Volume XVI.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1899.

Number 828

Lamps

That  Will  Sell

Lamps

That  are  Up  to  Date

875-

globe.  Treated in rich dark 
jreen shaded to  delicate  pink and 
iecorated  with  roses  and  leaves; 
the oil pot and base are finished in 
[apanese bronze.  Height, 22 in.

Price,  $4 00  each.

Also sold in  No.  875  assortment.

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No.  876.

1 i-in. globe.  Dark  tints  of  green 
shaded to light  green  and  decora- 
tion  of  red  and  white  peonies  on 
pink background;  base and oil pot 
are in gold finish.  Height, 23 in.

Price,  $5.00  each.

Also sold in  No. 875 assortment.

No. 875 Assortment 

(Lamps fitted with  No.  2  Royal  Burners.)

1  only  No. 875  lamp,  complete............................................. $  4  00
1  only No. 876 lamp,  complete.............................................   5  00
1  only No. 877 lamp,  complete.............................................. 
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$15  00
Less  10 per cent,  $13  50

Package no charge. 

No. 877.

11  in.  globe.  Ground laid in  dark 
ruby with orchids and leaves in nat­
ural coloring—a most artistic effect. 
Base and oil pot finished  in  Japan­
ese bronze.  Height,  24 inches. 

Price, $6  00  each.

Also sold in  No. 875  assortment.

I Hoffman House Cigars ]
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Have Stood the Test for Years 

Nothing  Better  Ever  Sold

THE  HILSON  CO.,  Makers.

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P.  E.  BUSHMAN,  Manager Cigar Department. 

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MICA 

AXLE

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

ILLUMINATING  AND 
LUBRICATING  OILS

WATER WHITE  HEADLIGHT  OIL  IS THE 

STANDARD  THE  WORLD  OVER

H IQ H E S T   P R IC E   P A ID   P O R   E M P T Y   C A R B O N   A N D   G A S O L IN E   B A R R E L S

STANDARD OIL  CO.

M O N EY  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.

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

NATIONAL  BISCUIT  COMPANY,

G RAND  R A PIDS,  M IC H.

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

illustrated  catalogue  and  discounts.

This Showcase only $4.00 per foot.

With Beveled Edge Plate Glass top $5.00 per foot.

Epps’
Cocoa

Epps’
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G R A T E FU L 

COMFORTING

Distinguished  Everywhere 

for

Delicacy of  Flavor, 
Superior Quality 

and

Nutritive  Properties. 
Specially Grateful and 

Comforting to the 

Nervous and Dyspeptic.

,Sold in Half-Pound Tins Only. 

Prepared by

JA M ES E P P S & CO.,  Ltd., 

Homoeopathic  Chemists,  London, 

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Volume XVI,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  2,1899.

Number  828

O L D E S T

M O S T   R E L I A B L E

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IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

PAGE9.  Dry Goods.
3.  Gotham  Gossip.
4.  Around  th e  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  W oman’s  World.
8 .  E d it o r ia l.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Changed  His Tactics.
12.  Observations by a  Gotham   Egg Man.
13.  Producing  Hybrid  Oranges.
14.  Shoes  and  Leather.
15.  Missed th e Train
16.  About Advertising.
17.  Commercial  Travelers.
18.  Drugs and  Chemicals.
19.  D rag Price Current.
20.  Grocery  Price Current.
21.  Grocery Price Current.
22.  Hardw are.
23.  G etting th e  People.
24.  How  a  Girl  M etamorphosed  a  Store. 

H ardw are  Price  Current.
Business  Wants.

BUSINESS  CONDITIONS.

in 

There  has  been  enough  of  financial 
conservatism 
the  great  centers, 
amounting  to  almost  a  stringency,  to 
hold  the  general  stock  market  to  a 
steady,  but  slow,  advance  in  the  face  of 
conditions  which  would  seem  to warrant 
a  decided  boom.  The  increase 
in  ac­
tivity  and  appreciation  of  prices  con­
tinued  until  the  appearance  of  a  yellow 
fever  scare,  with  its  possibilities  of 
quarantine  and  interference  with  travel, 
when  there  appeared  a  tendency  to  re­
action,  so that  in  the  last  two  days  there 
has  been  a  slight  falling  off  in  values. 
In  view  of  the  fact that  there  has  never 
been  a  corresponding  time of  year  when 
there  was  such  universal  activity  in  all 
industries,  or  so  great  a  volume  of 
transportation  business,  it 
is  fortunate 
that  there  has  been  enough  of  financial 
disquiet,  of  strikes  and  other  restrain­
ing  influences,  to  prevent  an  undue  ad­
vance,  which  must  inevitably  have  been 
followed  by  reaction.

The  remarkable  feature  of  the  situa­
tion 
is  the  unexpected  abundance  of 
natural  products,  as shown  by  wheat and 
corn  movement,  by  cotton  and  by  min­
eral  production. 
In  quantities  which  in 
the  aggregate  leave  all  corresponding 
records  far  in  the  rear,  there  is  yet  a 
capacity  of  absorption  which  either  ad­
vances  or  sustains  prices,  or  permits 
but  the  slightest  yielding.

The  movement  of  wheat  and  other 
grains  has  far exceeded  expectation  and 
raises  the  question  of  accuracy  in  the 
accepted  statements  as  to  the  quantities 
in  producers’  hands.  The  fact  that  at 
a  moderate  price  offerings  are  so  abun­
dant  as  to  produce  a  weakening  tend­
ency  shows  that  there  is  confidence as to 
the abundance  of  the  coming  crop.

With  an  abundance  of  cotton from  the 
plantations,  which  so  far  exceeds  ex­
pectation  as  to  cause  a  slight  decline  in 
the  white  staple,  there  is  a  constant  in­
crease  of  demand,  which  causes  further 
advance  in  many  lines  of  its  products. 
Buying  by  the  factories  far  exceeds 
that  of  recent  years,  arguing  confidence 
on  the  part  of  manufacturers  in  a  con­
tinued 
in  demand.  Sales  of 
wool  continue heavy,  amounting  in  four 
weeks  to  46,729,600  pounds  at  the  three 
markets,  and  the  reports  indicate  that 
manufacturers  are  purchasing  some

increase 

grades  more  freely.  The  sales  of  goods 
by  the  American  Woolen  Company  have 
in  some qualities  exceeded  the  capacity 
of  its  mills,  so  that  orders  have  been 
scaled  down,  the  company  proposing  to 
insist  upon  orders  as  valid  contracts, 
refusing  cancellations.  The  advances 
in  all  wool  staple  goods  and 
low-grade 
fancies  are about  2}4  per  cent.

In  the  iron  trade  there  is  yet the  pres­
sure  of  demand  which  holds  prices  at 
astonishingly  high  figures 
in  spite  of 
the  rush  of  new  furnaces  into  the  field. 
There  has  been 
less  of  shutting  down 
for  repairs  and  of  interference of strikes 
than  usual  at  this  season,  and  yet  the 
demand 
is  not  met.  Of  course  it  can 
not  be  long  before  the  increase  of  pro­
duction  will  exert  an 
influence  and 
bring  prices  down  to  nearer  parity  with 
the  rest  of  the  world.

Export  movement  of  breadstuffs  and 
an  unusually  heavy 
import  movement 
of  general  merchandise  have  resulted  in 
great  gains  for  the  railroads,  which  re­
port  earnings  16.1  per  cent,  larger  than 
last  year 
in  July,  the  greatest  increase 
in  any  month  this  year  and  10.4  per 
cent, 
1892.  The  pay­
ments  through  clearing  bouses  in  July 
thus  far  reported  have  been  47.2  per 
cent,  larger  than  last  year  and  59 6  per 
cent,  larger  than  in 
1892.  New  York, 
with  payments  of  $180,119,000  daily, 
gains  more  than  70  per  cent,  over  July, 
1892.

larger  than 

in 

The  Grain Market.

it  showed 

Wheat  has  not maintained the strength 
which 
last  week.  Winter 
wheat  showed  a  decline  on  cash  of  ic 
per  bushel  and  deferred  futures  about 
2c  per  bushel.  The  same 
is  true  of 
spring  wheat.  The  situation  has  not 
changed  and  I  see  no  reason  to  change 
my  mind 
in  regard  to  prices,  namely, 
that  better  prices  will  ultimately  pre­
The  winter  wheat  threshings 
vail. 
show  no 
the  average 
being  abont 9 bushels  per  acre,  against 
17  bushels  last  year,  and  allowing  the 
best  of  weather for  gathering  the  spring 
wheat  crop,  it  will  not  be  as  large as 
last  year.  Receipts 
in  the  Northwest 
have  fallen  off  considerably,  and  they 
will  from  now  on until new wheat  makes 
its  appearance,  which  will  be  in  about 
six  weeks.  Wheat  also  sympathized 
with  the  downward  price  in  corn.

improvement, 

Corn  dropped  a  full  cent  daring  the 
last  few  days,  owing  to  the  fine  corn 
weather and  the  enormous acreage.

Oats  were  weak  and  sold  off  fully  3c 
per  bushel,  owing  to  the  same  cause 
that  sold  corn  down.

Rye  also  dropped  3c  per bushel,  and 
will probably  go  8  to  10c  lower before  it 
stops  or  finds  its  level  in  prices.

Receipts  have  been  moderate,  being 
50 cars  of  wheat,  27 cars  of  corn  and  9 
cars  of  oats.

M illers  are  paying  66c for  old  and  64c 

for  new  wheat. 

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t.

A  pad 

Pad  and  Pencil.
in  your  pocket,  a  lead  pencil 
within  reach,  are  two  little  things  that 
an  advertiser  should  always  have  with 
him.  Many  a  sudden 
inspiration  of 
great  value  can  be  recorded and put into 
service,  which  otherwise  would  be  lost.

entirely. 

The  Market  and  Its  Neighbors.
During  the  week  a  few  clingstone 
peaches  were  offered  in  the  market,  but 
the  quantity  was  small  and 
later  the 
offerings  disappeared 
The 
general  impression  seems  to prevail that 
the  crop  will  be  very  small  and  that  as 
a  consequence  peaches  will  be  peaches.
increased 
freely  and  both  prices  and  qualities  ex­
tend  over  a  wide  range.  Sales have been 
good  and  yet  the  seeker  after  cheap 
fruit  has  not  had  far  to  look.  So  far  the 
offerings  of  apples  seem  to  be  almost 
as  plentiful  as  usual,  and  yet  there  is 
little  doubt  that  later  varieties will com­
mand  unusually  large  prices.

Offerings  of  apples  have 

Potatoes  and  other  vegetables  con­
tinue 
in  the  greatest  profusion.  The 
plentifulness  of  the  tubers  is  such  that 
prices  has  yielded  to  a  considerable  ex­
tent,and  growers  are  trying  to  reconcile 
themselves  to  the 
idea  that  it  will  re­
quire  the  handling of considerable quan­
tities  to  get  large  returns,  and  yet  a 
good  healthy  demand  seems  probable. 
Other  vegetables  are  equally  abundant 
and  of  fine  quality  and  the  offerings  are 
increasing  at  about  the  usual  ratio  for 
this  part  of  the  season.

While  the  satisfaction  with  which  the 
market  is  accepted  by  both  buyers  and 
sellers  seems  to  indicate  the  approval of 
the  action  of  the  city  in  making  the  in­
vestment,  misgivings  can  not  fail  to 
arise  in  the  mind  of  the  observing  tax­
payer  as  be  watches  the  progress  of  the 
municipal  enterprises  indicated  by  the 
piles  of  brick  and  masonry  which  en­
cumber  the  southern  part  of  the  island. 
In  buying  the  land  for a  market the city 
made an  investment  in  which  there  was 
inherent,  permanent  and  probably  in­
creasing  value;  thus  the  taxpayers,  as 
long  as  they  retained  their  interests  in 
the  city,  were  no  poorer.  But  the  other 
enterprises  are  a  different  story.  Sani­
tary  needs  may  have  warranted 
the 
building  of  a  crematory,  although  the 
value  and  efficiency  of  the  present insti­
tution  are  as  yet  far  from demonstrated. 
But  this  expenditure,  while  perhaps 
necessary,  and,if  judiciously  made,  jus­
tifiable,  is  one 
loss  to  the 
taxpayer.  It  is  a  plan!  which  must  wear 
and  deteriorate  in  value,  eventually  to 
be  renewed  at  additional  cost. 
But 
this  institution  is  a  matter  of  compara­
tively  small  importance  beside  the  un­
dertaking  to  furnish  the  city 
In 
this  the  expenditure 
is  to  far  exceed 
either  of  the  otheis,  and  it  is  one  in­
volving  nothing  of  permanent  value. 
The  taxpayer  is  investing  in  an  institu­
tion  which  will  rapidly  deteriorate  and 
become  obsolete,  as  well  as  wear  out. 
In  this  the  investment  is  but  the  begin­
ning  of  an  endless  progression,  the  end 
of  which  no  man  can  foresee  or  com­
pute.  The  prediction  that  it  will  be  as 
wasteful  and  prolific  of  municipal  cor­
ruption  as  the  average  of  such  enter­
prises  seems  to  be  warranted  by  the 
management  of  the  work  of  building  as 
far  as  it  has  progressed.

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M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

Dry Goods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Ginghams—The  situation 

Staple  Cottons—All the  leading  makes 
of  bleached  goods  are  firm  with a steady 
demand,  with  prospects,  according  to 
some  agents,  of  advances 
in  the  near 
fntnre.  The lower grades are unchanged 
in  the  character  of  the demand  or  the 
prices.  Wide  sheetings are  in  fair  re­
quest  and  firm  in  price.  Cotton flannels, 
blankets and  coarse  colored  cottons  are 
without change of  price  or  conditions.
in  staple 
ginghams 
is  about  the  same  as  we  re­
ported  last  week.  There  are  some  en­
quiries  in  the  market,  but  the  goods are 
not easy  to  be  found,  except  at  distant 
deliveries.  Madras  fabrics  and  percales 
are  being  taken  in  some  quantities by 
the  manufacturers.  Some  of  the  agents 
say  that a  considerable  number of orders 
have  been  booked  for  dress  styles  of 
ginghams  for  next  spring,  subject  to 
whatever  the  prices  are  at  the  opening. 
This  shows  anxiety  on  the  part  of  buy­
ers  to  secure a  certain  amount  of  goods 
as  early  as  possible  in  anticipation  of  a 
rush  of  business at  the  start.

Prints—A  firm foundation has evident­
ly  been  reached  by  the prices  for  fancy 
prints  and  all  lines  are firm.  The  situ­
is  healthy  throughout  New  or­
ation 
indigo  blues,  mournings,  tur­
ders  for 
key  reds,  etc.,  are  being  received 
in 
fair quantities.

Hosiery—July  was  a  splendid  month 
for  the  importers  of  hosiery, -at least  the 
last  half  of 
it  was  so,  and  a  good 
steady  trade  has  come  to  hand.  Sales­
men  on  the  road  have  sent  in  good  or­
ders  and  there  has  been  a  fine  spot 
business.  The  importers  are  preparing 
for  an  active  fall  trade,  and  prices  will 
is  assured  by  the 
be  very  stiff.  This 
stiffness  of  the  European  market. 
In 
women's  hosiery  there  seems  to  be  a 
demand  for  the  finer grades  of  ribbed 
and 
lace  goods.  The  domestic  end  of 
the  hosiery  market  has  not been  neg 
lected  and  the  manufacturers  are  en­
joying  a  season  of  activity  in the cheap­
er  grades.

Carpets—The  principal  demand 

is 
still  for cheap  tapestries  and velvets,  al­
though  there  is a  marked 
improvement 
in  the  demand  for ingrains.  For the fine 
grades,  such  as  body  Brussels,  wiltons 
and  axminsters,  the  demand 
is  some­
what  limited  as  compared  with  the 
cheaper grades.  They  have,  neverthe­
less,  received  a  very  fair  share  of atten­
tion.  The  contemplated  advance  on in­
grains has  tended  to  stimulate  buyers  to 
place  orders 
larger quantities  than

in 

In  former  years 

usual  at  this  season.  As a  result,  some 
mills are  quite  well  sold  up  for  this sea­
son. 
it  bas  been  the 
custom  to  accept  more  orders than could 
possibly  be filled,  allowance  in  this  way 
being  made  for  any  possible  cancella­
tions.  This  season,  however,  this  con­
dition  will  be  more  generally  reversed, 
as  the  buyers  are  to-day  hungry  for 
goods, as  they  find  their trade constantly 
increasing  with  the  present  prosperous 
industrial  condition  of 
the  country. 
There  is  no  incentive  towards  cancella­
tions,  but  rather  a  large  temptation  to 
speculate  on 
future  prosperity, 
which  has  now,  even  in  some  branches 
of  the  woolen  industry,  come  to  stay. 
To be  sure,  as  yet  it  has  been  felt  more 
in  the  increased  volume,  rather  than  in 
increased  prices  and 
it  will  still  take 
considerable advance  on  all  lines of car­
pets to  bring  them  up  even  to  what  was 
the  natural  price  before  the  “ auction 
slaughter"  of  May  and  June,  1898.  It  is 
hoped  that  this  branch  of  industry  will 
never  pass through  such  a  trying  ordeal 
again.  At  present  improvement  is the 
order  of  the day.

the 

Lace  Curtains—The  domestic  manu­
facturer finds  the demand  for  Notting­
ham  curtains  and  all  tambour  work  im­
proving  each  season,  and  while there  is 
still  a  fair  amount  of  the  very  finest 
goods  imported,  including  bobbinet and 
Brussels  lines  above 
16  points,  the 
American  manufacturer  will  be  suie,  as 
be  finds  it  profitable, to  prepare  to  com­
pete even  in  these,  although  in  the  past 
it  has  been  mainly  a  question  of  cheap 
wages. 
Improved  machinery  has  even 
in  the  past  in  some  lines overcome  this 
obstacle.

Golf  Hosiery:

Three  weeks  ago there was a stampede 
among  the  agents  for  golf  hosiery,  and 
every  effort  was  made  to  reduce  stocks, 
even  at great  sacrifices.  This  continued 
until  the  agents  suddenly  found  that 
they  bad  nothing  in  stock, and that  they 
could  find  nothing  to  take  the  place  of 
goods  sold.  Contrary 
to  what  they 
thought,  there  was a  scarcity  instead  of 
an  overplus,  and  the  “ bargains"  were 
quickly  withdrawn. 
Prices  were  not 
only  returned  to  the  original  figures, 
but  in  a  number  of  cases  were  quoted 
at  advances,  and  this  too  on  styles  that 
had  been  considered  as  out  of date  and 
undesirable.  Some  of  the  cheap  grades 
were  too  plentiful.  Many  manufacturers 
of  cheap  domestic  goods made golf hosi­
ery  as  a  side  line,  and  in  this  particu­
lar  overstocked  the  market;  but  most of 
these  goods  have  been  cleared  away, 
and  things  are  in  good  shape  for  con­
tinuing  business  on  a  secure basis.

Am erican Je w e lry  Co.,

M anufacturers  and Jobbers  of

Jewelry  and  Novelties,

89-82 Canal Street, (Third Floor.)

F A L L   STOCK  NOW  READ Y—Big  line  of Buckles 
to  retail  for  25,  50,  75  and  $1.00.  Fine  Roll  Plate 
Beauty Pins to sell at 2,  3,  5  and  10 cents 

y 

Send for samples.

Buckles, Brooches, Beauty  Pins, Links,  Chains,  Buttons,  Scarf  Pins,  etc. 

^   at popular prices.  Most Extensive Line Shown in Michigan.

Our  Specialties:

JUST ARRIVED

ve cases  ol  Fleeced  Back  Wash  Goods 
Percales.  Do  not  delay  In  sending  us 

» II yon want the best

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

Wholesale  Dry  Goods.  Grand  Rapids.

Our  Gap Depaftpiept

Is  in  a  healthy  condition. 
It  is  growing. 
If you have not looked  us  over you  will be 
surprised at the assortment we  are showing 
compared  with  former  seasons.  W e  not 
only show the staple numbers, but also some 
of the swell  things,  and  for  little  money at 
that.  Our  plush  goods  to  sell  at  50  cents 
are great.

VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER  & CO.,

Wholesale  Dry  Goods,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

m i  Hercules  TentllateH  Barrel

Ju s t the barrel in w hich to  ship  apples,  potatoes, onions, vegetables, or  anything  that 
requires ventilation.  W e furnish the barrels to  you  knock-down  In  bundles,  thereby 
m aking a great saving  in  freight.  K ourth-class  freigh t  rates  apply  in  less  than  car 
lots.  One boy can set up from  75  to  100  barrels  per  day, and 
w ith your first order for 500 barrels w e furnish free our setting­
up outfit, or w e  charge  you  $3.00  fo r  it  and  refund  the  $3.00 
when you have purchased 500 barrels.

T h e H ercules has been  endorsed  and  recommended  by  all 
prominent fruit and commission men  in  Chicago,  and  is  con­
sidered the very best barrel for shipping any product requiring 
ventilation.  Our prices, f. o.  b.  Chicago, are as follow s:
A pple-barrel size,  i7JC-lnch head, S9-inch stave;  ia pecks.
In lots o f  ioo, heads  & hoops complete, knock-down, each, .aac 
In  lots of aoo, heads *  hoops complete, knock-down,  each .. 21c 
In lots o f 500, heads ft hoops complete,  knock-down,  each, .aoc 

Setting-up outfit included.  We can ship promptly.

For further particulars and sample barrel address,

H e r c u l e s   W o o d e n w a r e   G o .,

293 W. 2Mb Place,

Chicago, HI.

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

basiug  their purchase  price  in  relation 
to  quotations  should  fully understand the 
situation.

Although  a  moderate  portion  of  our 
receipts 
is  now  selling  at  15c  loss  off 
(the  losses  ranging  from  say  2  to  6 
dozen)  a  very  considerable  part  of  the 
supply  is going  at 
io@i2C  case  count 
and 
is  safe  to  say  that  the  average 
value  of  the  ungraded  eggs  arriving  is 
not above  12c  on  a  case  count basis.
Buying  prices  should  not  be  based  on 
top  quotations  unless  the  quality  of  the 
stock  is known  to  be unusually fine.  The 
situation  is  rather  a  bad  one  at  present 
and  country  prices  should  be  depressed 
to  a  safer  point;  if  competitors 
insist

it 

3

upon  offering  unreasonably  full  figures 
it  would  be  better  to  let  them  have  the 
goods  rather  than  follow  into a  losing 
game.

It  Didn’t  Touch  Him.

" I   see  you’ve  got  the  sign, 

‘ No 
Trust,’  stuck  up  on  the  wall,”  cordially 
faded 
spoke  the  customer  with 
hair.  “ I ’m  down  on  ’em,  too.  Gimmy 
a  quarter’s  wuth  of  plug  tobacker. 
I ’ll 
pay  fur  it  next  week.”

the 

Why  men  drink 

woman ;  but  it 
staggers  the  men.

is  what  staggers  a 
is  what  they  drink  that 

Western  eggs, 

if  desirable  quality, 
are  readily  absorbed,  but  the  bulk  of 
receipts  will  not  bear  close  inspection 
and  sell  for  i i @I2C.  Extra,  I5@ i5^ c.
Butter  is  unchanged.  The  demand  is 
moderate,  but  prices  remain  about  as 
last  week.  Extra  Western  creamery, 
18c;  imitation  creamery,  extras, 
1 5 3  
5J£c ;  firsts,  I4 @ i4 ^ c;  Western  dairy, 
15 c ;  latter  for  finest;  factory,  i i @ 
3# c.
The  cheese  market  has  shown  some 
improvement  and  the outlook  is  favor­
able.  Large  size,  full  cream,  9c,  and 
some  lots  for  export  were  taken  at  that.

A  Word  of Caution.

From the New York Produce Review.

More  eggs  are  now  being  sold  in  this 
market  on  a  case  count  basis  than  ever 
before  at  this  season  of  year.  Goods 
which  are  fine  enough  to  satisfy  first- 
class  trade,  but  which  are  not  selected 
and  candled  so  closely  as  to  meet  the 
requirements  of  the  “ extra”   grade,  are 
selling  “ loss  off”   and  these  still  form 
the 
largest  class  of  receipts;  but  the 
fanciest  candled  goods,  together  with 
most  of  the  regular  packings  which 
grade below  fresh  gathered  “ seconds," 
together  with  many  of  the  latter,  are 
selling  generally  by  the  case.  As  we 
have  always  anticipated  this  leads  to  a 
very  wide  range  of  selling  values,  and 
shippers  who  have been  in  the  habit  of

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  July  29—The  coffee  mar­
ket  has  averaged  steady  all  the  week, 
and  closes 
in  a  condition  more  favor­
able,  upon  the  whole,  than  a  week  ago. 
Not  that  prices  have  advanced,  but 
there  are  reports  of  an  advance 
in 
Europe  and  this gives  a  better  tone to 
trade here.  The  crop  movement  at  Rio 
and  Santos,  as  reported  daily,  is  large, 
ranging  from  50.000 to 65,000 bags  daily 
—a  condition  of  affairs  that  does not  in­
dicate  lower  range  of  prices  in  the  near 
future.  The amount  of  coffee  here  and 
afloat  aggregates 
1,122,659  bags—an 
enormous quantity—against 894,841 bags 
at the  same  time  last  vear.  Rio  No.  7, 
Mild  grades  are  very  quiet. 
Buyers  show no  disposition  to  purchase 
same  for present  wants, but  on  the  other 
hand  "sellers  are  not anxious  and  prices 
are  fairly  steady,  with  good  Cucuta 
ruling  at 7K@8c.

Raw  sugars are firm  and  have  sold  at 
some  advance  and  on  Friday 
it  was 
thought that  if supplies sufficiently large 
could  have  been  obtained,  4)^c  would 
have been  paid  for  centrifugal  96  deg 
Refined  has  been  active,  or  fairly  so, 
all  the  week,  although  a  large  part  of 
trading  has  consisted  of  withdrawing 
supplies  on  contract.  The trust  is  be 
hind  in  filling  orders,  although  little  i. 
any  delay  has been  reported  by  the  in­
dependent  refineries.

The  “ country  trade”  

in  teas  is  re 
ported  as  showing  some  improvement 
and  it  is  just  possible the phrase  may  fit 
the  general  market,  although  it  would 
be an  exaggeration  to  say  there  was  any 
great activity.  At  the  auction  sale  on 
Wednesday 
that 
prices  showed  some advance,  but  there 
is  room  for  improvement.

it  was  figured  out 

The  rice  market  has  been  more  than 
usually  quiet and  buyers  appear  to  have 
a  supply  on  hand  sufficient  for  some 
time  and  show little interest  in  the  pres 
ent condition  of  affairs.  The  domestic 
crop  reports  continue  favorable.  Sam 
pies  of  new  rice  have  been  received, 
showing  excellent  quality.  Of  foreign 
grades,  Japan  has  been  mostly sought 
for,  the  price  of  which  holds  steady  at 
4%@4& c*
Spices are  dull  and  featureless.  The 
only  report  to be heard  from  dealers 
the  stereotyped  one,  “ N othing  doing. 
Prices,  however,  show  no  weakness  and 
it  is  quite  generally  thought  will  be 
fairly  firm,  if  not  higher,  at  the  end  ol 
the  year.  Cloves  have  met  with  a  little 
enquiry  and  4,000  bales  of  Zanzibar 
changed  hands  at  private  terms.
There  has  been  rather  more  enquiry 
for grocery  grades  of  molasses for future 
delivery,  but  for  spot  the  market  is flat 
and  orders  are  only  for  sorting-up  qual­
ities.  Prices  are  firmly  held  and  are 
about  unchanged.  Syrups  have been  i 
better  request,  but the  supply  of  desii 
inadequate.  Prime 
able  goods  is  very 
to  fancy  sugar 
is  quotable  at  i8@22c 
In  canned  goods  the  week  has hardly 
been  as  active  as  the  previous  one,  but 
it  is still  far above  the  average  of  sev 
eral  years  and  prices  continue  to  main 
tain  great  strength.  Spot  New  York 
corn  of  the better grades  will  bring  80c 
Tomatoes  are  firm  within  a  range  o 
7 2 ^ ®  80c.  Spot  salmon  is  in  excellent 
request  and  stocks  are  closely  cleaned 
up.  One  pound  Columbia  River  Fall" 
$ i.40@i . 45 ;  flats,  $1.65.
Lemons show  increasing  strength  and 
orders have  come  from allpoints.  Auc- 
tion  prices  show about 50c advance since 
Tuesday.  Oranges are  easier.  Rodis 
200s, 
fancies 
$4.75;  California  seedlings,  $3@3-25 
Bananas  are  doing  better.  Firsts,  per 
bunch,  $ 1.15 3 1.2 5 ,  as to quality.

choice,  $4-5°> 

extra 

Dried  fruits  are  dull. 

Both  spot 
goods  and  futures  lack  animation,  al­
though,  as a  rule,  no  weakness  in  prices 
is apparent.  There  has  been  some  re­
quest  for  spot  prunes,  but  buyers are 
not  over anxious.  Small  sales  of  apri­
cots have been  made  from  n}4@i2%c
Marrow  beans  have  shown  weakness 
and  are  now  offered  quite  freely  ai 
$i.4 7 i£ ;  choice  medium,  [$1.3 5 ;  pea, 
$ 1.3 5 ;  red  kidney,  $1.6 7 ^ 3 1.7 0 .

. 

C IG A R S

STANDARD  CIGAR  CO, Cleveland, Ohio.

THURLOW  WEED,  $70  per  ft. 

10c Straight.

Wxt im M e n t

tl)c tinteli states of America,

tKKETING!

To

M J ^ N R T   B . O C H ,   your  O l e r h . « t ,   attorneys,  ager.3, 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  at 
holding  through  or  under  you,

ttHjereas,

it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of
New  Jersey,  in   the  T hird  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Com plainant,  th at 
the  District 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Com plaint  in  our  said  Circuit  C ourt  of  the  U nited  States  for 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  H EN RY   KOCH,  D efendant, 
therein 
complained  of,  and  th at  the  said

to  be  relieved 

the  m atters 

touching 

ENOCH  MORGAN'S  SONS  COMPANY,

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

ttou), ftljcrcfore, we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

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

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

“ SAPO LIO /’  or  when  “ SAPO LIO ”   is  asked  for,

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from 
false  or  misleading  manner.

in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO*  in  any 

The  honorable  Msl v il l k   W.  F u ller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
in  said  District  of  New 
Jersey,  this  16th  day  of  December, 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

l8B*Ll 

ROWLAND  COX,

ComJ>!ainanfs  Solicitor

[skwm>] 

&  

OUPH ANT,

Clark

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Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

An  Gres—Cbas.  Black  has  purchased 

the  drug  stock  of  J.  B.  Robb.

Wales—H.  L.  Lashbrooks  has  opened 

a  new  grocery  store at  this  place.
,  Lowell—Will  S.  Godfrey  has  opened 
a  new  clothing  store  at  this  piace.

Scottville—E.  Kobe  will  engage 

in 

general  trade  here  about  Aug.  15.

Marcellus—O.  N.  Hunt  &  Son  have 
sold  their  general  stock  to  C.  T.  Nash 
&  Co.

West  Bay  City—Edward  Lichtig  suc­
in  the  clothing 

ceeds  Wm.  Lichtig 
business.

Ann  Arbor—John  Koch  has  engaged 
in  the  furniture  and  carpet  business  at 
this  place.

McBain—McKinnon  Bros.,  of  Clare, 
have  established  a  department  store  at 
this  place.

Whitehall—Miss  May  Chapman  will 
in  the 

shortly  open  a  dry  goods  store 
Covell  block.

Detroit—John  A.  Lotz  succeeds  Lotz 
&  Berns  in  the  men’s  furnishing  goods 
and  hat and  cap  business.

Cheboygan—H.  A.  St.  Onge  &  Co., 
dealers  in  dry  goods  and  shoes,  have 
removed  to  Davenport,  la.

Scottville—Wm.  Fisher has purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  S.  Slaght  and  con­
solidated  it  with  his  own  stock.

F ife  Lake—Louis  Morris has  recently 
moved  his  general  stock  into bis  new 
pressed  brick  two  story  building.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Campbell  Bros., 
grocers,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
W.  W.  Campbell  will  continue the  busi­
ness.

Mt.  Pleasant—Taylor  &  Co.,  who 
conducted  a  bakery  and  restaurant  at 
this  place,  have  sold  out  to  Bart  R. 
Gruner.

Saugatuck—D.  A.  Heath  has  sold  bis 
drug  stock  to  John  Bright,  of  Treaty, 
Ind.,  who  will  continue  the business  at 
the  same  location.

Muskegon  Heights—G.  Van  Arkel, 
who  has  managed  one  of  Frederick 
Brundage’s  branch  drug  stores,  has 
opened  a  drug  store at this  place.

South  Haven—Wm.  Remus will short­
ly  engage  in  the  grocery  business  here. 
The  store  will  be  under the  personal su­
pervision  of  bis  son,  Wm.  J.  Remus.

Meridian—C.  M.  Hallett,  who  was 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business  at  this 
place,  dropped  dead  Monday,  while  at­
tending  to  his  usual  duties  about  his 
store.

Saunders, 

Port  Huron—Judge 

the 
pioneer  wholesale  merchant of the  city, 
although  now  86  years  of  age,  can  be 
seen  every  day  at  the  wholesale  grocery 
house of  F.  Saunders  &  Co.,  attending 
to  his  usual  duties.

Ann  Arbor—C.  H.  Cady,  who  recently 
purchased  the  Maynard  and  Walters 
grocery  stocks  and  consolidated  them  in 
the  Maynard  store,  has  arranged  with 
his  old  clerk,  Warren  I.  Parsons,  to 
manage  the  business.

Scottville—The  Wagar  building 

is 
nearly  completed  and  the two  new  busi­
ness  rooms  will  be  occupied  by  W.  M. 
Wagar  with  his  stock  of  clothing,  boots, 
shoes,  harness  and  such  additional  lines 
of  goods  as  fie  may  deem  necessary  to 
his  business.

East  Jordan—J.  J.  Votruba 

is  build­
ing  a  three-story  brick  store  building 
with  plate  glass  front,  the  second  floor 
to  be  used  for  a  Masonic  lodge  room 
and  business offices.  The  first  floor  he 
will  soon  occupy  with  a  complete  line 
of harness and  groceries.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Norwood—The  general  merchandise 
business  established  by  G.  V.  Nash 
nineteen  years  ago  was  sold  July  20 by 
L.  J.  Nash  to  Valentine  Bros.,  of  Little 
Harbor.  The business  will  be  continued 
by  Valentine  Bros,  and  L.  J.  Nash  will 
carry  on  the  lumber business.

Zeeland—Christian  Den  Herder,  who 
for  many  years  has  been  engaged  in  the 
general  merchandise  business  here,  has 
sold  his  stock  to  John  Kroodsma,  of 
Vriesland,  and  Richard Ranis,  a former 
partner  of  Mr.  Den  Herder,  who  will 
continue  the  business at  the  same  loca­
tion.

Ann  Arbor—A  new  clothing  store  has 
been  established  at  this  place  under the 
style  of  Wagner  &  Co.,  composed  of 
Cbas.  Wagner, 
Eugene  Koch  and 
Adolph  Hoffstetter.  The  store  is  under 
the  management  of  Mr.  Hoffstetter  and 
the tailoring  department  will  be  under 
the  supervision  of  Mr.  Wagner  and  Mr. 
Koch.

Lawton—T.  R.  Smith  has  disposed  of 
his  interest  in  the general  merchandise 
firm  of  T.  R.  Smith  &  Co.  and  will  re­
move  to  Wyoming,  where  he  has 
lately 
become  interested 
in  the  mercantile 
business and  mining  enterprises.  The 
new  firm  will  consist  of  L.  H.  Weldin, 
L.  Waidorff and  L.  A.  Packer,  who  will 
continue the  business  under  the  style  of 
L.  H.  Weldin  &  Co.

Ithaca—Herbert  J.  Crawford  has  pur 
chased  the  interest of  his  brother,  Jas. 
B.  Crawford,  in  the  drug  firm  of  Craw­
ford  Bros,  and  will  continue the  drug 
business  at  this  place and  at  North  Star 
in  his  own  name.  The  retiring  member 
of the  firm  has  not  fully  decided  on  bis 
future  course,  but  for  the  present  will 
devote  his  attention  to  bis  other busi­
ness  interests  as  Secretary  of  the  Light 
&  Power  Co.,  Secretary  of  the  Roller 
Mills  Co.,  President  of  the  First  State 
Savings  Bank  of  Breckenridge  and  di­
rector  of  the  Ithaca  Savings  Bank.

Ishpeming—The  order  of  the  court 
restraining  the  sale  of  any  part of  the 
original  Mowick  stock  still  bolds  good. 
The  goods  now  being  sold  consist  of 
stock  purchased  by  Henderson  after the 
Mowick  stock  had  been  transferred  to 
him. 
If  any  rther goods  are  sold  it  is 
in  contempt  of  the  order of  the  United 
States  Court.  The  creditors have  made 
progress  with  their  case,  inasmuch  as 
they  have  had the  transfer  made by Mrs. 
N.  L.  Mowick  to  Alf.  Henderson  de­
clared  fraudulent and  the original owner 
of  the  stock  a  bankrupt.  The  order 
granted  by  the  court  on  the  petition  of 
the  creditors, 
restraining  Henderson 
from  selling  goods,  applied  only  to the 
merchandise  originally  composing  the 
Mowick  stock,  which  was  transferred  to 
Henderson  at  an  early  date  in  March. 
After  the  tiansfer  Henderson  bought 
new  goods  from  time  to  time,  continu­
ing  to  dispose of  merchandise  making 
up  the  Mowick stock.  The order granted 
the  creditors  restrained  him  from  sell­
ing  goods  belonging  to  the  Mowick 
stock,  and  be  was  free at all  times  to 
sell  any  goods  purchased  by  him  after 
the  date  of  the  transfer.  However,  be 
did  not  keep  the  store open,  nor  did  he 
dispose of  any  of  his  own  stock.  He 
shut  the  place  and  refrained  from  all 
trade  until  Judge  Severens 
informed 
biro  that  be  was  free to  sell  anything 
bought  on  bis  own  account.  When  he 
was  informed  of  this  fact  at  the  recent 
bearing  be 
immediately  prepared  for 
the  reopening  and  bankrupt  sale  which 
is  now  going  on.  The  original  order 
bolds  and  no  part  of  the  old  Mowick 
stock  can  be  sold.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Reading—Higiey  &  Sons  expect to 
in  their  new  flouring 

begin  operations 
mill  about  Sept.  I.

Jonesville-----The  Omega  Portland
Cement  Co.  has  been  organized  by  local 
capitalists,  with  a  capital stock of $350, • 
000.

East Jordan—The  East  Jordan  Lum­
ber  Co.  is  erecting  a  double brick  store 
building  for 
its  general  stock  of  mer­
chandise.

Petoskey—C.  F.  Hankey  &  Son, 
grain  dealers  and  flouring  mill  opera­
tors,  have  changed  their  style  to  the 
Hankey  Milling  Co.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—The  Soo  Lumber 
Co.  has  been  organized  by  W.  B.  Earle, 
of  Hermansville,  and  W, 
J.  Light,  of 
Calumet,  to  engage  in  the  sale  of  lum­
ber at  retail.

Allegan—Guard,  Fairfield  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  A.  W.  Nyssou  grist  mill, 
at  Saugatuck,  and  will  immediately  en­
ter upon  the  work  of  repairing  the  mill 
and  adding  machinery  which  will 
im­
prove  and  increase  the  output.

Sbelldrake—Penoyer Bros.  & Co.  have 
merged  their  lumbering  business  into  a 
corporation,  under-the same  style.  The 
capital  slock  is  $300,000,  the 
incorpo­
rators  being  W.  Penoyer,  W.  C.  Pen­
oyer,  Frank  W.  Wheeler,  G.  Clark  and 
C.  W.  Stiver.

Grand  Haven—Unless 6ome one  raises 
his  bid  of  $4,750 by  Aug.  7,  the  assets 
of  the  Sterling  Furniture  Co.  will  be 
turned  over to  Mr.  Bliss,  who  managed 
the  business  up  to  the time the 
institu­
tion  went  into  liquidation.  The  real  es­
tate  and  buildings  are  generally  con­
sidered 
to  be  worth  more  than  the 
amount  bid,  to  say  nothing  of  the  ma­
chinery  and  fixtures.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Automobile  Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital  of 
$150,000 to  manufacture a gasoline auto­
mobile  invented  by  Henry  Ford,  of  this 
city.  Clarence  A.  Black  is  President, 
A.  E .  F.  White  Vice-President,  S.  S. 
DeLano Treasurer and  Frank  R .  Aider- 
man,  Secretary. 
Phaetons,  delivery 
wagons,  carriages,  etc.,  will  be  manu­
factured,  and  aluminum  will  be  largely 
used  in  order  to  reduce  the  weight.
The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Sherman—Samuel  Dean,  who has been 
clerking  for  Gilbert  &  Sturtevant  the 
past  three  years,  has  secured  a  position 
with  J.  E .  Mailhot,  of  Manistee.

Saginaw—Charles  E.  Himmelein  has 
resigned  his  position  with  Porteous, 
Mitchell  &  Co.,  after  being  with  the 
firm  for the  past  seven  years.  He  con­
templates  entering  another  line  of  busi­
ness.

Owosso—Floyd  Wren  has  taken  a  po­
sition  as  clerk  in  W.  E .  Collins & Co. ’s 
drug  store.

Lansing—C.  A.  Sans,  of  Higby,  has 
succeeded  L.  C.  Reynolds  in  Eilen- 
burg's  pharmacy.  Mr.  Reynolds  has 
taken  a  posiiton  as  traveling  salesman.
Flint—Will Shepner,  who has  been  in 
the  employ  of  G.  E.  Childs  the  past 
seven  years,  has  severed  his  connec­
tion  with  that  store  and  will  open  a 
jewelry  and  repair  shop 
in  Church's 
drug  store.

Owosso—E .  L.  Devereaux has engaged 
the  following  clerks  for  his  new  gro­
cery  store:  Cbas.  Bailey,  A.  F.  Loomis 
and  Fred  Lewis.

Needs  Re-naming.

Is  that  one of  them 

auto—automobiles?’ ’

“ Great snakes! 
“ Y e s.”
“ Well, 

it’s  got  to  have  a  shorter 
name.  The blamed  thing  is out of  sight 
before  you  can  pronounce  it.”

Grand Rapids Retail  Grocers’  Associa­

tion.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association  held 
at  the office  of  the  Michigan Tradesman 
Tuesday  evening,  Aug. 
1,  President 
Dyk  presided.  On  account  of  the  ill­
ness  of  Secretary  Klap, Julius J.  Wagner 
acted  as  Secretary.

Peter  Braun,  one  of  the  committee 
appointed  to  attend  the  last  meeting  of 
the  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association, 
reported  that  the  butchers  declined  to 
join  in  the  movement  to  close  one half 
day  a  week  during  August.  The  report 
was accepted.

A  communication  was  received  from 
J.  M.  McIntyre,  of  Billings,  Mont., 
asking 
in  regard  to  the 
credit  feature  of  the  Association,  and 
the  Secretary  was  requested  to  reply  to 
same.

information 

Peter  Braun,  of  the  Committee  on  Ar­
rangements  for  Picnic,  reported  prog­
ress  and  noted  certain  changes  in  the 
details  of  the  entertainment  features  of 
the  programme,  including  the  line of 
march  of  the  parade.  The  report  was 
accepted.

M.  Viergever  moved  that  the  Com­
mittee  on  Badges  be  requested  to dis­
tribute  badges  among  those grocers  who 
report  at  Sweet’s  Hotel  on  Thursday 
morning.  The  motion  was  adopted.

Fred  W.  Fuller,  chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Sports,  reported  progress 
and  stated  that  the  Reed’s  Lake  people 
are  praying  for  good  weather and  stand 
ready  to  do  their  part  to  render  the 
event  a  success.

Julius  J.  Wagner  moved  that  as  many 
of  the  grocers  as  possible  march  in  the 
parade,  meeting  at  Sweet’s  Hotel  at 8 
o'clock.  Adopted.

H.  C.  Wendorff offered  the  following 

resolution,  which  was  adopted :

Resolved—That  the  heaity  thanks  of 
this  Association  are due  and  are  hereby 
tendered  the  H. 
J.  Heinz  Co.  for  the 
generous  gift  of  3,000  badges  for our 
thirteenth  annual  picnic.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.
Cool  Weather  Not  a  Good  Thing  for 

Grocers.
Prom the Port Huron Times.

It  has  been  some  years  since  the  tern- 
erature  in  the  months  of  Tune  and  July 
as  been  as  low  as  it  has  this  year,  and 
the  cool  weather  has  bad  a  peculiar 
effect  upon  the  grocery  trade.  A  local 
retailer  in  speaking  of  the matter to-day 
said  the appetites  of  people  vary  with 
the  weather. 
“ You  see  it's  like  this,”  
said  the  grocer:  “ when  the  weather  is 
hot  the  diet  of  most  people  demands 
plenty  of  fruit  and  light  eating,  but  the 
cool  weather  brings  about  a  desire  for 
solids.  We have to  handle  more  or  less 
of  perishable  fruit,  and 
it  goes  off 
pretty slowly  these  days,  and  in  fact  the 
vegetable trade  is  not  very  rushing.  Of 
course  fruit  will  not  last  forever  even  in 
cool  weather,  and  for  that  reason  the 
hotter  the  better  for  us.  The  progress 
made  in  the  shipping  of  berries  during 
the  last year or two  is  also  noticeable, 
from  the  fact  that  the  berry p ick et used 
to  bring 
in  their product  in  tin  pails, 
and  any  other old  receptacle.  Now  the 
little  boxes  are  used  entirely,  and  no 
one  thinks of  coming  to  town  with  ber­
ries  to  sell  who  does  not  use  them. 
They  save  lots  of  waste,  and  are  better 
for both  the  buyer and  the  seller.”

Not  Impossible.

There 

“ I  am  sorry  ,  ladies  and gentlemen,”  
announced  the  manager of the  theatrical 
company,  “ but  we  shall  have to  walk  to 
the  next  town. 
isn’t  money 
in  the  treasury  to  pay  railroad 
enough 
fare.  ’
“ Hadn’t  you  better  put  the baggage 
in  a  cart  and  have  me  haul  it?”   sug­
gested  the  principal  actor,  in  his  deep­
est  and  most tragic  voice.
“ It  may  come  to that,”   replied  the 
manager. 
“   ‘ Hitch  your  wagon  to the 
star!’  says  Emerson.  Ladies and  gen­
tlemen,  we  must  be  moving.”

The  peacemaker  is all  right,  but be  is 
never  appreciated  by  the  fellow  that  is 
getting  the best of  the  fight.

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

Grand  Rapids  flossip

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars—The raw  sugar  market  is  very 
strong,  with  a  further  advance  of  i - i6c, 
which  makes  the  present  price  of 96 
deg.  test  centrifugals  4^0.  This 
is 
advance  within  the  past two 
fully 
weeks.  Refined 
is  very  firm,  with  an 
increasing  demand,  stimulated  some­
what  by  the  stronger  raw  situation. 
Softs  are  still  shaded  \-\6@ l/ic,  the  re­
finers  preferring  not  to  accumulate 
stocks of  these grades  during  the  warm 
weather.  The  total  stock  of  sugar  in 
the  United 
is  284,587  tons, 
against  335,179 tons  last  year.

States 

Canned  Goods—The  advance  of  50c 
per  box  on  tinplate  last  week  caused  a 
strong  market  for  empty  cans.  Dealers 
who  laid  in  supplies  during  the  winter 
are  almost  entirely  cleaned  out,  and  an 
advance  in  quotations on  future  canned 
products  is  very  probable.  The  tomato 
season  opens  earlier  this  year  than 
usual,  doubtless  owing  to  the  warm 
weather,  which  has  forced  the  crop. 
The 
indications  are  that  we are going 
to  have  a  large  pack  this  year  in  spite 
of  the high  prices  for  cans,  cases,  etc. 
The  tomato  packer  has  every  induce­
ment  to  start his  cannery,  as the  prices 
of  tomatoes have been  satisfactory  and 
steady,  but  the  principal  inducement  is 
that  the  stock  of  last  year’s  pack  is 
practically  sold  out, 
leaving  a  bare 
market,  in  which  they  can  dispose  of 
their  output  with  very 
little  trouble. 
Canners  of  peaches  have  begun  opera­
tions  in  Biltimore  and  California. 
In 
Baltimore,  packers  find  plenty  of  in­
ferior  fruit, but comparatively  little that 
will  make  first  quality  goods.  We 
would  advise  the  quick  purchase  of  all 
grades  of  peaches,  first,  because there 
will  not  be  a  surplus  such  as  we have 
bad  in  former  years,  and,  second,  be­
cause  it  is quite  probable  that  specula­
tors  will  make  an  effort to  corner the 
market.  The  summer  pack  of beans  ap­
pears  to  be  about  over.  The quantity 
put  up  has  been  larger than  was  antici­
pated.  Recently  the  trade  has bought 
rather  sparingly  and  prices  have  weak­
ened  considerably.  There is a  good  de­
mand  for  small  fruits,  particularly  for 
pears.  Apparently  supplies  are  likely 
to  be  short  this  year,  and  the  trade  is 
securing  all  the  supplies  they  possibly 
ran  at  present  prices,  as  an  increase 
is 
expected.  Strawberries  are  in  extraor­
dinary  demand  from  some  quarters  and 
prices  are steady.  Blueberries are steady 
at  full  previous  prices, with  some  prob­
ability  of  an  advance  in  the near future, 
the  quantity  available  for canning  be­
ing  so small.  The  pack  of  apricots  in 
California  is  about  over and  present  es­
timates  of  the  output  indicate  a 
larger 
yield  than  last year.  Canners  began  by 
offering  $20  per ton  for  fresh  fruit and 
gradually  advanced  prices  until  $40 was 
reached.  The  result  was  that  propor­
tionately  more  of  this  year’s  crop  was 
canned  than  has  been  the  case  hereto­
fore.  The  quality  of  the  output  is  re­
ported  fully  as  good  as  any  previous 
season.  The  demand  for  sardines  con­
tinues  very  good  at  unchanged  prices. 
Salmon  attracts  the  most  attention  of 
anything  in  the  canned  goods  line 
just 
now,  owing  to the  authenticated  reports 
of  a  short  pack  and  a  continuous  poor 
run  of  fish  along  the  Columbia  River. 
It  is now  asserted  positively  that  not  a 
single  packer  on  the  Columbia  River 
will  be able to  fill  his  orders  in  full  and 
from  the  present  outlook  not  more  than 
50 or 60 per cent  of  the  orders  taken.

This 
is  the  first time  in  sixteen  years 
that  Warren  has  not been  able  to  fill  bis 
contracts  in  full.  The  trade  are buying 
heavily  of  Alaska  salmon  to  make  up 
for  the  shortage 
in  Columbia  River. 
The  market  is  very  firm  and  prices  are 
unchanged  as*yet,  but  there  is  a  prob­
ability  that they  will  advance  with  the 
increase 
in  demand  sure  to  follow  a 
knowledge that  the  pack  is  short.

Dried  Fruits—There 

is  nothing  of 
particular  interest 
in  the  dried  fruit 
market  and  prices  on  all  lines  are  un­
changed.  There 
is  a  little  activity  in 
some  grades  of  raisins.  Trade  during 
the  past  few  days has  been  more  active 
and 
it  seems  probable  that  prices  will 
be  firmer  than  they  have  been  in  the 
past.  Holders are  about cleaned  out  of 
low  grades  and  others  are  going  out 
more  freely 
into consumption.  At  the 
present  rate  of  absorption  there  will  be 
left  when  the  new  crop  comes  in 
few 
next  September. 
It is  said  that  the  As­
sociation  contemplates  making  a  firm 
opening  price  this  season,  and  thus 
avoid  the  mistake  of  raising  prices a 
number of  times  during the season.  The 
new  crop  promises  an  abundant yield  of 
good  quality  and  prices  are  expected  to 
rule  high  this  season.  Prunes  are  in 
rather  more  demand ; there  is  a  better 
is  nothing 
feeling  in  the  trade.  There 
new  in  futures,  although  enquiry  is 
in­
creasing  and  sales  promise  to  be good 
in  the  near  future.  Holders expect  that 
the  supply  will  be  practically  exhausted 
when  the  new  crop  goods  come  on  the 
market.  New  crop  apricots  attract  the 
most  attention,  but  prices  are  held  so 
high  that  sales  are  small.  The  total 
yield  this year  is  now  placed at less than 
500  cars,  450  to  475  being  the quantity 
usually  named.  The  season 
is  about 
over  on  the  coast  and  from  Southern 
California  the  bulk  of  the  shipments 
have  come  forward.  Canners have  taken 
so  much  of  the  fresh  fruit that the  sup­
ply 
left  for  driers  is  so  small  that  it 
may  be difficult to  supply  the  demand. 
The quality  is  pronounced exceptionally 
good  and  clean  and  large-sized  fruit 
is 
said  to  be the  rule.  The  outlook  for a 
large  yield  of  dried  peaches  is  not as 
promising  as  it  was.  Canners are  offer­
ing  such  high  prices  that driers  find 
it 
practically 
impossible  to  compete  with 
them  and  are  compelled  to  buy  as  they 
can.  The  currant  market  is  very  strong 
with  good  demand  and  prices  show  an 
advance  of  %c  over  last  week.  Figs 
and  dates move  out  slowly  at unchanged 
prices.

Green  Fruits—Shipments  of 

lemons 
are  much  lighter,  owing  to  the  uncom­
fortable  losses  already  sustained  by  im­
porters.  The  probability  is  that  the 
coming  month  will  be  much  warmer 
than  July  and,  if  this  probability  proves 
true,  the  warm  weather  and  smaller 
shipments  will  partially  assist importers 
in  making  up  for  what they  lost  during 
the  past  month.  The  reduced  shipments 
have  a  slightly  improved 
influence  on 
the  market  and  prices  have  advanced 
about  25c  per box.  Bananas  are  down 
5c  per bunch  on  substantially  all  varie­
ties.  Receipts  are  so  liberal  that  tne 
demand 
is  not  strong  enough  to  main­
tain  a firm  market with  such  heavy  sup­
plies  continually  coming  in.

Nuts—The entire output of  the  Davis- 
ville  (Cal.)  Almond  Growers’  Associa­
tion,  about  350  to  360  tons,  has  been 
purchased  by  the  J.  K.  Armsby Co.  The 
nuts  from  this  section  are  considered 
the  choicest  grown  in  the  State.

Rice—The  demand  for  Japan 

rice 
continues  good, with  an  advance of  1-16 
@ lAc  in  price.

Tea—The  tea  market 

is  somewhat 
better,  with  a  good  demand,  especially 
for  the  better  grades.

Rolled  Oats—The  market 

very 
strong,  with  an  advance  of  5c  per bar­
rel  and  15325c  per case.

is 

Fish—The  market  for  mackerel  con­
tinues  strong,  with  very  light  receipts.
Matches—Coincident  with  the  enor­
mous  increase  of  the  stock  of  the  D ia­
mond  Match  Co.  and  the  acquirement 
of  the competing  factories  by  the  trust 
comes  the  notice  that  the  Wolverine 
brand  has  been  increased  in  price  from 
$1.05  to $1.25  and  that  the  No  Brand— 
otherwise  known  as  the 
fighting  or 
knocker  brand—has  been  entirely  with­
drawn  from  sale.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—All  kinds  of  harvest  varie­
ties  are  coming  in  freely,  commanding 
$i.5o@2  for  eating  varieties,  such  as 
Queens, 
Strawberries,  Duchess  and 
Early  Harvest,  and  $ i @ i. 2;  for cook­
ing  stock.

Beans—Reports 

from  the  piincipal 
bean  growing  sections  of  the  State are 
to the  éffect that  the  crop 
is  maturing 
rapidly  and  that the  cessation  of  rainy 
weather  and  the  substitution  of  warm 
weather  will  surely  enable  the  grower  to 
harvest  a  crop  large  in  amount  and  fine 
in  quality.

Beets—40c  per bu.
Cabbage—30@35c  per  doz., according 
to  size.  Receipts  are  large  in  amount 
and  fine  in  quality.

Carrots—40c  per bu.
Cauliflower—$1  per  doz.
Celery—i6@ i8c  per  doz 

Receipts 

are  heavy  and  quality  is  superb.
Cucumbers—Greenhouse  stock  fetches 
12 3 15 c   per  doz.  Garden  stock  com­
mands  50c  per  bu.
@ I2C.  Black  Seed  command  9@ ioc.
Honey—White  Clover  is  scarce,  com­
manding  I2)¿c.  Dark  amber  fetches 
8@ toe.

Green  Onions—Silver  Skins  fetch  10 

Lettuce—30c  per  bu.  for  curly;  40c 

per bu.

per bu.  for  bead.
Live  Poultry—The  market  is  a  little 
stronger,  owing  to  the  heavy  demand 
from  the  resort  hotels.  Broilers  are  ac­
tive  at  11 @ 12c.  Fat  hens  are  in  good 
demand  at  6j¿@7c,  while  medium  hens 
are 
in  strong  demand  at  8c.  Spring 
ducks  are  in  fair demand  at  10c,  while 
old  ducks are  slow  sale at 8c.  Hen  tur­
keys  find  ready  sale  at  10c.  Large  tur­
keys are  in  fair  demand  at  8c.  Squabs 
in  good  demand  at  $1.25  per  doz. 
are 
Pigeons  are 
in  fair  demand  at  60c  per 
doz.
Onions—Homegrown  are  in  moderate 
demand  at  75c  per bu. 
Illinois  stock  is 
in  fair demand  at $1.25  per  bu.
Peaches—Alexanders  command  $1. 5°  
per bu. jAnd  Hale’s  Early fetch $2@2  25. 
Sixth  bu.  baskets are  held  at  35350c.
Peas—Marrowfats  command  65@75c 
Peppers—Green,  15c  per  doz.
Plums—Abundant  are,  as  usual,  the 
first  variety  to  come  in  market.  The 
crop  or  plums  of  all  varieties  prom­
ises  to  be  fully  up  to  the average  in 
both  quality  and  quantity  and  retail 
merchants  should  not delay  in  notifying 
their  customers  that  there  will  be  no 
canning  peaches 
in  market  this  year 
and  that  it will  be  well  for them  to  sub­
stitute  plums  for  peaches.  As  a  rule, 
the  price  is  reasonable  early  in  the  sea­
son,  so  the  dealers  who  get  in  their  or­
ders  early  and  educate  their  customers 
to  purchase  their  supplies  early 
in  the 
season  will  reap  their  reward.  The  can­
ning  factories  are  planning  to  can  enor­
mous  quantities  of  plums  and  are  out 
among  the  growers  making  contracts 
for the  fruit  on  the  basis  of $1  per  bu. 
This  will  tend  to  stiffen  the  price  so 
that  it  will  remain  steady throughout the 
season,  and  those dealers  who  do  not ar­
range  for  a  supply  soon  may  find  them­
selves  unable to  obtain  enough  goods  to 
meet the  consumptive  demands  of  their 
customers.
Potatoes—Home grown  are  coming  in 
very  freely,  commanding  35340c  per 
bu.  The  crop 
is  large  and  the  size  is 
fair.  Every  indication  points  to  a  large

crop  of 
late  potatoes,  as  the  weather 
during  July  was  exceptionally  favorable 
for the  crop.

Radishes—8c  per  doz.  bunches.
Squash—Home  grown  command  50c 

per  bu.  box.

Sweet  Corn—8@ioc  per  doz.
Tomatoes—Home  grown  are  becom­
ing  more  plentiful,  the  price  having 
declined  to $1.25  per  bu.  Most  of  the 
shipments  thus  far  are  made 
in  half 
bushel  baskets.

Turnips—35@4oc  per  bu.
Watermelons—Missouri  and  Georgia 
stock  is  in  ample  supply  at  prices rang­
ing  from  12320c,  with  Jumbos—weigh­
ing  from  25  to  30  pounds—held  at  2 2 3 
25c.  Indiana  Sweethearts  are  beginning 
to  arrive.

Whortleberries—The  base  of  supplies 
has  moved  10  Northern  Michigan  and 
next  week  the  Upper  Peninsula  crop 
will  have  the  call.  Prices  range  from 
$2@2. 50  per  bu.,  according  to  size  and 
quality.
Butter—Receipts  are  diminishing  in 
quantity  and  getting  poorer  in  quality. 
Fancy  dairy  commands  15c  and  factory 
creamery  is  staple as  wheat  at  18c.

Eggs—Receipts  are  poor  in  quality, 
due  to  the  warm  weather.  Dealers  pay 
ioc,  case  count,  bolding  choice  canaled 
at  I2 ^ c  and  dirties  and  small  eggs 
at  lie.

Muskmelons---- Home  grown  canta­
loupes  fetch  $1  per  doz.  Home  grown 
osage  command  $1.25  per  doz.  Little 
gems  fetch  45c  per  basket.

Hides,  Pelts.  Tallow  and  Wool.
Hides  are  scarce  and  wanted.  Prices 
are  high.  Tanners  complain  because 
they  can  not  make  their  usual  profit  of 
25  per  cent.,  and  yet  they  are busy, with 
full  vats.

Pelts  are 

in  good  demand  at  a  price 
that  makes  one  wonder  what  is  done 
with  them  to  get  the  money  back.  New 
ideas  develop  new  resouices  and  the 
uses of  sheep  skins  are  innumerable.

Tallow  has been  wanted.  Some soap- 
ers  are  short  of  stock  and  find  no  great 
supply  from  which  to  renew. 
It  bolds 
firm,  but at  no  great  advance.

Wool 

is  strong,  with  heavy  sales  in 
all  lines  of  trade.  The  coarse  grades  do 
not  respond  to  the  advance  asked,  as 
they  are  up  to  the 
importing  point, 
and  considerable has  been  taken  for  im­
port. 
It  is  generally  conceded  that  our 
full  supply  will  be  wanted  and  at  lower 
values. 

W m,  T.  H e s s.

The  Collins  Hook  &  Eye  Co.,  which 
is  a  copartnership  composed  of  Frank 
A.  Collins,  A.  K.  Wheeler,  Wm.  M. 
Butts  and  A.  Waggoner,  has  begun 
business 
in  the  north  wing  of  the  old 
county  building.  The  company  has  ac­
quired  the  sole  right  to cover  hooks  and 
eyes  with  an  enamel  in  fast  colors  to 
match  all  shades  of  dress  goods,  and 
will  place  on  the market  thirty  different 
shades. 

_______

C.  F.  Nash  &  Co.,  who  conduct  a 
drug  store  at  Marcellus,  have  added  a 
line  of  groceries.  The  stock  was  fur­
nished  by  the  Ball-Barnbart-Putman 
Co.

W.  M.  Wagar,  dealer  in  boots  and 
shoes at  Scottville,  has  added  a  line  of 
groceries,  purchasing his  stock  from  the 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.

Joseph  McKee  has  embarked 
grocery  business  at  Stittsville. 
Musselman  Grocer  Co. 
stock. 

in  the 
The 
furnished  the 

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P.  Prins  has  opened  a  grocery  store 
at  Holland.  The  stock  was  furnished 
by  the  Musselman  Grocer  Co.

For  Gillies  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades and  prices,  phone Visner,  80a

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The  Bridge  Pity  Builds Between Mas- 

ses  and  Classes.

intent 

I  may  have  said  in  this  column 

last 
summer,  or  the  summer before,  or  some 
other  time,  that  I  adore  Chicago.-I  like 
the  tonic  of  its  air. 
I  like  to get  in  the 
rush  and  hustle  and  bustle of  its  crowds 
in  getting  somewhere  to  no 
too 
tice  where  they  are  going,  and 
in  this 
sinful  and  fallen  world  I  can  imagine 
nothing  more  heavenly  than  it  would  be 
to  be turned  loose  in  one  of  its  big  de 
partment stores with  an  unlimited  credit 
ticket.

But  it 

is  not all  of  Chicago to  know 
its  fine  boulevards,  its  shops,  its  miles 
of  stone  and  marble  palaces  and  its 
marvelous  parks.  There  is another and 
a  tenderer  side,  and  nowhere  else  does 
philanthropy  blossom  with  a  more  per 
feet flower than  in  this  great city,  where 
gaunt  want  stalks  in  the  shadow  cast  by 
wealth,  where  the  rags  of  poverty  brush 
against  fashion 
in  the  crowded  street 
and  hunger  stands  forever gnawing  its 
fingers  just  without the balls  of  feasting
Hard  as  abject  poverty  is  for  all, 

never  seems so  bitter and so cruelly hard 
as  when 
it  bolds  little  children  in  its 
iron  grip—little  children  who  should 
know  nothing  but  sunshine  and  bloom 
ing  flowers  and 
laughter  and  all  pure 
and  innocent  things,  but  who—God  pity 
them!—even 
in  their  very  babyhood, 
make acquaintance with want and drunk 
enness and  vice,  and  are old  in  sin  be 
fore  they  are  in  years.  To  me  no char 
ity  seems  so  beautiful  as  that  which 
takes  compassion  on 
these  blighted 
little  lives  and  that  tries  to  restore  to 
them 
in  some  small  measure  the birth 
right  of  which  they  have  been robbed.

It 

is  situated 

One  of  the  ways 

in  which  Chicago 
does  this 
is  by  establishing  vacation 
schools,  and  yesterday  I  had  the  pleas 
ure of  visiting  one of these  and  seeing 
its  work. 
in  that  part 
of  the  town  described  by  Mr.  Dooly  as 
being  “ forninst  the  tracks,”   and  is  in 
the  very  heart  of the  tenement  district. 
To  reach 
it  we  went through  streets  of 
ramshackle  old  buildings,  guiltless  of 
paint  or  comfort  and  crowded 
from 
damp  basement  to  hot  attic  with  a 
swarming  hive of human beings.  Pallid 
faced  men  bent  over  sewing  machines 
at  the  windows,  frowsy  women  nursed 
sickly-looking  babes  at  their  breasts  on 
the  doorsteps,  children 
fought  and 
screamed  on  the  sidewalk,  while the  few 
ragged  garments  floating  from  an  upper 
window—the  pathetic, 
scant  weekly 
"w ash” —gave  an  added  emphasis  to 
the  poverty  and  squalor  of  the  neigh­
borhood. 
In  the  midst  of  this  the big, 
comfortable  school building  seemed  like 
an  oasis  in  a  desert,  and  we  were  glad 
to  push  open  the  big  swinging  doors 
and  find  ourselves  in  a  cheerful  atmos 
phone.

Within  there  was  the sound of a  piano 
playing  a  gay  march,  the  shuffling  of 
little  feet,  the  faint click  of  a  hammer 
and  the  shrill  treble  of childish  voices 
singing,  for  the  vacation  school  does 
not attempt  to  teach  by  means  of books. 
Its object  is  primarily  to  reach  the  very 
poorest  class  of  children  living  in  the 
slums—children whose  only  home  is  one 
room 
in  which  sometimes  a  dozen  peo­
ple  herd  together,  and  where  the  cook­
ing,  washing, 
sleeping,  eating—the 
whole  living—must  be done.  From  such 
a  place  the children  are  thrust  out  upon 
the  streets  for a  playground,  to  shift  for 
themselves and  to  learn  what the  street 
has  to teach  them.  The  vacation  school

invites  them  in  and  tries  to amuse them 
and  to  teach .them  so subtly  they  are not 
aware they  are doing  anything  but play­
ing.  Rules  are  relaxed,  but  if  a  child  is 
not  interested  he  must  leave,  for the  va­
cation  school  is  supported  by  voluntary 
contributions and  there are  hundreds  of 
applicants  for admission  on  the  waiting 
list,  for  whom  at  present  there  is  no 
room.

little  Italian,  there 

In  the  first  room  which  we  entered 
a  kindergarten  class  of  babies  were  go­
ing  through  their  exercises.  Such  funny 
little  tots  as  they  were,  showing  such  a 
wide  diversity  of nationalities!  Here 
was  a  swarthy 
rosy-cheeked  Swede.  Here  the  neat 
braids  of a  little  Dutch  Gretchen,  there 
the frowsy  head  of a  little  Pole.  Some 
were  barefooted,  with  the grime  of  the 
street  on  them,  others  were cleanly  al 
though  plainly  dressed.  Several  sturdy 
little  fellows  in  coarse  overalls  looked 
like  miniature  workingmen, 
already 
while  one  tiny 
lad,  evidently  more 
Americanized  than  the others,  sported 
an  immense  ruffled  collar.  Every  little 
face  had  been  scrubbed  clean,  either  at 
home  or  by  the  school  matron,  and 
shone  with  interest  as  the three  pretty 
young  kindergartners —  the  vacation 
schools employ  only  the  very best  teach­
ers—guided  them  through  the  mysteries 
of a  fascinating  game.

In  another room  there  were  blooming 
flowers  and  growing  plants,  with  great 
aquariums  full  of  little fish  and  turtles 
and  tadpoles.  Butterflies  were  pined 
against  the  walls,  and  the teacher  was 
telling  an  interested  roomful of children 
some  of  the  wonder  secrets of  nature. 
Presently  she  asked  them  who  bad  pets 
at home.  There  was  a  silence  a  mo 
ment,  and  then  a  grimy little  hand  went 
up,  and  a  boy  said  that be had  a  pigeon 
—a  statement  that  made  him  the  cyno 
sure  of all  eyes and  brought  out  the  nn 
disguised  envy  of  his  less 
fortunate 
companions.  Another,  a  sickly-looking 
little  fellow,  said  that  be  had  had  a 
sparrow;  that  it  fell  out of a  nest  in  the 
elevated  road,  and  be  caught  it,  bet 
that  as  soon  as  it  was  strong  enough  to 
fly  he  let  it go.  He told  it  quite  sim­
ply,  but  to  me  the  little  deed  seemed 
full  o f' the  divine  pity  of  the  poor  for 
the  poor.

and 

advice, 

There  probably  never  was a  child  who 
didn’t  delight  in  making  pictures,  and 
two  big  classes  were  happily engaged  in 
fh'.®  fuse inati ng  occupation  under the 
skillful  direction  of good  teachers. 
In 
one  room  a  little  girl 
in  a  red  frock 
posed  on  a  table,  while  the  embryo 
artists  drew  impressionistic  pictures  of 
c<?!ored  chalk.  They  followed 
w 
Mr.  K ipling’s 
each 
painted  the  thing  that  be  saw,”   with 
the  rather amusing  result  that  some rep­
resented  her as  standing  on  one  leg  and 
others  on  three,  but nothing  apparently 
dampened  the  satisfaction  they  felt  in 
the  result.
Another  interesting  feature of the  va 
cation  school  ¡sth e  manual training  de­
partment,  with  its  miniature  carpenter 
shops,  in  one  of  which  the  boys  were 
making  the  loveliest  kites,  and  in  the 
other  pretty  wooden  table  mats. 
In  the
. 
rirls  department a  sewing  class  was  ,u 
ull  swing,  with 
fifty  or  more  little 
lassies  learning  how  to  make and mend, 
do  fancy  stitches  and  work  buttonholes. 
In  both  these departments  the  material 
is  furnished  free,  and  the  children  may 
take  their bandiwoik  home.

‘mw.v  UIOIS.  All  1

r --- / 

So  much  for  the  material  work  being 
done  by the  vacation  schools in  keeping 
the  children  off  of  the  streets,  giving 
idle hands  good  work  to  do,  and  turn- 
rag  r~ *les3  energv  into  the  right chan­
is  far 
nel.  The  spiritual  significance 
greater. 
In  every  room  there  is  written 
upon  the  wall  these  words: 
“ God  hath 
made  of  one  blood  all  nations  of men, 
and  we  are  his children,  brothers and

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sisters  all.  We  are  citizens  of  this 
United  States,  and  we  believe  our flag 
stands  for  self-sacrifice  for the good  oi: 
all  the  people.  We  want,  therefore,  to 
be true  citizens of  our great city,  and  to 
show  our  love  for her  by our own works. 
Chicago  does  not ask  us to  die  for  her 
welfare,  she asks  us  to  live  for her,  and 
so  to  live and  act  that  her  government 
may  be  pure,  her  officers  honest,  and 
every  corner  of  her territory  shall  be  a 
fit  place  to  grow  the  best  men  and 
women  who shall  rule over her. ”   They 
call  that  the  civic  creed,  and  every 
child 
in  the  school  repeats  it  every 
morning.  The  tower of  Babel  could  not 
furnish  a  greater  variety  of accents than 
the  way  in  which  they  say  it.  A  teacher 
told  me that  in  a  room  of  fifty  scholars, 
there  was not a  single child  of  Ameri­
can  parentage,  but  that  fine  sentiment 
is  a  forge  in  which  to  weld  every  na­
tionality  into  Americanism.  Wherever 
the  anarchist  or  the  nihilist  of 
the 
future  comes  from,  he  will  not come  out 
of a  school  where  be  was  nourished  on 
that  creed.

Out at  Oak  Park,  the pretty  suburb  in 
which  I  am  spending  my  vacation,  this 
tender  pity  for  the  poor has  taken  the 
form  of a  camp,  where  over  ioo  women 
and  little  children are  being  entertained 
as  the  guests  of  the  town.  The  camp  is 
pitched  in  a  beautiful  grove,  just on  the 
edge  of  the  prairie.  The  tents  have 
floors  laid  in  them  and  berths  comfort­
ably fitted  up  with  mattresses  and sheets 
and  blankets  and  pillows.  There  is a 
dining  tent,  kitchen,  a  bathing  tent, 
with  hydrant  and  sewer connection,  and 
a  big  assembly  tent,  with  a  piano and 
plenty  of  camp  stools  for the  entertain­
ments  that are given  in  it.

Out  of  doors  there  are  innumerable 
footballs,  swings  and  cro­
hammocks, 
quet sets,  as  well  as the  vast  expanse  of 
green  for  the  children  to  roam  over, 
and  to  this  paradise  the  poor sickly 
mothers  and  children  are  invited  for a 
week’s  visit,  when  they  are  succeeded 
by another set who are selected  from  the 
poorest and  most  forlorn  denizens  of  the 
slums.  Nothing  is  expected  of  them.

At  home they know  nothing  but  toil  and 
privation,  and  here  it  is  intended  they 
shall  have  absolute  rest.  The churches 
in  turn,  have  charge  of  all  the  arrange­
ments  and  provide  the  food,  which  is 
not only  abundant  and  w^ll  cooked,  but 
consists  of  many  dainties  unknown  to 
those  who  are  forever  engaged  in a hand 
to  band  fight  with  staivation.  One  gen­
erous  butcher  provides  the  camp  with 
enough  chickens  for  their  Sunday  din­
ner,  a  confectioner  sends  them  free  ice 
cream,  and  so on.  Picture  books,  toys, 
games  make  life  a  new  delight  to  the 
youngsters,  while  every  few  days  the 
residents  send  them  carriages  and  give 
these poor creatures the  unparalleled  de­
light  of  a  ride.  One  little  girl  thus 
taken  for  a  ride  showed  such  wonder 
and  joy  that  a  lady  asked  her  if she had 
never  ridden before,  to  which  the  little 
waif  replied,  “ I  have  hitched  but  I 
have  never  set,”   meaning  she  had 
caught  on  behind,  but  bad  never  been 
within  a  carriage.

To  understand  what  such  an  outing 
means  to  the  poor,  one  must  remember 
that  many  of them  have  never seen  any 
country.  They  know  only  the grime  of 
the  streets  and  the  stone 
forests  of 
houses  that  shut  them  in.  The sweet, 
fresh  air,  the green  of  trees  and  bloom­
ing  flowers  are  miracle and  mystery  to 
them. 
It  is  said  that  some  of  the chil­
dren  are  afraid  to  walk  on  the  grass  at 
first  for  fear they  will  break  it,  and  one 
little  child  was  found  fast  asleep  with 
a  broken  and  withered  dandelion  in  her 
hand,  the  first 
flower  she  had  ever 
plucked,  and  so  a  treasure beyond  all 
price.  Another,  seeing  a  cow  for the 
first  time,  came  running  in,  crying  out 
she  had  seen  a  horse  with  horns.

So  the  week  runs around. 

It  is  not 
long  before  the  little  vacation  is  ended, 
and  they  go  back  again  to  the  city,  but 
there 
is  a  flush  of  health  on  many  a 
white  cheek,  the  tired  look  has  died  out 
in  many  an  eye,  and  life  can  never  be 
quite  the  same  again  for  the  memory  of 
a  golden  summer  week,  and  the  bridge 
pity  builds between  the  masses  and  the 
classes. 

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CURE  FOR  HYDROPHOBIA.

There  is  no  disease  to  which  the  hu­
man  race  is  liable  more  horrifying  and 
terror-stricking  than  hydrophobia. 
It 
is  a  disease  commonly  communicated 
by  the  bite  of  a rabid animal,  ordinarily 
a  dog.

The  prevailing  theory  concerning  the 
causation  of  the  disease  is  that  a  dog, 
in  someway  entirely  unknown,  becomes 
affected  by  hydrophobia,  which  drives 
him 
into  paroxysms  of  rage and  fury, 
in  the  course  of  which  be  attacks  in  a 
mad  sort  of  way  any  person  or animal 
in  his  reach,  and 
in  the  saliva  which 
accompanies a  bite  the  deadly  microbe 
of  hydrophobia  is  communicated  to  the 
subject  bitten.

Ordinarily,  a  bite  from  a  dog  in  good 
is  not  a  serious  matter,  and  al­
health 
though  hydrophobia 
is  as  old  as  the 
world,  medical  men  appear to  know but 
little  of  its  real  nature.  They  ought  to 
be  able  to  know  just  what  conditions  or 
causes  produce  this  disease  in  dogs; 
but  the  ignorance  on  the  subject,  so  far 
as  scientists  are  concerned,  is  complete 
and  absolute.

The  unlearned  pioneers  and frontiers­
men,  who have conquered  the  wilderness 
and  have  done  so  much  to  make  the 
Great  Republic  what 
it  is,  have  long 
ago,  from  their  own  expérience and  ob­
servation,  assigned  a  cause  for  this  ter­
rible  disease.  They  declare  it  to be  due 
in  every  original  case  to  the  bite  of  the 
is  found 
skunk.  This  animal,  which 
throughout  North  America,  except 
in 
the  Arctic  regions,  is  not a  cat,  but  be­
longs  to  the  order of  musteiidae,  with 
the  martens,  minks and  other such  far- 
bearing  animals.

Old  hunters  claim  that  the  bite of  the 
skunk  always  and  under  all  circum­
stances  causes  hydrophobia,  and,  when 
once  communicated to any other animal, 
usually  a  dog,  it  can  be  passed  and 
propagated  whenever  conditions  per­
mit.  While  there  is no  reason  to  doubt 
the  statement  concerning  the  poisonous 
nature  of  the  skunk’s  bite,  it is not  like­
ly  that  was  the  only  cause  of  hydropho­
bia,  since  the  disease  has  been  known 
from  the  earliest  times,  and  was  origin­
ally  traced  to  the  bites  of  dogs,  wolves 
and  foxes. 
is,  therefore,  entirely 
possible  that  animals  of  the canine fam­
ily  are  subject  to  some  disorder  which 
produces  the  dreadful  affection.

It 

Although  the  celebrated  Pasteur  pro­
fessed  to  have  discovered  in  his  serum 
treatment  a  prevention  for  hydropho­
bia  after  the  bite of a  rabid  dog,  and 
the  cures  with  which  he  has  been 
credited  have  gained  for  him  great 
fame,  there  are,  nevertheless,  many 
medical  men  who  deny the  efficacy  of 
Pasteur's  methods. 
In  an  article  in  the 
New  York  Medical  Record  of July  22, 
Dr.  Beverly  O.  Kinnear cites  numerous 
alleged  failures of the  Pasteur treatment 
and  proposes  that  of  Buisson—the  va­
por-bath  method.  The  following  story 
of  the discovery  of  the  remedial  effects 
of  such  a  bath  is  interesting  in this con­
nection :

Dr.  Buisson  (doctor  of  medicine of 
the  Paris  faculty)  was  called  in  to  a 
woman  suffering  from hydrophobia,  just 
one  hour before her  death.  She  wished 
to  be bled,  and,  after  the  operation,  he 
wiped  his  hands  on  a  handkerchief  sat­
urated  with  her  saliva.  He  immediately 
noticed  a  small  wound  upon  the  first 
finger  of  bis  left  band,  and  thoroughly 
cauterized  it  upon  arriving  at  his  office. 
But  on  the  seventh  day  pain  developed 
in  the  wound  and  rapidly  spread  up  the 
forearm, 
following  the  course  of  the 
radial  nerve.  As  the disease  progressed 
the  pain  became  intolerable;  bis  eyes 
were  extremely  irritable,  with  dimness 
of  vision;  his  hair  seemed  to  stand 
erect;  a  current  of  fresh  air  prolonged 
the  paroxysms;  there  were  constant 
nausea  and  tightening  of  the  throat, 
with  excessive  salivation  and 
incessant 
expectoration ;  he  had  a  horror of water, 
and  a  constant  longing  to  run  and  bite.
Here  the  Doctor  tells  his  own  story: 
‘ For  some  time  past  I  had  been  per­
suaded  that  a  vapor  bath  was  able to 
prevent,  but  not  to  cure,  hydrophobia 
My  thought being  occupied  closely with 
death,  I  sought  that  which  was  the  most 
least  painful.  Being  the 
prompt  and 
proprietor of  a  bath  establishment, 
I 
resolved  to  die  in  a  vapor  bath  (com­
monly  called'Russian). 
I  took  a  Reau­
mur  thermometer  in  my  hands,  fearing 
that  the  heat  desired  might  be  refused 
me,  *  *  *  and  at  42 degrees  R.  (127 
I  confess  that 
degrees  F . )  I  was  cured. 
at  first  I  refused  to  believe 
in  a  cure 
which  partook  of the  nature  of a  m ira-! 
cle.  After the  bath,  I  dined  and  drank 
with  ease,  and  went  to  bed  and  slept 
well.  From  that  day  to this  I  have  felt 
no  sort  of  pain  or uneasiness.”

labors  of  Pasteur. 

If  the  vapor  bath  is  a  sure cure for 
hydrophobia  after  the  paroxysms  have 
set  in,  it  is a  grand  remedy;  but  it  can 
scarcely»be  claimed  to  have  been  estab­
lished  just  yet 
If  Pasteur  has  discov­
ered  a  preventive,  and  Buisson  has 
stumbled  on  a  cure,  so  much  the  better. 
There  can  not  be  too  many  safeguards 
against  so  terrible a  disease,  but  there 
is  no  credit  to  be gained  by  seeking  to 
depreciate  the 
It 
should  be  borne  in  mind  that bis  exper­
iments  have  excited  the  anger of  the 
sentimental  persons  who  bitterly  oppose 
inoculation  with  hydrophobia  of a 
the 
rabbit  or  guinea  pig 
in  order  that a 
remedy  may  be  found  to  save the  lives 
of  human  beings.  The  Buisson  story 
is  a  century  old,  and  it  does  not appear 
to  have  exerted  much  effect  on  medical 
practice  in  cases  of  hydrophobia.  Va­
por baths  are  only  mentioned along with 
other  palliatives. 
Since  profuse  and 
prolonged  perspiration  may  be  effica­
cious  in  relieving  congestion  and elim i­
nating  poisons  from  the  blood,  the  va­
in­
por-bath  idea  should  be  thoroughly 
vestigated,  for  it  is  of  the  highest 
im­
portance  that  reliable  cures  for hydro­
phobia  may  be  secured.

TOO  SHORTSIGHTED.

With  no  desire  to be  constantly  harp­
ing  on  the  same  old  string,  the  Trades­
man,  if 
it  is  to  be  true  to  its  constit­
uency,  is  obliged  to  call  attention  again 
and  again  to  a  defective  commercial 
practice  which  is  altogether  too  preva­
lent  in  the  circles  of tLe trader and  the 
manufacturer.  Long  ago  this  periodical 
called  attention  to  the  fact  that a  por­
tion  of  England’s  decline  in  trade  is 
due  to the  determination  of  the  manu­
facturer  to  dictate  to  the  customer  in 
regard  to  his  wants and  wishes. 
It  is 
“ the  man  on  the  ground”   who  knows 
what he  needs and  when  that  need  has 
been  expressed  it  is  the  task of the trade 
caterer  to  supply 
if  he  can,  and  to 
come near  to  it  if he  can’t.

it 

A  recent  instance  will  serve  as an 

il­
lustration :  A  certain  South  American 
firm  wanted  a  certain  article. 
It  made 
its  wants  known.  The  English  manu­
facturer,  true  to  the  English policy,  and 
true  to  his  conviction  that  his  establish­
ment  knows  best  what  the  customer 
wants  and  needs,  instead  of  allowing 
the  customer to  settle  the  question,  pro­
ceeded  to  educate  him  up to the English 
idea.  As  a  natural  result  the  customer 
‘ ‘didn’t  educate  worth  a  cent.”   He 
politely  but  firmly  averred  that his  inti­
mate  knowledge  of  his  business  made 
him  the  better 
judge  of  the  article 
called  for. 
If  the  firm  could  supply  the 
demand  well  and  good ;  if  not  a  plain 
statement  to  that  effect  was  all  that  was 
necessary. 
In  due  time  the  reply came 
—the  order  remained  unfilled.

It  has  been  easy  for  the  American  to 
criticise  sharply  the  attitude of the Eng­
lishman.  Such  a  course  is  simply  sui­
cidal.  England,  in  her  long  career of 
commercial  supremacy,  has  forgotten 
that there  is  such  a  thing  as growth  and 
improvement  outside  of her own  count­
ing-house  and  workshop.  In the attempt 
to  keep  up  with  the  times  she  does  not 
take 
into  account  the  important  fact 
that  the  world’s  times  are  not neces­
sarily,  now,  England’s  times,  and  that, 
while once  Great  Britain’s  opinion  re­
mained  unquestioned,  it  is  now  not only 
questioned but  looked  upon  as  a  subject 
of  indifference. 
It  is a  matter  for Eng­
land  to  deplore ;  but  she has  only  her­
self  to  thank  for  it.

For 

the  American  reaching  these 
complacent  conclusions  it  is  somewhat 
startling to  bear that these  same  charges 
are  laid  at  the  door  of  the  American 
manufacturer.  The trouble  is,  says  the 
would-be  customer of  the United  States, 
that  I  find  it  impossible to  get  there  ex­
actly  what  I  want.  The  reputation  of 
ingenuity  and 
invention  which  the 
Great  Republic  enjoys  leads  one  to 
in­
fer  that  these  qualities  will  secure  the 
exact  article called  for.  The  reverse  is 
too  liable  to  be  true.  There  is  more 
than  a  strong  tendency  to  insist  that the 
article  on  hand 
is  the  article  best 
adapted  to  the  purpose ;  and  the  order 
remains  unfilled.

The  Tradesman  has  only  to  repeat 
what  it has  strenuously  insisted  on  be­
fore 
in  these  columns:  Other  things 
being  equal,  the  man  giving  the  order 
is  supposed  to  know  what  he  wants. 
That  being  stated,  ihe  manufacturer’s 
duty 
is  to  satisfy  that  want.  For  the 
time  being  he  is  the  specialist ;  and  he 
shows  himself to  be  exactly  that  when 
he  furnishes  on  demand  the  peculiar 
wants  of  bis  customer  wherever  he  may 
be.  That  the  United  States  has  long 
been  considered  the  land  of  the  special­
ist  in  matters  pertaining  to  mechanical 
ingenuity 
It  is 
not  a  wholesome  condition  of  things

is generally  conceded. 

it 

is  called 

in 
when  this  characteristic 
question ;  and 
is  to  be  hoped  that 
American  enterprise  will  not  impede 
its  own  progress  by  the  same  short­
sighted  agency  which  has  hastened 
Great  Britain’s  commercial  decline.

The  greed  of  the  Maine  fisherman 
has  ruined  the  lobster-fishing  industry 
on  that  coast.  Ten years ago  an  experi­
enced  Machias  bay  lobster trapper  with 
twenty  traps  could  take  from  the  water 
200 lobsters  per  day,  which  were  sold 
for  5  cents  each, the'fisherman  realizing 
a  cash  sale  equal  to  $10  for  his  day’s 
work.  Under  these  conditions  this  class 
of  laborers along  the  shore-  prospered, 
their  homes  were  kept  in  good  repaie 
and  they  were  solvent 
in  all  business 
transactions.  This,  however,  did  not 
satisfy ;  the  twenty  trap  system  was  in­
creased  to  fifty,  and 
in  some  cases  to 
one  hundred ;  the old  sail  smacks  were 
put  aside,  and  the  improved  steam-well 
smacks  took  their  places.  The  increase 
in  the  catch  was  so  enormous  that  the 
lobster  could  not  mature  sufficient to 
hold  its  own.  Legislation  prohibiting 
the  taking  of 
lobsters  under  a  certain 
measurement  was  obtained,but  the large 
lobster  over  ten 
is  left  unpro­
tected  by  the  law,  and  the  scarcity  of 
this  particular  kind  of  shell  fish  has  in­
creased 
the  value  until  the  present 
prices  which  the  smacks  are  offering 
the  trap  owners  are  ranging  from  20 
cents  to  27  cents  apiece.  Notwithstand­
ing  this  high  price,  the  fishermen  are 
unable to  exist  upon  the  products  of 
this  branch  of  business  alone,  and  it 
is 
believed  that  only  a  close  season  for  a 
term  of  years  will  make  the  industry 
profitable  again.

inches 

in  all 

rampant—and  the  union 

If  anyone  has  any  doubts  as  to  what 
unionism  really  means,  all  he  has  to  do 
is  to  peruse  the  reports  of  the  street  car 
in  Cleveland,  where  unionism  is 
strike 
its glory.  Murder,  incen­
seen 
diarism, 
intimidation  and  boycotting 
are 
leaders 
smile  at  the  havoc  they  have  wrought 
and  the  lives  they  have sacrificed  on  the 
altar  of  unionism.  And  yet decent peo­
ple  pat  the  monster  on  the  back  and 
speak  honeyed  words  to the  cohorts  of 
organized 
labor,  apparently  forgetting 
that they  are  thus  encouraging  the  uni­
versal  reign  of  incendiarism and murder 
which  the  union  leaders  so  fondly  pre- 
dictl

The  Danish  parliament  is  discussing 
a  law  for the  better  protection  of  the 
property  of  married  women  in  case  of 
the  husband’s  failure  in  business.  The 
property  of  a  married  couple  is  to  be 
classified  as  follows: 
(1)  Property  of 
the  husband ;  (2)  property  of the  w ife; 
(3)  common  property  under administra­
tion  of  the  husband,  consisting  of the 
earnings  of  the  husband ;  (4)  common 
property  under the administration  of  the 
wife,  consisting  of  earnings  of the w ife; 
(5)  common  property  under administra­
tion  of  the  husband,  with  special  con­
sent  of  the  wife.

Formerly  the  West  depended  on  the 
East  for  money.  At  present  the  West  is 
supplying  the  East  with  money,  Chi­
cago  and  St.  Paul  making  offerings of 
currency  to  New  York. 
In  explanation 
it  is  said: 
‘ ‘ It has  been  paid  into  the 
banks  in  clearance  of  mortgages,  and 
the  surplus  is  such  that  the  normal  and 
conservative needs  of  the  community  do 
not call  for the  money. ’ ’

The  lily  is  the  symbol  of  purity—not 
so much  because  it  is  pure,  but  because 
it  can  not be adulterated.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
CHINA  AND  JAPAN.

PROBLEMS  OF  TAXATION.

The  late  David  A.  Wells,  who  was 
one of  the  most  distinguished  political 
economists  this  country  has  produced, 
was  engaged  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
some  months  ago,  in  writing  for  the 
Popular  Science  Monthly  a  series  of 
papers  on  taxation.  These  articles  are 
continued  in  the  August  number  of  that 
magazine,  in  which  he  treats  the  sub­
ject of the  best  methods  of taxation.

inheritances. 

In  the  course  of  his  essay  he  takes  up 
the  subject  of  taxing 
It 
is  well  known  that  the  tax  assessor  ex­
periences  the  greatest  difficulty  in  find­
ing ' personal  property  upon  which  to 
raise  public  revenue. 
It  is known  that 
the  greatest  of  the  American  capitalists 
whose  wealth,  chiefly 
invested  in  per­
sonalities  and  estimated  at  tens  and 
even  hundreds  of  millions  of  dollars, 
figure  on  the  assessors’  books  for  only  a 
few  hundred  thousands.  The  only  time 
that  their  personal  property  can  be 
found  is  when they  die, and  their estates 
are  settled  up.

This  fact  was  shown  in  France,  where 
to-day  personal  property  furnishes  the 
greatest  part  of  the  national  revenues 
whereas, before inheritances were  taxed, 
it  afforded  but the  smallest  part.  The 
assessed  value  of  property  in France  for 
purposes  of  taxation  is  about  one thous 
and  million  dollars,  of  which  rather 
more  than  haif 
is  personal  property 
Land  has  always  been  taxed,  because  it 
was  easy  to  find,  and  in  many  cases 
it 
has borne  an  undue  share  of  the  public 
burdens.

innesota 

revived  her  former tax  on  foreign heirs.
adopted  a  constitutional 
amendment  permitting  a  progressive 
inheritance  tax,  and  Ohio  added  to  her 
inheritance  tax  a  progressive 
collateral 
tax  on  direct  successions. 
In  1895  pro­
gressive  inheritance  taxes  were  adopted 
Illinois  and  Missouri,  and  an  old 
in  Vir- 
proportional  tax  was  revived 
in ia ;  and  Iowa  adopted 
in  part  the 
nberitance tax  recommendation  of  her 
revenue  commission.

The  most difficult  problem  in taxation 
s  to  levy  it  upon  an  equal  and  uniform 
basis.  In many  cases  the  personal  estate 
s  not found, while  as to landed property, 
to  repeat  the  language  of  a  legislative 
report  on  the  taxing  methods  in  use  in 
New  Jersey:  “ More  than  four  hundred 
separate  assessors  and  boards  of  assess­
ors  determine  the  taxable  values  upon 
in  defiance  of 
no  uniform  system  and 
law  and  the  constitution. 
In  practice 
they  value  real  estate  all  the  way  from 
twenty-five  to  seventy-five  per  cent,  of 
its  true  value,  depending  on 
loca­
tion, 
income,  etc.,  and  their  personal 
or  political  prejudices,  and  value  d if­
ferent  contiguous  areas  at  different  val­
uations, although  of  equal  values  really ; 
and  as  to  personal  property,  I  regret  to 
say,  they  appear  to  make  no  earnest  or 
honest effort  to  reach 
it  anywhere,  ex­
cept 
in  the  agricultural  districts,  and 
even  then  very  imperfectly.’ ’

its 

The  equalization  of  taxation  presents 
an 
insurmountable  difficulty,  so  far. 
It  is  really  one  of  the  most  important 
problems  of  political  economy  to  equai- 
ze  taxation.

The  productive  value  of  land  may  be 
increased  by 
improvement  or  special 
cultivation,  but  the  quantity  can  never 
be 
increased,  and  should  population 
leave  a  particular  locality,  as has  often 
been  the  case  with  worked-out  mining 
districts,  the  land  would  lose  its  value, 
while 
the  personal  wealth  could  be 
moved  away  and  belittled  or not at all 
decreased  in  value.  Personal  property 
constitutes the  active  capital with which 
all  business 
is  carried  on,  all  luxuries 
are  obtained  and  the  promotion  of  the 
arts  and  of  civilization  consummated 
Without  such  wealth,  man  would  not be 
above  the  condition  of  a  savage,  since 
he  has  the  natural  produce  of  the 
land 
such  as  the  wild  game  he  kills  and  the 
wild  plants  he gathers,  for his  subsist 
ence.  Laboring  not  at all,  the  savage 
accumulates  no  personal  property  be 
yond  bis  weapons  and  such  clothing  as 
he  wears,  and  mayhap  some horses  and 
personal  ornaments.

Personal  estate,  while 

it  is  the  most 
distinguishing  feature  of  wealth  and  in 
dicates  the  position  of  its  owners  in  the 
scale  of  civilization,  is  the  most diffi 
cult to  lay  bands  on  for  the  purposes  of 
public  revenue. 
European  countries 
have  long  ago  adopted  the  method  of 
ascertaining 
the  amounts  of  estates 
when  settled  up  at  the  death  of  the 
in  that  way  the  track  of 
owner,  and 
personal  wealth 
is  better  kept  than  in 
.any  other,  since  it  is  only  when  the  es 
tate  of  a  decedent  passes  under  the 
judgment  of  a  court  that  its  value  can 
be  ascertained.

A  few  years  ago  a  tax  on  inheritances 

was  found  only  in  these  nine  States 
the  Union:  Pennsylvania,  Maryland 
Delaware,  New  York,  West  Virginia 
Connecticut,  Massachusetts,  Tennessee 
and  New  Jersey.  During  the  first  half 
of  1893,  Ohio,  Maine,  California  and 
Michigan  were  added  to  the  list,  al 
though  the  Michigan  law  was  afterward 
annulled  because  of  an  unusual  prov' 
sion  in  the  State  constitution  which  was 
not complied  with. 
1894  Louisiana

In 

T H E   FR EER   U S E   O F  G O L D .

One of  the  most  interesting features of 
the  financial  situation  in  this  country  is 
the  great  increase  in  our  stock  of  gold. 
A  few  years  ago  there  was  fear  that  our 
gold  supply  would  run  abnormally 
low, 
whereas  now  the  stock  of  gold  is  super­
abundant,  exceeding  that  held  by  any 
other  country.  So  plentiful  has the  yel­
low  metal  become  that  the  Government 
is  doing  all  in  its  power  to  augment  its 
use.

that 

is  59 82, 

in  France 

While  our  stock  of  gold  exceeds  that 
of  other countries,  it  nevertheless  plays 
a  smaller  part  in  the  circulation  than  is 
the  case  elsewhere.  The  most  advanced 
nations  of  Europe  have  a  larger  ratio  of 
gold  to  the  entire  body  of  the  circula 
tion  than  that  which  obtains 
in  the 
United  States.  While  the  stock  of  gold 
in  the  United  States  constitutes  50 03 
per  cent,  of  the  circulation,  the  per 
ceutage 
it 
Great  Britain  65.2  per  cent,  and  that  in 
Germany  65  96  per  cent.  These  com 
parisons  show  that  the  margin  for  the 
increased  use  of  gold  is  larger  in  the 
United  States  than  in  either  of the three 
leading  nations  of  Western  Europe.
This  large  supply  of  gold  has 

in 
duced  some  influential  financiers  to  ad 
vocate  the  more  general  use  of  gold 
in 
oidinary  business.  Owing  to  its  weight, 
the  liability  to  loss  by  abrasion  and  the 
possibility  of  coins  being  mistaken  for 
coins  of  similar  sizes  in  baser  metals, 
gold  has grown  into disfavor  except  on 
the  Pacific  coast.  There, however,  it is 
used  in  preference  to  currency,  so  that 
it  is  fair to  assume  that  habit,  quite  as 
much  as  any  other cause,  is  responsible 
for 
In  European 
countries  gold  enters  to  a  very  large  ex 
tent 
into  the  general  circulation,  and 
its  use 
is  facilitated  by  the  absence  of 
bills  of  small  denomination.  Gold  is 
cleaner  than  paper, 
is  less  liable  to 
destruction,  and  has  other  advantages 
There  is  certainly  no  good  reason  why 
it  should  not be  more  extensively  used

its  use  or  disuse. 

For  some  time  past  there  has  been 
talk  of  a  rapprochement  of  the  two 
Oriental  empires which,  but  a  few  years 
ago,  were  engaged  in  a  struggle  which 
has  come  very  close  to  disintegrating 
one  of  them.  There  has  been  a  mutual 
exchange  of courtesies  between  the  Em ­
peror  of  Japan  and  the  Emperor  of 
China,  each  conferring  upon  the  other 
the  highest  order  of  their  respective 
countries.

The  amenities  thus  indulged  in  have 
led  to  attempts  to  negotiate  a  treaty  of 
friendship  and  alliance,  and  recently  a 
Japanese  admiral  has visited  Pekin  with
large  retinue  of  officers,  and  it  is  un­
derstood  that  negotiations  are  in  prog­
ress  looking  to  a  better  understanding 
between  the  two  empires.  It  is  believed 
to  be  China’s  wish  to  secure  the  aid  of 
Japan  against  the  agressions  of  Euro­
pean  powers,  and  for  that  purpose  it 
is 
proposed  to  use Japanese  army  officers 
as  drill  masters  for  Chinese  troops. 
It 
s  also  reported  that  Japan  is  willing  to 
return  to  China  the  ships  captured  dur­
ing  the  recent  war,  provided  China 
makes  an  effort  to  rehabilitate  her  navy 
under Japanese  initative  and  according 
to  Japanese  ideas.

An  alliance  between  China and Japan, 
which  would  enable  the  Japanese,  with 
their  wonderful  enterprise,  to  arouse  the 
dormant  energies  of  the  people  of 
China,  might  be  of  great  significance 
to the  Western  powers.  There  is  ample 
evidence  to  show  that  Chinamen  make 
good  soldiers,  as  well  as  good  sailors, 
when  properly  instructed  and  well  offi­
cered.  With  such  limitless  material  in 
the way  of  soldiers,  and  with  their  ad­
mitted  ability  as  organizers  and  dis­
ciplinarians 
it  would  not  take  the  Jap­
anese  long  to  raise a  formidable fighting 
force  in  China,  while  China’s  money 
resources  would  greatly  aid  Japan  in 
providing  a  considerable  Chinese  fleet, 
which  would  in  reality  be but  an  auxil­
iary  to  the  Japanese  navy.

It  is  certainly  no  love  for  China  that 
is  actuating  so  far-seeing  and  practical 
a  power as  Japan.  The  Japanese  realize 
that,  sooner or later,  they  will  be  com­
pelled  to  cross  swords  with  Russia  over 
the  possession  of  Coiea. 
In  that  event, 
China  would  be  of  great  assistance  as 
an  ally,  as  she  could  furnish  money  and 
an  unlimited  supply  of  men. 
The 
maneuvering  of  Japan 
in  this  matter 
will  certainly  bear  watching.

it 

Prescott, the  capital of Arizona,  boasts 
is  the  nearest  approach  to  the 
that 
in  the 
New  Jerusalem,  as  described 
Bible,  as 
its  streets  are  paved  with 
gold.  The  granite  used  for  pavement 
contains  $4  in  gold  and 20 cents in silver 
to  every  ton,  so  that  in  time,  when 
less 
expensive  methods  of  reducing  ore  are 
used,  it  may  pay  the  city  to  tear  up and 
crush  its  street  pavement.

Evidently  the  aluminium  industiy 

is 
expanding  at  an  enormous  rate,  as  the 
largest  manufacturers  in  America,  the 
Pittsburg  Reduction  Company,  are  get­
ting  out  plans  for  a  $3,000,000  plant  to 
be  erected 
This  plant, 
which  will  be  the  third,  is  to  be  erected 
near  the  Sbawinegan  Falls,  the  other 
two  factories being  at  Kensington,  Pa., 
and  Niagara  Falls.

in  Canada. 

P hiladelphia  has  suffered  greater  loss 
from  fires  in  the  first  half  of 
th is  year 
than  in  an  equal  time  in  any  previous 
year  since  the  organization  of  the  pres 
ent  fire  department  twenty-eight  years 
ago.  There  were  1,476 fires,  and  the  to 
tal  ioss  much  exceeded  $1,500,000.

9

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 
are 
pleased  to  find  that  we  are 
so prompt.

customers 

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
diate  attention  and  prompt 
shipment.

Let us have yours.

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Milling  Co.,

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

“The floor the best cooks use.”

A d v e r t is in o

th a t  p a y s

W e will  prepare a  series 
of 
four  advertisements 
for any  local  retailer  for 
$2.50—just  half our usual 
price.
This offer only applies to 
orders received from new 
customers  during- 
the 
month of August.
W e’re  willing 
lose 
money  for  a  month  in 
order  to  get  aquainted 
with you.
Send  for  our  booklet— 
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M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

seemed  to  be 

high  back  of  the  rocker.  How  tired  she 
looked.  How  worn  out  she 
looked. 
How  pale  she  was  and  as  he  watched 
her  she 
looking  off 
through  the  years.  He  wondered  how 
far back.  Then  a  tear  stole,  unchecked, 
down  the  cheek  that  used  to  look,  in  its 
wholesome 
like  the 
peaches  that  bung  rich  and  ripe  in  the 
orchard  at  home.  A  heavy  sigh  reached 
him,  and  then  the  sense  of  his  own 
thoughtlessness  and  selfishness  came  to 
him  with  overwhelming  force.

sweetness, 

just 

Going  off  on  his  vacation  on  Monday, 
was  he?  Would  have  a  high  old  time, 
wouldn't  he,  to  come  back  rested  and 
strengthened  for another  year?  A  hun­
dred  and  fifty  dollars  would  go  to  the 
winds  to  help  on  his  good  time,  while 
Julia,  whom  he  bad  vowed  to  stand  by 
through  thick  and  thin,  was  resting  and 
getting  back  her  strength  at  home.  And 
that  sort  of  thing  had  gone  on  for fifteen 
years!  How  she  must  love  him  by  this 
time,  and  how  she  must like to lie awake 
nights  and  think  of  him  while  he  was 
off  having  his  good  time.  No  wonder 
that  Miss  Philander acted  as  if she  was 
glad 
it 
wouldn’t  be  any  wonder  if  Julia  was 
sorry  she  w as! 
It  must  be  a  nice  thing 
to  be  married  to  that  sort  of  a  chump ! 
What  a  pleasant  thing,  for  instance,  it 
must  be  to  go  out  into  the  kitchen  and 
stand  over a  hot  stove  for an  hour  or  so 
and  get  a  good  dinner  for a  man  who 
was going  to  leave  her  for a  good  time 
the  minute  the  Lord  would  let  him !

she  wasn’t  his  wife—and 

if 

“ Well,  I  must  get  dinner 

it  is 
enough  to  roast  the  life  out  of  me  in 
that hot kitchen,”  said the  patient  little 
woman  to  herself  as  she came back from 
the  revery  in  which  her  caller  bad 
left 
her.

" Ju lie !”
She  hadn’t  been  called  by  that  pet 
name 
It  was  the  old  home- 
name  and  above all  John’s.  What could 
it  mean?

in  years. 

“ Julie!  Come  out  here. 

I ’ve  a  no­
tion  this  hammock  is  just  big  enough 
It  seems  to  sag  to  one  side 
for  two. 
with  only  one 
in  it.  Let's  see  if that 
isn’t  what’s  the  matter.  Come  on. ”

“ Out  here  on  the  veranda?  What  are 
you  thinking  about?  Besides,  I  must 
go  out and  get  dinner.”

“ No,  you  mustn’t,  either. 

That’s 
what  I  want  to  tell  you  about.  Get  in 
here.  The  vines  are  thick  enough  to 
bide  us,  and 
if  tbev  are  not,  what  of 
it?  There!  that’s  just  the  thing. 
I ’d 
like  to  know  who  has a  better  right  to 
this  hammock  than  the  owners,  and 
if 
the  people 
in  the  street  or behind  the 
blinds  over  the  way  see  anything  they 
haven’t  seen  before,  who  cares?  They

ought to have  seen  it  long  ago.  How’s 
that?”

“ John,  don’t!  The  idea  of  kissing 
me  out here!  I ’m  ashamed  of  you.  Let 
me go—what'll  folks  think?”

“ We  don’t  care  what  they  think.  Sit 
still  now,  while  I  tell  you  something.  I 
don't  want  to  have  a  fire  made  op  to 
beat  the  house and  we’re  going  to  have 
dinner  at  the  Metropole.  So  sit  still 
until 
it's  time  to get  ready  and  enjoy 
yourself and  me. ’ ’

“ Oh,  I  can’t,  John. 

I  haven’t  any­
thing  fit  to  wear to a  public  place  like 
that. ’ ’

“ Nothing  to  wear!  Didn’t  I  give  you 

some  money  for  spring  repairs?”

“ Yes,  but  Katie  wanted  this  and  that 
and  she  needed  them  more  than  I  here 
at  home. ’ *

* ‘ I  see.  So  you  spent all  your  money 
on  the  children.  All  right;  they  are 
fitted  out  for  the  summer.  Now  let’s 
see  what  can  be  done  for  you.  On  with 
your bonnet. 
I  saw  a  ‘ perfectly  lovely’ 
in  Field  &  Fletcher’s  as  I 
white  suit 
came  by. 
it’ll  fit  you  to  a  T 
I  think 
and  I  am  absolutely  astonished  at  the 
remarkably 
low  price  marked  on  it. 
Come  on ;  there's  time  enough  for  you 
to buy  it  and  get  into  it before dinner. ”
Then  he  gave  her a  little  hug—which 
she  liked—and  a  good  old-fashioned 
kiss—which  she  liked  better—and  they 
slipped  out  of  the  hammock 
into  a 
street  car and  in  less  time  than  it  takes 
to  say  it  she  had  the  white pique,  which 
fitted  her  perfectly.  Then  she  remem­
bered  John’s  liking  for  red,  and stepped 
into a  milliner's  for a  certain  shade  of 
cherry,  which  she  saw  in  the  window, 
for a  tie.  While the  woman  (excuse  me 
—saleslady)  was  measuring  off  the  rib­
bon  she kept  looking  first at  Mrs.  K in­
caid  and  then  at  a  certain pretty  bonnet 
there  was  in  the  window  and  when  the 
ribbon  was  wrapped  up  she  said,  " I ’ve 
a  love  of  a  bonnet  that  I  believe  was 
made  for  you—I  wish  you  would  try 
it 
on ."

“ Oh,  I  don’t—”
“ Yes,  you  do.  This  is  the  one,  isn’t 
it? "  and  John  pointed  out,  strange  to 
say,  the  very  one. 
“ That’s  all  right, 
Julie.  Don’t  take  it  off.  Send  home the 
old  one. ’ ’  He  saw  the  price  mark,  gave 
the  shop  woman the amount and whisked 
the  little  woman  into  the  street  before 
she  had  a  chance  to  protest  further.

The  white  pique  reached  home  first 
and 
it  wasn’t  a  great  while  after  that 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Kincaid  took  pos­
session  of  a  table  in  a  certain  cosy  cor­
ner  of  the  dining room at the Metropole; 
and  it  won't  harm  anybody  if  the reader 
is 
informed  right  here  that  the  white 
dress and  the becoming little bonnet  and

the  cherry  tie  excited  the  admiration* 
of  that  whole  roomful  of  diners,  and 
when  Kincaid  looked  at  the  happy  face 
opposite  him  he  didn’t  see  how  it  could 
well  be  otherwise.  Anyway,  he  couldn’t 
help  feeling  glad,  with  that  common­
place  Miss  Philander,  that  she  wasn’t 
bis  wife.

When  the  dinner  was  over  it  was  just 
the time  for  a  car-ride.  Kincaid lighted 
a  cigar,  took  his  wife  on  his  arm  and, 
finding  one  of  the  back  seats  unoccu­
pied,  they were soon flying along through 
the  moonlight,  with  his  arm—well,  any­
way  it  was  on  the back of  the  seat when 
they  started.  After  a  while  everybody 
got  out;  and  then  he  told  her  that  what 
vacation  he  had  she  was  to  have,  too. 
He  was going  up  into  the  mountains  on 
Monday.  If  she  liked  it  up  there  they'd 
stay;  if  not they’d  go  somewhere  else. 
If  she  wanted  more  spending money  she 
should  have  it;  and  he  thought it  would 
seem  a  little  like  old  times,  when  they 
were  beginning  housekeeping,  for 
in­
stance—how  the  pale  face  brightened  at 
that!—to  go  looking  around  for  things 
together.

They  did.  They  were  together  all 
summer.  They  came  and  they  went. 
The  mountains  saw  them  and  rejoiced. 
The  valleys  were  glad  at  their  coming, 
the  hills  clapped  their  bands and  the 
sea,  who  had  not  seen  her  for  sixteen 
years  and  had  missed  her,  came  rushing 
up  the  sands  to  greet  her  and  fairly 
kissed  her  feet! 
It  was  a  good  time 
from  first  to  last,  and  when  the  vacation 
was  over  and  John  Kincaid  went  back 
to  his  work  they  hardly  knew  him. 
When  the  children  came  home,  they 
didn’t  find  the  faded-out  little  mother 
they  had  left;  and  that  night,  when  the 
time  came  for them  to  go  to  bed,  young 
Jack  patted  his  mother's  cheek  as  he 
kissed  her,  and  said,  “ You’re  enough 
sight  prettier 
than  Freck  Winton’s 
mother,  Mamma.”

Jack  wasn’t the  only  one  who  noticed 
the  change.  The  neighbors  saw  it,  and 
commented  on  it;  and  Miss  Philander 
came  and  saw  and  went  away,  and  Mrs. 
Kincaid,  in  telling  her  husband  about 
it,  couldn’t  help  saying  that  that woman 
didn’t  seem  to  have  the  pity  in  her tone 
she  bad  once. 
laughed  and  re­
plied,  “ That’s  all  right,  Ju lie ;  I  don’t 
like  that  woman  any  better  than  I  ever 
did,  but  I ’m  afraid  if 
it  hadn’t  been 
for her  I  should  have  had  my  vacation 
alone,  and  you,  in  Jack’s  eyes,  wouldn’t 
be 
’ enough  sight  prettier  than  Freck 
Winton’s  mother!’  ”

John 

R ic h a r d   M a lc o lm   Str o n g.

It 

isn’t  always  to  a  man’s  credit  to 
is  to his 

it 

10

CHANGED  HIS  TACTICS.

How  the  Drummer's  Wife  Got  Her 

Vacation.
W ritten fo r the  T radesman.

I 
" I   don’t  expect  any  vacation. 
couldn’t  have  one  if  I  wanted  it  and 
if 
I  could  I  wouldn’t take  it.  The  weather 
is  too  hot. 
I  shall  probably  carry  out 
nay  regular  yearly  plan :  After the chil­
dren  go  to their grandfather’s  and  John 
gets  off  on  the  only  two  weeks  be  has 
during  the  year,  I'm   going  to  shut  the 
blinds  and  fasten  the  gate  to  keep  out 
the  tramps  and  just  rest."

"A re n 't  you  going  to  get  lonesome? 
Two  days  would  finish  me,  and  after 
having so many  to  do  for  I  should  think 
you'd  find  resting  as  bard  to  get  along 
with  as  your  regular  housework."

" I ’ll  take  my  chances. 

I  don’t  see  so 
very  much  of  the  children,  now  they’re 
grown  older,  and  John  never’s  at  home. 
Traveling  men  see  little  of  their  fami­
lies  and  home  gets  to  be  merely  a  place 
to  eat  and  sleep 
in.  So  I ’ll  shut  the 
doors  and  windows  after they  have all 
gone,  and  wake  up 
in  September  time 
enough  to  have  breakfast  ready  when 
they  all  get  home. ’ ’

It  was  said  with  a  cheery  laugh,  but 
Mrs.  Kincaid’s  caller  went away feeling 
glad  that  she  wasn’t  Mrs. John Kincaid ; 
and  Mr.  John  Kincaid,  who  was  lying 
in  the  hammock  under  the  curtain  of 
Virginia  creeper,  didn’t  feel  sleepy  any 
longer  and  wondered  what  the dickens 
there  was  about that Miss Philander that 
he  always  had  disliked.  From  that  he 
fell  to  wondering  what  there  was  in 
what Julia  bad  said  that  made  him  un­
It  all  seemed  to  center  around 
easy. 
that 
idea  that  home  was  only  a  restau­
rant  and  that  he  was  never at  home  at 
any  other time.

That  nettled  him  and  with  a  mental 
“ W ell!”   he  started  off  with  a  lot  of 
reasons  to  prove  to  himself  that  he 
wasn’t  to  blame.  When  he got  through 
he  was  worse  off, 
if  anything,  than 
when  he began.  That  set  him  going  in 
another  direction:  When  was 
it  that 
Julia  had  bad  a  vacation—a  real,  right- 
up-and-down  vacation—anyway?  Kate 
was  fifteen,  and  the  summer  before  she 
was  born—Thunder!  that  woman  hadn’t 
been  anywhere  for sixteen  years  and  he 
and  another—be 
—well,  one 
wasn't  to  blame;  but, 
Jim m iny!  he 
didn’t  think  it  was  so  long  as  that.  And 
he  was  going  away  on  Monday 
just  as 
he  bad  for  the  last  fifteen  years  and 
leave  her  to  look  out  for herself.

thing 

He 

looked  through  the  window  into 
the  parlor  where  her  caller had  left  her. 
She  sat by  the  bay  window,  her  hands 
in  her  lap,  her head  resting  against  the

ROIIR'SBoor’s BlmiiM fintiBBs

stop  drinking—sometimes 
lack  of  credit.

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

T H E   J .   M .  B O U R   G O .,

139 Jefferson A ven u e,  D etroit, M ich. 
113 *115-117 O ntario S t ., T oledo, Ohio.

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PURVEYORS  BY  APPOINTMENT

MUSTARD  MANUFACTURERS 

by  Special  Warrant

PURVEYORS  BY  APPOINTMENT

To  H.R.H.  The  PRINCE  OF  WALES.

To  Her  Majesty  The  QUEEN.

To  H.R.H.  The  PRINCE.OF  WALES

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  as  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.

CAU TIO N .

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. 
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.

Such  goods are generally of  an inferior quality. 

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is  “ simply 

Fruits  and  Produce.
Observations  by  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
Daring  daily  talks  with  egg  receivers 
one  hears  various  views  expressed  as  to 
questions  of  general 
interest and  con­
cern.  Lately  I  have  heard  more or  less 
discussion  of  the  recently  adopted  egg 
rules  and  some  of  the  trade  seem  in­
clined  to  charge  them  with  about  half 
of  all  the  ills  which  the  egg  market  has 
recently  fallen  heir  to.  Some  say  the 
new  rules  are  “ too  stringent”   and  that 
it 
impossible  to  get  any 
considerable  quantity  of  stock  good 
enough  to  meet  the  requirements  of  the 
higher gradings.  Marks  of  eggs,  they 
say,  coming  from  Northern sections,  and 
from  shippers  who  have  always  hereto­
fore  sent  goods  which  could  be  relied 
upon  as  “ firsts,”   are  now  graded  as 
“ seconds”   by  the 
inspectors  and  can 
not be  safely  offered  under the call.  One 
or  two  have  spoken  of  the  “ absurdity”  j 
of  turning  a 
line  of  fine goods  out  of 
the  grade  of  firsts  simply  because  the 
cases  did  not  have  “ flats”   over  the  top 
or under  the  bottom  layers.  All of  these 
fastidious  requirements,  it 
is  claimed 
by  some,  raise  the  bidding  prices  for 
firsts  and  tend  to  establish  the  egg  mar­
ket  on  a  higher  basis  nominally  than 
the  real  condition  and  quality  of  the 
stock  arriving  justifies.
*  *  *

is 

in  them. 

insist  upon 

It  may  be  interesting to examine some 
of  these  complaints  more  closely  and 
try  to  find  how  much  truth  and  how 
much  error 
In  the  first 
place  an  examination  of  the  new  egg 
rules  will  show  that  the  requirements 
for  “ fresh  gathered  firsts”   are  no  more 
stringent  than  they  are  under the  old 
rules  so  far  as  the  quality  of  the  eggs 
is  concerned ;  the  only difference  is  that 
in  packing  firsts  it  is  necessary  to  put 
flats  over  the  top  and  under  the  bottom 
layers.  This  kind  of  packing  has  been 
advised  by  egg  receivers  for  years  and 
is  necessary  to  first-class  condition ;  the 
requirement  is  so  easily  complied  with 
that  it  would  seem  perfectly  reasonable 
to 
it.  However,  the  rule 
does  not  specify  what  the  flats  shall  be 
made  of  and  it  may  be hyper-critical on 
the  part  of 
inspectors  to  turn  stock 
down  because  the  flats  are  not  made  of 
cardboard  if  the  paper  used 
is  strong 
enough  to  answer  the  purpose.  There 
would  therefore  seem  to  be  no  reason 
why  qualities  that  passed  as  firsts  under 
the  old  rules  should  not  pass  as  such 
now,  provided  the  reasonable  require­
ments  of  proper  packing  are  complied 
with. 
If  there  is  any  stock  now  being 
turned  down  which  would  have  passed 
in  former  seasons 
it  must  then  be  be­
cause  of  a  difference  in  the  standard  of 
judgment  adopted  by  the 
inspectors. 
Necessarily  any  practical  rules  adopted 
at  present  must  leave  a  good  deal  to  the 
discretion  of  the 
inspector.  The  egg 
committee have  endeavored  to  prescribe 
just  what kind  of  eggs  shall  be  consid­
ered  as  loss  and  half  loss,  but  the  deter­
mination  of  these  defects  before  the 
candle  must  be 
left  to  the  inspector. 
Also  the  requirements  as  to  size and 
cleanness  must  be 
judged  by  the  in­
spector’s  eye  and  here  is  a  chance  for 
considerable 
judgment. 
The  general  testimony  of  the trade leads 
to  the  belief  that  in  these  matters  where 
the  judgment  of  inspectors  alone  deter­
mines  whether  the  eggs  shall  pass  as 
firsts  or  not,  the  basis  adopted  by  our 
present  inspector 
fastidious 
than  that  of  bis  predecessor,  and  that  it 
takes  larger  eggs  to  be  “ of good  aver­

variation  of 

is  more 

MICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

age  size”   and  cleaner  eggs  to  be  “ rea­
sonably  clean”   now  than  it  did  former­
ly.  Undoubtedly  it  is  perfectly  right  to 
hold  all 
inspections  rigidly  to  the  re­
quirements of  the  rules  in  all clearly de­
fined  points,  such  as  the  manner  of 
packing and  the  proportion  of  “ perfect­
ly  fresh,  reasonably  full,  strong,  sweet 
eggs.”   But 
in  matters  of  mere  judg­
ment—as  where  a  reasonable  doubt 
comes 
in  as to  whether an  egg  is  to  go 
in  one  class  or another,  or  whether  the 
goods  do  or  do  not  meet  the  require­
ments  as  to  size and cleanness—it  would 
seem  that  under  conditions 
like  the 
present,  when  the  difficulties  of  secur­
ing  passable  stock  are great,  the  benefit 
of the  doubt  should  be given  in  favor  of 
the  eggs  being  inspected.  This  is  es­
pecially  reasonable  cow  when  we  have 
a  grade  still  higher  than  firsts  to  meet 
the  requirements  of  the  most  fastidious 
class  of  trade.

*  *  *

The  new  grade  of  “ extra”   seems  to 
its  purpose  as  well  as 
have  satisfied 
could  be  expected  during  the  first  sea­
son  of  its  use.  Some  object  to  it  be­
cause  it  induces  a  quotation  for  excep­
tional  quality  and  this,  they  claim,  is 
misleading  to  shippers.  Others,  again, 
who  do  not  receive  any  such  goods 
swear by  all that’s  good  that  no  one  else 
gets  them  and  that  the  whole  thing— 
grade,  mark  sale,  price and  quotation— 
is  a  humbug  from  start  to  finish.  The 
fact  of  the  case  is  simply  this:  Out  of 
last  week’s  receipts  of  about  55,000 
cases  of  eggs,  probably  about  4.000 
cases  were 
selected  so  closely  and 
showed  such  fine  quality  as  to meet with 
i5@i$%c  at  mark  in 
prompt  sale  at 
spite of  urgent  offerings  of  average  fine 
eggs  at  15c  loss off,  and  an  average  net 
value  for the general receipts of  scarcely 
more  than  12c  or  I2 ^ c  on  a  case  count 
basis.  These  4,000 cases  were  not 
in­
spected  and 
impossible  to  say 
whether or  not the  inspector would  have 
graded  them  as  extras;  so far as  the  loss 
was concerned they fully met the require­
ments,  the  losses  ranging  from  6 eggs 
to  10  or  12  eggs  to the  case  under  the 
buyer’s  own 
judgment.  Now  if  these 
fancy  eggs,  although  comparatively  few 
in  quantity,  were  to  be  continually 
ig­
nored  in  making  quotations  for  our  egg 
market,  there  would  be  little  prospect 
of  encouraging  the  packing  of  such 
goods.  And  the  need  of  such  eggs  is 
evidenced  by  the  ease  and  promptness 
with  which  they  have  sold during a  time 
when  the  general  egg  market  was  as 
deep  in  the  dumps as  it  is  often  found. 
The  quotation  for  them  at  their  full 
actual  selling  value 
is  necessary  to  a 
truthful  picture  of  our  market  and  so 
long  as  the  required  quality  is  clearly 
described  in  the  quotations  there  is  no 
it  should  mislead  any  one 
reason  why 
into the  belief that  such  figures 
iepre- 
sented  our  market  for  usual  offerings.

is 

it 

*  *  *

On  the  whole,  we  believe  the  new  egg 
rules,  although  they  may  be  further  im­
proved  upon  by  some  minor alterations, 
are fit to  do business  under  intelligently 
twelve  months 
in  the  year;  but,  of 
course,  like any  other  rules  of a  similar 
character,  they  must  be  interpreted  ju­
diciously  by  the 
inspectors  and  used 
with 
reasonable  amount  of  common 
sense.—N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

Only  the  Beginning  of Trouble.
“ It  isn’t  my  wife’s new spring clothes 

that  worry  me. ’ ’

“ Well,  what  is  it?”
“ As  soon  as  she gets all  togged  out 
now  she  wants  her  photograph  taken. ’ ’

■   Why  Don't  You Ask
Us what to do with your Peaches, Pears, Plums,  Apples 
Huckleberries, etc.?

Strange &  Nokes,

W holesale  Fruits 
Cleveland,  Ohio.

STROUP &  CARMER, S J r S Ä S .r ’’-

Wholesale  Produce  and  Commission. 

a«*«» Phone, *S3o

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 Rap ids  National Bank,  Grand R ap ids,  M ich.

Ithaca Savin gs Bank,  Ithaca,  M ich.  F . E .  D urfee &  Co., Perrinton, M ich.
R .  G .  Dnn &  Co. A gen cy.  Bradstreet A gen cy.

Ship your BUTTER AND EGOS to

R.  HIRT,  Jr.,  Detroit,  Mich.

34 and 36 Market Street,

i  Cold  Storage  and  Freezing  House  in  connection.  Capacity  ^ 

75  carloads.  Correspondence  solicited.

435-437-439  Winder  Street. 

COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 

POTTLITZER  BROS.  FRUIT  C O ,   8
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F T .  W AYNE,  IN D .  S

Also  POTATOES,  C A BBA G E,  ONIONS  AND  A P P L E S 

Our motto:  Quick sales and prompt remittance. 

IN  F R U IT S   O F  A LL  D E S C R IP T IO N  

LA FA Y E TTE ,  IN D . 

In Carload  Lots. 

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A  1 V T C — ^   y°u  ^ave  Beans you  wish to  sell  be- 
f \   1 ^ 1 ^ ^  
fore  new  crop  is  ready,  send  us  sam- 
* * *   pies,  quantity,  price.  Will  try  trade. 
FIELD  S E E D S - -Can fill your orders promptly at right prices.
LEMONS—We  are  making  low  prices  on  Extra  Choice 
fruit.  Send us  your orders.

M O SELEY  BROS.,  26 to 3 2   Ottawa St.,

___________________________GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

MILLER & TEASDALE

WATERMELONS

CAR LOTS ONLY.  ST. LOUIS, MO.

I  have a steady local  demand  for  fancy  E ggs  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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13

TIMOTHY

W e are direct receivers and recleaners of W estern grow n Timothy. 
quotations w rite to-day.  B est grades and low est prices.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.,

24 AND 26 N.  DIV.  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

I f  you  do  not  receive  our  regular 

Producing  Hybrid  Oranges.

It  has  been asserted  on  good  authority 
that  nine-tenths  of  the  flowers  which 
are  exhibited  at  horticultural  shows  are 
the  results  of  modification  by  the  gar­
dener’s  art  and  not  purely  natural 
growths.  The 
improvement  of  flowers 
has  been 
largely  effected  by  crossing 
different  varieties,  so  that  deficiencies 
in  one  may  be  made  good  by  the virtues 
of  another.  The  first  intentional  ven­
ture  in  hybridizing  flowers  was with  the 
sweet  William  and  carnation  pink.

The  same  principle  has  been  exten­
sively  utilized  by  breeders  of  horses, 
pigeons  and  other  animals,  and  also 
with  cereals.  A  grain  having  a  good 
berry  but  a  poor  stalk  has  been  com­
bined with one that developed  fine  straw 
but  yielded  an 
insignificant  kernel. 
Thus  a  grain  which  excelled  both 
in 
stalk  and  kernel  was  secured.
At  the  International  Conference  on 
Hybridization  in  London  the  other  day 
an  interesting  report  was  presented  by 
Herbert  J.  Webber,  of  the  United  States 
Department  of  Agriculture,  on  efforts  to 
protect  the  orange  industry  of  the  Gulf 
States.  Every  few  years  a  cold  wave 
would  sweep  through  that  region  and 
almost  entirely  ruin  the  orange  crop. 
The  trees  did  not  seem  to  be  hardy 
enough  to  survive  such  an  ordeal.  The 
authorities  at  Washington, 
therefore, 
had  been  studying  how  to  obtain  trees 
that  possessed  greater  hardiness,  and  at 
the  same  time  produced  a  delicious 
fruit.

According  to  Mr.  Webber  they  at­
tempted  to  cross  the  sweet  orange  with 
the  Japanese orange  or citrus  trifoliata. 
The  latter  plant thrives  as  far  north  as 
New  York,  and  is  used  as a hedge plant. 
The  fruit 
is  bitter  and  resinous,  and 
hence  unfit  for  use.  The  experiment 
has  already  gone  so  far  that  a  hybrid 
has  been  obtained  which  is  much  hard­
ier than  the  sweet  orange.  Unfortunate­
ly  the  lecturer  neglected  to  say anything 
as  to the  flavor  of  the  fruit.  Another 
venture 
in  this  direction  is a  combina­
tion  of  the  sweet  orange  with  the  tan­
gerine.  The  object  sought  is  the asso­
ciation  of  a  skin  which  may  be  readily 
removed  with  the delicious  flavor  of  a 
typical  Florida  orange.  Many  persons 
like  the  tangerine  fully  as  well  as  the 
Florida  orange;  but  they  are  the  excep­
tion,  not the  rule.
Crossing  sea  island  cotton with upland 
cotton,  z  combination  of  one species  of 
pineapple  with  another,  and hybridizing 
maize  with  the  Mexican  grass, 
the 
osinth,  supposed  to  be  the  progenitor of 
maize,  are  among  the  other  schemes  to 
which  attention  has  been  given  by  the 
Department  of  Agriculture.
Supply  of Eggs  Not  Equal  to  the  De­

mand.

From the New York Commercial.

New  York 

The  calico  print 
estimated, 

While  the  demand  for  eggs  is  con­
stantly 
increasing  the  supply  shows  a 
disappointing  decrease.  The  specula­
tive  element  in  the  market  is  in  conse­
quence  expeeting  higher  prices,  while 
the  trade  in  general  is  only  striving  to 
keep  up  its  supply.
Last  year’s  receipts  on  the  New  York 
markets  were  over 90,000,000  dozen,  but 
the  receipts  for  the  first  six  months  of 
this  year  show  a  decided  falling  off.
is  the  largest  egg  market 
in  the  world, and  last  year  handled  over 
$18,000,000  worth  of  eggs,  figured  at  the 
average  retail  price  of  20 cents.
interests  use,  it  is 
roughly 
over  40,000,000 
dozen  eggs  annually,  while  the  coffee 
roasters,  the  photographic  trades,  the 
cracker  and  biscuit  combines,  and  the 
chemical  trades  consume twice as many. 
In  fact,  the grocer  is  to-day  compelled 
to 
in  the  general  market 
against  buyers  from  a  dozen  manufac­
turing  interests.  The leather and  leather 
product trades are  also  extensive  users 
of  eggs  for  tanning  and  refining  pur­
poses,  as  are  also  the  several  patent 
liquor  job­
food  concerns.  Wine  and 
bers 
in 
“ finding,”   and,  in  fact,  when  all  the 
other  interests  have  been  supplied  the 
grocer 
if  be  gets 
what he  needs.
imported  over 
$20,000,000  worth  of  eggs,  bat  the

is  indeed  fortunate 

indispensable 

England 

compete 

the  egg 

year 

find 

last 

in 

American  egg  had  hardly  any  represen­
tation 
these  millions  of  cases. 
French,  German  and  especially  Can­
adian  eggs  reached  the  English  market 
to the  exclusion  of the American article. 
This  is  principally  due,  say  the  leading 
dealers,  to  the  fact  that  under  the  pres­
ent  tariff  Canada,  being  unable  to  ship 
eggs 
into  this  country,  sends  them  to 
Europe.  Under  these  conditions,  even 
if  the  American  supply  were  in  great 
excess of  the  demand, which  it has  never 
been,  competition  with  Canada  would 
be  out of  the question.
“ It  may  not  be  generally  known,”  
said  Mr.  Martin,  of  G.  W.  Martin  & 
Bros.,  “ but  the  volume  of  the  egg busi­
ness  in  this  country  is  larger than  many 
of  the  supposed  great  businesses.  The 
profit  is  much  smaller,  with the transac­
tions  quicker,  but  in  the aggregate  the 
egg  business  is  one of  the  most  impor­
tant  and  extensive 
country. 
Eighteen  millions  of  dollars’ worth  of 
eggs  were  handled 
in  this  city  alone 
last  year,  while  Chicago,  St.  Louis  and 
the  other  markets  together  would  prob­
ably  more  than  double  this  figure.  The 
manufacturing  interests,  of  course,  have 
had  a  great  effect  upon  the  market,  but 
the  demand  from  the  table 
is  growing 
heavier  every  day.  The  farmers  are 
learning  this  and chicken raising,  which 
a  few  years  ago  was  practically  neg­
lected,  is  now  becoming  as  much  of  an 
industry  as  hay  or  wheat  raising,  and 
much  more  profitable.

in  the 

“ The  National  Biscuit  Co. buys  4,000 
dozen  eggs  a  week,  or  16.000  dozen  a 
month,  while  the 
innumerable  smaller 
and  independent  concerns  buy  as  much 
more—all  in  the  local  market.  Outside 
of  New  York,  these and  similar 
inter­
ests are  also  heavy  buyers,  as  in  the  in­
stance  of  the  calico  print  trades,  which 
buy  from  five  million  to  eight  million 
dozen  eggs  a  year  on  this  market.  Sta­
tistics  show  that  these trades  use over 
40,000,000  dozen  annually,buying mostly 
in  the  New  England  markets.  Dye 
manufacturers  are  also  extensive buyers 
of  eggs,  as  are  the  confectioners  and 
bakers.  The  commercial  uses  of  the 
egg  are  numerous,  and  in a  dozen  trades 
it  is  found  absolutely 
indispensable.”
“ The  egg  is  a  much  more  important 
factor  of  commerce  than  most  people 
believe,”   said  Supt.  F.  W.  Henry,  of 
the  Mercantile  Exchange,  to a  reporter 
for'the  Commercial. 
in­
stance  have  I  noticed  that a  substitute 
for  the  egg  has  been  found,  and  that 
is 
in  the  manufacture  of  photographic 
paper,  where  collodion  and  gelatine  are 
now  being  used,  which  are  just  as  satis­
factory  and  much  cheaper.  In  the  other 
trades,  however,  the egg  is  still  a  factor, 
and  an  important  one  at  that.”
An 

Interesting  Experiment  in  Egg- 

“ In  only  one 

Keeping.

An 

interesting  experiment 

in  egg 
storage has  just  been  tried  in  Scotland. 
A  batch  of  50,000  Scottish,  Irish  and 
Danish  eggs  sealed  up  in  patent  storage 
apparatus  was  examined  four  months 
afterward,  only  a  small  proportion  of 
the  eggs  being  found  unfit  for  use.  The 
secret  of  the  method  is  to keep  the  eggs 
cool,  to  allow  free  access  of  air  around 
each  egg,  to  keep  them  upright  in  po­
sition,  and  to  turn  them  periodically  so 
that  the  yolk  of  the  egg  is  constantly 
embedded  in  the  albumen.  These  de­
siderata  are  brought  about  by  placing 
the  eggs in  frames  which,  by  the  action 
of  a  lever,  can  be  inclined  in  different 
directions  as  needed.  In this  way  23,000 
eggs  can  be  turned  over  in  half  a  min­
ute  without  risk  of  breakage.  Testi­
monials 
from  reliable 
sources  showing  that  eggs  so  treated 
will  remain  perfectly  fresh  and  good 
for at  least  five  or six  months.

are  at  hand 

How  to  Explain  the  Mystery. 

“ It’s  a  mystery  to  me  how  Nocoin 

lives.”

borhood. ”

“ Would  you  really  like  to  know?”  
“ Yes,  I  would. ”
“ Open  a  grocery  store  in  the  neigh­

It  is  far better to have one hand  on  a 
postoffice  than  both  eyes  on  a  foreign 
mission.

Samples sent on application without charge.

Vinkemulder  Company

Jobbers of

Fruits  and  Vegetables

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

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J.  W.  LANSING«

W H O LE S A LE   DEALER  IN

BUTTER  AND  EGGS

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

I w ant your shipments of eggs.  Our market  Is as high as any,  w ith good demand  for 
the time of year.  W e are also short of D airy  B utter;  in fact,  the  market  is  almost  bare 
o f that class of stock and all shipments sell  on  arrival.  The  same  with  cooking  butter; 
it is bringing better prices than ever before.  Send me your shipments, for I can do you good.

R E F E R E N C E S:

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Peoples Bank,  Buffalo,  N .  Y . 

Dun or Bradstreet.
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14
Shoes and  Leather

How  a  Courteous  Shoe  Salesm an 

Won  a  Customer.

Written fo r the T radesm an.

We  were  going  down  Sixteenth  street 
together  and  the other  fellow  was  free­
ing  his  mind  about the average  clerk : 
“ They  are  all  built  on  the  same  plan, 
said  he. 
“ This  one  goes  around  with 
bis  nose  in  the air and  looks  haughtily 
over his  collar at  the  customer who  pre­
sumes  to  stop  on  the  other side  of  his 
counter  with  the  air  of  one  ‘ an’  who 
should  say,’  ‘ Well,  hurry  up,  my  man, 
what  is  it?’  Another vulgarly  cuts  his 
finger  nails  while  you  are  waiting  with 
impatience  to  be  off.  A  third,  with 
a condescension  as  contemptible  as  it  is 
uncalled  for,  tells  you  in  an  undertone, 
‘ You  don't  want  what  you  ask  for,  but 
here 
is  the  latest  thing  if  you  want  to 
be  well  dreused !’  They  don’t  get any 
kid-glove  handling  from  me,  confound 
’em ! 
Ever  get  anything  at  March- 
bank's?  I  went 
in  there a  week  ago. 
That  blamed  Hoch  der  Kaiser  went 
right  on  with  the  pretty  little  tune  he 
was  whistling  under  his  breath  and 
looked  through  me  outdoors,  or some­
where  opposite  him,  without  a  word. 
‘ Well,  sonny,’  said  I,  ‘ get  a  move  on 
you  and  show  me  some  shirts and  neck­
ties.'  He  yawned, 
front 
teeth  with  bis  thumb nail  a  minute or so 
and  then  pulled  down  from  the  shelf  a 
shirt box  and  one of  collars. 
I  glanced 
at  ’em  and  then  looked  at  him.  Pretty 
soon  he  got  tired  looking  through  the 
door  and 
looked  at  me  as  much  as  to 
say,  ‘ Well,  do  you  want  ’em  or don’t 
you?’  By  that  time  there  was  but  one 
thing  for  me  to  say  and  I  said  it,  the 
d—d  chump I  Then  he  went  to  work 
and  showed  me  what  I  wanted.  After 
I ’d  paid  the  bill  I  said,  ‘ Young  fellow,
I  don’t  know  who  you  are,  but  if  you 
were  my  clerk  I ’d  get  rid  of  you  before 
you’d  ruined  what  little  trade  I  had 
left, ’  and  stalked  out  of  the  store. 
That’s  one  kind.  The  others,  in  their 
way,  are  just as bad;  but,  between  you 
and  me  and  the  hitching  post,  if  thete 
is any  one  of  them  worse  than  the  fel­
low  found  behind 
the  haberdasher’s 
counter  it  will  be  the  clerk  in  the  shoe 
store. 
In  the  first  place,  I  can’t  under­
stand  bow  a  man,  young  or old,  born  in 
this  country,  can  come  down  to  putting 
on  and  taking  off  other people’s shoes 
The  only  way  I  can  account  for  it  is 
that  he has  been  born  an  underling  and 
is  content to  be one. ’ ’

tapped  his 

“ Oh,  well,”   I  said,  “ each  one  to 
his  taste.  There 
isn’t,  probably,  any 
love  lost.  None  of these  chaps  have  any 
over-fondness 
for  pencil-pushers;  but 
aren’t  you  coming  down  rather  heavily 
on  the  man 
in  the  shoe store?  Ever 
been  into  Bayard  &  Voze’s?  There’s a 
boy  in  there  who  hasn’t  any  nonsense 
about him.  Let’s  go  there  and  see  what 
he’s  made of.  Do  you  not  want  some­
thing  in  that  line?  Let’s  make  believe 
we  do anyway,  so you  can  have  a  whack 
at  him. 
I ’ve  heard  so  much  about  your 
tomahawking  these  offenders  when  you 
get  on  your  war  paint  that  I ’d  reaily 
like  to hear and  see  some  of  it.  Here’s 
Bayard  &  Voze’s  now—come  on  in  and 
get a  pair of  shoestrings.”

We  went  in.  As  luck  would  have  it, 
Brainard,  the  boy  we  had  been  talking 
about,  came  forward  to  wait  on  us. 
He’s  a  fine  specimen  of  young  man­
hood,  something  under  six  feet  in  his 
stockings,  broad-chested,  well-muscled, 
and  well  dressed,  without  a  snobbish 
mark  about  him  anywhere.  His  face

did  the  business,  so  open  it  is  and  so 
handsome;  and  his  earnest,  hearty, 
good-natured  manner  as  he  stood  wait­
ing  to  know  what  we  wanted  made  the 
interview  as  pleasant  as  it  was  unex­
pected.  A  shoestring  bargain  isn’t  apt 
to  create  a  great  deal  of  enthusiasm, 
the  profits  not  figuring 
largely  in  the 
day’s  sales when,  as  now,  it  is  generally 
given  aw ay;  but  there  was  no  sudden 
tall  in  the physiognomy when the strings 
were  called  for.

“ All  right,”   said  the  cheery  voice 
“ take  this  seat,  right  here,  sir,  and 
I'll  have  them  for  you  in  a  jiffy.”

“ Oh,  I ’ll  put  ’em  in ,”   protested  the 

customer.

“ It’ll  take  but  a  minute. 

‘ Strings 
in  while  you  w ait,’  you  know 
put 
Excuse  my 
looking  at  your  shoe—not 
large  for  a  man  of  your  size.  You  are 
lucky  to  get  such  a  fit  as  that  and  I 
think  that  kind  of  leather  makes  the 
best  kind  of  a  shoe. 
It's  llsrht,  easy  to 
the  foot  and  doesn’t fluff off.  Y es” — 
the  task  was  done  and  the  shapely  hand 
smoothed  the  restored  shoe  with  some­
thing 
like  a  caress—“ that’s a  good-fit- 
ting  shoe and  your  foot  looks  well  in  it. 
When  those  strings  wear  out come  in 
and  let  me  put  in  another  pair.  That’s 
all  right—strings  don’t  cost  anything— 
and  you  needn't  be afraid  of  coming  in 
too  often.  Good  morning.”

We  walked  as  far as  the  drug  store  on 
the  corner.  # “ Come  in  here,”   said  Mr. 
Other  Fellow,  “ and  take  a  phosphate, 
you  grinning  old  duffer! 
I  wouldn’t 
care  if  you  didn’t  act  so  like  agony 
when  you  get  the  laugh  on  m e.”

Silence  was  commendable  until  I  had 
secured  the  phosphate  and,  under the 
circumstances,  even  then  I  was  dis­
posed  to  be  kind.

“ W ell,”   was  the  remark  after  we  had 
left  the  drug  store,  “ all  I ’ve  got  to  say 
is that  that  young  fellow  has  gained  an­
other  customer,  one  that  will  cling  to 
him  as 
in  this 
town. ’ ’

long  as  he  remains 

little 

“ M-bm,”   I  said  a 

later,  “ I 
thought  when  I  saw  him  pat  that  foot 
of  yours  and  heard  bim  say  what he  did 
that  he  understood  his  business;”   and 
then  that  railer  against  clerks,  and 
shoe  clerks 
in  particular,  called  me a 
‘ duffer”   again,  preceded  by  a  forceful 
adjective  which  does  not  look  well  in 
black  and  white.

R ic h a r d   M alcom  St r o n g .

The  Boy  Who  Didn’t.

“ Please,  s ir,”   said  the  office  boy, 
‘ may  I  get  away  this  afternoon?”  
“ What’s  wrong?”   asked  the  great 
financier;  “  is your grandmother dead ?”  
Little  Wiliie  had  been  taught  that 
honesty  was  always  the best  policy.  He 
was  a  good  boy.  He  never  sneaked 
stamps  from  his  employer, and  he never 
threw  the  pretty  typewriter  into  fits  by 
whispering  to  her that  he  had  just  seen 
a  mouse  scoot  under  her  desk.  Being 
a  truthful  boy,  little  Willie  replied: 

“ No,  sir.  I  ain’t  got  no grandmother, 
but  the  club  that’s 
first  place  is 
goin’  to  play  here  to-day,  and  I ’d  like 
to  see  the  game. ’ ’

in 

Here, 

The  old  gentleman  stared at bim help­
lessly  for  a  moment,  and  then  drew 
from  his  pocket $2,  which  he  banded  to 
the  boy.
Ah,  reader,  you  have already  guessed 
that  the great  man  felt  in  duty  bound  to 
encourage  such  frankness—but  wait.

said  Henry  Hardrocks, 
here  s  your  week's  wages.  Don't 
come  back  any  more.  A  boy  that  can’t 
get  up  even  a  poor  excuse  on  such  an 
occasion  as  the  present  one  would  never 
to  anything  in  this  business. ”  
Thus  do  we  learn  that  in  being  its 
own  reward  virtue  continues  to bay? few 
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MISSED  THE  TRAIN.

How  the  Tempter  Came  to  the  Lady 

Clerk.

She—You  have  often  seen  her  stand­
ing  behind  the  counter  of  our  large 
store,  young,  pretty,  large pathetic eyes, 
with  a  patient  although  iired  expression 
as  she  calmly  submits  to  the  humors 
of  the  many  patrons,  and  glad  when  the 
hands  of  the  big  clock  point  to  the hour 
for  closing.  After  a 
long  walk  she 
reaches  home,  to  be  met by  a  number of 
small  brothers  and  sisters,  all clamoring 
and  chiding  her  for  delaying  dinner. 
After  dinner  she  endeavors  to  amuse 
them  with  some  story  of  the  day’s  hap­
penings  until,  tired  out,  she goes  to  her 
scantily-furnished  and  sometimes  cold 
room,  hastily 
is 
soon  in slumber,  only to  be awakened  in 
the  morning  by  that oft-heard  warning, 
“ Hurry  up,  or  you’ll  be  late  at  the 
store.”   And  so  she  lives  day  after  day, 
her  ambition  and  her brightness  being 
crushed  out  in  the  race  for  the  pittance 
to  help  those at  home.

jumps  into  bed  and 

He—You  all  know  him.  Handsome, 
rich,  careless,  generous—not a  bad  fel­
low,  bis  male  friends  say;  in  fact,  not 
as  bad  as  most  men,  for he  is  more  bou 
est.  He  vows  he  never  accepts  anything 
serious,  lives  with  one  object  in  life, 
and  that  to  gratify  his whims, and hopes 
in  that  he  is  affording  pleasure  to  oth­
ers;  if  not,  he  does  not  think  enough 
about  it  to  let  it  disturb  his  easy  tem­
perament.  And  so  he  lives,  day  by  day.
They—Well,  they met—perhaps  by  ac­
cident,  perhaps  design,  who  knows? 
They  attended  places  of  amusement, 
they  dined,  he  taught  her  the  brighter 
view  of  things  and  gave  her  an 
insight 
into  the other side  of  life ;  and when her 
friends  remonstrated  with  her and  told 
her  he  was  not considered  parti  proper 
she  became  indignant.  Why  not?  His 
manner  was  extremely  courteous,  his 
deportment  exceptional.  Never  had  he 
said  or  acted  that  which  could  have 
been  construed  as  the  least  suggestive. 
So,  when  a  holiday  came  and he invited 
her  to  go  on  an  excursion  to  an  adjoin­
ing  city,  she  saw  no  reason  to  refuse. 
They  drove,  they  dined,-they  saw  the 
sights,  and  when  they  decided  to  return 
—well,  they  had  missed  the  train.  He 
it  as  a  joke;  but 
laughingly  regarded 
she,  realizing  her  position,  burst 
into 
tears,  and  when  he  assured  her  that 
there  was  no  reason  for  alarm,  as  be 
would  telegraph  her  folks,  and  take  her 
to  some  friend’s  to  spend  the  evening, 
she  could  offer  no  objection.  When 
their carriage  stopped  he  hastily  ran  up 
the  steps  of  a  handsome  residence,  and, 
after  a  few  minutes’  converse with some 
one,  returned  with  the  cheery  “ Every­
thing’s  O.  K. ”   and  bade her  come  in. 
At  the  door  they  were  met  by  a  young 
woman,  evidently  a  maid,  and,  after 
entering,  be  explained  that  his  friends 
were  out  of town,  but  Marie  would  look 
after  her  comfort  until  morning;  then 
he  would  call  and  take  her  home.  Be­
fore  she  could  reply be wished her pleas­
ant  dreams  and  a  good  night,  and  was 
gone.  Stunned  and  bewildered,  she  fol­
lowed  the  maid  to  a  room.  Carefully 
she  was  disrobed,  and  with  intimations 
to  ring  should  she  desire  anything,  she 
was  left  alone—alone,  and 
in  a  room 
such  as  she  had  often  dreamed  of,  sur­
rounded  with  all  the  comforts  and  arts 
that  are  accumulated  only  by  those  of 
wealth  and  refinement.  Tired  and  won­
dering,  she threw  herself  upon  the  bed 
(oh,  so  soft  it  seemed  to  her)  and  fell 
In  the  morning  she  was  awak­
asleep. 
ened  by 
the  sweet  caroling  of  two

canaries  hung 
in  an  alcove  and  half 
hidden  by  choice  ferns  and  flowers. 
Breathing  the  fragrance  and  dreamily 
listening  to  the  music,  she  lay,  until  in­
terrupted  by  the  maid,  who  assisted  in 
her  toilet  and  served  a  dainty  break­
fast.  Then—he  came,  the  same  laugh­
ing,  careless  manner,  and  when  she 
questioned  him  as  to  the  whereabouts of 
his  friends  he  evaded  it  with  enquiries 
about  her  comfort.  When  she  persisted 
and  asked  whose  room  she  occupied  he 
looked  at  her  and  slowly  answered, 
“ Yours, as— long—as—you—wish. ”   For 
a  moment  she  gazed  at  him  blankly. 
When  the  truth  dawned  upon  her  she 
burst 
indignation 
and  humiliation.  He  stood  calmly  by, 
no  word  or action  betraying  the feelings 
he  felt  at  her  distress,  and  when  she 
demanded  to  be  taken  home  he  simply 
said,  “ Come.”  
in 
the  train,  and  when  he  purchased  mag­
azines  and  proffered  them  to  her  she 
turned  her  bead  and  gazed  vacantly 
through the window.  At last they reached 
the  door of  her  home.  She  sighed,  and 
turned  toward  him  in  a  manner suggest­
ing  dismissal.  He  looked  at  her stead­
ily,  took  her hand,  pressed  it  tenderly, 
bowed  bis  head  and  whispered,  “ When 
you  decide,  write.”

into  tears—tears  of 

In  silence  they  sat 

and  scented 

That  night  as  she  slept  a  smile  was 
on  her  lips,  for  she  dreamed—dreamed 
of  downy  beds  and  rooms  all  trimmed 
in  white  and  gold;  dreamed  of  sweet 
singing  birds 
flowers; 
dreamed  of  dainty  meals,  with  maids  in 
attendance.  But  when  she  awoke  her 
smile  faded,  and  as  her  gaze  wandered 
around  her  cheerless  room,  finally  rest­
ing  on  the  frost-covered  windows,  she 
drew  the  spread  more  closely  around 
her  and  sobbed,  again  to  hear  the  old 
call,  “ Hurry  up,  or you  will  be  late  at 
the  store. ’ ’

One  morning,  carelessly  opening  the 
many  invitations,  be  started  as  he  ner­
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fancy  seal.  Perusing  the  contents,  a 
tender  look  came  into  his  eyes,  and  for 
a  moment  he  seemed  to  be  undecided ; 
then,  resuming  bis  same  careless  man­
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speedily  driven  away.

Some  time  after,  the  butler,  in  ar­
ranging  the  room,  picked  up  an  en­
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the  table  he  slowly  read  the  imprint  of 
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ABOUT  ADVERTISING.

One  Merchant’s  Ideas  About  How  to 

Do  It.
Written for the Tradesman.

I  went 

into  a  friend’ s  store  not  long 
ago and  found  him  busy  preparing  ad­
vertising  copy  for  the  morning  papers.

“ You  think  it  pays?”   I  asked.
“ It’s  just  like  everything  else,”   was 
the  reply.  " I t   pays  if  attended  to  prop­
erly.  Nothing  pays  if  half  done.  Look 
here,  for  instance,”   he  added  produc­
ing  a  stack  of  carefully  prepared  copy, 
type-written  and  underscored  as  to  dis­
play 
lines,  “ I ’ve  been  a  week  at  this, 
and  it  has  cost  me  double  in  time  the 
sum  I  have  to  pajr for  the  space  in  the 
newspapers. ’ ’

“ How  long  will 

it  run?”   I  asked, 
admiring  the  skill  with  which  the  mat­
ter  had  been  prepared.

“ Only  once,”   was  the  reply. 

“ I 
take  a  page  in  each  of  the  city papers, 
and  advertise  the  sale  to  begin  on  Mon­
day. 
I  never  run  the  same  advertise­
ment  twice,  for  I  take  a  space  large 
enough  to  attract  the  attention  of  the 
readers. ’ ’

“ You  quote  prices,  of  course?”   I 

asked.

“ It  wouldn’t  be  much  good  without 
the  prices,”   was  the  laughing  reply. 
“ Prices  bring  people  here.  These  ad­
vertisements  will  fill  the  store  to  the 
front  doors  for  a  week,  if  the  stock 
bolds  out.  You  see,  I  never  have  fake 
sales,  and  when  the  people  read  my  an­
nouncements 
they  understand  that  I 
mean  business.  But 
lot  of 
it 
work,”   he  added,  wearily.

is  a 

“ But  this 

is  Wednesday,”  

I  sug­
gested.  “ Why  do  you  advertise  the  sale 
so  far ahead?”

“ To  give  those  who  read  the  adver­
tisements  a  chance  to  tel)  those  who  do 
not,”   was  the  reply. 
“ What  would  you 
think  of  a  circus  manager  who  adver­
tised  his  show  only  the  day  before  the 
performance?  You’d  regard  him  as  in­
competent,  wouldn’t  you?  More  than 
half  the  people  would  never  hear  of  the 
show  until  after  it  had  left  town. 
is 
just  the  same  in  advertising  a dry goods 
sale.  Of  course,  I  run  locals  in  all  the 
papers  during  the  sale,  but  the  big  an­
nouncement  comes  first  to  attract  at­
tention  by  the  prices  and  set  folks  to 
talking. ”

It 

I  saw  the  point  and  said 'so.
“ When  I  bought  in  here,”   continued 
the  merchant,  “ my  partner  attended  to 
the advertising,  and  as  he  didn’t  seem 
to  make  a  success  of 
it,  I  began  to 
watch  him  and  study  his  method.  One 
morning  I  came  down  and 
found  him 
looking  as  sour as a  dish  of  pickles.

“   ‘ What’s  wrong?’  I  asked.

‘ Why,’  he  said,  ‘ I ’ve  been  making 
the  newspapers  a  present  of  more 
money.  See  here,  I  advertised  these 
dress  goods  at  about  half  price 
in  all 
the  evening  and  morning  papers.  I took 
a  notion  to  see  how  it  would  come  out 
and  got  here  early.  Well,  there  hasn’t 
been  a  single  call  for the  goods  that 
it 
cost  us  fifty  dollars  to advertise—not  a 
single  call. 
I  guess  I ’ll  ring  off on  this 
newspaper advertising  for a  time. ’

“ I  looked  at  my  watch  and it was  just 
It  was  annoying,  of  course, 
io o’clock. 
but 
it  was  funny,  too,  and  I  just  sat 
down  and  laughed.  My  partner  tossed 
his  head  and  looked  uglier than  ever.

‘ I  don’t  see  anything  to  laugh  a t,’ 
‘ Fifty  dollars  don’t  grow  on 

he  said. 
every  bush.’

‘ How  long  does this  sale continue?’
I  asked  as  soon  as  I  could  get  my  face 
straight.

“   ‘ Only  to-day,’  replied  the  old  inno­
‘ I  thought  one  day  would  close 

cent. 
them  out.’

“   ‘ Well,’  I  said,  ‘ late 

in  the  after­
noon  you  may  expect  a  few  sales of  the 
stuff  advertised,  and  all  the  rest  of  the 
week  you’ll  be  having  trouble  with  peo­
ple  who  will  demand  the goods  at  the 
sale  price,  declaring  that  they  didn’t 
see  the  advertisement,  but 
just  heard 
about  it.  You  can’t  expect folks to jump 
up  from  the  breakfast  table  with  the 
newspaper in  one  hand  and  their  money 
in  the  other  and  rush  down  here  to  buy 
goods.  You  must  give  them  time.  And 
then  not  one  out  of  ten  of  the  people 
who  take  the city  papers  read the adver­
tisements.  But  the  one  out  of  ten,  the 
ten  out  of  a  hundred,  the  hundred  out 
of  a  thousand—these  are  the  folks  who 
make  advertising  pay,  for  they  spread 
the  news,  and  show  the  papers  to  their 
neighbors,  and  come  here  and  look  the 
advertised  goods  over and  go away  and 
talk  about 
It  takes  time  for  the 
news  of  a  sale  to  get  around;  you  must 
always  consider  that. ’

it. 

“ He  was  angry  at  me  for  a  time,  but 
he  advertised  the  goods  again,  and  got 
rid  of  them.  The  next  week,  during 
the  dull  season,  the  advertising  mana­
ger  of  one  of  the  city  papers  came  in 
with  a  proposition  that  looked  reason­
able.  He  bad  lots  of  space  at  his  dis­
posal,  and  was  willing  to  make  a  big 
cut  in  rates  and  ‘ sample  copy’ the town.
I  suggested  to  my  partner  that  it  might 
prove  a  good  thing,  and  he  went  to 
work  on  the  copy  for  a  page  advertise­
ment.  He  said  nothing  to  me  about  it 
and  I  let  him  go  ahead  in  his  own  way.
“ The  next  morning,  when  I  read  the 
announcement 
in  the  paper  I  nearly 
dropped  dead.  What  bad  the  old  in­
nocent  done,  right 
in  the  middle  of 
lot  of  out-of- 
August,  but  advertise  a 
style  winter  cloaks! 
In  a  day  or two  I 
asked  him  how  the  sale  was  getting 
along  and  he  made  a  wry  face  and  said 
he  hadn’t  sold  a  cloak,  although  the  re­
duction  was  a  big  one. 
I  asked  him 
what his  idea  was  in  advertising  winter 
cloaks  in  August  and  he  said  he  wanted 
to  get  them  out of the  way  for the  win­
ter  stock. 
I  ventured  the  assertion  that 
we  wouldn’t  sell  a  dozen  cloaks,  and we 
didn’t,  although  a  good  many  people 
looked  the  stock  over.

“ Now,  if  he  had  advertised  season­
able  goods,  he  might  have  filled  the 
store  with  new  customers.  But  winter 
cloaks!  Out-of-date  winter cloaks,  too! 
That  was  too  much!  But  it  is a  mis­
take 
lots  of  merchants  make.  They 
want  to  get  rid  of  the  goods,  and  they 
get  an  idea  into  their  heads  that  people 
will  buy 
if  they  put  the  price  low 
enough.  The  trouble  with  this  reason­
ing 
is  right  here:  People  who  have 
money  do  not  buy  out of season,  because 
they  want  to  keep  up  with  the  styles, 
while those  who  are  sometimes  obliged 
to  buy  out of-date  articles  never  have 
the  money  to  buy  with  until  the  neces­
sity  for  the  article  is great,  then  they 
scrimp 
in  some  other quarter and  buy.
I  have  known  dry  goods  men  to adver­
tise  fur collars  in  May,  six  months  be­
fore  they  could  be  worn ! 
I  am  never 
afraid  or  such  competitors.

“ And  such  men  always  blame  the 

newspapers,”   I  suggested.

it 

“ Of  course  they  do,”   was  the  reply. 
“ Why,  I ’ve  known  merchants  to 
in­
struct  their clerks  to  ask every  customer 
buying  advertised  goods  which  paper 
they  saw  the  advertisement 
in.  Of 
course,  most  of  them  replied  that  they 
hadn't  read 
in  any  paper,  but  had 
just  heard  about  it.’  Nine times out 
of_  ten  such  people  learn *of  sales  from 
friends who read  advertisements or  from 
others  who  have been  in  some  way  at­
tracted  to  the  store  by  advertising.  Still 
there  is  a  lot  of  money  thrown  away 
in 
newspaper  advertising,  and  no  one 
knows  better than  I  do,  but  honest  mer­
chants  and  honest  newspaper men  can

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

always  do  business together  with  mutual 
profit,  provided  the  former  prepares  his 
matter  properly  and  the  latter  keeps 
faith  in  the  matter of  circulation.”

The  merchant  who  spoke  is  a success­
ful  one  and  there  must  be  something 
practical  in  his  conclusions.

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

Calcium

Carbide

and all kinds o f

Acetylene Gas  Burners

Distributing  agents  for  Th e  E lectro  Lam p  Co.’s 
especially  prepared  Carbide  for  bicycle  and  por­
table lamps, in  i,  2 and 3 pound cans.
Orders promptly filled.

Jackson, Michigan.

E cop orn y5 ystenr)

What you  charge  fills  b ig  books;  but  w hat  you 
forget to charge represents a  constant loss  and can 
never  fiU  one  nook,  your  pocketbook.  Therefore, 
w e ask you to investigate

Tbe  Egry  Autographic 

Register  Systerns,

by w hich,  through a  m anifolding  system ,  you  ran 
not  forget  to  charge  things  sold. 
Satisfactory 
Store  and  T im e-saving  System s  for  store  checks, 
factory orders, requisitions,  shipping  bills,  or  any 
business  requiring  a  copy.  Enquiries  and  orders 
attended to by 

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Here  It  Is!

The  Holmes Generator

Ju st w hat you  have  been  looking  for.  Th e  latest, 
the best,  the safest,  the most durable and most sa v ­
ing of carbide on  the market. 
It  has  the  improve­
long  sought  tor  by  all  generator  manu­
ments 
facturers.  No  more w asted  gas,  no  over  heating, 
no smoke, no coals on  burners.  Only  one-tenth as 
much  gas  escapes  when  charging  as  in  form er 
machines and you  cannot  blow  it  up. 
It’s  safe, 
It is sold under a  guarantee.  Y o u  put 
it’s simple. 
the carbide in and the machine does the  rest. 
It is 
perfectly automatic.  A   perfect and steady light at 
all  times  N o  flickering  or  going  out  when 
charged.  Do not  buy  a  Generator  until  you  have 
seen this.  Y o u   w ant  a  good  one  and  w e  have 
it. 
It’s  made  fo r  business.  Fu lly  approved  by 
Board  of  Underw riters.  Catalogue  and  prices 
cheerfully sent on application.  Experienced acety­
lene gas agents wanted, 
j  imited  territory for sale. 
A lso  dealers in Carbide,  Fixtures,  Fittings, Pipe.

Holmes-Bailey  Acetylene  Gas Co. 

Maaton, Michigan.

The Best o f  Reasons why you should be  TIIP 
prejudiced  in faver of 
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. 

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

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

ratchets or levers. 

It is extrem ely simple and is sure.

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

at all times the same even  pressure.

5.  A ll  pipes are self  draining to the  condens­

ing chamber.

6.  Our  Gasometers  fo r  same  rat  d  capacity 
are the largest  on  the  market, and  w ill  hold  a 
large supply. 

It saves.

7.  T h e  Bruce  Generator,  when  left  to  do  its 
own w ork, w ill not  blow off  or w aste  the  gas.
8.  N ot least, but g reatest  Our Purifier takes 
out all moisture  and  impurities  from  the  gas, 
m aking it impossible for pipes to clog up or the 
burners to choke up and smoke.
American Carbide Co..
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Profiting by  the experience  t>f 
the numerous generators  which 
have been  put  on  the  market 
during  the  past  two  years,  we 
have succeeded  in  creating  an 
ideal generator on entirely  new 
lines, which we have designated 
as the

TURNER
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-

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the drip.

I 4®****®“*«  Ch a s .  l.  Stevens,  Ypsilanti; Secre­
tary, J. C. Saunders, Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C 
Gould. Saginaw,
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  J a m s   E.  Da y,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W. Allen  Detroit.

Waited Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

Grand  Counselor,  J no.  A.  Mu b r a y,  Detroit, 
Grand Secretary, G. S.  V alm o re, Detroit;  Grand 
Treasurer, W. S. Mbst, Jackson.

Orand Rapids Coaacil No. 131.

Senior Counselor, D. E. K e y e s ;  Secretary-Treas- 
u r » ,  L.  F .  B a k e r .  Regular  meetings—First 
of each month in Council  Chamber in 
McMullen block.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mntnal  Acci 
President,  J.  B oyd  Pantlind,  Grand Rapids. 
Secretary and Treasurer, Gno.  P.  Owbn,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

Lake Saperlor Commercial Travelers’ Clab. 
President, P. G. T buscott, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. P. Wixsok, Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

J.  H.  Russell  (Jackson  Corset  Co.) 
has  been  making  rapid  trips  around  the 
State—not  on  “ whaleback, ”   but  with 
the  “ Fanback. ”

Jewelry  Co.’s 

The  American 

four 
traveling  salesmen—Wm,  B.  Collins, 
W.  F.  Wurzburg,  Edward  Emmer  and 
John  Simpson—started  out on  tbeir  fall 
crusade  Monday,  covering  Michigan 
and  portions  of  Ohio,  Indiana  and  Wis 
consin.

Wm.  Connor 

leaves  Thursday 

for 
Rochester,  where he  will  be  the  guest  of 
Michael  Kolb  &  Sou  from  August  5  to 
15,  inclusive.  Any of  bis  customers  who 
may  wish  to communicate  with  him 
in 
the  meantime  should  address  him  at 
Rochester,  in  care  of  bis  house.  Mr. 
Connor  is  now  on  his  nineteenth  year 
with  Kolb  &  Sou  and  the  friendship 
which  has  existed  between  him  and  bis 
employers  appears  to  strengthen  as  the 
years go  on.

Papers  have  been  signed  providing 
for a  matched  game  of baseball  between 
the  Grand  Rapids  Traveling  Men’s 
Baseball  Club  and  a  picked  nine  from 
the  local  E lks’ 
lodge  at  Recreation 
Park  Saturday  afternoon.  Admission 
will  be  free  and  no charge  will  be  made 
for  reserved  seats.  Geo.  Rysdale  will 
act  as  manager and  Will  Pipp  as  cap­
It 
tain. 
is  expected  that  the  record 
made 
in  the  Kalamazoo  games—two 
consecutive 
victories—will  be  aug­
mented  by  a  third  victory.

“ While  I  was 

in  Toledo  the  other 
day,’ ’  said  a  fat  drummer  who  enjoys  a 
wide  reputation  for  truth  and  veracity, 
ingenious  contrivance 
“ I  saw  a  most 
put  to  very  practical  use. 
I  bad  re­
paired  to  the  sidewalk  in  front  of  the 
hotel  after  supper,  but  found  the  usual 
curbstone  chairs  almost  untenable on ac­
count  of  the  ferocious,  man-eating  mos­
quitoes.  Everybody  was  slapping  and 
swearing,  myself  among  the  number, 
when  out  walked  a  tall,  cool  looking 
gentleman  wearing  a  linen  snit and  a 
straw  hat  with  a  wide,  stiff  brim.  He 
took  off  the  hat  and  reached  into  the 
crown  and  extracted  a  mosquito  net 
made  on  the  principle of a  very  ample 
Mother  Hubbard  wrapper  without 
sleeves. 
It  was  attached  at the top  to a 
steel  hoop  about  the  diameter  of  the 
hat.  He  slipped  this  hoop  over  the 
crown  and  the  netting  fell  down  all 
around,  like  a  small  balloon.  All  he 
bad  then  to  do  was  to  insert himself  at 
the bottom  and  put  the  bat  on  his  head. 
The  broad  brim  kept the bar away  from 
bis  face,  and  as  he  took  a  chair and

it 

last  night. 

it  securely 

New  Orleans 

gathered  the  bottom  fullness  around  his 
legs  I  noticed  that  be  wore a  pair  of 
bicycle  guards  on  his  trousers.  In  other 
words,  he  was  armed  cap-a-pie,  and 
when  he  calmly  lighted  a  cigar and 
crossed  his hands  on  his  abdomen  I  was 
lost 
in  admiration.  He  told  us  he  had 
been  using  the  device  for a  couple  of 
years,  and  found 
invaluable.  The 
hoop  held 
inside  bis  hat 
when  not  In  service,  and,  as  the  whole 
thing  weighed  only  a  few  ounces,  it  was 
:ao  trouble  to  carry.  On  the  railway 
trains,  out driving,  and  loafing  around 
hotels  and  depots,  he  declared  it  was 
worth  its  weight  in  diamonds. 
I  asked 
him  whether he  wasn’t  afraid  of  setting 
himself  on  fire,  and  he  explained  that 
the  netting  was  non-inflammable.  As  I 
understood  him, 
it  bad  been  treated 
with  some sort  of a  solution of  potash. ’ 
Times -  Democrat 
“ Have  you  heard  of  the  new  automatic 
drummer?”   said  a  Louisville  traveling 
man,  as  he  joined  the  group  in  front  of 
one  of  the  hotels 
“ No? 
Well,  it’s  a  great  scheme.  You see, the 
trusts  have  made  brains  absolutely  use­
less  in  certain 
lines  of  business,  and 
when  a  merchant  has  to  buy  at  one 
place  or  go  without  an  idiot  can  take 
his  order  just  as  well  as  a  man  of  supe­
rior  intelligence  like  myself.  So  to cut 
down  expense  some  genius  has gotten 
up  this automaton.  It  is made of papier- 
mache,  and  represents  a  drummer  sit 
ting  on  a  sample  trunk.  The  whole 
thing  is  about  eight  inches  high  and 
is 
boxed  up  and  sent  to  the  retail  mer­
chants  by  express.  When  it  arrives  the 
business  man  sets  it  on  bisdesk.touches 
a  spring,  which  releases a  phonographic 
cylinder  inside  the  trunk  and  the  drum­
mer  begins  to  talk. 
‘ Good  day,  sir,’  he 
s a y s ;‘ the  following  are  our list  prices 
on  so  and  so, ’  and  with  that  the  ma­
chine  reels  off  the  latest  quotations  of 
whatever  trust  it  happens  to  represent. 
At  the other end  of  the trunk  is  a  bole 
connecting  with  a  receiving  cylinder, 
and  the  merchant  speaks  bis  order 
into 
‘ Thank  you,’ says  the  manikin, 
it. 
when  he  gets  through. 
‘ I  will  now tell 
you  two  comic stories aud sing  you  a  se­
lection  from  the  latest  opera.’ 
If  the 
merchant  doesn’t care  for  that  part  of 
it,  all  be  has  to  do  is  to turn  a  switch. 
Then  he  returns  the  automaton  to  its 
box  and  expresses  it back  to  the  bouse. 
There  the  order  record  is  taken  out,  a 
fresh  one  put  in  aud  the  machine  sent 
It’s a  wonderful 
to  another  customer. 
device,  and 
its  advantages  over a  live 
drummer  are  too  numerous  to  mention. 
It  doesn’t  eat  anything,  it  has  no  hotel 
bills,  it  runs  up  no  expense  account, 
and  never  draws  on  the  bouse.  Then, 
again,  think  of  the  enormous  saving 
in 
look  to  see  the  day 
railroad  fares! 
when  the  patent  automatic 
salesman 
will  run  every  one  of  you  fellows  out  of
the business. ’ ’

I 

“ I  don’t  pretend  to  understand  this 
big  trust  problem,”   said  a  traveling 
man  at  the  Morton  House  last  evening, 
“ and  what's  more,  I  believe  that  there 
are  mighty  few  people  who  do.  But 
there  is  one  thing  I  know  to  be  a  fact 
from  personal  observation  and  that  is 
that trusts  are  death  on  drummers. 
It 
has  always  been  claimed,  you  know, 
that a  strictly  competent  mau 
in  any 
line  isn’ t  hurt  by  these  big  combines, 
but ou  the contrary  is  generally  bene­
It’s  the  riffraff,  they  say,  who 
fited. 
lose  their 
jobs  when  great  enterprises 
get  together,  but  the  highly  skilled  em­
ployes  profit by  the  change.  That  isn't 
true as  far as  drummers are  concerned. 
In  the  old
It’s  really  just the  reverse. 

days of open competition it needed high 
class  men  to  sell  goods—men  of  brains, 
men  of  tact,  men  of  character,  who 
could  command  trade  by  personal  influ 
ence.  For  twenty-five  years  the  stand­
ard  of  the  profession  kept  steadily  ris­
ing.  All  of  you  know  that  to  be  true. 
When  I  first  went  on  the  road,  drum­
ming  was  pretty  nearly  disreputable. 
A  drummer  in  those  days  didn’t  stand 
much  better than  a  race tout,  but  com­
petition  gradually  weeded out the toughs 
and  the  champs,  and  when  the  trust 
wave  set  in  a  couple of  years ago,  you 
couldn’t  And  a  better or brainier class of 
men  on  earth.  Now,  what has  been  the 
result?  Have  the  high  salaried  experts 
held  their  jobs?  Not  a  bit  of  it.  The 
moment  competition  ceased  to  exist 
there  was  no  longer  any 
reason  for 
keeping  them.  When  a  manufacturer 
had  twenty  rivals  he  had  to  have  first 
class  salesmen  to  place  bis goods;  when 
the  twenty  firms  got  together,  all  that 
was  needed  was a  boy  to  write down  the 
orders.  That's  the  whole  thing 
in  a 
nutshell.  Trusts  are  death  ou  drum­
mers,  and  they  are  wiping  out  the  best 
ones  first.  Brains  are  no  longer  essen­
tial  to  the  business.  Any  fellow  who 
can  read  and  write  can  represent a trust 
on  the  road.  If  things  keep  on,the  craft 
of  which  we  have  been  so  proud,  and 
which  we have  worked  so  hard  to  make 
honorable and  dignified,  will  cease  en 
tirely  to  exist. 
I  don’t  advance  this 
as  an  argument;  it  may  be  all  for  the 
best.  But  1  don't  want any  apologist 
for  monopolies  to  tell  me  that  compe­
tent  employes  are  never  harmed  by 
trusts. ’ ’

The  Commercial  Traveler.
H e's a bluff and hearty fellow ,

W ith an eye 

L ik e a  hawk.

N ever sh y;

Be he fair or dark or yellow ,
B e  he sober, tipsy, mellow,
H e's a bluff ana  hearty fellow  

Who can talk.

Y o u  w ill meet him in your travels 

On the trains 

A n y  day;

H e has brains—

A nd he neither halts nor cavils,
But your secret he unravels,
I f you meet him in your travels,

R ig h t aw ay.

“  A re you out for w ork or pleasure? 

W hat's your line?”

H e w ill quiz;
“  R a g s  is mine!”

And he’ll tap a trunk w ith  measure 
Something less than Barn urn’s treasure, 
Poor old Jumbo—“  Out for pleasure 

Or fo r biz ?”

“  Join me?  B ah !  an  imitation!

Nothing straight 

N ow adays.

Going?  W ait—

Got a game ?  A  beastly station,
D ullest place in all creation—
H a!  this w ine's an  imitation;

W hat's the raise ?”

H e has but an hour to do it—

N ods and w inks,
Feigns to  doze,
Frequent drinks;

B ut w ho plays w ith him w ill rue it,
F o r their last poor lingering sou it 
Slides to him—an hour to do it,

Then he goes.

N ever misses train or steamer—

L eal and true,

Strong; and bold,

«Out o f v ie w ;

P lays all parts, from tough to dreamer, 
A n a  in every  part’s a screamer,
N ever misses train or steamer,

N ot for gold.

C h a r l e s  E u g e n e  Ba n k s.

Will  Fight  Department  Stores.

Retail  dealers  in  dry  goods  and  small 
wares  in  Boston  and  suburbs are quietly 
organizing  to  make  an  effort,  through 
legislative  enactment, to limit  the  scope 
of  operation  of  the  department  stores. 
Legal  talent  has  been  engaged  and  a 
bill  is  now being  framed which will aim 
to  restrict  fuither  growth  of  tbe  big 
stores.  Tbe  advocates  of  the  measure 
claim  there  is  such  legislation  in  for­
eign  countries,  potably  jn  France.

17

A  Horse  on  Mr.  Mest.

Hastings,  Aug. 

1—About  the  best 
laugh  I  ever  had  was  to-day  at  Nash­
ville.  Walter  Mest  (Dow,  Snell  &  Co., 
Toledo)  says 
it  was  the  scare  of  his 
life.  While  Walter  was  showing  up 
some  good  points  in  his 
line  to  Mr. 
Shaw,  at Frank McDerhy’s  grocery,  Mr. 
McDerby’s  little  boy  brought  his  pony 
into  the  store.  Walter  was  so  earnest 
in  his  talk  that  he  did  not  see  the  little 
Shetland  until  it  was  at  bis  side,  when 
he happened to glance over  his  shoulder. 
In  a  second  Mr.  Mest  was  upon  the 
counter,  ottering a  good  sized  yell  as  he 
went  sailing  through  the  air.  Many  of 
the  boys  will  wonder at  the  Treasurer of 
the  U.  C.  T.  showing  a  white  feather— 
at  so  small  a  horse,  at  least.

Synonymous  Terms.

The  West  Side  mother  whose boy  is 
the  proud  possessor  of  a  young  goat 
was  dining  out.

“ Dear  m e!”   she  said,  as a  familiar 
sound  came  to  her  ears  from  somewhere 
out  of  doors,  “ whose  kid  is  that?”

After  a  horrified  silence,  the  dignified 
hostess  replied  that  it  was  one  of  those 
noisy  children  living  next  door.
All  unconsciously,  however,  the  West 
Side  mother  has  acquired  a  reputation 
for  slanginess  she  will  never  be  able  to 
live  down.

Calmness  Needed.

Doctor—I  am  glad  to 

find  you  so 
much  better than  you  were  a month ago. 
All  you  need  to  do  now  is  to  brace  your 
system  against  a  recurrence  of  the  old 
trouble.
Former  Patient—I  think  I  am  suffi­
ciently  braced,  doctor,  to  withstand  a 
considerable  shock.  How  much  is  your 
bill?

Distinctiveness.

Seek  after  distinctiveness  in  your  ad­
vertisements. 
Is  there  not  some  new 
feature  or  characteristic  of  your  busi­
ness  which  a  clever 
illustration  will 
bring  out  in  a  forcible  manner?  Study 
vour subject  from  your  customers'  point 
of  view.  Study  bow 
it  would  fit  into 
their  needs.

Women’s  Shoes  May  Advance.

Manufacturers  of  women’s  shoes  in 
New  England  are  bolding  a  meeting  in 
Boston  this  afternoon  to  consider the 
advisability  of  an  advance  in  prices. 
Competition 
is  so  keen  in  New  Eng­
land  that  the  outcome  of  the  meeting  is 
in  doubt.

Can’t  Afford  It.

“ Maria,  do  you  feel  any  symptoms of 
your  regular  annual  attack  of  hay  fevei 
yet?”

“ Not  yet.”
“ Well,  you’d  better  not  have  it  this 
I ’ve  lo^t  too  much  money 

year  at  all. 
on  wheat. ’ '

The  Attractive  Widow.

“ When  you  talk  like  that,  Mr.  Good- 
ketch,  you  remind  me  so  much  of  my 
first  husband!”

“ Of  your  first  husband,  Mrs.  Buck- 
some?  Have  you  been  married twice?”

in  America,  but  glove 

“ N—not  yet. *’
Tbe  Prussian  government  is  about  to 
lor  the  peasants, 
start  sewing  schools 
not  tbe  fancy  needle-work  school  famil­
iar 
sewing 
schools. 
It  appears  that  while  nearly 
Si,ooo,ooo  worth  of  gloves  are  made  in 
Breslau  each  year  the  gloves  have  to  be 
sent  to  Austria  and  Belgium  to  be 
sewed,  the  German  girls  never  having 
acquired  the  knack.
R E M O D E L E D   HO TEL  BUTLER 
R ates, $1. 

I.  M.  BROWN, PROP.

W ashington A ve.  and Kalamazoo S t.,  L A N S IN G .
Taggart,  Knappen  &  Denison,

PATENT  ATTORNEYS

811-817 Mich. Trust Bldg., 

-  Grand Rapids

9

Patents Obtained.  Patent Litigation 
Attended T o  In A n y  Am erican Court.

18

Drugs—Chemicals

MICHIOAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
-  Deo. 31,1899 
A. C. Schuxachkr, Ann  Arbor 
Dec. 31,1900
Gao. Goaraux,  Ionia  - 
-  Dec. 31,1901
L . B . R eyn o ld s, St.  Joseph 
- 
Hmmbt Hmx, Saginaw  - 
Dec. 31,1902
- 
Wist P. D orr, Detroit 
- 
Dec. 31,1803

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Term expires

President, Gao.  Gukdruk,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, Henry  Hiim , Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Not. 7 and 8.

STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.
President—J .  J. Sour wine, Escanaba. 
Secretary, Chas. F. Hahn, Detroit.
Treasurer—J ohn D. Mu ir , Grand Rapids.

KNEW  HIS  BUSINESS.

Him.

The  Druggist  Who  Had  a  Head  on 

M. Quad in  American Druggist.

There  were  three  drug  stores  in  Jack- 
son,  and  Jackson  had  about 7,000  inhab­
itants.  There  was  a  good  deal  about  the 
town  and  more  about  the  stores  which 
might  be  called  slow  and  old-fashioned. 
In  addition  to  drugs  and  fancy  articles, 
each  store  dealt  in  outside  goods.  One 
was  half  grocery ;  another had  boots and 
shoes;  the  third  sold  agricultural  im­
plements  and  Cincinnati  carriages  and 
its  proprietor  was  also  interested  in  a 
springbed  and  a  patent  cburn. 
If  any 
man  bad  declared  his  belief  that  a 
straight-ont  drag  store  would  pay  ex­
penses  he  would  have  been  called  a 
fool  in  answer.  Things  bad  been  going 
on  in  this  mixed-up  way  ioi  many years 
when  a  stranger appeared  in  town  and 
began  loafing  around  the  drug  stores. 
Some  said  he  was  an  agent  for a  ¿u<*no 
factory  and  was  wanting  one  of  the 
stores  to  handle  his  stuff;  others  that  he 
had  invented  a lightning pile-driver and 
Druggist  Taylor  was  going  to  handle  it 
in  connection  with  tootb-brnshes,  castor 
oil  and  fly-paper;  others yet  that  he  was 
trying  to  get  Druggist  White  to  open  a 
coal,  wood,  insurance  and  real  estate 
office as  a  combination  which  couldn’t 
be  beat.  The  stranger  was  a  curiosity 
and  gossip,  and  most  of  the  gossipers 
whittled  away  at  pine  shingles  and  de­
cided  that  be  didn't  amount  to  no  great 
shakes.  The  only  citizen  who  sized  him 
np  correctly  was  Uncle  Eben  Schemer- 
horn.  He  took  his  time  about  it  and 
chewed  up  half  a  plug  of  tobacco before 
he  said :
“ Wall,  boys,  I  ain’t givin’  no  opin- 
yun  as  to  bow  ‘ taters  will  pan  out this 
fall,  but  as  to  that  stranger,  he’s  got  a 
bead  on  him.  Yes,  sir-e-e,  you  can  see 
that  be’s  got  a  bead  on  bim ."

"O f  course  he's  got  a  bead  on  bim, 
bat  what of  it? "  asked  one  of  his  hear­
ers.

“ Never  you  mind—never you  m ind!’ ’ 
replied  Uncle  Eben  as  he  winked  his 
left  eye  and  nodded  bis  head  in a know­
ing  way. 
“ When  the  band  begins  to 
play  and  the  Bengal  tiger  to  roar  you 
jest  remember  that  I  said  that  feiler 
bad  a  head  on  him .”
After a  few  days  the  band  struck  np. 
That  is,  the  stranger  bought  out  Drug­
gist  White.  The  roar of  the  “ Bengal”  
followed.  That  is,  Mr.  Harper,  the  new 
man,  decided  to  get  rid  of  grindstones, 
coin-shelters,  patent  churns,  groceries, 
confectionery  and  top-buggies  and  run 
a  drug  store.  He  was  called  a  fool  by 
some  and  a  lunatic  by  others,  and  the 
rest  of the  town  predicted  that  be  would 
go  to  the  wall  inside  of  three  months. 
Again  Uncle  Eben  chewed  tobacco  and 
whittled  a  shingle as  he  said :

“ Boys,  I  ain’t  say in’  whether  it  will 
be  a  good  year  fur  coons  or not,  but 
don’t  you  make  no  mistake  on  Harper. 
He’s  a  man  with  a  head  on  him .”

Mr.  Harper  visited  all  the  business 
houses and assured  their  proprietors  that 
be  didn’t  propose  to  carry  any  of  their 
lines.  That  announcement  appealed  to 
their  selfish 
interests  and  be  made a 
score  of  friends at  once.  He  brought  on 
his  family and  divided  his custom even­
ly  aronnd 
in  the  matter  of  groceries, 
meats  and  dry  goods.  That  increased 
bis  list  of  friends.  Then  he  changed 
the  interior of  his  store  all  over,  put  in 
a  display  window  and  a  soda  fountain,

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

and  was  ready  for  business.  Business 
came,  but  not  with  a  rush.  People 
wanted  to  “ wait  and  see.”   The  other 
druggists  were  aroused  and  meant  to 
hang  onto  their  customers.  Mr.  Harper 
might  be  all  right,  but  he  was  cutting  a 
wide  swath  for Jackson.  At  that  time  I 
was  an  apprentice 
in  the  office  of  the 
Weekly  Herald.  There  was  an  opposi­
tion  weekly  called  the  Banner,  but  no 
daily.  One  day  Mr.  Harper  came  into 
the  Herald  office and  had  a  confidential 
chat  with  the  editor.  When  he  left  ns 
it  was  to go  over to the Banner and have 
another  confidential  chat.  Uncle  Eben 
knew  nothing  about  these  visits,  but  a 
day  or  two later when someone  remarked 
to  him  that  bis  druggist  with  a  head 
wasn’t taking  in  a  barrel  of  money  per 
day,  the  old  man  bit  off a  fresb  hunk  of 
his  plug  and  replied :

“ Don’t  you  worry  your gizzard  about 
that  new  feller. 
I  was  in  his  store  last 
night  after  some  sulphur,  and  I  saw 
snntbin’ in  bis  eye  which  told  me  that 
tbere  was  a  ben  on. ’ ’

in  savage  style. 

The  * ’ hen ’ '  betrayed  herself when  the 
next  issue  of  the  Herald  appeared. 
In 
a  double-leaded  article  nearly  two  col­
umns  long  it  “ went  for”   the  new  drug­
gist 
It  purported  to 
give  bis  history  for  several  years  past, 
and  about  the  pleasantest  thing  it  said 
of  him  was  that  be  was  an  escaped  con­
vict.  That  article  was  written  by  Mr. 
Harper  himself  and  be  paid  $10  for  its 
publication.  You may  believe  the  town 
was  excited.  That excitement was added 
to  tbiee  days  later  when  the  druggist 
sued  the  Herald  for  half  a  million  dol­
lars’  damages.  It  got  still  another  boost 
when  the  Banner  came  out  with  a  two- 
column  article  and  denied  each  and 
every  charge  published  in  the  Herald. 
It  did  more. 
It  boldly  announced  that 
the  editor  of  the  Herald  had  spent  a 
year 
jail  for  stealing  two 
bogs. 
It  gave  the  weight,  color  and 
value  of the  hogs,  and  the  dimensions 
of  the  cell  occupied  by  the  editorial 
thief.  The  Herald  at  once  sued  the 
Banner  for  $200,000  damages. 
It  did 
more. 
It  came  out  in  a  three-column 
article  and  gave  a  bistory  of  the  editor 
of  the  Banner  from  the  time  he  was 
foaled. 
It  was  good  reading  matter, 
and  Captain  Kidd  wasn’t  in  it  by  com­
parison. 
It  naturally  followed  that  the 
Banner  wanted  $400,000  damages  from 
the  Herald,  and  by  this  time  the  “ Ben- 
g a r ’  was  roaring  to  beat  a  cyclone.

in  an  Ohio 

“ Boys,”   said  Uncle  Eben  as  be 
sharpened  bis  knife  on  his  bootleg  and 
spat  at  the  nose  of  a  dog  ten  feet  away, 
“ I  don’t  claim  to  be  no  authority  on 
bob-tailed  foxes,  but  I  do  know  a  man 
with  a  bead  on  when  I  see  him.  Didn’t 
I  tell  you  that  druggist  feller  had  a 
bead?”

But  he’ll  be  driven  out of  town  or 
jailed,"   protested  one  of 

arrested  and 
the  crowd.

“ Mebbe  be  will, ”   said  Uncle  Eben, 
as  he  winked  his  eye  six  times  and 
nodded  his  bead  at  every  wink.  “ Yes, 
mebbe  you  are  right,  but  look  out  for 
the  roar  of  the  Bengal  jest  the  sam e."
There  were  a  thousand  people at Jack- 
son  who  said  that  Mr.  Harper  ought  to 
be arrested,  and  wondered  why it wasn’t 
doDe,  but  at  the  same  time  at  least  half 
of  them  sneaked  into  his  store  to  get  a 
look  at  him  and  bought  more or  less. 
There  was  another  thousand  who  said 
he  wouldn’t  have dared  sue  the  Herald 
if  he  had  been  guilty,  and  that  they 
wouldn’t  condemn  him  unheard.  Most 
of  these  people  dropped  in  to  let  him 
know  how  they  felt  and  they  took  away 
more  or  less  goods.  The  Herald  not 
its  attack  in  its  next 
only  returned  to 
issue,  but  bore  down  with 
increased 
spite. 
It  went  so  far  as  to hint  of  mur­
der.  There  was  a  second  suit  for  dam­
ages,  and  again  the  Banner came  out as 
champion  and  wolloped  the  Herald. 
Two  more  suits  were  filed,  and  it  was 
announced  that  each  editor bad  deter­
mined  to  shoot  the  other on  sight.  De­
tectives  came  from  half a  dozen  cities 
to  look  Mr.  Harper  over,  but  all  went 
away  with  their tongues  in their cheeks. 
Men  were  sent  on  from two State prisons 
to  identify  bim  as  an  escaped  prisoner, 
but 
it  was  remarked  that  they  looked 
silly  after a  call  at  his store.  Reporters 
also  came  from  some  of  the big city

dailies,  but  never  a  note  did  they  jot 
down  in  their books.
When  the  excitement  had  continued 
for  four  weeks  three  clergymen,  two 
physicians  and  the  Mayor  of  the  town 
agreed  to  act as  a  committee  to  investi­
gate  and  report.  They  ascertained  that 
the  Herald  had  been  deceived.  There­
upon  the  Herald  came  out  with  an  am­
ple  apology.  They  brought  the  two 
editors  together,  and  after  an  awful 
struggle  they  agreed  not  to  shoot  each 
other.  They  brought  the  two  editors 
and  the  druggist  together,  and  it  was 
agreed  to  drop  all  suits  for damages. 
Then the committee prepared and signed 
a  statement  to  be  published 
in  both 
papers,  and  the  druggist  bought  5,000 
copies of  each  and  mailed  them  broad­
cast  oyer the town  and  county. 
In  the 
same  issue he  had  a  full-page advertise­
ment  and  the  thing  was  done.  Bless 
you,  my  children,  but  there  was  only 
one  drug  store 
in  Jackson  after  that. 
Farmers  would  drive  twelve  miles  to 
buy  salts  at  Harper’s  and  the  townspeo­
ple  kept  his  fingers sore making change. 
He  was  made  chief  of  the  fire  depart­
ment,  elected  alderman  of  bis  ward, 
taken 
into  lodges  and  societies  and 
elected  a  trustee  of  the  leading  church, 
and  when  be  died,  fifteen  years  later, 
he  was  one  of  the  richest  men  in  town. 
Only  four or five  of  us knew  the  true in­
wardness  of  the  affair.  Uncle  Eben 
wasn’t  one  of  the  “ ring, ”   and  yet  be 
chewed  away  at  his  plug,  whittled  away 
at  his  shingle,  and  with  many sagacious 
nods  of  his  head  he  said  to  his  crowd:
“ I  ain’t  predictin’  ’bout the  weather 
next  winter,  nor  the grasshoppers  next 
summer,  but  I ’m  sorter  givin’  yu  a hint 
that  we’ve  got a  drag  store  man  in  this 
town  with  a  head  on  h im !’ ’
Two  Chapters  From  a  Drug  Clerk’s 

Diary.

C H A P T E R   I.

Speaking  of  the  life  of  a  drug  clerk, 
it  is  most  anything  but  pleasant  at 
times,  and  what  the  people  think  of 
them  is  bard  to  tell.  Most  people  think 
they  can  make  the  drug  clerk  believe 
almost  anything.  Here  is  a  couple  of 
chapters  from  a  drug  clerk’s  life : 
It 
was  in  the  early  part  of  the summer that 
two  neatly  dressed  young  ladies  entered 
a  certain  drug  store.  One  of  them,  a 
red  beaded  girl,  approached  the  clerk 
and,  unwrappin r  a  bottle  of  patent 
medicine,  asked  him 
if  be  would  ex­
change  it  for  a  bottle  of  hair dye,  say­
ing  that  she bad purchased the medicine 
tbere  a  couple  of  days before.  The clerk 
examined  the  bottle  and  saw  that  tbe 
cost  mark  was  not  that  of his store.  Tbe 
lady,  however,  insisted  that  she  bought 
it  there,  even  after be  bad  spent  about 
fifteen  minutes  in  trying  to  explain  tbe 
matter and  three  or  four customers  were 
anxiously  waiting  their turn.  Tbe ladies 
went  out  very  angry,  saying  they  would 
not  trade  at  a  store where they would not 
exchange goods.  (But  they  did.)

C H A P T E R   11.

The  following  winter,  on  a  very  cold 
night,  the  drug  clerk,  by  some mistake, 
happened  to  get  a  night  off.  He  and  a 
friend  bad  been 
invited  to  spend  tbe 
evening  with  two sisters  they  had  met 
tbe  day  before.  The  evening  passed 
pleasantly,  but  one  of  tbe  ladies  acted 
rather nervous  during  the  whole  even­
ing.  Finally  at  last  she  asked  the  drug 
clerk 
if  he  bad  ever  seen  her  before. 
He  looked  at  her and  said  he  did  not 
remember  evet  having  seen  her  until 
the  day  before. 
“ W ell,”   she  said,  “ I 
am  very  glad  to  meet  you,  as  I  wish  to

make a  confession. ’ ’  He  began to won­
der  if  it  was  love at  first  sight  or a  pro­
posal.  Continuing,  she  said,  “ Do  yon 
remember  last  summer  when  I  came  to 
your  store  and  tried  to  induce  you  to 
exchange  a  bottle  of  patent  medicine 
for  a  bottle  of  hair  dye?"  He  looked  at 
her and  then  at  my  friend  because  be 
did  not  know  what  was  coming  next. 
He  thought  he  was  dead  sure. 
He 
then  recognized  her,  but  her  hair  was 
black  as  jet. 
“ I  did  not get  tbe  medi­
cine at  your  store  at  all.  One  day  my 
sister  and  I  went  shopping  and  she 
wanted the  medicine.  I  wanted  the  dye. 
However,  she  purchased  the  medicine 
at  another  store,  and as  we  came  out  we 
bad  a  dispute  about 
it  and  I  wanted 
her  to  take  the  medicine  back,  but 
she  would  not,  so  we  proposed  to  go  to 
your  store and  say  we  had  purchased 
it 
there and  ask  you  to  exchange  it  for  tbe 
dye.  Our attempt  was  fruitless,  and  we 
bad  to  keep  the  medicine.’ ’

She  did  not  say  whether  she  got  tbe 
hair  dye  or  not,  but  one  look  satisfied 
our  curiosity.

F r e d   A.  C a st e n h o l z.

The  Drug  Market.
Opium—Is  weak  and  lower.
Morphine—Is  unchanged.
Quinine—P.  &  W.,  N.  Y.  and foreign 

brands  are  now  tbe  same  price.

Cocoa  Butter—Has  advanced,  on  ac­

count of  higher  prices  abroad.

Santonine—On  account  of  reports  of 
small  crop  of  worm  seed,  has  been  ad­
vanced.

Essential  Oils—Anise  continues  very 
firm.  Cassia  has  also  advanced,  on  ac­
count  of  higher  foreign  markets.  Clove 
is  firm  and  has  been  advanced.

Seeds—Canary  continues  to  advance 
under  reports  of  small  crop.  Russian 
bemp,  on  account  of  scarcity,  is  also 
higher.

Linseed  Oil—Is  dull  and  lower.
$12.15  to  Pittsburg  and  Return.
On  August  1  to  5  inclusive  tbe M ichi­
gan  Central  will  sell  tickets to Pittsburg 
and  return,  on  account  of  tbe  Young 
People’s  Christian  Union,  at  tbe  above 
rate.  Return 
15,  with 
privilege  of  extension  unt  1  August  31 
on  payment  of  50  cents.  Phone  606.
W .  C.  B l a k e ,  Ticket  Agent.

limit  August 

“Wait  for  Me.”

Wait for me, I’m coming on,
With the drugs and med-e-son,
Goods and prices alw avs  right,
Orders taken day or night.
W ait for me, I ’m coming sure.
M y  peptonic, alwax s pure,
A ll cathartics guaranteed—
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C .  W .  H u r d.

It  is  seldom  difficult  to appear natural 

when  you  have  an  ax  to  grind.

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70® 75
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48© 50
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13®  15
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Glycyrrhlsa Glabra.
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Carbonate P redo... 
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Barosma..................
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nevelly.................
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Salvia officinalis, Mb
and Ms.................
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Cinnamoni!.............
Coronella...............

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

Radix

Conium Mac........... 
35®  50
Copaiba..................   l  lg®  i 25
Cubebaa......................  go® 
Bxechthltos...........  1 00® 1 10
Erlgeron.................  l oo®  i  to
Gaultheria................i 40® l 45
Geranium,  ounce...  ® 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal..  50®  60
Hedeoma................  1 25® 1 35
Junipera.................   1 50® 2 00
Lavendula................   90® 
Limonis..................   1 3?® 1  46
Mentha Piper.........   1  60® 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   l 50®  1  60
Morrhua,  gal.........   1 00® 1  15
Jfyrda.....................  4 00® 4 50
Olive..... 
...........  75® 3 00
Pids  Liquida......... 
10®  12
®  35
Picis Liquida, gal... 
g id n a ................... 
  92® 1 00
Bosmarini...............  
® 10 0
Rosa,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Snectai...................  40®  45
SaMna..................  
90® 1 00
Santal....................... 2 50® 7 00
Sassafras.................  56®  60
®  65
Star,pis, ess., ounce. 
TjgUi.......................  1 70®  1  80
  4g®  60
Thyme............... 
Thyme,  opt............  
®  1  60
15®  20
Theobromas........... 
Potassium
15® 
®}Carb.................... 
i8
Bichromate............ 
13® 
15
Bromide..................   5»@  57
12® 
C arb ....................  
15
Chlorate..pa 17®19c 
16® 
18
Cyanide..................  
35®  40
Iodide....  ..............  2 40® 2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
® 
Potassa. Bitart,  com 
i5 
10® 
Potass Nitres, opt... 
12
Potass Nitras........... 
io@  u
Prnssiate.................  20®  25
Sulphate p o ........... 
15®  18
Aconitvm...............   20®  25
A ltha.....................  
22®  25
Anchusa................. 
10® 
12
PO..................   @  25
Calamus.................  20®  40
12®  15
Gentiana........po.  15 
Glvchrrhiza... pv. 15  16®  18
Hydrastis Canaden .  @  70
®  75 
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore,Alba,po.. 
18®  20
Inula, po................. 
16®  20
Ipecac, po................. 4 60® 4 75
Iris plox— po35®38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   25®  30
Marenta,  Ms........... 
®  35
Podophyllum, po....  22®  25
gi»ei....................... 
75® 1 00
Rhel, cut 
1 25 
Rhei,pv.
75®  1  35
Spigella...................  
36®
Sanguinaria... po. 15 
®
Serpentaria............   40®
Senega....................  40®
Slmilax,officinalis H  @
Smilax. M.............. 
®
Scilla............ . po.35  10®
Symplocarpus, Foeti- 
<lU8,  po.................  @  25
Valeriana,Bng.po.30  @  25 
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ...............  
12®  16
Zingiber j ...............  
25®  27
Semen
® 
Ani8um.........po.  15 
12
Apium  (graveleons) 
13®  15
Bird, Is.................... 
4® 
6
Carui............ po. 18  10®  12
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Corlandrum............  
8® 
10
Cannabis  Sativa.. 
5  ®  6
Cvdonium............   . 
75®  1 00
Chenopodium  ........ 
10® 
12
Diptenx  Odorate...  1 40® 1  50
FoBdcdum............  
® 
10
7® 
Fcsnugreek, po........ 
9
U d .........................  3m@  4M
Ltai,  grd— bbl. 3Q 
4®  4M
Lobelia..................  
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian.  4  ®  5
®»Pa 
5
Sinapis Albu........... 
10
Staapis Nigra.........  
12
Spiritila
Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frum enti................. 1 25® I  50
Juniperls Co. O. T..  1  65® 2 00
Juniperis Co...........  1 75® 3 50
Saacharum N. E ....  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vtai Galli........  1  75© 6 50
Vini Oporto............   1  25® 2 00
Vtai Alba...............   1  25® 2 00
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................. 2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............   2 00® 2 25
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage...... 
®  1  50
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__ 
®  1  25
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................  @  1 00
®  75
Hard, for slate use.. 
Tellow  R e ef,  for 
slate  use..............
®  1  40
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
I p e c a c . ...........
Ferrilod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega.................
Belli»................

®  50
®  50
®  50
®  60 
®  50
®  50
50®  60
®   60 
50

............   4M® 
g® 
11® 

 

i  oo

2 00

nisceilaneoua

Sdlla Co................. 
®  50
®  50
Tolntan................... 
Prunns virg............  
®  50
Tinctures
60
Aconitum NapellisR 
50
AcodtumNapellisF 
Aloes....................... 
so
60
Aloesand Myrrh.... 
Arnica.................... 
50
Assafcstida............  
50
60
A trope  Belladonna. 
Auranti  Cortex...... 
50
60
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma................. 
50
Cantharides........... 
75
Capsicum.............. 
50
Cardamon............... 
75
Cardamon Co.........  
75
i 00
Castor...................... 
Catechu................... 
50
Cinchona................. 
no
Cinchona Co........... 
60
Columba................. 
50
Cubeba. 
................ 
50
Cassia Acutifol...... 
50
50
Cassia Acutifol Co.. 
Digitalis........... 
so
Ergot......................  
50
Ferrl Chloridum 
35
Gentian........... 
50
Gentian Co.............. 
so
Guiaca.................... 
50
60
Gulaca smmon........ 
Hyo8cyamus........... 
50
re
Iodine...................... 
Iodine, colorless.... 
75
Kino.................... 
50
Lobelia.................. 
50
Myrrh..................... 
50
Nux Vomica........... 
50
Opii......................... 
75
50
Opil, camphorated. 
I  50
Opii, deodorized.  .. 
Quassia.................  
50
Rhatany.................. 
50
RBei.......................  
50
Sangnlnarla........... 
50
so
Serpentaria............  
so
Stramonium........... 
Tolntan...................  
00
Valerian................. 
50
Veratrum Verlde... 
50
Zingiber.................. 
20
.¿Ether, Spts. Nit.3F  30®  35 
JSther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   gu® 
3
4
3® 
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
A nnatto... 
40®  50
........ 
Antimoni,  po......  
4® 
5
Antimon! et PotassT  40®  50
Antipyrin.............. 
@  35
®  20
Antifebrin............  
®  50
Argent! Nitras, oz .. 
Arsenicum............. 
10® 
12
38®  40
Balm Gilead  Bud  . 
Bismuth  S. N......... 1  40® 1  50
® 
Calcium Chlor.,  Is 
9
Calcium Chlor., Ms 
® 
10
Calcium Chlor., Ms. 
©  <2
®  75
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsid  Fruetus, at.  @  15
©  15 
Capsid Fructus, po. 
©  15 
Capsici FructusB.po 
12®  14
Caryophyllus.. po. 15 
Carmtae, No. 40.... 
© 3 00
Cera Alba...............   50®  55
Cera Flava..............  40®  42
Coccus.................... 
©  40
CassiaFructu8__  
©  33
Centraria................  
© 
10
®  45
Cetaceum................  
Chloroform............. 
60®  53
Chloroform, squibbs 
©  1  10 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  65®  1  90
Chondrus................  20®  25
Cinchonidine.P.A W  3-®  43 
Cinchoddine, Germ  35®  45
Cocaine..................   3 80®  4 TO
70
Corks, list, dl8.pr.ct 
Creosotum........ 
®  35
Creta.............bbl.'75 
2
® 
® 
Creta, prep.............. 
5
Creta, preelp........... 
9® 
II
Creta, Rubra.........  
® 
8
Crocus ..  ................ 
is®  20
Cudbear................ 
@  34
CupriSulph............   6M® 
8
Dextrine.................. 
10®  12
75®  90
Ether Sdph............ 
Emery, all  numbers 
8
Emery, po...............  
0
Ergota............ po. 40  30®  35
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
Galla......................  
©  23
Gambier.................. 
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper......  
©  80
Gelatin, French......   35®  60
75 A  10
Glassware, flint, box 
Less than  box__ 
70
9® 
Glue,  brown........... 
12
Glue, white............  
13®  25
Glycertaa................ 
14®  20
Grana  Paradlsl...... 
®  25
Humulus.................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
®  90 
©  80
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
©  1 00 
©  1  15
Hydraag Ammodati 
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........  
©  75
Ichthyobolla, Am...  65©  75
Indigo...................... 
75©  1 00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform................. 
© 420
Lupulin...................  @ 2 25
Lycopodium........... 
45®  50
65®  75
Mads.................... 
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarg Iod.............  
®  25
LiqnorPotassArstait 
10® 
12 
2® 
Magnesia, Sdph.... 
3
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
©  1M 
Manda, S. F
60®  60
O 3 00
Menthol. 

® 
® 

.

Morphia, S.P. A W... 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
C.  Co....................
Moschus Canton__
Myristica, No. 1......
Nux Vomica...po.20
Os  Sepia.................
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
DTCo..................
Picis Llq.N.N.M gal.
doz........................
Picis Llq., quarts__
Picis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg.. .po.  80 
Piper Nigra... po.  22
Piper Alba__po.  35
Pilx  Burgun...........
Plumb!  Acet...........
Pulvis Ipecac etOpii 
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
A P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum, pv........
Quassia..............
Qulnla, S. P. A W.. 
Quinia, S. German
Qnlnla, N.Y.........
Rnbia Tinctorum. 
SaccbarumLactis pv
Salacin................
Sanguis Dracods
Sapo,  W..............
Sapo, M...............
Sapo, G ...,..........
Sledlltz  Mixture.

2 20® 2 45
2 10® 2 36
©  40
66®  80 
10 
®  
18®  20
©  1 00
© 2 00 
© 1 00 
©  85
©  50
©  18 
®  30
7
© 
10©   12 
1  10© 1 20
©  1  25 
25©  30
8®  
10 
39®  4t 
34®  44
39®  44
12®  14
18®  20
3 00® 3 10
40®  50
12®  14
10® 
12
©  15
20  ®  22

Staaplz.................... 
©  18
Staapis, opt............  
©  30
Snuff, Maccaboy,De
Voes...................... 
©  34
SnuffEcotch,DeVo’8 
©  34
Soda Boras..............  9  ©  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  ©  11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  1M© 
2
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
5
3® 
Soda, Ash...............   3M® 
4
Soda, Sdphas.........  
® 
2
Spts. Cologne........... 
© 2 60
Spts. Ether Co........  50®  55
© 9 00 
Spt.  MyrciaDom... 
©
Spts. Vtai Rect. bbl. 
®
Spts. VidRectMbbi 
Spts. Vtai Rect. lOgal 
©
Spts. Vtai Rect.  5gal 
®
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  30® 1  35
Sdphnr,  Subl.........   2M®  4
Sulphur,  Roll........  2M©3M
Tamarinds.............. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
46®  48
Theobroma......... . 
Vanilla....................  9 00®16 00
Zind Sdph............  
7© 
8

Oils

Whale, winter.........  70 
Lard,  extra.............  50 
Lard, No. 1.............. 
35 

BBL.  UAL.
70
60
40

19

Linseed, pure  raw..  36 
Linseed,  boiled......   37 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  48 

39
40
70
55

Paints  BBL. 

LB
Red Venetian.........   1M  2  ®3
Ochre, yenow Mars.  Hi  2  ©4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  1M  2  ®3 
Putty, commercial..  2M  2M@3 
Putty, strictly pure.  2M  2M®3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
75
Vermilion, English.  70® 
Green, P aris...........  13M©  17M
Green,  Peninsular..  13® 
16
Lead, Red...............   5M©  6q
Lead, white............   5M©  6m
®  70
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’... 
©  TO 
White, Paris Amer.. 
©  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
© 140
cliff...................... 
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra  Turp............   1  60©  1  70
Coach Body............   2 75© 3 00
No. 1 Turp F um ....  1  00®  1  10 
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer, No. lTurp  70®  75

»

WAIT
FOR
TFT F
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.

HAZELTINE 
& PERKINS 
DRUG CO.,
G R A N D
R A P ID S ,
M ICH .

2 0

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

G R O C E R Y  P R IC E  C U R R E N T .

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

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

dos. gross
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00

45
85
lb can  dos...................I 50

SANNO  POWDER.
M 'b cans dos................... 
VI lb cans dos................... 
1 

R lb cans 8 dos...............  45
Vt lb cans 3 dos............... 
1 
lb nans 1 dos...............IN

Absolute.

75
10

Hoik.
Arctic.
6 os. Bng. Tumblers.

6 os. cans, 4 doz case......... 
80
0 oz. cans, 4 doz case.........   1  20
lb. cans, 2 doz case...... 2 00
1 
2VI lb. cans, 1 doz case...... 4 75
5 
lb. cans, 1 doz case...... 9 00
R lb cans per dos.............  75
H lb cans per d o s ........... 1  20

lb cans per dos..........2 00

Bl Parity.

1 

R lb cans 4 dos case........ 
35
VI lb cans 4 dos case........  55
1 
lb cans 2 dos case  ...... 
90

Homs

Peerless.

Oar Leader.

Queen Flaks.

BATH  BRICK.

Jersey Cream.

CANNED QOOD8.

r  lb cans, 4 doz case......  
45
VI lb cans, 4 doz case........  85
1 
lb cans, 2 doz case........  160
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 oz. cans, per dos.............  1  25
6 os. cans, per dos.............  
86
R lb pans.......................... 
45
H lb cans..........................  75
lb cans........................  I 50
1 
1 lb. cans  ......................... 
85
3  os., 6 doz. case............   2 70
6 oz., 4 dos. case 
...........3 20
9 os., 4 dos. case.................4 80
1 lb., 2 dos. case.................4 00
5 lb., 1 dos. case.................9 00
American................................i t
English....................................89
Tomatoes...................  80@  90
Com  ..........................   80@1 00
Hominy......................  80
Beans, Limas..............  70@1 30
Beans, Wax................  90
Beans, String..............  85
Beans,  Baked............   75@l 00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  75@  85
Succotash...................  95@1  20
Peas............................  50®  85
Peas, French.............. 2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.................  15®  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 3i  2 25
Pineapple,  Barren__1  70
Strawberries.............. 1  10
Blackberries..............  80
Raspberries................  85
Oysters, 1-lb................  9)
Oysters, 2-lb................1 55
Salmon, flats, key......1  70
Salmon, % lb. flats....  95 
Salmon, Red Alaska.. 1  25 
Salmon, Pink Alaska..  95 
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 20
Lobsters. 2-lb. Star__ 3 90
Mackerel,1 lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused.1 75 
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato.l  75
Shrimps...................... 2 00
Sardines, Rs domestic  3 VI® 
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5V|®  7*4 
Sardines.  French....... 8  @.82

BLUING.

C O P * ® )

BROOHS.

CANDLES.

Small, 3 doz.......................  
40
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
.to. 1 Carpet.......................  2 31
So. 2 Carpet.......................2  15
No. 8 Carpet......................  1 85
No. 4 Carpet......................  1 45
Parlor Gem.........................2 50
Common Whisk.................   95
"■ancr Whisk...................... 1 CO
Warehouse.......................... 2 70
8s........................................7
16s........................................8
Paraffine................. ..............8
Wicklng.............................. 20
CATSUP.
Columbia,  pints................2 00
Coln_2bla. VI pints 
.......... 1  25
CHEESE
Acme.........................   ® 
Amboy.......................   @ 
Butternut...................  ® 
Carson City.............  ®  9
Elsie...........................   ® 
Emblem......................  ® 
G em ...........................  ® 
Gold Medal.................  ®
Ideal...........................  ® 
Jersey  .......................   Q  
Riverside....................   ® 
Brick...................... *  ®  12
Edam..........................  O 
Leiden........................  ® 
Limbnrger.................   ® 
Pineapple................50  ®  75
Sap  Sago.....................  ® 
Bulk 
Red 

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

Chicory.

Walter Bakar A Co.’s.

German Sweet.......................28
Premium..............................  35
Breakfast  Onnnn 
.  ...  48

5
7

COFFEE.
Roasted.

Rio.

Java.

RM Stoda

Mocha.

Santas.

Maracaibo.

F air..........................................0
Good....................................... 10
Prim e......................................12
Golden  ...................................13
Peaberiy  ..............................14
Fair  ....................................... 14
Good  ......................................15
Prim e......................................16
Peaberry  ................................18
Prim e......................................15
Milled......................................17
Interior..................................26
Private  Growth...................... 30
Mandehllng............................ 35
Im itation............................... 22
Arabian  .................................28
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.*s Brands
Fifth  Avenue...................... 29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__29
Wells’ Mocha and Java. 
24
Wells' Perfection  Java......24
Sanoalbo..............................21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo........18V4
Ideal  Blend......................... 14
Leader Blend...................... 12V4
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  yonr  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
pays
market In which he  purchases 
' lea he purchases 
t point, including
to his shipping _ 
weight  of  package,  also Re  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In fnll cases.
Arbnckle.......................   10 50
Jersey.............................   10 50
flcLaaghHa’e  XXXX.......
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail  all orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City VI gross......  
Felix VI gross.................  
Hummel’s foil Vi gross... 
Hnmmel’a tin VI  gross... 
CLOTHES PINS.

5 gross boxes....................... 40

75
1  15
85
1 48

Bxtract.

Package.

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos......... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dos.........1 20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  dos.........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  dos......... 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos.........1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per dos.............  80
Jute. 72 ft.  per  dos.............   96

COCOA.

James Epps & Co.’s.

Boxes, 7 lbs.............................40
Cases, 16 boxes........................38
COCOA SHBLLS.
201b  bags.......................  
2Vt
Less quantity................. 
8
Pound packages............. 
4
CRB An TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bnlk In sacks............... 
29

CONDENSED MILK.

 

4  dos In case.

.... 

Gail Borden  Eagle.............6 75
Crown.................................6 25
Daisy.................................. 5 75
Champion  -.........................4 60
Magnolia 
.........................4 25
Challenge  —   ...................8 35
Dime 
.............. 2 35

Credit Checks.

Superior Grade.

Universal Grade.

Economic Grade.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 810 down.

COUPON  BOOKS.
Tradesman Grade.
10
50 books, any denom—   1  50
10*4
100 books, any denom__ 2 50
10
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1.000 hooks, any denom— 20 00
10*4
WR
50 books, any denom__   1  50
10V4
lOO books, any denom__  2 50
500 books  any denom__ 11 50
10*4
1.000 books, any denom__20 00
10
10
50 books, any denom....  1 50
100 books, any denom__ 2 50
70
500 books, any denom__ 11 50
17
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
13
50 books, any denom....  I 50
17
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00
500, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.......................   75
Can be made to represent any 
20 books.......................   1  00
50 books............................ 2 00
100 books...........................8 00
250 books............................ 6 25
500 books...........................10 00
1000 books...........................17 50
DRIED FRUTTB—DOflBSTIC 
Snndrled....................... O 7VI
Evaporated 60 lb boxes.  ®10V| 
Apricots.....................  
015
Blackberries...............
Nectarines......   ........   O
Peaches.......................10  O il
Fears...........................  O
Pitted Cherries..........  
Prnnnelles..................
Raspberries................
100-120 25 lb boxes.........  0  4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  0  5
80-9025 lb boxes.........  ©  5*4
70-80 25 lb boxes.........   © 6R
60-70 25 lb boxes.........  O 6*
50-60 25 lb boxes.........   © 8
40-60 25 lb boxes.........  ©10
80-40 25 lb boxes.........   ©
Vi cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Pranas.

California Fruits.

Appi—.

7*

RaUims.

145
London Layers 2 Crown. 
165
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............  
2 00
5
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
6
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Mnscatels 4 Crown 
7
L. M., Seeded, choice......  
7V4
L. M , Seeded, fancy........  9V4

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Peel.

Currants.

Leghorn..........................©11
Corsican..........................©12
Patras bbls...................... © 6V4
Cleaned, bulk  ................. ©  6V4
Cleaned, packages.......... © 7_
Citron American 101b bx ©18 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©10*4 
Orange American 10 lb bx ©10VI 
Ondara281bboxes.....  ©
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 3 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 4 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 5 Crown..........  ®
Sultana 6 Crown.........   ©
Sultana package.........  ©

Raisins. 

Imported.
. 

Japan,  No. 1............   5V4@  6
Japan,  No. 2  .. 
4s@ 5
Java, fancy  head........5  © 6VI
Java,  No. 1 .................   5  ©
T ab le...........................  ©
Packed 60  lbs. In  box. 

SALBRATUS.

Church’s Arm and Hammer.3  15
Deland’s 
.......................  00
Dwight’s Cow......................8  15
Emblem .............................3 50
L. P......................................3 00
Sodio...................................3 15
Wyandotte, ICO R s............. 3 00
Granulated, bbls................  fo
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  8J
Lamp, bbls.........................  70
Lamp, 1461b kegs..............  co

SAL SODA.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Worcester.

Common Grades.

Table, cases. 24 3-lb  boxes. .1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 8 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Butter, barrels, 2801b. bnlk.S 25 
Bntter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.8 50
Bntter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Bntter, sacks, 56 lbs............  55
100 8-lbsacks........................ 1 95
605-lbsack8........................ 1 80
2810-lb sacks.......................1 65
50  4 
lb. cartons............... 8 25
115  2V|lb. sacks................... 4 00
lb. sacks...................3 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks...................8 50
8010 
lb. sacks...................8 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  82
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk In barrels.....................2 50
56-lb dairy In drill bags......   80
28-lb dairy In drill bags......   15
56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  00 
56-lb  sacks...........  .............  21
Granulated Fine.................   60
Medium  Fine......................   70
Per doz.

Ashton.
Hlggbu.
Solar Rack.
Common.

SCALES.

Warsaw.

Peiouie Housenotd___ 1200

Weighs 24  lbs.  bj  ounces. 

SBBDS.

Anise  ................................  9
Canary, Smyrna................ 
3*4
Caraway........................... 
8
Cardamon,  M alabar......   00
Celery...............................   11
Hemp,  Russian................  4Vi
Mixed  Bird...................... 
4*
Mustard,  white............ 
5
Poppy  ......................f __   10
B a re.................................  4*4
Cnttle Bone......................  SO
Scotoh, in bladders.............  87
Maccaboy, In jars................  85
French Rappee. In jars__ 
43

SNUFF.

SOAP.

JAXON

Single box............................ 2 85
5 
box lots, delivered.......2  r0
10 box lots, delivered...........2 75
JAS.  8.  KIRK  5 GO/S BRAIDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.................................... 2 75
Cabinet.................................2 80
Savon....................................8 50
White Russian.....................2 35
White Cloud,  laundry___..6 25
White Cloud,  toilet.............3 50
Dusky Diamond. 50 6 oz.,.,2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__ 8 00
Bine India, 100 R lb.............3 00
Klrkoline............................. 8 50
Bos.......................................2 50
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 d o s.......2 40
Sapollo, hand, 8 do s........... 2 40
Boxes  ...............................  6V5
Kegs. English... 
—   4R

Scouring.

SODA.

SYRUPS.

Cera .

Barrels................................. 17
Half  bbls..........................   19
1 doz. 1 gallon cans.............2  9’
1  doz. VI gallon cans........ 1  70
8  doz. R gallon c a n s.......1  70
Pure Cane.
Fair  ......................... 
16
  80
Good........................ 
Choice..............................  B

 

 

Farina.

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

Grits.

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Peas.

Beans.

Hominy.

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

Rolled  Oats.

Pearl Barley.

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

Graham.
Tapioca.

6
  4V4
6R
3*4

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

Entire Wheat.

Pastry.

Wheat.

5«ga.

5ALT FISH.

Cod.

Herring.

riackerel.

Georges cured............  © 5
Georges genuine........  © 5VI
Georges selected........  © 6
Strips or bricks......... 6  © 9
Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 25 
Holland white hoop VI bbl  5 25 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mens 
80
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  3 10
Round  40 lbs...................  1 40
Scaled...............................  
15
Mess 100 lbs......................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs.....................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  66
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  35
No. 1100 lbs......................  13 25
No. 1  40 lbs...... ...............   5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  148
No. 1  8 lbs......................  120
No. 2 100 lbs......................  11  50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4  90
No. 2  10 lbs.................... 
1  30
No. 2  8 lbs......................  107
No. 1100 lbs......................
No. 1  40 lbs......................
No. 1  10 lbs......................
No. 1  8 l b s ....................
No. 1  1 o. 

Fam
100 lbs.............7 CO  6 50  2 25
40 lbs...........  8  10  2 90  1  20
10 lbs........... 
88
Bibs........... 
33
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

White! *h

Trout.

85 
ri 

80 
66 

Van.  Lem. 
doz.
dos. 
XXX, 2 oz. obert......1  25 
75
XXX, 4 oz. taper.. ...2 25 
1  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... 

Peril go’».

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

2 25 
1  75
2 25
Lem.  Van.
1 20
1 20
2 00
2J5

Jennings’.

D. C. Lemon 
D.C. v anilla 
80S.......120 
20s .....  75
3 os.......1  50 
3 os— ..100
4 oz.........1 40
4 os.......2 00 
60s.......3 00 
60s........ 2 00
No.  8...2 40
No.  8  4 00 
No.  10...4 00
No.  10.  .6 00 
No.  2 T.  80
NO.  2 T.1 25 
No.  3 T.l  25
No.  3 T.2 00 
No 
No.  4 T.l 50
4 T.2 40 
Tanslefoot,  per box...........  36
Tanglefoot, per case...........3 20
Holders,'per box of 50........  75
Perrigo's Lightning, gro— 2 50 
Petrolatum, per doz............  75

FLY PAPER.

Sage..
Hops

HBRBS.

INDIGO.

Madias, 5  lb  boxes.............  56
S. F., 2. 3 and 5 lb boxes__  60

oOnpo w d er.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

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

Kegs 
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 25
1 lb. cabs..............................  30
VI lb. cans............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’*.

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

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
Kegs...  ............................... 8 00
If Kegs.......  ................... 4 26
Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
lib. cans..............................  45
161b  pails............................   85
8G lb  palls............................   65

JBLLY.

LYE.
Condensed, 2 dos  ..............1 80
Condensed. 4 dos 
.............I B

LICORICE.

Pure......................................  W
Calabria  .............................   B
Sicily....................................  M
Root.....................................   10

riATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur...................... 1  65
Anchor Parlor.....................1 70
No. 2  Home......................... 1  10
Export  Parlor.....................4 00
Wolverine............................ 1 25

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black................................  
11
14
F a ir..................................  
Good................................. 
SO
24
Fancy  .............................. 
Open Kettle......................26©35

Half-barrels So extra.
MUSTARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, No. 216.......................   1 70
Clay, T. D. full count........ 
65
Cob, No. 8........................... 
85

POTASH.

48 cans In oase.

Babbitt’s ..............................4 00
PennaSalt  Co.’s..................S 00

PICKLES.
riedinm.

Barrels, 1,200 count.............4 00
Half bbls, 000 count............  2 50
Barrels, 2,400 count...........   5 on
Half bbls  1,200 count.........  3 00

SssaE.

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   6Vi
Carolina  No. 1...................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................   8R

sp ic es.
Who!« Sifted.

Allspice  ............................. .
Cassia, China in mats......... 12
Cassia, Batavia in bond...  35
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........82
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 12
Mace,  Batavia.....................55
Nutmegs, fancy...................so
Nutmegs, No.  1.................  50
Nutmegs, No.  2...................45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, white... 16 
Pepper,  shot........................15
Allspice  .  ...........................14
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon..............  ...40
Cloves, Zanzibar..................14
Ginger,  African..................16
Ginger,  Cochin...................18
Ginger,  Jamaica  ................23
Mace,  Batavia.................... 65
Mustard......................... 12@18
Nutmegs.......................40@50
Pepper, Sing, black............15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne................. 20
Sage.................... 
is

Pare around in Balk.

STARCH.

Ktngsford's  Corn.

Diamond.

401-lb packages...................6
201 lb packages.................... 614
ICIngsford’s Silver  Gloss.
401-lb packages.....................6)4
6-lb boxes.......................... 7
6410c  packages  ...............5 00
128  5c  packages................5 00
3210c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 
201 lb. packages..................5
401 lb. packages 
.................4M
1-lb  packages......................  414
3-lb  packages......................  4H
6-lb  packages— :..............  5
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3
Barrels 
.......................  3

Common Gloss.

Common  Corn.

STOVE POLISH.

SUGAR.

No. 4,3-do* in case, gross..  4  50 
No. 6,8 dos in case, gross..  7 20 
Below  are given  New  Tork 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino..............................5 75
Cut  Loaf............................5 88
Crushed..............................6 00
Powdered 
.........................5 63
XXXX  Powdered..............5 75
Cubes.................................5 63
Granulated in bbls.............5 50
Granulated in  bags...........5 50
Fine Granulated................5 60
Extra Fine Granulated.....5 63
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 63
Mould  A............................ F  75
Diamond  Confec.  A..........5 50
Confec. Standard A...........  5 25
No. 
l ................................   5 00
No  2................................ 6 00
No.  8.................................. 5 00
No.  4.................................. 4 9.
No.  5.................................. 4 «8
No.  8.......................   ........4 81
No.  7.................................. 4  75
No.  8.................................. 4 69
No.  9.................................. 4 63
No.  »0................................. 4 50
No.  U.................................. 4 38
No.  12............  
........4 31
No.  13................. 
. .4  31
So.  14.................................. 4 25
So.  16 
................................!*S
4 ¿s
« 
TABLE  SAUCES.
LE A  & 
PERRINS’ 
SAU CE

The Original and 
Genuine 
W  orcestershire. 
Lea A Perrin’s,  large...  3 75 
Lea A Perrin’s, sm all...  2 50
Halford,  large..................3 75
Halford small...................2 25
Salad Dressing, large...... 4 56
Salad Dressing, small...... S 95

Cigars.

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

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Candies.
Stick Candy.
. 

bbls.  pails
Fortune Teller....................... 35 01
standard.................  7  n  ?u
Our Manager...................   35  00
7  S  7«
Standard H. H........ 
Quintette.................................35 00
Standard Twist......   7)4® 8
® 8)4
Cut Loaf................. 
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.
t 
cases
® 6)4
Jumbo, 32 lb  .......... 
Extra H .H.............. 
® 8)4
Boston  Cream........ 
@10

,__  

. 

S-C.W............... ...............35 00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. 
Vincente Portuondo. .35® 70 O'»
Ruhe Bros.  C o ......... 25© *0 00
The HllsonCo.............3-@U0 00
T. J. Dunn &  Co........35<a 70 00
McCoy & Co.............. 35® 70 00
The Collins Cigar Co.. 10® 35 00
Brown Bros............... 15® 70 00
Banner Cigar Co....... 30® 70 00
Bernard Stahl  Co......35®  90 00
Banner Cigar Co........I1 ® 35 00
Seidenberg & Co........55®125 00
G. P. Sprague Cigar Co. 10® &5 00 
The Fulton Cigar Co. .1<® 35 00 
A. B  Ballard & Co....35@l*5 00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co 
..V®110 00
San  Telm j .................35® 70 0)
Havana Cigar Co.......18® 35 00

VINEGAR.

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

WICKING.

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

Baskets.

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

Pails.

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

1  00 
1  10 
30 
6 25 
5 50 
5 00

1  35 
1  50 
1 35 
1  60
1  25
2 25
2 25

Tabs.

2Mnch, Standard, No. 1 ..., 
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2...,
16-inch,  Standard,  No. 3__
20-inch, Dowell, No. 1........
18-im.h, Dowell, No. 2.........
16-inch, Dowell, No. 3.  __
No. 1 Fibre..........................
No. 2 Fibre.........................
No. 3 Fibre..........................

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:
Bnttar.
Seymour XXX..................   5)4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family X X X ....................  5)4
Salted XXX.......................  5)4
New York XXX...... ..........  5)4
Wolverine.........................  6
Boston................................  7)4
Soda  XXX  .......................   6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton....  6)4
Soda,  City.........................  8
Long Island Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Zephyrette...........................10

Soda.

Oyster.

Saltlne Wafer....................  5)4
Saltine Wafer, 1 lb. carton.  6)4
Farina Oyster....................  5)4
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  10)4
Bent’s Water......................J15
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Ja v a ............   10
Coffee Cake, Iced................10
Cracknells.........................  15)4
Cubans  .............................   11)4
Frosted  Cream..................   8
Ginger Gems.....................   8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  7)4
Graham Crackers  ............   8
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................  8
JumDles,  Honey..................12)4
Marshmallow  ..................   15
Marshmallow  Creams......  16
Marshmallow Walnuts__  16
Mich. Frosted Honey__  12)4
Molasses Cakes.................   8
Newton.............................   12
Nlc Nacs............................  8
Orange Gems.....................  8
Penny Assorted Cakes......  8)4
Pretzels,  hand  m ade......  7)4
Sears’Lunch......................  7
Sugar  Cake.......................  8
Sugar  Squares.................  9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Sultanas............................  12)4

Mixed Candy.

Grocers...................  
© g
® gu
Competition............ 
Standard................. 
@ ?
a  7)4
Conserve................. 
R o y a l...................  
© 7)4
Ribbon.................... 
© 8)4
© 8)s
Cut Loaf............ 
© 8)4
English Rock.........  
Kindergarten.........  
© 8)4
French  Cream........ 
© 9
© 8)4
Dandy Pan.............  
Hand Made Cream mxd  @13
Nobby.................... 
@ 8)4

Fancy—In Balk.

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

Lemon Drops.........  
©50
Sour  Drops............  
©50
Peppermint Drops.. 
©00
Chocolate Drops__ 
©65
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
©75
H. M.  Choc.  Lt.and
Dk.No.12............  
@90
Gum  Drops............  
a an
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  ©50
Lozenges,  plain__ 
©55
Lozenges, printed.. 
©55
Imperials...............  
©55
Mottoes..................  
©go
Cream Bar.............. 
a m
Molasses B a r.........  
@55
Hand Made Creams.  80  ®  90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Want............ 
String Rock............  
Burnt Almonds...... 125  ©
Wintergreen Berries 
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb. 
boxes................... 
Fruits.
Oranges.
Fancy Rodi’s........... 
Sorrentos................  
Lemons.

©as
@60
©55

@5" 00
@4 50

Strictly choice 360s..  @4 00
Strictly choice 300s..  @4 uo
Fancy 300s.............  
@4 50
Ex.Fancy 300s........ 
@5 ou
Bananas.

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

©go

Figs.

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 
Californias  Fancy..  @13
Choice, 10 lb boxes..  @12
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............  
@18
Fancy, 121b boxes.. 
©22
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............  
©
Pulled, 6 lb boxes...  @
Naturals,  in  bags... 
© 7
Dates.

Fards in 10 lb  boxes  @10
©  6
Fards  in 60 lb cases 
Persians, P H V ........ 
© a
lb cases, new........ 
© 6
Sairs,  601b cases.... 
© 5
Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
Almonds, Ivaca.........
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............
Brazils new...............
Filberts  ....................
Walnuts, Grenobles.. 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
Walnuts,  soft shelled
Calif.......................
Table Nuts,  fancy.... 
Table Nuts,  choice...
Pecans, Med...............
Pecans, Ex. Large..
Pecans, Jumbos........
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new...............
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks 
Chestnuts per bu.......
Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................
Choice, H. P., Extras. 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras

Roasted

©16
©14
@15 
Q 7 
@10 
@18 
@11
@11 
@11 
@10 
@ 7)4 
@ 9 
@12
@1  60 
@8 50 
@
@7
0 7@5

Grains and Feedstuffs

Wheat.

66
84

Old..................................... 
New.................................... 
Winter  Wheat  Flenr. 

Local Brands.

Patents............................. 40
Second  Patent...................  3 50
Straight...........................  3 25
Clear.................................. 3 00
Graham  ............................3 50
Buckwheat.......................
R ye........  .......................   3 25
Subject  to  nsual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Daisy, )48............................ 3 75
Daisy, Hs............................ 3 75
Daisy, )4s.............................3 75
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, Hs........................  3 £0
Quaker, Ms........................  3 60
Quaker, )4s......  ................  3 60
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pill8bury’s Best )4s...........  4 35
Plllsbury’s Best Hs...........  4 25
Pillsbury’s Best Hs...........  4  15
Pillsbury’s Best H$ paper..  4  15 
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4  15 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.

Spring  Wheat  Flour. 

Meal.

Corn.

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

 
Feed and MIllstnHe.

Dnluth Imperial, )4s........... 4 30
Dulntb Imperial, Hs.  ____4  20
Duluth Imperial, Hs..........  4 10
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal )4s...................  4 30
Gold Medal Ms.................... 4 20
Gold Medal H*.................... 4 10
Parisian, Hs...................    4 30
Parisian, Hs......................... 4 20
Parisian. Hs.......................  4 10
Ceresota, 34s ...........................  4 40
Ceresota, Ms...........................  4 30
Ceresota, Hs.......................  4 29
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Hs........................... 4 40
Laurel, H s........................... 4 30
Laurel, )4s........................... 4 20
Bolted.................... 
1 90
Granulated.......................   2 10
St. Car Feed, screened  .... 16 00
No. 1 Com and  Oats......   .15 50
Unbolted Com Meal.......... 14 ro
Winter Wheat  Bran...........11 00
Winter Wheat Middlings. .15 CO
Screenings.......................... 14 00
New com, car lots...............38
Less than  car lots.............   39
Car  lots............................... 30
Carlots, clipped.................  32
Less than  car lots.  ........... 34
No. 1 Timothy carlots.......  9 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots 
12 09
Fish and  Oysters
Per lb. 
@  9 
@  9
@  10 
16 
4 
@
11 
@  18 
@   20 
@  10
7©  9
@  7
O  5 
@  8 
©  9
@  12 
©  18
25@1  50 
@1  r0

Fresh Fish.
Whiteflsh................
T rout......................
Black Bass..............  8
Halibut...................
Ciscoes or Herring..
Bluefish..................
Live Lobster.........
Boiled Lobster........
Cod 
......................
Haddock.................
No.  1  Pickerel........
Pike.........................
Perch.......................
Smoked White........
Red Snapper...........
Col  River Salmon 
Mackerel 
.............
Shell Goods. 
Ousters, per  100......... 1

Oats.

Hay.

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene......................  @11)4
Perfection.................  @10
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @10
W W Michigan...........  @ 9)4
Diamond White.........  @ 8)4
D., S. Gas....................  @12)4
Deo. N aptha..............  @12v
Cylinder................... 29  @84
E ngine................... 
11  @2)
B ack  winter.......  
p   ?
. 

Provisions.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barreled Perk.

Jf«8«  ...............................   10 00
RfO*  ......................10 50©
Clear back..............  @10 71
Short cat...........................  10 ¿0
..................................   1« 00
ge»«,................................ 
9 50
Family  ............................  n  oj
_ 
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies..........................  
B riskets  ............................... 
Extra shorts...................... 

sv
5 <5

Smoked neats.

Hams, 12 lb average  __ 
11)4
liu
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
Hams, 161b average...... 
11
Hams, 20 lb  average...... 
1  34
Ham dried beef  ............  
iey.
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
7
Bacon,  clear........   .......7  @7)4
California hams............  
7%
Boneless hams................... 
Cooked  ham.................io@15

le.

Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound 
Kettle.............................  
an
56 lb Tubs...........advance 
2
80 lb Tubs...........advance 
u
50 lb T ins...........advance  %
20 lb Palls........... advance 
«4
10 lb Pails........... advance  %
5 
lb Pails.......advance 
1
1 H
31b Pails........... advance 
Sausages.
Bologna.................
L iv er............... .
Frankfort..................
P o rk ......................
Blood  ...................   ',
Tongue.....................
Head  cheese............

Beef.

Extra  Mess 
Boneless 
. 
Romp......
Pigs’ Part.
Kits, 15 lbs.................
94  bbls, 40 lbs............... .  ]
)4  bbls, 80 lbs.................  2
Kits, 15 lbs.. 
S4  bbls, 40 lbs........  I . "   1
H  bbls, 80 lbs.................2
_  
Pork...............................
Beef  rounds......... . . .  . .
Beef  middles...........
Sheep....................

Casings.

Tripe.

.

Bntterlns.

Rolls,  dairy...... ............ 
Solid,  d a iry ..................  
Rolls,  creamery...........‘ 
Sol’d,  creamery............  

60

n
jo^
75^
14).

Canned  Masts.

Corned beef,  2 l b ........2  15
Corned  beef, 14  lb.........14 75
Roast  beef,  2 lb.........2  15
Potted  ham,  Hs.........   50
Potted  ham,  Hs.........   90
50
Deviled ham,  h s..........  
Deviled ham,  H s.........   90
Potted  tongne H8.........   50
Potted  tongue Hs.........   90
Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass.........................7 © g#
Forequarters..............  6 © 6)4
Hind  quarters...........  8)4® 10
Loins  No.  3................. 12 @14
Ribs.......................   .9   ©14
Rounds......................  © 8
ghocks.......................  6  @6)4
Plates  .......................  4  © 5
Dressed......................... 5 @ 5M
L oins.........................  © s
Shoulders...................  @6)4
Leaf Lard..................   6H@

Pork.

Mutton

Carcass.....................   8)4@10
Spring Lambs...............12 @12)4

Veal.

Hides.

Carcass  ......................8  @8)4
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Green No. 1................  @ 7)4
Green No. 2.................  @6)4
Bulls....................... 
@ a
Cured No. 1................   @9
Cured No. 2.............. .  @8
Calfskins,  green No. 1  @9
Calfskins, green No. 2  @7)4
Calfskins, cured No. 1  @10
Calfskins, cured No. 2  @8)4
Pelts,  each.................  50@1  00

Pelta.

2 ° - 1-..........................  @3)4

Tallow.

Wool.

Washed, fine  ;...........  @16
Washed, medium.......  @20
Unwashed, fine..........  9  @12
Unwashed, msdinm ..14  @16

Crockery  and

Glassv/are.

8)4

Jngs.

Churns.

Batters,

Mllkpans.

Stowpnna.

Tomato Jngs.

Fine Glazed Mllkpans.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 
K gal., per doz...............  40
x to 6 gal., per gal.............  5
8 gal., each....................  48
10 gal., each....................  60
12 gal.,  each...................   72
15 gal. meat-tubs, each___1 05
20 gal. meat-tubs, each___1 40
25 gal. meat-tabs, each  ... 2 00 
30 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 2 40 
554
to 6 gal., per gal.........  5
2 
Churn Dashers, per doz...  84 
)4 gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  40 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  434
H gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot, each  5)4 
H gal. fireproof  <11, dos.  86 
1 gal. flreprooi, ball, doz.l  10 
H gal., per dos..................  40
H gal., per dos..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal... 
a
)4 gal., per dos.................  50
1 gal., each...................... 
an
Corks for )4 gal., per dos..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  80 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
)4 gal., stone cover, do*...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, dos. ..1  00 
5 
lbs. in package, per lb...  2
Pints.................................. 4 00
Quarts................................  4 25
Half Gallons......................  a CO
Covers...............................   2 00
Rubbers...............................   25
LAMP  BURNBRS.
No.  0 Sun..........................  
34
No.  1  Sun..........................
No.  2  Sun..........................  
50
No. 3 Sun...........................  j  00
Tubular................................  45
Security, No. 1.....................   60
Security, No. 2.....................  
80
Nutmeg  ............................  
  go
LAMP CHIMNBYS—Seconds. 
„  
Per box of 6 dos.
No.  0 Sun..........................   1  28
No.  1  Sun..........................   1  42
No.  2 Sun..........................  2  12
No. 0 Sun...........................   1  50
No. 1 Sun...........................  I  80
No. 2 Sun...........................   2 45
No.  0  Son,  crimp 
No.  1  Snn,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  orimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
1  Snn,  orimp 
No.  2  Snn,  crimp 

wrapped and  labeled....  2  10 
wrapped and  labeled....  2  16 
wrapped and  labeled__  s  16

Sealing Wax.
FRUIT JARS.

First  Quality.

top,
top,
top,

Common

Blsctrlc.

Rochester.

La  Bastla.

top,
wrapped and labeled....  2 55 
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled....  B 75 
CHIMNEYS—Pasrl  Top.
No. 1  Son,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................3 70
No. 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled..........................   4 88
No. 2  Snn,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamm............  
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
dos  .................................  90
No. 2 Snn,  plain bulb,  per
dos  ................................   1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per dos......... 1  85
No. 2 Crimp, per dos......... 1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c dos)........8 50
No. 2, Lime  (70o dos)........4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  dos)........4 70
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  ........ 4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80a dos)........4 40
Dos.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  I  42
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1 52
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  2 (5
3 gal galv iron with spont.  3 45 
5 gal galv iron with  spont.  4 58 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 50 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 4 85
5 gal Tilting cans................7  25
5 gal galv iron Naoefas....  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  7 80 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3  gal Home Rale.............10  50
5 gal Home Rule................12  00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9  59
No.  0 Tubular side lift....  4 00
No.  1 B  Tubular........  ...  6 26
No. 18 Tubular Dash..  ....  8 50 
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 00 
No.  3 Street  Lamp, each.. 8 75 
LANTERN GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 dos.
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 2 dos.
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 6 dos.
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  Bye, 

each, box 10 cents...........  46
each, box 15  cents.........   46
each,  per bbl, bbl. 00__   1  78
oases I dos. each......... 
1 25

LANTBRNS.

Pump  Cans

OIL CAN*. 

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H a rd w a r e

Some  Facts  about  the  Standard  Oil 

From the Brooklyn Eagle.

Company.

resources  by 

News  announcement  is  made  that  the 
Standard  Oil  Company  in  New  Jersey 
has  consolidated 
into  one  corporation, 
with  a  capital  of $100,000,000,  several 
other  lesser  corporations  hitherto  con­
ducted  by 
it,  of  which  the  separate 
capital  just  equals  the  one  formed  by 
their  consolidation.  There  is  no  more 
capital  in  the  case.  There 
is  only  one 
corporation  where  there  were  several. 
The  change  is  in  the  direction  of  sim­
plicity  and  conciseness  in  organization 
and  economy  in  management.  Still  not 
a  little  misrepresentation  of  the  matter 
may  be  expected.
It is,  however,of importance that what­
ever  conclusions the  people  may  reach 
concerning  big  corporations  within  the 
next  few  years  should  be  based on facts. 
There  has  been  much  wild  talk  on  the 
subject  and  there  are  probably  more 
misconceptions  harbored 
in  the  minds 
of  honest  men  about  the  present 
indus­
trial  and  commercial  movement  than 
about  any  other  subject  of  like 
impor­
tance.  One of our contemporaries prints 
in  black  faced  type  as  the  bead  of  its 
editorial  page  the  causes  in  which  it  is 
interested.  One  of  them  is  in  its  own 
“ Destruction  of  criminal
language: 
trusts—no  monopolization  of 
the  na­
tional 
lawless  private 
corporations  more  powerful  than  the 
people's  government.”   The  destruc­
tion  or  the  prevention  of  such  corpora­
tions 
is  worthy  the  best  endeavor of 
public  spirited  citizens.  But  the  as­
sumption  of  the  men  who  are  attacking 
what  they  call  “ trusts”   is that every  big 
is  criminal  and  that  it  is 
corporation 
law­
monopolizing  natural  resources  by 
less  combinations  and  that  it 
is  doing 
things  which  other  persons  may  not  do 
without  making  themselves  criminals. 
The  common  phrase  used  in  describing 
them  is  “ grasping  and grinding monop­
olies. ”   The  Standard  Oil  Company 
and 
the  American  Sugar  Refining 
Company  are  commonly  used  as  types 
of  these  monstrous  corporations  which 
are  to  be  destroyed.  Five  years ago 
Henry  Demarest Lloyd,of Chicago, wrote 
a  book  on  the  Standard  Oil  Company, 
which  he  called  “ Wealth  Against  Com­
monwealth,”   and  which  has  had  a  wide 
It  was  described  by  Ed­
circulation. 
its 
ward  Everett  Hale,  who  accepted 
statements  as  true,  as 
‘ Uncle 
Tom’s  Cabin’  of  the  present  crisis. ”  
This  book  has  also  been  called  a  store­
house  of  facts  of 
incalculable  value. 
Unfortunately  for a  correct  understand­
ing  of  the  problem  which 
it  discusses, 
its  statements  do  not always  bear  inves­
tigation.  Yet  they  have  been  believed 
and  quoted  by  men 
in  high  place  as 
gospel  truth.  Now,  the  Eagle  does  not 
care  what  becomes  of  the  Standard  Oil 
Company.  That  corporation  has  thus 
far  been  able  to  take  care  of  itself  and 
when  it  needs  defense  before  the  people 
the  time  for  its  dissolution  will  have ar­
rived.  But  the  Eagle  does  care  for the 
truth. 
It  does  believe  that  misconcep­
tions  based  on  misinformation  should 
be  corrected,  so that  the  people  may  not 
be  misled  into believing  that  this,  that 
or the  other  legal  nostrum  will  reverse 
the  industrial revolution now in  progress 
in 
or  that  the  big  corporations  now 
existence  differ at  all  in  kind  from  the 
little  ones.  The  difference 
in  de­
gree only,  or,  to  put  it differently,  in the 
amount  of  business  done.  The  Standard 
Oil  Company  does  not  have  a  monopoly 
of  the  oil  producing  or  refining business 
in  the  United  States  any  more  than  the 
American  Sugar  Refining  Company  has 
a  monopoly  of the  sugar  business. 
It  is 
a  fact  ascertainable  by  those who choose 
to  make an  investigation  that  there  are 
between  sixty  and  seventy  independent 
and  competitive  oil  manufacturing  con­
cerns 
in  the  country  beside the  Stand­
ard.  They  have  plants  sufficient  to  do 
more  than  one-half  of  the  oil  business 
of  the United  States  and  they  are  doing 
much  of  it.
[The  Eagle  then  takes  up  the  charge 
that the  Standard  Oil  Company has  en­

“ the 

is 

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

freight 

joyed  discriminating 
rates, 
showing  conclusively  that  the  charge 
has  no  basis  of  truth.]
We  have  dealt  thus  extensively  with 
this  subject  because of  the  importance 
of  an  accurate  understanding  of  it. 
If 
we  are  to  attack  big  corporations  it 
must  be  for  faults  which  have  had  some 
existence.  We  can  not go  into  the  “ I 
do  not  like  thee.  Dr.  F e ll,”   business 
and  retain  our  self-respect.  We  must 
have  proof  that  a  corporation  has  suc­
ceeded  by  the  use  of  means  which  were 
not  equally  open  to  other  corporations, 
or that  it has  unreasonably increased the 
price  of  a  product  and  bolds  so com­
plete  a  monopoly  that  no  other  corpora­
tions  can  enter  the  field,  or that  it  is 
violating  the  laws  framed  for  the  pro­
tection  of  all  business  men  before  we 
denounce 
it.  But  when  a  corporation 
has taken  advantage  of the opportunities 
open  to  others  and  has  succeeded  we 
should not attempt to  explain  its  success 
by  the  unsubstantiated  statements  at 
second  and  third  hand  charging  an  op­
pressive  favoritism  which  has  bad  no 
existence kave  in  the  imagination.

Brown & Sehler

W est  Bridge  and  Front  Sts.,

Ornad Rapids, Mich.

M anufacturers  o f  Custom  and  Hand  M ade 
H arness for the Trade.  W e give the best value 
$   for  the  money.  Order  a  Sam ple  H arness  and 
X   see. 
Jobbers  in  Saddlery  H ardw are,  H orse 
<B  Collars, Robes,  Blankets,  W hips, etc.
S  

Send  for Catn'ogue and Price List.

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S p r a y e r s

from 

instructions 

A  Curious  New  Orleans  Practice.
A  New  Orleans grocer  claims  that 

it 
is  no  uncommon  thing  for him  to  re­
ceive  private 
the 
beads  of  families  not to  credit  some  fe­
male  member  of  the  household,  and 
such  cases,  he  says,  are  mighty  ticklish 
to  handle.  As  a  rule,  the  lady  in  point 
is  a  good  customer,  and  if  we  tell  her, 
no  matter  how  diplomatically,  of  our 
orders,  we are  aimost  certain  to lose  her 
future  trade.  Chagrin,  if  nothing  else, 
will  keep  her out  of  the  house,  and  she 
will  go  to  some  store  that  was  not  the 
scene  of  so  mortifying  an  episode. 
If, 
on  the  other hand,  we  say  nothing,  we 
run  the  risk  of  losing  the  bill  That, 
however,  is  generally  the  course  I' pur­
I trust  to  luck  and  to  her ability to 
sue. 
wheedle  the  indignant  gentleman 
into 
footing  the  account.  As a  rule,  he  is 
simply  exasperated  over  some  extrava­
gance  of  the  hour, and when  he  cools off 
there  is  no  further  trouble.

It 

Want to Advertise  Seeded  Raisins.
There  are  remaining  on  the hands  of 
the  California  Raisin-Growers’ Associa­
tion  481  ten-ton  cars  of  last  year's  crop, 
or 9,620,000  pounds,  approximating 
in 
value  upwards  of  a  qua;ter of  a  million 
dollars.  There 
is  c  scheme  on  foot to 
pack  these  as  seeded  raisins  and  adver­
tise them  extensively  all  over  the  coun­
try. 
is  believed  that  if  the  packers 
of  seeded  raisins  were  to  combine  and 
raise  a  fund  of  $4,000  or $5,000 with 
which  to  get  out  little  brochures  and 
leaflets for distribution  by  retail  grocers 
all  over the  country, and judiciously  ad­
vertise  the  merits  and  qualities  of  this 
dainty  adjunct  to the  pastry  cook,  there 
would  at  once  be  such  a  demand  for 
California  seeded  raisins  that  the  1898 
stock  now  awaiting  sale  would  soon 
disappear and another  500 cars  in  addi­
tion.

If  it  wasn't  for the  fools  in  this  world 
wise  men  would  have  to  work  for a  liv­
ing.

N ew   P r ic e s

on  Bicycle 
Sundries

D ealers o f M ichigan are  requested  to  drop 
us a  card asking for  our  Ju ly   ist  discount 
sheet  on  B icycle  Sundries,  Supplies,  etc. 
R ig h t  Goods,  L o w   Prices  and  Prompt 
Shipments w ill continue  to  be  our  motto. 
Dealers w ho are not next  to  us  on w heels 
and sundries are invited to correspond.

ADAMS &  HART,

12  W.  Bridge S t , 
Grand  Rapids,  Mlcfa. 

Wholesale Bicycles aad Saadries.

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FOSTER, STEVENS & CO.

ORANO  RAPIDS,  MICH.

We  M ake. . . .

Peppermint  Oil  Cans

Write for  Prices.

W M.  BRUM M ELER  &  SONS,

Tinware Manufacturers,

260  South  Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Alcohol■ 

and 
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Using

Treated  to  a  successful 
conclusion.  Write us for 
literature and full infor­
mation.  Don’t  delay if 
you need this treatment.
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THEj Y e e l e y BENTON HARBOR, MICH.

H.  M.  Reynolds  &  Son,

Manufacturers  of

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

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Office, 82 Campau st.
Factory,  ist av. and  M . C . R y .

ESTABLISHED  1868

Detroit, Mich.
Fo ot ist St.

Petting the People

Criticises the Critic—Samples of Good 

Advertising.

In  the  issue of  July  19  I  used  an  ad­
vertisement  of  E.  R.  Welsh,  of  Manis­
tee,  to  illustrate  the  injustice a business 
man  does  himself  by  allowing  an  ad­
vertisement to  run  more  than  once,  and 
especially  to  let  it  run  after  its  useful­
ness  is  ended.  Reference  to  that 
issue 
will  show  that  my  remarks  were  hardly 
of  such  a  nature  as  to  justify the  follow­
ing  outpouring  of  wrath,  which  Mr. 
Stowe  laid  before  me  the  other  day.

Manistee,  July  22—I  have  received  a 
marked  copy  of  your  valuable  Trades­
man. 
In  reply  will  say,  I  had  supposed 
until  I  received  it  that I  was  living  in  a 
free  country,  had  a  right  to advertise  or 
not  change  my  advertisement  when  I 
thought  proper  to  do  so  (providing  I

attending  to  their  own  business.  He 
can  take  this  advice  as  be  likes.

In  conclusion  will  say,  business has 
been  one  Fourth  of  July  all  the  season, 
for  which  I  am  very  thankful.  T  can’t 
say  too  much  of  the  man  or  men  who 
has  brought  prosperity  and  honor  once 
more  to  this  grand  country  of  ours. 
Perhaps  Hamburger  would 
like  a 
change.

E .  R.  W e l s h .

land  of  free  speech. 

Mr.  Welsh  is quite  right  in  his  state­
ment  that  this  is  a  free country,  but  I 
would  venture  to  remind  him  that  it  is 
also  a 
In  other 
words,  while  Mr.  Welsh  is  privileged  to 
make  bonfires  of  his  money  in  any  way 
which  pleases  him,  I,  on  my  part,  am 
privileged  to  call  my  readers’  attention 
is  burning  his 
to  the  fact  that  be 
money.  This  department 
is  conducted 
for the  assistance  of  the  readers  of  the 
Tradesman  who  are  desirous  of  making 
their  advertising  pay  better,  and  there

Wéar
Lewis’
Wear
Resisters.

voi»  w il l  n iv c n   M

_»• 

«»»»tu.

STORES  AT  EVART.  MARION  AND  BARRYTON

Y*ur Money  back If yon want it.

Wear
Lewis’
Wear
Resisters.

Tan Shoes.

Nat  a mere  matter  of  style  only  bat  of  comfort as well 
these Summer months.  We have sold more than ever, but 
the  advancing  season  finds  still  too  many pairs on  the' 
shelves,  hence, these before unheard of values:
Gents’  “ Lewis’ Wear Resister ’ Willow Calf $3.50 Tans

n o w ...................1 ....................................$2.75
Gents’ Dark Tan $3.00 Shoes,  n o w . : ......................$2.50
Gents’ $2.25 Tan Shoes now.          .............................. $1.98 «
Take  Advantage of the 

MID-SUMMER 

CLEARING SALE.

0 
Hammocks.

IDavte’  Shoes.

Altho we've sold a large number this season we are not satisfied.  The

f»rices we know were low  but  to  move  them along we  have put them still 

ower.  Now surely a*splendid chance to secure a good Hammock for next 

to nothing.Baby Carriages.

More cabs  havetMMffrom  here this Sommer  than we can ever before 
remember of potting but in a single  season.  The  prices must  have  been 
right,  and there’s no question about the cabs. 
Just five left  that  mnst  be 
closed out at once. 

Tbc Harness Business

■

We  don’t  claim  to lead  in everything, bnt when it comes to Harness 
no one can dispute our supremacy.  Few years  'in  our  history  have been 
better  than  this—the  order  book  now  shows  exactly seventy-seven sets 
M ADE and  6old  since  Nov.  1s t ,’98.  We make our own Harness in our 
own shops;  guarantee  it  ourselves  and  are in .a  position to back  iip   our 
guarantee.  Other  dealers  can’t  even  claim  this.  We ¡could  take your 
now and make it up  A T  ONCE.  Have  you  noticed Smith & Bath’s new 
dray Harness?  O f coursev we made  it.

Do  “TUneeba”  TiClagon,  35uggç  or  36icçcle?  M  Wt

F or only $ 40.

HARRISON
WAGONS.

STORES  AT  EVART,  MARION  AND  BARRYTON,

T oot Money back if yon want it.

MICHIGAN
BU G G IES.

Extra Specials
in Shoes....
atL*<U“! Sh0”’ ,refU;ar a<W “d. * *  
Ladies’ Black Oxford». 1.00 quality at. 
Ladles* Tan Oxfords, 1.3 quality at 

pay  as  I  go).  Perhaps  Mr.  W.  S.  Ham­
burger  has  tbe  big  bead,  like  some  of 
the  correspondents  down 
in  Cuba  last 
year.  One of  them  went so  far as  to  try 
to  knock  down  tbe  General  in  command 
at  the  surrender  of  Santiago  when  Old 
Glory  was  being  hoisted  over the  city 
hall,  and  tbe trouble  was  that  tbe  Gen­
eral  was  doing  his  duty  and  Mr. Corres­
pondent  did  not  know his place.  I  think 
I  shall  continue  to  run  my  business  as 
suits  me  and  my  customers,  notwith­
standing  Mr.  Hamburger  would 
like 
something 
The  words 
"Fourth  of  July”   were  not  in  my  ad­
vertisement,  no  more  than  the  fourth  of 
June or the  fourth  of  August,  and 
it 
bad  been  I  don’t  know  what  business  it 
is  of  his  whether  I  leave  it  in  tbe  paper 
one  day,  one  week  or  fifty  weeks. 
I 
pay  for  it;  be  don’t. 
I  have beard  it 
said  that  some  people get quite  well  off

different. 

if 

is  no  reason  why  Mr.  Welsh’s  advertis­
ing  should  not be  held  up  as  a  horrible 
example,  whenever  the  circumstances 
of the  case  warrant  it.

I  don’t think  I  know  it  all. 

I  am  not  afflicted  with  tbe 

"b ig  
head." 
It 
was  not  necessary  to  know  it  all to know 
that  Mr.  Welsh’s  advertisement  was  as 
useless  as a  firecracker on  the  eleventh 
of July.  While  the  Fourth of July was not 
mentioned 
in  his  advertisement,  the 
expression  "T h e   Fourth”  was used,  and 
if  that  did  not  refer  to  tbe  Fourth  of 
July,  it  meant  nothing  at  all—a  theory 
which  the general  tone  of  Mr.  Welsh’s 
letter seems  to confirm.

Apart  from  the  modesty  with  which 
Mr.  Welsh  compares  himself  to 
tbe 
commanding  general  at the  surrender of

EXTRA  SPECIA LS I

Ladies  Game. Vests.......................  .  .

Cameron  Lumber Co.,

TORCH  LAKE,  MICH.

The 

is  excellent. 

is  good,  because 

is  well  printed,  and  the  dis­
sends  me 
introductory 
play 
it gives  a 
paragraph 
definite  reason  for  the 
reduction  of 
prices.  A  reduction  sale  without  any 
assignable  cause  is  always  more  or  less 
hard  to  believe  in.  The  first  sentence, 
however,  " I t  
isn’t  one  of  the  make- 
believe  affairs  which  are  so  common 
nowadays'  ’ ’  could well  have  been  omit­
ted. 
If  yon  are  not  honest,  it  is  best  to

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

2 3

Santiago,  there 
is  nothing  else  in  his 
letter  which  seems  worthy of a moment’s 
notice,  except  the  rather  startling  state­
ment  that  business  with  him  has  been 
one grand  Fourth  of  July  all  the  season. 
I  don't  doubt  that  in  the  least,  and  it 
seems  quite  possible  that,  with  a  little 
more  of  the  sound  business  principles 
evidenced 
in  bis  advertising,  he  will 
be  able 
in  the  near  future  to  state  that 
the business  will  take  a  long,  long  holi­
day—a  regular  Fourth  of  July,  in  fact. 

*  *  *

Evart,  July  17—Noticing  your  invita­
in  the  Tradesman,  I  am  sending 
tion 
you  under separate  cover  papers  con­
taining  two  of  my  advertisements.
Kindly  criticise  them  in  every  way. 
I  am  seventeen  years  old  and  have  been 
writing  our  advertisements  for about  a 
year.  Any  suggestions  you  may  offer 
will  be  gratefully  received.

E a r l  H .  D a v is.

Mr.  Davis’  advertisements  read  very 
well.  They  are  conversational  and 
in­
teresting.  I  reproduce  the  matter of  one 
of  them  by  a  photographic  reduction. 
The  arrangement  and  typographical  ap­
pearance  generally  could  be  improved 
by  the  adoption  of  a  style  on  the  order 
of  that  suggested  for  Boosinger Brothers 
in  a  recent  issue,  and I  would  recom­
mend  that  at  least  one  price  be  quoted 
in  each  department.  Otherwise,  I  can 
find  no  serious  fault 
in  Mr.  Davis’ 
work,  and,  considering  the  age  of  the 
writer,  bis  advertisements  are  remark­
ably  good,  and  added  experience  should 
place  him  well  toward  the  front  in  this 
line.

From  the  Cameron  Lumber  Co.,  of 
Torch  Lake,  comes  the  following  letter:
We  enclose  herewith  a  circular  which 
we  are  mailing  our  customers,  also  run­
ning  the  same  matter  as  an  advertise­
ment 
in  our  local  paper.  Would  be 
pleased  to  have  opinion  from  you  re­
garding 
The 
writer  has  been  a  reader  of  the  Trades­
man  almost  since  its  first  issue,  and  is 
very  much  interested  in  your  column  of 
"Getting  the  People."

faults,  etc. 

same—its 

The 

circular  which  Mr.  Cameron

W E T IE A N   B U SIN ESS

... 

WITH  OUR  — -.......

CLEAR IN G  S A L E

•* It isn’t one of the “make believe’’  affairs which  are  fo  common  now-a-^ay*. 
The bargains are genuine, the cut prices bona fide, the goods exactly  as jeprcscul- 
ed.  We have done a remarkable half years business, therefore the number, of rem- 
, wants, odds and ends and broken lots which  must  be  closed  out  is  much  larger- 
than usual.  This means BARGAINS  FOR  EVERYBODY and such low prices

.

their share of the good values which we are distributing, a partial list-oUwhich  is 
given below. 
Shirt waists.
Perhaps you need one or two more Shirt Waists  |

Ladies’ wrappers

AT Bid .REDUCTIONS.
.___ 35c
!  -0th*T l»,“ lrt‘^^r°U tjrieev:^td|tiA|o  ^
Hats.

ONE  HALF  PRICE.

Ladies’ capes.

n
6gc  1 Fiae line oi Ladle.’ Cape* to c lme at
»*£ 
ONE  THIRD  OFF.

|

Men’s Shirts.
Can Su.t you at mo., an, price

*iae’ "tVc^ve oniy 0 aud io -lie. in iht-ic")  *"**

Atal 

ether shoe barga.i».

keep  silent  about  it. 
If  you  are,  tell  a 
straight  story,  and  let  the  public  draw 
their  inference  from  your  words.
Let  the  samples  and  letters  keep  on 
coming. 
This  department  has  been 
more  readable  and  more  useful  for  their 
presence.  If  you  have  any plans for your 
fail  advertising  that  you  would  like  ad­
vice  about,  send  them 
in,  and  if  you 
wish  them  kept  confidential,  I  will  omit 
names  and  places  in  my  reply. 
In such 
cases,  always  send  full  details  regard­
ing  your  business—tbe  more  the  better 
—as  I  can  reply  more intelligently  when 
I  am  able  to  form  a  mental  picture  of 
the  business  and  tbe  conditions  attend­
ing  it.

If  any  of  my  readers  have  any  ideas 
or  suggestions  in  regard  to  the improve­
ment  oi  this  column  or  would 
like  any 
special  subject  treated  of,  I  would  be 
glad  to  bear  from  them. 
I  will  never 
he  satisfied  until  this  department  be­
comes  as  useful  to  my  readers  as  one 
man’s  ideas  can  make  it.

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

Business 
Opportunity
I  can  give  a  few men with  $500 
capital a permanent  business  pay­
ing from $2,000 to $3,500  per  year. 
Men now with me clearing $20  per 
day. 
in  two 
Illinois counties.  Sales  often  ex­
ceed  $200  per  day.  Gold  medal 
received  at  World’s  Fair  and 
Omaha.  No competition.  Choice 
territory  in  every  state.  Call  on 
me personally and make a thorough 
investigation or address 

$8,835  worth  sold 

William  R.  White, 

W ashington C.  H., Ohio. 

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2

Established 1180.

Walter Baker & Go. ^

Dorchester, Mesa.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOASAND
CHOCOLATES

on this Continent.

th eir m an u factu res.

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

Dorchester.  Mass-

MUSKEGON
AND RETURN
Every  Sunday
VIA

cents g .  r .  &   1.

Train leaves Union 
Station at 9 .15 a.  m. 
Bridge Street 9 .3a a. m. 
Returning leaves 
Muskegon 7 .15   p.  m.

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

24

Hov/ a  Girl  Metamorphosed  a  Coun­

try  Store.

Written for the Tbxdkbman.

Stephen  Graves  had  kept  the  general 
store  at  Edgewood  ever  since  there  had 
been  a  town  there.  He  and  his  young 
wife  spent  their honeymoon in arranging 
the  goods  on  the  freshly  planed  pine 
shelves.  And  then  they  worked  side  by 
side  until  Jessie  came,  when  the 
little 
mother  decided  she  was  needed  more 
by  her  baby  than  by  the  store,  and  had 
made  the  home  brighter  upstairs,  while 
a  young  man  took  her  place  behind  the 
counter.

But  Mrs.  Graves  never became  strong 
again  and  when  Jessie  reached  the  age 
of  12  her  mother  succumbed to lingering 
consumption.  The  child  had  learned 
during  her  mother’s  illness  to  wait  on 
her  and  do  much  of  the  work  about  the 
house  and  so  now  she  became  her 
father’s  mainstay.  Moreover,  she  was 
the  pet  of  the  community,  for  her  pretty 
ways  won  all  hearts.  But  her  father, 
although  proud  of  her,  was  not  satisfied 
to  have  her  drift  along  in  this humdrum 
fashion.

In  the  long  winter  evenings,  when  the 
town  gossips  would  come  in  to  smoke 
or  chew  while  they  warmed  their fingers 
and  toes  around  the  redhot  stove  and 
retailed  the  news  of  the  village,  he 
would  discuss  Jessie  and  ask  their  ad­
vice,  and  all  were  unanimous  in  declar­
ing  that  Jessie  was  a  likely  girl  and  de­
served  more “ book-1'am in’  “ than could 
be  obtained  thereabout,  for  who  could 
tell  but  that  she  might  some  day  be  a 
fine  lady  and  she  ought  to  be  ready  for 
Stephen 
whatever  came  to  her 
bothered  his  head  considerably  and 
lay 
awake  more  than  one  night  planning 
for her  future. 
It  broke  his  heart  to 
think  of  parting  with  her  even  for  a 
short time,  but  he  must  not  be  selfish.

lot. 

in  a 

He  wrote  to  his  sister,  who  was  a 
dressmaker 
large  city  some  dis­
tance  away,  and  before  he  bad  time  to 
realize  it  everything  was  arranged.  He 
spent  more  sleepless  nights,  but  was  as 
firm  and  cheerful  as  a  martyr  when 
in 
the  morning  he  carried  Jessie  and  her 
brass-nailed  trunk  to  the  nearest  rail­
road  five  miles  away.  He  comforted  her 
childish  grief  and  told  her  to  be  a  good 
girl  and  to  try  to  learn  all  she  could  so 
that  she  would  be  able  to  come  back  to 
him  the  sooner.  He  wrote  his  sister  to 
give  his  child  every advantage possible, 
for  he  must-  try  to  be  both  father  and 
mother to  his  daughter.

Now  Jessie  was  returning  home  after 
an  absence—excepting  the  vacations— 
of  five  years.  For  months  Stephen  had 
not  seen  her.  Now  he  thought  of  noth­
ing  else  and  the  grocery  pretty  much 
took  care  of  itself.  The  cronies  around 
the  store  had  never  been  at  a  loss  for  a 
subject  upon  which  to  argue,  but  there 
was  one  thing  upon  which  they  all 
2greed :  Now  that  Jessie  was  a  young 
lady  she  would  not  look  at  the  likes  of 
them,  and  they  would  be  having  to  get 
out.

If  Stephen  felt  any trepidation nobody 
else  knew  it.  He  had  the  rooms  put  in 
order  and  went  to  the  station  to  meet 
the  train.  Only  one  passenger got  off. 
Surely  that  tall  graceful  stylish  young 
lady  could  not  be  his  daughter.  Yet  she 
seemed  to  know  him  for  she  smiled  and 
rushed  up  to  him  and  called  him 
“ Father”  
in  a  pretty,  giriisb  way. 
Stephen  was 
simply  astounded  and 
could  not  say  a  word  when  she  was  ad­
miring  the depot.  But  she  recalled  bis 
thoughts  by  suggesting  their  starting 
for  home.  Before  they  reached  the  store 
Stephen  had  recovered  and  now  fairly

bounded  up  the  steps  which  led  to  the 
rooms  he  called  home.  As  she  entered 
the  door  there  was  a  vivid  smell  of  new 
paper  and  fresh  paint. 
Jessie  looked 
around  and  Stephen  said:  “ I  fixed  up 
a  little  for  you,  Jessie.”

In  the  dining  room,  which  also  served 
as  kitchen,  was  a  new  stove  and  a  high­
ly  polished 
table,  while 
through  the glass  doors  of  the  cupboard 
could  be  seen  some  brightly  flowered 
crockery.

extension 

Jessie  admired  everything;  but  her 
father  did  not give  her  a  chance  to  sit 
down, for  he  led  the  way  at  once  toward 
what  used  to  be  the  parlor,  and  re­
marked,  as  he  opened  the door,  “ I fixed 
this  up  for you,  too,  dear.”

The  rag  carpet had  given  place  to  a 
Brussels  in  the vividest of blues,  greens, 
reds  and  yellows.  There  was  bright 
pink  paper  on  the  walls,  coarse  lace 
curtains  were  draped  back  at  the  win­
dows  and  several  pieces  of  upholstered 
furniture  in  blue  and  red  “ rep”   stood 
at  regular 
intervals  around  the  room. 
The  whatnot  had  disappeared  and  was 
probably  keeping  company  with  the 
straight-backed  haircloth  chairs  and  the 
large  old-fashioned  mahogany 
table 
which  were  conspicuous  for  their  ab­
sence. 
Instead  there  were  a  piano,  a 
desk,  a  bookcase and  a  library  table.

like 

I  hope  you 

“ Now,  daughter,  set  down  and  make 
it 
yourself  at  home. 
here. 
I  was  fer  fixing  up  your  Ma's 
and  my  room  for  you  and  taking  the 
little  room  myself,  but  when  I  heerd 
about  the  new-fangled  beds  that  look 
like  a  bookcase  says  I  to  myself, 
‘ Them’d  fit  Jessie  exactly,  fer  she  is  a 
proper  hand  at  her books  and  then  she 
can  have  the  parlor  room,  fer  I want her 
to bev  the  best  in  the  house. ’  ”

Jessie  choked  back  the  tear?  and 
hugged  her  father,  declaring  he  was 
“ the  best  man  in  all  the  world  and  she 
would  not  change  her  room  for  any­
body’s ! ”   Stpehen  did  not  say  he  would 
not  change  his  daughter  for anybody 
else’s,  but  be  looked  it.

We  will  not  say  how  heavily  the  time 
dragged  afterwards  with  Jessie—anyway 
one  day  found  her  down  in  the  store. 
Confusion  reigned.  Several slouchy  men 
in  their  shirt-sleeves were sitting around 
making  the air  blue  with  smoke.  Her 
father  was  at  her  side at  once.

“ Shoo,  Jessie,  this 

You’ ll  get  your  fine 

is  no  place  fer 
you. 
feathers 
rumpled  and  dirty  here.  Stores  are  only 
fit  fer  men  and  women  folks  that  wants 
to  trade.  You  go  up  and  play  the 
pianner  while  I  slick  up  a bit.  We ain’t 
expecting  city  ladies  often,  so  we  have 
to git  ready  fer them. ”

But  Jessie  bad  no  notion  of remaining 
upstairs  and  playing  the  piano  all  the 
time. 
Instead,  she  changed  her  dress 
for  a  plain  dark  little  gingham  and 
came  downstairs  ready  for  business. 
It 
was  useless  for  her  father  to  protest,  for 
she  Had  determined  on  a  revolution.

Before  a  week  had  passed  the  store 
was  scarcely  recognizable.  The  floor 
and  shelves  had  been  scrubbed  and  re­
scrubbed  until  they  were  white.  The 
fly-speckled  windows  became  again 
transparent.  The  one  glass  case  was 
polished.  The  molasses  and  vinegar 
barrels  were  relegated  to  the  cellar,  ac­
companied  by  the  rusty  old  stove.  The 
whole  air of  the  place  began  to  change. 
In  the  window  a  display  of  china  and 
glass  took  the  place  of  bags of flour and 
sugar and  boxes  of  stale  crackers.  Neat 
calicoes  and  pretty  ginghams  sup­
planted  washtubs,  pails  and  brooms 
in 
the  other  window.

But  the  changes  did  not  stop  there.

Traveling  men  now  found  it  to  their ad­
vantage  to  bring  up-to-date  goods 
in­
stead  of  trying  to  palm  off  unsalable 
stock  as  heretofore.  She  did  not  prove 
to  be  as  easy  to  deal  with  as  her  father.
The  news  of  Stephen  Graves’  new 
partner  spread  around  the  country  and 
the  farmers  and  their  wives  came  to 
Stephen's  more  to  do  their  trading. 
There  must  have  been  some  attraction, 
for  they  have  kept  on  coming.  The 
farmers  find  that  at  Stephen  Graves' 
they  can  make  the  best  deals  and  be 
comfortable  in  the  bargain,  while  their 
wives  are  glad  they  can  advise  with 
some  one  when  they  are  buying  a  new 
dress.

All  this  happened  only  two  years  ago, 
but trade  basso  floutished  that  the  store 
has  been  extended  to  nearly  double  its 
original  size,  and 
is  a  model  of  order 
and  convenience  and  the  pride  of  the 
townspeople,  who,  in  telling 
its  story, 
end  up  by  remarking,  “ And  a  girl  had 
her finger  in  the  pie,  too.”   Z.  E.  U.

H.  J.  Slade,  produce  dealer and  ship­
per,  Wayland :  Enclosed  herewith  find 
$i 
for  one  year's  subscription  to  your 
valuable  paper. 
is 
no  periodical  more  thoroughly  read than 
the  Michigan  Tradesman.  My  wife 
says  Dorothy  Dix 
is  right  next  to  her 
business,  and  hopes  she  may  live  long 
and  enjov  th°  frints  of  her  labors.

In  our  home  there 

IfOR RENT—IN  A  HUSTLING  TOWN  OF 

1  20,000 inhabitants a  solid  brick  store,  two 
floors and basement, 80x24 feet;  desirable  loca­
tion;  terms reasonable.  Address  E.  Major,  311 
Sycamore St., Manistee, Mich. 

IpOK SALE OR EACH ANbE FOR GENERAL 

'  Stock  of  Merchandise—60  acre  farm,  part 
clear, arch tect house  and  barn;  well watered. 
I also have two 40 acre  farms  and  one  80  acre 
farm to exchange.  Address No.  12, care  Michl 
gan Tradesman_______________________ 12

13

sale in Petoskey.  Address No. 9, care Mich- 
igan Tradesman.________________________9_

BE vUTIFUL  LITTLE  FRUIT  FARM  FOR 
Th e s h a f t in g ,  h a n g e r s a n d pu l l e y s 

formerly used to  drive  the  Presses  of  the 
Tradesman  are  for  sale  at  a  nominal  price. 
Power users making  additions  or  changes  will 
do well  to  investigate.  Tradesman  Company, 
Grand Rapids,  Mich. 
983
W ANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A  RUBBER 
stamp.  Best  stamps  on  earth  at  prices 
that  are  right.  Will  J.  Weller,  Muskegon, 
. ______________ 958
M
Fo r  sa l e—n e w   g e n e r a l  stock,  a

dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman.  680

splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad­
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

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ITtOR  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.  Palling  health  reason 
for  selling.  Address  P.  O.  Box  304,  Negau- 
nee, Mich. 

913

j

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

BUSINESS CHANCES. 

37

24

Fob  s a l e  a t  a  b a rg a in—good  c en

trally located  meat  market  with  fixtures, 
including engine, steam sausage cutter and ren­
dering kettle.  Sales. $800 a month  Poor health 
reason  for  selling.  Chas.  Pulver,  Cadillac, 
Mich. 

ADMINISTR VTOR sALfe..  MAN DIED;  WAS 

a druggist;  his  stock  and  fixtures are  for 
sale;  store  is  for  rent  at  reasonable  figures  to 
the parties buying the stock; located in Wayland 
village in the center of  business  part  of  town; 
an  old  stand,  always  well  patronized;  every­
thing in the line of fixtures  is  complete.  This 
entire outfit can be purchased for  $50  if  bought 
26
soon.  Address E. H. Ryno, Wayland, Mich 
best place in Michigan to start a bank. 
In­
vestigation will prove  the  assertion.  Address 
No. 27, care Michigan Tradesman. 

RARE BUSINESS O PPO RTU N ITY .  THE 
ITtOR SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  OP  CLOTHING 
I P YOU WISH  TO  BUY  A  FINE  COUNTRY 
If*OR SALE—ONE HALF INTEREST IN SAW- 

:  and  men’s  furnishings  in  one  of  the  best 
growing  towns  in  Southern  Michigan.  Good 
trade.  Other business, reason  for selling.  Ad­
dress A. M , care Michigan Tradesman. 
25

'  mill and planingmill, situated in a flourish­
ing village on Grand  Traverse  Bay;  good  local 
trade;  business  well  established.  For  partic 
ulars addre.s No  28, care Michigan Tradesman.
28

store and farm at a bargain, write  to  No.  29, 

care Michigan Tradesman. 

cock, Cedar Springs.  Mich. 

hardware and groceries  for  sale.  B.  Han­

CLEAN  STOCK  OP  HEAVY  AND  SHELF 
IpOR SALE—CARRIAGE SHOP  WITH  GOOD 

:  established business in  general  repairs  and 
shoeing.  J. S.  'owling, Three Rivers. Mich.  20 
O  RENT—A  GOOD  BRICK  STOKE  CEN- 
trally located in a thriving town.  Address 
for particulars, Mrs. E. F. Colwell, Lake Odessa, 
Mich 

COUNTY  FAIRS—15  TO  $10  A  DAY  MADE 
with  our  Futurescope  at  county  and state 
fairs. church  fairs,  picnics,  stores,  etc.  Write 
for particulars. 
Jonas  N.  Bell  &  Co.,  586  W. 
Lake S t, Chicago. 

23

29

21

19

OR SALE—GOOD  BAZAAR  STOCK.  EN- 
quire  of  Hollon  &  Hungerford,  Albion, 

Mich._________________ ._______________16

Fo r  s a l e  c h e a p—a   h a n d  e l e v a t o r

with capacity of 3.009 pounds.  Adapted to 
use of country store or elevator.  Hugh E. Wil 
son.  Trustee  Rutka Hamilton  Hardware  Co., 
Grand Rapids.________________________ 18
ODERN  CITY  RESIDENCE  AND  LARGE 
lot, with barn, for sale cheap oh 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

I ¡'OR  SALE—NICE  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 

1  hardware, invoicing  about  $2.500;  also  tin- 
shop in  connection;  store  building  and  ware­
house valued at $700; located in the best farming 
country  in Southern Michigan; good live town; 
good railroad, elevator, roller flouring mill, saw 
mill, planing and heading mills.  Good  reasons 
for  selliug.  Address  No.  14,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

14

M ISCELLANEO US.

W ANTED—PHARMACIST  OR ASSISTANT. 
Allan Little, Rapid City. Mich.______ 11
W ANTED—POSITION 
IN  A  GENERAL 
store;  twenty years’experience;  good ref­
erences.  Address  No.  997,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.__________________________ 997
WANTED—SITUATION  AS  TRAVELING 

salesman, commission or salary,  clothing, 
boots and shoes, men’s furnishing  goods or gro­
ceries.  Good  references  given.  Address  9 8, 
care Michigan Tradesman.______________998

WANTED—A  FIRST-CLASS  TINSMITH.

Must  be  capable  of  clerking  in  store. 
Single  man  preferred.  Must  give  good  refer­
ences.  No  drinkers  need  apply.  Address  No. 
992, care Michigan Tradesman. 

992

The perfection of  T a p p a n  
S h o e s  is a matter of honor 
with  us.  We  will  make 
shoes honestly,  or  we  will 
not make them at all.
Honesty  makes  T a p p a n  
S h o e s  the  best 
the 
world.  Dealers who buy

in 

TAPPAN  SHOES

buy also a good reputation.
They  represent shoe satis­
faction—in  popular-priced 
fine  and  medium  grades 
for  women,  misses  and 
children.

TAPPAN SHOE M FG. CO.

COLDWATER,  MICH.

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association 

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

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

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J .W is l e r ,  Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 

A. Stow e, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  C.  G.  J ew et t,  Howell;  Secretary 

Henby C. Min n ie, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J oseph Knight;  Secretary, E. Ma sk s, 

221 Greenwood ave ;  Treasurer, C. H. F rink.
Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Kl a p ;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  L ehman.

Saginaw Mercantile Association
McBbatnie ;  Secretary,  W.  H. L ew is.

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

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Porter;  Treasurer,  L. Pblton.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  A .  C. C la r k ;  Secretary, E .  F .  C l e v e ­

l a n d ;  Treasurer, W m.  C.  Koehn.

Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  M.  L.  De Bats ;  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,  Thos.  T.  Ba t e s;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

b e l l;  Treasurer, W. E. Collins.

Alpena Business Men’s Association

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

P a r t r id g e.

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L.  M.  Wilson;  Secretary, P h tt.i i »  Hil- 

b e r ; Treasurer, S. J.  Huppobd.

St. Johns Business  Men’s Association. 

President, T hos. Bromley;  Secretary, F rank A. 

Percy ;  Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Perry Business Men’s Association

President, H. W. Walla c e;  Sec’y, T. E. Heddle.
Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos ; Secretary, J. W. V b b Ho ek s.

Yale BnsineBS Men’s Association

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

TR AVEL

V IA

F.  &  P.  M.  R.  R.

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  Boxr-s  for  Patent  Medicine,  Cigar 
Clippings, Powders, etc., etc.  Gold and  Silver Leaf work  and  Special 
Die Cutting done  to suit.  Write for prices.  Work guaranteed.

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

Hanselman’s  Fine  Chocolates

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

Hanselman Candy Co.

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

Uneeda
Biscuit

Right from  the  oven  as  fresh  as  to­
day’s  bread  and  just  as  wholesome. 
Daintily served in a dainty package—  
the 
like  of  which  you  never  saw 
before.  Dust proof,  moisture proof, 
odor proof.  A  
lunch  done  up  in 
tempting  style  for  just

Five Cents

Sold  everywhere.  Ask  the  Grocer.

AND  S T E A M S H IP   L IN E 8  

TO   A LL  P O IN T S   IN  M ICH IGAN

H.  F.  M OELLER,  a .  g .  p.  a .

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Travelers’ Time  Tables.
CHIC AHO “ «»Wert Michigan«’:

V l U V m i V  

Ju n e   18 ,  18 9 9 .

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Chicago.

City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.

. 
Rapids..7:10am  12:U0nn  5:05pm  *2:15am 
r  Chicago.... 1:30pm 5:00pm  11:15pm *7:25am 
Ly.Chlcago...  7:15am  12:00nn  4:15pm *8:45pm 
A r.9 0 Rapids  1:25pm 5:05pm  10:15pm  *l:50am 
r 
tv . O d  Rapids.  7:30am 2:05am  1:45pm  5:30pm 
Ar. Trav  City.. 12:40pm 6:10am  5:35pm  10:55pm
Ar. Charlevoix..  3:15pm 7:53am  7:38pm.............
Ar. Petoskey....  3:45pm 8:15am 8:15pm..............
Ar. Bay View...  3:55pm  R:20am  8:20pm.............
_ 
Lv. G. Rapids.,9:C0am  12:00nn  5:30pm..............
A rG . 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.

O ttaw a B each .

„  

•Every  day. 

Others week days only.

Detroit.

Ju n e  2 6 ,18 9 9 .

DETROIT,Qrand Rapids & Wertem,
Lv. Grand  Rapids.7:00am  12:05pm 
5:25pm
Ar. Detroit................... 11:40am  4:05pm 10:06pm
Lv. Detroit....................8:40am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......  1:30pm  5:10pm 10:56pm
Lv. G R7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G R 11:45am  9:40pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Gxo.  D e H a v en.  General Pass. Agent.

f i n   A  \ i n   Trank Railway System

L I  Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv
(In effect May  1, 1899.)

going  BAST

Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit & N Y.........t 6:45am t  9:55pm
Detroit  and  East..................tl0:16am  t 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit &  East....... t 3:27pm  tl2:50pm
Buffalo,  N  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t’d Ex__*  7:20pm *10:16am
OOINO  WEST
Gd. Haven and Int Pts......... * 8:30am *10:00pm
Gd.  Haven  Express............... *10:21am * 7:!5i>m
Gd. Haven  and Int  Pts......... tl2:58pm t 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee...t 5:12pm +10:11am 
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee.. .tl0:00pm +  6:40am
Gd. Haven and Chicago........* 7:30pm  * 8:05am
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car 
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car 
to Detroit.

•Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

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

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.

QRAND Rapids  &  indiana Railway

J u l y  9 ,  189 9.

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey &Mack.. .* 4;10am *10:f0pm 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am t  5:15pm
Trav. City A Petoskey............t  1:40pm  t   1:10pm
Cadillac accommodation.......t  6:26pm tlO :55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City. ...+1» :00pm  t  6:3  am 
4:10am train. The Northland Express, sleeping 
and  dining  cars;  7:45am  and  1:40pm  trains, 
parlor cars;  11:00pm train sleeping car.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati.............................. t  7:10am t  9:45pm
............................+ 2:03pm t   l:30,»n.
Ft. Wayne 
Kalamazoo and V’cksbuig...  * 7:00pm  * 7:20Am
Chicago and Cincinnati........*10:15pm * 3:55am
-7:10  am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnai 
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 
6 25am
Ar. Chicago............   2 30pm  8 45pm
*11  32pm 
Lv. Chicago............   3 02pm  *  8.15pm
7 20am
Ar  Grand Rapids...  9 45pm  3:55pm 
Trai" 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.

LvG’d Rapids............t7:35am tl:35pm t5:40pn>
Ar Muskegon..............  9:00am  2:45nm  7:05pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon.............+8:10am  +12:15am  +4:00pir
ArG’dRapids...  ......  9:30am  1:25pm  6:20pir
Snnday  train  leaves  Muskegon  6:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 7:55pm. 
tExcept Sunday.  »Dally.

GOING BAST.

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

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

MANISTEE &  Northeastern Ry.

Best route to Manistee.

V ia   C . &   W . M .  R ailw a y .

L v  Grand R ap id s................................... 7:00am 
A t  M anistee...........................................12:05pm 
L v   M anistee............................................8:30am  4:10pm
A r  Grand  R a p id s ..............................   1 :00pm  9:55pm

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A   business  life  is  too short to 
waste with old out-of-date meth­
ods.  Let  us  suggest  fo r   our 
mutual benefit that you abandon 
old-fashioned weighing devices; 
and  begin  right  now  to  save 
your  profits  by  adopting  and 
using  The  Money  Weight Sys­
tem  in your store.  We w ill al­
ways be pleased to hearfrom  you.

The Computing Scale Co.

Dayton,  Ohio.

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The finest sweet cider,  prepared to keep sweet« 
Furnished October to March, inclusive.

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

SILV E R   BRAND 
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has behind it years o f reputation  @  
to  back  up  the  statement  that  ©  
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any deleterious acids or anything that is  not  produced  from  the 
apple, we will forfeit

ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS

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

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

J  ROBINSON,  rianager.

Th is is the guarantee w e g ive  w ith every barrel o f our  vinegar.  Do  you  know  of any  other 
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A lady should come into your store and ask if  you 
had  any  good  spices;  could  you  let  her  have 
them?  You certainly could if you handled

Northrop  Brand Spices

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

Northrop,  Robertson &  Carrier,  Lansing,  Mich.
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goods.

.  Good Yeast  Is  Indispensable.

FLEISCHMANN  &  CO.

U n d e r   T h e i r   Y ELLO W   L A B E L   O f f e r   t h e   B E S T !

Grand Rapids Agency, 39 Crescent Ave.
Detroit Agency, in West Larned St. 

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