wouid  not be  well,  in 
these  days  of  international  conferences, 
for  the  brightest  minds  to  consider  how 
best  this  go  per  cent,  of  body,  mind  and 
soul  waste  can  be  stopped.

in 

This  form  of  cheating,  universal  as  it 
is,  depends  upon  the  principle  of  get­
ting  something  for  nothing.  Each  na­
tionality  has 
its  own  peculiar  method 
and  these  methods  can  be  best  consid­
ered  and  prevented 
this  general 
clearing  house  of  fraud.  The  United 
States  understands  best,  perhaps,  the 
profitable  management  of  canned  beef. 
England 
is  good  authority  upon  the 
chemical  preservation  of  milk.  Ger­
many  and  the  other  countries  have  each 
their  specialty  in  profitable  investment, 
both  of  capital  and  brain.  All  these  de­
velopments  of a  common  principle,  ad­
mitted,  considered  and  decided  upon, 
can  only  result 
in  the  betterment  of 
mankind,  and  the  suggestion  that  this 
good  work  be  undertaken  is  both  timely 
and  profitable.

The  Colonial  Dames  of  Philadelphia 
and  New  York  are  still  raking  up  the 
bones  of  their grandfathers  aud  scrap­
ping  over  pedigree.

Some  men  are  born  great,  and  some 

have to be elected.

LAW  AND  LIBERTY.

“ Advances 

in  Jurisprudence”   was 
the  theme of an  address  before the grad­
uating  class  of  the law school  of the Yale 
University, delivered  by  Hon.  John  W. 
Griggs,  Attorney  General  of  the  United 
States.

Mr.  Griggs,  in  setting  forth  changes 
shown  by  the  jurisprudence of  the  pres­
ent  day,  as  contrasted  with  that  of 
earlier  ages,  finds  that  all  the  benefi­
cial  changes  that  have  taken  place  are 
due  to  the  softening,  elevating  and  re­
fining  influences,  upon human nature,  of 
modern  civilization.  He  sees  that  the 
preseat  is  peculiarly  an  age  of  amelio­
ration.  According  to  his  view,  to  add 
to  tbe  comfort  of  mankind  has  been  the 
object  of  engrossing  study  to  many 
great and  noble  minds.  Physical  suffer­
ing,  even  when  necessary,  has  been 
brought  under  the  moderating  effect  of 
anaesthetics  and  improved  appliances. 
Hospitals,  asylums  for  the  insane,  re­
formatories 
juvenile  criminals, 
homes  for  the  aged,  schools  for  the 
blind,  colonies  for  epileptics,  institu­
tions  for  the  feeble-minded—these  are 
some  of  the  organized  establishments 
provided  by  generous  kindliness  for tbe 
relief  of  suffering  and  the  beneficent 
improvement  of  the  unfortunate  and  the 
afflicted  classes.

for 

The  same  humanizing  influences,  the 
Attorney  General  believes,  have  oper­
ated  upon  legislation  to  protect  tbe peo­
ple 
in  their  rights  and  to  promote  as 
much  as  possible  the  welfare  of  society. 
Thus  the  general  health  and  safety  of 
tbe  community  have  become,  within 
proper  limits,  objects  of  public  con­
cern,  and  statutes  relating  to  sanita­
tion,  health,  food,  personal  safety  from 
accident,  water  supply  and  pollution, 
are  now  an  important part  of  tbe  statute 
law.

Tbe  state  takes  charge of  tbe  public 
drainage of our cities and compels  them, 
as  well  as  each  householder,  to  conform 
the  sanitary  arrangements  of  the  dwell­
ings  to  an  approved  scientific  standard. 
It  punishes by  fine  or imprisonment acts 
that  tend  to  pollute  the  air  we  breathe, 
the  water  we  drink,  and  the  streets  in 
which  we  walk. 
It  exacts  compulsory 
It  establishes  and  main­
vaccination. 
tains  quarantine. 
It  forbids  the  sale  of 
adulterated  food.  It regulates  tbe  height 
of buildings  and  the  thickness  of  their 
walls. 
It  subjects  to  inspection  places 
of  amusement  and  buildings  where 
crowds  assemble. 
It  ordains  fire  es­
capes. 

*

Government  has  compelled  the  use  of 
safety  couplers  for  connecting  railroad 
cars. 
It  has  interfered,  on  grounds  of 
humanity  and  public  welfare,  in  behalf 
of  the  children  who  work  in  tbe  mines 
and  the  factories,  shortening their hours 
of  labor  and  requiring  unusual  care  to 
be  exercised  for  their  protection  and 
safety.  It  now  gives an  action  for  dam­
ages  for  the  death  of  a  human  being  by 
wrongful  act.  To  married  women  the 
law  has  been  generous  in  extending  full 
control  of  their  property  rights,  aud  in 
abolishing  the  ancient  feudal  restraints 
which  made  the  wife  subject  to  the  do­
mination  of  the  husband  in  all affairs  of 
a  business  nature.  Governing  powers 
have  abolished  the  debtors’  prison  and 
human  slavery.

All  this  is  in  the  line  of  tbe  bettering 
of  human  conditions,and  it  has  gone  on 
band-in-hand  with  scientific  discovery 
and  what 
is  called  civilization.  But, 
after  all,  is  it  due  to  any  improvement 
in  the  quality of human  nature? 
Is  not 
human  nature  as  selfish  as  ever  it  was? 
Possibly  men  as  a  rule  are  not  so  cruel

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

9

as  they  once  were.  Doubtless  Christian 
love  and  charity,  operating  through 
twenty  centuries,  have  done  much  to 
ameliorate the  conditions  of human life ; 
but  there  is  another  force  that  has  had 
much  to  do  with  tbe  changes  that  have 
been  remarked 
jurisprudence,  and 
that 
is  the  discovery  by  the  masses  of 
the  people  of  their  power.

in 

in  the 

In  tbe  earliest  times,  the  chief  or 
ruler  of  a  people  was  both  judge  and 
jury,  and  in  many  cases  the  maker,  as 
well  as  the  executor,  of  tbe  laws.  The 
laws  were  made  to  repress  and  keep 
down  the  people 
interest  of  a 
privileged  few.  As  a  result  the  laws 
were  extremely  severe,  and  tbe  methods 
of  administering  them  greatly  to  the 
disadvantage  of  the  accused.  The  trials 
were  often  secret,  the  prisoner  being 
deprived  of  the  presence  of  his  friends 
and  of  counsel.  He  was  often  tortured 
to  force  him  to  confess,  and  in  that  way 
prisoners  who  were innocent were driven 
to  incriminate  themselves.

The  softening  of  legal  severities  was 
the  result  of  popular  revolution,  and  it 
was  accomplished  by  slow  degrees. 
Trial  by  jury  was  wrung  by  force  from 
tbe  English  King  John,  in  the  Four­
teenth  Century,  while  torture  was  only 
abolished  in  England  in  the  Sixteenth 
in  some  other  parts  of 
Century,  and 
Europe  in  tbe  Eighteenth. 
In  the  be­
ginning  of  this  century  there  were  in 
the  English  common 
law  some  thirty 
offenses  for  which  the  penalty  of  death 
was  provided ;  now  there  are  none,  ex­
cept  murder,  treason,  and  in  some  states 
rape,  and,  perhaps,  highway  robbery, 
that  are  held  to  merit  capital  punish­
ment.

All  the  ameliorations  in  tbe  criminal 
codes  are  the  result  of  aggressions  by 
the  people  upon  tbe  ruling  classes. 
It 
was  seldom  that  the  prerogative  of 
power  or  sovereignty  was  voluntarily 
given  up  by  tbe  rulers.  All  tbe  free­
dom  acquired  by  tbe  people  was  ob­
tained  by  force  after  the  people  had 
learned  their  power.

Liberty  to-day  is  the  rule  of  the  ma­
jority.  The  majority  elects  public  offi­
cials  and  legislators,  and  dictates  what 
laws  shall  be  enacted.  The  minority  is 
silent and  powerless.  Liberty 
is  what 
a  majoiity  of  the  people  ordain,  and 
this  liberty  may  go  far  towards  enslav­
ing  the  minority.  Since  a  government 
where the  people  control  is  classed  as  a 
free  government,  it  does  not  follow  that 
any  absolute  standard  is  conformed  to 
in  the  enactments  of  such a government. 
The  only  standard  of  liberty  is  the  will 
of  tbe  majority,  and  when  that  will  is 
executed  broadcast-  and  without  mercy 
on  tbe  minority  then  are  terrible  things 
done  in  the  name  of  libeity.

Then  the  law  in  any country where the 
people  rule  is  tbe  will  of  tbe  majority, 
without  regard  to  the  wishes  or interests 
of  tbe  minority,  and  it  is  only  necessary 
to  arouse  the  angry  passions  of  the  ma­
jority  to  see  what  fiendish  work  it  is 
is  no  despotism  so 
capable  of.  There 
terrible  as  that  of  a  mob;  but  mob 
law 
and  the  historic  “ Reign  of  Terror”   are 
the  extremes  of  popular  fury. 
The 
amelioration 
in  tbe  criminal  statutes 
and 
in  the  methods  of  criminal  pro­
cedure  are  not  so  much  tbe  results  of 
any  improvement  in  human  nature  as of 
tbe  discovery  by  the  people,  who  were 
the  greatest  sufferers  from  unjust  laws 
and ferocious methods of enforcing them, 
of  tbe  fact  that  all  governing  power 
commences  with  tbe  people,  and,  when 
the  people  combine,  they  can  overthrow 
any  and  all  governmental  tyranny  and 
despotism. 
It  is  this  popular  sense  of

power  that  has  made  tbe  great  changes 
for  the better  in  matters  of  government 
and  has  done  so  much  towards  solving 
the  difficult  problem  of  making  law  and 
justice  mean  the  same  thing.

But  the  people  can  go  too  far.  The 
unrestrained will of  the  people  can  work 
injustice  and  despotism  quite  as  ter­
rible  as  was  ever  done  by  imperator  or 
czar,  or  Oriental  sultan  at  the  be<<d  of 
bis  barbaric  and  resistless  hordes. 
In 
the  evolution  of  popular  government,  is 
it  possible  for  it  to  pass  through  all  the 
stages  of  constitutionalism  to  socialism, 
to  anarchy,  or  nihilism?  Such  extremes 
are beyond  possibility  as  long  as selfish­
ness  is  the  ruling  motive  power  in  hu­
man  nature. 
It  will,  under  the  light  of 
popular  education,  prevent  tbe  human 
race  from  being  again  enslaved  by  the 
It  is  a  sort  of 
despot  or  by  the  mob. 
balance  wheel  that  restrains 
society 
from  either  extreme.

RAILROAD  BUILDING  IN  1899.
The  New  York  Railroad  Gazette  has 
been  getting  returns  of  the  new  railway 
construction  for  the  first  six  months  of 
tbe  calendar  year  of  1899.  The  figures 
show  a  total  of  1181  miles,  which  is  an 
advance  of  some  90  miles  on  tbe  work 
for  the  same  period  last  year.  This 
is 
it  means  that 
not  very 
railroad  building 
is  actually  on 
the 
increase,  although  progress  is  slow.

inspiring,  but 

Tbe  Gazette  expresses disappointment 
that  tbe  figures are  not  larger,  in  view 
of  increased  business  activities  and  tbe 
low  prices  of  money;  but  it  should  be 
remembered  that  a  great  deal  of  money 
has  been  lost  in  the  imprudent  building 
of  railroads,  as  the  terrible*  records  of 
receiverships  and  bankruptcies  for some 
years  past  show.  Only  such  roads  are 
being  constructed  as  have  been  found 
necessary  to  meet  tbe  demands  of trade, 
and  very 
little  of  a  speculative  nature 
is being  done.

The  Tradesman  agrees  with 

the 
Gazette  that  it  is  too  early  to predict the 
total  mileage  to  be  built  for  the  year, 
but  if  the  proportion of last year’s build­
ing  for the  first  six  months  bolds  good 
as  compared  with  this  year,  we  may  ex­
pect  considerable  increase  over  the  new 
mileage  of 
last  year,  which  reached 
nearly  3,300  miles.

Cheap  and  haphazard  methods  of  road 
improvement,  earth  roads  and  tbe  em­
ployment  of 
inferior  material  in  order 
to  save on  the  first  cost—these  and  other 
objectionable  features  of  earlier  road­
making  should  be  abandoned  for  good 
and  all  by  American  roadmakers.  As 
population  expands,  wealth 
increases 
and  new  devices  of  road  locomotion 
into  use  the  demand  for  better 
come 
highways  becomes  more 
It 
is  no 
longer  merely  tbe  wagon  loaded 
with  produce  which  is  to  be  considered, 
but  also  tbe  bicycle,  tbe  tourist’s  car­
riage  and  tbe  automobile.

imperious. 

Recent  researches  with  the  aid  of 
Roentgen  rays  on  the  movements  of  the 
stomach  of  a  cat  during  the  digestion of 
a  meal  showed 
in  the  most  striking 
manner  that  any  slight  vexation  of the 
animal  stopped  with  surprising  prompt­
ness  and 
invariability  gastric  contrac­
tions and  movements  of  every  sort.

“ Gelototberapeutists”  

is  the  name 
given  to  physicians  who  treat  patients 
suffering  from  various  diseases  ranging 
from  bronchitis  to  anaemia  by  prescrib­
ing  hearty  laughter.  A  medical  journal 
suggests  that  there  is  a  great  opening 
for  physicians  in  studying  various  ways 
of  exciting  laughter.

MILLIONS  FOR  EDUCATION.
Notwithstanding  the  common  outcry 
at  this  season  of  the  year,  when  the  col­
leges  of  the  country  are  turning  out 
their  graduates  upon  the  country,  that 
the  youths  who  come  out  of  the  schools 
do  not  know  bow  to  earn  a  living,  enor­
mous  amounts  of  money  are being  given 
to  endow  such  schools.

Never  were  such  endowments  to  edu­
cational 
institutions  so  generous  and 
munificent.  Tbe  Chicago  Tribune  men­
tions,  in  this connection,  that since  Jan­
uary  1,  1899,  ninety  colleges,  academies 
and  seminaries  and  eight  art 
institutes 
have  been  the  beneficiaries  of  public 
generosity  to  the  extent  of  $27,072,358, 
the  figures  representing  only  donations 
or  bequests  exceeding  $5,000.

The  chief  beneficiaries  were  Leland 
Stanford  University, 
in  California, 
which  got  $15,000,000  out  of  the  Leland 
Stanford  estate;  a  bequest  of  $2,000,000 
for  a  female  college 
in  Boston  and 
$1,600,000  for  Harvard  University,  near 
Boston.

in 

Tbe  following  art  institutes  have  also 
shared 
tbe  record  of  generosity: 
Cleveland,  $750,000;  Chicago,  $450,- 
000;  Charleston,  S.  C.,  $100,000;  Bos­
ton,  $100,000;  Buffalo,  $50,000;  San 
Francisco,  $17,000;  Baltimore,  $5,000— 
a  total  of  $1,472,000.  The  donations  to 
these  institutions  reach  $21,364,858  and 
the  bequests  $5,707,5cx),  making  a  total 
of $27,072,358.  The  real  extent  of  this 
public  generosity  may  be  more  clearly 
estimated  when  compared  with  tbe  total 
contributions  in  large  sums  to  libraries, 
museums,  charities  and  churches,  which 
amounted  to $7,279,214.  The  total  for 
the  first  six  months  of  the  year  is $34,- 
35,,572,  which  exceeds  the  total  con­
tributions  of  last  year  by  $10,366,672.

in 

These  vast  endowments  enable  tbe 
schools  which  possess  them  to  employ 
tbe  ablest  educational  talent 
tbe 
world,  and  they  furnish  the  means  for 
the  establishing  of  great  scientific 
lab­
astronomical  observatories 
oratories, 
and 
libraries  and  art  galleries.  Then 
scientific  exploring  expeditions  can  be 
sent  out  to  make  special  studies  in  the 
topography  and  structure  of  our  planet. 
With  comparatively  unlimited  means 
many  of  the  mysteries  of  nature  and  of 
human  history  are  going  to  be  unlocked 
and  read.
There 

is  opening  up  before  tbe  hu­
man  mind  an  extraordinary  era  of  re­
search  and  discovery;  but  while  the 
highly  endowed  universities  will  attract 
the  greatest  numbers  of  students,  those 
to  whom  only  the  bumbler  colleges  are 
open  need  not  despair.  Tbe  classics, 
philosophy,  mathematics  and  the  ele­
ments  of  the  sciences  can  be  got  there 
as  well  as  anywhere,  and  since  most 
young  men,  when they leave  school,must 
devote  themselves  to  some  practical life 
work,  they  can  receive  in  the  humbler 
colleges  a  mental  training  that  will  an­
swer  every  purpose  of  a  useful  life.

Tbe  object  of  an  education  is  to make 
worthy  and  intelligent  citizens  and  use­
ful  members  of  society.  That  is  all  that 
can  be  expected  of  any  college  or  uni­
versity.  No  school  turns  out  million­
aires,  nor do  any  teach  men  how  to  be­
come  rich,  for  that  is  not  the  chief  end 
of  man  any  more  than  it  is  the  highest 
life.  To  be  a  good  citizen 
object  of 
and  a  useful  member  of  society 
is  the 
duty,  as  it  is  tbe  highest  requirement, 
of  every  American  young  man.  They 
can  educate  themselves  for  these  high 
commissions  in  any  respectable  Ameri­
can  college,  and  they  need  not  trouble 
themselves  to  seek  out  the  schools  that 
have  millions  of  dollars  of  endowment.

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

Getting  the  People

contrast.  They  represent  almost  the  two 
extremes  of  advertising:

About  Sample  Advertisements  and 

Other  Things.

feature 

It  adds  to 

A  department  of  advertising  is  a  very 
commendable 
in  any  trade 
paper. 
its  value.  An  ad­
vertising  department 
its 
readers  sample  advertisements  may  be 
a  good  thing  or  it  may  not— it  depends 
upon  the  advertisements.

that  shows 

“ Boots  and  Shoes," a  weekly  for  shoe 
dealers,  runs  an  advertising  depart­
ment.  Under the  heading  of  “ Original 
Advertisements,”   I  clipped  the  one  re­
produced  below:

A Clean 
Sweep.

With the coining of July comes 
something  of  a  cessation 
in 
the  rush  for  shoes  The  sea­
son  is on the wane and we feel 
that  it  is  a  case  of  “now  or 
never”  with  us  if  we  are  to 
come  out  with  clean  stocks 
A clean sweep  is in  order  and 
a clean sweep it shall be.

All summer shoes  are  to  be 
priced  anew.  Every pair will 
be reduced.  We will sacrifice 
profits to insure a quick sale.

You  know  what  to  expect 
here in quality  and  style, and, 
now that the profits are clipped 
from the prices, you know that 
if you  buy  shoes  here  during 
July >ou will be money in. 
Come while stocks are  ample.

Success & Co.

City Hall Square.

If  this  is  a  specimen  of  good  adver­
tising,  then  I  must  have  missed  my  vo­
cation.  Read  it  through,  and  what  does 
it  tell  you? 
“ It's  the  dull  season. 
We’ve  got a  lot  of  shoes  on  hand that we 
want  to  get  rid  of.  We  intend  to  sell 
them  at  close  figures  to  burry  them 
out."  That  good  business,  so  far  as  it 
goes.  But  what  shoes?  How  many  of 
them?  What  weie  the  prices  and  what 
are  they  now?  Without  this  informa­
tion  the  advertisement  is  like a  cannon 
cracker  without  any  powder—a  hollow 
mockery.  Prices,  prices,  prices !  They 
are  the  things  that  make  goods  move. 
Genuine  reductions,  described  specific­
ally,  will  sell  goods.  All  the  shouting 
in  the  world,  without  the  aid  of  prices, 
will  not  make a  go  of  a  Clearance  sale. 
About  twice  a  year  John  Wanamaker 
clears  out  his  odd  lots  of  shoes.  His 
store  is  crowded  on  the  days  of  the sale. 
The  shoe  department 
is  extended  the 
whole  length  of  the  main  aisle  and 
sometimes  overflows  into  the  basement. 
How  does  he  do  it?  By  quoting  prices. 
Every  lot  of  shoes  is  described,  its  for­
mer  price  and  present  price  are  given. 
The  people  come  because  they  know 
they  can  depend  upon  his  statements, 
and  because  they  know  what  to  expect. 
There  are  two  things  necessary  to  the 
success  of  any  firm’s  advertising— pub­
lic  confidence,  obtained  by  advertising 
the  truth,  and  public  interest,  obtained 
by  advertising  prices.  The  advertise­
ment  that  does  not tend  towards these 
two  ends 
is  not  a  good  advertisement, 
and  I  think  my  friend  on  “ Boots  and 
Shoes"  will  agree  with  me,  when  he 
comes  to  think  the  matter over.

*   *   *

The  two  advertisements  reproduced 
instructive  because of  their

below  are 

I

I

Up  Go
The
Prices
I have just received  notice of 
the  advance  in  all  grades  of 
Watch  movements. 
It  is  only 
a slight  raise, but  is  the  com­
mencement  of  much  higher 
prices  in  watches.  Expecting 
this for some  time,  I  laid  in  a 
good supply, and can  still  give 
you the same old prices as long 
as stock  lasts.  So  if  you  are 
thinking  of  buying  don’t  wait 
till supply is  all  gone  and then 
pay  25  per  cent  more.  Re­
member,  I  can sell you  a  good 
time-keeper from $3 up.  Come 
before they are all gone.

C.  W OLFE,

H OW ARD  C IT Y , MICH.

If You  Want
a teh es, 
C lock s, 
S ilv e r w a r e , 
L in k  B u tto n s, 
R in g s
a n d   J e w e lr y ,

. . . .   call and inspect 
. . . .   my line.

Watch and 
Clock Repairing.
F it  MongoM  lit  Jtids.

Compare  them.  Mr.  Wolfe’s  adver­
tisement  is  a  plain,  honest,  direct  state­
ment  of  a  matter  of  interest  to  pro­
It  is  well  dis­
spective  watch  buyers. 
played  and  well  worded. 
It  carries  an 
air  of  conviction  with 
it.  The  only 
possible  improvement  I  could  suggest 
would  be  that  the heading should prefer­
ably  read  “ Up  Go  Watch  Prices,”  
which  would  give  a  better  indication  of 
the  subject-matter  of  the advertisement. 
Mr.  Mangold’s  advertisement  tells noth­
ing  that  the  public  does  not know  a l­
ready. 
It  leaves  the  mind of  the  reader 
absolutely  free  from  any  inducement  to 
patronize  Mr.  Mangold.

Which  of  these  two  advertisements 
would  be  more  likely  to  induce  you  to 
buy  goods?

If  every  writer  of  advertisements 
asked  himself  that  question,  there would 
be  lots  more  good  advertising  in  the 
papers.

*   *   *

The  smaller  towns  have not  a  monop­
oly  on  poor  advertising  by  any  means. 
If  this  fact  needs  any  demonstration,  it 
is  found 
in  the  advertisement  repro­
duced  herewith,  which  was  clipped 
from  a  Detroit  paper.  You  don't  know 
what  the  advertisement  is  about  until 
you  are  halfway  through  it.  The  open­

ing  argument  could  be  used  in  a  shoe 
advertisement,  a  grocery  advertisement 
or any  other  kind  of  an  advertisement, 
and  it  wouldn’t  be  much  good  wherever 
it was  used.  The  gist  of  it  seems  to  be 
that  unless  an  advertiser advertises,  the 
public  won’t  know  what  sort  of  goods 
he  sells:

If you have on a  pair  of  green  goggles. 
You may know that you winked,  but  she 
doesn’t;  whilst  we  know  that  we  have 
good  pianos,  unless  we  advertise  you 
won’t  know it,  so  we  advertise  that we 
have  Chickering,  Mason  &  Hamlin, 
Hallet  &  Davis,  C.  J.  Whitney,  Wal­
dorf and other pianos  Style “ E ” Chick­
ering is a winner.

The C. J.  Whitney Co.,

143 Woodward Avenue.

This  is  a  very  wise  conclusion,  but  it 
really  doesn’t 
interest  the  public  very 
much.  And  the  advertiser  isn’t  even 
consistent,  for,  after  assuring  the  pub­
lic  that  they  can’t  tell  what  be  has  until 
he  tells  them,  he  proceeds  to  tell  them 
nothing.  To  the  average  prospective 
piano  buyer,  the  name  of  a  piano  is 
meaningless,  unless  it  is  coupled  with  ' 
something  distinctive  of  that  particular 
piano.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  no  two 
makes  of  pianos  are  alike.  The  Brown, 
perhaps,  has  a  soft,  delicate  tone-qua­
lity,  while  the  Jones  has  a  louder  and 
clearer  tone-quality.  The  Smith 
is  a 
piano  for  the  music-lover—a  truly  artis­
is  just 
tic  instrument.  The  Robinson 
a  plain,  ordinary  piano,  that 
is  good 
enough  for the  girls  to  practice  on—not 
expensive,  but  good  value  at  the  price. 
Not  all  of  these  pianos  would  suit  any 
one  person— people  differ  as  much  as 
pianos.  But  the  way  to  sell  these  pianos 
is  to  talk  about  them  as  you  would  talk 
about  other  goods.  Hunt  out 
their 
strong  points and  hammer away at  them 
until  the  public  becomes  familiar  with 
them.  The  principles  of  good advertis­
ing  and  good  merchandising  apply  just 
as  forcibly  to  the  piano  business  as to 
any  other. 
is  unfortunate  that  it  is 
conducted  at  present  on  a  wrong basis— 
not  having  one  fixed  price  to  all—but 
that  is  an  evil  which  is steadily righting 
itself.  The  bouse  that  has  the  courage 
to  sell  pianos  at  a  fixed  price,  with  a 
uniform  cash  discount,  and  the  nerve  to 
advertise  that  price,  is  on  the  high-road 
to  success.  The  healthiest  houses  in  the 
country  are  the  ones  who are doing busi­
ness  on  this  principle.

It 

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

Abram  S.  Hewitt,  of  New  York,  made 
the  prediction  in  1855  that  the  demands 
of  the  world  would  require  35,000,000 
tons  of  pig  iron  by  Jan.  1,  1900,  and  in 
a  communication  to  the  Baltimore Man­
ufacturers’  Record  he  now  calls  atten­
tion  to  the  fact that  this  amount  of  iron 
ore  was  produced  and  consumed  in  the 
year  1898.  The  United  States  supplied 
just  one-third  of  this  amount.

Sensations  o f  a  Drummer Struck With 

a  Sandbag.

“ If  I  ever  get  to  own  a  newspaper, 
there’s  one  thing  I’m  going  to  try  to 
bring  about,"  said  the  St.  Louis  drum­
mer  as  bis  hand  went  up  to  the  back  of 
his  neck. 
“ I’ve  got  a  substitute  for 
both  banging  and  electrocuting,  and  I'll 
work  to  get 
it  adopted  in  every  state 
where  murderers  are  done  to  death. 
You’d  never  guess  what  it  is,  and  so 
I'll  tell  you  at  once  that  it’s  the  sand­
bag.  The  idea  of  using  a  sandbag  as 
a  deadly  weapon  was  conceived  by a 
crook,  of  course,  but  don't  you  make 
any  mistake  about  its  being  brutal.  It’s 
the  nicest,  neatest  thing  to  put  a  man 
out  of  the  world  with  anybody  ever 
heard  tell  of.

“ You  see,  I ’ ve  been  right  there  and 
It  hap­
know  what  I’m  talking  about. 
pened  in  Cincinnati  two  years  ago. 
I’d 
been  over  the  Rhine  with  some  of  the 
boys,  and  we  got  into  a  little  row  and 
became  separated. 
I  was  making  my 
way  back  to  the  hotel  alone  at  midnight 
when  a  man  stepped  out  of  a  doorway 
and  struck  me. 
I  saw  his  arm  rise  and 
fall,  and  then  I  had  the  sweetest  dream 
of  my  life. 
I dreamed  that  I  bad  wings 
and  was  living  about,  and  there  were 
green  trees  and  babbling  brooks  and 
smiling  meadows  galore.  By  and  by  the 
dream  faded  and  I  opened  my  eyes. 
I 
in  a  hospital,  and  bad  been  un­
was 
I  smiled  and 
conscious  for  two  hours. 
felt  at  ease  with  all  mankind. 
I  was 
ready  to  give  my  last  cent to the heathen 
in  Africa.  The  hospital  ward  seemed 
to  be  a  room  in  a  palace,  and  I  wanted 
to  hug  the  doctors  and  nurses  and  tell 
them  how  much  I  loved  them. 
I  was 
able  to  go  out  after  half  a  day,  and 
there  were  weeks  and  weeks  in  which  I 
carried  a  grin  on  my  face  and  wanted 
to  be  doing  good  to  humanity.

“ I  had  been  struck  on  the  neck  with 
a  sandbag.  Just  another  ounce  of weight 
in  the  blow  and  I'd  have  been  flying 
about  yet.  After  being  struck  I  was 
robbed,  but  I  have  never  held 
it  up 
against  the  fellow.  Fact  is,  I'd  hand 
him  over $25  if  I  could  identify  him  to­
day.  He  solved  the problem  for  me. 
I 
want  to  die  that  way  and  no  other. 
If 
judges  and  juries  could  only be  made  to 
realize  how  gaily  I  flew  from  tree  to 
tree,  and  how  the  brooks  gurgled  and 
the  meadows blossomed,  they’d  sentence 
murderers  to  be  bit  on  the  neck  with  a 
sandbag  and  then  envy  them  their  good 
luck.  Since  I  got  the  blow  I’ve  gone 
around  almost  coaxing  midnight  prowl­
ers  to  repeat 
it  and  bear  on  a  little 
harder,  but  they’ve  turned  away  from 
me  to  favor  some  better  man.  Right  on 
the  neck,  you  know—no  pain,  no  blood, 
no  yelling  for  the  police.  Down  you  go 
to  become  a  cherub  with  golden  wings, 
and  the  victim  who  isn’t  satisfied  must 
be  a  hard  man  to  please. ”

Took  An  Apple  Instead.

A  little  boy  entered  a  green  grocer's 
shop  kept  by  an  old  lady  and  asked  the 
“ They  are  a 
price  of  the  oranges. 
penny  each ,"w as  the  reply. 
“ Then 
I'll  take  one,”   said  the  boy.  But  im­
mediately  eyeing  some  apples  be  asked 
the  price  of  them.  “ The  apples are  the 
same  price  as  the  oranges, ”   said  the 
old  lady.  Then  the  boy,  handing  back 
the  orange,  took  an  apple  instead,  and, 
after  taking  a  bite  out  of  it,  was  leav­
ing  the  shop  without  paying,  when  the 
old lady  said,“ My  lad,you  haven’t  paid 
for  that  apple.”   “ Well,  I  gave  you 
the  orange  for  it,  didn’t  I?”   “ But  you 
haven’t  paid  for  the  orange.”   “ But  I 
haven’t  had  the  orange,"  said  the boy. 
Then 
ladv,  somewhat  be­
wildered,  said,  “ It’s  a  funny  way  of 
reckoning.  There’s  something  wrong 
somewhere!"

the  old 

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Now  Doing  Business  in  Our  New  Home

Nearly  Entire Square Devoted to  Manufacture

and  Sale  of

Boots,  Shoes  and  Rubbers

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PREMATURE  CELEBRATION.

How  the  C lerk’s  Fireworks  Played 

Detective.

A  few  days  ago.  as  I  stood  talking 
with  the  proprietor  of  a  grocery  in  a 
country  town,  a  man  came  bustling  in 
and  made  strong  talk  for  a  contribution 
to  a  Fourth-of-July-celebration 
fund. 
The  merchant  shook  his  head  in  a  most 
emphatic  manner,  and,  in  spite  of  all 
bis  arguments,  the  solicitor  was  obliged 
to  leave  the  store  without  securing  a 
subscription.

“ Don’t  you  approve  of  Fourth  of  July 
celebrations?”   I  asked,  after  he  had 
taken  his  departure.

“ I  don't  like  the  lawless  ways  and 
unnecessary  dangers  of the tim e,”   was 
the  reply,  “ but  I  don’t  oppose  them.”

“ But  you  declined  to  contribute.”
“ W ell,”   was  the  reply,  “ it’s  bad 
enough  to  put  up  with the impertinences 
of  all  the  fool  cranks  in  the  community 
for  a  day  and  a  night  without  footing 
the  bills.  Besides,  I  never  keep  my 
store  open  after  9  o’clock  on  the  morn­
ing  of  the  Fourth,  so  I  receive  no  bene­
fit  from  the  affair  and  naturally  dislike 
to  give  up  my  money  for  nothing.”

“ Your  customers  may  get  the  idea 
that  you  are  not  very  patriotic,”   I  sug­
gested.

“ My  customers,”   said  the  merchant, 
“ are 
looking  for  courteous  treatment, 
reasonable  prices  and  good  provisions. 
I ’m  not  dealing  out  patriotism  by  the 
pound  or gallon,  like  a  dealer  in  fire­
works,  so  I  guess  thev  won’t  object  to 
the  brand  I  keep  on  hand  for individual 
use.  The  fact 
is, ”.  he  added,  with  a 
smile,  “ I  ran  out  of  Fourtb-of-July  en­
thusiasm  about  three  years  ago,  and  if 
you’ve  got  a 
little  time  I  don’t  mind 
telling  you  about  it.”

Of  course  I  had  time,  for  the  mer­
chant  was  a  good  customer,  a  good  fel­
low  and  a  good  story  teller.

“ Three  years  ago  this  summer,”   he 
began,  “ I  had  a  young  fellow  working 
for  me  who  was  generally  regarded  bv 
all  the  town  boys  as  ‘ a  peach.’  He  was 
tall  and  thin  and  red-headed,  and  bis 
face  was  one  mass  of  freckles,  but  for 
all  that  he  wasn’t  a  bad  looking  young 
chap,  for  be  had  a  strong  face  and  a 
merry  twinkle 
in  his  eyes.  He  was 
handy  on  the  delivery  wagon  and  quick 
about  the  store,  but  his  impish  pranks 
kept  me  in  hot  water all  the  time,  so  I 
wasn’t  over  particular  about  keeping 
him.

“ About  the  first  of  the  month  he  took 
a  notion 
into  bis  red  head  that  be 
wanted  to  sell  fireworks  on  the  Fourth 
and  asked  my  consent  to  do  so.  Only 
for  the  fact  that  he  wanted  to  erect  a 
stand  on  the  walk  in  front  of  my  place 
of  business,  he  probably  wouldn’t  have 
taken  me  into  his  confidence  at  all. 
I 
reluctantly  gave  the  required  permis­
sion,  making  a  special  stipulation  that 
he  should  keep  his  fireworks  out  of  my 
store.

‘ Oh,  I  won’t  hurt  your  old  store,’ 
he  replied,  in  his  fresh  way.  ‘ I’ ll  boom 
your  trade,  see 
I’m  the 
warmest  baby  that  ever came  down  the 
pike.'

if  I  don’t. 

“ The  boy  kept  his  word  in  this  re­
gard,  at  least.  He  did  boom  my  trade 
for  a  time,  but  the  manner of  it  wasn’t 
exactly  as  be  expected.  But  I  am  get­
ting  ahead  of  my  story.  A  day  or  so 
after the  permission  had  been  given,  I 
went  to  the  back  end  of  the  store  one 
morning  and  found  the  boy  humping 
himself  over  a  lot  of  red  cards  about  a 
foot  in  length  and  six  inches  wide.  He 
was  working  with  my  marking  outfit,

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

and  was  doing  a  pretty  good  job  of  let­
tering—better  than  I  had  ever  seen  him 
do  on  the  outside  display  signs. 
I 
picked  up  half  a  dozen  of  the  dry  ones 
and  began  to  look  them  over.

‘ Say!’  he  called  out,  ‘ don’t  you  go 
I'm  goin’  to 

to  foolin'  wid  my  signs. 
par’liz  the  town  wid  dem  t’ ings. ’

“ I  laid  the  cards down  on  the  counter 

and  read:

‘ Don’t set off these giant firecrackers 
from  the  root  of  your  barn.  Give  your 
neighbor  a  chance at the insurance com­
pany. ’

‘ Don’t  try  to  hold  down  the  cannon 
when  you  touch  it  off.  Your  friends  can 
do  that.’

‘ The  speaker  and  singers  are  re­
quested  not  to raise  their  voices  so  as  to 
interfere  with  the  shooting  of crackers. ’
‘ Fill  your  pockets  with  our  powder 
if  you  want  to,  but  don’t  expect  us  to 
gather  up  your  remains. ’

“   ‘ If .you  ride  to-day,  get  a  fractious 
horse  and  keep  with  the  crowd. 
If  you 
can’t  hold  him,  some  one  will  catch 
him  before  he  has  killed  you  or  some 
one  else. ’

‘ Don’t  expect  to  make a  hit  with 
your  tin  horns  on  the  business  streets. 
Go  where  there  are  sick  folks.’  ”

“   ‘ What  are  you going to do with these 

things?’  I  asked.

"   ‘ Put  ’em  up  around  my  stand,’  was 

the  reply.

“   ‘ What  for?’
“   ‘ To  make  folks  talk  an’  draw 

trade,’  was  the  reply.

“ I  told  the  young  man  that  in  my 
opinion  be  would  soon  be  at  the  head 
of  a  great  bouse  or  be  hanged,  and 
left 
him.  He  worked  like a  good  fellow  for 
the  next  day  or  two,  and  I  began  to 
think  I  might  make  something  of  him 
after all,  but be  managed  to  spoil  every­
thing  in  short order,  as you will soon see.
“ On  the  night  of  the  3d,  I  went  down 
to  the  store  about  half  past  eleven  to 
look  around  a  bit.  A  mysterious  thief 
had  been  at  work  there for several weeks 
and  I  had  missed  a  good  many  things.
I  had  never  suspected  the  youngster, 
for,  while  he  was  rough  and  tough,  he 
certainly  was  not  a  thief.  After  recon- 
noiteriug  for  a  few  minutes,  I  stationed 
myself  in  a  dark  stairway  across  the 
street  from  the  store  and  waited. 
I  had 
been  there  but  a  moment  when  I  saw  a 
little  point  of  light  at  the  back  end  of 
the  building,  just  about  such  a gleam  as 
a ' match  half  bidden  by  the  band  will 
make. 
In  those  days  I  kept  no  night 
light  in the  store  and  all  was dark there, 
except  for  the  spark  I  have  mentioned.
* ‘ I  turned  my  eyes  away  for a  second, 
hoping  to  catch  sight  of  the  night 
watch,  and  before  I  looked  again  some­
thing  happened  At  first  the  noise  that 
came  to  me  sounded  as  if  some  one  had 
put  a  ton of  dynamite  in a  long,  echoing 
tunnel  and  exploded  it.  Then  came  a 
swarm  of 
little  explosions,  like sharp­
shooters  firing  from  the  tops of trees  and 
houses.  This  was  followed  by  a  great 
glare  of  light 
inside  the  store,  and  I 
gave  one  yell  and  got  across  the  street 
in  about  a  second.

“ By  the  time  I  got  the  door  unlocked 
the  night  watch  came  running  up.  and 
in  together.  The  sight  was 
we  went 
grand, 
if 
it  was  expensive.  As  we 
stepped 
inside  the  door  a  skyrocket 
landed  on  the  officer’s  nose,  and  another 
whisked  my  hat  off  my  head  and  car­
ried 
it  through  the  big  front  window. 
There  was  a  whole  Fourth-of-July  cele­
bration  right  in  sight,  with  the  broken­
nosed  officer  delivering  the  oration  in 
fervid  language  and  the  proprietor Com­
ing 
in  a  swift  second.  Chasers  were 
weaving  their  blazing  way  among  boxes 
of  codfish  and  raisins  and  sacks  of 
coffee,  rockets  were  whooping  it up  to

W e  are  in  the  market  with  the  best 

Rubbers  on  earth  and  in  water.

Wales=Goodyear

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

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KEYSTON ES 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.

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19  SOUTH  IONIA  STREET. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

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the  canned  goods  on  the  upper  shelves 
and  Roman  candles  were  having  their 
merry  way with  the  whole interior.  Oc­
casionally  a  giant  cracker  lifted  up  a 
showcase  or  paid  its  respects to the glass 
candy  jars.  The  officer dropped  to  the 
floor  to get  out  of  range and  landed  on 
several  packs  of  crackers  which  were 
doing  their  part  in  the  general  celebra­
tion,  and  got  right  up  again  with  the 
tail  of  his  coat  on  fire  and  numerous 
lighted  crackers  feeling  their way  down 
the  back  of  his  official  neck.  He yelled 
to  me  to  call  out  the  fire  department 
and  put  him  out,  but  I  was  too  busy.

"In   a  moment  the  shelving  was  on 
fire  and  the  store  was  too hot  for  human 
occupation,  so  we  backed  out,  saluted 
in  our  retreat  by  a  brace of  giant crack­
ers  which  ripped  up  the  bottoms  of  the 
officer's  pantaloons  and  made  a  wreck 
of  the  glass  door.  Just  as  we reached the 
fresh  air,  I  heard  a  groan  inside  the 
store. 
I  made  a  rush  back,  and  fell 
over a  man  who  was  crawling  feebly  to­
ward  the  door,  his  hair  all  burned  off 
and  his  eyes  blinded  by  the  smoke. 
His  clothes  were  on  fire,  too,  and  he 
rolled 
lay  there 
cursing  until  some  one  extinguished 
him  with  a  pail  of  water.

into  the  gutter  and 

"A fter  the  fire  had  been  subdued, 
leaving  the  store  looking  like  an  over­
heated  battlefield,  my  red-headed  clerk 
showed  up,  half dressed  and  so  pale  that 
the  freckles  on  his  face  showed  up  like 
black  warts  on  a  white  hand.

"   ‘ Who’s  been  an'  set  off  my  fire­

works?’  he  demanded.

"T h is  explained  the  premature  cele­
bration.  The  young  rascal  had  stored 
bis  fireworks  in  the  store,  so  as  to  have 
them  handy 
in  the  morning,  and  the 
man  I  bad  helped  out  of  the  fire  bad  set 
them  off  while  prowling  around  the 
place  with  a  lighted  match,  looking  for 
his  week’s  supply  of  stolen  provisions.
" I   may  as  well  say  right  here that  the 
thief  bad  broken  a  window  in  entering, 
and  that  he  got  three  years  for burglary. 
I  believe  that 
if  I  could  have  caught 
that measly red-beaded clerk that  night  I 
would  have  murdered  him,  for  my place 
was  not 
insured  against  fireworks and 
the  loss  was  serious.  Anyway,  the young 
villain  would,  to  use  one  of  bis  own  ex­
pressions, 
‘ the 
warmest  baby  that  ever came  down  the 
pike*  if  I  could  have  laid  hands  on  him 
then.

certainly  have  been 

" I   took  an  ax  and  chopped  down  his 
pine  stand,  comic  signs  and  all,  and 
the  next  day  when  he  sneaked  up  to 
me  he  wanted  me  to  help  pay  for  the 
boards,  which,  it  seems,  be  had  agreed 
to  return. 
If  the  store  hadn’t been  full 
of  customers  buying  damaged  goods,  I 
think  I  should  have  used  up  one  or  two 
of  the  boards  right  there.  He  backed 
off  when  I  rejected  bis  modest  sug­
gestion  and  stood  in  the  doorway  with 
a  most  diabolical  grin  on  his  face  for  a 
moment.

“   ‘ Didn’t  I  say  I’d  boom  yer  busi­
ness?’  be  demanded. 
‘ An*  ain’t  I  do­
in’  it?  You  never  had  so  many custom­
ers  in  there  at  one  time  before,  so you’d 
just  better  settle  up  wid  me. ’

" I   had  to  smile,  in  spite  of  my  loss, 
but  I  didn’t take him  back  in  my  em­
ploy.  He’s  running  a  dirt  cart now. 
And  so,”  continued  the  merchant,  "you 
see  where  my  patriotism 
I 
haven’t  got  a  thing  in  the  red-white- 
and-blue  line  about  me  now,  and  never 
will  have  until  some  of  this  foolishness 
about  fireworks  has  departed  from  the 
public  m ind."

ended. 

The  merchant  certainly  has  good
cause to  object  to the  fireworks  element

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

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WE  A R E   THE P E O P L E

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

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

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121  OTTAWA ST., 
GRAND RAPIDS.

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THE

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THE  MOST  SIMPLE  AND 

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perfectly automatic.  A   perfect and steady light at 
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Maaton, Michigan.

in  our  annual 
independence  celebra­
tions,  but  such  individual  catastropbies 
will  hardly  stop  the  modern  young  man 
in  his thirst  for noise  and  commotion.
A l f r e d   B.  T o z e r .

A  Woman’s  Bank  Account.

An  artist,  feminine  gender,  says  that 
the first  thing  a  woman  should  do  when 
she enters a  business  life  of  any  nature 
is  to  start  a  bank  account.  There  are 
several  good  reasons  for  doing  this, 
is  the  feeling  of  inde­
chief  of  which 
pendence  and  the  bump  of  business 
it 
develops.  I  agree  in  the  main  with  her, 
but  place as  the  best  reason  the  surety 
of  keeping  whatever  money  we  earn. 
We are a  pocketless  sex,  you  know,  and 
carry  our  money 
in  the  most  careless 
manner  possible.  A  pocketbook.  which 
will  come  open  despite  our  best  efforts, 
is  the  usual  receptacle,  and  that  is  car­
ried  in  the  hand,  to  be  dropped  wher­
ever  the  hand  rests. 
If  all  the  money 
that  is  lost  in that way were gathered up, 
it  would  keep  a  family  in  luxury  for 
some  time.  A  check  book  is  easier to 
keep  than  money,  and  possesses  the  ad 
vantage  of  securing  a  receipt  for  every 
dollar  expended.  Every  possible 
in­
ducement 
is  offered  women  by  the 
banks,  which  will  let  us  open  small  ac­
counts,  and  give  us  the  same  attention 
bestowed  on  millionaires. 
I  know  a 
business  woman  who  never carries  more 
than  a  dollar  at  a  time  in  her  purse, 
but  she  does  carry  unsigned  checks,  by 
which  she  can  pay  for  anything  she 
buys.  She  says  that  such  a  system  saves 
her no  end  of  bother,  and  is  particular­
ly  excellent  for  her,  because  she  is  so 
careless.  ____ _ 
Traverse  City,  Petoskey  and  Mack­

Jo s h e p h in e.

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Are  the  three  principal  objective  points 
of  the  summer  travel  to  Michigan,  and 
in  a  certain  sense  their  names  signify 
the  divisions  into  which  Michigan  re­
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Traverse  Bay  resorts,  Omena,  Neabta- 
wanta,  Traverse  Beach,  Edgewood, 
etc.,  ave  all  reached  by  bo^t  or  drive 
from  Traverse  City.  Bay  View,  Har­
bor  Point,  Harbor  Springs,  Wequeton- 
sing  and  Roaring  Brook  are  the  hand­
some  resorts  of  Little  Traverse  Bay, 
which  are connected  with  Petoskey  by 
suburban  train  service,  while  Mackinac 
Island  is  a  summer  principality  of 
it­
self.  The Grand Rapids &  Indiana Rail­
way  takes  you  to  these  poirts  on  its 
direct  line,  with  fast  vestibuled  trains 
carrying  through  sleeping  cars  from  St. 
Louis,  Chicago,  Cincinnati,  Louisville 
and  Indianapolis.  Dining  car  service 
between  Grand  Rapids and  Mackinaw 
City.

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giving 
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time  folders  giving  full  information  as 
to train  service.  Copies  will  be  mailed 
free,  on  application  to

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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hobby  than  your  own.

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

Fruits  and  Produce.
Observations  by  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
As  the  season  advances  some  new 
facts  are  developing  which  are  of  in­
terest  to  the  egg  trade  and  which  throw 
further  light  upon  the  merits  or  de­
merits  of  those  suppositions  which  were 
laigely  made  the  basis  of  high  prices 
during  the  height  of  the  spring  storage 
season. 
It  is  now  becoming  quite  evi­
dent  that  if  there  has  been  in  fact  any 
less  production  of  eggs, 
taking  the 
country  through,  since  the  first  of  the 
year  it  has  been  because  of  the  interfer­
ence  of  long  continued  cold  weather 
in 
the  winter  and  a  holding  back  of  the 
season  of  free  production  then,  rather 
than  from  any  decrease  in  productive 
capacity  under  equal conditions.  In fact 
it  now  seems  very  probable,  judging 
from  such  statistics  as  are  available, 
that  the  quantity  of  eggs  produced  this 
year  since  about  the  first  of  March  has 
been  actually  greater  than  last  year  and 
there 
is  every  reason  to  conclude  that 
our  previous  belief  in  a  greater  storage 
accumulation  than  last  year  will  prove 
correct.

*  *  *

Reports  from  Chicago,  coming  from 
sources  which  are  considered as  reliable 
as  any,  indicate  a  larger  stock 
in  that 
city  than  at  same  time  last  year,  while 
the  same 
is  true  of  nearly  all  of  the 
other  Western  storage  points,  including 
Omaha,  Kansas  City,  Sioux  City,  Cedar 
Rapids,  etc. 
Interior  and  Northern 
New  York  public  houses  have more eggs 
than  last  year  and  the  interior  Pennsyl­
vania  bouses  are  said  to  be  carrying 
about  as  many.  The Eastern  coast  cities 
— New York,  Philadelphia  and  Boston— 
which  were  far  short  in  their  holdings 
at  the  end  of  April,  have  since  been 
rapdily  overhauling  last  year’s  top  fig­
ures  until  now  the  shortage  in  Boston  is 
less  than  8  per  cent.,  and  New  York 
is  estimated  to  have  almost  if  not  quite 
as  much  stock  as  on  July  I  last  year. 
The  shortage  in  Philadelphia  is  figured 
by  our  correspondent  there  as  being 
it 
about  20  per  cent.,  but  some  call 
greater  than  that.  Altogether 
it  may 
safely  be  set  down  as  a  fact  that  the 
stock  of  eggs  now  in  storage  throughout 
the  country  is  considerably  larger  than 
at  this  time  last  year.  Now  if  the ac­
cumulations 
in  storage  since  March  i 
have  been  equal  to  or greater  than  those 
of 
last  year  during  a  storage  season  at 
least  two  weeks  shorter,  it  does  not  look 
like  a  shorter  production,  espe­
much 
cially 
in  view  of  the  fact  that  receipts 
at  New  York  since  March  ist  show  a 
decrease  of  only 22,500 cases (to June 24) 
in  spite  of  a  falling  off  of  67,000  dur­
ing  April,  which  was  caused,  as  is  well 
known,  by  the  avidity  of  Western  spec­
ulative  buyers.

*  *  *

only 

One  of  the  greatest  difficulties  in  get­
ting  fair  value  for  such  eggs  as  are  sold 
at  mark  at  this  season  lies  in  the  liabil­
ity  to  widely  varying losses in the differ­
ent  cases  making  up  the  lot.  This  is  a 
matter  which  demands \be careful atten­
tion  of  packers  and  can 
be 
avoided  by  greater  care  in  grading  be­
fore  packing.  The  trouble  is  plain  to 
line  of  eggs  is  sold 
be  seen.  When  a 
the  examination  of  a  few  cases  only 
is 
practical  to  determine  the  quality  of 
the  whole and  the  extent  of  loss  shown 
by  these  must  be  the  criterion  for settle­
ment  of  value. 
If  these  cases  show  a 
uniform  loss,  varying  only  slightly  from 
case  to  case,  it  is  comparatively  easy 
to  get  at  a  fair  price  at  m ark;  but  if 
one  case  loses  say  a  dozen,  the  next  two

dozen  and  the  next  say  four or five dozen 
there  is  no  indication  of  average  which 
is  sufficiently  clear  to  satisfy  buyers, 
and  they  refuse  to  take  such  goods  ex­
cept  at  a  price  low  enough  to  cover  the 
risk  of  a  large  proportion  showing  the 
largest  loss.  I  met  an  egg  man  the other 
day  who  was  struggling  over  a  lot  of 
dirties  of  this 
irregular  character  and 
he  was  having  a  bard  job  to  get  a  bid 
within  ic of  the  price  of  good,  uniform 
stock.  Shippers  are  generally  anxious 
to  have  as  much  of  their  stock  sold  at 
mark  as  possible;  of  course  it  is  pos­
sible  to  sell  almost  any  eggs  at  mark 
at  a  price;  but to get  full  value  for  eggs 
sold  at  mark  it  is  absolutely  necessary 
that  they  shall  be  of  uniform  quality 
and  that  the  examination  of  a  few  cases 
shall  furnish  a  fairly  exact  and  reliable 
criterion  of  the  quality  of  all.

*  *  *

The  new  egg  rules  recently  adopted 
by  N.  Y.  Mercantile  Exchange  include 
in  the  total 
loss  all  “ rotten,  broken 
(leaking),  heavy  spots,  broken  yolked, 
hatched  (blood-veined),  and sour eggs;’ ’ 
those  which  are  to  be  reckoned  as  half 
loss  are  “ very  small,  very dirty,  cracked 
(not  leaking),  badly  heated,  light spots, 
badly  shrunken  and  salt  eggs.”  
It  will 
make  a  little  more  work  for  the inspect­
ors  to  designate  on  every  certificate  the 
exact  amount  of  each  of  the  above kinds 
of  bad  and  defective  eggs,  but  the  in­
formation  will  be  valuable  and  weil 
woitb  obtaining.  Egg  shippers  who 
wish  to  establish  their  goods  on  a  cer­
tain  grade,  or  who  desire  to  secure  a 
reputation  for  their  marks,  will  value  a 
certificate  of  inspection  which  will  give 
exact  and  reliable  information  as  to  the 
character  of  their  goods  on  arrival  and 
a  description  of  the  amount  and  kind  of 
defects  exhibited ;  such  knowledge  will 
be  of  material  assistance  to  them  in  im­
proving  the  quality  of  their goods and  it 
is  to  be  hoped  that  the  Egg  Committee 
will  see  that  all certificates of inspection 
hereafter  are  made  out 
in  the  utmost 
detail.— New  York  Produce  Review.

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Best  Grades  and  Lowest  Prices.

ALFRED J.  BROWN SEED CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Seed Merchants, Growers and Importers.

POTTLITZER  BROS.  FRUIT  CO,

COMMISSION  MERCHANTS

IN  FRUITS  OF  ALL  DESCRIPTION 

Also  POTATOES,  CABBAGE,  ONIONS  AND  APPLES 

In Carload  Lots.

Our motto:  Quick sales and prompt remittance.

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storage.  Warehouse  receipts  furnished.  Coirespondence  solicited. 
Inspection  invited. 

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Corn  and  Oats  \

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Out  feed  is  all  made  at 
one mill. 
It is all ground 
by  the  same  man.  He 
thinks  he  knows  how  to 
do 
it  right  because  he 
has  been  doing  it  for  a 
dozen years  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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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Sole Manufacturera of  “LILY WHITE,” 

“The floor the best cooks use.”

I  have  a steady local  demand  for  fancy  Eggs  and 
good table  Butter and  am  prepared  to pay  the  highest 
market price  for same.  Quotations  on  application.

I  solicit  consignments  of  Honey,  Veal  and  Live 
Poultry and  pay top prices  for best stock.
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JUICE  VINEGAR.  To any person who will analyze it and find 
any deleterious acids or anything that  is  not  produced  from  the 
apple, we will forfeit

ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS

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

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

J  ROBINSON,  nonager.

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15

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York, July 3— The week  has  beer 
one  of  comparative  dulness  in  grocery 
jobbing  circles  here.  Not  many  buyers 
have  arrived  and the holiday— extending 
in  some  cases  two  to  three  days—to­
gether  with  the  fact  that  stock  taking  is 
under  way,  has  combined  to  make 
things  very  quiet.

Coffee  has  been  decidedly  dull,  both 
the  speculative  and  spot  market  show­
ing  a  lack  of  animation, 
jobbers  are 
doing  some  business,  of  course,  and 
prices  are  not  weak ;  in  fact,  prevailing 
rates  are  more  easily  obtained than were 
the  same  figures  a  week  ago.  Rio  No. 
7,  invoice  lines,  is  worth  6@6>£c. 
In 
store  and  afloat  there  is  a  stock of  1,127, 
605  bags,  against  849,498  bags  at  the 
same  time 
last  year.  Mild  coffees  are 
very  quiet,but  importers  are  making  no 
concession 
in  rates.  Good  Cucuta  is 
worth  8c.  East  India  growths  are  un­
changed.  Padang Interior,  24J£@25J£c, 
with  fancy  stock  up  to  30@35c.  Mocha, 
i6@I9C.

Sales  of  tea  are  for  small  quantities 
and  general  business  is  decidedly  flat. 
Prices,  however,  are  pretty  well  sus­
tained  and  dealers  are  hopeful  that  the 
future  has  something  good  in  store.  At 
the  auction  Wednesday  the  bidding 
showed  considerable  spirit.  About  the 
same  rates  obtained  as  at  the  last  sale.
Raw  sugars  have  sold  at  lower  rates 
and  it  is  said  that  the trust  is  now  mak­
ing  money  enough  to  allow  it,  later  in 
the  season,  to  “ have  some  fun  with  Ar- 
buckles"  again,  and  others  say  the  war 
has  been  over  for  a  long  time.  The 
Doscber  factory  is  offering  sugar  now  in 
5-pound  bags,  although  in  limited  quan­
tities.  The  refined  sugar  market 
is 
quiet.  Few  orders  were  received  and 
those  of  small  amount. 
Prices  are 
seemingly  well  sustained  all  around.

The  call  for  rice  has  chiefly  been  foi 
Japan,  but  there  has  been  no  lush  of  or­
ders,  and  the  few  that  have  been  re-' 
ceived  were  for  small  amounts  Do 
mestic  grades  were  decidedly  dull  and 
this  has  been  particularly  the  case  with 
low  grades,  the  supply  of  which  is  more 
than  equal  to  the  demand.  Japan,  4J^@ 
5c;  Java,  4 j£@6j£c,  the latter  for  fancy; 
prime  to  choice  domestic,  5^@6^c.

The  spice  market 

is  dull  and  un 
changed,  with  orders  almost  nil.  Sin­
gapore  black  pepper, 
11c;  Amboyna 
cloves,  io^@io|^c.

Molasses 

is  steady,  but  with  a  very 
quiet  tone  to  the  market.  The  trade 
generally  seems  pretty  well  stocked  up 
and  is  taking  only  enough  for  current 
requirements.  Syrups  are  in  moderate 
demand.  Buyers  are  disposed  to  wait 
for  a  decline,  but  refiners  are  bolding 
out  firmly  against 
it.  Good  to  prime 
sugar  syrup,  I7@ 2ic.

Dried  fruits  are  quiet.  Some  new 
apricots  have  been  shown,  but  buyers 
are  not  rushing  to  take  the  goods  at 
10c;  old  stock,  I2K @ i5c. 
In  domestic 
dried  there  is  very  little  call  for  evap­
orated  apples,  which  are  held  at  g@g}4 c 
for  fancy.  Small 
fruits  are  quiet,  as 
usual  at  this  season.

Canned  salmon  is  selling  with  a  good 
degree  of  freedom,  and  the  Columbia 
River  pack 
is  being  rapidly  absorbed. 
Prices  have  advanced  5c  over  opening 
rates  and  packers  are  correspondingly 
happy.  The general  market  for  canned 
goods  is  in  good  condition  and  the  de­
mand  during  the  week  has  been  greater 
than  could  be  taken  care  of,  as  offerings 
are  very  closely  sold  up.  There  is  a 
promise  of  a  large  pack  throughout  the 
country,  notwithstanding  some 
local 
failures  of  crops.  Tomatoes  are  in  fair 
demand  at  about  70c  here  for  future  de­
livery  for  No.  3.

Butter  receipts  have  been  rather  light 
for  a  day  or  so,  and  altogether  the  mar­
ket 
is  dull,  although  this  is  to be  ex­
pected  with  two  or  three  days  of  vaca­
tion  in  view.  Extra  Western  creamery 
i8>4c,  and  down  to  15c  for 
is  held  at 
thirds. 
for 
seconds,  to  I5>£@i6c  for  firsts.  Western 
factory,  I2@ i4c,  latter  for  fancy.

Imitation  creamery, 

The  cheese  market  is  weak and  unset­

13c 

tled.  Stocks  on  hand,  while  not  large, 
seem  ample  to  meet  all  requirements. 
Large  size, 
full  cream,  fetches  8#c, 
with  small  size 

more.

For  choice  near-by  eggs  there  is  a 
pretty  good  demand-better, 
in  fact, 
than  can  be  met.  Western  fancy  “ at 
mark”   are  quotable  at  I4@i5c.
Marrow  beans  are  coming 

forward 
slowly  rnd  are  well  held  on  a  basis  of 
$1.50  for  choice  quality.  Pea  beans, 
$1.30,  with  little  doing.

New  potatoes  are  sought  for  and  sell 
freely  if  they  are  good,  the  finest  bring­
ing  from  $3@3.25.

Fruit  the  Cause  and  Cure  of Rheuma­

tism.

“ There  is  an  impression  very  preva­
lent  in  the  minds  of  many persons,”  ex­
plained  a  prominent  fruit  dealer,“ that 
there  is  rheumatism  in  strawberries. 
It 
imagination,  and  due  to 
may  be  only 
the  season,  but  there 
is  no  doubt  that 
persons  who  are  subject  to  rheumatic 
attacks  suffer  from  them  very  frequently 
during  wbat  is  known  as  the  strawberry 
season,  whether  they  eat  strawberries 
or  not. 
I  am  satisfied  in  my  own  case 
that  the  acids  in  strawberries  work  up 
a  nice  attack  of  rheumatism  for  me 
every year,but  lean  not  resist  them,and 
do  not  know  as  I  want  to.  But  there  is 
one  satisfaction,  and  that  is that,  while 
strawberries  may  have  something  to  do 
with  rheumatism,  cherries,  which  follow 
them,  are  an  absolute  cure  for  rheuma­
tism. 
I  have  never  known  a  person  to 
suffer  from  rheumatism  who  ate  freely 
of  cherries,  and  I  know  of  hundreds 
who  have  been  relieved  of  attacks  by 
eating  them. 
I  have  often  had  cherries 
ordered  two  and  three  months before  the 
season 
for  them  opened  hereabouts. 
The  ordinary  cherry  contains  an  acid 
which  relieves,  if  it  does  not  effectually 
cure.  Of  course,  it  may  all  be  in  the 
season,  and  that  rheumatism  would  dis­
appear  anyhow,  but it  is  safe  to  say  that 
there 
the 
cherry  season. 
I  don’t  know  of  any­
thing  healthier,  although  even  the  best 
tasting, 
ripe  and  perfect 
cherries  start  up  very  fine  cases  of  colic 
and  cholera  morbus,  which  are  very  an­
noying. 
the 
South  think,  and 
it  may  be  that  the 
same  belief  exists  elsewhere  and  among 
others  as  well,  that  all  the  cramp  or 
colic  is  taken  out  of  the  cherry  by  eat­
ing  it,  swallowing  stone  and  all.  That 
unquestionably  was  the  practice  once, 
Put  in  recent  years  fears  of appendicitis 
mav  have  changed 
it  somewhat,  al 
though,  for  the  life  of  me,  I  can  not 
understand  why  it  is  so  dangerous  now 
to  swallow  apple  seeds,  grape  seeds  or 
cheery  stones,  when 
in  old-fashioned 
times  it  was  the  rule  to  do  so  rather 
than  the  exception.”

is  no  rheumatism  during 

The  colored  people  of 

thoroughly 

Boarding-House  Prunes.

There  is  a  family  boarding  house  on 
the  West  Side  where  the  fare  is  remark 
ably  good  and  where  everything  is  done 
to  accommodate  patrons  and  make  them 
feel  as  much  at  home  as  possible.  But 
there  is  one  boarder  who  finds fault with 
everything  and  who  seems  to  feel  gen­
uine 
the 
cuisine.  The  other  night,  as  usual,  the 
boaider  immediately  began  to  elevate 
bis  nose  at  things.  Finally  his  criti­
cism  culminated  with  the  plum  pie, 
which  he  tasted  and  then  pushed  away, 
with  an  exclamation  of  disgust.

in  criticising 

satisfaction 

“ Humph!  Those  plums  taste  suspi­

ciously  like  prunes!”

The  old  gentleman  sitting  next looked 
indignantly  over  bis glasses  at  him  for 
a  moment and  then  interrogated :

“ Mr.  P—, what  are  prunes?”
The  grumbler  blushed,  looked  con­
fused  and  then  mumbled  something 
about  dried  fruit.

“ Well,”   said  the  old  gentleman,  as 
the  other  rose  to  go,  “ prunes  are  dried 
plums. “

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Cultivation  o f  the  Mexican  Olive. 

From the Mexican Trader.

The olive  tree  grows  in  cold  and  hot 
clim ates;  but  extreme  cold  as  well  as 
excessive  beat  is  detrimental  to  its  de­
velopment.  Extreme  cold  injures  the 
plant  when 
in  a  tender  condition,  that 
is  to  say,  until  three  years old,  and  ex­
treme  beat  produces  sterility.  Propaga­
tion 
is  obtained  by  means  of  seed, 
shoots  and  cuttings.  Propagation  by 
seed 
is  effected  from  the  kernel  of  the 
olive  fruit,  which  is  left  in  water  forty- 
eight  hours;  afterward  it  is  sown  two  in 
a  place  a  metre  apart,  being  covered 
with 
loose  earth  to  a  depth  of  six  or 
eight  centimetres, 
in  regular  rows  a 
metre  distant  from  each  other. 
In  our 
hot  region  the  time  most  appropriate 
for  the  sowing  is  in  the  autumn,  and  in 
the  temperate  and  cold 
the 
months  of  February  and  March.  At  the 
commencement  of  germination 
the 
that  they  may  be 
plants, 
shielded  from  the"rays  of  the  sun,  are 
covered  over  with  dry  zacate  grass  in 
the  form  of  a  funnel  during  the  first 
year.  This  system  has  not  given  good 
results 
in  practice.  We  are  unable  to 
say  why  this  is  so.

in  order 

regions 

The  propagation  by  shoots  is  made 
with  the  product  of  the  pruning,  which 
takes  place 
in  the  eighth  year  after 
planting  the  cuttings;  by  this  means 
the  greatest  number  of  plants 
is  ob­
tained  from  a  definite  area,  but  the fruit 
is  less  abundant. 
The  means  most 
generally  adopted  by  our  agriculturists 
is  by  cuttings;  these  are for media nurs­
eries,  with  trenches  from  80 to  ioo cen­
timetres  in  width  and  50  in  depth.  The 
cuttings  are  put 
in  water  twenty-four 
hours  and  then  planted,  two  in  a  place, 
in  each  trench,  their  roots  being  care­
fully  spread  out.  The  average  distance 
between  the  trees  is  15  metres.

The  olive,  more  than  any  other  tree, 
needs  pruning;  its branches  become  en­
twined  the  one  with  the  other to  such 
an  extent  as  to  intercept  the  rays  of  the 
sun  and  produce  barrenness  if  care  is 
not  taken  to  cut  off some of its branches.
This practice  is  not  less  essential  so  far 
as  the  offshoots  from  the  root  of the 
tree are  concerned.  The  top  of  the  tree 
should  be  pruned  in  order  to  diminish 
its  height,  so  as  to  facilitate  its produc­
tion ;  in  this  way  the  tree  gains  in  cir­
cumference  what  it  loses  in  height. 
In 
cold  climates 
is  necessary  that  the 
soil  have  a  sufficient  degree  of  moisture 
during  the  first  five  years  of  the  plant’s 
existence. 
The  weekly  quantity  of 
water  should  be  from  20  to  25  litres. 
Once  the  propagation  of  the  olive  tree 
is  effected  by  means  of  cuttings,  ac­
cording  to  the  plan 
it  is 
its  ultimate  place  and  its 
planted 
small  roots  shoot  up 
two 
months.  The  flower  appears at  the  end 
of  the  fifth  or  sixth year.  Fructification 
is  effected  in  from  twenty  to thirty years 
of 
its  existence,  when  the  tree  attains 
full  growth,  it  being  able  then  to  pro­
duce  up  to  80 arobas  (25  pounds  each) 
of  olives.

indicated, 

in  about 

The  gathering  of  the  olive  is  made  in 
September  or  October  in  three  different 
ways,  i.  e.,  by  band,  by  beating  with  a 
stick,  and  by  shaking.

in 

it 

is  not  a  lucrative  one. 

The  first  method  is  most  suitable,  for 
which  reason  we  confine ourselves to the 
circumstances  connected  with  the  gath­
ering  by  hand.  As  all  the  fruit  does 
not  ripen  simultaneously,  the  crop  has 
in  as  it  ripens.  The 
to  be  gathered 
gathered  fruit  must  be  stored  in  a  dry 
and  well-ventilated  place.  The 
fruit 
must  not  remain  in  said^,place  longer 
than  is  necessary  for  the 'extraction  of 
the  oil.  The  industry  of  preserving  the 
Mexican  olive  by  evaporation  or  pic­
kling 
It  is  true 
that  the  demand  for  it  is  sufficiently 
great,  but 
it  pays  better  to  extract  the 
oil.  The  oil  is  extracted  in  two  differ­
ent  ways:  by  pressure  when  cold,  or 
better  still  by  heating  the  green  or  per­
fectly  ripe  fruit.  The  best  oil  is  that 
which  is  extracted  from  fruit  previous­
ly  heated  to  a  certain degree.  Once  the 
oil  is  extracted  by  means  of  hydraulic 
or  screw  presses,  sea  salt,  indissoluble 
in  the  oil,  is  added  with  the  object of 
extracting  the  water  still  remaining, 
and 
in  the  bottom  of  the  re­
ceptacle.  As  before  said,  the  preserva­
tion  of the  fruit  has  no  commercial  im­
portance ;  but  merely  as  a  matter  of  in­
terest  we  will 
indicate  the  process 
adopted  by  our  Indians  in  preserving 
the  fruit  of  the  Chiquaucapolli  (olive). 
They  put  the  fruit  in  ordinary  water  for 
fifteen  days  in  order  to  remove the slimy 
particles,  renewing  the  water 
every 
third  day,  until  the  fruit  bas  lost  its 
acid;  then  they  mix  \ x£   cuartillos  (half 
a 
litre  each)  of  sea  salt,  four heads  of 
garlic  quartered,  ten 
lemoris,  also  cut 
up,  and  other herbs  and condiments,  the 
names  of  which 
the  Indian  women 
would  not  divulge,  guarding  the  secret 
in  the  sanctuary  of  their  conceited 
brains.  We  will  say,  in  passing,  that 
it 
impossible  to  extract a 
secret  from  them.  With  all  this  we 
must  repeat  that  in  order  to  relish  the 
Mexican  olives  a  special 
is 
needed. 
It  tastes  of  everything  which 
nature  never  intended  to  be  put  in a hu­
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ComniercialTravelers

Michigan Knights of the drip.

President,  Chab.  8.  Stevens,  Ypsilanti;  Secre- 
tary, J.  C.  Saunders, Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C 
Gould. Saginaw,

Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President,  J ames  E.  Day,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W. Allen  Detroit.

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

Grand Rapids Council No. 131.

Senior Counselor. D. E. Ke y e s;  Secretary-Treas­
urer,  L.  P.  Baker.  Regular  meetings—First 
Saturday of each month in Council  Chamber in 
McMullen block.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  B oyd  P antlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Geo.  P.  Ow en,  Grand 
Rapids.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President, P. G. T buscott, Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. P. Wixson, Marquette.

dent Association.

Would  Banish  Even  the  Suggestion  of 

John  Barleycorn.

Kalamazoo,  July  3—There  is a  ques­
tion  that  has  been  revolving  in my mind 
for  some  lime,and  the  article  which  ap­
peared  in  your  paper of June 28,  relative 
to  the  entertainment  of  the  Kalamazoo 
commercial  travelers’  ball  team,  has 
brought  it  more  forcibly  to  the  surface, 
and  added  to  my  perplexity  in  trying  to 
find  a  suitable  answer.

It  has  become  a  common  thing  at  the 
annual  banquets  given  by  the  various 
traveling  men’s  associations  for  one  or 
more  of  the  speakers  to  dwell  at  length 
upon  the  fact  that  no  intoxicants  are 
served  at  any  of  the  banquets  given 
under  the  auspices  of  any  traveling 
men’s  association,  and  this  sentiment  is 
applauded  loudly  and  vociferously,  thus 
giving  forth  the 
impression  that  it  is 
approved  by  those  present ;  yet,  in  the 
face of this,  we find  intoxicants flowing 
freely  at  the  annual  balls  given  by  the 
same  organizations,  and  following  many 
times  directly  after the banquets,  and  I 
am  sorry  to  know  that  some  of  the  par­
ticipants  are  not  in  fit  condition  to  pro­
ceed  unaided  to  their  homes  or hotels 
when  the  ball  is over.  Besides this  if  a 
social,  picnic  or  even  a  ball  game  is 
planned,  we and our  friends—those  same 
friends  who  were  at  the  banquet—are 
apprised  of  the  fact  that,  among  the  at­
tractions  that  are  offered  to 
insure a 
good  attendance  of  traveling  men  and 
their  wives,  beer,  wine,  champagne  or 
some  other  form  of  intoxicant  is  to  be 
served.

Now,  the  question  with  me  is,  Why 
If  it  is  right 
this  gross  inconsistency? 
intoxicants  at  balls,  socials, 
to  serve 
etc.,  why  not  at  banquets?  Or,  if  it 
is 
wrong  at  banquets,  why  not  at  all  gath­
erings?  Do  we  imagine  that  we can  fool 
the  dear  public  and  make  them  think 
we  are  what  we  are  not,  or do  we  banish 
these  features  from  our  banquets  as  a 
sort of  penance  for  the  wrong  we  do  in 
serving  them  at  the  other  functions,  at 
which  times  we  know  some  poor  fellow 
is  either started  or  furthered  on  the  sure 
road  to  ruin?  Or  do  we  eliminate  in­
toxicants  from  our banquets  because  we 
think 
is  more  respectable  to  do  so? 
If  so,  why  not  be  respectable  upon  all 
occasions?
The  time  was,  within  the  memory  of 
the  writer,  when  the  traveling  man  was 
looked  upon  as  of  a  lower class  of  being 
and  each  trip  was  a  continuous  round of 
drinking  and 
licentiousness;  but,  hap­
pily,  there  were  exceptions  to  this  rule 
in  a  number  of  them  who  foresaw  the 
inevitable  ending  of such  careers,  and 
who  are  with  ns  to-day,  and  whom  we 
delight  to  honor as  wheel  horses  in  the 
profession,  while  the  other fellows  are 
gone and  individually  forgotten.  Con­
ditions  have  changed  and  the  oppor­
tunity 
is  open  to  us  to  enter upon  a 
much  higher  plane;  in  fact,  we  are 
looked  upon,  as  a  class,  as  being  worthy 
of  respect  and  high  consideration  and 
it  remains  for  us  to  merit  this  respect 
if  we  will.  Streuuous  efforts are being 
made,  I  am  glad  to  say,  by  the  major-

it 

ity  to bring  our  profession  to a position 
to occupy  the  high  place 
in  the  world 
that  is  open  to  it,  but  it  seems  there  are 
some_  who  persist 
in  dragging  and 
keeping  us  down,  by  giving  out  to  the 
public,  upon  every  possible  occasion, 
the  intimation  that  we,  despite  our  pro­
testations.  are  still  of  the  old  order,  and 
that  the  old  nature,  which  in  deference 
to  public  opinion 
is  somewhat  under 
control,  must give  vent  to  itself  as  oc­
casion  may  permit,  and  that  we take 
advantage  of  our  gatherings  to accord 
it  the  privilege.
This,  to  my  mind,  is  deplorable,  and 
it  behooves  each  of  us  to raise  our  voice 
in  protestation  and  defend  ourselves 
against  these  unjust  insinuations,  and  I 
hope  your  valuable  paper  may  assist 
in 
this  work  by  closely  censoring  the ar­
ticles  that  are  offered  for  publication.
E .  S t a r b u c k .

Denounce  Trusts as  Un-American.
At  the  annual  convention  of the  Com­
mercial  Travelers’  National  League, 
held  at  Albany  last  week,  combinations 
of  capital  were  denounced  as  follows :

Resolved,  That  we,  the  Commercial 
Travelers’  National  League,  in  conven­
tion  assembled,  deplore  the  organiza­
tions  of  trusts,  the centralization  of  cap­
ital,  and  the  curtailment  of  individual 
possibilities,  as  a  species  of speculative 
conspiracy  and  a  menace  especially  to 
the  employment  of  commercial  travel­
ers.
Resolved,  That  we  condemn  as  un- 
American  the  combination  or  syndi­
cating  of  incorporated  or  private  busi­
ness  concerns  for  the  purpose of  con­
trolling  products,  and 
in  restraint  of 
trade  and  competition.

Resolved,  That  we  commend  most 
heartily  the  work  of  the  President of the 
Commercial  Travelers’  National League 
in  behalf  of  the  commercial  traveler, 
and  especially  in  relation  to  his  demon­
stration  of  what  trusts  really  are,  and 
showing  the  speculative reasons for their 
organization  and  the  consideration  of 
the  effects of trusts.

Resolved,  That  we  thank  him  for  the 
courageous  stand  taken  in  confronting 
this  vital  issue.

In  his annual  address  President  P.  E. 
Dowe,  of  Bedford  Park,  N.  Y.,  after 
reviewing  what  had  been  accomplished 
during  the  past  year  through 
legisla­
tion 
in  the  interest  of  the  commercial 
travelers,  dwelt  at  length  oivtbe  effects 
of  combinations  of  capHal  upon  the 
commercial  traveler.  He  declared  that 
reliable  statistics  showed  that  35,000 
commercial  travelers  had  been  thrown 
out  of  employment  through  the  opera­
tion  of  trusts,  and  that  25,000  others 
had  bad  their  salaries  reduced.  One 
man  in  every  ten,  he  said,  was  affected. 
In  conclusion,  he  said :

"A s   to  our action  on  trusts,  I  would 
not  advise  a  positive  or  over-aggressive 
stand.  As  against  trusts  we  are  novices. 
We  would  simply  get  whipped  in  a hap­
hazard  fight 
It  would  be  to  our  inter­
est  to  see  whether any  one  of  the  great 
political  organizations  deserves  our  ap­
proval. 
I  have  thought  a  monster  non­
partisan  organization  might  be  formed 
to  fight  trusts,  regardless  of politics."

Seventeenth  Annual  Convention.
Detroit,  July  3—The  seventeenth  an­
nual  meeting  of  the  Michigan  State 
Pharmaceutical  Association  will be held 
at  Jackson,  August  15,  16 and  17.  Every 
retail  druggist  of  the  State  is  invited. 
The  past  year  has  developed  much  of 
interest  to  the  retail  druggist,  prin­
cipally  the  organization  of  the  National 
Association  of  Retail  Druggists.  Our 
meeting  will  afford  good opportunity  for 
the  discussion  of  these  matters.  A  lib­
eral  attendance  is  very  much  desired. 
The Jackson  druggists have arranged  an 
interesting  programme,  and  will  make 
your stay  pleasant.  Programme  of meet­
ing  will  be  sent  to  all  members  about 
July  15.  The  Secretary  will  furnish  ap­
plication  blanks  and  programmes  upon 
request.

Arrange  your business  to  attend  this 

meeting. 

C has.  F.  Mann, Sec’y.

SU CCE SSFU L  SALESM EN.

W.  M.  Gibbs,  Representing  Pure  Gold 

Manufacturing  Co.

Walter  M.  Gibbs was born  in  the  town 
of  Dunkirk,  Chautauqua  county,  N.  Y ., 
near  famous  Chautauqua,  in  the  year 
1854.  His  father  was  a  steady,  hard­
working.  honest  fzrmer,  with  a 
large 
family  of  eight  boys  and  two  girls. 
Each  boy,  when  reaching  the  age  of 
fourteen  or  fifteen  years,  considered  it 
bis  duty  to break  away  from  the  family 
ties  and  go  out  to  seek  employment 
with  some  farmer  in  the  near  neighbor­
hood,  to  work  from  early  spring  to  late 
in  the  fall,  at a  monthly  compensation, 
although  there  were  some exceptions,  as 
there  are  to  most  any  walks  of  life. 
When  the  working  months  were  over for 
the  year,  they  did  not  go  back  home  to 
live  off  from  father  during  the  winter, 
but,  instead,  they  usually  secured  some 
place  to  work  for  their  board  and  at­
tended  school  during  the  winter  term  of 
a  country  school.

In  the  spring  of  1872,  the  father  and 
mother,  with  the  smaller  ones  of  the

family,  moved  to  M  ddleville,  Mich., 
and  W.  M.  Gibbs  went  with  them,  and 
in  October  of  the  same  year  be  went 
to  Grand  Rapids  to  seek  his  fortune, 
but  be  found  the  busy  city  too  large  for 
a  green  country  boy;  and,  hearing  of 
the  opportunities 
in  the  North  woods, 
which  then  extended  as  far  south  as 
Cedar  Springs,  he  bought  a  ticket  for 
that  place  and  fell  in  with  a  party  of 
men  who  were  hired  by  J.  W.  Naugbton 
to  go  as  far  north  as  Missaukee  county 
to  work  at  lumbering.  The  party  went 
by  rail  to  Farwell,  where  they  stopped 
for the  night,  and  the  next  day  traveled 
by  foot  over  the  State  wagon  road,  then 
being  built  about  forty  miles  to  the 
Muskegon River,  where another  halt  was 
made  for  the  next  night.  The  second 
day,  with  only  the  blazed  trees  to  mark 
their  way,  they  reached  the  Butterfield 
River,  where  they  built  the  log  build­
ings  where  they  were  to  spend  the  win­
ter.  He  remained  with  J.  W.  Naugbton 
until  the  following  spring,  and,  when 
camp  broke  up,  went  by  foot  to  Clam 
Lake,  now  called  Cadillac.  During 
the  fall  of  1872  Horace  Greeley  ran  for 
President  and,  although  Mr.  Gibbs at­
tended  many  political  meetings  at  Mid- 
dleville in  the  fall,  be  did  not  learn  who 
was  elected  President  until  the  follow­
ing  April.  He  then  returned  to  New 
York,  spent  two  years  at  work  on  the 
gardens  and  attended  school  at  the State 
Normal  School,  where  he  finished  bis 
school  education,  but  later graduated  in

the  Chautanqua  Literary  and  Scientific 
Circle  in  the  Pioneer  Class.

He  took  bis  first  lessons  in  a  mercan­
tile  line  with  F.  W.  Howard  in  a  bak­
ery,  remaining  with  him  until  he  sold 
out  his  bakery,  when  he  went  to  work 
for  H.  J.  Putnam 
in  a  crockery  and 
grocery  store,  where  he  remained  for 
six  years,  or  until  1883,  when  he  spent 
one  year  traveling  and  made  a  visit  to 
Grand  Rapids.

In  the  years  1885  and  1886  he  was 

in 
business  for himself,  having  a  fruit  and 
confectionery  store.  Selling  out  in  the 
spring  of  1886,  he  went  to  work  for  the 
firm  of  Hatch  &  Jenks,  of  Buffalo,  who 
were  spice  grinders,  importers  of  teas 
and  coffee  roasters,  and  covered  a  part 
of  Michigan  for  them  and  was 
in  their 
employ  until  they  burned  out  July  4, 
1891.  He  next  worked  for  J.  M.  Bour 
&  Co.,  of  Toledo,  for  two  years,  and 
then  one  year  for  the  Weikel  Smith 
Spice  Co.,  of  Philadelphia,  and  since 
1897  has  been  with  the  Pure  Gold  Man­
ufacturing  Co.,  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.

Mr.  Gibbs  was  married  July  8,  1885, 
to  Ida  N.  Van  Ness,  only  child  of 
Clarissa  Van  Ness.  She was  a  graduate 
of  Beaver  College,  at  Beaver,  Pa.,  and 
was  instructor  in  music  at  DePouw  Col­
lege,  New  Albany,  Ind.,  being  a  musi­
cian  of  considerable  talent.  They  have 
one  daughter,  Clara,  born  June  24, 
1898,  and  lost  one  little  boy,  Leon  Wal­
lace,  who  died  when  only  ten  months 
old.  He  was  born  October 27,  1890.

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gibbs  lived 

in  Grand 
Rapids  during  the  years  1888  and  1889, 
and  were  members  of  the  Westminster 
Presbyterian  church.  Mr.  Gibbs  is  a 
member  of  the  Odd  Fellows,  also  of  the 
Knights  of  the  Grip.  He  is  regarded  as 
one of the best  judges of  tea and  coffee 
on  the  road  and  is  considered an author­
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"G eorge!”   exclaimed  Mrs.  Fangle.
"D on ’t  bothei  me.”   replied  Fangle; 
"What  is  it about?”
"Sponges. ”

Man 

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will  give  up  a  bad  habit—and  tbe.i 
keeps  on  swearing.

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Drugs--Chemicals

bodiment  of  the 
minds.

ideas  of  many  lesser 

It 

rance  by  questioning  the  druggist, 
which  questioning,  as  a  matter of  fact, 
is  (and  should  be)  perfectly 
legitimate 
and  proper. 
is  the  old  story  of  an 
assumption  of  superior  knowledge  by 
the  doctor,  which,  as  a  matter  of  fact, 
be  no  longer  possesses.  Setting  aside 
the  consideration  of  therapeutics,  there 
is  no  doubt  but  that  the  educated  drug­
gist  enjoys  a  greater knowledge  of  med­
icines  than  does the  doctor.  Education 
and  constant  experience  with  the  phys­
ical  properties  of  drugs  give  to  the 
druggist  a  specialized  knowledge,  of 
which,  it  seems,  the  medical  profession 
is  loth  to avail  itself.

Pharmacy  is  the  handmaid  of  medi­
cine;  but  this  does  not  imply  that  the 
druggist  should  be 
the  doctor's  serv­
ant.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  members 
of  these  two  professions  are  co-workers 
in  kindred  fields  of  labor,  and  the  time 
is  ripe  for  a  change  of  relations,  which 
will  bring  together,  for  mutual  benefit, 
the  members  of  these professions.  Much 
has  been  said  and  written  regarding 
pernicious  dispensing,  substitution  and 
adulteration  of  drugs  by  pharmacists— 
and  there  is  no  gainsaying  the  fact  that 
these  evils  exist  in  perhaps  everv  city 
in  the  Union.  This  state  of  affairs  is 
most  deplorable,  yet  I  make  bold  to  as­
sert  tbat  the  doctor  is  largely  respon­
sible. 
In  the  December  issue  of  the 
“ Pacific  Medical  Journal"  I  took  the 
ground  that  counter  prescribing 
is 
wrong;  substitution 
is  not  only  wrong 
but unpardonable;  promiscuous  refilling 
of  filed  prescriptions  is an  e v il;  but  all 
of  these  wrongs  can  be  righted.  There 
are  pharmacies  where  such  things  are 
unknown,  and  such  pharmacies  should 
be  supported  and  jealously  guarded  and 
protected  by  the  members  of  the  med­
ical  profession. 
It  would  require  but  a 
slight  premium  on  honesty  to  make  dis­
honesty  an  unknown  quantity.  Medi­
cine  owes  to  pharmacy  a  broad  gauge, 
open-handed  fellowship,  a  liberal  pat­
ronage  and  fostering  protection.  Doc­
tors 
should  protect  the  professional 
honor of  the  druggist  on  all  possible  oc­
casions,  and  on  no  account  should  the 
doctor by  dbt,  word  or 
in­
nuendo  so  deport  himself  as to shake  the 
patient’s  faith 
in  the  druggist.  The 
idea  of  professional  honor  should  be 
In  using  the 
kept  well  to  the  front. 
word  “ professional”   I  use 
its 
broadest  sense,  embracing,  as  it  does, 
every  branch  of  the  science and  art  of 
healing,  pharmacy 
included.  Dr,  Eli 
H.  Long,  Professor  of  materia  medica 
and  therapeutics 
in  the  University  of 
Buffalo,  in  “ The  Medical  News”   of 
April  8,  1899,  echoes  the  same  senti­
ment  when  he  says,  ‘ ' Pharmacy  must 
be  regarded  as  a  part,  a  special branch, 
of  medical  science.”   There  can  no 
longer  be  room  for doubt tbat physicians 
and  pharmacists  are  co-workers 
in 
different  parts  of  a  common  science, 
is  worthy  of  the  highest  re­
and  each 
spect  and  professional 
consideration 
from  the  other.

insinuating 

in 

it 

Pharmaceutical  education  is  making 
In  1840  there  were 
gigantic  strides. 
but  three  colleges  of  pharmacy  in  the 
United  States,  while  in  1895  there  were 
fifty.  The  pharmacist  of  to-day 
is a 
college-bred  man.  He  claims  and  can 
maintain  bis  right  to  professional  con­

it 

sideration,  and 
is  the  duty  of  the 
medical  profession  to  stimulate  pure 
pharmacy  by  encouraging  pharmacists 
to  invest  in  it. 
If  this  sentiment  once 
becomes  rooted  in  the minds  of  medical 
men,  if  they  can  only  be brought  to  a 
realization  of the  fact  that  pharmacy  is, 
in  fact,  the  handmaid  of  medicine, 
there  will,  as  if by  magic,  spring  up  in 
every  city  of  our  Union  scores  of  estab­
lishments  where  commercialism  will  be 
subordinate  to 
Pharmacies 
will  be  conducted  on  a  higher  plane. 
Professionalism  of  pharmacy  will  be,  as 
it  should  be,  an  assured  fact;  educa­
tion  will  dominate  ignorance  and  mu­
tual  interest  will  be  protected.

science. 

Across  the  grave  of  the  dying  century 
let  medicine  extend  the  hand  of  fellow­
ship  to  pharmacy,  so  that  the  opening 
of  the  new  century  may  find  us  stand­
ing  shoulder  to  shoulder,  fighting  the 
battle  of  science. 

W.  J.  Jackson.

Thirty-five  Out  o f  Ninety-Three.
Ann  Arbor,  July  3—The  Michigan 
Board  of  Pharmacy  held  a  meeting  at 
Star  Island  June 26 and  27,  1899.  There 
were ninety-three  applicants  present  for 
examination,  sixty-eight  for  registered 
pharmacist  certificates  and  twenty-five 
for  assistant  papers.  Twenty  applicants 
received  registered  pharmacist  papers 
and  fifteen  assistant  papers.  Following 
is a  list  of  those  receiving  certificates:

REGISTERED  PHARMACISTS.

E.  O.  Bertram,  Detroit.
C.  G.  Becker,  Detroit.
J.  P.  Cotter,  Detroit.
C.  A.  Duerr,  Detroit.
F.  R  Du ining,  Kalamazoo.
Geo.  Eckle,  Petoskey.
W.  Von  Furniss,  Nashville.
O.  Gorenflo,  Detroit.
T.  A.  Goodwin,  Ithaca.
A.  Haarer,  Ann  Arbor.
R.  Hicks,  Dollar  Bay.
W.  A.  Hagen,  Muskegon.
O.  B.  Jerrells,  Ithaca.
P.  Kephart,  Berrien  Springs.
C.  A.  Learn,  Marlette.
F.  W.  Mayer,  Detroit.
O.  R.  Morse,  Sanilac  Centre.
C.  G.  Trumble,  Jackson.
P.  L.  Woodmere,  Detroit.
J.  A.  Wolfinger,  Sturgis.

ASSISTANT  PHARMACISTS.

W.  F.  Anderson,  Detroit.
G.  J.  Backoff,  Detroit.
G.  N.  Cox,  Hart.
M.  J.  Cloonan,  Pontiac.
J.  G.  Hall,  Olean.  N.  Y.
0.  D.  Hudnutt,  Hanover.
C.  W.  Hibbard,  Ann  Arbor.
J  E.  McDonald,  Detroit.
1.  W.  Paton,  Almont.
C.  B.  Pettibone,  Farmington.
J.  C.  Rusterholtz,  Sturgis.
F.  P.  Seabury,  Paw  Paw.
L.  F.  Steenman,  Howard  City.
P.  S.  Seibert,  St.  Johns.
O.  C.  Wheeler,  Ann  Arbor.
The  next  meeting  of  the  Board will be 
held  at  Houghton, Aug.  29 and  30,  1899.
The  Board  held  the  annual  election  of 
officers  at  the  meeting,  with  the  folllow- 
ing  results:  President,  George  Gun- 
drum,  Ionia;  Secretary,  A.  C.  Schu­
macher,  Ann  Arbor;  Treasurer,  H. 
Heim,  Saginaw.

A.  C .  S c h u m a c h e r ,  Sec’y.

Thomas  Edison  keeps bis  shop  with 
everything  an 
inventor  could  possibly 
want, a  fact  in  which  be  takes  consider­
able  pride.  The  other  day  he  offered  a 
prize  of $10 to any  of  his assistants  who 
would  need  in  their  woik  an  article  not 
in  the  shop.  The  man  who  took  the 
prize  wanted  a  clothes-pin.

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MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.

—  

Term expires

A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor 
Geo. Gundrum,  Ionia  - 
L. B. R eynolds, St.  Joseph  - 
Hekby H im , Saginaw  - 
Wir t P. Dorr, Detroit 

• 

•  Dec. 81,1899 
Dec. 81,1900
-  Dec. 31,1901
Dec. 31,1902
Dec. 31,1803

President, Geo.  Gundrum,  lonla.
Secretary, A. G. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, Henry  Hs u , Saginaw.
Examination Sessions.
Houghton—Ang. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Noy. 7 and 8.

STATE PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.
President—J. J. Sour wine, Escanaba. 
Secretary, Chab. F. Mann, Detroit. 
Treasurer—John D. Muir, Grand Rapids.

viz.,  Christianity 

is  greater 
is  greater 

Pharmacy  the  Handmaid  o f  Medicine.
We  are  standing  at  the  bedside  of  a 
dying  century.  Already  the  children  of 
this  century  are  erecting  a  monument 
to  its  unparalleled  greatness.  When the 
epitaph 
is  written,  posterity  will  read 
the  truths which science and  civilization 
have  proven, 
is 
greater than Theology;  Practice exceeds 
than 
Profession;  Purity 
than 
Prayer,  and  Life 
Thought.  The  human  atom 
is  made 
up  of  two  parts,  body  and  soul.  The 
soul’s  welfare  we  intrust  to  the  clergy, 
while the  body  we  claim  as  our  own,  to 
foster  and  protect  and  keep  in  a  state 
of  health  pursuant to  the  laws  of  nature 
and  the  teachings  of  medical  science. 
To  do  this  perfectly  we  must  neglect 
no  field  of  science  which  bears  upon 
our  work.  The  science  of  pharmacy 
is  most  closely  allied  to  medicine;  in 
fact,  it  is an  integral  part  thereof,  and, 
as  such,  must  take 
its  place  as  a  spe­
cial  branch  in  the  science  of  medicine, 
even  as  gynecology,  ophthalmology  and 
dentistry  are  but  special  branches  of 
one general  science.  Wfth  the  death  of 
the  old  there  will  be  born  a  new  cen­
tury,  and  to  the  new  let  us  dedicate  our 
future  effort.

life. 

is  almost  passed. 

As  medical  men  we  have  taken  upon 
ourselves  the  task  of  smoothing  down 
the  obstacles  disease  throws  up  in  the 
path  of  each  individual 
In  some 
lives  these  obstacles  crowd  thick  and 
fast  at  the  very  outset,  while  in  others 
they  scarcely  show  themselves  until  the 
span 
Come  they 
early  or  come  they  late,  ours  is the  mis­
sion  to  remove  or  set  them  aside,  and 
when  we  reflect  that  there  is  not  a  mo­
individual, 
ment  in  the  life  of  a  single 
not  one brief  second  of  time,  which 
is 
absolutely  free  from  attack,  we are then 
brought  face to  face  with  the magnitude 
of  our  undertaking.  Eternal  vigilance 
must  be  our  watchword,  and  our  tools 
must  bear  the  stamp  of  the  masters  who 
have  gone  before.  Where  Jenner,  Har­
vey  and  Lister have  led  we  may  safely 
follow;  but  where  no  precedent  exists 
then  must  we  search  in  the  realms  of 
more  modern  minds  for the  balm  which 
is  to  soothe  the  aching  breast.  It  is  not 
within  the  bounds  of  human  possibili­
ties  for  one  mind  to  know  all  things. 
It  is  not  possible  for one  mind  to  know 
all  that  might  be  known  on  even  the 
most 
insignificant  single  subject;  but, 
when  the  searchlights  of  ten  thousand 
minds.are  turned  upon  the  jungle  of ob­
scurity 
ten  thousand  different 
points  of  view,  there  is  almost  an  ab­
solute  certainty  that  some  of these lights 
will  bring 
into  view  the  face  of  some 
delicate  flower,  the  fragrant  breath  of 
which  may  add  joy  to  suffering  human­
ity.  It  is  the  constant  accumulation  of 
little  things  that  makes  great  things 
possible.  Great  minds  are but the  em­

from 

When  a  man  in  medicine  rests  solely 
upon  his  own  individuality  his  useful­
ness  is  at an  end.  The physician  is  not 
the  architect  of  his  own  greatness,  but 
is  rather  the  exponent  of  the  ideas  of 
bis  creators,  and  his  creators  are  those 
minds  which  have  contributed 
their 
mites  to  science  from  time  to  time, 
down  through  the  ages  since  first  the 
world  began.

Lister taught  us  to be clean—what was 
surgery  before bis time?  Jenner robbed 
smallpox  of 
its  sting,  while  Harvey 
opened  up  a  field  in  modern physiology.
To  modern  pharmaceutical  chemistry 
we  owe  the  discovery  of  the  alkaloids, 
without  which  the  practice  of  medicine 
would  be  as  empty  and 
insipid  as  a 
fully  ripened  poppy capsule.  Medicine 
is  a  broad  science  made  up  of  many 
parts;  each  part  is  inter-dependent  up­
on  the  others,  and  none  can  be  sacri­
ficed  without  weakening  the  entire  su­
perstructure.  One  of the  great  columns 
supporting  the  edifice  is  the  science 
of  pharmacy;  to  her  we  owe  much  of 
our  progression  and  success;  on  her  we 
must  lean  for  that  specialized  knowl­
edge  which  tells  us  of the  collection, 
preparation,  preservation  and  dispens­
ing  of  medicines.  Without  this  special 
knowledge  materia  medica  is a delusion 
and  a  snare,  since  without  it  disease 
can  not  be  cured,  nor  even  alleviated. 
We  expect  the  pharmacist  to  guarantee 
the  therapeutic  value of  our  drugs;  this 
done  we  are  sure  of  our  clinical  results. 
If  the  pharmacist collects,  prepares, pre­
serves  and  dispenses  our  medicines,  he 
should  enjoy  our utmost confidence,  else 
our  labor  is  correspondinlgy 
impaired. 
Medical  science  is  fast  drifting  into 
specialism.  The  general  practitioner 
is  day  by  day  depending more and  more 
upon  the  specialized  knowledge  of  the 
bacteriologist,  the  pathologist  and  the 
anal)tical  chemist,  and  with  the  evolu­
tion  now  going  on  in  pharmaceutical 
education,  it 
is  reasonable  to  expect— 
and  we  should  expect—the  physician  to 
call  to  his  aid  the  pharmacist  with  his 
specialized  knowledge,  when  questions 
of  prescribing certain  combinations  are, 
to  his  mind,  a  matter  of  doubt.

Someone has  said  that  “ Man  lives  in 
a  little  world  of  his  own,  and  be  lives 
or  the  approbation  of  that  world.”  
Such  being  the  case,  we  must  class  the 
doctor  and  the  druggist  as  members  of 
It  has  been  the 
the  same  little  world. 
habit  of  the  physician 
in  his  little 
world  to  assume  the  holier-than-thou 
aspect towards  the  druggist;  the  drug­
gist  has  been,  as 
it  were,  a  necessary 
evil.  The  doctor  has  demanded  all  and 
given  none  of  the approbation.  This 
position  is  wrong;  it  is  inimical  to  the 
interest  of  both.  The  conservation  of 
mutual 
interest  requires  that  a  closer 
fellowship  must  exist  in  the  future  be­
tween  these  two  professions.

The busy  practitioner has  not time  to 
make his own  bacteriological  examina­
tions,  even  although  be  may  have  the 
necessary  knowledge.  Neither  has  he 
time  to  do  analytical  chemical  work  for 
the  purpose  of  perfecting  the  minute 
details  of  a  difficult  diagnosis.  This 
work  is  usually  turned  over  to  the  spe­
cialist,even  as  we  turn  over  our obscure 
or  difficult  eye  cases  to  the  oculist.  We 
think  nothing  of  doing  these things;  we 
have grown  to  look  upon  such  action  as 
perfectly  right and  proper  (which it is ) ; 
but  when  it  comes  to  a  question  of  ma­
teria  medica, involving  a  point  in phar­
macy,  we  draw  upon  our  own  resources 
lest  we  expose  our  igno­
only,  fearful 

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced— 
Declined

Acidum
Acetlcum.................I
Benzolcum, German
Boracic....................
Carbollcum.............
Cltrlcum.................
Hydrochlor.............
Nltrocum................
Oxalicum................
Phosphorium,  dll..
Salicylicum............
Sulphuricum..........
Tannlcum............. 
Tartaricum.............. 
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg...........
Aqua, 20 deg...........
Carbonas.................
Chloridum..............
Aniline

_
38®

m

il

Black.......................  2 00® 2 25
Brown....................   80S 1 00
B ed......................... 
45®  50
Yellow.................... 2 50® 3 00
Baccro.
Cubeaee...........po. 18 
13®  15
Junipenu................ 
6® 
8
Xantboxylum.........   25®  30
Balaamum

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
15

Copalba...................   50®  55
Terabin, Canada—   45®  50
Tolntan...................  
50®  55
Cortex
Ables, Canadian.... 
Cassias....................  
Cinchona Flava......  
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerlfera, po. 
Prnnns Vlrglnl........ 
Quillala,  gr’d .........  
Sassafras— ..po. 18 
Ulmus.. .po. 15,  gr’d 
Bxtractum 
Qlycyrrhlsa Glabra. 
Glycyrrhisa, po 
* ilb
Hasmatox, 15 lb box. 
HaBmatox, I s ........... 
Haematox, Ms.........  
HaBmatox, Ms........ 
Perm
Carbonate Preclp...
Citrate and Quinla..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanldum Sol.
Solht.  Chloride......
Sulphate, com’l......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate, p u re ......
Flora
Arnica....................  
12®
Anthemls................  92®
Matricaria..............   30®

24®
11®
13®
14®
>6®

Folia

©
®
®

Barosma..................  
25®
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly.................  
18®
Cassia Acntlfol,Alx.  25®
8alvla officinalis, Ms
and Ms.................  
12®
Ora Ural................... 
8®
dumml
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
Acacia, 2d  picked.. 
Acacia, 3d  picked.. 
Acacia, sifted sorts.
Acacia, po...............
Aloe, Barb. po.l8©20
Aloe, Cape__ po. 15
Aloe, Socotrl.. po. 40
Ammoniac..............
Assafcetlda.... po. 30
Bensolnum............  
Catechu, Is..............
Catechu, Ms............
Catechu, Ms-...........
Cam phor»............
Buphorblum.  po.  SB
Galbanum...............
Gamboge  po...........
Gnalacnm...... po. 25
®  3 uu
Kino...........po. I3.U0 
M astic....................  
©  60
Myrrh............ po.  15 
©  40
Opil...po. 4.60®64.80 3 25®  3 3i
Shellac....................  25®  35
Shellac, bleached... 
40®  45
Tragacanth............. 
50®  80

50®

Herba

25
Absinthium, .oz. pkg 
Eupatorium  oz. pkg 
20
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
25
Majorum__ oz. pkg 
28
23
Mentha Pip. .oz. pkg 
25
Mentha Ylr.. oz. pkg 
39
Bne...............oz. pkg 
22
TanaoetumV oz. pkg 
25
Thymns,  Y-.oz. pkg 
riagnesla.
Calcined, Pat..........  
55®  60
Carbonate, Pat........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A M..  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum

Absinthlnm.............  4 50® 4 75
Amygdala, Dole__   30®  50
dale, Amarse.  8 00® 8 25
Amy»Anisl.........................1
2 00 
2 50 
Aurantl  Cortex...... 2
2 90 
Bergami!...................2
80
ijip u tl.................  75<
Cajlputl
70®  80
Caryophylli.
65
Chenopadll......  
© 2  75
rinnamonll.............  1  25©  1  35
Coronella.
40

11

35®

Conlum Mac...
Copaiba...........
Cubeb®.............  90©
Bxechthltos........"   l 00®
Brlgeron.................  1 00®
Gaultherla..............  1 40®
Geranium,  ounce...  © 
Gossippii, Sem. gal..  50®
Hedeoma......  ........  1  25®
Juniper a..................  1  50©
Lavendula.......   go®
Limonis..................   1  3s®
Mentha Piper.........   1  go®
Mentha Verid.........   l  —
Morrhu»,  gal.........   1
Myrcia...................   4
Olive......................
Plcls  Liquida...... 
Plcls Liquids, gal
Biclna...............
Rosmarini...............
Bos»,  onnee.........   6 50®
S ncdnl....................... 40®
Sabina................... 
go®
Santal..................... 2 50®
Sassafras.................  55®
Slnr,pis, ess., ounce. 
©
Tlglfi.......................  1 70®
Thyme....................  40®
Thyme,  opt...... 
®
Theobromas........... 
lg®
Potassium
Bl-Carb...................  
15®
13®
Bichromate........... 
Bromide............ 5»®
Carb....................... 
i2@
Chlorate..po. 17®19c  16®
..................   35®
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28® 
Potassa, Bitart,  com  ®
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10®
Potass Nitras........... 
10®
Prussiate.................  2u@
Sulphate p o __ .... 
15®
Radix

5

®

Aconitvm........ 
20®
Althse.................... ;  S s
Anchusa................. 
10®
Arum po...........  
Calamus...............  
20®
Gentlana........po  15 
12®
Glychrrhiza... pv. 15  16®
Hydrastis Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po..
Hellebore, Alba, po.
Innla, po................. 
Ipecac, po............ . ’  4
Iris plox —  po35®38
Jalaps, pr...............
Maranta,
Podophyllum, po.!"
R hei............
Rhei, cut............ J”
Rhelipv................ "
Spigelia............... .*
Sanguinarla. ..po. 15
Serpentaria.........
Senega...............
Slmilax,officinaiis H
Smllax, M............
Scilla............ . po.35
Symplocarpns, Foeti-
dus, po.................
Valeriana,Eng. po! 30 
Valeriana,  German.
15
Zingiber a...............  
1
Zingiber]...............   2
Semen
Anisum......... po.  15
1:
Ajdum  (graveleons) 
C a r u i . . . i p o . "  is 
j
Cardamon...............   1  g
Coriandrum......
Cannabis  Satlva..  ’  4v
Cvdonium............. . 
jj
Cnenopodium........ 
li
Dipterix  Odorate...  1
Foeniculum............
Foenugreek, po........
L ini......... _______  
Lini,  grd— bbl. 3V
Lobelia..................
Pharlaris  Canarian.
Rapa....................... 
Sinapis Albu...........
Slnapis Nigra.........  
Splritus 

11©

;

.

Frumentl, W. D. Co.  2 00® 
Frumenti,  D. F. R ..  2  —
Frumentl............
Junlperls Co. O. T
Juniperis Co........
Saacharum N. E ..
Spt. Vini GaUi. 
Yini Oporh 
Vini Alba.

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’
©  1 25
wool,  carriage__ 
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............  
©  1 00
® 75
Hard,for slate use.. 
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  nse.............. 
®  1 40
Syrups
Acacia....................
Aurantl Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac.... 
...........
Ferri Iod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega....................
8oill» ......................

50
50
50
60 
50 
60 
60 50 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 50 
75 
50 
75 
75 
1  00 
50 
50 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50 
50 
50 
50 
75 
50 
1  50 
50 50 
50 
50 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
20

©
©
©

niscellaneous 

ScillsCo................. 
Tolntan............  
Prnnns virg............  
Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellis R 
Aconi turn N a pell is ♦
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh....
Arnica....................
Assafoetlda............
At rope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma............
Cantharldes...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon.............
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor......................
Catechu..................
Cinchona................
Cinchona Co...........
Columba.................
Cubeba....................
Cassia Acntlfol......
Cassia Acntlfol Co  .
Digitalis..............
Ergot......................
Ferri Chloridum
Gentian..................
Gentian Co..............
Guinea....................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus...........
Iodine......................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino.......................
Lobelia................ .
Myrrh......................
Nux Vomica.........
Opii.........................
Opii, camphorated. *
Opii, deodorised.  ..
Quassia..................
Rhatany..........
RheLAT................."
Sanguinarla...........
Serpentaria............
Stromonium...........
Tolntan................ ’
Valerian.................
Veratrum Yeride..! 
Zingiber..................
■dither, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
.¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen..................   gw©
Alumen, gro’d .. po.7 
3©
Annatto.................   40®
Antimoni,  po__  
4®
Antlmoni etPotassT  40®
Antlpyrln..............
Antirebrin.........
Argent! Nitras, oz !
Arsenicum...........
Balm Gilead  Bud"
Bismuth  S. N........
Calcium Chlor.,  Is! 
Calcium Chlor., Ms 
Calcium Chlor., Ms. 
Cantharldes, Rus.po 
Capsici  Fructus, af 
Capsid Fructus, po. 
Capsid FructnsB.po 
Caryophyllus..po. 15
Carmine, No. 40......
Cera Alba............ .*
Cera Flava............!
Coccus.................. ;
Cassia Fructus__
Centrarla.................
Cetaceum................
Chloroform.........  |
Chloroform, squibbs 
Chloral HydCrst....  1 
Chondrus................
Cinchonldine.P. A w 
Cinchonldlne, Germ
Cocaine...............   3
Corks, list, dl8.pr.ct 
Creosotum....
Crete.............bbl.’ 75
Creta, prep............
Crete, preclp......
Crete, Rubra...........
Crocus....................
Cudbear..........." "
CupriSulph......... !!  6V
Dextrine..................
Ether Sulph.........
Emery, all  numbers
Emery, po..............
Ergota.......... po. 40
Flake  White........
Galla........................
Gambler.  ...............
Gelatin, Cooper...!!
Gelatin, French......
Glassware, flint, box
Less than  box__
Glue,  brown...........
Glue, white............
Glycerlna................
Grana  Paradisi......
Hamulus...............
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
Hydraag Ammoniatl 
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
IchthyoboUa, Am...
Indigo......................
Iodine, Resubi........;
Iodoform.................
Lupulin...................
Lycopodium...........
Mads....................
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarg Iod.............
LiquorPotassArsinit 
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
Mannla, S. F ......... .
Menthol...................

Morphia,S.P.AW...  2 20® 2 45 
Morphia,  8.N.Y.Q.A
C. Co.................
2 10® 2 35 
Moschus Canton__
©  40
Myristica, No. 1......
65®  80® 
Nux Vomica...po.20
10 
Os  Sepia.................
18®  20
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
®  1 00
Plcls Llq. N.N. M gal.
doz........................
Plcls Llq., quarts__
Plcls Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80 
Piper Nigra... po. 22
Piper Alba__po. 35
Pilx  Burgun...........
Plumb!  Acet...........
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
A P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrnm,  pv........
Quassi»..................
Quinla, S. P. A W..
Qnlnia, S. German
Qnlnia, N.Y.........
Rubia Tlnctorum... 
SaccharnmLactls pv
Salacin.................
Sangnls Draconis.
Sapo,  W...............
Sapo, M.................
Sapo, G...............
Siedlitz  Mixture..

© 

Voes.........................  

© 18
Slnapis........................ 
Sinapis, opt............  
so
Snuff, Maccaboy.De
© 34
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s 
©  34
Soda Boras..............  9  © 
11
Soda Boras, po........  9  ©  11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
2
Soda, Carb..............  1M© 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
5
3® 
Soda, Ash...............   3M@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........  
© 
2
© 2 60
Spts. Cologne........... 
Spts. Ether Co........  50®  55
© 9 00
Spt.  Myrcia Dom... 
©
Spts. Vmi Beet. bbl. 
©
Spts. VinlRectHbbl 
Spts. VlniRecklOgal 
©
Spts. Vlnl Beet.  5gal 
®
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  20® 1  35
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2*@  4
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2£®3M
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobroma............   46®  48
YanlUa...................  9 00©16 00
Zlnd  Sulph................ 
7©  8

Otis

Whale, winter.........  70 
Lard,  extra............   50 
Lard, No. 1..............  % 

BBL.  BAL.
70
60
40

42
39 
Linseed,pure  raw.. 
43
40 
Linseed, boiled......  
70
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  43!4  50
Paints  BBL.  LB
Red Venetian.........   1*  2  ©8
Ochre, yeuow Mars.  1*2  ®4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  1*  2  ®S 
Putty, commercial..  2M 2M®3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2*®3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
Vermilion, English.  70®  75
Green, Paris...........  13M®
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13®  16
Lead, Red...............   5*©  6m
Lead, white............  5*©  6m
Whiting, white Span 
©  70
Whiting,  gilders’. . . 
©  30
©  1  00
White, Paris Amer.. 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff...................... 
© 140
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

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

W AIT
FOR
TH E
W INNER

W e take pleasure  in  in­
forming the  Michigan 
trade that  our  Mr.  M cKay 
has  started  out with  our 
full  and complete line of 
druggists’  sundries  and 
holiday goods.  Mer­
chants are respectfully 
requested to defer making 
their purchases until  they 
have  inspected  our line, 
which  is the  finest we 
have ever displayed.

HAZELTINE 
&  PERKINS 
DRUG CO.,

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

20

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

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

AXLE  QRBA5 B-dos. gross
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
900
9 00
6 00

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

Absolute.

lb can  dot........ 

BAKINQ  POWDER.
*4 'b cans doz......... .........  
*4 Id cans do*................... 
1 
u lb can« 8 dot................. 
>4 lb cam 8 do«................. 
1 
M ilk.........................................  
oz. Eng. Tumblers........... 

45
85
....  t  50
45
15
lb earn 1 dm.................   1 06
10
85

Arctic.

Acai.

B1 Parity.

6 oz. cans, 4 doz case.........  
80
9 oz. cans, 4 doz case.........   1  20
lb. cans, 2 doz case...... 2 00
1 
2% lb. cans, 1 doz case...... 4 75
5 
lb. cans, 1 doz case....,  9 00 
*4 lb cans per doz.............  75
*4 lb cans per d o s ........... i 80
lb cans per dos.............8  00
1 
*4 lb cans 4 dos case........ 
85
*4 lb cans 4 dos case........ 
55
lb cans 8 dos case  ......  
90
1 

Homs.

B & s a n

Jersey Cream.

*4 lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
45
*4 lb cans, 4 doz case........  85
1 
lb cans, 8 doz case........1 60
1 lb. cans, per doz.................... 8 00
9 os. cans, per doz..................  1 25
6 os. cans, per dos.............  
85
*4 lb cans..........................  45
75

lb eans.......................... 
lb cans...............................  I 50

Oar Leader.

Peerless.

85

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

Queen Flake.

BATH  BRICK.

 
CANNED GOODS.

1 lb. cans  ......................... 
8 os., 6 dos. case.....................   2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case 
9 os., 4 dos. case....................... 4 80
1 lb., 8 dos. case.......................4 00
5 lb., 1 dos. case.......................9 00
American............................... 79
English......... 
80
Tomatoes...................  80®  90
Corn............................  80@1  00
Hominy......................  80
Beans, Limas..............  70@l 80
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®  22
Peaches, P ie...............1  00
Peaches, Fancy......... 1 40
Apples,  gallons.........   @3 25
Cherries.....................   90
Pears..........................   70
Pineapple, grated...... 1  75  2 4O
Pineapple, sliced....... 1 35  2 25
Pineapple,  Farren__1  70
Strawberries...............1  10
Blackberries..............  80
Raspberries................  85
Oysters, 1-lb................  85
Oysters, 2-lb................1 50
Salmon, flats, key......1  70
Salmon, *4 lb. flats....  90 
Salmon, Red Alaska.. 1  25 
Salmon, Pink Alaska..  90 
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 20
Lobsters, 2-lb. Star__3 90
Mackerel,1 lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused.1 75 
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato.l 75
Shrimps.......................2 00
Sardines, *48 domestic  354® 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5*4@  754 
Sardines,  French....... 8  @o22

BLUING.

em m ,d

BROOn5.

CANDLES.

c M

S
a
Small, 3 doz.......................  
40
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
to. 1 Carpet.......................2 3i
So. 8 Carpet.......................2  15
Ho. 8 Carpet.......................  I  85
Ho. 4 Carpet.......................  1  45
Parlor Gem....................... 2 50
Common Whisk.................   95
Pancv Whisk......................1 (0
Warehouse.........................2 70
8 s ........................................7
16s  ........................................ 8
Paraffine...............................8
Wicking.............................. 80
CATSUP.
Columbia,  pints................2 00
.1  25
Columbia. 54 pints
CHEESE
® 9
Acme......................
© 9
Amboy....................
® 9
Butternut................
Carson City.............
@ 8
Elsie........................
@ 9*4
Emblem...................
@ 9*4
G em .......................
@ 9*4
Gold Medal.............
@
Ideal........................
@ 9*4
Jersey  ....................
®
© 9
Riverside.................
@ 12
Brick.......................
© 7«
Edam.......................
© 17
Leiden.....................
® 13
Limburger..............
© 75
Pineapple................ 50  ®  75
© 17
Sap  Sago.................
Chicory
5
B ulk..................... 
7
Red

..
CHOCOLATB.

Welter Dakar tt Co.’».

German Sweet. 
Premium........  
Breakfast  non«-» 

..............88
....  35
46

COFFEE.
Roasted.

m a.

Java.

Mocha.

Santos.

Maracalbe.

F a ir.......................................... 9
Good........................................10
Prim e......................................12
Golden  ................................... 13
Peaberry  ................................14
Fair  ........................................14
Good  ......................................15
Prim e......................................16
Peaberry  ................................18
15
Prim e................................. 
Milled................................. 
17
Interior.................................  26
Private  Growth...................  8J
Mandehling.........................  85
Im itation................................28
Arabian  ................................. 28
Roastad.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......  
...........29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__29
Wells’ Mocha and Java.__ 24
Wells’ Perfection  Java...... 24
Sancaibo..............................21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo 
... 1854
Ideal  Blend..........................14
Leader Blend.......................1854
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market in which he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also *£c  a
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   10 so
Jersey.............................   10 50
rtcLaaghlta’s  XXYX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 54 gross...... 
75
I  15
Felix 54 gross................. 
Hummel’sfoll 54 gross... 
86
Hummel’s tin 14  gross 
i 48
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxes...........................40

Package.

Extract.

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos..........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dos.........1 80
Cotton, 60 ft, per  dos.........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  dos..........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft.  per  dos.............  80
Ju te.78ft  per  d o s..........  Of

COCOA.

James Epps & Co.’s.

Boxes, 7 lb s...........................40
Cases, 16 boxes........................38
COCOA 5HBLL8.
801b  bags.......................  
254
Less quantity.................  
3
Pound packages............  
4
CRBAfl TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes...... 30
Bulk In sacks..........................89

CO N D EN SED   M ILK .

4 dos In ease.
Gall Borden  Eagle...........  6 75
Crown................................. 6 85
Daisy...................................6 75
Champion  ...........................4 50
................... 
Magnolia 
4 25
Challenge 
...........- ..........8 35
8 85
Dime 

.... 

 

COUPON  BOOKS.
Tradesman Grade.

Credit Checks.

Superior Grade.

Universal Grade.

Bconomlc Grade.

Coupon Pass Books.

denomination from 810 down.

50 books, any denom__   1  50
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11 50
1.000 books, any denom— 80 00
50 books, any denom....  1  50 
100 books, any denom....  8 50 
500 books  any denom— 11  50 
t,000 books, any denom— 80 00 
50 books, any denom...., 1  50 
100 books, any denom....  8 50 
500 books, any denom— 11 50
1.000 books, any denom__ 80 00
50 books, any denom__ 1  50
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00
500, any one denom'n—   3 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
8000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.......................   75
Can be made to represent any 
20 books  .......................   1 00
50 books.................................2 00
100 books  ...........................3 00
850 books...............................  C 85
500 books................................10 00
1000 books.......................   17 60
DRIBD FRUITS—DOriBSTlC 
Sundried......................  O 7^4
Evaporated 60 lb boxes.  ©10*4 
Apricots.....................  
015
Blackberries...............
Nectarines..............  .  ®
Peaches..................   -10  OH
Pears...........................  O
Pitted Cherries........... 
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries.................
100-180 25 lb coxes.  ......  0  4
90-100 85 lb boxes.........  0   6
80 -90 25 lb boxes.........  0   514
70-80 25 lb boxes.........   0   6*4
60-70 251bboxe8.........  0   644
50 - 60 85 lb boxes.........  O  *
40 - 50 85 lb boxes  ........  © 10
30-40 85 lb boxes.........  ®
*4 cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Praaaa.

California Pratts.

Apples.

1%,

Raisins.

150
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
Loose Muscatels 4Crown 
7
L. M., Seeded, choice......   8
L. M , Seeded, fancy........  9*4

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Peel.

Currants.

Leghorn...........................©11
Corsican...........................@12
Patras bbls........................@ 6*4
Cleaned, bulk  ..................@644
Cleaned, packages........... @ 6*4
Citron American 101b bx ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx @10*4 
Orange American 10 lb bx @10*4 
Ondura 28 lb boxes.....  O
Sultana  1 Crown.........   @
Sultana 2 Crow n........  @
Sultana 8 Crown..........  @
Sultana 4 Crown.........   @
Sultana 5 Omwn  ........  @
Snltana 6 Crown  ........  @
Sultana package..,..,,  @

Raisins.

Farina.

FARINACEOUS OOODS.
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 

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

.1  80

Peas.

Beans.

Hominy.

Rolled  Oats.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packages........ 
1001b. kegs............................ 2 70
2001b. barrels........................5 10
Barrels  ............................ 8 50
Flake, 50 lb.  drams..........1  00
Dried Lima  ..................... 
5*4
Medium Hand Picked 1  20® t  25 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb.  box......   60
Imported.  25 lb. box........ 2 50
Common...........................  1 75
Chester............................   2 '0
Empire 
...........................  2 50
Green, Wisconsin, bn.......1 00
Green, Scotch, bn.............1  10
Split, bn.................................2 50
Rolled Avena,  bbl.........4 00
Monarch,  bbl........................3 75
Monarch,  *4  bbl................... 2 00
Monarch, 90 lb sacks........ 1  80
Quaker, cases........................3 20
Huron, cases......................... 8 00
Sago.
German............................  4
Fast  India........... 
8*4
Eesley’s Self Rising Flours. 
Pastry.
2 
61b. sacks, Ids.  fn case....  2 40
9 lb. sacks, 1 dz.  in jnte__3  35
2 
2 lb. cartons, 2 dz. in case..  1  80 
Flake.............................. 
5
pearl ................................ 
4V4
Pearl, 24 1 ib. pkges........ 
644
Cracked, bulk...................  3*4
24 2 lb packages...............2 60

Graham
Tapioca.

Entire Wheat.

Wheat.

3ALT  FISH.

Cad.

Herring.

nackarsl.

Georges cured............  @ 6
Georges genuine.......   @ 5*4
Georges selected........  @ 6
Stripe or bricks.........   6  @  9
Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 25 
Holland white hoop *4 bbl  5 25 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mchs 
80
Norwegian.......................
Bound 100 lbs...................  3  10
Round  40 lbs...................  I  40
Scaled...............................  
14
Mess 100 lbs......................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  66
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  36
No. 1100 lbs......................  13  25
No. 1  40 lbs............... 
  6 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1 48
No. 1  8 lbs.....................   120
No. 2 100 lbs......................  11  50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4  90
No. 2  lOlbs......................  1  30
No. 2  8 lbs.....................  107
No. 1100 lbt......................  5 26
No. 1  40 lbs................  ...  2 40
No. 1  10 lbs..................... 
68
No. 1  8 lbs..................... 
57
No. 1  No. 2  Fan.
100 lbs...........7 CO  6 50 
2 75
40 lbs...........  8  10  2 90  1  40
101*...........  86 
43
80 
8 lbs........ 
87
vi 
66 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

Whttsllsh.

Treat.

Perrigo’s.

Van. 
dos.
XXX, 2 oz. obert......1  25
...2 25
XXX, 4 oz. taper 
XX, 2 oz. obert......   1  CO
No. 2,2 oz. obert  ....  75 
XXX D D ptchr. 6 oz 
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz
K.  P. pitcher, 6 oz...

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

Lem.
doz.
75 
1  25

2 25
1  75
2 25
Van. 
1  20 
1 80 
2 00 
2 25

Jennings’.

D. C. Lemon
2 os........   75
3 oz.........1 00
4 oz.........1 40
60s..............2 00
No.  8...2 40
No. 10...4 00
2 T.1 25  No.  2 T.  80
3 T.2 00  No.  3 T.l  25
4 T.2 40  No.  4 T.l  50

D.C. Vanilla 
2 os...........1 20 
3 oz.........1 50 
4 os.........2 00 
60s.........3 00 
No.  8  4 00 
No. 10. 
.6 00 
No. 
No. 
No 
Tanglefoot,  per box........  36
Tanglefoot, per case  ..........3 20
Holders, per box of 50...   75
Perrigo’s Lightning, gro— 2 50
Petrolatum, per doz.........  75

PLY  PAPER.

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

HBRB8.
..........................   16
INDIGO.

Madras, 5  lb  boxes............   66
S. F.. 2. 8 and 5 lb boxes  .. 
60

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
.................................4 00

Kegs 
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 85
lb. cahs.........................   30
1 
*4 lb. cans............................   18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

K egs........................................ i  85
Half K egs...,................  ..8   40
Quarter Kegs............................1 35
1 lb. cans..............................  34

Bagie Dock—Dupont’s.

Kegs..........................................8 00
Half Kdgs................................. 4 25
Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
lib. cans.  ...........................  46
15 lb palls............................  85
8G lb pails  .........................  66

JBLLY.

LYB.
Condensed, 2 d o s ................... 1 20
Condensed. 4 dos 

........8 25

LICORICE.

Pure......................................  #
Calabria  .............................   86
Molly....................................  M
R o o t....................................  W

nATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur...................... 1 65
Anchor Parlor.....................1  70
No. 8  Home..........................1  10
Export  Parlor.....................4 nn
Wolverine............................ 1  05
No Brand...........................   95

nOLASSBS.
Now Orleans.
Black...........................  
11
 
F air..................................   W
Good................................. 
80
Fancy  .............................. 
84
Open Kettle...................... 26@35

Half-barrels So extra.
MUSTARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, No.  816......................  1  70
Clay, T. D. full count------ 
65
Cob, No. 8..........................  
85

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s..............................* "
Penna Salt  Co.’s...............   8  00

Barrels, 1,800 count............  4 00
Half bbls, 600 count............. 8 50

Barrels, 2,400 count.........   5 00
Half bbls  1,200 count------  3 00

PICKLES.
riedlam.

Saull.

R1CB.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   6*4
Carolina  No. 1  .................   5
Carolina  No. 8...................  4
Broken...............................   3*£

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1............   5*4® 6
Japan,  No. 2 
4 s©  5
Java, fancy  head........5  @ 5*4
Java,  Xo. 1.................  5  @
T ab le..........................  @
Packed 60  lbs. In  box. 

SALBRATUS.

Church’s Arm and Hammer.  15
Deland’s 
«00
Hwlght’s Cow.. 
............... 8  15
Emblem  ..............................3 50
L.  P..................................3 00
Sodio...................................3 15
Wyandotte, NO %s............. 3 00
Granulated, bbls.............. 
f0
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  8 -
Lump, bbls.......................   70
Lump. 1451b kegs  ............  
f0

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 
Butter, barrels, 2801b. bulk.2 25 
Butter, barrels, 2014 lb bags . 8 50
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   55
100 8 lb sacks....................... 1  95
60 5-lb8ack8....................... 1 80
2810-lb sacks......................1 65
50  4 
lb. cartons............ .8 25
116  2*41b. sacks....................4 00
lb. sacks................... 3 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks...............  .8 50
3010 
lb. sacks................... 8 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  82
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Balk In barrels....................2 50
56-lb dairy In drill bags......   30
28-lb dairy In drill bags......  15
60
56-lb dairy in linen sacks. 
56-lb dairy In linen sacks.
56-lb  sacks......................
60
Granulated Fine..............
Medium  Fine......................  70
Per doz.

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rack.
Common.

Warsaw.

SCALES.
Peiouie Housenoia.
SBBDS.

Weighs 24 lbs.  bj ounces.
Anise ..................................  
9
Canary, Smyrna................  3*4
Caraway..........................   8
Cardamon,  Malabar.....   60
Celery.............................  11
Hemp,  Russian................  4*4
Mixed  Bird...................... 
in
Mustard,  white..........  ...  5
Poppy  ...............................   10
Bape.................................  4*4
Cuttle Bone.....................  20
Scotch, in bladders.............  37
Maccaboy, in Jars................  8-
French Rappee, in jars__  
48

JAXON

JA8. S. KIRKS «BRANDS.

Single box.............................2 95
5 
box lots, delivered....... 2 r0
10 box lots, delivered.........2  75

American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.....................................2 75
Cabinet................................. 2 20
Savon.................................... 2 50
White Russian......................2 35
White Clond,  laundry......... 6 25
White Cloud,  toilet..............3 50
Dnsky Diamond, 50 6 os....2  10
Dusky Diamond*, 50 8 os___3 00
Blue India, 100 X lb..............3 00
Klrkollne.............................. 3 60
Eos...........  ......................... 2 60
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d o s....... 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 d o s............2 40
Boxes  ................  ............   6*4
Ken. English__ 
SYRUPS
C m .

Scouring.

Barrels................................. 17
Half  bbls..........................   18
1 doz. 1 gallon cans............. 2 75
1  doz. *4 gallon cans.........1 65
2  doz. *4 gallon c a n s....... 1 65
Fair  .................................  16
Good.................................  80
Choice..............................  86

Pure Cane.

SNUFF.

SODA.

SOAP.

-

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

21

Tomato Jugs.

Common

top,
top,
top,

LAMP  BURNERS.

Sealing Wax.
FRUIT JARS.

*4 gal., per dos...................  50
1 gal., each.....................   64
Corks for *4 gal., per dos..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
*4 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00 
5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
P in ts.................................  4  00
Quarts...............................  425
Half Gallons......................   6 CO
Covers................................   2 00
25
Rubbers............................. 
No.  0 Sun.......................... 
34
No.  1  Sun..........................   85
No.  2  Sun..........................  
¿0
No. 3 Sun...........................   1 00
Tubular.............................   45
60
Security, No. 1................... 
Security, No. 2................... 
80
N utm eg.......................... 
50
LAMP CHIMNBYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 dc z.
No.  0 Sun..........................  1 J8
No.  1  Sun........................ .  l «2
No.  2 Sun..........................  s 12
No. 0 Sun...........................  1 50
No. 1 Sun...........................  1 60
No. 2 Sun...........................2  45
No.  0 Sun.  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2 Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0 Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2 Snn,  crimp 

First  Quality.
wrapped and  labeied 
2  10 
wrapped and  labeled  ..  2  15 
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  3  15 

top,
wrapped and  labeled....  2  56 
top,
wrapped and  labeied.  .  2  75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled 
.  8  76 
CHIMNBYS—Pearl  Top.
No. 1  Son,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................3  70
No  2  Snn,  wrapped  and
labeled.............................. 4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled.............................. 4 88
No. 2  Snn,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamos............  
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................ 
0
No. 2 Snn,  plain  bulb,  per
d o z ................................... t  5
No. 1 Crimp, per doz_____.1   .5
No. 2 Crimp, per do« 
.  1  80 
Rochester.
No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)  __  3  50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz) 
.  4 ao
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz).......  4 70
Blectrtc.
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  ......  4 00
No. 2. Flint  (80o 
4  ■;)
Dos.
1 gal tin cans with  spout.,  i  ->1
1 gal galv iron with  spout.  1 52
2 gal galv Iron with  spout.  2 ! 5
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3  45 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  4 58 
3 gal galv iron with faucet  4  50 
5 gal galv Iron with  faucet 4  85
5 gal Tilting cans..............  7 25
5 gal galv iron  Nanefas 
.  9  g
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7  80 
5 gal Eureka non-overdow 10 50
3  gal Home Rnle.........  10  50
5 gal Home Rule...........  12 0«;
5 gal Pirate  King  ...... 
9  co
No.  0Tubular side lift....  *  ”0 
No.  1B  Tubula’- 
...  ( 5
. 
No. 13 Tubular Dash  __ 6  0
No.  1 Tub., glass fount 
T  0 
No.  12 Tubular, side 
14  ot 
No.  3 Street  Lamp, each..  8 75 
LANTERN  GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases ldoi.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 2 dos.
each, box 15 cents.........  
45
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls 5 dos.
each,  per bbl, bbl. 00__  1  78
N-». 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye.

Pump  Cans.

LANTERNS

OIL  CANS. 

La  Bastle.

SPICES.
Whole Silted.

Para Ground In Balk.

Allspice  .............................. 10
Cassia, China In mats......... 12
Cassia, Batavia In bond__25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........82
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zanslbar................. 12
Mace,  Batavia.................... 55
Nutmegs, fancy.................. 00
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nntmegs, No.  2............ 
45
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .13 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .16
Pepper,  shot........................15
Allspice  .............................. 14
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon.....................40
Cloves, Zanslbar..................14
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger, Jamaica.................23
Mace,  Batavia.................... 65
Mustard......................... 12@18
Nutmegs,...................... 40@60
Pepper, Sing., black............15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne................. 20
Sage.................... 
16

STARCH.

Kingsford's  Corn.

Diamond.

40 1-lb packages...................6
20 1 lb packages...................6M
Kingsford’s Sliver  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 
.................46£
1-lb  packages......................  4 a
8-lb  packages......................  4%
6-lb  packages......................  5
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3
Barrels 
__  3

Common Gloss.

Common  Corn.

STOVE POLISH.

SUGAR.

No. 4, 3'doz in case, gross..  4  50 
No. 6, 3 dos in case, gross..  7 20 
Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino................................5 75
Cut  Loaf.............................. 5 88
Crushed........ .......................6 00
......................... 5 63
Powdered 
x x x x   powdered................ 5 75
Cubes...................................5 63
Granulated inbbls.............. 5
Granulated In  bags............. 5 50
Fine Granulated..................5 50
Extra Fine Granulated  — 5 63
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 63
Mould  A...............................F 75
Diamond Confec.  A............5 50
Confec. Standard A...........   5 38
5 00 
No.
.  5 00 
No
.  5 OO 
No.
..4 9t 
No.
..4  88 
No.
..4 81 
No.No.
..4 75 
..4 f9 
No.
..4 63 
No.
..4 50 
N".  »0. 
..4 38 
No.  U. 
..4 31 
No.  12. 
.4 31 
No.  18. 
.4 25 
No.  14 
*. 25 
No.  15
4  25
V i .  16

TABLE  SAUCES.
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine 
W  orcestershire. 
Lea A Perrin’s,  large...  3 75 
Lea A Perrin’s, small...  2 50
Halford,  large..................3 75
Halford small...................2 25
Salad Dressing, large...... 4 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 00
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 Stahl  Co......35© 90  00
Banner Cigar Co....... 1 r@ 35  00
Setdenberg & Co....... 55@125 00
G.P. Sprague Cigar Co. 10© 35 03 
The Pulton Cigar Co.. 10© 35 00 
A. B. Ballard & Co....35@175 00 
E.  M. Schwarz A Co 
.3F@110 00
San Telmj................ 35© 70  0)
Havana Cigar Co.......18© 35  00

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11
Pure Cider, Red Star..........12
Pure Cider, Robinson.........13
Pure Cider, Silver............... 12*4

WICKING.

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

WOODENWARB.

Baskets.

Bushels..............................  1 00
Bushels, wide band..........   1 10
Market...............................   30
Willow Clothes, large....... 6  25
Willow Clothes, medium... 5 50
Willow Clothes, small......5  00

Pails.

2- 
hoop Standard............1  35
3- 
hoop Standard........... 1  50
2-wlre, Cable.......................1 35
3 wire, Cable......................1  61
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1 25
Paper, Eureka....................2 25
FiDre..........  ....................... 2 25

Tabs.

2 Much, Standard, No. 1__5 80
18-inch, Standard, No. 2__4 85
16-inch,  Standard.  No. 3__3 85
20-inch, Dowell, No. 1.........6 25
18-inch, Doweli, No. 2.  ......5 25
16-inch, Dowell, No. 3.........4 25
No. I Fibre. 
......................9 03
No. 2 Fibre.........................7  50
No. 3 Fibre..........................6 75

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Butter.
Seymour XXX...................  5*4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family XXX  ....................  5*4
Salted XXX.......................  5*4
New York XXX.................  5*
Wolverine.........................  6
Boston................................  7*4
Soda  XXX  .......................   6
Soda XXX, 3 lb  carton__  6*4
Soda,  City.........................  8
Long Island Wafers.........   11
L. 1. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Zephyrette...........................10

Soda.

Oyster.

Saltine Wafer....................  5*4
Saltine Wafer, 1 lb. carton.  6*4
Farina Oyster....................  5*4
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  10*4
Bent’s W ater.....................   15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   10
Coffee Cake, Iced................10
Cracknells.........................  15*4
Cubans  .............................   11*4
Frosted  Cream...... ...........  8
Ginger Gems.....................   8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  7*4
Graham Crackers  ............   8
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................   8
jumDles,  Honey..................12*4
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow  Walnuts__  16
Mich. Frosted Honey__   12*4
Molasses Cakes.................  8
Newton.............................   12
Nlc Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8*4
Pretzels,  hand m ad e......   7*4
Sears’Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake......................  8
Sugar  Squares.................  9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas............................  12*4

Candies.
Stick Candy.

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

bbls.  pails
7  © 7*4
7  © 7*4
7*4© 8
© 8*4
cases
@ 6*4
© 8*4
@10

Mixed Candy.

@ g
Grocers.................... 
Competition............ 
© 6*4
© 7
Standard................. 
© 7*4
Conserve................. 
© 7*4
Royal...................... 
Ribbon.................... 
© 8*4
© 75i
Broken................... 
Cut Loaf................. 
© 8*4
English Rock.........  
© 8*4
© 8*4
Kindergarten.........  
French  Cream........ 
© 9
Dandy Pan.............  
@10
Hand Made Cream mxd  ©13 
Hobby.................... 
© 8*4

Fancy—In Balk.

San Bias Goodies....  @11
Lozenges, plain......  
© 8*4
© 8*4
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Choc.  Drops........... 
©11
©12*4
Choc.  Monumentals 
Gum  Drops............  
© 5
Moss  Drops............  
© 8*4
© 8*4
Sour Drops.............. 
Imperials...............  
@9»,
Ital. Cream Bnbns, 35 lb pis  11 
Molasses Chews,  15 lb. pails  13 
Jelly Date Squares..  @10
Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops.........  
©50
Sour  Drops............  
©50
©60
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops__ 
©65
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
©75
H. M.  Choc. Lt.and
Dk. No. 12............  
@90
Gum  Drops............  
©an
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
Lozenges,  plain__  
©56
Lozenges, printed.. 
©55
Imperials...............  
©55
Mottoes................... 
©go
Cream Bar.............. 
©sa
Molasses B a r.........  
© S
Hand Made Creams.  80  ©  90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Want............  
@65
String Rock............  
©60
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25  ©
Wintergreen Berries  ©55

Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes 
..............
Fruits.
Oranges.
Medt Sweet.............  
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 300s.............  
Ex.Fancy  300s........ 
Ex. Fancy  360s........ 
Bananas.

©35
©50

©5 CO

@4 00
@4 00

@4 75
@5  00
©

Medium bunches... 1  00  @1  25
Large bunches........175  ©2 25

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Figs.

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

@)3
@12
@18
©22
@
©
@ 7

Fards In 10 lb  boxes  @10
©  6
Fards  in 60 lb cases 
Persians, P H V......  
© 6
lb cases, new........ 
© 6
Salrs,  601b cases__ 
© 5
___ Nuts.____
Almonds, Tarragona..  @16
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @16
Brazils new...............   © 7
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Granobles..  @13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @11
Walnuts,  soft shelled
Calif.......................  @u
Table Nuts,  fancy....  @11
Table Nuts,  choice...  @10
Pecans, Med...............  © 7*4
Pecans, Ex. Large.. 
© 9
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............   ©1  60
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  ©3 50
Chestnuts per bu.......   ©
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  © 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................  © 7
Choice, H. p., Extras.  © 5
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
6
.........  

Peanuts.

Roasted 

Grains and Feedstuffs

P r o v i s i o n s .

W heat.

70

Wheat................................ 
Winter  Wheat  Flonr. 

Local Brands.

Patents............................. 40
Second  Patent....................  3 50
Straight............................   3 25
Clear...................................  3 00
Graham  ..............................3 50
Buckwheat.....................
R ye....................................  3 25
Subject  to  nsu&l  cash  dis 
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand

Spring Wheat Flour. 

Daisy, *4s.............................3 8
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  *4s........................  3  tl
Quaker, Ms........................  3 65
Quaker, *4s......  ...............   3  6f
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
PUlsbury’s Best *48...........  4  55
Plllsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 45
Plllsbury’s Best *4s...........  4  35
Plllsbury’s Best *4s paper  4  35 
Plllsbury’s Best ms paper..  4  35 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Duluth Imperial, *4s.........4  sr
Duluth Imperial, Ms.........4  40
Duluth Imperial, Ms.........  4  30
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Ms..................  4  50
Gold Medal Ms.................. 4  40
Gold Medal Ms.................. 4 ¿0
Parisian, Ms......................   45
Parisian, Ms...................... 4 40
Parisian. Ms.......................  4 ¿0
Ceresota, Ms......................  4 50
Ceresota, Ms......................  441
Ceresota, Ms.....................   4 3 )
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ms.........................  4 40
Laurel, Ms.........................  4 30
Laurel, Ms.........................  4 20
Bolted....................... .......  j  90
Granulated.......................
Feed and Mlllstuffs.

Olney A Judsou's Brand.

Meal.

Corn.

Screenings.........................14 <
New corn, car lots............ 37
Less than  car  lots............  39
Car  lots............................. 30
Carlots, clipped.................  32*4
Less than  car lots...........  3t

Oats.

Hay.

Fresh Fish.

_ 
Per lb.
Whiteflsh...................  © -*4
T rout.........................  © 8
Black Bass..............  8  ©  10
Halibut 
© 
.................. 
Ciscoes or Herring 
©  4
Bluefish..................... 
© 
Li ve Lobster......... 
©  18
Boiled Lobster........  ©  20
Cod 
.........................   © 
Haddock  ...................  © 7
No.  1  Pickerel........  ©  g
Pike............................  @ 7
Perch..........................  @ 4*4
Smoked White........  © 
t
Red Snapper...........  ©  9
Col  River  Salmon 
©  12
Mackerel 
.................  @ 
Oysters, per  100......... 1  “«©I  5n

Shell Goods.

Oils.
Barrels.

Hide«.

Eocene.....................   @11M
Perfection  .................  @10
XXX V\.W.Micn.Hdlt  @iu
W W Michigan...........  © 9m
Diamond White.........  © «m
D., S. Gas 
................  @13
Deo. N aptha..............  @13
Cylinder....................29  ©34
-Jagine  ......   .... 
11  ©21
hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon .V Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Oan&i  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Green No.  1......  
  @ 7*4
 
Green No. 2 ...............  @ 6*4
Bulls....................... 
Cured No. 1................   ©  g%
Cured No. 2................  ©
Calfskins,  green No. 1  ©  9
Calfskins, green No. 2  ©  7M
Calfskins, cured No. 1  @lu
Calfskins, cured No. 2  ©  g*4
Pelts, each.................  50© I  00
No. 1...........................  © 3*4
No. 2...........................  © 2*4
Washed, fine  ............   @16
Washed, medium.......  Q2J
Unwashed, fine..........  9  @12
Unwashed, med'um ..14  @16

Pelts.
Tallow.

Wool.

@6

Swift  A  Company  quote  as

follows:

Barreled Pork.

Sausages.

Lards.  In Tierces.

Mess  ........................
Back  ......................10 50©
Clear  back..............
©10 2e
Shortcut.................... ...  9 75
Pig.............................. ...  14 00
Bean  ......................... ... 
9 10
Family  ..................... ...  11  OJ
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies.......................
5X
Briskets  ....................
Extra  shorts..............
&M
Smoked Heats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  . ... 
10M
Hams, 14 lb average
... 
10M
Hams, 16 lb average..... 
It
Hams, 20 lb  average..
9%
Ham dried beef  ........ ... 
15*4
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut)
Bacon,  clear.............. .  7  @7*4
California hams........
7
Boneless hams...........
8*4
Cooked  ham.............. .. 10@15
Compound.................
4*4
Kettle.........................
6
55 lb Tubs.........advance 
96
ii
SOlbTubs......... advance 
£
50 lb T ins.........advance 
20 lb Palls......... advance 
96
10 lb Pails.........advance 
%
5 lb Palls......... advance 
1
1M
3 lb Pails......... advance 
Bologna...............
5M
Liver  ..................
6H
Frankfort............
7%
P ork.....................
6*4
Blood  ....................
6
Tongue  ..................
9
Head  cheese.  ........... ... 
6*4
Beef.
Extra  Mess............
... 10 25
Boneless  ............
...12 50
Rump......................
...12 00
Pigs' Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs...........
...  70
M  bbls, 40 lbs............ ...  1  35
*4  bbls, 80 lbs............ ...  2 50
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs..............
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs............ ...  1  25
M  bbls, 80 lbs............ ...  2 25
Casings.
P ork.....................
20
Beef  rounds............
3
Beef  middles...........
10
Sheep.......................
60
Butterine.
Rolls,  dairy..............
Solid,  daily  ............
Rolls,  creamery......
Solid,  creamery
Canned  Maats.
Corned  beef,  2 lb
.  2 15
Corned  beef, 14  lb....
Roast  beef,  2 1b.... ...  2  15
Potted  bam,  Ms__ ...  50
Potted  bam,  Ms__ ...  90
Deviled ham.  Ms__ ...  50
Deviled ham.  Ms__ ...  90
Potted  tongue Ms__ ...  50
Potted  tongue Ms__ . .. 
90
Fresh  Meats.
16
11

11
10M
15*4
14M

... 
... 

... 

... 

18

10

Pork.

Carcass...................... 7  © 8M
Fore quarters............ 0  ©  6*4
Hind  quarters........... 8J4@10
Loins  No.  3...........
12  @14
Ribs.......................
9  @14
Rounds  ..................
©  8
Chncks....................... 6  © 6*4
Plates  ....................... 4  ® 5
Dressed...................... 5  © 5*4
L oins.......................
@  7
Shoulders  ..............
@  8
Leaf Lard................... 6M®
Mutton
Carcass  .................... 8M®10
Spring Lambs........... 12  @12*
Carcass  .................... 8  ©  8*4
Crockery  and

Veal.

Beef.

Glassware
AlUiOh ATONBw avB. 

Batters.

*4 gal., per dr».................  40
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5
8 gal., each......................  4s
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 doz...  84 
*4 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  40 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each
Fine Glazed Milkpans.

Milkpans.

Charas.

Stewpans.

*4 gal. flat or rd. bot.. doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5M 
*4 gal. fireproof  " -11, doz.  85 
1 gal. flreproot, ball, dos.l  10 
M gal., per dos..................  40
*4 gal., per doi..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal............   a

Jags.

2 2

Hardware

How  White  Lead  Is  Made.

it 

it 

It 

Iron, 

Very  few  people  know  how  white lead 
— the  base of  so  many  paints— is  made, 
and  even those who sell  it  ought  to  know 
more  about  it  than  they  do.  Now  and 
then  one  may  find  a  person  who will  tell 
you  that  the  same  lead which is moulded 
into  bullets 
is  the  white  lead  seen  in 
the  paint  pots,  but an  enquirer  will  ask 
a  great  many  people  before  he  finds  one 
to  explain  the  process  of  manufacture. 
Here,  then,  are  a  few  notes  that  may  be 
of  interest  to  those  who  are  expected  to 
know. 
is  pretty  generally 
known,  is  melted  into  what  are  called 
“ pigs”   for  shipment and  for convenient 
use. 
is  the  same  with  lead  only  the 
pigs  are  not  as  large and  heavy.  The 
first  step  in  the  manufacture  is  to  cor­
rode  the 
lead.  We  will  take  what  is 
called  the  * * old Dutch process,' ’ because 
that  makes  the  best article.  The “ pigs”  
are  tossed  into  a  melting  furnace,  and 
when  reduced  to  a  liquid  state  the metal 
into  moulds,  which  are 
is  drawn  off 
called  “ buckle  moulds.”   The 
lead 
thus  moulded 
is  called  a  “ buckle,”  
being  a  little  round cake  nearly  as  large 
as  a  saucer  but  not  so  thick,  and  per­
forated  in  many  earthern  jars  of  various 
sizes.  At  the  bottom  of  each  jar  is a 
small  quantity  of  acetic  acid.  When  a 
jar 
is  full  of  “ buckles,”   which  have 
been  dropped  in  without  regard  to  or­
der, 
is  removed  to  the  corroding 
house.  Here  the  jars  are  placed  in  a 
row,  covered  by  boards,  the  boards  are 
covered  by Jwo  inches  of  tan  bark,  and 
then  another course  of  jars  is  added  un­
til  all  the  room  is  taken  up.  There  is 
nothing  more  to  do  for  ninety  days  ex­
cept  to  wait. 
It  is  not  the  acid  direct, 
but 
its  fumes,  and  the  perforations 
which  permit  the  fumes  to  get at  all 
parts  of  the  little  cake.  At  the  end  of 
ninety  days  the  lead  should be corroded. 
The  “ buckles”   are  then  bleached  out 
until  they 
like  biscuits  and  will 
crumble  to  pieces  at  the  touch.  The 
same  acid  which  has  befriended  the 
maker  in  the  corrosion  is  now  his  worst 
enemy,  and  must  be got  rid  of.  Many 
people  have  rubbed  their  bands  along 
the  boards  of  a  building  and found them 
smeared  with  a  white  powder.  That 
house  was  painted  with  the  lead  from 
which  the acetic  acid  was  not  thorough­
ly  washed  out,  and  the  paint  “ killed”  
and  powdered  up.  The  jars  are  taken 
to  the  washing-troughs  and  their  con­
tents  emptied  in,  and  the  water  is  then 
let  in  and  the  bath  is  sluiced  until  we 
have a  mixture the  color  of  milk  and 
scarcely  heavier.  After  a  deal  of  wash­
ing  the  water  is  drawn  off,  and  the  lead 
is  found  at  the bottom  of  the  troughs. 
If  the  acid  has  been  taken  out  it  is 
shoveled  into  the  jars  again,  and  then 
carried  into a  hot-air  room  and  left  for 
the  water  to  evaporate.  When  this  has 
been  accomplished,  the  contents  of  the 
jars  are  emptied  on  copper drying  pans 
heated  by  steam.  The  sthff  now  looks 
like  ice  cream, but soon  dries  until  it  is 
as  fine  and  white  as  flour.  To make 
paint  it  simply  has  to  be  ground  in  oil. 
To  prove  that  this  white  paint  was  once 
metal,  a  simple  experiment  may  be 
made.  Take  a  piece  of  charcoal,  dig 
out  a  small  hole  in  the  center,  and  fill 
the  cavity  with  paint.  Now  light  the 
charcoal  and  put  the  blowpipe  at  work, 
and  what  is  the  result?  A  ragged  button 
of  lead.  Acid made  it  paint—fire burns 
lead 
corroder  ships  to  the  paint  factories  by 
the  barrel.  At  the  factories  the  dye

.  it  back  to  its original  state.  The 

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Tradesman  Company

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Brown  & Sehler,

W .  Bridge &  Front S ts. 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Jobbers in

Buggies, Carriages,

Saddlery,  Hardware, 

Robes,  Blankets,  Whips, etc.

Manufacturers of

A  full  line  of  Heavy  and 
Light  Harness for the  trade.

r REFRIGERATORSn

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

is  poured 

stuff 
into  paint  mills,  oil 
added,  and  the  stuff  is ground  through 
three different  mills before  it  comes  out 
as  seen  in  the  paint  cans. 
If the  paint- 
man  is  making  pure lead  be  adds  noth­
is  adul­
ing. 
terated  while  grinding.  There 
is  a 
species  of  quartz  rock  called  barytes. 
When  this 
is  pulverized  it  closely  re­
sembles  lead,  and 
is  largely  used  to 
adulterate  it.

If  he  so  desires  the  lead 

Too  Honest  to  Ever  Grow  Rich.
Emerson  keeps  a  grocery  store  on 
Grand  avenue.  As  all  bis  customers 
are  either  Greeks  or  Italians,  he  keeps 
a  stock  on  band  somewhat  different 
from  other grocers.

One day a  drummer strayed 

into  the 
store.  Emerson  was  waiting  on  an 
Italian  woman,  while her  four-year-old 
son  was  stealing  sugar  out  of  a barrel.

Eggs were  18  cents a  dozen. The
The
was

woman wanted  only  one  egg.
solitary
chicken
wrapped  np. 

prospective

,

“ Two  cents,  please,”   said  Emerson. 
She  paid  and  received  a  small  slip  of 
yellow  paper.

“ What  was  that  slip  you  gave  her?”  

asked  the  drummer,  after  she  left.

“ H ’m,  you  see  eggs  are  18  cents a 
dozen.  That  makes  one and  a  half  cents 
for  each  egg.  The  woman  would  not 
pay  a  half  cent too  much,  and,  as  I  did 
not  want  to  sell  the  egg  for  one  cent, 
she  paid  two  cents  and  I  gave  her  the 
slip  good  for  one-half  cent.  Thus  she 
will  get the  next  egg  for  one  cent  if  she 
brings  the  slip.”

it 

The  summer  oyster 

is  preparing  to 
“ come 
in”   with  a  rush,  and  dealers 
estimate  that  about  18,000 bushels  will 
in  New  York  City  alone  the 
be  sold 
present  season. 
The  popular  fallacy 
about  the  silent  bivalve  being  unwhole­
some  during  the  months  that  have  not 
the  letter  “ r”   in  their  make-up  is  be­
ing  dispelled 
in  a  practical  manner 
these  days.  The  summer oyster  is  not  a 
bit  different  from  its  winter brother,  ex­
cept  that 
is  smaller and  more  pal­
atable 
in  hot  weather,  because  it  is  a 
late  spawner.  Every year since  1890  the 
summer oyster has  been  growing in pop­
ularity,  until  now  the  epicures  demand 
it,  and  to  keep  “ in  line”   the  promi­
nent  restauranteurs  of  Gotham  have  to 
supply  them.  These  oysters  are  trans­
planted  from  the  warmer  water  in  the 
Sound  during  the  spring  and  arrive  at 
in  May  and  June.  They  are 
maturity 
used  here 
in  stews,  fries,  and  on  the 
half  shell,  and  the  summer  sales  are 
high.

Several  members of  a  crew  of a sugar­
laden  ship  lately arrived at Philadelphia 
were  afflicted  with  blindness  in  the 
moonlight and  starlight  of  night  when 
in  the  tropics,  although  they  could  see 
quite  clearly  as  'soon  as the  sun  arose. 
They  attributed 
it  to  fumes  from  the 
sugar,  but  their  captain  was  inclined 
rather  to 
it  to  an  excessive  use  of 
tobacco.

lay 

The  increase  of  insanity  in  civilized 
centers  of  population 
is  appalling.  A 
half-dozen  new  asylums  have been  built 
in  and  about  London 
in  the  last  dozen 
years,  and  each  one  is  filled  almost  as 
soon  as  completed.  The  number  of  in­
sane  in  London  institutions  alone  now 
reaches  an  aggregate of  over  25,000.

Helen  Gould's  income  is  the  largest 
of  any  unmarried  woman  in the country. 
She  does  not  spend  much  on  herself. 
On  churches and  charities  she  spends 
$100,000 a  year.

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

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prices.  We  make  Roofing  Pitch,  Tarred  Felt,  Tarred  Board, 
a and 3 ply Roofing, Gravel Roofing,  Asphalt Paints.

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DETROIT, MICH. 

Established .868. 

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23

THROWN  DOWN.

Ingenious  Method  of  Breaking  Up  a 

Gang

M.  Quad in American Druggist.

Mr.  Plimpton  had  been  a  druggist  in 
Charlotte  for  ten  years  when  I  joined 
the  gang  which  had  its  headquarters 
in 
his  store. 
I  was  No.  15.  Every  night 
in  the  week  except  Sunday  we  dropped 
in.  The  idea  was  to  bear  the  news, tell 
stories,  brag  and  lie  and  have  a  pleas­
ant evening.  Mr.  Plimpton  was  a  good- 
natured,  easy-going  man,  and  if  he  did 
not  encourage  the  growth  of  the  gang, 
he  certainly  made  no  protests.  If  one  of 
the  gang  bought  a  porous  plaster  or  a 
box  of  pills  once 
in  six  months,  Mr. 
Plimpton  was  agreeably  surprised,  but 
he  was  not  a  man  to  force  trade.  So  far 
as  buyers  were  concerned, he could  have 
closed  up  at  g  o’clock,  but  he  always 
kept  open  until  the  last  of  the  gang  was 
ready  to  depart.  He  had  oniy  three 
chairs 
in  the  store,  and,  of  course,  we 
took  possession  of  them  and  of  all  the 
counter  room  besides, but  Mr.  Plimpton 
never  threw  out  any  hints  to  hurt  any­
one’s  feelings.  We  cracked  the  glass  in 
his  show-cases,  broke  bis  bottles  and 
upset  his  boxes,  but  he  always  looked 
upon  such  things  as  unavoidable  acci­
dents,  and  never  made  a  demand  for 
pay. 
In  the  early  days  of  the  gang, 
when  there  were  only  six  or seven mem­
bers,  they  might  have  felt  under obliga­
tions  to  Mr.  Plimpton  for  rent,  fuel  and 
gas,  but  after  a  while  all  such  feelings 
passed  away.  The  gang  came  to  feel 
that  it  had  moral  and  legal  rights  which 
it  would  not  surrender  without  a  gigan­
tic  struggle.
If  Mr.  Plimpton’s brother hadn’t died 
in  the  East  and 
left  a  business  to  be 
looked  after  the  druggist  would  have 
made  no  change.  As  it  was,  he had  to 
sell  out  and  leave  Charlotte. 
It  was  a 
hard  blow  for  the  gang  when  he  an­
nounced  his  intentions,  but  it was  some­
what  mitigated  by  his  solemn  assurance 
that  his  successor  would  be a  man  who 
would  give  us  a  cheefrul  welcome;  in 
fact,  the  gang  and  the  drug  store  went 
together.  Whoever bought the  one  must 
take  the  other  and  use  it  well.  We  had 
our  doubts  and  fears,  but 
it  was  old 
Sil&s  Bebee,  the  founder  of  the  club, 
who  strengthened  our  hearts.

“ The  gang  will  go  right on as usual,”  
be  said,  in  bis  decisive  way. 
“ The 
only  change  will  be  in  the  proprietor­
ship  of  the  store.  Unless  the  new  man 
is  the  biggest  fool  on  earth  he  will  not 
seek  to  drive  us  away.  He  must  realize 
that  it  would  be  his  ruin. ’ ’

Mr.  Plimpton’s  successor  was  a  man 
named  Edgar.  He  took  possession  one 
Monday  morning  and,  as  evening  came 
and  one  member  of  the  gang  after  an­
other  showed  up,  the  new  druggist  met 
them  with  a  smile  and a band-shake and 
blandly  said:

“ I  am  more  than  glad  to  see  you. 
I  shall  even 
There  will  be  no  change. 
hope  to  see  the  number  of  the  gang 
in­
creased  to  twenty.  Have a  cigar  with 
me?”

There  was a  blandness  and  a  softness 
about  the  new  druggist  which  touched 
our hearts,  and  the  good  feeling  for  him 
was  further  increased  when be offered us 
the  free  use  of  bis  telephone  and  errand 
boy  and  placed  a  package  of 
licorice- 
root  and  a  box  of  gum  convenient to all. 
We  bad 
just  got  settled  down  for  the 
evening  when  the  store  began  to fill with 
smoke  and  an  alarm  was  raised. _  There 
was  a  rush  of  the  gang  for  the  fire  en­
it  arrived  the  fire  bad 
gine,  but  when 
been  extinguished. 
It  was  only  a  little 
one-for-a-cent  among  some  boxes  down 
cellar but  the druggist bad  to  close  up 
and  clean  up.  We  were  on  band  again 
the  next  evening,  but  scarcely  had  we 
taken  our  accustomed  seats  on  the 
counters  and  boxes  when  a  dog-fight  oc­
curred 
in  front  of  the  store.  Every 
man  rushed  out  to  see  the  affair,  which 
lasted  about  five  minutes,  but the  rush­
ing  back  was  a  different  thing.  The 
new  druggist  met  us at  the  door  to  say:
“ As we have  been  interrupted  and  our 
evening  broken  up  I  think  I’ll  lock  up 
and  do a  little  planting.  Be  sure to  be 
on  hand  early  to-morrow  evening.”
The  next  evening  we  found  fourteen 
camp-stools  placed  in  the  store  for  our

benefit,  and  the  druggist  bad  bought  a 
pound  of  smoking  tobacco  and  a  score 
of  clay  pipes.  Each  one  of  us  was 
greeted  effusively,  and  when  all  had 
gathered  and  the  bragging  and  lying 
were  about  to  begin,  Mr.  Edgar  said :

“ Gentlemen,  I  wish  to  make  you  feel 
at  home,  and 
if  no  one objects  I  will 
start  the  exercises  of  the  evening  with 
a  story. ”

His  offer  was  hailed  with  enthusiasm, 
and  he  was  just getting  ready  with  his 
yarn  when  the  telephone  rang. 
It  was 
to  notify  him  that  his  wife  had  been 
suddenly  taken  ill.  There  was  nothing 
to  do  but  shut  up  the  store and go home, 
and,  of  course,  we  were  turned  into  the 
street.  He  gave  us  to  understand  that 
he  was  full  of  sorrow.and  regret,  and 
that  he  should  expect  us  with  the  next 
evening,  but  we  were  a 
lonely  crowd. 
It  was  dark  and  stormy,  and  some  of 
the  gang  got  home  at  8  o’clock  for  the 
first  time  in  fifteen  years.  When  even­
ing  came  again  we  were  welcomed  even 
more  blandly  than  before,  and  were 
glad  to  hear  that  his  wife  was  out  of 
danger. 
In  addition  to  the  pipes  and 
tobacco  there  was  to  be  a  free  treat  of 
hard  cider,  but  only  half  of  the  gang 
bad  got  their  legs  crossed  and  their 
pipes  alight  when  a  boy  opened  the 
door  and  wanted  to  know  if  we  had 
heard  of  the  murder  on  Rose  street. 
Everybody  rushed  out  and  ran  half  a 
mile  to  Rose  street,  but  somehow  or 
other  no  case  of  murder  could  be  found. 
We  straggled  back  to  the  drug  store  to 
find 
it  closed,  and,  although  we  went 
over  to  the  lumber  yard  and  sat  around 
for two  hours,  nobody’s  heart  was  in  the 
convention.  Doubts  and  fears  began  to 
creep  in,  and  old  Silas  voiced  the  gen­
eral  feeling  as he  suddenly  shivered and 
said:

“ Boys,  I  dunno— I  dunno. 

It  kinder 
seems  to  me that  sumtbin’  goin’  to hap­
pen. * ’

We  were  a 

little  shy  on  the 

fifth 
night,  but  the  new  druggist  was  bland 
and  full  of  regrets,  and we soon regained 
confidence.  He  brought  out  two  new 
checker-boards,  which be  had  purchased 
for  our  use,  and  it  was  bis  proposition 
that  no  one  should  start  for  home before 
11  o'clock. 
There  was  evidently  a 
pleasant  evening  before  us,  when  the 
telephone 
informed  the  druggist  that 
his  baby  had  swallowed  a  cork-screw  or 
screw-driver  or  something  of  the  sort, 
and  he  had  to  turn  us  all  out again  and 
fly.  On  the  next  evening  a  smell  broke 
loose  and  drove  us  out  and  on  the  next 
the  stove  smoked  and  made  the  place 
uninhabitable.  The  new  druggist  was 
still  bland—still  smiling—still  full  of 
regrets,  but  the  fifteen  of  us  went  over 
to  the 
lumber  yard  and  sat  down  on 
beams  and  posts and  planks  for a  long 
time  without  saying  a  word. 
It  was 
Uncle  Bill  Hutchings  who  finally  stood 
up  and  solemnly  queried :
“ Gentlemen,  if  she  be 

in  order  I’d 
like  to  ask  if  anybody  feels  anything?”

“ We  do,”   we  all  replied  in  chorus.
“ Is  it  a  feeling  of  goneness?”
“ It  is.”
“ And  mongied  with  that  feeling  of 
is  there  a  feelin’  that  we  are 
into  the 

goneness 
slowly  but  surely  bein’  trod 
airth?”

“ There  is.”
“ Then  I’d 

like  to  hear  from  Silas 
Bebee  what  we  are goin’  to  do  about 
it. ”

“ Wall,  boys,”   said  Silas,  “ it  ain’t 
no  use  to  deceive  ourselves.  The  fust 
time  we  was  turned  out  of  the  store  I 
thought 
it  might  be  an  accident;  the 
next  time  I  thought  it  might  be  a  co­
incidence;  the  third  time 
it  looked  a 
leetle  bit  like  what  they  calls  a  se­
quence,  but  when  the  fourth  and  fifth 
and  sixth  come  along  I  knowed  that this 
gang  was  throwed  down.  Yes,  boys, 
we’ve  been  throwed,and  throwed heavy, 
and  thar’  ain’t  but  one  thing  left  for  us 
to  do. ’ ’
"W hat’s  that?”   asked  three  or four 
in  chorus.
“ To  adopt a  resolution  that  all  men 
are born  free  and  ekal,  and  that  we  take 
our  stand  on  the  constitution  of  the 
great  United  States  of  America!”
resolution  was  unanimously 
adopted  and  we  all  went  home. 
It  is 
now  twelve  years  since  I  beard from any

The 

of  the  gang,  but  I  haveu’t  a  doubt  that 
every  living  man 
is  still  standing  on 
that  constitution  with  both  feet.

One  o f  Millions.

Once  upon  a  time  there  lived  a  man 
who  wanted  only  a 
few  things  that 
everybody  wants.  He  wanted  plenty  to 
eat  and  drink,  leisure  and  the  woman 
he  loved.  But  he  found  that  to  have 
time  to  himself  to  make  it  possible  to 
live  pleasantly  with  his  sweetheart  and 
give  her all  he  wanted  and  to  take  care 
of  the  children  that  they  might  have— 
to  do all  this  he  must  have a  great  deal 
of  money.  So  he  went  to  work  and 
built  up  a  great  business,  a  very  com­
plicated  machinery.  To  this  money- 
producing  machinery  he  was  forced  to 
give  most  of  his  energy. 
It  gave  him 
no  time  for  leisure,no  energy  for  enjoy­
ing  the  sunshine,  bis  wife  and  children. 
But  be  began  to  enjoy  the  machinery  of 
his  business.

When  he  bad  made  a  large  fortune, 
the  only  thing  he  enjoyed  was  the  ma­
chinery  by  which  he  could  make  more 
money.  He  bad  lost  his  interest  in  the 
things  for  which  he  began  his  business. 
Perhaps  be  still  had  interest  in  food, his 
wife  and  all  the  naive  physical and  sen­
timental  pleasures,  but  it was  a  blunted, 
dull  interest.  The  only  live  interest  he 
had  was  his  business.

Only  a  Few  Then.

A 

lady  teacher  told  a  schoolboy  to 
name  the  Presidents,  and  when  he  re­
plied  that  he  couldn’t,  she said :  “ When 
I  was  as  old  as  you,  I  could  name  all 
the  Presidents  in  their  order.”
The  boy  replied,  with  more  candor 
than  politeness,  “ There  were  only  a  few 
Presidents  then.”

A  drunkard 

is  a  man  who  commits 

suicide  on  the  installment  plan.

 

CAPS

BOLTS

BLOCKS

BUCKETS

CROW  BARS

BUTTS.  CAST

AUGURS AND  BITS

Hardware  Price  Current.
Snell’s........................................ ;................ 
70
...................................25*10
•Terming,  genuine 
Jennings  Imitation 
....................... so* 10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.........................  6 CO
First Quality, D. B. Bronze.........................  10 no
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel........................   6 50
First Quality, D. B. Steel............................  11  go
60*10
Stove....................................................... 
Carriage new list.................................... 
t*
Plow.................................. 
 
60
Well, plain..................................... ...  .......S 3 50
Cast Loose  Pin, figured................................70&10
Wrought Narrow.......................................... 70*10
Ordinary Tackle............................... 
70
Cast Steel......................................  
5
.  per lb 
Ely’s I W -............................... 
65
...... per m 
55
H'.ck’sC. F ......................................... perm 
g -® ;-:............................................... perm 
45
Musket..............................................perm 
75
Steel and lr?” 
............................................70&1C
..  ___
Try and Bevels..............- 
M itre...................  
..........
Socket Firmer....................................
Socket Framing.................................
Socket Comer....................................
Socket  Slicks.....................................
Morse’s Bit Stocks............................ 
...
60
Taper and Straight Shank........................ .50&~5
50*   g
Morse's Taper Shank............................ 
Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
65
Corrugated..............................................  
1  25
Adjustable.............................................dis 40*10
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26...................... 30*10
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3. $30  ............................ 
25
New American............................................. 70*10
Nicholson’s................................................... 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................6C&10
28
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27.......... 
List  12 
17

GALVANIZED  IRON
16.

EXPANSIVE BITS

PILES—New  List

ELBOWS

CHISELS

SQUARES

DRILLS

14 

13 

Discount,  65

15 
OAUOBS

MATTOCKS

KNOBS—New List

Stanley Rale and Level  Ca’s...................... 60*10
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
80
Adze Rye.....................................$17 00, dis 60*10
Hunt Eye.................................... $15 00, dis 60*10
Hunt’s........................................$18 50, dis 20*10
40
Coffee, Parkers Co.’8.................................... 
40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables... 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry *  Clark’s............... 
40
Coffee, Enterprise.....  
 
go
Stebbin’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbtn’s Genuine........................................60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

MOLASSES  OATES

MILLS

 

BARROWS

NAILS

14 00

CARTRIDGES

Railroad..................................................  
Garden................................................   net  30 00
Rim Fire....................................................... 40*10
Central Fire......................  
20
PANS
Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
70* 5
Common, polished..................................... 
Iron and T inned........................................ 
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
45

RIVETS

 

 

 

 
 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base.............................................  2 65
Wire nails, base................................................  2 75
90 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
06
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
8 advance.................................................  
10
20
6 advance.................................................... 
4 advance.............. 
30
3 advance..................................... 
 
45
2 advance................................................... 
70
60
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance..................................... 
85
Finish  8 advance...................-.................... 
35
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance.......................................... 
85
Ohio Tool Co. ’s,  fancy................................   ©50
Sclota Bench................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  @60
Bench, firstquallty......................................   @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  0 20 

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

Broken packages He per pound  extra. 

PLANES

HAMMBRS

 

 

ROPES

H1NQBS

SHBBT IRON

HOLLOW  WARE

 
WIRE  GOODS

nuusb PURNuuiinu  uouus

Maydole & Co.’s, new  list................................dis 33*
Kip’s  ...................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s............................................. di« 40*10
r0
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..................anc iisi 
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50*10 
Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20*10
Pots............................................................... 60*1
K ettles......................................................... 60*10
Spiders......................................................... 60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3................................ dis 60*10
8tate............... ... 
...perdos.net  2 s$
Sisal, 54 inch and  larger..............................  944
Manilla.  ......... 
12
Bright 
80
.......................................................  
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s..........................................................  
80
80
Gate Hooks and Byes.................................. 
LBVBLS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 
............ dis 
70
com. smooth,  com.
$3 01
3  00
3  20
3  3)
3  4)
3 50
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14....................................$3 21 
Nos. 15 to 17...................................   3 20 
Nos. 18 to 21....................................  3 30 
Nos. 22 to 24 ...................................  3 40 
Nos. 25 to 26....................................  3 c0 
No.  27 ..........................................  3 61 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dis 
50
Solid Eyes........................................per ton 20 00
Steel, Game................................... '.___  
75*10
60
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .........  
Oneida Community, Hawley A Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker........................... per dos 
15
Mouse, delusion.........................per dos 
1  25
Bright Market............................................. 
65
Annealed  Market........................................   %
Coppered Market..........................................61*10
Tinned Market..............................................     60
Coppered Spring  Steel................................. 
45
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ..........................   3 30
Barbed  Fence,  painted................................   2 80
An Sable.................................................dis 40* 1C
P utnam ................................................dis 
5
Capwell..................................................... net list
go
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
40
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought.........  
7i
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
75
Bird  Cages  .........................1................. 
4)
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
70
Screws, New List...................................  
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50*10*10
Dampers, American 
..........................  
50
9
600 pound casks.......................................... 
Per pound................... 
.................   .. .. 
944
D -op............................................................   1 45
B B and Buck............................................. 
j  70

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WBiaHTS

MISCELLANEOUS

HORSB NAILS

METALS—Zinc

WRBNCHBS

TRAPS

WIRE

SHOT

SOLDBR

The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................ 1715
  7 ' 0
14x20 IC, Charcoal...................................  
20x14 IX, Charcoal...........................................   8 50
Bach additional X on this grade, $1.26.

TIN—Melyn Grade

 

TIN—Allaway Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. 

 

 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x80 IC, Charcoal, Dean..................................  5 50
14x20 LX, Charcoal, D ean.................................  6 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean..................................  11 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   to 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   12 00
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Gripsack  Brigade.

Cbas.  F.  Ballard  (National  Biscuit 
C o.)  is confined  to  a  wheel  chair at  the 
Battle Creek  Sanitarium,  where  he  has 
been  a  guest  for the  past  three  weeks.

Peter  Lankester,  city  salesman  for  the 
Olney  & Judson  Grocer  Co.,  has  let  the 
contract  for  a  $4,000  residence  on  North 
Prospect  street  between  East  Bridge 
and  Hastings  streets. 
It  will  contain 
all  the  modern  improvements,  includ­
ing  sanitary  plumbing  and  relief  deco­
rative  work.  Peter  is  a  hard  worker 
and  richly  deserves  a  good  home.

Charles  E.  Ew ing:  The  traveling 
man 
is  naturally,  and  from  environ­
ment,  an  expansionist.  Did  you  ever 
meet  a  traveling  man  that  did  not  ex­
pand  on  the  amount  of  his  sales  or  the 
size  of  his  salary?  His  occupation 
necessarily  obliges  him  to  expand  on 
the  merits  of  bis  goods  and  the  great­
ness  of  his  house;  and  it  has  been  said 
of  him  that  he  believes  in  an  expense 
account that  will  admit  of  expansion.

M.  K.  Walton  (Felix  &  Marston)  and 
son,  Robert,  accompanied  by  Prof. 
Greeson  and  J.  A.  Montague  and  bis 
two  sons,  sail  from  Traverse  City  next 
Monday  on  an  outing  covering  three 
weeks. 
is  the 
Agawa  River  on  the  north  shore of Lake 
Superior,  where  the  party  will  camp 
and  tish  and  relate  fish  stories  for ten 
days  or  two  weeks,  depending  on  the 
time  required  to  make  the  trip  to  the 
camping  ground.

The  objective  point 

At  the banquet  of  the  shoe and  leather 
men  in  Chicago  some  weeks  ago,  a shoe 
salesman  related  an  experience  of  one 
of  his  friends  who  travels  for  a  Chicago 
shoe  bouse.  A  new  store  was  to  be 
opened  in  a  town  in  Illinois.  The  Chi­
cago  salesman  beard  of  it  and  he  took 
the  first  train  for  the town  nearest  the 
point  he  wanted  to  reach.  He  arrived 
at  this  town  about midnight and decided 
to  drive  over  to  see  the  proprietor of the 
new  store  early  the  next  morning.  A 
Boston  shoe  salesman  was  also  next  to 
the  information  about  the  new  store and 
he  was  stopping  at  the  same  hotel. 
Suspecting  that  the  Chicago  man was on 
the  same  mission  as  himself,  he hurried 
out  of  bed  early 
in  the  morning  and 
went  over  and  hired  every  rig  in  the 
barn  of  the  only  livery  stable  man  in 
town.  The  Chicago  man  got  up  just  in 
time  to  see  the  Boston  man  starting 
out  with  his  procession  of  teams.  He 
hustled  around  to  see  if  there  was  any­
thing  left,  and  the  only  thing  on  wheels 
that  be  could  find  was  a  hearse.  He 
promptly  hired  that,  and 
in 
his  trunks,  he  took  another  road  and 
drove  at  full  speed  to  the  neighboring 
village.  When  the  Boston  man  came 
coolly  driving  in  with  bis  full  proces­
sion  be  found  a  hearse  backed  up  at the 
door.  Hastening  into  the  store,  he  was 
surprised  to  find  the  Chicago  man  smil­
ing  at  him  over  bis  order  book,  which 
already  contained  the  bulk  of  the  order 
for  the  opening  stock.

loading 

Kalamazoo  Telegraph :  “ A  study 

in 
rag  quilts,"  someone  called  them,  as 
they  went  to  the  train  Saturday  and 
girded  up  their  belts  preparatory  to 
the  battle  on  the  diamond  with  their 
brethren  knights  of  the  grip  at  Grand 
Rapids.  No  one  could  have  mistaken 
them  for  base  ball  players,  but  no  one 
would  have  dreamed  they  could  win 
in 
such  hoodoo  costumes  as  embellished 
their  stately  forms  and  floated  in  ends 
and  bobtails  about  the  edges.  They ran 
up  against  the  Valley  City  men  bard 
and  came  home  with  but  ten  runs to  the 
other  fellows'  sixteen,  but  they  had  a 
most gloriously  good  time  out  of  it  and

would  not have won from such hospitable 
hosts  for  all  the  world.  A  special  car 
was  waiting  at  the  depot  to  convey 
them  to  the  grounds  and  the  game  that 
followed  immediately  can  only  be 
im­
agined  until  the  Kalamazoo  public  has 
a  chance  to  feast  its  eyes  on  the  return 
game here a  week  from  Saturday.  The 
Grand  Rapids  drummers 
laid  them­
selves  out  to  give  the  visitors a  royal 
entertainment  and  the  fun  that  followed 
when  supper  was  served  on  the  steamer 
at  Reed’s  Lake  was  of  the  whole-souled 
kind  that  only  the  festive  drummer 
knows  how  to  furnish  and  fully  enjoy. 
The  team  and  its  rooters  arrived  home 
late  at  night,  tired  at  the  unusual  ex­
ertion—not  of eating—but  as  frolicsome 
as  a  lot  of  schoolboys  out  after  wood­
chucks.  The  game  here  will  be  done 
up  in  the  same  gay  style  and  with  orig­
inal  features  and  a  hot  time  generally 
that  will  outdo  the  Grand  Rapids  wel­
come,  if  possible.

The  Girls  the  Country  Needs.

These  are  commencement  days,  and 
in  thousands  of  schools  all  over  the 
country  sweet  girl  graduates  are  receiv 
ing  blue-ribboned  diplomas  and  being 
harangued  on  "Woman's  Influence" 
and  "Woman’s  Duty”   and  all  the  im­
memorial  platitudes  deemed  suitable  to 
the  occasion.  Ages  ago,  at  a  time  when 
the  memory  of  man  runneth  not  to  the 
contrary,  the  pattern  of  the  commence­
ment  oration  was  cut,  and  although  now 
and  then 
it  has  been  more  frilled  with 
sentiment  and  embroidered  with  flowers 
of  fancy  on  one  occasion  than  another, 
no one  has  dared  to  materially  alter 
it, 
and  it  remains  the  most  immutable  and 
unsatisfactory  thing  of  life.

A  woman  commencement  orator  has, 
however,  arisen 
in  the  person  of  Mrs. 
Russell  Sage,  who  sets  all  the  sacred 
traditions  at  naught.  There  is  in  New 
York  an  admirable  philanthiopic  insti­
tution,  which  furnishes  free  instruction 
in  sewing  to  girls,  and  which  stamps 
them  when  they  finish 
its  course  as 
"competent  dressmakers, ”   and  it  was 
to  these  girls  that  Mrs.  Sage  made  her 
little  speech.  She  didn’t,  after  the man­
ner  of  other  commencement  speakers, 
generalize  all  over  history and  political 
economy  and  then  adduce  the  fact  that 
it  was  a  woman’s  duty  to  stay  in  her 
own  sphere,  and  be  contented  there  no 
matter  bow  uncomfortable  she  was. 
Neither  did  she  waste any  time  in  ab­
stract  speculations  about  a  woman’s 
right  to  work,  and  to  make  for  herself 
any  career she  coula.  She  was  address­
ing  a  class  of  working  girls  who  had 
served  their  apprenticeship  and  learned 
their  profession,  and  she  sent  them  on 
their  way  with  these  words  of  hope  and 
cheer:  "G irls,  your country needs you  ’ ’
It  was  worth  a  million  of  the  rhetor­
ical  bouquets  that  the  girls 
in  other 
schools,  from  Vassar  down to the  Squee- 
dunk  Academy,  are  having  flung  at 
them,  and  the  fact  that  it was  addressed 
to  a  class  of  dressmakers  is  the  merest 
detail.  Its truth  is  far and  away  broader 
than  that,  and  brings  home  to  every 
girl  that  she,  as  much  as  her  brother, 
has  duties  of  citizenship,  and  that  her 
country  has  need  of  her  as  well  as  him.
That  the  country  has  need  of good 
dressmakers 
is  a  self-evident  fact  that 
millions  of  women  struggling  with  in­
competent  seamstresses  will  not  deny. 
That  it  has need  of good  cooks  the hosts 
of  dyspeptics  equally  testify. 
It  has  no 
less  need  of  the  college girl  with  her 
higher  and  broader  education  to keep 
alive  the  love  of  learning  for  learning’s 
sake,  and  inspire  high  ideals  of  culture

in  every  community.  It  has  need  of  the 
girl  athlete  to  preach  her  crusade of 
good  health,  and  to  teach  hosts  of  com­
plaining  and  ailing  women  that  they 
need  exercise  and  fresh  air  and  good 
food  instead  of  drugs.  And above  all  it 
needs  the  girls  who  are  not  going 
into 
any  profession,  who  do  not  have  to  earn 
their  bread,  but  who  are  needed  to 
make  good  homes,  where 
intelligence 
and  thrift  shall  reign  instead of disorder 
and  wastefulness.  At  every  turn  of  life 
there  is  a  pressing  demand  for  the  com­
petent  work  of  competent  women to help 
on  the  world's  progress.  Girls,  your 
country  needs  you.

Co ra  St o w e l l .

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

2

976

Fo r   s a l e —l a r g e   g r a i n   e l e v a t o r ,
conveniently  located  for shipment;  com­
plete  outfit;  twelve  bean  pickers;  s.x-power 
gasoline  engine,  etc.;  $1,800;  $1,000 down.  Ad 
dress Mrs. Philo B.con, Laingsburg, Mich.  3
Fo r  s a l e —c o n f e c t i o n e r y  s t o c k  a n d
fixtures, including soda fountain,  etc.  Ad- 
dress No. 5, care Michigan Tradesman._____5_
Fo r   s a l e — s a w   a n d   g r i s t   m i l l  
i n
Rose  City;  Ideal water  power;  no  ice,  no 
floods;  both  mills working  full  capacity;  must 
be sold on account  of  health  of  owner;  price, 
$6,000;  10 per cent, off  for  cash  Address  Ray 
Beach, Rose City. Ogemaw Co., Mich.______ 1
WANTED—BY A PRACTICAL MILLMAN.A 
good location for a small sawmill to do cus­
tom sawing, and where logs can  be  bought  by 
the  thousand,  or would  rent a  small  mill  in 
good  location.  Address  E.  J.  Gordon,  Green­
ville, Mich.  P.  O.  box  417. 
rp O   PHYSICIAN  OR  DRUGGIST—IF  YOU 
JL  desire  a  good  location  and  residence,  cor­
respond immediately with  Dr.  Lynch,  of  Man­
chester, Mich. 
999
ii>OR  SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  OF  HEAVY 
and shelf hardware and  groceries.  B. Han­
998
cock. Cedar Springs. Mich. 
B a r g a i n  — n e w   $35  s p r i n g -b a l a n c e ,
automatic,  self-computing  butcher’s scale 
and two show cases.  S. M. Vinton, 1163 S. Divi­
993
sion S t, Grand Rapids. Mich. 
IriOK  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  CLEAN 
1  Stock  of  Groceries  or  General  Merchan 
dise—58 acres best land in  Emmet county;  part 
timber, part improved.  Address  Box  28,  Good 
Hart. Mich. 
Bu s in e s s   h a n c b —on  a c c o u n t   o f
advanced age I offer my bean  elevator, ma­
chinery and fixtures,  grain  and  produce  busi­
ness cheap;  one of the  best  plants  in  the  State 
and small investment;  time granted  if desired. 
Address I. N. Reynolds. Eaton Raoids, Mich. 994
T O  RENT—STORE  34  WEST  BRIDGE.  BE- 
tween Front and Court;  steam heat;  hand­
somely decorated;  counters and shelving.  Wes­
ley W. Hyde, 617  Michigan  Trust  Bldg.,  Grand 
990
Rapids. 
FOR  SALE—good  b a za a r  stock,  e n - 
quire  of  Hollon  &  Hungerford,  Albion, 
Mich. 
I7»OR SALE—DEPARTMENT  STORE  DOING 
nice cash business.  Must sell at once; have 
other business;  town of 4,500.  Address  Box  M, 
Three Rivers. Mich. 
W ANTED—GENERAL  STOCK  IN  THRIV- 
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. 
986
Mo d e r n   c i t y   r e s i d e n c e   a n d   l a r g e
lot, with barn, 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, 
993
24 Kellogg street, Grand Rapids. 
W ANTED-LUMBBR YARD.  LARGE PAT- 
ronage here and  around  ns.  Good  open­
ing for  somebody.  Address  President of  Law­
979
rence, Mich. 
IflOR SALE—NATIONAL  CASH  REGISTER, 
'  very latest style with  all  improvements,  at 
less  than  half  price;  terms  to  suit.  Address 
Albert E. Docherty, 34 Sibley St.,  Detroit,  Mich.
__________ 991
Ij^OR  SALE—THE  GRANDEST,  MOST  PIC- 
1  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,  inclnding 
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 
modem 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
dfcO  A A A   CASH:  10  ACRES,  $1,000;  FIVE 
q J iiv U U  lots,  $600  each;  modem  home, 
$2,800,  for stock of  merchandise.  Address  No. 
975, care Michigan Tradesman. 

975

985

925

Fo r  sa l e—l u m b e r   a n d  coal  y a r d .
desirably located on  State  street,  Marshall, 
Mich.  Well  established  business  and  good, 
clean stock that will invoice (yard and material) 
at abont $5,000.  Reasons  for  selling  given  on 
application to C.  S.  Hamilton,  Marshall,  Mich. 
_______________________________ 
982
Th e sh a f t in g , h a n g e r s a n d pu l l e y s
formerly used to  drive  the  Presses  of  the 
Tradesman  are  for  sale  at  a  nominal  price. 
Power users making  additions  or  changes  will 
do well  to  investigate.  Tradesman  Company, 
Grand-Rapids,  Mich. 
983
i itOR SALE—PAYING DRUG  STORE;  GOOD 
Invoices  $1,500.  Address  No. 
1  location. 
995
995, care Michigan Tradesman. 
I7IOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—A 50 BARREL 
"  full  roller  imU  with  sawmill  attached. 
Best  water  power in  Southern  Michigan.  Ad­
961
dress Miller, care Michigan Tradesman. 
WANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A  RUBBER 
stamp.  Best  stamps  on  earth  at  prices 
that  are  right.  Will  J.  Weller,  Muskegon, 
Mich. 
958
ANY  ONE  WISHING TO  ENGAGE  IN  THE 
grain and produce and  other lines of busi­
ness can  learn  of  good  locations  by  communi- 
citing  with  H.  H.  Howe,  Land  and  Industrial 
Agent C. & W. M. and D., G. R.  &  W.  Railways, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
919
IpOR  SALE —A  RARE  OPPORTUNITY —A 
’  flourishing business;  clean stock  of shoes 
and furnishing goods;  established  cash  trade; 
best store and  location  in  city;  located  among 
the best iron mines in the country.  The coming 
spring will open  up with  a  boom  for  this  city 
and prosperous  times  for years  to  come  a  cer­
tainty.  Rent  free  for  six  months,  also  a  dis­
count on stock;  use of fixtures free.  Store  and 
location  admirably  adapted  for  any  line  of 
business and conducted at small  expense.  Get 
in line  before  too late.  Failing  health  reason 
for  selling.  Address  P.  O.  Box  204,  Negau- 
nee, Mich. 
i ^OR  SALE —CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK 
located at one of the best trading  points  in 
Michigan.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $5,' 00. 
Store and warehouse will be rented  for  $30 per 
month.  Will sell on  easy terms.  Address  No. 
868, care Michigan Tradesman. 
IjMJR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
1  splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad- 
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman.  680

868

913

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

W ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  POUL- 
try;  any  quantities.  Write me.  Orrln  J. 
810
Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 

MISCELLANEOUS.

W ANTED—AT  ONCE  POSITION  AS  CAN- 
vasser by  experienced  man.  Address  R. 
4
Middleton, Perrington, Mich. 
W ANTED - POSITION  AS  MANAGER  OR 
head clerk  in  country  store.  Have  had 
valuable  experience  as  manager  of  a  lumber 
store  having  annual  sales  of  $50,000.  Salary 
moderate.  Can  speak  Holland.  Address  No. 
6. care Michigan Tradesman. 
6
W ANTED—SITUATION  AS  TRAVELING 
salesmau, commission or salary,  clothing, 
boots and shoes, men’s furnishing goods or gro­
ceries.  Good  references  given.  Address  998, 
998
care Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—POSITION 
IN  A  GENERAL 
store;  twenty years’experience;  good ref­
erences.  Address  No.  997,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
997
W ANTB.D—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
992, care Michigan Tradesman. 
WANTED — UIGARMAKERS,  RO LLERS, 
bunch breakers,  strippers  and  lady  pack­
ers.  G. J. Johnson Cigar Co., Grand Rapids.  989 
ANTED — REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
who  is  familiar  with  lines  carried  in  a 
general  store.  State  wages.  E.  E.  Lessiter, 
Grattan. Mlcb._______________________ 980
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Travelers* Time  Tables.

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Chicago.

C H IC A G O *"™ ,8»"^
Ly.  G. Rapids. .7:10am  12:00nn  5:05pm *2:15am 
At.  Chicago.... 1:30pm 5:00pm 11:15pm *7:25am 
Ly. Chicago...  7:15am  12:00nn  4:15pm *8:45pm 
Ar. G’d Rapids  1:25pm 5:05pm  10:15pm  *l:50am 
_  Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey. 
Ly. G’d Rapids.  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..........
Ly. G. Rapids..9:00am  12:00nn 5:30pm..............
Ar. G. Rapids. .8:00am  1:25pm 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 2:00am, 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.
♦Every  day. 

Others week days only.

Ottawa Beach.

Detroit.

June 26,1899.

DETROIT,Qrand Rapids & Western.
Ly. Grand  Rapids........7:00am  12:05pm  5:25pn
Ar. Detroit...................11:40am  4:05pm 10:06pm
Ly. Detroit...........  ......8:40am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids...... 1:30pm  5:10pm  10:55pm
Ly. G R7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G R 11:45am  B:40pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Gso.  DeHavbn,  General Pass. Agent.

f i n   A  M | \   Trask Railway System
v I l Y i x i  1 1 /   Detroit and Milwaukee Div

(In effect May  1,1899.)

some  bast

Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit & N Y.........t 6:45am t  9:55pm
Detroit  and  East..................tl0:16am t  5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit &  East....... t 3:27pm tl2:50pm
Buffalo,  N  V,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t’d E x ....* 7:20pm *10:16am
GOING  WEST
Gd. Haven and Int Pts...........* 8:30am *10:00pm
Gd. Haven Express............... *10:2lam * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven and Int. Pts......... tl2:58pm t  3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee. ..t 5:12pm tl0:llam  
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee.. .+10:00pm t  6:40am
Gd. Haven and Chicago........* 7:30pm  * 8:05am
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.

♦Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

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

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.

QRAND Rgplds  &  indiana Railway

June 18,  1899.

Michigan Business Men’s Association 

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

retary, E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President.  C.  G.  Jbwett,  Howe’l;  Secretary 

Henby C. Minnie. Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J oseph Knig ht;  Secretary, E. Masks 

221 Greenwood ave :  Treasurer, C. H.  F rink.
Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association 
Klap;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  Lehman.

President,  Frank  J.  Dy k ;  Secretary,  Homes 

Saginaw Mercantile Association 
McBr atnib;  Secretary,  W. H. Lew is.

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

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J. Frank Helmbb;  Secretary, W.  H> 

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

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

land;  Treasurer, Wm. C.  Koehn.

Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association

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

Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  W.  H.  Johnson;  Secretary,  Chas. 

Hyman.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association 
President,  T hos.  T.  Ba t e s;  Secretary,  M.  B 
Holly;  Treasurer, C. A. Hammond.

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association

President, A. D. Wh ipple ; Secretary, G. T. Camp 

bell;  Treasurer, W. E. Collins.

Alpena Business Men’s Association

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

P artridge.

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealer*’ Association 
President, L.  M. Wilson;  Secretary, Philip Bn- 

ber: Treasurer, S. J.  Hufpord.

St. Johns Business  Men’s Association.

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

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

Perry Business Men’s Association

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

Yale Business Men’s Association

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

TR AVEL

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F.  & P.  M.  R.  R.

Hanselman’s  Fine  Chocolates

Name stamped on each piece of the genuine.  No  up-to-date 
dealer can afford to be without them.

Hanseltnan  Candy Co.

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The  Qrand  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  Boxes  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.

GRAND RAPIDS  PAPER BOX CO., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

¡Keeping  a  good  thing  good 
is  next  to  m aking  it  good*

Uneeda
Biscuit

(sold  only  in  5  cent  packages) 
come  to  your 
table  with  all 
the  goodness  and  crispness  they 
had  when  fresh  from  the  oven. 
S u b stan tial  enough  for  the 
plainest  meal— dainty  enough 
for  the  most  elaborate  banquet

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Northern  Div.  Leave  Arrive 
T rav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack.. .* 4; 10am *10:C0pm 
Trav. C’y,Petoskey A Mack...t 7:45am t  5:15pm
Trav. City A Petoskey............t   1:40pm  r  1:10pm
Cadillac accommodation.......15:25pm tlO :55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City.... tl':00pm  t  6:3Gam 
4:10am train. The Northland Express, sleeping 
and  dining  cars;  7:45am  and  1:40pm  trains, 
parlor cars;  11:00pm train sleeping car.
Southern  Div.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati...............................t  7:10am  t  9:45pm
Ft. Wayne 
— + 2:00pm  +  1:30pm
Kalamazoo and Vicksburg...  * 7:00pm  * 7:20am
Chicago and Cincinnati........*10:15pm * 3:55am
-7:10  am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati 
and  parlor  car  to  Chicago;  2:00pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Wayne;  10:15pm  train  has 
sleeping  cars  to  Chicago,  Cincinnati,  Indian­
apolis, Louisville and St. Louis.
Chicago Trains.

FROM CHICAGO.

TO CHICAGO.
Lv. Grand Rapids...  7  10am  2 00pm  *10 15pm
Ar. Chicago............   2  30pm 
8 45pm  6 25am
Lv. Chicago............  3 02pm *  8.15pm  *11  32pm
A _  n  — _  
Q'KXnm  A  OAom
Ar. Grand Rapids...  9 45pm  3;55pm 
6 30am
Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor 
car;  10:15pm, coach and sleeping car.
Train  leaving  Chicago 3:02pm  has  Pullman 
parlor car;  8:15pm sleeping car;  11:32pm sleep­
ing car for Grand Rapids.

ft  IC nm  

Muskejgon Trains.

GOING WEST.

Lv G’d Rapids............ t7:35am tl:15pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon............... 9:00am  2:25pm  7:05pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon..............t8:10am  til :45am t4:00pm
Ar G’d Rapids.............9:30am  12:56pm  5:20pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  7:15pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 8:40pm. 
tExcept Sunday.  *Dally.

801X 0 EAST.

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

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

MANISTEE &  Northeastern Ry.

Best route to Manistee.

Via C. &  W. M.  Railway.

Lv Grand Rapids.............................7:00am ...........
Ar  Manistee.................................. 13:05pm ...........
Lv  Manistee.................................   8:30am 4:10pm
Ar Grand  Rapids..........................  1:00pm 0:55pm

AND  S T E A M S H IP   LIN E S  

T O   ALL  P O IN T S   IN  M ICHIGAN

H.  F.  M OELLER.  A.  G .  p.  A.

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THE  BELKNAP  WAGON  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Not  how cheap  but  how  good.  Write  for catalogue  and  prices.

N O .  1 1 3

BE  ON  THE  WINNING  SIDE  IF  YOU  CAN

No  one ever got rich waiting on some­
It’s  that  fellow  who 

thing  to  turn  up. 
turns  up something that  gets there.

Wise  merchants  know  the  meaning 
of our  M O N E Y   W E IG H T   talk.  They 
know it means  a  system  of  saving  over­
weights,  profit saving.

M O N E Y   W E IG H T   C O M PU T IN G  
S C A L E S   are  now  successfully  used  by 
nearly  60,000  merchants  in  the  United 
States and  Canada.

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For full  information  address

Epps’
Cocoa

The  Computing  Scale  Co.,

Dayton,  Ohio.

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r :Lamps  to  Burn!

Don’t buy something that won’t bum.

The  Sunlight 

Gas  Lamp

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

ever  known, 
1  cent.

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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 
pure, white light like

Sunlight

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

This Lamp Has Been Approved  by the Board of Underwriters. 

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

Michigan  Light  Co.,

Successor to

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

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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.

B R E A K FA S T  

SU PPE R

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