Volume XVI. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, JULY  19,  1899. 

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Volume XVI,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JULY  19,1899.

looking  horses, 

on  a  healthy  basis.  Not  only  is  there 
adequate  remuneration  for  the  cost  of 
marketing,  but  the  production  yields 
good  returns  to  the  landowner.  This  is 
reflected 
in  a  general  appearance  of 
piosperity—better  vehicles,  sleeker  and 
more  contented 
in 
charge  of  those  showing  evidences  of  a 
more  substantial  prosperity.  On  Iouia 
street  the  morning  appetite  was  stayed 
with  a  bite  of  the  conventional  crackers 
and  cheese,  supplemented  by  pickings 
from  the  fruit,  etc.  The  heartier  de­
mands  of  the  farmer  appetite  were 
scarcely  sufficient  to  support  the  little 
lunch  tent  which  catered  to  most  of  the 
market.  Now  the  marketmen  support  a 
well  patronized  and well kept restaurant, 
from  which  they  are  seen 
to  merge 
smoking  good  cigars  and  evincing  a 
generally  heartier,  healthier  and  more 
liberal  appearance.

for  market  and 

The difference  in  values  is  also  ap­
parent  in  the  quality  and  condition  of 
the goods  offered.  More  attention  is  be­
ing  given  to  the  cultivation  of  the  best 
varieties  and  more  care 
is  shown  in 
preparation 
the 
handing  of  products. 
is  noticeable 
bow  much  fresher  and  more  toothsome 
vegetables  and 
fruits  are  becoming, 
partly  to  be  ascribed  to  the  more  fa­
vorable  season  and  abundance  of  rain, 
but  more  to better  care  in  preparation 
and  handling.

in 

It 

Then  three  years ago  the  same  unsat­
isfactory  conditions  affected  the  work 
of  the  commission  men  and  jobbers. 
The  getting  of  a  fair profit out  of  almost 
worthless  products  is  a  serious  and  un- 
satisfacory  problem.  Now  the  values 
are  such  as  to  make  the  work  much  less 
severe  and  the  returns for the same effoit 
more  satisfactory.  And  this  more  fa­
vorable  and  profitable  situation  is  not 
unduly  increasing  the  number  and  com­
petition  of the produce handlers,  for the 
demands  of  this  branch  of  trade  are  de­
veloping  along  lines  requiring more  and 
more  severe  apprenticeship  and  experi­
ence.

Martin  Van  Prooyen,  who  absconded 
two  weeks  ago, 
leaving  bis  tea  and 
coffee  stock  at  255  Travis  avenue,  has 
returned  to  the  city  in  a  penitent  raoed, 
reconciled  his  differences  with  his  wife 
and  is  offering  his  creditors  50 cents  on 
the  dollar  in  settlement.  The  Olney  & 
Judson  Grocer  Co.,  which  seized  the 
stock  and  fixtures  on  an  attachment,  de­
cline  to  give  up  the  stock  until  the 
money 
is  forthcoming.  VanProoyen 
states  that  the  reason  he  left  town  was 
that  he  bad  a  “ family  jar,”   as  he  ex­
pressed  it,  with  bis  wife,  but  changed 
his  mind  after  a  week’s  absence  and 
concluded  to  return  and  live  down  the 
scandal  which  ensued  as  the result of bis 
clandestine  departure.

The  appearance  of  the  local  canning 
factory  on  the  morning  market has  done 
more  to  curtail  the  operations  of  the 
hucksters  than  any  feature  yet  devised, 
inasmuch  as  the  cannery  takes all  the 
surplus  stock  which 
the  commission 
merchants  and  grocers  can  not  distrib­
ute  to  advantage,  leaving  nothing  for 
the  peddlers  to  handle  unless  they  buy 
earlier  in  the  day.

Number 826

The  Grain  Market.

Wheat  has  had  a  rough  time  during 
liquidation 
the  past  week.  Continued 
by  longs,  who threw  their  holdings  over­
board,  caused demoralization.  The  short 
element 
improved  the  opportunity  in 
not  only  taking  in  the  short  lines,  but 
were  encouraged  to  put  out  new  lines. 
The  elements  seemed  to  favor  them,  as 
prices  still  dropped.  While  winter 
wheat  threshings  are  not  coming  up  to 
expectations  the  enormous  receipts  in 
the  Northwest  yesterday  were  a  stun­
ner,  being  755  cars,  against  94  cars  on 
the  corresponding  day  last  year.  To­
day  there  were  802  cars,  against  68  cars 
on  the  same  day  last  year.  We  begin  to 
think  that  they  are  still  threshing  the 
crop  of  1898.  However,  as  everything 
has  a  beginning  and  an  end,  there  will 
be  an  end  to  these  large  receipts; but 
with  all  these  enormous  receipts  the 
visible  gained  only  543,000  bushels, 
against  a  decrease  of  2,055,000  bushels 
for  the  corresponding  week  in  1898. 
The  visible  is  about  24,000,000  bushels 
more  than  at  the  same  time  in  1898. 
The  conditions  for  better  pi ices  are  ex­
actly  the  same  as  they  were  when  wheat 
was  7 @ 8 c   higher,  but  the  bear  element 
is  fearless  and  so  far  has  succeeded 
in 
depressing  the  markets.  Uncle  Johnny 
across  the  water  seems  to  like our bears, 
as  be  is  certainly playing in their bands.
Cora  bas  been  governed  somewhat  by 
wheat.  While  there  was  an  advance  of 
ic  during  the  week,  it  was  all  lost to­
day. 
corn 
weather.

therefor, 

Cause 

good 

Oats  gained  ic  and  are  strong.  Farm­
ers  complain  of  too  much  wet  weather. 
Large  quantities  have  lodged  and  prob­
ably  will  remain  down  as  the  heads  are 
out  and  too  heavy  to  rise.

Rye  is  a  surprise  and  holds  its  own 

right  along,  with  no  change  in  prices.

There 

is  no  change 

in  flour,  either 
local,  domestic  or  foreign,  owing  to  the 
fact  that  while  wheat  is  lower  in  wheat 
.centers,  millers  throughout  the  State 
have  to  pay  stiff  prices  for  old  wheat. 
Mill  feed  bas  been  advanced  $1  per  ton 
all  around  and  is  being  held  at  $15  for 
bran  and  $16  for  middlings.

Receipts  during the  week  were 61 cars 
of  wheat,  5  cars  of  oats,  9  cars  of  corn 
and  only  1  car of  hay.

Millers  are  paying  67c  for  old  and 65c 

for  new  wheat. 

C.  G.  A.  VoiGT.

The  Simmons  Knitting  Co.  has  been 
incorporated  with  an  authorized  capital 
stock  of  $50,000,  the  stockholders  being 
John  W.  Simmons,  W.  L.  White,  Wm. 
E.  White  and  A.  F.  Marsh.  Mr.  Sim­
mons  will  serve  the  organization  in  the 
capacity  of  President,  Wm.  E.  White  as 
Vice-President  and  W.  L.  White  as 
Secretary  and  Treasurer.  Ample  floor 
space  has  been  leased  at  6  Pearl  street, 
the  necessary  machinery  has  been  or­
dered  and  by  August  15  the  factory  will 
be  running  to  its  full  capacity.

R.  Kuiper,  who  owns  a  store building 
on  Apple  street,  Muskegon,  will  shortly 
occupy  the  premises  with  a  grocery 
stock,  having  placed  his  order  with  the 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.

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

L. P . WITZLBBBN.  manager.

The Preferred Bankers 
Life Assurance Company

of Detroit, Mich. 

Annual Statement, Dec. 31,1898.

Commenced Business 8ept.  I,  1893.

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Write  our  Michigan  representative,  Wm. 
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Grand Rapids, July 36 to 31 inclusive.  Cus­
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IMPORTANT FEATURES.

PAGE

3.  Getting the  People.
4.  Around the State.
5.  Grand Rapids Gossip.
6.  Woman’s World.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Observations by a Gotham'Egg Man.
11.  Gotham Gossip.
If.  Shoes and Leather.
13.  Why He Stayed at  Old Sliver Crown.
14.  Acetylene Lighting.
16.  Dry Goods.
17.  Commercial Travelers.
18.  Drags and Chemicals.
19.  Drug Price Current.
30.  Grocery  Price Current.
31.  Grocery Price Current.
33.  Unique Atonement.
33.  Hardware Price Current.
34.  G. R. Retail Grocers’ Association. 

Business  Wants.

MORNING  MARKET.

Some  Changes  Which  the Years Have 

Brought.

There  is,  perhaps,  uo  more  striking 
contrast between  the healthy  conditions 
of  trade  prevailing  nowand the distress­
ing  dulness  of  three  or  four  years  ago 
than  that  afforded  by  a  visit  to  the 
morning  market.  At  that  time  on  the 
old  Ionia  street  site  there  was  usually 
a  profusion  of  offerings,  but  the  lack  of 
money  in  the  hands  of  consumers  made 
prices  distressingly  low.  Then new  po­
tatoes  would  start  for  the  season  at  3o@ 
40 cents  per  bushel  and  quickly  fall  to 
10 cents,  at which price  they  would  con­
tinue  to  sell  when  there  was  any  sale  at 
all.  Apples,  peaches  and  other  fruits 
ruled  at  similar nominal  prices,  hardly 
paying  the  cost  of  the  marketing.  The 
beggarly  lack  of  value then  was  mani­
fest  in  the  careless,  slovenly  manner  in 
which  the  produce  was  bandied  and  the 
general  appearance of  dilapidation  and 
poverty  prevailing.  To  be  sure,  there 
were  some  wbose  thrilt  and  economy 
were  such  as  to  enable  them  to  rise 
above  these  adverse  conditions,  but 
these  were  far  outnumbered  by  those 
wbose  appearance  clearly indicated  that 
the  struggle  for  existence  was  the  prin­
cipal  concern.  The  great  majority  of 
wagons  were  dilapidated and unpainted, 
the  horses  showed  the  ill  effects  of over­
work  with  the  inadequate  care  the gen­
eral  discouragement  of  the  situation  in­
duced,  and  those  in  charge  seemed  to 
give  little  heed  to  the  amenities 
in 
costume  beyond  the  care  for  decent cov­
ering.  There are  many  kinds  of  values 
and  expense  which  do  not  rise  and  fall 
in  the  same  degree  as  wages  and  prod­
uce,  such  as  taxes,  interest  on  debts, 
etc.,  and  the  necessity of  accumulating 
and  saving  to  meet  these  imperative 
demands  when  so 
little  was  realized 
from  the  arduous  day  and  night  effort 
was  about  all  the  producers  were  equal 
to.  Recalling  the  conditions  the  won­
der  is that  more  did  not  succumb  to  the 
effects  of  such  discouragement  and  pov­
erty—that  so  many  patiently  held  their 
own  until  the  time  should  come  when 
they  could  turn  the  severe  lessons  of 
economy  and  effort to  better  purpose.

The  contrast  between  the conditions 
then  and  now  is  very  marked.  Money 
in  the  hands of  consumers keeps  prices

thing  &11  over  again.  Now,  good  ad­
vertising  is  only  good salesmanship  car­
ried  out  in  type  and  paper and  ink 
in­
stead  of  by  spoken  words.  A good  piano 
advertisement,  while  it  can  not  repro­
duce  the  tones  of  the  instrument,  can 
and  should  tell  the  public  the  very same 
things  that  the  good  piano  salesman 
tells  the  individual  party  to  whom  he  is 
trying  to  sell  a  piano. 
If a  salesman 
answered  the  enquiries  of  prospective 
customers  by  merely  repeating  a  list  of 
the  pianos  kept  in  stock,  he  would  find 
himself  minus  a  position 
few 
hours’  time.

in  a 

Own  up,  now,  Mr.  Mugford,  wouldn’t 

be?
I 

have  carefully  perused  the  article 

tbe town, to  see  that the  local  paper  sets 
his advertisement  up 
in  proper  style, 
and  even  the  most  scantily-equipped 
office  can  furnish  enough  type of  one 
face  to  set  up  the body  of  the adver

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mentioned  in  Mr.  Mugford’s  letter,  and 
can  not  find  anything  in  it  that  is  at all 
applicable  to  the  case,  unless  it 
is  the 
obvious  moral  that  the  business  man 
who  can  not  prepare advertisements that 
sell  goods had  better  place  his  advertis­
ing  in  the  hands  of  those  who  are  com­
petent  to  do  the  work. 
It is  undoubted­
ly  futile  to  try  to  be  the  whole  thing.

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Here  are  two  really  good  advertise­
ments.  They  are  attractively  displayed, 
and  their  story  is  told  plainly,  simply 
and  forcibly.  Tbe  wording  of  the ad­
vertisement  of  tbe  People’s  Outfitting 
It  is  written
Co.  is  particularly  good. 

Tum bled 

T um bler

P rices
W e  picked  up  a  snap  in  glass 
tumblers and jelly tumblers;  bought 
them  ’way  below  value;  as  usual, 
we  give  you  the  opportunity  to 
share our good luck.

There  are  fifty  barrels  of  them, 
22  doz. 
to  the  barrel,  making 
13,200  pieces.  They  will  be  un­
packed  and  sold  next Wednesday, 
Thursday and  Friday,

at

lc each.

PEOPLES OUTFITTING CO.,

21S-22I N. Burdick St

in  that  frank,  chatty  style  that  looks  so 
easy  to  write,  but  is  really  so hard.  The 
advertisement  of  J.  W.  Milliken  shows 
the  artistic  effect  produced  by  using 
only  one  style  of  type— a practice  which 
is  far too  rare. 
It  is  quite  possible  for 
every  merchant,  no  matter  how  small

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tisement  and  enough  of  another  to  set 
up  the  display  lines.  At  the  most,  an 
advertisement  should  not  contain  more 
than  three  styles  o f type,  and  in  cases 
where  the  local  paper can  not  furnish 
the  desired  styles 
it  will  often  pay  the 
local  advertiser  to  buy  tbe  type  himself 
and  furnish  it  to  tbe  papers  for bis own 
exclusive  use. 
The  type  founders’ 
specimen  books  are  filled  with  strong 
and  attractive  styles  of  type,  and  the 
amount  required  by  the  average  local 
advertiser  would  cost  but  a  very  few 
dollars.

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Some  time  ago,  I  cautioned  my  read­
ers against  allowing  an advertisement  to 
run  more  than  once.  A merchant  ought 
to  change  bis  announcements  just  as 
regularly  as  he  sweeps  out  his  store. 
His  advertising  should  be  newsy  and 
should  be  kept  bright and  fresh  and  up- 
to-date.  A  merchant  has  no  more  right 
to  allow  an  advertisement  to  run  twice 
in  succession  than  he  has  to allow  his 
stock  to  gather  dust.  BotL are evidences 
of  careless  merchandising.

One  of  the  most  flagrant  of  such 
offenses  is  reproduced  herewith. 
It  is 
clipped  from  the  Manistee  Daily  News 
of  July  11  and  has  been  running  since 
some  time  before  the  Fourth  of  July. 
Of course,  it  is  possible  that  Mr.  Welsh

is acting  on  tbe  principle  that  the  best 
time to  commence  electioneering  is  the 
day  after  election,  and 
is  advertising

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oil  stoves  for  the  next  Fourth  of July.  If 
so,  I  apologize.  But,  surely,  be  must 
have  something  different  to  teil  about 
them,  or  something  else  in  his  stock  to 
advertise. 

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Give  us  something  new,  Mr.  Welsh!
W.  S.  H am bu r ger.

Preparing  to  Enter  Politics. 

"Since  my  husband  concluded  to go 
into  politics,”   said  Mrs.  Gofrequent, 
’ I  can’t  understand  him .”
"What  has  he  been  doing  now?” 

asked  Mrs.  Seldomhome.

"H e   told  me  this  morning  he  was  a 
candidate  for  some  office  or  other—1 
forget  now  what  it  is—and  that  he  was 
going  into  active  training  for  tbe  cam- 
p tign  at  once.  And  be  hasn’t  done a 
thing  all  day  except  clean out  tbe  stove­
pipes  and  cover himself  with  soot  and 
dirt. ”

Bathing  with  alcohol  will  prevent  in­
jurious  effects  from  poison  ivy,  or,  if 
tbe  poison  has  taken  effect,  wetting  the 
affected  part  with alcohol to which  sugar 
of 
lead  has  been  added  until  a  milky 
appearance  has been  obtained  wili  give 
relief.  Tbe  wash  is  poison  and  for  ex­
ternal  use  only.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

2

Petting the  People
Misapprehensions Corrected and Sam­

ple  Advertisement  Reviewed.

In  the  issue of  July  5,  I  criticised  an 
advertisement  of  the  C.  J.  Whitney  Co., 
of  Detroit. 
In  response  to  my  remarks 
comes  the  following:

Detroit,  July  10—We  desire  to  thank 
yon  for  the  marked  copy  of  yonr  publ 
cation  containing  a  criticism  of  oar  ad­
vertisement.

advertiser 

We  are  not  posing  as  expert  adver­
tisers  and  are  very  glad  to  have  an  ex­
pert 
criticise  oar  work; 
however,  we  have  at  least  this  much 
in 
our  favor—an  advertisement  is  of  no 
value  unless  it  attracts  attention,  and  it 
is  very  evident  that  our  advertisement 
has  not  failed  in  this  respect.

From  this 

It  is  not  a  fact  that  "T o   the  prospec­
tive buyer  the  name  of a piano is mean­
ingless. ”   The  names  of  the  manufac­
turers  we  represent—at 
least  some  of 
them,  such  as  Chickering,  Mason  & 
Hamlin  and  Hallet  &  Davis—are  fa­
miliar  in  the  ears  of nearly  all.  This 
being  so,  and 
it  undoubtedly  is,  your 
critic’s half  column  loses  all  its  effect. 
Permit  us  to  suggest  to  him  for  perusal 
the  article  on  page 6  of  your  July  5  is­
sue  on  the  “ Futilty  of  Trying  to  Be  the 
Whole  Thing.”   C.  J.  Wh it n e y  C o., 
Per  P.  H.  Mugford.
it  would  seem  that  the 
writer  of  the 
letter  was  annoyed  by 
something  which  I  said  in  my criticism 
of  bis  advertisement,  although  for  the 
life  of  me,  I  can't  tell  why.  Mr.  Mug- 
ford  says  that  an  advertisement  is  of  no 
value  unless  it attracts  attention.  Right 
there  he 
is  wrong.  An  advertisement 
is  of  no  value  unless  it  sells goods.  The 
attracting  of  attention  is  only  a  means 
to  that  end.  Merely  to  attract  attention 
is  not  sufficient.  The humble and  lowly 
skunk  is  a  wonder  in  the  line  of  atten­
tion-attracting,  but  the 
impression  he 
produces  is  not,  to  put  it  mildly,.a  fa­
vorable  one.

Mr.  Mugford  says  that  the  names  of 
the  pianos  handled  by  his  house are  fa­
miliar 
in  the  ears  of  nearly  all.  Pos­
sibly  they  are—but  do  they  convey  any 
meaning?  Do  customers  walk  into  the 
store  aud  ask  for  a  Chickering  piano  or 
a  Mason  &  Hamlin  or  a  Hallet  & 
Davis?  Not  unless  the  piano  business 
has  changed  very  much  in  the  last  five 
years.  A 
in  and  asks to 
look  at  a  piano.  The  salesman  shows 
her  one.  He  expatiates  upon  the  beauty 
of  the  case  work ;  he explains  the  stiong 
features  of  the  action ;  he  dilates  upon 
the  lightness  of  the  touch;  and,  finally, 
he  plays  it  for the prospective customer, 
calling  her  attention  to  the  richness and 
sweetness  of  the  tone 
if  she 
doesn't  like  that  particular  piano,  he 
takes  her  to  another,  and  does  the  same

lady  walks 

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Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Carson  City—Wright  &  Cady  succeed 

the  Loomis  Hardware  Co.

Otsego—W.  A.  Cackler  has  purchased 

the  meat  market  of  C.  C.  Knoblock.

Franklin—Geo.  Bingham  succeeds  A. 

A.  Rust  &  Bingham  in  general  trade.

Ann  Arbor— H.  D.  Menie,  of  Toledo, 
has  opened  a  5  and  10  cent  store  here.
Detroit—Anna  A.  Begrow  succeeds 
August  A.  Begrow  in  the drug business.
Whitehall—W.  B.  Conley  has  * as­
signed bis  drug  stock  to j.  H.  Williams.
Port  Huron— Thos.  B.  Smith succeeds 
W.  D.  Smith  &  Son  in  the grocery busi­
ness.

Shepherd—J.  Major Lemen,  of  Alma, 
has  purchased  the  drug  stock of  J.  H. 
Scott.

Nashville—E.  A.  Turner,  confection­
er  and  baker,  has  sold  out  to  Wm.  Lat- 
timore.

Cbesaning— Dr.  H.  H.  Darby  suc­
ceeds  Darby  &  Spinning  in  the  drug 
business.

Grand  Haven—A.  &  P.  Kooiman 
feed  and 

in  the  flour, 

have  engaged 
hay  business.

Essexville—J.  A.  Sandorf  has  re­
moved  his  stock  of  dry  goods  into the 
DeCourval  block.

Alpena—John  Templeton 

succeeds 
Bradford  Bros,  in  the  wholesale and  re­
tail  meat  business.

Owosso—The  Robbins  Table  Co.  has 
its  business  into  a  corporation 

merged 
under  the  same  style.

Quincy—A.  R.  Taylor,  of  Girard,  has 
embarked  in  the  grocery  and  provision 
business  at  this  place.

Otsego—Marshall  H.  Pierce continues 
the  grocery  business  formerly conducted 
by  Williams  &  Pierce.

Essexville—W.  C.  Rothermel  has  re­
moved  his  grocery  and  meat  market  in­
to  his  new  store  building.

St.  Joseph— Mills  Bros.,  of  South 
in  the  wholesale 

Bend,  have  engaged 
and  retail  fruit  business.
Durand— A.  L.  Milo, 

formerly  of 
Vernon,  has  opened  a  clothing  and  fur­
niture  store  at  this  place.

Coopersville— Alex.  Noble  will  soon 
open  a  general  store  in  his  new  brick 
block,  wbich  is  Dearly  completed.

Berrien  Springs—Whitman  & Skinner 
continue the  flouring  mill  business  for­
merly  conducted  by  Geo.  Whitman.

Sturgis—The  hardware  firm  of  Goff & 
Favorite  has  been  dissolved.  W.  T. 
Favorite  will  continue  the  business.

Essexvilie— L.  W.  Marienthal  has 
opened  a  boot  and  shoe,  clothing  and 
men’s  furnishing  goods  store  at  this 
place.

Cassopolis— P.  E.  Nysewander  has 
purchased  the  grocery  department  of 
the  general  merchandise  store  of  G.  M. 
Kingsbury.

Adrian—Capt.  Wells  and  John  Frank 
will  shortly  embark  in  the grocery  busi­
ness  in  a  new  store  building  now  in 
process  of  erection.

Battle  Creek—Lew  VanAllsburg,  of 
Grand  Rapids,  has  taken  charge  of  the 
oil  business  of  Scofield,  Scburmer  & 
Teagle  in  Battle  Creek.

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Charlotte— Jasper  Cady  has  purchased 
an 
in  a  hardware business  at 
Carson  City.  The  firm  name  will  be 
known  as  Wright  &  Cady.

Kalamazoo—The  Wm.  E.  Mershon 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
in  the  flour 
stock  of $5,000 to  engage 
and  feed  business.  The 
incorporators 
are  W.  E.  Mershon,  S.  Agdim  and  J. 
T.  Mershon.

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Bellevue— A.  E.  Hart,  of  Marshall, 
has leased  a  store  building  here and will 
open  a  clothing  store  Aug.  1.  H.  S. 
Engelman  will  manage  the  business.

Hart—The  grocery  firm  of  DeVoist  & 
DeVries,  composed  of  Adrian  DeVoist 
and  Ralph  DeVries,  has  been  dissolved 
by  mutual  consent,  the  former  succeed­
ing.

Port  Huron— Moses  Michaels,  who  for 
several  vears  has  conducted  a  clothing 
store at  this  place,  has  gone  into  bank­
ruptcy,  his  total  assets  amounting  to 
only  $100.

Eaton  Rapids— Minnie  &  Bromling 
are  erecting  a  two-story  double  store 
building,  44x100  feet 
in  dimensions, 
which  they  will  occupy  with  their  hard­
ware  stock.

Grand  Haven—G.  Zaagman  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
feed  store  at  the  corner  of  Fulton  and 
Fifth  streets  and  will  continue  the busi­
ness  in  his  own  name.

Three  Rivers—The Abell  Co.  has  sold 
its  general  merchandise  stock  to  Mr. 
Kellogg,  of  Howell,  who  will  continue 
the  business  under  the  style  of  the 
Kellogg  department  store.

Coopersville—Chas.  P.  Lillie  is  erect­
ing  a  two-story  brick  block  adjacent  to 
bis  present  store  and  will  soon  occupy 
the  entire  first  floor  with  an  enlarged 
stock  of  general  merchandise.

Fairfield— Lee  Housler has  traded  his 
hardware  and  grocery  stock,  store build­
ing  and  barn  to  Mr.  Sherwood,  of  To­
ledo,  for  two  bouses  and  lots  in that city 
and  will  remove  to  Toledo  at  once.

Central  Lake— McPhail  &  Richard­
son,  proprietors  of  the  Antrim  County 
Savings  Bank,  have  begun  the  erection 
of a  brick  block,  which  will  be  pushed 
to  completion  as  rapidly  as  possible.

Houghton— R.  B.  Lang,  the  veteran 
salesman 
in  the  employ  of  the  general 
merchandise  house  of  Graham  Pope,  at 
this  place,  will  embark 
in  the  dry 
goods,  cloak  and  shoe  business  Oct.  1.
Thompsooville— D.  E.  Slawson  has 
commenced  work  on  a  store  building, 
24x56  feet 
in  dimensions,  with  a  com­
modious  warehouse  attached,  and  will 
occupy  same  with  his  general  merchan­
dise  stock.

ironwood—The  dry  goods  and  cloth­
ing  merchants  began  Tuesday  to  close 
tbeir  stores  at 6  o’clock,  Every  even­
ing  except  Monday  and  Saturday,  and 
also  the  evening  upon  which  the  Norrie 
pay  day  falls,  they  will  close  at 6  p.  m. 
until  September  2.

Henderson—C.  D.  Kerby,  the  drug­
gist,  who  was  several  times  reported  to 
be  dying  or  even  dead  last  spring  when 
he  was  in  delirium  for  weeks,  is now  so 
much  better  that  he  takes  long  rides. 
He  is  improving  very  rapidly  and  now 
has every  chance  for complete  recovery.
Cassopolis— Wm.  Walter  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  department  store  of  Wal­
ter  &  Stemm  to  Wm.  Gustine,  of  the 
firm  of  Walter  &  Gustine,  of  Edwards- 
burg,  and  Mr.  Walter  takes  Mr.  Gus- 
tine’s  interest  in  the Edwardsbuig store. 
The  business  here  will  be  continued un­
der  the  style  of  Stemm  &  Gustine.

Lacota— M.  L.  Decker  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  John  Pedrick,  of  Bangor, 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.  Mr.  Pedrick  was  for­
merly  manager  of  the  drug  store  of 
Levi  DeHaven,  but  has  recently  been 
connected  with  the  drug  store of  Geo. 
J.  Stephenson.  Mr.  Decker  will  con­
tinue  the  hardware and implement  busi­
ness.

Adrian—A  good  story 

is  told  on  a 
popular young  Adrianite,  who  is  an  ar­
dent  disciple  of  Izaak  Walton  and,  in

addition  to  conducting  a grocery  in  the 
south  end  of  the  city,  finds  time  to 
gratify  his ambition  as  an  angler.  Last 
winter  be  borrowed  a  valuable  decoy 
minnow  from  a friend  and  went  to  Sand 
Lake to  spear  fish.  All one  forenoon  he 
sat  in  a  little  but  waiting  the  approach 
of  the  finny  monsters  be  expected  to 
capture,  the  minnow  floating  complac­
ently  about  in  the  waters beneath.  Noon 
came  at  last  to  relieve  the  monotony, 
and  the  fisherman  went  to  the cottage  to 
get  someth,ng  to  appease  his  hunger. 
While  he  was  gone  a  gust  of  wind  blew 
the  fishing  shanty  over,  and  upon  his 
return  he  found  no  trace  of  the  decoy 
minnow.  Supposing  it  bad  fallen  in  the 
Lake  and  been  carried  away,  he  re­
turned  to  the  city,  with  many  apologies 
to  the  owner  for  his  carelessness.  He 
made  several  unsuccessful  efforts  to 
match  the  minnow  and  it  was  not  until 
the  other day  he  was  able to do so.  Then 
he  happened  to  be  at  Sand  Lake,  and 
taking  down  an  old  coat  he  had  worn 
on  that  unlucky  day,  was  surprised  to 
find  the  self-same  minnow  stowed  away 
in  one  of  the  pockets,  where  he  had 
placed  it  for  safe  keeping.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Manchester— The  Manchester  cream­
is  making  600  pounds  of  butter 

ery 
daily.

Leslie-----The  Leslie  Co-operative
Creamery  Co.  has  just closed a deal with 
a  Buffalo  firm  for  its  butter  for  the  re­
mainder  of  the  year at  one-fourth  cent 
below  the  Elgin  quotations.

Ludington— The  Ludington  Novelty 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of $50,000  for the  purpose  of  en­
gaging 
in  the  manufacture  of  wooden 
articles.  The 
incorporators  are  C.  E. 
Mitchell,  H.  L.  Haskell,  J.  A.  Mitch­
ell,  of  Ludington,  and  F.  A.  Fuller,  of 
Kalamazoo.

Chelsea—The  Lyndon  cheese  factory 
made  its  first  cheese  on  Monday.  Ow­
ing  to  the  fact  that  their cans  were  de­
layed  in  coming  the  regular  milk  wag­
ons  did  not  start,  but  the  stockholders 
determined  to  make  some  cheese,  and 
they  brought 
in  over  1,200  pounds  of 
milk  in  receptacles  of  almost every kind 
excepting  sacks.  They  made  cheese 
Monday  and  Tuesday,  but  discontinued 
then  awaiting  the  arrival  of  tbeir  cans.
Portland—The  Portland  Creamery and 
Cheese  Co.  has  been  demonstrated  to 
be  a  success.  During  the  month  of 
June  Manager  McKee 
distributed 
among  the  farmers  around  Portland 
$1,200  for  milk.  Mr.  McKee  says  he 
will  run  the  creamery  all  winter,  as 
there  seems  to  be  little  doubt  that  a 
sufficient quantity of milk  or  its  equiva­
lent  can  be  obtained  to  conduct  the 
business.  He  is  handling  about  7,000 
pounds  of  milk  per  day  and  more  farm­
ers than  formerly  are hauling their prod­
uct  to  the  creamery.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.
Kalamazoo—Louis  H.  Rice,  who  has 
been  in  the  employ  of  Gilmore Bros,  for 
the  past  six  years,  has  severed  his  rela­
tions  with  them  and  gone  to  Chicago  to 
enter  the  dry  goods  store  of  Kling 
Bros.,  on  South  Halstead  street.

Elk  Rapids— L.  D.  Pollard  has taken 
charge  of  T.  W.  Preston’s  new  drug 
Stock.

Petoskey— Edward  Gage,  of  Lake 
Odessa,  has  taken  a  position  in  R.  C. 
Smith  &  Co.’s  furniture  store.  Mr. 
Gage  enlisted  in  Co.  A  10th  Ohio,  that 
saw  seivice  in  Cuba.

Howard  City— Burton  Gates,  who  has 
been  conducting  the  Howard  City  cigar 
factory  for  the  past  several  months,  has 
closed  his  business  here  and  gone  to 
Harbor Springs  to  take  a  position in  the 
grocery  store  of  W.  J.  Clarke  at  that 
place.

Kalamazoo— L.  E.  Baxter  has  se­
cured  a  position  with  Rosenbaum  & 
Speyer.  He  has  been  over  three  years 
with  Olin,  White  &  Olin,  and  for  seven 
years  prior  was  in  the  employ of  Rosen­
baum  &  Speyer.

Albion—Charles  D.  Joy  has  secured  a 
position  as  traveling  salesman,  and  bis 
position  with  A.  L.  McCutcheon  has 
been  taken  by  Robert  Warner.

Owosso— Claude  Taylor  has  taken  a 
position  in  Hookway  &  Son’s  grocery.
Lake  City— Geo.  N.  Cox  is  the  name 
of  the  new  drug  clerk  at  the  store  of 
W.  J.  Roche.

Menominee—J.  C.  Rosenberg  has  re­
signed  his  position  as  chief  salesman 
for  the  Pauli  Mercantile  Co.  Mr. 
Rosenberg 
is  undecided  as  to  future 
plans.

Harbor  Springs—C.  J.  Foreman  is as­
sisting  M.  J.  Erwin  in  bis  drug  store.
is  clerking  for 

Lowell— Dan  Bush 

McMahon  Brothers.

Cadillac— Frank  Hutchinson  has  sev­
ered  his  connection  with  the  Reubman 
&  Wager  meat  market.  Frank  has  not 
yet  decided  as  to  bis  future  location.

Mesick—J.  M.  Donnelly,  clerk  in  L. 
J.  Tripp’s  store,  met  an  experience 
Saturday  night  that  be  will  remember 
for  a  while.  He  went  down  cellar  of 
the  store  to  fix  the  acetylene  machine, 
preparatory  to  lighting  up  the  store, 
lantern  with  him  to  do  so. 
taking  a 
He opened  the  generator and  in  an 
in­
stant  the  escaping gas exploded,burning 
Mr.  Donnelly’s  hands.

Department  Stores  in  Europe.

it  is  here. 

America  is  not  the  only country in  the 
world  that 
is  cursed  with  department 
is  responsible 
stores.  The  greed  that 
for  their  existence  is quite as  rampant 
in  Europe  as 
It  now  ap­
pears  that  Rovatte  &  Co.,  shoe  manu­
facturers,  Milan,  Italy,  and  whose  ram­
ifications  extend  over  the  whole  of  the 
continent  of  Europe and  Great  Britain, 
have  now  decided  to carry felt and straw 
hats  for  both  men  and  women  in  addi­
tion  to  other  lines.

Three  Oaks—At  a  meeting  of  the 
stockholders  of the  Three  Oaks  Cream­
ery  Co.,  held  Monday,  the  reports  of 
the  Treasurer  and  Secretary  showed that 
the  past  year  has  been  a  very  success­
ful  one  for  the  concern.  A  dividend  of 
8  per  cent,  was  declared,  conditional 
on  the  collection of  all outstanding bills. 
This  dividend  does  not  include  money 
spent 
in  making  improvements on  the 
plant.  All  the  officers,  and  directors, 
with  the  exception  of  two,  were  re­
elected.  The  number  of  patrons  which 
the  creamery  has  at  present  is about 
seventy.  Between  4,500  and  5,000 
pounds  of  milk 
received 
daiiy.  The company  has  about  fifty-five 
stockholders.

is  being 

Probably  With  Reason.

suspicious  man  I  ever knew.”

"  I  do  think  Uncle  Roger  is  the  most 
“ Why  so?”
“  He  always  keeps the  drawers  of  his 
locked  for  fear  he’ll  steal  some­

desk 
thing  out of them  himself. ”

Spring  &  Company  have  foreclosed 
their  mortgage  on  the dry  goods  stock 
of  Hendershott  &  Dickerson,  at  Hast­
ings.

Taggart,  Knappen  &  Denison,

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Attended To in Any American Courts

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Grocery  Market.

little. 

Sugars— Raw  sugars  have  declined 
i -i6c  and  sales  of  96  deg.  test  cen­
trifugals have  been  made  at 426c  during 
the  past  week.  There  has  been  no 
change  in  the  list  prices  of  refined,  but 
softs  are  still  shaded  i-i6@ ^c  from  list 
prices.  The  demand  for  refined  has 
been  very  good  and  both  the  National 
and  Mollenbauer  refineries are  now  run­
ning  almost  to their  full  capacity.  The 
recent  movements  in  sugar  have  been 
quite a  puzzle  to  a  great  many  people. 
information  has  been 
Recently  some 
inside  sources  which  ex­
coming  from 
plains  things  a 
It  seems  that 
some  time  ago,  when  sugar advanced  to 
its  highest  point,  from  remarks  made 
by  a  Boston  man  it  was learned that cer­
tain  of  the 
independent  refiners  had 
made  very  heavy  losses  in  the  trade and 
intended  to  join  in  a  reconstruction  of 
the  whole  outside  business  by  some 
powerful  interest.  The first  movement 
in  sugar  stock  was  made  on  the 
infor­
mation  that  the  losses  were  so heavy  as 
to compel  something  to  be done 
imme­
diately.  The  American  Sugar  Refining 
Co.  then  widened  the  difference between 
raws  and  refined,  in  order to  give  the 
independent  refiners  a  chance to  make 
money,  and  when  they  found themselves 
able  by  market conditions to accumulate 
profits  and  make  up  for  their  recent 
losses, all talk  of  a  stronger combination 
was  dropped.  Regarding 
the  Java 
crop,  it  is now  stated  that both  new  and 
old  crops  are  likely  to be  much  larger 
than  expected,  possibly  40,000  tons,  of 
which  about  30.000 tons  are intended for 
America.  These  sugars  should  arrive 
late  in  August  and  early  in  September, 
by  which  time  the  receipts  from  Cuba 
and  the  West  Indies  will  have  practi­
cally  ceased.  Meanwhile,however,  there 
will  be  further  receipts  of  cane  sugars 
from  Hawaii  and  the  Philippines.  July 
Javas  and  Louisiana  sugars  will  soon 
follow.  Our  refineries  will,  therefore, 
not be  compelled  to  draw  on  Europe  for 
any  beavv  supplies before  the  new  crop 
of  beets  will  be  coming  to  market  in 
abundance.

Canned  Goods—There  is  an  advan­
cing  tendency  in  the  market,  which  in­
dicates 
in  a  general  way  what  may  be 
expected  when  the  present  stocks  are 
cleaned  up.  Conditions  are  practically 
unchanged,  except  that  some advance  is 
noted  on  a  few  lines  of  futures.  The 
pineapple  output  is  small  and  prices 
tend  upward.  There  are  a  number of 
other  varieties  of  staple  canned  goods 
which  are  advancing,  and  considerable 
increase 
in  price  is  expected  on  most 
sorts  later.  Future  sales  were  so  large 
and  the  crop  prospects  for a  number  of 
standard  sorts  are  so  discouraging  that 
the  trade  fears  a  heavy  advance  all 
along  the  line,  with  perhaps  such  short 
supplies  that  it  will  be  practically 
im­
possible to  fill  all orders already booked, 
to  say  nothing  of those  which  may  fol­
low  later.  Anticipating abundant  crops, 
packers  sold  freely,  and  now  many  of 
them  fear  they  must  fill  contracts  on  a 
pro  rata  basis.  Tomatoes  tend  upward 
on  all  grades,  with  some  slight  advance 
noted  on a few  spot  goods.  The  market 
presents  strong  situations  and  holders 
are  confident  that  a  considerable  in­
crease  will  occur  as  stocks clean  up. 
Compared  with  last  year,  trade  is  not 
so  active  and  prices are  lower,  but  this 
year  there  is  no  such  demand  from  the 
army  as  there was a year ago.  Consump­
tion  is  steady,  however,  and  prices  are

in 

In  New  Jersey  the  outlook 

more  influenced  by  reduced  supplies 
than  by  strong  demand.  Futures  are 
still  selling  at  about  previous  range  of 
prices.  There 
is  a  stronger  demand 
than  packers are  willing  to  supply  un­
til  they  know  better  what  the  probable 
yield  and  pack  will  be.  Crops  are  re­
ported  as  looking  better,  the  late  rains 
contributing  materially  to  the  improve­
ment. 
is 
much  better  than  it  was  two  weeks  ago. 
Maryland  crops  promise  better,  and 
many  of  the  other  producing  sections 
promise  a  better  yield  than  was  ex­
pected.  Because  of  the  comparative 
failure  of  the  pea  crop  in  Maryland,  a 
number  of  packers  are  trying  to  make 
up  the  deficiency  by  canning dried  peas 
of  last  year’s  growth.  The  market  on 
string  beans  is  very  firm  and  packers 
have  shut  down  in  some  places  because 
of  lack  of  green  supplies.  Maine  corn 
is  practically  closed  out,  and  at  the 
present  rate  of  sales  none  will  be  left 
when  the  new  pack  comes  in.  Other 
varieties  are 
larger  supply,  but  it 
seems  to  be  generally  considered  that 
very  little  old  stock  will  be  available 
when  the  new  pack  comes  on  the  mar­
ket.  We  are advised  that,  owing  to  the 
light  pack,  deliveries  of  purchases  of 
lobsters  will  be  very  slow  this  year  and 
it  is  possible  that  deliveries  on  contract 
will  not  be  in  full,as  the  pack  in  Maine 
and  the  Canadian  provinces  will  be 
very  short. 
In  some  packing  centers 
not  enough  fish  were  caught  to  supply 
the  local  demand  for  fresh.  There  is  a 
very  large  increase  in  the  world’s  con­
sumption  of  salmon,  amounting to  about
400,000  cases  last  year  over  the  season 
of  1897.  This  is  partly  due  to  both  the 
English and American governments  put­
ting  salmon  on  the army  ration  list  and 
the  reports  on  this  article  have  been  so 
satisfactory  that  the  American  Govern­
ment has  just  doubled  the  ration.  The 
pack  will  undoubtedly be short this year. 
One  cause  of  the  shortage  is  that  the 
high water  means  a  muddy  river,  which 
keeps  the  salmon  out  to  sea  waiting  for 
the  river  to  lower.  Packing  so  far  is 
only  about  50  per  cent,  of  what 
it  was 
last  year  at  the  same  date and  it  is  very 
doubtful  if  a  single  packer on  the  Co­
lumbia  River  will  be able to fill bis con­
tracts 
full.  Prices  on  new  pack 
Alaska  salmon  have just  been  made and 
are  the  same  as  last  year.  There  is, 
however,  an  increased  demand  for  this 
grade  of  salmon.

in 

Dried  Fruits—The  dried  fruit  market 
is  very  dull  and  will  probably remain  so 
is  no 
for  about  thirty  days.  There 
change  in  raisins.  Trade 
is  dull  and 
limited  to  small  orders  for  immediate 
consumption.  There  is  almost  no  move­
ment  reported  from  the  coast,  and  what 
there 
is  doesn’t  relieve  the  situation 
very  much.  The  carry-over  is  much 
smaller  than  at this time  last  year,  and 
will  probably be entirely absorbed before 
the  new  crop  comes  in.  There  are  no 
new  development  in  apricots.  Buyers 
still  refuse  to  pay  the  price  asked,  and 
driers  so  far are  firm  in  their  views  and 
make  no  concessions.  There have been 
a  few  cars  sold  at  sellers’  figures,  but 
nothing  of  impoitance.  The  yield  will 
be  larger  than 
last  year,  but  it  is  ex­
pected  that  enlarged  demand,  both  here 
and  abroad,  will  take  care  of  that. 
Last  year  at  this  time there were a num­
ber  of  cars available,  but  now  it  is  said 
that  all  old  stocks are  closely  controlled 
by  second  hands  and  that 
it  is  practi 
cally  impossible to buy any at any price. 
With  no  carry-over and  new  stocks com-

Iing  upon  what  may  be  called  a  perfect­

ly  bare  market,  the  prospect  for a  high

range  of  prices  is  quite  encouraging. 
Spot  stocks  of  prunes  are  larger  than  of 
any  other  dried  fruit  and  the  market 
is 
very  dull  with  almost  no  demand. 
Peaches  are  steady,  but  trade  is  limited 
because  of  high  quotations  and  lack  of 
interest  on  the  part  of  buyers.  Until 
sellers  reduce  their  ideas  on  prices,  lit­
tle  will  be  done  in  any  quantity.  No 
opening  prices  are  announced  yet,  but 
holders  apparently  expect  to  receive 
practically  what  they  are  asking  now. 
Buyers  are  obdurate,  however,  and  re­
fuse  to  raise  their  bids.  Currants  are 
reported firmer in Greece,but no quotable 
change  has  been  made  on  the  spot.  The 
reason  for the  increased  firmness  is  said 
to  be  the  early  influence  of  the  new  re­
tention  law  which  goes  into  effect  next 
month.  Sales  are  small  and  trade  is 
limited  to  almost  nothing.

Tea—There 

Rice—There 

is  a  fair  demand  for 
rice,  it  being  mostly  for  foreign grades.
is  a  little  more  interest 
in  the  better grades  of  tea  just 
shown 
now  and  there  is  a  slight 
improvement 
in  all  grades.  Local  houses  have  re­
ceived  their  first 
importations  of  new 
teas  and  are  now  making  deliveries.

Molasses and  Syrups—Advices  from 
the  Louisiana  plantations  indicate  that 
the  cane 
is  doing  well  and  that  it  has 
an  excellent  chance  to  make  a  growth 
that  will  make  up  for lost  time.  Corn 
syrups  are  dull  with  no  change 
in 
prices.

Fish— Sales  of  mackerel  are  small, 
on  account  of  the  high  prices  caused  by 
light  receipts.  The  prospects 
for  a 
large 
fall  catch  are  not  considered 
bright.  The  market  for  codfish  is  firm 
with  good  demand. 
is  reported  that 
the  codfish  catch  as  well  as  the  mack­
erel  is  very  short  this  season.

It 

Green  Fruits—Bananas  sell  only  in  a 
small  way  and,  while  there  is  a  slightly 
easier  feeling,  no  change  in  prices  has 
taken  place.  The  fight  between 
the 
combine  and 
its  competitors  exerts  no 
influence  on  prices  as  yet.  Lemons  are 
a  littie  stronger  and  the  last  sales  in 
New  York  showed  an  advance  of  from 
25@5oc  per  box,  but  this  advance  has 
not  affected  the  local  market,  which  is 
unchanged.

Hides,  Pelts.  Tallow  and  Wool. 
Hides  are  in  good  demand  st  former 
prices,  with  an  advance  asked.  Quan­
tity  is  lacking,  but  tanners  see  no  profit 
to  them 
in  paying  an  advance,  which 
seems inevitable  on  account  of  scarcity.
Pelts  are  some higher and  there  is  a 

demand  for  all  offering.

Tallow  is  in  light  supply, with consid 
erable  enquiry. 
Stocks  are  held  at 
higher  values  than  soapers  wish  to  pay, 
while  dealers  feel  confident  of  their  sit­
uation  and  hold 
little 
changing  hands.

strong,  with 

Wool  seems  to  be  on  a  boom.  Manu­
facturers  and  speculators  are 
in  the 
market and  are buying  more  than  in any 
week 
in  the  past  two  years.  Prices 
have  advanced  and  no  weak  spots  are 
apparent;  in  fact,  the  prices  asked  tend 
to  stop  sales.  The  cost  of  new  wools 
West 
is  fully  up  to  the  asking  prices 
East.  There 
in 
woolen  goods.  Good  prices  with  large 
sales  help  the  wool  market.  The  out­
look  is  good. 

W m.  T.  Hess.

improvement 

is  an 

Wanted—Cigarmakers,  rollers,  bunch 
breakers,  strippers  and 
lady  packers. 
G.  J.  Johnson  Cigar Co.,  Grand Rapids.

Jacob  VandenBerg  has  gone  to  Ken­
ton  to  take  the  management  of  the  gen­
eral  store  of  J.  D.  F.  Pierson,  who  also 
conducts  a  store at  Kitchi.

5

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Cooking  stock  is  in  good  de­
mand  at  $i.75@2  per  bbl.  Duchess, 
Red  Astrachan  and  Early  Harvest  are 
in  fair  demand  at $2@2.75 per  bbl.  Re­
ceipts  are  not  heavy,  but  will  be  much 
larger  next  week.

Beets—50c  per  bu.

,  Blackberries—$¡@1.25  per 
16  qt. 
crate.  The crop  is  not  large  and  prices 
are  not  likely  to  go  lower.
Butter—Dairy  grades  are  in  fair  sup­
ply,  especially  cooking  stock and worse. 
Fancy  table  stock  brings  15c  and  fac­
tory creamery  is  in  good  demand  at  18c.
Cabbage— 40@6oc  per  doz.,  according 
in  amount 

to  size.  Receipts  are  large 
and  fine  in  quality.

Carrots— 10c  per doz.
Cauliflower—$1  per  doz.
Celery— i 6 @ i 8 c   per doz.  Receipts  are 

heavy  and  quality  is  superb.

stock 

Eggs—Candled 

Cherries—The  crop 

is  about  at  an 
end,  English  Murrillas  having  ad­
vanced  to  $i.6o@2  per bu.
Cucumbers—25c  per  doz.
Currants— Black command $1.40 per 16 
qt.  crate.  Red  and  White  fetch  6o@75c.
13c 
while  case  count  stock  is  handled  on 
the  basis  of  n@ n}£c.  Receipts  are 
larger  and  the  quality  of  the  receipts 
has  improved  very  materially. 
"Gooseberries—75c  per  16  qt.  crate. 
The  crop 
is  about  at  an  end,  receipts 
this  week  having  been  generally  over- 
ripe

fetches 

Green  Onions—Silver  Skins  fetch  10 

@i2c.  Black  Seed  command  8@ioc.

Honey—White  Clover  is  scarce,  com­
manding  12J£c.  Dark  amber  fetches  8 
@ioc.

Lettuce—25c  per  bu.  for  curly;  40c 

per bu.  for head.
Muskmelons—Texas Rockyfords  fetch 
$1.50  per  doz.  Cantaloupes  command 
$1.25  per  doz.  Little  Gems  have  de­
clined  to  5o@6oc.

Onions— Illinois  stock  is  held  at $1.25 

@1.40  per  bu.
bu.  The  crop  is  about  at  an  end. 

Peas—Marrowfats  command  60c  per 

Poultry— Broilers  are 

Pieplant—60c  for  basket  of. 50  lbs. 
Potatoes— Home  grown  are  in  ample 
supply  to  meet  local  and  shipping  re­
quirements, 
fetching  40@5oc  per  bu. 
The  price  will  probably  go  lower  as  the 
area  in  which  home  grown  stock  is  pro­
duced  expands.
in  active  de­
mand  at  I3@I4C.  Fat  hens  are  in  fair 
demand  at  6@7c,  while  medium  hens 
are 
in  strong  demand  at  8c.  Spring 
ducks  are  in  fair  demand  at  10c,  while 
old  ducks  are  slow  sale  at  7@8c.  Hen 
turkeys 
i o @ i i c . 
Large  turkeys  are  in  fair  demand  at  8c. 
Squabs  are  in  good  demand  at  $1.50 per 
doz.  Pigeons are  in  fair  demand  at  60c 
per  doz.

find  ready  sale  at 

Radishes— 10c  per  doz.  bunches. 
Raspberries— Black  command  8o@90c 
per  16  qt.  crate.  Red  command  same 
price  for  12  qt.  crate.  The  quality  is 
keeping  up  good  and  the  crop  will 
last 
a  week  yet.

Squash—75c  per  bu.  box.
Sweet  Corn— I2j^c  per  doz.
Tomatoes—60c  per  4 basket  crate. 
Turnips—35c  per  bu.
W aterm elo n s—G e o rg ia   sto ck   is  ab o u t 
at  an   end.  M isso u ri  stock  is  now   at  its 
best  and  Indiana  Sweethearts  will  be­
gin  to arrive about Aug.  1.  Prices range 
from  I2@20c,  with  Jumbos—weighing 
from  25  to  30  pounds—held  at  22@25c.
Whortleberries—$2@2.50  per  bu.,  ac­
cording  to  quality.  Receipts  are  not 
large,  but  quite  large  enough  consider­
ing  the  quality  01  most  of  the  stock 
which  reaches  this  market.

The  grocery  stock  formerly  conducted 
at  659  South  Lafayette  street  by  L.  D. 
Blackford  has  passed  into  the  bands  of 
A.  M.  Cole,  who  has  removed 
it  to  67 
West  Leonard  street.

M.  J.  Seven  has  purchased  the  gro­
cery  stock  of  M.  Van  Wingen,  at  120 
West  Leonard  street,  corner  Hamilton 
street,  and  will  continue  the business  at 
the  same  location.

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

tea.  all  kinds, 

I grades and  prices,  phone Visner,  80a

8

W om an’s World
Sensible  Suggestions  on  the  Educa­

tion  of Children.

The  old  proverb  that  sets  forth  that 
familiarity  breeds  contempt  never  has 
so  much  significance  to  my  mind  as 
when  I  observe  the  debonair and  light­
hearted  way  in  which parents regard  the 
school  problem.  The  very  fact  that  the 
early  yeais  of  a  child’s  life  are  the 
formative ones,  that  bis character is  like 
wax 
in  the  teacher's  hands,  and  that 
every  school  must  set  its  indelible  mark 
upon  him,  makes 
it  one  of  the  most 
important  questions  of  life.  Yet  the 
father,  with  a  happy  sense  that  he  has 
it beyond  paying 
no  responsibility 
the  bills,  leaves 
it  all  to  the  mother; 
and  the  mother,  who  would  scour  the 
town  to  find  the  latest  thing  in  knicker­
bockers  for  Tommy  or  a  dressmaker 
who  could  give  a  correct  set  to Mamie’s 
skirt  is  apparently  of  the  opinion  that 
there 
is  no  choice  in  schools  and  that 
any  old  thing  will  do.

in 

We  make  a  fetich  of  education,  yet 
there  is  nothing  else  under  the  sun  to 
whose  consideration  we  bring  so  little 
common  sense  and  intelligence.  The 
average  child  is  clapped  into  school  at 
a  certain  age  and  kept  there  a  given 
number  of  years,  as  if he were  serving a 
time  sentence 
in  the  penitentiary,  and 
when  be  is  out  we  call  the  result  "edu­
cation” — God  save  the  mark !  He  may 
have  spent  the  time  learning  football; 
he  may  be  totally  unfitted  for the  life be 
was  bound  to 
live;  it  may  have been 
ruination instead of education.  It doesn’t 
matter.  He has  been  kept  at  school  and 
we  have  a  complacent  conviction  that 
we  have  done  our  full  duty. 
"W hy 
don’t  you  make  that  big,  strapping  son 
of  yours  carry  this  heavy  bundle  for 
you?"  I  say  to  my  colored  laundress. 
"Lawd,  Miss  Do’thy,”   she  returns,  “ I 
wouldn’t  let  Jim  demean  hissef  by 
totin'  a  bundle  through  de  streets. 
I 
done  educated  dat  boy. 
'Size,  be  ain’t 
got  time.  He  playin’  on  de  base  ball, 
and,"  with  conscious  pride,  "h e  don’t 
know  nothin*  'bout  work  noway.  He’s 
educated. ”

Of  course  no one  will  gainsay  its  be­
ing  a  parent’s  duty  to  give  his  child the 
best  possible  education;  to  put  into  his 
hands  not  only  the  weapons  with  which 
he 
is  to  fight  the  battle  of  life,  but  to 
give  him  those  higher  resources  which 
lift  him,  who  can  truly  say,  "M y  mind 
to  me  a  kingdom  is ,"  above  the  petty 
accidents  of  fate  and 
fortune.  The 
trouble  is  that  to  do  this  seems  to  most 
people  so  easy  that  they  do  not  give  it 
sufficient  thought.  Some  fine  morning 
the  father  and  mother  awaken  to  the 
fact  that  Tommy  and  Mamie  are  get­
"Goodness 
ting  to  be  big  children. 
gracious,”   they  say,  " it  
is  time  they 
were beginning their education.  There’s 
a  school on the next block.  How lucky !’ ’ 
and  forthwith  poor  little  Tommy  and 
Mamie  are  bundled  off  to  it  and  have 
one  of  the  most  important  steps  in  their 
life  decided  for  them  without  one 
thought  ever  having  been  given  to  wbat 
sort  of  school  it  is,  whether  it  is  go­
ing  to  meet'  their  needs  or  not,  or 
whether  they  are  to  be  under  a  teacher 
who  has  enthusiasm  and  sympathy 
enough  to  kindle  the  fire  in  their souls, 
or  whether  she  is a  mere teaching  ma­
chine,  who  grinds  out  learning  like  a 
hand  organ  grinds  out  grand  opera, with 
all  the  soul  of  it  dead  and  gone.

You  see,  we  make  the fatal mistake  of 
taking  it  for  granted  that  anybody  who 
can  answer  a  certain  percentage  of

the  sympathetic  neighbor,  who  encour­
ages  her  to  meet  the  Brown  boy  on  the 
sly. 
It  is  the  beginning  of  misunder­
standing,  coldness,  hard  feelings,  and 
is  a  tragedy 
that  drifting  apart  that 
none  the  less  bitter  because 
it  is  so 
common.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
questions 
in  a  school  examination  is 
fitted  to  teach.  Never  was  a  greater er­
ror.  As  well  might  we  say  that  any­
body  who  could  read  "Locksley  H all,”  
and  scan  its  iines,  and  diagram  its  sen­
tences,  could  write  it  Even  more  than 
poets 
teachers  are  heaven-born— not 
made— if  they  are  worthy  of  their  vo­
cation,  and 
it  is  the  greatest  pity  there 
isn’t  some  way  to  weed  out  the  profes­
sion  and  retire  all  of  the  dry-as-dust 
pedagogues  who  are  doing  everything 
they  can  to  murder the  love  of  knowl­
edge  in  so  many  young breasts. 
It  may 
be  set  down  as  a  fact,  with  hardly  an 
exception,  that  wherever  a  child  hates 
school  and  fails  to  be  interested  in  his 
studies,  unless  he 
is  a  dullard  and  a 
fool,  it  is  the  teacher's  fault.  She  has 
no  enthusiasm,  no  magnetism.  Her 
work  bores  her  and  wearies  the  scholar. 
There  is  nothing  in  her  to stimulate and 
inspire.  If  we have a  cook  whose  soggy 
bread  and  greasy  soup  and  watery  veg­
etables  slay  our appetites the  very  first 
glance  at  the table,  we  do  not  starve  on 
year after  year  under  her  regime.  We 
send  her  off  and  get  somebody  else. 
Surely  we  owe  as  much  to  our chil­
dren’s 
If  their 
teacher  can  set  nothing before them  that 
makes  them  hunger  for  learning  and 
thirst  for 
information,  be  certain  that 
she  does  not  possess  the  first  requisite 
of  her  calling,  and  keep  changing 
schools  until  you  find  what  you  need.

Out  of  this  difficulty  the  boarding 
school  offers  the  open  door.  By  the 
time  the  children  have  had  a  couple  of 
sessions  of 
it  and  everyone  concerned 
has  adjusted  themselves  to  the  new 
standard,  Tommy  has  bad  the  fact  that 
he  is  still  a  " k id ”   rubbed  into  him  by 
older  boys,  and  on  his  side his  father 
has  remembered  that  the  world  was 
made  when  a  boy  was  bom,  and  that 
every  living,  single,  solitary  one  has  to 
go 
same  experience. 
Mamie’s  mother has  gotten  used  to  the 
idea  that  Mamie has  a  right  to  do  her 
hair  pompadour and  have  long  dresses 
and  think  about  being 
love,  and 
Mamie  has  made  enough  mistakes  and 
shed  enough  tears  over  them  to  be  will­
ing  occasionally  to  listen  to  a  word  of 
advice,  and  so  the  dangerous  place  is 
safely  bridged  over.  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes  says  somewhere  that  the  reason 
families  separate  is  because  of  the  law 
of  self-preservation,  and  that  it  is  only 
by  leaving  each  other  that  the  Smiths 
avoid  being  Smithed  into  the  grave, 
and  the  Jones  keep  from  being  Jonesed 
into  the  madhouse.  Absence  of  body 
is  often  more  effectual  than  presence  of 
mind  in  preventing  family  clashes.

intellectual  appetite. 

through 

the 

in 

Another  point  upon  which  too  much 
stress  can  not  be  laid  is  in  parents  try­
ing  to  find  out  wbat  a  child  can  do  and 
educate  him  along  that  line.  This  is 
the  day  of  specialists.  There  is  no 
place  in  the  world for bungling amateurs 
with  a  smattering  of  knowledge  of 
what  they  are  trying  to  do.  The  whole 
of  a  lifetime  is  not  too  long  to  learn  the 
craftsmanship  of  any  trade,  yet  we  take 
no  pains  to  find  out  what  our boys  are 
fitted  for  and  train  them  to  it. 
It  is  not 
too  much  to  say  that  we  could  save  al­
most  every  youth  the  first  five  years of 
bard  and  discouraging  work  he has  to 
go  through  when  he  starts out in life,  if, 
from  his  very  childhood,  he had  been 
grounded  in  the  rudiments  of  the  call­
ing  he  was to pursue;  but we don’t do it. 
We  grind  them  all  through  the  same 
educational  mill,  and  then  when  they 
are  grown  they  have to go  back and sup­
plement  their  education  by  the  real  ed­
ucation  that  teaches  them  bow  to  make 
a  dollar.  With  girls  there  is  more  ex­
cuse,  for  the  girls  are  the  unknown 
quantity 
in  the  problem  of  existence. 
No  one  knows  what  they  will  do,  still 
less  whom  they  will  marry,  and  in  the 
general  uncertainty  whether  they  will 
need  most  to  know  plain  cooking  or 
the  etiquette  of  European  courts  prob­
ably  our  potpourri  style of  education 
is 
as  good  as  any  other.

The  boarding  school  question  is  an­
other of the  vexed  questions that parents 
have  to  settle.  Personally,  I  am  an 
ardent  advocate  of  the  benefits  of  send­
ing  children  away  from  home  at  a  cer­
tain  period  of  their  lives.  There  comes 
a  time  in  the  life  of  every  halfgrown 
boy  and girl  when  they grow  restive  un­
In  their  own 
der  parental  authority. 
conceit  they  are  men  and  women. 
In 
their  parents'  opinion  they  are  still 
babies.  Both  are  wrong,  but  it  engen­
ders  endless  conflicts  of authority  be­
tween  them.  Tommy  flatly  refuses to 
give an  account  of his whereabouts when 
he was  away  from  home  until  9 o’clock. 
Mamie  thinks her  mother a  monster  of 
tyranny  and  oppression  because  she  re­
fuses  to  let  heF  have  beaux,  and  she 
takes  her  tears  and  her  complaints  to

Furthermore,  the  boarding  school  is 
appointed  and  ordained  for  the  salva­
tion  of  spoiled  children.  At  home  the 
universe  may  have  revolved  around 
Tommy  and  Mamie.  When  they  got 
into  tantrums  mamma  cried  and  begged 
her  precious  angels  not  to  break  her 
heart by  doing  that  way.  They  bad  de­
veloped  as  many  cranks  as  an old  maid. 
Their  table  manners  were  simple  sav­
agery,  but mamma didn’t  have  the  cour­
age  to  interfere,  because  they  used  to 
eat  in  that  "cu te”   way  when  they  were 
babies.  Send  them  to  school  and  they 
get  their  first  taste  of  a  cruel  world, 
that  has  no  patience  with  tantrums,  that 
refuses  to  be  bull-dozed  by  anybody’s 
ways  and  literally guys  them  into decent 
manners.  There  is  nothing  else  as  cold, 
as  penetrating  and  as  unmerciful  as 
the  criticisms  of  one’s  schoolfellows, 
and  anybody  who  misses  it  has  lost a 
valuable  educational  opportunity.

To  the  boarding  school  there  is,  how­
ever,  one  serious  objection,  and  that  is 
that  with  few  and far exceptions convict 
fare 
is  still  considered  sufficient  food 
for  growing  boys  and  girls,  who  need 
the  best  nourishment 
it  is  possible  to 
give them.  Of  course,  all  schools  adver­
tise " A ll  the  comforts  of  a  home,”   but 
that 
is  the  most  elastic  phrase  in  the 
language.  There  are  comfortable homes 
and  there  are  others,  and  in  selecting  a 
boarding  school  this 
is  one'important 
thing  to  consider.  Plain 
living  and 
high  thinking  is  a  charming  theory,  but 
there  is  no  earthly  sense  in  starving  the 
body  while  you  feed  the  mind.  The  two 
should  go  together.

are 

two 

there 

Finally, 

important 
"don’ts”   to  the  school question.  Don’t 
send  a  child  to  any  school,  however 
good 
it  is,  and  feel  that  you  have a 
right  to  wash  your  bands  of  further  re­
sponsibility. 
It  needs  the  parents’  un­
flagging  interest to  inspire the child  on, 
for  few  of  us  are  born  with  a  passion 
for  learning.  The  love  of  study  is  just 
as  often  and  as  much  an  acquired  taste 
as  a 
love  for  olives  and  raw  oysters. 
Only  the  favored  few  are  born  with  a 
natural  hankering 
for  them.  Above

involves 

all,  don’t  crowd  a  child;  don’t  put 
pressure  on  him  because  he 
is  slow 
idiocy  and 
and  dull.  That 
physical  collapse.  Be  honest  with  your­
self  and  with  your  child.  Don’t  let  your 
love  blind  you  to  defects.  Find  out 
wbat  he  can  do  by  good,  hard,  honest 
work,  but  not  by  overstrain,  and  keep 
him  up  to a  good  average,  but  don’t at­
tempt  to  push  him  beyond  it  unless  you 
want  to  wreck  him,  mind  and  body. 
And  remember,  for  your  comfort,  that 
precociousness  in  children  is  no  sign  of 
future  cleverness  in  the  grown  person. 
The  sturdiest  trees  are  of  the  slowest 
growth.  The  sweetest  fruits  are  the 
slowest  ripening. 
Several  Specimens  of  Offensive  Ad­

D o r o th y  D ix.

vertising.

It 

instance.  This 

is  neither  good  taste  nor  good 
business  to  name  an  advertised  article 
so  as  to  arouse  the  antagonism  of  any 
class 
in  the  community.  Agricultural 
advertisers  rarely  transgress  the  laws  of 
trade 
in  this  direction,  although  we 
sometimes  notice  advertisements  in  .the 
agricultural  papers  that  have  been  the 
basis  of  strong  opposition.  Take  the 
Sorosis  shoe  for 
is a 
ladies'  article  of  wear,  but  so  emphat­
ically  has  the  well-known  and  time- 
honored  Sorosis club  objected  to  the ap­
propriation  of  its  name  and  so  distaste­
ful  to  the  members  is  it  that  the  club 
has almost  become  disrupted  because 
of  it.  There  is  not  much  likelihood  that 
the  shoe  will  become  popular among  the 
members  of  the  best  ladies’  associa­
tions.
The  Geo.  W,  Childs  cigar,  so  lavishly 
advertised  on  bill  boards,  is  another 
case  in  point.  The  use  of  this  most 
distinguished  of  Philadelphia  names  on 
a  cheap  cigar  is  extremely distasteful  to 
the  widow  of  the  newspaper  man.  The 
picture  always  accompanying  the  ad­
vertisement  and  which 
is  supposed  to 
represent  Mr.  Childs  is  a  hideous  car­
icature  of  him.

The  use  of  the  word  Quaker  in  con­
nection  with  patent  medicines,  home­
made  bread,  breakfast  foods  and  linen 
shirts  does  not  meet  the  views of  the 
members  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  we 
venture  to  say,  in  a  single instance, and 
it  is  certain  that  no  Quaker  would  ever 
look  on  the  name  as  an 
inducement  to 
purchase  the  goods.  They  are  a  staid, 
conservative  people,  and  their  trade 
would  be  of  value  to  any  advertiser. 
The  name  is  a  favorite  in  the  advertis­
ing  world  because  it  is  typical  of  worth 
and  stability,  but  the  people  who  have 
given 
it  the  character  it  has  do  not 
stand  sponsor  for  the  business  houses 
adopting  it.  No  Philadelphia  Quaker 
ever  uses  his  religion  as  an  argument to 
obtain  business.

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WEDNESDAY,------JULY  19,1899.
BUSINESS  CONDITIONS.

Perhaps  the  most  notable  feature  of 
the  week  is  the  continued  advance 
in 
prices  in  the  iron  and  steel markets.  To 
meet  the  needs  of  demand,  production 
has  been 
increased  by  every  possible 
means,  new  furnaces  going 
into  blast 
every  week,  until  production  exceeds 
in  the  history  of  the 
that  ever  known 
industry, 
it  would  seem  that  such  an 
increase  of  production  must  soon  begin 
to  tell 
in  the  price  situation,  but  in­
stead  the  quotation  for  Bessemer  rose  to 
$20.75  and  grey  forge  to  $17.50 at  Pitts­
burg,  with  a  corresponding  advance 
in 
other  Eastern  cities. 
It  is  too  much  to 
expect  that  consumptive  demand  will 
continue 
indefinitely  to  meet  such  an 
increase  of  production  and  thus  main­
tain  these  high  values.

The  course  of  the  stock  market  has 
been  steadier  for  the  past  two  or  three 
weeks  than  for  a  long  time  previous, 
the  bear  efforts  of  speculators  being 
met  by  such  strength  of  position  that 
they  could  only  serve  to  bold  the market 
at  a  uniform  level.  Records  of  produc­
tion,  of  tonnage  and  earnings  are  being 
broken  to  an  extent  which  would  seem 
to  make  a  further  advance  inevitable.

The  monetary  outlook,  which  some 
have  considered  threatening,  is  much 
improved  by  the  gain  in  exports  of  the 
great  staples  so  soon  after  the  crop  year 
begins,  but  still  more  by  the continuing 
net  receipts  of  currency  from  the 
inte­
rior  and  the  information  which  comes 
from  Western  cities,  such  as  Chicago, 
that  country  banks  are  offering  loans 
there  and  bidding  against  city  banks  at 
the  very  season  when  the  needs  of  the 
country  for  crop  moving  have  usually 
brought  some  strain  upon  all  markets, 
even  to  the  seaboard.  Few  realize  bow 
greatly  the  available  wealth  of  the  West 
has  been  increased  by  two  good  years, 
but  it  is  also  probable  that  in  the  finan­
cing  of  many 
industrial  corporations 
more  money  than  has  yet  been  realized 
has  been  distributed  in  the  purchase  of 
properties  scattered  over  many  states, 
which  were  much  dependent  upon  in­
terior  banking  institutions.

The  movement  of  wheat  opens  the 
crop  year  with  much  greater  activity 
than  was  expected.  Prices  have  yielded 
slightly,  but on  the  whole  show  consid­
erable  steadiness.  Export  movement 
opens  heavy  and  exceeds  the  same  pe­
riod  last  year  by  over 33  per  cent.

A  considerable  advance  has  been 
made  in  many  woolen goods,  after some 
successful 
selling  by  the  American 
Woolen  Company,  which  is  said  to have

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its  entire  production  for  the 
covered 
season 
in  some  lines.  But the  rise  is 
hardly  enough  as  yet  to  cover  the  in­
crease  in  cost  of  wool  since  the  middle 
of  May,  when  the  manufacturers  were 
objecting  that  wool  was  too  dear  to  be 
made  into goods.  Cotton  is  held  without 
change  for  spot,  although  declining 
3-16C 
last  week  for  futures,  but  the 
quantity  now  in  sight— 10,984,993  bales 
— is  100,000  more  than  last  year,  while 
weekly  receipts  exceed  last  year’s,  and 
point  toward  a  crop  of  11,300,000  bales 
or  more.  Exports 
in  half  of July  have 
been  125,850  bales,  against  only  48,151 
bales  last  year,  but  takings  by  Northern 
spinners  have  been  32,679 bales,  against 
only  4,490  last  year.  The goods  are  gen­
in  sufficient  demand  to  hold 
erally 
prices  fairly 
some 
fancy  prints  were  reduced one-half cent.

steady,  although 

Emperor  Nicholas  has  just  taken  a 
step  w h ich   c e rta in ly   does  n o t  g iv e  
in ­
dication  of  very  friendly  feelings  to­
wards  the  United  States.  He  has  just 
given  orders  to  have  every  horse  with 
American  blood  in  its  veins  kicked  out 
of  the  stables  and  out  of  the  imperial 
stud.  The  iatter  is,  perhaps,  the 
larg­
est  in  the  world  and  some  years ago  im­
ported  a  very  large  number of American 
stallions  and  mares  of  famous  Ameri­
can  trotting  stock  with  the 
idea  of 
cross  breeding  with  the  Russian  horses, 
and  thus  developing  the  trotting  quali- 
ites  of  Muscovite  horse-flesh.  Not  con­
tent  with  this,  Emperor Nicholas  has is­
sued  instructions  that  all  horses  bred  in 
Russia  from  American  stock,  or  else 
from  crosses  between  American  and 
Russian  stock,  should  be  subjected  to 
the  same  taxation,  as  well  as  to  the 
same  racing  disadvantages  as 
if  they 
were  foreign  horses.  This  constitutes 
a  great  blow  to  stud  owners,  such  as 
Count  Vorontsoff,  former  grand  master 
of  the 
imperial  household ;  to  the  Im­
perial  Prince  George  of  Leichtenberg; 
to  Prince  Sergius  Galitzine,  and  to  the 
numerous  other  stud  owners  who  have 
spent  enormous  sums  of  money 
im­
porting  American  trotting  stock  with 
the  object of  crossing  it  with  Russian 
horses. 
In  fact,  the  steps  adopted  by 
the  Czar  are  such  as  to  practically  bar 
all  horses  with  American  blood  in  their 
veins  from  the  Russian  turf.  People 
even  at  St.  Petersburg  are  at a  loss  to 
discover  the reason  which  has  prompted 
the  Czar  to  take  this  extraordinary step, 
and  many  are  asking  whether  perhaps 
Nicholas  may  not  be  taking  this  action 
with  the  object  of  demonstrating  to  the 
United  States  bis 
ill-will  for  the  part 
which  he  conceives  America  to  have 
played  in  bringing  about  the  failure  of 
his  peace  congress  at  The  Hague.

in 

Statistics  compiled  from  the  press  of 
the  country  show  that  the  number  of 
those  killed  by  Fourth  of  July accidents 
in  the  United  States,  outside  of  nearly 
a  score  of  subsequent  deaths  from  lock­
jaw,  was  35,  while  the  number  of  seri­
ously 
injured  was  nearly  1,900.  The 
causes  of  various accidents were divided 
as  follows:  From  firecrackers  849.  sky­
rockets  129,  powder  explosions  248,  fire­
arms  238,  cannon  259,  bullets  and  other 
142. 

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California  has  now  about  30,000 acres 
of  olive trees.  Two-thirds  of  them  are 
not  yet  bearing  fruit,  but it  is  estimated 
that  in  five  years  California  will  be able 
to  supply  the  market  for  the  United 
States.

The  architect  of  his own fortunes must 

be  careful  about  laying  foundations.

to 

SIM PLE  ACT  OF  COURTESY.
The  visit  of  the  Emperor  William  of 
Gremany 
the  French  schoolship 
Ipbigenie,  and  the  exchange  of  effusive 
telegrams  between  that  potentate  and 
President  Loubet,  of  France,  has  been 
one  of  the  recent  sensations  in  Europe, 
and  has  attracted  a  great deal  more  at­
tention  and been given more significance 
than  it  deserves.  To  the  average  Amer­
ican  or  Englishman  the  visit  can  be 
construed  only  as  one  of  natural  cour­
tesy  and  good  feeling.  A  large  school- 
ship  is  always  a  matter of  more  or  less 
interest  to  a  sailor,  and,  as  Emperor 
William  prides  himself  upon  bis  sailor 
tastes  and  habits,  it  is  but  natural  that 
he 
visit 
the  Ipbigenie,  a  vessel  which,  by  the 
way,  visited 
this  country  something 
more  than  a  year  ago.

should  have  wished 

to 

To  attribute  serious  political  signifi­
cance  to  such  an  act  is  clearly  ridicu­
lous.  That E m p e ro r  William  should  be 
desirous  to  cultivate  friendly  relations 
with  France  is  natural  enough;  but  that 
the  French  people  can  be  made  to  for­
get  by  a  simple  act  of  courtesy  the  fact 
that  a  large slice  of their  territory  was 
wrested  from  them  thirty  years  ago  by 
the  present  Emperor’s  grandfather  is 
expecting  entirely  too  much.  Emperor 
William  is  addicted  to  doing  things 
in 
a  showy  and  melodramatic  style,  and 
his acts  of  that  sort  must  not  be  taken 
too  seriously;  hence  bis  telegram  to 
President  Loubet  is  easily  understood.
Some  of  the  French  journals  point  to 
the  belief,  now  veiy  general,  that  Em­
peror  William 
is  anxious  to  visit  the 
Paris  exposition  next  year,  and  would 
welcome  something 
like  an  invitation 
from  the  French  government, and  claim 
that  the  visit  to the  schoolship  was  cun­
ningly  devised  so  as  to  lead  up  to  the 
desired 
invitation  to  visit  the  exposi­
tion.  This  suspicion  no  doubt  does  the 
Emperor  injustice,  as  he  is  far  too  im­
pulsive  a  man to have  thought  of  resort­
ing  to  so  poor  an  expedient to  further 
ulterior  plans.  The  visit  was,  in  all 
probability,  a  simple  act  of  courtesy 
carried  out  with  the  Emperor’s  well- 
known  penchant  for  pomp  and  state. 
With  all  his  love  for  ostentation  and  his ] 
other faults,  there  is  certainly  nothing 
mean  nor  petty  about  the  German  Em­
peror.  He  is  entirely  too great a  man 
to  become a  party  to  petty  intrigues.

is  normal,  there 

While  the  supply  of  money  in  New 
York  City 
is an  un­
usual  scarcity  of  paper currency,  and 
many  merchants  are  paying  out  and 
taking  in  gold  almost  exclusively.  The 
scarcity  of  currency  is  due  primarily  to 
the  increased  prosperity  of  the  country, 
for  there  is  more  money  in  genera!  cir­
culation  than  there  has  been  for a  long 
while.  The  total  amount of paper money 
in  the  United  States  is  $1,100,000,000, 
of  which  not  more than  $20,000,000  re­
mains 
in  the  national  treasury.  The 
outflow  of  currency  has been  mainly  to 
the  West  and  Southwest, where  big crops 
are  ready  to be  moved,  but  $10,000,000 
has  gone  to  Cuba  and  Porto  Rico.  The 
withdrawal  of  small  bills  from  Eastern 
money  centers  has  been  heavy  because 
they  can  be  shipped  more  cheaply  and 
be  more  easily  bandied  than  gold. 
Many  New  York  banks  have  still  on 
band  a  considerable amount  in  bills  of 
all  denominations,  but  they  expect  a 
more  marked  scarcity 
in  the  near  fu­
ture,  and 
it  may  be necessary  to  ship 
gold  to  thè  interior.

A  man  realizes what a  hard  world  this 
is  when  be  falls  from  a  bicycle and  bits 
some of the  world’s  earth.

The  proposed  amalgamation  of whole­
sale  drug  houses  has  received  a death 
blow  by  the  circulation  of  letters  from 
a  number  of  the  leading  importing  and 
jobbing  houses  of  the  country,  stating 
that  they  will  have  nothing  whatever  to 
do  with  the  proposed  trust and  that  the 
use of  their names by  the  promoter 
is 
unauthorized  by  them.  The  idea  of  a 
wholesale  drug  trust is so  ridiculous  that 
the  project did  not  find  lodgment  in  the 
minds  of  the  sane  men  of  the  trade,  it 
having  been  encouraged  only  by  a  few 
enthusiasts  who  permitted  their  anxiety 
to get  out  from  under  a  load  of 
indebt­
edness  to  override  their  better  judg­
ment. 

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it  is 

Chicago  shoppers  are  preparing  to 
boycott  the  stores  which  refuse  to  pro­
vide  seats  for  their  women  clerks.  They 
affirm  that 
injurious  to  female 
health  to  stand  up  without  relief  nine 
hours  daily,  and  that  the  merchants who 
persist 
imposing  such  an  unfeeling 
and  unreasonable  task  upon  them  de­
serve  to  lose  their  customers.  The  em­
ployers  will  no  doubt  give  in  as  soon  as 
their 
is  seriously  threatened, 
showing  that  even  the  Chicago  purvey­
ors  may  be  coerced  into  humane  and 
considerate  ways  of  doing  business  if 
the  proceeding  is  set  about  in  the  right 
way. 

trade 

*

Senator  Clark,  of  Montana,  the  richest 
man  in  the  Senate,  is  declared  to  have 
an  income  of considerably  over $1,000,- 
000 a  month.  Mr.  Clark  bad  to  borrow 
money  right  and  left  to  buy  the  ground 
for  his  first  copper  mine,  and  every­
body  predicted  utter  failure,  most  ex­
perts  saying  the  place  was  worthless. 
Mr.  Clark  went  ahead,  and  in  the  first 
two  years  turned  out  30,000,000  pounds 
of  copper,  paid  his  debts  and 
laid  the 
foundation  of  his  great  fortune.

The  French  match  factories  are  now 
turning  out  friction  matches  which  will 
ignite  on  any  surface,  but  which  are 
free  from  the  objections  raised  against 
white  sulphur.  No  smoke  or  odor  is 
perceptible 
in  the  factories.  The  in­
flammable  ingredients  of  the  paste  are 
sesquisulphide 
phosphorus  and 
chlorate  of  potash.

of 

Unless  all  signs  fail  tke  thirteenth an­
nual  picnic  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Retail 
Grocers’  Association  and  the  fourth  an­
nual  picnic  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Retail 
Meat  Dealers’  Association,  which  will 
be held  at  Reed’s  Lake  August  3,  will 
mark  the'high  water  mark  in  Michigan 
picnics of  a  mercantile  character.

An  examination  of a sample of roasted 
coffee  berries  seized 
in  Paris  showed 
them  to be  entirely  artificial,  chemical 
analysis  disclosing  ash,  gum,  dextrine, 
etc.,  and  the  microscope showing grains 
of  wheat,  starch,  vegetable  debris  and 
animal  hairs.

Fat  men  are  generally  comfortable 
and  satisfied  with  themselves and  other 
people,  while  the  too  thin  men  may 
feel  naturally  as 
if  a  slight  had  been 
put  upon  them.

A  man  who  can  not  settle  his bills 
can  not  expect to  ever become settled  in 
life. 

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The  Secretary  of  War  has  developed 

unmistakable  staying  qualities.

A  woman  has  much  to bear  when  she 

has  pride  and  corns  both.

Political pots  seem  to  boil  easily 

hot  weather.

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SOCIALISM  AND  TRUSTS. 

Pierre  Lorillard,  a  New York million­
aire  whose ancestor  of  the  same  name 
made  a 
large  fortune  selling  tobacco 
and  snuff  in  that  city  and  left  it  to  his 
descendants,  has  recently  written  to  the 
New  York  Herald  a  letter  in  defense  of 
trusts. 
In  the  course  of  it,  Mr.  Lor- 
¡Hard  said:

The  consolidation  of  rival  manufac­
turing  firms  in  large  companies,  wrong­
ly  called  trusts,  has been  caused  by  the 
severe  competition  of  the  last few years, 
which  has  rendered  manufacturing  un­
profitable,  has  effected  a  reduction 
in 
wages and  led  to  the  employment  of  an 
army  of  drummers  and  advertising 
agents  and  the  payment  of  enormous 
sums  to  country  newspapers  by  adver­
tising  rival  factories.
It  is  estimated  that  350,000  commer­
cial  travelers  have  been  thrown  out  of 
employment  on  account  of  these  consol­
idations,  whose  average  expenses  of  $10 
each  per  day  amount  to  the  sum  of 
$3,000,000  per  day,  or $900,000,000  per 
annum. 
there 
are  the  thousands  of  country  papers, 
who  live  on  these  advertisements.  Of 
course,  this  army  of  drummers,  adver­
tising  agents and  country papers will  at­
tack  the  so-called  trusts,  but  they  can 
never  reinstate,  by  legislation  or  other­
wise,  the  old  state  of  affairs.

Besides  this  saving, 

The  object  in  the  formation  of  these 
vast  commercial  and  industrial  combi­
nations  is  to  abolish  and  destroy  com­
petition. 
It  is  competition  which  ne­
cessitates  the  employing  of  commercial 
travelers  and  advertising  in  the  news­
papers.  The  trust  which  controls  the 
entire  output  of  some  particular product 
does  not  need  to  send  out  selling  agents 
or  to  advertise  in  the  public  press,  be­
cause  nobody  has 
save 
the  trust,  and,  in  order  to  secure  any  of 
it,  everybody  must go to  the  trust  and 
pay the price demanded  by  the  trust.

that  article 

The  result 

is  that  the  people  are 
placed  at  the  mercy  of  a  monopoly 
which  forces  consumers  to  patronize  it, 
since  the  articles  can  not  be  otherwise 
procured.  The  article  in  question  may 
be  well  or  poorly  made,  and  the  price 
may  be  oppressively  high.  The  trust 
controls  the  market,  and  the  people  are 
helpless  to  change  the  situation  for  the 
better.

that 

competition 

The  abolition  of  competition 

is  a 
great  object  with  the  socialists.  They 
claim 
cuts  down 
wages.  The  effort  of  producers  to  un­
dersell  each  the  other  necessitates  the 
reduction  of  the  wages  of  the  employes. 
This  may  be  true;  but is  any  advantage 
gained  for  the  laboring  man  by the trust 
system,  which  discharges  hundreds  of 
thousands of  its agents  and  advertisers, 
and,  being  a  monopoly,  has  the  power 
to 
fix  wages  at  the  lowest  possible 
rate?  The  object  of  a  monopoly  is  to 
make  the  largest  profit  possible  on  its 
business.  Does  anybody  suppose  that 
monopolies  are  in  the  business  for the 
purpose  of  raising  the  wages  of  their 
employes?  When  the  monopoly  finds 
the  market  overstocked  with  its  prod­
ucts,  and 
it  finds  it  necessary  to  stop  a 
dozen  or  so  of  its  factories,  what  be­
comes  of  the  employes? 
Is  there any 
concern  or  pity  for  them?

But  the  trust  system  of  destroying 
competition  is  scarcely  any  more  to  the 
taste  of  the  socialists  than  is  competi­
tion  itself.  To  meet  tbeii  idea,  it  would 
be  necessary  for  the  Government  to 
take  charge  of  all  industries  and  fur­
nish  employment  to all  able-bodied  in­
habitants  at  good  wages,  selling  the 
products  of  the  industries  to  the  people 
at  the  lowest  rates. 
It  would  be  neces­
sary,  in  order  to  keep  the  people  on 
the  same  level  of  pecuniary  benefit,  to 
see  to  it that  there  should  be  no  private

owners  of  property,  and,  above  all,  no 
rich  people.  To  accomplish  such  a  con­
dition,  it  would  be  necessary  to  confis­
cate  all  private  property  to  the  use  of 
the  State,  and  all  the  population,  being 
reduced  to  the  same  necessity  of  work­
ing  for  wages,  would  be  forced  to  a  so­
cial  and  financial,  as  well  as  a  politi­
cal,  equality.

As  between  the  -trust  system  of  de­
stroying  competition  and  the  socialistic 
idea  of  securing  equality, 
the  demo­
cratic  system  of  competition,  of  giving 
to  each 
individual  an  opportunity  to 
do  the  best  with  such  faculties  as  be 
may possess,  seems far preferable.  Com­
petition  can  be  relied  on  to  prevent  the 
forming  of  a  permanent  and  powerful 
moneyed  aristocracy,  because the  oper­
ation  of  competition  in  business  is  to 
find  the  weak  places  in  every  commer­
cial  and  industrial  system.  No  sooner 
does  one  concern  rise  to  the  top  than 
new  discoveries  and  improved  processes 
in  that  particular  line  tend  to  drag 
it 
down  and  to  erect  something  else  in  its 
place.

Human 

intellect,  energy  and  en­
terprise are  ceaselessly  at  work  to  dis­
cover better  methods  and  devise  more 
advantageous  processes  in  every  indus­
try,  and,  therefore,  the  human  race 
is 
making  progress  every  moment  of 
its 
existence  under  the  competitive  sys­
tem.  Socialism  on  one  hand  would 
operate  to  drag  the  whole  human  race 
down  to  the  same  dead  level,  since  the 
suppression  of  competition  would  pre­
vent  any  individual  from  .rising  above 
bis  fellows.  On  the  other  band,  the 
destruction  of  competition  by  the  mo­
nopoly  system  would  operate  to  create  a 
powerful  wealthy  class,  which  would 
control  all  the  industries  for  the  en­
richment  of  its  own  members and,  hold­
ing  all  the  rest  of  the  population  in 
bondage  by 
low  wages,  would  keep 
down  the  masses  to  the  condition  of 
entire  dependence on  the  trusts.

A  great  deal  has  been  said  about  hu­
man  equality,  and some  such  notion  was 
in  the  minds  of  those  who  originated 
in  the  time of  the  first  French  revolu­
tion  the  expression,  "Liberty,  Equal­
ity,  Fraternity."  Any  realization 
in 
human  affairs  of  the  doctrine  contained 
in  those  words  is  an  impossibility.  The 
only  equality  which  American  democ­
racy  teaches  is  the  right  of  each  indi­
vidual  to  do  the best  with  the  means  or 
faculties  he  may  possess,  under  the 
conditions  which  environ  him.  No  two 
individuals  are  equal  in  any  sense.  No 
two  of  them  are  equal  as  to  animal, 
intellectual  or  spiritual  faculties.  They 
are  not  equal  as to the  conditions  which 
govern  them ;  they are not equal as to op­
portunity  to  use  their  abilities.  Since 
no  human  equality  exists,  no  set  of  hu­
man  beings  can  possess  any  right  to  an 
equality  which  does  not  exist.  As  well 
claim  that  all  men,  or any  men  what­
ever,  possess a natural  or  inborn  right  to 
be  beautiful,  to  be  intellectually  bril­
liant,  or  to  be  rich  and  powerful.

in  a  century,  and 

It  is  commonly  said  that  any  Ameri­
can  boy  may  expect  to  be  President  of 
the  United  States.  This  is  an  absurd 
fallacy,  since,  under  the  law,  it  is  only 
possible  that  there  may  be  twenty-five 
Presidents 
if  any 
number  of  those  who  are  chosen  should 
serve  two  terms,  the  number,  as  has 
been  the  case  up  to  the  present  time, 
would  be  much  less  than  twenty-five. 
Thus  it  is  that  of  the  35,000,000  males 
in  the  United  States  it  is  absurd  to  say 
that  every  one  of  them  may  expect  to 
be  President;  but  that some,  a very few, 
the  number  and  personality  depending

on  a  vast  system  of  conditions  beyond 
human  calculation  or  control,  will  at­
tain  the  office  is  certain.  To  say  that 
every  American  has  a  right  to  be  Pres­
ident  is  a  complete absurdity,  since  the 
masses  of  the  population  can  have  no 
right  to  something  that was not intended 
for  the  whole,  but  only  for  a  few,  and 
is  out  of  the  reach  of  any  save  those 
who  reach 
it  through  a  long  train  of 
fortuitous  circumstances  beyond  hu­
man  calculation  or  foresight.

True  American 
individual 

liberty  means  that 
is  free  to  enter  the 
every 
competitions  of  life  with  such powers as 
he  may  possess,  under  the  conditions 
which  environ  him. 
If  the  powers  and 
abilities  of  all  were  equal,  and  if  the 
conditions  surrounding  all  were  alike, 
then  there  would  be  some  such  thing  as 
human  equality  but,  as  matters  stand, 
it  is 
impossibility, 
and  although  the  doctrine  has  been  an­
nounced  as  the  basis  of  moie  than  one 
political  and  social  revolution,  the  re­
sults  which  followed  have  demonstrated 
the  fallacy.  Human 
life  is  a  state  of 
competition  and  it  will  ever  remain  so, 
for,  whenever  the  right  to  compete  is 
endangered,  men  will  fight  to  restore  it.

in  every  sense  an 

"Old  home  week"  in New Hampshire 
is to  begin  on  Sept. 1.  This  is  the  out­
growth  of  a  suggestion  made by  Gov­
ernor  Rollins  in  Boston  last  winter,  at 
a  meeting  of  the  New  Hampshire  Asso­
ciation  of  that  city,  that  a  week  be  set 
apart  each  year  during  which  natives  of 
the  State  living  elsewhere  might  be 
specially  invited  to  revisit  the  scenes  of 
their  childhood  and  to  fraternize  with 
home  friends  of  the  earlier  days.  To 
insure  a  good  start  for wbat may become 
an  enjoyable  annual  festival  week,  the 
Old  Home  Week  Association  has  been 
organized  and  a  partial  programme  has 
been  outlined. 
It  has  been  arranged 
that  one  day  of  the  week  be  set  apart  in 
each  town  as  a  holiday  occasion,  when 
there  will  be  a  town  gathering  in  grove 
or  ball,  with  such  formal  exercises  as 
the  towns people  may  determine.  Then 
another  day  will  be  chosen  for  a general 
gathering  at  a  central  part,  probably  in 
Concord,  with  a  more  pretentious  pro­
gramme  of  exercises.  The  remainder  of 
the  week  will  be  entirely  at  the disposal 
of  the  visitors,  but  it  is  not  promised 
that  any  exceptions  to  the  sporting  laws 
will be made in  their  favor.

Mrs.  Charles  Sonneman,  of Irvington, 
N.  J.,  who  is  the  mother  of  three  little 
children,  has  become  insane,  under  pe­
culiar  circumstances. 
Three  months 
ago  she  was  the  wife  of  a  frugal  and 
industrious  man,  and  was  herself  a 
model  housekeeper.  But  she  seemed  to 
be  utterly  unable  to  withstand  the 
temptations  of  the  bargain counter.  De 
spite  her  husband’s  protests  she  con­
tinually  visited  a  big  department  store 
in  Newark.  Several  times  when  a  few 
dollars  had  been 
laid  by,  Sonneman 
would  come  home  to  find  it  expended 
and  in  its place  a lot of knickknacks and 
notions  that  bad  been  secured  at  "less 
than  cost."  Finally  be became angry 
and 
left  home,  and  his  wife  has  not 
seen  him  since.  Of  late  the  family  has 
been  dependent  on  the  overseer  of  the 
poor.  Now  the  woman  has  become  in­
sane.  The  moral  of  this  pathetic  story 
appears  to  be:  Don’t  buy  for  a  dollar 
what  you  can  get  for 99  cents,  and don’t 
buy  it  then  if  you  don't  need  it.

A  Chicago  man  has  sold  portions  of 
in  repairing  a 
is  not  the  first  man 

bis  skin  to  be  used 
wounded  boy.  He 
who  has  been  skinned  in  Chicago.

e

DEATHS  BY  LIGHTNING. 

According  to  the  records of the weath­
er  bureau  there  were  120  deaths  from 
lightning  in  the  United  States  in  1890. 
The  following  year  there  were  204,  and 
in  1892  as  many  as  251.  The  number 
dropped  to  209  in  1893,  rose  to  336  in 
1894,  and  reached  426  in  1895. 
In  1896 
the  total  was  341,  in  1897  it  was  362, 
and  last  year  it  was  367.  These  figures 
give  an  annual  mean  of  312.  Judging 
from  the  reports  that  have  come  from 
different  portions  of  the  country  this 
year,  the  deaths  from 
lightning  this 
year  are  likely  to  be  fully  as  numerous 
as  they  were  last  year.

in 

increase 

While  the  danger  to  life  from  light­
ning  is  reduced  to  a  minimum  in cities, 
towns  and  thickly-buih-up  places  by 
reason  of  the  greater  opportunity  of 
harmless  discharge  of  the  electric  cur­
in  deaths  by 
rent.  still  the 
increase 
lightning  seems  to  follow  the 
in  population,  if  not 
the  United 
States  at  least  in  countries  where  larger 
and  more  elaborate  records  have  been 
kept.  These  deaths,  however,  as  a  rule, 
are  distributed  in  the  agricultural  dis­
tricts,  where  conditions  are  more  fa­
vorable  to  the  fatal  effects  of  lightning, 
and  the  cities  continue  to  be  fairly  im­
mune.  Stiil,  new  conditions  seem  to 
bring  new  dangers  even  in  cities.  For 
instance,  a  woman  was  Killed  in  Cleve­
land  the  other  day  by  a  bolt  which 
struck  a  trolley  wire  and  passed  into  a 
car  on  which  she  was  riding.

The  greatest  average  number  of thun­
der  storms  per  year  in  the  United States 
is  the  45 
in  the  oval  which  includes 
Florida.  The  line  of  40  storms annually 
runs  up  into  Alabama and Georgia.  The 
line  of  35  takes  in  Louisiana,  Mississ­
ippi,  Tennessee  and  a  part  of  Arkan­
sas,  while  there 
is  another  35  oval  in 
Central  Indiana,  Illinois,  Southwestern 
Iowa  and  Northeastern  Missouri.  The 
30 a  year  line  crosses  the  country  from 
North  Carolina  to  Missouri,  curving 
down 
into  Central  Texas.  New  York 
State  is  in  the  25  oval.

lightning 

So  far  the  zones  of  greatest  frequency 
of  deaths  by 
in  the  United 
States  are  not  coincident  with  the  zones 
of  densest  population,  but  as  population 
increases  the 
loss  of  life  should  prove 
heavier  unless  prevention  in  the  shape 
of  better  protectors  against  bolts  from 
the  sky 
is  secured.  With  the  advance 
in  the  science  of  electricity,  new  de­
vices  may  appear  that  will  afford  better 
protection  to  buildings,  and  perhaps 
lessen  the'  danger  from  lightning  even 
in  the  open  air.  The  extension  of  trol­
ley  wires  into  the  country  and  the 
in­
crease  in  the  number of  telegraph  and 
telephone  wires  already  seem  to be serv­
ing  as  distributors  of  electrical  dis­
charges  from  the  sky,  and  the  time  may 
come  when  a  systematic  arrangement  of 
wires  connected  with  high  rods  will 
greatly  reduce  the  danger  from 
light­
ning. 

= = = = = = =

The  Commissioner  of  Internal  Rev­
enue  has  informed  Collector McClain  in 
Philadelphia 
that  women  purchasing 
agents,  who  buy  goods  outright  at  the 
stores,  and  direct  the  stores  to  deliver 
the  goods  to  the  parties  giving  the  or­
ders,  are  not  commercial  brokers,  as 
defined 
in  the  war  revenue  act,  and 
therefore  not  liable  to  the  $20  tax.

No  one  can  see  the  good  luck  of  a 
horseshoe  over  a  bureau  when  it  falls 
and  smashes  a  looking-glass.

The  man  who  lives  to  save  money 

misses  much  of  the  happiness  of  life.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Fruits and  Produce.
Observations  by  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
After  the  call  on  ’Change  one  day  last 
week  I  asked  a  receiver of  eggs  why  he 
did  not  sell  some  of  the  marks  that  he 
claimed  were  firsts,  and  in  the  conver­
sation  that  followed  I  drew  from  him 
rather  an  interesting  story  which  bears 
upon  the  technical  grading  of  eggs  un­
der the  new  rules  of  the  Exchange:  “ 1 
had  a  standard  brand  of  Michigan  eggs 
which  ought  to  pass  as  firsts,  and  which 
would  be  acceptable  to  any  buyer  who 
wanted  fine  stock,”   remarked  the  re­
“ They  were  carefully  selected 
ceiver. 
in  new  cases,  with  good 
eggs,  packed 
new  fillers,  and  over  the  top 
layer  was 
a  piece  of  heavy  brown  paper*on  which 
the  excelsior  was  placed. 
It  did  not 
occur  to  me  that  anything  objectionable 
could  be  found  with  that  sort  of  pack­
ing,  for 
it  was  the  same  as  is  used  by 
some  of  our best  packers  in  many  sec­
tions,  including certain  well  known  and 
favorite  marks  from  Indiana. 
I  called 
in  the  Inspector  and  he  would  not  pass 
them  because  the  rule  says  that  there 
must  be  a  flat  on  top. 
I  argued  the 
point  with  the  Inspector,  but  he  stood 
on  bis  dignity  and  said  that be  had  only 
the  rules  to  guide  him  in  his  inspec­
tions.  Now  if  I  had  sold  those  150  crses 
of  eggs  I  would  have  had  to  pay  5  per 
cent,  penalty. 
technical 
questions  of  this  kind  that  meet  a  roan 
when  he  attempts  to  do  business  under 
the  call,  and  to  tell  the  truth  I  am 
afraid  to tackle  it.”  
I  saw  at  once  the 
point  raised,  and  while  to  many  it  may 
seem  an  arbitrary  rule  that  would  throw 
out  a  fine  mark  of  eggs from the grading 
of  “ firsts”   simply  because  brown  paper 
had  been  used 
instead  of  a  regularly 
made  flat,  it  is  clear  that  the  object  of 
the  rule 
is  to  secure  the  best  style  of 
packing  possible,  and  to  have  it  uni­
form.  It  is  a  simple  matter  for  packers 
to  buy  flats  when  they  are  getting  a sup­
ply  of  fillers.  For  the  guidance  of  ship­
pers  and  others  who  are 
interested  I 
quote the  following  from  the  new  rules 
on  packages  and  packing:  “ Extras, 
firsts  and  No.  1  dirties  or  checks  must 
be 
in  new  cases  of  standard  sizes and 
good  qualitv,  smootb-and  clean.  Fillers 
shall  be  of  substantial  quality,  sweet 
and  dry,  with  flats  under  bottom 
layers 
and  over  tops;  sweet,  dry  excelsior  or 
other suitable  packing  under bottom and 
over tops. * ’

There  are 

*  *  *

“ The 

contention 

I  have  always 
made,”   said  a  large  receiver  of  eggs, 
the  other  day,  “ is  that  shippers  and 
packers  of  eggs  that  are  supposed  to  be 
fancy  should  always  select  their  stock 
carefully,  throwing  all  rotten  and  dirty 
eggs  out. 
It  is  impossible  to  sell  poor­
ly  selected  stock  to  advantage  and  there 
is  no  reason  why  shippers  should  pay 
~  freight  on  eggs  that  will  not  bring  any 
more  here  than  at  home.”   There  is 
really  good  cause  for  complaint  on  the 
in  which  some  shippers  pack 
manner 
eggs. 
It  is  surprising  that  men  who 
make  a  regular  business  of  shipping 
eggs  continually 
ignore  demands  of 
trade.  The  desire  to  sell  eggs  at  mark 
at  all  seasons  of  year  has  perhaps 
caused  a  few  shippers  to  select  more 
closely,  but  the  majority  of  packers  and 
shippers  seem  to  care  very  little about 
the  manner 
in  which  they  pack  stock, 
depending largely on competition rmong 
receivers  to  help  them  out.  Such  a 
course  if  followed  long  enough  will  re­
suit  in  but  one  thing,  that 
is  disaster. 
Merchants  can  not  afford  to  “ stand  un­

der”   all  the  time  and  when  they  do  not 
on  poorly  selected 
lots  the  shipper  of 
such  suffers  financial 
in 
nearly  all  cases  could  have been avoided 
if  mote  care  and 
judgment  had  been 
used  in  packing.

loss,  which 

*   *   *

The  “ ifs”   play  an 

important  factor 
nowadays 
in  the  statements  of  dealers 
who  would  predict  the  outcome  of  this 
season’s  egg  transactions.  With  cold 
storage  houses 
in  all  sections  of  the 
country  carrying  large quantities of eggs 
it  will  be  necessary  for  kind Providence 
to  extend  a  helping  hand  to  holders 
if 
It  is  to be  hoped  that 
loss  is averted. 
the  Almighty  will  see  to 
it  that  the 
weather  during  the  last  month  of  this 
year  and  the  early  months  of  1900  is 
unpropitious  for  egg  production.

*   *   *

There  is  a  plentiful  supply  of  under 
grade  eggs,  but  fresh  eggs  of  really «fine 
quality  are  difficult  to  obtain  and  such 
have  been  in  fairly  good  demand.

*  *  *

The  efforts  of  dealers  here  to  have 
shippers  and  packers  of  eggs  discon­
tinue  the  use  of  the  36 doz.  egg  case 
have  been  quite  successful.  A  few  of 
these  cases  continue  to  arrive,  but  the 
regular  packers  who  still  have  a  supply 
of  36’s  advise  receivers  that  as  soon  as 
it  is  exhausted  they  shall  pack  only 
in 
30  doz.  cases.  The  demand  for  30’s 
this  season  has  been  so  universal  that 
many  receivers  sent  out  letters  to  their 
shippers  to  use  only  this  size  case  as 
the  36's  were  not  in  favor  with  buyers. 
A  ready  compliance  with  this  demand 
resulted  beneficially  to  packers.  Those 
who  still  use  the  36  doz.  case  should,  if 
best  results  are  expected,  get  rid  of 
their  supply  as  soon  as  possible and  use 
only  the  30  doz.  case.— N.  Y.  Produce 
Review.

His  Wages  Were  Raised.

“ I've  got  to  have  my  pay  raised,”  
announced  the  butcher’s  boy  in  gentle 
but  decided  tones. 
“ It’s  got  to  be 
raised. ”

The  butcher  smiled 

indulgently  and 
replied:  “ Well,  Jimmie,  of  course  I’m 
always  willin’  to  do  the  right  thing,  but 
times  in  this  business  was  better  once 
an’  my  shop  is  small.  Still,  if  I  can  do 
anything— ”  

“ It’s  all  over  that Mrs.  Justmarried,”  
complained  Jimmie.  “ I  get  along  all 
right  with  everybody  else  but her—well, 
say,  I  told  you  how  she  wanted  the 
salted  mackerel  sent  up  with 
‘ only  a 
pinch  of  salt. ’  ”

“ Yes.”
“ And  about  that  order  of  ‘ one  dozen 
laid,’  and  the 

lamb 
pound  of  ‘ boneless  sausage.’  ”

freshly 

chops, 

•

in  high  and  mighty  as 

“ Y e s ”
“ Well,  to-day happened  the  worst  yet. 
She’s  got  a  Mexican  lady  stopping  with 
her,  and  I  guess  the  other  women 
in 
that  flat  have  been  stringin’  her  to  get 
up  a  Mexican  dinner,  for  to-day  she 
sailed 
you 
please,  and  she  says: 
‘ You  may  send 
up,  James,  six  Spanish  omelettes,  cut 
thick,  and  with  the  bones  broken.  And, 
let  me  see— yes,  one  pint  of  whipped 
chile  colorow  and  eight  tamales  dressed 
and  ready  for  the  oven.  Pick  out  the 
plumpest  tamales  you  have  in  the  yard 
and  have  them  killed and dressed  before 
noon. ’

“ Say,  won't  that  Mexican  lady  have 
a  hct  time?  How  can  I  go  up  there  and 
explain  matters  unless— ”

“ I  guess  I  can  give  you  50cents more 

a  week,  Jimmie,”   said  the  butcher.

Made  Himself at  Home.

“ I’ll  know  better  next  tim e,”   said 
it  after­
“ I  told  George’s  uncle  to  con­

Mrs.  Ferguson,  speaking  of 
ward. 
sider  himself  at  home  in  our  house.”

“ Well?”
“ Well,  it  wasn’t  five  minutes  after­
ward  that  he  began  to  grumble  about 
the  cooking. ”

MILLER & TEASDALE

POTATOES

CAR LOTS ONLY.  ST. LOUIS, MO.

ihip your BUTTbR AND EGGS to

R.  HIRT, Jr.,  Detroit,  Mich.

34 and 36 Market Street,

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J.  W.  LANSING.

WHOLESALE  DEALER  IN

BUTTER  AND  EGGS

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

I am the only  exclusive  Butter  and  E gg  house  in  Buffalo.  Handle  no  perishable 
goods such as  \egetables,  berries, etc., to  conflict with  my  Butter  and  E gg  trade, which 
I keep up to a  high  grade  with  complete  modern  equipments  for  handling  such.  I  am 
able to get you for your Butter and  Eggs all the market will guarantee, giving  it  my  per­
sonal attention  Correspondence anti shipments solicited.

REFERENCES:

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Peoples Bank, Buffalo, N. Y . 

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Dun or  Brad street.
Michigan Tradesman. 

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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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  July  15—These  are  long, 
hot,  dull  and  rather  lazy  days,  when the 
man  who  comes  to  town  doesn’t  care 
whether  school  keeps  or  not,  so  far  as 
bis  buying 
is  immediately  concerned. 
He sees  nothing  especially  alarming  in 
the  grocery  market  and,  when  he  has 
leisure,  he  takes  a  little  line  of  goods 
from  one and  from another,  and  so  mid­
summer quietude  prevails.  Of  course, 
business  is  “ going  on  at the old stand, ’ ’ 
but  there  is  not  the  rush  that  will  come 
in  a  few  weeks,  of  course.

Coffee  is  steady,  but  there  is  very  lit­
tle  business  going -  forward  and  pur­
chases  are  only  of  sufficient  quantity  to 
repair  broken  assortments.  Rio  No.  7 is 
woith  6@ 6  i - i 6 c. 
In  store  and  afloat 
tbeie are  1.137  390 bags,  against  894,068 
bags  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
In 
mild  grades  there  has  been  a  fair 
amount  of  business,  comparatively 
speaking,  and  Good  Cucuta  is held  at 
8#c.  East  India  coffees  have  been «as 
dull  as  previously  noted.  Padang  In­
terior,  24%@253^c ;  Mocha,  i6@i9C,  the 
latter  tor  lancv.  A  prime  to  choice 
Guatemala  coffee  is  worth  i4@i9C  and 
represents  an  excellent article.

light. 

Nothing  of  interest  has  occurred  in 
the  tea  market.  Rather  mote  interest 
was  shown  at  the  auction sale and prices 
seemed  to be  pretty  well  sustained ;  but 
on  the  street  trading 
is  almost  at  a 
standstill,  with  quotations  practically 
unchanged.

Most  of  the  sugar business  this  week 
has  consisted  of  the  moving  of  sugar  on 
contract,  the  volume  of  new  business 
transacted  being 
Prices  are 
seemingly  well  held  at  unchanged  quo­
tations.  Raws  are  quiet.
Domestic  grades  of  rice  are  quiet and 
the  supply  of  really  desirable goods  is 
not  large.  The  call  for  foreign  grades, 
while  rather  greater  than  for  domestic, 
has  not  been  active,  only  enough  chang­
ing  hands to  meet  current  wants.  New 
crop  Louisiana  rice  is  expected  here  by 
the  second  week  in  August.  The  qual­
ity  and  quantity  both  promise  to  be  sat­
isfactory.

Tbe  business  in  molasses  and  syrups 
has  been  of  tbe  most  ordinary  charac­
ter and  prices  sb6w  no  change.  Syrups 
are  in  a  fairly  satisfactory  condition, 
and  exporters,  as  well  as  the  home 
trade,  have  shown  more  interest than for 
some  time.  Prime  to  fancy,  i8@22c.

Dried  fruits  are  dull  and  buyers  are 
not  taking  supplies  ahead  of  current 
needs.  Futures  are  attracting  no  atten­
tion,  although  it  is  said  there  has  been 
some  speculative  buying  in apricots and 
peaches.  Apricots  are quotable  at  from 
I2 $ £ @ i5 c;  peaches  in  boxes,  i i @ i i J^c
Lemons  are quiet,  although  prices  are 
well  sustained.  Choice  Sicily,  $2.75 
@3.20,  as  to  size.  Oranges,  while  held 
at  firm  prices,  have  met  with 
light  de 
mand  and  business 
lacks  animation 
There  is a  good  demand  for pineapples 
fine Florida  Abbakas  bringing  $3@3-75 
Bananas  are  dull  at  85c@J1.10  per 
bunch  for firsts.

In  canned  goods,  lively  trading  is  re

Borted  on  all  sides.  The  pea  pack  of 

larvland  is  almost  sure  to be  short  and 
it  is'likely  to be  the  same  in  New  York 
State.  Deliveries  of  asparagus  have 
been  very  light.  The  demand  is  good 
for  all  lines  and  prices  are  well  main­
tained,  with  salmon  higher  for  futures, 
and  higher  rates  also  for  New  York 
corn  and  apples.
The  condition  of  the  butter  market 
has  remained  practically  the  same  for  a 
number  of  weeks.  The demand  is  not 
especially  active  and  yet  seems  to  be 
sufficient  to prevent any large accumula­
tion.  For  extra  Western  creamery  the 
outside  limit seems  to  be  about  i8j£c, 
and  the  goods  must  stand  very  close  in­
spection  to  fetch  this.  There  is a  good 
deal  of  really  good  butter  here,  just  un­
der  the  best  grade,  selling  from  17 
18c.  Exporters  took  about  a  thousand 
tubs  of  creamery  at  i6@ i7#c. 
Imita­
tion  creamery  is  worth 
I3 @ i 6 c ;  dairy, 
I2 @ i5 c ;  factory,  i3@ i4Kc. 
The  cheese  market  is  pretty well clear 
of  accumulations  and,  as  a  result,  is

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firmer.  Large  size,  State  cheese,  8f$c; 
small,  colored,  8}£c.
First-class  eggs  are  in  good  demand 
at  17c  for  State;  Western  extras,  I5@ 
5^c.  The  supply  is  not  equal  to  the 
demand  at  all  times.

Potatoes  are  worth  from  $i.25@2  50 
iser  bbl.,  as  to  size.  The  supply  is  too 
large  for  the  demand,  and  especially  is 
this  true  of  stock  that  is  inferior  in  size 
and  quality,  selling 
in  some  instances 
for  5o@75c  per  bbl.
White  Holland  Turkeys  Taking 

the

Place  of Bronze.
Chas. H. Long In Poultry Herald.

to 

Never  before  have  I  seen  such  a 
demand  for  White  Holland  turkeys  as 
at  present.  People  seem  to  be  awaken­
ing  to  the  fact  that  the  greater  demand 
s  for  the  turkey  presenting  a  delicate 
pinkish-yellow  tint  when  dressed,  and 
t  must  also be free from  the  appearance 
of  dark  pin-feathers.

Hotel  keepers  prefer  two 

turkeys, 
each  dressing  from  eight 
twelve 
pounds,  to  one  dressing  from  fifteen  to 
twenty-five  pounds.  Also  with  private 
families  we  find  the  demand  for  the 
smaller  plump  birds  greater  than  that 
for  tbe  larger  ones.  White  Holland 
turkeys  seem  no  more  susceptible  to 
disease  than  other  breeds,  hence  we 
have  a  more  desirable  sized  and  colored 
bird  without  sacrificing  hardiness,  and 
it 
is  without  doubt  tbe  most  domesti­
cated  turkey  in  existence to-day.
Flocks  having  good  management  be­
come  attached  to  the  home surroundings 
as  do  tbe  chickens.  They  invariably 
lav 
in  the  ben  house  or  other  buildings 
where  nests-are  prepared  for  them.
Another of  their  important  and 

indi 
vidual  merits  is  their  adaptness  to  con­
finement. 
They  can  be  successfully 
confined  and  fattened—a  merit  found 
lacking  in  most  other breeds.

We  all  know  of  the  capability  of  the 
turkey  to create  neighborhood  quarrels, 
hence  the  White  Holland  finds  many 
friends among  those  having  close neigh 
bors,  or  in  close  confinement.

The  question  has  frequently  been 
asked: 
‘ 1 Why  would  not  a  cross  be 
tween  the  White  Holland  and  Bronze 
turkeys  produce  a  good  general  purpose 
fowl?”   And  there  seems  to  be a  great 
diversity  of  opinion 
in  tbe  answers. 
Personally  I  can  say  that  tbe  offspring 
from  such  a  cross,  i.  e.,  White  Holland 
hens  mated  with  a  Bronze  tom,  inherit 
most  of  the qualities  of  tbe  Bronze;  are 
more  hardy  than  either;  are  scarcely 
more  domesticated  than  the Bronze,  and 
are  of  intermediate  size.

(2) 

My  principal  objections  to  the  off 
spring  from  such  a  cross  are  (1)  that 
nothing  advantageous  has  been  gained 
iu  size; 
tbe  appearance,  when 
dressed,  is 
inferior  to  tbe  White  Hoi 
land;  (3)  those undesirable  colored  pin 
feathers  appear;  (4)  they  are  of  no 
value  except  via  tbe  chopping  block, 
as  mongrel  breeders  are  unsatisfactory 
and  (5)  you  have  practically  lost  the 
most  valuable  merit  of  the  turkey  fam 
ily,  i.  e.,  the  domesticated  habits.

The  Real  Thing.

s 

Mrs  Winkley— Is  your  husband 

brave  man?
Mrs.  Bronston—I  chould  say  be  was 
Why,  once  he  jumped  right  in  front  of 
a  swiftly  moving  train  and  saved  a  lit 
tie  child 
from  what  seemed  certain 
death.

“ Oh,  that’s  no  indication.  Would  be 
have  courage  enough  to  grab  the  cat 
when 
it  was  having  a  fit  and  throw  it 
out  of  the  house?”

In  the  Chair  of  Dentistry.

“ Yes,”   assented  the  victim. 

“ I  shall  have  to  crown  that  tooth,’ 
said  tbe  dentist,  indicating  the  particu 
lar  molar.
a-king  rather  more  than  any  of  the 
others. ’ ’
Whereupon  the  dentist  mentally  de 
cided  to  make  the  bill  about  $2.50 
higher.

“ It 

There  are  two  bad  things  about  cig 
arette  smoking :  first  tbe  cigarette,  and 
second  the  fellow  who smokes  it.

Vinkemulder  Company

Jobbers of

This represents a small corner 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.

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just  returned  from  bis  trip. 

Shoes  and  Leather
Some  Side  Lights  on the Shoe Trade.
Considerable  misapprehension  pre- 
vails  with  regard  to  the  ease  with which 
the  advance  was  got  from  retailers,  ac­
cording  to  a  well-known  drummer,  who 
has 
"In  
some  cases,"  said  he,  " I   found  it about 
the  toughest  proposition  I  was  ever  up 
against.  Some  of  my  best  customers  at 
first  absolutely  refused  to  listen  to  me 
or  look  at  my  samples,  and  all  the  tact 
and  eloquence  I  am  possessed  of  bad  to 
be  brought  to  bear before  I  could  get  a 
bearing. 
Their  contention  was  that 
if  we  increased  prices  and  kept  up  the 
quality  of  the  shoes,  other  manufactur­
ers  would  produce  inferior  goods  which 
would  be  sold  to  other  retailers  and 
people  would  go  where  they  could  buy 
the  cheapest  and  they  would 
lose  their 
trade. 
If  I  were  to  attempt  to  tell  you 
how  long  it  took  me  to  combat  that  ar­
gument  in  several  cases  you would come 
to  the  conclusion  I  was— well,  romanc­
ing.  At  any  rate  I  brought  them  to  see 
that  the  loss  of  reputation  was  consid­
erably  more  than  the  loss  of  the  little 
extra  profit  they  might  derive  for  the 
time  being  by  selling  an  inferior  shoe, 
that  our  house  had  established  a  repu­
it  would  not  forfeit  for  any  con­
tation 
sideration  and  that 
if  they  were  wise 
they would adopt the same course.  Well, I 
got  the advance,  but it was a  hard pull. ”  
Asked  if  he  thought  the  advance  was 
likely  to  be  maintained  he  replied: 
"Y es,  I  think 
Instead  of  going 
back  to  the  old  figures,  the  probability 
is that  there  will  be  another  advance  in 
the  near  future.  True,  some  manufac­
turers  are  turning  out  an  inferior  qual­
ity,  which  of  course  hurts  the  trade 
more  or  less,  but  as  none  of  the  West­
ern  manufacturers  have  adopted  these 
tactics,  they  can  not  affect  us  much. 
N o;  things  are  bound  to  improve  and  I 
am  very  hopeful  of  the  future."

it  is. 

*  

*   *

Some  people  are  endowed  with  a  cer­
tain 
amount  of  superfluous  energy 
which,  by  reason  of  their  intellectual 
faculties  not  being  properly  balanced, 
is  usually  expended  by  interfering  in 
the  business  of  others.  This  very  fre­
quently  takes  the  form  of  demanding 
compulsory  legislation for the  seating  of 
female  employes. 
The  agitation  at 
present 
is  very  widespread,  extending 
from  here  across  the  herring  pond  to 
England 
In  Nebraska  the  agitators 
may  be  said  to  have  "pu t  their  foot  in 
it, ’ ’  for  although  they  bad  a law enacted 
by  the  State  Legislature,  yet  many  em­
ployers  said  their  business  would  not 
admit  of providing  the  accommodation, 
and  consequently  female  help  was  dis­
placed  to  make  room  for men. 
In  Eng­
land  the  agitation  is  not  meeting  with 
the  success  its  promoters  hoped  for,  as 
sensible  people  are  all  of  the  opinion 
that  employers  taken  as  a  whole  aie  not 
so  inconsiderate  and  selfish  as  the  fad­
dists  would  have  us  believe.  More­
over,  the  instincts  of  humanity  will  as­
sert  themselves,  and  where  in  some  is­
olated  case  it  is  found  that  an  employer 
is  too  exacting  or  too  neglectful  of  bis 
responsibilities,  it 
in  the  hands  of 
those  employed  to  redress any grievance 
by  voluntary  movement rather than  have 
recourse  to  an  appeal  for  legislation 
which,  almost  invariably,  hampers  and 
cripples  trade.

is 

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*

Preparations  for  sacrifice  sales  need 
not  necessarily 
imply  neglect  of  show 
windows. 
If  anything,  more  attention 
should  be  devoted  to  this  particular

branch.  They  should  be  made  as  at­
tractive  as  possible  and  the 
lines  of 
shoes  selected  for  slaughter  should  be 
displayed  to  the  utmost  advantage.  The 
cards  attached  to  them,  too,  should  be 
neat  and  plain,  showing  the  original 
sale  price  and  that  which  they  are  sell­
ing  at. 
If needs  be a  description  of  the 
shoe  might  be  given,  but  particular 
care  should  be  taken  that  nothing  on 
the  card  would  have  a  tendency  to  mis­
lead.  No  merchant  can  afford  in  this 
age  of  close  competition  to do anything, 
even 
inadvertently,  that  would  send  a 
customer  to  some  other  store.

£ 

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is  now 

Next  to  a  judicious  use  of  printers' 
ink  the  show  window,  which  is  another 
medium  of  advertising,  is  a  most  im­
portant  factor  for  bringing  trade  to  an 
establishment.  Day  by  day  its  value is 
becoming  more  appreciated,  and  what 
was  until  recent  years  almost  entirely 
ignored 
from  every 
standpoint  and  hundreds  of thousands of 
dollars  are  spent  annually to bring about 
the  best  results.  For  it  stands to  reason 
that  a  well-dressed  or  unique  window  is 
bound  to  attract  attention  and  cause 
people  to  stop  and criticise  it,  as  nearly 
all  human  beings  are  attracted  by  beau­
tiful  or  startling  effects.
*   *   *

studied 

Mistakes  are  common 

to  humanity 
and  shoe  dealers  as  well  as  others  are 
not  exempt  from  them,  and  yet  with  a 
little  care  many  of  them  might  be 
avoided.  This 
is  particularly  true  as 
far  as  cash  transactions  are  concerned. 
Trifling  errors  have  been  the  cause  of 
turning  many  good  customers away from 
a  store  to  deal  elsewhere,  for  while  the 
proprietor  may  explain  that  it  was  en­
tirely  a  mistake  and  that  he  was  always 
glad  to  rectify  mistakes,  still  a  lurk­
ing  suspicion 
is  harbored  in  the  mind 
of  the  customer  that  the  clerk  was  try­
ing  to  take  advantage  of  him  and  noth 
ing  will  convince  him  to  the  contrary. 

*  *  *

It 

Deception 

in  business  may  be  suc­
cessful  a  few  times,  or  perhaps  oftener, 
but 
it  may  be  accepted  as  a  general 
principle  that  nothing  recoils  so  quick­
ly  on  the  beads  of  those  who  practice 
it. 
is  a  boomerang  that  should  be 
left severely  alone.  Some  attempt  it  by 
placing  wrong  cards  on  the  goods  in 
the  window  and  substituting  some  other 
quality  of  shoes  for  those  so  marked 
when  a  customer  asks  for  them.  But 
that  never  occurs  more  than  once  with 
the  same  person.  The  dealer  has,  per­
haps,  made  a  little  extra  profit  on  that 
transaction,  but  can  be  calculate  how 
much  be  has  lost  by  driving  that  cus­
tomer  elsewhere?  To  find  out  who  is 
the  greater  sufferer  from  such practices, 
the  man  who 
in  them  only 
needs  to  look  in  bis  mirror.  Honesty  is 
the  best  policy.

indulges 

He  Filled  His  Store.

Merchants  who  encourage  the  young 
are  always  popular  and  any  expenditure 
in  that  direction 
is  certain  to  bring 
large  returns.  Quite  recently  a  mer­
chant  evolved  the  idea  of  giving  prizes 
for  a  singing  contest,  one  for  boys  and 
one  for  girls,  the  boy’s  prize  to be  a 
watch  and  the  girl’s  a  lawn  swing.  The 
piece  selected  was  a  composition  to  the 
tune  of  "Marching  Through  Georgia," 
and  having  been  duly  advertised  when 
the  contest  came  off  both  store and  side­
walk  were  packed.  Of  course,  the  mer­
chant  was  widely  talked  about,  which 
was  just  what  be  wanted,  and  be  thinks 
the  advertising  was  very  cheap.

“  Mother, may I go out to shop ?”

Here’s seven cents, fulfill your wants 

“  Yes,  my darling daughter;
A t  Blank’s ‘ grand  annual slaughter.’ ”

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They  don’t  make  fun  of  me,  they  al­
ways  listen  to  everything  I  say,  an’  I 
love  them.  Ye  see,  it’s  diff’rent  with 
me,  fer  I  was born  here.  I h ’ain’t  never 
knowed  no  other  piace  an’  I  don’t  feel 
to  home  nowberes  else;  besides,  Dad 
bad  two  or  three claims  in  the bills  here 
an’  he always  said  they  was  worth 
lots 
0’  money  only  they  needed  developin’. 
Them  claims  is  mine  now,  an’  I  some­
how  can't  believe  that  Dad  was  mis­
taken. 
If  I  stick  to  ’em  maybe  some 
day  somebody'll  want  ’em  an’  then  all 
0’  Dad’s  work  won’t  ’a’  be’n  in  vain.”
“ Well,  supposing  no one  ever  wants 
them,  are  you  going  to  waste  your  life 
here waiting?*  Isn’t  it  enough  that  your 
father and  mother  spent  their  lives here 
without  yours  being  added  to  the  list? 
The  claims  will  keep,  they  can’t  run 
away,  and  if  some  of  the  miners  in  the 
camp  do  strike  it,  and  your  claims  be­
come  valuable,  you  can  come back  then 
and  work  or  sell  them  as  the  case  may 
be.”

“ Yes,  it  does  look  so  to  most  folks; 
but  fer  me  thar  ain’t  no  place  in  all  the 
jest  like  Silver  Crown. 
wide  world 
’tain’t  nothin’  to  you, 
’Tain’t  home, 
'tis  to  me. 
but 
I've  growed  up  in  it 
an’ 
it’s  growed  into  me,  an’  when  I ’m 
away  fer  a  week  I'm  all  the  time  a 
wishin’  an’  a  longin’  to  be  back.”

“ How  do  you  expect  to  earn  a  living 
here?  The  few  miners  who  are  work­
ing  here  can’t  employ  you,  and  you 
must  eat. ”

“ Oh,  I  can  go  on  a  doin’s  I  have 
since  Dad  died.  Thar’s  ranchers  down 
in  all  o’  the  valleys an’  they  need  help 
every  once 
in  a  while,  a  bayin'  an’ 
sicb,  an’  I  can  always  earn  enough  to 
keep  me  from  starvin’ ;  an’  wherever  I 
go 
in  these  parts  'round  here  I  can  al­
ways  see  old  Silver  Crown  a  loomin'  up 
an’  I  don’t  git  lonesome  like  I  do  in 
Cheyenne.  Why,  I  think 
’t  Cheyenne 
is  the  lonesomest  place  't  ever  was— 
I’d  jest die  ef  I  had  to  stay  thar!”

“ Well,  come  down  and  see  me— I’m 
in  the  valley  near  the  old 
I’ll  be  glad 

camping 
Lenox  &  Steadman  ciaim. 
to  see  you  any  time. ”

I 

left  him  seated  on  the  doorstep  of 
his  lonely  cabin,  and took  my  way along 
the  tortuous  mountain-path,  wondering 
I  like  to 
how  such  things  could  be. 
come  among  these 
forbidding 
mountains  for a short  vacation,  but  their 
rugged  unfriendliness  soon  satisfies  me

lofty 

Why  He  Stayed  at  Old  Silver  Crown. 
W ritten fo r the Tradesman.

"W ell,  young  fellow,  do  you  remem­

ber  me?”

The boy  whom  I  addressed,  a tall  thin 
fellow  of  17  or  18,  was  seated  on  the 
doorstep  of  what had  once been  the  Sil­
ver  Crown  store.

“ Lordy,  yes!  you’re  the  feller  come 
up  here  three  years  ago  a  lookin'  fer 
something  to  write  about. 
I  ain’t  a 
fergittin’  things  like  that.  Dad  an’  me 
we  talked  about  thet  fer  months  after 
you  was here. ’ ’

“ Why,  I  wasn’t  aware  that  my  visit 
to  your place  was  worthy  of  particular 
note. ’ ’

“ Not  so  much  thet;  but  ye  see  we 
didn’t  heve  so  very  many  city  fellers  a 
cornin’  to  see  us,  an’  your  visit  sort o’ 
broke  in  on  the  sameness  fer  a spell  an’ 
geve  us  something  to  talk  about.”

“ You  seem  to  have  gone  out  of  the 

store  business—didn’t  it  pay?”

"O b,  yes, 

it  sort  o’  paid;  but  the 
sheriff  be  come  out  one  day  an’  took 
possession  an’  then  he  loaded  all  o’  the 
store  stuff  onto  a  wagin  an’  hauled  it 
into  Cheyenne  an’  sold  it  to  the  highest 
bidder.  Then  Dad  an’  me  we  took  out 
the  shelves  an’  the  counter. 
There 
wasn't  no  use o’  leavin'  them  when  we 
didn’t  have  nothin’  to  sell.”

“ No,  of  course  not;  but  couldn’t  you 
raise enough money to buy a new stock?”  
“ We  couldn’t  raise  nothin’.  Nobody 
wouldn’t  trust  Dad  no  more  after  the 
sheriff  took  his  stuff. 
It  sort  o’  broke 
Dad  all  up  a  gettin’  sold  out.  He 
wasn’t  no  good  ’t  all  after  that.”

“ Is  be  still  mining 

in  the  Silver 

Crown  hills?”

“ No,  Dad  ain’t  a  minin'  no  more. 
The  life  seemed to  slip  right  out  o'  him 
after  we  took  out  the  shelves  an’  the 
’bout 
counter.  He  didn't  seem  to  care 
minin’  nor  nothin’  no more. 
If  you  re­
member,  I  told  you,  when  you  was  here 
before,  about  buryin’  Mam  down  yon­
der?  Well,  Dad  he  used  to  sit down 
thar  side  o’  Mam's  grave  a  good  deal; 
but  after the  sheriff  come  Dad  he  jest 
natchelly  spent  all  o'  his  time  thar,  an’ 
one  evenin’,  about  sundown,  I  went 
down  thar  to  call  Dad  to  supper  an’ 
found  him  a  lyin’  stone  dead  alongside 
o’  Mam’s grave.  Thar  wasn’t  nothin’ 
left  fer  Dad  to  live  for. 
I  wasn’t  no 
sort  o’  use,  as  I  never  knew  nothin* 
about  minin’,  an’  Dad  he’d  given  up 
a’most  everything  fer old  Silver  Crown, 
an’  as  be  hadn’t  nothin'  else  left  to 
give,  he 
jest  natchelly  lay  down  an’ 
give  up  hisself.  Some  o’  the  men  an’ 
me  we  buried  him  down  thar  alongside 
o'  Mam,  an’  I  guess  Dad  he's  satisfied, 
fer  be  always  said  he  wanted  it  that 
way. ’ ’

“ How  long  has  your  father  been 

dead?”

this  month.”

“ Let  me  see—it's  jest two  years  ago 

“ And  you  have  stayed at Silver Crown 
all  this  time  with  nothing  in  view?  You 
told  me  three  years  ago  that  the  camp 
was  no  good.  Why  don't  you 
it 
and  get  employment  of  some  sort  at 
which  you  could  make  a  living— you 
might  work  for  your board  and  clothes 
and  go to  school  if  nothing  else.' ’

leave 

that  sort  of  a  chance;  but 

“ O  Lordy!  ’tain’t  no  sort o’ use.  I’ve 
tried  it  an’  it  jest  won’t  work.  A  store­
keeper  down  to  Cheyenne  he geve  me 
jest 
I 
couldn’t  slay. 
I  wasn’t  made  up  like 
the  boys  in  town  an’  they  sort o’  made 
fun  of  me,  an’  I  jest  quit  the  job  an' 
come  back  to  old  Silver  Crown.  Thar 
ain’t  nothin’  here  but  the  hills  an’  the 
sky;  but  they’re  old  friends  o’ mine.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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and  I  am  always  glad  enough  to  get 
back  to  civilization.  Here  was  a  young 
fellow  who  called  them  his  friends, 
who  said  they  were  kinder  to  him  than 
the  people  in  the  town,  who  preferred 
to  stay  among  them  and  eke  out  a  bare 
subsistence  rather  than 
lose  sight  of 
them.  Well,  he  could  have  them.

A  half-hour's  ride  down  the  widening 
canon  brought  me  into  the  little  valley 
where  my  companions  and I had pitched 
our tent  and  I  was  soon  engrossed  in the 
mysteries  of  cooking  supper.

M a c  A l l a n .

Using  the  Wrong  Scales.

“ When  you  gel  your  groceries  to­
day,”   said  the  butcher  to  his  wife, 
“ don’t  go  to  that  little  grocer  next  door 
to  my  shop. ’ ’

“ Why  not?”   she  demanded.
“ Because  he  sent 

in  yesterday  and 

borrowed  an  old  pair  of  my  scales.”

E c o n o m y

S y s t e m

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  System s,

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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Local Salesman:

S a le s  A g g h ir A ln?af A yich .
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Testing  by  Tasting

Five  cents will  buy an  ingenious  package 
of Uneeda  Biscuit in exactly the same 
condition  as  they  left  the  baker's  oven— 
crisp,  tender,  delicious*  Every  housewife 
should test them, every person  should taste 
them .  And  the  test is in the tasting—the 
most  satisfactory  test.

Uneeda Biscuit

are  the  highest  and  best  development  of 
the baker's  skill.  Everything  that money 
can buy contributes to make  them  good— 
the best materials, the  best  machinery, the 
brightest expert biscuit  experience.  They 
are as  good as good can  be.  Only sold in 
5 cent  moisture proof  packages—never  in 
bulk.  Ask your grocer about them .  Test 
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Acetylene  Lighting
Interesting Facts Relating to Acetylene.
is  now  five  years  since  the  use  of 
acetylene  as  an 
ilium inant  was  sug­
gested  to  the  public,  and  it  may  be  of 
interest  to  give  a  sketch  of  what  has 
been  done  during  this  time,  especially 
as 
it  seems  that  with  the  year  1899  the 
tentative  period  which  must  character­
ize  every  new 
industry  is  in  some  re­
spects  passe,  and  a  period  of  solid  and 
well-directed 
industrial  effort,  backed 
by  ample  capital,  has  begun. 
The 
knowledge  gained  during  this  tentative 
period  by  the  laboratory  experiments  of 
scientific  men,  and  by  the  practical 
work  of 
inventors  and  promoters,  has 
made  it  pos: ible  for  the  industry  to  en­
ter  on 
its  new  phase.  To  understand 
its  present  and  to  foresee  its  future  im­
portance  it  is  necessary  to briefly review 
the  work  of  the  last  years.

is 

In  May,  1892,  Mr.  Thomas  Willson, 
a  Canadian  electrician,  tried  to  make 
the  metal  calcium  in  an electric  furnace 
in  bis  works  at  Spray,  North  Carolina, 
by  heating  a  mixture  of 
lime  and  coal 
dust.  He  thought  that  the  lime  (cal­
cium  oxide)  would  act  on  the  coal  (car­
bon)  to  form  calcium  and  carbon  mo­
noxide.  He  did  not  succeed  in  getting 
calcium,  but  found 
the  furnace  a 
brown,  crysta'line  mass,  which  was  de­
composed  by  pouring  water  on  it,  yield­
ing  an  inflammable  gas.  Willson  is  not 
a  chemist,  and  he  therefore  sent  speci­
mens  of  the  material  to  several  men  of 
science  to  determine  its  nature. 
It  was 
shown  to  be  calcium  carbide,  a  com­
pound  of  calcium  and  carbon,  formed 
by  the  action  of  the  carbon  on  the  cal­
cium  oxide. 
The  gas  formed  by  the 
action  of  water  was  acetylene,  a  com­
pound  of  carbon  and  hydrogen.  Cal­
cium  carbide  and  water  form  acetylene 
is  added, 
and  lime. 
If  enough  water 
the  lime  is  slaked,  and  slaked 
lime,  or 
calcium  hydroxide,  is  formed.  Neither 
calcium  carbide  nor  acetylene  was  a 
new discovery;  acetylene was discovered 
by  Edmund  Davy  in  1836,  and  its  prop­
erties  were  studied  by  Berthelot in  1862. 
Impure  calcium  carbide  was  first  made 
in  1862  by  Wohler,  who  described  its 
decomposition  by  water  into  acetylene 
and  iime.  What  was  there  new,  then, 
in  Willson’s  discovery?  Two important 
facts:  1.  He  was  the  first  to  make  car­
bide by  a  method  applicable  commer­
cially.  2.  He  was  the  first  to  make 
crystalline  carbide.  Wohler’s  carbide 
was  impure  and  amorphous;  Willson’s, 
nearly  pure  and  crystalline,  so  that  he 
succeeded 
in  obtaining  United  States 
patents  for  crystalline  carbide,  and,  as 
all  carbide  made  by  commercial  proc­
esses 
is  crystalline,  its  manufacture  is 
covered  by  Willson’s  patents.

In  the  same  year,  1892,  Prof.  Henri 
Moissan,  of  Paris,  announced  the  dis­
covery  of  crystalline  calcium  carbide. 
Moissan’s  discovery,  too,  was  an  acci­
dental  one.  He  was  reducing  refractory 
metallic  oxides  in  an  electric  furnace 
made  of  lime.  At  the  close  of  the  arti­
cle  in  which  he  leports  his  work  to  the 
French  Academy  of  Sciences  he  refers 
in  two  lines  to  the  formation  of  an 
ill- 
defined  carbide  of  calcium  by the action 
of  the  carbon  electrodes  on  the  lime  of 
which  his  furnace  was  made.

As 

is  common  with  most  important 
inventions,  there  is  a  dispute  as  to  the 
priority  of  making  carbide  by  an  elec­
tric  furnace;  and  the  wonder 
is,  not 
that  there 
is  a  dispute,  but  that  there 
are  so  few  claimants.  A  few  words  of 
explanation  of the  electric  furnace  will

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

show  why.  The  enormous  heat  of  the 
electric  furnace (2,000  to  3,000  deg.)  C. 
is  caused  by  an  electric  arc,  foimed  by 
currents  playing  between  carbon  elec­
trodes ;  carbon  is  often  used  in  the  fur­
nace  processes;  here  we  have  one  con­
stituent  of  calcium  carbide.  Lime,  the 
material  for  the  other  constituent,  with­
stands  beat  better  than  any  other  com­
substance  excepting  magnesia; 
mon 
naturally, 
it,  as 
Moissan  did,  as  a  refractory  lining  to 
the  furnace.  Electric  furnaces  were  not 
new.  The  conditions  then  were  such 
that  the  discovery  of  the  carbide  was 
fairly  forced  on  experimenters,  and,  as 
we have  seen,  the discoveries  of  Willson 
and  Moissan  were  both "accidental.

inventors  would  use 

American  priority  was  claimed  by 
Willson,  French  priority  by  the  friends 
of  Moissan,  German  priority  by  Profes­
sor  Borcbers,  of  Aix  la-Cbapelle.  For­
tunately  for  Willson,  among  those  to 
whom  he  had  sent  specimens  of  carbide 
was  Lord  Kelvin,  the  famous  English 
physicist,  whose  reply  to  Willson,  stat­
ing  that  the  substance  received  was cal­
cium carbide,  was dated October 3,  1892, 
two  months  before  Moissan’s  first  pub­
lication.  Borcbers’ claims  are  too  vague 
to  waste  space  on.  Willson’s  priority 
is  now  generally  recognized  excepting 
in  France.  The  German  government 
has  acknowledged  it,  and  has  annulled 
the  German  patent  granted  to  Bullier.

industrial 

Commercial  carbide  is  essentially  an 
American  discovery,  and 
it  was  de­
veloped 
industrially  by  Willson’s  asso­
ciates  before  industrial  action  began 
abroad.  Messrs.  Dickerson  and  Suck- 
ert,  of  New  York,  were  the  first  to  un­
dertake  the 
liquefaction  of 
acetylene.  Dr.  G.  de  Chalmot,  chem­
ist,  and  Mr.  J.  M.  Morehead,  electri­
cian,  worked  up  the  details  of  the  fur­
nace  process  in  the  early  days  at  Spray, 
North  Carolina,  and  the  purity  and  the 
yield  from  a  given  weight  of  material 
to  their  carbide  have  never  been  ex­
celled,  although  cheaper  working  fur­
naces  are  now  in  use.

Thus  far  carbide  has been  found 

Carbides  of  other  metals  can  be  made 
in  the  electric 
furnace,  but,  owing  to 
the  cheapness  of  the  new  material,  cal­
cium  carbide 
is  the  only  one  of  these 
which  has 
industrial  value  as  a  source 
of  acetylene.  One  pound  of  pure  car­
bide  yields  5.89  cubic  feet  of  acetylene.
in­
dustrially  valuable  for  two  other  pur­
poses.  The  one  is  for  carbonizing  steel; 
experiments  in  Germany  show  that  iron 
or  soft  steel  takes  up  carbon  more  read­
ily  when  it  is  heated  with  carbide  than 
when  it  is  heated  with  coal  dust or .char­
coal.  Some  steel  works  are  now  using 
carbide  for  this  purpose.  The  other 
It 
use  of  carbide 
is  more  important. 
is  found  to  be  a  valuable  germicide. 
It 
is  said  to  be  the  most  effectual  preven­
tive  of  black  rot,  and  to  destroy  Phyl­
loxera,  the  two  worst  enemies  of  the 
grape.  The  action  of  the  carbide  as  a 
germicide  depends  on  its decomposition 
by  the  moisture  of  the  soil,  forming

Calcium

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acetylene,  which  kills  the  Phylloxera.
If  the  use  of  carbide on  a  large  scale 
substantiates  the  claims  made  for  it, 
this  is a  discovery  of  vast 
importance. 
The  ravages  caused  by  the  Phylloxera 
in  the  vineyards  of  Southern  Europe,  of 
Africa  and  Australia  must  be  ranked  as 
great national  calamities.

A  temperature  ranging  from  2  000 to 
2,500 degrees  C.  (3 600 to  4,500 degrees 
Fahrenheit) 
is  required  to  make  car­
bide. 
It  is  probable  that  this  tempera­
ture  can  be  economically  attained  only 
by  the  electric 
furnace  using  water 
power  as  the  source  of  the  electric  cur­
rent,  and  Ibis  is  the  only  method  used 
for  making  carbide,  with  the  exception 
of  the  Walther  process,  which  does  not 
use  electricity  but  depends  on  the  in­
tense  heat  generated  by  burning  acety­
lene  under  pressure. 
In  electric  fur­
naces  the  formation  of  carbide  depends 
simply  on  the  heat  of  the  arc,  which 
fuses  the  mixture  of 
lime  and  coke. 
The latest improvements on  the first very 
simple  forms  of  furnace  have  secured 
continuity  of  work  and  economy  of elec 
trie  energy. 
In  the  United  States  car­
bide  is  made  exclusively  in  the  Horry 
furnace.  This  furnace  consists  of  a 
huge  short  cylinder  or  hollow  wheel, 
mounted  to  revolve  slowly  on  a  horizon­
tal  shaft.  The  periphery  of  the  cylin­
der 
is  closed  by  removable  cast-iron 
slats.  As  the  cylinder  is  partly  revolved 
on  its axis  from  time  to  time,  the  slats 
are  taken  off  from  one  side  and  re­
placed  on  the  other,  thus  leaving  the 
top  always  open.  The  cylinder  is  filled 
on  one  side  with  the  powdered  mixture 
of  coke  and  lime. 
Into the  mixture  two 
vertical  carbon  electrodes  project down 
ward  through  the  open  top  of  the  cylin 
der.  As  the  carbide  is  formed,  the  cyl 
inder 
is  revolved,  lowering  the  mass 
from  the  electrodes.  The  fused  carbide 
cools,  hardens,  and 
is  broken  off  and 
removed  as  it  rises  on  the  other  side  of 
the  slowly  revolving  cylinder;  new  ma 
terial 
is  constantly  fed  in  to  maintain 
the  level  around  the  electrodes.  The 
process  in  the  Horry  furnace  is  coni in 
nous;  the  furnace  can  be  run  without 
arresting  the  current  until  repairs  are 
It  is  said  to  combine  the 
necessary. 
different  theoretical 
improvements  re 
ferred  to,  and  to  reduce  the  cost  of  pro 
duction.  The  Horry  furnace  is  in  use 
at  Niagara  Falls  and  at  Sault  Ste 
Marie.  At  St.  Catherine’s,  Canada 
Willson 
is  using  his  own  .  furnace. 
Abroad,  the  older  types  of  furnace,  the 
Willson,  Bullier  and  Heroult,  are  those 
chiefly, in  use.

The actual  ingot  of  good  commercial 
is  nearly  pure—96  to  99  pei 
carbide 
cent.—but  the  ingot  is  surrounded  by  a 
crust of  carbide  mixed  with  unchanged 
materiai,  containing  40 to  70  per  cent, 
of  carbide.  Foreign  makers  break  and 
blend  ingot  and  crust  to  standard  size, 
the  best  makers  guaranteeing  their  car­
bide 90  per  cent,  pure,  giving five cubic 
feet of  acetylene  per  pound  (pure  car­
bide  gives  5  89 cubic  feet).  Eight  to 
nine  pounds  of  carbide  per horse  power 
in  twenty-four  hours,  averaging  five 
cubic  feet  of  acetylene,  is  considered 
satisfactory  work.  The  Union  Carbide 
Company,  which  controls  the  sale  of 
carbide  in  the  United  States,  is  selling 
graded  carbides  under  guarantee,  the 
first  grade  being  the  nearly  pure  ingot, 
the  lower  grade  the  crust.

As the  moisture  of  the  air decomposes 
the  carbide,  it  must  be  broken  up  as 
soon  as  made,  and  packed 
in  air-tight 
tin  cans,  varying 
in  size  from  one  to 
four  hundred  pounds.

The  present  price  of  carbide  abroad

in  small 

The  statement 

averages $96.80  in  large  lots,  and  $7.26 
per  hundredweight  in  small 
lots,  pack- 
ng  included;  in  the  United  States,  $70 
per ton  in  large  lots,  and  $4  50  per  hun­
dredweight 
lots,  packing  in- 
In  1898,  4  650  tons  are  said  to 
luded. 
have  been  made 
in  the  United  States 
and  Canada,  and  a  much  larger  amount 
abroad.  The  output  for  1899 
is  esti­
mated  at  12.000  tons  for  the  United 
States,  with a  capacity in  the  new  works 
erection  at  Sault  Ste.  Marie  and  at 
Niagara  Falls  of  41,000 tons.  The  new 
works  building 
in  Europe,  to  be  fin- 
shed  in  1899  1900,  have  a  capacity  for 
making  80,000  metric  tons.  These  fig­
ures  will  justify  the  statement  made  at 
the  beginning  of  this  article,  that  the 
new  industry  has  found  ample  capital.
is  still  current  that 
acetylene  attacks  copper  and  brass, 
forming  an  explosive  compound.  This 
is  not  true.  Exhaustive  experiments 
by  Moissan  and  by  Gerdes,  keeping 
these  and  other  metals  in  contact  with 
acetylene  for  months  at  a  time,  have 
shown  that  the  metals  were  not  affected. 
The  conditions  under  which  the  explo­
sive  copper  acetylide  is  made  in  iabo 
ratories  can  not  well  occur  in  genera­
tors  or  gas  holders. 
It  has  been  said 
tbut  acetylene  is  very  poisonous;  the 
experiments  of  many  observers,  and 
especially  those  of  Grebant,  do  not  con­
firm  this  statement.  Grebant  experi­
mented  on  dogs,  causing  them 
to 
breathe  mixtures  of  acetylene,  air,  and 
oxygen,  which  always  contained  20 8 
per  cent,  of  oxygen,  this  being'tbe  per­
centage  of  oxygen  in  pure  air.  By  this 
device  he  was  able  to  discriminate  be­
tween  the  poisoning  caused by acetylene 
and  suffocation  caused  by  insufficient 
oxygen.  A  mixture  containing  20  per 
cent,  acetylene 
inhaled  for  thirty-five 
minutes  did  not  seem  to  trouble  the 
animal.  A  sample  of  the  dog’s  arterial 
id  per  cent,  of  acety­
blood  contained 
lene.  A  dog  which 
inhaled  a  mixture 
containing  40 per  cent,  of acetylene died 
suddenly  after  fiity-one  minutes,  hav­
ing 
inhaled  one  hundred  and  twelve 
litres  of  the  mixture;  the  arterial  blood 
contained  20  per  cent,  acetylene.  Gre­
bant  proved  that  acetylene  simply  dis­
in  the blood  plasma,  while  car­
solves 
bon  monoxide 
forms  a  compound  with 
the  haemoglobin  of  the  blood.  A  dog 
breathing  a  similar  mixture  of air,  oxy­
gen,  and 
illuminating  gas  containing 
only  1  per  cent,  of  carbon  monoxide 
quickly  showed  convulsive  movements, 
and  died  after  ten  minutes;  its  blood 
contained  24  per  cent,  of  carbon  mo 
noxide.  Thus  acetylene,  while  slightly 
poisonous,  is  less  poisonous  than  coal 
gas,  and  vastly 
which  contains  a  high  percentage  of 
carbon  monoxide.
A  pressure  of  thirty-nine  atmospheres 
and  three-quarters  at  20 degrees  C.  con 
verts  acetylene 
into  a  liquid  weighing 
one-third  as  much  as  the  same  volume 
of  water,  while  one  cubic  foot  of  the 
liquid  when  released 
from  pressure 
gives  five  hundred  cubic  feet  of  gas!

less  than  water 

Hitherto  acetylene  was  used  only  as  a 
source  of  heat  or  as  a  source  of 
light; 
yet  with  very  cheap  carbide  it  would 
prove  useful  in  many  ways  in  chemical 
industry,  and  its  use  would  have  the 
most  widespread  effect  on  industry  and 
agriculture.  For  instance,  a  method  of 
making  alcohol  from  acetylene 
is  pat­
ented  abroad,  and  by  another  patented 
process  it  is  proposed  to  make  sugar 
from  acetylene.  With 
the  present 
prices  of  alcohol,  sugar,  and  carbide, 
these  processes  have  no  commercial 
value.
Acetylene  may  be  made  from  the  car­
bide  in  gas  works  and  delivered  to  the 
like  ordinary 
consumer  through  mains 
illuminating  gas;  or  it  may  be  lique­
fied  at  gas  works  and  delivered  to  the 
consumer 
form  under 
pressure;  or the consumer  may  purchase 
carbide  and  generate  acetylene  for  his 
own  consumption.  All  three  of  these 
methods  are 
in  use.— Edward  Renouf 
in  Popular  Science  Monthly,

in  the 

liquid 

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Dry Poods

Rainy  Day  Story  in  a  Clothing  Store. 
W ritten for the T r a d e s m a n .
It  was  a  dull,  rainy  day,  and  there 
were  few  customers  in  the  corner  cloth­
ing  store,  so  the  clerks  stood  in  little 
groups  about  the  showcases  and  talked 
over  past  experiences. 
I  stood  just  in­
side  the  door,  waiting for a  brisk  shower 
to  pass,  and  listened.

Presently  a  messenger boy  carrying  a 
large,  loosely-wrapped  package,  plenti­
fully  sprinkled  with  mud,  brushed  past 
me  and  threw  his  burden  down  on  the 
counter.

“ Mr.  Plunck  says  he  don’t  want  this 
“ Gimme  a  receipt 

suit, “   he  bawled. 
for  it. ”

“ What’s  the  matter  with  it?”   asked a 
clerk,  evidently  the  one  who  bad  made 
the  sale.

“ I  dunno,”   was  the  reply.  “ He  said 
he  took  it  out  on  approval  an’  don’t 
want  it.  Gimme  my  receipt."

The  clerk 

looked  at  the  clothes  and 

gave  the  required  receipt.

“ That's  the  last  suit  of  clothes  I'll 
ever  send  out  on  approval  without  ex­
press  orders  from  the  boss,”   said  the 
cleik,  as  the  messenger  disappeared. 
“ They  have  been  worn  in  the  rain  and 
it  will  take  an  hour  to  get  them  into 
shape  again. ”

“ Perhaps  he  wanted  them  for  one 
night  only,”   suggested  one  of  the 
clerks. 
“ I'll  bet  he  wore  them  to  a 
wedding  or  a  swell  reception  or  some 
place  where  he  wanted  to  cut  a  dash. 
There’s  a  lot  of  that sort of thing done. ”
“ There  wouldn't  be  much  of  it  done 
here  if  I  owned  the  store,"  said  an­
other.  “ There  isn’t  a  sale  made  in  one 
case  out  of  ten,  and  the  clothes  always 
come  back 
It’s  a  nui­
sance. ’ ’

in  bad  shape. 

“ I  had  a  remarkable  experience 

in 
the 
‘ out  on  approval*  line  once,”   said 
an  old  salesman,  after  his  companions 
had  assented  to the  proposition  that  the 
custom  was  entirely  wrong,  “ and  one 
which  I  shall  not  soon  forget.”

“ Get  hung  up  for them?”   asked  a 

clerk,  with  a  laugh.

“ Not  exactly,”   was  the  reply,  “ but  I 
had  a  lot  of  bother  over  the  affair. 
If 
you  don’t  mind.  I’ll  tell  you  about  it.”
Of  course  the  clerks  all  wanted  the 
story,  and  I  stepped  a  little  nearer  to 
the  speaker.

" I   was  working  in  Chicago  at  the 
time,”  began the salesman,  “ and was al­
most  an  entire  stranger  in  the city.  The 
one  man  I  knew  well  was  the  man  who 
got  the  clothes.  He  boarded  where  I 
did  and  we  spent  most  of  our  evenings 
and  Sundays  together.  He  was  em­
ployed  at  a  jewelry  store  on  the  South 
Side,  and,  being  the  last  man  on  duty 
at  night,  carried  a  key  to  the  store  and 
knew  the  combination  to  the  safe  where 
the  diamonds  were  kept.”

“ I  scent  a  diamond  robbery,”   said 

“ Don’t  be  in  a  hurry  to  make  a  plot 
of  your  own,”   said  the  salesman,  “ and 
I ’ll  come  to  the  sensational part in short 
order.  One  day  Charley—his name  was 
Charley  Dingman—told  me  that  he 
wanted  to  get a  suit  of  clothes  on  ap­
proval  for  one night. 
In  this  case,  you 
see,  there  was  no 
inducement  of  pur­
chase  held  out.  Charley  simply  wanted 
to borrow  the  clothes  and  I  let him  have 
them.  Of  course,  however, 
listed 
them  as  1 out  on  approval. ’  I  knew  that 
Charley  had  rather a  swell  sweetheart,

I 

one  of  the  clerks.
“ It’s  nothing 

said  another.

less  than  a  murder,”  

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

the  daughter  of  a  piano  manufacturer, 
and  took  it  for granted  that  he  desired 
to  take  her  out  into  good  society,  so  I 
helped  him  along.

“ The  clothes  were  left  at  my  room 
before  I  was  out  of  it  the  next morning, 
and  when  I  got  down  to  the  dining 
room  Charley  was  not  there.  I  had  been 
at  the  table  but  a  short  time  when  I  ob­
served  a  suppressed  excitement  among 
the  boarders,  and  in  a  minute  more  the 
cause  of  it  came  out.  Charley  had  been 
arrested,  while 
in  that  very 
house,  charged  with  burglarizing  his 
employer’s  store  and  stealing  his  dia­
monds. ”

in  bed 

“ I  thought  so, ’ ’ said one of the clerks.
“ The  morning  paper  stated  that  the 
thief  must  have  had  a  key  to  the  store 
and  must  have  understood the  safe  com­
bination,  for  the  diamonds  had  been 
taken  without  breaking  the  safe,  or  in 
any way  molesting  the  lock  of  the  street 
door.  The  paper  further  stated  that 
Charley,  when  arrested,  about  i  o’clock 
in  the  morning,  or  about  an  hour  after 
the  discovery  of  the  robbery  by  the 
nightwatcb,  and  immediately  upon  bis 
return  to  his  room,  had  absolutely  re­
fused  to give  an  account  of  himself dur­
ing  the  early  hours  of  the  night.  The 
boarders,'with  the  charity  usually  ex­
hibited  in  such  cases,  all declared them­
selves  satisfied  of  the  guilt of  the  young 
man,  and  I  must  confess  that  I  looked 
upon  his  case  as  a  tough  one.

“ I  took  the  package  of  clothes,  which 
Charley  had  left  for  me 
in  the  sitting 
room  and  which  had  been transferred  to 
my  room  by  a  domestic,  dowD  to  the 
store,  reported  the  return,  and  started  to 
put  them  back  in  stock.  You  may  well 
imagine  that  my  thoughts  were  all  on 
my  chum  and  that  I  felt  not  a  little 
worked  up  over 
the  affair.  While 
straightening  out  the clothes the  thought 
came  to  me  that  it  would  be a  clever 
thing  to  examine  the  pockets,  and  I  did 
so.  You  see,  I  couldn't  make  up  my 
mind  that  Charley  would  go  to  the 
trouble  of  borrowing  a  new  suit  of 
clothes  to  Wear  while  committing  a 
robbery,  and I  bad  an  idea  that  the  con­
tents  of  the  pockets  might  show  where 
he  had  spent  the  early  hours  of  the 
night—the  hours  for  which  be  strangely 
refused  to  account  when  questioned  by 
the  officers.  Well,  I  ' found  the  clue  I 
sought  in  the  right-hand  vest  pocket.”
“ Diamonds?”   demanded  the  clerks 

in  chorus.

"Worth  more 

than  diamonds  to 
Charley,”   replied  the  salesman.  “ I  put 
my  find  into  an  envelope,  secured  leave 
of  absence  for  half  a  day,  and  went 
straight  to  the  Harrison  street  police 
station,  where  Charley  was  confined.

'Come,  old  man,’  I  said  to  him,  as 
soon  as  I  secured  admission  to  his  cell,
* you  may  as  well  tell  where  you  were 
last  night  and  walk  out  of  this!’

‘ What  do  vou  know  about  it?’  he 

asked,  savagely,  I  thought.

“   ‘ All  about  it,’  I  replied. 

‘ Now, tell 

me,  do  the  girl's  parents  object?’

‘ Yes,  they  object,’  was  the  reply, 
‘ and  the  girl  and  I  thought  we’d  have 
an 
innocent  little  lark  down  on  the 
South  Side,  and  no  one  would  know. 
You  see  what’s  come  of  it. 
I  suppose 
I’ll  have  to  go  up  for about  five  years; 
but  I  tell  you  right  now  that  I’ll  do  that 
before  I’ll  tell  where  we  were,  and  so 
compromise the  girl.  I  only  hope  she’ll 
have  sense  enough  to  keep  her  mouth 
shut. ’

“   ‘ Now,  Charley,’  I  said, 

‘ I  know 
where you  were and  know  that the place 
isn’t a  very  respectable  one  for a  young 
is
lady  to  visit,  but  I  also  know  that  it 

a  place  of  public  entertainment  and 
that  hundreds  of  swell  people go  there 
on  the  sly  every  week. 
I’m  not  going 
to  see  you  get  five  years  for  taking  your 
sweetheart  there,  and  if  you  don’t  tell 
the  truth  I  will. ’

“ Well,  he  objected,  but  I  sent  for  the 
girl’s  father  and  told  him  the  truth 
right  before  the  blushing  young  man, 
and  the  father  took  one  of  the  detec­
tives over  to  see  the  girl,  and when they 
came  back  Charley  was  released,  with 
many  a  grin  on  the  part  of  the  officers. 
Now,  what  do  you  think  I  found 
in 
the  pocket  of  that  vest?”

“ Bill  of  the  play,”   shouted  one.
“ Seat  checks,”   shouted  another.
“ Both,”   was  the 

it 
wasn’t  a  very  bad  theater either,  but 
Charley  had  a  fool  notion  in  bis  head 
that  bis  girl—they  are  married  now— 
would  be  compromised  if  her  presence

reply,  “ and 

there  should  become  known.  However, 
in  protecting  the  girl,  he  won  the  heart 
of  the  parents,  so  it  all  came  out  right, 
like  a  story,  and  another  clerk  after­
wards  confessed  to  the  robbery.”

“ I  think,”   said  one.  of  the  clerks, 
"that  you’d  better  hire  out  to  write  fic­
tion.  You’re  wasting  your  time  selling 
clothes  and 
letting  them  out  on  ap­
proval. ’ ’

Then  the  rain  ceased  and  I  stepped 

out  of  the  store.  A l f r e d   B .  T o z e r .

Took  His  Employer  Literally.

Old  Lady  (to  grocer’s  boy)— Don’t 
you  know  that  it  is  very  rude  to  whistle 
when  dealing  with  a  lady?

Boy—That’s  what  the  guv’nortold  me 

to  do,  mum.

“ Told  you  to  whistle.”

•  “ Yes’m.  He  said  if  we  ever  sold  you 
anything  we’d  have  to  whistle  for  the 
money. ’ ’

Goods  for  Fall !

Now  that  the  sale  of  summer  goods  is 
about over,  it would be well to look  up  your 
stock of Fall  and  Winter  goods.  We  have 
our sample line  open  and  are  in- a  position 
to  take  your  orders  for  fall  delivery.  We 
have a  complete  line  of  Underwear  in  La­
dies’,  Gents’  and  Children’s.  Our  prices 
are right.  Give us your orders  and  we  will 
guarantee satisfaction.

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

G RA N D   RAPIDS,  MICH.

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CommercialTravelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

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

and Treasurer, C. W. Allen  Detroit.

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

Grand Rapids Connell No. 131.

Senior Counselor, D. E. Keyes ;  Secretary-Treas­
urer,  L.  F.  Baker.  Regular  meetings—First 
Saturday of each month in Council  Chamber  in 
McMullen block.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

President,  J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owen,  Grand 
Rapids.

Luke Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President, F. G. Truscott, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F. Wucson,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Geo.  A.  Sage,  of  Rockford,  was  home 
a  few  days after  the  Fourth  under  the 
weather, but  he is  now  over  the weather, 
making  his  Northern  trip.

A.  B.  Gates  has  been  East,  caught 
cold,  been  sick,  and  attended  the  De­
troit  Christian  Endeavor  convention— 
all  in  the  past  three  weeks.

L.  W.  Little,  with  the  Horton-Cato 
Manufacturing Co.,  Detroit,  has  a  small 
name,  but  his  sales  are  large.  He  sells 
sauces  and 
is  gentlemanly 
about  it.

yet  he 

A.  W.  Peck  (Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug  Co.)  has  launched  a  steam  yacht 
on  Grand  Traverse  Bay.  The  craft  is 
22  feet  long  and  will  easily  carry  ten 
persons.

E.  E.  Wooley 

(Root  &  McBride 
Bros.)  and  wife  and  W.  R.  Compton 
and  wife,  of  Mears,  are  spending a fort­
night 
lumber camp 
on  Lake  Michigan,  located  on  a  narrow 
strip  of  land  between  that  body of  water 
and  an  inland  lake.

in  an  abandoned 

Otsego  Union :  D.  W.  Shepherd  has 
been  assigned  the  territory  in  Michigan 
formerly  covered  by  J.  S.  Linton  as 
salesman  for  the  Otsego  Chair  Co.  Mr. 
Shepherd  has  been  with  the  company 
for nearly  three  years,  traveling  through 
Iowa  and  Illinois.  He will start  Monday 
on  his  first  trip  through  Michigan.

E.  P.  Dana  (Phelps,  Brace  &  Co.) 
registered  at  National  Hotel,  Howell, 
last  Thursday.  Age  seems to  have  little 
effect  on  Mr.  Dana,  in  fact,  he  seems 
to  be  growing  younger  with  well  doing. 
Few  at the age  of  sixty  and twenty-three 
years  as  a  commercial  tourist  can  grow 
young  until  they  look  not  more  than 
forty-five.

J.  B.  Evans,  a  former  Grand  Rapids 
hustler,  is  now  manager  of  the  Wayne 
Baking  Co. ’s  Detroit  branch  and  has 
his  office  and  ware  rooms  at  179  W. 
Woodbridge  street  and,  with  his  five 
aides— F.  P.  Kelly,  F.  J.  Carr,  Geo. 
Seabold,  H.  P.  Damon  and  Elmer  Cole 
— furnishes  the  Detroit  dealers  with 
anti-trust  crackers  and  sweet  goods.

Parke  Mathewson,  Michigan and Ohio 
representative  for  B.  T.  Babbitt, 
is 
pending  a  fortnight at Ottawa  Beach  as 
the guest  of his  old-time  friend,  Henry 
Spring.  The  rare  companionship  of 
these  “ old  fellows”   is  something  pleas­
ant  to  look  upon,  although  the  sugges­
tion  of  age  in  connection  with  either 
gentleman  would  probably  be  resented 
by  them  and  their  friends,  because  both 
of  them  are apparently  growing younger 
every  year.

is  arranged 

New  Orleans  Times-Democrat:  “ The 
other  evening 
just  before  we  changed 
watch,”   said  the  clerk  at  one  of  the ho­
tels,  “ a  fat  drummer  came  up  and  be­
gan  figuring  out  bis  expense account for 
the  day.  He  took  the  first  piece  of 
paper  he  could 
lay  his  bands  on  and 
didn’t  notice  that  it  was  the  blank  we 
use  for keeping a memorandum of  morn­
ing  calls.  The  blank 
in 
columns  headed  by  figures  representing 
hours  and  half  hours  and  he  began  his 
penciling 
in  the  3:30  row.  First  he 
jotted  down  $1  50  for  buggy  hire,  then 
15  cents  for  stamps,  35  cents  for  car 
fare,  $1.60  for  express  package,  $1.10 
for  telegrams,  50 cents  for a trunk strap,
5  cents  for  a  paper  and  a  quarter  for 
messenger  service.  Down  at  the  bot­
tom  as  an  after thought  he  put  40 and 
wrote  ‘ beer’  before  it,  thinking  to  work 
it  in  somehow,  I  suppose.  Weil,  at 3 =30 
o’clock  next  morning  there  was  trouble 
and  plenty  of  it.  The  night  clerk  sup­
posed  of  course  that  the  calls  had  been 
left 
in  the  ordinary  way  and  while  be 
was  a  little  surprised  at  so  many  people 
wanting  to  get  up  at  such  an  unearthly 
hour,  he  told  the  boys  to  wake  Nos. 
150,  *5t  35.  160.  no,  50,  5  and  25  and 
carry  a  quart  bottle  of  beer  to  No.  40. 
They  had  a  terrible  time  getting  the 
people  up  and  everybody  was  as mad  as 
blazes,  particularly  the  fat  drummer 
himself,  who  happened  to  be  in  no, 
and  swore  he  was  going  right  down  and 
lick  the  clerk.  About  that  time  the  boy 
with  the beer  got  to  40.  There  was  a 
preacher  from  North  Georgia 
in  the 
room  and  be  called  out  to  know  what 
was  wanted. 
‘ I’ve brought  you  the beer 
you  ordered,’  hollers  the  kid,  and  the 
preacher  nearly  had  a  fit. 
‘ Merciful 
heavens!’  be  said,  ‘ this  will ruin me for 
life! 
I  will  go  down  immediately  and 
see  the  proprietor!’  He  and  the  fat 
drummer  struck  the  office  together.  The 
drummer  wanted  gore,  but  when  he saw 
the  call  list  be  turned  pale  around  the 
gills  and  sneaked  back  upstairs.  It  took 
nearly  an  hour  to  get  the  minister 
cooled  off,  and  when  the  facts  leaked 
out  next  day  several  people  began  look 
ing  for  the  fat  drummer  with  clubs.  He 
lay  low,  but  he  has  bought a  new  mem 
orandum  book  on  purpose  to  figure  up 
his  cash.”
Should  Have  Given  the  Name  of  the 

Hotel.

Reed  City,  July  15— Having  been  a 
traveling  salesman  for  twenty-two  years 
and  living  at  hotels,  I  wish  to  describe 
a  hotel  I  came  across  on  the  east  shore 
of  Lake  Michigau  this  week.  As  I  bad 
occasion  to  visit  the  town  in  which  the 
hotel 
is  located,  I  put  up  at  what  is 
classed  as  the  commercial  hotel  of  the 
town,  remaining  over  night.  After  do 
ing  my  forenoon’s  work,  I  repaired  to 
the  hotel  about  11  ¡30,  expecting  dinner 
would  be  served  at  12  o’clock. 
I  found 
several  traveling  men  seated  around  the 
office,  waiting  for  the  dinner  call,  but 
as  12  o’clock  came,  we noticed the land 
lady  came  downstairs and  proceeded  to 
the  dining  room. 
In  a  few  minutes two 
of  the boarders came  down  and  entered 
the  dining  room.  One  of  the  boys 
asked  the clerk again when dinner would 
be  ready,  but  received  no  answer.  We 
waited  until  the  summer  boarders  were 
all  sent  in,  also  the  orchestra,  when  we 
poor  traveling  men  finally  made  up  our 
minds  that  we  were  to  wait  for  the  sec 
ond  table  and,  if  any  fragments  were 
left,  we  would  be  allowed  to go  in  and 
partake  of  the  leavings  and  walk  out 
and  pay  our  50 cents.  We  decided  to 
pay  our bill  and  try  a  restaurant  where 
we  would  be  allowed  the  privilege  of 
the  first  table,  which  we  did,  and,  it  is 
safe  to  say,  we  will  always  remember 
the  landlord  who caters to boarders, help 
and  family  first. 

C.  W.  R e a l s.

Valley  City  Entertainment  Eclipsed  by 

the  Celery  City.

Nearly  fifty  traveling  men  and  their 
ladies  accepted  the  invitation  to  visit 
Kalamazoo  last  Saturday  to  witness  the 
return  game  of  baseball  and  participate 
n  the  festivities  incident  thereto.  But 
for  the  fact  that  the  morning  was  rainy 
and  the  sky 
indicated  a  stormy  day, 
probably  twice  as  many  would  have  un­
dertaken  the  trip.  On  arriving  at  Kal­
amazoo  the  entire  party  proceeded  to  a 
hotel,  pending  a  decision  as  to  where 
the  ball  game  should  be  played. 
It  was 
intended  to  pull  the  game 
originally 
off 
in  the  city  and  proceed  to  Long 
Lake  by  special  train  on  the completion 
of  the  game,  but  the  attitude  assumed 
by  Father  Neptune  was  so  threatening 
that  it  was  decided  to  proceed  at  once 
to  Long  Lake  and  carry  out  the  pro­
gramme  originally  planned  between  the 
showers.  The  events  of  the  day  at  Long 
Lake  are  so  graphically  described  by 
the  Kalamazoo  Telegraph  of  Monday 
that  the  Tradesman 
is  disposed  to  re­
produce  the  report  as  it  originally  ap­
peared  in  that  paper:

’em  when 

Rain  couldn't  drown  them  out,  those 
Grand  Rapids  drummers,  and  mud 
couldn’t  phase 
it  came  to 
running  races  and  playing  base  b all; 
nor  could  it  interfere  with  the  bound­
less  hospitality  of  the  Kalamazoo  con­
freres,  who  not  only  entertained  their 
visitors  royally, but allowed  them  to  win 
the  ball  game  and  all  of  the  races,  to 
say  nothing  of  free  shower  baths  all  day 
and  a  jolly  good  time  of  it  in  spite  of 
the  weather.

The game  was  not  played  until  after­
noon  at  the  Lake,  and  it  proved  a  soul­
stirring  exhibition  of  the  noble  Ameri­
can  sport.  The  Kalamazoo  battery  was 
not  forthcoming,  so  Brown  and  Bert 
Stripp  of  the  college 
’99  team  were 
used,  but  they  could  not  suffice  to  hold 
down  the  bard  hitters  from  the  Rapids. 
The  Grand  Rapids  men  claim  that  all 
of  their  players  are  bona fide drummers, 
but  they  have  seen  ball  playing  of  old 
and  know  all  the  tricks  of  handling  the 
league  sticks. 
It  was  truly  a  great 
game  and  everyone  who  tried  to slide  to 
base  was  a  ready  recruit  to  the  ranks  of 
the  great  unwashed. 
It  was  noticeable 
that  when  they  got  home  little  was  said 
of  star  plays,  although  there  were  some 
good  bunts,  and  Aldrich,  who  pitched 
most  of  the  game,  was  said  to  be  a 
cracker-jack 
in  spite  of  the  way  that 
the  lucky  hits  were  pounded  out.  The 
line-up,  as  given  below,  makes  it  bard 
to  believe  that  the  Kalamazoo  men 
actually  did  lose  with  such  an  aggrega­
tion  of  field  talent:
Kalamazoo.
George  Dennis 
Bert  Stripp 
Brown-Aldrich 
Harry  Sligher 
Carl  Ihling 
Brown 
C.  Bennett 
Cliff  Carson 
A.  Campbell 

Grand  Rapids.
W.  Pipp
ib
c George  Rysdale
Simpson
P
Goebel
2b
Charles  Fear
rf
Sam  Simmons
ss
F.  Pierce
cf
3b Will  Richmond
If  George  Findlater

The  score  by  innings:
Grand  Rapids,  5 1 0 2 5 4   o— 17 
Kalamazoo, 
0 0 0 3 3 3   ° —  9 
The  Grand  Rapids  ladies were strictly 
it  when  the  races  were  announced. 
iu 
The  showers  interfered  badly  and  kept 
the  onlookers  racing  to  dodge  them,  but 
the  regular  events  went  off  in  spite  of 
the  general  wetness.  Mrs.  George  Rys- 
dale  won  the  50 yard  race and  the  back­
ward  race  with  ease.  Mrs.  Charles  Fear 
bad  the  hurdle  race  in  a  walk  and  Mrs. 
William  Pipp  culled  the  potatoes  in  a 
way  that  left  nothing  for  her  adver­
saries.  Everyone  of  the  winners  was  a 
visitor  and  the  Kalamazoo  ladies  had  to 
be  content  with  the  consolations,  which, 
with  the  first  prizes,  were  highly  ap­
propriate  and  useful. 
those 
from  home  who  took  prizes  were  Mrs. 
L.  D.  Austin,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Ryder  and 
Miss  Alma  Ihling.
The  100  yard  dash  for  men  went  to 
William  Pipp  in  easy  style.  Some  one 
said  that  his  wife  had  trained  him  for 
if  so  she  bad  done the
the  event,  and 

Among 

work  as  well  as  she  did  her  own  run­
ning.  The  pair  made  wonderful  time, 
which  the  tiack  officials  refused  to  di­
vulge as  being  too  fast  for  belief  by  the 
general  public.  Honors  with  the  target 
rifles  went  to  Frank  Johnson,  of  Grand 
Rapids.

Both  dinner  and  supper  were  served 
at  the  Lake  and  eaten  with  the zest born 
of  the  racing.  There  was  speaking  of 
a  most  entertaining  kind  by  a  number 
of  gentlemen,  Frans  Pierce,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  making  the  hit  of  the  day.

Several  plans  for  the  entertainment  of 
the  visitors  were  spoiled  by  the  rain, 
including  a  tallybo  ride about  the  city, 
but  there  was  plenty  of  fun  all  day  and 
the  Grand  Rapids  men  went  home  loud 
in  their  assurances  of  the  good  time 
they  had  found  awaiting  them  at  the 
hands  of  the  local  drummers.

Open  Letter  to  President  Heald.
Grand  Rapids,  July  15— Isn’t  there 
some  way  by  which  the  supper  fur­
nished  your  Saginaw  passengers  at  Ed- 
more  can  be  impioved?

The  Alma  supper  is  superb,  consider­
ing  the  difficulties  under  which  the 
landlord  and  passengers  labor  in getting 
together,  but  the  Edmore  meal  is  the 
toughest  conglomeration  of  slop  and 
sourness  it  has  ever  been  my misfortune 
to  run  up  against.

You  have  usually  been  very  fortunate 
in  the  selection  of  caterers  for  your  sys­
tem,  notably  at  White  Cloud,  Hartford, 
Traverse  City  and  Alma,  but  you  have 
slipped a  cog—and a  big  one  at  that— in 
compelling  your  passengers on  the East- 
bound  Saginaw  train  to  submit  to  the 
indignity  of  an  Edmore  supper.

If  you  have  any  doubts  as  to  the  truth 
of  this  statement  I  suggest  that  you 
take a  trip  to  Saginaw without your chef 
and 
instruct  the  genial  colored  man 
who  telegraphs  ahead  for  the  suppers 
that  be  is  not  to  specify  that  one  of  the 
is  for  the  chief  mogul  of  your 
meals 
system. 
If  you  will  do  this  and  will 
undertake  to  eat  the  supper,  I’ll  eat  my 
sample  case  in  the  presence  of  as  large 
a  crowd  as  can  be  gathered  into  any 
public  hall  in  Grand  Rapids  in  the 
in­
terest  of  any  charity  or  series  of  chari­
ties  you  may  name.

I  am  aware  of  the  fact  that there is no 
money  for  you  or  your  system 
in  fur­
nishing  meals  for  captious  passengers 
and  of  course  you  have  more  important 
duties  to  perform  than  the  reformation 
of  country  hotels  and  eating  bouses  and 
I  therefore  suggest  that  you  instruct  the 
porter on  your  Eastbound  evening  train 
to  see  that  the  passengers 
in  the  chair 
car  have  their  lunches  put  up  by  the 
caterer  in  the  union  depot  before  start­
ing  out  on  their  trip  across  the  State. 
The  coffee  may  not  be warm  by the time 
the  passenger 
is  ready  for  his  supper, 
but  it  will  have  one  cardinal  virtue— it 
will  be  coffee  instead  of  slop.

T r a v e l e r .

The  Green  Eyed  Monster  at  Kala­

mazoo.

Kalamazoo,  Julv  17—Your 

letter  re­
ceived  and  contents  noted,  but  too  late 
to  send  you  program.  We  were  all 
pleased  to  have  the  Grand  Rapids boys, 
their  wives  and  friends  with  us.

You  evidently  thought  I  had  been  ap­
pointed  manager, 
instead  of  E.  F. 
Zander,  as  your  letter  was  in  answer  to 
one  written  by  him.  However,  when 
the  stockholders  get  together,  I  expect 
to  receive  the  appointment  of  manager. 
This  man  Zander  is  a  flat  failure  run­
ning  a  ball  team.  He  has  had  too  much 
Folz,  Hoffman  and  Aldrich,  while  he 
has  benched  such  good  players  as  My­
self  and  Bennett.  The  boys  are  tired  of 
this  and  for  the  best  interest  of  the  club 
I  will  become  manager.  L.  V b r d o n .

Thompson  &  Co.  have  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  Frankfort.  The  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company  furnished  the  stock.
R E M O D E L E D   H O T E L   B U T L E R
I.  M.  BRO W N , PROP.
Rates, $1. 

-  

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

HOTEL WHITCOMB

ST. JOSEPH, MICH. 

A. VINCENT, Prop.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

18

Drugs—Chemicals

-------- 

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
-  Deo. 31,1898 
A. C. Schumachxr,  Ann  Arbor 
Dec. 31,1900
Gbo. Guhsbux,  Ionia  - 
-  Dec. 31,1901
L. S. Reynolds, St.  Joseph 
- 
Hxhby Hbim, Saginaw  - 
Dec. 31,1902
Wirt P. Doty, Detroit 
• 
Dec. 31,1803

Term expires

drogen  dioxide  is  a  volatile  substance, 
and  the  preparation  of  the  Pharmaco­
poeia  belongs  properly  among 
the 
waters.

The  experience  of  the  committee 
with  the  glacial  acetic  acid  of the Phar­
macopoeia  was  unsatisfactory.  With 
the  exception  of  two  the  samples  ob­
tained  consisted  of  commercial  80  per 
cent,  acetic acid,  sold  as  glacial  acid, 
probably  in  error.

The  samples  of  “ Syrupus  U.  S.  P. ”  
which  came  under  the  notice  of  the 
committee  showed  “ gross  carelessness 
in  preparation,”   being,  in  many  cases, 
too  thin  and  in  others  of  tnrbid  appear­
ance.

Last  year  65  per  cent,  of  the  samples 
of  creosote  examined  consisted  of  a 
mixture  of  carbolic  acid  of  doubtful 
purity  with  water,  alcohol  and  glycerin. 
The  warning  uttered  so  frequently  in 
the  past  by  the  committee,  that  the 
liquid  sold  as  “ Creosote-German”   was 
not  creosote  at  ail,  has  bad  a  healthy 
effect,  and  only  40 per  cent,  of  the  sam­
ples  collected  this  year  were  of  this 
character.

We  a re   UDable  to   re p o rt  fa v o ra b ly   on 
the quality  of  zinc  o in tm e n t. 
In  m ost 
cases  ordinary 
lard  appears  to  have 
been  substituted  fortbebenzoinated lard 
prescribed  by  the  Pharmacopoeia.  The 
ointment,  moreover,  showed  evidences 
of  gross  carelessness  in  preparation. 
The  zinc  oxide  used  was,  as  a  rale,  the 
gritty  commercial  variety  and  a  smooth 
ointment  was  consequently  the  excep­
tion.  As  this  ointment  is  often  used  in 
the  treatment  of  chronic  ophthalmia, 
both  the  rancid  fat  and  the  gritty  par­
ticles  of  zinc  oxide  exert  an  irritating 
effect. 
In  view  of  this the  formula  for 
the  ointment,  as  laid  down  in  the  U.  S. 
Pharmacopoeia,  should  be  strictly  fol­
lowed.

The quality of the precipitated sulphur 
sold  in  the  shops  is  very  poor,  over  60 
per  cent,  of the  samples  reported  npon 
by  the  committee  being  heavily  laden 
with  lime  sulphate.  Common  milk  of 
sulphur  is  often  sold  for  precipitated 
sulphur,  and  washed  sulphur  and  flow­
ers of  sulphur  are  not  unfrequently  sup­
plied  where  the  precipitated sulphur has 
been  called  for,  a  circumstance  which 
points to  gross  carelessness  on  the  part 
of  the  seller.

Of  the  specimens  of  potassium  iodide 
examined,a large  number  showed  traces 
of  iodate  or  were  alkaline  in  reaction.
The  aveiage  quality  of  the  distilled 
water  kept  by  the  druggists 
in  New 
York  State 
is  not  good.  Few  of  the 
many  samples  collected  came  up  to the 
requirements  of  the  U.  S.  P.  While 
it 
was  not expected  that  ideally  pare  dis­
tilled  water  would  be  obtainable  in  the 
drug  stores,  many  of  them  failed  to  an 
extraordinary  degree 
in  the  test  for 
solids,  and  few  resisted  the  silver  ni­
trate  test.  Tt  has  been  pointed  out be­
fore that  distilled  water  is  largely  used 
in  the  preparation  of  eye  waters tor  the 
solution  of  silver  nitrate,  and  then  as 
on  other  occasions  a  perfectly  pure 
water  is  a  necessity. 
If  distilled  water 
of  good  quality 
is  obtainable  in  the 
open  market  it  should  be  prepared  on 
the  premises,especially  since  its  prepa­
ration  requires  no  special  apparatus  not 
to  be  found 
in  every  well  regulated 
pharmacy.

Scientific  Courtship.

The  New  York  Medical Journal quotes 
the  following  advertisement  from  a  lo­
cal  Swedish  paper:

“ A  rich  young  merchant  is  looking 
for  an  intelligent  lady  with good  health, 
as  a  companion  for  life.  Replies ad­
dressed  to  B.  will  only  be  taken  notice 
of 
if  accompanied  by  a  portrait,  an 
x-ray  photo,  and  a  photo of  the  interior 
of  the  stomach.”

Failed  to  Agree.

“ What  was  the  opinion  of  the  doctors 
whom  Thummins called  to his bouse the 
other  day 
for  a  consultation  on  bis 
case?"

“ He hasn't  fonnd  out  yet.  One  was 
an  allopath,  one  was  a  homeopath,  an­
other  was  an  osteopath  and  the  fourth 
was  a  Christian  Scientist”

President, G*o.  Gcndrum, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, Henry  Heim, Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.
President—J. J. Sour wins, Escanaba. 
Secretary, Chas, F. Mann, Detroit.
T reasurer—John D.  Mu ir , Grand Rapids.
Quality  of Drugs Gradually Improving.
At the  recent  convention  of  the  New 
York  State  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
held  at  Albany  recently,  the  Committee 
on  Adulterations  presented  the  follow­
ing  flattering  report:

While heretofore  the  bulk  of  the spec­
imens  of  drugs  reported  upon  by  your 
in  so- 
committee  has  been  collected 
called  department  and  grocery  stores, 
we  have  this  year  utterly  disregarded 
these  pseudo  drug stores,  being  satisfied 
that  anyone  who  will  knowingly  get  his 
medical  supplies  from  such  sources  is 
not  worthy  of  protection.

The  results  which  we  have to  report 
are  not  at all  discouraging;  on  the  con­
trary  they  tend  to  show  that  the  phar­
macists  of  the  State,  as  a  class,  evince 
an  earnest  desire  to  comply  with  the 
food  and  drug  laws.  While  we do  not 
deny  that  there 
is  room  for  improve­
ment  in  many  directions,  the  result  of 
our  examinations  shows  that  the  sensa­
tional  statements  which  have  appeared 
in  the  newspapers 
from  time  to  time 
alleging  that  many  of  the  drugs  sold 
in 
the  stores  are  either  highly  impure  or 
grossly  adulterated  are  very  far  from 
being  true,  and  are  by  no  means borne 
ont by  the  actnal  facts  in  the  case.

the 

is  probable  that  this 

We  have  examined  many  liquid  and 
solid  galenical  preparations,  such  as 
syrups,  elixirs, 
tinctures,  ointments, 
simple  and  compound  powders,  besides 
pharmaceutical  chemicals.
While  many  of  the  preparations  ex­
amined  were  found deficient in strength, 
it 
is  due  not to 
willful  adulteration,  but  rather  to  the 
nature  of 
substances  examined, 
which  made  them  prone  to  deteriorate 
on  keeping.  Among  others  enumerated 
were  spirit  of  ammonia,  water of  am­
monia,  aromatic  spirit  of  ammonia  and 
chlorine  water.  None of  the  samples  of 
chlorine  water  contained  more than  o. 19 
per  cent,  of  chlorine,  although  the 
Pharmacopoeia  requires a percentage  of 
o 4.  The  committee  recommend  that 
chlorine  water  be  deleted 
the 
Pharmacopoeia,  and  that  some  extem­
poraneous  mixture be  substituted  for  it.
One  hundred  Cc.  of  tincture of opium 
are  required  to  yield  on  assay  1.3  to  1.5 
Gm.  of  crsytallized  morphine. 
This 
tincture  has  always  been  a  bone  of  con­
tention,  and  the  results  reported  this 
year  do  not  vary  from  those  of  former 
years.  Of the  fifteen  samples  collected, 
the  best  yielded  1.316,  another  sample 
yielded  1.295,  and  the  next  followed 
with  0.980  and  so  on  down  to 0.152. 
The  conclusion  of  the  committee  is  that 
in  many  cases  either  inferior  gum  has 
been  substituted  for  the  assayed  pow­
dered  opium  or that  the  drug  has  been 
extracted  in  a  careless  manner.

from 

The  experience of  the  committee with 
tincture  of  iron  chloride  is  very  gratify­
ing,  as  all  of  the  samples,  fifteen  in 
number, answered to the pharmacopoeia! 
requirements.

Some  confusion  seems to  exist  in  re­
gard  to  what  is  meant  by  ether  U.  S.  P. 
Many  of  the  samples  contained  added 
alcohol  and  corresponded  to the  ether 
of the  Pharmacopoeia  of  1880.

The  few  samples  of  hydrogen  dioxide 
water that  came  under  the  observation 
of  the  committee  proved  better than  an­
ticipated,  most  of  them  showing  more 
than  2  per  cent,  of  the  pure dioxide. 
The  committee  suggests a  change in  the 
English  title from  solution  of  hydrogen 
dioxide  to hydrogen  dioxide water.  Hy­

Annual  Report  of the  State  Board  of 

Pharmacy.

Ann  Arbbr,  July  15— A  summary  of 
the  annual  report  of  A.  C.  Schumacher, 
Secretary  of  the  Michigan  Board  of 
Pharmacy,  for  the  year  ending  June  30, 
1899,  is  as  follows :

RECEIPTS.

Balance  on  band  June  30,  1898,  $  86.50 
3,032  Reg.  Phar.  Certificate re­

newals  for  1899, 

267  Assistant  Phar.  Certificate

renewals  for  1899, 

89  Applicants for  Assistant  pa­

161  Applicants  for  Reg.  Phar.

pers 

papers 

3,032.00

133.50

89.00

483.00
Total,  $3,824.00 

DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid  H.  Heim,  Treasurer, 
Refunded 

$3.575.00 
3.00
Total,  $3,578 00 
Balance  on  hand  June  30,  1899,  $  246.00
Two  special  meetings  of  the  Board 
were  held  as  follows :
M arq u ette,  A ug.  30  an d   31,  1898.
D e tro it,  Ja n .  10  a n d   11,  1899.
Three  regular  meetings  were  held  as 

follows :

Lansing,  Nov.  1  and  2,  1898.
Grand  Rapids,  Mar.  6  and  7,  1899.
Star  Island,  June  26 and  27,  1899.
During  the  year  there  were  207  can­
didates  appeared  for  examination  as 
regular  pharmacists  and  67  for  assist­
ants.

Fifty-nine  of the  applicants  for  regu­
lar  pharmacist  papers  passed  the  exam­
inations.

Eighty-nine of  the applicants  for  reg­
ular  pharmacist  papers  were  entitled  to 
assistant  papers.
Twenty-nine  of  the  applicants  for  as­
sistant  papers  passed  the  examination.
Fifty-nine  of the  applicants  for  reg­
ular  pharmacist  papers  failed  entirely.
Thirty-six  complaints  of  violation  of 
law  were  received  and 

the  pharmacy 
recorded  during  the  year.

Seventeen  of  these  cases  were  placed 

in  the  hands  of  the  attorney.
Seventeen  of  the  complaints  were  or­
dered  dropped  by  the  Board  on  account 
of  lack  of  evidence,  having  procured 
registered  help,  etc.

Two are  in  the  hands of  the  Secretary 

for  investigation.
Total  fines and  costs  for  viola­
tions  since  the  law  was  en­
acted  to  June  30,  1898, 

Fines  and  costs  for  last  year, 

$2  874.88
61.50

Total,  $2,936  38 

Legal  expenses  for  the  year

Legal  expenses  since  law  was

1899, 

enacted, 

277  89

8  561.69

Total,  $8.839  58
Eighty-three  registered  pharmacists 
failed  to  renew  their  certificates for  this 
year.

Seventy  assistant  pharmacists  failed 
to  renew  their certificates  for  this  year.
Total  number of  registered  pharma­
cists  to  June  30,  1899.  3,099.  Total 
number  of  registered  pharmacists 
in
1898,  3,115.  A  decrease  of  16

Total  number  of  assistants  to  June 30,
1899,  324.  Total  number  of  assistants 
in  1898,  328.  A  decrease  of  4.
Total  number  of  registered  pharma­
cists  who have  failed  to  renew their cer­
tificates  since  the 
law  was  enacted  in 
1885,  1,440.
Total  number  of  registered  assistants 
who  have  failed  to  renew  their certifi­
cates  since  the  law  was  enacted  in  1885, 
841.

The  remaining  meetings  of  the  Board 
for  the  year of  1899  will  be  held  as  fol­
lows:

Houghton,  Aug.  29 and  30.
Lansing,  Nov.  7 and  8.

All  persons  wishing  to  take  these  ex­
aminations  must  file  their  applications 
with  the  Secretary  at  least  a  week  be­
fore  the  meeting.

Applications  can  be  procured  from 

the  Secretary.

The  Drug  Market.

There  are  few  changes  to  note.
Opium— Has  again  advanced  and  is 
in  a  very  film  position  under  present 
reports  of  crop  from  primary  markets.
Morphine—Is  firm  and  is  tending  up­
ward  on  account  of advance  of  opium.
Quinine-----American  manufacturers
have  reduced  their  price  2c  per  ounce,
and  the  market  may  be  said  to be weak.
Alcohol— Is  unchanged,  competition 
jobbers  keeping  the  price  at 

among 
about  cost.

Carbonate  Ammonia— Has  advanced 

and  is  tending  higher.

Glycerine—On  account of higher price 
for  crude,  is  very  firm  and  the  present 
position  would  warrant  i@2c  per  pound 
advance.

Naphthaline  Balls—Are  in  better sup­
ply  and  as  the  rush  season  is  about  over 
j  lower  prices  will  rnle.

Oil  Peppermint— Is  advancing  on 
account  of  heavy  demand  from  abroad 
and  small  crop.

Gum  Camphor— Has  declined  ic  per 

pound.

Linseed  Oil—On  account  of 

lower 

price  for  seed,  has  declined.

Display  of Fly  Paper.

Joseph  Hostelley in American  Druggist.

When  as  an  antioversleep  the  flies  are 
vying  for  superiority  over  the  alarm 
clock,  try this  scheme  to  hasten  the  sell­
ing  of  fly  paper:  Cover  one  side  of  a 
large  sheet  of  manila  paper  with  a coat­
ing  of  yellow  wax,  melted  first  to  realize 
the  result.  Prior  to  the  operation  some 
markings  might  be  made  on  the  paper 
to  simulate  the  appearance  of  the  usual 
“ fly  tangle,”   and  a  narrow  strip  of 
paper  fastened  on  the  surface,  close  to 
the  edge,  all  the  way  around,  which, 
when  covered  with  wax,  resembles  the 
finger  protector  seen  on  most  papers. 
When  given  this  coat  of wax many  large 
house  flies,  butterflies,  moths,  millers, 
and  other  flying  things  of  the  insect 
family  that  trouble  one  to  catch,  are 
affixed  thereto,  the  conceit  tacked  to the 
face  of  a  large  box,  and  the  whole  stood 
in  the  window.  The  sides  of  box  to  be 
covered  with 
lids  of  fly-paper  boxes, 
and  the  floor  of  window,  left  unoccu­
pied,  hidden  from  view  beneath  several 
sheets  of  the  conventional  “ tempters," 
business  side  up.

Nothing  Easier.

Rivers—Old  fellow,  if  you  wanted  to 
see  something  of  the  wo: Id,  and  had 
only  a  short  vacation  in  which  to  do  it, 
wbat  sort  of  a  trip  would  you  take?

Brooks—If  I  wanted  to  see  the  most 
in  the  shortest  possible  time  I 

of 
should  go  up  in  a  balloon.
V a r n a l l  I n st it u t e

it 

NORTH VILLE,  MICH.

POR THE 
CURB  OP

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

DR.  W.  H.  YARNALL,  Manager

NORTHVILLE,  MICH.

L.  PERRIGO  CO., 

ALLEGAN,  MICH.

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

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS  AND  DRUGGISTS*  SUNDRIES

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

18
a
@ 30
® 34
@ 34
9  @ 11
9  @ 11
26® 28
2
1%&
3®
5
3K@ 4
@ 2
@ 2  60
50® 55
@ 9 00
@
@
@
@

Morphia, S.P. A W ... 2 20® 2 45 Slnapis......................
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
Sinapis, opt.............
C. Co...................... 2  10® 2  35 Snuff, Maccaboy.De
Moschus Canton__
Voea.......................
® 40
Myristica, No. 1.......
65® 80 Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s
Nux Vomica.. ,po.20
@ 10 Soda Boras...............
Os  Sepia..................
18® 20 Soda Boras, po........
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
Soda et Potass Tart.
D. Co......................
@  1  00 Soda,  Carb...............
Picis Liq. N.N.Kgal.
Soda, Bi-Carb..........
doz..........................
a  2 00 Soda,  Ash.................
Picis Liq., quarts__
@  1  00 Soda, Sulphas..........
Picis Liq., pints.......
® 85 Spts. Cologne...........
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80
@ 50 Spts.  Ether  Co........
P iperN igra...i».  22
@ 18 Spt.  Myreia Dom...
Piper Alba__ do.  35
@ 30 Spts. Vini Reet. bbl.
Pilx  Burgun............
@ 7 Spts. Vini Rect.Mbbl
Plumbi  Acet............
10® 12 Spts. VlniRect.ldgal
1  10®  1  20 Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal
Pul vis Ipecac etOpU 
Py rethrum, boxes H.
@  1  25 Strychnia, Crystal...
A P.  D. Co., doz...
1  20® 1  35
Pyrethrum,  pv........
25® 30 Sulphur,  Subl..........
4
2 m
Q uassia...................
10 Sulphur,  Roll.........
2m m
m
41® 46 Tam arinds...............
Quinia, S. P. &  W ..
10
m
36® 40 Terebenth Venice...
Quinia, S. Germ an..
28® 30
Quinia, N .T.............
n ® 46 Theobromse..........   .
46® 48
Rubla Tlnetorum ...
12® 14 Vanilla...................... 9  00@16 00
SaecharumLactis pv
18® 20 Zlncl  Snlph..............
7®
8
Salacin...................... 3 00®  3  10
Sanguis Draconis...
40® 50
12® 14
Sapo,  W ....................
Sapo, M......................
10® 12 Whale, winter..........
Sapo, G.....................
@ 15
Sledlltz  M ixture.... 20  @ 22 Lard, No. 1...............

70
50
35

70
60
40

Oils

10

Linseed, pure  raw .. 
38 
39 
Linseed,  Dolled....... 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
43% 
Spirits Turpentine.. 

41
42
70
50

P a in ts   BBL. 

LB
Red Venetian..........   Hi  2  @8
Ochre, yeuow Mars.  1£  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
l y   2  @3 
Pntty, commercial..  2%  2%@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2%  2 if @3 
Vermilion,  P r im e
American..............  
13® 
15
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, P a ris ............  13H®  11%
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13® 
16
Lead, Red.................  5£@  6m
Lead, w hite.............   5M®  0M
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders’... 
70
White, Pans Amec..  @ 1 00 
Whiting, Paris  Bng.
cliff....................   @ 1  40
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

@ 

V a r n is h e s

No. lT u rp C o ach ...  1  10®  1  20
Extra  Txurp.............   1  60®  1  70
Coach Body..............  2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp  F u m ...  1  00®  1  10 
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No.lTnrp  70®  75

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced-
Declined—

6
m   8
14
18® 
12® 
14

Acettcnin.................. •   6@l
8
70® 75
Benzoicum, German
Boraclc......................
® 16
29® 41
Carbolicum..............
C itricum ...................
48® 50
H ydrochlor..............
3®
5
N ltrocnm .................
8® 10
12® 14
Oxallcum .................
Phosphorium,  d ll...
@ 15
50® 6
Sallcyllcnm.............
Sulphur! cum............ H£@ 5
T arinicum ............... 1  25®  1  40
38® 40
Tartaricum ...............
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg............
Aqua, 20 deg............
Carbon as................... 
Chloridom...............  
Aniline
Black.................... 
2 00® 2 25
B row n......................  
80® 1  00
45®  50
B e d ...........................  
Yellow......................  2 50® 3 00
Baccm.
Cubeae............po. 18 
Jnniperns.................  
Xanthoxylum..........  
Balaamnm
Copaiba..................... 
Pern...........................  
Terabln, Canada__  
Tolutan...................... 
Cortex 
Abies, C anadian....
C aa rie ......................
Cinchona Flava.......
Knonymus atropurp 
Myrlca Cerlfera, po.
Prnnns Virgini........
Qnlll&ia,  gr’d ..........
Sassafras.........po. 18
Ulmu8...po.  15,  gr’d
Bxtractnm
Qlycyrrhlza  Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza, po....... 
Hsematox, 15 fb box. 
Htamatox, l a ............ 
H sm atox, %a..........  
H sm atox, Ha..........
Ferrn

13®  15
8® 
8
25®  30
50®  55
@ 2 75
45®  50
50®  55

Carbonate Preclp. ■ - 
Citrate and Q uinia..
Citrate Soluble........
Perrocyanldum Sol.
Solat.  Chloride.......
Sulphate, com’l .......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cw t..........
Sulphate,  p u r e .......
Flora

A rnica......................  
A nthem is................. 
M atricaria................ 

Folia

24®  25
28®  30
11® 
12
13®  14
14®  15
17
15 
2 25 
75 
40 
15 
2
50
7

12® 
14
*2®  25
30®  35

25®  30
18®  25
25®  30
12®  20
8®  
10 

Barosma.................... 
Cassia Acutlfol, Tin-
nevelly................... 
Cassia Acutlfol,Alx. 
Salvia officinalis, 14s
and fts ................... 
Dra Ural....................
annual 
®  66
Acacia,  1st picked..
®   45
Acacia,  2d  picked.. 
®   35
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
®  28
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
Acacia, p o . .............. 
60®  80
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12® 
14
Aloe, C ape__ po. 15 
12
® 
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40  @  30
Ammoniac...............  
55®  60
AsaafOBtlda__ po. 30 
28®  30
50®  55
Bensoinnm .............. 
®   13
Catechu, Is.........
@  14
Catechu, Mis. 
..
@ 
16 
Catechu, %a.......
50®  55
Camphor»
10
® 
Euphorblum. .po.  35 
Gafbannm................  
®  1  00
65®  70
Gamboge  po............ 
Gualacum.......po. 25 
®   30
Kino............po. I3.u0 
®  3 00
M astic............  ....... 
®  60
@ 4 0
M yrrh..............po.  45 
O pli...po. 4.60@I4.80  3 40®  3 10
Shellac...................... 
25®  35
Shellac, bleached... 
40®  45
T ragacanth.............. 
50®  80

Herbs

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 
Lobelia.........oz. pkg 
M ajorum __ oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Yir-.oz. pkg 
Bue................oz. pkg 
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
flagnesla.
Calcined, Pat...........  
55®  60
Carbonate, P at......... 
20®  22
20®  25
Carbonate, K. A M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum

Absinthium..............  4 50® 4 75
Amygdal», D ulc.... 
30®  50
Amygdalae, Amarae .  8 00® 8 25
A nisl.........................  1 85®  2 
Aurantl  Cortex.......  2 40®  2 
Bergamil...................  2 80®  2 90
75®  80
Cajfputi..................... 
Caryophylll.............. 
70®  80
nedar...  ................... 
35®  65
Cbenopadli............... 
@ 2 75
r'lnnam onli..............   1  25®  1 35
35®  40
C.tronella...............  

Conium  Mac............ 
35®  50
Copaiba....................   1  15@  1  25
Cubeba........................ 
go® 
B xechthitos............  1  00®  1  10
Erlgeron..................   1  00®  1  10
G aultheria...............  1  40®  1  45
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
GoBSippii, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma.......  .........  1  25®  1  35
Junipers...................   1  go® 2 00
Lavendula............... 
go®  2 00
Llmonis....................   1  3?®  1  4s
Mentha Piper..........  1  60®  2  20
Mentha Verid..........   1  50®  1  60
Morrhua,  gal..........  l  00®  1  15
Myreia,.....................   4 00® 4  50
75® 3 00
O live........................ 
Picis  Liquids.......... 
10® 
12
@  35
Plcis Llqnlda, gal... 
R ic in a ...................... 
92®  1  00
Rosmarini................. 
@ 100
Rosa,  ounce............  6 50®  8 50
S nccini....................   40®  45
Sabina....................  
go®  1  00
Santal..........................2 go®  7 00
Sassafras................... 
56®  60
@  65
Slnr.pls, ess., ounce. 
Tlglii.........................   |  70®  1  so
40®  50
Thym e...................... 
Thyme,  opt.............. 
®   1  60
15@  20
Tneobrom as............ 
Potassium
is
15®  
Bi-Carb...................... 
Bichromate.............  
13® 
15
Bromide....................  5»®  57
Carb.........................  
12® 
15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c 
16®  18
Cyanide....................   35®   40
Iodide........................  2 40® 2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
jg 
Potassa. Bitart,  com  @ 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
12
10® 
Potass Nitras............ 
io@ 
11
20®  25
Pm ssiate..................  
Sulphate po  ............ 
15® 
18

Radix

20®  25
Aconltvm................. 
•Althse.......................   22®  25
A nchnsa..-.............. 
10® 
12
Arum po.................... 
®  25
Calam ns...................  20®  40
Gentians........po.  15 
12®  15
18 
Glychrrhiza.. .pv. 15 
ie@ 
@  70
Hydrastis Canaden . 
@  75 
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore,Alba,po.. 
18®  20
Inula, po................... 
is®  20
Ipecac, po...................4  60® 4  75
Iris plox— po35@38  35®   40
Jalapa, p r................. 
25®  30
Maranta,  14s............ 
@  35
Podophyllum, po....  22®  25
R h e i.........................  
75®  1  00
Rhel. cu t................... 
@  1  25
Rbel.pv....................  
75®   1  35
Spigelia...........  .......  35®  38
Sanguinaria...po. 15  @ 
18
Serpentaria..............  40®  45
Senega......................  40®  45
Similax, officinalis H  @ 4 0
Smilax, M................. 
@  25
10®  12
S cllla..............do.35 
Symplocarpus, PoBti-
@  25
dns,  po................... 
Valeriana, Eng. po. 30  @  25
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ................. 
16
12® 
Zingiber j ................. 
25®  27
.Semen

Anisum..........po.  15  @ 1 8
13®  15
Apinm  (graveleons) 
Bird, Is...................... 
6
4® 
10®  12
Carol..............po. 18 
Cardamon.................  1  25® 1  75
Corlandrom.............  
8® 
10
4tt@  5
Cannabis  Satlva.. 
Cvdoninm................. 
75®  1  00
Cnenopodium ........  
io@  12
Dipterix  Odorate. ..  1 40®  1  50
FoBnlcnlnm.............. 
@ 
10
Foenugreek, po........  
7® 
9
L in l...........................  3H@ 
i h
Linl,  grd....bbl. 354 
4®  4%
L obelia....................  
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3M®  4
R apa.........................   4H@ 
5
Sinapis Alba............ 
g@ 
10
Slnapis  Nigra..........  
li®  
12
Spiritus

Fromentl, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Framentl,  D. F. R ..  2 00® 2 25
F rum entl................... 1  25®  1  50
Jnniperis Co. O. T..  1  65® 2 00
Jnnlperis Co............  1  75®  3 50
Saacharum N. E ....  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini G alli........   1  75® 6 50
Vini Oporto..............  1  25® 2 00
Vini  Alba.................  1  25®  2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage.................  2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carrisge.................  2 00® 2 25
Velvet extra  sheeps’
wool, carriage....... 
@  1 50
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__  
@  1 25
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................. 
@  1 00
@  75
Hard, for slate use.. 
Tellow  R e e f,  for 
slate  nse...............  
@  1 40
Syrups
A cacia...................... 
Aurantl Cortes......... 
Zingiber.................... 
Ipecac—  
 
Ferri Iod................... 
Rhei Arom...............  
Smilax Officinalis... 
Senega..................  
Rcillw . 

@  50
@  50
@  50
@  60
@  50
@  50
50®  60
@ 
so
50

00
50

 

1 00

niscellaneous 

@  50
ScillaC o................... 
@  50
T olntan....................  
Prnnns virg.............. 
@  50
Tinctures
60
AconltnmNapellisR 
50
Aconitnm N a pell is F  
60
Aloes.........................  
Aloes and Myrrh__  
60
A rnica...................... 
50
Assafoetlda.............  
50
60
At rope  Belladonna. 
Aurantl  Cortex....... 
50
Benzoin....................  
60
50
Benzoin Co...............  
Barosm a................... 
50
Cantharides............ 
75
Capsicum...............  
50
Cardamon................ 
75
Cardamon  Co..........  
75
1  00
Castor........................ 
Catechu....................  
50
Cinchona.................. 
50
Cinchona Co............ 
ao
Columba................... 
50
Cubeba...................... 
50
50
Cassia  Acutlfol....... 
50
Cassia Acntlfol Co.. 
D igitalis............ 
go
Ergot......................... 
50
Ferri Chloridnm 
35
G entian....................  
go
so
Gentian Co...............  
G uiaca...................... 
50
Guiaca ammon........  
60
Hyoscyamus............ 
50
Iodine........................ 
75
Iodine, colorless.... 
75
Kino........................... 
50
Lobelia.....................  
go
Myrrh........................  
50
50
Nux Vomica............ 
75
O pii...........................  
50
Opii, camphorated. 
1  50
Opii,  deodorized.  .. 
Q uassia....................  
50
Rhatany.................... 
50
Rhei........................... 
50
Sangninaria............ 
so
Serpentaria.............  
50
60
Stromoninm............ 
Tolntan.....................  
00
V alerian................... 
50
50
Verat rum V eride... 
Zingiber.................... 
20
_  
Æ ther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30®  35
Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen....................   2M@ 
3
3® 
Alumen,gro’d..po.7 
4
Annatto....................   40®  50
Antimoni,  po....... 
4® 
5
Antlmoni et PotassT  40®  50
@  35
A ntipyrin...............  
A ntifebrin............... 
@  20
@ 5 0
Argent! Nitras, oz .. 
Arsenicum................ 
io@ 
12
38®  40
Balm Gilead  B nd... 
Bismuth  8. N..........1  40®  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  Is 
@ 9  
Calcium Chlor.,  Hs. 
@ 
10
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms. 
@ 
12 
®   75 
Cantharides, Rns.po 
Capsici  Fructus, a f. 
®   15
@  15 
Capsid Fructus, po. 
Capsici FractusB,po  @  15 
12®  14
Caryophyllus. .po.  15 
Carmine, No. 40....... 
@ 3 00
Cera Alba................. 
50®  55
Cera Flava...............  
40®  42
Coccus...................... 
@  40
@  33
Cassia Fractn8........  
Contraria.................. 
io
@ 
Cetacenm.................. 
@  45
Chloroform..............  
50®  53
Chloroform, sqnibbs  @  1  10
Chloral H ydC rst....  1  65®  1  90
Chondros.................. 
20®  25
Cinchonidine.P.A w   3-@  43
Cinchonldlne, Germ  35®  45
Cocaine....................  3 80®  4  f  0
70
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct 
@  35
Creosotom................ 
Creta...............bbl. 75  @ 
2
Creta, prep............... 
@ 
5
Creta, preclp............ 
9® 
ll
Creta, Rnbra............ 
@ 
8
Crocus ..  ................. 
18®  20
C udbear................... 
@  24
Cupri Snlph..............  6H@ 
8
Dextrine...................  
12
10® 
75®  90
Ether Snlph.............  
Emery, all  numbers 
® 
8
Emery, po................. 
@ 
6
Ergota..............po. 40  30®  35
Flake  W hite............ 
15
12® 
Galla.......................... 
@  23
Gambler...................  
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper....... 
@  60
35®  60
Gelatin, French....... 
75  &  10
Glassware, flint, box 
70
Less  than  box__  
Glue,  brown............ 
9®  12
25
Glne,  w hite.............. 
18® 
Glycerine................. 
14®  20
Grana  Paradis!....... 
@  25
Humains................... 
25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  90 
HydTaag Chlor Cor. 
@  80
Hydraag Ox Rnb’m. 
@  1  00 
Hydraag Ammoniati  @  1  15 
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrom..........  
@  75
Ichthyobolla, A m ... 
65®  75
Indigo........................ 
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi.........  3 60®  3 70
Iodoform................... 
@ 420
@ 225
Lupnlin..................... 
Lycopodium............ 
45®  50
65®  75
Macis...................... 
Liqnor Arsen et Hy-
drarg Iod............... 
@  25
LiquorPotassArsinlt 
10®  12
Magnesia, Snlph__  
2® 
3
Magnesia, Snlph,bbl  @  1H
Mannia, S.  F ............ 
50®  60
t>  3 00

W AIT
FOR
THE
WINNER

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.

H A ZELTIN E 
&  PERKIN S 
D RU G CO.,

G R A N D
R A P ID S,
MICH.

20

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

AXLE  OREASE.
dos. gross
A urora......................
...55
6 a
Castor O il................. ..no
7 oc
Diamond................... ..50
4 oc
Fraser’s ...................
.75
9 oc
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
9 oc
nica, tin boxes.......
..75
9  a
Paragon..................... ..55
6 00
.   BAKING  POWDER.
Absolute.
H  'b cans d o s.........
34 lb cans dos.........
1 
lb can  dos........
A cs«.
34 lb cans 8 d os.....
34 lb cans 8 dos.__
1 
lb cans I dos.......
B alk...........................
Arctic.
6 os. Eng. Tumblers

45
. 
85
.  1  5C
45
76
. 
.  1  01
. 
11
85
. 

El P arity .

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

tlOBM.

Peerless.

Oar Leader.

Qaeen Flake.

BATH  BRICK.

Jersey Cream.

CANNED  GOODS.

45
U lb cans, 4 doz ease........  
86
It lb cans, 4 doz case......... 
lb cans, 2 dos case........160
1 
lb. cans, per doz...........  2 00
1 
9 os. cans, per dos..............   1  25
6 os. cans, per dos..............  
85
w lb cans............................  
45
It lb cans............................  
75
lb cans............................  l   60
1 
1 lb. c a n s ............................ 
85
8 os., 6 dos. case..................  2 70
6 os., 4 dos. case 
............8 20
9 os., 4 dos. case.................. 4 80
1 lb., 2 dos. case.................. 4 00
5 lb., 1 dos. case.................. 9 00
Am erican...................................79
English.......... 
........................ at
Tom atoes.....................  80®  90
C om ..............................   80@l  00
Hom iny........................  80
Beans, Limas...............   70@1 30
Beans,  W ax.................   90
Beans,  String...............  85
Beans,  Baked..............  75@l  00
Beans, Red  K idney...  75®  85
Succotash.....................  95@l  20
Peas...............................  50®  85
Peas, French................2 25
P n m p k ln .....................  75
M ushroom ...................  15®  23
Peaches, P ie ................1  00
Peaches,  Fancy...........1  40
Apples,  gallons..........   @3  25
Cherries  ......................   90
P ears.............................  70
Pineapple, grated.......1  75  2 40
Pineapple, sliced........1 35  2 25
Pineapple,  F a rren ....l  70
Strawberries................1  10
Blackberries...............   80
Raspberries.................  85
Oysters, 1-lb..................  9j
Oysters, 2-lb................. 1  55
Salmon, fiats, key.......1  70
Salmon, 34 lb. flats__   95
Salmon, Red A laska.. 1  25 
Salmon, Pink Alaska..  95 
Lobsters, l-lb. S ta r....3  20 
Lobsters, 2-lb. S tar....3  90 
Mackerel,1 lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, l-lb. Soused. 1  75 
Mackerel,l-lb Tomato.l  75
Shrim ps.........................3 00
Sardines, 34* domestic  334© 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5H®  7% 
Sardines,  French........8  @  22

BLUING.

40
75

C O P IE D

Bg§8

BROOnS.

CANDLES.

Small, 3 doz.........................  
Large, 2 doz.........................  
.4o. 1 Carpet..............................   2 33
<0.2  Carpet................................2 15
So. 8 Carpet..............................   1 85
So. 4 Carpet..............................   1 45
Parlor G em ...............................  2 50
Common W hisk................... 
95
Fancy W hisk....................... l  (0
Warehouse.......... .................2 70
8s ...........................................7
16s......................................... 8
Paraffine................................8
Wlcking................................ 20
CATSUP.
Columbia,  pints................2 00
Columbia, 34 pints 
............1  25
CHEESE
A cm e............................  ®  
Amboy..........................  ® 
B utternut.....................  ®  
Carson  City.................   ®  9
Elsie..............................   ® 
Emblem........................  ® 
Gem...............................  @ 
Gold Medal..................   ®
Id e a l.............................   ® 
Jersey  .......................... 
® 
Riverside......................   ® 
B rick.............................  ® 
Edam............................  
® 
Leiden..........................  ® 
Llm burger...................  ®  
Pineapple..................50  ®   75
Sap  Sago......................   ©  
B u lk ................................. 
Red 

Cklcery.

6

7

. 

CHOCOLATE.

W alter Bakar A Co.’s.

German Sweet..........................28
Premium................... 
35
Breakfast  Cocoa 
. . . .   46
COFFEE.
Roasted.

Rla.

 

 

Java.

Mocha.

Saatas.

RmuM*

F a ir...............................  
9
Good...........................................10
P rim e......................................... 12
Golden  ...................................... 18
Peaberry  ...................................14
Fair  ........................................... 14
Good  ......................................... 15
P rim e......................................... 16
Peaberry  .................  
18
Haracalfee.
P rim e......................................... 15
Milled......................................... 17
In terio r......................................26
Private  Growth........................ SO
Mandehllng...............................36
Im itatio n .................................. 22
Arabian  .................................... 28
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenne........................ 29
Jewell's Arabian Mocha__ 29
Wells’ Mocha and Java.__ 24
Wells’ Perfection  Java.......24
Sancalbo.................................21
Breakfast Blend.................  18
Valley City Maracaibo........ 1834
Ideal  Blend............................14
Leader Blend.........................1234
Below  are  given  Hew  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
Hew  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
the  amonnt  of 
freight  bnyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
int, Including 
weight  of  package,  also Re  a
.je,  also Re  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
A rbuckle..........................  10  50
Jersey................................   10 50
ncLaagkHa’s  XXXX.  ....
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 34 g ro ss....... 
75
Felix 34 gross................... 
1  15
Hummel’s foil 34 gross... 
86
1  48
Hummel’s tin 34  gross  .. 
CLOTHES PB4S.
5 gram boxes............................. 40

rket  in  which  he 
pplng point 

Package.

Extract.

for 

CLOTHES LINES.

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

COCOA.

Jam es Epps & Co.’s.

Boxes, 7 lbs................................40
Cases, 16 boxes..........................38
COCOA SHBLLS.
201b  bags.........................  
234
Less quantity................... 
8
Pound  packages.............. 
4
CRBAfl  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes...... 30
B ulkin sacks............................ 29

CONDENSED MILK.

4 

dos in case.

 

Gall Borden  Eagle.............. 6  75
C row n.................................... 6 25
D aisy ......................................5  75
Champion 
............................4  50
. . . .................  4 25
Magnolia 
C hallenge..............  
2 35
2 85
 
Dime 

.... —  

Credit Checks.

Superior Orade.

Universal Grade.

Economic Orado.

Tradesman Grade.

denomination from 910 down.

COUPON  BOOKS.
10
50 books, any denom__   1  50
10
100 books, any denom__ 2 50
10
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
10
1034
50 books, any denom__   1  50
1054
100 books, any denom—   2  50 
500 books  any denom__ 11  50
IO34
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
10
10
50 books, any denom ....  1  50 
12
100 books, any denom ....  2 50 
70
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
17
1.000 books, any denom__ 20  00
13
50 books, any denom ....  150
17
100 books, any denom__ 2 50
500 books, any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom — 20 00
500, any one denom’n .......8 00
1000, any one denom’n .......5 00
2000, any one denom’n .......8 00
Steel punch.......................... 
75
Coupon Pass Books,
Can be made to represent any 
30 books  ..........................  1 00
SObooks...............................2 00
lOObooks............................. 8 00
250 books...............................6 25
500 books.................................. 10 00
1000 books.................................. 17 50
DRIBD  FRUITS—DOnBSTIC 
Snndried..........................Q  734
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©1034 
Apricots...........................  ®15
Blackberries................
Nectarines................... 
Peaches.........................10  Q ll
Pears.............................  
Pitted Cherries...........  
Prannelles...................
Raspberries..................
100-12025lb boxes..........  O  4
90-100 25 lb boxes..........  0 6
80-90 25 lb boxes..........  ®  534
70-80 25 lb boxes..........   ®  6)4
60-70 25 lb boxes..........   ®  634
50-6025 lb boxes..........  ® 8
40-50 25 lb boxes..........  ®10
80-40 25 lb boxes..........  ®
34 cent less In 50 lb cases 

California Prunes.

California F ralts.

Apples.

Q
O

7 \

Raisins.

London Layers 2 Crown. 
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown.............  
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, choice....... 
L.  M , Seeded, fancy........  

145
1  66
2 00
5
6
7
734
934

FOREIGN.

Citron.

C urrants.

L eghorn.............................®11
Corsican............................. ®12
Patras bbls..........................®  634
Cleaned, bulk  ...................@634
Cleaned, packages............ ®  7_j
Citron American 101b bx  ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx  ©1034 
Orange American 101b bx ®1034 

Peel.

Raisins. 

O ndnra281bboxes.....  ©
Sultana  1 Crown..........   Q
Sultana 2 Crown..........  ©
Sultana  8 Crown...........  ©
Sultana 4 Grown...........  ©
Sultana S Crown..........  
tk
Sultana 6 Crown..........   ®
Sultana p ack ag e..,,,,,  ©

Imparted.

Japan,  No. 1..............  634®   6
Japan,  Ho. 2..............  4*®   5
Java, fancy  bead.........5  © 634
Java,  No. 1...................  5  ©
T a b le ............................  ©
Packed 60  lbs. in  box. 

SAL BRATUS.

Ohurch’B Arm and Hammer.3  15
Deland’s 
..........................3  00
Dwight’s Cow.....................  3  15
Emblem  .................................3 50
L. P.............................................3 00
Sodlo......................................... 3 15
Wyandotte, ICO 34s ..................3 00
Granulated, bbls................  ?0
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  8j
Lump, bbls..........................  70
Lump, 1461b kegs  ..............  F0

SAL SODA.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

W orcester.

Common Grades.

Table, cases. 24 8-lb  boxes. .1  50 
Table, barrels, 100 8 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bais.2 40 
Bntter, barrels, 2801b. brnk.2 26 
Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.S 60
Bntter, sacks, 28 lbs................  25
Bntter, sacks, 56 lbs...............   55
100 8-lb sacks.............................I 95
60 5-lb sacks............................ 1 80
2810-lb sacks...........................1 65
50  4 
lb.  cartons...................8 X
115  2341b. sacks....................... 4 00
lb. sacks.......................8 76
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks.......................8 50
SO 10 
lb. sacks.......................8 50
28 lb. linen sacks....................   82
56 lb. linen sacks....................   60
Bulk In barrels.........................2 50
56-lb dairy In drill bags.......  SO
28-lb dairy In drill bags.......  15
68-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 
66-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56-lb  sacks...............................  21
Granulated Fine.....................  60
Medium  Fine..........................  70
Per doz.

Ashton.
Higgins.
gator Rack.

5CALBS.

W arsaw.

12
Weight 24 ibt. bj oucm. 

SEEDS.

A n ise ..................................   9
Canary, Smyrna.................   334
C araw ay.............................  
8
Cardamon,  M alabar.......  60
Celery.................................    11
Hemp,  Russian.................   434
Mixed  B ird........................  434
5
Mustard,  w hite.................  
Poppy  .................................  10
Rape.................................... 
434
C attle Bone........................   20
Scotch, In bladders................  37
Maccaboy, In jars...................   86
French Rappee, In jars.......  48

SNUFF.

SOAP.

JAXON

Single box................................. 2 85
5 
box lots, delivered.......2  c0
10 
box lots, delivered.......2 75

m . S. KIRK 8 CO.’S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome..........................................2 75
Cabinet......................................2 20
Savon......................................... 2 50
White Russian......................... 2 35
White Cloud,  laundry......... 6  25
White Clond,  toilet.................3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6  o s ....2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8  os___3 00
Bine India, 100 34 lb ............. S 00
Klrkoline...................................8 50
B os.............................................2 50
Sapollo, kitchen, 8 a o s ....... 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 8 d o s .............2 40
Boxes  ....................................634
Kegs. English 
.......  43f

Scouring.

SODA.

 
SYRUPS.
Cora.

Barrels.....................................17
Half  bbls................................19
1 dos. 1 gallon cans.................2 90
1  doz.  34 gallon cans......... 1  70
8  doz. 34 gallon c a n s ........1  70
Fair  ....................................   18
Good....................................   »
C hoice.................................  X

P are Cane.

Farina.

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

Orlts.

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

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

Pees.

Beans.

Hominy.

Rolled  Oats.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packages.........  ..  .1  80
1001b. kegs...............................2 70
200 lb. barrels. 
................ 5  10
Barrels  ...............................2 50
Flake, 50 lb.  dram s...........1  00
Dried Lima  ....................... 
534
Medium Hand Picked 1  20®1  25 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........   00
Imported.  25 lb. box.........2 50
Common................................  1 
C h ester...............................  2 25
Empire 
.............................   2 60
Green, Wisconsin, b n ........1  00
Green, Scotch, bn.............. 1  10
Split, b n ..................................  2 50
Rolled Avena,  bbl..........4  00
Monarch,  bbl..................   .3 75
Monarch.  34  bbl.....................2 00
Monarch,' 90 lb sacks......... 1  80
Quaker, cases..........................3 20
Huron, cases............................8 00
G erm an............................... 
4
East  India.................  
334
Eesley’s  Self Rising  Flours. 
2 
6 lb. sacks, 1 dz. in case....  2  40
9 lb. sacks, 1 dz. in jn te ....  3  35
2 lb. cartons. 2 dz. In  case..  1  80
3 lb. cartons, 2 dz. in case..  1  80
F lak e................................. 
Pearl................................... 
Pearl, 241 lb. pkges......... 
Cracked, bulk....................  
24 2 lb packages................2 50

Graham.
Tapioca.

Entire W heat.

5
434
634
3)4

P astry.

W heat.

flog*.

SALT  FISH.

Cod.

Herring.

riackerel.

Georges cured.............  ©  &
Georges  genuine.........  ©534
Georges selected.........  ® 6
Strips or bricks.......... 6  ©  9
Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 26 
Holland white hoop 34 bbl  5  25 
Holland w hite hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mens 
80
Norwegian...  ...................
Bound 100 lbs....................   3  10
Round  40 lbs.....................  1  40
Sealed..................................  
14
Mess 100 lbs..........................15  00
Mess  40 lbs........................  8 30
Mess  10 lbs........................  1  66
Mess  8 lbs........................  1  35
No. 1100 lbs................. 
  13  25
No. 1  40 lbs........................  5  60
No. 1  10 lbs........................   1  48
Ho. 1  8 lbs........................   120
No. 2100 lbs........................  11  50
Ho. 2  40 lbs........................  4  90
Ho.2  10 lbs................  
130
No. 2  8 lbs........................  107
No. 1100 lbs........................
Ho. 1  40 lbs........................
NO. 1  10 lbs........................
No. 1  8 lbs........................

T rent.

 

WbtteHsh.

100 lbs............7 CO  6 50 
40 lb s............  8  10  2  90 
10 lbs............ 
80 
8 lbs............ 
66 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

No. 1  N  2  Fin
2  *0
1  20
40
35

85 
71 

Perrigo’s.

Van.  Lem. 
doz.
dos. 
XXX, 2 oz. obert......1  25 
75
XXX, 4 oz. taper... .2   25 
125
XX, 2 oz. obert.......  1  00
H o.2 .2 oz.obert  ....  75 
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz... 

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

2 25 
1  75
2 25
Lem.  Van.
120
1  so
2 00
2 25

Jennings’.

D.C. Vanilla 
2os....... 1  20 
3 oz....... 1  50 
4 oz....... 2 00 
60s........3  00 
Ho.  8  4 00 
No. 10.  .6 00 
Ho.  2 T.l 25 
Ho.  3T.2 00 
Ho  4 T.2 40 

D. C. Lemon 
2 os.___   75
3 oz.  ....1  00
4 OZ.......1 40
6 0S........2 00
Ho.  8...2  40
No. 10...4 00
Ho. 2 T.  80
Ho.  3 T.l  25
Ho.  4 T.l  50

FLY  PAPER.

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

75

HBRBS.

INDIGO.

Sage.................................  
Hops 

15
......................................  15

 

Madras, 5  lb  boxes..............  66
8. F., 2. 8 and 6 lb boxes__   50

GUNPOWDER.
RHIe—Dupont’s.

................................ 4  00

Kegs 
H alf Kegs.................................... 2 25
Quarter Kegs...............................1 25
1 lb. cahs................................   80
34 lb. cans...............................  18

Choke Boro—Dupont's.

Kegs  .......................................4  25
Half Kegs.................................... 2 40
Quarter Kegs...............................1 35
1 lb. cans................................   34

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs..............................................8 00
Half Kegs.................................... 4 26
Quarter Kegs..............................2 25
lib . cans.  ..... 
45
16 lb  palls...............................  85
30 lb  p a lls .............................  65

 
JBLLY.

 

LVB.

Condensed, 2 d o s ................1  20
Condensed, 4  dos  ............... t  26

LICORICE.

Pure.........................................  30
a la b ris ................................   X
Sicily.......................................   14
Root.........................................  10

nATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.........................I  66
Anchor Parlor.......................1  70
Ho.2  Home..............  ...........1  10
Rxoort  Parlor.......................4 00
Wolverine...............................1  05
Ho Brand..............................-  95

nOLASSBS.
Now Orisons.

Black...................................  
11
14
F a ir...................................... 
Good.................................... 
20
Fancy  ................................  
24
Open Kettle........................ 26©36

[alf-barrels 2c extra.
MU5TARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, H a   216........................  I  70
Clay, T. D. full count......... 
65
Cob, Ho. 8.........  
85

 

POTASH.

48 cans in cum.

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

Barrels, 1,200 count............  4  00
Half bbls, 600 count............  2 60

Barrels, 2,400 count..........   5  00
Half bbls  lJOOooont.........3 00

PICKLES, 
riodlam.

Small.

RICB.

Domestic.

Carolina head......................  634
Carolina  No. 1.......... . 
5
Carolina  No. 2....................   4
Broken..................................   834

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allsploe  .................................10
Cassia, China In m ats.......... 12
Cassia, Batavia in b ond....25
Cassia, Saigon in roll«.........82
Cloves,  Amboyna..................14
Cloves, Zanslbar................... 12
Maoe,  Batavia.......................56
Nutmegs, fancy.....................00
Nutmegs, No.  1.....................50
Nutmegs, No.  2.....................45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, w hite... 16
Pepper,  shot.......................... 15
Allspice  ...... 
14
Cassia, B atavia.....................30
Cassia,  Saigon...................... 40
Cloves, Zanslbar................... 14
Ginger,  A frican................... 15
Ginger,  Cochin.....................18
Ginger,  Jam aica  ..................23
Mace,  B atavia.......................65
M ustard............................12@18
N utm egs,........................ 40@50
Pepper, Sing., black.............15
Pepper, Sing., w hite............ 22
Pepper, Cayenne...................20
Sage..........................................16

P are Ground in Balk.

STARCH.

Kingsford’a  Corn.

Diamond.

401-lb packages.....................0
201 lb packages.................... 6m
Kingsford’s Silver  Gloss.
401-lb packages.......................6M
6-lb boxes.............................7
64 10c  packages  .................5  00
128  5c  packages...................5 00
82 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 
201 lb. packages................... 5
...................4M
401 lb. packages 
1-lb  packages........................4M
8-lb  packages........................  4M
6-lb  packages........................  5
40 and 50 lb boxes.................  3
Barrels 
........................3

Ceauaen Gloss.

Ceauaen  Corn.

STOVE POLISH.

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
Q uintette..............................35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

S. C. W ..................................35 oo
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. 
Vincente Portuondo. .35® 70 00
Ruhe Bros.  C o ...........25®  '0 00
The HilsonCo...................35@110 00
T. J. Dunn &  Co.........35® 70 00
McCoy A Co................35® 70 00
The Collins Cigar Co.. 10® 35 00
Brown Bros..................15® 70 00
Banner Cigar Co.........30®  70 00
Bernard Stahl  Co.......35®  90 00
Banner Cigar Co......... 10® 35 00
Seidenberg & Co.........55®125 00
G.P. Sprague Cigar Co. 10®  35 03 
The Fulton Cigar Co.. 10®  35 00 
A. B. Ballard & Co....35@l*5 00 
E. M. Schwarz A Co 
.3f@ll0 00
San  Telmo.................. 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.................12M

WICKING.

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

WOODENWARE.

Baskets.

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

Pails.
hoop S tandard.................1 35
2- 
hoop Standard.................1 50
3- 
2- 
wire, Cable......1  35
wire. Cable.......16)
3- 
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1  25
Paper, E u rek a......................3 25
Fibre.......................................2 25

Tubs.

2'1-inch, Standard, No. 1__ 5 80
18-inch, Standard, No. 2__ 4 85
161nch,  Standard,  No. 3__ 3 85
20-inch, Dowell, No. 1........... 6 25
18-inch, Dowell, No. 2.......... 5  25
16inch, Dowell, No. 3...........4 25
No. 1  Fibre..............................9 03
No. 2 Fibre............................. 7  50
No. 3 Fibre..............................6 75

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit Co.

quotes as follows:
B utter.
Seymour XXX...................
5M
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family XXX  ....................
5M
Salted XXX.......................
5M
New York x x x ................
5M
W olverine.........................
6
Boston.................................
7M
Soda  XXX.........................
6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton...
6M
Soda,  City............  ..........
8
Long Island W afers........
11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  . 12
Zephy rette.........................
10

Soda.

Oyster.

Saltine W afer....................
Saltine Wafer, 1 lb. carton
Farina Oyster....................
Extra Farina Oyster.........

5M
6M
5M
6

SWEET  QOODS—Boxes.
A nim als.............................
10M
15
Bent’s W ater......................
10
Cocoanut Taffy.................
10
Coffee Cake, Java.............
Coffee Cake,  Iced.............. 10
Cracknells.........................
15M
Cubans  ..............................
11M
Frosted  Cream.................. .  8
Ginger Gems......................
8
Ginger Snaps, XXX.......... •  7M
Graham Crackers............. .  8
10
Graham Wafers.................
Grand Ma Cakes............... ..  9
Im perials........................... .  8
JumDles,  Honey............... .  12M
Marshmallow  ................... .  15
Marshmallow  Creams— .  16
Marshmallow  W alnnts... .  16
Mich.  Frosted Honey__ 12M
Molasses  Cakes................. .  8
.  12
8
Nic Ñaca.............................
Orange  Gems..................... .  8
Penny Assorted Cakes.... .  8M
Pretzels,  hand  made  — •  7M
Sears’ Lunch...................... .  7
Sugar  Cake........................ .  8
9
Sugar  Squares...................
Vanilla  W afers............... .  14
Sultanas............................. .  12M

SUGAR.

............................5  63

No. 4, 3-doz in Cose, gross..  4  50 
No. 6,8 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
imrehases to his shipping point, 
ncludlng  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Dom ino....................................... 5 75
Cut  Loaf......................................5 88
Crushed....................................... 6 00
Powdered 
XXXX  Powdered...................... 5 75
C ubes...........................................5 63
Granulated In bbls.....................5 50
Granulated In  bags...................5 50
Fine Granulated........................ 5 50
Extra Fine Granulated....... 5  “
Extra Coarse G ranulated.. .5  63
Mould  A ......................................F 76
Diamond  Confec.  A ............ 5 50
Confec. Standard A...................5 25
....................  5  00
1 ,..,
No.
...................... 5  00
2 ...
No
.....................5  00
No. 8....
...................... 4 94
No. 4....
...................... 4 !
No. 5 . .
...................... 4  81
No. 6...
...................... 4  75
No. 7...
...................... 4  69
No. 8...
...................... 4  63
No. 9...
.......................4 50
No. 10...
.......................4  38
No. 1i 
.
............ 4 31
No. 12.  .
.......................4  81
No. 18...
...................... 4 25
No. 14...
............................ 1 25
No. 15.  .
.......................4  25
No. 16

juñ

TABLB  SAUCES.
LEA &
P E R R IN S ’
SAUCE
The Original and 
Genuine
___  
Worcestershire.
Lea A Perrin’s,  large...  3 75 
Lea A Perrin’s, sm all...  2 50
Halford,  large...................3  75
Halford sm all.....................2 25
Salad Dressing, large.......4  56
Salad Dressing, sm all.......2 76

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

21

Tomato Juga.

8M

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

Sealing Wax.
FRUIT  JARS.

M gal., per dos................... 50
1 gal., each 
Corks for M gal., per do*.. 20
Corks for  1 gal., per dos.. 30
Prosorvo Jars and Covers.
M gal., stone cover, doz... 75
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l1  00
5 lbs. in package, per lb...
2
Pints......................................  4  00
Quarts................................. ..  4  25
Half Gallons........................  6 00
Covers...................................  2  00
Rubbers..............................
25
LAMP  BURNERS.
No.  0 Sun...........................
34
No.  1  Sun...........................
35
No.  2  Sun...........................
50
No. 3 Sun............................ .  1  00
Tubular..............................
45
Security, No. 1...................
60
Security, No. 2................... . 
80
N u tm eg .............................
50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0  Sun........................... .  1  £8
No.  1  Sun........................... .  1  42
No.  2  Sun........................... .  2  12
No. OSun............................
No. 1 Sun..............................  l  60
No. 2 Sun....................t .......2 45
No.  0  Sun, 
No. 
f  Sun, 
No.  2  Sun, 

wrapped and  labeled__  2  10
wrapped and  labeled__  2  15
wrapped and  labeled....  8  16 

crimp  top,
crimp  top,
crimp  top,

First  Quality.

Common

XXX Flint.

Blectric.

Rochester.

La  Bootle.

No.  0  Sun, 
No.  1  Son, 
No.  2  Sun, 

crimp  top,
wrapped and  labeled__  2  55
crimp  top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
crimp  top,
wrapped and  labeled 
.  3 76 
CH1MNBY5—Pearl  Top.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled.  ............................. 3  70
No  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled.  ............................. 4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled................................ 4  88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe LamDS.............. 
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
ro
dos  .................................... 
No. 2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ...................................   1  ¡5
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.......... 1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c doz).......... 8  50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)...........4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)........   4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  .........4  GO
No. 2, Flint  (80o do*).........  4  40
Dot. 
1 gal tin cans with  spnnt..  1-1
1 gal galv iron with spont.  1  52
2 gal galv Iron with  spont.  2 15
3 gal galv iron with spont.  3  45 
5 gal galv iron with  spont.  4  58 
3 gal galv iron with fancet 4 50 
5 gal galv Iron with  faucet 4  85
5 gal Tilting cans...............   7  2R
5 gal galv iron N aoefas....  9 00 
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7  80 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 5G
3 gal Home Rule.................10  50
5 gal Home Rule.................12 00
5 gal  Pirate  King........   ...  9  50
No.  0Tubular side lif t....  4 00
No.  1 B  Tubular...............6  25
No. 13 Tubular Dash.......... 6 50
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7  00 
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp.14  0C 
No.  3 Street  Lamp, each..  3  75
LANTERN  GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 dos.
each, box 10 cents............ 
45
No.  0 Tabular,  cases 2 dos.
each, box 15  cents..........  
45
No.  0 Tabular,  bbls  5 dos.
each,  per bbl, bbl. 00....  1  78 
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
nftflP« 1 
4  25

Pump  Cans.

LANTBRNS.

OIL  CANS. 

pufS 

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

W heat.
O ld........................... .
New.........................

follows:

67
65

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

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

bbls.  pails
7  @  7M
7  @  7H
7M@ 8
®  8M
@  6M
@  «M
®10

Mixed Candy.

Grocers.....................
Competition.............
Standard...................
Conserve...................
R oyal........................
Ribbon......................
B roken....................
Cut Loaf...................
English Rock..........
Kindergarten..........
French  Cream........
Dandy Pan...............
Hand Made Cream mxd 
Nobby......................
Fancy—In Bulk.

@ 6 
@ 6* 
@ 7 
@ 7*  
@ 7M 
@  8M 
® 7*  
@  8M 
@  8M 
@ m
@  9 
@  8M 
@13 
®  8M

® ll
san mas uooaies.... 
Lozenges, plain....... 
@ 8M
®  8M
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Choc.  Drops............ 
® n
@12M
Choc.  Monumentals 
Gum  Drops.............  
@  5
@  8M
Moss  Drops.............. 
Sour Drops...............  
@  8M
@ 9 n
Im perials................. 
Ital. Cream Bnbns, 35 lb pis  11 
Molasses Chews,  15 lb. pails  13 
Jelly Date Squares.. 

@10

Fancy—In  g  lb.  Boxes.

@50
@50
@60
@65
@75
@90
@30
@75
@50
@56
@55
@55
@eo
@55
@55

Lemon  Drops.......... 
Sour  Drops.............. 
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops__  
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M.  Choc.  Lt.and
Dk. No. 12.............. 
Gum  Drops.............  
Licorice Drops........  
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  plain__  
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Im perials................. 
M ottoes....................  
Cream B ar...............  
Molasses B a r .......... 
Hand Made Creams.  80  @  90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  W ant.............  
@65
String Rock.............. 
@60
Burnt Almonds.......125  @
Wintergreen Berries  @55

@35
@50

Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
b oxes.................... 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes.................... 
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes
Fruits.
Oranges.
Fancy Rodi’s ............
@5  00
borren tos..................
@4  51
Valencias  ................  4  5C@4  75

Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy  300s.............
Ex.Fancy  300s........
Ex. Fancy 360s........
Bananas.

@4  00
@4 0O
@4  75
@5  OO
@5  50

Figs.

Medium  bunches... 1  00 @1  25
Large bunches........ 1  75 @2  25

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

@10
@  6
@  6
@  6
@  5

@13
@12
@18
@22
@
@
@  7

Californias  Fancy..
Choice, 101b boxes..
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new.............
Fancy, 12 lb boxes..
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes.................
Palled, 6 lb boxes...
Naturals,  in  bags...
Dates.
Fards In 10 lb  boxes
Fards  in  60 lb  cases
Persians, P H V .......
lb cases, new........
Salrs,  601b cases....
Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona.. @16
Almonds, Ivaca..........
@14
Almonds,  California,
soft  shelled.............. @15
Brazils new .................
@  7
Filberts  ......................
@10
Walnuts, Granobles..
@18
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. @11
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
C alif.........................
@11
Table Nuts,  fancy__
@11
Table Nuts,  choice... @10
Pecans, Med................ @ 7M
Pecans, Ex. Large..
@  9
Pecans,  Jumbos.........
@12
Hickory  Nnts per bn.
Ohio, new.................
@1  «
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks @8  51
@
Chestnuts per bu........
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns. @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted....................
@ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.
O  5
6
Choice, H. P„  Extras,

Peanuts.

Roasted 

....

W inter  W heat  Flour. 

Local Brands.

Bpring  W heat  Flour. 

OIney A Judson’s Brand.

P aten ts.................................. 4  00
Second  Patent...................... 3  50
Straight...............................  3  25
Clear....................................... 3  00
Graham  ................................ 3  50
B uckw heat............... ..........
R y e .....................................   3  25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Daisy, Ms......................................3 %
Daisy, Ms..................................... 3 85
Daisy, Ms......................................3 85
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  Ms..........................  3  £0
Quaker,  Ms..........................  3  60
Quaker, Ms...........................  3  60
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Plllsbury’s  Best Ms............  4  45
Pillsbury’s  Best Ms............  4 35
Plllsbury’s Best Ms............  4  25
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4  25
Plllsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4  25
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.
Duluth Imperial,  Ms..........4  to
Duluth Imperial, Ms-  ___ 4  40
Duluth Imperial, Ms..........4  30
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Ms....................4  4u
Gold Medal Ms......................4  30
Gold Medal Ms......................4  20
Parisian, Ms........................   4  40
Parisian, Ms.........................4  30
Parisian. Ms.........................  4  20
Ceresota, Ms........................   4 50
Ceresota, ms........................   4  40
Ceresota, Ms........................  4  33
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ms...........................  4  50
Laurel, Ms ...........................  4  40
Laurel, Ms............................. 4  30
B olted.......................................  1 90
G ranulated..............................   2 10
St. Car Feed, screened___16  00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats...........15 50
Unbolted Com Meal...........14  * 0
Winter Wheat  Bran...........1*  00
Winter Wheat Middlings. .15  00
Screenings................................. 14 00
New corn, car lots.............   38
Less than  car  lots.............   39
Car  lots................................  30
Carlots, clipped..................  32
Less than  car  lots............  31
No. 1 Timothy carlots.......  9 50
No. 1 Timothy carlots.......  9 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots...  12  03
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots...  12 03
Fish and Oysters
Per lb.
@ 8M
W hiteflsh.................
T ro u t.......................
@ 8M
Black Bass...............  £ @ 10
H alibut....................
@ 16
Ciscoesor H erring.. @ 4
Bluefish....................
@ 11
@ 18
Li ve Lobster..........
Boiled Lobster........
@ 20
Cod 
........................
@ 10
Haddock................... @ 7
No.  1  Pickerel......... @ 8
Pike...........................
@ 7
Perch.........................
@ 4M
Smoked  W hite........
@ b
Red Snapper............
@ 9
@ 12
Col  River  Salmon
Mackerel 
..............
@ 18
Shell  Goode.
Oysters, per  100..........
1  25@1  5b
Oils.
Barrels.

Food and Mlllstuffs.

Fresh Fish.

*  »w>-  inn

Corn.

Meal.

Oats.

Hay.
Hay.

Hides.

Eocene  ........................  @11M
P erfection..................   @10
XXX W.W.Mieh.Hdlt  @10
W W  Michigan............  @ 9M
Diamond W hite..........  @  8M
D„ S. Gas.....................  @13
Deo. N ap th a...............   @13
C ylinder..................... 29  @34
Engine.........  ..............11  @21
B 
m  ®
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows :
Green No.  1.................
@7M
Green No. 2................. @  6M
B ulls.........................
@  6
@  8
Cured No. 1..................
Cured No. 2.................
@  9
Calfskins,  green No. 1 @  9
Calfskins,  green No. 2 @  7M
Calfskins, cured No. 1 @10
Calfskins, cured No. 2 @  8M
Pelts,  each................... 50® 1  00
No. 1..............................
® 3M
No. 2.............................
®  2M
Washed, fine  ..............  @16
Washed, medium........  @20
Unwashed, fine...........  9  @12
Unwashed, medium ..14  @16

Pelts.
Tallow.

Wool.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as

Barreled Perk.

Sausages.

Lords.  In Tierces.

4M
6M
M
M
%
%
%
1
1M
5M
6M
7M
6M
6
9
6M

Mess  ...........................
10  00
Back  ........................10  50®
Clear  back...............
®10  75
10  00
S hortcut.........................
14  00
Pig....................................
9 50
Bean  .............................
Family  .........................
11  0J
Dry Salt  Meets
5|£
B ellies...........................
Briskets  ........................
5M
Extra  shorts.................
6M
Smoked  neats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  ..
UM
.
Hams, 14 lb  average 
11/4
Hams, 161b  average...
il
Hams, 20 lb  average...
ltM
Ham dried b e e f ..........
16M
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).
7
Bacon,  clear................. 7 ®7M
California  ham s..........
7M
Boneless ham s.............
8M
Cooked  ham ................. 10® 15
Compound.....................
K ettle.............................
55 lb Tubs..........advance
80 lb Tubs..........advance
60 lb T in s ..........advance
20 lb Pails..........advance
10 lb Palls..........advance
5 lb Pails..........advance
3 lb Palls..........advance
B ologna.......................
Liver..............................
Frankfort......................
P o rk ..............................
Blood  ...........................
Tongue  .........................
Head  cheese.  ..............
Extra  Mess................... ..10 25
Boneless  ...................... ..12 50
R um p.............................
2 0C
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs....................
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs..............
1  35
M  bbls, 80 lb%..............
2  50
Kits, 15 lbs...................
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs.............
1  25
M  bbls, 80 lbs.............
2 25
Casings.
P o rk .............................
20
Beef  rounds...............
3
Beef  middles..............
10
S heep...........................
60
Butterlne.
Rolls,  dairy.................
Solid,  dairy  ...............
Rolls,  cream ery.........
Solid,  cream ery........
Canned  Meats.
Corned  beef,  2  lb  ...
Corned  beef,  14  lb __
Roast  beef,  2  lb __
Potted  ham,  M8__
Potted  ham,  Ms__
Deviled ham,  Ms__
Deviled ham,  Ms__
Potted  tongue u s __
Potted  tongue M&__

2  15
14  75
2  15
50
90
50
90
50
90
Fresh  Meats.

Tripe.

11
10M
15M
14M

Beef.

Beef.

P o r k .

C arcass........................ 7 @  8M
Fore quarters............. 6 ®  6M
Hind  quarters............ 8M®10
Loins  No.  3................. 12 @14
Ribs.............................. 9 @14
R ounds........................ @  8
Chucks......................... 6 @   6M
Plates  ......................... 4 @ 5
Dressed........................ 5 @ 5M
L o in s...........................
@  7-
Shoulders....................
@
Leaf L ard.................... 6M@
C arcass............  ......... 8M®10
Spring Lambs.............. 12 @12M
Carcass 
...................... 8 @  8M
Crockery and

M u tto n

Veal.

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE.

B atten .

M gal., per dos...................  40
1 to 6 gal., per gal............ 
5
8 gal., each........................  48
10 gal., each........... ............  60
12 gal.,  each.......................   72
15 gal. meat-tubs, each__ 1  05
20gal. m eat-tubs,each.... 1  40 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ... 2  00 
30gal. meat-tubs, each....2  40 
2 to 6 gal., per gal.............. 
5
Chum Dashers, per dos...  84 
M gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  40 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  4M

Mi lk puns.

Chorus.

Flue Glazed Milkpans.

Stawpans.

M gal. flat or rd. bot., aos.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot, each  5M 
M gal. fireproof  v dl, dos.  86 
1 gal. fireprooi, ball, dos.l  10 
M gal., per dos...................  40
M gal., per dos....................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal.............. 
6

Jugs.

22

UNIQUE  ATONEMENT.

Chip  of the  Old  Block  Asks  Forgive­

ness.
W ritten for the Tradesman.

The  day  had  been  long  and  hot.  Mrs. 
Tod  bad  been  working  all  the  afternoon 
to  finish  the  week’s  ironing  and  every­
thing  seemed  to  go  against  her.  She 
had  hoped  to  get  through  between  three 
and  half  past,  but  the  irons  didn’t  work 
well  and  here  it  was after four.  Through 
forgetfulness  she  let  the  fire go  down 
and  when  she  exchanged  flatirons  she 
found  those  over  the  fire as  cold  as  the 
one  she  had  been  using.  “ Here,  T ed,”  
she  called  to  her  io-year-old,  who  was 
loitering  home  from  school  and  behind 
whom  the gate  shut  with  a bang,  “ hurry 
around  to  the  woodshed  and  bring  me 
in  a  basket  of  chips  as  soon  as  ever  you 
can.  My  fire’s  getting  low  and  I  shall 
never  finish  this  ironing—hurry,  now!”
But  Ted  wasn’t  in  the hurrying mood. 
It  happened  that  be  and his  teacher had 
been  trying  conclusions  that  afternoon ; 
he  bad  the  worse  of  it,  with  a  stronger 
conviction  than  ever  that  women  were 
“ no  good  anyhow,”   and  he  saw  no  par­
ticular 
reason 
for  troubling  himself 
about  the  chips.

the 

come!”  

“ Come,  Ted, 

last 
“ come”   meaning  business.  But  Ted 
had  darted  out  through  the  back  yard 
and  at  that  moment  was  beyond  ca ll;  so 
the  tired,  heated  woman  got  the  chips 
herself.  The  fire,  as  if ashamed  of  it­
self  for  going  out,  brightened  up  and 
half an  hour  later  the  ironing  was  done.
But  that  T ed !  Should  she  tell  his 
father? 
It  wasn’t  the  first  time  he  bad 
disobeyed  her  and  as  she  glanced  back 
over  the  past  few  months  she  could  see 
that  his  disobedience  bad  been  growing 
upon  him,  and  she  determined  to  ap­
peal  for aid  from  the paternal direction.
“ George,”   she  said,  “ I  am  sorry  to 
trouble  you,  but  Ted  is  getting  so  that 
I  can  do  nothing  with  him. ”   Then she 
told  the  chip  incident,  as  one  of  many 
such.

To  the  tired  woman’s great  relief  her 
husband,  with  his  arm  about  her— 
strange  how  restful  to  woman’s  weari­
ness  a husband’s arm  is!—replied:  “ All 
right,  Ruth,  I ’ll  take  him 
in  hand. 
He’s  a  chip  of  the  old  block  and  I  sup­
pose  can’t  help  it  any  more  than  I  can. 
I’ll  fix 
’ im.  Ten  years  old,  isn’t  he? 
That’s  the  time  I  began  my  tantrums.  I 
won’t  give  him  a 
licking—although 
he  needs  it  if  ever  a  youngster  did—so 
you  needn 'i  worry  over  that;  but  you 
must  second  heartily  all  I  do  and  say. 
Dinner  ready?  All right;  let’s  sit  right 
down.  Here  be  comes now.  Don’t  say 
anything  about  the  chips  and  don’t 
seem  to  notice  him  in  any  way.”

looking 

looking  at  his  mother. 

Ted  came  bounding  in,  boy  fashion, 
into  his  chair at  the  table 
and  sidled 
without 
“ You 
see,"  said  Mr.  Tod  as  if  he  were  going 
on  with  the  topic 
in  hand,  “ if  we 
should  leave  here  at 7 30  we  should  get 
there  about  2  in the afternoon.— Ted,  go 
to  your  room  and  make  yourself  pre­
sentable  and  don’t  come  to  the  table 
again 
like  that.— I  think  we’d 
better  leave  Ted at home.  We’re  going 
for  the  sake  of  giving  you  a  rest,  and 
somehow  the  boy  has  got  it  into his 
it’s  a  manly  thing  not  to be 
head  that 
respectful  to  a  woman. 
I  haven’t  said 
anything,  but  it's  been  going  on  for 
some  time.  On  my  way  home,  bis 
teacher  stopped  me  to  say  that  if the 
boy  didn’t  do better  in  this  respect  she 
couldn’t  have  him  any  longer.  You 
can’t  rest  with  a  boy  of  that  age  saying 
and  acting  he  will  and  he  won’t,  so  I

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

think  we’ll  go  by  ourselves  and  have  a 
good  time  again without  being  plagued 
by  that  kind  of  a  boy.— Now,  Ted,  be­
fore  you  have  your  dinner you  get  that 
basket  of  chips.”   He  was  out  and  back 
in  a  very  short  time. 
“ Now  go and  get 
another  basketful—full,  mind  you,  and 
then  I  have  something  to  say  to  you.”  
When  he  returned  the  second  time 
Mr.  Tod  said :  “ Your teacher  stopped 
me on  the  way  home,  Ted,  and  told  me 
about  your  impudence to-day;  and when 
I  got  home  your  mother told  me  about 
your  not  minding  her.  You  are  just 
the  age  I  was  when  I  did  the  same 
thing.  You  needn’t  tell  me  anything 
about  it— I  know  what  made  you  do  it. 
I  got  the  licking  of  my  life  then  and  it 
did  me  more good  than  anything  that 
ever happened  to  me.  You  think 
t h a t 
you  are  too big  a  boy  to  mind  a  woman 
—even  your  mother.  Now  go  to  her  and 
put  your arm  around  her  neck  and  kiss 
her.  If  you  feel  as  if  you  will  never  re­
fuse  to  mind  her  again,  you  may  tell 
her  so. 
I  won’t  insist  on  that,  but  I 
have an  idea  you’d  better.  Come,  sir.”  
“ come”  
means  go,  and  to  the  boy’s  credit  be 
carried  out  the  program  to  the  letter. 
After  the  kiss— it  was  a  hearty  one—he 
said,  in  a  straightforward,  wholesouled 
manner  and  voice,  “ Mamma,  I ’m  sorry 
I  didn’t  get  the  chips  and  I’m  going 
to  try  to  do  better. 
’Twasn’i  because  I 
wanted  to  be  naughty,  but  men  don’t 
like  to—papa  knows  how  it  is and  he’ll 
tell  you,  won’t  you,  papa?”

instance  when 

It  was  an 

Was  the  boy  in  fun  or  earnest?  The 
stem  face  of  manhood  softened  as  it 
it­
looked  at  the  faithful  little  copy  of 
self,  and  with  something 
like  a  smile 
pulling  at  the  corners  of  his  mouth  he 
said :  “ I’ve  told  her  already,  Ted ;  and 
I’ve told  her,  too,  that  if  you  do  that, 
or  anything  like 
it,  I  am  inclined  to 
think  you  will  be  sorry.”

“ All  right,  papa.”
When  dinner  was  over  Mr.  Tod  said 
to  the  boy,  “ Now,  Ted,  we  must go and 
make  your  peace  with  Miss  Lindsey. 
She  is  considerably  wrought  up  over 
your  actions  and  I  want  you  to  come 
with  me  and  make  it all  right  with  her. 
Women  don’t  like  such  treatment  as 
that  from  men  and  Miss  Lindsey  said 
she  simply  could  not  have  such  a boy  as 
that  in  her  school.  We  must  see  what 
can  be  done about  it,  for you  must go  to 
school  and  you  must  go  to  Miss  Lind­
sey.  Get  your  hat. ”

“ My  dear,"  said  Mrs.  Tod,  “ hadn’t 
I’d  better  see  Miss  Lindsey  myself? 
Men  don’t  know  how  to  manage  such 
things  so  well  as  a  woman.”

in  every  feature. 

The  man  looked  at the boy.  Rebellion 
“ No,  that 
frowned 
won’t  do. 
It’s  two  men  against  one 
woman,  but it’s two gentlemen.  Ted and 
I  had  better  go.  Come  on,  Ted. ’ ’

As 

they  approached  the  teacher’s 
home  they  saw  Miss  Lindsey  in  her 
flower  garden.  * ‘ There,  Ted,  now  you 
must  remember  that  you  have  been  very 
rude  to  Miss  Lindsey.  She  is  indig­
nant,  as  she ought  to  be,  and  you  must 
say  what  you  can  to  conciliate  her.— 
Miss  Lindsey,”   Mr.  Tod  bad  opened 
the  gate and  Ted  had  passed 
in,  “ my 
son  has  something  to say  to  you,  and  I 
hope  you  will  be  willing  to  listen  to 
him. ”

Somehow  Ted’s  hat  had  wandered 
away  from  bis  forehead  and  was  resting 
on  the  back  of  his  head,  a 
locality 
which  gave  the  wearer an  air of  manly 
independence,  and  without  a  sign  of 
hesitation  he approached  Miss  Lindsey, 
looking  honestly  into  her  face.

“ I  was  very  rude  to  you  to-day,  Miss

We  Make. . . .

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W D L  B R U M M E L E R   &   S O N S ,

Tinware Manufacturers,

260  South  Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

H.  M.  Reynolds  &  Son,

Manufacturers of

Asphalt Paints, Tarred  Felt,  Roofing  Pitch.  2  and  3 
ply and Torpedo Gravel  Ready  Roofing.  Galvanized 
Iron  Cornice. 
Sky  Lights.  Sheet  Metal  Workers 
and Contracting  Roofers.

Grand Rapids, Mich.
Office, 82  Campau  st.
Factory,  1st av.  and  M. C. Ry.

ESTA BLISH ED   l8 6 S

Detroit, Mich.
Foot 1st St.

BROWN  &  SEHLER

W E S T   B R ID G E   6.  F R O N T   S T S . 
G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IOH.

Jobbers in
Buggies,  Carriages,

Saddlery  Hardware, 

Robes,  Blankets,  Whips, etc.

Manufacturers of

A  full line of  Heavy and  Light  Harness  for 

the trade.

r:REFRIGERATORS

YU KO N   AN D  C H IL K O O T

The  verdict  of those  who  have  used  them:  “ That  they are the  best 
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are manufactured  by us and all sold on the same basis, 
irrespective  of  size,  shape  or  denomination.  Free 
samples on application.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids,  Mich,

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

2 3

I  didn’t  know 

Lindsey,  and  papa  and  I  have  come  to 
make  our  peace  with  you. 
I’ve  been 
an  awful  bad  boy;  but  I  didn’t  mean  to 
be— I  couldn’t help  it.  You  see,  I’m  a 
It’s  he—hered­
chip  of  the  old  block. 
itary. 
it  until  this 
afternoon.  Papa was  an  awful  bad  boy. 
He had  it  worse  than  I have;  and  when 
be  was  my  age  he  got the biggest lickin’ 
he  ever  had 
in  his  life—didn’t  you, 
papa?  Mamma  wanted  to  come  and 
settle  it,  but  this  is  a  complaint  women 
don’t  know  anything  about  and  papa 
thought  we  men  folks  better take care  of 
it  ourselves.  I ’m  awful  sorry  I  was  bad 
this  afternoon  to  you,  Miss  Lindsey, 
and 
if  I  promise  not  to  do  it  again, 
‘ honest  true,  black  an’  blue,  lay  me 
down  an’  cut  me  ’n  two,’  will  you  for 
give  me?”

Miss  Lindsey  was  magnanimous 
enough  to  say  she  would,  and  thought 
that  was  the  end  of  i t ;  but  the  smaller 
part  of  the  “ men  folks”   thought  other 
wise.  “ When  I made up with Mamma, ’ 
he  went  on,  unabashed,  ‘ ‘ I  bad  to  put 
my  arm  around  her  neck  and  kiss  her. 
Shall  I  put  my  arm  around  your  neck 
and  kiss  you?  That  seems  to  fix  it, 
you  know. ’ ’

Miss  Lindsey  heartily  acquiesced.
“ Now,  papa,”   be  continued,  “ you’ll 
have  to  do  it,  too.  Mamma’ll  want  to 
know  if  we  were  manly about it,  and she 
wouldn’t  like 
if  I  did  it  all 
when  you  were the  one  to  blame,  would 
she?”

it  at  all 

that 

further 

The  teacher  hastened  to  assure  young 
Ted 
concessions  were 
wholly  unnecessary  and  that his promise 
as  a  gentleman  was  all  that  was  re 
quired.  As they  walked  down  the  street 
the  young  man  remarked :  “ Well,  papa 
I 
that’s  over. 
takes  a  man,  after  all, 
to  straighten 
things  out,  doesn’t  it?”

It  came  out  all  right. 

It 

is  safe  to  say  that  when  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  George  Tod  went  away  to  enjoy 
their  vacation  Ted  went  with  them.

R ic h a r d  M alcom  Str o n g,

The  Red-Headed  Grocer  of  Battle 

Creek.

F rom  the Dry Goods Reporter.

started 

Frank  G.  Sherwin,  of  Battle  Creek 
rejoices in  the  fact  that  he  has  red  hair, 
and  is  known  in  the  Michigan  town  as 
the  “ Red-Headed  Grocer.”   When  Mr. 
Sherwin 
in  business  several 
years  ago  he  decided  that  his  locks 
could  be  turned  to  advantage,  and  the 
idea  has  been  a  decided  success  from 
the  start.  All  the  wrapping  paper, 
bags,  etc.,  employed  by  the  firm  are 
printed  with  flaming  red  ink,  “ Frank 
G.  Sherwin,  the  Red-headed  Grocer, 
and  frequently  the  firm’s  advertising 
matter  is  signed  “ Ever  Ready,"  “ A l­
ways  Ready,”   and  so  on.  These  little 
pleasantries  seem  to  please  the  people 
Last  year,  when  Ringling  Bros. ’  circus 
was  in  Battle  Creek,  the  following  ad 
vertising  scheme  was  used:  Arrange1 
ments  were  made  with  the  manager  of 
the  parade  to  use  the  largest  elephant 
for  advertising  purposes,  and  as  Mr. 
Elephant’s  place  was  the  first  in  the 
procession,  his  size  and  position  made 
him  one  of  the  conspicuous  features, 
made  more  so by  the “ Red-headed Grci 
cer’s”   advertisement,  which  consisted 
of  two  streamers,  one  bearing  the  in 
scription,  “ This  elephant  eats  Red 
headed  G roceries,'”   the  other,  “ The 
best  tea  and  coffees  on  earth  at  the 
’ Red-headed  Grocer’s.’  ”   This  was 
winner  with  every  one,  and  was  more 
talked  about  than  the  circus.  Arrange 
ments  had  been  made  with  a  photog 
rapher  to  photograph  the  elephant  di 
rectly  in  front  of  the  store.  Advertising 
cuts  were  made  from  the  photograph 
and  used  in  the  newspapers  and  in  cir 
cular  matter.  Mr.  Sherwin  has  the  rep1 
utation  of  being  one  of  the  most  novel 
advertisers  in  Battle  Creek.

Use  of  Lactobutu  Prohibited  in  Ohio.
Dairy  and  Food  Commissioner Black­
burn,  of  Ohio,  has  sent  out  the  follow­
ing  notices  to  butter  dealers  in  that 
State:
To  Whom  it  May  Concern:

It  has  come  to  my  knowledge  that  a 
preparation  called  “ Lactobutu”   is  on 
the  market,  to  be  used to  renovate or re­
work  old  butter  and  increase  its bulk. 
Samples  of  this  preparation  have  been 
analyzed  and  it  has  been  found  to  con­
tain  chromate  of  lead,  a  poisonous  sub­
stance  which  is  injurious  to health. 
In 
following  the  directions  a  grocer  will 
render himself  liable  to  prosecution  by 
~  is  department  for the  violation  of  the 
oleomargarine  laws,  as  the  result,  if  di­
rections  are  followed, will mot  be  butter, 
under  the 
law,  but  will  be  deficient  in 
butter  fats  and  must  be  considered  and 
sold  as  oleomargarine.

The  purpose  of  this  notice  is  to  warn 
the  storekeepers,  dealers,  and  all  inter­
ested  that  the  use  of  this  preparation,as 
recommended 
in  the  literature  in  the 
hands  of  this  department,  is  a  violation 
of  the  laws  of  Ohio  and  under  no  cir­
cumstances  will  its  use  be  permitted. 
Persons  interested  will  take  notice and 
govern  themselves  accordingly,  as  any 
so-called  butter  found  on  the  markets 
of 
this  State  where  the  preparation 
known  and  called  “ Lactobutu”   has 
been  used  will,  in  the  opinion  of  the 
Commissioner,  subject  the  user or  ven­
der  to  the  penalty  of  the  pure  food  and 
oleomargarine  laws.

Took  Nails  for  His’n.

Hardware  Price  Current.

S 

AXBS

BUCKETS

BARROWS

CARTRIDGES

BUTTS.  CAST

BLOCKS
BOLTS

..............................  11 50
14 00 
so 00
70
6O&10 
66 
BO
3 BO

AUGURS AND  BITS
70
gnell’B....................................................
.Terming  genuine...........................................28 & 10
Jennings’  im itation....................................... 80*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze................................  6 (0
First Quality, D. B. Bronze................................  10 00
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel................................   6 50
First Quality! D. B  Steel 
R ailroad.................................................
Garden................................ 
...............   net
Ordinary Tackle..............................................
Stove...........................................................
Carriage new list.......................................
Plow.........................................  .................
Well,  plain.:.....................................
Cast Loose  Pin, figured...................................70*10
70*10
Wrought Narrow.......... 
 
Rim F ir e ..........................................  
40*10
Central  Fire............— ........ 
....................... 
20
CROW  BARS
Cast Steel..................................  
. .per lb
Ely’s  1-10.................................................per m
Hick’sC. F ............................................. perm
G. D .........................................................per m
Musket....................................................per m
Socket Firmer.................................................
Socket Fram ing...............................................
Socket Corner....................................  ............
Socket  Slicks....................................................
Morse’s Bit Stocks..........................................
Taper and Straight Shank.............................. 50*  5
Morse’s Taper Shank........   ........................... 50*5
Com. 4 piece, 0 in .............................. dos. net 
65
Corrugated..................................................  
1  28
Adjustable.................................................. dls 40*10
Clark's small, »18;  large, 026..........................30*10
Ives’, 1, »18; 2, »24: 3. »30  ............................... 
25
New A m erican................................................. 70*10
Nicholson’s ........................................................ 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................  .6C*10
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24:  25  and 26;  27. 
List  12 

GALVANIZED  IRON 

BXPANSIVB  BITS

FILES—New  List

15  18..........  

ELBOWS

CHISELS

DRILLS

CAPS

14 

13 

17

The  owuer 

of  a  general  store  in  an
Emmet  county  village  got  married. 
In 
this  little  town  it  is  the  custom  for  the 
happy  bridegroom  to  set  up  the  cigars 
for  all  the  congratulating  males  who 
drop  in  to  wish  him  joy.  So  the bride 
groom  in  this  instance  bad  a  box  on  the 
counter,  and  most  of  bis  patrons  were 
regaled  from  it.

Pretty  soon  an  ancient  gentleman 
in.  The  storekeeper,  who  felt 
just  then 
he  smil 

lounged 
friendly  to  all  the  world 
pushed  the  box  toward  the  newcomer
“ Have  a  cigar,  Uncle  Jim,”  he —  
ngly  said.
Uncle  Jim 

looked  at  the  box 

and

looked  at  the  storekeeper.

“ What’s this  for?”   he  asked.
The  storekeeper  slightly  blushed.
“ Been  gettin’  married.”
“ Who?  You?”
“ Yep.  M e "
“ An’  you’re  stand in’  treat,  eh?”
“ Yep,”   said  the  storekeeper.
The  old  man  picked  up  a  cigar.
“ How  much  did  these  segars  cost  ye, 

Ab?”   he  enquired.

“ Oh,”   replied  the  storekeeper,  “ they 
cost  me  ’bout four cents.  They’re nickel 
cigars.”
The  old  man  dropped  the  cigar  back 
into  the box.  Then  his  gaze  wandered 
around  the  store.

“ Well,  A b,”   he  slowly  drawled,  “ ef 
it’s  all  the  same  to  you,  I’ll  take  a 
pound  o’  nails. ”

And  he  got  them.

Detroit,  Saginaw  and  Bay  City  Excur­

sion,  July 23 .

Train 

leaves  D.  &  M.  depot  at  7 a. 
m.,  arriving  at  Detroit at  12  noon,  Sag 
inaw  11:20  a.  m.,  Bay  City  at  11:50 
a.  m.  Fare  to  Detroit and  return, $1.85; 
Saginaw  and  Bay  City,  $ 1 .5 °   Partic­
ulars  at  City  Ticket  Office,  Morton 
House,  or  at  depot.

C.  A.  J u s t in , C.  P.  &  T. A.

Not  at  Home  to  Bill, 

is  your  name, 

your  father  at  home?”   asked  a

"Is  
caller.
“ What 
quired  the  little  girl.
“ Just tell him  it is his old friend B ill.”
“ Then  I  reckon  he ain’t  at  home. 
I 
beard  him  tell  mamma  if any  bill  came 
be  wasn’t at home.”

please?”   en-

Surely  Worth  Trying.

Frank  Rogers,  of  West  Chester,  Pa., 
reported  last  year  that  he  had  found  be­
yond  question  that a  bunch  of  ordinary 
sweet  peas  kept  upon  the  soda  connter 
would  effectually  keep  the flies away

Discount,  60

 
 

..........  

GAS PIPE.
GAUGES
HAMMB tS

25
70

n in u iu

HOLLOW  WARE

KNOBS—New List

n u i a t   FURNISHING  GOODS

HORSE NAILS
 
 

Black or Galvanized......................................40&10
Stanley Rule and 
’s....................80*10
Maydole *  Co.’s, new  11st.................................. dls 33'*
Kip’s  ........................................................... dls 
Yerkes *  Plumb’s ................................................. dl« 10*1C
Vnuon’s So»-’ n»«t steel..................srw* n*t 
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c llst50&10 
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3..............................................dls 60*11
s t a t e ............ 
dos. net  2 51
Pots.....................................................................60*1
K ettles...............................................................60*10
Spiders............ 
•  ..............60*10
An Sable..........  
dls40*lr
Putnam 
dls 
5
Cape w ell.......................................... 
.......net list
S  imped Tin W a re ......................... new list 70
20*10
Japanned Tin '*’• »  
Door, mineral, jap. trimming t ...................... 
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings................... 
80
7(
__ dls 
-tenlev  Rrle and Level Co.’s 
MATTOCKS
Adze Bye........................................ »17 00, dls  60*10
Hunt Eye........................................ »15  00, dls  60*10
Hunt’s..................................... 
»18 50, dls 20*10
600 pound casks...............................................  
9
0)4
Per pound.........................................................  
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s ....................................... 
40
40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables... 
40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry *  Clark’s..................  
80
Coffee, Enterprise............. 
 
Bird  Cages..........................................   ... 
41
70
Pumps, Cistern.......................................... 
8214
Screws, New List......................................  
Casters, Bed and  Plate............................. 50*10*11
Dampers, American..................................  
50
Stebbin’s Pattern..............................................60*10
Stebbln’8 Genuine............................................60*10
Enterprise, self-measnrlng...........................  
30

MOLASSES  GATES

MISCELLANEOUS

METALS—Zinc

MILLS

 

 

NAILS

2 80

 

 

Advance over bass, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.
 

Steel nails, base..........................................  
Wire nails, base.................................................   2 90
90 to 60 advance...............................................   Base
06
10 to 16 advance.............................................. 
10
¿ ad v an ce....» ................................................ 
advance................... i ..............................  
6 
20
30
4 
 
advance................................ 
45
3 
advance.................................................... 
2 advance........................................................ 
70
Fine 3 advance............................................... 
50
Casing 10 advance...........................................  
15
Casing  8 advance........................................... 
25
35
Casing  6 advance........................................... 
25
Finish 10 advance...............................  
 
Finish  8 advance...........................................  
36
Finish  6 advance...........................................  
45
Barrel  % advance... 
85
Fry, Acm e...................................................60*10*10
Common, polished.................................. 
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  0  20 

PATENT  PLANISHBD  IRON 

Broken packages V4c per pound  extra. 

PANS

 

 

 

PLANES

Ohio Tool Co.'s,  fancy...................................   @50
Sclota B ench....................................................  
00
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy...........................  @50
Bench, first quality..........................................   @50
Stanley Role and Level Co.’s wood........................ 60

RIVBT5

ROOFING  PLATES

60
Iron and  T in n ed ............................................ 
45
Copper Rivets and Burs.................................. 
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean................................  5  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean ..............................   6  50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean..............................  11  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.............   5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.............   6  00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade..............  )0 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal. Allaway Grade.............   12  00
Sisal, J4 Inch and  larger................................ 
10
Manilla........ ...............................  
12
SAND  PAPBR
List  acct. 10, ’88..........................................dls 
50
SASH  WEIGHTS
Solid Eyes............................................per ton  20  00
com. smooth,  com.

SHBBT  IRON

ROPES

 

SHOT

3  30
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14...................................... 13  20 
Nos. 15 to 17......................................  3  20 
Nos. 18 to 21......................................   3  30 
Nos. 22 to 24......................................  3  40 
Nos. 25 to 26......................................  3  50 
No.  27.............................................   3 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
D ro p ..................................................................  1  45
B B and B uck.................................................  1  70
#©*...*..................... s......v...
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
Steel and Ire ? .................................................  70*10
Try and B evels.............................................. 
60
M itre.................................................................  
50
10x14 IC, Charcoal............................................•  7  55
14x20 IC, Charcoal..........................................  7(0
20x14 IX, Charcoal............................ .............  8 50

TIN—Melyn Grade

SQUARBS

SOLDBR

Each additional X on this grade, »1.25.

»3 00
3 00
8 20
3 30
3 40

TIN—A 11a way. Grade

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

Bach additional X on this grade, »1.50.
BOILER  SIZB TIN  PLATB 

10

WIRE

TRAPS

14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
14x56 IX;  for  No  0  Boilers  < P *  P°una 
... 28
75*10 
Steel, Game.................................................
50
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s ..........
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton’s 70*10
15
Monse, choker..............................per dos 
Mouse, delusion...........................per dos 
1  25
Bright Market................................................  
60
Annealed  Market............................................ 
60
Coppered  Market........ .................................... 50*10
Tinned M arket................................................. 50*10
Coppered Spring  Steel.................................... 
45
Barbed  Fence,galvanized...........................  350
Barbed  Fence,  painted..................................  3  to
Barbed  Fence,  Plain.....................................  2  8)
B right....................................................
Screw Eyes..........................................
Hook's.  ••• 
•••••••••••••••••••••♦••'
Gate Hoiks and Byes........................
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.........
Coe’s Genuine.....................................
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought 
Coe’s Patent, malleable....................

W1RB  GOODS

WRENCHES

New  Prices

on  Bicycle 
Sundries

Dealers of Michigan are  requested  to  drop 
us a card asking for  our  July  ist  discount 
sheet  on  Bicycle  Sundries,  Supplies,  etc. 
Right  Goods,  Low  Prices  and  Prompt 
Shipments will continue  to  be  our  motto. 
Dealers who are not next  to  us  on wheels 
and sundries are invited to correspond.

ADAMS & HART,

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

Wholesale Bicycles and Sundries.

50

70* 5

ce n ts

MUSKEGON
AND RETURN
Every  Sunday
VIA

Q.  R.  &  I.
Train leaves Union 
Station at 9.15 a. m. 
Bridge Street 9.3a a. m. 
Returning leaves 
Muskegon 7.15 p. m.

24

Grand Rapids Retail  Grocers’  Associa­

tion.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association  held 
at  the  office  of  the  Michigan Tradesman 
Tuesday  evening,  July  18,  President 
Dyk  presided.

The  Committee  on  Oil  stated  that  the 
picnic  arrangements  had  consumed  so 
much  time  that  its  report  would  have  to 
be  deferred  until  after  the  picnic.  This 
delay  will  probably  not  be  material  to 
the  oil  men,  who  would  not  object  to 
deferring  action  in the matter until  1901. 
This  report  was  accepted.

reported 

incidents 

Fred  Fuller,  of  the  Committee  on  Ar­
rangements, 
con­
nected  with  the  visit  of  the  Committee 
to  Holland  to  agitate  the  matter  of  at 
tending  the  picnic  and  to  distribute 
cards  announcing  the  picnic among the 
merchants.  Only  one  dealer  was  found 
who  refused  to  permit  the  card  to  be 
displayed 
in  his  store  window.  After 
the  work  of  the  Committee  was  com­
pleted  a  trip  was  taken  to  Macatawa 
Park  for  the  purpose  of  distributing  an­
nouncements  at  both  resorts.  The Com­
mittee  then  returned  to  Grand  Rapids 
via  train  from  Ottawa  Beach,  having re­
ceived  a  cordial  reception  on  every 
side.
Secretary  Klap  reported  having  re­
ceived  a  letter  from  the  Secretary of  the 
Muskegon  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
stating  that  1,000  people  would  attend 
the  picnic,  coming  on  a  special  train 
over  the  G.  R.  &  1.  He  also  received 
a  letter  from  Grand  Haven  to  the  effect 
that  its  people  would  come  to  the  pic 
nic  in  a  special  train  over  the  C.  &  VV. 
M.  to  the  number  of  1,000.  These  visi­
tors,  in  addition  to  a  delegation  from 
Holland,  will  be  met  at  the  union  depot 
by  two  brass  bands  and  will  be  escorted 
to 
the  headquarters  at  Sweet’s  Hotel. 
A  feature  of  the  parade  will  be  a 
greased  pig  contest.  The  butchers  of 
the  city  will  be  invited  to  join  in  the 
parade  on  horseback,  wearing  white 
aprons.

A  member  stated  that  the  half  day 
closing  movement  during  August  had 
not  yet  been  adopted  by 
the  meat 
dealers.

B.  S.  Harris  did  not think  the  project 

feasible.

President  Dyk  believed 

that  what 
trade  was  lost  while  the  stores  were 
closed  would  come 
in  during  the  re­
mainder  of  the  week.

Mr.  Fuller stated that  the  half  holiday 
was  an  experiment  for  three  half  days 
only.  He  believed  if  there  is  any  class 
of  merchants  who  deserve  a half  holiday 
it  is  the  grocers.  Even  the  butchers  do 
not  have  to  get  down  to  their  places  of 
business  before  business  hours  in  order 
to  buy  their  day’s  supplies,  as  the  gro­
cer  is  compelled  to  do.

Julius  Wagner  was  of  the  same  opin­
ion  as  Mr.  Fuller  and  thought  the  plan 
worthy  of  trial.

Chas.  W.  Payne  stated  that  the  Asso­
ciation  could  not  act  on  the matter until 
definite 
information  was  secured  from 
the  meat  dealers.  He  suggested  that  it 
would  be  a  good  idea  to secure the opin­
ions  of  more  of  the 
larger  grocers. 
Final  action  in  the  matter  was  deferred 
until  the  next  meeting.

Mr.  Fuller  said  be  explained  to  the 
Holland  grocers  that  the  programme  for 
the  day  would  not  begin  until  12:30 
p.  m.,  so  that  those  merchants  who 
came  early  would  have  an  opportunity 
to  call  on  the  wholesale  merchants  dur­
ing  the  forenoon.

The  following  resolution was adopted :
Resolved—That the  Board  of  Trade 
be  requested  to  co-operate  with  this  As­
sociation  in  providing  carriages  for  our 
guests  from  out  of  town  on  the  occasion 
of  our  thirteenth  annual  picnic.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.
Difficulties  Experienced  in  Establish­

ing  Early  Closing.

July 

Houghton, 

18—Although 

the 
early  closing  movement  at  Houghton 
has  been 
in  effect  but  a  week,  it  is  al­
ready  encountering  breakers  and  if  it  is 
to  continue  and  be  observed  by  all  the 
business  men 
it  looks  as  though  the 
schedule  would  have  to  undergo  a

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

14

17

Fo r   s a l e   c h e a p —a   h a n d   e l e v a t o r
with capacity of  3,009 pounds.  Adapted to 
use of country store or elevator.  Hugh E.  Wil­
son,  Trustee  Rutka Hamilton  Hardware  Co , 
Grand Rapids.__________________________ 18
Fo r   s a l e —g o o d  b a z a a r   s t o c k ,  e n -
auire  of  Hollon  &  Hungerford,  Albion, 
16
MichT. 
Mo d e r n   c it y   r e s id 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, 
24 Kellogg street. Grand Rapids._________ 993
W ANTED TO EXCHANGE—STORE BUILD- 
ing in  Lake  Odessa  for  bazaar  or  china 
stock.  Address  No.  17,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
Fo r  s a l e —n i c e   c l e a n   s t o c k   o f

hardware, invoicing  about  *2,500;  also  tin- 
shop in  connection;  store  building  and  ware­
house valued at $700; located in the best farming 
country  in Southern Michigan;  good live town; 
good railroad, elevator, roller flouring mill, saw 
mill, planing and heading  mills.  Good  reasons 
for  selliug.  Address  No.  14,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
Tj'OR  RENT—IN  A  HUSTLING  TOWN  OF 
A1  20,000 inhabitants  a  solid  brick  store,  two 
floors and basement, 80x24 feet;  desirable  loca­
tion;  terms  reasonable.  Address  B.  Major,  311 
Sycamore St., Manistee, Mich. 
13
Fo r   s a l e   o r  e x c h a n g e   f o r  g e n e r a l
Stock  of  Merchandise—60  acre  farm,  pari 
clear, architect house  and  barn;  well  watered. 
I also have two 40 acre  farms  and  one  80  acre 
farm to exchange.  Address No.  12, care  Michi 
gan Tradesman._________________________12
Be a u t if u l   l it t l e   f r u i t   f a r m   f o r
sale in Petoskey.  Address No. 9, care Mich- 
igan Tradesman._________________________9
Fo r   s a l e —l a r g e   g r a in   e l e v a t o r ,

conveniently  located  for  shipm ent;  com­
plete  outfit;  twelve  bean  pickers;  six-power 
gasoline  engine,  etc.;  *1,800;  $1,000  down.  Ad 
dress Mrs. Philo Bacon, Laingsburg,  Mich.  3
IrtOR SALE—CONFECTIONERY STOCK AND 
fixtures, including soda fountain,  etc.  Ad- 
dress No. 5, care Michigan Tradesman.____ 5_
Th e  s h a f t in g ,  h a n g e r s  a n d  p u 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
W ANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A  RUBBER 
stamp.  Best  stamps  on  earth  at  prices 
that  are  right.  Will  J.  Weller,  Muskegon. 
Mich. 
958
IpOR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
1  splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad­
680
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman. 
NY  ONE  WISHING  TO  ENGAGE  IN  THE 
grain and produce and  o'her  lines  of  busi­
ness can  learn  of  good  locations  by  communi­
cating  with  H.  H.  Howe,  Land  and  Industrial 
Agent C. & W. M. and D., G. R.  &  W.  Railways, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
ITiOR  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  fo t  this  City 
and prosperous  times  for  years  to  come  a  cer­
tainty.  Rent  free  for  six  months,  also  a  dis­
count on stock;  use of fixtures free.  Store  and 
location  admirably  adapted  for  any  line  of 
business and conducted  at small  expense.  Get 
in line  before  too  late.  Failing  health  reason 
for  selling.  Address  P.  O.  Box  204,  Negau- 
nee, Mich.______________________________913

919

MISCELLANEOUS.

W ANTED—SWEDISH  YOUTH  TO  WORK 
in  dry  goods  store.  Address  Box  341, 
Cadillac. Mich.__________________________ 15
W ANTED—PHARM \CIST  OR ASSISTANT 
Allan Little, Rapid City.  Mich.______ 11
W ANTED —POSITION  AS  REGISTERED 
pharmacist by a  young,  single  man.  Ad- 
dress Aconite, care Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—POSITION 
IN  A  GENERAL 
store;  twenty years’ experience;  good ref 
erences.  Address  No.  997,  care  Michigan 
997
Tradesman. 

8

It 

change. 
is  agreeable  to  note,  how­
ever,  that  there  is  no  disposition  among 
those  interested  to  recklessly  break  the 
agreement  and  keep  open  as  long  as 
there  is  any  one  on  the  streets.

The  butchers  find 

it  impossible  to 
meet  the  wants  of  their  patrons  by  clos­
ing  at  6:30 
in  the  evening.  One  of 
them  stated  yesterday  that  his  business 
was  bound  to  suffer  by  such  an  arrange­
ment,  even  although  his  competitors 
were  closing  at  the  same  hour.  He 
added,  further,  that  formerly  by  work­
ing  himself  until  9 o’clock  there  was  no 
idle  time  and  henceforth  the  best  be 
could  do  toward  conforming to  the  early 
closing  movement  was  to  lock  his  place 
of  business  at  8  p.  m.

Then  the grocer who  handles  fruit  and 
vegetables  has  his  troubles.  This  class 
of  goods  offers  no  profit,  it  is  claimed, 
and 
in  the  evenings  the  trade  in  fruit 
is  confined  to  the  small  stores,  that  are 
not  expected  to  conform  to  the  rules  re­
garding  the  early  closing,  so  that  while 
the  small  dealer 
is  given  a  monopoly 
the  grocer  who  closes  early  has  his  fruit 
locked  up  and  is  taking  the  chances  of 
its  decaying  before  being  sold.  As  bfe- 
fore  stated,  the  merchants  are  agreeable 
to  closing  their  places  of  business  as 
early  as  possible  without  their  business 
suffering  thereby  and,  this  being  the 
case,  it  is  likely  that  the  closing  sched­
ule  will  soon  be  readjusted  to  the  satis­
faction  of  all.

Coming  a Thousand  Strong.

Prom the Muskegon News.

The  Muskegon  grocers,  at  a  meeting 
held  Thursday  night,  accepted  the  invi­
tation  of  the  Grand  Rapids  grocers  to 
attend  their  annual  picnic  to  be  held  at 
Reed’s  Lake  August  3.  The  local  mei- 
chants  have  decided  to  go  in  a body and 
attended  by  their  families.  The  meet­
ing  was  attended  by  about  forty  gro­
cers,  all  of  whom  will  close  their stores 
on  the  day  of  the  picnic.  Others  not 
present  are  requested  to  do  the  same. 
The  grocers  also  invite  theii  customers 
to  spend  a  day  of  pleasure  with  them. 
A  special  train  will  be  retained  for  the 
occasion  and  the  fare  for  the  round  trip 
will  be  low.

It 

is  expected  that  a  baseball  club 
will  be  organized  to  cross  bats  with  the 
Grand  Rapids  grocers.
Jackson  Grocers  to  Go  to  Belle Isle.
Jackson,  July  17—The  Transportation 
Committee  of  the  Jackson  Retail  Gro­
cers'  Association  has  made  arrange­
ments  with  the  Michigan  Central  Rail­
way and the Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor 
Ferry  Co.  for the  eighth  annual  excur­
sion,to  be  given  August  10.  In  addition 
to  the  trip  to  Detroit  the  Ferry  Co.  will 
take  the  excursionists  up  into  Lake  St. 
Clair  and  return  them to  Belle  Isle.  An­
other  feature  of  the  occasion  will  be  a 
band  conceit  at  Belle  Isle,  afternoon 
and  evening,  by  one  of  Detroit’s  best 
bands.  Judging  from  the  active  enquir­
ies  from  every  direction  regarding  the 
grocers’  excursion 
if  the 
eighth  annual  will  eclipse all  its  pred­
ecessors. 

W.  H.  P o r t e r ,  Sec’y.
From  the  Newsboy’s  Standpoint.
The  Boy— I  wouldn’t  mind  if  we  had 

it  looks  as 

another  war  wid  somebody.

The  Man—You  ain’t  thinkin’ of  goin’ 

to  the  front,  are  you?

The  Boy— No;  but  there’s nothin’ like 

a  war  for  sellin’  papers.

In  the  midst  of  liie  a man  is in debt— 
and  his  creditors  don’t  allow  him to for­
get  it.

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 
»8 cents.  Advance payment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

COUNTY  FAIRS—«5  TO  *10  A  DAY  MADE 
with  our  Futurescope  at  county  and  state 
fairs, church  fairs,  picnics,  stores,  etc.  Write 
for particulars. 
Jonas  N.  Bell  &  Co.,  586  W. 
19
Lake St., Chicago. 

W ANTED—POSITION  AS  CLERK  IN  GEN- 
eral store by merchant of long  experience 
who 
is  capable  of  managing  the  business. 
Would not object to position as city or traveling 
salesman.  Address No. 7, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
7
W ANTED—SITUATION  AS  TRAVELING 
salesman, 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— A  FIRST-CL VSS  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. 
ANTED — CIGARMAKERS,  R O L L E R S , 
bunch breakers,  6trippers  and  lady  pack­

ers.  G. J. Johnson Cigar Co., Grand Raplas.  989

Aluminum  Money

Will Increase Your Business.

Cheap and Effective.

Send for samples and  prices.
C .  H.  H A N SO N ,

44  S .  C la rk   S t .,  C h ica g o ,  III.

Protect Your Checks.
Perforates any part of 
the  check,  top,  bottom 
or center, and  fills  per­
forations  with  Acid 
Positive 
Proof  Ink. 
protection.  Full nick­
eled. 
Price  $5.  For 
cash  with  order  it  will 
be delivered free.  Guar­
anteed 5 years.

SCHOOL  &  OFFICE  SUPPLY  CO.

Jobbers  in  Stationery  and  School  Supplies 

Qrand  Rapids,  Michigan.

$ 5 .5 0  

$12.00

Spill  Excursion

TO

Niagara Fails,

Alexandria  Bay  (Thousand  Islands), 

via the Michigan Central.

On  August  j   the  Michigan  Central  will  sell 
excursion  tickets  to  the  above  places  at  $5.50 
and $12 respectively,  good  going  on  the  morn­
ing train at  7  a.  m.,  and  to  return  on  regular 
trains leaving destination not later than August 
17»  This is tne event of  the  excursion  season. 
Don’t miss it.  Phone 606 for  parlor  car  reser­
vations and further  particulars.

W.  C.  B L A K E , Ticket Agent, 

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

T O-DAY  IS 
Y E S T E R D A Y S  
P UPIL

Grocers are fast learning that It 
pays  to  handle  only  reliable 
goods.  The

S IL V E R   BRA N D  
C ID E R  V IN EG A R

has behind it years of reputation 
to  back  up  the  statement  that 
there are no better goods made.

Genesee  Fruit Co.,

Lansing,  Mich.

4

Travelers* Time  Tables.
CHICAGO ■"iWr",fcX ,i'i

Chicago*

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey. 

- 
Lv.  G. Rapids..7:10am  12:00nn  5:05pm  *2:15am 
Ar.  Chicago —  1:30pm  5:00pm  11:15pm  *7:25am 
Lv.Chicago...  7:15am  12:00nn  4:15pm *8:45pm 
Ar. G’d Rapids  1:25pm  5:05pm  10:15pm  *1:50am 
Lv. G’d  Rapids.  7:30am  2:05am  1:45pm  5:30pm 
Ar. Trav  City.. 12:40pm  6:10am  5:35pm  10:55pm
Ar. Charlevoix..  3:15pm  7:53am  7:38pm...............
Ar. Petoskey....  3:45pm  8:15am  8:15pm...............
Ar. Bay View...  3:55pm  8:20am  8:20pm...............
Lv. G. R apids..9:C0am  12:00nn  5:31pm...............
Ar. G. Rapids. .8:A0am  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.

Ottawa Beach.

♦Every  day. 

Others week days only.

1 / C llv U llf 
n P T D H I T   örand RaPids A Western.

June 26.  1899.

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids.7:00am  12.05pm 
5:25pm
Ar. D etroit......................11:40am  4:05pm 10:06pm
Lv. D etroit......................8:40am  1:10pm  6:10pm
\r .  Grand  Rapids........  1:30pm  5:10pm 10:56pm
Lv. G R7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G R 11:45am  9:40pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Geo.  DeHaven.  General Pass. A gent

f i n   i   JVjrv  Trank Railway  System
v l l v f V l   l U   Detroit and Milwaukee Div

(In effect May  1, 1899.)

going  east

Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit A 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  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t’d  E x ... .*  7:20pm *10:16am
GOINO  WEST
Gd. Haven and Int P ts__  
.  *  8:30am  *10:00pm
Gd.  Haven  Express................*10:21am  * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven  and Int  Pts......... tl2:58pm  t  3:19pm
Gd. Haven and  Milwaukee. ..t  5:12pm  tl0 :llam  
Gd. Haven and M ilwaukee.. .tl0:00pm  t   6:40am
Gd. Haven and Chicago____ ♦  7:30pm  *  8:05am
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.
♦Daily. 

tExcept Sunday.

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

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.

H D A M b   Rapids  &  indiana Railway
U K A n U  

July 9,  1899.

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men's Association 

President,  C.  L.  Whitney,  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.  J bwett,  Howell;  Secretary 

Henry C. Minnie, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers' Association 

President, J oseph Knight;  Secretary, E. Marks, 

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

President,  F rank  J.  Dyk;  Secretary,  Hohbr 

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

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

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Porter;  Treasurer,  L. Pelton.

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, 8. W. Waters.

Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  W.  H.  J ohnson;  Secretary,  Chab. 

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

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association

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

bell;  Treasurer, W. E. Collins.

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

Partridge.

Grand  Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L.  M. Wilson;  Secretary, Philip TTtt- 

ber:  Treasurer, S. J.  Hdppord.

St. Johns Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Thos. Bromley;  Secretary, Frank A. 

Percy ;  Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Perry Business Men’s Association

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

Yale Business Men’s Association

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

Suppose

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A lady should come  into your store and ask  if  you 
had  any  good  spices;  could  you  let  her  have 
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  has 
ever handled them.  Manufactured by
Northrop,  Robertson & Carrier,  L an sin g ,  m ich .

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S.  C.  W.  cigars  are  NOT  made  by  a  trust, 
but you  can trust S. C. W.  cigars.
They  are  sold  by  all  jobbers  we  can  trust,  |  
and  we  trust  the  dealer  whom  the  jobber  can  1 
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trust will  give  them  a trial. 

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O.  J.  JOHNSON  CIGAR  CO.,  Grand  Rapids.

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CIGARS

STANDARD  CIGAR  CO,  Cleveland,  Ohio.  THURL7 Æ i 1,$7° per n

Northern  Div.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey &M ack...*  4; 10am  *10:f0pm 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & M ack...t  7:45am  t  5:15pm
Trav. City <fc Petoskey.............t   1:40pm  t   1:10pm
Cadillac accommodation........ t  5:25pm tlO :55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City— tl> :00pm  t  6:3iam 
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 
.............................. t  2:01pm  t   1:30,ul
Kalamazoo and Vicksburg...  * 7:00pm  *  7:20un
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.

TO CHICAGO.

FROM   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
Ar. Grand Rapids...  9  45pm  3:55pm 
7  20am
Train leaving Grand RapldB 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.

Muskegon Trains.

GOING W EST.

LvG ’d  Rapids...............t7:35am tl:35pm t5:40pxc
Ar Muskegon..  . 
9:00am  2:45nm  7:05nm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon............... t8:10am  tl2:15am  t4:00pir
ArG’dR apids... 
1:25pm  5:20ptr
Sunday  train  leaves  Mnskegon  6:3)pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 7:55pm. 
tE xcept Snnday.  «Daily.

GOING  EA ST.
9:30am 

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.

L v  Grand Rapids.................................7:00am
A r  Manistee.....................................12:05pm
L v   M anistee.......................................   S :30am
A r  Grand  Rapids  ............................   1:00pm

4:10pm
0:44pm

TRAVEL

VIA

F.  & P  M. R.  R.

AND  STEA M SH IP   LIN E8 

TO  A LL  PO IN T8  IN  MICHIGAN

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

E sta b lish ed  1780.

Walter Baker & Co.

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

No  Chemicals  are  used  in 
Trade-Mark, 
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one 
cent a cup.
Their Premium  No.  1  Chocolate, pnt  up  In 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the  best 
plain chocolate in the m arket for family nse.
Their  German  Sweet  Chocolate  Li  good  to 
eat and good  to  drink.  I t is  palatable, nntri. 
tious, and  healthful ;  a   great  favorite  with 
children.
Buyers should ask for and be s u e  th at they
fp t the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
b on every package.
Walter Baker &  Co.  Ltd. 

Dorchester,  Mass.

THE ONLY WAY...

To learn the  real value of a trade  or class paper 
is to find out how  the  men in whose interest it is 
published value it.  Ask the merchants of Mich­
igan what they think of the .  .  .

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

We  are  willing  to  abide  by  their  decision.

Hanselman’s  Fine  Chocolates

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

Hanselman  Candy Co.

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

T he  G rand  R apids  P ap er  B ox  Co.

Manufacture

Solid  Boxes for Shoes, Gloves,  Shirts and Caps,  Pigeon  Hole  Files  for 
Desks, plain and  fancy  Candy  Boxes,  an(l  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.

Sixty  thousand  have  “ caught  on,”   why  not  you?  The 
Money Weight  System  of  weighing  your  merchandise  is  the 
greatest  plan  ever  invented for  saving  money.  Money saved 
is  money  earned.  Wouldn’t  you  like  to  have your  business 
earn  you  more  money?  Of  course  you  would.  Now,  why 
not begin  business aright  before  another  week  is past?  Drop 
us  a  postal  for  our  32  page  Hand  Book  on  Money  Weight 
Scales. 
Long  time  and  easy  payments  ought  to  help  you 
out  if you  are  at  all  doubtful  about  the  ready  money.  Half 
the  business  of  the  world  is  done  on  credit,  you  know.

T H E   CO M PU TIN G  SC A LE   CO.

MICA

AXLE

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

ILLUMINATING  AND 
LUBRICATING  OILS

W ATER  WHITE  H EADLIGH T  OIL  IS  TH E 

STAN DARD  TH E  W ORLD  O V ER

H IG H ES T   P R IC E   PAID  FO R   EM PTY  CARBO N   AND  G A SO LIN E  B A R R B L8

STAN DARD  OIL  CO .

Sunlight  at  Night!

Queer, isn’t it?

The  Sunlight 

Gas  Lamp

Does the work at all times and all the time.
One quart of gasoline makes a  100 candle- 
power light bum  from  15  to 20 hours.  Wind 
will not blow it out nor make it smoke.

No  torches  to  hold  in  lighting.  Turn  it 
down  and  it  bums  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.

We guarantee what we say or no sale.  Maybe you’ve seen 
the other kind— the cheap kind.
Remember,  PRICE ALW AYS  IN DICATES QUALITY.

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.

