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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JULY  26,1899.

Number 827

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

PAGE3.  Dry Goods.
4.  Around th e State.
5.  Grand  Rapids Gossip.
6.  W oman’s  World.
8.  Editorial.
9 .  E d ito ria l.
10.  Shoes  and  Leather.
18.  Peculiarities  of the  G.  R.  M arket.
13.  Observations by a  Gotham  Egg Man.
14.  G etting  the  People.
16.  They Conldn’t   Go  Back to Indiana.
17.  Commercial Travelers.
18.  Drugs and  Chemicals.
19.  D rag Price Current.
80.  Grocery  Price Current.
81.  Grocery Price Current.
88.  H ardware.
83.  Telephone Topics.
H ardw are Price Current.
84.  Gotham  Gossip.
Business  Wants.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market  con­
tinues  firm,  showing  an  advance  of 
1  16c  over  last  week,  and  96 deg.  test 
centrifugals  have  been  sold  at  4 7-16C. 
There  is  still  a  very  heavy  demand  for 
refined,  with  no  change  in 
list  prices, 
but  some grades of softs  are  still  being 
shaded  i-i6 to  i-8c.  The  difference be­
tween  raws  and  refined 
is  now  76c, 
which  affords  a  good  profit  to  refiners. 
The  statistical  position  shows  stocks  in 
the  United  States and  Cuba  together  of 
335»587  tons,  against  407,679  tons  last 
year,  a  decrease  of  72,092  tons  under 
last year.

Canned Goods—The market for canned 
goods  of  all  descriptions  is  very  firm, 
with  large  sales  and  prices  showing  an 
upward  tendency.  Corn  seems  to  be  in 
an unnsually  favorable position.  It is re­
ported  that  the  probable  future  pack 
is 
ail  cleaned  up  everywhere,  except  in 
New  York  State,  and  the  indications 
are  that  buyers  will  take  all  packers 
will  sell  there  before  the  season  is  over. 
Late  reports  indicate  that  the  crop  will 
be  unusually  large and  of  good  quality, 
and  the  pack  promises to  be  the  heav­
iest  for  years.  The  outlook  for  corn  is 
very  promising.  Sales  continue  on  a 
liberal  scale  at  well  sustained  prices, 
but  canners  are  not  taking  large  orders 
under present  conditions.  Sales-for  fu­
ture delivery are  reported  heavier  than 
for  some  years,  although  no figures  are 
obtainable  regarding  the  approximate 
pack.  The sales  of future  tomatoes this 
year have  been  very large—probably  the 
largest  on  record—and 
is  probable 
that  present  prices  will  be  maintained 
as a  matter  of  self-defense,  because  al­
most  every  tomato  packer 
loaded 
down  with  future  orders,  and  again,  the 
cost  of  producing  them  is about  12c  per 
dozen  higher  than 
it  was  last  year, 
while  the  sales  have been  made  on  the 
same  basis  as  the  opening  price  last 
year.  The  carryover,  compared  with 
previous  years,  is  small,  which  has a 
strengthening 
influence  on  the  market 
and  causes  packers to  insist  upon  high 
prices  for  futures.  Crop  reports 
indi­
cate  that  the  pack  will  be  about  as 
large as  was  previously  estimated,  and 
the  quality  of  the  product  promises  to 
be  up  to  the  standard.  String  beans 
promise  to  be  short.  There  is a  short­
age  in  green  stocks  at  some  points  and

is 

it 

satisfaction,  and 

interest  has  developed 

some  canneries  have  been  obliged  to 
suspend  temporarily  because  of  the  im­
possibility  of  securing  green  supplies. 
Advices  from  Baltimore  say  that  au  un­
usual 
in  lima 
beans,  which  are 
in  small  supply  and 
apparently  much  wanted.  From  Port­
land,  Me.,  comes  the  information  that 
the  blaeberry  outlook  is  the  poorest  the 
State  has  known  for  years.  Shipments 
of  green  fruit  have  fallen  off  and  pack­
ers  are  unable  to  fill  orders taken ahead. 
The  spot  price  of  gallon  apples  has 
been  reduced  to  the  future  gallon  basis 
by  the  arrival  of  early 
fall  packed 
goods  from  Baltimore.  While  these 
goods  will  temporarily  supply  the  mar­
ket,  they  are  not  goods  that  can  be  held 
with 
in  ordinary 
years  they  would  not  be  packed.  New 
York  State  and  Michigan  packers  put 
up  nothing  but  winter  fruit  and  will  not 
begin  operations  before  the  middle  of 
September or  the  first  of  October. 
In 
the  meantime,  the  market  will  be  sup­
plied  with  these  fall  packed  goods  from 
the  South.  Nothing 
is  offered  in  new 
pack  gallon  apples  packed  from  win­
ter  fruit,  as  packers  have  sold  all  they 
dare  to  sell  under  the  present  outlook 
for  winter  varieties.  Salmon  continues 
firm  at  about  previous  prices.  The  de­
mand 
for 
Alaska  grades,  and  prices  are  steady  on 
all  varieties.  Advices  from  the  coast 
indicate  some  improvement in  the  catch 
the  Columbia  River  and  Puget 
on 
Sound. 
is  reported  from  Eastport, 
Me.,  that  the  sardine  fish  have  moved 
off  the  coast  and  several  of  the  factories 
have had  to  close  down  for  lack  of  sup­
plies.  Owing  to  the high prices,  lobsters 
meet  with  only  a  small sale.  New  pack 
have  not  arrived  in  this  market  yet  and 
deliveries  are  reported  very  slow  this 
year,  on  account  of  the 
light  pack. 
Other  lines  are  practically  unchanged 
from 
last  reports.  Sales  are  fair  at 
about  previous  prices,  with  firmness de­
veloping  all  along  the  line.

is  very  strong,  especially 

It 

Dried  Fruit—The  dried  fruit  market 
is  not  very  active,  with  only  a 
few 
small  sales  for  immediate  consumption. 
Apricots  attract  some  attention,  and 
there  may  be  heavy  sales 
later,  though 
so  far as  known  up  to  date,  the  quantity 
purchased  has  been  small.  Sales  will 
be  larger  later,  more  particularly  if  the 
reported  output 
is  less  than  500 cars, 
the  latest  estimate  given.  Peaches  are 
in  rather  more  demand,  bui  all  spot 
supplies  are  so  firmly  beid  that  busi­
ness  is  small.  The  new  crop  will  not  be 
here  for  some  time  and  holders  are  con­
fident that  they  can  dispose  of  all  their 
goods  at  profitable  prices  before  new 
goods  arrive.  Raisins  are  quiet  and 
unchanged,  with  trade  limited  to  only 
small  consumptive  orders.  Crop  pros­
pects  continue  favorable,  and  the  out­
put  for  this  year  is  expected  to be large, 
last  season,  and 
probably  as  large  as 
some  say  possibly 
larger.  Arrange­
ments  made  by  the  Association  and  the 
information  received  from  California 
indicate  that  prices  will  rule  higher 
than  last  year.  There  is  nothing  new  in 
the  prune  market.  There  will  undoubt­
edly  be  a  large  export demand this year, 
especially  from  France,  where  the  crop

will  be  very  short,  only  about  one-third 
of  the  average.  The  California  crop 
this  year  will undoubtedly be very large; 
it 
is  now  estimated  that  it  will  be  at 
least  70,060,000  pounds.  Trade  in  evap­
orated  apples  is  not  large,  but  there 
is 
a  steady  consuming  business  which 
keeps  the  market  in  a  fairly  good  con­
dition.  Crop  reports  are  conflicting, 
bat  as  nearly  as  can  be  estimated,  New 
York  State  will  have  about  35  per  cent, 
of  an  average  crop,  with  Michigan  and 
Illinois  about  40  per  cent.,  while  the 
estimated  yield  for  the  country  will  be 
about  one-half  of  an  average  crop. 
Dates are  easy  at  about  previous  range 
of  prices.  All  stocks  are  held  firmly up 
to  quotations.  Crop  reports  continue 
favorable,  but  just  what  the  output  will 
is  uncertain.  Figs  move  slowly, 
be 
demand  being 
limited  to  present  con­
sumptive  requirements,  which  at  this 
season  are  small.  Reports  from Smyrna 
indicate  a  fair  yield,  about  what  has 
been  previously  estimated.  There  will 
be  a  good  sale  this  season,  owing  to  the 
shortage  last  season.

Fish— Receipts of  mackerel  are  very 
light  and  prices  are  continually  advanc­
ing.

Tea—The  demand  for  tea  is  improv­
ing  all  the  time  and  the  market  shows 
up  better  now  than 
it  has  for  some 
time  past.

Rice—The  demand  for  rice  is  some­
what  better  than 
it  has  been  for  some 
weeks  and  stocks  are  being  cleaned  up. 
The  first  of  the  new  crop Louisiana  rice 
is  reported  just  received.  The  condi­
tion  of  the  grain  is  im mature  and  no 
amount  of  commercial 
importance  is 
expected  for  some  weeks  to  come.

Green  Fruits— Lemons  show  but  lit­
tle  or  no  advance  except  on  some  fancy 
grades.  Prices  rule  steady,  with  a some­
what 
improved  demand,  owing  to  the 
warmer  weather.  Bananas  remain  about 
steady,  with  only  small  sales  for  im­
mediate  consumption.

Nuts—The  peanut  market  is  strong, 

with  a  good  demand.

Molasses  and  Syrups—The  demand 
for  both  molasses  and  syrups  is  very 
light  during 
the  warm  weather  and 
prices  on  glucose  syrup  have  declined 
yic  per  gallon,  with  a  coriesponding 
decline  on  cases.

Hides,  Pelts.  Tallow  and  Wool.

Hides  are  scarce  and  prices  strong, 
with  all  the  advance  one  can  induce 
purchasers  to  pay.  Any  price asked  is 
above  what  will  yield  a  profit  to  the 
tanner.

Pelts  are  in  good  demand  at  a  strong 
advance  and  are  taken  readily  without 
much  dickering  or  haggling.

Tallow 

is  stronger  by  X @ ^ c  and 

wanted.  There  is  no  accumulation.

Wools  are  selling  freely  at  the  ad­
vance,  but  a  still  further  advance  is 
checked  by  manufacturers,  while  spec­
ulators  seem  ready  to  take  all  offerings. 
Holders  are  strong 
in  their  views,  as 
every  indication  here  and  abroad  is  for 
a  higher  -range  of  values.  Consider­
is  changing  hands  East  and  West 
able 
and  there 
is  some  demand  for  export, 
while  our  people  are  buying  for  im­
port. 

W m.  T.  Hess,

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

Dry Goods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

in 

Staple  Cottons— Brown  cottons  are  in 
active  demand.  There is  also  improve­
ment  to  be  noted 
the  request  for 
bleached  cottons.  There  are  more  or­
ders,  but  individually  they  are  no larger 
in  size.  Prices  are  all  reported  firm  in 
medium  and  fine  goods.  Lower  grades 
are  somewhat  easier  to  buy,  although 
not  actually  weak.  Wide  sheetings are 
quiet.  Cotton 
flannels  and  blankets 
show  no  marked  change,  either  in  the 
price  situation  or  in  the  demand.  Den­
ims  are  called  for  by  the  cutting  up 
trade  in  fair  quantities,  and other coarse 
colored  cottons  are  showing  more  life, 
and  the  interest  in  them  is  growing.
Prints—The  most  important  point 

in 
is  the 
the  market  since  our  last  report 
lines of  prints  of 
reduction 
in  certain 
%c  per  yard.  Four 
lines  of  prints 
adopted  5%c  per  yard,  although  the 
other  lines  of  similar grades were quoted 
at  5c  per  yard. 
It  has  been  found  that 
these  prices  could  not  be  maintained  by 
all,  hence  the  reduction.  All  will  very 
likely  be  reduced  to  the  basis  of  5c  pei 
yard  by  the  time  this  reaches  the  hands 
of  its  readers.  The  value  of  the 
lines 
which  have  been  reduced  is  not  enough 
better  than  other  5c  lines.  This  action 
has  been  construed  by  the  buyers  as  a 
sign  of  weakening  in  the  market,  but  as 
a  matter  of  fact  the  print  market  was 
never  in  a  healthier  or  stronger  position 
than  to-day.  There  has  been  an  enor­
mous  amount  of  fancy  prints  sold  for 
fall,  and  reordering  has  begun  on a gen­
erous  scale.  The  lines  that  were  quoted 
at  5c  per  yard  and  under  are  not  only 
very  firm,  but  on  their  part  show  signs 
of  advancing.

Staple  Ginghams— Are  enquired  for, 
but  are  not  easy  to  be  found.  The mar­
is  pretty  well  oversold  on  these 
ket 
goods.  This  renders 
it  difficult to  do 
business,  and  keeps  prices  very  firm.
Madras  fabrics  and  percales  have  sold 
well  to  the  manufacturing  trades.  Tur­
key  reds,  indigo  blues  and  other  simi­
lar  lines  have  enjoyed  a  steady  sale, 
and  prices  are  firm.

The 

thorough  way 

is  customary,  make 

Underwear—The  retailers are  selling 
large  quantities  of  fancv  underwear and 
are  ready  to  place  orders  with  the 
job­
bers  for  good-sized  stocks  as  soon as  the 
time  for  doing  so  arrives.  Tbe  jobbers 
know  this and  will  prepare  their  stocks 
accordingly. 
in 
which  the  light  weight  stocks  have been 
cleared  out  this  season,  and  tbe  fact 
that  tbe  mills  have  been  forced  to  man­
far  later 
ufacture  light  weight  goods 
than 
it  probable 
that  there  will  be  a  scarcity  of  light­
weight  goods,  and  the  far-sighted  buy­
er  will  place  his  orders  as  early  as 
possible  and  for  as  large quantities as 
he  really  feels  he  can  use during  the 
season.  This  does  not  mean  that  it 
would  be  wise  to  speculate,  but  to  use 
good  judgment  in  regard  to  early  pur­
chases and  thereby  avoid  as  far as  pos­
sible  the  annoyance  of  finding  stock 
short,  and  that  additional  supplies  can 
not  be  got  from  the  manufacturers  or 
jobbers  until  too  late  to be of  any  ma­
terial  benefit.  Tbe  duplicate  orders  for 
heavy-weight  underwear  from  the  job­
bers  have  included  a  considerable  pro­
portion  of  fleeced  goods,  but  great  care 
is  being  exercised  in  examining  these 
goods  on  account  of  tbe  poor quality  of 
the  deliveries  made  earlier  in  the  sea­
son.  There 
is  a  very  limited  business 
coming  forward for imported underwear. 
The  deliveries are  just beginning  to  be

made  of  goods  ordered  for  fall.  The  re­
tail  trade  are  calling  for  some  goods 
to  fill  out  the  balance  of  the  season,  and 
reassort  their  stocks  of  merino,  gauze 
and  swiss  ribbed  goods.  There  is  every 
reason  to  expect  an  active  fall business, 
much  larger than  in  previous  seasons.

Hosiery—The 

importers  of  hosiery 
have  received  quite  a  number  of  good 
orders  during  the  past  week  to finish  up 
tbe  season’s  business,  and  the  prospects 
are  that  this  will  continue throughout 
tbe  present  month  and  possibly  into 
August.  The  principal  demand  for  do­
mestic  goods  during  the  past  week  has 
been  for  lines  that  will  retail  at  25c  and 
under. 
In  seamless  hosierv,  business  is 
tending  strongly  towards  better  grades.
Carpets—The  jobbers  of  all  kinds of 
carpets  report  thus  far a  very  satisfac­
tory  amount  of  business  done  this  sea­
son.  The  average  retailer  has  placed 
orders  with  more  freedom,  as  he  finds 
his  customers  fully  employed  as  com­
pared  with  other  seasons.  Tbe holidays 
and  midsummer  period  have  checked 
business  temporarily.  This 
is  always 
expected  at  this  time  The demand  for 
better  goods  this  season  plainly  indi­
cates  that  the  buyers  realize  that  if  they 
want  a  first-class  article  which will  give 
satisfaction they  must  pay  more  money. 
With  the  advance  in  tapestry  and  vel­
vet  carpets  during  tbe  month  of  June 
and  since  July  1,  the  ingrain  manufac­
turers  have  plucked  up  courage  in  some 
instances  to  consider  the  advisability  of 
an  advance  on  August  1  of  standard  ex­
tra  supers  of  2>£c  per  yard.  While  the 
orders  at  old  prices  up to this  time have 
been  large,  tbe  prospect  of  an  advance 
may 
induce  buyers  to  place  larger  or­
ders  while  there  is  yet  a  chance  at  old 
prices.  This 
is  but  the  natural  result 
of  a  hardening  wool  market,  coupled  as 
it 
is  with  an  advance  on  filling  and 
warp  yarn.  While special makes of extra 
super  ingrain  have been  sold  from  the 
opening  of  tbe  season  at  44  and  45c, 
other grades,  selling  at  42^0,  wiil  now 
be  advanced  to  45c.  The  carpet  trust, 
which  was  the  all-absorbing  topic  for 
weeks  among  the  manufacturers  of all 
kinds  of  carpets,  is  seldom  mentioned 
now,  as  it  is  generally  understood  to  be 
practically  dead.  With  the  return  of 
prosperity  the  average  manufacturer 
is 
content  with  the  prospect  of  increasing 
business  at  more  remunerative  prices.

The proposed  amalgamation  of whole­
sale  drug  bouses,  which  has  been  a 
dead  issue  for  several  weeks,  is  still  be­
ing  agitated  by  the  promoter,  an  im­
pecunious  New  York  lawyer,  who  evi­
dently  has  some  ulterior  motive  in  con­
tinuing  the  effort  to  round  up  the  vari­
ous  jobbing  druggists—a  plan,  by  the 
way,  which  never  was  practicable and 
never  found 
in  the  mind  of 
any  sensible  person.

lodgment 

Why  He  Was  Faithful.

“ I  think  the  man  who  works  at  that 
place across  the  street  is the  most  faith­
ful  and  conscientious  workman  I  ever 
saw.  He  never  takes  a  holiday,  aad 
always  labors  away  until  it’s too dark 
to  see  any  longer.”
“ Faithful  workman?  Great  Scott! 
He's  the  proprietor  of  tbe  shop !”

When  a  man  begins  to  raise the devil, 

he  always  lowers  himself.

Talked  His  Arm  Off.

The  boys  tell  on  one  of  the  Southern 
traveling  men  that  while  he  was  ex­
pounding  the  good  merits of  bis  line of 
shoes to  one  of  the  rural  storekeepers, 
and  had  been  talking  for  half  an  hour 
on  a  string, 
the  merchant  suddenly 
reached  for  a  screw  driver,  excused 
himself  and  went  into  a  back  room.

“ What  is  he going  to  do?”   asked  the 
salesman  of  one  of  the  clerks  standing 
around.

“ Ob, ”   replied  the  latter,  “ be  has  a 
wooden  arm  and  just  stepped  in  there 
to  screw  it on  a  little  tighter.  Guess  it 
was  coming  off.”

The  salesman  packed  up  and  left.

Shipping  produce  first  and  enquiring 
as  to  responsibility  of  the  firm  shipped 
to  afterward 
is  doing  business  tbe 
wrong  way.  Always  enquire  before 
shipping,  and  thus  avoid  the  tisk  of 
loss.

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....B U Y .... 

Gold Seal Rubbers 1

They  are  Pure  Gum  and  the  best 
made.  Send for price  list  to

GOODYEAR  RUBBER CO.

382-384 E.  WATER ST., 

MILWAUKEE, WIS.

W.  W.  WALLIS.  Western  rtanager.

SAVE 20 PER GENT.

By buying your fall line of neckwear from us.  We  do  not  claim  tha* 
our prices are that much lower than others, but we do claim  that our  as­
sortment of popular priced ties will outsell  any  line  shown  in  Western 
Michigan.  That’s where the saving comes in.  We show  you  the  same 
nobby effects in 25 and 50 cent goods that  New York  and  Chicago  have 
in the high priced lines.  Puff ties promise to be good  sellers  this  fall. 
You will not make a mistake if you buy liberally.

Financial  Notes.

The  fact  that  Hon.  Edwin  F.  Uhl  has 
joined  his  son,  David  E.  Uhl,  in  the 
purchase  of  stock  in  the  Fifth  National 
Bank  naturally  revives  the  rumor that 
the  Fifth  National  will  be  merged 
into 
the  reorganized  Grand  Rapids  National 
Bank  when  the  charter  of  the  latter 
expires next  year.

is  strikingly 

The  manner  in  which  investors  are 
indus­
declining  to  place  confidence  in 
trials 
in  the 
illustrated 
effort  of  the  American  Writing  Paper 
Co.  to  float  its  bonds.  Five  per  cent 
gold  bonds  to  the  amount  of  $8,600,000 
were  offered  for  sale, but  only $1,800,000 
was  taken.  This 
leaves  the  company 
with  nearly  seven  millions  dollars  of  its 
own  bonds  which  it  must  sell in order to 
carry out its agreements with tbe  twenty- 
seven  papermakers  whose  mills  have 
been  absorbed  by  tbe trust.  Unless some 
way  is  found  to  foist  these  securities  on 
the  market,  the  proposed  writing  paper 
trust will  probably  lanquish  by  the  way- 
side.

The  Procter  &  Gamble  Co.  has  de­
clared  a  6  per  cent,  semi-annual  divi­
dend  on  tbe  common  stock,  payable 
Aug.  15.

VOIGT, HE.RPOLSHEIME.fi S GO,

Wholesale Dm Goods. 

Grand Rapids. Mich.

Cut  in  Two

That is  what  we  have  done  to  the  prices  on  all  our 
Light  Colored  Lawns,  Dimities  and  Percales.  Now 
is  the time  to  send  in  your  order  and  secure  one  of 
the  greatest bargains of  the season.

P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS,

Wholesale Dry floods, Grand Rapids. Mich.

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

s

PUR VE Y OES  BY  APPOINTMENT

MUSTARD  MANUFACTURERS 

by  Special  W arrant

To H.B.H.  The  PRINCE  OF  WALES.

To  Her  Majesty  The  QUEEN.

COLMAN’S

MUSTARD

In the High Court of Justice.

J.  &   J.  C O L M A N ,  L I M I T E D

AND

G O R M A N ,  E C K E R T   &   C O .

Plaintiffs.

Defendants.

TO  THE  PUBLIC.

TAKE  NOTICE  that in  an  Action,  entitled  a9  above,  pending  in  the  High  Court  of  Justice  for  Ontario,  Canada, 
the  Honorable  Mr.  Justice  Meredith  on  the  2nd  day of June,  1898,  directed  that  a  Judgment  should  issue  containing  a 
PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining  the above  named  Defendants,  their  Servants,  Workmen or  Agents,  from infringing 
the  Plaintiffs’  Trade  Marks registered in  pursuance  of the  Trade  Marks  Act of  1868,  or  from  selling  any  Mustard  not  man­
ufactured by the  Plaintiffs in any  tin,  package,  or wrapper  (label),  having  printed  thereon  any imitation  or  colourable  imi­
tation  of the  Plaintiffs’  Trade Marks or  any word  or  words  so  contrived  as  to  represent  or  lead  to  the  belief  that  the  Mus­
tard  contained  in  such  tin,  package,  or  wrapper,  was  the  manufacture of the  plaintiffs.  AND  FURTHER  TAKE  NOTICE 
that by the said Judgment  the  said  Defendants  were  enjoined  to  destroy or  deliver  up  to  the  Plaintiffs  all  labels,  wrappers, 
blocks,  dies,  or plates  which  offend  against  the  said  injunction;  and  to  pay certain damages  therein  fixed  together  with  the 

costs  of the  action.

CAUTION.

Similar goods  to  those  manufactured  by J.  & J.  Colman,  Limited,  of  108  Cannon  Street,  London  (England),  occa­
sionally make  their  appearance on  the  market,  displaying  a  Trade  Mark  liable  to  be  confounded  by  the  Public  with  their 
well known Trade  Mark  of  a  Bull’ s  Head  and  also closely resembling J.  & J.  Colman’s  goods  in  get  up,  presumably  with 
the  intention  to deceive  the  buyer  and  consumer. 
Such  goods  are  generally of  an  inferior  quality.  J.  & J.  Colman,  Lim­
ited,  would  be grateful  to  members of the  trade  having  any  goods  brought  to  their  notice  which  appear  to  them  infringe­
ments  on J.  & J.  Colman’s rights  if they would  at  once communicate  with  them.  Traders  may rely  upon  their  communi­

cations  being  treated  in  the  strictest  confidence.

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4

Around  the State

Movements  of  Merchants.

Armada— Fred  A.  Kipp  continues  the 

grocery  business  of  Kipp  &  Torrey.

Jackson— Geo.  H.  Winslow has opened 

a  grocery  store  at  1104  Francis  street.

Flint— Albert  M.  Dodds succeeds  Bert 
M.  Garnerin  the  undertaking  business.
Saginaw— D.  B.  Pelton  succeeds  D.
B.  Pelton  &  Co.  in  the  clothing  busi­
ness.

Charlotte—J.  H.  Hageman  is  now  es­
tablished  in  his  new  grocery  store in the 
Foster  block.

Beulah—John  A.  Gibb,  formerly  of 
in  the  drug 

Muskegon,  has  engaged 
business  here.

Rochester— Stone  &  Case  are  suc­
in  the  hardware  business  by 

ceeded 
Teniken  &  Case.

Detroit-----The  Robbins  Pharmacy,
Limited,  succeeds  David  L.  Robbins  in 
the  drug  business.

Laingsburg—The  produce 

firm  of 
Whitney  &  Bailey  has  been  dissolved 
by  mutual  consent.

Hermansville—John  G.  Neiman  suc­
ceeds  Buch  &  Neiman  in  general  trade 
and  the  meat  business.

Romulus— Seestadt Bros,  continue  the 
furniture  manufacturing  business  of  the 
estate  of  Henry  Seestadt.

Benton  Harbor— Rounds,  Warner  & 
Co.,  bankers  and  brokers,  are  closing 
out  their  banking  business.

Jackson—Geo.  E.  Lewis  has  removed 
his  grocery  stock  into  his  own  building 
just  vacated  by  Wm.  Sparks.
Beulah— Frank  L.  Orcutt 

succeeds 
in  the  general  mer­

Orcutt  &  Moeller 
chandise  and  produce  business.

Muskegon—Towne  Bros,  have 

just 
sent  out  another  wagon  to 
introduce 
their  line  of  groceries  and  druggists' 
sundries.

Union  City— Geo.  Spring,  hardware 
dealer at  this  place,  has  begun  the  erec­
tion  of  a  two-story  brick  block,  22x70 
feet  in  dimensions.

Hillsdale— The  stock  of  boots  and 
shoes  owned  by  B.  E  Hinkle  & Co.  has 
been  sold  to  W.  R.  House,  of  Kalama­
zoo,  and  removed  to that  city.

Kalamazoo— The  grocery  firm  of  A.
B.  Scheid  &  Co.  has  been  dissolved,  A. 
B.  Scheid  retiring,  A.  P.  Scheid,  the 
remaining  partner,  succeeding.

Jackson—Oscar  E.  Robbins  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  and  fixtures  of 
O.  E.  Topping  and  will  continue  the 
business  at  607  East  Main  street.

Stittsville— I.  H.  Peck  and  Glenn 
Peck  have  formed  a  copartnership  un­
der  the  style  of  Peck & Son and engaged 
in  the  meat  and  camp  supply  trade.

Jackson— Wm.  Sparks has removed his 
grocery  stock  from  702 South Milwaukee 
street  to  his  new  store building  at the 
corner of  Center  and  Ganson  streets.

Ludington— Hans  Clausen  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  bis  son,  Charles 
Clausen,  and  J.  P.  Asplund,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at the  same  loca­
tion.

Grandville— Geo.  Hammond  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  Henry  H.  Maston 
in  the  general  stock  of  Maston  &  Ham­
mond  and  will  continue  the  business  in 
his own  name.

Muskegon  Heights— E.  C.  Baumfield, 
general  dealer,  has  removed  his  stock  to 
the  new  double  store  building  recently 
built  for  him  a  few  doors  west  of  his 
former  location.

Lake  City—The  hardware 

firm  of 
Winter  &  Bielby  has  been  dissolved, 
Mr.  Winter  selling  bis  interest  to  Mr. 
Bielby,  who  will  continue  the  business 
in  his own  name.

Conklin— A.  Conklin  has  taken  pos­
session  of  the  entire  drug  stock  and 
enough  of  the  general merchandise stock 
owned  by  John  Gossard  to  satisfy  a 
mortgage  on  same.

Hart—E.  A.  Noret,  implement  deal­
er,  is  erecting  a  two-story  double  brick 
block  with  plate  glass  front. 
It  will  be 
arranged  with  store  space  on  the  first 
floor  and  with  offices  on the second floor.
Douglas—L.  W.  McDonald  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partuer,  Geo. 
H.  Plummer,  in  the  dry  goods,  grocery, 
shoe,  hardware  and  implement  business 
and  also 
in  the  double  two-story  brick 
store  building.

Stockbridge— Trim  &  McGregor have 
sold  their  stock  of  general  merchandise 
to  Frank  V.  Flower and  Alex.  Boutell, 
of  Ypsilanti,  who  have  taken  possession 
of  the  stock  under  the  firm  name  of 
Flower  &  Boutell.

Jackson—J.  B.  Champlin  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  and  fixtures  of 
J.  W.  McLetcbie  at  501  First street  and 
added  to  it  his  stock  at  411  First  street, 
removing  to  the  former  location.  Mr. 
McLetcbie  has  resumed  his  former  oc­
cupation  of  commercial  traveler.

Barryton—The  hardware and furniture 
firm  of  Wilson,  Geiger  &  Co.  has  been 
dissolved  by  mutual  consent,  Mr.  Wil­
son  retiring  from  the  business.  His 
place  in  the  firm  has  been  taken  by  C. 
J.  Cawley,  of  Greenville.  The  new  firm 
will  carry  on  business  along  the  same 
lines  as  before.

Allegan—Chas.  B.  Thomas  has  pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  and  fixtures of the 
City  drug  store,  bought  by  H.  F.  Marsh 
a  few  weeks  ago  of  W.  L.  Baldwin,  and 
is  preparing  to move them toCassopolis, 
where  he  will  go  into  business  for  him­
self.  He was  formerly  pharmacist  in  W. 
J.  Garrod’s  drug  store.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Bay  City—The  hardwood  lumber  firm 
of  L.  E.  Noyes  &  Son  has  been  dis­
solved,  Lyman  E.  Noyes  succeeding.

Ovid—The  new  grist  mill which is be­
ing  built  by  Robert  Hyslop  will  be 
ready  for  operation  in  about  two  weeks.
Ravenna— H.  C.  Starks has decided to 
erect  and  equip  a  flouring  mill  at either 
Moorland  or  Franksville.  Both  towns 
are  bidding  for  the  institution.

Jackson— The  firm  of  Keeley  &  Crow­
ley,  boiler  makers  and  plumbers,  has 
been  dissolved.  Mr.  Keeley  has  opened 
a  shop  on  West  Pearl  street  and  Mr. 
Crowley  continues  business  at the  old 
stand.

Detroit— The  Continental  Paper Pack­
incorpora­
age  Co.  has  fiied  articles  of 
tion.  Capital  stock,  $12,000.  The 
in­
corporators  are  John  Archer,  Charles  E. 
Wisner  and  George  W.  Wool,  equal 
shares.

West  Branch—Work  on  the  new  flour­
ing  mill  being  built  by  the  West 
Branch  Milling  Co.  is  progressing  nice­
ly  and 
it  will  be  completed  and  run­
ning  by  Sept.  1.  It  will  have  a  capacity 
of  50  barrels  of  flour  daily,  and  wiil  be 
much  appreciated  by  the  farmers  of 
Ogemaw  county.

Detroit—The  Best  Wire  Fence  Co. 
has  filed  articles  of  incorporation.  The 
capital 
is  $40,000,  of  which  $10,520  is 
paid  in.  Tbe  stockholders  are:  Charles 
F.  Farrar,  Howell,  900 shares;  Alfred
A.  Mann  and  William  F.  Scbmeltz,  of 
Detroit,  75  shares  each,  and  Lemuel  H. 
Foster,  Detroit,  2 shares.

Benton  Harbor—J.  Sanford  Harger, 
President  of  the  Premier  Acetylene 
Generator  Co.,  of  Chicago,  came  here 
last  Thursday  to  adjust  one  of  bis  gas 
machines  which  refused  to  work.  An 
explosion  followed.  Three  bad  boles 
were  blown  in  his  face.  A  doctor  was 
called  and  took  a  dozen  stitches.

C. 

J.  Monroe,  South  Haven :  The  ap­

Status  o f  the  Michigan  Apple  Crop.

The  Tradesman recently addressed en­
in  the 
quiries  to  gentlemen 
different  apple  districts  of  tbe  State 
as 
tbe  crop. 
The  replies  thus  far  received  are  as  fol­
lows :

tbe  condition  of 

located 

to 

H.  Montague,  Traverse  C ity:  The 
yield  is  reported  as  quite  uneven—some 
orchards  a  full  crop,  others  a  half  crop, 
and  a  few  with  very  little  fruit.  We 
would 
infer  from  all  information  that 
we  will  have  about  two  thirds  of  a crop. 
Tbe quality  is  said  to  be  fair.  The  first 
shipment  of  early  apples  was  made 
from  Old  Mission  yesterday,  July  23, 
via  Steamer  Charlevoix  for  Chicago. 
This 
is  the  earliest  shipment  we  have 
ever heard  of  from  this  section,  and  we 
are  of  the  opinion  that  apples  on  the 
trees  are  more advanced  than  common 
at  this  time  of  tbe  year.

A.  B.  Taylor,  Saugatuck:  So  far  as 
lean  learn,there will  be about  one-third 
of  an  apple  crop  on  the  Lake  shore. 
Quality  of  early  apples,  poor.  Season­
able  weather 
is  causing  them  to  ripen 
full  earlier than  usual.  Winter  apples 
seem  to  be  somewhat  less  than  usual but 
tbe  quality  will  be  above  the  average.

ple  crop 
in  this  vicinity  bids  fair  to 
be  one  of  the  best,  as  to  quality  and 
quantity,  we  have  raised  in  years. 
It 
looks  now  as  though  the  crop  would 
mature  earlier  than  usual.

E.  H.  Lake,  Holly:  Our  apple  crop 
will  be  about  50  per  cent,  of  an  average 
crop.  Do  not  think  rain  will  make  the 
crop  earlier,  unless  followed  by  plenty 
of  rain  from  now  on.  It  has  stopped  the 
excessive  falling  off  and  made  them 
noimal  size  at  this  season,  but  no  ex­
cessive  growth.  We  are  again  in  need 
of  rain  for  spring  crops,  such  as  beans 
and  potatoes,  although  not  suffering. 
Everything  at  present  writing  is  look­
ing  finer  than  usual  at  this  season.

Samuel  Moffett,  Flint:  Report  of  ap­
ple  crop  for  this  vicinity  is not encoura­
ging.  Tbe  early  fall  apples  are almost 
a  total  failure  and  winter  apples do  not 
promise over  one-quarter to  one-half  of 
an  average  crop.  The  few  early  apples 
that  are  coming 
into  market  are  very 
inferior,  both  in  size and  quality.

L.  Frensdorf  & Son,  Hudson :  We find 
the  general  opinion  to  be  that  the  apple 
crop  will  be  a  very  light  one.  The  ap­
ples  are  small  and  a large  percentage  of 
them  have  fallen.

Evolution  of  the  Floorwalker.

Notwithstanding the remarkable  prog­
ress  of  the  Nineteenth  Century,  men 
have  not  forgotten  their old  idea  of  hos­
pitality,  but  it  has  been  developed  in 
new  fields.  With  all  the  huge  associa­
tions  and  conventions  which  the  last 
fifty years has brought  forth, the ‘ ‘ recep­
tion”   committee  has  been  brought to  its 
perfection,  and  there  has  been  a  divi­
sion  of 
labor  among  such  other  com­
mittees  as  the  entertainment,  refresh­
ment,  and  so  on,  so  that  tbe  wheels  of 
progress  along  many 
lines  have been 
oiled  with  good  feeling.  But  in  busi­
ness,  too,  has  this  been  the  case.  No 
large  modern  establishment  is now with­
out  its  floorwalker.  He  is  an  evolution 
from  the  reception  committee. 
In  the 
language of  tbe  ragamuffin  he  might  be 
called  the  official  “ jollier”   of  his  con­
cern.

In  tbe  olden  times  when  mercantile 
establishments  were  not  of  the  prodi­
gious  size  that  they  have  of  late at­
tained,  there  was  no  need  of  such  an 
official  as  tbe  floorwalker.  One  shop 
bad  tallow  candles  for  sale,  another

it 

is 

But 

floorwalker. 

powder  and  bullets,  and  a  third  shoes, 
and  each  often  had  but  the  one  person 
in  the  three  titles—proprietor,  clerk, 
and 
times  have 
changed,  and  buildings  have  grown 
story  by  story,  until 
is  without  tbe 
power of  the  customer  to  tell,  as  be  en­
ters  a  store,  just  what  is  for  sale  there. 
Like as  not  the  tallow  candles,  powder 
and  shot,  and  shoes  can  all  be found un­
der  the  same  roof,  with many  things  be­
sides.  People  would  be  absolutely  lost 
in  many  of  the  big  department  stores  if 
it  were  not  for  the  presence of  the  men 
at  the  door to  show  them  where  to  go, 
tell  them  on  what  floor  this  class  of 
goods  is  to  be  found,  or  whether that  is 
kept  at all.  So  he  has  come  to  be an 
important  part  of  the  modern  commer­
cial  house.  He 
like  the  reception 
committee 
in  a  modern  church,  whose 
purpose  is to  welcome  the  arrivals  and 
make  them  feel  at  home.  He  must  be 
a  man  of  exceptional  judgment,  a  good 
reader  of  human  nature,  pleasing  pres­
ence,  nice  address,  and  must  have  an 
inexhaustible  supply  of  good  humor. 
He  must  read  in  the  face  of  the  man  or 
woman  who  enters  whether  or not  that 
person 
in  need  of  information,  and 
also  something  of  his  or her disposition. 
He  must  be  prompt  in  his  offer  of  as­
sistance  to  those  whom  be  sees  need  it, 
and  he  must  as  well  refrain  from  ap­
proaching  those  who  do  not  need  it. 
There  are  always  some  people  who 
would  prefer  to  be  left to  themselves 
when  they  go  shopping  and  who  resent 
any 
interference  with  their  peculiar 
manner.  These  the  floorwalker  must be 
careful  to  avoid,  or,  if  be  does  mistake 
them,  to  make  bis  advances  with  such 
delicacy  that  they  can  not  take  offense. 
There  are  all  sorts  and  conditions  of 
men  and  women  who  shop,  and  tbe 
floorwalker  meets  most  of  them.  He 
must,  therefore,  be  tactful  and  cautious. 
But  the  trait  that  be  must  possess  above 
all  tbe  others 
is  that  of  being  always 
jolly,  of  having  a  pleasant  word  and  a 
smile  for  everyone  who  comes.  He  can 
have  no  "b lu e”   days,  not  he,  for people 
do  not  like being  met  at  the  door  by  a 
sour  countenance  and  a  moody  look.

is 

Death  o f  H.  K.  Thurber.

H.  K.  Thurber, 

founder  of  the 
wholesale grocery  house  of  H.  K.  Thur­
ber  &  Co.,  at  one  time  the largest estab­
lishment  of  tbe  kind 
in  the  United 
States,  died  July  20  at  Hailey,  Idaho. 
He  was  born at Delhi,  Delaware  county, 
N.  Y.,  71  years  ago,  began  bis  business 
career as  a  clerk  in  the  Delaware Bank, 
and  afterward  embarked  in  the  grocery 
business  at  Addison,  Steuben  county, 
N.  Y.  About 1858  he  entered  into  part­
nership  with  the  late  John  F.  Pupke, 
under the  firm  name  of  Pupke  &  Thur­
ber,  doing  business  on  Chambers street, 
New  York. 
In  1866  this  firm  dissolved, 
and  Mr.  Thurber continued  tbe  business 
under  the  name  of  H.  K.  Thurber  & 
Co., associating  with him as junior part­
ners,  bis  brother,  F.  B.  Thurber,  and 
Stephen  L.  Bardash.  In  1884 Mr.  Thur­
ber  retired  from  the  active  management 
of  the  business,  remaining,  however, 
as  a  special  partner  in  the  firm,  which 
then  became  Thurber,  Whyland  &  Co.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Manton—The  Williams  Bros.  Co.  has 
a  new  clerk  in  the person of Orson Park, 
of  Alden.

Cassopolis— E.  J.  Hopkins  has  taken 
a  position  in  tbe  grocery  store of  Grant
C.  Underbill.

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

Grand  Rapids  Oossip
A.  Van  Dusen  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Bangor.  The  Musselman  Gro­
cer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Tbeo.  Thompson has opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Cedar  City.  The  Worden  Gro­
cer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

C.  Kos has  opened  a  grocery  store  at 
196  South  Prospect  street,  purchasing 
his  stock  of  the  Olney  &  Judson  Gro­
cer Co. 

_____________

Crandall  &  Moore  have  engaged  in 
the  giocery  business  at  Pomona.  The 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  furnished 
the  stock.

Jas.  Bisnett,  shoe  dealer  at  South 
Arm,  has  added  a 
line  of  groceries. 
The  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  fur­
nished  the  stock.

Jesse  Van  Duinen, 

formerly  junior 
member  of  the  grocery  firm  of  Buys  & 
Van  Duinen,  will  shortly  engage  in  the 
grocery  business  on  East  Fulton  street 
on  his  own  account.  The  Olney  &  Jud­
son  Grocer  Co.  has  the  order  for  the 
stock. 

_____________

A.  Vidro,  the  Stocking  street  general 
dealer,  has  taken  possession  of  his  new 
summer  cottage  at  Highland  Park.  Mr. 
Vidro  is  one  of  those  patient toilers who 
achieve  success by keeping everlastingly 
at  it  and  his  friends  rejoice with him  in 
that  he  is  on  the  sunny  side  of  Easy 
street.

Stroup  &  Carmer,  who  have  carried 
on  a  wholesale  produce  business  several 
years  at  Perrinton,  have removed  to  this 
city  and  engaged 
in  business  at  38 
South  Division  street  under  the  same 
firm  name.  The  business  will  be  under 
the  direct  personal  supervision  of F.  E. 
Stroup.

At  the  meeting  of  the  local  grocery 
clerks,  held  last  evening  at  the  office  of 
the  Michigan  Tradesman,  a  temporary 
organization  was  effected  in preparation 
for  the  grocers’  parade  and  picnic  to 
be held  Aug.  3  at  Reed’s  Lake,  and 
in 
which  the  clerks  will  take  an  active 
part.  F.  M.  Sterling  was  elected  chair­
man  and  Herbert  Lehnen  was  made 
secretary  of  the  temporary  organization. 
A  committee  consisting  of  Jacob  Hart- 
ger,  Ernest  Bratt,  Frank  M.  Van  Buren 
and  F.  M.  Sterling  was  appointed  to 
purchase  costumes  for the parade,  which 
takes  place  at  10 o’clock  in  the  morn­
ing  of  Aug.  3.  Another  meeting  of  the 
clerks  will  be  held  next  Monday  night.

It  is a  matter of  common  remark  that 
no  city  of 
its  size  observes  the  early 
closing  movement  more  generally  than 
Grand  Rapids.  This  movement  was 
inaugurated  by  the  Retail  Grocers’  As­
sociation,  which  is  quite as  remarkable 
for  the  things 
it  has  accomplished  as 
the things  it  has  not  succeeded  in  mas­
tering.  A  few  small  dealers 
in  the 
suburbs  continue  to  remain open beyond 
7  o’clock,  but  the  number  is  so  small 
and  the  patronage  secured  is  so  meager 
that  an  isolated  break  in  the  ranks  pro­
vokes  no  alarm.  Occasionally  some 
downtown  dealer  tries  the  experiment 
of  keeping  open  beyond  the  schedule 
time,  but  the  experience  of  a  few  even­
ings demonstrates  that  the  people  have 
ceased  to  buy  goods  except  in  the  day­
time  to  that  extent  that  the  evening 
trade does  not  pay  for the  gas  burned. 
At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Retail  Gro­
cers’  Association  a  member  stated  that 
if  the  organization  bad  never accom­

plished  anything  but  the  adoption  of 
the  early  closing  movement,  that  alone 
justified  its  existence.

insight 

To  be  out  of  fashion  is  like  being  out 
of  the  world. 
It  is  fashionable  for peo­
ple  to go  somewhere  in  the summer.  No 
matter how  much  comfort  they  leave  at 
home  and  how 
little  they  find  at  the 
places  they  go  to,  they  must  go,  all  the 
same.  A  local  thinker  insists  that  it  is 
hotter  at  Ottawa  Beach  or  Bay  View 
than  on  your own  piazza,  but  the  sum­
mer  resort  remedy  will  assert 
itself, 
possibly  for the  simple reason ihat  it  in­
volves  a  change  in  your  mode  of  life. 
Health  and  scenery  aside,  where  can 
you  study  human  nature  under  circum­
stances  so  favorable  as  obtain  at  the 
summer  resort?  After a  brief  stay  in  the 
country  you  find  yourself  upon  terms  of 
the  most 
intimate  acquaintance  with 
the  animal  world—the  horses,  cattle, 
dogs,  poultry,  mosquitoes and  flies—and 
to  have  got  quite  an 
into  the 
character  of  the  humans  with  whom  you 
are  brought  into  contact.  The  average 
urban  mortal  upon  changing  over  to 
country  or  shore  seems  to  feel  called 
upon  to  exhibit  himself  and  to illustrate 
the  show  by  a  running  account  of  his 
life  and  doings  since  babyhood.  There 
may  be  more  or  less  fiction  in  his  story, 
but  if  you  are  possessed  of  ordinary  an­
it  will  not  be  difficult  to 
alytic  powers 
separate  fiction  from  fact. 
is  worth 
going  away  to  see the  dress  parade of 
the  women. 
it  is  the  rule 
not  to  fix  up.  There  is  given  you  an 
opportunity  to  see  what  scarecrows  the 
dear  creatures  can  make  of  themselves 
—the  city  dear  creatures,  mind  you;  for 
the  country  women  are  at 
least  pictur­
esque  in  very  nearly  the  same  garb  that 
renders  the  woman  from  the  city  what 
they  call  a  “ sight.”   When,  on  the  con­
trary,  the  programme  is  a  dress  parade, 
it 
is  worth  going  miles  to  see  how  the 
dress  wearers  will  fuss  and  contrive  to 
make  the  best  possible  display  of  their 
garmental 
in 
short,  scores  of  reasons  for  you  to  get 
away  from  town  to  one  reason  for  re­
maining 
it.  Wherever  you  go  you 
will  return  refreshed  and  with new ideas 
—and  you  know  you  are sadly in need  of 
them.

There  are, 

Sometimes 

treasures. 

in 

It 

Grand  Haven  Coming  in  Full  Force.
Grand  Haven,  July  24—We  are  com­
ing  to  the  picnic  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Retail  Grocers’  Association 
1,000 
strong.  Have  made  arrangements  for 
special  train  service  over  the  D.,  G. 
H.  &  M.  Railway  and  expect  to  arrive 
in  Grand  Rapids  at  9  o’clock  in  the 
morning.  We  will  close our  doors  dur­
ing  the  day  and  expect  that  the  dry 
goods  and  other  dealers  will  do  the 
same.  We  have  appointed  the  follow­
ing  Vice-Presidents  for  the  day :  John 
Cook,  Bert  Bolt,  D.  Gale,  A.  VanToll, 
P.  VerDuin,  John  Hoffman,  G.  Vette, 
Wm.  Baker,  P.  Van  Lopik,  J.  Ball,  J. 
M.  Cook,  J.  Juistema,  Stephen Brouwer, 
Ed.  Hollestelle,  John  Boer,  C.  N.  Ad­
dison,  D.  A.  Lane,  P.  Van  Woerkom, 
G.  Vanden  Bosch,  K.  T.  Vanden 
Bosch,  G.  A.  Bottje,  Fred  Pfaff,  B  V. 
D.  Boomgaard,  G.  Arkema,  Aril  Kooi- 
man,  G.  L.  Lagman  and  Jacob  Baar; 
R.  Osterbof,  Ferrysburg;  A.  Falls,  Geo. 
Schwab,  John  Mulder,  Spring  L ake;  J. 
Stender,  Agnew;  Andrew  White,  Bass 
River;  J.  F.  Parkburst,  Nunica.

Jo h n  V e r h o e k s,  Sec‘y.

Glass  Lamps  Advanced.

Manufacturers  of  decorated  glass 
lamps  have advanced  prices  from  10 to 
20  per cent,  by  common  consent.  If  the 
present  brisk  trade  continues  a  further 
advance  may  be  made  later.  Many  fac­
tories  are  unable  to  fill  their orders.

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades  and  prices,  phone Visner,  80a

to  30  pounds— held  at  22@2$c. 
Indiana 
Sweethearts  are  expected  to  begin  to ar­
rive  next  week.

Whortleberries— Receipts  are 

large, 
but  the  quality  is  generally  poor,  which 
has  a  tendency  to  bold  down  prices. 
Dealers  pay  $1  5o@$2  for  shipping 
stock,  but  some  soft  receipts  have  sold 
as  low  as $1.

The  Grain  Market.

is 

Wheat  has  hovered  amid  present  low 
prices,  as  the  receipts  have  maintained 
the  large  proportions  until  to-day,  when 
there  were  signs  of  being  a 
let-up,  and 
the  market  at  once  became  strong  and 
made  an  advance  of  ic.  The  trade  at 
last  seems  to  recognize  the  position  the 
wheat  market 
in—that  it  is  too  low 
for  present  conditions ;  that is,  the  short 
crop.  Threshers’  returns  are  disap­
pointing,  with  the  exception  of  a  few 
districts  in  Michigan.  Farmers  claim 
only  about  enough  threshed  for seed  and 
bread.  This  certainly  is  not  encoura­
ging  to  the  farmers.  However,  all of  the 
other  crops  seem  to  be  in fair condition, 
so  they  do  not  find  much  fault.  The 
prices  for cash  and  futures  are identical 
with  same  day  one  week  ago.  The  vis­
ible  made  another  gain,  but  not  as 
much  as  was  expected,  as  it  was  only 
1,462,000  bushels 
increase.  This  ex­
tremely  hot  weather  is  not  very  benefi­
cent  to  the  spring  wheat  which  is  not 
ripe.

Corn  is  rather  off  in  price  for  futures, 
but  it  looks  as  if  prices  will  be  better, 
as  the  crop  outlook  is  not  as  favorable 
as  it  was  some  days  ago.

Oats  remain  firm,  as  the  crop  pros­
pects  are  rather  below  aveiage.  Wet 
weather  was  a  detriment  to  the  crop.

Rye  has,  as  was  predicted,  sagged off 
4c  per  bushel  for  old  crop  since  last 
week,  and  new  crop 
is  way  below— 
nearly  14c  per  bushel.

Receipts  of  grain  have  been  moder­
ate,  being  58  cars  of  wheat,  11  cars  of 
corn,  6 cars  of  oats.

Millers are  paying  67c  for old  and  65c 

for new  wheat. 

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t.

How  Muskegon 

Is  Conning  to  the 

Grocers’  Picnic.

Muskegon,  July  24—The  members  of 
the  Muskegon  Retail  Grocers'  Associa­
tion  and  their  guests  are  going  to Grand 
Rapids  via  the  G.  R.  &  I.  Railroad, 
leaving  Muskegon  ai  8:10 a.  m.,  and ar­
riving  at  Grand  Rapids  at  9 '.30 o’clock. 
We  expect  a 
large  crowd.  Grocers, 
butchers  and  bakers  will  all  close  and  I 
think  the  dry  goods  stores  will  close 
also. 
I  enclose  herewith  a  list  of  our 
officers  and  committees,  which  we 
should  be  pleased  to  see  published  in 
the  Tradesman.

The  offi:ers  and  committees  referred 

D. A. Boelkins, Sec’y. 

to  are  as  follows:

President—Albert  Towl.
Secretary— D.  A.  Boelkins.
Treasurer—J.  W.  Carskadon. 
Vice-Presidents— D.  Christie,  H.  B. 
Smith,  Herbert  Brown,  John  Mellema.
Butchers’  Vice-Presidents—John  Al­
bers,  Wm.  Castenbolz,  Martin  Birch, 
Chas.  Schoenberg,  Chas.  D.  Richards, 
W.  J.  Smith.

Committee  on  Arrangements—Aug. 
Riedel,  W.  H.  Read,  Jos.  L.  Balbernie,
D.  A.  Boelkins.

Honorary  Vice-Presidents—W.  H. 
Barney,  C.  H.  Hackley,  C.  T.  Hills,  C. 
C.  Billingburst,  L.  B.  Smith,  Col.  J. 
R.  Bennett,  Wm.  D.  Hardy,  Geo. 
Hume,  F.  Jiroch,  Jas.  Frazer,  Fred 
Brundage,  John  A.  Snyder,  Sam Rosen, 
Dr.  J.  F.  Denslow,  Frank  Alberts,  E.
B.  Dana,  Wm.  Steketee,  L.  E.  Man­
ning,  H.  G.  Wanty,  J.  Geo.  Dratz,  E. 
L.  McDonalds,  C.  F.  Clugston,  Thos. 
Hume,  Thos.  Monroe,  G.  A.  Abbott, 
Ed.  Kraai,  Mat  Wilson,  A.  P.  Conner, 
H.  N.  Hovey,  L.  N.  Keating,  John 
Emery,  C.  H.  Hills,  I.  P.  Newton,  L. 
A.  Smith,  Wm.  Moore,  P.  A.  Martin, 
L.  Friedman,  S.  H.  Gray.

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

5

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Cooking  stock  is  in  plentiful 
supply  at $1.50® 1.75  per  bbl.  Red  As- 
trachans  and  Early  Harvest  command 
$1  75@$2  per  bbl.  Duchess  fetch  about 
25c  per  bbl.  more.
Beans—The growing  crop  is  looking 
fine,  but  the  rains  which  have  been  so 
frequent  of  late  must  stop  for  a  time  to 
enable  them  to  pod  well,  as  too  much 
rain  causes  them  to  run  to  vines.  The 
crop  will  be  harvested  in  the  southern 
part  of  the  State  from  the  10th  to  the 
15th  of  August  and  in  the  northern  pa;t 
from  the  20th  to  the  25th  of  August, 
and,  unless  all  signs  fail  and  the  damp 
weather  of  the  past  thr^e  months  con­
tinues,  the  crop  will  be  large  and  fine.

Beets—40c  per  bu.
Blackberries—$1 @1.25  per 

16  qt. 

crate.  The  crop  is  nearly  at  an  end.

Butter— Receipts  on  dairy  grades  are 
mostly  so  poor  in  quality  that  the  retail 
grocers  are  compelled  to  fall  back  on 
factory  creamery,  which  is  in  good  de­
mand  at  18c.  Fancy  dairy  commands 
15c.

Cabbage—4o@5oc  per  doz.,  accord­
in 

ing  to  size.  Receipts  are 
amount  and  fine  in  quality.

large 

Carrots—40c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—$1  per  doz.
Celery— i 6 @ i 8 c  per  doz.  Receipts 

are  heavy  and  quality  is  superb.
Cucumbers— Greenhouse  stock  fetches 
i5@2oc  per  doz.  Garden  stock  com­
mands  75c  per bu.

Currants— Black  command  $1.40  per 
16  qt.  crate.  Red  and  White  fetch 
6o@75c.
Eggs— Receipts  are  larger,  but  the 
quality  is  getting  poorer.  Dealers  pay 
io>£@iic,  holding choice  candled  at  13c 
and  dirties and  small  eggs  at  12c.
@i2c.  Black  Seed  command  9@ioc.

Green  Onions— Silver  Skins  fetch  10 
Honey—White  Clover  is  scarce,  com­
fetches 

manding  I2j£c.  Dark  amber 
8@ioc.
per bu.  for  head.

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

Live  Poultry—The  market 

is  weak 
and 
lower,  on  account  of  the  warm 
weather  and  the  large  number  of  peo­
ple  out  of  the  city.  Broilers  are  dull  at 
io@i2c.  Fat  hens  are  in  fair  demand 
at  6@6)£c,  while  medium  hens  are  in 
strong  demand  at  7c.  Spring  ducks  are 
in  fair  demand  at  9c,  while  old  ducks 
are  slow  sale  at  7c.  Hen  turkeys  find 
ready  sale  at  10c.  Large  turkeys  are  in 
fair demand  at  7c.  Squabs  are  in  good 
demand  at  $1.25  per  doz.  Pigeons  ate 
in  fair  demand  at  50c  per  doz.

Muskmelons—Texas  Rockyfords  fetch 
Sr.25  per  doz.  Cantaloupes  command 
85c.  per  doz.  Little  Gems  are held  at 
60c  per  basket.

Onions— Home  grown  are 

in  moder­
ate  demand  at  75c  per  bu.  Illinois stock 
is  in  fair  demand  at $i. i5@i,25  per  bu.
Peaches— Alexanders  are  coming  in 
freely,  commanding  $1.50  per  bu.  and 
40c  per  1-5  bu.  basket.

Pieplant—50c  per  basket  of  50  lbs.
Peas—Marrowfats  command  65@75c 

per  bu.

in 

Potatoes— Home  grown  is  now  com­
ing 
in  sufficient  quantities  to  meet 
the  consumption  and  shipping  demands 
of  this  market.  The price ranges  around 
40@45c  for choice  stock,  although a car­
load  of  wilted  stock  from  the  South  was 
closed  out  Tuesday  at 20c.  July has been 
an 
ideal  month  for  potatoes,  inasmuch 
as  we  have  had  frequent  showers  which 
have  penetrated  the  earth  and  cannot 
help  having  a  good  effect  on  the  size 
and  quality  of  the  crop,  except on heavy 
land,  where  the  rains  have  tended  to 
make  the  ground  so  moist  that  the 
growers  cannot  cultivate  it.  The  acre­
age  is  certainly  in  excess  of  last  year, 
many  farmers  having  plowed  up  their 
wheat  to  put  in  potatoes.

@6oc  per  bu.  box.

Radishes—8c  per  doz.  bunches.
Squash— Home  grown  commands  5o 
Sweet  Corn— 10c  per  doz.
Tomatoes— Home  grown  are  now  in 
market,  commanding  $1  per  %  bu.  bas­
ket.  The  quality  of  the  receipts  thus 
far  has  been  fine.

Turnips—35c  per bu.
Watermelons— Missouri 

in 
ample  supply  at  prices  ranging  from  12 
@2oc,  with  Jumbos— weighing  from  25

stock 

is 

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

W o m a n ’s  W o rld
Womanly  Progress  and  the  Comforts 

o f  Traveling.

Somehow  1  never  seem  to  get  so clear
an 
idea  of  what  modern  progress  has 
done  for  women  as  when  I  take  a  little 
journey 
in  the  world  and  meet  my 
emancipated  sisters  on 
their  travels. 
Tim e  was,  and  not  so  long  ago  either, 
when  a  woman  could  not  stir  from  her 
moorings 
in  her  own  home  without  she 
was  convoyed  by  a  man  of war.  She had 
to be  “ escorted" 
from  Grand  Rapids 
to  Petoskey  and,  if  necessity  forced  her 
to  go  a  few  miles  alone,  she  undertook 
the  trip  with  fear and  trembling,  and 
upon  her  arrival  at  her  destination 
offered  up  prayers  and  thanksgiving  for 
her  miraculous  escape.  Hotels  bestowed 
a  cold,  Klondike  sort  of  welcome  upon 
the  lone  woman  traveler,  even when they 
did  not  refuse  her  admittance  outright, 
and  she  was  generally  looked  upon  with 
suspicion  as  an  adventurous  person  who 
had  better  be at  home.

Nowadays  we  have  changed  all  that. 
The  leisure class  in  this  country  is com­
posed  chiefly  of  people of  the  feminine 
persuasion,  and  a  large  and  constantly 
increasing  proportion  ot  the  traveling 
public  is  made  up  of  women. 
In  the 
sailing  lists  of  ships  her  name  leads  all 
the  rest,  and  on  the  sleepers she monop­
olizes  the  “ lower  middle"  from  Maine 
to  California.  No  woman  waits  now  for 
a  man  to  “ tote”   her  around  on his arm. 
If  she  has  the  money  and  a  desire 
“ strange  countries 
for  to  see,"  she 
packs  her  grip  and  buys  her  ticket  and 
sallies  forth  as  fearlessly  and  simply  as 
a  man,  certain  that  for  her  benefit  rail­
roads  have  made  special  arrangements, 
and  hotel  clerks  reserve  the  first  floor 
front  and  their  smartest  smiles  of  wel­
come.

Also  she 

is  learning  bow  to  travel. 
Thanks  be,  the  lady  with  the  band  box 
and  the  bird  cage  is  almost  as  extinct 
as  the  dodo,  and  the  practical  new 
woman  has  learned  that  the  nearer  one 
can  reduce  her  luggage  to  a  clean collar 
and  a  tooth  brush,  the  nearer  she 
is  to 
having  solved  the  problem  of  comfort­
able  traveling.  Reforms  are  not  worked 
in  a  day,however.  There  are  still  wom­
en  who  persist  in  going  loaded  down  to 
the  guards  with  an  assorted  miscellany 
of  traveling  impediments,  and  we  still 
have  with  us  the  selfish  creature  who 
appropriates  the  dressing-room 
in  the 
morning  and  who  massages  her wrinkles 
and  curls  her  hair,  while  her  angry 
sisters  beat  on the door and anathematize 
her 
in  vain,  but  happily  she  is  not  so 
numerous as  she  used  to  be  and  is  giv­

ing  away  before  popular  clamor.  • There 
is  also  the  woman  who  sits  up  in  stony 
silence,  and  who  rejects  all  overtures  of 
her  fellow-passengers  with an expression 
that  says  as  plainly  as  words  that,  *' I 
suspect  you,  one  and  all,  of  being  con­
fidence  people,  and  I  don’t  hold  any­
body's  baby  while they go out to lunch. ”  
She,  too, 
is  seldomer  seen  now  than 
formerly,  and  a  worn  traveler  may 
forward  to  a  future 
cheerfully 
when  women 
thrown  together  for  a 
journey  will  show  to  each  other  the 
same  consideration, 
friendliness  and 
bone  camaraderie  men  extend  to  one 
another.  I  know  an  old  lady  who proud­
ly  boasts  that  she  once  made the journey 
from  Grand  Rapids to  New  York,  and 
never  spoke  to  a  single  person  on  the 
It  may  have  been  proper, 
whole trip. 
but  how  awfully  stupid 
it  must  have 
been!

look 

Probably  there  is  no  other  feature  of 
modern  traveling  that  meets  with  such 
general  approval  as  the  dining  car  sys­
tem.  Formerly  travelers  had  only  a 
choice  between  the  hard-boiled  eggs 
and mushy  cake  of the  cold lunch basket 
and  the  tough  steak  of  the  twenty-min­
ute  eating  station,  with  indigestion  and 
repentance  waiting  in  either  case.  Now 
you  may  dine  luxuriously  and 
leisurely 
en  route,  with  the  car  measuring  off  the 
miles of  a  comfortable  journey  between 
the  soup  and  the  coffee.
The  real  dining  car 

is  a  complete 
hotel  in  miniature  on  wheels;  but  there 
are  few  of  them—worse  luck— running 
in  or  out  of  Grand  Rapids,  and  what 
we  are  most  familiar  with  is  its  under­
study,  the  buffet  car,  where  the  porter 
resolves  himself  into the chef,  and  does 
mysterious  things  in  the  way  of  provid­
ing  chicken  a  la  marengo,  and  fillets  of 
beef  and  bottled  things  for  a  hungry 
and  thirsty  public.

I  confess  that  for  me  this  miniature 
kitchen,  with  its  tiny  stove,and  rows  of 
plates  and  silver  and  glass  tucked 
away  securely  in  tiny cupboards,  has al­
ways  had  a  peculiar  fascination,  and  so 
the  other  day  when  I  was  in  Chicago  I 
went  down  to  the  big,  brown  stone 
building  on Michigan avenue  where the 
hotel-on-wheels  people  have  their  bead- 
quarters,  and  asked  them  to  tell  me 
something  about  the  housekeeping  of  a 
palace  car.  Down  on  the  ground  floor 
was  a  half-open  door, 
from  which 
drifted  an  odor  of  sugar  and  spice  and 
everything  nice,  and  in  its  midst,  with 
bis  hands  full  of  printed  forms,  stood 
the  genial  gentleman  in  charge  of  the 
commissary  department.

It  was  a  big  room  that  looked  like  a 
department  store.  There  were  drawers 
full  of  silver  knives  and 
forks  and

spoons;  aud  boxes  filled  up  with  silver 
teapots  and  coffee  pots  and  chocolate 
pots. 
There  were  racks  of  dishes, 
enough  to  furnish  scores  of  houses,  with 
water  glasses  and  beer  glasses,  and 
champagne  and  sherry  and  claret  and 
whisky  glasses, 
for  the  palace  car 
patrons  are  fastidious  people  with  a 
nice taste  in  table  furnishing;  and,  in 
addition  to  silver  and  crockery,  were 
stacks  and  stacks  of  groceries,  and 
liquors  enough  to float  a  ship.

“ You  see,"  said  the  gentleman,  do­
ing  the  honors  of  his  place,  “ that  we 
have three  distinct  patterns  in glass and 
china.  This  Haviland  china 
is  used 
exclusively  on  Southern lines;  this other 
on  cars  that  run 
into  Pennsylvania, 
while  this  other—the  tree  pattern— is 
only  used  on  buffet  cars.

“ How  do  we  furnish  a  car?  Pretty 
much  like  you  set  a  bride  up  in  house­
keeping.  First,  of course,  after the  car 
is  completed,  come  the  mattresses  and 
pillows.  Then  comes  the  linen,  which 
must  be  determined  by  the  length  of the 
run.  Say  there  are  twenty-four berths. 
For  a  trip  that  takes  her  out  only  one 
night  she  must have  two  sheets  for  each 
berth,  two  pillow  cases,  with  half  a 
dozen  pairs  for accidents,  several  dozen 
towels,  and  napkins  and  tablecloths. 
If  the  run  is  a  long  one,  like  to Califor­
nia,  the  supply  must  be  multiplied  by 
the  number  of  nights,  so  you  can  see 
the  linen  item  alone  is  enormous.  No 
piece  is  ever  used  but  once  without  be­
ing  washed,  and  the  number  of  pieces 
laundried  in  a  year goes  up  in  the  mil­
lions.  We  have  our  own  laundries, 
where  all  the  washing  for  the  cars  com­
ing  into  Chicago  is  done.

tables, cheese, everyth ing, you know—and 
when  it comes  back  it  is  checked  up, 
and  must  turn 
in  the  money  or  the 
It  is  a  vast  and  complicated 
goods. 
system,  but  so  perfect  we  can  tell  to  a 
single  cap  of  coffee  what  is  Consumed 
on  the  entire  palace  car  system  every 
day.

“ Of  course the  dining  car  is  run 

in 
the  same  way  except  that  it  is  more 
elaborate,  as  on  them  we  furnish  a 
course  dinner,  and  must  provide  fresh 
meats,  fish,  oysters and fresh vegetables. 
It  is,  of  course,  impossible  to  know  be­
forehand  what  will  be  required  and  the 
loss  from  perishable  food  is enormous.

“ What  about  the  cleaning?  Well,  we 
are  one  degree  ahead  of  the  ordinary 
housekeeper  on  that  score,  as our sweep­
ing 
is  mostly  done by  compressed  air. 
When  a  car comes  in  from  a  run we turn 
on  a  pressure  of  air that  sweeps  every­
thing  before  it, and  leaves  the  car  spick 
and  span. 
like  washing  it 
out  with  a  hose,  except  that  we  use  air 
instead  of  water.

is  just 

It 

“ It’s a  big  business?  Yes,  and I often 
wonder  if  the  traveling  public  ever 
think  of  the  system,  the  work,  the  care 
and thought  that are required before they 
can  order  a  meal  or  a  drink  on  a  car 
and  be  served  as  promptly  and  well 
when  dying  through  the  country  at  forty 
or  fifty  miles an  hour  as  if  they  were 
at  home  with  a  grocery  and a saloon just 
around  the  corner. 
It's  a  big  business 
to  be  housekeeper  for  a  company  like 
th is;"  and  the  gentleman  sighed  as  he 
ran  a  practiced  eye  over  a  table filled 
high  with  packages,  each  of  which  bore 
the  name of  a  car being  provisioned  for 
the  night’s  run. 

Dorothy  D ix.

it  makes 

“ Then  comes  the  stocking  of  the 
pantry,  so  to  speak.  A buffet  car carries 
fresh  bread  and  eggs  and  butter  and 
milk,  which  are  supplied  at the  end  of 
each  run,  or  en  route  if  they  give  out. 
Everything  else 
is  canned,  but  with 
the  present  system  of  canned  soups  and 
meats 
it  possible  to give a 
good  meal  with  no  cooking  beyond  the 
beating.  Everything,  even  to  the  coffee, 
is  put  up 
in  tiny  cans,  each  of  which 
bolds  one  portion;"  and  he  took  down 
from  the  shelves  little  cans  that 
looked 
like a  thimble,  but  each  of  which  held 
a  big  spoonful  of  pulverized  coffee,  and 
which  is  designed  to be  made  by  being 
poured 
immersed  in 
boiling  water,  something  after  the  way 
we  make  dripped  coffee.

into  a  bag  and 

“ Meats,  preserves,  pickles,  sardines, 
chocolate,  are all  put  up  in  these  spe­
cial  small  cans  for  us,."  went  on  the 
chief  commissary,  “ and when a cargoes 
out  it  is  charged  with  so  many  cans  of 
each 
thing—chicken,  sausage,  vege­

Men  who  preach  by  the  yard  usually 

practice by  the  inch.

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via the Michigan Central.

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excursion  tickets  to  the  above  places  at  $5.50 
and $12 respectively,  good  going  on  the  morn­
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trains leaving destination not later than August 
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A   country merchant had been  looking  over  the  Tradesman— “kind  of  getting 
posted up a bit,”  he  called  it— and the above comment made to a traveling man 
who was present expressed  the  sentiments  of  not  only  himself,  but  a  great 
many other retailers in  a concise  manner.

Stewart  offers  io per cent,  trade  and 5 per cent,  cash  on  Jaques  Mfg.  Co.’s 

I.  C.  Baking  Powder from  list.

Stewart offers to  sell  from  a 30 lb.  case  up  to  500  lbs.  of  any  Smoking or
Fine  Cut  Tobaccos  handled  by  the  Stewart Co.,  at  5 per  cent,  trade,  and
5  per  cent,  cash  discount  from  listed  prices  ordered  with a  half  chest  of
any  Tea,  leaf  or  dust,  at  any  price  quoted  on  their  Tea  list, this  enabling
any retailer with  cash  in  hand to buy at jobber’s list.

Stewart offers  Laurel  or  Daisy  Best  Minnesota flour,  no  better  brands  in 
the  United  States,  at  $3.90  in  %s  and  ^ s  paper.  First  Patent  Michigan,  %s 
and 
Cloth  at $3.60,  Standard  Second  Patent at $3.30,  Good  Medium  grade
at $2.95,  and  Star of  Bethlehem  low grade in 

cotton  at $2.25 per  barrel.

Stewart  offers the  best  value  in  Roasted  Coffees ever presented to the  re- 
tailers of the  State:  O’Donohue’s 5th  Ave.  at 27c,  a  Fine Java  Blend  at 23c,  a
good  Java  Blend  at  19c,  our  Golden  Blend  at  13^0,  Choice  Santos  Blend  at
lie,  Good  Rio  Blend  at  9c,  our  “ Git  T h ar”  Blend  at 7^c,  the best  Package 
Coffee at $8.50 per case.
Stewart  offers  a  few  “ rib  ticklers”  in the  meat  line:  Breakfast  Bacon  at 
7J4c;  Picnic  Hams  at 6^c;  Wilson  Family  Pork  at  $8.50;  Morgan  Short  Cut 
Pork at $8.90;  Frank  Clifton  Family  Pork  at  $9.90; Heavy  Clear  Back  Pork  at 
$10.90;  Pure  Lard,  60  lb.  tubs,  5^c;  Tins,  5^c;  Armour’s  Potted  Meats,  l/2s, 
60c per doz.;  % s, 30c per doz.

It’s doggone easy to  sell  goods  when  you  can  buy  them  at  these  prices: 
Good  Rice,  2^c;  Muzzy’s  Bulk  starch,  2^c  lb.; packages,  3^c;  Corn  Starch, 
3^c;  Duffy’s  40  grain  Cider  Vinegar,  10c;  Ball  Bros.  Mason  Jars,  pints,  $3; 
quarts,  $3.25;  x/2  gallon,  $4.25 per gross, with an  order  for  one-half  chest  Leaf 
or  Dust Tea at any price quoted on the  Stewart  Co.’s  list— five gross of Jars to 
each  Tea  order;  Rosebud  Peas,  Soaks,  crop  1899,  52c  per doz.;  Fine  Granu­
lated  Sugar,  H.  &   E.,  by  the  sack,  barrel  or  carload,  $5.40.  Remember the 
$4.98  Sugar  deal  with  Tea  expires July  31.  Bayle’s  Horseradish  Mustard,  2 
doz.  yis, jars,  $1.50 per case.  This is a snap  on  a first-class article.  Brooms at 
$1.20,  H.50,  $1.75, *1.95,  #2.10,  $2.40,  $2.50 and $2.75 per doz.  A  Job  Lot of  heavy 
double  Washboards  at $1.50 per  dozen;  regular  price,  $2.25.  Lemons,  choice 
300’s,  $2.95;  fancy 300’s,  $3.45.

All quotations,  unless  time  is specified,  are good  only  for prompt reply, and 
for cash  with  order only;  15c  must  be  added to  local checks for exchange.  Our 
cash  system  enables small  dealers to buy equally as well  as the  large  retailers.

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BU SIN ESS  CO N DITIO N S.

There  seems  to  be  a disposition on the 
part  of  the  great  operators  in  the  stock 
markets  to  take advantage  of  the  vaca­
tion  season  and  get  away  from  the  heat 
and  discomfort  of  the  cities  to  an extent 
which  causes  a  greater  dulness  in  oper­
ations  than  for  many  months  past.  Nat­
urally  there  have  been  attempts  to  take 
advantage  of  the  dulness for  speculative 
bearing  of  prices;  but  the  general 
strength  of  the  situation  prevents  ma­
in  that  direction.  Prices 
terial  result 
hold  with 
little  variation  in  either  di­
rection.

In  the  industries  pressure  of  demand 
is  such  that  the  summer  dulness  seems 
to  cut  little  figure.  Works  arc  sold  so 
far  ahead  that  prices  in  many  lines  are 
quoted  at  a considerable advance,  but  as 
there  can  be  no  transactions  in  many 
cases,this  does  not signify.  These  offers 
really  amount  to  premium  for 
immedi­
ate  delivery  to  meet  the  needs of  emer­
gency  work.  In  a  greater  degree  than  is 
generally  considered,  the  development 
of  exports  since  the  Spanish  war,  espe­
cially  in  machinery,  increases  the  pres­
sure  on 
It  is  a 
matter of  astonishment  that  the  prestige 
gained 
in  our  dealing  with  the  Dons 
should  be  sufficient  to  keep  up  the  de­
mand  against  the  handicap  of  high 
prices;  and 
it  would  not  be  so  if  the 
quality  of  material  and  workmanship 
were  not  so  far  in  the  lead.

industrial  production. 

There 

is  somewhat  of  a  surprise that 
the  crop  year opens  with  so  free  offer­
ings  of  wheat,  especially  in  view  of  the 
fact  that  prices  have  yielded  somewhat. 
The  fact  argues  that  there  is  an  abun­
dance of that grain in store notwithstand­
ing  the  injury  to  the  winter  wheat crop. 
In  three  weeks  of  July  exports  of  wheat 
have  been,  flour  included,  10,430,860 
bushels,  against  7,942  938  last  year,  and 
exports  of  corn  have  been  12,317,177 
bushels,  against  8.055,648  last year.  Re­
ceipts  at  Western  markets  have  been  in 
twenty  days  of  July  13  861  046  bushels, 
against  3.773,108 
in  the  same  days  of 
1898.  Corn  receipts 
in  twenty  days  of 
July  were also  heavy,  15,298.655 bushels, 
against 6,612,315  last  year.

The  situation  as  to  iron  and  its  prod­
ucts  shows  that 
is  more  important 
now  to  watch  the  course  of  the  new 
consuming  demand  than  to  note  the

it 

largely  nominal  prices  named  for the 
small  quantities  which  can  be bought. 
The  production 
is  clearly  increasing, 
and  the  statement  that  thirty-two  more 
mines  have  been  set  at  work  this  year, 
with  others  soon  to  follow,  helps to  meet 
apprehensions  about  ore,  which 
is, 
nevertheless,  in  scanty  supply  at  some 
important  points.

strength 

Textile  conditions  continue  to  show 
increasing 
and  prices  are 
steadily,  though  slowly,  advancing,  just 
enough  to  stimulate  demand.  Woolen 
sales  have  been  heavy  and  the  advance 
of  goods  averages  1  per cent,  for  the 
week  and  2  per  cent,  for the month.  Re­
ceipts  of  cotton  from  plantations  have 
broken  all  records  for  July,  and  yet 
price  is  well  sustained.  The  demand 
for  cotton  goods  has  been  large,  espe­
cially 
in  export  kinds,  of  which  some 
Southern  mills  have  sold  their entire ca­
pacity  up  to  March.  The  shipments  of 
boots  and  shoes,  larger  than  ever before 
in  the  third  week  of July,  presumably 
exceed  new  orders,  and  yet  the  works 
have  enough  to  keep  them busy in  many 
cases  for  several  months ahead.  Leather 
and  hides  both  advanced  a  little  last 
week. 

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TH E  AM ERICAN  LO C O M O TIV E .
The  time  was  when American locomo­
tives,  like  all  other  American  machin­
ery,  except  possibly  reapers  and  a  few 
pieces  of  agricultural  machinery,  were 
used  only  in  the  United  States.  Times 
have  changed,  however,  and  we  not 
only  export  our  locomotives  to  South 
American  countries,  but  to  European 
countries  as  weli. 
It  is  not  long  since 
our  British  cousins  were  startled  by  the 
placing  of  a  large  order  for  locomotives 
by  one  of  the  great  English  railroad 
lines 
It  is  true 
that  it  was  explained  that this order was 
placed  not  because  of any  preference for 
American  engines,  but  because  it  was 
impossible  to  secure  the  supply  needed 
in  English  shops  within  the  time  re­
quired.  The  fact  that  American  manu­
facturers  have  since  secured  other or­
ders,  and  are  reaching  out  into  other 
European  countries  besides  England, 
would  tend  to  show  that  it  is  the  excel­
lence  of  the  American  locomotive that 
has brought  the demand.

in  the  United  States. 

It  has  been  developed  by  this  discus­
sion  as  to  relative  merits  that  foreign 
makers  of  engines  make no  two  locomo­
tives  exactly  alike,  or  upon  a  fixed  sys­
tem  or  pattern ;  whereas  the  American 
builders  are  constantly  making  the  sep 
arate  parts  of  the  engines  upon  models, 
so  that  they  can  supply  any  missing  or 
damaged  part,  and,  by  keeping  sup­
plies  of  the  various  component  parts  of 
the  machine  in  stock,  are  able  to  fill 
orders  promptly,  as  it  is  only  necessary 
for  machinists  to  assemble  the parts,  in­
stead  of  having  to  construct  each  sepa­
rate  engine  after  it  is  ordered.

American 

locomotives  are  now  being 
shipped  to  all  parts  of the  world,  and 
it  is  no  longer  denied  that  it  is  their 
intrinsic  merits  and  worth  that  make 
them  sell.  The  American 
locomotive 
is  now  admitted  to  be  the  best  in  use, 
having  both  speed  and  power,  as  well 
as  the  quality  of  economy  in  fuel  con­
sumption.  _____________

The  law  recently  passed  by  the  Con­
necticut  Legislature  for  the  protection 
of  the  trailing  arbutus  is  said  to be  the 
first  measure  ever passed  in  any  state  of 
the  Union  to  foster  the  growth  of  a wild 
flower. 
The  enactment  of  the  law  in 
question  is  said  to  have been largely due 
to  a  newspaper article  calling  attention 
to the  need  of  such  a  measure.

TH E  RECOGNITION  O F JAPAN.
The  Empire  of  Japan  has been  for­
mally  admitted  by  treaty  with  all  the 
leading  nations  of  the  earth  as  a  full 
member  of  the  sisterhood  of  nations. 
The  land  of  the  Mikado  has  finally 
reaped  the  reward  of  its progressiveness 
and 
its  willingness  to  adopt  modern 
ideas  and  methods  and 
first 
among  Oriental  countries  to  be  recog­
nized  as  entitled  to  all  the  privileges 
and  rights  of 
independent  and  unfet­
tered  sovereignty.

is  the 

The  new  treaties  with  the  United 
States,  Great Britain,  France,  Germany, 
Russia,  Austria,  Italy,  Spain,  Portugal, 
Belgium,  Holland,  Denmark,  Sweden 
and  Norway,  Switzerland  and  Peru  are 
now  in  full  effect.  These  treaties abol­
ish  extra-territoriality  and  throw  open 
the  whole  of  Japan  to  foreign  residence 
and  travel.  On  July  17  all  the  coun­
tries  named surrendered the right hither­
to claimed  of  exemption  for  their  citi­
zens  or  subjects 
penalties  of 
Japanese 
laws  and  the  right  of  trial  in 
their  own  consular  courts.  Henceforth 
foreigners  are  amenable  to  the Japanese 
laws  the  same  as  Japanese  themselves, 
and  they  are  at  the  same  time  entitled 
to all  the  rights  and  safeguards  which 
are  guaranteed  to  her  own  subjects  by 
Japan. 
In  return,  Japan  has  thrown 
down  all  barriers,  and  foreigners  are 
permitted  to  travel  freely  to  every  part 
of  the  empire,  reside  wherever  their 
convenience  suggests,  engage 
in  busi­
ness  and  own  property.

from 

In  a  word,  Japan  is  now  on  the  same 
level  with  any  European  country  or 
American  state.  This 
is  a  splendid 
demonstration  of  the  confidence  felt  by 
the  great  powers  in  the  permanency and 
thoroughness  of  Japanese  civilization. 
No  country 
in  history  has  made  such 
rapid  strides towards  development  than 
has  this  distant  empire,  all but unknown 
less  than  a  century  ago.  When  one  re­
members  the  great  difficulty  the  special 
embassy  sent  by  the  United  States  to 
the  Mikado  under  Perry  experienced  in 
securing  permission  to  land  even  for a 
brief  period  on  Japanese  soil, the mirac­
ulous  character  of  the  metamorphosis 
Japan  now  presents  will  be  fully  appre­
ciated.  That  a  country  which  so  short 
a  time  back  refused  even  to  trade  with 
foreigners  and 
jealously  guaided  all 
avenues  of  entrance  into  its  territories 
should  now  throw  open 
its  entire  do­
mains  to  foreign  residence, and  be able, 
with  the  full  confidence  of  every  civi­
lized  nation,  to  amply  guarantee 
life 
and  property,  is  one  of  the  most  re­
markable  developments  in history.  That 
the  United  States  exerted  a  great  influ­
ence  on  Japanese  development  there can 
be  no  doubt,  and  Americans  have  a 
right  to  fell  proud  of  the  fact.

AM ERICAN  GUN S.

The  recent  test  at  the  Indian  Head 
proving  grounds  of  a  new  4-inch  rapid- 
fire  gun  for  the  navy  calls  attention  to 
the  rapid  strides  which  have been  made 
in  recent  years  by  this country  in  the 
manufacture  of  heavy  ordnance. 
is 
scarcely  more  than  a  decade  since  we 
possessed  not  a  single  modern  Ligh- 
power  gun,  either on  our ships or in  our 
coast  defenses,  and  our field  guns  were 
the  old-time  muzzle-loaders.  When  a 
new  navy  was  decided  on  it  became 
necessary  to  create  a  factory  for the 
manufacture  of  large  modern  guns.

It 

Being  compelled  to  commence at  the 
very  beginning  so  short a  time ago, it  is 
marvelous  that  at  the  present  moment 
we  should  be  fully  abreast  of  the  times 
in  the  manufacture of  large  high-power

guns.  The  accuracy  and  power of  our 
guns  were  amply  demonstrated  during 
the  brief  war  with  Spain,  and,  had  we 
been  as  enterprising 
in  the  matter of 
smokeless  powder,  even  better  results 
might  have been  secured.

It  is evident  from  the  activity  which 
has  prevailed  in  both the War and Naval 
Ordnance  Bureaus  that  those  charged 
with  this  particular  duty are determined 
that,  for  the  future,  this  country  shall 
keep  fully  abreast  of  the times,  and that 
the  latest 
improvements  in  all  sorts  of 
ordnance  and  ordnance  stores shall  be 
promptly  adopted.

in 

length,  which 

In  designing  the  new  guns  for the 
navy,  it has  been  decided that they shall 
not  only  equal,  but  even  excel,  the guns 
recently  turned  out  for  the  British naval 
service.  The  new  guns  will  be  fifty 
calibers 
is  consider­
ably  longer  than  the  guns  now  in  use. 
An  improved  breech  mechanism  is  also 
to  be  adopted,  as  well  as  better  mounts. 
It  is  expected  that  these new  guns  will 
develop  much  greater  power  than  any 
ordnance  yet  invented,  so  that  a  gun  of 
five-inch  caliber  will  be as  destructive 
as  the  old  gun  of  six-inch  caliber.

is  wise 

Despite  the  efforts  at disarmament be­
ing  made  at  the  Peace  Conference,  this 
country 
in  steadily  improving 
her  defenses,  as she has learned,  as Cap­
tain  Mahan  very  aptly  put  it the  other 
day,  what  it  means  to  be  caught  unpre­
pared,  and  is  not  disposed  to  repeat  the 
experiencce.

it 

is 

The  Wilson  &  McCally  Tobacco  Co. 
in  the  farm 
is  carrying  advertising 
journals  announcing  that 
inde­
pendent  of  the  capitalistic  trust  but  is 
bound  band  and  foot  to  the  labor trust— 
otherwise  known  as  the  trades  union. 
Practically  the  only  difference  between 
the two  is  that  the  capitalistic  trust 
is 
controlled  by  intelligence,  while  the  la­
bor  trust 
is  dominated  by  ignorance. 
To  advertise  such  an  affiliation  in  a 
farm 
is  worse  than  wasting 
money,  because  the  average  farmer  re­
gards a  union  man  in  the  same  light  as 
he  does  the  evil  one—as  an  agitator, 
disturber,  rioter,  and  during  strike  ex­
citement,  murderer. 
If  the  Wilson  & 
McCally  Co.  ever  had  any  trade  on  its 
goods 
in  the  country,  it  has  taken  the 
most  effective  way  to  kill  the  sale  of  its 
brands  among  country  people.

journal 

After  a  convict  has  served  out his 
time 
in  the  state  prison  of  Maine and 
has  donned  the  suit  of  clothes  given  to 
him  by  the  State,  he  is  required  to  sit 
for  his  photograph,  and  it 
is  kept  for 
future  use,  should  bis  subsequent  career 
call  for  it.  Heretofore  only  the  picture 
taken  upon  commitment  has  been  kept, 
and  this  has  often  been  found  of  little 
avail  in  later  years.

The  Connecticut  judge  who decided 
that  golf  playing  on  Sunday  was  not  an 
infraction  of  the  law  is  wise  in  his  day 
and  generation.  Golf  is  neither a  game 
of  chance  nor a  game  of  sport.  And  it 
cannot  properly  be  called  work,  because 
it  is  productive  of  nothing.

The  loafer  refuses  to  bear the heat 
and  burdens  of  the  day  when  he  can  sit 
under an  electric  fan  and  put  his  bur­
dens  on  someone  else.

American  tourists  who  think  they 
know  more  than 
the  Alpine  guides 
continue  to  slide  over  precipices and 
lose  their  lives.

Charity  is  obliged  to back  up  an 

mense  amount  of  laziness.

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TH AT  AUTOM O BILE  TRIP.

When  Mr.  Davis  started  on  his  trial 
trip  from  sea  to  sea  the  public  had  con­
cluded  that  its  sympathy  would  be  un­
called  for  until  the  self-motor  should 
come  to the  defiles of  the  Rocky  Moun­
tains.  So  far  as an  individual  can  se­
cure the  envy  of  the  Nation,  that  would 
be given  in  full  measure  whilo the  .car­
riage  was  bowling  along  the  splendid 
roadways  of  the  East.  Rain  or  shine, 
the  great  daily  runs  would  be  made on 
the  Eastern  slope and  in the Mississippi 
Basin.  After that  the trouble  would  be­
gin.  The  end  of  the  first  day's trip  has 
found  the  travel  so  bad  as  to  be  almost 
beyond  belief.  The  vehicle had  to  push 
its  way  through  mud  almost  up  to the 
axles;  and the  civilized  East  has  waked 
up  to  the  astounding  fact  that  the  high­
way  hardened  by  the  traffic  and  travel 
of almost  three  hundred  years  is as  poor 
a  piece  of  road  for  modern  use  as  the 
Western  continent  can  furnish.

The  region  where  this  first  day’s  trip 
was  made  is  historic  ground.  Rip  Van 
Winkle,  of  Sleepy  Hollow  fame,  yield­
ing  to  the  influence of the  climate and 
the  power  of  circumstances,  went  to 
sleep  there  and  for  twenty  years  was 
unaware  of  the  momentous  changes 
which  were  going  on  around  him.  He 
awoke to  find  himself  a fifth of a century 
qehind  the times.  There  stood  the  Cats­
kills,  there  trailed  the  Hudson  its  wide 
ribbon  of  silver,’here  was  the  bill  and 
there the  valley  he  had  known;  but  the 
human 
life  which  like  the  river had 
rippled  around  him,  had  left  him  a  rev­
erenced  relic  of  a  generation  that  had 
outlived  its  usefulness.

That  same  tract  of  country  still clings 
to  its  traditions.  For  fifty  years  it  has 
been  asleep.  Gaining  a  competency  of 
dog  and  gun,  and  settled  in the  convic­
tion  that  neither  could  be 
improved 
upon,  it  went  to  sleep  upon  the  banks 
of  the  haunted  Hudson  to  find  itself 
awakened  a  half-century  later  by  the 
strenuous  efforts  of  a  modern  carriage 
to  force  its  way  over  an  old-time,  cen­
tury-neglected  road.  Consider  it  as  we 
may,  the  public  higwhay  is the  surest 
test  of  a  nation’s  greatness.  There,  if 
anywhere,  is  its  real  character  sure  to 
appear.  There,  if  anywhere,  will  ap­
pear the  desire,  if  any  there be,  to  pro­
mote  the  nation’s  good.  There,  if any­
where,  will  its  decline and  fall  begin  to 
show  themselves.  Time  was  when  the 
roads  of  the  East  were  the  best  in  the 
country, a  time  when  the  best  were  poor 
and  when  the  roads  and  the  civilized 
life  which tolerated  them  were  on  a par. 
That  was  years ago  and  then,  like  Rip, 
that  part  of  the  country  went to  sleep.

Its  waking  has  been  as  bewildering 
as  that  of  the  old  man  on  the  moun­
tain. 
It  finds  that  the  world  has  been 
moving  during  the  protracted  nap,  that 
westward  the  Star  of  Empire has  found 
its  way,  that  prairies have been  planted, 
that  the  Rockies  have been  climbed and 
mined,  that  the  land  “ where  rolls  the 
Oregon  and  hears  no  sound  save  its own 
dashing”   has  become  dotted  with  pop­
ulous  cities and  thriving  towns,  that  the 
heart-throbs  of  the  Nation  are  pulsing 
no  longer from  the  region  of  dream  and 
legend  upon  the  banks  of  the  Hudson 
and  that  the  United  States,  an  infant 
when  the  slumber  began,  has  grown  to 
manhood,  with  one  band  resting  upon 
and  claiming  as 
its  own  the  snowy 
summits  of  Alaska  and  the  other,  its 
fingers  gemmed  with  tropic 
islands, 
laved  by  the waves  of  the  Pacific  Sea.

It  finds  that  the  commercial  crown 
which  rested  upon  the bead of the Queen 
City  of  the  Atlantic  has  passed  to  the

West,  the  land  of  limitless  opportunity, 
of  generous 
impulses,  of  tireless  and 
endless  effort, of farseeing  and  farreacb- 
ing  enterprise  and  daring;  and  it finds, 
too,  that  these  qualities  transplanted 
from  the  walled-up  gardens  of  the  East 
have  become  tbe  characteristic  features 
of  a  Nation  in  whose  hands  have  been 
placed  the  destinies  of  the  world.

The  wonder  is,  not  that  the  auto­
mobile  floundered 
in  tbe  mud  of  the 
Hudson  River  Valley— it  is  tbe  distinc­
tive  feature  of  a  life  that  is  dead  and 
gone  to  seed—but  that the wakeful world 
away  from  the  enchanted  river believed 
that  the  worst  roads  and  the  slowest 
progress  would  be  found  beyond  the 
Valley  of  the  Mississippi.  The  fact 
is 
that  few  difficulties  will  be  met  by  tbe 
automobilists  in  Colorado.  In  that  State 
are  several  passes  through  the  Rockies 
which  are  not  impassible  and,  if  an  en­
gineer  of  that  State can be depended  on, 
there  is  no  wagon-road  within her limits 
of  more  than  15  percent,  grade;  and 
these are  to be  cut down  until  no  State- 
road  grade  will  be above  10  per  cent. 
The  surface of  tbe  average  road  there  is 
firm  with  a  foundation  of  rock,  and 
most  of  the  passes  over  the  mountains 
have  been  traveled  by  Colorado  wheel­
men.  It  is  reasonable  to  suppose  that 
the  roads  from  the  Rocky  Mountains  to 
the  Pacific  will  be  no  worse  than  those 
on  this  side  of  the  Great  Divide and 
that  when  the  journey  is  done  the  Van 
Winkles  will  wake  up  enough  to  mend 
their  roads and  in  time  come  to  a  real­
izing  sense  of  what  has  happened  to 
them  during  their  fateful  slumber.

The new  vehicle  may  be  anything  but 
a  success;  but,  if  it shall  stir  again  into 
life  that  part  of  the  country  which  has 
lagged  too  far  behind  and 
induce  it 
again  to  fall  into  line—though  it  be 
in 
the  rear— it  should  be  cherished  and 
venerated  as 
invention 
which  this  inventive  century  has  so  far 
produced.

tbe  grandest 

Any  man,  woman  or child  who  has  a 
name to  suggest  for the horseless vehicle 
is  in  order  now,  owing  to  the  foggy 
state  of  the  public  mind  on  the  sort  of 
name  that  would  be  suitable  and  that 
would  be  easily  twistable  when  one 
wanted  to  describe  the  passenger  in  one 
of  these  carriages,  or  the  human  pro­
peller  thereof.  So,  let  us  take  into  con­
sideration,  deciding  nothing  hastily, 
the  suggestion  of  a  Western  man  that 
autobaine fills  the  bill.  Translated,  this 
means  automatic  wagon,  baine  being 
derived  from  an  old  Greek  word  mean­
ing  wagon.  Autobaineer  isn’t  half  bad 
for  the  operator,  and  autobain ing  is  a 
word  easily  said  by  one  having  a  tem­
porary  impediment  in  his  speech.

The  Procter  &  Gamble  Co.,  which 
has  always favored  tbe  department  store 
cutters  to  the  detriment  of  the  regular 
retail  trade,  has  made  a  fresh  exhibi­
tion  of 
its  unfriendliness  to  tbe  retail 
dealer.  Finley  Acker  &  Co.,  the  Phil­
adelphia  grocers,  felt  compelled  to  meet 
their  department  store  competitors  on 
some  brands  of  the  Cincinnati  house, 
whereupon  they  were notified  that  they 
had  been  placed  on  the  “ cut  off"  list. 
No  attempt  was  made  to  curtail  the 
sales  of  the  department  stores,  nor  has 
the  Procter  &  Gamble  Co.  ever  under­
taken  to  protect  tbe  legitimate  dealer 
from  the  cut-throat  competition  of  the 
department  store or catalogue  bouse.

The  preoccupied 

look  on  a  friend's 
face  when  you  are  telling  him  a  secret 
is  caused  by  bis  trying  to  decide  to 
whom  he  will  tell  it first.

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Suppose

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

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Here’s  what  the  “Even­
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Rapids,  says  about  us 
and  our booklet:

A  Notable  Booklet.

One  of  tbe  most  attractive  speci­
mens of advertising literature that we 
have  seen  recently  is  the  booklet, 
“Advertising  That  Pays,”  which  has 
been  issued  by  the  Robt.  N.  Shaw 
Advertising  Agency. 
It  deals  with 
the  branch  of  the  agency’s  business 
which is devoted to the preparation of 
advertising  matter,  ana  brings  forth 
many strong  reasons why the agency’s 
services should be used by  every  live 
business man.  Handsome in appear­
ance  and  forcible  in  its  logic,  this 
booklet should prove  a  strong  means 
of 
increasing  the  business  of  the 
agency.  Already  many  of  our  local 
firms have  availed  themselves  of  the 
agency’s services, both  in  the  placing 
of advertising and  the  preparation  of 
effective advertising matter.

Let  us  send  you  a  copy
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Those of you who have been
doing  business  with  us  for
years have probably  noticed
that  we  fill  your  orders  a
great  deal  more  promptly
than we used to.  Those who
are  new 
customers  are
pleased  to  find  that  we  are 
so prompt.

less  business 

This is not because we are
doing 
than
formerly- -we are doing more
and  more  every  year—but
because we realize that when
people  order  goods 
they
want  them  and  want  them
quickly.

Therefore we  are  making
a special effort to give every
order, small or  large, imme­
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shipment.

Let us have yours.

Valley  City 
Milling  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
Sole Manufacturers of  “LILY  WHITE,” 

“The flour the best cooks use.”

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

Shoes  and  Leather
The  Summer  Foot  and  Shoe.

The  seasons  in their alternations bring 
marked  changes  to  the  feet,  as  well  as 
to  their  coverings.

These  changes,  although  physically 
slight,  are,  nevertheless,  important  mat­
ters  to  their  owners.

But 

in  other  than  physical  ways  the 
modern  foot  is  affected  in  a striking  de­
gree 
in  respect  to  the  clothing  it  shall 
choose  to  distinguish  it  from  the  foot  of 
last  season.

Of  course,  the  summer foot  does  not 
differ  materially  from  the  winter  foot, 
except  that  it  has  become  more  fervid 
and  is  more  keenly  susceptible  to  out­
ward  impressions.

The  summer girl,  too,  is  pretty  much 
the  same  fair creature  that she was when 
shivering 
in  her  dainty  wraps  and 
thicker  footwear.

But  the  summer  girl,  like  her  shoes, 
presents  a  quite  different  appearance 
to  the  admiring  eyes  of  the  beholder.

The  lightness,  agility  and grace of the 
tropically  clad  creature  extend  natural­
ly  and  sympathetically  to  her  summer 
feet,  and  their  dainty  coverings  an­
nounce  the  season  just  as  truly  as the al­
manac  or  her  bat.

like 

The  summer  foot  has  its  prolonged 
and  delightful  outing;  and, 
its 
owner,  it  is  intent  upon recreation,  and, 
incidentally,  of  course,  on  securing  its 
due  share  of  admiration ;  and  it is a for­
lorn  and  isolated  modern  feminine  foot 
that  does  not  secure  plenty  of  the  latter 
tribute.

As  the  summer glow  spreads  over  the 
earth  and  the  heat  increases,  the ques­
tion  naturally  arises,  “ How  shall  the 
feet  be  kept  comfortable?’ ’

There  are  many  ways  to  accomplish 

this  desirable  result.

There  are  so  many  shoes  now  of  cool­
looking  shades  of  color,  and  in  such  va­
riety of  light  material,that anyone would 
suppose  everybody  would  be  glad  to 
shed  their  heavy  black  footwear.

Even  the  old  conservatives  are  sorely 
tempted  to  break  through  the  barriers 
of  long-strengthening  prejudice,  and  to 
avail  themselves  of  the  chance  to  put 
on  something  more  congruous  and  com­
fortable.

The  change  would  mean  a  gain  of 
several  degrees  of  cool  comfort  during 
midsummer.

But  there  are  still  stubborn  shoe wear­
ers  who  will  not wear anything but black 
shoes.

A  light-weight  is,  of  course,  the  best 

suited  for  hot  weather.

If  our  shoes  could  be  constructed  out 
of  some  sort  of  fine,  strong  cotton  cloth, 
colored  so  as  to  fairly  simulate  leather 
when  on  the  feet,  in  browns  and  tans, 
instance,  and  without  the  faintest 
for 
suspicion  of  canvas  about 
it,  all  feet 
would  be  benefited  by  their  use  in  sum­
mer,  because  perfect  ventilation  could 
be  secured  only  by  means  of  some  tex­
tile  fabric.

This  is  hygienically  good  advice, and 
the  shoe  reformer  throws  it  out  to  the 
shoe  wearer  for  what  it  is  worth;  but, 
with  such  soft  and  dainty  and  bewitch­
ing  things  in  leather  as  we  now  have  to 
choose  from,  the  public  is  against  the 
reformer,  and  the  tanner  and 
leather 
man will  encourage  the  public mightily.
As  to  the  cut  of  the  shoe  for  summer 
wear,  the  low  one  has  the  advantage  of 
freer  ventilation  and  coolness  and  less 
of  the  upper  part  of  the  foot  and  the 
ankle  is  confined.

But  we  are as much  inclined  to be  in­

in  this  matter as  we 
i a  the  cut  of  other  parts  of  our 

fluenced  by  taste 
are 
dress.

Now  and  again  a  retailer's  window  is 
so  completely  monopolizd  by  these 
low 
cuts  that  one  would  suppose  anything 
higher  was  uot  obtainable  or  in fashion. 
And  yet  a  large  majority  of  shoe  wear­
ers  will  not  wear  low-cut  shoes on  the 
street,  not simply  because more attention 
and  expense  have  to  be  lavished  upon 
hosiery  with  such  shoes,  but  by  reason 
of  a  strong  prejudice  against  footwear 
that  does  not  cover  the  ankle.

Some  persons,  indeed,  never ought  to 
wear  them  because of weak ankles which 
need  the  firm  support  of  a  good  shoe- 
top.

In  high-cut  shoes  the  variety  and 
beauty  of  things  for  the  feminine  sum­
mer  foot  are  so  tempting and irresistible 
that  they  find  great  favor  now.

In  fact,  the  high  cut  presents  greater 
possibilities  for  the  shoe  designer  to 
catch  the  feminine  taste  than  the  low 
shoe.

Even  the  summer  foot  has  come  to  be 
regarded  as 
incomplete  without  the 
handsome  topped  shoe  that  includes  the 
ankle  and  above 
it  in  its  shoe  adorn­
ment.

In  high  cuts  the  lace  is  the  best  ven­
tilated  and  the  button  comes  next  in  or­
der,  while  the  Congress  top,  although 
the  goring 
is  textile,  by  reason  of  its 
usually close  pressure  and  drawing qual­
ities  is  the  most  oppressive  about  the 
ankle  while  new.

For  real  comfort,  aside  from  looks, 
the  old-fashioned  prunella  side-laced 
shoe  for  women,  and  a  brogan  of  like 
material  for  men,  can  not  be  surpassed 
for  coolness  and  ease.

But  the  summer  foot  of our  modern 

girl  spurns  such  a  covering.

She  reveres  the  memory  of  her  grand­

mother,  but  does  not  court  her  shoes.

A  grateful  change  in  the  collection  of 
summer  footwear  may  be  found  in  the 
pleasing  combination  of  low-cut  shoes 
with  a  cloth  overgaiter.

By  this  means  porous  material  is  fur­
nished  for  the  upper  part  of the  foot, 
and  the  objection  to  the  conspicuous 
low  cut  shoe  is  obviated.

It  is  a  little  added  labor  in  adjusting 
fastenings,  of  course,  but  to  women with 
whom  time  is  of  less  consequence than 
pleasing  effects  and  diversity,  this  ob­
jection  will  count  but  little.

There  is,  also,  the  real  cloth-top  gai­
ter  in 
lace  or  button  which  does  away 
with  half  the  fastenings  of  the  former 
combination,  and  which 
is  cool  and 
comfortable,  too.

In  catering  to  the  wants  of  the  sum­
mer  foot,  the  modern  woman  has  a 
large  and  varied  store  to  draw  from and 
she  is  not neglecting  her golden  oppor­
tunity.  Although  the  feminine  foot  re­
mains  pretty  much  the  same  through  all 
the  seasons,  the  shoe  does  not,  by  any 
means.

In spite of  the  fact  that  there  are  only 
five  really  distinct  kinds  of  shoes  for 
women—the  button,  the  lace  and  con­
gress,  the  low-cut  walking  shoe and  the 
slipper—still  a  great  variety  of  appear­
ances  can  be  produced  from  these.

For  instance,  the  soles 

in  different 
widths  and  shapes, particularly  the  toes, 
which  take  on  every  conceivable  form ; 
the  heels,  in  height  and  surface,  the 
variations 
in  cut  of  the  whole  upper, 
the  trimmings,  and  the  union  of  various 
kinds  of  material 
in  the  uppers—all 
these  furnish  wide  scope for  turning  out 
what  really  seem  to  be genuine  novel­
ties;  and  the  matter  of  ornamentation

W e  are  in  the  market  with  the  best 

Rubbers  on  earth  and  in  water.

Wales=Goodyear

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

Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.,  Grand Rapids.

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summer  foot  in  the  masculine  ranks  of 
shoe  wearers,  such  doubt  has  been 
effectually  dispelled  during  the  past two 
summers.

Not  only  has  the  male  biped,  despite 
his  professed  scorn  of  foot-attractive­
ness,  come  out  in  what  were  before  re­
garded  as impossible  colors  for anything 
but  feminine  feet,  but  he  now  glories 
in  his  low-cut  tans  and  maroons,  which 
so  daintily  display  bis  manly  ankle 
sheathed 
in  blue  or  red  polka-dot  ho­
siery,  just  too  lovely  for  anything.

If  this  sort  of  masculine  vanity  in­
creases  in  degree  and  spreads,  the  sum­
mer  girl  will  soon  be  at  her  wits’  end 
to  keep  a  little  in  advance  of  him,  by 
demanding  of  the  shoemaker  and  the 
hosier  something  so  strikingly  bizarre 
and  exclusively  feminine  that  even  the 
modern  Beau  Brummel  will shrink  from 
adopting  it.

But,  after all,  the  summer girl's  shoes 
will  always  lead  those  of  the  dandy  be­
cause  of  the  latter’s  tremendous  handi­
cap  in  the  matter of  feet.

These  he  can  never  successfully  imi­
tate.—E.  A.  Boyden  in Bools  and  Shots 
Weekly.

Why  He  Liked  Them.

“ These  pointed-toed  shoes,”   said  the 
common  sense  man,  by  way  of  opening 
a  conversation  with  the  stranger  in  the 
smoking  compartment  of  the  car,  “ are 
a  terrible  curse  to  humanity. 
They 
should  be  abolished  by  law.”

the  contrary,”   returned 

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stranger,  " I   think  everything  possible 
should  be  done  to  encourage  the  wear­
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sense  man,  after  he  bad  somewhat  re­
covered  from  bis  astonishment,  “ that 
you  are  a  shoe  dealer.”

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stranger. 

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of  the  outside of the shoe has reached the 
standard  of a  fine  art.

In  the  summer  shoe  for  the  exacting 
feminine  foot  all  of  thest  possibilities 
are  worked  to  their  utmost  limit  by  the 
skilful  designer to  meet  the  demands  of 
women.

Since  colors  came  helpfully  trooping 
to  the  front,  the  glad  summer  foot  has 
been  in  its  glory.

It  now  rejoices  in  its  freedom to make 
choice  among  many  styles of  shoes,  but 
in  a  wonderful  variety  of  pleasing  col­
ors  as  well.

And  the  happy  feminine  wearer of 
modern  shoes 
is  less troubled  with  the 
hygienic  doctrines  about  the  welfare  of 
the  feet  than  she  is about the numbers of 
changes  she  can  command;  and  even 
the  question  as  to  how  she  shall  get 
comfort  for  feet  during  the  summer  is 
as  nothing  in  comparison  with  the  more 
vital  problem  to  her,  “ How  shall  these 
feet best  retain  and  display  their  beauty 
of  symmetry  and  grace  in  their  cover­
ings.  and  even  increase  those  desirable 
qualities  tenfold?’ ’

Now,  the  summer  man,  if  we  may  be 
paidoned  for  suggesting  the  possibility 
of  the  existence  of  such  a  being,  is  also 
rather  solicitous about  bis  feet.

Perhaps 

in  a  different  way,  because 
bis  feet  are  usually  of  such  ample  pro­
portions  as  to  preclude  the  idea  that  his 
pride  is  centered  there.

But  his  sheos  are  sometimes  things  of 
in  a  masculine  way,  and  he  is 

beauty 
not  unconscious  of  this  fact.

Still,  we  know  that  the  man  who  is 
perpetually  conscious  of  his  feet  is  usu­
ally  either  a  coxcomb  or a  sufferer  in 
tight  shoes.

A  woman  is  probably  solicitous about 
the  laces  or  buttons  or  son.edisarranged 
decoration  and  she  is,  by  reason  of  her 
sex,  no*  open  to  like  insinuations.

At  any  rate,  our  feet  and  shoes  ought 
always  to  be in  such  harmony  as  to give 
us  no  concern  beyond  a  pardonable 
pride  in  the  beauty  of  tbeir appearance.
Sound  feet  and  comfortable  footwear 
permit  the  rest  of  the  body  to  labor  to 
advantage  while  the  pedal  extremities 
perform  tbeir  duties  almost  automatic 
ally.

Such  a  harmonious  and  perfect  alli­
ance between  foot  and  shoe  also  brings 
peace  of  mind  to  the  owner at  all  sea­
sons.

Physiologically  considered,  the  needs 
of  the  summer  foot are  somewhat  differ­
ent  from  those  of  the  foot  in  winter.

Exceptionally  warm  weather  succeed­
ing  colder  temperature  produces  in  the 
feet  phenomenal  effects  not  unknown  to 
most  shoe  wearers.

Not  only  do  the  buds  and  twigs  of 
trees  swell,  but  the  feet  enlarge  percep­
tibly.

By  the  removal  of  external obstruents, 
such  as  atmospheric  damp  and  chilli­
ness,  the  skin,  which  has 
long  been 
contracted  while  out of  doors,  now  be­
gins  to  expand,  and  the  pores  open 
freely;  the  last  operation  alone  implies 
an  enlargement  of  surface,  and  with 
this  a  more  vigorous  circulation 
is  es­
tablished,  by  which  the  veins  and  ar­
teries  are  distended,  and  the  foot  puts 
in  a  strong  claim  for  more  latitude.

This  is  not  an  unreasonable  demand, 
and  if  it  is  disregarded  discomfort  is 
the  result.

the 

But 

slightly-enlarged  summer 
shoe  need  do  no  discredit  to  the  fem­
inine  summer  foot.

It can  be a  veritable  mascot  for  com­

pelling  admiration.

If  there  has  ever been  any  doubt  as 
to the  existence of such  an  object as'the

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

Fruits  and  Produce.

Som e Peculiarities  of the  Grand  Rapids 

Market.

It  is  noticeable  that  the  Monday  mar­
ket  is  coming  to  be affected  by  the  ob­
servance  of  Sunday  more  than  was  the 
case  a  few  years  ago, 
indicating  that 
there  is  less  of  the  necessity  for  Sunday 
work  since  the  conditions are  so  much 
improved.  While 
the  offerings  are 
sufficient  for  the  immediate  needs of the 
city,  the  lessening  is  great  enough  to 
show  that  the  farmers  are  able  to  take 
their  needed  weekly  rest.

increase 

While the  market  so  far  has  been sub­
stantially  a  vegetable  market,  the  high 
prices  commanded  by  berries  and  other 
small  fruits  make  them  a  more 
impor­
tant  factor  than  the  relative  quantity 
would  indicate.  The certainty of scarce 
offerings  in  peaches  has  turned  the  .at­
tention  of  the  thrifty  housewife  to  the 
canning  of  small  fruits,  and  prices have 
ruled  high  all  the  season  and sales have 
been  rapid. 
It  is  noticeable  that  the 
division  of  the  market  into  a  vegetable 
and  a  fruit  side 
is  quite  pronounced, 
even  in  regard  to  small  fruits  but,  of 
course,  there  are more vegetables offered 
on  the  fruit  side as  yet.  The  observer 
can  not  fail  to  note,  in  addition  to  the 
great  profusion  of  tbe  vegetable  offer­
ings,  the 
in  variety.  Many 
articles  are  being  constantly  added  to 
supply  the  increasing  demand  for  vari* 
ety  of  dishes.  A  few  years  ago  a visitor 
to  the  market  would  have  had no trouble 
in  naming  tbe  common  and  well-known 
staples  which  comprised  everything 
in 
demand.  Now,  the  same  visitor,  if  he 
has  not  kept  up  with  the  times,  will  be 
astonished  and  puzzled  at  tbe  profusion 
of  strange  looking  products  which  mo­
nopolize  a  considerable  portion  of  the 
space.  So  gradual  has  been  the  intro 
duction  of  new  products  that  little at 
tention 
is  attracted  to  them,  but  con 
trasting  the  present  with  the  past  will 
show  that  there  are  material  results  in 
tbe  work  of  tbe  agricultural  schools  and 
experimental  stations,  as  well  as  in  the 
effect  of  the consular  reports  and  other 
similar  means  taken  by the  Government 
to  add  the  products  of other  climes  to 
our  means  of  economy  and  luxury.

It  would  naturally  be  thought  that  a 
rainy  night  would  be  a  pretty  serious 
matter  for  the  market;  but  it  is  surpris 
ing 
in  bow  little  degree  tbe  attendance 
and  offerings  are  affected  by  the  weatb 
er.  Of  course,  when  products  are  pre 
pared  they  must be  taken  to  market or 
lost,  and  people  eat  regularly  whether  it 
rains  or  not.  So,  with  the  best  provi 
sion  for keeping  off the moisture obtain 
able,  they  proceed  with  less  regard  for 
the  weather  than  in  any  other outdoor 
work,  and  they  find  little  in  the  warm 
rains  of  midsummer  to  inconvenience 
them,  except  the  unpleasantness  of  tbe 
experience  and  the  effort  to keep  them 
selves  and  their  produce  as  free  as  pos 
sible  from  the  moisture.

While  in  the  main  the management  of 
the  market  seems  to  be  giving  satisfac 
is  neglect 
tion,  there 
in  some  regards 
which 
is  astonishing  should  be 
it 
tolerated,  especially  as  the  marketmen 
are  taxed  sufficiently  to  meet  all  ex

ense.  Tbe  most  serious  matter  is  the 
lack  of  care  for  tbe  streets.  The  few 
days  of  hot,  dry  weather,  on  account 
not only  of  the  market  traffic  but  of  the 
teaming  to  the  garbage  mill  and  the 
lighting  plant,  were  very  productive  of 
dust.  Monday  morning  the  dust  clouds 
of  filth  were  so  dense  that  one  could 
not  see  across  tbe  market,  and  these 
were  borne  by  the  south  wind  into the

ighways  which  the 

restaurant  and  the  produce  wagons to 
an  extent  that,  to characterize  it  mildly, 
was  decidedly  outrageous.  The  next 
morning  the  dust  was  transformed  into 
a  soft  mortar  which  appeared to be more 
repulsive  and  unpleasant,  but  which, 
in  reality,  is  much 
less  offensive  and 
injurious  than  when  sent  in  the  former 
shape  in  the  food  material  all  over  the 
city.  At  tbe  best  there 
is  sufficient 
contamination  from  the  dust  of  the 
farmers  can  not 
keep  out  entirely,  but  when  it  comes  to 
opening  and  exposing  the  products  for 
hours 
in  an  atmosphere  laden  with  the 
worst  street  contamination aided by hun­
dreds  of  standing  and  moving  horses, 
words  fail  to  properly  characterize  the 
situation. 
is  a  commentary  on  the 
blind  and  criminal  thoughtlessness  not 
only  of  officials  but  of  citizens  when 
such  conditions  are  permitted  to  con­
tinue  without  remark.
Fruit  Situation  In  the Vicinity o f South 

It 

Haven.

South  Haven,  July  21— People  will 
this  year  get  their  peaches 
in  small 
baskets  on  account  of  the  shortage  of 
tbe  crop.  Heretofore  peaches have  been 
shipped  in  fifth  baskets.  This  year  the 
package  makers  are  turning  out  the  off- 
crop  size,  which  is  known  as  a  sixth.

R.  T.  Pierce,  a  package  manufac­
turer,  says  that  this  year there  are  not 
many  peaches  save at  Vineland,  N.  J  , 
and in California.  In Michigan there will 
be  a  quarter  crop.  Tbe  cold  of  last 
winter  killed  not  only  the  buds  but 
many  oi  the  trees  in  the  territory  north 
oL  Grand  Rapids.  Within  a  few  miles
of  South  Haven  there are  some orchards 
that  now  promise  neatly  a  full  crop. 
Some  of  these  orchards are owned  by  S. 
B.  Monroe,  A.  L.  Packard,  H.  Elken- 
burg,  John  Mackey,  D.  C.  Leisenring, 
R.  M.  Aylesworth  and  tbe  Malobne 
brothers.  The  first  shipment  of  peaches 
of  tbe  season  has  just  been  made.
There  is  a  fair  crop  between  Glen 
Pier  and  St  Joseph.  The  latter  vicin­
ity  has the  better  showing.  From  Glen 
Pier  to  St.  Joseph  the  yellows,  the 
peach-tree  disease,  has  been  reduced  to 
2  per  cent.  Tbe township  yellow  com­
missioners  chop  down 
infected  trees 
without consulting  their  owners.

There 

is  a  good  crop  of  plums  and 
pears.  Apples  along  the 
lake  shore 
have  been  killed,  but  two  miles back 
from  the  shore,  where the  trees  escaped 
the 
icy  breath  of  Lake  Michigan,  tbe 
prospects  are  good.  The  State  at  large 
is  preparing  to  maikel  a  big  crop  ol 
this  fruit.
Grapes  promise a  large yield,although 
in  some  places  tbe  Niagaras  were killed 
last  winter.  The  grape  industry  has 
grown  until  it  taxes all  means  of  trans 
portation 
in  season.  Upward  of  1,000 
carloads  from  points  between  Lawton 
and  South  Haven  were  shipped 
last 
year.  Tbe  fruit 
this 
interests  along 
line have  caused  the  road  to  be changed 
from  a  narrow  to  a  standard  gauge.
The  fruit  country  is being  greatly  de­
veloped.  Along  the  Michigan  Central 
tbe  Chicago  &  West  Michigan  and  tbe 
South  Haven  lines  land  is being cleared 
off  and  set out  in  fruit.  From  Covert 
to  South  Haven,  a  distance  of  eight 
miles,  there has been  a  transformation— 
wooded  land  and  swamps  have  been 
changed  to  fruit  farms.

Near  Lake  Cora  Leonard  Shepherd 
has  forty  acres,  which  shows  what one 
man  can  do  with  fruit.  He  borrowed 
the  money  to  set  it  out,  and  in  one  year 
he  lifted  a  mortgage  of  $2,400  and  bad 
money  in  tbe  bank.  His  land  is mostly 
devoted  to grapes and  peaches.

Edson  Woodman  is  another  man  who 
reports  good  returns  from  intense  farm 
ing  with  an  experimental  acre  of  aspar 
agus.  He  expended  $25  on  seeding, 
cultivating,  gathering,  packages,  ship­
ping  and  commission.  He  received $300 
in  returns  from  South  Water street, Cb' 
cago.

Within  the  last  year  or  two  many 
Chicago  people  have  made  purchases 
of  farms  in  the  vicinity  of  Lake  Cora. 
A  telephone  system  connects  all  the 
farm  places  of this  section,  and the fruit 
shipper  may  talk  with  any  of  bis  neigh 
bors  or  call  up  his  commission  mer 
chant  on  South  Water  street.

Ship your BUTTER AND EGOS to

R.  HIRT,  Jr.,  Detroit,  Mich.

34 and 36 Market Street,

435-437-439  Winder Street

^  Cold  Storage  and  Freezing  House  in  connection.  Capacity 
^ 
jl-s. 

75  carloads.  Correspondence  solicited.

4.  4.

COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 

POTTLITZER  BROS.  FRUIT CO.. S
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Also  POTATOES,  CABBAGE,  ONIONS  AND  APPLES 

IN  FRUITS  OF  ALL  DESCRIPTIO N 

L A F A Y E T T E ,  IN D . 

Our motto:  Quick sales and prompt remittance. 

In Carload  Lots. 

MOSELEY  BROTHERS

26  to  32  Ottawa  Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.,

Carry Large Stock of all kinds Field Seeds.  Fill Orders  . 
quick.  Right  prices. 
If  not  receiving  our  quotations  on 
Seeds, write us.

PRICES  LOW.

W A T E R M E L O N S   A N D   LE M O N S

SEND ORDERS.

MILLER & TEASDALE

WATERMELONS

CAR LOTS ONLY.  ST. LOUIS, MO.

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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.
98  South  Division  St.,  Grand  Rapids

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The  Hercules 
Ventilated Barrels

lust the  barrels  in which  to  ship  apples,  potatoe 
onions, vegetables or anything that  requires venti 
lation.  W e  furnish the'barrels to you knock-dow 
In  bundles,  thereby  making  a  great  saving  1 
freight.  Fourth-class  freight  rates  apply  in  less 
than car lots.  One boy can set  up  from  75  to 
barrels per  day, and  with  your  first  order  for 
barrels we furnish free our  setting-up  outfit, or w 
charge you  $3  for  it  and  refund  the  $3 when  yo 
have  purchased  500  barrels.  The  Hercules  has 
been endorced  by  all  prominent fruit and  produc 
commission men in Chicago  and  is  considered  th 
very best barrel for shipping any produce requirin 
ventilation.  Our prices f. o. b. Chicago are: 
ioo,  heads  and  hoops  complete,  knock-down,  sac 
300,  heads  and  hoops  complete,  knock-down,  21 
500,  heads  and  hoops  complete,  knock-down,  aoc. 
Setting  up outfit  included.  W e  can  make  prom 
shipments.  For  further  particulars  and  samp
barrel  address

Hercules Woodenware Co., 

293 W. 29th Place, Chicago, II

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

13

Observations  by  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
There  is one  feature  of  the  egg  situa­
tion  that  is  causing  some  comment  and 
that  is  the  persistency  of  shippers  in 
storing  heated  eggs. 
It  is  argued  that 
such  a  coarse,  if  followed,  will  result 
detrimentally  to the  sale  of  spring  eggs 
this  fall.  As  there 
is  little  likelihood 
of  heated  eggs  selling  to  better  advan­
tage  then  than  now,  the  storing  of  them 
is  wrong  and  will  surely  act  as  a  wet 
blanket  on  salé  of  spring  stock  later. 
Shippers  on  the  other  hand  claim  that 
the  eggs  cost them  so  much  that  unless 
they  can  at  least  sell  so as to come out 
even  the  goods  must  be  stored.  One 
large  receiver  in  speaking  of  the  matter 
said:  “ I  will  not  handle  eggs  for  any­
one  now  unless  I  am  authorized  to  sell. 
The  idea  that  heated  eggs  must  bring 
top  price  is  foolish,  and  I  don’t  want to 
handle  stock  that  I  must  store  for  ship­
pers’  account,  as  I  know  there  is  noth­
ing  to  be  gained  by  so  doing. 
If  ship­
pers  can’t  purchase  eggs  in  the  country 
during  these  warm  months  at a  price 
that  will  permit  them  to  sell  now,  they 
should 
It  is  also 
stated  that  one  reason  for the  good  egg 
market  last  fall  was  due  largely  to  the 
absence  of 
inferior  quality  of  storage 
eggs,  such as  there would  have  been  had 
heated  eggs  been  stored  last  summer.

leave  them  alone.”  

*  #  *

in 

I  was  talking  with  a  large buyer about 
the  losses  on  eggs and  he  pulled  out  of 
his  pocket  a  memorandum  of  various 
samples  which  be  bad  recently  exam 
ined,  and  which  he  explained  as  fol 
lot  represents  nearly  300 
lows:  “ That 
cases  and  my  candlers  make  them 
lose 
five  dozen  and  eight  eggs to  the  case 
One of  these  lots  loses  over  six  dozen  to 
the  case  and  I  sent  them  back 
burry. 
I  will  not bother  with  stock  of 
that  kind  even  if  the  balance of the eggs 
are  fine.  Just  see  what  it  means to take 
out  150 cases  when  the loss runs between 
six  and  seven  dozen.  Here  is  a  lot  of 
247  cases  that  lose  a 
little  over  four 
dozen ;  that  mark  of  q6  cases  is  better, 
the  loss  showing  3  dozen  and  2  eggs, 
Some  of  these  are  from  regular shippers 
and  from  the  best  sections— Indiana 
Ohio and  Michigan.  There  is  one  lot 
here  of  123  cases  that  will  not lose much 
over 2  dozen,  and  at  this  season  of  year 
I  call  them  fine  eggs. 
I  can’t  account 
for there being  so  many  poor  eggs,  un 
less 
it  is  that  the  weather  has  been  so 
wet.  Hot  weather  alone  does  not  seem 
to have the  same  effect  that  is  apparent 
in  much  of  the  stock.  A  few  shippers 
are  trying  to  select  and  grade closely 
enough  to give  us  some  marks  of  fancy 
eggs,  and  I  hope  quotations  for  these 
will  be kept  up  so  as  to keep them com 
ing  this  way.  There  is  no  use  in  other 
markets  getting  fine  stock,  and  having 
the  trash 
loaded  on  us.  Let the  poor 
eggs  go  to  cheap  trade at  whatever they 
are  worth  and  I'll  guarantee  that  fine 
stock  will  bring  a  good  price.”

*  *  *

The  egg 

inspection  department  of 
the  Exchange  has bad  its hands  full  of 
work  for  a  week  or two  past.  The  in 
spector  and  bis  deputy  have  been  called 
to  examine a  great deal  of  stock,the  de 
fective  quality  of  so  many  of the  well 
known  packings  making  it advisable  to 
send  an  official  report  to the shippers.

Repeated  questions  have been coming 
up  as to the  duties of  the  inspectors  un 
der  various circumstances,  and  the  Egg 
Committee  recently  issued  the following 
instructions:

Inspections  shall  be  made  only  where 
there  are  suitable  facilities  for  the 
same;  not on  transportation lines nor  in 
cold  storage.

Refrigerator  eggs  shall  not  be  in­
spected  until  they  have been  out of  cold 
storage  long  enough  to  have  passed  the 
sweating  period.

Applicants  for  inspection  must  state 
the  number  of  lots  and  number of  cases 
in  each  lot,  at  time  of  application,  and 
nspectors  must  insert  the  same  in  cer­
tificates.

Entire  lots  to  be  inspected  shall  be 
shown  to  the  Inspector  before  he  marks 
samples  for  inspection.

The  entire  sample  must  be  marked 
before,  opening,  on  the  end  to be  in­
spected,  by  the  Inspector  or  Deputy, 
and  shall  be  placed  where  the 
inspec­
tion  is  to  be  made,  in  a  manner to  pre­
vent  cases  being  changed.

Inspectors  may,  when requested,  mark 
samples  of  a  carlot  on  dock,  or  in  cold 
storage,  which  maybe  taken  to  store  for 
nspection,  and  a  certificate  issued  on 
the  entire  car.

If  a  portion  of  a  car  (not  a  sample 
inspector)  be  taken  to 
marked . by  an 
store and  inspection  requested,  it  shall 
be  inspected  as  a  lot by  itself,  and  cer­
tificate  issued  accordingly.

When  a 

lot  consists  of  less  than  50 
inspected  shall  be 
in  proportion  to  the  rule  for  50 

cases,  the  number 
only 
cases.

Unofficial 

inspection  of  eggs  may  be 
made by  the  inspectors,  in  which  whole 
cases  may  be  candled  instead  of  half 
cases,  and  a  memorandum  given  of  the 
good,  half-loss, 
loss  and  short,  with 
mention  of  the  principal  kinds  in  half- 
oss  and  loss.
Unofficial 

inspections  shall  not  be 
made  when  there  are  applications  for 
official  inspections  on  file.

All  applications  must  be  filed 

in  the 
order  received,  and  receive  attention  in 
regular order.

*  *  *

The  luling  quotations  for  eggs  do  not 
ndicate the  full  value of really fine new 
laid  stock.  The  bulk  of  the  eggs  now 
arriving  are  affected  by  beat,  and  no 
dealer  can  guarantee  to  the  buyer  that 
the  eggs he gets  are all  fresh.  He  may 
get  a  good  average  lot  for  15c,  or  a  bet 
ter  one  for  16  or  18c,  but  in  order  to 
feel  sure  be  has  something  that  will 
come  out  all  right  at  the  table  be  must 
pay  20 or  23c.  The  higher  prices  are 
not  quoted  because  only  a  very  small 
portion  of  the  receipts  is  good  enough 
to  command  those  figures. 
“ Why  not 
give  a  quotation 
for  the  different 
grades?”   was  asked  of  a  large  receiver 
'Well,  you  see,  I  am  getting  certain 
marks  of  eggs  from  the  West  all  the 
time,  and  while  they  are  as  good  as any 
others  that  come  to  market  in  a  large 
way,  they  can  not  be  strictly  fresh  at 
this  time  of  year.  These  we  return  for 
at  the  ruling  market  price 
If  we  sent 
out  a  quotation  for  new  laid,  our  ship 
pers  would  think  it  strange  that  we  did 
not  return  them  within  six or seven cents 
of  the  top  price.  When the  weather  be 
comes  cooler  this  great  inequality  will 
partially  disappear.”  
The  scarcest 
thing  on  the  market  at  present  is 
really  fresh  egg.— New  York  Produce 
Review.  ____ _

Her  Disadvantage.

“ I  can’t  understand,”   said  the  great 
financier  to  his  beautiful  young  type 
writer, “ why  you  feel  warranted  in  ask 
ing  me  to  pay  you  a  larger  salary  than 
the  young  fellow  employed  by  our  vice 
president  gets  for  doing  the  same  kind 
of  work.”

She  permitted  her  long  curling  lashes 
to  veil  her  eyes  and  a  wave  of  color 
mounted  to her  soft,  round  cheeks.

“ Well,”   she  said at last,  in low,  sweet 
tones,  “ I  think  I  am  justified  in  mak 
ing  the  demand.  I admit  that  the  young 
man  you  have  referred  to  does  fully  as 
much  work  as  I do,  and yet—and  yet 
“ go  on ;  give  me  your  reason. ”  

‘ * Yes,  yes, ’ ’  the old gentleman urged 

“ Well,”   she half  whispered,  "h e can 
put  his  feet  up  on  the  desk  when  he 
gets  tired.”

STROUP  &  CARMER,

38  South  Division Street, 
Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale  Produce and  Commission.

Citizens Phone, 2530

We solicit consignments  of  Produce.  Butter  and  Eggs  handled  on 
commission or bought on track  at  shipping  point.  Write  for  prices.

R e f e r e n c e s :  Grand Rapids National Bank,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Ithaca Savings Bank, Ithaca,  Mich.  F. E.  Durfee & Co., Perrinton, Mich.
R.  G.  Dun & Co. Agency.  Bradstreet Agency.

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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  vegetables, 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 four Butter and  Eggs all the market will guarantee, giving  it  my  per­
sonal attention  Correspondence ana shipments solicited.

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

Dun or Bradstreet.
Michigan Tradesman.

REFERENCES:

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Vinkemulder  Company

Jobbers of

Fruits  and  Vegetables

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

C I G A R S

STANDARD  CIGAR  CO, Cleveland, Ohio.  TnlJRL0^ ' K i , i ,<> p"  n

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Tradesman Company 

Grand  Rapids.

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

Petting  the  People

the  general  body-type  of  the  average 
newspaper  to  give  the  necessary amount

Som e  Good  Advertising  and  Some 

Not  So  Good.

F.  E.  Boosinger,  of  Boosinger  Bros., 

East  Jordan,  writes  me  as  follows:

We  are  very  mnch  interested  in  your 
department,  Getting  the  People,  andT 
are  thankful  to  get  such  valuable  infor­
mation.  We  send  you  copy  of  the  En­
terprise,  containing  our advertisement. 
Kindly  criticise  it.

The  submitted occupies  twelve  inches 
across  four  columns.  The  wording  is 
fairly  good,  although  it  lacks  vim  and 
snap,  but  the  arrangement 
is  poor. 
There  are  too  many  display  lines  and 
too  many  kinds  of  type  used.  The 
measure  in  which  the  body-type 
is  set 
It  is  a  safe  rule  never 
is  far  too  wide. 
to  set  pica  or  smaller  type  to  a  wider 
measure  than  four  inches,  as  a  long  line 
of  small  type  is  bard  for  the  eye  to  fol­
low. 
I  would  suggest  to  Mr.  Boosinger

Special  Jmlj  Sale»

From Thursday July  13 until the close  of the 
mohth, prudent folks  will  find  many economical 
chances; all goods are modestlypriced at our store 
but these prices upset all ideas as to usual values- 
They’re extremely unusual, for instance,—

Muslins.

Three brands  first-class  un­
bleached  Muslin, fine,  medium 
and heavy all at 5 cents.

Heavy  bleached  Muslin  6

Prints, Etc..

1,317 yds.  Light  Calico, 3yi

3,816 yds.  Fancy  prints  (in­
cluding blacks, blues & Grays.) 
Apron Check Ginghams 3cents 
Lot wide  percales  6% cents

Lot best  yard wide  percales 

9)i cents.

Wash Dress Goods.
Lot  of  Challies,  Dimities, 

Cords, etc., 

cents.

2 pieces figured Pique 7 cents 

(formerly 10c and 12#c.)
Dress  Goods.

Without  reserve  our  Dress 
Goods  stock will be  offered at 
20 per cent discount from regu-

Tbis  means a  saving of  20 
cents on every $1 in this depart-

Shirt Waists.

Lot No. 1 at 29 cents. Lot No. 2 
at 39 cents,  mostly this  year's 
goods and are decided bargains.

If we offer you an article for 9c worth  13c you 
may be assured that our reason for so doing is be­
cause we want your 9c, or the room the goods  oc­
cupy.  Come early, Come often and buy liberaUy.

a  style  of  advertisement  something  like I JOHN  YORK.

BOOSINGER  BROTHERS

For Your Convenience

We  have  put  into  service  a  brand  new,  up-to-date  delivery  wagon,  which 
It’s  just  another  evi­

will save you th i trouble of carrying  your  goods  home. 
dence of the way this store anticipates and  provides for your wants.
“ Newland”  In  Taffeta,
Silk 
Gros Grain,
- 
_ - 
and Silks.
Umbrellas 
sticks  are
new  and  stylish.  Sold  under 
the  maker's  guarantee—and 
ours.

Fine 
A   new  lot  just  in
Table 
from Edson,  Moore
&  Co.  New  vine
I  , 
L I  I! v IIS  and  flower  designs
—the season's  novelty.  Prices 
range  from  50c  to  $1.50—ster­
ling values at every figure. 
Napkins  to  match  the  better 
kind, $2.25 to $4 a dozen.

1-3 Off  Backward 
season,
and a determination 
C f iA o e  
uDOCS 
to  keep  our  stock 
fresh and dean  is  the  cause  of 
this  reduction.  A ll  our  Walk­
ing Shoes,  including  the  Pin- 
gree &  Smith  and  Meyer  lines 
are  being  sold  at  two-thirds 
their former prices.

Money back  on  every  one  that 
doesn’t give entire satisfaction.

$1.50 to $3

„  

(Prices here)

BOOSINGER  BROTHERS

While  the  style  and  arrangement  of 
this  advertisement  are  not  particularly 
original,  they  present  an  improvement 
over  the  other  form,  in  that the  matter 
is  arranged  so  that  the  display  lines 
balance  each  other,  giving  the  adver­
tisement  a  much  better  appearance. 
Space does  not  permit  of  an  entire  re­
vision  of  the  advertisement,  but  by  fol­
lowing  oat  the  suggestion  Mr.  Boosin­
ger  will  not  only  produce  more  attract­
ive  advertisements,  but  also  save  con­
siderable  space.  Even  where  space  is 
inexpensive,  as  it  is  in  most  papers  of 
limited  circulation,  it  does  not  pay  to 
waste  it.  Use  as  much  as  you  need  to 
secure  proper  display,  and  not  an 
inch 
more.

*  *  *

Bellevue,  July  14— I  send  you  a  few 
specimen  advertisements,also  the  Belle­
vue  Gazette  of  this  week,  showing  oar 
advertisement for this  month.  The  typo­
graphical  work 
in  this  office  is  poor, 
and  one  price  was  left  out  of onr ad­
vertisement,  but  what  we  want  to  know 
about  is  the  write-np  part.  The  circu­
lars  we  put  in  customers’  packages.  Go 
for  these  as  hard  as  you  have  a  mind 
to ;  we  print  them  and  do  the  whole 
thing. 

Jo h n   H.  Y o r k .

The advertisement  in  the  Gazette  has 
only  one  fanlt  that  I  can  see,  and  that 
is  that  the  heading 
is  not  prominent 
enough.  If  it  were  set  in  the  same  style 
of  type  as  the  signature,  it  would  make 
a  decidedly  stronger  appearance. 
I  am 
strongly  opposed  to  the  use  of  open- 
faced  type 
in  newspaper  work.  The 
basic  principle  of  display  is  contrast. 
It  is  used  for  the  purpose  of  making 
certain  points  prominent.  Open-faced 
type too nearly  approaches  the  tone  of

of  contrast  and,  consequently,  is  out  of 
place  for  the  purpose  of  display.

I  notice  that  Mr.  York  says  that  this 
is  his advertisement  for  this  month.  If 
he  only  changes  his  copy  once  a  month, 
be  is  making  a  mistake,  and  I  believe  I 
have  said  enough  in  this  department al­
ready  to  convince  him  of  the  fact  that 
an  advertisement  should  be  changed 
with  every  issue  of  the  paper.

The  circulars  Mr.  York  sends  me  are 
very  oeditable,  both  in  the  matter  and 
the  typographical  work.  They  would 
be  much 
improved,  however,  by  the 
addition  of  a  few  prices.  You  may  harp 
on  quality  all  you  please,  but  the  aver- 
age  woman  is  more  interested  in  prices 
than  in  anything  else.  And  it  is  quite 
possible  to  create  the  impression,  by 
means  of  your  advertising,  that  your 
goods  are  not^only  high  as  to  quality, 
but  low  as  to  price,  as  well.

*   *   *

Ludington,  July  14—Under  separate 
cover  we  send  one  of  onr advertisements 
for  criticism.  We  want  to  know  our 
mistakes. 

O l n e y   &   A u b e r y .

The  advertisement is reproduced here­
with.  Outside  of  the  too-common  fault 
of  having  too  many  styles  of  type,  it  is 
decidedly  good. 
It  is  earnest  and  for­
cible,  and  drives  its  points  home  vig 
orously.  Except 
in  the  matter  of  dis­
play,  I  can  see  no  point  in  which  it 
could  be  bettered.

As  I  said  last  week,  it  is  possible  for 
every  live  local  letailer  to adopt  a  dis­
tinctive  type-style,  even 
it  be  has  to 
purchase  the  type  himself.  The  man 
who  has  advertisements which are easily 
distinguishable  from  the  rest  of  the  ad­

From  present  appearances,  I  shall  not 
be able  to  answer  all  enquiries,  the same 
week  they  are  received  and,  in  fact,  I 
am  obliged  to  leave  one  letter  unan­
swered  this  week,  as  my  space 
is 
limited. 

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

Why  They  Couldn’t  Agree.

”  Gentlemen  of  the 

jury,  have  you 
agreed  upon  a  verdict?”   asked  the 
judge.

“ We  have  not,”   replied  the  foreman, 
“ and what’s more  we  never  will  be  able 
to.  You  see, 
judge,”   he  added  con­
fidentially,  “ it’s  just  this  way:  When 
the  lawyer  for  the  defense  got  through 
talking  we  were  unanimously  of  the 
opjnion  that  his  client  should  be  ac­
quitted  and  the  prosecuting  attorney 
disbarred,  if  not  hanged,  and  when  we 
had  beard  the  prosecuting  attorney  we 
decided  that  the  prisoner  was guilty and 
his  lawyer  ought  to  get  twenty  years 
in 
the  penitentiaiy  as  well.  Then  you 
gave  us  about  forty-five  minutes  of  in­
structions  and  we  were  up  in  the  air,  so 
to  speak,  and  so  confused  that  we  have 
been  unable  to agree  upon  anything  ex­
cept  that both  attorneys  ought  to be con­
victed. "

He  Had.

“ Have  you  ‘ Married  in Haste?’  ”   she 
asked  of  the  young  man  behind  the 
counter  in  the  book  store.

“ I  have,”   he  replied,  “ but 

it’s  all 
I  was  divorced  at  leisure.”

right  now. 

in  the  paper 

is  sure  of 
vertisements 
gaining  the  attention  of  the  public. 
If 
his advertisement  sticks  out  so  promi­
nently  by  reason  of its “  differentness, ’ ' 
he can  afford  to  use  smaller  spaces,  so 
that  in  a  short  time  his outlay  on  type 
will  have  paid  for  itself.  As  an 
illus-

|  Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s 
jg 
[ Clothing; Sale,

1 9 *  | Dress Goods Sale

Shirt  Waist Sale
Still  goes  merrily  on, and yon are very foolish If yon 
do  not  profit  by  i t   If  yon  can make $1.00 on the 
investment of $4.00, yon  will make the investment as. 
soon as possible.  We are  offering  yon  that  chance, 
bat  yoa  do  not  have  to invest $4.00, only $3.00, for 
we  are  giving  yon  $4.00  worth  of  goods  for $3.00. 
Can you find a  better investment?

Mens $15-Suits ¡¡£w^ h,^S..T«  $11.25

Hera is a chance to make $3.75; do yon know 
of  a  better  paying investment?  The  gooiis 
are staple  and good any time of the year.

A $12.00  SUIT....................................FOE $9.00
A $10.00 SUIT....................................FOB $7.60
A $9.00 SUIT..................................„-.FOB $8.76

Can yon earn $1.25 any easier!

A   day’s  wagee  saved  In  15  minutee  by 

buying your Clothing at  this sale.

All Novelty Dress Goods 
at Gne-Fourth Off,

saving  you  25  cents  on  every  yard  of $1.00 
Novelty Dress Goods, saving $1.50 on a dress of 
6  yards,  18?  cents  on  every  yard  of 76 cent 
goods, 12} cents on every yard of 50 cent goods. 
Don't  yoa  think  it  cheaper  to boy thew goods o le  sale than to 
wait til! later when they a n  sold at foil prioee?  Even  if  yoa  do 
not want to make them op till toll, they will earn  money  for  yoa 
~ ^ r j day.they are on year ahclvee.

“Money Saved is Money Earned.”

We have got to  make room for onr fall and win­
ter goods;  that is why we are selling  these  goods  at 
~ We are the losers, you who boy are the gainers.

O ln e y &   A u b e ry

in 

tration:  A  local  retailer  in  Grand  Rap­
ids  who  has been  running  a  2-inch  ad­
vertisement 
one  of  the  papers 
adopted  my  suggestion  of  using  a  spe­
cially-designed  border on  bis  advertise­
ment.  He  had  been  using  preferred 
position  in  the  paper,  at  an  advance  oi 
25  per  cent  over  regular rates,  but when 
he  adopted  the  new  border  be  found  his 
advertisement  was  so  strong  that  be 
could  afford  to 
it  go  in  "run  of 
paper,”   at  a  saving  of  20  per  cent,  on 
his  bills.  That  border  will  pay  for  it­
self 
in  a  few  more  issues,  and  after 
that  it  will  save  money  for  him.  And a 
good  strong  type-style,  even  if  it  costs 
a  few  dollars  at  first,  will  do  the  same 
thing  for  any  merchant  who  is  alive 
enough  to  try  it.

let 

*   *   *

I  am  glad  to  see the  readers  of  the 
Tradesman  are  beginning  to  take  ad­
vantage  of  the  opportunities given  them 
in  this  column  and  trust  that  each  week 
specimens.
will  bring 

its  qnota  of 

H E M L O C K   B A R K

w

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

*

MICHIGAN  BARK & LUMBER CO..

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

15

Telephone1083.

* 

i£.rti  V*

July 1,  1899.

Messrs. Phipps, Penoyer & Co«,

Saginaw, W.S., Mich.,

Gent lemenr—-Your favor announcing the arrival in good order 

of oar Hemmeter1 s Chajnpion shipped you June 22 to hand« 

We take 

this opportunity of again thanking you for the energetio manner in 

which you are widening the territory and increasing the sale of

our goods,

We note the probability of your needing another oar In the 

near future and would ask, In view of the large demand paw made on 

us for the Champion, that you give us as much notice as possible. 

Awaiting your further commands, we are

Respectfully yours,

T h e   H e

Mgr.

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

Why They Couldn’t Go  Back to Indiana. 
Written for the Tradxskax.

It was  midsummer.  The hot July  sun 
was  sending  down 
its  almost  vertical 
rays  upon  the  drought-stricken country. 
In  every  direction  over  the  weary  ex­
panse  of  level  prairie  the  air  quivered 
and  boiled.  The  earth  in  many  places 
showed  great  beat  cracks  as  if  it  were 
gasping  for  something  to  drink.  Oc­
casionally  a  column  of  dust  might be 
seen  traveling  with  stately  ease  across 
the  dry  fields.  By  the  side  of  the  road, 
which  stretched 
its  brown  and  dusty 
length  for  miles  before  the  eye,  a  little 
unpainted  frame  house  sizzled 
in  the 
sun.  The  pitch 
in  the  pine  siding  of 
the  bouse  stood  out  in  warts,  and  here 
and  there  wormed  its  sticky  way  down­
ward  to  the  ground.  There  wasn’t a 
tree  within  twelve  miles  and  the  only 
green  thing  about  was  a  stunted  gera­
nium  plant  growing  in  a  tin  tomato  can 
in  one  of  the  windows  of 
which  stood 
the  forlorn  house. 
In the  shade  of a  di­
lapidated  straw  shed  a  short  distance 
from  the  house an  old  grey  horse  stood 
stamping  his  feet  and  switching bis  tail 
in  a  vain  attempt  to  keep  off  the  flies. 
At  a  well  just  beyond  the  shed  several 
younger  horses,  with  ears  laid  back, 
were  disputing  possession  of  the  water- 
trough  with  two gaunt-looking  cows.  A 
motherly-looking  woman,  with  her 
sleeves  rolled  above  her  elbows,  was 
drawing  water  for  the  thirsty  stock. 
Every  now  and  then  when  one  of  the 
horses  with  a  vicious  snap  would fright­
en  the  timid  cows  away  the  woman 
would  remonstrate  with,  "H ere  you, 
Blackie!  jest  keep  yer teeth  to  yerself; 
there’s  plenty  o’  room  fer all  of ye.  Hi 
there,  Mag!  ef  ye  don’t  quit  a bitin’ 
I’ll  take  a  gad  to  ye.  Fer  the  land 
sakes!’ ’  exclaimed  the  woman,  as  she 
looked  into  the  full  bucket  she  bad  just 
drawn,  "tbet  water's  roily. 
I  hope to 
the  Lord  this  well  ain’t  a  goin’  to  peter 
out an’  dry  up  like the  creek  has.  What 
on  earth'd  we  do  ef  thet  sh’d  happen, 
I ’d 
like  to  know,’ ’  and  she  set  the 
bucket  down  unemptied  on  the  corner 
"L o rd ,’ ’  continued 
of  the  wellcurb. 
the  woman, 
thinking  aloud, 
" h ’ain't  we  cum  through  enough  yit?" 
She  clasped  her  hands  and  rested  them 
on  the  edge  of  the  bucket. 
"Thar 
warn’t  no  wheat  nor thar  warn’t  no corn 
last  year.  The  chintzbugs  they  e’t  up 
the  wheat  an’  the  hot  winds  they  burnt 
up  the  corn.  Thar  warn't  no gardin’ 
’ceptin*  a  few  'taters  ’t  I eriegated frum 
Thar  warn't  nothin’ 
the  well  here. 
’ceptin’  a 
little  wild  bay— ’nough  to 
keep  the  stock  frum  starvin’  durin’  the 
winter—an’  tbet  wuz  all.  Then  them 
pesky  coyotes got  into  the  chicken  coop 
an’  e’t  up  all  o’  the 
lay in'  hens.  An’ 
then,  as  ef  thet  warn't  ’nough,  my  Bill, 
be had  to  go  an’  run  off  an’ leave  father 
an’  me  here  to  worry  our  hearts  out  a 
lookin’  an’  a  longin’  fer  him  to  come 
back  er to  send  us  word  wbar  he  wuz.  I 
wonder  wbar  he  is  now. 
I wonder  ef he 
knows  thet  I  think  of  him  every  min­
ute  o’  the  day,  an’  thet  I  pray  fer  him 
every  night  an’  mornin’,  an’  thet  I 
wish,  O  bow  I  wish,  he’d  come  back! 
But.  land  sakes!  thar  ain’t  no  use  a 
wish in’.  He’s  ben  gone a ’most  a  year 
now  an’  ef  wishin’  *d  a  brunghim  back 
he’d  a  ben  here  long  ago. 
I  told  father 
’twarn’t  no  use  a  lettin'  Bill  go  to  work 
in  the  village  store,  't  we  couldn't  spar 
him  fer  good,  an’  that 
'twould  only 
make  him  d’sat’sfied  when 
summer 
come  an’  we  had  to  hev  him  back  on 
the  farm. 
’Twarn’t  no  sort  o’  use  fer 
me  to  argue.  Bill  he  wanted  to  go,  an’ 
father  he said  ’twould  be  an’  edication

still 

fer him,  ez  good  ez  goin’  to  school,  an’ 
ez  long's  Crawford  wanted  Bill,  an’  ’ ud 
pay  him  twelve  dollars  a  month  an’  his 
board,  ’t  he’d  ought  to  go. 
’Twas  jest 
es  I  said,  though—when  we  tuck  Bill 
out  o’  the  store,  a  year  ago  this  last 
spring,  he  jes’  couldn’t  stan’  farm  work 
co  more.  An*  thet  made  father mad, 
an’  he  licked  him,  an’  then  Bill  left  us. 
Lord ! 
I’d  be  willin’  to  hev  this  well 
go  dry— I’d  be  willin’  t’  stan'  a’most 
anything  ef  my  boy’d  only  come back to 
me.”   Overcome  with  the  intensity  of 
her  longing, 
the  woman  buried  her 
face  in  her  bands  and  burst  into  tears.
"Come,  come,  Mary,  cryin’  ain’t  a 
goin’  to  help  it,”   exclaimed  a  big,  ro­
bust  farmerish-looking  man  whose ap­
proach  bad  been  unnoticed  by the  wom­
an. 
is  bad,  I  know;  but  ef 
the  wust  comes  to the  wust  we  kin  put 
the bows  an’  canvas  onto the  wagin’  an’ 
go  back  to  dear  ol’  Injiany,  whar  they 
don’t hev  none  o’  this  heart-burnin’  fer 
a  drop  er  two  o*  rain ."

"Things 

"W illiam ,”   burst  out  the  woman, 
"th et’s  jes'  the  very  thing  thet we  can’t 
never  d o !  We  jes’  got  to  slay  right 
here  an’  grin  an’  bear  it an’  w ait."

"T h et’s  jes’  whar  yer calkilatin’s off, 
Mary— we  don't hev  to  stay.  We  don't 
owe  nothin’  to  nobody,  the  place  is 
paid  fer  an’  thar's $75  in  the  ol’  china 
teapot  in  the  cupboard.  Besides,  I  kin 
git  work  fer  myself  an’  team  on  the 
way  ef  we  run  short  o’  funds—I  saw  ye 
a  leanin’  on  the  well  here  when  I  wuz 
t’other  side  o’  the  creek  yonder,  an’  I 
knew  ye  wuz  a  thinkin’  an’  a  wishin’ 
an'  a  cryin*;  an’  I 
'bout made  up  my 
min’ 
’t  we’d  pull  out  o’  here an’  leave 
it  fer  what  the Lord A ’mighty always in­
tended  it—the  coyotes,  the  prairie  dogs 
an’  the  jack  rabbits.”

"Leave  it!”   exclaimed  the  woman,
her  voice  sharpened  by  a  note  of  fear; 
" a n ’  then  some  night  when  it’s quiet 
an’  silent  ez  the  grave here,  when  thar’s 
nothin’  breakin’ 
the  stillness  but  the 
howl  of  a  coyote  an*  the  sound  o’  the 
wind  ez 
it  steals  over the  prairie,  our 
boy  might  wander back!  No,  William, 
we  can’t  go,  we  can’t  go—not  until  Bill 
comes  back!”  

M ac  A l l a n .

C a l c i u m

C a r b i d e

and all kinds of

Acetylene Qas Burners

Distributing  agents  for  The  Electro  Lamp  Co.'s 
especially  prepared  Carbide  for  bicycle  and  por­
table lamps, in  i, 2 and 3 pound cans.
Orders promptly filled.

Jackson, Michigan.

Ecoijonjy

W E   A R B   T H E P E O P L E
Profiting by  the experience  of 
the numerous generators  which 
have been  put  on  the  market 
during  the  past  two  years,  we 
have succeeded  in  creating  an 
ideal generator on entirely  new 
lines, which we have designated 
as the

TU R N ER
GENERATOR

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

TURNER &  HAUSER,

121  OTTAWA ST., 
GRAND RAPIDS.

State rights for sale.

Acetylene 
Gas----

Makes the BRIGHTEST, 

PUREST, 
CH EAPEST,
SAF EST and most 
CONVENIEN T 

Light when made by the

Crown  Acetylene  Gas  Machine

Write us for Catalogue and full 
particulars.  Agents wanted.

Crown Acetylene Gas Machine Co., 

Detroit, Mick.

Here  It  Is!

The  Holmes Generator

Just what you  have  been  looking  for.  The  latest, 
the best,  the safest, the most durable and most sav­
ing of carbide on the market.  It  has  the  improve­
ments  long  sought  lor  by  all  generator  manu­
facturers.  No  more wasted  gas,  no  over  heating, 
no smoke, no coals on  burners.  Only  one-tenth as 
much  gas  escapes  when  charging  as  in  former 
machines and you  cannot  blow  It  up.  It’s  safe, 
it’s simple.  It is sold under a guarantee.  You put 
the carbide in and the machine does the  rest.  It is 
perfectly automatic.  A   perfect and steady light at 
all  times  No  flickering  or  going  out  when 
charged.  Do not  buy  a  Generator  until  yon  have 
seen this.  You  want  a  good  one  and  we  have 
it.  It’s  made  for  business.  Fully  approved  by 
Board  of  Underwriters.  Catalogue  and  prices 
cheerfully sent on application.  Experienced acety­
lene gas agents wanted, 
l  imited territory for sale. 
Also dealers in Carbide, Fixtures, Fittings, Pipe.

Holmes-Balley Acetylene Gas Co.

M u  too, MIcMgu.

The Best of Reasons  w hy  you  should  be 
prejudiced  in  faver  of

1.  The generating capacity is larger than any other Gen­
erator on the market, holding 1 lb. carbide to % foot burner.
2.  Our  carbide  container  is  a  compartment  pan,  with 
pockets holding from  1  to 3  lbs. each,  the water  acting  on 
but one at a time, thus no heating or wasting of gas.

3.  There are no valves to  be  opened  or  closed  by  forks, 

ratchets or levers.  It is extremely simple and is sure.

4«  Our Gasometer has no labor to perform, thus insuring 

at all times the same even  pressure.

5.  All pipes are self -draining to the  condens­

ing chamber.

6.  Our  Gasometers  for  same  rat  d  capacity 
are the largest  on  the  market, and  will  hold  a 
large supply.  It saves.

7.  The  Bruce  Generator,  when  left  to  do  its 
own work, will not  blow off  or waste  the  gas.
8.  N ot least, but greatest  Our Purifier takes 
out all moisture  and  impurities  from  the  gas, 
making it impossible for pipes to clog up or the 
burners to choke up and smoke.
American Carbide Co.,

5 y s t e r o

What you  charge  fills  big  books;  but  what  you 
forget to charge represents a constant loss  and can 
never  fill  one  000k,  your  pocketbook.  Therefore, 
we ask you to investigate

Tb* Egry Autographic 

Register Systems,

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 

L .  A .  E L Y ,

S & le s  A gV O t, Alnj&r

Local Salesman:

S.  K. BOLX.ES, 39 Monroe Street,  3rd Floor.

West 3d Street, St. Paul, Mima.

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17

D. 

A.  Harrison  (Farrand,  Williams, 

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the drip.

President,  Chas.  L.  Stsvkns,  Ypsilanti;  Secre­
tory, J.  C. Saundbbs, Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C. 
Gould. Saginaw,
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  J amkb  E.  Da y,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W. Allbn  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 

Grand  Counselor,  Jno.  A.  Murray,  Detroit; 
Grand Secretary, G. S. Valmobi, Détroit;  Grand 
Treasurer, W. S. Mkst, Jackson.

Qrand Rapids Conacil No. 131.

Senior Counselor, D. E. Ke ye s;  Secretary-Treas­
urer,  L.  F.  Baker.  Regular  meetings—First 
Saturday of each month in Council  Chamber In 
McMullen block.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  Boyd  Pantlihd,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Gao.  F.  Owtsh,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Assoc iatioa.

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

Gripsack  Brigade.

Charles  F.  Ballard  (National  Biscui 
Co.)  suffered  a  stroke  of  paralysis  at St. 
Louis  July  14  which  deprives  him  of 
the  use  of  his  left  side.  He has  the  full 
use of  his  right  arm  and  limb  and  ex­
pects  to  recover  the  use  of  his  left  side 
in  the  course  of  two  or  three  weeks.

F.  A.  LeSuer’s  smiles  are  now  to  be 
seen  through  the  Cashier’s  window  at 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Charlotte. 
Customers,  former  fellow  travelers and 
friends  generally  miss  Mr.  LeSuer’s 
visits  and  companionship,  but  all  are 
glad  to  know  that  one  of  their  number 
has  been  so  successful  on  retiring  from 
the  road.

&  Clark,  Detroit)  was  in  Albion  one 
day  last week.  Just  what  relation  he  is 
to  William  Henry  we  have  not  figured 
out,  but  we  know  be  came  from  the 
same  stock,  as he  is always  cool  beaded, 
□ever  in  a  hurry,  always  has  time  for 
everything,  making  friends  and  sales 
while  others  make  many  towns  and 
quick  time.

The  Tradesman  has  a  serious  dis­
closure  to  make  this  week  concerning 
one  of  the  oldest  and  most  respected 
traveling  men  residing  in  this  city.  L. 
M.  Mills  (Morrison,  Plummer  &  Co.) 
recently  went  to Ottawa  Beach  with  the 
Bradley  Rifles,  of  which  his  son  is a 
member, and took  a  week’s  respite  from 
business  caies  and  responsibilities—an 
almost  unheard-of  dissipation  for  so  se­
date  and  energetic  a  gentleman.

The  charge  of  bad  faith  made  against 
the  captain  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Trav­
eling  Men’s  Baseball  Club  by  the  erst­
while captain  of  the  Kalamazoo Club 
is 
of  so  serious  a  nature that  an  investiga­
tion  should  be  instituted  at  once  to  de­
termine  the  exact  facts  in  the  contro­
versy.  If  the  captain  of  the  Grand  Rap­
ids  Club 
is  guilty  of  the  charge  pre­
ferred  by  the  erstwhile  captain  of  the 
Kalamazoo Club,  he  should  be drummed 
out  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Club  in  dis­
grace,  in  which  case  he  would  probably 
be  elected  captain  of  the  Kalamazoo 
Club,  which  appears to  have  a  penchant 
for  changing  captains  every  week.

New  Orleans  Times-Democrat:  “ My 
business  takes  me 
into  a  great  many 
small  towns,’ ’  remarked  a  drummer  the 
other  evening,  “ and  while  loafing  with 
the  natives,  who  debate  the  fate  of  na­
tions  and  carve  their  monograms  on 
cracker  boxes 
in  corner  groceries,  I 
hear  lots  of  good  old  stories,  furbished 
up,  retrimmed,  dyed,  scoured,  polished 
and  practically  as  good  as  new.  There 
are  six  or  eight  of these  yarns  that  I

to 

learned 

look  upon  as  old 
have 
friends,  and 
it  warms  my  heart  when  I 
meet  them,  no  matter  what  local  dis­
guise  they  happen  to  be  wearing.  A 
few  days  ago,  for  instance,  I  happened 
into  a  strange  town 
in  Ohio  and  felt 
frightfully  bored  and  lonesome  until  a 
storekeeper  began  to  tell  me  a  story 
about a lawyer named  Googan  in  a  place 
up  the  road. 
‘ He was  a  trifling  kind  of 
a  chap,’  said  the  storekeeper,  ‘ and  one 
day  he  heard  of  a  doctor  in  New  York 
that  had  a  scheme  for  taking  out  the 
no-account  part of  a  fellow’s brain  and 
replacin'  it  with first-class thinkin’  ma­
chinery.  Knowing  that  everybody  re­
garded  him  as  a  blamed  fool,  Googan 
concluded  to  go  off  on  the quiet  and get 
fixed  up.  So  he  scooted  for  New  York 
and  when  he  got  there  the doctor  told 
him  that  his  brain  was  petrified,  hard 
as a  rock, but  he  promised  to  make  him 
a  new  one  that  he  could  think  with  and 
told  him  to  come  back  in  six  months 
and  have  it  put  in.  Googan  promised, 
but  when  the  time  arrived  he  didn’t 
show  up,  and  the  doctor  wrote him  a 
letter. 
“ I  have  your  brain  all  ready,”  
he  said;  “ come  and  get  it.”   “ It  ain’t 
necessary,”   Googan  wrote  back;  “ I’ve 
been 
the  Legislature.” ’ 
‘ Thank  you  kindly,I  says  I  to  the  store­
keeper when  he  concluded ;  ‘ I  feel  per­
fectly  at home  now.’  He  looked  a  little 
puzzled,  but  consented  to  join  me  in 
some  nerve  tonic.”

’lected 

to 

To  Sell  Eggs  By  Weight.

“ An  act  to  further  amend  the weights 
and  measures  act  of  Canada”   has  been 
introduced 
in  the  House  of  Commons, 
designed  to  fix  the  weights  at  which 
eggs  shall  be  sold  in  the  Dominion. 
It 
provides  that  “ unlessotherwise  special­
ly  agreed  upon  between  the  buyer and 
seller,  eggs  shall  be  sold  by  weight,  and 
the  weight  equivalent  to  a  dozen  shall 
be one  pound  and  a  half. ”   This  is  the 
weight  demanded  by the British market, 
is  equal  to  15  pounds  to  the 
which 
“long  hundred.”   which 
is  ten  dozen. 
At  present,  eggs  are  usually  bought  by 
the  dozen  as  they  come  to  hand,  and 
only  those  which  are  up  to  the  demand 
of  the  British  market  in  size are  sent 
there,  which  leaves the  smaller  eggs  to 
be  used  at  home  or  be  seat  to  the  min­
ing  or other  Canadian  markets.  While 
an  act  of  parliament  can  not  be  ex­
pected  to  enlarge a  hen’s egg mould,  the 
proposed  law  will,  if  carried out,  induce 
Doultry  keepers  to  do  away  with  the 
hens  and  breeds  of  hens  that  lay  small 
eggs,  and  keep  only  those  for  egg  pro­
duction  which  shell  out  the  proper 
sized  hen  fruit.  The  author  of  the  bill, 
referring  to  it  in  a  letter,  said:  “ The 
bill  is  not intended  to  interfere  with  the 
sale  of  eggs  by  the  farmers  to  the  egg 
dealers,  but  to  regulate  the  sale of  eggs 
bought  at  a  distance,  as  there  is  often 
difficulty 
in  deciding  what  a  standard 
dozen  of  eggs  means.  This  bill  defines 
the  standard  as  between  local  dealers 
and  dealers  at  a  distance  in  this  coun­
try,  but  principally  in  the  British  mar­
ket. ’ ’
Yearns  For Other Worlds  to  Conquer.
Having  led  the  Grand  Rapids Travel­
ing  Men’s  Baseball  Team  to  victory  on 
two  consecutive  occasions,  Geo.  Rys- 
dale  now  yearns  for other  worlds  to  con­
quer,  and,  in  furtherance  of  his  ambi­
tion,  be  sends  the  Tradesman  the  fol­
lowing  communication:

Will  you  kindly  insert  in  the  Trades­
man  some  kind  of  a  challenge  to the 
Jackson,  Lansing  and  Saginaw traveling 
men  for  a  game  of  ball,  to  be  played 
any  Saturday  they  may  name.  You 
know  how  to  fix  up  such  an  article  bet­
ter  than  I.  Will  consider  this  a  great 
favor. 
Manager Grand Rapids Traveling Men’s 

Geo.  R ysd alb,

Baseball  Team.

Some  people are  better  when  they  are 

sick  than  at  any  other time.

Tender  Tribute  to  the  Tireless  Trav­

eler.

illustrates 

The traveling  fraternity  is  composed 
of  what  a  great  many  people  call  drum­
in  the  estimation  of  a  few 
mers,  and 
people,  the  drummer 
is  a  conglomera­
tion  of  the  confidence  man,  lightning- 
rod  peddler and  the  book  agent,  with  a 
through  pass  and  his baggage  check  for 
the  lower  regions. 
I  remember a  little 
incident  that happened  down  in  Adrian 
a  few  years  ago  that 
the 
opinion  some  people have  of  us.  There 
lived  beside  me an old Methodist minis­
ter.  He  and  his  dear  old  wife  bad 
taken  their  only  grandson  to  raise.  He 
was  a  handsome  little  fellow  of  more 
than  ordinary 
intelligence.  The  old 
minister  would  often  take  him  around 
to  his  neighbors  and  tell  them  what  a 
smart  and  noble  man  Willie  was  going 
to  make.  As  the 
little  boy  grew  to  be 
five  or  six  years  old  the  grandfather be­
came  very  anxious  to  know  just  what 
profession  Willie  would  follow  when 
turned  out  on  his  own  resources.  He 
bad  often  heard  the  old  adage about  the 
Bible,  etc.,  so  he prepared  a  small  table 
in  the  middle  of  the  room  and  placed 
on 
it  a  silver dollar,  a  small  Bible and 
a  bottle  of  whisky.  He  called  the  old 
grandmother  in  and  said  to her,  “ lam  
going  to find  out  what  profession  our 
little  boy 
is  going  to  follow;  if  he 
should  take  the  Bible,  he will be  a  great 
Methodist  bishop;  if  he  should  take  the 
dollar  he  will  make  a  banker  or  a 
shrewd  businessman;  but,God  forbid,if 
be  should  take  the  bottle  of  whisky,  be 
will  be  a  saloon  keeper  and  a  drunk­
ard;”   so  they  placed  Willie 
in  the 
room,  and  they  took  their  position  be­
hind  the door  to  watch  him.  He  walked 
directly  up  to  the  table,  took  the  bottle 
of  whisky,  looked  at  it,  took  the  cork 
out.  took  a  drink  and  shoved  it  down  in 
his  pocket.  Then  picked  up  the  dollar 
and 
it  in  his 
pocket.  He  then  walked  around  to the 
other  side  of  the  table  and  took  the 
Bible,  turned  over  a  few 
leaves,  closed 
it  under  his  arm  and 
it  up  and  put 
started  across  the  room.  With 
tears 
rolling  down  the  old  man’s cheeks  he  at 
once  fell  to  his  knees  and  commenced 
praying  to  the  good  Lord  to  have  mercy 
on  bis  grandchild.  The old  lady  stood 
in  amazement,  and  finally  asked  the  old 
gentleman  what  was  wrong.  He  said, 
“ I  never  thought  he  would come to this. 
I  thought  perhaps  be  might  be  a  saloon 
keeper  or  a  drunkard.  He  has  drunk 
the  whisky,  put the  money  in  bis  pocket 
and  started  off  with  the  Bible  under  his 
arm—this is a  sure  sign  that  he  is  going 
to  be  a  drummer.”

it  and  put 

looked  at 

As  time  advances  and  the  people  be­
come more enlightened,  they realize  that 
the  drummer  is  not such  a  monster after 
all.  Competition  has  become  so  strong 
that  the  successful  traveling  man  of  to­
day  must  have  more  qualifications  than 
our  brothers  of  forty  years  ago.  He 
must  be  a  man  of  excellent  business 
ability,  must  possess 
intelligence  and 
morality  and  be  a  gentleman  at  all 
times.

The  traveling  men  of  Michigan  rep­
resent  the  best  citizenship  of  the  State, 
and  constitute a  mighty  force,  not  only 
in  trade  and  commerce,  but  in  the  so­
cial  and  political  affairs of the State and 
nation.

They  are  men  of  recognized  ability 
and 
intelligence,  whose  counsel  and 
friendship  is  sought,  and  whose  opposi­
tion  is dreaded.  They  have  attained  a 
position 
in  the  business  world  that 
makes them  as  much  of  a  factor  as  the 
doctor,  the  lawyer,  the  politician  or  the

banker.  To  raise  the  standard  of  our 
fraternity  higher  should  be  the  aspira­
tion  of  every  true  Knight  of  the  Grip. 
Let  us  bridge  the  chasms  between  capi­
tal  and  labor  and  raise  above  them  the 
arches  of  friendship,  love  and  truth. 
Capital  has  built  up  large  manufactur­
ing  institutions,  which give employment 
to thousands  of  honest  laboring men and 
women,  and  this  makes  our  nation  pros­
perous  and  great. 
It  is  the  lot  of  the 
drummer to leave  bis  home  and  kiss  his 
wife  and  baby  good-bye,  take  his  sam­
ples  and  traverse  this  broad 
land  and 
introduce  the  products  of  our  manufac­
turers  to  the  consumers.  But  for  him 
many  of  our  large  institutions would not 
be  in  existence,  and  the  products  of 
others  would  be  moulding  on the shelves 
or  sleeping  in  the  warehouse.

I  have  long  been  convinced of the fact 
that  the  traveling  men  have  the  best  of 
the  land.  Our  excellent  taste  and  good 
judgment  have  become  proverbial  and 
are  displayed with especial ability in the 
selection  of  our  wives  and  sweethearts. 
We  admire  the  good  and  the  beautiful 
and  this  accounts  for  the  fact  that many 
of  our  handsomest  women  are  the  wives 
and  sweethearts  of  the  traveling  men. 
Such  prizes  are  not  drawn  in  the  mat­
rimonial  market  by  accident;  our  good 
fortune 
is  accounted  for  on  the  theory 
that  we  make  first-class  husbands.  We 
all  believe  that  woman  is  the  queen  of 
social  nobility,  the  flower  of 
rarest 
beauty,  whose  fragrance  is  designed  to 
perfume  the  pathway  of  human  life. 
Burns  was  right  when  he  said,

He tried on man the apprentice hand,
And then he made the lassie.

F.  D.  R o b e r t s.

Has  Nothing  to  Do  With  the  Meals  at 

Edmore.

Grand  Rapids,  July  22—The  party 
writing  over  the  name  of Traveler in the 
Tradesman  of  July  19  is  in  error  in sup­
posing  that  the  D.,  G.  R.  &  W.  Rail­
road  Company  has  any  connection  with 
the  restaurants  or  hotels  along  the  line 
of  our  road.  Supper  is  never furnished 
at  Edmore  except  on  special  request  of 
some  passenger.  The company  has  an 
arrangement  with  the  hotel  at  Alma  by 
which  meals  are  furnished  on  the  cars, 
but  at  no  other  place. 
I  know  nothing 
by  personal  experience  of  the  character 
of  the  meals  furnished  at  Edmore,  but 
I  have  heard  that  they  are  not  of  the 
highest  grade. 

C h a s .  M .  H e a l d , 
President.
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Drugs—Chemicals
MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
■ 
-  Dec. 31,1899 
A. C. Schumacher,  Ann  Arbor 
Dec. 31,1900
Geo. G u r a m , Ionia  - 
-  Dec. 31,1901
L. B. Reynolds, St.  Josepb 
- 
Hehby Hk k , Saginaw  • 
Dec. 31,1902
Wis t  P. Dorr, Detroit 
- 
-  Dec. 31,1803

President, Gao.  G o s i i e u « ,   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. Sounwma, Escanaba. 
Secretary, Chas. F. Mann, Detroit. 
Treasurer—John D. Mu ir, Grand RapidB.

How  to  Retail  Cigara in  a  Drug Store.
Of  all  conditions  necessary  to  make 
the  retailing  of  cigars a  success,  neat­
ness  and  cleanliness  of  a  store  in  gen­
eral  is  one  of  the  first  considerations.

Take  it  for  granted  that  such  a  con­
dition  exists  in  the  store,  the  following 
additional  circumstances  ought  and  do 
bring  about  the  desired  result  of  this 
article:

Have  a  sbow  case  large  enough to dis­
play  goods  properly;  at  the  same  time, 
lei  sbow  case  be  one  with  a  minimum 
amount  of  wood  work,  which  often  ob­
structs  view  of  contents  and  brands  of 
cigars.

See  that  your  show case is never dusty, 
and  as  near  air-tight  as  possible;  as 
soon  as  the  sun  strikes  the  case  cover 
the  part  exposed  with  a  heavy  paper, 
thus  protecting  the  goods,  and  at  the 
same  time  letting  your  smokers  know 
that  you  are  keeping  your  cigars  in  the 
best  condition.  A  great  mistake  which 
is  invariably  made  by  druggists  is  to 
keep  the  cigar  cases’  glass  too  loaded 
down  with  other  goods  often  more 
closely  associated  with  the  nursery  than 
the  taste  of  the  fastidious  smoker. 
In­
stead  of  corn  medicines,  easy  passage 
lozenges,  perfumes,  cards,  easels,  tooth 
brushes,  etc.,  let  there  be  on  top  of a 
cigar  case  only  a  neat  cigar  mat  and 
cigar  cutter,  but  not  a  lighter,  the  best 
of  which  are  a  nuisance. 
lieu, 
thereof,  have  a  small  Swedish  match 
stand  and  ash  tray;  if any  more  is  to be 
added,  let 
it  be  a  bouquet  of  flowers, 
which  does  more  talking  on  top  of  your 
case  than  all  else  for  the  sale  of  fine 
cigars.

In 

Another  important feature—never per­
mit a  customer  to  stand  in  front  of  your 
case  waiting  to be served,  as  nothing  is 
more  annoying  to  the  smoker;  he 
is 
often  in  a  burry,  and will  not  wait  long, 
if  not  waited  on,  and  soon  finds another 
place  where  he  receives  more  attention.
it, 
very  good  to  have  a  clerk  of  neat  ap­
pearance  constantly  at,  or  near, 
the 
cigar  counter;  see that  goods  are  skill­
fully  displayed 
in  the  case,  and  then 
keep  fresh  and  supplied  with  moisture, 
for  which  purpose  use  some  alcohol 
from  time  to  time.

It  is,  whenever  the  trade  justifies 

Catchy  window  displays,  made  of 
empty  cigar boxes  of  your  best  sellers, 
attract  great attention,  and  verify  your 
previous  claims  on  the  sale  of  these 
goods.

Whenever  you  are  taking  hold  of  a 
new  brand  of  cigars,  send  out  invita­
tions  to  your  prospective  customers, 
asking  them  to  drop  in  and  sample  one 
of  your  new  cigars  for  the  price  of their 
good  judgment  as  to  the  quality  of  the 
new  brand.

All  these  things  will  bring  success, 
if  you  have  not  made  a  mistake  in  buy­
ing  your goods.

When  buying  cigars,  see  that  the  job­
is

ber  or  manufacturer  you  buy  from 

interested 

in  the  success of 
as  much 
his  brands 
in  your  store  as  you  are 
yourself;  avoid  ail  scheme  goods,  but 
pay  your  cash  only  for  cigars,  and 
let 
the  concern  alone  which  has  silver  and 
gold  watches,  bedsteads,  and  what  not, 
that  go  with  every  $35  worth  of  their 
$17  cigars.

In  some  localities  the  cigar  wheel 
(without  blanks)  sells,  and helps the sale 
of  cigars,  and,  being  no  scheme,  is 
herein  approved.

By  all  means,  if  you  must  handle 
them,  keep  cigarettes  away  from cigars; 
the  average  cigar  smoker  abhors  these 
coffin  nails.

For the  clear  Havana smoker  keep,  if 
possible,  a  separate  chest, 
in  which 
their  favorite  brand  is kept,  in especial­
ly  nice  condition.

When  you  are  satisfied  that  you  have 
the  best  goods  that  money can buy,  stick 
to  your brands,  for  merit  will  win,  and 
the  goods  have  your  confidence,  and 
come  to  you  irom  a  reliable  house.

If  the  provisions  which  I  have  here 
enumerated  do  not  bring  you  a  good 
cigar  trade,  throw  out  the  cigars  and 
make  a  more  profitable  use  of  the  space 
they  occupy  in  your store.— Henry  Rail- 
man  in  Cigar Talk.

Care  o f  Marble  Around  the  Fountain.
The  action  of  acids,  viz-,  sulphuric, 
carbonic,  citric,  phosphoric, 
lactic, 
etc.,  or  the  fumes  emitting  therefrom, 
employed  in  carbonating and dispensing 
soda  water,  attacking  marble,  are  very 
injurious  to  the  polish;  the  front  of  the 
apparatus,  marble  slabs,  etc.,  exposed 
to  the  spattering  of soda-water,  in which 
one  or  more  of  these acids are  present, 
should  be 
immediately  rinsed  with 
water  and  afterwards  rubbed  quickly 
with  a  clean,  soft  cloth  until  perfectly 
dry. 
Frequent  applications  of  pure 
olive  oil  to  black  or  fancy  marbles, 
rubbed  vigorously  with  a  soft,  smooth 
fabric,  will assist  toward  retaining  their 
original  appearance.  Under  no  circum­
stances  should  oil  or  soap  be applied  to 
onyx,  Italian  white,  French  blue,  or 
Bardillo  marbles.  Stone  of  this  descrip­
tion  should  be  washed  frequently  with 
pure  water  and  afterwards rubbed brisk­
ly  with  a  clean  chamois  until it assumes 
a  glossy  appearance.  A  saturated  solu­
tion  of  beeswax  in  turpentine,  rubbed 
into  the  pores  of  highly  colored  marble 
showing  signs  of  dimness,  and  after­
ward  removed  by  rubbing 
it  smartly 
with  a  soft,  smooth  cloth,  will restore its 
original  luster.

Light-colored  marbles,  and  especially 
onyx,  should  be  kept  dry  and  bright  by 
burnishing  the  surface  frequently with  a 
clean  chamois.

To  prevent  Belgian  black  marble 
from  turning  gray,  it  should  be  oiled 
and  rubbed  freely  at  least  once  a  week. 
By  keeping  the  pores  of  marble  filled 
with  oil,  a  film  is  formed  over  the  sur­
face  which  becomes  almost 
impervious 
to  the  action  of  acids,  etc.

S c o tt’s   Em ulsion  V in dicated.

The case  of  the  Dairy  and  Food Com­
mission  of  Ohio  against  Scott  &  Bowne 
has  finally  been  decided  with  an  em­
phatic  verdict  for  the  defendants.  The 
charge,  it  will  be  remembered,  was  that 
Scott’s  Emulsion  contained  morphine 
and  should,  therefore, 
in  accordance 
with  the  laws  of  the  State,  be  labeled 
with  the  skull  and  crossbones.  This 
Scott  &  Bowne  refused  to  do,  declaring 
that  no  morphine  existed  in  the  prepa­
ration.  At  least  twenty-five  chemists 
have  since  examined  the  preparation 
and  found  no  morphine,  and  it  was  in­
evitable  that  a  verdict  for  acquittal 
should  be  rendered  in  the  end.

The  pharmacy 

Promiscuous Dispensing By Physicians.
laws  of  our  several 
states,  and  those  of  Great  Britain  as 
well,  specifically  permit  the  physician 
to  dispense  medicines  for  his  own 
patients,  although  this  privilege  is  de­
nied  him,  we  believe,  in  one  or  two 
countries  on  the Continent.  Abstractly, 
there 
is  no  reason  why  a  physician 
should  be  allowed  to dispense medicines 
for his  own  patients any  more  than  for 
the  patients  of other  physicians,  unless 
he be  found  competent by  the pharmacy 
board  of  the  State;  for  competency  is 
no  less  necessary 
in  one  case than  in 
another.  Just  why  this exemption  ever 
came to  be  allowed  physicians  is  there­
fore  rather  puzzling. 
It  can  be  ex­
plained  only  on  two  grounds.  In  earlier 
and  less  enlightened  ages  the  physician 
and  pharmacist  were  one.  And  it  seems 
likely  that  this  practice 
in  the  two 
fields,  which  is  now  but  traditional  and 
has  positively  no bearing  upon  present 
conditions,  for  the  physician  of  to-day 
is  not at  all  trained  in  pharmacy,  crept 
into  the  early  legislation  governing  the 
practice  of  both  callings  and  there  re­
mained.  The  second  explanation  is that 
the  physician 
is  held  accountable  for 
any  accident  which  may  befall  bis 
patients  through  either his  negligence, 
ignorance,  or  mistake,  and  that  he  may 
therefore  be given  full  liberty  of actiou.
But be  this as  it  may,  physicians  are 
sometimes  wont  to  enlarge  upon  the 
privilege given  them  of  dispensing  to 
their  own  patients.  Sometimes  “ poor 
picking”   impels  a  physician  to  stray 
from  his  own  pasture  ¡Dto  the  clover- 
field  over the fence.  Sometimes a grasp­
ing  nature  impels  him  to  do  i t   Some­
times  a  spirit  of  revenge  impels  him  to 
do  it.  At any  rate,  it  is  not  infrequent­
ly  the  case  that  physicians  dispense 
medicines,  not  alone  to  their  patients, 
but  to all  who  would  permit  of  it.  The 
writer  well  remembers  an  experience 
which  befell  him  while  behind  the 
counter.  He  had  a  suffering  old  cus­
tomer  who  constantly  used  five-grain 
powders  of  phenacetine.  These were  of 
course  expensive.  We  charged  80 cents 
for  twenty-five  powders;  at  that  time 
phenacetine  cost,  if  memory  serves  us 
correctly,  $1.50  per  ounce.  Well, 
it 
suddenly  occurred  to  us  one  day,  as  the 
old  fellow  was  in  the  store,  that  he  had 
not  gotten  any  powders  in  a  consider­
able time,  and  so  we  asked  him  about 
it   He  replied  that  Dr.  Blank  had  ac­
costed  him 
in  the  street  one day,  and 
found  out  that  he  was  using  powders  of 
phenacetine,  and upon  hearing  his  com­
plaint  of  their  expense,  bad  told  him 
that  be  would  furnish  them  for  a cent 
apiece.  This  was  a  considerable  sav­
ing  to  the  old  fellow,  and  so  be  had 
gladly  availed  himself  of  the  oppor 
tunitv,  ignorant  of  the  fact  that  the 
charitable  doctor  had  given  him  pow­
ders,  not  of  phenacetine,  but  of  ace- 
tanilid.

Before 

the  annual  m eeting  of 

the 
Pennsylvania  P harm aceutical  A ssocia­
tion,  held 
the  eth er  week  in  P hilad el­
phia,  Mr.  Louis  Emmanuel,  President 
of  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  read  a 
paper  in  which  be  cited  case after  case 
w here physicians  were  d ispensing  drugs 
broadcast.  He 
the  m anner  in 
they  sought  custom ers  and  the
w hich 

told  of 

subterfuges  to  which  they  resorted  in 
order  to  escape  possible  conviction  un­
der  the  law  for selling  drugs  without  a 
pharmacist's  license.

Practices  similar  to  these  have  evi­
dently  annoyed  the  pharmacists of this 
State,  for  in  a bill which was  introduced 
in  the  Legislature  during  the  session 
just  closed  there  was  a  provision  spe­
cifically  prohibiting  physicians  from 
dispensing  medicines  for,  or  furnishing 
medicines to,any but their own  patients. 
There  are not  many  physicians  who  re­
sort to  the  practices  against  which  this 
bill  was  aimed.  The  medical  profession 
as  a  whole  is  made  np  of  honorable  and 
capable  men,  with  whom  pharmacists 
should  strive  to  get  on  terms  of co-oper­
ation.  Bnt  there  are  black  sheep  m 
every  flock,  and  from  the  black  sheep 
in  the  medical  flock  it  is  desirable  to 
protect  ourselves  whenever  it  is possible 
so  to  do. 
It  is  therefore  unfortunate 
that  the  Michigan  bill  did  not  pass.— 
Bulletin  of  Pharmacy.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Is  slightly  lower  on  account 
of  reports  that  the  new  crop  will  be 
ample.

Morphine— Is 

steady  at  unchanged 

prices.

Quinine— Has  been  reduced  2c  per 
ounce by  both  American  and  foreign 
manufacturers.

Cuttle  Bone— Has  again  advanced. 
Stocks  are being  reduced  and  reports  of 
the  catch  are  very  unfavorable.  Much 
higher  prices  are  looked  for  later on.

Glycerine— Is  unchanged,  but  manu­
facturers  are  very  firm  in  their  views, 
on  account  of  the  small  stock  of  crude.

Balsam  Copaiba— Is tending higher.
Essential  Oils— Anise  is  very  firm  at 
the  advance  noted  last  week.  Cassia  is 
also  advancing.  Wintergreen  has  ad­
vanced.

Genuine  German  Chamomile  Flow­
ers— Have  advanced  abroad.  Other 
chamomiles  called  German  are  offered 
at  lower  prices.

Arnica  Flowers—Are very firm,  on ac­

count  of  small  crop.

Didn’t  Like  the  Family.

Rich  Old  Party— What  do  you  want  a 
wife  for  when  you  can  hardly  support 
yourself?  Why,  sir,  my  daughter  would 
starve!

Snookins  (with  great dignity)—Well, 
sir,  if  you  are  the  kind  of  man  to  let 
your daughter and  her  husband  starve  I 
don’t  wish  to  enter  the  family.

How  quickly  the  millennium  would 
come  if  we  would  only  do  the  wonder­
ful  things  to-day  that  we  are  going  to 
do  to-morrow.

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FLAVORING  EXTRACTS  AND  DRUGGISTS’  SUNDRIES

M I C H I G A N  

Ì R A D E S M A N

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced- 
Declined—

»  «09

................................«
70® 75
Benzolcum, German
Boraci c....................
® 16
29® 41
Carbollcum............
Citri cum .................
48® 50
Hydrochlor............
3® 5
Nltrocum...............
8® 10
Oxalicum...............
12® 14
Phosphor! um,  d ll...
® 15
Salicylicum.............
50® 6
Sulpnuricum........... 1M@ 5
Tannlcum.............. 1  25®  1  40
Tartaricum..............
38® 40
Ammonia
Aqnn, 16 deg...........
Aqua, 20 deg...........
Carbonas.................
Chloridum..............
Aniline

4® 6
6® 8
12® 14
12® 14

Black.......................  2 00® 2 25
Brown....................   80® 1 00
B ed.........................  45®  50
Yellow....................  2 50® 3 00
Becca.
Cubetee...........po. 18
13® 15
6® 8
Juniperus..'.............
25® 30
Xanthoxylum.........
Balsam um
50® 55
Copaiba...................
@ 2 75
Peru.........................
Terabin, Canada— 45® 50
50® 55
Tolutan...................
Cortez
Abies, Canadian__
Cassl»....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymua atropurp 
Myrica Cerlfera, po.
Primus Virgin!........
Quillaia,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
Ulmns...po. 15,  gr’d 
Bxtractum

Feme

Glycyrrhiza Glabra.  24®  25
Glycyrrhlza, po......   28®  30
11®  12
Hamatox, 15 lb box. 
H»matox, I s ........... 
13®  14
Hamatox, Ms.........  
14®  15
Hamatox, Mb.........  
10®  17
15
Carbonate Precip... 
2 25
Citrate and Qulma.. 
Citrate Soluble.......  
75
40
Ferrocyanidnm Sol. 
Solnt.  Chloride......  
15
Sulphate, com’l ......  
2
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........  
50
Sulphate, p u re ......  
7

Flora

Folia

Am ioa....................  
12®  14
Anthemls................  92@  25
Matricaria..............  30®  35

Barosma..................  25®  30
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18®  25
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and Ms.................  
12®  20
Ura Ursi................... 
8®  10
Gununl
®  66
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
®  45
Acacia, 2d  picked.. 
®  35
Acacia, 3d  picked.. 
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
®  28
Acacia, po...............  
60®  80
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12®  14
Aloe, Cape__ po. 15 
®  12
Aloe, Socotrl.. po. 40 
®  30
Ammoniac.............. 
56®  60
Aasaf(Btlda....po. 80  28®  30
Bensolnum............  
60®  55
®  13
Catechu, Is.............. 
®  14
Catechu, Ms............  
...........  @  16
Catechu, 
50®  5
Camphor»  ............  
®  10
Ruphorbium..po.  35 
Galbanum............... 
®  1  00
Gamboge  po........... 
65®  70
Gualacum...... po. 25 
®  30
Kino...........po. BS.uO 
® 3 00
M astic....................  
®  60
Myrrh............ po.  45  @  40
Opii.. .po. 1.60®84.80 3 25® 3 3s
Shellac....................  25®  35
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tragacanth............  
50®  80
Herbs

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Bupatorium .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum__ oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg 
Bue.............. oz. pkg 
TanacetumY oz. pkg 
Thymus," V. .oz. pkg 
riagnesla.

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Calcined, PaL.........   55®  60
Carbonate, Pat........  20®  22
Carbonate, K .4 M ..  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum
Absinthium...............4
Amygdala, Dulc....
Amygdala, A m ara.  8
Anisl.......................  1
Aurantl  Cortex...... 2
Bergamii...................2
Cajfputi...........
Caryophylli....
Cedar.......................
Chenopadil..............
f'lnnamonll.............  1
C.tronella.  -----  ..

50® 4 75 
30®  50 
; 00® 8 25 
85® 2 00 
40® 2 50 
80® 2 90 
75®  80
70®  80
35®  65
® 2 75 
25®  1  35 
34®  40

Conium Mac...........  35®  50
Copaiba...................  i  is® i 25
Cubeba......................  go® 
Bxechthitos...........  1 00® 1  10
Erlgeron.................  1 00® 1  10
Gaultherla..............  l 40® 1  45
Geranium,  ounce...  ® 
75
Qossippii,Sem.gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma......   ........  l  25®  1 35
Junlpera..................  l 50® 2 00
Lavendula..............  go® 2 00
Limonis...................  l 35®  1  45
Mentha Piper.........   1  60® 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1  50®  1  60
Morrhua,  gal.........   l 00®  1  15
Myrcia,....................  4 00® 4 50
Olive.......................   75® 3 00
PIcis  Liquida.........  
io®  12
Plcis Liquida, gal... 
®  35
Riclna.................... 
92® 1 00
Rosmarini...............   @100
Rosa,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succlni...................  40®  45
Sabina................... 
go®  1  00
Santal....................... 2 50® 7 00
Sassafras.................  55®  60
Sins,pis, ess., ounce.  @  65
Tiglii.......................   1 70®  1 80
40®  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
15®  20
Theobromas........... 
Potassium
Bl-Carb.................... 
15® 
is
Bichromate............  
is®  15
Bromide..................  5j®  57
Garb....................... 
12®  15
Chlorate., po. 17®19c  16®  18
Cyanide...................  35®  40
Iodide........................2 40® 2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @  15
Potass Hitras, opt... 
10®  12
Potass Nit ras........... 
10®  U
Pressiate.................  20®  25
15®  18
Sulphate po  ..  ......  

Radix

Aconitvm...............   20®  25
A ltha.....................   22®  25
Anchusa................. 
io®  12
Arumpo....... ..........  @  25
Calamus.................  20®  40
Gentiana........po.  15 
12®  15
Glychrrhlza... pv. 15  16®  18
Hydrastis Canaden.  @  70
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  75 
Hellebore,Alba,po.. 
18®  20
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po......................4 60® 4 75
Iris plox—  po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   25®  30
Maranta,  Ms...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po....  22®  25
RJ»ei .......................  75® 1 00
Rhel, cut................. 
®  1 25
Rl»ei.PV...................  75®  1  35
SpigeDa...................  36®  38
Sanguinaria... po. 15  @  18
Serpentaria............   40®  45
Senega....................  40®  45
Similar,officinalis H  @ 4 0
Smllax, M...............  
®  25
Scilla............. .po.35  10®  12
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po.................  @  25
Valeriana, Bng.po.30  @  25 
Valeriana,  German. 
15®  20
Zingiber a ...............  
12®  16
Zingiber].  .............  25®  27
5eaen

Anlsum......... po.  15  @ 1 2
13®  15
Apium  (graveleons) 
Bird, Is.................... 
e
4® 
Carni..............po. 18 
10®  12
Cardamon....................  1  25® 1 75
Corlandrum............  
8®  10
4M®  5
Cannabis  Sativa.. 
Cydonium...............  75®  1 00
Cfaenopodium  ........ 
10® 
12
Dipterix  Odorate...  1 40®  1 50
Fcenlculnm............   @ 
10
7® 
Fcenugreek, po........ 
9
L ini.........................  3M@  4M
Lini,  grd....bbl. 3m 
4®  4M
Lobelia..................   85®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3M@  4
R a i« :......................  4M® 
5
Slnapls Albu........... 
g®  10
Slnapis Nigra.........  
11®  12
Spi ritus

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2 50
Frumenti,  D. F. B..  2 00® 2 25
Frum enti...................... 1  25®  1 50
Juniperls Co. O. T..  1  65® 2 00
Junlperis Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum N.  E  ...  1  go® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli........  1  75® 6 50
Vini Oporto.................  1  25® 2 00
Vini Alba....................  l  25® 2 00
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage....................   2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage....................  2 00® 3 25
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage...... 
®  1 50
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__ 
®  1 25
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................  @  1 00
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use.............. 
Syrups

®  1  40

@ 75

Acacia....................   @  50
Aurantl Cortes........  @  50
Zingiber..................  @  50
@  60
Ipecac.  .. 
........... 
Ferri Iod................. 
®  50
®  50
RheiArom....  ......  
Smilax Officinalis... 
Senega............ 
50
urtila.  ____ 
50

@ 

50® 60

l 00

10® 

niscellaneous 

Scilla Co.................  
®
5050
Tolutan...................  @
50
Prunus virg............   @
Tinctures 
Aconitum N apellls R 
60 
Aconitum Napellis F
50 
Aloes.......................
60 
Aloes and Myrrh__
60 
Arnica....................
50 
Assafcetlda............
50 
At rope  Belladonna.
60 
Aurantl  Cortex......
50 
Benzoin...................
60 
Benzoin Co..............
50 
Barosma.................
50 
Cantharldes...........
75 
Capsicum..............
50 
Cardamon...............
75 
Cardamon Co.........
75 
Castor......................
1  00 
Catechu..................
50 
Cinchona................
50 
Cinchona Co...........
60 
Columba.................
50 
Cubeba....................
50 50 
Cassia Acutifol......
Cassia Acutifol Co..
50 
Digitalis..............
50 
Ergot......................
50 
Ferri Chloridum
35 50 
Gentian..................
Gentian Co..............
60 
Guiaca....................
50 
Guiaca ammon........
60 
Hyoscyamus...........
50 
Iodine......................
75 
Iodine, colorless....
75 
Kino........................
50 
Lobelia...................
50 
Myrrh......................
50 
Nux Vomica...........
50 
Opii.........................
75 
Opii, camphorated.
50 
Opii, deodorized.  ..
1  50 
Quassia..................
50 
Rhatany..............
50 
Bhei.........................
50 
Sanguinarla...........
50 
Serpentaria............
50 
Stramonium...........
60 
Tolutan...................
60 
Valerian.................
50 
Veratrum Veride...
50 
Zingiber..................
20
_  
jRther, Spts. NH.3F  30®  35
jRther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   2M® 
3
4
3® 
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
Annatto....   ...........  40®  50
Antlmonl,  po.........  
4® 
5
Antimon! etPotassT  40®  50
Antlpyrln.............. 
@  35
Antifebrin..............  @  20
Argent! Nitras, oz ..  @  50
Arsenicum............. 
12
Balm Gilead  Bud...  38®  40
Bismuth  S. N......... 1  40®  1  50
®  9
Calcium Chlor.,  is.. 
Calcium Chlor., Ms. 
@  10
Calcium Chlor., Ms 
@  12
Cantharldes, Kus.po  @  75
Capsid  Fructus, af.  @  15
®  15
Capsid Fructus, po. 
Capsid FructusBjx) 
®  15 
12®  14
Caryophyllus..po. 15 
Carmine, No. 40......   @ 3 00
Cera Alba...............  
50®  55
Cera Flava.............. 
40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus........  @  33
Centrarla.................  @ 1 0
Cetaceum................   @  45
Chloroform............. 
50®  53
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  10 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  65®  1  90
Chondros................   20®  25
Cinchonidine, P. & W  3-®  43
Cinchonldlne, Germ  35®  45
Cocaine..................   3 80® 4 00
Corks, list, dls.pr.cL 
70
Creosotum............. 
@ 3 5
@  2
Creta............ bbl. 75 
Creta, prep..............  @ 
5
9® 
Creta, precip........... 
11
Creta, Rubra...........  @ 
8
C ro cus.................. 
is®  20
Cudbear.................  @  24
Cupri Snlph............   6M@  8
Dextrine.................. 
10®  12
Ether Sulph............ 
75®  90
Emery, all  numbers  @  8
Emery, po................  @ 
6
Ergota............ po. 40  30®  35
12® 
Flake  White........... 
15
Galla........................ 
(fc  23
Gambler.  ...............  
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper......   @  80
Gelatin, French......   35®  60
75 &  10
Glassware, flint, box 
70
 
Glue,  brown........... 
9®
Glue, white............  
13®
Glycerina...............  
14®  20
Grana  Paradis!......  @  25
Humulus.................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  90 
Hydraag Chlor Cor.  @  80
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.  @  1  00 
®  1  15 
Hydraag Ammonlati 
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........  
®
Ichthyobolla, Am...  65®
Indigo......................  75®  1 00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................  @420
Lupulin.  ................  @2 25
Lycopodium...........  45®  50
Macis.................... 
65®  75
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarglod.............  
®  25
LiquorPotassArsinIt  10®  12 
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
3
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  1M 
Mannla, S. F ........... 
500  60
Menthol 
o   3 00

Less than  box 

Morphia,S.P.AW...  2 20® 2 45 
Morphia,  8.N.Y.Q.4
C. Co....................  2 10® 2 35
Moschus Canton....  @  40
Myristica, No. 1......  
65®  80
Nux Vomica. ,.po.2Ö  @  10
Os  Sepia................. 
18®  20
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co....................  @  1 00
Plcis Llq. N.N.M gal.
doz........................  @ 2 00
Plcis Llq., quarts__  @  1  00
Picis Liq., pints......  @  85
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80  @  50
Piper Nigra... po. 22  @ 1 8
Piper Alba....po.  35  @  30
Pllx  Burgun...........  @ 
7
Plumbi  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvls Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1 20 
Pyrethrum, boxesH.
& P. D. Co., doz...  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv........  25®  30
^uassi»................. 
8®  10
luinia, S. P. & W.. 
39®  41
34®  44
;uinia, S.German.. 
luinia,N.Y....... . 
39®  42
ttbia Tinctorum... 
12®  14
SaccharamLactis pv  18®  20
Salacln....................  3 00® 3  10
40®  50
Sanguis Draconls... 
Sapo,  W................... 
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
Sapo, G....................  @  15
SledUtz  Mixture__  20  @  22

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

Slnapls........................  @ 18
Slnapis, opt................   @ 30
Snuff, Maccaboy,De
® 34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s  @  34
Soda Boras..............  9  @  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  @  11
Soda et Potass Tart.  26®  28
Soda,  Carb........ 
2
1M@ 
5
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
Soda, Ash...............   3M@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether Co........  50®  55
Spt.  MyrciaDom...  @ * oO 
Spts. Vlni Beet, bbl.  @
Spts. VlnlBectMbbl  @
Spts. Vlni Rect.lOgal  @
Spts. Vlni Beet.  5gal  @
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  20® 1  35
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2V®  4
Sulphur,  Roll........  2M@3M
Tamarinds
Terebenth Venice..
Theobrom».........
Vanilla..................
Zincl  Snlph...........
Oils
Whale, winter........
Lard,  extra...........
Lard, No. 1............

28® 30
46® 48
9 00®16 00
7® 8

6  AL.
70
60
40

B B L.
70
50
%

19

Linseed, pure  raw.

Spirits Turpentine.

41
38
39
42
65
70
43M 50

BBL.

LB
Red Venetian.........   1M  2  @8
Ochre, yeuow Mars.  1M  2  @4 
Ochre,yellow  Ber.. 
ÌM  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2M  2M®3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2M®3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
Vermilion, English. 
70®  75
Green, P aris...........  13H@  17M
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13®  16
Lead, Red...............   5M@  6m
Lead, white............  5£®  6M
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders'...  @ 1 0
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
Cliff......................  @140
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

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

WAIT
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 Z E L T I N E  
&  PERKINS 
DRUG CO.,

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

20

GROCERY PRIOR CURRENT".

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

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.

Farina.

F A R I N A C E O U S   G O O D S .
84 1 lb.  packages..............1  25
Bulk, per 100 lbs..............3 00
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Grits.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

dot.
.56
Aurora....................
Castor Oil............... ..60
Diamond................. ..50
Frazer’s .................. ...75
IXL Golden, tin box— 75
(Ilea, tin box—........ ..75
Paragon................... ..55

gross 
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
600

BAKING  P O W D E R .

Absolute. 
R   'b cans d—........
94 lb —ns doz........
1 
lb can  dos........
AflM.
94 lb cans 8 dos.__
94 lb —as 3 don.....
1 
lb cans id o s.....
Balk.........................
Arctic.
6 —. Eng. Tumblers.

45
.. 
85
..  t  50
46
75
..  1  06
10
.. 
85

El Parity.

0 oz. cans, 4 doz case.........  
80
0 oz. cans, 4 doz case.........   1  20
lb. cans, 2 doz case...... 2 00
1 
294 lb. cans, 1 doz case...... 4 75
5 
lb. cans, 1 doz case...... 9 00
94 lb cans per doz............  
75
H lb cans per d o s ...........  1  20
1 
lb cans per dos............ 8  00
m lb cans 4 dos case.......   %
£  lb cans 4 dos case  ......  
55
1 
90
lb cans 2 doz c a se ......  

Hi—

Peerless.

Oar Leader.

Qaeen Plake.

Jersey Cream.

14 lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
45
94 lb cans, 4 doz case........  85
1 
lb cans, 3 doz case........180
1 lb. cans, per doz............. 2 00
B oz. cans, per doz.............   1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz.............  
85
M lb cans..........................  45
H lb cans.......................... 
75
lb cans..........................  1 60
1 
1 lb. cans  ......................... 
85
8 oz., 6 doz. case................   8 70
...........8 20
6 oz., 4 doz. case 
9 oz., 4 doz. case.................4 80
1 lb., 2 doz. case.................4 00
61b., 1 dos. case........... 
9 00
BATH  BRICK.
Amerloan........  ............ 
  71
English.........  
...................... 80
CANNED OOOD8.
Tomatoes...................  80®  go
Com............................  80@i  00
Hominy......................  80
Beans, Limas..............  70@1 30
Beans, Wax................  90
Beans, String..............  85
Beans,  Baked............   75@l 00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  75®  85
Succotash...................  95®l  20
Peas............................  50®  85
Peas, French............2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.................  15®  22
Peaches, P ie...............1 00
Peaches, Fancy..........1  40
Apples,  gallons..........  ®3 25
Cherries....................   90
Pears..........................  70
Pineapple, grated...... 1  75  2 4O
Pineapple, sliced....... 1 35  2 25
Pineapple,  Farren__ 1  70
Strawberries.............. 1  10
Blackberries..............  80
Raspberries................  85
Oysters, 1-lb................  9J
Oysters, 2-lb................1 55
Salmon, flats, key......1  70
Salmon, 94 lb. flats__  95
Salmon, Red Alaska.. 1  25 
Salmon, Pink Alaska..  95 
Lobsters, l-lb. Star....3 80
Lobsters, 2-lb. Star__ 3 90
Mackerel,1 lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, l-lb. Soused.1  75 
Mackerel,l-lb Tomato.l 75
Shrimps...................... 2 00
Sardines, 94s domestic  354® 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.554®  754 
Sardines,  French....... 8  @ 22

BLUINQ.

BROOnS.

CANDLES.

Small, 3 dos.......................  
40
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
4o. 1 Carpet.......................2  31
So. 8 Carpet....................... 8  15
No. 8 Carpet.......................  1 85
No. 4 Carpet.......................  1 45
Parlor Gem........................2 50
Common Whisk.................   95
^ancy Whisk.. 
................  1(0
Yarenouse 
.................... 2 70
8s  .........................................7
18s 
....................................... 8
Paraffine..  ............................8
Wlcking..............................80
CATMJP.
pints.............2 00
joinmoia. 
Colnnsbia  94 pints 
...........1  25
C H E E S E
Acme...................... @ 10
© 10
4mbov....................
Butternut................ @ 10
Carson  City.............
® 9
Elsie........................
at 1094
Emblem................... @ 1«94
Gem  .......................
@ 1094
Gold Medal............. @
Ideal.......................
@ 1094
© 10
...................
■ Jersey 
Riverside................. @ 10
Brick....................... @ 12
Edam....................... @ 70
Leiden..................... @ 17
Limburger.............. @ 13
Pineapple.................50 @ 75
Sap  Sago................. @ 17
6
Bulk 
Red 
7

.............................. 
CHOCOLATE.

Chicory.

Walter Baker A Co.’».

German Sweet.......................88
Premium.............................. .  35
Breakfast  One«» 
. . . . .   46

C O F F E E .
Roasted.

Rto.

 

Java.

Media.

Santos.

Routed.

F a ir.......................................... 9
Good........................................10
Prim e......................................12
Golden  ...................................13
Peaberry  ................................14
F a ir ..............  
14
Good  ......................................15
Prim e......................................16
Peaberry  ................. 
18
Maracaibo.
Prim e...................................  15
Milled......................................17
Interior.................................. 88
Private  Growth...................... 39
M&ndehling............................ 35
Im itation................................88
Arabian  .................................88
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__ 29
Wells’ Mocha and Java.....24
Wells’ Perfection  Java...... 84
Sancalbo............................. 81
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo........1854
Ideal  Blend.........................14
Leader Blend.......................I854
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit on  the 
invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the
market in  whlcli 
purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  or  package,  also Rc  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   10 50
Jersey.............................   10 50
ncLaaghHa's  XXXX.......
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold to 
retailers only.  Mail  all orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 54 gross......  
75
l  16
Felix )4 gross................. 
Hummel’s foil 54 gross...  M
Hummel’s tin 54  gross... 
143
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross box—...........................40

Package.

Extract.

CLOTHBS LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz..........1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dos..........1  80
Cotton, 60 ft, per  dos......... 1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz......... 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft.  per  dos.............  80
Jute. 78 ft.  per i»oz.............   95

COCOA.

James Epps & Co.’s.

Boxes, 7 lbs............................. 40
Cases, 16 boxes........................38
COCOA 3HBLLS.
801b  bags.......................  
854
Less quantity.................  
8
Pound packages............. 
4
CRBAfl  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden box—......30
Bulk In sacks.........................89

CO N D EN SED   M ILK .

4 dos in case.
Gail Borden  Eagle..............6 75
Crown.................................. 6 86
................................5 75
Daisy 
Champion  ......... 
4 50
Magnolia 
....................   4 85
Challenge 
........... - ........... 3 35
Dime 
8 86

.... 

 

 

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

Credit Chocks.

Saperior Grade.

Universal Grade.

Economic Or ode.

Coapoa Pass Books.

denomination from (10 down.

50 books, any denom....  1 50
100 books, any denom__ 2  50
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1.000 books, any denom— 80 00
50 books, any denom—   1 50 
100 books, any denom—   8 50 
500 books  any denom.... 11 50
1.000 books, any denom— 80 00
50 books, any denom....  1  50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom....11 50
1.000 books, any denom....80 00
50 books, any denom—   1  50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00
500, any one denom’n ...... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
8000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.......................   75
Can be made to represent any 
20 books........................  1  00
50 books.............................8 00
100 books  ...........................8 00
850 books.............................6 85
500 books............................10 00
1000 books............................17 60
DRIBD FRUITS—DOnBSTIC 
Snndrled....................... O 714
Evaporated 50 lb box—.  @1094 
Apricots.....................   Ö15
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................   O  „
Peach—.......................10  O il
Pears..........................   O _
Pitted Cherries........... 
7r
Prnnnelles..................
Raspberries.................
100-120 25 lb dox— ..........   O f
90-100 25 lb box—.........   0  8
80-9025 lb box—.........   O 5*4
70-80 25 lb boxes.  ......   O  >94
60-70 25 lb boxes.........  O 6*
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........   0  8
40-5085 lb box—.........  O10
30-4085 lb box—.........   O
94 cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Pra am .

California Pratts.

Apples.

Raisins.

145
London Layers 2 Crown. 
165
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............  
2 00
5
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown  6
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
7
L. M., Seeded, choice.......  794
L. M , Seeded, fancy........  994

POREIGN.
Citron.

Peal.

Carrmrts.

Leghorn..........................@11
Corsican..........................@12
Patras bbls...................... © 694
Cl—ned, b u lk ................ @694
Cleaned, packag—..........@ 7i_
Citron American 101b bx @18 
Lemon American 10 lb bx @1094 
Orange American 101b bx @1094 
Ondnra 88 lb boxes.....  @
Sultana  1 Crown..........  O
Sultana 2 Crown.........   @
Sultana 3 Crown..........  O
Sultana 4 Crown.........   @
Sultana 5 Crown..........  O
Sultana 6 Crown.........   @
Sultana package.........   @

RaMa*e

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1............... 594®  6
Japan,  No. 2................494® 5
Java, fancy  head........5  ©  594
Java, No. 1.................. 5  @
Table............................  @
Packed 60 lbs. in  box.

SALBRATUA.

Church’s Arm and Hammer.3  15
Deland’s 
........................ ..3 00
Dwight's Cow.................... ..3  15
Emblem  ........................... ..3 50
L. P...............................  .. ..3 00
Sodio................................. ..3  15
Wyandotte, ICO R s........... ..3 00
Granulated, bbls.............. 80
Granulated,  100 lb cas—.. 8J
Lamp, bbls.......................
70
Lump, 1451b kegs.............. £0

SAL SODA.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Worcester.

Common Grad—.

Table, cases, 84 8-lb box—. .1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 8 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.8 40 
Bntter, barrels, 8801b. bnlk.2 25 
Batter, barrels,8014 lbbags.8 50
Bntter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Batter, sacks, 56 lbs............   56
100 3 lb sacks......................... 1 95
605-lb sacks.........................1 80
88 10-lb sacks....................... 1 66
60  4 
lb. cartons................8 25
115  8941b. sacks.................... 4 00
60  5 
lb. sacks...................3 75
8214 
lb. sacks................... 8 50
3010 
lb. sacks................... 3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  82
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk In barrels..................... 2 50
56-lb dairy In drill bags......   30
28-lb dairy In drill bags......   15
56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 
66-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 
66-lb  sacks..........................   21
Granulated Fine.................   60
Medium  Fine......................   70
Per doz.

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Reck.
C— m ss.

5CALBS.

War—w.

Weight  24  lbs.  b j  ounces.

ABBDS.

A nise...............................   9
Canary, Smyrna................  894
Caraway...........................  8
Cardamon,  M alabar......   00
Celery...............................   11
Hemp,  Russian................  494
Mix—  Bird......................  494
Mustard,  white............ 
5
Poppy  ..............................  10
Rape.................................  494
Cuttle Bone......................  20
Scotch, In bladders..............   37
Mac—boy, In Jars.................   8-
French Rapp—. In  Jars.... 
48 

SNUFF.

SOAP.

JAXON

Single box.............................2 85
5 box lots, delivered........... 2 r0
10 box lots, delivered........... 2 75
JUS.  S.  KIRK  S CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.....................................2 75
Cabinet................................. 2 80
Savon.................................... 2 50
White Russian......................2 35
White Cloud,  laundry___ ..6 25
White Clond, toilet..............3 50
Dnsky Diamond, 50 6 oz.,.,2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8  oz. ...3 00
Bine India, 100 R lb..............8 00
Klrkoline.............................. 8 50
Eos....................................... 2 50
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz...... 8  40
Sapollo, hand, 8 d— ............8 40
Box—  ...............................   694
Ken. Ensrlizh. 
4%

Sconring.

SODA.

... 

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................. 17
Half  bbls............... 
19
1 doz. 1 gallon cans..............8 9”
1  doz. 94 gallon —ns......... 1 70
8  doz. 94 gallon —n s ...... 1  70
Fair  .................................  16
Good.................................  80
Choi— ..............................  86

Pure Cane.

Peas.

Beans.

Ha—toy.

Rolled  Oats.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packag—.................... 1 80
1001b. kegs............................ 2 70
2001b. barrels...................... „6 10
Barrels  ............................ 2 60
Flake, 50 lb.  drams..........1 00
Dried Lima......................  
594
Medium Hand Picked 1  20® 1  25 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported. 25 lb. box........ 2 50
Common.............................  1 75
Chester............................   2 26
Empire 
...........................  2 50
Green, Wisconsin, bn.......1 00
Green, Scotch, bn.  ..........1  10
Split, bn.................................2 60
Rolled Avena,  bbl.........4 00
Monarch,  bbl........................3 75
Monarch,  94  bbl...................2 00
Monarch, 90 lb sacks........ 1 80
Quaker, cases...................8 20
Huron, cas—......................... 8 00
German............................   4
East  India.......................  
894
E—ley’s Self Rising Floors. 
2 lb. —rtons, 2 dz. in case..  1  80 
6 lb. —cks, 1 dz. (n case.... 2 40 
9 lb. sacks, 1 dz. in jnte....  3 35 
2 lb. —rtons. 2 dz. in  case..  1 80 
2 lb. —rtons, 2 dz. in case..  1  80 
Flake..............................  
6
Pearl, 24 i'ib.'pkges.'.’.V.. 
6R 
Cracked, bulk...................  894
24 2 lb packages...............2 50

Graham.
Tapioca.

Entire Wheat.

Pastry.

Wheat.

flags.

flALT PISH.

Cod.

Herring.

flackoroL

Georg— cured............  @5
Georg— genuine........  @594
Georg— selected........  @ 6
Strips or bricks......... 6  @ 9
Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 25 
Holland white hoop 94 bbl  5 85 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mens 
80
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbe...................  3 10
Round  40 11M...................  1 40
Scaled................................ 
15
Me— 100 lbs........................15 00
M—s  40 lbs......................  6 80
Me—  10 lbs...........................1 65
Me—  8 lbe......................  1  36
No. 1 100 lbe...............  
IS 85
No.1  40 lbs......................  5 00
No.l  10 lbe......................   1  48
N o.l  8 lbe......................  180
No. 2 100 lbs......................  11  50
No. 8  40 lbs......................  4 99
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  30
No. 8  8 lbs......................  107
No. 1100 lbs......................
N o.l  40 lbs------- ---------
N o.l  10lbs...  ...............
No.1  8 l b s ....................
Fam
No. 1  1  o. 
100 lbs...........7 CO  6 50 
8 50
40 lbs...........  8  10  8 90  1  80
10 lbs........... 
80 
40
8 lbs........... 
35
66 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

W hiter zb

Tront.

85 
71 

 

Van.  Lem. 
doz.
dos. 
XXX, 2 oz. obert......1  25 
75
XXX, 4 oz. taper.. ..J2 25 
I  25
XX, 2 oz. obert...... 1 00
No. 2. 2 oz. obert ....  75 
XXX D D ptchr. 6 oz 
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz... 

2 25
1  75
2 25
Northrop Brand.Lem.  Van.
1 20
ISO
2 00
8,25

2 oz. Taper Panel. .7 5  
2oz. Oval..............  75 
3 oz. Taper Panel.. 1  35 
4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 

Perrlgo’s.

Jennings’.

D. C. Lemon
D.C. Vanilla 
Sos........   75
Soa.......180 
3 OZ........ 1 00
3 os........1 50 
4 —.........1 40
4 —....... 2 00 
6—.......3 00 
60s........ 2 00
No.  8...8 40
No.  8  4 00 
No. 10...4 00
No. 10.  .6 00 
No.  2T.  80
No.  2T.125 
No.  8 T.l 86
No.  3 T.2 00 
No  4 T.2 40 
No.  4 T.l 50
Tanglefoot, per box...........  36
Tanglefoot, per case...........3 20
Holders, per box of 50........   75
Perrlgo’s Lightning, gro— 2 50
Petrolatum, per doz............  75

PLY PAPER.

HBRBS.

INDIGO.

Sage......................................  15
H ops....'..............................  15

Madras, 6 lb  box—.............  66
50
8. F., 2,3 end 5 lb box—... 

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

K egs.........................................4 00
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs............................1 85
1 lb. cahs...  ........................  30
94 lb. cans............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont's.

K egs........................................ 4 86
Half Kegs................................. 2 40
Quarter Kegs............................1 35
1 lb. cans..............................  34

Bogie Dock—Dupont’s.

Kegs..........................................8 00
Half Kegs................................. 4 25
Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
lib. —ns..............................  45
151b palls............................   85
SC lb pails............................   66

JBLLY.

LYB.
Condensed, 8 dos  .. ............1 80
Condensed. 4 d— 
.............8 85

LICORICE.

Pure......................................  80
Calabria..............................  85
Sicily..................  
M
Boot......................................  10

 

rtATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

No. 9 sulphur........................... 1 65
Anchor parlor..........................1 70
No. 2  Home.............................. 1 10
Export  Parlor..........................4 oo
Wolverine........... ................1  06
No Brand...........................   95

nOLAflSBS.
Now Or I— ».

Black................................  
11
14
F air......   .........................  
Good................................. 
80
24
Fancy  .............................. 
Open Kettle...................... 86@35
Half-barrels So extra.
MUATARD.

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

PIPBA.

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

65
85

POTAflH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s.................................. 4 a
Penna 8alt  Co.’s......................8 00

PICKLBA.
riedlum.

Barrels, 1,800 count....___ 4 «0
Half bbls, 600 count.............8 50
Barrels, 2,400 count..........  5 on
Half bbls  1,200 count------- 3 00

Small.

RKB.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   694
Carolina  No. 1...................  5
Carolina No. 8...................  4
Broken...........................       SR

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

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  ..............................10
Cassis, China in matt......... 12
Cassia, Batavia In bond. ...25
cassia, Saigon In rolls........12
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 12
Mace,  Batavia  ...................55
Nutmegs, fancy...............   .80
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nntmegs, No.  2............ 
45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, white... 16 
Pepper,  shot........................15

Pare Ground la Balk.

Allspice  ..............................14
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon.................... 40
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 14
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger,  Jam aica................23
Mace,  Batavia.................... 65
Mustard......................... 12@18
Nntmegs,......................40@50
Pepper, Sing , black ............15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne................. 20
S age................... 
15

STARCH.

Ktngsford’s  Corn.

Diamond.

101-lb packages.................. 6
20 1 lb packages...................6m
Ktngsford’s Silver Gloss.
40 1-lb packages.....................654
6-lb boxes.........................  7
64 10c  packages  ............... 5 00
128  5c  packages........... 
..5 00
82 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 
Common Corn.
201 lb. packages. 
............  5
401 lb. packages 
.................4M
l-lb  packages......................  4M
3-lb  packages....................  4M
6-lb  packages.....................   5
40 and 50 lb boxes.  ............   3
Barrels 
3

Common Gloss.

STOVE POLISH.

SUGAR.

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

No. 4, 3'dos in case, gross..  4  50 
No. 6,8 dosin case, gross..  7 20 
Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  Invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino....................................3 75
Cut  Loaf..............................5
Crushed....................................6 00
Powdered 
5 63
 
XXXX  Powdered.................... 5 75
Cubes.......................................5 63
Granulated inbbtt...................5 50
Granulated in  bags................. 5 50
Fine Granulated......................5 50
Extra Fine Granulated.......5 63
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 63
Mould  A.................................. P 75
Diamond Confec.  A........... 5 50
Confec. Standard A................. 5 25
5 00 
No.
.5 00 
No 
.5 00 
No.
.4 9! 
No.
.4 88 
No.
.4 81 
No.
.4 75 
No.
.4 f 9 
No.
.4 63
No. 
No.  10.......................................4 50
No.  U.......................................4 38
No.  12............  
4 31
No.  U.................  
4 81
No.  14.......................................4 25
................................1 »
No.  16 
4 '¿1
Na

........

 

 

TABLE  SAUCBS.
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine
__  
Worcestershire.
Lea A Perrin’s, large...  3 75 
Lea A Perrin’s, small...  2 50
Halford,  large................. 3 76
Halford small...................2 25
Salad Dressing, large...... 4 56
Salad Dressing, small...... 2 76

Cigars.

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

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brands.

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

8. C. W...............................35 00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. 
Vincente Portuondo. .35® 71 01
Ruhe Bros.  C o ......... 25®  0 00
The HilsonCo............35@110  00
T. J. Dunn & Co........35® 70 00
McCoy & Co...............35® 70 00
The Collins Cigar Co.. 10® 35 00
Brown Bros............... 15® 70 00
Banner Cigar Co....... 30®  70 00
Bernard Stahl  Co.  ..  36®  90 00
Banner Cigar Co....... V @ 35 00
Seldenberg & Co....... 55®125 00
G.P. Sprague Cigar Co. 10® 35 01 
The Fulton Cigar Co. .10® 35 00 
A. B  Ballard & Co....35@l  5 00
E.  M. Schwarz A Co 
San  Telm ................. 35® 70 O'
Havana Cigar Co...... 18® % 00

.£@110 00

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain  .11
Pure Cider, Red S tar..........12
Pure Cider. Robinson..........13
Pure Cider, Sliver....................1 54

WICKING.

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

Baskets.

WOODENWARE. 
Busbe’s..............................
Bushels, wide band...........
Market...............................
Willow Clothes, large.......
Willow Clothes, medium...
Willow Clothes, small......

Palls.

2-  hoop Standard............
3-  hoop Standard............
2-wire, Cable.......................
3 wire. Cable......................
Cedar, all red, brass bound
Paper, Eureka...................
FiDre...................................

2 -inch, Standard, No. 1__
18-inch, SUndajd, No. 2... 
16-inch,  Standard,  No. 3...,
20-inch, Dowell, No  1  ___
18-inih. Doweli, No. 2.  ___
16-inch, Dowell, No. 3. 
..
No. 1 Fibre..........................
No. 2 Fibre.........................
No. 3 Fibre..........................

Tabs.

1  00 
1  10 
30 
6 25 
5 50 
5 00

1  35 
1  50 
1 35 
1 6)
1  25
2 25
2 25

5 80
4 85
3 85
6 25
5 25
4 25 
9 0)
7 50
6 75

Crackers.

 

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Batter.
Seymour XXX...................  554
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family XXX  ....................  554
SaltedXXX  ......................  554
New York XXX.................  5*
Wolverine.........................  0
Boston................................  754
Soda  XXX  .......................   6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton__  654
Soda,  City  .......................  8
Long Island Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Zephyrette............... 
10
Oyster.

Soda.

Saltine Wafer....................  554
Saltine Wafer, 1 lb. carton.  654
Farina Oyster....................   554
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  1054
Bent’s Water..................... 15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   10
Coffee Cake, Iced................10
Cracknells...........................1554
Cubans  .............................   1X54
Frosted  Cream...................  8
Ginger Gems......................  8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  754
Graham Crackers..............  8
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................   8
Jumoles,  Honey..................1254
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnnte...  16
Mich. Frosted Honey__   1254
Molasses Cakes.................  8
Newton.............................   12
NIC Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  854
Pretzels,  hand m ad e......   754
Sears’Lnnch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................  8
Sugar  Squares.................  9
Vanilla  W afers................  14
Sultanas..............................1254

Candies.
Stick Candy.

bbls.  palls
Standard................. 
7  @ 754
Standard H. H........ 
7  ® 754
Standard Twist......   754® 8
@  E54
Cat Loaf................. 
Jumbo, 321b..........  
® 654
Extra H. H.............. 
@854
Boston  Cream........ 
@10

Mixed Candy.

Grocers...................  
@ o
Competition............ 
@ 654
@ 7
Standard.................  
Conserve.................  
@ 754
Royal...................... 
@754
@ 854
Ribbon....................  
«  7M
Broken................... 
Cat Loaf................. 
@ 854
English Rock.........  
@  854
@ 854
Kindergarten.........  
French  Cream........ 
@ 9
Dandy Pan.............  
@854
Hand Hade Cream mxd  @13 
Nobby.................... 
@ 854

Fancy—In Bulk.

San Bias Goodies....  @11
Lozenges, plain...... 
@854
Lozenges,  printed.. 
@ 854
Choc.  Drops........... 
@11
Choc.  Monnmentatt  @ 254
Gum  Drops............  
@ 5
Moss  Drops............  
@ 8>4
Sour Drops.............. 
@  854
Imperials  .. 
@9
Ital. Cream Bnbns, 35 lb p’s  11 
Molasses Chews,  15 lb. pails  13 
Jelly Date Squares..  @10
Fancy—In  g  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon  Drops.........  
@50
@?o
Soar  Drops  ......... 
@6u
Peppermint Drops.. 
@65
Chocolate Drops  ... 
H.  M. Choc. Drops  @75
H. M  Choc.  Lt.and
Dk. No. 12............. 
@90
Gum  Drops............  
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
Lozenges,  plain__ 
@56
Lozenges,  printed..  @55
Imperials...............  
@55
Mottoes..................  
@0
Cream Bar.............. 
@55
Molasses B a r.........  
@55
Hand Made Creams.  80  @  90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Want............  
@65
String Rock............  
@60
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25  @
Wintergreen Berries  @65

Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb. 

boxes 

ftiSO

Fruits.
Oranges.
Fancy Rodi’s........... 
@5~00
Sorrentos................ 
@4 50
Valencias  ..............   4 5C@4 75

Lemons.
@4  00
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s..  @4 uo
Fancy 300s  ............ 
@1 50
Ex.Fancy 300s........ 
@5 bo
Bananas.

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

Foreign Dried Fruits. 

Figs.

Californias  Fancy.. 
@13
Choice, 10lb boxes..  @12
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............  
@18
@22
Fancy, 12lb boxes.. 
Imperial Mikados, 18
Id boxes...............  
@
Pulled, 6lb boxes... 
@
Naturals,  in bags...  @7

Dates.

Fards in 10 lb  boxes 
@10
Fards  in 60 lb cases  @ 6
Persians, P H V......  
@6
@6
lb cases, new........ 
Salrs,  601b cases....  @5

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @16
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @15
Brazils new................  @ 7
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Grenobles..  @13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @11
Walnuts,  soft shelled
C a lif.........................   @11
Table Nnts,  fancy....  @11
TableNnts,  choice...  @10
Pecans, Med...............  @754
Pecans, Ex. Large..  @ 9
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nnts per bn.
Ohio, new................  @1 00
Cocoannts,  full  sacks  @8 50
Chestnuts per bn........  @

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Sons.  @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Boasted...................  @7
Choloe, H. P., Extras.  @ 5
Choice, H. P„  Extras,
Boasted  ................. 
6

21

Crockery and

Glassware.

Batters.

AKRON STONBWARB. 
54 gal., per dos.................  40
1 
to 6 gal., per gal........  5
8 gal., each......................  48
10 gal., each.....................   00
12gal.,  each.....................  72
15 gal. meat-tubs, each__1  05
20gal. meat-tubs,each.... 1  40 
25 gal. meat tubs, each  ...2 00 
80gal. meat-tubs, each....2 40 
2 
to 6 gal., per gal.........   5
Churn Dashers, per doz...  84 
54 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  40 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each
Fine Glazed Milkpons.

Milkpons.

Churns.

Jags.

Stswpsns.

Tomato Jngs.

Sealing Wax.
FRUIT JARS.

54 gal. flat or rd. bot., aoz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  554 
54 gal. fireproof v '•11, dos.  85
1  gal. flreprooi, bail, dos.l  10 
M gal., per dos..................  40
54 gal., per dos..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per g al... 
6
54 gal., per dos.................   50
1 gal., eacb......................  654
Corks for 54 gal., per dos..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  80 
Preserve Jars and Govsrs.
54 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..I  00
5 lbs. in package, per lb...
2
Pints................................. .  4 00
Quarts.............................. .  4 25
Half Gallons.................... . 6 ( 0
Covers.............................. .  2 00
Rubbers...........................
25
LAMP  BURNERS.
No.  0 Sun.........................
34
No.  1  Sun......................... . 
¿5
No.  2  Snn.........................
50
No. 8 Sun.......................... .  1  00
Tabular............................
45
Security, No. 1.................
60
Security, No. 2................. . 
80
Nutmeg  ..........................
50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 doz
No.  0 Sun..........................   1 18
No.  1  Son..........................  1 <2
No.  2 Sun..........................   2 12
No. 0 Sun...........................   1 50
No. 1 Sun...........................   1 60
No. 2 Son...........................   2 45

Common

First  Quality.

 

 

La  Bastla.

top,
top,
top,

wrapped and  labeled....  2  10 
wrapped and  labeled__  2 16
wrapped and  labeled__ 3 15

No.  0  Son,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  erlmp 
No.  1  Snn,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 

top,
wrapped and labeled__2 55
top,
wrapped and  labeled. . .   2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled 
8 75 
CHIMNBYS—Poor!  Ten.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................8  70
No. 2  Snn,  wrapped  and
labeled........................... 4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled............................4  88
No. 2  Snn,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamos............  
80
No. 1 San. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ........ 
fo
No. 2 Snn,  plain  bnlb,  per
doz  ................................   1 ‘6
No. 1 Crimp, per dos......... 1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per dos.. 
.  .  1 60
Rochester.
No. 1, Lime  (65c dos)  __ 8  50
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)____  4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  dos)...... .  4 70
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  ......  4 00
No. 2, Flint  (8O0 doz)........4  40
Doz. 
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  42
1 gal galv Iron with spont.  1  52
2 gal galv Iron with  spont.  2 (5
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  fancet 4 85
5 gal Tilting cans..............7 26
5 gal galv iron Naoefaa....  9 00
5 gal Bapld steady stream.  7 80 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3  gal Home Rule............ 10 50
5 gal Home Bale............... 12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............9 50
No.  OTnbnlar side lift....  4 00
No.  IB   Tabular......... 
6 25
No. 13 TubnlarDash......... 6 60
No.  lTub., glass fount__ 7 00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp.14  00 
No.  3 Street  Lamp, each.. 8 76 
LANTERN GLOBES.
No.  OTnbnlar,  cases 1 dos.
No. 0 Tabular,  cases 2 dos.
No. 0 Tnbnlar.  bbls 5 dos.
No. 0 Tabular,  ball’s  eye, 

each, box 10 cents..........   46
each, box 15  cents.........   46
each,  per bbl, bbl. 00....  1  78 
cases 1 dos. each...... . 
1  25

LANTERNS.

Pump  Cans

OIL CANS. 

Electric.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barrslsd Pork.

Mess  .............................   10 00
Baek  ......................10 50@
Clear back..............  @10 75
Short ent.........................   10 00
Pig...................................  14 00
Bean  .............................  
9  50
Family  ..........................  11  0J

Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies............................ 
Briskets  ......................... 
Extra shorts................... 

Smoked neats.

5|£
554
554

Hams, 12lb average  .... 
1154
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
1154
Hams, 16 lb average......  
11
Hams, 20 lb average......  UM
Ham dried beef  ............  
1654
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
7
Bacon,  clear.................7  @754
California hams............  
754
Boneless hams................ 
854
Cooked bam..................10@15
Lords.  In Tierces.
Compound......................  
Kettle.............................. 
55 lb Tubs......... advance 
80 lb Tubs......... advance 
50 lb T ins......... advance 
20 lb Pails......... advance 
10 lb Palls......... advance 
5 lb Palls......... advance 
3 lb Palls......... advance 

4v
6M
%
m
54
%
%
1
154

Sausages.

Bologna......................... 
Liver 
............................ 
Frankfort...................... 
P ork............................... 
Blood  ............................ 
Tongue.....................  
Head  cheese................... 

554
054
714
6*
6
654

9

Beef.

Extra  Mess......................... 10 25
Boneless  ........................12 50
Bump.................................. 12 00
Kits, 15 lbs.................  70
M  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 35
54  bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 50

Pigs’ Psst.

Tripe.

Kits, 15 lbs... 
M  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 25
54  bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 25

........  

70

Casings.

P ork..........................  20
Beef  rounds.............. 
3
Beef  middles............ 
10
Sheep.............................  

Bntterlne.

Bolls,  dairy................... 
Solid,  d a iry ................... 
Bolls,  creamery............. 
Solid,  creamery............  

60

j |
iovt
1554
1459

Canned Meats.

Corned  beef,  2 lb  ..........2  15
Corned beef, 14  lb..........14 76
Boast  beef,  2 lb........... 2  15
Potted  ham,  Mb.........   50
Potted  ham,  54s.........   90
Deviled ham,  M8.........   50
Deviled ham,  54s.........   90
Potted  tongue M8.........  
50
90
Potted  tongne 54s.........  
Fresh  Meats.

.  7  @ 854
.  6  @  654
.  8M@10
.12  @14
.  9  @14
@  8
.  6  @ 654

Beef.
Carcass...................
Fore quarters.........
Hind  quarters........
Loins  No.  3............
Ribs.........................
Rounds...................
Chucks....................
Plates  ....................
Pork.
Dressed...................
.  5  @ 5M
Loins  ..  .................
@ 8
Shoulders...............
@  854
Leaf Lard............... ■  6M@
Mutton
Carcass.......... .......
.  854010
Spring Lambs.........
.12  @12>4
Veal.

Carcass  .................... 8
854
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Green No.  1................  @754
Green No. 2................  @654
Bolls....................... 
@6
Cared No. 1................   @9
Cured No. 2.............. .  @8
Calfskins,  green No. 1  @9
Calfskins, green No. 2  @754
Calfskins, cured No. 1  @10
Calfskins, cured No. 2  @854

Hides.

Pelts, each.................  50@1  00

No. 1...........................  @354
No. 2...........................  @254

Pelts.

Tallow.

Wool.

Washed, fine  ............   @18
Washed, medium.......  @20
Unwashed,fine....__  9  @12
Unwashed, medium ..14  @16

Wheat.

67
65

Old..................................... 
New.................................... 
Winter  Wheat Ploar. 

Local Brands.

Patents............................. 4 00
Second  Patent...................  3 50
Straight..........................   3 25
Clear.................................. 3 00
Graham  ............................3 50
Buckwheat.......................
B ye..................................   3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Daisy, 54s............................3  85
Daisy, Ms............................3 85
Daisy, 54s............................ 3 85
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, 54s ........................  3 60
Quaker, Ms........................  3 60
Quaker, 54s........................  3 60
Clark-Jewell-Weltt Co.’s Brand.
Plllsbnry’s Best 54s...........  4 25
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........4 15
Pillsbury’s Best 54s...........  4 05
Plllsbury’s Best 54s paper..  4  05 
Plllsbary’8 Best ms paper..  4 05 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.

Spring Wheat Plour. 

5TT

Meal.

Olney A Jndson’s Brand.

Duluth Imperial, 54s................4 fo
Duluth Imperial, Ms........   4  40
Duluth Imperial, 54s..............  4 30
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal 54s.......................  4 30
Gold Medal Ms.........................4 ?0
Gold Medal 54s.........................4 10
Parisian, Ms...........................  4 30
Parisian, Ms............................. 4 20
Parisian. 54s...........................  4 10
Cereeota, 54s......................  4 40
Ceresota, ms......................  4 3 )
Ceresota, 548......................  4  a)
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 54s..............................  4 40
Laurel, Ms..............................  4 30
Laurel, 54s................................4 20
Bolted..........................   ..  1 90
Granulated............................  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__ 16 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats......   .15 50
Unbolted Corn Meal..........14 ?0
Winter Wheat  Bran..........11  00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 15 00
Screenings......................... 14  00
New corn, car lots............ 38
Less than  car lots............   39
Car  lots............................. 30
Carlote, clipped.................  32
Less than car lots............   34
No. 1 Timothy carloto......   9 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  ..  12 00
Fish and  Oysters
Per lb.

Feed and MUIstuffs.

Freak Flak.

Corn.

Oats.

Hny.

Whitefish ...r............   @ 9
T rout.........................  @ 9
Black Bass..............  8  @  10
Halibut......................  @ 16
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  4
Bluefish......................  @ 11
Live Lobster.........   @  18
Boiled Lobster........  @  20
Cod 
.........................   @ 10
Haddock....................   @ 7
No.  1  Pickerel........  @  9
Pike............................   @ 7
Perch..........................  @ 454
Smoked White........  Q  8
Bed Snapper...........  @  9
Col  Biver Salmon 
@  12
Mackerel 
................   @ 18

Shell Goods.

Oysters, per 100......... 1 25@1 50
Clams,  per inn.........   @1  ro

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene.......................  @1154
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H a r d w a r e

Relation  o f  Fence  to  the  Hardware 

Business.*

Fence  is  that  which  wards  off  an  at­
tack  of  danger— a  defense,  a  protection.
Shakespeare,  who knew  the peerage  of 
words,  the  words  of  high  and  low  de­
gree,  gave 
the  word  a  commanding 
place  in  the  lines:

Let us be backed with God, and with the seas, 
Which he hath given for fence impregnable.
Fence—on  the  fence—-a mugwump. 

I 
don’t  like  this  kind.  I  don’t Tike a  man 
whose  convictions  are  so  weak  that  you 
must  keep  them  under glass—blue glass.
I  like  a  man  of  iron,  a  man  of  rock  and 
oak  in  the  time  of  storm  and 
in  times 
of  trouble,  and  yet  a  man  “ that  any 
child  can  rend  apart” —a  real  man,  a 
hardware  man.  They  say  that  a  man 
grows  to  look 
like  his  horse— why  not 
like  bis  wife?  May  not  a  man’s  char­
acter be  fashioned  to  bis  business? 
I 
believe  that  it  can,  just  as  certainly  as 
that  “ trade  follows  the  flag” —the  red 
flag  of  auction.

and 

iron 

Who  sells 

steel  grows 
strong.  The  great  depicter  of  human 
character  said  of  the  man Miller:  “ God 
made  him  in  the  image  of  a man,  so  let 
him  live.”  
In  ancient  days,  when  the 
soldiers  got  too fierce and belligerent,the 
ruler  ordered  that  they  be  clad  in  wom­
an’s  attire.  Their  valor  was  cast  off 
with  their  manly  clothing.
in 
doubt  tell  the  truth.”  
I  like this  kind 
of  a  fence—a  fence  that  is  a  protection, 
a  fence  that  will  keep  things  in  and 
keep  things  out,  a  stone  wall,  stone 
fence,  wire  fence,  steel 
fence,  good 
fence,  Page  fence,  political  fence.

As  Mark  Twain  says:  “ When 

A  fence  is  a  receiver of  stolen  prop­
erty.  Why  may  not  this be a  lawyer? 
Lord  Brougham  said:  “ A 
lawyer  is  a 
man  who  rescues  your  property  from 
your  enemy  and  keeps  it himself. ”   The 
lawyer  is  what  his  clients  make  him.  A 
man  was  first  a  preacher,  then  a  doctor 
and  then  a  lawyer.  While a minister,  he 
learned  that  people  would  give  a  dollar 
to  save  their  souls,  while  a  doctor  that 
they  would  pay  five  dollars  to  save  their 
lives,  and  while  a 
lawyer  that  they 
would  give  twenty-five  dollars  to  have 
their  own  way.
Then  there  is  the  line  fence,  the  law­

Then,  fence 

yer’s  rich  prospect—fat  fees.
St.  Peter ana  the  devil  got 

into  dis­
pute  about the  line between the abode  of 
the  blessed  and  the  domain  of darkness. 
The  day  was  fixed. 
In  came  his  ma­
jesty  from  the  dark  shadows, 
in  tri­
umph,  with  a  very army  of  the brightest 
lawyers  earth 
in  her  time bad  known. 
But  poor  St.  Peter  came  alone  discon­
solate,  lamenting,  forsooth, There  are no 
lawyers  in  heaven.
is  to  defend  one’s  self 
with  sword.  This  we  must  do  to  win. 
Napoleon  said,  “ The  man  that  gets 
shaved  may  inherit  an  empire,  but  the 
man  that  takes  an  empire  must  shave 
himself.”   How  true  this 
If  we 
cease  to  struggle  for  wealth  and  power 
and  fame,  we  stagnate. 
If  there  were 
no  want,  there  would  be  no  winning.  If 
there  were  no desire,  there  would  be  no 
attainment. 
If  all  were  satisfied,  the 
world  would  die  of  dry-rot.  The  boy 
was asked  if  their cow  gave  milk,  and 
he said,  No,  she did  not  give  milk,  that 
they  had  to  catch  her and  take  it  away 
from  her.

is. 

The  trouble  with  some  fences  is  that 
they  are  planned  for  failure.  The  wreck 
is  seen  from  afar.  Men  are  taken,  by 
hope,  far  up  the  mountain,  to  view  the 
prospect  they  may  never  reach.  They 
build  their  fence  as  the  farmer on  the 
windy  Western  plain,  four feet  high  and 
six  feet  wide,  so that  it  would  be  higher 
after  it  blew  down.

There  is  an  Arabian proverb like this: 
He that  knows  not,  and  knows  not  that 
he  knows  not,  is  foolish.  Shun  him.

He  that  knows  not,  and  knows that  he 

knows  not,  is  weak.  Aid  him.

He  that  knows,  and  knows  that  he 
knows,  is  wise.  Follow him.
This,  my  friends,  is your  fence,  your 
protection ;  the  security  that  doth hedge 
about a  king—wisdom.____________
♦ Address before  Michigan  Hardware  Association

by Hon. Henry C. Smith,  of Adrian.

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

There are  two  shadows  that  ever  fol­
low  across the  retail  dealer’s  path,  and 
these  shadows  are  growing  darker— the 
shadows cast by  the railroads and* by  the 
express  companies, and  the  shadow  of 
the later  is  the  deeper  and  the  darker.

The trolley  lines  are  the  fruit  of  this 
injustice  and  help  some.  Petitions  and 
prayers  will  not  move  these corporations 
for tbey  have  no  souls.  You  must  band 
together 
in  concerted  clamor  for  rea­
sonable  rates.  Concerns  like these  ex­
press  companies  and  the  telegraph com­
panies,  which  will  not,  in  times  of  war, 
pay  a  little  revenue  tax  to  help  sustain 
the  great  Government  under  which  tbey 
live,  thrive  and  have  their being  will 
not  do  any  just  thing  willingly.  When  - 
you  pay  their  exaction  does  not  your 
blood  boil  that  they  escape  taxation?
It  can  not  be  right  that  these companies 
shall  be  permitted  to  make  exaction 
without  let or  hindrance,  and  not help to 
sustain  the  arm  of  the  Government  that 
protects  them. 
In  the  language of  ex- 
President  Harrison,  this 
land  can  not 
long  survive  half-taxed  and  half-free.
I  entreat  you  that  on  next  election  day 
you  look  to the  political  fence  and  see 
to  it  that  this  Government of the people, 
by  the  people,  and  for  the  people  does 
not  become a  Government  of  the  politi­
cians,  by  the  politicians,  and  for  the 
politicians.  Put fences  and  hedges  and 
pledges  about  your  servants,  but  do  not 
bind  and  brand  and  O.  K.  and  chain 
them  until  they  are  led 
like  the  ox 
dumb  to  the  slaughter,  chanting :

consternation  exclaimed: 

Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do or die.(Politically.)
in 

A  good  father,  anxious  to  know  what 
course 
life  bis  son  just  graduated 
would  take,  put  in  his  room  a  bible,  a 
dollar  and  a  bottle  of  whisky.  He  and 
the  mother  reasoned: 
If  be  takes  the 
bible he  will  be  a  preacher,  if  be  takes 
the  dollar  be  will  be  a  great  financier 
and  the  world  will  tremble  at his power; 
if  he  takes  the  whisky  he  will  be  noth­
ing  good. 
In  breathless  anticipation 
they watched  the  choice of their darling. 
He  took  the  dollar  and  put  it  in  his 
pocket;  he  took  the  bible  under  his 
arm,  and  drank  the  whisky.  The  father 
“ Ob, 
in 
mother,  he  has  taken  everything,  he 
is 
going  to be  a  politician.”
There  is another  fence  that  should  be 
put  up  and  guarded.  The  gates  and  the 
doors  of  individual  enterprise are being 
closed.  Freedom  is God’s best  gift  to 
man.  Let  us  here  highly  resolve  to 
preserve  it.  It  is  our duty  to  oppose  the 
turning  over  of  this  country  to  the 
power  of  money.  Money  is  not all  of 
life’s  gain.  There  is  something  in  this 
world  that  rises  above  mere  money. 
It 
is  not  alone  the  man  behind  the  gun. 
The  man,  above  the  money,  should  be 
protected.  Money  dwarfs  and  withers 
the  band  it  touches.  Did  you  ever  see 
the  hills  where  God  planted  money,  in 
clinging  hidden  veins  of  gold  and  sil­
ver,  lying  side  by  side?  They  are  clod 
and  barren  peaks.  Upon  their  summit 
is  no  tree  nor flower  nor  blade  of  grass. 
God’s  mark  of  disapproval  is stamped 
upon  the  face  of  greed. 
It  affects  the 
it  does  the  man  who  is  con­
land  as 
trolled  and  dominated  only  by  it. 
In 
him  is  no flower  of  friendship,  no  blos­
som  of  pity.  So,  too,  with  the  nation. 
When  the  thoughts of  the  people are  en­
tirely  given  over to  gold  and  to  silver, 
to  trade  and  gain,  and  commerce and 
money-getting,  then 
in 
peril. 
In  all  the  history  of  the  world, 
the  development  of  the  economic  mind 
at  the  expense  of  the  romantic  has  led 
to  certain  decay.  And  so  it  must  ever 
be.  We  must  not  let  the  fires  burn  low 
on  the  altars  of  patriotism. 
I  am  con­
tent  that  treasure  may  be  spent  to  com­
pel  Aguinaldo  to  bow  his  head  in  hum­
ble  submission  to  our  sway,  that  our 
flag  may  be  raised  in  triumph  above the 
Philippines.  But  I  am  not  willing  that 
Old  Glory,  emblem  of  freedom,  emblem 
of  equality,  the  flag  that stands for equal 
rights  and  justice  to  all,  shall  wrap  its 
generous 
cling 
about  the  rich  man’s  trust.  The  trust 
is  a  foreign  invasion  we  must  earnestly 
oppose.  Let  us  this  day  be  enlisted  in 
the  army  organized  to  stay  its  progress. 
The  trust  dwarfs  endeavor,  deadens  en­
terprise,  blights  hope,  destroys  the  man

in  protecting 

is  the  nation 

folds 

H.  M.  Reynolds  &  Son,

Manafacturers  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,  ist av. and M. C. Ry.

ESTA BLISH ED   1868

Detroit, Mich.
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Jobbers in
Buggies, Carriages,
Robes,  Blankets, Whips, etc.

Saddlery  Hardware,

Manufacturers of

A  full line of  Heavy and  Light  Harness  for 

the trade.

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Tinware Manufacturers,

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with  little  means. 
It gathers  the  wealth 
to  the  great  centers  and the large  cities, 
and  destroys  the  village and  the  small 
city—the  hope  and  the  purity  and  the 
progress of  the nation.

What  matters  it that  goods  are  cheap 
and  wages dear,  if  we  become  a  nation 
of  serfs  and  slaves,  and  the  thinking, 
planning,  progressive,  responsible  man 
be  lost?  Men  of  business,  men  with 
families,  men  of  freedom,  1  exhort  you, 
shake  off  this  power  that  would  engulf 
us—the  power  of  the  love  of  money. 
Rise to  the  old  heroic  height  and  break 
the  fetters  that  greed  would  weld  upon 
us,  and  be  not  slave  to  any  power.

I 

There 

is  another  fence  I  would  lake 
down. 
In  this,  the gateway  of  the  new 
century,  we  should  welcome  the  open 
door.  We  have  expanded  until  the  sun 
does  not  set  on  the  land  our  flag  covers 
and  protects.  There  ought  not  to  be any 
backward  step.  Eighty-five  per  cent, 
of  all  the  people  of  the  earth  look  out 
upon  the  Pacific  Ocean.  These  markets 
should  be  ours.  We  should  have  our 
'fair  share  of  the  trade  of  the  Flowery 
Kingdom.
like  the  words  of  the  President: 
“  The  currents of  destiny  flow  through 
the  veins  of  the  people.”  
I  believe 
this.  We  can  trace  the  finger of  God  in 
the  rise  and  fall  of  the  nations.  At the 
birth  of  the  Savior,  the  center  of  trade 
was  in  the  Far  East.  Then  it  passed 
on  to  Babylon  and  Ninevah,  then  to 
Constantinople,  then  to  Carthage,  then 
to  Rome,  and  on  to England.  The  great 
pendulum 
is  now  swinging  over  the 
United  States. 
“ Westward  tbs  star  of 
empire  takes  its  way.”   This  is the time 
of  exalted  opportunity  for the American 
nation.  Let  us  this  day  take  down  the 
fences  and  march 
into  our  kingdom. 
And  may  the  Hardware  Dealers’  Asso­
ciation  of  Michigan  reap  the  harvest  of 
high  integrity.

Telephone  Topics.

“ I  was  in  Muskegon  the  other  day,”  
remarked  a  business  man  from  a nearby 
town,  “ and  had  occasion  to  call  at  the 
Bell  exchange  to  talk  with  a town which 
does  not  happen  to  have an  independent 
telephone  connection,  and,  by  the  way, 
is  paying  two  prices  foi  telephone  serv- 
ice  in  consequence.  I naturally expected 
to  see  a  number of  girls at  the  switch 
board,  but  the  premises  reminded  me 
of  a  graveyard.  There  was  a  long  row 
of  stools  which  were  once  occupied  by 
girls  who  worked  at  the  switch  board, 
but  only  two  girls  were  present.  One 
of  them  was  chewing  gum,  while the 
other  was  knitting. 
I  asked  them  if 
they  were  kept  very  busy,  but  they 
shook  their heads  and remarked that one 
girl  could  do  all  the  work  connected 
with  the  Muskegon  exchange,  but  that 
an  extra  girl  was  retained  to  prevent 
the  one  actually  employed  from  getting 
lonesome.  When  I  recalled  the  busy 
place  the  exchange  was  before  local 
competition  entered  the  field  and  sup­
planted  the  Bell  institution,  my  mind 
naturally  reverted  to  the  hundreds  of 
similar  circumstances  all  over 
the 
United  States,  and  I  could  not  help 
wondering  how  long  the  Bell  people  can 
continue  to  pay  dividends  on  watered 
stock  with  millions  of  dollars 
invested 
in  dead  and  idle  property  in  all  parts of 
the  country.”

*  *   *

“ It 

is  remarkable  how  low  prices  for 
telephone  services  stimulate  the  busi­
ness,”   remarked  a  Holland  business 
1 * When  Mr.  Wat­
man  the  other  day. 
son  first  came  to our  city  to  put 
in  an 
independent  exchange,  there  were  about 
forty  Bell  phones  in  use.  The  business 
men  did  not  take  kindly  to  a  second 
exchange,  providing arrangements could 
be  made  with  the  Bell  people  to  reduce 
rates  to  a  reasonable  basis.  We accord­
ingly  addressed  a 
letter  to  Manager 
Forbes,  asking  him  to  make  us  a  rate 
about  halfway  between  what  we  were

the  number 

then  paying  and  what  we  were  offered 
by  Mr.  Watson,  agreeing  to  use  our  in­
fluence  to  increase  the  exchange  to 
ioo 
connections  in  the  event  of  our  request 
being  granted.  Our  reply  was  a  cold­
blooded  letter which  would  chill  the  en­
thusiasm  of  a  saint,  bluntly  informing 
us  that  the  Bell  managers  weie  com­
petent  to  manage  their business  without 
suggestions  from  their  patrons.  That 
letter  sealed  the  doom  of  the  Bell  ex­
change  in  Holland.  The business  men 
gave  the  independent  movement  hearty 
support,  in  consequence  of  which  there 
are  now  over  200  local  connections  in 
the 
independent  exchange.  The  Bell 
people  finally  reduced  rates below  the 
figures  we  asked  them  to  give  us,  and 
have  undertaken  to  bribe  our citizens by 
the  offer of  free  telephone  service,  yet 
the  Bell  exchange  has  less  than  100 con­
nections,  and 
is  getting 
beautifully  less  every  quarter,  although 
a  man  has  to  fight  like  a  tiger  to  get  a 
Bell  phone  out  of  his  place  of  business 
after  he  has  ordered  it  out,  owing  to  the 
determination  of  the  Bell  people  to 
keep  their  phones  in  use,  whether  they 
are  paid  for  or  not.*  *  *
The  Michigan  (Bell)  Telephone  Co. 
recently 
issued  a  pretentious  looking 
map  of  the  State,  purporting  to  give  its 
toll  lines  and  toll  stations  in  Michigan. 
The  Citizens  Telephone  Co.  of  Grand 
Rapids  has  dealt  the  Bell  people  a body 
blow  by  issuing  a  fac  simile  of  the  map 
indicating  that  about  a  third of the lines 
shown  on  the  map  exist  only  in  the  im­
agination  of  the  mapmaker.  The  ar­
gument 
it 
serves  to  confirm  the  statement  that  no 
reliance  whatever  can  be  placed  on  any 
statement  made  by  a  Bell  official  or 
employe. 
It  is  a  singular  fact  that  the 
managers  of  so 
large  an  enterprise 
should  depend  upon  falsehood  and  de­
ception  to  bolster  up  a  decaying  insti­
tution.  No  other  undertaking  of  a 
business  character  is  conducted  on  the 
principle  of  deceiving  the  public,  and 
such  a  policy  on  the  pait  of  the  Bell 
management  will  surely  result  in  has­
tening  the  ultimate  defeat  which  awaits 
the  one-time  monopoly 
in  every  city 
and  town  in  the  State.
*   *   *

is  a  telling  one,  because 

The  service  given  the  patrons  of  the 
Bell  exchange  in  this  city  is so inferior, 
compared  with  the  service  given  by  the 
Citizens  Co.,  that  any  one  who  is  at  all 
familiar  with  both  will  have  nothing  to 
do  with  the  Bell  exchange,  even  on  the 
basis  of  free  service,  which  is  still  the 
favorite  weapon  of  the  Bell  people.

The  Widow’s  Devotion.

There  was  a  man  banged  for  murder 
in  Sydney,  Australia.  By  his  widow's 
consent,  bis  figure  was  exhibited  in  a 
local  waxworks  show.  Every  Sunday 
for  six  months  the  woman,  dressed  in 
deepest  mourning,  called  and  put  a 
clean  shirt  on  the  unresisting  form  of 
the  wax  man.  Then her  visits  stopped. 
Some  time after,  happening  to  meet the 
manager of  the  show,the lady explained, 
with  many  blushes,  that she bad  married 
again,  and her  new  husband  energetical* 
ly  objected  to  her  wifely attention to  the 
toilet  of  No.  i ’s  graven  image.

Chance  For  Her.

"She  says  her  face  is  her  fortune.”
"W ell,  she certainly  ought  to  take  ad­

vantage  of  the  new  bankruptcy  law.”

Those  who  cultivate  the  friendship  of 
fakirs  and  disreputable  people should 
not  marvel  because  respectable  folks 
cease to  be  neighborly.

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUOURS AND  BITS

 

 

 

 

 

BARROWS

CARTRIDGES

BUTTS.  CAST

BLOCKS
BOLTS

Snell’s ..  ..................................................... 
70
Jennlng  genuine.......................................25*10
J  nninga’  Imitation 
................................. 60*10
AXBS
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.............................   6 CO
First Quality, D. B. Bronze.............................   10 00
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel..............................  6 50
First Quality! D. B. Steel.................................  11 50
Railroad................................................... 
14 00
Garden............................. 
...............   net  30 00
Ordinary Tackle..... 
70
 
60&10
Stove......................................................  
65
Carriage new list.................................... 
Plow......................................  
50
BUCKETS
Well,  plain...................................................• 3 50
Cast Loose  Pin, figured.............................. 70*10
Wrought Narrow.........  
................. 70*10
Rim Fire...................................................... 40*10
20
Central Fire.................................................. 
CROW  BARS
Cast Steel.  .............................  
5
..per lb 
65
Ely’s 1-10............................................ per m 
Hick’s C. F ........................................... perm 
55
45
G. D......................................................perm 
Musket.................................. 
75
perm 
CHISELS
Socket Firmer............................................. 
70
70
Socket Framing.............................  
 
Socket Comer..............................................  
70
Socket  Slicks...............................................  
70
Morse’s Bit Stocks......................................  
60
Taper and Straight Shank...........................50* 5
Morse’s Taper Shank...................................50*  5
Com. 4 piece, 6 In............................doz. net 
65
Corrugated..............................................  
1  25
Adjustable................................................dls 40*10
Clark’s small, >18;  large, >26........................30*10
Ives’, 1, >18; 2, >24: 3, >30.............................
New American............................................. 70*10
Nicholson’s.............................................  
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................60*10
28
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27.  ... 
List  12 
16........ 
17

GALVANIZED  IRON 

EXPANSIVE  BITS

FILES—New  List

ELBOWS

DRILLS

CAPS

13 

 

 

 

Discount,  60

14 
15 
GAS  PIPE.
(JACOBS
HAMMERS

 

 

MNUHS

HORSB NAILS

HOLLOW  WARB

Black or Galvanized...................................40&10
Stanley Rule and Level  Cn’s..................... 60*10
Maydole & Co.’s, new  list...................... dls  33 j*
Kip’s  ...................................................... dls 
25
Yerkes A Plumb’s.............................................dl« tO&lG
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50*10 
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,3.................................dls 60*1
State  ..  ........ 
r'°-  doz. net  2 51
Pots.............................................................. 60*1
K ettles..........................................................60*10
Spiders............ 
60*10
An Sable............  
dls40*l(
Putnam 
............ 
dls 
5
Cape well................................................. net list
MODAL  FURNISHING  GOODS
S amped Tin Ware.........................new list 70
20*10
Japanned Tin Wore 
Door, mineral, jap. trimming j.................... 
70
80
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
LF V r.La
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 
7G
............ dls 
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
9U
Per pound.............................................. 
 
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s .................................... 
40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables... 
40
Coffee, Landers. Ferry & Clark’s................. 
40
Coffee, Enterprise........................................
Bird  Cages............................................ - 
40
Pomps, Cistern......................................  
70
8254
Screws, New List...................................  
Casters, Bed and  Plate...........................50*10*11
Dampers, American............................... 
50
Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

MOLASSBS  GATES

MISCELLANEOUS

KNOBS—New List

METALS—Zinc

MILLS

 

2 80

NAILS

 

 

Advance over bass, on  both  Steel  and Wire.
 

Steel nails, base....................................... 
Wire nails, base................................................  2 90
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
05
10
8 advance.................................................... 
20
6 advance.................................................... 
4 advance................................. 
30
 
45
3 advance................................................... 
2 advance................................................... 
70
50
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
25
Finish 10 advance..................................  
 
35
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance.........................................  
85
Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
Common, pollBhed............................... 
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED  IRON 

Broken packages %c per pound  extra. 

PANS

Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy................................   ©50
Sclota Bench................................................ 
60
Sandnsky Tool Co.’s, fancy........................  ©50
Bench, flrstquallty......................................   ©50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood...................... 60

PLANES

RIVBT5

ROPBS

SHBBT IRON

ROOFING PLATES

SAND  PAPER
SASH WEIGHTS

Iron and T inned........................................  
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
45
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  5  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  6 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean...........................   11  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   6 00
20x281C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   10 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   12 U0
Sisal, K Inch and larger.............................  
10
Manilla.......................................................  
12
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dls 
50
Solid Eyes........................................per ton 20 00
com. smooth,  com.
>3 00
3 00
8 20
3 30
3 40
3 50
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14..................................... >3 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.
SHOT
Drop............................................................  1 45
B B and Buck.............................................  1  70
54©54...........................................................   17H
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
Steel and Iren...........................................   70*10
Try and Bevels........................................... 
60
M itre...........................................................  
50
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................>7  E5
14x20 IC, Charcoal.........................  ...........  7E0
20x14 IX, Charcoal......................................  8 50

TIN—Melyn Grade

SQUARBS

Bach additional X on this grade, >1.25.

SOLDBR

TIN—Allaway Grade

TRAPS

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

Each additional X on this grade, >1.50.
BOILBR SIZE TIN PLATB 
nnlltld 

10
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
10
14x56 IX. for No  9  Boilers, f P®1 P°una-*• 
75*10
Steel, Game............................................. 
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s .........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
1  25
Mouse, delusion.........................per doz 
Bright Market......................................  ... 
60
Annealed  Market........................................  
60
Coppered Market......................................... 50*10
Tinned Market...........................................  50*10
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
45
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ........................   3 50
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................  3(0
Barbed  Fence,  Plain..................................  2 80
Bright..........................................................  
00
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’B..........................................................  
80
Gate Hooks and Eves..........................  
80
. 
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled....................  
30
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
40
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought  .........  
75
Coe’s Patent, malleable.............................  
75

WIRB  GOODS

WRENCHES

WIRE

NOW  FTI66S

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  S t, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Wholesale Bicycles and  Sandriea.

MUSKEGON
AND RETURN
Every  Sunday
VIA

70* 5

cents a .   R. &   i.

Train leaves Union 
Station at 9.15  a.  m. 
Bridge Street 9 . »  a. m. 
Returning leaves 
Muskegon 7.15  p.  m.

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

24

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GO TH AM   G O SSIP .

News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  to

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  July  22—The  coffee  mar­
ket  exhibits 
little  animation  and  the 
chief  topic  of  the  trade  has  been  the 
recently-issued  circular  from Arbuckles, 
which  may  be  construed  as  containing 
a  threat  to  supply  dealers  direct  if  they 
(Arbuckles)  do  not  have  the  support  of 
the  wholesale  trade.  Whether  this  be 
true  or  not,  it  seems  the  independent 
refiners  are  placing  a  good  deal  of 
sugar.

A  moderate  distributing  business  was 
done  on  Thursday 
in  coSee,  but,  as  a 
rule,  both  buyer  and  seller  seem  to  be 
waiting  to  see  what  the  future  has  in 
store  Hardly  anything  was  done  in  an 
invoice  way.  No.  7  is  quoted  at  SHC> 
nominally.  West  India  and  other  mild 
grades  have  been  slow  of  movement, 
only  enough  changing  hands  to  keep  up 
assortments.  Good  Cucuta  is  still  held 
at  7%c.  East  India  coffees  are dull  and 
easy.

Some  tea  dealers  say  they  have  had 
quite  a  satisfactory  run  of  orders,  but 
these  are  the  exceptions  which  prove 
the  truth  of  the  assertion  that  trade gen­
erally  is  very  quiet.  The  sale  next  week 
will  be  very  small  at  auction,  and  this 
may  help  the  street.  There  have  been 
no  notable  changes  in  quotations. 
In­
voice  trading  is  light.

Trading 

in  sugar  has  again  been 
active  and  on  Wednesday  the  volume  of 
business  was  such  as  to  make  one  think 
another  “ boom”   had  struck  town.  Re­
finers  generally  guarantee  prices  until 
Jan.  1.  Quotations  are  unchanged.

There  has  been  a  fairly  satisfactory 
trade in the better  sorts  of domestic rice, 
with  still  more  enquiry 
for  foreign. 
Prices  are  unchanged  and  seem  to  be 
firmly  held.  Prime  to  choice  domestic 
is  worth  5^@ 6^c;  Japan,

Pepper  is  strongly  held  at  io^ @ iic . 
The  whole  line  of  spices  seems  to  be  in 
good  position  and  holders  will  make  no 
concession  whatever,  and 
indeed  none 
seems  to  be  looked  for.  Buyers  pay  full 
if  they  find  what  they  want  and 
lates 
ask  no  questions. 
It  is  said  that  some 
buyer  has  purchased  about  2,000  barrels 
of  Jamaica  ginger— practically  all  that 
could  be  found  here  and  in  London. 
It 
is  to  be  used  for a  special  purpose,  it  is 
said.  Wonder  if  we  shall  see  a  new  gin­
ger  medical  announcement  staring  from 
every  dead  wall 
country! 
Bleached  Jamaica  ginger  is  quotable  at 
i6@ i8c ;  but 
it  has  been  cornered 
there  will  be  a  “ steep  ascent.”

In  molasses  and  syrups  very  few  or­
ders  have  come  to  band,  and  these  of 
the  smallest  amounts,  being only  enough 
to  last  from  day  to  day.  The  very  best 
grades  of  grocery  molasses  show  a  little 
activity,  but  the  weather  is  too  hot  to 
warrant  large  transactions.  Syrups  have 
been  in  some  demand  from  the  export 
trade,  but  there 
is  room  for  improve­
ment and  this,  it  is  confidently  thought, 
will  be  sure  to  come  a  little  later  in  the 
season.  Prime  to  fancy  sugar  syrup  is 
worth  i 8@22c.

the 

in 

if 

In  canned  goods,  the  history  of  the 
trade  shows  no  better  July  demand  than 
that  of  1899.  Leading 
jobbers  seem  to 
be  crowding  each  other  to  obtain  sup­
plies,  the  purchases  running  up 
into 
thousands  of  cases  at  a  time  of  such 
things  as  gallon  tomatoes.  Poor returns 
have  been  reported  from  the  salmon 
canneries  to  date,  and  if the tide  doesn't 
turn  there  will  be  a  mighty  big shortage 
of  fish. 
like  a  good  time  to 
lay  in  a  winter  stock.

It  seems 

There 

is  springing  up  quite  a  specu­
lative  demand  for  some  lines  of  dried 
fruit  and  the  prospects  of  an  excellent 
trade  a 
little  later  on  are  extremely 
good.  There  is  a  good  steady  demand 
for  prunes  and  prices  seem  to  be  firmly 
adhered  to.  Some  choice  dried  apricots 
in  25  pound  boxes  have  been  offered  at 
10c.  Raisins  are  rather  dull  and  quo­
tations  are  nominal.

A  vast  quantity  of  watermelons  have 
been  received  and  the  market  is  simply 
overwhelmed.  It is  said  tbt  200 carloads 
are  here,  besides  a  lot  via steamer.  The 
consequence 
lot  of  the  fruit 
will  have  to  be  dumped  at  what  it  will

is  that  a 

Sicily 

bring.  Oranges  are  quiet,  with  sales 
in  small  lots,  although  prices  are  pretty 
well  sustained.  Lemons  are  selling  at 
about  previous  prices  and  the  demand 
is 
lemons,  $2.75 
@3  50.

improving. 

While  the  home  demand  for  butter  is 
comparatively 
light,  it "has  been  suffi­
cient  to  prevent  any  undue  accumula­
tion  and,  as  exporters  have  been  taking 
a  fair amount  of  choice  creamery,  the 
market  is  pretty  well  sustained.  The 
top  price  of  18c  seems  to  be  pretty  well 
maintained. 
is 
rather  slow  of  movement  and  is quotable 
at  from  I4@i5%c.  Factory  is  steady, 
with  a  range  of  from  I2@i4^c,  the  lat­
ter  for  fancy  June.

Imitation 

creamery 

is  a 

about 

There 

little  better  feeling  in 
cheese,  as  the  export  as  well  as  the 
home  demand  has  shown  more  activity 
and  the  market  gains  strength.  Large 
full  cream  white  cheese  is  worth  8)^c, 
}{c 
with  small  size  .colored 
higher.

The  egg  market  is quiet,  although  for 
desirable  stock  there  is a  call that seems 
to  take  care  of  all  arrivals  without  any 
trouble.  Western  stock  that  will  stand 
the  test  required  to  grade  as  extras  will 
bring  15@ 15^0.  A  good  deal  of  the 
stock  aniving  shows  deterioration  and 
sells  for  1 i@i2c.

The  bean  market  is  dull  all  around. 
Choice  marrows,  $1.50;  choice  pea, 
$i-37/£@i-4o ;  Red  Kidney,  $1.70.
How  the  Salesman  Got  His  Order 

Cashed.

“ I  had  a  postoffice  money  order  on  a 
little  town  in  Northern  Michigan,”   re­
marked  a  Cleveland  drummer  the  other 
day,  “ and  when  I  showed  up  to  get 
it 
cashed  I  was  dead  broke  and  found  the 
postoffice  in  charge  of  a  girl  about  20 
years  old 
She  was  chewing  gum  and 
reading  a  novel  as  I  walked  into  the 
place,  and  as  she  was  slow  in  getting  a 
move  on  her  and  I  was  in  a  deuce  of  a 
burry,  I gave  her some pretty  sharp  talk. 
She  sassed  me  back  and  we  had  some 
I 
lively  words  for about  five  minutes. 
never  did  a  more  foolish  thing 
in  my 
life.  You  know  what  a  postoffice  money 
order  is,  of  course. 
It  makes  a  man 
mad  all  over  to  waste  the  time  to  get 
one,  and  when  you  present  it  at  another 
post  office  you  must  satisfy  the  authori­
ties  that  you  are  the  person  named. 
I 
signed  my  name  and  all  that,  but  the 
girl  quietly  remarked:

letters 

‘ I  don’t  know  that  you  are  the  per­
son  named.  You  will  have  to  be  iden­
tified. ’

" I   had 

in  my  pocket  of 
course,”   continued  the  drummer,  “ but 
she  waved  them  aside.  Any  one  can 
carry  letters  around  addressed  to  tbeii 
proper  name. 
I  had  my  initial  on  my 
cuffs  and  collars,  but  they  were  no 
good. 
I  had  telegrams,  but  she  was 
obdurate.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  she 
bothered  me  a  whole  day,  and  when  the 
office  closed  I  was  still  without  my 
money.  The  order  called  for  $50  and  I 
went  to  every  merchant  in  town  to  get 
the  money  and 
it.  Nobody 
would  let  me  have  the  cash.  There was 
but  one  way  to  do,  and  I  did  it. 
I 
walked  into  the  postoffice  next  day  and 
said:

transfer 

“   ‘ My  name  is  John  Blank.  Here 

is 
an  order  calling  for $50  Yesterday  I 
was  fool  enough  to  snub  you.  To-day  I 
beg  your  pardon. ’

“ Two  minutes  later  I  had  my  money 
and  was  out  on  the  sidewalk,  and  you 
can  bet  youi  shoes  I  don't  get  caught 
that  way  again.  When I  feel  like  snub­
bing  another  girl  I’ll  tackle one  who 
isn’t  employed  by  Uncle  Sam  in  a  po­
sition  where  she  can  hold  me and  set 
me  to  looking  around  for  a  pawnshop.”

A  firm  that  solicits shipments of prod­
uce  at  a  flat  price and  then  turns  down 
the  drafts  drawn  against  such  ship­
ments 
is  not  doing  business  on  the 
square.

If  the  sun  had  nothing  else  to  do  but 
it  wouldn’t 

shine  on 
have  to  rise  so  early  in  the  morning.

the  righteous, 

I t _ is  a  severe  strain  on  the  angelic 
qualities  of  a  woman  when  she  has  to 
use  her  wings  to  dust the  furniture.

Bad  Faith  Charged  By  the  Kalamazoo 

Boys.

Kalamazoo,  July  24—There  has  been 
so  much  said,  pro  and  cun,  regarding 
the  baseball  game  between  the  Grand 
Rapids  and  Kalamazoo  teams,  touching 
upon  the  "alleged”   poor  jvork  of  the 
Kalamazoo  men, that  I  deem  it  my  duty 
to  give  a  truthful  and  unwritten account 
of  it, and  trust  after  I  have  done  so  to  at 
once  and  forever  put  at  rest  any  ques­
tion  as  to  the  superiority  of  the  Kazoo 
team  over  the  Grand  Rapids  men. 
Apropos  of  this, it might be  well  to  state 
that  I  have  been  elected  mauager  over 
Zander  and  Verdon  and  that  the  pro­
ceeds  of  our  game  at  Long  Lake, 
amounting  to  32  cents,  has  also  been 
turned  over  to  the  writer.

When  we  began  practicing  at  Alger 
Park  before  the  game,  the  Grand  Rap­
ids  boys  at  once  saw  that  we  were  a 
much  stronger  team  than  they  could 
bring  against  us,  and,  as  a  result,  one 
of  the  Grand  Rapids  men  came  to  me 
with  this  proposition :  That  in  view  of 
the  fact  that  their  wives  and  friends 
were  out  to  the  game,and  in  view of  the 
fact  that  our  wives  remained  behind, 
they  besought  us  to  allow  them  to  win 
the  game, in  consideration  of which  they 
would  do  the  same  when  they  came 
down  to  Kczoo.  They  said  that  their 
wives  would  so  roast  them  for losing  the 
game  that  they  would  never  bear the last 
of  it.  Well,  to  make a  long  story  short, 
after a  consultation  with  our  boys,  we 
decided  to  throw the  game  (there  being 
no  money  up)  to  them.  We,  of  course, 
would  have  the  game  at  Kazoo.  Well, 
Grand  Rapids  won,  16  to  io.  and  the 
Kazoos  never  gave  the  snap  away.  We 
didn't  think  it  necessary  to  put  on  our 
strongest  team  at  Kazoo,  and,  as  we 
wanted  some  of  the  boys to play that had 
contributed,  we  benched  such  players 
as  Verdon,  Ryder and  Lewis  and  put in 
players  that  never  saw  a game  until  that 
Saturday.

Did  those  fellows  from  Grand  Rapids 
do  as  they  agreed?  Not  much.  They 
went  right  in  as  if  they  had  not  seen  a 
dime  in  three  weeks and before we could 
recover  from  our  surprise,  indignation 
and  other  things,  we  awoke  to  the  fact 
that  we  bad  been  given  what  is  called 
in  the vernacular  the double cross.  Even 
then  we  were  too  courteous  to  say  any­
thing,  even  when  we  found,  on  looking 
up  their  records,  that their  manager  was 
a  professional  and  bad  been  hired  to 
play  center  fielder  for  the  two  games. 
Without  intending any  insinuation,  none 
of  the  Grand  Rapids  men  outside  of 
Fear  could  play  ball.  Such,  Mr.  E di­
tor, is a  true  and  unvarnished  account  of 
what  should  have  been  but  was  not. 
However,  to  show  our  faith  in  the  su­
periority  of  our  team,  I  was  deputized 
by  the  stockholders  to  challenge  the 
Grand  Rapids  team  to  a  third  game  of 
baseball  for  $5,000.32  a  side,  the  32 
cents  being  the  aforesaid  money  in  the 
treasury. 
If  they  are  not  afraid,  they 
will  put  up  the  money. 
If  they  don’t— 
well,  we  wouldn't  blame  them  anyway.
B.  S.  A ld r ich , 
Manager  and  Treasurer.

B U S I N E S S   C H A N C E S .

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and one cent a word  for  each  subsequent In­
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FOR  SALE—GROCERY  STOCK  AND  Fix­
tures in one of the best locations in the city 
on a main street.  Cheap for cash on account of 
sickness.  Address  No.  23,  care  of  Michigan 
§3
Tradesman. 
CLEAN  STOCK  OF  HEAVY  AND  SHELF 
hardware and groceries  for sale.  B.  Han­
cock, Cedar Springs. Mich. 
21
Fo r sa le—c a r r ia g e  sh o p w it h   good 
established business in  general  repairs  and 
shoeing.  J. S. Cowling, Three Rivers. Mich.  20
TO  RENT—A  GOOD  BRICK  STORE  CEN- 
trally located in a thriving town.  Address 
for particulars, Mrs. E. F. Colwell, Lake Odessa, 
23
Mich. 
COUNTY  FAIRS—«5  TO  310  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 S t, Chicago. 
Fo r  s a l e—good  b a za a r  st o c k,  e n -
quire  of  Hollon  &  Hungerford,  Albion, 
16
Mich. 

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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 3,000 pounds.  Adapted to 
use of country store or elevator.  Hugh E. Wil­
son,  Trustee  Rutka Hamilton  Hardware  Co., 
18
Grand Rapids. 
ODERN  CITY  RESIDENCE  AND  LARGE 
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._______________________________   17
I7IOR  SALE—NICE  CLEAN  STOCK  OP 
1  hardware, invoicing about  82.500;  also  tin- 
shop in  connection;  store  building  and  ware­
house valued at 8700; 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  selling.  Address  No.  14,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman._________________ 
14
Ir»OR RENT—IN  A  HUSTLING  TOWN  OF 
20,000 inhabitants  a  solid  brick  store,  two 
floors and basement, 80x24 feet;  desirable  loca­
tion;  terms  reasonable.  Address  E.  Major,  311 
13
Sycamore St., Manistee, Mich. 

OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERAL 
Stock  of  Merchandise—60  acre  farm,  part 
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

igan Tradesman. 

EAUTIFUL  LITTLE  FRUIT  FARM  FOR 
sale in Petoskey.  Address No. 9, care Mich­
HE SHAFTING. HANGERS AND PULLEYS 
formerly used to  drive  the  Presses  of  the 
Tradesman  are  for  sale  at  a  nominal  price. 
Power users making  additions  or  changes  will 
do well  to  investigate.  Tradesman  Company, 
Grand Rapids.  Mich. 

983

9

ANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A  RUBBER 
stamp.  Best  stamps  on  earth  at  prices 
that  are  right.  Will  J.  Weller,  Muskegon, 
Mich. 
958
I TOR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
1  splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad­
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman.  680
NY  ONE  WISHING TO  ENGAGE  IN  THE 
grain and produce and  other lines  of busi­
ness can  learn of  good  locations  by  communi­
cating  with  H.  H.  Howe,  Land  and  Industrial 
Agent C. & W. M. and D., G. R.  &  W.  Railways, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.___________________919
I7IOR  SALE —A  RARE  OPPORTUNITY —A 
'  flourishing business;  clean  stock  of shoes 
and furnishing goods;  established  cash  trade; 
best store and  location  in  city;  located among 
the best iron mines in the country.  The coming 
spring will open  up with  a  boom  for  this  city 
and prosperous  times  for years  to  come  a  cer­
tainty.  Rent  free  for  six  months,  also  a  dis­
count on stock;  use of fixtures free.  Store and 
location  admirably  adapted  for  any  line  of 
business and conducted at small  expense.  Get 
in line  before  too late.  Failing  health  reason 
for  selling.  Address  P.  O.  Box  204,  Negau- 
nee, Mich. 

913

M I S C E L L A N E O U S .
W ANTED—PHARMACIST  OR ASSISTANT. 
11
Allan Little, Rapid City. Mich. 
WANTED—POSITION 
IN  A  GENERAL 
store;  twenty years’experience;  good ref­
erences.  Address  No.  997,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
997
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, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
998
W ANTED—A  FIRST-CLASS  TINSMITH.
Must  be  capable  of  clerking  in  store. 
Single  man  preferred.  Must give  good refer­
ences.  No  drinkers  need  apply.  Address  No. 
992, care Michigan Tradesman.__________ 992
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Simple 
Account  Pile
Simplest and 
Most  Economical 
Method  of  Keeping 
Petit  Accounts
File and  1,000 printed blank

bill heads.......................   $2  75

File and  1,000 specially

printed bill heads.........   300

Printed blank bill heads,

per thousand.................. 
Specially printed bill heads,
per thousand.................  
Tradesman  Company,

1  25

1  5o

Grand  Rapids. 

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MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

] The Worker’s 

Build  it  on  a  biscuit  basis— a  UllGGCfe!  basis. 
Use  any kind of a relish,  but  one kind  of  a  founda­
tion—   Uneeda  Biscuit.  They  possess  as 
dainty a  flavor as is ever found in the best bread.

Lunch
Uneeda
Biscuit

have started  the  thoughtful housewife crackerwards. 
in   Uneeda  Biscuit  she  finds  food  novelty 
without loss  of nutritive  value;  a  complete,  satisfy­
ing, health giving food that is  always  ready,  always 
fresh,  always  dainty.  These  are  the  reasons  why 
Uneeda  Biscuit Uiake the ideal lunch for  the 
business man or the mechanic— for everybody.  Order 
one o f  the new 5 cent air tight packages.

The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

Manufacture

Solid  Boxes for Shoes, Gloves,  Shirts and  Caps,  Pigeon  Hole  Files  for 
Desks, plain and fancy  Candy  Boxes,  and  Shelf  Boxes  of  every  de­
scription.  We  also  make  Folding  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.

Hanselman’s  Pine  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.

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their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell  —S  
you  that  they  are  only  trying  to  get you  to  aid  their  ~ g  
new  article. 

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public?  The  manufacturers,  by  constant and  judi- 
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose  —g  
very  presence  creates  a  demand  for other  articles.

f m i m m m m m m m m  uiuuuc?

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 isler, Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 

A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  C.  G.  J rwett,  Howell;  Secretary 

Henry C. Minnie, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J oseph K night;  Secretary, E. Marks, 

221 Greenwood ave;  Treasurer, C. H. F rink.
Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Assoclatloa
K t.i t ;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  L ehman.

President,  F kank  J.  Dy k ;  Secretary,  Homer 

President, P. F. T re ano r ;  Vice-President, J ohn 

Saginaw Mercantile  Association 
McBratn ie;  Secretary,  W. H. L ewis.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J.  F rank Helm xb;  Secretary, W.  H. 

Porter;  Treasurer,  L.  Pxlton.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

lan d;  Treasurer, Wm. C. K oehn.

Bay Cities  Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  M.  L.  DxBa t s;  Sec’y, S. W. Waters.

Kalamazoo  Retail Grocers’ Association

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

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

President,  T hos.  T.  Bat e s;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

Owosso  Business  Men’s   Association 

President, A. D. W hipple ; Secretary, G. T. Camp­

b e ll;  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 Wtt.- 

b e r : Treasurer, S. J.  Huppord.

St. Johns  Business  Men’s   Association. 

President, T hos. B romley;  Secretary,  Frank A. 

Percy ;  Treasurer, Clar k A. Putt.

Perry  Business Men’s Association

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

Yale  Bnsiness Men’s Association

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

T R A V E L

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F. & P-  M.  R. R.

AND  8 T E A M 8 H IP   LIN E 8 

TO   ALL  P O IN T 8   IN  M ICHIGAN

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

Chicago.

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey. 

CHICAGO“ ‘’S .'S fS r
Lv.  6. 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’dRapids  1:25pm 5:05pm  10:15pm  *l:50am 
Lv. G’d  Rapids.  7:30am 2:05am  1:45pm  5:30pm 
Ar. Tray. City..12:40pm 6:10am  5:35pm  10:55pm
Ar. Charlevoix..  3:15pm 7:53am  7:38pm.............
Ar. Petoskey....  3:45pm 8:15am  8:15pm..............
Ar. Bay View...  3:55pm 8:20am 8:20pm.............
Ly. G. Rapids..9:00am  12:00 nn  5:30pm..............
Ar. G. Rapids..8:00am  1:25pm  5:05pm  10:15pm 
Extra train on Saturday  leaves  at 2:15pm  for 
Ottawa Beach.
Sunday  train  leaves  Bridge  street  8:40am, 
Union  depot  9:00am; 
leaves  Ottawa  Beach 
7:00pm.
Trains  arrive  from  north at 2:00am, 11:15am, 
4:45pm, and 10:05pm.
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on 
night trains to and from Chicago 
Parlor cars for Bay View.

Ottawa Beach.

Others week days only.

*Rvery  day. 

n C T D A l T   Q rud Rapids & Western.
U C   1   K M '   1   9 

Ju n e  26, 1899.

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids.7:00am  12:05pm 
5:25pm
Ar. Detroit....................11:40am  4:05pm 10:05pm
Ly. Detroit....................8:40am  1:10pm  0:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids........1:30pm  5:10pm 10:55pm
Lv. G R 7:00am 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. Agent.

n n   A  v j n   Trank Railway  System
V l l v / \ l y £ y   Detroit and Milwaukee Dly

(In effect May  1,1899.)

going  east

Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit & N Y.........t 6:45am t  9:55pm
Detroit  and  East..................tl0:16am  t  5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit &  East.......t 3:27pm 112:50pm
Buffalo,  N  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t’d Ex__ *  7:20pm *10:16am
GOING  WEST
Gd. Haven and Int Pts......... * 8:30am *10:00pm
Gd.  Haven  Express............... *10:21am * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven  and Int  Pts......... tl2:58pm + 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee. ..t 5:12pm tl0:llam  
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee.. .tl0:00pm t 6:40am
Gd. Haven and Chicago........* 7:30pm  * 8:05am
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.

•Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

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

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.
QRAND RaP,da  &  Indiana Railway
Northern Dly.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey &Mack...* 4;10am *10:C0pm 
Tray.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am + 5:15pm
Trav. City & Petoskey............t   1:40pm t   1:10pm
Cadillac accommodation........t  5:25pm tlO :55am
Petoskey* Mackinaw City... .tU :00pm  t   6:30am 
4:10am train. The Northland Express, sleeping 
and  dining  cars;  7:45am  and  1:40pm  trains, 
parlor cars;  11:00pm train sleeping car.
Southern  Dtv.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati...............................t  7:10am t  9:45pm
F t Wayne 
..............t  2:09pm  +  1:30pm
Kalamazoo and Vicksburg...  * 7:00pm * 7:20am
Chicago and Cincinnati........*10:15pm * 3:55am
7:10  am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati 
and  parlor  car  to  Chicago;  2:00pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  Ft. Wayne;  10:15pm  train  has 
sleeping  cars  to  Chicago,  Cincinnati,  Indian­
apolis, Louisville and St. Louis.
Chicago Trains.

...... 

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 Rapids 7:10am has parlor 
car;  10:15pm, coach and sleeping car.
Train  leaving  Chicago 3:02pm  has  Pullman 
parlor  car;  8:15pm sleeping car;  11:32pm sleep­
ing car for Grand Rapids.

Muskegon Trains.

GOING WEST.

GOING EAST.

Ly G’d Rapids............ t7:35am tl:35pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon..............  9:00am  2:45pm  7:05nm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon..............t8:10am  tl2:15am t4:00pm
Ar G’d Rapids............ 9:30am  1:25pm  5:20pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  6:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 7:55pm.
tExcept Sunday.  «Daily. 

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

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent. 
Ticket Agent Union Station.
HI A NKTFF * Nortl,eMterB «y-
1TIa\1 1 I O  A  I-4I-4  Best route to Manistee.

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Via  C. &  W . M.  Railway.

L v Grand Rapids.............................7:00am 
..........
A r  Manistee......................................12:05pm ............
Lv  Manistee.......................................8:30am 4:10pm
A r Grand  R a p id s...........................  1:00pm q:55pm

MONEY  IN  IT

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

keeping pure goods. 
the  Seymour Cracker.

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

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

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Superior  Quality 

and

Nutritive  Properties. 
Specially Grateful  and 

Comforting  to  the 

Nervous  and  Dyspeptic.

Sold  in  Half-Pound  Tins  Only. 

Prepared  by

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Homoeopathic  Chemists,  London, 

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