Volume XVI. 

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23,1899. 

Number 831

Fitted with No. 2 Royal

Center Draft Burners

These Lamps are priced 

Complete with Chimney

Popular=Priced

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Original  Assorted  Packages

No.  811

2 only  No.  811, pink and green tint @  1.50......................... $3  00
2 only  No. 811, purple and  pink tint @1.50......................  3  00
2  only  No. 811, yellow and green tint @ 1.50....................  3  00

Package no charge. 

Net........................ $9 00

No.  812

2 only  No.  812, wild rose and  leaves @  1  57K  .................$3  *5
2 only  No. 812, forget-me-nots  @  1.57K..............................   3 !5
2 only  No.  812, pansies and  leaves  @  i-57?£......................  3 15
$9  45

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Net  

No.  8n  Lamp.

Trimmed with  io inch  dome  shade  deco­
rated to  match  vase  of  Lamp.  Variety  of 
rich,  effective  floral  decorations  with  gold 
tracings.  Oil  Pot  and  Base  in  gilt  finish. 
Height 22 inches  to  top  of  chimney.  Sold 
only in  No  8ii  and 811-812 assortments.

No  811--812

3 only  811 Lamps, assorted decorations  @1.50 , ...............$4 5°
3 only  812 Lamps, assorted decorations  @  1.57K..........   4  72
Net........................ $9 22

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in 
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22  inches to top  of  chimney.  Sold  only  in 
No.  812 and 811-812 assortments.

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down  to  strict  details  in  making.
This  has  made  our  cigars  popular and as dependable 
as a government bond.
Hadn’t  you  better  send  in  a  trial  order  at  once?

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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 
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Volume XVI.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23,1899.

Number 831

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3 4 .  L ea d in g F eatu re o f th e   L o cal  M arket. 

B usiness  W ants.

O L D E S T  

M OST  R E L IA B L E  

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Wholesale  Clothing  Manufacturers  in  the 
city of ROCHESTER,  N.  Y. are KO LB & 
SON.  Only house making strictly ali wool 
Kersey Overcoats, guaranteed, at $5.
Mail orders will receive prompt attention. 
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Connor,  Box .*40,  Marshall,  Mich.,  to  call 
on  you,  or  meet  him  at  Sweet’s  Hotel, 
Grand  Rapids,  Sept.  5  to  15  inclusive. 
Customers’  expenses  allowed. 
Prices, 
quality and fit guaranteed

The Preferred Bankers 
Life Assurance Company
of  Detroit,  Mich.

Annual  Statement,  Dec.  31,  1898.

Commenced  Business 8ept.  I,  1893.

 

Insurance in  Force...........  
ledger Assets............................................. 
Ledger Liabilities...................................... 
Losses Adjusted and Unpaid...............  
Total  Death Losses Paid to  Date......... 
Total Guarantee Deposits  Paid to Ben­
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Death  Rate for the Y  ear....................... 

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Telephone  Topics.

Geo.  M.  Green,  Right  of  Way  Agent 
for  the  Michigan  Telephone Co.,  asserts 
that  his  company  has  purchased 
the 
Citizens  Telephone  Co.  of  Grand  Rap­
ids  and  will  take  possession  of  the 
property  Aug.  26.  Of  course,  the  state­
ment  is  utterly  groundless,  because  tbe 
overtures  of  tbe  Michigan  Telephone 
Co.  have  never been  considered  serious­
ly  by  tbe  officers  and  directors  of  the 
Citizens  Telephone  Co  ,  and  probably 
never  will  be.  Nevertheless  the  officers 
and  employes  of  the  Bell  Company  con­
tinue  to  talk  glibly  about  taking  posses­
sion  of  tbe  Kalamazoo  exchange  and the 
Saginaw  exchange  and  the  Grand  Rap­
ids  exchange,  apparently  on  the  suppo­
sition  that  they  must  utter  a  certain 
amount  of  falsehood  every  day  in  order 
to  hold  their  jobs.  An  employe  of  tbe 
Standard  Oil  Co.  who  would  go  about 
telling  improbable  yarns  about competi­
tors  would  be  superseded  as  soon  as  tbe 
matter  reached  tbe  notice  of  the  man­
aging  office,  and  tbe  same  rule  applies 
with  nearly  all  large commercial  institu­
tions.  With  the  Bell  Company,however, 
a  lying  tongue  and  a  penchant  to  man­
ufacture  and  disseminate  Munchausen 
tales  appears  to  be  a  prerequisite  to 
employment.

Traverse  City  Eagle:  The  Michigan 
Telephone  Co. 
is  a  big  concern  and 
has  an  immense  amount  of  wire  strung 
in  Michigan.  Notwithstanding  all  this 
we  must  say  that  this  same  Michigan 
Telephone  Co.  can  talk  more  and  do 
less  than  any  corporation  of  its  size  that 
we  know  anything  about.  For  tbe  past 
six  years  it  has  been  promising  us  tele­
phone  connection  with  the  different 
places  in  Leelanau  county,  but  so  far 
it  has  been  nothing  but  talk.  Tbe  only 
connection  it  has  ever given  us  is  a line 
to  Suttons  Bay,  and  that  was  not  built 
by  tbe  company,  but  by  private  enter­
prise. 
In  contrast  with  this  it  may  be 
stated  that  the  Northern  Telephone  Co. 
commenced  work  here  less  than  a  year 
ago,  and  has  not  only  built  a  complete 
exchange  for  the  citv  in first-class shape 
and  has  over 200  instruments  embraced 
in  it,  but  its  principal  stockholder,  Mr. 
Wheelock,  has 
in  the  meantime  built  a 
line  extending 
into  Leelanau  county, 
reaching  Keswick,  Bingham,  Suttons 
Bay,  Omena,  Nortbport,  Provemont  and 
Leland.  We  have  waited  a  good  while 
for  the  Bell  people  to  give  us  telephone 
service  into  Leelanau  county  in  fulfill­
ment  of  their  promises,  but  so  far  we 
have  waited 
in  vain,  but  now  we  have 
such  connection  with  the  points  named, 
given  us  while  the  Bell  people  have 
been  talking  about  it.

Didn’t  Like  Dead  Horses.

“ Doctor,  I  want  my  bill  before  I’m 

perfectly  well.”

“ Any  special  reason?"
“ Yes.  You  know  bow  it  hurts  to  pay 
for  a  pair  of  shoes  after  you’ve  worn 
them  out. ”

Vehicular  Persiflage.

Is  your  new  clerk  automobile  or 

perambulator?”

“ I  don’t  understand  you.”
“ You’re  dull.  An  automobile  is  full 
of  push  and  a  perambulator  has  to  be 
pushed.”

IM P O R T A N T   F E A T U R E S .

PAGE
2 .  D ry  Goods.
3 .  A   D ry  Goods  M erch an t  W h o   T h in ks.
4 .  A roun d   th e   S tate.
5 .  Grand  R apid s  Gossip.
6.  W om an ’s  W orld.
8.  E d ito rial.
9 .  E d ito rial.
IO-  G ettin g   th e   P eople.
12 .  O bservations by a  G o th am   E g g   Man.
1 3 .  Gossip  A m o n g  Com m ission M erchants
14 .  Shoes  an d  L ea th er.
15 .  T h e   A r t  o f  W ea rin g  Shoes.
1 6 .  G o th am   Gossip.
1 7 .  C om m ercial  T ravelers.
18.  D rn gs  and  C h em icals.
19.  D ra g   P rice  Current.
3 0 .  G rocery  P rice C arren t.
3 1 .  G ro cery  P rice  C arren t.
3 3 .  H ard w are.
3 3 .  G.  R . R e ta il G ro cery C lerks’ A ss’n. 

H ard w are  P rice  C arren t.

It 

BUSINESS  CONDITIONS.
is  difficult  to  realize  the  signifi­
cance  of  the  constant  repetition  of  the 
expression,  “ All  records  being  broken 
and  trade  on  the  increase. ’ ’  The  steady 
continuance  of  this  condition  already 
means  an  increase  in  volume  which  the 
mind  can  scarcely  comprehend.  The 
most  significant 
items  of  comparison 
are  transportation  reports  and  bank 
clearings.  For  many  months  the  car 
builders  of  the  country  have  been  push­
ing  their  facilities to the utmost to strive 
to  meet  the  constantly  increasing  de­
mand  and  yet  there  are  complaints  al­
most  everywhere  of  shortages  of  cars. 
Bank  clearings 
last  year  showed  a  tre­
mendous  increase as  compared  with  the 
previous  year  and  this  year  the  ratio  of 
change  is  fully  as  gieat. 
j  The  record  of  the  week  has  been  one 
of  speculative  activity,  the  bear  ele­
ment  making  strenuous  endeavors  to 
break  several  of  the  leading  trusts.  Tbe 
net  result  of  the  onslaught,  while  show­
ing  temporary  effect  in  smail  declines, 
was  the  demonstration  of  tbe  general 
strength  of  the  situation.  The  week 
showed  but  little  change either  way,  but 
this  week  the  adverse  element  is  meet­
ing  with  more  success.

products  is  moving  upward.  Leather 
and  boots  and  shoes  are  aiso 
in  the 
same  class.

The  Increasing  Price  of Meat.

From   the National Provisioner.

The  rise  in  the  wholesale  price  of 
meat  has  been  gradual-and  due  entirely 
to  causes  over  which  the  packer himself 
has  had  no  control. 
It  has- been  the 
commercial  result  of  the  gradual  rise  in 
the  price  of 
live  stock;  and  this  en­
hancing  of  the  value  of  tbe  herd  has 
been  brought  about  by  the general short­
age  of  live  stock  for  slaughter purposes, 
and  the 
increased  cost  of  producing 
band  (stall  fed)  beef,  because  of  the 
shortage  of  feed  and  the  increased  cost 
of  getting  it.  If  the  past  prices  of  meat 
were  right  the  present  prices  are  so, 
since  they  are  calculated  on  the  same 
basis.  A  comparison  of  the  market  for 
beef  cattle  on  tbe  hoof  in  Chicago  and 
Kansas  City  for  Aug.  10,  1897,  1898 and 
1899  shows  that  tbe  following  top  and 
average  prices  were  paid  by  the packers 
at  tbe  stockyards  in  open  competition 
for  hand  fed  and  choice  Western  beef 
cattle:  Aug.  10,  1897,  prime  cattle, 
live  weight,  $4.80,  average  $4.15,  mak­
ing  the  prime  dead  meat  cost  $7.90,  or 
nearly  8c.  per  pound to  produce.  The 
butcher  paid  less  for it.  Aug.  10,  1898, 
prime 
fetched  $5.25;  average 
good  heifers  brought  $4.50.  This  made 
prime  dressed  beef  cost $8.50,  or  8^c 
per  pound  landed.  Aug.  10,  1899,  prime 
beef  cattle  sold  for  $6.20:  average, 
good,  $5.25,  making  the  carcass  of 
prime  cost,  landed,  $9.25,  or  g%c  per 
pound.
The  price  of  cattle  has  been  creeping 
up  for  two  years  in  proportion  to  the 
shortage  of  stock  and  the expensive food 
and  weather  conditions  for  producing 
marketable  beef.  We  have  warned  tbe 
retail  trade  of  these  advancing  condi­
tions  and  from  time  to  time  advised 
them  to  meet  the  inevitable  by  putting 
up  their  shop  prices.  That  they  have 
lingered  at  the  old  prices  for two  years 
and  are  now  forced  to  meet  the  state  of 
trade  in  one  jump  is as  unfortunate as it 
was  unnecessary,  but  the  wholesalers 
are  not  to  blame,  inasmuch as the stock- 
grower  draws 
from  tbe 
slaughterer and  for  spot  cash  at  that.  If 
any  one  questions  this  statement  let him 
bid  at the  stockyards  with millions back 
of  him  and  ask  for  credit.

first  blood 

stock 

Effect  of Marriage  on  Salaries. 

From   the Chicago Record.

Prices  having  shown  but  little  vari- 
tion  for  several  weeks  in  most manufac­
tures,  the  feeling  began  to  prevail  that 
they  had  reached  their  highest level.  In 
the  case  of  iron  and  steel  manufactures 
it  was  thought  desirable  that  the  dis­
parity  with  foreign  quotations  should 
not  be  further  increased ;  but reports  for 
tbe  week  show  an  advance  again  in  a 
majority  of  products,  with  no  material 
declines  except  the  speculative  one  of 
cotton.

In  iron  there  was  no  change 

in  Bes­
semer  quotations,  but  there  was  an  ad­
vance  in  most  other  forms  of  the  blue 
metal.  Rails  are  advanced  another 
dollar  and  the  mills  are  sold  400,000  or
500,000 
tons  beyond  their  capacity  for 
this  year.  The  advance  in  all  values  of 
iron  products  so  far  amounts  to  81.7 
per  cent,  so  far  this  year.

In  textiles  there  has  been  a  specula­
tive  reaction  in  the  price  of  cotton,  but 
all  changes  in  its  products  are  in the di­
rection  of  advance.  Wool  with  all  its

in 

A  young  man  and  a  young woman em­
ployed  in  a  big  supply  house in Chicago 
fell 
love  and  were  engaged  to  be 
married.  The  aggregate  salary  of  the 
two  was  $18.
Man’s  salary.........................................$ 8 a   week
Woman’s salary....................................  810  a  week
The  young  man  notified  his employers 
that  he  was  about  to  marry  and  rather 
hinted  that  an  increase  of  salary  would 
be  acceptable.  Tbe young  woman  noti­
fied  the  firm  that  she  was  about to marry 
and  hoped  that  she  would  be  permitted 
to  keep  her  place.

On  the  first  pay  day after the marriage 

the  envelopes  came  as  follows:
Man’s  salary........................................   $10  a  Weak
Woman’s s a la r y .................................   $8  a  week

Business  Curfew  in  Missouri. 

From  the K ansas  City Journal.

A  unique  curfew  arrangement  is  that 
in  vogue  in  some  of  tbe  Lewis  county 
towns,  under  which  the  bell  rings  at 
8 :i5  every  evening  as  a  signal  for  tbe 
merchants  to  close  their  stores  and  quit 
business  for  the  day.

It  takes  an  artist to  mix  a  cocktail— 
and  a  few  cocktails  will  sometimes  mix 
an  artist.

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Dry Goods

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons—The  market  in  staple 
cottons  has  advanced  materially  during 
the  past  week,  which  is probably  due  to 
the  demands  of  the  converters;  also 
some  orders  of  fairly  respectable  size 
have  been  entered  by  manufacturers  of 
shirts  and  collars  for  fine  bleached 
In  heavy  sheetings  and  drills, 
goods. 
home 
length,  there  has  been  a  fairly 
good  demand,  with  no advance,  but  in 
the 
lines  for  export  there  has  been  an 
advance  of  from 
i  to  2  per  cent,  over 
the  previous  price.  Bleached  cottons, 
on  the  whole,  are  very  well  sold  out, 
and  as  the  demands  for  them  are  still 
coming 
in,  the  prices are  strong,  with 
a  fair  possibility  of  an  advance  over the 
present  price.  For  four-yard  sheetings 
there 
is  a  steady  demand  at  prevailing 
prices;  also  on  gray  goods  the  prices 
are  firm,  neither  is  any  change  noted  in 
the  wide  sheetings.  Coarse  colored  cot­
ton  is  in  fair  demand  at  steady  prices.
slight
change  is  noticed  and,  although  it  has 
not  fulfilled  all  expectations,  the  prob­
ability  is  that  it  will  expand  still  more 
in  the  next  week  or  two.  The  market 
continues  to  keep  a  steady  tone  in  most 
lines  and  especially 
in  fancies  and 
prints  of  staple order.  All  thoughts  of 
a  decline  in  price  have  been  dissipated 
by  several  recent  transactions  in  cloths 
at  the  ruling  price  of  2#c  per  yard  for 
regular  lines.  The  demand  from  print­
ers  for  regular cloths  has  been  slight  up 
to  the  present  time,  and  it  seems  that 
they  must  come  forward  soon  and  make 
their  purchases,  which  may  mean  such 
a  drain  on  the  market that  an  advance 
over  the  present  price  will  be  possible. 
Fancies are the  thing  just  now,  and  all 
grades  meet  with  a  good  sale.  All  re­
ports  heard  are  favorable,  and  sales  so 
far  have  been  large.

and  Ginghams—A 

Prints 

is  mostly 

is  firm,  with 

Hosiery—The  staple  lines  of  hosiery 
are  well  opened,  and  the  demand  for 
them 
little  material  ad­
vance ;  where there  is  an  advance  asked 
it 
in  the  same  cases as  we 
have  already  mentioned in regard  to  un- 
derwear.  A  good  many  buyers  are  in 
town,  but  they  have  as  yet  done  little 
business,  but  are  looking  at  goods  and 
placing 
in  some  instances  conditional 
orders.  Two  weeks  more  will  probably 
see  them  all  doing  business,  for  then 
all 
lines  will  be  open,  and  the  fancies 
will  be  shown.  Already  some  of  these 
have  arrived  from  the  foreign  manufac­
turers,  but  are  not  yet,  as  a  general 
thing,  shown  to  the  buyers.  On  these 
lines  an  advance  will  be  made,  as  the 
foreign  manufacturers  are  not  partic­
ularly  anxious  to  ship  goods  to  this 
country  at  the  present  price and  with 
the  present  very  small  profit. 
The 
demand  seems  to  be good  for the  solid 
colors,  but  nearly  all  styles  will  prob­
ably  meet  with  good  success.

Carpets— The  carpet  manufacturers 
have  so  far  received  the  largest  number 
of  orders  for  many  years.  The  demand 
has  been  so  large that  manufacturers  of 
tapestries,  velvets  and  ingrains,  which 
were  so  severely  affected  last  year  by 
the  auction  sales,  have  advanced  prices 
generally.  As  many  mills ate  sold  up 
for  the  season,  there  are  not  likely  to  be 
many  cancellations  in  the  face of. ad­
vancing  prices.  Some of  the  advances 
went  into  effect  in  July;  others  on  Au­
gust  1,  10 and  15,  with  the  prospect  of 
still  further advances before  the  dupli­
cate  orders  are  received 
in  any  large 
amount.  To-day  the  average  carpet

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

manufacturer is  feeling  encouraged  over 
the  outlook  for  the  balance  of  the  sea 
son.  The  hand-to-mouth  policy  of  the 
past  few  years  has  been  replaced by  one 
which  insures  a  prompt  response  to  the 
salesman  who  solicits  orders—orders not 
only  for  enough  goods  to  fill  needed  re 
quirements,  but  also  sufficient  in  some 
instances  to  give  a  surplus  above  usual 
requirements.  There  has  really  been  a 
scarcity  of  'goods  in  the  hands  of  the 
retailer.  Manufacturers  realize  that  this 
is  their  golden  opportunity  to advance 
prices.  Another  reason  for advancing 
prices 
is  that  the  surplus  yarn  held  by 
the  spinners  has  gradually  gone  into 
consumption 
the  past  few 
months,  so that  at  this  time,  in  the  case 
of  new  orders,  the  goods  have actually 
to  be  made  u p ;  all  wil  now  stand  on 
the  same 
level,  which  must  result  in 
further  advances  on  yarn  as  the 
in­
creased  demand  forces  the  spinner  into 
the  market  for  raw  material  to  meet  the 
pressing  requirements  of  his  trade.

during 

her 

former 

Lace  Curtains— In  Nottinghams  of 
the  cheaper grades  America  was  actual­
ly  sending  curtains  to  England,  and 
beating 
competitors. 
Ruffled  curtains  are  meeting  with popu­
lar  favor,  and  are  taking  the  place  of 
tambour  work.  The  bobbinet 
is  im­
ported  largely  from  Nottingham,  Eng­
land,  and  the  ruffling  and  embroidery 
work  done  in  America.  The  ruffled 
curtain 
is  sold  wholesale  at  from  80c 
per  pair  up  to $1.50  to $2,  varying  in 
width.

Giving  the  Nurse  Away.

Gladys— I  am  afraid  you  aren't  as 

pretty  as  nurse.

Mamma— What  makes  you  think  so?
Gladys—We’ve  been  walking  in  the 
park  a  whole  hour,  and  not  a  single 
policeman  has  kissed  you.

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J.  G .  Miller &   C o .,

Clothing Manufacturers, 

Chicago,  III.

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We are making—for the last time.— our offer to  write  a  series  of 
four advertisements for any local  retailer for $2.50.  To get this price» 
the order must  reach us on or before Aug. 31st.

We want a few more new customers, and we’re  willing to  cut  off 

all our profit in order to get them.

Mr.  W.  S.  Hamburger, of “Getting the  People” fame, is an active 

member of our agency.

A d v e rlisin p  Apencv

Robt.IN.Shaw 
Grand Rapids Mich

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I am  now at my desk in  Chicago, to  remain  until 
State Fair week, held in Grand Rapids, Sept.  25-39, 
at which time I  shall  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel with  all 
my fall  and winter  samples.  W ill  take  good  care 
of customers  who can meet me in Chicago between 
now and  Sept.  15,  and  allow all  expenses  to  trade 
who will give me all or part of  their  fall  purchases 
while in  Chicago.  Any  who  cannot  leave  home 
kindly  let  me  know and  I will  send  full  line  of 
samples  or  visit  them  personally.  It  will  be  a 
great pleasure to meet your  demands, and  rest  as­
sured all favors will be appreciated.

Respectfully,

S.  T.  Bowen,

276  Franklin Street.

Of  course  we  know  that  the 
Spices  we  manufacture  are  the 
best on the  market;  and  judging 
from the number of orders we re­
ceive  daily,  there  are  thousands 
of merchants who  know what we 
say is true. 
If you will send your 
jobber  an  order  for  N o r t h r o p  
S p i c e s   then  you will  know what 
we say is true.

NORTHROP, ROBERTSON & CARRIER, Laaaiag, Mich.

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8

A  Dry  Goods  Merchant  Who  Thinks 
Things.
Written for the Tradesman.

John  Smith  is  in  the  dry  goods  busi­
ness  down 
in  the  central  part  of  the 
State.  1  call  him  John  Smith  for  the 
purposes  of  this occasion  only,  for  that 
is  not  his  name.  He  is  a  thrifty,  wide­
awake  man  and  he  ventilates  his  store 
so that  it  never  smells  of  the  dye  stuffs 
necessarily  used  in  the  manufacture  of 
some  of  the  cheaper  grades  of  goods. 
He  objects  to  his  clerks  manicuring 
their  nails  while  waiting  on  customers 
and  he  won’t  allow  the  walk  in  front  of 
bis  place of  business  to  be flooded  with 
water  just  at  the  hour  in  the  morning 
when  early  shoppers  and  women  and 
girls  who  are  employed  down  town  are 
passing  along.

‘ ' I  want  to  keep  these  people  on  my 
side  of  the  street,  if  possible,"  he  said 
to  me,  not  long  ago,  "and  I  can’t  ask 
them  to  wade  through  a  torrent  of 
muddy  water  in  order  to  get  into  my 
store. 
If  they  get  into  the  habit  of 
walkiug  on  the  other  side  of  the  street, 
the  chances  are  that  they  will  spend 
their  money  there.  If my employes can’t 
do  their  scrubbing  out  of  business  hours 
they  may  look  up  other  positions."

All  of  which 

is  wise and  worthy  of 
imitation  by  merchants  everywhere. 
The  other day  I  went  into  Smith’s  store 
and  found  him  in  a  rage.  He  had  just 
returned  from  the  city  pound,  whither 
he  had  been  summoned  to  rescue  his 
pet  dog  from  a  shameful  death  at  the 
bands  of  the  public  executioner.

"There's a  circus  coming,"  he  said, 
“ and  the  innocent  little  children  of  the 
town  are  laying  up  wealth  for  the  oc­
casion.  One  of  the  little  darlings  se­
cured  the price of  a  ticket  from  the  city 
yesterday.  He  had  to  sell  my  dog  to 
get  it,  but  be got  it.  He  had  no  dog  of 
bis  own,  so  he  delivered  mine to  the 
city  marshal  and  went  away 
feeling 
is  going  ihto  the  dog 
rich.  The  city 
business  quite  extensively  this  summer 
and  I'm  thinking  of  having  a  lot  of 
medals  made  out  of  a  bull  dog’s ear and 
presenting  one  to  each  of  the  aider- 
men."

"They  got  your  dog,  did  they?”   I 

asked,  thinking  to get  a  story.

" Y e s ,”   was  the  reply,  “ and  they 
stole  the  collar  and  the  tag so they could 
turn  him 
in  as  an  unlicensed  dog. 
That’s a  nice  thing  for  the  child,  isn’t 
it?  The  city 
is  helping  that  boy  into 
state’s  prison.  The  city  wants  to get 
rid  of  a  lot  of  worthless  curs  which 
in­
fest  the  town,  and  so  the  officers are 
teaching  the  school  children  their  first 
lessons  in  crime  and  brutality.  A  boy 
who  has  been  taught  to  drag  a  dog  to 
his death  in  order  to  earn  a  quarter  will 
learn  other  tricks  of  depravity  easier 
In  paying  for 
than he  learned  the  first. 
is  placing  a 
such  a  service,  the  city 
premium  on  thievery  and  brutality. 
If 
I  catch  my  boy  dragging  a  dog  to the 
pound  he  will  have  trouble right away."
"There  ought  to be  more  good  busi­

ness  men  in  office, ’ ’  I  suggested.

" A   good  business  man  rarely  accepts 
office  unless  he has  some  axe to grind, ”  
was  the  reply. 
"Holding  office  doesn’t 
pay. 
I  held  an  office  once  and  I  felt 
meaner  than  the  last  man  in  a  political 
procession  during  the  entire  term. 
I’d 
rather manage  a  snide,  fly-by-night bar­
gain  sale  in  a  country  town,  and  that’s 
about  the  meanest business  I  know  o f."
"A nd  yet  such  sales  bring  in  good 

profits, ’ ’  I  observed.
“ Burglary  brings 
too,"  was  the  reply.

in  good  profits, 

The  merchant  pondered  a  moment

and  then  went  back  to  the  subject  un­
der  discussion.

"T h e  city  officers  are  not  the  only 
ones  who  encourage  crime, ”   he  said. 
"T h e   State  pays  a  bounty  for  sparrow 
heads,  and  boys  are  taught  to  kill birds. 
And  do  you  suppose  for  a  minute  that 
they  discriminate  between  sparrows  and 
song  birds?  The  boy  doesn't  know why 
the  sparrow  is  sentenced  to  death.  He 
knows  that  if  he  gets  out and  murders  a 
certain  number  of  sparrows  he  gets  a 
certain  sum  of  money,  and  that  is  all  he 
cares  about.  This 
is  a  pretty  sort  of 
education  to give  young  children,  isn’t 
it? 
Is  it  any  wonder that  they  grow  up 
into  vicious  young  brutes,  taxing  the 
whole  police  power of  the  State  to  keep 
them  under  control?  A  boy  who  will 
kill  sparrows  for  money  will  kill  song 
birds  for  fun  when  there  are  no  spar­
rows 
in  sight,  and  the  youngster  who 
will  kill  birds  for  either  reason  is  not 
far  removed  from  a  young  savage. 
In 
time  many  sparrow-killers  will  resort to 
savage  acts  not  endorsed  by  the  State 
in  order  to  obtain  money,  and  then  a 
terrible  row  will  be  made  about  it.  The 
reform  school  is  full  of  boys  who  have 
been  educated  by  the  State."

! 

" I   don’t  know  what  parents  can  be 

thinking  about,"  I  ventured.

"In   many  cases,"  said  the  merchant, 
"the  lawmakers  are  parents,  but  they 
don’t know  any  better.  The  people  who 
own  blooded  dogs  want  the  curs  killed, 
and  those  who  own  farms  want  the spar­
rows  put  out  of  the  way,  so  it’s  ciass 
legislation  from  top  to  bottom,  and  the 
child  and  the  future  are  forgotten.  The 
time  will  come  when  the  child  will  be 
remembered,  but 
it  will  then  be  too 
late.’ ’

I  was  glad  to  hear  a  first-class  busi­
ness  man  express  himself  so  freely  re­
garding  vicious 
legislation  and  I  told 
him  so.

"W ell,”   he  replied,  " it   is  time  some 
one brought  to  the  minds  of  the  people 
the  confounded  foolishness  of  legisla­
tion,  local  or  otherwise,  which  tickles 
fancies  and  caters  to  special  interests 
without  caring  for  the  general  good. 
I 
had  a  clerk  in  my  employ  not  long  ago 
who  would  have  stolen  me  poor  if  he 
could  have  discovered  an opportunity.  I 
caught  him 
in  one  or  two  little  thefts 
and 
let  him  go.  When  I  talked  with 
him  I  found  that  he  had  been  breeding 
sparrows  in  large quantities  for the sake 
of  the  State  bounty.  What  do  yon  think 
of  that  for  a  scheme?  And  I  couldn’t 
make him  see  the  dishonesty  of  it.  The 
State  had  offered  bounties,  he  said,  and 
it  was  no  one’s business  how  he  got  the 
bird  beads. 
is 
what  started  me  thinking.  Of  course, 
that  youngster  ought  to  be  in  the  State 
Prison,  for  his  very  freedom  is a menace 
to the  rights  of  his  fellows.  But  be  may 
live  to  be  governor,  for all  I  know,  for 
it  is the  supremely  selfish  and  the  un­
scrupulous  who get  to  the  front,  in  pol­
itics,  at  least. ”

I  guess  that 

incident 

I  left  the  store  thinking the merchant 
a  very  level-headed  man,  and  was  glad 
that  our  talk  bad  not  been  confined  en­
tirely  to  matters  connected  with 
the 
dry  goods  trade.

A l f r e d   B.  T o z e r .
Week-End  Excursion  to  Detroit.
On  Saturday,  August  26,  the  Michi­
gan  Central  will  run  another of  those 
popular  $2  excursions,  leaving  Union 
Station  at  6:30  a.  m.  Tickets  good  to 
in  coaches  on  regular  trains  to 
return 
and 
including  train  No.  3  Monday 
morning,  August  28.  Parlor  car  at­
tached  at  the  usual  seat rate.  Phone 606.

W.  C.  B l a k e,  C.  T.  A.

Brown & Sehler

West  Bridge  and  Front  Sts., 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Manufacturers  of  Custom  and  Hand  Made 
Harness for the Trade.  We give the best value 
for  the  money.  Order  a  Sample  Harness  and 
see.  Jobbers  in  Saddlery  Hardware,  Horse 
Collars, Robes, Blankets, Whips, etc.

Send for Catalogue and Price List.

W e  M ak e. . . .

Peppermint  Oil  Cans

Write  for  Prices.

WM.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS,

Tinware Manufacturers,

260  South  Ionia St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

W O RLDJS   B E S T

5 C .  CIG AR .  A LL  J O B B E R S   AND

G. J  JOHNSON CIGARCO

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

The  King of  Light

If you  need  light, when  you  need  light,  you  need 
light that will  light you up

Cheaply, Brilliantly, Quickly
The  Sunlight 

Gasoline  Lamp

is  cheaper  than  kerosene.  More  brilliant 
than electricity.

The  Insurance Underwriters say that  it  is  pj 

perfectly safe by writing  policies  on  it with­
out  one  cent  of  extra  premiums.  Money 
talks. 
Stores,  Churches,  Residences, 
Lodges,  Halls,  Hotels,  Offices 
and  Shops  cannot  afford  to  be 
without it.

You will be  sorry  if  you  fix

your winter lighting before writing to us.

Owing to  excessive  orders we  have  been  unable  to  keep  in  stock; 
but we have lately increased our facilities so as to enable us to fill all  future 
orders promptly.  Moneymaking terms to local  agents.

Michigan  Light  Co.,

23 Pearl Street, 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Albion— Richter &  Wilson succeed A l­
bert  T.  Richter  in  the  dry  goods  busi­
ness.

Benton  Harbor— Myron  S.  Peck  has 
sold  his  boot  and  shoe  stock  to  B.  F. 
Wells.

Bay  City—Chas.  Laetz  has  purchased 
the  grocery  and  shoe  slock  of  M.  (Mrs. 
B .)  Bernhard.

Schoolcraft— G.  M.  Hudson  succeeds 
Hudson  &  Cairns  in  the  dry  goods  and 
shoe  business.

Ann  Arbor—Staebler  &  Co.  are  refit­
ting  and  will  soon  occupy  one  of  the 
finest  grocery  store  buildings 
in  the 
city.

Albion—G.  A.  Hildreth  has  pur­
chased  the  bakery  business  which  was 
formerly  conducted  under  the  name  of 
Warrick  &  Durian.

Saranac— A.  P.  Lowrey  &  Co.  have 
sold  their  meat  market  to  J.  O.  Norton, 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Flint— Mr.  VanBuskirk  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  produce  business  of Van­
Buskirk  &  Rosecrat.s  and  will  retire 
from  the  firm.  Mr.  Rosecrans  will  con­
tinue  the  business.

Sunfield— H.  Knapp  &  Son,  general 
dealers  at  this  place,  have  the sympathy 
of  the  trade  in the death of M rs.  Knapp, 
who  passed  away  Thursday,  Aug.  10,  at 
the  age  of  62  years.

Hudson— Beardsell  &  Plympton  have 
sold  their  grocery  stock  to  James  H. 
Dwyer,  who  has  been  in  the  employ  ol 
the  Standard  Oil  Company  as  traveling 
salesman  for  several  years.

Ionia—Jennings  &  Rice,  proprietors 
of  the  South  Side  Grocery  Co.,  have 
dissolved  partnership,  O.  E.  Jennings 
retiring.  The business will  be  continued 
at  the  same  location  by  S.  R.  Rice. 

Allegan— Benj.  Moon 

is  having  an
archway  cut  between  his  store  and  that 
formerly  occupied  by  Turner’s  hard­
ware  stock,  and  will  soon  occupy  both 
stores  with  an  enlarged  stock  of  general 
merchandise.

Leota—Wm.  Fanning  and  Wm.  B. 
Stecker,  formerly  with  Michael  Fan­
ning,  grocer  at  Harrison,  have  formed  a 
copartnership  and  opened  a  general 
store  at  this  place  under  the  style  of 
Fanning  &  Stecker.

Cadillac— Louis  Goldman,  of  Detroit, 
formerly  in  the  employ  of  M.  J.  Present 
in  the  New  York  store,  has 
leased  the 
room  in  Russell  block  now  occupied  by 
the  Greeley  restaurant,  and  about  Sep­
tember  1  will  open  a  dry  goods  store.

Scottsville—Wm. 

Fisher  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  Harry  Caplan 
in 
the  general  stock  of  Wm.  Fisher &  Cap­
lan  and  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same 
location.  Mr.  Caplan  will 
shortly  engage  in  general  trade  at  Grant 
station.

in 

Saginaw— E.  P.  Waldron,  of  St. 
Johns,  has  become  a  partner 
the 
wholesale  shoe  house of Jennings,  Lacey 
&  Co.  and  will  assume  the  active  man­
agement  of  the  business.  Mr.  Waldron 
has  been 
identified  with  the  boot  and 
shoe  trade  for  seventeen  years  and  is 
well  known  throughout  Michigan  as  an 
energetic  business  man.  He  will  reside 
in  this  city  a  portion  of  the  time.

Fennville—B.  R.  Barber,  dry  goods, 
boot  and  shoe  and  grocery  dealer,  will 
shortly  erect  a  double  store  building  on 
his  lot  east  of  the  drug  store  of  E.  A. 
Andrews  &  Co.  It  is to  be  44x70 feet  in 
dimensions,  with  solid  brick  walls,  and 
will  be  built  witb  a  view  to  adding  a

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

in  the  future. 

second  story 
It  is  ex­
pected  that  the  building  will  be  ready 
for  occupancy  by  the  middle  of  Novem­
ber

Jackson— The  Jackson  Retail Grocers’ 
Association  has  arranged  for  an  excur­
sion  to  this  city  from  F t  Wayne August 
29,  on  the  occasion  of  the  visit  of  the 
Port  Huron  business  men,  and  partial 
arrangements  have  been  made  for an 
excursion 
The  fair 
grounds  have  been  secured  for the  day 
and  arrangements  have  been  made  so 
that  those  desiring  can  eat  their  picnic 
dinners 
lhere.  Gasoline  stoves  will  be 
furnished  free  for  those  desiring  to  beat 
coffee.

from  Pontiac. 

Manufacturing  Matters.

Montrose—The  cheese  factory  at  this 

place  has  discontinued  business.

Detroit—Allen,  Ehrman  &  Co.  sue 
ceed  Wm.  Henry  Allen  in  the  manufac­
ture  of  pants,  overalls  and  shifts.

Lake  Odessa— Riley  Waters,  of  Hast 
ings,  has  purchased  the  foundry  plant 
of  Volney  Moses  and  has  already  taken 
possession  of  same.

Wayland— Arthur Clark  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  brother,  Ward,  in  the 
planing  mill  firm  of  Clark  Bros,  and 
will  continue  the  business  in  his  own 
name.

Slights— D.  E.  Crandall  &  Son  and 
James  M.  Crandail  have  purchased  the 
Kelley  shingle  mill  here  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business  under the  style  of  the 
Jas.  M.  Crandall  Shingle  Co.  D.  E. 
Crandall  &  Son  are  engaged 
in  the 
manufacture  of 
lumber  and  shingles 
and  the  sale  of  general  merchandise  at 
Grawn.

Breedsville— Geo.  H.  Hawley, 

for­
merly  a hardware merchant of this place, 
but  for  the  past  few  years  a  Hour and 
feed  broker  at  Thompsonville,  has 
purchased  the  flouring  mill  here  and, 
after  a  thorough  overhauling  and  the 
building  of  a  new  stone  dam,  bas  set
the  wheels 
in  motion  and  is  doing  a 
rushing  business.

Breedsville—The Breedsville Co-oper­
ative  Creamery  Co.,  witb  a  capital 
stock  of  $4,000,  bas  been  organized  and 
a  fine  modern  building  has  been erected 
and  equipped  witb  the  latest 
improved 
machinery.  The  factory  begun  opera­
tions  last  Monday  with  very  flattering 
prospects  and  expects  to  assert  that 
it 
is  one  of  the  best  creamery  plants  in 
Michigan.

tracks  are 

Houghton---- The  building  business
throughout  the  county  is  suffering  more 
or  less  from  inability  to  secure  building 
material,  particularly 
lumber,  prompt­
ly.  Delivery 
constantly- 
crowded  with  cars,  and  the  amount  of 
brick,  lime,  stone  and  the  like  daily  re­
ceived  by  boat  and  rail  is  indeed  re­
markable.  As  an  illustration,a  few  days 
ago  the  Arcadian  company  placed  an 
order  to  have  seventy-five  cars  set  in  at 
Cbassell  on  which  to  load  lumber.

Detroit— Hamilton  Carhartt  has  peti­
tio n e d   the  Circuit  Court  to  restrain 
James  C.  and  Jennie  Mclllroy  from con­
tinuing  in  the  business  of  manufactur­
ing  certain  articles  of leather goods.  He 
alleges  that  be  bought  400  shares  of 
stock  in  the  Detroit Valve  and  Washer 
Co.  from  the  defendants and  that  they 
promised  not  to  engage  in  the same line 
of  business  for  five  years.  He  now  says 
that  they  are  conducting  a  similar  busi­
ness  under  the  name  of  the  Detroit 
Leather  Goods  Manufacturing  Co.

Port  Huron—The  McCormick  Har­
ness  Co.,  which  some  time  ago  sold  a 
majority  of 
its  stock  to  Flint  citizens 
its  extensive  factory  to
and  removed 

that  city,  is  to  be  succeeded  at  this 
place  by  another  similar  organization. 
The  company  bas  just  been  organized, 
and  will  be 
incorporated  as  the John 
McCormick  Harness  Co.  The  stock­
holders  are  John  McCormick,  who  es­
tablished  the  old  company  and  built  up 
an  extensive  business,  his  son,  Elmer 
McCormick,  who  was  for  many  years 
associated  witb  him,  and  Dr.  R.  E. 
Moss,  D.  P.  Markey,  Geo.  W.  Moore, 
Lincoln  Avery,  Dr.  O.  H.  Patrick  and 
Burt  D.  Cady.  The  company  expects 
to  begin  operations  about  Sept.  1.

Saginaw— Some  years  ago  Edward 
Germain,  one  of  the  most  bustling 
propositions  in  the  lumber  outfit  in  ibis 
valley,  demonstrated  that  jack  pine  had 
a  value.  He  had  a  little  mill  in  con­
nection  witb  his  planing  mill  and  door 
in  which  he  cut  the  small  jack 
plant 
pine 
logs  up  into  box  material,  bring­
ing  the  logs  down  the  Mackinaw  divi­
sion  of  the  Michigan  Central  by  rail. 
This  was  before  the  disastrous  depres­
sion  in the  trade overtook us.  When pine 
little  or  nothing  it  did  not 
was  worth 
pay  to  cut  this  jack  pine  and  bring 
it 
to  Saginaw;  but  the  advance  in  pine 
bas  given  a  distinctive  value  to  every­
thing 
the  shape  of  timber,  and 
Crump  &  Son,  of  Bay  City,  went  to 
Roscommon,  in  the  heart  of  the  jack 
pine  realm,  and  erected  a  box  factory 
which  utilizes  this  kind  of  timber,  and 
the  plant  is  now  in  fuli  blast,  operating 
forty  men,  which  is  to  be  increased  to 
100,  and 
is  proving  a  great  success. 
The  trees  are  cut  into  bolts  three  feet 
long  and  the  bolts  are  then  sawed 
into 
2^ 
inch  stuff  on  a  large  shingle  saw. 
This  firm  has  a  contract  for  furnishing 
the  cases  for  Lion  coffee,  amounting  to 
something  like  $100,000  yearly.  The 
firm  has  twenty-five  years’  supply.
The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.
Kalamazoo—S.  J.  Stone  bas  taken  a
position 
the  Olin,  White  &  Olin
store  as  clerk  and  window  trimmer. 
He  is an  expert,  judging by the original 
style  in  which  bis  first  work  appears.

in 

in 

it 

Cheboygan—E.  O.  Penney  bas  re­
turned  to  the  dry  goods  business  and 
is 
now 
in  charge  of  the  upstairs  depart­
ment  for  H.  W.  Glover,  who  has  pur­
chased  the  St.  Onge  &  Co.  stock  of  dry 
goods.

Dansville—Clyde  Finch  is clerking  in 

E.  A.  Densmon's  general  store.

Lansing— Clyde  Andrews,  of  Eaton 
Rapids,bas  taken  a position  in  the  drug 
store  of  Philo  L.  Daniels.

Mauton---- Albert  Price,  of  South
Boardman,  is  employed  as  salesman  at 
C.  B.  Bailey’s  store.

Cassopolis—Jesse  Tallerday  has  taken 

a  clerkship  with  Stemm  &  Gustine.

Calumet—The  clerks’  picnic  Aug.  17 
was  a  most  enjoyable  affair.  The  day 
was  observed  by  a  general  suspension 
of  business,  and  the  exercises  opened 
with  a  street  parade  in  the  morning. 
Following  the  parade  the  crowd  pio- 
ceeded  to  Section  16,  where an  excel­
lent  day’s  program,  comprised  largely 
of athletic  events,  was  carried  out.  A 
fat  men’s  race  was  a  feature  of  the 
affair.

Lansing— P.  Rogers,  of  Flint,  bas 
taken  a  position  in  Donsereaux’s  cloth­
ing  store.

Cheboygan—Burt  Lake  King,  of  Pe- 
toskey,  and  Miss  Elma  Vanslyke,  of 
Ovid,  were  married  last  Wednesday  at 
the  home of the  groom’s  father,  M.  W. 
King,  at  Indian  River.  Mr.  King  is 
employed  in  Brackett's  hardware  store, 
Petoskey,  who  showed  his  appreciation 
of  the  services  of  Mr.  King  by  a  liberal 
contribution  of  articles  from  his  store 
to  set the  new  firm  up  in  housekeeping.

Annual  Meeting  of the  State  Pharr.;  . 

ceutical  Association.

Pharmaceutical 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Michigan 
State 
Associati  : 
which  was  held  at  Jackson  last  week, 
was  fairly  well  attended.  The  Trades­
man  published  last  week  the  full  tex;  of 
the  annual  address  of  President  Sour- 
wine  and  bas  arranged  to  publish  1 
papers  and  reports  presented  at  the con­
vention  from  time  to  time.  The  elec­
tion  of  officers  for  the  ensuing  year  re­
sulted  as  follows:

President—O.  Eberbach,  Ann  Arbor.
Vice-Presidents—E.  J.  Van  Marter, 
Jackson;  W.  H.  Burk,  A.  L  Walker, 
Detroit.

Secretary—C.  F.  Mann,  Detroit.
Treasurer— J.  S.  Bennett,  Lansing.
Executive  Committee—W.  D.  Church, 
B.  Schroeder,  Grand  Rapids;  E.  F. 
Phillips,  Armada;  A.  S.  Parker,  De­
troit;  A.  H.  Webber,  Cadillac.

Committee  on  Trade  Interests—F.  W.
R.  Perry,  Detroit;  Dr.  Geo.  J.  Ward, 
St.  Clair;  E.  E.  Russell,  Jackson.

Delegates  to  American  Pharmaceu­
tical  Association—O.  Eberbach,  Ann 
Arbor;  D.  A.  B.  Lyons,  Detroit;  Prof. 
A.  B.  Stevens,  Prof.  A.  B.  Prescott, 
Ann  Arbor.

Delegates  to  National  Retail  Drug­
gists’  Association—A.  H.  Webber,
Cadillac;  A.  S.  Parker,  Detioit;  D.  E. 
Pratt,  Saginaw.

Grand  Rapids  was  selected  as  the 
next  place  of  meeting,  and  the  Hazel- 
tine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  has  already 
entered  upon  the  work  of  preparing  for 
the  entertainment.
Albion  Grocers  to  Take  a  Day  Off.
Albion,  Aug.  22—For some  time plans 
have  been  in  progress  among  the  mem­
bers  of  the  Albion  Retail  Grocers’  As­
sociation  for  a  picnic  excursion  to  De­
troit  on  Aug.  30.  Details  of  the  ar­
rangements  have  not  been  completed 
yet,  but  a  $1.35  rate  for  the  round  tiip 
has  been  secured.  The  train  will  leave 
Albion  early 
in  the  morning,  giving  a 
long  day  in  Detroit. 
It  is  proposed  to 
give  residents  of  Marengo  au  oppor­
tunity  to  paiticipate  in 
this  excursion
and  the  train  will  also  stop  at  Parma. 
The  committee  having  special  charge of 
the  matter  consists  of  John  Ott,  A.  Tor- 
rey  and  Frank  Clark.

Poor  People  to  Patronize.

From  the Cheboygan Democrat.

The  Michigan  Supply  Co.,  an  appar­
ently  nondescript 
concern,  without 
standing  or  capital,  is  working  Cheboy­
gan  city  and  county  people,  trying  to 
sell  them  groceries,  etc. 
If  the  farmers 
who  had  a  taste  of  the  Chicago  Supply 
Co. 's  business  methods  could  only  tell 
their  neighbors  what  it costs to patronize 
outsiders,  they  would  all  buy  at  home, 
where  they  can  get  credit  in  hard  times 
and  in  case  of  ill  luck  get  full  value  in 
goods  for  their  money,  and  have  some 
recourse 
left  when  they  get  swindled, 
besides  a  huge  note  in  the  bands  of  an 
“ innocent  purchaser’ 'and  no  going  be­
hind  the  returns.  Don’t  patronize  this 
class  of  people.

When  Will  Men  Learn  Sense? 

From the Jackson Citizen.

E.  D.  Clark,  of  Morenci,  in  putting 
an  acetylene  gas  plant  in  the  Pleasant 
View  Hotel  at  Clark’s  Lake  and  before 
the  machine  was 
in  proper  shape  Mr. 
Clark  lighted  a  match  and  an  explosion 
immediately  followed.  Mr.  Clark  was 
burned  about  the  hands  and  face  quite 
seriously.  Burton  Hubbell,  of  this  city, 
a  carpenter  employed  in  the  work,  was 
severely  burned  and  it  was  thought  be 
inhaled  some  of  the  flame.  He 
had 
was  biought  to  his  home.  Mr.  Clark 
stated 
last  night  that  the  accident  was 
entirely  due  to  his  own  carelessness. 
The  gas  plant  was  uninjured.

If  the  remainder  of  the  world  would 
only  learn  to  eat  corn  bread  the  United 
States  would  undertake  to  see  that great 
disasters  do  not  keep  thousands  hungry 
any  longer than  it  takes  to get  ships  to 
them.

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

Grand  Rapids  Oossip

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market  is  a 
little  easier,  quotations  being 
56c
for  96  deg.  test  centrifugals,  although 
no  sales  have  been  made  at  the  lower 
figure.  On  Monday  the  American  Sugar 
Refining  Co.  surprised  the  trade  by  re­
ducing  all  grades  of  refined  316c,  fol­
lowed  by  tbe  New  York  Sugar  Refining 
Co.  and  tbe  Mollenhauer  Refinery  mak­
ing  the  same  reduction,  while  Arbuckle 
Bros,  reduced  their  prices  #c,  or  1  16c 
under  the  American  Sugar  Refining 
Co. ’s  prices.  There 
is  nothing  in  the 
raw  sugar  market  which  seems  to  war­
rant  tbe  present  reduction  in  prices  and 
tbe  cut  seems  to  indicate  that  tbe  sugar 
war  bas  recommenced more bitterly than 
it  was  ever  waged  before.  Tbe  total 
stock  of  sugar 
in  the  United  States  is 
230,405  tons,  against  288,750 tons  a  year 
ago.

Canned  Goods— In  tbe  canned  goods 
market there  are  no  special  features  of 
interest,  but tbe  flurry  in  the  can market 
bas  attracted  considerable  attention. 
To-day 
it  is  next  to  impossible to  get 
any  prices  on  either  size  of  cans,  except 
at  exorbitant figures.  So  far  this  year 
the  price  of  two  pound  cans  has  ad­
vanced  60c  per  hundred,  and 
three 
pound  cans  are  now  90c  higher  than 
they  were  at  the  beginning  of  tbe  year. 
This,  together  with  the  advance  in  the 
price  of  cases,  solder,  and,  in  fact,  all 
other  materials  that  are  used 
in  the 
manufacture  of  canned  goods,  will make 
an  increased  cost  over  last  year’s  prices 
of  8c  a  dozen  for  two  pounds  and  12c 
per  dozen  for three  pounds. 
It  will  be 
readily  seen  that  higher  prices  on  all 
lines  of  canned  goods  are  very  likely  to 
occur.  These  higher  prices  may  not 
come 
immediately,  but  will  come  as 
soon  as  the packers who purchased cheap 
cans  are  sold  out.  Packers  of  corn  will
begin  operations 
in  ten  days  or  two 
weeks  and  preparations  are  being  made 
to  put  up  a  larger  quantity  than  last 
year.  Reports  from  all  producing points 
agree  that  the  outlook  for  a  large output 
of  excellent  quality  goods  is  promising 
and  that the  pack  will  be  fully  as  large 
as  last  season.  Spot  goods  are 
limited 
in  quantity  and  prices  are  held  firmly 
up  to  quotations.  There  is  nothing  new 
in  the  tomato  market. 
It  is  very  quiet 
at  present.  Pineapples  are  about  as 
scarce  as  anything  in  the  whole line and 
have  become  a  luxury,  very  few  packers 
having  any  on  hand.  Advances  on  some 
grades  are  reported  almost  every  week 
and  prices  will,  undoubtedly,  rule  high 
until  the  present  output  is  exhausted. 
Salmon  still  attracts  the  most  attention 
in  the  canned  goods  line.  The  1899  sal 
mon  season  has  just  ended  and,  wbil 
the  returns  are  not  all  in,  enough  are  at 
hand  to 
indicate  that  the  pack  will  be 
smaller  than  it  was  in  1889,  which  was 
the  smallest  in  twenty-five  years.  Ten 
years  ago  practically  all  of  the  fish 
caught  were  packed,  but  this  season 
there  is  a  wide  difference  between  the 
salmon  catch  and  the  salmon  pack.  The 
amount  of  fish  handled  by  tbe  cold  stor­
age  men  this  season  is  reported  to  be 
approximately  1,300  ions,  equivalent  tr 
about  50,000 cases.  None  of  the  Colum 
bia  River  packers  can fill their contracts 
in  full  and,  in  consequence of  this  short 
delivery  oa contracts,  the  trade  are  buy­
ing  very  heavily  of  the  Alaska  grades 
and  more 
large  sales  of  Alaska  have 
been  made during  the  past  week.  The 
market  is firm, but  prices  are unchanged 
as  yet.  Sardines  are  in  goon  demand,

with  slight  advances  on  some  grades. 
Reports  from  Maine  are  to  tbe  effect 
that  the  situation  among  tbe  packers 
has  not  materially  improved.  The  mar­
ket  for  gallon  apples 
is  firm  at  un­
changed  prices.  The  prospects  for  a 
full  pack  are  the  best  in  several  years. 
Reports  from  the  packing  regions  state 
that  canners  are  putting  up  good  apples 
in  New  York  State,  New  Jersey  and 
Maryland.

It 

in  greatly 

from  week 

Dried  Fruits—The  dried  fruit  market 
remains  practically  the  same  as  at 
last 
reports.  All  spot  supplies  are  well  re­
duced.  The  demand 
to 
week  is  fairly  active  for the  season  and 
spot  stocks  of  some  varieties  are  entire­
ly  out  of  the  market,  while  others  are 
held 
reduced  quantities 
Prunes  are  quiet  now,  but  there  is  a 
good  enquiry  and  trade  is  likely  to  be 
active  shortly.  All  conditions  favor  a 
good  market  this  season,tbe  shortage  in 
the  Northwest  and  in  Europe  being  re­
sponsible  for  tbe  change  in  sentiment 
this  year,  compared  with  last  season. 
Sales  at  present  are  confined  to  small 
lots.  Crop  prospects  are  favorable  and 
some  fruit 
is  already  on  the  trays,  but 
drying  will  hardly  begin  in  earnest  for 
a  week  or  two  yet.  Apricots  are  very 
firm.  A 
large  proportion  of  the  crop 
bas  passed  out  of  first  hands  and  the 
bulk  of  the  remaining  supply  on  the 
coast  is  held  by  speculators.  There 
is 
some  difference  of  opinion  as  to  what 
the  price  is  likely  to  be,  but  there 
seems  to  be  a  well-grounded  opinion 
that  it  will  be  well  up  the  remainder  of 
the  season. 
is  not  so  much  a  short­
age  of  apricots  as  it  is that  shippers  of 
fruit  and  canners  have  taken 
green 
everything  procurable, 
leaving  driers 
i  some  instances  to  search  for  sup 
ies.  Peaches  sell  in  a  quiet  way,  but 
nothing  of  importance has  developed  in 
the  market.  The  crop 
is  large  and 
holders  are  anxious  to  place  as  much  as 
possible  before 
is 
known.  The  chances  are  that  the  output 
will  be  close  up  to  early  estimates. 
Raisins are  quiet.  No  large  sales  are 
made  and  the  prospect  does  not  indi­
cate  any  great  change  in  tbe  situation 
at  present.  The  crop  will  be  less  than 
last year,  but  will  still  be  sufficient  to 
fill  all  the  requirements  of  the  market. 
Estimates vary  from  2,700 to  3,100 cars, 
but  a  conservative  statement  is  3,000. 
The  carry-over  will  not  be  large,  and 
the  opening  prices  are  said  to  be  con­
templated 
ic  at  least  above  last  year’s 
opening.  Whether  this  will  prove  true 
or not  remains  to  be  determined.  High 
er  prices  will  rule,  however,  and  the 
outlook  promises  a  steady  market  in­
definitely.  New  crop  evaporated  ap 
pies  are  coming 
in  quite  freely  now 
and, 
in  consequence,  the  market  is  a 
.ittle  weaker.  These  goods  are  all  made 
from  early  fruit  and  will  go  into  con 
sumption  quickly.  The later  stock  made 
from  winter  fruit  will  not  begin 
to 
come  in  yet  for  about  thirty  days 

the  exact  output 

is  arriving 

R ice_Trade in rice  is  about  the  same 
as  it  has  been  for the  past  few  weeks. 
New  crop  rice 
in  small 
quantities  and  stocks  of  foreign  goods 
are  almost  depleted.  Reports  from 
Louisiana  state  that  there  is  every  as­
surance  that  the  present  crop  will  far 
exceed  that  of  any  previous  year.

Molasses  and  Syrups—The  demaud 
for  molasses  continues  light.  Advices 
from  New  Orleans  state  that  the  crop 
of  New  Orleans  molasses  will be fully  50 
per  cent,  short  and  the  season  a  month 
late.  As  a  rule  new  molasses  appears 
about  Oct.  1,  but  this  year  new  stock  is 
[not  expected  before  Nov.  1.  Trade  on

corn  syrup  is  opening  up  in  good  shape 
and  good  business  is  expected  soon.

Tea—While  no 

large  sales  are  being 
made  as  yet,  good  business  is  expected 
shortly.  Old  crop  is  nearly  sold  out  and 
buyers  will  be  forced  to  buy  new  crop 
teas,  heretofore  neglected  on  account  of 
the  high  prices  asked  by  holders.  Only 
a  small  stock  of  old  teas  is  left  and, 
within  a  short  time, 
these  will  be 
cleaned  up  and  buyers  must  then  have 
the  new  goods.  The  market  is  firm  at 
unchanged  prices.

Fish—The  demand  for  mackerel  is 
somewhat  limited,  owing  to  tbe  high 
prices  asked.  Codfish  continues  firm 
with 
is 
better  than 
it  has  been,  but  the  high 
prices  tend  to  check  trade.

light  receipts.  The  demand 

In 

Green  Fruits—The  continued  cool 
weather  prevents  as  active  demand  for 
foreign  fruits  as  usually  prevails  at  this 
season. 
lemons  the  market  is  par 
ticulariy  dull.  Pi ices  are  unsettled,but 
generally  lower  than  the  average  at  this 
season.  While  cargoes  coming  forward 
are  small  and  supplies  are  much  lighter 
than  is  usual  at  this  time  of  the  year 
they  are  ample  to  satisfy  all  demands 
and  prices 
incline  to  weakness.  Ban 
anas  could  not  stand  the  pressure  of 
heavy  supplies  and 
light  demand  and 
prices  have  declined  5@ioc  per  bunch 
on  practically  all  grades.  The  quality 
is  satisfactory,  but  the  influence  of  good 
quality  does  not  seem 
to  be  strong 
enough  to  hold  up  quotations.  While 
cool  weather  is  beneficial 
in  saving 
fruit  from  spoiling,  it  prevents  demand 
and  therefore  curtails  consumption.

Nuts—Contrary  to  all  expectations 

The  Grain Market.

getting 

There  is  nothing  of importance  in  the 
wheat  market.  Conditions  remain  the 
same  as  have  been  gone  over  for  several  . 
weeks,  only  later  reports  from  the  Da­
kotas  are  more  wet  weather,  and  wheat 
in  worse  shape,  which  bas 
reduced  the  harvest  of  ’99  for  North 
Dakota,  South  Dakota  and  Minnesota 
to  190,000,000  bushels.  To  say  the  least, 
markets  are  very  sensitive.  Even  the 
lost  faith  in  their  theories. 
bears  have 
Monday  the  market  started 
in  fairly 
strong,  but  when  the  visible  showed  a 
decrease  of  only  99 000  bushels,  when 
over  1,000,000 bushels  was  counted  on, 
the  market  dropped  ic.  Yesterday  the 
market  showed  weak.  More  rain  in  the 
Northwest,  Bradstreet’s  showing  of  a 
decrease  of  the  world’s  visible  of  i,75°» 
000  bushels  and  tbe  small  amount  on 
passage—a  little  over  5,000.000  bushels 
— made  the  bears  run  to cover and wheat 
advanced 
ic  over  the  previous  day. 
Looking  at  the  wheat  situation,  it  may 
be  said  to  be  in  a  stronger  position than 
one  week  ago,  especially  as  speculators 
seem  to  be  taking  hold  again,  as  fifty- 
two boatloads were taken at the seaboard.
A  boatload  means  8,000 bushels.

Corn  remains  about  steady,  as  the  re­
ports  about  the  growing  crop  are  still 
very  contradictory. 
the 
largest  crop  on  record,  while  others 
claim  deterioration  from  several  causes 
•hot,  dry  weather  or  too  much  rain. 
However,  should  frost  hold  off,  we  shall 
have  plenty  of  corn.

Some  ciaim 

Oats  are  flat  and  prices  will  go  lower, 
as  the  crop  is  certainly  one  of  the  larg­
est  on  record.

It 

the  coming  pecan  crop  in  Texas  is 
ing  to  be  very  short  again  this  year, 
Generally  there 
is  a  fair  or  good  crop 
the  next  year  after  a  short  one. 
It  will 
be  remembered  that  last year's  crop  was 
almost  a  total  failure,  there  being 
iess 
than  one  million  pounds  to  leave  the 
State. 
is  estimated  that  the  output 
for  the  entire  State  will  be  but  25  per
cent,  of  a  crop  and  this  estimate  may 
be  reduced  later.  We  look  for  higher 
prices  this  season  than  last  and  predict 
that  pecans  will  be  valuable for the  next 
fifteen  months  at  least,  as  stocks  are 
very 
light  everywhere.  We  seriously 
doubt  if  there  will  be  enough  raised  to 
supply  the  demand,  even  at high prices. 
Enquiries  received  from  all  parts  of  the 
United  States  indicate  an  unusual inter­
est  in  the  crop  now.  Peanuts  are  firm 
at  unchanged  prices.

Live  Poultry—The  surfeit  of  stock 
incident  to  the  advent  of  the  circus  has 
disappeared  and  nearly  all  lines  are 
stronger  and  firmer.  Broilers  are 
in 
good  demand  at  9c.  Fat  hens  are  in 
good  demand  at  7c,  while  medium  hens 
are  in strong demand at 8c.  Spring ducks 
are 
in  fair  demand  at  6c,  while  old 
ducks  are  taken  in  a  limited  way  at  5c. 
Hen 
turkeys  find  ready  sale  at  9c. 
Large turkeys  are  in  fair  demand  at  8c. 
Spring  turkeys  are  beginning  to  arrive 
and  readily  command  10c.  Squabs  are 
in  good  demand  at  $1.25  per  doz.  Pig­
eons  are  in  fair  demand  at  50c  per  doz.
The  Central  Labor  Union  of  Boston 
has  decided  to  ask  for  a  six  hour  work­
day,  which  naturally  suggests  the  ques­
tion  whether  organized 
labor  will  not 
ultimately  demand  that  all  the  work  be 
done  by  non-union  men  and  the  capi­
talistic  classes,  while  the  cohorts  of  or­
ganized 
labor  sit  on  cushioned  chairs 
and  drink  champagne  and  smoke  im­
ported  cigars.

Adam  Krzykva  has  engaged 

in  the 
grocery  business  on  East  Bridge  street. 
The 
fu r­
nished  the  stock. 

B a ll-B a rn b a rt-P u tm a n   Co. 

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For  Gillies’  N.  Y.  tea.  all  kinds, 

I grades and  prices,  phone  Visner,  800.

Rye  is  a  conundrum.  While  the  trade 
looked  for 
lower  prices,  rye  has  ad­
vanced  2C  for  carlots,  and  in  the  home 
market  probably  10:  a  bushel.  Re­
ceipts  of  wheat  from  farmers’  wagons 
are  way  below  last  year’s,  and  probably 
will  be,  as  fanners  have  not  much  to 
offer.  One  farmer  reported  to  tbe  writer 
yesterday  that  while  the  threshing  ma­
chine  made  his  crop  400  bushels,  there 
was  not  50 bushels  of  marketable  wheat 
in  the  lot,  being  shrunk,  screenings  and 
all,  and  these  cases  are  not  isolated.

The  demand  for  flour  is  about  equal 
to  the  capacity  of  the  mills.  The  great 
question  seems  to  be,  Where  will  the 
wheat  come  from  to  run  them during the 
year?-

Mill  feed,  notwithstanding  corn  and 

oats are  cheap,  is  in  good  demand.

Receipts  during  the  week  were  as fol­
lows :  57  cars  of  wheat ;  26 cars  of  corn ; 
9  cars  of  oats.

M illers  a re   p a y in g   65c  for  new   w heat, 

an d   67c  for  old. 

C.  G .  A .  V o ig t .

Good  Reason  For  a  Change.
“ Why  did  you  change  milkmen?”
‘ ‘ Well,  I discovered  that  the  one  I  am 
taking  milk  from  now  bas  a  nice,  clear 
spring  on  his  farm,  while  the  other  had 
nothing  but  a  cistern.”

The  G.  J.  Johnson  Cigar  Co.  has  been 
compelled  to  advance  the  price  of  its 
cigar  clippings  5c  per  pound,  owing  to 
the  constant  advance 
in  the  price  of 
leaf  tobacco  and  cuttings;  in  fact,  for 
the  past  six  months  the  company  has 
been 
losing  money  on  every  pound  of 
cigar  clippings  it  has  sold.

C.  D.  Stuart  has  foreclosed  his  mort­
gage  on  the  plant  of  the  Challenge  Soap 
Co.  on  Mill  street.  He  has  not  yet  de­
cided  whether  he  will  operate  the  plant 
himself  or  dispose  of  it  to  others.

Christian  Bertsch,  President  of  the 
Herold-Bertscb  Shoe  Co.,  is  spending  a 
couple  of  weeks 
in  Boston,  selecting 
goods  for  the  spring  trade.

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Woman’s World
Making  Indiscriminate  Acquaintances 

at  Summer  Resorts.

The  woman  of  the  world  who  has 
seen  more  summers  and  summer  resorts 
than  even  her  worst  enemies  attribute to 
her  drew  her  chair 
into  the  shadiest 
corner  of  the  wide  hotel  veranda  and 
smiled  as  she  surveyed 
the  passing 
crowd.

it?”   she  said. 

“ It’s  life’s  little  comedy  turned 

into 
“ If  you 
a  farce,  isn’t 
want  to  see  pretension  at  its  most  flam­
boyant  moment,  hypocrisy 
in  its  most 
unblushing  effrontery,  envy,  malice  and 
all  uncharitableness  when 
they  have 
routed  the  Christian  virtues  and  put 
them  to  flight,  you  have  only  to  sit  here 
and  watch  them  go  by. 
It always  re 
minds  me  of  the  prayer  of  the  little 
child  who  said,  ‘ Good-by,  God,  we  are 
going  off  for  the  summer. ’

“ But  did  you  ever  think  that  among 
all  the  inexplicable  vagaries  of  human 
nature  there  is  none  so  peculiar  as  the 
latitude  we  lend  ourselves  in  the  sum­
mer?  Are  dignity,  common  sense  and 
even  plain  decency  a  matter  of  the ther­
mometer?  You  see  women  such  prudes 
they  will  hardly  raise  their  frocks  two 
inches  to  keep  them  out  of  the  mud  in 
the  winter  posing  around  on  the  beach 
at  the  seaside  in  summer  in clothes  that 
would  bring  a  blush  to  the  cheek  of  a 
wooden  Indian.  You  see  women  who 
are  the  pink  of  propriety  at home drink­
ing  mixed  drinks  in  public  places  that 
are  none  too  proper,  and  you  see  women 
noted  for  exclusiveness  recklessly  mak­
ing  acquaintances  with  strangers  of 
whose  antecedents  they  know  absolutely 
nothing.  What,  one  might  ask,  has 
brought  about  such  a  revolution?  Noth­
ing  at  all. 
is  merely  summer  and 
we  have  let  ourselves  go.  With the  first 
cold  weather  madame  wiL  resume  her 
stiff  tailor-made  frock,  and  with  it  ber 
perfectly  correct 
ideas  of  deportment. 
She  will  also  resume  her  previous  atti­
tude  towards  the  church  and  society, 
and  when  she  meets  the  pleasant,  al­
though  socially  undesirable,  men  and 
women  with  whom  she  was  on  such  de­
lightful  terms of  bonne camaraderie dur­
ing  the  summer,  she  will  simply  look 
through  t^em  as 
if  she  was gazing  at 
vacancy,  with  nothing  to  intercept  her 
view.  We  have  all  seen  it  a  hundred 
times  and  we  will  see  it  again  as  long 
as  summer  follies  and  winter repentance 
continue  to  follow  each  other.

It 

“ But  by  far  the  most  amazing  part  of 
the  whole  thing  is  the summer flirtation. 
Why  summer  should  be  given  over  to 
sentiment  more  than  other  seasons  of 
the  year  is  one  of  the  things  nobody  un­
derstands.  That  it  is 
is  a  fact  no  one 
will  deny,  and  it  is  probably  the  reason 
that  we  call  the  summer  season  the  silly 
season.  The  summer flirtation,  at  any 
rate,  is  a  recognized  institution,  and  an 
accessory 
just  as  much  as  the  hop  and 
tennis  courts  and golf links,  and no  mat­
ter  what other diversions  a  girl  had dur­
ing  her  summer outing  she  would  con­
sider  the  whole  thing  a  dead  failure  if 
it  did  not  include a  flirtation.  It  is  this 
that  makes  the  presen'e  of  man  such  an 
event.  Of  course,  we  all  recognize  that 
at  times  everywhere  man  is  a  necessity 
to  have  about  the  house,  but at a  sum­
mer  resort  he  becomes  a  gilt-edged  lux­
ury.

“ If  you  doubt  me  watch  the self-com­
placent  smile  of  that  girl  coming  down 
the  veranda  with  a  man;  observe  the 
air  of  triumph  the  one  wears  who has 
if  that  other one
two 

in  tow,  and  see 

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

by  herself  doesn’t  stop  to  explain  to 
somebody  that  ‘ she  really doesn’t  know 
any  of  the  men.  Mamma  is  so  particu­
lar,  and  at  a  place  like  this  one  meets 
all  kinds  of  people,  etc  ,  etc.’  There, 
didn’t  I  tell  you  so?  Ah,  my  dear,  I 
have  never  yet  known  a  woman  who 
wasn’t  admired  by  men  who didn’t  feel 
called  upon  to  apologize  for  it.

isn’t  without 

“ The  situation 

its 
humors,  though.  Like  everything  else 
that  one gets  in  life,  one  must  pay  for 
it,  and  the  reputation  of  being  a  belle 
at  a  summer  resort  must be  bought  with 
a  price.  Look  at  the  poor  little  debu­
tante  over  there.  Do you suppose she  is 
interested 
in  that  gouty  old  man’s ac­
count  of  his  rheumatism?  She  is  sim­
ply  writhing  under  the affliction,  and 
yet  for the  last  hour she has hung  upon 
his  words  with  an  expression  of  the 
most  rapt  attention,  while  he  held  forth 
on  the  rival  merits  of  alkalies and acids 
as  remedies.  Just  how  long  do  you  sup­
pose  Miss  Fassee,  over  by  the  veranda 
rail,  would  listen  to her callow brother’s 
account  of  the  surpassing  merits  of  bis 
football  team  at  school, and to anecdotes 
of  the  ’ fellers?’  She  would  choke  him 
off 
in  exactly  a  quarter  of a  minute  by 
the  clock,  yet  she  is  looking  the  person­
ification  of  enthusiastic  attention  be­
cause  she  knows  the  eyes  of  the hotel 
are  on  ber,  and  she  wants  to  maintain 
her  reputation  as  a  fascinator.  Do  you 
imagine  that  clever  Miss  Reader  is  in­
terested  in  the  infantile  prattle of young 
Softleigb?  Impossible!  But  she  would 
rather be  thought  imbecile herself  than 
to  be  a  wall  flower,  and  so  she  mur­
murs,  ‘ How  clever!  Really,  Mr.  Soft­
leigb,  I  never heard  anything  so 
inter­
esting, ’  over  stories  that  she  knew  be­
fore  he  was  born.  Ah,  my  child,  there 
are  much  comfort  and  consolation 
in 
being  so  old  that  you  are  not  expected 
to  be  admired  and  don’t have  to  keep 
up  the  fiction  that  you  are!

“ The girls  don’t  have  it  all  to  them­
selves,  though,  in  their  struggles  over 
the  necessary  and  totally 
inadequate 
supply  of  men  at  the  summer  resorts. 
In  the  first  place,  there 
is  always  the 
inevitable widow,  beautiful,  fascinating, 
just  beginning  to  take  notice,  and  with 
the late  departed's  life  insurance  still 
in  her  pocket,  so  to  speak.  When  she 
enters  the  arena  the  case  takes  on  the 
aspect  of  those  interesting  affairs  of 
which  we  read 
in  the  police  report, 
where an  unsophisticated  rustic engages 
in  a  game  with  friendly  strangers  on 
the  cars.  She  is  playing  a  game  in 
which  all  the  cards  are  marked  cards, 
and  she  knows  them  by  the  backs,  and 
in  consequence  she  walks  off  with  the 
stakes.  The  married  flirt—the  woman 
who  has  achieved  a  kind  of  temporary 
widowhood  by  going  off  for the  summer 
— is  even  more  dangerous.  Like  the 
widow,  she  knows  all  the  ropes  and 
possesses  all  the  advantage  that  the 
professional  always has  over  the  ama­
teur,  with  this  further  point  in  ber  fa­
vor,  that  there  is a  definite  time  limit 
to  the  flirtation.  She  knows,  and  the 
man  knows,  that  when  the  vacation 
is 
over  and  the  time  comes  to  part,  he 
will  look  down  upon  her  and  sigh  and 
she  will  look  up  and  sigh,  and  both  will 
murmur,  ‘ If  we  had  only  met  sooner, ’ 
and  that  will  end  it.  No  tears,  no  fu­
ture  making  good  of  reckless  promises 
and  vows,  no  scenes,  nothing  more  ex­
pected  of  either one,  nothing  to  sneak 
out of  and  feel  mean  about,  which  men 
hate. 
It  was  a  game  played  on  top  of 
the.  table, between  evfenlv  matched play­
ers,  and  it  ends  in  a  draw.

“ If  the  women 

to  whom  their  sum­

is  as  necessary  a stimu­
mer  flirtation 
lant  as  his  absinthe 
is  to  the  French 
boulevardier  would  confine  their  amuse­
ments  to  the  unattached  men, ’ ’  went  on 
madam,  “ I  should  enjoy  my  little  com­
edy  with  a  light  heart,  but  they  don’t. 
There  aren’t  enough  single  men  to  go 
around,  and  it’s  when  the  married  men 
are  drawn  into  it  that  real  trouble  be­
gins  and  the  comedy  turns  into tragedy. 
So  far as  her  part of  the  business  goes 
the flirt  has  generally  gotten  a soft snap. 
The  manied  man  is  middle-aged,  say. 
It  has  been  a  long  time  since anybody 
told  him, 
indirectly  and  insidiously, 
of  course,  that  be  was  an  Apollo.  He’s 
gotten  out  of  the  way  of  thinking  of 
himself  as  a  fascinator.  Perhaps  the 
principal  subject  of  his  wife’s  conver­
sation 
is  to  find  fault  with  him  about 
the  things  be  has  done  or  left  undone. 
In  a  minute all  that  is  changed.  Here 
is  some  pretty  young  creature  who,  so 
far  as  he  can  see 
in  his  blundering, 
masculine  stupidity,  is  throwing  over 
all  the  young  fellows 
in  the  hotel  for 
him ;  she  hangs on  his words;  she deftly 
compliments  him,  and  it  never  occurs 
to  him  he’s  a  makeshift. 
‘ By  George,’ 
he  says  complacently,  *1  don’t  see  that 
I 
look  a  day  older  than  I  did  when  I 
was  25,  and,  of  course,  it’s  natural  I ’d 
be  more  fascinating  to  a  clever,  dis­
criminating  woman  than  those  young 
whipper-snappers  that  ought  to  be  in 
the  nursery  right  now.  They’ve  seen 
nothing  of 
life.  Why,  their  conversa­
tion 
insipid  as  milk  and  water. 
is  as 
Now  I— ’  and  then  he  will  sigh  and 
think  how  strange 
is  that  his  wife 
doesn’t  appreciate him ;  then  he  strolls 
off  with  Mrs.  or  Miss  Flirt.  And  they 
won’t  get home  until  after  late  supper. 
And  the  women  on  the gallery  will  ask 
his  wife  where  her  husband 
is,  and 
wonder  where  he and  Mrs.  Flirt  could 
have  gone  to be  away  so  long,  and  the 
poor  wife  will  either be  sitting  up  with 
a  stereotyped  smile  frozen  on  her  face, 
or  else  be  upstairs  with  her  head  under 
a  pillow,  according  to  the  manner  of 
backbone  the  good  Lord  gave  ber.  Of 
course,  you  and  I—when 
it  isn't our 
husband—can  see  it all  amounts to noth­
ing.  The  man  means  nothing  and .the 
flirt  means  nothing  except  to amuse her­
self  and  minister  to  ber  own  vanity,  but 
it  is  a  dead,  terrible  reality  to the  wife, 
in 
and  the  woman  who  has once  looked 
the  face  of  that  kind  of  gnawing 
jeal­
ousy  never  again  looks  on  life  with  an 
unclouded  eye.

it 

“ Few  can  play  with  fire  and  not  get 
burned,’ ’  went  on  madame  sententious- 
ly. 
“ I  remember  a  case—ob,  it  was 
years  and  years  ago—there  was  a  pretty 
girl  staying  one  summer  at  a  place 
where  I  was.  She  was one of  these  gen­
tle,  clinging  little  creatures,  with  wide- 
opened  eyes,  that  always  made  you 
think  of  a  startled  fawn.  Among  the 
men  was  a  handsome,  dashing  fellow 
who  came  from,  no  one  knew  where, 
and  was,  no  one  knew  what. 
In  a  little 
while 
it  was  very  evident  that  he  was 
paying  devoted  attention  to  the  girl, 
and  her  mother,  anxious  for her  daugh­
ter  to  revel  in  the  spurious  reputation 
of  a  summer belle,  made  no  objection. 
One  night  the  girl  came  in  with  a  great 
diamond  flashing  on  her  finger  and  that 
look  that  a  woman’s  face  never  wears 
but  once  in  a  lifetime— when  it  is glori­
fied  with  the  radiance  of  first  love. 
Then,  of course,  when  it  was  too  late, 
her  people  set  investigation  on  foot to 
discover  what  kind  of  a  man  be  was 
who  bad  won  their daughter’s heart.  He 
proved  perfectly  impossible,  with  a past 
black  with  every  kind  of  crime,  He

‘ I 

didn’t  even  try  to  defend  himself  when 
confronted  with  his  record. 
loved 
her,’  he  said  simply,  and  then  some 
latent  spark  of  nobility,  perhaps  lighted 
by that  love,  inspired  him to  do  the only 
thing  he  could,  and  be  went  away  and 
left  ber.  But  the  girl  never held  up  ber 
bead  again.  Her  heart  was  broken,  and 
before  another  year  she  died. 
It  was 
only  an  incident  of a summer hotel,  and 
not  half  a  dozen  people  ever knew  it, 
but  I  never  see  the  way  mdthers  let 
their  young  daughters  make  indiscrimi­
nate  acquaintances  at  summer  resorts 
without  wondering  how  often  that  little 
tragedy  repeats 
itself,”   and  madame 
sighed  softly  to  herself  as  she  arose, 
for the  supper gong  had  sounded.

D o r o th y  D i x .

Extent  of the  Premium  Habit.

I  happened  to  run  across  an old school 
friend,  Eph  Gatherum,  while on  a visit 
to  the  city  a  short  time  ago.  As  I  had 
neither  seen  nor heard  anything  of  him 
for number  of  years,  I  was  glad  to  yield 
to  his  urging  and  go  up  to his  house 
with  him  for  dinner and  a  good,  long 
talk.  After  I  had  been  introduced  to 
his  wife and  while  we  were  waiting  for 
dinner,  I  happened  to  notice a  desk  in 
the  room  that  struck  my  fancy.

“ There,  Eph,”   I  said,  “ that’s  the 
kind  of  a  desk  I  like.  May  I  ask  where 
you  got  it?”

“ Certainly,”   he  replied,  without  the 
“ it  came  with  a 

least  embarrassment, 
box  of soap. ’ ’

I  thought  nothing  of  this,  until, as the 
it  will  while 
conversation  flagged,  as 
waiting  for dinner,  I  said,  just for some­
thing  to  say,  “ That’s a  fine  engraving 
hanging  over  the  mantel.”

“ Y es;  we  like 

it  first  rate,”   said 
Eph.  “ It  came  with  a  package of tea. ”
This  did  excite  my  curiosity,  so  just 
to  satisfy  it,  I  casually  commented  on 
different  articles  in  the  room.  Without 
exception  they  had  been  acquired  as 
premiums.  The  lamp  came  with  a  box 
of  candles,  the  carpet with  a  patent  car­
pet  sweeper,  the  vases  with  25  pounds 
of  coffee,  the  table  with  a  set  of  dupli- 
ate  whist,the  piano  with  a  certain  num­
ber  of  barrels  of  flour,  and  the  bric-a- 
brac,  pictures and  furniture  with  vari­
ous  dry  goods  and  groceries.  By  the 
time  I  had  learned  all  this  I  bad  deter­
mined  to  see  if  Epb  did  not  own  some­
thing  which  was  not  a  premium.

Just then  a  youngster  bounced 

into 
the room,  howling,  “ Say,  papa,gimme a 
quarter  to go  to  the  show  to-night,  will 
yer?  All  the  boys 
is  goin*. ”   And  I 
thought  I  saw  my  opportunity.
“ Hello,  E pb,”   I  asked 

jocularly, 

“ whatdid  he  come  with?”

“ My  wife,”   replied  Epb,  solemnly. 
first  husband’ s  son,”   he  ex­

“ Her 
plained,  seeing  my  look  of  surprise.

Mixed  at  Home.

A  young  married  couple  who  recently 
went  to housekeeping  on  the  West  Side 
bad  just  enough  money  to  buy  the  nec­
essary  furniture.  They  bad  not  suffi­
cient  cash  to  invest  in  mottoes  and  pic­
tures.  The young  wife  is  handy  with  a 
brush,  but  has  considerable  yet  to 
learn  in  books.  She  made  an  effort  to 
supply  the  deficiency 
in  mottoes  for 
the  wall  by  working  at  odd  times  on 
plain 
cardboard  with  water-colors. 
Here are  some  of  the  mottoes  that  now 
adorn  the  West  Side  home:

in  Time  is  the  Noblest 

“ A  Stitch 

Work  of  God. ’ ’

"What 

is  Home  Without  a  Fool  and 

His  Money?”

Flock  Together. ’ ’

“ People  Who  Live 

in  Glass  Houses 

“ Birds  of  a  Feather  Gather  No 

Moss. ”

“ Honesty  is  the  Thief  of  Tim e.”
“ He  Who  Fights  and  Runs  Away 

Gets the  Worm. ”
Sign  Over  a  Negro  Cabin in  Georgia. 
From  the  A tlan ta  Constitution.

I Teaches Folks to Reed an Rite 
an do Aggers in their heads.

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When  Lord  Charles  Beresford was sent 
by  the  Associated  Chambers  of  Com­
merce  of  Great  Britain,  now  nearly  a 
year  ago,  to  China  to  ascertain  as  far 
as  possible  tbe  outlook  there  for  British 
trade  under  existing  conditions,  be  de­
voted  himself  with  great  diligence  to 
tbe  task  he  had  undertaken,  and  at  the 
end  of  something  like  three  months  felt 
himself 
in  reporting  that  the 
dismemberment  of  tbe  Chinese  Empire 
was  not  absolutely  unavoidable.  He  bad 
visited  nearly  all  tbe  leading  public 
men  of  that  country,  bad  made  an  ex­
haustive  study  of  its  commercial  statis­
tics  and  bad  carefully  examined  tbe 
condition  of  its  army  and navy.  He  bad 
been  treated  with  tbe greatest  consider­
ation  by  all  tbe  Chinese  authorities  and 
bad  nowhere  been  denied  access  to  tbe 
most  trustworthy sources  of information. 
His  conclusion  must,  therefore,  give 
some  encouragement 
those  who 
would,  for  any  reason,  be  glad  of  the 
continued  maintenance  of  the  territorial 
integrity  of  China  despite  all  tbe  thick- 
gathering  perils  with  which  it  has  been 
of  late  years  menaced. 
If  there  is  any 
disposition  on  the  part  of  intelligent 
British  merchants  to  distrust  the  judg­
ment  expressed  in  Lord  Beresford’s  re­
port,  it  may  be  dne  to  a  suspicion  that 
with  him  in  this  instance  the  wish  has 
been  father  to  the  thought.

to 

Lord  Beresford,  however,  has  not  ap­
parently  attempted  to  obscure  or  under­
state  tbe 
importance  of  any  fact  that 
might  seem  to  indicate  a  different  con­
clusion  from  tbe  one  which  he  has 
reached.  He  has,  for  instance,  frankly 
exposed 
that  widespread  corruption 
which  has  checked  or  perverted  to  a 
ruinous  degree  tbe  operation  of  tbe  ad­
ministrative  machinery  of  tbe  Chinese 
government.  He  has  even  gone  so  far 
as  to  declare  that  tbe  Chinese  are  de­
void  of  patriotism,  of  public  spirit,  of 
auy  generous  sentiment  of  nationality 
that  might  tend to elevate  their  civiliza­
tion.  Hardly any  fact  could  be  brought 
to  light  that  would  tend  more to  confirm 
a  pessimistic  view  of  China’s  future 
than  this  frank  avowal  of  its  moral  des­
titution. 
It  depicts  a  condition  of  ut­
ter  dead ness  more  hopeiessthan  any  de­
gree  of  demoral  zation  that  might  have 
been  consequent  simply  upon  the  over­
whelming  defeat  of  the  national  forces

irremediable 

by  a  foreign  foe  and  the  discovery  of 
the 
inadequacy  of  the 
existing  system  of  government.  For 
what  form  of  government  could  reform 
a  peopie  totally  destitute  of  any  senti­
ment  which  might  serve  as  a  vital 
principle 
in  tbe  reorganization  of  tbe 
nation  under a  new  constitution?  Sel­
dom,  indeed,  has  any  civilization  en­
dured  so 
long  where  the  general  con­
ception  of  life  was  apparently  so  low 
and  materialistic,  and  where  the  gov­
erning  class  was  so  blind  to  the  pro­
gressive  tendencies  of 
its  time.  That 
such  a  nation  as  that  of  tbe  Chinese—a 
nation  whose  individual  representatives 
are  seemingly  ignorant  of  tbe  meaning 
of  nationality— could  by  its own unaided 
lost  wholly 
effo.t  recover  tbe  power 
through  its  own  fault  is  manifestly 
im­
possible ;  that  it  might  do  so  by  the  aid 
of  other  nations  is  barely  conceivable. 
But  the  Chinese  are  still  an  industrious 
people.  They  retain  all  of  their  accus­
tomed  thrift,  all  their  power  of  patient 
toil,  and  all,  perhaps,  of  that  special 
skill 
in  various  mannfactnres,  which, 
although  it  has  been  so  long purely  imi­
tative,  is  still  unsurpassed.  Divided 
into  distinct  trading  districts,  so  to 
speak,  severally  protected  by  the  great 
commercial  nations  of  Europe,  the  land 
of  China  might  possibly  enjoy  in  tbe 
future  as  great  a  business  prosperity 
as  it  has  ever  known  in  the  past.

Then,  indeed,  there  could  be  no  such 
thing  as  genuine  nationality  in  China ; 
but  there  is  none  now.  Lord  Beresford 
bolds  that  dismemberment  is  not  abso­
inevitable.  He  seems  to  think 
lutely 
that 
some  protectorate  arrangement 
might  be  devised  which  coaid  guaran­
tee  the  security  of  all  concerned,  and 
which,  while  providing  a  means  of  es­
cape  from  such  international  complica­
tions  as  might  follow  the  partition  and 
division  of  China  between  the  great 
powers,  would  at  the  same  time  pre­
serve  end  promote  the  trade  of 
the 
whole  country  for  the common benefit by 
the  simple  expedient  known  as  “ the 
open  door’ ’  policy. 
It  is  just  to  Eng­
land  to  acknowledge  that  she  has  for 
many  years  maintained ‘  the open door”  
wherever  it  was  at  all  practicable.  The 
discriminating  duties  collected  in  the 
ports  of  certain  British  colonies  have 
been  imposed  by  those  colonies,  not  by 
tbe  mother country.  England asks  noth­
ing  better  than  an  even  chance  in  the 
markets  of  the  world,  and  she  will  not 
fail  to  do  what  she  can  to  secure  the 
universal  prevalence  of  free  trade.

That  is  no  doubt  the 

ideal  commer­
cial  condition  to  which  the  world  is 
tending,  although  special  local  difficul­
ties and  certain  ancient  prejudices  may 
delay  its  progress in certain  quarters  for 
some  time  to  come. 
It  is  a  condition 
that  would  soon  enable the United States 
to  enter  upon  a  career  of  trade  expan­
sion  which  would  render any  other  form 
of  expansion  undesirable  and  unneces­
sary. 

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Two  clothing  factories  are  to  be  es­
tablished  by  the navy department,  where 
most  of  tbe  clothing  worn  by  the  en­
listed  men,  stewards  and  servants  on 
board  the  vessels  of  the service  will  be 
manufactured,  and  where  all  materials 
used 
in  making  the  sailors’  wardrobes 
will  be  examined  and  tested  before  be­
ing  accepted  and  sent  to  the  ships. 
One  of  the  factories  is  to  be in tbe  Mare 
Island  navy  yard,  California,  while  the 
is  to  be  erected  and  operated  in 
other 
conjunction  wiih  what 
is  now  termed 
tbe  clothing  factory  at  the  Brooklyn 
navy  yard.

The  phrase 

is  purely  American. 

It 
It  breathes  of 
is  of  tbe  West,  Western. 
tbe  mining  camp  and  shows  tbe  spirit, 
restive  under  restraint,  which  has  out­
grown  the  old  order  of  tbifigs  and  is  de­
termined  to have  no  more  of 
it.  His­
tory  has  been  repeating  itself,  that  is 
all.  A  feature of  family 
life  has  be­
come  national.  Tbe child  Eastern-born 
has  wandered  to  the  West,  has  grown 
up,  has  put  away  childish  things,  has 
become  self-reliant  and,  having  learned 
enough  of  the  game  of  life  to  be  will­
ing  to  risk 
is  going  to 
“ play  it  alone.’ ’

its  cbances, 

Years  ago  when  the  East  watched  her 
children  as  they  traveled  towards  the 
sunset  she  bad  little  doubt  that  the  boys 
would  make  it  go.  Under  tbe  old  roof- 
tree  they  had  learned  to  be  industrious, 
to  be  honest,  to  be  frugal;  to  be  men 
upright  and  pure,  with  the  fear of  God 
in  their  hearts  and  with  sound  bodies, 
strong  hands  and  unbending  will. 
Into 
tbe  wilderness  the  young  life  plunged 
and  wherever  the smoke curled above the 
primitive cabin of those fearless pioneers 
the  wild  wastes  were  soon  blossoming 
like  the  rose.  Tbe  old  homesteads  in 
tbe  East  rejoiced  as  they  had  a  right  to 
rejoice  when  the  story of their children’s 
prosperity  came  to  them.  They  knew  it 
would  be  so,  blood  always  tells.  Hu­
man  nature  remains  the  same  and  the 
same  courage  which  bad  conquered  the 
stubborn  fields  of  New  England  was 
showing 
itself  master  of  the  prairie- 
lands  of  tbe  West.

So the  East  settled  down  and grew  old 
with  the  conviction  that  one  of  these 
days  the  boys  would  come  back  and  go 
on  with  the  old  farm  and,  with  tbe  ex­
perience  and  tbe  abundant  means  by 
that  time  acquired,  would  put  off  the 
roughness  of  frontier  life,  would  put  on 
the  sober  and  refined  garments  of  age 
and  respectability  and  so  be  worthy  de­
scendants  of  the  blue  blood  that  had 
come  down  to  them  from  the Mayflower, 
from  the  Conqueror,  from  the  Saxon.

however, 

It  was  noticed, 

from 
Thanksgiving  to  Thanksgiving, 
that 
changes  were  going  on:  There  was a 
tendency  to  smile  at  the  good  old-fash­
ioned  ways  of  the  old  homestead,  there 
was  a  readiness  to  ridicule  as  small  and 
mean  and  narrow  the  life  and  the  prin­
ciples  of  the  life  which  had  created 
them  and  trained  them,  there  was  curl­
ing  of  tbe  lip  at  the  blue  blood  and  the 
Mayflower,  there  was  an  openly-ex­
pressed  wonder  what  difference  it  made 
who  yonr  grandfather  was  and  what  he 
did  provided  bis grandson behaved him­
self  and  earned  his  own  living,  and  the 
gray heads  of  the  homestead were doubt­
ful what  the  outcome  would  be  when  the 
boys  were  ready  to  come  back  to  the 
ancestral  abode.

That  there  could  be  a  breaking  away 
from  the  old  home  ties  never  dawned 
upon  them,  or  if  tbe thought  presented 
itself  it  was  soon  disposed  of. 
“ Young 
folks  would  be  young 
folks.”   The 
country  “ out  there"  was  wild  and  the 
new  home-makers  would,  naturally 
enough,- take  on  the  nature  of  the  coun­
try.  Relapsing  into  barbarism  was  easy 
and  human;  but  the  boys  would  come 
out  all  right.  Physical need  first  and  re­
finement  afterwards.  The  first  was  al­
ready  provided  for  and  the  last  would 
come  in  time.  The  West  was  big  and 
the  productions  must  be 
in  harmony 
with  it—big  crops,  big fruit,  big  men— 
and  of  course  it  required  big  talk  to tell 
about  them. 
It  was  the  old  spirit  un­
der  new  conditions,  but  the  old  spirit 
I still.  It  would  be  satisfied  with  the  new

itself 

for  a  while,  but  tbe  old  idea  of  qualrt\ 
would  assert 
in  due  time.  The 
Rhode  Island  greening  might  grow  to 
tbe  size  of  tbe  pumpkin,  but  size  would 
never  make  up  for  tbe flavor  of the New 
England  apple;  and  trust  a  New  Eng­
lander  to  the  third  and fourth generation 
for  remaining  true  to his  inborn 
liking 
for  tbe  pumpkin  pie  made  from  the 
plant  that  fattens  and  brightens 
in  the 
New  England  cornfields.  Yes,  the  old 
and 
its  enduring  virtues  would  prevail 
and,  while the  boys  and  girls  were  pros­
pering  ont  there  somewhere,  the  old 
folks  at  home  would  still  be  tbe  prime 
movers  of  thought  and  influence  in  tbe 
real  work  of  the  world.

In  the  meantime  the  boys  and  girls 
have  been  having  a  few  ideas  of  their 
own.  Now  that  they  know  of  a  certainty 
that  their  country 
is  in  every  way  the 
biggest  thing  on  earth,  they  have  de­
cided  that 
it  also  shall  be  tbe  best. 
Hampered  by  the  old-time  methods  that 
prevail  in  tbe  superannuated  East,  the 
young  wide-awake  West  has  become 
tired  and  disgusted  in  seeing  opportu­
nity  after  opportunity for bettering  him­
self  drift  by  unimproved.  The  self- 
reliance  born  and  bred  in  him  has  as­
serted  itself  and,  rising  in  tbe  strength 
and  confidence  of  bis  fresh-lipped  man­
hood,  he has  determined  upon  “ going 
it  alone.’ ’

Success  with  him  depended  upon  his 
ability  to  adapt  himself  to  tbe  new 
circumstances 
in  which  he  found  him­
self.  He  wandered  into  tbe timber  lands 
of  Michigan  and  when  the  woods 
laughed  at  him  and  bis  ax,  be  startled 
tbe  silence  of  the  forest  primeval  with 
the  bum  of  the  circular  saw.  He  stood 
scythe  in  hand  before  the  waving  seas 
of  grass  and  grain  and,  throwing  down 
tbe  implement  of  bis  fathers,  rode  like 
Neptune  in  his  chariot  over  the  waves, 
and  garnered  with  tbe  whirl  of  his 
chariot  wheels  the  harvests  of  hay  and 
corn.  For a  time  he,  too,  believed that 
the  old  home  should  furnish  the  thought 
and  exert  the  influence;  but  when  the 
Western  bands  were  found  too  swift  for 
the  Eastern  brain  there  was  but  one 
thing  to  be  done  and  he  did  it: 
In 
Western  parlance,  be  dealt  tbe  cards 
himself  and,  without  looking  at  bis 
hand  or  bis  partner,  “ ordered  it  up  and 
played  it  alone.”   He  has  done  it  ever 
since.  He  has  been  beaten  sometimes, 
he  will  be,  doubtless,  again,  but  be­
tween  times  the  indomitable  spirit  of 
the  West  has  settled  the  continent  with 
a  new  race  of  men,  has  peopled  it  with 
new  ideas  and  new  methods,  has  wid­
ened  its boundaries  and,  placing 
itself 
at  the  bead  of  tbe  column  in  the  march 
of  civilization,  has  so  infused  its  own 
life 
into  bugle-blare  and  drum-beat 
that  the  nations  of  the  earth  in  the 
grand  procession  behind  it  are  keeping 
time  with  foot-beat  and  heart-throb  to 
the  grandest  music  which  tbe  world  has 
ever  known.

A  Boston  electrician,  while  examin­
ing  a  pipe  manufacturing  plant  in  To­
ledo,  made  the  prediction  that  within 
seven  years  glass  will  be  tbe  material 
in  making  all  underground 
employed 
pipes  that  are  compelled  to 
sustain 
heavy  pressure.  He  gives  as  bis  leason 
that  in  that  time  electrolytic  action  on 
iron  piping  will  have  proved  so  injuri­
ous  as  to  necessitate  the  using  of  tube*, 
composed  of  some  substance which elec­
tric  currents  can  not  corrode.

In  view  of  recent  railway  accidents 
the  French  minister  of  public  works 
has  decreed  that  all  trains  must  carry 
requisites  for  prompt  surgical  aid  to 
tbe  injured.

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WHERE  SOCIALISM  FAILS.

There  are  many  people  who  adopt 
communistic  ideas  in  a  theoretical  way 
who have  no  notion  of  patting  them 
in 
practice,  and  have  no  rational  concep­
tion  of  how  people  live  in  a  socialistic 
state.

“ Socialism”   means,  in general terms, 
everything  for  the good  of  society,  and 
nothing  for  individuals,  save an  equal 
share out  of  the  common  store.  There 
have been  many  socialistic  experiments 
in  the  United  States,  but  they  have  all 
failed,  either  for 
lack  of  governing 
power,  or  because  the  idea  of  self-ad­
vancement  was too  deeply  imbedded  in 
human  nature  to  enable  any  consider­
able  number  of  people  to  give  up  all 
they  possessed  for  the  common  good.

The  most  successful  socialistic  or 
communistic  organization  which  ever 
existed  in  the United  States,  and  there 
have  been  many  hundreds  of  such  ex­
periments  here,  was  the  Oneida  Com­
munity,  conducted  for  many  years 
in 
New  York  State  by  Dr.  J.  H.  Noyes. 
His  settlement  at  Oneida  was  estab­
It  was a  complete  com­
lished  in  1848. 
munity,  and  everything 
in  the  way  of 
property  was  held  in  common,  as  were 
also  the  relations  of  the  sexes.  Off­
spring  were  held  to be  the  children  of 
the  community  and  were  taken  away 
from  the  mothers  at  birth  and  raised  in 
a  common  nursery,  so  that  they  never 
Knew their  parents,and the parents never 
knew  their children.  There  was  perfect 
social  equality  among  all  the  inmates 
with  the  exception  of  Dr.  Noyes,  the 
founder,  who  ruled  his  people  with  a 
rod  of  iron  and  exercised  absolute  con­
trol.  The  greatest  number of  members 
the community  ever had  was  235.  Per­
sons  could 
join  or quit at  pleasure  by 
submitting  to  certain  conditions.

For thirty  years  Dr.  Noyes,  who  was 
highly  educated,  successfully  kept  his 
people  together,  and  they  prospered 
financially  under  his  management.  F i­
nally  the  law  interfered  with his  system 
of  complex  marriage,  as  it  was  called, 
and  his  settlement  was  broken  up. 
There  has  never  been  another  com­
munistic  experiment  at  all  successful, 
because  real  socialism  admits  of no gov­
ernment,  and  without  some  governing 
force  most  of  the  members  will  refuse 
to  work  and  demand  to  be  supported  by 
the  labor  of  those  who  will  work.

The persistent idleness of communists, 
or  extreme  socialists,  is  seen  in  an 
in­
teresting  description  of  a  socialistic 
settlement  or  colony  at  Shepscombe,  in 
England.  The  matter  is  published  in 
the  London  Humanitarian  for  August. 
Among  this gathering  of  seventeen  peo­
ple  were,  at  the  time of the  writing,  a 
Doctor  of  Philosophy  of  Leipzig  Uni­
versity,  a  Fellow  of  the  Chemical  So­
ciety,  and  a  Lecturer at  the  Royal  Col­
lege  of  Science.  Several  of  the  other 
colonists  were  educated  persons,  and the 
others  were  ordinary  peasants;  but  no­
body  exercised  any  authority  among 
them.  They  own  40  acres  of  land,  on 
which  they  live. 
The  methods  and 
manners  of  the  colonists  are  thus  de­
scribed :

conventional 

Dress  at  the  communal  colony  at 
Shepscombe  is  reduced  to  the  smallest 
amount  prescribed  by  decency,  not  to 
mention 
requirements. 
The  men,  for  the  most  part,  wore  sim­
ply  a  shirt,  open  at  the  neck,  and 
knickerbockers  or  linen  trousers,  with 
sandals  on  their  feet;  bare  arms and 
legs  were the  order of  the  day, but as  on 
this  particular occasion  the  colony  was 
haymaking,  it  is  possible their  gala  at­
tire may  be somewhat  more elaborate.

The  women  had  also bare arms  and 
in  very  short

feet,  and  were  dressed 

rational  dress 

pinafore  dresses,  open  at  the  neck,  and 
sunbonnets;  but 
is 
adopted  by  them  on  more  ceremonial 
occasions.  One  or  two  had  short  hair, 
in 
one  wore  her  hair  curled  and  coiled 
the  present  fasbioh  of  the  day,  and 
two 
wore their hair  in  a  pigtail,  and  clothed 
in  butcher’s-blue  pinafores,  looked  very 
like  Chinese  women.

They  have  no  laws,  no  rules;  they 
disapprove  of  all  law;  each  one  is  to be 
a  law  to  bimself,  and  they  trust  that 
their  principle  of  good  will  to  men  will 
keep  them  right.  They  hold  that  fear 
of  their  fellow-man  is  the  root  of  all  the 
evil 
in  the  world,  therefore  they  dis­
approve  of  all  that 
implies  fear—the 
army,  the  navy,  the  police,  the  law,  the 
government,  all  rule  by  fear,  not  by 
love;  therefore  this  little  band  of  fanat­
ical  enthusiasts  disapprove  of  them. 
Love,  they  say,  should  govern  the  world 
and  everyone  in  it ;  but  they  ignore  one 
side  of  love  entirely— its  severity;  their 
very  doctrine  of  love  is  based  on  a  mis­
conception  of  what  the  truest  and  best 
love  is.

In  accordance  with  these  views  they 
reject  all  marriage ceremonies,  religious 
or  legal;  love 
is  the  only  bond  which, 
according  to  them,  can  or  should  bind 
man  and  woman  together;  and at Sheps­
combe  there  are  two  couples  living  to­
gether  in  this  fashion.  One  woman  has 
assumed  the  name  of  the  man  with 
whom  she 
is  livin g;  the  other  has  not 
done  so,  preferring,  as  she  says,  to  re­
main  herself.
They  are  not  quite  agreed  as  to  what 
course  is  to  be  pursued  if  the 
love  be­
tween  a  man  and  woman  thus  joined  to­
gether ceased,  or  if  either  were unfaith­
ful  to  the  other;  the  prevailing  opinion 
seemed  to  be  that  both  were  free  to  do 
exactly  as  they  pleased,  to  take  another 
wife  or  husband 
if  it  seemed  good  to 
them  to  do  so,  but  all  held  that  when 
love  ceased  the  union  should  cease  also.
They  consider  woman  to  have  equal 
rights  with  man,  and  to  be  his  equal  in, 
all  things;  some of  the  men  hold  that 
woman  is  superior  to  man,  being  of  a 
more  highly-organized  nature.

They  carry  their  refusal  to  recognize 
any  law  or authority  so  far as  to  think 
it  wrong  for  a  parent  to  command  a 
child,  and  still  more  wrong  to  punish 
it  if  it  refused  to  obey;  the  child,  ac­
cording  to  their  doctrine,  has  just  as 
much  right  to  command  its  parent.  The 
children  receive  no  moral  teaching  of 
any  kind;  they  are  to  learn  by  experi­
ence  and  example;  if  they  love  their 
parents,  these  enthusiasts 
think  they 
will  imitate  them  without  any  coercion 
of  any  sort. 
If  a  child  were  in  danger 
of  being  burnt  or  drowned,  they  would 
rescue  him,  but  they  would  not  tell  him 
not  to  play  with  fire  or  go  too  near  the 
river  again,  still  less  would  they  punish 
him 
if  he  did  so,  as  this  would  be 
against  their  perverted  notions  of  the 
law  of  love.
They  consider  it  wrong  to  take  life, 
even  the  life  of  a  beetle;  but  their 
limits  on  this  point  are  reached  when  it 
is  not  repugnant  to  the  feelings  of  the 
individual  to  kill  the  wasp  or 
the 
mosquito.  '  They  would  not  destroy  the 
rabbits  on  their  farm,  although 
they 
ravaged  all  their  crops.  Holding  this 
doctrine,  they  are  perforce  vegetarians.
It  is  evident  that  only  small  numbers 
of  persons  can  be  found  who  will  sub­
mit  to  live  in  such  a  manner,  and  nec­
essarily  they  are  people  of  like  disposi­
tions.  Unless  they  are  governed  by 
some authoritative and  strong  will,  it  is 
plain  that  they  must  soon  fall 
into  ab­
ject  destitution. 
In  the  case  above 
mentioned,  it  was  stated  that  their  col­
ony  had  only  passed  through  one  winter 
and  the  stock  of  money  was  running 
low. 
It  is a  part  of  the  creed  of  the 
colonists  to  work,  but  they  do  as  little 
of  it as  possible,  and  enjoy  taking  their 
ease.  The  writer of  the  above  proph­
esied  that  the  colony  must  soon  come  to 
an  end  for the  lack  of  means  to  subsist 
on.

Communism 

in  any  general  sense  is 
abhorent  to human  nature.  Man  wants 
his  own,  be  it  much  or  little,  entirely

above  the  claims  or  the  interference  of 
others. 
If he be  industrious  and  enter­
prising,  he  will  refuse  to  support  with 
the  proceeds  of  his  labor  the  idle  and 
the  vicious,  and he can  see  no  justice  in 
a  rule  which  places  all  men on an equal­
ity  of  social  and  property  rights  so that 
any  may  claim  positions  and  wealth 
which  they have  not earned.  According 
to  democratic  principles,all the  equality 
to  which  human  beings  are  entitled 
is 
to  have  an  opportunity  to  do  the  best 
and  earn  the  most  with  such  talents  or 
abilities  as  they  may  have,  and  then  to 
enjoy  undisturbed  the  results  of  their 
honest  and  proper  exertions.  No  other 
equality 
is  possible  in  human  affairs, 
and  any  confiscation  and  division  of 
property  for  the  benefit  of  tbe*idle,  the 
profligate and  the  vicious  classes  would 
be  an  outrageous 
injustice  upon  those 
who,  by  their  honest  labor,  their  frugal 
living  and  theii  well-directed  intelli­
gence  have accumulated  wealth  and  se­
cured  the  means  of  comfortable  living. 
Of  course,  property  must  pay  taxes 
in 
due  proportion  to 
its  value;  but  any 
proposed  confiscation  and  division  is  so 
repugnant  ta  human  nature  that  it  can 
never  be  accomplished.

THE  UNIVERSAL  LANGUAGE.
Philosophers  have  spent  no  little  time 
in  speculating  upon  what may have been 
the  universal  language  which  it  is  sup­
posed  was  in  the beginning  known  and 
used  by  all  members  of  the human race, 
and 
later  times  philosophers  have 
spent,  with  equal  profit,  more  or  less 
time  in  attempting  to  invent a universal 
language  to  be  taken  up  and  learned  by 
all  the  people  in  the  world.

in 

The  idea  of  constructing  and 

invent­
ing  a  language  for  universal use is prob­
ably  one  of  the  most  ridiculous that ever 
entered  the  human  mind.  Volapuk  was 
such  an  attempt.  Being  known  only  to 
one  person  in  the  entire  world,  the  man 
who  cobbled 
it  together,  Volapuk  was 
presented  td  the  human  race  with  the 
declaration  that  if  every  member  of  the 
learn  it,  then  it 
human  family  would 
would  be  a  universal 
language;  but 
since  no  other  inducement  was  offered 
to  learners,  beyond  few  persons  who 
took 
it  up  as  a  fad  Volapuk  fell  into 
utter  neglect  and  obscurity.

In  order to  induce  people  to  learn any 
language  other  than  the  mother  tongue, 
there  must  be  some attractive object  in 
view.  Such  an  object  is  the  conduct  of 
commerce,  or  the  desire  to  know  the 
history  and  literature  locked  up  in  un­
known  tongues,  and  to  facilitate  the 
conveniences  and  pleasures  of  foreign 
travel.  Commerce,  however,  has  more 
than  any  other  cause  to  do  with  pro­
moting  the  study  of  languages.  The 
people  who  have  done  most  to  extend 
theii  commerce  and  to establish colonies 
in  various  parts  of  the  world  are  neces 
sarily  foremost  in  carrying  their  lan­
guage  to  the  largest  numbers  of  people.
England  did  not  become  much  of  a 
commercial  nation  until the Seventeenth 
Century.  At  the  rate  of 
increase  of 
England’s  commerce  and  colonies  from 
that  period,  it 
is  estimated  that  at  the 
end  of  the  Twentieth  Century  one-half 
the  people  in  the  world  will  be  speak­
ing  English,  and,  at  that  rate,  not many 
centuries  will  elapse before  it  will  be­
come  the  universal  language.

The  American  Agriculturist has  gath­
ered  and  compiled  statistics  which show 
that  of  52,000  students  in  nearly  200 
colleges  and  universities  in  this  coun­
try,  nearly  21,000 are  from  the  agricul­
tural  classes.  The  farmer’s  boy  still  has 
a thirst  for  education.

0

LATIN  AMERICAN  ALLIANCE. 
There  have  been  many  reports  recent­
ly  of  a  proposed  alliance  of  all  the 
South  American  and  Central  American 
republics  for  self-protection  against  the 
possible  encroachments  of  the  United 
States.  Although  some  South American 
diplomats  have  declared  that no alliance 
was  in  prospect  unfriendly  to  this  coun­
try,  the  story  is  corroborated  from  too 
many 
sources  not  to  possess  some 
crumbs  of  truth.  The  visit  of  the Pres­
ident  of  Argentina  to  Brazil,  and  the 
great  demonstration  which  has  accom­
panied  that  visit,  has tended  to  confirm 
the  rumors  of  an  alliance,  and  those  of 
our  public  men  who  are  disposed  to 
treat  the  matter  lightly  bad  better  give 
the  subject  closer  attention,  as  events 
may  eventually  so  shape  themselves  as 
to  render  necessary  some  official  notice, 
bn  the  part of  our  Government,  of  these 
rumors.

It 

threatened 

is  claimed  that  the  objects of  the 
proposed  alliance  are  to  secure  co-oper­
ation  among  the  Latin  American  coun­
tries  in  resisting  attempts of  the  United 
States  to  acquire  additional  possessions 
on  the  American  continent.  The  ab­
sorption  of  Cuba  and  Puerto  Rico  and 
the 
interference  in  Santo 
Domingo  have  frightened  the  Latin 
American  States,  and  each  has  come  to 
realize  that  were  the  Great  Republic  to 
attack 
it  would  be  powerless 
to  resist;  whereas,  united,  Latin  Amer­
ica  might  make  any  attempts  of  ours  in 
the  way  of  territorial  expansion  at  its 
expense  too  costly  and  hazardous  to 
warrant  the  risk.

it  singly 

Our  Latin  American  friends  cannot, 
of  course,  be  expected  to  know  that  we 
are  already  finding  the  territories  we 
have  taken  from  Spain  something  of  a 
white  elephant.  They  see  only  that  we 
have  suddenly  absorbed  rich  and  valu­
able  territories both  in  the  West  Indies 
and  in  the  Far  East  and  they  naturally 
fear  that,  like  other  powerful  nations, 
the  acquisition  of  new territory will only 
whet  our appetite  for more.  Their alarm 
and  resentment  are,  therefore,  natural, 
and  there  are  only  too  much  logic  and 
justice  in  their  effecting  a  combination 
such  as 
is  reported  to  permit  sensible 
people  to  doubt  that  they  entertain  such 
an  idea.

It  should  be  remembered 

that  the 
Latin  American  countries  have  always 
regarded  the  United  States  with  suspi­
cion  and  our  people  with  ill-concealed 
aversion.  We  are  not  popular  with 
them,  and  our  oft-asserted  right  to 
in­
tervene 
is  anything 
but  relished.  Seeing  us  absorb  Cuba 
and  Puerto  Rico,  and  hearing  frequent 
suggestions  made  that  we  should  absorb 
this  or  that  Central  American  State,  it 
is  natural  that  all  of  the Latin American 
countries  should  regard  us  with  serious 
suspicion.

in  their  disputes 

John  D.  Rockefeller,  in  recently  de­
clining  to  aid  personally  in  erasing  the 
debt  of  a  Western  church,  said  to  the 
applicant:  “ I  cannot  oblige  you  be­
cause  I  have  had  no  opportunity  to  ex­
amine  a  report  of  your  financial  condi­
tion,  and  I  never  contribute  under  any 
other circumstances.  You  had  best  ap­
ply  to  the  mission  people for assistance. 
Last 
I  contributed  $1,000,000 
through  the  mission  officials  because  I 
felt  sure  that  they  knew  the  needs  and 
could  distribute 
I  might 
make  a  mistake. ”

it  wisely. 

year 

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

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Getting  the  People

Advantage  of  Plain  Speaking  in  Writ­

ing  Advertisements.

intended 

I  have  been  asked  to  criticise  the  ad­
vertisements  of  the  Tappan  Shoe  Man­
ufacturing  Co.  which  are  appearing 
each  week  in  this  paper— a  task,  by  the 
way,  which 
is  necessarily  rather deli­
cate.  There  is  only  one  criticism  which 
occurs  to  me,  after  a  careful  study  of 
the  three  advertisements which have  ap­
peared—the  writer  appears  to  strain  too 
much  after  effect. 
In  other  words,  he 
seems  to  have  given  too  much  attention 
to  unique  twists  of  the English language 
and  too  little  to  the  real  message his ad­
vertisements  are 
to  bear  to 
their readers.  Word-juggling  does  not 
pay. 
It  is  a  survival  of  the  time  when 
the  country  was  flooded  with  so-called 
doctors  of  advertising,  makers  of  pub­
licity,  adologists,  and  other  weirdly- 
named 
individuals,  who  were  attracted 
to  the  field  by  the  success achieved  by  a 
few  legitimate  and  clever  writers  of ad­
vertising.  Luckily  for  the  country 
in 
general,  these  fakirs—I  know of no other 
name  so  appropriate—have  nearly  dis­
appeared,  as  have 
fallacious 
theories  on  advertising.  The  men  who 
survive  to-day  are  those  who realize that 
adveitising  does  not  consist 
in  catchy 
phrases  and  idiotic  pictures,  but  in  an 
honest,  earnest,  straightforward  recital 
of  the  merits of  the  goods  they  desire  to 
sell.

their 

The  Tappan  advertisements  are  far 
above  the  general  run  of  wholesale  shoe 
advertisements.  If  their  writer  will  pay 
a  little  more attention  to  making  them 
forcible,  and  a  little  less  to  their  dic­
tion,  they  should  go  up  several  notches 
further.

*  *  *

When  a  salesman  with  a  line  of  shoes 
comes  into  a  store,  he  does  not  sit  down

COMMON  PEOPLE

Common  people run  the earth.  They 
form the bulwark  of  society, of  gov­
ernment,  of  business.  They  have 
common  needs,  and  common  ob­
stacles  which  they  must  overcome 
with common  sense.  Common  peo­
ple with common sense are  the  kind 
we want to meet because they realize 
the  blessing  of  good  eyesight,  and 
the 
importance  of  taking  proper 
care of their  eyes.

A.  D.  OLIVER,

JEWELER, 

OPTICIAN.

No. 2

Look  out  for 
Your  Eyes

If  you  go  on  allowing  your 
eyes to  smart,  ache,  itch  or  bum, 
you  may  never  be  able  to  make 
them  strong  again.  Nor  can  I. 
DON’T procrastinate.  Any irrita­
tion  about  the  eyes  means  some­
thing.  Come  to  me  and  find  the 
cause. 
If  it’s  glasses  you  need, 
I’ll tell you so and  prove it.  Con­
sultation and eyes t ?sted free.

C.  W OLFE

HOWARD CITY, MICH.

and  talk  to  the  proprietor  about  the 
Dreyfus  case  or  the  Philippine  troubles 
as  an  introduction  to  his  line  of  goods. 
Not  if  the  bouse  catches  him  at  it.  No, 
he  starts  right 
in  and  talks  shoes,  and 
nothing  but  shoes,  until  be  gets  the  or­
der.

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

Some  advertisers  forget that  an  adver­
tisement 
is  only  a  salesman  and  start 
out  with  an  entirely  different  subject 
from  their  real  preachment,  which  they 
do  not  introduce  until  near  the  end  of 
the  advertisement.  Sample  No.  i  is  a 
case  in  point.  At  first  sight  it  appears 
like  a  feeble  attempt  to  play  on  the 
word  * * common, ’ ’  and  the  true  nature 
of  the  advertisement  is  never  indicated 
until  the 
lines  are  reached. 
ComDare  it,  for  strength,  with  the  ad­
vertisement  of  C.  Wolfe  (No.  2.)  Mr. 
Wolfe's  advertisement  talks  business 
from  the  word  go.  Every 
line  carries 
conviction  with  it.  The  whole  adver­
tisement  is  impressive.  Its  reader  feels 
that  Mr.  Wolfe  knows  his  business—and 
that  is  the  greater  pait  of  the  battle.

last  few 

Direct  methods  always  pay 

in  ad­
vertising,  as  in  every other line  of work. 

*  *  *

A  very  good  furniture  advertisement 
is  Sample  No.  3.  Nothing  fancy  about

Rocking  Chairs

No. 3

By actual count we  show  t36 styles, from 
the humble 98  cent  sewing  chair  to  the 
aristocratic  mahogany  rocker  at  $15.00. 
In between  those prices  are  any  number 
at from $3.00 to $6.00.

It matters  not  what  style  your  fancy 
desires—we  have  it;  rockers  of  rattan, 
oak, birch,  elm,  mahogany;  with  wood, 
leather,  or  cane  seat;  or  with  damask, 
brocatelle or plush seat.

All goods are plainly marked.
Your credit is good with us.
PEOPLE’S OUTFITTING CO.,

215*221 N. BURDICK ST.

flowery 

is—no 
language,  no  “ cute’ 
phrases—just  a plain statement  of a mat 
interest  to  buyers  of  furniture. 
ter  of 
Probably 
it  might  have  been  improved 
by  a  detailed  description  of  one  partic 
ular  rocker,  with 
its  price,  but  other 
wise,  as  far as  style and  general  effect 
are  concerned,  it  is  uncommonly  good.

♦   *  4c

The  mail  has  been  extremely  light 
this  week—no  requests  for  criticism  at 
all.  Please  don’t  let  it occur  again.

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

There  are  two  bad  things  about  ciga 
rette  smoking :  fiirst,  the  cigarette  and, 
second,  the  fellow  who  smokes  it.

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W e  Guarantee 

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Our brand of Vinegar to be an A BSO LU TELY  PURE  APPLE-  j® 
JUICE  VINEGAR.  To any person who will analyze it and  find  jo 
any deleterious acids or anything that  is  not  produced  from  the  C 
j®
apple, we will forfeit 
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We also guarantee it to be  of  not  less  than  40  grains strength,  g  
We will prosecute any person found using our packages for cider  >0 
or vinegarwithout first removing all traces of our brands therefrom.  £
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Robinson Cider and  Vinegar Co.,  Beaton Harbor, Mich. 

ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS 

J  ROBINSON,  flanager. 

This is the guarantee we give with every barrel of our  vinegar.  Do  you  know  of any  other  C  
manufacturer who has sufficient confidence in his output to stand back  of  his  product  with  a  C  
similar guarantee? 
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ROBINSON  CIDER  A N D   V IN E G A R   CO. 

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ON  TH E  RAGGED  ED G E O F TH E  LAW?

No, the law does not trouble us; 
neither will  it  trouble  you,  Mr. 
Grocer,  if you buy Silver Brand 
Cider  Vinegar.  There  are  no 
better goods  made  than  these.

Sweet cider,  prepared  to  keep 
sweet,  furnished  October 
to 
March inclusive.
A  strictly  first-class  article;  no 
trouble from fermentation,burst­
ing of barrels or loss by becom­
ing sour.

G E N E S E E   F R U I T   C O .

LANSING. MICH.

¡fl.  M.  Reynolds  &  Son,

Manufacturers  of

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

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

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PURVEYORS  BY  APPOINTMENT

MUSTARD  MANUFACTURERS 

by  Special  W arrant

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

To  Her  Majefty  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  H o n o r a b le   M r.  Justice  M eredith  on  the  2nd  day  of  June,  1898,  directed  that  a  Judgm ent  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  TAK E  NOTICE 
that  by  the  said  Judgment  the  said  Defendants  were  enjoined  to  destroy  or  deliver  up  to  the  Plaintiffs  all  labels,  wrappers, 

blocks,  dies,  or  plates  which  offend  against  the  said  injunction;  and  to  pay  certain  damages  therein  fixed  together  with  the

costs  of  the  action.

CAUTION.

Similar  goods  to  .hose  manufactured  by  J.  & J.  Colman,  Limited,  of  .08  Cannon  Street,  London  (England),  occa­

sionally  make  their  appearance  on  the  market,  displaying  a  Trade  Mark  liable  .0  be  confounded  by  the  Publ.c  w.th  then 

„ell  known  Trade  Mark  of  a  Bull’s  Head  and  also closely  resembling  J.  &  j.  Column's  goods  in  ge,  up,  presumably  mth 

the  intention  to  deceive  the  buyer  and  consumer. 

Such  goods  are  generally  of  an  inferior  quahty.  J.  &  J.  Colman  L.m- 

ited,  would  be  grateful  to  members  of  the  trade  having  any  goods  brought  to  their  notice  wh.ch  appear  to  them  tn  r.nge- 

ments  on  J.  &  J.  Colman’s  rights  if  they  would  at  once  communicate  with  them.  Traders  may  rely  upon  their  communt-

cations  being  treated  in  the  strictest  confidence.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

Fruits  and  Produce.
Observations  By  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
“ Accidents  sometimes  happen  in  the 
best  regulated  families, ”   but  they  are 
more  likely  to  happen  from  careless­
ness,  and  there are  few  which  may  not 
be  prevented  by  a  reasonable  amount  of 
forethought.  I  noticed  a  lot  of  eggs  last- 
week  which  were  seriously  injured  by 
somebody’s  blunder.  They  were  from  a 
straight  carload  of  Southwestern  goods 
and  a  large  number  of  the  cases  were 
soaked  with  water.  Enquiry  revealed 
the  fact  that  the  waste  outlet  of  the  re­
frigerator  car  had  been  allowed  to  be­
come  clogged  and  as  a  result  the  car 
gradually  turned 
into  a  kind  of  tank 
with  four  or  five  inches of  water on  the 
floor,  in  which  the  eggs  sat  and  soaked. 
Naturally  the  fillers  became  weak  and 
could  not  properly  bear  the  weight  of 
the  eggs,  leading  to  breakage and  gen­
erally  bad  condition.  The 
in
selling  value  was  considerable.

injury 

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Speaking  of  wet  eggs,  I  learned  that 
the  same  trouble  had  been  experienced 
to  a  less  degree  in many instances where 
eggs  bad  been  shipped  in  the  same  cars 
with 
iced  poultry,  the  water  from  the 
melting  ice  wetting  the  floor  so much-as 
to  injure the  eggs  materially. 
It  seems 
as  if  the  dampness  of  a  car  containing 
barrels  of  iced  poultry  was  likely  to  be 
damaging  to the  quality  of  eggs  in  any 
event,  and  where  shipments are made in 
this  way  as  a  saving  of  freight care 
should  be  taken  to  load  so  that  the  eggs
shall  not  be  reached  by  the  melted 
ice.

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Now  that  we are  getting  to  the  period 
when  dealers  will  probably  be  using 
more  or  less  refrigerator stock  to  piece 
out  the  shortage  in  fine  fresh  gathered 
eggs,  interest 
is  shown  in  ascertaining 
the  best  method  of  handling  these goods 
so  that  they  shall  give  as  good  satisfac­
tion  as  possible. 
It  would  seem  alto­
gether  possible  for  a  refrigerator  bouse 
to  provide  facilities  by  which  the  tem­
perature  of  eggs  intended  to  be  taken 
from  the  cold  rooms  could  be  raised 
above  the  dew  point  of the  outer air be­
fore delivery,  the  goods  being  kept  dur­
ing  the  raise  of-temperature  under  con­
ditions  which  would  pi event  condensa­
tion  on  the  shells.  This  would  undoubt­
edly  make  refrigerator  eggs  more  valu­
able,  more  lasting  in  quality  and  more 
generally  serviceable  during  the  warm 
weather  of  late  summer and  early  fall. 
But  this  is  one  of  the  improvements  of 
the  future.  At  present  dealers  are 
obliged  to  take  the  goods  out  and  let! 
them  “ sweat”   until  they  reach  a  tem­
perature  high  enough  to  permit  them  to 
dry  off.  This  makes  the  stock  tender 
and  subject  to  quite  rapid  deterioration 
so  that  satisfactory  outlets  can  be  found 
only  in  channels  where  the  eggs  can  be 
put  very  promptly  into  consumption. 
Last  year,  when 
ice  house  eggs  were 
being  used  quite  freely  during  the  sum­
mer  dealers  bad  pretty  good  success 
with  them  by  carefully  discriminating 
as  to the  class  of  trade  which  could  best 
use  the  held  stock  and  by  taking  out  in 
small  lots—no  more  at  once  than  could 
be  used  in  a  day.  The  dealers  as  a  rule 
have  found  it  best  to  let  the goods warm 
up  in  the  original  cases,  which  usually 
requires  two  days.  Some  practice  cov­
ering the  pile  of  cases  with  a  tarpaulin, 
but  as  a  rule  dealers  claim  better results 
by  leaving  the  cases  uncovered  and  per­
mitting  as  much  circulation  of  air as 
possible;  this causes more condensation, 
but  the  goods  warm  up  and  dry  off 
quicker.

A  receiver  called  my attention  to an 
unusually  nice  example of  egg  packing 
last  week.  The  cases  and  fillers  were 
new,  strong  and  well  made to  fit  each 
other  snugly  so  that  there  could  be  no 
shifting  of  the  contents;  not  only  were 
there  cardboard  flats  above  the  top  and 
below  the  bottom  layers,  but  the  excel 
sior  packing  was  enclosed  between 
rather  thick  and  strong  paper,  the  in 
lention  of  which  was  said  to be to  keep 
the  fragments of  the  excelsior  from  sift 
ing  down  onto  the  eggs  when  the  cases 
were  opened  for  examination.  Probably 
the  use  of  paper 
in  addition  to  the 
proper  flats  is  not  to  be  recommended 
as  a  necessity,  but  these  goods  certainly 
were 
in  the  general  appear 
ance  by  the  care  which  had  been  used 
in  packing  them.

improved 

*  *  *

A  receiver  showed  me  a  lot  of  North 
western  candled  eggs  last  week  which 
attracted  attention  by  their careful  se 
lection  and  generally fine quality.  These 
goods  were  being  taken  at  the  top  mar 
ket  price  at  mark.  The  packing,  how 
ever,  showed  a  defect  which 
is  quite 
common  and  although  in  this  instance 
it  had  resulted  in  no  material  injury  it 
is  a  defect  which  might  often  cause 
more breakage  than necessary and which 
can  always  be avoided.  The  fillers  did 
not  properly  fit  the  cases,  being  about 
inch  short  of  the  space  to be 
filled ;  theu  there  was  so  little  packing 
(cork  or  excelsior)  over  the  top  that  the 
covers  did  not  draw  down  snugly  and 
between  these  two  faults  the  contents  of 
the  cases  would  shift.  Had  there  been 
even  ordinarily  rough  handling  of  stock 
in  this  way  the breakage  must 
packed 
have  been  increased. 
It  is  best  to have 
the fillers  fit  snugly,  but  if  they  do  not 
a  little  packing  should  be  used  on  the 
sides  to  prevent  shifting  and  enough ex­
celsior  should  always  be  placed  over the 
flats  to  make  the  cover  of  the  case  bear 
firmly  upon  the  contents. — N.  Y.  Prod­
uce  Review.

Wasn’t  Much  of a  Hog.

A  bluff  old  farmer  with  a  loud  voice 
recently  boarded  an  F.  &  P.  M.  train at 
Manistee  and  walked  down  the  aisle 
looking  for  a  friendly  face  or a  kindly 
eye,  but  not  seeing  any  he  asked  E.  E. 
Wooley  to  move  over  and  give him  a 
seat.  Mr.  Wooley  did  so,  but  with  a 
manner that  indicated  that  the  old  man 
was  anything  but  welcome.  The  old 
farmer  wanted  to  talk,  and  tried 
in 
every  way  to  engage  his  seatmate  in 
conversation,but Mr.  Wooley  would have 
none  of  it.  He  turned  his  shoulder  to 
the  farmer  and  gazed  out  of  the  window 
with  a  bored  expression  on  bis  face. 
The old  farmer  was  determined  to  draw 
him  out,  and  after  several  ineffectual 
efforts  raised  his  voice  loud  enough  to 
be  beard  all  over  the  car and  said :

“ I  killed  a  hog  yesterday  for  my 
winter's  meat.  How  much  d’ye  think 
be  weighed?”

Mr.  Wooley  looked  worse  bored  than 
ever,  but  finally  said,  “ I  don’t  know 
anything  about hogs.”

“ Oh,  well,  you  might  make  a guess.”  
“ Well,  say  three  hundred.”
“ No,  he  didn’t  weigh  that  mnch. 

Guess  again. ”

“ Well,  I ’ll  say  two  hundred."
“ Too  high.  He  wasn’t  as  heavy  as 

that.  Make another gness. ’ ’

“ I‘m  not  good  at  guessing.  How 

much  did  be  weigh,  anyhow?”

“ Well,  you  have had two guesses.  But 
you  see he  wasn't  mnch  of  a  bog  and  I 
didn’t  weigh  him ."

Soap  Sense.

“ Yes,”   said  the  visitor,  “ I  brought 
one  cake  of  soap  with  me  when  1  came 
to  stay  with  Grace,  and  I  told  her  I  was 
going  to  leave  when  the  soap  was  gone. 
And  what  do  you  think?—the  other  day 
I  caught  Grace  using that  soap.”

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good table  Butter and am prepared to pay  the  highest 
market price for same.  Quotations on application.

I  solicit  consignments  of  Honey,  Veal  and  Live 

Poultry and pay top prices for best stock.
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For the past five years we have shipped  Butter to  the  resort  towns 
of Northern  Michigan, and  Eggs to the New England States.
In addition  to those markets we have a growing  local  demand  for 
extra goods at extra prices.  We want to arrange with  a  few  more 
customers for regular shipments  of  fine,  fresh  stock  at  a  stated 
price on track. 
It will cost you only a cent to tell us what you  are 
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TIMOTHY

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News  and  Gossip  Among  the  Com­

mission  Merchants.

Poor  parchment  paper  is  often  nsed 
in  connection  with  elm  tubs,  and  these 
two  defects  wili 
invariably  lower  the 
market  price  of a  fine  grade  of butter.

Boston  merchants  are  partial to spruce 
tubs.  They  can  have  them,  but  New 
York  and  Chicago  commission  men 
p.ace  reliance  upon  the old  reliable  ash 
variety.
There 

is  always  more  or  less  com­
plaint through  over-soaking  of  tubs,  but 
it  is  almost  as  great  a  fault  to  ship  but­
ter  in  a  tub  that  is  dry.  Much  butter 
reaching  the  markets  will  not  strip. 
The  butter  sticks  to  the  sides  and  bot­
tom,  and  it  is  necessary  to  use  the  ladel 
and  cut  and  spoil  the  general  appear­
ance  of  the  goods.  There  is  little  ex­
cuse  for  carelessness  in  this  respect  and 
the  butter-packer  should  see  that  tubs 
not  properly  soaked  are  not  used  until 
they  have  passed  through  this  process.
Too  much  care  can  not be  taken  in 
crating  eggs 
for  market.  The  cases 
should  be  securely  nailed  at  the  ends, 
top,  bottom  and  middle  partition,  the 
fillers  fit  snugly  and  every  little  detail 
should  be  attended  to.  Shippers  who 
have  been 
in  business  for years  often 
overlook  the  importance  of  this  branch 
of  the  work.  Much  of  the  breakage  loss 
could  be  avoided,  especially 
in  ship­
ping  medium  grade  stock,  if  the  goods 
were  properly  protected  while  en  route.
The  egg  trade  is  just  now  discussing 
the  advisability  of  establishing  a  “ su­
perlative”   grade  of  eggs  in  exchange 
grading.  New  Yorkers  have  about  de­
cided  to 
inaugurate  this  system  and 
egg-handlers  generally  believe  it  would 
lead  to a  more  careful  selection  of  eggs 
from  shippers  who  have  exceptional  ad­
vantages  for  candling  stock.  There  is 
a demand  for  this  high  grade of  goods, 
and  the  proper  handling  of  the  same 
would  be  profitable  to  both  the  shipper 
and  dealer.

The commission  man  should  not  hesi­
tate  to  offer  suggestions  to  the  butter- 
maker  at  the  creamery  which  he  be­
lieves  will enhance the selling  properties 
of  the  butter.  Most  buttermakers  are 
anxious to  supply  a  grade  of  goods  that 
will  please  the  dealer  as  well  as  the 
consumer.  Some  merchants have a  par­
ticular class  of  customers  who have  pe­
culiar  ideas  which  they  wish  carried 
out.  The  buttermaker  can  not  under­
stand  these  conditions,  and 
it  is  the 
dealer’s duty  to  enlighten  him.
There has  been  a  marked 

improve­
ment  noted  this  season  in  the  matter  of 
care  and  handling  of  perishable  prod­
ucts  by  the  railroad  companies.  But­
ter  shipments  show  the  result  of  careful

handling,  most  of  the  packages  being 
clean  and  in  good  condition.  The  re­
frigerator  cars  have  received  more  at­
tention  and  the  quality  of  the butter 
has  not  been  impaired  by  overheating 
while  in  transit.

The  reputation  of  a  high  class  work­
man 
is  endangered  if  he  is  not  allowed 
to follow  out  his  own  ideas  in  preparing 
market  shipments.  The  use  of  green 
elm  tubs  is  to be  deplored,  as these  tubs 
are  mold  producers.  Then  again  they 
are  not  pleasing  to  the  eye  of  the  crit­
ical  buyer,  who, 
in  most  cases,  will 
willingly  pay  a  higher  price  for  the 
same  quality  of  butter,  if  it  is  packed 
in  ash  tubs.

Buyers  for  process  factories  are clean­
ing  up  the  Chicago  market  supply  of 
dairies  and  rolls.  These  factories  man­
ufacture  their  goods  from  this  class  of 
butter and  their  agents  do  not  hesitate 
to  pay  the  market  price  for  the  same.

The  demand  for 30-dozen  cases  is  in­
creasing  and  a  gradual  discontinuance 
of  the  use  of  the  more  bulky  36-dozen 
style 
is  noted  by  dealers.  Except  in 
long  shipments,  use  of  the  larger  vari­
ety  is  undesirable.  Thirty-dozen  cases 
are  more  easily  bandied,  can  be  more 
readily  examined  and  will  stand  closer 
packing 
in  cars  than  will  the  old  style 
case.

Reports  from  the  East  are  to  the 
effect  that  the  storage  bouses  are  being 
rapidly  filled  with  what  are 
termed 
“ heated  eggs.”   The  dealer  or  ware­
houseman who  finds  himself  next  spring 
in  possession  of  a  liberal  supply  of  this 
grade  of  goods  will  be  sorry  that  more 
care  and  attention  were  not  paid  in  the 
selection  of  good,  clean  stock  for  stor­
age.  Heated  eggs  will  not keep  prop­
erly  through  a  season’s  storage  and  are 
generally  so  handled  at  a  loss.  Select, 
clean,  meaty  stock 
is  the  only  grade 
that  will  bring  a  remunerative  price 
when  offered  to  the  spring  trade.

A  Fair  Exchange.

“ Are  you  quite  sure  this  melon  is 
ripe?”   enquired  the  young  housewife 
after  she  had  made  a  careful  selection.
“ Perfectly  sure,  madam,”   replied  the 
grocer,  “ but 
if  you  wish  I  will  plug  it 
so  that  you  can  see  for  yourself."  And 
cutting  a  triangular  piece  from  the  side 
of  the  melon  he  held  it  up  for 
inspec­
tion. 
“ You  see,”   he  continued,  “ it  is 
perfectly  ripe.’ ’
“ Very  well,’ ’  answered  the  fair  cus­
tomer,  “ you  may  send  that  one  up  to 
the house.  Twenty-five  cents,  did  you 
say?  I  know  I  have  a  quarter  here 
somewhere.  Oh,  yes,  here  it  is.”
then  handed  it  back. 
that,’ ’  he said.  “ It  is  plugged.’ ’

The  grocer  glanced  at the  coin  and 
“ I  can’t  accept 

it,”   said  the  lady,  “ but  I 
don’t  see  what  difference  that  makes. 
The  watermelon  is  plugged,  too.”

" I   know 

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retailer— Q U A L IT Y   and  PR O 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—  
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Shoes  and  Leather

Trials  and  Tribulations  of  the  Shoe 

Dealer.

it,  we  must  pay 

Advancing  the  price  of  shoes  does not 
commend  itself  to  retailers  to  any  very 
great  extent.  While  they  admit  the 
necessity  of  it,  it  is  more  than  probable 
they  will  oppose 
it  tooth  and  nail. 
Speaking  on  the  subject  one  of  them 
said:  “ Yes,  it’s  all  very  well  to  talk 
about  advancing  prices,  but  where  are 
we  going  to  come 
in?  Of  course,  if 
the  manufacturers  join  together  and  de­
mand 
it—there’s  no 
getting  back  of  that;  but  bow  are  we 
going  to  get  our  money  back? 
It’s  all 
very  well  to  talk  about  explaining  it  to 
the  public  and  telling  them  that  the  ad­
vance 
is  caused  by  the  rise  in  leather 
and  other  things  that  go  to  make a shoe.
I  wish  you  had  to  do  the  explaining. 
What  does  the  public 
care  whether 
leather  has  advanced  or  not?  They’ve 
been 
in  the  habit  of  getting  shoes  at  a 
certain  price  and  they’re  going  to  have 
them  at  that  price  if  they're  to  be  had. 
Why,  man, 
the  majority  of  people 
these  days  would  go  ten  blocks  out  of 
their  way  to  save  a  nickel  on  a  pair  of 
shoes,  even although  it cost  them  a  dime 
for  car  fare  to  do  it.  And  then  when  I 
raise  my  prices  to  meet  the'advance, 
perhaps  some  other  dealer  won’t  and 
he’ll  get  all  my  trade."

“ But  why  can’t  the  retailers  enter 
into  an  agreement,  the  same  as  the 
manufacturers,  to  advance  ail  grades  a 
certain  percentage?”   asked  the  scribe.
“ That’s  more  easily  asked  than  an­
swered,”   said  the  retailer.  “ Of  course, 
they  could  do  it,  and  I  hope  they  will 
do  it;  but  will  they  keep  the  agreement 
after  they’ve  entered  into  it?  You  know 
as  well  as  I  do  that  there  are  too  many 
in  the  business  now  and  that  competi­
tion  is  very  close.  To  pay expenses  and 
make  anything  of  a  decent  living  we 
are  sometimes  forced  to  make  a  sale  at 
very,  very 
little  profit  rather  than  let  a 
customer  go  elsewhere.  I  know that  the 
rule  that  holds  good 
in  other  depart­
ments  of  business,  where the  advanc e  in 
price  of  commodities  used  in  the  man­
ufacture  of  an  article  is  added  to  the 
manufactured  article,  should  also  bold 
good  in  tLe  shoe  trade,  but  the  practice 
has  never  been  adopted  and  I am  afraid 
we  will  have  a  good  deal  of  difficulty 
with  it. 
It  may  come  out  all  right;  at 
any  rate  it  is  a  good  deal  better than re­
ducing  the  quality  of  the  shoes.”

♦   #  #

Mixing  up  of  the  seasons  has  become 
a  source  of  annoyance  to  many  retail­
ers. 
“ You  publish  complaints  from 
drummers,”   said  a  well  known  retailer 
one  day,  “ that  retailers  do  not  always 
treat  them  with  that  courtesy  which 
is 
their  due.  Possibly  we  do  not,  but  it 
is  more  than  possible  that  if  you  were 
pestered  with  drummers  the  way  we 
are,  you would  not  accord  them  as  much 
consideration  as  we  do.  There is scarce­
ly  any  let-up  in  their  visits.  Like  the 
poor,  they  are  with  us  all  the  time. 
Doubtless manufacturers  may  think  it  is 
to  their  interest  to  have  drummers  call­
ing  on  us  all  the  time,  but  I  do  not. 
I 
think  it  would  be  a  good  deal  better  for 
all  of  us  if  they  had  a  set  time  for  com­
ing  with  the  new  season’s  goods.  With 
a  few  days’  notice  we  could  then  be 
prepared  for  them  and  a  considerable 
saving  of  their  time  and  ours  would  be 
the  result. 
I  don’t  want  to  be  pestered 
with  drummers  at  times  that  I  do  not 
need  any  goods,  or  if  I  should  happen 
to  run  out  of  a  certain  line,  I  have  the

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catalogue  of  the  house  and  can  order 
what  I  want,  and  I  don’t  want  a  drum­
mer  around  me  urging  me  to  get  a  line 
I  don’t  want. 
It seems  to  me  that  man­
ufacturers  and  jobbers  must  lose  a  good 
deal  of  money  by  having  men  on  the 
road  all  the  time,  but  I  presume  they 
know  their  business  best.”

# 

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*

Good  help  is  not  to  be  obtained  every 
day,  and  when  employers  find  it  they 
should  retain  it  at  all  hazards.  A  man 
who  is  disposed  to  devote  his  heart  and 
soul  to  the  business  he  is  engaged  in 
should  be  encouraged 
in  every  way. 
Some  employers  who  have  not  that  keen 
eye  to  their own  interests  which  would 
naturally  be  expected  endeavor  to  re­
press  this  feeling  and  to  snub  the  clerk 
on  every  pretext,  alleging  as  an  excuse 
that  the  clerk  wanted  to  know  too  much 
so  that  he  might  embark  in  business 
for  himself,  or  else  that  if  too  much  ap­
preciation  was  shown  for  his  services he 
would  be  looking  for an  advance  in  bis 
salary.  Either  excuse  is  utterly  foolish. 
If  a  young  man ha«  an  ambition  to  start 
business  on  bis  own  account,  so  trivial 
a  matter  as  his  employer’s  displeasure 
will  not  bold  him  back,  whereas  with 
regard  to  the  man  who has demonstrated 
that  he 
is  worth  more  than  be  is  get­
ting,  if  one  employer  doesn't  pay  it  an­
other  will.  The  trite  expression  that 
“ You  can ’t  keep  a  good  man  down”   is 
true  in  every  branch  of  business,  and  it 
is  to  the 
interest  of  employers  to  en­
courage  good  help  and 
their 
services  as  long  as  possible.  Many there 
are  who  may  be  had  for  less  money, 
perhaps,  but  as  to  the  man  who  knows 
his  business  and  takes  a  keen  interest 
in  it,  his  services  can  not  be  measured 
by  a  standard  of  dollars  and  cents.

retain 

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Keeping  the  store  clean  is  a  subject 
that  can  not  too  often  be  treated  on. 
This  does  not  necessarily  mean  that  any 
money  should  be  spent  on  decoration. 
The  store  may  be  perfectly  plain  both 
inside  and  out,  but  everything  con­
nected  with 
it  should  be  kept  polished 
and  bright  and  all  goods  should  be 
carefully  arranged  on  the  shelves.  An 
occasional  coat  of  paint  adds  materially 
to  the  appearance  of  the  store  and  gets 
people  talking,  which  is  one  of  the  best 
advertisements  a  store  can  have.  Clerks 
should be  held  accountable  that  no 
lit­
is  placed  behind  the  counters  or  on 
ter 
the  shelves,  and  all  these  little  details 
should  be  strictly  attended  to  every 
day,  for 
if  dirt  and  rubbish  are  once 
permitted  to  accumulate,  considerable 
difficulty  will  be  experienced  in  getting 
the 
Receptacles 
should  be  provided  where  waste  paper, 
etc.,  could  be  put,  anu  no  one  should 
be  permitted  to  throw  anything  on  the 
floor.— Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette.

store  clean  again. 

It  may  be  more  blessed  to  give  than 
to  receive,  but  we  are  always  willing  to 
let  the  other  fellow  have  the  blessings.

Aluminum Money

Will Increase Your Business.

Cheap and Effective.

Send for samples and prices.
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44  S .  Clark  St.,  Chicago,  111.

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Shoes

We  put  the  best  that  money 
can buy  into  them.  We  use 
first-class  material,  employ 
skilled  labor,  use  up-to-date 
machinery,  and  back  up  the 
whole busicess with long years 
of  experience.  Everything 
that enters into the making of 
our shoes is first class;  the re­
sult is first-class.  Our shoes 
are  right. 
They  will  bring 
you trade.  Try them.

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It  doesn’t  pay  you  to  carry 
lines  of  shoes  that  your  custom­
ers  won’t  ask  for  the  second 
time. 
It  doesn’ t  pay  us,  either 
— that  stands  to  reason.

Our  greatest  aim  is  to  sell  you  shoes  that  will  enable 
you  to  keep  your  old  trade  and  make  new  friends.  Your 
prosperity  is  our  advantage.

Our  fall  lines  will  make  money— and  friends— for  you.

GEO. H. REEDER & CO.,

19  SOUTH  IONIA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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The  Art  of Wearing  Shoes.

“ It  gets  m e,”   said  the  man,  “ to 
know  why  women  and  girls are not more 
particular about  the  way  they dress their 
feet. 
If  they  knew  how  much  people 
noticed  them,  they  would  take  more 
pains  in  buying  their  shoes  than they do 
in  buying  their  gowns. 
Every  one 
knows  that  man  is  more particular about 
the  way  he  keeps  his  bools  and  shoes 
than  a woman,  and  I  suppose  that  is  the 
reason  that  he  always  notices  the  foot­
wear  of  women.  As  for  me,  the  woman 
I  marry  must  have  pretty,  well-dressed 
feet. 
I  have  never  found  any  one  yet 
who  came  up  to  my  standard  of  excel­
lence,  and  that's  why  I  am  not  married,
I  suppose.

in 

“ I  did  think  I  had  found  her  once.  I 
fell 
love  with  one  foot.  That  was 
where  I  made  the  mistake.  It  was  some 
kind  of  an  art  exhibition.  There  was a 
screen  at  the  door  from  one  room  to  an­
other,  which  was  a  few  steps  higher, 
and,  happening  to  look  across  the room,
I  saw  below  that screen  the  daintiest, 
most  ladylike-looking  foot,  slender  and 
delicate  and  refined,  and  wearing  just 
the  right  kind  of a shoe for that  occasion 
— not  a  great  heavy  walking  boot  and 
not  a  dancing  shoe,  but  just  right.  Of 
course,  you  don’t  expect  me  to  tell  you 
just  wbat  it  was. 
I  am  not  in  the  shoe 
business,  but  I  know  when  a  girl  wears 
a  shoe  that  is  in  good  taste.

it  belonged  drew 

“ This  foot  that  I  fell  in  love  with  I 
saw  just  for  an  instant,  as  the  woman  to 
whom 
it  up  to  the 
other  step  and  the  screen  hid  her  so that 
I  hadn't  the  slightest  idea  who  she  was, 
young  or  old,  hideous  or  beautiful.  But 
I  made  up  my  mind  I  would  find  out. 
But  you  know  how  it  is  in  a  room  filled 
with  people— it  is  not  always  easy to get 
across  it,  especially  if  all  your  friends 
are  there.  By  the  time  I  reached  the 
screed  I  almost  gave  up  my foot for lost. 
You  can’t  see  a  woman’s  foot  in  these 
long  skirts  she  wears  unless  she  is  on 
the  street. 
I  suppose  my  divinity  must 
have  raised  her  dress as  she  went up  the 
steps.

“  I  did  find  her  after a  time,  but I had 
made  a  mistake.  A  man  shouldn’t  fall 
in 
love  with  less  than  two  feet,  and  be 
should  see  how  they  walk.  There  is 
everything 
in  the  way  that  a  woman 
walks.  The  woman  whose  foot  I  bad 
admired—her  feet  were  beautiful  too— 
walked  in  a  listless  way.  She  drew  one 
foot  after  the  other  languidly.  That 
might  mean  that  she  was  selfish,  indo­
lent,  delicate  or  any  number  of  other 
things.  Just  notice  women  who  walk 
that  way  and  see  if  I  am  not  r ight.

“ Then  notice  the  woman  who  walks 
not  exactly  with  a  heavy step,  but comes 
down  flat-footed  every  time.  She would 
make  a  good  business  manager  and  she 
might  know  how  to  manage  a  houseful 
of  servants,  but  she  is  too  aggiessive  to 
be  a  comfortable  person  to  get  along 
with.  It  is  all  right  for  a  woman to have 
opinions  of  her  own;  I 
like  to  see  a 
woman  who  knows  her  own  mind,  and 
I  would  rather  enjoy  haying  her  look 
after  my; ideas  if  she  cared  to,  but  you 
don’t  like  to  be  knocked  over even  with 
ideas.

“ Then  there 

is  the  woman  who  has 
rather  a  heavy,  dragging  step.  That 
woman  is  sure  to  have  round  shoulders 
and  stoop  when  she  walks.  She  has  to 
take  time  to  think  when  she  answers 
and  it  takes  her  a  long  time  to  see  a 
joke.  She  has  large  feet  and  her  shoes 
do  not  fit  trimly.  That  is  not  the  kind 
of  woman  I  care  to  know.  Then  there 
is the woman  who  shakes  the  room  when 
she  walks.  She  may  or  may  not  be  over

plump  and  she 
is  very  likely  cheerful 
and  jolly.  You  like  her,  but  her  chubby 
feet—they  are  sure  to  be  short  and 
broad—are  not  for  you.  She  is  a  nice 
kind  of  wife  for  some  other  man  and 
you  like  to  go  and  take  dinner with  him 
occasionally  when  you  are  in  the  .mood 
for  it,  but  she  is  not  the  ideal woman.

“ The  ideal  always  wears  trim,  suit­
able  shoes,  and  she  walks  just  as  a 
woman  who  has  the  ideal  feet,  ideally 
dressed,  should.  She 
is  sure  to  have 
rather  slender  feet  that  look  flexible and 
make  you  think  somehow  of  a  pretty 
slender  band  well gloved.  Her shoes al­
ways  fit  her  like  a  glove,  anyway.  She 
does  not  wear  great,  mannish  shoes 
around  the  street  all  the  time  because 
they  are  said  to  be  fashionable.  She 
only  wears  those  with  a  heavy  rough 
walking  suit.  For  the  street  she  has  a 
medium  weight, 
trim-looking  boot, 
and  for  the  bouse  she  wears  pretty  soft, 
thin  ones  or  pretty  slippers,  anything 
according  to  the  occasion.  There  are 
times  and  seasons  for  all  kinds  of boots, 
shoes  and  slippers.’ ’

Business  Procrastination.

The  distinctive  difference  to  be noted 
between  the  active,  pushing,  and  suc­
cessful  man  of  business  and  the  unsuc­
cessful  and  discouraged  man 
is  fre­
quently  found 
in  the  simple  matter  of 
the 
improvement  of  time.  The  one 
seizes  upon  every  opportunity  as  it  is 
presented,  and  acting  promptly,  profits 
by  it.  He  is  alert  and  his  movements 
are  rapid.  The  ether,  with  perhaps  as 
clear  percept'on  of  the  situation,  at  the 
first  fails  to  reach  the  goal  in  time  sim­
ply  from constitutional  inertia  or the bad 
habit  of  procrastination.  The  old  saw 
has  it  that  “ Procrastination  is  the  thief 
truism 
of 
is  that 
“ Time 
It  follows,  then, 
that  procrastination  steals  money.  Cer­
tainly  procrastination 
loses  the  oppor­
tunity  to  make  money,  and 
in  many 
cases  completely  destroys  the  retailer’s 
profit.

time.”   Another 
is  money.”  

There  is  no  man  in  business  in  whose 
management  of  affairs  promptitude 
counts  more  than with  the  retailer.  The 
consumer’s  wants  are  imperative.  The 
retailer,  to  profit  by  supplying  those 
Is  a  new  ar­
wants,  must  act  instantly. 
ticle  asked  for? 
It  must  be  found  and 
supplied  quickly,  or  else  a  competitor 
gets  the  advantage.  Does  some  event 
occur  that  can  be  turned  to  advantage 
in  an  advertising  way?  The  opportunity 
must  be  seized  upon  instantly,  or  the 
effect  will  be  lost.  Are  discounts offered 
for  prompt  payment?  The  remittance 
must  be  despatched  by  the  specified 
date,  or  else  the  coveted  percentage  is 
not  secured.  Are  there  accounts  to  col­
lect?  The  bills  must  be  presented  at 
the  time  they  are  due  and  every  reason 
able  effort  put  forth  to  secure  their  pay­
ment,  or  else 
loss  from  bad  debts  will 
be  the  ultimate  penally.  Procrastina­
tion  in  collections  costs 
large  sums  of 
money  every  year  to  retailers  and  tc 
other  merchants  as  well.  First,  it  de­
prives  them  of  the  use  of  the  money 
which  would  secure  discounts  on  pur­
chases,  and  second,  it  helps  the  debtor 
to  get  into  a  position  where  be  can  not 
be  made  to  pay  even  by  legal process.
Warren  Je ffr ie s.

Philadelphia  and  Return  via  the  Mich­

igan  Central.

Sept,  i  to  4,  inclusive,  the  Michigan 
Central  will  sell  round  trip  tickets  for 
the  above  occasion  at  very  low  rates. 
Choice  of  several  routes  offered.  Return 
limit  Sept.  12,  with  privilege  of  exten­
sion  until  Sept.  30  on  payment  of  50 
cents.  Phone  606  for  full  particulars.
W .  C.  B l a k e ,  C.  T .  A .

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Those of you who have been
doing  business  with  us  for
years have probably  noticed
that  we  fill  your  orders  a
great  deal  more  promptly
than we used to.  Those who
are  new 
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.

f Valley City 
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Grand  Rapids, Mich.
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“The flour the best cooks use.”

You are in business to make 
money-  You can only make 
it  by  selling-  people  what 
they want.

TAPPAN
SHOES

are  the  kind  people  want. 
They are the kind that make 
customers  and  keep  them 
—they  are  the  kind  that 
make money.  These goods 
should  find  a place  in  your 
store.  Write  for price  list.

TAPPAN SHOE M’F’G CO.,

COLDWATER, MICH.

REMOVED

ATHOME, 10-22  N.  IONIA ST.

If you want  the  best  Leather 
Top  Lumbermen’s  Rubber 
made,  buy  our  "Ajax.” 
It  is 
made of duck, with  rolled edge, 
and  oil  grain  top,  heel  and 
spring.

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L O G IE   &   C O .,

G R A N D   R A P I D S . 

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

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis—Index 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  Aug.  19— During  the  en 
tire  week  coffee  jobbers  have  been 
in­
different  buyers  and,  while  the  market 
has  been  quiet,  the  situation  is  not  dis­
couraging.  Reports  from  Brazil  would 
indicate  that  holders  there  seem  to 
indifferent  as  to  whether  they  sell 
present  prevailing 
rates  or  not. 
limited  amount  of  coffee  was  offered, 
bids  were  below  the  views  of  sellers 
Rio.  No.  7  is  quotable  from  SM@5?£c. 
The  amount  of  coffee  in  store  here  and 
afloat  aggregates  1,233,944  bags,  against 
926,927  at  the  same  time  last year.  For 
mild  coffees  there  has  been  a  little more 
animation  shown  and  jobbers  as  well  as 
roasters  seem  to  be  agreed  that  the  time 
is  favorable  for  doing  a  little  something 
in  Central  American  goods.  Good  Cu- 
cuta  is  worth  8%c.  East  India  coffees 
are  dragging  and  quotations  are  nomi 
nal.

The  amount  of  tea  business going  for­
ward  is  very  moderate  and  the  general 
situation  is  not  especially  encouraging 
to  holders.  In  some  lines  there Is  rather 
more  strength,  but,  taking  the  market 
as  a  whole,  there  is  room  for 
improve 
ment,  which,  it 
is  confidently  thought 
will  come with  the approaching  fall  sea 
son.  Quotations  are  practically  un 
changed.

The  local  demand  for  rice  has  not 
large,  buyers  taking  only  enough 
been 
to 
for 
everyday  use.  Good to  prime  Southern 
5@ 6c .  _

complete  broken  assortments 

The  sugar  business  is  of  fair  volume 
and,  while  most  of  the  transactions 
have  been  in  the  line  of  withdrawals  on 
old  contracts,  there  have also  been  quite 
a  number  of  transactions  in  new  trade 
The  refineries  are  still  several  days  be 
is,  the  trust  refineries. 
hindband;  that 
Independents 
say 
they  are  making 
prompt  shipments.  Quotations  on  sugar 
remain  practically  unchanged.

Pepper  has  been  meeting  with  some 
enquiry,  100  tons  of  black  Singapore 
having  changed  hands at  full  rates,  al­
though  just  what  the  price  was 
is  not 
divulged.  Other lines are  quiet and  both 
sides  seem  to  be  waiting  for  something 
to  turn  up.

The  molasses  market  is  firm.  Jobbers 
are  certainly  not  carrying  very  large 
stocks,  and  the  demand  for  grocery 
grades  has  been,  upon  the  whole,  as 
brisk  as  might  be  expected  at  this  sea­
son.  Holders  seem  very  confident  of 
the  future  and  are  not  willing  to  make 
any  concession  on  prices  as  given.  Low 
grades  of  molasses  are  working  out 
slowly  and  without  change 
in  quota­
tions.  Syrups  have  been  meeting  with 
rather  more  favor  and  prices  are  well 
sustained.

In  canned  goods  it  has  been  a  quiet 
market,  taking  the  week  together  and 
about  the  only 
item  of  interest  is  the 
seemingly  large  pack  of  New York State 
peas.  It  has  been  thought  all  along  that 
this  line  of  goods  would  be  very  light, 
but  “ they  keep  a  com ing."  Canned 
peaches  promise  to  be  about the  best 
line  one can  handle and,  as  the  pack  is 
likelv  to  be  extremely  light,  the chances 
are  that  tomatoes  will  take  their place— 
if  such  a  thing  can  be  imagined.  Gal­
lon  apples  can  be  bought  for $3—quite 
a  reaction  having  taken  place.  New 
York  State  corn  is  in  light  supply  and 
firm  from  7o@8oc.  The  short  “ crop”  
of  salmon,  of  course,  is  regarded  a  seri­
ous  matter,  and  if  prices advance to any 
extent,  the  consumption  will  be sure  to 
be  curtailed.

in 

Lemons  and  oranges  and, 

fact, 
nearly  all  kinds  of  fresh  fruits,  have 
been 
in  ample  supply  and  the  demand 
has  hardly  been  sufficient  to  take  all 
that  has  arrived.  Lemons  have  declined- 
at  auction  from  I2j£@37#c  per  box. 
Few  orders  have  come  from  out  of  town 
and  city  buyers  are  seemingly 
indiffer­
ent.  Sicily  300s  sell  for  $3.5004.75. 
Bananas  are  lower  and  the  demand  is 
light.  Pineapples are quiet.  Desirable 
apples  are  in  good  demand  and  prices 
are  well  sustained.

The  demand  for dried  fruits  is  light,  j

with  the  market  steadjr.  The  supply  of 
prunes  seems  to  be quite  sufficient to go 
around,  but  there  is not  an oversupply of 
anything.  New  apricots  are  worth  11
© I2C.

While  the  demand  is  rather quiet,  the 
arrivals  are  light  and  prices are  very 
firm.  Exporters  have  been  paying  20c 
for  fancy  June  creamerv  when  it  could 
be  obtained  for  that,  and  this  makes  a 
firmer  local  market, and  extra  Western 
is  now  worth  21c ;  thirds  to 
creamery 
firsts, 
imitation 
creamery,  extra,  i6@i6j£c;  firsts,  15© 
I5&c;  Western dairy,finest, i5K@ i6 ^ c ; 
thirds  to  firsts,  I30 i5c;  Western  fac­
tory,  I4/4 @I5/4 C  for  desirable  goods, 
with'off  grades  i2 K 0 i3 # c.

170202 ;  Western 

Cheese  is  firm,  but there  is  little  busi­
ness  going  forward. 
Large  size  full 
cream  is  worth  g%c  for white  and  about 
# c  
less  for  colored.  Small  size  full 
cream,  ior,  and  possibly  fractionally 
more  if  the  stock  will  stand  the  test.

Receipts  of  eggs  -are  light  and  the 
market,  taken  together,  is  firm.  Fancy 
Western  candled,  at  mark,  i6©i6j£c; 
seconds,  12^ 013^ 0.  The  receipts  Fri­
day  aggregated  4,659 cases.
Marrow  beans are  firm,  with  little do­
in  other  sorts.  Choice  marrow, 
ing 
$1  52# ;  *  choice  medium, 
$1.350 
• 37^c;  choice  pea,  $1.35;  Red  Kid­
ney,$1.65.

Potatoes  are 

in  quite  liberal  supply 
and  the  general  tone 
is  rather  weak. 
Fancy  nearby  stock  is  worth  $2  per  bbl.
Sweets  are  dnll  within  the  range  of 
$1.5002.25.

The  Credit  Man’s  Costly  Error. 

From the Chicago Evening Post.

Sometimes  a  credit  man  goes  all 
wrong—but  not  often.  A  country  mer­
chant  came  up  from  Indiana  with  a 
written  list  of  the  things  be w  nted.  He 
said  he  was  new  to  the  business,  but  be 
meant  to  have  a  partner  who  was  wise 
After  he  bad  picked  out  goods  amount­
ing  to  $8,000  he  was  introduced  to  the 
credit  man.  and  he  looked  so  uncouth 
and  inefficient  that  the  credit  man  won­
dered  how good  clerks had  been wasting 
their  time  on  him.

“ What  terms  do  you  want,  Mr.  — ? 

He  stopped,  and  the  visitor  supplied 
the  name.

“ Well,  down 

in  our  country  we  al 

ways  pay after  harvest. ”

“ But  harvest 

You  don’ 
mean  next  harvest— in  1900—do  you?’ 
“ Well,  that’s  when  my  people  will 
pay  m e."

is  past. 

“ Oh,  we  couldn't  do  that.  Ninety 
days  is  the  very best  I  could  give  you." 
And  even  at  that  he  wanted^to know  a 
great  many  things  about  his  visitor’s 
prospects.
in  sixty 
days?"

if  I  pay  all 

“ How  much 

The credit  man  quoted  the  terms. 
“ How  much  in  thirty?”
A  discount  was  mentioned.
“ How  much  for  cash?”
“ Spot  cash?  Money  down?”
“ 'Ves—currency. ”
It  was  a  wild  question.  The  credit 
man  knew  he  bad  no  chance  to  get 
$8,000 out  of  that  man,  and  he  quoted  a 
beautiful  discount.

“ Well,  receipt  the  b ill,”   was  the 
countryman's  rejoinder.  And  out  from 
the  folds  of  a  $3  suit  of  clothes  he 
dragged  money  enough  to  buy  a  yacht 
and  run  it all  summer.
He  didn’t  put  on  much  style,  but  be 
figures”   he  saved  the  expenses  of  bis 

Chicago  trip.

Jobbers of

Calcium 

Carbide

and all kinds of

Acetylene Qas Burners

Distributing  agents  for  The  Electro  Lamp  C a ’s 
y  Prep*1«*!  Carbide  for  bicycle  and  por- 

ible lamps, in i, 2 and 3 pound cans.
Orders promptly filled.

J a c k s o n ,  M ic h ig a n .

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

W E   A R E   T H E   P E O P L E

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

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

Here  It  Is!

The Holmes Generator

Just what you  have  been  looking  for.  The  latest 
the best, the safest, the most durable and most sav­
ing of carbide on the market.  It  has  the  improve­
ments  long  sought  for  by  all  generator  manu­
facturers.  No  more wasted  gas,  no  over  heating, 
no smoke, no coals on  burners.  Only  one-tenth as 
much  gas  escapes  when  charging  as  in  former 
machines and you  canoot  blow  It  up.  It's 
it s simple.  It is sold under a guarantee.  Yon put 
the carbide in and the machine does the  rest.  It is 
perfectly automatic.  A   perfect and steady light at 
all  times  No  flickering-  or  going  out  when 
charged.  Do not  buy  a  Generator  until  you  have 
seen this.  \o u   want  a  good  one  and  we  have 
it.  Its   made  for  business.  Fully  approved  by 
Board  of  Underwriters.  Catalogue  and  prices 
cheerfully sent on application.  Experienced acety­
lene gas agents wanted.  1  imited territory for sale. 
Also dealers in Carbide,  Fixtures,  Fittings,  Pipe.

Holmes-Baitey Acetylene Gas Co. 

Maatoe, Mkihgaa.

The  Best of  Reasons  why you  should  be 
prejudiced  in  faver  of 

. 

.

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

1  hike a n

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

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

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

at all times the same even  pressure.

5.  All pipes are self  draining to the  condens­

ing chamber.

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

It saves.

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

8RUGE 6EHEMT0R C0-. MlfS  183-187 F. 3(1SI.. SI. PflUl. Ninn

AMERICAN CARBIDE CO., 
JsrIruon

Agents lor Mich* 

The  Howwhowhat.

New  Prices

on Bicycle 
Snndrles

Dealers of Michigan are  requested  to  drop 
us a card asking for  our  July  1st  discount 
sheet  on  Bicycle  Sundries,  Supplies,  etc. 
Right  Goods,  Low  Prices  and  Prompt 
Shipments will continue  to  be  our  motto. 
Dealers who are not next  to  us  on wheels 
and  sundries are invited to correspond.

ADAMS & HART,

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

Wholesale Bicycles aai Scarifies.

In  has  been  said  that,  unquestionably  beyond 
reach of successful contradiction,  more  retail  mer­
chants make a failure of  their  business  from  for­
gotten charges, caused by lack of  systematic  man­
agement,  than  from  all  other  causes  combined, 
which statement leads one to think thing» ought to 
change;  but  how?  By  whom  and  what?  First, 
How?  By introducing a  system  to  this  class  of 
business men that Insures them  against  the  possi­
bility of  a  forgotten  charge,  used  in  connection 
with a system for retailers which saves the  profits, 
only  from  which  are  fortunes  made.  Second, By 
whom?  B y th eE g ry  Autographic  Register  Co., 
who plan systems for retailers in all  lines  of  busi­
ness, enabling them to save the profits by  stopping 
the  leaks.  Third,
By  what?  By  us­
ing  the Egry Auto­
graphic  R egister- 
adapted to any class 
of business needs.

Address inquiries 
or  send  orders  for 
what  you  want  to

1»  A.  BLY,' Alma,  Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

17

Commercial T ravelers

Michigan Knights of the Qrip.

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

and Treasurer, C. W. Allen  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

Grand  Counselor,  J no.  A.  Murray,  Detroit; 
Grand Secretary, G. S. Valmore, Detroit;  Grand 
Treasurer, W. S. Mest, Jackson.

Grand  Rapids Council No.  131.

Senior Counselor, D. E. Keyes;  Secretary-Treas­
urer,  L.  F.  Baker.  Regular  meetings—First 
Saturday of each month in Council  Chamber  in 
McMullen block.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  Boyd  Paktlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owen,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

Lake  Superior Commercial Travelers’ Clnb.
President, F. G. T ruscott, Marquette; Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  Wixson, Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

The  commercial  travelei  of  to-day  is, 
and  must  be,  a  man  of  intelligence  and 
superior  qualities.

Travel  broadens  a  man,  rubs  off  bis 
angles,  and  gives  him  a  quick  insight 
into  human  nature  and  motives.

The  successful  man 

is  the  man  who 
knows  how  to  talk,  what  to  talk  about, 
and  more  especially  when  to  stop  talk­
ing.

The  faculty  of  holding  trade  or of 
selling  repeatedly  to  the  same  people  is 
the  highest  attribute  in  the  condition  of 
a  successful  salesman.

A  successful  salesman  must  be  honest 
with  bis  customers  and  must  be  able  to 
make  plain  to  them  in  the  fewest  words 
the  superior  qualities  of  bis  wares.

Deception  never  succeeds  a  second 
time  with  the  same  customer,  unless  he 
is  a  man  whom  no  sound  merchant 
would  wish  to  trust.  Deceivers  may 
have  temporary  prosperity,  but  can  not 
meet  permanent  success.

To  be  able  to  revisit  every  store  and 
every  merchant  from  whom  orders  have 
been  taken 
is  something  worth  striv­
ing  for. 
It  was  said  of  one  young  man 
that  be  could  take  more  orders  on  the 
first  round  and  less  on  the  second  than 
most  others.

A.  B.  Gates  now  has  bis  home  at  727 
Fourth  avenue,  Detroit,  and  during  the 
past  week  has  called  on  some  of  his 
customers  on  a  bicycle  or,  rather,  the 
bicycle  on  him.  He  is  quite  active#at 
times,going  under  street  cars  and  laun­
dry  wagons.  Ob,  yes,  he  rides!

John  Cummins  (Olney  &  Judson  Gro­
cer  Co.)  has  returned  from  Higbland- 
on-the-Hudson,  where he  left  his  family 
for  the  summer. 
John  took  only  a 
week’s  vacation  for  himself,  but  there 
are  people  who  believe  that  he  is  en­
titled  to  a  month  considering  the  record 
he  has  made  since  coming  to  Michigan 
from  the  Keystone  State.

R.  N.  Hull  (Standard  Tobacco  & 
Cigar  Co  ) 
is  spending  his  vacation 
with  bis  son,  R.  E.,  and  family  at  Pe- 
toskey.  R.  N. 
is  very  proud  of  late. 
He  has  a  granddaughter  at  Petoskey 
who  is,  of  course,  the  sweetest  girl  yet 
known,  and  at  the  very  mention  of  a 
Hull  grandpa  the  child  will  crow  and 
kick  up  its  heels.  There 
is  no  resort 
now  like  Petoskey.

B.  S.  Davenport  (Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.)  is  not  much  of  a  coward, 
but  they  say  he  was  as  pale  as  a  ghost 
while  a  passenger  on  the  Maid  of  the 
Mist  at  Niagara  Falls  about  ten  days 
ago.  Byron  had  been  told  that the  Maid 
of  the  Mist  never  went  nearer  the  Falls

Sudden  Death  of A.  L.  Braisted.
Sorrowful  news  reached  the  city  last 
Thursday  evening  in  the  announcement 
of  the  death  at  Ypsilanti  of  Alby  L. 
Braisted.  The  deceased  was  on  his 
summer  vacation  and  was  spending  a 
week  with  bis  wife's  parents  at  Ypsi­
lanti,  intending  to  leave  Monday  morn­
ing  for  a  week  with  his  own  parents, 
who  reside  on  a  farm  near  Lowell. 
When  the  time  came  for  the  family  to 
go  to  the  train,  Mr.  Braisted  was  so  ill 
that  the  carriage  which  was  intended  to 
take  him  and  his  wife  to  the  depot went 
for  the  doctor  instead.  The  symptoms 
were  acute 
indigestion,  but  the  diag­
nosis  of  the  physician  is  understood  to 
have  been  an 
internal  ulcer,  which 
broke  during  the  early  stages  of  ihe  ill­
ness.  Death  occurred  on  Thursday 
afternoon  and  the  funeral  was  held  at

later 

little 

than  a  certain  point,  and  when  be  and 
his  family  were  passengers  on  the  boat 
a 
in  the  day  and  saw  her 
drift  into  the  current  almost directly un­
derneath  the  Falls,  he  thought  he  was  a 
"goner"  sure  enough,  and  some  of  his 
friends  insist  that  they  were  compelled 
to  apply  restoratives  in  order to  bring 
him  to  his  senses.

least  of  which 

Shoe  aDd  Leather  Gazette:  Travel­
ing  men  like  others  have  their  griev­
ances,  not  the 
is  the 
number  of  letters  they  receive  from  the 
home  office. 
" It  is  bad  enough  to  have 
to  contend  with  an  obstinate  dealer, ” 
said  a  drummer  who  has  just  returned 
from  his  trip,  "but  to  get  a  letter  from 
the  office  calling you  down  for some deal 
you  had  made,  when  they  are  not  ac­
quainted  with  the  full  particulars  of  the 
case,  takes  all  the  starch  out  of  a  fel­
low.  I  don't  get  quite  as  many  of  those 
epistles  from  the  bouse  I  am  now  em­
ployed  with—they  have  better  sense— 
but  I  have  received  quite  a  number  in 
my  time  and.  let  me  tell  you  they  did 
very 
little  good.  They  are  generally 
written  in  a  complaining  or  criticizing 
strain  and  used  to  have  the  effect  upon 
me  of  leaving  me  unfit  for  work  for  a 
couple  of  days  sometimes,but now I take 
no  notice  of  them. 
let  them 
wait  for  an  answer  until  I  can  get  back 
and  explain  matters  thoroughly.  This, 
I  think,  is  a  good  deal  the  best  and 
ought  to  be  adopted  in  all  cases.  And 
as  we  are  on  the  subject,  I  might  also 
say  that  if  some  firms  would  occasion­
ally  send  a 
letter  of  congratulation  to 
their  drummers,  when they  do  an  excep­
tionally  good  stroke  of  business, it would 
be  much  better  for them  and  the  drum­
mers  also.

I  simply 

National Meeting of Retail Grocers.
St.  Paul,  Minn.,  Aug.  21— Do  you 
believe  in  having  one? 
I  send  out  this 
enquiry  for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining 
your  views  on  this  question.

Local  associations  are  working  for the 
betterment  of  their  own  conditions only. 
State  associations  usually  confine  their 
work  to  their  particular  state.  The 
coming  together  of  the  presidents  and 
secretaries of  each  state  association  and 
the  larger  city  associations  would  result 
in  all  of  us  working  in  unison,  making 
our  demands  upon  the  manufacturers 
and  jobbers  as  one.

Problems  are  presenting  themselves 
that  will  require  united  action  upon  the 
part  of  the  retail  grocery  trade  in  order 
to  overcome  them :  such  as  the  manu­
facturers  of  largely  advertised  special­
ties,  staples  aud  such  articles  as  are 
controlled  by  so-called 
trusts,  selling 
their  product  at  such  a  figure as  not  to 
leave  any  profit  for  the  retail  merchant; 
also  the  placing  of  well-known  brands 
of  goods 
in  the  hands  of  department 
stores,  supply  houses  and  large  grocery 
establishments,  where  they  are  used 
simply  as  an advertising medium by  be­
ing  sold  at  cost  and  less  than  cost.

The  questions  that  can  be  discussed 
at a  meeting  of  this  kind  are too numer­
in  a  circular  letter  of 
ous  to  mention 
this  nature.  Each 
locality  has  its  par­
ticular  local  difficulties;  but  we  have 
many  serious  grievances  that  affect  us 
all  and  must,  of  necessity,  be  acted 
upon  unitedly 
in  order  to  secure  any 
success  in  their  obliteration.

Let  me  hear  from  you  at  0 ice.  Give 
me  your  views  as  to  whether  a  meeting 
should  be  held,  when,  place  of  meeting, 
as  to  who  should  attend,  a  synopsis  of 
the  matter  to  be  discussed,  and  by 
whom  the  call  should  be  issued  in  case 
it  is  decided  to  bold  a  meeting.

M y  id ea  in  su g g estin g   th e  p re sid en ts 
an d   se c re ta rie s  as  th e  p a rtie s  who should 
a tte n d  
th e   ones  who 
hav e  th e   g re a te r  p a rt  of  th e   w ork  th ru st 
upon 
fu rth erm o re,  h av e 
s tu d ie d  
th e  n eed s  of  th e   asso c iatio n s 
they  re p re sen t. 

J .  H.  T e n v o o r d e .

th em ,  an d , 

th ey   a re  

th a t 

is 

the  residence  of  Mrs.  Braisted's parents 
Saturday  afternoon,  the 
interment  be­
ing  at  Ypsilanti.  Grand  Rapids  was 
represented  at  the  funeral  by  Frank  - A. 
Voigt, 
John  S.  Robbins,  Wm.  G. 
Hardy,  M.  C.  Kimball  and  David  G. 
Hatheway.

firm 

lumbering 

Mr.  Braisted  was  born  on  a  farm  near 
Lowell,  June  2,  i860,  and  finished ' his 
education  at  the  Normal  School at Ypsi­
lanti,  where  he  made  the  acquaintance 
of  the  lady  who  afterwards  became  his 
wife.  He  subsequently  took  a  course  at 
the  Swensburg  Business  College,  after 
which  he  solicited  insurance  for  P.  V. 
Fox,  and  was  employed  as  book-keeper 
by  a 
in  Montcalm 
county.  Feb.  1,  1884,  he  applied  for 
the  position  of  book-keeper  at  the  Star 
Mills,  but  as  that  position  had  been 
filled,  he  was  offered  the  position  of 
traveling  representative  for  the Crescent 
Mills,  which  offer  he  accepted,  remain­
ing  continuously 
in  the  employ  of  the 
Voigt  Milling  Co.  until  his  death.  He 
was  married  about  thirteen  years  ago  to 
Miss  Seymour,  of  Ypsilanti,  and  leaves 
besides  his  wife  three  children,  two 
boys  and  a  girl.

Mr.  Braisted  enjoyed  to  a  remarkable 
extent  the  confidence  and  respect  of 
both  his  employer  and  his  customers. 
Mr.  Voigt  says  that  he  was  as  honest  as 
the  day  is  long  and  that  he  never  mis­
represented  anything  knowingly.  Many 
letters  are  coming  to  his  employer  and 
family  from  the  trade,  showing  the  high 
esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  every­
one  with  whom  he  had  dealings.  He 
was  devoted  to  his  family,  as  well  as 
loyal  to  his  friends  and  faithful  to  his 
house,  and  the  beautiful  home  at  69 
Henry  street  indicates the  painstaking 
care he  showed  in  having  pleasant  sur­

roundings  for  those  he  loved.  Whether 
the  wife  and  family  will  continue  their 
residence  in  Grand  Rapids  or  conclude 
to  return  to  Ypsilanti 
is  not  yet  de­
cided.
Death  of  James  Benson—Womanly 
From tic Ciiieago  Record.

Sacrifice  of Wife.

Behind  the  death  of  James  Benson, 
formerly  of  Kalamazoo,  which  occurred 
in  Chicago  a  few  days  ago  lies  a  story 
of  romance,  suffering,  toil  and  womanly 
sacrifice. 
It  involves  the  entrance  into 
the  world  of  business  of  a  devoted  wife 
and  mother  whose  husband,  stricken 
with  paralysis,  was  unable  to  be  the 
breadwinner  for  the  family.

lived 

James  Benson  was  a  commercial  trav­
eler  for  the  firm  of  Heath  &  Milligan 
and  was  considered  one  of  the  best 
paint  salesmen 
in  the  country.  The 
in  Kalamazoo,  and  bad 
family 
never  known  actual  adversity  when, 
seven  years 
ago,  Mr.  Benson  was 
stricken.

The  patient  wife,  a  Vassar  graduate, 
in  the  East,  who  had  led  a  life 
reared 
of 
luxury,  took  up  bis  work,  packed 
his  sample  cases  and  became  one  of  the 
first  women  traveling  sales  agents 
in 
America.  Hard  work  won  success,  but 
its  concomitant  was 
illness  and  Mrs. 
Benson  had  to  forsake  her  occupation.
light  once 
more  by  the  death  of  Benson  in Chicago 
and  the  publication  of  a  story  that  after 
he  had  become  paralytic,  bis  wife  di­
vorced  him  to  marry  another,  Lewis 
Ross,  a  steel  stamper.

is  brought  to 

The  story 

Mrs.  Ross,  a  refined  looking  woman, 
whose  hair 
is  white  as  snow,  sat  be­
tween  her  two  younger  daughters  while 
interviewed  by  a  newspaper  man 
in 
Chicago  Saturday,  and  sighed  as  she 
told  of  her  sad  position.

"Ia m   sorry,"  said  she,  "that  all  this 
is  revived. 
I  am  sorry  Mr.  Benson  is 
dead.  My  troubles  have  been  so  acute 
that  now  I  should  be  permitted peace  in 
my  happy  home.

" I   think  I  must  have  been  about  the 
first  woman  drummer.  The  work  was 
hard  and,  although  Mr.  Benson  and  I 
ceased  living  together  when his sickness 
made him  helpless,  I  supported  him.

"Then  I  lay  sick  for  a  long  time  at 
Kalamazoo  and  when  I  was  able to leave 
the  firm  sent  me  to  my  parents  in 
Meridian,  Conn. 
I  was  an  only  child 
and  the  sorrow  of  my  married  life  had 
almost  broken  their hearts. 
I  had  often 
talked  of  separation,  but  was  taught  in 
childhood  that  such  a  thing  was  dis­
graceful.  So  I  tried  to  carry  my  bur­
den  of  sorrow.

"There  is  a  story  that  I  married  my 
is 
former  husband’s  nurse,  but  that 
false. 
I  had  my  family  to  support  and 
decided  to  do  plain  sewing.  Mr.  Ross, 
my  present  husband,  saw  my  advertise­
ment  and  bought  me  some  work.  We 
were  married  April  10,  1898,  shortly 
after  I  had  formed  and  executed  a  de­
termination  to  get  a  divorce.”

Mrs.  Ross  was  Nellie  Merriman,  of 
Meridian,  the  only  child  of  well-to-do 
parents.  She  had  known  James  Benson 
ten  years  before  their  marriage  and 
thought  him  an  exemplary  young  man. 
Two  daughters,  Ethel  and  Annie  Ben­
son,  are  living  with  their  mother  at  956 
Le  Moyne  avenue,  Chicago.

Reason  for  Remorse.

Wife—Give  me  that 

Hubby— Here  you  are. 

letter  you  just 
opened. 
I  can  see  it’s  from  a  woman, 
and  you  turned  pale  when  you  looked 
at  it.
It  is  the  bill 
from  your  dressmaker.  Who  wouldn’t 
turn  pale?
REM O D ELED   H O T E L   B U T L E R
I.  M. BROWN, PROP.
Rates, $1. 

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

Taggart,  Knappen  &  Denison,

PATENT ATTORNEYS

811-817 Mich. Trust Bldg.,  *  Grand Rapids

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Patents Obtained.  Patent Litigation 
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Drugs—Chemicals

——  

MICHIOAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
-  Deo. 31,1899 
A. C. Schukachib,  A nn  Arbor 
Dec. 81,1900
Gxo. Qukdbux,  Ionia  - 
-  Dec. 31,1901
L. B. Reynolds, St.  Joseph 
- 
Hxhbt Heim, Saginaw  - -  - 
-  Dec. 31,1902
Wirt P. Doty, Detroit 
-  Dec. 31,1803
• 

Term exptics

President, Geo.  Gukdrum, lonla.
Secretary, A. C. S c h u m a c h e r ,  A n n  Arbor. 
Treasurer, Henby  Heim, Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions.
Honghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION.
President—O. E bebbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Chas. F. Mann, Detroit.
Treasurer—J. S. Ben n ett,  Lansing.
Divers  Dont’s  For  the  Fountain.
Don’t  turn  the soda-water draught arm 
on  and  off  with  a  jsrk,  nor  screw  it  up 
home  with  all  the  force  you  can muster. 
You  may  imagine  that  in  this  way  you 
are  preventing  all 
leakage,  but  as  a 
matter  of  fact  you  are  merely  preparing 
for  yourself  no  end  of  future  trouble  by 
damaging  the  valve  seat  and  so giving 
rise to  continual  future  leakage.  ~

Don't  take  it  for  granted  that  there  is 
any  advantage  in  using  thin  syrup.  The 
economy 
is  trivial  and  the  soda-water 
drawn  loses  much  of  its  pungency.  So 
long  as  the  syrup  is  thin  enough  to  run 
easily,  and  is not  so  thick  as  to  be  liable 
to  form  sugar  crystals,  you need  not  fear 
havi ng  it  of  too  great  density.  Sugar 
crystals  will  cause  endless annoyance  by 
obstructing  the  valve  seat  of  faucet  and 
producing  constant  dripping,  but  the 
formation  of  these  crystals 
is  more  a 
matter  of  properly  cooking  the  syrup 
than  of  its  density  when  prepared.

Don’t 

imagine  that 

it  is  enough  to 
put  the  ice  into  the  ice-box  and then  let 
it  take  care  of  itself.  At  least  once 
every  hour,  and  better  oftener,  the  ice 
should  be  forced  down  upon  the  coolers 
by  means  of  any  convenient  rod ;  other­
wise 
in  the  form  of an 
arch  some  distance  above  the  coolers 
and  will  furnish  almost  no  refrigeration 
for  the  soda-water.

it  will  freeze 

frozen  soda-water 

Don’t try  the  tempting  plan  of adding 
If  you 
salt  to  the  ice  in  the  apparatus. 
injure  your  ap­
do,  you  will  certainly 
paratus  and  will  have  besides  an  ex­
ceedingly  annoying  task  in  thawing  out 
the 
the  pipes. 
There  may  come  a  day  when  liquid  air 
or  some  analogous  substance  can  be  so 
controlled  as  to  render 
it  possible to 
thoroughly  cool  soda-water  without  any 
danger  of  freezing,  but  until  that  time 
comes  it  is  best  to  use  ice  only  for  per­
forming  the  refrigeration,  using  more 
coolers or  larger ones  if  necessary.

in 

Don’t  try  to  empty  completely  the 
portable  fountains  of  soda-water.  The 
last  quarts  of  water  have  little or no 
pungency  and  are  very  apt  to  sputtei. 
It  is  a  mistaken  economy  to  serve  up  a 
few  flat  tumblerfuls  of  soda-water  for 
the  sake  of emptying  the  fountain.

Don’t 

imagine  that  mineral  water 
should  be  drawn  as  cold  as  soda-water. 
There 
is  as  much  danger  of  drawing 
mineral  water  too  cold  as  there  is  of 
drawing  the  soda-water  too  warm.

Don’t  take  it  for granted  that  sputter­
ing  at  the  soda-water  counter  is  un­
avoidable.  Sputtering  is  not  only  an­
noying 
in  itself,  but  it  also  indicates a 
lack  of  pungency  in  the  beverage,  since 
the  gas  which  produces  the  sputtering 
should  be  dissolved in  the  water.  Sput­
tering 
is  largely  due  to  a  bck  of  uni­
formity  in  the  size  of  the pipes  through 
which  the  soda-water  is  drawn,  to the 
imperfect  cooling  of  the beverage  or  to 
the  fact  that  the  soda  water  is  not  per­
fectly  charged.

Don’t be  too  lavish  in  the  use  of  soda 
foam.  An  excess  of  foam  is  annoying 
to the  customer, who  feels  cheated  of  his 
full  money’s  worth.

Don't  allow  the  ice-box  of  your  ap­
paratus  to acquire an  unpleasant  odor. 
Such-  odors  are  due  generally  to  the 
slopping  over  of  the  syrups,  or  to  the 
introduction  of  impurities  with  the  ice. 
is  no  excuse  for  the  slopping 
There 
over  of  syrups. 
If  the  tanks are  taken 
out  of  the  apparatus  whenever  they  re­
quire  refilling,  and  the  syrups  are  not 
allowed  to  611  more  than  three-quarters 
of  the  tank,  there  will  be  little  danger, 
if  any,  of  the  syrup  being  overturned 
into  the  tank.  Even 
if  the  tanks  are 
filled 
in  the  apparatus,  a  small  amount 
of  care  will  suffice  to  prevent  any  over­
flow  of the  syrup.

to 

T h o m a s  W a r w ic k .

Don’t  insert a  new  rubber  or  leather 
washer  in  any  part  of  the  apparatus 
without  first  soaking  it  a  few  hours 
in 
water  to  soften  and  cleanse  it.  New 
rubber  is  especially  apt  to give a  slight­
ly  sulphurous  taste  or  odor  to  soda- 
water  that  chances  to  stand  any  length 
of  time  in  the  pipes,  and  for  this  rea­
son  all  rubber  washers  liable  to  come 
into contact with  the  beverage  should  be 
first  soaked  in  a  solution  of carbonate  of 
sodium  in  water,  made as  strong  as  the 
band  can  bear  it,  and  the washers should 
be afterwards  thoroughly 
rinsed  with 
pure  water. 
The  Pharmacist  as  a  Business  Man.
The drug  business  requires a business 
itself,  and 
qualification  peculiar 
varying 
in  degree  and  kind  with  cir­
cumstances  and  surroundings.  There 
are  a  few  general  precepts,  howevei, 
which  it  may  be  useful  briefly  to  men­
tion :  The  modern  drug  store,  as  re­
gards  its business  nature,  must  be  con­
ducted  as  are  other  businesses.  There 
must  be 
in  employment  a  sound  and 
adequate  system  of  book-keeping;  the 
general  stock  must  be  kept  in  a  salable 
condition  and  well  assorted  to  meet  the 
requirements  of  the  trade  sought;  the 
clerks  should  be  good  salesmen  in  all 
the 
advertising 
methods  must  receive  constant  atten­
tion ;  all  the  best  rules  and  methods of 
stores 
in  ordinary  are  to  be carefully 
observed.  The  druggist  enjoys  *>xcep- 
tional  advantages  for  the  profitable  ex­
tension  of his  trade.  His  show  windows 
are  generally  considered  the  acme  of 
perfection  for  display  purposes  with  the 
nature of  the  stock  he  carries.  He  can, 
with  little  effort  and  expenditure,  build 
up  a  highly  profitable  trade  in  house­
hold  specialties,  for  the  preparation  of 
which  his  professional  education  has 
equipped  him.  He  must avoid  the  mis­
take of  giving  all  manner  of  free public 
service,  and  the  sale  of goods  for 
little 
or no  profit.  As  a  tradesman,  he  is  en­
titled  to  a 
fair  profit,  as  are  other 
tradesmen,  and  to  no  more,  bnt  as  a 
professional  man  he  is  entitled  in  ex­
acting  a  professional  profit  as  a  reward 
for  the  "know  how."  Under  no  cir­
cumstances  should  be  demand  profes­
sional  profit  upon  mercantile 
com­
modities,  nor  vice  versa. 
In  brief,  in 
business  be a  business  man;  behind  the 
prescription  case  be  the  careful,  con­
scientious,  competent  disciple  of  an 
honorable  and  honored profession.  The 
two  can  be  conducted  along  parallel 
lines,  but  must  not  meet;  they  do not 
mix  without 
incompatibility.— Cbas. 
W.  Parsons  in  Pharmaceutical  Era.

implies;  the 

term 

Why  men  drink 

woman;  but 
staggers the  men.

it 

is  what  staggers  a 
is  what  they  drink  that 

Some  Observations  in the Dispensary.
When  ointments  are  of  a  semifluid 
character, or  if  very  volatile  ingredients 
are  present,  a  wide-mouthed  stoppered 
bottle  should  be  used.  Very  poisonous 
ointments  should  be  labeled  "Poison" 
on  the  pot  as  well  as  on  the  lid.  Thy­
mol, 
phenol,  menthol,  and  similar 
bodies  soluble  in  oils  should  be  warmed 
with  a  portion  of  the  fatty  basis  until 
dissolved,  then 
incorporated  with  the 
remainder  on  a  slab.  Resorcin,  co­
caine,  hydrochloride,  and  other  sub­
stances  extremely  soluble  in  water  may 
be  dissolved  on  the  slab  with  an  equal 
quantity  of  water,  and  then  thoroughly 
mixed  with  the  basis;  but  when  other 
medicaments  are prescribed  in addition, 
which  may  involve  chemical  decompo­
sition,  it  is  better to  avoid  the  use  of 
water.  Powder  the 
ingredients  finely 
and  rub  separately  with  a  little  of  the 
fat  before  finally  mixing  together.

The  cork  deserves  more attention than 
it  usually  receives.  The  dispenser  too 
often  uses  the  very  biggest  cork  he  can 
possibly  ram  into  the  neck  of  the  bottle 
with  a  forward  twist;  at  the  patient’s 
bouse  the  attempt  to  extract  it  is  often 
by a  reverse  twist.  Such  treatment  the 
best  cork  will  scarcely  stand,  and  the 
result 
is  a  broken  cork,  which  causes 
intense  annoyance.  The  best  quality 
cork  should  always  be  used;  it  should 
not  be  too  tightly  inserted,  and  a  very 
thin  coating  of  glycerin  may  with  ad­
vantage  be  applied  to  the  lower  half  of 
the  cork,  especially  for a  bottle  contain­
ing  a 
large  number  of  doses,  in  which 
case,  of  course,  it  will  have  to  be  rein­
serted  a  great  number  of times.

In  a  great  many 

instances  the  in­
gredients  of  a  formula  require  to be 
mixed 
in  some  special  order  so  as  to 
produce  the  best  result,  and  it  is  desir­
able  in  such  cases  to  record  the  modus 
operand!  on  the  copy,  so  that,  when  re­
peated,  the  same  method  shall  be  fol­
In  the  absence  of  any  particu­
lowed. 
lar 
indication  of  this  kind  it  is best  to 
commence  by  putting  half  the  vehicle 
into the  bottle,  then  weigh  in the soluble 
solids,  triturate  the  insoluble  solids  in 
a  mortar  with  a  little  of  the  vehicle and 
transfer  to  the  bottle,  then  measure  in 
the  fluids  and  fill  up,  cork  the  bottle, 
and  shake  thoroughly.

When  the  quantity  of  solid  ordered  is 
within  the  limit  of  its  solubility  in  the 
prescribed  vehicle,  it  should  be  com­
pletely  dissolved  before  sending  out.

Benzoate  of  ammonia  should  be  light­
ly  rubbed  to  a  very  fine  powder  in  a 
dry  mortar,  triturated  with  a  little  water 
to a  uniform cream, then diluted further, 
and  shaken  until  dissolved.  The  com­
mercial  salt 
is  sometimes  unduly  acid

a n d   d ifficu ltly   so lu b le ;  if  so,  it  sh o u ld  
b e  n e u tra liz ed   w ith   a  little   a m m o n ia . 
T h e   n e u tra l  salt  is  so lu b le  in  five  p a rts  
of  w ater. 

R .  H .  P a r k e r .

The  Drug  Market.

Opium—Touched  bottom*  the  first  of 
last  week,  but  on  account  of  the  higher 
primary  market,  has  reacted  and  is  ad­
vancing.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine—Is  weak  and  tending  lower.
Cinchonidia— Is  very  firm  and  tend­
ing  higher.  Prices  are  now  higher  than 
quinine.

Ergot—Crop  is  short  and  price  is  .ad­

Quicksilver— Has advanced  and  tend­

vancing  daily.

ing  higher.

Santonine— On  account  of  the scarcity 
of  worm  seed,  has  again  advanced  and 
higher  prices are  looked  for.

Cocaine— Is  very  firm  at  the  advances 
of  the  past  two  weeks,  amounting  to  $i 
leaves  continue 
per  oz.  As 
scarce,  another  advance 
cocaine 
would  not  surprise  anybody.

cocoa 

in 

Glycerine—Has  again  advanced  and 
is  very  firm,  on  account  of  the  high 
price  for  crude.

Menthol—Has  advanced,  on  account 

of  the  higher  price  abroad.

Essential  Oils—There 

is  no  change 
of  any 
importance,  except  an  advance 
in  pure  wintergreen,  on  account  of  scar­
city.

Bucbu  Leaves— Have  advanced  under 

the  active  demand.

Canary  Seed— Is  very  firm  at  present 
price.  An  early  advance  is  looked  for.
California  Yellow  Mustard  Seed— 
Lower,  on  account  of  the  influence  of 
the  new  crop.

Linseed  Oil—On  acconnt  of  the  high­
er  price  for  seed,  has advanced 6c in  the 
last  week.

Ipecac  Root— Is  lower,  on  account  of 

better supplies.

Liquor  has  a  peculiar  way  of  getting 
the  best  of  a  fellow  after  he  gets  it 
down.

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advaaced— 
Declined—

Morphia,S.P.AW...  2 20® 2 45 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co....................  2 10® 2 35
Moschus Canton__ 
©  40
Myristica, No. 1......  
66®  80
Nux Vomica... po.20 
©  10
Os  Sepia................. 
18®  20
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co.................... 
®  1  00
Picis Llq.N.N.M gal.
©200
doz........................ 
Picis Llq.,quart8__ 
©  1  00
Picis Liq., pints...... 
©  85
©  50
PllHydrarg...po.  80 
©  18
Pi per Nigra... po.  22 
Piper Alba__po.35 
®  30
Pi lx  Burgun...........  @ 
7
Plumb!  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1 20 
Py rethrum, boxes H.
©125
& P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum, pv........  25®  30
8®  10
Quassia..................  
Quinla, S. P. & W .. 
39®  41
34®  44
Quinta, S.German.. 
Qnlnia,N.Y............   36®  44
Rubia Tinetorum... 
12®  14
SaccharumLactis pv  18®  20
Salacin....................  3 50® 3 60
Sanguis Draconis... 
40®  50
Sapo,  W................... 
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
Sapo, G.................... 
®  15
Siedlltz  Mixture....  20  ©  22

Slnapis......................
Sinapis,  opt..............
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.......................
Snuff,Sco tch,DeVo’s
Soda Boras...............   9
Soda Boras, po........  9
Soda et Potass Tart. 
2
Soda,  Carb..............  1MC
Soda, Bi-Carb.........
Soda, Ash...............   3y
Soda, Sulphas..........
Spts. Cologne............
Spts. Ether  Co........
Spt.  Myrcia Dom...
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.
Spts. Vini Rect. Mbbl 
Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  30® 1  35
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2V©  4
2m®3M
Sulphur,  Roll......... 
Tam arinds...............  
10
8® 
Terebenth Venice... 
28®  30
Theobroma............   48®  50
Vanilla....................  9 00@16 00
Zinc!  Sulph.
8

7© 

©

Oita

Whale, winter. 
Lard,  extra.... 
Lard, No. 1.....

BBL.  SAL.
70
70 
50 
60
35 
40

ie

Linseed, pure  raw..  41 
Linseed,  Dolled......   42 
Neatsfoot, winter str  54 
Spirits Turpentine..  48 

44
45
60
55

Faints  BBL. 

LB
Red Venetian.........   1M  2  ©a
Ochre, yenow Mars.  IK  2  ©4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
IK  2  ©3 
Putty, commercial..  2M 2M©3 
Putty, strictly pure.  2M  2K@3 
Vermilion,  P r i m e
American.............  
13©  16
75
Vermilion, English.  70® 
Green, Paris...........  13M®  1?M
Green,  Peninsular..  13® 
16
Lead, Red...............   5K®  6m
Lead, white............  5K©  6M
©  70
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’... 
®  10
White, Paris Amer.. 
©  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Bug.
©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 Pum __  1  00® 1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No.lTurp  70®  75

40

38® 

Acidnm
Acetlcum.................•
Benzolcum, German
Boraclc....................
Carbolicum ..............
Cltrlcum ...................
H vdrochlor..............
N itrocum .................
Oxallcum...............
Phoephorium,  dll...
SaUeylieum.............
Sulpburlcum...........  IK
T an n lcum ...............   1  25
Tartarleum...............  
Ammonia
Aqua, 18 deg...........
Aqua, 90 deg...........
Carbonas...................
Chlorldum ...............
Aniline
Black.........................2
Brown....................
B ed.........................
Y ello w ........................ 9
Cubeae...........po. 18 
13®  15
Junlperus................ 
o®. 
8
Xantnoxylum.........   95®  30
Baleamnm
Copaiba...................   50®  »
Peru......................... 
_®  2 75
Terabin, Canada—  
45®  50
Tolntan...................   50®  55
Cortex
Abies, Canadian.... 
f!.—<■»....................  
Cinchona Flaya...... 
Euonymns atropurp 
Myrica Cerlfera, po. 
Pranns Virgini........ 
Qulllala,  gr’d .........  
Sainafraa........po. 18 
Ulmus...po. isfgr’d 
Bxtractnm
Qlycyrrhlxa Glabra. 

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
15

Conium Mac...........
35®
50 
Copaiba..................
25 
' S i  
Cubeba....................
00 
Bxechthitos...........
1  00®  1 
10 
Erigeron.................
1 00®  1 
10 
Gaultherla..............
1  50® 1
60 
Geranium,  ounce...
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal..
50®  60 
Hedeoma.................
1  25®  1  35 
Junipera..................
1  50® 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90®  2 00
Limonis..................   i 3*@  i  «
Mentha Piper.........  1  60® 2 20
Mentha Verid 
Morrhua,  gal
Myicla,.........
Olive
Picis  Liquids 
Picis Liquids, gal 
B id n a....
Kosmarlnl 
„
Rosa,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succinl...................  40®  45
Sabina................... 
90®  l 00
Santal......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras...............   —
Sint,pis, ess., ounce 
Tlglu..
Thyme 
Thyme,  opt.
Theobromas
Potassium
Bi Carb.................... 
15®
ia®
Bichromate............ 
Bromide..................  5 @
Carb....................... 
12®
Chlorate..po. 17®19(-  16®
Cyanide..................   35®
Iodide......................  2 40®
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
®
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10®
Potass Nitras........... 
10®
Prussiate................. 
2u®
Sulphate p o ........... 
15®

Ferro

Hamatox, I s ........... 
Hamatox, Ms.........  
Hamatox, Ms.........  
Carbonate Preclp..■ 
Citrate and Qulnla.. 
Citrate Soluble........ 
Perrocyanidum Sol. 
Solnt  Chloride......  
Sulphate, com’l ......  
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........  
Sulphate, p u re ......  

Arnica.................... 
12®  14
Anthemis................  *2©  25
Matricaria..............  30®  35

Flora

Folia

24®  25
S I
13®  14
14®  15
,6®  17
18
2 25
75
40
13
2
50
7

30

Ü
12®
8®

12®

50®

50®

10 
1  00 
70 
30 
2 00 
00 
40 
5® 3 30 
35 
45 
40®
80
50®

25 
20 
25 
28 
23 
25

Radix
Aconltvm.............. 
20a
A ltha.................... 
2g®
10®
Anchusa................. 
Arum po.................. 
®
20®
Calamus................ 
12®
Gentians........po.  15 
16® 
Glychrrhisa... pv. 15 
®
Hydrastis Canaden. 
®
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
18®
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
Inula, po................. 
15®
4 go®
Ipecac, po........ 
Iris plox.... po35®38  35®
Jalapa. pr...............   25®
Maranta,  Ms........... 
®
22®
Podophyllum, po... 
B h ei...........75®
Rhel, cut...............  
®
Rhel.py...............  
75®
Spigefia...................  35®
Sanguinaria... po. 15  @
Serpentarla............   40®
Senega....................  40®
®
Similar, officinalis H 
Smilax, M...............  
®
10®
Scilla............ .po.35 
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus, po................. 
®
®
Valeriana,Eng. po.30 
15®
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ...............  
120
Zingiber]...............  
25®
5emen
Anisum......... po.  15
Apium  (graveleons)
Bud, Is.................. .
Carui..............po. 18
Cardamon...............
Corlandrnm............
Cannabis  Satlva.
Cvdonium...............
Chenopodium  ........ 
Dlpterix  Odorate. ..  1
Foeniculum............
Foenugreek, po........
U n i...........flT........
Llni,  grd__bbl. 3U
Lobelia............... ...
Pharlarls  Canarian
Rapa......................
Sinapis Albu........... 
Slnapis Nigra.........  
Spiritus

11

4M®
4M®
'9®
11®

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2
Frum enti...............
Juniperis Co. O. T..
Juniperis Co...........
Saacharum N. E__
Spt. Vini GaUi........
Vini Oporto............
Vini Alba...............
5ponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............   2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............   2 00® 2 25
Velvet extra sheeps’
®  1  50 
wool, carriage......
Extra yellow sheeps’
®  1  25
wool,  carriage__
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
®  1  00 
carriage...............
®  75
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R eef,  for 
®  1  40
slate  use..............
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac... 
..........
Ferri Iod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis.  .
Senega...;..........
Soil!«.......

Barosma..................  
Cassia Acntifol, Tin­
ner elly.................
Cassia Acntifol,Alx.
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and Ms.................
Ora Ural..............  ..
Gamml 
Aoada,  1st picked..
Acacia, 2d  picked..
Acacia, 3d  picked..
Acacia, sifted sorts.
Acacia, p a ..............
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20 
Aloe, Cape ....po. 15 
Aloe, Socotri. .pa 40
Ammonlao..*..........
Assafcstida__ po. 30
Benaolnum............
Catechu, Is..............
Catechu, Ms............
Catechu, Ms-...........
Camphor«..............
Ruphorbium..po.  35
Galbannm................
Gamboge  po...........
Gualacum...... po. 25
Kino...........po. 12. uO
M astic....................
M yrh............ po.  46
Opu ...po. 4.40©64.'0 3
Shellac....................
Shellac, bleached...
Tragacanth ............
Herb«
Abslnthium. oz. pkg 
Bupatorium .os. pkg
Lobelia........os. pkg
Majornm ....os. pkg 
Mentha Pip. .os. pkg 
Mentha VIr..os. pkg
Bue........ 
os. pkg
TanaoetumV os. pkg 
Thymus,  V..os. pkg 
flagnesla.
Calcined, P a t.........
Carbonate, Pat........
Carbonate, K. A M..
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum

Absinthium............   4
Amygdala, Dulo....  3H 1
Amygdala, Amara .  8 00® 8 25
Anisf.......................  I f
Anrantl  Cortex...... 2 it
Bergamii.................   2 8
Cajlputl...................  75®
i j X ? yT : : :
Ohenopadii.......
rinnamonli............. 
Ciwonells................ 

_
8i|  I

50
50
50
60 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
50 
75 
50 
75 
75 
I  00 50 
50 
90 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50

®
©
©

niscellaneous 

Scillae Co.................  
Tolutan.................  
Pranns virg............  
Tinctures 
Aoonltum N apellis B 
Aconi turn N apellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrii__
Arnica....................
Assafoetida............
At rope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin..................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.........   .....
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon..........
Cardamon Co.........
Castor.....................
Catechu..................
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co...........
Columba  ...............
Cubeba....................
Cassia Acntifol......
Cassia Acntifol Co
Digitalis.........
Ergot......................
Ferri Chlorldum
Gentian...........
Gentian Co............
Guiaca..................
Guiaca ammon......
Hyoscyamus.........
Iodine.....................
Iodine, colorless....
Kino......................
Lobelia..................
Myrrh.....................
Nux Vomica.........
Opii.......................
Opii, camphorated.
Opii, deodorized.
Quassia............
Rhatany.................
Rhei.......................
Sanguinaria .  ........
Serpentarla............
Stramonium...........
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride...
Zingiber..................
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 3F  30® 
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F
Alumen..  ..............  2;
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7
A nnatto.................
Antimonl,  po__
Antimoni etPotassT
Antipyrin..............
Antifebrin............
Argenti Nitras, oz !!
Arsenicum..............
Balm Gilead  Bud".'.
Bismuth  S. N.........
Calcium Chlor.,  is. 
Calcium Chlor., Ms. 
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms. 
Cantharides, Rns.po 
Capsici  Fructus, af.
Capsid Fructus, po.
Capsici FructusB,po 
Caryophyllus..po.  15
Carmine, No. 40__
Cera Alba...............
Cera Flava..............
Coccus....................
Cassia Fructus........
Centrarla.................
Cetaceum................
Chloroform.............
Chloroform, squibbs
Chloral Hyd Crst 
Chondrus..............  
a
Cinchonidlne.P.A w  3 
Cinchonidine, Germ  3
Cocaine..................   4 8
Corks, list, di8.pr.ct.
Creosotum...........
Creta............ bbl. 75
Creta, prep..............
Creta, preclp...........
Creta, Rubra...........
Crocus....................
Cudbear.................
CupriSulph............
Dextrine..................
Ether Sulph............
Emery, all  numbers
Emery, po...............
Ergota............ po 7)  1
o l
la®
Flake  White........... 
Galla........................  @
8®
Gambler.  ................ 
Gelatin, Cooper...... 
©
Gelatin, French......  
35®
75
Glassware, flint, box 
Less  than  box__
Glue,  brown........... 
9®
13®
Glue, white............  
Glycerlna................  15®
Grana  Paradis!  __  
©
Humulus................. 
25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
© 
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
Hydraag Ammoniati 
Hydraag Unguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
Ichthyobolla, Am...
Indigo.....................
Iodine, Resubi........  3
Iodoform.................
Lupulin...................
Lycopodium...........
Macis 
Liquor  Arsen et Hy-
drarg Iod.............
LiquorPolassArsinlt
Magnesia. Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
Manilla, S. F .........
Menthol.................

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

  1

»

M

m

WAIT
FOR
THE
WINNER

W e take pleasure in in­
forming the  Michigan 
trade that our  Mr.  McKay 
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 PID S,
MICH.

20

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

GROCERY PRICE CURREN*.

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  GRBA5B.
Aurora.........................55 
Castor O il....................60 
Diamond.....................50 
Fraser’s ..................... .75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
Mica, tin boxes............75 
Paragon.......................56 

do*,  gross
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
’b cans dos................... 
45
tt Id jans dos................... 
85
lb can  dos..................  1 50
1 
w lb cans 8 dos................. 
45
tt lb cans > dos............ 
76
lb cans 1 dos................  1 00
l 
balk...................................  
10
6 os. Eng. Tumblers........... 
85

Arctic.

Acme.

6 oz. cans, 4 doz case......... 
80
9 oz. cans, 4 doz case.........   1 20
lb. cans, 2 doz  case.....2  00
1 
2% lb. cans, 1 doz  case.....4  75
5 
lb. cans, 1 doz  case.....9  00
14 lb cans per dos............   75
£  lb cans per dos  ...........  1  20
lb cans per dos.............2  00
1 
)4 lb cans 4 dos case........ 
85
tt lb cans 4 dos case........ 
56
1 
lb cans 2 dos case  ......  
90

El Parity.

Horn*.

BLUING.COJffilNSED

BROOnS.

CANDLES.

Small, 3 doz.......................  
Large, 2 doz.......................... 

40
75
1 Carpet.......................  2 31
Mo. 2 Carpet.......................2  15
No. 3 Carpet.— ..............1  85
No. 4 Carpet.......................   1  45
Parlor Gem.......................   2 50
Common Whisk................ 
95
Fancy Whisk......... ..........  ICO
Warehouse.........................* 70
8s 
..................................... 7
16s  ........................................ 8
Paraffine.................................. 8
W lcking.................................20
CATSUP.
Columbia, 
Columbia  14 pints 
a  44 pints
CHEESE
Acme......   ...
Amboy...........
Butternut......
Carson  City.  .
Elsie...............
Emblem.........
Gem...............
Gold Medal__
Ideal..............
Jersey...........
Riverside........
Brick..............
Edam..............
Leiden...........
Limburger —
Pineapple.......
Sap  Sago.................
Chicory
Bulk 
Red 

pints  ............ 2 00
....... 1  25
10*4
Utt
11
11
lit t
11
211
11
10*
lit t
12
70
17
13
75
17
6
7

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

_  
CHOCOLATE.
.  - 

Walter Baker A Co.’s. 

..28
German Sweet.. 
Premium..............................   35
46
Break fBut  Pnw*# 

.50

6k

®

®

COFFEE.
Roasted.

Rle.

 

85

Peerless.

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

Oar Leader.

Qaeen Plaice,

BATH  BRICK

Jersey Cream.

CANNED GOODS

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

45
85
lb cans, 2 doz case........160

v  lb cans, 4 doz case......  
14 lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
1 
1 lb. cans, per doz..................  2 00
9 os. cans, per dos..................  1 25
85
6 os. cans, per dos.............  
14 lb cans.......................... 
45
tt lb cans..........................  76
1 
1 lb. c a n s......................... 
os., 6 doz. case.................  2 70
3 
6 os., 4 doz. case 
9 os., 4 dos. case....................... 4 80
1 lb., 2 dos. case.......................4 00
5 lb., 1 dos. case....................... 9 00
American.............................   76
English.........  
  80
Tomatoes...................  80©  90
Com............................  80@1  00
Hominy.....................  80
Beans, Limas..............  70@l  30
Beans, Wax................  90
Beans, String..............  85
Beans,  Baked............   75@l  00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  75®
Succotash...................  95@1  20
Peas............................  50®  %
Peas, French.............. 2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.................  15®  22
Peaches, P ie...............1  00
Peaches, Fancy..........1  40
Apples,  gallons.........   @3
Cherries  ....................  90
Pears..........................  70
Pineapple, grated...... 1  75  2  4O
Pineapple, sliced........1 31  2 25
Pineapple,  Farren__ 1  70
Strawberries 
1  10 80
Blackberries
Raspberries.................   85
Oysters, 1- l b . ... ... .. ..  9J
Oysters, 2-lb................1  55
Salmon, flats, key......1  70
Salmon, tt lb. flats....  % 
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. 1  75
Shrimps...................... 2 00
Sardines, 34s domestic  3)4® 
Sardines, mstrd.dom. 5)4®  7)4 
Sardines,  French.......8d@o22

rberri

 

JlTI.

Mocha.

Santee.

Maracaibo.

F a ir........................................ »
Good.......................................10
Prim e..................................... 1*
Golden  .................................. 13
Peaberry  ............................... «
Fair  .......................................M
Good  .....................................15
Prim e.................................... 16
Peaberry  ...............................18
Prim e................................  
15
Milled...............................  
-  17
Interior...................................26
Private  Growth...................... 30
Mandehling............................ 36
Im itation...... ........................ 22
Arabian  ............ 
28
Reacted.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co-’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......  
29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha— 29
Wells’ Mocha and Java-----24
Wells’ Perfection  Java...... 24
Sancaibo.................... -*•— 21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo 
... 18tt
Ideal  Blend......................... 14
Leader Blend...................... 18 tt
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit on  the 
invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  bnyer  pays  from  the 
market in  which  ne purchases 
to his shipping point, Including 
weight  of  package,  also lie  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   10 50
Jersey.............................   10 50
ncLaeghlta’s  XXXX 
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail  all orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City tt gross...... 
75
1  15
Felix tt gross.................  
Hummel’s foil tt gross... 
85 
1  48
Hummel’s tin tt  gross... 
CL0THB5 PINS 
5 gran b o x e s ....,..................40

Package.

Extract.

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos..........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dos..........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  dos..........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  dos..........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  d o s ........1  80
Jnte, 60 ft.  peT  dos.............  80
Jute. 7* •t  tip'  <*rbu...........   9r

COCOA.

James Epps & Co.’s.

Boxes, 7 lbs............................. 40
Cases, 16 boxes........................38
CJCOA SHELLS.
201b  bags.......................  
2V4
Less quantity.................  
8
Pound  packages............. 
4
CRBATI TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk In sacks..........................29

CO N D EN SED   M IL K .

4  dos in case.
Gall Borden  Eagle..................6 75
Crown......................................6 25
Daisy 
Magnolia 
Challenge 
Dime 

......  
75
.......................   * »
....................8 35
..8 85

.... 

 

 

c o u p o n   BOOKS.
Tradesman Grade.

Credit Checks.

Saperior Grade.

Universal Grade.

Economic Grade.

denomination from 910 down.

50 books, any denom....  1  50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00
50 books, any denom—   1  50 
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500books  any denom ....It  50
1.000 books, any denom —  20 00
50 books, any denom....  1  50 
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books, any denom. ...11 50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00
50 books, any denom....  1  50 
100 books, any denom....  2 60 
500 books, any denom....11 50
1.000 books, any denom... .20 00
500, any one denom’n ...... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 6 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch................--- -- 
*»
Coupon Pm  Books,
Can be made to represent any 
20 books  .......................   1  2°
50 books.................................f 09
100 books  ...........................* 22
260 books.................................C *
500 books................................J2 22
1000 books................................>7 50
DRIBD FRUITS—DOnBSTIC 
Sundrled....................... O 7tt
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  QlOtt 
Apricots.....................   ©*5
Blackberries...............
Nectarines................. O
Peaches...................... 10  O il
Pears.................... . 
©
Pitted Cherries..........  
Prnnnelles..................
Raspberries....... ■■—
100-1» 25 lb boxes.........   0  4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   O » ,
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........   O »tt
70-80 25 lb boxes.........   0  6)4
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........   O 2*
50-6025 lb boxes.........  0  2
40-50 25 lb boxes.........  Q10
»-40 25 lb boxes.........  O
cent less in 50 lb cases 
14 

California PraaM.

California Pratts.

Applet.

7X

RsUhu.

London Layers 2 Croyn. 
1  60 
London Layers 3 Crown.
1  75
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
634
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
7tt
L. M., Seeded, choice......   8
L. M , Seeded, fancy.......   8)4

POREIQN.
Citron.

Peel,

Currants.

Leghorn..........................®1J
Corsican..........................@12
Patras bbls...................... © 6)4
Cleaned, b u lk ................ ® 6)4
Cleaned, packages..........© 7_i
Citron American 10 lb bx ©18 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©10)4 
Orange American 101b bx ©10)4 
Ondura 28 lb boxes......  ©
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Snltana 2 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 3 Crown..........  ©
Snltana 4 Crown.........   O
Snltana 5 Crown.........   ©
Snltana 6 Crown.........   O
Snltana package.........   ©

Raisins.

Farina.

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

Grits.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Peas.

Beans.

Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

. 
Rolled  Data.

24 2 lb. packages................ 1 80
100 lb. kegs........................ 2 70
200 lb. barrels. 
...............5  10
Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 501b.  drums...........1 00
Dried L im a.................. 
R*4
Medium Hand Picked 1  20© 1  25 
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
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  60
Rolled Avena,  bbl........4 00
Monarch,  bbl.................. 3  75
Monarch,  tt  bbl..............2  U0
Monarch, 90 lb sacks....... 1  80
Quaker, cases..................8  »
Huron, cases....................8  00
German............................  4
East  Tndia__  
3)4
Besley’s Self Rising Flours. 
2 lb. cartons, 2 dz. in case..  1  80 
6 lb. sacks, 1 dz. in case....  2 40 
9 lb. sacks, 1 dz. In jnte....  3 35 
2 lb. cartons. 2 dz. in  case..  1  80 
2 lb. cartons, 2 dz. In case..  1  80 
Flake.............................. 
6
  4)4
Pearl.............................. 
Pearl, 24 1 lb. pkgea........ 
634
Cracked, bulk...................  8)4
24 2 lb packages...............2 50

Graham.
Tapioca.

Entire Wheat.

Pastry.

Wheat.

Sage.

SALT  PISH.

Cod.

Herring.

flnckerel.

Georges cured............  © 5
Georges genuine.......  © 5)4
Georges selected........  © 6
Strips or bricks......... 6  © 9
Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 25 
Holland white hoop ttbbl  5 85 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mchs 
85
Norwegian.......................
Round 1» lbs...................  3 10
Round  40 lbs........  ........  140
Scaled...............................  
15
Mess 100 lbs......................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs.  ...................  6 »
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  «
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  35
No.  i 100 lbs......................  13 »
No. 1  40 lbs. 
So. 1  10 ibs...................... 
48
No. 1  8 lbs  ....................   1 80
No.8 100lbs...  ................  U  50
So. 2  40 lbs......................  4  91
So. 2  10 lbs......................  130
No. 2  8 lbs......................  1  07
No. 1 100 lbs......................
No. 1  40 lbs------- ---------
No. 1  101b«.............
So. 1  8 l b s ....................
Whno-iu

.  ..............  5

No. 1  1  o.  !  Fam
100 lbs...........7 CO  6  60  2 2)
40 lbs...........  8  10  2  90  1  20
10 lbs........... 
88
81ba........... 
SS
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

Trout.

80 
66 

85 
^  

Van.  Lem. 
doz.
doz. 
XXX, 2 oz. obert......1  25 
7S
XXX, 4 oz. taper.  ..2 25 
1 2
XX, 2 oz. obert......  1  00
No. 2,2oz. obert  ....  75 
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz... 

Perrtgo’a.

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

2 25
1 75
2 25
Lem.  Van.
1 2(
1 »
2 00
2.25

Jennings’ .

D. C. Lemon
D.C. Vanilla 
2 oz.___  75
2 Oz.........1 »
3 oz........1  00
3 oz.........1 50
4 oz........1 40
4 oz........ 2 00
6 oz.......2 00
6 oz........ 8 00
No.  8...2 40 
No.  8  4 00
No. 10.. .4 00 
No. 10.  .6 00 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  2 T.l 25 
No.  3 T.l  25 
No.  3T.2 00 
No.  4 T.l 50
No  4 T.2 40
Perrigo's Lightning, gro----2 50
Petrolatum, per doz.......... ..  75

FLY  PAPER.

Sage..
Hops

HERBS.

INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb  boxes...........   56
S.  F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes....  50

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs 
...... .................... 4 00
Half Kegs............................2 25
Quarter Kegs...................... 1 85
t lb. cahs......................
tt lb. cans............................  18

Choke Boro—Dupont’ a.
K egs.......................... ........ 4
Half Kegs............................2 40
Quarter Kegs...................... 1 35
1 lb. cans.............................  34

Engle Duck—Dupont’s
Kegs....................................8 00
Half Kegs........................... 4
Quarter Kegs......................2 25
11b. c a n s ............................  46

JBLLY.

16 lb palls....................  
_
30 lb  pails............................  65

LYB.

Condensed, I d o s ............. 1 »
Condensed. 4 dos...............2 25

LICORICE.

Pure.....................................   »
Calabria.............................   *6
81oily....................................  }*
Root  ....................................  10

flATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.....................1 66
Anchor Parlor................... 1 70
No. 2  Home........................1  10
Export  Parlor................... 4 6°
Wolverine......................... 1  25

nOLASSBS.
New Orison«.
Black..........................
Fair  ............................
Good............................
*4
Fancy  .............................  
Open Kettle.................   ~ ~ —
Half-barrels 2o extra.
MUSTARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, No. 216......................   1  70
Clay, T. D. fall count........ 
65
Cob, No. 2..........................  
85

POTASH.

48 cans in oaae.

Babbitt’s ............................   4M
PennaSalt  Co.’s................8 M

Barrels, 1,200 count...........4  no
Half bbls, 6M count...........  2 50

Barrels, 2,400 count.........   5  on
Half bbls  1»0 count........  3 00

PICK LBS.
risdium.

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................  6tt
Carolina  No. 1...................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken...............................   Sg

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1............... 6tt®  6
Japan,  No. 2..............4tt®  5
Java, fancy  head........5  ©   5tt
Java, No. f .................. 5  ©
T ab le..........................   ©
Packed M lbs. In  box. 

SALBRATUS.

Church’s Arm and Hammer.3  15'
Deland’s 
..........................3  00
Dwight’s Cow........................8 15'
Emblem  ..............................3  50
L. P................................. ....3 M1
Sodio.................................... 3 15
Wyandotte, 100 3£s...............3 00
Granulated, bbls..............  
f0
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  80
Lump, bbls.......................   70
Lnmp. 1451b kegs..............  80

SAL SODA.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Worcester,

Common Grades.

Table, cases. 24 3-lb boxes. .1 50 
Table, barrels, 1M 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Butter, barrels, 2801b. bmk.2 25 
Butter, barrels,»14 lbbags.2 50
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   56
i00 31b sacks.............................1 95
605-lb sacks.............................1 80
2810-lb sacks...........................1 65
lb.  cartons—   ....... 3 25
bO  4 
115  2ttlb. sacks...:............4M
lb. sacks................. 8  75
M  5 
22 14 
lb. sacks.................3  50
»10 
lb. sacks................. 8  50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  82
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk in barrels.........................2 50
56-lb dairy in drill bags......   80
28-lb dairy in drill bags......   15
66-lb dairy In linen sacks...  SO 
56-lb dairy in linen saoks.  .  60 
66-lb  sa ck s.........................  21
Granulated Fine.................   60
Medium  Fine......................   70
Per doz.

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Reck.
Ccnunon.

SCALES.

Warsaw.

Weighs 24 lbs.  bj oinces.

5BBDS.

Anise  ...............................   9
Canary, Smyrna................  3)4
Caraway..........................   8
Cardamon,  M alabar......   M
Celery...............................  11
Hemp,  Russian................  4)4
Mixed  Bird......................  4)»
5
Mustard,  white........
10
Poppy  ...................
Rape
4)4»
ittl
Cuttle Bone........  ...
SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders............   87
Maccaboy, in Jars................  Si-
French Rappee, in  jars__  
48

SOAP.

JAXON

Single box.................................2 85
box lots, delivered...... 2 r0
5 
10 box lots, delivered.........  2 75

M.  S.  KIRK  $ CO.’S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.........................................2 75
Cabinet..................................... 2 90
Savon........................................ 2 50
White Russian......................... 2 35
White Cloud,  laundry........ 6 25
White Cloud, toilet................. 3 50
Dnsky Diamond, 50 6 oz__ 2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__ 3  00
Bine India, 1M *  lb..................3 M
Kirkollne  ............................8 50
Bos............. 
2 60
Sapollo, kitchen, 8 do z.......2 *>
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz................2 40
SODA.
Boxes  ................ 
Kegs. Knalioh... 

...........  5)4

Scouring.

. 4 «

SYRUPS
Cera.

Barrels..................................17
w-’f  bbls........................ ...1 9
1 doz  1 gallon cans.............2  0
1  doz. )4 gallon cans........ 1  70
2  doz. ii gallon  cans  .......1  70
Fair  .................................  16
Good.................................  »
Choice . . ...........................  25

Pure Cane.

S P IC E S .
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  .............................. 10
Cassio, China in mats..........12
Cassia, Batavia In  bond__ 25
Cassia, Saigeu in rolls  ......gi
Cloves, Amboyna................u
Cloves, Zansibar................. 12
Mace,  Batavia.....................55
Nutmegs, fancy...................so
Nutmegs, No.  l ...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2...................45
Pepper, Singapore, blacs...i3 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .16 
Pepper,  shot........................15

Pare around In Bulk.

Allspice  .............................. 14
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon................... 40
Cloves, Zanzibar..................14
Ginger,  African......... ....... 15
Ginger,  Cochin...........  . 
18
Ginger, Jamaica.................23
Mace,  Batavia.................... 65
Mustard......................... 12©18
Nutmegs,......................40@a0
Pepper, Sing., black............15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne................. 20
Sage......................................16

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Cora.

Diamond.

101-lb packages...................6
20 1 lb packages.................... 654
Klngsford’s Silver  Qloss.
401-lb packages...................OH
0-lb boxes.......................... 7
64 10c  packages  ...............5 00
128  5c  paokages................5 00
3210c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 
201 lb. packages..................5
401 lb. packages................. 4M
1-lb  paokages......................4M
8-lb  packages......................  4M
0-lb  packages.....................   5
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3
Barrels  ...............................  3

Common Qless.

Common Corn.

STOVE POLISH.

Cigars.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
Sew  Brick  ....................... 83  00

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brands.

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

8- C. W.............................. 35 00
Phelps. Brace & Co.’s Brands. 
Vincente Portnondo. ,&5@ TO 01
Buhe Bros.  C o ........25@ '0 00
The Hilson Co............3 @110 00
T. 
J. Dunn & Co....35 co 70 00
McCoy & Co...............35® 70 00
The Collins Cigar Co..lC@ 35 00
Brown Bros............... 15@ 70 00
Banner Cigar Co........30®  70 00
Bernard Stahl  Co.  ..  35®  90 00
Banner Cigar Co........1 @ 35 00
Seidenberg & Co........55@125 00
G. P. Sprague Cigar Co. 10® 35 00 
The Fulton Cigar Co..10® 35 00 
A. B  Ballard & Co....35@lr5 00 
E. M. Schwarz A Co 
.*@110 00
San Telm  .................35® 70 0J
Havana Cigar Co.......18® 35 00

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  6 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11
Pure Cider, Bed Star..........12
Pure Cider. Robinson........ 13
Pure Cider, Silver..................1 ’»4

WICKINQ.

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

WOODENWARB.

Baskets.

Pails.

Bushels..............................  1  00
Bushels, wide band...........  1  10
Market...............................   30
Willow Clothes, large....... 6 25
Willow Clothes, medium...  5 50
Willow Clothes, small......  5 00
2- 
hoop Standard...............1 35
3- 
hoop Standard...............l 50
2-wire, Cable...  ..................1 35
3  wire. Cable....................1  69
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1  25
Paper, E ureka.......................2 25
FiDre...................................... 2 25
21-inch, Standard, No. 1____5 80
18-inch, Standard, No. 2___ 4 85
16-inch,  Standard,  No. 3....3 85
20-inch, Dowell, No. 1............6 25
18-inch, Dowell, No. 2.  .......5  25
16-inch, Dowell, No. 3............4 25
No. 1 Fibre.............................9 00
No. 2 Fibre...........................7 50
No. 3 Fibre.............................6 75

Tubs«

 

SUGAR.

......................... 5 88

No. 4, 3'doz in case, gross..  4 50 
No. 0,8 doz in ease, gross..  7 20 
Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sngars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he
irarchases to his shipping point, 
neluding  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino....................................5 56
Cat  Loaf.................................. 5 69
Crushed....................................5 81
Powdered 
XXXX  Powdered.................... 5 44
Cubes........................... 
Granulated in bbls...................5 31
Granulated in bags.............5 31
Fine Granulated......................5 31
Bxtra Fine Granulated.......5 44
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 44
Mould  A...... .......................f 56
Diamond Confec.  A ........... 5 31
Confec. Standard A ................. 5 06
No.  1.......................................4 81
No  2.......................................4 81
No.  8.......................................4 81
NO.  4.......................................4 75
No.  5.......................................4 80
No.  6.......................  
No.  7....... 
No.  8.......................................4 50
No.  8....................................... 4 44
No.  10.......................................4 31
No.  U.  ............................... 4  19
4  18
No.  12............  
No.  13.......................................4 13
No.  14..........................  
.4 06
No.  15....................................... i 06
................... 
..4  06
- 
N-j  1« 
TABLB  SAUCES.
LEA &  
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

4  63
4 56

 

 

The Original and 
Genuine 
Worcestershire. 
Lea A Perrin’s,  large...  3 75 
Lea A Perrin’s, sm all...  2 50
Halford,  la n « ................  8 75
Halford small...................2 25
Salad Dressing, large...... 4 56
Salad Dressing, small.... Jl 75

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Batter.
Seymour X Y I..................   5*4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family X X X....................   5*6
Salted XXX.......................  5*6
New York XXX.................  5*
Wolverine...... ..................  6
Boston................................  7*4
Soda  XXX  .......................   6
5 44
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton__  6*6
Soda,  City.........................  8
Long Island  Wafers.........   11
L. 1. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Zephyrette.........................10

Soda.

Oyster.

Sal tine Wafer....................  5*6
SaltineWafer, 1 lb. carton.  6*6
Farina Oyster....................  5 ¡4
Extra Farina Oyster.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  10*4
Bent’s Water.....................   15
Cocoannt Taffy.................  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   10
Coffee Cake, Iced..............10
Cracknells.........................  15*4
Cubans.............................   11*6
Frosted  Cream..................   8
Ginger Gems.....................   8
Ginger Snaps, XXX...........  754
Graham Crackers..............  8
Graham Wafers.................  10
Grand Ma Cakes.................  9
Imperials..........................  8
Jumoles,  Honey...............   12*4
Marshmallow  ..................   15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts__  16
Mich. Frosted Honey....  12%
Molasses Cakes.................  8
Newton.............................   12
Nic 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  w afers...............   14
Sultanas..............................12*4

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
Stick Candy.

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

_ 

bbls.  pails
7  n   714
7  @ 1*4
7*4® 8
@ 8*4
cases
® 6*4
@ 8*4
®io

Mixed Candy.

Grocers...................  
® e
Competition............ 
® 6*4
® 7
Standard................. 
Conserve................. 
® 7*4
® 7*4
Royal.....................  
Broken..................  
® g
®  gLz
Cut Loaf................. 
® 8*4
English Rock.........  
® 8*4
Kindergarten.........  
French Cream........ 
® 9
Dandy Pan.............  
@ 8*4
Hand Made Cream mxd  ®13 
Nobby.................... 
® 8*4

Fancy—In Bulk.

San Bias Goodies__ 
® n
Lozenges, plain...... 
® 9
®  9
Lozenges,  printed.. 
® n
Choc.  Drops........... 
®12M
Choc.  Monnmentals 
Gum  Drops............  
® 5
Moss  Drops............  
® 8H
®  3*4
Sour Drops.............. 
Imperials...............  
@ 9*
Ital. Cream Bnbns, 35 lb pis  11 
Molasses Chews,  15 lb. pails  13 
Jelly Date Squares.. 
@10*4

Fancy—in  g  lb.  Boxes.

®so
®so
®60
@55
@75
@90
@30
@75
@50
@55
@55
@55
8(5
@55
@55

Lemon Drops........ 
Sour  Drops............ 
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops  ... 
H. M. Choc. Drops. 
H. M  Choc.  Lt.and
Dk. No. 12............  
Gum  Drops............  
Licorice Drops........ 
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  plain.... 
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Imperials...............  
Mottoes................. 
Cream Bar.............. 
Molasses B a r.........  
Hand Made Creams.  80  @  90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Want............  
String Rock............  
Burnt Almonds...... 125  @
Wlntergreen Berries 
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb. 
boxes................... 
Fruits.

@65
ago
@55

®5o

Oranges.

Fancy Rodl’s. 
Sorrentos......

@6  00 @5 50

Lemons.
@4 25
Strictly choice 360s.. 
@4 25
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 300s.............  
@4 50
Ex.Fancy 300s........  4 75@5  00

Bananas.

Medium bunches...1  00  @1  25 
Large bunches........1  50  @1  75

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Figs.

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

Fards in 10 lb boxes 
Fards  in 60 lb cases 
Persians, P H V......  
lb cases, new........ 
Sairs,  601b cases.... 
Nuts.

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

@10
@  6
@6
@ g
@ 5

Almonds, Tarragona..  @16
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @14
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @15
Brazils new...............   @ 7
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Granobles..  @13*4
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @ li
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
C a lif.........................   @11
@11
Table Nuts,  fan cy__ 
@10
Table Nuts,  ch o ice... 
Q   7*6
Pecans, Med................ 
@  9
Pecans, E x. Large.. 
Pecans,  Jumbos.........  @12
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new...............   @1  60
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @3 50
Chestnuts per bu.......   @

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted..................   @ 7
Choice, H. P„ Extras.  O 5
Choice, H. P., Extras,
Boasted................. 
6

Wheat.

67
65

Old..................................... 
New.................................... 
Winter  Wheat  Flour. 

Local Brands.

Patents..............................4  00
Second  Patent...................  3 50
Straight............................  3 25
Clear.................................. 3 00
Graham  ............................  3 50
Bnckwheat......................
R ye..................................  3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Daisy, *48............................3 *0
Daisy, M8............................3 60
Daisy, *6s............................ 3 60
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  Ms........................  3 «0
Quaker, Ms........................  3 60
Quaker, *4s........................   3  60
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbnry’s Best *4s...........  4 55
Pillsbnry’s Best Ms...........  4 45
Pillsbury’s Best *6s...........  4  35
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4  35 
Pillsbnry’s Best MS paper..  4 35 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.

Spring Wheat  Flour. 

Meisl.

Corn.

Feed and Mlllstuffs.

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Dulutn Imperial, *4s............4 25
Duluth Imperial, Ms-  ____4  15
Duluth Imperial, *4s..........   4 05
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal *48...................  4 30
Gold Medal Ms.....................4 20
Gold Medal *4s.....................4 10
Parisian, *4s.......................  4 30
Parisian, Ms......................... 4 20
Parisian. *6s.......................   4 10
Ceresota, *4s .........................4 45
Ceresota, Ms.......................  4 35
Ceresota, *48.......................  4 25
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, *4s.........................  4  45
Laurel, Ms.........................  4 3*
Laurel, %a.........................4 25
Bolted................................  1 90
Granulated.......................   2 10
St. Car Feed, screened___16 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats.......... 15 50
Unbolted Com Meal.......... 14 F0
Winter Wheat  Bran.......... 14 00
Winter Wheat Middlings. .15 00
Screenings.......................... 14 00
New com, car lots............ 35*4
Less than  car lots............   36*4
Car  lots..............................24*4
Carlots, clipped................   28
Less than  car lots.  ......... 30
No. 1 Timothy carlots......   10 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots___12 00
Fish and Oysters
Per lb.
Whitehall................  @  10
T rout......................  @  10
Black Bass..............  8  @  10
Halibut...................  @  16
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  4
Bluefish..................   @  11
Live Lobster.........   @  20
Boiled Lobster........  @  22
Cod 
......................  @  10
Haddock.................  @  7
No.  1  Pickerel........  @  10
Pike.........................  @  **4
Perch.......................  @  5
Smoked White........  @  8
Red Snapper...........  @  9
Col  River Salmon 
@  13
Mackerel 
............   @  2j

Fresh Fish.

Oots.

Hay.

Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  50
r0

Shell Goods.
tw mn 
...... 
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. Naptha..............  @12m
Cylinder................... 29  @34
Engine...................... 11  @21
Black, winter.............  @8

Provisions.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barreled Pork.

Mess  .............................   10  00
5 « *   ......................10 50®
Clear back.............. 
@10  75
Shortcut.............................   10 00
Rig....................................... 
it 00
Bean  .............................   9  50
Family  ..........................  11  oj
„  
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies............................ 
Briskets  ......................... 
Extra shorts................... 

e
5^
5m

 

Smoked Heats.
Hams, 12 lb  average__ 
Hams, 14 lb average 
... 
Hams, 161b  average....  
Hams, 20 lb  average....  
Ham dried b e e f........... 
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
Bacon,  clear......... 
California hams............  
Boneless hams................ 
Cooked  ham...............!!io@15

11*4
11*4
ti
lev
16*4
7
7  @7*4
7*4
8J4

5^
6h
*4
m
*4
Palls........... advance  %
%
1
1*4

Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound..................... 
Kettle.............................  
55 lb Tubs.........advance 
80 lb Tubs.........advance 
52 ii! I?1?? ..........advance 
10 lb Pails.........advance 
o !v 
......... advance 
3 lb Pails.........advance 
Sausages.
Bologna........... 
6
Liver...................... 
7
s
Frankfort............  
«2
Blood  ................... 
Tongue................................. 9
Head  cheese................... 
7

....... 

Beef.

Pigs’ Feet.

Extra  Mess.................  
10 25
Boneless  ........................1250
Romp..............................  .
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 35
*4  bbls, 80 lbs.....................   2 50
_ 
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs...  ..V.. 
M  bbls, 40 lbs.....................    1 25
*4  bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 25
_ 
Casings.
P ork...............................  20
Beef  rounds......... 3
Beef  middles.........  
10
Sheep......................... ...1 

70

60

. 

Butte rine.

Rolls,  dairy................. 
Solid, dairy.................... 
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery............  

11
{¿*4
15*4
14*4

Canned Meets.

Corned beef,  2  l b .......2 25
Corned beef, 14  lb......... |6 (0
Roast  beef,  2  lb.......... 2 25
Potted  ham,  MB.........  
50
Potted  ham,  *4s.........   go
Deviled ham,  Ms.........   50
Deviled ham,  *4s .........   90
Potted  tongue MB.........   50
Potted  tongue *4s.........   90
Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass......................   7 @ 8V
Forequarters.............   6 @  6*4
Hind  quarters...........  8*6@10*4
Loins  No.  3.................12 @14
g ib s...........................  9 @14
Rounds......................  @8
Chucks........................  6 @ 6*4
Plates  .......................  4  @ 5

Pork.

Dressed......................  @6
Loins.........................  @10
Shoulders...................  @ 7
Leaf Lard...................  6*4@

Mutton

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

Veal.

Hldae.

Carcass  ..................8*4@ 9
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon A Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Green No.  1................  @8
Green No. 2................  @ 7
Bulls....................... 
@6
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. 8 @  8*4
Pelts,  each Pelts.
50@1  00
Tallow.
No. 1.........
No. 2.........

@ 3*4 
@ 2*4

Wool.

Washed, fine  ............   @18
Washed, medium.  Q2f
Unwashed, fine............19 @14
Unwashed, medium ..16  @18

21

Crockery and

Glassware.
Batters.

AKRON  STONEWAKti. 

*4 gal., per duz............ 
40
1 to 6 gal., per gai........... 
5
8 gal., each....................  48
10 gal., each.......... .........  
60
12 gal.,  each.....................  72
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.  .. 1  05
20 gal. meat-tubs, each__ 1  40
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ... 2 00
30 gal. meat-tubs, each__8 40
2 
5
Churn Dashers, per doz...  84 
*4 gal. fiat or rd. hot., doz.  40 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  444

to 6 gal., per gal......... 

Mllkpans.

Churns.

Fine Glazed Milkpanz.

Jags.

Common

Stswpans.

top,
top,
top,

Tomato Jags.

Sealing Wax.
FRUIT JARS.

*4 gal. flat or rd. hot., aoz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5*4 
*4 gal. fireproof  ^sil, doz.  86 
1 gal. flreprooi, ball, doi.l  10 
M gal., per do*..................  40
*4 gal., per doz..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal... 
6
*4 gal., per dos.................   so
1 gal., each......................  6*4
Corks for *4 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
*4 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00 
5 
lbs. In package, per lb... 2
Pints.................................... 4 00
Quarts................................  4 25
Half Gallons......   .............  6 00
Covers...............................   2 00
Rubbers............................  25
LAMP  BURNERS.
No. 0  Sun........................ 
  37
No.  1  Sun..........................  
38
No.  2 Sun..........................  
g5
No. 3 Sun...........................  x 00
Tubular.............................   45
Security, No. 1............ " 
60
Security, No. 2................... 
80
Nutmeg  ............................ 
50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 dos.
No.  0 Snn..........................  j  28
No.  1  Sun..........................   1  42
No.  2 Sun.......................... 2  12
No. OSun...........................  1  50
No. 1 Sun...........................  1  60
No. 2 Sun........................... 2 46
No. 
No. 
No. 

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

First  Quality.
0 Sun,  crimp 
1 Snn,  crimp 
2 Snn,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
0 Sun,  orlmp 
1 Snn,  crimp 
2 Snn,  crimp 

No. 
No. 
No. 

top,
wrapped and labeled....  2 55 
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled  ...  8 76 
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
No. 1  San,  wrapped  ana
labeled..............................3  70
No. 8  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled.  .........................4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled............................ 4  88
No. 2  Snn,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lames............  
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  .................................  go
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per dos.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per dos......... 1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c dos)  __ 3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)........4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  dos)........4 70
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  ........ 4  00
No. 2, Flint  (80c dos)........4 40
Dos. 
1 gal tin cans with  spont..  1  42
1 gal galv Iron with spont.  1  75
2 gal galv Iron with spout.  2 85
3 gal galv Iron with spont.  3  65 
5 gal galv Iron with  spont.  4  78 
3 gal galv iron with fancet 4 65 
5 gal galv Iron with  faucet 4  95
5 gal Tilting cans................7  25
5 gal galv iron Nacefas....  9 09
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  8 49 
5 gal Enreka non-overflow 10 50
3  gal Home Rule............ 10  50
5 gal Home Rule................12  00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9  59
No.  0 Tubular side lift....  4 50
No.  IB   Tubular........  ...  7 09
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 75
No.  lTub., glass fount....  7 00 
No. 12 Tabular, side lamp. 14  0C 
No.  3 Street  Lamp, each.. 3  75 
LANTERN GLOBES.
No.  0 Tabular,  cases 1 dos.
No. 0 Tabular,  cases 2 dos.
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls 5 dos.
No. 0 Tabular,  bull’s  eye, 

each, box 10 cents..........   45
each, box 15 cents.........   45
each,  per bbl, bbl. 00....  1  78 
cases idos. e a c h . . . l   25

LANTERNS.

Pump  Cons

OIL CANE. 

La  Bostia.

Rochester.

Electric.

22

Hardware

How  to  Meet  Catalogue  Competition.
My  experience  in  the  retail  hardware 
business  extends  over only  about  six  or 
seven  months. 
I  am  located  in  a  coun­
try  town  of  about  4.000.  The  competi­
tion  we  meet  there  is  composed  of  de­
partment  stores  and  catalogue  houses  of 
Chicago  and  outlying  cities.  As  far as 
the  department  stores  are  concerned, 
they  have  not  cut  very  much  figure  with 
us  as  yet.  As  far as  our  own  business 
is  concerned,  we  pursue  the  plan  of 
what  we  call  “ Fighting  the  Devil  with 
fire.”   We  simply  adopt  some  of  the 
department  store  methods.  We  have 
some  good  windows;  we  box  them  all 
in  and  make  a  very  attractive  back­
ground,  and  we  dress  them  up,  as  a 
rule,  every  week,  and  we  hang  various 
assortments  of  articles, and  we  put  the 
price  on  every  article  right  out  where 
people  can  see  it. 
In  addition  to  that 
we  keep  a  bulletin  board  on  the  side­
walk.  We  simply  have  it  headed,  “ Our 
Market,  Watch  It.”   We  have  it  made 
of  galvanized  iron,  so  arranged  that  we 
can  slip  pieces  of  paper  in  and  out, 
calling  attention  to  special  articles  and 
special  prices,  and  keep  that  shifting 
all  the  time.  When  we  find  some  line 
they  are  running  in  upon  us.  we  go to 
the  manufacturer and  buy  those  in  suffi­
cient quantities  so  we  can  get  a special 
ly  low  price  on  them.  We  are then  in 
position  to  put  those  out  in  front  and 
sell  them  at  cost  or  a  little  less,  and 
whatever  we  lose  we  simply  charge  up 
to  our advertising  department.

While  we  carry  some  of  those  goods, 
in 
we  use  them  more to  get  the  people 
the  store.  After  we  show  them  these 
goods  we  try  to  lead  them  on  to a  bet­
ter class  of goods  and  educate  the  peo­
ple  to  the  fact  that  it  pays  them  to  buy 
a  better  article.

In  regard  to  the  catalogue  houses,  we 
consider  them  a  greater 
injury  to  us 
than  we  do  those  department  stores  We 
have  shoved  under our  nose nearly every 
day  the catalogues of Montgomery  Ward 
&  Co.  and  Sears,  Roebuck  &  Co.  ;  in 
fact  we  keep  those  catalogues  on  our 
shelves,  and  we  are  not  ashamed  to 
show  them  to  our  customers  at  any  time 
they  want  to  see  them.  On  most  lines 
of  hardware  outside  of  guns,  etc.,  we 
can  meet  their  prices  and  still  make a 
little  money—that 
is  on  a  cash  deal. 
For  instance,  we  handle  bicycles  We 
have  customers  who  come  in  and  say, 
“ We  can  buy  as  good  a  wheel  as  you 
have  there  for $23.50. “  
If  we  can  get 
hold  of  the  same  wheel  we  keep  it  and 
meet  the  prices.  We  say,  “ There  is  the 
wheel  they  ask  you  $23.50 for;  we  will 
sell  you  that  wheel  for  $22  cash. ’ '  We 
can  do that  and  make  some money.  The 
result  is  that  in  nine  cases  out  of  ten we 
sell  them  a  better  wheel.—Address  of 
Mr.  Bonney  to  Illinois  Retail  Hard­
ware  Dealers'  Association.
Trades  Union  Methods  in  the  Plumb­
From the Chicago Post.

ing  Business.

The  labor  editor  of  a  morning  paper 
had  a  lot  of  work  to  do at  home,  so  be 
filled  his  pipe and  pulled  down the  long 
arm  of  the  gas  jet  and  burned  the  to­
bacco.  He  had  been  doing  that  sort  of 
thing  for  months,  and  the  “ fixture" 
had  never  betrayed  him.  So  he  felt 
grieved  and  wounded  when  the  released 
arm  of the  metal  bounded  upward  and 
broke.  Of  course,  he  turned  off the  gas, 
unscrewed  that  last joint and went down­
stairs  to  the  plumber,  whose  shop  was 
close at hand.

“ How  much  will  this  cost?"  asked

the  labor  editor,  displaying  his  broken 
joint  and  picking  up  a  new  one.
“ Cost  who?"  said  the  plumber.
‘ * Cost  me. ’ ’
“ Thirty  cents."
“ Here’s  your  money.”
* * I’ll  send  a  man  to  put  it  up 

in  the 

“ You  be  shot. 
“ Well,  you  don’t  get  it.  The plumb­
It  is 

is  done  at  5  o'clock. 

I  want  it  now.”  

morning. ”

er's  day 
now  8. ”

self. 

“ But  I  can  screw  this  thing  on  my­

It doesn’t  require  a  plumber."

’  Well,  it  does. 

I  can’t  sell  that  to 
you  at all  if  you  are  going  to  put  it  up. 
You  will  have  to  hire  a  plumber." 

“ How  much?"
“ Dollar and  a  half  to-morrow." 
“ How  much  to-night?"
’ * Three. ’ ’
“ Good  evening."
The  labor  editor borrowed  a lamp  and 
regular 
sweated  himself  through  his 
grind.  Next  day  he  came  to  a  big  sup­
ply  house  down  to*n  and  told  the  story 
of  lighting  the  pipe,  of  letting  go,  and 
of  the  consequent  breaking.

“ What’s  your  name?" said the attend­
ant,  a  little  bored  by  the  recital.  He 
told  him.  The  attendant  walked  away, 
consulted  a  book  and  came  back  accus­
ingly,  as  if  he  had  caught  his  visitor  in 
a  lie.

“ You’re  not  a  member  of  the  Plumb­

ers’  and  Gas-fitters’  Union.”

“ I  have  long  suspected  that.  Why?" 
“ You  can’t  buy  that  joint.”
“ What’s  it  worth?”
“ Quarter—to a  plumber."
“ What  will  one  of  your  plumbers 
charge  to  go  over  there  and  attach  it? 
It  will  occupy  him  almost  a  minute 
when  he  gets  into  the  room.”

‘ * Three  dollars. ’ ’
“ When  can  he  go?”
“ Ob,  when  he  gets  time.  To-morrow, 

maybe. ’ ’

The  labor  editor  went  out  to  the  es­
tablishment  “ near  at  hand”   and  paid 
bis  $1.80.  The  plumber  was  pleasant 
about  it.  It  wasn't  the  boss  of  the  shop. 
The  plumber explained the boss ‘ ‘ wasn’t 
allowed”   to  do  any  work  out  of  the 
shop.  Taken  altogether,  it  was  very  in­
teresting.

How  Scissors  Are  Made.

Although no  complexities are involved 
in  the  making  of  these  indispensable 
articles,  or  much  skill  required  yet  tbe 
process  of  manufacture  is  very  interest­
ing.  They  are  forged  from  good  bar 
steel  heated  to  redness,  each  blade  be­
ing  cut  off  with  sufficient  metal  io  form 
the  shank,  or  that  destined  to  become 
tbe  cutting  part,  and  bow,  or  that which 
later  on 
is  fashioned  into  the  holding 
portion.

For a  bow  z  small  hole 

is  punched, 
and  this 
is  afterward  expanded  to  the 
required  size  by  hammering  it  on a con­
ical  anvil,  after  which  both  shank  and 
bow  are  filed  into  a  more  perfect  shape, 
and  tbe hole  bored  in  tbe  middle for tbe 
rivet.  The  blades  are  next ground,  and 
the  handles  filed  smooth  and  burnished 
with  oil  emery,  after  which  the  pairs 
are  fitted  together and  tested  as  to  their 
easy  working.

They  are  not  yet  finished,  however. 
They  have  to  undergo  hardening  and 
tempering,  and  be  again  adjusted,  after 
which  they  are  finally  put together again 
and  polished  up  for  the  third  time. 
In 
comparing  tbe  edges  of  knives and scis­
sors 
it  will  be noticed,  of  course,  that 
the  latter  are  not  in  any  way  so  sharply 
ground  as  tbe  former,  and  that 
in  cut­
ting  scissors  crush  and  bruise more than 
knives.

The  Mission  of Advertising.

it 

The  great  business  men  of  the  coun­
try  create  business;  they  would  have  a 
sorry  time  of 
if  they  were  hunting 
only  tbe  customers  who  wanted  their 
wares.  They  teach  men  the  advantages 
pf  using  their goods;  the  profit  there  is 
in  adopting  modern  methods.  They  put 
men  on  the  road  to  fortune.  This  is 
the  mission  of  live,  virile  advertising. 
It leads  the  people to a  higher  civiliza­
tion.

When 

liquor  goes  to  a  man’s head  it 
uusally  finds  itself  in  a  lonesome  place.

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

Light  Your 
Store  for 
Five Cents 
a  Night

We  are  in  the  market  with the 
latest  thing  in  the  shape  of  a 
Gas  Lamp. 
It  is  an  inven­
tion  gotten  up  from  the  expe­
rience  of  all  others  already  in 
the  market.  Don’t  order  a 
back  number  when  for  nearly 
the same money you can  secure 
one  of  the. latest  inventions.
Local  agents  wanted 
every  county  in  Michigan.

in 

Peninsular 
Qas  Light  Co.,

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

S prayers

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A L L   K IN D S

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L O W E S T   P R IC E S

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FOSTER, STEVENS & CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

B IG   M O N E Y -----------------

The  most  successful,  wide-awake,  up-to-date  general 
stores  carry  a  line  of Jewelry and  Novelties,  such  as  Buckles,
Rings,  Beauty  Pins,  Link  Chains,  etc.,  and  sell  them  at  popu­
lar  prices.  We  are  headquarters.

AMERICAN JEWELRY CO., 80-82  Canal  S t, Grand Rapids.

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

A*,  tb*  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocery  Clerks’  Associa­
tion,  held  at  the  office  of  the  Michigan 
Tradesman  Monday  evening,  Aug.  21, 
President  Beardslee  presided.

The  Committee  on  Constitution  and 
By-laws  presented  the  following  report, 
which  was  unanimously  adopted :

CONSTITUTION. 

ARTICLE  1.

The  name  of  this organization shall be 
toe  Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocery 
Clerks’  Association.

condition  of  the  treasury  at  each regular 
meeting.
Sec’  5-  The  Executive  Committee 
shall  have  gene  al  management  of  the 
Association,  and shall  have charge  of  all 
matters  pertaining  to  the  Association 
not  otherwise  assigned ;  shall  provide 
rooms  for  the  Association ;  audit  all 
bills  and  examine  the  books  and  ac­
counts  of  the  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
previous  to  each  annual  meeting  and 
present a  report  on  same  at  said  meet­
ing.

Sec.  6.  The  Committee  on  Employ­
ment  shall  have  charge  of  all  matters  in 
regard  to  the  Employment  Bureau.

ARTICLE  II.

The  principal  objects  of  this  Associa­

tion  shall  be  as  follows :

To 

increase  acquaintanceship  and 
encourage a  social  and  friendly  feeling 
among  those  engaged 
in  the  grocery 
business.

To  encourage  our  employers  in  every 
shorter 

legitimate  manner  to  adopt 
hours  for  doing  business.

To  promote  the  proper observance  of 
Sunday  and  of  all  national  holidays  and 
the  adoption  of  more  frequent  intervals 
for  rest  and  recreation.

To  encourage  and  assist  our  brother 
clerks  to  obtain  employment  when  the 
occasion  may  require.

ARTICLE  III.

Any  wholesale  or  retail  grocery  clerk 
may  become  a  member of  this  Associa­
tion  on  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  mem­
bers  present  at  any  regular  meeting  by 
paying 
in  advance  to  the  Secretary  the 
sum  of  25  cents  for  membership  fee and 
$2  for  annual  dues  and  agreeing  to  pay 
any  assessments  which  may  be  voted  by 
the  Association  to  meet  expenses.

ARTICLE  IV.

Obligation.

Every  person  becoming  a  member  of 
this  Association  shall  be  honorably 
bound  to  conform  to  the  rules,  regula­
tions and  by-laws.

ARTICLE  V.

Non-Payment  of  Dues.

Any  member  of  this  Association  who 
shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  pay  his  dues, 
or any  assessment  ordered  by  the  Asso­
ciation  for  three months  after  such  sums 
become  due,  shall  thereby  forfeit  his 
membership.

ARTICLE  VI.

Officers.

Section  1.  The  officers  of  this  Asso­
ciation  shall  consist  of  a  President,  five 
Vice-Presidents,  a  Secretary  and  a 
Treasurer,  who shall  be  elected  annually 
by  ballot  and  shall  bold  office  until 
their successors  are  elected.

Sec.  2.  At  the  first  regular  meeting 
following  the  annual  meeting,  the  Pres­
ident 
announce  an  Executive 
Committee  of  five  members and  a  Com­
mittee  on  Employment  of  three  mem­
bers,  who  shall  serve  until  their  succes­
sors  are  elected.  The  President  shall 
be  an  ex-officio  member  of  all  com­
mittees.

shall 

ARTICLE  VII.
Duties  of  Officers.

Section  1.  The  President  shall  pre­
side  at  all  meetings,  if  present ;  and  at 
the  annual  meeting  be  shall  present  a 
report  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Asso­
ciation  for  the  year,  its  present  condi­
tion,  and  any  suggestions  for  its  future 
management which  may  be gained  from 
his  experience.

In  the  absence  of  the  Presi­
dent,  one  of  the  Vice-Presidents  shall 
preside.

Sec.  2. 

Sec.  3.  The  Secretary  shall  receive 
all  moneys  due  the  Association from any 
source  and  pay  the  same  to  the  Treas­
urer,  taking  his  receipt  therefor;  keep 
a  record  of  all  meetings ;  conduct  all 
correspondence ;  keep a  list  of  all  mem­
bers 
in  a  book  provided  for  that  pui- 
pose;  notify  all  committees  of  their  ap­
pointment ;  also  perform  such  other 
duties  as  may  be  required  of  him  by 
the  Executive  Committee,  which  may 
decide  upon  a  suitable  compensation 
for his  services.

Sec.  4.  The  Treasurei  shall  receive 
all  moneys  from  the  Secretary,  giving 
bis  receipt  therefor,  pay  all  bills  on  the 
presentation  of  vouchers  signed  by  the 
President and  Secretary,  and  report  the

ARTICLE  VIII.

. The  regular  meetings  of  the  Associa­
tion  shall  be  held  the  first  and  third 
Monday  evenings  of  each  month.  Spe­
cial  meetings  shall  be  called  by  the 
President  on  the  written  request  of  five 
members.  The  annual  meeting  shall  be 
held  the  first  Monday  evening  in  Octo­
ber.

ARTICLE  IX.
Amendments.

This  constitution  and  by-laws  may  be 
altered  or  amended  by  a  two-thirds  vote 
of  those  present at  any  regular  meeting, 
provided  a  written  notice  of  such  alter­
ation  or amendment  has  been  presented 
at  the  preceding  regular  meeting.

ARTICLE  X.

By-Laws.

By-laws  not  in  conflict  with  this  con­
stitution  may  be  established 
for  the 
government  of  the  Association  on  the 
two-thirds  vote  of  the  members  present 
at  any  regular  meeting.

ARTICLE  XI.

Recommendations.

Any  member  shall,  at any  time,  make 
such  recommendations  to  the  Associa­
tion  as  may  seem  to  him  desirable.

ARTICLE  XII.
Official  Organ.

The  Michigan  Tradesman  shall  be 
regularly  recognized  as  the  official  or­
gan  of  the  Association.

BY-LAWS.
ARTICLE  I.

Quorum.

Seven  members  shall  constitute  a 
quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business.

ARTICLE  II.

Order  of  Business.

ing.

1.  Reading  minutes  of  the  last meet­

2.  Admission  of  new  members.
3.  Reports  of  standing  committees.
4.  Reports  of  special  committees.
5.  Reading  of  correspondence.
6.  Unfinished  business.
7.  New  business.
8.  Good  of  the  Association.
9.  Election  of  officers  and  appoint­
10.  Report  of  Treasurer.
11.  Adjournment.

ment  of  committees.

ARTICLE  IV.

Bond.

The  Secretary  and  Treasurer  shall 
each  furnish  a  bond,  in  such  sum  as  the 
Executive  Committee  may  determine.
Joseph  Terrill  moved  that  the  tem­
porary  officers  continue  until  the  annual 
meeting  in  October,  which was adopted.
F.  I.  Coats  was  thereupon  elected 
Treasurer  to  serve  until  the  annual 
meeting.

Geo.  Mclnnis  moved  that  the  charter 
be  held  open  until  the  annual  meeting, 
which  was  adopted.

W.  D.  Dennison  moved  that  each  one 
present be  constituted  a  committee  of 
one  to  call  on  and  secure  the  co-opera­
tion  of  the  other grocery  clerks  in  his 
section,  which  was  adopted.

On  motion  of  Harry  Stowitts,  S.  M. 
Rose  was  elected  temporary  Vice-Presi­
dent.

Geo.  Mclnnis  moved  that  the  Secre­
tary  take  the  names  of  those  present 
who  wished  to  join  the  Association,  re­
sulting  in  the  enrollment  of  the  follow­
ing :  Geo.  Mclnnis,  Verne  Campbell, 
L.  E.  Buss,  Fred  Beardslee,  F.  I. 
Coats,  W.  D.  Dennison,  John  Haan,  L. 
Koss,  N.  Bruggink,  Jacob  Hartger, 
Clyde  Fisher,  S.  M.  Rose,  Jos.  Terrill, 
Henry  Top,  Benj.  Hartger,  H.  T.  Sto­
witts,  Ernest  Bratt,  Chas.  Payne,  Wm. 
Pike.

„ 

AXBS

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

AUGURS AND BITS
 

Hardware  Price Current.
 

„  „  
8nell’s. 
75
Jaiming,  genuine.........................."  26*10
Jennings’  imitation.............................. 
0OA1O
™ 
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.........................  6 CO
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...........................10 00
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel...................... 
6  50
First Quality. D. B. Steel.............................  11 50
„  „ 
Railroad................................................... 
Garden............................................. "   net  30 00
Ordinary Tackle.......................   . 
70
„ 
StOV6 . . . . . . . ................. ............... 
go
Carriage new list................................................50
Flow.......................................................  
so
„ 
Well,  plain.................................................. |  3 50
„   _ 
Cast Loose  Pin, figured................................70*10
Wrought Narrow................................. 
" 70410

BLOCKS
BOLTS

BUTTS,  CAST

BARROWS

BUCKETS

 

14 
15 
OAS PIPE.
OAUG6S
HAMMBRS

™ 

CAPS

CHISELS

CARTRIDGES
Central  Fire............................... 
¿0
„   „ 
CROW  BARS
Cast Steel  .............................  
.. per lb 
5
Ely’s 1-10............................................. perm 
66
Hick’s C .F....................................................¿>erm 56
45
8 .  D .......................................................................p e r  m  
Musket................................................per m 
75
Socket Firmer............................................. 
70
Socket Framing.............................   I.......[ 
70
Socket Corner  ................................  
70
Socket Slicks................................... 
"  
70
Morse’s Bit Stocks...................................  
60
Taper and Straight Shank.......................... .50* 5
Morse’s Taper Shank...........................  
50*  5
Com. 4 piece, 6 In............................doz. net 
65
Corrugated..............................................  
j  35
Adjustable........................................................ dis 40*10
Clark's small, 118;  large, >26........................30*10
Ives’,1 ,118; 2, «24; 3, «30............................ 
25
New American.................................................  ... 70*10
Nicholson’s  —   ................................ 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................6C*10
28
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 28;  27.  ... 
List  12 
16........ 
17

GALVANIZED  IRON

EXPANSIVE BITS

PILES—New  List

ELBOWS

DRILLS

13 

 

 

Discount,  65

HINObs

HORSB NAILS

HOLLOW  WARE

KNOBS—New List

HOUSE  FURNISHING  OOODS

Black  Galvanized.................................... 40*10
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s....................   00*10
Maydole & Co.’s, new  list................................dis 83*
25
Kip’s  .......................................................dis 
Yerkes *  Plumb’s............................................. dl« 10*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 80c list 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50*10 
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,8................................dis 60*  U
State...  ........... 
~»r doz. net  2 fit
Pot«......................................................................60
K ettles..............................................................  60
Spiders................................................................60
An Sable.................................................dis  40*11
Putnam...................................................dis 
S
Cape w ell............ 
................................   net list
Stamped Tin Ware........................ new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20*11
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
85
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.................  1  00
LBV BU»
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 
71
Adze Eye.......................................... «17 00, dis 60
Hunt Eye.......................................... «15 00, dis 60
Hunt’s................................................«18 50, dis 20
600 pound casks.......................................... 
9
Per pound................................................... 
9u
40
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  MaUeables.. 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry *  Clark’s................ 
40
Coffee, Enterprise........................ :.............  
so
Bird  Cages...........................................  
4.
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
70
Screws, New L ist..................................  
80
Casters, Bed sud  Plate........................... 50*10*10
Dampers, American............................... 
50
Stebbiu’s Pattern.......................................... 60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................60*10
Enterprise, self-measnrlnsr......................... 
so

MOLASSES  OATES

MISCELLANEOUS

METALS—Zinc

............... dis 

MATTOCKS

MILLS

NAILS

 

Advance over base, on both Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base................................................  2 80
Wire nails, base................................................  2 90
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
06
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
8 advance.................................................... 
10
ad vance...............................................  
6 
20
30
4 
advance...............................................  
3 advance.................................  
45
 
2 advance................................................... 
70
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
50
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
25
Casing  8 advance........................................ 
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance................  
25
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance..........................................  85
Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
Common, polished............................... 
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED  IRON 

Broken packages He per pound  extra.

PANS

 

Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy................................   @50
Sclota Bench................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, first quality.......................................  @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood...................... 60

PLANES

70* 5

RIVETS

, 

,___  

ROPES

SHEET  IRON

SAND  PAPBR
SASH WEIGHTS

Iron and T inned.............................  
»)
Copper Rivets and Burs..................................... 45
ROOFING  PLATES
s  su
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............. 
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean.................... 
'  6 oo
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean..................  
"  no®
¡4*20 IC, Charcoal, Ailairay orwie. ..."'!.  o  uu
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...... 
6  jo
20x281C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............  io m,
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade........ 
12 < 0
„ 
in
Sisal, H Inch and larger................... 
14 qq
Manilla.................................................  
73
List  acct 10, ’86.....................................  <ng 
go
„ 
Solid Eyes....................................... per ton  20 00
„  
com. smooth,  com.
S ? * “ *»1*..................................*3 20 
*3 00
3 00
Nos. 15 to 17.................................... 3 20 
8 20
NOS. 18 to 21..................................   3 30 
Nos. 22 to 24..................................   3 40 
3 30
N°s. 25 to 26..................................  3 50 
3 40
No-,27.........................................  3 60 
3 50
AH sheets  No. 18 and lighter,  over  80  Inches 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHOT
Drop............................................................  
B B and Buck............................................. 
___ 
H@H...........................................................   20
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
„ 
Si??1 a2^.lrrn 
.......................................... 70*10
5Q
M itre...........................................................  
10x14 IC, Charcoal............................ 
«71 5
14x20 IC, Charcoal.....................................  
20x14 IX, Charcoal..........................................8  50

TIN—Melyn Grade

SQUARES

Bach additional X on this grade, «1.25.

SOLDER

j 45
j  70

, 

TIN—Allaway Grade

7 so

14x20 IC, Charcoal.................................." 
10x14 IX, Charcoal...........................................  7 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal...........................................  7 50

Each additional X on this grade, (1.50.'

l  25

 

 

TRAPS

_   BOILER SIZB TIN PLATB
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I _______.
10
14x56 IX. for No  9  Boilers! ( 961 P°und- • • 
Steel, Game............................................. 
75*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
16
Monae, delusion.........................per dos 
1  2C
WIRE
Bright Market..................... 
60
Annealed  Market........................................ 
60
Coppered Market........................................ .50*10
Tinned Market...........................................  50*10
Coppered Spring Steel................................  
45
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ........................   3 55
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................  3 05
Barbed  Fence,  Plain;.................................  2 80
WIRB  GOODS
go
Bright......................................... 
 
Screw Byes................................................... 
go
Hook’s.......................................   
so
Gate Hooks and Byes..................................  
80
WRBNCHBS
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s Genuine...............................................30*10
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought  ..........70*10
Coe’s Patent, malleable.............................   70*10

 

 

5

0

cents

M USKEGON
AND RETURN
Every  Sunday
G.  R. &  I.

VIA

Train  leaves  Union 
Station at 9.15  a.  m. 
Bridge Street 9.31 a. m. 
Returning leaves 
Muskegon 7.15  p.  m.

Tradesman 

Itemized I edgers

SIZE—8 1-3 x 14.
THREE  COLUMNS.

2 Quires,  160 pages........... $2  00
3 Quires, 240 pages...........   2  50
4 Quires, 320 pages............3  00
5 Quires, 400 pages...........   3  50
6 Quires, 480 pages...........   4  00

INVOICE  RECORD  OR  BILL  BOOK

80 double  pages,  registers  a,880 
invoices.................... ..  $2  00

Tradesman  Company

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

ceive attention  and  the  loss  of  the  usual 
dependence  be  largely  compensated.

Apples  and  plums  are  now  far  in  the 
lead 
in  plentifuiness  and  continue  tc 
sell  at  remunerative  prices.  There  is  a 
lessening  in  the  offerings  of early  pears, 
but  later  varieties  promise  to  show  con­
siderable  abundance.  Grapes  first  made 
their  appearance 
last  week,  and  are 
offered 
in  considerable  quantity,  both 
blue  and  green.  While  this  fruit  is  sc 
different  from  the 
larger  fruits  that  it 
can  not  be  utilized  to  take  their  place, 
the  lack  of  peaches  will  tend  to  give 
it 
it  will  be  found 
more  attention,  and 
that 
its  possibilities  are  not  yet  fully 
realized.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Strawberry command $2@2  25 
per  bbl.  Maiden  Blush  fetch  $i.75@2. 
No.  1  stock  is  in  good  demand  at  $1.75, 
while  cooking  stock  commands  $1.50.

Beans— New  stock  is  beginning  to  ar­
rive.  The  quality 
is  good,  due  to  the 
frequent  rams  early  in  the  season  and 
the  absence  of  rain  during  the  past  two 
or three  weeks.

Beets—25@3oc  per  bu.

Never 

Leading  Feature  o f  the  Local  Market
in  the  history  of  the  city  has 
there  been  so  extensive  a  display  of 
vegetables  on  the  market  as  is to be seen 
at  the  present. 
Yesterday  the  side 
streets  were  nearly  all  filled  and  a  row 
of  teams  occupied  the  west  side  of  the 
main  street,  allowing  only  a  narrow 
place  for  driving  into  each  side  street. 
Usually  at  this  time  in  the  season  the 
larger  proportion  of  fruit  offered  is  the 
peaches.  The  absence  of  these  seems 
to  have  no  effect  upon  the  market  at­
tendance,  other  fruits  and  vegetables 
being  in  correspondingly  large  quanti­
ties.  Considering  the  constant  abun­
dance  prices  are  generally  well  main­
tained—the  people  have  money  with 
which  to  buy.

Hotels,  boarding  houses  and  public 
institutions  are  pretty  well  represented 
in  the  market,  as  they  can 
by  buyers 
purchase 
in  sufficient  quantities  to  pay 
for  delivering.  Then  a  few  enterprising 
housewives  are  on  the  spot  to  see  if 
they  can  not  get  better  and  cheaper 
goods  by  an  early  visit  with  baskets. 
These 
last,  however,  are  not  in  suffi­
cient  numbers  to  have  any  particular 
significance,  for  it  is  being  learned  that 
the  average  grocer  will  do  the  work  for 
them,  better  and  cheaper.  And 
the 
wholesale  spirit  seems  to  pervade  the 
sellers  as  well— not  many  care  to  retail 
a  few  cepts’  or  shillings’  worth  when 
they  can  get  a  profitable  price  in selling 
by  the  load.  There  has  never  been  a 
time  in  the  history  of  trade  in  this  city 
when  the  people  were  so  able  and  will­
ing  to  pay  fair  profits  in  all  lines  as  at 
the  present.  A  clean  fresh  stock,  care­
ful  and  painstaking  service,  and there 
are  not  many  who  can  complain  of  the 
lack  of  reasonable  returns.

Peaches  are  still  most  remarkable  by 
their  absence.  Occasionally a  few  bush­
els  are  offered,  and 
taken,  at  fancy 
prices,  $2  and  upwards;  but  the  aver­
age  consumer  is coming to recognize  the 
fact  that  some  substitutes  must  be  ac­
cepted 
in  place  of  the  delicate  fruit. 
The  experience  may  not  be  without 
profit  in  that  the  possibilities  of  other 
fruits  will  be  less  neglected,  and  that 
new  and  varied  methods  of utilizing and 
preserving  will  be  tried  which will have 
continued  influence  during  succeeding 
years.  For  many  years  past  peaches 
had  been 
in  annual  abundance  as  far 
as  local  needs  were  concerned.  Every 
housewife  ‘ ‘ puts  up”   a  sufficient  quan­
tity  for  her  needs  in  the  same  old  con­
ventional  methods—mostly  canned—oc­
casionally  this  supply  being  supple­
mented  by  carelessly-selected  and  care­
lessly-preserved  fruits  of  other  kinds, 
which  now,  perforce,  must  serve  as  the 
main  dependence.  To  many  the  re­
sult  of  more  careful  selection  and  treat­
ment  will  prove  a  revelation. 
It  may 
be  discovered, 
instance,  that  for 
for 
most  palates  there 
is  no  more  agree­
ably-flavored  fruit  than  properly-canned 
In  many  cases  these  are  now 
pears. 
is  more  on  ac­
little  esteemed,  and 
it 
count  of  careless  and 
improper  treat­
ment  than  otherwise.  Pears  usually  do 
not  ripen  evenly  and  so  when  they  are 
put  up  some  are  too  hard  and  others 
too  ripe.  The  consequence 
is  a  dis­
agreeable  mixture,  which  has  gone  far 
to  deprive  this  finely-flavored and  pleas- 
ant-textured  fruit  of  its  proper position. 
And  so  with  apples.  There  are  many 
ways  of  preserving  the  delicate  flavors 
of  this  fruit  and  supplementing  them 
with  mixtures  of  other  fruits  and  fla­
vorings  to  produce  a  most  toothsome 
and  healthful  delicacy.  Thus  the  merits 
and  possibilities  of  other  fruits  will  re­

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

41

47

45

48

52.

l?O K  SALE AT  A  BARGAIN—WE lL-STOCK- 
X1  ed variety store in a thriving  town  of  2,5 jO. 
Good location, excellent trade.  Other business 
reason for  selling.  Address  Box  344,  Otsego. 
Mich. 
Tj'OR rALE—STOCK OF  DRUGS, SUNDRIES, 
r   furniture, etc.,  in  excellent  farming  town; 
central location;  established twenty years;  big 
profits;  rent very cheap.  Will sell at a  big  dis 
count.  Present own? r not a  druggist.  Address 
No. 48. care Michigan Tradesman. 
lilOK  SALE—STOCK  OF  DRUGS,  INVOIC- 
X! 
ing  it,000.  in  one  best  farming  towns  in 
Central Michigan, 503 inhabitants; best location 
in tow n; about -$6,0i0 cash sales last year.  Snap 
for right person.  Best  of  reasons  for  selling. 
Address No. 46, care Michigan Tradesman.  46 
A   DRAG  STOCK  FOR  SALEVERY CHEAP 
J\.  on account of  the  death  of  the proprietor. 
For particulars  write  to  Mrs.  Anna  Tomlin, 
Bear Lake.  Mich. 
'rp O  RENT—TWO STORES IN NEW CORNE R 
X  block  in  city  of  Belding—one  of  the  best 
towns  in  Michigan.  Has  eight  factories,  all 
running,  comprising  the  following:  Two  silk 
mills, two refrigerator factories, basket factory, 
shoe  factory,  furniture  factory,  box  factory; 
planing mill and  flouring  mill.  Stores  are  lo­
cated on Main sre e t in  good  location.  Size of 
corner store, 25x85 feet.  Good  basement,  run­
ning  water,  electric  lights.  Rent to good par­
ties reasonable.  Address Belding  Land  &  Im­
provement Co., Belding, Mich. 
"VTICE  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  HEAVY  AND 
i .1  shelf  hardware  for  sale.  B.  Hancock, 
Cedar Springs, Mich. 
Tj'OR  SALE—BAKERY  AND  RESTAURANT 
X 
in good  town  of  1,80 j  inhabitants.  Reason 
for* selling,  other  business.  For  particulars 
address  V.  W.,  No.  33.  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
Tj'OR  SALE—CHOICE  STOCK  OF  GROCEK- 
X   ies in manufacturing  town  of  5,000;  south­
ern  Michigan;  surrounded  by  best  farming 
country  out  of  doors;  largest  trade,  all  cash: 
best location;  finest  store;  modern  fixtures;  a 
money  maker;  sales  S4J.000.  Address  No.  37. 
care Michigan  Tradesman. 
TT'OR SALE—BAKERY'  WITH  ALL  MODERN 
X   equipments.  Good  location  and  excellent 
trade.  Poor health cause for selling.  Address 
John Wheeler, Union  St.,  Traverse  City,  Mich.
36
TJ50RSALE—CLEAN  STOCK  OF  CLOTHING 
X  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. 
T F YOU  WISH  TO  BUY  A  FINE  COUNTRY 
X  store and farm at a bargain, write  to  No.  29, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
Tj'OR SALE—ONE HALF INTEREST IN SAW 
X  mill and planingmill, situated in a flourish­
ing village on Grand  Traverse  Bay;  good  local 
trade;  business  well  established.  For  partic­
ulars address No  28, care Michigan Tradesman.
28
TXT ANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A  RUBBER 
m   stamp.  Best  stamps  on  earth  at  prices 
that  are  right.  Will  J.  Weller,  Muskegon 
Mich. 
958
Tj'OK  SALE  OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERAL 
X  Stock  of  Merchandise—60  acre  farm,  part 
clear, architect house  and  barn;  well  watered. 
I also have two 40 acre  farms  and  one  80  acre 
farm to exchange.  Address No.  12, care  Michi 
gan Tradesman. 
12
rp H E  SHAFTING,  HANGERS AND PULLEYS 
X  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

33

25

37

29

16

680

993

Tj'OR  SALE—GOOD  BAZAAR  STOCK.  EN- 
X  quire  of  Hollon  &  Hungerford,  Albion, 
Mich. 
Tj'OR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
X   splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad­
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman. 
TTODERN  CITY  RESIDENCE  AND  LARGE 
I tX  lot, with barn, for sale cheap on easy terms, 
or will exchange for tract  of  hardwood  timber. 
Big  bargain  for  some  one.  Possession  given 
any time. 
Investigation solicited.  E. A. Stowe, 
24 Kellogg street, Grand Rapids. 
A   NY  ONE  WISHING  TO  ENGAGE  IN  THE 
A   grain and produce and  other  lines  of  busi­
ness can  learn  of  good  locations  bv  communi­
cating  with  H.  H.  Howe,  Land  and  Industrial 
Agent C. & W. M. and D., G. R.  &  W.  Railways, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
TT'OR  SALE —A  RARE  OPPORTUNITY —A 
X   flourishing  business,  clean  stock  of  shoes 
and furnishing  goods;  established  cash  trade; 
best store and  location  in  city;  located  among 
the best iron mines In the country.  The coming 
spring will open  up  with  a  boom  for  this  city 
and prosperous  times  for  years  to  come  a  cer­
tainty.  Rent  free  for  six  months,  also  a  dis­
count on stock;  use of fixtures free.  Store  and 
location  admirably  adapted  for  any  line  of 
business and conducted  at small  expense.  Get 
in line  before  too  late.  Failing  health  reason 
for  selling.  Address  P.  O.  Box  304,  Negau 
nee, Mich. 
913

919

MISCELLANEOUS.

49

43

51 

TXT ANTED—AN ASSISTANT PHARMACIST. 
T V   Give  age,  experience,  references  and  sal­
ary.  F.  M  Fisk,  stssopolis, Mich. 
TXTANTED — FIRST-CLASS BOOK-KEEPER 
T V   capable of keeping  a  set  of  double entry 
books in a m anufacturing plant.  None  but  ex-
peiienced men need apply.  A  good  permanent 
situation for  a  bright,  capable  man.  Address 
Manufacturer. Box 502. Kalamazoo. Mich.  50
XX7ANTED—POSITION  AS  MANAGER  OR 
T V   head  clerk  in  general  store.  Have  had 
valuable experience as  manager  and  buyer  for 
ten years.  Annual sales, $59,000.  Address No. 
51, care Michigan Tradesman. 
XX7"ANTED—POSITION  AS  CLERK.  NINE 
T T  years’ experience in dry goods and general 
trade.  Address, No. 43, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
XX7 ANTED—POSITION  BY  DRUGGIST,  14 
V  T   years’ experience.  Address,  No.  40,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
40 
TT'XPERIENCED  YOUNG BUSINESS  MAN.
thoroughly  competent  to  take  charge  of 
financial or credit  departments,  would  like  to 
ally  himself  with  reliable  house  where  ex­
perience and ability  will  be  appreciated.  Lo­
cation not material.  Address S, Box 524, Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 
XXf ANTED — EXPERIENCED  SALESMAN 
Tv 
for  dry  goods,  clothing,  boot  and  shoe 
store  Young  man  preferred.  Must  furnish 
good references.  Address No. 31, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
XX7ANTED—POSITION  AS  MANAGER  OR 
t v   head  clerk  in  country  store.  Have  had 
valuable  experience  as  manager  of  a  lumber 
store  having  annual  sales  of  $50,000.  Salary 
moderate.  Can speak  Holland.  Address No.  .32 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
TX7 ANTED—POSITION 
IN  A  GENERAL 
store;  twenty years’experience;  good ref­
t v  
erences.  Address  No.  997,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
TX7ANTED—SITUATION  AS  TRAVELING 
v v  salesman, commission or  salary,  clothing, 
boots and shoes, m en’s furnishing  goods or gro­
ceries.  Good  references  given.  Address  998, 
care Michigan  Tradesman. 
XX7ANTED — A  FIRST-CLASS  TINSMITH. 
tv  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 

997

992

998

39

32

31

W HEN YOU W AN T A GOOD SM O K E

NOTICE  THIS  BRAND

CO LU M BIAN   CIG A R   C O M P A N Y ,  BENTON  HARBOR.  MICH.

M A N U F A C T U R E D   B Y

,  Butter— Factory  creamery  has  ad­
vanced  and 
Fancy 
grades  of  dairy  command  16c,  but  re­
ceipts  of  dairy  are  almost  wholly  cook­
ing  grades  and  worse.

is  firm  at  20c. 

Cabbage—$1  per  bbl.
Carrots—25c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—$1.25  per  doz.
Celery— I2@i5c  per  doz.  bunches.
Crab  Apples— Siberian  and  Trans­
in  ample  supply  at  40c 

cendent  are 
per  bu.

Cucumbers—Home  grown  have  de­
clined  to  25@3oc  per  bu.  Greenhouse 
stock  commands  I2@i5c  per  doz.

Eggs— Dealers,  ¡are  paying  12c 

for 
fresh  laid,  case  count,  holding  candled 
at  13c  and  dirties  and  small  eggs  at 
12c.  Receipts  have  been  fairly  good 
during  the  past  week.

Grapes— Moore’s  Early  are  coming  ir. 
freely,  commanding  12c  for  4  lb.  bas­
ket  and  16c  for  8  lb.  baskets.  The qual­
ity 
local  trade  and 
shipping  demand  are  excellent.

is  good  and  both 

Green  Onions— Black  seed  are  in  fair 

demand  at  io@i2c.
Honey— White  Clover  is  scarce,  com­
manding  i2j£c.  Dark  amber  fetches  8 
@ioc.

Muskmelons— Cantaloupes  command 
6o@75c  per  doz.  Osage  fetch  75c  per 
crate.

Onions— Illinois  and  home  grown  are 
sold  on  the  same  basis—about  60c  per 
in  1 y2  bu. 
bu. 
sacks.

Illinois  stock  comes 

Bartletts 

Pears— All  varieties  are  scarce, 

in 
consequence  of  which  the  demand  is 
active. 
command  $1.50 
Flemish  Beauties  and  Clapp’s  Favoritt 
have  advanced  to  $1.40.  Sugar  pears 
and  other  small  varieties  range  around 
75c.

Peaches—There  are  no  receipts  to 
speak  of  on  the  local  market.  Local 
dealers arejnot encouraging>consignmenls 
of  early  fruit  from  outside  points,  be­
cause  of  its  poor  shipping  and  keeping 
qualities.

Peppers—50c  per  bu.
Plums-----Bradshaws  are  piactically
marketed.  Moore’s  Arctics  command 
$i@ i.25  per  bu.  Yellow  Egg 
fetch 
$1.50.  Lombards  are  in  ample  supplv 
at 90C@$i.

Potatoes—There 

is  no  shipping  de­
local­
is  supplied  by  local  growers.  The 
is  2o@ 

mand  to  spezk  of,  because  every 
ity 
prevailing  price  on  the  market 
25c.

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

per  bu.  box.

Sweet  Corn—6@8c  per  doz.
Tomatoes—The  crop  is  large  and  the 
quality  fine,  both  as  to  size  and  appear­
ance.  Local  jobbers  bill  out  at  40@5oc, 
but  even  lower  prices  may  possibly  rule 
before  the  close  of  the  season.

Turnips—25@300  per  bu.
Watermelons-----Indiana  Sweethearts

command  I4@i6c.

Whortleberries— Receipts  are  grad­
ually  dwindling,  being  now  so  small  *as 
to  be  hardly  quotable.

Travelers’ Time  Tables.

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association 

President,  C.  L.  Whitney,  Traverse  City:  Sec­

retary, E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J. Wisler, Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 

A. Stows, Grand Rapids.

Michigan  Hardware  Association

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

Henry C. Minnie, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

221 Greenwood ave:  Treasurer, C.H. F rink.
Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association^ 
President,  F rank  J.  Dt k ;  Secretary,  Homer 
Klap;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  Lehman.

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

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

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J. Frank Helmer;  Secretary, W.  H. 

Porter;  Treasurer,  L. Pelton.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

land:  Treasurer, Wm. C. Koehn.  .

Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  M.  L.  DbBats ;  Sec’y, S.  W. Waters.

Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

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

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s   Association

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

bell;  Treasurer, W. E. Collins.

Alpena Business Men’s  Association

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

Partridge.

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

ber: Treasurer, S. J.  Hufford.

St. Johns  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Thos. Bromley;  Secretary, Frank A. 

Percy;  Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Perry Business Men’s  Association

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

Yale Bnsiuess Men’s  Association

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

T R A V E L

F .  &  P   M.  R.  R.

VIA

AND  STEAM SHIP  LINES 

TO  ALL  POINTS  IN  MICHIQAN

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

CHICAGO

Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids..7:10am  12:00nn  5:05pm  *2:15am 
At.  Chicago.... 1:30pm 5:00pm  11:15pm  *7:25am 
Lv.Chicago...  7:15am  12:00nn  4:15pm *8:45pn> 
Ar. G’dRapids  1:25pm 5:05pm  10:15pm  *1:50am 
,  Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey. 
Lv. G’d  Rapids.  7:30am  2:05am  1:45pm  5:30pm 
Ar. Trav.  City..12:40pm  6:10am  5:35pm  10:55pm
Ar. Charlevoix..  3:15pm  7:53am  7:38pm...............
Ar. Petoskey__3:45pm  8:15am  8:15pm.................
Ar. Bay View...  3:55pm  8:20am  8:20pm...............
Lv. G. Rapids..9:00am  12:00nn  5:30pm............
Ar. G. Rapids. .8:00am 
Ottawa Beach.
Union  depot  9:00am: 
7:00pm.
4:45pm, and 10:05pm.
night trains to and from Chicago 

l:25pm  5:05pm  10:15pm 
Extra train on Saturday  leaves  at  2:15pm  for 
Sunday  train  leaves  Bridge  street  8:40am, 
leaves  Ottawa  Beach 
Trains  arrive  from  north at 2:00am, 11:15am, 
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars  on 
Parlor cars for Bay View.

Ottawa Beach.

♦Every  day. 

Others week days only.

DETROIT,Grand Rapids & Western.

June a 6 ,1899.

Detroit.

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

Saginaw, A ina and  Greenville.

Geo.  DbHaven,  General Pass. Agent.

H H   A  V i n   Trunk Railway System

v IP  Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv
(In effect May  1,1899.)

GOING  EAST

Leave  Arrive
Saginaw,  Detroit & N Y..........t   6:45am  t   9:55pm
Detroit  and  E ast....................tl0:l6am  t  5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit &  East........t  3:27pm  tl2:50pm
Buffalo,  N  Y,  Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, L’t’d  E x __ *  7:20pm *10:16am
GOING  WEST
Gd. Haven and Int Pts__  
*  8:30am  *10:00pm
Gd.  Haven  Express.................*10:21am * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven and Int  Pts......... tl2:58pm t  3:19pm
Gd. Haven and  Milwaukee. ..t  5:12pm  tl0:llam  
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee...tlO-.OOpm  +  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 st in ,  City  Pass.  Ticket Agent,

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.

GRAND Rapids  &  Indiana Railway

July 9,  1899.

Northern  Dlv.  Leave 

Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & M ack...* 4; 10am  *10:f0pm 
T rav.C’y ,Petoskey & M ack...t 7:45am t  5:15pm
Trav. City A Petoskey.............t   1:40pm  t   1:10pm
Cadillac accommodation........ t  5:25pm tlO :55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw C ity.. ..+11:00pm  t   6:30am 
i j4:10am 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...........................   ...+ 7:10am t  9:45pm
Ft. Wayne 
..............................t  2:00pm  t   1:30pn.
Kalamazoo and Vicksburg...  * 7:00pm  *  7:20am
Chicago and Cincinnati..........*10:15pm  * 3:55am
'-7:10  am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati 
and  parlor  car  to  Chicago;  2:00pm  train  has 
parlor  car  to  “Ft. Wayne;  10:15pm  train  has 
sleeping  cars  to  Chicago,  Cincinnati,  Indian­
apolis, Louisville and St. Louis.
, Chicago Trains.

FROM CHICAGO.

Lv. Grand Rapids...  7  10am  2 00pm  *10 15pm
Ar. Chicago.............   2 30pm  8 45pm 
6  25am
Lv. Chicago.............   3 02pm  *  8.15pm  *11  32pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...  9  45pm  3:55pm 
7 20am
Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor 
car;  10:15pm, coach and sleeping car.
Train  leaving  Chicago 3:02pm  has  Pullman 
parlor  car;  8:15pm sleeping car;  11:32pm sleep­
ing car for Grand Rapids.

TO CHICAGO.

Muskegon Trains.

GOING WEST.

LvG ’d  Rapids..............t7:35am  tl:35pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon__  
.  9:00am  2:45Dm  7:05pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
qOQ)0 BAST«
Lv Muskegon.............. t8:10am  tl2:15am  t4:00pir
At G’d Rapids...  —   9:30am 
1:25pm  5:20pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  6:30pm;  a r­
rives Grand Rapids 7:55pm. 
tE xcept Sunday.  «Dally.

c.  l. Lockwood,
W. C. BLAKE, 

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

MANISTEE &  Northeastern Ry.

Best route to Manistee.

Via  C. &  W . M.-Railway.

L v Grand Rapids...........
A r  Manistee...................
Lv  Manistee..................
A r Grand  R a p id s.........

.............
,  7:00am 
12:05pm 
..........
,  S:30am  4^iopm 
1:00pm  0:55pm

The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

Manufacture

Solid  Boxes for Shoes, Gloves,  Shirts and Caps,  Pigeon  Hole  Files  for 
Desks, plain and  fancy  Candy  Boxes,  and  Shelf  Boxes  of  every  de­
scription.  We  also  make  Folding  Boxes  for  Patent  Medicine,  Cigar 
Clippings,  Powders, etc., etc.  Gold and Silver  Leaf work  and  Special 
Die Cutting done  to suit.  Write for prices.  Work guaranteed.

GRAND  RAPIDS  PAPER  BOX  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  M ich.

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.

Is not only a  good  place to  discuss  U n e e d a  
B i s c u i t ,   but a good place to  test  them— test 
them  by tasting.  For a cup  of tea  accentuates 
the delicate goodness  of the new delicacy,  and 
the flavor of a good cup of tea is, in turn, made 
better by U n e e d a  B is c u it.  You can’t under­
stand this until you try them,  for there is noth­
ing  in  your  past  experience  with  biscuit  to 
make a comparison.  The best biscuit skill  in 
the country is concentrated  in

Uneeda 
Biscuit

A sk y o u r grocer about them .  Sold only in  S cent packages. 
Never in  an y   other way.

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the  Seymour Cracker.

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

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

NATIONAL  BISCUIT  COMPANY,

G R A N D   R A PID S,  MICH.

This  Will 
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