Volume XVI.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30,1899.

Number 832

THE  “ BRILLIANT”  INCANDESCENT  GAS  LAMP

Makes its own Gas from Gasoline.  As Bright  as Daylight,  almost  as Cheap
DON’T   VOID  YOUR  INSURANCE 

COMPARATIVE  COST 

16 Hours Burning 100 Candle Power Light

Two Rochester Lamps,  c o s t.............................. $0.18
Five Ordinary City Gas Jets  20 Candle power 
each, costs..........................................................40

<Qm @ 11.00 per thousand fuel.)

Six  Incandescent  Electric  Lights,  16  Candle

Power.each, costs............................................. %

One Brilliant  Gas  Lamp,  1  Quart  Gasolene,
100 Candle Power,  costs...........................  

.02

Alcohol  Spoon,  per do*...................................... f t .80

Generator,  each...................................................f 0.80
Generator Tip only,  per d o z............................   1.80

Tip Cleaner, per d o z ..........................................fo.90

INCANDESCENT  GAS BURNERS

FOR  ILLUMINATING GAS 

Best Burner on the market

BY  USING 
A  LAMP  THAT 
HAS  NOT  BEEN 
ENDORSED 
BY THE

NATIONAL  BOARD  OF  FIRE IN­

SURANCE  UNDERWRITERS

Mantels under ordinary circumstances 
and  by  careful  handling  should 
last three  to six  months, but as a 
precaution against accident,  a few 
extra  should be ordered  and kept 
on  hand.

Brilliant Mantles, each.................. (0.40
Brilliant  Mantles,  per doz..............  4.50
The  Mantles  we  furnish  are  the  most 

durable and economical.

Any  Mantle can  be used.
The  same  size  Mantles,  Chimneys  and 
Shades  are  used  as on  the  Wellsbad 
descent burners.

Trimmings  for  Brilliant  Gas  Lamps .

Chimneys  for  Incandescent  and  Wellsbach

Burners,  per box  6 dozen.......................$  9.60
.......................  18.00

12 

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Use

More

Light

and

You’ll

Do

More

Business

Lamp.

No.  100—“Brilliant” Gas 
Length, 56 inches.  Complete 
with  chimney, first quality Man­
tle  and  Opal  Shade,  Alcohol 
Spoon  and Tip Cleaner.
$9.00   Each.

Discount........Per Cent.
Holds one quart of  Gasolene, 

and  will  bum  16 hours.

Oxidized  Copper Finish.

(00 CANDLE  POWER

Light without Heat, Smoke, 
Smell or Danger. . . . . .

No. 200—“ Brilliant ” Gas Lamp

Length  36 inches.  Spreads 28  inches, finished in  oxidized 
copper.  Holds three  pints of gasolene.  Will  burn  12 
hours.  Complete  with  first  quality  mantels,  chim­
neys  and opal  shades,  alcohol spoon  and tip cleaner.

Each...........

.................. $17.00

Discount

. Per Cent.

200 CANDLE POWER

No
Extra

Expense

or

Trouble

Requires

only

Common

Gasoline

Cylinders  for  Incandesceat  and  Wellsbach

Burners,  per dozen....................................  2.50

10  per cent,  extra discount on  barrel 

lots of 6 dozen.

No.  74— Opal Shades,  per dozen................... 
10 per cent, extra discount on barrel lots.

2.50

No.  1278-UPRIGHT 
Each...................$0.32

(Brasa part only)

(Brass part oaly)

No. 1307-GALLERY 
Each................ $0.30

The “ Brilliant”   Mantle will  fit these Burners

Discount...........Per Cent.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIGHTING  AND CARE 

SENT  WITH EACH  LAMP.

THE “ BRILLIANT”  HAS BEEN ENDORSED  BY THE NATIONAL BOARD OF UNDERWRITERS.

Special  Discount  50  per  cent.

We sell to

dealers only

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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30,1899.

Number 832

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PA G E2.  D ry  Goods.
3.  Gotham   Gossip.
4.  Around th e State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  W oman’s  World.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Tales Told by a Trio of Travelers.
10  Successful Salesmen.
12.  Observations by a Gotbam   Egg Man.
13.  ^C ranberry Crop No B etter Than Usual.
14.  Shoes  and  Leather.
15.  Judge a Man by His Shoes.
16.  Getting the  People.
17.  Commercial  Travelers.
18.  Drugs and Chemicals.
19.  D rag  Price  Current.
20.  Grocery  Price Current.
21.  Grocery Price  Current.
22.  Hardw are.
23.  Dangers of the Dynamite Drummer. 
H ardw are  Price  Current.
24.  Gripsack Brigade.
Business  Wants.

The  Critic  on  the  Hearth.

is  always  of 

What  a  man  thinks  of  a  woman’s 
clothes 
interest  to  her. 
When  that  man  is  her  husband his opin­
ion  on  the  subject  becomes  a  matter  of 
importance.  There  are  those  who  bold 
that  much  domestic 
infelicity  is  oc­
casioned  by  the  wife’s  neglect  after 
marriage  to  pay  the  same  attention  to 
those  pleasing  details  of the toilette  that 
she  did 
in  the  courting  days  and  that 
in  effect the  rise of  the  Mother Hubbard 
and  the  curl  paper  and  the  decline  of 
the  poesy  of  married  life  are  apt  to  be 
coincident.  On  the  other hand  it  is  a 
well-established  fact  that  no  married 
man  has  ever  yet  failed  in  business  or 
gone 
into  bankruptcy  without  bis  ruin 
having  been  laid  to  his  wife’s  extrava­
gance  and  love  of  dress.

Inasmuch as  most men  hold  tenacious­
ly  to  both  of  these  theories,  and  are  de­
sirous  that  their  wives  should  always  be 
well  dressed  without  spending  anything 
to  speak  of,  and  as  the  days  of  cheap 
dressmakers  and  other  miracles  are 
past,  it  will  be  readily  seen  that  the 
problem  that  the  general woman faces  is 
an  extremely  difficult  one,  and  that 
when  she  presents  herself  before  her 
lord  and  master  in  a  new  frock,  and 
waits  his  opinion  on  it,  she does  so  with 
considerable  natural  hesitation.  Pre­
vious  experience  has  taught  her  that 
he 
is  apt  to  say  one  of  several  things: 
He  may  remark:  “ Oh,  is  that  a  new 
dress?  Never  would  have  known  it. 
Looks  exactly  like  all  of  your  others  to 
me.*’  Or  he  may  scan 
it  quizzically 
and  say: 
your  new  dress! 
What on  earth  did  you  have it made like 
that  for?  Say,  if  you’re  going 
in  to 
sweep  the  streets  you’d  better  join  the 
white  wings  and  draw  pay  for  it,  in­
stead  of  bringing  all  the  filth  home  on 
the  bottom  of  your  frock  to  give  the 
children  diphtheria  and  the  Lord  knows 
what. 
It’s  the  style?  That’s  just  the 
way  with  a  woman—there  isn’t a  single 
one 
in  the  whole  bunch  who’s  got 
enough  sense  and  independence to make 
herself  comfortable. 
it’s  the  style, 
no  matter  bow  uncomfortable  and  silly 
it  is,  it  goes,  and  she  never  even  thinks 
about kicking.”   Or,  if  he’s  a  particu­
larly  disagreeable  man,  he  merely asks: 

“ That 

If 

“ WHAT  DID  IT  COST?”

Heretofore a  husband’s opinion  of  his

wife's  clothes,  openly  expressed,  may 
have  been  such  as  to  cause  her to  beam 
with  gratified  pride,  or  send  her  to  bed 
to  cry 
it  out,  but  it  was  a  purely  per­
sonal  matter  between  the  two.  Now, 
however,  the  affair  wears  a  very  differ­
ent  aspect.  A  learned  New  York  jus­
tice  has  recently  decided  that  if  a  man 
approves  of  bis  wife’s  clothes  be  is 
bound  to  pay  for  them,  while  if  be  dis­
approves  he  is  not  legally  responsible, 
and  the  dressmaker  must  look  to the 
woman  alone  for  payment.  Thus,  for 
instance,  if  a  woman  appears  in  a  dear 
little  duck  of  a  frock  and  her  husband 
says,  "What  a  charming  dress  you  have 
on,  my  dear.  Makes  you  look  just  like 
you  did  when  I  fell  in  love  with  you,”  
by  that  unguarded  compliment  he  has 
made  himself  responsible  to  Mme.  Ce­
leste  or  Feodor,  or  whoever  made  the 
confection. 
If,  though,  he  is  discreet 
enough  to  say,  “ What  a  horrid  mess 
that  dress  is!  I  wouldn’t give  a  cent  for 
it, ”   he  thereby  absolves  himself  from 
all  liability  in  the  matter.

In  the  interesting  case  in  which  this 
decision  was  handed  down  the  justice 
made  the  following  ruling:  “ If  a  hus­
band  allows  his  wife  to  wear  articles  in 
his  presence,  and  with  his  knowledge, 
which  he  would  ordinarily  be  liable  to 
pay  foi  as  necessaries,  and  he  makes 
no  objection,  he  will  be  liable  to  pay 
for  them,  for  his  permission  to  her  to 
retain  and  enjoy  them  without objection 
is  equivalent  to  a  ratification  of  the 
purchase.”   The  converse  of  this  is,  ot 
course,  equally  true,  and 
if  a  woman 
indulges  in  finely  of  which her husband 
neither  admires  nor  approves,  bis  criti­
cisms  render  him  free  of  all  financial 
responsibility  in  the  matter.  With  this 
new  view  of  the  subject  women  are 
in­
timately  concerned,  and it  will  probably 
hereafter  be  harder  than  ever to  find  a 
dress  of  which  “ habby”   entirely  ap­
proves. 
Cora  Sto w ell.

A  Possible Starter.

_ 

Mrs.  Bridget  Kelly 

The  manufacturers  of  structural  iron 
and  steel  held  a  meeting  on  August  23, 
and  advanced  prices  $5  a  ton.  They 
say  they  are  in  a  position  to  control  the 
situation  and  intimate that a still further 
advance  may  be  made.  Their  action 
will  probably  have  an  effect  on  other 
values. 

____
is  the  name  of  a 
woman 
in  Bellevue  Hospital  suffering 
with  delirium  tremens.  The  remarkable 
thing  about  her  case 
is  that  she  has 
been  brought  to  her  present  pass  by  an 
inordinate  indulgence  in  strong tea.  She 
had  been  in  the  habit  of  drinking  thirty 
cups  a  day.  She has  never drunk  alco­
holic  liquors.  The doctors  say  that tea  is 
as  bad  as  whisky  when  too  much  of 
it 
is  used.  Mrs.  Kelly  sees strange shapes 
in  green  and  red  dancing  on  the  white 
walls.  The  colors  are 
identical  with 
those  caused  by  alcoholism,  say  the 
physicians,  and  they  explain  that  the 
phenomena  are  caused  by  the  terminal 
filaments of  the  nerves  becoming  coate-1 
with  toxine.  Mrs.  Kelly 
is  not  inter­
ested  in  the  scientific  aspect  of  her  ail­
ment,  but  she  lies  in  bed  wailing  pite­
ously  for tea.  The  doctors  expect  her to 
recover.

Special  Features  of the  Local Produce 

Market.

While  the  hot,  dry  weather  of  the  last 
few  weeks  begins  to  make  some  differ­
ence  in  the  quality  of  the  vegetable  ex­
hibits  on  the  market,  taking  away  from 
the  delicious,  crisp  freshness  which 
characterized  the  unusually 
favorable 
early  season,  there  seems to  be  no  effect 
on  the  supply.  Each  succeeding  Tues­
day  morning  has  brought  an  increasing 
number  of  teams,  although  the  height 
of  the  season  can  not  be  far away.

A  pleasant  and  favorable  feature  of 
the  market,  especially  to  producers,  is 
the  readiness  with which sales are made. 
Passing  through  the  wagons  when  the 
market  hours  are  half  over,  the  usual 
answer  is,  “ Sold.”   This means  an  un­
usual  buying  strength,  which  may  be 
accounted  for  in  various  ways.  Perhaps 
as  great  an  influence  is  the  increase 
in 
the  general  strength  of  this  market  as  a 
distributing  point.  One  of  the  effects 
of  the  tremendous  peach  production  of 
the  past  few  years  is  the  development 
of  the  possibilities  of  quickly  reaching 
consuming  points.  The  general  ma­
chinery  for  this  work  is  ¿till  in  opera­
tion,  and  is  most  effective 
in  meeting 
the  less  strenuous  needs  of  more  hardy 
products.  This  facility  of  reaching  con­
suming  points  has  contributed  isr5elyto 
the  development  of  our  wonderfully  effi­
cient  commission  trade—  it  has  made 
the  work  of  the  bustling  shippers  pos­
sible,  and  they  have  grown  to  meet  the 
situation  with  wonderful  rapidity.

Then  there  has  been  introduced  an­
other  buying  and  consuming 
factor 
which,  while  it  has  been  so  quiet  about 
its  work  that 
it  almost  passes  without 
.lotice,  is  yet  of  material  importance. 
There  were  many,  even  among  fruit 
growers,  who  were 
inclined  to  treat 
lightly,  or  even  deprecate,  the  open­
ing  of  canning  factories.  The  begin­
ning  which  has  been  made  in  this 
line 
is  already  sufficient  to  turn  such  indiff­
erence  and  opposition  into  the  heartiest 
support. 
Its  influence  in  assuring  sales 
to  the  producer operates  to  give  confi­
dence  and  stimulate  offerings,  and ship­
ping  buyers  have  the  better  selection. 
Any  influence  which  increases  the  vol­
ume  of  the  market  is  a  benefit  to  both 
buyers  and  sellers;  and  when  this  influ­
ence  operates  to  give  such  steadiness 
and  assurance  as  canneries  must  do,  the 
benefit  is  a  double  one.  Canning facto­
ries have  come  to  stay,  and  their  num­
ber  will  increase in proportion to the im­
portance  of  this  center  of  both  produc­
tion  and  shipping.

As  the  season  advances  offerings  of 
peaches 
in  quantity,  but  they 
are  likely  to  be  a  distressingly  small 
element.

increase 

“ What  are  they  worth?”
"T w o  fifty.”
“ Peaches  are  peaches.”
“ You  bet.”
Plums  are  coming  nearer  to  taking 
the  place  of  the  nobler  fruit  than  any­
thing  else.  The 
leading  shippers  are 
handling  from  600 to  800 bushels  daily, 
a  quantity  probably  exceeding  previous 
records  of  this  highly esteemed product. 
Pears  are  not 
large  quantities  or 
good  quality.  Early  grapes  are  in  con­
siderable  abundance,  but  not  to an  ex­
tent  to  unduly  depress, the  market.

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Dry Poods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons—Docks  in  some  cases 
have  been  advanced  and  in  all cases are 
exceptionally  firm.  The  advances  have 
been  on  heavy  lines.  Bleached  cottons 
would  be active  if  any  could  be  found, 
but  with  the  demand  practically  ahead 
of  the  supply,  there  can  be  very  little 
business  accomplished.  Wide  sheetings 
have  been  advanced  generally  >£@ic 
per  yard  and  low-grade  bleached cottons 
are  frequently  one-eighth  of  a 
cent 
higher.  Wide  sheetings  are  firm 
in 
every  case.  Cotton  flannels,  blankets, 
etc.,  are  firm  and  steady  and  a  moder­
ate  business 
is  being  accomplished. 
Denims  are  decidedly  against  buyers  in 
every  case,  and  signs  of  advancement 
may  be  seen  on  every  hand.  Ticks  are 
sharing  the  general  increased  demand. 
Other  coarse  colored  cottons,  including 
shirtings,  plaids,  stripes,  etc.,  are 
in 
better  demand  than  of  late,  and  prices 
are  firm.

Printed  Fabrics—There  is  a  decided 
improvement  to  note 
in  the  situation 
for  printed  cloths.  This  is  more  notice- j 
able 
in  fancies,  but  staple  goods  are i 
moving  also.  The  Western  trade  has 
not  shown  the  same 
increase  as  other 
sections  of  the  country,  but  it  is  coming 
along 
in  a  fairly  satisfactory  manner. 
The  remainder  of  the  season  will  un­
doubtedly  be  a  good  one,  for  the  job­
bers  have  bad  an  almost  unprecedented 
trade  so  far.  At  first  hands,  the  agents 
in  many 
are  more  closely  sold  up  than 
seasons  past.  The  conditions 
in  the 
print  cloth  market  support  the  other 
divisions  in  price and  general  firmness. 
Ginghams 
in  spring  dress  styles  have 
been  moving  along  quietly,  but  enough 
goods  have  been  sold  to  warrant  the  be­
lief  that  advances  are  more  than  prob­
able  before  long.  Staple  ginghams  re­
main  firm  and  scarce. 
In  dark  styles 
is  nothing  to  be  found  whatever. 
there 
Domets,  etc.,  are  also  well  sold  np.

in 

few  obstacles 

Knit  Goods—Everywhere  the  buying 
of  spring  knit  goods  is  well  under  way, 
and  moving  at  a  good  pace,  with  but 
its  path.  A 1 
very 
though  there  is  some  talk  by  a  few  of 
the  houses  of  cutting  prices,  and  thus 
securing  more  of  the  trade,  there  is  lit­
tle  faith  placed  in  this  rumor,  for  it 
is 
plain  to  all  that  prices  are  as  low  as 
they  can  be,  considering  the  increase  in 
the  price  of  raw  material,  and  the  in­
creased  cost  of  labor,  if  makers  are  to 
turn  out  goods  equal 
in  material  and 
manufacture  to those  now  carried.  Man­
ufacturers  have  for  several  years  been 
making  goods  at  very 
little  profit  to 
themselves,  with  such  small  profit,  in 
fact,  that  business  failure,  absence  of 
dividends,  etc.,  have  been  the  result, 
and  now  they  are  determined  to  stick  to 
a  fair  price.

Carpets— Previous  to  six  months  ago 
the  carpet  trade  was 
in  a  deplorable 
condition.  Since  that  time  there  has 
been  a  gradual  increase  in  business,  al­
though  the  initial  orders  were  mainly 
taken  at  old  prices.  Recently  there 
has  been  a  more  general  disposition  to 
advance  prices  on  tapestry,  velvet and 
standard  extra  super  ingrain  carpets. 
The  latter  were  the  last  to  be advanced, 
as  the  low  prices  at  which  tapestry  and 
velvets  were  sold  previous  to  their ad­
vance  did  not  permit  ingrain  manufac­
turers  to  hold  for  higher  prices,  but  du­
plicate orders  will  not be taken  at  prices 
at  which  the  initial  orders  were placed. 
With  the 
in  the  carpet  busi­
ness,  all  the  former  idle machinery,shut

increase 

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down  for  six  years,  is  now  running,  and 
some  manufacturers  contemplate  run 
ning  extra  time 
in  order  to  complete 
their  orders  for  the  jobbers  in  time,  as 
the  new  season  will  soon  commence. 
Art  squares  continue  in  popular  favor, 
and  while  there  has  been  during  the 
past  two  years  quite  a  large  increase  in 
the  number  of 
looms  engaged  on  this 
line,  which  has  resulted  in  closer  com­
petition,  the  art  square  to-day  holds  a 
larger  place  than  ever  before  for  cov­
ering  the  dining  room  floor,  and  has 
practically  replaced  the  old  style  of 
drugget  or  crumb  cloth,  made  of  felt. 
Not  only  is  it  used  for  this  purpose,  but 
is also  for  use  in  bed  chambers.  Some 
even  use  it  on  painted  floors,  as  well  as 
the  very  popular  ail  wool  Smyrna  rugs. 
In  offices 
it  is  also  used,  as  well  as  in 
dwelling  houses,  not  only  of  the  labor­
ing  man,  but  of  those  in  more  favored 
circumstances.

in  this 

Lace  Curtains— The  return  of  the  fall 
months  will  see  gieater  activity  than 
ever 
line.  Manufacturers  are 
ambitious  to  excel  each  other  in 
intro­
ducing  new  and  very  attractive designs.
The  large  increase  in  the  production 
of  this  line  of  goods  ever  since  the  Mc­
Kinley  tariff  bill  permits  the  American 
manufacturer  to  produce  them  at  such  a 
low  price  that  they  are  now  within  the 
ability  of  the  masses  of  the  people  to 
purchase,  and  the  American  working 
man 
is  beautifying  his  home  with  fur­
nishings  which  a  few  years  ago  were  so 
expensive  that  they  were  a  luxury  only 
enjoyed  by  the  wealthy  and  men  of 
large  salary.

A  woman  never  knows  what  an  un­
principled  scoundrel  she  has  married 
until  her  husband  runs  for  office.

J. G.  Miller &  Co.,

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What you want is a good  line  of  Socks  for 
fall  trade;  there  is  money in it  if you  buy them 
from us.  We  have them in the following grades: 
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for them  that  a  leading  authority claims that the 
makers  of collars  will  be  unable  to  fill  orders 
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Wholesale Dry Goods

I am now at my desk in  Chicago, to  remain  until 
State Fail'week, held in Grand Rapids, Sept. 25-29, 
at which time I  shall  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel with  all 
my fail  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,

376 Franklin Street.

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  Aug.  26—The  last  week 
of  the  month  is  here  and 
it  would  be 
bard  to  find  another  since  Jan.  1  that 
was  duller  than  this.  The  demand  is 
limited  to  the  smallest  amounts,  and 
neither  out-of-town  dealers  nor  those  in 
the  city  seem  at  all  anxious  about  the 
course  of trade  in  this  staple.  Certain­
ly  there  seems  no  need  of  worry  lest 
prices  advance  unduly,  for  the  supply 
at  Rio  and  Santos  is  larger  so  far this 
year  than  in  1897,  which  was  regarded 
as  the  banner  season.  So  far  the  re­
ceipts  at the  two ports aggregate  2  184,- 
000  bags  this  year,  against  2,164,000 
bags  in  1897.  Here and  afloat  the  stock 
aggregates 1,124,806 bags, against  1,027,- 
259  bags  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
Rio  No.  7 is worth SHC-  In mild  grades 
there  has  been  a  slightly enlarged move­
ment  of  the  better  sorts  at  firm  but  un­
changed  prices.  Good  Cucuta 
is  held 
at  8#c.  East  India  sorts  have  been 
doing  a  little  better and  jobbers  report 
some  fairly  good  sales.  Prices,  how­
ever,  are  practically  unchanged.

The  cuts  made  in  sugar  by  the  war­
riors  are  still  open.  The  trust  is  doing 
i.ts  level  best  to get  suppl'es  of  raws  at 
its  own  figures,  which seem  to  be  rather 
below  the  bids  of  the  independent  con­
cerns.  Arbuckle  still  keeps  the  rate  of 
granulated  at  5.25.  A  fairly  large  vol­
ume  of  business  has  been  done  in  the 
way  of  withdrawals  on  contract,  but new 
business  has  been  a  little  quiet  during 
the  past  day  or  so.  Foreign  holders  of 
beet  sugar  seem  to  be  realizing  that 
America  is  doing  something  in  that line 
herself  and,  as  a  consequence,  they  feel 
some  disappointment  at  the  compara­
tively  light  demand  from  here  for  their 
goods.

Jobbers  of  teas  are  taking  rather  ligLt 
interest  in  the  market  and  few  trans­
actions  have  taken  place  beyond  the  or­
dinary  trading.  The  general  feeling, 
however,  is  more  confident than a month 
ago and,  while  there  is  not  likely  to  be 
any  great 
is  worth 
while  to  note  even  a better feeling.  Few 
changes,  if  any,  have  taken  piace 
in 
quotations.

improvement, 

So  far,  about  2,000 barrels  of  cleaned 
rice  has  been  received  here this  season 
and,  as  jobbers  can  obtain supplies with 
promptitude,  they  are  inclined  to  pur­
chase  with  rather  more  freedom than  for 
a  while  past.  The  general  tone  of  the 
market 
is  steady  and  prices  are  quite 
generally  adhered  to.  Foreign  rice  is 
firm  ana  stocks  are  rather  light. 
It  is 
estimated  that  the  yield  in  Louisiana 
and  on  the  coast  will  be at  least two 
and  a quarter million  sacks.  Prime  to 
choice  Southern  is  worth  5Ji@5R e­
orders  for  spices  are  generally  for 
small  lots,  but  the  market  is  fairly  firm 
and  holders  seem  to be  quite  well  satis­
fied  with  the  outlook.  Pepper  is  firm 
and  cloves  seem  to  be  in  quite  good  re­
quest.  Prices are practically unchanged.
Contrary  to  expectations,  a  situation 
has  developed  this  week  that  seems  to 
be  unfavorable  to  the  packers  of  toma­
It  had  been  hoped  that,  with  the 
toes. 
advance 
in  price of  cans,  rates  for  the 
canned  tomatoes  would  not  only  befiim- 
ly  held,  but  would  steadily  advance. 
Pressure  to  sell,  however,  seems  to  have 
been  a  duty,  and  the  result  has  been  a 
weakening  of  pi ices.  Where  any  profit 
is  to  be  made  in  selling  tomatoes at  less 
than  65c  is  hard  to  see.  The  crop  seems 
to  be  no  larger  than  usual,  but  cans  are 
worth  40  per  cent.  more.  The  outlook 
just  now 
is  not  encouraging.  Aside 
from  tomatoes,  the  general  market  is  in 
good  shape  and  weakness  is  nowhere 
shown.

Dried fruits are practically unchanged, 
either  for  Pacific  coast  fruit  or  the 
“ domestic”   article.  There 
is  a  very 
moderate  offering  of  evaporated  apples 
and  the  prospects  are  favorable  for  an 
advance.  Desirable  fruit  is  worth

For desirable grocery  grades  of  mo­
lasses  the  market  is  firm.  The  orders 
are  for  future  delivery  mostly,  however. 
Stocks are  rather  light.  Low grades are 
dull  and  selling  at nominal  figures.

it 

Syrups  are  firm.  Buyers  are  showing 
in  the  situation  and  the 
for  a  good  fall 

is  favorable 

interest 

some 
outlook 
trade.

The  butter  market  during  the  week 
has  had  a few  ups  and  downs  and  at  the 
close  remains  almost  exactly  as  a  week 
ago.  Best  Western  creamery  is  worth 
21c  and  thirds  to  firsts 
i7@2oc.  Re­
ceipts  are  not  excessive  and are  just  be­
ginning  to  increase.  Factory  butter  is 
decidedly  firm,  with  June  extras  14© 
Imi­
i5K c;  finest  current  make,  15c. 
tation  creamery  has  witnessed 
little 
change  and  is  quotable  i5@i7c.

Gilt  edge  full  cream  colored  cheese  is 
worth  10c;  white,  g@g}^c.  The  market 
is  reported  very  firm  at  interior  points 
and  this  fact,  together  with 
light  re­
ceipts  here,  causes  a  firm  feeling  all 
around.  Small  size  full  cream  has  been 
sold  for  ioj^c.

The  receipts  of  eggs  have  increased, 
is  not  an  over­
but,  of  course,  there 
abundance  of  desirable  stock  and “ good 
goods”  
in  eggs  will  bring  i 8@ 2oc  for 
nearby  stock  and  i6@I7c  for  best  West­
ern.

Choice  marrow  beans,  $1.55;  choice 
medium,  $ 1 .3 7 ;   red  kidney,  $1.65© 
1.70.  The  market  is  generally  in  good 
condition.

Potatoes  are  dull  and 

the  market 
seems  to  sag  almost  every  day.  About 
top  rate  for  desirable  stock  per  bbl.  is
$ 1.75 . 

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A  Great  Bargain.

The  country  store  owned  by  Mr.  Jabez 
Dodd  contained  such  a  motley conglom­
eration 
in  the  way  of  stock  that  a  vil­
lage  lounger  one  day  offered  to  bet  that 
another man  could  not  ask  for  anything 
in  ordinary,  every-day  use  without 
Uncle  Jabe’s  producing  it.
The  two  men  entered  the  store,  and 

the  challenged  party  said :

“ Got  any  false  teeth  on  band  to-day, 

Uncle  Jabe?”

Without  an  instant’s  hesitation,  Uncle 
Tabe  put  his  hand  to  his  mouth,  and  a 
moment  later  held  out  his  band  with  a 
grinning  set  of  teeth  in  it.

“ There,”   be  said,  “ I'll  sell  that  set 
mighty  cheap,  for my  gooms  hev  shrunk 
so  they  don’t  fit  me  no  more,  and  I’m 
goin’  to  hev  some  new  ones. 
If  you 
want  these  fer— ”

But  the  two  men  bad fled,  while Uncle 

Jape  called  after  them:

/ I ’ll  let  you  have  ’em  fer  less’n  half 

bnce. ”

Problems  of  Economy.

ture,  but— ”

“  We  ought  to  have  some  new  furni­
“ But  what,  Carolyn?”
“ I  don’t  know  whether  to  get  an  ice- 
chest  that  looks  like  a  folding  bed  or  a 
folding  bed  that 
ice- 
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Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Co.

Dorchester, Maas. 

The Oldest and

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH BRADE

COCOASAND

CHOCOLATES

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

No  Chemicals  are  used  in 
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one 
cent a cup.
Their Premiam  No.  1  Chocolate, put np In 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best 
plain chocolate in the market for family use.
Their  Berman  Sweet  Chocolate ii good to 
eat and good to  drink.  It is palatable, nutri­
tious, and  healthful;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.
Buyers should ask for and be sure that they 
get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
is on every package.
Walter Baker &  Co.  Ltd.

Dorchester,  Mass.

Our  catalogue  and  price  list  will 
give  you  complete  descriptions  of 
the  largest  line  of  these  goods  car­
ried  in  Michigan— prices  range  to 
cover  all  kinds  of  customers,  from 
the  man  who  wants  a  showy  one 
at  a  low  price  to  the  most  particu­
lar  buyer.

Our Dewey Plush Robe  is  a  great 
the 
seller:  an  exact  likeness  of 
Admiral in a bright-colored, attract­
ive  design.  Write  for  price  list.

BROWN & SEHLER,

WEST  BRIDGE  ST.,
QRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

H.  M .  R e y n o ld s  &   S o n ,

Manufacturers  of

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

Qrand  Rapids, Mich.

Office, 82 Campati st.

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ESTABLISHED  1S6S

Detroit, Mich.
Foot  1st St.

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Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Marshall—C.  A.  Cbesber has  opened  a 

feed  store  at  this  place.

Flint—The  Hughes  Coal  &  Wood  Co. 

succeeds  J.  C.  Hughes  &  Co.

Michie— Joseph  David  has  removed 

his  grocery  stock  to  Bay  City.

New  Era—O.  VanGorder has  sold  bis 

grocery  stock  to  Geo.  Pranger.

Cannonsburg— Dr.  Aaron  Clark  has 

opened  a  drug  store  at  this  place.

Jackson— Fogell &  Co.  have purchased 

the  grocery  stock  of  Coons  &  Arnold.

Hillsdale— A  &  D.  Friedman  have 
moved  their dry  goods  stock  to  Hudson.
Tecumseh— McBride  &  Page  have 
sold  their  furniture  stock  to  W.  F.  Sis­
son.

Howell— Marston  &  Monroe  succeed 
Cbas.  E.  Marston  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Chapin—C.  M.  Loynes,  of  Fairfield, 
has  purchased  the  general  stock  of  Geo. 
Clark.

Galien— Wm.  Dellinger,  grocer  and 
meat  dealer,  has  sold  out  to  Swem  & 
Butler.

Detroit—M.  Basso  &  Co.,  wholesale 
fruit  dealers,  have  dissolved,  Andrea 
Rosasco  succeeding.

Mitchell—A  new  grocery  store  will 
shortly  be  opened  at  this  place  by  Mr. 
Schofield,  of  South  Arm.

Jackson—Wilson  &  Reasner,  grocers, 
Isaac  R. 

have  dissolved  partnership. 
Wilson  will  continue  the business.

Menominee— The Pauli Mercantile Co. 
has  purchased  the  stock  of  crockery, 
stationery  and  books  of  W.  A.  Pengilly.
Sault  Ste.  Marie— D.  H.  Moloney,  of 
Cheboygan,  has  removed  his  shoe  and 
men’s  furnishing  goods  stock  to  this 
place.

Lawton— N.  O.  Martin  has  purchased 
the  drug  stock  of  Matthew  Murphy  and 
will  take  possession  of  same  in  a  few 
weeks.

L ’Anse— Dr.  John  V.  Zellen  has 
opened  a  drug  store  at  this  place,  plac­
ing  his  brother,  Walfred, 
in  charge 
thereof.

Ypsilanti—J.  B.  Wortley,  formerly  of 
the  clothing  firm  of  Clark  S.  Wortley  & 
Co.,  will  open  a  dry  goods  store early in 
September.

to 

Sault  Ste.  Marie—W.  P.  Danskin  has 
removed  his  grocery 
the 
building  recently  erected  by  him  on 
Bingham  avenue.

stock 

Baldwin—R.  J.  Matthews,  general 
dealer  at  this  place,has  started  a  branch 
store  at  Biteley,  placing  Mrs.  Agnes 
Campau  in  charge.

Trufant—The  Citizens  Telephone  Co. 
is  extending 
its  line  to  this  place and 
putting  in  a  small  exchange  here  with 
C.  E.  VanAvery  in  charge.

Pittsford— Hugh  Cole,  grocer,  now 
occupies  the  new  brick  store  building 
which  was  erected  on  the  site  of  the 
structure  burned  last  winter.

Hancock— Peter  Holman  has  disposed 
of  his  residence,  store  building  and 
grocery  stock  to  Andrew  Kauth,  the 
consideration  being  $12,500.

Fountain— Fred  Reek  has  purchased 
the  stock  of  general  merchandise  of  bis 
brother,  F.  J.  Reek,  and  will  continue 
the  business  in  his  own  name.
Adrian— Herbert  S.  Roe, 

formerly 
salesman 
in  the  dry  goods  house  of T. 
A.  Hilton,  at  Coldwater,  has  embarked 
in  the  clothing  business  at  this  place.

Marine  City— Chas.  Doyle  has  sold 
his  drug  stock  to  Edward  Beebe,  for­
merly  engaged 
in  the  drug  business  at 
Ovid,  who  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  location.

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Grand  Ledge—Jas.  Winnie  has  pur­
chased  from  the  Pearl  estate  the  brick 
building  adjoining  bis  present 
location 
and  will  remove  his  hardware  stock  to 
same.

Bronson— Elliott  M.  Turner  has  be­
come  a  half  owner  in  the  furniture  and 
undertaking  business  of  A.  Ruple  & 
Son,  purchasing 
interest  of  A. 
Ruple.

the 

Albion—C.  H.  Burnett  has  sold  his 
interest 
in  the  grocery  business  to his 
former  partner,  Miss Mary Howard,  who 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  old 
stand.

Homer—The  owners  of  the  new  meat 
market,  Charles  Knowles  and  Norman 
Arey,  are  located 
in  the  building  for­
merly  occupied  by  the  meat  market  of 
A.  N.  Booth  &  Son.

Lake  Linden—J  C.  Lane  has  rented 
the  store  building  formerly  occupied  by 
the  dry  goods and  clothing  stock  of  D. 
Toplon  and  will  open a department store 
early  in  September.

Litchfield— Miss  Patten,  of  Parma, 
has  rented  the  vacant  room  between  the 
shoe  store  of  Fred  S.  Sackett  and  the 
bazaar  store  of  E.  E.  Maynard  and  will 
open  a  millinery  store.

Holland—Tim Slagh has completed ar­
rangements  for  the  construction  of  a 
three-story  brick  building,  24x65  feet  in 
dimensions,  which  be  will  occupy  with 
a  dry  goods  and  grocery  stock.

Ann  Arbor— The  Chicago  Shoe  Co., 
its  manager,  Fred  Clark,  has 
through 
purchased  the  Wm.  Allaby  shoe  stock, 
which  will  be  removed  to  Kalamazoo 
and  placed  in  one  of  its  branch  stores.
Cheboygan— Sinclair & Matthews have 
leased  the  store  building  now  occupied 
by  the  clothing  and  boot  and  shoe  stock 
of  P.  L.  La Pres  and  will  open  a  dry 
goods  store  about  the  middle of  Sep­
tember.

Lansing— Claude  E.  Cady  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  W.  S.  Gris­
wold,  at  the  corner  of  Larch  and  Shi­
awassee  streets,  and  has  combined 
it 
with  the  stock  he has  removed  from  his 
former  location on Pennsylvania avenue.
Detroit—W.  A.  Sturgeon  &  Co.,  deal­
ers  in  jewelry,  have  filed  articles  of  as­
is  $75,000,  of 
sociation.  The  capital 
which  $66,000 
is  paid  in.  Charles  E. 
Dorr,of New York City,  bolds 100 shares, 
Wm.  A.  Sturgeon,  trustee,  Detroit,  6,490 
and  Charles  Washington  Hayes,  10.

Negaunee— N.  Laughlin  is  erecting  a 
16  foot  addition  to  the  rear  of  his  gen­
eral  store  building.  He  has  also  pur­
chased  the  lot  opposite  his  Jackson 
street  warehouses  from  the  Jackson  Iron 
Co.,  on  which  he  will  erect  warehouses 
and  sheds  to provide  storage  for  deliv­
ery  wagons  and  sleighs.

Ishpeming—John  H.  Quinn  has  been 
appointed  trustee  of the  millinery  and 
bazaar  stock  of  Anna  (Mrs.  Nelson) 
Mowick.  An 
inventory  is  being  taken 
and,  when  completed,  the  stock  will  be 
disposed  of  by  the  trustee  and  the 
funds  realized  will  be  held  pending 
further orders  of  the  court.

Ypsilanti— M.  J.  Lewis  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to Lee  Stumpenbusen  and 
O.  W.  Seymour.  Mr.  Stumpenbusen's 
experience  as  a  grocer extends  over  a 
period  of about  four  yea;s,during which 
time  be  has  been  employed  in  Ann  Ar­
bor.  Mr.  Seymour  has  been  connected 
with  the  grocery  business  at  this  place 
for  eleven  years,  during  seven  of  which 
he  was  an  employe  in  the  grocery  store 
of  E.  A.  Holbrook.

LudiDgton— Dr.  O.  A.  Eaton  has pur­
chased  a  drug  stock  at  Cedar  City  and 
will  shortly  remove to that  place.

Ypsilanti— Warren H.  Smith,  recently 
principal  of  the  Pontiac  high school and 
before  that  principal  of  the  Lansing 
high  school,  has  decided  to quit  teach­
ing  and  go 
into  business.  He  has 
formed  a  copartnership  with  bis  father 
under the  firm  name of  Frank  Smith  & 
Son.  They  will  continue  the  drug  and 
book  business  which  has  been  con­
ducted  for  many  years  by  the  senior 
member  of  the  firm  and at  the old stand.
Traverse  City— E.  J.  Hanslovsky,  and 
bis  brother  Charles,  who  is  now  in  Chi­
cago,  have  formed  a  partnership  and 
will  open  a  general  store  in  the  large 
double  building  on  the  corner  of  Ran­
dolph  and  Division  streets,  carrying  a 
stock  of  groceries,  dry  goods,  boots  and 
shoes.  E.  J.  Hanslovsky  has  been  sta­
tion  agent  on  the  Klondike branch  of 
the  C.  &  W.  M.  railroad,  but  has  re­
signed  his  position  and  returned  to  the 
city.

Central  Lake—The copartnership  con­
templated  between  Mr.  Sbomberger,  of 
Traverse  City,  and  L.  Nurko,  of  this 
place, 
is  declared  off  and  each  will 
continue  business  alone.  Mr.  Nurko 
will  enlarge  his  present  quarters and 
increase  his  stock  of  clothing and men's 
furnishing  goods,  while Mr.  Shomberger 
will  occupy  a  new  brick  building,  now 
in  process  of  erection,  with  a  stock  of 
clothing  and  ladies’  and  men’s  furnish­
ing  goods.

Bellaire—Wm.  Hierlihy,  shoe  dealer, 
and  Chas.  Knolles,  harnessmaker,  have 
purchased  of  A.  T.  Kellogg,  of  Kal­
kaska,  the  building  occupied  by  the 
hardware  stock  of  E.  L.  Bans! 11.  The 
building  will  be  thoroughly  overhauled 
and  repaired,  and  after  being  repainted 
Hierlihy  &  Knolles  will  occupy  it.  Mr. 
Hierlihy  will  use  one  side  of  the  build­
ing  for  the  display  of  his  shoe  stock, 
while  Mr.  Knolles  will  have  the  other 
side  for his  harness business.

Hart—C.  W.  Noret  went  to  Grand 
Rapids  the  first  of  the  week,  where  he 
met  C.  A.  Birge,  and  they  selected  a 
partial  stock  of  furniture  for  the  new 
store.  Mr.  Noret  came  home  and, 
presto  change,  a  new  deal  was 
inaugu­
rated  and 
is  now  about  completed, 
whereby  Noret  Bros,  become  possessors 
of  the  Slayton  stock  of  furniture,  etc., 
the  Noret  iron-clad  building,  in  which 
is  Colby's  hardware  store,  going  to  C. 
W.  Slayton 
in  the  deal,  and  the  order 
for the new  stock  was  cancelled.
Manufacturing  Matters.

Ashley— John  Lynch  has  purchased 
the  mill  building  and  will  soon  open  a 
flour and  feed  mill.

Battle  Creek—The  Beucbner  Manu­
facturing  Co.,  Limited,  succeeds the 
Metal  Back  Album  Co.

Tecumseh—John  Heck  has  purchased 
interest  in  the  Tecumseh  Steam 

an 
Mills owned  by  Chas.  H.  Heck.

Detroit— The  style  of  the  Sprocket 
Chain  Manufacturing  Co.  has  been 
changed  to  the  Buhl  Malleable  Co.

Pittsford—C.  A.  Bacon’s  successor  in 
the  Pittsford  Roller  Mills  has  rented 
the  share  of  Mr.  Reeder,  the  other part­
ner  in  the  concern,  and  will  manage the 
entire business.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—J.  A.  Jamieson  and 
Thos.  Woodfield  have  formed  a  new 
company  to  be  known  as  the  Neebish 
Lumber Co.  This company  has  no  con­
nection  with  the  Jamieson  Lumber  Co., 
but  is  wholly  an 
independent  concern. 
The company  has  purchased  840  acres 
of  timber  land  on  Neebish  Island,  on 
the  Soo  River,  and  has  already  23  men 
in  camp  and  is  desirous  of  getting  50 
or 60  more.  The J.  A.  Jamieson  Lum­
ber  Co.  will  continue  its  business  as 
heretofore.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Belding— Earl  Vincent  has  a  new 
grocery  clerk  in  the  person  of  Edward 
Peck,  of  Grand  Rapids.

Paw  Paw—Frank Seabury  has  secured 
a  position  in  the  drug  store  of  Birge  & 
Co.,  at  Benton  Harbor.

Coldwater— Homer  Wickes,  for  some 
in  Skelton's  clothing 
time  salesman 
store,  has  secured  a  position  with  F.
L.  Burdick,of  Sturgis,  taking  charge  of 
his  clothing  store,at  a  liberal  salary.

Portland—Will  Browning  has  taken  a 
position 
in  W.  P.  Culver’s  hardware 
store  to  take  the  place  of  Bert  Rey­
nolds,  who 
leaves  Sept.  1  for  Benton 
Harbor,  where  he  will  have  charge  of 
the  stove  department  of  a  large  store,  at 
a  considerable advance  in  salary.

St.  Johns—The  retail  clerks  of  this 
place  have  done  a  foolish  thing  by  ap­
plying  for  a  charter  for a  union,  thus 
allying 
themselves  with  boycotters, 
strikers and  murderers.  A  union  is  the 
is  base  and 
embodiment  of  all  that 
wicked. 
its 
tendency  is  to  destroy  the  moral  recti­
tude of  any  of  its  adherents. 
It is  to be 
hoped  that  the  young  men  who  stand 
behind  the  counter  here  will  consider 
carefully  the  step  they  are  taking  and 
refrain  from  subscribing  to  the  infa­
mous  doctrine of  Debs  and  Gompers.

Its  influence  is  wrong  and 

Kalamazoo—John  W.  Van  Brook  has 
returned  to  his  former  position  with  the 
Brownson  &  Rankin  Dry  Goods  Co. 
He  was  previously  associated  with  this 
house  thirteen  years.

Scottvilie— Harry  Reinberg  has  taken 
in 

a  position  in  Sahlmark’s drug  store 
Ludington.

Springport— Roscoe  C.  Smith 

is  in 
charge of  the  new  clothing  store  of  C.
M.  Powers  &  Co.

Houghton— The  career  of  the  early 
closing.movement  in  this  city  was  ex­
tremely  brief  and  the  efforts  of  the 
clerks  in  this direction  may  be  said  to 
have  availed  them  nothing.  Most  of  the 
stores,  if  not  ali,  now  close at  the  same 
time as  formerly.  The  result 
is  what 
was  expected,  as  at  the  time  the  move­
ment  was 
inaugurated  some  merchants 
expressed  the  opinion  that  to  close  two 
or  three  evenings  of  the  week  at 6:30 
was  too  early,  although  they  agreed  to 
give  the  schedule  a  trial.  Failure  must 
necessarily  follow  any  attempt  of  this 
kind  where  an  innovation  is  forced  up­
on  the  merchants  by  the clerks,  with­
out  due  regard  to  the  rights  of  the  em­
ployer  or  the  sentiments  ot  the  custom­
ers.  Nor  will 
it  do  to  undertake  too 
sweeping  a  reform.  Changes  of  this 
kind  should  come gradually,  not  all  at 
once,  in  order  to  be  permanent.
Improvement  the  Order  of  the  Day.
East  Jordan,  Aug.  29—The  walls  of 
the  new  brick  bank  building  of  Glenn 
&  Co.  are  nearly  completed  and  work 
on  the  inside  will  be  pushed  to  comple­
tion.  The  building  will  contain  a  safety 
deposit  vault and  will  be  strictly  up  to- 
date  in  every  detail,  making a great  im­
provement  on  one of  the  prominent  cor­
ners  of  Main  street.

The  East  Jordan  Lumber  Co. 

is  fin­
ishing  up  some  elegant  offices  for  the 
officers and  office  force  in  its  new  brick 
block,  which  is nearing  completion.

J.  J.  Vatruba  is  hustling  the  work  on 
his  new  brick  building,  which  he  will 
soon  occupy  with  a  complete  line  of 
harness  and  vehicles.
D.  C.  Loveday  &  Co.  are closing  out 
their stock  of  groceries and  will  use  the 
space  vacated  with  some  of  their  hard­
ware  stock.

Bush  &  Co.  have  the  frame  work 
nearly  completed  for a  large  new  saw­
mill  and  are  also  lefitting  their hoop 
factory  for  use as  a  woodworking  man­
ufactory.

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Fancy  Maiden  Blush  com­
mand  $2@2.25  per  bbl.  No.  1  stock 
is  in  good  demand  at $1.75,  while cook­
ing  stock  commands $1.50.

Beans—The  dry  weather  which  has 
prevailed 
in  this  locality  since  Aug.  3 
is  having  a  very  disastrous  effect  on  the 
bean  crop,  inasmuch  as  the  beans  al­
ready  harvested  are  only  about  one-hall 
the  usual  size,  which  would  not  have 
been  the  case  had  there  been  rains  up 
to  the  middle  ol  August.  The  frequent 
showers  which  prevailed  up  to  the  first 
week  in  August  were  very  favorable  to 
the  crop,  and  a  month  ago  h  was  free­
ly  predicted  that  the  crop  would  be  one 
of  the  largest  the  State  bad  ever  seen. 
Dealers  are  now  estimating  the  crop  at 
about  50  per  cent,  of  an  average  crop, 
because 
it  takes  about  two  beans  to 
make  as  much  in  bulk  as  the  size  of  an 
ordinary  beau.

Beets—25@30C  per  bu.
Butler-----Factory  creamery  has  ad­
vanced  another  cent  and  is  firm  at  21c. 
Fancy  grades  of  dairy  command  17c, 
but  receipts  of  dairy  are  almost  wholly 
cooking  grades  and  worse.

Cabbage—35 @4oc  per  doz'.
Carrots—30@35c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—Si  25  per  doz.
Celery— I2@i5c  per doz.  bunches.
Crab  Apples—Siberian  and  Trans­
cendent  are  in  ample  supply  at  5o@6oc 
per  bu.

Cranberries— The  first  consignment  of 
new  berries  to  reach  this  market  came 
from  Eli  Lyons,  of  Lakeview.  The  ber­
ries  are  not  large  and  the  color  is,  of 
course,  pretty  light:  otherwise  the  qual­
ity  is  first  class.  Dealers  are  bolding  at 
$2@2  25  per bu.
Cucumbers— Greenhouse  stock  com­
mands  50c  per  bu.  Outdoor  grown  is  so 
yellow  as  to be  hardly  marketable.
Eggs—Dealers  are  paying  12c 

for 
fresh  laid,  case  count,  bolding  candled 
at  13c  and  dirties  and  small  eggs at 12c. 
Receipts  have  been  large,  considering 
the  warm  weather.

Grapes—Wordens  and  Concords  com­
mand  8@io;  for 4  lb.  baskets  and  I5@ 
16c  for  8  los.  The  dry  weather  is  short­
ening  the  yield  of  early  varieties.

Green  Onions— Black  seed  are  in  fair 

demand  at  10c.

Honey—White  Clover  is estimated  to 
be  only  30  per  cent,  of  an  average crop. 
Receipts  are  small  and  choice  readily 
commands  15c.  Dark amber fetches 10c.
Live  Poultry— Nearly  all  lines  are 
stronger  and  firmer.  Broilers  are 
in 
good  demand  at  10c.  Fat  bens  are  in 
good  demand  at  7c  while  medium  hens 
in  strong  demand  at  8c.  Spring 
are 
ducks  are 
in  fair demand  at 6c,  while 
old  ducks  are  taken  in  a  limited  way  at 
5c.  Hen  turkeys  find  ready  sale  at gc. 
Large  turkeys  are 
in  good  demand  at 
8c.  Spring  turkeys  are  readily  sold  at 
ioc.  Squabs  are 
in  strong  and  active 
demand  at  $1.25  per  doz.  Pigeons  are 
in  fair demand  at  5c  per  doz.
Muskmelons—Cantaloupes  command 
6o@75c  per  doz.  Osage  fetch  75@8sc 
per  crate.  Rockyford  Gems  command 
65@75c  per  bu.—about  thirty  to  the 
bushel.  The  dry  weather  is  shortening 
the  crop.
Onions— Illinois and  home  grown  are 
sold  on  the  same  basis—about 60c  per 
in  \l£   bu. 
bu. 
sacks.
Pears---- Fancy  Bartletts  command
$1.50.  Flemish  Beauties  and  Clapp’s 
Favorite  are  held  at $1.40.  Sugar  pears 
and  other  small  varieties  range  around 
75c-
ket,  commanding  $2.5002.75  per  bu. 

Peaches— Barnards  are  now  in  mar­

Illinois  stock  comes 

Peppers—65@75c  per  bu.
Plums— Lombards  are  in  full  supply 
at  8s@95c.  Green  Gages fetch  $ i @ i .25. 
Yellow  Egg  and  Prune  command  $1  25 
@135.  Purple  are  held  at $1. io @ i .25.
Potatoes— “  It  is  the  unexpected  that 
is  always happening,”   and  this  proves 
to  be  true  now  in  the  matter  of  the  po­
tato  crop.  Up  to  the  10th  of  August 
potatoes  were  doing  well  in  this  State, 
but  the  drouth,  which  has  not  been 
broken  since  Aug.  3,  will  probably  cur­

tail  the  crop  50 per  cent.,  if  not  more.
Of  course,  it  sometimes  happens  that 
penetrating  rains  even  after the  1st  of 
September  will  help  the  crop  very  ma­
terially,  but  on  account  of  the  frequent 
rains  during 
the  earlv  part  of  the  sea­
son,  it  is thought  that  it  is  now  too  -late 
for the  crop  to  rally  from  the  blight  it 
has 
received  by  four  weeks  of  dry 
weather.

Radishes— 18c  per  doz.  bunches.
Squash— Home  giown  command  50c 

per  bu.  box.

green

Sweet  Corn—8c  per  doz. 

for  Ever­

Sweet  Potatoes—$2  75  per  bbl. 

for 
Baltimore  Jerseys  and  $2  25  for  V ir­
ginia.

Tomatoes—4o@45c  per  bu.
Turnips—30@40C  per  bu.
Watermelons---- Indiana  Sweethearts
command  I2j£@i5c.  Home  grown  are 
coming  in  freely,  fetching  io@i2j£c.
Poetical  Tribute  to  Max’s Snore.
A  green  traveling  man  who 

is  unac­
customed  to  the  snares  and  pitfalls 
which  beset  the  pathway of the  commer­
cial  traveler,  was so unfortunate  as  to be 
assigned  a  room  with  Max.  Mills  at  the 
American  House  at  Kalamazoo  one  day 
in  under­
last  week.  His  experience 
taking  to  lure  the  Goddess  of  Sleep 
is 
thus  described  by  him  in  the  following 
attempt  at  poesy:
Of ali sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are to sleep with snoring men.
Maximiiian Mills has such a nose
That it makes him rattle from head to  toes;
From basso profundo to the key of high C 
It roars and resounds like the waves of the sea;
Mr.  Mills has a nose of such wonderful power 
That it  makes  the  night  hideous  till  a  very  late
Now, friends, one and all, steer clear of that nose 
If you’d pass the whole night in  refreshing  repose.

hour.

that 

A  local  wholesale  grocer 

is  of  the 
opinion 
the  fight  between  the 
American  Sugar  Refining  Co.  and  the 
independent  refiners 
is  a  put  up  job, 
being  due  to  concert  of  action  between 
the  two  for  the  sake  of  the  effect  it  will 
have  on  the  beet  sugar  business  of  the 
country. 
It  will  soon  be  time  for the 
beet  sugar  factories  to  begin  operations 
for  the  season  and,  in  case  the  Eastern 
refineries  are  able  to  hold  the  price  of 
refined  sugar  down  to  a  point  where 
beet  sugar  can  not be  sold  at  a  profit,  it 
will  put  a  wet  blanket  on  the  beel  sugar 
factories  already  in  the field  and  prob­
ably  discourage  the  organization  of  ad­
ditional 
to  manufacture 
sugar  from  beets.  Of  course,  the  ulti­
mate  outcome  of  the  matter  will  be that 
all  of  the  Eastern  refineries  will  be 
owned  by  the  American  Sugar  Refining 
Co.,  and  if  the  growth  of  the  beet  sugar 
industry  can  be  stunted  by  the pursu­
ance  of  such  a  policy,  the  tiust  would 
then  be  in  a  position  to  make  millions 
of  profit  as  easily  as  it  could  make 
thousands  with  the  hundreds  of  beet 
sugar  factories  in  the  competitive  field.

companies 

B.  Schrouder  has  sold  his  slock  of 
drugs  and  toilet  articles,  at  the  corner 
of  East  Bridge  and  Clancy  streets,  to 
O.  A.  Fanckboner,  formerly  engaged  in 
the  drug  business  at  the  corner of  East 
Bridge  and  Union  streets,  who  will  con­
tinue  the business  at  the  same  location. 
Mr.  Schrouder 
is  undecided  as  to  his 
future  location.

Frank  T.  Lawrence, 

formerly  con­
nected  with  the  fruit  department  of  the 
Putnam  Candy  Co  ,  but  for some months 
past a  member of  the firm  of  Lawrence 
&  Matheson,  has  engaged  in  the  fruit 
and  oyster  business  at  9  North  Ionia 
street.

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

grades and  prices,  phone  Visner,  800.

An  artist 

is  not  a  success  until  be 

can  draw  a  check  on  a  bank.

M ICH IG AN   TRA D ESM A N

6

The  Grocery  Market.

is  no  change 

Sugars—There 

in  the 
raw  sugar  market,  quotations  being  still 
on  the  basis  of 
for  96  deg.  test
centrifugals  and  3  15-16:  for  89  deg. 
test  muscovadoes;  but  very  few  sales 
have been  made as  supplies  are  scarce. 
There  is  no  change  in  list  price  of  re­
fined,  but  some  grades  of  softs  are  still 
being  shaded  i -i 6 c.  Arbuckle  Bros,  are 
still  selling 
i - i 6c  under  other  refiners’ 
quotations  and  another  cut by the Amer­
ican 
looked  for.  The  demand  for 
refined  is  just  about  the  same  as  it  has 
been  for  the  past  few  weeks  and  there 
is  no  doubt  but  that  refiners baVe  to-day 
a  much  larger  stock  of  refined  sugar  on 
hand  than  in  any  previous  year.

is 

Canned  Goods—The  canned  goods 
market  is  not  very  active.  Almost  no 
business  of 
importance  is  stirriug  and 
the  orders  that  are  coming  in  are  prin­
cipally  for  retail  quantities.  The  situ­
ation  of  the  corn  crop is causing packers 
some  anxiety  in  New  York  State.  The 
indications vary  from  one  fourth  to  one- 
half  of  a  crop.  The  sale  of  futures  was 
very  large  and  present indications  point 
to  considerable  difficulty 
in  covering 
contracts  in  some  localities.  Prices  are 
unchanged,  but  all  spot  goods  are  held 
firmer 
in  consequence  of  the  probable 
shortage.  Maine  reports  corn  in  good 
condition  and  promising  an  abundant 
yield.  The  string  bean  pack  was  large 
in  some  places  and  short  in  others.  As 
a  whole,  it  will  probably  prove  larger 
than  last  year.  Prices  are  steady,  with 
an  upward  tendency,  but  no  advance  is 
noted  as  yet.  The  pea  pack 
in  some 
places  was  quite  heavy,  but  will  prob­
ably  average  smaller  than 
last  year. 
There has been  some  excitement  in Cal­
ifornia  canned  goods circles,  occasioned 
by  the  fact  that  canners  can  not  get  tin 
to  make  cans,  and  are  sending  peaches 
and  pears  back  to  the  evaporators  be­
cause  they  can  not handle  them. 
It  is 
likely  to  make  some  difference  in  the 
output  of  dried  peaches  and  may  also 
cause  an 
in  the  quantity  of 
pears  dried.  Cans  are  being  brought 
from  Alaska  or  anywhere  else  that  they 
can  be  procured,  but  the  outlook  for 
supplying  the  demand  is  not  encoura­
ging.  The  pear  crop 
large. 
The  pack  this  season  will  be  unprece­
dented.  Those  packers  who  will  not 
handle  peaches  this  year  are  going  into 
the  packing  of  pears  on  a  large  scale 
and  we  will  have  some  first-class  Bart­
letts  and  the  cheaper  grades  of  pears 
will  be  lower  than  any  we  have  had  for 
some  time.  Salmon continues very firm, 
but  with  no  change  in prices.  Sardines 
are 
in  good  demand  at  unchanged 
prices.  Of  ail  the  balance  of  the  mar­
isn’t  anything  of  interest  to 
ket  there 
report. 
un­
changed,  but  the  feeling  is  healthy  and 
everyone  anticipates  a  very  active  busi­
ness  during  the  fall.

The  situation  remains 

increase 

is  very 

Dried  Fruit—The  dried  fruit  market 
continues  dull  and  business  is  limited 
to  small  orders  for  immediate  consump­
tion.  A  generally  firm  feeling  is  main­
tained,  however,  and  there  is  not  much 
disposition  to  shade  prices.  Peaches 
are  quiet,  and,  in  view  of  the  probabil­
ity  that  the  output  will  exceed  1,500 
cars,  buyers  are  very  careful  about  tak­
ing  supplies,  thinking  that  prices  will 
decline.  There  has  been  a  reduction  of 
j^c  already  since  the  season  opened, 
but  whether  a  further  decline  will  fol­
low  present  conditions  is  another  ques­
tion.  Buyers  appear  to  think  prices  will 
go  lower,  consequently  there 
little 
trading.  Apricots  are  about  sold  out 
and  prices  remain  firm.  The  supply  of

is 

fruit  was  about  up  to  the  average,  but 
shippers  of  the  green  fruit  and  canners 
paid  so  much  more  than  evaporators 
that  the  dried  output  will  be  no  larger 
than  previous  estimates.  The  demand 
continues  good,  considering  the  high 
prices  asked.  There  is  a  fair  demand 
for  prunes  for  future  delivery  coming 
from  all  sections  of  the  country,  espe­
cially  so  for  the  small  sizes  (9s  to  10s 
and  smaller),  which  are  going  to  be  ex­
ceedingly  scarce  this  year  if  the  reports 
from  the  coast  are  true.  The  demand 
tor  1898  crop  raisins  continues  fairly 
good  and  stocks  are  small.  On  Mon­
day  night  of  last  week  fire destroyed  the 
Fresno,  Cal.,  fig  packing  establishment 
of  Seropian  Bros.,  large  packers  of  Cal­
ifornia  figs.  The  co-operative  packing 
bouse  at  Fresno  was  also  consumed  and 
some  twenty-five  cars  of  raisins  are sup­
posed  to  have  been  destroyed  by  this 
fire.  This  will  affect  the  jobbers  some­
what,  as  these  people  bad  sold 
largely 
of  seeded  raisins  and,  while  they  intend 
to  build  immediately,  it  will  probably 
be  some  thirty  days  before  they  will  be 
in  operation  again.  The  demand  for 
evaporated  apples 
light 
and,  as  supplies  are  coming  in  quite 
freely,  the  market  is  weaker,  with  a  re­
duction  of  about  X c  ¡n  price.  The  cur­
rant  market  is  stronger,with  an  advance 
of  %c.

is  somewhat 

Fish—The  demand  for  salt  mackerel 
continues  good  and  prices  continue  to 
advance,  owing  to  the  light  receipts and 
the 
improved  quality  of  some  of  the 
stock  now  coming  in.

Rolled  Oats—The  market 

is  very
strong  and  millers  are  still heavily over­
sold.

Green  Fruit—The  reaction  expected 
in  lemons  has  occurred  and  prices  are 
from  5o@75c  per  box  higher.  There  is 
a  trifle  larger  demand,  but  it  is  limited 
to  small 
lots  for  immediate  consump­
tion.  Buyers  are  not  taking  large  sup­
plies,  being  afraid  the  demand  will  de­
increase.  Shipments 
cline  rather  than 
are  very  small  and  will  hardiy 
increase 
during  the  closing  season.  Bananas  are 
doing  a  little  better,  but  there  is  no  in­
crease  in  price.  Arrivals  are  about  the 
same  as  last  year  at  this  time.
Rice—The  relief  supplies  for  Puerto 
Rico  purchased  by  the  Government tend 
to  make  the  rice  market  stronger and 
some  dealers  are  asking  higher  prices. 
The  Government  has  already  bought 
some  600,000  pounds  of  rice  in  New 
York  to  go  to Puerto  Rico and  is  soon  to 
contract 
for  600,000  pounds  more. 
large  purchases  will  reduce  by 
These 
about  one-half  the  present  stock  of 
low 
grade  rice 
in  New  York  and  will  have 
a  tendency  to  better  the  market.  Re­
ceipts  of  new  rice  at  New  Orleans  this 
season  have  been  77,421  sacks,  as 
against  13,563  sacks  for  the  correspond­
ing  period  last  year.  The  sales  of  new 
crop  rice  up  to  Aug.  19  aggregated 
52,232  sacks,  as  against  12,827  sacks  for 
the  same  period  last  year.  These  fig­
ures  show  a  gain  over  last  year  in  re­
ceipts  of  63.858  sacks  and  in  sales  of 
39 405  sacks.  As  to  the  quality  of  the 
goods,  rice  men  are  united  in  the  opin­
ion  that  the  lines  of  head  rices  which 
have  been  coming  in  thi«  season  are ex­
tremely  good.  The  high-priced  stock 
shown  thus  far  is  of  pretty  style,  clean 
and  most  desirable  for  fancy  trade.

Tea—A  fairly  active  demand  for  teas 
has  been  reported  during  the  past week. 
The  retail  country  demand  shows  con­
siderable  improvement,  but  distribution 
in  the  city  to  the  retailers 
is  not  so 
large.  Next  month  bids  fair  to bring  a 
strong  city  demand.
is  less 
than  at any  time  in  ten  years  and  every 
bag  will  be  wanted  before  new  crop. 
This  being  the  case,  the  first  of  the  new 
crop  will  bring  full  prices  and  there 
will  be  no  cheap  peanuts  (regardless  of 
the  size  of  the  crop)  until  this  early  de­
mand  is  supplied.

Nuts—The  supply  of  peanuts 

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M ICH IG A N   TRA D ESM A N

W om an’s W orld
How  the  New Woman Compares With 

the  Old.

Marion  is  young  and  she  believes—as 
we  must  ail  believe  in  the  rosy  dawn  of 
life,  when  our  pulses  beat  high  with 
strength  and  hope  and  enthusiasm—that 
her  own  day  is  the  golden  day  of  all the 
world's  history. 
It  goes  without  saying 
that  she 
is  what  we  call  advanced  and 
that  she  never  bears  of  a  woman  going 
into  a  new  profession  and  becoming  a 
roustabout  on  a  steamboat  or  a  deputy 
sheriff  with  banging  powers  that  she 
doesn't,  so  to  speak,  beat  upon  the  cym­
bals  and  brazen 
instruments  and  call 
upon  all  other  women  to  rejoice.  She 
is,  of  course,  college  bred,  with  a record 
for  hurdle  jumping  and  a  certificate  in 
higher  mathematics  that  she  regards 
with  equal  satisfaction  as  fitting  her  to 
solve  any  problem  existence  may  have 
to  offer  her.

in 

it  as  well. 

It  is  a  human  impulse  to  undervalue 
all  that  went before  us,  and  perhaps  it 
is  not  unnatural  that  Marion  regards the 
women  of  an  older  generation  with  a 
frank  pity  that  has  something  of  pat­
“ Only  fancy,’ ’ 
ronage 
she  cries,  “ how  terrible 
it  must  have 
been  to  live  in  an  age  when  it  was  con­
ladylike  to  be  delicate  and 
sidered 
sickly,  and 
it  was  absolutely  vulgar to 
eat  as  much  as  you  wanted ;  when  they 
gave  women  accomplishments 
instead 
of  an  education—meringues  instead  of 
meat—and  the  highest  ideal  of  life  that 
was  ever  held  up  before a  woman  was 
the  parasite  vine  that  is  ready  to  flop 
over  and  hag  on  to  anything  that  has 
backbone  enough  to  stand  up ."

The  other  day  Marion  came  in  at  tea- 
time,  and  was  telling,  in  her  impetuous 
way,  of  some  woman  who  had  gone to 
Chicago  and,  without  friends  o f money 
or  influence,  had  wrested  fortune  out  of 
almost  impossible  conditions. 
It  was  a 
story  to  stir one’s  blood  for  the  mere 
pluck  and  dash  and  bravery  of 
the 
thing,  and  when  she  had  finished,  Miss 
Lavinia  Oldmaid,  who  bad  been  listen­
ing,  turned  to  the  woman  of  the  world 
with  a 
little  tremor  of  regret  in  her 
voice.

“ Ah,  M ary,"  she  said,  “ times  are, 
indeed,  changed,  and  when  I  hear  of  a 
thing  like  that  it  makes  me  realize  how 
completely  I  belong  to  a  past  age. 
Marion 
is  right.  The  women  of  our 
day  were  merely  the  embroidered  orna­
ment  of  life,  not  a  part  of  the  tissue  of 
the  thing  itself,  like  they  are  now.  We 
were  taught  grace  and  gentleness,  not 
strength  and  self-assertion.  We  were 
not  fitted to cope with difficulties and— ’ ’
“ Nonsense,"  cried the  other  brusque­

ly.  “ I  am  sick  and  tired  of hearing  of 
what  the  new  woman  has  done,  and 
what  the  old  woman  didn’t  do. 
I  know 
it  is  the  fashion  now  to  sound  a trumpet 
every  time  a  woman  doesn’t  starve  at 
whatever  she  undertakes 
to  do,  and 
when  she  achieves  an  unusual  degree  of 
success,  we  add  an  extra  flourish  of 
jubilation  and  say: 
‘ Toot-toot-too,  see 
the  new  woman  shaking  off her  sloth  at 
last!  Behold  the  leaven  of  the  emanci­
pation  movement  working  in  her!’

“ In  heaven’s  name,  was  there  ever 
anything  sillier?  For  my  part,  I’d  just 
like  to  see  one  of  these  progressive, 
self-complacent,  college-bred  new  wom­
en  undertake  the  duties  our  mothers 
performed  every  day  of  their  lives,  and 
that  neither  they  nor  anybody  else  ever 
thought  the  least  remarkable.  Why,  the 
woman  who  oversaw  the  providing  and 
making  of  clothes  for  a  large  family  of 
children  and  undertook  the  work  of  di­
recting  their  mental  and  moral  educa­
tion  had  to  have  the  executive  ability 
of  a  commissary  general.  To  her  came 
the  sick  znd  the  old  and  to  see  her 
prescribe  for  the  ailing,  and  hush  the 
fretting  babe  on  her  own  breast,  was  to 
know  that  she  was  a  better  doctor  than 
many  a  budding  M.  D.  and  a  better 
nurse  than  many  a  woman  who  holds a 
gilt  framed 
certificate  as  a  trained 
nurse.  The  way  in  which  she  adjusted 
the  quarrels  among  her  own  children 
and  silenced  the  neighborhood  rivalries 
and  jealousies  showed  that  she  bad  the 
wit  of  a  Portia.  More  than  that,  when 
she  stood  by  sick  beds,  as  she did  many 
and  many  a  night,  with  a  heavy  band 
with  the  cold  sweat  of  death  on  it 
clasped  in  her  own,  aud  sonls  darkened 
with 
ignorance  and  sin  questioned  her 
of  what  lay  behind  the  door  through 
which  they  were  so  soon  to  pass,  it  was 
she  who,  with  the  skill  of  a  theologian 
inspired  faith  of  a  saint,  led 
and  the 
them  up  to  their  God. 
I  know  many 
women  who  are  good  housekeepers, 
others  who  are  clever  business  women. 
I  know  good  women lawyers  and  doctors 
and  trained  nurses  and  one  woman 
preacher,  but  I  don’t  know  any  one 
woman  who  combines  all  these  profes­
sions  like  the  modest  womanly  women 
of  the  past  of  whom  we  are  always 
bearing,  and  whose  names  never got  in 
the  papers  but  twice 
in  their  lives— 
once  when  they  were  married  and  again 
when  they  died.

‘ ‘ Then  the  war  came,  and  let  me  tell 
you  that  in  the  great  day  when  the  roll 
of  heroes  of  nations  is  called  the  name 
of  the  woman  whose  husband  went  to 
war  is  going  to  lead  all  the  rest.  No­
body  knows  what  she  suffered.  Nobody 
she  endnred.  Nobody
knows  what 

knows  what  she  accomplished.  As  you 
say,  she had  no  preparation  for it.  She 
didn’t  have  any  muscles  developed  by 
golf  and  athletics,  but  many  a  woman 
who  had  hardly  picked  her  own  fan  up 
from  the  floor  rolled  up  her  sleeves  and 
bent  her  back  over  the  washtub  with­
out  one  word  of  complaint.  Her  mind 
hadn’t  been  trained  to  deal  with  finan­
cial  problems  by  any  courses  in  higher 
mathematics  and  she  had  to  count  up 
money  on  her  fingers,  but  when  she  bad 
to  face  the  problem  of  making  a  living 
for  the  fatherless  children  who  clung 
about her  knees  she  never  flinched,  no 
matter how  menial  or  distasteful  or  la­
borious  was  the  thing  that  she  found 
nearest  to her  hand  to  do.

“ After  the  fall  of  Richmond,  when 
weary,  disheartened  and  discouraged 
men  came  straggling  back  in  ragged 
blue  and  gray  to  sorry  homes,  nine 
times out  of  ten  it  was  the woman whose 
wit  grappled  with  the  situation  first 
and  saw  the  best  way  out  of  the  diffi­
culty.  A  man  in  Atlanta  once  toid  me 
that  nothing  but  his  wife’s  singing 
saved  him  from  absolute  despair and 
suicide.  The  plantation  was  laid  waste, 
there  were  neither  implements  nor stock 
to  cultivate 
it,  and  hardly  a  dust  of 
meal 
in  the  house  to  eat.  Worn  and 
despairing  be  sat  with  bis  hand  on  his 
old  cavalry  pistols,  tempted  to  end  it 
all,  when  through  the  house  rang  the 
voice  of  his  wife,  singing  about  her 
work. 
it  sobered  and 
aroused  him.  Her  courage  shamed  bis 
weakness,  and  he  got  up  from  his  chair 
with  a  determination  not  to  be  con­
quered  that  has  made  him  one  of  the 
richest  men  in  the  Sonth.

instant 

In  an 

“ Last  winter  I  was  in  a  prosperous 
Southern  city  where  the  biggest  hotel  is 
owned  and  run  by  a  woman.  There’s 
always  something,  you  know,  behind 
the  door of  a  woman’s  success,  and  she 
was  telling  me  a  little  tale  that  was  al­
most  typical  of  Southern  women 
in 
those  first  days  after  the  war,  but  that 
was  as  fine  with  heroism  as  anything 
ever  sung 
in  song  or  story.  She  be­
longed  to  a  fine  old  Tennessee  family 
and  had  been  raised  to  every  luxury. 
Her husband was a prosperons physician, 
and  when  the  war  begun  be  entered  the 
army  as  a  surgeon.  When  it  was  over 
he  returned,  shattered  in  health  and  to 
find  all  of  their  property  swept  away. 
‘ I  thought 
it  over  for  three  sleepless 
nights,’ said  the gentle little gray-haired 
old 
lady,  ‘ and  then  I  told  my  husband 
that  I  was  going  to  open  a  boarding­
“ You  are  not 
house.  He demurred. 
able to  work,"  I  said. 
“ Here  are  your 
mother  and  my mother,  who are old  and 
helpless,  and  who  shall  never  want  for

I  worked  early  and  late. 

the  luxuries  they  have  been  used  to all 
of  their  lives,  if  I  can  help  it.  Here 
are our  little  children  who  must  be  edu­
cated  and  given  a  start  in  life. 
I  have 
thought  over  the  whole  range  of  what  I 
can  do. 
I  can’t  write  or  paint  or  do 
anything  of  that  kind.  The  school­
teaching  profession  is  going  to  be  over­
crowded,  but  there’s  always  going  to  be 
a  demand  for  something  good  to  eat, 
and  I’m  going  to  help  supply 
it ."   Of 
course,  everybody  told  me  I  would  fail, 
and 
it  was  hard  for  one  who  bad  only 
entertained  guests  to  take  money  for 
her  hospitality,  but  I  was  determined  to 
succeed. 
I 
got  a  reputation  for  home-made  goodies 
that  I  made  with  my  own  hands  and, 
above all,  I  studied  my  business. 
In  a 
few  months  my  husband  died  and  I  was 
left  entirely  alone  with  the  two  old 
ladies  and  the  little  children clinging  to 
my  skirts,  but,  thank God,  none  of  them 
ever  wanted  for anything. 
I  prospered. 
I  moved  from  a  big  house  to  a  bigger 
one,  until  finally  I  built  this  fine  hotel. 
Of  course,  I  never  bad  the  slightest 
training  for  such  a  career.  Why,  I’d 
hardly  so  much  as  ever  seen  au  account 
in  my  life,  and  never  even  swept  a 
room  or  made  a  bed,  but  there’s  noth­
ing  on  this  earth  a  woman  can’t  do  if 
you  put  the  necessity  of  those  she  loves 
behind  it.’

rejoice 

‘ ‘ Understand, ’ ’ went  on  the  woman  of 
the  world,  “ that  .I’m  not  disparaging 
the  modern  women  one bit.  There  isn’t 
a  single  thing  she  can  achieve  that  I 
don’t 
in  or  an  opportunity 
opened  to  her  that  I’m  not  glad  of,  but 
before  she  gives  herself  too  any  airs  of 
superiority  over  her  mother  I  want  to 
see  her  ability  and  her  courage  tested. 
If  she can  do  more  than  the  old  woman 
did,  she’s  a  world’s  wonder,  and  I’m 
perfectly  willing  to  throw  up  my  best 
bonnet  in  honor  of  the  new champion.
D o r o t h y   D i x .

Very  few  public  men  would  be  will­
ing  to  be  taken  at  their  publicly  ex­
pressed  estimation  of  themselves.

Aluminum Money

Will Increase Your Business.

Cheap and Effective.

Send for samples and prices.
C.  H.  HANSON,

44  S.  Clark  S t.,  Chicago,  111.

Ide Hercules ïeüatei land

Just the barrel in which to  ship  apples, potatoes, onions, vegetables, or  anything  that 
requires ventilation.  We furnish the barrels to  you  knock-down  in  bundles,  thereby 
making a great saving  in  freight.  Fourth-class  freight  rates  apply  in  less  than  car 
lots.  One boy can set up from  75  to  100  barrels  per  day, and 
with your first order for 500 barrels we furnish free our setting­
up outfit, or we  charge  you  $3.00  for  it  and  refund  the  $3.00 
when you have purchased 500 barrels.

The Hercules has been  endorsed  and  recommended  by  all 
prominent fruit and commission men  in  Chicago,  and  is  con­
sidered the very best barrel for shipping any  product requiring 
ventilation.  Our prices, f. o. b.  Chicago, are as follows:
Apple-barrel size,  i7J4 -inch head, »9-inch stave;  12 pecks.
In lots of  100, heads *  hoops complete,  knock-down, each. .23c 
In lots of 200,  heads  *  hoops complete, knock-down,  each. .21c 
In lots of 500, heads » hoops complete,  knock-down,  each. .20c 

Setting-up outfit included.  We can ship promptly.

For further particulars and sample barrel address,

H e rc u le s  W oodenw are  Go.,

2» W. 20th Place,

Chicago, 111.

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7

ON AGIN 
OFF ASIN 
BACK AGIN

Fine  Granulated  Sugar  $4.98  f.  o.  b.  Saginaw,  with  order  for  two 
one-half chests Japan Tea at 30c  or  upwards.  W e  give  purchaser  option 
of taking five  barrels  H.  &   E.  Fine  Granulated  at  $4.98.  With  equal 
orders for groceries we  make  Granulated  $5.20 f.  o.  b.  Saginaw.

W ith  an  order for  one-half  chest  Jap  at  34  to  36c,  strictly  high 
grade,  close rolled  and  fine draw,  we will  give the purchaser option  of buy­
ing five gross  Mason Jars,  half  gallon,  porcelain  tops,  packed  one  dozen 
in  box,  at the unprecedented  low price  of $3.85 per gross.

We  are the Tea-Teazers of  Michigan.
Just  at hand  a new  1899  chop  at  26c;  fair  looker  and  good  draw. 
Also a small  line  of Jap  Nibs  at  26c.  A   Broken  Tea  Leaf  at  22c  per  lb. 
Best value at the price  named  of  any tea  in the  United  States.

Hemmeter’s  Champion  Cigars at $25.00 per  M.  With  10  pounds  of 
any Tea  Leaf or Dust we will put in 50 of this brand of cigars at price named.

Best  Package coffee on the  market $8.00 per case.
Armour’s  Deviled  Ham  and  Potted  Tongue, 

50c  per  doz.,

28c per doz.  This is a  snap  you won’t  get  again  this season.

Special  deal  on pure  Spices,  Nutmegs  and  Pickle  Spices.  No  firm 
in  Michigan  handles finer spices than The James  Stewart  Co.  We believe 
in the pure  food  law,  we  live up to  its requirements  strictly,  we  can  point  to 
a clean,  clear record with  the State authorities,  and that  is a good deal more 
than some of our  competitors  can say.

We  offer  10  lbs.  each,  bulk  ground  pepper,  mustard,  allspice,  cinna­
mon  and cloves at 13c per lb.  5 lbs. Penang 105-110’s nutmegs at 27^c per lb., 
and  10 lbs.  pickle  spices  at  10c.  per lb. 
Isn’t this a  cracker  jack  for  $8.88?

Fancy Jersey sweet potatoes,  $2.10 per barrel.
Our terms are strictly cash with  order. 

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15c  for exchange.  All  offers are  made  for prompt  acceptance.

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MUNICIPAL  POLITICS.

It  would  be  difficult  to  find  anything 
in  American  politics  more  abhorrent  to 
every  proper  idea  of  American 
liberty 
than  is  the  assumption  of  ownership  of 
the  American  people  by the professional 
politicians.

This  sort  of  thing  is  particularly  ap­
parent  in  city  politics,  because  the  po­
litical  cohorts  are always more thorough­
ly  organized  for  the  work  in  which  they 
are  engaged. 
In  every  such  case  a  big 
boss  claims  the  political  ownership  of 
the  city  and  all  its  public  offices.  A 
henchman,  who  is  a  sort  of  lieutenant 
to  the  big  boss,  loudly  proclaims  bis 
proprietorship  of  each  ward,  while  still 
other  lesser  strikers  claim  to  be  masters 
of  the  ward  precincts.  Thus  it  is  that 
the  city 
is  parceled  out  to  a  horde of 
politicians,  each,  from  the  man  at  the 
top  to  the  little  fellows  at  the  bottom, 
intent  upon  getting  a  share  of  the  peo­
ple's  money,  and  working together  from 
no  other  motive  under heaven  but  to  get 
their  fingers  on  the  public  patrimony. 
What  care  such  people  for constitutions, 
laws,  the  public  good  or  the  people’s 
interests?  What  reck  such  men  of oaths 
of  offices,  of  obligations,  of  duty,  of  any 
public  consideration?  To  prey  upon 
the  public  is  their  only  aim  and  object. 
They  are  drawn  together  only  by  a com­
mon  desire  for  plunder,  neither  respect­
ing  the  others,  none  trusting  another, 
only  so  far  as  a  common  object  and mu­
tual  risks  bring  them  together.  So,  or­
ganized 
like  a  band  of  robbers,  they 
overpower  or  intimidate  or  swindle  the 
alleged  citizens,  who 
should,  under 
American  free 
institutions,  be  looking 
after the  public  good,  and  thus the  free­
booters  are able  to  seize  upon  the  pub­
lic  offices  and  hold  on  to  them  until 
driven  out  by  force.

Such  is  the  condition  of  every  city  in 
the  Union.  Nobody 
is  looking  out  for 
the  public  good,  while hordes  of  adven­
turers  organized  for  the  business  are 
looking  out  for  their  own  advancement. 
This  is  usually  the  situation 
in  Grand 
Rapids.  Conditions  are  no  worse  here 
than  elsewhere;  but  even  then  they  are 
deplorable  enough. 
The  newspapers 
are filled  with  accounts  of  the  squabbles 
of  political  heelers  and  rounders  as  to 
their  power  to  carry  elections  and  hold 
political  control  of  wards,  precincts  and 
the  like.  They  are  followed  by  gangs

of  hoodlums and  adventurers,  and  their 
boasts of  political  power are  disgusting 
in  the  extreme.

longer 

The  only  remedy  for  these  evils  is  to 
nominate  candidates  for  office 
in  pri-
mary  elections  which  are  properly  pro­
tected  by  law,  and  then,  by  means  of  a 
public  civil  service  based  on  the  merit 
system,  deprive  the  political  leaders  of 
the  power  which  the  distribution  of 
patronage  secures  for them.  When it  is 
no 
in  the  power of  a  political 
boss  to  command  a  following,  he  ceases 
to  be  a  boss,  and  when  there  is  nothing 
to  be gained  by  tailing  after  any  poli­
tician  there will  be  no  more  heelers  and 
strikers.  Until  then,  a  political  can­
vass 
is  either a  period  of  turmoil,  and 
mayhap  of  warfare,  or  it  is a  walkover 
for  the  bosses  through  the  indifference 
of  the  alleged  best  citizens.  This  is a 
most  unpromising  picture  of  American 
municipal  politics,  but  it  is true.
AS  PENAL  COLONIES.

The  suggestion  has  been  made  that, 
since  it  must be  a  long  time  before  the 
United  States  will  get any  other  benefits 
out  of  the  Philippine  Islands,  some  of 
the  group  might  be  utilized  as  a  penal 
colony.

Australia,  almost  from  the  time  of  its 
discovery  to  the  opening  of  the  rich 
gold  mines  there,  was a penal  settlement 
for  England.  Siberia  has  been  used 
as  a  convict  colony  by Russia,  and those 
uses  were  continued  until  those  coun­
tries  attracted  voluntary settlers  in  large 
numbers  and  changed  the  conditions 
which  had  made  them  places  for  the 
keeping  of  deported  criminals.  The 
sending  of  convicts  to  countries  where 
they  were  »eps rated  from  the scenes and 
companions  of  their crimes  by  vast  dis 
tances  of  ocean  and  continental  ex­
panse,  under  conditions  which  required 
that  they  should  work  or  starve,  proved 
of  vast  benefit  in  reforming  many  evil­
doers,  and 
in  Australia  many  of  them 
became  wealthy  and  respectable citizens 
of  the  country.

The  Chicago  Inter Ocean,  in this con­
nection,  remarks  that  the  United  States 
has  just  come  into  possession  of  thou­
sands  of 
islands.  Their  very  number 
remains  to  be  ascertained.  They  are  all 
very  small,  as  compared  with  either  Si­
beria  or  Australia,  and  very  many  of 
them  are  so  small  that  they  can  never 
be  of  appreciable  importance  to  the 
country 
if  left  to  ordinary  uses,  and 
some  of  them  might  very  properly  be 
used  as  penal  colonies. 
In  this  way  a 
very  considerable  emigration  from  this 
country  for  the  country's  good  might be 
established.  The 
forty-five  States  of 
the  Union  have  in  their  penitentiaries 
many  thousands of  convicts.  If all  those 
who  are  serving  long sentences were sent 
to  a  penal  colony,  it  might be  best  for 
them  and  best  for  the  conntry.  The 
Inter  Ocean 
thinks  that  the  penal- 
reform  problem 
is 
bound,  early  in  the  next  century,  to  en­
ter  upon  a  new  stage  of  solution. 
It 
can  not  be  solved  by  abstract  theoriz­
ing. 
in  some 
practical  form.  When  that time  comes, 
and 
it  can  not  be  very  far off,  the  re­
formatory  records  of  the  Australian  and 
Siberian  penal  colonies  will  throw  a 
flood  of 
light  upon  the  subject  in  its 
practical  phases.

in  this  country 

It  will  present 

itself 

Fame  has  its  disadvantages.  It never 
lets  a  man's  creditors  get  off  his  trail.

The  cnt-rate  druggist  does  his  best  to

bring  sickness  within  reach  of all.

Some  doctors  take  life  easy—others 

take  whatever  they  can.

A  QUESTION  OF  CLIMATE.

There  is  much  disputing,among those 
persons  who  teach  that the entire human 
race,  with  its  wonderful  varieties,  came 
from  one  pair  of  parents,  as to  what  has 
cansed  the  varieties  of  color  and  the 
other  race  peculiarities 
in  the  human 
species.

It  is  commonly  held  that  all  men 
were  once  of  the  same  color,  but  that 
by  removal  to  different  climates  from 
that  which  prevailed  at  the  starting 
point  men  have  been bleached  white,  or 
roasted  red,  brown  or  black,  as  the case 
may  be.  An  endless  discussion  is  pos­
sible  as  to  whether  the  first  pair  were 
white,  yellow,  red,  black  or  brown,  and 
whether  their  descendants  started  on 
their  migrations  from  the  equatorial  or 
the temperate  region.

Nothing,  however,  is  to  be  proved 
from  the  color  tests,  as  the  dark-colored 
Esquimaux  and  other  such  tribes  which 
inhabit  the  frozen  regions  of  America 
and  Asia  show. 
If  the  Arctic  regions 
are  a  human  bleacbery,  why  are  not 
those  extreme  northern  peoples  white; 
and  if  the  tropical  regions  are the  roast­
ing  shops  of  the  race,  how  are  the 
white  races  in  the  hot  countries  of  Asia 
and  Africa  to be accounted  for?  From 
the  earliest  times  there  have  been  vast 
migrations of  hordes  and  tribes  of  peo­
ple  from  zone to  zone,  and  from  hemi­
sphere  to  hemisphere,  until  there  are 
peoples  of  various  colors  in  all  parts  of 
the  globe,  and  nobody  knows  with  cer­
tainty  whence  any of  them  came.

It  has  been  claimed  by  superficial  ob­
servers  that  the  black  races  belong  to 
the  equatorial  regions;  that  the  brown 
and  red  are  common  to  the sub  tropical, 
and  that  the  yellow  should  belong  to  the 
southern  belts  of  the  temperate  zones, 
and  the  whites  to  the  northern  parts  of 
the  temperate  regions.  The  blacks  were 
found  in  various  parts  of  Africa,  from 
the  Nubians  in  Egypt  to  the  Kaffirs  and 
Hottentots  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope— 
in  every  zone  and  climate,  except  the 
polar.  They  also  occupied  the whole  of 
Australia  aDd  many  islands  of  the  Pa­
cific Ocean,  including  some  of  the  Phil­
ippine  group  and  Hawaii.  They  are by 
no  means  confined  to  the  equatorial  re­
gions,  where  are  also  found  many  of 
the  brown  peoples,  who  also 
inhabit 
many  islands of the  Pacific  and embrace 
the  great  Malay  popnlation  of  South­
eastern  Asia.  The  red  people  have  been 
found  almost  exclusively  in  the  Western 
Hemisphere,  from one  pole  to  the  other. 
As  for  the  yellow  people,  they  were  first 
found  exclusively  in  China and Tartary, 
from  the  tropics  to  the  Arctic  regions. 
The  whites  were  found  from  the  earliest 
periods  of  recorded  time  in  Egypt,  In­
dia,  Arabia  and  Europe.  They  were 
as  widely  distributed  climatically  as 
any  of  the  other  peoples  of  color.

its  -kind 

No  information  as  to  the  primary  hne 
of  the  human  race  or  as  to  its  original 
habitat  is  to  be  learned  from  the  pres­
ent  distribution  of  the  human family,  as 
it  is  called ;  bat  it  is  difficult  to  believe 
that  all  these  varieties  are  descended 
from  a  single  couple,  if  the  rule that 
every  seed  and  creature  brings  forth 
after 
is  to be  accepted  as  the 
divine  law  of  descent,  subsequently  re­
peated 
in  the  warning  that  "men  do 
not  gather  grapes  from  thorns,  nor  figs 
from  thistles,"  but  that  every  species 
has  its  separate  and  distinct  beginning.
The  only  practical  question  to  come 
out  of  the  entire  controversy  over  the 
dispersion  of  the  human  race  on  the 
earth  is  the  relation of climate to health. 
However successfully  the  Arabians,  the 
Hindoos and  the  Moors  have  been  able

to  maintain  themselves  for  thousands 
of years  in  tropical  regions,  it is  certain 
that  the  climates  of  such  countries  are 
terribly  fatal  to  the  whites  from  the 
temperate  zones  of  Europe  and  Amer­
ica.

The  London  Lancet,  discussing  the 
conquest  of  the  East  and  West  Spanish 
Indies  by  the  United  States,  remarks 
that  the  four  principal  factors  in  the 
production  of  climate,  according 
to 
Buchan,  are  distance  from  the  equator, 
height  above  the  sea,  distance  from  the 
sea  and  prevailing  winds.  The  equato­
rial  region  has the most eqnable climate; 
tropical  regions  have  much  greater  va­
riations  of  temperature  than  those  near 
the  equator,  and  have  a  hot  and  cold  or 
dry  and  rainy  season.  The  isothermal 
iines  of  mean  temperature  do  not  sup­
ply  a  graduated  measure  of  the  effects 
of  temperature  on  animal  life.  So  far 
as  climate  is  concerned,  no  single  me­
teorological  influence  appears,  however, 
to  equal  the  effect  of  temperature  upon 
its  range 
health,  and 
is  of  more  im­
portance  than  its mean.

The  European  under  a  tropical  cli­
mate  suffers  from  anaemia,  diseases  of 
the digestive  svstem,  especially  of  the 
liver,  from  malaria,  dysentery,  typhoid 
fever  and  yellow  fever. 
It  is  not at  all 
easy  to  say,  however,  bow  much  of  the 
excess  of  mortality  of  Europeans 
in 
tropical  and  sub-tropical  countries  is 
simply  attributable  to  climatic  heat  per 
se,  and  is,  consequently,  inevitable  and 
not  the  effect  of  malaria,  or  how  much 
of  it  is  the  direct  concequence  of  habits 
of  life  and  of  the  neglect  of  sanitary 
laws and  of  personal  hygiene.  It  is  cer­
tain  that  the  Englishman  has  suffered 
severely  from  persisting 
in  the  use  in 
tropical  countries  of  his  diet  of  roast 
meat  and  malt  liquors.

in  this  regard 

Nature  seems  to  dictate  that  people 
should  subsist  on  the  products  of  the 
country 
in  which  they  live.  The  na­
tives  of  the  hot  countries  live  chiefly  on 
bread  and  fruits.  The  North  American, 
like  the  Englishman,  is  a  meat  eater, 
and 
it  will  be wise  to 
learn  lessons  from  the  people  of  the 
tropical 
islands  which  the  Great  Re­
public  has  recently  acquired  and  oc­
cupies.  Mr.  Chamberlain,  the  British 
Minister  for  the  Colonies,  said,  a  few 
days  ago,  that  "the  man  who  shall  suc­
cessfully  grapple  with  this  foe  to  hu­
manity  and  shall  find  a  cure  for  mala­
rial  fever and  shall make the  tropics  liv­
able  for  the  white  man  will  do  more  for 
the  world  and  more  for  the  British  Em­
pire  than  the  man  who adds  a new prov­
ince  to  the  wide  dominions  of  the 
Queen. * ’

Modern  medical  research  seems  to 
have  declared  that  the  disease  common­
ly  attributed  to  malaria,  bad  air,  is 
really  due  to  bad  water— water  charged 
with  the  microphytes  or  germs  of  dis­
ease. 
If  this  be  so,  then  a  vast  deal  is 
to be  accomplished  in  the  way  of  sani­
tation  by  the  use,  for drinking,  of  pure 
water.  Here 
is  something  practical 
that  can  be  easily determined.  Probably 
the  quality  of  the  water  consumed  has  a 
vast  deal  to  do  with  climate 
in  its 
effects  on  human  health.

The  1899 crop  of  hops  in  Washington 
State  is  reported  to  be  of  a  better  qual­
ity  than  has  been  the  rale  in  the  last 
few  years,  and  the  growers  are  prepar­
ing  to  harvest  as  great a  yield  as they 
did 
in  1898.  Accurate  estimates  are 
lacking  of  the  yield,  but  it  will  prob­
ably  be  from  30  000  to  40.000  bales.

Wben  a  man  pays  a  doctor's  bill,  he 

often  wonders  if  life  is  worth  living.

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9

III

True Tales Told by a Trio of Travelers.
Written for the  Tradesman.

We  were  seated  in  the  smoking  com­
partment  of  an  eastbound  train.  Our 
party  consisted  of  two  New  York  drum­
mers,  on  their  way  back  from  the  Pa­
cific  coast, and  three  buyers  for  Western 
retail  dry  goods  stores,  myself  one  of 
the  latter.  The  conversation  naturally 
turned  to  stores  and  trade.  One  of  the 
drummers  finally  said  that  he  thought 
the  last  job  on  earth  was  to  stand  be­
hind  a  dry  goods  counter  and  wait  upon 
“ old  hens” —and  young  ones,  too,  for 
that  matter—who  didn't  know  what they 
wanted  and  who  wouldn’t  buy  it  if  they 
did.  Of  course,  there  was  a  chorus  of 
objections  to  this  statement  from 
the 
dress  goods  buyers;  but  the  drummer 
waived  us  into  silence  by  saying,  “ Lis­
ten  and  I’ll  give  you  a  sample  of  what 
life  is  like  to  the  man  behind  the  coun­
ter. 
for  I 
spent  ten  of  the  best  years  of  my  life  as 
a  clerk  in  a  big  dry  goods  store:

I  know  whereof  I  speak, 

“ My  first  duty,  upon  entering 

the 
store  at  8  o’clock  in  the  morning,  was 
to  turn  in  my  time,  by  bawling  'Num­
ber  42’  at  the  desk  where  the time-clerk 
sat.  Think  of  it,  a  civilized man  known 
as  ‘ Number  42!'  Every time  I  sang  out 
that  number  I  felt  like  a  lowdown  dago 
it made  no  difference  how 
laborer;  but 
i  felt,  the  turning 
in  of  that  number 
meant  bread  and  butter  to  me.  Well, 
then  I  would  go  to  the  coat  room,  where 
I  received  a  check—’ Number  42’  again 
— for  my  bat and  overcoat. 
I  knew that 
these articles  were  safe and  that  I  could 
get  them  upon  presenting  my  check. 
I 
also  knew  that,  had  I  been  disposed  to 
swipe,  as  they  call  it  nowadays,  a  dress 
pattern,  or  some  such  small  matter, 
there  was  no  chance  to  get away with  it, 
lunch 
as  all  overcoats,  wraps,  bats  and 
baskets  must  be  checked. 
I  now  go  to 
the  counter  where  I  earn  my  salary. 
Here  I  begin  to  remove  the  dust  cover 
from  the  shelves. 
It  is  a  long  affair 
and  by  no  means  easily  folded  because 
of  its  width. 
I  have  it  half  down  when 
a  sharp  voice  at  my  back  demands, 
‘ Wait  on  me  right  away— I'm 
in  a 
hurry. ’ 
leave  my  cover  half  down, 
and,  with  a  smile  that  would  turn  any­
thing  except  that  withered  old  spinster 
to  stone,  proceed 
to  show  her  silks. 
With  the  greatest  of  deliberation  she 
seats  herself,  then  places  her  glasses, 
just  so,  on  her  thin  old  beak  and  she  is 
ready  to  look  at  all  the  silks  in  the 
store. 
floorwalker  passes  my 
counter  several  times,  looks  at  me  and 
then  at  the  balf-on-half-off  shelf  cover 
and  finally  comes  around  and  snatches 
the  balance  of  it  down,  throwing  it  in  a 
disorderly  heap 
in  the  middle  of  the 
counter.  The  old girl  spends  three-quar 
ters  of  an  hour  looking  over  my  goods 
and  then,  without  so  much  as  a  Thank 
you  or  a  Please,  says,  ‘ I ’ll  take  sam­
it  over. ’  Of 
ples  of  those  and  think 
course,  I  cut  the  samples, 
inwardly 
wishing  that 
it  was  the  old  maid’s 
throat 
instead.  She  is  about  to  leave 
when  in  pops  a  friend  of  hers.  They 
kiss  each  other  like  a  pair  of  school­
girls,  seat  themselves  on  stools  at  my 
counter  and  proceed  to  discuss  their 
neighbors  and 
the  recently-acquired 
samples.

The 

I 

“ The  floorwalker  again  comes  my 
way  and,  in  a  cold  hard  tone,  tells  me 
that  the  covers  are  supposed  to  be  re­
moved  at  8  o'clock. 
I  patiently  fold  up 
the  offending  thing  and  put  it  in  its 
place  under 
the  counter,  and  then 
straighten  up  and  put  away  the  goods 
which  I  have  been  showing  the  old 
crosspatch.  The  old  sample  fiend  seems

to  have  forgotten that she was in a burry, 
for  she  and  her  friend  still  talk  on.

“ My  next  customer  happens  to  be  a 
lady.  She  treats  me  as  if  I was  human. 
She  endeavors  to give  me  an  idea  of  the 
style  of  silk  she  wishes.  She  looks  at 
the  goods  I  place  upon  the  counter, 
without  pulling  them  out  of  the  folds  or 
wadding  them  into  knots,  and  in  fifteen 
minutes  I’ve  sold  her  $25  worth  of  silk. 
When  she  leaves  my  counter  she  thanks 
me  in  a  pleasant  manner  for  my  atten­
tion  and  courtesy. 
It’s  a  little  ray  of 
sunshine  that  happens  but  seldom  in  a 
day’s  trade.

“ I  next  encounter an  aristocratic  old 
dame  and her equally aristocratic daugh­
ter,  who  are  out  shopping,  not  buying. 
They  are  courteous  enough,  but  they 
take  my  time  for  almost  an  hour and 
buy  nothing.  They  assure  me,  upon 
leaving,  that 
‘ my  goods  are  beautiful 
and  they  will  keep  them  in  mind  when 
they  decide  to  buy.’ 
I  am  obliged  to 
look  pleasant  (while  I  feel  D—m!)  and 
to  assure  them  that 
it  is  a  delight  to 
show  goods.  The  floorwalker,  who  has 
been  watching  me,  now  comes  up  and 
asks  me  ‘ why  I  didn’t  sell  those  people 
something?’ 
I  tell  him  exactly  what 
they  told  me,  but  he  doesn’t believe  me 
and  goes  about  his  business  with  a 
frown  that  probably  means  walking 
papers  for  me.

“ So  the  day  passes,  and  the  month, 
and  the year,  until  nine  out  of  every  ten 
men  behind  the  counter  grow  sour  and 
nervous  and  are  ready  to  swear  that 
is  a  fool  and  every 
every  floorwalker 
woman  a  ‘ hen.’ 
Isay  again,  boys,  that 
clerking  in  a  dry  goods  store  is  the  last 
job  on  earth.’ ’

is  truth 

“ Of  course  there 

in  what 
you  tell  us,’ ’  said  one  of  the  dress 
goods  buyers;  “ there 
is  bitter  with 
every  sweet  in  the  things  of  this  life— 
your story  shows  that.  No  matter  what 
a  man  undertakes 
it  has  its  disadvan­
tages.  For  myself,  I  think  there  are 
thousands  of  fellows  worse  off  than  the 
dry  goods  clerks.  Take  the  from-bouse- 
to-house  agents,  for  instance;  see  what 
a  dog's  life  they  lead.  They  encounter 
the  ‘ hens,’  as  you  call  them,  upon  their 
own  domain,  where  they  are  apt  to  do 
more  effectual  scratching  than  when 
they  come  to  your  counter.  Let  me  tell 
you  an  experience  which  I  had  a  num­
ber  of  years  ago:

“ I  had  clerked 

in  a  general  store 
from  the  time  I  was  16  until  I  was  21.  I 
had  a  good  place.  My  employer  was 
kind  to  me and  I  bad  no  fault  to  find 
except  that  it  was  a  slow  way  to get 
rich.  My  salary  was  $40  a  month  by 
the  time  I  reached  my  majority. 
I  had 
long  wished  I  could  earn  more  money. 
One  day  I  received  a  circular  from  a 
manufacturing  concern  in  Boston.  The 
circular  set  forth  in  glowing  terms  the 
great  utility  of  a  new  invention  known 
as  the  ‘ Pinless  clothesline,’  which  they 
were  making.  They  wanted  an  agent  in 
our  county,to  whom  they  would give  the 
exclusive  right  to  sell  the  clothesline  in 
that  county.  The  line  would  cost  the 
agent  one  cent  a  foot,  freight  prepaid, 
and  be  could  take  more  orders at  two 
and  three  cents  a  foot  than  he  could 
book.  At  the  bottom  of  the  circular  was 
a  statement  in  red  ink  to  the  effect  that 
the  line  was  positively  non-susceptible 
to  frost  and  that  wet  clothes  could  be 
put  upon 
it  in  the  wintertime as  well 
as  in  the  summer.
“ I  was  young. 

It  looked  like  a  good 
thing  to  me.  The  bouse-to-bouse  can­
vassing  bad  no  terrors  for  me  at  that 
time, 
for  I  took  orders  for  the  store 
three  days  each  week  and  so  knew

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its  merits. 

something  of  what  an  agent  has  to  un­
dergo.  Without  consulting  anyone  I 
sent  at  once  and  secured  the  territory 
and  a  sample  clothesline  fifteen  feet 
in 
length.  Upon  goiDg  out  to  take  orders 
for the  store  I  took  my  clothesline along 
and  at  every  opportunity  showed  it  and 
talked 
I  put  particular 
stress  upon 
its  non-freezible  quality, 
and  when  I  returned  to  the  store  I  had 
taken  ten  orders  of  ioo  feet  each.  I  sold 
it  at  two  cents  a  foot,  so  that  I  could 
see  $to  - clear  profit  for  my  half-day's 
work.  Here  was  a  moneymaker  sure 
enough!  The  next  time  I  went  out  I 
was  even  more  successful,  and  I  deter­
mined  to  give  up  my  place  in  the  store 
and  devote  my  entire  time  to  taking  or­
ders  for  the  non-freezible  clothesline.”
"What  sort  of  a  thing  was  it,  any­

how?”   enquired  one  of  the  drummers.

“ Why,”   said  the  dress  goods  buyer, 
“ it  was  a  double  wire  arrangement 
made  in  links  one  foot  in  length  with  a 
loop  at  each  end  of  the  liuk.  You  put 
a  corner  of  whatever  you  wanted  to 
hang  out  through  the  loop  and then drew 
it  into  the  link  to  where  the  wires  came 
close  together. 
It  beat  the  old  pin-line 
all  boiler.

“ It  was  the  middle  of  summer  when I 
left  the  store  and  launched  out  to  sell 
the  ‘ Pinless.'  I  had  a  thickly-populated 
territory  to  work,  and  I  worked  it to  the 
queen’s  taste.  The  thing  took  like  hot 
cakes  and  for  the  balance  of  that  sum­
mer  I  averaged  $15  a  day  above  my  ex­
penses. 
I  went  fiom  town  to  town  and 
before  cold  weathei  came  I  had ‘ Pinless 
clotheslines'  strung all  over  the  county.
“ It  so  happened  that  I  was  in  a  min­
ing  town  when  the  first  freezing  weather 
came.  I  bad  sold  a  line to  nearly  every 
woman  in  the  town,  and  had  spent  Fri­
day  and  Saturday  delivering  them. 
I 
intended  to  leave  for  the  next  town  on 
Sunday,  but  missed  my  train  and  was 
obliged  to  wait  over  until  the  next  day. 
It  was  cold  as  Greenland  Monday morn­
ing  and  I  decided  to  wait  over  another 
day.

' * There  was  a  jolly  lot  of fellows stop­
ping  at  the  hotel  and  we  spent  the  day 
pleasantly  enough.  Late  in  the  after­
noon  several  of  us  were  in  the  reading 
room  smoking  and  telling  stories.,  when 
one  of  the  boys,  who  stood  looking  out 
of  the  window,  exclaimed,  ‘ For  Heav­
en’s  sake,  fellows,  what’s  this  coming 
down  the  street!’

frozen 

“ It  was  a crowd of about thirty women 
from  the  miners'  row,  each  armed  with 
a  broom  and  a 
‘ Pinless  clothesline,’ 
and  they  were  after  me.  The  clothes 
had 
into  those  non-freezible 
lines and  they  had  been  obliged  to  take 
lines,  clothes  and  all  indoors and  thaw 
them  out  before  the  blamed 
things 
let  go.  Needless  to  say,  I  was 
would 
not 
sight  when  that  delegation 
reached  the.  hotel.  The  boys,  backed  by 
the  landlord,  swore  that  I  had  left  town 
the  day  before  and  the  angry  females 
took  their  departure swearing vengeance 
upon  my  head.

in 

“ The  fellows  at  the  hotel  had an ever­
lasting 
joke  on  me  and  gave  me  no 
peace  until  I  left  that  night at 9 o’clock. 
They  escorted  me  to  the  train  ‘ to  keep 
those  women  from  sweeping  me  out  of 
town,’ as  they  said.

“ Once on  the  train,  the  question  with 
me  was,  Where  shall  I  go? 
I  bad  sold 
those  confounded 
lines  all  over  the 
county  and,  worst  of  all,  I  had  fairly 
flooded  my  own  town  with  them;  no 
doubt  they  were  cussing  me  there  as 
I  couldn’t  face  it  and  I  made  up 
well. 
my  mind  then  and  there  to  go  West. 
I 
That’s  ten  years  ago  and  I
went. 

in  that  county  since. 

haven’t  been 
I 
tell  you,  boys,  if  you  looked  at  it  as  I 
do  through  the  remembrance  of  other 
and  more  soul-trying  experiences,  I 
think  you’d  agree  with  me,  rather  than 
with  our  friend  here,  that  there  is  many 
a  worse  job  than  selling  dry  goods.”

“ I  don’t  see,”   exclaimed  the  drum­
mer  who  bad  told  the  first  story,  “ wby 
you  should  call  that  a  bad  job.  To  be 
sure,  you  were  wise  not  to  let  that  ‘ hen’ 
mob  get  hold  of  you;  but a  fellow  ought 
to  be  able  to  stand a little inconvenience 
when  be  is  making  $15  a  day  The  av­
erage  man  behind  the  counter  doesn’t 
make  that  much  a  week.  You  didn’t 
have  to  skip  the  country—you  could 
have  gone  to  a  new  town  and  taken  all 
the  orders  you  could  get,  being  careful 
to 
leave  out  the  ‘ non-freezible’  clause, 
before  you  delivered  a  line.  Then  you 
could  have  delivered  them  about  the 
middle  of  the  week  and  got  out  of  -town 
before  washday  came  ’round.”

“ Certainly,”   replied  the  teller of  the 
story,  “ I  could  have  done  that  easily 
enough;  but,  when  I  found  out that  the 
'Piuless  clothesline’  was  not  as 
it  was 
represented,  I  wouldn’t  have  sold  an­
other  foot  of  it  for  a  hundred  dollars!”
“ The  more  fool  you!”   retorted  the 
“ You  might  have  had  an 
if  you  had  stuck 

drummer. 
independent  fortune 
to  it."

"Come,  come,  Tom ,”   said  the  other 
the 
drummer,  “ don’t  try  to  corrupt 
‘ Pinless  clothesline’ man. 
morals  of  a 
Thirty  women  armed  with  brooms  and 
‘ Pinlesses'  would  frighten  any  man  into 
honesty.— It’s  your  turn  next,  M ac,”  
he  continued. 
“ Give  us  a  story  that 
will  take  our  minds  off  of  the  barter- 
and-buy  idea.”

“ Let  me  see,”   I  began;  " I ’ll  tell 
you  a  story  that  I  beard  an  old  cow- 
puncher  tell  on  one  of  my  trips  to a 
Colorado  cow-camp:

“ There  were 

five  or  six  bronzed, 
weather-beaten  cow-puncbers  and  my­
self  seated  around  a  blazing  camp-fire 
on  a  certain  chilly  September  evening 
a  year  or  two  ago.  All eyes  were  intent 
upon  the  fire  and  every  man  was  smok­
ing  in  silence.  The  cowboys  bad  each 
rolled  a  half  dozen  cigarettes, 
the 
puncher’s  favorite  method  of  using  the 
weed,  for reference  while  the  fire  lasted.
I  had  filled  my  faithful  briar  with  my 
favorite  tobacco  and  as  I  smoked  I 
watched 
the  firelight  play  upon  the 
grave,  exposure  hardened  faces  of  my 
companions.  Suddenly  an  old  grizzled 
puncher  who  bad  trailed  cattle  in  the 
early  days  from  Texas  to  Chicago  broke 
the  silence  by  asking,  ‘ Did  I  ever  tell 
you  fellers  about  the  strange  disappear­
ance  of  Tim  Carter?’  Upon  receiving 
a  negative  reply  the  puncher  began  his 
story:

“   ‘ Tim  Carter  wuz  a  deuce  of  a  fine 
feller,  an’  the  handiest  man  with  the 
trigger  't ’ever  I  knew.  He  could  drive 
a  tack  at  a  hundred  yards  with  a  drop 
shot an’  his  boss  a  gallopin’.  Him  an’ 
me’d  ben  pardners  fer quite  a  spell,  a 
runnin’  a  bunch  o’  cattle  in  the  San 
Luts  Valley. 
’Twas  in  the  early  days 
an’  Colorado  warn’t  no  peace-haven 
Injun  killin'  wuz 
then,  I  ken  tell  you. 
part  uv  the  trade  in  them  days. 
‘ Twas 
killin’  Injuns  that  made  Tim  such  a 
fine  shot.  We  bad 
'bout  five  thousan’ 
head  0’  cattle  an’  we  jest  let  ’em  run 
loose  in  the  valley,  simply  ridin’  ’round 
the  edges  an’  turnin'  them  back  when 
they  got  too  far  up  into  the  mountains. 
We  had  ten  good  punchers  workin’  fer 
us an’  they  wuz  kep’  ridin’  pretty  reg’- 
lar a  lookin’  out  fer  Injuns.

“   ‘ Well,  we’d  ben 

in  tbe  San  Luis

country  fer  over a  year  an’  one  morn in’ 
Tim,  a  ridin’  his  favorite  broncho,  hit 
the  trail  fer  the  mountains.  A  rumor 
had  reached  us  that  Injuns bad ben. seen 
prowlin’  'round  an*  Tim  thought  we’d 
ougbter  know  fer  sure.  We  didn’t  look 
fer  him  back  nohow  fer 
'bout  three 
days  an' no  one thought  o'  bein’ oneasy, 
fer  we  knowed  that  Tim  an’  his  gun 
wuz  a  match  fer a  whole  tribe  o’  Red­
skins.  The  three  days  wuz  up  an’  we 
looked  fer  Tim  to  strike  camp  ’bout 
sundown ;  but  he  didn’t show  up.  When 
he  didn't  come  tbe  next  day,  I  sort o’ 
got  oneasy  an’  sent  all  o’  tbe  riders 
tber’  wuz  in  camp  out  tre  look  fer him. 
Some  o'  the  riders  wuz  out a  day  er 
two;  but  they  all  come  back  without 
findin’  any  trace  o’  Tim. 
I  went  out 
myself  an'  spent  a  week  ridin'  among 
the  mountains  without  findin’  hide  or 
hair  of  him.  We  gave  it  up  then  an’ 
made  up  our  min’s  that  the  Injuns 
bad  captured  him,  although tber’ wuzn’t 
a  sign  of  an  Injun  to  be  found  any­
where.

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

P.  M. VanDrezer, Representing  Olney 

&  Judson  Grocer  Co.

Prentice  M.  VanDrezer  was  born  in 
Easton  township,  Ionia  county,  July  18, 
1856,  his  mother  having  belonged  to  the 
family,  who  were  the  oldest 
Dexter 
settlers 
in  Ionia  county.  He  lived  on 
a  farm  until  12  years  of  age,  when  the 
family  removed  to  Grand  Haven,  and 
Prentice  attended  school  until  16 years 
of  age,  when  he  secured  a  position  as 
clerk  in  tbe  City  Hotel,  which  was  run 
by  bis  uncle,  where  he  remained  until 
be  was  21.  He  then  learned  the  busi­
ness  of  scaling  logs  and  inspecting lum­
ber,  which  be  followed  until  Nov.  1, 
1882,  when  he  went  to  Saranac  and 
started  a  retail  lumber  yard,  which  be 
continued 
then 
formed  a  copartnership  with  E.  P. 
Gifford  and  engaged 
in  general  trade 
under the  style  of  Gifford  &  VanDrezer. 
The  firm  retired  from  business  two  and 
one-half  years 
later,  when  Mr.  Van­

two  years.  He 

for 

“   *1  kept  the  business  a  goin’  an' 
made  a  heap  o’  money  dqrin'  tbe  nex’ 
two  years  an’  then the small ranchers be­
gun  a  fencin'  in  the  valley  an’  I  de­
cided  ter git  out.  We  started  roundin’ 
up  my  cattle  an’  durin’  tbe first  day's 
ridin’,  'bout  two  miles  frum  camp,  I 
come  across a  bunch  o' cattle  down  in  a 
sort  of  an  old  washout. 
It  wuz  ’bout 
thirty  foot  deep  an’  fer  the  most  part 
the  banks  went  straight  down;  but 
tber'  wuz  places  where  the  rain  bad 
washed  gullies  out  o’  the  sides  an*  I 
urged  my  boss  down  one o'  these.  He 
pretty  nigh  stood  on  his  nose  a  doin’  it. 
Well,  when  I  got  to  the  bottom  I  turned 
my  hoss  towards  tbe  top  o’  tbe  wash­
out,  where  I’d  see  the  cattle,  when  all 
of  a  suddent  he  gev'a  snort  an’  a  jump 
sideways  thet  come  near  tbrowin’  me 
out  o’  the  saddle.  What  d' you  suppose 
'twas  made  my  hoss  jump?’ and  the  old 
puncher  looked  around  upon  the  group 
for a  moment,  then  answered  his  own 
question. 
‘  ’Twasn't  nothin’  but  the 
skeleton  of  a  hoss  an*  a  man.  Tbe 
skeleton  of  tbe  hoss,with-the  saddle  still 
on  its  back,  lay  ’cross  one  o’  the  man's 
legs,  an’  the  reason  of  Tim  Carter’s 
strange  disappearance  wuz  then  ex­
plained.  He  had  been  on  bis  way  to 
camp  in  the  dark  an’  him  an’  bis  boss 
had  fallen  into  the  washout.  Tim  wuz 
a  fearless  rider  who  believed  in  stayin' 
in  tbe  saddle  no  matter  what  happened. 
Tbe  boss  most 
its  neck 
when  it  fell;  certain  sure it broke Tim 's 
leg  as  it  rolled  on  to  it  an’  made  him  a 
prisoner.  Tim ’s  revolver  wuz  layin’ 
beside him  an’  one  o’ the chambers  wuz 
empty  an*  tber’  wuz  a  bullet-hole  in  the 
front  of  his  skull. 
I  reckon  he  suffered 
tbe  pains  o’  hell  before  he  done  it;  but 
it  wuz  better  than  death  frum  starva­
tion. ’

likely  broke 

“   ‘ Poor  devil,'  said one  of the  punch­
ers,  as  he  threw  some  fresh  pine  knots 
upon  tbe  fire,  ‘ and  to  think  that  he  wuz 
only  two  miles  from  camp. ’  ”

“ It 

“ That  was  surely  quite  a  tragic  oc­
currence,”  said one  of  the  Western  buy­
ers. 
is  surprising  how  fearlessly 
the  trained  cow-puncher  goes through 
life.  Give  him  a  gun  and  a  horse and 
he’ll  face the  devil  without  flinching.”
“ Yes,”   I  replied,  “ they  ride  hard, 
live  hard  and  die  hard; 
drink  bard, 
but  they're  the  best-hearted  lot  of  fel­
lows  you  ever  got  among 
if  you  treat 
them  right.”

“ Next  stop  Buffalo,”   sang  out  the 
brakeman,  as  he  put  his  bead  inside 
the  door  of  the  smoking  compartment 
* * All  change. ’ ' 

MacA llan.

III

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Hi

Drezer  engaged  in  tbe  grocery  business 
on  his own  account,  which  he  continued 
until  two  years  ago,  when  be  sold  his 
stock  to  R.  E.  Arthur.  July  1,  1894, 
Mr.  VanDrezer  engaged  to travel for the 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.,  covering 
Central  and  Southern  Michigan  and 
Northern  Indiana,  seeing his trade  every 
two  weeks.  Although  he  has  entered 
upon  bis  sixth  year  with  this  house  he 
has  never  missed  a  trip ;  nor  has  be  ex­
perienced  a  day’s  illness in twenty-three 
years.

Mr.  VanDrezer  was  married  Oct.  26, 
1872,  to  Miss  Mary  A.  Barlow,  of 
Grand  Haven.  They  reside  in  Saranac 
in  their  own home.  They attend the Con­
gregational  church.  Mr.  VanDrezer  is 
a  member  of  the  Michigan  Commercial 
Travelers’  Association,  tbe  I.  O.  O.  F. 
and  two  lodges  of  tbe  Masonic  frater­
nity,  including Royal  Arch Chapter  No. 
73.  He  attributes  his  success  to  bard 
work  and  a  good  bouse,  acting  on  the 
theory  that  any  salesman  can  sell  a  man 
what he  wants,  but  the  successful  sales­
man 
is  the  man  who  can  sell  a  mer­
chant  something  he  has  never  thought 
of and  thinks  he  can  gel  along  without. 
He  never  finds  time  to talk  about  bis 
competitors  on  tbe  road  or competing 
houses  in  bis  line,  inasmuch  as  it  takes 
all  of  bis  time  to  keep  track  of  his  own 
bouse  and  its  goods,  to  tbe  end  that  he 
may advise his  customers  correctly  as  to 
what and  when  they  should  purchase.

The  most  striking  characteristic  of  a 

railroad  is  its  employees.

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l l

COLMAN’S KJLL'S

MUSTARD

Mustard!

Double Superfine

In the High Court of Justice.

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

J.  & J.  COLMAN,  LIMITED

AND

GORMAN,  ECKERT & CO.

Plaintiffs.

Defendants.

TO  THE  PUBLIC.

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

CAUTION.

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

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Fruits  and  Produce.
Observations  By  a  Gotham  Egg  Man.
Tbe  only  new  feature  having  any  im­
portant  bearing  upon  tbe general  situa­
tion  of  tbe  egg  market  has  been  tbe  re­
cent  advance  in  prices  for  fresh  meats. 
This  is  naturally  favorable  to  holders 
of  refrigerator  eggs,  and  bas  undoubted­
ly  added  something  to  tbe  merits  of  the 
position.  So  far  tbe  retail  prices  of 
beef  and 
lamb  have  been  advanced 
mostly  on  tbe  choice  cuts and  have  con­
sequently  affected  a  class  of  consumers 
who  are  not  likely  to  be  divened to eggs 
to any  great  extent as  a  matter  of  econ­
omy.  But  tbe  tendency  of  all  meat 
products,  including  hams  and  bacon, 
has  been  more  or  less  upward  and  on 
many  kinds  which  find  tbeir greatest 
consumption  among  tbe  masses  of  city 
population  the  cost 
is  now  such  as  to 
make  eggs  seem  cheap  in  comparison 
at  present  values.  However,  it  must be 
remembered  that  egg  prices  have  not 
yet  risen  to  a  point  high  enough  to 
afford  a  profit  on  the great  bulk  of  the 
better  qualities  of  spring  stock.  A  few 
goods  may  come  on  the  market  at  about 
16c  case  count,  but  the  selling  price  of 
refrigerator  eggs  will  have  to  advance 
to  17c  before  any  considerable  quantity 
of  the  earlier  packings  can  be  profit­
ably  moved ;  and  this  means  rather a 
high  retail  cost  at  which  to  expect  any 
phenomenal  consumptive  demands.

S.  B.  Davis,  representing  Swift  & 
Co.,  of  Chicago,  was  a  recent  visitor  to 
New  York.  Mr.  Davis  was  looking  up 
the  situation  of  tbe  butter  and  egg trade 
in  the  East  and  had  about  come  to  the 
conclusion  that  the  outlook  for both  Was 
quite  encouraging.  Mr.  Davis  estimates 
the  Chicago  egg  holdings  at  about  600,- 
000  cases  and  expects  they  will  all  be 
wanted  at  satisfactory  figures.

The  consumptive  demand  for  eggs  in 
New  York  and  vicinity  seems  to  have 
made  some 
improvement  during  tbe 
past  ten  days.  Our  receipts  have  lately 
been  absorbed  quite  promptly  in regular 
channels  of  trade  and  receivers  have 
also  been  able  to  work  out  some  of  tbe 
hot  weather  eggs  which  were  put  in  the 
refrigerators  for  lack  of  an  outlet  dur­
ing  the  recent  unfavorable  conditions.
It  is  perhaps  doubtful  whether  it  pays 
shippers to  candle  tbeir  stock  so  closely 
as  to  make  “ extras"  at  all  seasons; 
probably  it  depends  on  circumstances— 
the general  quality  of  their  receipts,  the 
character  of  the  outlet  for  second  and 
third  grades.  But  one  thing  is  very 
evident—that  the  quality  is  greatly  in 
demand  in  this  market.  A  number  of 
shippers  up  in  Iowa and Minnesota have 
been  shipping  candled  eggs  to  this 
market  all  summer and  there  bas  been 
a  good  chance  of  observing  how  they 
were  received  by  our 
local  buyers. 
Some  of  these  goods  have  not  been 
candled  quite  as  closely  as  they  should 
have  been  and  have  had  to  be  shaded 
slightly,  but  all  those  marks  which  have 
come  up  very  closely  to  the  extra grade, 
meeting  the  requirements  fully  as  to 
freedom  from  heat  and  loss,  have  been 
the quickest  sale  of any  goods  arriving. 
All  through  the  unfavorable  conditions 
which  prevailed 
in  July  and  early 
August,  when  the  average  value  of  the 
ungraded  Western  eggs  arriving  was 
hardly  above  n@ i2c  on  a  case  count 
basis,  and  when  sales  were  so  slow  as 
often  to  result  in  further  deterioration 
before  buyeis  could  be  found,  these 
fancy  candled  eggs  sold  promptly  on 
arrival  at  the  highest  market  price  case 
count and  much  of  the  time  there  were

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more  buyers  than  there  was  stock. 
If 
this  method  of  packing  is  pursued,  and 
even  still  further  improved,  so  that  fas­
tidious  dealers  here  can  use  the goods 
for  much  of  tbeir  trade  without  re- 
candliag,  there 
is  every  prospect  that 
tbe  goods  will  ultimately  be  fully  ap­
preciated  and  command  a  price  which 
will  make  the  method  of  packing  profit­
able.— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

Coercing  a  Reluctant  Hen.

In  Missouri 

lives  a  boy  who  likes 
pets.  He  began  with  a  pair of  pigeons 
that  he got  in  a  trade  for a  dog  that  he 
traded  a  knife  for.  His  parents  allowed 
him  to  keep  the  pigeons  until  they mul­
tiplied  so  that  there  were  pigeons  all 
over  the  place. 
Then  be  sold  tbe 
pigeons  and  bought  a  goat  that  ate  tbe 
clothes  off  the  line  every  Monday.  He 
was  compelled  to  dispose  of 
it,  and 
traded 
it  for  a  pair of game  chickens. 
In  a  week  there  wasn’t a  rooster  left  in 
the  neighborhood;  the  game  rooster  bad 
killed  them  all.  His  father  took  tbe 
game  chickens  for a  ride  one  night  and 
lost  them  three  miles  out  in the country. 
Three  days  later  be  brought  them home, 
but  be  never  told  any  one  how  he  got 
them.  And  so  he  fought  for his  pets 
one  by  one;  bis  dog  was  lost,  his 
lamb 
stolen,  his  rabbits  ran  away.  He bas 
come  down  to  one  old  hen.

Recently  he  bought  a  settin’  of  eggs. 
He  had  made  up  his  mind  that  his  hen 
was  lonely  and  needed  company,  and 
what  so  companionable  as  a  batch  of 
little  chicks  to  scratch  for?  Tbe  ben, 
however,  bad  different views,  and didn't 
want  to  sit  on  the  eggs.  But  he  was 
not  a  boy  to  be  stumped  by  a  ben—be 
had  borne  too  many  losses already.

He  put  the  eggs  in  a  box  in  which 
be  had  made  a  nest  of  bay.  Then  he 
planted  the  indignant  hen  on  them,  put 
a  board  in  which  he  bad  bored  a  lot  of 
air  holes  over her and  left  her  lo  come 
to terms.  That  night  his  big  brother 
kicked  off  tbe  box  and  set  tbe  hen  free. 
Tbe  next  morning  the  boy  put  her  back 
and  put  some  bricks  on  tbe  board,  for 
be  tbcught  she had  raised  tbe board  and 
released  herself.  The  brother  kicked 
both  bricks  and  board  off  that  night. 
The  boy  replaced  ben  and  board  again 
and  again  they  were  kicked  off.  Then 
he  got a  board  and  made  a  hole  in  it for 
the  ben  to  poke  her  head  through  and 
nailed  the  board  to  tbe  box.  Once  a 
day  he  takes  tbe  board  off  and  chases 
the  ben  around  tbe  yard  for  exercise, 
and  twice  a  day  be  carries  food  and 
water  to  her.

What's  tbe  use  of trying  to discourage 

a  boy  like  that?
Excursion to  Philadelphia,  via  Grand 

Trunk  Railway.

Tickets  will  be  on  sale  Sept,  r  to  4, 
inclusive,  good  to  return  Sept.  r2,  with 
privilege  of  extension  until  Sept.  30,  on 
payment  of  50  cents.  Very  low  rates 
and  the  choice  of  several  routes  are 
offered.  Stop  overs  will  be granted  at 
Niagara  Falls  and  several  other  points. 
On  Sunday,  Sept.  3,  a  special  train will 
be  run,  leaving  Grand  Rapids  at  2  p. 
m.,  running  through  to  Philadelphia 
without  change,  arriving  there  at  2 :y> 
p.  m.  Monday.  Sleeping  cars  will  be 
attached  to  this  train.  Full  information 
may  be  had  by  applying  at  Giand 
Trunk  City  Ticket  Office,  Morton 
House,  or  at  Depot.

C.  A.  Justin,  C.  P.  &  T.  A.
Why  He  Objected.

"W hat’s  the  matter?”   asked 

the 
congressman  of  his  constituent.  “ I  got 
you  a  government  job,  didn’t  I?”

“  Yes. ”
"And  the  salary  is  satisfactory,  isn’t 

it?"

"Oh,  yes,  the  salary’s  all  right;  but, 
hang  it  all,  they  expect  me  to  earn  it!"

Willie’s Last  Question.

" P a ,"   said  Willie,  "m ay  I  ask  you 
just  one  more  question  before  I  go  to 
bed?"

“ Yes,  my  boy.  What  is  it?"
" I f   I ’d  been  your  brother,  would  I 

have  been  my  own  uncle?"

WE  WILL

put  our  money  against  your  F R U IT S .

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W H O L E S A L E   F R U IT S . 

Apples,  Peaches,  Pears and  Plums

•  If so ship to

R.  HIRT, Jr.,  Detroit, Mich.

34 and 36 Market Street and 435*437*439 Winder Street.

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W e have every facility for handling your fruits to best  advantage.  Cold  Storage  and  Freez-  g  

' Rooms in connection.  Seventy-live carload capacity.  Correspondence solicited.

POTTLITZER BROS.  FRUIT  CO..

COMMISSION  MERCHANTS

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

Also POTATOES,  CABBAGE,  ONIONS  AND  A PPLES 

In Carload  Lots.

Our motto:  Quick sales and prompt remittance.

L A F A Y E T T E ,  IND. 

F T .  W AYNE,  IND.

W e carry large stock TIMOTHY SEED.  Prices  very  low. 

Crimson, Alsyke,  Alfalfa, White, Medium, and Mammoth Clover Seeds. 

Orchard Grass, Blue Grass, Redtop.

Can fill orders quickly.

MOSELEY  BROS.,  Z Z E S T *

M A K E   A   N O T E   O F   IT.  W E  H AN D LE

POTHTOES  APPLES  CABBAGE  ONIINS

C A B B A G E   N O W  W A N T E D .  Q U O T E  U S .

MILLER & TEASDALE CO.

W H O LESA LE B R O K ER S 

S T . LO U IS, M ISSO URI.

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

I  solicit  consignments  of  Honey,  Veal  and  Live 

Poultry and pay top prices  for best  stock.
98 South  Division St.,  Grand  Rapids
Butter and Eggs*=Do  you have any to Ship?

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 
shipping, and get prices and  references.

STROUP  &  CARMER, 38 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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RED  STAR  BRAND  CIDER  VINEOAR
is not excelled by any vinegar on the market.  A trial will convince.
A  GUARANTEE  BOND  goes to every purchaser, warranting  its  purity 
and protecting him  in  its sale.  Let us quote you prices.

THE  LEROUX  CIDER  AND  VINEGAR  CO.,  Toledo,  Ohio.

TIMOTHY

We are direct receivers and recleaners of Western grown Timothy.  If  you  do  not  receive  our  regular 
quotations write to*day.  Best grades and lowest prices.

ALFRED J.  BROWN SEED CO.,

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

Samples sent on application without charge.

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Fruits  and  Vegetables

The  Main  Idea or  object  of  this  advertisement 
is  to  let  you  know  we  are  in 
business,  this  kind  of  business,  and  induce  you  to  write  to  us—  
send  us your orders,  perhaps.  W e’ll take  chances  on  pleasing 
you  so  well  that  you  will  want  to  continue  sending  us  your or­
ders.  W e  make  right  prices.  W e  ship  good  goods.  W e  want 
you  to know  it.  You  can  have  our  weekly  market  forecast  and 
price  list  for the  asking.

Plums,  Pears and Apples are now coming in fine.

Cranberry Crop No Better Than Usual
The  bulk  of  the  cranberry  crop  is 
produced 
in  two  States,  Massachusetts 
and  New  Jersey.  Wisconsin  produced 
considerable quantities  some  years  ago, 
but  forest  fires  totally  destroyed  or  seri­
ously  injured  the  bogs,  greatly  curtail­
ing  production  and  causing  heavy  loss 
to  growers.  Oregon  is  now  coming  for­
ward  as  a  producer  of  cranberries,  and 
the  crop  this  year  is  said  to  promise 
fair  abundance.

Connecticut,  New  York,  Michigan 
and  a  few  other  states  produce  small 
quantities,  the  output  decreasing  in  the 
order  named.  Good  quality  berries  are 
produced  in  Canada,  but  conditions  are 
unfavorable,  and  the  quantity  marketed 
is  small.

Fully  nine-tenths  of  the  cranberries 
are  produced  in  Eastern  Massachusetts 
and  New  Jersey.  A  larger  proportion 
of  this  supply  comes  from  Cape  Cod. 
Which  berries  are  better  is an  undeter­
mined  question.  Each  section  has  its 
champions,  and  sometimes  one,  some­
times  the  other,  commands  a  higher 
price  in  the  market.

Practically  all  the  output  is consumed 
at  home.  A  few  years  ago  an  attempt 
was  made,  chiefly  by  Jersey  producers, 
to  secure  a  market  abroad,  but 
it  was 
practically  unsuccessful,  and  while  for­
eign  consumption  was  increased  some­
what,  it  was  insufficient  to  exert  an 
in­
fluence  on  the  domestic  market.  The 
total  export  from  this  country  will  not 
exceed  3,000  barrels,  but wherever  prop­
erly 
introduced  abroad  the  fruit  has 
created  a  favorable  impression,  and  it 
is  hoped  that  foreign  consumption  will 
increase  until  it  becomes  an 
important 
outlet  for  the  surplus  crop.

Most  of  the  Massachusetts  crop 

is 
grown 
in  Plymouth  and  Barnstable 
counties,  although  there  are  extensive 
bogs  in  Middlesex,  Norfolk  and  Bristol 
counties.  New  Jersey  bogs  are  located 
in  Burlington,  Atlantic,  Ocean,  Mon­
mouth  and  Camden  counties.  Other 
counties  produce  some berries,  but  these 
are  the  principal  producers.  Rhode 
Island  and  Connecticut  produce  a  few, 
and  there  are  small  bogs  on  Long  Is­
land,  which  are  reported  to  be  promis­
ing  a  larger yield  than  usual  this  sea­
son.

Wisconsin  berries  are  produced  prin­
cipally  in  Greenlake and  Wood  counties 
and  the  region  extending  eastward  to 
Green  Bay  and  Lake  Michigan.  The 
yield  in  Oregon  is  said  to promise much 
better  this  season,  and  growers  are  re­
ported  to  be  making  preparations  for 
enlarged  bogs  in  the  future.  The  Ore­
gon  yield  will  hardly  be  seen  east  of 
Chicago.  Wisconsin  will  have  the  great

cities  of  the  Middle  West  to  absorb  her 
supplies  for  a  good  while  to  come.

The  average  yield,  taking  one  year 
with  another,  is  about  600 000  bushels. 
The 
increase  is  comparatively  small 
each  year,  but  there  is  still  an  increase, 
and  some  experts  say  that  a  crop  of 
1.000.000 bushels  will  not  be  excessive 
within  a  few  years.  The  yield  of  1897 
was  425,000  bushels,  the  smallest  in  a 
number  of  years.  In  1896 560.000 bushels 
were  produced,  and  1895  showed  an  out­
put  of  640,000  bushels.  Last  year  the 
yield  was  short  by  600,000 bushels.  The 
following  tuble  shows  the  yield  by years 
for  the  past  ten  seasons:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bushels
1898..................................... 
560,000
>897...................................................  415.000
1896...................................................  560,000
640,000
1895.....................................................................................  
• 8 9 4 ............................... 
410,000
1893................................................................. 1,000,000
600,000
<892.....................................................................................  
760,000
>891.....................................................................................  
>890...............................................................................  
800,000
 
620,000
1889.........................................................  
 
The  size  of  the  package  is  a  subject 
of  legal  enactment  in  most  states  where 
any  considerable  quantity  is  produced. 
In  Massacbusets,  New  Jersey  and  Wis­
consin  the  crate  must  hold  one bushel, 
or  32 quarts,  dry  measure.  The  barrel, 
in  New  Jersey,  must  be  three  times  the 
crate,  or 96 quarts.  The ‘.Massachusetts 
law  is  more  liberal,  allowing  100 quarts 
to'the  barrel.  Efforts  have  been  made 
by  growers  to  have  the  size  reduced  to 
96 quarts,  to  compare  with  New  Jersey.
As  a  sauce  fruit  for  late  fall  and  win­
ter  consumption,  most  Americans  prize 
the  cranberry  beyond  everything  else. 
Its  use  is  more  widely  distributed  each 
year,  and  generally  prices  rule  reason­
ably  steady.  Quotations  vary  with  the 
season,  but  from  $6@8  per  barrel  is  a 
fair  average.  Last  season  they  opened 
high,  and  remained  so  for some  time, 
but  later quotations  declined  because  of 
a  glut  in  the  market.

According  to  present  indications,  this 
year’s  crop  will  be  about  the  average. 
Cape  Cod  reports  prospects  of a  large; 
yield  than 
last  year,  while  New  Jersey 
growers  say  their  yield  will  be  less. 
There  will  be  more  in  Oregon  and  moie 
in  Wisconsin,  but  the  average  is  ex­
pected  to  be about the same.— New York 
Commercial.

When  Greek  Meets Greek.

“ See  here,”   said  the  grocer,  bristling 
with  righteous  indignation,  as  the  milk­
man  made  his  morning  call,  “ I’d  like 
to  make  you  explain  bow  the  chalk  and 
in  the  bottom 
white  clay  that  I  found 
of  my  coffee-cup 
this  morning  got 
there. ’ ’

“ Evidently,”   replied  the  milkman, 
as  a  peculiar  smile  chased  itself  across 
his  countenance,“ you  have  been  swett- 
ening  your  coffee  with  the  same  kind  of 
sugar  you  sold  my  wife  yesterday.”

DOUR’S

COFFEES
MAKE  BUSINESS

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

Trade.

impossible,  there 

Although  concerted  action  by the  con­
vention  of  shoe manufacturers was found 
to  be 
is  but  little 
doubt  that  the  advance  in  the  price  of 
shoes  will  become  general  all  over  the 
country.  Jobbers  as  well  as  manufac­
turers  realize  that  no  other  course  can 
be  adopted  and  accordingly  all  are  en­
tering  into  the  spirit  of  the  thing  with 
a  unanimity  which  is  not  only  surpris­
ing  but  disappointing  to  those  who 
prophesied  that  while  each  would prem­
ise  to  make  the  advance  they  would 
covertly  sell  at  old  prices  in  order  to 
get the  trade  of  their  competitors.  The 
meeting  of the  manufacturers  in  Phila­
delphia, 
it  accomplished  nothing 
else,  has  served  to  blaze  the  way,  and 
the  only  way,  for  manufacturers  to  con­
tinue 
in  business  at a  profit,  and  it  is 
not  likely  after the  able  arguments  that 
were  adduced  that  any  connected  with 
the  trade  would  be  so  false  to  them­
selves  and  their brethren  as  to  have  re-I 
course  to  such  a  despicable  practice. 
Therefore 
it  may  be  said  that  the ad­
vance 
in  the  price  of  shoes  is  fully  as­
sured  and  nothing  remains  for  the  re­
tailer but  to  prepare  for  it.

if 

*  *  *

While  it 

is  conceded  that 

low  cut 
shoes  look  particularly  neat  and  dressy 
when  on  the  feet,  it  is  not at  all  likely 
that  the  fashion  of  wearing  them  will 
again  come  into  vogue  to  any  great  ex-' 
tent.  This is attributable  in  a  great  de­
gree  to the  fact  that  the  constant  wear­
ing  of  this  class  of  shoe  causes  the 
ankles  to  grow 
large  and  makes  the 
wearing  of  an  ordinary  shoe  very  diffi­
cult by  reason  of  the  pain  and  discom­
fort  occasioned  by  the  enlargement  of 
the  ankles.

*  *  *

Resorting  to cutting  prices  may bring 
trade  to a  dealer  for  a  short  while,  but 
it  will  be  very  short,  for  it  stands to 
reason  that  others  will  follow  suit and 
bankruptcy  will  be  the  result  to  many. 
When  it  is  taken  into  consideration  th-t 
legitimate  competition  entails  the  cut­
ting  down  of  the  profits  to  a  margin 
sufficient  only to sustain the business and 
allow  a  reasonable  return  for  the  capital 
invested  in  and  time  devoted  to  it,  any 
curtailing  of  those  profits  must  end  dis­
astrously.  But  that,  bad  as  it  is,  is  not 
the  worst.  The  one  who  first  starts  cut­
ting  prices  soon  finds  that  he has gained 
nothing  but  the  contempt  and  enmity  of 
it  fails  to  bring 
his  competitors,  that 
him  a  steady  customer,  and  that 
if 
bankuptcy  has  not  already  overtaken 
him  the  best  thing  be  can  do  is to  pack 
up  and  seek  another  location.

*  *  *

it? 

It  is  a  good  time  when  business  is 
rather  slow  to  burnish  and  polish  up 
plated  wares,  brass  goods,  etc.,  which 
have grown  tarnished  from  damp  air, 
dirt  and  neglect.  These  goods  present 
a  very  bad  appearance  when  tarnished. 
Do  you  have  a  water  cooler  near  the 
door  with  plenty  of  ice  water  in 
If 
you  do  not,  it  would  be  well  to  put  one 
up  as  soon  as  possible.  Customers  will 
be  highly  appreciative  of  the  conven­
ience.  Also  have  plenty  of  palm-leaf 
fans  bandy;  they  will  be  needed.  When 
dressing  windows  this  time  of  the  year 
it  would  be  well  to  use  draperies  which 
are  cool  in  color;  that  is  to  say  blue  or 
green.  Red  or  yellow  gives  the  impres­
sion  of  warmth  and  should  be  reserved 
for  winter  use.  Everything  should  be 
done to  give an  appearance  of  coolness

intended  more  particularly 

Ice  coolers,  filters  and  every­
at  least. 
thing 
for 
summer  use  should  be  prominently  dis­
played. 
is  possible  odd  lots  of 
goods  should  be  closed  out  cheap  in­
stead  of  keeping them until  next  season, 
for  by  keeping  them 
so  much 
money  and  store  room  are  tied  up.

just 

If 

it 

*  *  *

One  of  the  most  noticeable  features 
of  the  special  sales  by  retail  shoe  deal­
ers  which  took  place  within  the  past 
month  and  are  still  progressing  is  the 
total  absence  of  the  band-wagon  meth­
in  recent  years  have  served 
ods  which 
to  bring  retailing 
into  so  much  bad 
odor.  The  special  sales  were  genuine, 
conducted  on 
fair  principles,  and 
should  result  in largely increasing trade. 
The  time  for  them,  however,  is  now 
nearly  at  an  end  and  they should  be dis­
continued.  A  reason  existed  for them 
in  the  desire  to  clear  out  the  summer 
stock,  but any  reasons  which the retailer 
might  address  after  September  i  would 
necessarily  have  to  be  farfetched,  and 
instead  of  drawing  custom  would  onh 
serve  to  draw  a  smile,  that  is  to  say,  if 
they  did  not result  in  conveying  the im­
pression  that  the  retailer  was  a  Cheap 
John  and  was  best  avoided.  Special 
sales  are  good  things  occasionally,  but 
it 
is  possible  to  get  even  too  much  of 
the  best.

*  *  *

Everything  can  be  overdone,  even 
courtesy  and  the  desire  to  please.  By 
too  great  anxiety  to  make  a  sale,  clerks 
sometimes  show  their  solicitude  by  too 
much  attention,  scarcely  allowing  a  cus­
tomer  time  to  think.  The  surpassing 
qualities of  one  kind  of  shoe  after  an­
other  are  dilated  upon,  until  the  cus­
tomer 
in  desperation  makes a  purchase 
and  hurries  from  the  store,  only  to  find 
that  the  purchase  was  unsuitable.  The 
customer  then  begins  to  feel  a  thorough 
contempt  for  himself  or herself and  it is 
needless  to  say  that  the  estimation  in 
which  the  too  attentive  clerk  is  held 
is 
very  low  indeed.  The  purchaser  feels 
imposition  bad  been  prac­
as 
ticed,  although  the 
intentions  of  the 
clerk  were  most  honest,and  that  store  is 
avoided  for  the  future  as  if  a  plague 
rested  on  it. 
It  were  better  by  far  to 
lose  a  sale  than  to  affect  one  by  such 
methods,  for 
if  by  chance  it  were  not 
possible  to  suit  a  customer  at  one  visit, 
be  or  she  might  probably  come  back 
again  when  another  pair of shoes  were 
needed,  but  with  a  dissatisfied  custom­
er,  never.— Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette.

if  an 

Suggestions  For Show Cards.

A  cake  walk 

is  not  half  so  exciting 

as  these  bargain  offers.

The  profit  knocked  off  and  some  of 

the original  cost  went  with  it.

There  is  no  use trying  to  find  prices 

that  are  under these.

Undersellers  because  underbuyers. 

Understand ?

“ There  will  be  a  hot  time  in  the  old 
town”   while  these  warm  bargains  last.
in  town,  and  he  is  as 
black  as  our  fast  black  enameled  shoes.
Go  a  little  deeper  in  your  pocket,  for 

A  new  coon 

a  little coin  now  buys  a  big  bundle.

Clearance  sale  with  us means big cuts. 

Here  is  a  proof  in  these  prices.

Come  inside,  but  look  out  or  you  will 
in  the  maze  of  our  bargain 

get  lost 
counters.

Shoddy  stuff  is  never cheap.  Notice 
these  prices  on  goods  that  will stand  the 
iight  of  an  X-ray.

“ Kan’t-beat-’em "  goods  in  “ kan’t- 
kount-’em”   numbers  at  “ kan’t-ketch- 
’em "  prices.

Just  stop  a  minute  and  read  these 
It  will  save  you  bunting  any 

prices. 
further for  money-savers.

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G O O D Y E A R   G L O V E   R U B B E R S  
can  be  purchased  at  25  and  5  off  from 
new  price list.  Write 

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|   HIRTH,  KRAUSE & CO., Grand Rapids  |
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We  Manufacture 
Shoes -¿Hsyk

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.

HEROLD-BERTSCH  SHOE  CO.,  Mfrs.,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

Qood
Shoes

S n e d i c o r   &   H a t h a w a y
shoes  have  a  good  reputa­
tion— but  not  a  whit  better 
If  they
than  they  deserve. 
weren’t  good,  we  wouldn’t  keep  right  on  selling 
them,  season  after  season,  to  the  same  old  people. 
But  we  do— and  a  trial  order  will  show  you  very 
clearly  why  we  do

GEO. H. REEDER & CO.,

19 SOUTH IONIA STREET, 

ORANO RAPIDS,  MICH.

R E M O V E D

A T  H O M E , 1 0 - 2 2  N . I O N I A  S T .

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.
RIN D G E.  KALM BACH, 
LO G IE  d  C O ..

G R A N D   R A P ID S .

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15

STRAIGHT
SHOETALK

Why do  people  go  to  a  particular 
Is  it  because  they 
shoe  dealer? 
love  him?  No. 
It’s  because  they 
love  his  stock.

TAPPAN 
SHOES

make  and  keep  customers.
These  goods  should  find  a  place  in 
your  store.  Write  for price  list.

TAPPAN 
SHOE 
MEG. CO.,

COLDWATER,  MICH.

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

less  business 

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

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

Let us have yours.

Valley  City 
Milling  Co.,

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

“The flour the  best cooks use.”

Judge  a  Man  by  His  Shoes.

trousers, 

“ Doesn’t  it  strike  you  as  odd,  when 
you  are told  to  judge a  man’s  character 
by  the  way  be  parts  bis  hair,  creases 
bis 
ties  his  necktie,  or 
wrinkles  his  eyebrows,  that  some  bright 
genius  has  not  formulated  a  set  of  rules 
for  fathoming  the 
inner  recesses  of  a 
man’s  mind  by  the  kind  of  shoes  he 
wears,  and  the  way  he  wears them?’ ’

The  man  who  asked  me  was  one  who 
prides  himself  upon  being  an  observer 
of  small  things,  and  whose  principal 
characteristic,  judged  by  his  own  code, 
should  be  a  habit  of  great  attention  to 
little  details,  for  no  matter  what  the 
condition  of  his  footwear or  its  age,  the 
laces  are  always  new  and  always  of  the 
proper  length.

“ la m   not  speaking  of  people who are 
required  by  their  occupation  to  wear 
shoes  of  a  certain  kind  or  grade,’ ’  be 
continued,  “ but  of  the  man  who  is  un­
restricted  in  bis  selection.  You  take  a 
man  who  always  is  the  first  to adopt an 
extreme  shape,  what  you  might  term  a 
freak  shoe  in  fact,  and  nine  times  out 
of ten  you will find  be  is a  man  who  in  a 
company  will  always  monopolize  the 
conversation,  and  lead  it  to  subjects  of 
no  importance  whatever.

"Then  there 

is  the  man  who always 
insists  upon  the  square  toe,  no  matter 
how  designs  change  or have  changed 
when  you  know  him  you  will  discover 
that  be 
in  all  of  his 
views,  very  practical,  and  a  man  of 
foice  of  character,  as  well  as  one  whose 
opinion 
is  deserving  of,consideration 
and  usually  receives  it.

is  conservative 

“ And  the  way  a  man  wears  his  shoes 

is  a  matter  that  will  give  you 

out 
good  many  points. 
I  don’t  doubt  that 
Sherlock  Holmes  could  have  deduced 
a  man’s  life  history  from  a  pair  of  hi 
cast-off  footwear.  Now  look  at  that 
man  across  the  street  who  is  ploughing 
through  the  crowd  as  though  the  fate  of 
the  world  depended  on  his  reaching  his 
destination 
in  the  quickest  possible 
time. 
I ’ll  guarantee  that  three  weeks 
after  be  wears  a  pair  of  shoes  the  heels 
are  badly  worn  down,  which  would 
dicate  to  me that  he  was  of  an  intensely 
nervous  disposition,  and  had  a  high 
idea  of  his  own  importance.

“ Then  there 

is  the  man  who  wears 
his  shoe  over  on  the  side,”  but just then 
1  discovered  someone  I knew,  or thought 
I  did,  and  made  my  escape.—Shoe  and 
Leather  Trader.

The  Old  Inventor.

You  may  have  noticed  him—a  poor 
gray-headed  old  man, 
in  threadbare 
garments,  who  always  crept  along  the 
streets  in  the  shadows  of  the  houses,  as 
if  he  was  offering  a  tacit  apology  to  li 
for  living.  Poverty  and  shabbiness  are 
not  so  uncommon,  God  knows,  that  they 
should  attract  attention,  but  there  was 
a  sweet  and  childlike  simplicity  in  the 
old  face that  made  strangers  turn to look 
at  him,  and  smile  as  they  saw  that he 
was  talking  to  himself. 
The  neigh 
bors 
in  the  poor  tenement  in  which  he 
lived,, and  where  he  had  the  poorest 
all  the  dingy  looms,  would  shrug  their 
shoulders  as  he  passed,  and  tap  thei 
foreheads and  say  that  he  bad  wheels  ' 
his  head,  which  was  their  way  of  saying 
that  he  was  crazy;  but  little  children 
and  dogs,  who  have  no  knowledge  save 
the  sure  guide  of  intuition,  clung  about 
his knees  uutil  he  put  them  gently  from 
him  and  went  on  his  lonely  way.  Up 
in  his  room  under the  roof,  where  the 
sun  beat fiercely  in  in  summer,  and  the 
wind  howled  and  shrieked  in  winter, 
has  worked twenty— thirty—forty years

many  he  has  lost the  count.  He  was 
young  man,  straight  and  strong  and 
tall,  when  he first came  there,  and  begun 
work  on  the  great  invention  that  was  to 
revolutionize  the  motive  power  of  the 
woild. 
In  those  days  he  used  to  talk 
cheerfully  and  hopefully  about  it,  and 
the  great  fortune  it  needs  must  bring 
im.  Men,  bis  friends,  would  come 
tramping  up  the  stairs,  and  there  would 
excited  voices  saying  he  had  but  to 
overcome  such  and  such  difficulties  to 
make 
it  work,  and  he  would  answer 
confidently  that  he  bad  only  to  make  a 
ght  change  here  and  there,  and  that 
by  Christmas,  or  midsummer, 
at 
faitbest,  it  would  be  done.  There  was 
girl,  too,  that  he  used  to  go to  see. 
They  were  engaged,  and  were  to  have 
been  married,  but  the  man  said  wait.
little  while  the  great  invention 
would  be  done,  and  he  would  give  her 
jewels  and  fine  houses,  and  they  would 
wander  away  together  and  see  the  beau­
tiful  places  of  the  earth.  But  the  years 
went  by 
in  vain  waiting,  and  the  girl, 
who  saw  her  own  youth  slipping  from 
her,  and  the  man  growing  old  and  care­
worn,  following  a  will-o'-the-wisp  that 
lured  him  on  and  on,  begged  him  to 
ive  it  up  and  let  them  enjoy  the  bap- 
iness  they  might  have  io  the  present. 
But  he  would  not  listen  to  her,  and  in 
me they  drifted  apart,  and  he  only  re­
membered  her  at 
intervals,  as  he  did 
is  childhood  and  half-forgotten  things 
of  his  lost  youth.  The  only  thing  in  life 
that  was  real  to  him  and  that  mattered 
invention.  A  thousand  times 
was  his 
seemed  to  him  that  not  the  thickness 
of  a  hair  lay  between  him  and  success 
thousand  times  he  held  his  breath 
thinking  it  moved,  but always the  secret 
he  sought  eluded  him,  and 
it 
seemed  to  him  the  thing  became  human 
and  mocked  him  for  his  wasted  years, 
bis blighted  hopes  and  lost  love,  and  hi 
bated  it,  but  stronger than  hate  was  the 
fascination  that  drew  him  back  again 
and  again  and  held  him a slave  chained 
to  a  dream.  Of  late  the  old  man  has 
been  growing  very  feeble.  Disappoint 
ment  and  lack  of  food  and  age  have 
done  their  work,  and  the  feet  that  have 
gone  up  and  down  the  steep  steps  have 
gone  heavily,  and  the  weary  hands  have 
trembled  at  their  task.  The other  night 
neighbor  woman  more  kindly  than 
the  rest,  hearing  him  talking  to  himself 
far  in  the  night,  knocked  at  his  door 
and  asked  if  be  was  ill. 
“ No,  no,”   he 
said 
have  found 
it  at  last,  and  my  work  i 
nearly  done.”   In  the  morning  the  room 
was  very  quiet,  and  when  she  looked  in 
she  saw  the  old  man  leaning  against 
the  work  bench  with  his  face  bowed 
his  hands  and  his  gray  hair  streaming 
across  the  unfinished  machine. 
The 
great  architect  of  all  bad  stopped  the 
wheels  q!  life  and  the  old  inventor  was 
dead.

impatiently,  “ leave  me  alone, 

then 

Just  in  Vogue.

“ Clementine,  what  did  you  do  with 
last 

that  curtain  goods  you  bought 
week?”
“ Well,  it  was  entirely  too  gay  and 
loud  for  curtains,  so  I  made  a  shirt 
waist  of  it. *'

Her  Age  Discovered.

Bess—How  in  the  world  did  you  dis­
cover  her  age?
Tess— I  asked  her  at  what  age  she 
thought  a  girl  should  marry,  and  she 
promptly  said  twenty-seven.

$9.30  to  Toronto  and  Return.

On  account  of  the  Exposition  and 
Industrial  Fair,  the  Michigan  Central 
will  sell  round  trip  tickets  August  27  to 
Sept.  2  at the  above  rate.  Good  to  re­
turn  not  later than  Sept.  11.  Phone 606.

W.  C.  Bla ke,  C.  T.  A.

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YOU
GOLD  SEAL 
RUBBERS

They are Pure Gum and  the  best 

made.  Send for price list to

GOODYEAR RUBBER CO.,

382-384  EA ST W ATER STREET,
MILWAUKEE, W IS.

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

MICHIGAN BARK & LUMBER CO..

537 and 528 Widdlcomb  Bldg.,

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

16

Getting the  People

Some  Interesting  Advertising  Devices.
J.  A.  Richardson,  of  Scotts,  sends  me 
an  eight-page  booklet  which  he  has  is­
sued  to advertise  a  special  sale.  The 
is  of  heavy  gray  antique  paper, 
cover 
while  the 
inside  pages  are  alternately 
green  and  yellow—a  combination  which 
might  be  improved  npon.  The  matter 
in  the  booklet  is,  in  the  main,  well 
written  and  should  bring  trade. 
I  re­
produce  a  portion  of  the  first  page  here­
with :

Our Object

In  making  this  sale  is  to  reduce 
our stock and also to get  the  money  out 
of  some  goods  we  are  overbought  in. 
We bought  early  and  very  heavy  in  a 
good many lines this  spring  and  to-day 
can sell at less than wholesale prices and 
still make money.  We try to  make  our 
money at thè buying end of the business, 
believing in the old saying:  “Goods Well 
Bought,  Half  Sold.”

This 

is  the  right  sort  of  talk  with 
which  to  preface an  announcement  of  a 
special  sale. 
It  gives  a  reason—a  be­
lievable  reason—for  the  reduction 
in 
prices,  and 
inspires  confidence—and 
that 
is  the  keynote  of  a  special  sale. 
Unless  the  public  can  be  made  to  be­
lieve that  the  goods offered are bargains, 
they  will  not  buy.  Mr.  Richardson  goes 
on  to  describe  and  price  the  goods  in­
cluded  in  the  sale,  and  the  prices  look 
exceedingly  reasonable.  There are  too 
many  kinds of  type  used  in  the  booklet, 
and,  as  I  said  before,  the  color-scheme 
is  not  in  the  best of  taste,  but,  consid­
ering  everything,  it  is  a  very  creditable 
production  and  should  sell  goods  if  it 
gets  into  the  hands  of  the  right  paities. 
Mr.  Richardson  says  that  they  have  no 
newspaper at  Scotts,  but  he  does  not  in­
form  me  bow  be  distributed the booklet, 
so  I  can  not  throw  any  light  on  that 
point.

if 

The  People’s  Outfitting  Co.,  of  Kala­
mazoo,  whose  advertising  I. have  men­
tioned  favorably  several  times  in  this 
column,  sends  me  the  following  letter:
We  hand  you  herewith  a  little  scheme 
that  we  perpetrated  six  weeks  ago,  that 
took  real  well  and  brought  many  people 
to  the  store.  Each telegram was directed 
to  the  person  it  went  to and  was  deliv­
ered  as 
it  were  a  genuine  message. 
While  the  plan  was  not  original,  we 
give  it to  you,  as  it  may  be  of  benefit to 
your  readers.  At  any  rate,  it  caused  a 
great  deal  of  comment,  and  much  talk 
about  the  store.  .

The  scheme  consisted  of  an  exceed­
ingly  clever  imitation  of  a  telegram, 
envelope  and  all,  and  was  worded  as 
follows:

Opening  of  our  new  big  store,  215, 
217,  219  and  221  North  Burdick,  this 
week.  Call  at  your  earliest convenience. 
Answer. 

Pe o p l e’s  Ou tfittin g  Co.

It  was  decidedly  deceptive  in  appear­
ance  and  no  doubt  caused  a  great  deal 
of  comment.  The  only  objection  to a 
scheme  of  this  kind  is  that  it  may  un­
wittingly  make  some  enemies  for the 
sender.  Some  women  have  an  unrea­
sonable  dread  of  telegrams.  They  re­
gard  them  as  harbingers  of  evil. 
If one 
of  these 
imitation  telegrams  reached 
such  a  woman,  she would  piobably  faint 
or  da  something  equally  foolish  before 
she  opened 
it,  and  when  she  did  open 
it,  she  would  be  so  angry  at  being 
fooled  that  she  would  not  buy  any  goods 
from  the  sender  as  long  as  she  lived.

M ICH IG AN   TRA D ESM A N

o f  course,  a  man  would  not  act  this 
way.  He  would  regard  the  whole  thing 
as  a  joke,  and  in  bis  case  the  scheme 
would  be  successful. 
I  have  no  way  of 
knowing  whether  any  of  these  telegrams 
were  sent  to  women  or  not,  but  if  any 
of  my  readers  are  desirous  of  trying  the 
plan  at  any  time,  I  would  advise  them 
not  to  send  the  telegrams  to  women. 
It 
is always  best  to  be  on  the  safe  side.

I  have  said  a  good  many  times that 
the  beading  of  an  advertisement  should 
always  tell  what  the  advertisement  was 
about.  Here  is  one  that  doesn’t :

GOOD  BREAD

Good Bread is made from  good  wheat; 
and good  wheat  is  raised  by  good  work; 
and good work can only be done with  good 
tools;  and good tools can be bought  at  our 
store  for  a  little  good  money.  Farmers 
who have used our plows  and  harrows  say 
that  they  would  have  no  other,  because 
they  are  of  the  best  material  and cost so 
much  less  than  other  dealers  ask  for  no 
better.  Come in  and  see  what  you  think 
of them.  Remember that we have an  ele­
gant  line of butrgies and  bicycles  and  sell 
them right.  Paints and oils are also a spe­
cialty  with  us,  and  we  are  selling a large 
amount  of  them.  Don’t  forget  our  tin 
shop.  We do all kinds  of  tin,  copper  and 
sheet iron work. 
If you want a cook stove 
we have it;  so don't fail to see our line.

GLENN  H.  YOUNG  &  CO.

Now,  this  is  a  nice-looking  advertise­
ment. 
It  is  attractively  displayed,  but 
it  looks  like  tbe  advertisement  of  a
baker,  while  it  is  really  a  general  hard­
ware  advertisement. 
I  am  at  a  loss  to 
understand  tbe  object  of  tbe  writer. 
He  would  not  talk  in  that  roundabout 
way  to  customers 
in  bis  store.  Why, 
then,  should  he  talk  that  way  in  his  ad­
vertisements?  Of  course,  what  he 
should  have  headed  tbe advertisement 
is  ’ ’ Good  Tools”   or  some  such  thing. 
The  average  man  doesn’t  read  all  the 
advertisements 
in  a  paper.  He  reads 
those  which  lelate  to  subjects  in  which 
he is  interested.  The  man  who 
in­
terested  in  farm  tools  may  be  interested 
in  bread  also,  but  it  is  taking  chances 
to  assume  that  every  man  is  interested 
in  both  subjects.  Word  your advertise­
ments  so  as  to  interest  the  people  you 
want  to  reach.  Make  the  headings at­
tractive  to  the  people  you  expect  to 
buy  your goods.  That's  only  common 
sense—and  common  sense  is  the basis 
of  all  good  advertising.

is 

W.  S.  H am burger.

A  young  woman,  who  gives  the  name 
of  “ Jane  Smith,”   is  on  her  way  from 
Chicago to  New  York  engaged  in  an at­
tempt  to  win  a  wager of $1,000.  She was 
to  start without  money  and work her way 
half  across  the  continent  by  blacking 
shoes.  Her  method  in  reaching  a  town 
is  to  visit  tbe  various  stores  and  offices, 
offering  to  shine  the  men’s  shoes  for a 
quarter.  So  far  she has  found  no  lack 
of  customers.

Jobben of

Calcium

Carbide

and all kinds of

Acetylene Gas Burners

Distributing  agents  for  The  Electro  Lamp  C a ’s 
especia.ly  prepared  Carbide  for  bicycle  and  por­
table lamps, in  i, a and 3 pound cans.
Orders promptly filled.

Jackson,  M ichigan.

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

Holmes-Bailey Acetylene Gas Co.

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N u l u ,  Michigan.

T h e   B e st ot  R easons  why you  should be 
prejudiced  in faver of

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

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

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

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

at all times the same even pressure.

5.  All pipes are self -draining to the  condens­

ing chamber.

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

7.  The  Bruce  Generator,  when  left  to  do  its 
own work, will not  blow off  or waste  the  gas.
8.  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.

WE 6EKMI0R GO. IS  183-187 ». 30181. M. Minn
WE  A R E   THE P E O P L E

A vtEWICAx CARBIDE C o ., 

Agents for Mich. 

Jackson.

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.

lew  Prices

on Blcucle 
Sundries

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 contlnne  to  be  our  motto. 
Dealers who are not next  to  us  on wheels 
and sundries are invited to correspond.

ADAMS & HART,

12 W. Bridge St, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Wholesale Bicycles sad Sundries.

State rights for sale

The  Howwhowhat.

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 things 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 ?  By the Egry  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  Register— 
adapted to any class 
of business needs.

Address inquiries 
or  send  orders  for 
what  you  want  to

L. A.  BLY, A b u ,  Mich.

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the drip.

President,  Chas.  L.  Stevens,  Ypsilanti; Secre­
tary, J. C. Saunders, Lansing;  Treasurer,  O.  C. 
G o u l d . Saginaw,
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  J ames  E.  Dat,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W. Allen  Detroit.

Unified Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

Grand  Counselor,  J no.  A.  M u r r a y ,  Detroit; 
Grand Secretary, G. S. Valmors, Detroit ;  Grand 
Treasurer, W. S. Mest, Jackson.

Grand Rapids Connell No. 131.

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

dent Association.

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

Kalamazoo  Aching  to  Retrieve  Her 

Lost  Reputation.

Kalamazoo Aug.  2—While  at  Bay  City 
recently,  my  attention  was  called  to  the 
several  articles  published  under  various 
dales 
in  the  Tradesman,  regarding  a 
so-called  traveling  men's  base  ball team 
of  Kalamazoo  and  some  alleged  games 
of  bail  they  bad  played  with  the  Grand 
Rapids  traveling  men,  and  I  had  a 
“ light  smart”   time  dodging  the  sharp 
jabs  of  iny  questioners  ana  trying to up­
hold  the  name  and  fame  of  our fair city. 
The  matter  so  preyed  upon  my  mind 
that  I  have  concluded  to  ask  you  to 
lay 
the  truth  bare  and  shame  the  Devil. 
Silence 
is  golden,  but  patience  nor 
silence  seems  to  meet  this  case.  The 
whole truth  of  the  matter  is  we  have bad 
the  “ dogondest”   kind  of  a  time  trying 
to  organize  anything 
like  a  base  ball 
team  out  of  the  very  raw  material  at 
hand.  There  are  too  many  record  play­
ers  but  all  lacking  in  team  work.  This 
may  be  taking  the  public  into  our  con­
fidences,  but  we  want  them 
for  our 
friends,  hard  as  it  may  be  on  them.

The  first  efforts  were  made  by  the 
Hon.  E.  F.  Zander,  who  took  by  main 
strength  and  awkwardness  a  majority  of 
tbes  tock  so  he  could  elect  himself  gen- 
real  manager.  This,  of  course,  be  did, 
but  when  be  usurped  the  position  of 
captain  and  undertook  to  be  third  base- 
man,  we  put  a  blanket  over  him,  as  the 
rules  did  not  permit  it.  The  result  of 
his  mismanagement,  as  to  be  expected, 
was  our  galling  defeat  at Grand Rapids, 
of  which  the  public  has  been  duly 
in­
formed  by  your  valued  Tradesman. 
After  such  an  experience  we  tried  to 
buy  him  off  or  have  him  gracefully 
withdraw,  but 
it  was  no  use—his  liver 
was  acting  bad  and  he  was  mulish. 
Then  the  other  stockholders  tried  to  sell 
to  him,  but he  was  “ short,”  as usual,  so 
we  were  up  against 
it  again,  but  be 
promised  faithfully 
if  we  would  not 
strike  or  try  to  oust  him,  he  would  pay 
us  our  overdue  salaries  and  strengthen 
the  team  and  win  the  return  game  when 
the  Grand  Rapids  boys  came  to  Kazoo. 
He  began  by  suspending every man  who 
had  made  a  hit  so  far,  shelving  Rider, 
Vedon,  Starbuck,  Lewis,  Crouch,  Hoff­
man  and  even  that  piince  of  shortstops, 
Sig.  Folz,  and  putting  in  a 
lot  of  has 
beens  and  “ wood  bees”   and  went  into 
the  return  game  with  the  worst  con­
glomeration  ever  set  up for  a  ball team.
I  will  not  try  to  magnify  our  disgrace 
by  saying  that  we  lost  the  game.  Zan­
der lost  it  and  his  position.  We  “ fired”  
him,  stock  and  all.  The  suspended 
players  then  elected  L.  Verdon  and  his 
hopes  ran  high,  but  the  directors  failed 
to  concur,  because  they  knew  we  sadly 
needed  his batting  strength  on the team.
Folz was then  suggested,  but he  calls 
it “ case ball,”  so  is  ineligible  because 
he will  be too likely to “ mix  it.”
Starbuck  was  thought  of,  but he  is  too 
good  on  ‘ flies”   to  be  spared.

Then,  knowing  he  was  nearing  the 
black 
list  for  throwing  the  game  to 
Grand  Rapids  and  thinking  to  draw 
some  cheap  attention  to himself,  B.  S.

Aldrich—who,  by  the  way, 
is  a  rich 
nephew  of  the  once-famed college pitch­
er  of  the  same  name—offeied  $5,000  for 
a  one-ninth  interest  in  the  club  and  the 
positon  of  general  manager,  but  after a 
stormy  session  of  the  stockholders  they 
decided  that  be  should  be suspended  lor 
losing  both  games  and  also  his  bat,  and 
that  the  great  pickup,  C.  Bennett, 
should  go  with  him.  The  stockholders 
saw  clearly  the  necessity  of  a  change  in 
the  rules  and  the  adoption  of  a  rule  by 
which  the best  player  becomes  general 
manager  by  right  of  superiority.  A 
rule  to  this  effect  was  adopted  unani­
mously  and  it  was  clear  sailing  at  once. 
Order came  out  of  the  chaotic  field  and 
the  bright  star of  the  organization,  the 
Mosesf  or  the  occasion,  was  at  hand  as 
if  by  magic.  The  first  baseman  of  the 
team—the  man  whose  seven  hits  bad 
nearly  won  the  game,  and  broke  only 
one  bat;  the  man  who  has  accepeted 
thirty-six  fielding  chances  without  an 
error  and  who  stole  twelve bases  with­
out  being  arrested—was  naturally  se­
lected  to 
lead  them  out  of  the  wilder­
ness,  so  they  elected  me  by  a  standing 
vote,  with  power to  act,  and  placed 
in 
my  hands  the  32  cents  in  the  treasury, 
to  be  expended  in  buying  the  release  of 
the  best  players  available  and  also  to 
erect  a  new  grand  stand  and  buy  a  new 
mowing  machine  and,  when  ready  to 
say  to  those  grand  good 
fellows  of 
Grand  Rapids,  “ Lay  on,  McDuff,  and 
cursed  be  he  who  first  cried,  ‘ Let  us 
make  it  seven  innings.'  ”  
I  am  ready.

G.  S.  D ennis.
General  Manager.

Grand  Rapids  Travelers  Downed  by 

Local  Elks.

Saturday,  Aug.  26,  the  Grand  Rapids 
traveling  men  met  their  Waterloo  on 
Recreation  Park  grounds  at  the bands of 
Big  Chief  Necktie  Beecher  and  bis 
band  of  mighty  Elks.  There  were  many 
brilliant  plays  made  and  some  not  so 
brilliant.  Necktie Beecher distinguished 
himself  by  going  to  sleep  on  first  base 
in  the  eighth  inning  and,  before  he  re­
covered  his  senses,  six  knights  of  the 
grip  had  crossed  the  home  plate. 
It  is 
only  fair  to  Mr.  Beecher to  state  that  at 
this  critical  point  he  was  busily  en­
gaged  adjusting  neckties around the bot­
tom  of  his  knickerbockers.  Richmond's 
one-handed  stop  at  third,  Sleight’s right 
field  and  Fear's  center  field  playing, 
also  Kalkaska  Bill  Pipp’s  record  at  first 
base,  were  among  the  features  of  the 
traveling  men’s  play.  The  umpiring 
of  Geo.  Burnham  was a  trifle  on  the  de­
cayed  egg  style,  but,  since  the  game, 
we  hear  that  he  has  been  invited  by 
Dr.  Booth,  Necktie  Beecher  and  others 
to  the  next  social  session  of  No.  48. 
Nuff  said.  Below  find  the  score  by  in­
nings :

2
»
2

6
4
0

7
6
0

5
0
3

4
3
3 1 «
0 1 0

8
•• X 1 
6
0 1 

1
ELKS  4
T.  M.  3

0 Total
17
13
The  gentleman  in  white  shoes  who 
bad  a 30 cent bet  on  the  Elks was finally 
called  off  the  perch  by  the  irrepressible 
small  boy.

Sam  Evans  and  his 

little  hammer 

were  there.  Sam  is  quite  a  rooter.

“ Bill”   Simmons  rubbed  the traveling 
men  down  between  acts  with  his  cele­
brated  brand  of  electric  oil.

Setback  Charlie  was  also  around 

tooting  for  the  boys.

forgotten 

Sig.  Folz,  of  Kalamazoo,  was  con­
spicuous  among  the  Elk  rooters.  Sig. 
hasn’t 
the  way  our  boys 
rubbed  it  in  at  Kalamazoo.
Cheap  Rate to New York and Return.
Sept.  1  to  4,  inclusive,  the  Michigan 
Central  will  sell  round  trip  tickets  to 
New  York  for  $18.45.  Return 
limit 
Sept.  12.  Can  be  extended  until  Sept 
30 on  payment  of  50  cents.  Phone  606 
tor  full  particulars.

W.  C.  Bl a k e,  Ticket Agent.

Banner  Bearers  of Commerce,  Civili­

zation and  Progress.

I  am  happy  to  avow  myself  an  old 
veteran  traveling  man,  not a  graduate, 
but  a  sort  of  postgraduate  of  the  road, 
for  I  still  get  my  fair  share  of  commer­
cial  traveling,  just  enough,  perhaps,  to 
keep  my  hand  in. 
I  am  happy  to  ac­
knowledge my  connection  with  the  most 
democratic  calling  on  the  face  of  the 
earth, 
like  newspaper 
men,  count  only  for  what  they  really 
are,  and  in  no  other  occupation 
in  the 
world  are  the  dullards  and  the  laggards 
more  quickly  and  mercilessly  weeded 
out  and  thrust  aside.

travelers, 

for 

The  newspaper  man  seats  himself  at 
a  cheap  desk,  a  pencil  is  put 
into  his 
hand  with  a  bit  of  paper,  and  he  is  told 
to  write.  He  can  or  be  can't, and  if  be 
is  lacking 
in  the  brain  power  which 
transmutes 
into  bright  and  animated 
sketches  the  commonplace occurences of 
daily  life,  be  is  told  to  get  off  the  earth 
and  vacate  his  shoes  for a  better  man. 
So,  too,  with  commercial  travelers.  No 
more  democratic  body  of  men  exists 
in 
the  world.  Each 
is  started  out  by  re­
ceiving  a  check  to  cover  expenses  and 
is  sent  forth,  sometimes  with  and  some* 
times  without  a  Godspeed,  to  work  out 
his  salvation  as  best  he  may.  Social 
connections,  independent  means,  influ­
ential  friends—all  these  are  helpful,  but 
not  one  of  them  and  not  all  of  them  put 
together  will  make  good  the  deficiency 
of  the  inborn  native  talent  of  salesman­
ship.  The  commercial  traveler  is born, 
not  made.  The  native  gift  when  pres­
ent  may  be  enoimously  cultivated,  but 
no  amount  of  training  or  experience 
will  make  good  its  original  absence.

What  constitutes  the  successful  sales­
man  on  the  road  is  a  riddle  that  I  have 
never been  able  to  solve.  Part  of  my 
work 
is  the  direction  of  a  considerable 
number  of  travelers.  Years  ago  I  used 
to  flatter  myseif  that  I  could  pick  the 
winners,  but 
it  didn’t  take  me  long  to 
get  over  that  foolish  notion.  You  know 
the  classical  test  for  mushrooms;  if  you 
eat them  and  live  they  are  mushrooms, 
if  you  die  they  are  toadstools.  Very 
much  the  same  test  must  be  applied  to 
the  successful  salesman  on  the road.  No 
amount  of  “ sizing  up”   will  ever  tell 
you  whether he  will  make  a  success  or 
a  miserable  failure;  the  looks  of  a  frog 
won't help  you  to  guess  bow  far  he  can 
jump.

in 

the 

There 

is  only  one  test  and  that  is  to 
put  your  money 
salesman’s 
bands,  give  him  the  best  posting  you 
know  how,  and  then  say  to  him,  “ Get 
out  and  hustle.”   The  disappointments 
are  about  equally  divided  between  the 
promising  and  the  unpromising  candi­
dates.  Your  swell 
looking  fellow  who 
talks  like  a  statesman  and  makes  you 
feel  that  you  have  engaged  a  star  of  the 
first  magnitude  is  not  unlikely  to  make 
a  wretched  failure;  and  again,  some 
seedy  specimen,  realizing  that  he  must 
depend  not  on  bis  beauty  but  on  bis 
hard  woik,  digs  his toes  into  the  earth, 
and 
in  this  way  sometimes  strikes  a 
vein  of  rich  and  paying  ore.

As  an  old  veteran  traveling  man  it 
has given  me  great  pleasure  during  the 
past  twenty  years  to  observe  the  upward 
evolution—the  unmistakable  elevation 
of  character  and ability which have gone 
on 
in  the  community  of  commercial 
travelers.  There  has  been  a  vast  and 
striking  improvement  in  respectability, 
in  morality,  in  thrift,  in  steadiness,  in 
refinement, 
in  veracity,  in  honorable 
dealing, in every  quality  that  enters  into 
a  high  and  valuable  type  of manhood.

In  the  olden  time  which  I  recall  there

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indeed  no 

was 
lack  among  traveling 
meu  of  open-handed  generosity  and  of 
loyal  friendship—those  amiable, 
fra­
grant  qualities  which  cause  men  to  be 
loved ;  but  the  new  traveler  commands 
more  respect  and  is  more  trusted.  He 
has  learned  that  in  a  permanent  field  of 
labor  the  confidence  he  inspires  is the 
measure  of  his  success;  that  falsehood 
and  misrepresentation  cheapen  his  rep­
utation,  destroy  his  influence  and  exter­
minate  his  business;  that  no  lasting 
success  can  be  achieved  until  his  cus­
tomers  are  made  his  friends;  and  that 
to  acquire  their  confidence  he  must  pre­
serve  their  respect  and  promote  their 
interests.

I  do  not  deny  that  the  type  of  cheap, 
smart,  tricky,  unscrupulous 
fakir  who 
would  sell  his  soul  to  get  an  order  is not 
altogether  extinct,  but  it  is  rapidly  van­
ishing  and  giving  way  to  the  type  of 
man  who  realizes  that  success  on  the 
road  must  be  earned  and  not  stolen, 
and  that  salesmanship  is  not  a  species 
of  confidence  game  played  but  once  on 
the  same  victim.

My  friends  of  the  retail  trade,  you 
may  flatter  yourselves  that  you  are  the 
benefactors of the  travelers  to  whom  you 
give  your  business.  So  you  are;  but 
just  burn 
into  your  memories  the  fact 
that  the  eggs  aren’t  all  in  one  basket 
and  that  you  get  just  as  much  as  you 
give.  You  are  the  recipients  and  the 
beneficiaries  every  time  that  the  trav­
eler  helps  you  to  earn  a  dollar  by  per­
suading  you  to  buy  the  things  that  com­
mand  a  ready  and  profitable  sale,  or  by 
suggesting  some  new  line  of  'lucrative 
work,  or  by  bringing  you  from  other 
places  information  about  what  live  and 
successful  merchants  are  doing  to  build 
up  business.  Look  back  over  your  past 
experience  and  I ’ll  wager  you  have 
rarely  been  duped  or 
imposed  on  by 
the 
representative  of  an  honorable 
house.  On  the  other  hand,  how  many 
times  has  the  reputable  traveler  brought 
a  good  thing  to  your  notice,  pointing 
out  to  you  opportunities  which  are 
lost 
to  the  cranky,  sullen  merchants  whose 
offensive  and  insulting  manners  are  as 
disastrous  to  their  own  interests  as  to 
the  travelers’  business.  The  merchant 
makes  a  mistake  who  thinks  be  can 
learn  nothing  from the commercial  trav­
eler,  and  I  plead  for  cordial  co-opera­
tion,  not  on  grounds  of  sentiment, 
but  on  grounds  of  mutual  benefit,  self- 
interest,  and  cold  financial  profit.

and 

In  conclusion,  join  me 

in  pledging 
the  success  and  happiness  of  one  of  the 
most  useful,  energetic 
brainy 
classes  of  men 
in  the  business  com­
munity—the  business  missionaries  and 
educators—the  propagators of new ideas, 
the  men  who  do  more  than  any  others to 
build  up  great  bouses  and  to  carry  the 
new  fruits  of  invention  and  enterprise 
into  the  remote  corners  of  human  soci­
ety—the  banner  bearers  of  commerce, 
civilization  and  progress—the  commer­
cial  travelers. 

S.  H.  C a r r a g a n .

C.  C.  Bunting,  Petoskey,  representa­
tive  for  Rice  &  Matheson,  was  in  town 
over  Sunday.
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Drugs—Chem icals

——  

HUCHIOAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
•  Deo. 81,1899 
A. C. Sohuxaohxb, Ann  Arbor 
Dec. 81,1900
Ono. Gubdbtjk, Ionia  - 
-  Dec. 81,1901
L. E. B m o u » , St.  Joseph 
- 
H m T  Him , Saginaw  - 
Dec. 31,1902
W m  P. Dott, Detroit 
• 
Dec. 31,1803

Term expires

President, Ono.  G t t h d b o x ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, H e n b y  H e im , Saginaw.
Examination  Sessions. 
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Not. 7 and 8.

3TATB PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.
President—O. E b k r b a c h , Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Chab.  F.  Manm.  Detroit.
Treasurer  J. S. BE'Sett,  Lansing.

for 

try, 

How  to  Create  a  Demand for Cigars.
Advertising,  practically  done,  is  tbe 
best  investment  a  merchant  can  make, 
and  tbe  druggist  who  does  not  resort  to 
it  makes  a  great  mistake. 
Let  tbe 
druggist 
example,  window 
dressing,  every  few  days,  and  display 
tastily  in  his  window  bis  various brands 
of  cigars  with  nicely  printed  cards  de­
scriptive  of  quality  and  price;  let  bim 
devote  a  part  of  bis  window  space,  a 
part  of  the  time,  to  tbe  display  of  his 
own  line  of  cigars  instead  of  giving  up 
all  of  his  space  all  of  tbe  time  to  tbe 
products  and picture  cards  of  tbe  manu­
facturers  who  graciously,  and  without 
ceremony,  permit  bim  to  pay  tbe  reve­
nue,  and  sell 
their  goods  without  a 
profit,  while  his  own  products  bold 
down  the  shelves.

Let  bim 

instruct  his  clerks  to  haud 
cigars  over  tbe  case  with  a  smile  of 
confidence  and  a  word  of  assurance  that 
goes  to  tbe  beart  of  the  smoker,  and 
makes  bim  say  to  himself,  "T h at's  a 
mighty  nice  fellow ;  his  cigars  must  be 
all  right."

We  are  not 

Let  him  instruct  those  same  clerks  to 
pay  the  same  courtesies  to  the  gentle­
men  who  buy  cigars  as  they  do  to  the 
ladies  who  sweetly  sip  tbe  pink  ice 
in 
cream  soda  or  squander  their  wealth 
dainty  perfumes.— Donovan 
in  Cigar 
Talk.
No Sympathy with the Ethical Druggist
in  sympathy  with  the 
ethical  druggist.  Let  us  not  be  mis­
understood.  Tbe  vocation  of  a druggist 
is  essentially  of  a  business  nature  and 
no  druggist  makes  a  success  who  lacks 
the  qualities  which  make  a  good  busi­
ness  man.  To  be  frank,  it  is  more  nec­
essary  that  he  be  a  good  business  man 
than  a  good  druggist— if  he  wants  to 
win  financially.  The  ethical  man 
is 
not  a  practical  man  and  is,  therefore, 
not  a  safe  man  to  dispense  drugs.  The 
druggist  must  understand  his  business 
in  a  way  that  only  years  of  experience 
and  study  can  make  him  understand  it. 
The  most  successful  men  in  other  lines 
of  business  are  those  who  understand 
their  respective businesses  just  as  well 
as  the  druggist.  There  may  have been— 
we  are 
inclined  to  think  there  was— a 
time  when  pharmacy  was  a  profession, 
or  at  least  called  for  different  qualities 
than  other  lines  of  trade.  We  have 
other  conditions  to  meet  now,  and  the 
druggist  who  meets  them  best  is the 
best  druggist  and  best  business  man. 
If  a  druggist  is  a  good  business  man 
there  is  no  reason  why  he  should not ac­
quire  wealth  as  well  as  his  neighbor, 
tbe  dry  goods  merchant.  We  know  that 
it  takes  a  higher  grade  man  to  be a 
drag  clerk  than 
it  does  a  dry  goods 
clerk,  bat  this  won’t  enable that  drug 
clerk  to  make  a  financial  success  of  a 
business  of  bis  own.  So  we urge  tbe 
Inculcate  some 
druggists to  wake  up. 
activity  and 
life  and  vigor  into  yonr 
store and  yonr  business.  Solicit  busi­

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Is  active  and  firm.  Reports 
are  conflicting.  Some  look  for  higher 
and  others  for  lower  market.

Morphine— Is  firm  but  unchanged.
Quinine— Has  declined,  on  account  of 

a  lower  price  for  cinchona  bark.

Cincbonidia—On  account  of  better 

supply,  has  declined.

Acetanilid—Competition  among  man­
The  price  re­

ufacturers  continues. 
mains  low.

Cocaine—The  market  is  firm  at  the 
recent  advance  and  has  an upward tend­
ency.

Glycerine— Manufacturers do not quote 
alike.  Some  brands  are  higher  than 
others.  The  article 
is  'very  firm  and, 
no doubt,  will  be  higher  when  tbe  sea­
son  opens  later  on.

Mercury— Has  again  advanced  and 

mercurial  preparations  are  all higher.

Shntonine—Continues  to  advance,  on 

account  of  tbe  scarcity  of  wormseed.

Essential Oils— Wintergreen has  again 
advanced,  on  account of  scarcity.  Pure 
wormwood  has  also  advanced,  for  the 
same  reason.  Crops  will  be  small  and 
very  high  prices  are  looked  for.

Arnica  Flowers—Are  very  firm  at  re­

cent  advance and  will  be  higher.

Gum  Campbor— Is  firmer  abroad,  but 

there  is  no  change here.

Short  Bucbu  Leaves— Have  further 
advanced  and  are  tending  still  higher.
Cocoa  Leaves— Are  scarce  and  have 

advanced.

Russian  Hemp  Seed— Has  advanced.
Linseed  O il—On  account  of  higher 

price  for  seed,  has  advanced.

White and  Red  Lead— Has  advanced.

A  politician  will  shake  your  hand one 

minute  and  pull  your  leg  tbe  next.

■   D P D D i n n   r n   »»*• «..mut.,

•  r D l y l v I U v   v U > )  

a l l e o a n ,  m ic h .

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

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS  AND  DRUGGISTS’  SUNDRIES

W ORLD’S   B E S T

5 C .  CIG A R .  A LL  JO B B E R S  AND

<3. J   J O H N S O N  C I G A R O O .

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

ness  with  a  smiling  face  full  of  hope 
and  energy  saying  "w e  bustling,  busy 
druggists,"  and  not  in  a  whining,  ben­
eficiary  sort  of  way  which  says  "w e 
poor  pharmacists."

join  bis 

In  order  to  better  protect  tbe  interests 
of  druggists  as  a  class,  which  has  its 
individual  benefits,  too,  every  druggist 
should 
local  or  state  associa­
tion.  He  should  be  an  active  and  in­
terested  member.  We can not  see  where­
in  these  associations  are not of the great­
est  assistance  to  tbe  retail  druggist. 
That  they  have  already  secured  a  great 
many  things  for  the  retail  druggists 
must  be  admitted.  There  are  a  great 
many  more  things  which  these  associa­
tions,  if  they  are  strong  enough,  will 
make  possible. 
in 
tbe  country  was  represented  in  these as­
sociations,  what  a  power  for  tbe  ad­
vancement  of  the  business  of  pharmacy 
they  would  be.  Perhaps  you  are  one 
who  does  not  belong  to  any  association. 
In  behalf  of  yonr  business  as  a  drug­
gist—or  profession,  if  you  choose to  call 
it— join  one  or  more  of  these  local  as­
sociations  and  take  an  active interest  in 
tbe  securing  of  the  enactment  of  better 
laws  for  tbe  betterment  of tbe drug busi­
ness  and  for  better  business  conditions.

If  every  druggist 

H ar r y  M.  G r a v es.

Bird  Seed  Display.

To  arrange  a  display  of  bird  seed, 
induce  some  boys  to  collect  from  tbe 
woods  a  number  of  perfect  birds’  nests, 
some  growing  ferns,  and  a  quantity  of 
moss  and 
lichens;  also  a  small  log  of 
wood  and  one  or two  forked  branches 
from  a  dead  tree.  Then  carpet  tbe 
floor  of  the  window  with  moss,  lay  on  it 
the  log,  to  which  you  have  fastened  tbe 
lichens  by  means  of  slender  wire  nails; 
suspend  the  tree  branches  across  win­
dow—best  by  black  thread,  possibly— 
some  few  feet  from  base,  and  in  tbe 
forks  rest  the  forsaken  nests.  Assemble 
a  stock  of  bird  seed  in  packages  prom­
inently 
in  tbe  window  and  stand  ferns 
in  the  background,  planted  in  pots  or 
boxes.  Should  yon  be  in  possession  of 
any  taxidermic  specimens  of  the  feath­
ered  tribe  put  them  in  evidence.

Another advertisement  for  this  com­
modity  would  be  to  place  several  large 
packing  cases  on  the  pavement  before 
the  store  bearing  this  notice:

FOR  SALE.

ONCE  HELD  BIRD  SEED.

There’s  Food  For 

Thought.

You Do the Rest.

to 

The  newspaper  advertisement  has ful­
filled 
its  mission  when  it  has  brought 
the  prospective  or  possible  buyer  into 
your 
inspect  your  goods. 
store 
Whether he  becomes  a  purchaser  or  not 
and  whether  you  retain  bim  as  a  cus­
tomer  must  depend  upon  tbe  treatment 
which  he  receives,  the price  and  quality 
of  your  goods  and  the  cleverness of  your 
salesmen.  Do  not  find  fault  therefore 
with  the  advertisement  that  has  brought 
the  buyer  to  your  door. 
It  has  done  its 
entire duty.  For  any  failure  to  keep 
bim  blame  the  goods,  your  employes, 
your  methods  of business  or  tbe  fickle­
ness  of  your  visitor.  Tbe  advertise­
ment  finds  the  customer;  you  must  do 
the  rest.

Of all  the  States  in  the  Union,  Texas 
takes  tbe  prize  for  its  number  of  adver­
tising  druggists.  About  every  druggist 
in  that  State  seems  to  be  awake  to  the 
business  to  be  gained  by  advertising 
and  they  are  willing  to  take  bold  of 
any  orignal  advertising  idea  which  may 
be  presented  to  them.  Of  the  large 
cities  Philadelphia  has  as  large  a  per­
centage  of  advertising  druggists as  any. 
These  estimates  are  based  on a thorough 
canvass  of  the  field.  Western  druggists 
are  better  and 
larger advertisers  than 
the  druggists  in  tbe  East  and  the South­
ern  druggists  are a  close  second.  The 
Eastern  druggists are tbe  poorest  adver­
tisers  of  the  lot.  Out of 3.500 druggists 
in  New  England  less  than  40a  advertise 
in  any  form  whatever.

NOTICE  THIS  BRAND

WHEN YOU WANT A GOOD SMOKE

COLUM BIAN  CIG A R   COM PANY,  BRNTON  HARBOR.  MICH.

M ANU FACTU RED  BY

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C. Co....................  2 10© 2 35
Moschus Canton.... 
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Myristica, No. 1......  66©  80
Nux Vomica...po.20 
©  10
Os  Sepia................. 
18©  20
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co.................... 
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Pyre thrum, boxes H.
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;ti assise.................
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ninia, S. German.. 
iuinia, N.Y...,.  ... 
ubia Tinctorum... 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin....................
Sanguis Draconls...
Sapo,  W...................
Sapo, M....................
Sapo, G....................
Siedlltz  Mixture__*20

Slnapis....................
Sinapis, opt............
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.....................
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s
Soda Boras..............  9
Soda Boras, po___  9
Soda et Potass Tart.
Soda,  Carb.............. 
li
Soda, Bl-Carb.........
Soda, Ash................  3M<
Soda, Sulphas.........
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Spts. Ether Co........
Spt.  Myrcia Dom...
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.
Spts. Vini Rect. Mbbl 
Spts. Vini Rect.l0gal 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal
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Sulphur,  Roll..........   2H©3H
Tamarinds...  
10
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Zincl  Sulph.. 
8

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7© 

Oils

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

BBL.  SAL.
70
60
40

ie

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
43 
Linseed, boiled......   44 
Neats foot, winter str  64 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
48 

46
41
60
55
Paints  BBL.  LB

Red Venetian.........   1X2
Ochre, yeuow Mars.  IX  2 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
IX  2 
Putty, commercial..  2M 2M©3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2X©3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13© 
15
'.2©  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, Paris...........  13Hw>  17M
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13© 
16
Lead, Red...............   6  0   6H
Lead, white...........  6  ©  t>M
©  70
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’... 
©  70
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©  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff ...................... 
© 1  40
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Varnishes

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Extra  Turp............   1  60©  1  70
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No. 1 Turp Fum —   1 00©  1  10 
Extra Turk Damar..  1 56©  1  60 
Jap. Dryer, No.lTurp  70©  75

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Acid tun
AcetJcum...............•
Benzolcum, German
Boraclc....................
Carbolicum.............
dtrlco m .................
Hvdrochlor.............
Nitrocum................
Oxalicum................
Phosphor!um,  dll...
Sallcyllcum.............
Sulphurlcum...........  IXi
Tannlcum..............  1 26 _
Tartarlcum...... ......... 
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg.........  
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Carbonas.................... 
Chloridum................. 

88®

4@
6©
190
120

Aniline

Black.......................  9 00©
Brown.......................  800
B ed...........................   « ©
Tellow......................2 60©

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Cubesee...........po. 18
Junlperus................
Xanthoxylum.........

Copaiba...................
Pern.........................
Terabin, Canada—
Tolntan...................
Cortex 
Abies, Canadian—
C assis....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerlfera, po.
Prunus Vlrglnl........
Quill ala,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
Ulmus.. .po. 15,  gr’d 
Bxtractnm 

Glycyrrhlza Glabra.
Glycyrrhlza, po......
Hsematox, 15 lb box.
Hsematox, I s ...........
Hsematox, Ha.........
Hsematox, Ms.........
Perm

1

nevelly............ .

Carbonate Preolp.. ■ 
Citrate and Quima..
Citrate Solnble........
Perrocyanldum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride......
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Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
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Flora
Am loa....................
Anthemis................
Matricaria..............
Folia
Barosma..................
Cassia Acutlfol, Tin*
Cassia Acutlfol,Alx.
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and fts.................
Dra Ural..................
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Aoacla,  1st picked..
Acacia, 2d  picked..
Acacia, 3d  picked..
Acacia, sifted sorts.
Acacia, po...............
Aloe, Barb. po.l8©20 
Aloe, Cape —  po. 15 
Aloe, Socotrl.. po. 40
Ammoniac..............
Assafcetlda.. ..po. 90
Bensoinum.............
Catechu, Is..............
Catechu, Ms............
Catechu, M&...........
Camphorse..............
Bupnorblum..po.  35
Gtubanum...............
Gamboge  po...........
Gualacum......po. 25
Kino...........po. I2.u0
M astic....................
Myrlk.. ........po.  15
Op.... .po. 1.40©64.60 3 m© 3 50
Shellac....................  
“
- Shellac, bleached...
Tragacanth ............
Herb*

”  

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Sanatorium .oz. pkg 
■Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majornm — oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..os. pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg 
Rue.............. os. pkg 
TanaoetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V. .oz. pkg 
flagnesla.
Calcined, P a t.  ..  . 
55©  60
Carbonate. Pat........  20©  22
Carbonate, K. & M..  20©  25
Carbonate, Jennings  35©  36

Oleum

Absinthium.............5 r0® 5 60
Amygdala, Dole....  30©  50
Amygdala, Amarse .  8 00© 8 25
Anisl.......................  1 85® 2 00
Auranti  Cortex......   2 400 2 50
Bergamil.................  2 80©  2 90
Cajiputi................... 
-750  80
Caryophylli.............  7u©  80
Chenopadll.............  
0 2 7 5
Cinnamon!!.............  1 400  1 50
Citronella.........   ... 
350  40

li

Conlum Mac........... 
35
Copaiba...................  i  15
CubebsB....................  go
Exechthltos...........  1 00
Erlgeron.................  1 00
Gaultherla..............  1 60
Geranium,  ounce...  C 
Gosstppii, Sem. gal..  50
Hedeoma................  l  25
Junlpera..................  l so
Lavendula.............. 
90
Llmonls...................  l S'
Mentha Piper.........   1
Mentha Verid......... l
Morrhun,  gal.........   1
Myrcia.......................4
Olive.......................
Picis  Liquida.........  
Plcls Llqnlda, gal...
B lclna......... ..........
Rosmarlnl...............
Rosse,  ounce...........  6
Succlni...................
Sabina...................
Santal........................2
Sassafras.................
Sins.pis, ess., ounce. 
©
Tigln.......................  i  70©
Thyme....................  40©
Thyme,  opt............. 
©
Theobromas........... 
15©
Potassium
Bl-Carb.................... 
15©
13©
Bichromate............  
Bromide..................   52©
Carb.......................  
12©
Chlorate..po. 17©19c  16©
Cyanide................... 
as<a
Iodide........................2
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
Potass Nitras, opt...
Potass Nitras...........
PrusBlate.................
Sulphate po  . . . ......
Radix
Aconltvm...............
Althse......................
Anchusa.................
Arum po..................
Calamus.................
Gent! ana........po.  15
Glychrrhiza.. .pv. 15 
Hydrastis Canaden.
Hydrastis Can., po..
Hellebore, Alba, po..
Inula, po.................  2
Ipecac, po................4
Iris plox.... po85©38
Jalapa, pr................
Maranta,  Qs...........
Podophyllum, po...
R h ei............
Rhel, cut.................
Rhei,pv...........   ....
Spigelia...................
Sangulnaria... po. 15
Serpen taria............
Senega....................
Similar,officinalis H
Smilax, M...............
Scillse.............. po.35
Symplocarpns, Foetl- 
dus,  po.................
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
Valeriana,  German.
Zingiber a ...............
Zingiber j ...............  
Senna
Anlsum.........po.  15
Apium  (gravefeons)
Bud, Is.................. .
Carol............ po. 18
Cardamon...............   l
Corlandrum............
Cannabis  Satlva..  L.
Cydonium...............  
?i
Chenopodlum........ 
i
Diptenx  Odorate...  1
Fcsnlculum............
Foenugreek, po........
Id n l....y T ..„ ........
Linl,  grd....bbl. 3u
Lobelia.................
Pharlarls  Canarian
Rapa.......................
Sinapis Albu......... L
Slnapis Nigra.........  
Splritus 

li®

15©
25©

Frumentl, W. D. Co.  2 00© 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R ..  2 00© 2 25
Frum entl..................1  25©  1  50
Junlperis Co. O. T..  1  65© 2 00
Junlperis Co...........  1 75© 3 50
Saacnarum N. E ....  1  90© 2  10
Spt. Vini Galll........  1  75® 6 50
Vlni Oporto............   1  25© 2 00
Vinl Alba...............   1  25© 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................  2 50© 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................  2 00© 2 25
Velvet extra sheeps’
1 50 
wool, carriage......
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__
1  25
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................
© 1 00 
Hard, for slate use..
75
© 
Tellow  R e ef,  for 
slate  use..............
©  1  40
Syrups
Acacia............ 
.
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac... 
............
Ferri Iod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega.................
Soil'».....................

50 
50 
4 I  50 
60 50 
50 
60 
50
50

50©

4©
40©

*1840©

niscellaneous 

50
50
50
60 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
50 
75 
50 
75 
75 
1  00 50 
50 
30 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 50 
35 50 
60 
50 
60 50 
75 
75 
50 
50 
50 
50 
75 
50 
1  50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
20
35 
38
3
4
50
5 
50 
35 
2 
50 
1?
1  40©  1  a
t
11
12
r.15 
It 
1! 
14 
3 00 
55 
42 
40 
33 
10 
45

ScillssCo.................
Tolntan...................
Prunus vlrg............
Tinctures 
Aconltum N apellls R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafcetlda............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Can tha rides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon...............
Cardamon  Co...  ...
Castor......................
Catechu...................
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co...........
Columba 
........
Cubeba....................
Cassia Acutlfol......
Cassia Acutlfol Co..
Digitalis..............
Ergot............
Ferri Chloridum
Gentian..................
Gentian Co..............
Gulaca....................
Guiaca ammon........
Hy oscyamus...........
Iodine......................
Iodine, colorless....
Kino.........................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh......................
Nux Vomica...........
Opll.........................
Opli, camphorated.
Opll, deodorised.  ..
Quassia...................
Khatany..................
Rhei........................
Sangulnaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stromonium...........
Tolntan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride...
Zingiber..................
dither, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30© 
dither, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34©
Alumen...................  2;
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7
Annatto...................
Antimoni,  po.........
Antlmoni etPotassT
Antipyrin..............
Antlrebrin .  ...........
Argent! Nitras, oz ..
Arsenicum..............
Balm Gilead  Bud  .
Bismuth  S. N.........
Calcium Chlor.,  Is.
Calcium Chlor., Ms.
Calcium Chlor., Ms. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsid  Fructus. af.
Capsid Frnetns, po.
Capslcl FructusB.po 
CaryophyUus-.po. 15
Carmine, No. 40......
Cera Alba...............
Cera Flava..............
COCCU8....................
Cassia Fructus........
Centrarla.................
Cetaceum................
Chloroform.............
Chloroform, squlbbs
Chloral Hyd Crst__
Chondrus...............
Clnchonldlne.P.A W 
Clnchonldine, Germ
Cocaine..................   4 8.
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct.
Creosotum........
Creta............. bbi.75
Creta, prep..............
S
Creta, preelp........... 
Creta, Rubra...........
Crocus.................... 
ir
Cudbear........
Cupri Sulph......... ..  6H
Dextrine..................
Ether Sulph............
Emery, all  numbers
Emery, po............
Ergota............ po. TJ
Flake  White........... 
Galla........................ 
Gambler.................. 
Gelatin, Cooper......  
Gelatin, French......  
Glassware, flint, box 
Less than  box....
Glue,  brown..,......  
Glue, white............  
Glycerine................ 
Grana  Paradisi  __  
Humulus................. 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
Hydraag Ammoniatl 
HydraagU nguen turn
Hydrargyrum.........
Ichthyobolla, Am...
Indigo......................
Iodine, Resubi........¡
Iodoform.................
Lupulin...................
Lycopodium...........
Mads....................
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarg Iod.............
Llq u orPo tass A rsini t
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
Manilla, S. F ...........
tfentb'1........

12©
©
8©
©
35©
75 <! 
9©
ISO
15©
©
25©
© 

12©
50©
40©

50©

20©

10©

W AIT
FOR
THE
WINNER

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

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

20

M ICH IG AN   TRA D ESM A N

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The  prices  quoted  in  this  list  are  for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail 
dealers.  They are prepared just before 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.___________________

AXLB  OREASE.do«,  groes
6 00
7 00
4 Ou
0 00
0 00
9 Ou
0 00

Aurora........................55 
Castor O il....................00 
Diamond..  ................ 50 
Fraser’s .......................75 
ttt. Golden, tin boxes 75 
filen, tin boxes............75 
Paragon.......................55 

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

Asmo.

lb can  dos............... 

jf 'b cans dos...................  45
*4 lb jans dos...................  85
1 
1 50
w lb cans 8 dos.................  46
*4 lb cans 8 dos.................  75
1 
10
Bulk...................................  
6 os. Eng. Tumblers...........  85

lb oana id o s.................1 ft

Arctic.

B1 Parity.

8 os. cans, 4 doz case.........  
80
9 oz. cans, 4 doz case.........   1 20
lb. cans, 2 doz case...... 2 00
1 
2*4 lb. cans, 1 doz case...... 4 75
5 
lb. cans, 1 doz case...... 9 00
m lb cans per dos.............  75
X lb cans per dos............ 1 20
1 
lb eans per dos.............2  00
u  lb cana 4 dos case........
*4 lb cans 4 dos case........ 
1 
lb cans 2 dos c a se ......  

Home.

55
90

s a u

 

Peer Isas.

Oar Leader.

Qaeen Flake.

Jersey Cream.

BATH  BRICK.

C ANNED GOODS.

45
u  lb cans, 4 doz case......  
lb cans, 4 doz case........  85
lb cans, 2 doz case........1 60
1 
1 lb. cans, per doz............. 2 00
9 os. cans, per doz.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per dos............. 
85
If lb cans..........................  45
vf lb cans..........................  76
lb cans...........................  1 50
1 
lib .can s  ......................... 
85
3 os., 6 doz. case...................2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case 
............ 3 20
9 oz., 4 dos. case...................4 80
1 lb., 2 dos. case...................4 00
5 lb., 1 dos. case...................9 00
American................................79
English......... 
80
Tomatoes...................  80©  90
Corn  ................. 
80@1  00
Hominy......................  80
Beans, Limas..............  70@1 30
Beans, Wax................  90
Beans, String..............  85
Beans,  Baked............   75@1  00
Beans, Red  Kidney...  75®  b5
Succotash...................  95©1  20
Peas............................  50®  85
Peas, French...... .......2 25
Pumpkin  ...................  75
Mushroom.................  15®  22
Peaches, P ie..............1 00
Peaches, Fancy..........1 40
Apples,  gallons..........  ®:
Cherries....................   90
Pears..........................  70
Pineapple, grated...... 1  75  2 4O
Pineapple, sliced....... 1 31  2  25
Pineapple,  Farren....l  70
Strawberries  .............1  10
Blackberries..............  80
Raspberries................  85
Oysters, 1-lb................  91
Oysters, 2-lb...............1 55
Salmon, flats, key......1 70
Salmon, *4 lb. flats....  95 
Salmon, Bed Alaska.. 1 25 
Salmon, Pink Alaska..  95 
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 20 
Lobsters, 2-lb. Star....3 90 
MackereLl lb Mustard  10 
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused. 1  75 
Mackerel,l-lb Tomato. 1  75
Sbrimps......................2 00
Sardines, If" domestic  3f®  
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5*4®  7*4 
Sardines,  French.......8l.@o22

BUENO.COtsegD

CANDLBS.

BROOIIS.

B l u i n G
40
Small, 3 doz.......................  
Large, 2 doz.......................  
75
4o. 1 Carpet.......................2 31
So. 2 Carpet.......................2  1-
So. 8 Carpet.......................  1  85
No. 4 Carpet.......................  1 4'
Parlor Gem.........................2 50
Common Whisk.................   95
¡fancy Whisk......................   1<0
Warehouse.......................... 2 70
................................... T
18s  ....................................... .8
Paraffine...............................8
Wlcking.............................. 20
CATSUP.
Colombia, 
Columbia. *4 pints 
CHEESE
Acme......................
tm bov....................
Butternut................
Carson City.............
Elsie........................
Emblem...................
Gem  .......................
Gold Medal.............
Ideal.......................
Jersey  ....................
Riverside.................
Brick.......................
Edam.......................
Leiden....................
Limburg' 
Pineapple................ 50  ®
nil
Sap  Sago.................   ©
B ulk............................... 
Red 

pints..............2 00
......... 1  25
11
1154it
11
12
1154’2
11
1154
It
1154
1270
1713
75
17
5
7

Chicory.

__  
CHOCOLATE.

Woltor Baker A Co.’s.

German Sweet................. — 28
Premium.................................35
Breakfast nw yt 
........  46

COFFEE.
Roasted.

Wo.

 

Java.

Santos.

F air............................
Good........................................10
Prim e......................................12
Golden  ...................................18
Peaberry  ................................14
Fair  ........................................14
Good  ......................................15
Prim e......................................II
Peaberry  ................ 
18
Maracaibo.
Prim e....................................  15
Milled......................................17
Interior...................................26
Private  Growth...................... 30
Mandehllng............................ 35
Mocha.
Im itation.................
Arabian  .................
Roasted. 
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue.....................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha— 29 
Wells’ Mocha and Java.....24
Wells’ Perfection Java...... 24
Sancalbo............................. 21
Breakfast Blend................  18
Valley City Maracaibo........1854
Ideal  Blend.........................14
Leader Blend...................... 1254
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  yonr  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market in  which  he purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also *fc  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
Is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbnckle..................... 
  10 50
Jersey............    
  10 50
’’IcLaaghlla’s  XXXX. 
..
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers only.  Mail all orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  * 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 5f grosz......  
Felix 5f gross................. 
Hnmmel’i  foil 54 g ras. 
Hammers tin 54  g ra s ... 
CLOTHES PffiS.
5 grosz boxes..........................40

Package.

Bxtract.

75
1  16

Farina.

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

Grits.

CLOTHBS LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  dos......... 1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz......... 1 20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz......... 1 4t
Cotton, 70 ft, per  dos......... 1 6C
Cotton, 80 ft, per  dos  —   .1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz.............  8C
Jnte. 72 ft.  pe» 
...........   9

COCOA.

James Epps & Co.’s.

Boxes, 7 lbs.............................40
Cases, 16 boxes........................38
COCOA SHELLS.
201b  bags.......................  
254
Less quantity.................  
8
onnd packages............. 
4
CRB A ll  TARTAR.

 

! 

  2 50

Peas.

Sage.

Beans.

Pastry.

Hemlny.

Pearl Barley.

Entire Wheat.

Universal Grade.

Economic Grade.

Superior Grade.

Tradesman Grade.

Coupon Pass Books,

COUPON  BOOKS.

CONDENSED  MILK.

Credit Checks.
^  _____________  

and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk in sacks..............- .........29

4 dos in case.
Gail Borden  Eagle............ 6 75
Crown................................ 8 25
Daisy..................................6 2
Champion..........................* gj
Magnolia 
.......................... 4 26
Challenge.............- ........... 2 85
Dime...................................8 85

24 2 lb. packages..................1 80
1001b. kegs.......................... 2 70
200 lb. barrels...................... 5 10
Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 501b.  drams..........1 00
Dried Lima  ..................... 
514
Medium Hand Picked 1  20® 1  25 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported.  25 lb. box........ 2 50
Common...........................  2 00
Chester..............................  2 26
Empire 
...........................  2 75
50 books, any denom—   1 50 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
Green, Wisconsin, bn.......1 00
500books, any denom....11  50 
Green, Scotch, bn.............1  10
,000 books, any denom. ...20 00 
Split, Du...................... 
Rolled  Oats.
50books, any denom....  150 
Rolled Avena,  bbl........ 4 00
100 books, any denom....  2 60 
Monarch,  bbl..................... 3 75
500 books  any denom.... 11 50 
Monarch,  54  bbl................ 2 U0
„000 books, any denom— 20 00 
Monarch, 90 lb sacks........1  80
Quaker, cases.....................3 20
50 books, any denom....  1 50 
Huron, cases.......................2 00
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500books, any denom.... 11 50
German............................  4
1.000 books, any denom....20 00
354
East  India................ 
Eesley’s  Sell Rising Flours. 
50 books, any denom....  150 
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
2 lb. cartons, 2 dz. In case..  1  80 
500 books, any denom....11 50
6 lb. sacks. 1 dz. *n case....  2 40 
1.000 books, any denom... .20 00
9 lb. sacks. 1 dz. in jute—   3 35
500, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
1000, any one denom’n ......   6 00  2 lb. cartons. 2 dz. in  case..  1  80
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
2 lb. cartons, 2 ^z. in case..  1  80 
Steel pnnob................. 
75
Can be made to represent any 
Flake.............................. 
6
«4
Pearl................................ 
Pearl, 241 lb. pkges........ 
6X
20 books  .......................   i  22
50 books.................................2 00
Cracked, bulk...................  S5f
100 books................................? 00
24 2 lb packages...............2 60
250books................................S
500 books............................... }2 29
1000 books........  ............—17 50
d r ie d   f r u it s—d o iib s t ic
Sundried....................... O 754
Evaporated 60 lb boxes.  01054 
Apricots.....................  
015
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................  _  O
Peaches.......................W  ©11
Pears..........................   O
Pitted Cherries........... 
Prannelles..................
Raspberries....... .
100-120 25 lb boxes.........  0  4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  O 5
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  O 554
70-80 26 lb boxes.  ......   ©654
60-70251bboxes.........   0  6X
50-60 25 lb boxes.........   ®  8
40-50 251b boxes.........  O10
80 - 40 25 lb boxes.........   ®
If cent less In 50 lb cases 

Georges cured............  © 5
Georges genuine........  ©554
Georges selected........  © 6
Strips or bricks.........   6  ® 9
Holland white hoops, bbl.  9 25 
Holland white hoop 54 bbl  5 25 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
70 
Holland white hoop mens 
85
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbo...................  3 10
Round  40 lbs...................  1  40
Scaled...............................  
15
Mess 100 lbs......................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  66
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  35
No. 1100 lbs......................  13  25
No. 1  401bs.. . ............ 
5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1 48
No. 1  8 lbs......................  120
No. 2 100 lbs......................  H  50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4 91
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  30
1  07
No. 2  8 lbs.
No. 1100 lbs..............
No. 1  40 lbs..............
No. 1  10 lbs..............
No. 1  8 lbs.............
WhltafUh

London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............  
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, choice......   8
L. M , Seeded, fancy...... , 

denomination from 810 down.

California Praam .

160
1 75
6X 
754
854

Graham.
Tapioca.

California Pratts.

SALT PISH.

riscksral.

Herring.

Raisins.

Apples .

Wheat.

Trout.

Cod.

"X

FOREIGN.
Citron.

Pool.

Currants.

Leghorn.........................©11
Corsican...........................©12
Cleaned, b u lk .................© 7
Cleaned, packages...........©754
Citron American 101b bx ©18 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ®i054 
Orange American 10 lb bx 01054 
Ondura 28 lb boxes----   ®
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 8 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 5 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........   ©
Sultana package— " ,.  ©

Raisins.

1 48

10 lbs.
•  8 lbs___
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

No. 1 Ho. ? Fam
2 21
.  7 CO 6 50
1  21
2 90
.  3  10
38
80
85
71
66
33
Perrigo’s.Van. 
doz.
XXX, 2 oz. obert......1  25
XXX. 4 oz. taper......2 25
XX, 2 oz. obert......   1  00
No. 2. 2 oz. obert  ....  75 
XXX D D ptebr. 6 oz 
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher, B oz...

Lem.
doz.
75 
1  25

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

2
1
2
Van.
1
1
2
2

Jennings’ .

D. C. Lemon
.C. Vanilla 
2 oz.......   75
1 20
3 oz........1 00
oz........1 50
4 oz........1 40
oz....... 2 00
6 oz....... 2 00
ox.......3 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.  8 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.

HERBS.

Sage.
Hope

INDIGO.

Madras, 5  lb  boxes...........:  55
. F., 2.8 and 6 lb boxes—   50

GUNPOWDBR.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
Kegs 
.................................. 4 00
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 »
..................  *
lb. cahs........ 
54 lb. cans............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Eagle Dade—Dupont’s.

Half Kegs................................. 4 25
Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
Hb. cans.................... .

JELLY.

151b p a ils.........................  *6
30 lb pails............
LYB.

Condensed, 2 dos  ...............1 80
Condensed. 4 dos.................... " ®

LICORICE. 

_
Pure.....................................   »
Calabria..............................  •
Molly....................................  M
Root.....................................   I®

HATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands

No. 9 sulphur...........................1 65
Anchor Parlor..........................1 70
No. 2  Home.............................. |  JJ
Export  Parlor.....................*
Wolverine.................................1 25

14
»

nOLASSBS.
Now Orleans.

Black................................
F air..................................  
Good................................. 
Fancy
Open Kettle.................
Half-barrels 2c 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. full count........ 
66
Cob, No. 8.......................... 
85

POTASH.

48 cans in case. 

m
Babbitt’s............................ 4 00
Penna Salt  Co.’s................8 00

PICKLES.
flsdlnm.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........  4 00
Half bbls, 600 count...........  2 50

Small.

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

RICE.

Domestic.

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

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1...........„  -654© 6
Japan,  No. 2...............4h@  5
Java, fancy head.......5  ®  554
Java,  No. 1..................5  ©
Table............................   ©
Packed 60 lbs. In  box. 

SALBRATU5.

Church’s Arm and Hammer.3  15
Deland’s ...............................3 00
Dwight’s Cow........................8 15
Emblem ...............................3 50
L. P........................................3 00
Sodio.....................................3 15
Wyandotte, ICO Xs...............3 00
Granulated, bbls..............   f0
Granulated,  100 lb oases..  80
Lamp, bbls.........................  70
Lamp, 1451b kegs..............  £0

SAL SODA.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Worcester.

Common Grades.

Table, cases, 24 3-lb  boxes. .1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 8 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Batter, barrels, 280lb. bulk.2 25 
Batter, barrels,2014 lbbags.2 50
Batter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Batter, sacks, 56 lbs............   55
100 8-lbsacks.......................1  85
60 5-lb sacks.......................1  80
2810-lb sacks......... ............1  65
lb. cartons................... 8 25
50  4 
115  2541h. sacks........................4 00
lb. sacks.......................8 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks.......................8 50
3010 
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......   30
28-lb dairy in drill bags......   16
58-lb dairy In linen sacks...  80 
56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56-lb  sacks..........................   21
Granulated Fine.................   60
Medium  Fine......................   70
Per doz.
Peiouze Household.... 12 00

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.
Common.

SCALES.

Warsaw.

Weight 24 Iba. hj ounce«. 

SEEDS.

Anise  ..............................  9
Canary, Smyrna................  3*4
Caraway...........................  8
Cardamon,  M alabar......   80
Celery.................................  11
Hemp,  Russian................  4*4
Mixed  Bird......................  4*t
Mustard,  white........ 
...  5
Poppy  ................................  10
Rape................................. 
4*4
Cattle Bone........................  20
Scotch, In bladders.............  37
Maccaboy, In jars................  35
French Rappee. In jars......   43

SNUFF.

SOAP.

jaXon

Single box............................. 2 85
5 box lots, delivered............2 r0
10 box lots, delivered........... 2 75
JUS.  S.  KIRK  S CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.................................... 2 75
Cabinet..................................... 2 20
Savon........................................ 2 50
White Russian.....................2 35
White Cloud, laundry........ 6 25
White Cloud, toilet................. 3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz__ 2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__ 3 00
Bine India, 100 *  lb..................3 00
Klrkoline.................................. 8 50
Bos........................................... 2 60
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz.......2 «u
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz........... 2 40
Boxes  ...............................   6*4
Kegs- English... 
*4

Scouring.

SODA.

 

 

SYRUPS
Cera.

Barrels................................17
Half  bbls........................... 19
1 doz. 1 gallon cans..................2 9’
1  doz. *4 gallon cans........ 1 70
3  doz. *f gallon  c a n s.......1  70
Fair  .................................  18
Good.................................  »
Choice..............................  *5

Pure Cone.

M ICH IG AN   TRA D ESM A N
Grains and Feedstuffs

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  ..............................10
Cassia, China in mats......... 12
Cassia, Batavia in bond__25
Cassia, Saigon in rolla........S2
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zanzibar..................12
Mace,  Batavia.....................56
Nutmegs, fancy...................00
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2...................45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 13 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .16 
Pepper,  shot........................15

Pare around In Balk.

Allspice  ..............................14
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon..............  ...40
Cloves, Zanzibar..................14
Oinger,  African..................15
dinger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger,  Jamaica  ................23
Mace,  Batavia.................... 65
Mustard......................... 12@18
Nutmegs,...................... 40@50
Pepper, Sing., black............15
Pepper, Sing., white........... 22
Pepper, Cayenne................. 20
Sage......................................16

STARCH.

Klngaford’a  Cora.

Diamond.

101-lb packages...................6
201 lb packages...................6 M
Kingston)’* Silver  (Hoes.
10 1-lb packages.....................OH
0- lb boxes.......................... 7
64 10c  packages  ............... 5 00
128  5c  packages.................5 00
8210c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 
201 lb. packages..................5
401 lb. packages 
.................4M
1- lb  packages......................4M
8-lb  packages......................  4M
0-lb  packages......................  5
40 and 50 lb boxes................  3
Barrels  ...............................  3

Common Glosa.

Common  Cora.

STOVE POLISH.

Cigars.

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

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Fortune Teller....................35 03
Our Manager...................... 35 00
(Quintette............................35 uu
Q. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

S. C. W......
.35 00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. 
Vincente PortUondo. ,35@ 7) 0">
Ruhe B’OS.  Co  ......... 25®  *0  00
The HilsonCo............3 @U0  00
T. J. Dunn &  Co........3.V* 70  00
McCoy & Co...............35® 70  00
The Collins Cigar Co..lt@ 35 00
Brown Bros............... 15® 70  00
Banner Cigar Co....... 30® 70  00
Bernard Siahl  Co......35®  90  00
Banner Cigar Co....... 1  @ ?5  00
Seidenberg & Co........56®125 00
G. P. Sprague C.gar Co. 10® 35 03 
The Fulton Cigar Co..1«® 35 00 
A. B  Ballard & Co....3'@l  5 00 
E. M. bcliwarz & Co 
.£@110 00
San  Telm ■.................35® 70 0
Havana Cigar Co.......18® 35 00
Columbian Cigar Co.’s brand.
Columbian,  5c..............  35 CO
Columbian, Kc.............  65 Uu

VINEGAR.

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

WICKING.

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

WOODENWARB. 

Baskets.

Pails.

Bushe’s...............................  1 00
Bushels, wide band...........  1  10
M arket.............................  30
Willow Clothes, large....... 6 25
Willow Clothes, medium...  5 50
Willow Clothes, small...... 5 Oj
hoop Standard.......................1 35
3-hoop Standard...................... 1 50
“ wire, Cable........................1 35
wire. Cable...................... 16
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1  25
Paper, Eureka.........................2 25
Fiore......... ..........................2 25
2'Much, Standard, No. 1_____5 80
18-inch, Standard, No. 2__ 4
16-inch,  Standard,  No. 3__ 3
20-inch. Dowell, No. 1..............6 25
18-inih, Dowel:, No. 2.  .......5 25
16-inch, Dowell, No. 3.............. 4 25
No. I Fibre............................... 9 0)
No. 2 Fibre............................... 7 50
No. 3 Fibre............................... 6 75

Tabs.

SUGAR.

No. 4, 3'doz in Case, gross..  4  50 
No. 6,8 doa in case, gross..  7 20 
Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino................................ 5 56
Cut  Loaf...............................6 69
Crushed................................ 6 81
Powdered 
......................... 5 38
XXXX Powdered................ 5 44
Cubes...................................5 44
Granulated in  bbls.................5 31
Granulated in  bags.................5 31
Fine Granulated..................5 ?i
Extra Fine Granulated....... 5 44
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 44
Mould  A.............................. F 56
Diamond Confec.  A............5 31
Confec. Standard A................. 5 06
.................... 4 el
No. 1....
.........................4 81
No
2....
...................1 81
No. 8....
.................... 4
No. 4....
.................... 4
No. 6....
..........................4 63
No. 6....
.....................4 66
No. 7...,
.....................4 50
No. 8...
.....................4 44
No. 9...
No. »0...
No. li.  .
No. 12.  .
No. 18...
No. 14...
No. 15 
.
Nt 1«

..4 18 
..4 13 
-.4 06

TABLB  SAUCES.
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine 
Worcestershire. 
Lea A Perrin’s,  large...  3 75 
Lea A Perrin’s, small...  2 E0
Halford,  large..................3 75
Halford small.................. 2 25
Salad Dressing, large.......4 56
Salad Dressing, sm a ll.......2 75

Crackers.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

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

Soda.

Oyster.

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

Candies.
Stick Candy.

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

7H@ 8

bbls.  pails
©  7H 
1H
iH 
cases 
® 6H 
@ 8H 
©10

Mixed Candy.

© 6
Grocers...................  
Competition............ 
© 6H
© 7
Standard................. 
© 7%
Conserve................. 
Royal...................... 
© 7H
© s%
Ribbon.................... 
© 8
Broken................... 
© 8H
Cut Loaf.................  
English Rock.........  
© 8H
© 8H
Kindergarten....... 
French  Cream........ 
© 9
Dandy Pan..................  
© 
Hand Made Cream mxd  @13 
Nobby.........................  
© 
Fancy—In Bulk.

San Bias Goodies....  @11
Lozenges, plain......  
© 9
©  9
Lozenges,  printed.. 
©li
Choc.  Drops........... 
©>2H
Choc.  Monumentals 
Gum  Drops............  
© 5
Moss  Drops............  
© 8H
Sour Drops................... 
© 8H
Imperials....................  
© 
Itai. Cream Bnbns, 35 lb p’s  11 
Molasses Chews,  15 lb. pails  13 
Jelly Date Squares..  @10M

Fancy—In  $  lb.  Boxes.

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 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Want............
String Rock............
Burnt Almonds...... 1 25
Wintergreen Berries
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb. 
boxes...................
Fruits.
Oranges.
Fancy Rodi’s...........
Sorrentos................
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 309s  ............
Ex.Fancy  300s........
Bananas.

©60
©60
©60
©65
©75

©30 
©75 
©50 
©65 
©55 
©55 
©.0 
©66 
©55 
©  90
©65
©60
©
©65

©SO

@6 00
@5 50

@4 25
@4  fO
©5 00
@5 5v

Medium bunches... 1  00 @1  £5
Large bunches........1  50 @1  75

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Figs.

@10
© 6
© 6
©  6
© 5

Californias  Fancy..
@13
Choice, 101b boxes..
@12
Extra  choice,  10  lb
boxes new............
@18
Fancy, 12 lb boxes..
©22
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes............... ©
Pulled, 6 lb boxes... ©
Naturals,  in bags...
© 7
Dates.
Fards in 10 lb  boxes
Fards  in  60 lb cases
Persians, P H V......
lb cases, new........
Sairs,  601b cases....
Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
Almonds, Ivaca.........
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............
Brazils new................
Filberts  ....................
Walnuts, Granobles.. 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
Walnuts,  soft shelled
Calif.......................
Table Nuts,  fancy__
Table Nuts,  choice...
Pecans, Med...............
Pecans, Ex. Large..
Pecans, Jumbos........
Hickory 'Nuts per bn.
Ohio, new................
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks 
Chestnuts per bu.......
Peanuts.

©16
@14
@15 
© 7 
©10 
©18M 
©lx
@11 
@11 
@10 
© 7M 
© 9 @12
@1  60 
©S 50

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

@7
OB

Wheat.

6'
64

Old..................................... 
New.................................... 
Winter  Wheat Plear. 

Local Brands.

Patents............................. 4 00
Second  Patent...................  3 50
Straight...........................  3 25
Clear.................................. 3 00
Graham  ............................3 60
Buckwheat.......................
R ye.................................   3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Daisy, %s............................ 3  '0
Daisy, Ms............................ 3 60
Daisy, Hs............................ 3 60
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, Mb.......................  3  to
Quaker, MB........................  3 60
Quaker, Ms........................   3 60
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 45
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  4 45
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........4 35
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  4 35 
Pillsbury’s Best MB paper..  4  15 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

8H
Spring Wheat Flour. 
8H

9

Provisions.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barreled Pork.

Mess  .............................   10 00
Back  ......................10 50©
Clear back.............. 
©<0  7s
Shortcut.............................   10 00
Pig.......................................  1* (d
9  50
Bean  .............................  
Family  ..........................  11  0J

Dry Salt  Meats.

Bellies
Briskets  __
Extra shorts

.Smoked Heats.

Hams, 12lb average  __  
llM
11
Hams, 14lb  average 
... 
Hams, 1610 average...... 
1O*
1. H
Hams, 20 lb average......  
Ham dried beef  ............  
15H
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
7
Bacon,  clear.................7  @7M
California hams..........  
7
Boneless hams................ 
8M
Cooked ham................ 10@15
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound.................... 
Kettle.............................. 
6M
55 lb Tubs...........advance 
H
80 lb Tubs...........advance  M
50 lb T ins...........advance  %
20 lb Pails...........advance  %
10 lb Pails...........advance  %
5 lb Pails...........advance 
1
3 lb Pails...........advance 
1M

5

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

Beef.

Extra  Mess.....................10 00
Boneless  ........................11  50
Rump...................................11 &C
Kits, 15 lbs.....................   70
M  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 35
M  bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 50

Pigs’ Feet.

Tripe.

60

Meal.

Butte fine.

11
10*4
15M
14»

Canned  Meats.

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Kits, 15 lbs  ....................   70
M  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 25
M  bbls, 80 lbs....................... 2 25

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

Casings.
P ork.........................
Beef  rounds.............
Beef  middles...........
Sheep............................. 

Duluth imperial, Ms...........4 25
Duluth Imperial, Ms.  ------4  5
Duluth Imperial, Ms.........   4 0j
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Mb.........................4 30
Gold Medal Ms.........................4 20
Gold Medal Ms.........................4 10
Parisian, Mb...........................  4 30
Parisian, Ms............................. 4 20
Parisian. Ms...........................   4 10
Ceresota, Ms......................   4 4'
Ceresota, ms...........................  4 35
Ceresota, Ms...........................  4 25
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ms.........................  4  41
Laurel, Ms.........................  4 3
Laurel, Ms..............................  4 25
Bolted....................................  1 90
Granulated............................  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened  .... 16 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........15 60
Uubolted Corn Meal..........14
Winter Wheat  Bran..........It  00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 15 P0
14 00
Beef.
36V4
Î.7H Carcass.................
..  7 ©  8*
Fore quarters........
..  6 ©  «M
23H Hind  quarters......
..  8M@!0*
Loins  No.  3...........
..12 @14
26
Ribs.......................
30
.  9 @14
Rounds  .................
©  8
9 50 Chucks...................
..  6 ©  6H
Plates  .......................  4  @5
©  6 
© 8M 
© 7

Corned beef,  2 l b ........3 25
Corned beef, 14 lb......... 16  0
Roast  beef,  2 lb......... 2 25
Potted  ham,  M8.........  
50
Potted  ham,  Ms..........  90
Deviled ham,  M8..........  B0
Deviled ham,  Hs.........   90
Potted  tongne M8.........   B0
Potted  tongue Hs.........  
90

Less than car lots..
No. 1 Timothy carloti 
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  ..  12 03
Fish and Oysters

Dressed. 
Loins  ... 
Shoulders
Leaf Lard...................  6M@

A  A V o ll  I T lV a i^ a

Feed and Mlllstnffz.

Fresh Fish.

Pork.

Corn.

Hay.

Whiteflsh..............
Trout ....................
Black Bass............
Halibut.................
Ciscoes or Herring.
Bluefish.................
Live Lobster.........
Boiled Lobster......
Cod 
....................
Haddock...............
No.  1  Pickerel......
Pike.......................
Perch.....................
Smoked White......
Red Snapper-------
Col  River Salmon
............
Mackerel 

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©

10
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8  © 10
16
©
4
©
11
©
20
©
22
©
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© 7
© 1)
©
© 5
© 8
a
9
© 13
© 2 j

Shell  Goods.

Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  50
rT*q.w»q  no* 100
'0

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene  .....................  @UH
Perfection  .................  ©10
XXX W.W.MiCh.Hdlt  @10
WW Michigan...........  © 9H
Diamond White.........  @ 8H
D., S. Gas....................  @11*
Deo. N aptha..............  @11*
Cylinder...................29  ©34
Bnglnq,......................11  ©21
B 
winter............   O 8

Mutton

Carcass......................7H@  8
Spring Lambs...........  9  @10

V an i.

Carcass  .................... 8H®  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  @ 7M
Calfskins, cured No. 1  @10
Calfskins, cured No. 2  ©  8M

Hides.

Pelts,  each.................  50© 1  00

Pelts.

Tallow.

No. 1...........................  © 3H
No. 2..........................   © 2M
Washed, fine  ............   @18
Washed, medium.......  ©2 ’
Unwashed, fine..... ...10  @14
Ui wtihed, medium ..16 ©18

Wool.

21

Crockery and

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Batters.

H gal., per do*  .............. 
40
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5
8 gal., each......................  48
10 gal., each.....................   60
12gal.,  each.....................  72
15 gal. meat-tnbs, each.... 1  05 
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 1  40 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each  ...2 00 
30 gal. meat-tnbs, each. ...2 40 
2 to 6 gal., per gal............  
5
Churn Dashers, per doz...  84 
M gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  40 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  4*

Mllkpans.

Churns.

Jngs.

Stewpane.

Tomato Jngs.

Sealing Wax.
FRUIT JARS

Fine Glazed Mllkpanz.
H gal. flat or rd. hot., aoz.
60
1 gal. flat or rd. boL, each 
5M
H gal. fireproof  ‘  • 11, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproot, bail, doz.l  10 
M gal., per doz..................  40
H gal., per doz..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal... 
6
H gal., per dos.................   50
1 gal., each............... . . . .   6M
Corks for M gal., per dos..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per dos..  80 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
H gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 
5 lbs. In package, per lb...  2
Pints................................. 4 00
Quarts..............................
4 25
Half Gallons...... .............
6 CO
Covers.............................. 2 00
Ruobers...........................
25
LAMP  BURNBRS.
No. 0  Sun......................  .
37
No.  1  Sun.........................
38
No.  2  Sun.........................
65
No. 3 San..........................
1  UO
Tubular............................
45
Security, No. 1.................
60
Security, No. 2.................
80
Nutmeg  ..........................
50
LAMP CHIMNBY5—âecondz.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun......................... .  1  18
No.  1  Sun......................... .  1  42
No.  2 Sun......................... .  2  12
Common
....................... .  1  50
No. 0 Sun 
No. 1 Sun.......................... .  1  60
No. 2 Snn........................
.  2 45
Pirat  Quality.

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

wrapped and  labeled....  2  10 
wrapped and  labeled__2  15
wrapped and  labeled....  8  15 

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Blectrlc.

Rochester.

La  Bastlo.

No.  0  Sun,  crimp  top,
wrapped and labeled....  2 55 
crimp  top,
No. 
f  Son, 
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
No.  2  Son, 
crimp  top,
wrapped and  labeled  ...  3 7b 
CHIMNEYS—Poarl  Top.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  ana
labeled............................8 70
No- 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled..............................4 88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamps............. 
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bnlb,  per
dos  ........ 
10
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  15
No. 1 Crimp, per dos............1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per dos...  ...1 6 0  
No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)  __ 8 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)..........4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  dos)........  4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c dos)  ......   4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c dos)..........4 40
Dos.
t gal tin cans with  spout..  1  43 
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1  75 
3 gal galv iron with spont.  2 85 
3 gal galv iron with spont.  3 65 
5 gal galv iron with  spont.  4  78 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4  65 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 4  05
5 gal Tilting cans..............7  25
5 gal galv iron  Naoefaa__ 0 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  8 4) 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rale................10 50
5 gal Home Rule  ..............12 00
5 gal Pirate  K ing............ 0 50
No.  OTubnlar side lift....  4  50
No.  1 B  Tubular 
...........7 0)
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 0 7»
No.  1 Tub., glass fount  ...  7 00 
No. 12 Tabular, side lamp.14 00 
No.  3 Street  Lamp, each..  8 75 
LANTERN GLOBBS.
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 1 dos.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 dos.
No. 0 Tabular,  bbls 6 dos.
No. 0 Tubular,  bud’s  eye, 

each, box 10 cents...........  46
each, box 15 cents.........   45
each,  per bbl, bbl. 00....  1 78 
oases 1 dos. eaoh.  . —   1  25

LANTBRNS.

Pomp  Cans

OIL CANS. 

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Hardware

Window  Glass  and  Other  Trusts.
In  the  matter  of  trusts  it  is  quite  evi­
dent  that  a  reaction  has  set  in.  The
window  glass  combination,  which,  with 
$37.000 ooo  of  capital  behind  it,  was  ex­
pected  to  be  one  of  the  strongest  in  the 
country,  has gone  to  pieces  and  it  is re­
ported  that  others  will  soon 
follow. 
These  dissolutions  are  as  much  in  ac­
cordance  with  the  national laws  of trade 
and  individual  interests  as  the  original 
combinations  were.  Tbe  Reporter  has 
insisted  from  the  beginning  that  trusts 
were  largely  the  result  of  normal  con­
ditions,  great  commercial  prosperity 
and  keen  competition,  and  that  in  tbe 
end  they  would  be  governed  by  natural 
conditions  and  tbe  law  of  the  survival 
of  the  fittest. 
It  is  absurd  to  suppose 
that  trusts  are  due  to  the  success  of  any 
political  party  or  the  existence  of  any 
particular tariff  law,  except  in  so  far as 
these conditions may contribute to a state 
of  general  prosperity.  Sufficient  proof 
of  this  is  tbe  fact,  now  familiar  to  all. 
that  trusts  are  as  common  in  England 
as  they  are  in  the  United  States.  The 
business  world  has 
laws  of  its  own  as 
distinct  and  arbitrary  as  those  of  the 
physical,  the  moral  or  the  spiritual 
world.  Given  certain  conditions,  op­
portunités, 
inducements  and  results, 
and  great  combinations  of  capital  are 
sure to  occur,  while  under  other  condi­
tions they  are  sure  to  go  to  pieces.  As 
the  formation  of  trusts  is  intended  to 
prevent  or  control  competition,  and 
does  have  that  result,  it  follows  that 
they  carry 
in  themselves  the  germ  of 
their  own  dissolution  or  correction,  be­
cause  as  soon  as competition is curtailed 
beyond  a  certain  point  it  will  spring  up 
again.

Tbe  failure  of  the  window  glass  trust 
and  tbe  prospective  dissolution  of  other 
trusts  are  not  due  exactly  to the  cause 
named  above,  but  they  are  due  to  other 
natural  causes  and  show  the  difficulty 
of  maintaining  trusts  that  conflict  with 
tbe  laws  of  trade  or  with  individual  in­
terests.  Tbe  window  glcss  workers  bad 
much  to  do  with  breaking  up  that  trust, 
first  by  threatening 
legal  proceedings 
against  the  companies  if  they  entered 
into  a  combination  to control production 
and  prices,  and  then  by  entering  into  a 
compact  with  independent  manufactur­
ers. 
It  is  said  tbe  latter have  agreed  to 
pay  the  workmen  tbe  7^   per  cent,  ad­
in  wages  which  they  have b~en 
vance 
asking  and  which 
the  combination 
would  have  refused.  Thus  by  forming 
an  alliance  with  tbe  independent and 
co-operative  manufacturers,  the  work­
men  virtually  formed a new combination 
and  turned  the  trust  against  itself ;  for 
if  they  held  to their  agreement  to  work 
only  for  independent  manufacturers  tbe 
trust  factories  would  have  been  unable 
to  obtain  workmen. 
It  was  combina­
tion  against  combination  and  one  set  of 
interests  against  another. 
If  the  or 
ganized  window  glass  workers,  with  the 
aid  of  a  few 
independent  factories, 
could  prevent  the  formation  of a  trust 
which  threatened  to  control  the  entire 
window  glass business  of  tbe  country,  it 
is  worth  while  to  consider  whether  or 
not  the  same  thing  can  be  done  with 
other cases.

In  the  case  of  other  trusts  it  is  said 
that  some  of  the  stockholders  think  the 
management 
is  playing  a  kind  of 
“ freeze  out”   game  to  benefit  some 
stockholders  at  the  expense  of  others. 
Other stockholders in factories embraced 
in  the  trust  think  the  mills  in  which

M ICHIGAN  TR AD ESM AN

they  are  interested  are  not  getting  their 
share  of  work.  A  house  divided  against 
itself  can  not  stand,  and  a  trust  in 
which  some  of  tbe  stockholders  are 
profiting  at  the  expense  of  others  must 
in  the  course  of time  go  to pieces.  Tbe 
instances  cited  show  that  trusts  can  not 
escape  from  tbe  natural  laws  of  trade 
or  the  conservative 
influence  of  indi­
vidual 
competition.— 
Stoves  and  Hardware  Reporter.
The  Hardware  Market.

interests  and 

The  trade  during  the  summer  months 
in  hardware  has  kept  up  remarkably 
well,  considering  the  many  changes 
which  have  been  made  in  all  kinds  of 
merchandise.  We  find,  however,  that 
the  average  dealer  is  disposed  to  re­
strict  his  purchases  to  as  small  an 
amount  as  possible,  fearing  there  may 
be  a  reaction,  and  that  present  high 
prices  will  not  be  maintained  for  tbe 
coming  year.  The experience  of  jobbers 
and  manufacturers,  however,  who  are 
conversant  with  conditions now  existing 
is  that  no  lower  prices  will  rule  dur­
ing  tbe  coming  year  and  in  many  in­
stances  they  are  placing  contracts  to run 
far into  the  year  of  1900 at  prices  ruling 
to-day.

Wire  Nails—The  market  on  wire nails 
is  very  firm  and  there  is  every 
indica­
tion  that  another advance  may  occur  at 
almost  any  moment,  owing to  the  rapid­
ly  advancing  prices  for  raw  material. 
It 
is  pointed  out  that  rods  are  close  to 
$45 per  ton,  and  as  only  twenty-one  kegs 
of  nails  can  be  made  from  a  ton of rods, 
the  cost  of  tbe  rods  alone  is all  of  $2 
which  leaves  only  50c  for  drawing  wire 
and  cutting  the  nails.  Tbe  present  quo­
tation  on  nails  f.  o.  b.  mill  is  $2.65  in 
carloads  or $2.75  in  less  than  carloads, 
all  to  take  Pittsburg  freight,  no  matter 
from  what  point  shipped.  Nails  from 
stock,  $2  90.

Barbed  Wire—The demand for  barbed 
wire  is  somewhat  restricted  at  this  sea­
son,  but  the  market  is  strong  and  quo­
tations  are  firmly  held.  Tbe foreign de­
mand  for  wire  is  heavy,  the  American 
Steel  &  Wire  Co.  making  shipments  to 
every  place  where  wire  is  used.  We 
quote  as follows on w ire:  painted barbed 
in  carlots,  $2.75;  in 
less  than  carlots, 
$2.85; galvanized  barbed,  50c  advance. 
Also 
freight. 
Painted  barbed  from  stock,  $3.05;  gal­
vanized,  $3.55.

to  Pittsburg 

subject 

Files—At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  file 
manufacturers,  an  advance  of  10  per 
cent,  was  made,  to  take 
immediate 
effect.  This  was  necessitated  by  the 
scarcity  and  high  price of  raw  material 
and  the  great 
increase  in  the  cost  re­
sulting  therefrom. 
The  present  dis­
count,  as  quoted  on  Nicholson  or  Black 
Diamond  files,  is  70  per cent.

Window  Glass—Owing  to  the  closing 
down  of  all  factories  which  has  existed 
for  the  last  three  months,  the  price  of 
window  glass  remains  firm  and  quite  a 
is  beginning  to  be  noticed. 
scarcity 
The  present  price  on  window  glass 
is 
80  and  15  per  cent,  for  both  single and 
double,  and 
it  is  believed  that,  if  an 
adjustment  of  the  wage  question  does 
not  very  soon  occur,  window  glass  will 
be  much  higher.

Miscellaneous—We would  call the  at­
tention  of  the  trade  to  the following 
advances which  have taken  place  since 
our  last  market  report:  On  all  shelf 
hardware, 
locks,  cupboard 
catches and  bolts, and  miscellaneous ar­
ticles  of  that nature,  an  advance of  40 
per cent,  has been  made by  the  manu­
facturers  and  has  been  foliowed^up  by 
the jobbers as a matter of self protection.

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It  is  an  inven­
tion  gotten  up  from  the  expe­
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the  market.  Don’t  order  a 
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the same money you can  secure 
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RIVBTS

ROPB8

SHBBT IRON

ROOFING  PLATES

SAND  PAPER
SASH WEIGHTS

60
Iron and Tinned........................................ 
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
45
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  6 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  7 25
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  12 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5 25
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   6 25
20x281C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   10 50
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   12 53
Sisal. Vi Inch and  larger............................. 
llVi
Manilla.........................................................  13Vi
List  sect. 19, ’86...................................... dls 
50
Solid Eyes........................................per ton 20 00
com. smooth,  com.
*3 00
3 00
8 20
3 30
3 40
3 50
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  80  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14....................................13 20 
Nos. 15 to 17...................................   3 20 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................   3  30 
Nos. 22 to 24...................................   3 40 
Nos. 25 to 26...................................  3 50 
No.  27 ..........................................  3 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHOT
D rop............................................................  1  45
B Band Buck........................  
 
170
SOLDBR
Vi@Vi........................................................ 
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
Steel and Irrr*.............................................. 70*10
Try and Bevels...........................................  
60
M itre.........................................  
50
 
TIN—Melyn Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................ * 7 (6
14x20 IC, Charcoal...........................................   7 10
20x14 IX, Charcoal...........................................   8 50

SQUARES

TIN—Allaway Grade

Bach additional X on this grade, *1X5.
10x14 IC, Charcoal...........................................  6 25
14x20 IC, Charcoal.............................  
10x14 IX, Charcoal...........................................   7 60
14x20 IX, Charcoal...........................................   7 50

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Each additional X on this grade, *1.50.
BOILER  SIZB TIN  PLATB 
10
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
nound 
,u
14x66 IX. for  No  9  Boilers, f 
P°una•• * 
TRAPS
75*10
Steel, Game............................................. 
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s ......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker........................... per dos 
15
1  25
Mouse, delusion.........................per dos 
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..............................   8 f5
Barbed  Fence,  Plain..................................  2 83

W1RB

WIRB  GOODS

Bright..................................................... 
 
80
Screw Byes................................................... 
80
Hook’s..........................................................  
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes..................................  
80
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
80
Coe’s Genuine..............................................8r* l )
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought..........70*10
Coe’n Patent, malleable............................... "0*10

WRBNCHBS

MUSKEGON
AND RETURN
Every  Sunday
VIA

Q.  R.  &   I.
Train leaves Union 
station at 9.15 a.  m. 
Bridge Street 9.21 a. m. 
Returning leaves 
Muskegon 7.15 p.  m.

5

0

cents

We  quote  the  market  price  as  follows 
on  a  few  staple goods,  which  will  give 
the  retail  trade  an  opportunity  to  keep 
track  of  the  conditions  now  prevail­
ing :  Harrow  teeth,  %  inch  and  larger, 
4c  per  lb ;  Lawrence  barn door rail,  4^c 
per  foot;  square  and  hexagon  nuts,  3c 
off  list;  two burner  Low  Junior gasoline 
stoves,  $2.35;  mosaic,  onyx  and  crys­
tallized  stove  boards,  30  per  cent,  from 
list. 
In  clothes  wringers  the  manufac­
turers  have  adopted  a  new  list  with  a 
discount  of  25  per  cent.,  which  is  the 
price  they  are  expected  to  sell  at  to  the 
retail  trade.  This means  an  advance of 
$2@5  per  dozen.  Bar iron is  firm  at  2j£c 
per  lb.  ; horse shoes,  $3 85 ;  No.  27  sheet 
steel,  $3.50  per  cwt.  In  coil  chain  there 
has  been  a  very  marked  advance  and 
we  quote  the  following  prices  on  a 
staple  size  chain:  Y% 
inch  common, 
5 # c;  Y»  B.  B.,  6 # c;  y%  B.  B.  B.,  7c; 
y%  special  steel,  I2j^c.  Other  sizes  have 
advanced 
in  proportion  and  the  retail 
dealer  can  form  from  these  quotations 
an  idea  of  the  price  it  is  necessary  for 
him  to  get  on  what  stock  he  may  have 
on  hand.  We  quote  the  following  prices 
on  wedges  and  mauls:  Common wood- 
chopper  wedges,  5^c  per  lb .;  common 
Truckee  wedges,  5>£c;  Lake  Superior 
Truckee  wedges,  9 c;  saw  wedges,  12c 
Vulcan  W.  C.  mauls,  10c;  Hammond 
W.  C.  mauls,  u>£c;  crowbars,  5>£c.
Dangers  Which  Attend  the  Dynamite 

sition  for a  quick  sprint.  Nothing hap­
pened,  and  the 
lounger  hastily  dis­
avowed  an  interest  in  dynamite.

“ Yes,  it 

is  a  ticklish  profession,”  
smiled  the  traveling  gentleman,  as  be 
shoved 
the  satchel  under  the  settee 
where  he  had  invited the  interrogator  to 
“ A  little  dan­
sit  and  chat  with  him. 
gerous,  and 
inconvenient— yes,  deuced 
inconvenient  at  times.  We  have  to  be 
careful,”   and  bis  eyes  wore a  haunted 
look.

“ But  we  get  paid  for  it—we  get  paid 
for  it.  You  would  not  believe  that  I  get 
the  biggest  salary  of  any  man  o?.i  the 
road—but  I  do.  It  is  a  big  risk,  and  we 
have  to  lay  up  something.  The  com­
panies  will  not  insure  us.”

He  grasped  a  thin  knee  in  both bands 

as  be crossed  bis  legs,  and  continued :

“  That  is  not  the  worst  of  it. 

Incon­
venient!  Traveling  around  with  this 
stuff  exposes  us  to  all  sorts  of  discour 
tesies  from  hotel  managements.  Some­
times  we  can't  get  rooms  in  a  town  for 
love  or  money,  for  people  won’t  have 
the  stuff  in  the  house,  and  the  guests 
come 
in  a  body  and  complain  when 
they  find  out  that  one  of us is registered. 
There  are  only  three  in  my  line,  you 
know.  Under  those  ciicumstances,  as 
we  dare  not  leave  our  samples,  the  po 
lice  station  is  the  only  recourse. 
I ’m 
registered  as  a  ’ sleeper’  in  a  good num­
ber  of  towns  in  this  vicinity."

,

Drummer.

ment  to  take  effect. 

The  little  man  who  scribbled illegibly 

on  the  Morton  House  register bore  an ) the  b r o a d s   to buck  up  against.
innocuous  name. 
It  was  Pink  Firkin, 
New  York,  that  be  spelled  out  some­
what  laboriously.  He  bore  also  an 
in­
nocuous  appearance, 
for  he  was  not 
more  than  five  feet  four  inches  high, 
with  slim  frame,  narrow  shoulders  and 
eyes  of  the  mildest and  most  appealing 
blue.  His  spirit  was  timid, 
for,  in 
fact,  when  he  was  addressed  he  gave  a 
little  start  of  fright.

He  paused  a  minute  for  this  state 
“ Then  there  are
Some
of  them  have  rules  against  carrying  ex 
plosives.  Sometimes  I  get  caught,  and 
then  off  I  go  at  the  next  station,  or 
sometimes  between  stations,  and  I  have 
to  foot  it  the  rest  of  the  way. 
I’m  not 
particularly  fond  of  railroad  travel  at 
any  time.  With  the  cargo  I  carry  s 
wreck 
is  something  to  be  afraid  of 
Even  the  jarring  of  the  cars  on  a  rough 
road  makes  me  so  uncomfortable  that 
have  to  take  up  my  satchel  and  pace 
the  aisle to  reduce  the  shock.

in  his  left  hand. 

Notwithstanding  all  this,  Pink  Firkin 
is  a  dangerous  man.  This  dangerous­
ness  rises not  from  the  inward  man,  but 
from  bis  occupation.  When  he  stepped 
up  to  the  desk  to  put  his  name  on  the 
register  it  was  with  the  most  painstak­
ing care  that  he  placed  upon  the  marble 
counter a  little  black  bag  which  he  car­
ried 
It  was  a  little 
bag,  black,  rusty, 
innocuous  looking, 
like  his  owner,  bearing  the  initials  P. 
F.,  N.  Y.  But  Pink  Firkin  handled  it 
as  though 
it  were  the  most  valuable 
thing  in  the  world.  Carefully,  gently, 
he  placed 
it  by  his  side,  and  between 
almost  every  letter  he  wrote  he  looked 
out  of  the  corner  of  his  eye  at the  little 
black  bag  to  see  if  it  were  really  there. 
As  he  wrote  “ N.  Y .”   he  put  out  his 
left  band  and  rested  it  upon  the  satchel 
to  make  sure  that 
it  had  not  been 
moved.

“ No!  Dynam ite,"  answered  Mi 
Firkin,  with  a  faint  smile. 
It  was  tht 
loiterer’s  turn  to  start.  He  recovered 
himself  and,  as  the  rest  of  the  loungers 
in  the  rotunda,  incmding  the  clerks, 
made  rapid  exit  in  both  directions,  put 
on  a  bold  front.

“ Oh,  dynamite?”   he  returned,  with 
a  show  of  unconcern.  “ Only  dynamite 
Humph. ”

“ Yes.  My  firm  in  New  York  makes 
in  the  world—goes 
the  best  dynamite 
in 
off  at  the  slightest  shock—especially 
hot  weather.  Great  hot  weather  stuff 
Want to  see  some?”  enquired  the  drum 
mer.  his  professional  training  getting 
the  upper hand.  He took the  satchel  in 
his  hand  with  some  roughness,  and  the 
professional  lounger  set himself  in  po

“ The  one  thing  that  I  fear  is 

wreck. 
If  I  ever  get  into  one  it  means 
good-bye  to  Pink  Firkin.  Just imagine 
that  stuff going  off  underneath  you."

Both  men  on  the  seat  shuddered.  The 
prospect  disturbed the lounger,  who  beat 
a  hasty  retreat.

Improvements in  Hardware.

The  demand  for  the  smaller  agricul 
tural  implements,  such as are handled by 
hardware  dealers  gene: ally,  has  been 
enormous  this  season. 
It  has  assumed 
larger  proportions than  were ever  known 
oefore,  and  tbeie 
is  no  probability 
trom  the  present  outlook,  that  much, 
any,  old  stuck  will  be  carried  over  into 
next  year.  Of  course  the  extent  of  the 
-.rops  for  1900  can  not  be  foretold  01 
even  guessed  at  now,  but  they  are  more 
than  likely  to  bear  a  favorable  relation 
to  previous  productiveness.

The  hardware  dealer  finds  new  forms 
of 
implements  every  year,  just  as  be 
finds  them  along  the  general  line  of  all 
goods  that  be  handles.  By  this  time 
next  year  he  will  probably admit that  he 
has  found  more  new  goods  than 
1899  just  as  be  will  also  admit  that  the 
new 
ideas  recently  biought  out  have 
met  with  a  readier  sale  than  he  was 
willing  to  concede  at  first. 
In  other 
words,  hardware  is  improving  all  along 
the  line  and  the  main  point  for  the 
tailer  to  consider  is  whether or  not  b 
own  ideas  of  management  will  also  im 
prove. 

_____
It  is  the  biggest  kind  of  an 

instil 

offer a  small  sum  of  money  as a  bribe.

14 00

 

AXES

BARROWS

CARTRIDGES

BUTTS.  CAST

AUQUR8 and  b it s

Hardware  Price Current.
Snell's........................................................... 
70
Jennlng.  genuine.......................................25*10
Jennings’, imitation....................................60*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.........................  6 CO
First Quality, D. B. Bronze..........................  10 00
First Quality, 8. B. S. Steel.........................  6 50
First quality. D. B. Steel.............................  11 50
Railroad................................................... 
Garden................................................   net  30 00
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle...........................................  
70
BOLTS
Stove................................  
60
Carriage new list.................................... 
50
Flow.......................................  
50
 
BUCKETS
Well,  plain.................. ...............  ..............I 8 50
Cast Loose  Pin, figured................................70*10
Wrought Narrow.......................................... 70*10
Rim Fire........................................................40*10
Central  Fire 
CROW  BARS
.................................per lb
Cast Steel.
  perm 
Ely’s  M0.................................... 
65
Hick’s C. F .........................................per m 
55
D....................................................per m 
45
Musket....................  ............ ...........per m 
75
Socket Firmer............................................. 
70
Socket Framing...........................................  
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..............................................  
125
Adjustable..............................................dls 40*10
Clark’s small, 118;  large,  126......................30*10
Ives’, 1, *18; 2,124; 3,130 
25
New American............................................. 70*10
Nicholson’s 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................6CA10
28
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27.  ... 
List  12 
16........ 
17

PILES—New  List
................................................ 
GALVANIZED  IRON 

EXPANSIVB  BITS

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

ELBOWS

CHISELS

DRILLS

CAPS

13 

Discount,  65

14 
15 
GAS PIPE.
GAUGES
HAMMBRS

 

H1NUB9

HORSE NAILS

HOLLOW  WARB

KNOBS—New List

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Black  Galvanized................  
40*10
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s..................... 60*10
Maydole *  Co.’s, new  list................................dls *3*
Kip’s  ...................................................... dls 
25
Yerkes *  Plumb’s....................................dl» Hi* 1C
Mason's Solid Cast Steel...................16-list 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50*10 
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,8.................................dls 60*1
State......................................... ..  dos. net  2 5#
Pots......................................................................60
Kettles................................................................60
Spiders............................................................... 60
Au Sable........................................................... dls 40*11
Putnam............................................................. dls f
Cape w ell.................................................net list
-stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 70
Ja tanned Tin Ware. 
................................. 20*11
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....................  
85
Door, porcelain, lap. trimmings.................   1  00
LEVELS
Stanley Buie and Level "to.’» 
7i
MATTOCKS
Adze Bye........................................... *17 00, dls 60
Hunt Eye...........................................*15 00, dls 60
Hunt’s.............................................»18 50, dls 20
600 pound casks.................................  ......  
9
9H
Per pound...................................................  
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
40
40
Coffee, P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.. 
Coffee, Landers. Ferry *  Clark’s...............  
40
Coffee, Enterprise........................................ 
30
4i
Bird  Cages  ........................................... 
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
70
80
screws, New List.................................... 
Casters, Bed snd  Plate.......... .............. 50*10*11
Dampers. American............................... 
51
Stebbin’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................60*10
Enterprise, self-measnrlnv  ........ 
80

MOLASSES  OATES

MISCBLLANBOUS

METAL»—Zinc

..............dls 

MILLS

 

 

NAILS

Advance over bas2, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base................................................  2 80
Wire nails, base...............................................   2 90
90 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
06
10
¿advance....-............................................ 
20
6 advance.................................................... 
30
4 advance.................................................... 
45
3 advance................................................... 
70
2 advance................................................... 
Fine 3 advance.............................. '•..........  
50
Casing 10 advance....................................... 
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance......................................  
25
35
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
Finish  ¿advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance.......................................... 
85
Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
Common, polished...................... 
70*5
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

.. 
PATBNT  PLANISHED  IRON 

Broken packages Vic per ponnd  extra. 

PANS

PLANES

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

6 25

Tradesman 

Itemized 1 edgers

SIZE—8 i-a x 14.
THREE  COLUMNS.

2 Quires,  160 pages........... $2  oo
3 Quires,  240 pages...........   2  50
4 Quires, 320 pages............3  00
5 Quires, 400  pages.........  3  5°
6 Quires, 4S0 pages........... 4  00

INVOICE  RECORD  OR  BILL  BOOK

80 double  pages,  registers  a,880 
invoices  ............................ $200

Tradesman  Company

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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M ICH IG AN   TRA D ESM A N

Gripsack  Brigade.

What  has become  of  the annual picnic 

of  the  Grand  Rapids  traveling  men?

L.  D.  Mosher,  who  has  been 

identi­
fied  with  the  Voigt  Milling  Co.  for 
nineteen  years  in  the  capacity of miller, 
succeeds  the 
late  A.  L.  Braisted  as 
traveling  representative  for  the  Cres­
cent  Mills.

Saginaw  Courier-Herald:  Ex-Aid. 
Harry  G.  Norton,  who  has  been  travel­
ing  for  the  Saginaw  Manufacturing  Co. 
for  some  time,  has  been  called  from 
the  road  by  the  company  to  take  charge 
of  one  of  the  departments  of the factory.
Detroit  News:  George  P.  Cogswell, 
of  299  Second  stieet,  was  struck  by  a 
Fourteenth  avenue  car  at  the  corner of 
that  avenue  and  Ash  street  yesterday 
afternoon  while  bicycling.  The  wheel 
was  all  broken  up  and  Cogswell’s  body 
was  badly  bruised.  Harper  ambulance 
took  him  home,  where County  Physician 
Johnson  and  Dr.  McEacbren  attended 
him.

St.  Ignace  Enterprise:  Charles  Wen­
zel,  for  several  years  traveler  for  Ham­
mond,  Standish  &  Co.,  wholesale  meat 
dealers,  resigned  bis  position  last  week 
to  accept  one  with  the  Armour  Co.,  of 
Chicago.  He 
is  succeeded  by  Myron 
Chamberlain,  formerly  shipping  clerk 
for  the  firm.  G.  H.  Hauptli,  late  of  the 
Merchandise  dock,  succeeds  Mr.  Cham­
berlain  as  shipping  clerk.  We  congrat­
ulate  all  parties  concerned  on  their  pro­
motions.

Another  Kalamazoo  traveling  man 
has  usurped  the  position  of  captain  and 
general  manager  of  the  base  bail  club 
organized  by  the  traveling  men  of  the 
Celery  City.  This  is  the  fourth  or fifth 
time  the  management ,  of  the  club  has 
been  usurped  by  some  ambitious  adven- 
tuier  who  imagined  that  he  could  do 
better  than  bis  immediate  predecessor, 
but, 
instead  of  improving,  the  club 
seems  to  be  degenerating under frequent 
changes  and  arbitrary  assumptions  of 
power.  It  is  understood  that  John  Hoff­
man  and  Sig.  Foiz  are  both  looking  on 
the  situation  with  anxious  eyes  in  the 
confident  belief  that  they  could  bring 
order out  of  chaos  and  put  the  club  on 
a  successful  plane.  Whether  this  will 
be  the  case  should  they  seize  the  reins 
of  power,  or  whether  some  one  else  will 
anticipate  them  in  the  matter,  remains 
to  be  seen.

The  Grain Market.

Wheat  during  the  week  has  not  held 
up  as  the  conditions  would  indicate, 
the  arrival  of  300  cars  of  new  wheat 
in 
the  Northwest,  as  well  as  the  threshers’ 
favorable  reports  of  large  yields,  having 
had  a  depressing  effect.  Even  the  large 
visible  decrease  of  1,517,000  bushels 
bad  only  a  partial  effect  of  strength. 
September  liquidation  was  another  fac­
tor  of  weakness,  which  the  short  sellers 
were  not  slow  to  take  advantage  of  by 
poundiug  the  market  for  lower  prices.
The  demand  from  abroad  seems  to 
keep  up  in  the  face  of  the  cry  of  no  ex­
port  demand.  From  all  appearances 
the  foreigners  will  need  as  much  wheat 
from  the  United  States  as  they  bought 
here  last  year,  for  there  is  no  other  ex­
porting  country  that  they  can  draw 
from.  As  the  winter  wheat  receipts 
have  fallen, 
the  receipts  of 
spring 
wheat  will  be  easily  absorbed.

A  decrease  at  this  time  is  hardly  in 
accordance  with  the  usual  conditions. 
Another  strong  feature 
cash 
wheat  sells  half  a  cent  above  the  Sep­
tember  options.  The  decline  since  last 
week  was  2c  a  bushel.

is  that 

Corn  has  remained  very  steady  since

my  last  report. 
It  looks  now  as  if  there 
will  be  no  material  change  in  price  for 
the  present.  The  dry  weather  does  not 
act  very  favorably  on  it  in  this  State, 
where  a  good  crop  was expected.  Farm­
ers  are  cutting  the  corn  for  fodder  in 
the  com  belt.  They  also  claim  damage 
on  account  of  the  heat.

Oats  are  weak,  as  the  large  crop  has 
its  effect,  and  prices  are  the  same,  and 
probably  will  remain  so  during  the  sea­
son.

Rye  seems  to  be  the  only  cereal  that 
holds  its  own. 
is  stronger  than  be­
fore,  the  cause  being  that  exports  keep 
up  and  that  the  large distillers  are start­
ing  up  to  make  high  wines,  which  will 
keep  prices  up  for  some  time.

Receipts  during  the  week  were:  41 
cars  of  wheat,  14  cars  of  corn,  6  cars  of 
oats,  7  cars  of  rye  and  7  cars  of  hay.

It 

Millers  are  paying  64c  for new  wheat 

and  67c  for  old  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocery  Clerks’ 

Association.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocery  Clerks’  Associa­
tion,  held  at  the  office  of  the  Michigan 
Tradesman  on  Monday  evening,  Aug. 
28,  President  Beardslee  presided.

Ernest  Bratt  presented  the  report  of 
the  Committee  appointed  to  procure 
aprons  and  caps  for  the  grocers’  parade 
on  grocers’  picnic  day,  which  was  ac­
cepted.

Harry  Stowitts  moved  that  the  report 
be  accepted  and  that  the  chairman  ap­
point  a  committee  to  dispose  of  the  un­
sold  goods  on  hand,  which  was adopted.
The  chairman  appointed  as such com­
mittee  Ernest  Bratt,  Verne  Campbell 
and  Geo.  Mclnnis.

Mr.  Bratt  demurred  to  accepting  the 
chairmanship  of  the  committee,  on  the 
ground  tuat  he  bad  done  practically  all 
the  work  thus  far and  was  entitled  to  a 
vacation,  but  good-naturedly  acquiesced 
in  the  action  of  the  organization.

L.  E.  Buss  moved  that  the  Secretary 
be  instructed  to purchase such books and 
stationery  as  are  required  by  that  office, 
which  was  adopted.

Jos.  H.  Terrill  gave  notice  that  he 
would  present  an  amendment  to  the 
constitution  at  the  next  meeting,  pro­
viding  for  the  payment  of  the  annual 
dues  quarterly  in advance  instead of  an­
nually  in  advance.

The  same  gentleman  moved  that  the 
chairman  appoint  a  committee  of  three 
to  ascertain  how  many  grocery  clerks 
there  are 
in  the  city  and  to  outline  a 
plan  for  a  thorough  canvass  of  all  of 
the  dealers  with  a  view  to  increasing 
the  membership  of  the  organization.
The  motion  was  adopted  and 

the 
chairman  appointed  as  such  committee 
Verne  Campbell,  N.  Bruggink and  Peter 
Oole.

It  was  decided  to  omit  the  next  meet 
ing  on  account  of  its  occurring  on 
la­
bor day.  so  that  the  next  regular  meet­
ing  will  be  held  on  Monday  evening, 
Sept.  18  The  annual  meeting  for  the 
election  of  officers  for  the  ensuing  year 
will  beheld  on  Monday evening,  Oct.  2.

Glad  to  Consent.
She—What  did  papa  say?
He— I  asked  bis  consent  to  our  mar­
riage  by  telephone,  and  be  replied, 
“ I 
don’t  know  who  you  are,  but  it’s  all 
right.”

J  H.  Noble  has  engaged  in  general 
The  Worden 
trade  at  Coopersville. 
Grocer  Co. 
the  groceries, 
furnished 
Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.  supplied 
the  dry  goods  and  the  Ideal  Clothing 
Co.  secured  the  clothing  order.

W.  F.  Blake,  Treasurer  of  the  Wor­
den  Grocer  Co  ,  has  gone  to  Boston  on 
a  trip  combining  business  and pleasure. 
He  will  spend  a  week  at  the  Hub  and 
three  or  four  days  at  New  York  on  his 
way  home.

Business  Bars  the  Drunkard.

Drunkenness  to-day 

is  deemed  dis­
reputable 
in  the  very  quaiters  where 
only  a  little  while ago  it  was  looked  up­
on  simply  as  a  misfortune.  Every  line 
of  business  shuts  its  doers  absolutely  to 
the  drunkard. 
It  has  no  use  for  him. 
Business  competition  has  become  so 
keen  that  only  the  men  of  steadiest 
habits  can  find  employment.  This  fact 
the  habitual  indulger  in  alcoholics  has 
found  out,  and  the  different  “ cure”   es­
tablishments 
for  drunkenness  are  lo- 
dav  filled  with  men  who  have  come  to 
a  realization  of  the  changed  conditions 
The  man  of  steady  habits  is  the  man  of 
the  hour,  and the  drunkard  realizes  this. 
In  the  social  world  the  same  thing  is 
true.  The  excessive  indulgei.ee  of  even 
a  few  years  ago  would  net  be  tolerated 
at  any  dinner  to-day.  Society  has  be­
come 
intolerant  of  the  behavior  which 
inevitably  results  from  excessive  indul 
gence  in  drinking, and men realize  this. 
It  is bad  manners  to-day  to  drink  to  ex­
cess.

Seeing the Article.

It 

special—even  although 

The  nearer  you  can  come  to  making 
the  people  see  the  goods  you  are talking 
about,  the better  advertising  you  are  do­
is  a  good  deal  better  to  offer 
ing. 
something 
it 
isn’t  fully  described—than  to  advertise 
in  a  general  way.  But  it  is  much  bet­
ter  still  to  make  an  advertisement  per­
fectly  plain  and  distinct  so  that  every­
body  may  know  exactly  what  you  are 
talking  about—and  in  their  mind’s  eye 
almost  see  the  article.

Worse  Meat  Than  Goat.

From the Memphis Commercial.

The  big  packeries  are  now  slaughter­
ing  thousands  of  Texas  goats  and  sell­
ing  the  flesh  for  mutton.  The  deception 
is  reprehensible,  but  the  meat 
is  all 
right.  A 
juicy  Texas  angora  is  about 
as  toothsome  to  a  white  man  as  a  rat  is 
to  a  Chinaman  or  a  baked  dog  to  an  In­
dian.  The  angora 
is  all  right.  What 
we  object  to  is  the  gutta  pereba  beef­
steak  and  the  papier  mache  sausage.

The  Nature  of the  Animal.

Union  Printer— If  they  was  to  be  a 
equal  division  of  all  the  money,  wot  do 
you  s’pose  we’d  get?

Union  Cigarmaker— Drunk.

In  Massachusetts  it  has  just  been  de­
cided  that the  sanitary  condition  of  pic­
nic  grounds  and  summer  resorts  in  gen­
eral  is  not  all  that  it  might be,  and  with 
a  view  to  improving  it  the  State  Board 
of  Health  has  undertaken  to  make  a 
careful  examination  of  all  these  places. 
Special  attention  will  be  paid  to  the 
sources  of  water  supply  and  it  is  be­
lieved  that  by  suggesting,  and  when 
a  general 
necessary  by 
cleaning  up  the  number  of 
typhoid 
fever  cases  among  people  returning 
from  vacations  can  be  materially  de­
creased.

enforcing, 

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

BUSINbSS  CHANCES.

TO  BEST—ONE  OR TWO  BRICK  STORES 
with deepce lars. 22x75 feet, on Ma'ii street 
iu Opera House blocs, Mendon, Mich.  Write 10 
51
Levi Cole 
Fo r  s a l e —m e a t  m v r k e t;  o x e  o f
the  best  locations  in  the  city;  customers 
all  good  pay;  doing  a  good  raying  usin-ss 
Addie«s No. 53. care Michigan Trade  man  53
■'OR  S a l e-------BELGIAN  HARES  WITH
hutches, etc.;  gtt in on the ground floor f  i 
the  boom  in  hare  furs.  Albeit Baxter, Muske 
gon. Mich 
'■ 7
Good  o p e n in g   fo r  d r y  goods  o r
department  store  at  Centerville,  Mich. 
Address Box  135. 
55
ANTED—GOOD  LOCATION FOR OPEN 
iug a new clothing sto-e  or would buy ou 
56
stock.  Add--ss Box  32. S'urgis, Mich 
i lMIR  SALE—THE  CRANE  MAN'UFACTCR- 
ing mill at  South Frank  ort,  fully equipped 
for  the  manufacture  of  hardwood 
lumber. 
Immediate  possession.  Inquire  of  Ann  Arbor 
58
Savings Bank, Ann Arbor,  Mich. 

Fo r s a l e a t a  ba rg a in—w e  i.l-st o c k-
ed vhnet'  store in a thriving  town  of  2,5  0. 
Good location, excellent trade.  O her business 
reason for  selling.  Address  Box  341,  Otsego, 
Mich.  ______________________________ 62.
t ri  R  ALE—STOCK OF  DRUGS, SUNDRIES, 
fountain, etc..  In  ex cell« nt  farming  town; 
central locat.ou;  established twenty years;  big 
profits;  rent very cheap.  Will sell at a  big  dis­
count.  Present own  r not a druggist.  Address 
No. 48  ear«  Vich’gan Tradesman. 
48
A   DRUG  STOCK  FOR  :>ALE VERY CHEAP 
ou account of  trie  death  of  the proi rietor. 
For particulars  write  to  Mrs.  Anna  Tomlin, 
Bear Lake, Mich.______________________41
TO RENT—TWO STORES IN NEW CORNER 
block  n  city  of  B -Iding—one  of  the  best 
towns  in  Michigan.  Has  eight  factories  all 
running,  conn r sing  the  following:  Two  silk 
mi Is, two refrigerator factor es, basket factory, 
shoe  factory,  iurniture  factory,  box  factory; 
planing mill and  fl- uring mill.  Stoies  are  lo­
cated on Main s reet 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 . Beiding, Mich.__________ 4i
IpOR  SALE-CHOKE  STOCK  OK  GROCER- 
1  its in manufsctur'ng  town  of 5,<X'0;  south­
ern  Michigan;  surrounded  by  best  farming 
country  out  of  doors;  largest  trade,  ah  cash; 
best location;  finest  store;  modern  fixtures;  a 
money  maker;  sales  $4>,0u0.  Address  No.  37, 
care Michigan Tradesman 
I7IORSALE—CLEAN  STOCK  OF  CLOTHING 
’  and  men’s furnishings  in  one  of  the  best 
growing  towns  in  Southern  Michigan.  Good 
trade.  Other business, re .son  for selling.  Ad­
dress A. M , care Michigan Tradesman.____ 25
VI7ANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A  RUBBER 
Vv  stamp.  Best  stamps  on  earth  at  prices 
that  are  right.  WiU  J.  Weller,  Muskegon 
Mich. 
958
IX)K  SALE  OR EXCH \NGE FOR GENERAL 
'  S:ock  of  Merchandise—CO  acre  farm,  part 
clear, architect house  aud  barn;  well watered. 
I also have two 40 acre  farms  and  one  .80  acre 
farm to exchange.  Address No.  12, care  Michi 
gwn Tradesman________________________ 12
T'HE SHAFTING,  HANGERS AND PULLEYS 
.  formerly used to  drive  the  Presses  of  the 
Tradesman  are  for  sale  at  a  nominal  price. 
Power users making additions  or  changes  will 
do  well  to  investigate.  Tradesman  Company, 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.__________________ 983
Fo r  s a l e—good  b a za a r  st o c k,  e n -
qulre  of  Hollon  &  Hungerford,  Albion, 
Mich. 
IjVJR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
’  splendid farming country.  No trades.  Ad­
dress No. 680. care Michigan Tradesman.  680
Mo d er n  c it y   r e s id e n c e  a n d  l a r g e

lot, with barn, for sale cheap on easy terms, 
or will exchange for tract  of hardwood  timber. 
Big  bargain  for  some  one.  Possession  given 
any time.  Investigation solicited.  E. A. Stowe, 
24 Kellogg street. Grand Rapids.________ 993

37

16

NY  ONE  WISHING  TO  ENGAGE  IN  THE 
grain and produce and  o'her lines  of busi­
ness can  learn  of  good  locations  by  communi­
cating  with  H.  H.  Howe,  Land  ana  I r dust rial 
Agent C. & XV. M. and D., G. R.  &  W.  Railways, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.__________________ 919
IfiOR  SALE —A  RARE  OPPORTUNITY —A 
flourishing  business,,  clean  stock .of shoes 
and furnishing goods;  established  cash  trade; 
best store and  location  in  city;  located  among 
the best iron mines in the country.  The coming 
spring will open  up with  a  boom  for  this  city 
and prosperous  times  for  years  to  come  a  cer­
tainty.  Rent  free  for  six  months,  also  a  dis­
count on stock;  use of fixtures free.  Store  and 
location  admirably  »dapted  for  any  line  of 
business and conducted at small  expense.  Get 
in Hue  before  too late.  Failing  health  reason 
for  selling.  Address  P.  O.  Box  304,  Negau- 
nee, Mich._______________ 

913

MISCELLANEOUS.

WANTED — REGISTERED  ASSISTANT 
pharmacist,  address No. 69,  care  Mich- 
igan Tradesman._______  
s 9
WANTED—AN ASSISTANT PHARMACIST.
Give  age,  experience,  references  and  sal- 
ary  F   M  Fis*,  sssopolis. Mich._______ 49
WANTED — FIRST CLASS BOOK-KEEPER 
capab.e of keeping a  set  of  uouble entry 
books in a manufacturing plant.  None  bat ex­
perienced men need apply.  A  good  permanent 
<  tuatiOD for a  bright,  capable  man.  Address 
Manufacturer. Box 502. Kalamazoo, Mich.  50
WANTED—POS11 ION  AS  M VNAGKR  OR 
bead  clerk  iu  general  st  re.  Have  had 
valu«bse experience as  manager  and  buyer  for 
eu years.  Annual sales, $5  ,100.  Address No. 
51
51. care Michigan Tradesman. 

ANTED—POSITION  AS  CLERK.  NINE 
years’experience in dry goods and general 
trade.  Address, No. 43, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

-3

40

ANTED—POSITION  BY  DRUGGIST,  14 
years’ experience.  Address,  No. 4j,  care 
M'chigan Tradesman. 
Ex p e r ie n c e d   y o u n g b u s in e s s  m a n .
thorough y  competent  to  take  charge  of 
duaucial o-credit  deportments,  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 
R ipids. Mich. 
ANTKn—SI 1 CATION  AS  TRAVELING 
salesman, commis-ion or salary,  clothing, 
boots and shoes, men’s furnishing goods or gro­
ceries.  Good  refer  nces  given.  Address  9^8, 
core Michigan  Tradesman 
A N T-.D -A   F1RST-CL VSS  TINSMITH. 
Must  be  capable  of  clerking  In  store. 
Single  man  preferred.  Must give  good  refer­
ences.  No drinkers  need  apply  Address  No. 
992, care Michigan Tradesman 

993

998

39

Travelers* Time  Tables.
CHICAGO West Michigan R’y

June 18,  1899.

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association

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

retary, È   A.  St o w e ,  Grand Rapids.

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

A. Stowe, Grand Rapids,

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

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

Henry C. Minnie, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J oseph Kn ig ht;  Secretary, E. Marks, 

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

President,  F rank  J.  Dyk;  Secretary,  Homer 

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

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

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Porter;  Treasurer,  L. Pelton.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

land;  Treasurer, Wm. C. Koehn.  .

Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  M.  L.  DeBats;  Sec’y, 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.  G i l c h r i s t ;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

Partridge.

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

ber: Treasurer, S. J. Huppobd.

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. Heddlb.
Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos ; Secretary, J. W. VebHoeks.

Yale Business Men’s Association

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

T R A V E L

VIA

F=. & P  M. R. R.

AND  STEAM SHIP  LINE8 

TO  ALL  POIN TS  IN  MICHIGAN

H.  F.  M O ELLER .  A.  G.  p .  a .

Chicago.

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey. 

Lv.  G. Rapids..7:10am  12:00nn  5:05pm «2:15am 
Ar.  Chicago.... 1:30pm  5:00pm  11:15pm *7:25am 
Ly.Chicago..  7:15am  12-00nn  4:15pm *8:45pm 
Ar. G’d Rapids  1:25pm 5:05pm  10:15pm  *l:50am 
Lv. G’d  Rapids.  7:30am 2:05am  1:45pm  5:30pm 
Ar. Trav  City..12:40pm 6:10am  5:35pm  10:55pm
Ar. Charlevoix..  3:15pm 7:53am  7:38pm.............
Ar. Petoskey....  3:45pm 8:15am 8:15pm..............
Ar. Bay View...  3:55pm 8:20am 8:20pm.............
Lv. G. Rapids..0:00am  12:00nn  5:30pm..............
Ar. G. Rapids. .8:00am  1:25pm 5:05pm  10:15pm 
Extra train on Saturday  leaves  at 2:15pm  for 
Ottawa Beach.
Sunday  train  leaves  Bridge  street  8:40am, 
Union  depot  9:00am; 
leaves  Ottawa  Beach 
7:00pm.
Trains  arrive  from  north at 2:00am, 11:15am, 
4:45pm, and 10:05pm.
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on 
night trains to and from Chicago 
Parlor cars for Bay View.

Ottawa Beach.

Others week days only.

•Every  day. 

n P T D H I T   Grand Rapids & Western. 
LIC 1 lyvll I 9 

June 26,  1899.

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids.7:00am  12:05pm 
5:25pm
Ar. Detroit.................... 11:40am  4:05pm 10:06pm
Lv. Detroit..................... 8:40am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids......... 1:30pm  6:10pm 10:55pm
Lv. G S7:00am 5:10pm  Ar. G R 11:45am  B:40pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Gbo.  DeHaven,  General Pass. Agent.

f i n   A  \ T T |  Trank Railway System 
vl IvAli LI  Detroit and Milwaukee Div

(In effect June 19,1899.)

GOING  BAST

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

«Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

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

97 Monroe St.,  Morton House.

July 9,  1899.

GRAND Rapids  &  Indiana Railway
N orthern  Div.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey &Mack...* 4;10am *10:(0pm 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am t  5:15pm
Trav. City A Petoskey............t  1:40pm  t  1:10pm
Cadillac accommodation........15:25pm tlO :55am
Petoskey A Mackinaw City. ...tl> :00pm  t  6:30am 
. 14:10am train. The Northland Express, sleeping 
and  dining  cars;  7:45am  and  1:40pm  trains, 
parlor cars;  11:00pm train sleeping car.
Southern  Div.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati...............................t  7:10am t  9:45pm
............................t 2:00pm t   1:30pm
Ft. Wayne 
Kalamaxooand V'cksburg...  * 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.

FB O X  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 WBBT.

LvG’d Rapids............ t7:35am tl  :35pm t5:40pns
Ar Muskegon..............  9:00am  2:45om  7:05pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
Lv Muskegon..............t8:10am  tl2:15am t4:00pm
ArG’d R apids...........9:30am  1:25pm  5:20pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Muskegon  6:30pm;  ar­
rives Grand Rapids 7:55pm. 
tExcept Sunday.  «Dally.

GOING BAST.

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

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

MANKTFF

l i l r a l  1 I 4J  1   w u   Best route to Manistee.

V ia  C. A   W . M.  Railway.

L v Grand Rapids.............................7:00am 
............
A r  Manistee......................................12:05pm ............
L v  Manistee.....................................  8:30am 4:10pm
A r Grand  R a p id s...........................  1:00pm 0:54pm

Said the Grocer

“ Pll  have  to  get  a  barrel  to  keep  the 
nickels in.**
“ What's the matter?**
“U need a  B iscu it!  The new delicacy. 
Costs only 5 cents for a package.
Enough for a meal, too.
Just look at that package for 5 cents! 
Royal purple and white.
Dust proof!  Moisture proof 1  Odor proof I 
Keeps in the goodness.
Keeps out the badness*

Everybody wantsUneeda
Biscuit

Hanselman’s  Pine  Chocolates

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

Hanselman Candy Co.

Kalamazoo, Mich.

The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

Manufacture

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

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

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THE  BELKNAP  WAGON  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

NO.  113

This is the  amount  that  our  Government 
will  realize in  two  years  by  the  aid  of  the 
Revenue  Stamp.

Seems  like  a small matter when you place 
a  fraction  of  a  cent  revenue  on  an  article, 
telegram  or  express  receipt,  but  see  what 
it will  do!

The  Money  Weight  System  has  been 
deputized  a  Special  Revenue  Collector  for 
the  merchant. 
It  collects those  small  frac­
tions  usually  lost  in  weighing  your  mer­
chandise  and  adds  them  to  your  treasury; 
it does it  by saving overweight.

Remember  our  scales  are  sold  on  easy 

monthly payments.  Write  to  us  about  it.

The Computing
Scale Co.,

Dayton,  Ohio,  U.  S.  A.

G R A T E F U L  

COM FORTIN G

Distinguished  Everywhere 

for

Delicacy of  Flavor, 
Superior  Quality 

and

Nutritive  Properties. 
Specially  Grateful  and 

Comforting to  the 

Nervous and  Dyspeptic.

è

Sold  in  Half-Pound  Tins  Only. 

Prepared  by

JAM ES  E P P S  &  CO.,  Ltd., 

Homceopathic  Chemists,  London, 

England.

B R E A K FA S T  

SU PPE R

Epps’
C ocoa

MICA

AXLE

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

ILLUMINATING AND 
LUBRICATING OILS

W ATER WHITE  H EADLIGH T OIL  IS TH E 

STAN DARD TH E W ORLD O V ER

H IG H EST  PRICE  PAID  FOR  EMPTY  OARBON  AND  GASOLINE  BARRELS

STAN DARD  OIL  CO .

