Volume XVII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBERS,  1899.

Number 842

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P rice ,  per  barrel  of  5  dozen  assorted 
In  less  th an   barrel  lots,  per  dozen  
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Volume  XVII

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  8.1899.

is  looking  up 
Potatoes— The  market 
little  and  dealers  are  more  hopeful 
the  outcome.  Buyers  are  paying  20 
25c.
Squash-  Hubbard  commands  I'/ic  per 
>und.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys  are  in  good 
:mand  at  $2.75(^3.25  per  bbl.  Vir- 
nias  are  active  on  the  basis  of  $1.75 
2.25  per  bbl.
Turnips—$1  per  bbl.
Tomatoes— Ripe  storage  stock  fetches 

8oc@$i  per  bu.

T h e   G r a in   M a r k e t.

Wheat  has  remained 

comparatively 
steady  during  the  week,  while  a  bearish 
:eling  prevailed  which  operated  to  de- 
ress  the  market  a  trifle  at  the  end  of 
ast  week.  The  tone  changed  for  the 
better  at  the  opening  this  week,  so  the 
price  is  about  the  same  for  cash  and  fu­
tures  as  one  week  ago.  The  visible 
lade  a  gain  of  about  1,500,000  bushels, 
hich 
leaves  the  visible  at  51,000,000 
ushels,  against  17,000,000  bushels  for 
the  corresponding  week  last  year.  How- 
ver,  receipts  at  initial  points  are  fall- 
off  very  materially  and,  while  the 
hear clique  cry,  “ no  export  demand," 
■ et  we  have  exported  over  4,000,000 
bushels  per  week  since  July  1,  1899,  and 
would  probably  have  been  more lately 
iad  tonnage  room  for  export  been  pro­
curable.  Shipping  to  seaboard  has  alsr 
been  restricted  by  the  scarcity  of  cars.
he  railroads  have  not  in  years  had  sc 
many  calls  for  cars  as  during  this  fal 
nd  the  demand  does  not  seem  to  abate 
as  yet.  The  question  arises,  How  long 
:an  wheat  be  kept  at  the  present  low 
level  with  conditions  as  they  are  at 
present?

Com  has  held  its  own  extremely  we 
Exports  in  this  cereal  have  been  heav 
especially  to  Germany  as  they  are  using 
more  every  year  for  feeding  purposes 
They  find 
it  cheaper  to  purchase  our 
com  than  to  raise  it  or  use  any  substi 
tute.

Rye  has  dropped 

Oats  have  advanced  another  cent  and 
re  extremely  strong  and  in demand ;  i 
fact,  all  offers  are being taken promptly.
in  price  2c  since 
last  writing  and  it  looks  as  though  the 
, rice  would 
further  recede  unless  the 
distilleries  come  into  the  market  again. 
Exports  are  also  slack  at  present  and 
all  this  may  cause  another  drop.

Beans  are  exceptionally  strong  and 
Si.65 
is  bid  in  the  markets  where  they 
are  handled.  This,  of  course,  is  for 
handpicked.

for  feed 

The  flour  trade  has kept up well,  while 
is  as  strong  as 

the  demand 
ever,  with  50c  per  ton  advance.
Receipts  of  wheat  have  been 

limited 
to  34  cars,  9  cars  of corn,  10 cars of oats, 

car  of  rye.
Millers  are  paying  65c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

S.  J.  Plotkin  and  Jacob  Fisher  have 
formed  a  copartnership  under  the  style 
of  Plotkin  &  Fisher  and  engaged  in  the 
purchase  and  sale  of  poultry,  which they 
will  dry  pick  and  send  to  the  Eastern 
market 
in  refrigerator  cars.  The  new 
firm  will  be  located  at  331  Canal  street.

Selfish  ends  do  not  justify  personal 

meanness.

Number 842

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

The  record of  the  week  in stock quota- 
ions  and  movements  has 
justified  the 
many  predictions  that  there  would  be 
ttle  change  in  the  situation  until  after 
the  elections.  However,  the  dulness 
is 
not  to  be  wholly  attributed  to  the  dis- 
ractions  and  uncertainties  of  politics,
>r  the 
long  stringency  which  has  pre- 
ailed  in  the  New  York  money  market 
is  still  in  decided  evidence.  The  gen­
eral  strength  of  the  business  situation  is 
such  that  transportation  stocks  are  car­
ried  upward  on  the  average,  and  the  in­
fluence  extends  to  many  of  the  leading 
industrials.  That  the  election  will  be 
followed  by  a  radical  change is rendered 
morohable  by  the  money  situation.

Reports  of  railway  earnings  show  an 
ncrease  for  October  of  10  per  cent,  over 
the  same  month  last  year  and  15.6  per 
cent,  for  the  same  roads  in  the  corres- 
jonding  month  of  1892. 
In  industrial 
ines  there  is  no  abatement  of  the  pres­
sure  of  demand  both  for  domestic  and 
foreign  use.  One  notable  feature  of  the 
situation  is  the  heavy  import  movement 
in  manufacture,  in­
f  materials  used 
dicating  the  heavy  demand 
lines 
which  depend  on  imported  productions. 
Exports  for  the  month  of  October  of  last 
year  exceeded  those  of  any  month  in 
history  except  three,  but  are  exceeded 
this  year  by  nearly  six  millions. 
It  is 
to  be  noted,  too,  that  the  movement  of 
cotton,  which  generally 
large  a 
is  so 
portion  of  the  exports, 
is  unusually 
small,  attributed  to  a  concerted  holding 
of  the  product  by  the  planters.

in 

in  the 

The  feature 

iron  and  steel 
trade 
is  the  continued  heavy  demand 
for  rails,  which  is  said  to  have  engaged 
fully  80  per cent,  of  the  works  for  the 
for  milling 
entire  coming  year,  and 
lake  and  ocean 
stock  and  bridges,  for 
ship-building  and 
for 
factories  and 
warehouses.  Prices  maintain  the  high 
levels  for  quick  delivery,  but  in  some 
lines,  where  works  are  overtaking  their 
irders,  a  tendency  to 
lower  figures  is 
manifest.

Movement  of  wheat 

for  export  con­
tinues  heavy,  although  the  unusual  out­
go  of  last  year  for  the  same  week  is  not 
quite  equaled.  The increase  in  the  out­
go  of  com,  however,  is  beyond  all  ex­
pectations,  being  over  5°  per  cent,  both 
for  the  month  and  for  four  months  of 
the  crop  year.  Prices  of  wheat  declined 
about  2  cents  and  of  corn  1  cent.

feature 

In  the  textile  trades  the  most  notice­
able 
is  the  great  volume  of  the 
wool  trade  at  all  Eastern  markets,  ex­
ceeding  all  records.  That  the  tremen­
dous  sales  were  not  entirely  speculative 
is  shown  by  the  fact  that  prices  of  all 
grades  advanced  over  1 '/2  cents  on  the 
average.  Prices  of  goods  are  slowly  but 
steadily  gaining,  the  week  showing  an 
advance  of 
\ l/ 2  cents  on  an  average. 
Boots  and  shoes  continue  strong,  as 
well  as 
is  reported 
yet  another  advance  in  hides  in the Chi­
cago  market.  Clearing  house  payments 
in  October  exceeded  $8,322,000,000, 
against  $5,349,000,000 
for  the  same 
month  of  1892.

leather,  and  there 

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loves  a  lover.  Dewey  is  both.

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Annual Statement,  Dec. 31,  1898.

Commenced Business 8ept.  I, 1893.
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L edger A sse ts...................................... 
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T h e   G r o e e r y   M a r k e t.
B u s in e s s   W a n ts .

T h e   P r o d u c e   M a r k e t.

Apples— Winter  fruit  is  meeting  witl 
lOady  sale  on  the  basis  of  $2.25  per  bbl 
for  choice,  $2.50  for  fancy  and  $2.75  for 
;xtra 
is  rotting  badly, 
owing  to  the  warm  weather  during  Oc­
tober,  and  the  losses  by  dealers  who  are 
carrying  an  amount  of  stock  will  be 
considerable.

fancy.  Stock 

.

Beets—$1  per  3  bu.  bbl.
Butter— Factory  creamery  is  weak  at 
~i@22c,  while  dairy  grades  are  slow 
sale  at  14c,  16c  and  18c  for  extra  fancy, 
fancy  and  choice,  respectively.  The 
advent  of  oleo  and  fresh  pork  has  rele 
ated  genuine  butter  to the  background 
Cabbage— 35@40C  per  doz.
Carrots—$1  per  3  bu.  bbl.
Celery— 15c  per  doz.  bunches. _ 
Cranberries— Cape  Cod  stock  is  meet 
,ng  with  ready  sale  on  the  basis  of $5.50 
@5.75  per  bbl.  Wisconsin  Bell  and 
Bugle  command  §6  for  standard  and  §7 
for  fancy. 
Dressed  Poultry— Spring  chickens  are 
,n  good  demand  at  8c.  Fowls  are  in 
fair  demand  at  7c.  Ducks  command 
8c  for  spring  and  7c  for old.  Geese  are 
beginning  to  come  in  and  find  a  mar­
ket  on  the  basis  of  8c  for  young.  Old 
re  not  wanted  at  any  price.  Turkeys 
ire  in  good  demand  at  10c  for  spring 
ind  8c  for old.
Eggs— The  demand  is  strong  and  re 
liberal,  but  fully  one-third 
ceipts  are 
of 
shrunken  and 
sloppy,  necessitating  careful  inspection 
on  the  part  of  the  handler.  Dealers 
pay  16c 
fresh,  holding 
candled  stock  at  17c.

receipts 

strictly 

are 

the 

for 

Game— Rabbits  are 

in  good  demand 
at  §1.20@i.50  per  doz.  Squirrels  are 
in  active  demand  at  75@9oc  f°r  black 
and  $i @ i.20  for  fox.  Mallard  ducks 
are 
in  fair  demand  and  ample  supply 
at  $4.25  per doz.  Teal  ducks  are  high 
er,  readily  commanding  $2.5o@2.75  pe 
doz. 
Common  ducks  fetch  $i.50@2 
Sand  snipes  command  75c  P^r  doz.  and
yellow-legged  S i. 50  per  doz.
Grapes— New  York  Concords  are  held 

at  17c  for  8  pound  basket.

. 

Honey— White  clover  is  scarce  at  15c 

,  . 

Dark  amber  and  mixed  command
@I4C. 
,
Live  Poultry— Squabs  are  in  fair  de 
mand  at  $1.20  per  doz.  Pigeons  are  1 
strong  demand 
at  5°@6oc  per  doz 
Chickens  are  strong  at  6@7C.  Fowl 
are  not  so  active  at  $@6 c.  Turkeys 
are  eagerly  purchased  at  7@9C-  Ducks 
are 
in  fair  demand  at  5@6c.  Geese 
fetch  $5@6  per doz.

Onions— Dealers  hold 

Spanish 
$1.40  per  crate  and  home  grown  at
@40C.  • 

v.  KKl
Parsnips—$ 1.25  p e r 3  bu.  bbl. 
Plums—German  prune  from  cold  stor 

age are  held  at $3 per bu.

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D ry  Goods

T h e   D r y   G o o d s   M a r k e t.

Staple  Cottons— Brown  sheetings  and 
drills  show,  perhaps,  a  little  more 
in­
difference  in  the  ordering  for  future  de­
livery  than  other  staple  goods,  but  any­
thing  in  sight  for  immediate  or  near-by 
delivery  is  taken  up  quickly.  All  fine 
brown  goods  and  fine  gray  goods  are 
strongly  situated,  and  the  only  available 
supplies  of  the 
latter are  in  the  hands 
jobbers.  Bleached  cottons  con­
of  the 
in  demand  without  anything  like 
tinue 
adequate  supplies. 
Brown  osnaburgs 
and  ducks  show  no  change,  either  in 
price  or  amount  of  business.  Wide 
sheetings  have 
fewer  price 
changes  than 
last 
changes  reported  have  had  more  effect 
than  any  others  in  limiting  the  amount 
of  business.

last  week,  and  the 

shown 

Prints  and  Ginghams— Staple  prints 
and  ginghams  remain  steady  and  firm 
last  quotations,  although  further 
at  the 
looked  for by  the 
advances  have  been 
trade  almost  daily. 
In  fact,  we  expect 
to  receive  price  changes  by  the  time 
this  goes  to  press.  Such  lines  as  turkey 
reds,  indigo  blues,  etc.,  are  splendidly 
situated,  and  higher  prices  are  expected 
before 
Fancy  prints  show  no 
change,  and  there  is  still  some  irregu­
larity  to  be  found  in  prices. 
It  is  easy 
to  secure  business  in  wide  fancy  prints 
at  regular  quotations.  Ginghams  con­
tinue  strong 
in  both  staple  and  dress 
styles,  and  both  are  heavily  sold  ahead 
on  spring  account.

long. 

Dress  Goods— The  dress  goods  market 
continues  to  be  a  hive  of  industry- 
speaking  now  in  connection  with  home 
manufactures.  The  domestic  maker  is 
in  clover.  He  is  up  to  his  eyes  in  busi­
ness  and 
in  not  a  few  instances  fully 
immersed,  and  can  not  see  his  way 
clear  to  fill  all  the  orders  he  has  ac­
cepted.  Even  running  on  an  extra  time 
schedule,  as  a  great number  of  the  mills 
are,  they  are  still  unable  to  turn  out  the 
goods  as  rapid  as  the  buyers could wish. 
The  dress  goods  manufacturer  who  is 
not  well  supplied  with  business  to-day 
is  the  exception,  and  he  is  the  excep­
tion 
for  no  other  reason  than  that  he  is 
not  showing  desirable  goods,  his  own 
blindness  being 
the  sole  stumbling 
block  to  his  success.

Underwear— The knit  underwear  trade 
in  the  jobbing  cir­
continues  to  boom 
cles,  and  the 
latter  report  business  as 
being  far  ahead  of  anything  in  past sea­
sons.  They  are  only  troubled  now  by 
the  shortness  of  supplies  and  the  in­
creasing  prices  which  they  have  to  pay, 
and  shipments  are  behind  both  with 
jobbers  and  the  mills.  Nearly  all 
the 
the 
jobbers  are  running  very 
low  on 
stock.  They  are  willing  to  pay  the  ad­
vances  named,  if  they  can  get  the  goods 
in  any  decent  season.  Naturally  there 
is  considerable  grumbling,  while  both 
these  conditions  are  present,  but  there 
seems  to  be  no 
in 
sight.  Manufacturers  of  cotton  fleeced 
goods  have  all  they  can  do  to  take  care 
of  the  customers  already  on  their books, 
without  accepting  new  business.  They 
would  greatly  prefer  to  have  some  of 
their  present  orders  canceled  in  order to 
give  themselves  a  chance  to  accept  new 
business  at  increased  figures.  The  larg­
est  business  that  buyers  of  underwear 
in  fleeced  goods,  with  a  small 
did  was 
poition  of  ribbed  goods,  and  very 
little 
flat  goods.  Wool  fleeced  goods  are  situ­
ated  perhaps  a 
little  better  than  the 
cotton  fleeced  lines,  although  they  have 
influenced  by  the  latter to  a  con­
been 

immediate  relief 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

siderable  degree ;  $4.50  to $5  per dozen 
is  about  the  average  price  at  which 
cotton  goods  have  been  selected,  so  that 
it  will  be  seen  that  the  average  price 
paid  is  very  low.

have 

the  past 

increased 

looms.  Within 

Carpets—The  outlook 
in  carpets 

for  a  prosper­
is  very  bright. 
ous  season 
Among  other  indications  of  the  increas­
ing  prosperity 
in  this  line  is  the  fact 
that  many  of  the  mills  have  increased 
in 
their  productive  capacity  by  putting 
more 
two 
weeks,  also,  some  of  the  Philadelphia 
manufacturers 
the 
wages  of  their  employes.  All  indica­
tions  point  to  a  still  further  advance 
in 
prices  in  all  lines  of  carpets.  Yam   for 
carpet  manufacture  and  other  purposes 
is  sold  ahead 
for  some  time  to  come. 
Within  the  last  two  weeks  yarn  has  ad­
vanced  yic  a  pound.  With  yam  as 
scarce  as  it  is  at  the  present  time,  man­
ufacturers  are  lucky  if  they  can  cover 
for  orders  already  taken.  Up  to  within 
a  few  months  the  supply  of  yarn  was  in 
excess  of  the  demand,  but  now  just  the 
reverse  is  true,  the  demand  being  above
the  normal.  While  the  manufacturer  of 
carpets  will  get  the  advance  asked  for 
on  his  goods,  the  retailer  seems  doubt­
ful  as  to  whether  he  can  realize  from his 
sales  a  proportionate  advance. 
This 
does  not  worry  the  retailer,  however, 
as  sales  are  so  large,  and  there  is  such 
a  continuous  demand,  especially  for  the 
better  grades  of  carpets,  that  he  can 
make  up  for  the  deficiency  mentioned, 
and 
is  cheerful  of  a  good  season,  and 
further  advances  later  on.  Jobs  in  car­
pets  will  be  scarce.

Rugs— There  has  been  a  10  per  cent, 
advance  on  Smyrna  rugs  within  the past 
week,  and  even  at  the  advanced  prices 
it  has  been  very  difficult  to  fill  the  or­
ders.  The  demand  is  for  better  qualities 
of  rugs,  principally.

Lace  Curtains— Lace  curtains  and  im­
ported  tapestries  remain  the  same,  al­
though  the  domestic  tapestries  have  ad­
vanced.  Retailers  are  of  the  opinion 
that  this  will  no  doubt  affect  the  sale  of 
domestic  goods  of  this  order,  as  they 
are  so  close  in  price.  American  manu­
facturers  are  constantly  improving  the 
quality  and  fabrication  of  their goods  to 
such  an  extent  that 
is  now  only  a 
question  of  a  short  time  before  they  wil 
fully  supplant  the  foreign.

it 

D o e s   E v e r y th i n g   B a c k w a r d .

Stephen  Roesel,  a  Hamilton,  Ohio, 
butcher,  was  recently  taken  to  Mercy 
Hospital  suffering  from  some  strange 
disease  that  baffles  medical  science.  He 
is  unable  to  talk 
intelligently,  although 
conversant  with  the  German  and  Eng­
lish 
language;  is  unable  to  write  his 
name,  but 
is  able  to  walk  and  eat  a 
hearty  meal.  His  fellow  employes  say 
he  does  everything  backward;  for  in­
stance,  the  other day  he  picked  up  a  big 
butcher  knife  by  the  blade,  almost  sev­
ering  his  fingers,  and  attempted  to  slice 
a  beef  with  the  handle. 
In  every  line 
of  work  alloted  to  him  he  started  back­
ward.  Roesel is  unconscious  of  the  fact 
that  he  is  doing  his  work  wrong.

A   St.  Louis  woman  has  just  received 
letter  which  was  mailed  on  July  10, 
a 
traveling 
1889,  and  which  has  been 
around  the  country  ever  since.  During 
the  decade  of  its  wanderings  the  writer 
died,  and  the  addressee  married  and 
became  the  mother  of  two children.  The 
letter  originally  contained a money order 
for  $2,  but  this  the  postoffice  officials 
abstracted,  because  it  had  become  out­
lawed.  Upon  the  presentation  of  the 
missive  to  the  proper  authorities,  how­
ever,  the  claim  of  the  recipient  was  al­
lowed  and  the  $2  was  paid.

Buys  a  dozen  of  pretty  silk  or  vel­
vet  stock  collars.
W e  also  have  a  good  assortment 
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 
prompt  and  careful  attention.

Voigt,
Herpolsheimer 
&   Co.,

N E C K T IE S

Wholesale  Dry Goods, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

We  have  neckwear  in  abundance—  
Flowing End Ties,  TeckTies,  Puff Ties, 
Club  Ties,  String  Ties,  Windsor  Ties 
and Bow Ties in bright fancy sil  stripes 
and plaids, also plain black silk and satin
B>  the  Way,  have  you  seen  W ay’s  Mufflers; 
they  are  the  latest  thing  out  in  neck  scarfs.  Our 
stock of Wool and  Silk  Mufflers is  now  in  and  ready 
for inspection.

P.  S T E K E T E E   &  SO N S

W H O LES A LE  D R Y   G O O D S.
GRAN D  R A P ID S .  MICH.

Corl,  Knott 
&  Co.,

Importers and 
Jobbers of

Millinery

Our Specialties:

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

^ 2 S a 5 ESH5 E S E 5 E 5 HS2 5 H S S S ^
"  Take a Receipt for " 

Everything

It may save you a  thousand  dol­

lars, or a lawsuit, or a customer.

W e  make  City  Package  Re­
ceipts  to  order;  also  keep  plain 
ones in stock.  Send for samples.

BARLOW  BROS,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.  J
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T R A V EL

VIA

F   &  P  M.  R,  R.

There  are  friends  who  will  stand  by 
you  to  the  last  dollar.  Your  dollar,  not 
theirs.

AND  S T E A M S H IP   LIN ES 

TO  ALL  POINTS  IN  MICHIGAN

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

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vide  the  proper  salve  and  at  the  earliest 
possible  moment  apply  it  at  the  seat  of 
disease  and  you  will  never  regret  the 
cost  of  the  remedy  used.  Strive 
to 
awaken  this  ambition  in  your  helpers, 
then  make  possible  a  gratifying  end  to 
their  ambitious  aims,  and  success 
is 
yours.

It 

is  not  to  his  hands  that  any  man 
owes  his  fortune,  but  to  the  head  that 
has  guided  the  hands  and  planned  the 
work 
for  other  hands  to  aid  his  own ; 
and  in  this  planning  lies  the  correct  ap- 
plication  of  the  prescription  which  I 
have  used  as  a  central  thought,  hence  1 
advocate  the  use  of  brains.  One  thing 
always  to  be  considered,  is  they*  are 
worth  a  price  in  themselves  alone.  He 
who  thinks  to  get  brains  for  naught  gets 
naught  for  his  pains,  nor  ought.

L.  A.  Ely.

D o u b le   I.okh.

“ Out  on  my  wheel  the  other  day  I 

lost  my  diamond  scarfpin. ”

“ An— and 

some  beautiful  maiden 

picked  it  up  with  her  rubber  tire?”
I 
whom  I  owe  $15. ”

“ No;  it  was  picked  up  by  a  man  to 

in 

O n e   n f   t h e   T r o u b le s   o f   a   K ie lt  M a il.
According 

to  his  own  admission, 
Henry  Willard,  one  of  the  two  surviving 
brothers  of  the  three  who  were  famous 
in  Washington  hotel  history  for  a  third 
of  a  century,  is 
failing  health,  al­
though  he  is  active  as  a  cat  on  his  feet 
and  has  every  appearance  of  robust  v i­
tality.  Henry  Willard 
is  one  of  the 
wealthy  men  of  Washington.  He  re­
tired  from  active  business  several  years 
ago— that 
is  to  say,  he  retired  as  much 
as  he  could.  A  day  ago  a  friend  met 
him  on  the  street  and  enquired  about 
his  health.

“ 1  am  feeling  bad,”   was  the  reply. 
1  toss  all  night 
I  do 

“ 1  do  not  sleep  well. 
long,  and  wake  up  unrefreshed. 
not  know  what  1  am  going  to  do.”

Thinking  to  “  jolly”   him  the  friend 
remarked:  “ If  I  were  as  comfortably 
fixed  as  you, 
I  think  I  would  sleej» 
soundly. 
I  certainly  would  not  lose 
sleep  from  worry.
“ I  am  not  so  sure  of  that,”   rejoined 
the  old  man,  and  his  voice  took  on  a 
querulous  tone.  “ I  am  not  so  sure  what 
you  would  do  if  you  were  in  my  place. 
Why 
just  think  of  it!  Supposin’ you 
from  $500,000  to  $1,000,000  lying 
had 
idle 
in  the  bank  all  the  time,  and  had 
to  worry  about  investin’  it.  Maybe  you 
wouldn’t  find  it  so  blamed  easy  to  sleep 
as  you  think.  Just  think  of  it  all  that 
money  not  earnin’  a  dollar!”

GEO.  E.  ELLIS

98 MONROE S T .,  GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 
COM M ISSION  B R O K ER A G E

TELEPHONE  4 3 2

S T O C K S ,   B O N D S   A N D   C R A I N

P e r s o n s  d e s i r i n g  t o  i n v e s t   in   s to c k s  o r  g r a i n   s h o u ld   c o n s id e r  th e s e   f o u r  f a c ts :

w ir  s for any inform al!  n  about stocks,  bonds, cotton,  grain or provisions.

1.  C ustom ers are furnished  free th -  p riv ite /e   of  telephoning  or  telegraphing  over  my  private
2.  N o charge is ma le for revenue stam ps.
3. 
4.  Commission on  grain  is $1  per thousand  bushels.

Interest on stocks an«! bonds carried on  m argin  is 5  per  cent.,  but  no  interest  charge  is  m ade

for less th an   15 days.

I D E A L

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

There  would  be  fewer  vacancies  on  the 
working  force  when  some  local  game  of 
base  ball  was  in  progress,  better  disci­
pline  maintained  with 
less  effort  than 
now  required  where  so  many  boys  are 
afflicted  with  something 
in  their  legs 
that  causes  them  to  run  away  from  work 
and  a  better  spirit  of  harmony  among 
the  youthful  detachment  of  the  force.

Carried  still  further,  this  prescription 
strikes  me  as  being  peculiarly  well 
adapted  to  a  division  of  a  portion of  net 
profits  among  employes.  This  would 
tend  to 
increased  effort  among  all  em- 
loyes  to  swell  the  fund  from  which  each 
would  receive  his  share,  proportioned 
to  his  worth  as  shown  by  the  pay  roll. 
Would  not  the  careless  and 
indifferent 
become  more  attentive  to  details  were 
their 
identical  with  those  of 
the  business,  or  rather,  if  the  matter 
were  adjusted  so  that  it  would  look  so 
from  their  point  of  view?

interests 

A  poorly  paid  employe  is  always  un­
profitable  because  his  running  tendency 
has  not  the  right  application  of  salve  to 
aid  in  its  cure. 
If  the  boy  or  girl,  now 
all  eyes  and  ears  for  what  is  happening 
on  the  street,  were  led  to  have  the  same 
feelings  about  business  matters  as  the 
proprietor,  would  it  not make them  more 
a  part  of  a  smoothly  running  machine 
than,  as  now,  a  disturbing  element  or 
cause  of  friction?  1  honestly  think  it 
would,  and 
in  no  way  better  than  by 
following  this  excellent  prescritpion  can 
this  result  be  reached.

Pay  the  help  better  wages  and  better 
results  will  follow.  Storekeepers,  look 
into  this  matter  frcm  both  points  of 
view,  that  of  employer  and  employed, 
then  ask  yourself  the  questions,  Am  I 
applying  the  right  remedy  at  the  right 
time  in  the  right  way?  If  not,  why  not? 
Answer  yourself  in  all  candor,  then  take 
this  doctor’s  prescription— it  costs  you 
nothing—and  apply  it  to  your own work­
ing  force.  First,  make  up  your  mind 
that  nothing  may  be  had  without  cost, 
then  see  if  you  are  receiving just returns 
for  what  you  pay  for  labor. 
If  not,  the 
fault  lies  with  you.  You  are  negligent 
in  planning  work.  Does  the  force  pull 
together  as  one  man?  Seldom. 
But 
why  not?  Because  of  those  running 
sores.  The 
legs  run  away  from  work 
and,  running  in  various  directions,  do 
not  pull  together  as  an  effective  team 
should  and  does  pull.  Try 
it  once  and 
see  if  a  proper  application  of  this  pre­
scription  does  not  add  dollars  to  your 
earnings  where  the  remedy  used  costs 
dimes.

A p p l y   t h e   P r o p e r   R e m e d y   to   t h e  D is e a s e . 
Written for the Tradesman.

One  day  not 

long  ago  while  I  was 
waiting  in  the  reception  room  of  a  pop­
ular  city  physician,  a  gentleman  came 
hurriedly  in  and  exclaimed: 
“ Doctor, 
my  son  has  a  bad  running  sore  on  his 
leg,  in  fact,  on  both  of  them,  and  I  wrant 
something  to  cure  him.  1  have  applied 
various  plasters,  but  all  to  no  avail.”

The  case  being  enquired  into  resulted 
in  the 
information  that  the  sores  were 
mythical,  but  that  something  therein 
was  running,  or  causing  the  legs  to  run 
— away  from  work ;  also  that  the  * * plas­
ters”   referred  to  were  composed  of  long 
flexible  strips  of  leather  mixed  with  a 
rapid  muscular  movement  of  the  arm 
and  applied  directly  to  the  skin  at  such 
times  as  occasion  seemed  to  require.

it 

“ W ell,”   said  the  doctor,  “ you  have 
applied  the  wrong  remedy  at  the  wrong 
time  in  the  wrong  way.  What you  need 
to  do  is  to  apply  the  right  remedy  at the 
right  time  in  the  right  way  and  results 
will  justify  the  outlay  for  medicine  and 
prescription.  The  correct  remedy  is  to 
furnish  a  personal 
incentive  to work, 
the  proper  time  now  while  ambition 
knocks  at  youth’s  door  and  the  effective 
place  to  apply 
is  at  the  seat  of 
trouble. 
In  the  first  place,  an  incen­
tive  to  work  is  surest  planted  in  a  boy’s 
mind  by  his  having  a  personal  respon­
in  matters  of  business;  by  his 
sibility 
having  certain  things  given 
into  his 
complete  control  and  him  held  morally 
responsible  for  failure  therein.  When  a 
young  man  first  begins  life  his ambition 
is  high  and  he  will  do  better  by  having 
responsibility  to  carry,  which  can  not 
be 
loaded  on  to  his  shoulders  at  too 
youthful  an  a g e ;  not  necessarily  what 
would  be  great  in  your eyes,  but  vast  to 
his  ideas  of  business.  Then  the  proper 
place 
for  this  application  is  at  the  seat 
of  most  troubles  with  Young  America, 
the  purse.  Let  the  boy  have  a  respon­
sibility  at  the  very  outset  of his business 
career,  but  let  him  know  that  he 
is  re­
ceiving  recompense  therefor,  and  with 
this  salve  applied,  with  the  proper  mix­
ture  of  patience,  to  the  boy’s  purse,  the 
tendency  of  his  legs  to  run  away  from 
work  will  be  overcome  and  you  will 
have  no  more  cause  to  complain  that  he 
lacks  interest  in  his  work.”

This  seemed  to  sober  down  the  father 
and  he  looked  serious  for  a  few minutes, 
then  said:  “ Doctor,  1  had  no  thought, 
on  speaking  as  I  did,  that  you  would 
give  me  a  prescription,  but 1 will  take  it 
and  apply  it  as  you  have  indicated,  in 
the  belief  that  it  is  well  worth  a  prac­
tical  trial  , ”   saying  which  he  took  his 
departure,  let  us  hope  carefully  to  carry 
out  the  doctor’s  advice,  which  seemed 
to  contain  the  very  essence  of  truth  and 
to  be  worth  a  much  broader  application 
than  for  preventing  legs  from  running 
away  from  work.

Soberly  applied,  would  not  this  pre­
scription  be  of  value 
in  the  business 
world,  as,  for  instance,  in  regard  to  g iv ­
ing  the  young  beginner  responsibilities 
and  holding  him  accountable  for  result. 
Each  one  about  the  place, 
from  the 
“ chore  boy”   to  head  manager,  should 
have  some  department  or  division  of 
work  under  eye  and  hand,  and,  while 
being  held  amenable  for  the  careful  do­
ing  of  this,  let  some  special  pay  be 
given  for  the  added responsibility.  This 
applies  the  salve  at  the  right  time— the 
beginning— and 
spot— the
purse— and  my  opinion  coincides  with 
that  given  by the physician,  the  boy thus 
bound  to  his  work  would  not  be  apt  to 
run  away  from  anything  until  that  thing 
was  properly  and  conscientiously  done.

right 

the 

Do  you  provide  for  your  help  such ac­
cessories  to  business  as  have  helped 
make  other  men  successful?  Are  your 
windows,  shelves,  counters,  stools,  cases 
for  display,  helps  to  legible  sign-mark­
ing,  and  the  dozens  of  things  that  our 
most  successful  men  employ 
in  their 
business,  at  hand,  and  of  the  kind  de­
scribed  with  three  short  words,  up  to | 
date? 
If  not,  here  is  a  chance  to  apply j 
a  preparation  for  the  plaster  to  follow. 
These  things  are  necessary  to  secure  the 
hearty 
co-operation  of  store  workers 
through  their  pride  in  “ our  store,”   and 
will  pay  big  returns  on  the 
investment 
in  nearly  all 
instances.  Don’t  allow 
yourself  or  helpers  to  envy your  success­
ful  competitor  for the  business  accessor­
ies  he  has.  You  can  enjoy  the  posses­
sion  of  as  good  or  better  without  cost, 
because  if  proerly  purchased  and rightly 
used  they  will  pay  for themselves  and 
earn  wages  besides.

Then  remember  there 

is  no  greater 
incentive  to  good  results  than  ambition, 
and  nothing  more  gratifying  to  man  or 
boy  than  satisfied  ambition,  hence  pro­

S ecu re  th e  a g e n cy   for  you r  tow n  before  it  is  taken   by 
y o u r  com p etitor.  A sk   for  sp ecial  circu la rs  illu strat­
in g  vario u s  v eh icle s  to  w h ich   runners  are  a tta ch ed .
Sen d   for  B o b -S le d   catalogue.

B .  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 I C H I G A N .

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Around the State

M o v e m e n t»   o f   M e rc h a n t» .

•  Owosso— Dutcher  it  Hall  have  opened 
a  bazaar  store  at  this  place.
..Orion— H.  E.  Goette  has  purchased 
the  drug  stock  of  S.  W.  Southwick.

Eaton  Rapids— Townsend  it  Co.  have 
sold  their  bazaar  stock  to  E.  H.  Men- 
dell.

Ypsilanti— Dunlap  it  Haynes continue 
it 

the  grocery  business  of  Dunlap 
Welch.

Detroit— Mas  A.  Alexander,  boot  and 
shoe  dealer,  has  removed  to  Grand 
Rapids.

Frankfort  B.  F.  Pease  has  removed 
his  stock  of  general  merchandise  to 
Crystal.

Detroit— Arthur  B. 

Fleischer  has 
purchased  the  drug  stock  of  Fred  H. 
Holmes.

Yale— Wm.  Lennon,  dealer 

in  drugs 
and  wall paper,  has  sold  out  to  Staley  it 
McKeith.

Three  Rivers— D.  W.  Berger  has  re­
moved  his  stock  of  groceries  from Corey 
to  this  place.

Detroit— Henry  A.  Harding  succeeds 
it  Harding  in  the  grocery  and 

Cooper 
meat  business.

Owosso— A.  M.  Maris,  of  Grand  Rap­
ids,  has  purchased  the  hardware  stock 
of  Jackson  &  Son.

Jackson—James  Duggon,  of  South 
Bend,  Ind.,  has  opened  a  shoe  store  at 
200  Francis  street.

White  Cloud— Benjamin  Cohen  has 
line  of  furniture  to  his  con­

added  a 
fectionery  business.

Hillsdale— The  meat  firm  of  Schafer 
it  Weaver  has  been  dissolved  by  mutual 
consent,  Mr.  Schafer  succeeding.

Middleville— G.  D.  Whitmore  has 
bought  W.  D.  Gardner  it  Sons’  harness 
business  and  will  continue  the  same.

Charlotte— H.  H.  Gage  is  closing  out 
his  drug  stock  and,  after  a  much-needed 
rest,  will  engage  in  business  elsewhere.
Cold water— Shaw  it  Lind  have opened 
a  store  for  the  sale  of  fruits  and  baked 
goods 
in  the  building  recently  vacated 
by  Wm.  Sharp.

South  Lake  Linden— Hodges  it  Opal, 
grocers  and  meat  dealers,  have  pur­
chased  the  stock and  fixtures of  the  Ben- 
nallack  City  Market.

Howell— T.  P.  Stowe  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  John  Barron  and  Henry 
H.  Wines.  They  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  old  stand.

Jackson— F.  B.  Taylor  it  Co.,  whole­
sale  and  retail  dealers 
in  notions  and 
toys,  are  closing  out  their  stock  and 
will  retire  from  business.

M iddleville— E.  S.  Grosfend  has  sold 
his  bakery  business  to  Walton  &  R ick­
ard,  who  will  continue  the  same  and 
add  a  line  of  confectionery.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— Frank  H.  Roach 
and  Paul  J.  Besner,  under the firm  name 
of  Roach  it  Besner,  will  engage  in  the 
shoe  business  about  Nov.  20.

Homer—Harmon  &  Allen,  who  for­
merly  conducted  a  branch  dry  goods 
store  at  Tekonsha,  have  sold  out  at  the 
latter  place  to  J.  H.  Darrow.

South  Bay  City— Chas.  Leikert  &  Co. 
in  the  dry  goods  and 
at  the  comer  of 

have  engaged 
grocery 
Lafayette  avenue  and  Broadway.

business 

St.  Joseph— John  E.  Peterson  and 
Chas.  F.  Wilson  have  formed  a  copart­
nership  and  purchased  the  Queen  Anne 
meat  market  of  Andrew  Peterson.
m  Tekonsha----- The  Harmon  &  Allen
stock  of  clothing  has  been  purchased  by 
J.  H.  Darrow,  who  has  had  charge  of 
the  business  for the  past  six  months.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Williamsport— Richard  Herron  has 
purchased  the 
interest  of  his  partner, 
A.  M.  Lounsburg,  in  the  agricultural 
implement firm of  Lounsburg  &  Herron.
Detroit  James  H.  Sammer  and  Mrs. 
Floy  Sammer  have  formed  a partnership 
to  carry  on  a  retail  hardware  business, 
the 
former  contributing  S i,000  and  the 
latter  $500.

Belding— O.  F.  Webster  has  leased 
his  store 
in  the  Webster  block  to  Mrs. 
S.  J.  Walker,  of  Grand  Rapids,  who 
will  shortly  open  up  a  line  of  fancy  and 
bazaar goods.

Ann  Arbor— W.  W.  Wetmore  has 
placed  his  book  store  stock  in  the  hands 
of  H.  H.  Herbst  as  trustee  of  the  hold­
ers  of  the  mortgages  against  it,  amount­
ing  to S4,ooo.

Ann  Arbor— Geo.  Wahr  has  leased  the 
store  building  adjoining  his  present 
quarters  and  will 
it  to  his  book 
store  by  an  archway,  giving  him  ample 
room  for  his  stock  of  wall  papet.

join 

Menominee— C.  H.  Fairfield  &  Co. 
will  retire  from  the  dry  goods  business 
Feb.  1,  1900.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fairfield 
will 
in  February  and 
will  remain  in  Europe  two  years.

for  Paris 

leave 

Jackson— Glasgow  Bros,  have  pur­
chased  the  stock  of  clothing  of  Henry 
S.  Butts  and  have  cut  an  archway  be­
tween  the  two  stores,  thus  giving  them 
four  stores  on  the  ground  floor  and  two 
on  the  second  floor.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— Paul  J.  Brenzer,  of 
Saginaw,  and  Frank  Rosch,  comrades 
in  the  Cuban  war,  have  formed  a  co­
partnership  and  opened  a  clothing  and 
men’s  furnishing  goods,  shoes  and  lum­
bermen’s  supply  store.

Carney— The  drug  store  of  Dr.  G.  C. 
McVoy  burned  last  week,  destroying  his 
stock,  instruments  and  a  portion  of  his 
library.  There  was  a  partial  insurance 
on  the  stock,  but  his 
is  about 
S i,200,  aside  from  his  insurance.

loss 

Coldwater— C.  W.  Roode  and  O.  D. 
Stone  have  purchased  the  stock  of  the 
Blodgett  Furniture  Co.  of  E.  B.  L y­
man.  Mr.  Roode  will  be  practically  in 
charge  of  the  store  and  Mr.  Stone  will 
retain  his  position  on  the  road  a  portion 
of  the  time.

Muskegon—A.  L.  Pearson,  of  Plain- 
field, 
Ind.,  and  F.  H.  Hartman,  of 
this place,  have  purchased  the West  End 
drug  stock  of  Fred'  Brundage.  Mr. 
Hartman,  who  has  hitherto managed  the 
drug  store  for  Mr.  Brundage,  will  con­
tinue  to  do  so  for  the  new  firm.

Sault  Ste.  Marie - F .  W.  Roach  and 
H.  J.  LaLonde,  who,  under  the 
firm 
name  of  LaLonde  &  Roach  did  a  gen­
eral  merchandise  business  here  some 
years  ago,  will  again  be  associated  un­
der  the  same  style,  Mr.  LaLonde  pur­
chasing  a  half  interest  in  the  firm  of  F. 
W.  Roach  &  Co.

Ypsilanti— Fred  H.  Holmes  has  pur­
chased  an  interest  in  the  drug  firm of  C. 
W.  Rogers  &  Co.  He  was  for  many 
years  employed 
in  the  Sampson  drug 
store,  but  decided  to  take  a  course  in 
pharmacy  and  went  to  Detroit,  where 
he  was  successfully  engaged  in  business 
on  his  own  account  for  some  time.

Rockford— E.  E.  Hewitt  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  Albert  Wellbrook  and 
Walter  Brooks,  who  will  continue  the 
business  under  the  style  of  Wellbrook  & 
Brooks.  Mr.  Wellbrook  has  had  a  some­
what  varied  business  experience  for  a 
young  man,  having  worked  in  stores  at 
Battle  Creek  and  New  York  City,  in­
cluding  the  great  department  store  in 
John  Wanamaker.  Mr.  Hewitt  will 
continue  in  the  fruit  and  produce  busi­
ness,  which  he  has  heretofore  conducted 
as  a  side  line  to  his  grocery  business.

Detroit— The  Telfer  Coffee  Co.  has 
filed  articles  of  incorporation  and  will 
import  and  deal 
in  coffees,  teas  and 
grocers’  supplies  in  this  city  on  a  capi­
tal  stock  of $25,000,  of  which  $5,000  has 
been  paid 
incorporators  are 
Edward  Telfer,  248;  Hoyt  Post,  trustee, 
248;  Hoyt  Post,  3,  and  James  V.  Ox- 
toby,  1  share.

in.  The 

and 

Ishpeming— F.  Braastad  &  C o.’s  ex­
tensive  stores  on  Cleveland  avenue  have 
been  enlarged  by  the  addition  of  a  new 
room  which  is  being  used  to  accommo­
date  the  crockery 
lines 
hitherto  handled  in  connection  with  the 
grocery  store.  The  main  store  room  of 
the  new  addition  built  this  spring  has 
been  fitted  up  for  the  crockery  and 
china.

china 

Charlotte— The  bazaar  stock  of  Ward 
&  Walker  has  been  purchased  by  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  G.  H.  Fowler  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  C.  A.  Wilcox,  who  will  remove  it 
to  the  store  building  recently  occupied 
by  the  drug  stock  of  H.  H.  Gage.  They 
will  also  handle  art  goods,  cameras  and 
supplies  and  picture 
frames.  Mrs. 
Walker,  of  the  former firm,  will continue 
the  millinery  business  at  this  place.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— D.  K.  Moses &  Co. 
now  have  their  annex  in  the  Hotel  A r­
lington  open  to  their  customers.  The 
new  room  adds  about  2,000  square  feet 
and  gives  the  firm  12,000  feet  of  avail­
able  space.  The  annex  is  connected  by 
an  archway  and  in  front  is  located  the 
boot  and  shoe  department, 
crockery, 
notions  and  household  goods  occupying 
the  remainder  of  the  space.

Sturgis— Otto  Krause  last  week  quiet­
ly  packed  up  the  best  of  his  shoe  stock 
and  departed  to  parts  unknown,  leav­
ing  his  creditors  to  mourn  his  untimely 
departure.  A   shoe  firm  whom  he  owed 
$800  had  a  mortgage  on  his  stock,  but 
failed  to  renew  same  promptly  and  in 
the  meantime- Mr.  Dane  had  a  mortgage 
placed  thereon.  The  remaining  stock 
hardly  more  than  covers  Mr.  Dane’s 
loan.  The  shoe  firm,  however,  gave 
bonds  and  replevined  the  stock,  and  it 
remains  to  be  settled 
in  court  as  to 
whom  the  goods  belong.

Hudson— Edward  Frensdorf,  the grain 
and  wool  dealer of  this  city,  has  entered 
the  wholesale  shoe  business 
in  Toledo. 
Childs,  Lee  &  Co.,  of  that  city,  having 
decided  to  retire  from  business,  gave 
the  opportunity  to  any of  their  employes 
who  might  be  so  disposed  to  succeed 
them.  Arthur  L.  Vander,  brother-in- 
law  of  Mr.  Frensdorf,  who  has  for  years 
been  one  of  the  firm’s  most  valued  and 
successful  salesmen,  also availed himself 
of  the  opportunity.  Both  gentlemen  will 
continue  to  reside 
The 
business  will  hereafter  be  conducted  un­
der  the  style  of  the  Western  Shoe  Co.

in  Hudson. 

Big  Rapids— The  Business  Men’s  So­
cial  Club 
is  the  latest  organization  in 
Big  Rapids. 
It  will  use  the  E.  H. 
Merritt  &  Co.  store 
in  Northern  Hotel 
block,  which  will  be  fitted  with  chairs, 
lounges  and  card  tables,  and  afford  a 
place  where  men  can  spend  an  evening 
in  social  amusement  and  intercourse. 
Some  twenty-five  or  thirty  out  of  the 
proposed  forty  members  have  joined, 
and 
last  night  E.  H.  Merritt  was 
elected  president  and  Clyde  L.  Toan 
secretary  and  treasurer.  Three  dollars 
is  the  fee  for  membership,  and  it  is  es­
timated  that  amount  will  meet  all  ex­
penses  for the  winter  months.

M a n u f a c tu r i n g   M a tte r s .

Ann  Arbor— Prof.  C.  G.  Darling  and 
interest 
U.  G.  Darling  have  sold  their 
in  the  Sanitary  M ilk  Co. 
to  Travis 
Bros,  and  John  Travis  is  now  Secretary 
and  Treasurer of  the  concern.

Breckenridge—-The Breckenridge M ill­
ing  Co.  succeeds  Babcock  &  Loomis.
Menominee—A.  W.  Clark,  manufac­
turer of  match  wood,  will  add  a sawmill 
plant  and  retail 
to  his 
business.  The  bolt  mill  will  be  dis­
mantled  and  replaced  by  a  sawmill. 
The  band  mill  has  been  purchased  of 
the  Phoenix  Iron  Works,  of  Eau  Claire. 
Both  hardwood  and  pine  timber  will  be 
cut.

lumber  yard 

Detroit— Articles  of  partnership  of 
Swales  Bros.  &  Co.  have  been  filed. 
The  general  partners  are  Bradshaw  H. 
and  Leonard  G.  Swales,  with  Charles 
E.  Swales  as  special  partner.  He  has 
contributed  $3,000  to  the  partnership 
stock.  The  firm  will  manufacture  and 
sell  pants,  shirts,  overalls  and  clothing 
and  the  partnership  is  to  terminate  No­
vember  1,  1902.

Marshall— The  Wolverine  Developing 
Co.,  capital  $50,000,  has  been organized 
at  this  place.  The  officers  are :  Presi­
dent,  J.  E.  Watson,  of  Bronson;  Vice- 
President,  D.  Warner,  of  Bronson;  Sec­
retary  and  Treasurer,  F.  A.  Stuart,  of 
M arshall;  Director,  G.  Macard,  of  Bat­
tle  Creek.  The  company  will  look  for 
oil,  salt,  gas,  coal  and  other  minerals  in 
Calhoun,  Eaton  and  Barry  counties.

Detroit— Articles  of 

incorporation  of 
the  C.  J.  Whitney  Co.,  dated  June  28, 
1898,  were  filed 
in  the  county  clerk’s 
office  Nov.  2.  The  business  of  the  com­
pany 
is  the  manufacture,  purchase  and 
instruments  and  mer­
sale  of  musical 
chandise  and  its  capital 
is  $20,000,  of 
which  $12,000 
is  paid  in.  The  stock­
holders  are :  C.  J.  Whitney,  550  shares; 
John  Sale,  Windsor,  200  shares;  Percy 
H.  Mugford,  Windsor,  500  shares.

Detroit— The  Pyramid  Hat  Bag  Co. 
has  been  incorporated  with  $50,000  cap­
ital,  of  which  $10,000  is  paid 
in.  The 
business  is  to  be  carried  on in Cuyahoga 
county,  Ohio.  The  stockholders  are: 
John  M.  Kinner  and  W.  A.  Jack,  of 
Cleveland,  O.,  and  Carrie  Hale,  of 
Yonkers,  N.  Y .,  1666%  shares  each.

Marshall— G.  A.  Bullard,  owner of  the 
Marshall  school  seat  and  church  furni­
ture  works,  and  M.  M.  Searles  will  en­
gage 
in  the  manufacture  of  high  grade 
buggies  and  vehicles.

G o n e   I n t o   L i q u id a t io n .

The  Tradesman  recently  warned  its 
readers  against  making  any  shipments 
of  produce  to  T.  B.  Truesdell  &  Co.,  of 
New  Yoik,  except  for  cash  in  advance. 
On  Thursday  of  last  week  the  firm  filed 
a  voluntary  petition  in  bankruptcy,  al­
leging 
liabilities  of  $8,348  and  assets 
of $15,728.  The  senior  member of  the 
firm  writes  the  Tradesman  that  the  firm 
has  two  dollars  of  assets  for  every  dol­
lar of  liability,  but  this  statement  can 
probably  be  taken  with  a  grain  of  al­
lowance,  because such a  condition  would 
preclude  the  necessity  of  liquidation 
in 
money-making  times  like  the  present.

F a r e w e ll   t o   t h e   T u c k e r   P r o d u c e   C o.
Detroit,  Nov.  7— Samuel  M.  Tucker 
states  that  his  brother,  Chas.  A.  Tucker, 
has  gone  back  to  Joliet,  111.  (from which 
place  he  originally  came),  and  that  he 
has  closed  up  the  business  of the Tucker 
Produce  Co.  and 
is  now  perfecting  ar­
rangements  with  some  other  parties  to 
form  a  stock  company  under the  style 
of the  Union  Fruit  &  Grain  Co.

The  Tucker  Produce  Co.  has  been  re­
peatedly  exposed  as  fraudulent  in  the 
columns  of  the  Tradesman  and  the  pro­
posed  new  company  will  receive  due  at­
tention  as  soon  as  the  investigation  now 
under  way  is  completed.

For  G illies’  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades  and  prices,  phone  Visner,  800

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

G r a n d   R a p id »   R e t a il  G r o c e r» '  A s s o c ia tio n .
The  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
was  held  at  the  new  rooms  on  Tuesday 
evening,  Nov.  7.  The  regular  order  of 
in  order that 
business  was  suspended 
special  entertainment 
features  might 
be  introduced.

President  Dyk  cordially  greeted  the 
members  and  their  invited  guests,  re­
ferring  to  the  different  meeting  places 
of  the  Association  during  the  last  dozen 
years  and  paying  deserved  compliments 
to  the  officers  and  committees  for  the 
energetic  manner 
in  which  they  have 
discharged  their  duties.  He  then  turned 
the  meeting  over  to  Adrian  Brink, 
chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee, 
who  pretended  that  he  could  not  make  a 
speech,  but 
succeeded  in  making  a 
pretty  good  speech  after  all.  He,  in 
turn,  turned  the  meeting  over to  Homer 
Klap,  as  toastmaster,  who  made  a  brief 
speech,  the  gist  of  which  was  that  the 
hardest  thing  association  workers  have 
to  contend  with  is  the  apathy  and  fault­
finding  of  those  who  do  not  attend  the 
meetings.  He  made  an  urgent  plea  for 
more  general  attendance 
in  order that 
there  might  be  more  thorough  co-opera­
tion  among  the  members  of  the  grocery 
trade.
Ella  Shannon  gave  a  recitation  and 
Gerrit  Johnson  sang  a  solo,  with  instru 
mental  accompaniment,  when  E.  White 
entertained the  audience  with  a  descri^ 
tion  of  an  English  grocery  store  as  it 
was  conducted  a  quarter  of  a  century 
ago  when  he  was  a  clerk  in  London.

Mrs.  Maurice  A.  Aldrich  sang  a  se 
lection,  when  Charles  W.  Payne  de 
scribed  the  excursion  and  picnic  to 
Grand  Haven  in  1898,  which  he  insisted 
was  the  most  enjoyable  entertainment 
ever  given  by  the  Association.  The 
lasting  friendships  between  the  mem 
bers  of  the  grocery  trade  of  the  two 
cities  were  worth  many  times  the  effort 
the  trip  cost. 
In  his  opinion,  grocers 
like  bankers,  should  have  uniform hours 
and  uniform  prices,  and  he  expressed 
the  hope  that  the  time  may  come  when 
the  Grocers’  Association  will  have 
building  of  its  own,  with 
ing  room  and  other  accessories.

library,  read 

Fred  W.  Fuller  discussed  the  subject 

of  “ Baseball”   as  follows:

It 

is,  indeed,  an  honor  to  be  called 
upon  at  this  time  to  say  a  few  words 
Not  being  an  orator,  I  have  not  at  my 
tongue’s  end  a  command  of  language  to 
express  my  feelings.  To-night,  as  1 
look  about  me,  I  see  newly-papered  and 
freshly-painted  rooms.  How  glad  1  am 
that  at  last  we  have  a  place  we  can  call 
home.  At  one  time  we  had  a  cozy 
place  where  it  was  a  pleasure  to  meet 
but  when  Mr.  Herrick  moved  to  another 
location  we  were  forced  to  abandon  our 
pleasant  quarters.  Mr.  Stowe  very  gen 
erously  took  the  wanderers  in  and,  until 
now,  we  have  accepted  his  hospitality 
Through  the  instrumentality  of  the  Re 
tail  Grocery  Clerks’  Association  and our 
Executive  Committee,  we  have  at  last 
landed 
in  these  neat  and  commodious 
rooms,  and  1  trust  we  may  gather  here 
and  prosper by  our  meetings  as  we  have 
always  done  before;  and 
if  all  of  my 
brother  grocers  here  to-night  will  en 
deavor  to  continue  to  come  and  bring 
some  one  with  them,  they  will  soon  feel 
that  they  would  no  sooner  miss  a  meet 
ing  than  they  would  a  good  dinner.

I 

trust  that  the  Grocery  Clerks’  Asso 

ciation  will  grow  rapidly  and  be 
strong,  healthy  plant;  that  each  and 
every  one  of 
valuable  assistance  to  his  brother  clerk 
and  that  they  may  all  be  in  close  touch 
with  their  employers  and  essential  ' 
them  in  many  ways.

its  members  may  be 

I  trust  this  Association  may  be  a good 
school  for  us  a ll;  that  it may continually 
strive  for  advancement  and  that,  in  due 
time,  each  member  may  reach  the  top 
round 
in  the  ladder;  but  I  am  drifting 
from  my  subject.  Why  do  we  always 
play  ball  on  grocers’  picnic  day?  W 
do  so  because  it  is  the  national  game 
our  country  and  nearly  all  Americans 
love  the  game. 
It  also  assists  very  ma­
in  drawing  a  crowd,  which 
terially 
makes  our  picnics  a  success.

Frank  L.  Merrill  expressed  the  hope 
that  the  fourteenth  annual  picnic  next | 
year  would  be  even  more  enjoyable than 
any  of  the  preceding  picnics  have  prov­
en  to  be.

Dora  Johnson  gave  an  instrumental 
solo,  when John  Witters  predicted  bright 
things  for  the  next  annual  banquet.

Butterine, ’  which 

Ed.  C.  Conley  devoted  a  few  minutes 
the  discussion  of  the  public  market 
and  hucksters,  when  B.  H.  Harris  read 
interesting  paper  on  the  subject  of 
is  published  ver­
batim  elsewhere  in  this  week’s  paper.
President  Mclnnis,  of the  Grand  Rap­
ids  Retail  Grocery  Clerks’  Association, 
resented  the  greetings  of  that  organi­
zation  and  invited  the  grocers  to  attend 
the  meetings  whenever  convenient.

Julius  J.  Wagner  related  his  experi­
ence  with  the  License  Committee  of 
the  Common  Council,  at  whose  hands 
he  said  he  had  always  received  courte­
ous  and  gentlemanly  treatment.  While 
the  Association  has  not  always  accom­
plished  all 
it  could  wish,  it  has  made 
gradual  progress  from  year to  year,  and 
the  failure  to  accomplish  more  is  due 
entirely  to 
lack  of  interest  on  the  part 
of  grocers  generally.

Gerrit  Johnson  and  Mrs.  Aldrich  en­
tertained  with  music,  Miss  Charlotte  P. 
Klap  pleased  all  with  a  recitation  and 
Master  Gerald  Wagner  scored  a  success 
ith  zither  selections,  after  which  Park 
Mathewson  addressed  the  Association 
as  follows:

rights,  but  it  also  remains  true  that  you 
ive  a  right  to  be  protected  in  a  legiti­
mate,  honest  calling  that  can  only  be 
properly  carried  on  bv  those  who  have 
long  study.  Such  have  the 
fair,  legitimate  profits, 
the  reward  of  their  labors  and  invest­

right  to  expect 

it  a 

aae 

ments.

How  shall  these,  under  present  con­
ditions,  be  reached?  Already  some  of 
the  department  stores  that  have  grocery 
departments  have  changed  their policies 
from  war  methods  to  more  correct 
fra­
ternal  ones.  Others  who  prefer  to  be 
the  “ taglos"  of  this  trade  need  to  be 
met  by  united,  organized,  intelligent, 
lersistent  thought  and  forced  to  capitu- 
lte,  or  emigrate.  If you  as  an  organiza­
tion  adopt  this  view  and  stand  by  each 
other  loyally  you  will  not 
fail,  for  you 
jve  the  right  with  you.  Present  your 
situation  and  claim  protection  from  the 
sellers  of  the  goods  you  buy.  You  can 
rely  on  the  good  will  and  aid  of  the 
jobbers,  who  already  see  and  feel  the 
needs  that  exist 
for  a  better  condition 
for  the  retail  grocer.  You  must  also 
remember  that  the 
jobber  has  his  own 
perplexities  and  difficulties  to encounter 
of  such  importance  that  he  can  not enter 
actively  into  your  contentions  in  detai' 
but  when  you  take  hold  with  courage  to 
help  yourselves  you  will 
find  the  job 
bers  ready  to  assist  you.

from  those 

This  occasion 

is  one  of  much  more 

With  the  present  market  conditions  in 
avor of  the  buyer  you  should  be  able  tc 
demand  protection 
from 
whom  you  buy---such  protection  as  will 
give  you  an  assured  fair  profit,  and  the 
day  that  you  can  say  to  the  seller, 
want  this  protection,  and  my  associate 
will  stand  with  me 
in  this  demand,’ 
that  day  you  will  be  accorded  your 
rights.
As  1  have  noted  the  special  prices 
}uoted  by  advertisers,  I  have  observed 
that  certain  manufacturers  are  allowing 
their  names  to  be  advertised  without 
protest  on  their  part. 
1  call  your  atten­
tion  to  a  recent  advertisement  in  one  of 
your  papers  which  reads,  “ 20  pounds  of 
H.  and  E.  granulated  sugar  for  $1  ; 
for  25  cents; 
eleven  bars  Lenox  soap 
leven  bars  of  Jackson  soap 
for  25 
cents.”   These  prices  are  evidently  so 
advertised  because  they  are  below  the 
range  of  fair  profit;  otherwise  the  ad­
vertisement  would  not  be  of  any  value.
It  is  not  supposable  that  the  makers  of 
these  several  goods  so  advertised  con­
tributed  to  the  cost  of  the  advertising 
of  their  names,  yet  the  effect  of  sucn 
advertising 
is  to  their  advantage ;  and 
present  indications  are  that  these  adver­
tisements  will  go  on  so 
long  as  you 
bear  with  patience  the  burdens  thus 
imposed  upon  you. 
It  is  perfectly  com­
for  you  to  reject  these  burdens 
petent 
and  throw  them  aside. 
I  speak  to  you 
with  the  knowledge  that  has  been  veri­
fied  by  ample  experience,  when  1  say 
to  you  that  each  and  every manufacturer 
who  asks  you  to  purchase  his  goods  can 
protect  your  profits  and  assure  you  of 
his  ability  to  accomplish  his  promises 
if  he  has  the  will  to  do  so.

importance  as  1  view  it  than  the  usu 
society  gathering,  and  1  received  your 
message  to  come  to  Grand  Rapids  and 
meet  with  you  with  very  great  pleasure, 
have  felt  a  lively  interest  in  the  wel 
are  of  your  Association  from  the  time 
of  its  organization. 
It  may,  1  believe, 
be  named  the  parent  grocers’  associa 
tion  of  this  State.  For  this  reason,  as 
well  as  the  wide  influence  that  you  have 
acquired  by  your  loyalty  to  the  best 
in 
terests  of  your  brother  grocers generally 
feel  a  special  pleasure  and  privilege 
in  being  with  you  this  evening  and,  to 
use  the  nautical  phrase,  “ w igw ag"  my 
greetings  to  you  at  short  range. 
1  shall 
assume  that  you  will  not  expect  me  to 
talk  to  you  of  politics  or  of  political 
policies  at  this  time,  but  rather  to  say 
my  short  word  on  trade  policies  as they 
are  related  to  your  interests.  On  my 
journey  here  1  purchased  one  of  your 
daily  papers. 
In  looking  over  the  ad 
vertising  columns  of  this  paper  I  saw 
one  that  was  addressed  to  consumers 
groceries. 
It  attracted my  attention, 
think  it  an  important  one  to  all  of  you 
The  declaration  was  therein  made  that 
the  advertiser offered  the  column  of  low 
rices  on  groceries  for  the  reason  that 
the  expenses  and  profits  of  the  business 
were  paid  by  other  departments  of  that 
store— a  concise  and  simple  statement, 
but,  as  1  see  it,  one  that  calls  for  your 
thoughtful  attention.  During  the  dark 
and  gloomy  days  of  the  past  few  years, 
with 
i 
struggle  for  existence,  many  dealers 
groceries,  as  well  as  other  lines,  have 
felt  discouraged  and  indifferent  to  cor 
rect  business  methods,  but  at  this  time 
when  all  this 
is  rapidly  changing  and 
the  chances  of  the  business  man  are 
much  improved,  for  you  to  be  informed 
that  there 
is  to  be  no  betterment  for 
is  truly  serious;  and 
your  business 
believe  a  timely  topic  for  this  hour 
the  department  store. 
Is  this  store 
take  your  places  in  the  important  busi­
ness  of  feeding  the  people  of  this  city? 
If  the  answer  was  to  be  a  short  one,  it 
would  be 
fair  to  say  that  it  is  in  your 
hands  to  decide  what  the  answer  shall 
be.  That  this  business  which  many  of 
you  have  devoted  your  best  years  to 
learn  should  be  given  over  to  those 
who  have  not  made  a  study  of  its  many- 
sided  needs,  and  who  are  using  bargain 
counter  methods  to  attract  purchasers,  is 
not  the  probable  outcome. 
It  should 
be 
that  the  best  all-round  methods 
should  win.  The  final  heat  of  this  race 
What  growth  and  possibilities  there 
the  winner’s  name  should  not,  and  I 
are 
in  an  original  idea  has  been  illus­
believe  will  not,  be  Cheap  Johnny.  The 
trated  in  the  expansion  and  multiplica­
department  store  is  in  the  land  and  has 
tion  of  this  package  idea.  Not  alone 
the  right  to  be.  The  view  that  hostile 
in 
in 
legislation  will  be  effective  to  remove  it 
changing  the  dull  monotony  of  the  gro
will,  I  think,  be  found  to  be  an  error.
We  live  in  the  day  of  justice  and  equal1 cer’s  store  into  the  bright  and  harmoni-

B.  T.  Babbitt’s  methods  and  busi­
ness  plans  have  always  been  carefully 
thought  over  and  fully  matured  before 
action  was  taken.  When  the  right  way 
was  clearly  seen  that  has  been  the  path 
chosen.  A  few  words  will  illustrate  this. 
He  originated  and 
the 
cushion-shaped  cake  of 
laundry  soap. 
Previous  to  this  all  laundry  soaps  were 
cut  in  long  bars  and  not  wrapped.  He 
also  put  on  the  grocers’  shelves  the  first 
package  of  saleratus,  the  first  package 
of  baking  soda,  the first  package  of  soap 
powder,  the  first  package  of  potash  and 
lye, 
the  first  can  of  baking  powder. 
Each  of  these  articles,  so  far  as  they 
had  been  kept  in  stock  by  grocers,  had 
been  bought  and  sold 
in  bulk.  How 
very  unsatisfactory  it  would  now  be  for 
you  to  go  back  to  the  old-time  cask  and 
dig  out  potash  or  saleratus,  as  was  al­
ways  done  before  B.  T.  Babbitt  put  his 
inventive  mind  to  the  task  of  finding  a 
better  way.

labor-saving  feature,  but 

labor  and  employers 

copyrighted 

idle 

the 

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ous  colors  that  now  so  enliven  the  pres­
ent  grocery  store.

“ Santa 

is  sufficient 

It  would  consume  too  much  time  to 
follow  the  details  of  the  methods  put 
in  operation  to  protect  the  customers  of 
B.  T.  Babbitt  in  fair,  legitimate  profits.
It 
for  this  hour  to  say  to 
you  that  they  were  ample  and  have been 
iccepted  as  fully  competent  and  per­
manently  successful.  1  will only ask your 
further  attention  to  one  special  feature 
f  these  plans,  as  this  one  is  a  key  to 
many  others:  No  goods  of  any  kind 
were  put  on  the  market  by  this  manu- 
icturer  that  did  not  carry  the  name  of 
B.  T.  Babbitt  with  them.  You  have  to 
ontrast  this  with  the  plan  of  sending 
“ Star, ’ ’ 
out  orphans  with  the  mark 
“ Blue  Ribbon, ’ ’ 
Claus, ’ ’
‘ * Queen  of  Sheba,”  
“ Len-ax,”   “ No-tax.”   These fugitives 
are  expected  to  remain  on  the  market 
only  so 
long  as  dealers  will  consent  to 
buy  and  toil  for  their  sale  with  small, 
inadequate  profits,  or  by  the  refusal  of 
the  consumer  to 
longer  buy  by  reason 
of  reduced  qualities  made  from  time  to 
these  being  necessary  by 
the 
time, 
com pet e  with  other 
efforts  to 
no 
names. ”  
1  shall  trust  that  1  have  al­
ready  said  enough  to  assure  you  of  my 
belief  that 
it  only  remains  for  you  to 
say,  "W e  will  act  together  in  this  mat­
ter.”   You  surely  have  a  duty  -a  press­
ing,  present  duty,  to  perform.  You  owe 
this  first  to  your  own  manhood,  next  to 
your  brothers,  and,  later,  to  those  who 
are  to  follow  you  to  so  leave  your 
influ­
ence  for  better  conditions.

Battle-Axe, 

You  can  thus  make  the  grocer’s  life 
more  gracious  and  more pleasant,  and 
more  surely 
fulfill  the  poet’s  prophecy 
and  admonition  when  he  said, 
So  live 
that  when  thy  summons  comes  thou  go 
not  with  the  soap  cutters  -scourged  to 
their  dungeons,  but  rather,  soothed  and 
sustained  by  an  unfaltering  trust,  ap­
proach  thy  grave  like  one  that  wraps 
the  drapery  of  his  couch  about  him  and 
lies  down  to  pleasant  dreams.”

At  the  conclusion  of  Mr.  Mathewson's 
address, 
ice  cream,  cake  and  cigars 
were  served  and  heartily  enjoyed  by 
those  present.

features  on 

There  were  other 

the 
programme,  but  owing  to  the lateness  of 
the  hour,  it  was  thought  best  to  bring 
the  meeting  to  a  close,  which  was  done 
with  the  best  of  good  feeling  and  in  the 
belief  that  the  rooms  thus  auspiciously 
opened  and  dedicated  would  result  in 
accessions  to  the  membership  and  that 
the  Association  had  started  out  on  a 
new  career  of  usefulness.

H.  C.  Ainerman,  senior  member  of 
the  firm  of  Amerman  &  Scott,  the  Ypsi- 
lanti  grocers,  has  been  walking  on  air 
since  Oct.  28,  on  which  date  his  wife 
presented  him  with  boy  twins  weighing 
four  pounds  apiece. 
The  youngsters 
already  evince  unmistakable  signs  of 
genius  and  the  fond  mother  and  happy 
father are  sorely  perplexed  as  to  which 
one  they  should  prepare 
for  the  presi­
dency  and  which  one  should be educated 
for  the  governorship.

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Woman’s World

W h e n   W o m a n   S h o u ld   M a k e   a   S t r i k e   F o r  

L i b e r t y .

It  counts 

for  her  rights. 

There  comes  a  time  in  the  life  of  al­
most  every  woman  when  she  has  to 
choose  between  a  species  of  slavery  and 
freedom,  and  when,  if  she  ever  expects 
to  enjoy  any  future 
liberty,  she  must 
hoist  the  red  flag  of  revolt  and  make  a 
fight 
for 
nothing  that  the  oppressor is generally of 
her own  household  and  is  blissfully  un­
conscious  of  being  a  tyrant.  One  may 
be  bound  just  as  securely  and  as  fatally 
with  silken  cords  as  with  iron  fetters, 
and  the 
fact  that  our  jailer  happens  to 
love  us  does  not  offer  adequate  compen­
sation  for  being  in  prison.  No  amount 
of  gilding  ever  made  a  cage  attractive 
to  the  poor  wretch  within.

All  of  us  have  sufficient  spirit to  repel 
the  attacks  of  the  enemy  from  without. 
We  are  armed  and  prepared  for them 
and  their  first  act  of  aggression  rouses 
our  fighting  blood,  but  there  is  nothing 
else  on  earth  that  takes  so  much  cool 
nerve  and  determination  and  courage 
as  to  make  a  stand  against  those we love 
and  whom  we  dread  to  wound.  The 
thought  that  we  will  hurt  them  or  anger 
them  makes  cowards  of  us,  and  we  keep 
giving 
in  to  their  de­
mands  and  whims  and  caprices  until 
some  fine  day  we  find  out  that  we  have 
not  a  vestige  of  personal  liberty  left and 
are  nothing  more  than  bond  slaves  to 
the  tyrant  on  our  hearth.

in  and  giving 

important 

the  guest, 

Chief  and 

in  solitary  confinement 

foremost  among  these  op­
pressors  are  children. 
In  her desire  to 
be  a  good  mother  and  to  do  everything 
possible  for  her  child’s  welfare,  the  av­
erage  mother  permits  herself  to  be 
made  a  martyr  before  she  realizes  it. 
It  doesn’t  take  a  baby  but  three  days  to 
develop  all  the  amiable  traits  and  the 
despotic  power  of  a  Nero  and  a  Calig­
ula,  and  there  are  plenty  of  women 
who  never  draw  a  single  breath  of  free­
dom  after  their  first  child  is  bom.  They 
may  have  the  very  best  of  nurses,  but 
angel  Freddy  howls  like  a  Comanche 
unless  his  mother  sits  by  his  side  and 
holds  his  hand  until  he  goes  to  sleep, 
or  darling  Mary  won’t  let  the  nurse  un­
dress  her,  and  so  no  matter  how  inter­
esting  the  conversation  downstairs  or 
how 
the  poor 
mother  has  to  leave  it  all  and  spend  her 
evening 
in  a 
dark  room  to  gratify  the  whims  of  a 
selfish  and  unreasonable  little  creature.
Not  long  ago  I  went  to  see  a  woman, 
and  found  her  sitting  in  a  corner  of  the 
room.  “ I'm  so  glad to  see you, ”   she  ex­
claimed,  “ for  Janie  made  me  promise 
not  to  move  while  she  went  across  the 
street  to  play  with  the  neighbor chil­
dren,  and  I’m  so  tired.  She  will  be 
sure  to  a  k  me  when  she  gets  back  and 
will  scream 
for  an  hour  if  1  have,  so  I 
don’t  dare  to  get  up.”   I  know  another 
woman  who  will  never  do  anything  that 
is  likely  to  keep  her  away  from  home  at 
lunch  time.  She  has  perfectly  reliable 
servants,  capable  of  properly  attending 
to  the  children,  but  her precious Tommy 
won’t  eat  unless  his  mother  mashes  up 
his  potatoes  and  checks  the  top  off  in 
mathematically  correct  squares.  These 
are  but  samples  of  millions  of  similar 
incidents  that  everyone  of  us can  recall, 
in  which  mothers  sacrifice  every  parti­
cle  of  their own  liberty  of  action  to  the 
senseless  demands  of  their children,  and 
it  makes  one  feel  like crying out:  “ How 
long,  O  Lord!  how  long  must  we  wait 
for  the  fool  killer?”   For  tyranny  grows 
by  what 
it  feeds  on  and  the  baby  who 
begins  by  insisting  on  being  walked  to

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

continues 
life  by 

its 
peregrinations 
sleep 
through 
treading  roughshod 
over  the  mother  who  was  too  weak  to 
inspire  either  respect  or  reverence.

self-abnegation 

It  is  the  easiest  thing  in  the  world  for 
a  mother  to  slip 
into  this  attitude  of 
humble 
towards  her 
children,  and,  when  she  has  once  done 
it,  it  takes  a  moral  backbone  as  big  as 
a  telephone  post  for  her  to  gather  her 
fighting  forces  together  and  make  a 
stand  against  them  and  assert  her  own 
rights,  but  it  pays.  Just  look  about  you. 
Who  are  the  mothers  whose  children  de­
fer  to  them,  who  are  always  quoting 
mother  as  an  authority,  and  who  give 
her  that  admiration  and 
love  and  re­
spect  that 
is  a  crown  of glory  to  any 
woman?  Is  it  the  self-sacrificing  mother 
who  spent  her  evenings  holding  chil­
dren’s  hands  while  other  women  went 
to  the  theater  and  the  opera  and  the 
lectures? 
Is  it  the  shabby  little  woman 
who  turned  her  own  frocks  in  order  to 
buy  real 
lace  for  baby’s  clothes?  Not 
on  your  life.  Every  time  it is the mother 
who  kept  abreast  of  the  times,  who  was 
always  the  prettiest  and  the  best dressed 
figure 
in  the  child’s  little  world,  and 
who  was  the  ruler,  not  the  slave,  of  her 
family.  When  the  children  are  old  and 
gray-headed  themselves  and 
the  self- 
sacrificing  mother  has  been  in  her grave 
for  twenty  years,  there  sometimes  comes 
a  belated  appreciation  of  her,  but  there 
is  small  comfort  to  a  hungry  heart  in 
postmortem  affection.  What  we  want  is 
love  and  appreciation,  right  now  and 
here,  and  mothers  will  do  well  to  re­
member  that  it  is  part  of  the  spoils  of 
victory  they  will  surely  win  in  resisting 
the  tyranny  of  their  children.

Sometimes—and  it  is  one  of  the crud­
est  situations  of  untoward 
fate— it  is 
against  her  husband  that  a  woman  must 
make  a  stand,  unless  her  whole  mar­
ried  life  is  to  degenerate  into  a  kind  of 
purgatory.  She 
loves  him  and  is  sure 
of  his  affection  for  her.  She  respects  all 
the  sterling  worth  of  his  character,  his 
honor,  his  honesty,  his  truth  and  good­
ness.  She  appreciates  all  his hard  work 
and  his  sacrifices  to  support  his 
family 
in  comfort.  For  a 
long  time 
it  has 
made  her  bear  many  things  with  pa­
tience.  She  has  made  the  excuse  of 
“ overwork”   and  “ nerves,”   those  con­
venient  packhorses  on  which  we  lay  so 
much 
ill-temper  and  brutality,  hoping 
that  time  would  cure  the  fault. 
It  may 
be  that  he  has  fallen  into  a  way  of  petty 
nagging.  She  can  not  express  an  opin­
ion  without  having  him  sneer  it  down. 
He  ridicules  her  efforts  at  self-improve­
ment  and  derides  her  church  and  clubs, 
and  she  feels  herself  insulted  and  out­
raged  before  her  children  and  servants; 
or  he  flashes  out  impatient  speeches that 
sear  her  heart  like  a  redhot  iron.  Often 
and  often  it  is  the  money  question.  He 
doles  out  a  quarter  here  and  there  and 
grumbles  over  the  bills  until  she  feels 
herself  as  much  a  mendicant  as  the very 
beggar  that  asks  alms  on  the  street  cor­
ner.

creature 

A  woman  in  such  a  position,  and  her 
is  Mrs.  Legion,  feels  that  she  is 
name 
the  most  helpless 
living. 
There’s  no  question  of  divorce  for  her. 
With  all  his  faults  she  loves  her tyrant 
still 
for  the  good  and  the  lovableness 
that  are  in  him.  She  wouldn’t  leave him 
if  she  could,  but  none  the  less  the  bit­
terness  of  death 
is  in  her  soul,  all  the 
crueler and  more  desperate  that  she  sees 
nothing  for  it  but  endurance.  My  dear 
sisters,  if  you  have  only  the  courage  to 
make  a  fight,  you  can  conquer.  Make 
your  stand  on  your  right  to  be  treated 
with  the  courtesy  your  husband  would

show  a  lady,  and  you  take  an  unassail­
able  position.  Assert  your  right  to  a 
share  in  the  finances  of  the  partnership 
of  matrimony.  Refuse  to  be  any 
long­
er  a  beggar.  Ninety-nine  times  out  of 
a  hundred  a  woman  has  only  to  make 
one  stand  against  oppression  to  gain  a 
victory  that 
lifetime,  and  she 
not  only  wins  for  herself  decent  treat­
ment,  but  respect  and  admiration,  for  it 
is  one  of  the  unalterable  principles  of 
human  nature  that  we  despise  those  who 
permit  us  to  impose  on  them.  Contem­
porary  history  does  not  show  one  single 
meek  woman  whose  husband  treated  her 
with  ordinary  civility.

lasts  a 

friends 

There  are,  also,  times  when  one  has 
to  revolt  against  her 
if  she 
means  to  enjoy  life,  liberty  and  the  pur­
suit  of  happiness.  About  nine  people 
out  of  ten  define  friendship  to  mean 
license— not  only  the  license  to  consider 
your  belongings  as  their  own,  which  is 
aggravating  enough 
in  all  conscience, 
license  to  manage  your affairs 
but  the 
for  you. 
It  comes  upon  us  impercep­
tibly  and  we  do  not know  how complete­
ly  we  are  dominated  by  the  tyranny  of 
our  friends  until  we  suddenly  realize 
that  we  have  lost  the  liberty  to  do  as  we 
please.  We  don’t  dare  to  invite  a  few 
friends  to  Sunday  night 
lunch  because 
Sarah,  who 
is  strict,  wouldn’t  approve 
of  it.  We  find  ourselves  apologizing  to 
Aunt  Susan,  who 
looks  on  the  theater 
with  horror,  because  we  went  to  see  a 
ballet,  and  we  actually  try  to  dodge  E l­
len  when  we  wear a  certain  dress  that 
we  know  she  would  think  giddy,  as  if it 
was  any  of  her  business.  Every  one  of 
us  have  friends  who  arrogate  to  them­
selves  the  right  to  supervise  our  visit­
ing  list  and  dictate  about  our  churches 
and  clubs,  and  who  are  always  distinct­
ly  huffy  when  we  go  to  places  they  are 
not  asked  and  patronize  a  dressmaker 
they  didn’t  suggest.  The  queer thing  is 
that  we  so  often  give  in  to them,  instead 
of  asserting  our  right  to  do  as  we  like, 
whether it  pleases  them  or  not.  There  is 
no  sense  in  standing  all  of  this petty op­
pression.  Make  a  strike 
liberty 
while  there  is  yet  time.

for 

It 

Sometimes  I  have  thought  that  the 
greatest  misfortune  that  could  happen to 
a  woman  was  to  get  the  reputation  of 
being  good-natured  and  capable. 
is 
a  standing 
invitation  for  everybody  to 
impose  on  her.  She  wants  to  do  her 
part  of  public  and  private  work,  but 
before  she  knows 
it  every  unpleasant 
job  in  the  club  or  the  church  is  dumped 
on  her.  For  every  committee  that  no­
body  else  wants  to  serve  on  somebody 
suggests,  “ Oh,  put  Mrs.  W illing  on 
that.”   All the squalid  poor  and  the  un­
interesting  strangers  who join the church 
are  foisted  on  “ dear  Sister  W illing,”  
and  the  first  thing  anybody  knows  she 
is  eating  with  her  hat  on  and  scuffling 
through  her  home  work  in  order to  get 
through  with  her outside  affairs.  Last 
summer  I  met  one  of  these  saints  on  her 
way  to  a  sanitarium  from  nervous  pros­
tration. 
“ I’ve  gotten  my  lesson,”   she 
said;  “ they  made  me  believe  that  the 
K ing’s  Daughters  and  the  church  choir, 
and  the  Sewing  Society,  and  the  Guild, 
and  the  Mothers’  Aid,  and  the  Free

Kindergarten  couldn’ t  be  run  without 
me. 
I  worked  myself  nearly  to  death 
over  them  and  have  been  in  bed  now 
for  four  months,  and  I  find  everything 
gets  along 
just  as  well  without  me  as 
they  did  with  me.  I am  making  a  strike 
for  freedom  now,  and  I’m  going' to 
let 
some  of  the  others  enjoy  the  blessings 
of  doing  the  good  work. ”   And  that’s 
good  advice  for  many  another  over­
worked  club  and  church  woman.

Dorothy  Dix.

S a f e ly   S to w e d   A w a y .

Mamma— Willie,  did  you  eat  that 

jam?

W illie— Why,  mamma, 

I  heard  the 
rats  in  the  closet,  an’  I  jest  thought  I’d 
move  it  out  of  their  reach.

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UNSING, MICH.

Our  line of

WORLD

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Is m ore  com plete  and  attractive  than  ever  be­
fore.  W e are not in th e T rust.  W e w ant good 
ag en ts everyw here.

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Makers,  Chicago,  III.

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

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Kalamazoo,  Mich.

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7

Getting the  People

F ig h tin g :  t h e   C a ta lo g u e   H o u s e s —G o o d  a n d  

B a d   A d v e r ti s in g .

The 

accompanying 

advertisement 
shows  how  a  Pentwater  store  is trying  to 
regain  trade  that  has  been  won  by  the 
catalogue  houses.  The  grange  store 
is 
pretty  close  to  the  right  track— but  not 
exactly  there  yet.  The  way 
for  the 
grange  store  to  advertise  is  to  reproduce 
a  cut  and  a  price  from  one  of  the  cata­
logues  and  offer  to  sell  the  same  article 
at  a 
lower  price,  and  then  to  show  a 
cut  of  a  better  article  which  they  will

THE  GRANGE  STORE

Ha» catalogues from   W ard,  Gum erv  &  Co., also 
from   R ebuck,  Soars  &  Co.  and  nearly  all  other 
catalogue  houses,  ai>d  w ill  gu aran t  e  to  furnish 
B ETTER   GOODS  FOR  T H E   SAM E  MONEY,  SAME 
GOODS  FOR  LESS  MONEY.
A  regular  retailer would  not  be  tolerated  in  the 
average country  tow n  I f   he  carried  such  inferior 
stock of goods as m any m ail-order  houses  and  de 
partm ent stores do.

THE  GRANGE  STORE 

Pentwater, 

- 

- 

*  Mich.,

Will  get lor  you  anything  you 
want and you don’t  have to pay 
for the goods  till  you  see  them.

sell  at  the  same  price.  There  is  more 
force 
in  a  practical  demonstration  of 
this  kind  than  a  page  of  bare assertions. 
The  grange  store  need  not  be  afraid  to 
mention  the  true  names  of  the  catalogue 
houses 
They  are  well 
known,  anyway,  and  the  distortion  of 
the  names  as  above  only  lends  a  flavor 
of  burlesque  to  the  advertisement  and 
weakens  it  correspondingly.

in  question. 

Nevertheless,  the  grange  store  is  pur­
suing  the  right  policy—the  method  is 
the  only  point  that  is  open  to  criticism. 

*  *  *

A  good  shoe  advertisement, 
Lansing,  is  reproduced  herewith. 
easy  to  read. 

from 
It  is 
It  tells  the  whole  story

A  BARGAIN  IN 

FRENCH-HEEL SHOES

M ade  from   fine,  so ft  V ici  K id—m edium 
w eight turned soles—double silk  stitched— 
M E O IU M   F R E N C H   H E E L —A 
shoe 
th a t gives  th e  foot  a  dainty  g raceful  a p ­
pearance th a t  every  lady  w ill  appreciate. 
Price

$ 3   5 0

D  WOODBURY,
Hollister Block.

It 

simpiy  and  concisely.  It  tells  the  price. 
It  shows  a  cut. 
leaves  absolutely 
nothing  to  be  desired.  After  a  woman 
reads  that  advertisement  she  knows 
whether  she  wants  that  shoe  or  not— she 
doesn’t  go  about  with  a  hazy,  indefinite 
notion  as  to  what  it  is.  And  when  she 
goes  to  see  the  shoe,  if  it  is  as  good  as 
the advertisement describes it,she’ ll buy. 
And  that 
is  precisely  what  Mr.  Wood­
bury  wants.

*  * .  *

S.  E.  Rousseau,  of  Albion,  is  doing 
some  fairly  good  harness  advertising,  to 
judge  by  the  accompanying sample— but 
why  does  he  leave  out  prices?  The  man 
who  buys  a  harness  is  just  as  interested 
in  prices  as  the  man  who  buys  sugar 
coal  or_anything_else.

There 

is  no  good  reason  why  a  mer­
chant  should  not  advertise prices. 
If  he 
charges  more  than  his  competitors,  it  is

i m m n n f  m n n m r  i m n m n m n m f  •  

Harness  Making

H as  been our study for so  m any  years that 
w e have long sin« e  passed the experim ental 
stage, and  poor stock  and  w orkm anship  is 
instantly detected and  r^j^cted 
We off**r a  line o t  H arness,  m ade  In  our 
ow n shops,  which is not surpassed  in q u al­
ity or finish.  T he leather  used  is  the  best 
oak tanned stock and th e trim m ings are A 1. 
E veiy stitch  is rig h t.
W e have also a   g rade  of  H arness  low er 
in  price but very good.
N ow  is the tim e ot  the \e a r  to  get  a  nice 
W ool  H orse  Blank* t.  W e have  a nice line 
of  P lush  I*ap  Robes, Cub  Rear Fur  Kohes, 
H orse Hide  Kobes, G allw ay  C attle  Rohes,  qj 
and  M ontana Buffalo Rohes. 
J
2
New  Loomis  Block.  3 
•fLL«JUUiaiUlAAAAJULft.ftftAJIJI.aJlAe

S.  E.  ROUSSEAU, 

either  because  his  goods  are  better  or 
his  methods  are  wrong. 
If  his  goods 
are  better,  he  should  tell  the  public  how 
and  why;  if  his  methods  are  wrong,  he 
should  mend  them  or  retire.  No  man 
can  permanently  prosper  who  can  not 
buy  or  produce  his  goods  at  the  same 
price  as  his  competitors.

Of  course,  if  his  price 

is  lower,  he 
should— and  generally  does— advertise 
the  fact.  Prices  are  the  most  interesting 
point  in  an  advertisement  to  everybody 
but  the  extremely  rich— and  they  form 
too  small  a  proportion  of  the  reading 
public  to  be  considered.

Advertise  prices,  first,  last  and  all  the 
time—the  biggest  businesses 
the 
world  have  been  developed  in  this  way. 

in 

*  *  *

J.  A.  Richardson,  of  Vicksburg,  has 
issued  an  attractive  fall  announcement, 
full  of  news  of  goods  and  prices.  I  have 
nothing  to quarrel  with,  except  the 
in­
side  paper,  which 
is  red,  green  and 
blue  alternately.  Pure  white  would  have 
been  much  better,  and  far  easier  to

Announcement

W e are  not  going  to  say  much  in 
this circular about our method of  do­
ing  business, knowing that if we don’t 
get to  the front  we will  lose  our  job 
anyway,  in  spite of all the nice things 
we  can  say  to  you.  Business  has 
got down  to  a  science. 
In  fact, we 
are  nothing  but  your  hired  man 
Standing between you and  the  man­
ufacturer we have to  know where  to 
buy, when to buy  and  how  much  to 
buy  This year has been  a  harvest 
for  buyers;  we  got  our  share  and 
now we are going to  divide.  A   visit 
to our place will  hear  out  this  asser­
tion, as we are selling  many  lines  at 
less than wholesale prices to-day.

J.  A.  Richardson,  V icksburg,  M ich.

read.  The 
good,  because 
homely 
sincerity.

introduction 

is  particularly 
is  couched  in  plain, 
language  with  a  distinct  air  of 

it 

*  *  *

John  H.  Goss,  of  this  city,  is  one 

the  most  desperate  and  determined 
price-cutters 
in  the  grocery  business. 
His  special  sales,  judging  by  the  prices 
he  advertises 
in  the  daily  papers,  can 
not  net  him  a  very  large  percentage  of 
profit.  I  believe  Mr.  Goss  will  find  this 
kind  of  advertising  a  paying  invest 
ment,  even 
if  he  does  not  make  a  cent 
of  profit  on  the  goods  he  sells.  Cut 
prices  bring  ftew  buyers  to  a  store.  The 
buyers  usually  do  not  confine themselves 
to  the  cut-priced  articles,  but  buy  other 
lines  as  well,  on which  the  dealer  makes 
a  good  margin  of  profit.  Some  of  them 
will  become 
permanent  customers— 
which  means  more  profit  for  Mr.  Goss, 
for,  of  course,  he  does  not  sell  every

thing  at  cost.  So  that  unless  every  per­
son  who  buys  at  the  advertised  prices 
buys  only  once  and  only  advertised 
goods,  the  advertisement  is  a  sure  win­
ner.

I  know  lots  of  merchants  in  this  city 
and  elsewhere  who  would  have  heart 
failure  over  the 
idea  of  advertising 
goods  at  cost  -but  they’re  not  the  suc­
cessful  merchants,  nor will  they  ever  he.

*  *  *

Many  of  my  readers  tell  me  that  they 
are  getting  a  great  deal  of  help  from 
this  column— I’m  glad  to  hear  it.  But 
1  must  ask  again  for  a  good  steady  sup­
ply  of  sample  advertisements 
the  more 
the  better.  And  in  sending  them  if  my 
readers  will  give  me  a  little  word  of  de­
scription  of  the  business,  it  will  enable 
me  to  give  a  more  intelligent  criticism 
than  could  be  given  with  only  the  ad­
vertisement  to  judge  by.

Let  the  samples  come  in.

W.  S.  Hamburger.

T h e   HorHeleHH  F a r m e r   o f   I n d i a n a .  

Kokomo Correspondence  Indianapolis  Journal.
Howard  county  has  a  man  who  farms 
rithout  horses.  F'or  thirty  years  W il­
iam  Johnson,  three  miles  north  of  this 
city,  has  run  a 
farm  of  six  acres  and 
never  had  a  horse  on  the  place.  He 
is 
mown  throughout  this  section  as  the 
‘ horseless  farmer.”   He  raises  corn, 
potatoes,  cabbage,  celery,  melons  and 
ill. kinds  of  vegetables,  all  the  land  be­
ing  under  cultivation.  Johnson  does  all 
the  work  himself  by  hand.  He  has  hand 
doughs,  hand  cultivators,  hand  planters 
and  hand  harvesters.  Even  the  market­
ing  is all  done  by  hand.  He trundles  his 
p  to  town  in  a  wheelbarrow,  making 
an  average  of  three  trips  a  day  the  year 
iround. 
In  the thirty  years  Johnson  and 
lis  wheelbarrow  have  traveled  168,000 
miles— nearly  seven  times  around  the 
world.  When  a  boy  he  was  kicked  by
horse,  and  since  then  he  has  nothing 

to  do  with  horses.

Without  an  Equal

CIGARS

For  5  cents 

Long  Havana  Filled

THE  BRADLEY  CIGAR CO.,

Greenville,  Mich.

Also Manufacturers  of  the Improved

Hand  “W. H. B.” Made

Recognized  Best  i o c .  3  for  age. 
Brand on the  Market.

Exclusive  Designs 
In Calendars

For several  years the Tradesman Company  has  done  an  an­
nually  increasing business  in  colored and engraved  calendars 
This season  preparations were  made  to  embark  in  the  busi­
ness on  an  extensive scale,  necessitating  the  addition  of  new 
machinery and  the employment of expert  workmen  skilled  in 
that  particular branch  of  the  business  Arrangements  were 
also made for  a  large  number  of  special  and  exclusive  de­
signs reproduced from  oil and  water colors  paintings, and our 
representatives are  now on  the road  with  a  large  line  of  fin­
ished  calendars in

Duogravure and  Three  Color  Process

which eclipse,  in  point  of  originality,  variety  and  artistic  ex­
cellence,  any  line ever  shown  in  the  country  We  are  pie- 
pared  to  offer  those  who  make  early  application  exclusive 
rights to certain  des gns, which  rights  we can  protect because 
we own  the  originals  by  purchase  from  first  hands.  All  our 
calendars are  made on  extra heavy  cardboard,  double  coated 
on both sides, which  we  warrant  not  to  curl  or  twist  on  the 
wall.  We use  pad  paper of good  weight  which  will  not  fade, 
and have arranged  for  special  inks  which  we  guarantee  will 
retain  their strength and brilliancy.
W e trust  the  calendar  buyers  of  the  country  will  not  place 
their orders until  they have had an  opportunity  to inspect the 
leading line of the season.

Tradesman  Company,  Grand  Rapids.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Devoted  to the  Be«t Interest« of Basin?«« Men
P u b l is h e d   a t   t h e   N e w   B l o d g e tt   B u ild in g :, 

G r a n d   R a p id * ,  b y   t h e

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

O n e   D o l l a r   a   Y e a r ,  P a y a b le   in   A d v a n c e .

A d v e r ti s in g   R a te s   o n   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 Grand  Rapids  I’ost  Office  as 

Second Class mall  matter.

W h e n   w r i t i n g   to   a n y   o f   o u r   A d v e r tis e r s , 
p le a s e   s a y   t h a t   y o n   s a w   t h e   a d v e r t is e ­
m e n t   in   t h e   M ic h ig a n   T r a d e s m a n .

E.  A.  STO W E,  E d i t o r .

WEDNESDAY,  •  •  NOVEMBER 8,1899.

S T A T E   OF  M ICHIGAN/  SS- 

County  of  Kent 

£

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

poses  and  says  as  follows:

I  am  pressman 

in  the  office  of  the 
Tradesman  Company  and have charge of 
the  presses  and  folding  machine  in  that 
establishment. 
I  printed  and  folded 
7,ooo  copies  of  the  issue  of  Nov.  1,1899, 
and  saw  the  edition  mailed  in  the  usual 
manner.  And 
further  deponent  saith 
not. 

John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
in  and  for said  county, 

notary  public 
this  fourth  day  of  November,  1899.

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County, 

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Mich.

B U S IN E S S   VS.  P O L IT IC S .

frequently 

It  has  been  written  down  as  a  fact 
that  once 
in  twenty  years  the  realm  of 
business  is  swept  by  the  besom  of  panic 
and  disaster. 
It  is  beginning  to  be  re­
garded  as  a  fact  that  the  realm  of  poli­
is  equally  and  similarly  visited, 
tics 
but 
at  more 
recurring 
periods.  Another  fact,  not  so  generally 
admitted,  because  not  often  thought  of, 
appears  in  the  statement  that  recupera­
tion  in  both  instances  is  due  to  the  tact, 
the  determination  and  the  courage  of 
In  1893,  the  busi­
the  business  man. 
ness  world  was  prostrate.  Trade 
from 
one  quarter  of  the  country  to  the  other 
was  paralyzed.  Mills  shut  down,  mines 
closed,  plows  and  hoes  became  rusty 
and  the  railroads,  the  carriers  of  the 
nation,  turned  red  from  lack  of  use.  At 
once  other  callings  languished ;  and  not 
until  the  business  man  had  gathered 
himself  together, 
taken  hrs  bearings 
and  ventured  again  upon  the  troubled 
sea  of  business,  did  the  clouds  break, 
the  blue  sky  appear  and 
finally  the 
beaming  sun.

the 

I’nder  the  malign 

influence  of  the 
politician  government  ceases  to govern. 
Men  engaged 
in  the  absorbing  task  of 
bread-earning  and  gain-getting  have 
given  up  to  selfish  and  unscrupulous 
reins  of  public  control. 
hands 
Quietly  and 
industriously  these  hands 
iaborea,  and  so  successfully  that 
have 
only  a  miracle  stays  the  culmination  of 
impending  ruin.  Here  a  state  falls 
in- 
ta  the  hands  of  the  bosses.  Revenue  is 
turned  from  its  legitimate  channels  into 
the  pockets  of  political  thieves.  A   city 
by  cunning  devices  becomes  the  cess­
pool  of  political  corruption.  Crime  in 
fancied  security  lifts  its  shameless  front 
and 
is  to  be 
it?  Then  the  crisis  comes 
done  about 
and  then  the  downfall, 
followed  by 
public  prostration,  to  be  endured  until 
the  business  man  comes  forward,  takes

impudently  asks,  what 

to 

its 

feet, 

returns, 

replaces 

the  outraged  government  by  the  hand, 
supports  it  until 
lifts 
it 
strength 
the  soil- 
stained  garments  by  clean  apparel  and 
when 
law  and  order  and  decency  have 
been  restored,  goes  back  again  to  his 
business  until  public  incompetency  and 
corruption  call  him  again  into  the  pub­
lic  service.

is 

While  this  periodical  saving  of  the 
country 
in  the  highest  degree  com­
mendable,  it  isn’t  business.  No  busi­
ness  firm  places  its  management  in  the 
hands  of  men  taken 
indiscriminately 
from  the  ranks  of  ignorance,  incompe­
tency  and  dishonesty  and  expects  grat­
ifying  returns.  No  business  house 
worthy  of  the  name  suffers  disaster  from 
a  repeated  blunder  and  while  trade  cir­
cles  are  inclined  to  excuse  a mistake in­
volving  financial  disaster,  let  its  recur­
rence  be 
for with  the  certainty 
of  an  eclipse  and  the  result  is  annihila­
tion.

looked 

follow. 

It  follows,  then,  that  public service  is 
suffering  from  a  lack  of  business  man-1 
agement.  The  public  need 
is  men  of 
business,  keen,  clear  headed  and  honest 
If 
to  direct 
its  affairs. 
in  a  cycle  of 
years,  few  or  many, 
financial  panics 
take  place,  there 
is  a  reason  for them 
and  that  reason,  sought  for  and  found, 
should  be  made  the  basis  of  removing 
the  reason  and  preventing  the  results 
which 
If  the  search  discovers 
the  fact  that  the  business  man  is  not 
in  public  service  but  is  a 
only  needed 
continued  necessity 
common 
sense—or  uncommon—would  naturally 
suggest  the  only  course  to  follow.  The 
country  is  now  rapidly  recovering 
from 
its  periodical 
took  a 
long  time  for  the  business  man  to  make 
up  his  mind  to  take  matters 
in  hand  ; 
but 
is  observed  that  until  he  did  so 
make  up  his  mind,  every  industry  in 
the  land  was  at  a  standstill.  That  de­
cision  reached,  business  began  to  pick 
up. 
It  flourishes  now  because  he  so  be­
stirred  himself;  and  the  future,  fairly 
aglow  with  the  golden  age  already  here, 
is  promising  a  prosperity  which  this 
country  has  never  seen.

setback. 

there, 

It 

it 

To  make  this  promise  a  reality  some­
thing  besides  money  is  needed.  Busi­
ness  men  are  wanted  in  the  high  places 
and  the  low  places  of  public 
life.  The 
Republic  should  be  permeated  with 
thei r  wholesome, 1 ife-giving, 1 ife-sustain- 
ing  presence.  It  is  imperative  that  they 
place  their  honest,  skillful  hands  upon 
the  plow  of  public  affairs  and 
cut 
through  and  turn  under  the  rank  weeds 
that  indifference  has  allowed  to  spring 
up,  flourish  and  go  to  seed  in  the  public 
domain.  History  from  her  first  crudely 
penned  page  to  the  last  has  recorded, 
again  and  again, 
the 
world’s  grandest  achievements  are  due 
to  the  push  of  the  trader  and  the  last 
word  which  ends  the  last  glowing  line 
of  the  Nineteenth  Century  will  com­
plete  a  story  made  brighter  by  the  work 
of  the  tradesman—not  only  in  lines  of 
traffic,  but,  if  he  will  have  it  so,  in  the 
wider  and  more  important  fields  of  mu­
nicipal  government.

fact  that 

the 

George  Dewey  could  not  tell  a 

lie. 
Instead  of  telling  the  Nashville  delega­
tion  his  health  would  not  permit  him  to 
visit  their  town  when  the  soldiers  came 
back,  he 
frankly  told  them  that  he 
wanted  to  stay  in  Washington  and  get 
married.

is 

If  your  home 

lonely,  put  a  tele­
phone 
the  neighbors 
will  drop  in  at  all  hours,  without  cere­
mony,  to  use  it.

in  your  house; 

E N G L A N D ’S  D E C L I N I N G   P R E S T I G E .
From  time  immemorial  England  has 
claimed  to  be  the  mechanical  workshop 
In the  early  days  of  those 
of  the  world. 
now  engaged 
in  active  business 
life 
most  articles  of  mechanical  production 
could  have  no  better brand  of excellence 
than  that  they  were  of  English  make ; 
and  even  American  workshops  could  do 
no  better than  to  stamp  their  wares  as of 
English  cast  steel.  The  story  of  the 
transfer  of  this  prestige  across  the  sea 
by  the  unparalleled  development  of 
American  ingenuity  and  mechanical ex­
cellence,  culminating  in  the  astounding 
demonstrations  of  the  Spanish  war, is  in 
the  mind  of  every  one.  England  herself 
had  refused  to  acknowledge  that  she 
could  be  outstripped  in  the  race  for 
in­
dustrial  excellence  until  she  was  forced 
to  yield  her  place  as  a  result  of  the 
Spanish  contest.  This  she  did  grace­
fully  and  has  since  manifested  a  degree 
of  cordiality  never  before  known  in  her 
intercourse  with  this  country.

The  first  opportunity  which  has  oc­
curred  for  the  British  nation  to  make  a 
corresponding  demonstration  of  her 
ability  in  the  mechanical  science  of  war 
is  the  contest  in  the  Transvaal.  To  be 
sure  the  circumstance  that  the  country 
of  the  Boers  is  defended  by  a  barrier  of 
broad  lands  robs  England  of  her  naval 
advantages  and 
forces  her  to  meet  her 
antagonist with her weaker and less ready 
arm. 
But  this  corresponds  with  the 
situation  of  the  Americans  last year—we 
were  forced  to  fight  against  technically 
a much  stronger  navy,  and  all  will  recall 
the  predictions  of  defeat  to  be  met  be­
fore  our  preparation  could  place  this 
arm  of  our  service  on  a  parity  with  our 
antagonist,  how  we  even  planted  our 
harbors  with  defenses  and  suffered  a 
considerable  panic  for  fear of  the  bom­
bardment  of  our  seacoast  cities.  Thus 
there  is  a  decided  similarity  in  the  op­
portunity  for  the  British  to  demonstrate 
their  superiority  against  obstacles  to 
correspond  with  those  we  had  to  meet.
So  far  the  developments  of  the  war  in 
Natal  are  robbing  England  of 
the 
opportunity  of  regaining  her  mechani­
cal  prestige.  She  entered  into  the  con­
test  with  a  degree  of  preparation  su­
perior  to  ours 
employs 
considered  more  advanced 
weapons 
and  destructive. 
In  the  Spanish  war 
we  fought  with  conventional  arms— did 
not  depend  upon  machine  guns and high 
explosives. 
Indeed,  our  antagonists,  as 
well  as  other  nations,  were  better  pre­
pared  with  smokeless  powders and 
long 
range  small  arms  than  we.  But  in  me­
chanical  construction  of  heavy  guns  and 
appliances  and  of  engines  and  ship  ap­
paratus,  and 
in  the  mechanical  skill  to 
handle  such  machinery,  was  given  the 
opportunity  of  the  great 
lesson  to  the 
world.

in  that  she 

The  English  have  gone  into  the  war 
with  explosives  so  powerful  and  so  new 
that  their  antagonists  are  protesting 
against  the  admission  of  their  use  in 
civilized  warfare.  Maxim  and  other 
machine  guns,  which  cut 
little  or  no 
figure  in  the  Spanish  contest,  are  now 
permitted 
to  show  their  destructive 
power.  The  Boers,  long  noted  for  their 
insular  conservatism,  living  in  a  region 
comparatively 
com­
merce,  would  scarcely  be  supposed  to 
lead  in  war  utensils  or  military  skill.  It 
was  thought  that  at  the  beginning  they 
might  work  destruction  to  British  inter­
ests  in  the  Transvaal  before  an  army 
could  be  got  to  them,  but  in  the  event 
we  hear 
little  of  that,  while  they  take 
the  field  with  a  regularly  organized 
army,  meeting  the  English  forces  with

inaccessible 

to 

only  the  advantages  of  superior num­
bers,  inflicting  serious  defeat  and  fill­
ing  the  nation  with  the  gravest  appre­
hension.

heavy. 

The  destruction  of  the  Spanish  fleets 
in  both  hemispheres  caused  but 
the 
loss  of  a  single  American  seaman  in 
i battle.  Already  the 
losses  of  the  Eng­
in  both  killed  and  captured  are 
lish 
very 
That  England  will 
eventually  gain  the  contest  by  force  of 
overwhelming  numbers 
is  generally 
conceded,  but  that  she  will  succeed 
in 
regaining  any  of  her  industrial  prestige 
through 
in 
demonstrating  her  mechanical  superior­
ity  now  seems  hopeless.  The  Spanish 
war  brought  American  industry  to  a  po­
sition  far  in  advance  of any other  nation 
of  the  world.  The  Transvaal  war  bids 
fair  to  further  rob  the  English  of  their 
declining  prestige.

the  opportunity  of  war 

John  J.  Albright,  of  Buffalo,- has  pre­
sented  to  the  botanic  garden  of  that  city 
a  collection  of  rare  palms  and  tropical 
plants,  valued  at  $40,000,  and  two  fine 
conservatories  in  which  they are housed. 
The  buildings  are  so  constructed  of 
steel  and  glass  that  they  can  be  taken 
apart  and  set  up  again  in  the  garden.

General  Grobler,  of  the  Orange  Free 
State,  is  decidedly  versatile  in  his  at­
tainments.  He 
is  a  grain  grower,  an 
ostrich  farmer,  a  stock  raiser  and  a  dia­
mond  mine  owner.  Although  only  36 
years  old,  he  has  been  an  influential 
member  of  the  volksraad,  sitting  for 
Philopolis.

The  use  of 

liquor  causes  more  than 
in  the  world.  The 
half  the  murders 
temperance  man  shows  the  better  judg­
ment.  Sober  second  thoughts  do  not 
come  to  a  man  who  is  drunk.

It 

is 

remarkable  how  a  political 
in 
party  can  suddenly  divide 
halves,  and  immediately  show  by  argu­
ment  that  both  sides  are  wrong.

itself 

A   man  who  praises  himself  does  more 
harm  than  good  to his reputation.  Those 
who  know  him  and  hear  him  set  him 
down  as  a  conceited  liar.

Loafers  make  a  business  of  loafing, 
and  they  stand  around  on  street  comers 
until  they  are  tired  and  feel  as 
if  they 
had  been  working.

It  often  happens,  by  inheritance,  that 
a  young  man  gets  dollars  before  he  gets 
sense.  In  that  case  money  and  fool  are 
soon  parted.

It  is  harvest  time  with  the  Boer  farm­
They  have  engaged  the  reaper 

ers. 
Death,  with  his  sickle.

People  become  nervous  wrecks  when 
they  have  too  much  to  do  or  nothing 
to  do. 

______________

The  stampeding  mule  must 

find  a 
running  mate  in  the  retreating  soldier.

A   man  with  blue  blood  in  his  veins 

might  as  well  get  rid  of  it  if  he  can.

Beef  is  higher  at  some  times  than  at 

others.  Venison  is  always  deer.

Never  say  to  a  man’s  face  what  you 

dare  not  say  behind  his  back.

The  masher gets  on  well  until  he  runs 

against  a  smasher.

The  next  great  Dewey  day  will  be  a 

wedding  day.

It  is  quite  important  in  this  world  to 

know what  not  to  do.

T H E   R O A D   T O   R O M E .

Ten  out  of  ten  of  the country boys who 
read  the  pages  of  the  Tradesman  and 
who  are  clerking  in  country  stores  are 
longing  for  and  working  for  the  time 
when  they  will  go  to  the  city  to  Hve. 
That  city  to  their  earnest  eyes  is  the 
end  and  aim  of  all  earthly  joy.  They 
open  their  eyes 
in  the  morning  and 
wonder  how  the  sun  shines  on  the  city 
streets.  Breakfast 
is  disposed  of  with 
the  determination  to  find  out  some  day 
how  it  will  seem  to  indulge  in  the city's 
coffee  and  rolls.  The  blinds  at  the  store 
are  taken  down  with  a  protest  at  such 
work.  The  broom  does  half  duty  be­
cause  the  sweeper  is  at  that  moment  in 
town ;  and  so  from  morn  till  dewy  eve 
the  thought  of  the  country 
is 
blazing  the  way  through  the  woods  that 
are  keeping  him 
from  the  enchanted 
life  of  the  city.

clerk 

The  numberless  reasons  which  men, 
young  or  old,  have  for  rushing  into  city 
life  are  based  upon  one  fact— amuse­
ment.  They  want  to  be  where  they  can 
see  something.  The  country  in  villages 
and  farming  districts 
is  dead.  They 
want  to  go  where  something  is going on. 
Life,  real 
life,  can  be  lived  only  where 
men  and  women  can  crowd  men  and 
women  in  the  varied  pursuits  of  exist­
ence.  The  walk  to  the  store 
is  full 
of  instruction.  The  day  spent  in  wait­
ing  upon  customers  one  has  never  seen 
before  and  never  will  see  again  is  a  day 
full  of  profit.  The  clerk  learns  how  to 
meet  men.  He  has  a  chance  to  study 
their  ways,  to  know  how  to  approach 
them,  to  tempt  them  with  his  goods  and 
be  rewarded  by 
increased  skill  and  a 
increasing  daily  account  of 
constantly 
sales.

When  the  day’s  work  is  done,  how­
life.  Supper 
ever,  comes  the  real  city 
over,  there  is  always  something  “ to  rest 
a 
fellow’ ’ ,  before  he  goes  to  bed.  The 
streets,  a  show  in  themselves,  are  bril­
liant  with 
light,  and  gladdened  by  the 
crowds  that  go  up  and  down,  bent  upon 
seeing  one  another  and  having  a  good 
time.  The  theaters  are  blazing  in  elec­
tric  splendor  and  handsomely  dressed 
men  and  women  are  thronging 
the 
splendid  entrances. 
in 
Young  men 
“ Sunday  clothes”   are  sauntering  along, 
drawing  comfort  and  contentment  from 
the  fragrant  c ig a r;  hotels  are  open  and 
full  of  men;  billiard  halls  are  busy with 
customers  enjoying  themselves;  saloons 
are  overflowingly  patronized—the  city  is 
one  vast  guest  house.  How  mean  and 
is  the  country  place 
starved  and  poor 
when  compared  with  th is! 
it  any 
wonder  that  the  boy  who  has  any  life  in 
him  turns  his  back  upon  it  as  soon  as 
he  can  and  takes  the  road  to  Rome  the 
first  chance  he  gets?

Is 

too, 

At  Rome, 

is  the  place  for  ad­
vancement.  There  are  found  waiting for 
him  who  will  take  them 
the  best 
chances,  and  the  most,  for  money  mak­
ing.  See  them  as  they  ride  by,  the  city 
lives  began 
money  kings  whose 
as 
country  boys  on  the 
farm  and  in  the 
country  store.  What  man  has  done  man 
may  do— and  afar  off  there  somewhere 
in  the  time  to  be,  the  dreamer,  with 
hope  thrilling  his  young  veins,  his  for­
tune  earned,  his  coffers  overflowing  as 
■ the  reward  of  his  push  and well-directed 
foresight,  rolls  down  the  avenue  in  his 
splendid  equipage,  the  envy  of  the  en­
vious.  Wealth 
is  his,  position  is  his, 
honor  is  his,  the  boy  who  fifty  years  ago 
left  the  old  farm  on  the  hillside  and 
trudged  barefooted  to  the  city  with  the 
traditional  bundle  of  clothes  on  a  stick 
over his  shoulder  and  the  equally  tradi­
tional  quarter of  a  dollar  in  his pocket—

yes,  what  man  has  done  man  may  do, 
and  he  will  go  to  Rome.

in  the 

leading 

These  are  the 

inducements 
which  take  the  country  boy  to  the  city. 
He  goes.  There  are  swarms  of  h im ; 
and 
large  circle  of  which  his 
Rome  is  the  center,  he  and  his  accom­
panying  swarms  are  taking  a  beeline  to 
town.  To  tread  the  very  streets 
is  a 
delight.  The 
little  hall  bedroom,  fur­
nished  with  washstand  and  chair,  is  a 
possession  to  be  proud  of. 
It  is  not  so 
large  as  his  chamber  at  home,  but  there 
he  had  only  a  chair.  He  does  not  care; 
when  not  at  work,  he  will  be  on  the 
street.  How  good 
it  is 
like  living  to  eat  at  a  restaurant.  The 
other  fellow  has  to  “ open  up’ ’  and 
sweep  out  and  at  7  o’clock  he  begins 
business. 
come  and  go. 
With  a  collar and  cuffs  and  necktie  on 
he  serves  them  unabashed.  The  coun­
its  crudities  are  behind  him. 
try  and 
He  is  a  man  among  men  at 
last.  Now 
for  the  fortune  and  the  ride  home  in  his 
carriage  after  business  is  over.

it  all  seems, 

Customers 

learning. 

When  the  novelty 

is  over,  slowly  as 
the  real  comes  from  the  mist,  the  facts 
stand  bare  before  him.  He  has  passed 
from  the  general  to  the  particular.  A 
little  corner of  the  establishment  is  d i­
vided  off  and  there  he  will  spend  his 
days.  At  first  he  likes  it  because  he  has 
less  to  d o ;  but  he  soon  finds  that  he 
has  cut  himself  off  from  that  general 
knowledge 
that  he  was  gaining  up 
among  the  hills.  The  selling  of  calico 
to  one  customer,  silk to  another  and  but­
ter  to  the  next  kept  him  moving,  but 
it 
also  kept  him 
There  was 
something  of  the  disagreeable  in  han­
dling  mackerel  and  tripe  and 
immedi­
ately  after  measuring  potatoes  and  tur­
nips,  but  he 
few 
years  of  this  “ jumping  from  pillar to 
post’ ’  is  the  sure  way  and  the  only  way 
to  fit  him  in  time  for  walking  into  any 
stock  in  any  store,  big  or  little,  and 
in 
a  few  days  be  able  to  get  into  the  ways 
and  means  of  the  whole  establishment 
and  its  goods.  The  whole  is greater than 
any  one  of  its  parts.  The  country  store 
gives  the  whole  and  the  training  for 
the  whole;  and  the  clerk,  if  he  is  what 
he  ought  to  be,  finds  out  before  it  is  too 
late  what  he  has  done  and  becomes 
more  and  more  dissatisfied  with the  sin­
gle  part  of  the  stupendous  whole  which 
has  been  placed 
into  his  hands  in  the 
comer  of  the  city  store.

sees  now  that  a 

Let  us  hear  the  conclusion  of  the 
whole  matter:  The  best  business  man 
is  he  who  has  received  a  broad  training 
from  the  foundation  up.  One  of  the 
best  places  to  get  this  training  is  in  a 
general  country  store.  Experience is  his 
teacher  from  the  first  stroke  of 
the 
broom.  So  trained  he  will  find  a  place 
waiting for  him  when  he  is ready to  take 
it.  The  city 
is  not  the  best  place  to 
get  the  best  training  and  the  best  ex­
perience;  and,  finally,  the  boy  who goes 
to  the  city  after  his  country  commercial 
schooling 
is  over  will  be  surer  of  his 
ride  home  up  the  avenue  in  his  own 
carriage  after  the  business  of  the  day  is 
done.

Alfred  Krupp,  the German  gunmaker, 
has  just  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  the 
town  of  Essen,  with  100,000 inhabitants, 
admitted 
into  the  ranks  of  German 
cities.  The  town  was  made  by  the 
Krupp  gun  works,  which  were  started 
there  by  the  present  owner’s grandfather 
in  1810.  There  are  41,000  employes 
and  there  has  never  yet  been  a  strike.

The  world 

is  going  with  such  a  rush 
that  a  man  elevated  as  a  hero  must  die 
to  keep  up  his  reputation.

T H E   W O R L D ’S  « O L D .

The  pursuit  of  gold  has  been  the 
cause  of  nearly  all  the  exploration  and 
exploiting  of  new  countries  that  have 
ever  taken  place.

In  King  Solomon’s  time,  his  ships 
two 
made  voyages,  which  occupied 
years, 
to  Ophir,  for  gold.  T o  secure 
golden  treasure  was  the  real  object  of 
the  mythologic  voyage  of  Jason  to  the 
gardens  or 
islands  of  the  Hesperides. 
That  famous expedition of the  Argonauts 
probably  was  a  real  voyage  to  some 
far  Western  seas  to  find  a 
land 
in  the 
country  rich 
in  the  coveted  metal,  of 
which  some  tradition  existed,  or  from 
which,  possibly,  a  vessel  which  had 
been  driven  by  a  storm  to  some  un­
known  and  vastly  distant  shore  had  re­
turned,  after  years  of  absence,  with 
trophies  of  gold  and  marvelous  stories 
of  wonders  and  mystery.  There  is  men­
tion  by  some  of  the  ancient  writers  of 
sailors  in  Athens  who  told  extraordinary 
tales  of  some  such  venture.

inaccessible 

At  any  rate,  in  every  age,  there  was 
a  strong  belief  that  there  were  unknown 
and  almost 
lands  which 
were  peculiarly  rich  in  go ld ;  but  it  was 
not  until  the  exploiting  of  the  rich 
mines  of  Mexico  and  the  treasures  of 
it  was  realized  that  the  true 
Peru  that 
found.  The  dis­
Eldorado  had  been 
covery  of  America  was  the  most 
im­
portant  event  in  the  history  of  the  mod­
ern  world,  because  it  opened  up  to  civ ­
ilization 
and  Christianity  an  entire 
hemisphere  of  our  earth,  and  there  is  no 
question  that  it  gave  to  commerce  and 
the  arts  more  gold  than  had  ever  before 
been  known  in  the  whole  period  of  the 
world’s  history.

Italian 

William  Jacob,  whose 

investigations 
into  the  amount  of  the  precious  metals 
in  the  ancient  world  are  interesting,  has 
made  up  an  estimate  that  in  the  time 
of  Augustus  there  was  in  the  vast region 
of  Europe.  Asia  and  Africa,  then  under 
the  Roman  dominion,  a  total  amount  of 
gold  and  si liver  equal  to  ,£358,000,000, 
or  about  $1,790,000  of  our  money. 
It  is, 
however,  not  known  how  much  of  this 
conjectured  sum  was  gold.  The  Romans 
were  not  miners  to  any  extent,  but  they 
were  robbers,  plundering  all  the  coun­
tries  which  they  conquered,  and  never 
undertaking  the  conquest  of  any  people 
unless 
it  was  believed  that  great  spoil 
was  to  be  acquired.  That  was  the  rea­
son  that  Gaul,  or  France,  which  ad­
joined  the 
territories  on  the 
north,  was  not  interfered  with  for nearly 
500  years.  The  people  were  known  to 
be  but  partially  civilized,  and  were  sup­
posed  to  be  possessed  of  but 
small 
precious  metals. 
quantities 
Caesar,  however,  had 
learned  that  the 
Gauls,  by  trading  with  Spain,  which 
had 
famed  for  its  mines  of 
gold  and  silver  operated  by  the  Phoeni­
cians,  had  acquired 
large  amounts  of 
those  metals,  and  Caesar  came  back 
from  his  wars 
in  Gaul  with  enormous 
spoils.
The 

fall  of  the  Roman  Empire  scat­
tered  the  vast  treasures  which  had  been 
acquired  by  the  plunder of  the  balance 
of  the  world,  and  without  doubt  much 
was  lost,  buried  in  the  ruins  of  burnt 
cities  or  sunk  in  the  sea.  The  destruc­
tion  of  the  Roman  power  threw  the 
world  into such  a  state  of revolution,  de­
structive  warfare  and 
that, 
what  are  known  as  the  Dark  Ages  en­
sued  and  lasted  for  centuries.  At  that 
time  the  clock  of  progress  turned  back­
ward  to  such  an  extent  that  learning, 
morality  and  all  that  is  called  civiliza­
tion were well-nigh lost, while ignorance, 
lawlessness  and  poverty  were  the  gen­

long  been 

disorder 

the 

of 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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eral  rule.  Commerce  and  industry  were 
reduced  to  the  lowest  ebb,  and  the 
loss 
of  the  precious  metals  had been so great, 
with  no  additions  to  the  general  stock, 
that  at  the  time  of  the  discovery  of 
America 
it  has  been  estimated  that  the 
total  stock  of  coin,  plate  and  bullion  in 
Europe  had  sunk  to 
,£45,000,000,  or 
$225,000,000.

From  the  year  1493  to  1S99,  according 
to  the  figures  of  Dr.  Adolph  Soetbeer 
and  of  the  Director  of  the  United  States 
Mint,  the  world's  production  of  gold 
has  been  nearly  ten  thousand  million 
dollars,  of  which  the  United  States  has 
contributed  nearly  one-third,  so  that 
our  own  country  stands,  so  far,  as  the 
greatest  gold  region  in  the  world.  The 
triumphs  of  chemistry  in furnishing pro­
cesses  by  which  unlimited  quantities  of 
low-grade  and  refractory  ores  are  profi­
tably  worked  renders  a  large  gold  sup­
ply  a  certainty  for  a  long  period of time.

an 

Experiments 

in  German  hospitals 
albuminous  powder  called 
with 
' 1 tropon, ’ ’  a  substitute 
for  meat,  have 
been  so  satisfactory  that  it  is  likely  to 
become  an  article  of  commerce. 
It  is 
claimed  that  one  pound  of  tropon  is 
equal 
in  nutritive  value  to  five  pounds 
of  meat  or  100  eggs,  and  its  cost  is  only 
70  cents. 
is  now  being  used  as  an 
ingredient  of  various  foods,  as,  for  ex­
ample,  in  flour,  a  roll  containing  5  per 
cent,  of  the  powder equaling in nutritive 
value  five  eggs  or  half  a  pound  of  meat. 
It  is  needless  to  enlarge  upon  the  future 
of  tropon,  if  there  has  been  no  exagger­
ation  in  the  accounts  of  the  experiments 
with  it.  The  inventor  is  a  professor  at 
Bonn.

It 

The  greatest  surprise  of  the  year  in 
local  railroad  circles  was  caused 
the 
I other  day  by  the  Louisville  &  Nashville 
Railroad  Company,  when  it  announced 
that  after  the  first  of  the  incoming  year 
it  would  operate  its  own  express  com­
pany, 
thereby  discarding  the  Adams 
Company.  The  Louisville  &  Nashville 
is  to  carry  on  its  express  business  over 
its  entire  system  and  to  reach  out  for 
transient  business  wherever  it  seems  to 
be  within  its  grasp.  The company  con­
trols  a  complete  network  of railway lines 
southeast  of  the  Mississippi  River,  and 
the  express  business  handled  over  the 
system  in  a  year  is  enormous.

When  Miss  Minnie  Clark,  of  Boston, 
was  arrested 
for  stealing  five  pairs  of 
gloves  and  a  fancy  vase  from  a  big store 
there,  she  said  she  had  done 
it  on  a 
wager  made  with  a  woman  friend.  Miss 
Clark  bet  she  could  take  the  stuff  with­
out  detection  and  the 
friend  bet  she 
could  not.  She  spent  the  night  in  jail 
and  the  next  day  was  fined  $10,  which 
was  paid  by  the  winner  of  the  wager.

A   nation  may  be  expecting  war  and  a 
sick  man  may  be  expecting  death;  but 
neither  nation  nor  man 
is  ever quite 
ready  when  the  moment  for  acting  the 
tragedy  arrives.

One  man  has  been  elected  a  member 
of  the  New  York  Sorosis  society. 
It 
has  been  suggested  that  his  duty  would 
be  to  keep  the  secrets  of  the  society 
safely. 

______________

There  are  egotists  who  think  their 
views  are  public  opinion  when  they  are 
made  public  through  an  annonymous 
letter  in  a  newspaper.

When  a  higher  education 

is  wanted, 
higher-priced  educators  must  be  hired.
juggling  with  words 

No  amount  of 

can  make  a  second-class  man  great.

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S H O R T   W E IG H T S .

H o w   t h e   IH fth o n eftt  G r o c e r   U n s e ttle s  

l e ­

Written for the Tradesman.

g i t i m a t e   T r a d e .

There  was  but  a  single  light  burning 
in  the  suburban  grocery,  for  the  hour 
was 
late  and  the  merchant,  weary  from 
the  labors  and  the  worry  of  the  day,  was 
thinking  of  closing  for  the  night.

He  now  occupied  a  seat  on  the  coun­
ter,  his  feet  swinging  freely  to  and 
fro 
between  a  bushel  basket  of  potatoes  and 
a  canvas  bag  of  beans,  while  the  tin­
smith  nestled  on  the  upper  deck  of  a 
barrel  of  crackers.  The  corner  loafer, 
not  a  little  self-conscious  because  of  the 
respectability  of  his  companions,  con­
tented  himself  with  the  sharp  edge  of  a 
barrel  filled  with  brooms,  against  which 
he 
legs  stretched  out  at  an 
angle  of  twenty-five  degrees.

leaned,  his 

As  I  entered  the  place  in  quest  of  a 
cigar  the  grocer  reached  back  to  the  lit­
tle  case  and  served  me  without  get­
ting  up.

*' I’ve  had  a  hard  day, ”  he said,  “ and 
I’m  not  going  to  take  one  unnecessary 
step  to-night.”

Then  he  turned  to  the  tinsmith.
“ You  were  talking  about  measures,”  
he  said,  “ you  make  them  full  size, 
don’t  you?”

“ What’s  a  strange  question,”  said  the 
tinsmith, 
I  make  them 
full  size.  A  quart  cup  holds  a  quart,  if 
I  make  it.”

“ Of  course, 

“ W ell,”   said  the  grocer,  “ there’s  a 
lot  of  talk  about  false  weights  and 
measures  and  I  didn’t  know  but  some 
enterprising  merchant  had  been  bribing 
you  to  make  a  quart  cup  hold  only  a 
pint  and  a  half. ”

“ Y es,”   said  the 

tinsmith,  “ 1  hear 
there’s  going  to  be  a  sealer  of  weights 
and  measures  appointed  and  I  hope  it 
will  be  done.”

“ Don’t  you  get 

full  weight?”   de­
manded  the  grocer,  beginning  to  get 
red  in  the  face.

“ No,  sir,  1  do  not.”
There  was  silence  for  a  moment,  then 

the  grocer  sa id :

“ Serves  you  righ.t  You  ought  to  do 

more  trading  here. ”

“ She  watches 

“ i\Iy  wife  is  stuck  on  bargain  sales,”  
said  the  other. 
the 
papers  and  buys  where  sales  are  adver­
tised. 
I  don’t  like  the  idea  myself,  but 
1  let  her  run  the  house  in  her  own  way. 
Well,  the  other  day  one  of your competi­
tors  advertised  oatmeal  and  corn  meal, 
graham  flour  and  grits,  in  ten  pound 
I  don’t  remember  the 
lots  for  so  much. 
exact  price  now,  but 
it  was  about  a 
third  off  the  usual  tariff  on  such  goods.
1  was  ordered  by  my  chief  of  com­
missary  to  go  and  order  the  four  lots 
and  I  did  so,  although  I  explained  that 
there  was  some  catch  about 
it  some­
where. ’ ’

The  grocer  began  to 

look 

interested 

and  the  loafer  set  up  a  mild  chuckle.

“ And  I’ll  bet  there  was  some  catch, 

too,”   said  the  latter.

“ Of  course  there  was,”   added  the 

grocer.

“ So  when  I  got  home,”   continued  the 
tinsmith,  * * I  weighed  the four packages, 
and  what  do  you  think  I  found?”

“ Short  w eight,”   said  the  grocer.
“ Yes,  sir,  two  pounds  short  on  every 
one  of  ’em.  No  wonder  the  fellow  could 
afford  to  cut  prices.”

“ Did  you  take  the  stuff  back?”   asked 

the  grocer.

“ What’s  the  use?”   was  the  reply.
‘ ’ The  merchant  would  have  sworn  that 
I  had  removed  two  pounds  of  goods 
from  each  bag  and  that  I  was  trying  to 
blackmail  him.  When  you  get  up

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

against  a  thing  of  that  sort  the  best 
thing  you  can  do  is  to  grin  and  bear 
it 
and 
look  out  that  you  don’t  get  caught 
again. ”

“ The man  ought  to  be  arrested,”   said 
the  grocer.  ’  He  is  doing  a  great  injury 
to  every  grocer  in  the  town.  So  far as 1 
know,  my  weights  and  measures  are 
generally  regarded  as  honest;  still,  if  1 
should  have  a  sale  to-morrow  eveiy  per­
son  who  got  bit  at  the  other  sale  would 
suspect  fraud  and  remain  away.  1  don’t 
go  in  for  sales,  as  a  rule,  but  occasion­
ally  one  gets  stuck  on  a  certain  line  of 
goods  and 
is  willing  to  let  them  go  at 
cost.  The  sort  of  thing  you  have  men­
tioned  will  in  a  short  time  make  such  a 
course 
impossible,  for  no  one  will  be­
lieve  in  the  honesty  of  the  sale.”

“ There’s  one  way  to  stop  the  trickery 
of  short  weights  and  measures,”   said 
the  tinsmith,  “ and  that  is  to  keep  a  set 
of  officially  tested  scales  and  measures 
at  some  central  point 
in  each  town. 
Then  people  who  are  in  doubt  as  to  the 
integrity  of  the  merchants  with  whom 
they  do  business  can  ascertain  the  truth 
regarding  their  purchases  with  very  lit­
tle  trouble. 
This  would  be  a  tough 
thing 
for  dishonest  merchants,  but  the 
honorable  ones  would  gain  by  it.  As  it 
now 
is,  the  honest  merchants  are  all 
classed  with  the dishonest ones and  there 
is  no  way  of  correcting  the  evil  unless 
some  plan 
like  the  one  suggested  is 
adopted. ’ '

closely 

As  the  tinsmith  ceased  speaking  the 
store  door  was  opened  and  a  tall,  gaunt 
woman  wrapped 
in  a  huge 
shawl,  which  also  served  as  a  covering 
for  her  head,  entered.  With  a  little 
sniff  of  disgust  at  the  fumes of the cheap 
tobacco  which  was  burning  in  the 
loaf­
er’s  pipe,  she  strode  to  the  counter  and 
asked  for  a  pound  of  granulated  sugar 
and  a  quart  of  beans.  The  grocer swung 
off  from  the  counter  to  wait  on  her,  but 
did  not  turn  up  the  lights.

“ What  makes  you  have  it  so  dark  in 
“ You 
I  want  to  see 
I 
full  pound  and  I  want  a  full 

here?”   demanded  the  customer. 
just  turn  on  them  lights. 
what  I’m  getting 
want  a 
quart  and  no  fooling  about  it.”

for  my  money. 

“ If  you’re  afraid  of  being  cheated 
here,”   said  the  grocer,  “ you  had  bet­
ter go  to  some  other  store. ”

‘ ‘ I’d  get  cheated  anywhere  if  I  didn’t 
look  out  for  m yself,”   was  the  grim  re­
ply. 
“ I  know  the  tricks  of  the  trade. 
You  can’t  fool  m e.”

“ You  are  not  very  complimentary,”  

said  the  merchant.
“ Look  here,”  

said 

the  woman, 
“ when  you  hand  me  my  stuff  and  1 
hand  you  your  money,  you  count 
it, 
don’t  you? 
If  I  should  pass  a  little  sil­
ver  over  to  you,  you  wouldn’t  throw  it 
in  the  drawer  and  trust  to  my  honor  or 
my  honesty,  would  you? 
I  guess  not. 
You  don’t  go  it  blind  in  any  such  way. 
Then  why  shouldn’t  I  see  my  stuff 
weighed  and  measured?  Tell  me  that, 
will  you?”

The  woman  picked  up  her  purchases 
and  went  out  before  the  grocer  could 
frame  a  suitable  reply.

“ You  are  right,”   he  finally  said, 
turning  to  the  tinsmith. 
“   There  ought 
to  be  some  way  of  discovering  and  pun­
ishing  those  who  give  short  weights  and 
measures.  They  are  bringing  disgrace 
on  the  trade. ’ ’

“ That’s  what,”   was  the  reply,  ‘  but 
how  are  you  going  to  do  it? 
I  honestly 
believe  that  even  the  plan  I  suggested 
might 
lead  to  blackmail,  for  there  are 
unscrupulous  buyers  as  well as  dishonest 
merchants. ”

The  grocer  turned  out  the 

lights  and 
the  loafer  and  the  tinsmith  filed  out  to­
gether,  while  1  waited  to  transact  a  lit­
tle  business  with  the  merchant  on  the 
way  home.

“ I’m  disgusted,”   said  the  grocer,  as 
we  walked  along.  “ You  saw  what  took 
place?  Well,  we  have  scenes  like  that 
about  twice  a  day. 
1  think  I’ll  sell  out 
and  go  into  the  coal  business.”
Alfred  B.  Tozer.

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Crockery and  Glassware

A K R O N   S T O N E W A R E . 

B u t te r s

Vt gal., l>er  doz............................................. 
1 to 6 gal., per  gal.......................................  
8 gal. each.................................................... 
10 gal. each.................................................... 
12 gal. each.................................................... 
15 gal. meat-tubs, each......................... 
20 gal. meat-tubs, each......................... 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each......................... 
30 gal. meat-tubs, each......................... 

C hurns

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

2 
Churn Dashers, per doz..............................  

M ilkpans

Vt gal. flat or rd. hot., per doz............. 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each..................  
F in e G lazed M ilkpans
Vt gal. flat or rd. hot., per doz.............  
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each..................  

Vt gal. fireproof, bail, per  doz.............  
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz.............  

Stew pans

Ju g s

% gal., per  doz.............................................  
(4 gal. per  doz............................................... 
1 to 5 gal., per  gal.........................................  

T om ato  Ju g s

% gal., per  doz.............................................  
lg a l.,e ac h ........................................... 
Corks for H gal., per doz............................. 
Corks for  l  gal., per doz............................. 

P reserve  J a r s   an d   Covers

Vt gal., stone cover, per doz........................ 
1 gal., stone cover, per doz.....................  

5 lbs. In package, per  lb...............................  

Sealing  W ax

FR U IT   JA R S

Pints.............................................................. 
Quarts........................................................... 
Half Gallons................................................. 
Covers.......................................................... 
Rubbers......................................................... 

LA M P  BURNERS

No. 0 Sun....................................................... 
No. 1 Sim...................................... 
 
No. 2 Sun.......................................................  
No. 3 Sun...................................................... 
Tubular..........................................................  
Security, No.  1 .............................................. 
Security, No.  2.............................................  
Nutmeg..........................................................  

L A M P   C H IM N E Y S —S e c o n d s

No. 0 Sun................................................ 
No. 1 Sun................................................ 
No. 2 Sun..............................: ................ 

Per box of 6  doz.
1  28
1  42
2  12

Com m on

1  05
1  40
2 00
2 40

5

40
4U

60
5V4

85
1  10

No. 0 Sun................................................ 
40
No. 1 Sun................................................ 
5
No. 2 Sun................................................ 
48
60
72

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 

F irst  Q uality

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No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 3 Sim, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
CHIMNEYS—P e a rl Top
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled........  
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled........  
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and labeled.... 
No. 2 Sim,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe
Lamps........................................... 

L a  B astie

No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz............. 
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz......... 
No. 1 Crimp, per doz............................ 
No. 2 Crimp, per doz............................ 

R ochester

No. 1 Lime (65c  doz)............................ 
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)............................ 
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)— .....................  

40
E lectric
50
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)............................ 
6
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)..............  
 
O IL  CANS

6V4

1 gal.  tin cans with spout, per doz__  
50
1 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
2 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
20
3 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
30
5 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 
5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 
75
5 gal. Tilting cans.................................. 
1 00
5 gal. galv. iron  Nacefas.....................  

gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 

P o m p   Cans

4 00
4 25
6 00
2 00

 

1 00

2
5 gal. Rapid steady stream .................. 
5 gal. Eureka, non-overflow................  
3 gal. Home Rule................................... 
5 gal. Home Rule................................... 
5 gal. Pirate King.................................  

LANTERNS

25

No.  0 Tubular, side lift....................... 
No.  IB  Tubular................................... 
No. 13 Tubular, dash............................  
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain............  
37
No. 12 Tubular, side  lamp.................... 
 
No.  3 Street lamp, each...................... 
60
LANTERN  GLOBES 
45
60
80
B0

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 

38

1  50
1  60
2 46

2 10
2 15
3 15

2 55
2 75
3 75

3  70
4  70
4 88
80

90
1  15
1  35
1  60

3  50
4 00
4  70

4  00
4  40

1  40
1 76
3 25
3 75
4 85
4 85
5 35
7  25
9 00

8 50
10 50
10 60
12 00
9 80

4  50
7  00
6  76
7  00
14  00
3  75

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The  Meat  Market

H o w   to   M a k e   M osaic;  S a u s a g e .

Before  being  ready  to  make  mosaic 
the  sausages  used  for  layers  have  to  be 
made  first,  and  this 
is  generally  done 
two  or  three  days  ahead.  Mosaic  sau­
sages  are made with five  or  seven  layers. 
The  latter  are  made  the 
following  w a y: 
.  Make  two  slices  of  truffle-!iver  sausage, 
two  slices  of  blood  pudding,  with  very 
small  cubes  of  fat,  and 
slices 
of  meat-sausages, 
stuff 
and 
same 
in  narrow  hog-guts  of  the  same 
width,  about  12  inches  long.  When  the 
sausages  have  been  boiled  place  them 
in  a  straight  position  on  a  table  to  cool 
off.  When  they  are  cold  wipe  them  off 
and  hang  them  singly  in  cold  smoke  for 
a  night.

two 
then 

the 

fat-jelly 

is  placed 

For  each  of  these  six  sausages  take  a 
well-salted  beef  tongue,  which  previous­
ly  has  been  straightened  before  cooking 
by  having  been  fastened 
to  a  clean 
it  is  done  leave 
piece  of  board.  When 
it  on  the  board  until  it 
is  cold.  When 
cold  give  the  tongue  a  round  shape  like 
that  of  the  sausages.  To  surround  sau­
sages  and  tongue  with  a 
layer of  fat, 
prepare  with 
little  water  in  a  special 
pot  of  clean,  thin  slices  a  jelly  for  later 
In  the  meantime  cut  large  pieces 
use. 
of  the  tougher  fat 
into  thin  slices  of 
equal  size.  Then  cut  the  sausages  and 
tongue  so  that  they  are  of  equal 
length. 
into  a  pot  of 
The 
boiling  water  to  keep 
it  warm.  Then 
dip  the  sausages,  one  after  the  other, 
into  the 
jelly,  which  must  cover  them 
entirely  round  about.  All  overstanding 
fat  must  be  removed.  The  sausages 
are  put  straight  on  a  table  to  cool  off 
and  get  well  coated  with  the  fat-jelly. 
The  purpose  of  using  this 
jelly  is  to 
keep  the  fat  close  around  the  sausages, 
which  prevents  the  getting  loose  of  the 
thin  slices  when  cut.  Suppose  there  are 
to  be  made  three  mosaic  sausages  with 
each  seven  layers,  then  take  5  pounds  of 
from 
best-grade  veal 
leg  and  5 
from  a  large  ham,  the 
pounds  of  pork 
sinews  previously  carefully 
removed. 
Chop  the  meat  fine. 
In  the  meantime 
fry  four  to  six  white  onions,  cut  into 
thin  slices,  in  about  one-fourth  pound 
of  best  unsalted  butter  until  they  are 
yellow,  and  add  to  this  (for  10  pounds 
of  meat)  one-half  pound  of  boned  sar- 
d els;  cover  the  pot  and  stew  the  sar- 
dels  until  they  have  dissolved  to  a 
sauce,  strain  by  stirring,  and  let  them 
cool  off  on  a  plate.  Some  very  large 
hog  or  ox  bladders  are  steeped  in  warm 
water.  The  meat  is  seasoned  with 5  3-5 
ounces  of  salt  and  0.35  ounce  of  salt­
peter  and  chopped  over again  for  fifteen 
minutes.  Then  add  the  sardel  sauce,  a 
liquor  glassful  of  a  cochineal  solution, 
9-10  ounce  of  white  pepper,  0.35  ounce 
of  mace,  o. 18  ounce  of  white  ginger  and 
two  raw  eggs,  well  beaten  with  a  little 
water.  Knead  the  force  well  through. 
If  it  is  too  dry,  rub  off  with  about  one 
pint  of  water,  according  to state.  Weigh 
off  the  force 
in  three  equal  parts,  and 
start  to  make  the  mosaics.  Cut the  blad­
ders  lengthwise  on  one  side.  They  must 
have  been  well  soaked.  Take  one  of 
the  bladders,  press the water out  of  same 
and  dry  with  a  dry  towel,  and  spread  it 
on  a  table  so  that  the  inner  part  lies  on 
the  table.  On  the  bladder a  hand-wide 
layer of  the  force  of  the  same  length  of 
the  sausage  is  put,  and  upon  same  a 
meat  and  a  truffle-sausage.  Fill  space 
between  the  latter  with  the  force  so  that 
they  are  covered, 
too,  from  the  side. 
Put  another  finger-broad  layer of  force 
upon  the  sausages  and  place  a  blood

pudding,  the  tongue 
in  the  center  and 
another  blood  pudding,  into  position. 
Fill  out  the  space  between  with  force ; 
the  side  parts  of  the  blood  pudding  are 
covered  last.— Butchers’  Advocate.

F o r  R e m o v in g  t h e  W o r d  “ O le o m a r g a r in e .”
The  United  States  Circuit  Court  of 
Appeals  has  refused  a  rehearing  in  the 
case  of  Joseph  Wilkins,  of  Washington, 
I).  C.,  and  Howard  Butler,  of  Phila­
delphia,  Pa.,  defendants 
in  the  famous 
oleomargarine  cases  of  several  years 
ago.  Wilkins  was  an  oleomargarine 
dealer,  and  Butler  was  employed -  by 
him.  The  two  men  were  arrested  in 
Philadelphia  in  December,  1896,  for  re­
moving  brands  and  the  word  “ oleomar­
garine"  from  packages  containing  that 
commodity.  The  case  attracted  wide- 
spead  attention  at  the  time,  and  a  v ig ­
orous  fight  was  made  to  prevent  convic­
tion.

Wilkins  and  Butler  were  tried  before 
Judge  Butler  in  the  United  States  D is­
trict  Court,  and  Wilkins  was  sentenced 
to  an 
imprisonment  of  six  months  and 
to  pay  a  fine  of  §1,500  and  costs.  But­
ler,  because  of  his  only  being  an  em­
ploye  of  Wilkins,  received  a  more 
leni­
ent  sentence,  that  of  four  months  and  a 
fine  of  $500  and  costs.  The  case  w as! 
taken  by  appeal  to  the  Circuit  Court  of 
Appeals.  They  are  now  on  bail,  and 
have  thirty  days  in  which  to  surrender! 
themselves  and  serve  their  sentences.

A  dispatch 

G a t h e r i n g   in   T u r k e y s   f o r   T h a n k s g iv i n g .
from  Kaukauna,  W is., 
says  that  Eastern  buyers  have  many 
agents  working  over  every  foot  of  the 
country  around  there  to  gather  up  all 
they  can  find  of  chickens,  ducks,  geese 
and  turkeys,  and  that  it  is  claimed  by 
those  “ well  posted"  that  this  is  a  move 
by  the  packers  to  keep  up  the  price  of 
beef  and  other  meats  by  creating  a 
corner  on  the  poultry  market.  The  fact 
is  that  each  year  at  this  time  every 
poultry  dealer  hustles  for  stock  to  sup­
ply  the  holiday  trade.  The  earlier  he 
starts  in_to  gather  stock  the  cheaper  he 
buys  it,  as  the  price  alive  advances  the 
nearer  the  Thanksgiving  season 
ap­
is  nothing  unusual 
proaches. 
in  the  intelligence  that  agents  are  hunt­
ing  up  stock—they  hunt  it  every  day  in 
the  week,  but  at  this  season  more  ag­
gressively  than  others.  That  there  are 
not  so  many  turkeys  this  year  as  others 
also  makes  the  hunt  for  them  more  live­
ly  this  year.

There 

S t.  P a u l   B u t c h e r s   S u e d   f o r   L ib e l.

commenced 

A  $5,000  damage  suit  for  libel  has 
been 
against  Muraski 
Brothers,  butchers,  of  St.  Paul,  Minn., 
by  a  policeman.  The  alleged  libel  was 
a 
letter  written  by  the  defendants  to 
Mayor  Kiefer  last  August,  asking  that 
it  that  Niemzyka, 
official  to  see  to 
policeman,  pay 
them  a  meat  bill,  a 
copy  of  which  accompanied  the  letter  to 
His  Honor.

Mayor  Kiefer  forwarded  the  letter  to 
the  Chief  of  Police  with  a  mandatory 
indorsement,  and  the  Chief  of  Police 
communicated with  the  policeman,  add­
ing  a  command  of  his  own.  The  officer 
claims 
in  his  suit  that  the  letter  from 
Muraski  Bros,  w'as  a  piece  of  blackmail 
and  libel,  and  so  demands  damages.

F a t i n g   H o r s e   F l e s h   In   M ilw a u k e e .
Members  of  the  Milwaukee  Health 
Department  are  investigating  the  horse 
flesh  industry  in  that  city. 
Information 
has  come  to  their  notice  that  large  num­
bers  of  old  and  decrepit  animals  are  be­
ing  slaughtered  in  Wauwatosa  and  that 
the  meat 
is  being  sold  in  Milwaukee. 
Whether  the  flesh  is  being  sold  for  beef 
or  whether  it  is  being  used  for  the  man- 
facture  of  sausage  has  not  been  deter­
mined  by  the  health  officials,  but  their 
investigation  has  gone  far  enough  to 
convince  them  that  the  sale of horse flesh 
is  being  conducted  on  a  considerable 
scale,  and  that  the  animals  which  are 
being  slaughtered  in  large  numbers  are 
for  local  trade.

Court  costs  are  fully  understood  by the 
man  who  has  been  the  defendant  in  a 
breach-of-promise  suit.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W A N T E D

10.000 live chickens and  turkeys daily.  Will  pay highest market price  •  
always.  W e make  remittance same day that goods arrive.  We refer 
 
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Apples and  Onions. 

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IN  CANS  AND  BULK

F. J.  DETTENTHALER,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

U. S. Packing Co.

Packers and curers of choice grades of

Beef,  Veal,  Mutton,  Pork and Game

All  Packing  House Products

Manufacturers of

Old  Homestead  Mince Meat

Wholesale  Butteri ne Dealers

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Consignments  Poultry,  Eggs and  Butter solicited.

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W e will  have a carload of  “ L IB E R T Y   B E L L ”  W ASH­
INGTON  N A V E L S in about  Nov.  18  to  20.  Send  us 
your orders now to be filled on arrival.

R i c e   &   A Y & t b e s o i ?

20 and 22 Ottawa St., 
Grand Rapids

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SH IP  YO U R  B U T T E R   AND  E G G S   TO 

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

3 8  SO .  DIVISION S T ..
GRAND  RAPID S,  MICH.
F inancially responsible, actively alert to shippers* interests, square, prom pt rem itters.  Produce 
handled on comm ission or bought a t  a  definite  stated  price  on  track.  R efer  to  G rand  R a p ­
ids N ational  B ank; Ithaca Savings Bank,  Ith aca,  F .  E .  D urfee  &  Co.,  Bankers,  Perrinton, 
M ich.; Commercial  A gencies.

Fruits and  Produce.

O b s e r v a tio n s   b y   a   G o th a m   E g g   M a n .
A  large  receiver  of  eggs  called  me 

in 
the  other  day  to  show  some  eggs  which 
he  had  received  from  a  Michigan  ship­
per. 
The  stock  had  evidently  been 
subjected  to  some  kind  of  process  for 
cleaning  the  shells  and  had  been  im­
mersed 
in  water,  probably  containing 
acid  of  some  kind.  The  effect  upon 
their quality  was  disastrous.  The  eggs 
looked  very  clean  and  handsome,  and 
when  fresh  received  they  showed  clear 
before  the  candle,  but  upon  holding  for 
two  or  three  days  they  went  to  the  bad 
and  became  worthless  to any  good  class 
of  trade.  The  receiver  had  sold  one 
lot  of  the  eggs  and  the  buyer  came  back 
shortly  afterward  with  a  tale  of  woe 
which  could  only  be  assuaged  by  al­
lowing  him  a  reduction  on  the  price. 
Washed  eggs  will  not  keep  and  some  of 
the  solutions  which  are  occasionally 
used  are  apt  to  destroy  the  quality  ut­
terly.

*  *  *

satisfactorily. 

We  have  had  a  long  stretch  of  mild 
weather,  in  which  it  has  been  difficult 
for  dealers  and  retailers  to  handle  re­
frigerator  eggs 
Com­
plaints  of  poor quality  have  been  quite 
general 
from  the  consuming  public, 
and  there  is  little  doubt  that  the  use  of 
eggs  has  been  lessened  by  the  unsatis­
factory  character  of  much  of  the  stock 
in  circulation.  One  of  our  local  deal­
ers,  however,  when  asked  whether  he 
had  had  much  complaint  as  to  the  qual­
ity  of  the  refrigerator  eggs  which  he 
was  using,  told  me  that  he  had  not;  on 
the  contrary,  he  said  that  he  was  using 
refrigerators  for  a 
large  proportion  of 
his 
trade  with  very  good  success. 
Thinking  that  his  method  of  handling 
might  be  interesting  and  useful,  I  asked 
for  a  description  of 
it,  which  he  very 
willingly  gave  me. 
“ I  began  to  use 
some  of  my  refrigerator  eggs  as  early 
as  August,”   said  he,  “ and  have  used 
them  more  or 
I  take 
them 
from  cold  storage  in  small  lots— 
about  fifty  cases  at  a  time—and  put 
them  at  once  into  my  private  ice  box, 
where  I  keep  a  temperature  of  about  45 
deg.  The  eggs  do  not  sweat  while  in 
my  box,  and  remain  there 
fully  two 
days. 
I  then  bring  them  out  in  quan­
tity  as  needed  for  immediate  use,  can­
dle  them,  pack  them  back  in  the  cases 
and  put  them  out.  When  the  weather 
is  very  warm  and  moist  the  eggs  sweat 
when  taken  from  the  cases  for  candling, 
but  I  do  not  wait  for  them  to  dry  be­
fore  sending  them  out. 
If  the  weather 
is  even  moderately  cool  they  do  not 
sweat  at  all  after  remaining  for  two  full 
days 
they 
would,  of  course,  if  exposed  to  the  air 
when  taken  from  the  colder  refrigerator 
in  which  they  were  held."

ice  box,  although 

less  ever  since. 

in  my 

*  *  *

My  attention  was  called  one  day  last 
week  to  a  lot  of  eggs  which  had  given 
the  receiver  considerable  trouble.  The 
eggs  had  been  received  as  fresh  gath­
ered,  and  put  out  as  such  to  one  of  our 
local  dealers,  who  returned  them as  un­
satisfactory.  This  called 
for  a  closer 
inspection,  and  revealed  the  fact  that 
the  eggs  were  partly  fresh  gathered  and 
partly  refrigerators. 
There  was  very 
little  actual  loss  in  them ;  the  stock  had 
evidently  been  candled  very  closely, 
and  the  refrigerator  eggs  mixed  in  were 
very  good  for  refrigerators.  But dealers 
who  want  fresh  eggs  don’t  want  them 
mixed  with  ice  house  stock ; ,if  there  is 
mixing  to  be  done  they  prefer  to  do  it 
themselves.  These  goods  were  received

on  a  dull  market, 
and  after  sitting 
around  two  or  three  days,  were  finally 
sold  at  the  price  of  prime  refrigerators, 
there  being  no  outlet  at  any  better  fig­
ure.  Thus,  instead  of  getting  the  price 
of  fresh  eggs  for  the  refrigerators  mixed 
with  them  (as  the  shipper  probably  ex­
it  was  necessary  to  sell  the 
pected) 
fresh 
for  the  price  of  the  refrigerators, 
simply  because  of  the  presence  of  the 
latter.  Fresh  eggs  never  bring  as  good 
a  price  when  mixed  with  older goods 
as  when  packed  alone;  and  old  eggs 
generally bring more  by  themselves  than 
when  mixed  with  better  qualities.

*  *  *

“ Can  you  tell  the  difference  between 
in 
a  shrunken  egg  which  has  been  held 
ice  house  and  one  which  has  not?”  
I 
asked  this  question  of  several  well- 
versed  egg  men  'and  while  there  was 
some  difference 
in  their  answers  they 
agreed  that  those  which  had  been  in 
cold  storage for any  length  of  time  could 
be  distinguished  before  the  candle.  One 
of  these  egg  experts  took  me  down  in 
the  candling  room  and  passed  various 
eggs  before 
light— some 
from  a  box  containing  refrigerator  eggs 
and  some  which,  although  among  the 
fresh  collections,  showed  equal  amount 
of  shrinkage.  He  pointed  out  the  fact 
that  the  ring  around  the  shell,  which, 
before  the  candle,  marked  the  amount 
of  shrinkage,  was  darket  in  color  in  the 
refrigerator  eggs  than  in  the  others  and 
stated  that  all  eggs  which  had  become 
shrunken  while  holding 
in  a  low  tem­
perature  had  that  distinguishing  mark.

the  electric 

is  necessary 

Collectors  who  are  sending  fresh  gath­
ered  eggs  to  New  York  should  be  sure 
to  understand  thoroughly  the  condition 
of  our  market  when  settling  upon  their 
paying  prices  for  stock.  The  outside 
quotation  for  best  qualities  is  not  to  be 
taken  as  the  selling  value  of  general 
qualities.  When  goods  show  such  a 
wide  range  of  quality  as  now  a  wide 
range  of  quotations 
to 
cover  their  value,  and  shippers  are often 
prone  to  ignore  the  lower  ranges  given, 
looking  only  to  the  top  rates  quoted  as 
representing  the  “ market  price.”   As 
a  matter  of  fact  only  a  small  part  of  the 
recent  arrivals  of  fresh  gathered  eggs 
in  New  York  have  been  salable  at  the 
top  quotations  given  in  the  market  re­
ports ;  thousands  of  cases  have  had  no 
outlet  above  I4@i6c  at  mark,  and  only 
a  very  uncertain  one at  that.  It is doubt­
ful  that  the  average  value  of  all  the 
fresh  gathered eggs  received  during  the 
past  two  or  three  weeks  has  been  above 
i6@ i7c  at  mark,  the  general  range  of 
sales  having  been  from  about  14c  at 
mark  up  to  21c  loss  off.  At this  time  of 
year  the  proportion  of  sales  at  second 
and 
lower  quotations  is  always  greater 
than  at  top  figures,  and  collectors  should 
estimate  probable  selling  values  accord- 
inlgy.— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

S h e   K n e w   W h a t   T h a t   M e a n t.

Little  Helen— Boo-hoo! 

to  take  that  nasty,  bitter  stuff.

I  don’t  want 

Her  Mamma— But  how  do  you  know 
You  haven’t 

it’s  nasty  and  bitter? 
tasted  it.

Little  Helen— You  said 

it  would  be 

good  for  me.

A p p r o a c h in g :  S a n c tif ic a tio n .
He— Do  you  know,  darling, 

that  I 
it  makes  me  a  better  man  every 

think 
time  I  kiss  you.

She— Well,  at  the  pace  you  are  going 
now  there  will  soon  be  no  more  room 
for  improvement.’ ’

The  difference  between  a  saint  and  a 
is  found  out  and 

sinner  is,  the  sinner 
the  saint  is  not.

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

If you wish to buy or sell correspond  with  us.

ALFRED J.  BROWN  SEED CO.,

ORAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

GROWERS.  MERCHANTS.  IMPORTERS.

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  anv  point  taking $1  25  rate freight.  We quote  Sonora  Mexican  Oranges, 
shipments by  November  5th, $3.25  delivered.  Write  us.

MILLER  &  TEASDALE  CO  ,

ST.  LOUIS,  MO.

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. w
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To  Suit Your Taste

Stop  fermentation  in  cider 
at 
just  the  stage  where  it 
best tickles > our palate and  keep  it constantly  uniform  for  any  length  of 
time.  Contains no  Salicylic  Acid.  Affords  dealers  good  profit  selling  at 
25  cents.

J .  L.  CONG DON  &  CO.,  Pentw ater,  Mich.

~  Redemeyer=Hollister  Commission  Co.,

ST.  LOUIS,  MISSOURI,

General  Commission  Merchants.

W e have  secured  the  United  States  contract  to  furnish  Government  sup­
plies for Cuba for one year and  must  have  100,000 bushels of  apples, onions 
and potatoes.  Shipments and  correspondence solicited. 

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BEANS

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

M O SELEY  BROS.

2 6 -2 8 -3 0 -3 2   OTTAW A  ST .,  GRAND  RA PID S 

Always  in  the  market.

Seeds,  Beans,  Potatoes,  Onions,  Apples.

•w a i t e d

We are always in the market for  Fresh

B U T T E R   AND  E G G S

36  Market  Street. 

R.  HIRT,  JR.,  Detroit,  Mich.  S

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Clerks’  Corner.

T he  New  C lerk  a t  R idgw ay  Comes  Out 

A head.
Written for the Tradesman.

When  Dick  Potter’s  clerk 

left  him 
everbody  in  Ridgway  laughed  and  won­
dered  who  would  come  next.  Not  any­
body  who  had  ever  lived  within  twenty- 
five  miles  of  the  village,  for  Potter and 
his  testy  temper  were  known  and  feared 
by  everyone  within  that  radius.  There 
was  no  doubt  about  the  man’s  ability. 
If  there  was  one  thing  in  the  world  he 
liked  to  do  and  took  pride  in  doing 
it 
was  keeping  the best appointed store and 
the  best  goods  in  it  which  that  section 
had  known.  He  wasn’t  afraid to lay out 
a  little  money  in  keeping  things  ship­
shape;  a  dirty  store  was,  in  his  eyes, 
as  it  should  be 
in  every  trader’s,  an 
abomination  and,  so  far as keeping mat­
ters  and  things  where  they  belonged,  he 
made  it  his  boast  that  he  could  go 
into 
his  store  with  eyes  shut  and  fill  any  or­
der  without  opening  them.  The  only 
bad  thing  about  him  was  a  temper  that 
kept  him  and  everybody  about  him  at 
fever  heat.  Joe  Conway,  who  had  just 
left  him,  never made any complaint;  but 
there  wasn’t  any  need  of  it.  It  was  easy 
to  see  what  the  matter  was.  When  a 
big  six-footer  weighing  “ nigh  onto  two 
hundred  shrinks  until  you  c'n  count  his 
ribs  through  his  shirt’ ’  it  shows  what 
constant  nagging  will  do  when 
it  is 
eternally  kept  up.  The  young  giant 
stood  it  as  long  as  he  could  and  one day 
when  the  last  straw  had  proved  a  straw 
too  much  there  was  a  “ Waal,  Dick,  I’ve 
had  enough  of  this— goodbye,”   and  a 
vacancy  to  be 
in  the  store  at 
Ridgway.

filled 

There  is  no  place  in  the  wide  world 
which  will  radiate  more  news  and  faster 
than  a  country  store  and  it  wasn’t 
long 
before  the  fifty-mile  circle  of  which 
Ridgway  was  the  center  had  heard  of 
the  clerk’s  departure,  had  wondered 
why  Joe  had  not  gone  long  before  and 
hoped  that  Dick  Potter  would  go  a  good 
while  without  finding  another  clerk  to 
fill  the  place.

He  didn’t,  though.  Joe 

left  Tuesday 
sometime  in  the  morning  and  on  Wed­
nesday  about  two  o’clock  a  thin-faced, 
wiry  young  fellow  of  perhaps  22,  neat 
as  a  pin  and  uneasy  as  a  captured  wild­
cat,  walked  up  to  the  desk  where  Potter 
was  swearing  over  a  mistake  he  had 
made  in  the  books  and  said  he  wanted 
the  vacant  place.

The  store-keeper,  with  a 

look  re­
sembling  a  dog  glaring  at  a  cornered 
cat,  growled  “ What?”   and  the  appli­
cant,  like  the  cornered  cat  which  had 
been  often  before  under  circumstances 
equally  trying  and  confidently  relying 
upon  her  ability  to  defend  herself, 
glared  back  with  a  composure  as  start­
ling  as 
the 
ruffled  dog.

it  was  disconcerting  to 

“ I  said  I  wanted  Joe  Conway’s  place. 

Can  I  have  it?”

ain’t  deaf;”   and  the  look  that  crept  in­
to  the  speaker’s  eyes  was  so  suggestive 
of  a  spring  that  the  dog  behind  the desk 
jumped  back  Then,  like  one 
actually 
beaten  at  his  own  game, 
the  store­
keeper  said,  “ All  right.  Hang  up  your 
hat  and  wash  your  hands.  You  won’t  be 
quite  so  cranky  after  you’ve  been  here 
awhile. ”

“ I  want  my  hat  where 

it  is.  My 
hands  are  cleaner  than  yours  are  and 
it’s  a  good  plan  to 
let  well  enough 
alone.  There’s  a  bare  chance  that  you 
may  have  a  little  of  the  tuck  taken  out 
of  you  if  I  stay  long  enough.  Now,  if 
I’m  going  to  do  anything  with  these 
books,  you  want  to  get  right  away  from 
here.  Thunder!  what 
looking  books! 
Do  you  write  with  a  stick? 
I’ll  be— 
humph !”   He  turned back  a  leaf  or  two 
and  laughed  derisively.  Then  he  went 
on: 
“ If  I  had  a  two-legged  mule  and 
he  couldn’t  write  better  than  that  I’d 
turn  him  loose  in  the  canon  and  let  the 
coyotes  make  the  most  of  him.  What’s 
that  word  there?  Do  you  call  that  a 
nine,  or  what 
it?  An 
eight?  Well,  I’ ll  be  switched!”

in  thunder 

is 

look 

Potter  looked  at  the page and  laughed : 
like  the  devil,  tail  and 
“ It  does 
all,  doesn’t 
it?  Joe  wasn’t  much  with 
his  pen  and  I  never  could  write  so  I can 
read 
If  you  can  beat  it  go 
ahead.  I  guess  that’s  what  was  the  mat­
ter  with  Joe,  after  a ll.”

it  myeslf. 

laughed  long  and 

That  touched  the  new  clerk  under  the 
ribs  and  he 
loud. 
When  he  got  through  he  took  a  pen  and 
left  a  line of  beauty  upon  the  page  of 
looked  at  it  with 
the  daybook.  Potter 
delight;  then, 
turning  to  the  young 
man,  who  had  seated  himself  upon  the 
high  stool,  he  said,  “ Who  are  you,  any­
how?”

“ Ed.  Green from  Hillden,  over  among 
the  mountains. 
I  heard  last  might  that 
Conway  had  gone  and  I  came  in  on  the 
train  this  morning. 
I  wondered  how 
long  it  would  be  before  you’d  start  in  at 
the  beginning.  Where  am  I  to  board?”
Potter  did  not  answer at  once.  He 
began  to  feel  the  “ tuck”   oozing  out  of 
him  already.  He  began  to  feel  some­
thing  more  than  respect  for  a  man  who 
could  make  a  page  beautiful  by his pen. 
He  leaned  over  the  book  and  looked  ad­
miringly  at  the  neat  line.

“ What  was 

it  you  said?”   he  asked 
after  awhile,  turning  his  glance  from 
the  book  to  the  good-looking  face  at  his 
side.

“ Where  am  I  to  eat  and  sleep?”
“ I’ll  take  you  home  with me.  There’s 
a  room  you  can  have 
if  you  want  it. 
After  you’ve  seen  it  and  seen  what  the 
table  is  like  you  can  make up your mind 
and  govern  yourself  accordingly.  Go 
ahead  with  the  books.”

New
Buckwheat
Flour

“ What  can  you  do  with  it?”
“ Fill  it.”
“ When?”
' “ N ow.”
“ Come  round  here  and  get  the  snarl 
out  of  these  figures,  you  double  blanked 
fool I”

“ I  will  for  forty  dollars  a  month,  you 

cork-headed  chump!”

Potter  growled  an  oath  from  the  re­
gion  of  his  boots  and  looked  thoughts 
unutterable;  but  the  animal  before  him 
composedly  winked  and  waited.

“ Joe  got  thirty.”
“  I  said  forty— a  man  with that pair of 
ear  trumpets  on  the  side  of  his  head

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and  a 
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“The flour  the  best  cooks 
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Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious,  nutritious, and costs  less  than one 
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Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the  best 
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children.
Buyers should ask for and be sure that  they 
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Dorchester,  Mass.

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The  news  that  Potter  had  a  new  clerk 
spread  through  the  village  and  among 
the  outlying  farms  and  there  was  a  de­
sire  to  see  the  man,  young  or  old,  that 
dared  to  put  himself  into  the  hands  of 
Dick  Potter.  Of  course  that  meant  trade 
and 
for  a  week  all  hands  were  busy 
waiting  upon  the  customers.  The goods, 
however,  were  secondary  matters.  The 
women  and  the  girls  came  to  see  the 
curiosity  and  the  men  and  the hoys were 
on  the 
lookout  for  the  lively  “ scraps”  
that  always  had  entertained  them  when 
new  clerks  came.  So  they  came  early 
and  stayed 
late.  But  there  were  no 
“ scraps,”   and  no  signs  of  any.

The  “ women 

folks,”   especially  the 
unmarried  part  of  the  community,  pro­
nounced  the  new 
fellow  “ slick”   and 
look  at  each  other  as  young 
began  to 
the 
women  will  when  they  all  want 
same  man.  The  mothers  became 
in­
terested 
in  the  stranger  and  took  good 
care  that  he  didn’t  go  hungry  nor  get 
lonesome.  The  masculine  sides  of  the 
families,  however,  were  not  so  easily 
satisfied.

Before  that  time  Potter  had  only  cen­
sure  for  his  clerks.  There  was  nothing 
they  could  do  to  suit  him  and  from 
morning  until  night  the 
fault  finding 
went  on  without  interruption  until  the 
clerk  could  stand  it  and  the abuse which 
always  went  with  it  no  longer  and 
left. 
Conway  had  lasted  the longest,  but  even 
with  him  endurance  at  last  ceased  to  be 
a  virtue  and,  worn  out,  he  had  gone 
home.  Here  was a  man,  however,  who 
had  evidently come  to  stay— more  than 
that,  he  wasn’t  going  to  be  “ put  upon”  
nor  abused;  and  here  was  this  Potter, 
who  never did  anything  else  with  any­
body  who  had  anything  to  do  with  him, 
looking  things  unutterable  but  keeping 
mum  as  a  clam.

As  time  went  by 

it  was  easy  to  see 
that  matters  at  the  store  were  prosper­
ing.  Green  was  showing  himself  to  be 
the  right  man  in  the  right  place.  He 
went  ahead  and  store  and  goods  gave 
early  and  unmistakable  signs  of  being 
strictly  up  to  date.  Potter  had  been 
orderly,  but  now  in  the  arrangements  of 
the  store  and 
in  the  display  of  goods 
there  was  brought  out  a  pleasing design. 
Potter  once  a  year,  when  he  made  an 
invoice,  planned  and  “ fixed  things”  
for  the  next  twelve  months,  and  woe  to 
the  human  being  who  didn’t 
keep 
things  “ fixed.”   Now  all  that  was  done 
away  with  and  there  was  “ daily  some­
thing  new”   to  attract  and  please  and  so 
increase  the  amount  of  sales.  It  was this 
utter  indifference  to  his  wishes  that 
led 
to  the  only  unpleasantness  that  ever 
sprang  up  between  them.  Potter  had 
made  his  yearly  arrangement  and  had, 
as  usual,  pronounced 
It  re­
mained  for  a  week.  On  the  eighth  day 
he  entered  the  store  in  the  morning  and 
stood  on  the  threshold  paralyzed.  Then 
loose,  all 
the  flood  gates  of  wrath  broke 
the  more  violently  from  the 
long  re­
straint.  Green  stood  at  the  desk,  pen 
in  hand  at  the  books,  working  away  as 
if  silence  reigned.  Finally,  the  page 
ended,  he  wiped  his  pen  and 
laid  it 
across  the  mouth  of  the  inkwell.  Then, 
with  his  eyes  fixed  upon  and  glaring  at 
the  storekeeper,  he  began  to  move  to­
wards  him  as  a  cat  advances to the fierce 
encounter.  Not a  word  escaped  him  and 
Potter,  feeling  the  spell  of  those  ter­
rible  eyes,  all  the  more terrible  from  the 
portentous  silence,  began  “ with  his 
face  to  the  foe”   to  retreat  towards  the 
it,  he  gave  one  fear­
door.  Reaching 
ful  oath  and  rushed 
into  the  street. 
Green,  satisfied  that  the  enemy had fled, 
went  back  to  his  work.  When  he  had

it  good. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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cooled  down  Potter  came  back  to  the 
store,  and  for  the  rest  of  the  day  a  more 
careful  attention  to  the  amenities  of  life 
towards  each  other  was  the  only  evi­
dence  of  the  unpleasantness  between 
them.

’Tish  Eddy,  the  sage  of  the  neighbor­
hood,  summed  up  the  situation  when  he 
said:  “   ’ Twarn’t  nothin’  but  a  matter 
o’  teeth  an’  claws.  Towser  was  afraid 
an’  Tom  dassen’t,  an’  both  of  ’em  knew 
enough  to  growl  an’  spit  an’  then stop.”  
It  was  a  bit  of  condensed  wisdom 
which  time  has  verified.  There  is  no 
stronger  firm  nor  better store  in the State 
than  Potter  &  Green’s  at  Ridgway ;  and 
it 
is  safe  to  say  that  if  proprietor  and 
employe  would  oftener  remember  that 
both  have  rights  which  each  is  bound  to 
respect  there  would  be  more  harmony  in 
the  world,  more  happiness  and  more 
prosperity.  Richard  Malcolm Strong.

T h e   N u m b e r e d   S to n e s.

T h is is the ground of glory,
T his is the field of fam e —
A nd these, begrim ed and gory,
Burned  w ith th e battle dame.
T hese are the vague im m ortals. 
D eep-thronged around the portals 

T he nam eless of the fr iy, 
O r d eath ’s eternal day!

Bard of the flowing  phrases,
W hv do you stin t your praises,

M use of the silver  lute,

W h y   d o  y o u r  c h o r d s   h a n g   m u t e ?

Can w e aver you blam eless,
\V  h o   s i n g   6 u t   o f   t h e   p rn u d
A nd  nigh forget tne nameless 
E nw rapt w ith earthly  shroud?
For them  no laureled  w reathings,
N o proud,  trium phant train s—
No cheers, no crowd's deep breathings, 
No boastful, brazen strains.

W ith  w ind-kissed  banners playing,
W ith  wild, regardless shout,
T h eir joy w as in th e s ayi  g,
T h eir trium ph  in  the rout!

Sons springing from   the masses,
T h e hom eland  to defend—
T h eir blood  has w et its grasses,
I h e ir  dust  w ith it  will  blend!

Dead to the acclam ations,
The  pedestals of nations 

Dead w hen th e light is done!
R e st on  the ground they  won.

The  price we blush to ow n—

T h eir valor ours for buying ?
T h eir recom pense for  dying 
W as b u t a  num bered stone!

N o t  S o  I m p r o b a b le .

Customer— And  are  all  those  ladies 

waiting  to  be  served?

Proprietor  of  Universal  Emporium— 
Oh,  n o!  The  majority  of  them  are  en­
gaged  by  the  house  to  stimulate  trade 
by  struggling  with  customers  who  en­
deavor  to  approach  the  “ bargain  count­
ers.”

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immediate  attention 

No  man  can  succeed  in  his  business 
unless  conducted  according  to  a  well- 
defined  policy,  which will  determine  his 
action  in  many  cases  arising  and  claim­
ing 
constantly. 
Behind  this  policy  there  must  be  a fixed 
principle,  or  perhaps  we  should  say 
fixed  principles,  which 
include  strict 
adherence  to  the  highest 
interpretation 
of  integrity,  honor  and  business  equity. 
The  men  whose  business  methods  have 
been  thus  outlined  would  appear to  be 
in  the  minority  everywhere,  a  fact  we 
are  sorry  to  admit,  but  we  must  take 
things  as  we  find  them. 
It  may  be  but 
fair to  the  majority  to  state  right  here 
that  the  absence  of  a  fixed  business  pol­
icy  is  not,  with  most  men,  the  result 
of  a  purpose  to  do  without  it. 
It  is 
importance  of  any 
rather  because  the 
definite  plan  or  method  of  business  has 
never  entered  their  minds.  But  if  our 
proposition 
is  correct,  Hie  man  who  is 
of  the  minority  must  content  himself 
with  being  different  from  those  about 
him.  He  must  not  only  be  different, 
but  he must  not  try  to  be  or  become  like 
them,  either  in  business  policy  or  acts.
It  becomes,  then,  a  question  of  vital 
importance  whether  a  business  man  can 
conduct  his  affairs 
through  different 
methods  from  those  of  his  neighbors 
and  succeed.  VVe  say  that  he  can.  And 
if  this  matter 
is  of  importance  to  any 
class  of  business  men  as  such,  it  is  es­
pecially  so  to  country  merchants,  whose 
ideas  and  principles  are  open  to  the 
world  through 
of 
everyday  life.  This  statement  needs  no 
argument.  But  still,  among  those  who 
have  thought  of  these  things  seriously 
before,  we  know  that  many  will  be 
found  by  whom  our  assertions  will  be 
taken  as  open  to  discussion,  if  not  to 
successful 
However, 
no  opinion  must  be  based  upon  a  sin­
gle  incident  or  illustration,  for  the  same 
causes  can  not  always  produce  the  same 
results.  A  
largely-developed  bump  of 
veneration  upon  any  cranium  will  not 
be  taken  by  the  phrenologist  as  a  proof 
that  the  owner  of  the  head  will  exhibit 
a  highly  religious  character  or  even 
marked  moral  tendencies.  Other  exist­
ing  tendencies  and 
in  the 
make-up  of  the 
individual,  as  well  as 
outside  influences  and  the  power  of  as­
sociations  and  environment,  must  all  be 
into  account.  Still,  who  would 
taken 
not  rather  meet  the  battle  of 
life  with 
a  good  physical  combination  and  favor­
able  natural  tendencies  than  to  struggle 
against  deficient  moral 
intentions  and 
abnormal  animal  propensities?

the  practical  acts 

contradiction. 

influences 

to  neutralize 

The  country'  merchant  can  safely 

fol­
low  the  best  business  ideals,  and  build 
trade  always  by  minding  his  own  busi­
ness. 
In  doing  this  he  will  many  times 
find  the  temptation  arising  to  do  as 
others  are  doing, 
their 
efforts  to  win  trade  away  from  him.  He 
may  often  find  that  he  is  temporarily 
the  loser  by  sticking to  principle,  but  in 
the  long  run  he  will  gain.  For  instance, 
the  man  who  cuts  prices  to  get  a  run  of 
custom 
is  generally  spasmodic  and  im­
pulsive  in  his  methods.  He  is  extreme­
ly 
likely,  also,  to  be  a  little  tricky  at 
times,  playing  sharp  with  his  patrons 
to  make  his  inducements  appear  at  the 
best.  Concealments  will  become  fre­
quent,  and  half  the  truth  will  generally 
be  considered  sufficient  for the  informa­
tion  of  buyers.  Now  this  method  al­
ways  catches  some  people,  some  of  the 
is  unavoidable.
time.  But  a  reaction 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  merchant  who  makes  a  fair  profit, 
sells  goods  for  what  they  are,  stands  the 
losses  resulting  from  his  own  mistakes 
and  sincerely  tries  to  do  right  by  his 
customers,  will  surely  be  appreciated  in 
the  community.

is 

the 

to  all 

temporary, 

figures  so  carefully 

Take  a  different  illustration:  No  one 
would  think  of  selling  butter  or  eggs 
below  the  market  price,  even  if  prices 
are  fluctuating  greatly.  On  a  rising 
market  he  would  not  to-day  accept  yes­
terday’s  prices,  nor  pay  on  a  falling 
market  what  he  did  the  day  before. 
is  sound  business  policy,  and  it 
This 
should  be  extended 
lines  of 
merchandise  carried.  The only  safe  way 
is  to  keep  with  the  market,  and  he  who 
advertises  to  sell  cheaply  because  goods 
were  bought  “ before  the  rise,’ ’  unless 
he  has  good  reason  to  believe  the  ad­
vance 
invites  disaster. 
Far  better  is  it  to  keep  a  bulletin  board 
in  sight,  on  which  to  announce 
the 
leading  staples, 
changing  prices  on 
giving 
that 
patrons  will  learn  to  trust  them  as  abso­
lutely  reliable.  And  the  prices  asked 
should  conform  to  the  indications  of  the 
bulletin. 
In  this  way  people  will  find 
out  one  thing,  that  they  can  always  get 
their  supplies  at  actual  market  value, 
not  paying  too 
little  to-day,  and  per­
haps  a  great  deal  too  much  to-morrow. 
ideas  can  be  carried  out  inde­
These 
finitely,  but 
is  our  intention  only  to 
suggest  thoughts  for  others  to  consider. 
But  we  will  advance  one  other  idea, 
and  it  is  of  no  little  importance  to every 
merchant:  The  man  who  follows  out 
the  principles  we  have  advanced,  and 
determines  to  be  independent  of  others 
so  far  as  methods  go,  will  establish 
both  his  individuality  and  reliability  in 
the  community,  and  will  become  a  lead­
er  in  his  special  line.  Certainly  this 
will  be  of  great  financial  value  to  any
merchant.----- Minneapolis  Commercial
Bulletin.

it 

A   W o m a n ’s  P r o b le m s .

W hen  breakfast th in g s are cleared aw ay 
T h e sam e old  problem 's rising,
For sh e again sits dow n  to think 
O f som ething appetizing.
T h e dinner she m ust soon  prepare,
O r give th e cook directions,
A nd g reat is th e relief she feels 
W hen she has m ade  selections.

W hen dinner th in g s are cleared aw ay 
Is ju st th e sam e w ith one  word changed—
She w ants to give them  som ething new,
T ill choice is made, and then  begins 

T h e problem  th a t is upper 
“   VVhat can  I g e t for su pper?”
A nd long is m editation.
T h e  w ork of preparation.

W hen supper things are cleared aw ay 
F o r then she thinks of breakfast tim e,
She  ponders o 'er it long until 
T hen bustles 'round till she makes sure 

A gain  her m ind  is w orried,
W hen  meats are often hurried.
T h e question is decided,
T h a t every th in g ’s provided.

T h a t  “  w om an’s w ork is never done ”
B ut th a t sh e’s w orried is a  fact,
T h e w orry over w hat to eat 
A nd glad sh e’d  be if some one else 

H as often been disputed,
A nd can not be refuted.
Is g reatest of these questions,

W ould m ake the meal  suggestions.

N o   W o n d e r .

“ Y es,”   said  the  eminent 

linguist, 
to  puzzle  him  by 
when  they  sought 
bringing  to  him  a  scrap  of  paper with  a 
few  words  written  thereon. 
“ I  know 
It  is  the  language  in  which 
what  it  is. 
department  store  sale checks are written. 
I  can 
it,  but  I  can  not  trans­
late  it.”

identify 

S e l f - F o r g e t t in g .

“ Haven’t  you  forgotten  something, 
sir?’ ’  asked  the  waiter,  who  expected  a

lik ely,”   replied  the 

(l  “ Very 
feeder. 
“ You  kept  me  waiting  so  long  that  I’ve 
forgotten  who  I  am. ’ ’

When  it  comes  to  making  a  long  story 
short,  the  editor’s  blue  pencil  is  strictly 
in  it.

We  Sell  Boston  and 
Bay  State  Rubbers

W e   want  your  Rubber  Business.  Order 
before  N ovem ber 
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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thirty  different 
varieties 
from  $1.50 to  $4.80 per  doz. 

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CHILDREN’S   SHOES 

Y O U   N E E D   T H E M

s HOES that will  fit.

H OES that will  wear.
H OES that bring comfort. 
HOES that give satisfaction. 
HOES that bring trade. 
H OES  that  make money.

W E   M A K E   T H E M
HEROLD-BERTSCH  SHOE  CO.,

MAKERS  OF  SHOES, 
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIcH.

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

GEO.  H.  REEDER & CO.,

19  SOUTH  IONIA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

17

Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights  of the (trip

President,  C h a s .  L.  St e v e n s ,  Ypsilauti;  Sec­
retary,  ,!. C.  S a u n d e r s ,  Lansing;  Treasurer, 
O. C.  G o u l d , Saginaw.

President,  J a m e s   E.  D a y ,  Detroit;  Secretary 

Michigan  Commercial  Tianlen’  Association 
and Treasurer,  C.  W.  A l l e n ,  Detroit.
Coiled  Commercial  Trawlers of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor.  J n o .  A .  M u r r a y ,  Detroit; 
Grand  Secretary,  G.  S.  V a l m o r e ,  Detroit; 
Grand Treasurer, W.  8.  M e s t , Jackson.

Grand  Rapids  Conncil  No.  131

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

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.
Michigan Commercial Trarelers’  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J.  B o y d   P a n t l in d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  G e o .  F.  O w e n , 
Grand Rapids.

G r i p s a c k   B r i g a d e .

W.  H.  Goodfellow, 

formerly  with 
Wm.  Tegge,  will  hereafter  represent the 
cigar  department  of  Phelps,  Brace  & 
Co.  as  specialty  salesman.

M.  L.  Campbell,  of  Leslie,  succeeds 
Frank  E.  Chase  as  Western  Michigan 
representative 
for  the  Michigan  Shoe 
Co.  Mr.  Campbell  formerly  traveled  in 
the  same  territory  for  Paxton,  Layton  & 
Williams.

Geo.  W.  Miller  (Michael  Kolb &  Son) 
insists  that  he 
is  an  adept  in  landing 
speckled  trout,  but  a  customer  who  ac 
companied  him 
last 
spring  avers  that  George  is  also  in  pos­
session  of  positive 
information  as  to 
where  the 
largest  and  greediest  mos­
quitoes  congregate  in  the  greatest  num­
ber.

to  Charlevoix 

territory 

Caleb  W.  Horton,  for  many  years  as­
sociated  with  Edson,  Moore  &  Co.,  of 
Detroit,  has 
identified  himself  with 
Strong,  Lee  &  Co.  His  territory  in­
cludes  towns  on  the  lines  of  the  D.,  G. 
R.  &  W.,  D.  &  M.  and  Michigan  Cen­
tral.  The  engagement  dates  from  Nov. 
i,  Mr.  Horton  having  started  out  on  his 
initial  trip  for  the  new  house  Monday.
J.  W.  Sleight,  who  has  covered  Colo­
rado,  Wyoming  and  Utah  since  May  i 
for  the  N.  G.  Richman  Co.,  clothing 
manufacturer  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  has 
been  assigned  Michigan 
in 
consequence  of  the  retirement  of  Harry 
Hamilton,  of  Ionia,  who  has  engaged  to 
travel  for  Arnold,  Louchheim  &  Co., 
clothing  manufacturers  of  Philadelphia.
Some  one  has  suggested  that  the  serv­
ices  of  travelers  be  dispensed  with,  on 
the  ground  that  they  are  non-producers. 
On  this  same 
theory,  clerks,  book­
keepers  and  office  men  generally  could 
be 
logically  gotten  rid  of,  yet  no  one 
seems  ready  to take  the  initiative.  The 
traveling  man 
is  a  necessity  and  the 
business  world  recognizes  him  as  such.
Saginaw  Courier-Herald:  Frank  E. 
Gowling,  traveling  salesman  for  George 
A.  Alderton  &  Co.,  wholesale  grocers, 
leaves  next  week  for  Billings,  Mont., 
where  he  has  accepted a position as as­
sistant  to  the  general  manager  of  the 
Minnesota  &  Montana  Land  Co.  The 
company  has  headquarters  in  New  York 
City,  and  controls  thousands  of  acres  of 
land  in  these  two  States.

James  L.  Lee,  of  the  wholesale  dry 
goods  house  of  Strong,  Lee  &  Co.,  De­
troit,  recently  remarked  to  a  representa­
tive  of  the  Tradesman:  “ I  am 
in  the 
market  for  four  or  five  experienced  dry 
goods  salesmen  familiar with  the  trade 
of  Michigan  and  Northern  Ohio  and  In­
diana.  There  never  was  a  time  when 
good  traveling  men  were  as  scarce  as  at 
present. 
in  the  papers 
about  the  number  of  traveling  men  who 
have 
lost  their  positions  by  reason  of 
the  formation  of  gigantic  trusts,  but  I do

I  read  much 

not  know  of  a  successful  salesman  who 
is  out  of  work  at  present—rif  you  do, 
send  him  around  and  I’ ll  hire  him  on 
the  drop  of  the  hat.”

If  any  Grand  Rapids  reader  of  the 
Tradesman 
is  minus  a  pet  cat,  he  can 
probably  locate  the  missing  property  at 
the 
factory  of  the  Simmons  Knitting 
Co.,  where  John  W.  Simmons  has  the 
finest  collection  of  stray  felines  to  be 
found  anywhere  in  the  State.

'Marquette  Mining  Journal  :  A.  T. 
Emmons,  of  Rockland,  was  in  the  city 
over  Sunday.  He  is  now  traveling  on 
the  road  for  Swift  &  Co.,  of  Ishpeming. 
Since  he  was  here  last  Mr.  Emmons  has 
gone 
into  business  for  himself,  having, 
with  a  partner,  an  old  citizen  of  Rock­
land  by  the  name  of  Huligrass,  pur­
chased  the  store  which  was  established 
at  that  place  by  the  Carleton  Hardware 
Co.,  of  Calumet.

It  appears  that  the  canard  recently 
in  the  Detroit  papers,  pur­
published 
porting  to  emanate 
from  Lansing,  to 
the  effect  that  the  traveling  salesman 
who  would  be  thrown  out of employment 
by  the  organization  of  an 
imaginary 
drug  trust  would  proceed  to  the  forma­
tion  of  an  independent  wholesale  drug 
house  to  be  located  in  Lansing,  origi­
in  the  fertile  brain  of  Fred  Als- 
nated 
dorf,  the  Lansing  druggist. 
It  trans­
pires  that  Mr.  Alsdorf  was  on  a  train 
with  a  party  of  wholesale  druggists  re­
cently  and  overherad  a  conversation 
carried  on  between  them  relative  to  the 
amount  of  money  they  could  make  if 
they  could  dispense  with  the  cost  of 
selling  goods. 
It  immediately  occurred 
to  him  that  he  could  create  something 
of  a  sensation  by  stuffing  a  newspaper 
correspondent— which  he  succeeded  in 
doing,  somewhat  to  the  discomfort  of 
the  houses  which  were  alleged  to  be  im­
plicated 
in  the  deal.  The  joke  was  a 
good  one,  albeit  it  cost  the  wholesalers 
several  dollars 
telegraphing  their 
men,  assuring  them  that  the  report  was 
unfounded.

in 

M in o r   N o te s   o f   I n t e r e s t   to   U .  C.  T .
Grand  Rapids,  Nov.  6— Grand  Rap­
ids  Council,  No.  131,  held  its  regular 
meeting  Saturday  evening,  Nov.  4,  and 
two  candidates  became  good  brothers  in 
the  order— Frank  W.  Orsinger,  with  the 
Putnam  Candy  Co.,  and  Geo.  A.  New- 
hall,  with  the  Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co. 
The  December  session  occurs  on  the  2d 
and  a  goodly  number  of  names  are  be­
fore  the  Secretary  as  prospective  candi­
dates.

Harry  Gregory 

is  chairman  of  the 
Entertainment  Committee  for November 
and  he  promises  an  entertainment  of 
the  highest  order.  Anything  that  Harry 
manages  is  bound  to be  successful.

Brothers  J.  P.  Reeder  and  J.  G.  Kolb 
ill  the  past  week,  but  are 

were  both 
out  again.

Bro.  W.  E.  Starr  is,  socially,  about 
as  busy  a  man  as  they  make  ’em,  but 
he  found  time  to  roam  over  Eastern  In­
diana 
last  week  and  corral  enough  or­
ders  for  his  Chicago  house  to  hold  his 
job.
Bro.  G.  VanderWeyden  was  plugging 
away  last  week  in  Indiana,  selling shoes 
for  the  Herold-Bertsch  Shoe Co.  “ Van”  
is  a 
funny  Dutchman,  but  a  mighty 
good  fellow  nevertheless.  He  is  a  born 
imitator,  as  well  as  one  of  the  finest 
tenor  singers  in  the  city.

An  item  worthy  of  note  and  of 

inter­
est  to  U.  C.  T.  appeared 
in  the  Octo­
ber  Sample  Case,  showing  that  claims 
paid  from  the  widows  and  orphans’ 
fund  from  January  to  October,  1899, 
amounted  to  §3,437.  The  beneficiaries 
included  one  mother,  four  widows  with­
out  families,  twenty-one  widows  with 
families,  thirty-three  boys,  twenty-nine 
girls—a  total of eighty-eight dependents. 
Truly  the  widows  and  orphansf  fund  J s 
the  best  feature  of  our grand  order.^ 
Adam  Dubb.

food. 

B u t t e r i n e   a n d   I t s   F ig h t  F o r   a   F o o th o ld .*
On  account  of  the  high  price  of  but­
ter  we  commenced  selling  butterine 
in 
the  fall  of  1893,  and  found  it  no  easy 
task  to  overcome  the  prejudice  in  the 
minds  of  the  people  against  this  much- 
abused  article  of 
Every  one 
seemed  to  have  his  own  ideas  about 
it, 
but  the  most  prevalent  opinion  was  that 
it  was  made  from  almost  any  kind  of 
grease;  that  it  was  not  clean  and  was 
entirely  unfit  for  food.  To  overcome 
this  opposition  was  uphill work  from  the 
start  and,  as  a  consequence,  the  first 
season  we  hardly  made  enough  profit  to 
cover  the  Government  license,  which,  if 
1  remember  rightly,  was  §40 
for  ten 
months.  The  next  year,  working  on  the 
theory  that  “ keeping  everlastingly  at 
it 
brings  success,”   I  made  a  visit  to  the 
factory  and  was  shown  the  process  of  its 
manufacture. 
I  was  so  satisfied  with 
the  cleanliness  of  the  fresh goods as they 
were  turned  out— no  creamery  could  be 
cleaner— and  the  neat  appearance  of  the 
employes  that  I 
felt  I  was  in  a  much 
better  condition  to  talk  on  the  subject 
and  that  I  was  more  familiar  with  the 
goods  and  could  talk  convincingly  and 
make  the  people  more  fully  understand 
the  merits,  cleanliness  and  purity  of 
the  article.  1  again  paid  Uncle  Sam  §40 
to  secure  his  permission  to  continue  do­
ing  good  by  selling  butterine.  By  con­
tinual  push  and  the  assistance  of  print­
er’s 
in  getting  the 
business  started  very  nicely  and,  in  our 
part  of  the  city,  came  to  be  known  as 
the  “ butterine  people.”

ink  we  succeeded 

coloring  matter, 

The  business  thrived,:  sales  increased 
in  volum e;  people  seemed  to  be  getting 
over  their  prejudice  against  it  and  we 
were  succeeding 
finely  until  we  struck 
the  State  oleo  color  law,  which,  1  be­
lieve,  was  enacted  in  1895. 
It  provided 
that,  while  butter  might  be  colored  with 
artificial 
butterine 
should  not  be  colored.  Under  the  law, 
an 
inspector  might  call  upon  a  grocer, 
secure  a  sample  of  butterine  and  send  it 
to  the  State  chemist  for  analysis  and,  if 
the  least  trace of color was tound  in it, the 
grocer  was  subject  to  prosecution  and, 
if  found  guilty,  was  fined  §50.  The  in­
spector  or  any  of  his  assistants  could 
call  as  often  as  they  desired  and  secure 
samples  and  make  a  separate  suit  for 
each  offense.  For  this  reason  the  suits 
against  others  who  sold  the  goods  and 
myself  were  of 
frequent  occurrence. 
Finally,  the  manufacturers  -twoof  them 
at  least— came  to  the  rescue  and 
fought 
the  cases  of  those  who  sold  goods  of 
their  manufacture.  The  question of color 
was  the  only  one 
in  dispute.  There 
was  never  a  word  said  in  regard  to  its 
purity  or  wholesomeness  as  an  article  of 
food,  although  the  question  was  asked 
both  gentlemen  from  Lansing  and  Ann 
Arbor  when  on  the  witness  stand.  Pro­
fessor  Prescott,  of  Ann  Arbor,  when 
to  coloring  matter, 
asked 
stated  that  he 
in  16  ounces  of 
butterine  fifteen  one-hundredths  of  a 
grain  of  coloring  matter.  This  consti­
tuted  our  offense  against  the  great  State 
of  Michigan.

in  regard 

found 

These  suits  became  so  numerous  that 
the  attorneys  for  the  defense  and  the 
Food  Commissioner  finally  agreed 
to 
take  one  case  and  carry  it  to  the  Su­
preme  Court  as  a  test  case,  in  order that 
the  decision  of  that  tribunal  might  gov­
ern  the  rest.  They  also  agreed  that 
there  should  be  no  further  prosecutions 
pending  this  decision,  although  the 
in­
spector was  allowed  to  continue  taking 
samples  as  before.  F.  J.  Dettenthaler’s 
case  was  the  one  selected  to  tie  tried  to 
decide  this  question  for  the  State.  The 
case  was  stubbornly 
fought  from  the 
Police  Court  to  the  Superior  Court  and 
from  there  to  the  Supreme  Court.  The 
decision  of 
this  case  was  anxiously 
awaited  by  the  grocers,  as  it  meant  a 
great  deal  of  money  in  payment  of  fines 
in  case 
it  was  decided  against  them. 
Most  of  you  know  the  result— the  law 
was  declared  unconstitutional on account 
of  a  defective  title.

After  this  decision  we  believed  we 
could  safely  continue  the  sale  of  butter­
ine,  but  we  had  just  received  our  first 
shipment  under  the  new  license  when 
we  had  another  call  from  the  Food Com-
*I’aper read by B.  S.  Harris  before  the  Grand 

Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association.

food 

missioner,  who  took  samples  and  said 
he  was  going  to  prosecute  under the 
dairy  and 
laws  and  thought  he 
could  make  it  stick  this  time.  Rather 
than  be  put  to  the 
inconvenience  of 
further  prosecutions,  we  ‘ 1 threw  up  the 
sponge’ ’  and  forfeited-—-by  not  using— 
our  Government  license.

The  cases  under  the  new  movement 
were  all  dismissed  in  the  Police  Court 
of  Grand  Rapids,  although 
in  some 
parts  of  the  State  they  were  taken  to  the 
Supreme  Court  for  decision  and,  after a 
long  and  tedious  waiting,  were  decided 
against  the  State.

The  candidates 

for  election  to  the 
Legislature  were  asked  by  letters  issued 
from  the  Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers' 
Association  to  take  this  unjust  and  one­
sided  question  of  color  into  considera­
tion:-  in  case  they  were  elected—and 
either  allow  color  to  be  used  in  both 
butter  and  butterine  or  prohibit  it  in 
both  cases.  The  outcome  was  that  an­
other  oleo 
law  was  passed  by  the  Leg­
islature—after  a  warm  fight-  which  ad­
mitted  the  coloring  but  required  that 
each  package  be  stamped  the  same  as 
was  required  by  the  Federal  law—-each 
purchaser  be  handed  a  slip  on  which 
shall  be  printed  the  name  of  the  manu­
facturer,  also  the 
ingredients  or  com­
ponent  parts  of  the  manufactured goods; 
also  that  it  must  be  sold  and  advertised 
under  the  name  of  oleomargarine,  only 
butterine  or  any  name  relating  to  butter 
not  being  allowed.  Under  this  law  we 
are  now  doing  business  and  do  not  an­
ticipate  any  further  trouble.

We  believe  that  before  our  lawmakers  - 

further 

I get  together  again  there  will  be  no  need 
of 
legislation  on  this  subject; 
that  people  will  have  learned  the  merits 
of  the  goods  as  an  article  of  food  and 
also  as  an  equalizer  of  the  price of dairy 
and  creamery  butter.

We  do  not  wish  to  appear  egotistical, 
but  we  believe  we  belong  to  an  advance 
guard  which  has  placed  an  article  of 
rood  on  the  market  which  will,  in  a 
short  time,  be  universally  called  for  by 
all  classes. 
Its  merits  will  have  been 
discovered,  prejudice  will  have  been 
swept  aside  and 
it  will  have  been  ad­
mitted  by  all  to  be  a  pure,  sweet,  clean, 
nutritious  and  economical  article  of 
food.  As  an  advance  guard  we  have 
been  prosecuted  for  the  benefit  of  those 
who  shall  follow.  By  perseverance  and 
printer’s  ink  we  have  accomplished  our 
object  and  the  multitude  that  follows 
will  reap  the  benefit.

D e a th   o f   G e o r g e   L .  C r a w f o r d ,  t h e   F l i n t  

S aleM m an.

Flint,  Nov.  2— It  is  with  deep  regret 
that  we  announce  the  death  of  our  Mr. 
George  L.  Crawford,  after  an  illness  of 
three  weeks  with  inflammatory  rheuma­
tism. 
In  his  demise  the  city  loses  a 
good  citizen,  his  friends  a  genial  and 
companionable 
traveler  along 
life’s  pathway,  and  the  undersigned  a 
faithful  and  trusted  emjiloye.

The  funeral  will  be  held  on  Friday, 
November  3,  from  the  house,  612  Oak 
street. 

Yours  in  Sorrow,

fellow 

Flint  Cigar  Co.

Frank  Streat,  the  well-known  Flint 
as 

salesman,  writes  the  Tradesman, 
follows:

Following  close  upon  the  sad  tidings 
announcing 
the  death  of  old  “ Pa”  
Hewes  comes  the  message  that  another 
of  our  brothers  has  crossed  the  Dark 
River.  This  time  God,  in  his  infinite 
judgment,  has  selected  another  bright 
light  from  among  us  and  leaves  us  to 
mourn  the 
loss  of  Brother  George  L. 
Crawford,  who  died  at  his  home  in 
Flint  Oct.  31  of 
inflammatory  rheuma­
tism,  aged  48  years.  George  Crawford 
was  a  man  loved  and  respected  by  both 
customer  and  competitor and there never 
was  a  time  that  one  did  not  enjoy  meet­
ing  him  and  taking  him  by  the  hand. 
Flint  Council,  No.  29,  United  Commer­
cial  Travelers,  extend  their  heartfelt 
sympathy  to  the  bereaved  family  and 
they  invoke  Him  who  holds  the  seas 
in 
the  hollow  of  his  hand  to  temper the 
winds  to  the  shorn  lamb.

When 

in  Grand  Rapids  stop  at  the 
new  Hotel  Plaza.  First  class.  Rates,  §2.

18

Drugs==Chem icals

Michigan  State  Board  of Pharmacy

Term expires
A . C. Sc h u m a c h e r , Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1899 
- 
-  Dec. 31,1900
G e o .  Gundkum, Ionia 
L .  E .  R e y n o l d s ,  St.  Joseph 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
H e n r y   H e i m , Saginaw 
- 
-  Dec. 31,1902
-  Dec. 31,1903
- 
Wir t  P.  Doty, Detroit - 
President,  G e o .  G u n d b u m ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A .  C.  Sc h u m a c h e r ,  Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, H e n r y   H e i m , Saginaw.
E x a m in a t io n   S e s s io n s  
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

S ta te   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A s s o c ia tio n  

President—O.  E b e r b a c h ,  A nn Arbor. 
Secretary—C h a s .  F .  M a n n , Detroit. 
Treasurer—J.  S.  B e n n e t t ,  Lansing.

T h e   D r u g   M a r k e t.

Opium— There 

is  no  change  in  price 
to  note.  The  market  appears  to  be 
steady  and  there  is  a  good  demand.

is  very  firm 

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— The  bark  sales  at  Amster­
dam  were  at  an  advance  of  27  per  cent. 
The  market 
for  foreign 
brands.  New  York  manufacturers  ad­
vanced  their  quotation  2c  per  ounce  on 
the  26th.  Large 
lots  cannot  be  bought 
at  the  present  price  and  a  further  ad­
vance  is  looked  for.

Acetanilid—Competition 

is  keen  on 
it  has  declined  ic  per 

this  article  and 
pound.

Alcohol— Is  firm  at  the  advance.
Wood  Alcohol— Has  been  again  ad­
vanced  ioc  per  gal.,  with  a  higher tend­
ency.

Cocaine— The  market 

is  very  firm  at 
the  present  high  price  and  there  is  very 
little  to  be  had*except  on  contract.

Cod  Liver  Oil— Has  advanced  $3@5 
per  bbl.,  depending  upon  the  brand, 
with  a  higher  tendency.

Cuttle  Fish  Bone— Is  still  very  firm 

and  the  article  is  scarce.

Ergot— Is  still  advancing,  on  account 

of  the  small  supply.

Lycopodium-----Price  has  advanced
is  very  firm  here.  Stocks 

abroad  and 
are  small  and  demand  good.

Menthol— On  account  of  higher  pri­
mary  market,  has  advanced  15c  per 
pound.

Balsam  Copaiba— Has  been  advanced 

5c  per  pound  for  pure  goods.

Canada  Balsam  Fir— Has  again  ad­

vanced  and  is  very  firm.

Balsam  Peru— Has  declined,  on  ac­
count  of  large  stocks  and  small demand.
Sassafras  Bark— Is  steady  at  the  ad­
vance  noted  last  week.  It  is  very  scarce 
and  tending  higher.

Essential  Oils— Anise  is  very  firm  at 
the  advance,  with  an  upward  tendency. 
Cloves  have  advanced,  on  account  of 
the  higher  price  for  the  spice.  Penny­
royal  stocks  are  very  small  and  higher 
prices  are  demanded.  Sassafras  is  also 
in  small  supply  and  has  been  advanced. 
There 
little  wintergreen  to  be 
had  and  another  advance  is  noted.

is  very 

Insect  Flowers— Are  advancing,  but 

powder  is  unchanged.

Gum  Camphor— Was  advanced  again 
this  week.  Foreign  markets  are  excited 
and  another  advance  is  probable.

Gum  Kino— Is 

in  better supply  and 

lower.

Buchu  Leaves— Are  practically  out  of 

the  market  and  the  price  is  very  firm.

Belladonna  Leaves— Stocks  are  small 

and  the  price  very  much  higher.

Henbane  Leaves—There  is  very  little 
to  be  had  and  what  there  is  left  on  the 
market,  extreme  prices  are  asked  for.

Strammonium  Leaves— Are  also  about 

out  of  the  market.

Senna  Leaves— Are  very 

steadily  advancing.

firm  and 

Dandelion  and  Aconite  Root— Are 

very  scarce  and  have  advanced.

Caraway  Seed— Has  been  advanced 

abroad  and  is  higher  here.

Canary  Seed—Is  firm  at the advance 

noted  last week.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
More than 
100  per cent. 
Profit

Linseed  Oil— Is  steady  at  unchanged 

prices.

Sal  Soda—Has been  advanced 6c  per 

cwt.  by  manufacturers.

Seneca  Root— Large  export  orders 
have  reduced  the  stock.  Prices  are  be­
ing  advanced.

Carbolic  Acid— Has advanced  abroad. 
Higher  prices  will  rule  in  this  market 
during  next  season.

Q u a l it y   o f  C o m m e r c ia l  T e r e b e n e .

found 

Lewis  Ough examined twelve commer­
cial  samples  of  English  and  German 
terebene,  and  reported  results  at  this 
year’s  meeting  of  the  British  Pharma­
ceutical  Conference.  He 
that 
only  three  out  of  the  twelve  were  strict­
ly  B.  P.  He  pointed  out,  however,  that 
the  B.  P.  characters  and  tests  are  not  in 
accordance  with  the  latest  researches  on 
terebene,  and  that  manufacturers  state 
that  they  can  not  produce,  or  be  sure  of 
producing,  a  body  which  at  all  times 
will  satisfy  the  B.  P.  requirements. 
Modification  of  the  official  description 
in  the  B.  P.  seems  therefore  to  be 
requisite.

P e c k h a m ’s  C a l e n d a r   O ff'er  f o r   1 9 0 0 .
We  are  pleased  to  invite  attention  to 
the  calendar  offer  made  by  Peckham’s 
Croup  Remedy  Company,  of  Freeport, 
Mich.  The  offer  closes  December  1 
and  druggists  who  have  not  as  yet 
placed  their  order  would  do  well  to  do 
so  before  the  date  of  expiraton.  This 
firm  has  always  maintained  a  consistent 
attitude  of  friendly  co-operation  with 
the  retail  drug  trade  and  merits  the sup­
port  of  every  retail druggist.  Peckham’s 
Croup  Remedy 
is  a  standard  prepara­
tion  and  no  druggist  has  ever  regretted 
stocking  this  invaluable  children’s  rem­
edy.— Western  Druggist,  Chicago,  Octo­
ber,  1899.

W il l in g   to   B e   t h e   E n d .

She— Although  my  father  is  rich,  1 
for  wealth  but  as  a 

have  never  cared 
means  to  an  end.

He— Well,  I’m  ready  to  go  as  end 

man  at  a  moment’s  notice.

Best  Assortment 
of Wall  Paper

On  the  road  to-day— that’s 
what  our  customers  say  we 
have and we are getting new 
ones every day.

OUR  LIN E   CAN N O T  BE 

E Q U A L LE D

We represent  26  of  the  best 
factories in the United States. 
W e 
fully  guarantee  our 
prices.
Correspondence solicited.
Heystek & Canfield Co.,

T h e M ichigan W all P aper Jobbers.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich-

IfG. CHEMISTS. 
ALLEGAN. MICH

P errig o ’s H eadache Pow ders,  P er- 
rigo’s  M andrake B itters,  P errig o ’s 
D yspepsia  T ab lets  and  P errig o ’s 
Q uinine C athartic T ablets are gain­
ing new  triends every  day. 
I f   you 
haven’t  a ir eady a good  supply  on, 
w rite us for prices.

FLAVORING EXtRAGIS AND DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES

In 
this  drug  department,  which 
comprises  Medicines,  Perfumes 
and  Drugs. 
It  pays  you  to  push
it,  each  individual  package  being 
accompanied  by  a  positive  guaran­
tee  to  give  satisfaction  or  money 
refunded.

per 
doz. 

Balsam.............. 

retail 
price
Belladonna  Plasters...........................$  .75__ $  .25
Belladonna  and Caps. Plasters..............75......... ¡¡5
White Pine and Red Spruce Plasters 
.75..........25
Capsicine  Plasters................................... 75......... 25
Capsicum Plasters................................... 75......... 25
Arnica Plasters........................................ 75......... 25
Poor Man Plasters................................... 75......... 25
Electric Plasters.......................................75......... 25
Rheumatic Plasters................................. 75__  25
Strengthening Plasters...........................GO......... 25
Porous  Plasters........................................60..........15
Kidney  Plasters.................................  2.00. ...25-.50
White Pine and Red  Spruce  Cough
1.25...........25
White Pine Expectorant...................  1.25.......... 25
Tar, Honey, Horehound and  Cherry  1.25... 
.25
Syrup White Pine and  T ar.............  1.25...........25
NeuroRheumo (nerve bone liniment) 1.25..........25
Tropical Fig Syrup................................... 75..........10
Tropical Fig Syrup.............................  1.25.......... 25
Tropical Fig Syrup.............................  2.00___ 
.50
Laxative Cold Cure,  cure  a  cold  in
twenty-four hours.......................... 75......... 10
Laxative Cold  Tablets.......................  1.25.......... 25-
Cordial Compound, Ext.  Blackberry  1.25..........25
Magnetic Bitters.................................  3.00  ... 
.50
Worm Chocolates......................................75 ... 
.15
Little Liver Pills.......................................75.........25
Kidney  Pills..............................  
1.25__   25
Red Blood  Pills  for  Pale  People__   1.25..........25
Compound Extract Sarsaparilla......   4.00...  1.00
Celery Compound..............................   5.00__   1.00

 

 

 

PERFUME  DEPARTMENT.

per
doz.
5c Quadruple Extract, 3 doz.  on  handsome
easel card................................................. $  .45
10c Perfume, 2 doz. on handsome  easel card,
„  Lily................................................................. 75
10c Perfume, 2 doz. on handsome  Lilac  card 
.75
10c Perfume on individual folding cards........... 85
15c Perfume. 1 doz. on  card............................  1.00
25c Perfume, 6 in a box...............  ..................   1.50
25c Perfume, 2 in a box 
............................  2.00
25c Perfume, 1 in a box....................................   2 00
50c Perfume, 2 in a box....................................   4.00
And all the bulk perfumes.  Write for particulars. 
Cold Creams in Opal Jars,  handsome  lithograph 
label, 75c doz., retail.
Glycerine Jellies in Collapsable tubes, $1.00  doz., 
retail price 25c.

 

DRUG  DEPARTMENT.

per 
aoz. 

retail 
price
Senna Leaves in 
pound  boxes,  L.
& L. Brand.................................$ .60 ...  $  .10
Pure Sulphur Flowers, pound  boxes 
.10
Epsom Salts, |>ound boxes...................... go......... 10
Copperas, pound boxes  ........................ 40...........10
Powdered Borax, pound boxes........   1 25..........15
Lump Alum, pound boxes...................... 45......... 10

.60 

.. 

W e  will  send  on  a  sample  lot  con­
sisting  of  one-twelfth  dozen  or  one 
package  each  of  the  above  output 
for your  examination  at  best prices, 
guaranteeing  these  goods  to  give 
absolute  satisfaction  and  allowing 
you  the  privilege of returning them, 
in  case  they  do  not  after  your  in­
spection  within  thirty  days  from 
date  of  invoice.  This  space  is  en­
tirely  too  small  to  enumerate  all 
that  we  make.  Write  for  prices 
before  buying.

Lambert  &  Lowman,

M anufacturing Chemists,

92 and 94 Jefferson Ave.t
Detroit,  Mich.,  U. S. A.

Î  [1 1 1

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

S p e c ia ltie s  f o r   1 8 9 9 —Toilet Cases. Col­
lar  and  Cuff  Boxes,  Sharing Sets, Smok­
ers’ Sets, Tourists’  Cases, Manicure Sets, 
Work  Boxes,  Whisk  Broom  Holders, 
Jewel Cases, Odor Sets.
F a n c y  C e llu lo id   B o x e s—For Handker­
chiefs, Gloves,  Fans,  Neckties,  I’hotos, 
Trinkets, etc.
T h i n   C e llu lo id   G o o d s—Great  variety 
of new styles in cheap and medium priced 
articles.
T h e  P o p u l a r  O p a l W a r e —New shapes 
and decorations at lower prices.
M e ta l N o v e ltie s —A large assortment of 
Trays,  Boxes  Easels,  Frames,  Mirrors, 
Cream  Jars,  Candlabra,  Sterling  Silver 
Goods,  etc.
S tationers’  A rticles — Writing  Desks, 
Paper (’utters. Letter Openers, Inkstands, 
Paper Weights, Stamp Boxes, Pen Trays, 
Reading Glasses,  Fancy  Thermometers, 
Scrap Baskets, Fountain and Gold  Pens, 
Pearl Novelties,  etc.
A lb u m s , Scrap B o o k s , Etc.—Beautiful 
new  Photo  Albums  in  Celluloid,  Plush 
and Leather at low  prices;  also  Musical 
and  Easel  Albums,  Autograph,  Postal 
Card and Stamp Albums.
M e d a lio n s  a n d   P i c tu r e s —The best  as­
sortment  we  have  ever  shown—to  retail 
from 10 cents to $10.
Silver  P lated   W are — Child’s  Sets, 
Cups, Napkin Rings,  Fruit  Knives,  Nut 
Picks  and  Cracks,  Salts,  Tooth  Pick 
Holders, Crumb Trays, Cigar  Sets,  Shav­
ing Mugs-popular goods at popular prices. 
Sm okers’ A rticles—Cigar and  Tobacco 
Jars, Tobacco Pouches, Cigar Cases, Ash 
Trays, Pipe Racks, Pipes, etc.
H o l i d a y  P e r f u m e r y  a n d  A to m iz e r s —
The  most  desirable  packages  from  all 
leading perfumers and an endless variety 
of Fancy Perfume  Atomizers,  Bulk  Per­
fumes and toilet articles generally.
L e a t h e r  G o o d s —Pocket and Bill Books, 
Purses, Chatalaines,  Music  Rolls,  Tour­
ists Cases, etc.
H o l i d a y   C h in a   a n d   G la s s —(’ups  an d  
Saucers, Mugs, Vases, W ater Sets,  Wine 
Sets, Plates, Creamers, Salads, Tea Pots, 
Chocolate Pots, Bric-a-brac, Bisque Ware.
Not a  complete  line  of  Crockery  but  a 
host  of  quick-selling  holiday  articles. 
Plums picked up here and there.
Gam es and  H om e  A m usem ents—All 
the popular and staple Games, Blocks, etc. 
of the day.  A very large assortment.
X m as  T ree  O rnam ents—Candles  and 
Candle Holders in great variety.
D o lls ,  D o lls ,  D o lls   —  Anything  and 
everything  in  the  line  of  Dolls  arid 
Doll  Sundries.  Nowhere  else  will  you 
find such a complete line.
E v ery th in g   F ro m   Toyland  —  The 
greatest assortment ever  shown.  Magic 
Lanterns,  Tool  Chests,  Hobby  Horses, 
Sleds, Doll Buggies, Toy Furniture,Chairs, 
Tables,  Cradles,  Bedsteads,  Children’s 
Tea  Sets,  Rattles,  Tops,  Swords, Guns, 
Drums, Bellows Toys, Trumpets, Cornets, 
Whistles, Mandolins, Arks, Animals, Tin, 
jE  Iron and Wooden Toys, Box Toys, Whips,
J   I’rinting Presses,  Floor  and  Table  Cro- 
5   quet.  Books,  Soldiers,  Roaming  Toys,
Bell and Chime  Toys,  Mechanical  Toys, 
Kitchens  and  Kitchen  Sets,  Hatchets,' 
f   Hammers,  Sad  Irons,  Stoves,  Flannel 
5   Toys,  Pewter  Toys,  Pianos,  Steam  En-

Jax and Jim Crax.

i*   gines, Steel Toys, Rubber Toys, Jumping 
i B o o k s —Juvenile and toy  picture books, 

a  very  strong  line,  also,  miscellaneous 

gc  books, Poets, Bibles, etc. 
y   B o o k le ts , C a le n d a r s , X m a s   C a r d s —A 
beautiful  line from the Art  Lithographic 

<9  Co. and Raphael Tuck& Sons.

We have the right  goods  at  the  right 
prices and  advise  our  friends  to  place 
their orders early.

FREDBRUNDA6E, MUSKegon  MICH

J  

jc  32-34 Western Ave.  Wholesale Drugs.  ?

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

19

SALE  PRICE  CURRr NT.

Conium Mac.............
35© 40
Copaiba.................... 1  15© ‘25
Cubebae....................
90©  1  00
Exechthitos............. 1  00© 10
hrigeron.................. 1  00®.
10
G aultheria.............. 2  10© 60
Geranium, ounce__
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal..
50© 60
Hedeoma.................. 1  40© 50
.lunlpera.................. 1  50© 00
Lavendula  ...............
90© 00
Limonis.................... 1  35® 45
Mentha  Piper.......... 1  25© 00
Mentha Verid.......... 1  50® 60
Morrhuae, .gal.......... 1  15© 25
M yrcia..................... 4 00© 4 50
Olive.........................
75®  3 00
Picis Liquida...........
10© 12
Picis Liquida,  gal...
© 35
Ricina.......................
96© 05
Rosmarini.................
©  1  00
Roste, ounce............. 6  50© 8 50
Succini.....................
40© 45
Sabina.....................
90©  1  00
Santa!....................... 2  50© 7 00
Sassafras..................
55
4875
Sinapis,  ess., ounce.
© 65
Tiglii........................ 1  50®,
60
Thyme.......................
40© 50
Thyme, opt...............
©  1  60
Theobrom as...........
20
15#
P otassium
Bi-Carb.....................
15© 18
Bichromate.............
13©
Bromide  ..................
52© 57
Carb  .........................
12© 15
Chlorate... po. 17  19
16© 18
Cyanide....................
35(ax
40
Iodide....................... 2 40©  2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure
28© 30
Potassa, Bitart, com.
© 15
Potass Nitras, opt...
7© 10
Potass  Nitras..........
6@ 8
Prussiate..................
23© 26
Sulphate  po.............
15© 18
R adix
Aconitum..................
20© 25
A lthæ .......................
22© 25
A nchusa..................
10© 12
Arum  po..................
© 25
Calamus...................
20© 40
Gentiana........po. 15
12© 15
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  15
16® 18
Hydrastis  Canaden.
© 70
Hydrastis Cam, po..
© 75
Hellebore, Alba, po.
12© 15
Inula,  po..................
15© 20
Ipecac, po................ 4  25© 35
35@ 40
Iris  plox.. .PO. 35®38
Jalapa, p r................
25© 30
Marantu.  *4s...........
© 35
Podophyllum,  po...
22© 25
Rhei..........................
75© 00
Rtiei, cu t...........
75@
Rhei, pv.................... 
Spigelia 
35©
Sanguinaria 
.po.  15
®
Serpentaria
40©
Senega .....................
fiO©
Smilax, officinalis H.
®
Sniilax, M................
©10©
SciUae............ po.  35
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
©
dus,  po.................. 
Valeriana.Eng. po. 30 
®
Valeriana,  German. 
15®
Zingiber a ................  
12®
Zingiber j..................  
25©

S e m e n
Anisum......... po.  15
12 
® 
Apium (graveleons).
15
13© 
Bird, is ................... .
4©  
6
Canil..............po.  18
12 
11® 
Cardamon.................
1  25®  1  75 
Coriandrum..............
8©  
10 
Cannabis Sativa.......
5© 
6
Cydonium.................
75©  1  00 
Cheuopodium..........
12 
10© 
Dipterix Odorate__
1  40©  1  50 
Fceniculum  .............
10 
© 
Foenugreek, po........
7©  
9
L in i..........................
3*4©  4*4 
Lini, grd.......bbl. 3*4
4©
LobélTa................... 7
35@
Pharlaris Canarian.. 4*4©
R ap a........................
4*4©
Sinapis  Alba...........
9®
Sinapis  Nigra..........
11®
S piritus

Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00©  2
Frumenti,  D. F. R.. 2 00©  2
Frum enti................. 1  25@.  1
Juniperis Co. O. T ...  1  65©  2 00
Juniperis  Co...........   l  75©  3 50
Saacharum  N. E __   1  90©  2 10
Spt. Vini Galli..........  l  75©  6 50
Vini  Oporto.............  l  2f,@  2 00
Vini Alba..................  l  25©  2 00

75

H  

S p o n g e s  
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................. 2  50©  2
Nassau sheeps' wool 
carriage................. 2 50©  2
Velvet extra sheeps’ 
wool, carriage......
-  ®  1
Extra yellow sheeps’ 
wool, carriage......
©  1
Grass  sheeps’  wool, 
carriage.................
©  1
Hard, for slate use..
@
Yellow  R e e f,  for 
slate use................
©  1
Syrups 
A cacia......................
Auranti Cortex........
Zingiber....................
Ipecac.......................
Ferri Iod..................
Rhei  Arom...............
Smilax  Officinalis...
Senega .....................
SciUse........................

©
©
©
©
©
@
50©

8
75
Iti
37
46
10
14
15
50
5
00
40

ti
8
15
14

25
00
50
00

14
8
25

fiO
10
45
45

18
12
18
30
20
12
1214
15

25
30
1214
15
17

15
25
75
40
15

80
7

16
25
35

40
25
30
20
10

65
45
35
28
65
14
12
30
60
30
55
13
14
Iti
60
40
00
70
30
25
60
40
35
35
45
80

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
20
20
20

75
50
25
00
50
90
86
85
45
75
50
40

SciUse  Co.................. 
Tolutan..................... 
Prunus  virg.............  
T inctures
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F 
Aloes........................  
Aloes and M yrrh__  
A rnica.....................  
Assafuetida............... 
Atrope Belladonna.. 
Auranti Cortex........ 
Benzoin.................... 
Benzoin Co............... 
Barosma.................... 
Cantharides............. 
Capsicum.................  
Cardamon................  
Cardamon Co........... 
Castor....................... 
Catechu.................... 
Cinchona.................. 
Cinchona Co............. 
Columba.................. 
Cubebse.....................  
Cassia Acutifol........ 
Cassia Acutifol Co... 
Digitalis.................... 
Ergot......................... 
Ferri  Chloridum__  
G entian.................... 
Gentian Co............... 
Guiaca....................... 
Guinea ammon........ 
Hyoscyamus............. 
Iodine  .....................  
Iodine, colorless__  
Kino  ......................... 
Lobelia..................... 
M yrrh....................... 
Nux Vomica.............  
Opii............................ 
Opii,  comphorated.. 
Opii, deodorized......  
Q uassia.................... 
Rhatany.................... 
Rhei..........................  
Sanguinaria............ 
Serpentaria............. 
Stromonium............. 
T olutan.................... 
Valerian  .................. 
Veratrum  V eride... 
Zingiber.................... 

©  50
©  50
©  50

60
50
60
60
50
50
60
50
60
50
50
75
so
75
75
l  oo
50
5o
60
50
50
so
so
5o
5o
36
5o
60
5o
60
5o
75
7s
5o
5o
5o
5o
75
5o
1  5o
5o
5o
5o
5o
5o
6o
6o
5o
5o
2o

M iscellaneous 

¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30©  35
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34©  38
3
A lum en....................  2)4© 
4
3© 
All mien,  gro’d..po. 7 
Anuatto..................... 
40©  50
Antimoni, po...........  
4© 
5
Antimoni et Potass T  40©  50
Antipyrin................  
@  26
@  20
Antifebrin  ............... 
Argenti Nitras, oz... 
@  48
Arsenicum............... 
10© 
12
38©  40
Balm  Gilead  Buds.. 
Bismuth S. N...........   1  40©  1  50
9
@ 
Calcium Chlor.,  Is... 
10
Calcium Chlor.,  ‘As..  @ 
© 
Calcium Chlor.,  14s.. 
12
©  75
Cantharides, Rus.po 
© 
Capsici Fructus, a t.. 
15
Capsici  Fructus, po. 
© 
15
Capsici Fructus B, po 
©  15
Caryophyllus. .po.  15  12©  14
Carmine, No. 40....... 
@  3 00
50©  55
Cera  Alba................  
Cera  Flava............... 
40©  42
Coccus.....................  
©  40
©  35
Cassia  Fructus........ 
Centraria..................  
10
© 
Cetaceum.................. 
©  45
Chloroform.............  
50©  53
Chloroform,  squibbs 
©  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  65©  1  90
Chondrus.................  
20©  25
Cinchonidine.P. & W  38©  48
Cinchonidiue, Germ.  38©  48
Cocaine....................  6 55©  6 76
70
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 
Creosotum................  
©  35
C reta..............bbl. 75 
2
© 
Creta, prep............... 
@ 
5
Creta, precip...........  
9© 
11
Creta,  Rubra...........  
® 
8
18
Crocus  .....................  
16© 
©  24
Cudbear.................... 
Cupri  Sulph.............   6!4@ 
8
10
7© 
Dextrine.................. 
Ether Sulph............. 
75©  90
© 
Emery, all numbers. 
8
Emery, po................. 
@ 
6
E rgota........... po. 90 
85©  90
Flake  W hite...........  
12©  15
@  23
G alla......................... 
G am bler.................. 
8© 
9
Gelatin,  Cooper....... 
@  60
35©  60
Gelatin, French....... 
75  &  10
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......  
70
Glue, brown.............  
ll®   13
Glue,  white.............  
15®  28
Glycerina.................. 
16®  24
Grana Paradisi........ 
©  25
Humulus.................. 
25©  55
©  92
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..  @  82
Hydrarg  Ox Rub’m. 
@  1  02 
©  1  17 
Hydrarg  Ammoniati 
HydrargUnguentum  45©  55
Hydrargyrum.......... 
®  78
Ichthyobolla.  Am... 
65©  75
Indigo....................... 
75©  1  00
Iodine,  Resubi........   3 60©  3 70
©  3 75
Iodoform.................. 
Lupulin.....................  
@  50
Lycopodium.............  
60©  65
66©  75
M acis.......................  
Liquor Arsen et  Hy-
drarg Iod............... 
©  26
LiquorPotassArsinit  10©
Magnesia,  Sulph__  
2© 
3
©  1*4 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
60©  60
Mannia, S.  F ............ 

Menthol....................
Morphia, S., P. & W. 
Morphia, S..N.Y. Q.
& C. Co..................
Moschus  Canton__
Myristica. No.  1.......
Nux  Vomica...po. 15
Os Sepia....................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
I)  Co.....................
Ilcis Liq. N.N.*4 gal.
d oz........................
Picis Liq., quarts__
Picis Liq.,  pints.......
I’ll Hydrarg. ..po.  80 
Piper  Nigra... po. 22 
Hiier  Alba.. ..po. 35
Pllx  Bürgen.............
Plumb! Acet......
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Pyrethrum, boxes H,
& P. D. Co., doz.
Pyrethrum,  pv......
Quassia*................
Quinta. S. P. &  W. 
Qutnia, S.  German
Quinta, N. Y..........
Rubia Tinctorum... 
Saccharine Lactis pv
Salacin.................
Sanguis  Draconls
Sapo,  W................
Sapo M .................
Sapo  G ..................

©  3  15 
20©  2 46
:  10©  2 35 
©  40
65©  80

©  1  00
©  2 00 
©  1  00

©  75
25©  30
8©  
10 
37®  42
29©  39
31©  41
12©  14
18©  20 
50© 3 60 
40©  50
12©  14
10©  
12 
©  15

V oes............

Seidlitz Mixture.
Sinapis...............
Sinapis,  opt.......
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Snu if .Scotch. lie Vo’s
Soda, Boras.  .........
Soda,  Boras, p o .... 
Soda et  Potass Tart
Soda,  Carl).............
Soda.  Bi-Carb........
Soda,  Ash...............
Soda,  Sulphas........
Spts. Cologne........
Spts.  Ether  Co__
Spts.  Myrcia Dorn. 
Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl 
Spts. Vini Rect. *4 bbl 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
Slits. Vini Rect. 5 gal 
Strychnia, Crystal. 
Sulphur,  Subl... 
Sulphur, Roll....
Tam arinds........
Terebenth  Venic
Theobromiv.......
Vanilla...............
Zinci Sulph........

O ils

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

20©  22 
@  18 
©  30

© 
2 
© 2  60 
50©  55
@ 2 00
©
©
©

©1  00®  1  20 
4
2$i@ 
2*4©  3V4 
8©  
10 
28©  30
50©  52
9 00® 1G 00 
7® 
8

Linseed, pure raw... 
47 
48 
Linseed, boiled........ 
Neatsfoot. winter str  54 
Spirits  Turpentine.. 
68 

50
51
60
66
P a i n t s   BBL.  LB.
154  2  ©8 
154  2  ©4 
154  2  @3 
2*4  2*4@3 
2*4 254@3
13©  15
70©  76
13*4©  17*4 
13©  16
6  ©  6*4 
6  ©  6*4 
©  70
©  90
©  1 00
©  1  40 
1  00©  1  15

Red  Venetian.
Ochre, yellow  Mars 
Ochre, yellow Her. 
Putty,  commercial 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion,  P r im e
American...........
Vermilion. English
Green,  Paris.........
Green, Peninsular.
Lead,red..............
Lead,  white..........
Whiting, white Span
Whiting, gilders’__
White, Paris, Amer 
Whiting, Paris,  Eng.
cliff.......................
Universal Prepared

V a r n is h e s
No. 1 Turp  Coach...
Extra Turn...............
Coach  Body.............
No. 1 Turp F urn......
Extra Turk  Damar.. 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp

1 10®. 1 20
1  60©  1  70
2  75© 3 00 
1  00©  1  10 
1  55©  1  60
70©  75

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Liquid  Foods,
Malt  Extracts,
Butter Colors,
Toilet Waters,
Hair  Preparations, 
Inks,  Etc.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

, 
, ^ e  E ?ces  Qu° te<l  *n  this  list  are  for the trade only  in  such  quantities  as  are  usually purchased  by  retail
dealers.  T h e y   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.

CIGARS

The Bradley Cigar Co.’s  Brands
Advance  ............................ $35  00
B radley..............................   35 00
Clear Havana  l*uffs...........  22 00
“ W. H.  B.” ........................  55 00
“ W. B. B.” .........................   55 00

Columbian Cigar Co’s brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Columbian..........................   35 00
Columbian Special............   66 00
Fortune  Teller...................  35 00
Our Manager......................   35 00
Quintette.............................  35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

COCOA  SHELLS
20 lb. bags.......................  
Less quantity.................. 
Pound packages...........  

CONDENSED  M ILK  

. 

4 doz in case.
6  75

_  „ _ 
Gail Borden E agle....... 
Crown..........................................6 25
Haisy........................................... 5 75
Champion...................................4 50
Magnolia........................  
Challenge..................................[3 75
Dime........................................... 3 36

’4  25

2*
3
4

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

AXLE  GREASE
doz. 
A urora.................
.. ..55
Castor  Oil............
.. ..60
Diamond.............
....50
Frazer’s ...............
....75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
M ic a , tin boxes..
....75
Paragon...............
.  .  55

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

B A K IN G   PO W D ER  

A bsolute

*  lb. cans doz.....................   45
*  lb. cans doz.....................   85
I 
lb. cans doz...................... 150

A cm e

*  lb. cans 3 doz..................   45
*  lb. cans 3 doz..................   75
I 
lb. cans 1  doz...................100
Bulk........................................  10

A rctic

6 oz. Eng. Tumblers.............   85

6 oz. cans, 4 doz. case..
oz. cans, 4 doz. case..
lb. cans, 2 doz. case 
1 
2* lb. cans, 1 doz. case 
lb. cans, 1 doz. case
5 
E l  P u rity

*  lb. cans per doz........
*  lb. cans per doz........
1 
lb. cans per doz........

..  80
..1
..2   00 
..4 75 
..9 00

.1  20 
.2 00

H om e

Ü lb. cans, 4 doz. case..
*  lb. cans, 4 doz. case.. 
1 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case..

J A X O N

 

45
h  lb. cans, 4 doz. case 
*  lb. cans, 4 doz. case........   85
lb. cans, 2 doz. case 
1 
1  go
Jerse y   C ream

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

O ur L eader

1* lb. cans.......................  
45
*  lb. cans............................  75
1 
lb. can s....................... .. ’ 1  50

P eerless

I lb. cans...............................   85

Q ueen  F lak e

3 oz., 6 doz. case....................2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case...............  .[3 20
9 oz.,4 doz.case............. [" '4   so
1 lb., 2 doz. case.................. a  00
6 lb.,  1 doz. case....................9 00

BA TH   B R IC K

American.................... 
70
English...................................  80

BLUINGCJPINSH)BiSSs

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

40
75

BROOMS
No. 1 Carpet...............
No. 2 Carpet...............
No. 3 Carpet...............
No. 4 Carpet..........
Parlor  Gem.................... 
Common Whisk.......... 
Fancy  Whisk............................  1 05
Warehouse..................................2 80

2 50 
2 25 
2 OH
2 50
95

CANDLES

Electric Light, 8s ... 
Electric Light, 16s......... 
Paraffine, 6s ............ 
Paraffine, 128.............. 
w icking.....................

914
10
aw.
.......m

75@1  30 
75@  85 
85

1  85 
3  10
2  25

14® 16 
20ff{25

1  25 
65@1  90

1  00 
1  00 
1  60

1  25@2 75 
1  35@2  25

CANNED  GOODS 

A pples
3 lb. Standards........
Gallons, standards..
B eans
Baked .......................
Bed  Kidney.............
String.......................
W ax...........................

B lackberries

Standards.................
C herries

Standards....................

Corn

Fair............................
Good.........................
Fancy.......................
H om iny
Standard  .................
L obster
Star, *  lb..................
Star, 1  lb..................
Picnic Tails..............
M ackerel
Mustard, 1 lb............
Mustard, 21b ............
Soused, l i b ...............
Soused, 2 lb .............
Tomato, 1 lb.............
Tomato, 2 lb.............

M ushroom s

Stems.........................
Buttons......................
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb..................
Cove, 2 lb..................
Peaches
P ie ............................
Yellow......................
P ears
Standard..................
Fancy........................

Peas

M arrowfat...............
Early June...............
Early June  Sifted..
P ineap p le
G rated......................
Sliced.........................
P u m p k in
F a ir..........................
Good.......................
Fancy .......................

R aspberries 

Standard...................
Salm on
Bed Alaska...... .......
Pink Alaska.............
Sardines
Domestic, Us...........
Domestic,  Mustard.
French.....................

S traw berries

Standard..................
Fancy.......................
Succotash
Fair............................
Good.........................
Fancy.......................
Tom atoes
F a ir...........................
Good....................... ’
Fancy.......................
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints..........
Columbia, *  pints...... ”

CHEESE
Acme.........................
Amboy..................
B utternut.........
Carson City__
E lsie.......; ............
Emblem....................
Gem......................
Gold Medal........ ” !’
Id e a l..................
Jersey...............  ”
Riverside..........
B rick................. \\\\\
Edam ...................   "
Leiden.............
Limburger....
Pineapple..............! "   50
Sap  Sago.................

CHICORY

R ed..............................................®

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

German  Sweet............ 
23
Premium................................... 35
Breakfast Cocoa.........  43

COUPON  BOOKS 
T radesm an  G rade 

C redit  Checks 

U niversal  G rade 

Econom ic  G rade 

Coupon  Pass  Books 
denomination from $10 down.

50 books, any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500 books, any  denom...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20  00
50 books, any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2  50 
500 books, any  denom...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom. 
20  00
S uperior G rade 
50 books, any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500books,any  denom...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00
50 books, any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500 books, any  denom. ..  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00
500, any one denom........   2  00
1.000, any one denom........   3 00
2.000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch....................... 
75
Can be made to represent any 
20  books.........................  1  00
50  books.........................  2  00
100  books.........................  3  00
250  books.........................  6  25
500  books.........................  10  00
1.000  books.........................  17  50
5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes__ 30
Bulk in sacks............................ 29
D R IE D   FRUITS—D om estic 
Sundried..........................   @ 6*
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.8®  8* 
Apricots......................  @15
Blackberries...............
Nectarines..................
Peaches...........
Pears............................
Pitted Cherries...........
Pnum elles..................
Raspberries................
C alifornia  P ru n  
100-120 25 lb. boxes ...  .
90-100 25 lb. boxes........
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes.......
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........

@ 3*
@ 4?4
@ 5 
@4 5* 
® 6 
@ 7* 
@ 8
*  cent less in 50 lb. cases 

.10  @11
7*

CREAM   TARTAR

C alifornia  F ru its

A pples

R aisins

Peel

London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown.............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
8S»
L. M., Seeded, choice ...
9*
L. M„ Seeded, fancy 
10
D R IE D   FRUITS- 
Foreign
C itron
Leghorn.....................
..........11
Corsican....................
..........12
C urran ts
Patras, cases.............
.......6*
Cleaned, b u lk ............................
Cleaned,  packages........!. ..  Y2
Citron American 19 lb. bx.  13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx  10*  
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 10* 
Sultana 1 Crown...................
Sultana 2 Crown..................
Sultana 3 Crown............
Sultana 4 Crown.............
Sultana 5 Crown............. 
Sultana 6 Crown.............
Sultana package... 
B eans

FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried Lima.................. 
e*
Medium Hand Picked  160@1  65
Brown Holland..............
Cream of Cereal............... 
90
1  35
Grain-O, sm all.......... 
Grain-O, large........... 
2  25
Grape Nuts................ 
” 135
Postum Cereal, sm all........." 1  35
Postum Cereal, large  . 
■> 25

R aisins

C ereals

'

F a rin a

S

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  Bros................ i5@ 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. I*. SpragueCigarCo.10®. 35 00
Hilton  Cigar  Co........10®  35 00
A. B. Ballard & Co... ,35®,175  00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co.  .35® 110  00
San Telmo....................35®,  70  00
Havana Cigar Co........ 18® 35 00
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz........... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz........... 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz........... 1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz.. .*___1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz...........1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz...............  80
Jute, 72 ft. per doz.............  
95

CLOTHES  LIN ES

CO FFEE
Boasted

 

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Rio

J a v a

Santos

M aracaibo 

HIGH GRADE
Coffees
Special  Combination........   20
French  Breakfast.......... 
26
Lenox...............................   30
V ienna........................ 
35
Private Estate.................  
'  38
Supreme.................................  40
Cess 33*  per  cent,  delivered. 
9
10
12
ia

F a ir........................................ 
Good...............................  
lT im e..........................  
Golden..................... " " " "  
Peaberry..
F a ir................... 
Good.....................  .............
Prim e....................................
Peaberry.............. ;......... ig
P rim e...............
Milled....................;;;;;;;;;;  J?
Interior..................................   26
Private  Growth........ . . 
30
Mandeb]ing....................'" "   35
Imitation..............................  22
Arabian......................................28
Below  are  given  New  York 
Prj?es  on  package  coffees,  to 
which the wholesale dealer adds 
the local freight from New York 
to  your  shipping  point,  giving 
you credit on the invoice for the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  weight  of  package 
also ?ic a pound.  In 60 lb. cases 
the list is 10c per  100  lbs.  above 
the price in full cases.
Arbuckle..............................    go
Jersey.....................  
M cL aughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
„   „ 
_   E x tra ct
Valley City *   gross....... 
F elix *  gross..........
Hummers foil *  gross  ' 
Hummel's tin *  gross 

75
...1  15 
...  85 
...1  43

Package

M ocha

ln

  

COCOA

Jam e s E pps & Co. „
 

Boxes, 7 lbs.................. 
 
PoCOD  1 /• 
 
c ^ : . « boi«

 

4n
™
g I

@4
@8
8@ 22

1  00 
1  20

80 
90 
1  15

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

H ERBS

IN D IG O

JE L L Y

S age....!....................................15
H ops.......................................... 15

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................. 55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes......... 50

15 lb. palls..............................  35
30lb. paiis.........................;;;  92

LICO RICE
P u re............................... 
30
Calabria.................... 
¿5
Sicily.................................:  14
Root........................................  10

LYE

Condensed, 2 doz.................i  20
Condensed, 4 doz........................2 25

MATCHES

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

No.  9 sulphur...........................  1 65
Anchor P arlo r...........................1 50
No. 2 Hom e................. 
T  30
Export Parlor...................    !4  00
Wolverine....................................1 50

MOLASSES 
New  O rleans
Black............................
F a ir............................
Good...................;;;;;;
Fancy...................." ‘ ‘ ’
Open K ettle.............
lialf-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD 
Horse Radish, 1 doz . ..
Horse Radish, 2 doz...
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz..
PIC K L ES 
M edium

11
14
20
24
25@35

.1  75 
.3 50

Sm all

Barrels, 1,200 count..............5 75
Half bbls, 600 count............ !s 38
Barrels, 2,400 co u n t............. 6  75
Half bbls, 1,200 count.......... 3  88
Clay, No. 216.......................... ..  70
Clay, T. 1>., full count........  
65
Cob, No. 3............................   85

P IP E S

.4 00 
.3 00

POTASH 
48 cans in case.
Babbitt’s ....................
Penna Salt Co.’s.
KICK 
D om estic
Carolina  head...........
....6*
Carolina  No. 1 ..........
. . . 5
Carolina  No. 2 ...
.4
B roken.......................'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.3%
Japan,  No.  1..................5*@6
Japan,  No.  2 
........... 4*@5
Java, fancy head........... 5  @5*
Java, No.  1..................... 5  @
Table.................................  @

Im p o rted .

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. in box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer.3  15
Deland’s.....................  
3  00
Dwight’s  Cow............3  15
Emblem...................................... 3 50
tv ,« ............................................. 3 00
Sodio......................... 
3  15
Wyandotte, 100 
00
SAL  SODA
Granulated,  bbls.... 
so
Granulated, 100lb.cases.!!!  85
Lump, bbls.................... 
75
Lump, 1451b.kegs.....!!!!!,  so 

SALT

D iam ond C rystal 

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  50 
Table, barrels, 1003 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
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs.............   55
Com m on  G rades
100 3 lb. sacks........................ 1  so
00 5 lb. sacks....................... .1  66
2810 lb. sacks....................... 1  50
56 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  30
28 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  15
56 lb. dairy in linen sabks...  60 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60 
56 lb. sacks............................   22
Granulated  Fine..................   so
Medium  Fine.........................  go

Solar R ock
Com m on

A shton
H iggins

W arsaw

SALT  FISH  

Cod

Georges cured.............  @ 5
Georges  genuine........   @ 5*
Georges selected........   @ 6
Strips or  bricks..........  6  @ 9
Pollock.........................  @ 3*

24 2 lb. packages...................1  80
100 lb. kegs.............................2 70
200 ft. barrels........................5  10

H om iny

Peas

R olled  Oats

P e a rl  B arley

B arrels................................. 2 50
Flake, 50 lb. drums.............. 1  00
M accaroni  and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box.............  60
Imported, 25 lb. box..............2 50
Common...................................... 1 75
C hester.......................................2 25
Empire........................................ 2 50
Green, Wisconsin, bu...........1  35
Green, Scotch, bu...................... 1 40
Split, bu.................................  
3
Rolled Avena, bbl...................... 4 75
Monarch, bbl..............................4 40
Monarch, *  bbl......................... 2 38
Monarch. 90 lb. sacks...........2  10
Quaker, cases.............................3 20
Huron, cases......................... 2  00
German.................................  
4
East India.............................   3*
Salus B reak fast Food
36 two pound packages__   3 60
18 two bound packages__   1  85
F. A. McKenzie, Quincy, Mich. 
F lake..............................  
5
Pearl................................  
  4*
Pearl,  24 1 lb. packages......   6%
Cracked, bulk.......................  3*
24 2 1b. packages........................2 50
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS

Tapioca

W heat

Sago

Jen n in g s’

D.  C. Vanilla 
2 o z ........1  20 
3 OZ........1  50 
4 OZ........2 00 
6 OZ........3 00 
No.  8---  4 00 
No. 10--- 6 00 
NO. 2  T  .125 
No. 3  T  . 2 00 
No. 4  T  . 2  40 

I).  C.  Lemon 
2 oz........   75
3 OZ........ 1  00
4 OZ........ 1  40
6 OZ........2 00
No. 8____ 2 40
No. 10______ 4 00
No. 2 T ..  80
No. 3 T  . 125
No. 4 T  .150

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

N orthrop  B rand 
Lem.
2 oz. Taper Panel....  75
2 0Z. Oval..............  75
3 oz. Taper Panel___1 35
4 oz. Taper Panel___1 00

P errig o ’s
doz.

Van.
„  
XXX, 2 oz. obert___ 1 25
XXX, 4 oz. taper___2 25
XX, 2 oz. obert........ 1  00
No. 2.2 oz. o b ert_  75
XXX D Dptchr.Ooz 
XXX Ü D ptchr, 4 oz 
K. I*, pitcher,6 oz...
FLY  P A P E R  
Perrigo’s Lightning,  gro..
Petrolatum, per doz.........
GUNPOW DER 
Rifle—D upont’s
Kegs...................................
.4 00 
Half Kegs....................
Quarter K egs....................
.1  25
1 lb. cans...............................   30
*  lb. cans.............................. 
is
Choke  B ore—D upont’s
Kegs....................................... 4  25
Half K egs..............................2 40
Quarter K egs........................1  35
1  lb. cans...............................   34
K egs...................................... 8  00
Half Kegs.............................. 4  25
Quarter K egs........................2 25
1 lb. can s................................  45

E agle  D uck—D upont’s

21

?resh  Meats

6  @  8>4  I 
5!4@ 614
@ 9 
@14 
10
8  @14 
7  @  8
6  @  614

i

@  51 
@  7 
@ 6

Carcass..........
Forequarters 
Hindquarters 
Loins No. 3...
Ribs...........
Rounds..........
Chucks..........
Plates ............

Dressed.......
Loins...........
Shoulders... 
Leaf  Lard...
51
Carcass........
Spring  l.amh

C r a c k e r s

The  National  Biscuit Co. 1

Candies
Stick  Candy

Mixed  Candy

S ta n d a rd ..........
Standard  H.  H. 
Standard  Twist 
Cut  Loaf............
Jumbo, 32 lb............
Extra H. H ...............
Boston Cream..........

Grocers.....................
Competition.............
Special  .....................
Conserve...................
Royal  .......................
Ribbon .....................
Broken.....................
Cut Loaf....................
English Rock...........
K indergarten..........
French Cream.........
Dandy  Pan...............
Hand  Made  Cream
m ixed....................
Nobby.......................
Crystal Cream m ix..

bbls.  pails
@ 744 
7  ©   744 
744®  8 
@  844 
cases 
@  644 
@  844 
@10

@ 6 
@ 6l* 
@  7 
@ 8 
@ 7*1 
@  84: 
@ 8 
@  8i< 
@  84! 
@  84 
@  9 
@ 84
@14

Sweet  Goods—Boxes

quotes as follows : 
B u tte r

Seym our.......................
New  York......................
Family....  ....................
S alted............................
Wolverine......................

Soda

Soda  XXX....................
Soda,  City......................
Long Island  Wafers__
Zephyrette....................

O yster

Faust
Farina............................
Extra Farina 
.............
Saltine  W afer...............

Animals.........................
Assorted  Cake.............
Belle Rose......................
Bent’s  W ater...............
Buttercups... 
.......
Cinnamon Bar...............
Coffee Cake,  Iced_____
Coffee Cake, Java.........
Cocoauut Tally.............
Crack h e lls....................
(Teams,  Iced.................
Cream Crisp..................
Crystal Creams.............
Cubans...........................
Currant  Fruit...............
Frosted  Honey.............
Frosted ('ream .............
Ginger Gems, lg. or  sin
Ginger Snaps, XXX,...
G ladiator......................
Grandma Cakes..........
Graham Crackers.......
Graham  Wafers...........
Honey  Fingers.............
Imperials.......................
Jumbles,  llouey............
Lady Fingers...............
Lemon  W aters...........
Marshmallow...............
Marshmallow Walnuts
Mixed  Picnic...............
Milk Biscuit................
Molasses  ('ake............
Molasses B ar...............
Moss .Jelly B ar............
Newton..........................
Oatmeal Crackers. —
!  Oatmeal  Wafers.........
orange Crisp..............
Orange  Gem...............
Penny Cake..................
Pilot Bread,  XXX......
Pretzels, hand  made..
Sears'  Lunch...............
Sugar Cake..................
Sugar Cream,  XXX  ..
Sugar Squares...........
Sultanas.......................
Tutti  F rutti................
1  Vanilla Wafers............
1 Vienna Crimp..............

Fancy—In  H ulk 

San  Bias Goodies....
Lozenges, plain.......
Lozenges, printed...
Choc.  Drops.............
Eclipse Chocolates,., 
Choc.  Monumentals.
Gum Drops..............
Moss  Drops.............
Lemon Sours...........
Imperials..................
I t;il. Cream  Bonbons
35 lb. pails.............
Molasses  (’hews,  15
lh. pails..................
Jelly  Date  Squares
Iced  Marshmellows..
Golden Waffles...... .

@11 
® 9 
@  9 
@ 11 @13 
@124
5
(¿ft  84
@  9
@  944
@11
@13
@1044
....  14
@ n
Fancy—In  5 lb. B oies

Lemon  Sours........
@50
Peppermint  Drops..
@60
Chocolate  Drops'__
@66
H. M. Choc.  Drops..
@75
If.  M. ('hoc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12.............
@90
Gum  Drops...............
@30
Licorice  Drops........
@75
A. B. Licorice  Drops
©50
Lozenges,  plain......
@55
Lo/enges, printed.  .
©55
Imperials..................
©55
Mottoes....................
@60
Cream  Bar...............
@55
Molasses Bar...........
@55
Hand  Made Creams. 80  @90
(Team  Buttons, Pep.
and  W lnt..............
@65
String  Rock.............
@60
Burnt  Almonds.......i 25  @
Wiutergreen Berries
@55
C aram els
No. 1  wrapped,  3  lb.

@50

Fruits
O ranges
Fancy Mexicans  ....
■lamaicas.................
Lem ons
Strictly choice 300s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 300s................
Ex. Fancy  300s........
Banana*
Medium bunches__ 1  00@1  25
Large  bunches........
1  60@1  75

@4 00
®4 50
(ab 00
&

@4  50
@4  25

F oreign  D ried Fruit*

544
5l/*
5l/t
54
6

64
8
h
10

6
64
6

104
10
8
15
13
8
10
10
10  1
154  I
8*
9
10
114
11
124
8
8
74
10
9
8
10
124
8
124
114
14
15
16
1144
8
»
1244
12
8
10
9
fc
844
7
744
744
8
8
9
1244
164
14
8

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstnffs

1  35 
1  00 ! Wheat.

65

P ails 
2-hoop Standard....
[ 3-hoop Standard.
2- 
wire,  Cable.....
3- 
wire,  Cable.....
Cedar, all red. brass  bound
I  Paper,  Eureka.....................
Fibre.....................................

T u b s

20-inch, Standard. No. I...
.7 00
ls-inch. Standard. No. 2__ .6 00
.5 00
16-inch, Standard.  No. 3...
20-inch, Dowell.  No. 1......
.3 25
5 25
18-inch. Dowell.  No. 2......
.4  25
16-lnch.  Dowell,  No. 3......
No. 1  Fibre........................
.9 00
.7  50
No. 2 Fibre.........................
No. 3 Fibre.........................
.6 75

W ash  B oards

Bronze Globe.....................
.2  50
Dewey..............................
1  75
.2 75
Double Acme.....................
2 25
Single Acme.......................
.3 00
Double  Peerless................
Single  Peerless.................... .2 75
Double Dujilex..................
.3 00
Good  Luck.........................
2 75

W o o d   B o w ls
11 In. B utter....................
13 In. Butter....................
15 In. Butter....................
17 In. Butter....................
19 in. Butter....................
Y E A S T   C A K E  

Yeast Foam, 114  doz. 
Yeast Foam. 3  doz... 
Yeast Cream, 3 doz... 
Magic Yeast 5c, 3  doz 
Sunlight Yeast. 3 doz. 
Warner’s Safe, 3 doz.

revisions

Mess..........................
B ack.......................
Clear back................
Short cut..................
PiR............................
Bean..........................
Fam ily.....................

D ry  Salt  Meats

Bellies.......................
Briskets...................
Extra shorts.............

.1  00
.1  60
.2 00

.  50 
.1  00 I 
.1  00 
.1  00 
.1  00 
.1  00

@10 00
@12 fO
@11  00
@10  75
@15 00
@ 9 25
@11  50

64.Í
G'i
5%

Sm oked  M eats

Lards—In Tierce

b%
7
%
%
%
1
VA
6
7
8
7%
§Vt
»
7

Hams, 12 lb. average.
@  1044
@  104,
Hams, 14 lit. average.
Hams, 161b. average.
@  10
Hams. 201b.average.
0,  9%
Ham dried  beef......
@  1444
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
@  7
Bacon, clear.............  744@  844
California hams.......
@  7
Boneless  hams........
@  9
Cooked  ham.............  10 @
Compound................
Kettle........................
55 lb. Tubs.. advance
so lb. Tubs.. advance
50 lb. Tins... advance
20 lb. I’ails. .advance
10lb.  Pails..advance
5 lb.  l'ails.  advance
311). Pails, ad vance
.Sausages
Bologna....................
Liver .........................
Frankfort.................
Pork  ........................
Blood.........................
Tongue.....................
Headcheese..............
B eef
Extra Mess...............
Boneless....................
R um p.......................
•  Pigs*  F eet
Kits. 15  lbs...............
H bbls.. 40 lbs..........
Vi bbls., 80 lbs..........
T ripe
Kits, 15  lbs...............
% bbls., 40  lbs..........
44 bbls., 80  lbs..........
Casings
P o rk .........................
Beef  rounds.............
Beef  middles..........
Sheep........................
B u tterin e
Rolls, dairy...............
Solid, dairy...............
Rolls, creamery.......
Solid,  creamery......
Corned beef, 2 lb __
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
Roast beef, 2 lb........
Potted ham,  44s.......
Potted ham,  44s.......
Deviled ham,  4is__
Deviled hain,  44s__
Potted tongue,  4is..
Potted tongue.  44s..
Oils
B arrels

10  00
12  00
11  75
75
I  50
2 70
70
1  25
2  25
20
3
10
60

1244
12
1644
16
2  25
16  00
2  25
50
90
50
90
50
90

Canned  M eats

Eocene ......................... @1244
Perfection.................... @1144
XXX W.W. Mich. Hdlt @1144
Diamond  White.......... @10
W. W. Michigan........
@11
D., S.  Gas.................... @11%
Deo. Naphtha.............. @11%
Cylinder....................... 2! @34
Engine.........................i: @21
Black, winter............... @ 9

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

Local Brands

3 00 
3 50

P a te n ts.................................
Second  Patent....................
Straight.................................
Clear .....................................
G rah am ................................
Buckwheat........................
Rye......................................
dis
Subject  to  usual  cash 
count.
Flour in bhls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barn hart-ITitm an’s Brand
Daisy  4gS.......... ................   3 60
Daisy  >4S.......... ................   3 60
Daisy  *4s.......... .................  3 00

Worden Grocier Co.’s  Brand

........  3 60
Quaker 44s........
Quaker %s........ ................   3 60
..  3 60

Spring  W heat  F lo u r 

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.ls  Brand
PHlsbury’s  Best 46s..........  4  35
Pillsbury’s  Best 4*s..........  4  25
Pillsbury’s  Best 44 s ..........  4  15
Pillsbury’s Best  ‘gs paper.  4  15 
Pillsbury’s Best %s paper.  4  15
Ball-Barnhart-Putman's Brand

Duluth  Imperial  44»........
Duluth  Imperial 4»s.......
Duluth  Imperial 14s.......
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Gold Medal 14s..................  4  30
Gold Medal %s..................  4  20
Gold Medal 14s..................  4  10
Parisian  44s.......................   4  30
Parisian  14s.......................  4  20
Parisian  14s.......................   4  10

Olney & Judson’s  Brand

Ceresota 44s.......................   4  40
Ceresota >%s.......................   4  30
Ceresota 14s.......................   4  20

Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand

Laurel  14s..........................   4  30
laurel  v4s ..........................   4  20
laurel  14s..........................   4  10

M eal

Bolted.................................  1  90
Granulated.........................  2  10

Feed  and  M illstufis

St. Car Feed, screened__   16 00
I  No. 1 Corn and  Oats........  15 50
Unbolted Corn  Meal........  14  50
Winter Wheat Bran..........  14 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  15 00 
Screenings.........................  14  00

New corn, ear  lots...........   34
('oru, car lots......................  36
Less than car lots.............   37

Car  lots...............................  28
Car lots, clipped................   31
Less than car lots.............   32

Oats

H ay

No. 1 Timothy car lots__  10 60
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots....  12  50

Hides  and  Pelts

Street,  quotes  as

lappon 
Co., 100 Canal 
follows:
H ides
Green  No. 1.............
Green  No. 2.............
Bulls..........................
Cured  No. 1.............
Cured  No. 2.............
Calfskins.green No. I 
Calfskins.green No. 2 
Calfskins.cured No. 1 
Calfskins.cured No. 2

@ 8 
@ 7 
(/  6 
@10 
@ 9 
@ 9 
@ 744 
@10 
@  814

50@1  oo

P elts
Pelts,  each.............
Tallow
No. 1.........................
No. 2.........................
W ool
@16
Washed,  fine..........
@20
Washed,  medium..
9  @12
Unwashed,  fine....... 
Unwashed,  medium.  14  @16

@ 344 
@  244

D iam ond

K ingsfnrd’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages................  
6
20 l-lb. packages................ 
614
K ingsford’» Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages................ 
614
6 lb. boxes...-.................... 
7
64 ioc packages..................  5 oo
128 5c packages..................  5 00
30 10c and 64 5c packages..  5 00 
20 l-lb.  packages..............  
40 l-lb.  packages..............  
l-lb.  packages.................... 
3-lb. packages.................... 
6-lb. packages.................... 
40 and 50-lb. boxes............. 
Barrels...............................  

Com m on Gloss

Com m on Corn

5
424
414
4%
5
3
3

SUGAR

Above  Granulated  in  5
Above  Granulated  in  2

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 
ou  the  invoice  for  the  amouut 
of freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his  shipping  point,  including 
20 pounds for the  weight  of  the 
barrel.
Domino..............................   5 41
Cut  Loaf.............................   5 56
Crushed...............................  5 69
Powdered..........................   5 26
XXXX Powdered.............   5 31
Cubes..................................   5 31
Standard  Granulated.......  5  19
Standard FineCranulated  5  19 
lb. bags.....................   5 25
lb.  bags.....................  5 25
Extra Fine < 1 ra nutated....  5 31 
Extra Coarse  Grauulated.  5 31
Mould A..............................  544
Diamond Coufec.  A ..........  5  19
Confec.  Standard A ..........  4 94
No.  1...................................  4  69
No.  2...................................  4  69
No.  3....................................   4 69
No.  4....................................   4 63
No.  5....................................  4 56
No.  6....................................   4 50
No.  7....................................   4 44
No.  8....................................   4 38
No.  9....................................   4 31
No. 10....................................   4 19
No. 11....................................   4 06
No. 12....................................   4 00
No. 13....................................   4 00
No. 14................................... 
3 94
No. 15....................................   3 94
No. 16..................................  
  3 94
TA B LE  SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS* 
SAUCE
The Original and 
Genuine 
W orceslershire.

VINEGAR

I.ea & Perrin’s, large........   3 75
Lea &  Perrin’s,  small.......  2  50
Halford, large......................  3 75
Halford, small......................  2 25
Salad  Dressing, large......   4  55
Salad  Dressing, small......   2  75
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  744 
Malt White Wine. 80 grain.. 11
Pure rider. Red Star.......... 12
Pure Cider. Robinson.........12
Pure Cider.  Silver................11
W ASHING  PO W D ER
Kirk’s Eos............................  2 oo
Wisdom................................  3 75
Roseine.................................  3 25
Nine  O’clock.......................   3 50
Babbitt’s 1876.......................   2 60
Gold  Dust............................   4 25
Johnson’s ............................   3 50
Swift’s  .................................  2 88
Rub-No-More.......................  3 50
Pearline, 100 6s....................  3 30
Pearline, 36 is ......................  2 86
Snow  Boy............................   2 35
Liberty.................................   3 90
No. 0, per gross.................... 20
No. 1, per gross.................... 25
No. 2, per gross.................... 35
No. 3, per gross.................... 55

W IC K IN G

W OODENW ARE

B u tte r  P lates

Bushels.................................1
Bushels, wide  band............ 1  10
M arket..................................  30
Willow Clothes, large.........6  50
Willow Clothes, medium...  5  75
Willow Clothes,  small.........5 26
No. 1 Oval, 250 in  crate.......1  80
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate.......2 00
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate.......2 20
No. 5 Oval. 250 in crate.......2 60
Boxes, gross boxes...............  40
Trojan spring......................9  00
Eclipse patent spring.........9 00
No 1 common.......................8  0«
No. 2 patent brush holder ..9 0  
12 lb. cotton mop heads..... l  2.

C lothes  P ins
Mop  Sticks

B askets

H errin g

M ackerel

Strips..................................
Chunks...............................
Holland white hoops,  bbl. 
Holland white hoopsHbbl. 
Holland white hoop,  keg.. 
Holland white hoop mchs.
Norwegian.........................
Round 100 lbs.....................
Round 40 lbs.......................
Scaled.................... 
.......
Mess 100 lbs........................
Mess  40 lbs........................
Mess  10 lbs........................
Mess  8 lbs........................
No. 1100 lbs........................
No. 1  40 lbs........................
No. 1  10 lbs........................
No. 1  8 lbs........................
No. 2 100 lbs...........  ..........
No. 2  40 lbs........................
No. 2  10 lbs........................
No. 2  8 lbs........................
No. 1100 lbs........................
No. 1  40 lbs........................
No. 1  10 lbs........................
No. 1  8 lbs........................

T ro u t

15 00 
6  30 
1  05 
1  35 
13  25 
5 00 
1  48 
1  20 
11  50 
4 90 
1  30 
1  07

W hite fish

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

No. 1 No. 2 Earn
2  50
1  30
40
35

85
71
SEEDS

Anise 
...................................  9
Canary, Smyrna....................  4
Caraway  ...............................   8
Cardamon,  Malabar..............00
Celery......................................10
Hemp, Russian......................... 444
Mixed B ird..............................  444
Mustard, white.....................   5
Poppy......................................10
R a p e ........................................   444
Cuttle Bone.............................15
Scotch, in bladders...............  37
Maccaboy, in jars.................  36
French Rappee, in  jars.......  43

SNUFF

SOAP

J A X O N

Single box................................... 2 85
5 box lots, delivered............2 80
10 box lots, delivered............2  75
(IAS. 6.  KlKK ft DO bKANUi'
American Family, wrp’d... .2 60
Dome...........................................2 75
Cabinet........................................ 2 20
Savon........................................... 2 50
White  Russian...........................2 35
White Cloud, laundry.......... 6  25
White Cloud, toilet....................3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz.......2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz.......3 00
Blue India, 100 % lb...................3 00
Kirkoline....................................3 50
Eos...............................................2 50
Sapolio. kitchen, 3  uoz.........2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz...................2 40
Boxes.....................................   544
Kegs,  English.......................   43*

Scouring

SOU A

SPICES 

W hole Sifted

Cassia, China in m ats......  
Cassia, Batavia, in bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls__  
Cloves, Aniboyna............... 
Cloves, Zanzibar................  
Mace, Batavia.................... 
Nutmegs, fancy................. 
Nutmegs, No. 1.................. 
Nutmegs, No. 2.................. 
Pepi>er, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singagore, white. 
Pepper, shot.......................  
P u re  G round in B u lk
Allspice............................... 
Cassia, Batavia..................  
Cassia, Saigon.................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar................  
Ginger,  African................  
Ginger, Cochin..................  
Ginger,  .Jamaica............... 
Mace,  Batavia...................  
Mustard.............................. 
Nutmegs............................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne..............  
Sage....................................  

STOVE  PO LISH

12
25
32
14
12
55
00
50
45
13 
16
15
14
30
40
14
15
18
23
65
18
50
15 
22
20
15

No. 4,3 doz. In case, gross.  4  50 
No. 6, 3 doz. in case, gross.  7 20 

SYRUPS 

Corn

Barrels...................................18
Half bbls...............................20
1 doz. 1 gallon cans.............. 3  10
1 doz. 44 gallon cans.............1  85
2 doz. 14 gallon cans.............1  90
F a ir........................................  16
Good......................................   20
Choice...................................  25

P u re   Cane

Figs

Californias,  Fancy..
Choice, 10  lb. boxes.
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes, new.............
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes..
Imperial Mikados, 18
16. boxes................
Pulled, 6lb. boxes...
Naturals, in bags.,..
D ates
Fards In  10 lb. boxes
Fards in 60 lb. cases.
Persians,  P. H.  V ...
lb.  cases, new......
Salrs, 60 lb. cases....
Nuts
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Ivlca.......
Almonds, California,
soft  shelled...........
Brazils, new.............
Filberts....................
Walnuts. Grenobles.
Walnuts, soft shelled
California No. 1...
Table Nuts,  fancy...
Table  Nuts,  choice..
Pecans,  Med. 
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new.............
Cocoanuts. full sacks 
Chestnuts, per  b u ...
P eanuts 
F’ancy, H. P., Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  P„  Flags
Roasted.................
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P„ Extras 
Roasted.................

@13
@12
@16
@22
@
@
@  7
©10
©  6
© 6
@ 6
@ 6

@17
@15
@15
U0 7
@ii
@1344
@12
@11
@10
@  744 
@ » 
@12

@1  60ta oo 

5 50

@ 6

F i s h   a n  1  O y s t e r s

F resh  Fish

to

Per lb.
White fish.................... @ 10
Trout............................ @ 10
Black  Bass.................. 8@ 10
H alibut........................ @ 18
5
Ciscoes or H erring....
Bluefish....................... @ a
Live  Lobster............... @ 17
(öS, 19
Boiled  Lobster...........
Cod............................... @ 10
Haddock..................... @ 7
No.  1 Pickerel............. ® »
Pike.............................. @ 8
Perch........................... <& 5
Smoked  W hite........... @ 8
Red  Snapper............. @ 10
Col River  Salmon....... @ 13
Mackerel..................... @ 20
35
30
27
22
20
18
gal.
1  75
1  60
1  35
1  20
1  10

F. H.  Counts............
F. J. D. Selects........
Selects.....................
F. J. D.  Standards..
Anchors....................
Standards................
B alk .

F. H. Counts...............
Extra Selects..............
Selects..........................
:  Anchor Standards__
1  Standards....................
Shell Goods.
1 Clams, per 100.............
Oysters, per 100..........

O ysters in Can *•

1  00
25@1  50

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Hardware

Why  Prosperity  Has  Come to  Stay.
‘ ‘ I  have  been  over  the  greater  part  of 
the  country 
in  the  last  four  months, ”  
remarked  a  well-known  manufacturer  in 
the  metal 
line  during  the  course  of  a 
conversation  recently,  “ and  in  all  that 
time  I  have  not  heard  a  single manufac­
turer  or  business  man  complain  in  any 
way  about  dulness  or  a  lack  of  move­
ment  in  the  markets.  This  is  especial­
ly  true  of  every  metal  line  or  where  ma­
chinery  is  employed,  and  I  have  yet  to 
find  an 
The 
change  has  been  marvelous,  so  much  so, 
indeed,  that  we  can  hardly  realize  it. 
in  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  recently,  1 
While 
was  told  of  an 
iron  furnace  that  had 
been  idle  for  twenty  years  and  which 
had  just  been  sold 
for  $75,000.  Three 
years  ago,  it  would  not  have  been  worth 
the  cost  of  tearing  it  down.  While  in 
Pittsburg,  I  sold  2,000  tons  of  empty 
steel  shells  which  had been brought from 
Manila.  The  buyers  seemed  to  think 
they  had  more  value  as  scrap  than  as 
relics  of  the  late  war,  and  so  did  1.

idle  wheel  anywhere. 

judgment 

is  no  doubt  whatever  in  my 
“ There 
mind,  nor 
in  the  opinion  of  well  in­
formed  people  with  whom  I have talked, 
that  the  present  prosperity  will  continue 
for another  year,  at  least.  There  seems 
to  be  a  general  unanimity  of  ideas  on 
this  subject  among  commercial  leaders, 
and  when  so  many  people  think  alike 
their 
is  certainly  to  be  re­
spected.  There  may  be  a  period  of 
comparative  dulness  during  the  presi­
dential  campaign  next  year,  but  noth­
ing  at  all  approach-ing  that  which  was 
in  force  in  1896,  and  I  am 
inclined  to 
the  opinion  that  the  usual  ante-election 
excitement  will  not  be  so  marked  as 
has  hitherto  been  the  case.  This  will 
be,  I  think,  because  labor  now  has  and 
undoubtedly  will  have  a  full  employ­
ment  and  capital  will  not  be  disturbed. 
This  country 
is  now  on  a  very  solid 
basis  in  all  respects,  commercially  and 
It  is  doing  business 
every  other  way. 
as  it  has  never  been  done  before  and 
is 
making  money  rapidly,  but  business 
men  have 
learned  the  wisdom  of  con­
servatism  and  this  is  one  of  the  reasons 
why  propserity  has  come  to  stay.”

The  H ardware  Market.
is 

There 

little  change  in  the  general 
situation.  Trade  is  moving  actively,  but 
with  a  slight  lessening  of  demand  as the 
season  advances,  owing  to  the  fact  that 
retail  merchants  are  generally  well  sup­
plied  with  goods.  The tone  of  the  mar­
ket  continues  strong  and  advances  are 
constantly  going 
into  effect.  A   great 
lines  of  hardware  are  still  rela­
many 
tively 
low  and  some  of  them  are  un­
changed,  manufacturers  preferring  to 
hold  existing  prices  rather  than  ad­
vance,  with  a  possibility  of  an  early 
change  in  the  upward  trend  of  the  mar­
ket  and  a  ieaction  from  the  high  prices 
current.  The  strength  of  the  iron  mar­
ket,  however,  is  such  as  to  increase  the 
confidence  of  the  trade  in  the  mainte­
nance  of  the  high  prices  for  some  time, 
is  no  agreement  among  the 
but  there 
best 
informed  and  most  experienced 
men  as  to  what  the  course  will  be  next 
year.

The  principal  changes  which  have 
taken  place  are  as  follows:  A ll  makers 
of  files  have  adopted  the  new 
list,  with 
discounts  remaining  the  same  as  before, 
which  makes  an  advance  of  from  5  to  10 
per  cent.,  according  to  the  kinds  of files 
bought. 
In  augers  and  bits  manufac­
turers  have  been  compelled  to  advance 
their  prices  from  10 to  15  per cent.  On |

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

nails  and  wire  there  has  been  no  change 
during  the  last  fifteen  days.  Tubs  and 
pails  of  all  kinds  have  been  advanced, 
which  advance  on  tubs  is $1  per  dozen, 
and  on  pails  25c  per  dozen.  Manufac­
turers  of  Heller  horse  rasps  have  issued 
a  new  list,  which is  the  same  as  used  by 
all 
filemakers,  and  the  discount  from 
same  is  70  per  cent.  On  curry  combs  a 
new 
list  has  been  adopted,  with  a  dis­
count  of  35  per  cent.,  which  nets  an  ad­
vance  of  about  10  per  cent.  Prices  on 
ice  cream 
freezers  have  been  estab­
lished  for  the  coming year and the prices 
are  slightly  higher.  Diamond  fire  backs 
have  been  advanced  $1  per  dozen  and 
jobbers  are  now  asking  $6.  No  other 
changes  of  moment  have  been  made 
since  our  last  market  report.

Don’t Sacrifice  Your  Pocket  Book. 

From Stoves and H ardw are R eporter.

A   hardware  salesman  was  asked  for  a 
certain  article.  When  it  was  produced 
and  the  price,  $1.25,  was  asked,  he  re­
marked 
that  he  had  something  else 
which  would  answer  the  same  purpose 
and  cost  the  purchaser  only  10  cents. 
This 
last  article  was  bought  and  the 
customer  went  away  wondering  whether 
the  clerk  was  about  to  quit  and  didn’t 
care  for  his  employer’s  interest  or  was 
afflicted  with  too  much  honesty  in  the 
wrong  direction.

Some  clerks  have  a  habit  of  sizing  up 
their  customer’s  financial  standing  and 
deciding  that 
it  is  rather  low.  Then, 
when  asked  for  a  certain  kind  of  goods, 
they  say  they  have  them  in  stock,  but 
that  they’ re  rather  expensive.  They  fail 
to  consider the  fact  that  customers  are 
supposed  to  know  what  they  want  and 
how  much  they  can  pay  for  it. 
is 
not  the  business  of  a  clerk  to  place  ob­
stacles  in  the  way  of  a  purchaser.  As  a 
matter of  fact,  he  is  behind  the  counter 
to  remove  obstacles.

It 

Nor  are  dealers  entirely  free  from 
this_  objection,  taking  them  as  a  class. 
is  perfectly  proper to  consult  a  cus­
It 
tomer’s 
interests  when  these  are  com­
patible  with  the  profit-making  right  of 
the  dealer,  but  he  is  in  the  business  for 
the  purpose  of  making  money  and  not 
for  the  benefit  of  the  community.  A 
case 
in  point  is  where  a  customer was- 
told  by  a  dealer that  the  price  on  a  cer­
tain 
line  was  too  high,  whereupon  he 
went  to  another  store  to  see  what  he 
could  do—-and  did  it.

The  story 

is  told  of  a  manufacturer, 
into  business,  who  was 
newly  entered 
asked 
for  quotations  on  a  larger  lot  of 
goods  than  he  had  been  accustomed  to 
handle.  He  was  naturally  pleased  with 
the  size  of  the  prospective  order,  but 
before  going  into  details  he  placidly  in­
formed  the  enquirer  that  the  bill  would 
foot  up  to  a  large  amount  and  “ hadn’t 
he  better  consider  this  before  making 
the  purchase?”   That  man  should  stick 
to  manufacturing  and  employ  some  one 
else  to  sell  his  goods.

These  are  incidents  taken  from  actual 
business  experiences  and  not  enlarged 
upon 
in  any  way.  The  deduction  is 
very  plain.  Please  your  customers  to 
the best  of  your ability  and  see that your 
clerks  are  imbued  with  the  same 
idea, 
but  don’t  sacrifice  your  pocketbook 
while  this  is  being  carried 
into  effect. 
Clerks  are  very  apt  to  forget  this  prin­
ciple  of  business,  especially  when  offer­
ing  goods  to  some favored acquaintance, 
but  there  does  not  seem  to  be  any  ex­
cuse  for  the  dealer.

None  Escaped.

“ It  seems  to  m e,”   remarked  the  pros­
pective  tenant  as  he  noted  four  inches 
of  water 
in  the  basement,  “ that  this 
cellar  leaks. ’ ’

“ Leaks!  Not  a  bit  of  it,”   spoke  up 
the  bustling  agent. 
‘ ‘ Why,  that  water’s 
been  there  for  a  month,  and  not  a  drop 
has  escaped. ’ ’

Getting  Matters a Ad justed.

“ You  are  half  an  hour  late  at  our  ap­

pointment  Mr.  Davison.”

“  Y e s ;  I  stopped to get my luncheon. ’ ’ 
“ Well,  be  kind  enough  to  sit  down 
and  wait  while  1  go  out  and  get  m ine.”

Air
Tight
Stoves

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for 
Price 
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C L O T H IN G

Every kind of blanket  that  is worth  while 
selling is in our  complete  stock,  from  the 
cheapest  kind  to  the  best  all-wool  gar­
ment with latest strap  devices.

O ur descriptive catalogue tells you  all  about  blankets  and  robes—and  prices.  A sk   for  our 
cutter and sleigh price  list, 

BROWN &  SEHLER, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

i t ’s tim e. 

The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

M anufacture

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.

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.

Wm.  Brummeler & Sons,

260 South  Ionia Street,
Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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23

Hardware  Price Current

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

Nails

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  From  the  Metropolis—Index  to  the 

Special Correspondence.

Market.

New  York,  Nov.  4— The 

firmness 
which  has  taken  possession  of  the  coffee 
market  seems  to  have  come  to  stay,  n >t- 
withstanding  the  fact  that statistics show 
the  advance  unwarranted.  European  ad­
vices  continue  strong  and  the  market 
here  seems  to  respond 
in  sympathy. 
The  demand  has  been  pretty good all the 
week  and  both  actual  coffee  and  con­
tracts  have  been  steadily  advancing. 
Brazil  reports  firmer  markets  all  around 
and  the  situation  altogether  is  one  en­
couraging  to  holders.  In  store  and  afloat 
there  are  1,234,289  bags,  against  1,096,- 
226  bags  at  the  same  time  last year.  For 
Rio  No.  7 
seems  to  be  about  the
right  quotation,  although  a  fractional 
advance  will  occasion  no  surprise.  West 
India  (mild)  grades  have  been  stronger 
in  quotations  and  the  demand  has  been 
decidedly  active  as  compared  with  pre­
vious  weeks.  Good  Cucuta  is  worth  gc 
and  one  will  have  to  go  back  a  good 
while  to  find  this  rate. 
East  India 
coffees  have  met  with  a  fair trade,  but 
scarcely  any  change  has  been  made 
in 
price.

The  auction  sale  of  teas  on  the  10th 
and  the  holiday  on  the  7th  make  the 
spot  market  rather  quiet,  but  the  volume 
of  business  done  indicates  a  strong  un­
dertone  to  the  market  and  buyers  are 
seemingly  perfectly  willing  to  pay  the 
going  quotations  rather  than  run  any 
chances  of  doing  better  later  on.  Black 
teas,  especially,  have  done  well,  and  the 
range  of  quotations  is  firmly  sustained.
Some  grades  of  soft  refined  sugars 
have  been  lowered  by  one  or  two  refin­
eries,  but,  as  a  rule,  the  list  is  still  sus­
tained.  Jobbers  have  been  rather  in­
different  and  seem  to  have  pretty  fair 
stocks  on  hand.  Refineries  have  no 
trouble  in  making  prompt  shipments,  so 
far  as  can  be  ascertained.  Raw  sugars 
have  been  inactive  and  refiners  seem  to 
be  indifferent  about  making  larger  pur­
chases  than  needful  for  the  present  use.
Medium  grades  of  rice  have  been 
qu iet;  in  fact,  might  almost  be  said  to 
be  a  trifle 
lower  in  price  than  a  week 
ago,  but  both  the  better  and  lower  sorts 
have  been  firmly  held  and  dealers  will 
make  precious  little  concession,  if  any.
Pepper  maintains  a  firm  position  and 
jobbers  report  small  stocks.  Offerings 
have  certainly  been  moderate  and  the 
situation  favors  the  seller  most  decided­
ly.  Bids  are  almost  invariably  turned 
down  if  not  up  to  the  ideas  of  the  hold­
er.  Other  spices  are  moving  in  about 
the  usual  manner,  although  the  market 
exhibits  no  weakness  in  any  line.  Job­
bers  are  quite  content  with  the  outlook.
The  molasses  market  remains  about 
unchanged  from last  week,  with  possibly 
a 
little  improvement  in  the  call  for  old 
crop  open-kettle  and  some  medium  cen­
trifugals.  Dealers  are  not  seemingly 
anxious  about  parting  with  their  hold­
ings  at  present  and,  on  the  other  hand, 
buyers  are  not  pushing  each*  either  1 1 
make  purchases.  Quotations  are  un­
altered.  Syrups  are  firm,  but  there  is 
little  doing  beyond  the  everyday  busi­
ness  to  be 
looked  for.  Prime  sugar 
syrup,  i8@I9c ;  fancy,  2o@22c.

In  canned  goods,  tomatoes  favor  the 
buyer,  but  every  other  article  on  the  list 
is  decidedly  firm  and  the  holder  seems 
to  have  the  “ deadwood”   on 
the  situa­
tion.  Goods  are  seemingly  almost  en­
tirely  out  of  first  hands  and  activity  is 
displayed  everywhere.  The  effort  to 
consolidate the  New York  packers,  while 
seeming  to  have  the  approval  of  the 
leading  packers  who  have  given  op­
tions  on  their  plants,  is  not  yet  com­
plete.

Only  a  moderate  volume  of  business 
is  going  forward  in  the  dried  fruit 
line 
and  the  situation  seems  to  be  one  of 
waiting  for  cold  weather.  Prices  are 
•firm,  however,  and  the  holiday  trade 
is 
setting  in.  The  promise 
is  great  for 
Christmas  dried  fruits  of  all  kinds  and 
the  wise  retailer  will  “ begin  to  com­
mence”   his  purchases  now.

Lighter  receipts  have  added  strength 
to the  situation  and  the  butter  market  is 
decidedly  stronger  than  a  week  ago  for 
fancy  creamery,  24c  being  an  inside 
rate,  with  a 
little  more  probably  ob­

tained  in  many  cases.  The  grade  of  the 
24c  butter  need  not  be  quite  as  high  as 
a  week  ago.  Stock  which  has  been  in 
storage  is  now  appearing  on  the  market 
creamery 
and  sells  well. 
commands  i6<fr;20c  and  Western 
factory 
from  151b, 17c.

Imitation 

The  cheese  market  presents  few,  if 
any,  new  features  and  trading  seems  to 
be 
limited  to  everyday  wants.  Small 
size,  full  cream  cheese  will  bring  123^® 
I2^c  and  large  sizes  about  % c  less.

The  egg  market  is  firm  for grades that 
inspection  and  Western  fresh 
will  bear 
gathered  are  selling 
freely  at  20(f^2tc. 
Western  goods,  loss  off,  19^200.  From 
this  the  range  for  Western 
is  down  to 
14c  for  “ common”   truck.

are 

Marrow  beans 

Pea  beans,  $i.72j^@i.75 

There  is  a  curious  state  of  affairs 

rather  quiet. 
Choice,  $2. io@ 2.15.  Medium  are  mov­
ing  with  rather  more  freedom  and  are 
held  within  the  range  of  $1.75(651.80  for 
choice. 
in 
barrels  or $i.67J^@i.7o  in  bags.
Peculiar Situation of K nit Goods Industry. 
From the American Wool and Cotton  Reporter.
in 
the  knit  goods  situation  at  the  present 
time,  which  may  work  many  changes  in 
the  future.  The  knitting  mills  have 
been  very  busy  on  heavy-weight  goods, 
and  are  sold  up  for  a  long  time to come, 
to  the  last  of  November  in  some  cases. 
There  are  buyers  who  are  trying to place 
orders  for 
later  dates,  and  there  are 
others  who  are  trying,  and  with  some 
for  the  fall  of 
success,  to  place  orders 
in  January  and 
1900  to  be  delivered 
February.  The 
is,  that  they 
are  afraid,  and  not  without  cause,  that 
the  present  season’s  production  will  not 
be  equal  to  the  supply,  and  that  they 
are  preparing  to  draw  on  next  season’s 
production.

inference 

Allowing  for  no  increase  in  the  sup­
ply,  and  for  a  continuation  of  the  de­
mand,  it  would  not  be  hard  to  see  that 
within  another  year  or  two,  say  in  1902, 
the  product  intended  for  use  in  1903  or 
1904  would  be  used.  Of  course,  such  a 
condition  is  only  theoretical,  and  not  in 
the  least  likely  to  occur,  but  the  present 
conditions  give  plenty  of evidence of the 
prosperity  of  the  business,  as  far  as 
consumption  and demand are concerned.
The  result  of  this  will  be  a  great  in­
in  the  number  of  knitting  mills 
crease 
in  the  country,  and 
there  are  grave 
chances  of  overproduction  in  the  future. 
The  present  number  of  mills  is  too large 
in  ordinary  seasons,  and  it  is  far  from 
wise  to  materially  increase  the  number 
just  because  the  supply  proves  inade­
quate  for one  or two  seasons.  The  his­
tory  of  the  industry  shows  that  the  pres­
ent  boom  is  not  likely  to  continue 
for­
ever ;  it  should  be  used  as  a  fulcrum  to 
raise  prices  to  a  profitable  point  rather 
than  as  an  excuse  for  greater  competi­
tion.

Stamped  and  Enameled  Ware.

Prices  on  enameled  and  stamped ware 
have  not  been  advanced  as  yet,  although 
it  can  be  definitely  stated  that  higher 
quotations  are  forthcoming.  The  recent 
meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of the 
National  Enameling  and  Stamping  Co. 
was  behind  closed  doors  and  no positive 
information  has  been  given  out  for  pub­
lication. 
It  is  known,  however,  that  an 
advance  is  contemplated  and  the  manu­
facturers  are  not  quoting  prices  for  fu­
ture  delivery,  while  the  jobbers  are  also 
acting  in  a  very  conservative  manner as 
regards  sales.  One  of  the  independent 
companies  refused  an 
manufacturing 
order  for  a  large  bill  of  goods 
immedi­
ately  preceding  the  meeting  referred  to, 
on  the  natural  supposition  that  an  ad­
vance  was  forthcoming.  The  date  of 
the  new  schedule  can  not  be  given  now, 
but  according  to  all  indications 
it  will 
not  be  much  longer  deferred.
Nothing Suits  Him.

“ How  do  you  like  this  weather?”
“ Don’t  like  it. 

It’s  too  warm  to  ad­

vance  coal  and  too  cool  to  sell  ice.”

A   man  may  “ sm ile”   and  “ sm ile,”  
but  if  he  doesn’t quit  in  time  he will see 
snakes.

A ugurs  and  B its

Snell’s ....................................................  
Jennings’ genuine................................. 
Jennings' mutation............................... 

60
26&10
50&10

First Quality, 8. B. Bronze.................. 
First Quality, D. B. Bronze....................... 
First Quality, 8. B. 8.  Steel................  
First Quality,  1). B. Steel.......................... 

6 50
7  75

10 00
11 so

Railroad........................................................ 
Garden...................................................net 

14 00

30 00

Axes

B arrow s

B olts

Stove......................................................  
Carriage, new  list................................. 
Plow  ......................................................  

GO
50
50

Well, plain..................................................  

$3 50

Cast Loose Iln, figured....................... 
Wrought N arrow ................................. 

Rim F ire ................................................ 
Central F ire .......................................... 

B uckets

B utts,  Cast

C artridges

C hain

14 in. 

5-16 in.  %  In. 
Com...............   8  c.  ...  7  c.  ...  6  c. 
BB.................   9 
BBB...............  9(4 

. .. 6 %  
...  7H 

. .. .   734 
...  8(4 
C row bars

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

Ely’s 1-10, per m ....................................  
Hick’s C. F., per m ___ ?....................... 
G. D., p erm ...........................................  
Musket, per m.......................................  

Socket F irm e r...................................... 
Socket Framing....................................  
Socket Comer........................................ 
Socket Slicks.........................................  

Caps

Chisels

Elbow s

Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz.................net 
Corrugated, per doz.............................. 
Adjustable............................................ dls 

E xpansive  B its

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26 ............... 
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30.....................  

Files—New  List

New American...................................... 
Nicholson's............................................. 
Heller’s Horse Rasps............................ 

Galvanize«!  Iron

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

13 

14 

Discount, 66

15 
Gas  P ipe

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

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

Gauges

Glass

65
60

40&10
20

H in.
... 6  c.
... 6(4
... 714

6

66
55
45
75

65
65
65
65

65
126
40&10

30&10
26

70&10
70
go&io

28
17

40&10

60&10

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

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

H am m ers

Maydole & Co.’s, new list......................dls 
33%
Yerkes & Plumb’s ...................................dis  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................ 30c list 
70

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

H inges

H ollow   W are

Pots..............................................•......... 
K ettles......................................................... 
Spiders........................................................ 

50&10

50&10
50&10

H orse  N ails

Au S able................................................. dls  40&10
Putnam.................................................... dis 
5

H ouse  F u rn ish in g  Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list.................. 
Japanned Tinware................................. 

70
20&10

Iro n

Bar  Iron...................................................  3  c rates
Light Band............................................   3(4c rates

K nobs—New  L ist

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...........  
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.........  

85
l  00

Regular 0 Tubular, Doz............................... 
Warren, Galvanized  Fount.......................  

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

L an tern s

Levels

M attocks

Adze Eye...................................$17  00.. dis 

M etals—Zinc

600 pound casks.....................................  
Per pound..............................................  

M iscellaneous

40
Bird Cages............................................. 
70
Pumps, Cistern...................................... 
Screws, New L ist.................................  
80
Casters, Bed and Plate........................   60&10&10
Dampers, American.............................  
50

M olasses  G ates

P ans

Stebbins’ Pattern.................................. 
60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring.................. 
30
Fry, Acme..............................................   60&10&10
Common,  polished...............................  
70&5
Patent  Planished  Iron 

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 25 to 27  9  20

Broken packages y,c per pound extra.

70

60

9
9V4

Planes

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy........................... 
Sciota  Bench.........................................  
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy................. 
Bench, first quality...............................  

50
60
50
50

Steel nails, base....................................  
Wire nails, base.................................... 
20 to 60 advance....................................  
10 to 16 advance..................................... 
8 advance.............................................. 
6 ad vance.............................................. 
4 advance.............................................. 
3 advance.............................................. 
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 ivets

3 25
3  40
Base
06
10
20
30
45
70
50
15
25
35
25
35
45
65

Iron  and  Tinned..................................  
Copper Rivets  and  Burs.....................  

Rooting  Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal,  Dean................ . 
14X20IX, Charcoal, Dean.....................  
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.....................  
14x20 1C, Charcoai, Allaway  G rade... 
14x20 IX,Charcoal, Allaway  G rade... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  G rade... 
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 

50
46

6  50
7  50
'  13 00
5 50
6 50
11  00
13 00

Sisal, M inch and larger....................... 
Manilla................................................... 

Ropes

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

Solid  Eyes, per ton...... ........................  

Sand  P ap er

Sash  W eights

Sheet  Iro n

n l4
16

50

22  50

com. smooth,  com.

$3 00
3 00
3 20
3 30
3 40
3 60
All Sheets No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14......................................$3 20 
Nos. 15 to 17 ....................................   3  20 
Nos. 18 to 21.....................................   3 30 
NOS. 22 to 24.....................................   3 40 
NOS. 25 to 26 ....................................   3  50 
No. 27................................................  3 60 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shells—Loaded

Loaded with Black  Powder.................. dis 
40
laiaded with  Nitro  Powder.................. dis  40&10

Shot

Drop........................................................ 
B Band  Buck........................................ 

Shovels  and  Spades

First Grade,  Doz.................................. 
Second Grade, Doz............................... 

1  45
170

8 60
8  10

(4(«; (4......................................... ............ 
20
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Solder

Squares

Steel and Iron........................................ 

65

Tin—Melyn  Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal................................. 
14x20 IC, Charcoal........................................ 
20x14 IX, Charcoal.......................................  
Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

$850

Tin—Allaway  Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................ 
14x20 IC, Charcoai........................................ 
10x14 IX, Charcoal........................................ 
14x20 IX, Charcoai........................................ 

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

8 60
9 76

7 00
7 00
8 50
8 50

Boiler Size Tin  Plate

14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 
14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, per pound..
Traps
Steel,  Game...........................................
Oneida Community,  Newhouse’s........
Oneida  Community,  Hawley  &  Nor­
ton’s .....................................................
Mouse,  choker, per doz.......................
.......
Mouse, delusion, per  doz......  

W ire

Bright Market.......................................
Annealed  M arket.................................
Coppered  Market..................................
Tinned  Market......................................
Coppered Spring Steel.........................
Barbed Fence, Galvanized..................
Barbed Fence, Painted........................

5 00
6 00

W ire  Goods
Bright........................................
Screw Eyes...............................
Hooks.........................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes.............
W ranches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........... 
Coe’s Genuine........................................ 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural,  Wrought.. 70&10

10

75&10
50
70&10 
15 
1  25

60 
60 
50&10 
50&10 
40 
4 05 
3 90

75
76 
75 
75

30
30&lo

Aluminum  Money

w in Increase Your Business.

Cheap and Effective.

Send for sam  pies and  prices.
C.  H.  HANSON,

44  S.  Clark  St.,  Chicago,  111.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

24

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars— The  raw  sugar  market  pre­
sents  nothing  of  interest  this  week  and 
quotations  are  still  on  the  basis  of 
4  5-160  for 96  deg.  test  centrifugals, with 
very  few  sales  at  this  price.  Prices  on 
refined  are  unchanged,  with  a  moderate 
demand  for  all  grades.  There  have 
been  large  purchases  of  beet  sugar  dur­
ing  the  past  few  weeks  and  some  of  the 
refiners  of  this  product  are  nearly  sold 
up  and  will  not  take  any 
large  orders. 
The  total  stock  of  sugar  in  the  United 
States 
is  183,529  tons,  against  144,162 
tons  at  the  same  time  last  year.

in  all  probability, 

Canned  Goods— Not 

for  years  have 
supplies  of  canned  goods  been  so  small 
at  this  season  of  the  year  and  the  de­
mand  is  apparently  larger.  The  result 
is  a  situation  which  is  almost  unprece­
dented  in  the  history  of  the  business. 
Very  few  of  the  packers  of  the  most 
common  varieties  can  fill  their  orders 
and  the  quantity  turned  down  would 
make  fully  as  much  as  has  been  sold. 
Prices  on  all  sorts  are  high  and  are  held 
very  firm,  while  the  outlook  favois  in­
crease  rather  than  decline.  With  the j 
exception  of  tomatoes,  the  output  of  al­
most  everything 
in  the  canned  goods 
line  has  been 
lighter  than  usual  this 
year.  The  supply  of  tomatoes,  accord­
ing  to  present  indications,’ will  not  be 
any  too 
large  to  go  around,  in  view  of 
the  fact  that  they  will  probably  have  to 
take  the  place  of  some  sorts  of  canned 
goods  of  which  there  is  quite  a  short­
age.  There  will,  undoubtedly,  be  a 
good  demand  a  little  later as  soon  as the 
early  purchases  have  passed  into  con­
sumption ;  and when that demand comes, 
prices  will, 
rule 
higher.  Just  at  present,  trade  is  dull, 
but  prices  show  no  decline  and  holders 
think  that  they  will  be  able  to  make 
more  money  by  holding  their  supplies  a 
while  ionger  and  therefore  are  not  anx­
ious  to  sell  at  present.  Canned  com  is 
exceedingly  firm  and 
it  is  almost  im ­
possible  to  find  any  stock  at  all.  Maine, 
Maryland  and  New  York  State  are  al­
most  entirely  cleaned  up.  String  beans 
are  also  very  scarce,  with  prices  high. 
Peas  are  very  firm,  with  prices  tending 
upward.  The  demand  is  good,  but  sales 
are  small  on  account  of  the  exceedingly 
light  stocks. 
The  output  of  canned 
beets  in  New  York  State  will  probably 
be  considerably 
larger  than  last  year, 
unless  the  scarcity  of  cans  prevents  the 
packers  from  going  into  it  heavily. 
It 
is  only  within  the 
last  few  years  that 
beets  were  extensively  canned,  but  the 
product 
in  favor each  year 
and 
is  becoming  a  more  important  fea­
ture  of  the  canning  industry. 
It  is  im­
possible  to  make  up  an  assortment  of 
California 
fruits,  some  varieties  being 
entirely  sold  out.  Prices  rule  very  high, 
but  unquestionably  the  consumptive  de­
mand  will  compel  transactions,  regard­
less  of  prices.  Apricots  are  the  only 
California  fruit  that  approaches  plenty. 
Advices  from  the  coast  are  to  the  effect 
that  spot  stocks  of  canned  salmon  of  all 
grades  are  extremely 
light.  The  de­
mand  is  very  good  at  unchanged  prices. 
A   majority  of  the  sardine  factories  at 
Eastport,  Me.,  have  closed  down,  ow­
ing  to  the  great  scarcity  of  raw  fish. 
It 
is  not  expected  that  any  of  the  packers 
will  work  longer  than  Nov.  15,  although 
the  season  does  not  close,  according  to 
law,  before  Nov.  30.  Prices  are  firm 
with  an  upward  tendency.

is  growing 

fruit 

firmness 

Dried  Fruits— The 

in  the 
dried 
line  continues,  but  just  at 
present  sales  are  not  quite  so  large  as 
heretofore.  Purchases  made  for  future 
delivery  have  satisfied  present  wants,

Peaches 

but these  will  soon be  disposed  of  and
heavy  buying  will  begin  again.  R ai­
sins  are  unchanged,  but  there  is  a good, 
steady  trade  at  full  quoted  prices.  The 
situation  in  prunes  is increasing in firm­
ness,  with  the  possible  exception  of  the 
large  sizes,  which  are  in  heavy  supply 
and  hard  to  move  at  full  figures.  The 
four  sizes  are  held  at  a  slight  premium 
and  are  very  difficult  to  obtain.  Con­
siderable  quantities  of  prunes  have been 
taken  for  export  and  the  consumptive 
demand  appears  to  be  increasing  and 
with  seasonable  weather  trade  will  im­
prove. 
are  quiet  and  un­
changed,  with trade  confined  principally 
In  view  of  the  fact  that 
to  small  lots. 
speculators  control  a 
large  part  of  the 
output,  it 
likely  that  prices 
will  advance  in  the  near  future.  A pri­
cots  are  a  trifle  higher than  they  were 
last  week  and  this  fact,  together  with 
the  exceedingly  light stocks,  has resulted 
in  an  exceedingly  small  amount  of  buy­
ing  on  the  part  of  jobbers.  Currants  are 
in  good  demand  at  unchanged  prices, 
f igs  are  steady,  although  sales  are 
rather 
liberal,  in  view  of  the  fact  that 
the  holidays  are  approaching  and  deal­
ers  are  making  preparations  for  an  en­
larged  business.  Prices  are  somewhat 
lower  than  they  were  last  year.  Dates 
are  selling  well  at  a  little  less  than 
last 
year’s  prices.

is  quite 

Fish—The  mackerel  market  holds 
about  the  same.  Stocks  are  fair of  the 
different  varieties  and  there  is no imme­
diate  prospect  of  any  change.

Tea— The  condition  of  the  tea  market 
is  practically  the  same  as  heretofore, 
with  a  moderate  demand.

Molasses  and  Syrups— The  molasses 
market  is  a  little  easier  and lower prices 
are  looked  for.  The  demand  for  corn 
syrup  is  good,  with  no  change in prices.
Green  Fruits— Lemons  are more active 
and  the  market  has  a  more  encouraging 
look.  Prices  are  practically unchanged, 
but  there 
firmness,  oc­
casioned  by  the  confidence  of  holders  in 
the  future.  Bananas  are  firm  at  the  re­
cent  advance  and  some 
lots  are  held 
above  quotations.  There  is  a  somewhat 
larger  consuming  demand  at  present, 
which  will  probably  increase  from  now 
on.

is  additional 

Nuts— The  sale  of  nuts  of  all  sorts 
continues  heavy 
in  preparation  for the 
holiday  trade.  The  consumption,  will, 
according  to  the  present  volume  of  buy­
larger  than  the  average.  The 
ing,  be 
walnut  situation 
is  the  most  compli­
cated  of  any  variety  in  the  market  and 
trade  is  limited  to  small  orders,  because 
supplies  are  unobtainable.  The  com­
bine  controls  all  the  California  nuts, 
which  are  now  being  harvested,  and out­
siders  are  obliged  to go  without.  Ship­
ments  are  coming  from  abroad,  but even 
there  the  supply  is  short  and  it  is  diffi­
cult  to  forecast  the  future  with  any  pre­
tension  of accuracy.  The packing houses 
in  California  are  open  and  growers  are 
beginning  deliveries.  So  far,  the  qual­
ity  appears  satisfactory,  but  the  quan­
tity  is  below  the  average.  The  nuts  are 
to  be  uniformly  bleached  before  ship­
If  the  quality  of  the  nuts  re­
ping. 
ceived 
isn  t  up  to  standard,  the  mana­
gers  of  the  packing  houses  are  author­
ized  to  reject  the  receipts  under  the  as­
sociation  regulations.  Peanuts continue 
firm  and  supplies,  although  ample,  are 
not  excessive.  There 
is  some  talk  of 
another  combination,  but  such  reports 
attract 
little  attention,  on  account  of 
there  having  been  so  many  of  them.

Rice— Business  continues  good,  with 
liberal  buying  on  the  part  of  the jobbers 
and  retailers.  Foreign rices  are  higher,

owing  to  the  reports  of  damage  to  the 
crop  resulting  from  numerous  typhoons 
long  periods  of 
in  Japan,  followed  by 
rainy  weather.  The  higher  market 
for 
foreign  rices  is  naturally  having  a  ben­
eficial  effect  on  the  trade  of  the  domes­
tic  millers.  Reports  from  a  number of 
the  Louisiana  mills  are  to  the  effect 
that  they  are  a  week  to  ten  days  late 
in 
making  shipments. 
Low  grade  rices 
are  now  relatively  # c   higher than  they 
were  at  the  opening  of  the  season  and  a 
number  of  rice  men  predict  that  if  the 
market  shows  any  change  in  the  imme­
diate  future,  it  will  be  an  advance.

Rolled  Oats— The  rolled  oats  market 
is  very  strong  and  prices  have  advanced 
15c  per  bbl.  and  toe  per case,  with good 
demand  at  the  advance  and  millers from 
two  to  three  weeks  oversold.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Crystal  Falls— The  retail  clerks  of 
Crystal  Falls  will  petition  the  Common 
Council  to  enforce  the  Sunday  closing 
law.  The  clerks  want  every  proprietor 
who  opens  his  store  on  the  first  day  of 
the  week  arrested.  A  petition  was  cir- 
J culated  earlier  among  the  merchants 
asking  them to  agree  on Sunday  closing, 
but  the  necessary  number  of  signatures 
could  not  be  obtained,  so  the  clerks  now 
seek  to  gain  their  end  by 
legal  means.
Adrian— The  Retail  Clerks’  Associa­
tion  held  a  meeting  at  Foresters  hall 
last  Wednesday  evening. 
Ten  new 
members  were  admitted,  and  the  report 
of  the  treasurer  showed  a  comfortable 
balance  on  hand.  This  Association 
is 
front  and  be­
rapidly  forging  to  the 
coming  one  of 
the  strongest  organiza­
tions  in  the  city.

Port  Huron—Charles  Potter  has  re­
signed  his  position  with  the  Port  Huron 
Engine  &  Thresher  Works  and 
is  now 
book-keeper at  S.  Armstrong’s wholesale 
grocery  establishment.

Saline— Mr.  Huff,  of  Farmington, 
has  taken  a  position  as  pharmacist  with 
Lister  &  Sheeder.

Homer— Bert  Cook  has  resumed  his 
old  position  as  clerk  in  H.  E.  Shear’s 
boot  and  shoe  store.  Harry  Vande- 
burg,  who  has  been  filling  this  position, 
is  now  engaged  at  B.  F.  Woodbury  & 
C o.’s  drug  store.

Benton  Harbor— Ezra Kelley has taken 

a  position  at  H all’s  drug  store.

Attention  is  directed  to  the  advertise­
ment  of  Lambert  &  Lowman  on  the 
eighteenth  page  of  this 
issue  of  the 
T  radesman.

W.  G.  Clark  &  Son  have  re-engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  at  Saranac.  The 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman  Co. 
furnished 
the  stock.

Wm.  A.  Thomas  has  engaged 

in  the 
grocery  business  at  Berlin.  The  Wor­
den  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Advertisements  -will  be  inserted  nnder 
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  28  cents.  Advance 
payments.

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

U'OR  SALE  CHEAP—NO.  18  TROMNER 
I  Star  Coffee  Mill;  ¡used  only  few  months. 
Address  D.  H.  N.,  care  Michigan  Trades­
m a n . ______________________________n s

Fi'OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  STOCK 

of Merchandise—Farm;  good buildings;  two 
miles from flourishing village. Address 433 Sixth
St., Traverse City, Mfch. 
W A N T E D -T O   SELL  AT  ONCE  AT- A 
* ▼  bargain, steam roller mill, 75 barrel  capac­
ity;  in good condition;  located in lively  town  of 
6,000 inhabitants.  Reason for selling, ill health. 
Address H. L. Sharick, Ionia, Mich. 

123

121

126

L'OR  SALE  AT  A  SACRIFICE  IF  TAKEN 
I   at once—Stock of merchandise, consisting of 
drugs, dry goods, groceries, etc , invoicing about 
$2,5j0, in town of MW; one of  the best  businesses 
in  Northern  Michigan; 
the  only  drug  stock 
within  nine  miles;  building  for  sale  or  rent. 
Address M, care Michigan Tradesman. 
L'OJi  SALE—FINEST  UP-TO-DATE  DRUG 
« 
store  in  Southern  Michigan;  no  cutting; 
clean drug stock only;  line location and  old  and 
established stand.  Address Lock Box 101, Kala­
mazoo, Mich. 
t j
Ex c h a n g e —f o u r  g o o d  h o u s e s , f r e e
and clear, good location, for a  stock  of  dry 
goods or clothing, either in or out of city.  Reed 
&  Osgood,  32  Weston  building,  Grand  Rapids.
127
L'OR  SALE—GENERAL  STOCK  IN  GOOD 
r   country trading point.  Terms  to  suit  pur­
chaser.  will  rent  or  sell  store  building.  Ad- 
dress No. 116, care Michigan Tradesman, 
r | ' 0  EXCHANGE—A FARM AND PERSONAL 
A  property for  a  stock  of  merchandise,  or  a 
small farm in  Southern  part  of  Michigan.  Ad- 
dress No. 120. care Michigan Tradesman.
L O R   SALE—CLEAN  $2,000  DRUG  STOCK, 
i   with few flxtures, located  in  good  town, 500 
population.  All  cash  trade.  Rent  low.  Tele­
phone  agency  pays  rent.  Terms  to  suit  pur­
chaser.  No  exchange.  Owner  has  other  busi­
ness.  Address No.  117,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

xi7

lie

Bk y so nW ic k  STORE  AT  OVID, MIGHT, 

to exchange for  timbered  land or  improved 
farm or  stock  of  goods.  Address  L.  C.  Town­

114

send, Jackson, Mich. 
L'OR  SALE—SMALL  CLEAN  STOCK  DRY 
I  goods, groceries  and  patent  medicines;  es­
tablished cash trade:  best location  in  town;  big 
trade in hay and feed;  warehouse on C. & W. M. 
and F. & 1*. M. right handy.  Or will  rent  build­
ings with flxtures at low rate.  Must retire;  will 
pay  to  investigate;  write  for  particulars.  Ad- 
uressjiox 17, Baldwin, Mich. 
113
Le a d in g   m il l in e r y  
s t o r e   w il l
rent space for line of fancy goods.  Stebbins 
Millinery Co., Lansing. Mich. 
108
ROT  CASH  DOWN.  WITHOUT  ANY  DE- 
lay,  will  be  paid  for  stocks  of  dry  goods, 
shoes  or  general  merchandise,  at  a  discount. 
Correspondence  positively  held  confidential. 
Large  stocks  preferred.  Address  A.  P.,  care
Michigan Tradesman.________________  
107
L'O R  SALE  OR  TRADE—A  FIRST-CLASS 
1 
three hundred twenty acre farm in Southern 
Michigan.  Terms  reasonable.  Address  Box 
720, Dowaglae, Mich. 

106

98

105

F'OR  s a l e —s t o c k   o f   g r o c e r ie s   a n d

necessary fixtures in Michigan.  Will invoice 
$800.  Would sell  for about  half  if  taken  now; 
stock  new.  Address  No.  106,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
jX)R~SALE—DRUG  STOCK  IN  RAILROAD 
town of 800  inhabitants;  no  opposition  and 
good  trade.  Stock  invoices  about  #2,000;  easy 
terms.  Other business  reason  for  selling.  Ad­
dress Otis Jones, New Buffalo, Mich. 
(GROCERY  STOCK  FOR  SALE-A  FINE; 
VA  clean  stock  of  groceries,  store  and  office 
fixtures are offered for sale  at  a  bargain.  Will 
invoice  about  $1,200.  Splendid  location  in  the 
best town for its size in Central Michigan.  Good 
established trade.  Rare bargain,  Address Box 
37, Carson City, Mich. 
L'OR  SALE—OWEN  ACETYLENE  GAS  W -  
A  chine.  Cone & Co., 80  Fitzhugh  St.,  Grand 
Rapids. 
L'OK  SALE—A  FIRST-CLASS  SHINGLE 
I  mill  complete.  Capacity,  40,000  per  day. 
Just closed, having finished the  cut  in  that  scc- 
tion.  Address Lock Box 738, Belding, Mich.  80
\ \ :  ANTED—YOUR ORDER  FOR A ROBBER 
stamp.  Best  stamps  on  earth  at  prices 
that  are  right.  Will  J .  Weller,  Muskegon, 
Mich.  _______________________________ ass

103

97

12

clear, architect house  and  barn;  well  watered. 

fj'OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GKNKKA L 

Stock  of  Merchandise—60  acre  farm,  part 
I also have two 40  acre  farms  and  one  80  acre 
farm to exchange.  Address No. 12,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
L'OR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
1 
splendid farming conntry.  No  trades.  Ad- 
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman. 
680
A NY  ONp  WISHING  TO ENGAGE IN THE 
grain and produce and  other  lines  of  busi­
ness can  learn  of  good  locations  by  communi­
cating w ith H .H .  Howe,  Land  ana  Industrial 
Agent C. & W. M. and  D., G. R. & W.  Railways, 
Grand Rapids. Mich. 
r |'H E   SHAFTING,  HANGERS  AND  PUL- 
I   leys formerly used  to  drive  the  Presses  of 
the Tradesman are for sale  at  a  nominal  price. 
Power users making  additions  or  changes  will 
do  well  to  investigate.  Tradesman  Company, 
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

983

919

Mo d e r n   c it y   r e s id e n c e   a n d   l a r g e

lot, with barn, for sale cheap on easy terms, 
or will exchange for  tract  of  hardwood  timber. 
Big bargain for some one.  Possession given any 
time.  Investigation  solicited.  E. A. Stowe.  100 
N. Prospect street, Grand Rapids. 
993
____________ M IS C E L L A N E O U S .____________
T O   RENT—NEW  STORES  WITH  LIGHT 
I   basements;  steam  heat: 
steel  ceilings- 
cement floors in basement:  55  to  61 South  Divt- 
sion.St.  c.  W.  Eaton,  Hotel  Warwick,  Grand 
Rapids. 
S'   ITUATION  WANTED  BY  REGISTERED 
pharmacist;  eight  years’  experience.  Can 
furnish references.  Address No. 122, care Mich­
igan Tradesman. 
TXT ANTED—BY  AN  ESTABLISHED  BUSf- 
”   ness of a  high  order,  a  representative  of 
ability and backing who can take up its  work  in 
the  State  of  Michigan;  no  scheme;  permanent 
business with money  in  it  for  the  right  party. 
Address, giving references. Fountain Bath Brush 
Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 
V I’ ANTED—POSITION~AS—MANAGER  OR 
head  clerk  in  general  store.  Have  had 
valuable experience as  manager  and  buyer  for 
ten  years.  Address  No.  77,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

124

128

122

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T r a v e le r s '  T im e   T a b le s .
CHICAGO

Chicago.

Lv. G. Rapids, 7:10am  12:00m  4:35pm  *ll:50am
Ar. Chicago, 
1:30pm  5:00pm 10:45pm  *7:25am 
Lv. Chicago,  7:15am  12:00m  5:00pm  *11:50pm
Ar. G. Rapids, 1:25pm  5:05pm 10:55pm  *6:20am 

capi

Traverse City, Charlevoix and 1'etoskey.

Lv. G. Rapids, 7:30am
Ar.TravCity, 12:40pm 
Ar. Charlev’x,  3:10pm 
Ar. Petoskey,  3:40pm 
Trains  arrive  from 
north  at  2:40pm,  and
and 10:45pm.
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cafs  on 
night trains to and from Chicago.
•Every day.  Others week days  only.

4:00pm
9:10pm
12:25am
12:55am

H C T n r W T   O m d  Rapids ft W esten
U C l K U l

June 26,  1899.

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Detroit.

Lv. Grand Rapids____7:00am  12:05pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit..................ll:40am  4:05pm  10:05pm
Lv. Detroit..................  8:40am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar. Grand Rapids___  1:30pm  5:10pm  10:55pm

Saginaw,  Alma and Greenville.

Lv. G.R. 7:00am 5:10pm Ar. G. R. 11:45am 9:40pm 
Parlor Cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Geo. DeHaven, General Pass. Agent.

fiP  A iu n TrMk Ral,w*jr sy**»
V IIV /V I1 U   Detroit and Milwaukee Sly

(In effect Oct 9,1899.)

Going East.

Leave 

Arrive
Saginaw, Detroit & N. Y ........ t  6:50am  t  9:55pm
Detroit and E ast......................tl0:l6am  t  5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit & East........ t  3:27pm +12:50pm
Buffalo, N. Y., Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, Ltd Ex..*  7:20pm  *10:16am 
Going West.
Gd. Haven Express................. *l0:2iam  *  7:15pm
Gd. Haven ana Int. P ts..........tl2:58pm  +  3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee... .t  5:12pm  +I0:llam 
Gd. Haven aud Milwaukee.. ..+10:00pm  + 6:40am 
Eastbound  6:50am  train  has  Wagner  parlor 
ear to Detroit, eastbound 3:27pm train has parlor 
car to Detroit.

•Daily. 

tExcept Sunday.

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

97 Monroe St., Morton House.

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ITO  A W n  
v U v A l l U  

*  ‘odlana Railway

October 22,  1899.

N o rth ern   D ivision. 

Going 
From
North  North

Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack.  +  7:45am  + 5:15pm 
Traverse City &  Petoskey..  +  2:10pm  +10:15pm 
Cadillac Accommodation...  + 5:25pm 
tl0:45am 
Petoskey & Mackinaw  City  +11:00pm  + 6:20am 
7:45am and 2:10pm trains, parlor cars; 11:00pm 
train, sleeping car.

S outhern  D ivision 

Going 
South 

From
South

Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin.  +  7:10am  + 9:45pm 
Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne.  +  2:00pm  + 2:00pm 
Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin.  *  7:00pm  * 6:45am 
Kalamazoo and  Vicksburg.  *11:30pm  * 9:10am 
7:10am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati, 
coach to Chicago;  2:OOpm train has parlor car to 
Fort Wayne;  7:00pm train has sleeper to Cincin­
nati;  11:30pm  tram,  sleeping  car  and  coach  to 
Chicago.

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A 

’>

Chicago  Trains.

TO  CH ICAGO .

8 45pm 

FROM   CH ICAGO.

Lv.Grand  Rapids...+7  10am  +2 00pm  *11  30pm
Ar. Chicago........   2 30pm 
7 00am
Lv.  Chicago....................................t3 02pm 
Ar. Grand Rapids.........................   9 45pm 
Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has coach; 
11:30pm train has coach and sleeping car;  trains 
leaving Chicago 3:02pm  has  coach;  11:32pm  has 
sleeping car for Grand Rapids.

‘Muskegon  Trains.

GOING  W EST.

Lv. Grand Rapids___+7  35am  +1 35pm  +5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon............   9 00am 
2 50pm  7  00pm
Sunday  tram  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon at 10:40am.  Returning  leaves 
Muskegon 5:30pm ; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm.
G O IN G   E A S T .
Lv.  Muskegon.+8  10am  +12 
15pm  +4 00pm
1 30pm  5  20pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...  9 30am 
tExcept Sunday.  »Daily.

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

Gen’l Pass’r and Ticket Agent 
Ticket Agent Union Station.

MANISTEE ft  Northeastern  Ry.

B est route to M anistee.

Via C. & W. M. Railway.

Lv. Grand Rapids......................... 7  ooam
Ar. Manistee................................ 12 05pm
Lv. Manistee................................  8 30am
Ar. Grand  Rapids.......................  l 00pm

4  10pm 
9 55pm

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MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

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

Michigan  Business  len’i Association 
retary, E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids. 
Michigan  Retail  Grows’  Association 

President,  J.  Wisler.  Mancelona;  Secretary, 

.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids

President,  Joseph  Knight;  Secretary,  E. 

Detroit  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
Mark s;  Treasurer, C. H. Fr in k .

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President, Frank J. Dvk ;  Secretary,  Homer 

Klap;  Treasurer, J. George Lehman.

Saginaw  Mercantile Association 

President,  P.  F.  Treanor;  Vice-President, 
John  McBr at nie;  Secretary.’W. H. Lew is.

President, J.  F rank  Helmk.r ;  Secretary,  W. 

Jackson  Retail Grocers’  Association 
H. Porter;  Treasurer, L. Pelton.
Adrian Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  A.  C.  Clark:  Secretary,  E.  F. 

Cleveland; Treasurer, Wm. C. Koehn.

Muskegon  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  Albert  Towl;  Secretary,  D.  A 

Boelkins;  Treasurer,  J. W.  Caskadon.

Bar  Cities  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President,  M.  L.  DeBats;  Secretary,  8.  W. 

Waters.

Kalamazoo Rota i  Grocers’ Association 

President, W.  H.  Johnson;  Secretary,  Chas. 

Hyman. 

_______

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

Trarene  City  Business  Men’s  Association 
Holly; Treasurer,  C.  A.  Hammond.

0wos8O Business  Men’s Association 

President,  A.  D.  Wh ip pl e;  Secretary,  G.  T. 
Cam pbell;  Treasurer, w .  E. Collins.

Alpena  Business Men’s Association 

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

Partridge.

Grand Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers'  Association 

President,  L.  M.  Wilson:  Secretary,  Ph il ip 

Hil b e r;  Treasurer,  S. J. Hufford.
S i  Johns Business Men’s Association 

President, Thos. Bromley; Secretary,  Frank 

A.  Percy; Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Pern  Business Men’s  Association 

President,  H.  W.  Wallace;  Secretary,  T.  E.

Grand  Haien  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President,  F.  D.  Vos;  Secretary,  ,J.  W.  Vbr- 

Hoeks. 

_______

Tale Business Men’s Association 

President, Chas.¿Bounds;  Secretary,  Frank 

Putney.

M ANLY  MEN 

W OM ANLY  B E A U JX  
A re tne sure resu lts of w earing our im proved E lec­
tro-M agnetic Beits.  T h e w orld’s best.  Cures R h e u ­
m atism ,  N euralgia,  Paralysis,  Lam e  Back,  L iver 
and  K idney T roubles.  O rder  one  and  pay  for  it 
w hen health, stren g th  and vigor are restored.  W rite 
T he  Dr.  C. .1.  Lane  M edical Co.,  M arshall,  M ich.

WE DON’T BELONG TO THE TRUST

Quadruple  Plated  Silverware  of  all  Description1 

Fancy  C I c c k ^  and  M^tal  Novelties.

STILL  AT  THE  OLD  PRICES

Write  for  Our  New  Catalogue

T H E   R E G E N T   MFG.   CO.

J A C K S O N   A N D   M A R K E T   S T S .

C H I C A G O

WE  WANT TO  SU PPLY  YOUR  PREM IUM S

An Empty piare

Suggests

Uneeda  Biscuit

to  fill  it.  Always  healthful 

— always  the  same— always  crisp, 

tender  and  delicious.  Order  a  5  cent 

or a  10 cent package o fUneeda 
Biscuit

Examine package and you’ll under­

stand  why  they  keep  good.

At your  grocers.
▲void i ml ta t Ions.

*11 32pm
6 45am

|  T h e y   all  say r  

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“Its  as  good  as  Sapolio,”  when  they  try  to  sell  you  Z ^  
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell 
you  that  they  are  only  trying  to  get you  to  aid  their  g  
new  article. 

:
W ho  urges you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

:
Is  it  not  the  Z ^  

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

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How  to  Fatten 
A  Dollar___

F i r s t :  Get  the  dollar.
S econ d:  See that  it  has  room  enough 

to grow.

T h i r d :  D on’t  loan it to your neighbor. 
F o u r t h :  Keep  it  from  wearing;  that 
is,  don’t  give  aw ay  the  smallest 
fraction  of  it.

F i f t h :  A dd  several  new dollars to the 
old  dollar  now  and  then,  and invest 
the whole in a M oney  W eigh t Com ­
puting  Scale.

S i x t h :  Then 

follow  direction  a n d

W A T C H   IT   GROW.
Remember  our  scales  are  sold  on 
easy  monthly  payments.

The  Computing  Scale  Co.,

Dayton,  Ohio,  U. S. A.

MICA

A XLE

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.

ILLUM INATING  AND 
LU BRICA TIN G   O ILS

W A TER  W HITE  H EA D LIG H T  O IL  IS  TH E 

STA N D A RD   TH E  W ORLD  O V ER

H IG H E 8 T   P R IC E   PAID  F O R   EM PTY   C A RB O N '  AND  G A SO LIN E  BA RR ELS

STAN D A RD   O IL  CO .

« W A 4

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 

Michigan  Light Co.

23  Pearl Street, 

Grand  Rapids.

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