Volume XVII. 

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1899.___________________ Number 841

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w doz  No. 8, vase, height 12 
10 per cent, discount.

inches, moss green, beads and gold scroll  design.

$1 00
1  50 
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1 62 
light and (lark green, elaborate  gilding....
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light and dark green, assorted designs  ....
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Have  Stood the Test  for Years.

Hoff manettes  5 -cent  Cigars

Nothing  Better Ever Sold.

THE  HILSON  CO.,  Makers.

Hoffman  House  Little  Cigars==io  for  io  cents

PHELPS,  BRACE  &  CO.,  Distributors,  Detroit,  Mich.

F.  E.  BUSHMAN,  Manager  Cigar  Department.

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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, 
i  imited territory for safe. 
Also dealers in Carbide, Fixtures, Fittings, Pipe.

____________________ 

Holmes-Bailey  Acetylene  Gas Co.

Man Con, Mlcihgan.

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S P E C IA L   3 0   DAY  O F F E R

S E E   P R IC E   L IS T   IN  MICHIGAN  TRAD ESM AN   Q UO TATIO NS 

For  the  next  30  days we will  give  free with  each  order  for  2  cases  of 
Q UEEN  F L A K E   BAKING  POWDER  2  doz. 6  oz.  cans,  200  handsome 
lithographed letter heads, 50 free  sample  Cans  and  1,000  attractive  order 
blanks for counter use.  With each order for 4 cases we will give  1  case  of 
1  lb..cans,  500 handsome lithographed letter  heads,  100  free  sample  cans 
and 2,000 order blanks for counter use.

Queen Flake Baking  Powder is pure and wholesome and  is  not  manu­

factured or controlled by a trust.  Send your orders direct to

N O RTH RO P.  R O B E R T SO N   &   C A R R IE R . 

M A N U FA C T U R ER S. 

LA N SIN G .  MICH,  d

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

illustrated  catalogue  and  discounts. 

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If you are satisfied to remain at 
the tail end, buy cheap unreliable  jjj 
goods.

Good Yeast  Is  Indispensable.
FLEISCHMANN  &  CO.

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Grand Rapids Agency, 39 Crescent Ave.
Detroit Agency,  111  West Lamed St. 

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M I C A  

A X L E

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.

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STAN D A RD   O IL  CO .

Yes, people are talking about the

Sunlight 
Gasoline 
Lamps

And  the  users  of  them  are  loud­
est  in  their  praises. 
(Is  that 
not  a  good  recommendation?) 
Cheaper 
than  kerosene,  more 
brilliant  and  steadier  than  gas 
Abso­
or  electricity. 
lutely  safe. 
in­
surance  agent  permits 
you  to  use  them.  Ask 
him.  Approved  by  In­
surance  Underwriters.  Can  be  turned  down.  No  light  so 
good  for  Halls,  Churches,  Stores,  Hotels,  Offices,  Shops  and 
Residences.  Our  Arc  light  (air  pressure)  is  very  brilliant 
and  suitable  for  indoor  and  outdoor  lighting.  More  styles  of 
fixtures  than  displayed  here— brass  and  antique  copper—  
very  handsome.  W e  are  now  able  to  fill  orders  promptly. 
W rite  for  our  descriptive  catalogue.  Money  making  terms 
to  local  agents.

Your 

M ichigan  Light Co.

23  Pearl Street, 

Grand  Rapids.

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O L D E S T

M O ST   R E L I A B L E  

A L W A Y S   O N E   P R IC E

Wholesale  Clothing  Manufacturers  in  the 
city of RO CH ESTER,  N.  Y . are KO LB & 
SON.  Only house making strictly all wool 
Kersey Overcoats, guaranteed, at $5*
Mail orders will receive prompt attention. 
Write  our  Michigan  representative,  Wm. 
Connor,  Box 34b,  Marshall,  Mich.,  to  call 
on  you,  or  meet  him  at  Sweet’s  Hotel, 
Grand  Rapids,  Nov.  8  to 
10  inclusive.
Prices,

▼   Customers’  expenses  allowed. 

Kquality and fit guaranteed. 

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The Preferred  Bankers 
Life Assurance Company 
of  Detroit, Mich. 

Annual Statement, Dec. 31,  1898.

C o m m e n c e d   B u sin e ss 8 e p t.  I,  1893.

Insurance in  Force............  .................... $31*99»°°°
Ledger Assets.......................................... 
Ledger Liabilities..................................
Losses Adjusted and Unpaid................
Total Death  Losses Paid to Date.........
Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
eficiaries........................................... 
Death Losses Paid During the Y ear... 
Death Rate for the Y ear........................  

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TRU M A N   B. GOODSPEED, Secretary.

Save  Trouble. 
Save  Money 
Save Time.

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

Page.

D ry   Goods.
G o th a m  G ossip.
A ro u n d   th e   S tate.
G ran d   R a p id s  G ossip.
W om an’s W orld.
G ettin g  th e  P eo p le.
C ro ck ery  and G lassw a re Q uotations. 
E d ito ria l.
E d ito ria l.
W h at D id   th e  F u rn itu re   D e a le r  See 
T h e  M eat  M arket.
H o u sew a rm in g  fo r  th e  N ew   Store. 
M ich igan   P ro d u ce  Sh ip p ers. 
Ja m a ic a   B an an as.
Shoes and L ea th er.
C om m ercial T rave le rs.
18 .  D ru gs and C h em icals.
18.  D ru g  P ric e  C u rren t.
2 0 .  G ro ce ry  P ric e   C u rren t.
2 1 .  G ro ce ry  P ric e   C u rren t.

T elep h on es  Com m on  C u rriers.

2 3 .  T h e  H a rd w a re  M ark et.

H a rd w a re  P ric e   C u rren t.
T he  P rod u ce  M arket.
B u sin e ss  W ants.

B e w a re   o f T .  B .  T ru esilell  &   Co.

The  Tradesman  feels  called  upon  to 
warn  its  readers  against  shipping  any 
produce  to  T.  B.  Truesdell  &  Co.,  215 
Duane  street,  New  York.  While  th; 
firm  is  rated  $3,000 to $5,000,fair credit, 
by  the  mercantile  agencies,  the  antece­
dents  of  one  member  of  the  firm  are 
such  as  to  cause  grave  doubts  whether 
the  business  will  be  conducted 
in  a 
straightforward  manner;  besides,  a  set­
tlement was  recently  made  with  a  Mich 
igan  shipper  by  a  30 day  note,  instead 
of  a  check  or  draft,  as  should  have  been 
done,  and,  until  this  matter  is  adjusted 
businesslike  manner,  the  Trades 
man  advises  Michigan  shippers  to 
withhold  sending  any  goods  whatever to 
the  firm  in  question.

The  settlement  referred  to  was  turned 
over  to  the  Tradesman,  and  a  demand 
was  immediately  made  upon  Truesdell 
&  Co.  for an  adjustment  of the  account 
on  a  cash basis,  but  no  reply  was made 
and 
late  reports  from  the  mercantile 
agencies  convey  the  opinion 
judgment  has  been  rendered  against  the 
firm  for $741.98  in  favor of a  shipper  in 
New  York  State.

that 

is  engaged 

The  senior  member  of  the  firm,  Mr 
Truesdell, 
in  the  pickle 
business  at  Cold  Springs,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  is  well  regarded  and  is  estimated  to 
be  worth  $5,000.  How  far this  estimate 
may be  from  the  actual  facts  in  the  case 
and  to  what  extent  he  will  be  inclined 
to  stand  back  of  his  partner  in  New 
York  City  is  purely  a  matter  of  conjec­
ture,  but,  in the  light  of  present 
infor­
mation,  the  Tradesman  feels  that  it  is 
due 
its  readers  that  they  should  be 
warned  against  having  any  dealings 
with  the  house  except  on  the  basis  of 
cash  in  advance.

T h e  G ra in   M ark et.

During  the  past  week  wheat  inclined 
to  weakness  until  Monday,  when  the 
/isible  showed  only  1,000,000  bushels 
increase,  about one-half  of what was  ex­
pected,  and  strength  took  the  place  of 
weakness  and 
ic  per bushel  was added 
on  cash  as  well  as  futures.  The  cash 
demand  was  good 
in  all  the  leading 
markets,  while  the  foreign  demand  was 
claimed  to be  slack.  Still  all  the  offer­
ings  were  accepted  and  exports  were  on 
par  with  previous  shipments.  Re­

in  the  Northwest  also  keep  di­
ceipts 
minishing  and  for  Monday  they  were 
,100,000  bushels  less  than  for  the  cor­
responding  day  last  year.  As  to  winter 
heat  receipts,  they  seem  to be  getting 
smaller  and  the  dealers  are  not  free 
gellers,  preferring  to  hold 
for  better 
rices.

Corn  keeps  on  an  even  tenor,  neither 
;aining  nor  losing  in  price.  Reports  of 
; 
large  crop  are  not  turning  out  well. 
Kansas  probably  has  the  largest  crop, 
rhile  Nebraska  and  Iowa  report  short 
jars  and  not  well  filled.  This  will  prob­
ably  be reported  on  the  10th  by  the Gov­
ernment  crop  report.

Oats are  very  firm,  with  an  advancing 
tendency.  They  are  up  ic  and  firmly 
held.  The  export  demand  is  also  good 
und  we  think  better  prices  will  pre- 
ail.
Rye 

is  more  enquired  for and  ic  of 

an  advance  can be  recorded.

Beans  are  up,  $ 1-55  being  bid 

in  the 
leading  markets.  As  the  crop  is  short, 
they  will  remain  at  about present prices.
The  flour trade  has been  good, as  well 
as  mill  feed.  At  present  the  trouble  is 
to  get  cars.  The  railroads  have  ad-
anced  freight  rates  on  all  grain  and 
grain  products  fully  4c  per  cwt.  to  the 
seaboard.  Cars  have  not  been  as  sea ice 
in  many  years  as  at  present.

Receipts  during  the  month  of  October 
were:  252  cars  of  wheat,  45  cars of corn, 
38  cars  of oats,  10 cars  of  rye,  9 cars  of 
hay  and  8  cars  of  straw.  During  the 
week:  43  cars  of  wheat,  15  cars  of  corn, 

cars of  oats,  2  cars of  rye.
Mills  are  paying 66c  for wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

8011 net  and  B onnet.

Take golden  haze 
Of auiumn days
And  wrile some rhymes upon itf 
Add *• fading year*
And “  twilight clear**—
You’ve an October sonnet.
Take piece of felt,
Give it a  weit
And stick a feather on it—
A twenty dol
Lar price-mark’s  all!
It s an October bonnet!

T alk e d   a t  th e  W ro n g   E n d .

“ It’s  a  great  pity,”   said  the  con­
victed  burglar to  his  counsel,  “ that  you 
couldn’t  have  made  that  closing  speech 
of  yours  at  the  opening  of  the  case.”
“ I  don’t  see  how  that  would  have 
improved  matters,’ ’  said  the  advocate.
‘ It  would,  though,’ ’  explained  his 
client;  “ then  the  jury  would  have  been 
asleep  when  the  evidence  came  on,  and 
I’d  have  stood  some  chance.”

No  Need  to  W aste  a   Good  T h in g.

Mamma—Well,  Johnny,  I shall forgive 
it’s  very  pretty  of 
letter  and  say  you’ re 
Johnny—Yes,  m a;  don  t  tear  it  up, 

you  this  time,  and 
you  to  write  a 
sorry.
please.

Mamma —Why  not?
J o h n n y — Because  it will  do  next  time.

P a in fu l  P re lim in a ry .

“ Do  something  great,  old  chap,  and 
you  might  have  a  street  in  Chicago 
named  after you. ”

“ Don’t  want  any  named  after me.
“ Why  not?”
“ Because  all  the  great  men  that  have 
1 streets named  after them  in  Chicago are 
dead. ’ ’

Number 841

G E N E R A L   T R A D E   R E V IE W .

The  tide  of  business  activity  in  near- 
all  branches  continues  its  flow  with- 
The  prediction  that 
>ut  abatement. 
there  would  he 
little  or no  revival  in 
tocks  until  after  election  seems  not 
likely  to  he  realized,  for there  has been 
steady  appreciation  in  values  in  both 
industrials  during 
transportation  and 
two  weeks,  scarcely  inter­
the  past 
rupted  by  the  reports of  British  reverses 
natural  demoralization 
n  Natal. The
markets  affected  some 
in  the London
continued  demand  for 
stocks and the
seem  to  be  sufficient 
money would
us  decline,  but  the 
cause for
manifest  for  a  few 
effects
hours,  to be  followed  by  rapid  recovery.
The  long  and  steady  increase  in  rail­
way  traffic  is having  effect 
in  stimula­
ting  other  trades,  especially  steel  and 
lumber. 
In  additon  to  the  naturally  in­
creased  demand  for  more  care to accom­
modate  the 
increasing  traffic,  the  use 
>f  the  old  ones  is  so  severe  and  constant 
that  many  are  being  destroyed  and must 
he  replaced;  The  pressure  for  cars 
is 
one  of  the  reasons  for the  famine  which 
is  so  evident  in  the  steel  trade.

seri
are only

Over  pressure of  demand  is  the  prin­
cipal  feature  of  the  iron and steel trades. 
Such  a  rush  for  obtaining  the  North­
western  ores  and  the  means  for their 
transportation  has  never  been  known. 
In  spite  of  the  great  stimulation  of 
prices  steel  rails  and  other  mate ti a Is  for 
railway  repairs  and  equipment,  ship­
building,  etc.,  output  is  being  sold  far 
ahead,  in  some  cases  covering  the  most 
of  next year.  The  reaction  in  the  minor 
is  the  natural  result of  the  easy 
metals 
stimulation  of  production 
in  this  and 
other countries  to  meet  any  possible  de- 
| mand.

The  flood  of  business  in  the  textile 
world  seems  to  be  advancing  at  an  ac­
celerating  ratio.  Cotton  and  cotton 
goods are both  advancing  in  price  and 
the  demand  for goods  is  far beyond  the 
output of  the  mills  in  operation.  Talk 
of  consolidation 
in  the  Eastern  mills 
has  given  an  idea  of  so  great  a  profit  in 
the business  that  strikes  are  likely to in­
terrupt  production,  which  will  tend  to 
increase  the  pressure  of  demand.  Sales 
of  wool  reached  enormous  figures,  with 
advance  in  price  in  the  Boston  market. 
Manufacturing  demand 
is  heavy  and 
prices,  well  sustained,  with  many  new 
mills  in  operation.  The  aggregate  con­
sumption  must  be  the  greatest  ever 
known  in  the  country.

The  price  of wheat as well  as  its  ex­
port  movement  showed  a  tendency  to 
decline  during  the  past  week,  but  the 
Transvaal  situation  is  manifest  in  ris­
ing  quotations  at  latest  advices.  While 
wheat  has  been  languid,  corn  has  shown 
unusual  activity,  and  the  price  move­
ment  has been  upward.

The  continued  active  demand 

in  the 
shoe  and  leather trades  leads  to a  strong 
movement  on  the  part of  manufacturers 
for advancing  prices,  which  buyers  are 
as  yet  slow  to  meet.  For  some  weeks 
past  the  price  of  hides  is  higher than  at 
any  time  in  twelve  years on  account  of 
the  failure  of  supplies  to  meet  the  great 
I demand.

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Dry Goods

Stai

T h e   D ry   G ood»  M a rk e t.
:  Cottons—All  standard sheetings
and  drills  and  fine  browns are  very firm. 
There 
is  a  decided  scarcity  of  eight- 
ounce  blue  denims  in  the  market,  and 
prices  have 
in  several  cases been  ad­
vanced  as  much  as  %c  over those  of two 
or three  weeks  ago.  Bleached  cottons 
are 
in  steady  demand,  and  fair  sales 
have  been  made 
in  spite  of  the  ad­
vances.  Cotton  flannels,  blankets,  wide 
sheetings,  etc.,  are  firm,  and  show  no 
particular  change.  All  coarse  colored 
cottons 
tendency 
against  buyers.  There  is  little  change 
to  note 
in  regard  to  printed  fabrics, 
the  demand  running  along  in  a  steady 
and  rather  monotonous  tone.  Advances 
are  expected  on  some  lines  before  long. 
There  is  a  fair  reorder  demand  coming 
to  hand  for  fancy  calicoes,  enough  to 
show  that  this  business  is  improving. 
Ginghams  are  particularly  strong  and 
the  supply  of  goods  very  limited.  One 
or two slight  advances  have  been named 
openly,  but in  several cases better  prices 
have  been  obtained  than  in  the  past.

a  decided 

show 

They  are  not  on  the  lower  level,  but  in 
the  early  part  of  the  season  were  main­
tained  nearer a  correct  price  basis.  The 
igh  grades  have  been  sold  well,  and 
actually  suffered  very 
in  conse­
quence  of the  higher  prices,  which  goes 
to  show  that  the  high  grades  are  the 
lines  to  handle  under 
most  satisfactory 
nearly  all  circumstances 
long 
is  quite  bare  in  all 
run.  The  market 
directions  of 
fine  underwear  which 
aroves  the  above  statement.

in  the 

little 

Hosiery—There  has  been  an increased 
lemand  recently  for  merino  and  woolen 
hosiery  of  the  better  grades.  Cotton 
seamless  hosiery  is  in  excellent  condi- 
ion,  and  the  amount  of  business  during 
the  past  week  has  been  fully  up  to  pre­
vious  records.  Prices  are  unsatisfactory 
to  the  agents,  and  jobbers  are  reaping 
the  benefit  of  early  purchases at very low 
figures. 
Importers  of  hosiery  are  well 
satisfied  with  the  business  which  they 
have  accomplished  each  day  from  the 
very  beginning.  The  stock  on  hand, 
while  not  large,  remained  in  very  good 
assortments.  The  buying  has been quite 
evenly  distributed.  All  good  styles  of 
fancies  have  sold  well,  both  with  the 
importers and  domestic  agents.

Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Unoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum

Linoleum

W e  have  just  received  a  fresh 
shipment of  Linoleums  in  choice 
patterns.  Prices from 37K  cents 
a square yard and up.

P.  Steketee Gt Sons,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich

Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linolenm
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum
Linoleum

Buys  a  dozen  of  pretty  silk  or  vel­
vet  stock  collars.
Vv"e  also  have  a  good  assortm ent 
to  retail  at  50  cents— price  $4  50 
per  dozen.
The  stock  collar  is  one  of  the  best 
selling  novelties  on  the  market  to­
day.
Your  order  by  mail  will  receive 
prom pt  and  careful  attention.

Voigt,
Herpolsheimer
&   Co.,

Wholesale  Dry Goods, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich

Putnam’s  Cloth  Chart

Will  measure piece goods  and  ribbons  much  more  quickly  than  any 
other measuring machine in the market and leave the  pieces  in  the  or­
iginal  roll as they come from the factory. 
It  is  five  times  as  rapid  as 
hand measurement, twice  as  rapid  as  winding  machines,  50  per  cent, 
more rapid than any other chart and thn-e times  as  durable  as  the  best 
of its competitors.  Satisfaction guaranteed  or  money  refunded.  Write 
the manufacturers or any of  the  jobbers  for  booklet,  “All  About  It

No( exaggeration.  Get one and try it.

Price $4.00 each.

CHICAGO—ino.  V.  Farwell Co.  Carson, Pirie, Scott  &  Co.  Marshall 

Sold in the W est by the Following Jobbers 

Field  &  Co 

Sherer Bros 

Lederer Bros.  &  Co.

ST.  LOUIS—Hargadine-McKittrick  Dry Goods Co.
ST  JO SEPH —Hundley-Frazer Dry Goods Co.
KANSAS C IT Y—Burnham,  Hanna,  Munger  &  Co 

Dry Goods Co.

OMAHA—M.  E.  Smith  &  Co
ST. PAUL—Lindeke,  Warner &  Schurmeier. 

Finch, VanSlyck, Young & Co.

Swofford  Bros. 

Powers  Dry  Goods  Co.

M INNEAPOLIS—Wyman  Partridge &  Co.
Edson, 
D ETRO IT—Strong,  Lee  &  Co.  Burnham,  Stoepel  &  Co. 
TOLEDO—Davis  Bros.  Shaw  &  Sassaman  Co.  L.  S.  Baumgard­

Moore  &  Co.

ner &  Co.

CINCINNATI—The Jno  H.  Hibben  Dry Goods Co. 
INDIANAPOLIS—D.  P.  Erwin &  Co.

sKS  Sent by express  ch’ges prepaid 

on receipt of price by the mir.

A.  E.  PUTNAM,  Mfr.,  Milan,  Mich.

Dress  Goods—It  is  becoming  more 
strongly  apparent  every  day  that  the  do­
mestic  dress  goods  manufacturer  is  hav 
ing  his  inning;  things  are  at  last  tend­
ing  his  way,  and  he  is  about  and  doing 
in  order to  make  the  most  of  his  oppor­
tunities.  The  domestic  manufacturer of 
woolen  dress  goods  has  been  obliged, 
owing  to the  preferences  of  Dame  Fash 
ion  being  unfavorable  to  his  lines,  tc 
occupy  a  very  humble  position  in  the 
market  for  several  seasons.  He  has  seen 
the  bulk  of  the  business  going  to  the 
worsted  goods,  and  to  the  attractive 
lines  of  plain  and  fancy  goods  included 
in  the  selections  of  the  agents  of  for 
eign  manufacturers,  and 
it  has  been  i 
hard  pill  to  swallow,  but  there  .was 
nothing  left  for him  to  do  but  to  make 
the  best  of  an  unpleasant  position,  and 
trust  to  a  turn 
in  fashion’s  weathe 
vane. 
is  now  apparent  that  the  cur­
rent  of  fashion  has  changed,  and the  do­
mestic  manufacturer  who  has 
looked 
with  covetous  eyes  at  the  successful 
business  the  foreign  lines  have  attracted 
for  some  seasons,  while  he  has  been 
obliged  to  do  prodigies of  valor  in  order 
to  make  both  ends  meet  and  keep  his 
mill  going,  has  no  longer any  need  of 
borrowing  trouble  on  account  of  the 
business  his  fellow agent  selling  foreign 
lines  is  corralling. 
It  is  the  domestic 
manufacturer  that  is  getting  the  plum 
to-day,  while  the  foreign  manufacturer 
has  little  more  to  satisfy  himself  with 
than  the  leavings,  and  as  the  domestic 
manufacturer  is  hungry  after the  long 
period  of  short  rations,  his  leavings  are 
calculated  to  simply  whet  the  appetite 
of  the  foreign  manufacturer  for more.

It 

Underwear—The  situation  of  ten  days 
ago  was  one  of  the  strongest  in  the  his­
tory  of  the  business,  and  that  strength 
continues,  although  trade  has  fallen  off 
somewhat. 
Jobbers  who  have  been en­
deavoring  to  replenish  their stocks  find 
the  prices  are  firm  in  the  primary  mar­
ket  everywhere,  and  advances  are  quite 
generally  made.  Particularly 
is  this 
true  of  fleeced  goods  where  advances  in 
the  vicinity  of  25c  per dozen  are  asked 
on  all  grades,  the  sharpest  advances  be­
ing  on  the  lower  lines.  Other  lines  of 
underwear  show  the  same  condition  to  a 
greater  or  less  extent,  notably  heavy 
ribbed  and  flat cotton  goods,  also  ribbed 
wool  goods.  The  higher  grades  of  all 
lines  of  underwear  have  changed 
in 
price  much  less  than  the  lower  grades.

indicate  that  the 

Carpets—Notwithstanding 

the  mild 
weather during  the  past  two  weeks,  the 
retail  trade  in  general  has  continued  to 
cut  up  a  large  amount  of  goods.  The 
situation 
is  stronger  on  all  grades  of 
carpets  than  it  has  been  for years. 
Job­
bers  are  fairly  well  sold  up,  and  the  de­
mand  has been  so  large  that  it  has  been 
very  difficult  for  the  manufacturer to 
keep  up  with  it.  Duplicate  orders  in 
larger  amounts  than  for  several  years 
initial  orders, 
past 
although  much 
larger  than  usual,  have 
not  been  sufficient  to  meet  the  increased 
demand. 
Jobbers  complain  of  delay 
in  the  delivery  of  goods  within  the 
time  limit.  As  a  result,  it  looks  now  as 
though  a  large  amount  of  business  will 
be  carried  over  into  next  season.  There 
has  been  an  advance  on  ingrains,  C. 
C .’s  and  extra  supers  of  2>^c  per  yard 
on  some  grades  within  the  past  week. 
No  manufacturer need  be  afraid  that he 
will  not  have  business  enough  for  the 
coming  season,  as it  will  not  be  so  much 
a  question of  price  as  it  will  be  the  de­
livery  of  goods  promptly.  Buyers  all 
realize  that  they  have  got  to  pay  higher 
prices  for  all  kinds  of  carpets,  as  the 
advance 
raw'  material,  due  to  its 
scarcity  and  the  increased  demand,  will 
not  permit  of  the  low'  values  of  the past. 
The  demand  is  prinicpally  for the  high­
er grades  of  carpets,  and  retailers report 
more  sales of  wilton  velvets and tapestry 
Brussels than  for some  time  past.

in 

Lace  Curtains^Have  apparently  been 
scarce.  This  is  owing  to the  large  and 
early  demand,  also to  the  delay  of  for 
eign  manufactuers 
in  delivering  thei: 
orders.  This  delay  is  probably  caused 
by the manufacturers of curtains dividing 
their  product  with 
lace  dress  goods 
which  are  so  popular  at  the  present 
time.  Domestic  Nottingham  and  do 
mestic  tapestry  curtains  still  share  in 
the  good  demand. 
Imported  cotton 
woven  panels 
in  figures  or scenery  for 
decorative  purposes,  such  as  screens, 
cushion  covers,  wall  decorations  and 
hanging  portieres,  are  being  made  in 
very  attractive  styles,  and  a  panel  now 
woven by  machinery  and  costing  about 
60c,  would,  years  ago,  when  they  were 
woven  by  hand,  cost  as  much  as  §50, 
They  are  all  made  by  machinery  now, 
and  range  in  price  from 60 cents to §75, 
A  very  beautifully  woven  panel,  four 
feet  wide  by  eight  or nine  feet  long 
would  cost $75.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

There  is  a 

The  general  appearance  of  the  dried 
fruit  market  during  the  entire  week  has 
I he 
not  been  especially  encouraging. 
arm  weather has  probably  a  good  deal 
do  with  the  outlook  and  prices  are 
rather  easy.  California  fruits  are  sell­
ing  in  an  easv  sort  of  way  and  yet  there 
seems to  be  no  weakness  in  any  quarter.
little  better  demand  for 
lemons  and,  on  the  other hand,  a  little 
less  call 
for  Jamaica  oranges.  Prices 
ave  remained  about  as 
last  week. 
Choice  Sicily 
lemons,  300s,  are  worth 
3.751^4.50,  latter  for extra  fancy.  Ban­
anas  are  dull,  with  a  range  of $ i @ i.05 
per bunch.
Apples  of  really  desirable  sorts  have 
sold  pretty  well  for export.  There  is, 
however,  a  great  supply  of  medium  and 
low  grade  fruit,  which 
is  working  out 
at  nominal  rates— 75c@ ®,,25  I>er bbl.
The  weather  is  not  conducive  to  activ­
ity  in butter and,  were  it  not  for the  fact 
that  arrivals  are 
the  situation 
would  not  be  as  favorable  as  last  week, 
buyers  are  reluctant  to  take  stock  ahead 
of  actual  needs  and,  if  any  is^ taken,  it 
tor  fancy 
Western  creamery  the  quotation  remains 
at  24c  and  there  is  no  accumulation. 
Some  fancy  creamery  that  has  been  in 
storage  sells  readily  at  22y^c;  Western 
i9@20c; 
imitation 
I3^ @ i7c;  Western 
seconds  to  firsts, 
dairy, 
June 
extras,  i 6 @ I7 c ;  current  pack.  i6>^c.

i6@i8c ;  Western  factory, 

into  cold  storage, 

creamery,  extras, 

light, 

put 

The  cheese  market 

is  very  dull  and 
transactions,  both  for  export  and  the 
home  trade,  are  of the  smallest  dimen­
sions.  Large  size  full  cream  New  \ork 
State  cheese  is  worth  u ^ c ,  with  small 
size  ic  less.
Prime,  fresh  gathered  Western  eggs, 
loss  off,  2o^(i'fj2ic;  good,  19(0200;  re­
frigerator  goods,  17c  for  Western. 
I he 
market  is  dull  and  the  weather  so  warm
_to  cause 
large  arrivals-  larger  than
the  market can  readily  absorb,  and 
low 
grades  especially  are  much  in evidence.
Apples  are  plenty  and  sell  from  $1 
per  barrel  for  a  good  deal  of  stock  up 
through  every  fraction  to S3  for  fancy 
Snow.  Average  Baldwins,  $2.

wmsr

Corl,  Knott 
&  Co.,

Importers and 
lobbers of

Millinery

G O T H A M   G O S S IP .

New »  F ro m   th e   M e tro p o lis—In d e x   to   th e  

Special Correspondence.

M a rk e t.

i-i6c. 

in  an 

is  toward  a 

1,291,057  hags, 

The  refined  sugar  market 

New  York,  Oct.  28—The  market  for 
coffee  has  maintained  its  firmness  and, 
in  fact,  is  probably  slightly higher.  Ad­
vices  from  abroad  seem  to  indicate  that 
the  consumption  lately  has  been  greatly 
increased  and  takings  by  the 
larger 
trade  have  been  so  large  . as  to  cause 
considerable  discussion  as to  the  future.
We  have  heard  no  more about the plague 
in  Santos and  the  rumors  are  generally 
regarded  as  fakes.  Not  much  has  been 
done 
invoice  way,  the  market 
closing  quiet  and  steady,  Quite  a  good 
many  orders  for  coffee  have  come  to 
hand  from  the  interior trade  and  the  to 
tal  must  make  quite  a  showing.  Rio 
No.  7 
in  an  invoice  way  is  quotable  at 
6  i -i6c.  The  stock 
in  store  and  afloat 
aggregates 
against 
1,101,830  bags  at  the  same  time  last 
year.  There  has  been  a  rather quiet 
speculative  market  and  the general tend­
ency 
lower  basis.  Mild 
grades  have  been  rather  quiet  during 
the  week,  although  the  tone  of  the  mar 
ket  is  steady,  8^c  being  about  the  rul 
ing  figure  for  good  Cucuta.  East  Indi; 
coffees  have  been  more  sought  for dur 
ing  the  week  than  for some  time  pre 
viously  and  the  market  closes 
fairly 
strong.
remains 
practically  unchanged  and  hardly  any 
thing  has  happened  to  mark the serenity 
of  the  situation.  Almost  the  entire  vol­
ume  of trade  consisted  of  withdrawals 
under  old  contracts  and  new  business 
failed  to  develop.  Some  soft  grades 
were  shaded 
It  is quite  safe  to 
say  that  all  orders  will be promptly tilled 
and  that  refineries  are  not  at  all  behind.
The  tea  market  seems  to  have  gotten 
onto  a  firm  foundation.  The  generr1 
quality  of  the  articles  is  so  good  thi 
we  no  longer  read  of  six  or seven  cent 
tea.  Orders  during  the  week,  while 
generally  for  small  amounts,  must  ag 
gregate  a  fair total  and  prices have been 
freely  paid  which  show  a  fair  profit. 
Black  teas  are  in  good  demand  and  are 
strong.
Both  buvers  and  sellers  of  rice  seem 
to  be  holding  off  and 
indications  of 
light  stocks  do  not  make  business  at  the 
moment  at  all  active.  Medium  grades 
are  particularly  slow  of  movement,  al 
though  not  any  lower  in  price.  Quota 
tions are  practically  unchanged  for  for 
eign  rice,  which  is  meeting  with  mod 
erate  enquiry. 
Japan,  5c;  Patna,  4^c 
l.een  the 
most  active  articles 
in  the  spice  line 
during  the  week  and  indications  are  not 
lacking  of quite  a  good  deal  of  specula­
tive  buying. 
is  going  to 
make  some  money  on  spices  before 
Singapore  black  pepper  is 
spring. 
worth  ii^fc  spot  and  12c  for  Nov.-Jan. 
shipment.  Zanzibar cloves,  7@7Msc- 
the 
week  has  not  been  as  active as previous­
ly  noted  and  the  situation  seems to be 
a  waiting  one.  The  new  article  is  so 
soon  to  be  here  that  little  is  being  done 
in  old  molasses  and  the  sales  made  are 
simply  of  a  sorting-up character.  Stocks 
on  hand  are  becoming  very  low  and  the 
new  arrivals  will  come  to  a  market 
pretty  well  cleaned  up.
Exporters  of  syrups  have  been  doing 
a 
little  trading  and  the  home  enquiry 
has  also  been  rather  freer  than 
last 
week,  so  that  altogether  the  market  is 
Prime  sugar 
in  pretty  good  shape. 
goods,  i8@I9c ;  fancy,  20@22c.
for 
canned  goods  every  day  and  already 
some  future  business  is  announced  for 
1900. 
Jobbers  seem  to  have  the  bulk  of 
the  trade  and  indeed  are  selling  goods 
in  some  cases  at  less  than  prices  asked 
by  first hands.  Tomatoes  are  the  sin­
gle  exception  of  weakness  and they have 
gone  off  5c  per  dozen  under  packers,  or 
say  80c  on  the  spot  for  standard  3s. 
Maryland  brands,  65c  there  or  67^0 
hefe.  Columbia  River spring  pack  sal­
mon  are  very  scarce.  No.  1  flats,  $2.10 
nominally  and  $£.80  for  No.  1  tails. 
The  market  for  com 
is  exceptionally 
strong,  with  good  sales  reported at  80c. 
Some  Maine  stock  sold  it  is  said  at  90c 
f.  o.  b.  N.  Y.

The  molasses  business  during 

Pepper  and  cloves  have 

is  an  excellent  demand 

Somebody 

There 

3

Patents

L.  C.  W EST,  Kalamazoo,  offers  half 
rates  for  patent  applications  for  this 
month  Bring this card

We are prepared  to  quote  prices 
on gas engines and  dynamos;  also 
wiring complete for large or  small 
plants 
Second-hand  dynamos 
bought  and  sold.  A  full  line  of 
Electrical  Supplies.  Chandeliers 
and Glassware at all  times.
Address
C I M   ELECTRIC  ENGINEERING CO.

LANSING, MICH.

W N M I O N M

O u r  lin e  of

WORLD

B ic y c le s fo r  1900

Without  an

For  5  cents 

Long  Havana  Filled

1  THE  BRADLEY  CIGAR  CO.
%
$
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Also M anufacturers  of  the Improved

G ree n ville ,  m en.

1  Hand  “ W. H. B.” Made

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R ecognized  B e st  io c,  3   fo r  2 5 c,
Brand on the  Market

Alum inum   Money

w h i In cre a se  Y o u r B u s in e ss

Cheap and hffective.

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

44  S.  Clark  S t.,  Chicago  III.

Is more  complete  and  attractive  than  ever  b 
foie.  We are not in the Trust.  We want good 
agents everywhere.

ARNOLD,  SCHWINN  &  CO., 
Makers,  Chicago,  III

1 dams & Hart. Michigan  Sales Agents, 
Qrand  Rapids, Mich.

Our Specialties;

Trimmed  and  Untrimmed  Hats, 
Ostrich  and  Fancy  Feathers. 
Ribbons,
Velvets,

New
Buckw heat
Flour

Our  Buckwheat  Flour  has 
acquired  a  reputation  for 
a 
absolute  purity 
sweet,  nutty 
In 
y£s  paper,  $5.00.  In  wood 
or  10  lb.  sacks,  $5-2of.o.b. 
Holland. 

Send  orders.

flavor. 

and 

Walsh-DeRoo 
Milling co.,

H o llan d ,  M ich.

MICHIGAN’S  MOST  FAMOUS  CIGAR

COLUM BIAN  C IG A R   C O M PA N Y,  b e n t o n   h a r b o r ,  m ic h .

M A N U FA C T U R E D   BY

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

4

Around  the  State

Movements of Merchant».

Big  Rapids-----Charlie  Martin  has

opened  a  meat  market  here.

Mason—O.  C.  Hoyt  has  sold  his  gro­

cery  stock  to C.  J.  Whiting.

Elsie—C.  L.  Lusk  has  purchased  the 

grocery  stock  of  Wm.  D.  Letts.

Jackson—Wm.  H.  Cudney  has sold his 

grocery  stock  to  C.  M.  Hartigan.

Adrian—A.  G.  Craft  has  opened  a 

meat  market  in  the  Conger block.

Fulton—Herbert  C.  Richardson,  gen­

eral  dealer,  has  removed  to  Scotts.

Cheboygan—Leishman  &  Barber suc­
ceed  Henry  Barber in the meat business.
Montgomery  -Olan  Ellis  has  engaged 
in  the  hardware  business  at  this  place.
Metamora—Lundy  &  Lewis  succeed 
A.  Lundy  &  Son  in  the  hardware  busi­
ness.

Mt.  Clemens—Franklin  P.  Montfort 
has  sold  his  shoe  stock  to  Merrill  & 
Yates.

Battle  Creek—E.  W.  Wilson  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Wm.  A. 
Rogers.

Portland—M.  J.  Dehn  has  discontin­
ued  his  branch  general  store  at  West 
Sebewa.

lmlay  City—Sessions  &  Thurston suc­
ceed  Levi  Sessions  in  the  undertaking 
business.

Caro—The  harness  business  of John  1. 
Franklin  is  now  conducted  by  Franklin 
&  Fallis.

Homer—Hunter  &  Sons  have  pur­
chased  the  grocery  and  crockery  stock of 
Wait  &  Co.

Springport—H.  J.  Cortright,  dealer  in 
dry  goods  and  groceries,  has  sold  out to 
F.  C.  Brisbin.

Bay  City—Frantz  &  Richardson  have 
in  the  drug  business  at  405 

engaged 
Center avenue.

Battle  Creek—Guy  E.  Crane continues 
the  harness  business  formerly  conducted 
by  Crane  &  Son.

Reese—Shi Her  Bros,  is  the  name  of 
the  new  grocery  firm  which  succeeds 
Shi Her,  Koffman  &  Co.

Mt.  Pleasant—J.  F.  Butcher  &  Co. 
have  purchased  the  grocery  and  provi­
sion  stock  of  T.  A.  Winans.

Homer—Albert  E.  and  Claude 

I. 
Hunter,  of  Lansing,  have  purchased  the 
grocery  stock  of  Harlow  Wait.

Ann  Arbor—John  Burg,  the  veteran 
shoe  dealer  here,  has  sold  his  stock  to 
the  Chicago  Shoe  Store  Co.,  and  will 
■ retire.

Muskegon—F.  C.  Peck,  of  Grand 
Rapids, has  purchased  the  grocery  stock 
of  A.  W.  Wellington  at  353  Washington 
avenue.

Middleville—Cornelius  Crawford  has 
sold  his  drug  stock  to  Frank  E.  Heath, 
formerly  engaged  in  the  drug  business 
at  Edmore.

Zeeland—The  foundation  of  the  new 
drug  store  of  A.  De Kruif  is  completed 
and  work  on  the  brick  portions  has been 
commenced.

Richland—Bresee  &  Knappen,  who 
conduct  a  grocery and  meat  market,  will 
close  out  their business and  retire  from 
trade  Dec.  1.

Traverse  City—L.  Warsowsky, 

for­
merly  connected  with  the  Fair dry goods 
store,  will  shortly  engage  in  the  bazaar 
business  in  the  Cohen  building.

Concord—Leonard  Caswell,  Hardware 
dealer  at  this  place,  died 
last  week 
from  an  attack  of  pneumonia,  resulting 
from  a  severe  cold  contracted  on  the  oc­
casion  of  the  recent  fire  which  destroyed 
a  large  portion  of  the  village.  He leaves 
a  wife  and  two daughters.

Escanaba—H.  Gunter  &  Sons  have 
leased  the  brick  store  building,  now  in 
process  of  erection  by  Greehoot  Bros., 
and  will  occupy  same  with  a  meat  mar­
ket.

Grover—J.  R.  Macdonald  has  sold  his 
men’s  furnishing  and  shoe  stock  to  J. 
C.  Archambeau,  formerly  engaged 
in 
the  clothing  store of  Gooding  &  Orms- 
bee,  of  Marquette.

Sherman—Wm.  Bradford  has  put  a 
stock  of  confectionery  in  the  new  store 
building  he  recently  erected  adjoining 
his  meat  market.  His  daughter,  Fan­
nie,  will  have  charge  of  the  store.

Muskegon  - Bachman  Bros.,  flour  and 
feed  dealers  at  the  corner  of  Washing­
ton  avenue  and  Hudson  street,  have pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  N.  Schuler 
at  491  Western  avenue  and  removed  to 
that  location.

Detroit—The  Michigan  Wall  Paper 
Co.,  Ltd.,  which  was  recently  organized 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $10,000,  will 
lines  of  wall  paper,  window 
handle 
shades  and  painters’ 
supplies,  both 
wholesale  and  retail.

Owosso—E.  J.  Foster,  of  Grass  Lake, 
will  on  Dec.  1  take  possession of  the 
Struber block,  now  occupied  by  the  fur­
niture  stock  of  Knapp  &  Smith.  He 
will  open  a  furniture  store  with  under­
taking  in  connection.

Greenville—The  Greenville  Tele­
phone  Co.  has  over  150 telephones  in 
service  and  expects  to  have  200  in  oper­
inside  of  six  months.  Manager 
ation 
Serviss  has  lately  put 
in  a  200  drop 
switchboard  and  has  numerous  other 
improvements  and  additions  under  con­
templation.  The  Bell  concern 
is  grad­
ually  relinguishing  its  hold  on  the town.

M a n u fa c tu rin g :  M a tte rs.

Chesaning—W.  L. 

Ireland  &  Co., 
elevator operators,  have  sold  out  to  H. 
N.  Ainsworth.

Detroit—The  capital  stock  of  Lamed, 
Carter  &  Co.,  overall manufacturers,  has 
been  increased  to$21,200,  fully  paid  in.
Central  Lake—The  Atwood  Creamery 
Co.  has  discontinued  operations  for  the 
season. 
It  has  had  a  prosperous  run 
and  has  met with  favor among  its  pat­
rons.

Kalamazoo—Work  has  been  com­
menced  on  the  new  factory  building  of 
the  Kalamazoo  Sled  Co.,  south  of  Third 
street.  The  building  will  be  26 by 60 
feet, 
four  stories  high.  Besides  this 
building  dry  kilns,  an  engine  room, 
etc.,  will  be  erected.  These  buildings 
will  greatly  increase  the  capacity  of  the 
plant.

Benton  Harbor—The  Anderson-Tully 
Co.  manufacturers  of  fruit packages,  has 
increased  its  capital  stock  to $325,000. 
S.  B.  Anderson,  of  Memphis,  Tenn., 
who  is  at  the  head  of the  enterprise,  has 
been  in  the  Twin  Cities  several  days 
looking  after  the  interests  of the  com­
pany.  F.  W.  Sessions  is  local  manager 
of the  company.

Wyandotte—A  new  block  for the  man­
ufacture  of  dairy  and  table  salt  is  a pos­
sibility  for Wyandotte.  There have  been 
rumors  afloat  for some  time  past  to the 
effect  that  the  owners  of  salt  blocks  at 
Marine  City  and  in  that neighborhood, 
because  of  imperfect  railroad  facilities, 
were  seriously  thinking  of  removing  the 
plants  to the  salt  beds  of  Wayne  county.
Holly—The  dry  goods  stock  and  fix­
tures  of  Hale  S.  Downing  have  been 
sold  under chattel  mortgage  for  $4,179, 
by  Burnham,  Stoepel  &  Co.,  of  Detroit. 
B.  C.  Levinson,  of  Petoskey,  was  the 
buyer,  at $4,225.

Onaway—While 

last 
week,  H.  O.  Dickinson  of,  the  firm  of 
Force  &  Dickinson,  stave  and  heading

in  New  York 

manufacturers  at  this  place  and  Detroit, 
closed  a  contract  with  New  York  and 
Philadelphia  stave  users  which  repre­
sents a  deal  of 
importance  to  the  firm 
and  to  the  industrial  interests  of  Ona­
way.  The  firm  contracted  to  manufac­
ture  and  deliver  in the  East  12,000,000 
pieces  of  beech,  maple  and birch staves. 
This  means a  day  and  night  run  for  the 
mill  here  for nearly  a  year  on  8,000,000 
pieces  of  the  contract,  the  remaining 
4,000,000 to  be  manufactured  at the  De­
troit  end  of  the  business.  The  firm  is 
considering  proposals  from  two  other 
companies  for staves,  which,  if  entered 
into,  will  bring  the  total  to  25,000,000 
pieces,  enough  to  keep  the  establish­
ments  operated  by  Force  &  Dickinson 
humming  right  along, 
in  season  and 
out,  up  to  May  1,  1901,  and  would  eat 
up 
12,000,000  feet  of  logs,  not  a  dis­
couraging  feature  to those  who have tim­
ber to  sell.

Saginaw—Some  months  ago  a  move­
ment  was set on  foot  here  for the  estab­
lishment  of a  muslin  underwear  factory, 
and  was  exploited  at  some  length  by 
John  J.  Tuomey,  then  of this  city.  It  is 
also  known  that  it  fell  through,  owing 
to the  inability  or  indisposition  of  Mr. 
Tuomey  to  meet  the  demands  of  the 
Saginaw  men  who were  solicited  to  take 
capital  in  the  enterprise.  At  that  time 
the  advantage  of  such  a  factory  was 
made  very  apparent,  and  it  was  then 
stated 
that  sooner  or  later  Saginaw 
would  have  such  an  institution.  For  the 
past  three  months,  the  officers  of  the 
Board  of  Trade  have  been  working  to 
that  end,having  been  in  correspondence 
with  a  gentleman  possessing  some  cap­
ital  and  the  requisite  practical  experi­
ence  for conducting  the  factory,  both  in 
manufacture  and 
in  marketing  muslin 
underwear and  kindred  products.  Their 
efforts have  finally  resulted  in  their  se­
curing  a  competent  manager and  a  cor­
poration, with a  capital  stock  of $20,000, 
is  now  in  process  of  formation. 
It  is 
expected  that the  factory  will  be  in  op­
eration  inside  of  six  weeks.

T h e   D ogs  o f W a r  L e t  L oose.

From  the P ort H uron Times, Oct, 28.

A  rate  war  is  on  among  the  grocers 
and  cutting  and  slashing  of  prices  is 
now  the  order  of  the  day.  The  price 
list  was  abolished  at the  meeting  of  the 
Merchants and  Manufacturers’  Associa­
tion  Friday  night.  One  of the  promi­
nent  members o f the  Association  stated 
that  his  neighbor  was  cutting  rates  to 
such  an  extent  that  it  was  interfering 
with  his  trade  and  unless allowed  to  do 
the  same  it  would  be  necessary  for  him 
to  withdraw  from  the  Association.  By  a 
vote  the  price  list  was  abolished  and 
cut  rate  groceries  can  now be  had  all 
over the city.  Particular  attention  has 
been  paid  to flour which  now  sells  for 
49 cents  per sack  at  many  stores,  and  at 
a  proportionate  price  by the  barrel.  The 
grocer against  whom the  kick  was  first 
made  is  not  a  member  of  the  Associa­
tion.  The  price  list  had  been  in  vogue 
for some  time  and  gave  satisfaction,  but 
of  late  numerous complaints  have  been 
made-by  several  members of  the  Asso­
ciation  on  account  of  their  trade  leav­
ing  them,  the  customers  claiming  that 
they  could  get  groceries  for  a  much 
lower  figure  than  what  was  asked  by 
their  regular  grocer. 
It  was  necessary 
to  meet  this  cut  or  lose  the trade,  so 
last  night’s  action  decided  the  point.

It  often happens that the  cheapest  and 
most  worthless  shoes squeak  the loudest.

A  pair of black  eyes  may be  delight 

fu l;  but  one  black  eye  is  shocking.

Wound  a  man’s  vanity  and  he  feels  it 

sorely.

An  egg  is  not  laid to  rest.

T h e   B o y s  B e h in d   th e   C o u n te r.

Ann  Arbor—John  Tice  has  resigned 
his  position  at  Brown’s  drug  store  to 
accept  one  on  the  road  for the  Weeks 
Drug  &  Chemical  Co.,  of  Jackson.  Mr. 
Tice  has had  nine  years’  experience 
in 
the  drug  business.

Owosso.---- John  Davidson 

succeeds
Clifford  Lewis  as  clerk  in  the  Fred  Car­
penter grocery  store.  Mr.  Lewis  has  re­
turned to  Byron.

Hopkins  Station—Frank  B.  Watkins 
has  a  new clerk  in  the  person  of  Harry 
Van  Orman,  of  Kalamazoo.

West  Bay  City—Harry  B.  Phelps,  who 
has  been  chief  clerk  at  Perry’s  phar­
macy  for several  years,  has  severed  his 
connection  with  the  store  and  taken  a 
position  with  Parke,  Davis  &  Co.,  De­
troit.

Benton  Harbor—John  Kinney,  clerk 
in  Rowe’s  grocery,  and  Miss  Myrtle 
Shultz,  of  Oronoko,  were  married  at  the 
home  of  the  bride’s  parents  last  Mon­
day  evening.  A  large  number of  guests 
were  present  and  the  happy  couple  were 
the  recipients  of  many  presents.

Fremont—Geo.  Walker,  recently  re­
turned  from  the  West,  has  accepted  a 
clerkshi p  with  Harman  &  Company.

Cheboygan—Chas.  Halliday, 

from 
Traverse  City,  is the  new  clerk  at  Sin­
clair  &  Mathews’  dry  goods  store.

Owosso—Seymour  Hoyt  is  clerking  in 
the  grocery  store  of  E.  L.  Devereaux.  • 
Belding—Fred  P.  Smith,  for a  num­
ber of  years  past  with  the  clothing  firm 
of  Holmes  Brothers,  has  severed  his 
connection  with  that  establishment  and 
gone  to  Dayton,  Ohio,  where  he  will 
take  a  position  as  window trimmer  in 
the  large  clothing  house  of  M.  Cohen  & 
Co.

Niles—Frank  Cowdry  succeeds  Otto 
Sonnenberg  as  pharmacist  in  the  drug 
store  of  H.  M.  Dean  &  Son.

Corinne—Louis  Yalomstein 

Springport—Richard GiHett  has taken 
the  position  recently  vacated  by  E.  A. 
Dodd  at the  store  of  Comstock  &  Imus.
in 
charge  of  the  dry  goods and  clothing 
store  recently  opened here by  L.  Yalom­
stein  &  Co.  as  a  branch  of  their  St.  Ig- 
nace  establishment

is 

B a y   C ity   G ro c e rs  T o u c h   E lb o w s.

temple 

Bay  City,  Oct.  28—The  stormy weath­
er  didn't  interfere  a  bit  with  the  ban­
quet of  the  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
at  Odd  Fellows’ 
last  night. 
There  was  a  downpouring  outside,  but 
the  grocers  and  their guests  didn’t  care 
for  that.  They  turned  out  in  the  rain 
and  then  filled  the temple,  and  a  better 
natured  crowd  never  gathered  any­
where.  The  spread  was  all  that  could 
be  desired. 
It  was  served  in  first  class 
style  and  thoroughly  enjoyed  by  all 
present.  There  was  every  delicacy  of 
the  season  to eat  and  the  way  the  good 
things  disappeared  was  gratifying  to  a 
person  who  enjoys  a  hearty  meal.  Fol­
lowing  the  banquet  was  an  interesting 
season  of  speech  making,  toasts being 
responded to by  many  of  those  present. 
Good  music  was  sandwiched  in  between 
the  toasts and  during  the  eating,  and  at 
the  conclusion  of  the  festivities  the  as­
semblage  turned  out 
into the  rain  and 
each  went  to  his  or  her  home  well 
pleased  with  the  success  of  the  affair.

W o rse   o ff T h a n   H e   T h o u g h t.

Shadbolt—Well,  I ’m  $50 worse  than  I 

was yesterday  morning.
Dingus—How’s  that?
Shadbolt—I  was  held  up  by  footpads 
on  my  way  home  last  night  and  robbed.
Dingus—I ’m  sorry  for  you,  old  man. 
But they  didn’t  get  the  $5  I  borrowed  of 
you  before  you  started  home,  anyhow.
Shadbolt—That’s  so.  1  forgot  that. 
I ’m  $55  worse  off than  I  was  yesterday 
morning.

There  is  no concealed  weapons  about 

the  loafer who wants  to  kill  time.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

T h e   G ro c e ry   M a rk e t.

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market  is  still 
unchanged,  with  quotations on  the  basis 
of  4  5-16C  for 96 deg.  test  centrifugals 
and 
if  there  was  anything  offered,  re­
finers  would  buy  stock  readily  at this 
price,  but  there 
is  practically  nothing 
in the  market.  The  refined  sugar  mar­
ket  shows  no  change.  Michigan  beet 
sugar  is  being  handled  very  largely by 
the 
jobbers  and  trade  with  the 
Eastern  refiners  will  probably  be  light 
during  the  beet  season.  The  total  stock 
of sugar  in  the  United  States  is  175»745 
tons,  against 
160,879  tons  at  the  same 
time  last  year.

local 

Canned  Goods—The  demand 

for 
canned  goods  of  all  descriptions  keeps 
up  about  the  same  as  for the  past  few 
weeks.  Almost  everything,  with 
the 
exception  of tomatoes,  has  advanced  or 
has  an  upward  tendency.  Com  is  ex­
ceedingly  firm  and  some  grades have 
advanced  io@i5c  per dozen.  The Maine 
pack 
is  all  sold  up with  the  possible 
exception  of  about  25,000  cases.  Buyers 
are  seeking  supplies  of  all  varieties 
and 
in  many  markets  the best  grades 
are  entirely  cleaned  up.  The  tomato 
market  is  slightly  easier  and prices have 
declined  2>£c  per  dozen.  This 
is  due 
largely  to  the  fact  that  Western  buyers 
have  satisfied  their  present requirements 
and  also  to  the  report of  a  larger  pack 
than  usual.  Some  well-informed  men, 
however,  are  of  the  opinion  that  toma­
toes  have  touched  bottom  and  will  grad­
ually  rise 
in  price  from  now  on  to  the 
closing  out  of  the  pack,  for the  reason 
that  after  these  recent  purchases  have 
passed  into  consumption  and heavy buy­
ing  begins  again,  the  supply  will  be 
found  to  be  smaller than  it  is  now  re­
ported  to  be.  Peas  are  quiet  but  hold­
ers  are  firm  and  buyers  must  pay  full 
String 
prices  or  go  without  stocks. 
beans  have  been  advanced  5c 
in  Balti­
more,  because of  increasing  demand  and 
decreased  supplies.  Peaches  have  ad­
vanced,  the  increase  amounting  to  from 
io@20C  per  case.  There 
is  a  fair  de­
mand,  but  the  high  price  has  caused 
bakers  and  other  large  consumers  to  go 
to driers  for their supplies.  Thus far the 
oyster  season  has  proved  to  be  a  very 
unsatisfactory  one,  because  of  the 
light 
receipts  and  high  prices of  the  raw  ma­
terial.  The  oyster men  all  say  that  the 
Chesapeake  will  not  produce  anywhere 
near  its  usual  production.  The  cove 
oyster  packers  are  very  blue  over the 
outlook,  but  still  have  hopes  that  the 
production  will  be 
larger  than  is  now 
anticipated.  Sardines  have advanced 25c 
per case.  One  of  the  principal  causes 
of  the  advance 
in  prices  has  been  the 
short  pack  of  fish  on  the  Maine  coast, 
The  total  pack  to date  will  not  exceed 
800,000  cases  and  there  is  very  littl^. 
prospect of this  total  being  added to be 
fore  the  close  of  the  season.  Very  lit­
tle  packing'  is  now  being  done,  owing 
to  the  scarcity  of  raw  fish,  and  as  a 
majority  of  the  plants  have 
closed 
down,  it 
is  not  expected  that  they  will 
open  again  this  season.  The  pack  of 
last  year  was  one  of  the 
largest  on 
record,  a  total  of  1,200,000  cases  being 
put  up.  Practically  all  of  this  year’s 
output  is  in  the  hands  of  the 
jobber, 
and  as  little,  if  any,  of  the  old stock 
remains 
in  first  hands,  the  prospect  of 
higher  prices  is  considered  very  bright. 
The  quality  of this  season’s  pack is said 
to  be  superior  to  anything  packed  in 
several  years.  There  is  a  little  more 
activity  in  canned  salmon.  Spot  sup­

plies  are 
prices  is higher.

light  and  the  tendency  of 

is  very 

likely.  There 

Dried  Fruit—Peaches and prunes con­
tinue  as  the  best  sellers  in  the  dried 
fruit  market  and  there  has  been  a  good 
demand  for  both  these  lines  during  the 
past  week.  Speculators  have  procured 
considerable  proportion  of  the  best 
grades  of  peaches,  which  stiffens  the 
market 
by  preventing  overloading. 
Prices  are  unchanged  as  yet,  but  an  ad­
vance 
is  some 
export  demand  for  prunes,  which  adds 
somewhat  to the  present  stiffness  of  the 
market.  Spot  stocks  of  new  goods  are 
scarce  and  buyers  find  some  difficulty in 
getting  supplies  to  fill  their 
[¡resent 
necessities.  Prices  are  very  firm  and 
have  an  upward  tendency. 
Information 
received  from  California  shows  that  the 
raisin  crop  has  just  been  severely  dam­
aged  by  rain  and  the  estimate  of  the 
crop  has  been  cut  down  now  almost  500 
cars;  in  other  words,  instead  of  2,500 
cars,  there  will  be  only  about  2,000. 
Prices  are  unchanged.  Whether  the 
Association  will  advance  prices  again 
or  not  remains  to  be  seen.  While  the 
high  prices  for  raisins  this  year  have 
restricted  demand  somewhat,  yet 
it 
seems  to  be  generally  considered  that 
consumers  will  have  raisins  regardless 
of  cost.  No  supplies  of  apricots  are 
obtainable  from  first  hands and  very few 
can  be  had  from  anywhere,  and  trade 
is  consequently  very  limited.  Prices 
are  firm,  but  with  no  change.  Owin[ 
rgely  to the  unseasonably  warm weath 
i: 
er,  the  evaporated  apple  market 
slightly  easier,  but 
is  thought  wil 
grow  stronger as  soon  as  cooler weathe 
comes.  The  warm  weather 
is  rotting 
the  fresh  apples  and  there  is  great  pres­
sure  to sell  fresh  stock  and  this  has  nat 
urally  affected  the  evaporated  market 
There 
in  price  on  figs 
dates  or  currants,  but the  demand  for all 
is  good  with  prices  firm.

is  no  change 

it 

Molasses  and  Syrups—Molasses 

high  and  sales  are  rather small.  As soon 
as any  considerable  arrivals of  new  crop 
goods  come  forward,  an 
improvement 
in  trade  is  expected.  Com  syrup  con 
tinues  in  good  demand,  with  no  change 
in  price.

Tea—The  demand  for  teas  is  about 
the  same,  with  perhaps  a  little  bette 
call  for the  low  grades.

Gieen  Fruits—Bananas  are  firmer and 
slightly  higher  prices  are  asked  for  the 
best  grades,  although  no  general  ad 
Vance  has  taken  place. 
Lemons  are 
steady  with  trade  slightly  better than 
has  been, particularly  for  new  crop fruit 
Old  crop  are  dull  and  neglected  and 
the  price  is  unsettled.  Conditions  are 
improving  and  the  demand  for  supf 
for  holiday  goods  will 
materially.

increase  trade 

Fish—There  is  no quotable  change  i 
the  salt  fish  market,  but  cod,  hake,  had 
dock  and  pollock  are 
in  exceedingly 
light  supply  and  at  present only  sma 
orders  can  be  filled.

Nuts—Business  in  nuts  is  active  and 
prices  rule  generally  firm  and  high  on 
all  varieties  and  qualities.  There  is 
strong  demand  for  all  sorts  of  foreign 
nuts,  which  are 
in  short  supply,  and 
domestic goods  are  selling  at full prices 
There  are  none  too  many  of  any  vari 
ety,  and  the  result  is  a  firmness  which 
has  put the trade  on  a  better basis  than 
it  has  enjoyed  for years.  Supplies  wi 
be  exhausted  earlier than  usual,  if  pres 
ent demand  keeps  up,  and  the  tendency 
of  holders  is  to  push  prices  up  more 
generally  than ever  before.  Tarragon 
almonds  have  advanced  yic  per  pound 
and  Ivicas  are  %c  higher.  Califom

there  will  be 

papershells  have  advanced  a  full  cent 
and  soft  shells  have  followed.  The  gen- 
al  condition  of  the  market  is  encoura- 
ng,  although  some  dealers  insist  that 
lower  [¡rices  later.  The 
alnut  stock  of  Southern  California  is 
ntirely  sold,  so  far  as  first  hands  are 
concerned,  and  the  quality  of this  year’s 
is  said  to  be  good.  Filberts  are 
nuts 
liberal  sales  at  full  quoted 
rm,  with 
rices.  Pecans  are  scarce, 
firm  and 
moderately  active.  Orders  are  small 
because  of  high  [¡rices.  New  crop  pea­
nuts  are  beginning  to  come  in  and  old 
crop  goods  have  declined  'Ac.

Rice—-The  rice  market  is  in  excellent 
¡ndition,  with  g(K«l  demand  from  all 
oints.  One  Louisiana  miller  writes 
¡at  he  has  been  simply  swamped  with 
orders  and  says  that  others  report  the 
ime  condition  of  affairs.  The  [¡resent 
crop  is  of  good  quality  and 
is 
thought  will  prove  a  record  breaker, 

it 

rices  are  firm  and  advancing.
H id es,  P e lts,  F u rs ,  T a llo w   a n d   W ool.
Hides  are  an  article  wanted.  The 
rice 
crowded  higher  to  obtain 
them.  The  bidding  for them has cleaned 
¡ut  the  market,  which 
is  sold  ahead.
rice  does  not  count  when  tanners  want 
the  hides.  They  can  not  stop,as claimed 

is 

It 

few  weeks  ago.
Pelts  do  not  change  beyond  the  tend- 
ncy  to  go  higher  [¡er  piece,  as  they 
bring  more  value  in  wool.

Furs  are  not  quotable,  as  so  few  are 
ffered,  and  no  market  can  be  made  on 
the poor quality  of  early  caught. 
ii 
¡nly  safe  to  buy  at  extremely  low  val­
ues,  as  there  are 
large  quantities  ol 
¡me  kinds  carried  over  from  last  year, 
Tallow  is  in  good  demand  at  %@Y%c 
last  week 

above  the  declined  price  of 
iood  stock  is  sought  after.
Winds  show  no  advance,  except in  fine 
;rades.  There  are 
large  sales  of  all 
grades.  A  considerable  amount  hag  left 
the  State  during  the  past  few  weeks. 
/ 
number  of  Eastern  buyers  are  here 
who  will  purchase  when  the  [¡rice  i: 
There  are  anticipations  of  i 
right. 
in  the  coming  London 
harp  advance 
ales  of  November,  which 
stimulate 
rade  on  this  side.  Large  amounts ( 
wool  are  being  consumed  and  wool  fac 
tories  were  never  more  busy.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Philip  Graham,  grocer and  meat dea 
er at  477  and  481  South  Division  street 
¡as  sold  his  meat  market  to  Wm.  1 
Bums,  formerly  engaged 
in  the  me 
business  at  253  Jefferson  avenue,  and 
Geo.  J.  Draper,  who  was  employed 
i 
the  meat  market  of  Mr.  Graham.  Th 
style  of the  new  firm  will  be  Burns  & 
Draper.

Christian  Den  Herder,  formerly  en 
in  general  trade  at  Vriesland 

gaged 
has  removed  to  Grand  Rapids  and 
employed  in  the  wholesale  crockery 
tablishment  of  H.  Leonard  &  Sons.

Berand  Schrouder,  formerly  engaged 
in  the  drug business  at  209  East  Bridge 
street,  has  purchased  the  stock  of  the 
Eaton  Drug  Co.,  at  37  Monroe  street, 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Giroux  Bros,  have  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Cross  Village.  The 
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co. 
the 
stock.

furnished 

S.  J.  Doty,  of  Harriette,  has  added  a 
line  of  harnesses to  his  hardware  busi­
ness.  Brown  &  Sehler  furnished  the 
stock. 

^_____

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

grades  and  priées,  phone  Visner,  800.

5

D e a th   o f  M rs.  H .  C.  A n g ell.

The  readers  of  the  Tradesman,  espe­
cially  those  connected  with  the  lumber 
trade  who  have  had  business  relations 
ith  the  well-known  firm  of  Wagner  & 
\ngell,  as  well  as  the  employes of  the 
merican  Express  Co.,  with  which  he 
as  connected  for  several  years,  will 
regret  to 
learn  of  the  death  of  the  wife 
f  Harry  C.  Angell,  Nellie  May  Angell, 
on  Monday,  Oct.  30,  of  diphtheria,  at 
family  residence  at  83  First  avenue, 
the  thirty-seventh  year  of  her age. 
Mrs.  Angell  was  the  only  daughter of 
Mrs.  Martha  A.  Graves.  Her brother, 
Chas.  B.  Graves,  is  a  physician  in  this 
city,  and  her  other  brother,  Leon  S.
raves,  is  engaged  in  the  railway  busi­

ness  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.

A 

large  circle  of  friends  will  mourn 
her death.  She  was  a  prominent  mem­
ber and  worker  in  the Westminster Pres­
byterian  church  and  took  an  active  in­
terest  in  the  Ladies’  Missionary Society, 
of  which  she  was  Secretary.  She  was 
Iso  Secretary  of  the  Central  Circle  of 
the  church  and  an  active  member of the 
rtnightly.  She  was  also  Secretary  of 
the  Waterloo  Street  Free  Kindergarten, 
member of  the  Ladies’  Literary  Club 
md  one  of the  supporters  and  workers 
the  Rescue  Home  as  long  as  it  was 

kept  up.

Although  for  some  yea is  she  has  not 
en  strong,  physically,  what  she  lacked 
physical  strength  she  seemed  to 
make  up  in  will  power and  energy,  and 
took  up  every  burden  in  the 
line  of 
what  she  thought  was  Christian  duty. 
Some  four  weeks  ago  the  youngest of 
her  three  great  nephews  was taken  ill 
with  diphtheria  and  Mrs.  Angell at  once 
took  the  other  little  brother and  sister 
to her home  to  keep  them,  and  when  the 
[uarantine  period  had  passed,  they  re- 
urned  to  their  home,  without  taking 
the  disease.  Mrs.  Angell  supposed  the 
danger  had  passed,  but,  probably  on 
account of  her  lack  of  strength,  she  con­
tracted  the  disease,  and  was  taken  ill 
Oct.  23.  She  was  very  sick  from  the 
first  and,  although  she  had  every  care 
and  attention  and  was  attended  by  two 
physicians,  she  died  the  morning  of  the 
30th.  Owing  to  the  disease,  the  fu­
neral,  which  was  held  at  4 o’clock  Mon­
day,  was  private,  Walter C.  Winchester, 
John  Barlow,  C.  C.  Follmer,  and  A.  B. 
Mason,  acting  as  bearers.  The  trustees 
of the  church,  of  which  body  Mr. Angell 
is  a  member,  some  of  the  members  and 
other  intimate  friends  and  relatives, 
met  at  a  friend’s  house,  and  followed 
the  hearse  in  carriages  to  Oak Hill cem­
etery,  where  her  friends  of  the  Cooking 
Club  had  done  everything  that  loving 
thoughtfulness  could  suggest  by  lining 
the grave with white flannel and trimming 
it  with  ferns  and  flowers,  to help  take 
away  the  coldness  of  the  grave.  After 
the  coffin  had  been  lowered  and  Rev.  J. 
M.  Fulton,  the  pastor,  had  spoken  of 
her  lovely  disposition  and  life  and  read 
appropriate  passage  from the  Bible,  the 
friends  circled  around  the  grave,  each 
dropping  in  a  flower as  a  token  of  their 
love  and  friendship.

F.

A  suit  in  New  York  over a  sum  of 
about  ¡51700  left  by  a  widow  is  being 
fought  on  the  ground  that  since  the 
woman’s  income  was  only $25  a  month 
she  could  not  have  saved  any  money, 
and  the  cash  must,  therefore,  have  been 
a  part of  the  deceased  husband’s  estate. 
One  of  the  lawyers  contesting  this  alle­
gation  says  the  woman  could  have  lived 
on  $2  a  week,  and  testified  that  when 
he  was  a 
law  student at a  time  when 
the  cost  of  living  was  higher than  at 
present  he  lived  on  $1  a  week.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

e
W om an’s W orld

T h e   T ra g e d y   o f th e   H o n e y m o o n .

little 

You  have  just  been  in,  my  dear  boy, 
to tell  me  that  you  are  going  to  be  mar­
ried  next  week. 
It  is  the  happy  sequel 
to  a 
love  story that  has  been  as 
true  and  tender as  your own  great  heart, 
and  that  for  you  has  been  sweet  with  all 
the  flowers that bloom  along  that path  of 
romance  that  a man  treads  but  once  in  a 
lifetime.  To  the  world  of  fashion  and 
society  the  event  means  nothing  at  all. 
They  will  read  with  indifference  that 
such  and  such  a  young  man  has been 
married  to  Miss  So-and-So,  of  some 
small  village,  and  that the  happy  couple 
will  make  their home  in  Grand  Rapids, 
where the  groom  is  a  valued  employe 
of a  large  mercantile  house,  but  to  you 
it  means  the  long  waiting  is  at  an  end, 
and  that  all  the  hopes  and  dreams  of 
years  are  about  to  become  a  strange  and 
beautiful  reality.

I 

know  all  the  details of the  story— 

In 

the 

those  days  you  had 

how,  from  the  very  time  when  you  were 
children  together  in  the  little  country 
town,  you  loved  the  one  who  has always 
been  the  only girl  in  the  world  to  you. 
Her  people  were  quite 
leading 
people  there,  and  she  reigned,  by  right 
of  her  pretty  face  and  sweet  ways,  like 
a 
little  queen  in  the  village,  and  there 
was  something of  wonder and  triumph, 
as  well  as  love,  throbbing  in  your  heart 
when,  from  among  so  many  other  suit­
ors,  you  won  her  promise  to  be  your 
wife. 
little 
enough  to  offer any  woman  except  your 
love,  but  your sweetheart’s  promise  was 
your  inspiration,  as 
it  has  been  many 
another man’s,  and  you  left  the  village 
and  came  to  the city  to  seek  your  for­
tune.  At  first  it  was  a  hard  and  hope­
less  task  enough.  You  had  no  friends 
to  push  your  interests,  but  by  dint of 
sheer determination  and  ability  and grit 
you  got  a 
foothold  and  have  worked 
your w'ay  up  to  the  position  of  trust  and 
responsibility  you  now  hold,  and  that 
makes  you  feel  that  you  are  justified 
in 
claiming  your  reward,  and  so  next  week 
you  are  going  back  to the  little  village 
for your bride.

As  1  sat 

listening  to  you  there  was 
that  in  your  handsome,  manly,  strong 
young  face  that  made  me  think  you 
worthy  of any  woman’s loving.and  yet— 
when  you  were  gone,  with  all  your 
happy  hopes  and  bright  anticipations,  I 
could  but  sigh  and  almost  wish  that 
life  ended,  as  novels  do,  with  the  ring­
ing  of  the  wedding  bells  and  that  no 
tears  and  no disillusioning  were  to  fol­
low.

In  reality  there 

It  is  the  custom  to speak  of  the  first 
few  months  after marriage  as  the  honey­
moon  and  to  paint  it  as  a  season  of  un­
alloyed  bliss. 
is  no 
other time  of  one’s  whole  life  that  is  so 
apt  to be  full  of  acute  and poignant  dis­
appointments.  There  is,  to begin  with, 
the  inevitable  adjustment  of  two  people 
with  different  tastes and different beliefs 
and  reared  in  a  different  environment, 
to  a  comomn  standard,  and  that  is  rare­
ly  accomplished  without  friction,  but 
more  than  that  is the  bitter awakening 
to the  fact  that  no dream  is  ever  wholly 
realized.  Both  have  expected  too  much 
and  the  impossible  has not  happened.

You  think  to-night  that  you  could 
never  weary  of  contemplating  Susie’s 
saucy  tip-tilted  chin  or of  caressing  the 
sunny 
little  curl  upon  her  forehead. 
You  are  absolutely  certain  now that  if 
you  were  dead  her kiss  would  thrill  you 
into  life.  Of course,  other  married  men 
looks very
seem  to  take  their  wives’ 

much  as  a  matter of  course  and  mani­
fest  a  stoical 
indifference  to conjugal 
kisses,  but  they  didn’t  marry  Susie.  My 
dear  boy,  you  are  a  man  and  you  are 
mortal  and  you  will  be  even  as  they. 
The  time  will  come  when  you  will  be 
more  interested  in  the stock market  than 
you  are  in  Susie’s  curls  and  when  she 
will  have  to call  you  back  to remind you 
to  give  her the  kiss  of  duty  that  is  dust 
and  ashes  on  the  lips  of  romance.  Per­
haps  for  you 
it  will  not  even  matter. 
You  will  give  a  sigh  to  think  that  an­
other  ideal 
is  gone,  and  then  you  will 
into  your  work  and  forget  it. 
plunge 
All  this  is 
inevitable.  A  man  can  no 
live  on  sentiment  than  he  could 
more 
exist  on  champagne.  He 
is  bound  to 
come  down  to the  realities  of  life.

it 

What  I  want  to  call  your attention to- 
and 
is  something  that,  so  far  as  I 
know.no young  husband ever considers— 
is  Susie’s  point  of  view. 
If  married 
life  has  brought  to  you  some disillusion­
ing  about  the  all-sufficiency  of  love  as  a 
daily  diet,  it  has  equally  to  her.  When 
she  married  you  she  honestly  believed 
she  could  spend  her  life  in  contemplat­
ing  your  perfections  as  a  steady occupa­
tion.  She  is  morally  certain  that  just  to 
be  near you,  to  hear  your  voice,  to  gaze 
upon  you,  will  be  a  state  of  ecstatic 
happiness  of  which  she  can  never tire, 
and  that,  having  you,  she  will  desire 
nothing  else  on  earth.  I  haven’t  a  doubt 
that,  in  all  good  faith,  she  has  told  you 
this,  and  the  pity  of  it  is  that  you  are 
both  too  young  and  too  ignorant  to know 
any  better  and  so  go  blundering  into 
that  slough  of  despond  that  few  young 
married  couples  escape.

When  the  village  clergyman  says  the 
words  that  makes  Susie  your  wife,  and 
her  mother,  with  her  heart  failing  her 
as  every  mother’s  must  at  the  last,  gives 
her  into  your  keeping  and  whispers 
through  her  tears,  “ be  good  to  her,”  
you  will  smile  a  little  masculine  smile 
of  superior  scorn.  Be good  to  her!  What 
a  request!  When  you  would  lay  down 
your  life  for  her!  Ah,  my  boy,  only 
another woman,  who  has  sounded  all  the 
depths  of  that  experience,  who  knows 
the  wrench  of 
leaving  home  and  kin­
dred,  the  pain  of parting with girlhood’s 
sweet  ways,  who  has  wept  its  tears  and 
endured 
its  desolation,  knows  what 
need  there  is  for your  forbearance,  your 
tenderness,  your consideration,  and  how I 
much  a  mother compasses  into the  cry, 
“ be  good  to  her.”

Have  you  ever thought,  my  boy,  that 
there 
is  no  more  pathetic  figure  than 
that  of  the  little  bride,  who  is  brought, 
a  perfect  stranger,  to  live  in  a  big  city? 
At  home  she  was  a  person  of  impor­
tance.  Here  she  is  nobody.  There  she 
was  a  figure  in  the  social  life.  No  party 
was  complete  without  her  presence. 
There  was  not  an  hour  in  the  day  that 
some  girl  friend  was  not  dropping  in 
for  a  bit  of  a  chat.  Here,  except  for 
you,  she  is  as  much  alone  as  Robinson 
Crusoe  on  his  desert  isle.  There  she was 
a  leader  in  church  work  and  president 
of the  guild.  Here  her timid  advances 
to  the  church  people  are 
ruthlessly 
snubbed  and,  after the  first  attempt,  she 
gives  it  up  and  feels  that  she  has n o , 
more  part  in  £  city  God  than  she  has  in 
its  society.  Worst  of  all,  perhaps,  she 
has  nothing  to  do.  The  brand  new  fur­
niture  and  carpets 
in  the  brand  new 
cottage  are  hopelessly  clean.  Even  the 
brand  new  clothes  offer  no  chance  for 
mending.  There 
is  absolutely  nothing 
to  do  but  sit  up  and  think  of  what 
mother and  the  girls  are  doing  at home. 
Is  it  any  wonder,  under such  circum­
stances,  that  she  gives  away to home-

I sickness?  All  of  her dreaming  is  broken 
through.  Her 
ideal  of  perfect  rapture 
is  shattered.  She  has  found  misery 
where  she  looked  for  nothing  but  hap­
piness,  and  for  the  time  being  her deso­
lation  is  heart-breaking  and  complete.

Few  brides  who  come  as  strangers  to 
the  city  escape  this  martyrdom  of  lone­
liness and  boredom.  One  of  the  hap­
piest  married  women  1  know  says  that 
when  she  was  married  and  the  train 
rolled 
into  the  city  where  she  was  to 
live,  a  sudden  realization  of  what  she 
had  done  came  over  her-that  she  was 
done  with  her old  happy,  care-free  girl 
life,  that  she  was  parted  from  mother 
and  sisters  and  friends  and  was  going 
to  face  an  unknown  world  with  a  man 
who,  at  the  moment,  seemed  as  strange 
as  the  policeman  on  the  street—that  it 
seemed  to  her  her  heart  would  break 
with  the  agony  of  it.  Another tells  how 
she  hates  a  certain  street,  because,  in 
the  first  days  of  homesickness  and  the 
weary  months  of  loneliness  that 
fol­
lowed,  she  tramped,  tramped,  tramped 
up  and  down 
it  triyng  to  wear out  in 
physical  exertion  the  restlessness  that 
possessed  her.  Another  tells  how  she 
ripped  up  her  new  clothes and  made 
them  all  over again,  because  it  seemed 
to  her  she  must  go  crazy  unless  she 
could  find  something  to  occupy  her 
mind  and  hands.

It  is  an  experience  with  which  men 
have  curiously 
little  patience  and  no 
understanding.  The  average  man seems 
to think  that  when  he  marries  a  girl  he 
has  conferred  sufficient  happiness on her 
to  last  her  a 
that  she 
should  desire  nothing  more  exciting 
than  to  watch  for his  return  in  the  even­
ing.  I  have  known  men  to  take  girls out 
of  happy  homes,  where  everything  was 
cheerful  and  bright  and  gay,  and  sim­

lifetime  and 

in  any  way. 

ply  dump  them  down  into  a  boarding­
house,  and  never even  think  of trying  to 
entertain  them 
“ Why, 
don’t  you  take  your wife  to  the  theater, 
sometimes?”   I  once  asked  one  of  these 
men,  who  had  married  a  pretty  village 
belle. 
“ Oh,  before  I  was  married  I 
used  to  go  almost  every  night  and  I  got 
tired  of 
it,”   was  the  selfish  reply. 
“ Well,  she  isn’t tired  of  it ¡suppose  you 
look  at  her  side  awhile,”   1  returned, 
and  that,  my  boy, 
is  the  gist  of  the 
whole  matter.  Try  to  look  at  it  from 
Susie’s  point  of  view.

I  am  not  saying  that  you  have  not 
your  burdens,  too. 
It  is  hard  to  be  met 
with  homesick  tears  when  you  expect 
smiles,  and  hardest  and  bitterest  of all 
to  feel  that  you  have  failed  to  make  the 
woman  happy  to  whom  you  have  dedi­
cated  your  life. 
It  is  for  you,  also,  the 
shattering  of  a  thousand  hopes  and 
dreams,  and 
in  the  fierce  disappoint­
ment  you  are  apt  to be  savage  and  un­
is  unreasonable,  you  think. 
just.  She 
She  knew  that 
if  she  married  you  she 
would  have  to  leave  home,  and  she 
should  have  stayed  there 
if  she  loved 
her  people  best.  My  boy,  now  is  the 
time,  if  ever  in  all  your  life,  to  be  good 
to  her.  Be  patient  with  her.  Be  ten­
der and  forbearing.  The  homesickness 
will  weep  itself  out  the  quicker on  your 
breast.  She  will  adjust  herself  to  new 
conditions  and  make  new  friends,  but  it 
will  take  a  little  time.  Be  good  to  her, 
and  don’t  make  the  tragedy  of 
the 
honeymoon  a  tragedy  for  your  whole 
life. 

Dorothy  Dix.

So  Touching;.

“ I  just  saw  a  touching  scene.”
“ What  was  it?”
“ Two  fat  men 

in  a  four by  six  ele­

vator.  They  touched  on  all  sides.”

I D E A L /

C A R R I A G E
R U N N E R S

Secure  the  agency  for  your  town  before  it  is  taken  by 
your  competitor.  Ask  for  special  circulars  illustrat­
ing  various  vehicles  to  which  runners  are  attached.
Send  for  Bob-Sled  catalogue.

E .   B E M  E N T ’S   S O N S .

S O L E   M A N U F A C T U R E R S ,  
L A N S I N G .  M IC H IG A N .

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

more  furniture 
quality 
in  the 
my  notice.

advertising  of  the  same 
exchanges  that  come  to

Two 

good 

advertisements 

from 
Cadillac  are  reproduced  herewith. 
I 
call  them  good,  because  they  give  de­
scriptions  and  quote  prices  and  because 
they  present  an  attractive  appearance. 
The  advertisement  of  the  Hero  heater

—Watch Maurer’s Green Bundles —

Hero  Heaters

Made of refined steel,extra heavy lining, 
nick’.e plated name, cast  iron  door  for 
draft and removing ashes, check  draft, 
in collar, hinged cover.  3 sizes.

$2.48 
$3.25 
$3 98
Champion  Heaters

Made  of  polished  steel,  extra  heavy 
lining, nickle plated  name  cast,  hand­
some cast iron door  tor  draft  and  re­
moving ashes, cast iron  check  draft  in 
collar, hinged  cover,  ornamental  urn. 
4 sizes:

S3.19 
$419 
$4.98

John  H.  Maurer,
Cadillac’s Leading Bazar.

Middle Room,  Masonic  Block,
Cadillac,  Mich.

Couches--

This section of the state does  not  afford 
a better line than  we are now  disp.aying. 

Plain Tufted Couches, only 
Tufted Couches,  Fancy Velours  coverings,

- 

- 

$6.00

beautiful patterns, from 

- 

;  $12.00 to $15.00

The prettiest folding Couch you ever  saw— 
fancy  Velours  covering,  tufted bottom, 
ends and back, only 

- 

- 

$18.00
You  can  better  judge  as  to  what  you 
want after a look <tt our Couehes.  Call— 
we want to see you.

- 

Dunham  &  Spafford,

Furniture. 

Crockery.  Undertaking,

might  well  have  contained  a  little  talk 
upon  the  merits  of the  heater  and  the 
couch  advertisement  might  have  dwelt 
upon  the  comfort  and  satisfaction  to  be 
obtained  from  the  ownership  of  a couch 
hut  apart  from  these  points,  1  see  no 
room  for  criticism.

*  *  *

The  advertisement  of  Hoag’s  Market, 
in  Lansing,  is  a  refreshing  change  from 
the  average  advertising  of  the  meat

OUR  CHICKEN  YARDS

and  good  ones,  too.  He’ ll  tell  you  how 
careful  he  is  in  selecting  his  meats  and 
how  he  takes  pains  to  keep  them  in  the 
best  possible  condition.  He'll talk about 
the  cleanliness  of  his  store  and  the  low­
ness of  his  prices.  He’ll  show  you  how 
he  trims  the  waste  off of  his  meat  before 
weighing 
it,  instead  of  leaving  a  lot  of 
surplus  bone  and  fat,  like  the  other  fel­
low.  He'll  tell  you  a  whole  lot  more  if 
you  ask  him—but  he  never  thinks  of 
putting  things  like  that  into  his  adver­
tising.  And  as  for  prices—why,  the 
idea  would  seem  absurd  to  him.  And 
yet,  the  price  of  meat  is  a  mighty 
im­
portant  item  to the  average  housewife, 
and  the  meat  dealer  who  can  supply  her 
with  the  right  kind  of  meat  at  fair 
prices 
is  pretty  sure  to  hold  her  trade 
permanently.

*  *  *

1  reproduce  a 

little  corner  clipped 
from  a  page  advertisement  of John Wan- 
amaker,  without  doubt  the  best  retail 
idvertiser  in  this  country.  Notice  the 
simplicity  and  clearness  of  the  descrip-

Men’s Night Shirts

The warm domet flannel makes excellent 
night shirts for cold weather. 
It is cotton 
but fleecy, and  its touch  i*  more  pleasant 
than muslin, on chilly nigh s.  These we 
tell of are made in a  little  New  England 
town,  where  almost  everybody  makes 
shirts—and  they  are  good  shirtmakers. 
The fabric is soft, warm and  substantial; 
colorings  good;  sizes  are  full—easy  to 
get  on,  and  comfortable;  seams  neatly 
and strongly  sewed.  They  wash without 
shrinking 
Main  Aisle  Market street.

50c.

J o h n   W a n a m a k e r .

tion—a  child  could  understand  it,  and 
it  is  interesting  enough  to  be  read 
yet 
by  anyone. 
It  realizes the  ideal  of  good 
advertising  -store  news,  simply,  plain 
and  concisely  told.  There  is  no  strain­
ing  after effect;  the  writer seems  to  be 
talking  to  you,  so  natural  is  the  style. 
Looks  easy,  doesn’t it?  But  it’s  not. 
I 
have  reproduced  it  as  an  example of  the 
style  that  can  be  adopted  with  profit  by- 
all  of  my  readers,  no  matter  what  their 
business  may he.  VVcinamaker  is  adver­
in  this 
tising  fifty-five  distinct 
manner—pretty  good  evidence  of 
its 
idaptability  to  every  line  of business.
W.  S.  Hamburger.

lines 

T h e   S am e  Size  L a rg e r.

He—This  shoe  doesn’t  fit.  Try  a 
She  (severely)-  -No  sir;  bring  me  the 

bigger one.
same  size  a  little  larger.

are full, so you may be assured of strictly 
fresh dressed Chickens for S aturday for

Crockery  and Glassware

A K R O N   STO N K W A K K . 

B a tte r s

r  doz.........................................
per  g a l.................................

4  gal.,  |>er
1 to ii gal..
8 gal. each
10 gal. ea ch ...............................
12 gal. ea ch ..............................
15 gal. m eat-tubs, each .........
20 gal. m eat-tubs, ea ch .........
25 gal. m eat-tubs, ea ch .........
30 gal. m eat-tubs, ea ch .........
C h u rn s
2 to G gal., ner  g al..................
Churn  D ashers, per doz.......

7

4&

Mi Ikpun*

!4 gal. flat or ril. hot.,  per d oz.............
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each ...................
F in e  G lazed  M ilk p a n s
>4 gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz..............
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., ea ch ...................

SI  iv pan h

% gal. II reproof, ball, per  doz..............
1 gal. lireproof, ball, per  doz..............

Jug*

>4 gal., per  doz........................................
H gal.  per  doz..........................................
1 to 5 gal., per  gal...................................

T o m ato   <1 ugn

% gal., per  doz........................................
1  gal., e a ch ..............................................
Corks for  l4 gal., per doz.......................
Corks for  l  gal., per doz.......................

gal., stone 
gal., stone

cover, per doz. 
cover, per doz.

S ealin g   W ax
, per  lb.................
F R U IT   J A R S

5 lbs. In  package

H u ts..............
q u a rts ...........
Half (¡allons.
C overs..........
R ubbers.......

A M P   B U R N E R S

No. () Hun.......................................
No. 1 Hun.......................................
No. 2 Hun.......................................
No. 3 Hun.......................................
T ubular..........................................
Hecurity, No.  l ............................
Security,  No.  2 ............................
N utm eg..........................................
L A III'  C H IM X K ÏS -

No. 0 Hun. 
No.  1  Hun. 
No. 2 Hun.

No. 0 Him 
No.  1  Hun. 
No. 2 Hun.

Com m on

F irs t  Q u ality

S e c o n d *
I*er l)ox of (1  doz. 
......... 

1  28

No. 0 Hun. crim p top, wrapped  & lab. 
No.  1 Hun, crim p top, wrapped  & lab. 
No. 2 Hun, crim p top, w rapped & lab.

X X X   F lin t

No. 0 Hun, crim p top. wrapped & lab. 
No. 1 Hun, crim p top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 3 Hun, crim p top. w rapped & lab.
C H IM N E Y S —P e a rl T op
No. 1  Hun,  wrapped and  labeled.........
No. 2 Hun, wrapped and  labeled.........
No. 2  Hinge, wrapped and  labeled... 
No. 2 Hun.  “Small  Bulb,”  for  (¡lobe
Lam ps..............................................

L a  R ustic

No.  1 Sun, plain bulb, per d o z.. .1.......
No. 2 Hun, plain bulb, per doz..............
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..............................
.2 Crimp, per doz..............................

K och ester
loz)..................

No.  1  Lime (G5c 
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz) 
No. 2 Klint (80C  doz)

No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)..............................
No. 2  Flint (80c  doz)..............................

4 00 
4  40

O IL   CANS

1 gal.  tin cans with spout,  per doz....
1 gal. galv. iron with  spout,  per do/...
2 gal. galv. iron w ith  spout, per doz..
3 gal. galv. iron  with  sjiout.  per doz..
5 gal. galv. Iron  with  spout,  per do z..
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per d o z..
5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz..
5 gal. Tilting cans....................................
5 gal. galv. iron  N acefas.......................

P u m p   C ans

5 gal. Rapid steady stream ...................
5 gal.  Eureka, non-overflow.................
3 gai.  Home R ule.....................................
5 gal.  Home R ule.....................................
5 gal. F inite K ing...................................

L A N T E R N S

No.  0 Tubular, side lift........................
No. 
l  B T ubular.....................................
No. 13 Tubular, d ash ..............................
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain.............
No. 12 Tubular, side  lam p.....................
No.  3 Street lamp, ea ch .......................
L A N T E R N   G L O B E S

No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c. 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c. 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl 
No. 0 Tub., bull’s eye. cases 1 aoz. each

4  85 
4  85

8  50 
10  50 
10  50 
12 00
9  50

14  00 
3 75

Qettinsr  the  People

A  R ev iew   o f S om e  A d v e rtis in g  S u b m itte d  

fo r  C ritic ism .

M.  Goldberg,  of  Bangor,  writes 

under  date  of  October  20,  as  follows:

VVe  are  ¿very  much  interested  in  the 
subject  of  advertising  and  are taking the 
Tradesman  for the  sole  purpose  of  read­
ing  the  columns  devoted  to  Getting  the 
People.  We  enclose  two  of  our  adver­
tisements,  which  appeared 
in  this
week’s  paper,  and  would  very much like 
to  hear  your criticism  of  them.

The  two  advertisements  are  substan­
in  everything  but  appear­
tially  alike 
1  reproduce  the  better of  the  two 
ance. 
herewith. 
is  well  displayed,  the
headings  all  mean  something,  and  the

It 

he Turning of the Leaves. 1;

T

$

To »tam o unis make« one think  of  Borne Furniahing»- 
givaa you the  wieb  to  get  in  readioMO— the  desire to mpMe the 
home a bright aod cheerful  place.  Really an  easy  matter, with 
the low prices that are always found  here, aod  then  ydtl get the 
■sweat—tbs  stylish aod  reliable  ideas.  Aside  from  the  price 
feature, this  fact should  direct your buying here-should  bring 
you to this store for all tour autumn oeeda
m m * »

tyle.  Newness and  Quality.

Aod little prions are carefully blended in these special offer- 
taguW   wp want  to  make October a big. busy month—want to 
•ocourage early baying.  That we propose making it a merry tea- 
eon  lor you  is evident by the LOW  P B IC C 8   you  ere  asked 
to pay for these itene

Smyrna Rugs

i

Moquette Rugs

Tinted nod solid, eery beautiful, at prices ranging
from «8c to.................................... 

REMEMBER—We bees a  large  stock of Buga to select

from, ell oew designs, priese up to 

. 

3*M8

9JÊO

Carpels

Extra Super Union, half wool filling. « 
look wall a long time 
Extra Superfine Unkm  . . .
All-Ipool Super Ingrains.
Extra Super All-Wool......................

Our Cmrputu

'j r f  cut «mi i.uichtd without tmuie.

unta (A* close  •/ the month, we 
SEW *’-■ CARPETS 

FOR YOO 
•it au addition of 
ONE CENT 
Z3T per yard, j p

Rockers

A large line of  HocUera just received.  Kota the following : 
A Lady’s Rocker, «olid oak. aigh  beck, fancy apio-  ^  ^
dies  well braced, euro to pleats you.....................V M M
.Arm Rockers, high back, richly emboesed  panel i t ____
top  full roil seat 
9J& 9

- • 

.... 
F nriv  Different  Styles

Bedsteads

Only  10 cents a pound.

We  cannot  guarantee  this  price  l ing 
Fresh  Bulk  Oysters  direct  from  Haiti 
more.  New  Mince Meatand Apple But­
ter in bulk.

Both  HOAGS’  MARKET  Phones

business. 
It  quotes  a  price—and  it  is 
the  only  advertisement  in  my  recollec­
tion,outside  of  some  that  have  appeared 
in  the  Grand  Rapids  papers,  that  does 
so.  There  seems  to  be  but  little  adver­
tising  done  by  butchers,  and  that  little 
is  almost  invariably  poor. 
It  usually 
runs  along  the  old,  well-worn  channels 
of  “ The  freshest  meats  and  choicest 
cuts  always  in  stock.’ ’

The  meat business  has  its  advertising 
possibilities,  just  the  same  as  any  other 
business.  Ask  your  butcher  some  day 
why  he  thinks  you  should  deal  with him 
in  preference  to  his  competitor,  and 
he’ll  give  you  a  long  string  of  reasons,

Mirrors 

* 

. 

C all  and  see  as. 

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Furniture Dealer.  W

^ 

M. Goldberg, 

I 
type-style  is  specially  well  chosen. 
have  nothing  but  commendation  for this 
advertisement  and  would  like  to  see

5  Hanselman’s  Fine  Chocolates

Name stamped on  each piece of the genuine, 
dealer can afford to be without them.

No up-to-date

Hanselman Candy Co.

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

8

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Devoted  to tbe  Be-t  Interests of Business Men
P u b lis h e d   a t  th e   N ew   B lo d g e tt  B u ild in g , 

G ra n d   R ap id s,  b y   th e

T R A D E S M A N   C O M P A N Y

O ne  D o lla r  a   Y ear,  P a y a b le   in   A d v an ce.

A d v e rtis in g   R a te s  on  A p p lic a tio n .

Communications invited from  practical  business 
men.  Correspondents  must  give  their  full 
names and addresses, not necessarily  for  pub­
lication, but as a guarantee of good faith.
Subscribers  may  have  the  mailing  address  of 
their papers changed as often as desired.
No paper discontinued, except  at  the  option  of 
the proprietor, until all arrearages are paid.
Sample copies sent free to any address.

Entered at the Crand  Rapids  Post  Office  as 

Second Class mail  m atter.

W h e n  w ritin g   to   a n y   o f  o u r   A d v e rtise rs, 
p le ase  say   th a t  y o u   saw   th e   a d v e rtis e ­
m e n t  in   th e  M ic h ig a n  T ra d e sm a n .
E.  A .  STOWE,  E d i t o r .

WEDNESDAY,  -  -  NOVEMBER  I.  1899.

STA TE  OF  MICHIGAN?  ss>

County of  Kent 

)

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de- 
.poses and  says  as  follows :
in  the  office  of  the 
I  am  pressman 
Tradesman  Company  and have charge of 
the  presses  and  folding  machine  in  that 
establishment. 
I  printed  and  folded 
7,000  copies of the  issue  of Oct.  25,1899, 
and  saw  the  edition  mailed  in  the  usual 
manner.  And  further  deponent  saith 
not. 

John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
notary  public  in  and  for said  county, 
this  twenty-eighth  day  of October,  1899.
Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County, 

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Mich.

A   F A R   S H A D O W IN G   SIG N .

life, 

lands  of  trade. 

For a  long  time  the  press  of the  coun­
try,  and  especially  the  trade  press,  has 
been  interested  in  recording  the  unmis- 
table  signs  of  prosperity  which  have ap­
peared 
in  every  part  of  the  United 
States,  and  has  been  pleased  to  com­
ment  upon  the  inevitable  benefits  which 
are  sure  to  follow.  The  old  establish­
ments  of  industry  are  starting  up  again 
and  the  old 
languishing,  if  not 
dead,  is  throbbing  once  more  with  re­
turning  strength  and  vigor.  New  fields 
of  enterprise  are  opening,  and  from  the 
encouragement  coming  from  a  return  of 
better times,  new  centers of  industry are 
bursting 
into  green  in  the  unpromising 
waste 
The  whir  of 
wheels  has  started  the  silence,  disturbed 
only  a  little  while  ago by  the  babble  of 
brooks  and  the  song  of  bird  and  bee  in 
the  wakeful  North.  The  South,  break­
ing  away  from  the  old  thriftlessness  and 
shiftlessness,  has 
in  hand  not 
only  the  old  estates  but  new  ones,  and 
the  sympathizing  soil  has gladdened  her 
despondent  heart  with  an  abundance  of 
cotton  and  of  crops before  untried.  New 
prairie  lands  are  breaking  forth  into 
singing  and  the  click  of  the  miner’s 
pick  is  heard  in  mountain  camps  where 
even  a  year ago  the  sob  of the  wind  was 
the  only  sound  which  disturbed 
the 
quiet  of  the  Rockies.  Life  is  up  and 
doing-and  from  the pine woods of  Maine 
to  the  orchards  of  the  Pacific  men  and 
women  are  busy  with  profitable  work.

taken 

This  work  is  already  showing  results. 
The  humble  workman,  like  the  humble 
grass  in  his  dooryard,  begins  at  once  to 
mend.  A  flush  of  green  has  crept  un­
der  last  year’s  dead  brown.  The  broken 
gate  is  mended.  The  rotten  step  is  re­
placed.  The  rusty alpaca  and  the  faded 
ribbon  have  given  place  to  the  new 
gown  and  the  fresh  tie.  A  new  stove 
stands  where  the  old  one  stood  and  the 
old  broken  down  rocker  is  displaced  by

a  more  comfortable  easy  chair.  From 
the  renovated  parlor,  the  new  piano,  the 
long-wished-for  joy  of  the  young  girl’s 
heart,  sends out  a  pleasing  melody  from 
its  vibrating  strings,  struck  by  the  rosy 
finger tips  which  prosperity  has  kissed 
and  thrilled.  Two  years  ago,  with  a 
hope  as  dead  as  the  times  were,  for  the 
food  she  ate  and  the  poor clothes  she 
wore  she  washed  the  dishes  and  made 
the  beds 
in  a  stranger’s  house;  to-day 
she  lives  at  home  and  goes  to  school. 
There  is  no  need  now  of  the  help  of 
children  hands  to  pay  the  rent and  buy 
the  food.  The  bread  winners  are  all  at 
work  at  wages 
large  enough  to  keep 
their  families  at home and send the chil­
dren  to school—the  crowning  glory  of  a 
republic  and  its  strongest  defense—and 
to make  that  home,  as  heaven 
intended 
it  to  be,  the  one  place  in  all  the  world’s 
wilderness  touched  by  the  Jordan.

That 

is  the  shadow  which  the  pros­
perous  sunshine  is  casting  by  means  of 
these  radiant  signs.  Far  reaching once 
it  has  shortened,  until  now  the  thing 
signified  has  taken  the  place  of  the 
sign  and  home  and  childhood  have 
again  come  into  their  rightful 
inherit­
is  no  wonder that the country 
ance.  It 
is  glad. 
It  is  no  wonder that  songs  and 
not  sighs  are  heard  and  that  congratu­
lation  and  thanskgiving  are  abroad 
in 
the 
land.  The  broken  home  circle  has 
been  restored.  The  children  have  come 
back  home  to  live.  Comfort has  bright­
ened  the  hearthstone.  Abundance  has 
kindled  the  fire  upon 
it  and  chimney 
top  is  heralding  to  chimney  top,  the 
land  over,  the  general  joy  over the  con­
stant  and  well-paid-for  work  that  has 
come  again  and  removed  the  need  from 
fathers  and  mothers of  living  upon  the 
returns which have  come  from their chil­
dren’s  toiling  hands.

ragged 

Look  at  the  matter as  we  may,  times 
are  never  hard  so  long  as  parentage  can 
supply  the  needs  and  the  wants of child­
hood.  Business  may  be  a  failure  and 
money  scant;  but so  long  as  self  denial, 
little  or  much,  can  keep  the  children 
singing,  the  clouds  do  hot  obscure  the 
sun  When,  however,  childhood  on  ac­
count  of  a  parent’s  want  of  work  ishun- 
gry, 
and  poorly  sheltered, 
wretchedness  has  reached  its  limit,  the 
sky  is  hidden,  the  storm  descends  and 
the  business  world  is  shaken  to  its  cen-i 
ter.  That storm is  passing—has  passed. 
The  broken  clouds  on  the  rim  of  the 
landscape 
horizon  only  brighten  the 
they 
Sunshine  has 
banished  the  shadow.  Humanity  has 
again  taken  up 
its  work  of  training 
the  future  citizenship  of  the  world, 
cheered  and  encouraged  with  the  belief 
that  that  citizenship  will  reach  a  plane 
before  unattainable  on  account  of  the 
greater  prosperity  which  is  gladdening 
every  section  and  every  industry  of  the 
country.

lately  darkened. 

A  handsome  young  woman  was  ar­
rested 
in  New  York  recently,  charged 
with  obtaining  money  under  false  pre­
tenses by  advertising  to  furnish  tips  on 
the  stock  market.  The  judge  discharged 
her,  holding  that  the  girl’s  offer was  so 
manifestly  nonsensical  that  the  dupes 
who  would  have  faith  in  it  were  not  en­
titled  to either  pity  or  protection.

Admiral  Dewey  has  entered his  pro­
test  against  being  publicly  kissed  by 
lovely  women  of  soppy  brains,  but 
there 
is  nothing  to  hinder enterprising 
and  adoring  females  from  wafting  him 
kisses  from  their finger-tips.

The  dead  Vanderbilt  had  a  will,  and 
his  sensible  sons  have  a  peaceful  way.

T H E   IR O N   H A N D   O F   D E S T IN Y .

in 

There  are  plenty  of  people  who  do 
not  know  when  they  are  well  off.  Some 
of  them  put  on  a  long  face  when  they 
have  been  refused  credit  at  certain 
stores,  the  very  stores  that  have  former­
ly  trusted  them  and  given  them  no end 
of  worry  through  the  agency  of  dunning 
letters  and  horrible,  annoying,  bad  debt 
collectors  who come  up  to them  in  pub­
lic  places  before  swell  friends.  All  of 
this  ends  when  further credit  is  denied, 
and  that  is  the  beginning  of  good  luck. 
It  matters  not  why  a  man  keeps  from 
running  in  debt—whether  it  is  because 
no  one  will  trust  him  or because  he  has 
offered  and  passed  a  resolution  with 
himself  that  he  will  owe  nothing  to any­
body—he  is  lucky  when  he  starts  on  the 
keep-out-of-debt  plan.  An 
intelligent 
colored  man,  on  the  verge  of  being 
white,  complains  that  on  account  of 
his  doubtful  color he  is  not  permitted  to 
spend  his  money  in  barrooms.  He does 
not  begin  to  know  how  thankful  he 
ought  to  be  that  every  day  of  his  life 
he  can  save  50 cents the  fool  white  man 
gives  up  for  drink  that  does  him  no 
good.  A  young  man  standing 
life 
where  the  road  divides  and  he  must 
choose  which  way  he  will  go—along 
the  path  of  seeming  pleasure  or  by  the 
line  of  duty  to  fortune  and  honor—is 
hurt  because  he  has  been  black-balled 
in  a  club  of 
fast  young  fellows  who 
could  do  him  no  good  and  with  whom 
he  could 
ill  afford  to  associate.  He 
does  not  know  what  luck  he  is  in  by 
being  turned  down.  A  young  man  with 
fine  business  prospects,  whose  head  has 
been  enlarged  by  flattering  friends  un­
til  he  thinks  he  might  have,  by  saying 
so,-any  political  position  within  the  gift 
of  the  people  of  the  party  he  trains 
with,  feels  awful  small  when  a  caucus 
tells  him  he  could  not  have  the  meanest 
unsalaried  office  in  the  bunch.  He  does 
not  know  and  can  not  see  what good 
luck  has  come  to  him  in  the  turn-down 
lesson  that  makes  him  know  he  will 
have  a  chance  to  keep  out  of  the  herd 
of  unhappy  office-seekers,  who are  men­
aced  and  annoyed  and  disgraced every 
hour,  and  have  a  chance  to attend  to his 
legitimate  business  and  become  pros­
perous  and  reasonably  happy.  A  man 
hurried  to  New  York  to  catch  an  out­
going  steamer  he  wanted  to  cross  the 
ocean  on  for  pleasure  in  the  Old  World. 
Owing  to a  train’s  delay,  he  arrived  at 
the  metropolis  a  few  hours  too  late  to 
secure  passage  on  the  outgoing  ship. 
He  raved  at  the  railroads,  cursed  them 
because  they  were  trusts,  swore  wicked 
words  until  he  became  so  disagreeable 
in  the  office  of  his  hotel  that  the  clerk 
refused  to  smile.  He  never  knew  how 
lucky  he  was  until  he  learned the steam­
er he  tried  to catch  was wrecked  at  sea, 
and  most  of  her  passengers  were  lost. 
Such  men  do not  know  what  good  luck 
is.  They  would  even  read  the  poet’s 
lines  wrong,  and  say: 
is  a 
destiny  that  shapes  our ends  rough,  hew 
them  how  we  w ill.”

“ There 

R U M O R S  O F   C O M P L IC A T IO N S.

feared. 

The  extensive  preparations  made  by 
Great  Britain to  subdue two  little  states 
have  given  rise  to  the  suspicion  that 
complications  not  now  apparent  on  the 
surface  were 
Even  granting 
that  as  large  an  army  as  that  sent  to 
South  Africa  will  be  needed  to over­
come  the  Boers,  there 
is  no apparent 
reason  for the  active  mobilization  in  the 
British  fleet  which  is  reported,  and  the 
feverish  condition  of  preparation  in  all 
the  great  public  dockyards  of  the  Brit­
ish  Empire.

Within  the  past  few days,  however, 
rumors have  been  heard  of contemplated 
movements  by  the  continental  powers 
of  Europe.  It  has  been  stated  that  some 
of the  continental  powers have intimated 
to  England  that,  in  the  event  of  British 
success  in  the  Transvaal,  they would  ex­
pect to  be  allowed  a  voice  in  arranging 
the  peace  settlement.  The  probability 
of  this 
is  further,  indicated  by  the  or­
dering  of  French  and  Russian  warships 
to  Lourenzo  Marquez,  the  nearest  point 
on  the  east  coast  of  Africa  to the  Trans­
vaal.

in  the 

It  is  not 

least  probable  that 
England  will  tolerate  any  interference 
whatever,  and,  unless  the  continental 
powers  are  prepared  to  violate  the  neu­
trality  of  Portuguese  East  Africa,  they 
will  be  unable  to  interpose  any  direct 
intervention,  through 
inability  to  reach 
the  scene  of  the  trouble,  either  with 
land  or naval  forces,  except  by  passing 
through  British  territory.  It  may,  there­
fore,  be  safely  assumed  that  the  intima­
tion  of  possible  intervention  is  merely 
a  bluff.

A  far  more  serious  rumor  is  the  re­
ported  massing  of  French  and  Russian 
warships  in  the  vicinity  of the  Bosporus 
and  Dardanelles. 
It  is  hinted  that  ad­
vantage  will  be  taken  of the  fact  that 
Great  Britain  is  busily engaged in South 
Africa  to  make  a  demand  that  the  Porte 
open  the  Bosporus  and  Dardanelles. 
Such  a  demand  would,  of  course,  stir  up 
a  hornet’s  nest,  and  England  would 
have  no option  but  to  interpose  to  pre­
vent  Russia  carrying  out her well-known 
plans  with  respect  to  Constantinople. 
The  possibility  of  such  an  event 
in  the 
Mediterranean  amply  accounts  for the 
activity  in  British  naval  circles,  and 
it 
also  explains  the  orders  to the  channel 
squadron  to  rendezvous  at  Gibraltar. 
It 
was  first  supposed  that  this  use  of the 
channel  squadron  was  to  protect  and 
large  fleet  of  transports en­
convoy  the 
gaged 
in  conveying  troops  to  South 
Africa,  but  reflection  will  show  that 
cruisers  could  do  that  work  better  than 
battle-ships.

If  Russia  and  France  are  engaged 

in 
furthering  any  such  scheme  as  that 
hinted  at,  they  are  courting  a  general 
upheaval,  as  Germany,  Austria  and 
Italy  are  not  in  the  movement,  and Tur­
key,  as  degenerate  as  she  is  in  many 
respects,  is  still  a  formidable  fighting 
power,  and,  if  aided  by  Great  Britain, 
would  still  be  able  to  successfully  resist 
the  forcing  of the  Dardanelles  and  en­
croachments  on  her territory.  As  tame 
and  placid  an  animal  as  is  the  British 
lion,  there are  evidences  that  he  is  be­
coming  fully  aroused,  and  the  struggle 
with  the  Boers  will  only  the better  pre­
pare  him  for bigger game.

The  occurrence of  French  names  like 
•Joubert  on  the  Boer side  of  the  Trans­
vaal  literature  is  explained  by  the  fact 
that  many  Huguenots  went  to  the  Cape 
of  Good  Hope  while  it  was still  a Dutch 
colony  and  there  became  prosperous and 
prominent.  The  descendants  of  many 
of  these  Huguenots  are 
found  in  the 
Transvaal to-day and  are  quite  as  Dutch 
in  all  their ways  as  the  other  Boers.

The  Boers  claim to  have  100,000 fight­
ing  men. 
If  each ,one  of  these  men 
manages to kill at least one of the enemy, 
there  will  be  a  big  gap  to  fill  in  the 
British  army.

A  lawyer without  legitimate  practice, 
out  for  revenue  and  revenge  only,  is 
considerably  more  harmful  in  a  com­
munity than  is a  common  law-breaking

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

A   R E L IC   O F   B A R B A R IS M .

Every  once  in  a  while  there  comes 
from  the  long-settled  East  a  relic of bar­
barism  that  awakens  contempt  for the 
hide-bound  methods that  prevail  in  that 
over-satisfied  section of country.  * ‘ What­
ever  is 
is  right”   tradition  there  has 
written  side  by  side  with  ‘ ‘ What  has 
been  is  good  enough 
for  m e;”   and 
when  modem  methods  crept  in  from  the 
wide  awake  and  progressive  world,  as 
they  do  from  time  to  time,  and  say  to 
the  business  mossbacks  that  they  are 
getting  hay-seedy,  there  is  sure  to  be 
trouble.

Throughout  the  country  the  majority 
of  stores  have  settled  down  to  an  early 
closing. 
It  has  been  found  that there 
isn’t  trade  enough  after 6  o’clock  to  pay 
for  the 
lighting.  Trial  after trial  has 
shown  that  only  those  whose  custom  is 
hardly  worth  catering  to  ever think  of 
going  to  the  store  after supper.  The 
open  door was  only  an  invitation  to  the 
loungers  who  sauntered  in  because  there 
was a  chance  for a  seat  and  for  chang­
ing  stories  and  for having  a  smoke.  Oc­
casionally  a  plug  of  tobacco  was  passed 
over  the  counter  and  charged  on  the 
books;  but  profits there  were  none  after 
6 o’clock.  It  took, in  some  places,a  long 
time  to  secure  the  early  closing;  but 
when  it  came,  it  came  to  stay,to  the  ad­
vantage  of  all  concerned.  Even  in farm­
ing  neighborhoods,  now  that  the  hours 
of  labor  are  fixed,  it  has  been  possible 
to  close  at 
is  not 
often  where  the  custom  has  been  estab­
lished  that  the  farmers  came  to  trade  in 
the  evening.

least  at  7,  and 

it 

This  having  been  put  down  as  a  fact, 
it  was  a  trifle  startling  to  read  in  an 
Eastern  paper that  the  clerks  in  a  town 
not  a  thousand  miles  from  the  Atlantic 
coast  in  the  Middle  States  have  formed 
a  union  and  have  requested  the  mer­
chants  to  close 
three  evenings  each 
week  at  7  o’clock.  Thus approached, 
the  merchants  have  signed  an  agree­
ment  that  they  will  comply,  and  the 
clerks  are  correspondingly  happy.

As  far west  as  Michigan  the  item  will 
excite  not  laughter  but  disgust.  Out  in 
the  ‘ ‘ wild  and  woolly,”   we  storekeepers 
will  read 
it  with  a  bit  of  appropriate 
and  commendable  profanity  and  will 
ask  what 
in  something  the  storekeeper 
is  thinking  of  and  what  in  somewhere! 
he  expects  the  result  will  be.  That  is 
not  all.  He  will  wonder  how  many 
more  of  that  sort  of  cattle  there  are  in 
that  hide-bound  part  of the  country  and 
how  many  more  clerks  are  signing  pe­
titions  to  be  let  off three  nights  in  the 
week  at  7  o’clock.  He  will  recall  his 
own  early  experiences,  where 
long 
hours  and  little  pay  wasted  years  of  his 
early  manhood,and  again  the  conclusion 
will  be  reached  that  the  East  is  a  good 
place  to  be  bom  in  and  to  be  brought 
up  in,  but  a  better one  to  get  out  of  as 
soon  as  the  time  comes  for one’s  own 
living  to  be  earned.

There  will  be  a  strong  inducement  to 
side  with  the  clerks  to  close  the  stores 
earlier  than  7  o’ clock,  at  least  during 
the  winter,  and  every  night  in  the week. 
There  is  not  a  trade  paper,  or any paper 
worth  anything,  which  will  not  repeat 
with  emphasis  what 
its  columns have 
often  said  before  in  regard  to  this  mat­
ter. 
It  will  be  of  little  use.  Every 
point  will  be  parried  and  the  same  old 
arguments  will  be  brought  forward  to 
prove  that  “ Whatever  is  is  right. ”  
In 
the  meantime  the  stores of  Sleepy  Hol­
low  will  still  be  kept  open.  As  soon  as 
the  evening  meal  is  disposed  of,  the  old 
men-gossips  of  the  neighborhood  will 
gather  around  the  time-honored  box

inherited 

stove  and  proceed  to  save  the  country 
from  political  ruin.  The  smoke  of  in­
cense  will  arise  from  blackened  pipe 
bowls  and  rank  cigars  and  the  store­
keeper  with  his  clerks,  each  from  his 
own  empty  soap box,  will  listen  to  the 
condensed  wisdom  of  the  ages  and  hear 
in  a  single 
more  rot  and  wickedness 
evening  than  should  be  heard 
in  a 
twelve  month.  That,  however,  would 
be the  end of that effort. 
Into that  circle 
the  paper  would  never  come.  An  enter­
prising  drummer  might  drop 
in  and 
leave  a  copy;  but  the  keeper  of  that 
store  would  never  read  it.  He  is  not  the 
reading  kind.  There  isn’t  a  trade  paper 
in  existence  that  can  tell  him  anything. 
His  father kept  that  store  as  his  grand­
father  did,  who 
it  from  his 
father and  grandfather.  For  four  gen­
erations  the  customs  of  that  establish­
ment  have  been  handed  down 
from 
father  to  son  and  have  been  found  equal 
to  every  emergency  during  the  four gen­
erations.  All  have  lived  and  moved  and 
had  their being,  all  of  them  opened  up 
early  and  closed  up  late  and  all  of  them 
‘ ‘What’s  good  enough  for 
prospered. 
them 
is  good  enough  for  me,  and  we’ll 
go  right  on  in  the  same  good old  way.”
It  is  a  sample  of pig-headed reasoning 
and  one  that can  be  heard  nowhere  out­
land  of  myth  and  legend. 
side  of  the 
The  part  to  be  deplored 
is  the  utter 
hopelessness  of  anything  better.  The 
wonder  is  that  a  concession  of  three 
nights  in  the  week  has  been  made. 
It 
will  be  no  wonder  if,  when  the  year 
has  worn  around  again  to the  season  of 
lengthening  nights, 
the  dissatisfied 
clerks,  weary  of the  old,  shall  have gone 
out  into the  new  where  it has been found 
that 
‘ ‘the  night  cometh  when  no  man 
can  work,”   and  that the  day,  given  to 
business  as  it  should  be,  will  be  found 
long  enough  to  make  an  early  closing 
not  only  desirable  but  a  necessity.

The  extent  of  the  territory  in  which 
the  African  elephant  still  occurs  is  only 
one-tenth  of  what 
it  was  at  the  begin­
ning  of  the  century,  and  it  is  estimated 
that  at  the  present  rate  of  extermination 
it  will  be 
in  thirty  years  as  extinct  as 
the  American  buffalo.

The  fifty  factories of  Kokomo,  Ind., 
now  using  natural  gas  as  fuel  are  filling 
up  their  cellars  and  sheds with  wood 
and  coal  for  use  in  case  the  gas  gives 
out.  There  has  been  no  coal  in  that 
town  for  twelve  years  until  a  few  days 
ago. 

_ _ _ _ _

Eternity  beats  time  because  it  proves 
to be  more  lasting ;  but  every man wants 
all  the  time  he  can  get before  he dies.

Admiral  Dewey  has  a  name  and  a  lo­
cal  habitation.  He  made  his  name; 
his  house  was  given  to  him.

The  way  to  fool  a  collar  button  is  to 
drop  it  in  a  bathroom  where  there  is  no
bureau  for  it  to  roll  under.

When  people  are  constantly  complain­
ill,  they  are  generally  as 

ing  of  being 
lazy  as  they  are  sick.

The  dead-beat  who  will  not work him­
is  everlastingly  trying  to  work 

self 
some  one  else.

A  man  is  known  by  the  friends  he 
keeps.  He  must  be  forgotten  by  those 
he  loses.  _____ ■

The  man  whose  wife  is  not  afraid  of 
him  does  not  amount  to as  much  as  a 
mouse. 

_________________

The  man  who takes  a  drop  too  much 

eventually  drops  into the  gutter.

C O M M E R C IA L   E D U C A T IO N .

In  earlier  times  a  boy  who  had  the 
ordinary  essentials  of  reading,  writing 
and  arithmetic  that  embraced  fractions, 
simple  interest  and  the  ‘ ‘ rule  of  three”  
was  considered  sufficiently  educated  to 
be  taken  into  a  country  store  and  there 
made  acquainted  with  the  art  of  selling 
all  sorts  of  goods,  from  coffee  to  castor 
from  calico  to  curry  combs. 
oil  and 
learned  to  keep  books  by 
Later  on  he 
double  entry 
in  a  great,  round  hand­
writing  done  with  a  quill  pen,  which 
pen  he  fashioned  for  himself  by  mean% 
of  a  small,  sharp  pocket  knife;  hence 
the  name  penknife,  with  which  mer­
chants of  the  present  day  are  wholly  un­
acquainted.

Those  old-time  “ store  boys,”   bred 
up  in  country stores,  often  turned  out  to 
be  great  merchants,  moving  to  cities 
and  becoming  traders  of  national  repu­
tation.

In  the  methods  prevailing  in  foreign 
commerce  in  the early  part  of  the  pres­
ent  century  ships  were 
loaded  with 
merchandise,  which  was  put  in  charge 
of  a  business  man  known  as  a  super­
cargo,  and  were  sent  out  to  foreign  des­
tinations.  There the  goods  were  sold  or 
exchanged,  or  foreign  products  were 
purchased  with  the  proceeds  of  the  sale, 
and  so  return  cargoes  were  secured  to 
be  marketed 
in  the  home  ports.  This 
was  the  sort  of  trade  engaged  in  by 
Stephen  Girard  and  the  great  merchants 
of  his  day.  Merchandise  was  sent  out 
from  New  York,  Boston,  Philadelphia, 
New  Orleans  and  other American  cities 
under the  care  of  supercargoes,  and  the 
men  who  were  intrusted  with  such  busi­
ness  were  required  to  be  possessed  of 
more  than  ordinary  commercial  ability, 
as  well  as  entire  trustworthiness  They 
needed  to  know, too,  the language  of  the 
chief  nations  in  whose ports they traded.
But  the  methods  of  commerce  have 
entirely  changed.  The  use  of  the  elec­
tric  cable  and  swift  steamships  and  the 
growth  of  confidence  between  merchants 
and  bankers  engaged 
in  international 
trade  have  put  into operation  a  system 
of  consigning  to  agents  in  all  foreign 
countries  goods  on  commission,  or  the 
direct  sale to customers through conuner- 
ical  travelers.

The 

travelers  are  required  to  be 
equipped  with  considerable  information 
on  general  subjects,  in  addition  to  a 
technical  knowledge  of  the  business  in­
trusted  to  them,  as  well  as  an  acquaint­
ance  with  the 
languages  used  by  the 
customers.  The  commercial  agents  sent 
out  by  European  mercantile  houses  are 
often  men  of  large  education  and  gen­
eral 
infre­
quently  specially  accomplished.

information,  and  are  not 

In  order  to compete  with  them,  Amer­
ican  houses  have  found 
it  absolutely 
necessary  to  send  out  to  represent  their 
business  abroad  men  equally  as  well 
equipped  educationally. 
It  thus  comes 
about  that  a  commercial  education  of  a 
is  indispensable  for agents 
high  class 
who  travel 
in  foreign  countries  to  sell 
goods,  and  many  universities  and  col­
leges  are  providing  special  courses  to 
prepare  young  men  for such  service.

This  is  essentially  a  commerical  age, 
all  diplomacy  and  statesmanship  being 
taxed  to  find  markets  for the  constantly 
multiplying  products of human industry. 
In  order to  conduct  business  under these 
conditions,  commerce enlists  in  its  serv­
ice  all  science,  all  statesmanship  and 
even  the  war  powers  of  the  world,  for 
markets  must  be  secured  at  any  cost. 
It 
is  a  favorable  sign  to  see  high-class 
educational 
institutions  rising  to  meet, 
on  their side,  the  demands  of  commerce

9

which 
is  open  to  the  whole  world,  and 
those  countries  that  are  not  up  to  the 
mark  in  the  vast  competition must suffer 
for their deficiencies.

It 

A  new  compound  fuel  is  now  being 
in  England  with  claimed  satis­
tested 
factory  results. 
is  composed  of  93 
per cent,  of  coal  dust  and  7  per cent,  of 
a  mixture  of  pine  and  caustic  lime. 
These  three  substances  are  mixed  and 
run 
into  molds,  where  they  harden  to 
such  a  degree  that  they  do  not  separate 
in  burning  and  are  sold  in  the  shape  of 
perforated  bricks  weighing  about  ten 
pounds  each  for  big  furnaces  and  for 
: domestic  use 
lumps  of 
lenticular  form,  of  which  140 weigh  too 
pounds.  The  new  fuel  is  sold  in  Lon­
don  for  $5.25  per  ton  retail. 
It  gives 
out  an  intense  heat  and  only  traces  of 
smoke,  while  the  residue  of ashes  does 
not  exceed  3  per cent. 
It  can  be  burned 
in  an  ordinary  grate  and  the  fire  re­
sembles  an  exceedingly  brilliant  coke 
fire.

in  cakes  or 

The  origin  of  the  cigar business  in 
is  not  generally  known.  The 
Florida 
venerable  Frederick 
l)e  Bary,  who 
owned  the  Enterprise  and several steam­
boats on  the  St.  John's  river,  spent three 
weeks 
in  Havana,  and  made  the  ac­
quaintance  of  a  Cuban of  the  name  of 
Ybor,  who  presented  to him  some splen­
did  cigars. 
”  1  can  sell  30,000  of these 
a  month  in  the  United  States,  he  said.
' ‘ Come  over to  Florida  and  start  a  fac­
tory. 
The 
Cuban  came  and  established  Ybor  City. 
In  the  first  month  45,000  cigars  were 
sold,  and 
in  the  second  50,000.  The 
business  prospered  amazingly.

I’ll  put  up  the  money. 

and 

sanitary 

A  New  York  dressmaker  has  brought 
suit  to  recover  §5,000 damages  from  a 
firm  which  persuaded  her  to  enter  its 
employ  at  Helena,  Ark.,  by  represent­
ing  that  the  climate  was  healthy,  the 
town 
the  population 
wealthy. 
In  her  complaint  she  says  that 
none  of the conditions are as represented, 
and  that  a  large  part  of the  population 
is  colored.  The  plaintiff  asked  to  have 
a  commission  appointed  to  visit Helena 
and  examine 
into  the  disputed  asser­
tions,  but  the  motion  has  been  denied.
The  action  of  the  warden  of  the  peni- 
tentiary  at  La  Porte,  Indiana,  in  abol­
ishing  the  employment  of the  lockstep 
in  that  prison  has  given  rise  to  some 
discussion  of  the  question  whether  the 
step  may  be  recognized  in  discharged 
prisoners. 
It  was  on  the  ground  that 
traces  do  remain  in  the  gait  of prisoners 
who  have  been  accustomed  to the  step 
for  any  length  of  time  that  several West­
ern  prisons  have  done  away  with  the 
system. 

_________________

The  annual  report  of the Yale co-oper­
ative  store 
shows  prosperi ty.  The
“ co-op.”   is  managed  entirely  by under­
graduates  and  for  undergraduates,  and 
is  strictly  a  college  department  store. 
The  cash  sales  for the  first  six  days  of 
the  present  term  were  about  §9,000,  and 
net  profits  for the  year,§2,700.  The  total 
membership  of  the 
is  750. 
The  cash  business  for  the  year  was 
§45.J 23. 

_________________

co-op. 

Admiral  Dewey  has  expressed  a  de­
sire  that the  transfer of  the  Washington 
house  to  him  shall  be  formal.  As  a 
matter  of  personal  recognition  on  his 
part  of  the  kindness  of  the  people,  the 
Admiral  wishes  to  make  a  brief  speech 
thanking  the  thousands of  donors,  whom 
it  would  require  months  to  thank by per­
sonal  letter,  even  if  he  had  only  to  sign 
his  name  to a  typewritten  letter.

night?”   I  asked.
It 

“ Certainly. 

currence. ’ ’

is  not  an  unusual  oc­

1 0

W h a t  l>i<l  th e   F u r n itu r e   D e a le r  S ee? 

W ritten for the Tradesm an.

1  walked 

into  a  furniture  store  in 
Northern  Michigan  one  day  last  week 
and  found  the  merchant  doing  business 
as a  funeral  director.

“ I  didn’t  know  you  were  up  to that 
sort  of  thing,”   1  said,  as  soon  as  the 
customer had  taken  his  departure.

“ It's quite  an 

important  part  of  my 
business,”   was the  reply.  “ There  is  no 
regular  undertaker  in  town  and  so  I 
handle  caskets  and  keep  a  hearse.

” I)o  you  like  it?”   I  asked.
“ No,  I  do  not,”   was  the  frank  reply, 
“ but  business  men  can’t  pick 
and 
choose,  you  know.  We  must  take  things 
as  they  come  and  make  the  best  of 
them. ”

As  he  spoke,  the  merchant  stepped 
into  a  side  room,  neatly  carpeted  and 
furnished,  and  opened  the  street  door.
1  glanced  out  to  see  what  was  coming, 
lift  the  body  of  a 
and  saw  four  men 
dead  man  from  a 
lumber  wagon  and 
move toward  the  store  with  it.

“ What  are  they  going  to do  now?”   I 

asked.

“ Leave  the  body  here  until  morn­
“ The  burial  is to 

ing,”   was  the  reply. 
take  place  from  here  at  io o’clock.”

“ And  the  body  will  remain  here  all 

“ I  couldn’t  stand  that,”   I  said. 

“ I 
should  see  ghosts  in  every  dark  comer 
for a  month.  Has  the  man  no  relatives 
or  friends?”

“ Not  that  we  know  of,”   was  the  re­
ply,  “ so the  workmen  at  the  mill  where 
the  man  was  killed  are  footing  the bills, 
and,  as  they  are  poor,  they  want  to  get 
off  with  as  little  expense  as  possible.”
When,  a  few  moments  later,  we  were 
back  in  the  furniture  saleseroom  again, 
the  merchant  handed  me  a  cigar and 
pointed  to  a  chair.

“ A  moment  ago,”   he  said,  "you 
spoke  of seeing  ghosts.  Do  you  really 
believe  that  it  is  possible  for the  spirits 
of  the  dead  to  return  to  earth  and  make 
their  presence  known  to  us?”

I  replied  that  I  had  never  given  the 

matter much  thought.

“ Well,”   said  the  merchant,  slowly, 
“ a  queer  thing  happened  here  a  year 
ago  and  I  want  to  tell  you  about  it. 
1 
have  never  mentioned  the  matter to  my 
friends  in town,  for there  is  no  knowing 
what  my  little  experience  might  grow 
into 
in  the  mouths  of  gossips,  but  it 
seems  to  me  that  I  must  tell  someone.”
it  something  connected  with 
the  undertaking  part  of  your  business?”  
1  asked.

“ Was 

‘ ' Yes, ’ ’  was the  reply. 

‘ ‘ A  body  was 
just  as  the  body  was 
brought  here, 
brought  here  to-day. 
It was the  body  of 
a  soldier,  recently  discharged  from  one 
of  the  Cuban  regiments.  He  was taken 
ill  on  the  train,  a  few  miles  below  our 
station,  and  got  off  here  for the  purpose 
of  resting  until  able  to  continue  his 
journey.  A  few  days  later,  he  died  at 
the  hotel,  without  mentioning  to  a  liv­
ing  soul  the  name  or  residence  of  any 
relative  or 
friend.  All  our  efforts  to 
trace  him  back  to  his  regiment  failed, 
and  very  reluctantly  I  prepared the body 
for burial.

“ He  had  several  hundred  dollars  in 
his  possession  when  he  died—the  most 
of  it  is  in  the  safe  there  now—and,  at­
tached  to a  silken  cord  about  his  neck, 
was  a  costly  gold  locket  containing  the 
picture  of  a  handsome  young  girl. 
Neatly  folded  and  shut  down  under  the 
top  case  of  the  portrait  was  a  scrap  of 
fine  paper,  upon  which  were  written

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“ You  have, caused  to be  published de­
locket  and  the  por­

scriptions  of  the 
trait?”

“ Certainly.”
“ Then,  depend  upon  it,”   I  said,  “ if 
she  be  alive,  some  day  you  will  look 
upon  the  face  of the  pictured  girl.”

As  I  spoke  the  merchant  rose  to  wait 
upon  two  ladies  who  were  entering  the 
store. 
In  a  moment  he  came  back  to 
where  I  sat,  his  face  as  white  as  chalk.
“ Notice  the  younger  lady,”   he  whis­
pered. 
“ She  is  the  lady  of  the  portrait 
and  she  has  been  asking  me  about  the 
dead  soldier.”

As  he  ceased  speaking  the  two  ladies 

advanced  to  where  we  were.

“ And  the  portrait?”   she  asked.
“ Buried  with  him,”   was  the 

low 

reply.

“ Did  anything  peculiar  take  j lace 
the  night  before  the  burial?”   she  next 
asked.

I 

“ Yes.”
“ I  understand,”   said  the  girl,  sim­
ply,  “ and  only  wanted  my 
impressions 
verified.  He  was  with  me  that  night.”
left  the  merchant to  make  his  own 
explanations,  for  who  can  fathom  the 
mysteries  of  life  and  death,  or decide 
where  one  ceases  and  the  other  begins? 
I  had  no  reason  to  doubt the  word  of 
my  friend  regarding  the  mysterious  re­
moval  of  the 
locket,  although  I  could 
not  account  for  it. 
I  think  sometimes 
that  he,  with  the  written  lines  dodging 
about  in  his  half-conscious  brain,  might 
have  arisen  in  his  sleep  and  placed  the 
trinket  where  it  was  found  later  on,  but 
this  he emphatically  denies.  And  then 
how  should  the  girl  know that something 
out  of  common  had  taken  place  there  in 
the  undertaking 
rooms,  miles  away 
from  where  she  slept,  on  the  night  be­
fore  the  burial?  She  must  have  had  an 
unusual  experience  that  night  or  she 
would  never  have  asked  the question she 
did,  following  it  with  the  simple  state­
ment : 
“ He  was  with  me  that  night-”  
In  the  face  of  such  evidence,  given  by 
two  persons  who were  utter strangers  to 
each  other,  I  can’t  decide  against  the 
merchant. 

Alfred  B.  Tozer.

A  Western  merchant  placed  a  grind­
stone  in  front  of  his  store  for the  gratu­
itous  use  of  the  public.  The  store bears 
this  legend:  “ While  you  keep  your nose 
to  our grindstone,  don’t  keep  your  eyes 
off  the  cutlery  display  in  our  window.”

T w o   W o m en   a n d   a   M is u n d e rs ta n d in g .
It  was  not  an  unnatural  mistake.  One 
neighbor  had  advertised  for a  girl  to  do 
general  housework.  Another  had  an­
nounced  in  the  same  way  that  she would 
rent  her  fine  house,  furnished,  during 
the  summer.  A  woman  called  on  the 
former  of  these  the  other morning  and 
rang  the  front  door  bell.

“ I  came 

“ Please  step Yound  to  the side door, ”  
said the  mistress,  as  she  met  the  caller. 
The  latter complied,  but  with  a  puzzled 
smile. 
in  response  to  your 
advertisement,”  
she  began,  when 
seated.
“ Yes.  You  have  references,  I  pre­
sume?”
“ Certainly,  if  you  require  them,”  and 
the  caller  set  her  nose  a  little  higher.
“ Does  your  house  have  all  modem 
conveniences?”
is  par­
“ Everything.  The  kitchen 
ticularly  well  arranged  and  the 
laundry 
is  complete.  There  is  nothing  old  and 
worn,  and  that makes  it  nicer.  Where 
did  you  work  last  and  what  wages  have 
you  been  getting?”
I  beg  your 
pardon,”   and  the  caller’s  eyes  looked 
dangerous. 
“ I  don’t  think  your  house 
would  suit  me  at  all. 
1  would  like  a 
conservatory  and  a  billiard  room.”

last?  Wages? 

“ Work 

“ Goodness  gracious!  And 

I  sup­
pose  you’d  want  a  private  theater  and  a 
roof garden.  You  can’t  work  for  me.”
“ Madame,  you  advertise  a  house  to 
rent  furnished  and  when  I  come  you  in­
sult  me,  ’  and  she  started  for the  door.
Then  there  was  a  hurried explanation, 
and  both  being  sensible  women,  they 
laughed  till  so  weak  that  each  had  to 
take  two  cups  of  tea  as  a  bracer.

T ra v e lin g   M en  K e e p   M oney  M o ving.
It  has  often  been  said  that the  com­
mercial  traveler can  make  or unmake  a 
hotel.  There  is  a  strong  fraternal 
feel­
ing  among  them  and  the  word  they  pass 
along  the  line  for or against  a  house  has 
its  effect.
They  furthermore  wield  a  strong  in­
fluence  upon  friends outside  the  pale  of 
the  knights  of the  grip  in  their  recom­
mendations  for or  against.
There  are,  in  round  numbers,  200,000 
members  of  organized  associations  of 
commercial  travelers.  They receive  not 
less  than  a  million  dollars  per  day  in 
lump  sum. 
They  spend  about  that 
amount  per day  for  railroad,  steamboat 
and  other transportation,  and  more  than 
$500,000  per  day  to  hotels,  restaurants 
and  the  like.
It  can  be  safely  said  that  the  drum­
mer  causes  a  daily  expenditure 
of 
$3,000,000  in  this  country,  and  that  be­
ing  a  fact,  he  becomes  an  important 
element  in  commercial  and  other  mat­
ters.

these  words: 
‘ Because  of  what  has 
been,  and  in  the  faith  that  in God’s own 
good  time  we  shall  meet  again,  keep 
this  forever above  your  heart.  Alive  or 
dead,  I  shall  know  it  to be  there ;  alive 
or dead,  I  firmly  believe 
it  will  bring 
me  to you  again.’

“ A  strange  message,”   I  said.
“ A  strange  message  indeed,”  was the 
reply,  “ and  a  significant  one,  as  you 
will  soon  see.  Thinking that perhaps the 
its  message  might  aid  the 
locket  and 
locating  the  dead  man’s 
authorities 
in 
it  from  the  body 
relatives,  I  removed 
and  placed 
it  in  the  top  drawer of  my 
dresser,  standing  at  the  side  of  my  bed, 
in  the  room 
I  am  a 
bachelor,  you  know,  and 
lodge  at  the 
store,  or did  at  that  time,”   he  added 
with  a  slight  smile.

just  above  this. 

“ I  retired  later than  usual  that  night 
and,  as  a  consequence,  fell  into  a  heavy 
sleep  almost 
immediately.  But  I  did 
not  sleep 
long,  for just  at  the  stroke  of 
midnight  I  awoke  with  a  start  and  sat 
up  in  bed.  I  had  left  the  room  in  dark­
ness on  retiring;  it was now  illuminated 
by  a  faint  white 
light,  although  the 
source  of  the  illumination  it  was  impos­
sible  for  me  to discover.  To  state  that 
I  was  paralyzed  with  fright  does  not  ex­
press  the  condition 
in  which  I  found 
myself.

“ My  mind 

immediately  grasped  the 
material  features  of  the  situation. 
I 
knew  that  I  was  in  my  own  room,  and 
that  extraordinary  events  were  taking 
place,  but  I  seemed to  have  no  power to 
reason  from  cause  to  effect.  Presently 
a  faint  rustling  sound  in  the  direction 
of  the  dresser  attracted  my  attention. 
The  illumination  appeared  to  be  strong­
er there,  and  by  it  I  saw  the  face  of  the 
dead  soldier bending over the  drawer  in 
which  I  had  placed  the  locket. 
It  ap­
peared  only  for  an 
instant,  then  the 
light  faded  and  the  room  was  dark 
again. 
I 
just  sat  there 
in  bed  and  waited  and 
listened. ’ ’

I  did  not  try  to  sleep  again. 

“ I  think  I  should  have  made  a  jump 

for the  street,”   I  said.

“ Strange  as  it  may  seem,”   was the 
reply,  “ I  never  thought  of  leaving  the 
room,  not  even  when  the  light  and  the 
dead  face  came  again  and  again  into 
view.  The  last  time  it  came  I  caught  a 
glimpse  of  a  shadowy  hand,  with  the 
fingers  clasped  about  the  knob of  the 
drawer  in  which  I  had placed the locket. 
Then  I  thought  I  understood.  I  arose, 
turned  on  the  gas,  dressed  myself,  and 
opened  the  drawer.  The  locket  was  not 
there. ’ ’

“ Burglars?”   I  ventured.
‘ ‘ I  went  below, ’ ’  continued  the  mer­
chant,  “ and  there  was  the  locket,  lying 
open  and  face  down  over the  heart of 
the  dead  soldier.  When  the  poor  fellow 
went  to  his  grave  that  day,  the  locket 
went  with  him.  And  now  I  ask  you 
again,  if  you  honestly  believe  that  the 
spirit  of  the  dead  come  back  to  earth  ot 
keep  a  pledge  or  fulfill  a  sacred  duty. 
This  thing  puzzles  me  not  a  little,  for 
no  human  hands  removed  the  locket 
from  my  room  that  night  and  placed  it 
where  it  was  found. ’ ’

“ I  can’t  understand 

it,”   was  all  I 

could  say.

“ I  don’t  sleep 

in  that  room  now,”  
added  the  merchant,  “ although  I  am  in 
no  sense  afraid  to  do  so,  and  I  don’t 
like  to  have  bodies remain  in  the under­
taking  rooms  over  night,but  there  seems 
to  be  no  help  for  it. ”

“ Have  you  continued  your search  for 

the  friends of  the  soldier?”   I  asked.

“ Oh,  yes,  but  nothing  has  ever  come 

of  it. ’ ’

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into  competition  with  the  Minnesota 
frog in  the  Southern  States  and  in States 
bordering  on  the  South,  but  the  South­
ern  product 
is  not  regarded  so  highly 
by  those  with  discriminating  palates  as 
the  Northern  product.  The  meat 
is 
coarse,  the  taste 
is  not  so  sweet  and 
there  is  a  preference  given  for  the  frog 
from  the  dear  cold  waters  of  the Minne­
sota  lakes.

Five  years  ago  there  were  no  frogs 
shipped  out  of  Minnesota,  but  now  the 
business  amounts to upward of $100,000 a 
year.
R e m a rk a b le   G ro w th   o f th e   E n g lis h   E g g  I 

B u sin e ss.

From the New York Sun.

Great  Britain 

is  the  largest  egg-im­
porting  country.  No  breakfast  table  is 
well  furnished  without  eggs,  and  Brit­
ish  hens  would  give  up  in  despair  if  it 
were  intimated  to  them  that they  ought 
to  supply  all  the  eggs  the  population 
can  consume. 
In  fact,  the  number of 
hens  is  so  very 
inadequate  that over 
1,330,000,000  of eggs,  w'orth  $20,000,000, 
are  imported  every  year  to  make  up  the 
deficiency  in  the  home  supply.  Nobody 
wonders  more  than  the  British  do them­
selves  why  they  don’t  raise  more poultry 
and  eggs,  and  so  a  poultry  conference 
met  at  Reading  to  talk  the  matter  over.
Walter  Long,  President  of  the  British 
Board  of  Agriculture,  told  the  delegates 
that  forty-three  eggs  were  imported each 
year  for  every  man,  woman  and  child 
in  the  Ignited  Kingdom,  and  every  one 
of  those  eggs  might 
just  as  well  be 
raised  at  home.  He  would  do  all  he 
could  to  facilitate  this  desirable  result. 
Some  of  the  delegates  said  that  the 
poultry  farmer  might  reasonably  expect 
a  profit  of  five  shillings  a  year  from  the 
eggs  of each  hen,  and  there  was  no  rea­
son  why  the  home  production should  not 
be 
largely  increased.  Various  ways  of 
encouraging  the industry were approved.
Among  the  diversions  of  the  confer­
ence  was  a  trip  to  Baynards  in  Surrey 
where  the  delegates  were conducted over 
the  great  poultry-fattening  establish­
ment  of  C.  E.  Brooke,  who  annually 
sends  36,000  fowls  to  the  London  mar­
ket. 
I his  market  has  some  peculiari­
ties  which  the  poultry  farmer  must  take 
into  account.  The  chicken  must  be 
sent to  market  with  its  head  on,  for  the 
buyer  will  not 
invest  in  a  fowl  whose 
head  has  been  cut off.  The  idea  is  that 
chickens  that  are  mutilated  may  pos­
sibly  have  been  killed  by  some  animal.
It 
important  that  the  chicken 
should  have  white,  or  at  least  yellow, 
legs,  as  the  poultry  buyers  object  to 
black 
is  no  good  ground 
for  this  objection,  but  consumers  will 
have  their  way,  and  their  whims  must 
be  gratified. 
If  chickens  with  black 
legs  are  forced  upon  the  market  they 
bring  only  about  half  the  price  of  those 
with  light  legs.

legs.  There 

is  also 

The  great  hen  countries  of  Europe 
are  France,  Austria-Hungary,  Russia, 
Italy,  Belgium  and  Denmark,  and  thus 
England  has  plenty  of  neighbors  that 
are  willing  to  supply  her wants.  Canada 
is  now  trying  to  get  a  part  of  the  trade.
If  China  might  only  be economically 
tapped  for  poultry  and  eggs,  that  coun­
try  could  beat  all  creation  in  the  quan- 
tity  supplied,  for  that empire  has  more 
fowls  than  any  other  country 
in  the 
world.

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K n o rm o u s  G ro w th   o f  th e   M in n eso ta  F ro g  

I n d u s try .

in  fact 

St.  Paul,  Minn.,  Oct.  30—A  great  in­
in  St.  Paul  and 
dustry  has  grown  up 
Minneapolis 
in  the  last  few  years  in 
legs. 
It  is  declared 
supplying  frogs’ 
that  there  are  no  other  frogs  like  the 
Minnesota  product  for the epicure.  Like 
the  quail,  and  other  wild  fowls  found 
in  the  South,  the  frogs  caught  there  are 
unpalatable.  The difference is  attributed 
to the  clear,  cool  weather  found  in  Min­
nesota’s  10,000  lakes  in  which  the  frogs 
live  and  have  their  nests.  St.  Paul  and 
Minneapolis  are  the 
largest  frog  mar­
kets  in  the  world.  The  total  receipts  for 
the  past  year  from  the  frog  catchers  of 
the  State  exceeded  500,000 dozen.
Frogs’  legs are  purchased  all  through 
the  State  by  shippers 
from  the  two 
cities,  and the  occupation  gives  employ­
ment to  more  than  100  families.
Minnesota  frogs  are  known  the  world 
over  for their  delicacy  of  flavor.  They 
are  in  great  demand  in  New  York,  Cin­
cinnati,  in  all  of the  Atlantic  States,  in 
California,  and 
in  every  state 
north  of  St.  Louis,  and  the  demand  is 
constantly  increasing.  The  greatest  de­
mand  for  frogs’  legs,  of  course,  exists 
in  the  larger cities,  but  throughout  the 
coal  and 
iron  districts  there  is a  great 
demand  for them,  which  is  growing.  In 
St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis  frogs’  legs are 
to  be  found  on  the  bill  of  fare  of every 
hotel  and  restaurant.  Here  they  cost 
from  35  to  50 cents  a  dozen.
The  frog  catchers  live  near the smaller 
lakes  throughout  the  State.  The  heavi­
est  catches  are  in  the  fall  and  the 
spring. 
In  the  spring  the  frogs  come 
out  of  their  nests  in  droves,  and  it  is 
then  easy  to  catch  them. 
In  the  fall 
they  return  to  the  water as  soon  as  cold 
weather approaches,  and  it  is  also  very 
easy  to  capture  great  quantities  of  them 
at  that  time.  The  frog  breeds  very  fast; 
it 
requires  a  couple  of  months  for 
them  to attain  full  size. 
In  the  various 
lakes  and  ponds  of the  State  there are 
probably  more  than  a  hundred  thousand 
breeding  places.
is  a  good  de­
mand  for  frogs’  legs  all  the year around, 
and  it  is  necessary  to  hunt  them 
in  the 
winter  when  the  ground  is  frozen  to  the 
depth  of  two  or  three  feet  and  the  ice 
covers  the  ponds  to  the  thickness  of 
from  twenty-four  to  thirty-six  inches. 
But  with  all  these  drawbacks  it  is  not 
difficult  to  earn $10 a  day  at  this  occu­
pation.  When  they  take  to  the  water  in 
the  fall  the  professional  frog  catcher 
watches them  and  learns where they nest. 
He  waits  until  the  prices  are  higher  in 
the  winter and  then  cuts the  ice  over the 
nests  marked,  scooping  out  great  num­
bers  of  frogs.  As  many as  500 or  1,000 
can  be  secured  in  one  of  these  nests  in 
good  seasons.  No  effort  has  yet  been 
made  to  establish  frog  hatcheries  or  to 
cultivate  the  frog,  the natural  supply  be­
ing  so  large.
The  frog  catcher kills  the  frogs  with a 
stick,  and  gathers  his catch  up  in  a  bag 
as  he  walks  around  the  various  lakes 
and  ponds.  He  has  no  capital  invested 
and  realizes  from $3  to $10 a  day  for the 
time  he  is  employed  in  the  occupation. 
The  average  price  obtained  for frogs’ 
legs  in  this  market  at wholesale  is  from 
five  to  eight  cents  a  dozen  during  the 
summer,  but  they  go  as  high  as  fifteen 
cents  during  the  winter  months.  The 
demand  for  frogs’ 
legs  is  steady  from 
certain  customers  of the  St.  Paul  ship­
pers.  One  of  the  New  York  hotels  has 
a  standing  order  for  fifty  dozen  a  day, 
and  they  have  been  shipped  regularly 
for  more  than  a  year  to this  house.  Cin­
cinnati  and  Chicago  also  have  a  num­
ber of  houses that  have  standing  orders 
for  from  thirty-five  to  fifty  dozen  daily, 
and  the  orders  are  being  gradually  in­
creased  as  the  public  taste  is  educated 
to appreciate  this  delicacy.  They  are 
all  shipped  by  express,  packed  in  ice.
In  the cold-storage houses  here  there  are 
now about  two hundred  dozen frogs’ legs 
held  as  a  reserve  for  emergency,  the 
dealers  often  being  called  upon  to  sup­
ply  an  unusually  large  amount  for  ban­
quets or other entertainments.

Unlike  oysters,  there 

large  Southern  bullfrog  comes

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N ecessary   P re c a u tio n .

“ What  a  fine  looking  little  boy!”   ex­
claimed  the  good-natured  woman  to  her 
“ How  old  is 
traveling  acquaintance. 
he?”

“ You’re  not  connected  with  the  rail­
road,  are  you?”   asked  the  suspicious 
mother.

“ Certainly  not.”
“ Not  in  any  capacity  whatever.”
“ No. ”
“ Well,  just  wait  until  the  conductor 

gets  out  of  hearing  and  I ’ll  tell  you.”

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“ Mrs.  Litterby  has  the  appearance  of 
a  woman  whose  liver  is  badly  out  of 
order. ’ ’

“ It  is,  but  she  doesn’t  call  it that.”  
“ What  does  she  call  it?”
“ Genius,”

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Packers and curers of choice grades of

Beef, Veal, Mutton,  Pork and Game 

All Packing House Products

Manufacturers of

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After  opening  the  store 

in  the  old 
renovated blacksmith  shop,  Charlie  Cas­
tle  continued  gravely  to announce  the 
fact 
in  the  newspapers  with  as  much 
flourish  as  though  he  were  advertising 
from  Canandaigua  or Geneva. 
It  was 
amusing  to his  Canandaigua  friends  be­
cause  its  phraseology  placed  them  in 
direct  competition with Castle’s Corners. 
It  was  a  very 
ingenious  bit  of  good- 
natured  waggery.  Almost  every  pleas­
ant  Sunday  found  some  of  his old chums 
enjoying  the  hospitality  of  Castle’s  Cor­
ners.  At  these  visits  we  never  failed  to 
notice  some  attractive  change  in  the  ar­
rangement  of  the  store  or some improve­
ment  in  its  surroundings.  We  were  al­
ways  heartily  welcomed  by  the  old  folks 
as  well  as  by  Charlie  and  his  estimable 
wife.  She  was  his  only  assistant,  to 
which  the  general  inside  appearance  of 
the  store  bore  ample  testimony.  A 
woman’s  taste  and  tidiness  were  every­
where 
in  evidence,  from  the  polished 
window-panes  to  the  well-cleaned  floor. 
She  was  the  first  saleswoman  I  had  ever 
seen  outside  a  millinery  shop  or  candy 
store,  and  the  only  one  then  in 
the 
county.

After  finishing  the  needed  addition  to 
the blacksmith  shop,  which  I  mentioned 
in  my  last communication to the  Trades­
man,  Charlie  came 
into  town  and  in­
vited  all  his  old  chums  to  a  formal 
housewarming 
for  the  new  addition. 
His  friends  among  the  merchants  were 
invited  also  and  of .course  his  old  em­
ployer,  Mr.  Gorham,  was  first  among 
them. 
It  was  arranged  that  we  should 
all  go  in  one  party  and  the  expense  of 
transportation  be  borne 
in  common. 
Three  jollier  loads bound  to  have a good 
time  were  seldom  got  together.

As  we came  in  sight  of  Castle’s  Cor­
ners we  saw  that  the  whole  upper  story 
of  the  new  store was  a  blaze  of  light  re­
markable  for  its  purity  and  brightness, 
which  set  us  wondering  what  kind  of 
illuminant  had  been  discovered  at  Cas­
tle’s  Corners.  The  mystery  was  soon 
solved  on  our arrival.  For some  weeks 
previous  agents  had  been  visiting  the 
villages  trying  to  introduce  a  new  il­
luminant 
in  place  of  the  old  sperm  oil 
and  spermaceti  candles  then  in  general 
use;  but  the  merchants  distrusted  it  on 
account  of  its  possible  explosive  quali­
ties  and  not  a  single  experimental  trial 
had  been  made  of  it  in  Canandaigua. 
It  was  called  camphene,  and  was  made 
by  mixing  with  one  gallon  of 90  per 
cent,  alcohol  one  quart of  spirits of  tur­
pentine  and  two  ounces  of  gum  cam­
phor,  and  I  think  was 
less  explosive 
than  the  kerosene  oil  now  in  general 
use. 
I  handled  it for several  years,  and 
when  I  came  to  Grand  Rapids  in  1850  I 
brought  a  ten  gallon  can  with  me,  as  I 
found  the  merchants  there  were  using 
■ only  sperm  oil  for  lighting  their  stores. 
Charlie  had  recognized 
its  utility  and 
beauty  and  took  this  way  to  surprise  his 
friends  and  draw  attention  to  Castle’s 
Comers.  Three  camphene 
lamps  sus­
pended  from  the  ceiling  were  the  won­
der  and  admiration  of  the  company  for 
the  clear  and  softened  light  they  gave 
out.  The 
lamps  were  the  shape  of the 
kerosene  lamps  now  in  use  except  that 
they  carried  a round  solid wick.  It came 
out  afterwards  that  Charlie’s  illumina­
tion  was  not  altogether unselfish,  as  he 
had  purchased  the  sole  right  to  manu­
facture  and  sell  camphene  in the county, 
and  this  was  his  peculiar way  of giving 
it a  boom.  At  any  rate  it  had  the  de­
sired  effect,  as  every  store  in  Canan­
daigua  was  lighted  with camphene with­
in a  month.  The  room  had  been  cleared 
for  dancing  and  two violinsjand  a'cor­
net  were  on  hand  for the  music.  There 
were  some  pretty  lively  fellows  both  old

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and  young 
in  the  company  who were 
bound  to  have  a  good  time,  and  to  all 
I appearances  they  were  having  it.  Char­
lie  had  not  forgotten  his  country  friends 
and  the  neighboring  farmers  with  their 
wives,  sons  and  daughters  were  there. 
The  supper  was  plenty  and  substantial 
and  was  lengthened  with  stories  and 
songs.

limited  as  they  were, 

The  store  had  been  closed  for the  oc­
casion,  but  after  supper  it  was  lighted 
up  and  opened  for  inspection.  Every­
thing  was  clean  and  in  perfect  order. 
There  was  something  about  the  arrange­
ment  of  the  stock  in  the  various  depart­
ments, 
that 
claimed  attention  and  excited  comment. 
In  one  comer  I  noticed  a  sign  w-hich 
read  “ Lumbermen’s  Supplies.’ ’ 
It was 
piled  full  of  logchains,  mill  dogs,  cross­
cut  saws,  cant  hooks,  ox  yokes  and 
every  sort  of  implement  or  utensil  that
went  to  make  up  a  camp  outfit.
“ Why  Charile,’ ’  said  I,  “ do  you  sell 
supplies  to the  Davis  lumbermen  down 
in  Naples?”
“ Yes,  why  not?”   said  he.  “ They 
have  to  pass  the  Comers  to  get  to  you, 
and  I  stop  as  many  of  them  as  I  can, 
and 
if  I  sold  whisky  as  the  merchants 
do  in  town  I  could  stop  them  a ll."
Twelve  miles  south  of  Castle’s  Cor­
ners,  at  the  head  of  Canandaigua  Lake, 
was  situated  a  lumbering  village  called 
some  quite  extensive
Naples,  where 

mills  were  busy  sawing  pine  lumber, 
which  they  rafted  down  the  lake  to Can­
andaigua,  and  Charlie  had  managed  to 
work  up  as  good  a  trade  with  them  as 
any  merchant  in  the  county.  He  turned 
the  grist  mill  to  his  profit  by  having  all 
the  coarse  grain  that  he  took  in  ex­
change  for  goods  ground 
into  feed  to 
supply  the  lumber camps,  and the  wheat 
and  buckwheat  into  flour to  supply  their 
families.  All  of  these  they  sent  their 
own  teams  for,  saving  eight  miles  of 
travel.  This  was the  secret  of  his  sell­
ing  store  supplies.  Where  they  could 
buy  their flour and  feed  to  the  best  ad­
vantage  they  bought  their other  necessi­
ties,  also.
I  recall  a  conversation  to  which  I 
listened  after  supper  between  old  Mr. 
Castle  and  his  wife,  Mr.  Gorham  and 
some  of  the  neighboring  farmers.  Mr. 
the  old 
Gorham  was  congratulating 
couple  upon Charlie’s  success,  speaking 
in  pleasant  recollection  of  the 
three 
years  of  faithful  service  in  his  employ 
and  of  Charlie’s  peculiarity 
in  doing 
business  a  little  out  of  the  beateri track, 
and  closed  by  wishing  him  continued 
success.
To  this  the  old  couple  listened  with 
“ Waal,”   said 
beaming  countenances. 
the  old  man,  “ I  sent  him  to  you,  Nat, 
’cause  1  thought  if  anybody  could 
larn 
him  business  you  could,  and  1  am  ever 
so  much  obleged  to  you  for taking  so

much  pains  to  larn  him  the  trade.  He 
is  our Lonly  child  and  mother and  I  are 
getting  old  and  kinder  lonesome-like 
and  wanted  him  at  home.  So  we talked 
the  business  over,  him  and  me,’ and  he 
said  as  he  warn’t  afraid,  and  I  said  if 
he  lost  two  or three  thousand  dollars  it 
wouldn’t  make  us  poor,  and  I  thought 
Charlie  had  stuff  into  him,  after what 
you  had  teached  him  in  three  years,  to 
do  business  right  here at  Castle's  Cor­
ners,  and  we  think  he’s  got  along  so  fur 
purty  well. ”
“  Yes, ”   chimed  in one of the listeners, 
“ Charlie  has  been  a  great  help  to  the 
town,  too.  He  straightened  out  our  town 
dark’s  books  after  they  got  so  tangled 
up  he  couldn’t  tell  the  highway  fund 
from  the  school  fund,  and  we  felt  it  our 
dooty  to  pattemize  him  all  we  could. ’ ’ 
Then  an  old  lady  chipped  in:  “ And 
Charlie’s  vvife,  she’s  the  dearest  little 
critter  in  the  world. 
1  never  saw  her 
till  he  brought  her home,  but  I declare 
for 
it  I  couldn’t  love  her  more  ef  she 
was  my  own  darter. ”
Thus  the  evening  passed  away  until 
the  small  hours  of  the  morning  were 
reached,  when  our merry  party  broke  up 
and  bade  goodnight  to  this  happy 
little 
family.
I  believe  that  I  alone,  of  all  that 
goodly  company,  am  left  to  record  these 
pleasant  recollections.

W.  S.  H.  Welton.

1  resident

iof tlje  llntteb  Stairs of America,

To

H B / K R Y   R . O C H )   your  o l e r h . ^ y   attorneys,  ager.j, 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

ï  RESTING J

U % r c a s ,

It  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of
New  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  MORGAN'S  SONS  COMPANY,

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

H o w , © jerefo re, we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
u^dei^^h^jjain^^n^^^enaltie^^vhicl^^na^^al^ugor^^ot^ant^eaclio^you  *n  case 
disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “  SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

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

f t

SAPOLIO,”   or  when  “ SAPO LIO ”   is  asked  for,

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from  in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO”  in  any 
false  or  misleading  manner.

i t f i t a w s ,   The  honorable  M e l v il l e   W.  F u l l e r ,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  Stages  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton,  in  said  District  of  New 
Jersey,  this  16th  day  of  December,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

S.  a   OLIPHANT,

Clark

( seal]  

[ signed]

ROWLAND  COX,

Complainants  Solicitor-

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Fruits and  Produce.

H o w   M ic h ig a n   S h ip p e rs   W ill  R e g u la te  

D is h o n e s t  D ealers.*

cars, 

“ stuff" 

rejections. 

If  all  business  men  were  honest  there 
would  be  no  Michigan  Produce  Ship­
pers’  Association.  All  cars  would  be 
loaded  as  represented  and  all  receivers 
would  pay  as  they  agreed.
Unfortunately,  all  men  are  not  hon­
est,  and  through  the  efforts of some deal­
ers  at  both  ends  to  acquire  something 
without  paying  for  it,  has  arisen  the 
conditions  that  have  called  our  Associa­
tion  into existence.  Rejections  are  the 
chief  trouble  with  which  we  have  to 
contend,  and  from  the  fact  that they  are 
greatest  on  a  declining  market,  it  would 
appear that  the  stand  taken  by  this  As­
sociation  was  made  absolutely  necessary 
for the  protection  of  its  members.
Of  course,  the  first  and  most  indis­
pensable  requisite 
is  that  all  stock  be 
loaded  honestly  and  represented  as 
loaded.  The  chances  for  loss and  de­
terioration 
in  transit  are  great,  and 
shippers  can  not  be  too  careful,  in mak­
ing  sales,  to  know  when  the  title passes. 
If  goods are  sold  f.  o.  b.  delivered,  the 
shipper  takes  all  these  chances,  and 
must  deliver  his  stock  to  his  customer, 
in  full  accordance  with  his  representa­
tions.  He  takes  all  chances on  hot  or 
cold  weather,  rot  or decay,  delays,  etc. 
Often  on  perishable  goods,  the  value 
changes  materially  from  these  causes, 
during  the  one  to  four weeks  in  transit. 
Our Association  should  be  very  careful 
to  keep  its  membership  purged  of  those 
who  misrepresent  their  stock,  “ doctor”  
or 
and  only  accept 
straightforward,  honest  dealers,  who  in­
tend  to  do  as  they  agree.  This  will 
stop  some  of  the 
Then, 
when  we  have  done  our  part,  we  should 
stand  together  as  a  unit  in  all  ways  to 
enforce  a  like  position  on  the  part  of 
the  receivers.
All  of  us  have  had  expensive  experi­
ence  in  the  turning  down  of cars  by  re­
ceivers  when  the  market  was  off,  and 
before  the  organization  by  this  Associa­
tion  there  was  no  remedy. 
If  we  would 
not_  sell  them,  plenty  of  others  would, 
until  they  too  had  been  swindled,  and 
the  new  men  coming  into  the  business 
constantly,  together with  our  inbred  de­
sire  to  see  our opposition  get  scotched, 
have  enabled  piratical  buyers  from  all 
over the  country’  to  rob  Michigan  ship­
pers  for years  with  impunity. 
If  a  man 
nad  a  car turned  down  in  a  certain  city 
by  one  man,  and  turned  it  over to  an­
other,  the 
two  receivers  pooled  the 
profits,  and  the  shipper  was  worse off 
than  ever.  The  plan  adopted  by  this | 
Association  in  cases of  rejection,  is,  in 
my  opinion,  the  best  and  least  expen­
sive  that  we  could  devise.  Our  local 
secretaries  are  selected  because  of  their 
high  and  honorable  standing  in  the  va- j 
rious  cities  where  they  live,  and  every 
shipper  is  bound  to accept their decision 
as  final.  A shipper should be particularly 
careful  in  selling  stock  of  straight  va­
rieties. 
is  extremely  difficult  to  get 
varieties  true to  name  in  most  sections 
of  our  State.  This  is  especially  true  of 
potatoes.
Growers  have experimented with many 
varieties,  and  the  changes 
in  appear­
ance,  caused  by  the  difference  in  soils, 
has  made  it  next  to  impossible  to  load 
a  straight  car  of  any  one  variety  in 
many  cities.  A  careful,  honest descrip­
tion  of  his  stock  by  a  shipper will  do 
much  towards  giving  our  Association 
the  standing  among  receivers  that  we 
expect  it  to  have.  We  did  not  organize 
for  the  purpose  of  helping  dishonest 
shippers  swindle  the  people  to  whom 
they  sell,  neither  do  we 
intend  to 
try  to  enforce  the  collecton  of  unfair ac­
counts.  We  do  believe  that  if  we  can 
be  assured  that  all  our  members  will 
load  and  represent  their stock  honestly, 
we can,  by  combining  and  refusing  to 
deal  with  dishonest  receivers,  not  only 
save  ourselves  many dollars  each  year, 
but  can  create  for ourselves a  reputation 
that  will  be  an  honor to  ourselves  and to 
the  community  in which we live.

It 

We  must  not  lose  sight  for a  moment
»Paper read at annual  convention  of  Michigan 
Produce Shippers’ Association hv  E .  C.  Rob­
erts, of Lapeer.

of the strength  we  will  develop  by strict­
ly  adhering  to  our rules  and  under no 
consideration  of  selling  to  a  firm  who 
has  forfeited  the  confidence  of  the  As­
sociation.  This  is  our  only  safeguard 
and  we  must  use  it  with  care  and  dis­
cretion.  W'e  must  be  sure  that  com­
plaints  are  well  founded  and,  as  in  all 
iocal  questions,  give  the  accused  the 
benefit  of  a  doubt,  if  any.  But  once  we 
are  satisfied  a  receiver has  turned  a  car 
down  on  account  of a  drop  in  values,  we 
should  none  of  us  deal with  him  again 
until  he  has  satisfactorily  settled.  At 
the  several  meetings  of  the  executive 
committee  extreme  care  has  been  taken 
to  get  the  exact  facts  in  all  cases,  and 
in  the  opinion  of  several  members  too 
much  conservatism  is  shown.  Possibly 
this may  be the  wisest  course,  especially 
while  the  Association 
is  new  and  un­
tried.
That  we  have  done  some  good,  is 
true.  That  we  may  have  been  unjust, 
is  possible. 
juries  have 
hanged  innocent  men,  but  the  executive 
committee  has tried  to be  fair  in  all 
its 
actions'  and  in  no  case  has  it  decreed  a 
firm  of  receivers guilty,  except  the  evi­
dence  before  it  was  unimpeachable.
If  we  keep  carefully  to the  rules  of 
the  Association,  admit  to  membership 
only  honest  shippers  and  compel  dis­
honest  receivers  to  deal  fair and  keep 
their  obligations  with  us,  it  will  not  be 
long  before  a  certificate  of  membership 
in  the  Michigan  Produce  Shippers’  As­
sociation  will  be  accepted  by  St.  Peter 
at  the  “ Pearly  Gate”   as  an  order  for 
admission  to  the  place  where there  are 
no  rejections,  except  for  cause.
.Sm all  B o y ’s  V iew   o f  I t.

Some  good 

A  small  boy  who  lives  on  Prospect 
street  has  heard  a  good  deal  of  talk 
about  egg  throwing,  and  asks  many 
questions  concerning  it.

The  other  day  he  said  to  his  father: 
“ Papa,  what  makes  them  throw  eggs?”
“ Because  they  are  very  disagreeable 
missiles,”   replied  papa.
“ What  are  disagreeable  missiles?”  
the  boy  persisted.
‘ ‘ Bad  eggs. ’ ’
“ What  are  bad  eggs?”
“ They  are  eggs  that  smell  very  bad 
The  boy  paused  for a  moment.
“ Are  they  hen’s  eggs,  papa?”
“ Yes.”
There  was a  longer  pause.
Then  the  little  fellow  spoke  up.
“ Well,”   he  said,  “ if  I  was  a  hen  I ’d 

when  they  break.”

be  ashamed  to  lay  them.”

A  R e a d y   A n sw er.

_ “ 1  am  so ambitious, ”   said  the  egotis­
tical  man,  “ that  some  day  you  may  see 
me  bringing  the  earth  home.”

" I f   you  bring  it  on  your  feet,”   cau­
tioned  his  meek  wife,  “ don’t forget  that 
the  door  mat  stands 
in  the  vestibule, 
and  that  the  last  time  these  halls  were 
scrubbed  I  did  it  myself.”

Never  let  a  package  go  to  market 
without  first  marking  it  plainly,  plac­
ing  your name  and  address  on  the pack­
age  and  then  notifying your commission 
house  by  mail  that  the  shipment  has 
been  made,  stating  by  what  route  it  has 
been  sent  and  giving  the  contents  of the 
package.  Such  care  will  insure  prompt 
returns.

Fifteen  chickens,  newly  hatched,  are 
said  to  have  been  found  in  one  case  of 
Information  has 
eggs  at  St.  Louis. 
come  from  the  neighboring  towns to the 
effect  that,  while 
it  has  always  been 
supposed  that  St.  Louis  was a  “ hot”  
town,  no  one  ever  thought  it  “ warm”  
enough  to  hatch  chickens.

Packers  of dressed  poultry should  take 
pains  with  their  packing,  grading  the 
stock  carefully  and  using  only  the  best 
pine  poultry boxes.  The  boxes  should 
be  kept  clean  and  neat and  loaded  in 
clean  cars.  No  detail  of  the  business 
should  be  looked  after  more  carefully 
than  the  package.

There  is  a  difference  between a  man 
and  an  egg.  When  a  man  gets  old,  he 
is  no  longer  fit  for the  scramble,  and 
when  an  egg  gets  old  that  is  all  it  is  fit 
for.

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w a n t e d

We are always in the market for Fresh

B U T T E R   AND  E G G S

R.  HIRT,  JR  ,  Detroit, Mich.

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36  Market  Street. 

Clover,  Timothy,  Alsyke,  Beans, 
Peas.  Popcorn,  Buckwheat

If you wish to buy or sell correspond with  us.

ALFRED J.  BROWN SEED CO.,

GROWERS.  MERCHANTS.  IMPORTERS.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

SH IP  YO U R  B U T T E R   AND  E G G S   t o  

S T R O U P   &  CA R M ER ,

38 SO .  D IVISION  S T ..
G RA N D   R A P ID S .  MICH.
Financially responsible, actively alert to shippers’ interests, square, prompt remitters.  Produce 
handled on commission or bought at  a  definite  stated  price  on track.  Refer  to  Grand  Rap­
ids National Bank; Ithaca havings Bank, Ithaca:  F.  E.  Durfee  &  Co.,  Bankers,  Perrinton, 
Mich. ; Commercial  Agencies.

Make  a   Note  of  It.  W e  Handle

Mexican  Oranges

They are now arriving in good condition and fine quality.  Packed in  Florida 
size boxes, nice  sizes.  We  are  quoting at $3 50  per  box delivered  in  carlots 
to  any  point  taking $1 25  rate freight.  We quote Sonora  Mexican  Oranges, 
shipments by November  5th, $3.25 delivered.  Write us.
ST.  LOUIS,  MO.

MILLER  &  TEASDALE  CO , 

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RED  STAR  BRAND  CIDER VINEGAR
is not excelled bv  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. wi

I  Redemeyer-Hollister  Commission  Co.,  “
I  
I 
§*  We have  secured  the  United  States  contract  to  furnish  Government  sup­

General  Commission  Merchants.

plies for Cuba for one year and must have  100,000 bushels of  apples, onions  5  

ST.  LOUIS,  MISSOURI,

§  and potatoes.  Shipments and correspondence solicited.

To Suit Your Tasto

________________at  just  the  stage  where  it

best tickles > our palate and keep it constantly  uniform  for  any  length  of 
•¡me.  Contains no  Salicylic  Acid.  Affords  dealers  good  profit  selling  at 
25 cents.

Stop  fermentation  in  cider

J.  L. CONG DON  & CO.,  Pentwater,  Mich.

BEANS

Always in the market.

If you can offer Beans in small lots or car lots send us sample and price. 

MOSELEY  BROS.

2 6 -2 8 -3 0 -3 2   OTTAW A  S T .,  GRAND  RA PID S 
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Seeds,  Beans,  Potatoes, Onions, Apples.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN 

quantities of  bananas  grown  on  an 
im­
mense  plain  beyond.  The  Dewey  can 
carry  more  than  40,000 bunches  of  ban­
anas,  each  bunch  having  on  an  average 
seventy  fruits,  and 
its  passenger  ac­
commodation  could  hardly  be  surpassed 
even  on  an  Atlantic  liner.
.  The  district  around  Bowden  belongs, 
for miles  in  every  direction,  to the  com­
pany.  A  railway  eight  miles  long  runs 
through  the  principal banana plantations 
to  bring  the  produce  to the  port.  Every 
foot  of  this  line 
is  in  the  company's 
territories.  Part  of the  way  it  runs  along 
the  seashore  through  glorious tropical 
scenery.  On  the  one  hand  is  the  intense 
blue  of  the  placid  Caribbean,  with 
long-backed  breakers  falling  in  endless 
lines  of  foam  on  the  coral  sands,  and 
seeming  for  all  the  world  like  the  key­
board  of  some  mighty  organ;  on  the 
other  hand that fringe of cocoanut palms, 
which 
is  as  constant  a  feature  of  the 
coast  of  West  Indian 
islands  as  the 
graceful  filas  pines,  with  their  murmur­
ing  music,  are  common  to the  seaboard 
of the  Eastern  tropics,  such  as  Mauri­
tius  and  Reunion.  Beyond  the  palms 
stretch  miles  and  miles  of  plantations, 
like  hives 
in  full  activity,  with  hun­
dreds  of  merry  negroes  and  more  sedate 
coolies  hurrying  to  and  fro under the 
white  glare  of  a  tropical  sun,  fanned  by 
the  ragged  leaves of  the  banana  rustling 
in  the  breeze.  We  could  not  reach  all 
the  plantations  by  the  railway,  and  for 
the  greater  part  of  the  day  I  was  in  the 
saddle,  riding  over  country  roads and 
through  the  bush  to  the  remoter  estates.
A  grander  ride  one  could  not  wish 
for.  A  narrow  track  with  a  wealth  of 
tropical  forest  verdure  on  either  hand, 
forming  vast  cathedrals  of 
foliage, 
wound  right  over  long  hills  and  de­
scended  .  through 
tangled  masses  of 
brushwood  ana  “ liane, ”   opening  at 
last  upon  fertile  plains  and  valleys  of 
the  inevitable  banana.  The  white  vil­
lages  dotted  over  the  landscape  prac­
tically  belong  to the  company. 
It  owns 
most  of  the  houses,  employs  all  the  in­
habitants  and  builds  the  churches  and 
the  schools—which  are better than  any­
where else  in Jamaica.
Capt.  Baker and  his company  are  the 
good  genii  of  the  island.  They  found 
it  in  a  state  of  acute  depression  through 
the  failure  of  the  sugar  industry,  and 
have  restored 
it  to  prosperity.  They 
could  give  President  McKinley  points 
in  the  art  of  “ benevolentassimilation.”  
These  are  not  the  only Americans con­
in  the  peaceful  annexation  of 
cerned 
Jamaica.  An  American  weather bureau 
warns  the  natives  when  to  expect  hurri­
canes ;  American  geologists  tell  them- 
of  the  mineral  riches  of  their  soil  and 
an American  named  Smith  is  teaching 
them  how  to  make  fortunes out  of  pine­
apples.  American  ideas,  American  in­
fluences,  American  goods  permeate 
Jamaica  from  end  to end  as they  per­
meate  no  other  island  in the wide world, 
and 
it 
is  very  evident  they  have  come 
to  stay. 

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JA M A IC A   B A N A N A S.

H ow  

th e   Basinet«!«  H as  R e v o lu tio n iz e d  

th e   Is la n d .

William Thorp in Chicago Record.

Some  time  ago  there  was  a  good  deal 
of  wild  talk 
in  the  American  papers 
about  the  “ annexation”   of  Jamaica. 
It 
was,  they  said,  desirable  to  complete 
the  chain  of  Antillean  gems  owned  by 
it  was  inevitable 
the  United  States; 
that  the  stars  and  stripes  should  sup­
plant  the  union 
in  this  tropical 
dependency ;  the  facts  of  geography  and 
commerce  all  tended  that  way,  and  it 
was  useless  for  England  to  fight  against 
them. 
I  am  convinced  that  a  change  of 
flags  will  never  come  in  our lifetime ; 
but,  nevertheless,  the  peaceful  annexa­
tion  of  Jamaica  by  the  United  States 
is 
proceeding  apace  every  day.

jack 

Probably  in  no country  in  the  world— 
not  even 
in  Cuba,  Puerto  Rico  or 
Hawaii  —are  Americans  acquiring  so 
large  a  share  of  commerce  and  influ­
ence.  But  for them,  Jamaica  would  be 
in  a  state  of  hopeless  poverty.  The 
ports of  the  United  States take  the  bulk 
of  our  exports  and  send  us  the  great 
proportion  of  our imports;  and the  tend­
ency  in  that  direction  is becoming  more 
marked  every  day.

You  travel  through  the  country.  You 
go  from  port  to  port  on  fine  American 
steamers;  the  American  vestibule  train 
in  which  you  are  whirled  around  frown­
ing  precipices  and  down  alarming  de­
clivities 
is  attached  to  an  American 
engine;  the  American  buggy  you  use 
along  the  roads  is  drawn,  if  you  be  a 
man  of  any  wealth,  by  an  imported 
American  horse;  the  stores  in  the  re­
motest  country  villages  are  principally 
stocked  with  Ameiican  goods;  the  ho­
tels  are  run  by  Americans  on  the  Amer­
ican  plan ;  the  countryside  is  owned  by 
American  agriculturists,  who  teach  the 
natives  some  badly  needed  lessons 
in 
the  right  way  of  doing  things;  and, 
finally,  although  the  currency  is  Eng­
lish,  you  generally  hear  people  reckon­
ing  in  dollars.
is,  ad­
The  greatest thing  in  Jamaica 
mittedly,  the  United  Fruit  Company, 
which  runs eight  or nine  large  steamers 
every  week  to  New  Orleans,  Baltimore, 
Philadelphia,  New  York  and  Boston. 
This  company  carries  enough  bananas 
every  year  to  give  every  man,  woman 
and  child 
in  the  United  States  seven 
apiece,  to  say  nothing  of  cocoanuts  and 
oranges  by  the  millions  and  tens of  mil­
lions. 
It  owns  or  leases  70.000 acres  of 
the  best 
island;  many 
thousands of  men  and  women  are  on  its 
weekly  pay  roll,  and  many  thousands 
more  depend  upon  it  for  indirect  sus­
tenance ;  it  regularly  runs sixteen steam­
ers,  and  frequently  charters  others,  be­
side  a  fleet of  sailing  ships;  while  such 
trifles  as  a  railway,  a  couple  of  hotels, 
an 
ice  factory,  a  fiber  industry,  and  a 
township  on  a  reclaimed  swamp  are  the 
mere  by-products  of the  business.  The 
beginning  of  this  huge  organization 
was  a  tiny  schooner  run  thirty  years ago 
by  Capt.  Baker,  a  long-headed,  honest 
Yankee,  who  is  still  at  the  head  of  the 
business.

in  the 

land 

He 

is  a  remarkable  man,  this  Capt. 
Baker.  Nothing  flurries  him.  He 
is 
the  essence  of  coolness.  He  buys  a 
steamer  or  orders  a  railway  as  another 
man  would  call  for a  box  of  cigars. 
lie  
makes  or  loses  vast  sums  without a wink 
of  the  eyelid.  And  yet,  with  it  all,  he 
it  still  the  plain,  straightforward,  genial 
Cape  Cod  skipper;  not  a  bit  like  the 
typical  business  man.  Singularly  un­
assuming,  he 
is  accessible  to  the  poor­
est  negro  with  a  grievance.  You  would 
never  guess  he  was  a  millionaire  and 
the  most  popular and best-respected man 
in  Jamaica.  Always  ready to  help  any­
body  who has  grit  in  him,  he  has  no  use 
for  the  man  who  won’t  work.  Two 
golden  rules  form  his  business  creed— 
everything  above-board,  everything  on 
a  cash  basis.
The  other day  I  received an invitation 
from  the  company  to  go over  its  planta­
tions  and  inspect  the  general  working of 
its  system.  The  company’s  splendid 
steamship,  the  Admiral  Dewey—the  fin­
est  of the  fleet—bore  me  from  Kingston 
along  the  coast  to  Bowden,  a  seaport 
created  by  Capt.  Baker to ship  the  vast

T h e   H o te l  C le rk '»  G rie v a n c e .

From the Chicago News.

The  clerk  with  the  extra  large  dia­
mond  leaned  over the  hotel  register  and 
in  a  whisper  gave  vent  to  his  pent-up 
feelings.  He  wore  his  combination 
scowl  and  smile—the  scowl  for  the  dol- 
lar-a-day  drummer  and  the  smile  for the 
widow  with  hand  boxes,  maid  and  a 
large  bank  account.
“ It  gets  worse  and  worse,”   he  de­
clared.  “ That  drummer  for a  shoestring 
house  has  gone  to the  head  works and 
is  making  a  kick  'cause  he  says  he  s 
been 
insulted.  Oh,  yes,  he  has  been 
insulted !  When  I  get  through  with  that 
fellow  he’ ll  wish  he  had  gone .to  a  lodg­
ing  house.  The  housekeeper 
is  going 
to  ring 
in  the  bristly  mattress on  him 
to-night.' ’
“ What  do  you  think  of  him?”   he con­
tinued. 
“ He  wants a  room  on  the  par­
lor  floor,  with  a  bath,  for $1  a  day,  and 
he says  the  ‘ pate  de  foie  gras’  for break­
fast—breakfast,  mind 
you  was  not
made  from  the  liver of  yearling  geese, 
but 9-year-old  steers.  Why,  that  fellow 
never  had  anything  but  hoe  cake  for 
breakfast  until  this  ribbon  house  gave 
him  a  job.  It’s  just  that  sort  of  a  fellow 
that 
lowers  the  dignity  of  the  business. 
And  the  head  clerk  shook  his  shirt  front 
in  anger and  the  diamond  twinkled  and 
glittered.

Those wishing to buy buckwheat flour 
made  from  this  years  crop  which 
is guaranteed absolutely  pure  will do 
well to write  us  for prices  and  sam­
ples.  Prompt shipment.

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In  a 
Modem
Mill

Everything  is  as  clean  as 
in a modem kitchen.

L ily   W h ite

"The flour  the  best  cooks 
use” is made in  a  modern 
mill.  All  grocers  ought 
to sell it.

Valley  City 
Milling  Co.,
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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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For  everything  in  the  line  of  Feed will  be  very 
large  during  fall  and  winter.  W e will  be 
fully 
prepared  to  fill  all  orders  promptly  and  at 
right 
prices.  W rite  us 

M USKEGO N   M ILLING  CO. 1

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F iR ure»  W ith   M o v in g   H eads.

From the  New  York  Sun.

There  may  be  observed  in  store  win­
dows  various  show  figures  with  moving 
heads  that  keep  constantly  moving. 
These 
include  human  figures  and  the 
figures  of  various  animals.  The  human 
figure  may  be  that of a  woman  with  a 
smiling  face,  who  nods  her  head  slowly 
and  smoothly  and gracefully from side to 
side;  the  animal  may  be  one  of  many, 
a  bear,  or a  giraffe,  or a  lion,  inclining 
its  head  perhaps  forward  and  back. 
In 
smaller,  cheaper  animals, 
there  are 
made  figures  with  movable  balanced 
heads  suspended  on  a  hook  within  the 
body.  Such  a  head,  started  swinging, 
will  swing  for. some  little  time,but  with 
a  diminishing  motion  until 
it  ceases; 
larger  and  more  elaborate  figures  are 
equipped  with  clockwork,  which  means 
they  may  be  made  to  sway  their  heads, 
each  in  its  own  way,for  hours  at  a  time 
with  unfailing  regularity.

R o llin g   in   S w eets.

“ What  are  you  going  to  do  when  you 
are  a  man,  Tommy?”
“ I ’m  goin’  to work  till  I  get  enough 
money to  buy  a  candy  store,  an’  then  I 
won’t  do a  thing !”

Highest Market  Prices  Paid.  Regular Shipments Solicited.

18 South  Division Street, 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

H.  M.  Reynolds  &  Son,

Maaafacturera  of  ’

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

Qrud Rapids, Mich.

Office, 82 Campau st.
Factory,  istav. and M. C.JJ.y.

ESTABLISHED  1868

Detroit, Mich.
Foot 1st St.

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Shoes  and  Leather

B e tte r   D ay*  In   S to re  fo r  S hoe D ealer».
Great  firmness  in  footwear and  leather 
continues  at  all  points,  and  the  shoe 
piice  advance  is  steadily  making  itself 
felt  in  all  parts  of the  country.  Viewe 
from  all  standpoints  the  situation  gen 
erally  can  be  called  satisfactory,  and 
in  marked  contrast  with  conditions  pn 
vailing  at  this  time  a  year ago. 
It 
the  opinion  of the  most  astute  men  i 
the  trade  that  the  shoe and  leather  in 
dustry  has  never  been  upon  so  sound 
and  promising  a  basis  than  is  the  case 
at  the  present  time.  The  price  diffi 
culty 
is  gradually  reaching  a  norma 
solution,  the  demand  for  footwear  i 
good  and  constantly  growing  better,  ow 
ing  to the  ever-widening  circle  of  pros 
perous  general  conditions,  and  the  sho< 
man  has  now  a  fairer field  before  him, 
both  at  home  and  abroad,  than  he  has 
ever enjoyed  before.  True,  prices 
ceived  are  not  as  yet  all  that they should 
be.  There  are  some  materials  that 
ter  into  the  composition  of  a  shoe  that 
have  advanced  from 30 to  50  per cent, 
while  as  yet  the  most  fortunate  shoe 
manufacturer  has  not  succeeded  in  ob­
taining  more  than  15  per cent,  on  any 
line,  with  a  general  average  on  all  lines 
and  grades  that  will  not,  all  things 
considered,  exceed  from  8  to 
10  per 
cent.  Still,  the  movement  thus  far has 
been  in  the  right  direction.  There  has 
been  no  retrogression,  and  this  in  itself 
is  cause  for congratulation.  The  retail 
trade,  taken  as  a  whole,  has  bowed 
gracefully  to  the  inevitable  and  yielded 
to  conditions  which  manufacturers could 
no  longer  avoid.  The  strain  may  be 
called  over.  The  skimping,  cheese-par­
ing  mehtods  and  weary  attempt  on  the 
part  of  shoe  manufacturers  to  make ends 
meet  with  every  point  in  the  game 
against  them,  which  has characterized 
the  shoe  manufacturing  industry  of  the 
country  for the  last  four years,  will  soon 
be  a  thing  of the  past,  and  with  a  pros­
perous  public  willing  to  purchase  good 
footwear at  fair  prices,  both  dealer  and 
manufacturer have  cause  to congratulate 
themselves  on  future  trade  prospects.

ments  of  “ John  Wanamaker,  Philadel 
phia,  dealer  in  everything  required  for 
man,  woman  and  child,’ ’  do  you  thi 
he  would  materially  increase  his  sales 
N o;  no  matter  how  much  the  adverti 
ing  expenditures  might  amount  in  thi 
direction,  John  must  tell  day  by  d 
what  he  has  to  sell  and  the  reasons  for 
dealing  with  him.  He  must  devise  at 
tractions  for  bringing  people  to  h 
store.  And  every  other storekeeper  must 
do  the  same,  whether  he  has  to be  h 
own  advertisement  writer or  not.—Shoe 
and  Leather  Facts.

C h icag o   M e rc h a n ts   H av e  H a d   E n o u g h  

C a rn iv a l  B u sin ess.

From   the  Chicago  Tribune.

This  year’s  experience  has  written 
the  death  warrant of the  fall  festival,  so 
its  leading  retai 
far  as  Chicago  and 
dealers  are  concerned. 
In  vain  will  the 
promoters  of  Roman  holidays  like  those 
if  last Chicago  day  appeal  to  the  State 
street  merchants  for pecuniary  or  mora 
aid.  The  answer of the  latter  will  be 
It  does  not  pay. ”   Nor does  it.  Thit, 
year’s  festival  cost  those  merchants  who 
were  so  unfortunate  as  to abut  on  the 
court  of  honor’ ’  $150,000  from  first  t( 
ast.  At  no  time  during  the  festival  did 
they  sell  more  goods on  account  of  the 
crowds  of  strangers  who  were 
in  the 
city.  Their  sales  to  Chicagoans  were 
iecreased,  and  they  practically  did  no 
business  at  all  on  one day—a “ bargain”  
day  at  that.  They  felt  that  they  were 
butchered  to  make  a  holiday. 
It  is  not 
~.afe  to  utter  the  word  “ festival”   or 
pageant  ’  in  the  hearing  of  those  per 
sons  who  sell  goods  on  State  street,  be 
tween  the  river and  Twelfth  street.
It  must  be  admitted  that,  however 
'leasing  “ festivals”   like  the  one  of  tw< 
reeks  ago  may  be  to  those  who  like  tc 
see  sights  and  are  willing  to  submit  to 
being  shouldered and elbowed in a crowd 
to  do  so,  there  is  no  profit  in  them  for 
the  city.  Whatever  money  is  made  out 
of them  is  made  by  railroads,  hotels and 
restaurant  keepers, 
saloon  keepers, 
igar  dealers  and  those  who  run  games 
af  chance.  The visitors who are attracted 
by  the  festival  come  to  see,  not  to  make 
purchases. 
Their  presence  decreases 
the  total  volume  of  sales  of  goods  of  all 
kinds.  So  the  big  merchants  are  not 
going  to  cut  their throats by encouraging 
further 
fall  festivals  and  “ courts  of 
honor.  ’ 
If  glib-tongued  promoters  can 
induce  North  or  West  Siders  to  engage 
in  the  reproduction  of  Olympian  games 
or oriental  pageants,  the  men  who  have 
stores  in  the  business  district  will  throw 
no obstacles  in  their way,  but they  will 
not  lend  a  helping  hand.

No  retailer  should  be  encouraged  to 
stick  to  old  fossil  methods.  For  no 
method  of doing  business  is  commend­
able  simply  for  its  antiquity,  all  said 
to  the  contrary  notwithstanding.  The 
writer  has  in  mind  a  country  store,  not 
far  from  Bridgeton,  N.  J.,  which  has  a 
number of  glass  factory  stores  for  rivals 
in  the  same  and  close-by  towns.  The 
proprietor  has  grown  old  in  the  busi­
ness  and  has  worked  into 
ruts.  He 
keeps  the  best  of everything,  but  buys 
to  such  poor  advantage  that  he  has to 
charge  a  little  more  than  his  competi­
tors.  He  never  keeps  his  stock  half  re­
plenished,  and  he  allows  some  brogans 
and  old  cat-hide  boots  to  remain  on 
them  which  the  “ old  inhabitants’ ’  re­
membered  having  seen 
in  the  same 
place  for  many  years.  He  changes  his 
window  display  only  once  or twice  a 
year,  and  often  has  nothing  in  the  win­
dow  at  all.  The  writer  was  told  that 
matters had  been  going  on  in  this  way 
for  many  years  until  a  new  clerk  recent­
ly  made  up  his  mind  to  do  something. 
The  old  man’s  store  is  now  for  rent.

*  *  *

Have  you  ever given  it  a  thought that 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  are 
wasted  every  year  in  advertising  in  the 
country  papers  on  wrong  lines?  For in­
stance,  if John  Wanamaker were to con­
fine  his advertising  to display announce­

What  has  been  said  of the  unprofit­
ableness  of  festival  crowds  is  equally 
true  of  the  crowds  attracted  by  a  na­
tional  convention.  A  business  man  who 
is  mindful  of  his own  interests  may sub­
scribe  to keep  a  convention  away  from 
here.  He  never  will  subscribe  to  bring 
it  here; 
for  not  only  do  convention 
crowds  buy  nothing  outside  of  drink­
ables  and  paper  collars  but  they  keep 
Chicagoans  from  tiading.  Some  women 
desert  the  bargain  counters  for the  con­
vention  hall.  Others  can  not  be  lured 
down-town  by  the  most tempting  cuts  in 
prices, 
for  they  dislike  the  crowded 
streets.

While  the  fall  festival  is  a  thorn  in 
the  flesh,  an  annual  exposition,  such  as 
Chicago had  for many  years  and  ought 
to have  again,  will  be  a  real  advantage 
to  the  city. 
It  will  bring  people  who 
want  to  buy  as  well  as  people  who  want 
to  see.  The  crowds  will  be  spread  over 
a  month,  instead  of  being  concentrated 
in a  few  days.  There  will  be  no  inter­
ference  with  either  local  traffic  or  local 
trade. 
The  merchants  and  manufac­
turers  who  have  exhibits  at  the  exposi­
tion  will  spend  money  on  them  but  they 
will  have  some  return.  For the  money 
they  spent  this  month  in  shields  and 
banners  they  will  get  no  return.  And, 
worse  than  all,  they  lost  a  Monday’s 
trade,  which  never can  be  recovered.

The tender grace of a day that is dead 
Will never come back to me.

Never  look  a  bad  gift  cigar  in the 

mouth.  Throw  it  away.

S n e d ic o r   &   H a t h a w a y  
shoes  have  a  good  reputa­
tion— but  not  a  whit  better 
than  they  deserve. 
If  they 
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, 

GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

We  Sell  Boston  and 
Bay  State  Rubbers

We want your  Rubber  Business.  Order 
before  November 
ist  and  save  5  per 
cent.  Manufacturers  and  Jobbers  of 
Boots and  Shoes.

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.,

10*22 North  Ionia  Street, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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HOES that give satisfaction. 
HOES that bring trade. 
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Michigan Knights of the Grip

President,  Ch a s.  L.  St e v e n s ,  Ypsilanti;  Sec­
retary,  J . C.  S a u n d e r s,  Lansing;  Treasurer, 
O.  C.  G o u ld, Saginaw.

Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association 

President,  J a m e s  E.  1)a y ,  D etroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer,  C.  W.  A l l e n , Detroit.
United Commercial Traiders of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  J no.  A.  M u r r a y ,  D etroit; 
Grand  Secretary,  G.  S.  V a l m o r e ,  D etroit; 
G rand Treasurer, W .  S.  Me s t , Jackson.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131

Senior  Counselor,  D.  E.  K e y e s ;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Michigan Commercial Traielers’  Mutnal  Accident  Association 
President, J .  B o yd  P a n t l in d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  G eo.  F .  Ow e n , 
G rand Rapids.

G rip s a c k   B rig a d e .

Jacob  Baar,  Mayor  of  Grand  Haven, 
has  taken  a  position  with  the  Dayton 
Computing  Scale  Co.  to  cover the  ex­
treme  Southern  territory,  which  extends 
as  far south  as  Alabama.

Allegan  Gazette: 

J.  C.  Maskey  has 
accepted  a  position  as  traveling  repre­
sentative  for a  Grand  Rapids  firm  and 
will  go  on  the  road  next  month  to  sell 
coal  and  other things  in  which the house 
deals.

Indiana  salesman 

A.  E.  Brownell,  for  many years Mich­
igan  and 
for  the 
American  Cigar  Co.,  at  Coldwater, 
which  recently  retired  from  business, 
now  covers  the  same  territory  for the 
American  Cigar Co.,  of  Westfield,  Mass. 
Mr.  Brownell  will  continue  to  reside  at 
Goshen.

Charlotte  Leader: 

Billy  Bigelow, 
the  popular  hardware  salesman  who 
travels  out  of this  city,  is  an  enthusias­
tic  sportsman  and  when  the  quail season 
opened  he  invited  a  party  of  friends  to 
accompany  him  to a  near by woods  on 
a  hunting  expedition.  Not  meeting 
with  any  success,  he  purchased  three 
quails  at  a 
local  market  and  put them 
on  exhibition  in  Munger  &  Jennings 
display  window.

“ One  of the  aggravations  of  life,”   re­
marked  Patrick  Carroll  the  other day, 
“ Is  to  think  of the thing  you  ought  to 
have  said  about  an  hour and  a  half after 
the  time  for saying  it  has  gone  by.  As 
far as  I  am  concerned,  I  am  convinced 
that  I  would be  an  ornament  to  society 
if  I  could  ever get  my  mind  to  working 
on  schedule  time,  so  that  my  ideas 
would  arrive  at  the  moment  they  were 
needed, 
instead  of  being  sidetracked 
somewhere  until  they  were  of  no  earthly 
use.  As  it  is,  in-company  I  am  thought 
a  rather dull  fellow  with  no  pretensions 
to  wit,  and 
it  is  only  after  I  am  safely 
at  home,  in  the  seclusion  of  my  own 
room,  that  the  sparkling  retorts  and 
brilliant  sallies  that  1  should  have  made 
occur  to  me. 
It  is  the  same  way  with 
an  argument. 
I  am  an  easy  thing  in 
that,  but  after the  fellow  has  gone,  and 
the  incident  closed,  as  diplomats  say,  I 
think  of the  most  telling  points,  and  ir­
refutable  facts  and  figures  that  would 
have  simply  overwhelmed  him  if  I  had 
thought of  them  in  time.  With  women 
I  am  a  blunderer,  who  is  sure to  put his 
foot  into things,  and  can  not  even  fol­
low  a 
lead  to a  compliment,  yet  when 
the  chance  to say  the thing  is  gone  for­
ever  I  am  simply  chockful  of  Chester- 
fieldian  speeches  and 
flowery  phrases 
that  would  make  me  a  drawing-room 
darling  if  I  had  thought  of  them  at the 
right 
instant.  One  thing  that  has  al­
ways  awakened  my  profoundest  envy— 
and  I  dare  say  there  are  plenty  of  other 
people 
like  me—is  the  ability  that 
heroe$  always  seem  to have  to  polish  off

vidi, 

little 

a  great  feat  with  an  epigram  that  is 
only  a 
less  remarkable  than  the 
deed.  You  know  what  I  mean—Caesar’s 
‘ Veni, 
v ici,’  Nelson’s  ‘ Eng­
land  expects  every  man  to do his  duty ;’ 
Commodore  Perry’s  ‘ We  have  met  the 
enemy,  and  they  are  ours,’  and  so on. 
They  are  daring,  brave,  thrilling,  his­
tory-making  speeches,  and  I  have  mar­
veled  no 
little  at  the  men,  who  in  the 
moment  of  victory  could  throw  off  such 
a  sparkling  phrase.  This  affair  of Funs- 
ton’s,  though  in  refusing  to  accept  the 
fine  sword  that  Kansas  wants  to  give 
him,  until  they  take  the  inscription  off 
of  the  blade,  gives  me  a  new  idea. 
That  records  in  imperishable  words  his 
speech 
heroic 
to  his  commanding 
officer: 
‘ I  can  hold  my  position  until 
my  regiment  is  mustered  out. ’  Only 
Funston  objects  to  it,  because  he  says 
it  isn’t  true.  He  would  have  liked  to 
say 
if  he  had  been  given 
a  week  to  think  up a  good  reply  to  his 
commanding  officer he  might  have  said 
it;  but  things  weie  a  little  hurried 
just 
then,  and  he  said  the  first  common­
place  thing  that  he  could  lay  his  tongue 
to.  Dewey  also  denies  that  he  said  at 
the  beginning  of  the  battle  of  Manila, 
‘ Gridley,  you  may 
fire  when  you  are 
ready.’  So  it  begins  to  make  me  a  lit­
tle  suspicious  of  the other fine-sound­
ing,  dramatic  phrases,  and  makes  me 
wonder  if  we  don’t  owe  them,  too,  to 
the 
imagination  of  war correspondents 
and  historians  who  had  time  to sit down 
and  quietly  think  out  the  things  heroes 
ought  to  have  said,  and  didn’t.  Not 
that  1  object  to this  dressing  up  of  bare 
facts,  you  understand. 
is  like  the 
way  Sir Christopher  justifies  the  fib 
in 
‘ The  Liars’—just  the  truth  idealized  a 
little,  not  as  the  thing  is,  but as  it  ought 
to  be. ’ ’

it,  and 

It 

T h e   F a r m e r   in   th e   F a ll.

They are hauling in ihe buckwheat 
And the swollen stream is roaring 

From the held upon the hill 
O’er the «.am  helow the mill;

The ripened nuts are falling 
And the hungry  peacock’s calling 
While the squirrels gaily chatter 
A s it not.ling were tne matter,
And the gobbler’s getting fatter 

Every day.

For the breakfast that the gander grabbed  away. 

The colts are in the pasture
And the cows wind o'er the lea;
All tne swaying limbs are naked 
Where the green le ives used to be;
The housewife, all a-Hutler.
Stirs the bubbling apple-butter.
On the line the wash is gleaming,
On the steps the dog is dreaming,
And, above, a hawk is screaming 

A s it flies.

With  the wood sinose in ner nostrils and her eyes; 

The glossy quail is resting 
And the huntsman from the city 

On  th - weather-beaten log,
Stumbles down through  brake and bog;

He g  es trudging with  his fifty  dollar gun, 

Over roots and other bowlders,
Witn a pair of aching shoulders.
Always to his  purpose cleaving,
Never halting, never grieving,
But contentedly believing 

It is fun.-

The farmer’s rosy daughter 
Helps the busy hired man;
They are husking corn as blithely 
And as briskly as they can.

They are very near together 
A s they husk and wonder whether 
She is looking out to see one,
He is hoping he may ’* tree one,"
But there doesn’t seem to be one 

In the lot.

There are red ears they shall chance to find or not; 

A subtle charm enfolds them 
A s they tear the husks away;
There is music in th  cackle 
Of the hen up in the hay;

For at last—at last—the lucky ear is found! 

Now she hears his exclamation 
And is full of perturbation,
Flushes mount into their  faces,
He the happy chance embraces—
And she giggles as he chases 

Her around.

O the farmer’s lot is happy.
If there’s money, in  his pockets 

And the farmer’s dreams are sweet,
And his bins are full ot wheat—
Free from all the city's clamor 
He may live defying grammar,
Having cleared up all his labors,
Fearing naught from ships or sabers,
He plays checkers with his neighbors,

And the leaves that fall serve not to make him sad 

And is glad.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

It 

P e r tin e n t  H in ts   to   T ra v e lin g   N alesm en.  I
is  best  to  assume  that  every  man 
you  try  to sell  goods  to  is  a  gentleman 
and  treat  him  as  such.

Selling  ability  depends  on  common 
sense,  energy,  courtesy,  patience  anti 
tact.

If  there be  any  grand  secret  it  will  be 
in  that  vital  quality 
in 

found  somewhere 
called  fotce  of  character,  rather than 
excellence  of  character.

“ We  used  to  think,”   said  one  of  the 
foremost  merchants of Chicago,  “ that  a 
salesman  should  be  a  good  talker,  very 
sprightly  and  quick-witted,  but  we 
have  learned  by  experience  that  reli­
ability,  good  sense  and  staying qualities 
are  better.”

In  the  house  of  John  Wanamaker, 
where  1,700  clerks  are  employed,  it  is 
found  that  when  a  person  who  has failed 
in  one  department  is  transferred  to  an­
other,a  sudden  and  permanent  improve­
ment  is  shown.  This  proves  that the 
fitness or adaptability  of the 
individual 
to  the  thing  he  sells  should  be  con­
sidered.

If a  salesman  can  not  bring  himself to 
believe 
in  himself,  his  house  and  his 
goods,  he  is  either very  badly  placed  or 
he  has  mistaken  his  calling.

The  weightiest  arguments  a  salesman 
can  use,  in  general,  are those  which  ap­
peal  to  interested  motives.

The  salesman  should  be  keen,  bright 
and 
ingenious,  and  at  the  same  time 
truthful  and  open.  Frankness  invites 
frankness.

It  is  a  misfortune  for a  young  man  to 
idea  of  his  own 

conceive  an  exalted 
ability  and  importance.

If  a  point  can  be  made  clear at  all 

it 
is  all  the  clearer  by  brevity,  and  sen­
sible  people  prefer  evidence  to  elo­
quence.

One  of the  best  faculties  of  speech  for 
a  salesman,  as  it  is  for any  person  who 
has to  convince  others,  is  that  of  short, 
plain  and  pithy  illustrations. 
It  strikes 
home.  Long-winded  stories  are  tedious, 
and  so  are  hobbies.
F ifty   Y ear» a  M e rc h a n t in  C lin tm i C o u n ty . 
From the St. Johns Republican.

Mr.  Hicks  continued 

John  Hicks  began  business  in  Dewitt, 
this  county,  with  Daniel  Sturgis,  fifty 
years  ago.  There  was  no  St.  Johns on 
the  map  at  that  time,  and  the  county 
was  largely  wilderness.  Rochester  col­
ony  was  doing  business  and  settlers 
were  scattered  about,  but  the  county 
had  been  organized  only  ten  years  at 
that  time,  the  first  term  of  court  being 
held  on  October 2,  1840,  which  was  ad­
journed  from  time  to time  without  do­
ing  any  business  until  1841.  Goods  had 
to  be  hauled  by  wagon  from  Detroit, 
and  teams  would  go  to  the  city  with 
flour  and  black  salts  made  at  Dewitt, 
and  return  with  merchandise. 
It  took  a 
week  to  make  a  trip  and  the  teamsters 
would  camp  out  when  the  weather  per­
mitted.
in 
Dewitt  until 
1857,  when  the  railroad 
was  put through  and  the  county  seat  re­
moved  to  St.  Johns,  when  he  came  here 
and  went  on  with  his  genetal  merchan­
dise  business.  While 
in  Dewitt,  he 
held  the  office  of  postmaster under Pres­
ident  Buchanan  and  made  up  the  first 
mail  that  was  sent to  St.  Johns.  Lans­
ing  was  no  great  shucks  then,  and  did 
not  get  a  railroad  until  long  after the 
building  of  the  D.  &  M.
Since  coming  to  St.  Johns,  Mr.  Hicks 
has  had  a  very  active  and  successful 
business  career.  He  built  a  wheat  house 
and  has  made  St.  Johns  one  of  the_  best 
market towns  in  the  State.  He  shipped 
wheat  in  bags  and  barrels  long before he 
had  an  elevator.  He  engaged  extensive­
in  the  stave  business,  owned  the 
ly 
foundry  at  one  time  and  later  has  been 
largely  interested 
in 
in  farming  and 
banking  in  St.  Johns  and  other cities.
Mr.  Hicks has  made  a record of which

in  business 

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any  business  man  may  be  proud.  A 
natural  born  merchant,  an  untiring,  per­
sistent  worker,  able  to  grasp  quickly  a 
business  proposition  and judge accurate­
ly  its  value,  possessing  a  spirit  of  fair­
ness 
in  an  unusual  degree,  of  strict  in­
tegrity,  he  has  met  with  great  and  de­
served  success.  Those  who  know  him 
best  appreciate  his  rare  social  qualities, 
and  his  devotion  to  family  and  friends. 
He  has  passed  his  75th  anniversary,  but 
puts  in  full  time  every  day,  and takes as 
active  an 
in  business  and  the 
affairs  of  the  world  as he  did  in younger 
days.

interest 

O ld  M en  W ith   Y niini;  H eart» .

Pausing  the  other  day,  to  look  at the 
marvelous  things  exhibited 
in  a  toy 
store  window, ’ '  remarked  a  gentleman,
I  found  myself  presently more interested 
in  the  people  who  stopped  to  look,  as  I 
had  done,  than  I  was  in  the  window 
it­
self ;  for,  to  my  surprise,  the  majority 
of these  people  were grown  folks,  and  of 
these the  larger  number were  men.
“ If  anybody  had  asked  me ‘ Who stops 
j  to  look  at  the  things  in  toy store  win­
dows?’ 
I  should  have  said  unhesitat­
ingly :

it 

it,  wasn't  1 

“   ’ Children!’
“ But  here  were,  men,  bearded  men, 
stopping  to  look,  and  looking  with  evi­
It  couldn’t  be  that  they 
dent  interest. 
were  already  picking  out  Christinas 
presents. 
imagine  that  women  have 
I 
started  at  that,  but 
is  too  early  for 
men  to  begin  at  it ;  and  so these  men 
were  just  looking  at the  things  because 
they  wanted  to.  But  when  I  came  to 
think  of 
looking  at  them 
for  the  same  reason ?
“  It  was  in  a  business  street and  at  an 
hour  when  school  was  in,  so that  there 
could  be  few  children  here any way ;  hut 
while  that  might  account  for the propor­
tion  of  men  that  stopped  to  look,  they 
need  not  have  stopped  at  all  if  they 
didn’t  want  to,  need  they?  And 
I 
couldn’t  help  thinking  that  the  man who 
preserved  an  interest  in  these  boyish, 
youthful  things,  who  liked  to  look 
in 
and  think  of the  things  he  used  to  have, 
must  have  had  happy  days,  however 
old  he  was,  or  however  fortune  had 
treated  him,  for  he  was  young-hearted 
still.”

H e’ll  L e a rn .

The  Youth :  Why  should  victory  al­
ways  be  represented  by  a  female  fig­
ure?”
The  Sage :  You  don't  see  the  appro­
priateness  now,  but  you  haven  t  mar­
ried  yet. ”  

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A. C. Sc h u m a c h e r , Ann A rbor 
G e o .  G u n d k u m . Ionia 
L.  E.  R e y n o l d«.  St.  Joseph 
H e n r y   H e im , Saginaw 
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W ir t   P.  Do ty,  D etroit - 

Term expires
Dec. 31, 1899 
Dec. 31,1900 
Dec. 31,1901 
Dec. 31; 1902 
Dec. 31,1903

President,  G e o .  Gu n d k u m ,  Ionia.
Secretary. A.  C.  Sc h u m a c h e r .  Ann A rbor 
T reasurer, He n r y   He im , Saginaw.
E x a m in a tio n   S essions 
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

S ta te   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  A sso ciatio n  

President—O.  E b e r b a o h , Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Ch a s.  F .  Ma n n , Detroit. 
T reasurer—J .  S.  B e n n e t t ,  Lansing.

C a p ita l  N ecessary   to   S ta rt  a   D ru g   B u st- 

n ess.

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A  correspondent  of  the  Pharmaceuti­
cal  Era  recently  expressed  the  opinion 
that  whether  $1,500  cash  capital  was 
enough  or  not  depended  altogether on 
circumstances. 
“ In  most  cases,”   he 
said,  “ you  will  regret 
if  you  have 
only  this  amount,  and  be  in  a  fair  way 
to  lose  what  you  have.  In  a  small  town, 
or a  large  city,  away  from  the  country, 
this  amount  might  be  sufficient,  as  it 
would  not  be  necessary  to  carry  a  large 
stock  in  either case,  owing  to  the  facili­
ties  for  replenishing  when  sold.  Es­
pecially  is  this the  case  in  the  city,  but 
in  the  average  town  or county  capital  of 
this  country  a  stock  of  from  five  to  ten 
thousand  dollars  must  be  on  hand  at  all 
times,  or many  sales  will be  lost  through 
being  out  of  some  of  the  many  articles 
which  it  is  necessary  to  carry.  Outside 
of  drugs  and  patents and  the  exceptions 
I  mention,  you  do  not  need  to  carry 
paints  and  oils,  wall  paper  and  cur­
tains,  books,  etc.  ; 
it  might  be  pos­
sible  in  such  cases  to be  successful,  but 
in  these  days  of  competition  and  cut 
rates  it  is  almost  sure  failure  to  have  to 
pay 
interest  on  bills  overdue  or  on 
money,  and  as  for the  installment  plan 
of getting  goods,  that  is  far  worse  than 
paying  interest  on  capital,  for about  25 
per  cent,  is  added  to  goods  sold  this 
“ The  borrower  is  servant  to the 
way. 
lender”  
is  an  old  adage  but  it  is  a  true 
one,  and  if observed  more  than  it 
it 
would  save  many  men  from  trouble  of 
mind  and  loss of  money.  Do  not involve 
yourself,  but 
if  you  do,  only  for such 
amount  as  you  can  raise  at  once  in  case 
of  emergency. ’ ’

is 

T h e   D ru g   M a rk e t.

Opium—Pressure to  sell  by  one  or two 
holders  has  weakened  the  market  and 
prices  are  a  shade  lower.

Morphine—The  demand  is  steady  at 

unchanged  prices.

Quinine—The  market  is  steady  and 
quiet  in  comparison  with  the excitement 
of  a  few  weeks  ago.  Prices  are  firm.

Cantharides—Are 

in  a  small  supply 

and  very  firm.

Cocaine—Another  advance 

is  looked 
for  very  soon,  as  cocoa  leaves  are  again 
higher.

Cod  Liver  Oil—Norwegian  is firm and 
tending  higher.  The primary  market  is 
very  firm.

Ergot—-Is 

in  small  supply  and  the 
price  has  been  advanced  again  and 
higher  prices  are  expected  in  the  near 
future.

Quicksilver—Has again  advanced  and 

is  tending  higher.

Mercurials—Are  very  firm  at the  ad­

vance  noted.

Sassafras  Bark—Is  in  small  supply 

and  has  been  again  advanced.

Oil  of  Anise—Is  higher  in  China  and 

has  advanced  here.

Oil  Citronella—Is  firm  and  tending 

higher.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Vanilla  Beans —Are 

in  a  better sup­
ply  and  the  price  has  been  reduced  to 
about $1  per  pound.

Oil  of  Peppermint—Continues  to  ad­

vance,  on  account  of short  crop.

Oil  Wintergreen—Has  again advanced 

on  account  of  scarcity.
Oil  Wormwood—Is 
and  is  slightly  lower.

in  better  supply 

Gum  Camphor— Has  been  advanced 
ic  per  pound,  with  a 

by  the  refiners 
higher tendency.

Buchu  Leaves—Have  again  advanced 
and  are  very  firm.  Speculators  are  buy­
ing  on  account  of  the  war  in  the  Trans- 
is  stated  that  none  can  be 

il. 

It 

gathered  or shipped.

Senna  Leaves—Are  very  firm and have 

igain  advanced.

Belladonna  and  Henbane Leaves—Are 
ibout  out  of  the  market  and  extreme 
prices are  asked  for them.

Canary  Seed—Is  very  firm  at  the  ad­

vance  noted  last  week.

Caraway  Seed—Has  avdanced.
Linseed  Oil—Is  firm,  on  account  of 

high  price  for  seed.

Muriate  Ammonia—Lump  and  granu­

lar  have  both  advanced.

S h o u ld   B e  K e p t  In  A ir-tig h t  C o n ta in e rs .
The  Chemist  and  Druggist,  in  answer 
to a  query,  said  some  time  ago  that  it 
is a  safe  rule  to keep  all powdered drugs
in  stoppered  bottles,  as  they,  having  the 
greatest  surface,  are  most  likely  to  de­
teriorate,  owing  to the  action of the  air. 
Aromatic  drugs  are  always  so  kept, 
powdered  squill  can  only  be  retained  in 
the  pulverulent  condition  by  rigid  ex­
clusion of  moisture,  and  it  is  advisable 
also  to  store  the  powders  of  potent 
drugs,  such  as  ipecacuanha,  opium,  and 
nux  vomica, 
in  stoppered  bottles,  al­
though  they  may  not  actually  require  it. 
The  custom  of  keeping  powders  in  bot­
tles  on  the  shop  shelves,  however,  is 
not  free  from  objection,  because  it  has 
been  observed  that  most  of  them  grad­
ually  leave  a  layer adherent to  one  side 
of  the  bottle,  although  there  may  be  no 
adhesive  substance  in  the  drug,  and  this 
appears  to be  the  result  of  some  change. 
Few  unpowdered  drugs,  except  highly 
aromatic  ones,  are  the  better  for being 
kept  air-tight,  as  frequently  a  little  cir­
culation  of air  prevents mustiness.  Gum 
resins,  such  as  myrrh,  should  be  kept 
in  tin-lined  and  covered drawers.  Gen­
erally,  the  safest  plan 
is  to  exclude 
l i g h t . _____ ^  ^  m_____

H e   W as  N o t  P o ste d   o n   N u ts.

F.  M.  Maus,  the  Kalamazoo druggist, 
recently  took  a  half  day  off  and,  in com­
pany  with  his  brother-in-law,  engaged  a 
carriage  to  drive 
into  the  country  in 
search  of  hickory  nuts.  About twelve 
miles  out  of  town  they  came  across  a 
tree  on  which  the  nuts  looked  very 
tempting  and,  while  one  of  the  gentle­
men  climbed  the  tree  and  shook  down 
the  nuts, 
the  other  picked  them  up. 
They  succeeded  in  obtaining  a  bagful, 
which  were  deposited  in  the  basement 
of the  house  on  their return  home,  proud 
of their achievement  and  chuckling over 
the  good  times  they  would  have  next 
winter cracking  and  eating  the  nuts.  A 
young  son  of  the  druggist  who  listened 
to  the  self-congratulations  indulged  in 
by  his  father,  secured  a  hammer and 
proceeded  to  crack  a  nut  or  two,  result­
ing  in  the  discovery  that,  instead  of be­
ing  hickory  nuts,  the  trophy  was  bitter 
nuts  instead.  Traveling  men  who  have 
called  on  Mr.  Maus  since  then  insist 
that  a  mention  of  hickory  nuts  will 
im­
mediately  cause  Mr.  Maus  to  involun­
tarily  move  over to the  showcase  and set 
out a  box  of  the best cigars he has on tap.

T h e   D o c to r’s  S to ry .

Mrs. Rogers» lay in her bed.
Bandaged and blistered from fo  t to head, 
Bandaged and blistered from head to  toe.
Mrs.  Roger.** wa> very low,
Bottle and saucers, spoon and cup 
On the table stood bravely up;
Physic of hign and low  degree;
Calomel, catnip, boneset tea—
Everything a  body could bear.
Excepting  light and water and air.
I opened the blinds; the day was bright,
And (iod gave Mrs.  Rogers som»* li^ht.
I opened the window; the day was fair.
And God gave Mrs.  Rogers some air.
Bottles at d blisters,  powders and pills,
Catnip,  boneset. sirup and squills,
Drugs and medit ines, high and low,
I threw them as far as I could throw.
“  What are you doing?”  my patient cried.
“  Frightening  Death,”  I coolly replied.
“ You are crazy!”  a visitor said.
1 flung a bottle'at her  head.
Deacon  Rogers he came to me:
“  I re’liy think she’ll worry through;
She scolds me just as she used to do.
All the people have poohed and slurred—
And the neighbor- have had their word;
T w as better to perish, some of ’em say,
Than  be cured in such  an irregular way.”
*• Your wile,”  said 1,  ** had God’s good care, 
And his remedies 
lig* t and  water and air.
All the doctors,  bey  nd a doubt,
Couldn’t have cured  Mrs.  Rogers without.”
The deacon smiled and bowed his  head;
“ Then your bill i> nothing,”  he s.*id,
“  God’s be the glory, as you say;
God bless you, doctor, good day!  good  day!”
If ever I doctor that woman again,
I’ll give her medicine made by men.

W ile is cornin’ round,” said he,

iqoo 

—'Medical  World.
P e c k lia m ’s  C a le n d a r  O ffer  fo r  1900. 
Peckham’s  Croup  Remedy  Calendar 
offer  for 
is.very  attractive,  and 
druggists  will  do  well  to  investigate. 
Fifty calendars are  given  for each dozen 
Peckham’s Croup  Remedy  ordered  from 
your  jobber before  December  I,  and  the 
buyer’s  business  card 
is  printed  on 
face-side of  each  calendar—making  an 
all-the-year 
Address 
Peckham’s  Croup  Remedy  Company, 
Freeport,  Mich., 
for sample  calendar, 
who  were  the  first  to  print  the  dealer’s 
name  on  calendars  given  to  the  trade.

advertisement. 

C le a n in g   F u n n e ls   a n d   M easures. 

Funnels  and  measures  used  for  meas­
uring  varnishes,  oils,  etc.,  may  be 
cleaned  by  soaking  them  in  a  strong  so­
lution  of  lye  or  pearlash.  Another mix­
ture  for  the  same  purpose  consists  of 
learlash  with  quicklime  in  aqueous  so- 
ution.  The  measures  are  allowed  to 
in  the  solution  for a  short  time, 
soak 
when  the  resinous  matter of  the  paint 
is  easily  removed.  A thin 
or  varnish 
coating  of  petroleum 
lubricating  oils 
may  be  removed,  it  is  said,  by  the  use 
of  naphtha  or  petroleum  benzine.

MF6. CHEMISTS, 

ALLEGAN, MICH

Perrigo’s Headache Powders,  Per- 
rigo’s  Mandrake Bitters,  Perrigo’s 
Dyspepsia  Tablets  and  Perrigo’s 
Quinine Cathartic Tablets are gain­
ing new friends every  day. 
If  you 
haven’t already a good  supply  on, 
write us for prices.

f.avoring [ » i s  and druggists’ s i i m e s

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You  will  have  if  you  make  your 
selection  from  our  line,  which  is 
composed of 26 of the  leading fac­
tories in the business.  Prices guar­
anteed.  Write us,  if our salesman 
does not call  in time for you.

P\e^stek  ^   ^anfield  © 0., 
Grand  Rapids, Mich. 

The M ichigan W all P aper Jobbers.

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For every age—for every purse.  The 
most  unique  and  varied  assortm ent 
we have ever shown.

.S pecialties fo r 1 8 0 9 —Toilet Cases. Col­
lar  and  Cuff  Boxes,  Shaving Sets. Smok­
ers" Sets, Tourists’  Cases.  M anicure Sets, 
Work  Boxes,  W hisk  Broom  Holders, 
Jew el Cases, Odor Sets.
F a n c y  C e llu lo id  B oxes—For H andker­
chiefs, Gloves,  Fans,  N eckties,  Photos, 
Trinkets, etc.
T h in   C e llu lo id   G oods—G reat  variety 
of new styles in cheap and medium priced 
articles.
T h e  P o p u la r  O p al  W a re —New shapes 
and decorations at lower prices.
M etal N o v elties—A large assortm ent of 
Trays,  Boxes  Easels.  Fram es,  M irrors, 
Cream  Ja rs,  Cand labra.  Sterling  Silver 
Goods,  etc.
S ta tio n e rs ’  A rtic le s  — W riting  Desks, 
Paper Cutters, L etter O peners, Inkstands, 
Paper W eights, Stam p Boxes, Pen Trays, 
Reading Glasses.  Fancy  Thermometers» 
Scrap  Baskets,  Fountain and  Gold  Pens, 
I’earl Novelties,  etc.
A lb u m s, S crap   B ooks, E tc.—Beautiful 
new'  Photo  Albums  in  Celluloid,  Plush 
and  Leather a t low  prices;  also  .Musical 
and  Easel  Albums.  A utograph,  Postal 
Card and  Stam p Albums.
M ed alio n s a n d   P ic tu re s —The best  as­
sortment we have ever shown—to  retail 
from  10 cents to $10.
S ilv e r  P la te d   W a re  — Child’s  Sets, 
Cups, Napkin  Bings,  F ruit  Knives,  Nut 
Picks  and  Cracks,  Salts,  Tooth  Pick 
Holders, Crumb Trays, Cigar  Sets,  Shav­
ing M ugs-popular goods at popular prices. 
S m o k e rs’ A rtie le s —Cigar and  Tobacco 
Jars, Tobacco Pouches, Cigar Cases, Ash 
Trays, Pipe Racks,  Pipes, etc.
H o lid a y  P e rfu m e ry  a n d  A to m iz e rs— 
The  most  desirable  packages  from  all 
leading perfum ers and an endless variety 
of Fancy Perfum e  Atomizers.  Bulk  Per­
fumes and toilet articles generally. 
L e a th e r G oods—Pocket and  Bill Books, 
Purses, Chatalaines,  Music  Rolls,  Tour­
ists Cases, etc.
H o lid a y   C h in a  a n d   G lass—Cups  and 
Saucers,  Mugs, Vases, W ater Sets,  Wine 
Sets,  Plates, Creamers, Salads. Tea Pots, 
Chocolate I’ots, Bric-a-brac, Bisque W are. 
Not a  complete  line  of  Crockery  b ut  a 
host  of  quick-selling  holiday  articles. 

' everything  in  the 

lind such a complete line.

J   Plums  [licked up here and there.
S   G am es a n d   H o m e  A m u s e m e n ts —All 
«£ 
th e popular and staple Games, Blocks, etc. 
£   of th e day.  A very large assortm ent.
JÍ  X m as  T re e  O rn a m e n ts —Candles  and 
9   Candle  Holders in great variety.
Í  D olls,  D o lls,  D o lls  —  Anything  and 

line  of  Dolls  and 
Í   Doll  Sundries.  Nowhere  else  will  you 
T 
1   E v e ry th in g ;  F ro m   T o y la n d   —  The 
J   greatest assortm ent ever  shown.  Magic 
X  Lanterns,  Tool  Chests.  Hobby  Horses, 
Sleds, I toll Buj 
Sleds. I toll Buggies, Toy Furniture.C hairs, 
Tables,  Cradi 
adíes.  Bedsteads,  Children's 
Tea  Sets,  Ral
ittles.  Tops,  Swords. Guns, 
Drums, Bellow s Toys, Trum pets,C ornets, 
W histles, M andolins, A rks, Animals,Tin, 
Iron and  Wooden Toys.  Box Toys, W hips, 
Printing Presses,  Floor  and  Table  Cro­
quet.  Books,  Sokliers.  Roaming  Toys, 
Bell and Chime  Toys,  .Mechanical  Toys, 
K itchens  and  Kitchen  Sets,  H atchets, 
Ham m ers,  Sad 
Irons,  Stoves,  Flannel 
Toys,  Pew ter  Toys,  Pianos,  Steam  En­
gines, Steel Toys, R ubber Toys, Jum ping 
.Tax and Jim  Crax.

¥  
/   B o o k s—Juvenile and  toy  picture books, 
X  a   very  strong  line,  also,  miscellaneous 
£   books, Poets. Bibles, etc.
■   B o o k le ts, C a len d ars, X m as  C ard s—A

ÍgJ  beautiful  line from the A rt  Lithographic 

•   Co. and Raphael Tuck& Sons.

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We have the right  goods  a t  the  right 
prices and  adiase  our  friends  to  place 
their orders early.

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FRED B R U M E, Muskegon. MiGtl

32-34 W estern Ave.  W holesale Drugs.

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRt  NT.

A d v an ced — 
D e c lin e d —

A c id u m

Aceticuni  ..................$ 
Benzotcum, Germ an. 
Boracic..................
Carbolieum ..........
Citricum................
H ydrochlor...........
N itrocum ..............
Oxalicum ..............
Phosphorium ,  dll
Salicylictim .........
Sulphuricum .......
T annicum .............
T a rta ric u m .........

A m m o n ia
Aqua, 16 deg.............. 
Aqua, 20 deg..............  
C arbouas...................  
Chloridum..................... 

6©$
70©
26®
43®

3®8®

12®
®40®
Ma©
90®
38®

6
4® 
6® 
8
15
13© 
12©  14

A n ilin e

B lack..........................   2 00® 2  2B
Brow n............................ 
K ed ............................. '  45® 
50
Yellow.........................  2  50®  3  00

80® 

12© 14
8
6®
20® 25

50@ 55
©  2 40
45
40® 45

B accse
Cubebae............ po, 15
Juuiperus..................
X anthoxylum ..........

B a lsa m u m

C opaiba.....................
l’em   ..........................
Terabin,  Canada — 4(>ra
T olutan......................
C o rte x
Abies, Canadian.......
Cinchona  F lava.......
Kuouymus atropurp.
M yrica  Cerifera, po.
Prunus V irgini.........
yuillaia,  gr’d ............
Sassafras..... po. 18
Ulmus.. .po.  15, gr’d
E x t ra c  tu rn

18
1?
18
30
20
12
12
14
15

Glycyrrhiza  G labra.
Glycyrrhiza,  p o .......
Hsematox, 15  lb. box
Ha*matox,  i s ............
ILematox,  54s...........
Hmmatox, Vis...........
F e r r u

24© 25
28@ 30
h © 12
13© 14
14© 15
16(5)
17

14©
22®
30®

20®
25®
12©
8®

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®45®
12®

Carbonate  P recip... 
Citrate and  Quinia..
Citrate  Soluble.........
Ferrocyanidum  Sol..
Solut. Chloride.........
Sulphate,  com’l .......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cw t...........
Sulphate,  p u re .........
F lo r a
A rn ica........................
A nthem is...................
M atricaria.................
F o lia
B arosm a.....................
Cassia Acutifol,  Tin-
nevelly...................
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx.
Salvia otticiualis,  l*s
aud  54s ...................  
Ova U rsi..................... 
G u m  m i
Acacia, 1st picked... 
A cacia,2d  picked... 
Acacia, 3d  picked... 
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Acacia, po..................
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20
Aloe, C ape__ po. 15.
Aloe,  Socotri.. po. 40
Ammoniac..................
Assaf oetida.... po. 30
Benzoiuum ................
Catechu, i s ................
Catechu,  Vis..............
Catechu, Vis..............
52,si
Cam p h o n e ................ 
®
Euphorbium ... po. 35
@65®
G aibanum ..................
G am boge..............po
©
Guaiacum.......po. 25
©
K ino............po. $2.00
©
M astic  .......................
M yrrh............. po.  45
®
O pii__ po.  4.50©4.80  3  30®
25©
S hellac....................... 
Shellac, bleached—   40®
T ragacauth ...............  
50®
H e rk a  
A bsinthium . .oz. pkg 
Eupatorium ..oz. pkg
lo b e lia .........oz. pkg
M ajorum __ oz. pkg
M entha  l  ip.  oz.  pkg 
M entha  Vir..oz. pkg
R ue................ oz. pkg
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V .. .oz. pkg 
M a g n esia
Calcined, P a t............
Carbonate, P a t.........
Carbonate, K. & M .. 
larbonate, Jennings 

55®
28®
50.©
®

O le u m

Amygdalæ,  Utile.

Bergam i!...
C ajip u ti___
Caryophylli.
Cedar  .........
Chenopadii.

1  00

1 10
2 60
75
50® 60
1 35
2 00
1 45

40
Conium M ac.............. 
35® 
C opaiba.....................  1  15® 
1 25
Cubebae.....................  
90®  l  00
E xechthitos..............  l  oo® l  io
E rig ero n ...................   1  00® 
G au lth eria................  2  10® 
G eranium , ounce__ 
®  
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
lied com a...................   1  25® 
J u n ip e ra ...................   1  50® 
90®  2 00
Lavendula  ............* 
Lim onis.....................   1  35® 
M entha  P iper...........  1  25® 2 00
M entha V erid..........   1  50® 1  60
Morrhuae, .gal...........  1  00® 1  15
4 50
M y rcia.......................  4  00® 
O live..........................  
75® 3 00
10®  
I*icis Liquida............ 
12
Picis Liquida,  g al... 
®  35
R icina........................  
96®  1  05
Rosm arini.................. 
@  1  00
Kosae, ounce..............  6 50®  8  50
S uccini....................... 
45
40® 
S a b in a ....................... 
90®  l  oo
S a n ta l........................   2  50® 
7 oo
55
Sassafras...................  
48® 
®  65
Sinapis,  ess., ounce. 
T iglii..........................   1  50® 
1 60
Thym e........................  
50
40® 
®   1  60 
Thyme, opt
20
Theobromas  ............
P o ta s siu m
Bi-Carb.......................
B ichrom ate..............
B ro m id e.......   .........
Carb  ..........................
C hlorate... po. 17  ■ 19
C yanide..................... 
40
Iodide.........................  2 40®  2  50
Potassa, B itart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart, com.
Potass N itras, opt...
Potass  N itras...........
P russiate...................
Sulphate po..........
R ad ix
Aconitum...................
A It h ie ............................
A n ch u sa...................
Arum  p o ...................
Calam us.....................
G en tian a.........po. 15
G lychrrhiza.. .pv.  15 
H ydrastis  Canaden. 
H ydrastis Can., p o .. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.
Inula,  p o ...................
Ipecac, po.................
Iris  plox... |>o. 35@38
Jalapa, p r ..................
M aranta,  % s............
Podophyllum,  p o ...
R hei............................
Rhei,  c u t...................
Rhei, p v ..................... 
Spigelia 
.po.  15
Sanguinaria 
Serpentaria
Senega .......................
Smilax, officinalis H.
Smilax,  M ..................
Scillte..............po.  35
Symplocarpus, Fieti-
dus,  p o ...................
Valeriana, Eng. po. 30 
V aleriana,  G erm an.
Zingiber a .................
Zingiber j ...................
S em en

20®
22®
10®
®20®
12®
16®
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15®
25®  4 35 
40
35® 
30
25® 
®   35
25
22® 
75®  1  00 
©   1  21 
1  35 
75®
38 
35®
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18
50®
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10®
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15®
12®
25®

15®
13®
52®
12®
16®
35® 
28®®
7®
6®
23®
15®.

12®

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13®
4®

A nisum .......... po.  15
Apium (graveleons).
Bird, is .......................
t’a ru i................po.  18
Cardam on..................  1  25®  1  7!
Coriandruni...............  
8®
5®
Cannabis Sativa....... 
Cydonium .................. 
75®  1  oo
Chenopodium ..........  
10®
D ipterlx O dorate....  1  40®  1  50
Foeniculum  .............. 
@
7®
Fienugreek, po......... 
L in i............................   3V4®
Lini, ¡jrd.......bbl. 3V4 
4@
L obelia......................  
35®
Pharlaris Canarian..  4"4®
R a p a ..........................   4V4®
Sinapis  A lba............  
9®
Sinapis  N igra........... 
11®
S p iritu s  

1  00 
70 
30 
2  00 
60 
40 
3  35 
35 
45 
80

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Frum enti,  W.  D.  Co.  2 00®  2  50 
Frum enti,  1>.  F.  R ..  2 00®  s
F ru m en ti...................  1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T ...  1  65®  2  00 
1  75®  3
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1  9ÍXT/:.  2 10
Saacharum  N. E ..
25 Spt.  Vini Galli.......... 1  75® 6 50
20 Vini  O porto.............. 1  2E@  2 00
25 Vini A lba.................
1  25(0 2 00
28
S ponges
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage.................. 2  50(5)  2 75
39
22 Nassau  sheeps’ wool
carriage................... 2  50(5)  2 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
@  i 50
wool, carriage___
55® 60 E xtra yellow sheeps’
18® 20
®   i 25
wool, carriage.......
18® 20 Grass  sheeps’  wool.
18® 20
®   i 00
carriag e..................
H ard, for slate u se..
® 75
Yellow  R e e f ,  for
50(5) 6  75
slate use..................
®   1  40
S y ru p s
00® 8  25
85® 2  00 A c a c ia .......................
40© 2  50 A uranti C ortex.........
80® 2  90 Z ingiber.....................
80© 85 Ipecac.........................
70® 80 F erri Io d ...................
35® 45 Rhei  A rom ................
®   2  75 Smilax  Officinalis...
40®  1  50 Senega .......................
35® 40 Scillae..........................

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@ 50
@ 60
® 50
® 50
50® 60
® 50
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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M enthol..........
M orphia, S., P. & W. 
M orphia. S..N .Y . Q .
& C. Co................
Moschus  C anton.. 
M yrlstlca. No.  1... 
ux  V om ica...po.
>s Sepia.................
''epsin Saac, II. & P.
I)  C o............
1cis Liq. N.N.V4 gal.
d o z .....................
Icis  L iq.,quarts.
Icis  Liq..  p in ts..
11 H ydrarg. ..po.  so 
iper  N igra.,  po. 22 
Iper  A lba.. ..j>o.35. 
iix  B urgun... 
lunilii  A cet.. 
ulvis  Ipecac et Opii 
y rethrum , boxes II. 
&  I \ I). Co.,  d o z ...
yrethnim ,  pv.........
} uassiie.....................
Juinia, S.  P. &  \V ... 
juinia, S.  (ferm an..
juinia, N. Y..............
iibia T inctorum .... 
uccharum Lactls pv
alacin...................
unguis  Draconis.
apo.  W ..................
apo M ...................
Sapo  G ...................

®   3 00 Seldlitz M ixture.......
20<& 22 I
@ 18 i
2  20®  2 45 S inapis.......................
@ 30 !
Sinapis,  o p t..............
2  10®  2 35 Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
@ 41
V o e s.......................
@ 40
@ 41
65® 80 Snuff .Scotch. 1 )e Vo’s
@ 10 Soda.  B oras.  ...........
9® 11 1
9<ir
11
25® 30 Soda.  Boras, po.......
26® 28
Soda ct  Potass Tart.
1V4®
2 i
@  1 00 Soda,  C arb................
3(5).
51
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
3 y,(5i
4
@.  2 (X) Soda.  A sh..................
@ 2
@  1 (X) Soda, Sulphas..........
@ 85 Spts. Cologne............
@ 2  60
50® 55
® 50 Sjits.  Ether  Co.........
® 2  00
@ 18 Spts.  Myrcia D om...
:x) Spts.  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
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12 Spts. Villi R«*ct. logal
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Strychnia, C rystal... 1  0(XF/i, 1  20
4
@ 75 Sulphur,  Subl..........
2?.,©
25® 30 Sulphur, Roll............
2V4@ 3‘4J
8(5).
10 T a m arin d s................
Í01
30
28(5)
42 Terebenth  V enice...
37%
50® 52 !
29® 39 Theobroma*...............
39 V anilla....................... 9. (XX5 6  (X)
29(ft
8
12® 14 Zinci Sulph..............
"€«
18® 20
O il»
3  50®  3 (X)
40® 50
12® 14 W hale,  w inter..........
10® 12 I.ard. e x tra ................
15 Lard, No. 1................

1 BL.
70
50
35

JAL.
70
60
40

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48 

Linseed, pure raw ... 
47 
Linseed, boiled............ 
Neatsfoot, w inter str  54 
Spirits  Turpentine.. 
58 

50
51
60
65
P a in ts   BBL.  LB.
Red  V enetian.......... Mi  2 @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars. Mi  2 @4
Ochre, yellow B e r... Ma  2 (Tr3
2V4  2 «("3
Putty,  com mercial..
Putty, strictly  pure. 
2V4  2 a@3
Vermilion.  P r i m e
13® 15
A m erican..............
70(5)
75
Vermilion, E nglish..
Green,  P aris............ 13V4© 17V4
Green,  Peninsular...
13® 16
Lead,  re d ...................  6  ®   6Vi
Lead,  w hite..............  6  @  654
W hiting, w hite Span 
70
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W hiting, gilders’ __  
©  
90
©   1  00 
W hite, Paris, Amer. 
W hiting,  Paris,  Eng.
cliff..........................  
@ 1 4 0
Universal  P repared.  1  00®  1  15

V a rn ish e s

No. 1 Turp  C oach...  1  10®  1  20
E xtra T u rn ...............   1  60®  1  70
Coach  Body..............   2  75®  3 00
No. 1 Turp F urn .......  1  oo®  l  10
Extra T urk  Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap.D ryer,N o.lT urp 
75

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Scilla*  Co...................
T olutan......................
Prunus  virg ..............

T in c tu re s  
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis K
A loes..........................
Aloes and M yrrh __
A rn ic a .......................
A ssafe tid a................
A trope  Belladonna..
o ran ti  C ortex........
enzoin.....................
Benzoin  Co................
iarosma.....................
an th arid es..............
apsicum ...................
ardam on.................
'ardamon Co............
a s to r........................
'atec h u .....................
inchona...................
Inchona Co..............
o lu m b a...................
¡ubeba*.......................
Cassia Acutifol.........
assia Acutifol Co...
D igitalis.....................
irg o t..........................
’’erri  Chloridum __
ie n tia n .....................
ientian Co................
¡iliaca........................
¡iliaca am nion.........
Hyoscyamus..............
Io d in e ......................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino  ..........................
a ih elia......................
M y rrh ........................
Nux V omica..............
Opii.............................
Opii,  com phorated..
"»pii, deodorized.......
Q uassia.....................
Khatany...............
h e i............................
Sanguinaria.............
S erp en taria..............
Strom onium ..............
a iu ta li.....................
V a le ria n ...................
V eratrum   V eride...
Z ingiber.....................

50
60
50
50
50
50
50
50
35
50
60
50
60
50
75 
50 
50 
50 
50 
75 
60 
1  50 
50 
60 
50 
50 
50 
60 
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60 
50 
20

M iscellan eo u s 

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31®
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40® 
4® 
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40® 42
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¿Ether, Spts. N it. 4 F
\lum cn  .....................
Alu men.  gro’d..po. 7
A nnatto......................
Antimoni, po............
Antimoni et Potass T
A ntipyrin..................
Antifebrin  ...............
A rgenti N itras, oz...
A rsenicum ................
Balm  Gilead  Buds..
Bismuth S. N............
Calcium Chlor.,  is ... 
Calcium Chlor.,  V4s.. 
Calcium Chlor.,  Vis.. 
Cantharides,  Rus.po 
Capsici F ru c tu s.a t.. 
Capsici  Fructus. po.
20 Caryophyllus.  pò.  15
16 (¡armine, No. 40.......
Cera  A lba..................
Cera  F lava................
Coccus  .......................
12 Cassia  Fructus......
15
Cetaceum...................
12 Chloroform  ..............
Chloroform,  squibbs 
Chloral Hyd Crst —
20®
C hondrus...................
38®
Cinchonidine.l’. & W 
38®
Clnchonidiue, Germ.
C ocaine.....................
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct.
®®
Creosotum..................
C re ta ............. bbl. 75
®
Creta, p rep ................
9®
Creta, p recip............
©
Creta,  R ubra............
15®
Crocus  .......................
C udbear.....................
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Cupri  Sulph..............   654®
ile x trin e ...................  
7@
E ther Suliih.............. 
75®
Emery, all num bers. 
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Emery, po.................. 
@
E rg o ta ......... po. 90 
Flake  W h ite............  
12@
G alla..........................
G a m b le r...................
G elatin,  Cooper.......
@ 
35® 
G elatin, F rench .......
75  &
Glassware,  flint, box
Less than  box.......
11® 
Glue, brow n..............
15® 
Giue,  w hite..............
16® 
Glycerina...................
G rana Paradisi.........
®  
25® 
H um ulus...................
H ydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
®  
H ydrarg  Chlor Cor..
@ 
H ydrarg  Ox  Rub’m.
@  1 
H ydrarg  Ammoniati 
®   1 
45® 
H ydrargU  nguentum
H ydrargyrum ..........
®  
65®
Ichthyobolla.  A m ...
75®  1
Indigo......................... 
Iodine,  R esubi.........  3  60®  3
Iodoform ...................  
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Lupulin....................... 
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Lycopodium..............  
60®
M acis......................... 
65®
Liquor Arsen e t  Hy­
drarg Iod................
Liquor Potass A rsinit
M agnesia,  S ulph__
M agnesia, Sulph, bbl
M añnia, S.  F ............  

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

COCOA  S H E L L S
20 lb. bags......................... 
Less q u a n tity ...................  
Pound  packages  .............. 

C O N D E N SE D   M IL K

4  doz in case.

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

2*
3
4

C A N N E D   GOODS 

A p p le s
3 
lb. Standards.... 
Gallons, stan d a rd s..

B ea n s

B ak ed ......................... 
Red  K idney..............  
S trin g ......................... 
W ax............................  

B la c k b e rrie s

S tan d a rd s.................. 
C h e rrie s

S tan d a rd s.....................  

75

75@l  30
75®  86
85
90

75

90

76
85
95

85

1  85
3  10
2  25

175
2  80
1  75
2 80
1  75
2  80

14@16
20®25

90
1  55

1  25
1 65@l 90

70
so

1  00
1  00
1  GO

1 25©2 75
1 3S® 2   25

65
75
85

90

1  35
95

3@354
6*®6U
8@22

1  25
1  75

90
1  00
12 0

go
90
1  15

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@13*
@13*
@13
@14
@13*
@14
@13
@13' 4
@13*
@13*
@12
@70
@17
@13
@75

C o rn

F a ir.............................. 
G ood........................... 
F a n c y ......................... 
H o m in y
S tandard....................  
L o b s te r
Star,  54 lb ................... 
Star, 1  lb .................... 
Picnic  Tails...............  
M a ck ere l
M ustard, l i b ............  
M ustard, 21b............  
Soused, 1 lb ................ 
Soused, 2 lb .............. 
Tomato, 1 lb .............. 
Tomato, 2 lb ..............  
M u sh ro o m s
Stem s........................... 
B uttons.......................  

O y sters

Cove, 1 lb .................... 
Cove, 21b...................  
P eac h es
P ie .............................. 
Y ellow .........................  

S ta n d a rd .................... 
Fancy.......................... 

P e a rs

P e a s

M arrow fat................ 
Early J u n e ................ 
Early June  S ifted.. 
P in e a p p le
G ra te d .........................  
Sliced............................  

P u m p k in
F a ir ............................  
G ood........................... 
F an cy ......................... 
R a s p b e rrie s
S tandard..................... 

S alm o n

Red A laska...............  
Pink A laska.............. 
S a rd in e s
Domestic,  54s..  .......  
Domestic,  M ustard. 
F re n c h ....................... 

S tra w b e rrie s

S tandard.................... 
F a n c y ......................... 
S u cco tash
F air.............................. 
G ood........................... 
* a n c y .............. .......... 
T o m ato e s
F air 
........................... 
G ood........................... 
b a n c y ......................... 
CA TSU P

C H E E S E
A cm e...........................
A m boy.......................
B u tte rn u t................ .
Carson City............
E ls ie ..........................
E m blem .....................
G em ....................
Gold M edal............
I d e a l.........................
J e rs e y .........................
Riverside...........! '. ’.
B ric k ..........................
E dam ...................
L e id e n ..................
Lim burger.................
P ineapple.............50
Sap  Sago..................

Columbia,  p in ts............. 
2  00
Columbia, *  pints.................1  25

A X L E   G R E A S E

.. ,.55
A u ro ra ..................
.. ..00
Castor  O il.............
.. ..50
D iam ond..............
....75
F ra z e r's................
IX L Golden, tin boxes 75
M ica, tin boxes..
....7 5
P aragon................
.  .  55

doz. gross
6 0<J
7  00
4  00
9  00
9  00
9 00
6  00

B A K IN G   P O W D E R  

A b so lu te

*  lb. cans d oz.......................  45
*  lb. cans doz.......................  85
lb. cans doz.......................l  50
l 

A cm e

*  lb. cans 3  doz...................   45
*  lb. cans 3  doz....................  75
1 
lb. cans l  doz................... l  oo
B ulk..........................................   10

A rc tic

6 oz. Eng. Tum blers..............  86

6 oz. cans, 4 doz. case............  80
oz. cans, 4 doz. case............. 1  20
lb. cans, 2 doz. case......... 2 00
1 
254 lb. cans, 1 doz. case......... 4 75
5 
lb. cans. 1 doz. case......... 9 oo

E l  P u r ity

54 lb. cans per d o z...............  75
54 lb. cans per doz...............l  20
lb. cans per d o z...............2 00
1 

H o m e

54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.........  35
54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.........  55
1 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case.........  90

JA X O N

54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.........  45
54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.........  85
1 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case.........l  GO

J e r s e y   C ream

1 lb. cans, per doz.................2  00
9 oz. cans, per  doz.................l  25
6 oz. cans, per  doz..................  85

O u r D ead er

54 lb. c a n s ..............................  45
54 lb. c a n s ..............................  75
1 
lb. c a n s ..............................1  50

P e e rle s s

1 lb. c a n s .a
 in. c a u a ................................

Q u een   F la k e

6 oz., 4 doz. case..........
.........3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case.......... ...........4  80
1 lb.,  2 doz. case..........
.........4  00
5 lb.,  1 doz. case......... .......... 9  00

B A T H   B R IC K

70
.........  80

A m erican...................
English..........................
B L U IN G

C0S ® 5 D
i i J t t i i D s
» L u ir fG

Small 3 doz......................... 
40
Large, 2 doz................................ 75

BR O O M S

No. 1 C arpet..................................2 30
« 0 .2  Car|>et..................... 
2  15
No. 3 Carpet....................... 
1
No. 4 C arpet.................             1  45
Parlor  G em ................ 
2  50
Common W hisk.......... ..........   95
Fancy  W hisk.............. 
T   00
W arehouse...
.2  70

C A N D L E S
Electric Light, 8s.......
Electric Light, lGs.......
Paraffine, 6s..................
Paraffine, 12s ................
W icking.........................

C H IC O R Y

B ulk.................... 
*
R e d ................................................. ®

•  954 
.10 
.  954 
.10 
.20

C H O C O L A T E  

W alter B aker & Co.’s.

G erm an  Sw eet............  
23
Prem ium ..................................... 35
B reakfast Cocoa........... . . . . . 
46

C IG A R S

The Bradley Cigar Co.’s  Brands
Advance  .............................. $35  00
B rad ley ................................  36  00
Clear Havana  P uffs..........  22  00
“ W.  H.  B.” .........................  56  00
*• W . B. B.” ..........................   65 ( 0

Columbian Cigar Co’s brand.

Colum bian...........................   35  00
Columbian Special............  g6  00

H. & P.  Drug Co.’s brands.

Fortune  T eller...................   35 00
Our  M anager.......................  36 00
Q uintette..............................  35 00
G. J . Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

rtf MpC

S. C. W .......................................   35 00
Phelps. Brace & Co.’s Brands.
Vincente Portuondo ..35® 70  00
Ruhe Bros. Co.............. 25®  70  00
Hilson  Co......................35® 110  00
T. J .  Dunn & Co..........35®  70  00
McCoy & Co..................35®  70  00
The Collins Cigar Co.. 10®  35  00
Brown  B ros.................. 15® 70  00
Banner Cigar  Co.........30®  70  00
Bernard  Stahl Co.........35® 90  00
Banner Cigar  Co.........10®  35  00
Seidenberg  & Co.........55® 125 00
G .P.SpragueC igarC o.10®   35  00
Fulton  Cigar  Co.........10®  35  00
A. B.  Ballard  & C o... .35®175 00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co.. .35® 110 00
San Telmo..................... 35®  70  00
H avana Cigar Co.........18®  35 00
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz............. 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz............. 1  20
Cotton, GO ft.  per doz......... .. 1   40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz............. 1  GO
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz.............1  80
Ju te, GO  ft. per doz................  80
Ju te, 72 -ft. per doz..............  
96

C L O T H E S   L IN E S

C O F F E E
R o aste d

| —   HIGH GRADE

Coffees

R io

J a v a

S antos

M o ch a

Special  Com bination.......
F rench B reakfast............
Lenox ..................................
V ie n n a ................................
35
Private E state......................... 
I
Suprem e...................................  40
l>ess 3313  per  cent,  delivered. 
F a ir ..........................................  
9
G ood......................................... 
10
P rim e ....................................... 
12
G olden............".................. . 
13
P eab e rry ..............................     '  14
F a ir ..........................................  
14
G ood......................................... 
15
P rim e ...................................  .' 
ie
P eaberry.................................  ’ 
is
M a ra c a ib o
P rim e ........................... 
15
M illed..................................;;;;  X7
In te rio r....................................   26
Private  G row th....................     30
M andehling............................    35
Im itation................................ 
22
A rabian........................................ 28
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which the wholesale dealer adds 
the local freight from New York 
to  your  shipping  point,  giving 
you credit on the invoice for the 
am ount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  m arket  in-w hich  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  weight  of  package 
also ?ic a pound. 
In GO lb. cases 
the list is 10c per  100  lbs.  above 
the price in full cases.
A rbuckle................................    50
Jersey .. 
...........................10  50
M c L a u g h lin ’s X X X X  
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLanghlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City *   gross............. 
75
b e lix *  gross........................ 1  15
Hummel s foil *  gross.........  85
H um m el’s tin  *  g ro s s__ „ 1   43

P a c k a g e

E x tra c t

COCOA

J a m e s  E p p s  &  Co.’s
Boxes, 7 lb s.............................   40
3g
Cases, 16 boxes.................... 

Gail Borden E a g le................ g  75
Crow n....................................... g  25
D aisy.........................................5  75
C ham pion................................4  50
M agnolia................................. 4  25
C hallenge................................ 3  75
D im e.........................................3  35

CO UPO N   R O O K S 
T ra d e sm a n   G rad e 

U n iv e rsa l  G rad e 

C oupon  P ass  B o o k s 
denom ination from $10 down.

50 books, any  denom ...  1  50 
100 books, any  d enom ...  2  50 
500 books, any  denom ...  11  50
1.000 books, any  d enom ...
20  00
E c o n o m ic   G ra d e  
50 books, any  denom ...
1  50
100 books, any  denom ...
2 50 
500 books, any  denom ...
11  50 
1.000 books, any  denom ...
20  00
S u p e rio r  G rad e 
1  50 
50 books, any  denom ... 
100 books, any  denom ...  2  50 
500 books,any  denom ...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom ...  20  00
50 books, any  denom .
1  50
100 books, any  denom.
500 books, any  denom .
11  50 
1.000 books, any  denom.
20  00
C re d it  C heeks 
500, any one denom ....
2 00
1.000, any one denom .........  3 00
2.000, any one denom :.......  5  00
Steel  punch.  ..................... 
75
Can lie made to represent any 
20  books..........................  
1  00
50  books..........................   2  00
100  books..............
3  00 
250  books.............. .
6 26 
500  books..............
10  00 
1.000  hooks...............
17  50
and 10 lb. wooden  boxes... 30
5 
Bulk in sacks.............................. 29
D R IE D   F R U IT S —D o m estic 
S u n d ried ............................  ©  6 *
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.8®  8* 
A p rico ts........................  @15
B lackberries................
N ectarines...................
P eaches........................ 10  @ 11
P ears..-..........................
Pitted Cherries............ 
P runnelles...................
R aspberries.................
100-120 25 lb. boxes 
90-100 25 lb. boxes . 
so - 90 25 lb. boxes .
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes .
GO - 70 25 lb. boxes .
50 - GO 25 lb. boxes .
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes .
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes .
R a isin s

@  3* 
@ 4* 
@  5 
@  5* 
@  G - 
@  7* @ 8

*  cent less in 50 lb. cases 

C R E A M   T A R T A R

C a lifo rn ia   P ru n e s

C a lifo rn ia   F r u its

A p p le s

7*

P e e l

9 *
10

C itro n

C u rra n ts

London Layers 2 Frown. 
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crow n..............
Loose M uscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose M uscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, choice 
L. M., Seeded, fancy 
D R IE D   F R U IT S —F o re ig n  
Leghorn....................................... u
C orsican...................................... 1;
P atras, cases............................  au
Cleaned, b u lk ..........................  7*
Cleaned,  packages.................  741
Citron American 19 lb. bx. 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx 
Orange American 10 lb. bx 
Sultana 1 Crown.....................
Sultana 2 C row n...................
Sultana 3 Crown...................
Sultana 4 Crown.....................
Sultana 5 Crown.....................
Sultana 6 Crown...................
Sultana p ack ag e...................

.13 
. 10*  
. 10*

R a isin s

D ean s

F A R IN A C E O U S   GOODS 
Dried L im a.............................   6*
Medium  Hand Picked  i 50@l  60
Brown H olland......................
C ere als
Cream of Cereal...........
.  90 
Grain-O, sm a ll...........
.1  35 
Grain-O, la rg e.............
.2  25 
G rape N uts...................
.1  35 
Postum Cereal, sm all.
.1  35 
Postum  Cereal, large..
2  25
241 lb. p ack ag es................... 1  25
Bulk, per 100 lbs..................... 3  00

F a r in a

H E R B S

IN D IG O

J E L L Y

Sage...............................................is
H o p s .............................................u

M adras, 5 lb.  b oxes................5E
S. F .f 2, 3 and 5 lb.  boxes..........5(

151b. pails................................  3s
30 lb. palls................................  oi

L IC O R IC E

P u re .........................................   3(
C alabria...................................   2s
Sicily.......................................
R oot..........................................  k

L Y E

Condensed, 2 doz....................1  2(
Condensed, 4 doz...................2  2S

M A T C H E S

Diamond M atch Co.’s  brands.
No.  9  sulphur......................... 1  G5
Anchor P a rlo r........................1  50
No. 2 H o m e............................. 1  30
Export P arlo r......................... 4  00
W olverine.................................1  50

M OLASSES 
N ew   O rle a n s

B lack......................... 
u
F a ir ..............................................;;; M
Good...................................... 
20
F a n c y ........................................ ” ”  24
Open K ettle...................   ’' 25@35

H alf-barrels 2e extra 
M U STA RD

Horse Radish, 1 doz.............. 1  75
Horse Radish, 2 d oz..............3  50
Bayie’s Celery, l doz.............1  75

P IC K L E S
M ed iu m

Barrels, 1,200 c o u n t...............5  75
Half bbls, G00 count...............3  38

Barrels, 2,400 c o u n t.............g  75
H alf bbls, 1,200 c o u n t..........3  88

S m all

P IP E S

Clay, No. 210........................... 1  70
Clay, T. 1)., full count..........   65
Cob, No. 3................................  85

PO T A S H  

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s ..................................4  00
Penna Salt Co.’s......................3  00

R IC E

D o m estic

Carolina  h ead ..........................g*
Carolina  No. 1 ........................ 5
Carolina  No. 2 ................”  .. .4
B ro k en ..................................... .3%

Im p o rte d .

Japan,  No.  1................... 5*@6
Japan,  No.  2................... 4*@5
Java, fancy h ead ............5  @5*
Java, No.  1.......................5  @
T able...................................   @

SA L E R A T U S 

Packed GO lbs. in box. 

Church’s Arm and H am m er.3  15
Deland’s....................................3  00
Dwight’s  Cow......................... 3  is
E m blem ....................................3  50
& J P ...........................................3  00
W yandotte, 100  ?4s ................ 3  00

S A L  SODA

G ranulated,  bbls.................. 
80
G ranulated, 100 lb. cases...!  85
Lump, bbls............................  
75
Lump, 145 lb. kegs..................  80

SA L T

D ia m o n d  C ry s ta l 
1  50 
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.2  75 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2  40 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk  2  25 
Butter, barrels, 20 14 lb. bags.2  50
Butter, sacks, 28  lbs..............  25
B utter, sacks, 5G  lbs............      55

C om m on  G rad es

100 3 lb. sacks...........................1  so
GO 5 lb. sacks.......................” i  (¡5
28 10 lb. sacks.......................! 1  50

W a rsa w

56 lb. dairy in drill bags.......   30
28 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  
15
56 lb. dairy in linen sab k s...  GO 

A sh to n  
H ig g in s

50 lb. dairy in linen sa c k s...  60 
56 lb.  sacks..............................   22

S o la r  R o ck

C om m on

G ranulated  F ine...................   80
Medium  Fine..........................   90

SA L T  F IS H  

Cod

Georges cured..............  @ 5
Georges  genuine.........  @  5*
Georges selected.........  @  6
Strips or  bricks...........6  @ 9

24 2 lb. pack ag es..........................1 so
100 ®.  k egs....................................2 70
200  lb. b a rre ls ....... 
H o m in y

...............5  10

P e a r l  B a rle y

B a rre ls.......................................... 2 50
Flake, 50 lb. drum s......................1 00
M acca ro n i  a n d  V e rm ic e lli
Domestic, 10 lb. box..............  0
Im ported, 25 lb. box....................2 50
Common....................................1
C h este r.................................... ii
E m pire......................................2
G reen, W isconsin, b u ............1  35
G reen, Scotch, b u ........................1 40
Split, b u ...................................  
3

P eas

R o lle d   O ats

Sago

Sal us B re a k fa s t F ood

Rolled  Avena, bbl........................4 75
M onarch, bbl................................4 40
M onarch,  *  b b l...........................2 3s
M onarch, 96  lb. sacks........... 2  10
Q uaker, cases.............................. 3 20
H uron, cases................................ 2 00
G erm an.................................... 
4
East  In d ia...............................   3*
36 two pound p ack ag es__ 3  GO
18 two pound p ack ag es__   1  85
F. A. McKenzie, Quincy, Mich. 
F la k e .......................................   5
P e a rl........................................   4*
Pearl,  24 1 lb. packages.......  o?4
Cracked, b u lk .........................  3 *
24 2  lb. p ack ag es......................... 2 50
F L A V O R IN G   E X T R A C T S

T a p io c a

W h e a t

J e n n in g s ’

D.  C. Vanilla 
2 oz.........1  20 
3 oz.............1  50 
4 OZ.............2  00 
6 oz.............3  00 
No.  8.. 
No. 10....6  00 
No. 2  T  .125 
No. 3  T ..2  00 
No. 4  T ..2  40 

D.  C.  Lemon
2 o z ..........  75
3 oz.......... 1  00
4 OZ..........140
6 o z .......... 2 00
..4  00  No.  8__ 2  40
NO.10...  4 00
No. 2 T ..  80
No. 3 T  . 125
No. 4 T  .150

2 00

P e rrig o ’s

N o rth ro p   B ra n d
Lem.  Van.
2 oz. Taper Panel 
  75 
1  20
2oz. Oval....................  75 
12 0
3 oz. Taper Panel__ 1  35 
4 oz. Taper P anel- .. 1  GO 
2  25
Van.  Lem. 
doz. 
doz. 
XXX, 2 oz. o b e rt.... 1  25 
75
XXX, 4 oz. ta p e r__ 2  25 
1 25
XX, 2 oz. o b ert.........1  00
No. 2.2 oz. o b e rt....  75 
XXX D 1) ptchr, 6 oz 
XXX I) I) ptchr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz... 
Perrigo’s Lightning,  gro.. ..2  50
Petrolatum , per doz..............  75

F L Y   P A P E R

2 25
2 25

1  75

G U N P O W D E R  
R ifle—D u p o n t’s

K egs...............................................4 00
H alf K egs......................................2 25
Q uarter K e g s...............................1 25
1 lb. c a n s ..................................  30
*  lb. c a n s ................................  18

C h o k e   B o re —D u p o n t’s

K egs............................................... 4 25
Half K e g s.....................................2 40
Q uarter T ie g s...............................1 35
1  lb. ca n s.................................   34

E a g le   D u c k —D u p o n t’s

K e g s .............................................. 8 00
H alf K egs......................................4 25
Q uarter K e g s.............................. 2 25
1 lb. c a n s ..................................  45

S trips... 
(  hunks.

H errin g ;

M a c k e re l

Holland w hite hoops,  bbl. 
Holland  white hoopsKbbl.  7  75 
Holland white hoop,  keg.. 
95 
Holland white hoop  niehs.  1  05
N orw egian..........................
Round  l(M) lbs.......................  3  75
Round 40 lbs........................   1  05
Scaled.................................. 
15
Mess  100 lbs.................... ...  15 00
Mess 40 lbs.................... ...  6  30
Mess 10 ills.................... ...  1  65
8 lbs.................... ...  1  35
Mess
No.  1 1 (Ml lbs.................... ...  13  25
No. 1 40 lbs.................... ...  5 60
No. 1 10 lbs.................... . ..  1  48
...  1  20
8 lbs..................
No.  1
No. 2 l(M) lbs.................. . ..  11  50
..  4  90
No. 2 40 lbs..................
...  1  30
No. 2 10 lbs..................
...  1  07
8 lbs..................
No. 2

T ro u t

No. 1 KM) lbs..................
No. 1 40 lbs..................
No. 1 10 lbs..................
8 lbs..................
No. 1

100  lb s............   7  00  6  50
40  lb s............  3  10  2 90
10  lb s ............ 
80
66
8  lbS............  

No. 1  No. 2 F am
2  50
1  30
40
35

85 
71 
S E E D S

................................. ..  9
Anise 
..  4
Canary.  Sm yrna.................
Caraway  .............................. ..  8
Cardamon,  M alabar.......... ..<>0
.10
Celery....................................
Hemp, R ussian.................... ..  4Vi'
..  4%
Mixed  Bird..........................
..  5
M ustard, w hite...................
..10
Poppy....................................
..  4*4
R a p e .....................................
.15
Cuttle Bone..........................
Scotch, in bladders............ ..  37
Maccaboy, in  ja r s ............. ..  35
French Rappee, in  ja rs .......  43

S O A PEzssm

S N U F F

Single lw x..................................2  S5 |
5 box lots, delivered..................2 SO
10 box lots, delivered.............2  75 I
S.  KIM  &  (jin   iiKAIIlie  I
American Family, w rp’d — 2  66
D om e..............................................2 75
C abinet...........................................2 20
Savon.............................................. 2 50
W hite  R ussian..................
W hite Cloud, laundry__
W hite Cloud, toilet..........
Dusky  Diamond, 50 6 oz..
Dusky  Diamond, 50 8 oz..
blue iudia, 100 ilt  lb .........
K irkoline...........................
E o s......................................
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz......... 2  40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz....................2 40

S c o u rin g

SOD A

Boxes........................................  5V4
Kegs,  English.........................  4%

S P IC E S  

W h o le  S ifted

A llspice................................. 
Cassia, China in m a ts....... 
Cassia. Batavia, in bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls__  
Cloves, Amboyna................ 
Cloves, Zanzibar..............  . 
Mace, Batavia..................... 
Nutmegs, fancy.................. 
N utmegs, No.  1................... 
Nutmegs, No. 2................... 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper.  Slngagore, white. 
Pepper, shot......................... 
P u r e  G ro u n d  in   H u lk
Allspice................................. 
Cassia. Batavia...................  
Cassia. Saigon.....................  
Cloves. Zanzibar.................. 
(linger,  A frican.................. 
(linger. Cochin...................  
Ginger,  Jam a ica................ 
Mace.  B atavia..................... 
M ustard................................ 
N utm egs..............................  
Pepper. Singai>ore, black. 
Pepper. Singapore, w hite. 
Pepper, Cayenne...............  
Sage....................................... 

STO V E  P O L IS H

10
12
25
32
14
12
55
60
50
45
13
16
15
14
30
40
14
15
18
23
65
18
50
15
22
20
15

D iam ond

K iiig sfo rd 's  C orn
40 1-lb. packages.................. 
6
■10 l-lb. packages................. 
6V¿
K in g s t o n ! ’« S ilv e r  G lo ss
6Vi
40 l-lb."packages.................
7
6 lb. boxes..........................
5 00
64 10c packages...................
128 5c packages...................
5 00
5  00
30  10c and  64 5c packages..
5
20 l-lb.  packages...............
4%
40 1-lb.  packages...............
Com m on  (¿loss
4>i
l-lb.  packages.....................
31b.  packages....................
4K
5
o-lb.  packages.....................
3
40 and 50-lb. boxes..............
3
B arrels.................................

Com m on Corn

SU G A R

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  am ount 
of freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
m arket  in  which  he  purchases 
to his  shipping  point,  including 
20 pounds tor the  weight  of  the 
barrel.
Domino.................................  5  44
Cut  Loaf...............................   5  56
Crushed.................................  5  69
Pow dered............................   5  25
5  31 
XXXX  Pow dered..............
5  31
Cubes.....................................
Standard  G ranulated.......
Standard  Fine G ranulated 
Above  G ranulated  in  5
lb. bags.......................
Above  G ranulated  in  2
lb.  bags......................
E xtra  Fine G ranulated....
Extra Coarse  G ranulated.
Mould A ................................
Diamond Confec.  A ...........
t'onfec.  Standard A ...........

5  25
5  25 
5  31 
5  31 
5 44 
5  19 
4 94

T A B L E   SAUCES
LEA &
PERRINS*
SAUCE

Genuine 
W  orces tershire.
Lea & P errin’s, large.........  3  7
Lea & P errin ’s,  sm all.......   2  5
Halford, large.....................  3  7
Halford, small.....................  2  2
Salad  Dressing, large.......  4  5
Salad  Dressing, sm all.......  2  7

V IN E G A R

Malt W hite Wine, 40 grain..  71 
Malt W hite W ine, 80 grain..11
l*ure Cider.  Red S tar........... 12
I hire Cider. Robinson..........12
Pure Cider.  Silver.................11
W A S H IN G   P O W D E R

Roseine.................................   3 :
Nine  O’clock.......................  3 1
Babbitt's 1876.......................  2 1
Gold  D ust............................   4 :
Johnson’s ............................   3 1
Swift’s  .................................   2 i
Rub-No-More......................   3 1
Pearline, 100 os....................  3 i
Pearline, 36 i s .....................   2 1
Snow  Boy............................   2 !
L iberty.................................   3 1

W IC K IN G

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

(
2-hoop S tandard................ ...1  35  1
.. 1  50
3-hoop Standard................
.1   35
2-wire,  Cable.....................
3-wire,  C able.....................
..1  60 L
Cedar, all  red, brass  hound. 1  25
.. 2 25
Paper,  E ureka.................
F ib re ....................... 
..2  25 i
.........
T u b s

20-inch, Standard, No. 1 .. . .  7  00
18-inch, Standard,  No. 2 .. ...(»00
16-inch, Standard,  No. 3.. ...5   00  (
20-inch,  Dowell,  No. 1 ....
..3  25  (
18-inch,  Dowell.  No. 2__ ...5   25
16-Inch.  Dowell,  No. 3__ ...4   25
No. 2 F ib re......................... . ..7  50
No. 3 F ib re......................... ... 6  75

W a sh   B o a rd s
Bronze Globe.....................
D ew ey ..............................
Double Acme...................
Single Acme.....................
Double  Peerless..............
Single  Peerless.................
N orthern Q u een ............
Double  D uplex................
Good  L u ck .......................
U niversal..........................
W ood  B o w ls
11 In. B u tter ................................
13 in. B u tter ................................
15 in. B u tter ................................
17 in. B utter ................................
19 In. B utter ................................
Y EA ST  C A K E

..2  50
.  17 5
. .2 75
.  2 25
..3 00
. .2 75
..2  25
. 3  00
.  2  75
. .2  25

. . .   75
.  . . 1   00
.1   60
. . . 2   00
. ..2  50

Yeast Foam, 1‘4  doz__ ...  50
. . . 1   00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz.........
. . . 1   00
Yeast Cream, 3 doz.........
Magic Y east 5c. 3  d o z...
. . . 1   00
Sunlight Yeast. 3 doz__ . . . 1   00 1
W arner’s Safe, 3 doz__ . . . 1   00

P r o v i s i o n s

B a rre le d   P o rk

Mess..........................................
B a c k .........................
Clear back ..........................
Short c u t .............................
P ig .............................................
Bean..........................................
F am ily ..................................

@10  no
@12  50
@11  25
@11  00
@15  00
@  9  50
@ 11  so

D ry   S a lt  M eats

Bellies........................
B riskets ...............................
E xtra shorts .....................

6H
6*4  1
5

S m o k ed   M eats

L a rd s—In Tierces

Hams, 12 lb. average.
@  1054  1
Hams,  14 lb. average.
©   10VÍ
Hams,  lolb.average.
@  10Vi
@  10
Hams, 20 lb. average.
Ham dried  beef.......
@  15V4
Shoulders (N. Y. c u t)
@  7
Bacon, clear..............   7!4@  814
California ham s.......
@  7
(a  9
Boneless  ham s.........
Cooked  ham ..............  10 ©
Compound.................
K ettle..........................
55 lb. T ubs.. advance
80 lb. T ubs.. advance
50 lb. T ins... advance
20 lb.  Pails, .advance
10 lb.  Pails.. advance
51b.  Pails..advance
3 lb. P ails.. advance
S ausages
B ologna.....................
L iver..........................
F ran k fo rt..................
Pork  ..........................
Blood..........   ............
T ongue.......................
H eadcheese.............
B e e f
Extra  Mess................
Boneless.....................
R u m p .........................
Kits. 15  lb s................
14 bbls., 40  lb s..........
V4 bbls.. so  lb s..........
T rip e

5V4
7
%
K
%
%
1
IK
6  1
7
8
7*4
6*4
9
7

10  00
12  00
1 17 5
75
1  50
2  70

P ig s ’  F e e t

Kits, 15  lb s ........................
s  K bbls., 40  lbs...........
V4 bbls.. 80  lb s..........
C asin g s
)  Pork  ..........................
5  Beef  rounds..............
Beef  m iddles............
s  Sheep..........................
B  u tte r! ne
0 
B  Rolls, d airy ................
5  Solid, dairy ................
3  Rolls,  cream ery ...........
*  Solid,  cream ery ...........

C an n e d   M eats

Corned  beef, 2 lb . . . .
Corned beef, 14 lb . . .
Roast beef, 2 lb .............
Potted bam .  Vis...........
Potted ham ,  K s ...........
Deviled ham .  Vis____
Deviled ham ,  K s ____
..

70
1  25
2  25
20
3
10
60

12*4
12
16V4
16

2  25
16 00
2  25
50
90
50
90
50
90

B a sk e ts

B u tte r   P la te s

W O O D E N W A R E  
B ushels.................................
Bushels, wide  band...........
0  Potted tongue, 
M a rk e t.................................
j  Potted  tongue.  Ks
Willow Clothes, larg e.......
Willow Clothes, m edium ..
5 
Oils
Willow Clothes,  small.......
No. 1 Oval, 250 in  crate__
j 
B a rre ls
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate.........2  00
0  Eocene  .......................................
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate..
0  Perfection ........................
No. 5 Oval. 250 in crate.. 
XXX WAV. Mich. H dlt
C lo th es  P in s
0  W. W. M ichigan .............
Boxes, gross boxes.........
Diamond  W hite ................
M op  S tic k s
0  D.. S.  G as.....................
Trojan sp rin g ..................
Deo. N aphtha..
Eclipse patent sp rin g .......... 9 00
Cylinder.............
No 1 com m on......................... 8  0o
E n g in e..............
No. 2 patent brush holder ..9 0. 
Black, w in te r...
12 lb. cotton mop heads.......1  2

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@ 11
@ 11
@1014
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@11M 
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....11  @21 
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No. 4,3 doz. in case, gross.  4  50 
No. 6. 3 doz. in ease, gross.  7  20 

SY RU PS 

C o rn

Barrels..................................... 18
Half b b ls.................................20
1 doz. 1 gallon cans............... 3  10
1 doz. Vt gallon can s............. 1  85
2 doz. 14 gallon can s............. 1  90

P u r e   C ane

F a ir ..........................................   16
G ood.........................................  20
C h o ice.....................................   25

C r a c k e r s  

Made  Cream

F a n c y —I n   B u lk

B ee f

C arcass....................... 
F o re q u a rte rs..........  
|  H indquarters.......... 
Loins No. 3................ 
!  R ibs............................ 
!  Rounds....................... 
! C hucks....................... 
P la te s ........................  

P o rk

D ressed.....................
L oins.......................... 
Shoulders..................
Leaf  L ard..................
M u tto n
C arcass......................  
Spring  Lambs..........  

V eal

C arcass......................  

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The  National  Biscuit  Co.

quotes as follows:

B u tte r

S ey m o u r..........................
.. 
New  Y ork.........................
Family  ...  ....................... .. 
S a lte d ................................ .. 
W olverine.........................

S oda

|  Soda  X X X .......................
1  Soda,  C ity.........................
Long Island  W afers.......
Z ep h y rette.......................

O y ste r

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| F a u s t.................................
F a rin a ................................
Extra  Farina 
................ .. 
!  Saltine  W afer.................. .. 
S w eet  OoocIh—Boxes

6
6*4
6

.. 

10
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..  15 
......... ..  13
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8
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A nim als............................ ..  10 !4
Assorted  C ake................ .. 
Belle Bose........................
I  Bent’s  W a te r.................
Buttercups... 
1  Cinnamon  Bar.................
I  Codec Cake,  Iced...........
!  Coffee Cake, .lava.........
.. 
Coeoauut Taffy................ .. 
Cracknells  ....................... ..  15'.4
Creams,  Iced...................
Cream C risp....................
C ry s ta l Creams.
| C ubans............................
I C urrant  F ru it................
1  Frosted  H oney..............
Frosted C ream ................
Ginger Gems, lg. or  sin
Ginger Snaps, X XX....... .. 
.. 
G la d ia to r.......................
G randm a C akes............
G raham   C rackers.........
(i raliain  W afers............
Honey  F ingers..............
im p erials........................
Jum bles,  Honey............
Lady F ingers..................
Lemon  \V afers..............
1  M arshm allow ................
>  Marshmallow W alnuts.
1  Mixed  Picnic..................
Milk Biscuit....................
Molasses  C ake..............
Molasses B a r..................
Moss Jelly  B ar..............
>  Newton............................
I Oatm eal Crackers.
( latmeal  W afers............
i  Orange Crisp  ................
)  Orange  G em ..................
.. 
1  Penny Cake.....................
I  Pilot Bread,  X XX.........
Pretzels, hand  m ade...
.. 
9 1  Sears’  Lunch..................
... 
9 1  Sugar C ake.....................
9  Sugar Cream,  XXX  ...
9  Sugar S q u a re s.............. ... 
9  Sultanas...........................
T utti  F ru tti....................
Vanilla W afers..............
V ienna C rim p................

.. 
..  14
..  15
..  16
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9
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9
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Fish  anl Oysters

F re s h   F is h

W hite fish................... ..  © 10
T rout............................ .  © 10
Black  B ass................. ..  8© 10
18
H alibut......................... .
Ciscoes or H errin g .. @ 5
H luetish.........................  @ 11
Live  Lobster................  @ 17
Boiled  Lobster......... ..  © 19
Cod.............................. ..  © 10
H addock.......................  @ 7
No. 1  Pickerel........... ..  @ 9
P ik e ................................  @ 8
5
P erch ..........................
8
Smoked  W hite......... ..  <§¡
Red  Snapper............ .  © 10
Col River  Salmon — © 13
M ackerel................... ..  © 20

O y sters lu  C ans.

F . II.  C ounts............
F. J . D. Selects.........
S elects.......................
F. J . D.  S tan d ard s..
S tan d a rd s..................
B u lk .

35
30
27
22
20
18
gal.
1  75
1  60
Extra Selects............
Selects....................................   1  35
A nchor  S tandards................. 1  20
S tan d a rd s................................l  10

S h e ll G oods.
Clams, per 100..............  
1  00
Oysters, per 100...........1  25@i  50

S tick   C andy

bbls.  pails
7  ©   7 Vi
7  © 7Vi
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d  T w ist....... 
f..................... 
32 lb............  
. H ................ 
.’ream ..........  
M ixed  C andy

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@14 
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@13 
@12 ‘4 
@ 5 
@  8‘4
@ 0
@  914
@11
@13
@1014
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B oxes 

35 lb. pails..............
dotasses  ('hew s,  15
lb. palls...................
felly  Date  Squares, 
cod. Marshiuellows.

©50 
Pepperm int D rops..
©60 
Chocolate  D rops__
©65 
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@75
IL M. Choc.  D rops.. 
H.  M. Choc.  Lt.  and 
Dk. No. 12..............
@90 
@30 
Licorice  D rops.........
@76 
@50 
A.  B.  Licorice  Drops
@55 
Lozenges,  plain.......
Lozenges, p rinted...
@55 
I niperials...................
@55 
@60
M ottoes.....................
Cream  B ar................
@55
Molasses B ar............
@55
Hand  Made Creams. 80  (fa 90
Cream  Buttons, Pep.
and  W lnt...............
©65
String  Rock..............
@60
Burnt  Almonds.......1 25  ©
W intergreen Berries
@55
Caramel»»
No.  1  w rapped.  3  lb.
boxes.......................

@50

Medium bunches__ 1  00(0)1  25
Large  bunches.........
1  506/1  75

F o re ig n   D rie d F ru its

F ru its
O ran  gen
Fancy M exicans__
Ja m a lc a s...................
Lem onH
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 3<M)s.................
Ex. Fancy  300s.........
Banana*»

F ig s

Californias,  Fancy..
Choice,  10  lb.  boxes.
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes, new ..............
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes..
Imperial Mikados, 18
11"). boxes.................
Pulled, 611). boxes...
Naturals, in bags....
D ates
Fards in  10 lb. boxes
Fards In 60 lb. cases.
Persians,  P.  H.  V ...
lb.  cases, new .......
Sairs, 60 lb. cases__

Nuts
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Iv le a .......
Almonds, California,
soft  shelled............
Brazils, new ..............
F ilb e rts .....................
W alnuts, Grenobles. 
W alnuts, soft shelled 
California No. 1... 
Table N uts,  fancy... 
Table  Nuts,  choice..
Pecans,  M ed............
Pecans,  Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jum bos.......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new ..............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per  bu ...
P e a n u ts  
Fancy, II. I \, Sims.. 
Fancy,  H .  P.,  Flags
R o asted ..................
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H.  P„ Extras 
R oasted..................

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@12
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@16
@15 
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@11 
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@11 
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

P a ils

F r e s h   M e a t s

Candies

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W in te r  W h e a t  F lo u r 

Local  Brands

‘a tc n ts .................................  4 00
iecond  P atent.....................  3 50
Itraight.................................  3 26
H ear.....................................  3 oo
ira h a m ................................  3 50
iuckw heat..........................
ty e........................................   3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash 
dis-
ount.
Flour in bids., 25e per  bbl. ad- 
litional.
BaU-Barnhart-Putnmn's  Brand
>aisy  *4s..............................  3 60
>aisy  V..S..............................  3 60
laisy  V4s..............................  3 60
W orden G rocer Co.’s  Brand
¡uaker Ks............................  3 60
maker 14s............................  3 00
maker V4s............................  3 60

S p rin g   W h e a t  F lo u r 

lark-Jewell-W ells  Co.’s  Brand
Pillsbury’s  Best  K s..........   4  45
Pillsbury’s  Best K s..........   4  35
Pillsbury’s  Best H s..........   4  25
Pillsbury’s  Best Ks paper.  4  26 
Pillsbury’s Best Ks paper.  4  25
Bail-Bam hart-Putm an’s  Brand

Duluth  Im perial 
Duluth  Im perial 
Duluth  Im perial
Lemon & W heeler Co.’s Brand
Gold Medal  K s...................   4  45
Gold  Medal K s...................   4  35
Gold  Medal K s ...................   4  25
Parisian  K s.........................  4  45
Parisian  K s.........................  4  35
Parisian  14s...................   4 26

Olney & .liaison's  Brand

Ceresota K s.........................  4  4C
Ceresota K s.........................  4  30

W orden Grocer  Co.’s Brand
Laurel  14s............................  4  3
Laurel  K s............................   4  2
Laurel  Vis............................  4  1

B olted...................................
G ranulated..........................

F e e d   a n d   M illstuH ’s

St. Car Feed, screened__
No. 1 Corn and  O ats.........
Unbolted Corn  M eal.........
W inter W heat B ran..........
W inter W heat  M iddlings.
S creenings..........................

C o rn

New corn, car  lo ts............
Corn, car l o t s .....................
Less than car lots..............

O ats

Car  lots...........................
Car lots, clipped............
Less than car lots.........

H a y

No. 1 Timothy car  lo ts. 
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots.

Hides  and  Felts
@ 8 

The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Co.. 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as
follows:
H id es
G reen  No. 1..............
G reen  No. 2..............
Bulls............................
Cured  No.  1..............
Cured  No. 2..............
Calfskins.green No. 1 
Calfskins .green N0.2 
Calfskins.cured No. I 
Calfskins,cured No. 2

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P e lts

Pelts,  each................
T a llo w
No. 1............................
No. 2............................
W o o l
W ashed,  fine............
W ashed,  m edium ...
U nwashed,  line.......
Unwashed, medium.

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22

COM M ON  C A R R IE R S .

T e le p h o n e   C o m p an ies  So  C lassified   b y  th e  

S u p re m e   C o u rt.

One  of  the  most  important  decisions 
ever  handed  down  by  the  Michigan  Su­
preme  Court 
is  the  decision  recently 
rendered  defining  the  rights  and  duties 
of  municipal  corporations 
in  their  re­
lations  to  telephone companies.  The full 
text  of  the  decision  is  as  follows:

This  case 

in  the  same 

In  that  case, 

in  its  facts  differs  in  only 
one  particular  from  that  of  the  same 
complaint  against  the  city  of St.  Joseph, 
the  opinion  in  which  is  filed  simultan­
eously  with  this. 
the 
records  of  the  Common  Council  showed 
a  resolution  adopted  granting  permis­
sion  to  the  Telephone  &  Telegraph 
Construction  Co.,  while  in  this  case  the 
records of  the  Common  Council  do  not 
show  that  such  permission  was  granted. 
These  two  cities  are contiguous  to  each 
other,  separated  only  by  a  river.  The 
work  of  the  construction  company  in 
each  was  begun  and  carried  on  at  the 
same  time,  and  the  construction  com­
pany  and 
its  assignee,  the  complain­
ant,  have  been  ever  since  in  the  enjoy­
ment  of  the  same  rights  in  Benton  Har­
bor  as  in  St.  Joseph  The  complainant 
presented  a  petition  to  the  Common 
Council  of  Benton  Harbor,  couched sub­
stantially 
language,  and 
asking for the  same  privileges  as  it  pre­
sented  to  the  Common  Council  of  St. 
Joseph.  The  Council  denied  the  prayer 
of  the  petition.  The court denied  relief 
in  the  case,  while  granting 
it  in  the 
other,  because  the  records of  the  Coun­
cil  did  not  show  the  grant  of  permission 
which  it  held  was  essential  to  the  crea­
tion  of a  contract.  The complainant,  at 
the  request of  the  Council,  furnished  for 
the  use  of  the  city  one  telephone  free 
of  charge  and  two  other telephones  at 
rates  less  than  those  charged  to  other 
subscribers  for  like  service,  which  rates 
have  been  paid  by  the  city. 
In  the  year 
1893, 
complainant,  on  application 
of  the  city,  granted  permission  to  the 
city  to carry  its  fire  alarm  wires  on  the 
company’s  poles,  which  permission  was 
accepted  by  resolution  adopted  by  the 
Council.  The  complainant  gave  evi­
dence  tending  to  show  that  the  con­
struction  company 
in  February,  1881, 
presented  a  petition  to  the  Common 
Council  and  that  it  was  notified  by  the 
clerk  that  permission  had  been  granted. 
The  city  clerk  testified  that  he  could 
find  no  paper of any  kind  in  his  office 
presented  to  the  Council  from  1881  to 
1887.
The  complinant  contends  that  a  con­
tract  exists  between 
it  and  the  city, 
arising  out  of  the  establishment  of  its 
system  by  the  permission  of the munici­
pality  and  the  maintainance  thereof  for 
many  years  and  that  the  defendant  is 
now  estopped  to  deny  such  contract. 
In  the  view  we  take  of  the  case  it  is un­
necessary  to  determine  this  question. 
Section  4  of  the  act  providing  for  tele­
phone  and  messenger service  companies 
reads  as  follows:
Every  such  corporation  shall  have 
power to  construct and  maintain lines  of 
wire  or  other  material  for  use  in  the 
transmission  of 
telephone  messages 
along,  over,  across  or  under anv  public 
places,  streets,  and highways  and  across 
or  under any  of  the  waters  in  this  State, 
with  all  necessary  erections  and  fixtures 
therefor,  provided  that  the  same  shall 
not  injuriously  interfere  with  other pub­
lic  uses  of  the  said  places,  streets  and 
highways  and  the  navigation  of  said 
waters;  to  construct,  provide  and  fur­
nish  instruments,  devices  and  facilities 
for  use  in  the  transmission  of  such  mes­
sages;  and  to  construct,  maintain  and 
operate  telephone exchanges and stations 
and  generally  to  conduct  and  carry  on 
the  business  of  provdiing  and  super­
vising  communication  by 
telephone; 
and  also  the  business  of  furnishing mes­
senger service  in  cities  and  towns.  The 
statute  also  requires  every  such  com­
pany  to  supply  the  public  with  tele­
phones  and telephonic service, to  operate 
a  telephone  exchange  and  to receive and 
transmit  messages  without  discrimina­
tion,  upon  payment  or  tender  of  the 
usual  or customary  charges.
The  complainant  is engaged  in  inter­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

is 

state  commerce,  as  its  business  extends 
into other states.
The  State  has  control  over  its  public 
streets  and  highways  and  may  authorize 
their  use  for the  purposes  of  travel  and 
commerce  without  the  permission  of  the 
municipalities.  The State  does  not  sur­
render  to  municipalities  entire  control 
over  its  streets and  highways.  They  are 
under  legislative  control.
They  are  for the  use  of  the  public  in 
general,  for  passage  and  traffic,  with­
out  distinction.  The  restrictions  upon 
their use  are  only  such  as  are  calculated 
to  secure  to the  general  public  the  larg­
est  practical  benefit  from  the  enjoy­
ment  of  the  easement.  When  the  high­
way  is  not  restricted  in  some  way  in  its 
dedication  to  some  particular  mode  of 
use  it  is  open  to  all  suitable  methods.
No  city  or village  has  the  power,  by 
ordinance,  or  by 
law,  to  make  general 
laws of  the  State  inoperative.
Where  a  water company  is  authorized 
by  its  charter to  lay  pipes and distribute 
water  it  has  a  right  of  access to  the 
streets  for  that  purpose,  to  be  exercised 
in  harmony  with  the  public  conven­
ience.  The  city  may  regulate  its  exer­
cise  so  as to  prevent  its  injury  to  other 
interests,  but  can  not  interfere  with  the 
reasonable  exercise  of  such  right.
It  has  been  held  that  an  electric  tele­
graph 
indispensable  as  a  means  of 
intercommunication,  but  especially  is  it 
so  in  commercial  transactions.  Goods 
are  sold  and  money  paid  upon  tele­
graphic  orders;  contracts  are  made  by 
telegraphic  correspondence,  cargoes  se­
cured  and  the  movements of  ships  di­
rected.

The  same  statement  now  applies  to 
the  use  of  the  telephone. 
It  is  indis­
pensable  to  commerce,  as  is  the  tele­
graph.
Telephone  companies  are  subject  to 
the  same  rules  as  common  carriers.  The 
same  rule  is  held  in  LeLoup  vs.  Port  of 
Mobile, 
127  U.  S.,  640,  holding  that 
telegraphic  communications  are  com­
merce  and  that  the  State  can  not impose 
a  tax  upon  the  occupation  or business  or 
exact  a  license.  The  same  rules  apply 
to  telephone  companies.
Where the  statute  provided  that  “ tele­
phone  companies  organized  under  its 
provisions  for the  purpose  of  construct­
ing  and  maintaining  telephone  or  mag­
netic  telegraph  lines  are  authorized  to 
set their  poles,  piers,  abuttments,  wires 
and  other fixtures  along  and  across  any 
of  the  public  roads,  streets and  waters 
of  this  State 
in  such  manner as  not  to 
incommode  the  public 
in  the  use  of 
such  roads,  streets and  waters,”   it  held 
that the  municipal  authorities could  reg­
ulate,  by  ordinance,  the 
location,  kind 
of  posts,  piers,  abtutments  and  height 
of  wires,  but  that  no  other  restrictions 
could  be 
imposed  than  those  provided 
by  the  law.

It  will  be  observed  that the  act  under 
which  complainant 
is  organized  does 
not  require  the  consent  of  the  munici­
pality  to  the  construction  of  its  lines. 
The  reason  of  this  is  apparent.  The 
business  carried  on  by  these  corj ora­
tions  is  not  local,  but  extends  over  and 
outside  the  State.  Where  the  business 
is  purely 
in 
authorizing  the  formation  of  these  cor­
porations,  usually  provides  that  it  must 
be  with  the  consent  of  the  municipality. 
Such 
is  the  requirement  in  the  case of 
highways,  street  railways,  water  com­
panies  and  electric  light  companies.

local  the  Legislature, 

telegraph  and 

Evidently  it  was  not  the  intention  of 
the  Legislature  to  permit  municipalities 
preventing 
telephone 
companies  from  extending  their  busi­
ness  along  the  public  highways  and 
streets  of  the  State.  This  rule  seems  to 
be  practically  to  be  conceded  by  the 
learned  counsel  for  the  defendant,  for 
they  say  that  the  complainant's  rights, 
if  it  has  any,  are  subject  to the  valid 
exercise  of  the  police  power of  the  city. 
Complainant concedes  this  to  be the law. 
The  learned  Circuit  Judge  who tried  the 
case  also  conceded  it,  but  said  that  the 
city  “ was  not  confined  merely  to  the 
exercise  of  is  ordinary  police  powers.”  
Evidently  the  city  desired  to  impose 
other conditions  and,  in  furtherance  of 
this  desire,  its  Council  refused  to  per­
mit  complainant  to  erect  its  poles  and 
stretch  its  wires.  Such  refusal  was  not

If in need of

Air  Tight 

Heaters, 
Car Stoves, 
Stove  Pipe

or  other  fall  goods, 
we would be  pleased 
to  hear from you and 
can  make  you  right 
prices.

Win.  Brummeler & Sons,

260 South Ionia Street,
Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Air 
|
Tight  1
Stoves

Write 
for 
Price 
List.

FOSTER, 
STEVENS, 
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GRAND RAPIDS.

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How to 
be
the
Best Dealer
in
your
town. 

**  Keep  your  stock  of  robes  and  blankets full of  the

newest  and  best  selling  goods.

Buy  where  you  can  get  the  best  goods  for  the

least  money.

Deal  with  jobbers  who  treat  you  fairly  and  take

an  interest.

When  you  buy  harnesses— buy  of  the  maker.
To  combine  these  business  guides— trade "with

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BROWN  &   SEH LPR  Grand  Rapids.

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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Hardware  Price Current

Advance over base, on both Steel and  Wire.

N ails

A n g a ra   a n d   B it»

Snell’s ........................................................  
Jennings' genuine...................................  
Jennings' im itation.................................  

60
25&10
SO&lO

F irst Quality. S. B. Bronze................... 
F irst Quality, 1). B.  Bronze........................  
F irst Quality. S. B. S.  Steel.................  
F irst Quality,  I).  B. Steel............................ 

6  50
7  75

10 00
11 50

Railroad...........................................................  
G ard en ...................................................... net 

14 00

30  00

A xes

B a rro w s

B o lts

S to v e.......................................................... 
Carriage, new  lis t..................................  
Plow  ..........................................................  

Well, p la in .................................................  

Cast Loose  Pin, figured ........................  
W rought N arro w ...................................  

Rim F ir e ................................................... 
Central F ir e ............................................. 

B u c k e ts

B u tts,  C ast

C a rtrid g e s

C h ain

H  In. 

5-16 In. 
Com................   8  c.  ...  7  c. 
I  BB..................   9 
BBB................  9!4 

...  7H  
...  8‘4 

%  in. 

& in.
... 6  c.  ...  6  c.
■■■ 6?4 
... 7H 

...  6H
7*
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Steel nails, b ase.....................................
W ire nails, base....................................
20 to 60 advance.....................................
10 to 16 advance......................................
8 advance...............................................
6 advance...............................................
3 ndvHUce...............................................
2 advance...............................................
Fine 3  advance.......................................
Casing 10 advance..................................
Casing 8 advance...................................
Casing 6 advance...................................
Finish  10 advance.................................
Finish 8 advance...................................
Finish 6 advance...................................
Barrel  \  advance.................................

R iv e ts

H oofing  P late*

Iron  and  T inned...................................
Copper Rivets  and  B urs.....................
$3 50
14x20 IC. Charcoal.  Dean...................
14x20 IX. Charcoal.  Dean...................
20x28 IC, Charcoal,  Dean...................
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade.
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade.
20x28  IC, Charcoal.  Allaway  G rade.
20x28 IX ,Charcoal, Allaway  G rade.

R oped

3  26
3  40
Base
05
10
20
30
45
70
50
15
25
36
25
35
45
85

50
45

r.  50
7  50
13  00
5  50
6  50
11  00
13  00

11 4
16

50

22  50

It 

based  on  the  inconvenience  of the  pub­
lic  or the  obstiuction  of the  streets.  Un­
der this  statute  the  sole  authority  of  the 
municipality 
is  the  proper exercise  of 
the  police  power  inherent  in  it,  to  pro­
tect  the  public from unnecessary obstruc­
tions,  inconveniences  and  dangers  and 
to  determine  where  and  in  what  manner 
complainant  may  erect  its  poles  and 
stretch  its  wires  so  as  to  accomplish 
this  result. 
It  has  no  authority  to  im­
pose  other  conditions.  That  authority 
rests  in  the  Legislature,  the  charter­
making  power.
is,  however,  insisted  that  Act  No. 
215,  Public  Acts  of  1895,  under which 
the  defendant  was  incorporated,  repeals 
the  telephone  act,  in  so  far as  it  may  be 
held  to  authorize  the  use  of  highways 
and  streets  for  the  erection  of  poles 
without  the  consent  of  the municipality. 
Section  14,  Chapter 22,  of  the  act  pro­
vides,  “ They  (the  Council)  shall  have 
authority  to  regulate  or prohibit  the  dis­
play,  use  or  placing  of  signs,  advertise­
ments  and  banners,  awning  posts and 
telegraph  and  telephone  or light  poles 
in  or  over  the  streets.”   The  title  of 
is  “ Streets  and  Public 
this  chapter 
Grounds”   and  the  above 
language  is 
found  near  the  middle  of  the  section, 
which  specifies  various  subjects  upon 
which  the  Council  may 
legislate.  Re­
peals  by 
implication  are  not  favored. 
To this  proposition  it  is  unnecessary  to 
cite  authorities.  The 
intent  to  repeal 
must  very  clearly  appear and courts  will 
not  hold  to a  repeal  if  they  can  find rea­
sonable  ground  to  hold  the  contrary.
intend  by  the 
above 
law  for  the  organization  of  cities 
to  confer  upon  those  municipalities  the 
power to  annul  the  law  in  regard  to  tel­
egraph  and  telephone  companies  and  to 
entirely  prohibit  the  use  of  the  tele­
graph  and  the  telephone,  which  have 
become  essential  in  commercial  trans­
actions?  Clearly 
intention 
should  not be  attributed  to  the  Legisla­
ture  unless  the  language  of  the  law leads 
to  no other  conclusion.  We  see  no diffi­
culty 
in  giving  effect  to  both  laws  by 
holding  that  the 
latter act  confers this 
authority  upon  municipalities  subject 
to the  general  laws  of  the State in regard 
to  the  use  of  its  streets  and  highways 
for  telegraph  and  telephone  purposes. 
These  municipalities  may,  under  this 
law,  prohibit  the  erection  of  these  poles 
in  places  and 
in  a  manner which  will 
injure  or  incommode  the  public.  This 
was  the  view  taken  by  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Wisconsin  under  similar  pro­
vision.
The  decree  of the  court below  will  be 
reversed  and  the  decree  entered  in  this 
court  in  accordance  with  this  opinion, 
directing  the  common  council  of  the  de­
fendant to  provide by ordinance or other­
wise  reasonable  regulations  for the  erec­
tion  of  the  poles  and  stretching  of  the 
wires  of  the  complainant.  Complainant 
will  recover the  costs of  both courts.

Did  the  Legislature 

such  an 

The  other  justices  concurred.

P o rk   an«l  B eans.

* Fis n »t a dainty  the gods would relish,
The name would  never with grace embellish 
But nothing can get more beautiful action 
Can give mor  comfort and satisfaction

Th* se feasting gods ot mythology.
The menus of high society.
On the hunger spot ’neath a fellow s jeans,
To a yearning s*tomach than pork and beans.

When the inner man for a feed is craving.
And ihe system is wrapped in a dame of yearn, 
When the siomach rebels and is misbehaving 
And the teeth in anxiety seeVn to burn,
How the g iy, gla«l light of anticipation 
Through a fellow’s optics in joy careens 
When on the air of the feeding station 
He sniffs the fragrance ot pork and beans.

When the purse is dat from a dearth of boodle,
It but a dime is reposing there,
And a fellow  teels he comd eat a poodle
Were it shown on the menu as  Belgian  hare, 
When a reg’lar dinner with  pie and  puddin’
Is aw .y up yonder  beyond his means,
One feast is his, and a mighty good *un,
/v  man’s size platter of pork and beans.

Chicago, mart of the hog, we bless you.
in  wreaths of gratitude deck jour name.
And  Boston, we fain  in love would caress you 
For the  succulent truck you have given fame. 
No combination de culinary
From thr dainty dishes of kings and queens 
Clear down to poverty’s commissary,
Can hoid a candle to pork, and beans.

We,  as  prisoners,  need  no  spectacles 
to  see  the  beauty  of  uprightness  when 
we  look  through our barred  doors.

T h e   H a rd w a re   M a rk e t.

There  continues  to  be  a  steady  and 
large  movement  of  goods  from  the 
job­
bing  to  the  retail  trade,  and  in  several 
lines  the  demands  upon  stocks  are  so 
heavy  that there  is  difficulty  in  furnish­
ing  goods  promptly.  There  is  no  weak­
ening  in  prices,  which  continue to ad­
vance  gradually  to  correspond  with  the 
increased  cost  of  material  and  labor.

There  has been  no  change  in the price 
of  wire  nails  and  barbed  wire  since  our 
last  report.  Wire  nails  are  quoted  as 
follows  to  retailers: 
In  cariots,  S3.10; 
less  than  carlots,  $3.20  f.  o.  b.  Pitts­
burg,  and  from  stock  they  are  quoted  by 
jobbers  from  S3.35@3-4°.  depending 
upon  quantity  ordered.

In  stove  boards  the  demand 

is  so 
great  that  it  is  impossible  for  manufac­
turers  to  fully  supply  the  trade.

In  doors  and  sash,  owing  to  the  high 
price  of  lumber,  all  manufacturers  have 
advanced  their  price  to  jobbers  who  are 
now  quoting  doors  at  40  and 
10  per 
cent.,  open  sash  at  60  per  cent,  and 
glazed  sash  at 60 and  5  per cent.

In  Novelty  oil  heaters  an  advance  of 
in  list  has  been  made  by  the 

Si  each 
manufacturers.

All  kinds  of  malleable  clevises  have 
been  marked  up  >£@ic  per  pound,  and 
jobbers  are  now  getting  5c  for the  or­
dinary  wagon  clevises.

Owing  to  the  scarcity  of dry felt,  there 
has been  another advance  in  tarred  felt,
which  is  now  being  quoted  at  Si. 75  Per 
cwt.

Grass,  bush  and  cradle  scythes  have 
all  been  doubled 
in  price,  but  this 
affects  for  the  present  use  only  bush 
scythes,  which  are  now  being  sold  at  $8 
per dozen  net,  no discount.

Auger  bits  and  augers  have  been  ad­
vanced  by  manufacturers  and  the  pre­
vailing  discount  is 60 to 60  and  10  per 
cent,  for the  common  auger  bit  and  for 
Jenning’s  pattern  50 and  10  per cent.

All  kinds  of  table  knives  and  forks 
have  been  advanced  from  500^/$!  per 
gross.

During  the  past  week  Manila  rope 
has  gone  up about  ic  per  pound.  Wool 
twine  for  spring  shipment  is  now  being 
quoted  at  7c  per  pound,  which  is  high­
er  than  has  ruled  for  a  good  many 
years.  There  are  no  indications  of  any 
iower  prices  being  made  during  the 
coming  year.

F o o lin g   th e   Y o u n g sters.

Mrs.  Grimes  How 

Mrs.  Smarte—There 

in  the  world  do 
I 
you  get  rid  of  all  your  stale  bread? 
have  to throw  lots  of  mine  away.
is  no  need  for 
you  to  do  that.  Why  not  do  as  I  do?  1 
just  hide  it  away  from  the  children.
it  away  from  the 
Mrs.  Grimes—Hide 
children?  What then?
Mrs.  Smarte—Then  the  children  find 
it  and  eat  up  every  morsel  of  it.

THE
MEASURE,
OF
your
SUCCESS

Is not what is sold  but  WHAT  IS  SA V ED  — 
Everything  is  saved  when  you  use  T h e  E gry 

A c to g r a fic  R e g ister SYSTEMS.

Charge sales,  Produce exchanges  and  Credits 

must all  be entered.

Our  N’o.  40 is a perfect  Cash  Register 

Infor­

mation given <*r order  fill' d \}y

L. ft. ELY, Alma, Mich.

60
50
50

66
60

 

40&10
20

6

65
55
45
76

65
65
65
65

65
125
40&10

30&10
25

70&10
70
60&10

28
17

40&10

G0&10

C ro w b a rs

C aps

Cast Steel, per lb ..................................... 

Ely’s 1-10. per m ....................................... 
llick ’s C.  F., p e rm .................................  
G. IX, per m .............................................. 
M usket,  per m..........................................  

Socket Firm er  ........................................  
Socket F ram ing....................................... 
Socket C orner..........................................  
Socket Slicks............................................  

C h isels

E lb o w s

Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per d oz..................net 
Corrugated, per doz................................ 
A djustable............................................... dis 

E x p a n siv e   B its

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26 ................ 
Ives’ 1. $18;  2, $24;  3, $39....................... 

F ile s—N ew   L ist

New A m erican ........................................  
Nicholson’s ................................................ 
H eller’s Horse R asps.............................  

G alv a n iz e d   I ro n

Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  25 and 26;  27, 
List  12 
16. 

13 

14 

Discount, 65

15 
G as  P ip e

Black or Galvanized................................ 

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ................ 

G au g es

G lass

Single  Strength, by box...........................dis  80&10
Double Strength, by box .........................dis  80&10

By the Light.....................................dis  80

H a m m e rs

Mavdole & Co.’s, new list........................dis 
Yerkes Si  Plumb’s 
...........................dis 
Mason’s Solid Cast S teel................. 30c list 

33H
40&10
70

G ate, Clark’s 1, 2,3 ................................... dis  60&10

H in g e s

H o llo w   W a re

P ots.................................................•.......... 
K e ttle s....................................................... 
S piders....................................................... 

BO&10
50&10
50&10

H o rse   N ails

Ail S a b le .....................................................dis  40&10
P utnam ........................................................dts 
5

H ouse  F u r n is h in g  G oods
Stam ped Tinware, new lis t...................  
Japanned Tinw are................................... 

70
20&10

I ro n

Bar  Iron......................................................   3  c rates
Light  B and...............................................   3‘Ac rates

K n o lu -N e w   L ist

Door, m ineral, jap. trim m ings............  
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings.......... 

L a n te rn s
Regular 0 Tubular,  Doz...........
W arren, Galvanized  F o u n t...

L evels

Stanley  Rule and  Level Co.’s .
M a tto c k s

Adze E ye.........................

.......................$17  oo.
M eta ls—Z inc

600 pound casks. 
Per pound.

M iscellan eo  ns

Bird C ag es............
Pumps, C istern ... 
Screws,  New L is t.
Dampers, A m erican...............................

M olasses  G ates

Stebbins’ P attern ....................................
Enterprise, self-m easuring...................

Pans

F ry, Acme.................................................
Common,  polished.................................
P a te n t  P la n is h e d   I ro n  
•A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 t 
*B” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 25 t 
Broken packages  ‘Ac per pound extr 

P la n e s

(>hio Tool Co.’s, fancy............................
Sciota  Bench............................................
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy..................
Bench, first quality.................................

86
l  00

6  00
6  oo

60

9
9V4

s

40
80
50&10&10
50

60&10
30

60&10&10
70&S

27 10 20
9 20
27

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50
60
50
50

Sisal,  4   inch and larger.....................
M anilla.......................f  ........................

List  acct.  19, ’86...................................

S am i  P a p e r

dis

Solid  Eyes, per to n .............................

S asli  W e ig h ts

S h e e t  Iro n

com. smooth

com.
$3  00
3  00
3  20
3  40
3  50
All Sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30 Inches

Nos. 10 to 14.......................................$3 20
Nos. 15 to 17......................................   3 20
Nos. 18 to 2 1.......................................  3 30
Nos. 25 to 26.......................................  3 50
No. 27...................................................  3 00
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

S h ells—Loaded

Loaded with  Black  Powder................. dis 
Loaded with  N itro  Powder.................dis 

Shot

Drop............................................................ 
B B and  B uck.......................................... 

S hovels  a n d   S pades

F irst Grade,  Doz....................................  
Second G rade,  Doz................................. 

H@V4.......................................................... 
, , ‘20
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
iu the m arket indicated  by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

,  

S o ld er

S q u ares

per pound..

10

Steel and Iro n ..........................................  

T in —M elyn  G rad e

10x14 IC, Charcoal...................................  
14x20 IC, Charcoal..........................................  
20x14 IX .C harcoal.......................................... 

Each additional X on this grade. $1.25.

T in —A lla w a y   G rad e
10x14 IC, Charcoal...................................
14x20 IC, Charcoal...................................
10x14 IX , Charcoal...................................
14x20 IX, Charcoal...................................

Each additional  X on tills gl ade, $1.50

B o ile r  Size  T in   P la te

14x56 IX, for N o.8 Boilers, 
14x56  IX, for N o.9 Boilers,
T ra p s

Steel,  G am e..............................................
Oneida Community,  Newhouse’s........
Oneida  Community,  Hawley  &  Nor­
ton’s ........................................................
Mouse,  choker, per  doz........................
Mouse, delusion, per  doz.......................

W ire

Bright M arket.......................................
Annealed  M arket................................
Coppered  M arket.................................
Tinned  M arket.....................................
Coppered Spring S teel.......................
Barbed Fence, G alvanized................
Barbed Fence,  Painted......................

W ire   G oods

B right.......................................................  
Screw Eyes...............................................  
H ooks.........................................................  
G ate Hooks and  Eyes............................  

W re n c h e s

Baxter’s A djustable, N ickeled............. 
Coe’s G enuine..........................................  
Coe’s  P atent Agricultural,  Wrought..70&10

40
40&10

1  45
1  70

8  60
8  10

65

$ 8 5 0

8 60
9 75

7  00
7  00
8  50 
8  50

75&10
50
70&10

60
60
50&10 
50&10 
40 
4  «6 
3  90

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75
75

30
30&lo

MUSKEGON
AND  RETURN
Every  Sunday
VIA

cents G.  R.  &   i.

Train leaves  Union 
station at 9.15  a.  m. 
Bridge S i reet Q.22 a. m. 
Return!  g leaves 
Muskegon  5.30 p.  m.

24

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Winter fruit  is  meeting  with 
ready  sale  on  the  basis  of $2.25  per bbl. 
for choice,  $2.50  for  fancy  and  §2.75  for 
extra  fancy.

Beets—§i  per 3  bu.  bbl.
Butter—Oleo  now  has  the  call  and 
every  city  grocer  who  can  scare  up a 
license  is  handling  butterine  instead  of 
butter.  The  trade  in  bogus  butter  is 
more  satisfactory  in  every  way,  because 
of  the  opportunity  to  obtain  a  steady 
supply,  the  attractive  manner  in  which 
it  is  put  up  and  the  ease  with  which 
it 
is  handled  in  the  store.  Genuine  but­
ter  has  been  compelled  to  take  a  back 
seat,  factory  creamery  being  weak  at  21 
(ft:22c,  while  dairy  grades  are  slow  sale 
at  14c,  16c and  18c for extra  fancy, fancy 
and  choice,  respectively.  The  Trades­
man  feels  called  upon  to  caution  the 
country  merchants  against  paying  too 
high  prices  for dairy  butter.  Many  of 
them  are  paying  18c 
in  trade.  After 
sorting  out  the  best  of  the  receipts  for 
the  home  trade the  remainder is shipped 
to the  city  dealer,  but  it  is  usually 
im­
possible  for him  to  dispose of the  stock 
at  a  price  which  will  net  the  shipper 
over  i 5 @ i 6 c .

Cabbage—35@40c  per doz.
Carrots—$1  pfer 3 bu.  bbl.
Celery—15c  per doz.  bunches.
Cranberries—Cape  Cod  stock  is  meet­
ing  with  ready  sale  on  the  basis of $5.50 
@5.75  per  bbl.  Wisconsin  Bell  and 
Bugle  command  §6.50  for  standard  and 
$7.50  for  fancy.
Dressed  Poultry—Spring  chickens  are 
in  good  demand  at  g@ioc.  Fowls  are 
in  fair  demand  at 8@<}C.  Ducks  com­
mand 
for  spring  and  8c  for  old. 
Geese  are  beginning  to  come  in  and 
find  a  market  on  the  basis  of  8c  for  old 
and  ioc  for  young.  Turkeys  are  in  good 
demand  at  i i @ I 2 J £ c  for  spring  and  ioc 
for old.
Eggs—Dealers  pay  16c  for fresh stock, 
holding'  candled  stock  at  17c  and  cold 
storage  at  16c.  Receipts  of  fresh  goods 
are  so  liberal,  due  to the  long-continued 
pleasant  weather,  that  holders  of  cold 
storage  supplies  are  beginning  to  feel 
nervous  over the outcome.  A well-known 
Philadelphia  egg  merchant  writes  the 
Tradesman  as  follows: 
"What  do  you 
think  of  cold  storage  eggs now?  The 
prospects  are  very  favorable  for a  heavy 
loss  by  dealers  of  high  priced  eggs  this 
year.  We  have  only  3,000 cases,  which, 
in  the  present  condition  of the  market, 
is  3,000  cases  too  many. 
It  certainly 
looks  as  though  some  of  the  boys  who 
put  away  eggs  at  drug  store  prices  last 
spring  will  be  wanting  a  situation  when 
spring  opens."
in  good  demand 
at §i.2o@i.5o  per doz.  Squirrels  are  in 
active  demand  at  75@goc  for black  and 
$ i @ i . 2 o  for  fox.  Mallard  ducks  are  in 
fair demand  and  ample  supply  at  §4.25 
per doz.  Teal  ducks  are  higher,  readily 
commanding $2.5o@2.75  per  doz.  Com­
mon  ducks  fetch $1.50^2.  Sand  snipes 
command  75c  per doz.  and yellow-legged 
$1.50  per  doz.

Game—Rabbits  are 

ioc 

Grapes—Home  grown  Concords  from 
cold  storage  command  I 5 @ i 6 c  per  8  lb. 
basket.  New  York  Concords  are  held 
at  17c.
Honey—The price is  so  high  that  con­
sumption  has  been  checked  to a  con­
siderable  extent.  White  clover  is  scarce 
at  15c.  Dark  amber  and  mixed  com­
mand  I3@i4c.
Live  Poultry—Squabs  are  in  fair  de­
in 
mand  at $1.20  per  doz.  Pigeons  are 
strong  demand  at  5o@6oc  per doz.
Onions—Dealers  hold  Spanish at $1.40 
per  crate  and  home  grown  at  35@40c. 
Shippers  are  seriously  handicapped  by 
the  inability  of  the  railroads  to  furnish 
cars  enough to  move  the  stock  for which 
the  dealers  have  orders.

Parsnips—$1.50  per 3 bu.  bbl.
Plums—German  prune  from  cold  stor­

age  are  held  at  $3  per  bu.

The  car  famine  is 

Potatoes—All  kinds  of  prices  are  be­
ing  paid  by  buyers,  ranging  from 
i8@ 
25c. 
interfering 
with  shipments  to  such  an  extent  that 
many  country  buyers  have  been  com­
pelled  to  stop  taking  in  stock,  owing  to 
their warehouses being  full.
Quinces—Home  grown  are  in  small 
limited  demand  at $ 1 .50@ 

supply  and 
1.75  per bu.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

1

Squash-----Hubbard  commands 
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys  are 

per  lb.
in  good 
demand  at  $2.50^2.95  per  bbl.  Vir­
ginias  are  active  on  the  basis of $1.65 
@1.75  per  bbl.

Turnips—gi  per bbl.
Tomatoes—Ripe  storage  stock  fetches 

8oc@gi  per bu.

A  Test for Cigar  Smokers.

From  the New Orleans  Times-Democrat.

‘ butts.’  However,  he 

" I   have  a  customer  who  thinks  he 
smokes  twenty-five  cigars  a  day,"  said 
a  New  Orleans  dealer.  " A s   a  matter of 
fact  he  smokes  about  three-eighths  of 
that  number. 
The  other  five-eighths 
lays 
represents  what  he  gives  away, 
down  partly  consumed  and  a  generous 
disregard  of 
is 
firm 
in  the  conviction  that  he  smokes 
more  actual  tobacco  than  any  other man 
in  New  Orleans  and  a  boast on  the  sub­
ject  in  my  store  yesterday  led  to a  curi­
ous bet.
"H e   declared,  to  begin  with,  that  he 
could  smoke  three  ordinary  cigars  in 
half  an  hour,  and  a by-stander remarked 
that  no  man  alive  could  smoke  even 
one  cigar continuously,  until  it  was  con­
sumed,  without  taking  it  from  his  lips. 
‘ Bosh,’  said  the  twenty-five-a-day  gen­
tleman,  ‘ I  do  that  right  along  and  think 
nothing  of  it.’ 
‘ I ’ll  bet  you  a  box  of 
perfectos  you  can’t  do 
it  right  now, ’ 
said  the  other,  and  in  half  a  minute  the 
wager was  made.  By  its terms the  cigar 
was to be  consumed  in  steady,  consecu­
tive  puffs  and  not  removed  from  the 
lips  until  burned  to  a  mark  1 ^  
inch 
from  the  tip.  A  clear Havana,  Colorado 
maduro  in  color,  was  selected  for the 
test  and  the  smoker  took  a  seat  and 
began.

"H e   puffed  like  an  engine  for  about 
two  minutes  and  accumulated  some­
thing  under  half  an 
inch  of  ash,  and 
then  he  began  to wobble.  He  shifted 
the  cigar  from  side  to  side,  pulled  slow 
and  fast,  and  seemed  to  have  difficulty 
getting  his  breath  between the  draws. 
At  any  rate  he  kept  moving  his  head  to 
avoid  the  smoke  and 
finally  got  to 
coughing. 
I  could  see  he  was  in  tor­
ture,  but  he  stuck  to  it  until  he  got 
within  half  an  inch  of the  mark.  Then 
he  jumped  up suddenly,  threw the cigar 
away  and  walked  out  of the  store.  1 
paid  the  bet  and  charged  it  to  his  ac­
count,  and  he  told  me 
last  night  that 
the  very  idea  of  tobacco  made  him sick. 
It 
is  not  unlikely  that  the  affair  may 
lose  me  a  good  customer.
* ‘ I  doubt  whether it  would  be possible 
for  anybody  to  smoke  even  a  moderate­
ly  strong  cigar through  in  the  manner  I 
have  described.”
A  Merchant Who  Does  Not  Object  to  Ex- 
George  Parson  in  P rin ter’s  Ink.

cursions.

I  met  him  on  the  train.  He  was  like 
a  wasp—small  and  fiery,  a  rapid  talker, 
with  a  "zip-I-got-you"  manner  of  re­
partee.  I  learned  he  was  a  clothing  and 
dry  goods  merchant,  doing  a  large  busi­
ness  in  a  small  town.

How do  you  keep  your  people  from 
going  to the  city?"  I  asked.
"D on ’t  keep  ’em.  Don’t try  to  keep 
’em,”   he  replied  briskly.  ‘ ‘ Let  ’em  go. 
Glad  to  see  ’em  go."

" I   don’t  understand,"  I  confessed.
“ It’s  like  this,"  he  rattled,  flipping 
an 
imaginary  dust-grain  from  his  coat 
sleeve;  "our  town  is  three  hours,  by 
train,  from  the  city.  Shoppers  usually 
patronize  excursions—down  and  back 
same  day.  Not  over five  hours  in  which 
to  hunt  bargains,  besides  theater,  base­
ball,  art  galleries  and  what  not.  As  a 
consequence,  most  of 
’em  fail  to  con­
nect  with  the  bargains.  Now count  in 
the  item  for  railroad  fare,  as  well  as  for 
incidental  expenses  while  in the  city, 
and  you  will  see  that  they  lose  on the 
transaction;  for,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  I 
find  I  can  duplicate  city  prices  nine 
cases  out  of ten.  And  I  do  not  hesitate 
to  let them  know this.  When  they  get 
home  they  find  one  of  my  dodgers  in 
their  hand  before  they  are  fairly  off  the 
train.  At their  houses they  find  my  cir­
culars  in  their  mail  boxes,  and  a  half 
page  advertisement 
evening 
paper.  As  a  usual  thing  they  do  not  go 
again. 
Each  new  excursion  carries 
fewer shoppers. ’ ’

the 

in 

" In   place  of this  ex  post  facto  adver­
tising  would 
it  not  be  better to  antici­
pate  the  excursions?”  
1  enquired.
"O h !  no.  Not at  all.  You.  can  tell 
a  woman  that  you  are  selling  the 
latest 
thing  in  spring  sacques  at $10  and  she 
will  believe  you.  But  she  will  have  a 
lurking  suspicion  that  the  same  thing 
may  be  had  in  the  city  at  half  that 
price.  Let  her go—the  sooner  the  bet­
ter. 
I  might  almost  advise  presenting 
her  with  a  railroad  ticket.  She  will 
come  back  with  a  sacque  which  has 
probably  cost  her $12,  to say  nothing  of 
a  headache."

"You  spoke  of  half  a  page  space  in 
the  town  paper.  Do  you  run  that  much 
every  day?”

"N o.  We  have  two  small  dailies  and 
I  find  that  half a  column  in  each  is  usu­
ally  sufficient.  But  on  excursion  days, 
which  roll  around  about  four  times  a 
year,  I  strike  an  extra  blow.  When  1 
first  started  in  business,  people  would 
not  read  an  advertisement. 
I  had  to 
educate  them.  Hard  work.  1 started  in 
by  sending  to each  family  in  the  town, 
weekly,  a  small  card  which  bore  an  in­
scription  like  this:

"   ‘Are  you  reading  Haskell’s  adver­
tisements  in  the  Herald  and  Record?  If 
not,  better look  them  up. ’

"Y ou  can’t 

imagine  what  an  effect 
they  produced.  To  many  people,  not 
used  to  receiving  mail,  "the  arrival  of 
these  simple  penny  cards  was  an  event 
in  their  lives.  And  they  looked  up  the 
advertisements,  too.”

"D o   you  use  any  other mediums  for 

advertising?”
"O h !  yes. 

I  have  what  I  call  ‘ my 
walking  circular.’  He  is  not  exactly  a 
solicitor—serves  more  as  a  bureau  of in­
formation.  A  smooth,  engaging  talker, 
who  knows  the  details  of  my business 
almost  as  well  as  I  do  myself.  He  sim­
ply  spends  his  time  making  house-to- 
house  calls  and  keeping  our  people 
in­
formed  as  regards  our iatest  goods  and 
their  prices.  He  does  not  confine  him­
self  to  the  town,  but  takes  in  the  sur­
rounding  country. 
In  my  business he 
has become  indispensable.”

A  Good  Method.

Thrre was a little  sclioolm i‘am 
Of drilling in subtraction 

Who had this curious way 
On every stormy day.

”  Let’s all subtract unpleasant things,
And then,”  said she,  ** you’ll gladly see 
Anna M. Pratt.

Like doleful dumps and pam,
That pleasant things remain.’ *

Makes a Difference.

because  he  betrayed  his  country—”

"She  said  she  would  not  marry  him 
"W hat!”
"Because  he  betrayed  his  country 
1  do  wish  you  would get  over 

origin. 
that  habit  of  interrupting.”

When  doctors  disagree,  they  can  al­
it  to  heart 

in  attributing 

ways  unite 
failure.

Advertisem ents  w ill  be  inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
subsequent  insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
payments.

B U SIN ESS  C H A N C ES.

120

F'O R   SALE—GENERAL  STOCK  IN   GOOD 

country trading point.  Term s  to  suit  pur­
chaser.  w ill  rent  or  sell  store  building.  Ad­
lie 
dress No. 116, care Michigan Tradesm an, 
'T 'O  EXCHANGE—A FARM  AN1) PERSONAL 
• A  property for  a  stock  of  merchandise,  or  a 
small farm  in  Southern  p art  of  Michigan.  Ad­
dress No. 120. care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

F'O R   RENT—A  F IN E   BRICK  STORE  IN  
the best town (1,500 inhabitants) in the S tate; 
centrally located;  great chance  for  right  party. 
For particulars address M rs. E. F . Colwell, Lake 
Odessa, Mich. 

Shoe and Jew elry  D ealers,  Look  H ere! 

Mi l l i n e r y ,  c l o t h i n g , 

b o o t   a n d
If 
you are not satisfied w ith your  present  location, 
or if you wish to  open w ith a new stock,  w rite to 
me.  I will rent you space in  a  new  departm ent 
store, which  will  open  during  November,  in  a 
city of 30.000—an  ideal  location  and  an  assured 
trade.  The proprietor is a  heavy advertiser and 
will advertise  rented  departm ents  as  much  as 
his own.  A ddress, a t  once.  D epartm ent  Store, 
care M ichigan  Tradesm an. 

119

118

Fo r   s a l e   o r  r e n t —a   w e l l -s e l e c t e d

stock  of  general  m erchandise  in  interior 
Michigan town of 2,000 population;  doing  a good 
cash business.  Will sell stock and  store  or  rent 
building a t a  bargain:  easy  term s.  Reason  for 
selling, ill  health.  A ddress  110,  care  Michigan
Tradesm an.____________________________   110
L 'O R   SALE—CLEAN  *2,000  DRUG  STOCKS 
i   w ith few fixtures, located  in  good  town, 500 
population.  All  cash  trade.  R ent  low.  Tele­
phone  agency  pays  rent.  Term s  to  suit  pur­
chaser.  No  exchange.  Owner  has  other  busi­
ness.  A ddress No.  117,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man.  _________  

F'O R   SALE- CHEAP—NO.  18  TROMNER 

S tar  Coffee  Mill;  used  only  few  m onths. 
A ddress  D.  H.  N.,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
O R Y SO N   BRICK  STORE  AT  O V ll), MICH., 
JZ>  to exchange for  tim bered  land or  improved 
farm  or  stock  of  goods.  A ddress  L.  C.  Town-
send. Jackson, Mich.____________________ 114
L ’OR  SALE—SMALL  CLEAN  STOCK  DRY 
P   goods, groceries  and  patent  medicines;  es­
tablished cash trade:  best location  in  town:  big 
trade in hay and feed;  w arehouse on C. & W. M. 
and F. &  P. M. right handy.  Or will  rent  build­
ings w ith fixtures a t low rate.  M ust retire;  will 
pay  to  investigate;  w rite  for  particulars.  Ad­
dress Box 17, Baldwin, Mich. 

______  

115

117

_  

113

ren t space for line of fancy goods.  Stebbins 
Millinery Co., Lansing, Mich. 
108

LEADING  M ILLINERY  STORE  WILL 
S POT  CASH  DOWN,  W ITHOUT  ANY  DE- 

lay,  will  be  paid  for  stocks  of  dry  goods, 
shoes  or  general  m erchandise,  at  a  discount. 
Correspondence  positively  held  confidential. 
Large  stocks  preferred.  A ddress  A.  P.,  care 
Michigan Tradesm an. 

FI  'O R   SALE  OR  TRADE—A  FIRST-CLASS 

three hundred tw enty acre farm  in Southern 
M ichigan.  Term s  reasonable.  A ddress  Box 
720, Dowagiac, Mich. 

106

107

. 

97

98

105

103

104

'O R   SALE—STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  AND 
necessary fixtures in M ichigan.  Will invoice 
$800.  Would sell  for  about  half  if  taken  now; 
stock  new.  A ddress  No.  105,  care  Michigan 
Tradesm an. 
L 'O R   SALE—AT  A  BARGAIN,  IF   TAKEN 
r  at  once,  stock  of  groceries,  crockery  and 
queensw are, invoicing about $2,500, in  one of  the 
best towns for  business  in  Southw estern Michi­
gan;  best location in town.  This will pay  you to 
investigate.  Good reasons for  selling.  Address 
Box A, Cassopolis, Mich. 

Il'O R S A L E —DRUG  STOCK  IN   RAILROAD 

town of 800  inhabitants;  no  opposition  and 
good  trade.  Stock  invoices  about  $2,000;  easy 
term s.  O ther business  reason  for  selling.  Ad­
dress Otis Jones, New Buffalo,  Mich. 
ROCERY"“STOCK  FOR  SALE—A  F IN E , 
I”  clean  stock  of  groceries,  store  and  office 
fixtures are offered for sale  a t  a  bargain.  Will 
invoice  about  $1,200.  Splendid  location  in  the 
best town for its size in Central Michigan.  Good 
established trade.  R are bargain,  A ddress Box 
37, Carson City, Mich. 
L 'O R   SALE—OWEN  ACETYLENE  GAS  Im a- 
r   chine.  Cone & Co., 80  Fitzhugh  St.,  Grand 
Rapids. 

tjM)R  SALE—40-ACRE  FARM,  IMPROVED.
Would exchange  for  small  stock  of  goods, 
groceries  preferred.  A ddress  Box  E,  Ashley, 
Mich. 
90
L 'O R   SALE—A  FIRST-CLASS  SHINGLE 
r  mill  com plete.  Capacity,  40,000  per  day. 
J u st closed, having finished the  cut  in  th a t  sec­
tion.  A ddress Lock Box 738, Belding, Mich.  80 
\ \ 7  ANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A RUBBER 
’ ’  stam p.  Best  stam ps  on  earth   a t  prices 
th at  are  right.  Will  J .  WeUer,  M uskegon, 
Mich. 

dress No. 680, care Michigan T radesm an. 

splendid farm ing country.  No  trades.  Ad­

F¡'OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FO R GENERAL 

’  Stock  of  M erchandise—60  acre  farm ,  p art 
clear, architect house  and  barn;  well  w atered. 
I also have two 40  acre  farm s  and  one  80  acre 
farm  to exchange.  A ddress No. 12,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesm an. 

-  12
FpOR  SALE—NEW   GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
A NY  ONE  W ISH IN G   TO ENGAGE IN  TH E 
grain and produce and  other  lines  of  busi­
ness can  learn  of  good  locations  by  communi­
cating w ith  H .  H .  H owe,  Land  and  Industrial 
A gent C. & W . M. and  D., G. R. & W .  Railways, 
G rand Rapids. Mich. 
T h e   s h a f t i n g ,  h a n g e r s   a n d   p u l -
Mo d er n  c ity  r e sid e n c e  a n d   la r g e

leys form erly used  to  drive  the  Presses  of 
the Tradesm an are for sale  a t  a  nominal  price. 
Power users making  additions  or  changes  will 
do  well  to  investigate.  Tradesm an  Company, 
G rand Rapids, M ichigan. 

lot, w ith barn, for sale cheap on easy term s, 
or will exchange for  tract  of  hardwood  tim ber. 
Big bargain for some one.  Possession given any 
time, 
investigation  solicited.  E. A. Stowe,  24 
Kellogg street. G rand Rapids.____________ 993

919

958

680

983

M ISC E L L A N E O U S.

o h a r m a c i s T w t l l   a c c e p t   s i t u a t i o n
1   or  take  working  interest  and  full  charge. 
A ddress No. 1 1 1 . care Michigan Tradesm an  111
W ANTED—LOCATION  BY  PH Y SIC. A N .
Do not care to buy Dractice.  A ddress  No. 
112. care Michigan Tradesm an 
V»  ANTED—POSITION  AS  MANAGER  OR 
* '   head  clerk  in  general  store.  H ave  h id  
valuable experience as  m anager  and  buyer  for 
ten  years.  A ddress  No.  77,  care  Michigan 
Tradesm an. 
1 1 7  ANTED—  POSITION  AS  TRAVELER 
” » 
for groceries or specialty clerk  in  general 
store;  fifteen  years’ experience;  can  give  good 
references.  A ddress  No.  102  care  Michigan 
Tradesm an. 

112

77

102

ANTED—POSITION  AS  M ANAGERESS 
head  clerk  In  general  store.  Have  had 
valuable experience  as  m anager  and buyer  for 
ten years.  A nnual  sales,  $50,000.  A ddress  No. 
77, care Michigan Tradesm an. 
W A N TED ^PO SITIO N   BY  DRUGGIST.  14 
years’  experience.  A ddress  No.  40,  care 
M ichigan Tradesm an. 

77

40

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CHICAGO ■ -wr,.*kr

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4:35pm  *1 1 :50am
Lv. G .K apids, 7:10am  12:00m 
Ar. Chicago.  1:30pm  5:00pm 10:45pm  *7:25am 
Lv. Chicago.  7:15am  12:00m 
5:00pm  *11:50pm
Ar. G. Kapids, 1:25pm  5:05pm  10:55pm  *6:20am 

Traverse City, Charlevoix and fetoskey. 

Lv. <1. Kapids, 7:30am 
A r.T ravC ity, 12:40pm 
A r. Charlev’x,  3:10pm 
A r. Petoskey,  3:40pm 

4:00pm
9:10pm
12:25am
12:55am

Trains  arrive  from  north  at  2:40pm,  and 
Parlor cars on day trains and steeping  cars  on 

and  10:45pm.
night trains to and from Chicago.

•Every day.  O thers week days  only.

DETROIT,Qrand Rapids & Western

June a 6 ,1899.

Lv. Grand K apids__   7:00am
A r. D etroit..................11:40am
Lv. D etroit..................  8:40am
Ar. Grand K apids__   1:30pm

Saginaw,  Alma and  Greenville.

Lv. G .K .7:00am 5:10pm Ar. G. R, 11:45am 9:40pm 
Parlor Cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 

and Saginaw.  T rains run week days only.

G eo.  De H a v f.n , G eneral Pass. Agent.

n n   a  1 \ j n   Trank Railway System
Va I Y / V I   1  a J   Detroit and Milwaukee Div

(In eifect Oct 9,1899.)

Going East.

Leave 

A rrive
Saginaw.  D etroit & N. "V.........t   6:50am  t   9:55pm
D etroit and E a s t.......................tio  :16am   + 5:07pm
Saginaw, D etroit & E a st.........t   3:27pm  tl2:50pm
Buffalo, N. Y., Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, Ltd Ex..*  7:20pm  *10:16am 
Going W est.
Gd. H aven E xpress...................*i0:2lam  *  7:16pm
Gd. H aven ana In t. P ts ...........+12:58pm  +  3:19pm
Gd. H aven and M ilw aukee....+  5:12pm  +I0:llam 
Gd. H aven and M ilwaukee.. ..+10:00pm  t   6:40am 
Eastbound  6:50am  train  has  W agner  parlor 
car to D etroit, eastbound 3:27pm train has parlor 
car to D etroit.

»Dally. 

tE xcept Sunday.

C. A. J u s t in , City Pass. Ticket Agent,

97 Monroe St., M orton House,

GRAND Rapids  ft  Indiana Railway

October as,  1899.

Northern  Division. 

Going  From
North  North

t  5:15pm 
t   7:45am 
t   2:10pm  +I0:l5pm 
t   5:25pm 
tl0:45am 
t i l  :00pm 
t   6:20am 
7 :45am  and 2 :10pm trains, parlor cars;  1 1 :00pm 

Trav. City, Petoskey, M ack, 
Traverse City &  Petoskey.. 
Cadillac Accom modation... 
Petoskey & M ackinaw  City 
train, sleeping car.

Southern  Division 

Going 
South 
t  7:10am 
t   2:00pm 

From
South
t   9:45pm 
Kalamazoo, F t. W ayne Cin. 
Kalamazoo and F t. W ayne, 
t   2:00pm 
Kalamazoo, F t. W ayne Cin.  *  7:00pm  *  6:45am 
Kalamazoo and  Vicksburg.  *11:30pm  *  9:10am 
7:10am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati, 
coach to Chicago;  2:00pm train has parlor  car to 
F o rt W ayne;  7:00pm train has sleeper  to Cincin­
nati;  il:30pm  train,  sleeping  car  and  coach  to 
Chicago.

Chicago Trains.

T O   C H IC A G O .'

F R O M   C H IC A G O .

t2  00pm  *11  3
Lv.G rand  K apids... +7  10am 
Ar.  Chicago..............  2  30pm 
8 45pm 
7 (
Lv.  Chicago................................+3 02pm  *11  3
A r. G rand R apids....................;  9  45pm 
6  <
Train leaving G rand Kapids 7:10am has coach; 
ll:30pm train has coach and sleeping  car;  trains 
leaving Chicago  3:02pm  has  coach;  11:32pm  has 
sleeping car for G rand Kapids.

Muskegon  Trains.

Michigan  Business  Men’s Association 

President, C. L. AVh it n f .y , Traverse  City;  Sec­

retary, E. A. St o w e, G rand Kapids.
Michigan  Bétail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  J .   Wi s l e r ,  M ancelona;  Secretary, 

E. A. Sto w e, G rand Kapids

:  Detroit  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President, 

J o se p h   K n ig h t ;  Secretary,  E. 

Ma r k s ;  Treasurer, C. H. F r i n k .

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President, F r a n k  J . D y k ;  Secretary,  Ho m er 

K l a p ;  Treasurer, J . G e o r g e  L e h m a n .

Saginaw  Mercantile  Association 

resident,  P.  F.  T r e a n o r ;  Vice-President, 
•John  McB r a t n i e ;  Secretary, W.  H. L e w is .

Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

resident, J .  F r a n k   H e l m e r ;  Secretary,  W. 
H. P o r t e r ;  Treasurer, L. P e l t o n .
Adrian  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

’resident,  A.  C.  Cl a r k :  Secretary,  E.  F. 
Cl e v e l a n d ; T reasurer. W m. C. K o e h n .

Muskegon  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

Tesident,  A l b e r t   T o w l:  Secretary,  D.  A.
BoELKiN S;.Treasurer,  J .   W.  Ca s k a d o n .

Bay  Cities  Retail Grocers’  Association 

’resident,  M.  L.  De B a t s ;  Secretary,  S.  W.
Wa t e r s . 

_______

Kalamazoo  Retail  Grocers’ Association 

’resident, W .  H.  J o h n so n;  Secretary,  Ch a s.
H y m a n . 

_______

President,  T hos  T.  B a t e s ;  Secretary,  M.  B.

Traverse  City  Business  Men’s  Association 
Ho l l y ; Treasurer,  C.  A.  Ha m m o n d.

Owosso  Business  Men’s Association 

President,  A.  D.  W h i p p l e ;  Secretary,  G.  T. 

Ca m p b e l l ;  T reasurer,  W.  E. Co l l in s.

Alpena  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, F. W. G i l c h r i s t ;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

P a r t r id g e . 

_______

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers'  Association 

President,  L.  M.  Wil s o n ;  Secretary,  P h i l i p  

H i l b e r ;  Treasurer,  S. J . Hu f f o r d .
St.  Johns  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, T h o s. B r o m l e y ; Secretary,  F r a n k  

A.  P e r c y ; Treasurer, Cl a r k  A. P u t t.

Perry  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  H.  W .  Wa l l a c e ;  Secretary,  T.  E.

Grand  Haien  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President,  F .  D.  V os;  Secretary,  J .  W .  V e r - 

H o e k s. 

_______

Tale  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, Ch a s.  K oundS;  Secretary,  F r a n k  

P u t n e y .

T R A V E L

F-  A  P.  M.  R.  R.

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t5 40pm
Lv. Grand R apids... .+7  35am 
A r. M uskegon............   9 00am 
7  00pm
Sunday  train  leaves  G rand  Rapids  9:15am; 
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t l   35pm 
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Ar. G rand Rapids. . .  9  30am 
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tl2   15pm 
1  30pm 

t4  00pm
5  20pm 

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Ticket A gent U nion Station.

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Lv. Grand K apids.........................  7  00am 
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A r. M anistee................................. 12  05pm 
Lv. M anistee.................................   8  30am  4  10pm
A r. G rand  K apids.......................  1  00pm  9 55pm

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